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	<title>Comments on: Remember the socialist origins of Labor Day!</title>
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		<title>By: ConservativeRick</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2009/09/04/remember-the-socialist-origins-of-labor-day/comment-page-3/#comment-2590</link>
		<dc:creator>ConservativeRick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So now the liberals admit they are socialists.  Guess they won&#039;t balk at the charge that Obam is trying to pass socialized medicine anymore...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So now the liberals admit they are socialists.  Guess they won&#8217;t balk at the charge that Obam is trying to pass socialized medicine anymore&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Michael H. Smith</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2009/09/04/remember-the-socialist-origins-of-labor-day/comment-page-3/#comment-2561</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael H. Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kamchak - Not in the context of the generally accepted meaning of the word. In other words only one country in the world has America as its&#039; name sake and its people commonly refer to as Americans. So it is not a continental distinction like North American, Central American or South American nor a Hemispheric distinction as in the Americas. So it is something of a stretch to say this group is American:     



Fidel Castro
Che Guevarra
The Duvalier family
Augusto Pinochet
Juan and Evita Peron
Manuel Noriega




We have an honest disagreement my liberal friend on who and what is an American.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kamchak &#8211; Not in the context of the generally accepted meaning of the word. In other words only one country in the world has America as its&#8217; name sake and its people commonly refer to as Americans. So it is not a continental distinction like North American, Central American or South American nor a Hemispheric distinction as in the Americas. So it is something of a stretch to say this group is American:     </p>
<p>Fidel Castro<br />
Che Guevarra<br />
The Duvalier family<br />
Augusto Pinochet<br />
Juan and Evita Peron<br />
Manuel Noriega</p>
<p>We have an honest disagreement my liberal friend on who and what is an American.</p>
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		<title>By: Cynthia Tucker McKinney</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2009/09/04/remember-the-socialist-origins-of-labor-day/comment-page-2/#comment-2551</link>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Tucker McKinney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama couldn&#039;t muster the energy to participate in Nat&#039;l prayer day, but assemble a room of AFLCIO union hacks on labor day and he&#039;ll show up and give a rip-roaring speech.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama couldn&#8217;t muster the energy to participate in Nat&#8217;l prayer day, but assemble a room of AFLCIO union hacks on labor day and he&#8217;ll show up and give a rip-roaring speech.</p>
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		<title>By: Your morning jolt: If your kid. Comes home. Talking like this. It's Obama's fault. &#124; Political Insider</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2009/09/04/remember-the-socialist-origins-of-labor-day/comment-page-2/#comment-2515</link>
		<dc:creator>Your morning jolt: If your kid. Comes home. Talking like this. It's Obama's fault. &#124; Political Insider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Some opinion: Cynthia Tucker wants you to remember the socialist origins of Labor Day. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Some opinion: Cynthia Tucker wants you to remember the socialist origins of Labor Day. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: DebbieDoRight</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2009/09/04/remember-the-socialist-origins-of-labor-day/comment-page-2/#comment-2507</link>
		<dc:creator>DebbieDoRight</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yesteryear&#039;s Democrats or TODAY&#039;s Republicans!!   

PS:  Ronald Reagan was a proud member of the Democratic Party.  History.  Gotta love it!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesteryear&#8217;s Democrats or TODAY&#8217;s Republicans!!   </p>
<p>PS:  Ronald Reagan was a proud member of the Democratic Party.  History.  Gotta love it!!</p>
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		<title>By: GTurner</title>
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		<dc:creator>GTurner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>electrician 

&quot;the day a Democrat President sent armed troops against American workers...&quot;



Ummmm... Unless you count all the violence committed by the Dems against Blacks.  See, there was the day the Democrats founded the KKK, there was Rosewood, Florida (albeit an act of OMISSION on the part of the Democratic leadership who simply turned away as the bloodshed escalated).

Democratic Party platforms supporting slavery: There were six from 1840 through 1860.
The number of Democratic presidents who owned slaves? There were seven from 1800 through 1861...

How about the “Jim Crow laws”?  Surely these constitute violence against American Workers?  These were the post-Civil War laws passed enthusiastically by Democrats in that pesky 52-year part of the DNC’s missing years. These laws segregated public schools, public transportation, restaurants, rest rooms and public places in general (everything from water coolers to beaches).

Yeah, I can&#039;t for a MOMENT understand the commitment level of the African American community to these Democrat Tools...

Have a nice Labor Day!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>electrician </p>
<p>&#8220;the day a Democrat President sent armed troops against American workers&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Ummmm&#8230; Unless you count all the violence committed by the Dems against Blacks.  See, there was the day the Democrats founded the KKK, there was Rosewood, Florida (albeit an act of OMISSION on the part of the Democratic leadership who simply turned away as the bloodshed escalated).</p>
<p>Democratic Party platforms supporting slavery: There were six from 1840 through 1860.<br />
The number of Democratic presidents who owned slaves? There were seven from 1800 through 1861&#8230;</p>
<p>How about the “Jim Crow laws”?  Surely these constitute violence against American Workers?  These were the post-Civil War laws passed enthusiastically by Democrats in that pesky 52-year part of the DNC’s missing years. These laws segregated public schools, public transportation, restaurants, rest rooms and public places in general (everything from water coolers to beaches).</p>
<p>Yeah, I can&#8217;t for a MOMENT understand the commitment level of the African American community to these Democrat Tools&#8230;</p>
<p>Have a nice Labor Day!</p>
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		<title>By: Kamchak</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kamchak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Though I&#039;ll be powerfully tempted to tell them, I&#039;m an American and that is all they need to know.&lt;/i&gt;

Ronaldhino is an American as is 
Fidel Castro
Che Guevarra
The Duvalier family
Jim Jones 
Augusto Pinochet
Juan and Evita Peron
Manuel Noriega

&quot;American&quot; is a continental distinction.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Though I&#8217;ll be powerfully tempted to tell them, I&#8217;m an American and that is all they need to know.</i></p>
<p>Ronaldhino is an American as is<br />
Fidel Castro<br />
Che Guevarra<br />
The Duvalier family<br />
Jim Jones<br />
Augusto Pinochet<br />
Juan and Evita Peron<br />
Manuel Noriega</p>
<p>&#8220;American&#8221; is a continental distinction.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael H. Smith</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2009/09/04/remember-the-socialist-origins-of-labor-day/comment-page-2/#comment-2503</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael H. Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Puhlease DebbieDoRight, Affirmative Action is not one and the same as Equal Opportunity. Affirmative Action is a preference based on skin color or ethnicity.  You don&#039;t and can&#039;t eliminate past discrimination by more discriminating now or in the future and present ethnic discrimination can only be eliminated in the courts. (winning hearts and minds is another subject) The best way to serve the purpose justly would be to use poverty or income preferences to correct job and educational inequity to create equals.   

&lt;em&gt;Yes, we are of the Human Race; HOWEVER here in good ole’ USA they still categorize us by RACE.&lt;/em&gt;

Well, Zsa Zsa Dahhhhlliinnggg, until we - that does include you- stop speaking of race as a category in our conversations and using race in our writings  as a category where ethnicity is what we should be using instead of conveying our thoughts ignorantly beneath our intelligence contrary to established science fact, the stupidity of  RACE that only to extends the longevity of RACISM, will continue to make everything RACIAL in the Good Ole&#039; USA. 

As a man thinks, so is he and as he speaks, so he is revealed. (applies to women too EOE)

&lt;em&gt;...don’t forget to answer your census when in comes around in 2010.&lt;/em&gt;

I&#039;ll give the government bigots the same answer on the census I&#039;ve given in the past when it asks for race by writing in human. If they want a different answer then they should ask the right question correctly and I&#039;ll give them my ethnic ancestral linage in full. Though I&#039;ll be powerfully tempted to tell them, I&#039;m an American and that is all they need to know.    

Race has no place in America or in the law.  
&lt;em&gt;JFK&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Puhlease DebbieDoRight, Affirmative Action is not one and the same as Equal Opportunity. Affirmative Action is a preference based on skin color or ethnicity.  You don&#8217;t and can&#8217;t eliminate past discrimination by more discriminating now or in the future and present ethnic discrimination can only be eliminated in the courts. (winning hearts and minds is another subject) The best way to serve the purpose justly would be to use poverty or income preferences to correct job and educational inequity to create equals.   </p>
<p><em>Yes, we are of the Human Race; HOWEVER here in good ole’ USA they still categorize us by RACE.</em></p>
<p>Well, Zsa Zsa Dahhhhlliinnggg, until we &#8211; that does include you- stop speaking of race as a category in our conversations and using race in our writings  as a category where ethnicity is what we should be using instead of conveying our thoughts ignorantly beneath our intelligence contrary to established science fact, the stupidity of  RACE that only to extends the longevity of RACISM, will continue to make everything RACIAL in the Good Ole&#8217; USA. </p>
<p>As a man thinks, so is he and as he speaks, so he is revealed. (applies to women too EOE)</p>
<p><em>&#8230;don’t forget to answer your census when in comes around in 2010.</em></p>
<p>I&#8217;ll give the government bigots the same answer on the census I&#8217;ve given in the past when it asks for race by writing in human. If they want a different answer then they should ask the right question correctly and I&#8217;ll give them my ethnic ancestral linage in full. Though I&#8217;ll be powerfully tempted to tell them, I&#8217;m an American and that is all they need to know.    </p>
<p>Race has no place in America or in the law.<br />
<em>JFK</em></p>
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		<title>By: Michael H. Smith</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael H. Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Changing the subject? Just as well. 

You could turn that around and it would fit the Democrats DebbieDoRight. Where ever you got the notion I&#039;m a card carrying Republican is beyond my knowledge. I&#039;m an Independent that votes for conservative candidates. Don&#039;t blame me if the best the Democrats can do is run socialist George McGovern liberals on their ticket. However, I&#039;ll keep an eye out for a blue dog.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Changing the subject? Just as well. </p>
<p>You could turn that around and it would fit the Democrats DebbieDoRight. Where ever you got the notion I&#8217;m a card carrying Republican is beyond my knowledge. I&#8217;m an Independent that votes for conservative candidates. Don&#8217;t blame me if the best the Democrats can do is run socialist George McGovern liberals on their ticket. However, I&#8217;ll keep an eye out for a blue dog.</p>
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		<title>By: DebbieDoRight</title>
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		<dc:creator>DebbieDoRight</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One More Thing......

MHSmith:  &lt;i&gt;Ethnic based affirmative action is discrimination plain and simple. &lt;/i&gt;

Could you show me WHERE in the Equal Op Law OR the AA initiative where it states that it is &quot;ethnic or race based&quot;?  Short history:

&quot;Affirmative action, the set of public policies and initiatives designed to help eliminate past and present discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

NOWHERE in that statement, nor in the enactment of the EEO Law does it say, &quot;give preferential treatment to blacks&quot;.  It was made to ELIMINATE discriminationary practices in hiring, living, etc.  PERIOD.

# The actual phrase &quot;affirmative action&quot; was first used in President John F. Kennedy&#039;s 1961 Executive Order 10925 which requires federal contractors to &quot;take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.&quot; The same language was later used in Lyndon Johnson&#039;s 1965 Executive Order 11246.

# In 1967, Johnson expanded the Executive Order to include affirmative action requirements to benefit women.

Where or WHERE did anyone put ethnicity in that paragraph?


ALSO.........Yes, we are of the Human Race; HOWEVER here in good ole&#039; USA they still categorize us by RACE.  (Hence the US CENSUS BUREAU); when our country of origin stops categorizing us by RACE then I guess everyone else will catch on too.  Until then, don&#039;t forget to answer your census when in comes around in 2010.

Ciao Bella!  (And I LIKE calling you darling!! or like Zsa Zsa says &quot; Dahhhhlliinnggg!&quot;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One More Thing&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>MHSmith:  <i>Ethnic based affirmative action is discrimination plain and simple. </i></p>
<p>Could you show me WHERE in the Equal Op Law OR the AA initiative where it states that it is &#8220;ethnic or race based&#8221;?  Short history:</p>
<p>&#8220;Affirmative action, the set of public policies and initiatives designed to help eliminate past and present discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.</p>
<p>NOWHERE in that statement, nor in the enactment of the EEO Law does it say, &#8220;give preferential treatment to blacks&#8221;.  It was made to ELIMINATE discriminationary practices in hiring, living, etc.  PERIOD.</p>
<p># The actual phrase &#8220;affirmative action&#8221; was first used in President John F. Kennedy&#8217;s 1961 Executive Order 10925 which requires federal contractors to &#8220;take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.&#8221; The same language was later used in Lyndon Johnson&#8217;s 1965 Executive Order 11246.</p>
<p># In 1967, Johnson expanded the Executive Order to include affirmative action requirements to benefit women.</p>
<p>Where or WHERE did anyone put ethnicity in that paragraph?</p>
<p>ALSO&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Yes, we are of the Human Race; HOWEVER here in good ole&#8217; USA they still categorize us by RACE.  (Hence the US CENSUS BUREAU); when our country of origin stops categorizing us by RACE then I guess everyone else will catch on too.  Until then, don&#8217;t forget to answer your census when in comes around in 2010.</p>
<p>Ciao Bella!  (And I LIKE calling you darling!! or like Zsa Zsa says &#8221; Dahhhhlliinnggg!&#8221;)</p>
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