Real Domestic Terrorism

The killing of Dr. George Tiller

Let’s call it what it is......Domestic Terrorism......

This was not a group of people duped by phony FBI informants into playing terrorists for the benefit of the cameras, and microphones of the main stream media...

This is the real deal in America.....

A man with a gun and a perverted determination to use it...in order to enforce his messed up view of the world....

Most assuredly calls himself....pro life.....Bet he’s also....pro death penalty...pro war... and pro torture.....anti women...anti birth control....anti immigration...

But I’ll bet my next paycheck he thinks of himself as a patriot...and

Probably labels himself Christian....despite never having cracked open King James..let alone read it...

Dr. George Tiller died today doing his job and helping women...He was a good man and the very definition of Christian.....

May he rest in peace...

Friday Rap

So If I understand the GOP conservatives ranting about Obama’s choice for the Supreme Court...

All of the White Men Chosen by the other white men who occupied the White House...were selected for the High Court solely based on their qualifications and no other reason...

Yet...

The Women on the Court....The Blacks on the Court and the nominees chosen by the Black man in the White House are selected only because of their color and gender....not because of their qualifications or measurably high intelligence for doing the job...

So this must mean.....

That only White men are qualified?! Intelligent enough?! Temperamentally suited to be nominated for high court or other high office in America....

In whose world?

The self proclaimed masters of the universe have collectively lost their fuckin’ minds..

All pretense has been kicked to the curb...

they are revealed for what they are and what every minority in this country has known our entire life.....the GOP is made up of bigoted, racist men who hate everybody who isn’t white and doesn’t have a natural dick...

whether it functions naturally or not....

Women...white, black or otherwise are for having babies...

whites for making more masters..........

Black women and otherwise women...for making babies for fun that they don’t have to support or acknowledge....unless they get caught after the fact...

then they say "yeah" I’m her daddy...all that segregationist talk was just talk...I didn’t really mean it....Does this mean I can still go to heaven when I die?"

Boys...young and nubile are for sex and discard, when the sex is over....again acknowledged after they get caught...."but I’m not gay....I’m just confused..."

Their offspring...allowed to flaunt their homosexuality covered by the privilege of wealth and Daddy’s power...While Daddy relegates the rest of us to second class citizenship...

or

Following in Daddy’s footsteps of multiple Military deferments while others go to war...

Our offspring....targeted to fight and die in illegal wars.....4500 troops....and who knows how many suicides did not have to die.....totally unnecessary deaths of kids who could have been doing other things like...living and raising their own kids....

I could go farther...but I’m pissed...too pissed to pursue this dangerous line of thought..so I will move on...

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What can I say about a young black cop, cut down in the prime of life by another cop..a white man...who rather than ask a simple questions...opened fire...

It’s in the Daily News today.....The rookie cop was off duty...saw a carjacking....chased the suspect with his service revolver in hand in Harlem....

Three undercover cops saw the one man chasing another.... The three Id’ed themselves as the rookie turned toward them...one cop opened fire...got off six rounds...killed the rookie cop before he was able to ID himself.......

Isn’t it funny how this story did not make national news on the morning shows today?

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Or that blonde bitch who went to Disneyland after stealing a million dollars from her employer...tried to cover by claiming to be jacked by two black men in a cadillac....

Still think we live in a post racial world.............Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Another Crack in the Ole White Guy System

The Karmic corrections to the old white guy system of governance have come fast and furious this past week....

President Obama elevated a Black man, Charles F. Bolden Jr, to head NASA....He’s piloted the shuttle several times in the past....

Then a Black woman, Ursula Burns was tapped to run Fortune 500 company, Xerox....

Then Obama comes back again and nominates Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court..

She is Latina and the first to get the nomination....

This morning I listened as James Carville "debated" Ann Coulter about the nomination. It was little more than a snipe fest between two people who make their living playing a vanilla version of the dozens on television before a semi comatose audience.

During this pseudo-debate Coulter wondered aloud what the big deal was about Sotomayor being a Latina given the fact that the GOP already had appointed Latinos and Blacks to high office....

She failed to mention Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales by name....However she did mention Justice Clarence Thomas....

Failing to mention Gonzales points to the fact that even Republicans are embarrassed by this guy....

Otherwise Coulter would have jumped at the chance to bring him into the conversation...

And as for Thomas.....Bush’s third choice after the first two failed to pass confirmation....the man who stands firmly in the shadow of Justice Thurgood Marshall and has yet to offer so much as a thought without Justice Scalia’s approval......

Coulter should not have bothered to go there either since Thomas has lived his entire life hating the fact that he was born Black and demonstrates his self hate on every one of those very rare occasions where he opens his mouth to speak........

Thomas is not a source of pride for Blacks because he doesn’t see himself as Black...and neither do we....

I hope that Sotomayor gets a swift Congressional approval, she’s earned it.

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Prop 8 Stands

As much as I hate to admit it.....The California Court got it right....

They were never asked to decide about Gay marriage or a ban on such.....They were asked to make a very narrow decision involving legal semantics...

In other words....was the ban a revision or an amendment and who has the right...the people or the legislature...

That was the question....

The answer/decision was the people have the right to vote...

It never adjudicated the legality of gay marriage....That’s why the California Justices tried to have it both ways...upholding the ban....but allowing the 18,000 gay marriages to stand...

Like it or not...the Change is going to have to come from Washington...Until there is a federal move...the mismash of nonsensical state laws will prevail...

A two tiered system of civil rights laws cannot stand....it is simply unconstitutional....

It’s just a matter of time...

Bulls*** , Audacity and Mendacity...The Week that Was..

1. Watching Whoopie Goldberg on The View, call Glen Beck a "lying sack of dog mess..."

2. Watching Jesse Ventura, again on The View take on Elizabeth and demonstrate how intellectually stunted, she is....(see, I can use euphemisms too)

3. And speaking of euphemisms.....the big Dick Cheney accusing Obama of using euphemisms while delivering a speech that refers to torture as "enhanced interrogation technique" rather than torture....a name by any other name is still bullshit......Mr. Former VP.....

4. The GOP, having discovered women ( as something other than a sex object alternative to little boys) in the past election with the elevation of Sarah Palin are now looking at any woman who can string two sentences together to lead their party, since the old white guys are having such a hard time....

This time out....Liz Cheney....the other daughter of Dick....not the gay one...the one with five kids who is writing Dick’s book....

Some in the GOP are saying she should run for office....shows they still don’t get it.....it is not the messenger that’s wrong.....It’s the message.....

I will say it again....Bullshit wrapped in 10,000 dollar bills is still bullshit....

And by the way........where is Mary Cheney....the gay one with the baby and the female wife...still hiding out in Virginia which doesn't reconize same sex partners?

Baby must be walking by now..bet Grand pa Dick is soooooooooooooo proud.....

5. I hope this was a joke.....Palin/Bachmann in 2012?......Better joke....Steele/Bachmann in 2012

6. White Flight Texas Gov Rick Perry warning the GOP that it’s not safe to let just anybody into the Party..that would be like throwing your principles out the door and becoming a whorehouse....

7. Donald Rumsfeld....using the Bible to justify the illegal war on Iraq....

8. Another euphemism....calling those idiots in New York who tried to bomb the Synagogues, Muslim or Islamic terrorists....

They may be terrorists....but they’re Domestic American grown terrorists who converted to Islam...Calling them Islamic terrorists implies they are of middle eastern descent which perpetuates the stereotype and is an insult to Arab Americans...

Question...........How is it that the FBI and the rest of the alphabet soup of law enforcement can only infiltrate domestic terrorist groups who can’t tell a real C-4 bomb from a fake one?

What about the really dangerous guys like Tim McVeigh...there’s a bunch of em out there in them there hills and they are armed to the teeth.....

Besides....they don’t use C-4....they prefer to make their own bombs with stuff you find in the kitchen from recipes easily available on the internet...

9. Typical MSM ploy.....get gay Clay Aiken to comment on maybe gay Adam Lambert.....

10. The male Texas Mayor who resigned this week to be with his lover a guy who can’t qualify for papers to come to America......sweet.....

11. Democrats in Congress....clueless and in most cases....ball-less....

A Tribal Conversation

There seems to be some confusion over the NAACP position on the civil rights goals and aspirations of gay and lesbian Americans, especially here in Cincinnati. Current National Board Chairman, Julian Bond was very clear and did not equivocate during his speech in March before the Los Angeles Branch of the Human Rights Campaign...


Julian Bond speaking before the Human Rights Campaign.




With the National organization setting the tone, why is the local chapter bogged down in simple mindedness?

Or is the local chapter, like the GOP-useless.

The time has come to talk with the Black LGBT community. Acknowledge us, make us welcome and understand that as long as one is chained...we're all chained.


We're waiting for you Mr President Obama...we're waiting for you....

It Ain’t Broke-So Don’t Fix It

By Any Name, It’s Still a Move To Privatize the Water Supply

Cincinnati City Manager today reportedly gave his conditional support to spinning off the Cincinnati Water Works into a separate entity. He claims it will work better for citizens if a regional board takes over governance of the facility. Milton Dohoney says the plan is not a move toward privatizing the water.

But I’m not so sure about that.

Let’s go there shall we.....

The same crappy governance that has this country trying to weather the current economic tailspin is responsible for this move to spin off the Water works to control of a regional board and or private corporation.

Both former presidents Clinton and Bush worked to ease federal regulations on water to allow states more autonomy and independence. In 1996 the EPA issued a report identifying the need for improvements to US water infrastructure.

To make that happen, Congress passed bipartisan legislation in 2001 to fund the water infrastructure renovations.

However, in order for the states to get the mandated federal money, they had to look at alternate management options, like regional boards, and private corporations before they could qualify for the federal money.

Further, the IRS extended privatization contract limits as well as libralized federal tax law to encourage privatization or regionalization.

When the IRS backed off...Foreign Corporations jumped in to buy the waters rights of America as they’ve done worldwide, since about 1988.

American Water Works...a corporation working in Ohio and Kentucky, right now, is owned by Suez Corporation a French Multinational entity..

I’m not saying foreign ownership is bad...but it is about making money off the backs of customers...the name of the game is profit.....

Since 2001 water industry lobbyists have been pushing for more and more tax breaks to complete the private takeover of the water supply...

You will recall that deregulation of the financial industry, the airline industry and housing market, etc is at the root of the current crisis that America finds itself mired in as we speak....

Other nearby cities are paying big bucks to keep control of their water rights...sort of..

Indianapolis....In 2001 the city purchased the Indianapolis Water Company for 522 million dollars. In April 2002, the city then sold out to Vivendi, a foreign multinational corporation for a 20 year 1.5 billion dollar deal. It was a management contract to operate and maintain treatment plants. As part of the transaction, the company agreed to freeze rates for five years and promised not to lay off employees for two....

July 2003, Lexington, Kentucky voted to acquire the local water facility Kentucky-American Water Works Company. . As I said before American Water Works is also a foreign owned corporation masquerading as an American company.

It’s called a condemnation proceeding and is a legal process that would compel Kentucky American to sell itself to the city with the price to be determined by the courts. Lexington is the largest city in recent years to take this step against a local utility.

The city of Atlanta took on a contract for its water....it was a 20 year multimillion dollar deal that was supposed to generate lots and lots of money for the city. All it generated was higher rates and bad customer service and fraudulent billing both to citizens and the city itself. As a result Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin canceled the contract after three years...

Now Atlanta finds it self of having to go back to the old way of doing things, when they should have left well enough alone...

The same "what-if" is in play here in Cincinnati....

Officials have said it is not a broken system....therefore why fix it....

Changing to a regional authority....will raise rates...will cost jobs.... service and repair will suffer .....and it will spread out the responsibility so that no one is ultimately responsible...

The bottom line is that customers get screwed, again...

And I have to ask.....If the city can’t afford to run the water works in the first place...can it afford the extra cost of buying it back....if the regional board doesn’t pan out as advertised

Are we willing to take that chance....

Worldwide.....Water has been referred to as the new oil...It’s where the money is....or where the corporations are betting the money is....

That’s why Coca Cola, Pepsico, and Nestle to name three sell tap water in a bottle. They are making bank because people believe that it’s better if its encased in a plastic bottle. That is not the case...

Coke admits that its product is purified tap water...And unless it names the source of the water on the bottle...chances are that whatever is in your plastic bottle is tap water, too....

You’re better off grabbing a glass and turning on the tap, it is better regulated.

I spent time actually looking for a success story anywhere for a city that has begun to slide down this slippery slope.....

I have not been able to find one....anywhere....in the world....

Water and food should not be used by business to make a profit....ever....

Cincinnati City Council....needs to look harder at the situation...

On the Subject of Marriage Equality

It would seem that there are many more definitions of marriage than the ones I alluded to last week....I wrote that the Bible talks about no less than eight types of marriage...

Today....broadening my research....I found some more definitions....

Check this out...

Thanks to Jack and Jill for pointing me toward this article...

No Justice....No Nookie!

The women of Kenya in Africa are staging a protest...and I love it!

They've told their men.....give me my rights or go play with yourself...literally....

Check it out.....here

Friday Rap...

Today would be a good day for President Obama to issue an executive order suspending "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.."

Doing it today would save the job of an Arab fluent linguist who also happens to be gay. He’s been informed by the military that he is going to lose his job because he outed himself on television....

Losing an Arab fluent linguist while we’re fighting two wars in the middle east is like cutting off your nose to spite your face...or like sending soldiers to war with no guns...isn’t it time we get serious and fight like we mean it....like we really intend to do something other than steal oil from the people who own it?

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Question......Are the NAACP and Black Ministers Organizations (all of them) Relevant in the 21st century....Or should they go the way of the dinosaurs, pass out of existence and make way for something new?

These organizations still display a mindset that was good for 1959...but is not pertinent to 2009...

These groups will not get their audience back until they start addressing today’s issues.....HIV/AIDS, Black on Black Crime, neighborhood violence, People not taking responsibility for their kids and their education, Homophobia against Black gays and lesbians....

My sister recently pointed out that the only segregated church in America these days is the traditional Black Church.....think about it....

The mega churches Black or White led.....preach wealth and how to get more.....not religion or sacrifice for the greater good.....

Speaking of Mega Churches....is TD Jakes still talking about the LGBT community and Muslims in negative terms...now that his son has been busted in the park with another man?....Just askin'


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Did you know....that the Bible talks about no less than eight forms of marriage.....so which one is the traditional one that conservatives keep yelling about....

And....if Separation of Church and State is mandated and codified in the Constitution, why is Religion allowed to dictate secular law...

Most of the founding fathers of this country were known to be Atheists afraid of what happens when religion decides law....

Because the truth of the matter is.....America never was formed to be a Christian nation...not legally...

It was formed to enable freedom of religion and also freedom from religion....

Finally...If the LGBT community has the same rights as everybody else...then why is gay marriage a debatable issue....

Under our system and our constitution....getting married is just another civil right...that some are being denied...making the denial...a violation of law...

BTW....Will somebody please grab Pat Robertson....Sounds like he forgot to take his meds again...While you're at it.....check James Dobson, too....He's sounding like a human being today..Amazing...

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The City Manager is in favor of privatizing Cincinnati’s Water Works ....Not A Good Idea....

Despite what government tells us...rates will go up dramatically...and when the stuff hits the fan....they won’t be there to protect us.....

Think I’m wrong....look at the rate increases since Duke Energy took over Cinergy....

Look at what is happening with Time Warner....why can’t Cincinnati make the city a hot spot for wi fi from city limit to city limit.....

Water, Air, Electricity, Food....the stuff needed for survival... should never be allowed in the hands of anyone with more loyalty to its stock holders than to its customers...the people....


It’s time to think about ways to get off this expensive grid.....

How about stimulus money to make all city homes solar powered....we don’t really need a trolley system.......

Give me a grant....I’m willing to be a guinea pig on this....Avondale should be solar powered....

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There is a drum beat that some Blacks in the community are trying to persuade the Black Community to vote Republican in the next mayoral election....

Good luck with that!

The alleged Black pup..er..people who are doing the talking sound like the GOP of 1980 rather than a new GOP...You know the old GOP powered by divisiveness, racism, and old white guys in the closet saying do as I say...not as I do....


The only difference is they have new Black guys mouthing the same old words....

Buy a clue....GOP...Chocolate or otherwise.....until your actions match the words coming out your mouth.......you won’t have many converts to your party......

Do I need to break it down....

28 year old Ken Blackwell/Charlie Winburn wannabes don’t work......

Attacking a popular Black Mayor with innuendo while he’s hustling his butt off to make the city better...successful or not...he’s working...not talking....don’t work....

GOP choosing a mayoral candidate who looks like old GOP candidates and likes Tea Parties...which overtly and racially attack the Black Man in the White House....won’t work...

Black GOP standing by as these attacks happen....what are you thinking....Or do you think your party affiliation will save you....and put something other than chump change in your pocket....don’t kid yourself...

And quiet as its kept.....losing General Colin Powell in the past election did more damage to the GOP than Barack Obama himself....

You wanna get somebody's attention...emulate Powell....not Michael Steele...Charlie Winburn.... or Ken Blackwell....

Even JC Watts went into hiding when these current Limbaugh Lemmings, who now run the GOP took over....


Think about it the next time you open your mouth and before your foot flies upward...