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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Monday, June 30, 2003

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DEMOCRATS ON DESTRUCTIVE PATH ... AND THAT'S GOOD

To become president of the United States a Democrat has to run two separate campaigns. First you have to get through the primary campaign, then the actual presidential election. The problem for Democrats is that candidates have to campaign to two entirely separate audiences. Democrats, in their rush to honor the Gods of Diversity, have created a primary and nomination process that is heavily tilted to the far left. Take a look at the delegates at the Demcoratic nominating convention. Blacks, for instance, make up just over 12% of out population. You can bet your next paycheck that far, far more than 12% of the delegates to the nominating convention will be black. These delegates will be won only by moving to the left. The statements made and positions taken by these candidates while they're pursuing the nominating process will be around to haunt them when the general election campaign begins. I'm saving 'em up, folks. It looks like 2004 is going to be a fun year.

IT COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE THE CULTURE, COULD IT?

The University of Central Florida will be releasing a study this week that examines arrest and detention rates for blacks in the Orange County (Orlando area) jail. It seems that blacks only make up 18 percent of the Orange County population, but account for 40 percent of all arrests and somewhere between 50 and 60 percent of the jail population.

Enter one Gary Siplin. He's a Democratic State Senator from Orlando. Senator Siplin, who is black, says "I think there's something inherently wrong about arresting and detaining more blacks than anybody else. There's just some breakdown in fairness in the criminal justice system."

My condolences to Orlando. So this is the type of representation you have in Tallahassee? The people of Orlando have actually elected a State Senator who believes that police should arrest equal numbers of blacks and whites? I'm surprised Senator Silpin didn't take it a step further and say that arrest rates for certain ethnicities should never exceed their percentage of the general population in that particular area.

The specter of political correctness hangs over any attempt to bring truth to this debate. The truth is that young black males are responsible for a percentage of crimes that far exceeds their percentage of the population. The sad thing is that the vast majority of these crimes are committed by a small minority of young black repeat offenders, but the stigma adheres to the wider population of black youth.

No ... poverty doesn't explain it. Statistics show that young white males living at the same poverty levels as young blacks do not commit crimes to the same extent.

To even utter these statistical facts is to subject yourself to charges of racism. Sorry to disappoint you, but it isn't about race. It's about culture. It's about a culture that embraces violence and crime almost as a way of life.

So ... to the University of Central Florida ... when you get finished gathering all of those statistics on who is getting arrested, and how long they're staying in jail; how about spending some time studying the culture that promotes and honors this type of activity.

GAY MARRIAGE?

I understand that a lot of Americans are now upset that the recent Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas is going to open the doors to the state sanctioning of gay marriages. I do wonder, though, why these same Americans aren't just as upset over the cavalier way that the Hollywood crowd treats marriage. In Hollywood a two-year marriage is considered to be a lifetime commitment. Is a meaningless and uncommitted relationship between two movie stars just fine because it's heterosexual, but a lifetime committed relationship between two people of the same sex is inherently bad?

HEY .. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

The headline in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution reads "Grady grapples with cuts in budget ... Debt grows with little aid in sight."

Grady is Atlanta's charity hospital. At the end of last year it was $38 million in debt, and that debt is expected to grow by another $38 billion this year. They're starting to throw out the "bankruptcy" word.

Meanwhile .. on the other side of town, a resident wants a ride downtown. Rather than spend money on a cab, this individual calls 911. She's sick and needs an ambulance. A Grady ambulance shows up at her home, together with a fire truck. She complains of feeling a bit faint. They load her up and haul her off to Grady. She gets checked out at the emergency room. Nothing is found. She's discharged ... but, she's downtown! Mission accomplished, and it didn't cost her a cent! She's a Medicaid patient .. and gets her free ride.

This, my friends, is the future of medical care in America. Socialized medicine is inevitable. Budget problems will follow. Bankruptcy will be discussed. Taxes will be increased. And, finally, services will be rationed.

Hey ... you think you have a right to health care? Well, you're most certainly going to get your wish ... and that dream will turn into a nightmare.

BEST LINE OF THE YEAR

Ann Coulter was being questioned by the other denizens of The View. One of the ladies asked Ann (why, I don't know) if she had ever seen two women having sex. Her answer: "Not since I saw Katie Couric interview Hillary Clinton. That was the last time."

I think I'm in love.

ANTI-AIRPORT NOISE IN NAPLES AND CLASS WARFARE

Scanning the Internet Sunday morning I noticed that there are the beginnings of a movement in Naples, Florida to close the city airport. It would seem that some of the anti-airport crowd down there has learned a lesson from Chicago's mayor Richard Daley. They want the airport turned into a park.

OK ... I'm own an airplane, and it just happens that I lease a hangar at the Naples airport. I commute between Atlanta and Naples over 20 times a year. So, obviously I'm going to be interested in this story.

I'm bringing this up today because I found something buried deep in the Naples Daily News story that reinforces my belief that many of the anti-airport activists around the country are motivated by something other than concerns over land use or noise. To many, their opposition to community airports and general aviation is based on little more than their envy of people that they perceive as having more than they do.

Politicians have been earning their positions of power and prestige for generations by playing on this envy. They paint the wealthy as evil and undeserving. They hint that the rich got that way through exploiting others, cheating and stealing. Then they promise to punish those who have achieved much if those who have achieved less will just vote them into power. Most leftist politicians are loathe to admit that that the evil rich actually worked to get where they are. Richard Gephardt tells us that they "won life's lottery," as if achieving personal wealth takes nothing more than selecting the right numbers for a lottery draw. Other's refer to low-achievers as the "less fortunate." The premise here is that those who acquire wealth do so only through luck. Then, of course, these leftist politicians just love to tell us that the undeserving rich don't "pay their fair share" of taxes, even though federal statistics prove the opposite.

Well, there it was ... right there in the middle of the Naples Daily New story, a former chairman of the Naples Airport Authority saying that the Naples airport is "... a toy for the very rich." That's right. A "toy." A toy for really, really rich people. When I was serving on the Peachtree DeKalb Airport authority in Atlanta I would hear the exact same statements from our own local anti-airport activists. Complaint after complaint about "those rich people with their expensive toys."

This "toy" in Naples creates almost $100 million every year in economic activity. It employees 442 people who earn $19 million annually in wages. Some toy. Ask someone who works at the airport if they think they're earning their living servicing a "toy."

In closing ... a fact. Think about this the next time you hear this "toy for rich people" nonsense being thrown around. The average privately owned general aviation aircraft in this country cost less than a new bass rig ... boat, motor and trailer. Does that make your local bass fishing lake a toy for the rich?

READING ASSIGNMENTS

A good look at the current crop of Democrat presidential candidates. Right now the entire party is being pulled far to the left by Howard Dean.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003689

Here's a UN weapons inspector saying "Of course Iraq had forbidden weapons." Never mind though. The left will still continue along their present course of trying to convince the world that George Busy was lying about all that. After all, nothing else they've tried works. The left has changed the meaning of so many words and phrases; "tax credit," for instance. Maybe they can manage to change the definition of the word "lie" also.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003688

A much-needed column for you drivers out there who park your slow rear ends in the left lanes of an expressway.
http://www.ajc.com/sunday/content/epaper/editions/sunday/metro_e3ef6703705d50bc002c.html

California just has a few hours left to solve a financial crisis. Ahhhh ... for the good old free spending days of the 1990's.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48925-2003Jun29.html

California's governor is looking a lot like toast these days. The recall effort is strong and seems certain to succeed. Now we have California business leaders, both Democrats and Republicans, asking Bush to call for an end to the recall effort. He should say no. It's a state matter, not the concern of the federal government.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/06/29/state1803EDT0047.DTL

Looking for some good guys. Here are all the links you will need.
http://www.geocities.com/thebob052000/gguys.htm

"How to Destroy a Village: What the Clintons Taught a Seventeen Year Old." Now that ought to be an interesting book. Am I the only one out here wondering how my life would have changed if the Clintons had been in the White House while I was a Sophomore in high school? http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33289

They threw a little wine fair in France over this past week, the largest in the country. It seems that the American wine merchants were, for the most part, somewhere else.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/30/international/europe/30FRAN.html?hpLooks like the old "racial profiling" argument is about to become hot in the Orlando area. Only 18% of the Orange County population is black, but they account for between 50 and 60 percent of the jail population. One black politician is saying "I think there's something inherently wrong about arresting and detaining more blacks than anyone else. There's just some breakdown in fairness in the criminal-justice system." http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-locrace29062903jun29,0,2814720.story?coll=orl-news-headlines
 
 

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