The OWL

Friday, July 11, 2014

WHERE?? .. Is O'BAMA'S "committed" BASE??

Has the "Bear" Left Washington to Search??

"Mourning" Joe (grieving the impending loss of Jim Crow); "slammed" President O'Bama fiercely this morning in his never--ending efforts to provide "closet" aid to the Republicans, Repoobs, Tea-Party, and Out-Right Racists who are in full defiance of the American (U.S.) Public! They took the money out of our economy during the first decade of this century, and are are now choking off all funding, to starve the function of our Democracy. After 6 years of this crap, they hope to achieve total control of Congress in November.

If they succeed, it will be because the Democrats (Liberals, Moderates, Progressives) are not as committed as is the Racist Right, in pursuing the future they want for this country. Evil doesn't sleep! The White Right has known what kind of fight they were in since the days of Roosevelt. "Joe" just can't understand why "this time its different" from those earlier attacks on Bill Clinton; or John Kennedy.

This country is at a crossroads in 2014; not unlike that of our Civil War!. Then, Evil was bottled up within a defeated small region of our country that fought bitterly to preserve Chattel Slavery. Lincoln paid the ultimate price for his opposition to them. By assassinating him, the White Right got "back on track" through Jim Crow. Roosevelt warned Churchill NOT to return to Colonialism in the world, post-War. Churchill fomented "Vietnam" instead; leading to Kennedy paying the "price"; in his efforts to turn us away from a future he saw as devastating. Johnson, with Kennedy out of the way, restored Southern Evil to power on an international scale. Johnson, along with Nixon, realized the power to be gained by "converting" the Democrat Party to Republican, and they, once again, were back on the road to our present mess!

All along, the self-absorbed (white) Baby Boomers, were distracted by escaping the Draft, doing drugs, and pretending that Rock and Roll (re-packaged with white faces and slick marketing) was "their" music!! Catch a T.V. program entitled "The Sixties",\; currently running, and the noted "Liberal", Tom Hanks, fails to note that white kids could claim "race music", only if it had a white, and British face. People FROM HOLLYWOD form the "core" of O'Bama's "wishy-washy" Democrat Base! They expect to bridge the divide with MONEY!

MONEY is being played by the White Right, also -- the Romney-style of MONEY. If they get their way, the White Right will continue to hide their money off-shore: along with the JOBS, they talk about, but DO NOTHING to bring back!

The MEDIA is another "opposing force" for O'Bama! White-Right-MEDIA (Coulter, Palin, Limbaugh) are "in your face" with their Racism. "Mourning Joe" pretends to be even-handed! PROPAGANDA reigns!!

Stay Vigilant! Obama is a REASONABLE man in a GREEDY and dedicated, racist, and violent world! So go get WISE?? "Reason" does not "play" in these circumstances.

Thursday, July 10, 2014

WHY "selfishness" IS NOT "GOOD"; for a Person, Party, or Nation!

It KILLS children & trains them to be KILLERS!

In addition to systematically dismantling the infrastructure of our nation (like deliberately destroying one's own house); the cravenly "stingy" Far Right in the United States is at it again! Since the early European Settlers, this element of our populace has had no trouble MURDERING Children; whether the young of Native Americans, African Slaves, poor immigrants (farmers, by ranchers); the story is consistent! Now they're targeting "Brown" children struggling to cross our borders to escape conditions put in place by the likes of Ronald Reagan, Ollie North, Poindexter, the CIA, and Weinberger! Remember IRAN-CONTRA?? The VATICAN and the ISRAELIS also "got a piece" of that action, as I remember.

This is a huge portion of our recent history, wiped from our minds and our consciousness, as these degenerates proceed, with the help of the Supreme Court, to destroy this country. Sowing evil seeds has never been a wise practice for a people or an individual. So much for GOOD SAMARITANS!! Its about GREED, POWER, and RACE! In the end, we all wind up like Syria??

Stay Vigilant! Dig up everything you can on IRAN-CONTRA and try to understand what you were told, and what Congress COVERED UP! Do it before you VOTE this Fall!

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

THE "APPALACHIA' in ME!

THE "real" "AMERICANS(u.s.)"??

My Great-Grandmother was a daughter of a Virginia Slave. From her picture, she was as "white" as Nancy Reagan! If you read much history of slavery in the Americas, whether in Mexico, where the Catholic Church first came up with the idea; or, in the U.S.; you can stumble across the fact that the Slave Masters preferred the "company" of their own slaves, to that of the "white trash" that worked for them as "Overseers". The "best blood" of our Founders can be found coursing the veins of "Black" Americans, as a result. To discover the "real" Daughters of the American Revolution ... (you can figure out what you have to do).

Virginia is a former slave state, one of the original 13 Colonies of our Founding, and a part of Appalachia!

Named "Un-ending Mountains" by Native Americans, Appalachia extends from New York down to Georgia. As people migrated away from there, they took much of their culture and folkways with them.

I grew in Missouri, eating "greens", "corn-bread and beans", and similar fare. A majority (7 of 13) of the original colonies are connected by the Appalachias. Root stock: Native Americans, Irish, English, Scotch, German, and Polish. Quite a "brew"!

In an on-line article entitled: Appalachian Regional Ministry, the "stigma" attached to this region by movies from HOLLYWOOD, like "Deliverance", is a pattern that was followed by T.V. (Beverly Hillbillies).

Who are these people; really!: (they, reportedly, prize their seclusion) , they represent many "strains" that are evident in our national struggle to govern ourselves under the first non-white President in our history. Chief among them are poverty and poor education. They have been lumped among the "white trash" in our Mass Media Mind-Set. The Ministry article cites their enduring positive qualities: hard-work, family loyalty, kindness among "their own"; that serve our nation well to this day. How, and where, do we find the "real" Appalachians today? Even the "Appalachians" would probably not think of looking among our nation's "blacks"!! No matter where you or your forebears came from, you probably have a significant number of "black" Americans who are "kin" to you!

Stay Vigilant! Like a Malignant Spine, this region continues to infect or nation and our politics with centuries-old habits and beliefs.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Will the "Crackers" Among Us, remain able to "COMPETE"??

Will the "Smart" Whites "Wake-Up" (in-time)??

If your are being driven "crazy" by the crap emanating from our Congress; from the suicidal behavior of the Israelis; or, by the future direction of capitalist "markets"; Google: http://www.chicagofed.org/webpages/publications/speeches/2014/02_04_14_detroit_economic_club_monetary_policy_macroprudential_safeguards.cfm

Ever since 2008, when the "Smart" Money Boys killed DEMAND in our Capitalist Economy, our economic survival has depended on the FEDERAL Reserve; and the INTELLIGENCE of Barack Obama! "Keep em Barefoot and Ignorant" has been the "First Commandment" of white rule, here in the United States, and around the world, since 1492?? This "Commandment" stopped working after 1960s in the U.S.; so, "work-arounds" using the Supreme Court, have been slowly put into place; starting with the DRED "Clarence" in 1991. Ignorance policy paid off for them "in spades" for Clarence and Condi! From the days of the "Lash and Bible", whites could not abide a non-white who could read one one letter of the English alphabet! Instant DEATH was summarily decreed by white men, women, and children, as their remedy!

We were ALL lucky to get a Presidential Candidate, uniquely suited, intellectually, to handle the mess of Cheney/Bush -- but. "Crackers" choose to Destroy our Government, rather than to work with him! It is the lack of an "educated" and skilled work-force (around the Globe) that is placing the future of Capitalism in Question!! The over-arching policy is Global -- driven by Christian Churches!

I turned away from "Mourning Joe and his Sidekick" this morning, just as they were "cheering" the fact that the SAT and ACT will no longer be "required" by our nation's Institutes of Higher Learning ("Colleges")! Having given up, long ago, on meaningful "education" and "enlightenment", in favor of "Networking" (led by the "Ivies"); our "higher" learning is following the race to the sewer route, that the rest of Public Education has taken since 1954!
NOTE: Joe and his "other" were "bragging" about their difficulties scoring a requisite "1000" score on the SAT: ALL of my children did BETTER than that! It may buttress the point that, in order to be a "succcess" in the United States, its better to be "White", than "Bright??

I learned more in the next 15 minutes from Mohamed El-Erian, and Art Cashin, on another network, than from all the white "glitterati" on Joe's network. Beware, there are "T-Poop, Obama-Hatin' plants" everywhere: ("Sick-Rant-Telly) comes quickly to mind. As the Market decides what to do next, its best to keep your eye on your MONEY, rather than the likes of "Romney-alias, Ted Nugent! ( "They are in "Cookin" unsuspecting "Frogs" in warm tubs)??

Since the 1960s; the "Crackers" among us have added a number of woes to their long worry list: "Women", Gays, Hispanics, Poor Whites -- the "Muslims", of course! The harder they take swings at us, the 2000 market crash; two wars in the Middle East; the "Housing" Bubble; and, 2008; the worse off their condition gets! Even MISSISSIPPI has put a limit on this crap!

Stay Vigilant! Are we reduced to relying on the "Informed Greed" of "White Wealth" to save us from our Past Sins; both at home and abroad?? Check Out: "Macroprudential Policy"!! WATCH YOUR MONEY!

Monday, July 7, 2014

'HEALTHIER; WEALTHIER; WISER"??

Can We all "HOPE"??

The last of the Baby-Boomers of the U.S. pass the age of 50 this year. Born nine years before the first of them; I've witnessed in my lifetime the total saga of the sojourn of this staggeringly-huge, and "impact-ridden" bunch of "youth"! It is fiercely fighting nature's attempt to "mature" them, and, not doing it well. Following the "leadership" of some of the "worst" of that cohort, in governments, industry, warfare; it's amazing that we are still able to function -- even at this pitiful level we all decry!

It is expected that as a person "ages"; they learn from their mistakes and become Healthier, Wealthier, and Wiser! The Jury is still out! Clinton was our first "Boomer" President. By 2016, the "youngest Boomer" will be 52, and the oldest will be 68. Of all the crap they've presented to us, and to the world, it can be hoped that the "Body and Bones" will "speak" to this cohort in ways that, so far, their "Brain" has not. To me, it seems they have been "stuck" in that youthful rebellion that surfaced in 1968. Blame it on the "Devil's Music" aka "Rock & Roll"?? Racism haunts the entire saga.

Every generation passes through a "rebellious" phase in the maturing process. This group, perhaps because of its size, and the events that were "handed" to them (Cold War, Vietnam, and other "Colonial"/"Race" Wars), they got "stuck" in "denials of reality" and retreated so massively into drug-taking, and other types of "dissipation". Their example seems to be followed by a later generation that wants to "convert" our economy to one driven by "POT"-smokers! What's Up With That? Never acquired the taste or interest! 1939 can be blamed, I guess!

After 2008, however, the last two Presidents (book-ends? -- one born in 1948, the other in 1961), have had a hand in causing, exacerbating, or "fixing" -- take your pick -- the economic mess that now grips the world. Its beginning to look like there is no "fix" for this economy. It has been changed permanently! It may take years before we can all see clearly what derives from the melt-down. The explosion of technological change brought on since 1939 has impacted events in ways that are still in early stages of "unfolding". The pace of meaningful "integration" of technology into our methods for producing wealth seems to have slowed , and become more difficult ( Wall-Street-Collapse, for example). Societal changes in every culture in the world show a trait of REGRESSION toward their Darker social behavior in their past.

It's interesting that retreat into more primitive religious beliefs appear to be driving the behavior of groups

AND individuals. Struggles to obtain income, at the levels taken for granted in our recent past, are issues for just about every individual and group. Its a struggle that does not seem to get better; as "hierarchical" institutions and economic units weaken. In spite of technological innovation, the ability to form and retain useful human relations continues to weaken, as old skills are lost or discarded. So much for successful "networking"!

Stay Vigilant! TECHNOLOGY ani't GOD! For many; even GOD is no longer GOD!

Sunday, July 6, 2014

"RED" vs. "BLUE??; or, "HEARTS" vs. "MINDS"??

A "LIFE(?)" of the "Mind"??

As old at this nation (238 years), is the "struggle" between the basic beliefs of its Founders, buried in their respective Religions, that persons of Color, were sub-human; and therefore, worthy of the most brutal forms of DEATH! The EXECUTIONERS, of course were White Males. While Native Peoples were consigned to immediate and violet extermination, Black Slaves and their blood lines were consigned to unending "servitude" to Whites. The Civil War that was fought, 85 years into the "Experiment"; was essentially an economic contest between those white males who did not want to have to "compete" with Slave Labor, and those white males who "benefited" from the Slave System. The TECTONIC SPLIT in the psyche of the early whites: the basic belief that persons of color, were to some extent "less than human"; and therefore, "undesirable"; was not "solved" or settled by the Civil War! It is being "fanned" in our streets, and Courts, today!

Today (2014), as the entire World is reeling under the weight of this basic belief, the SPLIT remains in this nation, and is expressed most vociferously by the Republican Party and its surrogates. The First Black President thought, naively, that he could "heal" that SPLIT; now called our "NATIONAL DIVIDE". He has moved us beyond the place Abraham left us; but it is by no measure adequate to today's need!

As we drift farther away from our paths toward Science, Reason, and "Fair Play" that produced the "America" touted in our literature and our Education and Religious teachings; it becomes clear that the deficits in our past attempts to produce a competent public, capable of governing itself in times of stress, HAVE PRODUCED SERIOUS FAILURES!

Powerful Religious and Economic forces have joined (Globally) to "farm" the minds of whites; driving them back toward the Middle, or "Dark" Ages of their past ancestry from Europe. As a result, the Middle East is about to explode; as younger generations there will no longer take the "crap"! Within the "strongest nation", the decline of the "MIND", in favor of its reliance on passions and "bloody appeals" to the HEARTS of whites has progressed rapidly!

Enter the role of technological advances since 1939: Immediately, the pace of technological advance was much greater than the ability of the "People" to consume it intelligently; with reason and safety. This could be the greatest damage the Cold War produced! Economic gain quickly took over; "Science", and/or "Reason" have been trashed! The vile preachment s of persons like Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, and similarly-minded females, rattles the "MIND". (So much for the socially superior roles that "women" can be expected to play??) Their appeal to the rawest, most racist, emotions, connected to "blood lines" and similar "primate-level" urges, matches those in parts of our world where, understandably, Religion and Tribal Rule have held sway. The rapid deterioration of the United States of America by some of its powerful white citizens, for Political and Economic gains, does not produce much hope for Mankind in the years ahead!

Stay Vigilant! What is in your "Mind" Who is manipulating it? Will you lose all "control"??

Saturday, July 5, 2014

A PARTY (self)-STRANGULATING?? ... using a A "Border" as a "Noose""??

Is there No (other) End, Possible??

As if the skin-color animosities against our First Black President were't enough to shame, shock, and rally the "whites" in this world to repudiate what they've seen and heard, in their name, coming out of the United States over the past six years; consider what is happening now, as Cracker Members of the Republican Cauldron attack women and children on buses! Again, (mostly) because of their skin color! ! Does this passivity show that "whites" silently agree??

The extremely-low level of intelligence to be found in the Republican Establishment, today is scary! THEY DON't (or can't?) UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF (intelligent) IMMIGRATION POLICY, as has been pursued by nations on this planet, for hundreds of years! To help them, I suggest two sources: MIGRATION and CULTURES A World View, by Thomas Sowell, a Black Conservative; from the days when "Black" and "Conservative" included people with genuine intelligence and self-respect. The Malignant Right, today can only recruit those blacks who have serious deficits of BOTH! The book was published in 1996 by Basic Books. No matter who you are, as a citizen of this country, if you look hard enough, you can find a story of an Immigrant Group that touches your "blood line".

The other is Henri Bogardus' data on Social Distance. Created during the last time this country faced an Immigration Crisis of this magnitude (the 1920s), it involved the struggle in this country to "sort-out" its "white" citizens. As you read it, you will see the "ranking" or "pecking order" of the variety of "whites" among our citizenry. (ex., "British" represented the "whiteest", of all whites, then; and also, today). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogardus_Social_Distance_Scale

Our present Crisis is so intense that all persons of color will ultimately be impacted, along with groups like

Women (all colors, all classes); the Poor (all colors, all classes), "Workers" (all colors, over 55 years old, all classes, all employment levels). The Supreme Court Rulings during the Obama Years, clearly, point in that direction. People of color with College Degrees will continue to find their expectations and legal protections against discrimination disappear. Women can be returned to their "chattel" status of years prior to 1920.

BORDERS are disappearing, or losing their significance, around the globe. Governments are weakening; tensions among peoples who have no recent history of strife, are multiplying. Entire regions are impacted! As North America progresses more toward "energy independence"; Mexico will come under increased scrutiny from the U.S. and Canada, for all of its resources. After exploiting their labor, and natural resources (oil, water, etc), the question will then arise as to "what to do?" with their "people"?? Borders become meaningless, once "government policy" is set at a "Regional" level!

Stay Vigilant! READ!; LEARN!