Alhurra Television, Blue Jeans , Apple pie and Genocide

Alhurra Television America's medium of superficiality into Middle Eastern propaganda is a $500 million strategic failure. Still it's a talking point for neo-conservative choir, who harbor delusions of empire by military action.

In response to criticism the Bush Commander-in-Chief governance motive authorized the creation of Alhurra Television to combat what is naively thought as the Middle Eastern and Islamic question formulated in purely public relation terms.

So $500 million produced an hour of focus on blue jeans, that Pax Americana staple. $500 million showcases the 2008 election with naturally extra emphasis on Barack Obama. The symbolic embody of this inclusive Uncle Sam, if you welcome the rain of bombs and Dick Cheney's Halliburton trillion dollar reconstruction.

Despite the Genocide slaughter of Iraqis, the editing trick of a tight shot of freshly baked apple pie and transformational visage of a Barack Obama. The fact remains Alhurra Television is nothing less than the after thought behind scraps tossed to the true believers naivete', a'la Scott McClellan and their bound to happen epiphany.

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Hurricane Katrina, The Barack Obama Candidacy and the Million March

Not only did the Hurricane Katrina disaster show governmental injustice but it also revealed the organizational mess of the Black-American center and it's political reality.

Back in the early 1990's Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam led a march of one Million Black Men on Washington D.C. to listen to Thesis on the Masonic and Illuminati Foundation of the United States. The Million Man March begot a Million Women March, all Black assembly, where Winnie Mandela was a keynote speaker. Then the Million Family March followed in New York. The symbolic point that political maturity is the result of an economic foundation, so organize

Then came Katrina and it's devastation and the raw images of that vein of Black American History, once again victimization.

Fast forward to the Barack Obama Presidential Candidacy and it's organizational adroity to amass money and it's lesson as it applies to the Katrina reality. Once again organize! With approximately 1.5 million contributors, the Obama candidacy is well on the path to a $500 million precedent.

The Lesson of the Barack Obama candidacy is : Those symbols of a Million Black Men, Women and family could each have donated a $100 to something with the objective name as "Reconstructive Fund for Black New Orleans and the Lower Ninth Ward" and just as easily accumulated a half-billion dollar fund for Black Self-Determination.

Why the specificity of Black New Orleans? Because specifically Black New Orleans suffered and bore the profane and psychic injustice of the Katrina consequence.

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Hymen Reconstruction and Feminine Freedoms

Maybe the jaded and eclectic American Woman who isn't caught up in the abstraction of tradition, doesn't even know what a hymen is to worry about it's consequence on her marriage. That isn't to mean it's concurrent alienation isn't creeping up and impacting the quality and definition of Feminine Freedom.

Certain contradictions of the human condition glare the most than at the intersection of Feminine Freedoms and sexuality. Mental ignorance and emotional ignorance quickly assert itself when the issue is gender relations.

Historically Femininity has been bound to the chaste ideal and all its presumptions. So it isn't surprising that Hymen-Management is another anti-Feminine reality.

It's a well developed fact that Arabicized-Muslim traditions is brutal on Women and Femininity. So it isn't surprising that Arabicized-Muslim Women are caught in the traditional consequence of hymen-integrity.

Imagine a young Women putting on the marriage planner "to do list", "see Surgeon for Hymen reconstruction".


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Treason and the WNBA: Anne Donovan's attack on Becky Hammond

When the United States kept on losing to the Soviet Union at International and Olympic Basketball. It responded with redefining eligibility for Olympic athletes and the "Dream Team" was born. Which simply meant multi-million dollar earning professional Basketball players made a mockery of the amateur ethos of the Olympic Games. By the way, this also mocked the arbitrary sanctions against Jim Thorpe, one of the worlds greatest athletes. But then Jim Thorpe's experience had more to do with the prejudice of being Native American.
So it's downright interesting listening to Anne Donovan's of U.S. Olympic Basketball attack and characterization of Becky Hammond's decision to represent Russia at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with Becky Hammond is a traitor , unpatriotic and mercenary.
Becky Hammond a U.S. citizen is a WNBA ( Women's National Basketball Association ) All Star Player. She was left off the U.S. Olympic Basketball team. Russia where she makes $2 million playing during WNBA off-season offered her money and lots of it, to play on the Russian Olympic team and she accepted.
Russia is simply redefining Olympic participation as it furthers it's interest. Becky Hammond's action is simple. The Olympic experience and Russian money is too powerful an incentive.
Is this treason and the WNBA? Anne Donovan's attack on Becky Hammond is just another example of contextual fraud.
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Al Qaeda and Evangelicals, Sex and Fear in uncertain and threatening times

What has Al Qaeda begat? Frolicking Evangelicals in the bedroom under the post bed banner of Genesis 2:24..."And they shall be one flesh."

The latest front in American Christianity's battle with Militant Islam is the bedroom. Where parishioners are enthusiastically urged by Pastors and Preachers to use Song Of Solomon 2:3 as guide for oral sex and The New Direction Christian Church, "40 nights of Grrreat Sex" program and it's daily planners with plums like Tuesday: Quickie in any room besides the bedroom. Are among a number of other Evangelical Christian sex instructors.

The new Direction Christian Church of Memphis , Tennessee, The relevant Church of Tampa, Florida and Evangelical-Fundamentalist authors as Tim LaHaye of the best selling Apocalyptic series "Left Behind", are the vanguard elements exhibiting the classic response of Sex as recourse in uncertain and threatening times.

The Boomer Generation lest we forget was the direct result of the uncertainty and threat from Hitler and Nazism, which spilled over into the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

Despite the biblical quotations as exhortations and the Dr. Phil like one-dimensional psychology in LaHaye's , "How to be Happy Through Marriage" book. Evangelical Christians are feeling pretty besieged these days. From their nightmarish honeymoon with George W. Bush and his absurd expedition in Babylonia, unable to tame and bring to heel the whore of war. To the triumph of Gays parading down California streets, marriage License in hand, a mortal blow to 40 years of conservative dictatorial aspiration.

Is it then any surprise that sex is their only refuge, a tether to convention from the fear of an Al Qaeda sought after caliphate.

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Food, Politics and Carol Joynt: The Need to Know is Always on the Menu

What Carol Joynt of Nathan's Cafe at Georgetown, Washington, D.C. is doing should be seriously replicated across the nation. Maybe not in form but in principle. In order for Government to be accountable people must be in proximity to facts as organically as possible. A priori the need to know.

Holding a question and answer session with upper echelon Government functionaries and policy makers, at a restaurant, while patrons sup is practical. Considering the primary culprit of Governmental apathy is disillusioned constituents who impotently opt out of paying attention, thereby leaving governance and it's apparatus to the preaching to the choir practice of base politics.

Carol Joynt, once a Walter Cronkite intern has fused Journalism with food. Patrons at her Restaurant, Nathan's Cafe at Georgetown are treated to in house interviews, questions, and answer sessions with agitators and apologists alike. Victims of perfidy by the Bush Administration, like Valarie Plame and Dan Rather. Have all been on the Politics of the day menu.

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Lev Grossman's Decadent Posture; Panic and the De-Humanizing Motive

Lev Grossman in his 6/23/08; Time Magazine review of the book "Say You're One of them" by Uwem Akpan. A Nigerian Priest concluded with:

"You could read it, but why? Kiss your family, enjoy a hot shower and donate the price of a hardcover book to charity instead."

The book is a horrific composition of narratives by children written by an African Priest speaking African things.

Lev Groomsman's conclusion is decadent posture. To view the human condition as he does with the elite-centric notion that horrific brutality in it's African form is anymore nasty and beyond the pale, that a cheap Irish Spring shower can cleanse the sins of the fathers speaks more of emotional cowardice and mental dwarfism than anything else.

It's one thing to review a work of art on it's creative merits. But it's entirely another to make social-commentary in the derisive context of charity as absolution.

There isn't insight to be found in Grossman's review. But panic of the self-centered, rationalizing in the Colonial de-humanizing motive with it's prey, the dark continent. Nothing less than decadent posture.

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Sex and Free Gas

Is it any surprise that in the gas give away promotion evolution, the "worlds oldest profession" had to get in the game with Sex and Free Gas.

So at the Las Vegas Shady Lady Ranch spent hours gets patrons gallons of free gas.

What a play on spent and gassed!!

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Hamas, Hezbollah and the Impending Israel-Iran War

The past week of 6/28/08; has brought disclosures of Israeli deals with Hamas and Hezbollah. Two groups constantly seen by Israel, the U.S. and Europe as Terrorist.

This comes on the heels of Israeli air-war games over the Mediterranean which conventional thinking looks upon as a test run for play on Iranian Nuclear facilities and the impending Israel-Iran War.

Hamas and Hezbollah have been commonly described as Iranian surrogates. If that is correct then this urgency of Israeli deals with both groups should be seen as efforts and attempts to keep both Hamas and Hezbollah on the sidelines when Israel attacks Iran and the ensuing Israel-Iran War.

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"Gone with the Wind" the Musical rejected by British Culture

Despite British struggles with eugenics and the historic tango with pejorative disdain for Black, Brown and Yellow nationalities of it's Colonial and Neo-Colonial Political-Economy.

Besides the quaint classicism of British society and its tumult with it's now quieting Irish question.

Taking into consideration the British affection with it's irrelevant Monarchy and discordant harmony of it's Parliamentary system. At times the Brits do get it right.

"Gone With the Wind", that blight upon the American cultural landscape has been resoundingly rejected by British Culture. For a brief spell this year while the Brits came to their senses, "Gone With the Wind" the musical had marginal run. Til the Brits recognized and realized that any pining for a way of life that built on hypocrisy and antagonisms as American Southern "gentility," regardless if it's banner proclaimed lineage to the Union Jack had no place in the milieu of humanity digitalized.

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George F. Will the Norman Rockwell of Opinions and Barack Obama

At least the hacks on Republican, Right-Wing, Conservative talk radio are straight forward and out in the open with their ire, anguish and jealousy of Barack Obama. John McCain's wake on Fox News is real.

Then is George F. Will the Norman Rockwell of opinions. The Nationally Syndicated Columnist Will, resembles Rockwell solely in affecting an idealistic veneer as substance.

With his chisel and hammer aphorisms, one wonders what exactly doesn't George Will get about Obama's Candidacy for the U.S. Presidency?

Whether it's his criticisms of Obama's campaign procedural platform or it's the humorless and weird reluctance to acknowledge history and it's precedent. In George Will's world view Barack Obama is just another dusty profile in Presidential White Maleness.

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Criminality and the Chicago Police Department: When the Cops are Corrupt

So the Windy City, the City of Big Shoulders, the City of Chicago has over the past five years doled out $155 million to victims of it's Police Department abuses, assaults, indiscretions and out right criminality.

Here is another fact. twenty-one of the twenty-five Commanders of it's Police Department have been replaced.

Then there is Jerry Finnegan, the deviant and corrupt leader of rouge cops in the Chicago Police Department's, Special Operations-SOS Drug Tactical Unit. Who plotted to have four of his compatriots assassinated because they had turned informants. Then he turned informant, when the criminality of the SOS- Special Operations came to light.

Then, Keith Herrera who revealed and exposed the activities of his compatriots in the SOS Unit and now wants criminality to be a cautionary tale to recruits of the Chicago Police.

Chicago's Mayor Daley says thousands of cops go about their duties daily, in a professional and law-abiding manner and the actions of a few shouldn't cast a pall over the city. Granted that thousands of cops pursue their duties professionally and within the law. Still the question is Chicago is Chicago and has been Chicago. It's one thing for it's marginalized and desperate citizenry to violate laws. But it's entirely another for it's Government in the specific form of Police, who having sworn to uphold law, to know law and to behave in a manner that denounces the end justifies the means expedience of policing---violate law.

When twenty-one of twenty-five commanders who are in the leadership. Who are the leadership are replaced, then regardless of the function of the rank and file, the idea and it's practice is policing in Chicago is inherently corrupt.

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Barack Obama's Judgement and the Grievance Narrative of certain Miami Cubans

Some Miami Cubans and the broader Cuban-American community is carrying this grievance narrative of their U.S. citizenship a bit too far. There is this delusional notion that being Cuban emigre' in the U.S. automatically bestows validity, credibility and legitimacy to any kooky and selfish advocacy.

Because how should the 6/20/08; press conference spectacle by certain so-called relatives of Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy those very same Miami Cuban opportunist wanted to deprive him of his father be taken. With criticism and calling into question Barack Obama's judgement in it's capacity s candidate for the U.S. Presidency.

The delusional and arrogantly self-described relatives of Elian Gonzalez challenged Barack Obama's judgement because Obama has certain individuals as adviser's who played roles in ensuring that Elian Gonzalez was reunited with his father in Cuba after his mother kidnapped him. So viewing history through that narrow grievance narrative, those Miami Cubans felt they could stand on the construct, we are Miami Cubans and any and all specific and general policy positions and decisions pass the Cuban emigre' test!

Barack Obama is running for the Presidency of the United States and it takes a certain contempt and disdain to casually disregard the reality that a Presidential candidates judgement traverses a much wider and practical spectrum than the inflated, elitist, notions of unique grievance narrative certain members of the Cuban-American community seem to have.

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The Bush Administration, Due Process and Terrorist

When the Bush Administration and it's neo-con lackey's pursue the policy of denying adversarial and meaningful due process to those it tags as terrorist on the grounds secrets will be revealed, thus jeopardizing the War effort, it's again another in your face example of are these people flat earthers or what.

The argument and it's substance has nothing to do with depriving terrorist of information. Instead it has everything to do with redefining accountability and Governmental transparency. It is also about depriving citizens of State secrets and with that comes intimidation. The less people are aware of State machinations the more intimidated they are.

Just as a substantial amount of the Bush Administration's efforts in it's struggle against rocket grenades improvised-explosives and suicide bombers hasn't been external, but internally and nationally-specifically the attempt at redrawing American freedoms so is the ridiculous idea that Guantanamo Bay, isn't U.S. soil. If it isn't then what is it? Fidel Castro and his acolytes have no control over it.

Terrorist already know what the Bush Administration knows and as a practical fact, they know what it wants to know. If it is a question of what a captured terrorist might have revealed during detention. Any terrorist group worthy of focus of the U.S. political and military leadership is taken as being organized in a manner that automatically assumes captured operatives are compromised and have revealed secrets.

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