Michele Bachmann, that self described “lovable little fuzzball” is coming to Cincinnati tonight. She is headlining the Hamilton County Republican Dinner, which is being held at Paul Brown Stadium. I guess they are expecting a lot of people to show up tonight.
The whole Tea Bagger party has been invited, I understand. Tea Baggers live mostly outside of the Nati city limits, but they do drive in via the interstates to attend football games. They do know where the stadium is, even if they don't the support the city, itself.
I used to see suburbanites in my neighborhood all the time, driving through the hood looking for drugs. But not so much anymore since the police have dispatched the meth pushers and weed dealers to the burbs. But I digress.
Bachmann, in case you don't know who she is, is the GOP rep from Minnesota who is presently calling for cancellation of both Medicare and Social Security programs. That should make all those white haired old Republicans happy.
She's against health care reform, too, despite using taxpayer money as a Congressman and to raise a bunch of foster kids. She's been on the dole for years. But I guess we can't call her a welfare queen, can we, since we all know that welfare queens live in the ghetto. Yeah, right.
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Rep Steve King-Michele Bachmann in drag
Steve King takes the House floor to defend lobbyists. Says they never, ever, ever lie to him. Says he would cut them off if he found one lying or giving him false information.
Wonder if that includes giving back all the money they've given him over the years.
Check out his statment here.
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Jim Bunning
A walking, talking argument for term limits. This senile old coot has been dumped by the GOP in Kentucky, so I guess he is taking it out on everybody else, by blocking the bill that would extend unemployment benefits for 1.4 million Americans.
So much for Republican compassionate conservatism. Bunning says he is worried about the deficit. But like every other GOP member in the House and Senate, deficit spending didn't matter until Obama took office. Now they're worried.
Please!
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Palin Watch
Dear Sarah is the next big headliner at the NRA dinner. They like her because she likes guns and shooting things. I know something that Sarah and the NRA could team up for...
The State of Florida has declared open season on big snakes, where anyone with a weapon and a hunting license can go down and shoot and kill any python over 10 feet long. The State estimates there are about 30,000 that need to be killed.
The NRA could do us all a service and go shoot some snakes before they multiply and start migrating cross country.
Sarah could lead the hunt for them. Of course if she's as tough as she pretends to be, she'll fore go the automatic rifle and hunt the big snakes like a pro using a machete to cut their heads off.
That means she'd have to get up close and personal, rather than snipe from a distance.
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Obama-lite
That GOP chocolate peril, otherwise known as Michael Steele says reconciliation is a low down, underhanded parliamentary trick that the Democrats want to use to pass health care reform..
Hey Mikey....the GOP uses that trick more often than Democrats....Why is it okay for the Republicans to use it....but not Democrats? Hmmm?
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Palin redux
Bill O'Reilly says Lady Sarah needs to go college...I thought she already did that...Several times in fact...
What makes him think it's gonna be any better this time around?
2.26.2010
2.25.2010
Still Picking on Hillary
Birther rejects working obscure rule to unseat Clinton as Secretary of State
There's apparently a new movement out there folks, and it's called the Eligibility Movement. This Eligibility Movement is an off shoot of the looney tunes Birther Movement led by the crazy Russian Expat by way of Israel, Orly Taitz.
Birthers, as you know spend their time trying to get President Obama thrown out of the White House because they say he is not a citizen of the United States and should never have been elected in the first place.
Despite heavy backing from the GOP Obama boycotters in Congress, they are considered little more than a joke among most “real Americans.”
So, I'm guessing all that pent up energy has to go somewhere, so some long time foreign service officer has decided to focus on another target, and that happens to be Hillary Clinton.
You can read the full article here.
David C Rodearmel, has brought suit in federal court claiming that Hillary's appointment is unconstitutional, because she was a Senator in Congress first. And nutty as this may sound, he is standing on a kernel of truth. Granted, his kernel of truth is about as solid as a one legged man playing a fiddle while walking on a tightrope, but it is there, none the less.
In fact, Presidents going back to Richard Nixon have had to quietly guard themselves against the “Emoluments Clause,” which basically prevents members of Congress from taking a federal job, if Congress increased the salary for that job while they held congressional office. It came about as a way to combat corruption in government. Okay.
The salary for Secretary of State went up in 2008 and Hillary was still in the Senate at that time. But Obama did what all Presidents since Richard Nixon have done....he invoked the “Saxbe fix.” This maneuver is named after Ohio Republican Bill Saxbe, who Nixon appointed Attorney General during the Watergate scandal.
The way it's done is the President who wants to appoint a congressman asks Congress to repeal the pay raises for the position in question, so that the salary is the same as it was BEFORE, the nominee was elected to office. As I said, Nixon thought it up and every President since that time has used it to solve the problem.
Well, as we've seen in the past couple of years, what's good for GOP presidents is not good for Obama. Some how when he does it, its illegal and unconstitutional.
Hell, just getting born was illegal for Obama, if you pay attention to these clowns.
Rodearmel says he is just doing his duty and protecting the Constitution, the fact that he gave money to the Swift Boaters has absolutely nothing to do with his present intentions. Judicial Watch, a NeoCon group that regularly brings suits against both Clintons is also board with this action.
It should also be noted that Hillary is his boss, he's still employed at the State Department. A federal court has already tossed his suit telling him he lacked standing to bring it in the first place. When a judge tells you, you lack standing, it's like saying “no harm, no foul, play ball.”
In other words, Dork, can't be too bad, you're still working for the lady.
The bad news for Hillary is that when these frivolous cases are tossed they now go directly to the United States Supreme Court, thanks to yet another GOP “fix” buried in the federal court system.
I have long said that the real damage done these past 30 years by the GOP has been at the federal level. The courts have been quietly gerrymandered away from objectivity in favor of subjectivity for business and the rich and powerful.
Witness, the recent SupCo ruling which will allow business to buy elections. Think the 2000 hijacking of the presidential election was bad.....well, just wait...things are about to get much worse...
The problem with this going to the Supreme Court is Justice Steven Breyer. Breyer, who was appointed by Bill Clinton and usually sides with the liberal justices, has already written an opinion on the Emoluments Clause.
He did this while still a law professor many years ago. But it still reflects his thinking on this rule of law. In letters to Senator Robert Byrd, Breyer said the Saxbe fix was unconstitutional and therein lies the conservative hope.
Since Breyer is now on the Supreme Court, they hope he will favor their side, if and when it ever comes to a vote.
2.24.2010
When Aliens Attack
Orly Taitz calling in the United Nations
Dr. Taitz, esq, as she likes to refer to herself has hired an attorney who claims in a letter that Taitz is receiving death threats, and that somebody has tried to assassinate her, and vandalize her property.
Don't ask...don't know how a school named after William Howard Taft for public accountants can also give out law degrees....
Just when you thought the song was over, that one note samba named Orly Taitz has surfaced again, still singing off key to anyone who's willing to listen. Old girl just won't let her crusade against Barack Obama die. Got to give her an A for pugnaciousness, though.
Orly has taken her crusade to the United Nations, no less, demanding they step in and stop all the big bad Americans from persecuting her over her fight to rid the United States of its Black, tyrannical usurper who's squatting in the White House, sticking it to the good white people while bamboozling the stupid coloreds into supporting him. Check out the letter.
Dr. Taitz, esq, as she likes to refer to herself has hired an attorney who claims in a letter that Taitz is receiving death threats, and that somebody has tried to assassinate her, and vandalize her property.
All this is happening to the good doctor because she is trying to expose Obama as the fraud that he is, she says. The reason she went to the UN is because nobody is America is paying attention to her..
Gee, ya think?
Taitz who claims to be a dentist and a lawyer is facing a $20,000 fine and the removal of her online law license. I've talked about this before. Her law degree is from an online school that certifies public accountants and is worth less than the paper upon which it's written. Read here.
Don't ask...don't know how a school named after William Howard Taft for public accountants can also give out law degrees....
A judge levied the fines for frivolous legal filings. In other words she keeps trying to take Obama to court over his birth certificate, by claiming O wasn't born here. President O was born in Hawaii, but the bottle blond was born in Moldavia, which used to be in Russia.
She can't even vote, because she's not a citizen of the USA.
The United Nations, by the way, has not yet replied to her request.
2.21.2010
In His Own Words, Condemned
Cocky, Arrogant, Elitist, Liar, Coward...No, Not Obama...Cheney
"I think 2010 is going to be a phenomenal year for the conservative cause," Cheney said to raucous applause from the conservative audience. "And I think that Barack Obama is a one-term president." --Feb 18, 2010
"My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." -- Iraq, March 16, 2003
“We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." --about Saddam Hussein, March 16, 2003
"In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more." –Nov. 7, 2003 (al Qaeda never entered Iraq until after USA invasion)
"I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." -- on the Iraq June 20, 2005
"I had other priorities in the sixties than military service." –on his five draft deferments, April 5, 1989
"There are a lot of lessons we want to learn out of this process in terms of what works. I think we are in fact on our way to getting on top of the whole Katrina exercise." --Sept. 10, 2005
"Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy." –April 30, 2001
"Go f*ck yourself." --to Sen. Patrick Leahy, during a heated exchange on the Senate floor Leahy challenged him about Halliburton profiteering-- June 25, 2004
It is interesting to note that the same stuff being said about Obama was said about Clinton and before that, Reagan. Both went on to win re election by landslides, despite taking hits in Congress, two years before in the mid term elections.
The corporate controlled mainstream media, the tea baggers, and CPAC conservatives would do well to take note that even at their strongest levels, the GOP as constituted today, will never amount to more than 25% of the voting population.
The sleeping giant in this argument is the base that only wakes up at election time. Obama proved it in 2008.
The polls never have and still don't take into account the America that is simply sitting back an watching, and waiting.
Those who take their cues from Facebook and the blogs....need to look past the big popular blogs or the pages of the rich and famous...the people who vote are out there and they are talking..
And what they are talking about is not what Cheney, and Sarah, and Mitt and Tim and Eric and John and Mitch want to hear...If the election were held today...
Obama would still win in a landslide...take that to the bank...
"I think 2010 is going to be a phenomenal year for the conservative cause," Cheney said to raucous applause from the conservative audience. "And I think that Barack Obama is a one-term president." --Feb 18, 2010
"My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." -- Iraq, March 16, 2003
“We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." --about Saddam Hussein, March 16, 2003
"In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more." –Nov. 7, 2003 (al Qaeda never entered Iraq until after USA invasion)
"I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." -- on the Iraq June 20, 2005
"I had other priorities in the sixties than military service." –on his five draft deferments, April 5, 1989
"There are a lot of lessons we want to learn out of this process in terms of what works. I think we are in fact on our way to getting on top of the whole Katrina exercise." --Sept. 10, 2005
"Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy." –April 30, 2001
"Go f*ck yourself." --to Sen. Patrick Leahy, during a heated exchange on the Senate floor Leahy challenged him about Halliburton profiteering-- June 25, 2004
It is interesting to note that the same stuff being said about Obama was said about Clinton and before that, Reagan. Both went on to win re election by landslides, despite taking hits in Congress, two years before in the mid term elections.
The corporate controlled mainstream media, the tea baggers, and CPAC conservatives would do well to take note that even at their strongest levels, the GOP as constituted today, will never amount to more than 25% of the voting population.
The sleeping giant in this argument is the base that only wakes up at election time. Obama proved it in 2008.
The polls never have and still don't take into account the America that is simply sitting back an watching, and waiting.
Those who take their cues from Facebook and the blogs....need to look past the big popular blogs or the pages of the rich and famous...the people who vote are out there and they are talking..
And what they are talking about is not what Cheney, and Sarah, and Mitt and Tim and Eric and John and Mitch want to hear...If the election were held today...
Obama would still win in a landslide...take that to the bank...
2.19.2010
Friday Rap
Vanity Fair Comes to the Nati
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No, I'm not talking about the racist cover article... I'm talking about the one that's got some Cincinnatians upset because it dissed us here in the Queen City.....The diss was by some British wannabe writer exile who apparently flew here to visit the Creation Museum and didn't like his cab ride or something...One of the knocks on the city was that it took us sooooooo long to react to his poorly written tripe...
Well...it took so long to react to this so called slight in the first place because, honestly...who reads Vanity Fair magazine?
I mean, in my community, Vanity Fair is only famous for who it doesn't put on its cover or write about in its pages...
To paraphrase Kanye West....and let me be clear...I despise all things Kanye....”Vanity Fair don't like Black people.”
And as I've said before....I don't deal with anyone or anything, which obviously doesn't like me or my kind. It's my own personal ongoing boycott of all things racist and/or bigoted in America..
Vanity Fair fits that bill to a “t” and apparently a lot of people agree with me...
As for slamming Cincinnati because of the Creation Museum....we have many, many museums in Cincinnati....National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, The Museum Center at Union Terminal, The Cincinnati Art Museum, The Taft Museum, to name just a few....
But the Creation Museum is in Kentucky...not Ohio...and last time I looked...Cincinnati was in Ohio..and so, for that matter, is the airport that this ill informed second class scribe reportedly flew into..so my question is....was he ever in Cincinnati in the first place?
Regardless....I've wasted far too many words on nothing....so let's move on shall we...
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Tiger Woo
tiger, tiger, not so bright
back from rehab full of fight
tired of hiding, ready to play
back to the course after slight delay
mea culpa news conference first he must hold
re-polishing his image before retrieving his gold
no broken teeth nor busted lip
covered up with doctor's trip
he'll talk at the media
but no questions he'll take
He's the Tiger after all, no need to fake
Sorry, he'll say, but not really mean it
He's still god on the course, of course
of course....
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Elton, my Elton
One Brit that I dearly love is Elton John...The famously anti religious Sir Elton told the world that Jesus was a gay man.....
I'm okay with that because I'm convinced that God is a Black woman and what better couple to bring civility to this crazy world than a fierce and compassionate Black woman and a fabulously fashion forward gay man.....
God being a man goes against everything we know about creation....men don't create...so why would the first humans who populated the world and related to it at the basest levels...worship the human who can't create, while the other human, woman, was busy popping out life every 9 months...think about it..
Doesn't make sense..
The Bible....man's first revision of the way of the world...and his first grab at power and control....
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CPAC Circle Jerk
Sounds like a venereal disease...
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Homegrown Suicide Bomber
Another mad, arrogant SOB takes the coward's way out...flies his plane into a building and kills innocent people...wingnut blogs praise this guy for taking a stand against the government
What stand...he killed innocent people...He's a murderer, period.
He killed for his own highly personal reasons..nothing more
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Crazy Killer Lady
Kills her brother...accident
Suspected of mailing bomb to colleague...never charged.
Slaps a Stranger in the head in a restaurant.....gets hit with fine
Kills 3 colleagues, wounds 3 others at faculty meeting.....now charged with murder
She says it didn't happen....
Husband seems a nutty as she appears to be...
2.15.2010
A Snowy Day in Nati-town
Some things I've learned by reading the newspapers today, as 9 inches of new snow falls on top of the foot of snow that I have yet to shovel from my driveway...
Those shiftless, lazy white people...
Democratic Candidate for governor of Texas says...white people don't want to work in factories...Farouk Shami...who is a self made millionaire who manufactures hair care products says...white people want special treatment and won't work...Shami explained his nearly 100% minority workforce this way....
“A majority of the people are going to be Hispanic and African-American. You don't find white people who are willing to work in factories. And our history proves, you know, lots of time when they, you know, the white people come to work in a factory they either want to be supervisors or they want to be, you know, paid more than the average person. And unfortunately they exit.”
Shami also apparently thinks along with the rest of those running for Texas gov, that 9/11 was an inside job.
Maybe America should go ahead and let Texas secede from the Union...ya think..
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Imprecatory Prayer
This is the kind of prayer that pseudo christians use to pray for God to kill somebody, as in those who daily pray that President Obama dies or is killed, because they don't like him or agree with what he is trying to do for this country. You can read more about that here.
I wonder if these fake christians have come across the phrase..."you reap what you sow" in their bible. Or maybe that other commandment from Jesus, about loving others as you love yourself...
Obviously, they have the second part of that commandment down pat..
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Canceling 12th grade
Utah is considering whether or not to cancel the 12th grade as a way of saving the state money. At first, the proposed law was to cancel the grade altogether. Now apparently because of the outcry, the lawmaker behind this has changed his mind and says..ya'll didn't understand..what I meant to say was,12th grade should be optional...
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Losing another Democrat
Evan Bayh of Indiana is retiring.....says he can better serve the people outside Congress. Given the gridlock on Capital Hill, I ain't mad at him...
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Darth Cheney
Cheney ticks me off whenever he opens his mouth, but one afterthought about his latest foray on television.....he apparently hates Dubya as much as he hates Obama...and he doesn't like Sarah either...but that is probably his mysogynistic tendencies showing through..he doesn't like women in general..unless it's one of his mini me daughters, you know, the gay one in the illegal marriage or the tea bagger with the five kids...
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Tiger Woo-woo
Did we really need to know that Woods reportedly knocked up one of his porn girls, twice? She is telling the tale, all the while saying she feels sorry for Wood's wife...Well if she feels for Elin...why tell this story...that she miscarried the first time and aborted the second and never told Tiger about it in the first place..
I mean, why go there, unless you're looking for a payday...
Elin, meantime, is handling her business....regardless of all the bimbo eruptions taking place...
Those shiftless, lazy white people...
Democratic Candidate for governor of Texas says...white people don't want to work in factories...Farouk Shami...who is a self made millionaire who manufactures hair care products says...white people want special treatment and won't work...Shami explained his nearly 100% minority workforce this way....
“A majority of the people are going to be Hispanic and African-American. You don't find white people who are willing to work in factories. And our history proves, you know, lots of time when they, you know, the white people come to work in a factory they either want to be supervisors or they want to be, you know, paid more than the average person. And unfortunately they exit.”
Shami also apparently thinks along with the rest of those running for Texas gov, that 9/11 was an inside job.
Maybe America should go ahead and let Texas secede from the Union...ya think..
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Imprecatory Prayer
This is the kind of prayer that pseudo christians use to pray for God to kill somebody, as in those who daily pray that President Obama dies or is killed, because they don't like him or agree with what he is trying to do for this country. You can read more about that here.
I wonder if these fake christians have come across the phrase..."you reap what you sow" in their bible. Or maybe that other commandment from Jesus, about loving others as you love yourself...
Obviously, they have the second part of that commandment down pat..
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Canceling 12th grade
Utah is considering whether or not to cancel the 12th grade as a way of saving the state money. At first, the proposed law was to cancel the grade altogether. Now apparently because of the outcry, the lawmaker behind this has changed his mind and says..ya'll didn't understand..what I meant to say was,12th grade should be optional...
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Losing another Democrat
Evan Bayh of Indiana is retiring.....says he can better serve the people outside Congress. Given the gridlock on Capital Hill, I ain't mad at him...
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Darth Cheney
Cheney ticks me off whenever he opens his mouth, but one afterthought about his latest foray on television.....he apparently hates Dubya as much as he hates Obama...and he doesn't like Sarah either...but that is probably his mysogynistic tendencies showing through..he doesn't like women in general..unless it's one of his mini me daughters, you know, the gay one in the illegal marriage or the tea bagger with the five kids...
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Tiger Woo-woo
Did we really need to know that Woods reportedly knocked up one of his porn girls, twice? She is telling the tale, all the while saying she feels sorry for Wood's wife...Well if she feels for Elin...why tell this story...that she miscarried the first time and aborted the second and never told Tiger about it in the first place..
I mean, why go there, unless you're looking for a payday...
Elin, meantime, is handling her business....regardless of all the bimbo eruptions taking place...
2.12.2010
Friday Rap
Being snowed in for two weeks and totally stir crazy makes me want to lash out and punch people, so today, I'm going to hit out at some of my favorite punching dummies, as well as a couple of new ones...
Don't Ask Don't Tell...
DADT does more than affect gay people. Black women are the primary group being bounced from the military because of this policy...There's a report from the government that shows black women who refuse to sleep with or welcome sexual advances from male officers or fellow soldiers are routinely turned into the brass as lesbians, whether they are or are not. Many women being bounced are in fact straight black women.....screwed no matter what...
John Mayer c'mon down!
What the hell is a hood pass, and who are the one or two Black people who thinks this loose lipped mufuca can entertain? He is known mainly for talking about sex with his exes....Other than the fact that his jump offs are all white...along with his apparently racist and right wing leaning wienie...
Why should we care what he says.....It's not like he's Robin Thicke or Tom Jones or Tina Marie, for god's sakes...He used us in the ugliest way possible in order to get his pub...now he needs to go sit down, before somebody really introduces him to Hood life and slaps him like the little bitch that he is...
Next!
GOP c'mon down!
What the gay ole party has been doing these past couple of years is BOYCOTTING Obama, not obstructing. When you refuse to support, or attempt to stop something no matter what...that is a boycott or a strike...
It is not an obstruction...an obstacle, or obstruction...can be moved....The GOP has been doing the “we shall not be moved shuffle” since they lost the election. Doesn't matter what Obama says or tries to do, the GOP is agin it, period. They prefer to be called obstructionists because the word implies that someday in the future they might come around and work for the American people..not! They are protecting their ass which is what mediocre politicians do...
But we all know this is never going to happen as long as Obama is in the White House and many Americans, both Black and White continue to listen to GOP lies and bullshit.
Case in point....Medicare..
The GOP has been trying to kill this program since Ronnie Ray-gun spoke out about it back in the day. Yet, the GOP has used the threats of Medicare program cuts and the formation of alleged death panels to scare old people into believing that Obama, by working for healthcare reform, is trying to shorten their stay on earth.
The GOP is in fact, now painting itself as the only hope for a program it's been vigorously trying to kill for the past 40 years....And people are buying the Bullshit!
I took a look at the GOP Road Map to America plan, which is online and available to anyone who cares to read. It is the GOP answer to bringing this country back to economic well being. Check it out here.
The GOP plan for America also wants to privatize Social Security...but we heard that from Dubya a few years ago....so that's not new either....Can you imagine where you'd be if social security had been tied to the stock market these past few years....
The GOP is still working for big business and wall street..
This Road Map to the future also contains more bones for the insurance/healthcare industry than ordinary people...Should have called this mess...the Plan for Erasing the Middle Class.
Bipartisan Jobs Program...
Was put out of its misery yesterday by Harry Reid....the plan had more tax cuts for big business then it had help for the unemployed...
Saint Sarah Palin, c'mon down!
Let me pull out my redneck teleprompter so I can get this right....that's not nice...some of my good buddies are rednecks....hell.....my granddaddy was a redneck......that makes me quarter redneck...Black and redneck...ain't that a genealogical bitch!....Calling Saint Sarah a redneck is an insult to my family...
Anyway....
The polls say 71% of America, thinks Palin is not qualified to be president....Not qualified didn't stop Reagan.....won't stop Palin either....I hope she runs...about time for another landslide...like the one that buried Barry Goldwater....which was bigger then the one that buried McCain and America's favorite ex gov back in 2008......republicans, pollsters, and the media keep forgetting that the last election was a landslide....Maybe they need to try polling the “Real America” for a change...
Blue Dog Bitches, er Democrats
Time for O to put these fools on a choke chain. They've had enough exercise...time to rein them in and make them heel....
Black Community-we gotta talk
Did you know that the Centers for Disease Control predicts that half of all the little Black babies born this year, will develop Diabetes during their lifetime? Yeah....I'm not kidding...
And now the babies are in danger from yet another controllable situation....
We're not trying hard enough to handle these problems, and we're not the number two population group in America anymore either...Hispanics now rank second to whites in population... which means that the next census numbers...upon which all that government money is based....is going to Hispanics...while we Black folks, are on our way to oblivion...we don't have any black genes coming into our gene pool...
Habla espanol, negroes? Or can you speak Mandarin...Because I guarantee you negro dialect won't cut it in the future...if it ever cut it in the first place...
We are living thru slow, self imposed genocide.....Suicide by Community....It is way past time to stop drinking the Kool aid...literally!
2.09.2010
Abortion Reality Show?! WTF!
I really thought when I stumbled across this article, that it was a joke. Some writer didn't have anything else to do, so they made something up. It happens. Not all written stuff should be taken seriously, even if it is real.
However, this is not a joke. Two guys, mind you, have created a reality show, with three women contestants who go on the show and let viewers decide whether or not to have an abortion. You can read the article here.
I really try not to judge people, unless they repeatedly demonstrate their mindless ignorance, and even then, usually my judgment is to decide not to personally watch or read or patronize them in any way. I can't control your world, nor do I want to, but I can certainly control mine.
This, however, crosses all lines of respect for women, morality, decency and just plain common sense. There is absolutely nothing funny or remotely entertaining about a woman making a life altering decision like this.
Abortion or the decision making leading up to the choice. is not a spectator sport for the hyper-testosterone, all life is sport competition junkies tired of their murder/death/kill video games.
And attempting to couch it in pseudo acceptable Obamaspeak...as in "we need to find new ways to dialogue about old and touchy subjects.." wreaks of tasteless, immature hypocrisy.
Some of us older than 18 spent a couple of lifetimes getting the discussion to where it is today......a discussion between the woman and her doctor...rather than to have it relegated to a gossip topic on a reality show with an audience of nitwits dying to play fly on the wall during a serious situation..
Call it what it is.....two guys looking for another way to update and present their lesbian sex fantasy to the world with hopes of cashing in.....wink, wink!
Brainless guys and the low self esteemed women who love them will run to tune in...
Truly loving someone...means not denigrating them in anyway...These fools need to think about what their reality show says about their respect for their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, girlfriends and female friends...I know they have mothers, but I wonder if they have girlfriends, brainless or otherwise..
And before you ask.............No I haven't seen this show....And No, I won't ever see this show...
The idea from jump is bad, and doesn't deserve the light of day, ever!
However, this is not a joke. Two guys, mind you, have created a reality show, with three women contestants who go on the show and let viewers decide whether or not to have an abortion. You can read the article here.
I really try not to judge people, unless they repeatedly demonstrate their mindless ignorance, and even then, usually my judgment is to decide not to personally watch or read or patronize them in any way. I can't control your world, nor do I want to, but I can certainly control mine.
This, however, crosses all lines of respect for women, morality, decency and just plain common sense. There is absolutely nothing funny or remotely entertaining about a woman making a life altering decision like this.
Abortion or the decision making leading up to the choice. is not a spectator sport for the hyper-testosterone, all life is sport competition junkies tired of their murder/death/kill video games.
And attempting to couch it in pseudo acceptable Obamaspeak...as in "we need to find new ways to dialogue about old and touchy subjects.." wreaks of tasteless, immature hypocrisy.
Some of us older than 18 spent a couple of lifetimes getting the discussion to where it is today......a discussion between the woman and her doctor...rather than to have it relegated to a gossip topic on a reality show with an audience of nitwits dying to play fly on the wall during a serious situation..
Call it what it is.....two guys looking for another way to update and present their lesbian sex fantasy to the world with hopes of cashing in.....wink, wink!
Brainless guys and the low self esteemed women who love them will run to tune in...
Truly loving someone...means not denigrating them in anyway...These fools need to think about what their reality show says about their respect for their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, girlfriends and female friends...I know they have mothers, but I wonder if they have girlfriends, brainless or otherwise..
And before you ask.............No I haven't seen this show....And No, I won't ever see this show...
The idea from jump is bad, and doesn't deserve the light of day, ever!
2.05.2010
Friday Rap
Tea Party Convention
Underway with no American Flag and no Pledge of Allegiance to open the session and they call themselves patriots...please! Where are the flag pins? Where is the Lord's Prayer? Where the Black people at?
One thing's for sure about this Convention...Sarah Palin is going to show up and she's going to make out a like a bandit...
She says she is going to put her $100,000 speaking fee back into the movement...no specifics...just another blind promise like always..
And she has some company....Orangeman otherwise known as Ohio Congressman John Boehner (and no, I didn't vote for this fool), finally admits to being a tea bagger..says he's one of them....also said yesterday that Wall Street should give him some money so he can bury Obama....hmmm
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GOP Extortion Plot
Word out of DC this morning that one GOP fool of a lawmaker has put a hold on every Obama nominee for whatever....
Now, that's not very bipartisan, nor is it an attempt to represent the people. Blanket holds are for one reason only and that is to mess with the other party, period..
Certainly not about governance of the people, by the people or for the people..
Maybe O needs to conjure up LBJ...you remember him Lynchin' Baines Johnson, one of the best Congressman ever at twisting arms and getting legislation passed on Capital Hill...and that's before he took the White House away from JFK....but that's another story altogether.
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DADT
Despite how wrongly they've been treated...many LGBT military want back in...That's what you call patriotism and love of country.
I never see any tea baggers, Dick Cheney relatives or fake god and country people calling for a reinstitution of the draft...Clearly, our country needs help on the war front.....
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Terror trial in NY
When are Americans going to understand that citizens have to shoulder some responsibility. You want a a war on terror...but you don't want the inconvenience or necessary sacrifice in your life or a terror trial in your backyard....when the bad guys are caught........that's called white flight...or “don't bring em to my neighborhood”
You want the military to find and kill Bin Laden...yet you're not willing to support a draft to give the military enough people to fight a real war or to find the terrorist....
You continue to demand solutions from the government....yet continue to return the obstructionists to the Hill to keep progress from happening..
The problem with white flight is that eventually the problem comes to you...(ever notice the meths labs and drug busts are all in the burbs and rural areas these days, and not in the ghettos).... and you've got no where else to run...
Obama's canceled the moon program a couple of days ago...now what cha gon do?
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Driehaus
Heard from my Congressman yesterday....calling me “Jo” like he knows me..Thank you Congressman for addressing my concern. But I'm still not voting for you next time around.
I mean what I say. If you can talk to me when we agree...you should also talk to me when we don't. That is what I call representation. It's a dialogue between representative and constituent...not a happy sleepover, where we play games and tell each other how pretty we are.
You respect me, I respect you.
Ya know what, sometimes I may not like you, but honesty and respect, will get my vote every time.
You lost this one.
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GAY-TV!
I don't know about the rest of the country, but here in Ohio, 7AM to Noon is the queerest block on television....starting with GMA or Gay-M-A, as some call it.....Wendy Williams...Ellen...and The View.......Love it!
This block is the background noise for my writing, five days a week..
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Superbowl....Saint or Colts
My heart is with the Saints.....My head and money are on the Colts....Go Peyton!
Considering where Peyton lives and grew up...New Orleans is the winner no matter who takes home the trophy..
And....I saw a sneak preview of somebody doing the Bears Super Bowl shuffle again...I need a dose of my Bears....That was my favorite superbowl!
Underway with no American Flag and no Pledge of Allegiance to open the session and they call themselves patriots...please! Where are the flag pins? Where is the Lord's Prayer? Where the Black people at?
One thing's for sure about this Convention...Sarah Palin is going to show up and she's going to make out a like a bandit...
She says she is going to put her $100,000 speaking fee back into the movement...no specifics...just another blind promise like always..
And she has some company....Orangeman otherwise known as Ohio Congressman John Boehner (and no, I didn't vote for this fool), finally admits to being a tea bagger..says he's one of them....also said yesterday that Wall Street should give him some money so he can bury Obama....hmmm
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GOP Extortion Plot
Word out of DC this morning that one GOP fool of a lawmaker has put a hold on every Obama nominee for whatever....
Now, that's not very bipartisan, nor is it an attempt to represent the people. Blanket holds are for one reason only and that is to mess with the other party, period..
Certainly not about governance of the people, by the people or for the people..
Maybe O needs to conjure up LBJ...you remember him Lynchin' Baines Johnson, one of the best Congressman ever at twisting arms and getting legislation passed on Capital Hill...and that's before he took the White House away from JFK....but that's another story altogether.
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DADT
Despite how wrongly they've been treated...many LGBT military want back in...That's what you call patriotism and love of country.
I never see any tea baggers, Dick Cheney relatives or fake god and country people calling for a reinstitution of the draft...Clearly, our country needs help on the war front.....
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Terror trial in NY
When are Americans going to understand that citizens have to shoulder some responsibility. You want a a war on terror...but you don't want the inconvenience or necessary sacrifice in your life or a terror trial in your backyard....when the bad guys are caught........that's called white flight...or “don't bring em to my neighborhood”
You want the military to find and kill Bin Laden...yet you're not willing to support a draft to give the military enough people to fight a real war or to find the terrorist....
You continue to demand solutions from the government....yet continue to return the obstructionists to the Hill to keep progress from happening..
The problem with white flight is that eventually the problem comes to you...(ever notice the meths labs and drug busts are all in the burbs and rural areas these days, and not in the ghettos).... and you've got no where else to run...
Obama's canceled the moon program a couple of days ago...now what cha gon do?
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Driehaus
Heard from my Congressman yesterday....calling me “Jo” like he knows me..Thank you Congressman for addressing my concern. But I'm still not voting for you next time around.
I mean what I say. If you can talk to me when we agree...you should also talk to me when we don't. That is what I call representation. It's a dialogue between representative and constituent...not a happy sleepover, where we play games and tell each other how pretty we are.
You respect me, I respect you.
Ya know what, sometimes I may not like you, but honesty and respect, will get my vote every time.
You lost this one.
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GAY-TV!
I don't know about the rest of the country, but here in Ohio, 7AM to Noon is the queerest block on television....starting with GMA or Gay-M-A, as some call it.....Wendy Williams...Ellen...and The View.......Love it!
This block is the background noise for my writing, five days a week..
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Superbowl....Saint or Colts
My heart is with the Saints.....My head and money are on the Colts....Go Peyton!
Considering where Peyton lives and grew up...New Orleans is the winner no matter who takes home the trophy..
And....I saw a sneak preview of somebody doing the Bears Super Bowl shuffle again...I need a dose of my Bears....That was my favorite superbowl!
2.03.2010
Hump Day Madness
“Walnuts” McCain, Obama and the National Prayer Breakfast, and AIG Bandits
Somebody punch John McCain in the ribs and wake him up, please. A couple of years ago he said on the day that the generals came out in favor of repealing Don't ask, Don't tell, he would drop his opposition.
Well John, that day has come and gone. Colin Powell who crafted the so called compromise with Bill Clinton and nearly every other politician, except you and your bigoted brothers and sisters like Barbour and Boehner and Fox and Bachmann, have evolved, and say the policy is bad policy.
You and your clique, however, are content to remain bigoted.
"Patriotism that only serves and never risks one's self-interest isn't patriotism at all. It's selfishness. -John Sidney McCain
Just once, John, I wish you would at least try to live up to your own words...just once. Face the reality, you're never, ever, ever going to be President.
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Obama and the National Prayer Breakfast
What better way to separate church and state as prescribed by the Constitution, then for President Obama to back away from his scheduled visit to the National Prayer Breakfast tomorrow. I know its been an official presidential stop since 1953, however, if this is the time for transparency in government, then stepping away from this event is a big start.
This prayer breakfast which masquerades as a pseudo religious event is nothing but a shady way of attempting to influence government for their pet projects.
I don't care how much they protest to the contrary, these are the guys behind that heinous Ugandan law calling for the death penalty for gays and lesbians. And yet they claim to be Christian.
These prayer breakfast organizers are behind that house in Washington that fronts as a prayer and meditation house for congressme,n...like...Ensign and Sanford..you know the latest lawmakers caught with their zippers open...They call themselves The Family...sounds cultish to me...you know like Charles Manson and his Family or that rock group that Prince put together called The Family..sinister..not healthy..
What worries me even more is the acceptance The Family continues to have on Capital Hill.
A real president of all the people would find a way to break precedent and not attend this fake religious function..sending a message to all bigots, that their way of thinking will no longer be tolerated.
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AIG Bonuses
How the hell does AIG continue to pay massive bonuses to the very division that tanked this country economically? Today comes word that the company is paying out 100 billion dollars in bonuses and they still owe the American 124 billion dollars in tax money payback..
How does this happen? And isn't it time for Obama to go ghetto on corporate America, the blue dog democrats and the GOP?
Somebody punch John McCain in the ribs and wake him up, please. A couple of years ago he said on the day that the generals came out in favor of repealing Don't ask, Don't tell, he would drop his opposition.
Well John, that day has come and gone. Colin Powell who crafted the so called compromise with Bill Clinton and nearly every other politician, except you and your bigoted brothers and sisters like Barbour and Boehner and Fox and Bachmann, have evolved, and say the policy is bad policy.
You and your clique, however, are content to remain bigoted.
"Patriotism that only serves and never risks one's self-interest isn't patriotism at all. It's selfishness. -John Sidney McCain
Just once, John, I wish you would at least try to live up to your own words...just once. Face the reality, you're never, ever, ever going to be President.
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Obama and the National Prayer Breakfast
What better way to separate church and state as prescribed by the Constitution, then for President Obama to back away from his scheduled visit to the National Prayer Breakfast tomorrow. I know its been an official presidential stop since 1953, however, if this is the time for transparency in government, then stepping away from this event is a big start.
This prayer breakfast which masquerades as a pseudo religious event is nothing but a shady way of attempting to influence government for their pet projects.
I don't care how much they protest to the contrary, these are the guys behind that heinous Ugandan law calling for the death penalty for gays and lesbians. And yet they claim to be Christian.
These prayer breakfast organizers are behind that house in Washington that fronts as a prayer and meditation house for congressme,n...like...Ensign and Sanford..you know the latest lawmakers caught with their zippers open...They call themselves The Family...sounds cultish to me...you know like Charles Manson and his Family or that rock group that Prince put together called The Family..sinister..not healthy..
What worries me even more is the acceptance The Family continues to have on Capital Hill.
A real president of all the people would find a way to break precedent and not attend this fake religious function..sending a message to all bigots, that their way of thinking will no longer be tolerated.
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AIG Bonuses
How the hell does AIG continue to pay massive bonuses to the very division that tanked this country economically? Today comes word that the company is paying out 100 billion dollars in bonuses and they still owe the American 124 billion dollars in tax money payback..
How does this happen? And isn't it time for Obama to go ghetto on corporate America, the blue dog democrats and the GOP?
1.31.2010
Candy Ass Pentagon and Crying in the Military
Now let me get this...you will excuse the expression.....straight....President Obama says he plans to work for the repeal of “don't ask, don't tell” in the American military, this year....A couple of days later the Pentagon says “it will begin studying the PROCESS of repealing DADT....AND...that it....meaning the repeal of the policy, will take several years to complete...WTF!.....The Pentagon statement went on to explain that the military must find a way to do this gradually because of the emotions that soldiers might have when the ban is lifted...HUH!
We are talking about the military here...So when did the feelings of a grunt make any difference to the brass?
I mean on what world do gunnies, much less generals, worry about crying soldiers? I thought crying was a sign of your inner Mary, and the main reason for permanent banishment from the foxhole or trench..
My understanding of the military is..and you can correct me if I'm wrong...that the soldier's only real duty is to follow orders...period...that is where the vaunted military cohesion originates.....soldiers who don't follow orders or who cry...are court martialed and discharged or killed....well, maybe not killed but disciplined...
“you want me on that wall.....you need me on that wall!”
“You can't handle the truth!”
“General.....Did you order the CODE RED?!”
“You're damn right I did!”
This whole movie was about following orders and what happens to a soldier who was outcast in his platoon. He ends up dead on orders from the general. It's not the only movie like this. The lore surrounding the brotherhood of the military is legendary.
So my question....If Obama has issued the CODE RED...and he is Commander in Chief....Who the fuck cares or is taking into consideration, the hurt feelings of a few uber straight guys and gals?
Orders are orders.....no emotions allowed. You bunk where you're told to bunk, shower where you're told to shower and kill when you're told to kill.
It's not complicated....wasn't complicated when England did it or the Scandinavian countries or down under in Australia....these countries simply went cold turkey...
So you're trying to tell me the best fighting machine in the world can't follow one simple order?
“Don't ask don't tell is no longer policy in the American military...replace those pages with these new and updated policy pages in your how to be a soldier manual...effective immediately”
Can't get more simple than that....
1.28.2010
The Politics of Seduction
And President Barack Obama is a master. Once again, after being backed into a corner during the past couple of months, he came out swinging, slamming an oratorical home run over the left field fence, temporarily making me forget the year that was 2009. I loved the speech. In fact, I love listening to Obama talk. While he talks I am inclined to believe everything he says. I tend to take all that he says at face value. I want the feel good snake oil that he peddles every time he opens his mouth to address the American people. His best speeches are like sex on a crowded beach at high noon, crawling with people, walking by, as you surreptitiously get it on, covered by a not big enough towel with a stranger you met twenty minutes before. A stolen, impulsive adrenaline rush kind of moment that you want to go on forever, but doesn't, because it can't.
And now, its the next day and the thrill is gone. The speech is over leaving only the echo of his voice in your mind. Hollow. The politics of seduction, having worked its magic and done its job, fading away in the cold fog of the morning after.
Don't ask, don't tell...remains a vague promise....no deadline...sometime this year he will work for it..
Jobs...calling on business to help...like before...tax cuts to make it so....republican solution..another failed attempt at bipartisan politics
Bitch slapped the Supremes....I did like that.....How can these fools not understand that the Sup co ruling just opened us up to some foreign government like China or even rich man Bin Laden, spending bucks to gift wrap a legal Manchurian candidate for the American people...
His announced intention to go forward with health care reform is good...his blast at the scaredy cat democrats who are backing down was on time. My fear is that what will come is even less than what is currently on the table, and what is currently on the table, sucks...no other way to describe it.
President Obama did go school yard on the GOP, putting them on blast for refusing to take part in governance of the country. Did they hear him? Probably not, judging from their response delivered by the latest Mitt Romney clone, who's upside is that he is not Mitt Romney.
This slight of hand spending freeze...put off for a year...but still nothing less than a covert shout out to conservatives..another attempt to placate them.
Liked his tone. Obama took the middle ground between Fresh Prince Carlton and John Shaft. He didn't back down, instead striking just enough of the right note for the conservative talking heads to resurrect the old “he's arrogant” insult again.
If white people call him arrogant, it means he's doing something right like challenging their sense of control. “the boy just won't stay in his place!”
That's a good thing.
So to conclude, I like the speech. It was the right one for the time. Obama is still the best option given the choices of what else is available. It remains to be seen, however, if he was successful at taking back control of his own narrative from the conservative spin doctors.
And I just wish he'd have slapped the GOP obstructionists as hard as he came down on the Supremes.
1.26.2010
Jim Barack The Hammer Obama Shaft Kelly
I'm at that point in the blaxploitation movie on loop in my head, where I'm ready for some action. We know who the good guys are, we know who the bad guy is, and we know who is supposed to be saved and why.
I'm ready for the big chocolate gun carrying, Jim Brown lookin' actor to whip it out and tell everybody;
“we got to go this way, 'cause if we go back we die, 'n I ain't ready to die just yet!”
The alpha male has spoken....the paler hued Beta Boy glares, and makes an ugly face, like he's going to do something. But he knows on a good day, he can't whip this Negro's ass in a fair fight. So reluctantly, Beta Boy drops his show for the ladies and turns in the direction that Chocolate Thunder wants to go, and starts walking, while the rest of the group meekly follows. No way are they getting in between these two fools, because while they quietly admit that Beta boy, may be their preferred cup of tea, they also know he don't know his ass from a hole in the ground and is totally useless in this situation.
Chocolate Thunder may be straight up crazy, but he knows what he's doing and can help them get home alive, and like all good Negroes, he is going to sacrifice himself and die so that all the good folks can live a better life, while remembering him fondly in their dreams of the good ole days.
So who would you follow? Camera ready Beta Boy or Crazy as a bedbug Chocolate Thunder?
President Obama was supposed to be the one. He was supposed to be the Jim Brown-Chocolate Thunder crazy, who was going to ride into DC and teach all the status quo Beta Boys and Catatonic Neanderthals how to save the people.
But what we've gotten so far, from Obama, is a weak imitation of Carlton, the dimwit cousin from Fresh Prince. All flash but so far, no substance.
I am truly troubled by all this talk of backing up and backing away from Health Care Reform, just because Ted Kennedy's seat was lost in Massachusetts.
One seat, people...ONE STUPID SEAT!.....That still leaves an 18 seat majority in the Senate. It's still a Democrat majority...I don't see the problem. Beta Boy Scott is singing the same song as the rest of his frat club-no plan, no clue. So the majority has to work a little harder. That's why it's called a job!
The American people or those who still have jobs, work everyday, without health care, without guaranteed holidays or carved in stone 4600-dollar yearly pay raises.
Now comes President Obama's first State of the Union Address and from the news reports, he seems more intent on placating us with peripheral bullshit then with delivering the goods. We don't need no stinkin' bipartisanship. We don't need feel good. We don't need 156 different ways to say “Change” in the course of a one hour speech, before a house full of unctuous people pretending to care.
Just once, I would like to see a State of the Union speech where all these fools sit on their hands and listen, quietly to what is being said.
We don't need the pep rally. I don't even care if they twitter to their follower twats, as long as they do it quietly and STFU!
So what should Obama say and do in his State of the Union Speech?
The American people need a jobs program. It's gone way past trickle down, need to work through the system kind of fixes. The guys at that top are doing what they always do, sitting on the money and jamming the feeder pipes so that nothings leaks down or out to the masses.
The American people need some liquid plumber, pronto. They need a powerful motorized snake to unclog the drain and get folks back to work. “F” the system...as in flush the system in order to get it going. We thought Obama would use an executive order or two to mandate some work projects to begin yesterday.
And to make sure that minorities get their fair share, open an office where minority workers or independent workers...those not allowed into the trade unions...to sign up and get hired and put to work alongside the union guys... If a contractor can't or won't use the independents, then his company can't work the project. This does away with the contractors who can't find anybody to work for them except illegal aliens.
Unemployment in my neighborhood is about 20%....yet....there is a lot of renovation going on the houses here.....all of it being done by whites and Hispanics.....in a nearly 100% Black neighborhood...now how does that happen? Not only do we no longer own the homes, we can't get work on them either. And you can bank that its happening everywhere else, too.
After he talks about Jobs, Obama needs to get back to the alphabet...DADT, DOMA, and ENDA. No more talk that it is going to happen. We need to know when it is going to happen. What day is it going to happen? The future is here, now.
Finally, he should now have a real plan for health care reform instead of that bill which is really an insurance industry subsidy program like the stimulus/subsidy program was for Wall Street. Dropping the age limit on medicare to give America what he and Congress already have in their own health care would be a start.
Better yet....why not just cancel the speech....and sit on camera and sign executive orders that really jump start the economy and let the people see that Chocolate Thunder has arrived and is ready willing and able to do crazy for the people in order to get this country back on track.
1.22.2010
Friday Rap
Questions........
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Isn't it time to boycott CBS? Since when is airing an anti abortion ad okay during the Superbowl? If it does air, shouldn't there be equal time for a Trojan ad or Yaz ad? Because you know somewhere in that mix...a Viagra ad is going to pop up, too...but male virility is a right in America, while women's fertility rights are the subject of debate...
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If Sarah Palin is a “real American” and Scott Brown is a “traditional American” What are the rest of us?
Is it just me...or is Scott Brown just a cuter version of Joe the plumber?
Why are the people who voted in Massachusetts seen as speaking for the rest of the country? Ask us how we feel, please...
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If Democrats out number Republicans 59-41 in the Senate and 256-179 in the House...then why is Obama acting like passing health care reform, or anything else for that matter, is suddenly up in the air? Isn't a majority still a majority? Ditto for DOMA, and marriage equality..
Leaving marriage equality to the states is like asking slave owners if they want to let go of their slaves and work their own fields. Didn't work for Lincoln...won't work for Obama, either...
If Obama wants us to coalesce around the “good parts” of his plan, then let's drop the age limit on Medicare and give America what our congressmen already have. Why can't we have what you got?
If we can't have health care reform, then I want something back from Congress...like maybe cancel the ability to automatically give themselves a raise each and every year....2009 raise was 4700-dollars per congressman...or cancel their health care and live like the rest of us..
On the question of jobs...isn't it about time to think about bringing back the WPA?
Reforming Wall Street is only good if it forces the banks to let go of the money they've been sitting on
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The Supco ruling on campaign finance reveals the real damage done by the GOP...really activists judges installed throughout the federal level of the court system..and they are all lifetime appointments....we're reaping what they sowed...
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I hear the White House is trying to figure out ways to make Uganda cancel the law that calls for execution of anyone caught being gay or lesbian....I've got a suggestion.....cancel all the money we're giving them...now....that's a wake up call they will hear...
And by the way...the Bill's sponsor is coming to America to the National Prayer Breakfast at the invitation of several so called Christian Evangelists...including Rick Warren, who are behind this heinous piece of legislation.....Obama is supposed to be at this breakfast.....
Trust me, O, this is really, really not a good move on your part.....
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Did you know the NAACP has nominated Michael Jackson's funeral for an Image Award? Isn't it time to cancel this useless and outdated organization, since they refuse to deal with real issues or recognize and deal with 21st century problems....like AIDS in the Black Community...Black on Black crime....Black male unemployment...out of wedlock babies...Black school dropouts...no Black in college..too depressing to go on...
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Some dude down in Augusta Georgia is starting an all white basketball league..only players who can prove they have two Caucasian parents and are native born Americans can play...No foreign whites need apply either...The league founder says he is tired of street ball as played by Blacks in the NBA and want s to bring the game back to the more fundamentally sound white guys like it used to be played...
First off.....Caucasian is not a race...does not exist
Second.....the early “white” players who excelled in basketball...were Jewish...can they play in this league?
Third......In this mixing pot called America...how is he going to prove who is pure white in the first place? A DNA test? All that will prove is that we all originated in Africa...making us all Africans under the skin and an all white league a genetically impossible situation.. ..
You know....I wish these racists weren't so dumb and would go back to school...it's getting too easy...way to easy...
1.21.2010
Trust Women
As we approach the 37th anniversary of the still controversial Roe v Wade decision by the Supreme Court, giving women, control of their bodies as well as their lives, two recent news stories caught my attention and dramatically reinforced the notion that women still need legal protection from those bent on denying our rights as well as our humanity.
From The Huffington Post comes word of a Superbowl commercial being crafted by Focus on the Family featuring the mother of Tim Tebow, the acclaimed football quarterback from Florida. You can read the whole story here.
However, the gist of the article says that during the commercial, Tim's mother will tell the tale of how she got sick while doing missionary work in the Philippines. She was carrying her fifth child. Doctors, according to the story reportedly told her to get an abortion. She said no, and later gave birth to the baby who would grow into the acclaimed quarterback that many celebrate today.
Second story, this one in The Daily Beast. about a woman who went into a Springfield Massachusetts hospital in 2006, for a C-section delivery of her ninth child She delivered a healthy, full term baby boy, and she asked for and expected to be fitted with an IUD to prevent future pregnancies following the delivery. Instead, during the C-section and without her permission, the surgeons tied her tubes so that she could never have another child, ever. They figured nine was enough.
Now you say, what do these stories have in common....well, the answer is Choice...The choice of a woman to control her own body and reproductive future and health. Choice exercised...Choice taken away.
Quarterback Tim Tebow's mother, Pam, exercised her right to choose. Yet she campaigns vigorously to strip those rights from all other women. She does not trust women to do the right thing because it may not align with what she considers to be the right thing.
But that is not the point of Roe v Wade. All Roe v Wade says is that women have the right to make the decision about what they do with their bodies....Pam Tebow did it....Nadia Suliemann did it....that woman in Utah with 19 children and counting does it every nine months.
These women exercised their right to control their body, period. So why shouldn't the rest of us be able to do the same thing? Why are all women prejudged not capable of trust or control by many like Pam Tebow, simply because it does not line up necessarily with their way of thinking.
By the same token, the right to choose was taken away from the woman in Massachusetts. She gave birth and then had her rights stripped away from her without her knowledge or permission. Someone, somewhere, decided that nine was enough. They took her right to choose away forever.
This woman was violated as if she'd been raped. She was in effect told that, we, the doctors at this hospital, don't trust you to make the right decision about your body, your family and your life.
Forced sterilization in America is supposed to be illegal....It is supposed to be uncivilized, something that American doctors regularly engaged in back in the day when women were wholesale judged as not trustworthy or capable of making any decision, let alone one controlling their own body.
These personal judgments are what women must be protected from. That is what Roe v Wade does. It protects us from the whims of others. All laws like it or not...are double edged...the right to do or the right not to do...
Trusting women is what Roe v Wade is all about. The law says women are the ones best able to decide what goes on in their lives, no one else. We trust you to do the right thing.
Trust Women.
1.20.2010
The Morning After
You know, I don't know which is worse, the daily bombardment of gossipy infotainment that blasts out at us from the majority of formerly reputable news outlets, or the overly sensationalized-hyperbole laced-sky-is-falling-reporting that has destroyed the rest of what used to be news in America.
Massachusetts chose a new Senator to replace the departed Ted Kennedy. OMG ! HE'S A REPUBLICAN!
“HEALTH CARE REFORM IS DEAD! IT'S THE END OF OBAMA! RUN FOR THE HILLS!”
On and on ad nauseum...except...today is the morning after...and we're still here...
Democrats still have an 18 vote majority in the Senate....Likewise in the House......Healthcare is still on the table and passable..
May take a little more work...but hey...not passing it is way worse than passing it..
And the Republicans still don't have a clue or a plan...except to wreck anything that will benefit Americans...that is their only plan, period.....
And what have we learned..... We have learned that..
America is still rife with people who believe in cutting off their nose to spite their face by voting against issues or people who will help them in the long run....
The corporate stranglehold to make reform go away is working well....bought and paid for congressman and scared people who are the monkey wrench thrown into the gears of progress to benefit all..
and
America with its love for the fake and cosmetically enhanced, still loves the cute white guy.....it's about the way he fills out his Speedos, not about what is inside his head or his heart...
Scott Brown! Come on Down!
How much you wanna bet he trades in that pick up truck for a Benz or something equally luxurious within six months of his swearing in.
1.18.2010
No Safe Place
What for many will be a very difficult and emotional journey begins January 19th, 2010, at Cincinnati's Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
"Without Sanctuary," is an exhibit of photographs depicting America's dark and lengthy dance with the devil from 1882 until 1968, when nearly 5000 Americans died at the end of a hangman's noose-lynched and brutalized by their fellow Americans.
The exhibit has been touring the country drawing record crowds. It will stay at the Freedom Center until May of this year.
"Without Sanctuary" sheds light on a very brutal part of American history. It is not the "comfort history" that is routinely taught in schools across America. This exhibit pulls the drape to uncover the remnants of America's Holocaust, that officially lasted from 1619 until 1865 when slaves were officially emancipated.
While emancipation gave the newly freed slaves many of the same rights as other citizens, lynching was used to take them back.
Winking at a white woman is what many believe was the basis behind lynchings. However rape allegations and accusations were the basis behind about a fourth of the incidents. Most people lynched...men and women....were political and labor activists. And while most of those lynched were in fact Black, many were native American, some were Jewish, and some were Hispanic or other minorities.
All committed the ultimate crime of upsetting the status quo as defined by the majority.
The exhibit also reveals what happened here in the tri state during those years. Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana were not guiltless during this era. In fact, this area, right now, present day, remains the number one location for KKK and White Supremacists activity in America. Come learn the history of our area, and find out the part our ancestors played in shaping this shameful era.
I hope that my fellow Cincinnatians will use this opportunity to go and see "Without Sanctuary." And, while you're at it, take in the Freedom Center, tour it and learn history as it should be taught, honestly and simply in the words, deeds and pictures of those who lived and witnessed it.
And look for me, down there, as well. I just recently became a volunteer exhibit interpreter and am geeked about beginning another journey of historical revelation. "Without Sanctuary" represents my first exhibit. I look forward to sharing it with you.
"Without Sanctuary," is an exhibit of photographs depicting America's dark and lengthy dance with the devil from 1882 until 1968, when nearly 5000 Americans died at the end of a hangman's noose-lynched and brutalized by their fellow Americans.
The exhibit has been touring the country drawing record crowds. It will stay at the Freedom Center until May of this year.
"Without Sanctuary" sheds light on a very brutal part of American history. It is not the "comfort history" that is routinely taught in schools across America. This exhibit pulls the drape to uncover the remnants of America's Holocaust, that officially lasted from 1619 until 1865 when slaves were officially emancipated.
While emancipation gave the newly freed slaves many of the same rights as other citizens, lynching was used to take them back.
Winking at a white woman is what many believe was the basis behind lynchings. However rape allegations and accusations were the basis behind about a fourth of the incidents. Most people lynched...men and women....were political and labor activists. And while most of those lynched were in fact Black, many were native American, some were Jewish, and some were Hispanic or other minorities.
All committed the ultimate crime of upsetting the status quo as defined by the majority.
The exhibit also reveals what happened here in the tri state during those years. Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana were not guiltless during this era. In fact, this area, right now, present day, remains the number one location for KKK and White Supremacists activity in America. Come learn the history of our area, and find out the part our ancestors played in shaping this shameful era.
I hope that my fellow Cincinnatians will use this opportunity to go and see "Without Sanctuary." And, while you're at it, take in the Freedom Center, tour it and learn history as it should be taught, honestly and simply in the words, deeds and pictures of those who lived and witnessed it.
And look for me, down there, as well. I just recently became a volunteer exhibit interpreter and am geeked about beginning another journey of historical revelation. "Without Sanctuary" represents my first exhibit. I look forward to sharing it with you.
1.17.2010
What My Mother has Seen, on her 80th Birthday
I can only begin to imagine what my mother has seen and lived through in her now 80 years on this planet. I know some it because of the part that I have lived through with her, since I am her first and eldest child.
I am nearly 60, so we've been together for a very long time. She had me when she was 8 months into her 20th year. I was unplanned. She was unmarried. I don't know how it happened except she used to joke about the back seat of a convertible. My arrival was something else that my father wouldn't talk about. He did the right thing and married her seven days before I was born, though.
Justice of the peace. Nothing fancy. Mom did say her mother in law was totally against the marriage. I'm not surprised, my grandmother never liked me either and I was an innocent.
I am blessed with having had two parents all of my life. I wondered many times if they loved each other or if it was duty and me, and then my sisters, that kept them together. My mom often said it was the later. Yet almost 60 years and they still share the same roof. The roles are now reversed. My mom the ultimate caretaker ,is the one needing care. My father, the provider, has become the caretaker all the while worrying about his own mortality. He is facing 82 years, later this year. He diligently
takes care of her now.
But my mom, lives vividly in my memories. My sisters never saw the baseball player. The one who played baseball, not softball. The one who taught me how to pitch softball, hours of practice in the backyard. My mother, who reveled in the company of women, and still managed to be the perfect wife for my very traditional father. She taught me tennis, too. We'd take wooden racquets and go up to Walnut Hills High School and practice weekly.
She never missed any of my games, no matter what sport I played She was always there and I could always hear her above the crowd noise. When we lost, which was rare, she
would tell me...”don't like losing....then don't lose....get better.” That's the way I approach everything....I don't like losing....so I strive to get better....always...still....
My sisters never saw the roller skater. The one who would load up her girlfriends in the car and drive to Indiana to a skating rink, on Tuesday nights, to spend the evening
dancing on skates, only to have to run home and be there by midnight. Midnight was her curfew time, set by my father. She had one. I knew this because I saw her miss it once. The girls wanted to stay longer and she said okay. I wonder if they ever found out what kind of trouble she got into for a few more minutes of fun.
Dad skated, too. He just never made the trips to Indiana, and he looked awkward on wheels when he did put them on. I often wondered if he knew about those trips before she broke curfew. I did. His skates were black and kept in a purple metal case. My mom rolled on Chicago wheels, with white leather uppers, and she kept them in a light blue case. I always wanted skates like hers, and got them. They were my prized possession along with my left handed baseball glove, when I was a kid.
When mom got done with skating, she took up bowling, at Friscos Lanes on Pebbles Corner on McMillan. Thursday night ladies league. My mom was so good that she finished
second in a statewide amateur tournament. She rolled a high game 222, beaten by a 223. These women on her team were good. I wanted to grow up to bowl with them. I did one year after I turned 18. I was good, but never in their class. Dad rolled pretty good, too. Except he couldn't beat mom. Saw that at Princeton Bowl one Sunday. He stopped
bowling after that.
Nor could he out shoot her. He loves guns. He took her pheasant hunting at his private club one time with the guys. Mom was dead on, beat everybody, bagged her two birds which was the limit, in record time, and she was never allowed to outshine him
hunting again. “Women don't hunt,” dad said. She laughed. The memory of the look on his face that day was enough.
Bowling with my mom at 18, I found out she smoked cigarettes. At 18, can you imagine, not knowing your mother had the habit. She never smoked at home, or in my dad's car.
She came home smelling like smoke, but I knew all of her friends smoked, so I thought it was them. It was them, but it was her too. My father didn't approve, so we, the kids never saw it. Until one day it clicked and she got tired of hiding and she started smoking at home for a short time, until she quit. That was a surprise, too. She quit cold turkey for a year, before anyone realized. She used her cigarette money to buy Christmas presents for us on that one year anniversary. I know mom drank, too, but never around dad, the tee-totaler.
One thing they did do together was play bid whist. They were a good team. Mom talked plenty smack when playing. Dad talked too, just not as loud or flamboyantly as mom. She
had a woman's group for that too. Girls from bowling and some of our neighbors played. I remember one time, I walked through the family room when the girls were playing cards and our next door neighbor asked me, “Jo Anne, when you getting' married?” I didn't miss a beat and said..”hasn't my mother told you I'm gay, yet?” Kept walking. My mother was the first person that I came out to years before. All she said at the time was, “are you okay?” That was it. No drama.
Two different people and approaches to life in general. I wonder, if my mother would have chosen differently if she didn't have to worry about taking care of me? I wonder if she would have chosen to be more true to herself and natural nature. I can ask, but I don't think the answer would be truthful. I think she would tell me what she thinks I would want to hear, rather than what she really wants to say. Always looking out for her kids..no matter how old they are.
Her love for me is something I never ever wonder about, nor question.
Happy Birthday, Mom.
I am nearly 60, so we've been together for a very long time. She had me when she was 8 months into her 20th year. I was unplanned. She was unmarried. I don't know how it happened except she used to joke about the back seat of a convertible. My arrival was something else that my father wouldn't talk about. He did the right thing and married her seven days before I was born, though.
Justice of the peace. Nothing fancy. Mom did say her mother in law was totally against the marriage. I'm not surprised, my grandmother never liked me either and I was an innocent.
I am blessed with having had two parents all of my life. I wondered many times if they loved each other or if it was duty and me, and then my sisters, that kept them together. My mom often said it was the later. Yet almost 60 years and they still share the same roof. The roles are now reversed. My mom the ultimate caretaker ,is the one needing care. My father, the provider, has become the caretaker all the while worrying about his own mortality. He is facing 82 years, later this year. He diligently
takes care of her now.
But my mom, lives vividly in my memories. My sisters never saw the baseball player. The one who played baseball, not softball. The one who taught me how to pitch softball, hours of practice in the backyard. My mother, who reveled in the company of women, and still managed to be the perfect wife for my very traditional father. She taught me tennis, too. We'd take wooden racquets and go up to Walnut Hills High School and practice weekly.
She never missed any of my games, no matter what sport I played She was always there and I could always hear her above the crowd noise. When we lost, which was rare, she
would tell me...”don't like losing....then don't lose....get better.” That's the way I approach everything....I don't like losing....so I strive to get better....always...still....
My sisters never saw the roller skater. The one who would load up her girlfriends in the car and drive to Indiana to a skating rink, on Tuesday nights, to spend the evening
dancing on skates, only to have to run home and be there by midnight. Midnight was her curfew time, set by my father. She had one. I knew this because I saw her miss it once. The girls wanted to stay longer and she said okay. I wonder if they ever found out what kind of trouble she got into for a few more minutes of fun.
Dad skated, too. He just never made the trips to Indiana, and he looked awkward on wheels when he did put them on. I often wondered if he knew about those trips before she broke curfew. I did. His skates were black and kept in a purple metal case. My mom rolled on Chicago wheels, with white leather uppers, and she kept them in a light blue case. I always wanted skates like hers, and got them. They were my prized possession along with my left handed baseball glove, when I was a kid.
When mom got done with skating, she took up bowling, at Friscos Lanes on Pebbles Corner on McMillan. Thursday night ladies league. My mom was so good that she finished
second in a statewide amateur tournament. She rolled a high game 222, beaten by a 223. These women on her team were good. I wanted to grow up to bowl with them. I did one year after I turned 18. I was good, but never in their class. Dad rolled pretty good, too. Except he couldn't beat mom. Saw that at Princeton Bowl one Sunday. He stopped
bowling after that.
Nor could he out shoot her. He loves guns. He took her pheasant hunting at his private club one time with the guys. Mom was dead on, beat everybody, bagged her two birds which was the limit, in record time, and she was never allowed to outshine him
hunting again. “Women don't hunt,” dad said. She laughed. The memory of the look on his face that day was enough.
Bowling with my mom at 18, I found out she smoked cigarettes. At 18, can you imagine, not knowing your mother had the habit. She never smoked at home, or in my dad's car.
She came home smelling like smoke, but I knew all of her friends smoked, so I thought it was them. It was them, but it was her too. My father didn't approve, so we, the kids never saw it. Until one day it clicked and she got tired of hiding and she started smoking at home for a short time, until she quit. That was a surprise, too. She quit cold turkey for a year, before anyone realized. She used her cigarette money to buy Christmas presents for us on that one year anniversary. I know mom drank, too, but never around dad, the tee-totaler.
One thing they did do together was play bid whist. They were a good team. Mom talked plenty smack when playing. Dad talked too, just not as loud or flamboyantly as mom. She
had a woman's group for that too. Girls from bowling and some of our neighbors played. I remember one time, I walked through the family room when the girls were playing cards and our next door neighbor asked me, “Jo Anne, when you getting' married?” I didn't miss a beat and said..”hasn't my mother told you I'm gay, yet?” Kept walking. My mother was the first person that I came out to years before. All she said at the time was, “are you okay?” That was it. No drama.
Two different people and approaches to life in general. I wonder, if my mother would have chosen differently if she didn't have to worry about taking care of me? I wonder if she would have chosen to be more true to herself and natural nature. I can ask, but I don't think the answer would be truthful. I think she would tell me what she thinks I would want to hear, rather than what she really wants to say. Always looking out for her kids..no matter how old they are.
Her love for me is something I never ever wonder about, nor question.
Happy Birthday, Mom.
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