It has been awhile since I have had a chance to write. A lot has happened that I want to comment on. So will start with the old news. Don Imus got what he deserved. It was not the first time he says something of poor taste. I don't have much respect for someone to say outrageous things to get ratings. I say the same about Howard Stern. Since he brings in advertising dollars he can thumb his nose at his critics. This is the capitalist system. But it is also the capitalist system that dumped him. CBS was not acting on moral grounds when it fired him. CBS waited to see what the sponsors would do. When they pulled out, it got rid of Imus. So I don't feel bad for him. I think what he said was worse than what Michael Richard said. Richard said it in the heat of anger to someone giving him a hard time. The Rutgers women were not bothering Imus and he had no reason to insult them. It was a vicious verbal attack on some innocent victims.

Having said good riddane to Imus, I am bothered by the actions of Sharpton and Jackson. Why do we even care what these people say? Jackson called New York "Hymie town" a few years ago and he is still in the lime light today. The Rutgers women don't need these guys defending them. If Imus is a total bigot, getting rid of him still would not help black people at all. There are stiil thousands of bigots out there. Why is it that Sharpton and Jackson don't try to go after the hip hop people who are saying things worse than Imus? Why are they not being called out for using these words? The people with so-called street cred are telling the black kids to never snitch, in other words never cooperate with the police. As a result assaults and murders are almost never solve in black neighborhoods despite witnesses being present in many cases. These types of things are more hurtful to the black community as a whole than what Imus said.

On the previous blog there were 2 questions directed back to me. One was what I thought about Guliani. Well, he is my choice among the Republicans who have announced so far. Which is not saying much. He is already backing down on some of his liberal views to please the conservatives. While he did do a decent job of cleaning up New York and provided leadership during 9/11, he did support the war. Since I think Obama is too inexperience, I would have to say that Guliani is also too inexperience, especially in term of foreign policy. As I said before, I have no favorite in either party right now and will see how things play out.

The other question was what I thought about the new "holistic" admission policy of UCLA. Well I don't really have to comment. The facts speak for themselves. With this admission process, blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans increased their number of admission this year. White admission, amazingly enough, stayed the same. The only group that saw its admission decreased was Asians. First of all to believe that the readers of the application cannot tell the race of the applicant most of the time is nonsense. To believe that in taking into accout hardships, Asians actually did worse than whites is unbelievable. There are a lot more Asians who are from immigrant families with non-English speaking parents than whites. So to think that whites did not lose spots while Asians did---I don't need to comment further. I will place a bet on this. In four years the number of Asian graduates in engineering, computer science, chemistry and math from this class will not be less than previous classes. I don't think the "holistic" admits will take any of those places from Asians.

It is still 10 months before the first primaries and the campaign is already well underway. I have no favorite at this time and probably won't have for a long time. One person I don't think I can vote for is John McCain. He was my favorite in 2000 and I thought he was a victim of dirty politics from the supporters of Bush then. I still consider him an American hero for what he went through during Vietnam and all the work he did for bipartisanship. But I think he is not thinking clearly anymore. Maybe it is his age (70), although he still seems very vigorous. It is not just his kissing up to the conservatives, I understand his need to get support for the nomination. It is not just his idea of sending massive number of troops to Iraq, I have written in the past that it may be a sound political strategy, if not a good military one. It is his recent trip to Iraq that has made me feel that he may have gone over the edge.

He went to Baghdad to try to show that the surge is working and that the city is safer. After touring through Baghdad, he claimed that he felt safe to walk the street there. Of course he was wearing a bullet-proof jacket and was escorted by soldiers. There were snipers on roofs and helicopters overhead to protect him. He rode in an armored hummer. Those are not the advantages offered to the average Iraqi. McCain's proclamation that the city is safe now is similar to all those claims made by Cheney and Rumsfeld. If McCain credibility is similar to those two, how can he be consider a viable candidate?