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Text Box: more than once, to “stack the deck” in congressional elections and in state elections, giving them an advantage over those who are not Negroes and giving rights to Negroes not possessed by non-Negroes. Suppression of individuals and the rights of individuals or groups because of the race of the individuals or groups is immoral. Granting of rights or privileges because of race also is immoral, and equally abhorrent. GAMBIT WEEKLY, the darling publication of the pseudo-sophisticated of New Orleans: In its August 28, 2007, Vol 28, No. 35 issue, shows the true substance of what passes for and perhaps is sophistication - prurient emptiness. The front page is a picture or sketch of a bikini clad torso - roughly shoulders to crotch - breasts hanging out of the bikini top, thumb on left hand pulling down the bikini bottom. The back page is an advertisement for clothing, the model an expressionless and apparently young teenage blond girl wearing a man’s undershirt, no bra, and much too tight corduroy shorts. That establishes what is required to attract the sophisticated reader. Contents are a spattering of rather liberal opinion columns which pass for news articles (REUNION makes no claim to being a newspaper or a journal - its purpose is clearly stated in the banner and in the publication notice), and hundreds of advertisements most of which appeal to those who wish to be thought of as sophisticated and depict individuals in privileged settings - unless they individuals depicted are women who are generally depicted as having fabulous figures, various body parts falling out of their clothing, or covered with clothing which leaves nothing to the imagination. There are endless lists of places to go and things to do and to see, which must be a handy means of advertising without seeming to advertise, or of seeking advertisement. There are also a few “normal” advertisements. Total 120 pages. Very little if any substance. Occasionally Gambit will publish a very timely and appropriate sketch or photo-composite commentary (often satirical) on current events. But most

Text Box: issues seem to be similar to this issue - very shallow and materialistic. Journalistic illogic: Times-Picayune issue July 23, 2007, page B-1, picture caption states “The abandoned apartment building at 3020 Hessemer Ave. is in the middle of total renovation.” Question: If it is abandoned, who is renovating it? Seems like it would be kind of risky to renovate an apartment complex one does not own - if it has been abandoned obviously the owner is not renovating it. Perhaps it is being renovated (from hurricane damage) by the owner and therefore is not abandoned. While we are at it, HEALTHY: If you eat healthy food hopefully you restrict your consumption to plant food. Though sashimi (often mistakenly referred to as sushi - sushi merely means rice; sashimi is raw fish) may be an exception, most humans seem to have an aversion to their food wiggling down their gullet. To be healthy the thing must be alive. Food usually is dead, and therefore is not healthy. Food may be healthful, meaning it contributes to the good health of the consumer and may even assist the consumer in being or becoming healthy. But if your rib-eye or hamburger is healthy, it must be able to make a “mooo” sound. If the turkey breast you are consuming is healthy, you will be picking feathers from between your teeth and gagging on turkey blood. Even savages rarely eat healthy food - they usually kill their food and cook it before eating. Lions, tigers, some bears, sharks, and hunting animals often eat healthy food, but usually during the process of eating their food dies and at that instant is not longer healthy since it is dead. But that food may be healthful. Humans may find healthy food not be be very healthful due to parasites and other organisms which remain alive because the main course was not killed, prepared, and cooked. Jumbo squid pray on California catch, is what the headline stated. Nice to know the squid are converting and becoming evangelicals. Do the squid use one or more of their eight arms for “laying on of hands” or do they restrict this practice to their two

Text Box: tentacles? Nice to know that members of the Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Mollusca, Class Cephalopoda, Order Teuthoidea, Families Loliginidae, Sepiolidae, and Architeuthidae have had a change of heart. Perhaps they could evangelize our politicians - while the politicians are healthy?. Amnesty International, founded by a Roman Catholic, and once a bastion of pro-life action and thought, has adopted a pro-abortion position. It had to adopt because it killed its own offspring. The NEA (teacher’s union / association) is attempting to put itself out of business through two of its main policies. One policy is its support of abortion. The math is simple: kill twenty-five unborn children and the schools can close off one school room. Do this a few times and a school system can get rid of a teacher. Do it a few more times and an entire school can be closed and its teachers dismissed. The other policy is graduating everyone whether or not the graduates have learned anything, combined with use of substandard teaching practices and substandard text books so that the slow learners will not be unduly challenged and will not feel inferior to those students with average and above average learning abilities and desires. This will create a large population which does not value education, and which will be inclined to not demand their offspring (those which are not aborted) attend school or if they do attend, not demand that they learn, thus decreasing the demand for schools and for teachers. +

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