A New Coach

The Nittany Lions have a new coach. Best of luck to him. He has a lot to live down now. I hope
someone has cleaned the place up enough so he doesn't walk into some hornets' nest of a same old
same old status quo with a few new 'players'. Rape, molestation and pedophilia should have as
much of a zero tolerance policy there as they do in any police station in the country. I have to
assume these things can't happen to children in any police station!

Anybody But...

The entire Republican Primary gang is made up of  'anybody buts'.
People who hate Romney hate him so much because they hated him when John McCain was
nominated and he hasn't changed except that he keeps changing. People don't change that way.
Romney must be one of the corporations he keeps talking about ,but, he believes he is 'people'; then
thinks real people will somehow begin to labor under the same delusion. Three of every four of them will not be so deluded.
If Mr. Romney does win New Hampshire with a big margin, it will likely be because Santorum stuck his foot in his homophobe mouth just in time to insure no one will ask him to debate President Obama...ever. Scary if that were to happen- a brilliant president in a debate with some sort of self-appointed Pope
People who hate Mr. Santorum would also rather vote for 'anybody but' him.
People who hate Rand Paul are so tired of him, they will usually vote for 'anybody but' him.
People who hate Rick Perry don't actually hate him so much. Still, they'll soon come close to the
'anybody but' him sentiment. He is a Republican; and he is a candidate in the primary. So naturally, he's going to lead them right smack dab into the thick of 'anybody but' territory...sooner, rather than much later.

Emergence

Someone tell the U.S.Republican party the emerging republican majority emerged decades ago.
They got their backlash president, the Ronald Reagan of their dreams.
They achieved the distinction of 'slip sliding away' education performances on the world scale.
If they believe destroying the world economy is an achievement, well for them it was.
If they believe adding to the troubles of the Mid East is an achievable goal, well for them it has been.
If they believe bombing an ancient Far East airport in Afghanistan was a good look, well that airport we used to start a war, hadn't recovered fully from Russian bombs anyway. Throwing good
money after bad much did we in ensuing years?
And why does The Saint continue to speak about bla.. people with respect to 'other people's money'? Africa built the entire New World. Can we effectively separate out the monies now?
Food stamps were instituted because Mississippi refused to hire black people as a backlash against the Civil Rights Act. The U.S. gives food stamps INSTEAD of a living wage. We are
perfectly free to do otherwise, but 'when it rains', as we know,' it rains on the just as well as the
unjust' - so a great many white families, and other minority families would do without Social
Services cases as well. Then what is Wal-Mart going to do? Hire people who come to work to
get a bite to eat? At least that way, we could keep down on some epidemics though; because
widespread hunger causes typhoid. As we live in close quarters in America, that disease could
spread quickly. And remember about the 'just as well as the unjust'?
Governor Romney loves chaotic woe. He wants to let the auto industry and its cottage industries
die. He wants the country to become a nation of foreclosed renters. That is, renters who put good
cash money down on a mortgage, but lost all that and must rent anyway.
Shouldn't someone have had a good eye on mortgages after the Savings and Loan debacle of
1993? Haven't you told Americans too late, after stripping them of cash and jobs, that you would
prefer they rent instead of buy?
Has the hedge fund, the arbitrageur,and the Bain Capital model become the only valued ways
of living in America? Why can't we protect the daily work of the GDP? That work belongs to us
all!
What makes the Pauls believe if you own an establishment you claim serves the public, must you also own the right to describe the public? You don't own that right. You cannot buy that right.
Public policy has that domain. Grow up.
Why would a salamander believe he has something to say the NAACP might want to hear. He has already gone on record wanting to take a man's job away and give it to the man's minor
child. Even England has progressed beyond 16th century England. Why should we want to go
back there?
As for all fifty states mistakenly not taking up slavery...why they did and they have.
For every dollar a white man does earn in this country, a black man earns about 12cent. A black
woman may earn a dime. That's pretty darned close to what you want isn't it Mr. Rand Paul?
Pat yourself on the back why don't you?

Dangerous And Not A Bit Democratic

Both North Korea and Iran are insane administrations...that is, a danger to themselves and
others.
North Korea thinks South Korea has a far superior way of life for its people than the people of
North Korea can access because South Korea is a traitor. A traitor to starvation, and to escape
into CHINA?! Isn't that the role of any rational government in today's world? Shouldn't those
governing be an enemy to starvation, and to citizens operating as mindless drones? Apparently
in North Korea 'traitor' has a more esoteric definition. Or perhaps the definition is simply a more
autocratically disciplined one, put in the N. Korean dictionary by 'dear leader' himself.
In the case of Iran, they seem to have an odd response to a chance to become more prosperous.
They want to be destroyed. By enriching uranium, positioning launchers, Iran won't achieve much
peaceful power use. Iran will only be putting a giant red, and white target on its back. So senseless. If they get all this nuclear power, and one of their launchers moves even accidentally a micrometer to the left or right of where it should be, they will likely be digging out of rubble for years! Their leaders will scream, "No! Imperialists! That was an earthquake. Why have you
attacked?"
Useless...
As for the Obama administration cloaking a rep of reticence on Iran policies, that rep is a fiction.
This government does not in any way need another expensive destabilization in the Mid-East.
We pay to tear places down. We pay to build them back. Are we in need of spending trillions
more when all we have to do is play with real little wooden blocks for a very few dollars if we
still have our nursery tendencies?
President Obama has taken a series of steps toward the Ahmadinejad regime, which have been
necessary to build approach, in a much needed policy to keep world muscle flexing against this brute
instability. In a government where the judiciary, the clerics, the military, and the politicians
constantly attempt to undo one another to generate regional chaos, each branch of the government feels only might will generate stability. Therefore, these rulers are seeking an instability
in the Mid-east out President need only thwart.  We can shore up stable governments without always
waging war. That is our best defense against Iran, and it is also our best offense. Two birds ...
Why should our president position us to be the only world power to use force to stave off crisis in the Mid-east? Is American life and treasure that cheaply held? Not by Barack Obama, nor by Hilary Clinton for that matter...

White Supremacist

What an oxymoronic term this is. If whites were supreme or superior, would anyone have needed
to come up with an adjective for the term "supremacist"?

Occupy

Again, these banks need to show good faith by reforming themselves. They know exactly what to do, and they know how to make the reforms felt in public.
If they make the best transformative corrections to their most wealth-destructive hammers in the average family budget, there are those in Congress and at Occupy who will acknowledge, and take note.
If the reforms are bona fide, they will be enacted into law by our more responsible lawmakers. Banking doesn't need us to keep telling them what is anathema to the public, to a majority of depositors. It doesn't need Occupy to identify individuals for them to demand from, to argue with, and to compromise.
Occupy doesn't need the George Bush model of capitalistic democracy. They don't need to invent an 'appointment' to a leadership position, which will then enable them to buy the concomitant 'policy' thereafter.
If Occupy sticks to its own democracy as long as possible, then it's the model of what it is asking
of current U.S. policy-making sectors.
Otherwise, Occupy could elect a Supreme Leader, some representatives, some magistrates, and
spend all its time attempting to maintain its systems...just the way Congress and business are doing now, to the disenfranchisement of 99% of the public, ergo the public good. Circular much?
Today's news: pensions are taking another hit on Wall Street. So familiar. Since these banks got
bailed out from a public Welfare constructed just for them, my pension check shrinks a little bit
more every year.
Now exactly how is that supposed to work when I have family members out of work, no cost
of living on the Social Security I contributed larger and larger amounts to all my working life, and youngsters in my family dependent upon all of this- while the price of food and gas does go up?
Is it my bank, or my budget, that needs a bailout? At the very least, it is going to have to be both. As one of the 99%, I don't have to give a hoot about my credit rating. None of us does.
Banks can charge as many phony fees and interest rates (that bear no resemblance to the ability of the economy to sustain such rates if people are to eat) as they like. There isn't anything saying the many 'charges' will get paid. The reality could possibly come down to a vote of 99 to 1 that they won't.
Think then they might want to reform?

Mississippi Freedom Riders

On May 4, 1961, thirteen citizens boarded a bus in D.C. bound for Mississippi
and Louisiana as a racially integrated group. Along the way they became
more than one bus, and several hundred people. Recently many of the group
came together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their struggle.
When they arrived at segregated bus stations in 1961 they were jailed. So many of them gave testimonials I found unbelievable because they were jailed for thirty days!
I was stunned by many things as I viewed the proceedings on C-span.
One astounding thing was that Governor Haille Barber gave a speech which
included an apology for the jailings! When he got to the podium I was certain
he would say it wasn't so bad to be jailed because each jail presented
as "A Clean Well Lit Place".
He didn't say anything even close to being so backward. He was a complete,
polite, respectful human. Haille Barber? The same man who left his state
just as the president arrived there to talk to officials about thier
need relative the gushing oil BP had slicked onto, their coastline was
well-mannered and gracious during a freedom riders celebration!
Continually throughout the celebration he referred to his wife and himself as a
couple doing public service - never himself alone.
A man couldn't be more gracious that that.
The only upsetting thing I heard him say was that the celebration could not have
happened without the corporate support it got. He named everyone of the
coporations. Please.
The freedom riders asked some of their group to speak individually.
They were particularly proud that their desegregation sacrifices led to successes
such as Judge Ruben Anderson's position on the Mississippi Supreme Court, to
Judge Carlton Reed's position in the Federal Distict Courts, and to
Congressman Bennie Thompson who reccommended Judge Reed.
Mention was made of the exceptional leadership of Congressman John Lewis, who was
one of the most ardent starting leaders of C.O.R.E.
Sonny Montgomery was mentioned as Mr. Lewis' arresting officer at one point. Later
the two served together in Congress.
One woman came to the podium who seemed to be Chinese. She was a young college student like the rest of the freedom riders fifty years ago. She looked Chinese
by virtue of her stature and coloring. She told the crowd the officials who
greeted her when she got off the integrated bus she rode into the south back then
informed her she was not black. Everyone laughed as she kept repeating to them
to counter their assertions, that she indeed was definitely black, or whatever term
people were using then for those of African heritage.
All the freedom riders who spoke stressed the diversity among them as regards
whites, blacks, and persons of differing religions.
The most stunning report came from a lady named Claire O'Connor.
She looked very Irish to me. She said people where she gave talks always asked her
why she did it.
Spike Lee would have loved her answer. She said she was raised to understand that
if the promise of forty acres and a mule had been honored, our country would be truly
unable to be challenged in any field right now. She said her parents taught her
that cancer would likely have been cured in the twentieth century, and many more
important world-altering achievements would have been given the world in the first
one hundred years after the civil war. It was just a matter, she exclaimed, of how
much she loved her country. That is why she had become a freedom rider.
I haven't heard of Civil War aftermath spoken of in that way before. Maybe I haven't
even thought of it in exactly that way. But when I do stop to think of it now, courtesy of Ms. O'Connor, I realize hundereds of billions of dollars have been spent
in these years since the Emancipation Proclamation, to keep black people from
achievemnet. What would that have achievement have rendered after all?