Michael Boyd An Apologist-Hack for the Airline Industry and "Bureaucrats" and the Iceland Volcano

During a 4/21/10; CBS interview of Michael Boyd of the Boyd Group, a self-styled expert on Commercial Aviation and Airline practices on the recent disruption of Airline services by the eruptions of the Iceland Volcano.

Michael Boyd blames and put the onus of the disruptions of services and ensuing chaos of millions of Airline travelers stranded globally on "Bureaucrats".  Boyd argued that the Bureaucrats of United Kingdom's air traffic, ignorant to the intricacies of running the Airline Industry acted recklessly by shutting down air space which in turn has hit the Airline Industry's bottom line to the tune of appx. $1.2 billion.

Boyd's gambit point was an airline will never place it's airplanes and passengers in a dangerous and life threatening situation.  This argument is patently false, misleading, deceptive and insidious.  The Airline Industry is on record with it's practices that place profits at the expense of safety and commonsensical convenience of it's passengers.  It is profitable for an airline to simply pay the fine and damage awards against it's practices when, plane crashes and disasters happen than spend the amount required to improve airline safety.

As Michael Boyd was being an Apologist-Hack for the Airline Industry on CBS.  It was being reported that upon the resumption and commencement of flights, those hapless travelers who had been stranded at airports globally would retreat to the back of the line and newly bought ticket-holders would receive preferential treatment.  Which in plain passenger speak means the airlines need cash on hand.  Those stranded passengers who having spent money already and were waiting on seating or were in connecting flight transit will have to wait and be inconvenienced for another number of days till it becomes ethically necessary to accommodate them on planes.

this is the omnipotence and omniscience of the Airline Industry to which Michael Boyd Apologist-Hack for the Airline Industry argues should not be regulated nor dictated to by responsible governance.

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11 yr. old Marcellus Owens, Rush Limbaugh, Black Women and the Health Care System

Where was the Black Community and it's Intelligentsia-Defenders when 11yr.old Marcellus was being attacked by the Republican-Conservatism cabal of Rush Limbaugh and Co.
Marcellus Owens an 11 yr. old Black boy was thrust into the National Political fray, during the mighty Health Care Reform struggle, because he had the audacity to dare pay tribute to his mothers death with his original critique of the Health Care System that allowed his mother to die.

Where were all those quick to criticize speculative-morality Black Women who should have been up in arms. That a cabal of well fed "Men" who are literally at odds with the idea and objective-progress of the Black American Experience had the historically despicable temerity to intellectually and emotionally attack an 11 yr. old child, because the child, Marcellus Owens dare understand the injustices of the nations Health Care System and it's practice to speak out against it.

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Virginia's Republican-conservatism Governor Bob McDonnell's Proclamation Honoring the Confederacy, Open Political-Action and the Dialectic of Backwardness

Much and a lot has been said of Virginia's Republican-Conservatism Governor Bob McDonnell's Proclamation that the month of April is Confederate History Month, honoring the Confederacy of Southern States.  Progressive and a majority of Black people have criticized it.  Reactionaries, Bigots and a handful of insane and self-loathing Black people have expressed their support.

Apropos The Blog will not indulge in the gambit of renarrating all those pertinent facts of American history, specifically the Civil War/War Between the States of 1865 and it's primary cause.  The Confederacy of Southern States, The Period of Reconstruction, The Emergence of Jim Crow Laws which culminated in the Civil Rights Movement.  Because it has been exhaustively documented and the very exegesis of contemporary American Political-Economy affirms the generality and particulars of the Confederacy of the rebellious southern states.

Instead Apropos The Blog will focus on certain opportunistic aspects for open political-action which Bob McDonnell's proclamation presents Progressive and minds and hearts on the right and just side of history in the advancement of combating reaction and it's Republican-Conservatism medium.

• Governor Bob McDonnell's proclamation reminds us and it reaffirms the antagonism that Republican-Conservatism is misanthropic, revisionist, reactionary, backwards and always on the wrong and unjust side of history.
• In having to revise the proclamation and include the Slavery fact Bob McDonnell ended negating the intent of his declaration, when he was compelled to state, Slavery as the cause of the Civil War and as a set of relations was evil.  This clearly indicates the schizophrenic and reckless consequence of Republican-Conservatism thought.
• This is first and foremost a struggle against the dialectic of backwardsness.  The very idea of Antebellum, Pre-Civil War Southern States Political-Economy, with the exception of Texas was at odds with the dialectic that impelled the United States as an idea notwithstanding that certain Radical-Virginians theorized the establishment of the United States.  It all the more affirms and exposes the antagonisms of Southern Political-Economy, particularly the Virginia Gentleman Farmer, which Bob McDonnell's declaration continues.
• Progressives and minds and hearts on the right and just side of history cannot simply ridicule southern backwardsness as once again expressed by Virginia's Republican-Conservatism Governor Bob McDonnell.  But Backwardsness must be refuted by tactical open Political-Action in all its ingenuity.

The struggle is real.  Our hearts and minds are unified.

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Terrorism and Air Travel Security in the United States and the Israeli Model

Terrorism and Air Travel Security in the United States since the 9-11 attacks has taken on a nuanced discordant narrative due to it's cooption by that failing---political opportunity.
The Israeli Model has been touted and presented as an example of a nation that gets it right on fighting Terrorism and being smart on Air Travel Security.  The reality is the Israeli Model as contrast for the United States is a simplistic, idealistic and reckless exercise.

Comparing the Israeli Model of Air Travel Security with the reality of the United States has only one objective: political opportunity.  In the sense that it's proponents seek to show that Israel is useful to the United States, even superiorly practical.

The consequence nonetheless is simple.  For the purposes of Terrorism and Air Travel Security, the Israeli Model is irrelevant and abjectedly insignificant.  Israel's security concerns are specifically narrow. The Israeli Model contends with a specifically profiled demographic.  Israel is not a nation that enjoys robust travel activity when compared to the United States.  Only a certain type of traveler goes to Israel and for easily monitored reasons and that permits and allows the Israeli Model an idealistic convenience.

The United States on the other hand is a destination for the four corners of the earth.  it deals with a true demographic plurality and it's Air Travel Security concerns are truer and correct than the propagandist advocacy of the Israeli Model.

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The Democratic Party and Black Urban Talk Radio

The Democratic Party, it's establishment and old guard bemoans it's inability to make inroads into Talk Radio and Urban Talk Radio, while it envies the supremacy of Republican-Conservatism and it's bigoted demagogues ruling the talk radio level of political-activity.

But there is a natural ally of the Democratic Party with a viable and profound market share, that has an energized constituency always receptive to the red meat, playing to the base dynamic of talk radio and it is Black Urban Talk Radio.

The Democratic Party will do well to recognize the vast untapped potential of Black Urban Talk Radio as a legitimate counter point to the wrong side of history imperative of Republican-Conservatism's Talk radio and embrace Black Urban Talk Radio.  Because if the natural tendency of the human condition and the evolution of society is progress and inclusion, then the Black American and Latino experience and narrative which Black Urban Talk Radio is it's medium and voice is the natural catalyst when the intrinsic flux of American Political-Economy is the struggle against reaction and it's medium the Intellectual-Liberalism of Republican-Conservatism.

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David Remnick, Tautology and Poverty of Definitions and Intellectualism

David Remnick Editor of The New Yorker and Author of "The Bridge": The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.  Described Barack Obama on the 4/4/10; Meet The Press with David Gregory and I paraphrase, President Barack Obama doesn't have the talents of former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt, But Barack Obama is himself.

This is the sort of tautology and poverty of definitions and intellectualism rife within the main-stream privilege and it's dictatorship of suppositions.

A simple rejoinder to David Remnick and his Obama poverty of intellectualism is this.  So who or what were Reagan and Roosevelt like?  If not themselves?

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The Roman Catholic Church, Pedophilia, Homosexuality and William Donohue

Evangelical-Fundamentalist Christians, particularly those from the Southern United States, have consistently denounced the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican and the Pope.  Conspiracy Theorist find the Catholic Church a font for never ending global domination fears and it's role as the symbol of days in biblical revelation as the Whore of Babylon is legend.  So the charges of Pedophilia by Catholic Priest and claims of the ensuing cover up which now haunt the Papacy of Pope Benedict, formerly Cardinal Ratzinger does not come as a surprise.  Naturally as such tends to be the case the Catholic Church and the Vatican has found itself under that human conditional imperative of defending itself and not relying on it's deistic teachings to do so.  In other words Catholicism has rediscovered it's Adamic Profanity.

Then there is William Donahue, the Director of the Catholic League and sanctimonious defender of Catholic Political-Economy.  Who on the 3/30/10; Larry King on CNN pronounced that sexual molestation of post-pubescent kids is not Pedophilia but Homosexuality.  Then in his omniscience William Donohue proceeded to defend Catholicism, a faith based exercise which per virtue, is devoid of scientific, evidence-based examination, with the infamous and I paraphrase, I'm a Social Scientist show me the evidence.  In confessional booths across the Catholic empire priest accept confessions of sins without the cynicism of evidence based examination.  Yet when the accused is the pedophilic empire of Catholicism William Donohue mocks both the faith based imperative of his Catholic Church and the intelligence of all those Catholics who historically devoid of reason have spilled their guts to child molesters in frocks!

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Tea Party Naivete, Social Security and Anarchic-Idealism

On the 3/29/10; Larry King on CNN, a couple of  the Tea Party leadership were allowed to spout their naivete, illiteracy and bigotry which concurrently became an educable moment to the rest of the nation.

On the question of Social Security one of the Tea Party activist repeated that old Ronald Reagan propagandist lie, that Social Security is insolvent.  Applying the disingenuous argument that there isn't any "cash" in the Social Security account.  With the implication that macro-scale, governmental monetary activities are interchangeable and scale comparable with micro-scale, individual-private bank accounts.

My point is: If the lattice and structural base upon which the nations Political-Economy stands is least understood by it's critics and detractors and even when an attempt is made to grasp it's mystery, naivete and pat assumptions are substitutes for it's cognition.  Why should Tea Party critique on all fronts resonate beyond the crass, infantile, anarchic-idealism it is?

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Republican-Conservatism, Bigotry, The Governmental Dynamic of The Obama Administration and the Healthcare Reform of March 21, 2010

Republican-Conservatism might not be bigots in skin yet they shy away not from donning it's mantle.  Specifically when it permits the susceptibility and receptiveness of their ploys in attaining the reins of political power solely in it's speculative sense.  Because in the absence of Progressive thought, Republican-Conservatism pursuit of political power is merely an academic speculative exercise.

When government is reduced to a paradigm of diminishing intent, it is primarily in stasis which in itself presents an interesting conundrum to the governmental dynamic of being the center of the contending flux of the social-contract and it's dialectical tyrannies.

Republican-Conservatism in the Governmental dynamic of The Obama Administration acted out it's historical role and duty during the Healthcare Reform struggle of 2009 and 2010.  Through the Town Hall and Tea Party deviation to the historical 70 year in the making 219 to 212 vote triumph of March 21, 2010; under the gavel of Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

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