BloggeRhythms

A news item yesterday on www.tmz.com disclosed L.A. Clippers basketball team owner Donald Sterling telling his girlfriend that he doesn’t want her bringing black people to his games ... including Magic Johnson. The report also claims the interchange is recorded on tape. 

 

No longer interested in basketball, I would have skipped over the story, however, a few more details were mentioned so I dug a little deeper to find that “Sterling has a documented history of allegedly racist behavior -- he's been sued twice by the federal government for allegedly refusing to rent apartments to Blacks and Latinos.

 

He was also sued by former Clippers exec Elgin Baylor for racial discrimination -- though a jury was ultimately not convinced and shot down Baylor's case. 

 

But here’s the most interesting revelation.

 

According to National Review Online’s Tim Cavanaugh in his column “The Corner”; L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling, whom commentators have tried to tie to the Republican Party after his alleged racist statements, is in fact a Democrat, according to campaign contribution records.

 

Furthermore, Sterling’s donations to liberal causes caused left-leaning commentators to laud him in the past. And, unbelievably, “At the time TMZ released its recording, Sterling was scheduled to receive a lifetime achievement award from the NAACP.”

 

So, here we have another proclaimed liberal turning out to be just about the most incredible self-serving phony on the planet.

 

And then, on the subject of phonies. This morning Canadian ambassador to the U.S. Gary Doer reacted to the incumbent’s tabling of the Keystone pipeline.

 

Speaking with Maria Bartiromo on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures” show, the ambassador illustrated exactly how the administration is misleading the public on the issue because, although the pipeline’s been stalled, the oil is still flowing here by rail.

 

However, despite environmentalist’s claims, rail produces higher emissions than does a pipeline, while costs and risks involved are substantially greater. Such as the emissions from the 500 trucks already hauling oil here every day. 

 

Commentator Eric Shawn also related that when the pipeline's approved, 42,000 jobs will be created while billions of dollars will be pumped into the economy as well (no pun intended.) Which is why even the usually administration -friendly unions are irate too.

 

At the same time, while the State Department has already cleared the project, the five year’s already spent on analysis have taken longer than World Wars I & II, the Civil War and building the 1,907-mile transcontinental railroad, which was completed in 1869.

 

And what’s just as bad, but rarely discussed, is that delaying the pipeline increases Europe's problems with Russia. Because, without a viable alternative, they enrich and embolden Putin who presently can’t be sanctioned heavily for fear of loss of the fuel.

 

In the meantime, Canada isn’t standing still, and despite environmentalist's claims otherwise, the oil’s flowing to Asia from it’s West Coast and to India from the East.

 

So, everywhere one looks its obvious that this purely political stance taken by a politician who’s been bought with $100 million from a self-interested stock-marketeer is an incredibly bad position all the way around. Which led the Canadian ambassador to conclude that from his nation’s point of view, the incumbent's chosen Hollywood over jobs. 

 

That’s it  for today folks.

 

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