'Tommy'

The Situation

For those that know me, it's no secret that I loathe conservatives . . . but I’m fast getting FED UP with Liberals that are so damned pious about everything, anemic when it comes to perspective, allergic to nuance, and are proud/willful amnesiacs when it comes to history, political and otherwise . . . seriously.  We claim on the Left to be grounded in reality.  We claim to be so ‘smart’.  We 'laugh' at the Tea Baggers for their supposed ignorance and idiocy.

Dear Cornell: Raise Your Paradigm . . .

Cornell West: "Al Sharpton Is "Still On The Obama Plantation"

CORNELL WEST: "Yeah I wish and pray that it were forthcoming, but I don't think it's forthcoming either though brother. I think they just its just smoke and mirrors at this point and it's going to be on to the next issue as soon as they think this thing settles down. Now the good thing is it won't settle down and I think it's going to create some kind of division within our black political class because it's just too humiliating it's too embarrassing, you see it with Brother Sharpton; Sharpton probably deep down wants to be critical of the President, but he can't because he's still on the Obama plantation. Ah so he can't say a mumbling word no matter how radical he wants to act and act as it were and deep down in his soul I think he really does feel a fire, but he cannot allow that fire in any way to spill over toward the White House. Why? Because he's still too tied he's too uncritical he's too deferential he's too subservient as it were and as long as that's in place we're going to find ourselves unable to tell the fundamental truth. (July 21, 2013)"

The Horse has Long Left . . . That Stable

This is a post on my Facebook Wall:

"What this whole Snowdenn/Greenwald 'storm' shows is that:

The government has 'the capability' to spy 'on all of us!!! Aauugh!!!'

Duh.

Helpless Lamentations . . .

This whole thing is so maddening!  

No matter HOW MANY TIME DEMOCRATS AND THE PRESIDENT SAY CLEARLY THEY DO NOT WANT TO TAKE AWAY PEOPLE's WEAPONS . . .  THE GUN LOBBY SAYS:

"Don't believe them!  You KNOW that is what they REALLY want!  Wink, wink!"

How the f@&) do you convince folks like that of your benevolent intent when they have been brainwashed and stoked by fear to basically 'not hear' or even 'see' what you actually said or are doing!?

The Heavy Lift 2.0 - A Manifesto For A New Type of Progressive Operative

Firstly I don’t fashion myself to be anyone of renown status, pedigree or accolades to be writing about politics the way I do.  I’m an ordinary, ‘awake’ person that does what you all do - Go to Work, Love my Family, have fun, go on vacation, etc. I, however, also pay attention and am intellectually curious about my country. Most say they don’t have anytime for politics, and to be sure, many may think they don’t for all sorts of reasons . . . but I’m telling you right now:

THAT attitude is precisely why we have the problems and the functional, frustrating inertia in government right now.

'Droned' . . .!

Oh Boy . . . here we go again:

Eric Holder: Drone Strike To Kill U.S. Citizen On American Soil Legal, Hypothetically

GASP!!!

This headline at the top causes the heart to stop within the chest and folks start getting really angry and scared . . .

The Problem?: The reality of this is FAR FROM THE HEADLINE!

Filibuster . . . What Is The Truth?

I'm going to keep this one relatively brief.

A Filibuster invokes Cloture, which then needs 60 votes to bypass the Minority Party Objection so that it can move to the MAIN VOTE.

The Press has been reporting FOR YEARS NOW on the vote to overcome Cloture AS IF IT IS THE VOTE ON THE BILL ITSELF!!

Tendrils . . .

Here we go again . . . and I will be a stuck record yet again.

That 'smell' that people of color have grown to fear and loathe over the generations is wafting all over the place again: