Thought some might find interesting the amount of racist named land that still exist. Only with these it's not just scribbled on a rock that was painted over! These names are ON THE BOOKS!

For Example

South Dakotas Squaw Humper Dam, Squaw Humper Table, and Little Squaw-Humper Creek

NegroHead Point - The UP

Jew Point - Florida

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/10/rick_perry_s_hunting_camp_how_many_places_have_racial_slurs_in_t.html?GT1=38001

I think the fact that cane made such a big deal out of something like a past name that had been changed just shows he's playing the political race card. Offencive as the word "nigger" is, I hear all kinds of different races calling each other by that name. Hell once some 14 years ago I was in the parts store waiting on a part when a friend called and the first thing out of his mouth was "Whats up nigger!". Well it just happened to be a black dude standing next to me and my volume was turned all the way up. Everyone was cracking up about it including the black dude.

It's a touchy subject I guess, but I have actually had black customers come right out and say to me "I'm a nigger", "I'll get donkey up in here". I know in the back of his mind he was thinking something along the lines of "honkey", "cracker" or "casper". All told I think the guy was just trying to break the ice, as he has been a good paying customer.

Point I am making here is the past is the past. There is no slavery outside of minimum wage, which is an equal oppertunity employer. To try and spark up political points by playing the race card, BY ANY RACE, is just pitting people agenst each other. Hell, Cain even called Obama a racist! LOL!

I am stocking up on popcorn for next years election. It's like the Superbowl, but it only happens once every 4 years!

Hey, I got behind Steele!

I found it "cute" that Cain called Obama a racist.

I may vote pure party line this election cycle, so if Cain takes the primarys you will have people like me to thank for it.

By the way, thanks for Obama.... Jackass!

Your photo is missing a few ands,

Lowered the nations credit rating

Spent more money than any other president

Waged a faceless war where as the enemy is still at large

Is that Donut box holding a half trillion dollars in it? Was it taken during his visit to Solyndra?

Why is it union workers and democrats seem to think everyone should feel lucky they showed up for work!? Oh yeah that's right, because we are! Otherwise they would be sitting back collecting on the public dole for nothing. But sometimes it actually cost LESS in the long run to let these people live off the teat, they cost us much more when actually permitted to work.

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Your photo is missing a few ands,

Lowered the nations credit rating

You can thank the Republican House of Reps and S&P for that one.

Spent more money than any other president

Except Reagan... Oh wait, that's right, it's Congress that does all the spending - FAIL

Waged a faceless war where as the enemy is still at large

I know exactly where he is, at the bottom of the ocean in the fish poo cycle.

 

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IIRC, Gerry has said he works for Meg Whitman, at her new company of employment. So with that information you should be able to figure it out, if not your not paying close attention to the news. Being a Union Democrat, I am willing to bet the latter.

Of course I could be wrong.

I think you misunderstand... I didn't say he worked for Meg Whitman, I said he worked for a company that she was recently hired to run. But your guess would be correct.

Although I am sure it would pay pretty well to rub her feet and bring her coffee, I think Gerry is a happily married man.

I don't know what he does there, but I think that's what was said, IIRC.

For all we know Gerry could be her husband.

Here is a photo of Bill Cobb

And here is a last known photo of Gerry

Any resemblance? Maybe Gerry is undercover? Maybe he is from planet Mars. One thing is for sure, I fetch coffee and rub feet for a special woman.

To date we don't have much information on the illustrious PowerStroker. Typical Democrat empty suit sealing his files.

The next time your Mercedes breaks down, and you, being overqualified to understand how to figure out the problem - end up bringing it to the dealer, make sure you personally speak to the mechanic and tell him that he is an un-educated Neanderthal incapable of even reading a news paper.

For that matter, make sure you tell that to the police officer who protects your neighborhood.  Tell it to the electrician who wires your house.  Tell it to the nurse who immunizes you (before he or she sticks you with the needle).  Tell it to the soldier who died so that you may live the American dream.  Tell it to the plumber who fixes your leaky pipes.  Tell it to the carpenter who repairs your storm damage.  Tell it to the fireman who rescues your family from a fire.  Tell it to the construction worker repairing the socialized roads and bridges you drive on every day.

I've known many types of people in my travels.  One thing I'm sure of, is nobody who ever actually had to pull himself up by his bootstraps and became successful, looks down with such hostility at blue collar workers.  So I have to ask...  Did you have to pay your parents back for helping finance your college education, or was that just another in a long line of gifts?

Now I actually have a degree, so if I  didn't enjoy my trade as much as I do, and ever desired a management position, it would be a pretty easy thing for me to attain.  But I wonder if Rex knows that you're only nice to him because you view him as a useful idiot who supports your politicians?  Does Rex know, that were it not for that fact, you wouldn't give him the time of day?  Does he know you view him as just a lowly high school educated backyard (blue collar) mechanic?

Last question:

What exactly do you do for HP that makes you so special and hard to replace with cheap foreign labor?

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The Daily Calumet was a Chicago newspaper that existed from 1881 until 1987. It was at one time billed as "America's Oldest Daily Community Newspaper."
 
The Daily Calumet was located at 9120 S. Baltimore Ave., Chicago, in the South Chicago neighborhood on the city's Southeast Side. Depending on the delineation of ward boundaries, it was either in the 7th or 10th Ward.
 
It served the communities within the city of South Chicago, South Shore, Irondale/Slag Valley, South Deering, the East Side and Hegewisch as well as the neighboring suburbs of Calumet City and Burnham.
 
Affectionately known as "The Cal" to generations of readers, the newspaper covered only topics of local interest and it was not until its finals years that it used any wire service copy. In the early 1980s, The Daily Calumet subscribed to the United Press International service to augment the copy produced by its staff of reporters, photographers and correspondents. Reporting areas, or "beats" were divided into four areas of responsibility on The Daily Calumet.
 
The police beat, known internally as the "cops and courts" beat, was basically focused on news from the 4th District of the Chicago Police Department. The detective bureau covered by The Daily Calumet was Area 2, which comprised districts 3 (Grand Crossing), 4 (South Chicago) 6 (Gresham) and 22 (Morgan Park).
 
The most sensational police coverage done by The Daily Calumet concerned the 1966 murders of six student nurses by drifter Richard Speck. The women were killed in an apartment rented by South Chicago Community Hospital on East 100th Street. Photographers and reporters from The Daily Calumet were the first media on the scene and were allowed unparalleled access to the homicide scene. The newspaper also extensively reported and photographed the October 30, 1972 collision between two Illinois Central commuter trains, which originated from the IC's 91st Street station in South Chicago. The wreck, which killed 45 people and injured 332, remains the worst commuter rail crash in Chicago's history, and carried a number of victims from the newspaper's coverage area.
 
The labor beat, which covered both the unions and the businesses of the Southeast Side, concentrated heavily on the steel and auto industries that made up the bulk of the local manufacturing employers. Among the largest of these were the South Works of United States Steel, Republic (later LTV) Steel, Wisconsin Steel, the Chicago Assembly Plant of Ford Motor Company and related suppliers to the above industries. The most significant coverage on the labor beat was during the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre when Chicago police shot down several striking workers at the Republic Steel plant on Avenue O.
 
The education beat covered numerous parochial and public schools on the Southeast Side. The high schools covered by The Daily Calumet included Washington High School, Bowen High School, Hirsch High School and St. Francis De Sales High School operated by the Archdiocese of Chicago.
 
The political beat covered both the 7th Ward and 10th Ward organizations. As part of its coverage, the beat reporter would attend Chicago City Council meetings. The beat also covered the state house and senate districts within the Southeast Side area and the 2nd Congressional District of the U.S. House. Some of the most intense political reporting came during the administration of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, whose primary nemesis on the council floor was Ald. Edward Vrdolyak, the 10th Ward alderman. Vrdolyak led the floor opposition to Washington during the stormy time known as "Council Wars," a play on words from the popular "Star Wars" films, when the Washington bloc found itself at odds and often outnumbered or outmaneuvered by Vrdolyak and his allies.
 
The environment beat was created during the turn of the 1980s, when Waste Management Corp. tried unsuccessfully to create a nature preserve in Burnham, Illinois, to mitigate a planned expansion of its CID Landfill near 130th Street and the Calumet (Bishop Ford) Expressway, and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency initiated legal actions against several small operating and closed landfills concentrated in a heavily industrialized area near Torrence Avenue.
 
In addition to these "beats," reporters were encouraged to produce enterprise stories on any neighborhood subject of their choice. The Daily Calumet also had a photo department with two full-time staffers and several stringers; two full-time sports personnel and a full-time Lifestyles editor and an assistant.
 
As the neighborhood demographics changed, The Daily Calumet added a Spanish language page known as "Fin de Semana" or "Weekend" which served the growing Latino market.
 
In approximately 1980, The Daily Calumet was sold by its owners, Panax Publishing Co., to a British-owned group from Liverpool. After several years, the British group sold the paper to Pulitzer, which owned The Daily Southtown newspaper which served Chicago's Southwest Side. After about two years of operation by Pulitzer, The Daily Calumet nameplate was phased out and replaced by The Daily Southtown, which opened a bureau in a building owned by The Daily Calumet in south suburban Lansing, Ill. at 18127 William St. The office was closed and The Daily Southtown effectively withdrew from the southeastern Chicago market when its product failed to catch on with the local population.
 
The Daily Calumet building at 9120 S. Baltimore Avenue in Chicago was donated to the South Chicago YMCA. After a structural analysis determined the building was not safe, it was razed to expand the YMCA parking area. The Lansing building was s

Well it didn't take long for Cain's "Pizza Man" business model to shine thru!

Recently Cain has suggested a "Pizza" like special for taxes he calls "9-9-9". Yep just like the Pizza joints that offer simmilar kinds of deals in the same wrapper, we now have a man running for President that wants to turn our nation into a Pizzaria.

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/13/8304334-cains-9-9-9-tax-plan-is-simple-most-will-simply-pay-more

I am starting to understand how Democrats felt when the party made Obama their Primary.

I just have not seen much from Cain that would indicate he is fit to be President. I can only assume he is a diversion. If Cain takes the Republican primary the could for once be a possible chance for an independent. With the black vote split, and the current state of the nation it's a high possibility that an Independent could have a chance.

If faced with a ballot that contains "Cain" or "Obama", I would be tempted to give an independent a shot. Going to be a very interesting election cycle.

Your racist baiting aside, are you saying Cain is qualified?

I certianly dont feel Owebama was qualified when he ran for President. I even have a video where he admits he's not qualified himself. I still dont think he is qualified, although I am sure with the past 3 years of "on the job" training he's a bit more seasoned than Cain.

If there were no good independents on the ballot, and it came down to Cain vs. Obama, I hate to say it, but I'd take Obama. Only because he NOW has more experience in the job than Cain. Then again I have not spent much time listening to Cain outside of what I read and that video above. I have to disagree with him in that video where he claims a problem is a problem is a problem. Not all problems are equal. About the ONLY thing Cain has going for him right now is the fact he is running as a Republican.

I feel Bush Jr. had experience when he first ran because of his father being the President. Naturally Bush Jr. would have been exposed to a lot more things than many outsiders. Same goes for Obama's immediate family, Michelle probably has a better understanding of how things work in Washington than Cain, although I think his kids are a little too young to be absorbing what really goes on in the White House, yet I feel even Obamas kids might have more of an idea about how things work in DC than Cain! LOL Hillary Clinton would be another person who has been close enough to the action to have what I consider Presidential experience, and probably she has more than all of the people I have mentioned above put together.

Bottom line, the fact that Cain was in charge of a Pizza joint named "Godfathers Pizza" of all things does not necessarily make me think he is fit for the job. His past employment with the Federal Reserve is not what many Americans see as a "feather in his hat", more like a sign he could be corrupt.

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Your racist baiting aside, are you saying Cain is qualified?

Damn, you usually can't resist the bait.

I certianly dont feel Owebama was qualified when he ran for President. I even have a video where he admits he's not qualified himself. I still dont think he is qualified, although I am sure with the past 3 years of "on the job" training he's a bit more seasoned than Cain.

There are people who are qualified to take the job, but rare is the person who can actually do it well.  That said, I think a professor of Constitutional law and US Senator is better prepared for it than the CEO of a mafia themed pizza chain.

If there were no good independents on the ballot, and it came down to Cain vs. Obama, I hate to say it, but I'd take Obama. Only because he NOW has more experience in the job than Cain.

That's actually very big of you Rex :)  Normally I would leave it there, but you bring up a point that strikes an odd chord with me...  The idea that experience on the job has such great value, that one would vote for someone with experience, even if that person would use that experience to impose policies that run counter to what said persion believes is right for America.  I prefer to vote for the vision... the person who embraces the policies that embody my vision for an ideal America, even if that person has less "experience" in the job.  As I see it, experience can be acquired, but a person's belief system is almost impossible to change.  Therein lies the danger with using one's level of experience in deciding who to vote for.

Then again I have not spent much time listening to Cain outside of what I read and that video above. I have to disagree with him in that video where he claims a problem is a problem is a problem. Not all problems are equal. About the ONLY thing Cain has going for him right now is the fact he is running as a Republican.

Well he's got his "9-9-9" tax plan.  It's great if you're a millionare.  If you work for a living however, it's a huge tax increase.  Which is probably why it's such a popular idea among Republican politicians.

I feel Bush Jr. had experience when he first ran because of his father being the President. Naturally Bush Jr. would have been exposed to a lot more things than many outsiders. Same goes for Obama's immediate family, Michelle probably has a better understanding of how things work in Washington than Cain, although I think his kids are a little too young to be absorbing what really goes on in the White House, yet I feel even Obamas kids might have more of an idea about how things work in DC than Cain! LOL Hillary Clinton would be another person who has been close enough to the action to have what I consider Presidential experience, and probably she has more than all of the people I have mentioned above put together.

You are correct about Hillary being one of the most qualified people to be president right now.  The reason she isn't though, is because the Democratic party chose vision over experience in the primary.

Bottom line, the fact that Cain was in charge of a Pizza joint named "Godfathers Pizza" of all things does not necessarily make me think he is fit for the job. His past employment with the Federal Reserve is not what many Americans see as a "feather in his hat", more like a sign he could be corrupt.

I love Godfather's Pizza.  I've been blissfully unaware for years that it had been run by a Republican.  I think the pizza tastes even better now that he's gone though ;)

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I've made myself clear -- all unions ought to be busted and abolished, and union members should either be put into forced labor camps or given the opportunity to better their education so they can get jobs that actually add value to the economy (intellectual capital) rather than doing repetitive factory jobs that I could train a chimpanzee to do. It's not blue collar workers per se (after all I'd own my own Mercedes repair shop if I could ... and I came very very close to doing so about 5 years ago) it's about union members who get paid huge money for doing jobs that should be outsourced overseas or given to monkeys.

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 You didn't exactly answer all of my Questions Gerry.  Do you think I could be replaced by a monkey?  What do you do for HP that couldn't be replaced by a monkey?  Did you have to pay back your parents when they financed your college education?  Do you not think that repetitive factory jobs add any value to the economy? 

All unions do is provide some democracy in the workplace and level the playing field during contract negotiations. 

One of the reasons our economy is in the dumps, is because policy makers have forgotten that one of the most efficient ways to build wealth, is to take a raw material, turn it into a finished product, and sell it for a profit.  This involves assembly lines with many people doing repetitive things, but it's honest work, and it creates real value.  Now our manufacturing base has been outsourced because manual labor is no longer valued by half of our politicians...  Now Wall Street, which used to be a place where people could invest in companies, has become a casino where people can bet against a company without actually investing in anything.  Now tell me which way to create wealth is more noble please Gerry.  And then tell me how much I, as a senior master technician and Diesel specialist for a Ford dealership should actually earn in your ideal society without unions to help me negotiate with the owner, who by the way, is just as hostile to labor as you are?