Is health care a family value? 

In a small footnote to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger "approves construction of a controversial new Death Row at San Quentin." Why put this at the end of the article?

At the same time he is planning "cuts services to children insurance coverage in the Healthy Families program, battered women's shelters [are] threatened with closure, AIDS programs deprived of funding, [and] or counties [are] losing welfare and Medi-Cal aid."

What is not said in this article is that the California legislative body has been seriously considering selling San Quentin.

What sense does it make to approve money for a new death chamber if the state is talking about selling the land upon which it sits? 

What a FUCKING greedy moron!

Yes, Jonathan Capehart, we are still stuck on race. Mr. Capehart wonders:

"Can African Americans engage in the discussion without being suspicious that whites will dismiss their painful experiences or discount them as imagined or overreacting? Can whites participate without fear that they'll be called racist for expressing their frustrations and concerns? And will each side listen to the other with an open mind to try to understand where the other comes from? Do we as a nation trust one another enough to have this complicated and uncomfortable conversation openly and honestly?"

One of the best aspects of doing genealogy is that if I want to discuss a particular detail about black and people of color and our/their experience in the United States, I have it at my finger tips. I always supplement what I just learned with more reading and research because I am by nature a curious person but it is still dismissed without any consideration of the evidence presented. 

What I have found is a yawning chasm in what I was taught and what I have come to learn. When I dare present the information that stands in direct contrast to the official history of the United States someone is always was slighted. It is and I am far from making it up, these are the official records of various states and the United States.

So can we accept the new light shed on American history that was for the most part overlooked, undervalued and disregarded?

Is this the beginning of the end for the Republican party as we know it?  Ohio's outgoing Sen. Voinovich.  believes that senators of the south are dragging down the party.  It reflects the notion that the Republican party isn't a national party it is regional party at best. Ever since Goldwater plotted out a strategy for those southerner votes and voters who despised Lyndon Johnson and the Democrats for passing the Civil Rights laws, the Republicans have catered to the most specious policies to beat back the chance for black Americans to utter and believe that these truths are self-evident and all men (people) are created equally.


Olympia Snow's rebuke earlier this year in the New York Times