Friday Rap

Healthcare Reform

While Americans are clammering for reform of a totally screwed up system, Obama's real enemies on healthcare seem to be within his own party. Dismiss the GOP..they can't do anything, really...

However....The Democrats who are working against the President's proposal for a public option...Tom Daschle...you should be ashamed...

Kind of a good thing he washed out of consideration for Obama's Health Care Czar..

His money ties to big insurance and health industry giants show they mean more to him than helping the people..

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Why We Need Healthcare Reform

The House Subcommittee on Oversight Investigations held hearings this week on the healthcare industry's policy of recission...

Recission happens when the insurance company cancels a policy...supposedly for fraud...

However...Insurance giants also use it to boost the bottom line...They do this by canceling policies of the very sick and most in need of help...

In order to keep from paying huge medical bills...even though the families affected religiously pay their premiums on time...The companies refuse to pay...flat out....

Wellpoint, Inc....United Health....and Assurant are the three biggest companies in America...

And when asked if they would halt the practice...

They told the Congressmen....Hell No!

The cluelessness in the room from the insurance industry harkened back to that which was exhibited by the big three automaker CEOs who flew into their congressional hearings on private jets costing hundreds of thousands of dollars...

These three companies canceled 20,000 very sick people to keep from paying 300-million dollars in medical costs...and they rewarded with bonuses the employees who did the canceling...

These companies specifically target women with breast cancer s, lymphoma sufferers as well as a 1000 other conditions.....

We really do need health care reform....

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Put Away the Manolos Ladies

What's up with high powered women falling all over DC. First Sonia Sotmayor..who breaks an ankle...now Hilary..who shatters her elbow and needs surgery...

Ladies...it's time to either slow your stroll....or go back to comfortable shoes while walking...

Think about all those high powered female execs in Chicago and New York....

They wear Nikes on the street or when they need to speed walk, and change into the Manolos in the office..

It's safer...........

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Too Casual Friday

The city of Orlando wants people to start using deodorant and wearing underwear when they come to work...seems casual friday as well as other days have gotten out of control, apparently..

The lone vote against the new code was the mayor...who says wearing underwear...or not...is a matter of freedom of choice....

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PETA

The president of PETA needs some diversion in his life....a new boyfriend maybe...
Any bug...fly, mosquito or otherwise that makes it near me...on my body...flying around my head can prepare to meet its maker...

PETA has way too much time on its hands....

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Shout Out to Ashanti

Who is appearing in The Wiz....baby....There are some shoes that cannot filled....Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, and Stephanie Mills to name a few...

Ya just can't...

When these women step out of their shoes...throw them away because nobody else will ever be able to wear them.....

Impossible..

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Slavery Apology

The Senate has formulated its own apology for the damage done to Blacks by two and a half centuries of slavery in this country...

The Senate Bill now must be reconciled to the one the House passed last year....

No reparations..in fact the bill was crafted with language to prevent future lawsuits seeking payment.

What will this apology do.....

Not a damn thing for those of us who are here....However, it will be good for those yet to be born..

So...Thank you, I guess...

I'm sure those who still suffer from Plantation mentality will celebrate and joyously jig for their masters...

Recently found a good definition of PM...

Plantation mentality: enslaved Blacks who have inherited, internalized, expressed and acted based on a perspective or deference that was most acceptable to those that dominated their view of reality — particularly exhibited by early African American generations recently freed by plantation masters, and sometimes exhibited by some among latter generations of the global Black diaspora.
Dennis Moore — Publisher

thank you Dennis for that definition...He was referring to Shelby Steele....

I can name a few others.....Thomas....Keys.....Blackwell....That fool in California who hates affirmative action....and all those young Black GOP talking heads who have no clue...have grown up privileged and untouched by their Blackness...historical or otherwise..
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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...

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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...