DIVERSITY TRAINING

Next summer, the 2008 Olympic Trials will be held in Eugene, Oregon.  But anyone that volunteers to work the event must undergo special training ... in diversity.  The Blacks on Track Team committee wants to make sure that black athletes and their families feel at home in the city, which has a black population of less than 2%.

The committee is in charge of educating 1,800 volunteers about "the need for cultural sensitivity."  Volunteers will all be required to undergo this training, but hundreds of workers from local businesses, restaurants and retail stores will also be invited to the diversity indoctrination sessions.

The committee doesn't yet know the specifics of what will be taught during the training, but they said examples could include alerting athletes to the types of restaurants, hair salons or religious services they may be accustomed to.  Another part of the training will be to teach the volunteers not to assume that every unfamiliar black person in Eugene is an athlete or a supporter.  Eugenians (??) may also be taught not to say such things as "pull your pants up" or "Excuse me, but did you know that you still have a sticker on your baseball cap?"

Volunteers might also be taught appropriate greetings.  For example, this is according to the committee, greetings between two black people may be inappropriate to use between a white an a black person.  I'm not even going there.  But I do wonder if they're going to teach those nifty 15-second long handshake deals?

The Blacks on Track Team has already met with police to plan for the four-day diversity training.  Four days?   Why in the hell does it take four days to dole out this horsesqueeze?  But the police will also be taught how to guard against racial profiling.

What an amazing joke.  I wonder if they're going to be teaching the athletes that people in Eugene might not like to go around with 1000 watt bass systems in their cars turned up to full volume? 

THE MEDICAID BURDEN

This is some pretty amazing stuff, folks.  The government's Medicaid program puts more of a financial burden on emergency rooms than those pesky "47 million uninsured."  Researchers in California found that uninsured patients paid 35% of their emergency room bills compared to 33% for those on Medicaid.

Sadly, the proportion of paid emergency room charges has fallen from 57% to 42% from 1996 to 2004.  Reimbursements from all sources have declined over time.  But Medicaid and the uninsured consistently pay the lowest share of emergency room bills.

Medicaid is a $300 billion leach on the side of every taxpayer who funds this government insurance program for the poor or disabled.  And these people visit the emergency room at highest rate.  In second place is Medicare recipients, followed by the uninsured, and then finally the people who take responsibility and find a way to have their own damned private insurance.

LIBERAL ACTIVISTS VOTE

Liberal activists - you know how much I just love that word - have voted for their favorite moonbat.  Their favorite candidate for the 2008 election is none other than Dennis "I swear I saw aliens" Kucinich.  He received 32% of the vote.  That's pretty darn big considering he is not a front-runner in general election polls.

In second place to Kucinich was Mr. Climate Change himself, OwlGore.  The liberal activists must have forgotten that Gore isn't even running from president ... but that must be too hard for their pea-brains to fathom.  Gore ended up with 25% of the vote.

OHIO SEX OFFENDERS

The Ohio legislature is in the middle of a big stink.  A bill has been proposed that would require all registered sex offenders to have a neon green license plate on their car. They already have to notify the community, probably put signs on their lawns, huddle in fire stations on Halloween, and probably move to neighborhoods without schools or churches.  But hey, why not stop there?

In fact, why should government stop there?  Let's make red license plates for drug offenders.  How about blue license plates for obese people?  Oh and black license plates for smokers ... I like that one.  Do you see where I'm going with this, folks? 

While were at it, let's tattoo "sex fiend" on their foreheads. 

MUSLIM HAIRDRESSER

A hair salon owner in London is being sued for religious discrimination because the owner refused to hire a Muslim girl as a stylist because she wore a headscarf.

The owner, Sarah Desrosiers said that she couldn't hirer Bushra Noah because it is an "absolute basic" requirement that customers can see their stylist's hair.  Sarah's "alternative" salon in London specializes in urban, funky, and punky hair cuts.  Now the small business owner is facing a $30,000 lawsuit for injury to the Muslim girl's feelings and then more money, of an unspecified amount, for "lost earnings."

The salon owner says that she has now been branded a racist.  Another thing to know about the Muslim girl is that she had already been rejected for 25 jobs.  She must be a real thrill to be around.  But the salon owner invited the girl to a trial day where she said she was discriminated against and treated rudely after people realized that the headscarf was a permanent and nonnegotiable matter.  The Muslim girl says that just because she wears a headscarf does not mean that she isn't up to date with the latest trends and fashions.

READING ASSINGMENTS:

Harry Reid, our Senate Majority Leader, made a statement that declining casualties in Iraq were because "much ethnic cleansing has already taken place."  What an asshole.

Debate to withdrawal the troops from Iraq is back on the House floor.  Thank you Nancy Pelosi.   Sorry ... but it just has to be said. 

The FBI says that al Qaeda may be prepared to attack shopping malls in Los Angeles and Chicago this holiday shopping season.  All they would have to do is attack just one.  If that happens, and let's pray that it doesn't, let's see how long it takes Pelosi to blame it on Bush.

The state of California is suing the federal government, trying to force it to decide whether the state can impose the first green house gas emission standards for cars and trucks.

Senator Joe Biden (a Democrat) blasted President Bush for waiting until Wednesday to call Pakistan President Musharraf about his state of emergency.  Oh yeah ... that's Bush's fault too.  They just haven't found a way to blame it on global warming yet.

Joe Lieberman calls out his own party, saying that Democrats are more concerned about opposing Republicans than actually doing the right thing.

Glad this news could be found on page 19 of the New York Times:  "American forces have routed Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the Iraqi militant network, from every neighborhood of Baghdad, a top American general said today."

Pakistan's Musharraf says that he will hold elections by February 15^th and promised to relinquish his post as head of the army.  We've heard that before.

Government elementary school children are attending global warming assemblies called "Curb Your Carbon."  And they will be given bilingual (aww isn't that sweet) "Cancel-a-Car" coupon books to tell them how to fight global warming.

It's been a while since we have picked on CAIR - the Council on American-Islamic Relations.  Well CAIR is upset with Pat Robertson's endorsement of Rudy Giuliani, and it is urging Giuliani to reconsider the endorsement because of Robertson's "anti-Islamic" attacks.

Actor Wesley Snipes says that the town of Ocala, Florida is too racist, and he will not be able to get a fair trial on tax evasion charges.  He wants the trial moved to New York because of the possibility of an "all-white southern jury."  Right now there is one more horses's ass in Ocala than there are horses.

Apparently Australia is having a problem with glassing in nightclubs ... that would be people getting hit with glasses.  Now a girl that was attacked is calling for all pubs and clubs to switch to plastic cups.

Poor Indian women are now renting out their wombs to foreigners, charging about $5,000, plus medical and attendant costs.

Can you imagine getting 150 marriage proposals?  Who is this woman, and what are they not telling us in this story??

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