The Ultimate Sailer Strategy

The Sailer Strategy is meant for the Republican Party to get as many white voters as possible, which would mean that it would rule America indefinitely (the Conservatives used this strategy in Canada last year--only they blew off French-speaking Quebeckers to focus only on English speakers).

It’s obvious to me that the GOP is already prepping for the 2016 election with stuff like this:

·         Sarah Palin’s labeling of any blacks who questions America’s past as unpatriotic

·         Michele Bachmann’s moronic claim that blacks were better off during slavery times when she was one of the frontrunners last summer

·         During the primary, Newt Gingrich using code words like “food stamp president” and Rick Santorum “notoriously promised a crowd in Iowa that under his presidency hard-working (presumably white) taxpayers wouldn’t have to pay for nutritional assistance for do-nothing blacks.”

The party has already given up on blacks so it may go for broke by taking an even harder line on immigration—completely blowing off the Hispanic vote.

The endgame could actually be about demographics rather than building a long lasting majority. Harsh immigration policies would only be the beginning (voter ID laws that discourage young people from voting, anyone?). The GOP’s social wing would be in total control, and it would target contraception next. From birth control all of a sudden being turned into a “religious freedom” issue to some states imposing restrictions on the morning after pill over half a decade ago, social conservatives want to move the line to make it nearly impossible to use contraception without it being tied to abortion. Speaking of voter ID laws, that move is all about the Republicans writing off an entire generation of voters and relying on aging Baby Boomers and members of the Silent Generation simply because they have way more people than Millennials. The move is nothing more than generational apartheid—same old tired ideas being shoved down our throats even when they are clearly outdated.

The ultimate end: Whites retain a majority in 2050 because Hispanics are given major hurdles to citizenship and birth control becomes extremely difficult to access—increasing the white birth rate (i.e., Pat Buchanan’s dream).

The lack of originality from Hollywood

Over the last decade, it has been hard for anyone to not notice that the entertainment industry has gotten just plain lazy. TV producers have decided to put on as much "reality" shows on the tube as possible with the adverse effect being that any original programing that fails to reach the network's (think of the big broadcast networks) arbitrary benchmark gets canceled at the first chance while crappy reality shows stay on for time indefinite (as long as it's the right kind of crappy).

In the arena of movies, the creative deficit has been resulted in sequels, prequels, remakes, and countless adaptations of books and comics getting green lit all the time. At first, I thought that it was based on Baby Boomer nostalgia, but that was until I more or less found out that Generation X was making its mark in Hollywood. So, my mindset went to thinking that it had to be Gen-X nostalgia from older Xers. However, as the years have passed, the lack of original movies is based on nothing more than the Hollywood studios being risk-averse--i.e., lazy. They are so afraid to lose money that they only go with safe bets. This assessment was confirmed on the "2 Guys Named Chris" show yesterday morning when Deidre told film critic Mark Burger about how her friend wants to get into the film business. The friend told Deidre that Hollywood gets original ideas all the time but that the studios want to only go with the givens (all of this was confirmed by Burger).

We have become our parents

That is the only logical conclusion that can be reached for those of us born between 1965 and 1985. Like our parents before us, we bemoan the lack of "good music" today--rap continues to decline, rock hardly feels less irrelevant, country music is what it is, other genres come and go fadwise, and I won't even mention pop.

Back in the day--'80s and '90s for you youngsters--we mocked or laughed at our parents when they talked about music from "the good old days" being better than our kind of music.

Now, the shoe's on the other foot as the music on the radio sounds all the same and most TV networks have shunned music for reality shows and reruns of old television shows. This has taken place with seemingly no end in sight.

Back to the NCAA tourney

The Wolfpack are going dancing for the first time since 2006--Herb Sendek's final season in Raleigh. As it turned out, we were the last name to be announced...talk about cutting it close.

This is the second time in the at-large era that a first-year NC State coach has been able to get the Pack into the NCAAs. Mark Gottfried is the first on to do it since Les Robinson got Jim Valvano's leftovers in 1991 to the Round of 32.

It would have been significantly better if those crooked refs hadn't decided to play the judge, jury, and executioner roles in yesterday's game.

Anyways, this is a checklist for Wolfpack Nation:
1. Return to the NCAA Tournament. Check
2. Return to being a Top 25 team with consistency
3. Win an 11th ACC Tournament title. It's coming next year--a year late
4. Consistently compete for and win regular season and conference titles
5. Be a consistent Sweet 16/Elite Eight team
6. Be ranked #1 in the polls
7. Return to being a Final Four caliber team
8. Win another national championship (among many, that is)

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Clark talks Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan and his own tax policy idea

Clark talks Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan and his own tax policy idea