Checkmate Loc: Southern California

Black hurricanes?

Well, it appears one of our African-American friends have found yet something else to be unhappy about. A black congresswoman (this would be Sheila Jackson Lee, of Houston ), reportedly complained that the names of hurricanes are all Caucasian sounding names.

She would prefer some names that reflect African-American culture such as Chamiqua, Tanisha, Woeisha, Shaqueal, and Jamal. I am NOT making this up!

She would also like the weather reports to be broadcast in 'language' that street people can understand because one of the problems that happened in New Orleans was that black people couldn't understand the seriousness of the situation, due to the racially biased language of the weather report.

I guess if the weather person says that the winds are going to blow at 140+ MPH, that's too hard to understand.

I can hear it now: A weatherman in New Orleans says...

Wazzup, mutha-fukkas! Hehr-i-cane Chamiqua be headin' fo' yo ass like Leroy on a crotch rocket!
Bitch be a category fo'! So, turn off dem chitlins, grab yo' chirren, leave yo crib, and head fo' de nearest FEMA office fo yo FREE shit!

Singing Swan

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Sounds about right. And when are they going to do it all in Spanish and Japanese?? I already have a hard time finding the English parts in the instruction booklets!!!

Fla Walt Loc: Delray Beach, Florida

This is about 10 years old. Where did you dig this up from?

jcs Loc: USA

because it's even more appropriate today as it was then

tschmath Loc: Los Angeles

So you admit this is just a racist lie made up ten years ago that you happen to think is funny, so you pass it off not only as true, but something you created. Typical right wing Fox News strategy, make something up, pass it off as fact, and sit back and watch it catch fire. Maybe there's an opening for yet another lying, racist anchor on Fox that you can apply for.

Checkmate Loc: Southern California

Guess I touched a nerve on your useless ass. Your typical Al Sharpton racist response is one of the reasons that Dipsticks like you teach young minds your racists views. You are spending too much time mentally masturbating in front of MSNBC and the crack hoes and poverty pimps on same that you reflect in your responses.

nakkh Loc: San Mateo, Ca

This is a fake news story. Just admit it and get on with your useless life.

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

It's not illegal to be a racist but you should just own it. Proclaim it to the skies since you are obviously proud of it instead of calling everybody else racist.

tschmath Loc: Los Angeles

So, I accuse you of plagiarizing a story you know to be false, and, rather than deny either charge, you resort to calling me infantile names. Well done.

Checkmate Loc: Southern California

Didn't plagiarize the story. Just passed it on that on the web. According to the left wing Snopes it is TRUE. Just bit you in your useless ass like Obama does..
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thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

What received a true was her saying she would like African American names included on the list of names. The rest is bull shit.

Checkmate Loc: Southern California

What's the problem with Real American names that we can pronounce and relate to?

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

What right do you have to call them not real Americans. Her comments were made after a decision was made to include French and other "not real American" names on the list. I guess America doesn't own the Hurricanes anymore.

hondo812 Loc: Massachusetts

What's true is that she's an idiot. How she continues to get elected is beyond me. I know the Democrats see themselves as the educated elite. Please explain this one then.

The Queen of Texas
Race-baiting, clueless, and cocky? Sheila Jackson Lee is the perfect Obama nominee.
By Ian Tuttle

Texas has done a lot of good for this country: the King Ranch and Texas-style chili. Dr. Pepper and the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. Rick Perry and Ted Cruz. Patrick Swayze.

Texas also gave America Sheila Jackson Lee. So let’s call it even.

Since 1995, Jackson Lee (D.) has represented Texas’s 18th congressional district, which comprises much of inner-city Houston. Now at least one group on Capitol Hill is eyeing her for higher office: The Congressional Black Caucus is recommending that Jackson Lee replace Janet Napolitano as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

Jackson Lee is one of 32 House members who sit on the House Homeland Security Committee, which is her apparent qualification for heading up DHS. According to the CBC’s letter to President Obama recommending Jackson Lee, the congresswoman “understands the importance of increasing border security and maintaining homeland security” — which, if that is considered a qualification, sets the bar frighteningly low. Then the CBC adds that she would be a “voice of reason” at DHS.

Sheila Jackson Lee is many things. “Voice of reason” is not among them.

During the 2011 hearings on Islamic terrorism, held by Representative Peter King (R., N.Y.), Jackson Lee railed against them as “an effort to demonize and to castigate a whole broad base of human beings.” She then lamented that the committee was not spending its time on genuine terroristic threats: “the cold cases of the civil-rights movement,” for example. She encouraged the committee to hold hearings to determine “whether Klansmen still roam today and terrorize individuals in parts of this country.”

And she also quoted herself. In the third person.

In Jackson Lee’s ideal world, September 11 was caused by a group of white-nationalist southerners in hoods. Or, perhaps, by embittered former plantation owners — by whom she has, apparently, been personally victimized. Jackson Lee declared on the House floor earlier this year, “I stand here as a freed slave because this Congress came together.” No, that is not out of context. And there is no context in which that quote would make sense.

It is, though, representative of Jackson Lee’s style: Make sweeping and unfounded accusations of racism first; ask questions . . . well, never.

In 2011, Jackson Lee insinuated on the House floor that Republicans opposed raising the debt ceiling because of racism: “I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president,” she said, “only this one, only this one has received the kind of attacks and disagreements and inability to work. Only this one. Read between the lines. What is different about this president?” It is “because we elected the first African American president” that some states are now pushing for voter ID.

The House floor was apparently the proper platform from which to berate a Pepsi commercial that aired during the 2011 Super Bowl. In the ad for Pepsi Max, a black woman throws her soda can at her boyfriend or husband for glancing at an attractive white jogger; when he ducks, the can hits the jogger, and the couple scurries away. The ad “showed a demeaning role for African American women,” said Jackson Lee.

She even complained that devastating natural disasters are used to promote racism, telling the Hill in 2003 that hurricane names are too “lily white” and that “all racial groups should be represented.” She suggested more hurricanes named “Keisha, Jamal, and Deshawn.”

Beyond arguing that America should be directing its drone strikes at remaining grand wizards, Jackson Lee’s homeland-security expertise is scant, although she does have personal experience with one global hotspot: Jackson Lee was so impressed with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, she told the Houston Chronicle when she arrived home from a 2003 “fact-finding” mission in the Middle East, that she invited him to come speak in Texas. “Let’s see what he can do,” she said of the strongman who, she enthused, “even gave us a picture of him and his children.” A decade on, the world has seen exactly what he can do. In December of last year Jackson Lee called for his resignation. But that speaking invitation might still stand.

Jackson Lee has a soft spot for tyrants. In 2007, implying that she was among the “many friends” of Hugo Chávez in Congress, she encouraged the Bush administration to repair relations with Venezuela. An excellent way to do that, she suggested, would be to end the ban on selling F-16 fighter-jet parts to Venezuela.

In 2000 Jackson Lee called for the end of economic sanctions against Iraq.

And if it is not enough that she has been habitually seduced by brutal dictators and has opposed nearly every defense measure brought before Congress during her career, there are also Jackson Lee’s moments of Bidenesque folly.

In 2010 she took to the House floor to celebrate that “today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace.”

Five years earlier, during a visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Jackson Lee asked a guide whether the Mars Pathfinder had managed to photograph the flag planted by Neil Armstrong in 1969. Needless to say, the rover missed it — by several million miles. At the time Jackson Lee was one of the handful of House members tasked with setting America’s space policy.

At an NAACP event in Kansas City in 2010, she compared the Tea Party to the KKK, remarking, “All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing [applause], uh, clothing, uh, with a name.” Which is an apt description for Jackson Lee. But along with such penetrating insights she would also bring to DHS a reputation as one of the worst bosses on Capitol Hill, according to Jonathan Strong, now a reporter with National Review Online. She is known to throw tantrums, regularly screaming and swearing at her staff. A few years ago she effectively replaced one employee’s name with “you stupid motherf***er.” “It’s like being an Iraq War veteran,” one staffer said.

Jackson Lee made her thoughts clear to her onetime Capitol-office executive assistant, Rhiannon Burruss, years ago: “I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.”

A gaffe-prone, race-baiting autocrat-appeaser who believes she’s royalty? On second thought, in this administration she’d fit right in.

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as for the joke above...get over it. It's harmless. The real joke is this woman still holds office and the joke is on us.

tschmath Loc: Los Angeles

America doesn't own all the natural disasters in the world? Are you positive? It's all because of that damn Kenyan in the White House, for sure. He's turning us into a third world nation without naming rights to hurricanes. Next he'll be selling the rights. I can see it now, the Pepsi-Budweiser-Microsoft Hurricane. Impeach him now!!!!😄😄