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Shenanigans on TheGrio

Michael Arceneaux at TheGrio had an excellent post on the Klan, yes, THAT Klan and their attempt to Un-UnAmericanize themselves by counter-protesting the Westboro Baptist Church's protests last Memorial Day. While President Obama was giving his incredible speech at Arlington Cemetary, the Westboro bunch held protest signs insinuating America is doomed and our boys died for Satan.

On the other hand, the KKK metaphorically stood across from these asshats and expounded sound American ideals including:

The Imperial Klan's leader stated, "It's the soldier that fought and died and gave them that right to free speech."

Suddenly the Klan became Republicans as opposed to their historical roots as Democrats.

It's right at this moment in the article when we're transitioning from President Obama's speech being protested by God Hate Fags to the Klan protesting when we're interrupted by a sidebar stating "The Worst Obstructionists in Black History".

Perhaps The Grio and its columists need to step back and consider the history they're presenting. Perhaps they need to consider who the worst offenders and suppressionists of individual freedom are in the United States, based on their slideshow, and their subject's political affiliations.

1. John C. Calhoun
A brilliant orator that we can arguably lay at his feet the roots of the American Civil War. He was a firm believer in States' rights, limited federal government, and free trade. On the other hand he called negro slavery a "positive good."
John Calhoun's political persuasion was Democrat.

2. Jefferson Davis
President of the Confedate States of America; Secretary of War under Democrat Franklin Pierce; Senator from Mississippi, Democrat.

3. Robert E. Lee
General Bobby Lee was never a politician; he was an officer in the Corp of Engineers and never held political office. I negate Lee's addition to Grio's list as he held no influence and testified before Congress in 1866 stating his "willingness that blacks should be educated, and ... that it would be better for the blacks and for the whites."

4. Andrew Johnson
According to TheGrio, Andrew Johnson was "A Confederate sympathizer, Johnson, who survived impeachment, pardoned all Confederates instead of punishing them in 1868."
Johnson was the interim president between the Republican Lincoln and the Republican Grant. He was a Democrat.

5. Jim Crow
The state sponsored separation of white and black peoples on a social and physical level across every aspect of personal interaction. You can find the modern corollary in mid-Eastern Islamic law and their treatment of Christians and Jews. Jim Crow laws lasted almost a century fortified by Southern Democrats.

6. The Ku Klux Klan
Every founding member, every local Klan group was founded by Democrats.

7. The Birth of a Nation
The movie. Based on Dixon's The Clansman from the early 20th Century. I now nothing about it.

8. Red Summer of 1919
They beat the shit out of Negros coming up out of the South. "Yew ain't takin' my job!" was the rallying cry from the Eastern and Southern Europeans. On the other hand, those same "white people" massacred my Stoch/Irish ancestors for doing jobs cheaper than the "whites" could.

9. Strom Thurmond
Prior to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, he was a Democrat. Then he switched parties.
The Republicans were consistantly 80+% in favor of granting equal rights to all individuals. Only 2/3rds of Democrats thought that blacks deserved equality.
He was still a Democrat during the Jim Crow years and advocated complete separation of black and white people.

10. White Citizens Council
I have no idea why they're even on the List. This is a group that was completely ineffectual in promoting their ideas. It's a fringe group comparable to the Communisty Party of the United States and had no political muscle.

11. Orval Faubus
36th Governor of Arkansas who decided little black kids can't go to school with little white kids. He decided that the State, the Government, was the only deciding force whether a person could go to school.
Democrat.

12. George Wallace
In 1963 he declared in his gubernatorial speech that:
"In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
Democrat

13. Ross Barnett
Governor of Mississippi from 1960 - 1964
Stated at the Ole Miss/U of KY game that:
"I love Mississippi! I love her people! Our customs. I love and respect our heritage."
Riots ensued when the first black person walked onto Mississippi's campus, James Meredith, Oct 1st, 1962.
Democrat

14. Bull Connor
He was the Public Safety Officer in charge of the Birmingham, AL Fire and Police force. He's forever immortalized as the fascist asshole who turned fire hoses and dogs loose on peaceful demonstrators. His defense was they're Communists.
Democrat

15. The Affirmative Action Rollback
This is about Prop 209 out of California in 1996 which in effect amended the state constitution to prohibit public institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity. For any type of quotas. Ref Grio's picture of a black woman carrying a placard stating "The Klan Supports 209" as opposed to Martin Luthor King's speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1968 where he stated:

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Black folks, I can't believe you stand by a party that's stood for your subjugation for the last 180 years. Everything the Democratic Party supports is the opposite of where you wish to be.

 

 

The New Hotness

That WordPress powered blog I had for a year was WAAAY too difficult to stay on top of; between spam posts, updates, funky video links, etc., it became a pain in the ass. So what'd I do? I abandoned that bitch and signed up for Facebook.

I'm an eeeedee-ot.

Being an opinionated asshole with potentially controversial views on current events, I found Facebook  ill-suited for open discourse if you're gainfully employed. With HR consultant companies out there that'll datamine your posts, it quickly becomes a hiring tool deciding the worthiness of any potential candidate. Therefore my posts reflected non-controversial issues that welcomed spirited and active discourse.

I feel sorry for any college frat-boy or sorority slut who posts under their real name. That shit you thought was private between you and your 800 Friends ain't so private in the 21st Century. Especially when that resume hits a Fortune 500's Passed-On-To-For-Recommendation HR rep's desk. Those fuckers love diggin' up da dirt.

And not a creature was stirring; not even a mouse.

The WordPress engineered website is gone and I'll stick with anonymous Typepad. We're flying under the radar when it comes to political and social events commentary because I write for myself with no need for anyone else's approval.

I Am the King of my Rat Trap

 

That's my last political/social commentary post on Facebook. It's a little too intense for general consumption and could be used against me in the court of Private Enterprise. I won't take that post back or apologize for it. Instead we'll let those Facebook posts degenerate into innocuous Likes of blandness. No fire, no intensity, no controversy. There's no doggy-style commentary with hair pulling and headboard ramming and shooting my load down a willing Public's throat drinking me dry with a grin of intense pleasure on her face because she took her man to his limit and brought him over the edge. Not on Facebook, which is comparable to premature ejaculation -

Did I Do That?

 

Alone but Never Lonely

Oh, first of all Vox is shutting down so I secured satyrken.com. I mean wtf, right? It's not like I'm trying to make money off this or entertain people or make a social statement - I use the intertubes to blow off steam and reacquire inner equilibrium. What you think is What you say is What you do.

Yah, this is another melancholy post. It's that whole 3 steps forward, 2 steps back banhammering my ass in real life that leads to me venting out in the nether realm. Oh, Internets, I love you.

Is Purty. Pink, Blue, Green. We Gots ALL Da Collars

I had a family tragedy this week that was funny as hell and also sorry as 3 rednecks deciding what color to paint their house.

No I can't talk about it on the 'tubes so don't ask.

There are always patterns within patterns and sometimes for the sins of the father, the gods pass them on to his sons (eh, I actually studied ancient Greek and at one time coulda told you who wrote that but I don't remember my Latin or German either so I'm not sweatin' it too much, that's what Google's for.) Try reading Aesop's Fables in the printed German, man I struggled.

I've been alone three times in my life. Five if you count being born and dying. Oh stop, nobody goes through those life transitions but you and you alone. The first contains afterwards comfort, the latter is precursor comfort - nobody but you experiences your self-consciousness's beginning and end. Neither are remembered.

1. Early-90s -
I made my first million when I was 35. It was done by myself. Alone. "Hey mom, I just scored this new client in Reston, VA, can you watch the kids for me? (While I Systems Engineer their needs, meet with their senior management and assess their potential computer requirements?); "Hey mom, the wife's acting funny, can you watch the kids while I meet with (Bell Labs, Ray Smith of Bell Atlantic, Procurement for the Defense Mapping Agency)? No, she always had an excuse why my boys weren't welcomed at her house.
I had requests coming in from the DoD, the future European Union, and OPEC, to provide hardware and hardware support nationally and globally.

My wife was mentally ill, schizophrenic, seeing and hearing things that weren't there. I asked for help from both her family and mine. They all pretty much told me to eff off. 

I chose my family over my business. Because I could not either/or produce a stable home environment, I chose what I thought was the lessor of two evils; I chose to concentrate on Federal contracts. I lost my ass and bowed out mainly because I was shuffling the ex-wife to George Washington's University mental health division. Eventually she said she wasn't going there anymore and neither her family or mine would step up and help me get her treatment.

My business collapsed because I couldn't serve my clients and get the wife into the car for her weekly doctor's appointments in downtown DC. My family, her family, all of them abandoned us leaving me to deal with my wife's schizophrenia on our own. Fuck you people.

2. Turn of the Century -
I made my second million in the late 90s working for AOL.
TBC

I Think We Have a Prime Minister

Nothing to see here! Move along.

Our President's decidedly hands-off policy of governmental management, weak leadership, poor oratory skills, and unquestionable lack of experience, means there's something else going on behind the scenes.

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"

So far the President has wracked up over two months of vacation time (CBS News from August 19th, 2010) since taking office a year and half ago. Granted these are "working vacations", as they all are for senior management, but there's something not quite right with the locations, tone, timing, and implementation of these away-from-the-office expeditions. There are too many photo-ops showing the First Family "Doing the Right Thing"; too many contrived speeches while not in the Oval Office that focus on tiny segments of our economy and society in general; too much pandering and niche marketing. It's like our President is the reincarnation of Billy Mays glad-handing a faceless mob that clutches television remotes and insular academics with no real-world experience.

It's like he's masquerading. As if he's playing at some vague idea of what the President of the United States is and what it means on the world stage. The doubts first crept in when seeing photos of the most powerful man in the world, the Leader of the Free World, bowing to foreign royalty, depots, and tyrants. A quote from the Washington Times, an opinion piece by Jeff Kuhner back in April of 10:

...never before has America's commander in chief prostrated himself to a foreign tyrant on U.S. soil.

He (the President) is supposed to embody the dignity of the Oval Office, reflecting our collective heritage as a self-governing, constitutional republic.

Couple these incidents with our President's obvious untruths - Islam has always been a part of America - the half-lie that President Jefferson held a Muslim ritual meal at the White House for the Tunisian Ambassador. President Jefferson held a State Dinner for the Ambassador to discuss the Muslim ships we'd seized in the blockade of Tripoli, you know, The Pirates of the Barbary Coast? The one's holding American citizens hostages? The Battle of Derne in 1805? Our fledgling navy of a nation less than 30 years old crushed the combined might of the Maghreb empire of North Africa that stood for almost 800 years.

That was our first war, as a nation, with the Muslims. Ten years later we were back at it again because our interests were derailed by Great Britain during the War of 1812. Again, the Pirates of Barbary where taking American citizens hostage and holding them for State sponsored ransom. The Second Barbary War concluded in 1816 after a 9 hour bombardment of Algiers by the U.S. Navy aided by the Dutch. Almost 1100 hostages were returned.

No Muslim envoy was invited back to Washington after the deceit and duplicity of the Tripoli Ambassador Mellimelli who asked for concubines in addition to hundreds of thousands of dollars to release American merchants. He was denied, his nation was crushed, and we took back our citizens.

Fast forward to 1979 and the Iranian Revolution. Americans are held hostage by Muslims inside the American Embassy. It was President Carter's failure during the initial phase of the occupation to take decisive action that led to his party's cumulative defeat in the elections of 1980. We are the United States of America - we do not bow, we do not bend, we do not back down, we do not admit defeat (blame LBJ, the 3rd worst President, for our defeat in Vietnam, ref Gulf of Tonkin). It was the failure of Operation Eagle Claw, in 1980, that gave the Persians the opportunity to assess America's operational capability, will, and resolve. After that attempt to free our citizens, President Carter backed down and attempted to use diplomatic channels to secure their release. He met with failure on all fronts.

Fast forward to 2010
 
Under our current President's Administration we're running a solid Appeasement Campaign on the diplomatic front. Our need for oil to continue fueling our First World status has our hats in our hands begging forgiveness and absolution, and it's produced a leader for this great nation that redesigns and falsifies history in order to appease our thousand year old enemy.

Backward to Why

Our modern war with the Muslims began with President Nixon and The Yom Kippur War or the Ramadan War of 1973. It was us and Israel against Russia and the Arabs states. Russia airlifted 15k tons of supplies to the aggressors, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. Israel was pushed to the brink by the combined might of 12 Muslim and Communist nations supported by Russia and was This Close to unleashing their nuclear weapons in self defense. Nixon said we've got your back; his direct order was "send everything that can fly". We lined up Aircraft Carriers across the Mediterranean Sea supporting hundreds of flights reminiscent of the Berlin Airlift. Under Operation Nickel Grass we flew in cargo planes to Israel carrying tanks, supplies, fuel. We flew fighter jets into Israeli airports where American pilots abandoned their jets in favor of Israeli pilots just taking long enough to refuel and change the plane's insignia.

We brought 22 thousand tons of supplies to Israel. Portugal was the only European ally that stepped up and said, Yes, we'll help. The extent of their involvement was not refusing our cargo planes refueling space in the Azores Islands. Europe, the Ottoman Caliphate is not dead. The Muslims have every intention of re-establishing their pre-1918 borders and expanding them into the New World.

Today

We have a President who's entire Foreign Policy is based on appeasement or searching for diplomatic solutions for a type of Neville Chamberlain style Peace In Our Time falsity. Our President has no credibility based on his words, actions, or public presentation. He cannot speak without being spoken for; he cannot act without being told; he cannot Do without being Done. And at every turn, from his history, he sides with anti-American concepts of Free Will, Free Enterprise, Free Markets.

Our President is a spokesman, a mouthpiece, a talking head; he's the face on a dog's wagging tail. His enemies are the enemies of 60's socialist radicalists trying to ingratiate itself into Mainstream America. 

All of the above leaves me to believe we have no Chief Executive. If we do, it's in name only. Someone, somewhere, is Wagging the Dog.

Based on our current President's actions, I sincerely believe we've elected a Westminster-style (pdf) president who's only function is to act as the tutelary head of government. He carries no weight; he has no administrative control; he spouts functionaries and denies responsibility.

TBC

Weird? Maybe

Huntin' and Shootin'

I had breakfast this morning at a restaurant that didn't use plastic forks or styrofoam plates and the tea came in a glass glass. Sitting there munching down on my bacon and looking around the place, it's full of guys, no women except for the waitresses. Big guys, hard guys, blue collar guys, they all know each other, probably went to the same schools and they're talking about work or huntin' or what Mary Sue did; they've got shot hair and t-shirts and boots and there isn't a car in the parking lot - it's all trucks, vans, and scoots. Country music's playing.

That little slice of americana almost made me homesick. Sitting there absentmindedly snapping that crunchy bacon, day dreaming of tubing on the Shenandoah, shooting bottle rockets across the river at other campers, swinging from rope swings, camping on islands in the Potomac, sitting at an outdoor cafe in Harper's Ferry watching the tourists, free climbing the cliffs above town, looking back and realizing that was a lifetime ago.

Watching these guys talking and laughing I realized we had nothing in common. They were relaxed, carefree, not paying attention to their surroundings because they didn't need to. They had no situational awareness.

Big city living took its toll and I'm still paying.

Urban Combat's Facade

The town I'm in has a population of 20k. I come from an area with 9 million. When they get out of their vehicles, they don't lock them. Sometimes they'll even leave their keys in the ignition. Nobody's going to get shot today. There will be no home invasion, no guys bursting through the door waving guns and yelling Everybody on the floor! There's no drive-by, no hookers on the corner, no Bap Bap Bap of gunfire in the distance. Nothing. But I expect it. Every day. Every where I go. Our inner cities are a war zone. And I walked those streets for years.

6,000 black men were killed in 2008.

Here? Three murders in the past 10 years.

I'm scarred. I'm broken. And I don't trust anybody. Looking around at these guys laughing and joking, I almost, almost wish I havn't seen what I've seen; hadn't experienced what I experienced; I want to be carefree too.

I open doors for women because I want to get them inside first; I need to know they're safe because you can't fight if you have one eye blind. Walking out the door, I hesitate. Glancing both ways up and down the sidewalk, across the road, looking at the other vehicles in the parking lot, back over my shoulder to see who's following me, I'm looking for the threat that isn't there anymore. There's no one crouched down between the cars with a pistol in their hand waiting to take my life or my money.

Welcome to the jungle
It gets worse here everyday
Ya learn ta live like an animal
In the jungle where we play
If you got a hunger for what you see
You'll take it eventually
You can have anything you want
But you better not take it from me

Homesickness is a lack of familiarity. I miss the jungle.

The Cards Pt 1

I haven't thrown a Tarot spread in years, then again, I could also read palms and tea leaves.

What? Comparative religion bitches.

How many Catholic Masses have you attended? How many Wiccan Circles have you attended? Raise your hand, any of you, who've been baptized in a dunking tank with a glass front so everyone in the Southern Baptist congregation can see your re-birth. I own a copy of the Koran that was given to me by an under-diplomat from Saudi Arabia - you have to read it from back to front because the back cover is actually the front.
I have a copy of the United Methodist Book of Worship from the 20's; the Bhagavad Gita; a practical guide to meditation by the American-born Buddhist nun Kathleen McDonald - It isn't enough to participate at a Buddhist temple, you need to internalize the teachings.

Buddhism is the same but different to the teachings of Jesus. Completely ignore the Pauline Epistles, Paul's 13 letters, and instead consider the Gospel of Thomas where every verse begins with "Jesus said," (The Gospel of Thomas is my second favorite after the Gospel of Luke). Paul was never one of Jesus' Disciples; he's a Jewish-born Roman citizen from Turkey and his writings contains some of the most virulently mysoginistic verses in history only eclipsed by fundamentalist Mohamadeans, Pentecostal churches in America, and the Catholic Church. There are no other religions, other than those based on the Abrahamic traditions, that so defile a woman's place in society.
 

Fortune telling is a combination of apophrenia, the affect bias, clustering illusion (you can thank Jung and the scarab and Synchronicity), pareidolia, and cold reading.

When you consider post hoc ergo propter hoc, you get superstitions such as "black cat" or "don't walk under a ladder" or because X happened Y happens e.g. breaking a mirror is seven years bad luck; if you blow out all the candles on your birthday cake, your wishes come true. Using a 3,000+ year old method of deciphering the sub-conscious based on Egyptian archetypal images used in the temple of some bird-faced idol isn't quite the If-Then algorithmic statement we'd expect in self-analysis.

But it works better than any half-assed Rorshach blot.

Cool?

Way cool.

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I'm Conflicted

It's about Park 51, that freakin' mosque in NY. And i don't dare open my mouth to talk to anyone about it because it's one of those polarizing issues that's quickly ramping up as a 3-way battle between:

- Liberals pretending to be civil libertarians quoting the U.S. Constitution in defense of the separation of Church and State
I'll give kudos to Michael Bloomberg's speech on the right of the private individual and private landowner to worship as they please. It's full of some absolutely brilliant pro-American rhetoric.

- Everyone else in America who feels offended that the Mohammedans want to rub our noses in their victory.

- And that hidden segment, looking back through history, understands that the god of Western Civilization is capitalism and Muslim holy warriors, in effect, destroyed our Vatican; our Canterbury;

our Genius Loci (eh, it's a pagan term designating the "dwelling" for the local holy spirit, for reference, most of the great cathedrals of Western Europe are co-opted pagan holy ground, um, kinda like how the 12 Days of Christmas supplanted the Mid-Winter festival of Saturnalia - Fun Fact - the 12 Days of Christmas begins at sundown on Dec 20th or the night before the Winter Solstice. What? You thought January 1st just happened to show up on January 1st?);

the Emperor's Numen (I'm getting a little obscure here. A Numen was a Roman guardian spirit, the fairy godmother that each person partaking the official Roman religion believed they had, to the point shrines were set up in virtually every home, think Egregor. Slaves were required to worship and make sacrifice to their Lord's Numen as well as subservient branch families and family members. It's the reason why the early Christians were murdered for sport because they refused to put the Emperor's Numen above Jesus Christ. To the majority of Romans, there could be no greater insult than to deny prayers and thanks for the continued well-being of the Emperor's guardian spirit Fairy Godmother) which requires crushing of the infidels and non-believers in return.

What is the most holy place in Christendom? St. Peter's Cathedral? the Temple Mount? It's the Church of the Holy Sepulchre where Jesus was buried and resurrected. It was a holy pilgrimage site for devout Christians since the 300's and possibly from the 3rd century. It was destroyed in 1009 by the Muslims. The 2nd Church of the Holy Sepulchre was rebuilt some 40 odd years later when the Muslim overlords realized that, um, hey! where'd all the money go from those pilgrims? The destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre led directly to the First Crusade of the late 11th century to reclaim our physical divinity from heathens with no respect for our religion or our culture.

No Christian, no Jew, ever went into the Arabian desert and kicked sand on the Muslim's little meteor they now have enshrined in Mecca.

They came to us first with destruction and swords and subjugation on their minds. A thousand years ago Islam declared war on Christianity. 

On every battlefield where Islam triumphs, it supplants the previous religion by defacing and destroying the subjugated civilization's religious icons.

What we're seeing today, at Park 51, is Standard Operating Procedure for Muslim conquerors.

Update.
Oh look, Dr. Abraham Miller formerly of the University of Cincinnati has an opinion piece. Dated 8/21/10.

"From the time of its inception, Islam has celebrated its victories by building mosques on the holy sites of the people it conquered."

 

Private Beeswax

The crickets are slowly chirruping quieter and offing themselves one-by-one. There's something in the air and if we care to read the signs, the free abandon of a mid-summer's night filled with lightning bugs and crickets and expectation and excitement appears to be, the night growing melancholy, even oppressive, with silence.
Significant changes happen at significant times of the year. I don't know why it is but they just do regardless of our artificial constructs that delegate left-brain time to an emotional consciousness.

Promises given and promises said;
Promises received and promises stayed.

A promise for tomorrow
Is a promise for yesterday;
A promise believed
Is a promise astray.

The quieter it gets, the more the universe screams for balance because nothing exists in a vacuum.

I don't need a new vacuum cleaner.

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What?

I don't make up that vernacular.

"i dont know why people who wont to hurts dogs are cat i gust the wont there faces be on the news"

Fox8 forums in Winston-Salem. Seriously, you can't make up this shit.

Personally? I think I'm being generous trying to decipher what these people are saying.