New Star Trek Trailer is out!
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Link for all you Star Trek Fans
admin @ November 17, 2008
Prop 8 and those minorities
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PHILADELPHIA, PA, November 17, 2008/Diverse News/– Below are a few videos pertaining to Proposition 8 which was passed in California [majority-minority state] to ban ‘Gay’ marriage and have marriage remain defined as a union between a man & woman. Sure, the homosexuals [not disrespectful, tell ya later] are upset and are conducting nationwide protests but let’s see: There was a democratic vote with 70% of Blacks, 53% of Latinos, 49% Asians and 49% Whites, all voting to ban ‘Gay’ Marriage. This means that the public did not want it, meaning that the definition of marriage should remain between a man and a woman. So, religious principles are to blame. Then the protesters can blame racial minorities, like in this story, with protesters using the n-word against a student.
Prop 8 was not against homosexuals, per se, but more on maintaining culture and tradition. I’m sure if there was another word that could have been used instead of gay [The word 'gay' became widely known as homosexual in 1971] the folks who voted for Prop 8 would not have felt that their ethnicity was being infringed upon and would have certainly voted for a homosexual union if it only had another name.
You see, the word gay originally meant ‘being merry’ and the word marriage means between a ‘man and a woman’. When groups try to change definitions that infringe upon a pre-existing definition, especially when it concerns sex, that interferes with their culture; it causes confusion, especially to the young who can be dumbfounded by one word meaning different things. This can make them wonder about it (without psychological expert opinion).
The bottom line is: How does anyone know what kind of sex you are having unless you tell them? If homosexuals want to be a part of society, like other minorities are, they should come up with another word for their wanting to unionize. Something that would not infringe upon culture and tradition, like Philadelphia’s ‘Domestic Partnership’ law [although when it was passed, they also removed common-law marriage from the books] where same-sex couples are legally bound. This is not about homosexuals wanting to be legally dyadic but more on the sense that society does respect dissimilar things - but wants it to be known as just that: not the same.
The below CNN video, showing celebrity ad campaign commercials , appears to present a sort of guilt-complex inducement into the minds of child viewers. In the celebrity ads, Hollywood actors, who rudely interfere in others’ conversations without excusing themselves, try to solely define the word ‘gay’ as meaning homosexual with the kids left appearing to feel bad about themselves. Thing is, the Hollywood actors are upset because the kids are making a new definition for the word gay!. Watch how it starts out with the anchorwoman saying, ‘Say something original would you?:
More guilt?
More Protests
admin @ November 17, 2008
Veterans Awareness Week Ends
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National Veterans Awareness Week
Fact Sheet: President Bush Has Provided Unprecedented Support for Our Veterans
“These noble Americans are our sons and daughters. They are our fathers and mothers. They are our family and they are our friends. They leave home to do the work of patriots — and they lead lives of quiet dignity when they return. Today we send a clear message to all who have worn the uniform: Thank you for your courage, thank you for your sacrifice, and thank you for standing up when your nation needed you most.”
- President George W. Bush, November 11, 2008
Dramatically Increased Funding To Support And Care For Those Who Have Served Our Nation
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Increased funding for veterans’ medical care by more than 115 percent since 2001.
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FY 2009 funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) totals more than $97 billion, nearly double the level of funding when the President took office and the highest level of support for veterans in history.
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Provided more than $6 billion to modernize and expand VA medical facilities and more than $1 billion over the past three years to support traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder treatment and research.
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Honored our veterans with a hallowed, final resting place by implementing and fully funding the largest expansion in the national cemetery system since the Civil War.
VA Budget almost doubles in 7 years
Improved Care And Services For Wounded Warriors
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Created the Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors – co-chaired by former Senator Bob Dole and former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala – to ensure that wounded service members and veterans receive quality care and services and can live lives of hope, promise, and dignity. Nearly all of the Commission’s recommendations have already been implemented, such as:
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Expanded training, screening, and staff resources to help service members and veterans suffering from mental health disorders.
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Created a joint Recovery Coordinator Program for seriously injured service members.
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Initiated a pilot program to replace the cumbersome system of two separate disability examinations with a single, comprehensive medical exam.
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Established a Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury and expanded VA’s polytrauma system of care to 21 network sites and clinic support teams to provide state-of-the-art treatment to injured veterans at facilities closer to their homes.
Ensured Those Who Have Served Our Country Receive The Benefits They Deserve
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Called for and signed a GI Bill for the 21st century, which expanded education benefits for service members and veterans and made it easier for those who defend our Nation to transfer unused education benefits to their spouses or children.
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Increased career counseling services for returning veterans, particularly those wounded in combat.
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Signed legislation that increased from two to five years a combat veteran’s eligibility to enroll for lifetime VA medical care and allowed family members of injured service members to take additional time away from their jobs to care for their loved ones.
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Signed legislation to ensure military retirees with severe disabilities receive both their military retired pay and their VA disability compensation.
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Helped more than 1.9 million veterans enroll in the VA health care system since 2001.
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Reduced the average length of time to process a veteran’s disability claim to under 180 days, down from 230 days when the President took office.
admin @ November 15, 2008
Guantanamo, $2Trillion and the Dopes
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By Mark Smith
These three things do not seem to go together, do they? Well, they just might.
With $2Trillion invisibly given away and the president-elect wanting to close Guantanamo prison, it certainly appears that some groups of people are being protected.
If you look, especially within the last 7 years, new immigrants have been opening businesses in your community as well as mine. How did they get the money? Businesses that seem to be worth a million dollars or more. Could this be the reason why the Federal Reserve is not wanting to disclose this information?
There certainly should be a public database to see who is getting these loans. There is a fairness in lending law but it only goes by race, but each race includes many ethnicities. Today, being Veterans day, I think we owe it to all of our nation’s Veterans that are homeless, looking for work or wanting an opportunity, to get some sort of database that could be used to rule out discrimination. New Americans should not skip over Veterans in receiving business loans. I do know that if Veterans were offered these substantial loans to start a business, they could certainly fair well.
Guantanamo, if you remember, all of the drawn-out, disgusting stories which the media contrasted to torture. Yet, just one example, when Al Qaeda cut-off two G.I.’s heads and dragged their corpses through the streets, it got very little attention compared to the Guantanamo humiliation techniques - not torture. I wonder how the mothers of those two G.I.’s feel about that, comparing what happened to their sons and the overreacting stories that were given to the Guantanamo prisoners?
If President-elect Obama does give these prisoners rights and has their war crimes trials here in the U.S. - and the U.S. loses these cases (which I get the feeling) -then this, too, will add on to that $2Trillion that already came out of the American taxpayers pockets. I am speaking of the civil law suits that will have to be forked-out. I can see it now, the media saying how much the prisoners were ‘tortured’
Dopes, oh yea, that’s us. For putting our trust in the mainstream media. Worshiping idols from TV and movies, allowing Hollywood to have their views broadcast by actors who don’t represent our community. Keep this in mind: Why doesn’t the mainstream media give airtime to people that truly represent the community? People who are leaders of organizations that truly represent you, the American. Shame
admin @ November 11, 2008