Where is Rachelle Ferrell and Why won't she come home?
9.18.2009
9.17.2009
If It Walks Like a Duck and Quacks.....
Obama in denial about racism, misses opportunity to address systemic issues
I understand that Obama has firmly planted himself in the middle. He wants to be president to everybody. I'm on board with that. He was elected by nearly everybody. However, the very vocal minority who didn't vote for him and even refuse to recognize his very human-ness, as well as his American-ness, have hijacked the national conversation.
Jimmy Carter, the former president who was not as bad a president as some would imagine, kicked the door wide open on the subject. All Obama had to do was to walk through and begin the discussion.
But he backed off, preferring instead to let Carter twist in the wind. Carter's problem, even when he was president, was that he usually spoke the truth..
People just didn't want to hear it.
If this country had taken the steps mandated by Carter, back in the day, we might not be paying $4 for gasoline and hundreds of dollars a month heat our homes.
If we had listened to Carter back then, America would probably be green today living on solar power instead of just getting into the ballgame with two out in the 9th and the score 10-1.
The problem with Obama is that he still thinks he is walking the hallways of academia breathing that rarified air of debate, discussion and civil discourse....
while a street fight has broken out around him....
The guns are literally out in full view......and he doesn't want to talk about it.....
First things first...let's deal with health care reform...or let's put wall street back on track....or let's look for alternatives solutions to our energy crisis...
Note to O.....the underlying cause of this stuff.....is racism...systemic...institutionalized racism...except now it has broken into the streets and some people are hiding behind the first amendment and threatening to invoke the second....
Whole Black people have had to deal with this scenario our entire lives..."you don't like what we sayin'....we will kill you!"
That is the message from the streets to the White House...
The problem with ducking the issue in hopes that it disappears is that it doesn't...It does what things do when pushed underground and ignored.....It grows and grows until it pushes itself into the light of day...and one day you trip over it...
Obama talks about the racism he heard from his white grandmother....it is one thing to hear it from a white relative....
This is his way of showing off his so called Black credibility....see I'm really one of ya'll....
But it is another thing completely to experience it over and over again from strangers....His grandmother loved him and protected him from it as he lived in her world...even as she spoke it and practiced it against others....
He needs to step to the plate and deal with a problem that still has a strangle hold on this country.....
No amount of ducking the issue or shushing former presidents is going to make it go away..
I understand that Obama has firmly planted himself in the middle. He wants to be president to everybody. I'm on board with that. He was elected by nearly everybody. However, the very vocal minority who didn't vote for him and even refuse to recognize his very human-ness, as well as his American-ness, have hijacked the national conversation.
Jimmy Carter, the former president who was not as bad a president as some would imagine, kicked the door wide open on the subject. All Obama had to do was to walk through and begin the discussion.
But he backed off, preferring instead to let Carter twist in the wind. Carter's problem, even when he was president, was that he usually spoke the truth..
People just didn't want to hear it.
If this country had taken the steps mandated by Carter, back in the day, we might not be paying $4 for gasoline and hundreds of dollars a month heat our homes.
If we had listened to Carter back then, America would probably be green today living on solar power instead of just getting into the ballgame with two out in the 9th and the score 10-1.
The problem with Obama is that he still thinks he is walking the hallways of academia breathing that rarified air of debate, discussion and civil discourse....
while a street fight has broken out around him....
The guns are literally out in full view......and he doesn't want to talk about it.....
First things first...let's deal with health care reform...or let's put wall street back on track....or let's look for alternatives solutions to our energy crisis...
Note to O.....the underlying cause of this stuff.....is racism...systemic...institutionalized racism...except now it has broken into the streets and some people are hiding behind the first amendment and threatening to invoke the second....
Whole Black people have had to deal with this scenario our entire lives..."you don't like what we sayin'....we will kill you!"
That is the message from the streets to the White House...
The problem with ducking the issue in hopes that it disappears is that it doesn't...It does what things do when pushed underground and ignored.....It grows and grows until it pushes itself into the light of day...and one day you trip over it...
Obama talks about the racism he heard from his white grandmother....it is one thing to hear it from a white relative....
This is his way of showing off his so called Black credibility....see I'm really one of ya'll....
But it is another thing completely to experience it over and over again from strangers....His grandmother loved him and protected him from it as he lived in her world...even as she spoke it and practiced it against others....
He needs to step to the plate and deal with a problem that still has a strangle hold on this country.....
No amount of ducking the issue or shushing former presidents is going to make it go away..
Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary...
Mary, along with Peter and Paul are some of the voices that play in my head, when I think about my youth.
This was one of my favorite songs....in this video, John Denver is singing with them...He is the man who wrote this song...
May she find peace
9.16.2009
Midweek Observations
Alan Wilson who is the oldest son of Congressman Joe from South Carolina says there is not a racist bone in his daddy's body. Alan says daddy doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes...
In case you forgot Daddy Joe is the one who yelled at Obama and before that was mentored by Strom Thurmond (never say anything bad about the dead unless you can say something good.....he's dead...good)
Joe, when he was a young pup called Strom's black daughter disrespectful for simply saying truthfully that Strom was her father....
Strom financially supported his child her whole life...but I've got to wonder, since the 16 year old maid who bore Essie worked for the Thurmonds...
Was this a love affair....or was it a rape...by massa's son?
Just askin.........
Daddy Joe also has a thing for the confederate flag, too...
But no...he's not racist....
None of em are, to hear them tell it....It's all a figment of Black people's imagination for the past 400 years..
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OJ's ex......speaking about her 13 year relationship with the Juice who is now safely behind bars...
I almost had some sympathy for this woman...you know, Stockholm Syndrome and all that....
Until I found out where she met OJ.....outside his house where he committed the murders...she was there with other sightseers to look at the murder scene after it happened, and OJ came out and spotted her in the crowd....and what do you know...they fell in love...
She said in the interview that she stayed with him...even after he confessed to killing Nicole and Ron Brown, because she feared he would do the same to her.....
Let's back up a minute....
Girlfriend...if you're walking through the woods and a big black furry thing with claws, drool running down his neck and miles of big teeth stands up in front of you, stopping your stroll...you don't go up and ask it....”Are you a bear?....Am I in danger?”
You err on the side of caution....turn around....and hope you can outrun Yogi before BooBoo joins him in the chase......
In other words...DB.....you don't take up with men you meet at crime scenes...especially if he lives in the house and his wife who looks like you...is the one that's dead....
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Whitney and Oprah
The Diva sit down.....parts one and two....It's all Bobby's fault....Everything....I was just trying to be a good wife and go along with the program for the sake of my child....
Please....
Love me some Whitney....but I still see some issues that need resolving, big time...It ain't over..and this time...Bobby's not there to take the blame...
You've got to own it...before you can control it.....
And Oprah....don't think that sneaky comparison of Bobby to Stedman was missed...It wasn't...
You ain't slick girlfriend....
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Kanye.....as long as the boy has FU money...he is going to do whatever he pleases...he is on the AAA list and until such time as the white powers that control MTV...BET...Viacom and whoever....he will be there to do exactly he did to whomever..
Like him or not...he makes headlines....
And make no mistake about it....I don't like him...don't think he is talented...and my gaydar is really up in his direction....like a damn homing signal on his ass...
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The View
Never thought I would want Elizabeth to come back....Megan was okay as fill in..In fact they could lose Elizabeth and plug in Megan...I'm okay with that....
But this Kate Gosselin...what were they thinking.......Useless.....totally useless...
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9/12 Million-950,000 Moron March
What does it say about your movement when fake pictures are used to allegedly document it...
Glen Beck....the guy who talked it up...refused to attend...
So what...he had a schedule conflict for his own party...I know...the dog ate the invitations after he had them printed.....what...
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And I am literally choking on these words....
Dick Cheney was right....He said that once Obama got into the White House he would like all those imperial presidency trappings that he and Dubya pushed through...
Obama wants to keep the patriot act in place.....
What's that saying...."absolute power corrupts absolutely....
As for the Health Care Reform Bill.....Baucus has proven to be the sell out that we knew he was....$3 million dollars from Big Pharma into his pocket will do that....
Note to President O......health care reform without a public option is the status quo that you keep saying you intend to change.....
hearin' me brah?
In case you forgot Daddy Joe is the one who yelled at Obama and before that was mentored by Strom Thurmond (never say anything bad about the dead unless you can say something good.....he's dead...good)
Joe, when he was a young pup called Strom's black daughter disrespectful for simply saying truthfully that Strom was her father....
Strom financially supported his child her whole life...but I've got to wonder, since the 16 year old maid who bore Essie worked for the Thurmonds...
Was this a love affair....or was it a rape...by massa's son?
Just askin.........
Daddy Joe also has a thing for the confederate flag, too...
But no...he's not racist....
None of em are, to hear them tell it....It's all a figment of Black people's imagination for the past 400 years..
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OJ's ex......speaking about her 13 year relationship with the Juice who is now safely behind bars...
I almost had some sympathy for this woman...you know, Stockholm Syndrome and all that....
Until I found out where she met OJ.....outside his house where he committed the murders...she was there with other sightseers to look at the murder scene after it happened, and OJ came out and spotted her in the crowd....and what do you know...they fell in love...
She said in the interview that she stayed with him...even after he confessed to killing Nicole and Ron Brown, because she feared he would do the same to her.....
Let's back up a minute....
Girlfriend...if you're walking through the woods and a big black furry thing with claws, drool running down his neck and miles of big teeth stands up in front of you, stopping your stroll...you don't go up and ask it....”Are you a bear?....Am I in danger?”
You err on the side of caution....turn around....and hope you can outrun Yogi before BooBoo joins him in the chase......
In other words...DB.....you don't take up with men you meet at crime scenes...especially if he lives in the house and his wife who looks like you...is the one that's dead....
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Whitney and Oprah
The Diva sit down.....parts one and two....It's all Bobby's fault....Everything....I was just trying to be a good wife and go along with the program for the sake of my child....
Please....
Love me some Whitney....but I still see some issues that need resolving, big time...It ain't over..and this time...Bobby's not there to take the blame...
You've got to own it...before you can control it.....
And Oprah....don't think that sneaky comparison of Bobby to Stedman was missed...It wasn't...
You ain't slick girlfriend....
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Kanye.....as long as the boy has FU money...he is going to do whatever he pleases...he is on the AAA list and until such time as the white powers that control MTV...BET...Viacom and whoever....he will be there to do exactly he did to whomever..
Like him or not...he makes headlines....
And make no mistake about it....I don't like him...don't think he is talented...and my gaydar is really up in his direction....like a damn homing signal on his ass...
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The View
Never thought I would want Elizabeth to come back....Megan was okay as fill in..In fact they could lose Elizabeth and plug in Megan...I'm okay with that....
But this Kate Gosselin...what were they thinking.......Useless.....totally useless...
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9/12 Million-950,000 Moron March
What does it say about your movement when fake pictures are used to allegedly document it...
Glen Beck....the guy who talked it up...refused to attend...
So what...he had a schedule conflict for his own party...I know...the dog ate the invitations after he had them printed.....what...
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And I am literally choking on these words....
Dick Cheney was right....He said that once Obama got into the White House he would like all those imperial presidency trappings that he and Dubya pushed through...
Obama wants to keep the patriot act in place.....
What's that saying...."absolute power corrupts absolutely....
As for the Health Care Reform Bill.....Baucus has proven to be the sell out that we knew he was....$3 million dollars from Big Pharma into his pocket will do that....
Note to President O......health care reform without a public option is the status quo that you keep saying you intend to change.....
hearin' me brah?
9.15.2009
Boys Being Girls...R.I.P. Patrick and Zakes
Zakes Mokae passed away at the age of 75. He played in many, many movies as well as acting on stage.
You may remember him as Gregory Hines cross dressing friend Big Kathy in A Rage in Harlem.
He was also in Vampire in Brookyn and many other movies..
Patrick ranked high on my list of fun people to watch...Too Wong Foo, which sported three of the ugliest drag queens on the face of this earth, but I love the movie...Dirty Dancing and Ghost...simply the best...
He was 57.
9.14.2009
Serena Apologizes
Serena Williams Statement, September 14, 2009
“I want to amend my press statement of yesterday, and want to make it clear as possible - I want to sincerely apologize FIRST to the lines woman, Kim Clijsters, the USTA and mostly tennis fans everywhere for my inappropriate outburst. I'm a woman of great pride, faith and integrity, and I admit when I'm wrong. I need to make it clear to all young people that I handled myself inappropriately and it's not the way to act -- win or lose, good call or bad call in any sport, in any manner.
I like to lead by example. We all learn from experiences both good and bad, I will learn and grow from this, and be a better person as a result.”
--Apology accepted
by the by....The sisters won the doubles finals today defeating the defending champs and number one ranked women's doubles team in the world...
The Williams took three out of four gram slam doubles trophies this year..losing only the French...
They already own the career slam..and are two of only three active players who can make that claim...
Go Williams..
“I want to amend my press statement of yesterday, and want to make it clear as possible - I want to sincerely apologize FIRST to the lines woman, Kim Clijsters, the USTA and mostly tennis fans everywhere for my inappropriate outburst. I'm a woman of great pride, faith and integrity, and I admit when I'm wrong. I need to make it clear to all young people that I handled myself inappropriately and it's not the way to act -- win or lose, good call or bad call in any sport, in any manner.
I like to lead by example. We all learn from experiences both good and bad, I will learn and grow from this, and be a better person as a result.”
--Apology accepted
by the by....The sisters won the doubles finals today defeating the defending champs and number one ranked women's doubles team in the world...
The Williams took three out of four gram slam doubles trophies this year..losing only the French...
They already own the career slam..and are two of only three active players who can make that claim...
Go Williams..
9.13.2009
Serena 's PMS Moment
Make no mistake about it Kim Clijsters deserves to play for the US Open title today. She won it fair and square. I said earlier this week that she would be a headache for Serena, because Clijsters is a very good player from the old school. She doesn't wilt at the sight of her opponent across the net. She plays her game, which has always been one of the best return games in the business.
Most counter punchers, which Clijsters is....don't have anything to their game except the counter punch..in other words the passing shot or the very sharp angle return...Clijsters has that and strength and a serve...both first and second...and she is smart...very smart......and cool under pressure...
When you play Kim Clijsters, you bring your A game or you go home. It's that simple. Serena did not bring her A game last night. Her serve sucked. She couldn't get the first one in and her second simply disappeared. Add to those woes a backhand that became uncontrollable and you have a problem. It's happened before to Serena. But usually she is composed enough to fight through the problems and get back enough of her game to win. Not last night.
Every great player always has that match during a two week tournament where things don't go right. Hopefully they have it early in the tournament...get it out of their system...so that late in the tournament...when they meet the better players...they are battle tested and ready....Serena was not ready...she had not been tested at all in these past couple of weeks..
Further....she seems to be believing the hype...and when you're reading and believing your press clippings more than your fans...you are setting yourself for a big fall...
She totally self destructed starting with when she broke her racket in the first set, which was also a point penalty deduction. The foot fault at championship point was her second penalty of the night.
And yes, she did cuss out the linesman...going in not once...but twice....you could hear every word on the live feed....it was only bleeped in the replay....
I questioned the foot fault...I don't even see it on the replay....However...there was no excuse for Serena's behavior...
It was a total PMS moment.... completely unexplainable...
She lost it....lost it at the wrong time...Unfortunate...but stuff happens...
9.11.2009
Friday Rap
9/11
8th anniversary of the attack on America. There is still a hole in the ground where the Trade Towers stood. Bush is out of office, but the war in Afghanistan is bloodier than before, even as Iraq is winding down, thanks to Obama.
Waldo, Osama and Carmen
Waldo, Osama Bin Laden and Carmen Sandiego are the only three people in the world that American spy satellites can't seem to locate. Despite a 25-million dollar bounty on his head and the fact that he has failing kidneys and is 6 feet 4 inches tall, They can't find him...
Think about it....a six foot four Arab pulling a dialysis machine through mountains...
Do we really want to find this guy? After all...America armed the Taliban in the first place...Why can't we end this American created inter squad scrimmage and come home, now?
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Michael
MJ may have been the king of pop when alive, but his family is going to make him the hardest working man in show business, since he passed. Joe's got all kinds of plans for his late, estranged son...Jermaine is in the corner scheming like always, while the other brothers run around looking lost..
The crazy one, LaToya is screaming murder and doing all the interviews...so you know there is nothing of substance being said....The MSM talks to her because they want controversy and headlines..nothing more...that's not news...
Katherine and Janet seem to be only voices of sanity, trying to keep the others from spinning totally out of control.....and those poor kids are trapped in the middle.....lost in Jackson Wonderworld..
And I don't care who gave him the injection.....Michael was an addict....He did what addicts do..had the money to get it done....and paid the consequences....
He killed himself...
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Caster Semenya
May be an intersexual...or sources allegedly close to the testing have told a couple of foreign newspapers..Today, I am questioning those reports as accurate....primarily because...of the terms that the sources are using...Hermaphrodite is not the au currant term these days....It's Intersexed..
In the meantime these “sources” say she has organs for both men and women. The sports governing group says since she didn't cheat, she may get to keep her medals, but they still have studying to do and that will take a few more weeks...
The downside is that she may never be allowed to compete again, because she is too strong to go against women, yet not man enough to go against men...
There is an upside to all of this controversy....the girl is happy with who she is...the world seems to be happy that she is happy...and that is a good thing....no one wants her stripped of her medals or hurt anymore by this mess...
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Joe Wilson
It gets better about Congressman Joe “that's a lie” Wilson....seems he is back tracking his apology saying the GOP leadership told him to say sorry....
Kind of like the kid who gets the crap beat out of him then tries to spin it by saying...”did you see me punch his fist with my face?.....I kicked his ass!”
Yeah, right..
This little piss-ant apparently has a long history of letting his mouth get his behind in trouble...seems way back when, when the world got wind of racist Strom Thurmond's black daughter...Wilson attacked the daughter....Essie Washington....as disrespecting a fine upstanding and respectable Congressman that was the segregationist Thurmond.....All Essie said to disrespect the man was....”yes, he is my father.”
Thurmond supported Essie his entire life....just kept her hidden....to keep his buddies from stripping him of his KKK membership...
Wilson, like many of his modern day fellow republicans has a problem with black-white love or sex...especially when it begets babies who may someday grow up to be president...
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Mad Dogs and Republicans Come Out in the Noon Day Sun
This week shows that the GOP has jumped off into the deep end is unsteadily stroking into deeper and deeper water. They've reached the point of no return and don't seem to realize it..
They've marginalized the sane members and embraced the lunatics...
Can total extinction be far behind?
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Queen Serena
Has her toughest match this afternoon, not Saturday night when the final will be played...She is playing Kim Clijsters today in the semis.....Kim is dangerous and has nothing to lose...Love her game...but I love Serena even more....
Go Serena!
The sisters are in the Doubles finals on Sunday...they got pushed yesterday...but got through it...that's okay....They need to be pushed in order to get better....
Go Venus! Go Serena! Go Venus! Go Serena!
8th anniversary of the attack on America. There is still a hole in the ground where the Trade Towers stood. Bush is out of office, but the war in Afghanistan is bloodier than before, even as Iraq is winding down, thanks to Obama.
Waldo, Osama and Carmen
Waldo, Osama Bin Laden and Carmen Sandiego are the only three people in the world that American spy satellites can't seem to locate. Despite a 25-million dollar bounty on his head and the fact that he has failing kidneys and is 6 feet 4 inches tall, They can't find him...
Think about it....a six foot four Arab pulling a dialysis machine through mountains...
Do we really want to find this guy? After all...America armed the Taliban in the first place...Why can't we end this American created inter squad scrimmage and come home, now?
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Michael
MJ may have been the king of pop when alive, but his family is going to make him the hardest working man in show business, since he passed. Joe's got all kinds of plans for his late, estranged son...Jermaine is in the corner scheming like always, while the other brothers run around looking lost..
The crazy one, LaToya is screaming murder and doing all the interviews...so you know there is nothing of substance being said....The MSM talks to her because they want controversy and headlines..nothing more...that's not news...
Katherine and Janet seem to be only voices of sanity, trying to keep the others from spinning totally out of control.....and those poor kids are trapped in the middle.....lost in Jackson Wonderworld..
And I don't care who gave him the injection.....Michael was an addict....He did what addicts do..had the money to get it done....and paid the consequences....
He killed himself...
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Caster Semenya
May be an intersexual...or sources allegedly close to the testing have told a couple of foreign newspapers..Today, I am questioning those reports as accurate....primarily because...of the terms that the sources are using...Hermaphrodite is not the au currant term these days....It's Intersexed..
In the meantime these “sources” say she has organs for both men and women. The sports governing group says since she didn't cheat, she may get to keep her medals, but they still have studying to do and that will take a few more weeks...
The downside is that she may never be allowed to compete again, because she is too strong to go against women, yet not man enough to go against men...
There is an upside to all of this controversy....the girl is happy with who she is...the world seems to be happy that she is happy...and that is a good thing....no one wants her stripped of her medals or hurt anymore by this mess...
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Joe Wilson
It gets better about Congressman Joe “that's a lie” Wilson....seems he is back tracking his apology saying the GOP leadership told him to say sorry....
Kind of like the kid who gets the crap beat out of him then tries to spin it by saying...”did you see me punch his fist with my face?.....I kicked his ass!”
Yeah, right..
This little piss-ant apparently has a long history of letting his mouth get his behind in trouble...seems way back when, when the world got wind of racist Strom Thurmond's black daughter...Wilson attacked the daughter....Essie Washington....as disrespecting a fine upstanding and respectable Congressman that was the segregationist Thurmond.....All Essie said to disrespect the man was....”yes, he is my father.”
Thurmond supported Essie his entire life....just kept her hidden....to keep his buddies from stripping him of his KKK membership...
Wilson, like many of his modern day fellow republicans has a problem with black-white love or sex...especially when it begets babies who may someday grow up to be president...
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Mad Dogs and Republicans Come Out in the Noon Day Sun
This week shows that the GOP has jumped off into the deep end is unsteadily stroking into deeper and deeper water. They've reached the point of no return and don't seem to realize it..
They've marginalized the sane members and embraced the lunatics...
Can total extinction be far behind?
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Queen Serena
Has her toughest match this afternoon, not Saturday night when the final will be played...She is playing Kim Clijsters today in the semis.....Kim is dangerous and has nothing to lose...Love her game...but I love Serena even more....
Go Serena!
The sisters are in the Doubles finals on Sunday...they got pushed yesterday...but got through it...that's okay....They need to be pushed in order to get better....
Go Venus! Go Serena! Go Venus! Go Serena!
9.09.2009
Cincinnati Media Misses Real Story
First African American Named as President of Major University
Normally that would be the headline when a Black is tapped to do something the first time. Forever, his or her name would be prefixed by “first African American” this or that, whenever he is talked about in the news.
However there is a problem here and the problem is that Gregory H. Williams, looks like a white man. He identifies himself as African American, so we're not spilling any family secrets here.
He is okay with his identity, in fact he wrote a book about it. The stories today point out his relationship to two coaches for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Yet, the media is in a state of flux about how to identify this man. If he were my color, there would be no problem. If his skin is dark, then he is first and foremost identified by his color.
“First African American Named to Lead UC” or some such statement.
The media is still stuck and probably forever will be stuck in telling stories by stereotype, rather than finding the real story inside the facts.
The fact that this man spans and lives and has survived in both worlds is interesting in and of itself regardless of his new position of power, especially since he rose to power after embracing his dark side...
Identifying him the way he identifies himself and then telling the story of how he reached that point is infinitely more interesting than the one the MSM has set itself up to tell.
Their fear of possibly offending someone or of shying away from the facts is why they've lost all credibility in a game they created...
In a time when we're trying to bolster young black men to stay in school and to seek achievement rather than run from it, Gregory Williams is an excellent role model.
I know, I know...I hear you....he achieved in a white skin with full white privilege in play...looking and thinking that he was a white man...until he met his family...all of his family....
Well, after meeting his family...he didn't lie or run away from what he is...he embraced it and went on..
He says he is a Black man...and that is good enough for me...
It is also the story inside the story that should be told...
9.08.2009
A Nation of Stupid People
Despite what my teachers told me all the way through school, even in college, I knew that I would never make a good teacher. My teachers told me from third grade on, that I had what it took to educate other people. I had the ability to make them see history or to understand science or to solve the riddles hidden in psychology.
What my teachers didn't know and that I never told them, is that I have trouble dealing with people who lack my passion for the subject. In other words, if you don't care and don't want to learn, I don't care and will not try to force feed it to you.
A good teacher overlooks this and continually tries to bring the mountain to Mohammed, so to speak. Not me. I know the damn mountain won't move and if Mohammed's not interested in seeing it, I'm not interested in breaking a sweat to get dirty for someone who doesn't care in the first place.
The one person who should be talking to school kids is President Obama. He is the walking, talking, living, breathing example of the American dream. He is the one who puts the truth in this convoluted, racist driven country called America.
All teachers should have to do is to stand in front of their class and when some student gives them some grief....wave a picture of Obama at them and say....”wanna be like him....put your head back in that book!”
But a lot of people don't want this to happen. They don't want their kids to be like Obama.
For a long time, education, knowledge, and intellectualism has been frowned upon in this country. It seems as though that anyone who loves learning and welcomes different viewpoints is adjudged to be unpatriotic or un-American.
We've ventured into a climate where we burn not only books but the book reader as well as the author in one big bonfire.
It's not cool to be smart or book learned in this day and age. And it's not just a white conservative problem, Blacks who embrace knowledge are routinely called out for acting too white.
Black schools are bereft of parental input, teachers more burdened with raising and civilizing kids rather educating them.
The result is a nation of stupid people. People who are motivated by fear instead of reason. People who see crossing the street out of their neighborhood as a danger instead of an adventure toward new people, ideas and places.
And that fear is being exploited by the power hungry, the ambitious, willing to use that fear to get what they want...which is to bring down a president who is attempting to change the status quo...because it doesn't suit them or their dreams of unending wealth and control.
So we live in a world that has been turned upside down...black is white....day is night....the president wants to talk to school kids and that is wrong....even though the presidents favored by the power mad routinely talked to school kids during their watch...
This president has too many Czars....other presidents actually coined and created the offices of czar...yet...the power mad overlook that....and the stupid people listen...forgetting how it used to be..This president can't lead....can't get anything done...this despite the fact that he has only been in office for a few months and it took years to drive the country this low....
This climate is surely how it felt during the time of the Salem witch hunts and trials...or during the Inquisition. However, making those references are useless, given today's climate of ignorance..
Stupid people....stupid, uneducated....fearful people...
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What my teachers didn't know and that I never told them, is that I have trouble dealing with people who lack my passion for the subject. In other words, if you don't care and don't want to learn, I don't care and will not try to force feed it to you.
A good teacher overlooks this and continually tries to bring the mountain to Mohammed, so to speak. Not me. I know the damn mountain won't move and if Mohammed's not interested in seeing it, I'm not interested in breaking a sweat to get dirty for someone who doesn't care in the first place.
The one person who should be talking to school kids is President Obama. He is the walking, talking, living, breathing example of the American dream. He is the one who puts the truth in this convoluted, racist driven country called America.
All teachers should have to do is to stand in front of their class and when some student gives them some grief....wave a picture of Obama at them and say....”wanna be like him....put your head back in that book!”
But a lot of people don't want this to happen. They don't want their kids to be like Obama.
For a long time, education, knowledge, and intellectualism has been frowned upon in this country. It seems as though that anyone who loves learning and welcomes different viewpoints is adjudged to be unpatriotic or un-American.
We've ventured into a climate where we burn not only books but the book reader as well as the author in one big bonfire.
It's not cool to be smart or book learned in this day and age. And it's not just a white conservative problem, Blacks who embrace knowledge are routinely called out for acting too white.
Black schools are bereft of parental input, teachers more burdened with raising and civilizing kids rather educating them.
The result is a nation of stupid people. People who are motivated by fear instead of reason. People who see crossing the street out of their neighborhood as a danger instead of an adventure toward new people, ideas and places.
And that fear is being exploited by the power hungry, the ambitious, willing to use that fear to get what they want...which is to bring down a president who is attempting to change the status quo...because it doesn't suit them or their dreams of unending wealth and control.
So we live in a world that has been turned upside down...black is white....day is night....the president wants to talk to school kids and that is wrong....even though the presidents favored by the power mad routinely talked to school kids during their watch...
This president has too many Czars....other presidents actually coined and created the offices of czar...yet...the power mad overlook that....and the stupid people listen...forgetting how it used to be..This president can't lead....can't get anything done...this despite the fact that he has only been in office for a few months and it took years to drive the country this low....
This climate is surely how it felt during the time of the Salem witch hunts and trials...or during the Inquisition. However, making those references are useless, given today's climate of ignorance..
Stupid people....stupid, uneducated....fearful people...
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9.07.2009
Labor Day Roundup 2009
Venus Williams playing on one leg is good enough to comfortably beat just about everybody else on the WTA Tour. However there are a few exceptions besides her sister, and Kim Clijsters is one of them.
Clijsters who recently decided to come back to the tour following an injury and baby retirement, has always had one of those dangerous games for either Williams. She is one of the best returners in the game. And she is a former grand slam champion.
I was surprised when she dusted Venus in the first set and equally surprised when Venus returned the favor in the second set. The outcome of the match didn't bother me too much. Venus is gimpy and it shows. She can't get down on her shots because of the knee. She does need the rest.
She would have met Serena in the semifinals and now this is not going to happen. So Serena has pretty much of a straight shot at the championship with only Clijsters in the way. I am discounting the 17 year old phenom.
She is good, but I don't think she has the guns to take out Serena, or Clijsters for that matter. She would not have beaten a healthy Sharapova either.
The sister act is still alive in the doubles. They paired up after Venus lost and looked completely at ease doing it. They have already claimed two out of three grand slam doubles titles this year. This one will be the third this year, if they win.
They already have a doubles slam in their trophy case..that means in one year they won all four titles..pretty hard to do....Serena is one of only five women who have done it in singles...Stephie Graf did it twice.
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Mark Sanford
Man....can you believe it.....South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is the one who started the rumors that his Lt Governor is gay? Rumors have been flying for months now, however the source has only just been revealed...
Stay tuned it's getting uglier down in the Palmetto State..
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The Crazy Lady from Minnesota
Michele Bachmann for President, huh....I can't even type that and keep a straight face...I guess she figures if Sarah can do it....so can she...you betcha......hehehehe...
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The Big Scary Black/Boogie Man
Funny how in all this rigamarole about Obama talking to school kids...nowhere have I seen any file footage of Dubya....Some show Dubya's dad talking to kids...some mentioned that Reagan routinely talked politics with school children...
But nowhere have I seen that footage of Dubya inside a classroom...I'm talking about the time he visited while the planes flew into the World Trade Center Towers on 9/11...
He used to go to schools on a regular basis...yet no one ever accused him of being politically motivated
Some stereotypes just won't die and the big black boogie man is one of them....
White guys can do the same thing over and over for days....but as soon as the black guy does it..then there must be something wrong...something negative....something that is going to hurt somebody...
circle the wagons....lock up the women....hide the kids....
still doing this shit....
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And for the record.....Van Jones may have resigned...but he didn't lie...like it or not...he... did ..not.. lie...
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George Will
I like George Will. I do listen to him, even if I don't agree with him. I respect his opinions and, honestly, I like the way his mind works....But like I said I tend to come to different conclusions...Except this time..
George has said we need to get out of Afghanistan pronto...and I wholeheartedly agree with him. Afghanistan is another mistake by the Bush Administration that should never have been made given our mistakes and history in that area, in the past, as well as our history with Vietnam.
We should not be there....period.
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Obama is at Coney Island
The President is in Cincinnati today at the annual Union picnic at Coney Island. Been there in past years...not there this year...prefer to enjoy my tennis..
Labor Day is a day for sports...not politics...
But a word to the O-man.... Mr. President....Health Care without a public option is not reform....
9.03.2009
Taking a Break.........
I need some down time to recover from my month long birthday celebration which ended on the first of September...
I am taking time for myself and to watch some good tennis....The sisters Williams are holding court in New York and I am there...
Back next week...
ciao
I am taking time for myself and to watch some good tennis....The sisters Williams are holding court in New York and I am there...
Back next week...
ciao
9.01.2009
Erich Kunzel 1935-2009
Cincinnati Television News is reporting that noted symphony conductor Erich Kunzel has died.
More on the story here.......
Kunzel was 74.
May he rest in peace.
More on the story here.......
Kunzel was 74.
May he rest in peace.
8.31.2009
Monday Morning Apology
Sarah Palin is still in the news, this time it's word that she is going to get that brand new passport of hers wet and visit Asia next month.
Seems she is going to deliver a speech to a bunch of MBA's in business and finance about World financial and business matters. A spokesperson for the inviting group said they like hearing from the people who influence the world markets....All rightey then.....
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(originally posted 9/8/08)
I’m sorry that I called Sarah Palin just an “old white guy republican in a dress.” That was an insult to old white guy republicans. I’ve known a few in my life and other than their political leanings, they are actually good people. Some of them anyway.
The more I see and read about Sarah Palin, the more convinced I am that she is closer to a Taliban...you know those guys we’re fighting in Afghanistan....The ones who want to impose their world on that country as well as the rest of us.
Question: What is the difference between right wing Christian conservatives and Osama bin Laden muslim extremists? Somebody answer that for me, please...because I don’t see a difference in their world views...
In fact, I wonder when or if anyone in the mainstream media is going to question her about her religious beliefs the way they vetted Obama about his. Palin’s church is hosting a conference that claims, among other things, that it can “pray away the gay in you.” Changing gays into straights...hmmmmmmmmm..are the Log Cabin Republicans invited to this event. ..The national pentecostal ruling body, since 1949, has repeatedly condemned Palin’s view of Christianity as being to “out there” for them, too...Why is she getting pass?....When is the MSM going to put Palin’s pastor on the revolving sound loop?
John McCain went on Ellen Degeneres’ show last season.....Is Sarah going to make an appearance, too? Can’t wait for that conversation, if it happens.
I can’t wait for her first interview, period. For someone who allegedly wants the right to govern all of the people, she sure is shy about putting herself out in front of her would be constituents. My honest feeling is that she is a loose cannon and all the right reporter has to do is to give her enough rope and she will hang herself. Her arrogance matches her running mate’s ego...dangerous...
STUPID....a word that keeps cropping up in conversation, lately...as in “How STUPID is it that the GOP is claiming to be the party of change, when they’ve been the party in power for the past 8 years and most of the last 20....The really STUPID part is that they think we’re STUPID enough to buy that bullshit again........Well, are we?
UPPITY....Some political fool named Westmoreland used that word in direct reference to the Obama’s. And although he claims not to know the racial tinge to that word, despite the fact that he is a southerner older than me, he used it correctly...
Personally, I prefer dealing with bigots like Westmoreland, because I know where they’re coming from, they’re happy to tell me...no guessing needed....It’s the closet cases who bother me...you know the ones who stand before the American flag claiming to be my friend, while voting against any and every issue that would help me and those like me.....Anybody come to mind?
ELITIST...same as UPPITY...no other explanation necessary..Why not just drop all the subterfuge and use the word you really want to use....N******! Go ahead, put it out there...that’s the one you really, really want! You ain’t foolin’ nobody...
LIES....as in I’ve been in washington for 26 years and I’m still a maverick...ha! Or, I favor women’s rights and support family values....Okay....Here’s one from me.....”I’m gonna vote for McCain/ Palin” in November...
WHEN PIGS FLY! WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER! WHEN I TURN WHITE AND STRAIGHT, GET A SEX CHANGE AND GROW SIX INCHES!
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Seems she is going to deliver a speech to a bunch of MBA's in business and finance about World financial and business matters. A spokesperson for the inviting group said they like hearing from the people who influence the world markets....All rightey then.....
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(originally posted 9/8/08)
I’m sorry that I called Sarah Palin just an “old white guy republican in a dress.” That was an insult to old white guy republicans. I’ve known a few in my life and other than their political leanings, they are actually good people. Some of them anyway.
The more I see and read about Sarah Palin, the more convinced I am that she is closer to a Taliban...you know those guys we’re fighting in Afghanistan....The ones who want to impose their world on that country as well as the rest of us.
Question: What is the difference between right wing Christian conservatives and Osama bin Laden muslim extremists? Somebody answer that for me, please...because I don’t see a difference in their world views...
In fact, I wonder when or if anyone in the mainstream media is going to question her about her religious beliefs the way they vetted Obama about his. Palin’s church is hosting a conference that claims, among other things, that it can “pray away the gay in you.” Changing gays into straights...hmmmmmmmmm..are the Log Cabin Republicans invited to this event. ..The national pentecostal ruling body, since 1949, has repeatedly condemned Palin’s view of Christianity as being to “out there” for them, too...Why is she getting pass?....When is the MSM going to put Palin’s pastor on the revolving sound loop?
John McCain went on Ellen Degeneres’ show last season.....Is Sarah going to make an appearance, too? Can’t wait for that conversation, if it happens.
I can’t wait for her first interview, period. For someone who allegedly wants the right to govern all of the people, she sure is shy about putting herself out in front of her would be constituents. My honest feeling is that she is a loose cannon and all the right reporter has to do is to give her enough rope and she will hang herself. Her arrogance matches her running mate’s ego...dangerous...
STUPID....a word that keeps cropping up in conversation, lately...as in “How STUPID is it that the GOP is claiming to be the party of change, when they’ve been the party in power for the past 8 years and most of the last 20....The really STUPID part is that they think we’re STUPID enough to buy that bullshit again........Well, are we?
UPPITY....Some political fool named Westmoreland used that word in direct reference to the Obama’s. And although he claims not to know the racial tinge to that word, despite the fact that he is a southerner older than me, he used it correctly...
Personally, I prefer dealing with bigots like Westmoreland, because I know where they’re coming from, they’re happy to tell me...no guessing needed....It’s the closet cases who bother me...you know the ones who stand before the American flag claiming to be my friend, while voting against any and every issue that would help me and those like me.....Anybody come to mind?
ELITIST...same as UPPITY...no other explanation necessary..Why not just drop all the subterfuge and use the word you really want to use....N******! Go ahead, put it out there...that’s the one you really, really want! You ain’t foolin’ nobody...
LIES....as in I’ve been in washington for 26 years and I’m still a maverick...ha! Or, I favor women’s rights and support family values....Okay....Here’s one from me.....”I’m gonna vote for McCain/ Palin” in November...
WHEN PIGS FLY! WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER! WHEN I TURN WHITE AND STRAIGHT, GET A SEX CHANGE AND GROW SIX INCHES!
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
8.29.2009
Knowing Jack About Dick
I am the last person in the world who should be writing about penis. There are none in my life, no real honest to god attached-to-a-body kind of penis that swings freely between the legs of some of my brothers as well as some of my of sisters.
I haven't seen real live penis since I changed my youngest nephew's diaper and found out it is true what they say about Black men...damn! “at a month old!” Whoooo-eeee!
I've been honest about my sexual orientation so that when I tell you that the only little blue pills on my dresser are Aleve and the only dick that I come in contact with is battery powered or hangs from a leather harness strapped around the waist of a beautiful woman, ya'll know where I'm coming from.
Despite the convoluted theories of Sigmond Freud....I don't suffer penis envy... Never have....To me it is a useless appendage...Who needs a body part where you constantly walk around touching it to make sure it's still there........What?
I don't need the drama...My body parts are either attached or they're not..all of em are hanging at my age, anyway...as long as they don't drop off...I'm okay....
I mean, really, male body parts are the last thing on my mind...They play no part in my world....
Until this week....
Two times this week....penis conversation has erupted on my computer....Presidential penis conversation no less.…
I thought the Birthers were done....Their phony African birth certificate had been discredited...and they had been laughed off the six o'clock news...
But noooooo!.......Now they want a peek at the Presidential Johnson....They want to see if Obama is circumcised...
Because according to them...if Obama is not circumcised......then he was not born in America....
Why do they suppose this....Because...They say ...circumcision is the law in America....
Well, Au Contrair, Mon Frere.....
See the problem with banning books, refusing to be educated beyond third grade church Sunday school, and listening to walking wastes of oxygen like Rush, or Glenn or school dropout Karl Rove, is that when you do decide to join in the public debate, you come off sounding like the ignorant, uneducated ass that you are....
Circumcision has never been the law in America. It has been a sometimes widely adopted policy in America...But it has never been law..
The practice of circumcision dates back to the Egyptians who used to force it upon their slaves circa 3000BC. It is a religious practice for Jews and Muslims.
The Greeks and Romans passed laws forbidding it...calling it what it is...genital mutilation..
But leave it to America to mess things up....
Circumcision was pushed by some silly fundamentalist health reformer named John Harvey Kellogg, the same Kellogg who invented corn flakes, by the way....
Kellogg wrote in a book in 1888 claiming that circumcising boys would keep them from engaging in that nasty practice of self love, otherwise known as masturbation.
He said;
"The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment. In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement." -John Kellogg, “Plain Facts for Old and Young”
And he wasn't the only sick f*** walking around with these ideas. I'm not even going to address the fact that this fool also advocated pouring acid on a woman's clitorus to keep her from enjoying herself...
I need to breathe a minute and compose myself...
These so called educated fools had people believing that masturbation caused consumption, heart disease, made you go crazy and could make you want to kill yourself.
Now, I've have had sex to die for... but usually with a partner...not from solo masturbation...
And you know one of your dumber relatives told you that lie about hair growing on your palms if you did it..
When immigrants flooded American shores back in the 1800's, circumcision became a sign of gentrification and class. In other words, that cleanliness was next to godliness and you weren't clean unless you'd been circumcised according to Victorian mores of the time.
They used this as yet another way to discriminate against the newer immigrants fresh off the boats. American men were circumcised, ugly dirty immigrants, were not...
How did they know....did a man walk up to a woman that he wanted to get to know and after tipping his hat, promptly drop his drawers, whip out his thing and wave it at her with a big smile on his face and say,
“see, ma'am, I'm a American gentleman” I ain't no Irishman.”
There are no, and never have been medical imperatives mandating circumcision. It is a practice driven by the usual screwed up mores of perverted and phobic fundamentalists, the sames ones fighting gay marriage and LGBT equality rights today...
You can bet that the medical profession goes along simply because it is another way of getting paid for yet another useless medical procedure.
And that brings me to the Center for Disease Control, which is in the process of putting together another medical mandate that would reportedly recommend that babies be circumcised at birth as a way to combat the spread of the HIV/AIDS virus.
In Africa circumcision seems to keep men from becoming infected with AIDS after having sex with an AIDS infected woman, according to one report going around.
However, the ease of female to male virus transmission has long been a topic of controversy....It has proven to be an extremely rare way to get the disease....
and the problem is...men lie...about who have they have sex with...it's easier to blame women rather than to admit they have sex with men...and when determining how a man becomes infected all the doctors do is to ask him, how it happened...
Whatever....Circumcision does nothing to prevent the circumcised man from infecting women or other men, for that matter..
The main route of transmission is still men having unprotected sex with other men...
Straight Black women would not be served either, and they are the largest group being infected in America today, because they continue to have unprotected sex with men who lie about with whom they sleep...
So why is the CDC going there and repowering this circle jerk?
This mandate, due out later this year, reportedly is going to also recommend that grown men submit to circumcision as a means of fighting HIV transmission....in addition to circumcising babies...
Why?
The mandate does not address the issue as it exists in America, which is that straight Black women are seriously at risk of infection...
So we have a bunch of simpletons who want to check out the presidential member....
and we have a bunch of lazy bureaucrats who are apparently trying to convince people that they are doing something to help the Black community in its battle with AIDS..
Okay...if you say so...
I'm going back to my dickless world and not think it about it for awhile..
8.27.2009
Ellie Greenwich, The Lady Behind the Music
You may not know her name, but you've certainly heard her music, usually powered by the vocals of Darlene Love and the Ronettes and the Crystals. Ellie Greenwich died of a heart attack last night, rounding out an interesting triumvirate walking into heaven...Ted Kennedy, Dominick Dunne and Ellie Greenwich...R.I.P.
These are the Ronettes singing Ellie..
These are the Ronettes singing Ellie..
8.26.2009
Ted Kennedy 1932-2009
"For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. -Ted Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, August 1980
I was at Madison Square Garden the night that Kennedy spoke those words, as part of one of the greatest speeches that I have been privileged to hear with my own ears. I didn't intend to hear them. I was tired, having worked the convention all day as part of the ABC convention coverage team of reporters.
I was sitting in the back, in the reporters area, because Sam Donaldson wanted time on the floor. We had to rotate on the convention floor, and I gladly gave up my time, because I'd filed several stories that day and really just wanted to get back to my hotel, at 7th and 52nd. The Sheraton Center was six blocks away and as I had done every day in New York, I'd walked to the Garden, because it was quicker and faster than trying to drive.
At that time of night, I would have preferred to drive back, but, you know, NY gridlock is real gridlock. So as I prepared for my late evening stroll, Ted Kennedy came to the microphones to give his concession speech the night before Jimmy Carter took the nomination for the second time.
The reporter's area was always a noisy place, after all we were working filing stories, writing stories, BS-ing with our friends that we hadn't seen since the last major news broke where ever in the world. It was especially never quiet when politicians rose to speak. We'd heard the speeches over and over. Usually the air rang with witty quips or jokes about the politician and who he was screwing at the time, and Ted Kennedy was no exception.
Except that night. Within a few seconds of opening his mouth, the whole room got silent and stayed that way to the last word. Kennedy had gotten the attention of the very jaded press corps. We turned on our tape recorders and sat back and listened, really listened. To use that old cliché about hearing a pin drop, well, you could, it was that quiet in the cavernous room. It didn't seem as if any of us breathed during the entire speech.
And after it was over, there was a collective “exhale,” with many of us having the feeling that the convention was nominating the wrong man for president.
In retrospect, I don't think so. Ted was not cut out to be president. He was cut out to be what he was, the major motivator on Capitol Hill for us little folk. His name is on more than 3000 pieces of legislation on civil rights, health care and economics benefiting the people, not the corporations. He is the last of those who actually believed they were sent there to work for us. He was made to be a Senator and that's what he was.
Prior to that speech in 1980, I met the Senator and his son Ted junior in 1978, shortly after Ted the younger lost his leg to cancer. They were both engaging and a bit overwhelming for me. I was cool, but I was actually standing next to, talking to, shaking hands with one of the legends behind the myth that was Camelot. Chappaquidick aside, I will never forget those feelings or memories. I remember every word he said to me that day.
Kennedy's legacy to America is health care reform. He didn't live to see it passed. But I do hope that Congress will pass it in his memory as living testament to the man that he was.
May you find peace, Senator. You've earned it.
8.25.2009
Runner has Too Much Testosterone
The South African runner who is being publicly subjected to gender testing by the international athletic federation has apparently been found to have three times the amount of testosterone in her body that "normal" women have..
You can read more here....
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John E. Carter, Doo Wop Legend...R.I.P.
The first concert that I was allowed to attend without parents was down at the Taft Theater, circa 1963-64, and featured The Dells and The Four Seasons. It wasn't Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons at that time, although he was a member of the group... it was just the Four Seasons.
They were the hottest two groups around, along with the Manhattans, who were also on the bill that night. And while I loved all the groups, I was there to hear The Dells do "Oh What a Night" and "Stay in My Corner."
Mr Carter had that distinctive falsetto...unduplicated to this day. His voice is a part of the some the better memories of my life. I still play this music when I wax nostalgic for the old days..
Rest in Peace Mr. Carter. He was 75.
You can read more here....
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John E. Carter, Doo Wop Legend...R.I.P.
The first concert that I was allowed to attend without parents was down at the Taft Theater, circa 1963-64, and featured The Dells and The Four Seasons. It wasn't Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons at that time, although he was a member of the group... it was just the Four Seasons.
They were the hottest two groups around, along with the Manhattans, who were also on the bill that night. And while I loved all the groups, I was there to hear The Dells do "Oh What a Night" and "Stay in My Corner."
Mr Carter had that distinctive falsetto...unduplicated to this day. His voice is a part of the some the better memories of my life. I still play this music when I wax nostalgic for the old days..
Rest in Peace Mr. Carter. He was 75.
8.24.2009
Health Care Reform-From a Woman's Point of View
Current system screws everyone, but women in particular
Did you know that pregnancy is a pre-existing condition, that can keep women from getting health health care insurance when they need it most?
True!
Let me give you an example. If you're a healthy 30 something year old woman and you've been living without health insurance for years, for, well, because you're healthy. You work for yourself as an independent contractor from your home.
You find yourself pregnant, and you want health care during your pregnancy because you want a healthy baby and you want to take care of yourself.
Well, unless you have a husband who has group insurance through his job...you won't get any coverage because individual market place insurance companies consider your pregnancy a pre-existing condition.
And as everybody knows...health insurance companies don't cover pre-existing conditions.
Federal law prevents group insurers from dumping on women like this. But the loophole exists in the marketplace. And it is legal for them to deny.
A normal birth delivery runs between $7000-$10,000, more if there are complications. Not getting neonatal care can open a woman up to child abuse and neglect charges.
Most health industry officials say get the policy before you get pregnant. But face it, how many pregnancies are planned in America, even when the couple is married?
Most births these days are to unwed mothers. There is nothing that affects men in this way.
And then, there is that problem of money and affordability-most people can't afford private insurance in the first place. Since women routinely make less money than men, they get the crap end of the stick anyway.
A catch-22 scenario, if there ever was one.
So what's a girl to do? Many get on medicaid or some state program to help make ends meet, if they can. Many women caught up like this make too much money to qualify for state aid
The scenario for them then becomes....do I keep the baby or do I get an abortion.
The current Obama reform plans floating around on Capitol Hill would outlaw this “female only pre-existing trap.”
It would also do away with what's called “gender-rating” charging women more simply because they are women. This goes on everywhere in American society, on everything from dry cleaning to health care.
The Senate version of the reform bill would allow insurance companies to charge companies more for group insurance if their workforce was more than 50% female....Isn't that gender discrimination? Just asking...
Given these built in inequities in the system, it mystifies me that any woman would stand up against health care reform.
Even with reform, we're likely to get the short end of the stick.
Women make up the majority of people in this country...
When are we going to start voting like it...
The health care industry has dropped $35 million dollars in lobbying money into the pockets of our congressmen to keep reform from happening..
Isn't it time to remind these bought and paid for clowns...that they work for us?
Call your Congressman, please!
8.22.2009
Aw Man, Another Stupid Report!
(originally posted on 11/1/07)
I guess I should stop reading the news, because I keep opening up stupid stories that depress me. There is a new report out, detailing the links, actual links between eating the wrong kinds of food, which make you fat and cause you to have cancer. This isn’t new. We’ve been bombarded with this information for a very long time.
Skinny, anorexic people who don’t like food in the first place, conduct these studies to torment those of us who do like food. They keep telling us we’re going to die if we don’t stop eating. I wonder if these clowns have ever heard of starvation? Starvation happens when you don’t eat and then you die.
So what do we do? We die from cancer if we eat...We die from starvation if we don’t. Give me a break please!
I like food. I like cooking food and serving food to my friends. I like food to go with my favorite wines. I like the ambience of dinner parties. When I go to a restaurant with my friends, I don’t give a damn if my fettuccini alfredo is drowning in ten tablespoons of butter. I like butter! Actual eating at a restaurant is only secondary to what else is happening around the table.
I’m not talking about going to a sit down at some family restaurant like Golden Corral or KFC where, despite the noise level in these places, no one talks. Those places have simply replaced eating at the table at home because parents don’t have time to cook. No conversation needed. Hell, bringing a book to the table or reading the newspaper was the norm when I was growing up. Once you got past “how was school” there was no talking...just eating so that you could get to the rest of your evening.
What I’m talking about is an enjoyable night out at a good restaurant, with great wine and libation and sparkling conversation between a group of people who like each other. I’m talking about stops for dinner before or after the theater or concert. Food is not the main attraction, it is a sidedish to the evening activities. The conversation really prevents the overeating that all the skinny scientists keep yelling about, because as everyone knows, you shouldn’t talk with your mouth full, it simply isn’t polite.
What these scientists or food-o-phobics want us to do is to take a beautiful menu of suggestions and then ask the chef to make all of our choices taste like cardboard. We sit there and pick at it and finally push it aside.
I mean really, who really likes the taste of all that diet/light/calorie free crap, anyway. This study even warns us about drinking too much wine and beer or spirits.
Well, I want to tell you, if I can’t eat, I am going to drink. I may as well be drunk on my ass if I’m going to starve to death.
Care to join me?
I guess I should stop reading the news, because I keep opening up stupid stories that depress me. There is a new report out, detailing the links, actual links between eating the wrong kinds of food, which make you fat and cause you to have cancer. This isn’t new. We’ve been bombarded with this information for a very long time.
Skinny, anorexic people who don’t like food in the first place, conduct these studies to torment those of us who do like food. They keep telling us we’re going to die if we don’t stop eating. I wonder if these clowns have ever heard of starvation? Starvation happens when you don’t eat and then you die.
So what do we do? We die from cancer if we eat...We die from starvation if we don’t. Give me a break please!
I like food. I like cooking food and serving food to my friends. I like food to go with my favorite wines. I like the ambience of dinner parties. When I go to a restaurant with my friends, I don’t give a damn if my fettuccini alfredo is drowning in ten tablespoons of butter. I like butter! Actual eating at a restaurant is only secondary to what else is happening around the table.
I’m not talking about going to a sit down at some family restaurant like Golden Corral or KFC where, despite the noise level in these places, no one talks. Those places have simply replaced eating at the table at home because parents don’t have time to cook. No conversation needed. Hell, bringing a book to the table or reading the newspaper was the norm when I was growing up. Once you got past “how was school” there was no talking...just eating so that you could get to the rest of your evening.
What I’m talking about is an enjoyable night out at a good restaurant, with great wine and libation and sparkling conversation between a group of people who like each other. I’m talking about stops for dinner before or after the theater or concert. Food is not the main attraction, it is a sidedish to the evening activities. The conversation really prevents the overeating that all the skinny scientists keep yelling about, because as everyone knows, you shouldn’t talk with your mouth full, it simply isn’t polite.
What these scientists or food-o-phobics want us to do is to take a beautiful menu of suggestions and then ask the chef to make all of our choices taste like cardboard. We sit there and pick at it and finally push it aside.
I mean really, who really likes the taste of all that diet/light/calorie free crap, anyway. This study even warns us about drinking too much wine and beer or spirits.
Well, I want to tell you, if I can’t eat, I am going to drink. I may as well be drunk on my ass if I’m going to starve to death.
Care to join me?
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