Why Mayor Corey Booker Is Wrong Or Was It A Gambit To Present The Bain Investment Question Lethally

On the 5/20/12; Meet The Press, Mayor Corey Booker criticized both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney campaigns for negative attacks and Mayor Corey Booker naively or in  fait accompli appeasement gambit to seem statesman like and reenergize the Bain Investment question, compared the Barack Obama campaigns scrutiny of Mitt Romney's work at Bain Investment (a private equity firm) to Republican-Conservatism/Tea Partyism hints to resurrect the Rev. Wright controversy against Obama.

Mayor Cory Booker is wrong because he naively fell for the Romney and Republican narrative that attacking Romney's work at Bain Investment is an attack on private equity in general.  But as a gambit to present the Bain Investment question lethally it was classically ingenious.

Romney and Republican-Conservatism/Tea Partyism recognize their weakness on the Bain Investment question so instead of aggressively defending Bain Investment as a singularity, Romney and Republican-Conservatism/Tea Partyism hope to by expanding the Bain question to private equity in general, passive-aggressive anticipate the eager beaver naivete of the likes of Mayor Corey Booker with his inchoate grasp of polemics.  But as gambit, well suited as Trojan Horse to prepare the environment for the sharp and politically mature attacks from the Obama campaign.  It is simple without Booker, Obama wouldn't have had the opportunity to use the NATO platform to distill the campaign's Bain attacks.

The nations national-economy since the first Reagan administration has been eviscerated by the resurgent activity of certain mediocre minds and enabled by the George W. Bush administration.  Who unable to swim in the shark infested canyons of Wall St. chose a more even bet of buying underperforming and undervalued companies, dismembering them specifically for profit, to maximize returns on their principal investment---just as Slave Masters during Slavery some of these private equities were less destructive on the national economic landscape than others.

Bain Investment under the stewardship of Romney fell in the more destructive column and considering the fact Romney has the gall to claim his Bain activities were primarily job creating in his quest for the Presidency.  The Obama campaign is correct in scrutinizing Romney's Bain work and as a gambit it is lethally ingenious to present the Bain question as a Mayor Corey Booker blooper.

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John Avalon and Political-Economy Illiteracy, Facebook More Valuable Than McDonald's

John Avalon is corporate media tame and corporate America domesticated and his ignorance and Political-Economy illiteracy was in evidence and on full display on the 5/18/12; CNN StartingPoint with Soledad O'Brien.  When during an interview on Facebook's IPO and Stock valuation, John Avalon uttered the infamous and we paraphrase: Why should Facebook's stock be more valuable than McDonald's (Fast food).

John Avalon wasn't laughed at and ridiculed out of CNN studios which is also quite telling of the unfathomable depths of American Political-Economy illiteracy when a serious  socio-political commentator as John Avalon can be so revealing naive and is not corrected.

By the way the answer to John Avalon's question is simple: where does America spend more time, is it under the Golden Arches of Mcdonald's or the omniscience of their Facebook pages?  America and the rest  of the world have spoken and continued to say that Facebook is infinitely more valuable than Mcdonald's because their time and more of it, their life is spent with it.

If John Avalon does not get this basic point about value, what then is his authority to speak matters of the Human Condition which is all about value and it's objectification?

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Socio-Political Commentary, Sports Commentators, Analyst, Writers and The Ethnic and Class Bias Prism

Okay! I'm a cynic.  I don't accept the proposition that in an ideology-challenged Political-Economy as we have in the United States.  There can be and exist socio-political commentary and analysis that is not a reflection of the commentators alienation and a result of their suppositionary biases.
For example if 90% of sports commentators, analyst and writers are White and 95% of their subjects and objective of their work are Black.  Why should we ignore the reality that the sum of the work of those sports commentators, analyst and writers as is presented to consumers is through the ethnic and class bias prism, notwithstanding human idealism and it's undisciplined pettiness?

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James Earl Jones, "Driving Miss Daisy", NBC's Kathie Lee Gifford and The Insidious Naivete Of Her Bigotry

On 2/2/11; while interviewing the accomplished icon James Earl Jones about the Broadway version of "Driving Miss Daisy" and his role in it.  NBC's Kathie Lee Gifford made the addled observation that the content of "Driving Miss Daisy" it's subject matter, is so "powerful" that it could be from and I paraphrase today's news headlines.
Poor James Earl Jones the totemic-surrogate of all that was pathetic and insane about "Driving Miss Daisy", when Morgan Freeman in it's Hollywood depiction reminded us of the Intellectual-Liberalism of segregation and it's Jim Crow barbaric futility is what NBC's Kathie Lee Gifford so piningly pronounced could be appreciated through news headlines of contemporary American society.

James Earl Jones had to sit there and wonder whether what he was being assaulted with was a result of Kathie Lee Gifford's delusion or the insidious naivete of her bigotry.

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CNN's Piers Morgan, Howard Schultz CEO of Starbucks, The 2012 Elections and Financial Redistribution

During a 3/21/12; interview on CNN's Piers Morgan Howard Schultz CEO of Starbucks critiqued the 2012 elections and it's supposed $6 billion price tag as a waste.  The critique was another rote refrain that money spent for political office and it's speculative power is a waste.

Coming from the CEO of a company Entrepreneur in it's April 2012 issue lauded as one of the 10 most trusted brands in the nation.  Howard Schultz's critique mocks the success of Starbucks and it is alarming in it's naivete.

If the 2012 elections will cost $6 billion.  What it means is $6 billion is being redistributed and contrary to the insidious illiteracy of financial redistribution as an un-Godly, un-American, Marxist scheme, finance (and Joe The Plumber listen up) worships at the alter of redistribution.  The $6 billion in question will immediately and primarily flow into Corporate Media (for ads and the relative means of disseminating political hook, line and sinkers) and the political consultancy industry.  This primary redistribution translates into.  A secondary one within the society impacting it's roots germanely.

Even though viscerally the idea that $6 billion is being spent in pursuit of speculative-power and it's Intellectual-Liberalism insults common sense.  It's critique lies with and is that of morality and it's relativism.

Corporate Media, it's share holders and ancillary support functionaries see a $6 billion boon.  The political consultancy industry sees a wind-fall and mom and pop eateries along the less traveled roads of battle-ground states are as those Nile Crocodiles lurking in African rivers on the bi-annual animal migrations: blacking out the red of the preceeding lean 3 years with what their take out and counter tops collect.

Considering Starbucks has been a beneficiary of election financial-transmigratory, redistribution and will be during the 2012 election and it's purported $6 billion tag.  It is ridiculously disingenuous for Howard Schultz CEO of Starbucks to critique financial redistribution so recklessly.



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Once Again, Circa Four More Years, The American Hopelessness

So Once again---it's on like days long gone but fresh to the memory raw.

America: it was land of the brave, home of the free---till creaky, rat infested ships made it's shore and lice borne, scurvy maddened, petty tyrannical minds breathed it's freshness and with sticky fingers and beady eye glee stole it clean.

So once again it's on like the song vote for me and I'll set you free.  Then the vote was stolen as it once was in Florida and the song blown naked in the air resurrecting "Southern Trees Bear Strange Fruit" gatherings of Tea Partiers damning Lincoln's legacy reposed in the Oval office.

And the sounds once again were made---from the braying donkey to the trumpeting elephant: it was foul, it was fair rang clear and hollow and the silence of the lands hopelessness was the loudest of them all---as eyes that hear, heard it all and insisted their ears had seen it all so what was the use.

So again, like days long gone but fresh to the memory raw instead of settling of accounts the land was abundant with it's forgiveness and understanding.  A forgiveness and understanding never given it when it's sons and daughters stand in the pale of those three strikes you are out,  no parole and mandatory and truth in sentencing laws.

And once again it's on---to feel the sting of the lash and guttural "get back, stay in your place" of the beady eyed smirk cunningly watching to see how well and true you understand that it's the Reagan-Democrat collaborationist, the delusional Independent, the  imbecilic Tea Partiers we will have to get gone if the land is to realize---by your abilities to the limitations of your expectations.

So once again---it's on like days gone but fresh to the memory raw circa four more years the American hopelessness.

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Black Men Dying, Justice, Society and The Memory of Trayvon Martin Killed By George Zimmerman

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We don't have any problem with Black Men dying, whether it's young or seasoned Black Men dying and death is natural and a fact in the general equation of existence.  What we do have a problem with is worthless death and senseless dying.  There has to be order to dying.  What we mean is the currency of life has to be spent in the most dear and exorbitant manner possible, meaning what is charged to spend life must then be the ultimate price to society.

Society demands that we pay the ultimate price which is our lives in an existence that is dictated and governed by circumstances and conditions the machinations of society brings into being---we must therefore respond with, if the proverbial deck as is won't to say is stacked against Black people particularly Black Men then society must, in turn, be held accountable for exacting it's ultimate charge so there will be a coming to terms with society, it's governing status quo and the farcial and hypocritical contention it utilizes in legitimizing it's terror.

Why must Black People, particularly Black Men tolerate the injustice of the American system and submit to its abuses?  If in theory, the issue of justice is a noble idea, one that well-fed and consent mainstream America in the bask of its well-fed bodies and content souls speculates in the abstract.  But in practice we the subjects experiencing its application encounter it not as a noble enrichment but as a draconian netherworld of catch 22's.  Where in that universal quest to feed our bodies and satisfy our souls we find it as draw-bridges the status quo collaborators draw up behind their retreating ample back sides as they consolidate and conserve their gains and spoils.  Why must we the objects of the abstraction continue to objectify the illusion by maintaining those relationships with the citadelist and their boot-lickers which results with us spending the currency of our lives cheaply and idiotically?

Why is the administration of a law and it's justice that does not reflect by taking into account the particularities of the Black Experience and condition in America accepted?  If we state that the system is in opposition to the development of Black determination in America why then is the injustice tacitly supported and legitimized by cooperating with it.  There isn't any middle ground.  We are either included in the American system and it's Political-Economy which is to mean we actively share in the spoils from it's exploits or we are defacto excluded from it's strategic intent which is also to mean we are the objects of it's imperative.

As men, our potential is either a stabilizer or de-stabilizer to the status of society.  As Black Men the potential is always seen as threatening to the stability of American society.  So why then must Black Men continue to allow and accept the influence and effects of a system that in practice prejudicially excludes Black Men from the substance of it's value?

The nature and reason for our behavior, the decisional choices determining and predicting actions in society are a result of the way we relate to the forces which are in existence due to the composition and structure of American society.  If we decry governmental attitudes towards us in all forms and fashions as being perceptual biases, based on a paranoid view that hold Black Men as the antithesis to the American strategic imperative, then why as we have already demanded do we give up our lives, spend the currency of our lives in ways that in principle and in deed convey the incredulity of our inability and reluctance to confront the reason why we exhibit the behavioural chaos which in consequence has us spending our lives cheaply?

In memory of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old teenager from Sanford, Florida.  Killed and murdered by George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012.

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The Cuban-American Narrative of Injustice, Comparing Fidel Castro To Adolph Hitler and Settling Accounts

So what exactly is the Cuban-American narrative of injustice?  Comparing Fidel Castro to Adolph Hitler as a linchpin in the  narrative is an insult.

If there is a Cuban-American narrative of injustice it is a misnomer.  Cuban-Americans laying claim to injustice at the hands of Fidel Castro is akin to the U.S. Army chiding the Sioux Nation for ambushing and slaughtering General Custer.

Cuba-Americans and their history is simply one of coming up short on the wrong side of a struggle which Fidel Castro won fair and square.  Cuban-Americans have no more or less a claim to Cuba than the Communist Party led Socialist status quo currently having it's day in the Cuban sun.

We close with: The Cuban-American narrative of injustice is the classic seething of the vanquished after a settlement of accounts and the Human Condition is a continuum of settling accounts.

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Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, Reaganism Political-Economy and Seeking To Squat Atop The Smoldering Ruins

Perennial Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney is in a peculiar dilemma, which is simply: What is Presidential leadership in American Political-Economy.

On the specific question of Health Care Reform, Mitt Romney is being boxed into the cowardly position of not only disavowing his contributions to the nations Health Care Reform as Governor of Massachusetts.  But Mitt Romney is negating the very idea of Presidential leadership in his quest as nominee for 2012 Republican Presidential candidate.

Presidential leadership is specifically telling 300 + million Americans that an idea is good, practical and progressive for the nation regardless of the academic "state rights" gambit which in practice is negated by the constitutional dicta recognizing intra-state laws nationally.

The political machinations of the modern Republican Party revealed by the demagoguery of its Intellectual-Liberalism has it anarchistically surrendering on all fronts of the practical aspects of Political-Economy.  So it finds itself represented by the likes of a Mitt Romney whose practice of Political-Economy is job cuts and managing the government bail out of the Utah Winter Olympics.

So what we are now witnessing in the 2012 campaign for Republican nominee is the death throes the logical conclusion to Republican-Conservatism/Tea Partyism-Reaganism Political-Economy which accelerated industrial disembowelment by speculative derivative leeching in the 1980's to the Credit Default Swap implosion of 2008 by Mitt Romney and his Baine investment henchmen who is now seeking to squat atop the smoldering ruins as president.

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Black American Radio, Politics, Polemical-Commentary On American Political-Economy and Injustice

Urban Radio, Black American Radio or Black Radio has to recognize it's historical opportunity and mature into seizing and performing the subsequent duty.
Continuing the parochial and niche "stay in your place" type of so-called speaking truth to power style of politics which is the Black Radio dynamic ends up limiting and dulling the sharpness of polemical-commentary necessary to present the Black American Experience full square, as a mature entity in American Political-Economy.  An entity with equal right and authority to comment and polemically question the totality of American Political-Economy.  This 360 panoramic, polemical vantage will speak to the antagonistic and contradictory root foundation of American Political-Economy.

For example on the question of Welfare and Government assistance, Black Radio can present the practice of farm subsidies which is a Political-Economy fact enjoyed predominantly by White farmers as a contextual contrast with general Welfare, which is maligned because of it's supposed Black American narrative to it's listeners thereby revealing a correct definition of Welfare and it's utility.

Our position is, if the Black American Experience is one of injustice, it is because of the inability to expand polemical-commentary on the totality of American Political-Economy beyond racism and race relations.  Black Radio is the practical medium best suited to reduce the inability.

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Mississippi Pardons, Anderson Cooper of CNN and Gov.Haley Barbour

So what exactly is it about the recent Mississippi Pardons  by Gov. Haley Barbour that offends Anderson Cooper of CNN so much that besides the obvious ratings driver it has impelled him to self-righteously rail against the pardons.

Issuing pardons are absolute authority exercises given the Executive Government of the nations state and federal leadership. It is absolute as the authority of a signature on the death warrant of a condemned being led off to be executed and killed, which is also a function of Executive Government of the nations state and federal leadership.

Pardons are an expression of the hypocritical absolutes of the Human Condition.  A last gasp acknowledgement of the idealism of human presumptions. So it behooves the sensibilities why Anderson Cooper of CNN has been abusing the privilege of CNN Corporate Media platform to self-righteously rail and criticize the Mississippi pardons by Gov. Haley Barbour.

The Human Condition is one continuum of pardons, objectively and subjectively. Whether or not Anderson Cooper of CNN understands and recognizes this organic fact is irrelevant.What is relevant is human beings were granted pardons and the issuer Gov. Haley Barbour is quite capable of depending the pardons.

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The Republican-Conservatism/Tea Partyism Message For the 2012 Presidential Election and Conservatism Under All Circumstances Is Opposed To Progress

The Republican-Conservatism/Tea Partyism message for the 2012 Presidential Election is formulated anticipating that the national high unemployment rate will mitigate and conceal it's reactionary and revisionary nature.  Because as the Human Condition teaches, Conservatism under all circumstances is opposed to progress.

The Republican-Tea Party Conservative message that the 2012 Presidential election is a referendum on President Barack Obama's policies casually ignores the reality, that the United States type of governance is not procedurally a dictatorship.  (it is a dictatorship in other Political-Economy realities)

So the question is if the Republican-Conservatism/Tea Partyism message is to be treated seriously and objectively and if Barack Obama's policies have failed it also speaks to and exposes the procedural realities that the other two branches of United States governance have also failed in their Constitutional obligation.

But history cannot see Conservatism as a serious and objective world view.  So it goes to say that Republican-Conservatism/Tea Partyism is just another three card Monte distraction in the employ of hearts and minds stuck in the fear and hatred of progress and despite it's historical destructiveness on the Human Condition it is a simple irrelevance.

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Timothy Dolan, The Roman Catholic Church Institution, Child Rape, Child Sex Abuse, Deviancy and the Human Condition

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New York's Roman Catholic Church Institution Prince, Timothy Dolan's response to the evils of child rape and child sex abuse by the Roman Catholic Church Institution.  It's Priest and cabal.

By beseeching society's sympathy and forgiveness with the logic (and we paraphrase) that all aspects, facets of human society are plagued with the scourge of child rape and child sex abuse, as a mitigating argument which in it's base reduction:  says everyone does it so the Roman Catholic Church Institution should not be singled out, is nothing less than criminal, reactionary and backwards.

The Roman Catholic Church Institution with idealistic specific presumptions is the last human social institution that should claim the adamic curse as mitigation.

If the Human Condition is predicated by sexual intercourse and science as the only means of the existence of the human species.  And if the Roman Catholic Church Institution perverts sexual intercourse and science by not only requiring it's Priest and cabal, counter to it's pro life demagoguery, to maintain a state of celibacy.  Why should the Human Condition and society tolerate the ensuing sexual deviancy of child rape and child sex abuse by the Roman Catholic Church Institution?

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Hypocrites, Reactionaries, Revisionists---Thy Name is Republican-Conservatism / Tea Partyism

To the Hypocrites, the naive, the Machiavellian, the insidious, the gullible illiterates, the reactions, the backwards and revisionists who never pass up on an opportunity to reinvent the wheel---Thy Name is Republican-Conservatism/Tea Party

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Condoleezza Rice, American Race Relations, Slavery and White American Sensibilities

The argument raised by Condoleezza Rice on the 11/27/11; Face The Nation that contemporary American race relations are positive , as evidenced by the Barack Obama Presidency and the fact
Black people are sprinkled through out American socio-economic strata, misses the point.

The race relations factor in American life has nothing to do with the socio-economic placement of Black people.  At the height of American chatter slavery of Black people, slave owners and the institution of American slavery entrusted extremely significant aspects of their Political-Economy and social facts to Black slaves.

The question for American race relations is simple; will the answer be distilled to the basic:  The contemporary Black person is capable of good and evil as a White person and this simply means the withering away and annihilation of presuppositions practiced by the base of White American sensibilities.

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CNN's Anderson Cooper, Slick Suited Syrian Politicos, Republicans, Conservatives, Tea Party Stooges and Open Political Action

During a 9/13/11; Thomas Friedman interview on CNN's AC 360; Anderson Cooper expressed how infuriated he gets interviewing slick suited Syrian politicos who brazenly lie about the nature of open political action in Syria.

This revelation by CNN's Anderson Cooper is hypocritical.  Because where is this infuriation, when night in and night out, Anderson Cooper permits and enables Republicans, Conservatives, Tea Party stooges to spew out disinformation, lies, propaganda, and revisionist history as contemporary political narrative and Political-Economy critique?  If CNN's Anderson Cooper argues that Syrian open political action is a murderous affair.  American Political-Economy and it's reactionary narrative spewed out by republicans, conservatives, Tea Party stooges is equally genocidal in all facets of the American Human Condition.

It is always convenient to thumb ones nose at those "others".  Those Syrian barbarians, whose slick suited lies infuriates Anderson Cooper while pathetically failing to once and for all report on and expose the tangled web of insidiousness which is the United States, Israel, France and Russia's role in Syrians affairs.  To do this however would be asking too much of Anderson Cooper considering his historical allegiance and role.

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Facts of Political-Economy, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Democrats and "Economic Opportunity"

If there is a fundamental and encompassing critique to be levied against forward thinkers, progressive thought, Democrats and the Democratic Party is this: The inability and lack of polemical will to define emphatically and correctly facts of Political-Economy.

Lets take for example perennial and professional candidate Mitt Romney and his line of attack against Barack Obama and Democrats, that Barack Obama and Democrats have abridged "Economic Opportunity" in the nations Political-Economy.

Now were Democrats and the Democratic Party to challenge Mitt Romney and Republican-Conservatism/Tea Party on that line of attack with the simple definitive correction that "economic Opportunity" in the general sense is always realized in the most chaotic and unstable of economic environments and Political-Economy. The nations political discourse would mature and political power would actually pursue redemptive progress at the expense of the pomp and circumstance of Speculative-Political power which is the consequence of the Intellectual-Liberalism of Mitt Romney's Republican-Conservatism/Tea Party thought.

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Privacy, The Internet Age, Social Networking and Poppy Harlow a CNN Reporter

The question of privacy and personal information in the Internet Age and Social Networking is much ado about populism, alienation and the exploitation of speculative-value.

Poppy Harlow a CNN reporter recently illustrated the supposed antagonisms of privacy and the Internet by having aspects of her personal history and privacy aggregated by a company that values by exploiting the suppositions.

The question of privacy and personal information as it is formulated in the Internet age and social networking is simply as explanation of a fact of the Human Condition that has always existed.  The difference now is simply a contextual one.  Specifically, the Internet and it's democratization of means now enables anyone to access what was once restricted to governments and entities with resources and means.  A critique of the Internet as antagonistic towards privacy issues is idealistic and when advanced by the likes of Poppy Harlow of CNN is farcial.

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Juan Williams, FOX News and the Fraudulent and Phony Narrative That Gov. Rick Perry Is A Job Creator

Image via WikipediaAs much as Apropos The Blog is against the Intellectual-Liberalism of the likes of Juan Williams and his FOX News Republican-Conservatism cohorts.  We chuckled at Juan Williams obvious distress during the 8/28/11; Chris Wallace on FOX News show at Juan Williams inability to get the point across that the narrative of Republican-Conservatism/Tea Partyism contender Gov. Rick Perry of Texas as a job creator is fraudulent and phony. By Apropos

CNN, ABC News Which is FOX News Lite, 700,000 A Month Lay Offs and The 2010 Health Care Reform

If CNN and ABC News which is FOX News Lite will make the Republican-Conservatism/Tea Party argument that the 2011; 9% rise in health Care cost to Business owners, as a result of the 2010 health Care Reform Law signed by President Barack Obama is a fundamental cause for the nations unemployment problem.
Then consumers of CNN and ABC News which is Fox News Lite should demand explanation for the 700,000 a month lay offs and catastrophic job losses of 2008; subsequently, proceeding and long before the existence of the 2010 Health Care Reform Law.

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