Author: parvenu

Marvin has always been one of my favorite singers. His original phrasing of the highly introspective probing lyrics of “What’s Going On” became my own personal mantra as I made my way through the crises filled decades here in America. The song lyrics addressed more than the general problems of the world, they asked questions that were specific and uniquely applicable to America. The inescapable irony is that the questions present in the lyrics written in 1971 are even more relevant today as we approach the U.S. Congressional election of 2010. With Marvin in mind, I’ll attempt to answer the main question raised by the title of the song, “What’s Going On”?
From a non-political aspect America has a huge problem and DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO SOLVE IT! Forget all the flag waving sentimental crap you have heard since birth, the only thing that runs America is MONEY and lots of it! Americans are sitting in the midst of the most nefarious political experiment that this country has ever experienced and the American public doesn’t even have a clue as to what is really going on.
Here are several questions, so put on your thinking cap!
(1)  Why do you think Dick Armey (Freedom Works) chose these people (who actually belong in the institution for the insane) to be serious candidates in the general election?
(2)  Do you think Armey is goofy or he just couldn’t recruit anyone else to carry the Tea Party banner in the general elections?
(3)  Do you think billionaires like the Koch brothers are pouring money into Freedom Works just to get the tax write-off?

These and other questions are generally ignored by people who oppose the right wing fringe Republican ideology currently saturating the airwaves across the nation, simply because the answers clearly point to the obvious. It is so much easier for progressives, liberals and moderates to simply dismiss the obvious conclusions underscored by these answers as simply just another conspiracy theory! Are we lazy or are we just afraid?

Well, like it or not here is the answer to those questions. America is at a cross roads historically in the classic struggle between the super wealthy oligarchs and the rest of us for control of the American government. Yes, I know a number of people are going to sigh and say, “Here comes the same old class warfare arguments”. Yep, it is definitely class warfare, I accept that. However, this moment in American history is unique due to the fact America is struggling mightily to replace its social and power institutions after the GIGANTIC iconoclastic period that was unleashed in the late 1960’s, and is now slowly and painfully grinding towards completion.

A critical component in the current American iconoclasm has been the nation’s religious institutions. Many institutional religious icons have been toppled and lie broken and dishonored in the dust scattered along the public ways. Sexual scandals have rocked all religious denominations, the most notable of which is the Catholic Church. Indeed, the ever expanding sexual preference issue has also made its own contribution to the ongoing American iconoclasm. Industrial institutions once revered with religious-like fervor have been sold, and packaged into the conglomerate portfolios of international corporations, wherein the only thing uniquely American remaining are the well known original old fashion company logos. Selfish national political strategies over the decades have further expedited the de-industrialization of America by incentivizing American corporations to increase their presence and business investments in foreign countries.

As a population, common everyday Americans sensed the continued loss of the nation’s most revered icons and expressed their apprehension and unease at the polls in 2008 by electing Barack Obama a true African American to the presidency of the United States. However, the failed American economy, the very issue that helped to elect Obama to the presidency also became a millstone around his political neck. Recognizing the presence of such a formidable handicap, the super wealthy republican oligarchy decided to take advantage of this hour of America’s domestic weakness, with actions specifically timed for the November Congressional elections.

Their weapons are powerful 24/7 media propaganda channels which boast a certain level of maturity by virtue of its long term presence in the American domestic environment.  They appear to be following the Goebbels’ model in respect to their use of the most inane observations in their propaganda messages. (Ref: www.psywarrior.com/Goebbels.html) Goebbels’ philosophy is to saturate the public media with this propaganda until the general population come to accept it as truth. The American super wealthy oligarchs have been funding their propaganda machine for more than FOUR GENERATIONS and recently they have become critically aware of the American iconodulic struggle to replace its discredited institutional icons. The wealthy oligarchs think that this is the ideal time, and therefore provides an ideal opportunity to inculcate the cornerstone of their ideology into the new emergent American society in the 21st century. It should be noted that the super wealthy American oligarchs view themselves as the real American patriots, because in their mind America was founded as a REPUBLIC and the democratic ideals added later to the Constitutional writ was simply a political mechanism designed to monitor and manage the American population at large.

I personally think it is a mistake and a severe misreading of this critical moment in American history to simply concentrate on the babbling of these fools that the Freedom Works organization is bankrolling. The wealthy American right wing oligarchs are using the upcoming Congressional election to test the POWER of their PROPAGANDA machine to subjectively control the American voter and thereby achieve eventual control of the entire American government. Their USE of the most IMPROBABLE, UNRELIABLE, UNPROVEN, INEXPERIENCED people as CANDIDATES for the highest most respected political jobs in the nation will demonstrate the effectivity of their well oiled propaganda machine. If their propagandized political strategy succeeds with these obviously undesirable candidate types, it therefore will succeed with any type of candidate. Following the November elections these schemata for controlling American elections will be Q.E.D. (that which has been demonstrated).

I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to alert people in the Democratic/Liberal/Progressive community to the actual threat facing the American public. In the midst of this very difficult American institutional rebuilding/replacement period can we, who stand for a free America, assume that the process of creating these shiny new American icons could be accomplished in the glaring disruptive presence of such a fanatic, infinitely subsidized, ideological propaganda machine without being perniciously contaminated on every level? Concerned Americans need to experience a paradigm shift in their perception of the current struggle going on in America. This is a clarion call for a spirited aggression on behalf of progressives, for no war can be ever won by any combatant that will only reluctantly fight back with a spirit of passive resistance. The battle is NOW and the struggle is NOW and those who deny this urgency are simply emulating the dusty historical image of Britain’s Neville Chamberlain.

The political propaganda machine of the wealthy Republican oligarchs MUST have its horns removed from the airwaves of the American public. This is not some minor problem as many Democratic lawmakers would have you believe. Further, this ceased to be a freedom of speech issue a long time ago. The Constitution gives people the right to stand in the middle of the town square and say whatever they want, whenever they want. However, the Constitution does not give people the right to use the national airwaves to say whatever they want, and to say it whenever they want. The battle here is to take back the national airwaves in the name of the people of the United States. If we fail to do this we will have surrendered the United States of America to the wealthy American oligarchs. Can you visualize what life in 21st America will be like if we surrender this opportunity to those who would control and capriciously interpret our freedoms much in the same manner as they manage the “bottom line” of their vast corporate empires?

At this critical time for the Republican Party, the Democrats are still running around ignoring a glaring opportunity currently available to completely splinter the Republicans. I will answer the obvious question first, “why aren’t the Democrats doing this?” My answer is I really don’t know why. I guess it may be inherent for the Democrats to be defensive rather than offensive.
Here is my take on the big time opportunity that the Democrats are missing. The Republicans are made up of three competing groups, namely Dick Armey’s Tea Party (or Armey’s Army), the Libertarians, and finally the Neo- Dixiecrat Southerners. Each one of these groups is bent on taking over the leadership of the Republican Party. Forget Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. These people do not have any real power inside the Republican Party. The heavy media exposure on the Republican Primary success yesterday by the Armey’s Army in collusion with the Palin branding is a bunch of bull shit. Dick Armey’s Freedom Works financed by the Koch brothers and others are primarily concerned with their ideology which is, “whatever financially benefits corporations is good for America!”
The Koch brother’s ideology has no explicit requirements for obtaining LITTLE or NO GOVERNMENT which is central to the Libertarian political philosophy. Finally, the Neo-Dixiecrat southern Republican block (and this includes the so-called religious right) are primarily concerned about the decades old hot button race and abortion issues. Hence the Neo-Dixiecrats yearn for a return to Reagan Republicanism and therefore their ideology is somewhat mixed and confused, and is most articulate on issues involving reducing welfare and taxes.

So exists the ideological landscape of the current Republican Party as exposed, just waiting for the Democratic Party to pour the salt into these wounds opened up in the devastating Republican primaries yesterday. I say the hell with the Republican Propaganda machine, now is the time for Democrats running in the General election to promote the differences between these irreconcilable ideologies in the Republican Party instead of cringing and running away from their own party. Democratic candidates should abandon the current strategy of playing up how “NUTTY and CRAZY” these tea party endorsed Republican candidates are. The general electorate is pissed off with everything Washington. “It’s the economy stupid!!”  Election campaign messages comparing a practical confident reasonable person against a raving lunatic would work in normal times. But with people out of work generally and some for more than a year, the attitude of the voter is to send a clear message to Washington, “GET ME BACK TO WORK!” If I have to vote for some crazy idiot in order to send that message, I damn well will do it. Trust me, the current Democratic strategy to drag these far right fringe Republicans into a debate simply to televise them as unstable raving lunatics will only be marginally effective at the ballot box.

However, attacking the wide historic differences in the ideologies between the three major groups making up the Republican Party will be far more effective against them in November. This strategy will work against their current frantic efforts to regroup, come together and unite before Election Day. Democrats need to play up in the upcoming general election races (especially where tea Party backed candidates are running as Republicans) the question for Republican Libertarians and Republican Neo-Dixiecrats how much of YOUR ideology will this person expedite if they go to Washington? Democrats need to aggressively sow seeds of distrust and dissention among registered Republicans in order to dampen their enthusiasm for voting in November, and they need to start now. It is only my hunch, but I think that the Tea Party ouster of so many highly respected senior Republicans in the recent primaries, there is a funky mood settling over mainstream Republicans. I think many feel that the country is in the economic toilet until at least 2012. So why not sit on the sidelines and let the Democrats and the Tea Party crazies fight it out in DC, and by 2012 with the national economy on the upswing the country will be ready for some reasonable (Republican) government in Washington.  

You can rest assured that Republican leaders are meeting this very minute desperately trying to bring the party together in time for the general election. However, thanks to the Tea Partiers victories in the primaries they certainly have their work cut out for themselves. Some mainstream Republicans have started flocking to Christine O’Donnell as the new national face of Republicanism who could possible bring the GOP together. Sorry, Gov. Romney, Ms. O’Donnell is far from being a stand-in for the “Gipper”.  Regardless if the Republican Propaganda Machine goes into overdrive and pollutes the nation’s airwaves 24/7, they will never be able to bring the Republican Party together. So come on Democrats, get busy, DON’T MAKE IT EASY FOR THEM for crying out loud!!

Pastor Terry Jones, a previously obscure fundamentalist leader of a congregation of approximately 50 people has vaulted onto the world’s stage like no other personage in modern history. Unwittingly Pastor Jones has fused the two of the most powerful forces in world to form a real live trigger for events that could lead to the horrific cataclysmic war of the East against the Occident prophesized in ancient Biblical scripture. This is the reason world leaders both religious and secular have been pleading and praying for Pastor Jones to forego his intended public burning of the Qur’an, the most sacred holy book to Moslems around the world. Pastor Jones appears to be a confused but serious “By God” person doggedly resolute to his convictions. If he awakes (without satisfactory compensation) on the morning of September 11, 2010, he will immediately get to the business of burning his cache of Qur’ans on the site of his small church. Publically, Pastor Jones has called the Qur’an, “the book of the Devil”.  Pastor Jones’ ignorant perception of all other religions outside of Christianity is that they all are tools and instruments of the Devil. The Christian Holy Bible is just a “holy book” to Pastor Jones, therefore he cannot conceive the fact that people of other religions regard the words of their Holy Scriptures as fully embodied living entities which collectively reign as the Divine Supernal Master of their own personal lives. Injurious desecration of any form to these Holy Words is to the faithful like unto such injuries being mercilessly inflicted on the flesh, bones and blood of their most beloved family members. The pain, and suffering experienced by true believers over such a sacrilegious event cannot be captured by any verbal description or possible written account, and only can be expressed by human anguish inherent in unvocalized loud continuous howls or ear piercing screams.      
The following is a message to the nations of the world in particular and to MANKIND in general. We can choose to ignore it at our own peril.
Here is the preface to the message. The superb innovative engineering talent here in the United States created the Internet, the fastest means of communications ever known to mankind. This technology has removed the barriers of time and boundaries between nations all over the world. With the invention and inclusion of satellite communications, there is no point on the globe that is out of the range of electronic information transmission. The other leg of this modern technological giant created by the U.S. is cell phone technology and its adjunct accessory the ubiquitous cell phone. The cell phone itself has had a rapid evolution from just a light weight hand held instrument capable of making roving telephone calls, up to its present form which makes it capable of functioning as a video camera, movie player, music player and/or data recorder. Many Americans felt a sense of national pride and self satisfaction as they watched the explosive proliferation of cell phone use around the world. In recent times we gloated over how the Iranian opposition used cell phones to open a window to the world showing horrific pictures which graphically displayed the brutal treatment inflicted on the people in the massive opposition crowds by the police and Revolutionary Guards as those assembled attempted to peacefully demonstrate against the rigged Presidential election. We continued to smirk over the Iranian State Government’s futile attempts to stop the transmission of these damning pictures by shutting down access to the internet. The embarrassed Iranian government initially attacked all of the Iranian social networks such as YouTube and Facebook without much success. However, little did America realize at the time that this extraordinary worldwide communication technology has a very real TWO EDGE sword?

However, Pastor Jones and his flock is poised to make this observation painfully clear as they prepare to burn copies of the Qur’an in public, and do so under the protection of the Constitution of the United States of America. We are now face to face with the reality that the instant that the first page of any Koran (using Pastor Jones’ terminology) is set alight, that picture will be winging its way around the globe, destined to be shown in every Moslem mosque and household. The setting of this potentially dreadful event is perfectly ironic as its events unfold, as it makes it painfully clear who the irresponsible people are, and Pastor Jones is certainly not alone in this. The point I am making here is that there are many more highly probable scenarios like the current situation that could dramatically appear in the world’s technological future.

The message here is that the demi-god of America, Wall Street and its minions are only concerned with the singular issue of making money. Greed is its scripture and envy is its code of morality. We are confused and wonder why our Icon stands silent before us in this terrifying moment as we stand trembling on the threshold of a world wide conflagration. In the future we are sure to invent more highly innovative technology to the enhancement of life here on earth. But we must also insist on those critical safeguards necessary to protect ourselves from ourselves as we integrate these marvels into our individual lives around the globe. Our creative initiative must be driven by more than profit alone.

Finally, modern human beings in western society are cursed with short attention spans. So three weeks from 9/11/2010 after Pastor Jones and his flock have successfully turned a pile of Korans into a pile of ashes, and the Moslem world has not declared war on the United States, the Jones incident will be mostly forgotten in the mind of the average American. All may appear to be quiet after a period of riots, protest marches, and fiery speeches, but I can assure you that the fuse will be burning. Decades ago when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, and those famous moon walking pictures were flashed to virtually every nation around the world, very few Americans were aware that the moon was regarded as a sacred body by the Muslim religion and was frequently mentioned in many passages of holy Islamic scripture. While America celebrated this great technological achievement, many Muslim holy men spoke out against what they regarded as a callous desecration of the sanctity of the moon by the United States. However, the Internet was yet to be invented, and so their protests faded away unheard against the overwhelming din of world praise and admiration for American technology and its new space heroes.

In my opinion, Iranian president Ahmadinejad will be sitting in a room filled with television screens waiting for the first Qur’an burning video from Florida via the internet. No other person on this earth will benefit more from this blasphemous event than Ahmadinejad. This will be a real game changer politically for the Iranian State. I would not be surprised if this event occurs that Ahmadinejad will use it as an excuse to immediately proceed with the acceleration of his plans to block the Strait of Hormuz. This strategic location is a chokepoint between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf through which 15 to 17 million barrels of oil move by tankers each day. Ahmadinejad has already purchased several lightly armored moderate depth submarines, in an obvious threat to block shipping in the Strait. He has strongly implied that any attempt to bomb Iran’s nuclear reactors will result in this serious action. However, if Pastor Jones does his “burn the Koran” thing” it will be a “blessed gift” for the Iranian president and the Revolutionary Guard who will be able to get enough money (under the table from the Saudis and other Muslim oil producers) to buy some militarily viable submarines, ships and other equipment capable of sealing off the Strait of Hormuz. The loss of this amount of oil per day on the world market will send the price of oil skyrocketing and torpedo any hope of a timely economic recovery in the western world. Once the Strait is blocked, military action will be required by the western alliance thus setting the stage for the opening curtain to the war of ancient Biblical prophecy.  

Unfortunately Pastor Jones’ teachable moment has included “confidence men”, professional extortionists, and the more criminally minded people among us here in the US and around the world. The “window to the world” capability that modern technology has placed in our midst has turned any local event into an instant world wide traveler. The cute advertising slogan “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” is no longer true, not only for Los Vegas but for every hamlet and village around the globe. Jones has given every dangerous extortionist a crude but eye opening lesson on how a single individual with a digital camera, an internet connection, and the appropriate dastardly scheme can hold institutions and nations hostage for the purpose of extorting millions and perhaps billions of dollars from them. The exhibition of the possible momentary control over the hearts and minds of massive populations around the globe simply through the schemes of one individual is a potential gift that few criminals would refuse to exercise to its greatest potential. In truth the use of the video capability inherent in the Internet does not have to be as grandiose as Jones’ scheduled event. It can be significantly smaller in terms of galvanizing world attention but sufficiently disruptive of the global economy to become an effective gambit for making any extortionist rich beyond imagination. The criminal activities that have been chewing excitedly on the fringe of the world’s economy range from the Somali pirates to the mortgage crisis generated by Wall Street. Pastor Jones, however has just revealed to the world how easy it is to significantly raise the risk and the rewards via such enterprise.

The dreaded unthinkable must also be mentioned here as a real probability. Within the United States there exists a significant population whose own personal demons will drive them to limits far out of the reach of calm rationale and practical reason. These people are inflexible in their devotion to their fanatical beliefs regardless of how bizarre they appear to people simply concerned with the everyday flow of human life. Fanatics and cultists are slavishly bound to their perceptions of the value of their respective cause, and no amount of bribery money offered will deter them from carrying out their mission. Given an opportunity to be in the position of Terry Jones they would never pause in their mission regardless of the cataclysmic outcome. These are the people that we must assume present the greatest danger to the United States of America, and something must be done immediately to prevent the possible occurrence of such a situation.

In my opinion there is only one solution to this problem and it requires immediate action by the Federal government. My understanding is that America is still at war with Al Qaeda, therefore any act by any American citizen that effectively provides aid and assistance to the enemy are sufficient grounds for the government to seize and hold the respective individual for trial and full punishment under the law in the American court system. Under normal conditions the good Pastor’s right to burn books is guaranteed under the American Constitution. However when the top American general leading the war against Al Qaeda states that such action by this citizen will cause serious harm to our troops and expose them to significantly greater jeopardy out in the field, this in my estimation constitutes “providing aid and assistance” to the enemy! Based on these facts I deem that there is sufficient justification for the President to call an emergency session of Congress to request the immediate power necessary to address this problem.

On a personal note, my appeal to President Obama is a loud and clear declaration that this is not a problem that is up for discussion, nor can it be solved by soft ball appeals to the perpetrator’s “better angels”. President Obama I leave you with the words of another great “can do” American, President Harry S. Truman, who clearly and succinctly defined himself to the world through his memorable declaration, “The buck stops here!”

As a supporter of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, I have been following with great interest the controversy surrounding the “Casino Bill” as it moved through the Massachusetts legislature. For people unfamiliar with the importance of the bill to Massachusetts, currently the state millions of dollars every year to bordering states who host world caliber gambling casinos. Obviously, the Massachusetts Casino Bill would bring thousands of jobs and millions into the state once the bill was passed and signed into law. Recently the legislature finally completed work on the Bill and was ready to present it to the Governor for his signature. What happened next continues below the fold.
As the press reported that the Casino Bill was on its way to the Governor, Governor Patrick announced that he could not sign the Bill as he had objections to certain provisions in the Bill which allow slot machines at race tracks. For a period of time there was intense negotiation between the Legislature and the Governor’s office as to the exact number of race tracks that would be allowed to have slot machines under the Bill. It appeared that the legislature finally gave in and set the limit of slot machines to two race tracks, something the Governor had been demanding. The press was excitedly making plans to provide extensive coverage of the long awaited signing, when the Governor suddenly announce that he could not sign the bill with ANY slot machines at race tracks, period. SMACK..BAM….the Bill was dead, at least for this year.

Like all Democratic politicians in this JOBLESS economy, Deval Patrick is in a tough election for re-election and certainly NEEDS every vote that he can get. Massachusetts labor unions did everything they could to convince Patrick to sign the Bill. I for one could not understand Patrick’s objections to slot machines at race tracks, at least not in these tough economic times where jobs are golden. Further, his refusal to sign the Casino Bill has certainly pissed off all of the unions throughout the state, and how the hell are you going to elected to the Governor’s office without the strong backing of the unions in Massachusetts? In his first election, Deval Patrick created a strong base not only among white upper class Democrats and Independents, but also in all of the minority neighborhoods of Boston, Worcester and Springfield. So leading up to his historic election, Deval Patrick bumper stickers were everywhere. With some 56 days to go before the next election, the atmosphere here in Massachusetts is much more subdued and Patrick is facing three challengers. However, with virtually no union support and signs of little or no organizing in the minority neighborhoods, it looks like a tough slog this time for Governor Patrick.

The reason why I am writing this post about the Massaachusetts Governor’s race, is because I see a certain similarity in political decisions between the two political friends, Deval Patrick and Barack Obama. Now it is certainly well understood that it is impossible to compare the pressures associated  with the office of the President with the responsibilities of a state Governor. What I am highlighting is their approach to the age old art of practicing “good old down to earth politics”. Both Deval and Barack campaigned on a platform of “hope”, and both achieved the historic goal of becoming the “First African American” to be voted into their respective offices.

Unfortunately both ignored their respective political bases and thus failed to exercise the number 1 rule in state or national office, always stay present and active with your political base, for without your base your are just a power of one! Many of us who have spent a lot of time commenting here have written exhaustively imploring President Obama to remember his base, those who put him in office. Now it is the final leg of the midterm elections race and the question is does Deval and Barack have enough time left to effectively rally their respective political bases and stave off a recession driven jobless angry population of American voters?

The timidity shown by this White House against the continuous bull shit demagoguery broadcast by white punks IS NOT NEW and is traditional Democrat White House behavior. The Clinton administration essentially behaved the same way against smear tactics by the Republican sponsored broadcasters. The beef I have is against the resistance of Democrats to put up a fight against the Republican Smear Masters. I am not calling for a “War of the Roses” or a replay of World War II, just enough fight to make the political landscape in these United States LEVEL! I wrote a Blog that included this criticism of Democrats and posted it on DKOS, who took it down in short order as a “concern troll”. They may think this problem is just in the minds of concern trolls, but recent documented events strongly suggest that they have their heads up you know where.
Since I wrote that Blog, the Republican Smear Masters have put the administration in a position where it fired a loyal Dept of Agriculture African American employee without evaluating all the facts behind a Fox TV report that she was video taped espousing “Racism” at an NAACP meeting. In the aftermath of the Fox report, other independent broadcasters made the entire tape available which showed that Ms. Sherrod was testifying how she personal overcame hatred of white people even though her beloved father was brutally murdered by white men in Georgia when she was 17 years old. Since then the release of the complete tape showed that Fox TV had significantly edited the tape to give the appearance that Ms. Sherrod was preaching racism against white people.  Faced with the clear evidence of another race baiting publicity stunt by Fox TV, the NAACP (who also urged her firing without any investigation of the Fox report) and the Obama Administration have been begging Ms. Sherrod to take her job back.

Another identical Fox “dirty tricks” publicity stunt resulted in the firing of Van Jones.  Prior to coming to the White House Mr. Jones ran a successful campaign to raise public awareness of the high level of racist commentary being broadcast by Glenn Beck. Jones campaign resulted in getting just about all of Beck’s sponsors to take their business elsewhere. Therefore when Van Jones was hired to be the “Green Jobs” czar in the Obama Administration Fox TV went after him with a vengeance.  In an almost identical scenario to Ms. Sherrod’s case, Fox TV hosts accused him of being a Marxist/Communist who supported the “fringe” theory that the 9/11 attack was actually sponsored by the American government. Fox supported their charges with a document that Jones inadvertantly signed which called for an investigation of the 9/11 attack as part of a secret government plot. Within hours of the airing of this commentary by a Fox TV host, Van Jones was fired by the Obama Administration. The firing of Van Jones was likewise immediate and the Administration conducted no review or factual check as to the value of the allegations.

Many Obama supporters fend off complaints that Obama has been totally ineffective for the millions of black voters who helped to put him in the White House. They point to a rather insignificant list of “behind the scenes” accomplishments by the President. This is the same kind of defensive explanations used by black supporters of Bill Clinton when he was President, and faced the same complaints.

Here are my complaints against the Obama Administration. You will note that these complaints are based on things Obama can do with Executive authority alone and does not need any Congressional legislation to be executed.
(1) No heavyweight black political advisor is on his Oval office staff. The presence of the right politically astute African American person would be able to effectively guide Obama through the continuous rain of racial bombshells that the Republican propaganda machine (including Fox news) keeps throwing at the White House. In this position experience and race does matter!
(2) Black unemployment in the cities around the nation is above 23%. Yet less than 5% of the stimulus money was spent in the black communities across the nation. The Obama administration made a huge mistake channeling out the stimulus money using the usual federal to state procedures. Every dime of stimulus money issued should have been under the fiscal control of PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) and CPA (Critical Path Analysis). Project planning and stimulus spending by the states would have been really transparent if these control mechanisms were manditory, as the White House would have all of the detailed data for every stimulus project. This data could have easily been cross referenced with the dynamic conditions in high pockets of unemployment. This is what is known as feedback, you’all.
(3) Likewise the small business loans granted to black businesses since the SBA loosened up its requirements for financial assistance to small businesses has been less than 1% of all the money allocated thus far. In response to this criticism, the White House used an argument right out of the George Bush playbook, i.e., the SBA hasn’t received many applications from black businesses since the program started. However, the Administration is completely silent when asked just how much effort in publicizing the new program in black communities was done by the SBA prior to the start of the new program?

These three criticisms are the real bread and butter issues for African Americans. The black community’s struggle to survive is not satisfied by the performance of show people and musicians at special White House petite bourgeois extravaganzas.

In summary there are two things that Barack needs to roll up his sleeves and resolve to DO IMMEDIATELY. (1) Develop a strategy to create some political bombs that will be the most effective against a weak and divided Republican Party. There are at least a couple of dozen strategies available RIGHT NOW that would create huge additional divisions and thereby invrease the pressure within the Republican Party. This would keep the Republicans busy and reduce the amount of time that they have to sit around and dream up shit against the Democrats, especially the President. (2) Obama needs to “get back to church” with African America. He needs to get on the practical level with black folks who are struggling just to get by from day to day. Nothing grandiose, just the practical things that you can do as President of the United States. Listen up Barack!  You can be the “President of all Americans” on your second term in the White House. Now is the time to help out that 23% unemployed. Put on your thinking cap. As a former community organizer I am sure that you are well schooled in the many ways that you as President can offer to help poor black folks with sound projects that give folks a hand up, not a hand out. As incredible as it sounds helping poor black folks will be the biggest boost that you could ever give to the American economy. Why? Because poor black people have always been on the bottom in the history of this nation. But guess what? When you raise the basement, the whole house rises!
Barack it is time, it is definitely time….

The following quote is from “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There” by Lewis Carroll (1872).
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.’

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

This nonsense poem composed by Lewis Carroll and included in his famous book about Alice in Wonderland is titled Jabberwocky. I have only included the first two verses here as an introduction to the main topic of this piece dealing with American racism in the year 2010. The following discussion has the formidable task of rationalizing and analyzing the current political landscape overflowing and polluted with all forms of nonsense verbiage. I shall resume my exposition of the differences between comprehending the verses of the Jabberwocky and understanding the right wing talk radio rhetoric, but first some background is necessary and it continues below.

Historically there exists untold scores of documents which record the fact that African slaves disembarked on these shores in the company of their slave owners, the first European settlers to reach these shores. Hence slavery was indigenous and flourishing in America long before its birth as a new nation. As school children we were taught that slavery was an embarrassing part of America’s past, but we were never told that the first
African slaves arrived at Jamestown in 1620, (390 years ago or) almost four
Centuries ago. Therefore, Africans whether slave or free have been a living part of all of America’s history. This fact explains the fanatic zeal that the Texas Board of Education continues to exhibit in their effort to write the presence of Africans throughout every phase of American history out of the primary and secondary school history books.

To these racialist fanatics the undeniable presence of Africans throughout American history is like a highly vexing rash all over one’s body, that no matter how hard you scratch it the itch just won’t go away. If these historical revisionists were to live for 150 years they still would not have enough time to remove all of the codes and laws dedicated to African slave management and control that are stored in thousands of courthouses and libraries all over this country. However, this fanaticism drives these individuals ever onward clinging to their quest convincing themselves that they must soldier on for the sake of their children and their RACE. Please make this important mental note that the first and most prominent fact is the source for AMERICAN RACISM is AMERICAN SLAVERY.

It should be noted that slavery has existed throughout the history of mankind, long preceding Biblical times. But the constant in all of those events over the course of many millennia always has been the emotional need to dehumanize the fellow human being whose life has been stolen by the conditions within of the institution of slavery. The slave owner will always find some difference between himself and his slave to cite as justification for his enslavement of another fellow human being. In ancient times tribal differences were often cited as justification for enslavement.  If enslavement involved people from the same tribe, then the justification often cited was a genetic one, i.e. people from the slave’s ancestral family were always lazy and dim witted people. However, in the American colonies, the skin color and facial features differences between the Europeans and their African slaves was so striking and evident that it made the institutional codification of racism based solely on skin color highly predicable.  

I should like to reveal one additional fact. It is not the nature of any group of human beings to accept being deprived of the most basic and simple freedom and that is to make decisions for him or her self. Even doing the daily tasks set by the master, the slave will still ultimately to take the course that he or she has decided upon to perform those tasks. This urge constantly demonstrated itself within the slave population and many times it proved to successful not only for the slave but also for the slave’s master who reaped any monetary reward from the slave’s inventiveness. However, sometimes a particular slave might prove too clever for his master and was able to secretly parlay his inventiveness into a situation wherein he alone was able to reap substantial financial reward totally unknown to the master. As a result the history of slavery is littered with hastily enacted laws which added restrictions to an ever growing list of things that a slave could not possess, or claim ownership thereof. The three plus centuries enactment of these laws helped to legally codify racism into the court archives of virtually every town and city in America. The presence of these slave control/anti Negro laws on the books in statehouses and local court houses have effectively influenced and thereby institutionalized LOW QUALITY POLICE SERVICE for Negro residents across the nation. To those white folks who would take issue with my statement and claim that no such laws exist as legal legislation or local codes in their state, I would give them this simple task, i.e., just go and look through the archives. You may have to go back some 150 years or more to find these gems, but trust me they have not been repealed.

At this point we have just pointed to several important Attributes of American slavery as contributory to American racism. This was and still is the historical state of America prior to and current with the Glenn Becks’ of the right wing talk world. Glenn Beck has a great deal in common with the Texas Board of Education as both seek to be historical revisionists of the roles that African Americans played in the development of this nation throughout the 390 years of American history. Now let’s move on to a quick comparison between Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky and Glenn Beck’s racialist rhetoric.

Lewis Carroll wrote the Jabberwocky poem as a bit of whimsy. The short and sweet analysis of Carroll’s composition is that the purpose of this nonsense gibberish was purely to provide entertainment for the innocents.

On the other hand, Glenn Beck’s seemingly disconnected diatribes leave most rational people wondering what could possibly be the meaning of these seemingly nonsensical statements. First of all Beck’s topics meander all over the topical map without uttering a single conversational thread to connect one to the other. For example, in one sentence he rants about government waste. In the next sentence he states that inner city black people are getting reams of food stamp handouts which they use to buy liquor and lottery tickets. Then in his third sentence he states that Obama is flooding black neighborhoods with food stamps as a payoff to black people whose votes put him in the White House. Beck then finishes up with the fourth sentence which is a highly emotional tearful declaration that Obama intends to starve all white people to death so he can take over the nation. (I wish to emphasize here that the four sentences above depict a typical Beck racialist rant and is provided in this exposition as a clear example of his broadcast style.) The cleverness of Beck as shown in the example above is in the way he is able to mix criticism of the federal government in together with a generous sprinkling of race baiting lies, and he does all of this seamlessly in real time without a single pause in his verbal delivery.

The white person with genuine anti government issues will essentially hear the words “government waste” and “getting reams of food stamps” loud and clear. The vehicle in this instance demonstrating “government waste” is in the form of Beck’s report citing widespread unauthorized use of “food stamps”. This particular white person listening to the Beck four sentences above may, in respect to how he or she may feel about racial issues, either tune out or embrace the racialism in Beck’s message. I would surmise that the majority of the white Tea Partiers sincerely consider themselves to be hard workers on the political battlefield dedicated to the point of obsession with the need to reduce of America’s massive debt. However, the majority of these same people are also highly sensitive about discussing their own racialist feelings and will defend themselves in a highly emotionally manner against the charge of being a racist simply because they are members of the Tea Party. To these Tea Party members I simply say that “Tolerance” of a certain behaviors becomes manifest in an organization when its members fail to condemn other members who are engaging in these intolerant behaviors, yet in their silence they know such behaviors to be wrong.

In recent times Glenn Beck, Limbaugh and other right wing talk show hosts have introduced a new tactic, and that is to define people or organizations that have been involved in the fight for equal rights and civil rights for African Americans for the past six or seven decades as being RACISTS themselves. As startling as this publicly broadcast declaration is, the RACISM that they are accusing these renowned Civil Rights organizations of is RACISM AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE.  However, you will note that all of these right wing talk show hosts are very careful not to openly declare that members of the black leadership or black organizations are practicing racism against white people. The primary business of these right wing talk show hosts is “defining” those that they perceive as their enemies. Simply put, the scurrilous statement accusing the black folks (who are the subject of discussion) of practicing racism against white people IS IMPLIED in the very statement that defines a particular black person or black organization as RACIST. This despicable act also has the intentional consequence of effectively seizing the most sacred and time honored dreams and ambitions of America’s most downtrodden people and turning each beloved aspiration on its head. When these right wing talk show hosts call black leaders “racists”, they are unconditionally defining them as “BLACK RACISTS”.

African Americans, whose ancestors constantly felt the slave driver’s whip across their backs throughout American history up until the Emancipation Proclamation, are amazed that these outlandish declarations would even be broadcast over America’s airways. Most of today’s African Americans can properly be defined as unwilling preservationists of the hardships and struggles that befell American Negroes after the Civil War. Following the failure of reconstruction, southern Negro Americans were forced back into agricultural slavery via the white controlled institutions of tenant farming or share cropping. On the other hand many Negro males in the south were unjustly incarcerated by local white police, arbitrarily seized on the street and arrested on phony trumped up charges and forced into slavery to work the iron ore and coal mines through long multi-year sentences imposed by local white “kangaroo courts”. The majority of these men simply disappeared and were never heard from again as they perished in the legal custody of the southern mining companies. So it is incredible for black ears to hear some white man speaking from the luxury of his broadcast studio accuse the mistreated descendents of these long deprived and abused slaves of being RACIST? All these astonished black folks can say is “huh?” in complete bewilderment.

Why are these right wing talk show hosts doing this? Well here is my perspective and response to that question. The Republican Party is currently split into three disparate groups each striving for complete control of the Republican Party. These three groups are identified as follows; the Libertarian Republicans, the southern sons and daughters of Dixiecrats who turned Republican under Reagan, and finally  Dick Armey’s Army A.K.A the Tea Party. Currently no Republican platform or ideology exists capable of uniting these three groups. The fissures in the base of the Republican Party have grown more evident as Armey’s Army knocked off several long term well respected Republican members of Congress in recent primaries, replacing them with their own Tea Party blessed candidates. The Republican powers are desperate to bring the Party together even on a temporary basis to get through the November Congressional elections. The fact that the Republican Party hierarchy is willing to tolerate the glaring missteps of its chairman Michael Steele is a clear indicator that they are passionately against introducing further division into the rank and file of the Republican Party. Such a division (between the three groups mentioned above) is certain to erupt during the process to replace Steele once he had been fired.

So they have directed Beck and other right wing talk show hosts to amp up the volume on the one hot button issue that resonates with all three groups and that is the issue of RACE. Hence they have been busy building new black bogey men to scare people within these three groups into uniting against the centuries old enemy for white folks, i.e., the BLACK MAN. Since the Republican internet interns were so successful in putting ACORN out of business, they had to create a new bogey man. 1, 2, 3, Presto! Here comes the NEW BLACK PANTHERS fresh out of the Republican think tank and built to order! By the way, the political tactic of using “fear of the Negro” is as old as American politics itself. Political demagoguery in America’s antebellum period often was filled with racial innuendos in public statements exchanged between white opponents. Since racially tinted political bombast long preceded the 15th amendment to the Constitutional giving the Negro the right to vote; it is therefore obvious that white men invented the concept of the RACE CARD and developed an effective method of using its psychological influence to shape the opinions of white voters.

Glenn Beck, however, is naturally creative on his own. So he decided to desecrate the 28th of August, the anniversary of Dr. King’s famous “I have a Dream” speech (given during the 1963 March on Washington) by holding his own “March for Freedom and jobs” event the same day and on the same site. Beck has announced that he intends to read Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech during his event. However, the dog whistle here to his followers by Beck in making this public announcement is that the “March for Freedom” will actually consist of thousands of white people marching for their freedom against (Beck’s unsubstantiated reports of) black racism. Hence Beck’s reading of Dr. King’s speech, if coherent, is most likely to be turned on its head and thus become an additional instrument for racialists to use to inspire white people to seek relief from Beck’s (manufactured) oppressive black racists.

African American groups will only enhance Beck’s twisted cause if they show up in Washington without the accompaniment of significant white support on the 28th to protest Beck’s event. Beck is hoping that a large group of angry black protesters will show up and attempt to disrupt his event. If there is a large all black protest turnout he will simply use their presence as evidence that the blacks in America are seeking to oppress all white Americans. Beck will also use every frame of video of black people protesting his event as a recruitment tool which will enable him to enlist more white members to his twisted cause. Hopefully, African American groups can enlist large numbers of white demonstrators to join them in protesting Glenn Beck’s event. A huge multiracial protest turn out will turn Glenn Beck’s big day into a mediocre news event and thus go a long way towards encouraging this racialist misfit to retire.

First, warning this is an unpolished RANT against the Democrats along with the progressives and liberals. Second, I do not subscribe to the theory of passive aggression, rather I subscribe to hit em in the mouth and kick their ass aggression. So this is where I am coming from, so if you’re up to it, go dig my complaints below the fold.
Just suppose for a minute that the Congressional Republicans are in the situation that the Congressional Democrats are currently in. Specifically, in this inverted scenario the Senate Democrats have continued their practice of voting NO on everything and this time they blocked a critical extension of the unemployment payments to all the states. Millions of Americans have been left WITH NO INCOME whatsoever. Millions of Americans will not be able to pay their rent or make their house payment, or even get a little Mac and a coke at their local McDonalds. So using a little imagination, what do you think the Republicans would do in this instance?

We don’t need a lot of imagination to predict that in this inverted scenario, the Republicans would be blasting TV and radio spots across the country showing desperate crying white men and women distraught over their inability to put food on the table for their poor sad eyed children. Each TV spot would place the blame squarely on the shoulders of those cruel insensitive corporation enriched Democrats who simply don’t give a damn if Americans starve to death in America. I’m sure that you’ll agree with me that the Republican Video and picture factories would be working overtime to paint the American countryside with these accusatory videos. They would distribute these devastating ads directly to the local TV stations across the nation, bypassing the networks and therefore get more concentrated airtime for their advertising dollars.

Now let’s flip the political situation back to reality. The Democrats are currently standing in the position to publicly damn the Republicans for leaving millions of Americans penniless and hungry for the foreseeable future. Yet the Democrats are silent, sitting back like the passive KIGME’s that Al Capp drew in his cartoons years ago. Let me digress for a minute to tell you about the KIGME characters that Capp came up with. The KIGME was a soft round white penguin looking friendly character. However, they were not birds and they sort of acted like the Boppo the clown toys. KIGME’s did not need any physical care and mysteriously reproduced overnight like rabbits. KIGME’s hung around human beings for the sole purpose to get kicked around whenever somebody lost their temper and needed to beat up on something. Every time someone kicked a KIGME in the butt, it would immediately respond with shouts of glee and pleasure and begged the person to please do it again. Since the KIGME was indestructible, people could kick them around until the angry person collapsed from sheer physical exhaustion. The KIGME character in the Sunday comics was Al Capp’s contribution to world peace.

It seems to me that the Republicans have decided that Democrats are the modern version of Al Capp’s KIGME’s, and have decided to treat them as such. That’s why they didn’t have the slightest fear of blocking millions of Americans from receiving those modest subsistence $300 unemployment checks, leaving those living from check to check, flat broke. As the Republicans surmised, all the Democrats have done is shake their heads and cluck their tongues at the brazen injustice of the insensitive Republican vote killing the unemployment extension provisions.

Since Obama became president, I have been receiving a steady stream of “transparent” emails from the White House and different organizations in the Democratic Party. All of these “transparent” emails outline some particular opposition or dirty trick that the Republicans and the Tea Party are doing to the American people, and how the Democratic Party is fighting to stop the Republicans. Each one of these emails always ends with a request for $5, $10, $20 or whatever I can afford to help the cause. Well, I am damn well fed up with these “transparent” emails from an organization that is lazy, stupid, or bordering on a scam, and can’t get up the necessary gumption to fight back against these Republicans. What is worse when they are served up a “softball” gift in the form of an awesome politically dangerous gamble by the Republicans, the Democrats just sit on their hands instead of “crowding the plate” and knocking the ball out of the park.

I have raised this issue on several occasions with my own Congressional Democratic persons, and I was told that we prefer to give the American people the facts. One Representative actually said, “If I have to politically campaign like the Republicans, I’ll get out of politics. I have principles.” The future really looks bleak for the Democratic Party when one considers that the new crop of young Republicans are diligently honing their internet, photo shopping and video production skills. Future elections are going to be fought out on a video battlefield before masses of technically ignorant voters. Currently, these young Republicans have discovered a new rule of the Internet, i.e., if it appears on YouTube first, no one cares whether it’s a lie or it’s the truth. It automatically will be accepted as gospel. No one cares about the retraction announcement declaring that the posting was all just a hoax; especially when that announcement is given a week after the original fraudulent video was posted.

Currently the Democratic Party is in disarray as it refuses to face this highly evident glaring fact that is emerging from the new age of 21st century politics. Political survival is at stake for Democrats and progressives in this country and the first step is to generate enough backbone to start serious discussion on this subject. Until then I will remain highly pissed off at the entire Democratic Party. Nuff said…..

Decades ago the obscure scientific field of Cultural Anthropology was made popular by its premier proponent Margaret Meade. Unfortunately with America’s advance into the technological era, the quaintness of anthropology was driven from America’s focus of attention by a new wave of writers who declared themselves to be futurists. As a layman, my understanding of the goal of cultural anthropology was to determine the cultural impact upon human society caused by trends and changes in economic and political processes on both local and global scales, while also monitoring the influential effect of interactive interplay between the two respective societal scalings. We must also include the impact of dominant revolutionary social inventions like television and the internet.  

Western society unfortunately has failed to appreciate the necessity of this important branch of anthropology. The sterile clear eyed perspective commentary from the masters of cultural anthropology would provide much needed guidance to help mankind stabilize their management and the level of their subsequent dependence upon advanced scientific technology. The unchecked seepage of fossil deposited oil from eons past into the modern world of the 20th and 21st centuries is a continuing event that threatens the very future existence of humanity. I will attempt to describe the nature of our real dependence on oil below the fold
The overall behavior of human society is lemming-like by nature. The masses continuously scramble to acquire and exhibit the most popular norms. Locked away in the attic of our minds is the steadfast “Jiminy Cricket” of our conscience who counsels us to stop and consider the effects upon us of that which we rush to embrace. For the teeming masses of humanity around the world this role is normally performed by the cultural anthropologists. But in a manner similar to the way we treat our ever watchful cricket, society has little or no interest in what they have to report. I should like to take the reader on a quick trip into the past pre-war (World War II) society of America. I choose the timeframe to be somewhere around 1937 to 1939. On this journey, we are going to look at the little domestic day to day things that were common in American life.

Consider that we are entering a modest single family home. As we start to enter, we note the presence of four clean empty glass milk bottles sitting opposite next to the front door entrance. Upon entry, we notice that no one is at home, so we will have to observe everything on our own. If we turn into the well kept sunny front room, we will see a large sofa and comfortable arm chairs and perhaps a coffee table in the center of the room. Standing tall on the floor and centered on the outside wall is a three foot tall cathedral shaped wooden enclosure with a shiny veneer. The front of the enclosure faces into the room and contains a wide glass covered radio dial near the top. There is a vertical line of knobs on each side of the face, and all of the knobs are likewise made of wood. This large radio was the centerpiece for family information and entertainment, and the front room served as a routine gathering spot for the entire family. As we continue our journey through the house in room after room we shockingly discover NO PLASTIC anywhere, not even in the children’s toy box. In this pre-war world the use of oil was confined to automobiles, paint supplies, industrial processes and marine applications. The family sat by that big RCA radio in the front room every Sunday evening to listen to the exciting suspenseful broadcasts of the “Shadow” mystery program brought to our ears by its sponsor, “Blue Coal”! This was normal in those days as all of our homes were heated by coal, either coke or anthracite. People were practical and clever in those days. Especially during the war they learned how to shake the partially burned coal clinkers out of the furnace ashes for burning again in the furnace. Parked in the driveway was a shiny new Fordor Ford sedan which rolled on real rubber tires. The natural rubber base material was shipped to the United States from the Firestone plantations in Liberia. The pre-war days were the pre-oil days of America.

Please excuse my digression above, but my goal is to simply drive home the seldom discussed point just how dependent Americans and most nations around the world have become on oil based consumer goods, The Main Stream Media (MSM) has created an American/world obsession with oil simply as an energy source. Make no mistake; I do not discount the heavy use of oil for energy use around the world. However, the MSM mantra is that the oil problem will go away once alternative sources of energy are in widespread use around the world. This is pure and intentional fallacy. The MSM doesn’t want the public to know just how dependent they are on the everyday consumer items that are made from oil. THERE ARE OVER 6000 PRODUCTS MADE FROM PETROLEUM! 6000 everyday consumer items! I will provide an abbreviated list below. The MSM only talks about “big oil” but never about the real culprit, the Petrochemical Industry. Petrochemicals make everything plastic from plastic bottles to polyester and the main ingredient in petrochemicals is oil.

The next time you sit in your car, take a look around. Everything in your car is made from petrochemicals, the seats, the dash board, the door panels, the steering wheel, etc. If everything oil based was removed from your car it would virtually disappear (except for the metal and glass stuff.) Below is a partial list of consumer oil based products provided by http://www.ranken-energy.com/.

Solvents     Diesel fuel     Motor Oil     Bearing Grease
Ink     Floor Wax     Ballpoint Pens     Football Cleats
Upholstery     Sweaters     Boats     Insecticides
Bicycle Tires     Sports Car Bodies     Nail Polish     Fishing lures
Dresses     Tires     Golf Bags     Perfumes
Cassettes     Dishwasher parts     Tool Boxes     Shoe Polish
Motorcycle Helmet     Caulking     Petroleum Jelly     Transparent Tape
CD Player     Faucet Washers     Antiseptics     Clothesline
Curtains     Food Preservatives     Basketballs     Soap
Vitamin Capsules     Antihistamines     Purses     Shoes
Dashboards     Cortisone     Deodorant     Footballs
Putty     Dyes     Panty Hose     Refrigerant
Percolators     Life Jackets     Rubbing Alcohol     Linings
Skis     TV Cabinets     Shag Rugs     Electrician’s Tape
Tool Racks     Car Battery Cases     Epoxy     Paint
Mops     Slacks     Insect Repellent     Oil Filters
Umbrellas     Yarn     Fertilizers     Hair Coloring
Roofing     Toilet Seats     Fishing Rods     Lipstick
Denture Adhesive     Linoleum     Ice Cube Trays     Synthetic Rubber
Speakers     Plastic Wood     Electric Blankets     Glycerin
Tennis Rackets     Rubber Cement     Fishing Boots     Dice
Nylon Rope     Candles     Trash Bags     House Paint
Water Pipes     Hand Lotion     Roller Skates     Surf Boards
Shampoo     Wheels     Paint Rollers     Shower Curtains
Guitar Strings     Luggage     Aspirin     Safety Glasses
Antifreeze     Football Helmets     Awnings     Eyeglasses
Clothes     Toothbrushes     Ice Chests     Footballs
Combs     CD’s & DVD’s     Paint Brushes     Detergents
Vaporizers     Balloons     Sun Glasses     Tents
Heart Valves     Crayons     Parachutes     Telephones
Enamel     Pillows     Dishes     Cameras
Anesthetics     Artificial Turf     Artificial limbs     Bandages
Dentures     Model Cars     Folding Doors     Hair Curlers
Cold cream     Movie film     Soft Contact lenses     Drinking Cups
Fan Belts     Car Enamel     Shaving Cream     Ammonia
Refrigerators     Golf Balls     Toothpaste     Gasoline

Americans consume petroleum products at a rate of three-and-a-half gallons of oil and more than 250 cubic feet of natural gas per day each! But, as shown here petroleum is not just used for fuel.

There are numerous sites on the internet that provide similar information as the graph above. So the 800 pound question is what do we do about it? With this level of oil based products firmly entrenched in the daily habitual lives of mankind around the globe; removal of these products from the lives of mankind would beyond revolutionary at this point. Referring again to my introductory paragraph above, proper public consideration of the ongoing conclusions of an established cultural anthropologist would have likely prevented us from reaching this perilous position in our evolution.
Mankind is fortunate to be currently standing on the greatest inventive threshold in known human history, and the solution to our petrochemical dependence lies in the emergence in the new science of Nanotechnology. Nanotechnology can create other materials with the desirable properties of plastics but made from other yet to be created resources. Proper diversity in resource selection through engineering nanometrics will protect us from following victim once again to a single physical resource.

With a tip of my hat I will introduce myself… I am a simple layman but pardon me, it appears a great deal of plain factual information is missing from all of the cacophonous material being continuously broadcast by the Main Stream Media (MSM) from Lousiana concerning the British Petroleum (BP) underwater oil gusher spewing forth in the Gulf Of Mexico. Since I did reasonable well in high school physics, there are many things about this oil gusher that have me scratching my head. Expert after expert have offered their opinions, ranging from representatives of BP to Dr. Chu the White House energy secretary, but in the midst of all this technical prattle (Blow Out Preventers and such) the real facts are still missing. I provide a list of what I am looking for below the fold.

The first bit of information that I am looking for is comprhensive GEOLOGICAL information for that area of the Gulf where the BP Oil drilling rig burned and collasped into the ocean releasing the underwater oil gusher.
The second bit of information that I am looking for is the results of the the original BP GEOLOGICAL SURVEY estimate of the size of the OIL RESERVE in that location.
The last bit of iinformation that is critcal is an accurate reading of the FLOW RATE of the oil spewing out of the BP underwater gusher.

Neither BP or the Government is willing to release this information to the general public, because with it a high school student (who has successfully completed a pre-college course in introductory physics) could come up with a fact based estimate as to how much oil will be released into the ocean.
Corporate stupidity on behalf of BP prevented them from releasing this critical data to the public. They followed the kneejerk reactions of most corporations, which is to “whitewash” the severity and damage caused by their neglegence. There would have been less public outrage is they were “straight” with the public and provided the real fact regarding the situation. Instead BP proposed a succession of “Rube Golberg” gimmicks that might have a statistical chance of stopping the outflow of oil from the underwater gusher.

The measured oil outflow pressure would in effect specify the amount of counter-pressure needed to equalize the outflow pressure of the oil. Simple physics says if out-pressure = in-pressure = no-flow in either direction. The stuff used is actually irrevelent as long it is able to maintain its integrity under the required pressure.

Most important is the size estimate of the reserve and the geological shape of the reserve along with the geology of the area. This information will reveal whether ONE ADDITIONAL well drilled into the reserve will lower the outflow pressure of the current underwater gusher sufficiently to allow normal stoppage procedures and eventual cap off. It is my belief that the BP proposed so-called “relief well” scheduled to be finished in late August WILL NOT reduce the pressure in the OVERALL RESERVE enough to allow plugging of the current out of control underwater gusher and provide for its eventual cap off. This is my hunch, but given the data listed above I could make my prediction based on factual data. The geological data for the area is critical. This is the information we need instead of endless animations of BP’s “top hats” and “top kills”.

President Obama handled this horrific diaster in a clumsy stupid manner. Faced with the greatest disaster in the history of the nation, the Obama adminstration was content to hold to the legal position that BP was financially responsible for the damage. What Obama failed to understand is that there are some things that CANNOT be measured in terms of the almighty dollar,i.e. there are some things that rise above monetary value, they are PRICELESS! Instead of commissioning a raft of study groups “to make sure this does not happen again”, Obama needs to bring the Oil Barons together in the Oval Office and issue the following edict. “This is a NATIONAL EMERGENCY! I want you to form a consortium to drill the BP reserve with the number of wells needed to reduce the pressure in the BP reserve the fastest, so that the current BP broken well head gusher can be effectively shut off. We will resolve the financial and propriety issues with such an operation after we have secured the situation in the Gulf. For your future in offshore drilling in America, I expect FULL COOPERATION!” I can only hope that someone in the White House will urge the President to adopt this suggestion and move quickly in this respect. This I hope both for the Obama administration and the future of the folks who live along the southern coast lines of America.  
 

Under the stuff Americans are too damn lazy to be informed about, you can add “an understanding of Libertarianism”. Libertarianism is a $50 word, and as my kids used to tell me, “we don’t know nothing about any 50 dollar words!” Ok let’s have a quickie definition so you all can get a little understanding, and it follows below.
Libertarianism is an ideology that espouses belief in NO GOVERNMENT AT ALL period! NO GOVERNMENT means exactly that, no Army, no Navy, no Air Force, no Coast Guard, no Congress and the President’s office would be a strictly ceremonial unpaid position. Voting would be strictly limited to LOCAL ISSUES and on a purely voluntary basis among the residents of the respective town or city. The issue of local public services such as police and fire would also be voluntary and would function like the auxiliary police and fire units in small towns across America today. Lastly there would be NO TAXATION WHATSOEVER. No Local, State or Federal Taxes period. In a pure libertarian environment every town in America would resemble the Plymouth Plantation community in its early days on American shores, except there would be no friendly visiting Indians bringing fresh foodstuffs and game. This is the vision of pure Libertarianism.

Now there was a split in the Libertarian party between those insisting that the party remain steadfastly committed to PURE LIBERTARIANISM and those who were more disposed to a practical form of libertarianism. That is those in the practical camp saw the need to preserve the institutions established by the American Constitution, but strictly only those sections of government identified in the original text (and amendments) of the Constitution. Nothing else period! From their perspective huge monolithic wings of government like the Internal Revenue Service would be eliminated. Congress itself would have to personally perform the task of collecting taxes as that is what is specified in the Constitution.

So there you are folks. This is what the Ron and Rand Paul’s of America have as their primary purpose, i.e., total dismantling of the Federal Government as America has known it for generations upon generations.

One other thing, when the Libertarian convention split, Ronald Reagan welcomed the practical libertarians into the Republican Party insisting that they had common cause with the Republican anti-tax philosophy. Thus today outside of the Southern former Democratic Dixiecrats turned Republican; Libertarians are the second largest block in the Republican Party. Further, because of their fanaticism the Libertarians have not only established themselves throughout the national base of the party, they have successfully converted the Republican ideology from their traditional anti-tax position to one obsessed with the creation of the smallest government possible. This is why the #1 Republican talking point is reducing the size of government.

Make no mistake real Libertarians are highly educated folks. These are no tea party rabble rousers. They are clever and deliberate and fanatically driven to achieve their goal, which is why I view them as the most dangerous people in the world to not only the American government, but to the traditional American way of life.

Witness the fact and the subtle use of (Dick) Army’s Army a.k.a. the Tea Party by the Libertarian Republicans. As Army’s Army scoured the landscape looking for candidates to primary established Republicans, local Libertarians quietly volunteered to take on the Tea Party mantle. This subtle move into primary contests across the nation has given the Libertarian movement new life to the degree that they could have ever imagined. Obviously many of these Libertarian novices were woefully unprepared to enter politics on any level, never mind for House and Senate seats, and they have failed miserably. But the weight of those who succeeded will carry tremendous weight with the media. People

Rand Paul will continue to wrap himself in the Tea Party mantle until if and when he makes it to the Senate. Once elected he will then seek every opportunity to praise the values libertarianism in every political venue, legislation and amendment. Libertarians have learned how to play to the media, and a possible Senator Paul will attract the best Libertarian minds in the country to advise his every move and speech. This is serious business America and your current level of ignorance on this subject is likely to cause you pain and deprivation in the future that currently you cannot begin to imagine.

One last farewell to Army’s Army. These people essentially have volunteered to be overfed pawns who are eagerly willing to be used as so much disposable fodder to facilitate the rise of this fanatical group of ideologs, the like that America has never seen.
Most of these senior and near senior boomers rely exclusively on the government supplied support of Social Security and Medicare. Some are even former government employees who also depend on a government retirement pension. Yet here are these unimaginative imbeciles campaigning around the country to do away with the very entity that puts food on their tables and provides facilities to service their medical needs. Their moans of heart breaking disbelief will be droned out by the rush to curtail their few existing government benefits by the newly empowered Libertarian politicians sitting in the Hall of Congress.