Andrew Breitbart...

Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger and journalist, died suddenly on Thursday morning.
I will be honest, I was at work and my blackberry chimed and when I saw that Andrew Breitbart had died, and I was shocked. I screamed no, no, no! He was so young, my age! I was just stymied. 43 is just too young to die.

Now, after the shock I was thinking a man didn’t take care of himself in regards to health is just a normal story.

Of course many of my friends on the left are waiting for me to say something disparaging about his actions. Well, I'm not certain that what I am about to say will meet your standards.

Breitbart did what he did because he was paid.

I'm not certain who paid him; don’t have the names of the powers that be. I am certain that his position, actions, and alliance with the right was paid for. Does that make him a bad person? I would love for my answer to be no. I have very selfish reasons for wanting to say no. It would absolve me of my actions when money was a factor. The answer is a resounding YES!

He released a video to harm a woman that had not done harm just so that he could make his bones in a political party that pays when you can take down someone or anyone that harms their brand. He was the hit man. Does it matter that he claims that he didn’t doctor the video? Of course it does! He forgot the most universal and important rule of life.
“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you”

But let’s be honest, I could write a ten page thesis on the deplorable acts that he did. I would be remiss if I made the point about him and not what the inspiration is…
Matthew 19:24 (Whole Chapter)
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
For the love of money, Breitbart is not alone. He is but a small example, one miniscule anecdote pertaining to what so many of us have become just to make a check. We have become like crabs in a barrel in order to make a check, to keep a check, and to keep others from making a better check.

Non-union workers complicit in destroying unions in order to stop the guy that makes $12,000 a year more than you as if you can get that money transferred to your check. What you kill for the powers that be becomes property of the powers that be.

Americans blaming immigrants for the falling wages, as if an immigrant being deported will be your gain… What you kill for the powers that be becomes property of the powers that be.
A drug dealer in a poor neighborhood that excuses his poison peddling by thinking that if he didn’t someone would.


A man acting as if a woman’s reproductive rights are your business…all for the love of a false status those men never had. Only rich men matter.

Denying gay marriage because it would hurt a straight marriage foundation built on a 50 percent divorce rate and a religious perspective that is unconstitutional and against a God that many “Christians” wouldn’t recognize if they met God.

You are being complicit in race baiting, oppression, and division just because of a fear that never existed. All the while you are watching the powers that be make you into the very “slaves” that you now have created a 99% that is hard for most minorities to be a part of.

When you are walking the path of everyman for himself instead of I am my brother’s and sister’s keeper.

When you believe health care is not a right.

You can lie on a friend to gain an upper hand.

We have allowed democracy’s value to be destroyed by political cynicism.

What am I saying…money matters far too much. Not so much that I am saying that we get rid of money, we need to lose the love of it.

I hope that Breitbart’s life and death is a wakeup call to us all.

We can be better, we must do better.

In closing, for Breitbart’s friends and family I am so sorry for your loss.

Here is the part my friends on the left were waiting for…

Mr. Breitbart, you were not evil, you were mean and weak.
You didn’t make a deal with the devil, you chose right now instead of doing what’s right.
So if there is a hell…they have processed your paperwork.
My people on the left, I urge you not to celebrate too quickly…


Because, when he was faced with the love of money, he showed hatred for his fellow man.

Can you say you acted differently under the same circumstances?
Psalms 31:18, "Let the lying lips be put to silence;"

Psalms 101:7, "He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight."

Proverbs 19:22, "The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar."

Reruns, Repeats, and Groundhog's Day Pt. 1

I get it…a lot of my writings have a theme. Many speak to inequities of economical social existence. But dig deeper, seek an honest critical analysis of our existence. It’s not hard to see the past, present, and if we don’t change future of “the same shit, different day”. While I keep an open and pragmatic view of the future, based on what I have seen and read it’s not hard to become pessimistic.

That’s the rub isn’t it? Many things are wrong because it has become so hard not to just throw up your hands in disgust. Why try? The effort is rarely ever appreciated or even acknowledged.

But, I keep on sending out the message…something is wrong and we had better come together and fix it.

I say that for one reason…ITS NOT THAT HARD TO DO!

I know it won’t be easy, nor will we be able to put our problems in a microwave…DING…instant solution…welcome to utopia. That’s not the point I am trying to make. The difficulties we face are not as hard as we have made them. The obstacles are simple if we truly want to overcome them.

We don’t talk to each other; we may not because we know many don’t listen. We start with talking points and end with frustration, all the while contributing to the fear that we hear from the voices that benefit from our frustration. I never thought in my life I would ever see in the real world a 1+1=2 debate scenario. That was until I started reading more about history. That has been the debate all along. We are arguing about less taxes or more taxes as if either has anything to do with economics. It’s the debate of effective taxes or ineffective taxes. It’s the debate of small government or big government, as if either has been effective.

And the biggest issue is that we ALWAYS wish to place blame. The real issue is that not one leader (politician) ever thinks it’s his dumb idea that caused the problem. Banks bailed out, regulation falling to the wayside, politicians indulging in insider trading, or wars that profit multinational companies only is ok with you? I guarantee that it’s ok with those that get billions of dollars to tell you how much better you are off with picking them over the other guy that voting record and actions are mirror images.

But I'm repeating myself? Isn’t the fact that Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner are indulging in insider trading a good reason to repeat myself? Isn’t the reason that Bush and Obama have similar military tactics a good reason to repeat myself? Isn’t the fact that those on the left and the right think that their guy is going to be “the one” when they just end up being “more of the same” reason enough to repeat myself.

Ok, let’s ask simple questions…Jefferson hated banks, but Washington made him Secretary of State…Hamilton who LOVED banks became Secretary of the Treasury.

Bush, Clinton, and Bush the second had Alan Greenspan that clearly stated as the head of the fed his economic policies were “short-sighted”. But Greenspan never said what he saw…guess he was so short sighted that he couldn’t see what went wrong…so it can happen again with Bernanke and Geithner. From the first president to the current one the Secretary of Treasury is still on the side and in the pockets of the banks. Not a lot of “change” there, not a lot of “hope” of it ever changing.

So much for out with the old and in with the new.

While we bicker about things that have no significant impact on our lives money is leaving our lives and the government is asking you to come up with blame without ever telling you the truth about what happened.

How can you do that?

Sounds like I'm not repeating…it seems that my commentary is asking why are we repeating the same shit that didn’t work before.

I am so tired of socio-economic "Ground Hog's Day"...
There hasn't been joy in repetition...

It's About Choice

I truly thought against posting this here...but it actually belongs here.

Let’s be honest...

As our two political parties sit on opposite sides of the ideological spectrum, have either side done what it claims is in the best interest of the country? Has it?

Or is it doing exactly what it wants?

Have you ever sat down and critically examined your party? Try putting your pom-poms down and think of the things that you and your party believes in and ask are you truly a Democrat or a Republican? Or worse, is your party truly what they claim to be?

As the Democrats' and their votes went absent in the last 2010 election was it because their agenda was absent of that of the politicians in office? Isn't the cry for a primary candidate a resounding rejection to what occurred in the last two and a half years?

Or maybe it’s the Clinton years that truly disenfranchised the electorate with the passing of NAFTA? Remember the Ross Perot quote during the election that appears to be prophetic:

"NAFTA will cause a giant sucking sound as jobs go south"

I wonder do the unemployed workers on the left or right hear that sound anymore. Why worry about protecting the border from illegals coming in when in another twenty years they won’t come here at all. You didn't really think that freedom is the motivation for many foreigners coming here do you? It’s the economy, stupid.

But hey the right will defend that position, its globalization Saynt, get with the program. Actually its unfair trade, coupled with protectionist laws from many countries that are involved in the "free trade". Each and every country has either by culture (it is expected to protect the country's economy) or by laws have protectionist parameters to sustain a healthy economic structure...except the quasi-globalist American policies. But I can’t go to Canada and get prescription drugs. Of course the only reason for that is profit is over people. As to many of the "conservative" electorate claims that point of view is socialism, the odd dichotomy of crying about illegals stealing good jobs that Americans could do screams hypocrisy.

Then of course there is the educational system that either the right wants to privatize or the left wants to keep throwing money at without cleaning up the mess that has been made by keeping the focus on salaries and not the fact that every mayor and governor cuts the budget and looks to the teachers to "breech" an agreement that has been made years in advance. I wonder if I could breech an agreement with Bank of America and get away with it? One thing no one will ever admit about why the educational system is failing our students is because there is not a focus on education but one of money. While each side blames each other, both have presented failure after failure with their policies.

An economic policy on both sides belies the real problem. Before you can ever get to the policies the process of how our representatives are elected and campaign on a daily basis must be addressed. Who do you think your mayor, congressmen, senators, and president listens to? The 160 million that may or may not vote or the millions of dollars that sits in their political campaign fund? The American people may have a problem with what the Supreme Court decided, but the acceptance of what was already true only came to fruition because of the simple fact that the rich and powerful hold no allegiance to either side, serve no country, have no citizenship of any country, and their money is a tool to do one thing...keep taking the voice and democracy from everyone else.

Now the left has…Keynesian economics where they want to spend your money…a lot of your money. But has the money been spent properly?

Then there is the right…an Austrian school of economics where they want to steal your money…legally...

NEWSFLASH! Deregulation is the reason many Americans lost homes pensions, savings accounts, and 401k.

Instead of trying to prove me wrong…ask Brooksley Born.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/25/AR2009052502108.html?sid=ST2009052502127

Or ask Alan Greenspan.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec08/crisishearing_10-23.html

While their way of explaining it may differ, the point is still one big outstanding word…

FLAWED! Thank god Greenspan wasn’t in charge of the murder laws.

Now in America’s history there has been one thing both sides have in common…MILITARY!

They have a love for war! Who has it been good for?

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_military_spending_30.html

964 billion dollars of our budget, where does it go? Surely, can’t be the soldiers. Some of them barely make a wage that keeps their families at home from becoming homeless, poverty stricken victims. Since we can find rats in Walter Reed, the money isn’t going to health care for the wounded.

So it must be going to somewhere else…

Halliburton, a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy in 2000, is living high on the hog now. Wonder how that happened? Bechtel did one hell of a magic trick of making billions of our taxpayer money disappear. I wonder how well some of the politician did in their political funds from these companies? I do remember Nancy Pelosi getting caught attending a defense company’s party and being asked how much did she get from them…loved her (spin) answer.

But it’s all about choice…picking the left that promises to improve education, health care, and the middle class. Its electorate got mixed messages, a failing educational system, a health care plan that will still pale in comparison to the other OCED countries that are ahead of us, and a middle class that is shrinking so fast that they haven’t realized that they are no longer middle class.

Pick the right…who the fuck would…they promise freedom, less taxation, and a strong defense. Its electorate has the patriot act, a tax code that bleeds them dry, and 9/11.

"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem."- Ronald Reagan

Will someone please tell that man…he was in office when the debt was tripled, from $900 billion to $2.7 trillion. I guess he knew what he was talking about. Only George Lucas made money off of Star Wars.

It would seem that the choices are only for those that pay millions and millions of campaign money to take billions and billions of America’s dollars.

Maybe it’s time to stop choosing the lesser of the two evils, especially when they choose to ignore you and do exactly what they get paid to do.

The Pot Isnt The Kettle

Obama Debt Ceiling Crisis Spurs Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee To Play Race Card - Shameful!
I guess it was just a matter of time before someone would throw out the race card when it came to President Obama and the Debt Ceiling Crisis. The only question was who would be the one to play it? And the winner, or whiner if you prefer, is U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tx), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-political-commentary/2011/07/obama-debt-ceiling-crisis-spurs-rep-sheila-jackson-lee-to-play-race-card-shameful/


She cant speak on behalf of her constituents? She is whining?

Are her constituents whining?

Any Republican would want to make a Democrat a "one term president", how many would have the balls to say it aloud and face no retribution?

Any Republican would think that a Democratic president is lying...how many could say it at the State of the Union address and not garner a censure from the Congress?

But that's just politics...right?

I know that in life things aren't always as clear as they should be.
With the way life throws things at us on a daily basis, its almost impossible. I understand that. What I don't understand is when people deny things they don't understand, yet proclaim they do.

So today, I will be speaking about something that for a long time hasn't had a comprehensive discussion.

Let's start with an analogy. There are college courses that starts with a 094 or 095 remedial class. Then there are post-grad classes where you are working towards your Masters.


I understand that there are topics that I am not as informed or educated on. For those topics I need to be in a remedial class. For those topics I try to chime in only after listening and asking questions so that I can learn from those that have a post-grad understanding.


Yet what I just don't understand is when the people in the remedial classes speak out loud and expose their ignorance only because they have the numbers, they are the majority over the post-grads. Its as if the majority believes that the world is flat, even though facts show other wise, but because they are the top of the proverbial totem pole...the world is flat...until they decide it isn't.


So let's start the talk...


Racism!


Before I say one thing I need this to be said...


If women spoke out against sexism and a man said "you bitches need to quit being so emotional" people would flip the fuck out!


But let a black person speak out on racism...someone feels its ok to yell out nigger!


Really?


What we refuse to accept is that any construct of oppression has nuances. Its not always going to be blatant or obvious. Sometimes you need to adjust your lenses, or listen to the "post-grads", Black America.


After experiencing constant barrages of racial attacks, whether it be covert or overt, Black America knows this topic. We live it.


We know that people get mistreated, what we are explaining isn't the mistreatment, but the motivation. Its like explaining transportation without stating what method of transportation.


I know there are the Al Sharptons and the Jesse Jacksons in the world that at times uses race to make profit.


Yet those people are used to deny or marginalize racism.


Does a Tawana Brawley scandal invalidate when a Tea Party member carries a sign that calls the president a Nigger?


Does "hymietown" invalidate empirical studies that shows unemployment is higher for black america?


Does a Malcolm X invalidate the fact that the New deal excluded blacks?


Does anything invalidate the fact that as black America can't get access to housing in certain areas, even thought they have the money for it?


Saggy pants don't invalidate police brutality.



Does the fact that the President is a democrat invalidate that although the right doesn't like him for that, they are utilizing race to assist in their message?


Now to many of my Black friends and beyond...I am going to let a BIG secret out.


Black people are so damn tired of having to have this talk...
Black people don't believe the other side is listening...
Black people want you to SHUT THE FUCK UP long enough to hear us...
Black people are so damn tired that the only time America can acknowledge racism is when someone says nigger...


More importantly quit acting like racism exists only when YOU see it! If you are telling black people when there is racism...that's racist!


If we see it, try asking what we see, why do we see it, and how can we deal with it.


Am I saying that as a person that isn't black you don't have a voice? Of course not, as a black man, I am saying you cant be the voice, the judge, and the executioner of what is and what is not racism.


While you may be able to see some of it...we live all of it.


Whether you like it or not...we have already...by no choice of our own...earned this Masters degree.