In Defense of Don Imus

A note about Don Imus’ remark that the Rutgers Women’s Basketball Team were “nappy headed ho’s,” as he watched footage of their game with Tennessee.

There is a double-standard at work here.

Imus has been described as an “equal-opportunity offender,” and is notorious for picking on myriad ethnic, religious, and racial subsets of the Human Race.

Personally, I think his remarks were no more offensive or objectionable than the trash talk that emanates from the mouths of black rappers who inject superfluous “niggas” in every other “verse” of their art, and liberally sprinkle the alternating verses with vernacular relating to female dogs, and men who sleep with their mothers. Yeah, that’s socially-redeeming material.

Morality in Media President Robert Peters commented that if the FCC been doing its job, the entire incident "might have been prevented because radio stations would have long ago curbed hardcore rap lyrics with sexual comments about African American women." Imus is at worst guilty of bad judgment in attempting to mimic language that is painfully common already. Peters correctly identifies the real question as: "Will the FCC finally do their job and begin taking the smutting rap lyrics off the air?"

I’ve heard the tape; I’ve watched the video of Don Imus’ off the cuff remarks. Imus paid the Rugters team a left-handed compliment—in their own vernacular—that theirs is a team to be reckoned with on the court. They’re tough and intimidating to other teams, described by Imus as “cute.”

Frankly, if you’re on a competitive team, would you rather be portrayed as tough or cute?

Al Sharpton and the other shrill voices of the politically-correct establishment have gone over the edge equally as far in calling for Imus’ firing. MSNBC and CBS Radio, willing sycophants to the left, are suspending the Imus show for two weeks.
Sharpton’s harangue at Imus included the hypocritical statement that racial slurs, like “nappy headed ho’s,” shouldn’t be allowed on the public airwaves.
True dat.

But clean up your own parish, first Reverend, and let’s also put the quietus on the icons of the Black entertainment industry who are raking in millions, and influencing the minds of Black, Brown, Yellow, Red and White youth with their denigrating, demeaning speech and depictions of black culture—which also fills the airwaves and cable connections each day.

All humor is rooted in truth. Imus just struck a nerve root.

Chillin' w/the Warm-mongers

The Spring of 2007 is going to be one for the record books.

We told you yesterday of Charlotte, NC, breaking temperature records with a low of 23-degrees over the weekend…now baseball diamonds are being snowed-in, and major league weather conditions are causing game delays and re-routing game tours.

Thursday’s game at Boston’s Fenway Park could actually be snowed out…The Cleveland Indians have been snowed out for four straight days at Jacobs Field…they’ll play the Seattle Mariners tonight in Milwaukee’s Miller Field—with a retractable roof.

This actual, un-retouched photo was taken on Saturday afternoon in Central Texas, during the Easter "Blizzard of Ought-7."

Meanwhile the Senate wants to establish the global warming issue as a matter of national security.
I think we should establish Congressional arrogance and stupidity as threats to national security.

Energy to Burn

Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy Corp. in Ohio is one of the few voices crying “foul” over the global-warming Tsunami that’s sweeping Washington. Sure, Murray Energy has a vested interest in the issue: They sell coal to electricity providers. Turning down demand for coal is not in Murray Energy's best interests...but, Murray says, neither is the global warming mantra that's emanating from Washington.

The truth is not being told about this climatological witch-hunt, and Murray’s prediction that small businesses, like yours, will be hurt as a result of any government intervention are right on.

The truly interesting thing about this whole global warming issue is the fact that the facts being used to prove its existence are founded upon suspect science. I continue to believe that no one knows what “the norm” for global temperature is—the term is impossible to define.

If the theory that more CO2 in the atmosphere would exponentially increase temperatures was true, we’d already be roasting; quite the opposite has been the case. And in fact, the more particulates in the atmosphere, which block or reflect sunlight, the cooler it gets.

The second issue is that of defining what greenhouse gasses are—and if you look at that honestly, you’ll recognize the predominant component in any greenhouse environment is water—water vapor--not CO2.

Call me cynical, but the hot air hoopla on Capitol Hill is not about saving the planet. As MIT Meteorology Professor Andrew Lindzen noted recently, “Carbon caps are likely to lead to increased prices, as well as corruption associated with permit trading.”

Remember that crooked-E company, Enron? It was the biggest duck in the puddle in the push for the US to sign-on the Kyoto Accord.

Why?

Because it wanted to reap the profits it foresaw from emission credits trading.

In America, if you want to know what’s driving something, follow the money trail.