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if Louis Farrakhan was President of his own country? Read this.

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Monday told white farmers, defying orders to hand over their land, that he stands by an August deadline for them to clear out and pave the way for his black resettlement land reforms.

“We, the principled people of Zimbabwe, we, the true owners of this land, shall not budge. We shall not be deterred on this one vital issue, the land. The land is ours,” Mugabe told more than 15,000 supporters.

Read the whole thing.

Ever Wonder What It WouldPost + Comments

DARE is a failure, and the link above goes into painful detail.

I have known for years that DARE was a complete failure, and it is my opinion that they may actually do more harm than good. When I was a kid, receiving my DARE indoctrination, the shameless authorities had the nerve to equate smoking a joint with the cocaine overdose of the star Maryland basketball player Len Bias. In short, they told us that all drugs were equally bad- that smoking a drug was just as bad as shooting up- cuz all drugs will kill you.

It takes exactly one high school student and one joint to competely destroy that myth and completely erase any authority the DARE officials might have had on drug usage and the dangers associated with it. I should know. I was the high school kid with the joint. I smoked one, didn’t jump off a building, murder my family, or drop dead. In fact, it felt good. I smoked on again and off again for about 3 years until I entered the military. Marijuana 1, Police Scare Tactics 0.

I am not the only person to have this experience. Millions of other children have smoked pot in their lives, not dropped dead, and tragically, because they now no longer believe a damned thing the police say, they may try harder drugs. And that is how DARE does more damage than good. Cut the funding now, and spend it on something more useful- like Mohair Subsidies.

DARE to Face the TRUTHPost + Comments

After either ignoring the dramatic increases in the DOW the last three days (8%, roughly 800 points), or doing everything they could to portray the gains as negatively as possible, the NY Times has this headline on the front page:

Stocks Struggle After 3 Days of Strong Rallies

I am simply numb with disbelief. They downplay enormous gains for three days, and then, on a day when the DOW has either been only down 50 pts or up 50 pts (current status, up 33 pts), the NY Times labels run of the mill activity as STRUGGLING?

Let’s go through this again. When the market gains, say nothing or lie. When it stays close to the open or declines, have BIG, GLARING HEADLINES with the words ‘sharp,’ or ‘struggle,’ or ‘sell-off.’

The gray lady is a joke. These people are nothing more than partisan hacks.

New York Times Financial Watch,Post + Comments