I want to say up front that I am a "johnny-come-lately to this topic, basically because I have problems with both the LGBT community and the Black Community for the very reasons being debated, racism and homophobia.
I also have a problem with Mr. Smitherman...When he talks, I turn off, because I have yet to find him credible on any topic. I am mystified by his election to head the NAACP. I am mystified that so many others apparently find him to be a man worth following.
I found Jill Benavides comments after the meeting at City Hall to be patronizing, and condescendingly PC with regard to Smitherman. It was as if she were talking about a child. In other words..."let him have his temper tantrum, we love him anyway."
Having said all that......Let’s go there...shall we...
Nowhere on either side of this clueless conversation has the Black LGBT community been talked about or included in the conversation. Smitherman talked about his one white gay male NAACP member, as if having one represents all. That is the same way the white LGBT community talks about Blacks...you know..."some of my best friends are....."
The conversation that took place at City Hall obscures the fact that Black gays and lesbians are totally invisible in Cincinnati. And it’s like that across the country. Much of it due to the queer hatred within the Black community, in addition to the racism in the LGBT community
As Black people..we spend most of our lives being beaten up because of the color of our skin. It’s been a very difficult road to electing our first Black president. We have been killed for simply wanting to be treated equally. Laws were passed to make that happen, yet it’s still a problem in 2009, and you have only to look at two recent incidents of men, white men, killing their families and police for fear of a Black man in the White House.
You’ve got white governors talking of secession...that has got to be the ultimate in white flight..think about it...the same thing happens when a black family moves into a previously all white neighborhood...still....that’s not past history...that’s last week....
Now compound skin color with being gay or lesbian and you go from being beaten down on a national level to somebody, maybe your own brother, sister, mother, father, neighborhood, kicking your ass because you’re a sissy or you’re a bulldagger. You get tired of being a target, you get tired of being called names....for Black gays and lesbians...being called a nigger is not much different than being called queer or fag or bulldagger.
Trust me, you’re not going to run out and join the very community organizations that want you dead...
The white LGBT community doesn’t feel it’s racist, but it is no different, really than liberal whites who like using that.."some of my best friends are....." phrase. Blacks are not taken seriously within the LGBT community, usually being dismissed with a patronizing pat on the top of our fuzzy little heads, with a "thank you for coming...but we know better, what’s good for you..."
The prop 8 vote in California exposed the LGBT racism, when it was erroneously reported that Blacks were the reason it passed....Blacks gays and lesbians who took to the streets to protest the vote, were attacked by white gays and lesbians.....called niggers among other things....The white LGBT community has yet to apologize for their assumptions during that time...
Being Black gay and lesbian means you’re caught up between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
Not feeling accepted by anyone can be a very lonely way to grow up and to live.
Smitherman and the NAACP need to realize that there have always been Black gays and lesbians active within his organization and the civil rights movement. What they need to do is to recognize that the NAACP and other Black organizations are also not inclusive organizations working for all Blacks.
There is no mention of the devastation of HIV/AIDS on the Black Community. In fact Smitherman as a straight man is probably more susceptible to getting the virus than any gay black man at this stage, not because he is gay or down-lo, but because Black straight women are the ones being infected at record breaking rates.
Black women are sleeping with down-lo men and taking the germ back to their straight boyfriends...
And why are men down-lo...because they stand to be judged not men, if they come out..being labeled soft is worse than being called a nigger in the Black community. Witness the death a couple of weeks ago of a 12 year old Black youth, who hanged himself, after being repeatedly called a fag at school.
Why was he called a fag, or labeled soft.....he liked school and his mother taught him to comport himself like a gentleman...he was not gay, by the way....just a clean cut little boy...dead...
It is killing our community...yet....I hear nothing from the NAACP about this massive problem. If the women die...who is going to bear your sons? Or will any white or J-Lo looking Latina woman do?
It is no proof of your so called inclusive tendencies if all you can talk about is one gay white boy as a member. Remember, he can always go back to his community in which by birth he is a master of the universe.
Black gays and lesbians must go home to the same hate that they suffer from in the streets.
The entire Smitherman statement left women out the conversation, altogether. That is typical of the misogyny that also permeates the Black Community.
So, to put an end to this ramble.....
NAACP....you need to talk to Black gays and lesbians first.....you need to address the number one killer of Black people in this country and the world....second only to gun violence...which is another problem in and of itself...
Opening the tent to include all Black people will send a bigger message than a useless conversation with white gay and lesbian organizations with issues of their own to deal with..
It doesn’t matter who turns out to support what....until we recognize the problem within our own community, we will be having this worthless conversation in 2010, 2011, 2012.....
4.29.2009
4.28.2009
About the New Flu...
A couple of days ago...I asked how this new strain, which the experts said was a swine, bird and human variation...
could come about without manipulation....
Well, after a little research, I've come up with this...Interesting reading from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy..
Check this Out.........
could come about without manipulation....
Well, after a little research, I've come up with this...Interesting reading from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy..
Check this Out.........
4.25.2009
Just Askin’...........
About this new flu strain.....how does the swine, bird and human flu virus combine into a new and powerful strain without some kind of manipulation?
After the Tuskegee experiments....where Black men were used as human guinea pigs..
After AIDS/HIV...where Black people are being infected at unheard of rates...
And after living in the country where unrepentant eugenicist Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood and created birth control clinics because she felt that black people needed to be eliminated because they were inferior to whites...
For that reason she said the Planned Parenthood clinics should be located in urban neighborhoods....and indeed today...in 2009....nearly all of them are still....
Let me say, that I am and remain pro choice.....I just have a problem with the "white washing" if you will of the historic profile of Margaret Sanger....she didn’t have a problem with her racism....in fact she went to her grave in Arizona as president of the Eugenics organization that wanted to wipe out anyone not Aryan in appearance.........
It’s part of the history that never seems to be taught in schools in America...
As is the truth that Hitler got his inspiration for his final solution of the Jews from Margaret Sanger and her friends’ movement....
Eugenics is one of America’s quieter exports...
This history of the pseudo science of Eugenics makes for interesting reading....
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Just Askin’..........
Does the accused Craigslist killer look like Jeff Dahmer....or is it just me.....
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Why do they have to kill the Pontiac?
My first car was a 1963 Le Mans Convertible...teal blue...white interior....white drop top...loved that car.....
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Golden to the End
The Golden Girls were the reason I got my first and so far only speeding ticket....I was down in Mississippi, visiting friends....flying through the Natchez Trace to get back to catch the Golden Girls on Television....this was before the days of TIVO.....I paid the ticket....$55.00..
Bea Arthur was my favorite Golden Girl....
May she Rest in Peace
After the Tuskegee experiments....where Black men were used as human guinea pigs..
After AIDS/HIV...where Black people are being infected at unheard of rates...
And after living in the country where unrepentant eugenicist Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood and created birth control clinics because she felt that black people needed to be eliminated because they were inferior to whites...
For that reason she said the Planned Parenthood clinics should be located in urban neighborhoods....and indeed today...in 2009....nearly all of them are still....
Let me say, that I am and remain pro choice.....I just have a problem with the "white washing" if you will of the historic profile of Margaret Sanger....she didn’t have a problem with her racism....in fact she went to her grave in Arizona as president of the Eugenics organization that wanted to wipe out anyone not Aryan in appearance.........
It’s part of the history that never seems to be taught in schools in America...
As is the truth that Hitler got his inspiration for his final solution of the Jews from Margaret Sanger and her friends’ movement....
Eugenics is one of America’s quieter exports...
This history of the pseudo science of Eugenics makes for interesting reading....
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Just Askin’..........
Does the accused Craigslist killer look like Jeff Dahmer....or is it just me.....
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Why do they have to kill the Pontiac?
My first car was a 1963 Le Mans Convertible...teal blue...white interior....white drop top...loved that car.....
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Golden to the End
The Golden Girls were the reason I got my first and so far only speeding ticket....I was down in Mississippi, visiting friends....flying through the Natchez Trace to get back to catch the Golden Girls on Television....this was before the days of TIVO.....I paid the ticket....$55.00..
Bea Arthur was my favorite Golden Girl....
May she Rest in Peace
4.19.2009
Happy Negroes, Unhappy Slaves Redux
A continuing conversation on race in America
Back in February of 2008, I wrote about a conversation that I had with a man, whose name I don’t know, about Black people, white people and the political campaign of Barack Obama, who, at that time was merely running for president. You can read about that conversation here.
Even after the conversation, we continued to talk and a year later, we’re still engaging in our favorite weekend past time and still talking. He’s not happy with Barack as president. He voted for him as did I, but he is unable to be patient. He wants change now, as in "Okay, we put the Black guy in.....now what’s the difference..."
Today we went back to race again coming at the question from differing viewpoints. He has progressed from slaves being happy during slavery to Blacks should be grateful they were taken off the slave ships and allowed to live. According to my friend, Blacks don’t show gratitude for what whites did for them way back when, which was to save our lives from the big bad Spaniards who stole them in Africa, forced them onto ships to survive or die.
He told me that Blacks should be glad nobody forced them to get back onto those ships because the Spaniards would have killed or drowned them rather than transport them. So slavery was something of a godsend for Black people. It was a blessing that we, Blacks today, are not properly thankful enough or respectful for.
That last thing on respect comes from my reading of him as he was telling me this. He didn’t say it, and I don’t want to put more words into his mouth because he is well capable to choking himself. He doesn’t need my help to do that.
As I listened to his theory, it dawned on me that I was hearing a theory that under lay the thoughts and actions of a lot of white people....that Africa, the slave ships, were bad, but getting to America was the good thing for Black people. It saved us.....I asked him....saved us from what exactly.....the freedom of living in your own country, with your own family, on your own land, surrounded by your own stuff? Being free to make your own decisions and not have to worry about whether you put too much starch in your master’s underwear?
How can being brutally snatched to another country to serve and become the property of another man be considered salvation? He still has no answer for me. He can’t seem to get past the "Africa bad, America good" scenario, or that Blacks blame whites for a situation not of their making. I couldn’t get past the "issues" of choice.....once Blacks were unchained and taken off the ships...no one forced white people to engage in slavery....It was a conscientious choice to do that after attempts to enslave Native Americans failed. It was a dehumanizing situation from which we all, both Black and white, still suffer.
So at this point, after a couple of thrusts about the still ongoing institutionalization of racsim that permeates everything in America, we move on, saving this saga for another day. We turned instead to Herbert Hoover’s presidency as the reason why most Black people are democrats. Seems he saw something recently on television that made this connection.
In my friend’s mind he felt that Blacks should have been republican from jump instead of adopting the politics of their owners who were primarily southern democrats. I explained that many blacks were republicans or believed in the politics of abolition and the party of Lincoln, and that persisted well through the 1960s.
I have already chronicled how much of my family was republican. The switch happened when southern democrats left the party to become republicans rather than allow Fannie Lou Hamer to be seated the Democratic Convention, I believe in 1964. I can remember hearing older family members talk about the death of FDR, and of watching his funeral train. They recalled the tears they shed and shock they felt when this man passed. Yet they still called themselves republicans.
I reminded my friend that what Blacks may have felt politically, was different than expressing it, because getting the right to cast a vote was in and of itself, an adventure. It remains that way today despite the voting rights act of 1965. And unless anyone thinks the fight is over, the Voting Rights Act is not a permanent law-it must be renewed every 25 years.
It is also coming before the United States Supreme Court in the next couple of weeks. A Supreme Court that is led by an activist conservative. What will happen is anybody’s guess.
There are any number of possibilities, including striking it down and declaring it unconstitutional....just like affirmative action in California.....In the aftermath....the colleges and universities have once again become primarily all white institutions.....Will that happen to the right to vote?
Don’t know.....Just asking questions....as always....
My conversation with my friend.....to be continued....................
Back in February of 2008, I wrote about a conversation that I had with a man, whose name I don’t know, about Black people, white people and the political campaign of Barack Obama, who, at that time was merely running for president. You can read about that conversation here.
Even after the conversation, we continued to talk and a year later, we’re still engaging in our favorite weekend past time and still talking. He’s not happy with Barack as president. He voted for him as did I, but he is unable to be patient. He wants change now, as in "Okay, we put the Black guy in.....now what’s the difference..."
Today we went back to race again coming at the question from differing viewpoints. He has progressed from slaves being happy during slavery to Blacks should be grateful they were taken off the slave ships and allowed to live. According to my friend, Blacks don’t show gratitude for what whites did for them way back when, which was to save our lives from the big bad Spaniards who stole them in Africa, forced them onto ships to survive or die.
He told me that Blacks should be glad nobody forced them to get back onto those ships because the Spaniards would have killed or drowned them rather than transport them. So slavery was something of a godsend for Black people. It was a blessing that we, Blacks today, are not properly thankful enough or respectful for.
That last thing on respect comes from my reading of him as he was telling me this. He didn’t say it, and I don’t want to put more words into his mouth because he is well capable to choking himself. He doesn’t need my help to do that.
As I listened to his theory, it dawned on me that I was hearing a theory that under lay the thoughts and actions of a lot of white people....that Africa, the slave ships, were bad, but getting to America was the good thing for Black people. It saved us.....I asked him....saved us from what exactly.....the freedom of living in your own country, with your own family, on your own land, surrounded by your own stuff? Being free to make your own decisions and not have to worry about whether you put too much starch in your master’s underwear?
How can being brutally snatched to another country to serve and become the property of another man be considered salvation? He still has no answer for me. He can’t seem to get past the "Africa bad, America good" scenario, or that Blacks blame whites for a situation not of their making. I couldn’t get past the "issues" of choice.....once Blacks were unchained and taken off the ships...no one forced white people to engage in slavery....It was a conscientious choice to do that after attempts to enslave Native Americans failed. It was a dehumanizing situation from which we all, both Black and white, still suffer.
So at this point, after a couple of thrusts about the still ongoing institutionalization of racsim that permeates everything in America, we move on, saving this saga for another day. We turned instead to Herbert Hoover’s presidency as the reason why most Black people are democrats. Seems he saw something recently on television that made this connection.
In my friend’s mind he felt that Blacks should have been republican from jump instead of adopting the politics of their owners who were primarily southern democrats. I explained that many blacks were republicans or believed in the politics of abolition and the party of Lincoln, and that persisted well through the 1960s.
I have already chronicled how much of my family was republican. The switch happened when southern democrats left the party to become republicans rather than allow Fannie Lou Hamer to be seated the Democratic Convention, I believe in 1964. I can remember hearing older family members talk about the death of FDR, and of watching his funeral train. They recalled the tears they shed and shock they felt when this man passed. Yet they still called themselves republicans.
I reminded my friend that what Blacks may have felt politically, was different than expressing it, because getting the right to cast a vote was in and of itself, an adventure. It remains that way today despite the voting rights act of 1965. And unless anyone thinks the fight is over, the Voting Rights Act is not a permanent law-it must be renewed every 25 years.
It is also coming before the United States Supreme Court in the next couple of weeks. A Supreme Court that is led by an activist conservative. What will happen is anybody’s guess.
There are any number of possibilities, including striking it down and declaring it unconstitutional....just like affirmative action in California.....In the aftermath....the colleges and universities have once again become primarily all white institutions.....Will that happen to the right to vote?
Don’t know.....Just asking questions....as always....
My conversation with my friend.....to be continued....................
4.16.2009
Tea Party Questions....
Okay....So We had a tea party....
And they were protesting because they don't like the fiscal policies of Barack Obama...
They do have that right....after all....this is America....land of the free, home of the brave and sometimes of the monumentally stupid....
90% of those who protested in Cincinnati yesterday....got a tax cut, not a promise...Are they going to give it back.....,, are they going to refuse to allow Obama to pad their paychecks with the rest of us deadbeats?
They marched on City Hall demanding that the City refuse stimulus money...okay...does that mean that all the senior citizens in the crowd are now going to refuse their social security or their medicare?
Aren't those the socialist programs that they are railing against?
Isn't the patriotic thing to do is to not take any of the government's money? Or is picking and choosing which socialistic activity that you engage in the way to do it..
George Bush/GOP socialism okay.....Barack Obama socialism=equals welfare for black people...not okay....just askin'....I'm trying to understand...
How about all those student loans...did they all come from the private sector...or are there some Pell grants thrown in.....you young'uns refusing that money and allowing your parents to foot the bill for your 8th grade education?
They are protesting policies...policies that were put into place by George Bush...
They were silent while Bush took a government surplus and turned it into two wars costing a billion dollars a month...two wars that we still have to pay for and to deal with....Americans are still dying for lies....
They were silent while Bush gave Obama and us.. a 1.6 billion dollar deficit....
Tax laws haven't been changed for 16 years....Obama didn't do that.....
Since these guys are also against education....how could they know that capitalism in its purest form is a consumer driven situation.... a survival of the fittest, darwinian system..the kind of system that is currently killing us and would kill them...
because 90% of the protestors at the tea party are road kill in a pure capitalistic system... and god forbid that we should ever turn to pure capitalism like George Bush tried to do...by privatizing everything including social security...
Hell....how could they know...since they don't like books or learnin'.....that America is a republic...not a democracy....how could they know that democracies lead to tyranny...without fail...
I would say go back and look at the past eight years if you don't believe me.... but would they understand....given their demonstrated level of understanding and comprehension....
How could they know the difference between capitalism, communism, socialism and fascism...they keep tossing those words around with nary a clue as to what they are talking about....c'mon now...the best way to seem smart...when you don't know...is to keep your mouth shut....
For the record....the Boston Tea Party...the last time I checked....was about "no taxation WITHOUT representation" .......well, we have representation in America...trouble is..the protestors don't like their representation.....King George (I love that) wanted to tax the colonies to pay for the French Indian War..And he wanted to do this without giving the colonies representation in the British House of Lords..
Oh yeah...one other bone to pick....the news media said the crowd was diverse....the phrase was....out of the mouth of my old friend at channel 9...who said "diverse...young, old, men, women"....c'mon Tom....you didn't finish it....young, old, men, women, black, white...
Where was the black-white part of that standard diversity phrase straight out of reporting school...
Maybe because the only black people and brown people down there...were the ones protesting the protestors....huh..ya think?
And they were protesting because they don't like the fiscal policies of Barack Obama...
They do have that right....after all....this is America....land of the free, home of the brave and sometimes of the monumentally stupid....
90% of those who protested in Cincinnati yesterday....got a tax cut, not a promise...Are they going to give it back.....,, are they going to refuse to allow Obama to pad their paychecks with the rest of us deadbeats?
They marched on City Hall demanding that the City refuse stimulus money...okay...does that mean that all the senior citizens in the crowd are now going to refuse their social security or their medicare?
Aren't those the socialist programs that they are railing against?
Isn't the patriotic thing to do is to not take any of the government's money? Or is picking and choosing which socialistic activity that you engage in the way to do it..
George Bush/GOP socialism okay.....Barack Obama socialism=equals welfare for black people...not okay....just askin'....I'm trying to understand...
How about all those student loans...did they all come from the private sector...or are there some Pell grants thrown in.....you young'uns refusing that money and allowing your parents to foot the bill for your 8th grade education?
They are protesting policies...policies that were put into place by George Bush...
They were silent while Bush took a government surplus and turned it into two wars costing a billion dollars a month...two wars that we still have to pay for and to deal with....Americans are still dying for lies....
They were silent while Bush gave Obama and us.. a 1.6 billion dollar deficit....
Tax laws haven't been changed for 16 years....Obama didn't do that.....
Since these guys are also against education....how could they know that capitalism in its purest form is a consumer driven situation.... a survival of the fittest, darwinian system..the kind of system that is currently killing us and would kill them...
because 90% of the protestors at the tea party are road kill in a pure capitalistic system... and god forbid that we should ever turn to pure capitalism like George Bush tried to do...by privatizing everything including social security...
Hell....how could they know...since they don't like books or learnin'.....that America is a republic...not a democracy....how could they know that democracies lead to tyranny...without fail...
I would say go back and look at the past eight years if you don't believe me.... but would they understand....given their demonstrated level of understanding and comprehension....
How could they know the difference between capitalism, communism, socialism and fascism...they keep tossing those words around with nary a clue as to what they are talking about....c'mon now...the best way to seem smart...when you don't know...is to keep your mouth shut....
For the record....the Boston Tea Party...the last time I checked....was about "no taxation WITHOUT representation" .......well, we have representation in America...trouble is..the protestors don't like their representation.....King George (I love that) wanted to tax the colonies to pay for the French Indian War..And he wanted to do this without giving the colonies representation in the British House of Lords..
Oh yeah...one other bone to pick....the news media said the crowd was diverse....the phrase was....out of the mouth of my old friend at channel 9...who said "diverse...young, old, men, women"....c'mon Tom....you didn't finish it....young, old, men, women, black, white...
Where was the black-white part of that standard diversity phrase straight out of reporting school...
Maybe because the only black people and brown people down there...were the ones protesting the protestors....huh..ya think?
4.14.2009
Questions, Questions, Questions and Thoughts
Why are the Spanish in Madrid doing what the US should be doing to the Bush Administration Cabal? Prosecutors in Madrid are going to indict Alberto Gonzales and his top playmates at Justice for condoning torture................
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Where is the All inclusive, all powerful black church now that the Obama Administration has joined the fight against AIDS in the Black Community? The government has decided to do something... Why is the Black Church still silent?
Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP, SCLC, Urban League, you need to step up to the plate, too...........
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Marilyn Chambers has died at the young age of 56. For those who don’t know the name, she was the baby on ivory soap and then grew up to star in the first porn movie that I ever saw..."Behind the Green Door." Marilyn and Linda Loveless answered some of my questions about sex way back when...
May she rest in peace..
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Tour de Force through Europe...check
Visit the Troops.....check
Somali pirates......check
Open relations with Cuba and Iran...check
Black AIDS initiative...check
Don’t Ask...Don’t Tell...working
LGBT marriage....working
Health Care....needs work
Schools....needs work
Iran, Afghanistan.....working
Troops home....not yet
Israel, Palestine.....working
Dummy in North Korea....send in the seals sharpshooters, please!
Economy....improving
Prosecution of Bush n Company....?
First One Days in Office....Looking Good
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Why is Cheney talking....Did anyone ask for his or Karl Rove’s opinion on anything?
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Michael Steele..Yezza Boss!
So Mikey sends out a fund raising letter attacking Obama after the people in his party told him to go after the man directly...In his letter Steele accused Obama of attempting to negotiate with "crackpots." As Steele said everyone knows you can’t negotiate with "crackpots."
Out of his own mouth....because if we can’t negotiate with "crackpots"....then why is anyone talking to the GOP and Michael Steele...........
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Speaking of Crackpots...
This tea party movement....uh....saw the video....they really want to burn books? They really think that college brainwashes their kids?
No science.....no books.....no education......and they want to have tea parties.....hmmmmm!
I guess there is no point in me referring to George Orwell, or Brave New World, or Farenheit 451, The Handmaids Tale, or the Wizard of Oz, Animal Farm, The Bible, or the Talmud, or the Apocrypha or the Koran, huh?
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Thinking about books and their impact upon me.....
All of em, that I read...but to name a few....
Moby Dick
A Tale of Two Cities
Mandingo
Peyton Place
Shogun
James Bond...the original 13
Agatha Christie...all 80
To Kill A Mockingbird
Centennial
A Handmaid’s Tale
PD James....all of em
Octavia Butler...rip....Black female fantasy writer...all of em..
HP Lovecraft....all of em
Edgar Alan Poe....all of em
The Lord of The Rings....when you had to wait for them to be published in America 1957-1960
Three Musketeers, Man in the Iron Mask...(found out Alexandre Dumas was black)
Sonnets from the Portugese...Elizabeth Browning was called "my little portugeses by her husband because she was "dark complected.") I like Robert, too...
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Where is the All inclusive, all powerful black church now that the Obama Administration has joined the fight against AIDS in the Black Community? The government has decided to do something... Why is the Black Church still silent?
Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP, SCLC, Urban League, you need to step up to the plate, too...........
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Marilyn Chambers has died at the young age of 56. For those who don’t know the name, she was the baby on ivory soap and then grew up to star in the first porn movie that I ever saw..."Behind the Green Door." Marilyn and Linda Loveless answered some of my questions about sex way back when...
May she rest in peace..
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Tour de Force through Europe...check
Visit the Troops.....check
Somali pirates......check
Open relations with Cuba and Iran...check
Black AIDS initiative...check
Don’t Ask...Don’t Tell...working
LGBT marriage....working
Health Care....needs work
Schools....needs work
Iran, Afghanistan.....working
Troops home....not yet
Israel, Palestine.....working
Dummy in North Korea....send in the seals sharpshooters, please!
Economy....improving
Prosecution of Bush n Company....?
First One Days in Office....Looking Good
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Why is Cheney talking....Did anyone ask for his or Karl Rove’s opinion on anything?
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Michael Steele..Yezza Boss!
So Mikey sends out a fund raising letter attacking Obama after the people in his party told him to go after the man directly...In his letter Steele accused Obama of attempting to negotiate with "crackpots." As Steele said everyone knows you can’t negotiate with "crackpots."
Out of his own mouth....because if we can’t negotiate with "crackpots"....then why is anyone talking to the GOP and Michael Steele...........
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Speaking of Crackpots...
This tea party movement....uh....saw the video....they really want to burn books? They really think that college brainwashes their kids?
No science.....no books.....no education......and they want to have tea parties.....hmmmmm!
I guess there is no point in me referring to George Orwell, or Brave New World, or Farenheit 451, The Handmaids Tale, or the Wizard of Oz, Animal Farm, The Bible, or the Talmud, or the Apocrypha or the Koran, huh?
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Thinking about books and their impact upon me.....
All of em, that I read...but to name a few....
Moby Dick
A Tale of Two Cities
Mandingo
Peyton Place
Shogun
James Bond...the original 13
Agatha Christie...all 80
To Kill A Mockingbird
Centennial
A Handmaid’s Tale
PD James....all of em
Octavia Butler...rip....Black female fantasy writer...all of em..
HP Lovecraft....all of em
Edgar Alan Poe....all of em
The Lord of The Rings....when you had to wait for them to be published in America 1957-1960
Three Musketeers, Man in the Iron Mask...(found out Alexandre Dumas was black)
Sonnets from the Portugese...Elizabeth Browning was called "my little portugeses by her husband because she was "dark complected.") I like Robert, too...
4.06.2009
Best Black Movies
My brain is still on vacation from the politics of the past two years, that has actually continued to swirl around our first chocolate covered first family.
So while the Obama’s are touring the world, that fool in North Korea is firing missiles that he says sing songs about him into the air, and everyone else is going crazy killing people while the rest of us pretend there is no gun problem in America...
I choose to think about movies....
I got started on this subject because I’m working on an article about the dumbing down of America, kids, and grown ups via education, television and the mass media....
Which brought to memory movies that I needed to see again, one of which was NETWORK, the Paddy Chayevsky story about an anchor man, played by the late Peter Finch who goes crazy on air. The network allows it to happen strictly for ratings. ..The movie is on point for my article and also a prediction of what we are currently experiencing......if you haven’t seen it...you should dial it up and watch and learn....
There is also this movie channel network called THIS....Don’t know who owns it.... It’s playing movies that I had forgotten existed, like...they played back to back.....IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, followed by THEY CALL ME MR TIBBS, followed by THE ORGANIZATION, followed by PRESSURE POINT....all Sydney Poitier movies, where he was not playing the acquiescent Negro.
THIS tends to play black movies and cowboy movies like....Jane Fonda, James Caan and Jason Robards in COMES A HORSEMAN....This channel even plays the old Bat Masterson series with Gene Barry..On Saturday, it plays THE OUTER LIMITS.....watching that program as a kid was one thing...watching it from the future is amazing....
All this got me thinking about the number of best ever movie lists and how many of them contain movies by and about black people....
I found two lists of best 100 that listed THE COLOR PURPLE....I found one list that included Spike Lee’s DO THE RIGHT THING....after that nothing.....other than lists made up completely of black movies....no comparisons or competitions between "regular" movies and our
movies...
Regular movie lists always start with GONE WITH THE WIND or CITIZEN KANE...
So without further ado....I’m giving you my top 20 list of black movies...
1. In the Heat of the Night
2. The Defiant Ones (the original)
3. A Soldier’s Story
4. Shaft-(both of them)
5. Come Back Charleston Blue
6. Sweet Back
7. New Jack City
8. Lady Sings the Blues
9. Set it Off
10. Harlem Nights
11. Inside Man
13. Trading Places
14. Car Wash
15. The Mack
16. Man on Fire
18. Spawn
19. Blazing Saddles
20.Cotton Comes to Harlem
This list differs from my favorite all time list which is has more action...in no certain order
1. Aliens
2. Alien
3. Star Wars
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. The Magnificent Seven
6. Seven Samurai
7. To Kill A Mockingbird
8. Moby Dick (gregory peck version)
9. The Three Musketeers
10. Psycho
11. When Night is Falling
12. Bound
13. Matrix
14. The Usual Suspects
15. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
16.The Tin Drum
17. Batman Begins
18. Chocolate
19. La Femme Nikita
20. Gladiator
Honorable mentions: The Count of Monte Cristo, Rage in Harlem, Glory, The Debaters, The Killing of Sister George, Midnight Cowboy and Victor/Victoria, The Sting, Deserts Hearts
My criteria....I will watch these films anytime they are on, can quote lines, and have memorized segments such as when the emperor demands that the gladiator say his name in the arena and gladiator turns and says..........."my name is......etc"
So while the Obama’s are touring the world, that fool in North Korea is firing missiles that he says sing songs about him into the air, and everyone else is going crazy killing people while the rest of us pretend there is no gun problem in America...
I choose to think about movies....
I got started on this subject because I’m working on an article about the dumbing down of America, kids, and grown ups via education, television and the mass media....
Which brought to memory movies that I needed to see again, one of which was NETWORK, the Paddy Chayevsky story about an anchor man, played by the late Peter Finch who goes crazy on air. The network allows it to happen strictly for ratings. ..The movie is on point for my article and also a prediction of what we are currently experiencing......if you haven’t seen it...you should dial it up and watch and learn....
There is also this movie channel network called THIS....Don’t know who owns it.... It’s playing movies that I had forgotten existed, like...they played back to back.....IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, followed by THEY CALL ME MR TIBBS, followed by THE ORGANIZATION, followed by PRESSURE POINT....all Sydney Poitier movies, where he was not playing the acquiescent Negro.
THIS tends to play black movies and cowboy movies like....Jane Fonda, James Caan and Jason Robards in COMES A HORSEMAN....This channel even plays the old Bat Masterson series with Gene Barry..On Saturday, it plays THE OUTER LIMITS.....watching that program as a kid was one thing...watching it from the future is amazing....
All this got me thinking about the number of best ever movie lists and how many of them contain movies by and about black people....
I found two lists of best 100 that listed THE COLOR PURPLE....I found one list that included Spike Lee’s DO THE RIGHT THING....after that nothing.....other than lists made up completely of black movies....no comparisons or competitions between "regular" movies and our
movies...
Regular movie lists always start with GONE WITH THE WIND or CITIZEN KANE...
So without further ado....I’m giving you my top 20 list of black movies...
1. In the Heat of the Night
2. The Defiant Ones (the original)
3. A Soldier’s Story
4. Shaft-(both of them)
5. Come Back Charleston Blue
6. Sweet Back
7. New Jack City
8. Lady Sings the Blues
9. Set it Off
10. Harlem Nights
11. Inside Man
13. Trading Places
14. Car Wash
15. The Mack
16. Man on Fire
18. Spawn
19. Blazing Saddles
20.Cotton Comes to Harlem
This list differs from my favorite all time list which is has more action...in no certain order
1. Aliens
2. Alien
3. Star Wars
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. The Magnificent Seven
6. Seven Samurai
7. To Kill A Mockingbird
8. Moby Dick (gregory peck version)
9. The Three Musketeers
10. Psycho
11. When Night is Falling
12. Bound
13. Matrix
14. The Usual Suspects
15. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
16.The Tin Drum
17. Batman Begins
18. Chocolate
19. La Femme Nikita
20. Gladiator
Honorable mentions: The Count of Monte Cristo, Rage in Harlem, Glory, The Debaters, The Killing of Sister George, Midnight Cowboy and Victor/Victoria, The Sting, Deserts Hearts
My criteria....I will watch these films anytime they are on, can quote lines, and have memorized segments such as when the emperor demands that the gladiator say his name in the arena and gladiator turns and says..........."my name is......etc"
3.24.2009
Thinking Out Loud
Mexican Drug War
Word that Obama is going to help Mexico battle the drug cartels on the border...Seems to me that the best way to do this is to simply end the failed war on drugs....
Admit that some people are going to use, no matter what....
Legalize the market, just like liquor stores, tax with user tax, controlled from state store...
the war on drugs is another failed program that has gone on for way too long...Prohibition war on alcohol is the precedent....it didn't work then...it's not working now...
legalizing the market....immediately stops the violence at the border and in the neighborhoods...
legalizing the market....immediately stops warehousing people in private prisons for profit...
legalizing the market....can work with the planned revisions in health care in America...revise everything in health care toward prevention, rather that penalty for illness...because addiction is illness...not crime...
This country spends billions on this war....more than Iraq and Afghanistan put together...
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Tim Geithner
My gut tells me he's a crook, just like the rest of them....but we're in a position of having to trust him...so let's hope his handlers know what they are doing...
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Barack the Magic Negro
Man, that song must have gotten some traction, somewhere...all these folks throwing tea parties and protests because of what the prez is doing....
He's only been in office about 60 days give or take....
They really do believe that he is magic if they actually thought he was going to be able to clean up this mess in about 2 months on the job....
Ya'll need to chill....
Other Magic Negroes have taken a while to find their game, too...
After all...
Michael Jackson didn't make Thriller as his first record...
Micheal didn't win a championship the first year he got to Chicago...
How old was the Doctor the first time he dunked....
Michael Johnson didn't win his first 400m dash...did he?
Tiger didn't win the Masters the first time he played it...
Arthur Ashe didn't Grand Slam his first year on tour....
I don't think Hank Aaron hit a home run the first time he stepped up to the plate...
Even Willie Mayes dropped a fly or two in the outfield...
Patience, grasshoppers....Barack will work his magic....give him a minute or two..
Word that Obama is going to help Mexico battle the drug cartels on the border...Seems to me that the best way to do this is to simply end the failed war on drugs....
Admit that some people are going to use, no matter what....
Legalize the market, just like liquor stores, tax with user tax, controlled from state store...
the war on drugs is another failed program that has gone on for way too long...Prohibition war on alcohol is the precedent....it didn't work then...it's not working now...
legalizing the market....immediately stops the violence at the border and in the neighborhoods...
legalizing the market....immediately stops warehousing people in private prisons for profit...
legalizing the market....can work with the planned revisions in health care in America...revise everything in health care toward prevention, rather that penalty for illness...because addiction is illness...not crime...
This country spends billions on this war....more than Iraq and Afghanistan put together...
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Tim Geithner
My gut tells me he's a crook, just like the rest of them....but we're in a position of having to trust him...so let's hope his handlers know what they are doing...
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Barack the Magic Negro
Man, that song must have gotten some traction, somewhere...all these folks throwing tea parties and protests because of what the prez is doing....
He's only been in office about 60 days give or take....
They really do believe that he is magic if they actually thought he was going to be able to clean up this mess in about 2 months on the job....
Ya'll need to chill....
Other Magic Negroes have taken a while to find their game, too...
After all...
Michael Jackson didn't make Thriller as his first record...
Micheal didn't win a championship the first year he got to Chicago...
How old was the Doctor the first time he dunked....
Michael Johnson didn't win his first 400m dash...did he?
Tiger didn't win the Masters the first time he played it...
Arthur Ashe didn't Grand Slam his first year on tour....
I don't think Hank Aaron hit a home run the first time he stepped up to the plate...
Even Willie Mayes dropped a fly or two in the outfield...
Patience, grasshoppers....Barack will work his magic....give him a minute or two..
3.17.2009
A Passing and Stupidity in a Chocolate Nation
Gershwin’s Bess
Ann Brown, a woman that few of us ever heard sing, has died. She was 96. Ms. Brown was a black woman who was pure a pure soprano, who sang Opera and classical music during the time when Blacks were rarely allowed to perform in white theater.
She was Bess in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess...the first one..the original one..
She predated Marian Anderson, who was the first Black woman to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. She predated Leontyne Price and Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle.
She was born here, but left the country to live in Oslo Norway and perform in Europe because of the race prejudice at the time..
May she find peace.
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Chocolate City AIDS Epidemic
Where are the Black Churches now? AIDS has reached epidemic proportions among Blacks 40-49 in DC and nobody is saying anything about it...Why?
It is the number one health problem with Blacks and nobody is talking about it....Why?
The virus is killing men especially in DC and the mode of transmission is man to man sex...
Black women are dying in record numbers nationwide, because they are sleeping with Black men who secretly sleep with other men...
When is the Black Church, The Black Community, and Black politicians going to pull their collective heads out of their collective asses and do something....
This is not a White Man’s problem, people...This is us and it’s time we admitted that and handle our business...
Ann Brown, a woman that few of us ever heard sing, has died. She was 96. Ms. Brown was a black woman who was pure a pure soprano, who sang Opera and classical music during the time when Blacks were rarely allowed to perform in white theater.
She was Bess in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess...the first one..the original one..
She predated Marian Anderson, who was the first Black woman to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. She predated Leontyne Price and Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle.
She was born here, but left the country to live in Oslo Norway and perform in Europe because of the race prejudice at the time..
May she find peace.
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Chocolate City AIDS Epidemic
Where are the Black Churches now? AIDS has reached epidemic proportions among Blacks 40-49 in DC and nobody is saying anything about it...Why?
It is the number one health problem with Blacks and nobody is talking about it....Why?
The virus is killing men especially in DC and the mode of transmission is man to man sex...
Black women are dying in record numbers nationwide, because they are sleeping with Black men who secretly sleep with other men...
When is the Black Church, The Black Community, and Black politicians going to pull their collective heads out of their collective asses and do something....
This is not a White Man’s problem, people...This is us and it’s time we admitted that and handle our business...
3.12.2009
Joe Deters Sucking on His Toes
Once Again with Foot Firmly Planted in Mouth...
Hamilton County Prosecutor just can’t seem to resist grabbing publicity at every opportunity. I guess not content that he hasn’t been in the news lately, decided to issue his two cents worth on Cincinnati’s latest crime wave.
Of course I’m talking about the murder of Esme Kenney, may she rest in peace.
But why wasn’t it a crime wave when the 14 year old was killed on Blair or the other woman died under similar circumstances in Avondale?
Why is it only now a crime wave?
Deters implied that the closing of the jails had something to do with her murder...as if the alleged killer would have been locked up and thereby unable to do what he did to that young girl.
Police may have been looking for him, but he was on the streets legally because the system...and I don’t mean the jail system....broke down...
Even if the Queensgate jail had been open, this guy would not have been locked up there or anywhere else.....
He was on the streets because he’d served his time....served his parole...legally....
He got kicked out of the halfway house because he started fighting another felon....
Those at the halfway house didn’t bother to alert his parole officer that he was becoming violent again, until days later and probably after he’d killed a couple more times...
For some reason....this guy snapped....his history shows that he is able to work the system...the problem is that when he does fall through a crack........ people get hurt or die...
There is a big problem with our system....when we lock them up... and after we release them.....they sometimes come back to haunt us....
But it did not happen because the jail was closed and the accused killer couldn’t be warehoused as Deters put it.....
We can’t keep warehousing people.....the more we just warehouse...the more violent some of them become....
Walking time bombs stalking our streets for prey.....
The judicial system, prison system, and post release system needs overhauling just like the government
Like it or not....out of sight....out of mind...is not the answer...
Hamilton County Prosecutor just can’t seem to resist grabbing publicity at every opportunity. I guess not content that he hasn’t been in the news lately, decided to issue his two cents worth on Cincinnati’s latest crime wave.
Of course I’m talking about the murder of Esme Kenney, may she rest in peace.
But why wasn’t it a crime wave when the 14 year old was killed on Blair or the other woman died under similar circumstances in Avondale?
Why is it only now a crime wave?
Deters implied that the closing of the jails had something to do with her murder...as if the alleged killer would have been locked up and thereby unable to do what he did to that young girl.
Police may have been looking for him, but he was on the streets legally because the system...and I don’t mean the jail system....broke down...
Even if the Queensgate jail had been open, this guy would not have been locked up there or anywhere else.....
He was on the streets because he’d served his time....served his parole...legally....
He got kicked out of the halfway house because he started fighting another felon....
Those at the halfway house didn’t bother to alert his parole officer that he was becoming violent again, until days later and probably after he’d killed a couple more times...
For some reason....this guy snapped....his history shows that he is able to work the system...the problem is that when he does fall through a crack........ people get hurt or die...
There is a big problem with our system....when we lock them up... and after we release them.....they sometimes come back to haunt us....
But it did not happen because the jail was closed and the accused killer couldn’t be warehoused as Deters put it.....
We can’t keep warehousing people.....the more we just warehouse...the more violent some of them become....
Walking time bombs stalking our streets for prey.....
The judicial system, prison system, and post release system needs overhauling just like the government
Like it or not....out of sight....out of mind...is not the answer...
3.05.2009
Insulting Obama
Debate a talk show host?!
Rush Limbaugh, the hill billy heroin using, viagra popping, red light district cruising, 100 million dollar walking waste of oxygen....
Please!
Obama can’t bend down that low!
In his whole life Obama has never even accumulated that much dirt on the bottom of his shoes...
Rush and the rest of his crowd keep forgetting.....Obama won the election.....He can do whatever he wants to do...He don’t have to run it past Rush, the self proclaimed great white hope for old white men..
....He has to deal with "we" the people.....
The polls show that only 14% of Americans like Rush...that means 86% of us support Obama....I don’t even understand why anyone is bothering to even include this guy in the conversation except as a joke....
This is the second time in two weeks that the Gay Old Party of which Rush is a card carrying member....has insulted the President...
The first was Michael Steele....who wants to hip hop the Republicans....
Question....when was the last time you heard Obama use street language in order to get his point across? I don’t know how he talks among his friends..but I do know that when he talks to America, he comes correct....
Take a lesson Steele....What Steele said is racist....period....if the president were white...there would be absolutely no one putting GOP, hip hop and urban in the same sentence.
Hell, if truth be told....if Obama hadn't won the election...there would be no Michael Steele or Piyush Jindal being touted as the saviors of the GOP.
Steele insulted not only the President....but the rest of America as well...
Hey mikey...hey rush...apologize !
Rush Limbaugh, the hill billy heroin using, viagra popping, red light district cruising, 100 million dollar walking waste of oxygen....
Please!
Obama can’t bend down that low!
In his whole life Obama has never even accumulated that much dirt on the bottom of his shoes...
Rush and the rest of his crowd keep forgetting.....Obama won the election.....He can do whatever he wants to do...He don’t have to run it past Rush, the self proclaimed great white hope for old white men..
....He has to deal with "we" the people.....
The polls show that only 14% of Americans like Rush...that means 86% of us support Obama....I don’t even understand why anyone is bothering to even include this guy in the conversation except as a joke....
This is the second time in two weeks that the Gay Old Party of which Rush is a card carrying member....has insulted the President...
The first was Michael Steele....who wants to hip hop the Republicans....
Question....when was the last time you heard Obama use street language in order to get his point across? I don’t know how he talks among his friends..but I do know that when he talks to America, he comes correct....
Take a lesson Steele....What Steele said is racist....period....if the president were white...there would be absolutely no one putting GOP, hip hop and urban in the same sentence.
Hell, if truth be told....if Obama hadn't won the election...there would be no Michael Steele or Piyush Jindal being touted as the saviors of the GOP.
Steele insulted not only the President....but the rest of America as well...
Hey mikey...hey rush...apologize !
2.28.2009
Mystery Meat 2009
Went to the store yesterday, the grocery store that is, to find something for dinner, something cheap, non budget busting, yet filling and hopefully flavorful. This economic downturn with its rising food prices has sent me scurrying back to the days of when I was trying to become a vegan. In other words rationalizing my inability to buy meat with my meager food allowance.
I Convinced myself I was trying to eat healthier by eliminating meat and becoming vegetarian.
Never made it. Did good for several years until I developed a protein deficiency and had to return to a meat fix for a quick protein fix. And I will admit it, I'm a happy carnivore. I like my ribs, once in a while.
But you see, at the time I didn’t like beans and you need them for protein if you don't eat meat. But I wouldn’t eat them, not no way not no how. Except for green beans, either raw or french cut. Love those.
But I’m talking about black beans, navy beans, great northern beans, or black eyed peas...didn’t have to eat them growing up and didn’t want to start once I grew up. I like my mom’s baked beans. But that’s like eating candy, way too much sugar and bacon in them, but man are they good.
However, I’ve had two people come into the my life who like beans, and knew how to cook them so that I would like them. Then they gave me the recipes. So now with the downturn in the economy, if I’m short on funds I can compensate by buying bag of beans, finding some smoke turkey parts, adding some seasonings, some onion and garlic and a jalapeno pepper, tossing it into a crock pot and I’m good to go. I even have enough to freeze for other days.
So anyway, I was cruising the meat counter looking for some less expensive cheap cuts and came across a package of meat marked "miscellaneous." It caught my eye because it looked funny, you know what I’m talking about....unidentifiable parts of obvious meat, but from what animal..kind of funny looking.
The meat wasn’t fresh. Looked like it hadn’t been fresh for a couple of weeks but it was still on sale. At first glance it looked like fat fingers cut from the hand of a very big man. That’s why I picked it up to look closer. With further exploration the parts must have been chicken wing parts mixed with cut up parts from other parts of chicken, I think. However they looked like stuff that must have been scooped up from the floor of the butcher shop, and shrink wrapped onto one of those Styrofoam trays.
And it was marked "miscellaneous."
We all know what mystery meat is.....all of us grew up eating it in school lunch rooms across the country at least once a week. My school even served spam for lunch. Spam is the original mystery meat. We trusted mystery meat, because we were hungry and we really didn’t think our school was out to poison us.
But miscellaneous meat? Makes you wonder what’s going on.
I know that back in the day, people ate all parts of all animals..but they knew the animal and at least you could recognize what you’re eating.
This was not recognizable at all. I guess the butcher shop has been told to sell everything edible.
Well it may be edible but I think to sell it, people need to be able to identify it first. Especially since no one trusts big business to do the right thing in the first place.
I looked at that package and immediately thoughts of Charleton Heston jumped into my brain...
You know the one...at the end of the movie SOYLENT GREEN...when he discovers just what Soylent Green is actually made of..................
"Soylent Green is People!"
Ugh!
I Convinced myself I was trying to eat healthier by eliminating meat and becoming vegetarian.
Never made it. Did good for several years until I developed a protein deficiency and had to return to a meat fix for a quick protein fix. And I will admit it, I'm a happy carnivore. I like my ribs, once in a while.
But you see, at the time I didn’t like beans and you need them for protein if you don't eat meat. But I wouldn’t eat them, not no way not no how. Except for green beans, either raw or french cut. Love those.
But I’m talking about black beans, navy beans, great northern beans, or black eyed peas...didn’t have to eat them growing up and didn’t want to start once I grew up. I like my mom’s baked beans. But that’s like eating candy, way too much sugar and bacon in them, but man are they good.
However, I’ve had two people come into the my life who like beans, and knew how to cook them so that I would like them. Then they gave me the recipes. So now with the downturn in the economy, if I’m short on funds I can compensate by buying bag of beans, finding some smoke turkey parts, adding some seasonings, some onion and garlic and a jalapeno pepper, tossing it into a crock pot and I’m good to go. I even have enough to freeze for other days.
So anyway, I was cruising the meat counter looking for some less expensive cheap cuts and came across a package of meat marked "miscellaneous." It caught my eye because it looked funny, you know what I’m talking about....unidentifiable parts of obvious meat, but from what animal..kind of funny looking.
The meat wasn’t fresh. Looked like it hadn’t been fresh for a couple of weeks but it was still on sale. At first glance it looked like fat fingers cut from the hand of a very big man. That’s why I picked it up to look closer. With further exploration the parts must have been chicken wing parts mixed with cut up parts from other parts of chicken, I think. However they looked like stuff that must have been scooped up from the floor of the butcher shop, and shrink wrapped onto one of those Styrofoam trays.
And it was marked "miscellaneous."
We all know what mystery meat is.....all of us grew up eating it in school lunch rooms across the country at least once a week. My school even served spam for lunch. Spam is the original mystery meat. We trusted mystery meat, because we were hungry and we really didn’t think our school was out to poison us.
But miscellaneous meat? Makes you wonder what’s going on.
I know that back in the day, people ate all parts of all animals..but they knew the animal and at least you could recognize what you’re eating.
This was not recognizable at all. I guess the butcher shop has been told to sell everything edible.
Well it may be edible but I think to sell it, people need to be able to identify it first. Especially since no one trusts big business to do the right thing in the first place.
I looked at that package and immediately thoughts of Charleton Heston jumped into my brain...
You know the one...at the end of the movie SOYLENT GREEN...when he discovers just what Soylent Green is actually made of..................
"Soylent Green is People!"
Ugh!
2.24.2009
Pre-State of the Union Address
Bold, Inspirational Strokes in Tough Times....
After listening to Bobby Jindal deliver the GOP response to Obama tonight....Obama’s biggest opponent in coming days, will be himself.
He made some mighty big promises tonight. It remains to be seen if he can deliver. Personally, I feel that he can...
The GOP response that Jindal gave was written before Obama took the podium. But, it may as well have been written 30 years ago for all that was said, because nothing new was said, by the thin brown hope from Louisiana.
Like his party, Bobby Jindal is dead on arrival. There was no warmth in his delivery. There was nothing that made you want to embrace him. In 37 years on earth, he hasn’t yet learned to smile with his eyes....
There is a coldness that comes from his eyes, that makes me uncomfortable.
His delivery almost makes me believe that zombies do exist in the voodoo land bayous of Louisiana, and one of them has made it to the governor’s mansion.
By the same token, Obamaville is alive and well and holding a tent revival on Capital Hill. The Repubs in the Chamber were trying to be cool..But their body language gave them away...
They actually like this guy....Even if they don’t agree with his politics....He makes them feel good and they can’t hide it....They smiled....they laughed...they applauded and they sought his autograph as he walked by....
Rather than trying to return this country to the politics and policies of failure...Maybe Jindal would be better off writing a speech to explain to the unemployed of Louisiana just why he is refusing stimulus money to extend their benefits...
And rather than go on TV to do it ....call everybody together in a town hall setting and tell them in person where he has to look them directly in their eyes....
After listening to Bobby Jindal deliver the GOP response to Obama tonight....Obama’s biggest opponent in coming days, will be himself.
He made some mighty big promises tonight. It remains to be seen if he can deliver. Personally, I feel that he can...
The GOP response that Jindal gave was written before Obama took the podium. But, it may as well have been written 30 years ago for all that was said, because nothing new was said, by the thin brown hope from Louisiana.
Like his party, Bobby Jindal is dead on arrival. There was no warmth in his delivery. There was nothing that made you want to embrace him. In 37 years on earth, he hasn’t yet learned to smile with his eyes....
There is a coldness that comes from his eyes, that makes me uncomfortable.
His delivery almost makes me believe that zombies do exist in the voodoo land bayous of Louisiana, and one of them has made it to the governor’s mansion.
By the same token, Obamaville is alive and well and holding a tent revival on Capital Hill. The Repubs in the Chamber were trying to be cool..But their body language gave them away...
They actually like this guy....Even if they don’t agree with his politics....He makes them feel good and they can’t hide it....They smiled....they laughed...they applauded and they sought his autograph as he walked by....
Rather than trying to return this country to the politics and policies of failure...Maybe Jindal would be better off writing a speech to explain to the unemployed of Louisiana just why he is refusing stimulus money to extend their benefits...
And rather than go on TV to do it ....call everybody together in a town hall setting and tell them in person where he has to look them directly in their eyes....
A SPORTS SEQUE
What has happened to American Women’s tennis...there are only two Americans in the top ten in the World and both of them are named Williams...
Serena ranks number one
Venus ranks 5th
Venus also won Dubai this past weekend and she had to beat Serena along the way.
Work it, Girls!
The next ranked American after Venus is ranked 38th...after that it’s Jill Craybas at 89th...
And that’s it for the top 100
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The one legged golfer aka Tiger Woods is back this week...This time the man has two good legs...Ought to be fun to watch...
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I like Charles Barkley...I realize he has to do his time..
But he seems like such a happy drunk...
He’ll be okay..
One of the cooler guys in sports...
The Round Mound of Rebound..still is..
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Serena ranks number one
Venus ranks 5th
Venus also won Dubai this past weekend and she had to beat Serena along the way.
Work it, Girls!
The next ranked American after Venus is ranked 38th...after that it’s Jill Craybas at 89th...
And that’s it for the top 100
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The one legged golfer aka Tiger Woods is back this week...This time the man has two good legs...Ought to be fun to watch...
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I like Charles Barkley...I realize he has to do his time..
But he seems like such a happy drunk...
He’ll be okay..
One of the cooler guys in sports...
The Round Mound of Rebound..still is..
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2.19.2009
Taking the GOP Gangsta!
Michael Steele Looking for Street Cred to Win Back the White House
Michael Steele is promising an "off the hook" campaign to get the GOP back on track and in control of America. He said today that he is going to make the republican message resonate in the "urban-suburban" setting so that even "one armed midgets" will understand...
After I picked myself up off the floor from laughing so hard, I got this picture in my head...well actually two pictures....One of Steele in street cred gear..or his version of it.....sideways ball cap...oversized Shaquille O’Neal jersey over a white tee...unbelted cut off at the knees big jeans sagging to reveal his Calvin Klein undies... with socks and orange colored Jordans....big gold chain around his neck...standing behind the podium throwing up Dick Nixon peace signs at a room full of old white guys in too thin ties, white shirts, brooks brothers suits and wing tips shoes....
The other picture came from my teenage days....remember when white people didn’t know how to dance...couldn’t find the rhythm with a flashlight? The hipper kids at high school always turned to us to teach them how to move...
Well that’s where the GOP is now...searching for the rhythm...to help them dominate the dance floor again....
Trouble is...they’ve asked Urkle to teach them how to dance....
Sad....
Michael Steele is promising an "off the hook" campaign to get the GOP back on track and in control of America. He said today that he is going to make the republican message resonate in the "urban-suburban" setting so that even "one armed midgets" will understand...
After I picked myself up off the floor from laughing so hard, I got this picture in my head...well actually two pictures....One of Steele in street cred gear..or his version of it.....sideways ball cap...oversized Shaquille O’Neal jersey over a white tee...unbelted cut off at the knees big jeans sagging to reveal his Calvin Klein undies... with socks and orange colored Jordans....big gold chain around his neck...standing behind the podium throwing up Dick Nixon peace signs at a room full of old white guys in too thin ties, white shirts, brooks brothers suits and wing tips shoes....
The other picture came from my teenage days....remember when white people didn’t know how to dance...couldn’t find the rhythm with a flashlight? The hipper kids at high school always turned to us to teach them how to move...
Well that’s where the GOP is now...searching for the rhythm...to help them dominate the dance floor again....
Trouble is...they’ve asked Urkle to teach them how to dance....
Sad....
2.14.2009
Some Thoughts on the Stimulus Bill
Thinking about the stimulus drama of the past week, reminded me of a Nina Simone set during the Jazz Festival in Cincinnati Ohio, one year when it was really a Jazz Festival, back in the day.
At one point during her set, Ms. Simone wanted the audience to join her in singing the Black National Anthem-Lift Every Voice. She said she wanted all Black people in the audience to sing, and she told the white people in the audience to sit quietly because:
"it’s not that we don’t like you...it’s just that we choose to ignore you, right now."
I think Barack Obama should take that approach to the GOP on Capital Hill. He is wasting too much time and drama trying to get these fools to see that they need to change their thinking and way of doing things. Bipartisan is great when it happens.
But it’s like trying to cure an addict of his addiction-it’s not going to happen unless the addict is ready for it to happen. The American people staged an intervention. However it is clear that the GOP has hunkered down inside its padded cell and is refusing to take the meds or to attend counseling sessions.
I say leave them alone. Soon enough, they will get hungry and be willing to come out into the light.
And Paul Krugman et al who are painting this stimulus bill as a sorta defeat for Obama....C’mon now..As I write this Obama STILL has not been in office a month yet and already he’s a step closer to delivering help to the American people..No it wasn’t pretty if you were waiting for a bipartisan love fest...
Yes, there were stumbles....But then even Neo failed to make his first jump....so lighten up...it’s early...way early....Congress is still obviously filled with Mr. Smiths....not the updated ones...the old ones...who have limited speed....and their age is showing...
Obama has got to learn how to control the message better...The GOP is still boss when it comes to getting its talking points in the mainstream talk fests that pass as news, while the real message gets covered up and drowned out...
So let’s move on...there is still much work to do..
At one point during her set, Ms. Simone wanted the audience to join her in singing the Black National Anthem-Lift Every Voice. She said she wanted all Black people in the audience to sing, and she told the white people in the audience to sit quietly because:
"it’s not that we don’t like you...it’s just that we choose to ignore you, right now."
I think Barack Obama should take that approach to the GOP on Capital Hill. He is wasting too much time and drama trying to get these fools to see that they need to change their thinking and way of doing things. Bipartisan is great when it happens.
But it’s like trying to cure an addict of his addiction-it’s not going to happen unless the addict is ready for it to happen. The American people staged an intervention. However it is clear that the GOP has hunkered down inside its padded cell and is refusing to take the meds or to attend counseling sessions.
I say leave them alone. Soon enough, they will get hungry and be willing to come out into the light.
And Paul Krugman et al who are painting this stimulus bill as a sorta defeat for Obama....C’mon now..As I write this Obama STILL has not been in office a month yet and already he’s a step closer to delivering help to the American people..No it wasn’t pretty if you were waiting for a bipartisan love fest...
Yes, there were stumbles....But then even Neo failed to make his first jump....so lighten up...it’s early...way early....Congress is still obviously filled with Mr. Smiths....not the updated ones...the old ones...who have limited speed....and their age is showing...
Obama has got to learn how to control the message better...The GOP is still boss when it comes to getting its talking points in the mainstream talk fests that pass as news, while the real message gets covered up and drowned out...
So let’s move on...there is still much work to do..
2.12.2009
Questions...Questions!
If Women Ruled the World
It wouldn’t be in the shape it’s in now. ...that’s not me...that’s a study released today saying that the reason men screw things up is that they don’t use both sides of their brain, have too much testosterone and are too impetuous...so what else is new!
But.....I don’t like the idea of a totally woman driven world either...Sitting around while a group of women "process" and "discuss" is like getting my teeth pulled with no anesthetic...
Let’s let women with more than an average dose of testosterone handle things... Trinity, Storm and Zena to rule the world, maybe? How about a little Callisto for crazy to keep it interesting..yeah...let’s send Callisto after Osama B...Bet she could find his cave....
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Mr. President,
I’m all for bipartisan workings...however the GOP has demonstrated very loudly that it doesn’t give two s**** in a tin can about this country. You tried to get them to help...you failed...not because of anything you did...but because they don’t want you to succeed... and they think that electing a black man as their chairman is going to magically erase their inbred racist tendencies.....F*** Em if they can’t take a joke...
Let’s move on shall we..the country needs help and the stimulus package is only the beginning..
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Salmonella Blues
Why is the peanut butter fool still walking around free? We have plenty of jail cells. This man is responsible for 8 deaths and more than 500 getting sick from his stuff. Yet he goes to congress and hides behind the fifth amendment?
Lock him up forever with a diet of pb&j from his factory for as long as he lives..
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KBR
Why is KBR and Haliburton still winning contracts from the government after they got caught paying bribes to Nigerians? KBR paid a fine of 579-million dollars. Doesn’t somebody need to go to jail...Shouldn’t all KBR and Haliburton contracts be terminated and re-rewarded to an honest contractor?
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BUSHCO to Jail
I’m with Congressman Leahy....We should be moving ahead with prosecuting Bush and Company for crimes against America. I don’t think any of them will go to jail, but I do think they need to be made to own up to what they’ve done to this country and the Constitution.
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AIDS CURE?
Reports today that stem cells from a donor have apparently cured a guy of AIDS. He is no longer on the drug cocktail that he has been taking for the past 10 years. I certainly hope this report is true.
It was revealed several years ago that certain white people carrying a gene making them immune to the HIV virus. The stem cell donation in this case, came from a person with that natural immunity.
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Michael Steele
I want to know if Michael Steele and Alan Keyes are the same black man? The GOP uses them interchangeably and you never see them together or at the same time.
Now that Steele has been made Captain of the Titanic, where is Keyes? Did ya’ll stick him back in his trunk to sleep until the need arises for another chocolate covered puppet, who needs a hand up his butt in order to talk?
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PETA
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals....demonstrated outside the Westminster Kennel Club dog show this week, wearing KKK hoods and robes...hmmmmmmmmmm
I’m all for free speech and free expression....However..
Use of imagery that reminds me of the bad old days of being black in America...makes me realize that the bad old days of being black in America still are not over...
Just because we have a black president and a sort a black chairman of the GOP....doesn’t give PETA the right to insult an entire ethnic group.
This is one group that really, really needs to get it’s head out of its ass on a number levels...
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Last Question................How do you drive 17 miles with a body stuck to the under chassis of your van and not realize it...Guy did this in New York last night....Ran over a body...and kept driving....said the van was steering funny............Police are back tracking looking for the victim’s body parts...
It wouldn’t be in the shape it’s in now. ...that’s not me...that’s a study released today saying that the reason men screw things up is that they don’t use both sides of their brain, have too much testosterone and are too impetuous...so what else is new!
But.....I don’t like the idea of a totally woman driven world either...Sitting around while a group of women "process" and "discuss" is like getting my teeth pulled with no anesthetic...
Let’s let women with more than an average dose of testosterone handle things... Trinity, Storm and Zena to rule the world, maybe? How about a little Callisto for crazy to keep it interesting..yeah...let’s send Callisto after Osama B...Bet she could find his cave....
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Mr. President,
I’m all for bipartisan workings...however the GOP has demonstrated very loudly that it doesn’t give two s**** in a tin can about this country. You tried to get them to help...you failed...not because of anything you did...but because they don’t want you to succeed... and they think that electing a black man as their chairman is going to magically erase their inbred racist tendencies.....F*** Em if they can’t take a joke...
Let’s move on shall we..the country needs help and the stimulus package is only the beginning..
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Salmonella Blues
Why is the peanut butter fool still walking around free? We have plenty of jail cells. This man is responsible for 8 deaths and more than 500 getting sick from his stuff. Yet he goes to congress and hides behind the fifth amendment?
Lock him up forever with a diet of pb&j from his factory for as long as he lives..
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KBR
Why is KBR and Haliburton still winning contracts from the government after they got caught paying bribes to Nigerians? KBR paid a fine of 579-million dollars. Doesn’t somebody need to go to jail...Shouldn’t all KBR and Haliburton contracts be terminated and re-rewarded to an honest contractor?
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BUSHCO to Jail
I’m with Congressman Leahy....We should be moving ahead with prosecuting Bush and Company for crimes against America. I don’t think any of them will go to jail, but I do think they need to be made to own up to what they’ve done to this country and the Constitution.
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AIDS CURE?
Reports today that stem cells from a donor have apparently cured a guy of AIDS. He is no longer on the drug cocktail that he has been taking for the past 10 years. I certainly hope this report is true.
It was revealed several years ago that certain white people carrying a gene making them immune to the HIV virus. The stem cell donation in this case, came from a person with that natural immunity.
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Michael Steele
I want to know if Michael Steele and Alan Keyes are the same black man? The GOP uses them interchangeably and you never see them together or at the same time.
Now that Steele has been made Captain of the Titanic, where is Keyes? Did ya’ll stick him back in his trunk to sleep until the need arises for another chocolate covered puppet, who needs a hand up his butt in order to talk?
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PETA
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals....demonstrated outside the Westminster Kennel Club dog show this week, wearing KKK hoods and robes...hmmmmmmmmmm
I’m all for free speech and free expression....However..
Use of imagery that reminds me of the bad old days of being black in America...makes me realize that the bad old days of being black in America still are not over...
Just because we have a black president and a sort a black chairman of the GOP....doesn’t give PETA the right to insult an entire ethnic group.
This is one group that really, really needs to get it’s head out of its ass on a number levels...
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Last Question................How do you drive 17 miles with a body stuck to the under chassis of your van and not realize it...Guy did this in New York last night....Ran over a body...and kept driving....said the van was steering funny............Police are back tracking looking for the victim’s body parts...
2.10.2009
And Babies Make 14!
I’ve been riveted by this story since Nadya Sulieman gave birth a couple of weeks ago to eight babies. Man, you know she’s got PC America in between a rock and a hard place...For instance, how do you talk about someone who:
looks like she may be of Arabic descent....is single...no husband...no boyfriend...lives with her parents...is unemployed and already has six kids at home...three of whom are reportedly disabled... she’s on food stamps, gets disability checks for some of the kids, and....they are all under the age of 8....and...they were all conceived through invitro fertilization...
She looks like she’s had some kind of botox injections to her face...which is her right....she talks and sounds like she is a couple of bricks short of a full load..she says she is just consumed with having babies......my question....is she raising them. Really raising them....or is that her parents job?
She has a mother who is giving interviews and mom seems to be very pissed off...about the whole situation...her daddy has gone back to Iraq to be translator and to make more money for the family...he doesn’t seem like a happy camper either....Mom says she does buy a lot of toys but does little else in the house....
So what do you do?....The medical board may go after her doctor for implanting more than the standard two or three embryos...
But can they really do that? I mean the constitution guarantees a woman’s right to choose...
and she chose to have 14 kids......
limit her right to have the embryos implanted and you’ve got the right to life people on your case...they want all babies conceived, to be born....Okay... but quality of life never enters the argument..
Because I have to wonder....and I’m sure so do a lot of people....what kind of life are these little people going to have?
I hope it’s a good one....Having babies is not a lark, or just something to do....it is one of the most important things a woman can choose to do.....
I also don’t believe that all women should have children... even when they can...you need a license to drive a car....maybe it's time for a license to procreate...
looks like she may be of Arabic descent....is single...no husband...no boyfriend...lives with her parents...is unemployed and already has six kids at home...three of whom are reportedly disabled... she’s on food stamps, gets disability checks for some of the kids, and....they are all under the age of 8....and...they were all conceived through invitro fertilization...
She looks like she’s had some kind of botox injections to her face...which is her right....she talks and sounds like she is a couple of bricks short of a full load..she says she is just consumed with having babies......my question....is she raising them. Really raising them....or is that her parents job?
She has a mother who is giving interviews and mom seems to be very pissed off...about the whole situation...her daddy has gone back to Iraq to be translator and to make more money for the family...he doesn’t seem like a happy camper either....Mom says she does buy a lot of toys but does little else in the house....
So what do you do?....The medical board may go after her doctor for implanting more than the standard two or three embryos...
But can they really do that? I mean the constitution guarantees a woman’s right to choose...
and she chose to have 14 kids......
limit her right to have the embryos implanted and you’ve got the right to life people on your case...they want all babies conceived, to be born....Okay... but quality of life never enters the argument..
Because I have to wonder....and I’m sure so do a lot of people....what kind of life are these little people going to have?
I hope it’s a good one....Having babies is not a lark, or just something to do....it is one of the most important things a woman can choose to do.....
I also don’t believe that all women should have children... even when they can...you need a license to drive a car....maybe it's time for a license to procreate...
2.06.2009
Short Sighted GOP
Do the Republicans REALLY want to filibuster Obama’s stimulus Package?
It’s time for Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to grow some cojones and get tough about this stimulus package. The GOP members of congress have obviously forgotten the part they played in creating this mess in the first place.
They still think that tax cuts are the answer to everything....even after it’s been shown that is stupid economics. They still think the Americans are dumb and listening to them about what is best for us.
Their philosophy has trashed the middle class..we're losing our homes....we’ve lost our pensions...our savings....our jobs....and our kids and grandkids and great grandkids are going to have pay for this mess....
And they still think we are turning to them for guidance?
The GOP has absolutely NO CREDIBILITY...NONE! Yet they act as if they won the election.. They act as if they are still in the White House and in control....
As for Mr. President.....he didn’t grow up in a black neighborhood.....so he may not readily recognize what is happening in Washington.....
THE GOP IS TRYING TO PUNK, HIM! THEY THINK HE IS SOFT...AND THAT THEY CAN GET OVER ON HIM....
This is the time that you have pull up your drawers and kick ass....plain and simple....or spend the rest of your life running from these fools...
Beat one....you’ve beaten them all.....Take McConnell behind closed doors and dare him to call a filibuster....then arrange a news conference to tell the American people what is happening...then schedule a news conference for McConnell..
And let him explain it to the American people...as to why we don’t need the help that Wall Street and his rich friends do....
It’s time for Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to grow some cojones and get tough about this stimulus package. The GOP members of congress have obviously forgotten the part they played in creating this mess in the first place.
They still think that tax cuts are the answer to everything....even after it’s been shown that is stupid economics. They still think the Americans are dumb and listening to them about what is best for us.
Their philosophy has trashed the middle class..we're losing our homes....we’ve lost our pensions...our savings....our jobs....and our kids and grandkids and great grandkids are going to have pay for this mess....
And they still think we are turning to them for guidance?
The GOP has absolutely NO CREDIBILITY...NONE! Yet they act as if they won the election.. They act as if they are still in the White House and in control....
As for Mr. President.....he didn’t grow up in a black neighborhood.....so he may not readily recognize what is happening in Washington.....
THE GOP IS TRYING TO PUNK, HIM! THEY THINK HE IS SOFT...AND THAT THEY CAN GET OVER ON HIM....
This is the time that you have pull up your drawers and kick ass....plain and simple....or spend the rest of your life running from these fools...
Beat one....you’ve beaten them all.....Take McConnell behind closed doors and dare him to call a filibuster....then arrange a news conference to tell the American people what is happening...then schedule a news conference for McConnell..
And let him explain it to the American people...as to why we don’t need the help that Wall Street and his rich friends do....
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