Northrop coming?
Bensblurb #519
In the “light-skin” news, via columnist Star Parker...
“Americans are sick of political hypocrisy. Perhaps worst of all, Republicans insult blacks to think that they do not see the obvious. That alleged Republican outrage about Reid’s remarks is simply a political game. Or that blacks do not appreciate the transparent hypocrisy when a black RNC chairman, who is in his job because of his race, expresses outrage that a white Democrat expresses the truth that we are not in post-racial America – yet.”
True. Just as Trent Lott simply was buttering up a 100-year old on his birthday, so was Harry Reid simply expressing a truism. Should have been no big deals. But race is still a thicket. And by the way, are Haitians Afro-Americans? No way, but what do you call white Haitians if there are any? Are Canada’s blacks Canadian African-Americans?
Long ago, an affectionate term in the South was Darkies. Don’t hear that anymore. Or Negroes or Coloreds. Today there’s “inner-city youths.” And the appropriate post-racial term to use in the future? Who knows.
More BIG business coming soon to Bureaucrat land?
So a pro-business Republican ticket sweeps state elections in Virginia. So a pro-business Republican majority sweeps Stafford County’s supervisor elections.
So now we hear that Northrop Grumman Corp. has decided to move its headquarters from Los Angeles to the Washington area.
Was there a connection? If this giant global defense contractor moves to Virginia instead of Maryland or D.C., I’d say yes, since big industries love friendly political environs.
Further, if by wild chance it chooses Stafford County over those richer Beltway counties, I’d say...uh, oh.
But consider: Northrop’s big-shots could fly in and out of Stafford via our convenient, underused airport without being patted down by any of those pesky TSA bureaucrats that haunt all the major airports...yet.
You can never tell, though, the over-reaction inherent in a stung bureaucracy. When one wretched terrorist (who by the way doesn’t look like one, but rather like an inner-city gang member) can greatly encumber millions of air travelers already hassled to the max at airports, then we--not to mention Janet Napolitano--are in really big trouble.
Pardon me for the divergence, but here, transparency leaps to mind. Not the kind we were promised and then denied by Obama, most recently in the horrible health care “reforms” being secretly bulldozed through Congress, but the literal kind that involve electronically stripping you buck naked by X-ray to reveal your true self. Some folks actually still treasure such privacy, despite Hollywood’s movie trends toward full-frontal disclosure.
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In the “light-skin” news, via columnist Star Parker...
“Americans are sick of political hypocrisy. Perhaps worst of all, Republicans insult blacks to think that they do not see the obvious. That alleged Republican outrage about Reid’s remarks is simply a political game. Or that blacks do not appreciate the transparent hypocrisy when a black RNC chairman, who is in his job because of his race, expresses outrage that a white Democrat expresses the truth that we are not in post-racial America – yet.”
True. Just as Trent Lott simply was buttering up a 100-year old on his birthday, so was Harry Reid simply expressing a truism. Should have been no big deals. But race is still a thicket. And by the way, are Haitians Afro-Americans? No way, but what do you call white Haitians if there are any? Are Canada’s blacks Canadian African-Americans?
Long ago, an affectionate term in the South was Darkies. Don’t hear that anymore. Or Negroes or Coloreds. Today there’s “inner-city youths.” And the appropriate post-racial term to use in the future? Who knows.
More BIG business coming soon to Bureaucrat land?
So a pro-business Republican ticket sweeps state elections in Virginia. So a pro-business Republican majority sweeps Stafford County’s supervisor elections.
So now we hear that Northrop Grumman Corp. has decided to move its headquarters from Los Angeles to the Washington area.
Was there a connection? If this giant global defense contractor moves to Virginia instead of Maryland or D.C., I’d say yes, since big industries love friendly political environs.
Further, if by wild chance it chooses Stafford County over those richer Beltway counties, I’d say...uh, oh.
But consider: Northrop’s big-shots could fly in and out of Stafford via our convenient, underused airport without being patted down by any of those pesky TSA bureaucrats that haunt all the major airports...yet.
You can never tell, though, the over-reaction inherent in a stung bureaucracy. When one wretched terrorist (who by the way doesn’t look like one, but rather like an inner-city gang member) can greatly encumber millions of air travelers already hassled to the max at airports, then we--not to mention Janet Napolitano--are in really big trouble.
Pardon me for the divergence, but here, transparency leaps to mind. Not the kind we were promised and then denied by Obama, most recently in the horrible health care “reforms” being secretly bulldozed through Congress, but the literal kind that involve electronically stripping you buck naked by X-ray to reveal your true self. Some folks actually still treasure such privacy, despite Hollywood’s movie trends toward full-frontal disclosure.
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posted by Ben Blankenship at
12:49 PM
