Friday Rap

My new favorite Congressman..the gentleman from New York.  Wish Obama could express this kind of fire without paying the price for being Black...





Another peaceful outreach from one of our upstanding Christian ministers....The Reverend Terry Jones...he of the Dove World Outreach program....wants to mark the anniversary of 9/11 by burning a Quran.

That will teach them 1.4 billion muzlims, he says..that they can't knock down our buildings...

Great way to get their attention anyway.....what ever happened to sitting down over a cup of something and talking out our differences?

Oh...I forgot.....we bombed Iraq....mindlessly support Israel....and can't seem to get out of Afghanistan, while keeping our nukes pointed at Iran, another quagmire of our making...

Who needs the lesson...and who's the bad guy again?

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O-M-GEE!

Ellen and Kara leaving American Idol.....Following Simon out the door.....oh what a world...what a world!

Like we didn't already know it was a popularity contest anyway to see which shaggy haired sorta talented cute boy was going to win as voted by all the prepubescent 14 year olds with speed dial cell phones and text messaging...

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Chelsea Wedding

Chelsea's Clinton's getting married to the tune of $3 million and folks are hyperventilating about the cost....WHY? It's not taxpayer money....

This is not somebody's baby mama marrying a high school dropout while shopping a reality show deal, being celebrated here...

Chelsea never got caught misusing drugs or being drunk in public like a certain set of twins who occupied the white house... nobody batted an eye about that wedding down in Crawford, Tx...or how much it cost..

This is the only child of one of the most successful power couples in the known universe...and she's marrying a kindred spirit...

What is the problem?

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Obama snooping

One of my biggest problems with the Obama Administration is it's wholesale embrace of all things Bush when it comes to curtailing our civil liberties...We lost a lot of freedoms under the Bush Administration....

Obama campaigned saying he would restore them.....he has not...

In fact....he is asking that the powers invested in those National Letters that Bush used, to be expanded...

Bush used the National Letters ...which are nothing more than “no knock” search warrants without prior court approval.....to bully libraries into turning over lists of the books we read...bully banks into turning over private banking records...and phone companies to look at phone calls....

Now they want more power to go after all of our emails and web browsing history...

This from the man who said he wouldn't do this kind of stuff....When in fact...the death of our freedoms has speeded up under Obama..

The problem with expanding the powers of the Executive Branch is not with the President who made the expansion...it's the presidents who come after and refuse to relinquish the increased power and authority.

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BP Oil Spill

Is it just me.....or was there too much unfounded and overblown angst over the BP oil spill.....Mother Nature seems to have taken care of the problem pretty much...nothing's ever perfect..

Let's open the waters...why don't we....so the fishermen can get back to work …

On to the next blown out of proportion catastrophe..

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Feds take down two very rich white guys known for funding swift boat attacks on democrats...550 million dollars in fraud alleged....Read it here..

Given their age, bought and purchased political connections, as well as their natural complexion hidden under those Texas tans..they probably won't a spend a day in jail regardless of how many people they swindled..

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All the Right Moves

The GOP is filibustering aid to small business and health care to 9/11 responders...

This after holding up unemployment benefits to those out of work...calling them lazy and shiftless and telling them to get off their asses and go find a job...

Yet...they still think they are going to win in November....

hmmmmmmm..I'll take that bet...

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Al Jarreau..Shout out to Mr. Jarreau who was taken ill and had surgery this week. Get well soon....He is one of the nicest guys in the world who I was privileged to meet several years ago...

Friday Rap

South Carolina Democrats voted 5-1 last night to keep Greene in place as their candidate for Senator against Jim DeMint.

The GOP may have covertly funded this guy, however the Democrats are solely responsible for the continuation of the farce...

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Oil Spill Reality

Joe Barton merely put voice to what we all know....Congress is sorry it is being forced to spank one of its favorite cash cows...Big Oil.....The spill happened for the same reason the economy has gone to hell in a hand basket.....

No regulation to speak of.....allowing corporation lobbyists to write the laws that govern them...Congressmen sitting back...taking the kick backs and allowing it to happen...screw the American people...

The apology was totally disingenuous.....and as far as Hayward is concerned....He showed what he is...an out of touch CEO who had no clue...

For those of you who don't know the meaning of the word “OBFUSCATING”....it means “lying sack of shit”

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Email

Hey all you self absorbed, the world is mine people...your boss has a right to read your email whenever he or she wants...Supreme Court ruling this week...sides with the company...

So put your company owned blackberry back in its fake leather case and do some work!

Same goes for your PDA , desktop, and Laptop, too...

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Agony and Ecstasy

Lakers won....big whup...don't like the Celtics either....

I do like Soccer and am loving the World Cup action....lots of upsets....France and Spain...Brazil won but hasn't really awakened yet..

And about those Vuvuzuelas....asking that they be banned is like you walking into my house and telling me you don't like my dogs.....simple answer......It's my house.....don't let the door hit you in the ass!

Women's World Cup happens in July...America is defending champion and expected to repeat...

Tiger is playing the US Open.....walking the course singing Michael Jackson's “billy jean”....DNA says the kid is not his...but then girlfriend knew that when she announced to the world...DNA tests were performed in 2002.....

Tiger, meanwhile, looking very out of practice....

Wimbledon coming up next week....Williams sisters ranked 1 and 2 in the world..won't meet til finals if they make it through the draw..

Serena has Maria Sharapova and Sam Stosur in her half...while Venus has to contend with both Belgians...Clijsters and Henin in her half...

Serena will play 148th-ranked Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal in the opening round, while Venus opens against Paraguay's Rossana De Los Rios.

When is it going to dawn on the world just how special the Williams sisters are....

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Weekend music....The Manhattan Transfer....Most people know this song from Anita Baker, except Anita's version was a cover of the original....Love Anita...but Janis Segal of MT sings it much better..

Tea Party Arrogance or Bachmann-Palin Overdrive

“Don't let your mouth get your ass in trouble”-ghetto wisdom...

For those who don't speak nor purport to understand ghetto, the line means that sometimes the best strategy is to simply be quiet....don't talk....don't give anyone a glimpse into your mind and what you're thinking, because you will last longer before and during the fight, if it comes to that...

Running off at the mouth is a sign of weakness....a sign that you really don't have a plan and even if you did...you can't back it up with any kind of real action. Once your hole card has been peeped...folks will usually walk away shaking their heads.....however....keep talking... and they will turn around and come back and beat your ass....

Tea baggers would do well to heed the ghetto wisdom and just shut up....stop talking...because the more they talk, the less anyone wants to deal with them..or vote for them, for that matter.

Last month surveys showed a little support for the tea baggers....this month...that support has evaporated to less than half of what it was...and it wasn't a majority or even close, in the first place.

It's like what's going on with half baked Alaska....great fun to watch...but taken seriously....not!

The teabaggers won a primary...big deal....an election of the faithful...maybe 10% of the electorate? Nothing to crow about....Nothing like November, coming up...Only now...they're selling wolf tickets..playin' the dozens with the people...as if they have a mandate to govern...

First comes Rand Paul, son of Ron who isn't too thrilled with parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964...He even went so far during his private country club victory speech to declare his gang was going to take back the country...The next day he said it was okay for business owners to keep certain people out of their establishments and that it was even okay if the denial was based on something like skin color..

Paul the younger has spent several days attempting to walk back his comments....

Meantime, another round of primaries is over and out of Nevada comes another teabagger named Sharron Angle...Ms Angle is situated to the right of the cluelessly insane rantings of the GOP Bachmann-Palin Overdrive.

Angle wants to repeal the 14^th Amendment to the Constitution...you know that's the one guaranteeing citizenship to all people born here. It was put in place to protect Black people from crazy white people who felt that Blacks were only good for picking cotton and working in the sugar fields.

Now the 14^th creates anchor babies for illegal immigrants and that has the tea party stirred up because as one of them ….I believe his name is Hunter, said....the little immigrant babies' “soul” hasn't been American long enough to warrant citizenship, therefore it shouldn't be granted rights...

Angle also wants to remove the 17^th Amendment which shifted the election of US Senators from state legislators to the people. I would guess because the people aren't smart enough to elect the right kind of leaders..Wonder if she sees the irony...anyway..

In addition, Angle wants to abolish the Department of Education, The Internal Revenue Service, The EPA, privatize Social Security and get rid of all health care including medicare and medicaid...

Dr. Paul, the younger is also on board with these ideas, so one would imagine this is something of an unofficial Teabagger platform rumbling across America. Paul and Hunter, who is already in Congress, have signed off on this too.

However, it's never wise to telegraph what it is you intend to do, before you do it. When your goals are to dis-infranchise or to hurt big segments of the population...it is best to get elected first....if you can....then take away their rights....

Teabaggers, in their monumental arrogance, continue to operate from the premise that they speak for America, and can say anything they want without impunity.

However, it is not the only delusion under which they labor...

There is the delusion that the teabaggers are a grassroots...from the bottom up...populist political movement...instead of one created and funded by rich white guys and former operatives of the GOP...Teabaggers were created as a distraction and to obstruct the real movement taking place in the country...

Teabagger fanaticism has them believing that people.....their people are willing to give up social security...medicare and medicaid to prove the point that government is too big....

I'm still waiting for the social security/medicare card burning parties to prove they are serious about repeal.

Teabaggers believe that all people want their children to be under educated...more so than is already going on, when you compare American schools to foreign schools. White history and white washed education is really all the kids need, right? No need to learn about the others, foreign or American born.

Teabaggers believe it's okay not to tax rich people because the more money rich people have the more they are willing to spend on poor people...it's that “trickle down” thingey....like it's worked so well in the past...

And what about the oil spill....perfect example of how a small government stripped of tax revenue handles a crisis situation....it can't take over or throw money at the crisis to make it better because it has none and is not socialist in nature....

Shouldn't teabaggers be happy about what BP is doing and paying for the clean up on its own?

Doesn't sound like they are happy....Teabaggers and their leaders are foaming at the mouth and demanding that Obama the socialist nationalize BP and use government money to clean up a crisis caused by a free market corporation, apparently because the crisis is not being handled the way they think it should be handled...like...John Wayne leading the cavalry to the rescue...or to trounce the indian marauders...

Teabaggers also believe they are not racist and that nothing they do has racial overtones designed to discriminate.

Yeah...well....keep talking teabaggers.... the people are walkin away right now...but keep on talkin' and that ass whuppin' is just around the corner...can't wait for November 2^nd to get here....

Friday Rap

Richard Bruce (Dick) Cheney, c'mon down!

Been wondering where America's self appointed Energy Czar is these past few days. He's been curiously quiet these days. I mean he's been all over Obama for health care and for being soft on terrorism, or for refusing to waterboard people, or for threatening to shut down Guantanamo or for being too hard on corporate America and Wall Street, or for threatening to raise taxes on the fortunate 5% who control the world.

Heck, Cheney even went on record about starting yet another war, this one with Iran and Mac-mood I'm-a-dina-jacket...all because he could....

Everytime President O makes a move he's had to trip over a Cheney, because if Dick hasn't said something himself, he's sent his rouged up attack daughters in his place to keep the boy in the White House in his.

Doesn't matter what it is, if President O is trying to do it, then Darth Dick and his pit bull progeny were against it, and saying so, loudly for everyone to hear, over and over during the 24/7 news cycle.

Except for this drill baby drill thingey...Dick hasn't said a word, publicly in days. He did quietly send his favorite PR flack to shepard BP through the crisis. But, he's sitting on his hands, which is kind of funny considering he wrote the energy policy for the country that's got us jacked up in the first place.

You remember...Dickie called all his energy/oil buddies into his office and locked the door and told them not to take notes, 14 days after Dubya got sworn in. This nameless group of energy bigwigs set down the hands off policy that has Obama hog tied as we speak....

The warmonger VP who routinely hid out in his bunker during times of crisis...like Vietnam and 9/11.... got righteously ticked off that we the people, or some of us anyway, called him into question for his arrogant power grab.

You know, I'd be willing to bet that if you looked at that oil rig, what's the name...Event Horizon, or something like that...that Cheney's name is etched on the side of one of the blasted out beams rusting at the bottom of the ocean, right now.

But then again, why should the big Dick be talking? The oil spill isn't hurting him or his pocket book. Cheney gets paid regardless....His money doesn't come from fishing boats and tourism...

Who cares if a few clean up guys get sick repairing the damage done by the big Dick's cronies. Isn't that what the poor are here for.... to cleanup the messes made by Cheney and his chums?

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Alas...poor Yoric....

In the meantime, the media is hyperventilating over the wall to wall cool exhibited by President O in times of crisis. He's not jumping up and down. He's not cussing people out and the fake news pundits in varying shades of skin color are wondering “what's wrong?” Why isn't the President emoting more?

Why isn't the President more empathetic.....like Ronald Reagan, for instance?

C'mon now! 42 other presidents to choose from as an example and they want Obama to act like the only trained actor in the bunch..... Reagan, despite being a B list actor, was a professional. If he can't emote and empathize, then no one can.

However, I suspect what all these insta-pundits really want to see is for Obama to morph into Prissy in Gone With the Wind.....”Miz Scarlett... Miz Scarlett...ma'am....I don't know nothin' bout cappin' no oil wells!..hep me...hep me!”

Okay that last part is from Blazing Saddles' Sheriff Bart, playing Prissy..

Honestly....who's he gonna call? Brownie...Dubya...Turdblossom.... the Old Skool Oompa Loompa Boehner....Miz Mitch.....Horndog Vitter.....Lil Bobby Jindal....or that half baked Alaskan snowbunny?

Please...Maybe capping an oil well is right up Joe the Plumber's alley....ya think? Nah!.

They want Obama to forget himself, cross over to the dark side and fulfill the prophecy.... SOCIALIZE THE GOVERNMENT in one fell swoop....take over the BP corporation...send in the military....nuke the oil well and America into oblivion...bring on the End Days....why wait for Jesus to come back, Obama can do it....give him enough rope...and well you know.....

This is what they want....But then there are some in hell who want ice water, too....

And as he's proven time and time again since he's been in office....Obama's ice is in his glass and in his veins...just like George.....Gervin....not Bush....

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Ending on a positive note......

Friday Rap

The Cajan Queen

Nice to see a president step up and take responsibility for a problem...the BP oil spill crisis is far from over....however it is being handled...certainly not as fast as James Carville wants...but then everyone realizes that Carville is just using it politically to his own end...his hissy fit was calculated and very disingenuous...like someone out of the loop who desperately wants to be in the loop....

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American Female Genital Cutting

It's amazing what a little light can do when used to illuminate secret practices and policies. Last week the American Academy of Pediatrics said it was okay to do genital mutilation on baby girls to satisfy stupid and dangerous cultural rituals brought to America from the old countries.

This week...They've decided that maybe their idea was not such a good idea..The outcry was fierce, considering women come to this country in the first place, to get away from some of the barbaric rituals like genital mutilation..

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DADT

Maybe now the hissy fits thrown by some in the LGBT community will stop now that Congress has taken another step to repeal the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. From what's being said in the media and online, you'd think the Obama administration had told gay people to go screw themselves instead of doing the work it's done to level the playing field.

Personally, I'm sick and tired of priviledged gay boys and girls throwing temper tantrums in an attempt to get their way. Their parents may cave in to this kind of crappy behavior, but the world and government don't work that way.

These same whiners are the ones who blamed Blacks for the Prop 8 debacle in California, attacking Black gays and lesbians, by calling then nigger, when they stepped into the streets to try to join the protests.

It's not only the straight community which wallows in and exercises white privilege because it can.

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The Budget Deficit

Well, America can't seem to find any extra money to help the people who lost their jobs during this economic recession...Can't extend unemployment benefits.....might create an underclass of lazy people who rely on big government to feed their families.....they just have to starve until the economy rights itself and more jobs become available...

But...in the meantime...here is 60-billion dollars....to continue fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan...

Since we like fighting wars....maybe we should reinstate the military draft...that way we can put all those lazy shiftless unemployed back to work....give em a gun to carry and let em go kill people...

yeah...that's the ticket....kill two birds with one stone...create jobs and fight the wars..The American way....

Truth of the matter.....If conservatives really want to have a smaller government.....They need to endorse reducing the military budget by two thirds or more...

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Higher Education

New way to teach Geometry....draw up an assassination attempt on President Obama...talk angles of bullet flight between gun and target.....is it easier with one gunman or two...

actual lesson that went on at a high school in Georgia.

Read it here...

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Friday vibe....Miss you Luther V.....