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	<title>Comments on: Vote for Miss Angela</title>
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		<title>By: taint_foolhardy</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-2/#comment-16386</link>
		<dc:creator>taint_foolhardy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Perhaps, and I&#039;ll throw in a maybe....You are all too wrapped up in the trappings of a community mind.  The greatness of the democracy lies in the thoughts of individuals, not groups.  Whatever tactics one uses to elevate their respective position is nothing but that.  Which is to say.  If I have a ridiculous song, is that any worse than a horribly false and slanderous commercial.  I believe to the current political mind there is a simple equation and it goes like this.  MONEY=VALIDITY.  Your are all jaded by rhetoric which has been grandfathered down to you.  Essentially, what your criticizing, is the want of an oppressed lower class to elevate their position.  Holy CHIRST! Sounds familiar....Now I know it&#039;s not that easy.  And I don&#039;t agree with their agenda.  But to criticize a candidate for targeting their marquis audience, and assuming your candidate is any better, is pure falicy.  I highly suggest you take your high horse and give him a drink of fresh water.  Because, in essence, its not advertisements I vote for, its issues.  And if you feel this woman is reaching a bigger audience than you, and your issues arent being represented, than it is your fault, not hers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps, and I&#8217;ll throw in a maybe&#8230;.You are all too wrapped up in the trappings of a community mind.  The greatness of the democracy lies in the thoughts of individuals, not groups.  Whatever tactics one uses to elevate their respective position is nothing but that.  Which is to say.  If I have a ridiculous song, is that any worse than a horribly false and slanderous commercial.  I believe to the current political mind there is a simple equation and it goes like this.  MONEY=VALIDITY.  Your are all jaded by rhetoric which has been grandfathered down to you.  Essentially, what your criticizing, is the want of an oppressed lower class to elevate their position.  Holy CHIRST! Sounds familiar&#8230;.Now I know it&#8217;s not that easy.  And I don&#8217;t agree with their agenda.  But to criticize a candidate for targeting their marquis audience, and assuming your candidate is any better, is pure falicy.  I highly suggest you take your high horse and give him a drink of fresh water.  Because, in essence, its not advertisements I vote for, its issues.  And if you feel this woman is reaching a bigger audience than you, and your issues arent being represented, than it is your fault, not hers.</p>
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		<title>By: Mojo</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-2/#comment-15426</link>
		<dc:creator>Mojo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I quit you, Bill Simon, unlike Jake Gyllenhaal.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I quit you, Bill Simon, unlike Jake Gyllenhaal.</p>
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		<title>By: Bill Simon</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-2/#comment-15328</link>
		<dc:creator>Bill Simon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You quit what, Mojo?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You quit what, Mojo?</p>
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		<title>By: Mojo</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-2/#comment-15322</link>
		<dc:creator>Mojo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nevermind.  I quit.  I can&#039;t believe I&#039;m a defender of the p.c. culture.  I&#039;ll stop now.  Sometimes passion overwhelms good sense.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nevermind.  I quit.  I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m a defender of the p.c. culture.  I&#8217;ll stop now.  Sometimes passion overwhelms good sense.</p>
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		<title>By: Mojo</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-2/#comment-15321</link>
		<dc:creator>Mojo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bill Simon,

Nice response.  I&#039;m sure your mother is proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bill Simon,</p>
<p>Nice response.  I&#8217;m sure your mother is proud.</p>
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		<title>By: Bill Simon</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-2/#comment-15301</link>
		<dc:creator>Bill Simon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2006 04:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mojo,

Would it help you understand anything if I was to suggest you needed to be bitch-slapped?  OR, would that covertly/overtly imply I&#039;m a misogynist?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mojo,</p>
<p>Would it help you understand anything if I was to suggest you needed to be bitch-slapped?  OR, would that covertly/overtly imply I&#8217;m a misogynist?</p>
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		<title>By: Mojo</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-1/#comment-15296</link>
		<dc:creator>Mojo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2006 02:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mike,

It took you quite some time to write that post.  How long did you search the internet and old grammar books for your material?

But, you have awakened me and now I must get serious.  One must use vocal inflections and tone to pick up on sarcasm, unless, like me, the person fully understands this and makes it as obvious as possible for the reader.  Bill Simon, on the other hand, offers a few paltry comments and it is impossible to read any sarcasm in those comments.

Let us review what I previously stated, &quot;Hey genius, I’m reading a few paltry comments on the internet, tell me how I can pick up the vocal inflections and tone that define sarcasm.&quot;  Now, tell me where that states that I attempt to place my ear to the computer and listen?  

You state, &quot;And if you want to claim “intellectual superiority</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mike,</p>
<p>It took you quite some time to write that post.  How long did you search the internet and old grammar books for your material?</p>
<p>But, you have awakened me and now I must get serious.  One must use vocal inflections and tone to pick up on sarcasm, unless, like me, the person fully understands this and makes it as obvious as possible for the reader.  Bill Simon, on the other hand, offers a few paltry comments and it is impossible to read any sarcasm in those comments.</p>
<p>Let us review what I previously stated, &#8220;Hey genius, I’m reading a few paltry comments on the internet, tell me how I can pick up the vocal inflections and tone that define sarcasm.&#8221;  Now, tell me where that states that I attempt to place my ear to the computer and listen?  </p>
<p>You state, &#8220;And if you want to claim “intellectual superiority</p>
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		<title>By: LINDA</title>
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		<dc:creator>LINDA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Mike Hassinger,

You need not worry because those with a real cause do not need political consultants.  A person with a passion for the truth and reality can carry their own in an election.  I am proud to have received 32% of the vote in my election, and I am not too darn PC to say the election was decided on racial lines.  I put out my own signs and hand delivered my own platform by putting letters in the voters&#039; paper bpxes.  Political consultants are to blame for this mess that our Country is in today!

I am a professional myself, and I am helping a lady that cannot leave her husband that is in his final stages of life with hospice visiting daily to file an appeal on her property tax revaluation.  I am doing it for free!  I heard an attorney on a local radio station say that he would help people with appeals for a fee.  Now that is the difference between me and others is that I will help others that cannot help themselves.  I see that several lengthy posts have been added to this PP blog to hide this post into the archives.  That is unfortunate because many need real instruction in how to abolish PC for good!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mike Hassinger,</p>
<p>You need not worry because those with a real cause do not need political consultants.  A person with a passion for the truth and reality can carry their own in an election.  I am proud to have received 32% of the vote in my election, and I am not too darn PC to say the election was decided on racial lines.  I put out my own signs and hand delivered my own platform by putting letters in the voters&#8217; paper bpxes.  Political consultants are to blame for this mess that our Country is in today!</p>
<p>I am a professional myself, and I am helping a lady that cannot leave her husband that is in his final stages of life with hospice visiting daily to file an appeal on her property tax revaluation.  I am doing it for free!  I heard an attorney on a local radio station say that he would help people with appeals for a fee.  Now that is the difference between me and others is that I will help others that cannot help themselves.  I see that several lengthy posts have been added to this PP blog to hide this post into the archives.  That is unfortunate because many need real instruction in how to abolish PC for good!</p>
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		<title>By: Mike Hassinger</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-1/#comment-15177</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hassinger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mojo-
You know when you addressed me as &quot;genius,&quot; a couple posts up? That was sarcasm. I read your post and didn&#039;t need to be aware of your &quot;vocal inflections and tone&quot; to pick up on it. You&#039;ll find it easier if you don&#039;t expect &quot;vocal inflections and tone&quot; from posts on PP, which is still a WRITTEN form of communication. What do you do, press your ear to the screen? 

And if you want to claim &quot;intellectual superiority&quot; to someone, you really should avoid using vague pronoun references and the word &quot;irregardless.&quot; Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time. 

bowersville-
Candidates are seeking power over people. Any candidate who expects a consultant to give away skills and services so that the candidate can have and wield political power over others is clinically insane. It&#039;s not cynical to expect to be paid for one&#039;s skills, most especially in politics.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mojo-<br />
You know when you addressed me as &#8220;genius,&#8221; a couple posts up? That was sarcasm. I read your post and didn&#8217;t need to be aware of your &#8220;vocal inflections and tone&#8221; to pick up on it. You&#8217;ll find it easier if you don&#8217;t expect &#8220;vocal inflections and tone&#8221; from posts on PP, which is still a WRITTEN form of communication. What do you do, press your ear to the screen? </p>
<p>And if you want to claim &#8220;intellectual superiority&#8221; to someone, you really should avoid using vague pronoun references and the word &#8220;irregardless.&#8221; Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time. </p>
<p>bowersville-<br />
Candidates are seeking power over people. Any candidate who expects a consultant to give away skills and services so that the candidate can have and wield political power over others is clinically insane. It&#8217;s not cynical to expect to be paid for one&#8217;s skills, most especially in politics.</p>
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		<title>By: LINDA</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-1/#comment-15171</link>
		<dc:creator>LINDA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Mojo,

I think you are drinking Kool Aid my young man.  The Civil War was not a bogus sacrifice of young lives.  I assume you have never been to Gettysburg and taken a ride on the tour bus that takes visitors back in time to when young men no older than 15 marched into battle and had their young limbs blown off.  Yes, you are typical of the thankless other members in this society that are nothing but parasites to those that gave all.  Good day!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mojo,</p>
<p>I think you are drinking Kool Aid my young man.  The Civil War was not a bogus sacrifice of young lives.  I assume you have never been to Gettysburg and taken a ride on the tour bus that takes visitors back in time to when young men no older than 15 marched into battle and had their young limbs blown off.  Yes, you are typical of the thankless other members in this society that are nothing but parasites to those that gave all.  Good day!</p>
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		<title>By: Mojo</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-1/#comment-15161</link>
		<dc:creator>Mojo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Linda,

OMG, oh thee of the easily punctured skin.  Get over yourself and stop joining the rest of easily offended victims in society.  I find it interesting that you get so upset b/c I called you out on the fact that you only take note of black politicians that come TO you and thank you for some bogus sacrifice a hundred and fifty years ago.  That is a slavemaster mentality.  I&#039;m sorry if the truth hurts.  Maybe you should look at everyone&#039;s platform irregardless of color or their servile fawning.

&quot;I drank what?&quot;  Socrates</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Linda,</p>
<p>OMG, oh thee of the easily punctured skin.  Get over yourself and stop joining the rest of easily offended victims in society.  I find it interesting that you get so upset b/c I called you out on the fact that you only take note of black politicians that come TO you and thank you for some bogus sacrifice a hundred and fifty years ago.  That is a slavemaster mentality.  I&#8217;m sorry if the truth hurts.  Maybe you should look at everyone&#8217;s platform irregardless of color or their servile fawning.</p>
<p>&#8220;I drank what?&#8221;  Socrates</p>
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		<title>By: bowersville</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-1/#comment-15142</link>
		<dc:creator>bowersville</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 04:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Linda, I don&#039;t know, I&#039;m not a consultant, but as sure as I type this, MAYBE SOME BODY WITH FORTITUDE, such as Erick, will come out of hiding, and stand up for someone who speaks their mind (instead of listening to the wind of the polls). How about it you consultants from Macon, are you just out for the money, or are you for a cause?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Linda, I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m not a consultant, but as sure as I type this, MAYBE SOME BODY WITH FORTITUDE, such as Erick, will come out of hiding, and stand up for someone who speaks their mind (instead of listening to the wind of the polls). How about it you consultants from Macon, are you just out for the money, or are you for a cause?</p>
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		<title>By: LINDA</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-1/#comment-15141</link>
		<dc:creator>LINDA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 04:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Mojo,

I take offense to the slander about me being like a slave master.  FYI, my ancestors arrived here from Germany in about 1713 before the Revolutionary War.  My people came here before there were bridges, roads and railroads, and they built this country.  As far as I know, many in my ancestory started out with nothing and worked for what they had with no slave labor.  I will leave you with a quote:

&quot;When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.&quot; 
Socrates

Bowersville,

Thanks.  But do you think that I could ever find a political consultant to represent me!  Ha!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mojo,</p>
<p>I take offense to the slander about me being like a slave master.  FYI, my ancestors arrived here from Germany in about 1713 before the Revolutionary War.  My people came here before there were bridges, roads and railroads, and they built this country.  As far as I know, many in my ancestory started out with nothing and worked for what they had with no slave labor.  I will leave you with a quote:</p>
<p>&#8220;When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.&#8221;<br />
Socrates</p>
<p>Bowersville,</p>
<p>Thanks.  But do you think that I could ever find a political consultant to represent me!  Ha!</p>
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		<title>By: bowersville</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-1/#comment-15139</link>
		<dc:creator>bowersville</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Linda, Damn I wished you were running here.</description>
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		<title>By: Mojo</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-1/#comment-15138</link>
		<dc:creator>Mojo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A bit off topic, but did anyone see the Colbert Report and see that Lynn Westmoreland couldn&#039;t even name the Ten Commandments.  This coming from a intellectual lilliputian that co-sponsored a bill for the posting of the same Ten Commandments in pulic places.  

You know what, we should allow the posting of the Ten Commandments everywhere, whether public or private, so that Westmoreland can finally learn what the hell they are.

Jeez, doesn&#039;t anyone pay attention in Sunday School?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A bit off topic, but did anyone see the Colbert Report and see that Lynn Westmoreland couldn&#8217;t even name the Ten Commandments.  This coming from a intellectual lilliputian that co-sponsored a bill for the posting of the same Ten Commandments in pulic places.  </p>
<p>You know what, we should allow the posting of the Ten Commandments everywhere, whether public or private, so that Westmoreland can finally learn what the hell they are.</p>
<p>Jeez, doesn&#8217;t anyone pay attention in Sunday School?</p>
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		<title>By: LINDA</title>
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		<dc:creator>LINDA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Bowersville,

I am Linda J. Poole, a CPA in Macon, Georgia.  I ran for Bibb County Commissioner District 2.  I ran in a district that was gerrymandered to slice the South Bibb community that was predominantly white.  Thus I ran in a district that was 65% black and did not have a snowball&#039;s chance in hell of winning.  I ran against an incumbent that was the first person to go to an all white school in Macon, Georgia and break the racial barrier.  All you had to do is ask me, and I would tell you who I am.  I own my own practice, and I am a person that speaks what is on my mind.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Bowersville,</p>
<p>I am Linda J. Poole, a CPA in Macon, Georgia.  I ran for Bibb County Commissioner District 2.  I ran in a district that was gerrymandered to slice the South Bibb community that was predominantly white.  Thus I ran in a district that was 65% black and did not have a snowball&#8217;s chance in hell of winning.  I ran against an incumbent that was the first person to go to an all white school in Macon, Georgia and break the racial barrier.  All you had to do is ask me, and I would tell you who I am.  I own my own practice, and I am a person that speaks what is on my mind.</p>
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		<title>By: bowersville</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-1/#comment-15136</link>
		<dc:creator>bowersville</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Will somebody, (Erick, et al, from Macon) tell me who this Linda for elected office is?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Will somebody, (Erick, et al, from Macon) tell me who this Linda for elected office is?</p>
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		<title>By: Mojo</title>
		<link>http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/06/14/vote-for-miss-angela/comment-page-1/#comment-15135</link>
		<dc:creator>Mojo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Linda,

&quot;Why should people that do wrong in society be allowed to choose who gets elected to office?&quot;

When an individual commits a crime then it is justifiable for society to impose a penalty for the commission of that crime.  Society typically extends such a punishment in the form of forceable incarceration, where the individual is given a period of time to reside in prison, a period of time that is equal to the level of crime committed.  Jeremy Bentham, the utilitarian philosopher, stated that for a penalty to have any affect it should exceed the benefit gained from the commission of the crime, therefore, if a person steals a car they receive a period of time in prison that exceeds the benefit gained from the stealing of the car.

Now, the penalty for that crime is incarceration and, if necessary, a period of probation, however, once this penalty, imposed by a jury of peers, or an unbiased judicial authority, has been met then that person has paid for their crime.  They have done wrong to society and then paid their debt to society.  Why punish them for the rest of their life?  This is continuous punishment that is levied against these individuals above and beyond that which was imposed upon them by the courts, and it is the courts that have been given the role of levy of punishment by society against these particular individuals.

There is no check and balance, for there is nothing to &quot;check&quot; and nothing to &quot;balance.&quot;  

How does a high intelligence equal a high aptitude for statesmanship?   I doubt Abraham Lincoln could have passed your rigid system of merit testing, and, I think, he did pretty well as leader of this nation.

&quot;Simon is intelligent and obviously does not like the race card being played.&quot;

Of course intelligent person cannot be racist...right?

What is wrong with multiculturalism?  What is wrong with an individual being proud of who they are and where they came from?  This nation was once mostly English and these nativists fought hard against the horde of Irish and German immigrants that flooded these shores.  Then, the Irish and Germans fought hard against the horde of Italians, Slavs, Jews and Asians that flooded these shores.  Now, the new horde are the Latinos, so, once again, the carbon copy nativist rage must be inflamed once more.  We know the ending to this story.

Every few decades a blind few screech from the mountaintop about the threat of &quot;balkanization&quot; and, every time, this frightening event never takes place.  New Americans are assimilated into our culture, usually by the third generation, and are fully American whilst still retaining some semblance of their particular culture.  This is reality, so all the nativist alarm bells can be silenced once and for all.

&quot;When I see a black person running for office thanking me and my relatives for our ancestors that gave their lives in the Civil War, then I will say now that is a person worthy of my taking note of, and I will try to learn about their political platform.&quot;

I guess the only black figures worth any note to you are the house slaves willing to thank dear ol&#039; massa for bein&#039; so kind an&#039; generous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Linda,</p>
<p>&#8220;Why should people that do wrong in society be allowed to choose who gets elected to office?&#8221;</p>
<p>When an individual commits a crime then it is justifiable for society to impose a penalty for the commission of that crime.  Society typically extends such a punishment in the form of forceable incarceration, where the individual is given a period of time to reside in prison, a period of time that is equal to the level of crime committed.  Jeremy Bentham, the utilitarian philosopher, stated that for a penalty to have any affect it should exceed the benefit gained from the commission of the crime, therefore, if a person steals a car they receive a period of time in prison that exceeds the benefit gained from the stealing of the car.</p>
<p>Now, the penalty for that crime is incarceration and, if necessary, a period of probation, however, once this penalty, imposed by a jury of peers, or an unbiased judicial authority, has been met then that person has paid for their crime.  They have done wrong to society and then paid their debt to society.  Why punish them for the rest of their life?  This is continuous punishment that is levied against these individuals above and beyond that which was imposed upon them by the courts, and it is the courts that have been given the role of levy of punishment by society against these particular individuals.</p>
<p>There is no check and balance, for there is nothing to &#8220;check&#8221; and nothing to &#8220;balance.&#8221;  </p>
<p>How does a high intelligence equal a high aptitude for statesmanship?   I doubt Abraham Lincoln could have passed your rigid system of merit testing, and, I think, he did pretty well as leader of this nation.</p>
<p>&#8220;Simon is intelligent and obviously does not like the race card being played.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course intelligent person cannot be racist&#8230;right?</p>
<p>What is wrong with multiculturalism?  What is wrong with an individual being proud of who they are and where they came from?  This nation was once mostly English and these nativists fought hard against the horde of Irish and German immigrants that flooded these shores.  Then, the Irish and Germans fought hard against the horde of Italians, Slavs, Jews and Asians that flooded these shores.  Now, the new horde are the Latinos, so, once again, the carbon copy nativist rage must be inflamed once more.  We know the ending to this story.</p>
<p>Every few decades a blind few screech from the mountaintop about the threat of &#8220;balkanization&#8221; and, every time, this frightening event never takes place.  New Americans are assimilated into our culture, usually by the third generation, and are fully American whilst still retaining some semblance of their particular culture.  This is reality, so all the nativist alarm bells can be silenced once and for all.</p>
<p>&#8220;When I see a black person running for office thanking me and my relatives for our ancestors that gave their lives in the Civil War, then I will say now that is a person worthy of my taking note of, and I will try to learn about their political platform.&#8221;</p>
<p>I guess the only black figures worth any note to you are the house slaves willing to thank dear ol&#8217; massa for bein&#8217; so kind an&#8217; generous.</p>
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		<title>By: LINDA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Mojo,

I want to add that I also believe that an IQ test should be given to register to vote, and the score should be no lower than 100.  So I am not main stream at all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mojo,</p>
<p>I want to add that I also believe that an IQ test should be given to register to vote, and the score should be no lower than 100.  So I am not main stream at all.</p>
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		<title>By: LINDA</title>
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		<dc:creator>LINDA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Mojo,

When I ran for office, I talked to people in South Macon to vote for me.  Some of them were white former felons that told me they could not vote.  Why should people that do wrong in society be allowed to choose who gets elected to office?  That is just the way the majority has designed our system of checks and balances.  Smarter people should hold all offices.  I think that people that hold political office should have to score 115 or higher on an IQ test, be able to pass a series of economic tests, accounting tests and be able to understand governmental accounting.

I want to live in a society that will never exist in this Country because we have lowered our standards that our forefathers set forth.  I do not believe in the least that Simon is a racist.  Simon is intelligent and obviously does not like the race card being played.

The fact of the matter is that most of you will live to see the balkanization of the United States because there is no such thing as the Utopia that the fraud of multiculturalism tries to accomplish.  When I see a black person running for office thanking me and my relatives for our ancestors that gave their lives in the Civil War, then I will say now that is a person worthy of my taking note of, and I will try to learn about their political platform.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mojo,</p>
<p>When I ran for office, I talked to people in South Macon to vote for me.  Some of them were white former felons that told me they could not vote.  Why should people that do wrong in society be allowed to choose who gets elected to office?  That is just the way the majority has designed our system of checks and balances.  Smarter people should hold all offices.  I think that people that hold political office should have to score 115 or higher on an IQ test, be able to pass a series of economic tests, accounting tests and be able to understand governmental accounting.</p>
<p>I want to live in a society that will never exist in this Country because we have lowered our standards that our forefathers set forth.  I do not believe in the least that Simon is a racist.  Simon is intelligent and obviously does not like the race card being played.</p>
<p>The fact of the matter is that most of you will live to see the balkanization of the United States because there is no such thing as the Utopia that the fraud of multiculturalism tries to accomplish.  When I see a black person running for office thanking me and my relatives for our ancestors that gave their lives in the Civil War, then I will say now that is a person worthy of my taking note of, and I will try to learn about their political platform.</p>
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