All Universe! Don't Hate!

HAKEEM OLAJUWON

MOSES MALONE

LARRY BIRD

MAGIC JOHNSON

ISIAH THOMAS

Hakeem will put the rock on the floor and take 'em! Bring 'em on Bill R., Wilt, Bill W., Kareem.

Who Patrick, Shaq? Get real!

Big Mo', Moses was the proto power center morph straight outta high school, with what it took to win and ain't that what it's all about?

Larry
Magic and
Zeke

'nuff said.

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The candy bar was a gun

The man hunt was intense, the voices shrill. Their faces flushed with the excitement of the chase. Within their hearts lay the deceit of concern wearing the mask of a 6-o-clock evening news anchor.

Who is to be feared

The pathetic soul who at the baying of the hounds trembled to the core of his misery crawling on hands and knees seeking safety in a swampy fetid infestation that even those slithering, slimy corruptions of children's nightmares dared traverse.

Or

The shiny alloyed badge on straining chest, shooting first and then having the gall to rationalize that the candy bar in the hands of the 9 year old Black boy was a gun.

A rationalization which says it loud and clear to those ears not defended by the syrupy drip of "just a cop doing his job," that in the eyes of the White police officer the 9 year old Black boy was just another one less.

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Bush sneaks in, Ahmadinejad gets the Red Carpet

This whole proposition that Al Qaeda in Iraq warrants U.S. presence in Iraq is seriously disingenuous.

The main beneficiary of all the trillions being pumped into Iraq by the U.S. is Iran, because when the last time George Bush got the Red Carpet treatment in Iraq? So why did Ahmadinejad go to Iraq on the weekend of 3/1/08; and get it? George W. Bush the embodiment of all upstaged and out maneuvered has to sneak into Iraq yet Iranian Ahmadinejad swoops in broad daylight, gets the Red Carpet treatment plausibly funded by some of the U.S. trillions and a Honor detail probably American trained.

The central proposition of John McCain's Iraq thought is if the U.S. pulls out, Al Qaeda will trumpet it defeated the U.S. (As if just the fact the world's Super-Power taking on Al Qaeda on Al Qadian terms doesn't already imply that.) So how does McCain address this spectacle of Iran with it's deeds telling the world that it out sourced it's Iraq question to the U.S. and the U.S. with it's Johnny Come Lately presumptions obliged in the most comical way.

American lives and treasure is being lost and spent in pursuit of and in the employ of Iranian Foreign policy and Iranian theocracy. Now if that isn't the mother of all hood winks?

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The Ethics of Consent of Organ Transplants in Pets

When human beings can't stand each other, the Anthropomorphism spectacle of pets begins to take all sorts of convoluted turns.

The CBS early show for 2/29/08; had a story on transplant surgery for pets. The story was about a woman, her cat and the $10,000 Kidney transplant it had.

I want to focus on the Ethics and Morality of the process for pet organ donations.

If a human being , in this case Michael Vick, the former Atlanta Falcon Quarterback currently imprisoned, can lose his liberty, his livelihood and standing in society because he indulged in fighting dogs who are bred, a breed intended to do exactly that---then if misanthropomorphic people with smug looks across their faces pursue organ transplants for pets, and if the pet shelter which provides the donor pet justifies it's participation with, a pet owner seeking a donor must agree to adopt the donor animal, after the transplant.

What I want to know is, if society is so Pet conscious, so animal loving to the point the Animal Rights Group PETA can display placards seeking the castration of a human being, then who or what communicated the seriousness of the issue of consent to the donor animal, and who is the next of kin in case of transplant complications?

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"Yes We Can," A dirge for the Clinton Machine

Bob Marley the Reggae great once chanted "When the cats away the mice will play," and so it goes that in the absence of originality mediocrity will goose step it's jackboot comedy, also, in the land of the blind the one-eyed is King, because how are we to truly grasp the spectacle of what was with waspish snobbishness coined Clinton Machine? So a rural character rose to Govern a state which headquartered the very cause in principle and in deed of America torn asunder from it's middle class, the center must hold myth. All that is wrong Walmart embodies, from destruction of unionized labor to the obscenity of toxic chemicals in pet food, Walmart and it's condescension has been the symbiotic portal.

Rarely is there natural coincidence in political-economy, so it goes that the mediocre poseur which is Bill Clinton had to find his slant into national political prominence from the land of Walmart.

The sirenic flattery of the ingenuity of Clintonism truly had the Clinton Machine with her Madam ship, Hillary Clinton at the helm, taking for granted the fact that this is the same verdant earth where Napoleon found his Waterloo, where Richard Nixon over reached, where George W. Bush forgot that the Dogs of War are a tireless brutal lot, where the British Army with Churchill in its files found it's Fashoda, where Hannibal wined, dined and Fabius patiently stalked, where Chaka Zulu mistook terror for loyalty and so the list of historical hubris goes on, marching on the inexorably logic that if any personality assumes that the Presidency of the U.S. is 'my Turn" as Hillary Clinton under the astounding naive tutelage of her Bill " The political genius" Clinton posed, her Barack Obama is bound to appear and once again right the scales of Hubris!

No matter what happens in the Democratic nomination for President, the Clinton Machine has listed, and just as Ohio once found itself the last stand battle ground for rusting analog industry when it ran into Clintonism NAFTA, so is Hillary staking Ohio as her final stand , what an irony!

Obama, Obama, Obama!!!! Hillary hears the chants and her frenzied recourse is the wail the it isn't fair naivete she gets asked question first. Talk about a public Prozac moment! For one who claims to have what it takes to be President, the I Am Woman and it's not fair argument is a bad joke.

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Reaganomics and Crack Cocaine

I'm of the persuasion That the Crack Cocaine phenomenon has been incorrectly defined by Black-Intelligentsia as being a political phenomenon, a ploy by the U.S. status quo to destabilize the Black Community. Instead of the definition, an economical phenomenon as it should correctly be defined.


The Crack Cocaine phenomenon was simply a Capitalist tool to facilitate and service a level and degree of Capitals development, at a specific point in the development of U.S. Imperialism, specifically Finance Capital.

U.S. Imperialism--- A Brief Summery

The beginnings of the 1980's was economically a trial for the U.S. Capitalism was entering a new and distinct phase particularly for the mature, industrial-manufacturing economy of the U.S. The National Economy was under the intense strain of birthing the expansionist flux of Finance Capital in it's more mature appearance and the effects were at odds with the more linear and stable result of servicing a National Economy based on credit.

The late '70's and prior to the Reagan Administration, 1980-88; saw an extreme decline in the economy, both nationally and internationally. Whole sectors of Bulwark industry such as the automobile industry as represented by Chrysler Motors were on the brink of bankruptcy even to the point that the U.S. Govt., itself had to bail out Chrysler Motors by giving it a direct loan. The commercial banks who normally would have been the ones to do so could not afford to undertake the massive responsibility and subsequent servicing of the loan. Oil and it's derivatives was on the one hand with the contraction of the steel and it's component industry on the other exerting profound adverse effects on the economy. In the face of all that, politically the U.S. was laid impotent with a type of political action occurring in Iran that it's executive and military leadership were ill-prepared to deal with. Capital, particularly Finance-Capital, which as we know, knows and has no allegiances nor borders was transforming itself into a maturity that the U.S. with it's international presumptions of leadership could either vanguard of a more able political- economy would assert itself that would ensuingly leave the U.S. in it's wake---this was the climate of the U.S. circa late '70's early '80's.

The National Economy of the pre '80's was on the one hand lacking the high volume of cash flow required to satisfy U.S. Global obligations and on the other, the maintenance at a stable level the effects of Finance Capital's motion upon the mid and lower level incomes. Finance Capital was in it's expansionist mode, consequently formal manufacturing such as Steel production were losing out to the up and coming cheaper economies of the far east. Finance Capital was restructuring and stabilizing itself towards the servicing of speculation and Super-Monopolies. The political-economical landscape in the U.S. was in a state of shock and paranoia. Tried and proven, time -worn industries were being squeezed out. Attitudes that had nurtured post World War II industry were coming up short in the face of the highly agitated ones necessary to exist in the unstable wake of Finance Capital. Post World War II, the American Economy had been of the basis for the revitalization of the economies of allies and foe, particularly the German and Japanese economic resuscitation. The U.S. economy had proven mature and nationally massive enough to maintain it's anomalies independent from the strain of it's obligations.

The dearth of any political-economy is Value, which is indicated materially as money and the means of it's production. What this means is first, the human being in that activity of re-creating those necessary means for survival and existence brings value or purpose to those necessities created and developed. The value which is purpose given those creations and developments are in essence extensions of the human being on which survival and existence are dependent. This is what, within a community or society of humans it's means of transfer, and exchange then becomes the most common form and vital medium of interaction with fellow human, that most basic manner those necessities for survival and existence are circulated---which is what we know as money/capital.

The U.S. prior to the Reagan years was on the verge of having a short-fall with money. Tenders of political-economies subscribe to a variety of mechanisms in protecting and developing their respective political-economies. The Reagan Administration chose one that has been tried and proven. It chose that of governmental spending, which in the instance was building up the Military with the resultant expenditure on defense. Flooding the national economy with cash through defense spending, the Reagan Administration had to solve the problem of how to truly stimulate the economy with it's cash infusion. Money was being pumped into the economy massively, but it was in wrong hands. The white suburbanites who worked for the defense industry and were accessing the cash were not the compulsive consumers, nor was their type of consumption the appropriate and necessary one for that agitated circulation of cash demanded by a resurging national economy. A crucial factor emerged, which as a result served as that point of fusion, through which that required flow cash from suburbanite white workers into desired circulatory flow of cash was made possible. A sizable element of those defense workers were products of parents who had participated in the counter culture drug imbibing years of the '60's and as such the drug culture was familiar to them. It was then, with them that the Reagan intent found it's maturing medium.


Drugs, illegal drugs, controlled substances or narcotics have been a part of U.S. culture for a while. But the middle '80's saw a profound change in the effect such have had and can have on a society as a whole. The U.S. drug culture naturally is illegal and as with anything illegal it's servicing and activity remains where we colloquially describe as underground, which in this case a part of the underground economy. Underground economies, as your astute and pragmatist economist know are phenomena that, in the absence of a resolute above ground economy then become that medium through which a political economy resuscitates and gathers itself, because they facilitate and enable that required volume of cash [capitol] to circulate quickly within the society resulting in a stimulation of economic activity pursuing the cash that can appear above ground and proceed participatorially in the process of giving direction and stability to the above ground economy. This, then is what happened during the middle years of the Reagan Administration.


The middle Reagan years witnessed a resurgence and emergence of political economic activity that if one has the wherewithal to discern, doesn't appear as conventional wisdom would've us think "due to the market forces" or it's least understood and cabalistic sibling "Free Market Enterprise". The U.S. economy of the middle Reagan years due to certain specifics gathered steam resulting in a whole host of circumstances, of which the most significant and profound was the culture of drugs, particularly "Crack Cocaine".

U.S. National Economy---A Brief Summery

The national economy developed upon two deterministic factors: (1) stable employment (2) debiting and credit. The formal heavy-industrial manufacturing that was the structural support for economic development particularly within the national economic sense, provided dynastic employment in the sense that , for instance Lunch Box Willy would gain employment, organize his existence around the white picket fence ideal, do his bit in supporting the national economy through the various debiting for services and consumption of social commodities, his son(s) shall follow in his foot steps of comparative one's, hence replicating the entire cycle, which in it's turn created a national economy that could support whatever was termed and postured as the American ideal and way of life.


The above described phenomena was the norm for the average of White America and the exceptions of Black America. But on the other hand Black America's social and economic development differed greatly from the White experience.


The Black inner-city experience was once directed from it's inception, that it's participants would not have the stability of stable employment. The middle class phenomena of credit and debit was not a factor in the development of Black America. Rather a cash on demand was the variant. If it should be said that the White economy provided the national economy with long term fore-sight, Black economy catalysed the short term fulfilment of it's needs. This environment and the vacuum appearing from the effects of Finance Capital's activities upon the economic landscape coupled with Crack-Cocaine phenomenon catapulted Black inner-city economy preeminently int the pulse and heart of capital and placed it realistically within reach of that economic stability of self-determination that had been effectively denied Black America.

Inner city---Servicing the National Economy

To speak of a Black economical landscape within the American one is to infer a homogeneous entity inter-acting with the national body, but that isn't the case, Black economy simply designates a level of U.S. economy, a particular niche and servicing a particular type of capital. There exist a few exceptions, but in the all Black economy maintains a retail function generating that high volume of cash necessary for the short term fulfilment of capital. But due to the cumulative effects of Finance Capital, the Black economical landscape during the Reagan years experienced a radical transformation at the inner-city level.

Black populations of inner-city U.S.A. were as they have always been a stimulant in the raw sense on the national economy, A mechanism for flow of cash within the national economy. Reaganomics understood this function clearly, and in the wake of Finance Capital's activity upon the national economic landscape, it utilized the services of the inner-city in a fashion reminiscent of the Prohibition Era.

Black America due to it's unstable relationship with mainstream America has historically found it's economic activity in the illegal underground economies of it's evolving milieus. The Reagan years were not any different. Cocaine had gradually begun to reassert itself during the late '70's, and during the Reagan initial years a more potent and powerful variant of it was developed, Crack.

Crack Cocaine then flooded Black communities and then became the New Work Horse for Black economic initiative in the underground economy. Crack Cocaine a solidification and rockification of it's base powdery form became a variant that was able to transmit it's narcotizing agent so powerfully and for a limited amount of time, during which the narcotizing sensation was intensely magnified that it became the El Dorado Mother Lode of the drug underground economy because it's consumers in that never ending quest of pursuing that brief and highly intense narcotizing stimulation were compelled to spend money, time after time in that cycle, which therein signaled the awesome power of it's addiction---and that in raw economic terms was what the Reagan tendered National-Economy needed to attain that stability, that respite to leverage itself on to it's above ground realization of vanguarding capital in it's Finance Capital maturity and it's international imperatives.

The dynamism of the illegal drug economy particularly Crack Cocaine

The decade of the '80's; has the historical designation as the era of Reaganomics. On the surface, advocacy by Black Nationalistic imperatives critiques Reaganomics as being racist and anti-black, however a close dispassionate scrutiny has to conclude that Reaganomics, in it's specificity of enabling Black America to access massive cash could have completed what that other Republican, Abraham Lincoln started---The access to true political economical development for Black people.

The political economical landscape the Reagan administration inherited was one that was in shambles, as already pointed out, Finance Capital was in a rapid state of motion, the economical integrity had been compromised, to stabilize it a true and correct interpretation of economic determinism had to be bought lock, stock and barrel, in a sense, colonial policies comparative to the British dictates of Sino Policy during the 1800's had to be once again lifted up from their dusty shelves, dusted off, to once again see the light of day, as Reaganomics struggled to support the long term objectives of Finance Capital with a short term necessity for creating a highly dynamic national economy. 
Reaganomics picked chapters out of British-Sino Colonial policies of the 1800's and pages out the Post-Stock Market Crash of the 1920's Prohibitionist Era and welded such to a contemporary commitment that had a 'no compromise" attitude towards social reality, an effort that would have raised the eye brows of the past-master himself Machiavelli. The British-Sino Policies of the 1800's were designed to Bulwark British Imperialism ---The policies of Reaganomics were designed to direct U.S. imperialism towards the fulfilment of it's national and international obligations. The policies of Reaganomics a la' Neo-Taipanism were designed to saturate the national economy with credit power for the impending maturity of Finance Capital, as such the national economical landscape was turned into a deregulated netherworld of acquisition.

As I've shown in proceeding paragraphs, the suburban White defense workers had the cash and Black America had a new and potent banner of the drug culture as such it was inevitable that both would fuse and with that simple matter of factness of the human condition and it's tendencies and habits, the Reagan Administration was able to solve that question of what and how to stimulate a Capitalist Political Economy which in it's seeming implosion had been the bane of 3 previous Presidents and even causing one to undertake an endeavor which, it it's revelatory aftermath caused his exit in disgrace from the Presidency.

Those element of White suburban America with the means to experience the new drug phenomenon, spent their cash which due to the Reagan Administration Defense Buildup was made available. The cash upon entering the Black community and it's elements of whom since the emergence of the Black social condition has been unstable relative to the applied and governing forces of the political-economy which dictated the Black American existence, once again, with the manner the incoming cash was utilized fulfilled what has been the Black historical role in the U.S., a sizable amount of the Black community now possessing large amounts of cash begun the process of enabling the cash to mature and realize itself with spending it in consuming commodities. In consequences of the intense and high amount of consumption entire industries pursuing the now awakening national economy and it's cash flow emerged. The U.S. economy attaining that stability and development was now ready to once again vanguard capital and it's Finance Capital imperialistic imperatives.

Reaganomics A Summary

The Black populations of inner-city U.S.A. were as they have always been, a consuming function for the retail tier of the national economy and it was with the Black populations that Reaganomics unleashed the raw might of capital.

The period of Crack Cocaine dominance can be likened unto a vacuum within the U.S. National Economical landscape, a transitional period wherein capital sought to define a comprehensive direction for economical doctrine. Reaganomics was in effect a two-prong directive to maintain the stability of the economy through:

1. The public sector, specifically the Military-industrial Complex.

2. The dynamism of the illegal drug economy particularly Crack Cocaine.

The combination of the exceeding high volume of cash that was recycled within the inner-cities and the inner-cities habit of unbridled consumption catalysed the resuscitation of the national economy, hence servicing the needs of Finance Capital internationally, and allowing for the realization of capital nationally.

Thus in essence the Crack Cocaine Phenomenon during the Reagan Era was simply a tactical maneuver in the service of revitalizing U.S. imperialism and it's Strategic pursuits.

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Criticizing Congress an Industry called Soap Box Pontification

Every day, every other day books are being published critical of Government, politics, politicians. Left this, Right that. Liberal and Conservative hurled epithets. Blue State, Red State labeling as if the Dogs of War eat biscuits and curl in front of fire places.

Faces on cable, voices on talk radio play the vilification of Congress game.

Why isn't the vilification directed at the rightful recipients the voters who keep on keeping on voting like lines of clueless prey shown with purple fingers as if the wag of purple fingers excuses the absence of weapons of mass destruction, as if simply casting a ballot is panacea directed by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund or better yet Civic Duty 101, explaining away lack of accountability for the Sub Prime Rate trough gluttony, as if politicians are a breed apart and are not simply reflective of the electorates naivete and who is to blame for the electorates naivete?

Who is to blame for Ms. South Carolina 2007 Illiteracy?

And being that we are all compatriots in the blame game, so who does Apropos blame for time spent on this post?

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The Savagery of Charlotte Jones

A few weeks ago, away from the glare of accountability, as most issues of State and Government are lately, Brian Sterner a quadriplegic bound to his
wheelchair had the misfortune of experiencing first hand what all the tax payers of Hillsboro, Florida are getting for their tax receipts.

When Charlotte Jones a Deputy with the Hillsboro Police Dept. savagely dumped Sterner on the floor of the Police station, after Sterner had been brought there for a traffic violation.

Hillsboro Sheriff, Joe Docobo had the gall to characterize this instance of State Brutality with, Jones the officer in question lacked proper training.

But the fact is lack of training is not the issue.

A Police officer savagely dumped a human being in a wheelchair on the floor without any regard for the persons well being. The Police Dept. characterized the savage act as that of lack of training. But what sort of training does any human need to know not to inflict wanton pain and discomfort on another?


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The New England Patriots and the 2008 Super Bowl Commercials, What a farce

Super Bowl commercials. Super sub par commercials. The Bud Bowl creations back in the day were worth talking about. There have been moments in Super Bowl commercials also worth speaking on, but what was that the tired ass brains of the third wave gave us for the '08?

Nonetheless what a game it was, New England finally getting their come uppance! Eli Manning for once not allowing his weak chin to get in the way as the New York Giants punished New England and the delusional arrogance of Tom Brady.

It wasn't all that bleak though. The Life Water commercial, lizards moon-walking to Micheal Jackson's Thriller is worth talking about. Garmin's GPS, help for the Petit Corporal to find his way out of perverting the 1789 Revolution was also worth a nod. The gurgling big head E-Trade baby can stay gurgling and Justin Timberlake please! If getting your balls squashed on a pole is what Pepsi could come up with, you should have simply spoofed your role in Janet's wardrobe malfunction.

As an end note---Hyundai with it's Genesis asked we think about it. How about here is a cold dash of reality. Hyundai? Forget about it.

Lizards doing Thriller? Now that's worth a Sequined Glove.

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911 Calls made public, A ghoulish practice

The Habit of releasing 911 calls for commercial purposes is ghoulish and must be ridiculed and opposed.

There comes a period after certain high profile and well publicized incidents, media outlets, disingenuously foist on the public the 911 calls of the incidents.

Talk about insensitivity.

What is being accomplished besides the base nature of gawking?

Media outlets in that perpetual quest for the bottom line, profit margins as measure of responsibility have incorporated the practice of playing 911 calls under the pretext it's news, when instead it's crass voyeurism.

This practice is an outgrowth of that of releasing plane cock-pit recordings of crashes. There is a difference however, cockpit recordings of plane crashes speak more of the mechanics of the accident. It allows the public and relative investigators to understand what was wrong in a way the intimacy and individual of a 911 call is least concerned with.

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Islamic Militancy and the Neo-Cons

As we listen to the Bush Administration and it's apologist intellectuals hold their symposiums on the various talk shows about Iraq and America in the period of a certain type of Islamic Militancy.

One wonders which reality is being analyzed?

What sort of reality begs for the spectacle of the hard sell that National Security is in jeopardy if whatever the articulated threat is actually warrants the perfidy of Neo-Conservatism's gambits which the nation has been subjected to.

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Toni Morrison, The Black Presidency and Bill Clinton

What does Toni Morrison's endorsement of Barack Obama say? She who pronounced the purported surrogate as original. For one, what it obviously does is pull the rug for whatever it was worth to blow a saxophone on the now dust to heap of talk show history, Arsenio Hall Show from under Bill Clinton's ozarkism a la' Ronald Reagan State Rights ravings in the heart of Jim Crow Mississippi wink and a nod First Black President paternalism.

What Toni Morrison giveth, Tony Morrison taketh.

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The Noose , Golfweek and the Cold War of American Racism

The latest casualty of the Cold War of American Racism is now Golfweek Magazine.

Golfweek magazine in a spasm of cosmic stupidity, hung a noose on the cover of it's recent issue, this came on the heels of a Golf commentator suggesting that a viable way to stop Golfs protagonist Tiger Woods was to lynch him.

Besides the ancillary verbiage this instance of bigotry has wrought, the most comfortable, which main stream hypocrisy has settled on, is , the actions of Golfweek has presented a medium for a national discussion on lynchings, nooses, and racism.

Now this proposal ridiculously expects the Black condition to be just as ditsy as the commentator whose words thrust and shoved Golfweek on to a shelf besides all the other Gone With The Wind and Bell Curve works of the colossal idealism that is Racism in all it's excuses.

Discussion? A national discussion on lynching? Now if this isn't the recourse of minds steeped in extreme fear, the terror of what the victims of American Bigotry have as the legitimate natural justifiable right to, then what sort of adding insult to injury is the supposedly well thought response by serious minds that the response to bigotry is a discussion?

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Martin Luther King Jr. irrelevant to Civil Rights: Hillary Clinton Whines

Punch drunk and reeling, stupefied and thrashing, Hillary Clinton is exhibiting the classic symptoms of idealism gone awry in the worst way. We have been hostaged for a while now to the obscenity of the Old Guard Democrats with that practice of the Democratic Elite purporting to speak for the Democratic Rank and File while compromising it's interest. Which brings us to this interesting phenomenon of crying as political activity and Hillary being it's proponent.

Now if this is all there was it would be relegated to the fabric of historical farces.

In response to Barack Obama's indestructible Change platform, Hillary Clinton with one sweep of her flabby arms declared that Martin Luther King Jr. was inconsequential to the Civil Rights reality of American Politics and the destruction of Jim Crow.

Clintonism in it's Hillary form revealed itself to be what the history of White Liberalism has more often than not, turned out to be when confronted with the very human and natural expression of Black ambition and determination, that snarl of how dare ambition and it's art be found in black skin in it's American condition. So it's not surprising that fighting for her political life, Hillary Clinton, instinctively found solace in that one and only critique' White Liberals wield against Blacks who dare challenge their Liberalism and privilege of race. "She had no qualms in trampling all over the "I have a Dream" Martin Luther King Jr. as evoked by her political mortal adversary Barack Obama.

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Profiling and the joke is on stereotype

Before philistine Profiling, the phrase of choice was stereo-type and
stereo-typing. in post Reagan United States, it's now profiling. When welded with seeming conscientious purpose it assumes social responsibility hence redemption from it's supposed maligned shelf of bigotry---and all the "good" people rest on their laurels, sanctimoniously, of having fought the good fight with their marginalized and suppressed compatriots, that another bridge to the charnel plains of mans barbarity has been burned--- that when it thrives in it's new guise, it's insidiously unrecognized, Profiling and the joke is on stereotype.

Reaction, across the nation has repackaged that old weapon stereo-type into it's more charismatic sibling, profiling, Culture and habits are "profiled" criminal and deviant and we acquiesce to it's intent: and we speak of the ends justify the means, hence collaborating with the very zeitgeist we "pray" to overcome on other fronts, this mechanism which finds the underprivileged and scape-goated as statistics in a reality not defined by their ability or lack of , but by the dreams and fears of another.

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Racism, Arthur Blank and the Atlanta Falcons

Arthur Blank the Atlanta Falcons football team owner in response to a question on the December 10th, 2007; Monday night football game made one of the classic racist off-color jokes about Black people and fried chicken. Arthur Blank said If Michael Vick, the imprisoned Atlanta Falcons Quarter Back, didn't eat too much fried chicken while in prison, blah,blah,blah------The reality is Arthur Blank said it.

Arthur blank has been white and American long enough to know that fried chicken and black people jokes is part of the racist wink and nod. To imply otherwise, as a statement released by the Atlanta Falcons Team in damage control, that it's preposterous for any one to note the bigotry of Blank's off-color remark, considering Blank does a lot for black causes, not only adds insult to injury but it highlights how the Blank's of the world don't get it. What is preposterous is Arthur Blank is so accustomed to off-color and racist jokes that the inanity of one was his only metaphor, an inept and bumbling attempt at gallows humor at the expense of one's misfortune and his purported gentility.

Racist jokes albeit jokes continue the dehumanization process material racism pursues.

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Competition, The Human Condition and Irrationality

The competitive imperative within Political-Economical Theorization implies that the means through which life recreates itself, is not uniformly distributed, hence, the human condition in pursuit of recreating the necessary and vital means for existence and survival, must compete for that which is available.

Competition thus, then exist in the realm of the impelled, an irrational response to the lack of uniformity or better put, the inability of the human condition to attain uniform availability of condition requisite for existence and survival.

This state of nature anticipates that ability to recreate uniformly that which in nature is non-uniform--- and this refutes the mantra of competition as political tendency.

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Sleight of Hand, Bush, The C.I.A., One-upmanship and the Democrats

Are we expected to accept it's coincidental the significant disclosures that Iran discontinued the weaponization of it's nuclear program back in 2003 and the destruction of video tapes of C.I.A. interrogations dating back to 2005, just normally and naturally occurred in the course of the daily affairs of the Republic in the altruistic logic of governance.

Were it not for the fact the altruistic insidiousness of governance has been quite revealed over the course of human history and the United States in it's brief existence has assiduously contributed it's share. Nothing then would be amiss were we the populace to stand in Rockwellian Profile bowled over applauding governance and it's functionality.

But that is not the case. We stand on a construct which from it's inception with defiance "All men are created equal" mocked the obscene truth that the stench of slavery, black people held in chattel slavery were the foundation for the pursuit of happiness, the prosperity requisite to once again cut off the nose to spite the face of redemptive sapience from the alienation of idealism.

The Bush Administration, Neo-Conservatism and it's Evangelical-Christian hypocrisy had been chomping at the bit till it was disclosed that it's claims against the Iranian Nuclear Program was propaganda. An oppositionary impetus for whatever reason reversed earlier held views and the specter of World War III which Bush had with straight face claimed the Iranian Ayatollahs had designed for the world fizzled and morphed into the strange and peculiar revelation that the C.I.A. had destroyed tapes of it's interrogation of suspects, strangely enough attention was diverted from the Bush propaganda of a nuclearized Iran by the C.I.A. tapes, torture disclosures.

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Neo-Conservatism and Islamic Imperialism, A Dialectic

It's always laughable when Al Qaeda is propped up as being past masters of Terrorism in the context of political action. Are they even talking about the same Al Qaeda who we are told in daily taps blowing news reels that Sunnis in parts of Iraq have run aground? Is this the same Al Qaeda that cannot even seize and hold territory? Is this the same Al Qaeda whose Ideological contradictions is so buffoonish that the substance of it's Political-Economy, it's value comes from it's enemies?

How real is the Caliphate specter, Islamic Imperialism painted by Bush and Co. in the recent edition of The Boy Who Cried Wolf one too many times, when the Islamicist enemy cannot even hold down a neighborhood in Baghdad. Yet if Neo-Conservatism is to be believed Islamic Imperialism is a strategic equal to it's Free-Enterprise Dictatorship sibling.

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Compassionate Conservatism and Steroids

Whats wrong with this.

George Bush had the temerity in two accounts. First as owner of a baseball team and secondly as a President in declaring the indictment of Barry Bonds a "sad day for baseball."

The pronouncement accomplished one thing, reinforcing human idiocy in the context of hypocrisy on a Texas sized grand scale. George Bush first as an owner of a baseball team, the Texas Rangers, was part of the steroid producing fabric which by the way created the entertaining spectacle Bush now derides as a sad day for baseball. Secondly as President, Bush abridged the will of the people in the matter of U.S. vs Scooter Libby which was all about perjury.

Scooter Libby was convicted in a matter of national security, specifically putting a C.I.A. agent in harms way.

Whats further unwholesome about the Scooter Libby incident is Men, privileged men without any hesitation decided a woman, Valerie Plame was fair game.

Bush never pronounced that was a sad day in U.S. affairs, he didn't tongue in cheek declare it a sad day for the human condition. Bush instead, by decree decided Scooter Libby's felonious malfeasance was excusable.

Should the issue of steroids even be a Bush Administration social policy concern and priority when 2 million human-beings fill up U.S. jails and prisons? It causes one to wonder, besides reactionary demagoguery what world view Bush and Co. truly have.

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