Tommy Pitts as Jesus Christ?
The Lima News: Pitts defers to charter review
Tommy "Larry" Pitts, one of Lima's Three Stooges, took a dive off the deep end Tuesday evening when he actually had the audacity to compare himself to Jesus of Nazareth:
"When you start bucking against what they consider the system you don't get treated too well. I can handle it. I've never taken anything personally. The Lord said this would happen. We all know what they did to Jesus when he walked this Earth."
Is he really comparing Mayor David Berger wanting to move the civil service question from his committee into a different (and more logical) committee with the execution of Jesus? How can any thinking person really believe that a minor disappointment is akin to being tortured and condemned to a slow and agonizing death?
For that matter, does Pitts really think he is bucking the system?
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Still no apology from Glenn
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Derry Glenn once again proved how dishonorable and hypocritically self-serving he really is. One of the many people he offended with his racist comments and "clueless xenophobia" concerning foreigners and Arabs owning stores in his district politely asked for an apology from Glenn at the City Council meeting Monday evening.
Glenn, of course, rudely refused. In fact, he was so rude that City Council President John Nixon had to gavel him quiet and told him, "Have another press conference. You can respond that way." That is a spine I didn't think Nixon actually had.
Then Glenn showed his ignorance on Sunday. I am told that on "Soul of the City," the WIMA-AM radio show to which I no longer listen because hearing Vickie Shurelds' inane and intellectually vapid chitchat is painful, Glenn and Shurelds accused me of doing nothing but sitting on the sidelines and casting stones.
I could list all the community boards and organizations to which I belong, or perhaps the year I spent in the Iraq war or my 23 years of military service to this country, state and community in the Army National Guard, but that is not important. Rather, because Glenn and Shurelds clearly have no idea what it means to live in a free country, let me explain something they obviously didn't learn in whatever government school they attended.
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Derry Glenn: Lima's Archie Bunker
Dear Derry Glenn,
Where is your apology?
On Thursday, you badmouthed local Arabs and other foreigners during one of your silly news conferences and idiotic crusades that only serve to get your name in the newspaper and your face on television. That's OK, because I know you are simply a media hound (and a not so mediagenic one at that) and you love to see yourself on TV and in the newspaper.
Still, where is the apology for your racist comments? Or, perhaps, you think it is OK for a City Councilman, an elected representative of the people, to badmouth Arabs and foreigners. I am guessing because you have yet to apologize for your remarks you think it is appropriate for an elected representative of the people to talk like Archie Bunker from television's All in the Family.
Seriously, Derry, the people of Lima deserve better. If you can't bring yourself to apologize for your racist remarks, then perhaps you should do the honorable thing and resign your seat. Unfortunately, unlike the fictional Mr. Bunker, I don't think you have a shred of honor or you would have never uttered such despicable bigoted remarks against hardworking Arabs and other foreigners. It was even more disgusting coming from someone who claims to want to bring the people of Lima together regardless of race or heritage.
In many episodes of All in the Family, Archie ended up doing the right thing and even sometimes learned a thing or two. I am not going to hold my breath that you are going to learn anything, but the people of Lima do deserve a public apology from you.
How about it, Derry? Where is that apology for your bigoted remarks?
I am betting it never comes.
Why is Derry Glenn such a racist?
Sixth Ward Councilman Derry "Curley" Glenn on Thursday blamed "foreign people" for selling drug paraphernalia in stores in Lima. Before he said that, he specifically blamed "Arabs."
This kind of talk from an elected official is despicable. Glenn owes an apology to all Americans. We all come from immigrant stock. He specifically owes an apology to all our Arab friends who have chosen to make Lima their home and have opened businesses, created jobs and contributed to our economy, which is more than Derry Glenn has ever done, even as a member of City Council for some nine years.
Let the foreigners stay and leave them alone. Glenn, on the other hand, should just go. He is an embarrassment to Lima.
Derry The Stooge At It Again
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One of our stooges is at it again.
This time, our local stooge, Derry "Curley" Glenn, is trying to criminalize free speech by offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the indictment of those responsible for disseminating hate-filled fliers.
Bill White, Roanoke, Va.,'s village idiot and "commander" of the American National Socialist Workers Party, has freely taken responsibility for passing out the hate-filled fliers.
The best thing Glenn could have done was to completely ignore White's ignorant ramblings. White is clearly a moron whose worst crime is butchering the English language with his own unique spelling and grammar rules. White's biggest problem is that his views are so juvenile, vulgar and idiotic that he cannot sell them in the marketplace of ideas so he has to resort to idle threats and the spewing of hate-filled rhetoric that does more harm than good to his cause. It is obvious why the rest of his Nazi/KKK buddies have denounced him as an erratic lunatic on the fringe of the white supremacy movement. How bad do you have to be for fringe hate groups to denounce you as being on the fringe?
However, that being said, this is the United States and White has the God-given natural right to say whatever he wants to say, regardless of how stupid and vulgar it might be. Free speech does not mean only pleasant speech. Freedom is not easy. It means you have to defend the right to spew all speech, even hate-filled speech you find juvenile, vulgar and idiotic.
In the big scheme of things, Glenn's attempt to silence someone's free speech is far more dangerous than some idiot mailing a few racist fliers.
See e-mail White sent to Glenn. (Warning: bad grammar and disturbing language. Note the strangeness of a racist socialist buying and selling property in black neighborhoods. I guess his convictions stop where his pocketbook begins.)
I Wouldn't Want To Visit That Town
Little ol' Lima made The New York Times.
Read the story here.
Happy Civil Rights Day
Happy Civil Rights Day.
Here is a video about a man who is more deserving of a holiday than any other civil rights leader.
In a free society, it is distasteful, to say the least, to name holidays after a specific person. It is certainly more distasteful when that person can be remembered by those who are still alive. Such hero worship should really be tested by the passage of time before evolving into a holiday.
Is it not more prudent to honor the idea of civil rights, for all humans, than to set aside a day named after a single man? After all, there were many civil rights heroes and they all stood on the shoulders of those who came before them.
Either way, civil rights are for everyone, not just a specific race. We should all ardently defend civil rights regardless of who the victim happens to be. After all, the government is increasingly violating the civil rights of all Americans, not just blacks.
Tommy "Larry" Pitts Needs To Go
Tommy "Larry" Pitts, one of Lima's Three Stooges, is without a doubt the biggest baby on the City Council. At a meeting earlier this week, there was a reshuffling of committee positions, a not-so-uncommon occurrence. Upset with the changes, which were agreed upon by everyone except the other two Stooges (Ray "Moe" Magnus and Darry "Curley" Glenn). Pitts got up and left the meeting like a petulant child (Read the full story here.)
This kind of childish behavior is the exact reason why Pitts, a hate-filled racist who thinks every white person is a sheet-wearing member of the Ku Klux Klan, is never taken seriously. His claims of inequitable police treatment of blacks in relation to drug use only became a problem in his eyes when his sons were arrested, and later sent to prison, for drugs.
Pitts does not deserve the seat the voters in his ward gave him. Hopefully, his temper tantrum will lead to his resignation so a serious person can occupy that seat. The ward deserves a representative who has the maturity and intelligence to represent the needs of the whole ward, not just a subset.
Tommy, you took your ball and went home. Please don't come back
The solution to America's racial problems
N-word is not relative
Normally, I like Samuel L. Jackson. He appears to be a very hard-working actor in an industry that rewards sloth and zany antics. However, in an interview with Mean magazine's Eric Spitznagel, Jackson demonstrates that black America is as much to blame -- if not more -- for any racial divide that still exists in this country.
Said Jackson:
I use the word nigger every day, especially when I'm with my friends. We refer to each other that way; it's part of our culture. I grew up with that word, so I understand when they're just using it. ... Quentin Tarantino had a line in Pulp Fiction, "Does this look like dead nigger storage?" I told him, when you say nigger, N-I-G-G-E-R [at this point Jackson shudders and grimaces] it's like fingernails on a blackboard to black people. ... If you say nigga, N-I-G-G-A, it's a word we say all the time. It's a familiar, nonderogative term. But when I was a kid growing up in the South, I remember hearing white people use words like nigra, which is almost like negro. They used that word when they were trying to be proper and inoffensive. But nigra sounds just as bad as saying nigger.What a load of cow manure!
There are so many things wrong with what Jackson said here, but I want to concentrate on two of them, dealing with his last comment first.
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