I couldn't be prouder of Mr. Nelson for turning down Harvard, Yale. Princeton, Stanford, et al!
Creepy, creepy places.
I am glad for the black students who've braved it out in those places with such yukky heritage in
order to make a good place for themselves in this world.
But we have needed a Mr. Nelson for so long.
Perhaps with the exception of Stanford, I don't know its history very well; I just know slavery empowered and funded so much of our westward homesteading expansion, those places were built
shortly after the colonies began to make a profit, and be assured more profit in years to come from
the work the slaves did in this country.
Why should black students rush to pay those gooky places?
Black students who have attended in the past have made those places better. Have legacy students done so?
It is my fervent wish that every equally bright black student in America who isn't going to a traditionally black college or university, could attempt admission at University of Alabama, even if they get less than a full ride, to enroll in classes Mr. Nelson has decided to take.
Now that is a new activism I'd love to see.
When I was still 17, I was accepted at Radcliffe. My parents were glad, but they had four other children at home. They were a bit surprised about the money not only for tuition and books, but how
much it would likely cost to live in Cambridge for a week.
They didn't miss me in Massachusetts, though. They got people like Mitt Romney right about the time I'd have attended. And I became only a semi-professional worker. Poor me.
Still- I dodged an important bullet staying out of that school in the sixties
I wish Harvard could have educated enough people in their hallowed environment well enough to keep the Tsarnaev family from getting so disenchanted and going off the deep end.
It's a thing I expect them to do in the future. But of course, they not care a bit.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
The Progressives' Perfect TPP - An Enemy Of The Good!
America's progressive political activists are behaving as radically and as acrimoniously as the far right over TPP.
They haven't had their hair so thoroughly on fire since their darling Edward Snowden didn't get away
with spilling his guts on the Internet and fleeing to ... well, yes, China and Russia, bastions of free speech thinkers, writers, and Internet communicators.
What in the world is wrong with these people?
Nothing they could put in the TPP would stop all Pacific Rim countries from currency manipulations.
Nothing they could write in the TPP would stop the profit motive in the American pharmaceutical industry from creating the steady stream of new drugs created nowhere else in the world in such variety and quantity- even though I wish they could be reformed somehow. The TPP is needed now,
not by the time we can reform drug companies.
Nothing the progressives could write in the TPP would get countries in the far east to pay closer to
$10 per hour or demand a minimum wage from companies anywhere close to that. We can barely get
companies HERE to pay a living wage.
Nothing the progressives could put into the TPP would make our human rights standards enforceable any time soon in all the countries we trade with overseas, especially since we have places like WalMart here in abundance. Even Macy's treats workers like slop most of the time. I admit, it's because the Pacific countries are difficult for our retailers to compete with in the business sectors.
But what will be empowered to actually do about it in time to sign this trade agreement?
Our manufacturing work force has to be retrained now. We need them to work on new 21st century
technologies our country has strong patent protections were are prepared to enforce. Obama has hired
many new patent attorneys in these past two terms.
Someone claimed Thomas Jefferson hated the idea of global patent monopolies. But wasn't he a rapist? How could he have had time to foresee everything? I've heard all the workers on his plantation
looked exactly like him. He was busy with things I know were reprehensible. So he may not have had time to envision how we could shape industries so that they wouldn't monopolize trading sectors.
We don't have danger of that in newer industries right now anyway. And we have time to work on it
before China becomes the country engaging in new monopolies.
There is no TPP progressives could write which would ever place stringently enforceable regulations
on all the environmental protections we need here on earth in all countries. We can barely get companies here to comply!
Exactly what sort of labor protections can we force when we know that no matter how we hate people
doing important jobs for very little money, those people need those jobs. We have to improve those jobs incrementally as we create different opportunities for our own re-educated work force, because
most of the jobs are never coming back here no matter how poorly educated and trained we'd prefer
to remain.
Unions- re-educated your work force!
It has been done in other countries.
At one time Ireland took out a full paged ad in the New York Times to tout the superior educations of
its working public.
Instead of asking POTUS to have the TPP something we vote on in popular demand fashion over the
Internet- help him get a deal countries will actually sign!
They haven't had their hair so thoroughly on fire since their darling Edward Snowden didn't get away
with spilling his guts on the Internet and fleeing to ... well, yes, China and Russia, bastions of free speech thinkers, writers, and Internet communicators.
What in the world is wrong with these people?
Nothing they could put in the TPP would stop all Pacific Rim countries from currency manipulations.
Nothing they could write in the TPP would stop the profit motive in the American pharmaceutical industry from creating the steady stream of new drugs created nowhere else in the world in such variety and quantity- even though I wish they could be reformed somehow. The TPP is needed now,
not by the time we can reform drug companies.
Nothing the progressives could write in the TPP would get countries in the far east to pay closer to
$10 per hour or demand a minimum wage from companies anywhere close to that. We can barely get
companies HERE to pay a living wage.
Nothing the progressives could put into the TPP would make our human rights standards enforceable any time soon in all the countries we trade with overseas, especially since we have places like WalMart here in abundance. Even Macy's treats workers like slop most of the time. I admit, it's because the Pacific countries are difficult for our retailers to compete with in the business sectors.
But what will be empowered to actually do about it in time to sign this trade agreement?
Our manufacturing work force has to be retrained now. We need them to work on new 21st century
technologies our country has strong patent protections were are prepared to enforce. Obama has hired
many new patent attorneys in these past two terms.
Someone claimed Thomas Jefferson hated the idea of global patent monopolies. But wasn't he a rapist? How could he have had time to foresee everything? I've heard all the workers on his plantation
looked exactly like him. He was busy with things I know were reprehensible. So he may not have had time to envision how we could shape industries so that they wouldn't monopolize trading sectors.
We don't have danger of that in newer industries right now anyway. And we have time to work on it
before China becomes the country engaging in new monopolies.
There is no TPP progressives could write which would ever place stringently enforceable regulations
on all the environmental protections we need here on earth in all countries. We can barely get companies here to comply!
Exactly what sort of labor protections can we force when we know that no matter how we hate people
doing important jobs for very little money, those people need those jobs. We have to improve those jobs incrementally as we create different opportunities for our own re-educated work force, because
most of the jobs are never coming back here no matter how poorly educated and trained we'd prefer
to remain.
Unions- re-educated your work force!
It has been done in other countries.
At one time Ireland took out a full paged ad in the New York Times to tout the superior educations of
its working public.
Instead of asking POTUS to have the TPP something we vote on in popular demand fashion over the
Internet- help him get a deal countries will actually sign!
Friday, May 15, 2015
We'd Prefer A Professional Police Force- Sans Goons
The Night Stalker got to trial.
John Wayne Gacy wasn't shot in the street.
Ted Bundy got to his trial.
What happened with Ed Gein? Did murderous badges open fire on him in his neighborhood?
Boston Strangler got to trial.
Timothy McVeigh got to trial.
Cliven Bundy didn't have to go to trial, though his guns were drawn on officers many times.
Colorado's theater mass murderer got to trial.
New York's subway killer got to trial.
Ted Kosinski got a trial.
Did Chris Kyle's killer get a trial? Of course.(Though that jury was way off kilter...)
Black policemen are not killing white youth.
Is that because all white youth are polite and lawful? Not by a long shot.
Black policemen would surely go down for it. There would be no way they could make a habit
of killing young white guys because they were so 'terrified' the kids were hopped up on meth.
And young black men are not in the habit of killing police officers.
Police persons are not in a lot of shoot-outs with armed gangs of black men.
They prefer men without weapons.
But in our communities, we'd much prefer officers trained to keep peace.
ANY untrained person can shoot to kill because he or she is 'afraid'.
John Wayne Gacy wasn't shot in the street.
Ted Bundy got to his trial.
What happened with Ed Gein? Did murderous badges open fire on him in his neighborhood?
Boston Strangler got to trial.
Timothy McVeigh got to trial.
Cliven Bundy didn't have to go to trial, though his guns were drawn on officers many times.
Colorado's theater mass murderer got to trial.
New York's subway killer got to trial.
Ted Kosinski got a trial.
Did Chris Kyle's killer get a trial? Of course.(Though that jury was way off kilter...)
Black policemen are not killing white youth.
Is that because all white youth are polite and lawful? Not by a long shot.
Black policemen would surely go down for it. There would be no way they could make a habit
of killing young white guys because they were so 'terrified' the kids were hopped up on meth.
And young black men are not in the habit of killing police officers.
Police persons are not in a lot of shoot-outs with armed gangs of black men.
They prefer men without weapons.
But in our communities, we'd much prefer officers trained to keep peace.
ANY untrained person can shoot to kill because he or she is 'afraid'.
So WHAT Is Wrong With Erin Burnett And Those Of Her Ilk?
Lawrence O'Donnell is Irish too, and he doesn't know what's wrong with her. We should be so proud
of him for not knowing!
When a man with a badge and a weapon guns down an unarmed person in the streets, who's the thug?
When Irish people play with or shop toy guns, are they gunned down?
Oh- Irish people don't commit any crimes?
When Irish pedophiles offend against children, do get gunned down in the streets?
Oh- there are no Irish pedophiles. But what are Travelers? Do Travelers get gunned down in the streets?
When Bill O'Reilly had scores of advantages growing up which were routinely denied African Americans, did he acknowledge those advantages? Peter Jennings certainly did, and he was ten times the journalist O'Reilly is. Did he believe if he was accused he'd be gunned
down in the streets, or that instead he'd get a lawyer.
How many Irish people are shot or killed in routine traffic stops, or when flagging down a police car to get some help?
If you are not getting gunned down in the streets- what are You angry about while you live without
inordinate fear?
If you avoid police without being shot and killed for it, what makes you react so personally negatively to those who love their friends and neighbors, even their imperfect friends and neighbors?
'Why so pale and wan' toward those of us who stand up for one another?
We are supposed to stand up for each other, people.
Why do you think we ever stood up for each other when Jim Crow, as one example, seemed like a wonderful law in the first place?
Othering doesn't work out for some groups, especially some minorities.
Suddenly, for instance, after Arab Spring, Coptic Christians, among others, began to be thought of as
lawless in Egypt for whatever small infraction they might commit.
This 'othering' won't disappear, but its effects can be mitigated to something milder than murdering
unarmed people in the streets if more people gifting themselves with the right to do what they have no more than the power to do- could just grow up.
of him for not knowing!
When a man with a badge and a weapon guns down an unarmed person in the streets, who's the thug?
When Irish people play with or shop toy guns, are they gunned down?
Oh- Irish people don't commit any crimes?
When Irish pedophiles offend against children, do get gunned down in the streets?
Oh- there are no Irish pedophiles. But what are Travelers? Do Travelers get gunned down in the streets?
When Bill O'Reilly had scores of advantages growing up which were routinely denied African Americans, did he acknowledge those advantages? Peter Jennings certainly did, and he was ten times the journalist O'Reilly is. Did he believe if he was accused he'd be gunned
down in the streets, or that instead he'd get a lawyer.
How many Irish people are shot or killed in routine traffic stops, or when flagging down a police car to get some help?
If you are not getting gunned down in the streets- what are You angry about while you live without
inordinate fear?
If you avoid police without being shot and killed for it, what makes you react so personally negatively to those who love their friends and neighbors, even their imperfect friends and neighbors?
'Why so pale and wan' toward those of us who stand up for one another?
We are supposed to stand up for each other, people.
Why do you think we ever stood up for each other when Jim Crow, as one example, seemed like a wonderful law in the first place?
Othering doesn't work out for some groups, especially some minorities.
Suddenly, for instance, after Arab Spring, Coptic Christians, among others, began to be thought of as
lawless in Egypt for whatever small infraction they might commit.
This 'othering' won't disappear, but its effects can be mitigated to something milder than murdering
unarmed people in the streets if more people gifting themselves with the right to do what they have no more than the power to do- could just grow up.
What About The Philly Neighbors #188 Passengers Praised So?
The American press keeps going on and on about first responders who did their jobs so heroically when train #188 derailed.
People did have high praise for police and fire working so tirelessly in the black of night with no
regular city lighting available.
Rescuers had to light their own ways.
But passengers who were able to talk were also tremendously grateful and moved by the neighborhood when it turned out for them in full force. I'm certain The Red Cross and other municipal authorities were hampered by the enthusiasm of local residents. Still, they were people who offered their water, extra clothing or shoes, coffee, bathrooms in their homes, etc.
The act of being thrown against the walls of train cars, having fellow passengers flung forcefully at their heads, being thrown into hard plastic stationery fixture furniture at the force of their various masses X the one hundred miles per hour the train was going when it hit that curve on the tracks didn't engender feelings of safety and organization in the victims. The neighbors, they engendered feelings of the return of a possible organizational safety in the ordinary things of life.
Kindness is not exactly predictable, but neither is the appreciation it can sometimes stimulate in abundance.
People did have high praise for police and fire working so tirelessly in the black of night with no
regular city lighting available.
Rescuers had to light their own ways.
But passengers who were able to talk were also tremendously grateful and moved by the neighborhood when it turned out for them in full force. I'm certain The Red Cross and other municipal authorities were hampered by the enthusiasm of local residents. Still, they were people who offered their water, extra clothing or shoes, coffee, bathrooms in their homes, etc.
The act of being thrown against the walls of train cars, having fellow passengers flung forcefully at their heads, being thrown into hard plastic stationery fixture furniture at the force of their various masses X the one hundred miles per hour the train was going when it hit that curve on the tracks didn't engender feelings of safety and organization in the victims. The neighbors, they engendered feelings of the return of a possible organizational safety in the ordinary things of life.
Kindness is not exactly predictable, but neither is the appreciation it can sometimes stimulate in abundance.
Train #188: A Rock Or Bullet Brought On Amnesia????
Am I dreaming a bad dream?
The engineer seems plausible to NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board).
He recalls nothing about the train acceleration at the curve.
Two of the conductors seem clear and focused.
One heard a conversation between her engineer and one on another train about some possible projectile hitting the windows of the engine car.
One has had no impression of anything unusual.
The tracks seemed fine thus far to NTSB.
The inside of the cars seemed safe thus far to NTSB.
The outside of the cars seemed natural to NTSB.
All systems regarding train 188 seemed perfectly normal, so far, to NTSB.
What I'm saying here is, nothing.
According to Mr. Robert Sumwalt of NTSB, all those people who were killed and injured
on train 188 of the Amtrak line this week, on the U.S. northeast coast, no one knows one teeny tiny
thing wrong with anything which may have contributed to the tragedy, at first blush.
So, after days and days of press conferences by scores of officials and the policy trusts they represent,
we find no one has a clue.
What in the world is the modern press?
The engineer seems plausible to NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board).
He recalls nothing about the train acceleration at the curve.
Two of the conductors seem clear and focused.
One heard a conversation between her engineer and one on another train about some possible projectile hitting the windows of the engine car.
One has had no impression of anything unusual.
The tracks seemed fine thus far to NTSB.
The inside of the cars seemed safe thus far to NTSB.
The outside of the cars seemed natural to NTSB.
All systems regarding train 188 seemed perfectly normal, so far, to NTSB.
What I'm saying here is, nothing.
According to Mr. Robert Sumwalt of NTSB, all those people who were killed and injured
on train 188 of the Amtrak line this week, on the U.S. northeast coast, no one knows one teeny tiny
thing wrong with anything which may have contributed to the tragedy, at first blush.
So, after days and days of press conferences by scores of officials and the policy trusts they represent,
we find no one has a clue.
What in the world is the modern press?
Thursday, May 14, 2015
The Still Phony Rick Snyder
The Governor and his cronies sent notices and made calls nearly every day to my home, telling me to
be sure to vote for a tax hike he claims we all desperately neeeded here in Michigan.
Is he kidding?
I'm a Detroiter.
His loser flyers claimed it would help our schools.
What schools? He closed the schools we loved, turning nine out of ten of them into 'charters' I want no part of, and before that, kept all the revenue-sharing money Detroit and our schools should have
gotten in state funds before he tried to rob us all blind.
Is he kidding?
I'm a Detroiter.
Detroiters didn't turn down millages for school taxes.
We stopped getting a chance to vote for them.
Why would he want taxes to repair the roads?
He hasn't made one peep about getting the Congress to vote for infrastructure monies POTUS has asked them to approve.
Thanks to him Michigan is technically a 'right-to-work' state now, and we have somehow voted to kill a lot of wolves we don't actually need to bother.
Snyder is the worst.
Michganders love him, I know.
But even the Dr. Ben Carson sycophants and other Detroit-hating 'betters' don't want the tax hikes of a known trickster and liar.
The measure failed miserably.
These politicians allow themselves to be known as lying clowns in order to get the Michigan militias
on their side. Then when they decide to continue with their knife-wielding rampages, they allow
themselves to believe the militias (and more sophisticated pals who only side with militia politics when it comes to "Detroit") don't still know they are lying clowns.
And as for me- do you actually believe, Snyder-Spider, that when you tell me that I am stupid, and my union is stupid, and Detroit students are all stupid because they failed your 'predatory' exams, that I believe one single word coming out of your mouth?
Don't think that.
I am Galileo. You are the ancient church.
There is absolutely nothing in this entire universe which could make me believe anything you'd ever say you'd do to benefit Detroit or Detroiters.
If I were that dumb, I'd fall for Paul Ryan's waste material talk too about he and his 'black' friend
helping the poor by ignoring Ph.D. research in favor of rounding up ex-addicts to 'counsel' current 'addicts' (heroin) to get off drugs.
Are All Republicans so null and void?
Couldn't be!
be sure to vote for a tax hike he claims we all desperately neeeded here in Michigan.
Is he kidding?
I'm a Detroiter.
His loser flyers claimed it would help our schools.
What schools? He closed the schools we loved, turning nine out of ten of them into 'charters' I want no part of, and before that, kept all the revenue-sharing money Detroit and our schools should have
gotten in state funds before he tried to rob us all blind.
Is he kidding?
I'm a Detroiter.
Detroiters didn't turn down millages for school taxes.
We stopped getting a chance to vote for them.
Why would he want taxes to repair the roads?
He hasn't made one peep about getting the Congress to vote for infrastructure monies POTUS has asked them to approve.
Thanks to him Michigan is technically a 'right-to-work' state now, and we have somehow voted to kill a lot of wolves we don't actually need to bother.
Snyder is the worst.
Michganders love him, I know.
But even the Dr. Ben Carson sycophants and other Detroit-hating 'betters' don't want the tax hikes of a known trickster and liar.
The measure failed miserably.
These politicians allow themselves to be known as lying clowns in order to get the Michigan militias
on their side. Then when they decide to continue with their knife-wielding rampages, they allow
themselves to believe the militias (and more sophisticated pals who only side with militia politics when it comes to "Detroit") don't still know they are lying clowns.
And as for me- do you actually believe, Snyder-Spider, that when you tell me that I am stupid, and my union is stupid, and Detroit students are all stupid because they failed your 'predatory' exams, that I believe one single word coming out of your mouth?
Don't think that.
I am Galileo. You are the ancient church.
There is absolutely nothing in this entire universe which could make me believe anything you'd ever say you'd do to benefit Detroit or Detroiters.
If I were that dumb, I'd fall for Paul Ryan's waste material talk too about he and his 'black' friend
helping the poor by ignoring Ph.D. research in favor of rounding up ex-addicts to 'counsel' current 'addicts' (heroin) to get off drugs.
Are All Republicans so null and void?
Couldn't be!
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