If people refuse to become educated enough to figure out what is going on, and simply follow the braying of slogans by the ideologues of their ideology ... whatever that is ... we will never progress ... which seems to be the goal of the religious set, particularly the right-wing Christian Fundamentalists.
Let me be frank, if you still believe that stuff after reaching 30 then you are in a mental straight-jacket with blinders. Your sexuality alone should have informed you that Christian Fundamentalism is totally bogus. Didn't you pay attention to what was going on in your own body? Was that the work of Satan? Give me a [suitable expletive] break!
Christian Fundamentalists are toadies for the elite who want to rip off labor. That's my starting point for discussion.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
We get the justice we can afford ...
The case of Troy Davis, sentenced to death for killing a police officer in Georgia, is another happening in these United States that begs the question of equal justice for all.
I am not going to go through a litany of legal history or even of the evidence in Mr. Troy's case. After 70 years living in this country of ours, I know that justice is so flawed that it mocks our founding principles. If you can't afford to pay for your defense, you have little or none ... virtually and effectively.
And those who continue to mouth the platitudes evoking those founding principles without putting their shoulder to the wheel of history, to turn it towards what we ought to become ... well ... that is also what the seven decades have taught me. Most of us hide behind our words, giving lip service to ideals and seldom if ever putting them into action ... especially if it exposes us to any risk.
Even those who say the wheel should turn, hardly ever push.
Most of us know that we are not trying to move our country toward the oughtness of our agreed upon principles. We are trying to earn our fair share of the wealth we help create.
And that — earning a fair share for our labor &mdash is where the elite — those who want and conspire to receive more than their fair share — have us — labor — by the short hairs IF we have given up the effort to base our way of life on our nation's principles.
Let's get some simple things affirmed. Wanting a fair share for the worker isn't socialism or communism. It is anti-slavery. Here in America it was called "middle-classism". Slavery is all about the elite slave-owner getting the slave's share.
Any system that conspires to withhold fairly earned wages from the workers is a form of slavery. And just to be clear, an economy in which the aggregate wealth is increasing while the elite are getting more and the workers aren't ... is headed in the wrong direction no matter how you slice it ... unless you believe in having an elite living off the workers.
Another thing, these concepts do not impinge on the concept of a market economy. But ... we the people have been so poorly served recently by our political leaders and theorists, that we have lost our way. And when you scratch the surface of these leaders you find the resources of the elite.
Maybe it is because so many of us aspire to become an accepted member or toady of the elite — and the rewards — that we don't question what is happening?
I am not going to go through a litany of legal history or even of the evidence in Mr. Troy's case. After 70 years living in this country of ours, I know that justice is so flawed that it mocks our founding principles. If you can't afford to pay for your defense, you have little or none ... virtually and effectively.
And those who continue to mouth the platitudes evoking those founding principles without putting their shoulder to the wheel of history, to turn it towards what we ought to become ... well ... that is also what the seven decades have taught me. Most of us hide behind our words, giving lip service to ideals and seldom if ever putting them into action ... especially if it exposes us to any risk.
Even those who say the wheel should turn, hardly ever push.
Most of us know that we are not trying to move our country toward the oughtness of our agreed upon principles. We are trying to earn our fair share of the wealth we help create.
And that — earning a fair share for our labor &mdash is where the elite — those who want and conspire to receive more than their fair share — have us — labor — by the short hairs IF we have given up the effort to base our way of life on our nation's principles.
Let's get some simple things affirmed. Wanting a fair share for the worker isn't socialism or communism. It is anti-slavery. Here in America it was called "middle-classism". Slavery is all about the elite slave-owner getting the slave's share.
Any system that conspires to withhold fairly earned wages from the workers is a form of slavery. And just to be clear, an economy in which the aggregate wealth is increasing while the elite are getting more and the workers aren't ... is headed in the wrong direction no matter how you slice it ... unless you believe in having an elite living off the workers.
Another thing, these concepts do not impinge on the concept of a market economy. But ... we the people have been so poorly served recently by our political leaders and theorists, that we have lost our way. And when you scratch the surface of these leaders you find the resources of the elite.
Maybe it is because so many of us aspire to become an accepted member or toady of the elite — and the rewards — that we don't question what is happening?
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Obama gives a good speech ...
It's looking like we have an intelligent politician in the White House. The change is the intelligence. The politics are the same.
The elite bankers are trumping the workers, and still sucking up the wealth labor creates. The elite generals are trumping the grunts, and avoiding court martial for their policies that the enlisted carry out.
We are selling out our underlying principles of fairness and justice for all in order to pass health care and green earth legislation.
It's so simple it hurts ... it's another 3-shell street Monte game faking us out. And we are once again selling our birthright for porridge.
Guess the whole thing is going to have to crash once again for the people to wake up to what is happening.
The elite bankers are trumping the workers, and still sucking up the wealth labor creates. The elite generals are trumping the grunts, and avoiding court martial for their policies that the enlisted carry out.
We are selling out our underlying principles of fairness and justice for all in order to pass health care and green earth legislation.
It's so simple it hurts ... it's another 3-shell street Monte game faking us out. And we are once again selling our birthright for porridge.
Guess the whole thing is going to have to crash once again for the people to wake up to what is happening.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Obama is proving to be a run-of-the-mill politician
President Obama is fading fast on principles and choosing political expediency with an eye to 2012 and an 8-year presidency.
But we should have seen it coming with his earlier reversal on FISA http://blog.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/06/20/obama_supports_fisa_legislatio.html
Now with the reversals on the detainee photos (http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/white-house-wants-a-delay-in-the-release-of-detainee-photos/) and detainee justice (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15gitmo.html) ...
Progressives still have something to hope for in Supreme Court appointees ...
But the FISA, photos, and justice reversals pierce our heart as a nation.
It's simple, pursue truth ... and be honest in our pursuit.
But we should have seen it coming with his earlier reversal on FISA http://blog.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/06/20/obama_supports_fisa_legislatio.html
Now with the reversals on the detainee photos (http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/white-house-wants-a-delay-in-the-release-of-detainee-photos/) and detainee justice (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15gitmo.html) ...
Progressives still have something to hope for in Supreme Court appointees ...
But the FISA, photos, and justice reversals pierce our heart as a nation.
It's simple, pursue truth ... and be honest in our pursuit.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
So Cheney says ...
So Cheney says President Obama is making our nation less safe by rescinding intense interrogation policies of the Cheney/Bush 43 administration... while the military honchos are begging Obama not to reveal the evidence of the results of the Cheney/Bush 43 intense interrogation techniques lest our soldiers really become less safe ...
There is a disconnect here. Or am I missing something?
There is a disconnect here. Or am I missing something?
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