[Rhodes22-list] You might be a True American if....

Brad Haslett flybrad at gmail.com
Wed Sep 27 21:06:47 EDT 2006 

Slim,

On a different, uh, note....did you read that MSP is hosting the 2008
Republican convention?

Here's some more on Ellison from Powerline - the other shoe will soon drop.

Brad

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 September 26, 2006
The wrong stuff, take 2

In his Washington Times column yesterday, Joel Mowbray postulates that
Minnesota Fifth District congressional candidate Keith Ellison raises
the *"Democrats'
dilemma."* <http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060924-085114-9378r.htm> Joel
writes:

Only learned recently and far more troubling [than Ellison's history with
the Nation of Islam] is Mr. Ellison's seemingly tight connection with Nihad
Awad, co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whom
he met almost two decades ago at the University of Minnesota.

Mr. Ellison's campaign obviously has downplayed the affiliation with Mr.
Awad. But here are the facts: Mr. Awad headlined a fundraiser last month
that the campaign estimates netted $15,000 to $20,000, and in July, and it
appears that CAIR's co-founder bundled contributions totaling just over
$10,000. (The campaign issued a terse denial on the latter point, though it
refused to explain away overwhelming evidence to the contrary.) The campaign
has gone so far as to suggest that Mr. Awad did all this without having any
contact with someone he's known since the late 1980s.

The Democrat's supporters have taken a different tack. Rather than defend
Mr. Awad or downplay his connections to the candidate, Ellison partisans
have attempted to paint attacks on the candidate as overtly partisan or even
bigoted. A Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist, for example, recently
suggested that Mr. Ellison is under attack solely for being Muslim.

With the exception of Katherine Kersten's Star Tribune columns on Ellison,
there is more straight information in Mowbray's single column than in the
entirety of the Minneapolis Star Tribune's coverage of Ellison over the past
four months. While its reporters have been unable either to dig up the basic
facts regarding Ellison's public career, or to keep them straight, the Star
Tribune editorial board and its lefty columnists have instead undertaken
instruction in manners and attitude. The Star Tribune, to take just one
example, has failed to discover or report that Ellison's adult (and
apparently Nation of Islam) aliases include Keith Hakim, Keith X Ellison and
Keith Ellison-Muhammad. Ellison-Muhammad is in fact the name under which
Ellison first ran for public office in 1998. Yet yesterday's Star Tribune *
editorial* <http://www.startribune.com/561/story/695569.html> (with the
distinctive proud-to-be-ignorant bullying that is the hallmark of Jim Boyd)
judges that when Ellison's Republican opponent referred to Ellison by these
names, he did so *"in guttersnipe fashion."*

Following the September 12 primary from which Ellison emerged the winner the
Star Tribune *erroneously
reported*<http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015268.php#015268>that
Ellison had used his various aliases "when he was a law student in the
early 1990s." Perhaps the Star Tribune editorial is relying on the Star
Tribune's erroneous reportage in objecting to the behavior of Ellison's
opponent. Or perhaps the Star Tribune thinks it is implicitly bigoted to
associate Ellison with aliases such as "Muhammad." The editorial doesn't
bother with an explanation; the offense is apparently self-explanatory in
Stribland. I don't know why referring to Ellison by reference to these
aliases is beyond the bounds of civil discourse, but I do know that a
newspaper incapable of getting the facts straight is something worse than
worthless.
Posted by Scott at 05:51 AM



On 9/27/06, Slim <salm at mn.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Well, Brad,
>
> Come gather 'round people wherever you roam
> And admit that the waters around you have grown
> And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
> If your time to you is worth savin'
> Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone,
> For the times, they are a chang - in'
>
> (I'm goin' easy on ya.  Don't make me quote Dylan's "With God On Our
> Side")
>
> Slim
>
> On 9/27/06 5:38 PM, "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Slim,
> >
> > You dissin' us Marshall Tucker fans?  Cause if you are, us 'Brother
> Tuckers'
> > will set fire to your mountain.  You can take the highway, for a new
> life,
> > 24 hours at a time, because you're too stubborn to start a new
> life.  Take
> > the highway, for a long hard ride, running like the wind after your
> foolish
> > dream.  Ride in peace, Silverado, anyway the wind blows rider, going
> down
> > the road feeling bad.  As for me, i'll stay in the country where a
> country
> > boy belongs, in my own way, where everbody needs somebody.  Foolish
> > dreaming?
> >
> > Can't you see? Now I'm singing a good ole hurtin' song.
> >
> > Brad
> >
> >
> > On 9/27/06, Slim <salm at mn.rr.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Elle,
> >>
> >> You began by saying "how those  in the middle politically  are being
> >>>>>> bullied by the ends of the spectrum."
> >>
> >> I couldn't agree more.  I used the wrong word when I said I was
> >> "offended."
> >> Maybe "incensed" is clearer.  When I feel I'm being bullied I don't
> >> usually
> >> just roll over.
> >>
> >> But I especially LIKED this one:
> >>
> >>>>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You know what
> >>>> you
> >>>>>> believe and  you aren't afraid to say so, no
> >>>> matter
> >>>>>> who is listening.
> >>
> >> Damn right!  I can question "...under God..." all I want.  I can
> protest
> >> the
> >> 10 commandments in court houses.  I can call it a "Winter Festival" if
> I
> >> want and I often do not put my hand over my heart on the National
> Anthem
> >> because both hands are busy performing the piece. Believe me, I know
> every
> >> note.  That's precisely why I love my country and for anyone to suggest
> >> I'm
> >> not a true American for not adhering to their agenda is nonsense.
> >>
> >> Who wrote that anyway--Marshall Tucker?
> >>
> >> Slim
> >>
> >> On 9/27/06 4:24 PM, "L. Sailor" <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> well...THAT was vehement.....
> >>>
> >>> The point in sending that list was not that any one
> >>> item was right or wrong, but that we seem to have lost
> >>> great respect for each other..no matter what our
> >>> station in life or nationality. Each of those
> >>> items..and there could have been others...tipifies
> >>> some manner of disrespect which has become prevalent
> >>> since the 70's or so....
> >>>
> >>> Roy Hazlewood, FBI Special Agent who has spent 16
> >>> years researching serial killers, et al, including
> >>> Hannibal Lector, said in a speech he gave locally not
> >>> long ago that, "We seem to have lost two very
> >>> important brakes or inhibitors on our behavior...a
> >>> sense of responsibility and a sense of shame."
> >>>
> >>> When we are INTENTIONALLY disrespectful, we exhibit no
> >>> sense of responsibility toward that person; when we
> >>> are DELIBERATELY offensive, we have no shame.
> >>>
> >>> Americans cannot discuss, converse, without someone
> >>> somewhere complaining that they are offended.
> >>>
> >>> enuf.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> elle
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --- Slim <salm at mn.rr.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Yeah, OK, I'd like to add a few too:
> >>>>
> >>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if you continue to
> >>>> support the administration
> >>>> no matter how many lies are crammed down our
> >>>> throats.
> >>>>
> >>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if you go to church
> >>>> every Sunday and pray for
> >>>> the destruction of others in the name of God.
> >>>>
> >>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if you think all
> >>>> languages except English
> >>>> should be banned within our borders.
> >>>>
> >>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if you're a white
> >>>> Anglo.
> >>>>
> >>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if you think only TRUE
> >>>> AMERICANS adhere to this
> >>>> list!!
> >>>>
> >>>> On 9/27/06 8:00 AM, "Hank" <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Great email, Elle.  I'd only suugest one edit.
> >>>> Add "Remove your hat" to the
> >>>>> part about the National Anthem.  That's always
> >>>> been a pet peeve of mine to
> >>>>> see folks at a ball game not take off their hat.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 9/27/06, L. Sailor <watermusic38 at yahoo.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Came across my email this AM. Makes one think
> >>>> about
> >>>>>> how those  in the middle politically  are being
> >>>>>> bullied by the ends of the spectrum.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> elle
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It is time to change from REDNECK humor to  TRUE
> >>>>>> AMERICAN  Humor! Only I don't see it as Humor,
> >>>> but the
> >>>>>> correct way to LIVE  YOUR LIFE ! If you feel the
> >>>> same,
> >>>>>> pass this on to your True  American friends.
> >>>> Ya'll
> >>>>>> know who ya' are...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: It never
> >>>> occurred to
> >>>>>> you to be offended by the phrase, "One nation,
> >>>> under
> >>>>>> God."
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You've never
> >>>>>> protested about  seeing the 10 Commandments
> >>>> posted in
> >>>>>> public  places.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You still say
> >>>>>> "Christmas"  instead of "Winter Festival."
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You bow your
> >>>> head
> >>>>>> when someone
> >>>>>> prays.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You stand and
> >>>> place
> >>>>>> your hand  over your heart when they play the
> >>>> National
> >>>>>> Anthem.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You treat Viet
> >>>> Nam
> >>>>>> vets with  great respect, and alw ays have.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You've never
> >>>> burned
> >>>>>> an American  flag.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You know what
> >>>> you
> >>>>>> believe and  you aren't afraid to say so, no
> >>>> matter
> >>>>>> who is listening.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You respect your
> >>>>>> elders and  expect your kids to do the same.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You might be a TRUE AMERICAN if: You'd give your
> >>>> last
> >>>>>> dollar to a  friend.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> If you got this email from me, it is because I
> >>>> believe
> >>>>>> that you, like me, have just enough TRUE AMERICAN
> >>>> in
> >>>>>> you to have the same  beliefs as those talked
> >>>> about in
> >>>>>> this email. This is Excellent, No  Matter what
> >>>> you
> >>>>>> deem fit to call it. It is our Country, It is our
> >>>> way
> >>>>>> of LIFE, and I love it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> God Bless the U S A ! Git 'er done!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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