The New York Times: Can Diversity Survive Without Affirmative Action?

Source:The New York Times at the University of California Berkeley.

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“The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon in a case involving the University of Texas on the use of race and ethnicity in college and university admissions nationwide. California, Florida, Michigan and Washington have already outlawed affirmative action in admissions decisions.

If a conservative Supreme Court curtails the ability of universities to use race in admissions, could there still be a liberal result with greater emphasis on economic disadvantage in admissions, more financial aid for low-income students, better outreach and reduced emphasis on legacy preferences?”

From The New York Times

With all due to respect to The New York Times: I don’t think this is the right question. I don’t think this should be a choice, I don’t think we should be looking for a diverse society, or a just society.

To be a true, liberal democracy, free society, we have to be a just society. And in a country that’s as diverse as we are, not just racially, ethnically, culturally, religiously, politically, we have to be a just society.

In a just society, everyone is entitled to a fair shot at achieving their own freedom and everyone is treated equally under law. Not rewarded or punished, simply because of their race, ethnicity, gender, religion, culture, sexuality. But we’re all treated equally under law. And rewarded based on what we contribute to society, what we do for ourselves. But also justly held accountable for our bad behavior.

ABC Sports: FBS 1984-Sugar Bowl-Nebraska Cornhuskers @ Louisiana Tigers: Full Game

Source:ABC Sports 1985 Sugar Bowl intro.

Source:The Daily Journal

“This video is a telecast, broadcast, and production of ABC. I claim no ownership of this material, and do not profit from it in any way. This video is intended for historical and educational viewing purposes.”

From BM Boldt

An interesting matchup for a Sugar Bowl, because you have a power football oriented Big 12 football team in the Nebraska Cornhuskers, on both sides of the ball, where they probably ran the ball seventy to eighty percent of the time, including their quarterback, with a big strong offensive line as well and big and strong on defense.

The Cornhuskers essentially playing a spread offense Louisiana Tigers team, that spread the defense out with three receivers or more, looking for one on one mismatch advantages that they could take advantage of, with their speed receivers and running backs and throwing the ball quickly.

So in a matchup like that where both teams move the ball very well and score a lot of points, but does it differently, it is the defense that plays the best and adjust the best that generally wins the game.

Janet Jackson: The Pleasure Principle

Source:Janet Jackson's The Pleasure Principle official video from 1986.

Source:The Daily Journal

“Music video by Janet Jackson performing The Pleasure Principle.”

From Janet Jackson

To be completely honest with you: if you were to judge The Pleasure Principle as just a song and listened to Janet Jackson just sing the song standing in front of a microphone and without the dancing, we are not talking about a very good song.

I’m a Janet fan, but the song itself is not that great and maybe that is just part of the era that it came from which is the 1980s, which wasn’t a very good decade for American music rhythm and blues, or anything else. And I think this song is somewhat cheesy compared with the 1990s which was great decade for American music.

I’ve seen this video and heard this song countless times and I’m still not sure what this is about. But if you judge the song by just the video, this is a great video, song or no song. The music to the lyrics are very good and you throw in Janet herself and I don’t know if there is a better singer/dancer than Janet Jackson. Easily one of the best musical dancers of all-time and one of the sexiest as well if not the best of all-time.

Janet is a very attractive beautiful baby-face woman with a great body. Who almost thirty-years later after this song came out, she hasn’t lost a thing anywhere. And if anything she is a better entertainer now than she was in 1986.

Chuck Collins: George McGovern 1972- The People’s Campaign

Source:Chuck Collins with a 1972 George McGovern for President ad.

Source:FreeState MD

“This is about the truth of it, sadly. Yet even knowing all that, we re-elected him in a landslide. What does that say about us?”

From Chuck Collins

Just because Senator McGovern didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning the 1972 presidential election because of how popular President Nixon was then and with his foreign policy success. Including ending the Vietnam War and opening Russia and China.

And with the state of the Democratic Party thanks to the emergence of the New-Left in it that became todays Green Party and Occupy Wall Street movement. It was as if what Democrats were saying with George McGovern:“We’re not going to win anyway. So we might as well nominate our heart and go down big, but swinging.”

Just because you probably aren’t going to win an election, it doesn’t mean you have to prove to the wold how unqualified you are to not just govern a huge divided country, but to even win the presidency. And go out-of-your-way to do what you can to make that happen for yourself. And not run the best campaign that you can. Otherwise you might as well not have bothered running for president in the first place. And stay in the Senate and continue be part of the loyal opposition in Congress instead.

But what happened with the McGovern Campaign is that they never gave themselves much of an opportunity to win this election. And neither did the Democratic Party with the division between the Center-Left and Far-Left in the party.

I have a lot of respect for how George McGovern as far as how he managed his life and career. He truly was a public servant and a people’s politician and always believed in doing what was in the public’s interest. Also as far as what he accomplished politically and moving the Democratic Party from being dependent on racists anti-minority Dixiecrats to win presidential elections. By bringing in ethnic and racial minorities, as well as women and men. And making the Democratic Party very competitive in the North.

But the McGovern presidential campaign represents what can happen to the Democratic Party when their leadership is weak. And they don’t have a strong Center-Left establishment. And as a result they become divided and their Far-Left takes over. And they nominate George McGovern as their leader in 1972.

Carl Milton: FBS 1988-Tennessee Volunteers @ Georgia Bulldogs: Full Game

Source:Carl Milton with the 1988 Volunteers-Bulldogs game.

Source:The Daily Journal

“Rodney Hampton and the Georgia Bulldogs defeat the Tennessee Volunteers 28-17 at Sanford Stadium in the season opener for both teams. I do not own the rights to this video and do not profit in any way.”

From Carl Milton

One of the better rivalries in the SEC Tennessee-Georgia. Even though both teams arch-rival plays in Florida and perhaps you know the same of the school. Also two of the best and traditionally two of the best football programs in the SEC. Seems every year the last twenty-years or so either Georgia, Florida or Tennessee has won the SEC East and gone on to play in one of the BCS bowl games. And in Tennessee’s and Florida’s case have won national championships. Something Georgia is still trying to win again for the first time since 1980.

So these are not only two of the best football programs in the SEC, but also perhaps the two best schools in the SEC. Whether you have to be a real student and do the work as a student to play there. So this is always a great matchup when these two teams play each other.

Vice President Hubert Humphrey: 1968 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Speech

Source:CSPAN- Vice President Humbert H. Humphrey (Democrat, Minnesota) accepting the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination, in Chicago, Illinois.

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“Here is Vice President Humphrey’s acceptance speech from that turbulent and wild convention in August 1968.

He was very much the establishment candidate in ’68, and was the favorite through the race after President Johnson quit. He might not have been the most popular choice in ’68 but he did come close to winning, which might have been the closest anyone could have come that year, but it depends on which history expert you ask. Humphrey does seem like a nice guy however.” 

From EFAN 2011

Hubert Humphrey, didn’t lose the 1968 presidential election because he was a bad candidate or ran a bad campaign or wasn’t qualified to be President of the United States. The opposites are true and even though as it turns out 1968 was his best shot at being elected President of the United States, something he had been thinking about at least since 1957 after Dwight Eisenhower was reelected President in a landslide. Vice President Humphrey was caught in a perfect political storm for both the Democratic Party because of how much damaged it did to the party that lasted at least until 1976 and came back again in 1980 the same political divisions that reemerged again in the late 1970s.

But it was also a perfect political storm for the Republican Party because it not only brought them back to power with Richard Nixon, but made them a real competitive conservative national party again. Where the Republican Party represented the center-right in the country. And the Democratic Party now representing the center-left in the country.

1964 and 1968, even though only one of those elections resulted in short-term success and if you count 1966 and that would be two elections for the Republican Party which they won made them a conservative, national, competitive, party, that would fight communism and other authoritarianism. That would promote economic freedom and business and be a fiscally conservative party. These were the positive aspects of the GOP merging with the South.

What these elections did to the Democratic Party, was create chaos for them. Because it meant they could no longer count on the South for votes and to win elections with them. Plus, they had this emerging young more social-democratic, anti-military New-Left, coming into the party. That pushed the Democratic Party to the Far-Left on many national issues through the 1970s and even into the 1980s. Which they didn’t recover from until 1992 when the Democrats nominated Bill Clinton for president and of course he wins that election and Democrats keep control of Congress as well. But what 1968 along with 66 and even 64 did, was realign both the Republican Party and Democratic Party.

Alena Daydream: ‘Mariah Carey-Happy Birthday To You’

Source:Alena Daydream- R&B Goddess Mariah Carey singing Happy Birthday, to The Greatest of All Time, Muhammad Ali.

Source:The Daily Journal

“Mariah Carey-Happy Birthday To You”

From Alena Daydream

I’m going to be real blunt here and say that Muhammad Ali’s rocket took off to the moon once Mariah not only came on the stage, but as she approached Muhammad. His rocket then took off to another galaxy. I could put it more direct than that, but I think you get the idea.

I mean seeing Mariah live is not a birthday present, but a lifetime of birthday presents and may prevent Muhammad from developing Alzheimer’s . Because he’ll never forget this performance. She’s the goddess of my generation I believe at least in the music industry. A hot, baby-face, adorable goddess with a body of a goddess and she knows all of these things and uses them os well. And oh by the way, the best singer in the business at least when it comes to her voice post-Whitney Houston and Frank Sinatra