Is Believing in God a Psychological Crutch?

UPDATE: Site has been transferred to new hosting company. Blackinformant.com is now active.

This site (Blackinformant.wordpress.com) will remain online for at least a week. However, all new postings will appear over at Blackinformant.com.

I decided to go with the beta version of 2.7. So consider everything below now in play.

In the meantime, the template for blackinformant.com will be changing a lot over the next couple of days while I decide on a new layout.

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I am looking into accepting advertising on this site. Unfortunately, WordPress.com does not allow advertising, so I’m packing up my bags and moving elsewhere.

For all of you old heads out there, continue to use blackinformant.com. You will see a short period where the domain is either down or looks different. Don’t worry, the domain name is just propagating to the new server.

SITE HAS BEEN MOVED

For you new jacks, I will keep blackinformant.wordpress.com up for about a week. During that time, all new posts will appear only at blackinformant.com.

As always, thank you for your readership.

D~

Why the Auto Bailout Would Be a Big Mistake
John Stossel on Why the Big Three Don’t Deserve a Taxpayer Bailout

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“But wait a second, those jobs wouldn’t necessarily be lost. Bankruptcy isn’t death. Kmart didn’t disappear when it went bankrupt. Neither did Fruit of the Loom, Texaco, Continental Airlines, Delta, or United.

They were reorganized into more efficient, sustainable businesses. Out of this creative destruction new jobs emerged.

Toyota isn’t asking for a bailout. Neither are Honda or Nissan. Yet, they all sell and build cars in America. In fact, while the Big Three were begging for your money, workers at Honda celebrated the first cars coming off their new assembly line in Indiana.

Why can Honda do it, when the Big Three can’t? Well, Gettelfinger’s union is one reason. The Big Three have to deal with strikes.

The UAW even got the Big Three to create places where longtime workers who are not needed are still paid 95 percent of their wages to just sit. They wouldn’t allow us to videotape these so-called jobs banks, but Linda Swan saw them when she worked for Ford.

“For the most part our people just sit inside and do nothing,” she said. “

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“Tens if not hundreds of thousands of jobs would be lost in the auto industry itself,” said U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.

But wait a second, those jobs wouldn’t necessarily be lost. Bankruptcy isn’t death. Kmart didn’t disappear when it went bankrupt. Neither did Fruit of the Loom, Texaco, Continental Airlines, Delta, or United.

They were reorganized into more efficient, sustainable businesses. Out of this creative destruction new jobs emerged. (more…)

And look who is pushing for the bailout?

Jesse Jackson plans rallies to support automakers

DETROIT: The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Friday he will organize rallies in several cities to urge Congress to grant aid to the struggling U.S. automakers.

“It’s time to go back to the streets for some action,” Jackson said after a press conference with minority suppliers and dealers. “We need to show the wealth and depth of pain. It’s not the Big Three execs, it’s the big 4 million jobs.” (more…)

Most influential actor in Hollywood according to Forbes?

Denzel Washington

Top earning couple in Hollywood according to Forbes?

Sean Carter and Beyonce Knowles

Now this~

“Oprah Winfrey, chairman of Harpo, has been named the most powerful woman in entertainment on The Hollywood Reporter’s 17th annual Women in Entertainment: Power 100 special issue.” (more…)

Like I said in this post, “E-mail this to all the folks who say Blacks are reduced to portraying stereotypes in Hollywood…
…and slap ‘em into the 21st century.”

O.J. Simpson Sentenced to 16 Years for Hotel Robbery

2008 will be coolest year of the decade

For years both the gay community and AIDS activists have worked hard to cover up the reality behind what spreads AIDS by using Africa as its cloak. Whenever you want to shield yourself from any criticism, use what can generate the most sympathy to your advantage–sickly African women and children who are dying of this dreaded disease.

As one who longs to see the day when AIDS is nothing more than a faded page in history, I have become fed up with the constant depictions of Africans whose hopes are tied to the sale of the next RED iPod. Yes, AIDS has been a disease that has crippled that continent, but so have many other diseases.

Roger England of Health Systems Workshop, a think tank based in the Caribbean island of Grenada, goes further. He argues that UNAIDS, the U.N. agency leading the fight against the disease, has outlived its purpose and should be disbanded.

“The global HIV industry is too big and out of control. We have created a monster with too many vested interests and reputations at stake, … too many relatively well paid HIV staff in affected countries, and too many rock stars with AIDS support as a fashion accessory,” he wrote in the British Medical Journal in May.

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England argues that closing UNAIDS would free up its $200 million annual budget for other health problems such as pneumonia, which kills more children every year than AIDS, malaria and measles combined.

“By putting more money into AIDS, we are implicitly saying it’s OK for more kids to die of pneumonia,” England said.

His comments touch on the bigger complaint: that AIDS hogs money and may damage other health programs.

By 2006, AIDS funding accounted for 80 percent of all American aid for health and population issues, according to the Global Health Council.

In Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda and elsewhere, donations for HIV projects routinely outstrip the entire national health budgets.

In a 2006 report, Rwandan officials noted a “gross misallocation of resources” in health: $47 million went to HIV, $18 million went to malaria, the country’s biggest killer, and $1 million went to childhood illnesses.

“There needs to be a rational system for how to apportion scarce funds,” said Helen Epstein, an AIDS expert who has consulted for UNICEF, the World Bank, and others. (more…)

England is right. The reason why AIDS has received the most funding is because it is a disease that touches the West. Diseases like malaria are foreign to us, so no concerts for that cause. So the same crowd that wags its finger at America for being insensitive to the needs of Africa have tempered their own compassion based on their own needs, not Africa.

While AIDS is primarily a sexually-transmitted disease, the ways it is transmitted in Africa is somewhat different than in the West.

This article found in the NY Times talks about how breastfeeding and the usage of blades and other unsterilized sharp utensils used in ceremonies contribute to the spread of AIDS. While unprotected sex is a primary cause of the spread of AIDS in Africa, according to this report, unsafe medical practices are also helping to spread this disease.

Spread of AIDS in Africa driven by poor medical practice, report says
Owen Dyer London

The spread of AIDS in Africa is driven not by unsafe sex but by unsafe medical practice, according to research published last week.

The research, which analysed data on new infections collected up to 1988, concludes that no basis exists for the widespread belief that sexual transmission is responsible for over 90% of new cases. Instead, the authors say, use of dirty needles by public health services was the main cause of transmission in the study period, with sexual transmission accounting for just 30% of infections.

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The authors point to the exceptionally rapid spread of the disease in countries with widespread health services, such as South Africa and Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe in the 1990s, HIV infections increased by 12% a year whereas other sexually transmitted disease were declining by 25%. (more…)

Now here in the West, the problem isn’t poor medical facilities. The problem can be summarized into two words: WILLING IGNORANCE.

Here is an excerpt from an article covering a recent report released by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Dr De Cock, an epidemiologist who has spent much of his career leading the battle against the disease, said understanding of the threat posed by the virus had changed. Whereas once it was seen as a risk to populations everywhere, it was now recognised that, outside sub-Saharan Africa, it was confined to high-risk groups including men who have sex with men, injecting drug users, and sex workers and their clients.

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Critics of the global Aids strategy complain that vast sums are being spent educating people about the disease who are not at risk, when a far bigger impact could be achieved by targeting high-risk groups and focusing on interventions known to work, such as circumcision, which cuts the risk of infection by 60 per cent, and reducing the number of sexual partners.

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One of the danger areas for the Aids strategy was among men who had sex with men. He said: ” We face a bit of a crisis [in this area]. In the industrialised world transmission of HIV among men who have sex with men is not declining and in some places has increased.

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In the US , the rate of infection among men in Washington DC is well over 100 times higher than in North Dakota, the region with the lowest rate. That is in one country. How do you explain such differences?“

Here is what I said earlier in response to that last quote:

“What is the number 1 complaint I hear from sistahs out in places like D.C., Atlanta, etc. regarding the men? I’ll let you guess that one. I don’t hear the same complaint coming from folks out in North Dakota.”

Unlike Africa, America is flush with the resouces and education to prevent the spread of AIDS. Despite that fact, a segment of our society continues to engage in risky sexual behavior such as:

Anal Sex (Risks involved)
Oral Sex (Risks involved)
Rimming, Fecal sex, Oral-Anal (Risks involved)
Fisting (read all about it here)

The infected African child is not wrestling with such issues. So let’s not insult them by tying them to the willing ignorance of those who know better. Craft the next AIDS awareness t-shirt with the imagery of any one of these acts which (are common amongst the homsexual community here in the West) and see how much symphony and money you can generate. In the meantime, stop using Africa as the poster child for your willing ignorance.

From my post “And The Band Played On”

“Cash accepted by ANY special interest group by ANY politician is a under the table IOU. And based on the simple fact that the Obama camp led the most expensive presidential campaign in American history, he is going to owe a lot of people.

All Obama is doing is rearranging the furniture. Unfortunately between his top campaign contributors and the recycled Clinton people he picked for his cabinet, it appears the guests are simply waiting for the furniture to stop moving to find their seat.”

Check this out.

Big Three Spending Millions On Lobbying
by Sharyl Attkisson
cbsnews.com

(CBS) As Congress mulls over a bailout for U.S. automakers, some may be thinking about more than jobs and the economy.

The auto industry spent nearly $50 million lobbying Congress in the first nine months of this year.

And people tied to the auto industry gave another $15 million in campaign contributions, CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports.

It’s not surprising that a lot of that money went to members of Congress from Michigan, where the auto industry is the biggest employer and politicians are passionate advocates for their constituents.

Take Sen. Carl Levin, who received $438,304 from the automotive industry. And in the House, Rep. Joe Knollenberg received $879,327. Rep. John Dingell got nearly a million from the industry. All have enjoyed generous support from the auto industry over their careers, with GM and Ford as their two top contributors. All support a bailout. (more…)

Mark my words, there will be some sort of bailout. They may call it something else, but it will be a bail out nonetheless. All we are witnessing now is the constant hopping of the big three as they get adjusted to their new seating arrangements.

When the bailout does happen, somehow this will be bundled with the 2.5 million jobs that will supposedly be saved or created.

Yep, just relax as the self-loathing American media continues to remind us how bad we are as a nation for wanting secure borders.

Mexico Drug Cartels Send A Message of Chaos, Death
By William Booth
Washington Post Foreign Service

MEXICO CITY — The death squads of the drug cartels are killing in spectacularly gruesome ways, using the violence as a language to deliver a message to society.

Increasingly, bodies show unmistakable signs of torture. Videos of executions are posted on the Internet, as taunts, as warnings. Corpses are dumped on playgrounds, with neatly printed notes beside them. And very often, the heads have been removed.

When someone rolled five heads onto the dance floor in a cantina in Michoacan state two years ago, even the most hardened Mexicans were shocked. Now ritual mutilations are routine. In the border city of Tijuana, 37 people were slain over the weekend, including four children. Nine of the adults were decapitated, including three police officers whose badges were stuffed in their mouths.

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An estimated 4,500 people have been killed in drug-related violence since 2007, when Calderón flooded the border and other drug hot zones with 20,000 Mexican troops and thousands of federal agents. November was the bloodiest month so far, with at least 700 killings, according to tallies kept by Mexican newspapers. Some victims had no connection to the drug trade, police say. (more….)

You read that right. 700 murders in one month!

You already know my solution–send the Klan down there and folks will actually get mad enough to do something about it.