According to a recent poll done by Gallup,the number of African-Americans who believe Obama has had a positive impact on race relations has dropped by eight percent since last summer, to 42%. With whites, which inexplicably is a category despite African-Americans getting a much more PC group name, optimism has dropped from 60% to 59%.
“In short, despite all that has happened in the intervening decades, there is scarcely more hope now than there was those many years ago that the nation’s race-relations situation will be solved,” Gallup said.
The survey also turned out the result that 82% of whites believe that blacks have as good a chance as whites in their community to succeed, which was echoed by only 49% of blacks who felt that way.
Gallup also said:
“Despite the election of the first black president in U.S. history, Americans’ optimism about a solution to the race problem in the U.S. and their views about the prevalence of racism against blacks are not substantially more positive now than they have been in previous years. .. blacks remain significantly more negative than whites about their status in society and about the potential for an eventual solution to the race problem.”
Obama’s “impact” couldn’t be because he acted stupidly, could it?
A gunshot was aimed at the home of Lou Dobbs, a CNN correspondent, following a number of threatening phone calls to him and his family, Dobbs reported to listeners on his nationally syndicated radio show.
The neocon, who vehemently opposes amnesty and supports full border protection, said, “They’ve created an atmosphere and they’ve been unrelenting in their propaganda,” referring to pro-immigration groups like the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the National Council of La Raza and America’s Voice. “Three weeks ago this morning, a shot was fired at my house where I live. My wife was standing out and that followed weeks and weeks of threatening phone calls.”
William Gheen, president of AILAC, told FoxNews, ““That shot, that attack on the Dobbs family is an attack on every American that values First Amendment rights.
Dobbs commented that he has been vilified by “the national liberal media,” and living with threats and gunshots has “become a way of life.”
In a government-funded project, scientists have finally been successful in creating synthetic sperm and eggs, possibly deeming women and men obsolete from carrying on the human race.
The success has been met with mixed reactions: some are excited about the advance because it offers infertile women the opportunity to have children with their genetic material, but opponents are concerned about messing with the natural processes of life. The research project also includes the search for a “miracle pill” to stave off menopause, allowing women to give birth at older ages.
Also up on the list for the research project is finding a way for gay couples to create offspring based on two of same-sexed parents’ genetic material.
Here’s an awesomely crafted letter the governor of California sent to a Democratic lawmaker who had berated Schwarzenneger in a recent event held in San Francisco. It’s respectfully worded, that is, until you check out the cool acrostitc poem the sly fox hid down the left hand margin. Aahnahld’s rep called the message “a coincidence.”
As if Tom Cruise didn’t have it bad enough as it is. A Parisian court has just convicted the “Church” of Scientology of fraud, and has fined it more than 600,000 euro, or about $900,000. The court did not, however, ban Scientology, as was the wish of prosecutors.
French Scientologists immediately said they would appeal the verdict.
The Church of Scientology was convicted of organized fraud, after investigators found the organization pressured its members into paying large amounts of money as part of a dubious investment scheme, and utilized “commercial harassment” against dissidents.
President Obama has been in office for about as long as it takes to gestate a baby, but already he has gone golfing as much as G-Dubbs did in nearly three years. The increasingly disliked prez has golfed 24 times as of yesterday.
Another tee time tidbit? Obama played golf with a woman, the chief domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes, for the first time since he was inaugurated.
It’s fine, we don’t have serious domestic and international problems with the economy (and security, and immigration, and terrorism, and…) right now.
Who wouldn’t take advice from Jordan/Katie/Sapphire/Unicorn Price? Apparently that’s what she was thinking when she announced the publishing of her new book, My Look, My Style, My Life, which is chock full o’ handy tips about how to look exactly like her, including selecting 28 outfits for a weekend vacation and the designer of her £17,000 bed linens.
Mother to three publicity whores-in-the-making, Price launched her book next to her boyf, Alex Reid, horse trainer Andy Gould, brother Daniel Price and stylist Phil Turner.
And, just because it’s Friday, here are a few more parting shots of this style guru:
