Sabrina Fulton and Tracey Martin should sue Florida officials for desecrating the body of their
son. If these officials made no attempt to contact parents or next of kin for Trayvon, they had no
right to order tests on his body. He had not been charged, even posthumously, with anything.
Hollister, the name brand clothiers, should sue. How dare anyone suggest their products are suspicious in the rain!
Skittles should sue. Nothing about Skittles is suspicious.
The housing complex Trayvon was visiting should sue.
Does that complex have a neighborhood watch the killer could rightfully represent? If not, that community now has uninvited notoriety.
The state of Florida needs to prosecute many things, ,the least of which would be that this killer
may have contributed to, and even set up what he has described as a delinquency in this child.
He claims he stalked the young person; then minutes later he says the young man followed him. He accosted someones child then, which led the child to follow him. Why would he provoke a child to do that; except of course that he is obviously making these things up as he goes along.
If the eyewitness testimony is true (And why would they lie?) this killer also desecrated Trayvon's body once he had completed the killing.
The witnesses say they saw this murderer stand with his feet on either side of the child, while the child lay face down, the killer pushing on the child's back in motions which would have pushed all the air out of the young man's lungs, at the least. Why is a grown man straddling a child in any circumstance?
Sounds as much like perversion as anything could to my ear.
If these eyewitnesses saw what they saw, the killer in question is lethal in any community.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Point Of Law
I don't need to be a lawyer to be able to help Mr. Norm Wolfinger, Florida state prosecutor in the 18th Judicial court system, understand a point of law about evidence.
An unarmed, under aged person whose lifeless body is found dead with a visible gunshot wound,
is evidence. As a matter of fact sir, that person's body is a preponderance of evidence.
An unarmed, under aged person whose lifeless body is found dead with a visible gunshot wound,
is evidence. As a matter of fact sir, that person's body is a preponderance of evidence.
Congratulations
The whole country owes Chris Serino, the original detective in Trayvon Martin's case in Florida, a hearty congratulations. Maybe now the entire world does not have to think, and will not have to think America is insane. This detective did investigate, and apparently was overruled by his bosses when
he sought to bring charges against Trayvon's killer.
I cannot begin to imagine how awful it must be for people of character right now in Sanford, Florida. How terrible it must be there now, for a principled man to do his job.
Here is a man who did his job from the beginning. So heartening.
he sought to bring charges against Trayvon's killer.
I cannot begin to imagine how awful it must be for people of character right now in Sanford, Florida. How terrible it must be there now, for a principled man to do his job.
Here is a man who did his job from the beginning. So heartening.
The Cabin Is Getting Full
One enlightening thing about peering into the Sanford, Florida lack of investigation of
Trayvon Martin's murder is that we are finding how small Uncle Tom's Cabin has become.
It nearly filled to overflowing during the Bush administrations of 2000, and 2004. Those
attempting to crowd in at the start of the millennium were so proud to be getting in there.
Now that a young unarmed teenager has been gunned down in the south, we have seen so many
more wanting a place in the cabin. It must be that way all over our country, people everywhere,
desperate to get a place in one of those rooms.
Someone is going to have to write a sequel...Uncle Tom's Two Story Colonial. Not all black people
in our country have our North American African ancestry. Yet, they seem anxious to get into the
cabin as well.
Trayvon Martin's murder is that we are finding how small Uncle Tom's Cabin has become.
It nearly filled to overflowing during the Bush administrations of 2000, and 2004. Those
attempting to crowd in at the start of the millennium were so proud to be getting in there.
Now that a young unarmed teenager has been gunned down in the south, we have seen so many
more wanting a place in the cabin. It must be that way all over our country, people everywhere,
desperate to get a place in one of those rooms.
Someone is going to have to write a sequel...Uncle Tom's Two Story Colonial. Not all black people
in our country have our North American African ancestry. Yet, they seem anxious to get into the
cabin as well.
You Are Gonna Die
Be male.
Be a teenager.
Write graffiti.
Wear hoodies.
Have empty baggies.
Try to avoid strangers.
Don't try to control every one's stated or assumed perceptions.
Try to disarm accosting gunmen.
OK then, now you have to be gunned down in the streets.
(Well, maybe not if you're a white teenager, aye?)
Be a teenager.
Write graffiti.
Wear hoodies.
Have empty baggies.
Try to avoid strangers.
Don't try to control every one's stated or assumed perceptions.
Try to disarm accosting gunmen.
OK then, now you have to be gunned down in the streets.
(Well, maybe not if you're a white teenager, aye?)
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Thank you!
Our government already mandates purchasing.
Medicare payments were mandated in my paychecks. Was I the only one?!
Governments, as well, do mandate broccoli, or broccoli-like nutrient, depending upon how extensive
a hunger strike may be.
Thanks again. Let settled law rule today. Health care needs this one.
Our government already mandates purchasing.
Medicare payments were mandated in my paychecks. Was I the only one?!
Governments, as well, do mandate broccoli, or broccoli-like nutrient, depending upon how extensive
a hunger strike may be.
Thanks again. Let settled law rule today. Health care needs this one.
Mrs. Ada Sharpton
We appreciate you for raising such a family. So many people in this world owe you a debt we
must acknowledge as often as becomes possible, because we certainly won't ever be able to
repay you. I am certain you'd be proud to know Rev. Al Sharpton and his brother are reportedly
giving each other a lot of cover at this difficult time.
must acknowledge as often as becomes possible, because we certainly won't ever be able to
repay you. I am certain you'd be proud to know Rev. Al Sharpton and his brother are reportedly
giving each other a lot of cover at this difficult time.
Death And Taxes
OK, but right away, I think Judge Alito should know none of us will be buried or cremated
more than once. His question about burial mandates was superfluous.
Besides, burial is not a problem for the dead. It is a problem for the rest of us.
Health is a problem for all the living. Health care has to be hearty enough in itself to be there for
virtually everyone, especially in case there are epidemics, or other plagues like AIDS.
more than once. His question about burial mandates was superfluous.
Besides, burial is not a problem for the dead. It is a problem for the rest of us.
Health is a problem for all the living. Health care has to be hearty enough in itself to be there for
virtually everyone, especially in case there are epidemics, or other plagues like AIDS.
Affordable Care Act
The 'court' is oh so bogus.
If they throw out this law because Congress has never done anything like this before, then we
need to begin again.
What a crock.
Corporations are people; but governments are not people? What a crock. What a colossal
waste of the real peoples' money. Does this backward court realize that we already have so many
individual mandates in this country they are a way of life?
Are they going to strike them all down? States can push them on us but the central government can't?
Do they know that Blue Cross Blue Shield engages in interstate commerce, and so can be regulated by the government; and that therefore all their competitors engage in what Blue Cross
does?
Massachusetts is also a government. Is their health care dead as well?
We need to go back to the public option. We need to get it done this time.
Bump this court.
If they throw out this law because Congress has never done anything like this before, then we
need to begin again.
What a crock.
Corporations are people; but governments are not people? What a crock. What a colossal
waste of the real peoples' money. Does this backward court realize that we already have so many
individual mandates in this country they are a way of life?
Are they going to strike them all down? States can push them on us but the central government can't?
Do they know that Blue Cross Blue Shield engages in interstate commerce, and so can be regulated by the government; and that therefore all their competitors engage in what Blue Cross
does?
Massachusetts is also a government. Is their health care dead as well?
We need to go back to the public option. We need to get it done this time.
Bump this court.
Monday, March 26, 2012
War Trauma- Fatigue
Do we know enough about this disease? Well, this is a disease I named myself.
My dad got home from the war around 1945 or '46.
My parents would never say exactly when. We were all born between 1947 and 1952.
As we were growing up, my dad often seemed removed, especially if anything unpleasant
was happening.
If we tried to enlist him on our side for any sort of protection or bolstering, he'd become
prickly.
At times during our childhood, when something particularly awful was happening, friends would ask, "Is your dad alive?" There were five of us who were periodically asked this question. At least my
sibs related to me they got this question about as often as I did.
Then, when he turned eighty, he began to behave as though he needed to straighten out his
re-entry into regular society.
He finally told me about what happened the night he came home from Europe ( Germany and England) and the disagreement he had had with my mother and her mother, my grandma. It seemed he'd suddenly awakened.
I wasn't born when dad got back from Europe. I had to reassure him, "Of course mamma loved
you. She did all that was in her power for fifty-nine years to make things nice and fun for you two to be together."
He seemed calmed by that, yet still wanted to get into therapy. I had to make a thirty mile round trip for this therapy, and sit in the waiting room, while the sessions were in progress. It was the least I
could do after the ten years he drove me back and forth to piano lessons and waited those many interminable half hours reading waiting room magazines- even during times he was working two jobs. I did not miss lessons.
But because I had so many other responsibilities at home, and at several foster homes for one of my sibling's children, this was a hefty weekly addition to the life and times of a working woman. By then
thankfully, I at least was not still working two or more jobs myself.
I didn't breathe a word about being busy to him. I cheerfully encouraged him to continue his therapy.
Then one day he was satisfied. Everything was OK.
I pressed him to reassure me he was feeling better. I told him we needed to go back if he began
to have misgivings, because according to his own admissions, he'd been losing sleep.
My mom had been dead for at least two years. He wasn't so happy that his children had since
descended on him to be sure he didn't become too despondent. All we actually did was give him something else to droop about. We were such a pain, running in and out.
Then he began to tell me more about his army travels. And he told his granddaughter things he had never told us about how he grew up in the 30's and 40's.
Finally, he did seem at peace with things.
It took him fifty years.
We lost him a few years later, so I am glad for the tiny bit of peace I may have helped him find.
My dad got home from the war around 1945 or '46.
My parents would never say exactly when. We were all born between 1947 and 1952.
As we were growing up, my dad often seemed removed, especially if anything unpleasant
was happening.
If we tried to enlist him on our side for any sort of protection or bolstering, he'd become
prickly.
At times during our childhood, when something particularly awful was happening, friends would ask, "Is your dad alive?" There were five of us who were periodically asked this question. At least my
sibs related to me they got this question about as often as I did.
Then, when he turned eighty, he began to behave as though he needed to straighten out his
re-entry into regular society.
He finally told me about what happened the night he came home from Europe ( Germany and England) and the disagreement he had had with my mother and her mother, my grandma. It seemed he'd suddenly awakened.
I wasn't born when dad got back from Europe. I had to reassure him, "Of course mamma loved
you. She did all that was in her power for fifty-nine years to make things nice and fun for you two to be together."
He seemed calmed by that, yet still wanted to get into therapy. I had to make a thirty mile round trip for this therapy, and sit in the waiting room, while the sessions were in progress. It was the least I
could do after the ten years he drove me back and forth to piano lessons and waited those many interminable half hours reading waiting room magazines- even during times he was working two jobs. I did not miss lessons.
But because I had so many other responsibilities at home, and at several foster homes for one of my sibling's children, this was a hefty weekly addition to the life and times of a working woman. By then
thankfully, I at least was not still working two or more jobs myself.
I didn't breathe a word about being busy to him. I cheerfully encouraged him to continue his therapy.
Then one day he was satisfied. Everything was OK.
I pressed him to reassure me he was feeling better. I told him we needed to go back if he began
to have misgivings, because according to his own admissions, he'd been losing sleep.
My mom had been dead for at least two years. He wasn't so happy that his children had since
descended on him to be sure he didn't become too despondent. All we actually did was give him something else to droop about. We were such a pain, running in and out.
Then he began to tell me more about his army travels. And he told his granddaughter things he had never told us about how he grew up in the 30's and 40's.
Finally, he did seem at peace with things.
It took him fifty years.
We lost him a few years later, so I am glad for the tiny bit of peace I may have helped him find.
Other People's Children
I thought everyone knew not to attack other people's children.
Apparently the U.S. has a lot of work to do to make that so again. At one time in America, children were sacrosanct in American society...so that if a stranger did attack a child, he or she tried to hide the attack.
Any child above the age of reason will fight hard to get a gun away from an attacker. Anyone
with an ounce of sense knows not to worry about breaking the nose of an accosting stranger who happens to be an armed gunman.
Apparently the U.S. has a lot of work to do to make that so again. At one time in America, children were sacrosanct in American society...so that if a stranger did attack a child, he or she tried to hide the attack.
Any child above the age of reason will fight hard to get a gun away from an attacker. Anyone
with an ounce of sense knows not to worry about breaking the nose of an accosting stranger who happens to be an armed gunman.
Let Us Be World Citizens
Now that Kenya has oil, maybe Afro-Americans can afford to send their boys to Kenya and to
Burkina Fasa for K-12 education.
Many Chinese Americans, born in the U.S. have gotten a K-12 education in China.
Americans worship the all white neighborhood, the all white school system. I find nothing
wonderful about either of those things, though I do try to avoid the crimes poor citizens have
a tendency to commit.
I see nothing so warm and wonderful about an all white surrounding, but then; I am not white.
I can't see what is gained by these situations. I can't see what is lost when a multi-cultural
perspective is gained.
I think some American children would feel a lot safer, and lot more camaraderie in learning
environments abroad. They'd be exposed to many languages and cultures because African countries encompass pluralistic languages, religions, and tribal identities.
This sounds like a very extreme idea for boarding school.
So is a grave. So is a jail.
Burkina Fasa for K-12 education.
Many Chinese Americans, born in the U.S. have gotten a K-12 education in China.
Americans worship the all white neighborhood, the all white school system. I find nothing
wonderful about either of those things, though I do try to avoid the crimes poor citizens have
a tendency to commit.
I see nothing so warm and wonderful about an all white surrounding, but then; I am not white.
I can't see what is gained by these situations. I can't see what is lost when a multi-cultural
perspective is gained.
I think some American children would feel a lot safer, and lot more camaraderie in learning
environments abroad. They'd be exposed to many languages and cultures because African countries encompass pluralistic languages, religions, and tribal identities.
This sounds like a very extreme idea for boarding school.
So is a grave. So is a jail.
Obama! Obama! Obama! Obama!
News reports are saying most Americans would be surprised to know we are now trading
partners with Cuba. No kidding most would! I sure am surprised.
I am astounded, but thrilled.
I understand companies here are Cuba's third or fourth most prevalent world trade partners. So excellent...so job creating, both here and there.
Obama said he would find, he would develop emerging markets; and apparently he does and has done- just that.
For the U.S. to have a stable trading partner so close to its own borders is the best news I've heard since we became partners with Canada in auto production and sales.
Not since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt have we had a president own so much success
in his efforts to find markets for 'Made In America'
This president has apparently gone from South America to the Pacific Rim looking for 'stores'
which want to sell American products.
Cuban communism is no threat to the U.S.
Cuba, as a U.S. trading partner, will need nothing in particular from overseas.
Today, as well, we see Kenya has announced the discovery of oil. Is POTUS on it?
Let's hope we get to it before other countries get there to start a bunch of wars.
partners with Cuba. No kidding most would! I sure am surprised.
I am astounded, but thrilled.
I understand companies here are Cuba's third or fourth most prevalent world trade partners. So excellent...so job creating, both here and there.
Obama said he would find, he would develop emerging markets; and apparently he does and has done- just that.
For the U.S. to have a stable trading partner so close to its own borders is the best news I've heard since we became partners with Canada in auto production and sales.
Not since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt have we had a president own so much success
in his efforts to find markets for 'Made In America'
This president has apparently gone from South America to the Pacific Rim looking for 'stores'
which want to sell American products.
Cuban communism is no threat to the U.S.
Cuba, as a U.S. trading partner, will need nothing in particular from overseas.
Today, as well, we see Kenya has announced the discovery of oil. Is POTUS on it?
Let's hope we get to it before other countries get there to start a bunch of wars.
Ben Jealous
Mr. Jealous, NAACP President, told David Gregory, Sunday, on Meet The Press- that Sanford, Florida
has a huge Ku Klux Klan presence.
has a huge Ku Klux Klan presence.
That could explain some of the reluctance toward reasonable enforcement by the Sanford police
department.
department.
If a city has that many black citizens in a town with a large Klan following, how do police operate
honestly? Essentially they could be policing a powder keg.
That department shouldn't ever be operating without at least one federal authority in their
offices. They definitely need outside oversight, because the Florida laws are not clear about
when the police departments' hands are tied. And police don't seem to want the responsibility
of exercising fair and equal justice as it regards the Sanford minority community.
of exercising fair and equal justice as it regards the Sanford minority community.
Whether the department is right or wrong becomes a footnote in the reality of whether or not
the department can be effective regarding riots in the streets, or protecting the community as
a whole.
a whole.
This department, and others like it around the country need help navigating through these
disgusting new laws,especially in places, where backgrounds of community populations are in
flux.
We will compound a great many tragedies if we continue to ignore the fact that these laws give
attackers the right to say whether or not they are subject to laws meant to restrict violence.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Killing, Assassination, Lynching...
No...murder.
Whereas no one has to flee in a car, no one has to get out of a car to kill.
In a justified killing, one calls police afterward, not before, unless the threatened person is seeking
police help, not sanction, or notification.
Stand Your Ground people have a tendency to call police before murdering someone.
They believe, in some instances, if there exists a law to shield them, they should invoke it right away.
Assassins know to run. They understand the importance of getting away quickly.
Traditionally, lynchings involve hiding, denying, and after the fifties, disposing of the body.
Murder is different. In my view, murder is the willful, unjust taking of the life of a human being.
Again, a murderer who stands his ground, is often a pig wearing lipstick.
Whereas no one has to flee in a car, no one has to get out of a car to kill.
In a justified killing, one calls police afterward, not before, unless the threatened person is seeking
police help, not sanction, or notification.
Stand Your Ground people have a tendency to call police before murdering someone.
They believe, in some instances, if there exists a law to shield them, they should invoke it right away.
Assassins know to run. They understand the importance of getting away quickly.
Traditionally, lynchings involve hiding, denying, and after the fifties, disposing of the body.
Murder is different. In my view, murder is the willful, unjust taking of the life of a human being.
Again, a murderer who stands his ground, is often a pig wearing lipstick.
Dr. Sweet.
Today, Professor Jelani Cobb mentioned Dr. Sweet of 1925 Detroit on the Melissa Harris Perry
show.
My mom was born in 1920, but was brought to Detroit to be raised six months later.
One of the things she spoke about continually as I grew up, was how even a black physician
in Detroit didn't seem to be good enough to live among white factory workers.
My dad was a bit different in his reaction of horror. His feeling about housing was 'Let 'em
have it.'
As crime grew in some black communities, however, my dad had to consider a bit of broadening about housing when the time came for us to actually buy a house.
I found a beautiful house for us in an all white neighborhood. I figured we should try it because
the neighborhood was surrounded by black neighborhoods. My dad wasn't sure at all. He had his
realtor poll the neighbors. At this time, housing discrimination was already against the law. My
dad didn't care. Daddy was already about eight when Dr. Sweet got crosses burned on his lawn and subsequently got arrested; but he remained just as traumatized as my mom in his memory of the race degradation in the incident.
My siblings and I were saying: "Power to the people!"
My dad kept saying: "No way."
He was proud of the struggle, but he didn't want it in his mortgage.
So in the end, the polled neighbors told dad's realtor they were all professional, non-cross burners, but wouldn't be openly accepting of us in their community or its organizations.
My dad didn't care about that. He was busy. His neighbors were not his community.
My sibs and I were saying: "Great." We weren't even going to have to change our school.
My mom, though, felt mortally wounded by the non-inclusion news. She never forgave that assertion by our neighbors, until one of the couples got my brother (about twenty years later) a job. It took her years even to ask which neighbors felt that way and which ones even knew what had been said. She hated everyone associated with those statements. For a while, that included dad's messenger realtor.
I didn't understand my dad. But he never changed. Integration could be useful, in his mind, but
was an unfortunate necessity. We were overjoyed he bought the house. It just took us a long
time to understand that he absolutely did not want to deal with confrontation over where he
spent his hard earned money.
Melissa Harris Perry also talked with Tim Wise on her show today. His book is on institutionalized racism, which happens to be an important thing for a white man to write and lecture about these days. The new racism is more in disguise than in remission. And black writers are often thought to be
complaining due to 'sensitivity'.
show.
My mom was born in 1920, but was brought to Detroit to be raised six months later.
One of the things she spoke about continually as I grew up, was how even a black physician
in Detroit didn't seem to be good enough to live among white factory workers.
My dad was a bit different in his reaction of horror. His feeling about housing was 'Let 'em
have it.'
As crime grew in some black communities, however, my dad had to consider a bit of broadening about housing when the time came for us to actually buy a house.
I found a beautiful house for us in an all white neighborhood. I figured we should try it because
the neighborhood was surrounded by black neighborhoods. My dad wasn't sure at all. He had his
realtor poll the neighbors. At this time, housing discrimination was already against the law. My
dad didn't care. Daddy was already about eight when Dr. Sweet got crosses burned on his lawn and subsequently got arrested; but he remained just as traumatized as my mom in his memory of the race degradation in the incident.
My siblings and I were saying: "Power to the people!"
My dad kept saying: "No way."
He was proud of the struggle, but he didn't want it in his mortgage.
So in the end, the polled neighbors told dad's realtor they were all professional, non-cross burners, but wouldn't be openly accepting of us in their community or its organizations.
My dad didn't care about that. He was busy. His neighbors were not his community.
My sibs and I were saying: "Great." We weren't even going to have to change our school.
My mom, though, felt mortally wounded by the non-inclusion news. She never forgave that assertion by our neighbors, until one of the couples got my brother (about twenty years later) a job. It took her years even to ask which neighbors felt that way and which ones even knew what had been said. She hated everyone associated with those statements. For a while, that included dad's messenger realtor.
I didn't understand my dad. But he never changed. Integration could be useful, in his mind, but
was an unfortunate necessity. We were overjoyed he bought the house. It just took us a long
time to understand that he absolutely did not want to deal with confrontation over where he
spent his hard earned money.
Melissa Harris Perry also talked with Tim Wise on her show today. His book is on institutionalized racism, which happens to be an important thing for a white man to write and lecture about these days. The new racism is more in disguise than in remission. And black writers are often thought to be
complaining due to 'sensitivity'.
Husbands: Stop Raising Your Voices
If women are allowed to 'stand ground', husbands had better be more careful.
Hit men, however, can orchestrate any event so that they can have a field day.
On the other hand, why would anyone need to hire one?
If you feel so threatened by an unarmed youngster that you get out of your car with a nine,
we can each claim feeling threat by someone...anyone.
How would the Broadway hit, the movie, Chicago have been interesting? Apparently, not
one of those women should have been in jail, unless under the guise of "this is how women
used to be arrested". Would that have been funny?
Nearly every arrest will be unnecessary because many arrests are based on laws said to be discouraging use of "deadly force" in our communities. No wonder police professionals are being fired. There is
apparently a lot less for departments to do.
Deadly force is not necessarily a problem in this country any longer.
The only way killing can be prosecuted is that a killer says:"No. I felt no threat. I was having fun."
I think I need a break.
Hit men, however, can orchestrate any event so that they can have a field day.
On the other hand, why would anyone need to hire one?
If you feel so threatened by an unarmed youngster that you get out of your car with a nine,
we can each claim feeling threat by someone...anyone.
How would the Broadway hit, the movie, Chicago have been interesting? Apparently, not
one of those women should have been in jail, unless under the guise of "this is how women
used to be arrested". Would that have been funny?
Nearly every arrest will be unnecessary because many arrests are based on laws said to be discouraging use of "deadly force" in our communities. No wonder police professionals are being fired. There is
apparently a lot less for departments to do.
Deadly force is not necessarily a problem in this country any longer.
The only way killing can be prosecuted is that a killer says:"No. I felt no threat. I was having fun."
I think I need a break.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Barbara Anderson
I have heard Mississippi tales. I thought the public killing of black men was over down there.
Now I hear the lady, Ms. Barbara Anderson, speak in court about how much she loved her brother,
who was purposefully run over by white men in a truck, in a parking lot, because they hated black
people.
Barbara Anderson was pleading for the life of one of those men, because he was to get the death
penalty for committing a hate crime.
The young man expressed regret; and Ms. Anderson's family doesn't believe in the death penalty.
I was reminded of how Shirley Sherrod behaved with so much grace when she expressed condolences to Andrew Breitbart's family.
Americans have some incredibly decent impulses. We may not have enough of these sorts of
Americans; and maybe we are generating them late in our history's game. But they are still out there.
They are still here.
Now I hear the lady, Ms. Barbara Anderson, speak in court about how much she loved her brother,
who was purposefully run over by white men in a truck, in a parking lot, because they hated black
people.
Barbara Anderson was pleading for the life of one of those men, because he was to get the death
penalty for committing a hate crime.
The young man expressed regret; and Ms. Anderson's family doesn't believe in the death penalty.
I was reminded of how Shirley Sherrod behaved with so much grace when she expressed condolences to Andrew Breitbart's family.
Americans have some incredibly decent impulses. We may not have enough of these sorts of
Americans; and maybe we are generating them late in our history's game. But they are still out there.
They are still here.
My Neighborhood/Your Neighborhood
This is my neighborhood.
That one over there is yours.
People do kill over that.
Well, in America they do. Other countries may be different.
When I read Mike Royko's book, Boss, I wanted to cry when I came to the chapter where the
lost nine-year-old boy came out of the water on Lake Michigan at a part of the beach where no black persons were allowed.
The people present where he came out of the water were so trashy, they forced him back into the lake. He drowned.
I try hard to forget those kinds of events in American history. Then when another black child is killed here for no reason, I feel guilty for trying so hard to forget the former child.
I begin to feel I haven't given enough children enough warnings.
Our young men are supposed to be cautious about what they wear.
They are to be cautious about having tattoos.
They are to have only approved hair cuts and hair styles.
They have to be careful about their gaits.
They have to be careful about being in groups.
They have to be quiet about being stopped and frisked.
Apparently, they cannot travel alone.
They cannot be armed.
They cannot attempt to disarm.
Aren't our young men already all in jail then? The rich, the poor, and the middle classed?
More and more, I understand W.E.B. Dubois, and Marcus Garvey.
That one over there is yours.
People do kill over that.
Well, in America they do. Other countries may be different.
When I read Mike Royko's book, Boss, I wanted to cry when I came to the chapter where the
lost nine-year-old boy came out of the water on Lake Michigan at a part of the beach where no black persons were allowed.
The people present where he came out of the water were so trashy, they forced him back into the lake. He drowned.
I try hard to forget those kinds of events in American history. Then when another black child is killed here for no reason, I feel guilty for trying so hard to forget the former child.
I begin to feel I haven't given enough children enough warnings.
Our young men are supposed to be cautious about what they wear.
They are to be cautious about having tattoos.
They are to have only approved hair cuts and hair styles.
They have to be careful about their gaits.
They have to be careful about being in groups.
They have to be quiet about being stopped and frisked.
Apparently, they cannot travel alone.
They cannot be armed.
They cannot attempt to disarm.
Aren't our young men already all in jail then? The rich, the poor, and the middle classed?
More and more, I understand W.E.B. Dubois, and Marcus Garvey.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Foreclosure Tragedy
Perhaps much of what caused someone to be murderously prickly about "my neighborhood"
was a place newly integrated or encompassing new and shifting populations of persons due to so
many foreclosures in Florida.
What made a Florida neighborhood belong to a killer?
Who is a 28 year old man who has a mortgage in his name in a "gated community"?
What 28 year old man is a nuisance caller about open garage doors, kids playing in the streets,
and potholes- during "neighborhood watch" sojourns.
If the police department was itself reactionary to a "changing" neighborhood, maybe that is why
they initially lost the faith of the black community before Mr. Lee became chief.
Perhaps the nature of the citizen complaints has changed so much, that Mr. Bonaparte felt
himself identified with the older Sanford community. All the officials seemed as wooden as they
were ineffective.
I can only guess; but the officials in Sanford didn't seem to see Trayvon Martin as an individual
human person. He seemed to be to them more a symbol of something. What in the world would
make them think to drug test the child? They did not have the parents' permission to do that!
Whatever is happening in some communities with high foreclosure rates, wherever the
newly displaced are finding themselves, whoever can't get away from underwater mortgages,
may continue to cost us all dearly.
If the signs of entire police departments going from disgruntled to criminally disinterested and
culpable aren't going to begin to be recognized for what they are becoming, and monitored for
stability improvement we are looking at more troubles which look exactly like Trayvon's killing.
was a place newly integrated or encompassing new and shifting populations of persons due to so
many foreclosures in Florida.
What made a Florida neighborhood belong to a killer?
Who is a 28 year old man who has a mortgage in his name in a "gated community"?
What 28 year old man is a nuisance caller about open garage doors, kids playing in the streets,
and potholes- during "neighborhood watch" sojourns.
If the police department was itself reactionary to a "changing" neighborhood, maybe that is why
they initially lost the faith of the black community before Mr. Lee became chief.
Perhaps the nature of the citizen complaints has changed so much, that Mr. Bonaparte felt
himself identified with the older Sanford community. All the officials seemed as wooden as they
were ineffective.
I can only guess; but the officials in Sanford didn't seem to see Trayvon Martin as an individual
human person. He seemed to be to them more a symbol of something. What in the world would
make them think to drug test the child? They did not have the parents' permission to do that!
Whatever is happening in some communities with high foreclosure rates, wherever the
newly displaced are finding themselves, whoever can't get away from underwater mortgages,
may continue to cost us all dearly.
If the signs of entire police departments going from disgruntled to criminally disinterested and
culpable aren't going to begin to be recognized for what they are becoming, and monitored for
stability improvement we are looking at more troubles which look exactly like Trayvon's killing.
Sainthood
For heaven's sake, the Saint is absolutely right!
If Gov. Romney is the Republican nominee, people should vote for President Obama.
I wish the canonized one had enlarged upon that statement. So ...
If Ron Paul is the nominee, or if Republicans nominate the amphibian, or even if they elect a different
Catholic, people should vote for President Obama!
Republicans don't believe in the presidency any longer anyway. They don't believe in anything
the level of leadership in the U.S. presidency is needed for, in order to sustain a nation of laws and civilities.
If Gov. Romney is the Republican nominee, people should vote for President Obama.
I wish the canonized one had enlarged upon that statement. So ...
If Ron Paul is the nominee, or if Republicans nominate the amphibian, or even if they elect a different
Catholic, people should vote for President Obama!
Republicans don't believe in the presidency any longer anyway. They don't believe in anything
the level of leadership in the U.S. presidency is needed for, in order to sustain a nation of laws and civilities.
OWS/Florida
Some of the language on the 911 tapes of the Trayvon Martin murder speak to an underlying
frustration of injustice the killer has attributed to people who 'get away' with things.
In America, a great many people were intimately affected by the economic meltdown in this
country in 2008 and 2009, or they know someone who was.
The more sophisticated of those bitterly disappointed by that crash and the foreclosure crisis
went into 'Occupy' mode. For their peaceful troubles, their property was further compromised
and destroyed. Their heads were bashed in on a somewhat regular basis.
More unsophisticated persons may have taken all this to mean they do have to Stand Ground
against someone...anyone.
We saw people who destroyed incomes, pensions, savings, mortgages, businesses, and livelihoods
not getting one perp walk amongst them. Laws prohibited that. Those thieves and liars 'got
away with it.' OWS- Occupy Wall Street had no authority to meet out justice to those they held
reponsible for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' in the financial debacle afflicting the western world.
The guilty parties skirted and hid behind laws which gave them protection from prosecution.
Those who brought so much real destruction into the lives of so many people helped give the
impression that pain comes in a hoody, not a suit.
Even when our collective suffering is at extremes, we are led to believe white boys in suits don't commit crimes which cause pain and destruction in our homes, our neighborhoods. When you see one, on the street, and in Brooks Brothers, that isn't the time to get frustrated that your property may be at risk.
To illustrate: the year after the bottom drops out of our mortgages, Wall Street gets bigger bonuses than ever.
'They' got away with it. Six degrees of separation tells us everyone got hurt.
Somehow, ordinary people began to want to institute and test laws which would do the same
for them, and even for their baser instincts, which would let them 'get away with it'.
Kids on the phone with their girlfriends aren't the ones 'getting away'. Are killers 'getting away'?
Business laws were many times put into place against public interest as the noose was tightening around family necks, and way before the horse of our meltdown was about to get slapped.
People felt the pain of the economic recession long before 2008/9 when it made headlines.
We know the right wing money people have every reason to institute whatever will pit working
people against one another. That way, masses of the middle class will always be willing to hire themselves and their skills out for whatever; if employers will help segregate them from 'others'.
More of us need to begin to see through that, at least enough so that we are not using the distances
between us to cause us to attack one another.
frustration of injustice the killer has attributed to people who 'get away' with things.
In America, a great many people were intimately affected by the economic meltdown in this
country in 2008 and 2009, or they know someone who was.
The more sophisticated of those bitterly disappointed by that crash and the foreclosure crisis
went into 'Occupy' mode. For their peaceful troubles, their property was further compromised
and destroyed. Their heads were bashed in on a somewhat regular basis.
More unsophisticated persons may have taken all this to mean they do have to Stand Ground
against someone...anyone.
We saw people who destroyed incomes, pensions, savings, mortgages, businesses, and livelihoods
not getting one perp walk amongst them. Laws prohibited that. Those thieves and liars 'got
away with it.' OWS- Occupy Wall Street had no authority to meet out justice to those they held
reponsible for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' in the financial debacle afflicting the western world.
The guilty parties skirted and hid behind laws which gave them protection from prosecution.
Those who brought so much real destruction into the lives of so many people helped give the
impression that pain comes in a hoody, not a suit.
Even when our collective suffering is at extremes, we are led to believe white boys in suits don't commit crimes which cause pain and destruction in our homes, our neighborhoods. When you see one, on the street, and in Brooks Brothers, that isn't the time to get frustrated that your property may be at risk.
To illustrate: the year after the bottom drops out of our mortgages, Wall Street gets bigger bonuses than ever.
'They' got away with it. Six degrees of separation tells us everyone got hurt.
Somehow, ordinary people began to want to institute and test laws which would do the same
for them, and even for their baser instincts, which would let them 'get away with it'.
Kids on the phone with their girlfriends aren't the ones 'getting away'. Are killers 'getting away'?
Business laws were many times put into place against public interest as the noose was tightening around family necks, and way before the horse of our meltdown was about to get slapped.
People felt the pain of the economic recession long before 2008/9 when it made headlines.
We know the right wing money people have every reason to institute whatever will pit working
people against one another. That way, masses of the middle class will always be willing to hire themselves and their skills out for whatever; if employers will help segregate them from 'others'.
More of us need to begin to see through that, at least enough so that we are not using the distances
between us to cause us to attack one another.
Ignore Outrage Of Citizens?
Ex-fed Kendall Coffey claims the investigation into the Trayvon Martin murder case in Florida
should not go forth due to public outrage. Why not? An unarmed child has been killed in public.
Does that sentiment sound like something ALEC would spout?
Of course authority is supposed to respond to public outrage, especially in the death of a child.
My family is saying it is the job of law enforcement to protect and reassure the public.
I agree.
My family understands these 'Stand' laws as vigilante tests to see how many people can be 'legally' killed by the average violent Joe.
In my house, people are outraged that if an unarmed child is killed in the streets, he will be
jailed, albeit in the morgue, with no phone call possible.
The killer will go home with the blessing of the police department.
The young victim will be drug-tested without the permission of his parents.
The killer will not be drug tested.
The unarmed victim will be labelled aggressor.
The grown man armed with a 'nine' will be labelled the threatened party.
No one in my house understands anything about the handling of the murder of Trayvon Martin.
Well, the murder hasn't been handled.
To the authorities, gunning down an unarmed, under-aged child is a legal matter unequal to even
being called "murder". Well, I call 'em like I see 'em because like Florida, I am not prosecuting
anyway.
should not go forth due to public outrage. Why not? An unarmed child has been killed in public.
Does that sentiment sound like something ALEC would spout?
Of course authority is supposed to respond to public outrage, especially in the death of a child.
My family is saying it is the job of law enforcement to protect and reassure the public.
I agree.
My family understands these 'Stand' laws as vigilante tests to see how many people can be 'legally' killed by the average violent Joe.
In my house, people are outraged that if an unarmed child is killed in the streets, he will be
jailed, albeit in the morgue, with no phone call possible.
The killer will go home with the blessing of the police department.
The young victim will be drug-tested without the permission of his parents.
The killer will not be drug tested.
The unarmed victim will be labelled aggressor.
The grown man armed with a 'nine' will be labelled the threatened party.
No one in my house understands anything about the handling of the murder of Trayvon Martin.
Well, the murder hasn't been handled.
To the authorities, gunning down an unarmed, under-aged child is a legal matter unequal to even
being called "murder". Well, I call 'em like I see 'em because like Florida, I am not prosecuting
anyway.
1/Arm Yourself... 2/Stand Your Ground...3/Kill
'Stand Your Ground'- if you are armed.
Last night, watching Rev. Al Sharpton's show on MSNBC, I got a look at the gated community where Trayvon Martin was gunned down. It then became clear why we heard those screams on the 911 call. At the spot where the youngster fell, he was trapped. He must have been struggling to get that gun off him, and screaming for anyone at all to help him persuade the gunman to stop, or at least witness the attack for him, perhaps to cause the man to back off him. Unless another sort of assault was taking
place concomitantly.
Actually, there was no cover where the teenager fell. He fell there,apparently, for some crime
by someone no one knows, unless the murderer has some idea. Or, the killer needed to kill.
Even if this young man had been running with a TV in his hands, that gunman would not have been the person whose life was in danger. So if a citizen is not armed, of course it does that person no good to stand ground against fire power. Standing ground would obviously many times get that person killed, even if there were nowhere to run.
Why did the NRA need to lobby for this law? Americans already have guns. A plethora of the guns
in the Mexican drug wars and many of the guns overseas in real wars are from here.Were the dealers not selling enough ammunition?
There may be some method to the gun madness however; because according to MSN this morning, gun sales are soaring today.
Thanks a lot Jeb Bush. Political much more now- now that you and your cronies have done
what you did with this so dumb vigilante law? Floridians weren't ever afraid to protect themselves, Mr. Bush. What problems did you invent in your head to solve with this awful law?
Right wing is vicious with vicious ideals. We can't blame Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich for
speaking out on conservative 'darling' issues this primary season. How long did the Republican establishment think vicious could stay quietly undercover? POTUS would tell you you can't get lipstick on all the pigs all of the time. Anything actually wrong with that fact?
Last night, watching Rev. Al Sharpton's show on MSNBC, I got a look at the gated community where Trayvon Martin was gunned down. It then became clear why we heard those screams on the 911 call. At the spot where the youngster fell, he was trapped. He must have been struggling to get that gun off him, and screaming for anyone at all to help him persuade the gunman to stop, or at least witness the attack for him, perhaps to cause the man to back off him. Unless another sort of assault was taking
place concomitantly.
Actually, there was no cover where the teenager fell. He fell there,apparently, for some crime
by someone no one knows, unless the murderer has some idea. Or, the killer needed to kill.
Even if this young man had been running with a TV in his hands, that gunman would not have been the person whose life was in danger. So if a citizen is not armed, of course it does that person no good to stand ground against fire power. Standing ground would obviously many times get that person killed, even if there were nowhere to run.
Why did the NRA need to lobby for this law? Americans already have guns. A plethora of the guns
in the Mexican drug wars and many of the guns overseas in real wars are from here.Were the dealers not selling enough ammunition?
There may be some method to the gun madness however; because according to MSN this morning, gun sales are soaring today.
Thanks a lot Jeb Bush. Political much more now- now that you and your cronies have done
what you did with this so dumb vigilante law? Floridians weren't ever afraid to protect themselves, Mr. Bush. What problems did you invent in your head to solve with this awful law?
Right wing is vicious with vicious ideals. We can't blame Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich for
speaking out on conservative 'darling' issues this primary season. How long did the Republican establishment think vicious could stay quietly undercover? POTUS would tell you you can't get lipstick on all the pigs all of the time. Anything actually wrong with that fact?
Condolences To Reverend Al Sharpton
Reverend Al went on air last night though he got the news of his mom's passing earlier yesterday.
I wish him and his family the best present time possible, and I applaud him for truly being the son his mom raised, as he is standing for justice even during this stage of very pointed grief in his life.
Reverend Al said on his show that his mother always told him: 'If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
Well, yesterday, Rev. Al was the best possible son he personally could have been for his mom, because he stood by Ms. Fulton, and Mr. Martin, for the sake of justice for a child and for the boy's family.
Since Rev. Al has always stood for justice, and for the climate in which justice overtakes all that stands for injustice, Rev. Al stands for the best in any of us. And luckily for us, his hard work and his steadfast commitment to the public ideals he has always espoused, have given him the best bully pulpit anyone could ever hope to have achieved. His mom is surely right now, as proud as she could be here on earth, or in her afterlife.
I wish him and his family the best present time possible, and I applaud him for truly being the son his mom raised, as he is standing for justice even during this stage of very pointed grief in his life.
Reverend Al said on his show that his mother always told him: 'If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
Well, yesterday, Rev. Al was the best possible son he personally could have been for his mom, because he stood by Ms. Fulton, and Mr. Martin, for the sake of justice for a child and for the boy's family.
Since Rev. Al has always stood for justice, and for the climate in which justice overtakes all that stands for injustice, Rev. Al stands for the best in any of us. And luckily for us, his hard work and his steadfast commitment to the public ideals he has always espoused, have given him the best bully pulpit anyone could ever hope to have achieved. His mom is surely right now, as proud as she could be here on earth, or in her afterlife.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Prosecutorial Discretion
Prosecutors aren't required to aggressively prosecute cases of real self defense, but a phony claim as defender of self shouldn't be able to stand behind a 'Stand Your Ground Law' cowardly murderers are using.
By the same token, no prosecutor or police official is required to use such a law to fail to litigate
on behalf of unarmed victims.
What does it mean for a murderer to have said on an official police taped phone line,"These assholes always get away with it..."?
Is the speaker knowledgeable about who the "assholes" are, and what exactly it is "they" are "getting away with..."? Has the speaker decided on his own as a legal official, as the jury, as the judge, that Trayvon Martin was already one of the "assholes" before he gunned him down?
If so, and no need for an arrest has presented, Sanford, Florida has laws suborning terrorism.
Most times, judges and juries don't throw the book at someone who protects himself, even if there is no law in that state allowing people to gun down unarmed persons.
These new laws are like the new voter registration laws. They are, in John Robert's own words,
'elephant whistles'. There are no elephants to call.
We do not have a hoard of people doing time for real self defense crimes.
A lot more jails would have to be built for that; because the space in our jails is mostly reserved
for young black men who have supposedly been caught with marijuana.
Even so, if a person does claim' Stand Your Ground', let a jury decide if that is what murderers
are doing. Nothing in that law demands a policy of "arresting officers take the killer's word for it".
If the law said that, it wouldn't be a law at all. It would be a license- a license the public and the
DOJ would have to revoke.
As a matter of fact, maybe that is what has to happen right now, some revoking.
By the same token, no prosecutor or police official is required to use such a law to fail to litigate
on behalf of unarmed victims.
What does it mean for a murderer to have said on an official police taped phone line,"These assholes always get away with it..."?
Is the speaker knowledgeable about who the "assholes" are, and what exactly it is "they" are "getting away with..."? Has the speaker decided on his own as a legal official, as the jury, as the judge, that Trayvon Martin was already one of the "assholes" before he gunned him down?
If so, and no need for an arrest has presented, Sanford, Florida has laws suborning terrorism.
Most times, judges and juries don't throw the book at someone who protects himself, even if there is no law in that state allowing people to gun down unarmed persons.
These new laws are like the new voter registration laws. They are, in John Robert's own words,
'elephant whistles'. There are no elephants to call.
We do not have a hoard of people doing time for real self defense crimes.
A lot more jails would have to be built for that; because the space in our jails is mostly reserved
for young black men who have supposedly been caught with marijuana.
Even so, if a person does claim' Stand Your Ground', let a jury decide if that is what murderers
are doing. Nothing in that law demands a policy of "arresting officers take the killer's word for it".
If the law said that, it wouldn't be a law at all. It would be a license- a license the public and the
DOJ would have to revoke.
As a matter of fact, maybe that is what has to happen right now, some revoking.
How Dumb And Cowardly Can We Be?
We cannot, at this moment, call any country inhumane.
We are not technically in a civil war.
We haven't suffered a transforming earthquake.
There is no killer tsunami destroying life-preserving property here.
We hide behind very bad laws, then...
We stand by these very bad laws.
We haven't yet figured out how to avoid spending millions and millions of dollars to keep one
grown man from getting away with gunning down an unarmed child in the streets.
So So dumb, and so very criminal.
We are not technically in a civil war.
We haven't suffered a transforming earthquake.
There is no killer tsunami destroying life-preserving property here.
We hide behind very bad laws, then...
We stand by these very bad laws.
We haven't yet figured out how to avoid spending millions and millions of dollars to keep one
grown man from getting away with gunning down an unarmed child in the streets.
So So dumb, and so very criminal.
British Petroleum And Iris Cross
I'm sorry, Iris.
B.P. is not hitting the mark for what will be needed on the gulf coast.
No possible way can ten years of investigation give the gulf enough scientific evidence of effect to help heal fish and wildlife environments, and to show the environmental flux in that area of the country.
After a certain critical mass of pollutant in a prescribed, described area of water, scientists would
need about a year per x barrels of oil leaked to yield meaningul results on what damage might need
specific attention.
I don't have the exact math figures. I apologize. However, from what I have read about water,
water purification, and generations of sea dwelling life, I realize the needed studies would take
a minimum of twenty to twenty-five years.
Who is supposed to pay for all that?
Are the scientists supposed to work gratis, against the
interests of their own daily needs and those of their families?
Let's hope not, Iris. Let's hope not.
B.P. is not hitting the mark for what will be needed on the gulf coast.
No possible way can ten years of investigation give the gulf enough scientific evidence of effect to help heal fish and wildlife environments, and to show the environmental flux in that area of the country.
After a certain critical mass of pollutant in a prescribed, described area of water, scientists would
need about a year per x barrels of oil leaked to yield meaningul results on what damage might need
specific attention.
I don't have the exact math figures. I apologize. However, from what I have read about water,
water purification, and generations of sea dwelling life, I realize the needed studies would take
a minimum of twenty to twenty-five years.
Who is supposed to pay for all that?
Are the scientists supposed to work gratis, against the
interests of their own daily needs and those of their families?
Let's hope not, Iris. Let's hope not.
Mr. Bonaparte
Oh...no, I see now what may have happened.
You are not an empty suit.
You were thinking of the line from Milton's poem:
"They also serve who only stand and wait."
See, that line was not a guide for MANAGERS.
The poet who wrote that was BLIND.
You are not an empty suit.
You were thinking of the line from Milton's poem:
"They also serve who only stand and wait."
See, that line was not a guide for MANAGERS.
The poet who wrote that was BLIND.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The Ku Klux Klan
In those days, they at least covered their faces.
They would murder, horribly murder.
But then they would cut and run.
Emmett Till's killers confessed.
But not before arrest and trial.
I have no idea what we can do about going so far back in time.
We do have to do something.
They would murder, horribly murder.
But then they would cut and run.
Emmett Till's killers confessed.
But not before arrest and trial.
I have no idea what we can do about going so far back in time.
We do have to do something.
Jeb Bush?!
He is one of the whiny types who claims the 'tea party' hijacked the real Republican party.
Just as he is weeping his loudest, most anguished regret, he endorses Mitt Romney; then we find he was licking his lips with relish as he signed Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' law.
Republicans have the party they have allowed and encouraged, J. Bush included.
They have backed a lot of vile nonsense; including 1) disenfranchising all of south Florida during
the 2000 national election 2) lying and cheating again in the 2004 election 3) falling silent during
the torturous suffering of Katrina victims 4) doing all possible in all current state-wide policies
to suffocate fair pay for a fair day's work, and 5) blocking women's hard fought health care initiatives, by any means necessary.
Stop your whining Mr. Bush. Stop it.
Just as he is weeping his loudest, most anguished regret, he endorses Mitt Romney; then we find he was licking his lips with relish as he signed Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' law.
Republicans have the party they have allowed and encouraged, J. Bush included.
They have backed a lot of vile nonsense; including 1) disenfranchising all of south Florida during
the 2000 national election 2) lying and cheating again in the 2004 election 3) falling silent during
the torturous suffering of Katrina victims 4) doing all possible in all current state-wide policies
to suffocate fair pay for a fair day's work, and 5) blocking women's hard fought health care initiatives, by any means necessary.
Stop your whining Mr. Bush. Stop it.
Seamus Romney
Is Seamus nursing puppies in the famous photo? Or is he one of the puppies?
Seamus is not a girl's name.
Seamus is not a girl's name.
Chief Lee
Did you read William Faulkner?
Is that what Trayvon Martin should have done differently?
'Yassuh. Yass boss.'
Are you in fact one of the police persons FOR this dumb law?
Is it that whomsoever has a gun is the one who stands his ground?
Oh well, so much for police/community relations... forever, then.
Is that what Trayvon Martin should have done differently?
'Yassuh. Yass boss.'
Are you in fact one of the police persons FOR this dumb law?
Is it that whomsoever has a gun is the one who stands his ground?
Oh well, so much for police/community relations... forever, then.
Paul Ryan
You said that already.
99% of the answer of 99% of the American public is still the same: No.
99% of the answer of 99% of the American public is still the same: No.
American Boys: Rape Them/ Kill Them
They are other people's children.
Weren't you taught to leave them be?
Maybe not. Go ahead and rape them.
I guess heroes are allowed to do that, at the least, support it.
Or cover up what you know of them getting assaulted.
You are still a hero.
As one former governor remarked, "What about the good things this person did?"
And, you can kill a kid, too.
He is someones child; but what do you care?
He was told to stay away from strangers. He was told not to talk to strangers.
Why would you care? Kill him if you want. He can't defend himself from the grave.
This is America.
You can obviously do anything you want.
No amount of evidence against you is proof enough in America.
All due respect to Jay Carney: this is not a local matter now, any more than President and Robert Kennedy were confronted by local matters before we even had any civil rights laws.
Trayvan's loved ones now live in Florida, New York, Michigan, and many other states.
As Trayvan Martin's dad said: 'Trayvon was the one who was 'standing his ground'.
Weren't you taught to leave them be?
Maybe not. Go ahead and rape them.
I guess heroes are allowed to do that, at the least, support it.
Or cover up what you know of them getting assaulted.
You are still a hero.
As one former governor remarked, "What about the good things this person did?"
And, you can kill a kid, too.
He is someones child; but what do you care?
He was told to stay away from strangers. He was told not to talk to strangers.
Why would you care? Kill him if you want. He can't defend himself from the grave.
This is America.
You can obviously do anything you want.
No amount of evidence against you is proof enough in America.
All due respect to Jay Carney: this is not a local matter now, any more than President and Robert Kennedy were confronted by local matters before we even had any civil rights laws.
Trayvan's loved ones now live in Florida, New York, Michigan, and many other states.
As Trayvan Martin's dad said: 'Trayvon was the one who was 'standing his ground'.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Sandford, Florida Police Department
If the Sanford, Florida police department rallied against the 'Stand Your Ground' law, but the
state legislature passed it anyway; the police are not exactly complicit for feeling unable to enforce previous laws compromised by the new one. Have they been saying to lawmakers that they were and would be mired in details of the new law?
States and municipalities are cutting police forces and their resources.
So if the state legislatures are passing laws which cause serious crimes to triple, even over objections of police and prosecutors, then police are unwittingly complicit by failing to investigate
crimes which have overwhelmed their best enforcement efforts. I don't see that always as willing
negligence, especially if the department has been communicating to the legislature that serious
crime was being continually abetted by this new law. Has that happened in Sanford?
There is no reason for police to attempt enforcement anyway, if their prosecutors have trumpeted a hobbling by this 'Stand Your Ground' thing, and prosecutors report being unable to try the arrested.
As far as I can tell, some prosecutors have been long and strong on delivering just that message to
lawmakers who were not in moods to listen.
So police and prosecutors, having thrown in the towel of ineffective methods, have more than likely already told legislators that sooner or later, one of the murders birthed by their bloody
law, would be on their lawmaker heads... in their legislating laps.
Whereas the police and prosecutors will now surely be investigated; who is going to hold feet to
fire for the votes in the Florida legislature, and the Governor of Florida, who knew this new
fire for the votes in the Florida legislature, and the Governor of Florida, who knew this new
'Stand...' obscenity had been causing, and would continue to cause senseless, mindless, unanswered, bloodshed. Oh...that would be Governor Jeb Bush and cronies...not at all a surprising legacy, aye?
Leadership
Can we now expect never again to hear from black leadership, that when they are walking down
a street, they are relieved to look behind them and see a white man?
Stand Your Ground
It means walk up to anyone you want.
Say that that person makes you feel threatened. They have snacks, and snacks intimidate you.
Get out your nine.
Chase that person down.
Listen to that person's screams.
Gun that person down.
Tell authorities you want them as accomplices.
Go home. Kick back.
That used to be a fantasy called in to right wing radio stations. Not anymore.
That used to be the wild, wild west. No more.
So does that mean society has no need of hit men?
Husbands, wives, sons, daughters, relatives, friends, and Johnny ... get your guns.
Dead men tell no tales.
Why target black men, though?
These shores declared no profit, gave no possibility for immigrants of the past 500 years to have
a place to come to, until 1620, a year after African slaves arrived here. For the first time, a profit
was declared here, then.
America was jump-started. And no... there isn't enough 'welfare' in the world...never has been,
never will be, to pay all that back.
You non-black beneficiaries get plenty of welfare, too. You always have.
Say that that person makes you feel threatened. They have snacks, and snacks intimidate you.
Get out your nine.
Chase that person down.
Listen to that person's screams.
Gun that person down.
Tell authorities you want them as accomplices.
Go home. Kick back.
That used to be a fantasy called in to right wing radio stations. Not anymore.
That used to be the wild, wild west. No more.
So does that mean society has no need of hit men?
Husbands, wives, sons, daughters, relatives, friends, and Johnny ... get your guns.
Dead men tell no tales.
Why target black men, though?
These shores declared no profit, gave no possibility for immigrants of the past 500 years to have
a place to come to, until 1620, a year after African slaves arrived here. For the first time, a profit
was declared here, then.
America was jump-started. And no... there isn't enough 'welfare' in the world...never has been,
never will be, to pay all that back.
You non-black beneficiaries get plenty of welfare, too. You always have.
O Goody! The 'New' Republican Budget
Isn't this the same goofy budget you proposed last year? People who would prefer Medicare
vouchers will break down your doors, begging for them.
Oh, I'm sorry. You don't hear them.
Republican lawmakers are making no sense. They want to gut our Medicare, which is already
a big co-pay burden, so that they can give our children good Medicare.
You don't care about us; but you are concerned about our children.
You are concerned about our children when they are to turn 66, but unconcerned about them today.
You aren't making sense at all. How will they approach retirement age with good health, then?
Yes, you're sounding goofy.
vouchers will break down your doors, begging for them.
Oh, I'm sorry. You don't hear them.
Republican lawmakers are making no sense. They want to gut our Medicare, which is already
a big co-pay burden, so that they can give our children good Medicare.
You don't care about us; but you are concerned about our children.
You are concerned about our children when they are to turn 66, but unconcerned about them today.
You aren't making sense at all. How will they approach retirement age with good health, then?
Yes, you're sounding goofy.
Saintliness
The Saint is now a party person. He is the real Republican.
He doesn't much care what he says as regards the fall campaign.
What he is doing now, is looking to verbalize conservative thinking trends which turn out to be the biggest applause lines.
In the fall, no matter which man has been chosen as the nominee, The Saint's lines could be used,
unless, like the 'I don't care about unemployment', they flop.
What was his day job anyway?
He doesn't much care what he says as regards the fall campaign.
What he is doing now, is looking to verbalize conservative thinking trends which turn out to be the biggest applause lines.
In the fall, no matter which man has been chosen as the nominee, The Saint's lines could be used,
unless, like the 'I don't care about unemployment', they flop.
What was his day job anyway?
Governor Romney: Not China Again
Please don't start with all that China talk again. American business loves to tear down American
companies, moving their manufacturing and customer service to China and India.
American business, not the American government has made it necessary for future generations to owe China. All of us have owed China for years now. China debt is not new. The Chinese are not going to force a huge payment plan on us. What will they do in case we are late? Drop a bomb on us?
No. No they won't.
companies, moving their manufacturing and customer service to China and India.
American business, not the American government has made it necessary for future generations to owe China. All of us have owed China for years now. China debt is not new. The Chinese are not going to force a huge payment plan on us. What will they do in case we are late? Drop a bomb on us?
No. No they won't.
Free Stuff
Governor Romney said on the stump yesterday that if we want a bunch of free stuff, we should
vote for "the other guy".
Well, ok...
No sooner said than done, Mr. Man!
Or do I want to pay a lot for nothing but deprivation in return?
Your prices for everything are high.
Maybe not. I feel more important than that. Besides, I have a family.
vote for "the other guy".
Well, ok...
No sooner said than done, Mr. Man!
Or do I want to pay a lot for nothing but deprivation in return?
Your prices for everything are high.
Maybe not. I feel more important than that. Besides, I have a family.
United States Health Care
Much of President Obama's health care reforms are geared toward enhancing the health of women and children.
Now why would any conservative want this care to be a part of our ethic? Women, unless at times when some of them are very rich, are not respected in conservative politics.
Conservatives want women to work, not for careers of their personal choice, but to "help out at
home".
The majority of political conservatives prefer women, if they must work, to work in service professions. Even professional conservative women often pooh pooh the efforts of other women.
They seem to prefer to be men.
Many conservatives only want to tolerate women who can remain healthy long enough to be ridden hard, and put away wet.
My social worker friends claim women who lose their health or have it compromised, go home from hospital all too often, to isolation with little or no aftercare...husband or no husband.
Now why would any conservative want this care to be a part of our ethic? Women, unless at times when some of them are very rich, are not respected in conservative politics.
Conservatives want women to work, not for careers of their personal choice, but to "help out at
home".
The majority of political conservatives prefer women, if they must work, to work in service professions. Even professional conservative women often pooh pooh the efforts of other women.
They seem to prefer to be men.
Many conservatives only want to tolerate women who can remain healthy long enough to be ridden hard, and put away wet.
My social worker friends claim women who lose their health or have it compromised, go home from hospital all too often, to isolation with little or no aftercare...husband or no husband.
FLOTUSA
When will Michelle Obama be ready to run for office? She is well-versed in foreign and domestic
affairs, and she is a powerful thinker.
affairs, and she is a powerful thinker.
The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson
Thank you Reverend Jackson, for the newer democratic primary process which gave us
President Barack Hussein Obama for the fall election of 2008. Thank you as well to Reverend Al Sharpton, and last but not least, to our late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
President Barack Hussein Obama for the fall election of 2008. Thank you as well to Reverend Al Sharpton, and last but not least, to our late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
Government Spending
Government spending puts the public growth and good front and center.
So it's fer damned sur no private company is EVER going to do that!
In America, they don't have to, because the federal government allows them to capitalize the most profitable markets.
Why, then do so many in private industry feel the need to cripple the life styles of those of us who would make life better for ourselves while working hard to enrich them, the 99%, at the same time? Why loot us? No one left in the world to exploit, to destroy...so you come back home?
What?
So it's fer damned sur no private company is EVER going to do that!
In America, they don't have to, because the federal government allows them to capitalize the most profitable markets.
Why, then do so many in private industry feel the need to cripple the life styles of those of us who would make life better for ourselves while working hard to enrich them, the 99%, at the same time? Why loot us? No one left in the world to exploit, to destroy...so you come back home?
What?
White Women
So many white women have called into radio stations to say they have called police to give
statements on what they saw and heard while Trayvon Martin was being killed. These women are upset that they have been doing this since February 26th, and no law enforcement official is listening to them.
These officials don't care that a child was gunned down in the streets?
They don't care that the parents looked for the youngster for days while the child was in their
morgue.
They don't care that the grieving parents want justice for their son.
They don't care that the witnesses want a chance to be heard.
In this climate of states wanting to lay off police officials, cut back on office personnel in their
departments, cripple their unions, well, then: what does law enforcement care about?!
statements on what they saw and heard while Trayvon Martin was being killed. These women are upset that they have been doing this since February 26th, and no law enforcement official is listening to them.
These officials don't care that a child was gunned down in the streets?
They don't care that the parents looked for the youngster for days while the child was in their
morgue.
They don't care that the grieving parents want justice for their son.
They don't care that the witnesses want a chance to be heard.
In this climate of states wanting to lay off police officials, cut back on office personnel in their
departments, cripple their unions, well, then: what does law enforcement care about?!
Friday, March 16, 2012
Women In America
American women are shamefully wanton in the way they insist on making decisions about their
own reproductive lives. I don't blame them.
Many times, men agree wholeheartedly with the views of these women. Oftentimes because men have daughters, they prefer their children exercise choice over all the options which should be available to them in a modern society. Other men have that same sentiment toward women who may be their mothers, sisters, aunts, cousins and/or friends.
Some people, on the other hand, may be naturally reactionary toward autonomy for women.
By 1982, for instance (I know none of what has happened since. I read about this then.) more than one million marriages in the U.S. had as pre-nupts, that a husband asking his wife to become pregnant, was to give the wife grounds for divorce.
These pre-nupts may seem extreme. However, women feeling intensely competetive in life-long professions, wanted no thought of ever missing out on a promotion or a raise because they were competing with someone who would never need to take six weeks off to give birth, or a day off to care for a sick child.
After 1960, when many of the most prestigious colleges began admitting women, some women
decided in honor of their frustrated high school dreams, and in some cases the frustrated dreams of their own moms, aunts, older sisters, etc. - to go full speed ahead in striving for their own personal definitions of competitive success.
I didn't think to emulate them, for some unenlightened reasons of my own. Things did turn out
well for me and my own teeny tiny aspirations anyway.
However, I am immensely proud of those women who stayed the course full steam ahead.
If one woman each day decides to be happy with her decision not to have children, that's fine.
If one woman per day decides she has no need of marriage, that's fine.
In America, those things get more fine each day.
So it may seem to some republicans who can afford birth control, and air fare to places where abortions are readily available, that the remainder of us need nothing more than to be subject to
feeling we could be under the gun or out of autonomy for any given number of possible
gender dependent reasons. They do understand they are showing no concern that half the American workforce would be effectively re-hobbled. We have no time to let that happen, even from now until November.
Women need to keep up the good work of competing to infuse more and more power into their
citizenship. In no way do we have time to go back in time to re-litigate the rights we waited so long to have a chance to exercise. Yet, it seems on the surface we have little choice.
So we need to gather professional persons, as many as possible who are on our side. We don't have to be distracted with what overbearing lawmakers seem to have to belabor of late.
If our friends put their heads together for us ... we will be able to get on with those things we really should be doing to forge ahead for the sum total of all our progress thus far. That's what's
up...
own reproductive lives. I don't blame them.
Many times, men agree wholeheartedly with the views of these women. Oftentimes because men have daughters, they prefer their children exercise choice over all the options which should be available to them in a modern society. Other men have that same sentiment toward women who may be their mothers, sisters, aunts, cousins and/or friends.
Some people, on the other hand, may be naturally reactionary toward autonomy for women.
By 1982, for instance (I know none of what has happened since. I read about this then.) more than one million marriages in the U.S. had as pre-nupts, that a husband asking his wife to become pregnant, was to give the wife grounds for divorce.
These pre-nupts may seem extreme. However, women feeling intensely competetive in life-long professions, wanted no thought of ever missing out on a promotion or a raise because they were competing with someone who would never need to take six weeks off to give birth, or a day off to care for a sick child.
After 1960, when many of the most prestigious colleges began admitting women, some women
decided in honor of their frustrated high school dreams, and in some cases the frustrated dreams of their own moms, aunts, older sisters, etc. - to go full speed ahead in striving for their own personal definitions of competitive success.
I didn't think to emulate them, for some unenlightened reasons of my own. Things did turn out
well for me and my own teeny tiny aspirations anyway.
However, I am immensely proud of those women who stayed the course full steam ahead.
If one woman each day decides to be happy with her decision not to have children, that's fine.
If one woman per day decides she has no need of marriage, that's fine.
In America, those things get more fine each day.
So it may seem to some republicans who can afford birth control, and air fare to places where abortions are readily available, that the remainder of us need nothing more than to be subject to
feeling we could be under the gun or out of autonomy for any given number of possible
gender dependent reasons. They do understand they are showing no concern that half the American workforce would be effectively re-hobbled. We have no time to let that happen, even from now until November.
Women need to keep up the good work of competing to infuse more and more power into their
citizenship. In no way do we have time to go back in time to re-litigate the rights we waited so long to have a chance to exercise. Yet, it seems on the surface we have little choice.
So we need to gather professional persons, as many as possible who are on our side. We don't have to be distracted with what overbearing lawmakers seem to have to belabor of late.
If our friends put their heads together for us ... we will be able to get on with those things we really should be doing to forge ahead for the sum total of all our progress thus far. That's what's
up...
Whose Taxes Do You Pay?
Are we living in a place and time where each person knows and approves of all policies and
initiatives his and her taxes have funded?
Our taxes fund the laws...all the laws.
Black workers in Mississippi paid taxes used to enforce Jim Crow.
Quakers pay taxes which help fund wars.
Lilly Ledbetter paid taxes before the equal pay for equal work law was signed.
Blind people pay taxes which help buy books for sighted students.
Deaf persons pay taxes to help public airways sound 'emergency broadcast signals'.
People who work are told their insurance benefits are part of their compensation packets, whether they go to a hospital or doctor or not, whether there is a layoff or not.
Then, those workers pay taxes on their gross earnings.
We don't get to assign our taxes individually, exclusively to the projects we like.
Go figure.
That would be a world power turned into a sudden, chaotic, foreign country dominated soup.
Therefore, please don't tell me whose taxes pay for what. We all pay for all of it, as we ought.
initiatives his and her taxes have funded?
Our taxes fund the laws...all the laws.
Black workers in Mississippi paid taxes used to enforce Jim Crow.
Quakers pay taxes which help fund wars.
Lilly Ledbetter paid taxes before the equal pay for equal work law was signed.
Blind people pay taxes which help buy books for sighted students.
Deaf persons pay taxes to help public airways sound 'emergency broadcast signals'.
People who work are told their insurance benefits are part of their compensation packets, whether they go to a hospital or doctor or not, whether there is a layoff or not.
Then, those workers pay taxes on their gross earnings.
We don't get to assign our taxes individually, exclusively to the projects we like.
Go figure.
That would be a world power turned into a sudden, chaotic, foreign country dominated soup.
Therefore, please don't tell me whose taxes pay for what. We all pay for all of it, as we ought.
Afghanistan's Karzai
How does Hamid Karzai have a right to demand more from the U.S.? Demand anything from the
the U.S. at this stage of affairs between our two countries?
We are in that country on vacations?
Either he has lawful, measured control of the situations attracting Al Queda stagings in Afghanistan, or he does not.
If he has no control of it, he has the responsibility for anything, good or bad, which happens
in Afghanistan.
We have funneled money and live human beings into his country for years, as defense, in spite
of the fact that the appearance of what we have to do there often masks our efforts as offensive.
Cut and run is not surgical. Cut and run offers only a little precision, and even less accuracy.
Cut an offending organic mass; clean the wound, bandage the compromised remains of the cutting. Then remediation has begun to happen with precision, and with accuracy. Each of these
things has a different, abiding importance.
Take instructions from the patient's friends and governing officials while the cutting is still an imminent occurrence; then perhaps you want to botch the necessity of the protections
you are attempting to put in place, to prevent an epidemic of the viral destruction you are
attempting stem, to destroy. Then, whatever disease has flourished to cause such severe remedies in the first place, will definitely have to be re-visited. We would hope to avoid another visit for the sake of our defense.
Karzai doesn't seem to have an appreciation for our committment of blood and treasure. He has
the attitude,' Keep it coming...on my terms.' Somehow, he hasn't accepted the unrelenting
answers to those demands which come to him in different words at different times.
The answers are essentially always going to be the same: 'Absolutely not. Don't re-word these requests. Don't repeat these requests. Requests such as these paint requestors as people admitting possibly increasing incompetence.'
One of these days, when someone says to an Afghan leader; 'Get it together', one of them will reply:"Ok."
On that day, we will be more than happy to come home, on our own terms, though we may regret some of the friends we will have to leave behind.
the U.S. at this stage of affairs between our two countries?
We are in that country on vacations?
Either he has lawful, measured control of the situations attracting Al Queda stagings in Afghanistan, or he does not.
If he has no control of it, he has the responsibility for anything, good or bad, which happens
in Afghanistan.
We have funneled money and live human beings into his country for years, as defense, in spite
of the fact that the appearance of what we have to do there often masks our efforts as offensive.
Cut and run is not surgical. Cut and run offers only a little precision, and even less accuracy.
Cut an offending organic mass; clean the wound, bandage the compromised remains of the cutting. Then remediation has begun to happen with precision, and with accuracy. Each of these
things has a different, abiding importance.
Take instructions from the patient's friends and governing officials while the cutting is still an imminent occurrence; then perhaps you want to botch the necessity of the protections
you are attempting to put in place, to prevent an epidemic of the viral destruction you are
attempting stem, to destroy. Then, whatever disease has flourished to cause such severe remedies in the first place, will definitely have to be re-visited. We would hope to avoid another visit for the sake of our defense.
Karzai doesn't seem to have an appreciation for our committment of blood and treasure. He has
the attitude,' Keep it coming...on my terms.' Somehow, he hasn't accepted the unrelenting
answers to those demands which come to him in different words at different times.
The answers are essentially always going to be the same: 'Absolutely not. Don't re-word these requests. Don't repeat these requests. Requests such as these paint requestors as people admitting possibly increasing incompetence.'
One of these days, when someone says to an Afghan leader; 'Get it together', one of them will reply:"Ok."
On that day, we will be more than happy to come home, on our own terms, though we may regret some of the friends we will have to leave behind.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Too Legit To Quit
There is no reason in the world for Speaker Gingrich to quit the nomination race. He considers
himself an historian. He is a writer. He does the work lobbyists often do. Even if donations dry
up, aren't these historical circumstances in the first campaign since the 'citizens united' debacle?
Won't the former speaker want to write the book on what the entire race encompassed from his somewhat jaundiced point of view? Won't he continue to be exposed to events and interactions, maybe bad today but fortuitous tomorrow, that the remainder of the 300,000,000 million of us will not be eyewitness to- ever?
I don't see a person quitting under these circumstances, especially a person I disagree with so
strongly.
He may continue to say goofy things for months.
He can enhance the personal standing of engagement he has in his own life; and at the same time give democratic candidates in many races, very clear positions to counter. At this moment,
he is giving both democrats and republicans clear positions to counter or espouse.
The republican party can take care of itself. Newt Gingrich is not its keeper to the point where he submerges his self-interest for someone else's view of what would give the party establishment what their hearts desire. Individuals in the U.S. are not Russians of the former U.S.S.R.
himself an historian. He is a writer. He does the work lobbyists often do. Even if donations dry
up, aren't these historical circumstances in the first campaign since the 'citizens united' debacle?
Won't the former speaker want to write the book on what the entire race encompassed from his somewhat jaundiced point of view? Won't he continue to be exposed to events and interactions, maybe bad today but fortuitous tomorrow, that the remainder of the 300,000,000 million of us will not be eyewitness to- ever?
I don't see a person quitting under these circumstances, especially a person I disagree with so
strongly.
He may continue to say goofy things for months.
He can enhance the personal standing of engagement he has in his own life; and at the same time give democratic candidates in many races, very clear positions to counter. At this moment,
he is giving both democrats and republicans clear positions to counter or espouse.
The republican party can take care of itself. Newt Gingrich is not its keeper to the point where he submerges his self-interest for someone else's view of what would give the party establishment what their hearts desire. Individuals in the U.S. are not Russians of the former U.S.S.R.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
We Need Marcy Kaptur
I wonder how Mr. Wurzelbacher did plumbing jobs? Whoever heard of a profession with no
regulations? If there is a set of professional services without regulation, it certainly isn't plumbing ... Joe The Plumber!
Thank heavens, as with all services the public counts on, that
fact is a staple in and of U.S. life.
Ohio's 9th Congressional District certainly needs Marcy Kaptur to save citizens from faulty
plumbing.
regulations? If there is a set of professional services without regulation, it certainly isn't plumbing ... Joe The Plumber!
Thank heavens, as with all services the public counts on, that
fact is a staple in and of U.S. life.
Ohio's 9th Congressional District certainly needs Marcy Kaptur to save citizens from faulty
plumbing.
Women Must Remain Aware
When Imus verbally assaulted a very young group of black women athletes, there was enough
of an uproar to make him rethink audience shares.
That may have been a warning to us all, because it apparently didn't stop talk radio from upping
the ante by verbally assaulting another young woman, who was very much a private citizen, speaking to her public representatives.
Make no mistake about it.
An attack is an attack. Women cannot afford to raise daughters, or have daughters who will be
legislated against.
One reason for gaurding against these attacks is that they will surely escalate. The nature of
unanswered attacks is that they escalate.
Another reason to gaurd against the tendency to legislate against a woman's will over her own
body: young men's lives, will in great measure, be inevitably, inextircably tied to the lives and fortunes of these young women.
It may be better for everyone involved if women were as free as possible of reproductive and
health baggage. No?
For women too: choice is a good thing. Available choices can make a person feel safe in her body.
Whereas rich women may always have more choices than poor women, what about poor women
who later become rich from the wealth of a man? Should a poor girl automatically have less
choice over her adult body than a rich girl?
Apparently in Republican politics the answer is: "of course".
of an uproar to make him rethink audience shares.
That may have been a warning to us all, because it apparently didn't stop talk radio from upping
the ante by verbally assaulting another young woman, who was very much a private citizen, speaking to her public representatives.
Make no mistake about it.
An attack is an attack. Women cannot afford to raise daughters, or have daughters who will be
legislated against.
One reason for gaurding against these attacks is that they will surely escalate. The nature of
unanswered attacks is that they escalate.
Another reason to gaurd against the tendency to legislate against a woman's will over her own
body: young men's lives, will in great measure, be inevitably, inextircably tied to the lives and fortunes of these young women.
It may be better for everyone involved if women were as free as possible of reproductive and
health baggage. No?
For women too: choice is a good thing. Available choices can make a person feel safe in her body.
Whereas rich women may always have more choices than poor women, what about poor women
who later become rich from the wealth of a man? Should a poor girl automatically have less
choice over her adult body than a rich girl?
Apparently in Republican politics the answer is: "of course".
Pediatrics In The Big City: A Dramatina
Mom: Dr. I'm worried.
Dr. -So?
Mom: But my little one has a fever.
Dr.- If it isn't over 105, I'm going to consider it normal.
Mom: But her sister had this fever last week, and as it turned out, it was pneumonia!
Dr.- I recall. I told you to wait 72 hours and come back to see me.
Mom: But pneumonia is serious.
Dr. - So?
Mom: This baby is only two. If I wait 72 hours, she may be a baby with pneumonia.
Dr.- So?
Mom: So my kids both have allergies and inhalers. Isn't it dangerous to let upper respiratory
slide into pneumonia for them? Then the meds may not work in time to open up their breathing
passages.
Dr.- But it might.
Mom: That is so scary. My elder child finally got medecine after 72 hours. Four days later
she still had a fever. Today is three days after even that, and her cough sounds like that
of a grown man.
Dr.- Well if your little ones get worse, after you see me, you can call me or come in and say so.
Mom: Then I am off work again, and babies are sick again, two weeks in a row.
Dr.- So? That can't matter much.
Mom: Why not?
Dr.- Because you are not at work. You chose to come here.
Mom: I wanted to be sure my baby was ok.
Dr.- But I told you ... give the child tylenol, and call me in the morning ... wait, no,'call me in the morning' that was in the twentieth century, with aspirin. Call me in three days- yes that's it, give the child tylenol then call me again, 72 hours after a fever begins.
Mom: Is there no test you can do?
Dr.- No, the swab I did was negative. Now let's wait to see if this is viral, or more treatable.
Mom: If it's treatable, they are sick longer. I have to come back, and that's another co-pay.
Dr.- That doesn't matter.
Mom: So what's the benchmark? I have to stay worried, lose work, and baby has to stay sick.
Dr.- The benchmark? Why my practice is thriving! Thank you Mersa! So many parents have to come here every three days, or once the child has a quite serious condition, for which I can bill more.
Mom: Not good Dr.- But I will probably be back in a day or two, because last time this one got
sick, it took three visits and two courses of antibiotics.
Dr.(with a bit of glee) I recall ... isn't policy juicy? For me, it's even better than medecine!
Dr. -So?
Mom: But my little one has a fever.
Dr.- If it isn't over 105, I'm going to consider it normal.
Mom: But her sister had this fever last week, and as it turned out, it was pneumonia!
Dr.- I recall. I told you to wait 72 hours and come back to see me.
Mom: But pneumonia is serious.
Dr. - So?
Mom: This baby is only two. If I wait 72 hours, she may be a baby with pneumonia.
Dr.- So?
Mom: So my kids both have allergies and inhalers. Isn't it dangerous to let upper respiratory
slide into pneumonia for them? Then the meds may not work in time to open up their breathing
passages.
Dr.- But it might.
Mom: That is so scary. My elder child finally got medecine after 72 hours. Four days later
she still had a fever. Today is three days after even that, and her cough sounds like that
of a grown man.
Dr.- Well if your little ones get worse, after you see me, you can call me or come in and say so.
Mom: Then I am off work again, and babies are sick again, two weeks in a row.
Dr.- So? That can't matter much.
Mom: Why not?
Dr.- Because you are not at work. You chose to come here.
Mom: I wanted to be sure my baby was ok.
Dr.- But I told you ... give the child tylenol, and call me in the morning ... wait, no,'call me in the morning' that was in the twentieth century, with aspirin. Call me in three days- yes that's it, give the child tylenol then call me again, 72 hours after a fever begins.
Mom: Is there no test you can do?
Dr.- No, the swab I did was negative. Now let's wait to see if this is viral, or more treatable.
Mom: If it's treatable, they are sick longer. I have to come back, and that's another co-pay.
Dr.- That doesn't matter.
Mom: So what's the benchmark? I have to stay worried, lose work, and baby has to stay sick.
Dr.- The benchmark? Why my practice is thriving! Thank you Mersa! So many parents have to come here every three days, or once the child has a quite serious condition, for which I can bill more.
Mom: Not good Dr.- But I will probably be back in a day or two, because last time this one got
sick, it took three visits and two courses of antibiotics.
Dr.(with a bit of glee) I recall ... isn't policy juicy? For me, it's even better than medecine!
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Is He A Billionaire?
Gov. Romney talks crazier each month. If he were Warren Buffet, or Bill Gates, trying to relate to regular people, he would sound much better than he does.
Mr. Buffet, and Mr. Gates sound like regular people when they reference regular people. That's how we know the Governor doesn't have to talk crazy. He is not too rich to sound a bit normal. If real billionaires can do it, he can do it.
Mark Zuckerberg does it.
Oprah does it every day.
Grow up. You can do it too. You are not convincing us you are some sort of zillionaire. Or maybe you feel better sounding purposefully goofy.
Mississippi Self Interest
I wonder that Mississippi voters are still identified by their hatred of black people.
Even if there were no black people, or if all black people were maids and butlers; all the average Mississippian would have is what they had during slavery ... the booted foot of the landed gentry pressing down hard on the backs of their necks.
Even if there were no black people, or if all black people were maids and butlers; all the average Mississippian would have is what they had during slavery ... the booted foot of the landed gentry pressing down hard on the backs of their necks.
NAN
I was quite pleased to see Hilda Solis and Mrs. Ethel Kennedy at last week's commemorative
Alabama march sponsored by Revernd Al Sharpton's National Action Network. I am certain many more committed persons with activists sentiment were in attendance; and I wish I could
have found more coverage on it. I did see The Reverend Jesse Jackson there as well. At one
time I noticed Valerie Jarrett there.
It was a great thing to me that the march was happening with noted women during this week
the world was celebrating women internationlly.
The Wrong Effigies
Why are some Afghan people angry with the President Of The United States Of America? Why
would they hang him in effigy? They are the ones always proud to call themselves a graveyard
of some sort. They are the ones who worship backward Taliban policies,no matter what trouble that develops. Why don't they hang some of those Taliban or some of the Queda they could hoist in effigy?
Peaceful, productive, Afghan people must wonder how much violence is going to take the place of
working, prospering and progressing, so that the Americans can leave?!
No one has forced the Afghan government to anchor the Afghan population in antiquity, to isolate them from the rest of civilization.
America has a hard time abandoning the Afghan population and its land mass to drug lords and wife beaters, when that is exactly the sort of environment radicals need in order to train jihadists to kill thousands of western citizens at a time.
Now that Nato forces are making some needed progress in that very slow-moving part of the world, suddenly every tragedy is highlighted as some awful thing the Americans have done to a
peaceful people.
Somehow, a rogue soldier did do an abominable thing. But why leave President Obama or even
the occupation the blame for simply being in the country in the first place.
Afghanistan has to become a place where mass violence cannot be planned and fueled so that people, Afghani or otherwise, can become victims.
The Afghan government has got to cooperate with America in order for that goal to be achieved.
Though the goals should be temporally bound, they can't be bound by the simple fact that
some foreigner in that country did something wrong. We are there in the first place because some
foreigners in our country did some 3ooo wrongs, not including U.S. property.
So if they want us out of there, we have given them plenty of ways to get us out. No,
we are not exactly enjoying our visit there; and we are not enjoying a sense of glory there. Yes, we are truly quite anxious to be out of the presence of the wonderfully enlightened Hamid Karzai.
Deadly Skittles ... What Kind Of Iced Tea?
I still mourn Oscar Grant, and other recent police victims. Now 17 year old Trayvan Martin is
dead for no reason whatsoever. The police found the dead child with a bag of Skittles and an iced
tea. He was killed by some neighborhood watch thug with a nine millimeter automatic. Apparently, Trayvan seemed suspicious to the gun-toting brute. The killer thug must have felt the deadly threat of snacks. He had about 60 pounds on the teenager.
I am proud that Rev. Al Sharpton highlights these sorts of abuses for those of us in America who
care for each other.
I feel sad that he has had to do this sort of thing for nearly all of his adult life.
dead for no reason whatsoever. The police found the dead child with a bag of Skittles and an iced
tea. He was killed by some neighborhood watch thug with a nine millimeter automatic. Apparently, Trayvan seemed suspicious to the gun-toting brute. The killer thug must have felt the deadly threat of snacks. He had about 60 pounds on the teenager.
I am proud that Rev. Al Sharpton highlights these sorts of abuses for those of us in America who
care for each other.
I feel sad that he has had to do this sort of thing for nearly all of his adult life.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Segregation
Were black people actually, naturally, inferior- why would segregation be in any way necessary?
School
Why do statistics keep showing the weaknesses of public schools? What are the strengths of public schools? Where are those statistics? How is a charter school not public? How are one hundred charter schools statistically better than an equal number of public schools on average?
America has many, many college grads who went to "good" high schools who are well below
stated college grad standards in all skills. Why don't we hear the statistics on that more often. Ford, GM, Chrysler, and a great many college professors tried to inform policy on these statistics
all through the nineties, and maybe even longer.
America has many, many college grads who went to "good" high schools who are well below
stated college grad standards in all skills. Why don't we hear the statistics on that more often. Ford, GM, Chrysler, and a great many college professors tried to inform policy on these statistics
all through the nineties, and maybe even longer.
Dirt
Dirt has some intelligence.
Dirt houses living organic systems which flow constantly through it.
Wood offers some intelligence.
Wood supports water systems. Wood has sophisticated gas exchange systems.
Many rocks have the intelligence of life cycles in their crevices.
Republicans don't need to sign pledges to give up intelligence. Intelligent life is quite common
on earth.
If you pledge to vote any one way at all times on any one topic, how will you express your individual human intelligence as the freedom to THINK.
Dirt houses living organic systems which flow constantly through it.
Wood offers some intelligence.
Wood supports water systems. Wood has sophisticated gas exchange systems.
Many rocks have the intelligence of life cycles in their crevices.
Republicans don't need to sign pledges to give up intelligence. Intelligent life is quite common
on earth.
If you pledge to vote any one way at all times on any one topic, how will you express your individual human intelligence as the freedom to THINK.
When Chicago Shuts Its Doors To K-12
When Chicago destroys so many schools, and so many teachers' jobs, how many "A" students will
they displace in those schools?
How many "B" students will be displaced?
Will a lot of "C" students lose their places?
What will happen to struggling "D" average youngsters?
And those who are failing? Will they be encouraged by Chicago officials hanging the albatross
of school failures and closures around thier necks, and their teachers' necks?
Good job Chicago. You are a Democratic city with Republican solutions to student need. What
a wonderful Frankenstein you have become. And somehow, there aren't even many angry
villagers with torches at your very expensive gates. That's right. It costs so much to park in your
city, that cars often drive out their expensive gas ... circling. Those who'd want to protests had better be prepared to walk a lot.
You are implementing a neutering schools plan. Fail to do what you should be doing, and leave
the victims the blame. Good luck pretending to offer a better education. You ARE the albatross.
they displace in those schools?
How many "B" students will be displaced?
Will a lot of "C" students lose their places?
What will happen to struggling "D" average youngsters?
And those who are failing? Will they be encouraged by Chicago officials hanging the albatross
of school failures and closures around thier necks, and their teachers' necks?
Good job Chicago. You are a Democratic city with Republican solutions to student need. What
a wonderful Frankenstein you have become. And somehow, there aren't even many angry
villagers with torches at your very expensive gates. That's right. It costs so much to park in your
city, that cars often drive out their expensive gas ... circling. Those who'd want to protests had better be prepared to walk a lot.
You are implementing a neutering schools plan. Fail to do what you should be doing, and leave
the victims the blame. Good luck pretending to offer a better education. You ARE the albatross.
2.5 World America
America has a country within a country. If that world is not a 3rd world, it is a two and a half
world country.
How many people in America must live on $2d per day? How long have we had these persons
in the U.S.? Apparently, we have had them for as long as homelessness has been multiplying, for
about thirty years, their numbers have been climbing while we have taken the roles of onlookers.
Again, how many Americans must live this way?
a. millions ... a factual answer
b. a growing number ...a factual answer
c. millions, mainly women and children...also a factual answer
d. not enough...a factual Republican answer
e. All of the above
If you answered e.) you are well-versed in 2.5 world America!
world country.
How many people in America must live on $2d per day? How long have we had these persons
in the U.S.? Apparently, we have had them for as long as homelessness has been multiplying, for
about thirty years, their numbers have been climbing while we have taken the roles of onlookers.
Again, how many Americans must live this way?
a. millions ... a factual answer
b. a growing number ...a factual answer
c. millions, mainly women and children...also a factual answer
d. not enough...a factual Republican answer
e. All of the above
If you answered e.) you are well-versed in 2.5 world America!
Friday, March 9, 2012
International Women's Day
March 8th was International Women's Day and I didn't do anything special.
I hope that won't happen again.
Several women live in this house; but each is busy with a great many things to do in each
separate life.
We at least ought to have gotten together to acknowledge it in some way, even if that were
a dinner with an honored suggestion from each person.
Women should not bypass chances to give some woman they know some special greeting on
this day around the world.
I hope that won't happen again.
Several women live in this house; but each is busy with a great many things to do in each
separate life.
We at least ought to have gotten together to acknowledge it in some way, even if that were
a dinner with an honored suggestion from each person.
Women should not bypass chances to give some woman they know some special greeting on
this day around the world.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Even Merlin Was Wiser
Merlin seems to have had more sense than some of us do, even though he was a real figment (or
his powers were) of someone's imagination.
Why, in this day and age, would any of us believe we don't have to be careful about destroying the earth. Merlin was correct. The earth is a dragon, usually sleeping peacefully. Aroused, however, it
will destroy us one and all.
The earth will not allow any species to destroy it.
The earth is nearly as organic as the sum of all its organic parts.
This planet discards species every single day.
I sometimes think the dinosaurs would have survived if they could have developed efficient wastewater treatment plants.
We don't actually have to be unbelievably reckless with the resources we encounter as natural.
This planet has the power to see to it that we will not.
Our planet earth does not invest in any adaptive tools or treasures for any species it no longer
has a use for regarding this earth as the body of a 'living' planet.
This planet will not and does not allow energy to be spent on species proving to be useless or overly destructive.
Mathematicians calculate the energy used in the life cycle of a species individual, and that used
by the numbers of the species on the planet in total. Then they predict whether or not this planet
will sustain the viability of the species in question. And, these scientists are quite good enough
in their predictions to continue doing their work.
As the late great Dennis Hopper would say, "Am I lyin'?"
his powers were) of someone's imagination.
Why, in this day and age, would any of us believe we don't have to be careful about destroying the earth. Merlin was correct. The earth is a dragon, usually sleeping peacefully. Aroused, however, it
will destroy us one and all.
The earth will not allow any species to destroy it.
The earth is nearly as organic as the sum of all its organic parts.
This planet discards species every single day.
I sometimes think the dinosaurs would have survived if they could have developed efficient wastewater treatment plants.
We don't actually have to be unbelievably reckless with the resources we encounter as natural.
This planet has the power to see to it that we will not.
Our planet earth does not invest in any adaptive tools or treasures for any species it no longer
has a use for regarding this earth as the body of a 'living' planet.
This planet will not and does not allow energy to be spent on species proving to be useless or overly destructive.
Mathematicians calculate the energy used in the life cycle of a species individual, and that used
by the numbers of the species on the planet in total. Then they predict whether or not this planet
will sustain the viability of the species in question. And, these scientists are quite good enough
in their predictions to continue doing their work.
As the late great Dennis Hopper would say, "Am I lyin'?"
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Excuse Me?!
If we advocate for Rush Limbaugh to be off the air, how can we keep track of who is crazy and
who is not?
Limbaugh represents 30,000,000 Americans or more. His Republicans have by and
large been unwilling to admit Sandra Fluke has a right to testify in Congress without being called names in public.
However, though perhaps no one, male or female, would be too happy to be called a slut, in a loud public voice; prostitution is a real profession. Should this profession's name be used as a slur; though no woman is happy to be assigned to this profession if she is not a part of it. Perhaps a man would be equally uneasy. But normally, we don't give men a reason to have to worry about it.
With respect to those who are professionals in this service industry, we should not actually be calling them 'sluts'. They rarely have sex without a specific reason to do so.
With a professional, it seems safe to assume that if she asks for no particlar renumeration, she is
acting out of a purely human, non-aggressive motive. I'm not even quite certain, as a matter of
fact, that we know the definition of a word like "slut" either.
who is not?
Limbaugh represents 30,000,000 Americans or more. His Republicans have by and
large been unwilling to admit Sandra Fluke has a right to testify in Congress without being called names in public.
However, though perhaps no one, male or female, would be too happy to be called a slut, in a loud public voice; prostitution is a real profession. Should this profession's name be used as a slur; though no woman is happy to be assigned to this profession if she is not a part of it. Perhaps a man would be equally uneasy. But normally, we don't give men a reason to have to worry about it.
With respect to those who are professionals in this service industry, we should not actually be calling them 'sluts'. They rarely have sex without a specific reason to do so.
With a professional, it seems safe to assume that if she asks for no particlar renumeration, she is
acting out of a purely human, non-aggressive motive. I'm not even quite certain, as a matter of
fact, that we know the definition of a word like "slut" either.
Israel Is More Than Ready
There is no way at all that Israel's defense systems, and radar systems would allow Iranian
ICBMs to even get into position to be launched. If Israel does want war, I would think it isn't
out of fear.
The world could use billions+, keeping Iran from nuclear weapons. To what end? They are never
going to get a chance to use them.
ICBMs to even get into position to be launched. If Israel does want war, I would think it isn't
out of fear.
The world could use billions+, keeping Iran from nuclear weapons. To what end? They are never
going to get a chance to use them.
What's Wrong With Caecilia?
Why should speaker Gingrich drop out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination?
If we listen to him, we have a lot to counter in names and numbers of policy initiatives!
Governor Romney so far talks the same nonsense. 'I can do more!' Which more? More damage?
Rand Paul thinks we live in the 18th century and have just a few million people in the country.
He can't see that the 'foundling founders' the native Americans discovered wrote a constitution
which was organic, not static. They meant it to grow and develop.
Mr. Ex-Speaker is talking rot; but it actually is about policy detail.
If we listen to him, we have a lot to counter in names and numbers of policy initiatives!
Governor Romney so far talks the same nonsense. 'I can do more!' Which more? More damage?
Rand Paul thinks we live in the 18th century and have just a few million people in the country.
He can't see that the 'foundling founders' the native Americans discovered wrote a constitution
which was organic, not static. They meant it to grow and develop.
Mr. Ex-Speaker is talking rot; but it actually is about policy detail.
Governor Barbour
Though he is not a democrat, I couldn't be more pleased about Governor Hailey Barbour.
He has caused Governor George Ryan's efforts to be highlighted as the very brave, very progressive good conscience moves they were.
I wonder if it tells us anything that we still have martyrs in the 21st century?
I hope Gov. Barbour, unlike Gov. Ryan, is well and safely above the fray.
He has caused Governor George Ryan's efforts to be highlighted as the very brave, very progressive good conscience moves they were.
I wonder if it tells us anything that we still have martyrs in the 21st century?
I hope Gov. Barbour, unlike Gov. Ryan, is well and safely above the fray.
Trisomy
The Saint whose mom became a nurse in post-depression America, and who himself went to a number of universities and has a number of degrees, but calls a country who wants a plethora of college grads "snobs"- had the nerve to refer to his daughter's affliction as trisomy 13. Well sir,
that is the technical, medical term for your child's affliction. Why didn't you say "a chromosome
problem". More people would have actually heard you. You could be making people more
sensitive to the fact that not all trisomy is Down's syndrome. Never mind. I'll do it.
Sarah Palin never used that sort of language. Maybe the Saint is more of a phony than Governor
Romney in many ways. Many he thinks he is the only person who needs a good education.
that is the technical, medical term for your child's affliction. Why didn't you say "a chromosome
problem". More people would have actually heard you. You could be making people more
sensitive to the fact that not all trisomy is Down's syndrome. Never mind. I'll do it.
Sarah Palin never used that sort of language. Maybe the Saint is more of a phony than Governor
Romney in many ways. Many he thinks he is the only person who needs a good education.
Is Romney Aleady Toast/ Or Is He Closing In?
I think it's a miracle Romney got any votes at all in a state so dependent on auto company jobs.
People know he is not a friend to the industry, though it raised and bred him. So whatever is the matter with Ohio, is obviously the same thing that is the 'matter with Kansas'.
Yet I wonder: can Romney win the general if he is anathema to the south? Perhaps the same
thing that's 'the matter with Kansas' will be the matter with all these states in the general election.
Students and Hispanic people have to vote for our President. We know the black community will stick with POTUS if they are motivated to get out and vote. But in the general, I am wondering; if Ohio can so vote against its own interests, many states may tend to follow suit.
The one race that gives me pause on that is Virginia. Romney and Ron Paul are so close on
so many issues that I marvel Ron Paul got 4 of every 1o votes in that state!
Virginia Republicans have to really hate Romney for that to be true. They voted against him because they could. Only the Congressman was in that race with Romney, so Virginians in great number decided they did not have to consider the general election. They did not need to vote for Romney, and so they did not. Virginia is not typically "the South" when it comes to the vote. In Virginia, women it particular will galvanize and 'backlash' vote against policies which enrage them. Perhaps Republicans have forgotten about Governor Wilder. I don't see how.
In the end, if Romney is the nominee, will women Republicans vote for him, and will Republicans turn out to vote at all?
The one other really unusual thing about Super Tuesday is that The Saint decided to hang his hat
once more on "Obama Care" as he calls it. When will Republicans get the point that we already
have health care mandates. No fault car insurance is a health care mandate. But because it is
in individual states, it is WAY too expensive!
And then did I hear him correctly? When the health care law gets fully implemented, 100% of
Americans will have government insurance? I wish that were true. It is not true. I guess he will
somehow manage to keep his government insurance though. That is the important thing isn't
it?
I do wonder what the energy debate will be in the national election, too.
The Salamander said last night that our President is dragging his feet on 'drill baby drill'. Much
to the chagrin of his base, President Obama is not dragging his feet at all on drilling. Since that point will be easily proved in a national election,what will the energy debate be? Right now there exists a small window of time in which we can beat China with all her billions of people and all her trillions of dollars, if we don't drag our feet on the President's energy initiatives. We have a ton of rigs drilling in the gulf, and new exploration in Alaska, no matter what the Republican magpies tell us. But our president is anxious for wind, solar, gas, biofuels, and clean coal to come online in a competitive and cost effective way. Other nations are developing these things for world consumption and export.
Therefore, environmentalists have the President's urging, backing, and financial incentive to come up with low cost scientifically sound to solutions to public health hazard. They need to get on it.
People know he is not a friend to the industry, though it raised and bred him. So whatever is the matter with Ohio, is obviously the same thing that is the 'matter with Kansas'.
Yet I wonder: can Romney win the general if he is anathema to the south? Perhaps the same
thing that's 'the matter with Kansas' will be the matter with all these states in the general election.
Students and Hispanic people have to vote for our President. We know the black community will stick with POTUS if they are motivated to get out and vote. But in the general, I am wondering; if Ohio can so vote against its own interests, many states may tend to follow suit.
The one race that gives me pause on that is Virginia. Romney and Ron Paul are so close on
so many issues that I marvel Ron Paul got 4 of every 1o votes in that state!
Virginia Republicans have to really hate Romney for that to be true. They voted against him because they could. Only the Congressman was in that race with Romney, so Virginians in great number decided they did not have to consider the general election. They did not need to vote for Romney, and so they did not. Virginia is not typically "the South" when it comes to the vote. In Virginia, women it particular will galvanize and 'backlash' vote against policies which enrage them. Perhaps Republicans have forgotten about Governor Wilder. I don't see how.
In the end, if Romney is the nominee, will women Republicans vote for him, and will Republicans turn out to vote at all?
The one other really unusual thing about Super Tuesday is that The Saint decided to hang his hat
once more on "Obama Care" as he calls it. When will Republicans get the point that we already
have health care mandates. No fault car insurance is a health care mandate. But because it is
in individual states, it is WAY too expensive!
And then did I hear him correctly? When the health care law gets fully implemented, 100% of
Americans will have government insurance? I wish that were true. It is not true. I guess he will
somehow manage to keep his government insurance though. That is the important thing isn't
it?
I do wonder what the energy debate will be in the national election, too.
The Salamander said last night that our President is dragging his feet on 'drill baby drill'. Much
to the chagrin of his base, President Obama is not dragging his feet at all on drilling. Since that point will be easily proved in a national election,what will the energy debate be? Right now there exists a small window of time in which we can beat China with all her billions of people and all her trillions of dollars, if we don't drag our feet on the President's energy initiatives. We have a ton of rigs drilling in the gulf, and new exploration in Alaska, no matter what the Republican magpies tell us. But our president is anxious for wind, solar, gas, biofuels, and clean coal to come online in a competitive and cost effective way. Other nations are developing these things for world consumption and export.
Therefore, environmentalists have the President's urging, backing, and financial incentive to come up with low cost scientifically sound to solutions to public health hazard. They need to get on it.
Monday, March 5, 2012
What Is it With These Last Names?
If you are a Caucasian person with a son whose last name is Peterson, have a long, gentle,
non-threatening talk. We do not want him to be victim to whatever got into Scott, Michael,
or Drew.
If you are a black person with a son whose last name is Brown, have a long, warm conversation.
Explain that a specific woman is not needed in a man's life unless he wants someone to cherish.
Kidding of course, in a way. There must be some statistics available. I can't believe in that
much coincidence.
non-threatening talk. We do not want him to be victim to whatever got into Scott, Michael,
or Drew.
If you are a black person with a son whose last name is Brown, have a long, warm conversation.
Explain that a specific woman is not needed in a man's life unless he wants someone to cherish.
Kidding of course, in a way. There must be some statistics available. I can't believe in that
much coincidence.
Rush's Apology
Rush Limbaugh,for some reason I surely cannot guess, may have apologized to Sandra Fluke for
many reasons. I don't believe there was any single reason.
When he was told on his show that the President called Ms. Fluke, he was visibly stunned, and
stung. He did have a moment.
He had no smart retort. He had no degrading rejoinder. He repeated the information as a questioning of it. As though he was asking his control room, 'Are you sure?'
And most of the media failed to pile onto POTUS for his concern the way they did when he expressed himself to defend his Harvard professor friend, the friend who was harassed by a policeman for trying to get into his own house.
Rush is Rush; but he is a person ... and he has never operated in a wilderness. Now his advertisers
are jumping ship. I am just to know who they are. They are the ones I'd like to avoid, relentlessly.
many reasons. I don't believe there was any single reason.
When he was told on his show that the President called Ms. Fluke, he was visibly stunned, and
stung. He did have a moment.
He had no smart retort. He had no degrading rejoinder. He repeated the information as a questioning of it. As though he was asking his control room, 'Are you sure?'
And most of the media failed to pile onto POTUS for his concern the way they did when he expressed himself to defend his Harvard professor friend, the friend who was harassed by a policeman for trying to get into his own house.
Rush is Rush; but he is a person ... and he has never operated in a wilderness. Now his advertisers
are jumping ship. I am just to know who they are. They are the ones I'd like to avoid, relentlessly.
Rand Paul's Visions
Rand Paul must be disappointed in Americans. He believes we should go through our daily
lives wearing blinders. Yet in tornado country, complete strangers have been looking all around
them to note their neighbors worries and losses. They are chipping in to lend a hand without
waiting to be asked. Why, because Americans are remarkably adept at coalescence, and at really
believing if they stick together, they can do anything. Many of them are civilized. Sorry Paul.
lives wearing blinders. Yet in tornado country, complete strangers have been looking all around
them to note their neighbors worries and losses. They are chipping in to lend a hand without
waiting to be asked. Why, because Americans are remarkably adept at coalescence, and at really
believing if they stick together, they can do anything. Many of them are civilized. Sorry Paul.
Has The War With Iran Begun, Undeclared?
Iran has raised the price of its oil, knowing Europe and America are in a fragile recovery.
On the other hand, the Iranians have offered a U.S. Marine sentenced to death for spying for the CIA, a new trial.
At the same time, the U.S. Navy says it has rescued an Iranian sailor in the Persian Gulf, while three other sailors were recovered ... already dead.
One never knows, do one?
On the other hand, the Iranians have offered a U.S. Marine sentenced to death for spying for the CIA, a new trial.
At the same time, the U.S. Navy says it has rescued an Iranian sailor in the Persian Gulf, while three other sailors were recovered ... already dead.
One never knows, do one?
Friday, March 2, 2012
The State Of This Union
Judge Cebull used federal e-mail to suggest President Obama's dad was not a human being. So
then how did our President come to be human? Does the judge believe our President is human?
At the same time ...
Radio talk show people are declaring open season on women who need to control their own
body systems. While as well ...
Republicans have hired one million persons to question voters' identification at the November
polls, so that Medgar Evers will have died in vain.
Best of luck to us all, and may the Lord have mercy on our souls.
then how did our President come to be human? Does the judge believe our President is human?
At the same time ...
Radio talk show people are declaring open season on women who need to control their own
body systems. While as well ...
Republicans have hired one million persons to question voters' identification at the November
polls, so that Medgar Evers will have died in vain.
Best of luck to us all, and may the Lord have mercy on our souls.
Post-War Contraception
Frankly, I can't understand why more young men aren't showing some activism regarding
contraception. Ms. Fluke shouldn't be out there on her own. Unlike what some more beastly
thinkers may be spouting, she doesn't want to be paid for anything save protection from
pregnancy; and she can't get pregnant alone. Thank heaven we have a decent enough President, that he called her, he praised her, he wished her luck, and he expressed to her that her parents
had every reason in the world to be very proud of her.
But unless young men want to add early fatherhood to their lives and careers, shouldn't they
speak of for women's rights under the law?
When I was growing up, in the fifties and early sixties, if a guy got a girl pregnant, he often had to marry her. He would often start telling people: "I got my girl pregnant." Or he might say: "I think I got somebody pregnant. I might have to get married." Or, some would say: "I think we're pregnant." Of course, many times the young man called the girl by her name,too.
Then came the pill. Ever after that I would only hear guys say: "She got pregnant."
Some of them wanted to get married, yes, but they still worded the reality as if it were something
anyone could possibly do by herself.
We need young men joining NOW, even if in adjunct capacities.
Young White Males
As Republicans salivate over dissecting women's parts, we wonder if in another life they may have
been serial killers. Where is Shirley Maclaine when we need her? At the same time, we wonder why they would ignore a real 21st century trend which may signal a worrisome set of troubles.
An increasing number of young men in their twenties are undergoing voluntary vasectomies. Doesn't that worry legislators at all; or is it a matter of privacy, and of the fact that
the young man's body belongs to him, as does his decision about sperm production?
What about all the dead life-giving cells? Are you worried about them?
What is it about American society, moreover, what makes men so young decide they never even
want the option of having children? These are not minority males. Do you care?
Young women may not be so far behind these young men. They are not as eager to marry, for
instance, as they once were. Are you helping? No you aren't. You are disgusting young women.
As a somewhat parallel aside, I made my family quite angry one day in or around the year 2000.
We were watching The Oprah Winfrey Show. I made the remark: "even though I prefer to see
black men marrying black women, I sure don't blame the white women who prefer them. Soon
there will be fewer and fewer women of any race wanting to marry white men. These men are
really making a mess of whatever they can. They are escalating their destructive behaviors."
When I said it I didn't realize how racist a sound it had to it. I thought I was speaking in sociologically statistical, dry predictive terms.
But I shut up. There have been mixed-race relationships in my family. I snapped out of it. Then,
in 2005, I felt somewhat vindicated. An article in a major Chicago newspaper cited millions of
dollars had been spent by Texas and Oklahoma attempting to encourage young women to marry.
Dissatisfied with the progress they were making in Texas, that state instituted a law which made
marriage or separation counseling mandatory for anyone seeking a divorce.
I was appalled, because announcing a desire for dissolution of marriage has proven to be extremely dangerous for women. But I recall hoping no one would get hurt by failing to do it quietly.
Last night,as I listened to the day's news, I began to wonder whether any of those new programs worked. Texas passed their dumb transvaginal probe law. Oklahoma has one on the way.
Guys, if the woman doesn't want you, she will find a way to get free of you. Don't get mad ... get
better.
been serial killers. Where is Shirley Maclaine when we need her? At the same time, we wonder why they would ignore a real 21st century trend which may signal a worrisome set of troubles.
An increasing number of young men in their twenties are undergoing voluntary vasectomies. Doesn't that worry legislators at all; or is it a matter of privacy, and of the fact that
the young man's body belongs to him, as does his decision about sperm production?
What about all the dead life-giving cells? Are you worried about them?
What is it about American society, moreover, what makes men so young decide they never even
want the option of having children? These are not minority males. Do you care?
Young women may not be so far behind these young men. They are not as eager to marry, for
instance, as they once were. Are you helping? No you aren't. You are disgusting young women.
As a somewhat parallel aside, I made my family quite angry one day in or around the year 2000.
We were watching The Oprah Winfrey Show. I made the remark: "even though I prefer to see
black men marrying black women, I sure don't blame the white women who prefer them. Soon
there will be fewer and fewer women of any race wanting to marry white men. These men are
really making a mess of whatever they can. They are escalating their destructive behaviors."
When I said it I didn't realize how racist a sound it had to it. I thought I was speaking in sociologically statistical, dry predictive terms.
But I shut up. There have been mixed-race relationships in my family. I snapped out of it. Then,
in 2005, I felt somewhat vindicated. An article in a major Chicago newspaper cited millions of
dollars had been spent by Texas and Oklahoma attempting to encourage young women to marry.
Dissatisfied with the progress they were making in Texas, that state instituted a law which made
marriage or separation counseling mandatory for anyone seeking a divorce.
I was appalled, because announcing a desire for dissolution of marriage has proven to be extremely dangerous for women. But I recall hoping no one would get hurt by failing to do it quietly.
Last night,as I listened to the day's news, I began to wonder whether any of those new programs worked. Texas passed their dumb transvaginal probe law. Oklahoma has one on the way.
Guys, if the woman doesn't want you, she will find a way to get free of you. Don't get mad ... get
better.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Israel Will Not Simply Defend But Will Protect Herself
Israel has said she will not notify the U. S. if she decides to strike Iran or at least, Iran's nuclear
facilities. Who can blame her? It is not really our business. We don't live in the Mid-East.
Iran has a dictator, a reactionary court system always jockeying for power, and ayatollahs.
Does that sound like a good mix for a democratic country in a hostile geography to have to deal
with over something as fatal as nuclear power?
Iran is completely senseless to be agitating in that region over anything akin to nuclear power.
Israel is not going to allow them to be more of a threat than they already are.
Why would Iran even want the area more unstable than it is now?
Does Iran see an opening for further radicalizing Arab Spring participants?
Sounds a very bad idea to me, because their own citizenry would get the bulk of the horror. Silly
me ... since when does Iran lose sleep over that?
At the same time, Israel should follow the effects of the sanctions with a great precision, because
Iran, like North Korea, is a potential threat to most countries. Israel has no need to put its citizens
through any anxiety just so that it can function as an attack dog for European and American interests.
If Iran is going to do too much posturing for its own good, well then at the risk of sounding hawkish, I guess we had better get ready for them.
facilities. Who can blame her? It is not really our business. We don't live in the Mid-East.
Iran has a dictator, a reactionary court system always jockeying for power, and ayatollahs.
Does that sound like a good mix for a democratic country in a hostile geography to have to deal
with over something as fatal as nuclear power?
Iran is completely senseless to be agitating in that region over anything akin to nuclear power.
Israel is not going to allow them to be more of a threat than they already are.
Why would Iran even want the area more unstable than it is now?
Does Iran see an opening for further radicalizing Arab Spring participants?
Sounds a very bad idea to me, because their own citizenry would get the bulk of the horror. Silly
me ... since when does Iran lose sleep over that?
At the same time, Israel should follow the effects of the sanctions with a great precision, because
Iran, like North Korea, is a potential threat to most countries. Israel has no need to put its citizens
through any anxiety just so that it can function as an attack dog for European and American interests.
If Iran is going to do too much posturing for its own good, well then at the risk of sounding hawkish, I guess we had better get ready for them.
Parading Up And Down The Thoroughfare
Yes, they put on short short skirts, covering minimal underwear, and paint red red lips, to stroll
the city streets looking for any takers.
I know why the girls do it. I don't judge the girls. But why are the grown men in the Republican
Party Primary doing it? And is it working? Governor Romney had to ask for Internet money when
he declared his Michigan three point lead over Senator Saint. All this posturing to advertise
themselves as people ready, willing, and able to exploit women to the fullest extents... is it bringing the foreign money into their super-pacs, as it seemed to me they thought it would? I don't think it is working. But they won't give up.
At first they came for the immigrant population.
Then they targeted minority voters.
About that time too, they came for our unions.
Now they have come for the women.
So we are waiting. Who is next?
Are we going to invoke Mr. Niemoller forever?
Since 1970, as a late date, these subversive Republican efforts to institute 19th century politics
into 20th and now 21st century modern life and business have been getting increasingly overt.
They are principally using a righter turning "Supreme Court" in order to chip away bit by bit at
all the civil rights legislation in federal law. What these groups have failed to fully grasp, is that
all that legislation was based on constitutional guarantees.
During the Reagan administration, and during the Bush (the son) administration, these groups
made a lot of progress. They piled up a great deal of case law under every piece of civil rights
law imaginable. Those laws are now nearly as weighted down as the 14th amendment to our
constitution was when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began to be an activist in the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference.
Now that our laws on civil liberties are somewhat hobbled again, the right wing has Citizens
United on their side. Corporations in America are people. So I imagine multinationals are all
people as well. And since that is done, the rest of us need to be in court chipping away at that
hammer and chisel with a constancy, the way Minnesota is attempting to do.
However, having the tea party successfully stack the states' decks with Republican governors
and legislatures makes it a bit difficult.
Still, if we don't, we can kiss a representative democracy goodbye. I can't even imagine the dredges left in its place.
Now of course that corporations are people, the "Supreme" court has decided to hear a case on
the civil rights of corporations.
And the way that court has gutted affirmative action, we can only guess what kinds of giant rights
the giant people will have.
We should get someone to sponsor a bill which gives rights by the pound, up to a healthy medical
weight per inch of height in an average adult human being. Any "people" not in the norm don't get a vote, and don't get constitutional rights.
(Funny how affirmative action is so wrong when slavery built these universities in the first place.
Americans pay little attention to the true history of the original thirteen colonies. )
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