tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40830172818784590742024-03-14T02:42:59.462-04:00Blue's JournalWatching, assessing and questioning EVERYTHING! It is time to wake up People!Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-48769545472714660792014-07-03T20:43:00.000-04:002014-07-03T20:46:49.229-04:00State of The Nation : That Missed Period<h2 class="story-heading" style="font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 200; line-height: 2.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">
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The period creates the impression that the list of self-evident truths ends with the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she says. But as intended by Thomas Jefferson, she argues, what comes next is just as important: the essential role of governments — “instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed” — in securing those rights. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/03/us/politics/a-period-is-questioned-in-the-declaration-of-independence.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Full Story</a></blockquote>
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Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-88313510640194286422014-07-03T19:22:00.000-04:002014-07-04T05:18:18.401-04:00The Dumping of Snowden's Motherlode Better Werk<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Never fear. There is an organization that goes by the name of <a href="http://cryptome.org/" target="_blank">Cryptome</a> that also promises to release these "war averting" documents as well. They have a list of documents already posted to their website. I have no idea if they are the promised documents. Not for nothing, I have no intention of clicking on nary one of these documents because truthfully, Hackers freak me out.</div>
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The Government says that what was revealed by the Snowden revelations meant more to "enemies of state" than to your average American. <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/barack-obama-edward-snowden-nsa-leaks-102316.html" target="_blank">That's the claim, </a>and Greenwald 's response to this claim--that the U.S. should reveal which "American lives" were harmed--is absurd. Glenn can talk as fast as he wants, and use as many buzzwords to spark his base all he wants, and can be mad at the sheeple masses who are too ignorant to understand the nuance of the Snowden revelations all he wants; I still don't see any of his sycophants making moves to do away with the causes of government overreach. To date, these so-called revelations have simply added to the noise, and the recent <a href="https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3361" target="_blank">adjustments</a> to NSA processes were mere bandaids. To me, since the Patriot Act still exists and isn't even a target of the worshipers of these revelations, says what? Says there still remains the potential for a nut to become King of all America and have autonomy over our lives. In the end, these revelations were great for <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/20/glenn-greenwald-pulitzer-reliable-sources_n_5182297.html" target="_blank">accolades</a> and <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/edward-snowden-interview/exclusive-edward-snowden-tells-brian-williams-i-was-trained-spy-n115746" target="_blank">exclusive interviews</a>, but the wars are still being manufactured and we know little more than we did the day before we've ever heard of Greenwald and Snowden. </div>
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I support whistleblowing and <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/21/what-bradley-manning-leaked/" target="_blank">revelations</a> and have no qualms in supporting truth no matter the administration in power nor who decimates it. That said, I can only hope, that when these new revelations drop, we're <i>all</i> the better for it and that they are not simply an addendum to the deification of the likes <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/43519_Glenn_Greenwald_and_IAVAs_Paul_Rieckhoff_Get_Into_a_Shouting_Match_on_Real_Time" target="_blank">Greenwald </a>and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/edward-snowden-putin-q-a-surveillance-2014-4" target="_blank">Snowden</a>.</div>
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<i>Notice of removal from Google Search: we regret to inform you that we are no longer able to show the following pages from your website in response to certain searches on European versions of Google:</i> <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28130581" target="_blank">Full Story</a></blockquote>
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Thing is, I tried googling this story and came up with nothing but stories about how google scrubbed Preston's story. Further, no one links to his blog post. It's one thing when Europe will allow for the censorship of their journalists, it's quite another thing if I'm in the U.S. and still can't find a story without knowing the name of the article. It's like WTF? Despite all of our bitching about freedoms and privacy, at least we can still google-stalk damned near anyone we want. U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! </div>
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They say there hasn’t been any change during the first
term of President Barack Obama, and I have to disagree. They say that hope and change were futile and
this President was a facilitator for creating a docile, sleepy populace, and
again, I have to disagree. Personally,
I’ve seen the change. I’ve seen the way
I’ve approached the whole idea of politics, politicians and the entire process
of getting what we want out of the only government we have to work with. I acknowledge this as change and this change in me
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The election of President Obama in 2008 was like turning
the lights on 400 hidden cockroaches. By the inauguration in 2009 you had elected officials meeting and vowing to make this man a one term president. Now we all know the richest families of this nation had turned this experiment in
democracy into an oligarchy—plain and straight.
Their successes didn’t occur because they were so smart, rich and
powerful, their power simply depended on our apathy. Their efforts for dominance, in the last 40
years specifically, were successful because the majority of US stopped paying
attention to, and engaging in, our politics.
Their power comes from being able to control media, commentary and yes,
activism—an activism that stops just short of solutions. Between misinformation, oppression and white
privilege, our energies have been channeled into rhetoric and a false awareness
that allowed some to vocalize their egos instead of giving the People a true voice. Why would we continue to push for the apathy
that gave these people dominance in the first place?<o:p></o:p></div>
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movement has come into scrutiny. Because
of all I’ve become aware, the far-left’s willingness to risk a Romney
presidency gives me pause. That they
haven’t truly figured out the matrix by now, for me, diminishes their credibility. That they would risk my freedom for some
high-browed principle that puts no food on the table is beyond me. Harsh?
Admittedly. But that’s what it
boils down to. This election is a first
step towards the America we’ve envisioned or the final step towards the fascism
we’ve all predicted. Sure, it can be
said this President is the lesser of two evils.
What else is new? This system is
indeed broken; always has been. It is
unfair and imperial and parasitic and should be demolished. Reformatted.
Rebooted. None of this can happen
if we are outside of this system and President Obama is no savior in this
regard. We have to get our hands
dirty. We have to understand the process
so we can change it. Standing on the
sidelines and complaining feeds this system.
Anyone considering themselves a champion for the poor, who does not
recognize that the middleclass are the poor and that the poor are now the
destitute, haven’t been paying attention and is merely feeding their own egos
by espousing this type of ineffective resistance. A person perched upon a heap of dung promoting
a tired, ineffective rhetoric becomes ego driven leader of excrement. As the heap grows, the louder they speak,
shit still stinks. Sometimes I have to
wonder for whom these people are working?
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Don’t get me wrong. I’m not disparaging anyone’s effort. The proliferation of information is integral
to this process and I’m not asking that anyone remain silent. I have great love and respect for anyone that
tries to mobilize, educate and empower the people. I have great respect for people who use their
bodies in protest and dedicate their lives to effecting change. I adore people who spend their little dollars
to make sure I’m not marginalized. I
support truth in all forms. I love these
people for speaking it. I’m one of those
people so truly, sincerely; thank you and nice working with you. I’m
just saying that knowing our history, their history, the history of the system
is only the beginning. We have to learn
from what has already occurred and from what I’ve learned, we have a choice to
either revamp this system or shut it down.
New thought? Not at all, but which
option is more probable? It has to be either/or, not a smidgen of both. For
instance, in recent history we’ve seen how the protest has been completely
sidelined, and by the same token, we see the hordes of people still willing to
imbibe in this system of elections. People
are more apt to engage the machine, so what do we do? Do we set unrealistic goals where everyone in
America has to be progressive, radical, altruistic, vegan, atheist, and forego
everything we deem counter-revolutionary in order to effect change? Or, do we take over the machine? Do we spend even more decades in simply being
contemptuous of the system without a working strategy? This may make for millions in book sales and
punditry, but this is obviously proven unproductive as far as true progress is
concerned. We need time and a succinct
approach. For instance, we’ve had the
Occupy movement and now we need to supplement that, or the next one, with a
ground movement. We’ve got to come out
and engage the citizenry so they can understand what an Occupy is really all
about. We need to actually learn from
the Civil Rights Movement and work this new movement like a political
campaign. We need soap boxes on the
corner and to knock on doors. Unless we
are prepared to engage in a movement that looks like a presidential campaign, we
will continue to lose ground and find ourselves fighting battles that activists
before us have already fought and died for. Until we realize we need to back our
protesting bodies up with concrete legislation, we relinquish our sway with
politicians to corporate lobbyists. As
it stands, we’re not ready for any of that.
With a Romney Presidency, we will never get ready.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In my opinion, the next four years are pivotal. “They” are winning in turning back the clock
on the major accomplishments of our ancestors.
The national republican effort to suppress the vote should automatically
make everyone want to come out and vote.
No one, however anti-political should suggest or promote not voting in
such a climate. Knowing the history of
this country and voter suppression…man if voter suppression in 2012 does not
make you determined to vote just for GP…
I have no words. I have no words,
because that means that no matter what these 400 families try to pull, say for
instance; heeding Rand Paul’s assertion that ‘certain’ parts of the Civil
Rights Laws are unconstitutional or that States’ rights should always trump
federal mandate, says many people would stand by and watch anything go down while
taking a principled stance on the sidelines of those voting. Any horrid thing could be overturned and
enacted and then they’ll say “See” and “Told you voting meant nothing.” I don’t see this type of protest as
strength. It just makes us
invisible. I don’t see accusatory
elements ticking off atrocities as superior.
It just relegates us to pontificating.
All I know is that I have to vote because Emmett Till died for my right
to vote. Four little girls died at the
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church because people organized the vote at this
location. Fannie Lou Hamer was severely
beaten and disabled because of her efforts.
My heart breaks for them to date. Just
yesterday people were relegated to chanting, “Let us vote.” How can you turn your progressive back on
that? I have to vote. Only this time, to vote President Obama, to put
this President back in office is to put this President in the position to put
up or shut up because I’m on to this system now and he should be on to what it is the majority of
the people in this country really want. My
job isn’t done the second I pull the lever and merely pointing out his faults and the faults of the system is no longer
satisfying for me. Being aware of the “lesser
evil” philosophy doesn’t make me smarter, more effective, or less naïve than
anyone else. If this President says I
must make him reactive, then it behooves me to do so. It should behoove you to do so. I see no possibility of anything progressive being accomplished under
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The System is tangible, workable; if only we use it. Sure, the more we use it, the more they try
and change it but they risk making the system vulnerable with each turn. “They” make mistakes when they change they rules. “They” are forced to show their
true face and the masses have been taking notice. That there are people, whose names I now
know, whose affiliations aren’t cloaked behind the occultist specter of the
Illuminati but revealed as think tank, Senator, Congressman, Judge, lobbyist,
media figure and corporation is a change for many. We can now see how the Heritage Foundation
and Koch Brothers created the Tea Party.
We can see how Alex Jones’ rhetoric simultaneously bash and protect banks
and corporations. We can see how Romney
unabashedly lies while Fox News corroborates each lie he utters. We’ve watched the Drudge Report pick and
choose anti-Obama related headlines however uncorroborated with facts. We’ve seen supposed Lefty media call a lying
Romney’s first debate performance a win.
We see the true strength of racism in how republicans rally their
constituency to vote against their own interest. We’ve seen the ineffectiveness of so-called progressive
leadership and how they’ve been reduced to complainers and whiners and are used to control the masses as effectively as Glen Beck--willingly
or unwillingly. Most importantly, we’ve
learned that if we relegate our political involvement to simply voting for a
president every four years, we end up with Scott Walker, Michelle Bachman, Jan
Brewer and Rick Scott, among others. These
oligarchs and their minions are against unions, have continually widened the
wealth gap and are not opposed to a failing economy to keep us hopelessly
indebted. They control the media, the
activism, elections and elected officials.
They control lobbyists that create laws that their corrupt politicians
institute on a state and federal level. They
would suppress your vote, your choice, your earning and learning abilities and
ultimately, your freedom. They have
rewritten history as we watched powerless to stop them. Doesn’t that at least irk you enough to vote their
main faction out of office?<br />
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I don’t fear "them," I see an out. It
isn’t that they are all powerful and omniscient it is simply that they are organized in contrast to
our disorganization. This makes them effective. We can be too. This twisted matrix they’ve created is now
revealed and would suffer a powerful blow simply by re-electing President
Obama. Will President Obama wave a magic
wand and shut down all military bases, make everyone rich and end sexism,
racism, militarism and corporatism? Of course not. First off, we see Presidents do not have that
power. They don’t have the power to
institute and fund legislation on their own.
That is the nature of the Constitution where there are checks and
balances. Ultimately, whom we elect on
the state level, to Congress, the Senate and which president we allow access to
SCOTUS appointments are all on the People of the United States. We need to begin to take this process
seriously. And yes, it is a two party
process. There are the Democrats and then,
there are the Republicans. Face it. Progressives need to choose a party and
co-opt it. We need to change the national
dialogue and expose people to our ideas on a global level. We need to elect more progressives as State
and Local representatives and petition the President to sign our legislation on
a federal level with a newly-formed State and Local momentum. That is the ideal. That is a foreseeable future in my
opinion. For now, we can see who this
President really is. Will he be the
liberal Senator or the same Centrist President in his second term? Will he remain the corporatist some of you
call him? Will his reelection and our
election of a supportive Congress and Senate make him change course? Don’t you want to find out? We know what direction Mitt Romney will take
the country. Reagan and the Bushes before him already set the pace. Don’t you want to find out
exactly what President Obama means when he says he wants to take us Forward?</div>
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We don’t know what a President Obama in a second--unfettered, no holds
barred--presidential term would give birth to. Here is
what we do know. As it stands, we know
this is a president that believes in war.
He believes protecting “American Interests” by any means. He believes in the NDAA and all that it
entails because he signed that while no one was paying attention. We
also know that he believes in education, healthcare, tariffs, job creation, Global
Warming, Social Security, Medicare, women’s issues, LGBT issues, immigrant
issues and yes, even the problems facing Blacks specifically. He also believes in reforming Wall Street and
regulating corporations. Some say he
could have done more, but no one can say, with the obstacles he’s faced, that
President Obama hasn’t done a damned good job.
I don’t think we’ve seen the extent of his leadership. Granted, his efforts have not been in lock
step with the Progressive ideal; what else is new? No
president before this one can be deemed perfect. I
say we take advantage of our similarities though. We have a multitude of issues to be
addressed. If the fockery of foreign
policy is beyond his reach or willingness to reform, then let’s concentrate on
domestic issues. Let’s continue to
concentrate on Stop and Frisk, because no other administration deigned to do
so. Let’s concentrate on the school to
prison pipeline, because again, no other administration has ever given a
care. Let us focus on the reinstitution
Glass-Steagall. Let us focus on doing
away with NAFTA and bring jobs back to America and allow other countries
to feed their own people. Let’s focus on
getting rid of Citizen’s United and push for lobbyist restriction. Let’s get the money out of politics
altogether. Let’s make education more
accessible and affordable, if not gratis, and do away with the federally
supported for-profit college industry. Let’s
support this President when he wants to do things like do away with corporate
subsidies. Aren’t there hundreds of ways
we can work with this President? I really
don’t want to talk about what he won’t do or hasn't done.
I want to work with him on what he will do within the next four
years. I want to utilize this time to
create a foundation, a platform from which a true progressive movement can
spring. So vote for Change and Hope or
stay home and vote for Romney.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span xmlns=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Nope *smh* I'm not buying that the President believes the "people have spoken," nor do I believe that the President thinks Republicans are ready to "compromise."<br />
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<span xmlns=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Watching the corpwhore media ramble on about how "angry" the "American People" are and attributing this anger to the misled and race-based Tea party "Movement," all the while airing sound bites of elect house members emphatically stating their unwillingness to compromise with the sitting President, you would have to be as dumb as Sarah Palin to believe that Republicans are ready to compromise. "Compromise" to the Republican Party is; not regulating corporations, not taxing corporations, and getting rid of unions—long story short—profits first.<br />
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<span xmlns=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The People <em>have</em> spoken. We've been speaking since the Bush Administration's inception, (and in many instances, before) about a myriad of issues that do not serve the corporate structure. We want out of these wars, we want better education, we want our jobs back from India and China with competitive salaries and benefits, we want police brutality ended, drugs and guns removed from inner cities, we wanted healthcare for all and an abolishment of usury rates, we did not want bailouts, we want the rich to pay their fair share, and we definitely did not want a "favorable for corporations" ruling in the Citizen's United case. There is not enough bandwidth to voice our unheard grievances, yet, after a run-of-the mill election, I'm supposed to believe, that the President believes, that the voice he was hearing was that of the Tea Party??? Nope. *smh* I'm not buying it. <br />
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<span xmlns=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The People are quite aware that the voices that were loudest were funded by the corporate structure. We are quite aware that this corporate-backed voice's raised decibels were due to a mainstream media that is also funded by this corporate structure. We are also aware that this failed "fourth branch" gave credence to the craziest, most racist and ill-informed Americans in this country. So, what do we do? Protest--who would cover it? We've got to rethink our form of protest. Unless sensational, there is no way to garner the attention of mainstream media and, in turn, no way to reach those not tuned into the urgency of self representation. As an aside, I've been going to protests since I was 12/13 years old and I've seen legitimate protests co-opted by special interest groups that had nothing to do with the nature of protest I was willing to engage in. I've never been that scattered with my energies. Besides, there is something about having to procure a permit to protest social ills that produces a taste of bile in my mouth. <br />
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<span xmlns=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Listen, I don't have a definitive answer but I do have a concept and it is a concept based on a constant exhibition of our angst. For instances, I for one am willing to attach a blue flag to the antennae of my automobile that represents the small "d" democracy where, a "government by the people" is the ideal achieved through "the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges." I envision a sea of blue flags waving in the wind on all highways and byways of America. I would also be willing to carry a placard expressing my dissatisfaction with the status quo. Something like, "I'm being ignored by President Obama," or "The Republican Party Will Never Compromise." Throughout the remaining days of the Obama administration's tenure, the party of "No" will continue to stall the President's agenda giving us ample opportunity to revise our placard messages. I can actually see; city streets, trains, and buses filled with people going about their daily business carrying signs of silent protest. <br />
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<span xmlns=""><span class="Apple-style-span">Are we not worthy of achieving the freedoms America's "forefathers" envisioned for their own function? Each one of us is responsible for our circumstances and what we allow to be done to our condition is our own doing. A feeling of powerlessness is debilitating. The ruling structure relies on cognitive dissonance. Do we create our own realities or allow others to benefit from our stifled dreams? We can use the tools provided to either rise or remain stagnate. Protests no longer have to be date and time stamped. It can be done immediately, like right NOW. It can be personal. </span><br />
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Look, I've already attached my blue flag to my automobile's antennae. I wish I had all the answers. What are you gonna do? I'll probably do that too.<br />
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Hmmm,<br />
maybe, #ImBeingIgnoredByPresidentObama should be a trending topic?</div>
Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-72045873392166510272010-07-04T12:07:00.000-04:002010-07-04T12:07:42.597-04:00Frederick Douglass Independence Day Speech at Rochester, 1841<div style="text-align: justify;"><i>(A former slave himself, Frederick Douglass became a leader in the 19th Century Abolitionist Movement)</i><br />
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</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions! Then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. For who is there so cold that a nation's sympathy could not warm him? Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? Who so stolid and selfish that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that the dumb might eloquently speak and the "lame man leap as an hart."</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">But such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! <b>Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me by asking me to speak today? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn that it is dangerous to copy the example of nation whose crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrevocable ruin! I can today take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people.</b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! We wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth."<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fellow citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! Whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, today, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorry this day, "may my right hand cleave to the roof of my mouth"! To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then, fellow citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's point of view. Standing there identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine. I do not hesitate to declare with all my soul that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this Fourth of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the Constitution and the Bible which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery-the great sin and shame of America! "I will not equivocate, I will not excuse"; I will use the severest language I can command; and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice, shall not confess to be right and just....<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. Is it not as astonishing that, while we are plowing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, and secretaries, having among us lawyers doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teachers; and that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hillside, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives, and children, and above all, confessing and worshiping the Christian's God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!...<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong? No! I will not. I have better employment for my time and strength than such arguments would imply....<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States at this very hour.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms- of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.</div>Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-84306704707705505372009-06-17T02:23:00.007-04:002010-06-24T19:48:31.620-04:00The Media has lost their minds<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" height="380" id="cnbcplayer" width="400"> <param name="type" value="application/x-shockwave-flash"/><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/><param name="quality" value="best"/><param name="scale" value="noscale" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"/><param name="salign" value="lt"/><param name="movie" value="http://plus.cnbc.com/rssvideosearch/action/player/id/1154919821/code/cnbcplayershare"/></object><br />
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For real people, is this a story? If; we weren't in a depreesion and our economy wasn't in shambles, we weren't in TWO unjustified wars, people were not losing their jobs, homes, and freedoms, the republicans weren't formenting crazed gunmen, we stopped giving money to Israel, there was peace in the Middle East, the dollar was stable and gas prices were reasonable, all fundamentalists were dead, gay marriage would remain a non-issue, white people stopped wasting their time on being racist, healthcare was single payer, trade laws were favorable to the US, congress wasn't owned by corporations, the federal reserve was co-opted by the Treasury, babies weren't being molested and murdered, Bloomberg wasn't running for a third term, cops weren't overexerting their power and exercising their racial hatred, AND THE MEDIA WAS ON TOP OF THEIR GAME, THEN I would find this shit funny. Right now it's like; wtf???? So the President doesn't like bugs, well neither do I, AND????Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-36573231755105041632009-05-23T22:50:00.002-04:002009-05-23T22:55:47.508-04:00BIG BAD GUILIANI "stands up" to a 69 Year Old Man<div align="justify"><em>I needed this laugh.</em><br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani didn't blink today when a surly passer-by threatened to knock his lights out as Rudy strolled with wife Judi in the Hamptons, challenging the wacko to "do it!"<br /><br />"I'm gonna punch your lights out," the suspect -- identified as John McCluskey, 69 -- repeatedly yelled at Giuliani, startling Judi, the witnesses said.<br /><br />But when McCluskey, of Amagansett, started poking Giuliani in the chest, Brooklyn native Rudy turned feisty.<br /><br />"Alright, do it then!" he yelled, according to witness Mark Borghi.<br /><br />Witnesses said Judi could be heard on her cellphone ordering their driver to fetch them and call the police.<br /><br />"I want him in jail," she said several times, according to witnesses.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/05232009/news/regionalnews/rudy_giuliani_in_loud_hamptons_confronta_170682.htm">Source </a><br /><br /><em>Look at Judi callin' for backup. It's rough in the Hamptons hunh?</em> </div>Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-34718537994711519942009-05-23T22:35:00.005-04:002009-05-23T22:48:28.806-04:00FBI Seems to Have Made "Homegrown" Terrorists..again.<em>Quotes from the story:</em><br /><br /><div align="justify">"Brother whatever you need, I will get it for you," said the man who the four petty thieves knew as Maqsood, according to Kathleen Baynes, whose long-time boyfriend, James Cromitie is alleged to be the ringleader of the plot.</div><br /><div align="justify">"He was very persistent and every time he came for James he took him away. They said they were going out to eat dinner," she said. "Whenever we needed anything Maqsood would help -- like financially --he gave us money to pay rent. </div><br /><div align="justify">"He was just constantly around. It was like he was stalking him." </div><div align="justify"> </div><br /><div align="justify">"They aren't radicals they were just financially motivated. They aren't terrorists. If Maqsood wasn't in the picture they would've never come up with this idea," she said. "This was not their idea. They make it sound like they sought him out and said we want to do this when he's the one who approached them. He enticed them with money. </div><br /><div align="justify">"Maqsood wasn't even allowed inside the mosque, he waited in the parking lot for them and offered them $25,000 to join." </div><br /><div align="justify"> </div><br /><div align="justify">"Maqsood said 'Don't worry brother, I am going to help with your brother's hospital bills,'" she quoted him as saying. "This man did nothing but set these guys up." </div><br /><div align="justify">"James told me that the Imam said to be careful because this man is trying to recruit people to go to Pakistan," she said. "James said he was not that crazy to do something like that."</div><br /><div align="justify">"Lately James hasn't been the same. He was just acting different," she said. "All he would do all day is smoke weed and play video games with his friends [co-conspirators Williams, Laguerre Payen and Onta Williams]." </div><br /><div align="justify">On the day of the attack, she said the men gathered and that Maqsood "looked real nervous."</div><br /><div align="justify">"He was standing by the car twitching," she said.</div><br /><div align="justify">Then, as they were about to leave, Cromitie kissed her on the cheek and promised, "Soon we are going to be all right," she said. "I guess he meant financially he meant that we were going to be okay."</div><br /><div align="justify">She said a friend told her James had said he was going to be getting $50,000.</div><div align="justify"> </div><br /><div align="justify"><em>Listen, the hardest thing to believe is that a group of Black men with prison records, would target Jews instead of 1 police plaza in a terrorist plot. This screamed 'shenanigans' from the jump.</em></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/05232009/news/regionalnews/jihad_girlfriend__they_were_tricked_by_g_170683.htm?page=0">Source</a></div><div align="justify"> </div>Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-84304298397041235172009-05-20T03:50:00.006-04:002009-05-20T04:35:03.046-04:00Washington Times Runs Obama Girls' Photo With Story About Murdered Chicago Kids<div align="justify"><a href="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/80132/thumbs/s-OBAMAGIRLS-large.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 260px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 190px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/80132/thumbs/s-OBAMAGIRLS-large.jpg" /></a> I have no words...yes it do. If the Establishment wishes to ruin any semblance of the security and stability of these United States of America, let them harm one hair on the heads of these children. Their attempts at creating a situation to further their agenda has reached a new low, and I think they are underestimating the fallout. Stick with the crushing of the economy, and of liberties before you mess with these children. As a matter of fact, we, as a people, need to do the knowledge on the 36 Black and Latino children that have already perished in the so-called "record numbers." Any outrage experienced at this veiled threat should be equally felt and addressed when it comes to the murder of Black babies. </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/14/iwashington-timesi-run-ob_n_203413.html">Full Story</a></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><blockquote><div align="justify">"The theme engine, through automation, grabbed a photo it thought was relevant, and attached it to the story" Solomon says, acknowledging that the photo had gone up without a person seeing it. "There was no editorial decision to run it. As soon as it was brought to our attention, we pulled it down." - <em><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">mufucka</span></span> please!</em></div></blockquote></div><p align="justify">Pull the picture down, but not the story assholes! Where is the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">fuckin</span></span>' story? What was the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">fuckin</span></span>' point if we are not discussing and investigating the <em>record number of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">murdered</span> babies</em>!?! </p><p align="justify">Again, even though the outrage at making <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Obama's</span></span> babies the face of this headline was well placed, no one expounded upon the story. Hey media, you can't make targets of our president's children and you can't ignore the plight of our nation's children because they are "of color." This story was two-fold! For goodness sake, we are <em>still</em> hearing about Jon Benet!</p>Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-29882514602099154542009-05-19T14:39:00.006-04:002009-05-19T20:04:30.222-04:00Remembering Malcolm X on the Day of His Birth<a href="http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/">MalcolmX.com</a><br /><br /><strong>The Life of Malcolm X</strong><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uUgBHRutaLc&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uUgBHRutaLc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong>The Ballot or the Bullet</strong><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CRNciryImqg&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CRNciryImqg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong>Malcolm X: Prince of Islam</strong><br /><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=4868327196210505055&hl=en&fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed><br /><br /><strong>The Assassination of Malcolm X</strong><br /><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=2418108407018278019&hl=en&fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed>Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-75488036527028507632009-05-18T22:09:00.002-04:002009-05-18T22:12:01.022-04:00And here we thought the war on Terror was about OIL!<em>When if fact it was a war on Islam.</em><br /><br /><blockquote>On the morning of Thursday, April 10, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon prepared a top-secret briefing for George W. Bush. This document, known as the Worldwide Intelligence Update, was a daily digest of critical military intelligence so classified that it circulated among only a handful of Pentagon leaders and the president; Rumsfeld himself often delivered it, by hand, to the White House. The briefing’s cover sheet generally featured triumphant, color images from the previous days’ war efforts: On this particular morning, it showed the statue of Saddam Hussein being pulled down in Firdos Square, a grateful Iraqi child kissing an American soldier, and jubilant crowds thronging the streets of newly liberated Baghdad. And above these images, and just below the headline secretary of defense, was a quote that may have raised some eyebrows. It came from the Bible, from the book of Psalms: “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him…To deliver their soul from death.”</blockquote><br /><em>EEK! Ya think that's scary, <a href="http://men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret">look at the slideshow</a>.</em>Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-79580929875338726572009-05-18T21:52:00.001-04:002009-05-18T22:15:48.218-04:00Aww, you gotta love him. . .<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/070201_JoeBiden_vl_widec.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 359px;" src="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/070201_JoeBiden_vl_widec.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />According to a report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old U.S. Naval Observatory, which is now the home of the vice president.<br /><br />"What the Vice President described in his comments was not -- as some press reports have suggested -- an underground facility, but rather, an upstairs workspace in the residence, which he understood was frequently used by Vice President Cheney and his aides," said Biden's spokesperson Elizabeth Alexander. "That workspace was converted into an upstairs guestroom when the Bidens moved into the residence. There was no disclosure of classified information."<br /><br /><em>* giggles * Biden's spokesperson must be exhausted.</em>Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-33786320326306205402009-05-06T22:19:00.001-04:002009-05-06T22:27:31.060-04:00Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 20094/2/2009--Introduced.<br /><br />Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Attorney General to provide technical, forensic, prosecutorial, or other assistance in the criminal investigation or prosecution of any crime that:<br /><br />(1) constitutes a crime of violence under federal law or a felony under state, local, or Indian tribal law; and<br /><br />(2) is motivated by prejudice based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of the victim, or is a violation of the state, local, or tribal hate crime laws.<br /><br />Directs the Attorney General to give priority for assistance to crimes committed by offenders who have committed crimes in more than one state and to rural jurisdictions that have difficulty covering the extraordinary investigation or prosecution expenses. Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to assist state, local, and Indian law enforcement agencies with such extraordinary expenses.<br /><br />Directs the Office of Justice Programs to:<br /><br />(1) work closely with funded jurisdictions to ensure that the concerns and needs of all affected parties are addressed; and<br /><br />(2) award grants to state and local programs designed to combat hate crimes committed by juveniles.<br /><br />Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit willfully causing bodily injury to any person because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of such person.<br /><br />Amends the <a href="http://www.adl.org/issue_government/hate_crime_statistics_act.asp">Hate Crimes Statistics Act</a> to expand data collection and reporting requirements under such Act to include:<br /><br />(1) crimes manifesting prejudice based on gender and gender identity; and<br />(2) hate crimes committed by and against juveniles. <br /><br />Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit the exercise of constitutionally-protected free speech.<br /><br /><em>Keep up with this bill using the widget on the side.</em>Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-82263200737604105362009-05-06T19:53:00.004-04:002009-05-06T21:06:37.731-04:00As long as the rich are still earning...<blockquote>LIMBAUGH: But during all this growth I haven’t lost any audience. I’ve never had financially a down year. There’s supposedly a recession, but we’ve got - what is this May? Back in February we already had 102% of 2008 overbooked for 2009. [applause] So I always believed that if we’re going to have a recession, just don’t participate. [laughter]</blockquote><br /><br /><object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SfbJU21NeBI&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SfbJU21NeBI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong>What is the Heritage club?</strong><br /><br /><blockquote>Fundamentally, Heritage is an idea factory, not a political organization. Our goal is not short-term electoral gain (or electoral defeat) for one party or candidate. Instead, our challenge is more profound. We seek to reshape the entire national debate along conservative lines, to advance the core principles of the Founding Fathers: free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values and a strong national defense. - MyHeritage.org</blockquote><br /><br /><strong>Alrighty then. It is a conservative "think tank."</strong><br /><br /><strong>Well how are they funded?</strong><br /><br /><blockquote>With 429,924 members, The Heritage Foundation is the most broadly supported think tank in America. Approximately 58% of contributions come from individuals, 37% from foundations, and 5% from corporations. The Heritage Foundation receives no money from government grants and performs no contract work. - MyHeritage.org</blockquote><br /><br /><strong>But..</strong><br /><br /><blockquote>In addition, we’re limited in our activity by law. If we’re to retain our status as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization—which allows you to deduct your membership dues from your taxes, for example—we cannot involve ourselves with partisan politics or electioneering. - MyHeritage.org</blockquote><br /><br /><strong>Rush gets a deductible his taxes as a member, hunh? And wait a minute, a "think tank" can file under 501(c)(3)?</strong><br /><br /><blockquote>To be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, an organization must be organized and operated exclusively for exempt purposes set forth in section 501(c)(3), and none of its earnings may inure to any private shareholder or individual. <em>In addition, it may not be an action organization, i.e., it may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate in any campaign activity for or against political candidates.</em></blockquote><br /><blockquote>Organizations described in section 501(c)(3) are commonly referred to as charitable organizations. Organizations described in section 501(c)(3), other than testing for public safety organizations, are eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions in accordance with Code section 170.</blockquote><br /><blockquote><em>The organization must not be organized or operated for the benefit of private interests, and no part of a section 501(c)(3) organization's net earnings may inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. </em>If the organization engages in an excess benefit transaction with a person having substantial influence over the organization, an excise tax may be imposed on the person and any organization managers agreeing to the transaction. - I.R.S.</blockquote><br /><blockquote>The Heritage Foundation has worked for more than 35 years to advance conservative ideas in Washington and around the nation. On issues from missile defense to tax cuts to welfare reform to immigration, The Heritage Foundation has continued to make a real difference in America. - myheritage.org</blockquote><br /><br /><strong>(?) Again:</strong><br /><br /><em>We seek to reshape the entire national debate along conservative lines, to advance the core principles of the Founding Fathers: free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values and a strong national defense.</em><br /><br />Now, the definition of "charity" is:<br /><br />char·i·ty (chr-t)<br />n. pl. char·i·ties<br />1. Provision of help or relief to the poor; almsgiving.<br />2. Something given to help the needy; alms.<br />3. An institution, organization, or fund established to help the needy.<br />4. Benevolence or generosity toward others or toward humanity.<br />5. Indulgence or forbearance in judging others. See Synonyms at mercy.<br />6. often Charity Christianity The theological virtue defined as love directed first toward God but also toward oneself and one's neighbors as objects of God's love.<br />- The Free Dictionary.com.<br /><br />'scuse me people, but we know there is nothing charitable about this organization and there is nothing charitable about conservatism--no matter how hard they've tried to merge their ideologies with the christian right--this is nothing but a den of rich white men protecting the interests of the elitist,corporate,racist and greedy.<br /><br />Reading their so-called "<a href="http://www.myheritage.org/mymembership/a-history-of-achievements.html">Achievements</a>," it looks like they've been running the white house since being founded in February 16, 1973 and <em>still</em>, they claim to "not be organized or operated for the benefit of private interests".<br /><br /><blockquote>The Heritage Foundation has worked for more than 35 years to advance conservative ideas in Washington and around the nation. On issues from missile defense to tax cuts to welfare reform to immigration, The Heritage Foundation has continued to make a real difference in America.</blockquote><br /><br />Well, it sure has!<br /><br />Recession? What recession? Guffaw, Guffaw!<br /><br />Sources: <a href="http://www.myheritage.org/">myheritage.org</a>, <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/charity">thefreedictionary.com</a>, <a href="http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=96099,00.html">IRS</a>Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-16436097875046056132009-05-06T15:08:00.005-04:002009-05-06T15:22:33.626-04:00One of Africa's Earlier Experiments<a href="http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09_03/HobbitManDM_600x1269.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 237px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 500px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09_03/HobbitManDM_600x1269.jpg" /></a>"Anthropologists have argued, sometimes bitterly, since the discovery of Homo floresiensis -- dubbed "the hobbit" due to its size -- as to the identity and origins of these distant cave-dwelling cousins.<br /><br />Many scientists have said H. floresiensis were prehistoric humans descended from homo erectus, stunted by natural selection over millennia through a process called insular dwarfing.<br /><br />Others countered that even this evolutionary shrinking, well known in island-bound animals, could not account for the hobbit's chimp-sized grey matter of barely more than 400 cubic centimetres, a third the size of a modern human brain.<br /><br />And how could such a being have been smart enough to craft its own stone tools?<br /><br />Recent archeological evidence from Kenya shows that the modern foot evolved more than 1.5 million years ago, most likely in Homo erectus.<br /><br />So unless the Flores hobbits became more primitive over time -- a more-than-unlikely scenario -- they must have branched off the human line at an even earlier date."Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-68352315217494094372009-05-06T15:01:00.004-04:002009-05-06T15:23:19.540-04:00The First European? Clearly African.<a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/04/article-0-04CC6112000005DC-990_468x550.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 285px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 194px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/04/article-0-04CC6112000005DC-990_468x550.jpg" /></a>'He said the skull doesn't look European or Asian or African. It looks like a mixture of all of them.<br /><br />Riiight. *giggles*Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-46821243217029970912009-05-06T14:40:00.000-04:002009-05-06T14:44:25.184-04:00Quote:<blockquote>"In the Amazon, they believe that a particular entity lies behind the ayahuasca vine, and this entity is envisaged sometimes as a majestic human woman, and sometimes in the form of a gigantic serpent, a boa constrictor or anaconda type of serpent. And I, under under the influence of ayahuasca, have met this being...we always speak of her in the female form...you do have a direct spiritual contact with a being who loves the Earth, and who loves human beings and who comes to us with a feeling of love..." --Graham Hancock</blockquote><br /><br />Whoa!Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-90176461919866575642009-05-02T16:33:00.002-04:002009-05-06T21:33:16.583-04:00Africans "more genetically diverse." Who's your DADAY!?!<div align="justify"><blockquote>The first anatomically modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years<br />ago <strong>(?)</strong>, and all humans today are their direct descendants. The study points to an area along the Namibia-South Africa border, the homeland of the San people, as the starting point for a southwest-to-northeast migratoryroute that carried people through Africa and across the Red Sea into Eurasia.<br /></blockquote><br /><br />I don't know how many times this has to be said.</div>Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-71254503872278698952009-05-01T04:18:00.000-04:002009-05-01T04:19:19.532-04:00Sneaky Bastids!<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/INSIDE-WASHINGTON-Rude-apf-15091434.html?.v=1">INSIDE WASHINGTON: Taxpayers to get rude surprise - Yahoo! Finance</a><br /><br />The tax credit is supposed to provide up to $400 to individuals and $800 to married couples as part of the massive economic recovery package enacted in February. Most workers started receiving the credit through small increases in their paychecks in the past month.<br /><br />But new tax withholding tables issued by the IRS could cause millions of taxpayers to get hundreds of dollars more than they are entitled to under the credit, money that will have to be repaid at tax time.Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-5937222350681652112009-05-01T04:01:00.008-04:002009-05-01T04:18:35.509-04:00...and one day this won't shock you.<div align="justify"><a href="http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/91/38/andre-j.0.0.0x0.400x600.jpeg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 220px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 391px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/91/38/andre-j.0.0.0x0.400x600.jpeg" /></a> </div><div align="justify"><strong>TEACH 'EM OR LOSE 'EM!</strong></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Born Andre Johnson in Newark, New Jersey, Andre J. was raised by a single mother in a housing project called Academy Spires[1]<br /><br />For several years in the early 2000s, he lived in Los Angeles, California.[1][4] During those years, he worked at a boutique on Melrose Avenue and made three brief appearances on Jay Leno segments "devoted to human curiosities".[1] He typically wore a fur hat, a hole-covered beige fishnet shirt, and jeans so low that they revealed his pubic hair, though he changed before leaving for fear of being mistaken for a transsexual prostitute on his way home to the $60-a-night Sunset Strip hotel in which he lived.[1]<br /><br />He later moved to New York City "for the liberation, the freedom, the action" and worked variously as a perfume salesperson at Lord & Taylor, as a publicist for Patricia Field's boutique, and as a party host for the clubs Lotus and Hiro.[1] While on the street one day in summer 2007, he was spotted by stylist Joe McKenna, who was then on the phone with fashion photographer Bruce Weber.[1] With McKenna's encouragement, Weber decided to shoot Andre J. for French Vogue, and Carine Roitfeld, the magazine's editor, deemed Andre J.'s photos the freshest of all Weber's images.[1] Roitfeld put a photo of the bearded Andre J., dressed in a women’s blue neoprene Burberry trench coat, ankle boots, and a cocktail ring, on the cover of her magazine.[1][2] "There is not a special message in the cover, I just loved it," she said later.[1] </div><div align="justify"><br /><br />Source: </div><div align="justify"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_J.">Wikipedia?</a></div> Gimme a break!Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-66504887638088472712009-05-01T03:53:00.002-04:002009-05-01T03:56:27.118-04:00Damn G, has it come to this?<a href="http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/ginuwine-lisa-rayea8fdf11.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 450px; height: 301px;" src="http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/ginuwine-lisa-rayea8fdf11.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://blogs.bet.com/music/soundOff/bet-you-havent-heard-this-ginuwine/">B.E.T. You Haven’t Heard This: Ginuwine | Sound Off | BET.com</a>Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4083017281878459074.post-41701538618672268922009-05-01T03:30:00.003-04:002009-05-01T04:17:55.511-04:00Kelis & Nas R Dun Son!<a href="http://addicted2fashion.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/nas-and-kelis.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 238px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 149px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://addicted2fashion.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/nas-and-kelis.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20276008,00.html">'Milkshake' Singer Kelis Files for Divorce - Divorced, Kelis, Nas : People.com</a><br /><br /></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Sad situation...I'ma miss 'em.</div>Mystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023917570245001042noreply@blogger.com