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I who am I? Born at the pinnacle of American prosperity to parents raised during the last great depression. I was the youngest child of the youngest children born almost between the generations and that in fact clouds and obscures who it is that I am really.
Given a front row seat for the generation of the 1960's I lived in Chicago in 1960. My father was a Democratic precinct captain, my mother an election judge. His father had been a Union organizer and had been beaten and jailed for his efforts. His first time in jail was for punching a Ku Klux Klansman during a parade in the 1930's. I never felt as if I was raised in a family of activists but seeing it print makes me think, yes. That is a part of who I am.
We find ourselves today living in a world treed by the hounds of madness, a complicit media covering contrite parties. Multilevel media, giving more access to communication yet stunting actual communication. More noise, less voice, more sound less music, more law less justice, more medicine less life.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 8, 2011 1984
In America, these are known as conspiracy theories and anyone who offers or dabbles in them is a called a conspiracy theorist, because our media always tells the American public the unvarnished truth, right? Can I get an Amen on that?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 17, 2013 Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer -- Behind the Legend
He turned a birth defect into a multi-million dollar empire. Rudolph was shy as a child and was taunted by his classmates for being different or so the legend says, but classmate Herbie Wanamaker remembers it differently. "Oh it's true, nobody played with him. But it wasn't because he was different"we'd be playing cards, you know penny ante stuff and here he'd come, running down the alley imitating a police siren
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 12, 2012 Now, You See My Fists?
As the video opens, a cop waves his baton assertively, like a peacock preening or a wild bull rutting in the ground. It is a full fifteen minutes after police begin their interrogation of this young man before things start going terribly wrong.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 19, 2020 The Manchurian Candidate
The line between friend and enemy is distorted. Even though I'm wearing an enemy uniform, I'm your friend, I like you and I will protect you. Do you know why? I feel sorry for you, America has abandoned you. America is a bad place; America is a war criminal but don't worry"I'll help you. No super drug needed, just apply stress and offer a more
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 16, 2020 Watch the Crowds
It's too serious to laugh but it makes you want to laugh. This is the old media razzmatazz asking a question with dower and serious intonations, is Joe Biden too old? Is Bernie Sanders too Liberal? Can a woman win the White House? Can a Black man be elected President of the United States?
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, September 5, 2011 The Real History of Labor Day
The courage of unarmed men who charge a line of well armed men for a principle is the epitome of valor. When government shoots down its citizens in the street it is a public admission that any references to liberty and freedom are nothing more than pale illusions; an admission by government that their power is exerted from gun barrels alone.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 3, 2011 A Thread That is Not About Bin Laden
In a builder's economy growth is generated by the building itself. Ten thousand new homes being built each month meant new jobs. Jobs for carpenters and concrete truck drivers and roofers, new jobs for building suppliers and closing attorneys, Real Estate sales people and bankers. It is an economy based on real growth but the real growth supporting the artificial growth,
SHARE Saturday, November 27, 2010 What was, What is, and What's Coming Next
Hindsight is 20/20, you can look back throughout history and choose any three events and the future becomes explained. The American Revolution 1776, the French Revolution 1789, the terror 1793" - Napoleon 1799.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, March 4, 2011 Ronald McDonald and Other Clowns
Through the ongoing events in Wisconsin and nationally it should be abundantly clear by now to thinking people that the US corporate media is no freer than the monkeys are in the zoo. They live on Monkey Island and are free to report on the events from one end of Monkey Island all the way to the other.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 28, 2009 The Ghosts of Detroit
For the most part they have been forgotten; they are just empty, vacant memories like the empty, dilapidated homes which line her once proud streets. It was a land once ruled over by giants, captains of industry and labor and political thought.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, February 17, 2020 An Army is coming
Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me. The big orange fuhrer struggles at his childish name calling. Thrashing about after calling Bernie a Communist. Bernie Sanders answers by winning the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. What's that big mouth? What else have you got to say? Crickets, as Bernie's lead in the polls grows as America coalesces around his candidacy.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 31, 2016 Playing Monopoly with the World
Mrs. Clinton and her husband raked in millions from Wall Street. She refused to release the transcripts of her speeches. Do you suppose the tens of millions who lost homes, jobs and families in the crash of 2008, were okay with that? Remember those" "Basement dwellers?" Well, guess who helped to put them in the basement?
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 30, 2016 Lines in the Sky
Yesterday, I saw the lines in the sky again. I'd always heard about them, but had never actually seen them myself, until this Spring. I had seen the Facebook Meme's, of course, about mind control and the dumbing down the populace. I never put much stock in any such wild theories. First, this is Ohio, why the overkill?
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 24, 2011 He's Not Serious
It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sickening, college tuition paid out for jobs at McDonalds and the Gap are called job training while interning for pennies is called retraining.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 13, 2011 God is a Concept
We are taught in this country this myth of religious freedom and yet, in fact, most of the early founders were religious bigots. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was established by Puritans, Maryland by Catholics and Virginia by Anglicans and their beliefs were state beliefs, believe it or get out.
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 6, 2008 In the Shadow of an Apocalypse
The media has coined a new term, "The great recession." The media loves terms like that, terms they can use to encapsulate ideas. It allows them to rationalize and generalize, and in this case, minimize. To call this the great recession is as insulting as calling a train wreck a boo boo. It ignores the pain and suffering that millions of Americans are going through with a vulgar, sugar-coated euphemism.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, December 20, 2010 The Trojan Horse
In the conspirators desire to save Rome from an all powerful Caesar they instead destabilized Rome and sent it into decline. I sometimes think that mankind's epitaph will be. "Too smart for their own good and not half as smart as they imagined."
SHARE Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Shiny Pretty Things
Orwell was dead on the button, you know? Describing a mass surveillance, mass hysteria media state, stratified and deified by strict obedience to an artificial political dogma. A yellow ribbon stuck on the back of the ole gov'ment minivan right next to the smiling stick figure family, lobbing cruise missiles into third-world countries most couldn't find on a map.
(27 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 16, 2019 What is Objectionable
When the policy of ever-expanding military spending and tax cuts for the rich fails to motivate the base, what else is left? Why, we're protecting YOU from THEM, from those people. Those murderers and rapists, the drug dealers and gang members. No need for policy discussions, no need for explanations, those people want to kill you and the Democrats want to let them do it.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 24, 2011 Waiting for John Brown
From a thousand roads they come to a place where none expected to ever visit, let alone to stay, but the roads upon which they travel are all one way, like a clock, it ticks away and you find yourself set up here, like concrete, and you look to the future and you begin to wonder.