For hundreds of years, the Americans who exploited enough other Americans to make this country
wealthy beyond measure anywhere else in the world, were the ones raping, killing, beating, cheating,
and degrading those doing the bulk of the work on a daily basis.
So how many hundreds of years after America officially accepts the evils of the system which grew them rich, will it take for them to outgrow the inclinations to excuse instances of rape, murder, cheating, wage theft, beating, and degradation as ways of life?
Are we telling ourselves there is some sudden seeing of the light? There is not. There won't be.
For every one million Americans, we definitely have the nomenclature of a number of serial killers.
Most of these are white people, statistically and otherwise.
Most white people are good people, of course, but these good people haven't been good enough to
purge their ranks of the extremes evil has reached in this country as positive, acceptable ways of doing business on a daily basis.
For every one million Americans, there do exist a real numbers of mass murderers.
Most of these murderers are white. Not all- but most, statistically and numerically, are white.
Most rapists who kill and main during their rape crime, are statistically and numerically- white.
I don't say these things with hatred for people, but with hatred for the extremes we went to for so
long as the positive, acceptable costs of doing business.
Other countries may be as bad. But how measurable can it be in other places?
For us, the scourge is up close and personal now.
Do we go on pretending not to see it?
Do we pretend we cannot count the ever more frequent atrocities?
As lie is given to inherent inferiority, how many find their rage must make them beastly?
Should we pretend the worst thing we encounter in America is a mom on food stamps?
Well then- we are ignorantly blissful about being a bloody lot.
I'm sure we don't have to remain that way even if we have embraced such thus far.
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Dot Scott: A Hero Of The S. Carolina Massacre
Ms. Scott never spoke any words more honest than when she cautioned the majority of us to be careful about rushing to the judgement of 'forgiveness' for people who haven't asked for forgiveness.
The families of the slain may have no choice but to get the killer off their minds and out of their hearts so that they can properly focus on their losses.
The remainder of us need to focus on how to keep creatures like Mr. Roof from 'walking the earth'.
The families of the slain may have no choice but to get the killer off their minds and out of their hearts so that they can properly focus on their losses.
The remainder of us need to focus on how to keep creatures like Mr. Roof from 'walking the earth'.
South Carolina: A Legacy Of Vile Crimes Comes Home Again
This young man, Mr. Roof wanted to kill.
He needed to kill.
Race was his excuse because he knew it would get more attention.
Killing was his overriding passionate desire.
He apparently patched together the racial hatred excuse. He knows very little about black history
or black people from any legitimate sources. At his age he'd have to have been raised in black culture and/or very well educated.
Apparently he is neither.
Does he even know Dr. Martin Luther King's story?
Does he know the horror Emmit Till's murder awakened?
Does he know the story of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress?
Has he read the history of how white northerners were so awfully disenfranchised by the privilege
white southerners claimed for themselves in the bodies of other people before our Civil War?
How in the world has he come to marry Jim Crow to Apartheid? Apartheid is as dead as a doornail.
Apartheid was famously developed from the fear South African whites had as a minority population
in the country of their birth.
I guess the segregation had surface similarity to U.S. segregation, but the two systems were generated
from opposite anxieties.
And as apartheid began in a minority fear, so did it die.
American civil war hatred came of a desire to continue the subjugation of a minority population.
No white Americans had any fear they'd be overtaken by a black majority. Even now, as black people
the most recently descended from North American slaves, we are still only 11% of the American population.
Where did a kid this man's age get the notion black people are raping his women?
And if that were true, would those rapists be represented at a Wednesday evening prayer meeting in a
somewhat small city?
Mr. Roof killed mainly older ladies past child-bearing age. What sort of coward was he exactly?
Older ladies don't rape as a rule, and they are done or nearly done raising children.
I can only surmise the man sat with the prayer group an entire hour so that he could position himself to make a plan to kill the most able-bodied first, the way Andrea Yeats said she did in order to drown all her children.
Evil...you have many names in America. Please don't ever allow me to be "equal" to any of them.
He needed to kill.
Race was his excuse because he knew it would get more attention.
Killing was his overriding passionate desire.
He apparently patched together the racial hatred excuse. He knows very little about black history
or black people from any legitimate sources. At his age he'd have to have been raised in black culture and/or very well educated.
Apparently he is neither.
Does he even know Dr. Martin Luther King's story?
Does he know the horror Emmit Till's murder awakened?
Does he know the story of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress?
Has he read the history of how white northerners were so awfully disenfranchised by the privilege
white southerners claimed for themselves in the bodies of other people before our Civil War?
How in the world has he come to marry Jim Crow to Apartheid? Apartheid is as dead as a doornail.
Apartheid was famously developed from the fear South African whites had as a minority population
in the country of their birth.
I guess the segregation had surface similarity to U.S. segregation, but the two systems were generated
from opposite anxieties.
And as apartheid began in a minority fear, so did it die.
American civil war hatred came of a desire to continue the subjugation of a minority population.
No white Americans had any fear they'd be overtaken by a black majority. Even now, as black people
the most recently descended from North American slaves, we are still only 11% of the American population.
Where did a kid this man's age get the notion black people are raping his women?
And if that were true, would those rapists be represented at a Wednesday evening prayer meeting in a
somewhat small city?
Mr. Roof killed mainly older ladies past child-bearing age. What sort of coward was he exactly?
Older ladies don't rape as a rule, and they are done or nearly done raising children.
I can only surmise the man sat with the prayer group an entire hour so that he could position himself to make a plan to kill the most able-bodied first, the way Andrea Yeats said she did in order to drown all her children.
Evil...you have many names in America. Please don't ever allow me to be "equal" to any of them.
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Julian Castro And HUD
Secretary Castro is attempting once again in American history to achieve greater housing integration in our country's communities.
Good luck, sir.
Any integration in housing will have to be accompanied by an integration of minorities with like social strata into middle classed majority communities.
Even that will be met with virulent resistance in many American communities.
When my own children were integrated in our school system through busing, the white parents in the
receiving school caused so much trouble every day that the teachers and the administration in the school had to wring their hands in frustration every day.
The professionals in our school suffered thus until the white parents had all successfully moved from the neighborhood, or gotten their children into some teeny private school concern.
When my eldest child was valedictorian at this same school in 1978, the white girl who was salutatorian exclaimed bitterly to her she got valedictorian because teachers favored black students.
The school had enough minority teachers and/or administrators to count on one hand. They went from having all white classrooms to having 60/40 white classrooms in a fortnight. They handled it well; but why in the world would they favor black children?
Today, this same daughter, a U of M grad (No. She wasn't a legacy, or an "opportunity student" at U of M.) is a computer digital trafficking expert. She has written contracts to sign two separate companies she has trained in Chicago to help with these trafficking and other technical computer concerns. She was an English major in college; because she had mastered computer science in high school.
She was second in command in the computer department for a while at the U of M Dental school.
She wrote training documents for the graduate admissions school at Cornell University for a while.
Even at ten, she was intellectually vigorous in her academic work. But she didn't bother to try to explain that to the little white girl. She kept pushing forward as best she could. In Michigan, however,
she and her personnel department have found it difficult to find people in Michigan colleges who are
ready to be trained in quickly changing and advancing technical fields.
Years later, my third born child had such high grades she was elected class president. By then, there were more black children at school; but white parents were always enraged.
Finally, though there was no way to challenge her 100% on every math exam, her principal devised a
poetry/fiction competition which was school-wide to show no favoritism was shaping academic recognition at the school.
She went to every classroom to collect writing samples which had only a number, given to a name by
each classroom teacher.
The administration and the music teachers and art teachers judged the anonymous writing samples.
It took some time. Sadly for so many who hated busing (as I had come to do) my little ten-year-old
class president won 1st place in the poetry competition, 1st place in the Haiku competition, and first
place in the fiction competition.
The principal was proud of her, but she explained on the loud speaker, and later even to me that the
submissions were judged as anonymous offerings. The child was prescient.
I wish she had had time to become a writer; but she is a systems and data analyst for a large public
school system.
The sister who was between these two excelled in music and sculpture, even at eight and nine years old. She graduated high school getting 100%, plus the 20 extra credit points in geometry, and passing her chemistry and physics classes while working toward her certified music diploma.
The last little one I sent to that school had a struggle from the day she arrived.
She struggled all along anyway though, because she could read at third and fourth grade levels when
she entered kindergarten. I didn't know it; but her sisters had taught her, and her teacher demonstrated it for me.
Long story short, she was so irritated she called her grandparents every other day to come and get her. Finally, she wound up at a school designated for gifted kids, and later graduated high school
as a National Merit Semi-finalist. She earned a four year scholarship to a private school through her
EAS ( Engineering Aptitude Search) exam.
I didn't bother her with the SATs. I believe she took the ACT at some point because I remember a near perfect score in Science.
I wish she had become an engineer. She has degrees in music.
Oh well, as I said Secretary Castro...Best Luck!
Good luck, sir.
Any integration in housing will have to be accompanied by an integration of minorities with like social strata into middle classed majority communities.
Even that will be met with virulent resistance in many American communities.
When my own children were integrated in our school system through busing, the white parents in the
receiving school caused so much trouble every day that the teachers and the administration in the school had to wring their hands in frustration every day.
The professionals in our school suffered thus until the white parents had all successfully moved from the neighborhood, or gotten their children into some teeny private school concern.
When my eldest child was valedictorian at this same school in 1978, the white girl who was salutatorian exclaimed bitterly to her she got valedictorian because teachers favored black students.
The school had enough minority teachers and/or administrators to count on one hand. They went from having all white classrooms to having 60/40 white classrooms in a fortnight. They handled it well; but why in the world would they favor black children?
Today, this same daughter, a U of M grad (No. She wasn't a legacy, or an "opportunity student" at U of M.) is a computer digital trafficking expert. She has written contracts to sign two separate companies she has trained in Chicago to help with these trafficking and other technical computer concerns. She was an English major in college; because she had mastered computer science in high school.
She was second in command in the computer department for a while at the U of M Dental school.
She wrote training documents for the graduate admissions school at Cornell University for a while.
Even at ten, she was intellectually vigorous in her academic work. But she didn't bother to try to explain that to the little white girl. She kept pushing forward as best she could. In Michigan, however,
she and her personnel department have found it difficult to find people in Michigan colleges who are
ready to be trained in quickly changing and advancing technical fields.
Years later, my third born child had such high grades she was elected class president. By then, there were more black children at school; but white parents were always enraged.
Finally, though there was no way to challenge her 100% on every math exam, her principal devised a
poetry/fiction competition which was school-wide to show no favoritism was shaping academic recognition at the school.
She went to every classroom to collect writing samples which had only a number, given to a name by
each classroom teacher.
The administration and the music teachers and art teachers judged the anonymous writing samples.
It took some time. Sadly for so many who hated busing (as I had come to do) my little ten-year-old
class president won 1st place in the poetry competition, 1st place in the Haiku competition, and first
place in the fiction competition.
The principal was proud of her, but she explained on the loud speaker, and later even to me that the
submissions were judged as anonymous offerings. The child was prescient.
I wish she had had time to become a writer; but she is a systems and data analyst for a large public
school system.
The sister who was between these two excelled in music and sculpture, even at eight and nine years old. She graduated high school getting 100%, plus the 20 extra credit points in geometry, and passing her chemistry and physics classes while working toward her certified music diploma.
The last little one I sent to that school had a struggle from the day she arrived.
She struggled all along anyway though, because she could read at third and fourth grade levels when
she entered kindergarten. I didn't know it; but her sisters had taught her, and her teacher demonstrated it for me.
Long story short, she was so irritated she called her grandparents every other day to come and get her. Finally, she wound up at a school designated for gifted kids, and later graduated high school
as a National Merit Semi-finalist. She earned a four year scholarship to a private school through her
EAS ( Engineering Aptitude Search) exam.
I didn't bother her with the SATs. I believe she took the ACT at some point because I remember a near perfect score in Science.
I wish she had become an engineer. She has degrees in music.
Oh well, as I said Secretary Castro...Best Luck!
The TPP Costing Medicare?
No.
Medicare savings are flourishing; and will likely redouble themselves quickly as time goes past.
Whatever those savings are, they would be put to great use if they help bolster the TPP and Fast Track.
Critics claim 740M dollars are a risk. They indicate that in a day, all those millions will exit
the Medicare system at once.
Cyclically, Medicare savings will nourish jobs and trade in many of our international business and
corporate interests.
Medicare savings are flourishing; and will likely redouble themselves quickly as time goes past.
Whatever those savings are, they would be put to great use if they help bolster the TPP and Fast Track.
Critics claim 740M dollars are a risk. They indicate that in a day, all those millions will exit
the Medicare system at once.
Cyclically, Medicare savings will nourish jobs and trade in many of our international business and
corporate interests.
POTUS! What Have Democrats Done To Push Rebublicans Into Creating An Alien?!
Democratics have taken the completely immoral ( or maybe just amoral) position that we don't need to compete with Vietnamese workers. We do have to compete with Vietnamese workers. We are competing with Vietnamese workers. We will continue to compete with the Vietnamese, in spite of the fact that our unions all want to return to a 1950s status quo.
So then will the French go back to Vietnam to use the worker force their better than the way they did
to cement the Vietnam war?
No. The French won't go to Vietnam again.
Should we try to encourage organizing among Vietnamese workers, or go into the country and force
a brand of our democratization on those citizens the way we wanted to do in the sixties when North
Vietnam balked?
No We should not attempt to do that.
We have to compete with countries in the Pacific Rim whether our President gets TPP or not.
Somehow, Congressional Democrats have turned so virulently against their leader's initiative, that the
Republicans have figuratively taken the President's side so completely they have dared to twist the language in the original requesting documents he presented, by adding so many
non-POTUS caveats to it that if the bill goes to the President's desk the way they've altered it, even POTUS, its originator, would want to hold his nose in order to sign it.
Even so, having trade agreements with Asia-Pacific work forces will be better that having none, even
if the agreements aren't perfect. No agreement can be perfect. And no agreement will give American
unions the power to control hiring or wages in other countries without a decades-long commitment.
American unions are having a difficult time holding the line on illegal hiring, firing, and wage-thefts,
even in their own country.
So then will the French go back to Vietnam to use the worker force their better than the way they did
to cement the Vietnam war?
No. The French won't go to Vietnam again.
Should we try to encourage organizing among Vietnamese workers, or go into the country and force
a brand of our democratization on those citizens the way we wanted to do in the sixties when North
Vietnam balked?
No We should not attempt to do that.
We have to compete with countries in the Pacific Rim whether our President gets TPP or not.
Somehow, Congressional Democrats have turned so virulently against their leader's initiative, that the
Republicans have figuratively taken the President's side so completely they have dared to twist the language in the original requesting documents he presented, by adding so many
non-POTUS caveats to it that if the bill goes to the President's desk the way they've altered it, even POTUS, its originator, would want to hold his nose in order to sign it.
Even so, having trade agreements with Asia-Pacific work forces will be better that having none, even
if the agreements aren't perfect. No agreement can be perfect. And no agreement will give American
unions the power to control hiring or wages in other countries without a decades-long commitment.
American unions are having a difficult time holding the line on illegal hiring, firing, and wage-thefts,
even in their own country.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Do I Want COO (Country Of Origin) Stamps On Meat? Well ...
I'd like to know where the meat I buy has come from. However, I don't want any meat from the
cloven one, Cliven Bundy either. What stamp will I get at the meat counter to protect me from that?
The cloven one grazes his cattle at taxpayer expense on public lands, holding federal officers at
gunpoint all the while, using the real goons and thugs America suffers.
I don't want to support that truly criminal enterprise.
Mainly, I guess I would like to have the FDA, USDA stamp if I can't get the 'honest ranchers' stamp.
Maybe that is the best any of us can do in this increasingly pressurized climate of international commerce.
cloven one, Cliven Bundy either. What stamp will I get at the meat counter to protect me from that?
The cloven one grazes his cattle at taxpayer expense on public lands, holding federal officers at
gunpoint all the while, using the real goons and thugs America suffers.
I don't want to support that truly criminal enterprise.
Mainly, I guess I would like to have the FDA, USDA stamp if I can't get the 'honest ranchers' stamp.
Maybe that is the best any of us can do in this increasingly pressurized climate of international commerce.
Sea World: Who Are You Kidding?
What does Sea World mean the whales at Sea World live as long as whales in the wild? Shouldn't they live a lot longer than whales who have to fend for themselves?
Do you seriously suggest these very intelligent very family-oriented mammals would not prefer their
freedom?
You are no better than zoos, which are also abominations.
Where is the far-sightedness needed to turn our lands and seas into preserves?
We are lucky we haven't been bombed. Do we consider, and have a Plan B for what to do about wild
animals if war ever actually does come to our shores- god forbid.
How many zoos does America have anyway?
Do you seriously suggest these very intelligent very family-oriented mammals would not prefer their
freedom?
You are no better than zoos, which are also abominations.
Where is the far-sightedness needed to turn our lands and seas into preserves?
We are lucky we haven't been bombed. Do we consider, and have a Plan B for what to do about wild
animals if war ever actually does come to our shores- god forbid.
How many zoos does America have anyway?
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Officer Casebolt
Talk to the nut at U of Chicago (and his newspaper buddy) who wrote a chapter in his freaky book on
the names black people give their children. Apparently those people, (like Barak Obama's dad, or Oprah's mom) would like their children to fail. Those guys and their readers must be experts. Ask them if your name could possibly be causing you a lot of stress, since instead of being a family name, it's the name of something in packaging or building.
And then, my advice, get sexual harassment training.
Last but not least- sea kelp.
the names black people give their children. Apparently those people, (like Barak Obama's dad, or Oprah's mom) would like their children to fail. Those guys and their readers must be experts. Ask them if your name could possibly be causing you a lot of stress, since instead of being a family name, it's the name of something in packaging or building.
And then, my advice, get sexual harassment training.
Last but not least- sea kelp.
MSNBC: Change The Subject As Usual
What is wrong the weirdo people who see a 14 yr. old girl in a bikini wrestled to the ground and knelt
on for an extended period of time, but begin to speak of procedures, and community, and training, and officers perceiving personal danger, and inquiry and investigation and everything but the abusive, assaultive behavior of a full grown man with his crotch in the face of a young teen aged girl who could bear no threat?
At least Lawrence O'Donnell called it "pornographic" . And that is exactly what it was- a sexually
provocative assault on a teenager.
on for an extended period of time, but begin to speak of procedures, and community, and training, and officers perceiving personal danger, and inquiry and investigation and everything but the abusive, assaultive behavior of a full grown man with his crotch in the face of a young teen aged girl who could bear no threat?
At least Lawrence O'Donnell called it "pornographic" . And that is exactly what it was- a sexually
provocative assault on a teenager.
MSNBC: Why Goof Up A State Funeral
The funeral of an elected state official, whose parent is himself an elected official second in command at the White House- that is not your grandma's funeral simply because the mass given
is a Catholic funeral mass. Catholics are not as monolithic as some obviously believe. They do give
shrift to time, and place, and person. Decorum calls for it.
The liturgy of the word is not over before the gospel is read.
I won't go on and on.
Why would a major event be reported so clumsily?
I don't get it.
is a Catholic funeral mass. Catholics are not as monolithic as some obviously believe. They do give
shrift to time, and place, and person. Decorum calls for it.
The liturgy of the word is not over before the gospel is read.
I won't go on and on.
Why would a major event be reported so clumsily?
I don't get it.
Beau Biden's Beautiful Catholic Sending Forth June 6, 2015
During Attorney General Biden's services, I kept having thoughts of his tremendously unusual life.
He lost his mom at such a young age, and in such a sudden way, while she had just completed such
a heady campaign with the then Senator Joe Biden. I know how lost and afraid a five year old, a six year old is when he knows there is suddenly no mom. And yet the six year old stepped right up, to do
all she would have been comforted to know was happening. If he ever missed her a bit too much, he surely doesn't have to any longer.
My mind went back so quickly to the recent excellent public service work Attorney General Biden did for ordinary citizens, with Attorney General Eric Schneiderman at the height of what would be a full scale banking crises in this country.
I thought of how discouraged a freind of mine was when as an attorney in Oakland County, MI, he
didn't have the budget to properly prosecute child sex offenders, and especially child sex incest offenders because perpetrators could afford more experts to testify for them. Attorney General Biden
put a stop to those crimes going unpunished.
Anyone who thinks those crimes leave minimal damage to victims think that way because many times they don't see the damage. At times, victims themselves don't ever see the promise of what their
lives could have been had they been consistently cherished.
People who want a hint of the sort of life Attorney General Biden saved in offended against individuals should try reading Wide Open, by Nicola Barker. I warn, the experience of this reading is literary, but awful.
My friend worked in the 80s, and eventually changed counties because he couldn't take the letdown
of what was happening to little children any longer.
Beau Biden, you may never know just how many good people you inspired.
I noticed how Irish Catholic the congregation at his funeral looked, but his choir was majority
African-American, and the fellow soldier who spoke after General Odierno was a minority woman.
I felt very proud about it.
I felt very proud the President of the United States of America spoke for you from his heart. You
must know what kind of deal your dad thought that was!
I felt very sad for Dr. Biden who raised the little boy she obviously dearly loved, and now lost so soon.
I know the A.G.'s siblings will feel the loss of his presence because they obviously were regularly involved in it, and regularly sought him out as their loved one.
Vice President Biden has had the burdens of Job in his life, and this one seems ever so cruel- his eldest child. His first born son has been taken. Now that is the universe getting a guy below the belt.
V.P. is not young enough for this sort of heartbreak. I hope for his sake and for the sake of the Attorney General's family, that he will weather this storm.
Attorney General Biden's little son looked as though he would never have a look of peace or joy on his face again. The A.G.'s little daughter looked as though she had to believe her dad would come walking in at any moment; and his wife looked as though someone had folded her in half so thoroughly that standing was excruciating.
God speed Attorney General Beau Biden, J.A.G. I am so, so sorry for your suffering. But when the
time does come for any of your other family, I know they have nothing to fear. You personally will
come to get them. That is the sort of man you seem to have been; and that is surely the sort of man
you now will ever be.
He lost his mom at such a young age, and in such a sudden way, while she had just completed such
a heady campaign with the then Senator Joe Biden. I know how lost and afraid a five year old, a six year old is when he knows there is suddenly no mom. And yet the six year old stepped right up, to do
all she would have been comforted to know was happening. If he ever missed her a bit too much, he surely doesn't have to any longer.
My mind went back so quickly to the recent excellent public service work Attorney General Biden did for ordinary citizens, with Attorney General Eric Schneiderman at the height of what would be a full scale banking crises in this country.
I thought of how discouraged a freind of mine was when as an attorney in Oakland County, MI, he
didn't have the budget to properly prosecute child sex offenders, and especially child sex incest offenders because perpetrators could afford more experts to testify for them. Attorney General Biden
put a stop to those crimes going unpunished.
Anyone who thinks those crimes leave minimal damage to victims think that way because many times they don't see the damage. At times, victims themselves don't ever see the promise of what their
lives could have been had they been consistently cherished.
People who want a hint of the sort of life Attorney General Biden saved in offended against individuals should try reading Wide Open, by Nicola Barker. I warn, the experience of this reading is literary, but awful.
My friend worked in the 80s, and eventually changed counties because he couldn't take the letdown
of what was happening to little children any longer.
Beau Biden, you may never know just how many good people you inspired.
I noticed how Irish Catholic the congregation at his funeral looked, but his choir was majority
African-American, and the fellow soldier who spoke after General Odierno was a minority woman.
I felt very proud about it.
I felt very proud the President of the United States of America spoke for you from his heart. You
must know what kind of deal your dad thought that was!
I felt very sad for Dr. Biden who raised the little boy she obviously dearly loved, and now lost so soon.
I know the A.G.'s siblings will feel the loss of his presence because they obviously were regularly involved in it, and regularly sought him out as their loved one.
Vice President Biden has had the burdens of Job in his life, and this one seems ever so cruel- his eldest child. His first born son has been taken. Now that is the universe getting a guy below the belt.
V.P. is not young enough for this sort of heartbreak. I hope for his sake and for the sake of the Attorney General's family, that he will weather this storm.
Attorney General Biden's little son looked as though he would never have a look of peace or joy on his face again. The A.G.'s little daughter looked as though she had to believe her dad would come walking in at any moment; and his wife looked as though someone had folded her in half so thoroughly that standing was excruciating.
God speed Attorney General Beau Biden, J.A.G. I am so, so sorry for your suffering. But when the
time does come for any of your other family, I know they have nothing to fear. You personally will
come to get them. That is the sort of man you seem to have been; and that is surely the sort of man
you now will ever be.
Monday, June 8, 2015
How Long Will Unions Cling To 19th And 20th Century Industry?
Our strengths are in innovation, research, and patents.
We should not be telling people China will stop manipulating currency if we get a great trade deal
in the union view.
They will not.
We need TPP and Fast Track so that we have a leg up when China attempts to dominate all commerce
in and out of the south China seas, and in the air over those seas.
The safest way for us to maintain and increase our commercial interests in that area of the world is to
develop enforceable partnership.
Countries will not sign an agreement with details of their business published on the Internet without
their permission.
Businesses in all countries depend on privacy in their contractual dealings, even U.S. businesses.
So how do we protect ourselves and our current trading partners in the Pacific if we have no trade
agreements.
We have already developed so many industries in this country.
Why would we stop now?
When do we admit we have outgrown some of our industrial innovation?
Others are doing it cheaper than we now can, and if they are not going to be selling it to parts of the
free world to whom will they sell it? They won't sit on it, and we cannot force them to do so!
We have hundreds of patents for innovations in current industries, and for new manufacturing- especially in our health care sector- for developing industries.
Do we forget China took down an American plane already in 2001? They are an aggressive government when they have an opportunity presenting. They did this on April 1, and laughed that here that day was 'April Fools' Day'. They refused to return the plane. They refused to return the crew. China forced President Bush to offer an apology we did not owe.
Five months later, the twin towers were destroyed by planes flown by seeming amateurs on a date
we had to call 911.
POTUS will get us the best deal he can in the Pacific Rim. How do we doubt that?!
The man is Barack Obama. This will be a rich part of his legacy. Don't we know him?
Don't we know how dangerous it will become for us to have no trade agreement in this part of the world?
Unions- get into the training business in new industries. Find a way to re-employ people in modern
sectors of our economy. Did you see The Lord Of The Rings? Get to the American innovations we have and "Get a fire goin!"
We should not be telling people China will stop manipulating currency if we get a great trade deal
in the union view.
They will not.
We need TPP and Fast Track so that we have a leg up when China attempts to dominate all commerce
in and out of the south China seas, and in the air over those seas.
The safest way for us to maintain and increase our commercial interests in that area of the world is to
develop enforceable partnership.
Countries will not sign an agreement with details of their business published on the Internet without
their permission.
Businesses in all countries depend on privacy in their contractual dealings, even U.S. businesses.
So how do we protect ourselves and our current trading partners in the Pacific if we have no trade
agreements.
We have already developed so many industries in this country.
Why would we stop now?
When do we admit we have outgrown some of our industrial innovation?
Others are doing it cheaper than we now can, and if they are not going to be selling it to parts of the
free world to whom will they sell it? They won't sit on it, and we cannot force them to do so!
We have hundreds of patents for innovations in current industries, and for new manufacturing- especially in our health care sector- for developing industries.
Do we forget China took down an American plane already in 2001? They are an aggressive government when they have an opportunity presenting. They did this on April 1, and laughed that here that day was 'April Fools' Day'. They refused to return the plane. They refused to return the crew. China forced President Bush to offer an apology we did not owe.
Five months later, the twin towers were destroyed by planes flown by seeming amateurs on a date
we had to call 911.
POTUS will get us the best deal he can in the Pacific Rim. How do we doubt that?!
The man is Barack Obama. This will be a rich part of his legacy. Don't we know him?
Don't we know how dangerous it will become for us to have no trade agreement in this part of the world?
Unions- get into the training business in new industries. Find a way to re-employ people in modern
sectors of our economy. Did you see The Lord Of The Rings? Get to the American innovations we have and "Get a fire goin!"
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Are We Happy With Our Rand Paul Constitutional Freedoms Now?
Earlier this week, our Congress failed to pass the Patriot Act.
Even Mitch McConnell, proud of his enmity toward the President, was on President Obama's side here.
Rand Paul, also from Kentucky, decides to filibuster this legislation the country sorely needs. He doesn't care about that. He cares about his own recognition for shoving his beliefs down the throats
of those equally as vain.Vanity can help humans swallow a lot of gunk.
Now, before the week is completely over, foreign hackers have attacked four million American
accounts.
Not just any accounts were hacked. These were federal government employees, many of them in the
personnel department. Could the department somehow now hire absolutely the wrong person entirely?
Will employee benefits be mismanaged or altered so as to be erroneously denied?
If none of this is likely, how many of our resources will be used to correct the hack-attack, and regroup?
We don't live in Colonial times any longer.
Our constitution can accommodate the extra-national threats we now face.
For now, though, the government which has our personal information is 'some one's government not our own'.
Comforted?
If so, OK, because many of the repercussions from this may yet be lingering in our future.
Besides, we might be smart to realize a lot more "non-patriotic" trolling may be awaiting us in the
near future.
Even Mitch McConnell, proud of his enmity toward the President, was on President Obama's side here.
Rand Paul, also from Kentucky, decides to filibuster this legislation the country sorely needs. He doesn't care about that. He cares about his own recognition for shoving his beliefs down the throats
of those equally as vain.Vanity can help humans swallow a lot of gunk.
Now, before the week is completely over, foreign hackers have attacked four million American
accounts.
Not just any accounts were hacked. These were federal government employees, many of them in the
personnel department. Could the department somehow now hire absolutely the wrong person entirely?
Will employee benefits be mismanaged or altered so as to be erroneously denied?
If none of this is likely, how many of our resources will be used to correct the hack-attack, and regroup?
We don't live in Colonial times any longer.
Our constitution can accommodate the extra-national threats we now face.
For now, though, the government which has our personal information is 'some one's government not our own'.
Comforted?
If so, OK, because many of the repercussions from this may yet be lingering in our future.
Besides, we might be smart to realize a lot more "non-patriotic" trolling may be awaiting us in the
near future.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
When I was growing up, my mother had Mein Kampf displayed prominently in the living room. She originally bought it because she wanted to understand what had driven her husband, her only good friend at the time, so far into Europe, a place she barely ever even anticipated, through the American WWII army draft.
She always asked us not to touch it.
She told us it was awful, and commemorated a nightmarish part of human history.
She told us about the Nuremburg trials.
She explained Joseph Mengele.
She talked about the 'Desert Fox'. She especially hated him because his campaign focused on Africa.
From time to time she'd mention a name and a horror from that book. The thing was a memento of
a hell generated by sub-humans for humans.
None of us ever touched that book as far as I know.
It seemed to remain untouched on the shelf forever.
It may now be somewhere here in our house now, as most of my parents' books came to me; but no
matter how historic it may be, I will not be able to read it.
I surely won't be able or willing to read another book by the same name, this time written by a real
Aryan.
Knausgaard claims he still wakes up unhappy every day. Is he bragging?
He says his dad was a drunk who didn't like him.
An alcoholic is his own worst enemy.
His or her children can see this if they are able to grow up- which alcoholism in a parent can prevent.
People often don't see they can outgrow another person's alcoholism. Knausgaard is obviously one
of those people.
Knausgaard seems to be one of those people.
And Norwegians are falling for it hook, line, and sinker.
Apparently, many people of many countries and nationalities are falling for it.
Thomas Frank should know Kansas is not the only curious place in the world.
What's the matter with Norway?
Knausgaard, who had been living in Sweden, went back home to Norway when he heard about the
nearly seventy kids killed in a massacre at a Norwegian summer camp.
Mr. Knausgaard can describe the slaughter in detail, victim by victim, per his fascination with it.
What I think might help him is to listen to and study all of Coldplay's music.
She always asked us not to touch it.
She told us it was awful, and commemorated a nightmarish part of human history.
She told us about the Nuremburg trials.
She explained Joseph Mengele.
She talked about the 'Desert Fox'. She especially hated him because his campaign focused on Africa.
From time to time she'd mention a name and a horror from that book. The thing was a memento of
a hell generated by sub-humans for humans.
None of us ever touched that book as far as I know.
It seemed to remain untouched on the shelf forever.
It may now be somewhere here in our house now, as most of my parents' books came to me; but no
matter how historic it may be, I will not be able to read it.
I surely won't be able or willing to read another book by the same name, this time written by a real
Aryan.
Knausgaard claims he still wakes up unhappy every day. Is he bragging?
He says his dad was a drunk who didn't like him.
An alcoholic is his own worst enemy.
His or her children can see this if they are able to grow up- which alcoholism in a parent can prevent.
People often don't see they can outgrow another person's alcoholism. Knausgaard is obviously one
of those people.
Knausgaard seems to be one of those people.
And Norwegians are falling for it hook, line, and sinker.
Apparently, many people of many countries and nationalities are falling for it.
Thomas Frank should know Kansas is not the only curious place in the world.
What's the matter with Norway?
Knausgaard, who had been living in Sweden, went back home to Norway when he heard about the
nearly seventy kids killed in a massacre at a Norwegian summer camp.
Mr. Knausgaard can describe the slaughter in detail, victim by victim, per his fascination with it.
What I think might help him is to listen to and study all of Coldplay's music.
POTUS! I Can't Get My Lawn Cut
For so many years the guys would come along on a regular basis all spring and all summer to offer to
cut the grass for a really fair amount of money.
Now, thanks in great measure to you, they either don't come any longer, or they ask for a lot more money.
These young men would leave a card, and come by when we called.
This year- they have jobs!
How can they have gotten jobs, now. This is Detroit. Isn't everyone here still out of work?
The fellows who do come are asking for more money, and for more specific times they themselves are offering! They are busy.
How could you do this to me POTUS?
I can't cut that grass.
I'm retired.
I'm not retired the way Republicans retire.
I had to retire because of an exacerbated handicap.
So- please POTUS, get me a lawn guy?
cut the grass for a really fair amount of money.
Now, thanks in great measure to you, they either don't come any longer, or they ask for a lot more money.
These young men would leave a card, and come by when we called.
This year- they have jobs!
How can they have gotten jobs, now. This is Detroit. Isn't everyone here still out of work?
The fellows who do come are asking for more money, and for more specific times they themselves are offering! They are busy.
How could you do this to me POTUS?
I can't cut that grass.
I'm retired.
I'm not retired the way Republicans retire.
I had to retire because of an exacerbated handicap.
So- please POTUS, get me a lawn guy?
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
How Much Money Can Americans Have?
At the moment each American is paid $62,500- our industries would grind to a halt. There would be no money to fuel them, or meet their payrolls.
It would cost $22.5 trillion dollars.
Families would accumulate as much as possible as accumulators. We might not have many with the
cash to create business and pay bills. Perhaps the government would hold children's money in trust.
Within a year, if everyone paid their taxes on time, the government would have maybe, six months of enough revenue to fund our military again?
Would that be too late?
Is my math sound enough to validate my timeline?
It would cost $22.5 trillion dollars.
Families would accumulate as much as possible as accumulators. We might not have many with the
cash to create business and pay bills. Perhaps the government would hold children's money in trust.
Within a year, if everyone paid their taxes on time, the government would have maybe, six months of enough revenue to fund our military again?
Would that be too late?
Is my math sound enough to validate my timeline?
We Definitely Need TPP! ADP Is Showing Us
We don't need the sort of jobs that would keep bread out of the mouths of Vietnamese children. Aren't they the children who are suffering enough already?
Aren't we more than able to retool and retrain?
ADP says our private sector added 201,000 jobs last month. I prromise they were not tool and die work.
We cannot keep all those sorts of jobs. We need other sorts of jobs now.
TPP isn't the reason we won't keep those jobs. Those jobs are outdated for our manufacturing structure. Why is the left expressing the sort of denial about this the right mouths constantly about
climate change?
If we don't get fast track, what will they agree to instead?
They have no plan, and they think that "no plan" is going to protect these old jobs.
It will not.
However, the "no plan" people will guarantee China a leg up in all those countries in the Pacific Rim.
Aren't we more than able to retool and retrain?
ADP says our private sector added 201,000 jobs last month. I prromise they were not tool and die work.
We cannot keep all those sorts of jobs. We need other sorts of jobs now.
TPP isn't the reason we won't keep those jobs. Those jobs are outdated for our manufacturing structure. Why is the left expressing the sort of denial about this the right mouths constantly about
climate change?
If we don't get fast track, what will they agree to instead?
They have no plan, and they think that "no plan" is going to protect these old jobs.
It will not.
However, the "no plan" people will guarantee China a leg up in all those countries in the Pacific Rim.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Paul Ryan...Finally Right About Something
Congressman Ryan has been speaking up for TPP.
I feel dirty now, but he is right.
Profit motive moves the world.
Until communism continues to fail, we will not stop profit-making among multinationals in western
countries.
Will we be a leader in these machinations?
Whoever leads will have a big, muscular, expansive economy.
Know any nation like that?
Know a nation which can continue in that vein?
I never thought I'd see the day when Paul Ryan's absolutely odious politics and philosophy didn't
seemingly, inevitably tank his judgement on policy.
(Run some water for me now.)
I feel dirty now, but he is right.
Profit motive moves the world.
Until communism continues to fail, we will not stop profit-making among multinationals in western
countries.
Will we be a leader in these machinations?
Whoever leads will have a big, muscular, expansive economy.
Know any nation like that?
Know a nation which can continue in that vein?
I never thought I'd see the day when Paul Ryan's absolutely odious politics and philosophy didn't
seemingly, inevitably tank his judgement on policy.
(Run some water for me now.)
Henry Johnson/ The Harlem Hell Fighters/ And Laverne Noyes
I'm glad President Obama finally honored William Simon and Henry Johnson for their WWI service.
And now, please allow their descendants the benefits of the Laverne Noyes scholarship. Most minorities, as in my family for instance, were denied access to these funds by wording in the award
which rejected any service done after a certain date in the War. Maybe these guys fought in time for
their families to be accepted.
And now, please allow their descendants the benefits of the Laverne Noyes scholarship. Most minorities, as in my family for instance, were denied access to these funds by wording in the award
which rejected any service done after a certain date in the War. Maybe these guys fought in time for
their families to be accepted.
Wisconsin
That white boy backed so quickly out of the building where he had his gun blazing bam*, bam*, bam*, slam*, bam*,bam*,Bam!
Problem is, I couldn't even keep count of all that fire power on the videotape, and the young man he was firing at was not armed.
Still, the Wisconsin Atty. General saw no problem.
Me, I do see the problem.
Problem is, I couldn't even keep count of all that fire power on the videotape, and the young man he was firing at was not armed.
Still, the Wisconsin Atty. General saw no problem.
Me, I do see the problem.
Attorney General Lynch And FIFA
Our Attorney General is absolutely correct, and a true forward-thinking law professional to prosecute
the ranks of FIFA.
As our commercial interests increase in other societies, we will come into closer contact with FIFA
popular culture.
We cannot afford to import concerns rife with organized crime.
If we are poised to accept a greater soccer influence, especially in organized sports, we need to be proactive about discarding as many of the rotting parts of its branches as we can before it begins to
flourish full-fledged in our business communities.
the ranks of FIFA.
As our commercial interests increase in other societies, we will come into closer contact with FIFA
popular culture.
We cannot afford to import concerns rife with organized crime.
If we are poised to accept a greater soccer influence, especially in organized sports, we need to be proactive about discarding as many of the rotting parts of its branches as we can before it begins to
flourish full-fledged in our business communities.
Baltimore: This Year, The PoPos Added To Your Murder Rate
They forgot that Freddy Gray couldn't control the city's murder rate any easier than its badges could.
However, he has never been accused of murder himself.
And he too, wanted to go home at the end of the day.
One doesn't need to wear a blue shirt in order to want to go home at the end of the day.
So, Baltimore, should your boys in blue become part of the solution to murder, or should they
remain a big part of the problem?
I feel they are a bigger part of the problems, because if murderers are the 'trusted' ones slated to control other murderers, a city can more easily descend into chaos.
However, he has never been accused of murder himself.
And he too, wanted to go home at the end of the day.
One doesn't need to wear a blue shirt in order to want to go home at the end of the day.
So, Baltimore, should your boys in blue become part of the solution to murder, or should they
remain a big part of the problem?
I feel they are a bigger part of the problems, because if murderers are the 'trusted' ones slated to control other murderers, a city can more easily descend into chaos.
Americans- You Now Have The Civil Right To Lay Smouldering In Your Beds
We don't have The Patriot Act any longer.
But we have freedoms unchanged since the 18th century, which we can no longer afford as freedoms unchanged since the 18th century.
We aren't concerned with the British Army and Navy.
We aren't concerned with conventional weapons.
And we're apparently unconcerned with hackers.
Target Store are concerned with hackers.
But- 'We the people'- we are unconcerned.
We have AT&T.
We are not worried about a muscular security array to counter Al Queda, Al Shebob, The Taliban,
ISIL, or lone wolf attacks on us on our own shores, to name a few things which don't bother us at this
moment.
Do you smell smoke, though? I hope that isn't me.
I hope POTUS has gotten plenty of other systems in place to combat my ashy freedoms
I hope Angela Merkel and Scotland Yard have gotten resources from us to take up the slack of what
we should be doing ourselves.
For those of us still living when all the data is considered important all the time by those sensible
enough to care, remember...STOP SMOKING.
I mean, at least stop smoking in bed!
But we have freedoms unchanged since the 18th century, which we can no longer afford as freedoms unchanged since the 18th century.
We aren't concerned with the British Army and Navy.
We aren't concerned with conventional weapons.
And we're apparently unconcerned with hackers.
Target Store are concerned with hackers.
But- 'We the people'- we are unconcerned.
We have AT&T.
We are not worried about a muscular security array to counter Al Queda, Al Shebob, The Taliban,
ISIL, or lone wolf attacks on us on our own shores, to name a few things which don't bother us at this
moment.
Do you smell smoke, though? I hope that isn't me.
I hope POTUS has gotten plenty of other systems in place to combat my ashy freedoms
I hope Angela Merkel and Scotland Yard have gotten resources from us to take up the slack of what
we should be doing ourselves.
For those of us still living when all the data is considered important all the time by those sensible
enough to care, remember...STOP SMOKING.
I mean, at least stop smoking in bed!
Elizabeth Warren- Please Don't Become Jennifer Granholm
Governor Granholm was an excellent Michigan Governor.
She was a Harvard grad of excellent intellectual rigor, thank heavens not a bit like Mitt Romney or Ted Cruz.
Jennifer Granholm is an eloquent and inspiring public speaker, and she used those skills magnificently at the 2012 Democratic Convention on behalf of President Obama and the Democratic
platform.
In her time as Michigan Governor, though, she completely ignored the very worthy cause of the citizens of our minority city, Benton Harbor, to help them protect property willed to them from other
millionaire influence peddlers.
At the end of her term, she very reluctantly got into the fray which helped drag our Detroit Mayor,
Kwame Kilpatrick into the clutches of the rabid Detroit Free Press funding of the mayor's prosecutions in his city's courts.
Governor Granholm should have gotten a prominent place in some Democratic party structure.
I hope she will recover at least part of her former public Party influence, because even if her overall
reach is a bit activist imperfect from time to time as regards, her finger is needed on the
pulse of Democratic Party causes.
We desperately need Elizabeth Warren to continue to make as many termite bites in the pulp of our
unwieldy banks as she possibly can.
As a matter of fact, she can help us out a lot with the tasks of retooling the American manufacturing
sector for the next fifty years of this century.
She was a Harvard grad of excellent intellectual rigor, thank heavens not a bit like Mitt Romney or Ted Cruz.
Jennifer Granholm is an eloquent and inspiring public speaker, and she used those skills magnificently at the 2012 Democratic Convention on behalf of President Obama and the Democratic
platform.
In her time as Michigan Governor, though, she completely ignored the very worthy cause of the citizens of our minority city, Benton Harbor, to help them protect property willed to them from other
millionaire influence peddlers.
At the end of her term, she very reluctantly got into the fray which helped drag our Detroit Mayor,
Kwame Kilpatrick into the clutches of the rabid Detroit Free Press funding of the mayor's prosecutions in his city's courts.
Governor Granholm should have gotten a prominent place in some Democratic party structure.
I hope she will recover at least part of her former public Party influence, because even if her overall
reach is a bit activist imperfect from time to time as regards, her finger is needed on the
pulse of Democratic Party causes.
We desperately need Elizabeth Warren to continue to make as many termite bites in the pulp of our
unwieldy banks as she possibly can.
As a matter of fact, she can help us out a lot with the tasks of retooling the American manufacturing
sector for the next fifty years of this century.
Fast Track And Medicare
President Obama wants Fast Track in order to protect U.S. trade for many years to come. Medicare is
not static, though. Medicare is fluid, and the savings it's racking up can be used to shore up American
power in the far east.
As a Medicare services consumer, I am realizing the savings Medicare is generating and growing little by little. I am using fewer expensive services than I did a few years ago because a) some services are less expensive, and b) I am a bit healthier.
A plethora of elder baby boomers flooding emergency rooms all at once with several catastrophic illnesses isn't a scenario America has to anticipate.
However, China causing a multitude of disadvantages for America and its trade partners in the Far East is an actual scenario our president has to anticipate.
At this moment, while we dither over industries which belong to 20th century America so that we don't have to train our citizens for 21st century industries- China has already begun a small campaign of terror for countries in the South China Seas who want the freedom to flex commercial muscle in the waters, and in the air, amidst territories normally thought of as free space.
Are we free to use American industries from the last century to hold us back, kicking and screaming,
from advancing ourselves into this century? Apparently, we are.
Ask though: if we hold onto those last century industries, though we have the best research and training university systems in the world- from whose mouths does the bread fall when the jobs we know we've outgrown come back to us, or fail to get to poorer workers?
We need to move full speed ahead into our future.
And the unions need to lead that charge.
not static, though. Medicare is fluid, and the savings it's racking up can be used to shore up American
power in the far east.
As a Medicare services consumer, I am realizing the savings Medicare is generating and growing little by little. I am using fewer expensive services than I did a few years ago because a) some services are less expensive, and b) I am a bit healthier.
A plethora of elder baby boomers flooding emergency rooms all at once with several catastrophic illnesses isn't a scenario America has to anticipate.
However, China causing a multitude of disadvantages for America and its trade partners in the Far East is an actual scenario our president has to anticipate.
At this moment, while we dither over industries which belong to 20th century America so that we don't have to train our citizens for 21st century industries- China has already begun a small campaign of terror for countries in the South China Seas who want the freedom to flex commercial muscle in the waters, and in the air, amidst territories normally thought of as free space.
Are we free to use American industries from the last century to hold us back, kicking and screaming,
from advancing ourselves into this century? Apparently, we are.
Ask though: if we hold onto those last century industries, though we have the best research and training university systems in the world- from whose mouths does the bread fall when the jobs we know we've outgrown come back to us, or fail to get to poorer workers?
We need to move full speed ahead into our future.
And the unions need to lead that charge.
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