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    • Having trouble saying the magic words, "I'm sorry"? Put the Sorry Times to work for you!

      President Acting Stupidly can't quite bring himself to apologize to Sgt. Crowley and the Cambridge Police for saying they "acted stupidly", but fortunately he has the NY Times on his side to pretend he did.

      Here is the Times story, which specifically notes the non-apology:
      He did not apologize but softened his language. “I continue to believe, based on what I have heard, that there was an overreaction in pulling Professor Gates out of his home to the station,” he said. “I also continue to believe, based on what I heard, that Professor Gates probably overreacted as well.”

    • Statement from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

      "It was very kind of the President to phone me today. Vernon Jordan is absolutely correct: my unfortunate experience will only have a larger meaning if we can all use this to diminish racial profiling and to enhance fairness and equity in the criminal justice system for poor people and for people of color.

      And to that end, I look forward to studying the history of racial profiling in a new documentary for PBS. I told the President that my principal regret was that all of the attention paid to his deeply supportive remarks during his press conference had distracted attention from his health care initiative. I am pleased that he, too, is eager to use my experience as a teaching moment, and if meeting Sgt. [James] Crowley for a beer with the President will further that end, then I would be happy to oblige.

    • In 2005, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., known to all as "Skip," set up the nonprofit Inkwell Foundation, named after a famous beach/gathering place for African-Americans on Martha's Vineyard.
      Public records indicate that the charity, domiciled in Gates's Cambridge home, has been dormant since its inception. Jill Butterworth, a spokeswoman for the state Attorney General's Office, says Inkwell has never filed the required, annual form PC, for public charities. "They are currently not in compliance," Butterworth said. "It's possible they are inactive or have dissolved. We are checking into it." Gates declined to comment.
    • Henry Louis Gates, Jr controls a tax-exempt, non-profit charity, Inkwell Foundation, Inc, that managed to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in direct support in one year, yet only gave out $27,500 in grants, the bulk of which went to Gates' employees and Harvard colleagues. Also, as recently as September 2008, the Boston Globe reported that Gates' charity was not in compliance with the law for failing to register the proper paperwork, despite the charity existing since 2005. The charge at the time was that it was "bogus," as you'll see below. In fact, the state Attorney General's office told the Globe the charity was likely either inactive, or dissolved. Yet, documents below show the charity is healthy, wealthy and active.

      Is it possible that Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was acting strange when law enforcement showed up at his door because he didn't want the story below to come out? It may take a tax lawyer to answer that question, but based on this research, it can't be ruled out.

  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day

    Day By Day by Chris Muir July 25, 2009 What O Lernt as a Yute

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Americans are certainly NOT going to buy Obama’s crawl back about the arrest of the Harvard African-American scholar. This is an issue in which the President of the United States has NO business meddling.

    Obviously, Obama is receiving pressure from somebody because prolonging this flap is not in Obama’s best political interest.

    Now, watch the Obama supporting media. The stories about Bush, Cheney, and Sarah Palin will accelerate as they try to bury this racial charged issue.

    But, Obama has been harmed and will continue dropping in the polls – even as Obama arranges a “peace meeting” between the warring parties at the White House.

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    In blogging matters, Flap is in San Francisco for a Saturday wedding this afternoon. Blogging will be somehat lighter for the weekend but follow me on Twitter ———>

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