We did that already. Then, when the time came...
Saddam's troops made themselves part of all the other Iraqi War refugees.
We didn't stop all of Iraq's forces. We could never have stopped them all. They were sheltered in place by many of their brethren. And before we left Iraq-
Egypt had Iraqi refugees.
Syria had Iraqi refugees.
Jordan had Iraqi refugees.
Lebanon had Iraqi refugees.
Some richer countries got Iraqi refugees. Time passed.
America built up the remainder of the 'new' Iraqi forces. Then...
America left Iraq to end the wars of the Bushes.
POTUS, however, told America we would have to continue to fight terrorism wherever it landed.
Today, Saddam's people have reemerged.
While they were embedded with their own groups in every country where they fled, they waited to be stronger.
When they came back together to be fighting forces, they were fragmented; but officials here
believed they would not have to be called terrorists because they'd changed their names from Al Queda to many other monikers.
They do have to be called terrorists; and they have to be be contained, no matter where they are, as our President has told us many, many times.
If we put boots on the ground, we will lose many of our armed personnel in a variety of awful ways.
When we see no one left to fight there, what is left of Saddam's forces will scatter again, and again with as much of our money and armaments as they can gather.
Once more, we won't be able to account for them all.
Some of them are twelve and thirteen right now.
In ten years they will be twenty-two and twenty-three.
They will have older commanders, who can see to it that some in the Mid East will make sure their
hatred of the West gets well-funded.
If Iraqi government forces have been built up and funded once more by America, when they see they must fight their brother soldiers in forces previously split off from them by our 'boots', they may once again tear off their uniforms, turn over their weaponry ( now even more advanced than it was years before) and go home until they figure out what force they may want to join.
That is exactly what they did in June of this year. History, even a history so odd, will repeat itself.
America will have a different President by then.
Will he have learned by then, that "boots" can be 'made for walkin'.
They don't have to be made for warfare.
Lest we allow ourselves to forget, Iraq does not exist. Maliki was not the biggest problem.
Iraq hated us during the first Gulf War.
Iraq hated us during the Iraq War.
Many, many groups in Iraq hate us now. ISIL is not lonely.
Iraq was divided up after WWI because they sided with Germany.
The country was divided up by the west.
If Russia were to come to your street right now, and put down a dividing line in the middle of the road, and tell you you on one side did not live in America any longer, would you feel you no longer
lived in America?
We can contain terrorism more effortlessly if we hit on the right formula for reuniting Persians with their brothers.
We are not going to succeed by gunning them all into 'live and let live' regarding western civilization,
or American aggressors.
We split them up unnaturally, now it is our job to find out what divisions they can actually live with; and help them get to the desired boundaries if that's still possible.
'Live and let live' will have to be a sentiment they embrace toward one another.
Then, and only then, will they be able to turn it outward.
Monday, September 29, 2014
Thank You Hong Kong For Standing With Ferguson And Mike Brown Jr.
Once again, black culture has travelled the world, and we can all encourage one another.
Here in the U.S. the criminal police officers are a principal cause of the wrong police
officers getting shot.
We cannot be quiet and honor laws which allow for the slaughter of our young children.
Has everyone in America gone mad?
Well, last night, though Ferguson gangster police were as inappropriate as ever, more white
people did come to help with the protest.
Umbrellas are such a great idea. I hope Americans can adopt that practice!
For those of you who don't know why you are holding up hands- Mike Brown Jr. was holding
up both his hands when the freak shot him down, unarmed, in the middle of the street, in the
middle of the kids' day- and left him lying there more than four hours.
Justice in America can never be taken for granted in our community. Way to many freaks
abound here.
In Detroit, where I live, we had to petition the UN in order for many residents to have fresh water
reinstituted into family dwellings.
Here in the U.S. the criminal police officers are a principal cause of the wrong police
officers getting shot.
We cannot be quiet and honor laws which allow for the slaughter of our young children.
Has everyone in America gone mad?
Well, last night, though Ferguson gangster police were as inappropriate as ever, more white
people did come to help with the protest.
Umbrellas are such a great idea. I hope Americans can adopt that practice!
For those of you who don't know why you are holding up hands- Mike Brown Jr. was holding
up both his hands when the freak shot him down, unarmed, in the middle of the street, in the
middle of the kids' day- and left him lying there more than four hours.
Justice in America can never be taken for granted in our community. Way to many freaks
abound here.
In Detroit, where I live, we had to petition the UN in order for many residents to have fresh water
reinstituted into family dwellings.
POTUS and Ferguson, MO In Dubai
My niece was in Dubai a couple of days after Mike Brown Jr. was killed.
She sat at a hotel restaurant where the overhead televisions were all on the news.
Her waiter looked up at the broadcasts in absolute disbelief, asking her- 'What did the black
people do to make the police so angry they got out tanks and gas?'
She had to answer. embarrassed- "Nothing, really."
While she was there too, Palestinians in the middle of terrible life-losing and children-losing
bombings were tweeting understanding and solidarity to American black people in Ferguson.
People all over the world are wondering how democracy has a bona fide leg to stand on in this world
when this is what we inflict on our own citizens- the citizens who actually did build this country.
If we are thinking six billion people all over the world still believe American exceptionalism should
survive based in the slaughter and exploitation of others by the white of skin, I think we certainly fool
ourselves.
POTUS was right to acknowledge to the rest of the world we haven't gotten it right yet.
We are three hundred million, torturing twelve million. Do we pretend the world doesn't know
and make the 'notes to self' they think could be appropriate? POTUS knows better than that.
And for what are we attacking a minority without provocation? For bringing in the crop which ultimately paid for the war and defeat of the the most
powerful army and navy on the planet at the time- the British crown forces?
For providing the cash crops which built Wall Street?
For providing the cash Harvard and Yale had in order to rise to existence from the mud?
See, even if America was fair to all its Black citizens, it would have to be fair to only about 3%
of its citizens at most.
We are about 4% of the population here, and some of us are too young to embrace full citizenship,
even though we don't want to be shot to death before reaching full adulthood.
She sat at a hotel restaurant where the overhead televisions were all on the news.
Her waiter looked up at the broadcasts in absolute disbelief, asking her- 'What did the black
people do to make the police so angry they got out tanks and gas?'
She had to answer. embarrassed- "Nothing, really."
While she was there too, Palestinians in the middle of terrible life-losing and children-losing
bombings were tweeting understanding and solidarity to American black people in Ferguson.
People all over the world are wondering how democracy has a bona fide leg to stand on in this world
when this is what we inflict on our own citizens- the citizens who actually did build this country.
If we are thinking six billion people all over the world still believe American exceptionalism should
survive based in the slaughter and exploitation of others by the white of skin, I think we certainly fool
ourselves.
POTUS was right to acknowledge to the rest of the world we haven't gotten it right yet.
We are three hundred million, torturing twelve million. Do we pretend the world doesn't know
and make the 'notes to self' they think could be appropriate? POTUS knows better than that.
And for what are we attacking a minority without provocation? For bringing in the crop which ultimately paid for the war and defeat of the the most
powerful army and navy on the planet at the time- the British crown forces?
For providing the cash crops which built Wall Street?
For providing the cash Harvard and Yale had in order to rise to existence from the mud?
See, even if America was fair to all its Black citizens, it would have to be fair to only about 3%
of its citizens at most.
We are about 4% of the population here, and some of us are too young to embrace full citizenship,
even though we don't want to be shot to death before reaching full adulthood.
A Young White Officer In South Carolina
If he was genuinely afraid of the man doing as he asked, then he may have Darren Wilson to thank.
Oh, wait- a lot of Darren Wilsons in Ferguson to thank.
He had no reason to stop a man coming out of a seat belt in a gas station- and he definitely should have been the one apologizing.
He wasn't the one about to get shot.
He was the one letting his crazy imagination run away with him.
I still think he owes Ferguson, and America in general, a lot for that unfortunate reality.
Oh, wait- a lot of Darren Wilsons in Ferguson to thank.
He had no reason to stop a man coming out of a seat belt in a gas station- and he definitely should have been the one apologizing.
He wasn't the one about to get shot.
He was the one letting his crazy imagination run away with him.
I still think he owes Ferguson, and America in general, a lot for that unfortunate reality.
Black Men In The News
You people! No- kidding.
The media are in a tizzy.
Black men are punching their wives and girlfriends.
And they all seem to be heterosexual.
Is there a connection?
I guess white men don't hit.
Gay men don't hit.
And black men are getting killed for doing less.
Lots o' news.
Here's the catch- unarmed black men are getting killed.
Police are afraid, apparently, of unarmed teenagers and young men.
In Florida, police got a gang of robbers this year- but didn't shoot them until they had laid down
their arms and were flat on their bellies. They even gave up their own informant to a shooting.
Young black men will be killed if they are unarmed.
Well, not only if unarmed.
Black teenagers can't wear hoodies in the rain. They can be shot dead.
Young black men can't wave down the police when having car trouble. Shot dead.
Black teenagers can't jaywalk. Shot in the back, shot in the head- all at close range.
Young black men can't buy gun-like items at big box stores. A barrage of bullets.
Young mentally challenged black men can't wave a knife. Gunned down- two against one.
Young men can't submit to handcuffs while in back of a police vehicle. Shot down.
Older black men can't be accused of selling loosies. Choked to death with E.M.S. complicit.
A young black man can't look for a license when ordered to- four bullets in a blaze of fire; and
such a black man can't take off a seat belt when entering a gas station either.
A young black man can't get into a limousine on his wedding day. Shot down.
A young black man can't break up a fight on the subway. Shot while lying flat on his face.
A young black man can't have a sword slung over his shoulder. Shot in the back.
A young black man can't reach for a license even if it is not in his car. Shot multiple times.
These young men are unarmed. Is that the problem, really- police are that afraid of young, unarmed
black men?
Are we yet done with the "can'ts" for young black males?
I know I have had enough of it.
Is it that young white males don't do any of these things?
And if we are sick of all this, what can we do about it?
I have heard from many, many officials that what we need to do is 'remain calm'.
Do they mean remain calm as in "young, black, and unarmed"?
I don't see one, single solitary thing about which we need to remain calm. I truly don't.
Were our Nelson Mandela-type activists right in the sixties? Are we going to be eating chicken if
a revolution comes?
I always knew we could go down because we are a small minority in a racist world.
But I don't think we can be required by "da laaw' to go down as sitting ducks.
Rumplestiltskin went to hell in a self-imposed rage.
We don't have to turn over our first-born, last born, or middle born son because those of little faith
want to sit around the way some want to sit around to see how many heads ISIL can get t' rollin'.
Right now, Ferguson is doing what it has to do to show 'badges' they have lost all moral authority
over black citizens.
I don't know what can be done; but if we are waiting for the Law and Order "ding ding" to
straighten things out, we are obviously going to lose more young people each month.
I can see why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had begun to come to a meeting of the minds with Malcolm X.
Plymouth Rock (back to which most of these "Americans" cannot trace their heritage, ) has 'shorely'
landed on us- real talk.
Or maybe we need to remember, Burkina Faso is nice this time of year.
The media are in a tizzy.
Black men are punching their wives and girlfriends.
And they all seem to be heterosexual.
Is there a connection?
I guess white men don't hit.
Gay men don't hit.
And black men are getting killed for doing less.
Lots o' news.
Here's the catch- unarmed black men are getting killed.
Police are afraid, apparently, of unarmed teenagers and young men.
In Florida, police got a gang of robbers this year- but didn't shoot them until they had laid down
their arms and were flat on their bellies. They even gave up their own informant to a shooting.
Young black men will be killed if they are unarmed.
Well, not only if unarmed.
Black teenagers can't wear hoodies in the rain. They can be shot dead.
Young black men can't wave down the police when having car trouble. Shot dead.
Black teenagers can't jaywalk. Shot in the back, shot in the head- all at close range.
Young black men can't buy gun-like items at big box stores. A barrage of bullets.
Young mentally challenged black men can't wave a knife. Gunned down- two against one.
Young men can't submit to handcuffs while in back of a police vehicle. Shot down.
Older black men can't be accused of selling loosies. Choked to death with E.M.S. complicit.
A young black man can't look for a license when ordered to- four bullets in a blaze of fire; and
such a black man can't take off a seat belt when entering a gas station either.
A young black man can't get into a limousine on his wedding day. Shot down.
A young black man can't break up a fight on the subway. Shot while lying flat on his face.
A young black man can't have a sword slung over his shoulder. Shot in the back.
A young black man can't reach for a license even if it is not in his car. Shot multiple times.
These young men are unarmed. Is that the problem, really- police are that afraid of young, unarmed
black men?
Are we yet done with the "can'ts" for young black males?
I know I have had enough of it.
Is it that young white males don't do any of these things?
And if we are sick of all this, what can we do about it?
I have heard from many, many officials that what we need to do is 'remain calm'.
Do they mean remain calm as in "young, black, and unarmed"?
I don't see one, single solitary thing about which we need to remain calm. I truly don't.
Were our Nelson Mandela-type activists right in the sixties? Are we going to be eating chicken if
a revolution comes?
I always knew we could go down because we are a small minority in a racist world.
But I don't think we can be required by "da laaw' to go down as sitting ducks.
Rumplestiltskin went to hell in a self-imposed rage.
We don't have to turn over our first-born, last born, or middle born son because those of little faith
want to sit around the way some want to sit around to see how many heads ISIL can get t' rollin'.
Right now, Ferguson is doing what it has to do to show 'badges' they have lost all moral authority
over black citizens.
I don't know what can be done; but if we are waiting for the Law and Order "ding ding" to
straighten things out, we are obviously going to lose more young people each month.
I can see why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had begun to come to a meeting of the minds with Malcolm X.
Plymouth Rock (back to which most of these "Americans" cannot trace their heritage, ) has 'shorely'
landed on us- real talk.
Or maybe we need to remember, Burkina Faso is nice this time of year.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Why ISIL?
President Obama has said on many occasions, in many ways: ISIL is an immediate threat to the U.S.
We ask how immediate because if they aren't on their way within the next half day we want to leave them to it?
Our President has said many times, he could not predict Iraqi forces would have strengthened these terrorists by turning over all the weapons, ammunition, tanks, etc. gotten from America to the ISIL forces in June.
Truly- what army willingly surrenders all its weaponry to the army it has been tasked to fight? The incidences of the Iraqi forces doing that are surely ones for the history books.
In the meantime, maybe the President should keep doing a 'Dennis Hopper talking to
Christopher Walken' in the movie True Romance- "Am I Lyin?"
Some men are bold-faced liars, and so are many of their cohorts.
Some men are not...bold-faced liars.
They just aren't.
We ask how immediate because if they aren't on their way within the next half day we want to leave them to it?
Our President has said many times, he could not predict Iraqi forces would have strengthened these terrorists by turning over all the weapons, ammunition, tanks, etc. gotten from America to the ISIL forces in June.
Truly- what army willingly surrenders all its weaponry to the army it has been tasked to fight? The incidences of the Iraqi forces doing that are surely ones for the history books.
In the meantime, maybe the President should keep doing a 'Dennis Hopper talking to
Christopher Walken' in the movie True Romance- "Am I Lyin?"
Some men are bold-faced liars, and so are many of their cohorts.
Some men are not...bold-faced liars.
They just aren't.
Three Years Ago?!!
Some White House attack guy did $97,000.00 worth of damage aimed at or in the White House three
years ago and it has been hushed up all this time?!
I am aghast with worry and upset.
The Secret Service is secretly full of the worthless and the dangerous.
At the time, one of the children was 'home alone', and one was trying to come 'home'.
Poor babies.
Unimaginable!
years ago and it has been hushed up all this time?!
I am aghast with worry and upset.
The Secret Service is secretly full of the worthless and the dangerous.
At the time, one of the children was 'home alone', and one was trying to come 'home'.
Poor babies.
Unimaginable!
Ferguson, MO Continues As A Nightmare
The Police Chief should know he sounds ignorant apologizing seven weeks late in a public forum
before ever having spoken privately to the parents.
Of course, 'late' is an operative word here. Why would Mike Brown's parents want to speak to him now?
And we know there a a lot of 'Darren Wilson freaks' in the police department.
Why do they need bracelets.
I feel sorry for the policemen, if there are any, who know better- or are just not dumb enough to
brag they don't know better.
This goofy police department keeps making the people's case for hatred for them. Good job providing
evidence why you should be disbanded guys.
Leave town.
Maybe some other 'lethal force' will hire you.
before ever having spoken privately to the parents.
Of course, 'late' is an operative word here. Why would Mike Brown's parents want to speak to him now?
And we know there a a lot of 'Darren Wilson freaks' in the police department.
Why do they need bracelets.
I feel sorry for the policemen, if there are any, who know better- or are just not dumb enough to
brag they don't know better.
This goofy police department keeps making the people's case for hatred for them. Good job providing
evidence why you should be disbanded guys.
Leave town.
Maybe some other 'lethal force' will hire you.
Jay Z and Mrs. Carter
Jay did his work in his beloved New York at the Global Citizen Festival as only Jay can do!
He was fabulous.
He sang with the crowd.
He paused with the crowd.
He laughed with the crowd.
He called out some of the "boyz".
Jay was all he ever has been, and more, in that special concert.
Mrs. Carter also hit so many of the highlight songs in her career in a somewhat complete surprise
appearance with her husband.
Her voice gets stronger and stronger with time.
Global Citizen- you sure got it right for the world last night.
He was fabulous.
He sang with the crowd.
He paused with the crowd.
He laughed with the crowd.
He called out some of the "boyz".
Jay was all he ever has been, and more, in that special concert.
Mrs. Carter also hit so many of the highlight songs in her career in a somewhat complete surprise
appearance with her husband.
Her voice gets stronger and stronger with time.
Global Citizen- you sure got it right for the world last night.
White Girl 'Sangin"!
Gwen Stefani and No Doubt were beyond astounding last night for Global Citizen in Central Park, N.Y.
Unbelievable!
They hit all the bases and brought it on home, which I didn't think could happen that way twice in
a couple of days even in New York, as it did with Mr. Jeter's last game.
I was stunned by the showmanship Stefani and her gang still had.
I loved her asymmetric hair cut, asymmetric hair style, asymmetric hair color, barely symmetric skirt,
asymmetric neckline, jogging pants, and near-boots.
Her voice has a most exciting quality I didn't think could still be there, live; but it is better!
Her dancing was so perfect.
Her shoulders have the best structure. They are gorgeous.
Did I expect her to be old?
She has joined the "sangin" ranks of Judy Garland and Cindy Lauper.
Her troupe was energized in a most rhythmic way.
Global Citizen- you really scored big with G. Stefani last night.
Unbelievable!
They hit all the bases and brought it on home, which I didn't think could happen that way twice in
a couple of days even in New York, as it did with Mr. Jeter's last game.
I was stunned by the showmanship Stefani and her gang still had.
I loved her asymmetric hair cut, asymmetric hair style, asymmetric hair color, barely symmetric skirt,
asymmetric neckline, jogging pants, and near-boots.
Her voice has a most exciting quality I didn't think could still be there, live; but it is better!
Her dancing was so perfect.
Her shoulders have the best structure. They are gorgeous.
Did I expect her to be old?
She has joined the "sangin" ranks of Judy Garland and Cindy Lauper.
Her troupe was energized in a most rhythmic way.
Global Citizen- you really scored big with G. Stefani last night.
Friday, September 26, 2014
Detroit In Foreclosure
We have a state government which functions like an autocracy over our black cities.
We have a city government, installed by an autocratic overseer state which functions over all of
us in Detroit as Mr. K. Orr the dictator.
We have very few voting rights or autonomies except at the federal level.
We should have a right to secede this state, and be a county owing allegiance only to our national government.
There could be a reason Detroit should want to be a part of Michigan- now what reason would that be?
I couldn't tell you.
Since the bankruptcy, when we do go to a grocery, we find most of the cashiers are laid off or
at part time. Why? We are buying as much food as we ever did. Have the insurance companies
gone off the rails with the store coverages here?
Now, though our city charter forbade such nonsense for all of time, when we do drive the streets,
we see crews working on various infrastructure projects- not a black face among them.
The police in most precincts are live and let live; but in our particular precinct, a great many of them
barely speak English anyway. They seem to be from Poland. Some people in Poland are very blond, and have distinctive accents. One of my children nearly married a Polish person who came to the
U.S. at age fifteen.
In a place we could have actually used some infrastructure, the M39 throughway, the sidewalk
overpass just collapsed onto the freeway.
Good job Snyder.
We are ever so lucky no one got hurt.
We have a city government, installed by an autocratic overseer state which functions over all of
us in Detroit as Mr. K. Orr the dictator.
We have very few voting rights or autonomies except at the federal level.
We should have a right to secede this state, and be a county owing allegiance only to our national government.
There could be a reason Detroit should want to be a part of Michigan- now what reason would that be?
I couldn't tell you.
Since the bankruptcy, when we do go to a grocery, we find most of the cashiers are laid off or
at part time. Why? We are buying as much food as we ever did. Have the insurance companies
gone off the rails with the store coverages here?
Now, though our city charter forbade such nonsense for all of time, when we do drive the streets,
we see crews working on various infrastructure projects- not a black face among them.
The police in most precincts are live and let live; but in our particular precinct, a great many of them
barely speak English anyway. They seem to be from Poland. Some people in Poland are very blond, and have distinctive accents. One of my children nearly married a Polish person who came to the
U.S. at age fifteen.
In a place we could have actually used some infrastructure, the M39 throughway, the sidewalk
overpass just collapsed onto the freeway.
Good job Snyder.
We are ever so lucky no one got hurt.
Our Darling Is Leaving?!!
When President Obama left his vacation to go back to the White House for maybe only a day, I
was concerned.
Were we getting bombed? Why would a man leave his family, then go right back? That didn't seem
one bit restful.
As it shortly seemed to turn into a non-event, I relaxed a bit, still with a sense of worry.
POTUS spoke to the country a few times right after, looking as though he was a bit thinner, and his
skin was more gray.
Did he go back during his vacation because of an illness?
Now, I think he had to meet the news of his loss in person.
I don't know either one of them and still I am Devastated!.
Attorney General was crying during his farewell, and POTUS remarked, "You got through it."
I don't know how The General got through it, because I found it a bit difficult.
General Holder did so much for us in the Civil Rights Division, in incarceration reform, in voter
protection. I can't believe how hard he worked.
He even did a lot to get these backward banks to see they may have to pay for misdeeds; but we have
the Barney Frank reforms, and we have Elizabeth Warren, so we need to see how that will play out
in the long term. We on the left may not be completely satisfied with the banking reforms, but we didn't need to go whining to Atty. General Holder.
I have to acknowledge now I've witnessed a true and abiding friendship.
I know the two of them will keep inn touch; but how will they manage the weight of the legacy the
two of them have to catapult into history together as it wobbles around on the fulcrum of their
shoulders?
Massive: just a massive reality for them and for the history of our country has begun to dig itself into
the history of the world.
was concerned.
Were we getting bombed? Why would a man leave his family, then go right back? That didn't seem
one bit restful.
As it shortly seemed to turn into a non-event, I relaxed a bit, still with a sense of worry.
POTUS spoke to the country a few times right after, looking as though he was a bit thinner, and his
skin was more gray.
Did he go back during his vacation because of an illness?
Now, I think he had to meet the news of his loss in person.
I don't know either one of them and still I am Devastated!.
Attorney General was crying during his farewell, and POTUS remarked, "You got through it."
I don't know how The General got through it, because I found it a bit difficult.
General Holder did so much for us in the Civil Rights Division, in incarceration reform, in voter
protection. I can't believe how hard he worked.
He even did a lot to get these backward banks to see they may have to pay for misdeeds; but we have
the Barney Frank reforms, and we have Elizabeth Warren, so we need to see how that will play out
in the long term. We on the left may not be completely satisfied with the banking reforms, but we didn't need to go whining to Atty. General Holder.
I have to acknowledge now I've witnessed a true and abiding friendship.
I know the two of them will keep inn touch; but how will they manage the weight of the legacy the
two of them have to catapult into history together as it wobbles around on the fulcrum of their
shoulders?
Massive: just a massive reality for them and for the history of our country has begun to dig itself into
the history of the world.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Is There A Problem?
We are not at war.
What part of 'we are not at war' seems so difficult for those watching the most obvious signs of war to absorb?
Is ISIL a nation?
Yes they are...in their most furtive dreams?
Is Al Queda a nation?
Not at all.
Is Khorasan a country?
No it is not.
Is every military-looking response a war?
The Boston Marathon was not a war.
Ferguson may have been a near-war?
Some analysts believe President Obama cannot be against ISIL because they are an enemy of
Bashar al Asaad, and the President has said Asaad has lost all legitimacy.
Losing legitimacy, though, is the thing our President has decided is about 97% Asaad's problem.
The President weighed in; but decided not to take specific overt action.
If he changes his mind on that, he may let us know.
In the meantime, terrorists, not the Syrian government are threatening the U.S.
ISIL destructions may indeed help Asaad.
But let's remember that even though Asaad is not a leader who has our President's approval, one of the principal resentments Asaad instills among his detractors: He doesn't hate the West enough!
So once again, our President says ISIL has to go, even if it is in a country?
Is there a problem?
What part of 'we are not at war' seems so difficult for those watching the most obvious signs of war to absorb?
Is ISIL a nation?
Yes they are...in their most furtive dreams?
Is Al Queda a nation?
Not at all.
Is Khorasan a country?
No it is not.
Is every military-looking response a war?
The Boston Marathon was not a war.
Ferguson may have been a near-war?
Some analysts believe President Obama cannot be against ISIL because they are an enemy of
Bashar al Asaad, and the President has said Asaad has lost all legitimacy.
Losing legitimacy, though, is the thing our President has decided is about 97% Asaad's problem.
The President weighed in; but decided not to take specific overt action.
If he changes his mind on that, he may let us know.
In the meantime, terrorists, not the Syrian government are threatening the U.S.
ISIL destructions may indeed help Asaad.
But let's remember that even though Asaad is not a leader who has our President's approval, one of the principal resentments Asaad instills among his detractors: He doesn't hate the West enough!
So once again, our President says ISIL has to go, even if it is in a country?
Is there a problem?
Monday, September 22, 2014
President Obama!
Save yourself.
If you save yourself- we are saved as well.
We are your countrymen.
And your family as to depend on you, apparently, more than we knew.
If you save yourself- we are saved as well.
We are your countrymen.
And your family as to depend on you, apparently, more than we knew.
I Am Not A Psychiatrist
I merely observe.
It seems to me men fail to marry a girl like the one dad married.
They often fail to marry the girl they know they will want to be good to forever.
Men have a distinct tendency, in my experience, to marry a woman like the mother their own mom
wanted but did not get.
I would imagine women too often do the same thing.
Whereas romantic marriages are so often truly warm and caring, the more choices a young person
has, the more likely they are to choose a marriage which will end coldly, continue coldly, wind up
in divorce- or even worse.
A person unconsciously goes out to comfort mom; but in real time, mom may think the universe is
rubbing her face in the thing she won't ever have- the mother she wanted, instead of the one she got.
I've also had so many women acquaintances who lament their sons striking a wife a girlfriend.
These women rebuke sons, saying, "How can you do this when you know how cruelly I suffered from being beaten?"
The son has no idea how he can do the thing he hated. However, if he was at an age where he didn't
believe he could protect mom, he incontrovertibly is unable to have a woman in his life he feels he may be elevating to a status above mom by making certain the woman doesn't get hurt.
Some children have seen enough kindness in childhood to resist ever doing to someone else what was
done to a parent living with the family.
Some, however, are never exposed to enough of that kindness to remedy what drives them as adults
unless they have a successful therapeutic relationship with a professional guide in adult life.
So many Americans are satisfied with believing the instantaneous motivation for a risky and
destructive behavior is the actual motivation for the behavior, because the instantaneous is so
prevalent, and so easily recognizable.
I doubt instantaneous is sum total of actual.
It seems to me men fail to marry a girl like the one dad married.
They often fail to marry the girl they know they will want to be good to forever.
Men have a distinct tendency, in my experience, to marry a woman like the mother their own mom
wanted but did not get.
I would imagine women too often do the same thing.
Whereas romantic marriages are so often truly warm and caring, the more choices a young person
has, the more likely they are to choose a marriage which will end coldly, continue coldly, wind up
in divorce- or even worse.
A person unconsciously goes out to comfort mom; but in real time, mom may think the universe is
rubbing her face in the thing she won't ever have- the mother she wanted, instead of the one she got.
I've also had so many women acquaintances who lament their sons striking a wife a girlfriend.
These women rebuke sons, saying, "How can you do this when you know how cruelly I suffered from being beaten?"
The son has no idea how he can do the thing he hated. However, if he was at an age where he didn't
believe he could protect mom, he incontrovertibly is unable to have a woman in his life he feels he may be elevating to a status above mom by making certain the woman doesn't get hurt.
Some children have seen enough kindness in childhood to resist ever doing to someone else what was
done to a parent living with the family.
Some, however, are never exposed to enough of that kindness to remedy what drives them as adults
unless they have a successful therapeutic relationship with a professional guide in adult life.
So many Americans are satisfied with believing the instantaneous motivation for a risky and
destructive behavior is the actual motivation for the behavior, because the instantaneous is so
prevalent, and so easily recognizable.
I doubt instantaneous is sum total of actual.
Hillary Clinton And Leon Panetta: Wrongo...
President Obama doesn't have to weigh whether or not arms granted the Syrian rebels will end up
in more dangerous hands.
President Obama has to consider the calculus of when those arms will get to the wrong people, and
how many of which kind will be lost.
Of course, there's no good time for that to happen.
But when some time has passed, many groups looking murky and showing an ever-changing face
can show up more clearly in relief and in a constancy of purpose and possibly some consistent
success.
in more dangerous hands.
President Obama has to consider the calculus of when those arms will get to the wrong people, and
how many of which kind will be lost.
Of course, there's no good time for that to happen.
But when some time has passed, many groups looking murky and showing an ever-changing face
can show up more clearly in relief and in a constancy of purpose and possibly some consistent
success.
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Bees In The 'D'!
Sound like a rap song?
I wonder it isn't.
Bees are camping in the house, unafraid of even hot water in the shower.
Bees are dive-bombing the car for blocks.
Bees are flying into the car when doors are opened- refusing then to leave.
We do not have a bankruptcy of bees in Detroit.
We are rich with them!
I wonder it isn't.
Bees are camping in the house, unafraid of even hot water in the shower.
Bees are dive-bombing the car for blocks.
Bees are flying into the car when doors are opened- refusing then to leave.
We do not have a bankruptcy of bees in Detroit.
We are rich with them!
Apple And The Media
Are we that dumb?
Do we believe our government can't get to our messages now?
Do we think it will be impossible for our officials to get past these encryptions?
Harvard mathematicians offered us a plausible scheme years ago by which a parrot typing
on a keyboard, would in time reproduce War And Peace.
See, computer engines compress that quantity called, time.
We are not going to have to wait long: neither will our government, thank goodness.
Do we believe our government can't get to our messages now?
Do we think it will be impossible for our officials to get past these encryptions?
Harvard mathematicians offered us a plausible scheme years ago by which a parrot typing
on a keyboard, would in time reproduce War And Peace.
See, computer engines compress that quantity called, time.
We are not going to have to wait long: neither will our government, thank goodness.
Punch Someone In The Face
Do you love the someone you punched?
Are you in a romantic relationship with this someone?
Oh, well it's OK then.
Pick up something and hit a kid with it.
Do you have a relationship to the kid?
Oh- well then, it's fine, especially if someone related to you ever did that to you.
No worries.
The violence of love and the violence of commitment is completely acceptable to us
Right?
Are you in a romantic relationship with this someone?
Oh, well it's OK then.
Pick up something and hit a kid with it.
Do you have a relationship to the kid?
Oh- well then, it's fine, especially if someone related to you ever did that to you.
No worries.
The violence of love and the violence of commitment is completely acceptable to us
Right?
Saturday, September 20, 2014
NFL: Yes Players Have To Keep Their Paychecks
NFL players have contracts.
The contracts cover a lot of ground, a lot of people.
NFL players make an inordinate amount of money for their organization.
Players' families are uniquely dependent upon player salaries, as the community at large will be
unable to absorb the fame and lifestyle, or previous lifestyle of a family in pro sports.
If the organization is that worried about paying salaries for benched players, get more insurance.
Underwriters would love to cover more ethics/morals/criminal behavior.
And the NFL has quite enough money to pay for it.
Once the NCAA gets its act together, maybe insurance costs will go back down.
The contracts cover a lot of ground, a lot of people.
NFL players make an inordinate amount of money for their organization.
Players' families are uniquely dependent upon player salaries, as the community at large will be
unable to absorb the fame and lifestyle, or previous lifestyle of a family in pro sports.
If the organization is that worried about paying salaries for benched players, get more insurance.
Underwriters would love to cover more ethics/morals/criminal behavior.
And the NFL has quite enough money to pay for it.
Once the NCAA gets its act together, maybe insurance costs will go back down.
Friday, September 19, 2014
Roger Goodell On Friday Afternoon/ 9-19
What a colossal goof he was.
'I got it wrong'...blah...blah...blah...belaboring the obvious...
Didn't he say that already?
'Ray Rice wasn't honest with me even though everyone else says he was.
Doesn't Goodell keep saying this over and over?
'I was blind. I was helpless. I couldn't see the tape. I couldn't get the tape. My fingers were
broken. I couldn't call the authorities to ask for the tape. I couldn't read, so I didn't read the indictment."
'I got it wrong, again, after the second tape was revealed, but the NFL owners love me.
'When I saw the first tape, I couldn't figure out what had happened. I wasn't intelligent.'
'I have no idea how TMZ had more ease getting the tape of the Ray Rice assault than the NFL.
The NFL may not be powerful enough to get a tape of an employee.'
'But the NFL has given money to groups working on domestic violence now. We have money.'
Blah...blah...blah...the obvious.
Why did Roger Goodell say he interviewed Janay Rice in the room with her husband?
'I got it wrong...blah...blah...blah...' he repeated, over, and over again.
He can't get it right, but he can do better- so he keeps saying.
He doesn't need to get it right.
He isn't getting punched in the face, or beaten, or scarred, or fined.
And he's rich.
I've got news for him, though.
Fans are not going to put up with this forever.
Slowly, but surely, he will be the one putting forth the leadership which begins to help erode our NFL fan base in modern times, in the NFL heyday
'I got it wrong'...blah...blah...blah...belaboring the obvious...
Didn't he say that already?
'Ray Rice wasn't honest with me even though everyone else says he was.
Doesn't Goodell keep saying this over and over?
'I was blind. I was helpless. I couldn't see the tape. I couldn't get the tape. My fingers were
broken. I couldn't call the authorities to ask for the tape. I couldn't read, so I didn't read the indictment."
'I got it wrong, again, after the second tape was revealed, but the NFL owners love me.
'When I saw the first tape, I couldn't figure out what had happened. I wasn't intelligent.'
'I have no idea how TMZ had more ease getting the tape of the Ray Rice assault than the NFL.
The NFL may not be powerful enough to get a tape of an employee.'
'But the NFL has given money to groups working on domestic violence now. We have money.'
Blah...blah...blah...the obvious.
Why did Roger Goodell say he interviewed Janay Rice in the room with her husband?
'I got it wrong...blah...blah...blah...' he repeated, over, and over again.
He can't get it right, but he can do better- so he keeps saying.
He doesn't need to get it right.
He isn't getting punched in the face, or beaten, or scarred, or fined.
And he's rich.
I've got news for him, though.
Fans are not going to put up with this forever.
Slowly, but surely, he will be the one putting forth the leadership which begins to help erode our NFL fan base in modern times, in the NFL heyday
America Is The Most Quickly Advancing Society On Earth
No group in America wants to stand for suppression, or repression.
Here, people keep demanding parity with their skill sets, and abilities to manipulate both creative power,and static knowledge.
As such, one small incremental step in America can reach around the world with quicker and quicker
speed.
Such a rapidly advancing society cannot easily co-exist on a smaller and smaller planet with societies
mired in ancient centuries.
When the ideological paths inevitably cross in these societal groups, the people unaccustomed to
finding safe passages for themselves and their families in rapidly moving and changing environments will be the ones who feel more acutely their ways of life threatened and disrespected.
Rapidly advancing societies tear at the fabric of what makes older societies most comfortable in their
traditions.
Somehow, any tradition which gets threatened causes older civilizations to reach back even further in time for ones they feel have been tested by that time.
Sadly for the human race, those earlier times were necessarily much more brutal.
Though we didn't understand it in the sixties, time and tide had chosen America and in some cases its allies, to drag ancient societies kicking and screaming into modern centuries.
We have to do it; but our habitual exploitation of other peoples has almost inexorably complicated
our already complicated planetary mission.
Shortly after U.S. troops arrived in Vietnam, Buddhist monks were immolating themselves.
I am not saying we were right to enter or stay in that war, What I am saying is that Vietnam
went in a relatively short span of time from an agrarian society thousands of years old to building cars and selling them in our country!
I'd like us to to properly educate maybe 100,000, 000 Ph.D.s who have rigorously
steadfast bona fides in many differing fields of endeavor, within perhaps the next fifty years.
Westerners are outnumbered in this world; but we do have so very many universities.
We cannot continue to approximate exploiting people the way Afro-Americans were exploited to build this country in the first place.
Immigrants have told themselves they built this country, but at most they have built on it.
The U.S.A. was already a country when nearly every immigrant wave group arrived.
Those of us whose ancestors came here in the 17th and 18th century built the American fortune.
There are not all that many people left in America like that. But-
In this way, there was a country for immigrants to come to which was already developed.
And all that struggling we did, begat more struggling, from every group since then.
People who struggle are trying to get up, not down. Struggle is a natural impetus of advancement, not
a simpler working toward a tried and true continuum.
Imperatives for survival in American culture are practically DNA embedded.
Capitalism is the other powerful impetus stirring constant advancement.
People feel compelled to succeed in order to survive at all.
We can call aggressions war.
We can call anything geographic against anyone a state hostility.
We had better get used to defending our own way of life, though in ever-increasingly creative ways, or we are gong to wind up back into the twelfth century ourselves.
Here, people keep demanding parity with their skill sets, and abilities to manipulate both creative power,and static knowledge.
As such, one small incremental step in America can reach around the world with quicker and quicker
speed.
Such a rapidly advancing society cannot easily co-exist on a smaller and smaller planet with societies
mired in ancient centuries.
When the ideological paths inevitably cross in these societal groups, the people unaccustomed to
finding safe passages for themselves and their families in rapidly moving and changing environments will be the ones who feel more acutely their ways of life threatened and disrespected.
Rapidly advancing societies tear at the fabric of what makes older societies most comfortable in their
traditions.
Somehow, any tradition which gets threatened causes older civilizations to reach back even further in time for ones they feel have been tested by that time.
Sadly for the human race, those earlier times were necessarily much more brutal.
Though we didn't understand it in the sixties, time and tide had chosen America and in some cases its allies, to drag ancient societies kicking and screaming into modern centuries.
We have to do it; but our habitual exploitation of other peoples has almost inexorably complicated
our already complicated planetary mission.
Shortly after U.S. troops arrived in Vietnam, Buddhist monks were immolating themselves.
I am not saying we were right to enter or stay in that war, What I am saying is that Vietnam
went in a relatively short span of time from an agrarian society thousands of years old to building cars and selling them in our country!
I'd like us to to properly educate maybe 100,000, 000 Ph.D.s who have rigorously
steadfast bona fides in many differing fields of endeavor, within perhaps the next fifty years.
Westerners are outnumbered in this world; but we do have so very many universities.
We cannot continue to approximate exploiting people the way Afro-Americans were exploited to build this country in the first place.
Immigrants have told themselves they built this country, but at most they have built on it.
The U.S.A. was already a country when nearly every immigrant wave group arrived.
Those of us whose ancestors came here in the 17th and 18th century built the American fortune.
There are not all that many people left in America like that. But-
In this way, there was a country for immigrants to come to which was already developed.
And all that struggling we did, begat more struggling, from every group since then.
People who struggle are trying to get up, not down. Struggle is a natural impetus of advancement, not
a simpler working toward a tried and true continuum.
Imperatives for survival in American culture are practically DNA embedded.
Capitalism is the other powerful impetus stirring constant advancement.
People feel compelled to succeed in order to survive at all.
We can call aggressions war.
We can call anything geographic against anyone a state hostility.
We had better get used to defending our own way of life, though in ever-increasingly creative ways, or we are gong to wind up back into the twelfth century ourselves.
We Are At Raw With Terrorists
We are prime targets.
We are obligated to attack terrorism as best we can.
We are not waging war on any sovereign nation, aside from Afghanistan.
If we were, we'd be arguing about Somalia every day.
We are obligated to attack terrorism as best we can.
We are not waging war on any sovereign nation, aside from Afghanistan.
If we were, we'd be arguing about Somalia every day.
Whose Job Is It To Keep Me From Offending?
That would be my job.
If I hit my partner, I have a duty to consider making certain we separate.
Beyond my personal responsibility, I know our society, including the NFL, has to sponsor the
research which separates the psychological triggers stimulating intimacy violence from sociological
triggers. Once medical health professionals have developed a clear guide through the
sado-masochistic maze in a labirynthical human schema, they may be able to study with sociologists to make better inroads and/or elisions into those platforms of our society which help support the more
dangerous features of a particular disease response in a specific relationship.
We have to be serious about doing this work.
Otherwise we could be stuck attempting to analyze the Marlon Brando/ Catherine Deneuve film,
Last Tango In Paris...forever.
If I hit my partner, I have a duty to consider making certain we separate.
Beyond my personal responsibility, I know our society, including the NFL, has to sponsor the
research which separates the psychological triggers stimulating intimacy violence from sociological
triggers. Once medical health professionals have developed a clear guide through the
sado-masochistic maze in a labirynthical human schema, they may be able to study with sociologists to make better inroads and/or elisions into those platforms of our society which help support the more
dangerous features of a particular disease response in a specific relationship.
We have to be serious about doing this work.
Otherwise we could be stuck attempting to analyze the Marlon Brando/ Catherine Deneuve film,
Last Tango In Paris...forever.
Ray Rice Is Not The NFL
Roger Goodell is not the NFL.
Cam Newton is a black man who fits the NFL bill by attempting to be what a weepy white man
wants him to be. That's fine. He has to do that, and is maybe is also of great character.
But there are many men in the NFL who are ordinary family guys. Some of them are black.
Other men in the NFL are lighting their wives up on a regular basis. Some of them are white.
The point is we can't get more spastic over a video than we do over actual abuse.
Maybe we'd better begin to treat abusers as individuals, even in the media, because the stated
statistics are beginning to sound like a racial rounding up.
White women are getting lit up every day in every way by white men in every profession.
Was the Violence Against Women Act about minority domestic abuse?
No. No it was not.
The NFL has to handle family abuse better because they need to be held to a higher standard; but the
truest and equally enforceable burden does belong to the criminal justice system.
Cam Newton is a black man who fits the NFL bill by attempting to be what a weepy white man
wants him to be. That's fine. He has to do that, and is maybe is also of great character.
But there are many men in the NFL who are ordinary family guys. Some of them are black.
Other men in the NFL are lighting their wives up on a regular basis. Some of them are white.
The point is we can't get more spastic over a video than we do over actual abuse.
Maybe we'd better begin to treat abusers as individuals, even in the media, because the stated
statistics are beginning to sound like a racial rounding up.
White women are getting lit up every day in every way by white men in every profession.
Was the Violence Against Women Act about minority domestic abuse?
No. No it was not.
The NFL has to handle family abuse better because they need to be held to a higher standard; but the
truest and equally enforceable burden does belong to the criminal justice system.
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Boko Haram Is Not ISIL
Boko Haram are a nightmare.
However, their vicious machinations don't have a lot more than ground power.
Besides, they have no diplomatic proximity or possibilities for nuclear weaponry.
Goodluck Jonathan should be able to handle them.
However, Jonathan may be the tree Boko Haram didn't fall far from after all.
However, their vicious machinations don't have a lot more than ground power.
Besides, they have no diplomatic proximity or possibilities for nuclear weaponry.
Goodluck Jonathan should be able to handle them.
However, Jonathan may be the tree Boko Haram didn't fall far from after all.
People Who Will Never Play Football
Those people will still die.
Cheating football will NOT cheat death.
Not only that, we won't normally choose any of the manner of our sicknesses or our deaths.
As our faith says- 'Ye know not the hour nor the day.'
If a young man has a dream of playing the game, protect him as best you can.
If he becomes a surgeon, he isn't going to come home and cut people because he cuts all day in
his job.
The NFL probably harbors less family abusers than other professions; but for now, they are so
much in the public eye, so highly praised, and so highly paid that the public has a right to expect
a high caliber of pperformance in their moral fortitude as well.
Cheating football will NOT cheat death.
Not only that, we won't normally choose any of the manner of our sicknesses or our deaths.
As our faith says- 'Ye know not the hour nor the day.'
If a young man has a dream of playing the game, protect him as best you can.
If he becomes a surgeon, he isn't going to come home and cut people because he cuts all day in
his job.
The NFL probably harbors less family abusers than other professions; but for now, they are so
much in the public eye, so highly praised, and so highly paid that the public has a right to expect
a high caliber of pperformance in their moral fortitude as well.
Black Men Were Brutes UNTIL They Got To Their Women
Before the extremes of aggrandizement they do so richly deserve became as exxagerated as they have, black men forced to be beasts of burden in fields all day were good to their women in the principal place they could express a unique humanity- at home.
With the increased successes they've endured for their families, have come the pressures of knowing
they are still hierarchically in any organization, at or near the bottom of any niche, in the en masse way. Traditionally, though, black men were the absolute backbones, sometimes rarely seen in any location for long stretches of time, but the bracings, nonetheless, of their communities.
They didn't normally reject the women being used by self-entitled perverts like Thomas Jefferson.
Often, they'd comfort such women, take their minds off their troubles as best they could.
They didn't have helpmates in southern plantation communities. They were the helpmates.
So many times a man pledged himself to a woman and her children, knowing he was in no way to
be master of any of their fates.
So very many young black men worked from sun up to sun down to avoid sheer calamity in their
lives and the lives of the ones they loved. No other reason than that was available. The, they
sauntered off to lesser farms in the dead of night to work for some pay in order to buy their moms
out of slavery as mothers were sometimes lucky enough to age.
Traditionally, whatever any black man had, he shared with his loved ones. Black women often had
to consume their portions of anything right where they stood as they received it, in case they might
get some idea of being too nurturing to their own children.
Black men in the first part of the twentieth century, and even s a few into the 40's or 50's sometimes
helped sneak their mothers and sisters away from the south under cover of darkness so women could
escape someone in the majority culture who decided to make habitual use of them.
Harriet Tubman, who spoke only of abusive physical violence at the hands of her 'master' when she was a child, always said her dad gave her all the tools she ever had or ever needed in her struggles to find and stay in a world free from the lash of a 'master' she hated.
Her mother fretted bitterly, Harriet is reported to have said many times, that a young girl was best obeying even a 'master' if it helped keep the family together.
Harriet's dad explained to her mother as gently as he could, that Harriet wasn't cut out to be sustain
beatings...constitutionally.
Ms. Tubman said her father showed her everything the woods had to offer, and everything they offered to be feared.
He taught her all she ever needed to know to survive, and thrive.
Of course she did miss her family after the day finally arrived she knew she had to leave; and so she
lived the rest of her life honoring their sacrifice and her own.
She was no kindly gentle guide. People who found her for help lost a choice to reject it. If in those
times you asked for the Underground Railroad, you got on it, stayed on it, or got in it, and stayed in
it. She took no chances. I've heard and read it was best to follow her orders...exactly as she spoke them.
Until that point in history, every slave rebellion had been betrayed by a slave. Most plantation workers were terrified of the outside world, and of unknown chaos.
But what if Harriet Tubman had a dad to weak or fearful to help her become knowing? We don't
celebrate him much as black people. But I sure celebrate him all of the time in my own way, and n my own family.
Do we know how many hockey players hit family members?
Most women, especially majority women, don't even report abuse. Women don't usually understand that if the guy knocks you down, he gets a bigger thrill from doing it to you, literally or figuratively, than he could get from doing it to any other woman anywhere. In that way, you truly are unique for him. Women understand and warm to the feeling of being so unique- even when the status is based
in pain and degradation. Men get abused as well, but generally are raised to find their own way in
this world without ever becoming too dependent on any other person. Pregnant women may get
sidetracked while attempting to espouse that way of life.
Whereas black men have fallen of the personal nurturing wagon somewhat of late, they are by no
means committing the preponderance of crimes against women in this country, even when they play
football in the NFL.
They commit way less suicide than white men, statistically.
They commit way less incest.
They comprise way fewer lists of serial killers, numerically and proportionally.
I know black men may leave something to be desired in their personal family behaviors.
But why are we picking example after example of bad behavior without focusing on solutions?
Should we pay more attention to cessation of harm to women and children than to the job statuses
of a plethora of millionaires and their handlers?
I believe we should.
With the increased successes they've endured for their families, have come the pressures of knowing
they are still hierarchically in any organization, at or near the bottom of any niche, in the en masse way. Traditionally, though, black men were the absolute backbones, sometimes rarely seen in any location for long stretches of time, but the bracings, nonetheless, of their communities.
They didn't normally reject the women being used by self-entitled perverts like Thomas Jefferson.
Often, they'd comfort such women, take their minds off their troubles as best they could.
They didn't have helpmates in southern plantation communities. They were the helpmates.
So many times a man pledged himself to a woman and her children, knowing he was in no way to
be master of any of their fates.
So very many young black men worked from sun up to sun down to avoid sheer calamity in their
lives and the lives of the ones they loved. No other reason than that was available. The, they
sauntered off to lesser farms in the dead of night to work for some pay in order to buy their moms
out of slavery as mothers were sometimes lucky enough to age.
Traditionally, whatever any black man had, he shared with his loved ones. Black women often had
to consume their portions of anything right where they stood as they received it, in case they might
get some idea of being too nurturing to their own children.
Black men in the first part of the twentieth century, and even s a few into the 40's or 50's sometimes
helped sneak their mothers and sisters away from the south under cover of darkness so women could
escape someone in the majority culture who decided to make habitual use of them.
Harriet Tubman, who spoke only of abusive physical violence at the hands of her 'master' when she was a child, always said her dad gave her all the tools she ever had or ever needed in her struggles to find and stay in a world free from the lash of a 'master' she hated.
Her mother fretted bitterly, Harriet is reported to have said many times, that a young girl was best obeying even a 'master' if it helped keep the family together.
Harriet's dad explained to her mother as gently as he could, that Harriet wasn't cut out to be sustain
beatings...constitutionally.
Ms. Tubman said her father showed her everything the woods had to offer, and everything they offered to be feared.
He taught her all she ever needed to know to survive, and thrive.
Of course she did miss her family after the day finally arrived she knew she had to leave; and so she
lived the rest of her life honoring their sacrifice and her own.
She was no kindly gentle guide. People who found her for help lost a choice to reject it. If in those
times you asked for the Underground Railroad, you got on it, stayed on it, or got in it, and stayed in
it. She took no chances. I've heard and read it was best to follow her orders...exactly as she spoke them.
Until that point in history, every slave rebellion had been betrayed by a slave. Most plantation workers were terrified of the outside world, and of unknown chaos.
But what if Harriet Tubman had a dad to weak or fearful to help her become knowing? We don't
celebrate him much as black people. But I sure celebrate him all of the time in my own way, and n my own family.
Do we know how many hockey players hit family members?
Most women, especially majority women, don't even report abuse. Women don't usually understand that if the guy knocks you down, he gets a bigger thrill from doing it to you, literally or figuratively, than he could get from doing it to any other woman anywhere. In that way, you truly are unique for him. Women understand and warm to the feeling of being so unique- even when the status is based
in pain and degradation. Men get abused as well, but generally are raised to find their own way in
this world without ever becoming too dependent on any other person. Pregnant women may get
sidetracked while attempting to espouse that way of life.
Whereas black men have fallen of the personal nurturing wagon somewhat of late, they are by no
means committing the preponderance of crimes against women in this country, even when they play
football in the NFL.
They commit way less suicide than white men, statistically.
They commit way less incest.
They comprise way fewer lists of serial killers, numerically and proportionally.
I know black men may leave something to be desired in their personal family behaviors.
But why are we picking example after example of bad behavior without focusing on solutions?
Should we pay more attention to cessation of harm to women and children than to the job statuses
of a plethora of millionaires and their handlers?
I believe we should.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Thank You Secretary Of State John Kerry: Our True Soldier Diplomat
The most important thing he said this afternoon was that this conflict we have gotten into with
ISIL is not anything like the Gulf War of 1991, or the Iraq War post 9/11.
We are not in any way aggressing a sovereign nation for any reason.
We may not have had a choice in Afghanistan; but we summarily turned a much larger and more
complicated square mileage in the Arabian peninsula into a wonderful staging ground for more
terrorism. The Iraqi people are not one bit grateful for either Iraq War in the main- and neither are their neighbors.
I wish I had some idea why we have to listen to our goofiest senators. We can't discuss the whole of
our strategy or the strategy of our partners.
They suggest in public that they are better legal minds than the Administration or its lawyers.
They suggest we haven't done a thing to rid the world of ISIL until yesterday.
They suggest all things which have to be done in classified meetings should be done now in public.
They suggest we can accept help from any country whether we vet them or not.
They suggest we can start killing American soldiers in foreign lands again.
Menendez and Corker just blab, blab, blah, blah, saying nothing at all except: 'We don't like President
Obama.
So what?
ISIL will strike whether or not these suited-up blowhards like their own leadership.
The Pink people are in today's session with signs: 'Don't Fund Obama's Wars'.
How peaceful are we if we let ISIL spread so the President won't let a 'war' be named for him.
Obama has a problem with terrorists, not with any specific country.
Yes, the terrorists are on earth, within some of earth's geographic boundaries.
Still...they are opposed to peace.
Is that OK with our President?
It cannot be.
Menendez brought up Iran in a mindless statement about what that country would expect from us if
they act against ISIL; but they already said they won't help even though they don't want a powerful
ISIL.
I do have to say I have seen very little from either Iran or Syria which encourages me to say I'd ever
believe one word coming from either in any context during the last twenty years with the exceptions of the nuclear arms enrichment they recently grudgingly slowed in return for America's lifting of some sanctions against them.
These Foreign Affairs Committee Senators want to limit the President's Article Two powers of war
from the Constitution.
That may have to happen. If it does- no one is stopping them from taking that vote. In the meantime,
before they write up the resolution, and take the vote, if ISIL has to be hit in Syria, the President is
going to do that. I doubt the committee members would dare hesitate to vote continuing the halt of
any terrorist group.
Mario Rubio wants to know if we can maybe put 'boots on the ground' if something horrible happens
or if Assad does not fall.
He cannot accept "No" for an answer. Too bad for him Secretary of State's answer was: "For this
moment we have to say "No; and we will not speculate on future Syrian conflict possibilities once
ISIL is weakened."
Rubio: (whining) "But why? What if ISIL goes and Assad is still there?"
John Kerry: "We won't speculate."
ISIL is not anything like the Gulf War of 1991, or the Iraq War post 9/11.
We are not in any way aggressing a sovereign nation for any reason.
We may not have had a choice in Afghanistan; but we summarily turned a much larger and more
complicated square mileage in the Arabian peninsula into a wonderful staging ground for more
terrorism. The Iraqi people are not one bit grateful for either Iraq War in the main- and neither are their neighbors.
I wish I had some idea why we have to listen to our goofiest senators. We can't discuss the whole of
our strategy or the strategy of our partners.
They suggest in public that they are better legal minds than the Administration or its lawyers.
They suggest we haven't done a thing to rid the world of ISIL until yesterday.
They suggest all things which have to be done in classified meetings should be done now in public.
They suggest we can accept help from any country whether we vet them or not.
They suggest we can start killing American soldiers in foreign lands again.
Menendez and Corker just blab, blab, blah, blah, saying nothing at all except: 'We don't like President
Obama.
So what?
ISIL will strike whether or not these suited-up blowhards like their own leadership.
The Pink people are in today's session with signs: 'Don't Fund Obama's Wars'.
How peaceful are we if we let ISIL spread so the President won't let a 'war' be named for him.
Obama has a problem with terrorists, not with any specific country.
Yes, the terrorists are on earth, within some of earth's geographic boundaries.
Still...they are opposed to peace.
Is that OK with our President?
It cannot be.
Menendez brought up Iran in a mindless statement about what that country would expect from us if
they act against ISIL; but they already said they won't help even though they don't want a powerful
ISIL.
I do have to say I have seen very little from either Iran or Syria which encourages me to say I'd ever
believe one word coming from either in any context during the last twenty years with the exceptions of the nuclear arms enrichment they recently grudgingly slowed in return for America's lifting of some sanctions against them.
These Foreign Affairs Committee Senators want to limit the President's Article Two powers of war
from the Constitution.
That may have to happen. If it does- no one is stopping them from taking that vote. In the meantime,
before they write up the resolution, and take the vote, if ISIL has to be hit in Syria, the President is
going to do that. I doubt the committee members would dare hesitate to vote continuing the halt of
any terrorist group.
Mario Rubio wants to know if we can maybe put 'boots on the ground' if something horrible happens
or if Assad does not fall.
He cannot accept "No" for an answer. Too bad for him Secretary of State's answer was: "For this
moment we have to say "No; and we will not speculate on future Syrian conflict possibilities once
ISIL is weakened."
Rubio: (whining) "But why? What if ISIL goes and Assad is still there?"
John Kerry: "We won't speculate."
America Is Fighting A Raw/ Not A War
I don't know why we are unable to come up with a new vocabulary for what is happening to us now.
I can't figure out what exactly was wrong with Reagan, Bush, Bush W. or Cheney.
Before these people got into the fabric of World Peace, the idea that World Peace was achievable did
exist, even after Vietnam. How does anyone think we got flower power once we began to settle social
unrest here in the seventies.
Or- we thought we'd begun. Now I see the Klan have all gotten jobs on police forces in this country.
Who was going to stop them?
I digress.
America had brave, forward-thinking leadership in both World Wars, and in the Korean War.
Before Reagan flaunted the Boland Ammendment, however, inventing 'plausible deniability', a thing
totally implausible and oxymoronic for a leader to engulf himself in, America did not develop the
habit of aggressing sovereign nations without being called upon to help advance a specific peace, or
defend its own sovereignty.
We surely never aggressed other nations under false pretense!
Now we are in a morass exacerbated by so very many years of grinning lies, death, torture, murder-
how in the world do we get ourselves out of this?
We are harboring and honoring so many war criminals here.
We need new Medals of Honor for the Cindy Sheehans of our nation. She was not the one killing people.
Saddam was no prince, but George W. killed more Iraqis than Saddam ever did.
We can arm any group we want in the Mid East today, and surely we must do something.
What we cannot do, however, is give them more people, well-trained professional soldier people
to behead as 'boots on foreign ground'.
There is no reason in this universe for us to believe in America that we are admired, respected, loved,
or thought honorable in Iraq, except in a slight perhaps by the Pesh Merga and the Yezidi.
Whatever group we throw in with today can easily re-group and rename themselves tomorrow.
That is exactly what they are going to do until we have no more arms to give them.
We have to get in there somehow, yet we have no choice but to be limited.
We are not the Mid East NRA.
We are not going to know the good guys with a gun from the bad guys with a gun for any foreseeably
accurately, measurable amount of time for quite some years to come- if ever.
The conflicts we have now don't have enemies who surrender, who seek out truces, who agree to an
end to hostilities. They don't feel that they were treated fairly in WWI, or that it was ever fairly
redressed with them- so we go right ahead and heap insult, after injury, after aggression right on top
of what they have to resent already. How are we supposed to find groups over there who hate each
other more than they want the freedom to hate us?
We have had the worse trouble from angering Stalin after WWII.
We are still not warm and fuzzy with France from how angry DeGaulle was after WWII.
We need to figure out how we got on so well with the British after the War of Independence. Oh, right, they still owned a lot of property here- as they do now.
How did we do it with Germany. For one thing we helped them do what they wanted; eliminate a lot
of their extremists. Neither of those solutions is workable in the Mid East as I can see.
How did we become allied with Japan? We let them buy all the patents they wanted. Don't think we
dare do that unless we could be sure we sold nothing lethal. Prohibitions of that sort are more difficult
to effect in this 21st century.
We have a stability in South Korea we got by splitting the country in only two parts.
Sociologists say five is a good number.
Instead of people thinking they are going to force caliphates all over the place, maybe they can agree
on redrawing borders which will give them five groups of land.
Fat chance on Iran ever going for that, right?
Someone had better do something.
People who used to be farmers and dentists don't go away quietly. How does anyone think England
did make the colonies so angry. The king was no longer messing with only mountain men, cobblers,
and blacksmiths.
The middle class in the Mid East are not one bit dumb. They were not so happy with us in the first place, and they know all their countries' borders were transgressed, and swollen with the miseries of
millions because George W. and his neo-con buddies do think war is a war game.
Sunni/Shia forces are not seasoned, professional, nurtured, thoughtful, organized, gentleman soldiers
with strict hierarchies and chains of command which cannot easily be broken.
They are raw.
In each form they present, they are raw.
They may want Americans there, some of them, but they all want us well-done.
Do we like that picture?
Besides, then what happens to Israel?
I hate to say it or think it; but Ebola in sub-Saharan Africa may be the only way for us to win true
friends among economies that actually are growing, despite all the problems of living in the most
unyielding expanse of climate on earth.
I know there are microbial thermophiles on the North and South Pole which can survive anything; but I don't think there are harsher seasons lasting such interminable amounts of time.
Hey, I'm not a biogeographer though. I admit it.
I can't figure out what exactly was wrong with Reagan, Bush, Bush W. or Cheney.
Before these people got into the fabric of World Peace, the idea that World Peace was achievable did
exist, even after Vietnam. How does anyone think we got flower power once we began to settle social
unrest here in the seventies.
Or- we thought we'd begun. Now I see the Klan have all gotten jobs on police forces in this country.
Who was going to stop them?
I digress.
America had brave, forward-thinking leadership in both World Wars, and in the Korean War.
Before Reagan flaunted the Boland Ammendment, however, inventing 'plausible deniability', a thing
totally implausible and oxymoronic for a leader to engulf himself in, America did not develop the
habit of aggressing sovereign nations without being called upon to help advance a specific peace, or
defend its own sovereignty.
We surely never aggressed other nations under false pretense!
Now we are in a morass exacerbated by so very many years of grinning lies, death, torture, murder-
how in the world do we get ourselves out of this?
We are harboring and honoring so many war criminals here.
We need new Medals of Honor for the Cindy Sheehans of our nation. She was not the one killing people.
Saddam was no prince, but George W. killed more Iraqis than Saddam ever did.
We can arm any group we want in the Mid East today, and surely we must do something.
What we cannot do, however, is give them more people, well-trained professional soldier people
to behead as 'boots on foreign ground'.
There is no reason in this universe for us to believe in America that we are admired, respected, loved,
or thought honorable in Iraq, except in a slight perhaps by the Pesh Merga and the Yezidi.
Whatever group we throw in with today can easily re-group and rename themselves tomorrow.
That is exactly what they are going to do until we have no more arms to give them.
We have to get in there somehow, yet we have no choice but to be limited.
We are not the Mid East NRA.
We are not going to know the good guys with a gun from the bad guys with a gun for any foreseeably
accurately, measurable amount of time for quite some years to come- if ever.
The conflicts we have now don't have enemies who surrender, who seek out truces, who agree to an
end to hostilities. They don't feel that they were treated fairly in WWI, or that it was ever fairly
redressed with them- so we go right ahead and heap insult, after injury, after aggression right on top
of what they have to resent already. How are we supposed to find groups over there who hate each
other more than they want the freedom to hate us?
We have had the worse trouble from angering Stalin after WWII.
We are still not warm and fuzzy with France from how angry DeGaulle was after WWII.
We need to figure out how we got on so well with the British after the War of Independence. Oh, right, they still owned a lot of property here- as they do now.
How did we do it with Germany. For one thing we helped them do what they wanted; eliminate a lot
of their extremists. Neither of those solutions is workable in the Mid East as I can see.
How did we become allied with Japan? We let them buy all the patents they wanted. Don't think we
dare do that unless we could be sure we sold nothing lethal. Prohibitions of that sort are more difficult
to effect in this 21st century.
We have a stability in South Korea we got by splitting the country in only two parts.
Sociologists say five is a good number.
Instead of people thinking they are going to force caliphates all over the place, maybe they can agree
on redrawing borders which will give them five groups of land.
Fat chance on Iran ever going for that, right?
Someone had better do something.
People who used to be farmers and dentists don't go away quietly. How does anyone think England
did make the colonies so angry. The king was no longer messing with only mountain men, cobblers,
and blacksmiths.
The middle class in the Mid East are not one bit dumb. They were not so happy with us in the first place, and they know all their countries' borders were transgressed, and swollen with the miseries of
millions because George W. and his neo-con buddies do think war is a war game.
Sunni/Shia forces are not seasoned, professional, nurtured, thoughtful, organized, gentleman soldiers
with strict hierarchies and chains of command which cannot easily be broken.
They are raw.
In each form they present, they are raw.
They may want Americans there, some of them, but they all want us well-done.
Do we like that picture?
Besides, then what happens to Israel?
I hate to say it or think it; but Ebola in sub-Saharan Africa may be the only way for us to win true
friends among economies that actually are growing, despite all the problems of living in the most
unyielding expanse of climate on earth.
I know there are microbial thermophiles on the North and South Pole which can survive anything; but I don't think there are harsher seasons lasting such interminable amounts of time.
Hey, I'm not a biogeographer though. I admit it.
What I Learned From Being Severely Beaten Repeatedly As A Child
I learned I had no home.
I learned I was welcome nowhere.
I learned I never, ever really would be.
I guess I'm OK. I'm old now.
But my kids don't have the same opinion I do of how OK I am, on a scale of 1-10.
They don't have the same opinions of how OK I have been on a scale of 1-10.
And they don't use any scale I ever even imagined in their childhoods. I couldn't manage my own
growing up scales, even as I was changing quickly every year.
I don't know exactly how I intimidated them. They may have gotten a few smacks, but some
say one whipping is enough. Kids obey a certain amount of time no matter what.
It shouldn't be necessary to intimidate them.
And you certainly won't get more obedience from giving out more hell.
You may tell yourself you are; but what you are seeing is fear, contempt.
I had that argument with my dad when he was in his sixties, even though he wasn't a bad person.
I had to cut the conversation short with him though until he was in his eighties! He was getting too
threatening in his tone even then. He had been thinking all along nothing else mattered except the
kids obey- obey the instant some command is given.
That instantaneous compliance expectation actually is a necessary instinct for parents to demand
from having lived under extremely punitive social pressures which group-identify and herd persons
rarely treated as individuals, as a matter of course. In my family, a lot of that sort of socialization came from slavery.
My own mom who could be just brutal, puzzlingly enough though, was horrified that I even cursed in front of my kids.
Well, I wasn't cursing them! I wasn't even cursing at them in my estimation. If I said, "Stop all that
damned noise!" she'd feel crushed. I suppose it's sometimes easier to identify with grand kids because
you can see how cute they are, but you are not responsible for them. I said sometimes. My dad loved
them too, but I could tell even though dad never developed the habit of cursing or swearing, that he
had more of a 'Would you kids stop that damned noise' sentiment when they were young.
So she was quite an enigma. She sure had different standards now that she had grand kids.
Here's the thing.
My grandchildren, her great grandchildren, get it worse than my children did.
That generational witnessing is what hurts so badly when it happens.
But my grandchildren do know love. As a child, I wasn't quite certain. I wondered. I thought
fate and love were all of one mix. I didn't think anyone was going to find nice ways to express
love as a way of living. I believe my own children assumed much of it rather than felt it in measures
which could have made them feel safer, and sounder, and more ready to grow inside.
They love one another, but are quite a bit more suspicious of each other than they should be.
And because their father was a troll they did grow to love- their emotional dependencies are way out
of whack, either way too extreme or hovering eternally n avoidance land.
As my children did begin to grow up, I realized such a thing as evolving love was entirely possible, and explorably wonderful. I began to do more and more of those little expressions of affection which had landed in my heart after all from both my own grandmas, and my foster mom, and to some extent my parents and godmother.
It took me so long to figure it out though.
I married someone who was the exact nightmare of a father for my children I never thought I was
capable of loving or choosing. Once he finally gone though, I guess I began to see love could grow and blossom and be happy to present itself all over the place.
The kids told me once when they were little- 'When dad was here you were so mean!'
Now if that isn't the opposite of how things are supposed to go I don't know what could be.
I have no recollection of ever being mean until he left, even all these nearly forty years later.
What I do know is that things can go from generation to generation taking on many forms- none of
them entirely recognizable from generations past, but none of them warm or inspiring from a joyous
growth point of view.
I bought a house forty years ago.
I've lived in it forty years.
I still don't feel welcome.
Feeling no welcome anywhere is instilled. I don't know if it can be uprooted.
I did have one friend who pleasantly dug at it constantly.
I know I have to keep workn' on it, too. It can make a person cantankerous. But now, I am old.
I learned I was welcome nowhere.
I learned I never, ever really would be.
I guess I'm OK. I'm old now.
But my kids don't have the same opinion I do of how OK I am, on a scale of 1-10.
They don't have the same opinions of how OK I have been on a scale of 1-10.
And they don't use any scale I ever even imagined in their childhoods. I couldn't manage my own
growing up scales, even as I was changing quickly every year.
I don't know exactly how I intimidated them. They may have gotten a few smacks, but some
say one whipping is enough. Kids obey a certain amount of time no matter what.
It shouldn't be necessary to intimidate them.
And you certainly won't get more obedience from giving out more hell.
You may tell yourself you are; but what you are seeing is fear, contempt.
I had that argument with my dad when he was in his sixties, even though he wasn't a bad person.
I had to cut the conversation short with him though until he was in his eighties! He was getting too
threatening in his tone even then. He had been thinking all along nothing else mattered except the
kids obey- obey the instant some command is given.
That instantaneous compliance expectation actually is a necessary instinct for parents to demand
from having lived under extremely punitive social pressures which group-identify and herd persons
rarely treated as individuals, as a matter of course. In my family, a lot of that sort of socialization came from slavery.
My own mom who could be just brutal, puzzlingly enough though, was horrified that I even cursed in front of my kids.
Well, I wasn't cursing them! I wasn't even cursing at them in my estimation. If I said, "Stop all that
damned noise!" she'd feel crushed. I suppose it's sometimes easier to identify with grand kids because
you can see how cute they are, but you are not responsible for them. I said sometimes. My dad loved
them too, but I could tell even though dad never developed the habit of cursing or swearing, that he
had more of a 'Would you kids stop that damned noise' sentiment when they were young.
So she was quite an enigma. She sure had different standards now that she had grand kids.
Here's the thing.
My grandchildren, her great grandchildren, get it worse than my children did.
That generational witnessing is what hurts so badly when it happens.
But my grandchildren do know love. As a child, I wasn't quite certain. I wondered. I thought
fate and love were all of one mix. I didn't think anyone was going to find nice ways to express
love as a way of living. I believe my own children assumed much of it rather than felt it in measures
which could have made them feel safer, and sounder, and more ready to grow inside.
They love one another, but are quite a bit more suspicious of each other than they should be.
And because their father was a troll they did grow to love- their emotional dependencies are way out
of whack, either way too extreme or hovering eternally n avoidance land.
As my children did begin to grow up, I realized such a thing as evolving love was entirely possible, and explorably wonderful. I began to do more and more of those little expressions of affection which had landed in my heart after all from both my own grandmas, and my foster mom, and to some extent my parents and godmother.
It took me so long to figure it out though.
I married someone who was the exact nightmare of a father for my children I never thought I was
capable of loving or choosing. Once he finally gone though, I guess I began to see love could grow and blossom and be happy to present itself all over the place.
The kids told me once when they were little- 'When dad was here you were so mean!'
Now if that isn't the opposite of how things are supposed to go I don't know what could be.
I have no recollection of ever being mean until he left, even all these nearly forty years later.
What I do know is that things can go from generation to generation taking on many forms- none of
them entirely recognizable from generations past, but none of them warm or inspiring from a joyous
growth point of view.
I bought a house forty years ago.
I've lived in it forty years.
I still don't feel welcome.
Feeling no welcome anywhere is instilled. I don't know if it can be uprooted.
I did have one friend who pleasantly dug at it constantly.
I know I have to keep workn' on it, too. It can make a person cantankerous. But now, I am old.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Before Any Woman Marries
Get a translation of the text, then listen to Dame Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti sing
'in questa reggia' from Turandot by Bellini with The London Philharmonic Orchestra...while alone.
The song is only about six minutes long; and at about four minutes and forty-five seconds, the walls
begin to ring, and you may feel every word Joan Sutherland is uttering.
She is refusing suitors marriage because the possible pitfalls for a woman are too horrific.
But, Pavorotti convinces her and everyone else everywhere, that love has to reign,and the song ebbs.
Don't worry, they do get married in the end.
But Turandot is quite an opera, and quite a tour de force for a strong voice with a very powerful story to tell the audience in 'reggia'- mainly about an auntie of the heroines.
These two performers have passed away; yet in part because of them, this opera, the songs in it, will be on music's map forever and ever.
Intensely ever after.
'in questa reggia' from Turandot by Bellini with The London Philharmonic Orchestra...while alone.
The song is only about six minutes long; and at about four minutes and forty-five seconds, the walls
begin to ring, and you may feel every word Joan Sutherland is uttering.
She is refusing suitors marriage because the possible pitfalls for a woman are too horrific.
But, Pavorotti convinces her and everyone else everywhere, that love has to reign,and the song ebbs.
Don't worry, they do get married in the end.
But Turandot is quite an opera, and quite a tour de force for a strong voice with a very powerful story to tell the audience in 'reggia'- mainly about an auntie of the heroines.
These two performers have passed away; yet in part because of them, this opera, the songs in it, will be on music's map forever and ever.
Intensely ever after.
Monday, September 15, 2014
Adrian Peterson: You Don't Realize You Are Unwell...
I have had associations with so very many social workers and child abusers in my career.
I have never ever once heard a child abuser say; 'I am a child abuser.'
However, many many times I have heard the cruel ones say point blank: 'I am not a child abuser.'
Whenever you think to call abuse, discipline, do a bit of math, even if your mom didn't.
Calculate whether or not you have a decidedly more than double weight advantage over the person
you intend to strike.
Calculate whether you might have a more than squared (x to the second power) age and life experience advantage over the person you are about to strike.
Calculate the height advantage you have over the person you will strike.
Calculate the proportional height/weight advantage you have over the person you will unleash force
upon.
That will take more time; but your weight has much more heavy muscle in it than the weight
of most other people- especially growing people.
For instance, you may weigh three pounds for every inch of height your frame supports. No four
year old could steel himself against that, physically, or probably even emotionally.
If you take the time to do that mathematics, perhaps your rage will have had some time to abate.
(I know you believe that amount of rage against someone four years old may be normal- but it is not.)
Can you now agree you clearly may have been out of control striking a four-year-old? You hit genitals. Did you make him strip, or was your force powerful enough to tear through his underwear?
Either way, Mr. Peterson, that does not indicate a good quantity of discipline in you.
If your mom is to blame for your present behavior, sir, then you haven't fully grown up.
Find someone who cares for you, and who knows how very wrong this inflicting of bodily harm is, even if you are not still on great terms with this person; then listen to what the person tells you about what you have done so wrong. Yes sir- you meant to hurt him. But you need to hear that from someone who you know cares about you.
Your son will need an education in this twenty-first century, Mr. Peterson.
It seems doubtful he was able to put on a shirt or pants and face his classmates for several days after
he absorbed your beating furor.
If you want to put yourself in his place- think of someone who is twice your size, and considers himself as the designated arbiter of right and wrong in your life. He strikes you repeatedly, purposefully until your body is littered with scars.
You may understand at that time the principal lesson your son has now learned.
There is nowhere to run- nowhere to hide.
I have never ever once heard a child abuser say; 'I am a child abuser.'
However, many many times I have heard the cruel ones say point blank: 'I am not a child abuser.'
Whenever you think to call abuse, discipline, do a bit of math, even if your mom didn't.
Calculate whether or not you have a decidedly more than double weight advantage over the person
you intend to strike.
Calculate whether you might have a more than squared (x to the second power) age and life experience advantage over the person you are about to strike.
Calculate the height advantage you have over the person you will strike.
Calculate the proportional height/weight advantage you have over the person you will unleash force
upon.
That will take more time; but your weight has much more heavy muscle in it than the weight
of most other people- especially growing people.
For instance, you may weigh three pounds for every inch of height your frame supports. No four
year old could steel himself against that, physically, or probably even emotionally.
If you take the time to do that mathematics, perhaps your rage will have had some time to abate.
(I know you believe that amount of rage against someone four years old may be normal- but it is not.)
Can you now agree you clearly may have been out of control striking a four-year-old? You hit genitals. Did you make him strip, or was your force powerful enough to tear through his underwear?
Either way, Mr. Peterson, that does not indicate a good quantity of discipline in you.
If your mom is to blame for your present behavior, sir, then you haven't fully grown up.
Find someone who cares for you, and who knows how very wrong this inflicting of bodily harm is, even if you are not still on great terms with this person; then listen to what the person tells you about what you have done so wrong. Yes sir- you meant to hurt him. But you need to hear that from someone who you know cares about you.
Your son will need an education in this twenty-first century, Mr. Peterson.
It seems doubtful he was able to put on a shirt or pants and face his classmates for several days after
he absorbed your beating furor.
If you want to put yourself in his place- think of someone who is twice your size, and considers himself as the designated arbiter of right and wrong in your life. He strikes you repeatedly, purposefully until your body is littered with scars.
You may understand at that time the principal lesson your son has now learned.
There is nowhere to run- nowhere to hide.
8 Million Horses
Of course we had an Industrial Revolution.
We killed 8 million horses in WWI.
We are a wonderful creation in many ways- but we can be barbarous...
terribly, terribly barbarous.
How in the world were the farms to be productive after that?
People were quite obviously going to continue the starving they began in the years before
the war.
We killed 8 million horses in WWI.
We are a wonderful creation in many ways- but we can be barbarous...
terribly, terribly barbarous.
How in the world were the farms to be productive after that?
People were quite obviously going to continue the starving they began in the years before
the war.
POTUS And Six Degrees Of NCAA
President Obama recently launched investigations into college campus rape.
If he wisely succeeds in wresting these crimes out of deans' offices and into the criminal justice system, perhaps the professional sports' groups in this country will be able to choose from a better preponderance of more morally acceptable players.
The NCAA is famous for protecting players from accusations of anything and everything anyone might launch in any circumstance.
When my girls went to university, the thought of them dating ball players made my heart skip a beat, even though we were a poor family.
Eventually each of my girls told me without my having the poor judgement to ask: 'I don't deal with
ball players.'
I wish the President all the good will in the world for his efforts on our college campuses.
If he wisely succeeds in wresting these crimes out of deans' offices and into the criminal justice system, perhaps the professional sports' groups in this country will be able to choose from a better preponderance of more morally acceptable players.
The NCAA is famous for protecting players from accusations of anything and everything anyone might launch in any circumstance.
When my girls went to university, the thought of them dating ball players made my heart skip a beat, even though we were a poor family.
Eventually each of my girls told me without my having the poor judgement to ask: 'I don't deal with
ball players.'
I wish the President all the good will in the world for his efforts on our college campuses.
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Mrs. Rice Looks Healthy
Such a wonder to look so healthy after so many ordeals.
Maybe it's true...getting up is what matters.
We know how easy it is to kill or cripple an unconscious person when moving him, or her.
Still, as a TV raised public, we were more alarmed by witnessing the blow itself as it was delivered
to the then Ms. Palmer.
Since then, we've somehow focused on his power.
The power of his fist...
The power in his arm...
The power of his reputation...
The power in his NFL connections...
The power in his fan base...
The power in his partner's devotion...
The power of his celebrity...
The power of his wrongdoing...
The power of escape from a jail sentence...
But Janay Palmer, thus far, is cloisterer of the power of a true survivor.
And she is the one I hope continues in good health.
Her spoken words say 'we' 'us' 'family' 'our'. I find it so very shrunken from the close call her body
may have endured.
Her speech could be replete with 'I'. His has been,
Yet women made to embrace cowering, don't always choose to personally identify with the position
they've been encouraged to greet publicly. Actually, why should they embrace such a thing?
I know Mrs. Rice's brain could have bounced off her skull.
I know she could have sustained a hairline fracture in her skull bone.
I know key vertebrae at the base of her brain could have suffered dangerous whiplash.
I sense how lucky she is if she is truly well, no thanks to Ray Rice.
Mrs. Rice's part in this violence continues to this day, though probably unwittingly.
Her good wishes for Ray Rice should be minimized by professional prosecutors.
Domestic violence , is after all, violence.
Violence can be unyieldingly dangerous, ergo necessarily prosecuted by the public criminal justice
systems in proper jurisdictions of a civilized society.
Mrs. Rice may have the requisite proper medical care with C.A.T. scans, etc.-
but she does have a right to that privacy at the least.
Whatever happens or does not happen, the whole affair is mostly sad for her at this time because she
is a grown-up, and may therefore have to make decisions about her own future with or without
Mr. Ray Rice.
In the end, let's hope if there has to be a reckoning in his career, it will be recognized that his actions
causing great violence to another person have to shoulder the preponderance of blame, and the totality of what must be paid society for the crime.
Nearly all violence has a cause; but one knows it can't be excused on that basis.
In our future, we can only hope the person most warmly close, most trusting, won't continue to be the
one who suffers the most extreme betrayal and threat at the hands of a beloved.
Maybe it's true...getting up is what matters.
We know how easy it is to kill or cripple an unconscious person when moving him, or her.
Still, as a TV raised public, we were more alarmed by witnessing the blow itself as it was delivered
to the then Ms. Palmer.
Since then, we've somehow focused on his power.
The power of his fist...
The power in his arm...
The power of his reputation...
The power in his NFL connections...
The power in his fan base...
The power in his partner's devotion...
The power of his celebrity...
The power of his wrongdoing...
The power of escape from a jail sentence...
But Janay Palmer, thus far, is cloisterer of the power of a true survivor.
And she is the one I hope continues in good health.
Her spoken words say 'we' 'us' 'family' 'our'. I find it so very shrunken from the close call her body
may have endured.
Her speech could be replete with 'I'. His has been,
Yet women made to embrace cowering, don't always choose to personally identify with the position
they've been encouraged to greet publicly. Actually, why should they embrace such a thing?
I know Mrs. Rice's brain could have bounced off her skull.
I know she could have sustained a hairline fracture in her skull bone.
I know key vertebrae at the base of her brain could have suffered dangerous whiplash.
I sense how lucky she is if she is truly well, no thanks to Ray Rice.
Mrs. Rice's part in this violence continues to this day, though probably unwittingly.
Her good wishes for Ray Rice should be minimized by professional prosecutors.
Domestic violence , is after all, violence.
Violence can be unyieldingly dangerous, ergo necessarily prosecuted by the public criminal justice
systems in proper jurisdictions of a civilized society.
Mrs. Rice may have the requisite proper medical care with C.A.T. scans, etc.-
but she does have a right to that privacy at the least.
Whatever happens or does not happen, the whole affair is mostly sad for her at this time because she
is a grown-up, and may therefore have to make decisions about her own future with or without
Mr. Ray Rice.
In the end, let's hope if there has to be a reckoning in his career, it will be recognized that his actions
causing great violence to another person have to shoulder the preponderance of blame, and the totality of what must be paid society for the crime.
Nearly all violence has a cause; but one knows it can't be excused on that basis.
In our future, we can only hope the person most warmly close, most trusting, won't continue to be the
one who suffers the most extreme betrayal and threat at the hands of a beloved.
Friday, September 12, 2014
Fans Of Football/ But Not Humanity
So should boxers still be charged with felonies when hitting any person?
Or perhaps only when they might hit any male person should they be charged.
What kind of sexist nuttiness says a woman, not normally strong enough to kill a man with a hit,
can be hit back with massive force because she strikes at him?
Were that how it should go, a woman who does get hit is justified in picking up an iron skillet and
sucker bang a man in the head with enough force to knock him unconscious?
I really do not believe we could allow the law to operate in that way.
One adult who uses a great deal of force against another, with nothing but his or her anger to blame,
should answer for it in court. When adults hit children, even more danger is at hand. No pun...
If public opinion is still dragging some knuckles- too bad.
Or perhaps only when they might hit any male person should they be charged.
What kind of sexist nuttiness says a woman, not normally strong enough to kill a man with a hit,
can be hit back with massive force because she strikes at him?
Were that how it should go, a woman who does get hit is justified in picking up an iron skillet and
sucker bang a man in the head with enough force to knock him unconscious?
I really do not believe we could allow the law to operate in that way.
One adult who uses a great deal of force against another, with nothing but his or her anger to blame,
should answer for it in court. When adults hit children, even more danger is at hand. No pun...
If public opinion is still dragging some knuckles- too bad.
Help For The NFL
Here's an idea.
If the NFL players are addicted to battery on and off the field, why not let them beat the hell out of
each other.
But see, that the league does not allow.
If the NFL players are addicted to battery on and off the field, why not let them beat the hell out of
each other.
But see, that the league does not allow.
In For A Penny /But Not For A Pound
The entire Mid East must think we are both daft and drunk with power.
We are not daft.
We are not drunk with power.
We aren't going to allow them to throw a bunch of caliphate rocks, then hide their hands.
Still, neither are we going to continue to degrade our own force and resource until they amass
enough forces of their own to attack Israel while we stand feebly by.
Go tell y' mamma.
We are not daft.
We are not drunk with power.
We aren't going to allow them to throw a bunch of caliphate rocks, then hide their hands.
Still, neither are we going to continue to degrade our own force and resource until they amass
enough forces of their own to attack Israel while we stand feebly by.
Go tell y' mamma.
The Progressive Pacifists: Sounding Angry And Odd
I think people who used to be simply the liberal base of the President's party have become a bit
deranged- peacefully that is.
They are in the "do nothing" category, or the "do nothing yet" category.
Do nothing because there are only 10,000 ISIL fighters.
Oh no, do nothing because there are only 31,000 fighters.
Do nothing because they haven't beheaded that many Americans. We aren't sure they will keep
beheading Americans wherever they can find them.
Do nothing because they haven't yet planned to strike the White House.
Do nothing because they are not half way across the ocean yet. We can't see the whites of their eyes.
Do nothing because they don't have the capacity to be too harmful yet.
Oh wait- do nothing because they have billions of dollars and lots of land and they are too much for us.
What do you mean you have to do something?
Have you tried talking nice to them- have you?!
If you are thinking you should do something about ISIL, you have to give back the Nobel Prize.
You do not have our definition for the word peace.
Peace insures you will Do Nothing!
Time changes.
Terror threats and tactics change.
The terrorist groups change.
Terrorist supportive governments change.
But you- you the leader of the free world, you cannot change.
You need to keep to our definition of peace, or not have a definition of peace.
You need to get with the Bartelby program.
deranged- peacefully that is.
They are in the "do nothing" category, or the "do nothing yet" category.
Do nothing because there are only 10,000 ISIL fighters.
Oh no, do nothing because there are only 31,000 fighters.
Do nothing because they haven't beheaded that many Americans. We aren't sure they will keep
beheading Americans wherever they can find them.
Do nothing because they haven't yet planned to strike the White House.
Do nothing because they are not half way across the ocean yet. We can't see the whites of their eyes.
Do nothing because they don't have the capacity to be too harmful yet.
Oh wait- do nothing because they have billions of dollars and lots of land and they are too much for us.
What do you mean you have to do something?
Have you tried talking nice to them- have you?!
If you are thinking you should do something about ISIL, you have to give back the Nobel Prize.
You do not have our definition for the word peace.
Peace insures you will Do Nothing!
Time changes.
Terror threats and tactics change.
The terrorist groups change.
Terrorist supportive governments change.
But you- you the leader of the free world, you cannot change.
You need to keep to our definition of peace, or not have a definition of peace.
You need to get with the Bartelby program.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
We Can't Go Whole Hog
These Mid East entities are attempting to play 'good cop bad cop' with us. We have to proceed with
caution no matter what we commit to defeat ISIL, especially since Russia loves Syria so much.
I sure agree with the President, though, that this group doesn't need the heads of our soldiers.
caution no matter what we commit to defeat ISIL, especially since Russia loves Syria so much.
I sure agree with the President, though, that this group doesn't need the heads of our soldiers.
Ray McDonald...Greg Hardy...Ray Rice...& Pals...
I am beginning to understand how they are so successful at what they do on those football fields.
They practice at home!
They practice at home!
The Ray Rice Video
I thought the first video was worse than the second.
Professional sports' players know not to move anyone who is potentially injured.
I love football.
But I agree with Rachel Maddow.
Roger Goodell has lied so much, and the prosecutor has dropped the ball so
completely, that I get nauseated thinking about big heavy sweaty men knocking people
down.
Professional sports' players know not to move anyone who is potentially injured.
I love football.
But I agree with Rachel Maddow.
Roger Goodell has lied so much, and the prosecutor has dropped the ball so
completely, that I get nauseated thinking about big heavy sweaty men knocking people
down.
Rev. Al Was Right Too
Rev. said Wednesday night the President would ask Congress to front the money for some of his
Syrian campaign. I was surprised. I had an idea the President was going to say he was going to go
alone with whatever he could currently do legally.
I hope Congress will do its advise and consent duties.
Syrian campaign. I was surprised. I had an idea the President was going to say he was going to go
alone with whatever he could currently do legally.
I hope Congress will do its advise and consent duties.
But I Was Also A Little Right
We know POTUS will seek out and find terrorists wherever he must if they threaten the U.S. and
its citizens. He told us again, though there are different players, the goal in the 'game' is the same-
for them, and consequently for him...for us.
He told the whole Mid East right after the 2008 election, I won't strike out at you, if you aren't
striking out at me. I will begin no overt or covert threats you've previously endured from the U.S.
It seemed well-accepted by Muslims worldwide at the time. However, these new terrorists are
Saddam's people. Some are his political people, and some are his military people. Some were his
generals. some were his soldiers. Many are Baathists. Together they know both policy and warfare.
They know how these two things must be intertwined. They have the expertise to do the intertwining.
They know they lay of the land. They are well-funded. They are Saddam's survivors.
What part of 'we will cut your heads off' seems stuff and nonsense to us still?
Oh, we think the ISIL are satisfied now. They only wanted inoffensive journalists.
What part of 'Come fight us on the ground. We will see you in the White House', is something we
don't believe is a goal for them now? The Bushes started this, but we have to mitigate it.
Sure, we see ISIL goals as unachievable. However- their approach toward such goal, the unending awful means, while slogging toward the unachievable goal, has an ever-increasingly bloody footprint, leaving us the blame for their motivations. More and more of earth's citizens will give their hearts
and minds and allegiances to those who claim they'll stop the sanguine seeking if America is
brought to heel.
So is that what we need to be waiting for then?
Or should we stop this 'seeking' dead in its tracks now, the best way we can?
Our President has allowed ISIL to identify itself.
Now we know much more about who not to arm in our attempts to help, if at all possible.
its citizens. He told us again, though there are different players, the goal in the 'game' is the same-
for them, and consequently for him...for us.
He told the whole Mid East right after the 2008 election, I won't strike out at you, if you aren't
striking out at me. I will begin no overt or covert threats you've previously endured from the U.S.
It seemed well-accepted by Muslims worldwide at the time. However, these new terrorists are
Saddam's people. Some are his political people, and some are his military people. Some were his
generals. some were his soldiers. Many are Baathists. Together they know both policy and warfare.
They know how these two things must be intertwined. They have the expertise to do the intertwining.
They know they lay of the land. They are well-funded. They are Saddam's survivors.
What part of 'we will cut your heads off' seems stuff and nonsense to us still?
Oh, we think the ISIL are satisfied now. They only wanted inoffensive journalists.
What part of 'Come fight us on the ground. We will see you in the White House', is something we
don't believe is a goal for them now? The Bushes started this, but we have to mitigate it.
Sure, we see ISIL goals as unachievable. However- their approach toward such goal, the unending awful means, while slogging toward the unachievable goal, has an ever-increasingly bloody footprint, leaving us the blame for their motivations. More and more of earth's citizens will give their hearts
and minds and allegiances to those who claim they'll stop the sanguine seeking if America is
brought to heel.
So is that what we need to be waiting for then?
Or should we stop this 'seeking' dead in its tracks now, the best way we can?
Our President has allowed ISIL to identify itself.
Now we know much more about who not to arm in our attempts to help, if at all possible.
OK I Was Wrong
POTUS told us three new things.
1. Sunni communities wanting a national gaurd type unit will get a national gaurd type unit.
2. Not quite 500 more soldiers with specific expertises will be going to Mid East borders.
3. The faces of jihad are not Musilm, and they change constantly.
So, we knew number 3. already in a way; but so many progressive pacifists still live in 2003.
So many hawks live in 2003. In this vein then, they all have the same criticisms for differing reasons.
Our President lets us know he cannot, will not, pretend to be a 2003 government official.
We don't have the Saddam Hussein, who kept religious factions from tearing each other to shreds.
We don't even have Saddam's methods to fall back on so we can keep factions from attempting their
brutal purges.
We don't have the Baathe Party in the form it was when it kept Iraq sovereign.
We no longer even have a leg to stand on when we admonish Russia, of all governments, to respect
another country's borders. We have to demand it of course- but think how that must look to the Russian people?! Of course Putin takes ultimate advantage of how we look in the former bloc.
He goes too far, much much too far, because he is Putin. But he is overmilking the cow we freely
rashly, unwisely gave him!
Barack Obama has to restructure what Bush, Bush Two, and Cheney ripped apart with glee.
The only thing we are lucky to have in this chaos is a man who will attempt to do the restructuring
even though he has to make up the tools as he goes along.
President Obama has to be both the McGuyver of diplomacy and the McGuyver of warfare in each
moment, if we are to go forward.
President Carter is the only one on earth who might have some ideas; but I can't say POTUS would
be comfortable inviting them, or be comfortable using them. Knowing what I know about
President Carter, I can't even say he'd be willing to share.
I know this: both these Presidents have been in much the same breech; and these two both acted
wisely with boldness on the occasions of test.
President Obama, however, has both the Near East and the Far East twitching into uncomfortable
growth patterns at the same time. Thank heaven one set of twitches as yet shows no features of overt violence.
For our sake, I hope POTUS can juggle all over the court in one same instant.
1. Sunni communities wanting a national gaurd type unit will get a national gaurd type unit.
2. Not quite 500 more soldiers with specific expertises will be going to Mid East borders.
3. The faces of jihad are not Musilm, and they change constantly.
So, we knew number 3. already in a way; but so many progressive pacifists still live in 2003.
So many hawks live in 2003. In this vein then, they all have the same criticisms for differing reasons.
Our President lets us know he cannot, will not, pretend to be a 2003 government official.
We don't have the Saddam Hussein, who kept religious factions from tearing each other to shreds.
We don't even have Saddam's methods to fall back on so we can keep factions from attempting their
brutal purges.
We don't have the Baathe Party in the form it was when it kept Iraq sovereign.
We no longer even have a leg to stand on when we admonish Russia, of all governments, to respect
another country's borders. We have to demand it of course- but think how that must look to the Russian people?! Of course Putin takes ultimate advantage of how we look in the former bloc.
He goes too far, much much too far, because he is Putin. But he is overmilking the cow we freely
rashly, unwisely gave him!
Barack Obama has to restructure what Bush, Bush Two, and Cheney ripped apart with glee.
The only thing we are lucky to have in this chaos is a man who will attempt to do the restructuring
even though he has to make up the tools as he goes along.
President Obama has to be both the McGuyver of diplomacy and the McGuyver of warfare in each
moment, if we are to go forward.
President Carter is the only one on earth who might have some ideas; but I can't say POTUS would
be comfortable inviting them, or be comfortable using them. Knowing what I know about
President Carter, I can't even say he'd be willing to share.
I know this: both these Presidents have been in much the same breech; and these two both acted
wisely with boldness on the occasions of test.
President Obama, however, has both the Near East and the Far East twitching into uncomfortable
growth patterns at the same time. Thank heaven one set of twitches as yet shows no features of overt violence.
For our sake, I hope POTUS can juggle all over the court in one same instant.
Michael Vick: Are You Amused?
Weren't you villified as a felon ?
I adore dogs.
But isn't Mrs. Rice a human person?
I adore dogs.
But isn't Mrs. Rice a human person?
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Don't Kid Yourself
POTUS can be as nimble, as slippery, as chameleon-like, as unpredictable as any terrorist group out there.
He won't make public his every plan.
He plan is to get the terrorist plans, then beat them to their destinations.
He is doing that already.
POTUS is going to give ISIL to al-Assad; so they can take care of one another in short order.
POTUS wants us to understand that he is not going to inadvertently give ISIL any more arms or
ammunition than we have given them already, by arming the Iraqi army, who gave their weapons away when ISIL showed up.
The President is going to work hardest with the Pesh Merga.
He won't be handing over any American bodies to beheaders.
Bet.
He won't make public his every plan.
He plan is to get the terrorist plans, then beat them to their destinations.
He is doing that already.
POTUS is going to give ISIL to al-Assad; so they can take care of one another in short order.
POTUS wants us to understand that he is not going to inadvertently give ISIL any more arms or
ammunition than we have given them already, by arming the Iraqi army, who gave their weapons away when ISIL showed up.
The President is going to work hardest with the Pesh Merga.
He won't be handing over any American bodies to beheaders.
Bet.
Reaching
Ray Rice is awful to behold.
Janay Rice is stunning.
Could he be suffering the irreconcilable resentment some famous people develop for a reputation they recognize as unattainable?
He will never, ever under any circumstance, have Janay Rice's rep- and not because she cannot
run as fast or hit as hard.
All she would ever have to do is stand there, and speak.
Even timbre in her voice is unbelievably captivating.
She's like a much more gorgeous and exotic Greta Garbo.
I'm sadly reminded of another absolutely tremendous-looking woman besieged by some beast-
Nicole Brown Simpson, God rest her.
Please let the former Janay Palmer escape any more violence ever, at the hands of this Rice person.
Janay Rice is stunning.
Could he be suffering the irreconcilable resentment some famous people develop for a reputation they recognize as unattainable?
He will never, ever under any circumstance, have Janay Rice's rep- and not because she cannot
run as fast or hit as hard.
All she would ever have to do is stand there, and speak.
Even timbre in her voice is unbelievably captivating.
She's like a much more gorgeous and exotic Greta Garbo.
I'm sadly reminded of another absolutely tremendous-looking woman besieged by some beast-
Nicole Brown Simpson, God rest her.
Please let the former Janay Palmer escape any more violence ever, at the hands of this Rice person.
NFL Players
Now is the time to hold professional ball players to the standards we have for boxers.
When Janay Palmer's head hit the elevator and the elevator floor, she could have sustained a hairline
fracture of her skull. That would likely have led to brain swelling, which could have led to lasting
brain damage or even death.
If her third, fourth, or fifth vertebrae had swollen, her gait could have been affected or even her ability to walk again.
If Ms. Palmer had gotten a concussion from Rice's blow, she again, could have suffered long-term
damage or even death.
Mr. Rice knew all of that, because he knows the protocol for himself or any other player on the
field when hit if players become unable to get up, or to get up quickly.
He must have known how dangerous it was for him to move her once she hit her head.
He must have known how dangerous it was for him to then drag her, and drop her.
He could easily have crippled her.
These pro ball players need to suffer meaningful prosecutorial penalty for using physical strength
against any person in any sort of altercation. These players have had millions of dollars of strength
and targeted strength skills training. In no way should they be allowed to use it out of anger or
frustration, especially not in ordinary society.
And none of them should get away with not calling immediately for help when they are in a situation where someone is injured. None of them should be allowed to get on the field without a passing grade
in a regular ethics, and/or a contact sports ethics class.
What happened to the emergency procedures nearly everyone has learned from first aid classes?
"Help, help, are you OK?"
And lastly- was he too tired to lean over her to re-position her leg if he had to move her at all?
Did he actually have to kick her?
Could he have walked around her out of respect?
Did he have to step over her?
He has shown nothing but public contempt for her from the moment her head hit that elevator floor.
I would be happy to see Janay Rice in any venue.
But I truly don't want to see Ray Rice do anything except volunteer at women's shelters.
I don't want to see Baltimore play if Ray Rice has to be involved.
I can't blame Mrs. Rice for marrying this insane man, or this man of insane behavior.
I'd have married him too. I would be terrified to incite him in any way for the longest time.
I think it is unfortunate she can blame the video and those playing it; but really, what else is there for
her to do at this moment? The press has to report news; but hopefully, for only the day it breaks.
When Janay Palmer's head hit the elevator and the elevator floor, she could have sustained a hairline
fracture of her skull. That would likely have led to brain swelling, which could have led to lasting
brain damage or even death.
If her third, fourth, or fifth vertebrae had swollen, her gait could have been affected or even her ability to walk again.
If Ms. Palmer had gotten a concussion from Rice's blow, she again, could have suffered long-term
damage or even death.
Mr. Rice knew all of that, because he knows the protocol for himself or any other player on the
field when hit if players become unable to get up, or to get up quickly.
He must have known how dangerous it was for him to move her once she hit her head.
He must have known how dangerous it was for him to then drag her, and drop her.
He could easily have crippled her.
These pro ball players need to suffer meaningful prosecutorial penalty for using physical strength
against any person in any sort of altercation. These players have had millions of dollars of strength
and targeted strength skills training. In no way should they be allowed to use it out of anger or
frustration, especially not in ordinary society.
And none of them should get away with not calling immediately for help when they are in a situation where someone is injured. None of them should be allowed to get on the field without a passing grade
in a regular ethics, and/or a contact sports ethics class.
What happened to the emergency procedures nearly everyone has learned from first aid classes?
"Help, help, are you OK?"
And lastly- was he too tired to lean over her to re-position her leg if he had to move her at all?
Did he actually have to kick her?
Could he have walked around her out of respect?
Did he have to step over her?
He has shown nothing but public contempt for her from the moment her head hit that elevator floor.
I would be happy to see Janay Rice in any venue.
But I truly don't want to see Ray Rice do anything except volunteer at women's shelters.
I don't want to see Baltimore play if Ray Rice has to be involved.
I can't blame Mrs. Rice for marrying this insane man, or this man of insane behavior.
I'd have married him too. I would be terrified to incite him in any way for the longest time.
I think it is unfortunate she can blame the video and those playing it; but really, what else is there for
her to do at this moment? The press has to report news; but hopefully, for only the day it breaks.
Would A Celebrity In Her Own Right Stay?
Would The Notorious RBG have stayed?
Would Susan Rice have stayed?
Would Gabrielle Union have stayed?
Would Shirley Temple have stayed?
Would the awful Margaret Thatcher have stayed?
Would Queen Elizabeth stay?
Would Sonia Sotomayor have stayed?
Would Michelle Obama have stayed?
I could go on and on of course.
In time, I may do just that.
However, if the above-mentioned women cannot be imagined to have stayed,
would it be because they stopped loving?
No, I doubt it.
People ask me at times about Hillary Clinton. But that's a false equivalency in this
situation, because she had ambitions for her future which would have been ill-served by divorce;
and he, of all men on earth, had made her first lady of the United States of America
in furtherance of the very personal goals she held.
Would Susan Rice have stayed?
Would Gabrielle Union have stayed?
Would Shirley Temple have stayed?
Would the awful Margaret Thatcher have stayed?
Would Queen Elizabeth stay?
Would Sonia Sotomayor have stayed?
Would Michelle Obama have stayed?
I could go on and on of course.
In time, I may do just that.
However, if the above-mentioned women cannot be imagined to have stayed,
would it be because they stopped loving?
No, I doubt it.
People ask me at times about Hillary Clinton. But that's a false equivalency in this
situation, because she had ambitions for her future which would have been ill-served by divorce;
and he, of all men on earth, had made her first lady of the United States of America
in furtherance of the very personal goals she held.
We Want Goodell/ But Not The Prosecutors?
Roger Goodell is not the lead on any sort of crime.
He is supposed to follow.
It would be good for us to put emphasis where it could help women in general, not simply the
partners of sports' celebrities.
He is supposed to follow.
It would be good for us to put emphasis where it could help women in general, not simply the
partners of sports' celebrities.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Do You Deserve A Smack In The Face?
Maybe you deserve a punch.
It could be you deserve to be verbally threatened.
Perhaps you deserve to be slapped upside the head.
Do you deserve for someone bigger and stronger to block you path?
Do you need someone more physically powerful than you to scream and shout at you?
If you need or deserve things like these I've mentioned, go to your dad. Let him do it.
Maybe he will be careful.
Say,' Dad- I need to be sucker punched. Could you help me out?
You wouldn't want a stranger to do it, you know?
Don't get involved in all that in Michigan though.
Debbie Stabenow, when she was in the state senate here, lead the way to made it illegal to physically
intimidate anyone, especially in a domestic situation.
I don't believe any grown-up would want their dad to attack them.
Why? Just because you don't sleep with your dad?
I don't think a decent dad would take you up on your request, whether you are a man or a woman.
No one will force you to strike someone, or to excuse a person who is violent. Those are your
decisions. But society has a right to weigh in on all violence.
Provoked violence is no more righteous than unprovoked violence except in the life of the mind.
The public cannot litigate the life of a mind. We surely do have a right to litigate physical violence.
A woman here in Michigan screamed daily at the county prosecutors and the news media for not
releasing her sweetheart she 'loved with all her being'.
The man knocked her down with his truck, and backed over her body with it.
She suffered all kinds of bodily harm, and the baby in its eighth month of her pregnancy lost its life.
We the public, were sorry she felt so angry and abused by us. We were not the least bit angry her
'sweetie' got jury sentences putting him under the jail!
When you do get a slap or knock or punch- go somewhere private and quiet if you must.
As a civilized society, we have every right to ask people to behave in a civilized way. We don't do enough of that as it is.
People who may need a violent rebuke from a loved one, people who must administer a violent rebuke to a loved one, are people who have no enforceable rights to privacy.
People have many reasons to want to live in the dark.
Some of those reasons prove completely indefensible.
It could be you deserve to be verbally threatened.
Perhaps you deserve to be slapped upside the head.
Do you deserve for someone bigger and stronger to block you path?
Do you need someone more physically powerful than you to scream and shout at you?
If you need or deserve things like these I've mentioned, go to your dad. Let him do it.
Maybe he will be careful.
Say,' Dad- I need to be sucker punched. Could you help me out?
You wouldn't want a stranger to do it, you know?
Don't get involved in all that in Michigan though.
Debbie Stabenow, when she was in the state senate here, lead the way to made it illegal to physically
intimidate anyone, especially in a domestic situation.
I don't believe any grown-up would want their dad to attack them.
Why? Just because you don't sleep with your dad?
I don't think a decent dad would take you up on your request, whether you are a man or a woman.
No one will force you to strike someone, or to excuse a person who is violent. Those are your
decisions. But society has a right to weigh in on all violence.
Provoked violence is no more righteous than unprovoked violence except in the life of the mind.
The public cannot litigate the life of a mind. We surely do have a right to litigate physical violence.
A woman here in Michigan screamed daily at the county prosecutors and the news media for not
releasing her sweetheart she 'loved with all her being'.
The man knocked her down with his truck, and backed over her body with it.
She suffered all kinds of bodily harm, and the baby in its eighth month of her pregnancy lost its life.
We the public, were sorry she felt so angry and abused by us. We were not the least bit angry her
'sweetie' got jury sentences putting him under the jail!
When you do get a slap or knock or punch- go somewhere private and quiet if you must.
As a civilized society, we have every right to ask people to behave in a civilized way. We don't do enough of that as it is.
People who may need a violent rebuke from a loved one, people who must administer a violent rebuke to a loved one, are people who have no enforceable rights to privacy.
People have many reasons to want to live in the dark.
Some of those reasons prove completely indefensible.
NFL: Do What A Michigan Judge Would Do
I can't understand why all the police, prosecutors, and courts in Baltimore have defaulted on their jobs- leaving the heavily lifting to you.
Are you, the NFL, a criminal court?
Were you to have imposed heavier punishment than the law for a criminal act?
I don't know what should have happened to Ray Rice's job; but I know the criminal justice system
dropped the ball, leaving you the blame.
The employer usually acts after the law is applied, and usually in accordance with what the law has
done.
Since Baltimore has no teeth, maybe you should tear the steak of abuse for them
Make sure Rice and his wife live apart until his anger management work is signed off on by a
reputable therapist.
Make certain he pays all bills in and for both households on time.
Make certain he has very limited contact with Janay Rice, and make certain most of that contact is
under professional supervision.
Loss of a job is not the kind of punishment which can heal this family; and this family needs a lot of
help.
Mrs. Rice seems to become more co-dependent by the moment, so she cannot heal without professional help.
This response of; "Who told?" is not evolved. The lack of evolved personality in these situations is
understandable, but not acceptable.
Had Mrs. Rice suffered a hairline skull fracture or concussion- her brain could have swollen. She could have wound up completely dependent, or dead. She isn't helping herself of Ray Rice to take
a chance on that happening again.
At least half the women who get abused blame themselves. Some professionals blame women.
Here's the thing: violence can't mend domestic abuse.
In this case, Rice did not publicly apologize to Mrs. Rice. He is a ticking time bomb.
Are you, the NFL, a criminal court?
Were you to have imposed heavier punishment than the law for a criminal act?
I don't know what should have happened to Ray Rice's job; but I know the criminal justice system
dropped the ball, leaving you the blame.
The employer usually acts after the law is applied, and usually in accordance with what the law has
done.
Since Baltimore has no teeth, maybe you should tear the steak of abuse for them
Make sure Rice and his wife live apart until his anger management work is signed off on by a
reputable therapist.
Make certain he pays all bills in and for both households on time.
Make certain he has very limited contact with Janay Rice, and make certain most of that contact is
under professional supervision.
Loss of a job is not the kind of punishment which can heal this family; and this family needs a lot of
help.
Mrs. Rice seems to become more co-dependent by the moment, so she cannot heal without professional help.
This response of; "Who told?" is not evolved. The lack of evolved personality in these situations is
understandable, but not acceptable.
Had Mrs. Rice suffered a hairline skull fracture or concussion- her brain could have swollen. She could have wound up completely dependent, or dead. She isn't helping herself of Ray Rice to take
a chance on that happening again.
At least half the women who get abused blame themselves. Some professionals blame women.
Here's the thing: violence can't mend domestic abuse.
In this case, Rice did not publicly apologize to Mrs. Rice. He is a ticking time bomb.
BP: Stop Bragging...Pay Your Fines
Don't keep bragging about how many jobs you give with one hand, while you are taking jobs and livelihoods with the other. You have harmed generation after generation of sea life.
No awful thing will happen to you or with your reputation if you pay your just fines to the people in the Gulf.
No awful thing will happen to you or with your reputation if you pay your just fines to the people in the Gulf.
If ISIL Can Get Us Fully Engaged
Then, their paychecks will keep rolling in without fail.
If POTUS doesn't fall for it, if he continues to be measured, continues with stealth infused by wisdom and caution, ISIL and groups like t will dry up with their ill-gotten funds and gains.
If POTUS doesn't fall for it, if he continues to be measured, continues with stealth infused by wisdom and caution, ISIL and groups like t will dry up with their ill-gotten funds and gains.
Sunday, September 7, 2014
My Philosopy Of Biology
It matters greatly. Because-
Larger planetary organisms on earth spend a great deal of measurable time and energy in the life spans of their individual members and of member generations, creating and utilising whatever they can achievably minimize in order to amass power among themselves, for themselves, and for their legacies.
Humans, for instance, want tinier and tinier batteries and battery systems to elicit the power of motion in tinier and tinier particles.
Whales, as well, whose organic processes rule our oceans, have evolved to make maximum use of plankton.
I don't believe dinosaurs would have met extinction had they succeeded in finding a tiny enough but
powerful enough fueling source to feed them without causing them to deposit the heavy body wastes they had to dispel.
Of course, evolution would have shrunken them - as it has done to many remnants we have of them now.
Smaller planetary organisms on earth spend a great deal of measurable time and energy in the life
spans of their individual members and of their generations, creating and utilising whatever they can
achievable build to gargantuan sizes in order to amass structural power among themselves, for
themselves, and for their legacies. These humungous structures insure the thriving in these many tiny species which would otherwise be more unkindly governed by time alone.
African termite nests defy the ticking of clocks and the smallness of the creatures given birth in them.
The Great Barrier Reef is as large and as powerful structure as we have, and it is made and sustained
by tiny, tiny organisms- and even microorganisms.
Would that we could inevitably shrink the power of needless destruction in our own biology...then
mimic the skills for our planet in our interactions with one another.
Larger planetary organisms on earth spend a great deal of measurable time and energy in the life spans of their individual members and of member generations, creating and utilising whatever they can achievably minimize in order to amass power among themselves, for themselves, and for their legacies.
Humans, for instance, want tinier and tinier batteries and battery systems to elicit the power of motion in tinier and tinier particles.
Whales, as well, whose organic processes rule our oceans, have evolved to make maximum use of plankton.
I don't believe dinosaurs would have met extinction had they succeeded in finding a tiny enough but
powerful enough fueling source to feed them without causing them to deposit the heavy body wastes they had to dispel.
Of course, evolution would have shrunken them - as it has done to many remnants we have of them now.
Smaller planetary organisms on earth spend a great deal of measurable time and energy in the life
spans of their individual members and of their generations, creating and utilising whatever they can
achievable build to gargantuan sizes in order to amass structural power among themselves, for
themselves, and for their legacies. These humungous structures insure the thriving in these many tiny species which would otherwise be more unkindly governed by time alone.
African termite nests defy the ticking of clocks and the smallness of the creatures given birth in them.
The Great Barrier Reef is as large and as powerful structure as we have, and it is made and sustained
by tiny, tiny organisms- and even microorganisms.
Would that we could inevitably shrink the power of needless destruction in our own biology...then
mimic the skills for our planet in our interactions with one another.
al Shabbab, el Nousra, al Queda, Taliban, ISIL
Do we need to attack ourselves so intractably?
Don't we have enough enemies now?
We are not a huge population on this planet.
Christians are not even a huge population on this planet.
Don't we have enough enemies?
Should we be shooting and killing one another?
Maybe we should wake up.
This is not the 18th or 19th century.
Oh, and how could we forget Boka Haram?
No reasonable facsimile of the ante bellum south is going to last.
The coffee is brewing now.
Smell it?
*The title of this piece, names but a few non-domestic groups who hate us.
The Southern Poverty Law Center lists gobs of them who are our own
countrymen.
Don't we have enough enemies now?
We are not a huge population on this planet.
Christians are not even a huge population on this planet.
Don't we have enough enemies?
Should we be shooting and killing one another?
Maybe we should wake up.
This is not the 18th or 19th century.
Oh, and how could we forget Boka Haram?
No reasonable facsimile of the ante bellum south is going to last.
The coffee is brewing now.
Smell it?
*The title of this piece, names but a few non-domestic groups who hate us.
The Southern Poverty Law Center lists gobs of them who are our own
countrymen.
Saturday, September 6, 2014
POTUS Looks Peaked (the vernacular- pea ked)
POTUS looked well while he was on vacation
Upon his return, he had begun to look a bit unwell.
The skin on his face was a bit looser.
The color in his face had been drained away, leaving a tinge of dishwater in its place.
He looked to have lost a little weight.
When I saw video of him in Wales, however, he looked a little better.
I've heard nothing in the news.
I want POTUS to be ok.
Upon his return, he had begun to look a bit unwell.
The skin on his face was a bit looser.
The color in his face had been drained away, leaving a tinge of dishwater in its place.
He looked to have lost a little weight.
When I saw video of him in Wales, however, he looked a little better.
I've heard nothing in the news.
I want POTUS to be ok.
Bloomberg Made Certain The Black Community Paid 'The Five'
Michael Bloomberg taught police departments everywhere how to collect and fund from the black
community.
Thank heavens a majority was glad to see him go.
Prosecutors were admitting most stops yielded absolutely nothing.
Still, people were arrested, given court dates, charged with something which could yield heavy fines
for the city.
Why have Wall Street pay its fare share?
Isn't this what built America- exploiting the lives and work of black people?
Bloomberg wanted to be famous for getting in on that too.
So many want to keep re-inventing the way America got rich.
That way, they can keep making others rich.
It makes them great in the eyes of all exploiters!
Finally, after so very many years, The Central Park Five have the money from their settlements
We can all rest assured that money came from so many phony harassments of the black community.
Bloomberg would have had the world believe black and Hispanic men put contraband in their
pockets every morning when waking, for years and years, because....?
Well there is no plausible because is there?
They would have realized years ago not to have contraband wouldn't they?
Apparently what they didn't learn, was not to expect any help or consideration when unarmed, knocked off their feet, saying "I can't breathe" in a custody choke hold.
community.
Thank heavens a majority was glad to see him go.
Prosecutors were admitting most stops yielded absolutely nothing.
Still, people were arrested, given court dates, charged with something which could yield heavy fines
for the city.
Why have Wall Street pay its fare share?
Isn't this what built America- exploiting the lives and work of black people?
Bloomberg wanted to be famous for getting in on that too.
So many want to keep re-inventing the way America got rich.
That way, they can keep making others rich.
It makes them great in the eyes of all exploiters!
Finally, after so very many years, The Central Park Five have the money from their settlements
We can all rest assured that money came from so many phony harassments of the black community.
Bloomberg would have had the world believe black and Hispanic men put contraband in their
pockets every morning when waking, for years and years, because....?
Well there is no plausible because is there?
They would have realized years ago not to have contraband wouldn't they?
Apparently what they didn't learn, was not to expect any help or consideration when unarmed, knocked off their feet, saying "I can't breathe" in a custody choke hold.
The Courts Are Honest With BP
The polluters were found guilty of gross negligence and willful misconduct in the aftermath of the
gulf oil spill.
They have been made aware of how many generations of sea life and gulf fauna and flora have been
harmed, will continue to be harmed for years by the interruption of air and light into the waters for so
long a time.
Also, the oil itself, is toxic.
Why do they continually congratulate themselves for 'hiring'? All oil companies hire.
Some do so without destroying the communities where they find workers.
This psycho company reportedly hired people to file false claims so the courts would be fooled into
feeling sorry for the poor, homesick oil magnates.
To the extent the trick hasn't worked up till now, I am very glad.
At least three generations of real live humans will have family incomes terribly slashed by the continued problems to their traditional livelihoods.
What? Should those families go apply for a job on a BP oil rig?
Were those people employed by family businesses expendable because BP didn't need them?
They were not.
And the oil business will go on in the gulf whether BP runs it or not.
gulf oil spill.
They have been made aware of how many generations of sea life and gulf fauna and flora have been
harmed, will continue to be harmed for years by the interruption of air and light into the waters for so
long a time.
Also, the oil itself, is toxic.
Why do they continually congratulate themselves for 'hiring'? All oil companies hire.
Some do so without destroying the communities where they find workers.
This psycho company reportedly hired people to file false claims so the courts would be fooled into
feeling sorry for the poor, homesick oil magnates.
To the extent the trick hasn't worked up till now, I am very glad.
At least three generations of real live humans will have family incomes terribly slashed by the continued problems to their traditional livelihoods.
What? Should those families go apply for a job on a BP oil rig?
Were those people employed by family businesses expendable because BP didn't need them?
They were not.
And the oil business will go on in the gulf whether BP runs it or not.
Yay! Attorney General Holder
We are doing real law in this country at last.
The Bush/Chaney admin was such a big fat mess, firing attorneys for their politics- indeed, a really big,really Antonin Scalia-type mess.
For our government to investigate "pattern and practice" as the Attorney General put it, means the
laws of the land can be more easily recognized as whole or broken, more easily identified as the
letter or the intent in the outcomes of our laws in practice in a specific location.
I, for one, love it.
The Bush/Chaney admin was such a big fat mess, firing attorneys for their politics- indeed, a really big,really Antonin Scalia-type mess.
For our government to investigate "pattern and practice" as the Attorney General put it, means the
laws of the land can be more easily recognized as whole or broken, more easily identified as the
letter or the intent in the outcomes of our laws in practice in a specific location.
I, for one, love it.
No Meet The Press
I haven't seen it much since before Tim Russert passed away.
It had gotten progressively worse over time. No pun intended.
There was no good choice to make between Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd.
Still, Andrea Mitchell can make a point without talking until a person wants to be the nun
in the movie Airplane.
Besides- she has so many more bona fides than Todd, his are made to look like a big, loud, raucous
guffaw.
It had gotten progressively worse over time. No pun intended.
There was no good choice to make between Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd.
Still, Andrea Mitchell can make a point without talking until a person wants to be the nun
in the movie Airplane.
Besides- she has so many more bona fides than Todd, his are made to look like a big, loud, raucous
guffaw.
Some Degrees Of The Populous Memory Staying Alive
I never met Robin Williams.
However, my friend worked at Ford, for another friend of mine who was a manager at World Headquarters there.
Both of these ladies did very well for themselves at Ford.
My friend who was in management retired as a millionaire before age sixty.
My friend who worked for her at Ford, worked under a V.P who was a level of V.P. under the
V.P. level Robin Williams' dad occupied.
In these business structures, not every Vice President slot is created equal to every other.
So my friend who worked more closely with the V.P. she could actually speak with at times, and
both my friends, actually were told never, ever to mention Robin Williams' name or fame, or work, to or in front of or within earshot of the Mr. Williams who was a top V.P. at Ford.
I don't know my friends other Ford friends.
However, when my buddy spoke with them about the comics' suicide, none of them felt he was attempting to die.
They all agreed attempting partial asphyxiation may accidentally be taken too far; but doesn't always
mean an attempt to achieve suicide.
However, my friend worked at Ford, for another friend of mine who was a manager at World Headquarters there.
Both of these ladies did very well for themselves at Ford.
My friend who was in management retired as a millionaire before age sixty.
My friend who worked for her at Ford, worked under a V.P who was a level of V.P. under the
V.P. level Robin Williams' dad occupied.
In these business structures, not every Vice President slot is created equal to every other.
So my friend who worked more closely with the V.P. she could actually speak with at times, and
both my friends, actually were told never, ever to mention Robin Williams' name or fame, or work, to or in front of or within earshot of the Mr. Williams who was a top V.P. at Ford.
I don't know my friends other Ford friends.
However, when my buddy spoke with them about the comics' suicide, none of them felt he was attempting to die.
They all agreed attempting partial asphyxiation may accidentally be taken too far; but doesn't always
mean an attempt to achieve suicide.
R.I.P. Joan Rivers
She was hilarious.
If she had been a man,she would have been hilarious.
She was funny as a young woman, funny as an older woman, funny as a bankrupt lady, funny as a rich lady, funny about her plastic surgery. Joan was, in a word, hilarious.
She really had no business jumping on Palestinians; but she was Jewish- so such a thing possibly came reflexively to her because she was of an age where she new Holocaust survivors; so she may have taken a right to the Jewish homeland personally.
Ms. Rivers was quite simply, though, a natural performer who loved to talk.
I rarely ever paid attention to comics in my life except of course Richard Pryor.
I always knew exactly what Richard Pryor was talking about and why some things were anathema
to his experiences.
I loved Moms Mabley, and some of Pearl Bailey. I thought in the old days Pearl couldn't be too
authentic because if your husband were white, you had to be nice. I had the Ed Sullivan view of what
could be done when Sullivan became enraged with Elvis Presley.
Richard Pryor was the only comic I ever paid to see; but I probably would have paid to see
Joan Rivers.
She made me want to go back to the days when I won 1st in the after dinner speech
category in the intercollegiate trials for the Speech department at my college.
What could be better than to keep laughing all the time? The only other comedienne who deserves
to call herself Joan's direct heir is Sarah Silverman. She's really too pretty, but she makes up for it
so easily with her biting, corrosive wit. One has to believe Sarah studied Joan.
The one man who seems to me to be in Joan's league is John Fugelsang. Think fast! He's such a genius you can miss it if you inhale too long. Did he study Joan too?
I saw Joan Rivers in a TV show recently with matriarch Mrs. Jenner of Kardashian/Jenner fame.
Joan asked Jenner to adopt her because the Kradashian girls achieved such wealth so quickly.
Jenner declined pretty quietly, confused.
Then Joan said: 'Well if I marry or date a black guy will you adopt me?
I don't know how long I laughed; but I thought- 'That is absolutely classic Joan Rivers.'
You know exactly why you are laughing, and you know you would never have thought to that in the
moment it was uttered. Joan had a way of setting people up so deftly because she made herself look
so crazy in the beginning, but made certain setting herself up was a part of the reason the other person had to look so flummoxed in the end.
What made the aforementioned scene even funnier than it would have been anyway- Jenner got a bit
insulted.
As my daughter would say, Bwaaaaahahahahahaha!!
If she had been a man,she would have been hilarious.
She was funny as a young woman, funny as an older woman, funny as a bankrupt lady, funny as a rich lady, funny about her plastic surgery. Joan was, in a word, hilarious.
She really had no business jumping on Palestinians; but she was Jewish- so such a thing possibly came reflexively to her because she was of an age where she new Holocaust survivors; so she may have taken a right to the Jewish homeland personally.
Ms. Rivers was quite simply, though, a natural performer who loved to talk.
I rarely ever paid attention to comics in my life except of course Richard Pryor.
I always knew exactly what Richard Pryor was talking about and why some things were anathema
to his experiences.
I loved Moms Mabley, and some of Pearl Bailey. I thought in the old days Pearl couldn't be too
authentic because if your husband were white, you had to be nice. I had the Ed Sullivan view of what
could be done when Sullivan became enraged with Elvis Presley.
Richard Pryor was the only comic I ever paid to see; but I probably would have paid to see
Joan Rivers.
She made me want to go back to the days when I won 1st in the after dinner speech
category in the intercollegiate trials for the Speech department at my college.
What could be better than to keep laughing all the time? The only other comedienne who deserves
to call herself Joan's direct heir is Sarah Silverman. She's really too pretty, but she makes up for it
so easily with her biting, corrosive wit. One has to believe Sarah studied Joan.
The one man who seems to me to be in Joan's league is John Fugelsang. Think fast! He's such a genius you can miss it if you inhale too long. Did he study Joan too?
I saw Joan Rivers in a TV show recently with matriarch Mrs. Jenner of Kardashian/Jenner fame.
Joan asked Jenner to adopt her because the Kradashian girls achieved such wealth so quickly.
Jenner declined pretty quietly, confused.
Then Joan said: 'Well if I marry or date a black guy will you adopt me?
I don't know how long I laughed; but I thought- 'That is absolutely classic Joan Rivers.'
You know exactly why you are laughing, and you know you would never have thought to that in the
moment it was uttered. Joan had a way of setting people up so deftly because she made herself look
so crazy in the beginning, but made certain setting herself up was a part of the reason the other person had to look so flummoxed in the end.
What made the aforementioned scene even funnier than it would have been anyway- Jenner got a bit
insulted.
As my daughter would say, Bwaaaaahahahahahaha!!
Send The Ferguson P.D. And Their Beloved Darren Wilson To Syria
They're bad-asses, right?
They have tanks, rifles with scopes, gas warfare, fire bombs....
Oh, no.
They use those things principally on unarmed people.
ISIL is very well armed.
Ferguson P.D. would only want to use the bathroom if they saw those ISIL fighters.
The Syrians would be motivated to stop fighting altogether to build a sewer system.
Boy, what was I thinking?
I guess I was thinking we could be rid of that department once and for all.
Oh, well...
They have tanks, rifles with scopes, gas warfare, fire bombs....
Oh, no.
They use those things principally on unarmed people.
ISIL is very well armed.
Ferguson P.D. would only want to use the bathroom if they saw those ISIL fighters.
The Syrians would be motivated to stop fighting altogether to build a sewer system.
Boy, what was I thinking?
I guess I was thinking we could be rid of that department once and for all.
Oh, well...
MSNBC: So Professional Thursday, September 4, 2014
I watched several of their shows on Thursday, and had to pay close attention in order to keep up.
The journalists were asking probative but thought-provoking questions on show after show.
Usually I turn the TV off after a favorite news show; but not Thursday.
I believe I might have a masters degree now after all I learned.
Before Thursday, I had forgotten about the Allowiites, and it made me recall the terrible fates of some of the Coptic Christians and other minorities in Egypt post Maliki.
I truly appreciate such reporting. I don't even think I heard "on the ground" beaten half to death again
Thursday!
The journalists were asking probative but thought-provoking questions on show after show.
Usually I turn the TV off after a favorite news show; but not Thursday.
I believe I might have a masters degree now after all I learned.
Before Thursday, I had forgotten about the Allowiites, and it made me recall the terrible fates of some of the Coptic Christians and other minorities in Egypt post Maliki.
I truly appreciate such reporting. I don't even think I heard "on the ground" beaten half to death again
Thursday!
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Americas Mid East Wars
America has such a skewered view of having begun wars in the Mid East.
The Kuwaiti people in no way wanted us to aggress Iraq in their country during the first Gulf War.
We were not welcomed as liberators by the population of the country in either Iraqi war we engaged. I could see the news spewing forth propaganda left and right.
In the first war most TV stations showed the exact same band of merry welcomers for U.S. troops
every newscast for the nearly the entire war.
After the war, the Kuwaiti government sent checks to all citizens who didn't leave the country during
the war.
Those citizens sent the money back, asking it be used to finance a vote the next time their country
wanted the U.S to fight a war there.
I guess the American public drank the Kool Aid because they were so accustomed to the
Ronald Reagan/ Margaret Thatcher rhetoric on glorious dominance of all things Western world.
At one point during the war, our media showcased rah rah braggers that Iraq's troops were
trapped and starving.
The next day, every news report cited disgust for the attacks Saddam's soldiers had done on zoo animals.
I thought yo myself: "Didn't they just say yesterday the soldiers were starving?"
To this day, I haven't heard a thing about a connection between the two reports from anyone in media.
Only a few news outlets, among them the then Wall Street Journal (It still exists; but is sometimes a lot less classy.) traced Saddam Hussein's public case for getting Iraq's land back since WWI was
completely over. Kuwait was only some land in the southern part of Iraq until the West decided to invent the new country, a country with lots of oil.
Rather than start talks when Saddam went repeatedly to the U.N.- the U.S. and ts allies decided to shut
him out of whatever he deserved regarding getting his land back in political solutions.
Fast forward to 911.
Nothing could have been more phony.
First of all, George W. wasn't President of the U.S. Anthony Scalia wasn't either.
So we were naturally destined for years of unworthy hell.
Second, the people of New York endured sheer terror after terror for hours and hours after the first
plane hit the first tower. People, police, and firemen kept getting torn from moment to moment from
helping to running, from panic to offering assistance, to death, destruction, or barely escaping.
Where was George W. Bush?
Only the Lord knows.
He sure was no Henry V charging into the fray. Will he ever tell where he was after he left the
children he was reading to that day? Wherever he was, he stayed a good, long, long time.
People seemed afraid to even discuss that.
And where was the super coward Dick Cheney?
I'm sure I don't know. He was obviously even more important than George Bush, because he
was out of sight for nearly forever.
Both wars were a mess of ill-advised bullying. How are we going to get out of it? And when?
When is so frightening, because each time we want to believe it's over, it rears its ugly head as another, fiercer foe.
Al Gore was President.
The Kuwaiti people in no way wanted us to aggress Iraq in their country during the first Gulf War.
We were not welcomed as liberators by the population of the country in either Iraqi war we engaged. I could see the news spewing forth propaganda left and right.
In the first war most TV stations showed the exact same band of merry welcomers for U.S. troops
every newscast for the nearly the entire war.
After the war, the Kuwaiti government sent checks to all citizens who didn't leave the country during
the war.
Those citizens sent the money back, asking it be used to finance a vote the next time their country
wanted the U.S to fight a war there.
I guess the American public drank the Kool Aid because they were so accustomed to the
Ronald Reagan/ Margaret Thatcher rhetoric on glorious dominance of all things Western world.
At one point during the war, our media showcased rah rah braggers that Iraq's troops were
trapped and starving.
The next day, every news report cited disgust for the attacks Saddam's soldiers had done on zoo animals.
I thought yo myself: "Didn't they just say yesterday the soldiers were starving?"
To this day, I haven't heard a thing about a connection between the two reports from anyone in media.
Only a few news outlets, among them the then Wall Street Journal (It still exists; but is sometimes a lot less classy.) traced Saddam Hussein's public case for getting Iraq's land back since WWI was
completely over. Kuwait was only some land in the southern part of Iraq until the West decided to invent the new country, a country with lots of oil.
Rather than start talks when Saddam went repeatedly to the U.N.- the U.S. and ts allies decided to shut
him out of whatever he deserved regarding getting his land back in political solutions.
Fast forward to 911.
Nothing could have been more phony.
First of all, George W. wasn't President of the U.S. Anthony Scalia wasn't either.
So we were naturally destined for years of unworthy hell.
Second, the people of New York endured sheer terror after terror for hours and hours after the first
plane hit the first tower. People, police, and firemen kept getting torn from moment to moment from
helping to running, from panic to offering assistance, to death, destruction, or barely escaping.
Where was George W. Bush?
Only the Lord knows.
He sure was no Henry V charging into the fray. Will he ever tell where he was after he left the
children he was reading to that day? Wherever he was, he stayed a good, long, long time.
People seemed afraid to even discuss that.
And where was the super coward Dick Cheney?
I'm sure I don't know. He was obviously even more important than George Bush, because he
was out of sight for nearly forever.
Both wars were a mess of ill-advised bullying. How are we going to get out of it? And when?
When is so frightening, because each time we want to believe it's over, it rears its ugly head as another, fiercer foe.
Al Gore was President.
Eric Cantor
We continue to tie Eric Cantor's loss of his Congressional House of Representatives seat to immigration.
Truthfully, Cantor was on thin ice even in the 2012 campaigns.
A man called Mudcat Saunders was instrumental during that campaign in labelling Cantor of man of large mouth but no substantive speech. He couldn't quite make the charges swell enough to get to enough of Cantor's constituents in time for the vote. But he did his job instilling the doubt he could
so that Cantor tipped the scales himself with the very next characteristic back-stabbing move he made
to disenfranchise his public the way he often glibly did John Boehner- Cantor backed the government shut-down.
Why didn't he know there was no way Virginians wouldn't question him on a shut-down?
Virginia is very invested in government projects.
He wasn't good for Virginia.
His constituents don't miss him.
Truthfully, Cantor was on thin ice even in the 2012 campaigns.
A man called Mudcat Saunders was instrumental during that campaign in labelling Cantor of man of large mouth but no substantive speech. He couldn't quite make the charges swell enough to get to enough of Cantor's constituents in time for the vote. But he did his job instilling the doubt he could
so that Cantor tipped the scales himself with the very next characteristic back-stabbing move he made
to disenfranchise his public the way he often glibly did John Boehner- Cantor backed the government shut-down.
Why didn't he know there was no way Virginians wouldn't question him on a shut-down?
Virginia is very invested in government projects.
He wasn't good for Virginia.
His constituents don't miss him.
American Media Are A Foreign Policy Strategy!
Some in the American media make up such a goop soup of pseudo-intellectual glop, that POTUS
easily allows them to BE an intricate juxtaposition of fact-like foreign policy stratagem and solidification.
As far as the American media is concerned, if they have something they can use to criticize the
President, they have the news of the day both here and abroad.
They are so craven they are inventing their own sound-bites!
"No strategy...no strategy...deliberative...deliberative...his own red line...not good at....blah, blah, and
more blah.
So what has POTUS done?
He has challenged them to continually invent the news themselves; and they are biting.
They believe their interminable analysis of what's wrong with American foreign policy serves as
stimulative substitution for the possibilities of what American treatment of world problems actually
does.
They are so wrong about believing all the nonsense which comes out of their own mouths.
Reporters and journalists will never, ever make foreign policy. The ability to do that has long since
become too involved to do effectively unless you are engaging directly with policy makers while
agreements and suggestions are being discussed and implemented.
How in the world would any meeting ever be secure if that could happen- even in America?
I have become almost unsolvably bored by everything I hear these days.
Why do we keep talking about bombing Syria? Why didn't we do it sooner?
Do the media think if they keep all that up they convince us they were the ones with the correct
policy solutions all along?
That is nonsense.
We know from them that nearly every group fighting Assad in Syria has a jihadist bent. The problem even now, is that those groups are using right now, and trading with each other, and stealing from each other, all the ammunition, missiles, tanks, and arms made in America.
Why would the President send more arms, missiles, men, intelligence to Syria?
What the President would do, is say there is no policy, certainly not one invented in the media, so
he can confound all at home and abroad who think he waits to hear from them before he does have a
strategy he is going to make public.
That, as a matter of fact, is what he has done.
And it boggles me he has actually got the media chasing its own tail on this ad nauseum for days!
Why can't we discuss more fully the Russia-Syria connection, and how it could be impacted by
further sanctions arising out of the Ukraine conflict?
Why can't we hear the possibilities of a sinking ISIL if their funds begin to dry up soon?
Could we speak a bit more about how the Pesh Merga are doing with U.S. help? They are a group
who don't have a tendency to let their resources get into the wrong hands.
Has Arogan begun to do more to seal the Turkey/Syria border?
Are Syrian refugees straining the Egyptian economy the way Iraqi refugees did when we attacked
the nonexistent weapons of mass destruction?
What is Jordan prepared to do to keep out of the fray?
Does ISIL think the President is dumb enough to give them money and more American bodies to
capture?
Is money we send overseas inadvertently getting to ISIL through some in the Iraqi government?
American media operate on equal value of all questions premises.
Our media reports an O'Rourke fantasy: Give War A Chance.
If not war, give a chance to whatever principles we surmise are a wonderful get.
They believe abroad there is such thing as right and wrong, as barbaric or human; but in America
there are two sides to every story no matter how awful or how banal one side might be.
At times, the senseless and cold blooded is senseless and cold blooded- here or abroad.
At times, the need to keep security and a master plan close has to be the imperative to keep
security and a master plan close.
Reporting our realities in thoughtful discussion is actually entirely possible.
What is up with the newsrooms today?!
easily allows them to BE an intricate juxtaposition of fact-like foreign policy stratagem and solidification.
As far as the American media is concerned, if they have something they can use to criticize the
President, they have the news of the day both here and abroad.
They are so craven they are inventing their own sound-bites!
"No strategy...no strategy...deliberative...deliberative...his own red line...not good at....blah, blah, and
more blah.
So what has POTUS done?
He has challenged them to continually invent the news themselves; and they are biting.
They believe their interminable analysis of what's wrong with American foreign policy serves as
stimulative substitution for the possibilities of what American treatment of world problems actually
does.
They are so wrong about believing all the nonsense which comes out of their own mouths.
Reporters and journalists will never, ever make foreign policy. The ability to do that has long since
become too involved to do effectively unless you are engaging directly with policy makers while
agreements and suggestions are being discussed and implemented.
How in the world would any meeting ever be secure if that could happen- even in America?
I have become almost unsolvably bored by everything I hear these days.
Why do we keep talking about bombing Syria? Why didn't we do it sooner?
Do the media think if they keep all that up they convince us they were the ones with the correct
policy solutions all along?
That is nonsense.
We know from them that nearly every group fighting Assad in Syria has a jihadist bent. The problem even now, is that those groups are using right now, and trading with each other, and stealing from each other, all the ammunition, missiles, tanks, and arms made in America.
Why would the President send more arms, missiles, men, intelligence to Syria?
What the President would do, is say there is no policy, certainly not one invented in the media, so
he can confound all at home and abroad who think he waits to hear from them before he does have a
strategy he is going to make public.
That, as a matter of fact, is what he has done.
And it boggles me he has actually got the media chasing its own tail on this ad nauseum for days!
Why can't we discuss more fully the Russia-Syria connection, and how it could be impacted by
further sanctions arising out of the Ukraine conflict?
Why can't we hear the possibilities of a sinking ISIL if their funds begin to dry up soon?
Could we speak a bit more about how the Pesh Merga are doing with U.S. help? They are a group
who don't have a tendency to let their resources get into the wrong hands.
Has Arogan begun to do more to seal the Turkey/Syria border?
Are Syrian refugees straining the Egyptian economy the way Iraqi refugees did when we attacked
the nonexistent weapons of mass destruction?
What is Jordan prepared to do to keep out of the fray?
Does ISIL think the President is dumb enough to give them money and more American bodies to
capture?
Is money we send overseas inadvertently getting to ISIL through some in the Iraqi government?
American media operate on equal value of all questions premises.
Our media reports an O'Rourke fantasy: Give War A Chance.
If not war, give a chance to whatever principles we surmise are a wonderful get.
They believe abroad there is such thing as right and wrong, as barbaric or human; but in America
there are two sides to every story no matter how awful or how banal one side might be.
At times, the senseless and cold blooded is senseless and cold blooded- here or abroad.
At times, the need to keep security and a master plan close has to be the imperative to keep
security and a master plan close.
Reporting our realities in thoughtful discussion is actually entirely possible.
What is up with the newsrooms today?!
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