TRAYVON: "We Hold These Truths..."

To Get Away With Murder

Under cover of Mitt and his taxes, Ryan and his Budget, the Yin Yang Media has stealthily reported the latest twist in the Zimmerman caper.  It seems that there will be a "hearing", place and time yet to be specifried, in which the "Stand Your Ground Law" will be tried; and if they suceed in saving it, Zimmerman gets away with murder.  They are also trying to sack the judge in the case.

After the Sweden killings and trial, the Dark Knight Shootings (DKS), the Sikh Shootings(SS), we should all be thouroughly sick by now.  It should be clear that the Extreme Right funders are about to get away with this thing in a manner similar to the Repoobs in Congress; who are seeking to get away with blaming all of their misdeeds in the last decade on Obama.  So much public gun violence in such a short span: Trayvon was murdered on February 26, 2012.

Who all has "skin" in this game?  The Extreme Right, first and foremost.  They want to save their precious gun laws.  They are raising and spending large sums of money to get what they want.  "American Exceptionalism" is in play again.  Since it was used so effectively to give us all amnesia in the Abu Ghraib affair, why not use it again?  Compare the shooters!

I submit that we all have "skin" in this game. We, along with the Martin family, stand to lose our basic right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, if the gun law in question is upheld and Zimmerman is allowed to walk free.

The Hard Right screams for their "Freedom".  Those claims ring hollow in face of these facts.

Stay Vigilant!

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THE "GUN-BELT" PLOY??

The Latest Wrinkle in the OBSTRUCTION Game??

The Repoobs are doubling down on the death grip they have our our politics, and on our future as a nation. 

What is the Gun Belt?  http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Rise_of_the_Gunbelt.html?id=dM_qhG6rUacC   The end of World War II brought an end to the need to continue war-rationing our manufacturing resources and capabilities in this country.   The automobile industry  had been re-directed  to support the war effort.  The beginning signs of the coming Cold War required that our manufacturing industries continue, and to support a new need for high technology "aerospace" pursuits.  The auto industries at that time were itching to get back to making cars and, therefore, declined the proposal.  As a result a new set of companies came into being that ringed our coast lines and the deep South.  That "ring" of geography came to be known as the "gun belt".  Throw in NASA and you get the total picture.

Why is this important?  The Repoobs are waging war over the WARN Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraining_Notification_Act.  They're spreading fear among voters that there will be massive layoffs within days before we go to the polls in November.  The Aerospace Companies figure prominently in this move.  Check it out.

The liberals in the media (as opposed to the fictional "Liberal Media") are chucking over the Romney/Ryan combo.  They may be laughing too soon.  Nobody now doubts the power of fear-mongering during the Dubya years, before and after 9-11.  The success of the fear campaigns, mixxed with masss greed, caused middle-America to vote against their pocket books for the first time in our history. It brought about massive misappropriation of our treasury for wars, tax cuts, and an historic housing bubble.  The total list of malfeasance and misfeasance add up to the gigantic turn of a large budget surplus in 2000 to a massive budget deficit by the end of  2008.

Can the Repoobs "double down" on their tactics of fear-mongering, stoked by race-hatred and greed, to enable their four-year,  lock-step,  obstruction within our legislatures to work?  Only discerning and truly skeptical voters can prevent it.

 Stay Vigilant!

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NOT-EQUAL OUTCOMES??

FORWARD, into the Past, MARCH!!

Mitt staged his big Veep Launch this morning on a ship named Wisconsin.  He stepped on his big moment by introducing Ryan as "the next president" of the United States, and then left the stage, only to return to make the necessary correction.  The pattern continues!

What takes closer scrutiny to discover is the nature of the staunch backers of Mitt and the Repoobs.

Although the location and setting were distinctly "military", the audience was more militant than military.  It had the "feel" of a people who were fearful and angry.

Their most ardent responses were to calls to "identity".  One of their fears may lie in their uncertainty whether their chosen "leader" identified with them!  His new Veep, Paul Ryan, may share that anxiety about Mitt, given the great wealth disparity and class difference between them.

For all of the rest of us; those Ann Romney denoted as "you people", there can be little doubt that we don't fit in Romneyworld, and will certainly not fare well in the future, as yet unspecified, that he envisions for us.

In his acceptance speech, Paul Ryan spoke of "equal opportunity, not equal outcomes".  His tone and context suggested he clearly meant "not-equal" outcomes.  Romney has made it clear that he see's himself and those dear to him inhabiting a world apart from the rest of us.  Its quite amazing that he managed to shield all five of his sons from public service, of any type, while he constantly pursued public office.  There is a subtle, but important, difference in the terms, you know.

The wreckage of the 2008 Melt-down is as complex and far-reaching as that of 9-11.  Why are we shocked that there is no clear vision, after just 3 and a half years, for where this economy, the European economy, and the global economy are heading?  It took about 10 years to work out the immediate repairs for 9-11.  Early repairs have been introduced, but will take years to work their way through the various economies.  Any politician who takes a non-compromising posture toward such an unclear aftermath of such monumental events is deranged or supremely dishonest.

Stay Vigilant!  Hang on for the next twist in this twisted tale!

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RACE, ECONOMICS, POLITICS: 2012

It's the ECONOMICS, Stupid??

Richard Frye and Michael Wallace, http://www.c-span.org/Series/Washington-Journal/ reported today on their work analyzing the social segregation of the rich and the poor within neighborhoods across the country.  Two findings jump out: the rich are gathering in separate neighborhoods (both black and white, together) and everyone else is being squeezed in a direction leading to poverty and away from home ownership.

Hooray!  We've fought Segregation and Segregation won!, Only now we're being segregated by whether or not we're included in the 1%.  On second thought, given the way President Obama has been treated by U.S citizens, its true that Integration failed to change basic racial attitudes completely.  Education and Wealth can carry non-whites only so far! 

Born in 1939, as "Negro" (on my birth certificate), I know a thing or two about Segregation (U.S., Course 101).  Make no mistake, Economics is the over-arching theme; then and now.  Notice also that the new data is reported by neighborhoods; not states, regions, or even cities or towns.

Looking back, it is clear now that Segregation, Jim, Crow, or whatever name it was called, was first and foremost an ECONOMIC system (also known as Peonage).  It was the system Chattel Slavery morphed into when Reconstruction was aborted following the Rutherford B. Hayes administration.

The families who showed up, in the 1950's, on the black side of the tracks in my small town in Missouri (with only the shirts on their backs), were escaping in the dark of night from Sharecropping in the southern states.  Re-visit "Miss Hilly" in the Mississippi of the 1960's in "The Help", to see peonage in full bloom.  Look at our privatized prison system to see the 21st century version of peonage. 

Racial Segregation in Missouri and outside the deep South was more social than economic.  The wealthier blacks were highly educated and were bound by the system with lower class and less educated blacks.  After the end of legal Segregation in the 60's, the wealthier and better-educated blacks escaped, leaving the less-wealthy and lesser educated blacks behind.  Only the black church and the general racial attitudes of whites kept the color bond intact.

I remember when they integrated the police force in my small town.  Blacks were given uniforms and billy clubs, but not allowed to carry guns.  If they wanted to exert authority over a black disobeying the law, they could do so.  If they discovered a white disobeying the law, they had to go tell a white officer.  We've gone some distance socially, but an even greater distance economically, for some,

The recent shooting (yes, there's been another mass killing since DKS) at the Sikh Mosque, shows the growing violence of disaffected whites who have fallen out of the Middle Class and blame non-whites and members of non-Christian religions.

As the winged swirl of  the ascending, monied, Undertaker class advances, expect more of this news.

WHY PICK THE UNDERTAKER??

We're NOT Headed for the Graveyard!

In more than 40 years of experience in science and technology, as an experimenter and in management, both in the public and private sectors,  I've learned there are stages or phases in  business and in projects.  They are Innovator,  Moderator, and Undertaker phases.  There are managers who possess strengths or interests in one or another.  Rarely will you find a manager who has strengths in all three.

The Innovator is a manager who is very good  at starting projects or businesses, or organizations.  Once started, they're quickly over their heads.  In business, these people create start-ups and quickly sell them off for a profit. 

The Moderator takes over a struggling entity; repairs what's broken, an continues to grow it.  When it reaches peak growth, this type of manager is over his or her head, and needs to be replaced. 

The Undertaker is a manager who kills off failing entities so that  resources can be recouped for new enterprises.  When done properly, this is known as Creative Destruction.  When not done for beneficent reasons, it can lead to catastrophic destruction.  In 21st century practice, the Undertakers often can't wait for a company to fail;  they induce failure, with the help of politicians, in pursuit of quick profits.  Nothing good comes of their efforts.

Similar phases occur in politics and public affairs.  Politicians, also, can mirror the behaviors found in business and management.  We now have as President, a Moderator who is showing amazing progress in salvaging a reeling economy and government.

True to their nature, the Undertakers (in the jungle, they're known as carrion pursuers) have appeared and are ready to "finish off" all of us. 

Stay Vigilant !!  Why Elect the Undertaker??

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TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!

A Free Service to the Public

This is the 100th Blog for the OWL!!  My mission, beginning in April of 2011, has been to bring some light and understanding to the public in the U.S. as we approach the 2012 election, and struggle to make sense of the disastrous economic Melt-Down, courtesy of our illustrious Public Representatives.  These were supposed to be people in whom our Founders thought we could place our trust.  With little doubt, that Trust has been betrayed at many levels, and over a long period of time.  I wrote these blogs because I remember a time when non-white minorities had thriving newspapers and other media available to them.  That was destroyed after the 1970s.

So, Tell Your Friends!  Feel free to download and distribute these writings to people who do not have access to the internet.  In the spirit of Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin, lets discover the power of pamphleteering in 2012!  If you have questions or comments, you can reach me at the e-mail address.  Keep all crap comments to yourselves, please.

Stay Vigilant!  READ!!

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THE PAIN OF NOT KNOWING

What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You!!

Yesterday, I saw a news clip from the Truman Era (1944-1952) in which the President warns us to get prepared for people in this country living to the age of 100.  I was shocked!  I thought Peter Drucker was a visionary when he taught us this in the mid-1980's!  So much for the ability, and the mission of Academia to "help us live our lives better".  Foreign users of our higher-education system get much better return on their investment in that realm than we do on ours!  We're too stupid to make sure that all of our K-12 students get a fair chance of accessing our higher education system!

Do you think for a hot minute that parents from the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, and on; until the housing "bust" of 2008; would have continued to hock their homes for the worthless degrees Academia has dispensed to their children over this period?  What if they KNEW that the return on most of their investments would decline to nothing over this period?  Only those U.S. students who, after 1975, pursued curricula that included mathematics at or above calculus-level, received a fair return.  We can also see why white males (rich and poor) dropped out, or did not attend college.

It seems that in politics at all levels, the phrase: who knew what, and when did they know it ?; takes on its full and onerous meaning for us all.  Think about it; if you had a 30 year head start over everyone else, with just the knowledge of longer lives for all U.S. citizens, (then the life expectancy for average citizens was probably in their 40s; and those few who lived to 65, died within fives year after retiring), you would have invested accordingly and would be EXTREMELY wealthy today. 

You can bet the politicians and the insurance companies knew!  When did Nixon insert the insurance companies into the health-care programs in this country??  DUH!!

At the time Drucker taught these nasty demographics to his class, he also revealed the patterns and reasons for off-shoring manufacturing jobs; and when, and under which conditions, they would return.  Add to that his warning about Corporations dumping all costs of labor (career costs like pensions, health-care, training, etc.) onto the backs of the workers.  Add to that his warning that the employee-paid pension funds of the "knowledge workers" were largely un-protected; and the shenanigans of 2001-2008 within our financial markets make perfect sense.

Read my earlier blogs and you will see the role of the Yin-Yang Media is dumbing us all down to the point where we, like the free German citizens in the Great Depression, face a choice of electing a dictator.  You will also see why just about all U.S. citizens stopped being "smart buyers" about the time the Baby-Boomers entered their teen years.

Stay Vigilant!

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