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Friday, August 31, 2012

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Those who Can't Give it, Don't Deserve It

Its an old, but true statement that those who can't or won't give respect should not expect to receive it. I have called what used to be the Republican Party Repoobs, precisely because they don't respect the lower classes, or non-white peoples in this country or on this planet. They are consistent in displaying this fact, in their policies, their behaviors, their language, and in their Tampa Convention. Their behavior during the Convention reeked with their contempt for the President, and people of color, making exceptions for those very few non-white supplicants in attendance.

Just in case anyone watching their proceedings, in this country or outside, missed this message, the Clint Eastwood travesty made the Repoob basic beliefs crystal clear. Their behavior throughout was so extreme, just about anyone would have to wonder why they even bother to pretend they want to fairly govern this country. From the top down, their intent to exclude "the other" in terms of skin color and wealth, is clear. It can not be explained away or covered up with feints toward "humor".

The past few days have shown those of us who will think about what we've just seen, a clear picture of what kind of country they want to run, and what they really think of people they don't like or respect.

There was great bally-hoo in the speeches about God-given, Human, or Natural rights. Mitt pleaded that "they" deserved these rights, while implying others do not. Their displays of contempt for the first non-white President of this country were despicable. They have to lie about everything and twist facts to sustain and spread their hatred. The biggest lie was told my Mitt when he stated that some of those in that room had voted for President Obama in 2008. A two year old would know better than to try to claim something that bogus.

When you think about it, their assertions and behavior portend grave consequences for our Constitution and Bill of Rights as we move ahead into our more multi-cultural future. These people clearly are the ugliest of "white Americans". They did the decent whites in this country a favor by showing their true beliefs to the world. It sould have been a Klan rally, complete with gestures of throat cutting. These ugly ones usually hide behind their skin, pretending to support the beliefs enshrined in our founding documents.

More threatening than their social attitudes and behavior is their economic plan for the country.

This type of citizen, during the Depression of the 1930's, was largely responsible for the length, depth, and severity of those times. Mitt threatens trade wars with China and Russia (reminiscent of Smoot-Hawley).

Their religion of "cutting" (both spending and taxes) to regain prosperity, also harkens back to those days of deprivation. The over-powering military build-up Mitt talks about will be a lure to War.

Stay Vigilant!

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

REPOOBS SPENT

The Hullabaloo Ends on a Whimper

The much-awaited Romney acceptance speech has whimpered away in the shadow of "Make My Day" Clint Eastwood. The spectacle ends in tones of Chauvanism, Jingoism, and shallow Patriotism. The major theme is, as it was in the beginning, an appeal to the special and "exceptional" people who make up the Repoob Party, and therefore have a right to lead this country. Lots-a-Luck with that! Their business was clearly to support business -- Small Business they claim, but all evidence points to Big Business and Big Oil. No mention of how they will get operational funding or start-up money for small businesses.

We've seen a steady stream of this drivel for many years now. Oh, did I mention that it was shot-through with anti-Obama accusations and put-downs? Romney clearly put the blame for "dividing us" on the President. He thinks we were all asleep during that ugly interlude called the Repoob Primary. A significant part of this country (the non-white part) received scarce mention by all the assembled, except for their token non-white women.

The biggest lie told was that this country is "not better off" than it was four years ago.

Then: we were losing jobs at a rate not seen before in this country. Now: we are gaining jobs.

Then: we were in the throes of a banking system melt-down. Now: the safe function of our banking system has been restored. Then: health care costs were sky-rocketing and insurance companies could deny coverage with impugnity. Now: those conditions have been reversed.

All of this in the face of a solid front of sabotage of the government led by the Repoobs.

Romney failed to tell us how he would end the truculence of the Repoob House of Representatives. We're left to assume that he will get their cooperation because he shares their skin tones. His Vice President voted for all of the debt increasing legislation of the Bush years and then sabotaged the Simpson-Bowles commission to fix the mess.

If this style of politics is what we have to look forward to, this country has no future. Any party an play the game the Repoobs have been running since the night the President was inaugurated four years ago. What goes around can come around. The voters might be as stupid or mean as the Repoobs are expecting.

Mitt talked about "dividers". He might trot out Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, New Gengrich, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and their fellow "uniters" of this nation. What a bunch of hooey!

Stay Vigilant!

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THERE THEY GO AGAIN

REAGAN, with a TWIST

The Repoob Shindig in Tampa features their new "young lions"; Ryan, Paul, etc. They have created a way to slip the old Reagan twist across generation lines. Reagan convinced white voters that they were "middle class" because they were white and were not on welfare. That brought him blue collar voters in a landslide.

The 21st century version is that you're an "American" if you inherited wealth or "lucked into" wealth. Rand Paul pulled a clever trick of citing the hard work of non-white immigrants and then imputed their achievements and struggles to himself and his fellow "Conservatives". Times are hard today and most people in poverty and on welfare are white. The trick, or twist, just might not work.

Old lies, in younger mouths, repeated incessantly on television, is their hope to get out of their trailing position in this election.

The anti-abortion crusades are being weilded by these younger white males to an extent not before seen. The Handmaid's Tale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid's_Tale could be just over the horizon if these Repoobs get their way. Those women (over 55) who are being wooed and reassured by Queen Ann that they are exempt from planned cuts, are conveniently over the child-bearing age. Could it be that the pressures are being brought to bear on younger women slow or reverse the rise of women in the work force? (See my earlier blog: "Mommy").

The recent issue of TIME with Mitt on the cover reveals insights into Mitt financial dealings. If you read closely, you will get a glimpse of who really might benefit from a Mitt reign, and who will not. It also reveals details that might explain why he is so adamantly against letting the voting public see his recent, post 2008, tax returns.

The irony is that Reagan did not fare well at the ovarian lottery -- except for skin color. He was still hustling for money even after he left the Presidency. It was reported in the Los Angeles Times, in the early 80's, that wealthy "donors" provided his Bel Air house.

For those of us who have not yet found our "silver spoon", lets tell the Repoobs that we will not show wealth envy if they will stop pretending that they "work" for the money they lord over us.

Stay Vigilant!

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

LA MALINCHE

The "Women" Thing

Today, on the anniversary of Katrina, we see its ghost (Hurricane Isaac) pummeling New Orleans. The second day (third day, really) of their Shindig closes, and angry white Repoobs revel in Tampa. Tonight they will parade a curious collection of women to shield them from the image of tribalism they have been projecting.

Two of the women are Condoleeza Rice and Governor Martinez of New Mexico. So far the Repoobs have ignored the economy to focus on their hatred for President Obama. Boehner, McConnell, and Governor Barbour (whose state is also being impacted by Isaac) have paraded before the cameras to vent their bile against the President; while failing to offer any solutions to our problems as a nation.

Those of you who know the history of Mexico, also know of Malinche

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Malinche. Those who know of the history of race in the Americas know that Cortes, who brought us most of the historical evils of the Spanish invasion; to include chattel slavery, would almost surely have failed in his attempt to conquer Mexico without the support of Malinche. Condoleeza provided "cover" for the Bush Administration as they fumbled our protection on 9/11. Gov. Martinez may be setting the stage for a similar fate for "Hispanics" at the hands of global financiers, brought to us courtesy of Mitt and the Repoobs.

What lies behind the tendency of people to betray their own? Check out Henry Bamford Parkes' book: "A History of Mexico", 3rd Ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1960. It is about the best and most thorough history of Mexico, from the arrival of the Aztecs through all key events up to 1940. This shows in detail how closely Cortes came to failure, and the role played by La Malinche.

A famous artist, Thomas Satterwhite Noble

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Satterwhite_Noble painted "The Price of Blood" which depicts the fundamental flaw in our national psyche that permits greed to trump humanity. See

http://themorris.org/ourcollection/noble-price.html which undergirds the tribalism we now see on display by Repoobs. The action depicted in the painting is traced to the Biblical story of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac.

Stay Vigilant ! Chilling, isn't it?

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Monday, August 27, 2012

DID GOD"S VOTE COME EARLY?

About Race and Hurricanes

This blog is being written as the first day scheduled for the Repoob's Big Shindig in Tampa draws to a close. It was feared that God Almighty was sending a mighty storm aimed at Tampa. We now know that Tampa has been spared, but, eerily, we're staring at the possibility that Katrina's Ghost has appeared, to strike New Orleans on the anniversary of the debacle that occurred there seven years ago. The spectacle of the Repoobs partying while New Orleans is evacuating, or worse, now haunts their big television mind-screw of the voters. And they can't blame Obama for this!

This caused the cancellation of the opening day in Tampa, and the compacting of the remaining events scheduled. Bobby Jindal, slated to be a star at the Shindig, is out of that picture and struggling to perform better than a former Governor of Louisiana did in 2005. Is God riled by all the crap the Repoobs have thrown at us in the name of running for President of the United States?

Mitt's revelation over the weekend of where he really stands on the "Birther" question has caused a crap-storm on its own. Other cracks in the Repoob party are showing at a very in-opportune moment.

The power to conjure up all of this for the Repoobs, at this time, surely lies beyond that of man.

I know a bit about hurricanes, as it turns out. I spent 2003 and 2004 in Miami in a high-rise in the middle of Biscayne Bay. I rode out big hurricanes like Isabel, Charley, Frances and Ivan. I threw in the towel and got the Hell out of Florida in the Spring of 2005. The trail I followed as I returned to the more secure high desert of the Southwest, was dogged latter in that year by Katrina and Wilma.

My household goods got out of that Hell Hole, just a few days before Wilma hit the area where they were stored.

It occurred to me during my experiences riding out those storms, that the hurricanes that plague the southern states each year travel along the route of the Slave Trade. That path is actually the graveyard of many thousands of slaves that were thrown to the sharks during the hundreds of years the Europeans plied that trade.

This nation still has some 70-plus days to ride out this election. We can all pray that we save ourselves and secure a better future by putting these Repoob horrors behind us.

Saturday, August 25, 2012

BIRTHALISM is TRIBALISM

Voters Must Tell Mitt: "This is NO JOKE!!"

After months of over-confidence, the Repoobs and Mitt seem to be running scared and stooping low. Mitt's handlers now claim that Mitt was "joking" when he made his Birtherlism comment in Michigan a couple of days ago (Or Birtherism, if it comes from the likes of Trump).

Hip deep in running a religion that has strong tribalism and militarism in its history, Mitt should have thought the wiser about introducing Mormanism to the voting public this way.

Foaming at the mouth Southerners have long been on the scene, starting with Wallace in the "school-house door" and advancing quickily to religious-right politics. The Repoobs largely make up this contingent, and the nation has tolerated them as fringe racists. They are die-hard remnants of the Civil War in this country. That war was largely a contest between slave-labor economics and free-labor economics; ending chattel slavery was used as a tactic to win the war for the North. The threat was economic and regional, not, as today, national and economic, with race, class, and color used as bait.

Tribalism, however, is something far deeper and far more sinister. A quick glance at what is going on in Syria and Norway should convince anybody of that. It is often rooted in religious and economic struggle. Economic shocks to this country have been persistent since Nixon took us off the Gold Standard in the early 70's. They increased in intensity after the fall of Soviet Communism, and the Wall in Germany in 1989. We have mistaken these as Recessions; each one more severe and more jobless as their "recoveries" ensued.

In the 2012 election, we face these factions backed by mega-and mysterious-wealth, bullying the voters. This follows more than three years of a Repoob-conspiracy to hamstring and shut -down-in-slow-motion the national government, while increasing impoverishment of our state governments.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

"MAKERS" vs. "TAKERS"

Truman's Definition of a Republican

I remember being taught, as a child, Harry Truman's definition of a Republican as "a person who will not lend anyone a dime, until they first prove they don't need it". We have come to 2012 only to find that the Republican Party has been swallowed by Repoobs; deep South discontents, and their expatriates, who have doubled down in their efforts to take over this country, even if it takes another Civil War!

Democrats, who tend to not fare as well in the ovarian lottery as Republicans, have throughout our history, tended to be builders, people who want to grow the country, who do so by making things. The Republicans, throughout our history, tend to be people who are entitled to take; our money, our dreams, our lives and labor, and now our future.

The Repoobs, led by Mitt and Congressman Ryan, are demonstrating their disregard for truth, the law, and for the nation's financial health in their push to regain power.

When I was in uniform, the Hatch Act, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939, passed by Congress the year I was born, was used to deter us from speaking out on political matters while on active duty. We see evidence on our T.V's everyday that this law is being brazenly broken.

Similar disregard for law is evidenced by religiously funded groups, called "social welfare groups" who openly fund political advertising.

We have to apply equal vigilance against "domestic enemies" as "foreign enemies". Our Constitution requires it. Any Party that fails in this requirement does not deserve to continue in existence. Don't let your vote become weapons against your country. This is not simply "dirty politics as usual".