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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Hugging banned by schools.

It makes you wonder how anyone born pre late 1980's and kid-proof homes, physical exercise cut from schools and all the other you get an A+ for self esteem nonsense survived.

Is there any yarn unwound retracing the way out of this labyrinth? In this age where cultural differences among people is explained away as genetic fact by delusional elitist on
Charlie Rose---Schools across the 50's now ban hugging among students.

Sam McGowan the superintendent at Mascoutah Middle School after suspending 8th grader Megan Coulter for hugging her classmates, defended the policy and action with the conclusion "Hugging can lead to something else."

I wonder if this is Solomonic Wisdom or Philistine reaction?

Nah!! Philistine Reaction!

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Aw shucks naivete and Musharraf's Pakistan

A few weeks ago, scampering Benazir Bhutto, big business anointee to play the role of opposition in Pakistan politics returned to Pakistan after what had obviously been a brokered experiment, to the welcoming violence of an assassins bomb. Which narrowly missed her but accomplished another possibility the evidence of a topical imperative that had nothing to do with suppositions of business as usual and sphere of influence politics.

The conventional wisdom then among self-proclaimed experts real politick past masters, was the usual hapless bogeyman, Al Qaeda was behind the blast and attempted assassination. The probability that the Cabal of Musharraf, the current Pakistan Military Dictator could have been behind the convenience of the bombing was not explored in any serious manner. Whether this failure was deliberate disinformation of mere analytical liberalism is left to be seen. What is known is the babble tweaking ears of apathy is, Pakistan is a U.S. ally in the global war on terrorism so analysis of events must be reduced to basic Aw Shucks Naivete.

Developments of the past days, bus loads of Pakistani intelligentsia Judge, Lawyers, Journalist being driven off to detention and torture centers, in response to the imposition of Martial Law by Musharraf and his Cabal is now revealing that it fits. if Musharraf is willing to go down the draconian and tumultuous route of Martial Law then the inference comes easy that the bombing which welcomed Bhutto was the easy logic and Al Qaeda fulfilling it's Oswaldian role easy to blame.

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Mile High Club and the A380

Didn't the puritans on their wretched Mayflowers have carnal knowledge of their wives during the miserable passage of their sailings to Plymouth Rock? So why should the possibility of passengers on the A380, the world's largest commercial plane, in the privacy of cubicles having sex arouse so much ire, huffing, puffing and denouncements of immorality.

Or is this just another example of critical jealousy , the idea of competitor airlines losing out.

Singapore Airlines is being criticized for having private cubicles on A380's it operates. Critics claim passengers will have sex. So? And if access to the Mile High Club is made so convenient only hypocrites and jealous competitor airline executives who didn't think of the idea can have the gall to express outrage. This criticism against Singapore Airlines is tantamount to Victoria Secret being blamed for adultery.

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Ode to Navy, Midshipmen win.

For 43 years of defeat the Midshipmen of Navy Gnashed their teeth and spat out turf in their bows from the cleats of those insufferable Northerners! The fighting Irish of Notre Dame.

Till Saturday 11/3/07; a triple over-time classic even with a late questionable and inexcusable call by a zebra attempting to hyper warp destiny, the 2007 Navy team prevailed. Giving Notre Dame a taste of turf flavored with navy cleats, winning 46-44 over the haughty Irish whom even in defeat had a hard time acknowledging the iconic event it was.

Charlie Weis, Note Dame's coach in true petty fashion understated what had become a rite of passage for Notre Dame teams a win over Navy, when he stated during his post gave interview that he didn't even acknowledge Notre Dame's 43 year old winning streak over Navy. A Backhanded attempt at ridiculing Navy's historic accomplishment.

Navy! Give charlie another post game squirm, when you hand him his face in 2008 win!

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Bill Richardson, The Vice-Presidency and the end game gambit.

Come on Bill Richardson, you haven't conceded in your quest for the Democratic nomination for President. But sucking up to Hillary during the 10/30/o7; debates at Philadelphia when she was rightfully and correctly being attacked was your Gerber moment. Sucking up to Hillary and the Clinton machine whose zeal for the Presidency is simply Office for the sake of Office, because if Bill Clinton, the husband couldn't realize whatever ideas they had in 8 years as President, Why then should anyone think Hillary has any real direction of which way forward through the morass of this albatross strangle of archaic Colonial and Neo-Colonial Political-Economy foisted the Walmart way? Bill Richardson can calculate all he wants to for the Vice-Presidential slot, but his characterization of the sort of political-action displayed by Obama, Edwards, and Dodd against Hillary during the debate as mud slinging or negative politics is preposterous, and pathetic. But then it's his end-game gambit. By Apropos

Denzel Washington: American Gangster The Movie and sanctimonious sermonizing.

On 10/28/07; Denzel Washington made a point on the Matt Lauer hosted plug in on NBC for the biopic American Gangster, that he wasn't glorifying the life of the drug dealer Frank Lucas whose life was portraying in the movie.

What sanctimonious sermonizing . Who is Denzel Washington kidding? Or is it that historical onus, that when the issue is the Black Experience , ( American Gangster is about A Black drug dealer) The human condition Has to be examined from the perspective of misery loves company, so all the enfeebled minds who have no idea of the contradictions defining the progress of the Human Condition, can engorge on the senseless satisfaction that I'm morally good and they are basely wrong. But the Consequence of this reality is as it's always been, the status quo irrespective of mask maintain the alienation necessary for their survival.

If Denzel Washington feels that strongly about his affiliation with a movie, which I'm quite sure he's being well compensated for--- What are his plans for his take?

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Jack Croddy's Lament: Assignment Baghdad, A death sentence.

Where is the Republican outcry, where is the Conservative outrage??

Why is the land so quiet with the din from all those who equated any sort of critique of the Republican led, Bush Iraq War fiasco --- I can't hear you---Over this bizarre spectacle, State Department employees squealing protest, wetting and pissing in their foggy bottom diapers in opposition to the proposed policy that they can be ordered to Iraq.

At a meeting on 10/31/07; Jack Croddy a State Department official had the temerity to squeal that an assignment to Baghdad was a "Potential Death Sentence".

Why should Jack Croddy's life be any more relevant than all those 19,20 and 21 year old lives sweating in their tin can Humvees on patrol, not in the barricaded luxurious coffins of the Green Zone but on the duty streets of Baghdad.

"Some are more equal"

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Standard Operating Procedure and Police Accountability

During the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi War Criminals, the victorious allies brushed aside the defense protestations that orders were simply being followed with the rejoinder, that certain orders are beyond the pale.

So why is that same dynamic alive and well in police departments across the nation. People are being killed and brutally beaten by police officers across the nation and after every incident, a police spokesperson is paraded across national jumbotrons uttering Standard Operating Procedure was used by the Siegfried in Question.

If Lessons learnt from all these episodes of the human condition are not to be seen simply within the dicta, organized violence makes the rules and human aspirations, redeemed from environmental- antagonisms affirms the dialectic of accountability, then accountability should not be relative.

Police officers have their responsibilities and summary-executions and assaults upon suspects isn't a part of it.

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A toast to Reagan Democrats

The term, Reagan Democrats, was coined in Michigan to describe the phenomenon of Blue Collar Union Workers voting against their interest.

Is it any surprise and wonder that Michigan and Detroit more than any other state and city have negative population and job growth.

Most of whats nihilistic about big business asserted itself during the Reagan years and administration. So here is a toast to those Reagan Democrats who by cutting their noses off to spite their faces can now reminisce about their swoon--- now they rant against the consequence of the seduction.

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Bush and Ahmadinejad, Labeling Genocide

Isn't it ironic after all the hue and cry over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's revisionist position over the holocaust, the Bush administration's position on the Armenian Genocide now mirrors the Iranians.

On 10/10/07; President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, Secretary of Defense Gates, Senior elements at the Pentagon and certain Republican opportunist came out in strident opposition to the passage by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a resolution that the 1915 killings of Armenians in what was then the Ottoman Empire, but is now Turkey, was Genocide.

The Bush and pentagon position is based on the shameful argument that contemporary Turkey is a U.S. Ally in it's adventurism, the war in Iraq and as such Turkey should not be offended and this is the wrong time for the U.S. Congress to be declaring critical resolutions of Ally's, even if the Ally's in question have 90 year old genocidal blood on their hands.

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One Day Short, too many too long. The Incident of the Minnesota National Guard and the 729 Days.

The Minnesota National Guard which goes by the moniker Red Bull, found itself on the short end of the real meaning of the support the troops slogan, which as the history of the Iraq War teaches has only been a diversion from the absence of material for the Republican led Bush War in Iraq.

Certain well earned benefits, for example educational benefits are being denied members of the Guard unit in question. Because some one with authority to do so, insidiously and with utter disdain for their service terminated their tour of duty One day before they would have been eligible for benefits.

The Minnesota troops would have been eligible for benefits on the 730 Th day of their duty, but orders terminating their duty named 729 Th day as official termination.

Spokespeople for the army are as usual characterizing and describing this misdeed as a simple snafu, an administrative bungle and it's being corrected. But that is not the issue. The issue is this institutionalized disdain now rife in all branches of Government, locally and nationally. Regardless of the reasons, the result and consequence as experienced is mediocrity, incompetence and an exercise in reinventing the wheel, that bespeaks colossal stupidity.

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Where is Whoopi, Who is Whoopi Goldberg?

English: Whoopi Goldberg at the Cannes film festival. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Domestication of Whoopi Goldberg. Are you kidding me? Has anyone seen whats happening to her on "The View"? Is this what happens when you are point in a Barbara Walters model that's taking in water from the wake of the Oprah juggernaut?

I'm wondering who or what is being redeemed, rediscovered, Phoenix like rising from the ashes. Is it, "The View" from the inferno that was Rosie-Hasselbeck or is it Whoopi positioned to stir askant interest in the editorial skew of Barbara "I have hobnobbed with the puppets of history, so who is Oprah" Walters.


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Apec, George Bush, Security and the Clowns Down Under

Isn't it typical of incompetence to find blame every where else but itself.

Eleven good old down under chaps from an Australian T.V. comedy show are in police custody, because of a prank they pulled on the security at the APEC meeting at good old down under Australia.

The Australian Government and it's super gung ho leader showcasing it's Ultra Security which so far seems only good at keeping at bay protest and dissent, has been which seems to be the trend in these times, where competence is an afterthought, showed up by pranksters whose only motive was to show how conditional and farcical State Security against terrorism is.

Eleven pranksters, one with Osama Bin Laden like whiskers around his chin, in broad day light breached not one but two security points in an area that can easily be argued as being for the duration of the APEC Summit the most secure on earth--- coming within feet of posing strategic threat.

Instead of the Australian Security Official acknowledging their security short comings, they had the gall to spin it! Claiming their security worked!

What is to be made of this, that John Edwards is right, and the Global War on Terrorism is a bumper sticker, a talking point for Ann Coulter Paramours? Or incompetence is really that pervasive, from the Israeli humiliation at the hands of Hezbollah, through the spectacle of American War Generals beseeching and imploring, screeching that the Rebels in Iraq are not playing fair because they won't stand still for Smart Bombs to kill them, to an Osama Bin Laden dress alike penetrating security defenses of a policy so strident in it's support of the mother of all incompetence's, Yeah! bagging that dad in Iraq. But then in an epoch where the triple negative, a Rumsfeldian contribution to grammar is Oohed and Ahhed, what else is new?

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Value, understood evenless than God

Whose analysis of political-economy is valid and what standard is it's legitimacy measured by? These past days have seen what has been spoon fed to the political-economy illiterate masses as chaos in the above ground economy. We have been told that instability in the real-estate sector of the economy is the epi-center. First of all what sort of anomaly is devaluation in something as ethereal and relative as value? Techo-cratic economists, love the spectacle of Germans pushing wheel barrow loads of inflated marks for the purpose of buying a loaf of bread at the turn of the last century as illustration of the nastiness of relative economical distortions.

What is peculiar is people expect and pursue progress and deeper understanding in all other facets of life besides paradigms of political-economy and speculation of religion that the matrix of the human condition itself is understood even less than what is God. Money is understood with as much clarity than the fact it's a piece of paper intended to reflect and be the means of transferring value which isn't even understood that it's the value of human life condition.

The human condition, since the marginalization of aristocracy and the emergency of colonialism as political-economy paradigm has accepted as divine fiat the speculation of value which was agreed upon in European drawing rooms and studys as the construct of a New World Order that yawned upon history when whole nationalities and land were reduced to Colonial company-charters.

Speculative value and it's accumulation is not an absolute static, as the paradigm of Colonialism would suggest so why isn't it questioned?

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The populace response "Its Fright!"

On the 8-15-07; Today Show Al Roker, the weather personality was doing his usual, on the Plaza, interacting with the spectator audience. He noticed a little girl with a sign proclaiming the day was her birthday. What caught my attention was this: Al Roker asked the girl where was she from, and the child's response was so cagey it spoke volumes.

Is this the meaning of prosperity, progress, civilization? Is this advancement after millenia of evolution, after the passing of tens of thousands of laws, after the imprisonment of millions, the execution of thousands. Life and the human-condition is still at an impasse where a little child cannot even speak freely of where she's from? Nonetheless in this age of Amber
alerts it's not surprising.

What I find ironic is even though people claim to be so devoutly religious that religion based conflicts, politically and socially dominate all practical facets of contemporary life. The hypocrisy and deviancy of humanness mocks such public displays of religiosity, so thoroughly that the only critique left such devoutness is that of Apocalyptic sanctimonious global destruction.

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