Getunvarnished.com, Peer Review and On Demand Identity Disclosure

To the critics of getunvarnished.com: Criticism, peer review and the currency of accountability in it's nuanced variegation is the quintessence of the Human Condition and it's socialization medium.

Humans have criticized each other in the purest form since the evolution of society.  Whether it's that first beta-class cave man gossiping about the short-comings, yet envious of the alpha-class male of the clan.  Or critique of  the very state of "being" through competition even to it's biological "survival of the fittest".  So the formalization of peer review and critique which getunvarnished.com presents is another mile-stone in the inexorable march towards the realization and redemption of the human being.

Are there opportunities for abuse by those petty tyrants and reactionary minds who function at the expense of the sapient potential of their humanness is always to be expected.

What getunvarnished.com can and should responsibly do is require on demand identity disclosure.

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Organ Donors, Bigotry and Reaction

Why should people ever become Organ Donors and donate their organs in a society where the operative is Bigotry and Reaction, to possible recipients of those organs who are motive force proponents of societies cankerous reaction and anti-progress backwardsness.

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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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Public Schools, Intermediary Education, Desegregation and Busing

The question of the nations Public Schools, K-12 Intermediary education is a social problem primarily because of desegregation and the consequence of busing.  If Public Schools are a conundrum, it became a contextual problem within the reactionary motive of segregationist hold-outs, elitist Fancy's and sympathizers who "Gone With the Wind" and "Birth of a Nation" are their moral denominator.

If Public Schools at the intermediary level are failing, which in most cases they are.  It has nothing to do with the Idea of Public Schooling, but the debate incredulously approaches the question as if it is.

From the Home Schooling Charter schools and voucher gambits as solution.  The noise in the education debate has always tended to pillory the idea and practice of Public Schooling at the intermediary level, which as polemics did not exist prior to desegregation and busing.

The question of the nations Public Schools Intermediary education has now matured to this comedy of horrors spectacle that the notion, there is Conservative and Liberal education is articulated as if it is worthy of rigorous synthesis.

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Deficit Spending is Deficit Spending Irrelevant of Purpose

If the purported effects of Deficit Spending are an economical bane as we are constantly reminded by those who ridiculously equate Grandma's money under her mattress or the Barney Fife-like family budget with macro-scale Political-Economy of nations.

If such effects are independent of purpose, meaning Deficit Spending is Deficit Spending irrelevant of purpose and massive amounts of Deficit Spending are accepted for Wars and the Industrial-Military complex.Then massive amounts of Deficit Spending should also be accepted for a War on Poverty and a War on Unemployment.

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Corporate Media and Islamic Radical Nihilism

There is this unexplored dynamic of Islamic radical nihilism by Corporate Media of the War on Terror circumstance.  Why is the terror imperative and it's Islamic radical opportunistic nihilism application utterly impotent in North Africa, and the Middle East?  Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria,Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan, Chad Niger and Nigeria have clearly kept Islamic radicalism at bay.

Every Islamic national status quo worthy of it's dictatorship has kept Islamic radical nihilism at bay.  So why is the United States singularly and it's dictatorship of Speculative Value behaving as it Islamic radicalism is the second coming of the Third Reich efficiency and innovative supremacy, requiring revisionist styled Colonial campaigns, down to the Khaki Dun affection of empire, the "White Mans Burden" and it's fancy?

Comically and complicity Corporate Media has been abjectedly silent on this fact.

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The Politics of Asterisk and Steroids in Sports

So the Saint Louis Cardinals Home Run meister Mark McGwire, a poster child for the politics of asterisk in sports but on the other hand purportedly representing the innocence and innocence lost of the heartland and it's Gothic.  Has flagellated himself before the nation and hubris of the likes of USA Today's Christine Brennan, the self-assumed gate keeper of ethics and morality in sports with the confessional spectacle, that he partook of sports forbidden fruits, steroids and human growth hormone.

The question of performance enhancement which is the pedestrian criticism against steroids and it's class of chemistry.  Fits perfectly with that least and base level of intellectual activity, where we find likes of War on Drugs, War on Poverty, War on Crimes and mother of all, War on Terrorism.  With the fact, the performance enhancement charge and criticism which apoplectically is only reserved for steroids and it's critical convenience on the socio-periodic table of selective criticism is at home with a sort of revisionary resentment and jealousy, where responses and reactions have nothing to do with the original agitating cause.

The steroid question is firstly and purely a political one.  A relic of the Cold War Era.  When the U.S. in the flailing throes of defeat after another at the hands of the Warsaw Pact and it's superior chemist who knew how to transform East German Frauleins into superbeings worthy of Third Reich Lore, decried it's use.  But whatever the motive-merits of it's proscription, the critique performance enhancement has lapsed into an absurd quixotic comedy.

Can there be competition when it's qualification isn't similarities but dissimilarities, which is what the steroid debate ask of us.  For example if it is proven that biologically, Usain Bolt, Lance Armstrong to name a few are physiological freaks shouldn't their accomplishments succumb to the politics of asterisk?  Why not, they are biologically unfairly advanced, yet we laud their triumphs.

The question is would the original Greek Olympic athlete and those historical Warrior-Athletes of humanities diverse tribes and nations had found affinity with whatever performance enhancement edge chemistry, steroids provided?

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Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and Sarah Palin Heard Wagner

There is a relative Republican-Conservatism consensus that Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize lecture was some sort of "Liberal" epiphany.  There was even the quintessential archetype for crass illiteracy and philistinism, Sarah Palin chiming in that her book "Going Rogue" she speaks about the fallen nature of man.

One has to really wonder what exactly is going on with the collective intellect of some of our fellow humans?

Barack Obama in the process of receiving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize expounds on the commonsensical pedestrian notion of "What is a Just a War" and the idealistic fancy of  "What is Evil" and it enables reactionaries of all stripes to claim vindication as if the simplistic reality of common defense is also War mongering by another name.

Republican-Conservatism in it's perpetual juvenile glee as it pursues it's I told you so, philosophical exploitation of human shortcomings.  Has lost sight and track of what is War and the common defense.  This raises this crucial point, save for the Republican Party under Lincoln's leadership, Republicans practically have been all bluster on common defense.

 Barack Obama as if in response to Tolstoyian Pacifism strode on the stage of contradictions, of which the endowment of the prize itself is borne on the industry of War and it's incendiary elements and spoke of a just War and Sarah Palin heard Wagner.

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Black Teens, Imagination, The City of Detroit and Not an Impotent Degree from Spelmans and Morehouse

To the Black community: Where are Black teens on innovation and entrepreneurship?  Where is the major monetization of trends, habits and facts of Black Urban Culture?  Instead of the stale and practical-irrelevancy of go to college and stop the violence idealistic impotence, Black teens should be urged to find creative and ingenious manners of capitalizing on ideas which in turn becomes the lattice jump off for Black economic infrastructural development.

The City of Detroit is a text book case.  Detroit since the 1970's has been for all practical purposes a Black city, with it's abundance of Black teens.  It is an outrage that Black economic dynamism is hubbled, shackled to the "I Have a Dream", the McDonald's Black History month Big Mac pitch celebration, "I Am Somebody" template which Detroit is its eye-sore.

The constant criminalization of Black teens manners of expression whether by well intended or insidious craftiness is a canker that must be exorcised.  Black teen expressions should be allowed as all other cultures do their youth, with margins for failure and triumph.  Black teens should be tasked with developing their imagination and enabled to imagine and the forgiven environment of support when such is at odds.

The objective environment, notwithstanding it's many contradictions and antagonisms should not only become an experience of sanction to the Black teen.  But it is dynamic, creative life, the world and the first and foremost tool required and necessary to lay claim is imagination and not impotent degree from Spelman and Morehouse.

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Von Clausewitz, War on Terror, Israel as Model and the Cynicism of the Premise

Notwithstanding the Clausewitzian axiom of War being politics expressed, as outlines by the Prussian military theoretician Von Clausewitz.  The calculus practiced during the Bush Administration and continued by the Obama  Administration in it's War on Terror interaction with Al Qaeda, the Taliban and a certain contextual Jihadist perspective, Stands and turns politics on it's head.

Nothing will be gained, nothing is to be gained.  Supporters of this adventurism have cynically suggested that Iraq will be the Israel of the Arab and Islamic world.  Which only goes to show how naive and blinded they are by the suppositions of the Neo-Conservative narrative.

Israel shouldn't be anybody's model.  A nation consistently hounded by the footsteps of the Grim Reaper and undertakers is no ones model and it's premise has nothing to do with the affirmation of life.  A country in the business of building walls erecting barriers while life affirmation requires the destruction of barriers Highlighted as a model only reveals the cynicism of the premise.

"Broken Government", Walmart Supremacy and the Demise of The Nations Labor Unions

Contrary to the "Broken Government" hysteria being whipped up by number of sources in pursuit of their own interest, the U.S. government is not broken.

Do I have to list all the functioning practical aspects of government?  From the Department of Defense, it's prosecution  of multi-dimensional War, the requisite logistical wizardry and it's symbiotic nurture of the Industrial-Military complex to the guaranteed entitlements of Social-Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the various industrial and agricultural welfare programs.

The situation in Washington and across state governments has nothing to do with the hysterical and hyperbolic construct "Broken Government".  But it has everything to do with philosophical differences between the nations major political tendencies, specifically Democratic-Progressive and Republican-Conservatism and the parasitic pursuit of speculative power within the opportunity of government as medium.

But it goes a bit deeper than squabbles of political and historical revisions.  The seeming philosophical differences speaks more of a type of naivete and illiteracy which in itself is a result and function of the nations industrial transformation while neglecting to transform the interacting Political-Economic nexus of Value Speculation and it's production.  To understand the nations political activity look no further than the Walmart Supremacy and the demise of the nations Labor Unions.

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Republican-Conservatism, Virginia's Bob McDonnell's $700 Million Education Budget Cut and Yes Your Kids are Expendable

Besides all the sorts of "I told you so" I can and should smirkingly deliver to the Virginian idiots who like Sisyphus never seem to understand that the Republican-conservative brand and it's idea of Human Political-Economy is status quoism and this 2009 November past voted for the sprayed, stiffened hair of Bob McDonnell, the tax cuts and less government gambit of Republican-Conservatism.

Stop whining that the glossy faced, spray stiffened hair of the Republican Bob McDonnell who you Lemming-like voted for is doing exactly what his reactionary, Republican-ideology demands and requires of him.

Yes Bob McDonnell is cutting $700 million from public education because your kids are expendable in the Republican-Conservative model of Political-Economy and it's practice.

Yes Bob McDonnell is instead allocating fund to reopen highway rest areas.  so your uneducated and functionally illiterate kids because of Bob McDonnell's budget cuts,will now waylay and as highway desperado's commit all sorts of felonious activities on unsuspecting tourist and rest area users.  Which will then in turn affirm that other theology of Republican-Conservatism,  law and order.  When your shellacked and stupefied kids are imprisoned and pogromized in the Old Dominion's gulag of concertina razor and electrified fences.

You love the siren-like woo of tax cuts and less government.  So live with the reality that to Republican-Conservatism, if government is off, for and by the people then the less government logic and it's consequence is always pointedly clear.  Less government simply means less People. Less people with a stake, an interest, less people to compete with, less people needing the basic tools to function stabily in that Reaganesque mocked and tarnished "shining city on a hill".  So is it then difficult to understand and inconceivable to see why the Republican-Conservative Governor of Virginia Bob McDonnell would and will propose and suggest slashing $700 million from the education budget?

Your kids in his eyes are expendable.  Less of them are necessary to realize the status quoistic objectives of Republican-Conservatism status quoism.  So Virginia's fifth column of idiots who at every turn and march of progress can be counted upon to undermine it.  Voted for the Republican Bob McDonnell in the November 2009 gubernatorial elections so their dimwitted elitist aspirations will at it's expense bespeak of the Adamic Curse:  From the Sweat of Thy Brow.

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