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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

SCOTUS: "Dis-ROBED" ?? (by POPE's Visit)

A Light in Dark Corners??

Shame on those Three "Justices" who declined invitations to attend the Speech, by Pope Francis, before Congress ! It so happens, that they are the three who remain most viciously opposed to "Justice" for people who have been struggling to become Free and Equal Citizens since our Civil War: Thomas, Scalia, and Alito!! If there were any questions as to how the Justices "stack-up", from Hard Right to Hard Left, politically, this incident should shine significant light on the matter. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0928/Did-Supreme-Court-Justices-boycott-Pope-Francis

Remember, it was a SCOTUS Decision, Dred Scott, in 1857, that set the stage for our Civil War; over the issue of the extension of Chattel Slavery. The Congress passed, and the States Ratified the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to our Constitution, to provide Rights and Freedoms for the former Slaves. The Congress, several Presidents, and Booker T. Washington, toiled to bring about JIM CROW; a system enacted to dismantle most of the provisions of those Amendments. SCOTUS supported JIM CROW, and indelibly scarred us all with definitions for Color Racism, in their Plessy v. Ferguson Decision, in 1896, Congress, in the heat and turmoil of the Assassinations of the 1960s. restored Voting Rights for the descendants of former Slaves. SCOTUS, the Roberts Court, "gutted" the Voting Rights Act, in 2013, by removing Legal Protections for Black Voters. The three Justices who declined to hear the POPE, were also those who, joined by Justices Kennedy and Roberts, "did that dirty deed"!.

Now we have it: Most Extreme: Thomas; assisted by Scalia, Alito, Roberts and Kennedy; in order from Hard Right, toward the political Middle. Least Extreme: Sotomayor, assisted by Kagan, Ginsburg, and Breyer, in order, from Hard Left toward the political Middle. Kennedy has been known to "swing"!!

Stay Vigilant! The Issues, that, we tell ourselves, were "settled" by the Civil War, are kept very much alive by Justice "T-Party" Thomas, and his cohorts on the Hard Right, in our Supreme Court!! As our country struggles to protect White Citizens who are terrified by Blacks, as always; as they also face impoverishment at the hands of FAT CATS (Trump??) -- get ready for a Nasty Future in these United States.

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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

If a CAR could "TALK" !!

Thirty Years of "Fun and Drama" !!

Four years ago, (shy one month), The OWL, Blog number 3, was entitled: Heaven in my BMW 635csi. The night before I purchased my "Bimmer", I saw Charlie Rose drive the identical car on his nightly Talk Show (black, on black; "in" Schwarz)!! The car rolled off the assembly line, thirty years ago. It is now a "Classic", I'm told, by those who stop me on the street to admire the car.

My Dad used to say "Life begins at 40"! Now that I've lived 30 years with my Bimmer, acquired when I was 46, I can attest to the truth of that assertion. Those who have consistently read this Blog (this one is number 1176), know, that my Childhood ended 70 years ago, in September of 1945, in a Hell-Hole the entire world was recently introduced to: Missouri! My Life's Journey began in earnest, when I permanently "shook that dust from my feet", and, I left on a long and mostly lonesome drive West; landing in the San Francisco Bay Ares, in the City of Berkeley. The twists and turns of that Path, are only now, beginning to slow down!

The Journey became especially interesting and dramatic, once Vasek Polak handed me the keys to my Bimmer, in his Establishment in Hermosa Beach, CA. The roads stretching ahead, led from the beautiful horse trails of Palos Verdes, CA,; to Capitol Hill in Seattle; to Brickell Key, in Miami; and to many points in between. It even includes the border towns of Tijuana and Juarez, in Old Mexico.

I'm slowing down, now, and the Bimmer will have to go to someone else who will enjoy its stories, and its "Joy" of the Road! In this week's Barron's (magazine insert, page 18) read: When Extra Power Pays Off.

This article updates us on BMW's "racy M versions".

Stay Vigilant! Anyone interested in more details of this Bimmer with a storied-life, can e-mail:

willigl@williamsllc.com.

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No "Golden Rule" for ISRAEL??

Netanyahu: "wrong" choices??

As regards ISRAEL; the SILENCE was "deafening" at the U.N. in New York, during this September's General Assembly Session. Usually, Israel, and Netanyahu, "dominate" discussions -- but not this year. Was it the POPE? Was it Boehner? It may go all the way back to Falwell!! Netanyahu, long ago, decided to "cast his lot" with the Biblical-Rabble

in our "Ol' South" -- to the detriment of his Country?? He seemed to feel that joining that bunch of Trash, which has given "death rattles" to the Republican Party; was the way to go! He joined visibly with their efforts to denigrate, undermine, trivialize, back-stab, and, destroy Obama's Presidency.

Sowing the whirlwind among his neighbors, he now has a budding intafada on his hands, as the seeds sown by Sharon (assisted by DickandDubya) are starting to bloom inside Israel. Do the world's governments have too much on their plates, now, to continue struggling with Netanyahu? Will he wind up "in-the-soup" of blood-feuding, that has embroiled the rest of the Middle East?

Stay Vigilant! We can all PRAY for Israel -- for our OWN sake!! The speed at which Syria

imploded; destroying everything their wealthy citizens possessed, should cause everyone on the Planet to "quake in their boots"!!

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Sunday, September 27, 2015

CARLY?? "Seriously"??

"Dishin" version of Lee Atwater??

A most unsavory creature that knows -not truth in Media, has sprung from the same Sewy-Hole that produced Terrible Teddy Cruz! With the same foul smell of our radical faction, also known as the Tea Party, this "woman" is hard to stomach!

Let's face it folk; you don't want to be served up the "dirty detials" of standard practices in human surgery, any more than we want to have graphic descriptions of how our "sausage" is made! When I was a young student in San Francisco in 1960, two medical students from the U.C. Medical School were disciplined for whacking off the scrotum of a cadaver for their use as a tobacco pouch. Medical Students have to have a certain sense of "detachment" in order to do their very unattractive, but very necessary jobs for their Customers. Carly know this. Listen Carefully, and you will NEVER hear her say that Planned Parenthood directs or participates directly in the widespread practice. or malpractices, more accurately, that occur THROUGHOUT and Medical and Pharmaceutical Professions today. There is is HUGE profit in their myriad schemes that are, so far, LEGAL! To play Carly's game of projecting this entire dirty business on Planned Parenthood, just because her "Base" and the pin-head consumers of MEDIA today are gullible enough to believe what they Don't Quite Hear Her Say; is very near to CRIMINAL (or certainly should be)!! Carly must be REJECTED for this Low-Down Practice!

Stay Vigilant! Listen Closely!

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"PAPA"; in JAIL??

"Exestintial" Criminals??

Interrupting, in the middle, a Fareed Zacharia interview with "Bubba" Clinton, "Poncho - the Beloved" (of late) appeared on the television, from a location inside a Prison in Philadelphia! Unless I missed it, I did NOT hear him recognize the "Existential" component -- "grounded in existence, or the experience of existence" of the "Crimes" for which his prisoner audience may have been incarcerated, brutalized, and ignored, in perpetuity by our Social Mores in the United States! De Tocquevile, who came here in the 1830s to study our Prison System; wrote about it; Du Bois, wrote about it in Souls of Black Folk; and, we ALL, if only in our Sub-Conscious Minds, recognize it!!

Could it be that a notion: that all without the Purest of White skin (i.e. Gachupines, Clergy, or Spanish Military) were Criminals; was implanted in our Sub-Conscious Minds, by teachings and practices of the earliest of Christians to arrive on American Continents, 500 years ago?? Non-whites have, ever since, been treated by White Christians, as "deserving": of the most brutal treatment! (Dylaan Roof, for example?)

Once Protestant Christian Immigrants to these shores got their hands on this notion, and began to "turn the screws" on those Damned by the First Christians; the Americas have also been concurrently Damned!! Evidence of it is playing out in our House of Representatives while "Papa's" Visit is on-going! This is the the CURSE that the CHURCH must Eradicate, in the hearts of its "flock"; if it is to survive the diminishing relevance of Whites on this Planet!

Stay Vigilant! THINK carefully, READ truth; AVOID the urgings of our MEDIA, heavily tainted by Ailes, Murdoch, and Limbaugh!

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Saturday, September 26, 2015

Upon Coming to AMERICA!

CHANGE is "on the Wind"

Speaker Boehner, third in succession to the Presidency of the United States, "washes his hands" of the Republican Leadership of the House of Representatives!! He is the first, to "voluntarily" resign, under no visible pressure, and within HOURS after hosting the first Papal Visit to that Body!! Has he also become convinced that Republicans have become a "Down-Low" Party; a FACTION, like the threat our Founders warned us against??

Every-day White Catholics are being restored, before our eyes, from the weight of the Scandal that arose when long-lasting, widespread, Sex-Abuse of minor children was found among Catholic Priests, world-wide. Those most prone to practice their FAITH from a position that is Judgmental and imbued with an Air of White Supremacy, unfortunately, are also "restored".

You could see evidence of that if you looked closely at the faces of the darkest-skinned children among those assembled at the school in Harlem. There was the stark look of fear, uncertainty, and doubts of acceptance that their parents suffered in Catholic Education. The Dexel Family of Philadelphia targeted Native and Black Children within their "service tradition". As we know from other sources, the Bible and Christianity were common tools used by Whites as they pursued a program of Killing Off adults, while impounding their children for indoctrination to favor "whiteness"; while, "forever" remaining Marginalized! In my early days in the Air Force, I could easily spot a Black Officer from Philadelphia or New York, for that reason. "Missionaries" from other FAITHS pursued the Native and Black children West of the Mississippi.

Also present in the Harlem School (Spanish Harlem, that is) were Immigrant Families from Non-White parts of the world. Once prominent in large cities, such schools are now rare, due to the fact that Whites have done better economically, and have moved away, and taken away their financial support. Traditionally, a Blue-Collar element, jobs for less-educated Catholic males, today, are found on Police Forces, and in Fire-fighting. Those groups are feeling an economic pinch, thanks to DickandDubya, and are taking it out on Blacks across our Country.

Stay Vigilant! Boehner's Resignation may bode more "Evil on the Way"? The FACTION-alized Whites, who cheer Trump, have made impressive gains in both Houses of Congress, and show o signs of seeking Good Governance!

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Friday, September 25, 2015

"PAPA" ..in the LAND of the "FREE"??

Who? ... You??

Preaching the GOLDEN RULE in a place where those with the most GOLD, Rule; Pope Francis, aka "Poncho", is a BIG HIT!! He has been doing the "hitting", however, from a place, high up, in the House of Representatives, where it will be most difficult for the Legislators in our Federal Government to "miss" his message! This occurred within hours of his "Conquering" Cuba, in a way that was most spectacular! Maybe those, most Greedy, who have been licking their lips to get back at the Cubans, after years of Batista and Fidel, will take pause? You THINK?? Not on yer life!!

Talking to the Oppressors, and their paid lackeys in Official positions, "Papa" warns that the Greedy have dangerously overreached! Massive outpourings of Migrants are flooding Europe from the Middle East, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, as examples. He spoke against the arms merchants, our death penalty, ... his Laundry List was long! (Read the Speech) http://time.com/4048176/pope-francis-us-visit-congress-transcript/

Millions of people in this Country, Catholic and non-Catholic have become "Fans", and seem eager for his message of "Forgiveness". Citing, among others, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, he raises a question for those of us who struggle: "What is the Price of Forgiveness, and WHO "Pays" it?? In both cases, Lincoln and the Civil War, and, King, and the Civil Rights Movement, one hundred years later; the BLACK VICTIMS paid the price, and are still paying it; in a land where white Leaders bend every fiber to keep them Marginalized. Beginning, in the early days of JIM CROW, these Leaders have been assisted by a Cynical Class of Black (known today as "Conservatives") who have found their way to riches and fame by serving the interests of those Leaders who work to Oppress. Two, most prominent today, are Clarence Thomas and Condi Rice. Both, the handi-work of Bush(es)!

Undoubtedly, Nelson Mandela could be added to the list of Leaders like Lincoln and King. The "Truth and Reconciliation Commissions" that followed the surface collapse of Apartheid, also serve to reinforce the notion among whites that Blacks, somehow, "deserve" their suffering; and that no whites should ever be punished! The Cycle is a Vicious One!

The ghosts of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Walter Scott can attest the the fact that JIM CROW today has become institutionalized in our Police Organizations, acting in league with Big City Mayors to maintain the marginalization of those Blacks who are too poor to escape their assigned habitats.. We can trace the early days of this phase, to Los Angeles and Mayor Bradley's Chief, Daryl Gates.

Stay Vigilant! The POISON has worked its way deep into the Fabric of Society, throughout the Americas; from Argentina, to Alaska. It'll take a HEAP of Prayin' to some GOD more powerful than any we have yet known, to make this CRAP STOP!!

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