Goodbye

It’s time to say goodbye…not because I don’t have anything to say, I have nothing you want to hear. Not because of a disagreement at an intersection, but that we are worlds apart. I know the choices I have made have brought me pain and gave you power that you never had. But the choice to part is not out of resentment but that of acceptance. The battles are tallied and the loser has been decided based on the fact that there wasn’t a winner. While wrongs we did were explained by a sentence, but when we were wronged it was explained in a Master’s thesis. No need to relish in mire of who is to fault or who should take the brunt of the blame. In this end, we both hold a guilty conscious and the verdict is the same. At one point the beginning offered hope, but in the end we both need change. I anticipate that you will move on, I pray that I can do the same. Our differences prove that opposites don’t attract, they collide. Now that the nuclear winter of our power struggles for the others mind has elapsed, we see that neither one of us would take the others side.

We had good times and bad, but the bad times are now all we have. I'm glad for what you have taught me and more astounded that I learned. But goodbyes are inevitable when we never said hello.

Bullet Wound Removal...the Finale

Now that I have your attention, let’s put out some hard truth on how to remove the bullet and the chains…but first a word of wisdom.

“Any man that is living under the auspices of invulnerability feels untouchable and invincible. He is the first man you must put down…no matter what means”

If that quote offends you…stop reading this right now. If you believe that in order to defeat darkness, only light can win, remove me from your contact list. If what you read in the first part was too dark, please continue to live in a world you made up in order to continue to function in a construct designed to kill you slowly.

For the rest of you, are you ready to finally throw a punch? If so, it’s time to admit every struggle we have had was just a struggle to not be slaves in every sense of the word. Our history has not been one of a class struggle. This has been a war. We have lost the war and are now P.O.W.s. It’s time to fight for what we want, we know what we want, and even some of us know what needs to be done to do it. But, the how is difficult, cold, and simultaneously humane.

1. You will HAVE to remove meme and constructs from your day to day life. That means unite everyone under the same premise of opportunity. If you want freedom, you must offer it to all to have it for yourself.

2. Rewrite the entire constitution. That’s right, the whole damn thing. See the mistakes of the past and document them. State why they were mistake and the damage they did to our country and existence. Seek equality, the pursuit of happiness, and life for us all.

3. Remove “government” from our lives. I placed quotations in there because we have yet to have a government. We have had masters. We don’t need Social Security if we make our society correctly. We don’t need universal health care if we value life. We don’t need unemployment benefits if we create a labor force based on the principles of basic economics…that has value…and force by numbers...say it with me...UNION YES!

4. Comprehensive education. I refuse to explain what that means.

5. Quit feeling, quit relying on faith, and quit denouncing facts because they make you uncomfortable.

6. Ask yourself if it were done to me would I like it.

7. Get involved for real…put your ideas out there…we need each other.

Now I know the list is simple. Of course it is. Life is simple. How to get the list to become reality is not. Far be it for me to say that they will actually work. What I ask of you is what we are dealing with working? Know this one very scary thing about seeking a simple life…it has a high cost. Some people will want to kill those who seek a simple life. But they are in the minority.

This has been on my mind since I wrote my Chicago-style politics blog. You will need monsters. I know that the fear is that the monsters will take over. The monsters will just take the place of the other monsters. Tyranny is tyranny, Sayntj.

I say that is a copout. That is fear of the unknown speaking to you. We all know people that are bad people that want to do what’s right. Even I know some online. They don’t want to own you. They fear you more than the monsters you fear now.

I can say that because I am a monster. I fear you more than I fear George Bush, Karl Rove, Hank Paulson, Barack Obama, Kenneth Lay, 'Chainsaw Al' Dunlap, Ronald Reagan, or any other cynical sociopath. I expect them to betray me.

They want the same things you want. But at least they have admitted to themselves the truth. We are in the darkness already. That list will be nothing more than another dream as long as we continue to use old beliefs to combat an evolving psychosis. Many of you reading this are kind benevolent people that unless pushed to self-preservation in the most sincere form of the word, will never harm someone. What you need to know is that isn’t your job or your place. You need monsters to stop the monsters. Now is the time to drop faith, drop fear, and pick up action. It is not the time to ask questions...its time to make suggestions. It is not time to try individualism...its time to come together for a fundamental change. Its time to go BACK TO BASICS. If you ask why do we need to this...

That in a nutshell is why the bullet wound is still bleeding. We fear removing the bullet.

Im Almost Done

Well I have finished the finale. I looked at what I have written and noticed a theme. We have got to come together or we are doomed. The precipice if our demise isnt a far gone conclusion. We can overcome our problems as soon as we admit them. Then we can solve them. I believe that is possible...I just question the likelyhood of it. To those that have read my blogs...thank you. I just dont know if writing is the answer any more. I need to get deeper into this world. I dont know how, I just know this isnt the way to get deeper.

See you on the other side...the finale...07/01.2011.

Bullet Wound With A Band Aid Part 5a

I am just going to say it…there is a level of darkness in the world right now that no matter how optimistic you are…the facts will eliminate the rose colored glasses.

We now live in a global slavery, where even the construct of serfdom based slavery pales in comparison. Our masters live by an ideology that gives prudence to Thomas Hobbs and Adam Smith. For some it’s a financial structure on steroids, it’s not. It’s what happens when masters of slaves give in to their most base moral being. The fox isn’t guarding the hen house. This is one simple thing, sociopaths. In an effort to succeed they would kill you without care or concern. To add insult to injury, will spit on your corpse by creating a meme that destroying you financially isn’t the same as pulling a trigger. I challenge you to ask the “powers that be” questions, real in depth questions, about their methods. Then you will know that my statement, while seemingly pejorative, is truthful. The bullet in your chest or brain will convince you.

The economic structure of slavery has been in our human existence longer than that of any other human construct we know. For some Americans, you have had the luxury of privilege that even to this day you believe is real and still exists. Those constructs are like Santa Claus or the tooth fairy only exists by your minds and faith. You were never equal to your masters. At no point has there been a civilization and equality. Historians, if honest, will say that to be true. The question I ask is when will we collectively accept that.

As the 4^th of July is upon us and we celebrate a falsehood to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, let’s add a truth to the supposed mantra of America, property.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness

“The first and second article of the Virginia Declaration of Rights adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of Delegates on June 12, 1776 and written by George Mason, is: That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.”

Why property? How many of the original immigrants (yes, I said immigrants) were property owners? Exactly! The need to show dominance was even present in the original Declaration of “Independence”. Those with wealth were free. Do I need to explain what the rest were? Overseers of the slaves that the wealthy (let’s just call them our founding fathers) created laws that could inspire jail time or death if the overseers treated them as people. Not equals, just people. Does that sound like good people to you? Would moralistic people create laws to get you to hate people enough to see them as less than people? No, only a sociopath would do that.

Now fast forward to present day. The sociopaths have crystalized their goal. They run the government, they use the financial excuse to fleece you every chance they get, and lastly they have upgraded the constructs. They can now produce, groom, and unleash a better sociopath with every coming generation. Your “liberal” educational system now consists of teachers that would make Joseph Goebbels envious. We now have patriots that live nationalist dreams, we now have a youth movement that wants to end Social Security because they think they won’t get it, and we have racial, sexual, generational, and religious divides through the use of media and education. No need to kill people literally, unless they challenge the authority of the government; an authoritative government that has killed Americans on US soil to stop fair working conditions, minimum wage, and payments of military bonuses. I will say this with all honesty, if you have hope, I can’t feel sorry for you...

You Don't Know What You Are Talking About...Chicago Style Politics...From a Chicagoan

Let me be clear...what is in white text is a post from someone that thinks(as in believes) they know what "Chicago-style politics" is. What comes after is why I can say that they are fucking clueless!

One really has to wonder how the corruption is Sh*tcago continues to chug along, from rigging the 1960 election for JFK, to upchucking the current corruptocrat in the White House, to this crapulence, without a massive bust of all concerned by the FBI!

EXCERPT: "For years, City Hall maintained that Mayor Richard M. Daley’s son, Patrick Daley, had no financial stake in the deal that brought wireless Internet service to city-owned O’Hare Airport and Midway Airport. But it turns out that the younger Daley still reaped a windfall of $708,999 when Concourse Communications was sold in 2006, less than a year after the Chicago company signed the multimillion-dollar Wi-Fi contract with his father’s administration, company documents obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times show."

Democrats are the filth of the nation, this cannot be denied, especially as Weiner's weiner was tweeted from coast to coast. The criminals in Chicago City Hall say that the son of the mayor had no financial stake but yet when they sell, he makes 700K in profit? How exactly does that work? The Democrat Party should simply rename themselves the American Mafia Party or Crime Inc., for short.

So Paddy Daley is involved with Concourse, as he lined up investors and oddly enough, they sign a fat contract from the city for Wi-FI service at the airport. When they sold in 2006 (33% profit and no libs are calling for a windfall profit tax), Paddy got his first check for $164,789! For the next 17 months, he bagged four more checks for a total of $544,210, making the sum total a nice juicy $708,999! Now during this payola, the mouthpiece for Daley, one Jacquelyn Heard, actually said on 3 Dec 2007, to the Sun-Times, that "Patrick Daley has no financial interest with the Wi-Fi contract at O’Hare." And like the DOJ and ATF, filled with Chicago-style Dummycrats, who are currently stonewalling the Congress and the Senate on their gun-running scam in Mexico, the Daley office ain't talking.

Chicago style politics, if you are a Democrat, involved with things like Paddy Daley nabbing 1.2 million for deals he did with Cardinal Growth, which just so happened to involve a sewer-inspection company, that with no-bid city contracts, made millions, it is business as usual. Oh, a federal grand jury is currently investigating the whole sewer inspection deal but don't expect too much to come from it, since Holder runs the DOJ and Obama is his master. Now if the Daley's were black, they'd be in there tighter than jelly on a bisquit but since they're white, Holder MIGHT actually do something, but the Gunny doubts it.
When it comes to screwing the US taxpayers, Democrats also excel at it as all of the six businesses are going under and the U.S. SBA is attempting to obtain the twenty million bucks it is still owed from the fifty million in taxpayer funded loans they made to Cardinal Growth.

The Wi-Fi connection provided by Concourse at O’Hare or Midway hooks up the city of Chicago with a minimum of $1 million a year but they can rake in a whopping 35% of the total take.

EXCERPT: "Patrick Daley still has business ties with two companies that have received private and government funding through Cardinal Growth: Certi-Fresh Foods LLC, a shrimp-distribution company in Los Angeles, and TWG Capital, an insurance-services company in Indianapolis. They are among the six Cardinal Growth companies facing forced liquidation by the SBA."

So they get government funding, roll up fat profits, and then run the companies into the ground when they have served their purpose, and walk away from the wreckage, leaving US to foot the bill!

Democrats, thy name is corruption but hey Chicagoans, keep voting for Democrats, they've done your city proud. How's those flash mobs working for ya, especially since y'all are unarmed!? (thanks to the libs of course)

1. Random mob attacks cause concern in Chicago...
2. 'Flash mobs' ran wild in city...
3. Pepper-spray assaults...

Now, with all of the corrupt examples above...close your eyes and imagine if Obama was involved with "Chicago style politics"...

As a person from Chicago, born in the projects...lived in a part of town known as "Terror Town"...politics is designed to promote financial consolidated power within the "Democratic machine". That means...what ever needs to be done to make shit happen...will be done.

1. The Supreme Court would "need to have some changes". In Chicago style politics speak...

Some justices would have to either have a "fatal" accident, or a scandal that would require a resignation.

2. Referring to the President of the United States as a Socialist, a Kenyan, or anything that implies a invalidation of a black man being capable of being president will result in "accidents", i.e. heroin overdoses of Senators or Congressmen. Prostitution scandal of a cop that arrest my "friends" (don't forget while he would have been suspended without pay while under investigation, he would have lost his wife because of the pictures sent to her of him engaging in sexual acts with men and women) which will result with a suicide of said cop.

3. Actions like in Wisconsin against the unions(you know ALL UNIONS are run by the mob right? Where are these mobsters known for coming from) would have resulted in an "equal law"(of course any law a "Chicago style president" would get passed) that made any companies that don't invest in the same amount of money on payroll in the U.S. as they make from my constituents...a tax equal to the difference. The employees of those companies will receive those tax breaks.

4. Until the citizens united ruling is overturned...all of Congress, Supreme court, and the President's pay will be cut 87 percent. You already get enough money from rich fat cats, so you wont be getting it from the people.

5. Ann Coulter, Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe will be arrested as "terrorist" based on the Patriot Act. They will not see the light of day...EVER!

6. Fox News will have a reception problem(FCC is run by the President, remember?) nationwide.

7. Anyone refusing to work with me will face a 24 hr monitor of private investigators...lets see you cheat on your wife, have a gay lover, do drugs, accept bribes, or even say anything that can be used as a commercial to destroy you.

8. Since Ann Coulter said "There was the shooting at Kent State," Coulter said. "And gosh I know liberals don't like it and you look at Nexis and 'it was embarrassing for the whole country.' I'm not embarrassed; that's what you do with the mob. They were monstrous at Kent State. They were being led by Bill Ayers' best friend and lover."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ann-coulter-sean-hannity-kent-state-shootings-justified-thats-what-you-do-with-a-mob-2011-6#ixzz1Ol5gpgUJ

I as president will do the same at any "Tea Party Mob Meetings" I will show you what your Second Amendment rights really are...worthless!

9. Life a.k.a. natural and nation building rights will be free...those are education, health care, and natural resources i.e. air and water. Don't like it...see examples 2 and 7.

10. Why would I need power in other countries...all troops...come home.

Permanent wars require permanent money I don't have and permanent loss of life I cant spare.

For everyone here that I have said..."you don't want me to be president"...now you see why...killing people, destroying lives, and knocking the shit out of someone with a baseball bat to get what the fuck I want is justified by one simple thing that only a black man from Chicago would know...blacks, whites, females, males, any religious background, any sexual orientation...all of us that makes up the 98 percent of America...to the other 2 percent...the rich sees us as...niggers, tards, spics, fags, bitches, poor white trash, and last but not least...since the beginning of this country in 1492 we have been slaves.

Now that you know what real Chicago style politics is run...go tell your friends. Tell em I can get them back to work...get them a house that wont get foreclosed on...a government that will never profit on your fears or weaknesses...a society that cherishes life even after birth...and last but not least...I cant be bought! Why would I need to be bought...my book will make me...

MILLIONS!

Give me a holla when you want freedom...FOR US ALL.

By the way...be thankful Obama is "from Chicago"...A president from NYC...

Would be stompin the right into the ground!

Bullet Wound With A Band-Aid Part 4: History Revised

I have been confused about something since I went back to school...Politics and how history is the complete opposite. It absolutely makes no sense. It’s so clear to me that each time I leave class I am more and more confused as to how we don’t see what is going on in our country. Why are we trying to disguise the past? Isn't that what is going on? I sure hope so. It’s the only way I can reconcile what I know versus what I am being told.


So I would imagine by now the question is...what’s the point? What is it you are confused about politics?


The truth is staring us in the face; it’s in every history book, every political science book, and every economics book you read in school.
We are in trouble!


Our "economic system" is a sham because at no point has labor ever been viewed or treated as nothing above a slave trade. How did that actually happen? How did we get this way?


Economics 101 says demand creates jobs but those on the right lionize the rich. How can a rich man give a job if no one wants what they are selling? How many Betamax manufacturing facilities have you seen in the last twenty years? Look at today...The workers of America and the world has been duped in believing a dream that we NEVER had a chance to live. Not only has the dream never been real, the reality is that we as a country has never acknowledged the fact that we are a labor country. That’s right a labor country that the populous is nearly 90 percent labor. You can make an opinion as to whether or not its good or bad, that’s our reality.


Labor is not the backbone of this country, it’s the backbone of the world.


In the beginning of our country we had a two party system.

YES WE DID!

 It was the Federalists vs. the Anti-Federalists. Now for those that aren't aware of this it’s basically two sides of one coin. One group (Anti-federalist) wanting states (Congress) and local government to have power, versus the other group (Federalist) wanted a strong central government. But it’s the economical point of view that makes the description a fraud.




Anti-federalist were artisans (manual labor) small farm owners, small business owners. The Federalist was bankers, merchants, manufacturers, and some other wealthy men. The constitution was designed to keep monarchies and the elite from controlling the government and the people. Then Washington selects the face of the Federalist as the Secretary Of the Treasury. We have always been represented by the same group of people. Pro-ownership businessmen telling us what is in the rest of us...the workers...what is in our best interest.  By the time we get representation, we have a slick, polished politician that is only good for elections, never representing us.


Look at every single presidential appointment for positions of economic policy, every one of them were rich men that couldn’t tell you the cost of a gallon of milk. Were there ever an American dream of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?




Not one effective worker has ever been enlisted to represent us. Did we enjoy the Citizens United decision? Were you not entertained? How about the fact that the unions in Wisconsin has to fight for its own existence? No one has ever pointed out why this attack on unions has happened…again! The powers that be are not interested in getting rid of the Democrats. They want to be the only way both sides can get elected. Ever notice the similarities in our candidates. You would look the same too if the path to get there is paved with the same people’s gold. The rich are preparing to be the only game in town. When our elections are dictated by money, the rich don’t want or need competition. If they can completely OWN the left, get prepared for more Obama-like representation. He looks like he is one of us, until it’s time to represent us. At one point you were told you had representation and were lied to. Now the truth is beating us into a level of feudalism that has existed since the Constitution was written. Only difference is there has been a beautiful sales pitch that would make Mark Hanna proud.


Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company...Google it...enjoy.


We the people are told that we are the problem; we make too much money, while simultaneously told that big government is the problem.


How do two lies occupy the same space and no one says…WTF! Then why does the government help the rich, while selling the rest of us a "bootstrap philosophy". The one issue that is missing is the bootstraps are now missing because our boots, pants, shirts off our backs, and our ability to exist are being taken.


You ask how did I come up with the idea of we are the problem slant?




Easy, NEVER in our history has the common man enjoyed the privilege of the rich. Unions are condemned because its people coming together for representative power are bad for the country. But a corporation that enjoys laws that protects management, its stockholders, and it’s almost impossible for any of them to be jailed no matter the crime. See the hypocrisy? See the blatant assistance from the government made of the people, by the people, that are NOT for the people?




The history of unions is littered with judges, congressmen, and presidents doing everything in their power to disable the power of unions. If that doesn't work, violence is not off the table. In the late 1800's unions were subjected to heinous obstacles.
Imagine that you make a car with a flaw that can be fatal, but because the profits are greater than the fines or even punitive damages, you make that car. Profits make companies turn a blind eye and keep moving forward.


Now, many have used the argument that small businesses are being harmed by regulations, unions, and taxes. What a crock of...




Let's say that you have a business and it lasts for about 15 years. At best, you hope for half of those years to be successful. The rest you hope to at least break even. But is that the reality? Can you be a Gates or a Buffett? The likelihood of that happening is slim. There aren't many laws to help the small businessman. Did you get a bailout? There are very few tax laws that can assist as well. But, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, and even the chocolate power Milton Hershey went bankrupt. Their names and company are still around.


Now by now you are thinking...another left wing, hippie, and anti-business pinko. Actually, I’m a former small business man that made a profit every year. I just got tired of doing it and didn't want to hire others that could harm my reputation. What I am simply saying is that we the people never had a chance. The rich wrote our laws in the beginning and they continue to do them to this very day.


I don't want to be a socialist or a communist. I don't agree with Social Security, Medicare, Universal health care, or big government. My issue is that big government has only gotten bigger to pacify its people, assist the rich and powerful, and maintain the power it has assumed throughout the years.




I’ll even state here that we as a country should have never needed Unions. But if the rich has the ability to make unions, why can’t the people? The only issue with that is the deck is still stacked against the common man. We need to stop attacking the rich. They did what they were supposed to do. We need to stop our government NEVER being in our interest.


All I am trying to say is that we have a system that owns U.S. It’s not our government I'm talking about. When will we refuse slavery?


Part 5 is my way of breaking the chains…

Jalen Rose Is Silenced...AGAIN!

I am just going to start by saying this…I am so damn tired of writing about race. I absolutely, positively hate writing about race. I know that some that have read my blogs are shocked to read this. None the less, it’s true as sure that water is wet. I HATE TALKING ABOUT RACE! Its never a real talk anyway. Its what is used to promote everything except racial understanding. But here I go again…


ESPN released a documentary about the Fab Five of Michigan…
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=neumann/110311_fab_five_documentary&sportCat=ncb
Juwan Howard. Jimmy King. Ray Jackson. Chris Webber. Jalen Rose.
There is little debate in the college basketball world that those five players, who joined the Michigan Wolverines as freshmen in the fall of 1991, represent the greatest class ever recruited.
Perhaps the most misunderstood, too.
Eventually known worldwide as the "Fab Five," each member of the quintet was rated in the top 100 of national recruits in the Class of '91. Four of them -- Webber, Howard, Rose and King -- were rated in the top 10.
In their heyday, the Fab Five were widely portrayed as the root of all evil in college sports. They wore baggy shorts and black socks. They blasted hip-hop music in the locker room. They talked trash. A lot.
Those types of uniforms and behavior might be commonplace today, but 20 years ago it was revolutionary, polarizing and heavily influential to a generation of young athletes. Although the Fab Five never got into serious trouble off the court, the players symbolized to many people a clear shift in the sports world and youth culture. Fans of all races and demographics spent millions of dollars on Michigan jerseys, shorts and the like, trying to capture a tiny slice of the group's mystique. By the end of their second year together, the Fab Five were routinely battered in the national media for the way they carried themselves. Articles and television reports painted them as brash villains or worse -- as thugs.

Now bear in mind it took a lot to find an unbiased article pertaining to the documentary. I found this one before it was released. The sports world is frowning on the man who spoke for MILLIONS of black men. Yes, he spoke for MILLIONS! He may not have known it when he said it but he did. What is funny about it is a poor black kid like me that played sports didn’t know Jalen had said something wrong…until the white media started asking black reporters, black players, and anyone that would speak their language about it…I'm saddened how they said Jalen was wrong.


I was going to analyze what was wrong, but the only wrong I saw was the interpretation of others. Let’s be honest, black men, regardless of his status cannot talk about race. Even our president has to be race neutral. And he has been bashed because of his race since he announced his candidacy. That’s what ESPN told Jalen when they ignored a great documentary and kept the focus on one damn sentence. It went from hey this was awesome to disingenuous fodder. Jalen Rose Used the “U” word! OMG! He said..."uncle tom"! HE spoke about race! Don’t be “black” Jalen. It makes the advertisers and our viewers uncomfortable. Don’t call successful black men that go to private, snobbish, and exclusive universities “uncle toms”. It makes them feel as if they have to choose between their racial identity and their success. Really?

http://newsone.com/entertainment/sports-entertainment/associatedpress4/jalen-roses-uncle-tom-remark-exposes-pain-in-black-community/
Jalen Rose grew up poor in Detroit, the son of single mom and an NBA player he never met. He helped transform basketball culture as a member of Michigan’s iconic Fab Five team, then earned more than $100 million as a pro baller.
Grant Hill came up wealthy in the D.C. suburbs, the child of an NFL running back married to a corporate consultant. He helped establish Duke University as a paragon of success and virtue in college basketball, then overcame terrible injuries to enjoy a long NBA career.
So which one is the “authentic” black man?
The question may seem irrelevant. But when Rose said that he considered black Duke players like Hill “Uncle Toms” when he was a teenager, he exposed a sensitive and longstanding issue for many African-Americans: If blacks succeed in a white man’s world, and do not conform to certain assumptions of how blacks should act, are they less black?


Ok let’s move from race for a moment and look at this from a different view. If a nerd can call out snobs and jocks, why can’t a black man say what Jalen said? Exactly, a nerd CAN get a movie and numerous sequels about how they are excluded, oppressed, and belittled.


You see, what Jalen said wasn’t just about race; it’s about class and acceptance. To be honest, if you asked him, race is happenstance. The point is to be poor or unrefined isn’t ever going to get you into places like Duke. The game is designed for the elite to stay…elitist.


Why can’t Jalen make a documentary about five freshmen in college that were called “naturally talented” and “athletic”, while Duke Players are “skilled” and “well-disciplined” by the media and bring up race?


No one wants to admit that “street” or “black” is not accepted in the “real world”. For many young poor or unrefined athletes watching the backlash Jalen is getting…they are learning that assimilation is the only way they can be successful. Now imagine if you are black…assimilation is never enough. If that were true Grant Hill could have come out and said Duke is a private university that frowns on ANYTHING that doesn’t look like the cookie cutter image they have created.


The “uncle tom” comment was so insignificant that the media’s need to brand Grant Hill with the title was insulting to Grant. He wasn’t an “uncle tom” to Jalen. If anything Jalen wanted what Grant had...security and acceptance.
For Grant to have come out to defend himself, Duke, and the unfair media scrutiny speaks volumes about the fiction that Grant made fact.


The “Uncle Tom” came out and only made many like myself ask…are you an “Uncle Tom”?




I would love to go further…but I need to keep the rest to defend myself…Jalen doesn’t need a defense…we need to get over the truth that Jalen said.




One last thing…I thought Duke was bitches, too. Am I wrong? Then give me a time out.

Abortion Issue Revisited...Again?

Here we go again, one man with psychological issues that has the pro-life up in arms!




http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/19/AR2011011902911.html

A doctor whose abortion clinic was described as a filthy, foul-smelling "house of horrors" that was overlooked by regulators for years was charged Wednesday with murder, accused of delivering seven babies alive and then using scissors to kill them.


Dr. Kermit Gosnell was also charged with murder in the death of a woman who suffered an overdose of painkillers while awaiting an abortion.


In a nearly 300-page grand jury report filled with ghastly, stomach-turning detail, prosecutors said Pennsylvania regulators ignored complaints of barbaric conditions at Gosnell's clinic, which catered to poor, immigrant and minority women in the city's impoverished West Philadelphia section.
Prosecutors called the case a "complete regulatory collapse."


"Pennsylvania is not a Third World country," the district attorney's office declared in the report. "There were several oversight agencies that stumbled upon and should have shut down Kermit Gosnell long ago."
Gosnell, 69, was arrested and charged with eight counts of murder in all. Nine of Gosnell's employees - including his wife, a cosmetologist who authorities say performed abortions - also were charged.


Now we need to have the same damn debate. How late is too late? Should we go have the Supreme Court revisit this? Kermit Gosnell is proving that legalized abortion will not stop unhealthy procedures!


Wait a minute! One man with obvious mental deficiencies doesn’t disqualify the legalized abortion point. Why are you being so short-sighted in your approach?


If Sarah Palin didn’t have any responsibility with Loughner killing anyone, how does a man with the sociopathic tendencies of Hannibal Lecter prove the pro-life stance? By that line of thinking, Scott Roeder should make pro-choice the land of the law forever.

First, the issue isn’t about abortion, it’s about the right to privacy! Its not about your religious beliefs being the law of the land! If you are able to find a lawyer to help you with understanding that, please do so. Roe v. Wade is not about the possibility of pro-life or pro-choice, it’s pro-constitution.


Next, let’s be honest, if abortions were made illegal tomorrow, the rich would still have access to it! Paris Hilton (sorry Paris) would still be able to go and have an abortion if she so saw fit. So let’s not get into an issue that banning the law would stop abortions.


For those that are pro-choice…stop fighting a fight that isn’t your own.


Domestic violence, sexual abuse, and the possibility of dying should not be the argument of pro-choice proponents. It’s the law, it’s in the constitution, and doctor/patient privilege is all you need.


But there is more, isn’t it?


Abortions are for many women an emotionally damaging and for some a soul stealing experience. No one will ever deny that, I definitely can’t. Even those who are pro-choice admit to that. The weight of regret can sometimes be more than many can bear. But to have judgment and scorn doesn’t help. What I don’t understand is the stance that the pro-life stance of rigidity and short-sightedness. It’s either one or the other. The bible tells me so is just such a poor argument. That’s it? That’s all you got? God and guilt isn’t how you can win this debate. Calling someone a murderer doesn’t save a life…it might end one.


You don’t use any comprehensive truth when addressing your pro-life stance. You truly don’t use any comprehensive action when addressing your pro-life stance. You don’t have any compassion for the women that lives with the damage. You don’t point out the issue that brings about the abortion itself. The job pay inequities, age, lack of education, or even the issue of station in life just doesn’t get your attention or effort.


That’s why their problem is staring them in the face harder than they can defend their position. The problem isn’t your pro-life stance…it’s your anti-living stance.


You don’t honor the life of the child once it’s born…NO YOU DON’T!


So let a pragmatic man that is pro-life in his emotional belief, but pro-choice in his logical stance gives some suggestions. I hope that you don’t mind.


If you want to work to end abortions, get away from the clinics and address the problems.


Empirical studies show that environment, education, and support on a comprehensive holistic level reduce the numbers of abortions.


Education is the fault of everyone, yet I don’t see you putting your skin in the game.


Try educating them before they get to the clinic before you damn them to hell. Whatever you do… saying just say no isn’t educating. Be concerned about how young couples (yes, couples make a baby) are engaging in their relationships, help the parents, be accessible.


Class is truly a great indicator (keep in mind education and class is generally symbiotic) to reducing the numbers as well. That means every time you see poor people and you frown upon them and their position, you have become part of the problem. Why not find out why jobs are hard to come by, why training is difficult to get, and what can you do to fix the problem.


Now I could keep going about the issues and hurdles to make abortions be easier to say no to. But I want to see if a pro-life person can just take one step, a first step to helping.


I am asking as one Christian to another, put the bible down and pick up the path of Christ.


Humanity needs you.

LOSING MY RELIGION Part 3: What We Can Do For Ourselves

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese Proverb

Now I wonder if politics and government were fish, would you be starving as you are now? What I am saying is that our political leaders are truly a reflection of its followers. We can’t proclaim the ineptitude of politicians if we aren’t making them do what we want. Even before we can do that, can't we come to a point that we know what it is that we want?

Do we understand our political landscape?
Do we know what a political landscape is?


Let’s be honest, politics is not for the faint of heart? It’s messy and dirty. But it’s our messy dirty politics. We need to be vigilant in our need to be involved and be informed.

I know that many are saying that:


I have two jobs, three kids, a spouse, and a partridge in a pear tree. Your job exist because the government gave your employer a permit to conduct business, your spouse and you have a legal binding contract called a marriage permit that is given by the government. Why are you asking about the partridge? Like a politician…I made you look... at what didn’t matter…stay on point.


That is the first thing a good follower needs to do. Stop following deception and misdirection. What I am about to say will piss off my friends on the left and right…


Neither side represents you. There is no left…there is no right. If you were consistently pragmatic you would see that. These politicians are feeding on your frustration and your anger. All the while you beg and plead for help from the very construct that placed you in the position that requires help. Small businesses crushed by government interference as it assists the monopolies in selling you lower priced products while paying its workers less than the products themselves.

While the electric car has been waiting for you to invest in it, you have had a government that keeps investing in fossil fuels.

While your military is equipped to send a hundred special ops soldiers to kill Bin Laden, your government sent thousands to die in a country that had NOTHING to do with us being attacked. Now we have given them a reason to attack us…


What I have listed is pragmatic solutions to a problem…not left…not right…just smart. Smart comes from being informed, smart comes from being involved. Sure, you could run for office to give better options, you also could take some time to see what you need and what your representatives have done…the options would be limitless.


Let’s quit being center, right, or left…be smart…be pragmatic…be problem solvers…


I will never deny that we need better leaders…but don’t we need to be better followers in order to find better leaders?

LOSING MY RELIGION Part 2: What's In It For Them

Look at this picture...it speaks something to me that I hope to convey properly. Whether we as a people want to admit it we are truly of the WIFM doctrine.



What’s In it For Me.? That’s our perspective, however shallow or short-sighted, it’s us.


We go about life seeking a leg up or a position of comfort. Selfish, consumed with making sure we get ours.


I am concerned though, are we sure of what's in our best interest?


The picture shows what the money is being used for. It shows where it goes. But does it tell us what applies to us? We are a WIFM group, right? So let’s examine money the way we should look at it...by who the money is really spent on.


If you look at the picture is shows the dollars and the departments, like agriculture. Now that's farming, so of course, farmers get that money. What about those lazy farmers that receive all that money for subsidies? Why do we keep giving them so much money? I hate the fact that they can dole out 5.8 BILLION dollars to those farmers! Wait, it’s not that much? But, it says it does. Oh, it doesn’t all go to rural family farmers? Who else is there?


Agro-corporations get about 5.4 BILLION, while the rural areas are failing and disappearing. So the Johnson's are screwed by the Monsanto's?


Energy is a good investment, right? Look this up...Percentage Depletion Allowance or Expensing of Exploration and Development Costs There is a LOT of money going to rich companies as an incentive to drill for oil, gas, or coal. Wait, hundreds of millions of dollars are going to companies that are already making billions of dollars in profits as an incentive to drill? Damn!


Most of these companies get tax breaks for sending OUR jobs to other countries. We are giving tax breaks to countries that have protectionist’s laws in commerce. So one goose is saying screw the gander!


Don’t even ask how much money goes to the rich in our Military Industrial Complex...
Just know that a private in the military makes $17,000 a year...you do the math.

I could go on, but if you need more info, look here:


http://www.taxpayer.net/index.php


What I am saying to my fellow Americans...What is supposed to be in it for us isn’t going to us! We aren’t getting the tax dollars that we put in. It’s like winning a hand of poker and the house still gets the cash! WTF!


So let’s get back to what we are, small businessmen and women. As long as we look at the "lazy people" i.e. poor people, as the bad guy, the lazy rich guy will keep collecting a check on our dime!

Losing My Religion

For most that know me I LOVE politics!



It’s the only place that you can truly sharpen your discretionary thinking skills. Well lately, I mean for the last 12 years, politics have become destructively political. Here I thought that politics was about how representatives came together to solve problems. That has NOT been what is or has been happening.


We have been bickering over who runs the sand lot.


The childlike banter has just made me want to walk away. There is a lack of leadership, lack of reason, and a lack of sincerity that is what politics is now.


Historically, there has been the kabuki theatre of politics. But the anomalies have occurred from time to time. But now, the rule has a stranglehold on the possibility of the anomalies. Now the media is the government. Your representatives are the pundits. How did we contribute to such a disgrace?


A woman saying she is tired of defending Obama.


An astro-turf group took over the country's narrative of politics, policy, and person hood.

Obama has been standing around proclaiming his loyalty to the Democratic Party. All the while he was giving the middle finger to his constituents on the left.


While the right was emboldened, the left was...the left.


There is still a problem bigger than the theatre...we as a country is failing...astronomically!


If we don't do something soon...


What you smell is the next "Rome" burning.


We are suffering from a fire that has us cynical, distrustful of our government, and unsure of our fellow Americans.


This isn't the alarm call to make things right. This is a call to quit hitting the snooze button.

We know this is wrong.
We just need to fight together to make it right.


I will take a few swipes at how we can try in my next post…

Brothers and Sisters...UNITE!

I love having the people in my life that gives me the ability to be better.



There is a gentleman that, even though his name may say go-lightly, his words have weight.

I say if you want a new brother...head over to his page.

http://boxcutting.blogspot.com/


He doesn't want relationships. He wants family. Imagine the beauty of his desire. I would love to share in his desire, in his view.


We need to know that in our numbers bears strength. It doesn’t matter who you think you are, be it gay, black, straight, female, white, Latino, or poor shares the same need. I am saddened by our lack of unity. We need each other. There isn't any doubt in my mind that we must unite in order to fight the good fight.


Just imagine, family, the bond of blood. The bond of brother and sisterhood, the comfort in knowing I am my brother's and sister's keeper and vice-versa.


Isn't it time to have the inconvenience of the majority to no longer be the oppressor of the minority?


I just see one problem...


We already are family. We already have an innate connection. We already have the biological blood bond. We already are the things we seek for a connection. It’s our focus that takes us to the reasons we aren't connected. As if a straight man and a gay man isn't seeking love. As if a Christian, an atheist and a Muslim aren’t seeking a path to happiness and enlightenment.


That's the rub isn't it? We make a specific difference the distinction of separations. When there are so many similarities to our general paths.


Our focus needs to be on what matters. Happiness for all should always be the reason for our motivation. Not our motivation is the reason for us to part ways.
Opportunity is possible to be attained without taking it from someone else.


But if you are your brother's keeper, if you are beholden to a cause greater than yourself, can a specific characteristic take your eyes off the prize?


I think not...


Can't we be family?
Can't we be united?
Aren't we already?


I have brothers and sisters that I have never met in real life, but have gotten real life blessings from them.


So as a student of life...


Mr. Go-lightly, thank you for the reminder, can I be your brother?

Can we all be his brother and sister?


I think we should...we already are.

The Ghosts Of Super Bowls Past...Laid To Rest...J-E-T-S!

First, I have to dedicate this to my good friend, Eddie…you did what we did not…YOU BELIEVED!



Now for those that, along with me, didn’t believe that the Jets could defeat the Patriots…did we see the Patriots for who they are today or the Patriots of Super Bowls past?


It’s ok to admit that this was mental…while we praised, hated or feared the Patriots, you and I were very critical of the Colts. The Manning led Colts were depleted of talent and their record reflected that point. But so was the Patriots…depleted talent, poor defensive rankings only defeated a couple of good teams this year. Remember when they beat the Packers; they defeated a rookie QB led team that had Rogers been behind center things would have been different. They lost to the BROWNS! Even lost to the Jets when they had Randy Moss! Bet they really missed a receiver that was a true deep threat yesterday.


But Rex Ryan got it. He knew they were who he thought they were, beatable. He took the team’s mentality of the aberration that was week 14 off their minds and told the world that his team would win. All the while we ALL scoffed at his “bravado”, laughed at his “arrogance”, and frowned at his player’s opinions of the Patriots.


So let’s discuss how everyone missed the boat on yesterday. There is an image the Patriots has that is media driven and is NOT shared by the rest of the country. Good guys, wins the “right way”, righteous organization that is team orientated and last but not least winners.


Good guys don’t taunt a team by mocking the Shawn Merriman celebration dance, recording the practice of an opponent is NOT winning the right way, cutting players because you are too damn cheap to pay them isn’t team orientated; winners don’t rest on a Super Bowl victory won six seasons ago.


They are not who we thought they were, stats don’t lie. Last year…33-14 in the playoffs against the Ravens, the season before that no appearance because of a Brady-less team, and the year before that…19 and oh…you lost to the Giants because all those great players you cut because you were cheap…were not there to help you. The Giants D-line exposed your age and lack of speed. Brady was chased around like a new cute girl in high school…by the other cute girls that was jealous.


But let’s be honest…the diamond aura is fading…the Jets’ offense and defense squeezed the aura so hard yesterday that it turned to coal. A bunch of practice squad players were outplayed and out classed by the faster, stronger, and bigger Jets yesterday.


So if I can be so bold to quote myself before the game: “Only an act of God can get the Jets the win”.

I got it wrong…ESPN got it wrong…the rest of sports media got it wrong. We thought that the underdog “could” get lucky yesterday.

We just didn’t get that a defense that couldn’t stop a nose bleed against an offense with deep threat, speed laden receivers, or with an offense peppered with a bunch of no-name practice squad players couldn’t score against a top three ranked defense were the underdogs.

We forgot…the underdog won in week 13.


Congrats J-E-T-S! We can’t disrespect you anymore…you killed the ghost of Super Bowls past.