The OWL

Saturday, November 21, 2015

is MEDIA playin' "OLD MAID" with us ??

A Child's Game?

When I was very young, we played "Old Maid". An old "Victorian" Card Game, it was very popular in the United States during the War, and for a while after. Nobody plays it now, it seems. Maybe the Feminist Movement had something to do with that?

In the game, players "held" their cards, and whoever was "dealt" the Old Maid, would try to foist-off that card, by tricking an unsuspecting opponent to "draw" it.

Suppose, in 2015, the Old Maid returns as a male, with strangely-colored skin, and "wierd" hair, and is running for President of the United States?? Someone who spent considerable money supporting Romney in 2012, and invented the "Birther" Charade; to weaken Romney's opponent. Romney blew it, of course, so, this time, the 'Wierd One" has to do it himself!! But he is well known as a "wooden-nickel" by those of us with more that a little bit of common sense, Along comes our Sleazy MEDIA, "drunk as skunks" on the Big Bucks they can make, by tricking all of us to "Draw" this "Card"!!

The Sad Thing is, it just might work!! The so-called "smart" players in this game, are so busy entertaining themselves, they might be playing into the hands of those Factions who would "cash-in" under a TRUMP Presidency. Those who invested in "W", drew Cheney as the "Surprise Player"; and, if properly "connected", made out like Fat Rats under the Cloud of Fear that bunch stirred up! Some people found the 2008 Meltdown to be Highly Profitable! Not all of them were in the United States.

Stay Vigilant! As we've been dragged down this road, since the days of the Iran Hostages; events have occurred that have been ever-more horrendous, and a new "World Order" has "congealed" around our feet. TRUMP can "win" a "Casino" in 2016, that won't be too hard for him, to "bankrupt"?? Think about t??

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Friday, November 20, 2015

the "RADICAL" (kKknow-nuthin') PARTY??

are the Republicans DEAD??

We've known for a few years, now; that the Republican Party has been under attack from within.

Slowly, every Republican with a shred of Decency or Self-Respect has been driven out of the Party.

Post-Paris, TRUMP sees an "opening" to take the Party back to Europe in the Thirties; while Cruz seems to prefer the Stasi-Tactics from the Cold War. Just think of what Senator McCarthy could do with today's Sleazy MEDIA!!

After TRUMP suggested "Lists" by Religion and Tribe, Carson chimes in by comparing Muslims with "Dogs"! I can't imagine how much lower the Party can sink! Jeb, in his characteristic, half-heart fashion, is tip-toeing in their direction. Rubio is under attack by both Jeb and Cruz!

I think its time to start referring to the Party by a name that fits their behavior: RADICAL kKknow-nuthin's. After years of digging and trying different ways to express their hatred of President Obama, the GOP has finally tapped into that vile stream of Evil that flows at the bottom of our Society!

Stay Vigilant! With almost a year left before the 2016 Election, we have time to insist that the name of the Party must be changed to reflect their True Character??

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Thursday, November 19, 2015

HILLARY's "Road-Map"??

Now is the Time for all good Citizens to come to the Aid of their COUNTRY??

After listening, intently, to Hillary's Speech on ISIS, I Googled the Transcript. Her speech sounded to me like a "roadmap" of the difficulties that lie ahead for all residents on this Planet. There's little of the usual "Politics" in it. You know, where "snake-oil" salespersons "sell" simple (and usually wrong) Solutions to complex issues??

Unfortunately, the listener has to be intelligent, thoughtful, and, knowledgeable of current affairs! In my youth, we had that kind of nation. Citizens huddled around radios to hear their President report to them the details of the Battles we waged in World War II. There was some "hatred" of FDR; but everyone knew what our fringe element was all about, and our Media was Patriotic. Today, we might not be considered insane to expect some in our Media to be on the payroll of Foreign Interests, Global Crime Syndicates, or home-grown Nihilists.

Read the transcript, I'm going through it and making notes. Let's see what Jeb comes up with in response?

Stay Vigilant! The days for "runnin' and hidin' " are gone! It is time to sober up, put down the carnival barkers and the hate-mongers, and get a grip on the tasks ahead, for returning to some Civility, Stability, and Security in this World! READ THE SPEECH!! http://time.com/4120295/hillary-clinton-foreign-policy-isis/

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

findin' "MY" People??

"Sign" of our Times??

One "sign" on the long road that tracks my life; one, that "points toward home"; bears the name of Della Reese! Along with hundreds of other Black Artists that I have been privileged to be entertained by, learn from, and, live among, in these United States, I was blessed to see and hear Della; "LIVE"!

She was born, almost exactly eight years before me, in Detroit, Michigan, and, named Delloreese Patricia Early. She is still "kickin'" !! She shares in a Cherokee Lineage, that is very common among those of us born WEST of of the State of Ohio. As I write this, I'm listening to her "Live" Album, recorded, in 1966, along with Herb Ellis (guitar), Bill Doggett (organ), Gerald Wiggins (piano), Ray Brown (bass), and Shelly Manne (drums). A trumpeter (not named), "riffs" with Della on the Bridge of: Who Can I Turn To. It is truly a "spell-binding" performance!! The Liner Notes quote the trumpeter, but do not give his name. (NOTE: Trumpeter: Bobby Bryant, b. May 19, 1934, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; d. June 10, 1998).

This album was recorded during a classic "midnight-hour Jamm Session" Los Angeles! I was lucky enough to attend a few of them during my days in L.A. Ray Brown was the link. I know I'm HOME when I fall into a group of American Citizens like these! They speak a language that defies places, and dates, and, generations. They take you back to Black Communities that worked, for those of us lucky enough to be born into them! When you see it, and experience it, you are reminded of your roots, and confirmed, in ways that no other experience can match!

Most Americans have seen Della in one or more of her many Television Performances; on shows like "Touched by an Angel". My all-time-favorite performance by Della, as an actress, is her portrayal of "Vera" in Harlem Nights; a film that also starred Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, and Eddie Murphy.

Stay Vigilant! In spite of the disgraceful "plunder" of contributions by these wonderful Talents of Old (especially those that were subjected to Segregated, and exploitative Club Owners and other "Managers"), Black Youth can still find their way to the Treasures they left behind. Let this be a Road Sign?? (APPLAUSE) forever; Della!

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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

TWO BLACK CHRISTIANS ...

One is President of the U.S.;

the Other is a "Wannabee"

Yesterday, I watched, and carefully listened to President Obama, in Turkey, and Ben Carson, in Iowa. What struck me was the sharp contrast between the two on the subject of Syrian Refugees. Obama's views were consistent with his "better Angels" nature, and, his characteristic treatment of matters that are deeply troubling to the American People. Carson, by contrast, fell squarely in "lock-step" with the most heinous tendencies of those of us who put "Self" first! These are the people who avoided the Draft in the days of "Vietnam"; and military service, ever since. These are the kind of people who rush to deny the rights and "humanity" of those not "like them". Driven by FEAR for their own survival, they quickly abandon those principles they practice is calmer times; and that they want applied to themselves, when they're in need. Some, even go so far as to murder and imprison those people they fear. More than twenty Republican Governors, have, in "lock-step" acted to keep Syrian Refugees out of their States. This morning, Paul Ryan, Boehner's replacement as third in Line of Succession to the Presidency, joined in the FEAR stance, against Syrian Refugees. No doubt, this reflects a "whip-saw" of sentiments within these same people, from a few weeks back, when the body of a little Refugee Boy washed up on a Beach of the Mediterranean.

I finally got around to watching the movie of Ben Carson's Life Story. It didn't help much to explain the real Ben Carson who appears before us on T.V., daily, in his Campaign. EXCEPT, for an insight that only a black male who has lived the past 76 years in the United States, might have. The youthful RAGE, so famously cited, that Carson has been derided for by his white competitors, seems to have disappeared "without a trace" in the man. The Christian GOD he credits for "taking" his Rage, seems to be a GOD that Carson "shares" with NO ONE! White Christian Zealots find him useful, nonetheless!

Vengeance is central to the animus that drives these spreading attitudes toward the Syrian Refugees.

"Vengeance" for what happened in Paris; and, is feared to happen in the U.S. When President Obama sang "Amazing Grace", "forgiving" white Christians for the heinous crime committed there; 'shocked' Whites applauded him for doing that! Carson aligns with the Vengeance crowd; alongside Whites, in our Deep South and other parts of the country where "doors are being slammed" against Syrian Refugees!! President Obama does not do that! Do Republicans feel they can seize on this difference; and, mixing it with their racial hatred for Obama, "leverage" their chances to "win" against Hillary in 2016?

Stay Vigilant! "Compassion"; "Turn the other Cheek"; are quickly abandoned in times of Mass Hysteria! Our MEDIA is busy raising that Hysteria. President Obama, correctly, reminds us that this Nation was formed to set it apart from this sort of thing. Republicans seem determined to destroy all of our Core Values!!

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Monday, November 16, 2015

This Ain't No "MOVIE"; folks!!

You cannot "change" the Channel!!

President Obama, in Turkey, this morning "struggled" to lower his language-grade-levels to meet the cretinous minds of those Press-members who were questioning him about TERRORISM! It was incredible, how "thick-headed" they were! They seemed to be confused as they struggled to determine which words they could use, in their PROPAGANDA Media goals, to win them some favor, and get their Reports "picked up" by Talking Heads on T.V.?? They remained baffled!

"Morning Joe" feigned "surprise" that only Republicans heeded his invitation to join him in this morning's hatin'-on-Obama-bash! Today's theme included the word "underestimate"! It was picked up and repeated, ad-nauseam by those Reporters in Turkey, struggling to "translate" Obama!

Pope-Too has it right: This is "piecemeal" World War III! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pope-francis-world-war-3_5648ab7de4b06037734973e6

This will NOT be "over" soon! We will NOT all be kept Safe! We must GET OVER IT!! We must learn how to LIVE, as if we hope to Survive! We must learn what, and what-NOT, to teach our CHILDREN! John Wayne and Ronald Reagan, are both dead! Their Hollywood-produced MYTHS must be allowed to die, also?? If we fail to "Get-Along, Together"; no form of Conquest will work, instead!!

The seeds planted in Iraq in 2003, by Cheney and Bush, are "blooming"; along with the seeds planted in Florida, in 2000, when our Supreme Court interfered in that Presidential Election! We may never know what kind of Lives we might have had, were those two events, (and, Abu-Ghraib?) somehow Averted?? We're deep in the DOO-DOO now, however! Joe, and Jeb, and TRUMP, and Cruz, expect us to "double down" as we march, smartly, and with "bravado", along this Road to Perdition we were placed-upon, by Nixon,, and, propelled-along, by Reagan! President Obama must be believed, when he tells us to avoid, at all cost, the temptation to turn these circumstances into some CRUSADE, or WAR of CIVILIZATIONS!! That CRAP can "seal the doom" for our Planet!

Stay Vigilant! Both, the expanding Terrorists, and our freshest Demagogues, come from 2nd-Generation, young, immigrant males!! The World is locked in a race to see which side "wins" the war for their Hearts and Minds!!

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Sunday, November 15, 2015

"BUSH-on-BUSH" ("Birther"?? ... anyone?)

JEB "channels" PARIS?

JEB was "on", this morning; trying to tie Obama to Paris! Someone ought to tell him that Obama won't be on the Ballot in 2016? The things he claims Obama ought to be doing against ISIS, are the things, reported 2 Days Ago, that the Obama Administration IS DOING!! Bush can be excused, because FOX didn't "break" that story: Al Jazeera "broke" that News!! (see yesterday's OWL)

JEB tried to "capitalize" on Hillary's Debate last night in Iowa; and got his Brother's words fed back to him, by Jake Tapper! The Monsters "un-Bushed" in Iraq by DickandDubya in 2003, grow larger, more complex, and more frightening, everyday.

Then there's the "BIRTHER" issue for 2016 -- Ted Cruz!! Nowhere in the MEDIA, nor on the lips of JEB, nor on the lips of TRUMP, the "Birther-in-Chief", is there much mention of the FACT that Ted Cruz is not a born Citizen of the United States. After loudly, and foolishly, challenging President Obama on this issue, neither TRUMP nor JEB has mentioned it! This could be a "two-fer" for JEB if he handled it right. There must be some reason for the deafening silence on Cruz's BIRTH! http://www.salon.com/2015/03/26/gops_birther_hypocrisy_exposed_why_conservatives_are_conveniently_mum_on_ted_cruz_partner/ h-y-p-o-c-r-a-c-y is a strange way to spell: R_A_C_I_S_M??

Stay Vigilant! Reports are out that ISIS recruits tend to be young/male/ and second-generation immigrants!! Does that sound like anybody you know?? Our MEDIA should be ashamed!

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