I Guess It Happened...

Okay, it has happened.

Hell has officially frozen over...or so I am guessing.  Bill Maher, the comic and liberal nutjob, has finally stumbled uncontrollabnly into the truth on an issue.

Please don't ask me how or why and I am confident he will screw this up somehow, but he is right. In the case of Donald Sterling he is right.

This case isn't about racism.  It is about who controls your speech and therefore your thinking.

Did Donald Sterling say things that were inappropriate?  Yes.  Did Donald Sterling say things that were reprehensible?  Of course.  Should he be denied the ability to own a team?  No.

Bill Maher speaks almost as a Free Speech advocate when he mentions a Washington Post editorial that says we should edit our thoughts.  "Even at home?" he quips

He raises an important point as the editorial continues "speaking one's mind isn't all it's cracked up to be."  How in the world do you come to that conclusion given you just wrote an opinion piece?  You know...speaking your own mind?

For me this is a simple issue.  If you don't like what Donald Sterling said, don't buy his product.  If you work for him companies and don't like how he behaves, find another job.  He isn't stepping on your rights by expressing his.  The last time I checked that was what the country was about.  I disagree with quite a bit of what he said, but isn't the idea to defend his ability to say it?

Perhaps things are so upside down that not only do Bill Maher and I agree, but speech isn't a freedom anymore.  I guess it might have happened...

Season of Hypocrisy

My my my what a playoff loss does to a team's fans, or fan, I guess I should say.  As in The Washington Post's Courtland Milloy.  Mr. Milloy who over the past eight weeks has had no interest in ruining the Washington Redskin's success while they went seven and zero to secure a playoff spot has now seemingly found the need to pounce on the issue of the team name after their loss, calling it bad karma for a racist moniker.

Yet, for some reason, it seems Mr. Milloy didn't have time to mention it when the season was ongoing and the team was winning, now with a playoff loss, he says "Washington’s professional football team has raked up one disappointing season after another since 1992 — the year D.C. resident Suzan Harjo became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to change the team’s disparaging name" - a lawsuit he seems unwilling to admit she lost.  Nonetheless, Mr. Milloy is a champion of civil rights issues.

He likes to complains about why the GOP is so white (predominantly racist) or why blacks don't play baseball (not enough resurces).  He even complains about Denzel Washington's kissing in the movie Flight (apparently his heart wasn't into it kissing a white woman).

I have to wonder if he concerns himself with any other significant issues other than the racism he seems to see to justify his rampant reverse racism.  I note he has not come running to the defense of Irishmen everywhere concerned about Notre Dame's use of the fighting Irish symbol, nor is he concerned about white men with black women in movies.  His articles are inbstead the usual drivel...the GOP are white and therefore racists, despite the fact that it was President Lincoln who signed the Emancipation Proclamation and it was the religious beliefs of Republicans in the mid 19th century that brought about the abolition of slavery.  His "Democratic" Party fought vigorously to continue the subjugation of men, even to the modern day when Klansmen United States Senator Robert Byrd worked against equal rights for all men.

It is sad that the Washington Post spends so much of its ink on a writer whose only ability seems to be finding racial fault lines in places where they likely would not exist.  The responsibility he seems to show to the issue of race is non existent and that is unfortunate because he demonstrates his only interest is in setting fires, not extinguishing them.  Unfortunate that this is the level of leadership all too often shown, claim racism and stoke a fire until some change is made, which doesnt address any inequity and is disconnected from reality like an apple that has fallen from the tree.  Or in this case, since I am white and I am sure he will claim a racist, the cacao seed falling from the South American evergreen tree.