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Actor and Political Activist Rosario Dawson on how she used her fame and fortune.

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  • Posted By: texana ana @ 10/21/2008 7:27:02 PM

    When in Texas, Rosario keeps talking about how she grew up/spent time in Garland (outside Dallas.) Guess it adds to her "street cred" to talk about growing up in NYC in every other sentence in this article and how rough she had it.....whatever!

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/12/2008 8:34:26 PM

    THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CANDIDATE!

    NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY HAS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BEEN GIVEN SUCH A FREE PASS BY THE PRESS AND JUST ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE!

    I AM WAITING FOR A BLACK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO MAKE IT ON HIS OWN MERIT.

    COLIN POWELL COMES TO MIND!

    • Posted By: cjustice2k @ 10/21/2008 12:46:12 AM

      what a shocker! white folk talking about how black people have to prove something to satisfy their bar of excellence. puh-leez! all of this racist talk by krohn... so sad! the truth is a black candidate will always have something to prove to you. if only you held the white candidates and past presidents to the same standard. if you had, this country wouldn't be stuck with a loser like george bush. but obama is black so he has to tap dance for you. and to my knowledge, barack obama was never a beneficiary of affirmative action. white folks say that to minimize the accomplishments of intelligent black men and women. african-american persons clearly are too dumb (if i listen to you) to rise on their own merits. just be honest, krohn. you have issues with obama simply because he happens to be black. that is what i heard when i read your ridiculous post. you are entitled to your opinion; however, i am sick of hearing white folk talk about obama like he has to jump through hoops to reach your impossible standards just because of his race, but you continue to vote for white men who lack something as fundamental as character.
      the days of blacks jumping for the white racist are over. with or without you, we are moving in a positive direction. this country is unified for the 1st time ever. no thanks to you; just in spite of you.

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/16/2008 1:03:27 PM

    Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!!


    Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.

    The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
    Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."

    Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.

    Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.

    Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.

    Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.

    It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.

    Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}

    Capitalism is the only social system that rewards virtue and punishes vice. This applies to both the business executive and the carpenter, the lawyer and the factory worker.

  • Posted By: gigispen @ 10/10/2008 8:23:00 PM

    What an awesome young lady. We need to replicate that 300,000,000 times.

  • Posted By: 1_seeker @ 10/09/2008 11:03:34 PM

    How do you go about contacting Ms. Dawson for help in promoting real solutions to the problems she described?

  • Posted By: JewelMarie @ 10/09/2008 9:03:29 PM

    Wow, that was a nice read. Why can't all magazines do encouraging interviews like this? I'm always saying how pretty Rosario is but now I will say she is kind as well. and that is what makes her beautiful.

    "If we all listened to that little voice and we all worked to help that little thing that we know, then the whole world would be a different place, and we all would be doing our part."

  • Posted By: MartyMar13 @ 10/09/2008 8:02:15 PM

    Krohn, you sound very desperate and pathetic with your various comments. It must feel horrible how your candidate is going down by the head and there are no lifejackets to grab on to. Face the inevitable that your party's "party" is over. Barrack Obama is the new face of America and where it's going. If you feel left out don't despair, maybe you can invent a time machine and go back to 1930's Germany. I'm sure you would be more than comfortable there...don't forget the extra seat for Sarah, I hear they had an issue with books back then too.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/09/2008 7:27:05 PM

    They harassed her until she registered to vote six times!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3145562&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/08/2008 11:33:14 PM

    "Not all Democrats agree with Mr. Frank that such policies are off-limits to criticism. Last week Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama said in a statement: 'Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie and Freddie. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership, when in retrospect, I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong.'

    "Mr. Davis is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus."

    'Rank snobbery'

    Camille Paglia, who supports Sen. Barack Obama, has nothing but scorn for the way the media has treated Sarah Palin.

    "The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy jackasses," Miss Paglia writes at www.salon.com.

    "The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these alleged humanitarians stank up the place. As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor? Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality."

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/06/2008 5:53:44 PM

    The Antichrist!:
    When George Soros failed to obtain the election of his candidate, John Kerry, in 2004, he brooded for a while, even said he might get out of politics altogether, but he just couldn???t stop himself. He has stated publicly that he wishes to burst the ???bubble of American supremacy,??? because he says our preeminence in the world is a detriment to global ???equilibrium.??? So far, he has failed, but he keeps on trying.

    And Mr. Soros has made no secret either of the fact that he sees the shortest way to effect political shake-ups, what he terms ???regime changes,??? is through very difficult economic conditions.

    America has not yet felt the full force of Soros style economic shock treatment. But others have.

    Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England. He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically in comparative worth almost overnight.

    When the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 threatened to spread globally, George Soros was right in the thick of it. Soros was accused by the Malaysian Prime Minister of causing the collapse with his monetary machinations, and he was branded in Thailand as an ???economic war criminal??? who ???sucks the blood from the people.??? Right in the middle of this crisis, Soros dashed off his book, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, which demanded a ???third way??? toward economic stability.

    Wake up, America, before it is too late!!!!

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/05/2008 8:18:26 PM

    he ACORN does not fall from the tree:
    http://justsaynodeal.com/acorn.html

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/05/2008 12:48:32 AM

    This is one of the few Democrats that I am proud of!:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR5ekEuGyvk

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