Lethal Consequences - Combustible Combination

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They ginned up the rhetoric got people to walk around outside events whee the President was speaking, brandishing automatic weapons, publicly, hanged effigies of President Obama, called him a terrorist, called him as Muslim as IF, something is WRONG with being a Muslim, called him a Communist, a Socialist, said he was not born in the USA, said he was NOT intelligent, said that he was coming to get your guns, called him a baby killer, and of course EVERY racial slur that has EVER been known to mankind.

They have spun EVIL and HATE, non-stop, 24/7/365 and this EVIL and HATE has taken human form, in the bodies of THIS shooter, THOSE Colorado, Wisconsin, Oregon and Oregon shooters. They have taught the idea that it is okay to DISRESPECT your fellow human brothers and sisters to the selfish, hubristic ideation that THEY are all-powerful and are free to gun down in cold-blood ANYONE, including innocent little boys and girls, IF they choose, that THEY are simply exercising their "right to bear arms" that they can resolve any actual or imagined personal issue through the use lethal ballistic force.

And those who pander to the feeble-minded, who purposely stir emotions through the dissemination of paranoia-fueled propaganda, via mass media networks, are, in essence, helping the executioners carry out the senseless slaughter of innocent human beings. Much the same as the cliche"yelling fire in a crowded theater" (when there is NO fire) creating a false fear, a panic, an anxiety which triggers a perverse, pathological reaction, and when combined with easy access to military-grade, semi-automatic weapons, ammunition, and high capacity magazines, results in horrific carnage, incomprehensible to the normal human mind. It is savagery, pure savagery and it has been carefully created, cultivated, and cheered into reality. NONE of these incidents are accidents.

More people have been killed by guns this year in Chicago than in Afghanistan. GUNS are responsible for exponentially MORE deaths in the USA than Al Qaeda or ANY terrorist organization. YET, the USA spends TRILLIONS of dollars chasing ghosts around the globe, while the REAL enemy lurks in our parks, our schools, our malls, our neighborhoods, our streets, our yards, and inside our VERY homes. The USA has chosen to play roulette with guns or a "Price is Right" spinning wheel and WHEREVER that wheel STOPS, is where the NEXT expression of gun violence will occur. It might kill your sons, your daughters, your mother, your father, your grandma, grandpa, uncle, aunt, cousin, friend, neighbor, or the bullets may find YOU.

Cliffs, Myths, and Collard Greens

This ENTIRE contrived "fiscal cliff" was totally created by the GOP as a result of the GOP BLOCKING President Obama from raising the debt ceiling, something which has ALWAYS been automatic, for EVERY President , Republican OR Democrat, UNTIL PRESIDENT Barack Obama was in office. I think if you run a little statistical correlation algorithm on the numbers, you will find it statistically SIGNIFICANT that the very FIRST time in HISTORY, a USA President has been BLOCKED from raising the debt ceiling, is ALSO the FIRST time the USA has a BLACK President. And NOW, the GOP is talking of BLOCKING him AGAIN, so it will have been done TWICE and BOTH times occurred with a BLACK USA President.

It is NOT about deficit SPENDING or DEBT. Bush, Jr. did Plenty of deficit SPENDING and ALSO increased DEBT, yet some of these very SAME Republican senators and representatives, NEVER balked at Bush Jr. raising the debt ceiling, in fact, many times. And the good old D.C. press corp ONLY seems to find deficit spending and debt a problem when a Democrat occupies the White House. The D.C. media seems to be obsessed with this hallucination of a 'fiscal cliff."

Cover of Jimmy Cliff

The "fiscal cliff" is a sham, a mirage, hallucination, fake, false, contrived emergency, shadow, vapor, smoke, ghost, not even as REAL as Bigfoot or Nessie or getting kidnapped by alien beings from far away galaxies ,who take you for a spin in their flying Escalade, after which you wake up, naked and confused, with a taser burn on your neck The only "cliff" I can find is Jimmy Cliff, so I listened to him sing, "I Can See Clearly Now," and come to think of it, I CAN see CLEARLY, and there is NO cliff of any kind ahead of me.

Mitch McTyrtle said, "make President Obama a one-term President." This, HOWEVER, did NOT work, so we are stuck with this mythical mirage of a "fiscal cliff" where, apparently folks are going to sucked into a whirling vortex of anti-matter before they finish their black-eyed peas and collard greens on January 1st, 2013. As for January 1st, I'm going to finish my black-eyed peas, collard greens, cornbread, jug of sweet tea, and don't plan on getting ANYWHERE near a CLIFF of ANY sort.

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English: President Barack Obama makes a statement in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House announcing a deal in the ongoing efforts to find a balanced approach to the debt limit and deficit reduction, July 31, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

IF we do INDEED, go over this "cliff," we MUST make sure that the appropriate parties receive their JUSTIFIED blame. GOP is ALREADY on this PR offensive to appear "open to compromise" and will portray the Democrats as "unreasonable." The hapless lapdog news media will oblige the GOP, per usual, if we are not careful. Someone NEEDS to point out that this "FISCAL CLIFF" was created totally by the GOP solely because the GOP, for the FIRST time in USA history, blocked a USA President from raising the Debt Ceiling. ALL previous Presidents, regardless of party affiliation, have been allowed to RAISE the Debt Ceiling.


It is ONLY because this is the FIRST USA BLACK President that he was NOT allowed to raise the Debt Ceiling. ENOUGH is F'N ENOUGH of this RACIST BS. The ELECTION is OVER. Many of the SAME GOP legislators who BLOCKED President Obama on the Debt Ceiling, ALSO voted in FAVOR of RAISING the Debt Ceiling when Bush Jr. did IT. They ALSO voted in FAVOR of the Iraq Invasion, occupation, and all the Bush Tax Cuts, which are RESPONSIBLE for MOST of the DEBT and DEFICIT. They are HYPOCRITES at BEST. And the News media NEVER puts this in the proper context and EXPLAINS how the F*CK we got HERE.

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Wednesday Rant - A VERY Rough Draft

Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I am so TIRED of hearing this BS about this being “President Obama’s ECONOMY.” STOP harassing President Obama about the Economy. START asking the GOP, folks such as Mitch McTyrtle, John Boner, and Eric “I love Britney Spears” Cantor, who ACTUALLY are RESPONSIBLE for BREAKING the Economy, WTF THEY have DONE to help the Economy to RECOVER.

THEY have done NOTHING, and instead are RESPONSIBLE for doing ALL they can to SABOTAGE the Economy. THEY have the SAME goal as Al Qaeda, which is to DEFEAT President Obama and DESTROY the USA Economy. THIS IS the STATED GOAL of the GOP AND Al Qaeda. It does NOT get MUCH clearer than THIS.

Alphabet-News Channels are TERRIFIED of FACTS, operate on FED (False Equivalency Design), and ABIDE by IOKIYAR.




THEY are part of the world's OLDEST profession, and are ALWAYS ready to get on their knees or into any other position that will satisfy the GOP. WTF has the GOP ever DONE to HELP the USA’s ECONOMY?

They IGNORE Willard's LIES and NEVER raise the issue of his BLATANT dishonesty, plus they seem SMITTEN by Catfish-Noodler, as if they all are in the throes of 8th grade schoolboy crushes. Once AGAIN, just how in the HELL, is PRESIDENT Obama to blame for the ECONOMY?


THIS is the FIRST time in USA history that RAISING the Debt Ceiling has NOT been automatic for the PRESIDENT, regardless of Party affiliation. THIS is ALSO the FIRST time in USA history we have had a BLACK President.

But y'all REFUSE to state FACTS, BECAUSE, I UNDERSTAND it MUST be TOUGH competing for TRICKS these days and I KNOW the number ONE play in the Hooker's Handbook for High-Octane Clients is to indulge their EVERY fantasy, since we KNOW THESE particular clients can have FOX and Friends ANY old time, you MUST do WHATEVER you can to PLEASE them, and get them to SPEND that CASH with y'all. Cheers.

IF, it IS, up to the STATES as to WHO is ALLOWED to VOTE, then WTF is the PURPOSE of VOTING RIGHTS legislation and WTF have we RETURNED to a Jim Crow voting system? People sure do NOT seem too UPSET over LOSING their CONSTITUTIONAL Right to VOTE. AND WTF does the U.S. Constitution NOT apply to states such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Ohio? Just wait until election day when all the minority precincts have machine failures, power failures, switched locations, etc.

Once AGAIN, just how in the HELL, is PRESIDENT Obama to blame for the ECONOMY?

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Playing Doctor - GOP Practices OB/GYN Without License

Over half of the USA burned up, global warming causes MORE extreme weather day by day, and bridges are crumbling, and Lord KNOWS that NONE of these ragged old coastal cities can take the PUNCH of a Hurricane AND the AFTERMATH. For the MOST part the USA has done absolutely NOTHING to solve REAL problems that pretty much guarantees a MAJOR catastrophic DISASTER or TWO in the USA fairly SOON. 

Do NOT expect the GOP to do ANYTHING. ALL they do is PRACTICE OB/GYN without license. I've been told to practice OB/GYN with OUT license can lead to SERIOUS prison TIME, and YET they PERSIST. GOP is NOT an acronym for Gynecology-Obstetrics- Party. On at LEAST several layers it would appear to ME, an amateur, non-professional psych person just voicing an untrained opinion, that these GOP middle-aged white men are engaged in some serious perversions here.

All they want to do ALL day long, each and EVERY day is talk about vaginas and think up ways they can penetrate a woman's privacy against her WILL. Seems a bit like TORTURE to me, a KINKY type of behavior for grown men to be engaged in day in and day out. Maybe they all became representatives after all the mental facilities were closed and so they ran for public office for the paycheck and benefits and food. 

You NEVER know.

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Worse Than Voter-ID

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By

David Rosser



"Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency. Richard Nixon comes quickly to mind, along with Ronald Reagan and his ridiculous 'trickle-down' theory of U.S. economic policy. If the Rich get Richer, the theory goes, before long their pots will overflow and somehow 'trickle down' to the poor, who would rather eat scraps off the Bush family plates than eat nothing at all. Republicans have never approved of democracy, and they never will. It goes back to preindustrial America, when only white male property owners could vote." - Hunter S. Thompson


Hunter Thompson nailed it. The current GOP strategy of voter suppression is indeed an old one, for it actually predates the Republican Party itself. Then, it was the old "Jim Crow" Democrats from the South with all their poll taxes and ridiculous "Voter Eligibility Exams." After the Civil Rights and Voting Rights legislation was passed in the United States, these "Jim Crow" Democrats left the Democratic Party for the Republican Party as evidenced in Nixon's "Southern Strategy" of 1968.

It is no surprise, then, that when Republicans took control of of governor's offices and legislatures in 2010, that they would proceed with legislation that would limit voter turnout for certain parts of the electorate. These voting blocks were ALSO the SAME parts of the electorate who voted overwhelmingly for President Obama in 2008. The Republican Party decided, that limiting voter participation for large groups of voters likely to vote Democratic, would be a key element for their 2012 political campaigns.

However, in terms of the total election strategy Voter ID laws are just DISTRACTIONS. The REAL thievery is planned, coordinated, and executed via the electronic touch-screen voting systems and their tabulation procedures, where vote flipping is quick, easy, and not EVEN investigated. ALL they have to to is have PLAUSIBLE results that fall within the "margin of error" from a recent poll, and NOBODY will question them.

THEREFORE all they need to do is run the mathematical calculations to see how many votes they need to pilfer from what area that will not seem too out of line. A few hundred votes here, a few hundred there and BINGO your candidate carries the state. There are too many ways to do this to name them all, but this can be done in real-time, to adjust for conditions such as voter turnout.

Votes can be flipped by cellphones, smartphones, ipads, laptops, and a myriad of devices. Trojans and other malware such as zombies can also be dormant in the system, execute a one-time application and then delete itself and all traces that it has ever been in the system. So, I hope we've got the IT spooks or other such folks working these cases as we speak, gathering intelligence to prevent a repeat of 2000.

Obfuscation is time-worn tactic utilized in  voter suppression strategies. Many weapons are available to accomplish this. Voter requirements are often changed so that the voter is always confused about everything associated with voting. Voting precincts are changed, closed, and moved as part of the redistricting process. Voter requirements are also changed by state legislatures.

Among the most visible of these are State-Issued Photo-ID requirements. These are, by design, MEANT to confuse. A voter is required to produce the CORRECT official state documentation in order to qualify for the OFFICIAL State-Issued Photo-ID. For example, in South Carolina, even though STATE universities issue Photo-ID cards, THESE state-issued photo-IDs are NOT considered valid forms of identification for voting.

Also, in South Carolina, even though only SHORT-FORM birth certificates are issued at birth, the state REQUIRES a potential voter to produce a LONG-FORM birth certificate in order to obtain the OFFICIAL State-Issued Photo ID. In addition the State of South Carolina does NOT provide the Long-Form birth certificates free of charge. This creates a new version of poll tax.


However, in terms of the total election strategy Voter ID laws are just DISTRACTIONS. The REAL thievery is planned, coordinated, and executed via the electronic touch-screen voting systems and their tabulation procedures, where vote flipping is quick, easy, and not EVEN investigated. ALL they have to to is have PLAUSIBLE results that fall within the "margin of error" from a recent poll, and NOBODY will question them.

THEREFORE all they need to do is run the mathematical calculations to see how many votes they need to pilfer from what area that will not seem too out of line. A few hundred votes here, a few hundred there and BINGO your candidate carries the state. There are too many ways to do this to name them all, but this can be done in real-time, to adjust for conditions such as voter turnout.

Votes can be flipped by cellphones, smartphones, ipads, laptops, and a myriad of devices. Trojans and other malware such as zombies can also be dormant in the system, execute a one-time application and then delete itself and all traces that it has ever been in the system. So, I hope we've got the IT spooks or other such folks working these cases as we speak, gathering intelligence to prevent a repeat of 2000.
  

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The Passing of Michael Teasley

By

R.L. Nave


From: Jackson Free Press




JACKSON — Friends are remembering Michael Teasley for his loyalty and activism. The 40-year-old Jackson State University student died yesterday, apparently from natural causes.  In a 2011 interview with the Jackson Free Press after his election as president of the JSU branch of the NAACP -- the first time for a white person in the school's history -- Teasley discussed his plans to reinvigorate college students to vote.

People who knew Teasley expressed shock at the news of his death and shared remembrances on his Facebook page. One friend recounted Teasley's remarks about the death of a JSU professor. #"You do so much for people and they just forget you fast," Teasley said at the time. #Of Teasley's death, his friend wrote: "Well, I'm not going to forget my friend, my colleague, my sparring partner in debates about approaches to crime prevention and activism and someone who always had my back and yours."




 

My Comments

I did not personally know Michael, but his passing struck a chord in me, maybe something about being in the midst of so much nastiness, downright hatred, and  meanness that has come to represent the true nature of life here in the Bible Belt, where GOP Jesus runs a majority of the churches, state houses, AND governor's offices.

The air is combustible now, held in check only by the oppressive humidity, but always within a millisecond of ignition by a lightning strike or a stray bullet. Just by reading and listening to some of Michael's fellow students, makes me understand that he got IT, just like a core group of folks here in the South do get IT.

So, Michael, may you rest in peace, and may the rest of us continue forward, for there is MUCH work to be done. Peace.

We Honor Sikhs by Learning about Them | Teaching Tolerance

OAK CREEK, MI - AUGUST 6: Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards (R) along with a member of the Sikh Church names victims of the shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin where yesterday a gunman fired upon people at service, at a press conference, August, 6, 2012 in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. At least six people were killed when the shooter identified as Wade Michael Page opened fire on congregants in the Milwaukee suburb. The suspect who was a United States Army veteran was shot dead in a shootout with police. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

UNSPECIFIED DATE & LOCATION: In this handout provided by the Oak Creek Police Department, Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy who was shot mulitple times by suspect Wade Michael Page at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, Wisconsin poses for a photograph on an unspecifed date and location. At least six people were killed when the shooter, identified as Wade Michael Page, opened fire on congregants in the Milwaukee suburb. The suspect who was a United States Army veteran was killed in a shootout with police. Lt. Murphy is a 21-year veteran of the department is expected to survive. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

OAK CREEK, MI - AUGUST 6: Oak Creek Police chief John Edwards speaks at a press conference on the shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin where yesterday a gunman fired upon people at service August, 6, 2012 in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. At least six people were killed when the shooter identified as Wade Michael Page opened fire on congregants in the Milwaukee suburb. The suspect who was a United States Army veteran was shot dead in a shootout with police. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

By

Maureen Costello 

 Published on Teaching Tolerance (http://www.tolerance.org)

 

We know little about the motives of the gunman who opened fire yesterday in a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.  Many of us will monitor the news during the day, hoping to learn more about what the shooter thought he was doing, sure to hear more about the heroism and horror inside the building.
But it’s Monday, one of the first days of school for students throughout the South, where school starts early.  In those classrooms, teachers need to know how to talk about the shooting now, this morning.

Teaching Tolerance suggests starting with educating students about the Sikhs.
Sikhism rose in India at a time, about 350 years ago, when both Hinduism and Islam were practiced there; its followers seek enlightenment and brotherhood. It is a religious tradition that is little understood in the United States. Despite their rich heritage and distinctive dress, Sikhs are often mistaken for Muslims. And they have paid a heavy price for our cultural ignorance.

In fact, after 9/11, the first victim of anti-Muslim retaliation was a Sikh man, a 52-year-old gas station owner in Arizona.  Since then, according to the Sikh Coalition of Washington, Sikhs have endured more than 700 attacks.
Did the shooter confuse Sikhs with Muslims, and conflate Muslims with terrorists? We know only that he performed in racist skinhead bands  and, according to some witnesses, had a tattoo marking the 9/11 attacks.

We wrote about Sikhism last year in a blog about religious freedom, “Can My Sikh Student Carry a Sword?”  As blogger Jackie Walker wrote, Sikh men traditionally have uncut hair as a visible sign of affiliation. They may also carry a ceremonial sword or dagger, called a kirpan, to symbolize defense of the weak.
At least one Sikh in the temple died while defending the weak. Amardeep Kaleka was told by police that his father, Satwant Singh Kaleka, was killed after attacking  “the intruder or the shooter in the lobby after gunshots were fired.” He slowed the gunman down, allowing others to find shelter.

And that reminds us of something we do know: Like most faiths, Sikhism is founded on love and concern, even in the face of fear and hate.

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Whites Racially Profiled, Asked for Their “Papers” To Be on Native American Land

By Stephen Lemons

In a hilarious spoof of Cops sure to redden the face of every cracker nativist in Sand Land and beyond, L.A.’s “Josh on the street” skewers Arizona’s “papers please” law by flippin’ the script on white folks and asking them for their documentation to be on what was originally Native American land.

Josh the cop sets up an immigration checkpoint at the Santa Monica promenade, allows anyone of color through, but halts the pale skins. After a few he “arrests” try to flee, he says, “It’s really a gray line whether we can shoot them in the back while they’re running away.”

Heh. Good one. I also like this line on the damage whites do to the environment.

“As much as it’s about laws,” Josh the cop tells the camera, “it’s also an ecological project as well. The air has been poisoned. The rivers have been poisoned. The ocean’s been poisoned. The forests have been decimated. And this area’s just overpopulated. These folks have run rampant over this land. It’s time to thin out their numbers.”

Later, he says, “More of them keep coming, they keep breeding. I doubt we’ll get rid of all of them.”

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Litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, argues that we have not ended racial caste in America, we have simply redesigned it: The U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary means of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. Her provocative new book challenges the civil rights community—and all of us—to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America. As the United States celebrates the nation's triumph over race with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Event at Demos February 18, 2010.



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Don't Let Your Senator Delay Health Care Reform

Hey David,

Last night, Congress heard from the President that the time for bickering, politics and lies about health care reform is over.

The time for solving our health care crisis is now.

But we won't achieve needed health care security because the President made a speech. We'll cross the finish line because your own lawmakers hear from you. Tell your Senators that you expect them to improve the health care plan, not undermine it. Tell them they were elected to solve America's problems, not sit in denial.

Tell your Senators to get back to work on health care reform now >

Defenders of the status quo used the August recess to spread misinformation and scare us about health reform. But in town hall after town hall, lawmakers also heard from people bankrupted by cancer care and from hard-working Americans who can't retire because they don't yet qualify for Medicare -- and they can't afford or get insurance on their own.

Health reform will finally hold insurance companies accountable, and make sure your health comes before corporate profits. No more coverage denials because of your health or your age; a limit on out-of-pocket costs; a focus on prevention and patient safety, not crowded ER care and piecemeal treatment.

Health reform will let you keep the insurance you have through your job, but it will make it more secure. It will give you the freedom to start a business or change jobs without fear of losing coverage. It will make Medicare more financially secure. And it will make sure every American has the right to the same kind of health care members of Congress give themselves.

Tell your Senators you want health reform that gives you the freedom to live your life >

The House is moving ahead on health reform, but the Senate has lagged behind. The Senate must get to work now or health reform cannot pass this year.

Thanks for lending your voice,

- The Change.org Team in partnership with Consumers Union


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