“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."
Monday, July 21, 2008
Where Are the White Male Soldiers?
This is a NY Times Photo of Obama at a stopover in Kuwait. Blacks make up 20% of the US Army.
Why do people think in terms of skin color? I could take one picture of Bush shaking hands at Bob Jones University and say, "Where's all the black faces?" and make him seem like a racist, but the only racist would be me.
Why do people not think? --- Here's an idea: Engineer having a baby w/Terrye. The Spawn would be the ultimate Black-Hole for intelligence. But there I go getting sucked into a color argument again.
when i was stationed in germany in the late 80's it seemed like it was more then 20%. it was my first experience with black muslims. it was also my first experience with disproportionate black male/white female thing. i was very surprised to see the german females paying a lot more attention to the black males. at the time i thought the german women had some sort of agenda back then. boy, they're really into BO though aren't they? would they be if he was white?
Doug: Here's an idea: Engineer having a baby w/Terrye. The Spawn would be the ultimate Black-Hole for intelligence.
Doug again, different venue: Things get better over time; that's how engineering works...Posted by: Doug | Jul 21, 2008 12:14:59 PM
You got a thang for black holes, or are we lookin at identity theft? Where'd this fixation on engineers come from? BTW, that colonel of the Paras coulda gotten the Washateria going in a few hours with a wink to his Sergeant Major behind the bureaucrat's back. He didn't because he was careerist (at the time). Bureaucrat in uniform.
"Aides cited "security concerns""
ReplyDeleteWhy do people think in terms of skin color? I could take one picture of Bush shaking hands at Bob Jones University and say, "Where's all the black faces?" and make him seem like a racist, but the only racist would be me.
ReplyDeleteWhy do people not think?
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Here's an idea:
Engineer having a baby w/Terrye.
The Spawn would be the ultimate Black-Hole for intelligence.
But there I go getting sucked into a color argument again.
when i was stationed in germany in the late 80's it seemed like it was more then 20%. it was my first experience with black muslims. it was also my first experience with disproportionate black male/white female thing. i was very surprised to see the german females paying a lot more attention to the black males. at the time i thought the german women had some sort of agenda back then. boy, they're really into BO though aren't they? would they be if he was white?
ReplyDeleteDoug: Here's an idea:
ReplyDeleteEngineer having a baby w/Terrye.
The Spawn would be the ultimate Black-Hole for intelligence.
Doug again, different venue:
Things get better over time; that's how engineering works...Posted by: Doug | Jul 21, 2008 12:14:59 PM
You got a thang for black holes, or are we lookin at identity theft? Where'd this fixation on engineers come from? BTW, that colonel of the Paras coulda gotten the Washateria going in a few hours with a wink to his Sergeant Major behind the bureaucrat's back. He didn't because he was careerist (at the time). Bureaucrat in uniform.