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John Kennedy to Barack Obama
I was a first grader when Catholic Irish Kennedy became president. There was a janitor named John Kennedy at my school. I remember saying hi to him, and that he was friendly. I remember short chats between classes. John left the job around 1962. Sometime after that I noticed that John Kennedy was president. I hadn't noticed who the president was ( Read more... ) -
Christianity's Problems
I've been having some truck with a good Christian friend of mine. This is part of a response I sent her. I thought I might as well post it to the blogosphere. My friend sent me a series of Bible pictures, in an email that said: "Earn 100 points by sending this to ten people. It added this quote:
Jesus said, 'if you are ashamed of me, I will be ( Read more... ) -
The other hand... "ism, ism ism."
Socialism automatically promotes the best and brightest members of society to leadership. Thus society is governed in wise and steady prosperity. The way socialism works is to see that the best people have the govern the economy. People promoted to authority under socialism deserve that authority. It's the will of the People. The more trustworthy, ( Read more... ) -
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Capitalism automatically promotes the best and brightest members of society to leadership. Thus society is governed in wise and steady prosperity. The way capitalism works is to see that the best people have the most money. The more money a person has, the better that person is, and the more right it is that they should have more money. It's the ( Read more... ) -
St Paul / Chicago
In the time leading to the RNC Convention St Paul Authorities resisted and denied ACLU and other's citizen's efforts to properly arrange demonstrator routs and appropriate access to controlled but effective areas at the convention center area. Some 800 people were arrested and wrongfully criminally charged, and many more seized, brutalized, ( Read more... ) -
A Day In The Life
This is a draft I saved about four days ago. I think I'll post it anyway ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Pardon You, Mr. Nixon
Nixon's pardon was a typically illegitimate pardon of one ruling class chief by another against the will and rights of the people to see a traitor to the public trust pay for his crimes. The members of the ruling class are in the game of our oppression together. They cohere as a class in protecting each other from the serious potential consequences ( Read more... ) -
Comparative Modus Operandi
Modus Operandi: One's means of doing things. At 52 my m.o. is the same as ever. I want to live in peace. I want to enjoy community. I want jobs that actually do good for myself and other people. What ever the work such jobs are hard to find when one considers the corporate / power elite ownership and selfish misdirection of so many economic facets ( Read more... ) -
Road Rage
An hour ago I was driving my son to school. I drive, like an "little old lady" shall we say, at the risk of my being called an ageist or sexist, but for comparison. Unless trafic is heavy I accelerate more slowly than average drivers. I decelerate further in advance of stops. I turn more slowly than many. I cruse in the slow lane at less than the ( Read more... ) -
U.S. Government Foreign Policy Criminality
Thanks to the internet (which the power elite plan to subvert by 2012) there is so much information about the unfortunately true nature of the Government of the United States for those not wearing pusillanimous, selfish, nationalistic "patriotic" blinders to consider ( Read more... )