Video: Obama’s Racism

A new PAC has been formed, FightBigotry.com. I will give my thoughts at the end.

The Video: (Via Think Progress)

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Who is running it:

FightBigotry.com’s founder and treasurer is Stephen Marks, a well-known Republican opposition researcher whose 2008 book Confessions of a Political Hitman detailed his work in what he called “the dark side of politics.” In 2000, he launched an attack ad under the misleading name “Americans Against Hate,” attempting to tie Al Gore to controversial comments by Rev. Al Sharpton. Another Marks spot in 2004 attempted to link John Kerry to convicted murderer Willie Horton. He was forced to retract a claim in the book about then-Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ), acknowledging that “the information was not accurate.”

About the Video:

Beyond the obvious race-baiting, the ad is riddled with factual errors. Holder’s March 2011 statement was criticizing a Congressman for equating an a 2008 New Black Panther Party incident with the much more violent assaults against voting rights advocates in the 1960s – not about “pursuing the New Black Panthers.”

And what this group terms a “racist altercation with police” involved a Harvard University professor being stopped by police for trying to enter his own home. Even conservative Fox News legal analyst and former New Jersey state Judge Andrew Napolitano called it an “improper arrest.”

Okay now for my thoughts:

To Steven Marks, you have the right to do this — but… What does it honestly do for the Conservative movement and the Republican Party? I mean, the stuff is class A, USDA choice, weapons grade, dog-whistle material. I mean, what is the motivation? Is it to inform people, or is it to stir up hostility among white people against Obama?

Simply put, this is nothing more than  a losing gambit; for all concerned — White People, The Conservative movement, The Republican Party, Mitt Romney and his supporters. The truth is folks, we can run on Obama’s record; as it is said that he is going to lose big anyhow, we do not need to bring race into this election at all. It is unneeded baggage and it will only hurt us in the long run.

While I am empathetic and sympathetic to the things said in this video, as I am a white person myself; I simply do not believe that this is really needed at all. It does nothing for the Conservative cause and it does well play into the talking-point that Republicans are racist. This is simply something that we just do not need at all.

Round up of liberals covering this, and yes, they’re right about this one: Washington Monthly, Wonkette, Little Green Footballs, Shakesville (Via Memeorandum)

UPDATED: Adam Smith learns a hard lesson about YouTube.

Some would call this sweet justice, some would not. Seems that fall out from the Chick-Fil-A support day continues.

First off the Video that caused this man to lose his job:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLNgkP9nzc&hd=1

The Story:

An executive at a medical manufacturing firm lost his job after a YouTube video of him verbally ambushing a young employee at a Tucson Chick-fil-A went viral.

Adam Smith, formerly Chief Financial Officer at Vante, stepped down after the video — which Smith shot and uploaded himself —caused embarrassment to the company.

The video was picked up by countless blogs. Before Smith took it off of YouTube, others had downloaded it and re-posted it. Both the escapade and its fallout filled Tucson-linked tweets.

Smith, who served as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Arizona last semester, filmed himself berating a drive-thru employee at Chick-fil-A, 3605 E. Broadway, Wednesday. Conservative firebrand Mike Huckabee dubbed that day “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” and encouraged customers to eat there to show support for the chain after President Dan Cathy drew controversy for saying the company supports efforts to block gay marriage.

In the video, which runs 2 minutes, 21 seconds, Smith enters the drive-thru, explaining that he’s ordered a free cup of water. Once the employee hands him his cup, he lambastes her employer, calling Chick-fil-A “a hateful corporation” and “a horrible corporation with horrible values” that “gives money to hate groups.”

via Tucson exec loses job over anti-Chick-fil-A rant in drive-thru.

The good part about the story:

Vogel said the company has no stance on the gay marriage issue but has always hade a “good relationship” with Chick-fil-A. He said the company will consider contacting the employee Smith ambushed in an attempt to mend fences.

I have some very mixed feelings about this; on one hand, I believe it is good that this guy got tossed, because no company wants to be associated with some idiot being a jerk. On the other hand, if he was on his own time and did this; he has one heck of a good lawsuit against the company. However  based upon his dress in the video, he was most likely on his lunch break from work. Which is sort of a gray area, (or is it grey area?) and could be used against him, should he decide to sue the company.

The lesson here is this: If you are going to be a douche bag, don’t film it; because if you do and you happen to be a well-known person working for a well-known company — you might just end up out of a job.  As someone who has been out for work for over eight years now; except for blogging on this site and at my former blog — I take zero pleasure in knowing that someone lost their job. It stinks, I have and still am there now. However, I really honestly have to say that this man has no one else to blame for losing his employment, except for himself.

It is a cold, hard, lesson to learn — but one that must be learned in this day and age of social media.

Update: Ah, here is a statement from the company via Marketwire:

SOURCE: Vante, Inc.

Vante, Inc.

August 02, 2012 17:02 ET

Vante of Tucson, AZ Regrets Actions of Former CFO

 Employee Has Left the Company

 TUCSON, AZ–(Marketwire – Aug 2, 2012) – The following is a statement from Vante:

Vante regrets the unfortunate events that transpired yesterday in Tucson between our former CFO/Treasurer Adam Smith and an employee at Chick-fil-A. Effective immediately, Mr. Smith is no longer an employee of our company.

The actions of Mr. Smith do not reflect our corporate values in any manner. Vante is an equal opportunity company with a diverse workforce, which holds diverse opinions. We respect the right of our employees and all Americans to hold and express their personal opinions, however, we also expect our company officers to behave in a manner commensurate with their position and in a respectful fashion that conveys these values of civility with others.

We hope that the general population does not hold Mr. Smith’s actions against Vante and its employees.

Translation: Please don’t hate us because of our stupid former employee!

Others via Memeoradum: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The PJ Tatler, UrbanGrounds, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and Moonbattery

Update #2: Adam Smith’s chickens have come home to roost.

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Chick-Fil-A support day a success, Martinsberg, Va Chick-Fil-A gets bomb threat

Legal Insurrection, InstaPundit, and Twitchy are reporting that the Chick-Fil-A support event was a success.

But, there was a bomb threat at a Chick-Fil-A in Martinsberg, Va. The Martinsberg Journal reports:

MARTINSBURG – Police and fire crews closed down the Chick-fil-A on Foxcroft Avenue in Martinsburg for nearly three hours following a bomb threat that was called in just before 1 p.m. today.

The caller mentioned that a “device” had been placed within the restaurant. The building was evacuated, but was deemed safe at about 3:45 p.m. after no bomb or any other type of device was discovered.

Martinsburg City Police and the Martinsburg Fire Department personnel investigated the scene, along with Berkeley County Sheriff Kenny Lemaster. A National Park Ranger with a canine unit arrived at the scene at approximately 2:45 p.m. to assist, and a second from the West Virginia State Police arrived later as well.

According to a release from police, the location of the call was traced and the investigation is following up on leads about the male caller.

“We prosecute to the fullest extent that the law allows for anyone making these types of threats,” the release states.

Hmmmmm… Bomb threat….male voice… I wonder, was Ed Brayton home all day? I’m just sayin. 😯

I would have participated in this as well; but Chick-Fil-A does not have a location in my area. 🙁 So, I could not go show my support.

Others covering, and yes, I am linking to some who don’t see eye to eye with me; but for this, I put that aside —– hopefully, they will too: The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider, The PJ Tatler, Hot Air and Sense of Events, American Power, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Sense of Events, The Other McCain, The Lonely Conservative and The PJ Tatler, Chicago Sun Times, protein wisdom and The Other McCain, Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, The Daily Caller and American Power (Blogger Round Up comes via Memeorandum)

Answering the false accusations against me

I know that I said I was not going to do this; but the more I think about it, the more I believe a response is warranted.

I am referring to my atheist stalker, who wrote a piece about me and proceeded to take a few of my words out of context.

I will address them:

  1. The first is that I actually blamed Obama himself for the death of the Chick-Fil-A VP over promotions. This I did, and I am proud of it! Everything is coordinated by this Marxist President, everything….including harassment. If this ruffles a so-called libertarian’s feathers, then so be it. Although, I highly question his so-called libertarian stance. More like a hate-mongering liberal stance.
  2. The second is that I made a racist comment about  the Aurora, Colorado shooter. The truth is, from the first photo provided, he did look Latino to me. However, in pictures being shown since then, he does look to be white. I find this to be pretty ironic, considering the fact that when George Zimmerman shot Treyvon Martin, the liberal media just assumed he was white. I have to wonder, did my stalker complain about that too? I highly doubt it. Because he is pretty much too busy stalking “wingnuttia” as he likes to call it.
  3. The third laughable complaint that my comments about Alex Jones were “Vile” as he called it. This is coming from a guy, who has the S-word, the F-word, and then goes around making untrue claims about the Christian right and taking their words out of context for mocking purposes. For the record, Alex Jones posted his article that somehow the shooting in Colorado was a Government “false flag” operation. He posted it on the SAME DAY as the shooting, when it was reported that the victims cellphones were actually ringing and how eerie it was to hear that. Did I make an “over the top” comment about Alex Jones? Darned right I did. I cannot stand that awful man and I thought if he did not mind profiting off of the dead bodies of innocent victims, I did not mind bringing his innocent family into the situation; if my stalker thinks that is vile, then I suggest he go look at the current content on his blog and get every swear word off of that site — and then come talk to me about being vile. Otherwise, he should just really shut up.

Again, I believe my stalker has a problem; besides being a God-denying buffoon and quite the fascist — he also suffers from a bad case of projection. Which is something I have known quite a while about him. He has, as I pointed out before, gotten his butt slammed by Pamela Geller once already; I guess he did not learn the first time.

 

 

My atheist stalker has returned

I see that one of my atheist stalkers has returned. (sorry no direct link for him.)

Things must be really slow in Belding, Michigan today; because that is the only time that he links to me.

Update: I also noticed something else as well; When Ed had his blog over on ScienceBlogs, I never noticed him using foul language on his blog. Now that he has moved to his own domain, he has taken to using gutter language. Now, I will to the first to admit, that at times, I have done the same thing here. However, the use of that sort of language around here is not the norm.

My point is this: I do not mind the criticism of my worldview and my political worldview at all. It comes with the territory and I am big enough of a man to take the heat. However, I feel that if you use that sort of language, when expressing your disagreement with me; you cheapen your legitimacy with me. Yes, I know; I swore at Ed, once. Because I thought he was attacking me; turns out, he was attacking something that I had posted, that someone else had written.  This was a mistake on my part; I admit that. However, when I go to a critic’s website and I see the F-word and the S-word being bandied about like that. I tend to take the criticism with a grain of salt.

Furthermore, When I see something that I have written, taken totally out of context and being presented as something that it is not; I tend to want to ignore it.

Lastly, it is quite obvious that this man wants a full on blog war with me. I believe the last time he tried that, with Pamela Geller, he was made to look like quite the idiot. But yet, he wants to come after me. I will made it easy for him. I simply do not engage in blog wars anymore. They accomplish nothing and only tend to make the two parties warring look like two idiots, with self-importance issues. So, thanks Ed; but no. I won’t do it, not this time, not ever again.

That is all.

 

UPDATED! Farewell to an old friend

Farewell to an old friend, Detroit Grace Assembly of God — You were there, when I needed you the most. 35 years was much, much too short.

This is one of those personal posts, which will most likely go on for a bit. So, if you will please, permit to share with you my heart a bit. As you all know, I am a born-again Christian of 30 year vintage; which is a nice way of saying that I am old. I am 40, no use trying to deny that.

I found out last night something that ripped my heart out in a very big way. I found out that the Church that I had attended for 10 years of my life; which was from 1983 until 1993 — decided to pack it in, and call it 35 years and close their doors for good. I am referring to no other than Detroit Grace Assembly of God in Detroit, Michigan.

I am not interested in assigning blame or anything silly like that; I just found the news to be a bit unsettling. What I do know is this, after Pastor Johnny D. Saenz retired, most of people that were going there, which was his family members and a few others — left after he retired. This left the Church with two families. Ken Lambert, who was basically the last man standing, decided that leaving the Church open for just two families, just really was not worth it.

I am one of those kinds of people that grow attached to a thing, which is rather strange, considering the fact that I am not really in the Pentecostal Churches anymore. Yeah, that is right; back in 2004, after spending 21 years in those circles; I packed up my memories and called it a good run and got into my little wood canoe, and paddled across the Christian lake to the Baptist beach and started over. What I did not do, was deny the fact that I came those circles, nor did I ever hold any grudges. Thus the reason why finding out that this Church ended just breaks my heart in two. I always thought that this Church would be around until the rapture came. Well, it was not to be.

If I were to sit here and tried to write all of things that I learned, the things that the Lord showed me, the things that were poured into me, by faithful servants of God, who happened to attend that Church; this silly blog entry would be twelve pages long.

What I can tell you is this — even though the work of Detroit Grace Assembly of God is done, and the old lighthouse operators at 1953 Military Street have stood down from their positions and have handed the controls to some new and very energetic people who wish make a difference. The message has not changed one bit. That message was first was heralded first by St. Patrick’s Church, who built the building and then by Detroit Grace Assembly of God, who bought it in 1978, is still the same as it was some 2012 years ago.

That message is that Jesus Christ came to this earth, born of a virgin, lived a perfect life, never sinned, was crucified on the cross at Calvary. Then on the third day — literally and physically rose again, appeared to his disciples, and then ascended to his Father and now sits at the right hand of the Father. The message is also that anyone that decides that living the life of a hell-bound sinner is a lousy idea, now has a choice and a chance to spend the rest of his life in eternity with God; all he has to do —- is to accept that love gift given to him.

The mission of Grace Assembly of God for 35 years and now with Courage Church will be to continue to make that message known to those living in that area; that was the mandate given to that Church by the Lord and it is now the mandate of Courage Church. Now we as former attendees of Grace Assembly of God really wanted to see that Church carry on. However, I believe in appointed times by God. I believe that Grace Assembly of God was appointed a time to start and a time to end.

During that time, God literally transformed a good number of people, not only by salvation, but also by transformation, that comes by applying the Word of God to one’s life. I was one of those people, someone who came out of an awful mess at a Baptist Church in the area, and came to Grace Assembly of God and found out what serving Jesus was truly about. Which was not about, as I found out, wearing a suit and tie and carrying a huge Bible.  But about Jesus and what he did on the cross of Calvary and what Jesus could do the heart of someone who is open to him coming and making needed changes.

It should be known, that there were some were in much worse shape than I was —- Drugs, broken families, broken marriages, children out of wedlock —- the usual sort of gruel that Satan and this World can offer, that most Churches, would turn their nose up at, and you know what? The Lord met these people, where they were and brought them out of their mess, transformed their lives and prospered them in mighty ways. All of that in a space of 35 years.

To the memory and legacy of Detroit Grace Assembly of God!

-Charles Patrick Adkins

Grace Assembly of God – Detroit, Michigan — Alumni 1983 – 1993

Lincoln Park, Michigan

UPDATE!  Courage Church is now Santos Church.

Once again, Dick Cheney is trying to start a civil war

First it was Iraq, now it is with the Palin supporters. Whew, ol’ boy can’t just say, “yeah, she’s okay.” Oh no, he’s just got to insult every darned Conservative feminist in America. 😯

The Video Via ABC:

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Did you happen to hear a rather loud thud sound right after he said the words, “She was not ready?” That was George W. Bush passing out dead cold in the floor. I mean, the poor man has spent the last 3 years trying to build the library and what’s left of his legacy and reputation….and what does ol’ Darth Vader do? This.  Memo to Darth Cheney: YOU.ARE.NOT.HELPING….. 🙄

…and of course, Conservatives 4 Palin went into existential meltdown over this:

Apparently, Palin’s not “ready” to sit in an administration for eight years which adds 5 trillion dollars to our unpaid debt basically demoralizing the spirit of conservatism leading to four years of Barack Obama.  Cheney was “ready” for that, wasn’t he?

Palin’s not “ready” to engage in cronyism which dictates who she’d appoint to lifetime positions on the Supreme Court or to head federal emergency agencies like FEMA.  Bush & Cheney were “ready” for that, weren’t they?

Palin is “ready” to balance a budget – since she did it in Alaska.

Palin is “ready” to increase benefits for our esteemed elders while cutting out wasteful spending existing all across our federal government – since she did similar things in Alaska.

Palin is “ready” to call out entrenched special interests like she did when she served up a little justice to the Republican Party’s good old boys and their dealings with big oil.  She did that in Alaska, too.

Palin’s “ready” to unabashedly call out Barack Obama.  This includes pointing out his past associations, his reckless squandering of billions of our dollars to pay back his Wall Street friends (just as Bush/Cheney once did), and his plans to whip Americans into Greece-like big-government submission.   This is in contrast to the establishment’s plans to hold back.

Palin’s “ready” to endorse countless candidates for the Congress.  She’s been successful at using her enormous grassroots influence to pull a great deal of them across the finish line.

Palin’s not ready to fall in line with the establishment.  Until any candidate (including our perceived “front-runner”) demonstrates a full willingness to truly unify with the party’s grassroots, don’t count on her to make deals behind closed doors or hold high-priced fundraisers at her home.

Considering everything Bush & Company were “ready” for, it’s no wonder why Barack Obama was ever put in the position of becoming President of our great Republic.  Now of course, he must be fired.

But after observing the behavior of Cheney, Sununu, and other Romney surrogates, it might serve the interest of the American people to ask whether or not Romney is truly “ready” to do that considering the company he chooses to keep.

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Very disappointed in Dick Cheney, especially considering what he knows first hand about media and false narratives.

I’d also like to add some comments made….those who suggest Cheney has a right to his opinion and how we have to unite.  They need to only listen to their own advice.  Of course Cheney has a right to his opinion, but “uniting” involves telling the truth and judging one on the basis of their record and their conviction.  Nobody can claim to fighting for this country to the degree Sarah Palin has since 2008 and nobody can deny her record of accomplishment.  He frankly owes her an apology considering who our opponent is supposed to be.

You know that whole thing about “hell hath no fury”? Here it is.

Popcorn? Popcorn hell, this is dinner theater! 😛 😀 😆