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Dec 21 2008
Not ready to “Make Nice”
The music is easy music but the underlying motivation for having posted it is one of great unease.
JeffLieber opined on DD that it is our own fault we have no influence on government.
THEY are avoiding us because they simply do not think that we — the FAR LEFT — can be reasoned with.
THEY believe, and somewhat rightly so, that we are much more interested in clinging to our self-righteous fury then in being able to manage our disappointments and seeking compromise so they show up when its time for the cash or the grass-roots jolt of energy and then disappear when it comes time to legislate.
THEY believe we are the extremists, no more “reality based” than those at Little Green Footfungus because every slight seems to wipe away YEARS of good governance on issues we care about.
I will counter below, as OPOL did brilliantly in his own counter-essay. I’ll let his delineation of the crimes stand. He said it perfectly, and spoke for me on that account.
We have to deal with these guys…and not by making nice with them. These people are dangerous. Our laws are meant to protect us from people like this, and we need to see that they do. This is no time to look the other way.
Do I want truth and reconciliation? No sir! I want trials and convictions. We can talk about reconciliation after we’ve settled a few accountability issues. How about someone taking responsibility for a change?
The video will tell you I’m not ready to make nice either.
Dec 16 2008
Do The Math #4
*Warning, this post contains racially charged language, not as a reflection of my views, but to expose the ugliness and hatred of racism for the horrifying thing that it is.
Part 2 reflected, in part, on where your jobs went; the fact that “Free Trade” had little to do with anything other than being able to enter other countries and exploit their workers at a cheaper rate.
That shouldn’t be so hard to do the Math on, since the template for it exists right in your own backyards. American companies have been exploiting a segment of your fellow workers for years, and have taught you to HATE those exploited peoples by playing off of human’s innate fear of different appearances.
They told you the biggest lie of all, and many of you believe it.
“Its the niggers and wetbacks taking your jobs.”
I cannot cure this racist bullshit in one post, but maybe I can show you the Math on why racism is just a tool they use to fuck workers into less wages, and more profit for themselves. I can show how ultimately this is bad for EVERYONE.
Dec 14 2008
Do The Math #3
#1 HERE
#2 HERE
Ok, today’s Math may need a little brain power.
As in “PULL YOUR REPTILIAN & LIMBIC BRAINS OUT OF YOUR ASS, AND USE YOUR CEREBRAL CORTEX.”
* There are actual numbers to back me up on this, but you know, in the interest of keeping it simple, and the fact that I, as a middle aged housewife with no education typing away with my first cup of coffee, have no interest in googling numbers AT ALL, am going to suggest if you don’t get the overall premise, Google may or may not be able to help you anyway. So have at it. I have run-on sentences to write.
Fear reflex is a good thing. It makes you duck when your kid hits a good hard fastball right back at your head when you pitch to him, and you only catch it peripherally too late because you are looking at your flowerbed over his shoulder thinking you should be weeding.
That’s what the lower function in your brains are for. They are NOT meant to be your primary data functioning unit.
So, using your cerebral cortex, the best reaction in such a case would be to realize you are becoming as ADD as the rest of America, choose to focus on your kid and the game, rationalize that your child is only young once, think, “FUCK THOSE WEEDS” and PLAY WITH HIM.
Were you to process this, keeping that REPTILIAN BRAIN to the forefront, you would instead think baseball evil, and your child under suspicion of trying to kill you. You would tell your husband for your own safety to ground him to his room forever, and watch his every word and move. Then you would start being suspicious of every one of those Motherfucking OUT TO GET you little bastards in America wearing baseball hats.
Lets Do The Math on THE WAR ON TERROR, shall we?
Dec 13 2008
Do The Math #2
In #1, I explained the Math of why Unions (read YOUR rights as a Worker) are a good thing.
Now, lets talk about “Why the Jobs went away” and disperse the clouds of disinformation about “Global Economies”. Lets talk about TRADE.
I am not an economist, in fact my eyes roll back in my head at the dry numbers and endless spin economists like to put on things.
I am however not STUPID, and can bring this down to a few simple truths.
Dec 12 2008
Do The Math #1
Thanks for giving me this opportunity to speak directly to America. I have a question that has burned my very soul in its need to be asked.
“Are you FREAKING STUPID or WHAT?”
I don’t mean to be insulting. Really I don’t. I’ve met many of you in my 45 and 10/12ths years functioning as an American Citizen. Individually, I have yet to meet one person in my years on this planet that doesn’t at least have a functioning clue what is in THEIR OWN INTERESTS yet, collectively you don’t seem to have a clue.
This isn’t being condescending. I am painfully aware of my lack of education, my inferior societal position as a middle aged, overweight housewife keying away on a minuscule lefty blog.
This is just utter confusion at how COLLECTIVELY you do everything in your power to act directly against your own interests.
I’m sorry. I asked it badly before. What I really should have said is this:
“Are you FUCKING STUPID or WHAT?”
Maybe I can help you out a little here. Let me help you do some very simplistic MATH!
Dec 11 2008
Separated at Birth
Magnum really needs to look into the stuff his sidekick has been getting into.
I’m sorry. Really. I had to say it.
Its the bad 80’s hair too. Dead Ringers.
With that image burned into your psyches, I bid you a good night.
Dec 03 2008
On the Death Penalty, Suicide, the Wallstreet Bailout and the joys of plumbing without a House Joe
(Originally posted as my Open Thread on WWL)
Yesterday, what I really woke up thinking about, before I read Aristeides “Make Peace” essay and got sidelined into my careful optimist ramble, was the Death Penalty.
Why? Hell, I don’t know. I would venture it was because my 9 year old asked a few days prior “Suicide is against the Law?”
We had been watching a show, and some agent or another was tricking a guy into testifying, by claiming she would arrest him for attempted suicide if he didn’t ‘fess up.
I answered, laughing, “Yeah, Jake, but its kind of hard to arrest someone who actually does it.”
::I stand, Look at imaginary dead body on the floor::
“You have the right to remain silent.”
::Dramatic pause, glance at Jake::
“Check. Looks like that one’s covered.”
~~kid starts giggling at me, I look back at the floor~~
“You have the right to call an attorney.”
::Dramatic pause, roll eyes at kid::
“Not gonna happen. Even if I gave him the dime.”
~~kid laughing like crazy~~
We cracked up. He’s far too young for the question to have been frightening as it may be during the teen angst years, and I could tell he just thought it weird. But the idea of legislating life and death reappeared in my brain, with a bunch of thoughts stuck to it.
Not the least of which, individual suicide is against the law, yet businesses who are legal ‘people’ get money for trying to commit suicide.
Try and commit suicide, get 80 billion dollars. Huh. That’d stop the next bridge jump attempt.
Your suicide? Arrest! Wallstreet suicide? Punishable by REWARD.
Dec 01 2008
Bush: Book ‘Em B’rack-o!
I lost my liberal creds somewhere. I looked under the couch, in the glovebox, all my coat pockets, and they are just gone, man.
They must be somewhere by the “you’re an anti-semite” and “religious bigot for not liking star religions” keys.
So now I have to make a whole new set from scratch dudes, and its a total bummer.
So the very first thing I have to do, is make Barack Obama arrest Bush and Cheney.
Then I have to declare martial law in Indiana, where all those “terrified of the black guy” people in M_A’s video yesterday live. Cuz they got guns, and they loves them some Palin and Jezuz and they ain’t gonna let no “N-word” arrest the righful Pres’nit of these God-lubbin U-natted States without a fight.
I am all over it.
Nov 30 2008
Terms of Engagement
(An open series for reflecting on, and overcoming obstacles on the path to finding a World Solution that works.)
This is the first barrier. We are one, but not one, in that our ways are myriad.
Each society has differences, cultural norms of behavior, religious based rules, and laws that may address either equitably or unfairly.
We, as Americans, tend to see all these variations through the glass darkly when they do not align with our biased Western perspective.
I believe the largest obstacle is how to allow the greatest autonomy in cultural preservation and freedom while trying to prohibit abuse of any persons individually.
The answer, in my opinion cannot be raising McDonald’s in the shadow of temples world wide, and demanding homogenization to a Western template.
Nov 26 2008
Holiday Food Porn
Its hot. Its steamy. It makes you tremble in anticipation. It makes you covet thy neighbor’s portion even while sated on your own.
Food, Glorious Food!
(Yeah, I’m a Mom, I now picture the vulture scene from Ice Age 3, not Oliver Twist when this song plays in my head!)
Here is a space to share your innermost oral-fixation secrets, lay bare your culinary souls.
LOL!
C’mon you know what I want. Right here. In the Kitchen. I’m so naughty….
I want every recipe you can give me!!!!!
From Turkey to Christmas Cookies! Of course, it doesn’t have to be Holiday food, any favorite recipe you want to share.
Nov 23 2008
Sunday Morning Over Easy
This song has been on my mind a lot this week. The first is the video version, and the images are powerful, but the second is live and has so much more feeling evident.
The layers in this song are untold.
Random thoughts about why I think so below. This song reflects this whole weeks’ writing for me.
Nov 21 2008
There is no Country
“Patriotism is the last vestige of Scoundrels”
Benjamin Franklin.
“Follow the Money”
Molly Ivans
“There is no spoon”
The Matrix
Shut the door, quickly! Keep your voice down, man. These things have to be spoken about with extreme caution. Cell phones, off, and remove your batteries. GPS and all.
Settle down, listen up. We may only get to meet like this once.
“If you follow the money, there is no Patriotism, there is no Country”
Me