A Nod To The Gods

Back in 1969, a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow black panther named Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was suspected of disloyalty. Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized, his friends tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him.

When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member, Warren Kimbro took Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley’s body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Connecticut.

In 1977, that’s only eight years later, only one of the killers was still in jail.

The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship to Harvard and became good friends with none other than Al Gore. He later became an assistant dean at an Eastern Connecticut State College.

Isn’t that something!!! As a ’60s radical you can pump a bullet into someone’s head and a few years later, in the same state, you can become an assistant college dean! Erica Huggins was the woman who served the Panthers by boiling the water for Mr. Rackley’s torture . Some years later, Ms. Huggins was elected to a California School Board.

How in the world do you think these killers got off so easily? Maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the defense of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as to shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black Panthers during their trial.

One of these people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan Lee, as the case may be, isn’t a college dean. He isn’t a member of a California School Board. He is now head of the United States Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, appointed by none other than Bill Clinton. O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? Is this other notable Panther defender now a school board member? Is this other Panther apologist now an assistant college dean? No, neither!

The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at the time. She’s now known as The “smartest woman in the world.” She’s none other than the former Democratic senator from the State of New York – – our former First Lady, and the Secretary of State, the incredible Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Great read, here’s an excerpt:

By 2031, nearly a century after the Social Security Act, an estimated 75 million baby boomers will have retired. Aside from the demographic disparity in worker ages is a subtler disparity in worker productivity and independence as senior citizens are left chasing social spending dollars that are increasingly going to a younger population. ObamaCare with its Medicare Advantage cuts was a bellwether of the shift in health care spending from seniors to the welfare population.

 Which we all know will happen. If not curbed the welfare state will grow exponentially.

Increasing welfare is only a form of Death Panel economic triage that doesn’t compensate for the lack of productive workers. It’s easy to model Obamerica as Detroit, a country with a huge indigent welfare population and a small wealthy tax base. The model doesn’t work in Detroit and it’s flailing in New York, California and every city and state where it’s been tried.

Taxing the rich only works when more people become wealthy and the stick around. Which is not happening.

After a century of misery, the left still hasn’t learned that there is no substitute for the middle class. It’s not just running out of money, it’s running out of people. Keep Reading

And there in lies the sprint for immigration. It is worse than it appears.

Sorry, but this is what you get for the war on poverty and the breakdown of the American family. Good luck Tampa

TAMPA — The Florida State Fair, reeling from a rampage involving hundreds of youths on opening night, announced late Tuesday it is taking steps to curb such outbreaks by requiring that any minor presenting a free entry ticket after 7 p.m. be accompanied by an adult.

The rampage had left law enforcement and community leaders wondering what went wrong and how to make it right.

Sheriff’s deputies, numbering almost 200, said they were overwhelmed by the throng of youth running amok — Deputies ended up closing down the midway early because of the chaos.

Apparently, wilding on the first Friday night of the state fair is an underground tradition.

So what did you expect when you let a bunch of feral kids onto the grounds after you know this is what they do?

Most of the chaos was blamed on black youths, law enforcement officials and others said.

Once again parent/parents who don’t give a rats ass about what their kids are doing, and just turns them loose on the community. That community needs to look in the mirror and find out what the root cause of the problem is.

“A lot of those kids came from our community, unfortunately,” said the Rev. Moses Brown, a local pastor and spokesman for Pastors on Patrol, an outreach organization that helps black families in the Tampa region. “I find it heartbreaking that they are out in public doing this. They are representing their families and their community and to see that type of recalcitrant behavior … where did we go wrong?

Oh, sorry. Community leaders can’t figure out the problem, even though it’s obvious.

“Have we missed out in our churches? Have we missed out in our families, the classroom?” he said. “We have to find the rudimentary cause of this.

Start voting for people who know how to resolve the issues. People who believe in family values, hard work, and getting off  welfare will go a long way towards reigning in these kids. But you have got a generation before it will take effect, the damage has been done to your current crop.

The problem of rampaging youth on the first Friday of the fair dates back to the 1990s or earlier and some years are worse than others, deputies said. Last year, 56 people were ejected and two were arrested the first Friday night of the fair; in 2012 there were 48 ejections and eight arrests; and in 2011, 93 ejections and nine arrests.

So it’s been happening for quite some time?

Carolyn Collins, president of the Hillsborough County branch of the NAACP, said she was unaware there was a problem at the fair and has never heard of it even though she’s been involved with the organization for years.

“We did not know about it,” she said.

“It needs to be addressed,” she said. “This … is a problem of youth. We have got to figure out how to resolve it. There are no easy answers.” She suggested sitting down with young people to get their perspectives, their ideas. “Everybody,” she said, “plays a role in this.”

The NAACP = Clueless. Doesn’t surprise me, glad I live thousands of miles away.