The overall political
and social environment has become too toxic in this country. You have FOX news and all these far right
congressmen talking about massive new repression measures against Moslems. You have Lindsey Graham saying that “The FBI
needs to up its game” and I’m not quite sure what that means. One guy wants to racially profile every
Moslem and bar any immigration of Moslems into this country, and also to ban
the construction of new Mosques in America.
You have an Islamic woman near the Boston Marathon wearing some Islamic apparel
like a hijab or something- and she was physically attacked. Then you have a Samali taxi driver who was
also Islamic, I guess. He picked up a “patron”
from a Virginia country club who was drunk and had a beer in his hand and was
drinking from it. When informed he
couldn’t take the open beer into the cab the guy became abusive and physically
accosted the driver, breaking his jaw.
Randy Rhodes has been highlighting this encounter this afternoon. And then you have FOX news saying things like
“There has been NO backlash against Moslems – and all we want the Obama
administration to do is catch the people who did this thing”. I guess he was addressing AG Holder. And I thought that’s what we DID. Moe Kelly is worried about the incendiary
nature of today’s hip hop music. I have
heard from more than one source that it’s White people primarily who buy
certain Rap music, because they love it when Black women are trashed. Moe is expressing concern that today’s youths
are not aware of the racial implications of certain events and ads they see on
TV. And Moe likens it to fire safety,
which is logical right now considering coverage of a local brush fire has
prevented me from watching Days of our Lives today. But once you use the fire hose to put out the
fire you then want to go and fire proof your house and make sure there no
gasoline cans that are leaky- - and all your electrical wiring is up to snuff. Of course for a Black man - - hearing the
word “Negro” and “Fire hose” in the same sentence is troubling enough. But the moral- - not to be too cute about it
is – “If you don’t want to have to bring out the fire hose, make sure your
building is fire safe- - not constructed with highly flamible materials. In like manner perhaps I have my permissive
attitude tword Rap music now because of my experience in the sixties where Jim
Morrison got into trouble for singing “Girl we couldn’t get much higher” on the
Ed Sullavin show. What was he supposed
to sing? “Girl, we could sing in a choir”
to make it rhyme with “Light my fire”? My
feeling has always been that sometimes you have “gallows humor” as a way of
keeping your sanity during really bad times.
But perhaps the time has come when these black groups, in pursuit of a
goal higher than themselves- - should cut out all the incendiary rhetoric
against Blacks, women, Jews or what have you?
Of course the ADM or anti definition league, protects the rights not
only of Jews, but also Moslems, gays, and any other group that is being defamed. FOX news is so toxic to the cultural faboric-
- in the old days the FCC would have stepped in to shut them down as working
against the “peace of the community” ect.
Rush Limgaugh was
casting around this morning from topic to topic unsure of which topic he wanted
to get worked up about today. It seems
with this legalization of the “Plan B” morning after pill- - the big issue is
that the Obama administration wanted to make the legal line at seventeen. That would be the same as to get into an “R”
rated movie. It figures if you aren’t
old to watch the stuff- - then you shouldn’t be free to take a drug that could
mess up your body in unknown ways. You
have to be eighteen to buy a pack of cigarettes. I too am concerned that there is an overall
undermining of the family unit these days by government. And if I were running for President I would
make it clear that this is not my intent.
When you think about the whole race thing- - clearly we are just about
as racist as we ever were. There is a
vast resavuar of hatred out there on the right fringe. Thirty percent of the people polled say that
they are expecting some sort of need for an “armed rebellion of the people”
that’s coming soon. I don’t know who is
taking these polls, but I assume they aren’t just making them up to scare
us. Apparently in 1999 there was another such background gun bill on the table in the House, which the national rifle association favored, at that time. The mystery to me is the reason why THAT bill did not pass - - THEN. But there are so many “mentally
unhealthy” beliefs these people have, as well as their glorification of
ignorance, which shows up in other polls on their beliefs about Evolution. I guess the greatest fear of Spencer Tracy in
the “Inheret the Wind’ movie has been realized.
“We have evolved backward intellectually –into the primordial slime from
which we first arose”. (Selah)
Moe Kelly was on KTLK
and his remark about the gay NBA player that “came out’ is well taken. He is no Jackie Robinson. Apparently he dated his fiancé for eight
years and she never suspected he was gay.
This makes me think this whole “gay coming out’ thing with Hollywood celebreties
is a little bogus to begin with.
Stephanie Miller dated men. And
Tammy Bruce almost married a cop but kept the engagement ring rather than give
it back. Maybe there is some kind of
power trip issue with these people- - but I suspect very little of it has to do
with a newly discovered sexual preference for the same sex. Jackie Robinson on the other hand did not
just wake up on day and “decided to be Black”.
He had to live with a real stigma and was called all sorts of nasty
names day after day as enormous pressures were put upon him, perhaps even from
his so called fans- - to make it easy on himself and go back to the Negro
leagues. Of course even if as Moe Kelly
suggests- - that the NBA player stayed out nights late like three or four AM
with no explanation- - assuming he was at a gay bar doing ten men per night
with the amyl nitrate stuff they use- - is a really bad stereotype. There are any number of explanations why I
lover might not tell his fiancée everything about how he spends his time. I thinking, “If it was really eight years
they were having normal sex and everything and she never even suspected, then
whatever gay proclivity he might have had- - must have been fleeting at
best. It’s like Bob Dylan saying he’s a
Born Again Christian. It’s a good
marketing tool to boost his record sales among now Born Again Christians, who
used to be fans of his. And Dylan knew
they would be fans again- if only he came out as Christian. Hence the first Born Again album he did was
his Grammy award “come back album”. Of
course now gonorrhea - - has new incurable strains. It seems half of women report no symptums and
five percent of men don’t even seem to have the painful urination problem. Moe Kelly mentions that there is more money
to be made on a disease in “treating’ a disease condition- - rather than
actually curing it. Think about
it.
Back in May of 1982 I was told - or read- - that the sounds of a whole symphony orchestra playing Beethoven's Fifth or something - - could be accurately be reproduced using entirely nothing but sine waves. The physical model here is that when Astrology or some prognosticative pursuit- - that you have wave overlaid against wave, and gradually you begin to evolve into ever more complex patterns. If you were confused by that previous posting - - - about how Time and Destiny can be intertwined- - look at it this way. The word "Destiny" in its generic sense is "where are you going". Where is the road you are on Bound for. And with Time there is no getting off the Road, and there is no bending or otherwise altering the course of the road. The road's course was pre set when the road was constructed. We know that with probabilities - - numbers of sample are "the great equalizer". When karma or fate - - Time itself is the ultimate task master. One could argue (having read that posting is helpful here) that the reason Christians seem to be almost obsessed with "The end of Time" is that they are Afraid of it. And they are Afraid of time because they know eventually it will enact its Penalty on them in due course. I have often said that History itself will not be at all kind to this tea party generation. We will look back in horror on these racist and reactionary and ignorant times in the same way people now look back on the KKK activities of the twenties, or what have you. In these times it seems a whole lot harder to Sell - - Sanity, than it is to Peddle Insanity. People's lust for the lowest common denominator seems to know no end. One guy on the radio now says our problem is that "The political system of this country has been hacked". He goes on to explain "You know when a computer system gets hacked it goes out and does things the Owner doesn't want it to do". Al Gore said this, and we need more sane voices like Al Gore. Dr. Levy's greatest mistakes is in trashing Al Gore. We almost had him for president and we'd have a whole lot saner country if he had been.
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