Old Maid’s Day Day 156 of 2008 210 days left in this year

WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Medical Marijuana ProCon | Industrial Hemp
NORML (National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws)
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — The Magic Weed: History of Marijuana
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Marijuana Policy Project
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Good Deed Foundation

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YESTERDAY: June 3rd, 2008: On the final day of the 2008 Presidential Primary, Barak Obama receives enough delegates to become the first African-American presidential candidate of a major political party.

OBAMA A MAN OF HISTORY, BUT …

Almost exactly 50 years ago - a blip of time in the eons of nations - Virginia Sheriff Garnett Brooks bust into the home of Mildred and Richard Loving in the middle of the night and stood over the waking couple, who were confused, and not a little afraid. They were arrested for the heinous crime of getting married.

Richard was white and Mildred was black, and that was agin the law in Virginia.

It took nearly ten years and a decision of the Supreme Court to allow them to live together once again. RIchard died in 1975, worn out. Mildred died last month, at age 68.

Now we have a black man as the Nominee of one of our main political parties. So indeed, we have come a long way.

The error I see people making, both within the political sphere of influence and without, is thinking we’ve come all that far.

Despite Obama’s kind words of hope and confidence in the “American People”, the hatred Americans have for one another is so pervasive, so deep, that to fail to acknowledge it is Obama’s grievous error in judgment. We are divided religiously, racially, politically and by intelligence. As long as it has taken us to reach this sorry state, that is how long it will take to pull ourselves out. And before we try to accomplish - with any hope of success - the soaring goals enumerated by Mr. Obama, we have to take that road, a road in my opinion most Americans won’t travel.

To wit: the day of Obama’s win, a 75-foot confederate flag was hoisted over I-75 in Tampa Florida. The men who raised it vote

– Maui Curmudgeon