An excellent rant from Nealz Nuze:
Tried and tested. Guaranteed. Foolproof. Every good Democrat or leftist
knows that when the going gets rough a sure-fire winner is to play the race
card. If you can’t win your argument on any other grounds, you always have
race. The one big advantage to playing the race card, of course, is that you
can paint any opposing thoughts or viewpoints as being racist. At the end of
this section you’ll see a link to a story from MSNBC.com entitled Black
Votes Disproportionately Tossed. Well – I’m not afraid of the name-calling.
I’ve been called everything but a Child of God anyway – so let’s jump into
this story and let the awful, insensitive truth see the light of day.
The MSNBC story is about an analysis of the Florida vote by The Washington
Post. The study says that heavily black Democratic neighborhoods in Florida
lost more presidential votes than did white neighborhoods. The Post study
says quite a few more things --- so let’s start our journey into
insensitivity.
First --- The Post study says that in Miami-Dade County “ … precincts where
fewer than 30 percent of the voters are black, about 3 percent of ballots
did not register a vote for president. In precincts where more than 70
percent of the voters are African American, it was nearly 10 percent.” I
guess we’re supposed to assume that this was due to racism. In fact, the
Post story goes on to say that “Such patterns have helped fuel questions in
the black community about whether the vote was fair on Election Day.”
Fair? You mean it’s not fair when a white person manages to cast a valid
vote for president while a black voter can’t? Has racism advanced to the
point where white people are able to design voting machines that can somehow
detect when it’s being used by a black person and then intentionally clogs
itself up or somehow prevents the voter from punching out a chad?
Wait! There’s more! Don’t forget the long lines! The post says that “African
American leaders say faulty ballot machines (covered above) and long lines
at polling places sowed confusion among many black voters and ended up
nullifying many of their votes.” In fact, the NAACP has filed a formal
complaint with the Justice Department in which it claims that the long lines
discouraged blacks from voting.
Long lines? Long lines are somehow more confusing to black voters than they
are to white voters? Does this mean that long lines are racist? My Gawd!
That means Disney World and most auto tag lines are racist! And what about
those lines at the gift wrapping counter this Christmas? Can’t you just see
those confused black people getting to the front of those lines and
accidentally asking for birthday gift wrapping? I guess we’re going to see
some sort of a class action civil rights suit against K-Mart the next time a
black person finds themselves in a long check-out line. Odd --- but those
long lines for huge lottery jackpots don’t seem to be so confusing to black
citizens … and neither do those complicated lottery forms.
Does it occur to any of blacks out there that they might want to contact
these so-called “African American leaders” and ask them to please stop
making black people look like idiots?
Moving right along here …. the Post study tells us that …. “African American
voters are somewhat more likely to live in areas where poll workers do not
immediately check ballots for errors – so blacks were less likely than
whites to get a chance to correct their ballots if they messed them up.”
Oh --- so the poll workers didn’t check the ballots, huh? Well, it’s not the
poll worker’s vote, is it? It’s the voter’s vote – and it’s the voter’s
responsibility to check the ballot to see if that vote is registered. In
fact, that’s what it says on those instructions sent to all Florida voters
before the election – that’s what it says on those signs in the polling
places --- and that’s what it says on the ballots themselves.
In spite of all the written warnings, it seems that white voters are
somewhat more likely to check their ballots for mistakes than black voters
are. Does that mean that the black voters didn’t “get a chance,” as the Post
study says, to check their ballots? There’s a big difference between not
doing something and not getting a chance to do something. The opportunity
was there. The opportunity was ignored. So --- what do we do? Go out there
and create votes for Gore out of blank ballots because black voters just don
’t check their ballots for mistakes like those white voters do?
You know what this sounds like? It sounds suspiciously like the Clinton
Administration’s plan for statistical sampling in the Census. The
Clintonistas told us that blacks just aren’t as likely as whites to fill out
their census forms and send them in, so it would be perfectly fair to make
some sort of a scientific guess (SWAG*) as to the “real” number of black
citizens and adjust the census accordingly. I can see where this thing is
going. The civil rights war lords and their Democratic masters are going to
start pushing the idea of using some sort of statistical sampling to
“correct” the numbers of black votes for president because blacks aren’t as
likely to check their ballots for errors as whites are. Oh, and don’t forget
those racist confusing long lines.
Now for a little commercial for our all-volunteer armed forces. The Post
quotes Lon Fanniel, a retired Marine Captain from Jacksonville, Florida.
Listen to his tale of woe: “We keep talking about every vote counts, and,
boy, I feel like mine doesn’t count.” Fanniel says that he was confused over
the ballot and is afraid he might have made two votes for president. This is
a retired Marine Captain? And this ballot confused him? “I fought for the
right to have a good vote. I feel like that was taken away from me.” Taken
away? Taken away by whom? Taken away how? Taken away because it took two
pages to list the presidential candidates and it was just too much for him
to handle? I don’t know that this Marine Captain did in the Corps --- but we
can all assume that his orders were never more than one page long.
The Post tells us that election experts believe inexperienced voters are
most likely to be confused when a ballot contains more than six names for
one office. The confusion seems to increase exponentially with each name
added. Please forgive my insensitivity (not!) but just how much of a
rectal-cranial inversion do you have to be suffering from to suddenly lapse
into spasms of confusion when faced with a choice of six or more names to
chose from for a political office? Would someone please Fedex me a break
here? Can these people read roadmaps? Would they face starvation if they
wandered into a restaurant with more than six choices on the menu? Do you
think they would have a tough time filling out a parlay card with more than
six football games to choose from?
The Post then brings us the sage wisdom of some Ohio State balloting expert
named Asher. Asher tells us that “Poor people are more likely to invalidate
ballot because of difficulty mastering punch-card systems.” You know, I don’
t doubt that. But --- so what? Hell, poor people have difficulty mastering a
lot more than punch-card systems. They have a rough time mastering the
concept that sex leads to pregnancy and pregnancy leads to babies they can’t
afford to raise. They have a rough time with the concept of a work ethic –
of showing up every day when you’re supposed to and working hard until it’s
time to go home. The poor can’t seem to grasp the concept that every dollar
spent on drugs, booze and cigarettes is a dollar that can’t be spent on
food, shelter or clothing.
Am I being tough on the poor, poor, pitiful poor? Yeah, I am. I have little
sympathy for those who are poor for reasons other than physical or mental
disaster. It’s so damned easy in this country NOT to be poor that it almost
takes an extraordinary effort to actually live in poverty! Hell, all you
have to do to escape poverty is to stay in school, not get pregnant, and get
a damned job!
Think about this, folks. Choosing a president is a very serious exercise. It
’s a responsibility that some folks actually put a great deal of time and
effort into. Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that you spent many days
deliberating over your choice for president. You weighed domestic concerns
against foreign policy concerns. You weighed what’s good for our economy vs.
what’s good for our social welfare. You balanced what’s good for large
corporations vs. what might be good for small businesses. You balanced what’
s good for employees vs. what’s good for employers --- and you came to an
informed, though painful decision. Then you went to cast your vote.
Now – how do you like the idea that your reasoned vote doesn’t count one
damned bit more than a vote cast by some miserable soul living in poverty
who has failed to take advantage of any of the opportunities offered by our
economic system and who gets confused when there’s too many names on the
ballot? What in the hell are we thinking letting these losers vote anyway?
If there’s anything we’ve learned in this Florida vote fiasco – and from
this Washington Post article – it’s that there are far too many incompetent
people wandering (or being trucked) into polling places – people who should
be kept away from ballots of any description until they can exhibit the
common sense of a ten year-old and some marginal understanding of just what
they’re voting for.
*Scientific Wild-assed Guess
Tried and tested. Guaranteed. Foolproof. Every good Democrat or leftist
knows that when the going gets rough a sure-fire winner is to play the race
card. If you can’t win your argument on any other grounds, you always have
race. The one big advantage to playing the race card, of course, is that you
can paint any opposing thoughts or viewpoints as being racist. At the end of
this section you’ll see a link to a story from MSNBC.com entitled Black
Votes Disproportionately Tossed. Well – I’m not afraid of the name-calling.
I’ve been called everything but a Child of God anyway – so let’s jump into
this story and let the awful, insensitive truth see the light of day.
The MSNBC story is about an analysis of the Florida vote by The Washington
Post. The study says that heavily black Democratic neighborhoods in Florida
lost more presidential votes than did white neighborhoods. The Post study
says quite a few more things --- so let’s start our journey into
insensitivity.
First --- The Post study says that in Miami-Dade County “ … precincts where
fewer than 30 percent of the voters are black, about 3 percent of ballots
did not register a vote for president. In precincts where more than 70
percent of the voters are African American, it was nearly 10 percent.” I
guess we’re supposed to assume that this was due to racism. In fact, the
Post story goes on to say that “Such patterns have helped fuel questions in
the black community about whether the vote was fair on Election Day.”
Fair? You mean it’s not fair when a white person manages to cast a valid
vote for president while a black voter can’t? Has racism advanced to the
point where white people are able to design voting machines that can somehow
detect when it’s being used by a black person and then intentionally clogs
itself up or somehow prevents the voter from punching out a chad?
Wait! There’s more! Don’t forget the long lines! The post says that “African
American leaders say faulty ballot machines (covered above) and long lines
at polling places sowed confusion among many black voters and ended up
nullifying many of their votes.” In fact, the NAACP has filed a formal
complaint with the Justice Department in which it claims that the long lines
discouraged blacks from voting.
Long lines? Long lines are somehow more confusing to black voters than they
are to white voters? Does this mean that long lines are racist? My Gawd!
That means Disney World and most auto tag lines are racist! And what about
those lines at the gift wrapping counter this Christmas? Can’t you just see
those confused black people getting to the front of those lines and
accidentally asking for birthday gift wrapping? I guess we’re going to see
some sort of a class action civil rights suit against K-Mart the next time a
black person finds themselves in a long check-out line. Odd --- but those
long lines for huge lottery jackpots don’t seem to be so confusing to black
citizens … and neither do those complicated lottery forms.
Does it occur to any of blacks out there that they might want to contact
these so-called “African American leaders” and ask them to please stop
making black people look like idiots?
Moving right along here …. the Post study tells us that …. “African American
voters are somewhat more likely to live in areas where poll workers do not
immediately check ballots for errors – so blacks were less likely than
whites to get a chance to correct their ballots if they messed them up.”
Oh --- so the poll workers didn’t check the ballots, huh? Well, it’s not the
poll worker’s vote, is it? It’s the voter’s vote – and it’s the voter’s
responsibility to check the ballot to see if that vote is registered. In
fact, that’s what it says on those instructions sent to all Florida voters
before the election – that’s what it says on those signs in the polling
places --- and that’s what it says on the ballots themselves.
In spite of all the written warnings, it seems that white voters are
somewhat more likely to check their ballots for mistakes than black voters
are. Does that mean that the black voters didn’t “get a chance,” as the Post
study says, to check their ballots? There’s a big difference between not
doing something and not getting a chance to do something. The opportunity
was there. The opportunity was ignored. So --- what do we do? Go out there
and create votes for Gore out of blank ballots because black voters just don
’t check their ballots for mistakes like those white voters do?
You know what this sounds like? It sounds suspiciously like the Clinton
Administration’s plan for statistical sampling in the Census. The
Clintonistas told us that blacks just aren’t as likely as whites to fill out
their census forms and send them in, so it would be perfectly fair to make
some sort of a scientific guess (SWAG*) as to the “real” number of black
citizens and adjust the census accordingly. I can see where this thing is
going. The civil rights war lords and their Democratic masters are going to
start pushing the idea of using some sort of statistical sampling to
“correct” the numbers of black votes for president because blacks aren’t as
likely to check their ballots for errors as whites are. Oh, and don’t forget
those racist confusing long lines.
Now for a little commercial for our all-volunteer armed forces. The Post
quotes Lon Fanniel, a retired Marine Captain from Jacksonville, Florida.
Listen to his tale of woe: “We keep talking about every vote counts, and,
boy, I feel like mine doesn’t count.” Fanniel says that he was confused over
the ballot and is afraid he might have made two votes for president. This is
a retired Marine Captain? And this ballot confused him? “I fought for the
right to have a good vote. I feel like that was taken away from me.” Taken
away? Taken away by whom? Taken away how? Taken away because it took two
pages to list the presidential candidates and it was just too much for him
to handle? I don’t know that this Marine Captain did in the Corps --- but we
can all assume that his orders were never more than one page long.
The Post tells us that election experts believe inexperienced voters are
most likely to be confused when a ballot contains more than six names for
one office. The confusion seems to increase exponentially with each name
added. Please forgive my insensitivity (not!) but just how much of a
rectal-cranial inversion do you have to be suffering from to suddenly lapse
into spasms of confusion when faced with a choice of six or more names to
chose from for a political office? Would someone please Fedex me a break
here? Can these people read roadmaps? Would they face starvation if they
wandered into a restaurant with more than six choices on the menu? Do you
think they would have a tough time filling out a parlay card with more than
six football games to choose from?
The Post then brings us the sage wisdom of some Ohio State balloting expert
named Asher. Asher tells us that “Poor people are more likely to invalidate
ballot because of difficulty mastering punch-card systems.” You know, I don’
t doubt that. But --- so what? Hell, poor people have difficulty mastering a
lot more than punch-card systems. They have a rough time mastering the
concept that sex leads to pregnancy and pregnancy leads to babies they can’t
afford to raise. They have a rough time with the concept of a work ethic –
of showing up every day when you’re supposed to and working hard until it’s
time to go home. The poor can’t seem to grasp the concept that every dollar
spent on drugs, booze and cigarettes is a dollar that can’t be spent on
food, shelter or clothing.
Am I being tough on the poor, poor, pitiful poor? Yeah, I am. I have little
sympathy for those who are poor for reasons other than physical or mental
disaster. It’s so damned easy in this country NOT to be poor that it almost
takes an extraordinary effort to actually live in poverty! Hell, all you
have to do to escape poverty is to stay in school, not get pregnant, and get
a damned job!
Think about this, folks. Choosing a president is a very serious exercise. It
’s a responsibility that some folks actually put a great deal of time and
effort into. Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that you spent many days
deliberating over your choice for president. You weighed domestic concerns
against foreign policy concerns. You weighed what’s good for our economy vs.
what’s good for our social welfare. You balanced what’s good for large
corporations vs. what might be good for small businesses. You balanced what’
s good for employees vs. what’s good for employers --- and you came to an
informed, though painful decision. Then you went to cast your vote.
Now – how do you like the idea that your reasoned vote doesn’t count one
damned bit more than a vote cast by some miserable soul living in poverty
who has failed to take advantage of any of the opportunities offered by our
economic system and who gets confused when there’s too many names on the
ballot? What in the hell are we thinking letting these losers vote anyway?
If there’s anything we’ve learned in this Florida vote fiasco – and from
this Washington Post article – it’s that there are far too many incompetent
people wandering (or being trucked) into polling places – people who should
be kept away from ballots of any description until they can exhibit the
common sense of a ten year-old and some marginal understanding of just what
they’re voting for.
*Scientific Wild-assed Guess