Saturday, January 07, 2012

Hi Friends,

Due to some technical issues with this blog and its host Blogger, I am moving ALL of my communication and blog over to Facebook.

You can visit me there at http://www.facebook.com/xavierholdenusa

See you all there!

Monday, November 21, 2011

Moochelle The Racist


Michelle Obama Is A Dangerous Racist

The sequestering of Michelle Obama’s academic thesis was unprecedented at Princeton, and it’s especially surprising because it’s a liberal university that prides itself on open access to scholarly information.

And perhaps even more surprising, is the the fact that in spite of repeated attempts by many media organizations to view the document, Obama’s alma mater would provide no explanation for hiding it.

The thesis (4 parts zipped up) which was written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn, is entitled "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community”.

A copy of the thesis that surfaced recently somewhat frighteningly indicates that Michelle Obama identifies with black militancy, is utterly obsessed with race in America and her own blackness.

And it’s a fundamentally racist document, which is especially shocking considering that this scholarship is the product of a presidential candidate’s wife at a great university.

She mourns that she will face “further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant".

Obama’s thesis is full of paranoid claims and overtly racist feelings and she cannot accept the idea of a diverse student body working together in a melting pot.

“I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances under which I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second".

Not only does she see separate black and white societies in America, but she elevates black over white in her world.

“There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black community, I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost".

So what is Michelle Obama planning to do with her future resources that will elevate black over white in America?

Perhaps most alarming is her use of the terms, “separationist" and “integrationist" when describing the views of black people since she clearly identifies herself with a “separationist" view of race!

“By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desperation of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant to their plight".

Here is another typical passage that is poorly written, but nevertheless extremely ominous in meaning:

“Attending Princeton has probably forced [black alumni] to compete intellectually with Whites more than with Blacks and, thus, they have probably become more familiar with Whites intellectually, but in other activities they are likely to have gained familiarity with Whites if they did not spend time with Whites in other activities besides intellectual ones".

Is it any wonder that most black alumni ignored her racist questionnaire?

Out of four hundred that were asked to give input, only eighty nine responded!

The following passage appears to be a call to arms for affirmative action policies that might well be the hallmark of the Obama administration.

“Predominately white universities like Princeton are socially and academically designed to cater to the needs of the white students comprising the bulk of their enrollments".

The Conclusion Of The Thesis Is Especially Alarming.

Michelle Obama’s poll of other black alumni apparently caused her to conclude that other black students at Princeton did not share her obsession with blackness, and she laments that only one third say they are more comfortable around black people than white people.

But rather than celebrate, she is horrified that black alumni identify with our common American culture more than they value the color of their skin.

“I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility".

Sadly, Michelle Obama does not look into a crowd and see Americans, but sees black people and white people eternally conflicted with one another.

That is a very divisive view for a first lady that could do untold damage to race relations in this country, and Michelle Obama’s intellectually refined racism should give all Americans cause for deep concern.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Technology is Killing Humans


If one were to look back over the last 100 years they would see an alarming increase in mortality amongst human beings which closely correlates against the introduction and expansion of new technologies.

The incidence of cancer has increased exponentially beginning in the 1950s through today.

Microwave technology, as controversial all as it may be, is probably the number one technology responsible for the increased incidence of cancer amongst humans more than any other technology.

Study after study appear to constantly juggle results to favor one outcome versus another depending on who’s paying for the study–the cell phone developers or pharmaceutical companies or the medical industry. One study comes out stating that cell phones cause brain cancer, and a few weeks later, another study is published that refutes that very claim.

However, common sense and a little bit of research would allow you to see the same parallels that I see. That being, that technology is killing us slowly.

There are different forms of radiation all around us, everyday. Since the beginning of the last century when radio technology became prevalent, followed by television, followed by cellular, followed by wireless, and almost equal correlation between the increase in technology and human cancer is frightening.

Take the potato, put one in the microwave, and nuke it for five or 10 min. and see what happens. Is it not reasonable to speculate that the same microwave radiation waves are slowly cooking our bodies from the inside out?

Take those waves and combine them with everything else and all of a sudden you exponentially increase the radiation our bodies come in contact with everyday.

Since technology doesn’t develop itself, the title of this thread could possibly read “humans are killing themselves” instead, as we suffer the consequences of our own inventions.

Conversely, one could argue that the very same advances in technology are responsible for the increased life expectancy of humans particularly those that live in the United States. Life expectancies today exceed 75 years as opposed to a mere 65 years just 20 years ago.

Advances in medicine, safer consumer products, safer automobiles, all of which are getting better and better as technology advances.

So the same argument could be made that technology is also keeping us alive longer. But, are these advances merely keeping pace with the destruction that other technologies create on the human body?

Perhaps those who choose to wear tinfoil caps are not that crazy after all.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Jobs Plan? Please...get a life, Obama

No one needs to see the details, Obama¹s new jobs plan will never work.
The only way any jobs initiative from President Obama can ever work is if
he takes a 180 degree turn from every job creating idea he has ever had.
Nothing the President has done since the beginning of his tenure as the
most powerful person on the face of the earth has created a single,
lasting, real job. The problem is that the idea the government can extract
wealth from the economy that would otherwise be saved for later investment
or spent in today¹s current market on goods and services or building
businesses that actually hire people, and turn that money into positive
and continuous economic growth, completely ignores reality.
Government should protect us from evildoers who would rip us off and
engage in immoral and illegal activity, but to take money that does not
belong to them and purport to act benevolently as the creator of
prosperity is nothing but delusion. One wonders if this is purposefully
created delusion intended simply to control the masses or if government
officials actually believe in their self created fantasy. Taking money out
of my pocket on a regular basis to give to someone so they can go buy
groceries, does neither of us any good in the long run. For myself, I
receive no benefit for that money taken and the recipient ultimately
learns dependency. Extrapolate that out to a few million people and see
what you get. The only one that really benefits is the politicians
stealing the money from you and I end up getting votes from the people
they give the money to.
It is interesting to note that even before the President¹s speech he is
calling for Congress to to pass his jobs bill and do it quickly, for the
benefit of the country of course. In other words, Obama is saying, don¹t
really take a look at what I¹m doing or the actual details of this plan,
just pass it because I know what is best. We are also being told by the
President¹s press secretary Jay Carney that the things the President is
proposing will bring unemployment down to below 9%
<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/01/carney_obamas_new_jobs_p
lan_would_put_unemployment_below_9.html
>. Let¹s not forget that we were
also told that the President¹s $787 billion stimulus would not let
unemployment get beyond 8%
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106397685>. If you
are counting, we are currently at 9.1%.
And we¹re supposed to believe that someone who has never hired a single
employee, but has organized plenty of mobs to protest evil, greedy
corporate America, is going to tell small businesses and big businesses
how they ought hire people. Oh, the President can tell businesses how they
should hire more people and put America back to work, but can he do a
simple ROI calculation on investment and revenue from real sales of real
products or services and see if there is actually a profit after all the
government intervention and red tape. I think not.
Apparently that math escapes the President as he likes to showcase
businesses
<http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-touts-battery-powered-cars-michiga>
that receive government stimulus and hire 150 people at a cost of $2
million per job. Or he likes to push the green job thing on us and these
businesses fail to live up to their promised hype
<http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Seattle-s-green-jobs-program-a-bust
-2031902.php
> or they just simply go out of business as did Evergreen
Solar
<http://www.bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view.bg?articleid=
1358998&pos=breaking
>. Never mind that this proves what reckless spending
government stimulus really is, instead of admitting that fact, we¹ll just
blame those rascal Germans
<http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/obam
a-blames-europe-his-green-jobs-failure
> on this gargantuan failure because
we cant quite fit Bush into this one.
The most productive thing our current President does these days is give
speeches and so we will be treated to yet another one come September 8th.
This will be somewhere between the 4th and 10th time Obama will state that
he has a plan to create jobs and this, finally, will be his main focus, at
least until another vacation or round of golf.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Just a Little Much Needed Levity...

After about 2 weeks of the lead up to the anniversary of 911, I think that
most of you will agree that it was agonizing. It was certainly for me, as
recalling the events of that day are so very painful for me.

Every American changed that day, one way or another.

So I took some time tonight to just browse around the net, avoiding all
911 related info, and found this as rather funny. It is a posted review
of a recent Hollywood movie sequel "Marley and Me: The Puppy Years". Now
mind you that I have never personally seen the movie....but the author of
this post in the IMDB told it like it is, and I appreciated the chuckle it
gave me after a grueling day of 911 fatigue.

Here is the post:

Let me begin with an apology to the people reading this. I am only giving
this 1 star because you can not give it any lower. I also wish to
apologize from the American people to the Author of Marley and Me, we are
sorry that Hollywood has done this to your story.

Now with that said, why why why why why why..... why would you take a
wonderful heartfelt movie like Marley & Me and try to milk it like a cash
cow. This movie, which I sat through because my wife rented it for our
children, was the worst thing I have seen in my life, and to date I have
viewed about 7,000 movies, 5,240 of which we own. (okay we have no life)
Marley is not a talking dog movie, you want a talking dog, go watch Scooby
Doo, Marmaduke or the 1 million Air Bud movies and puppy sequels.

I sincerely wish Hollywood would stop doing this to movies, making useless
sequels after sequel trying to get a buck. Yes, this was a direct to video
movie, but it should have been freebie for walking into Wal-Mart. I can
see the greeter, "Hi welcome to Wal-Mart, here's your free crappy movie,
and a fork to gouge your eyes out after viewing it." I know they will
never make any money to cover the coast of this movie, I am sure it is
headed straight to the dollar store in a few weeks. I admit I watched it,
we rented it from Family video (no way was I buying it, or even
considering buying it at 15.99 at Wal-Mart, we had a free rental and the
only thing it cost me was my time. Of which I am considering suing the
studio for reparations for that. When even my 5yr old says 'dad this movie
sucks can I go play" you know it is bad, this kid made me sit through
Rango... twice which for all of the ways it annoyed me, she loved it.
Regardless, if you are considering seeing this, please do not... you will
beg for a mercy killing before it is over... This movie is definitely one
of the ten signs of the Apocalypse. If this is any sign of the rest of the
crap to come out of Hollywood in the near future, I am praying that the
world will end like the crazy preacher guy was saying earlier this year in
November... at least that way, we can not be tortured anymore with this
kind of garbage. Really who gave this movie the okay... who said let's
waste money and time, and all the respect our studio may still have...
let's make a nonsensical kiddie version of Marley and me and call it the
puppy years... That person was on some serious drugs... as were the people
who said okay let's do it... here's your money...

Friday, September 09, 2011

No Ammo? Huh???

BRAVE F-16 PILOT CONSIDERED ‘RAMMING’ FLIGHT 93 ON 9/11
As the ten-year anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Lieutenant Heather “Lucky” Penney remembers what was asked of her, and the decision she faced.
To take down Flight 93 — the fourth and final hijacked airborne craft that day —  it was possible she would have to ram it.
Lt. Penney was a rookie Air National Guard combat pilot, and she was in a position where she may have had to give her life and take down a civilian airliner to save others on the ground.
Lt. Penney’s F-16 was the second to take off in pursuit of Flight 93 from Andrews Air Force base. Having just returned from training in Nevada, her fighter plane was outfitted mostly with dummy munitions. It had 511 rounds of non-explosive training ammo, but that only provided roughly a 5-sec. burst of the 20-mm gun.
In the end, the heroism of the passengers aboard Flight 93 kept Lt. Penney from having to shoot or ram the jetliner. But she clearly recalls her decision. She was going to do whatever it took to make sure the fourth hijacked plane didn’t become a guided missile with the potential to kill hundreds more innocent people. To this day, it is believed the terrorists aboard Flight 93 were targeting the White House.
Penney told New York Magazine about her ordeal:
“We wouldn’t be shooting it down. We’d be ramming the aircraft, I would essentially be a kamikaze pilot.”
She remembers that day with the grace and humility exemplified by our brave men and women in uniform: ”I was just an accidental witness to history,” she says.
Even a decade later, she rarely speaks of her experience. When Lt. Penney does, she insists the first-responders are the true heroes from that fateful day.
At this time of reflection on the loss and sacrifice of 9/11, we also honor the bravery of those in uniform who gave their lives to protect others, and those who continue to safeguard our lives and liberty.
Watch this video of Lt. Penney’s story, courtesy of the Washington Post:


Wait a second. Something here sounds very fishy. We have heard that locals in Shanksville had seen flight 93 shot down by trailing US fighters. Now comes a story from the Government, who we all trust, saying, “oh, dont worry, the plane chasing 93 didnt have any ammo aboard.”
Really???
I do NOT want to discount the reported heroism of what may or may not have taken place aboard 93 that day. But, besides a phone call from one of the passengers, and chatter from the cockpit, how do we really know if the passengers and crew really died heroes and did what they 911 commission says they did?
Why on earth would the Government scramble an unarmed fighter jet? They couldn’t find one combat ready?
So in an attempt to further bolster the hero story, and “shoot down” the missile theory, they have to ad an afterthought asterix that “oh, the plane didnt have any weapons anyway?”
I just find this incredibly odd….does anyone else?
Didn’t the 111th Air Wing in Pittsburgh have a jet available? One that was combat ready? Or Langly? Someone? Anyone?


Wednesday, September 07, 2011

The Postal Service Must Go


The United States Postal Service (USPS) is going to have to find a way to make up for hemorrhaging financial losses (which has already rendered them incapable of making a $5.5 billion payment to its employee healthcare plan by the Sept. 30 due date) or face the possibility of closing shop for the winter.
Their unique situation raises two questions: first, how did it come to this? Second, how should it be addressed?
Concerning the first question, the USPS has been thrust into this desperate situation in part because of the emergence of new technologies (i.e. cell phone, email, etc.). Modern-era tools have enabled literally millions of Americans to throw off their dependency on traditional courier-style communication. But this cannot the real reason that the USPS is waist-deep in financial ruin. (Bear in mind, they were able to weather the advent of the telegraph and the telephone; could email and texting alone really force the USPS out of business?)
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Source: GAO/Becket Adams
Surely, there are other elements that have helped to inflict heavy financial losses on the government agency.
First of all, a 2006 law requiring the postal service to pay an average of $5.5 billion annually for 10 years to finance retiree health costs for the next 75 years has cost the USPS dearly and, as mentioned before, it has put them into a position where they will most likely default on their bills.
But what has really contributed to the decline of one of America’s oldest institutions is not just its failure to appropriately respond to marketplace competition but its paralyzing contractual agreements with—you guessed it—labor unions.
Currently, labor costs represent 80 percent of the agency’s expenses (as opposed to UPS’ 53 percent and Fedex’s 32 percent) and costs continue to rise and grow with the help of such incredibly, unthinkably harmful provisions as the “no-layoff” clause in union contracts.
Moreover, it has been discovered recently that the USPS has overpaid an estimated $60 billioninto its employee pension plans.
You read that correctly. $60 billion. Extremely generous benefits, employees that cannot be fired, and $60 billion overpaid in pensions. That would explain the 80 percent labor costs.
“The situation is dire,” said Thomas R. Carper, the Delaware Democrat who is chairman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees the postal service.
“If we do nothing, if we don’t react in a smart, appropriate way, the postal service could literally close later this year. That’s not the kind of development we need to inject into a weak, uneven economic recovery,” he said in a recent New York Times article.
Therefore, after reviewing the situation, one could say with complete accuracy that the United States Postal Services has been, in effect, dismantled by a mixture of robust competition, debilitating policies endemic in their administrative offices and overly-munificent employee benefits.
Which brings us to the second question: how does one address these issues?
According to Business Insider, to avoid insolvency, postmaster general Patrick Donahoe is going to ask Congress to approve the elimination of Saturday delivery, close as many 3,700 locations, slash the number of sorting facilities to 200 from 500, and trim the agency’s work force by 220,000 people, from its current 653,000. (A decade ago, the agency employed nearly 900,000.)
Of course, the unions are protesting all of the above.
The post office’s powerful unions are angry and alarmed about the planned layoffs. “We’re going to fight this and we’re going to fight it hard,” said Cliff Guffey, president of the American Postal Workers Union, which represents 207,000 mail sorters and post office clerks. “It’s illegal for them to abrogate our contract.”
From many angles, cutting back on existing costs seems to be the only thing that the USPS can do in order to alleviate its financial burdens. It cannot simply increase its rates as the law prevents them from raising postage fees faster than inflation. But there are a few other things the postal service can try.
In a move that proves the entrepreneurial drive is not completely dead in America, the agency has vigorously proposed some methods which may help them raise additional capital, including gaining the right to deliver wine and beer, allowing commercial advertisements on postal trucks and in post offices, doing more “last-mile” deliveries for FedEx and U.P.S. and offering special hand-delivery services for correspondence and transactions for which e-mail is not considered secure enough.
Not bad ideas. Not bad at all.
As long as the USPS can deal with its union problems, while simultaneously implementing cost-cutting measures and new advertising ventures, they may actually be able to steer themselves back on the road to recovery.

Does it come as a surprise to anyone that the bloated USPS is in trouble, and that the main cause of the trouble is the Labor Union?

Time and time again, especially of late, we see where Unions are the demise of companies.

The Unions continue to take, take, take.  And what do we expect?  How can you continue to take pennies from the jar when the jar was emptied a long, long time ago?

  • Paying people who don’t work
  • Extravagant salaries
  • Ridiculous and oversized benefits packages including vacations, medical, and retirement benefits
  • Duplicity in the workforce
  • Redundant locations
  • And most importantly, the inability to allow technology to REDUCE costs for the sake of Union Jobs.
  •  
    I have friends who work for the Postal Service.  And many times I have stated over the years that unless the USPS is able to roll with the changes as a result of new technology, i.e. EMAIL, electronic billing, paperless offices, that they would eventually collapse.

    I was laughed at, one time, by a dear friend who serves as a postmaster, “you’re crazy – the Postal Service will NEVER succumb to email…” he said in 1989.

    Well, I guess 20 years later, and billions of dollars lost, I was right after all.

    This is about Union labor – there is no need for it in today’s society.  We don’t need Unions to make sure that we are not employing children, or to make sure that the workplace is safe.  What we need is common sense….and for someone to open their eyes and see that Unions, especially for federal employees on the dole, are the reason for the billions of dollars lost every year in this prehistorically run company.

    Here is my solution:

    • Fire every mail carrier, i.e. “Mail man”, and force the population to retrieve their mail at the post office. 
    • Force highly paid employees to a salary cut.
    • OVER REGULATE the USPS just like the government does for all other private corporations and force them to standards of automation, all in the name of the environment
    • Cut SPAM – yes, regulate what gets sent in the mail – I am tired of receiving JUNK that does nothing more than go to the landfill unopened.  Seriously – the Government was all about stopping unsolicited EMAIL, why stop there?  Email costs NOTHING for the taxpayer.

    Its time to get rid of this bloated organization – and while we are at it, lets get rid of 500 more unnecessary government agencies that do nothing more than destroy our country’s economy.

Saturday, September 03, 2011

Gibson: Feds Want Guitar Woodwork Done by Foreign Labor

Gibson Guitar Corp. is claiming the Obama administration wants more of its woodwork done overseas, as a bizarre battle heats up between the government and one of the country's most renowned guitar makers. 

The dispute started in 2009, when federal agents raided the company over suspect wood shipments from Madagascar. Gibson took that case to court but has denounced the administration with a vengeance after agents returned late last month to raid several Gibson factories -- this time out of concern that Indian export laws had been violated. 

Though some reports on the dispute have cited environmental concerns, court documents suggest the latest battle boils down to a simple, non-environmental question -- which country is working on the wood

Gibson's CEO has said repeatedly that the only reason his company is in trouble is because U.S. workers are completing work on guitar fingerboards in the United States. In an interview earlier this week, CEO Henry Juszkiewicz claimed that the U.S. government even suggested Gibson's troubles would disappear if the company used foreign labor. 

The Justice Department is hamstrung from talking about the case because it's an ongoing investigation. Justice spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle told FoxNews.com only that agents were looking for evidence of "possible violations" of a law governing imports of plants and wildlife. 
Hornbuckle also confirmed that no charges have yet been filed in either of the two cases. 

Court documents help explain the root of the tree dispute. According to search warrants associated with the latest raid, federal agents in June intercepted a shipment of Indian ebony apparently bound for Gibson in Tennessee. The documents noted that Indian law "prohibits the export of sawn wood," which can be used for fingerboards -- but does not prohibit the export of "veneers," which are sheets of woods that have already been worked on. 

The search warrants alleged that the intercepted shipment was "falsely declared" as veneer, something that would have been legal. However, the documents said the ebony was in fact unfinished "sawn wood," supposedly illegal. 
This led to the raid on Gibson facilities late last month. 
Juszkiewicz said in a statement that the U.S. government has effectively suggested "that the use of wood from India that is not finished by Indian workers is illegal, not because of U.S. law, but because it is the Justice Department's interpretation of a law in India." 
A representative at the Indian Embassy in Washington could not be reached for comment. 
But Juszkiewicz has since claimed that his company's wood exports do in fact comply with Indian law, even if American workers are doing some of the work. 
In an interview on the company website, Juszkiewicz said Gibson "for decades" has purchased fingerboard wood that is two-thirds finished. 
"The fact that American workers are completing the work in the United States makes it illegal," he said, citing the government's position. 
Juszkiewicz maintains Gibson is still complying with the law.



So, let me get this straight.  The “wood” in question is illegal, unless, it is transformed outside of the United States.  Then, using foreign labor to transform the wood makes it all ok?


So again, the Obama administration would rather cut American jobs, for no reason what so ever, putting 1200 people OUT OF WORK, because of why?


I don’t seem to get it.  It’s the same wood….


And to boot, this is all over a CLERICAL ERROR!


Agents with guns raided the factories.  Why the guns?  Did they think the guitar makers were armed and dangerous?  I guess so.


Unfreakingreal