A Woman. A Prostitute. A Slave. - NYTimes.com

A Woman. A Prostitute. A Slave. - NYTimes.com

It is naiveté to believe that human trafficking does not exist in America. It is the drug capital of the world, that has been proven.  The whole world knows it.  So why would anyone lull oneself into the idea that this darkness exists only in "other" countries than ours.  There is too much news in documentaries, world news, etc., to keep people abreast of this blight on any civilization, for anyone to be ignorant of it.  Therefore, there is no excuse. 

Only when evils are recognized and acknowledged can any attempt be made to do what one can to rectify the conditions or situations.  Just like parents teach their kids not to speak to strangers, not to take candy or anything else from strangers, surely parents are teaching their children about the dangers of pornography - both sex and drugs.  The only defense is knowledge and accepting responsibility for one's own safety, and one's own "knowing." 

I understand what it means to want to be free.  Yet this young woman forfeited a college degree in a country that we love to call "Communist," by allowing her boredom to land her in the worst kind of slavery that a woman can experience.  When one lives in a country that really believes in education as far as possible (and which makes great strides in a country as huge as China), surely it must not be as detrimental to one's welfare as some like to lead others to believe.   She could still be using her education were she still there.

Instead of this woman's parents and other relatives warning her of the tremendous chance she was taking with her life (although they could have and she ignored it), they aided and abetted her by putting up their homes for collateral.  That should have been a flag that there is smuggling, and then there is smuggling.  This smuggling was not the kind of "underground railroad" that leads to freedom (legal or not), but to slavery of the worst kind.  The smuggling trade is rampant in China, and America, too, as I said earlier; otherwise, there would be no "foothold" or "anchor" or "destination points" to bring slave property to for drop-off.   All over the world this trade goes on mostly quietly whereas the chattel might be among us in plain sight but cannot disclose it for fear of their lives. 

In the end, sometimes we find out things are too easy, even if expensive, and therefore they must be "fishy."  The greatest way I suggest in trying to become a citizen of another country is to go through the process, even though it might be lengthy.  At least it's legal and there is no chance of things like this happening.  It is when we try to avoid the necessity of following the rules for useful gain that we find it was better left alone.  Had she not done this, she and her parents possibly would be happier for it, and maybe sitting somewhere in one of the many McDonalds restaurants found in China, having a ball.   I hope her and others like her the best ever, and that alerts like yours serve as a wake-up call to those who should not even need it.

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Polar Bears’ Arctic Habitat Protected

Sarah Palin's North Korea Slip: 'We've Gotta Stand With Our North Korean Allies' (AUDIO)

Sarah Palin's North Korea Slip: 'We've Gotta Stand With Our North Korean Allies' (AUDIO)

Lord, help that little rudderless thing.

Napolitano: The Ball's In My Court Now - HUMAN EVENTS

Napolitano: The Ball's In My Court Now - HUMAN EVENTS


Not only is the Legal Affairs female, who is supposed to be professional, nonsensical, but only other people with no aim but foolishness would stay where no sense is being made.  Worse than that, fanciful flightiness is passed as serious factual data.  As the Apostle Paul said about "voices," I say there are all kinds of terrorists in the world.  Ann Coulter is one, the like-minded are others.  The aim of terrorism is to raise terror of some sort.  That is acted out ever so readily by some people in America - and you don't have to go to the "criminal element" to find it, because it's right under the criminal's nose.  

Nancy Pelosi Elected House Minority Leader | Marymhm's Blog

Nancy Pelosi Elected House Minority Leader | Marymhm's Blog

Unemployment Extension Standoff 'A Crummy Deal For The American Public'

Part 2 of 4: service, but are expected to live in filthiness in sickness and in health. They are counted unworthy of sanitary conditions in health facilities among other things. They are denied the benefits they WORKED FOR and for which some died. Who will get their benefits but the Government and the Private Sector, which won't have to build up their pension funds if they have them anymore. They have no recourse to the "better life" they gave their time and lives for (some of us) us to have. But the majority of Americans have not seen a better life in many years. Sadly, too many of veterans escape the poverty of "thanklessness" by finding solutions to their own lack of solutions.



The powers don't care that many in this country are in need of everything including soap to bathe with, if they can find a private watering hole. Those who lie about their care for those they don't care about have no heart, no matter how many tears the new majority leader cries. The bottom line is the unemployed in this country need the benefits that the rich GOP has blocked, while contending they are FOR THE PEOPLE. Why is it that people in this country consider it to be RIGHT AND TRUE that American workers who have toiled for these benefits are considered SCUM if they seek them, to try to provide
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Unemployment Extension Standoff 'A Crummy Deal For The American Public'

Part 4 of 4: All power has a mountaintop or pinnacle. Once that is reached, there is no way but DOWN (it might be in a day or a thousand years). Our ways will find us out, we are told by the Good Book. They never consider that if grownups don't eat, dependent kids don't eat (unless they join gangs, killing each other by selling drugs for the People in Power until they send them to prison). Some would admit if asked that at least there is food in prison.



Some of Republican zombies all over this country, who have straws (or sand) for brains, never connect the dots. So they have ample power to sway them into the lull of trance in order to put over what they will on the very people they are elected to serve. The word SERVE probably sticks in their their throat, because they are servants of themselves and those like them (the rich, not the poor). They will sacrifice their "poor" relatives because they care nothing for those who are hurting and looking for things to get better. They will get better, but whether Repubs know it or not, they will NOT GET BETTER BECAUSE OF THEM, I venture to say.
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Unemployment Extension Standoff 'A Crummy Deal For The American Public'

Part 3 of 4: for their families or themselves as best they can. One of the biggest injustices we face is the idiotic idea that people who have worked for their benefits are not ENTITLED to receive them. What does entitled mean if not that? They are treated as lazy or "thugs." Remember the "thugs" who stood up for their rights in New York? It was all about money the powers did not want the American worker to have. They were right in their demands but the officials in charge of their city's scam called them thugs all the same.



The rich always belittle the working class when they seek their own welfare that they have worked for. One writer called America a Third World Country. If the mentalities who assert their righteousness over anyone else's have their way, we will be a Third World Country, and this PRESIDENT did not create it. Hopefully, the crooks will tell their kids the truth about why they are where they will be by then. They need to look over history.
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Unemployment Extension Standoff 'A Crummy Deal For The American Public'

1 of 4: It used to be that this scenario pertained more to jobless veterans before, during, and after the Great Depression, and among the other jobless poor, especially minorities, whom the private sector and the government let become street dwellers, pawns of every kind of evil, some of them becoming like unto it to survive. It is rapidly losing it darker hue. Just as the Devil knows no not for skin color, neither does poverty. The rich found it out during the stock market crash of the Great Depression. They couldn't stand it; many perished because they could not bear the thought and weight of poverty. Imagine. But how quickly we forget!



Had it not been for the enlightened efforts of the Roosevelt era (from whence came the types of benefits we talk about here), it would have been even worse than it is today. Poverty is a subculture more so now than it used to be: the poor are more unhealthy, unsound mentally, due to fatigue of battle at home and abroad. Further, veterans mostly find no sense of place when they return home. If they don't have faithful families or others who love them, veterans really do return to a homeless land, where they are given lip
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Sarah Palin Book 'America By Heart' Hits Obama, Defends Actions (ADVANCE EXCERPTS)

Sarah Palin Book 'America By Heart' Hits Obama, Defends Actions (ADVANCE EXCERP
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THE HISTORY MAKER: Of course, had the President not made his history, she would have no history. She and the GOP should be grateful to him for that. It is because of him that certain sectors of society have begun to stockpile more guns by whites, set up more militia groups by whites, and gather many ducks in a row in the hopes that he would be no more by now - literally.


COMMITTED MOTHER: Yes, you know her models are Juno and Knocked-Up. It must be admitted, they have come a very long way. There was a time when even TV was an abomination and youngsters or anyone else were sentenced to that dreadful Hell fire if they slipped and fell short of the Grace of God.


Oh no, This is said to be a Glenn Beck sound-alike. Those quotes I suggest will only be the ones she espouses to be like her and her circle. Any others they will endeavor to discredit by hook or crook, stealth even.


THINGS HE SAID IN HIS 2008 ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: I whole-heartedly agree with the words of the then President-elect. That said, I suggest that we give up on ourselves or our ideas and ideals too readily when we feel stymied. Predators can smell that and pounce on it. In reality we are our saviors (and I do not mean in the same way of course as ST. JOHN 3:16 means it). I deem her and anyone else like her QUASI-religious.


Now I'm going to paraphrase Scripture very spiritually and mean it: The Master Jesus said to the 38-year paraplegic rise up, take up his bed, and WALK to his house. In another place he said well people don't need a doctor, sick people do. The physician was told (each individual) to heal himself. That is to say if anything is worth it, never give up on it no matter how feeble it seems. It's only an appearance trying to scare the feeble-minded, which is easy because their immunity is low anyway.


SARA PALIN ACCUSES THE PRESIDENT OF: I suggest there is "a narcissism" running through her party as well as her head. For her to cipher the idea of narcissism out of those words is astounding. There is so much truth in those words the President-elect spoke that some could become uneasy about them because 1) they could feel he exaggerates our worth and therefore won't own that for fear of getting "the big head," or 2) they are afraid of displeasing God not understanding who God is or what he believe about us and tries to teach us about ourselves. But God's teaching is able to make grown-ups of those who strive to "walk" those Principles, and children are easier to manipulate whereas maturity cannot be. Children are loyal and faithful no matter how ugly, mean, and unworthy parents might be unless they break them, whereby they might become psychos and every other kind of ILL WIND.


SLY IS AS SLY DOES: The only practices that should be "antithetical" to American values" should be injustice and all its friends. All the injustices done against the poor in favor of the rich are or should be anti-Spiritual values, since they are anti-Spiritual, -moral, -ethical, and every other synonymous expletives. The ugliness of trying to pass oneself off as truly religious is a travesty. Yet we are told what TRUE RELIGION is, and that is NOT overall an American value, no matter how much these same types of people try to pass this country off as a Christian nation or Nation for Christians.


This oil and vinegar do not mix. If anyone of those who tout that they are so much more Christian than another, James (NT) can tell them what TRUE RELIGION IS: he defined it for us. We cannot do that if we are not for the aid of anyone BUT THE RICH whose only need is to get richer. He had a warning for the rich - the ones in this subject. But they don't care about that; it wipes right off like dirt from the bottom of a shoe.


A SAVIOR: The president never asserted to be anyone's savior, but a hopeful catalyst for change or rather the change agent or agent of change. Therefore, he never "supposedly promised" to be anyone's Jesus Christ, that would be beneath him being the intelligent man that he is. Well, at least she calls him a "wealth re-distributor," not a SOCIALIST, Communist, or Natzi. She really describes herself because when it comes to slyness, she's the "sly practitioner."


Look back over her antics and tactics, and if one is not delusional, it shows clearly her shrewd, sly-fox aptitude. Now think what the implications of this would be for one who might be found stashed in the White House, which she has admittedly deemed dull or something, or very disenchanting next to roaming around in the wilds with the OTHER grizzlies, foxes, and snakes. She prefers that environment to that of the ELEGANT intelligence and beauty that must be at home in the White House, which is the White House itself.


Anyone who is rich and associates helping the less fortunate as a threat to our freedom is pulling the wool over the eyes of those kept in a trance of ignorance for this country's duration. They know if the people of America were to come into their own, they would not have a certain base of "the masses," whom they can manipulate into submission to whatever they put into words.


Also, unless I missed something, and I still have the videos (48 hours, 24 before, 24 after, the election), the President-Elect never mentioned our work was in heaven but here on earth. Nothing is hard in heaven; everything is hard down here or God would never have said it. He (the President) assured us that the work is hard and of long duration. "It won't be overnight," "it won't be easy" I think are some of his almost exact words. Palin and hers cater to gullible people, who allow them to feed them half-truths, innuendos, and outright lies while they hold their breath (a form of sorcery) till they say "Amen." Talk about NON-TRANSPARENCY.


OTHER QUASISMS. When I read this, I thought vividly about people who, in order to mean something to themselves, must somehow demean someone else. We see it in race relations from time immemorial, beginning in reality with Adam and Eve. If my self-esteem depended on my neighbor's lack of it, then my self-esteem is bogus, fraud, a non-entity. If by my acknowledging another's worth I belittle mine, then I never had it. If being able to say I'm sorry about a known wrong makes me less of a person, then I never was one to begin with. If admitting I made or make mistakes means I'm lowered in the eyes of the world, then the world is not WORTHY OF ME.

That could be possible, since in the Book of Hebrews people like some of us the Word said are too good for this world (meaning those who had already died in faith that you and I would be here this day, for example). Palin has a very upside down world view and mindset.


Condescending means the man (Mr. President) must have thought himself above and beyond the little Muslim men of the world, stepping down off his little off-white throne to share with them a shallow platitude he drummed up. No, I suggest. She and her type hate to admit what I just said above, to the point of outright denial hoping it be accepted. Further, I believe that is why they have set out to rewrite things they don't like and tell it their way (retrograde behavior). For example, there is their take on the Vietnam War. That writer set out to prove the Left was the perpetrator of whatever they don't like about the history of the Vietnam War.


I wager without money that they would never humble themselves to openly admit that mistakes and outright crimes have been made and maybe still are, against poor and/or illiterate minorities (remember Syphilis, for one?). They have come against any thing great people can admit. It takes greatness whether we believe it or not to admit its own faults that have hopefully been overcome. If we don't live in the Dark Ages anymore, we should not want to keep up some of its dastardly practices.


Sarah Palin takes feigned offense about the perception of being equated to Nazi Germany during the divisions over the Arizona anti-immigration bill and its repercussions. I am stunned since they just love to ascribe all these names to the President and the administration. I never thought of MSNBC until after the election and heard the conservatives ranting about that media so much. Of course I never watched Fox either, so I didn't start after the election either. They mention that media so they must not have gotten favorable ratings from them. Therefore, she pouts.


"CULTURE CRITIC": The book is not out yet, but I can imagine the idiotic tirades she must have going on in it about the spiritually destitute liberals and possibly even their kids. She is in good company with her friend, Ann Coulter. They have such genius insight as to who is and who is not …. It is truly amazing how powerful they put the Left up to be if it can destroy Religion, which preceded the Left and the Right. But they consider progressives (which means forward, always forward, or it would not be progressive) as living in darkness. I wonder what type of light they live in, since it cannot be the Celestial Light. Progressives are in a terrible two-prong darkness: spiritually lost or spiritual denial. Oh, how I thank God he didn't put the safety of religion in their hands. No one would make it. They probably wouldn't even want to either.

The conservation mindset can be so obnoxious and deficient in all reason so much one hesitates to approach it. Case in point: America is a basket case of many religions, all of whose adherents go to some type of religious establishment. Let the conservatives tell it, only they go to church it seems, and all others don't, as if going to church is a mandate for being Spiritual. Some spiritual people don't frequent where they darken the door because THEY darken the door. "What fellowship does light have with darkness?" the Bible asks. Now that's a thought. Her stake in this culture war falls by its own stupidity. The demons go to church FAITHFULLY. It is not forbidden to them. Spiritually dead or lost people go to church with the Saints if any. They are not forbidden.


That is one of the most absurd statements she has uttered: "as alien beings, people who are "largely poor, uneducated and easy to command…." Thank goodness the majority of educators I believe recognize a higher power than themselves. They know they don't have to verify it with a conservative. No conservative is able to validate him/her self, let alone anyone else. Notice who the helpers of this world tend to be: WORLD EDUCATORS; doctors; some politicians since all are not false or corrupt; people in entertainment, those who have grown out of selfishness and see a needy world, thereby fulfilling their purposes in this world - helps of all kinds. These people are not recognized by conservatives except among themselves. And their names are NOT LEGION.


FEMINISM: The first false statement: where she gets her stats I don't know. She proves she is delusional. The majority of American women are not on the same par with Sarah Palin. The majority of American woman are not rich (MOSTLY WHITE) women, who could if they wanted to, have abortions in private or even help their girls abort (and the world would be none the wiser) and pass themselves off as Pro-lifers; or on the other hand, they could send their daughters off to have their babes in secret, then putting them up for adoption, again, no one the wiser. I can imagine their names are legion, they just don't tell it. Yet no secrets stay hid forever, Jesus promised.


The majority of American women, many of whom work minimum wage jobs, don't have the luxury that conservative women enjoy, not even the majority of poor conservative women. For example, just ask the Appalachian women what they do to make it through a day. Ask them how many times a month they frequent the hair and nail salons. Ask them how many nannies can they afford to take care of their kids as they frivolously waste time because they have it to waste. Ask them how many times they might pray to their God for help with putting food on their table. Their help does not come from big bank accounts. These among others are the majority of American women.


Whether they are liberal or conservative, they are not in Palin's camp. Palin has many choices she can make because she has the means. The majority of woman must choose between minimum choices. If the Palin ilk can receive this, it is the "other" women who had the biggest effect in affording them the rights they treat today as if they always had. The Nineteenth Amendment is not 100 years old, yet people like Palin treat it as if it always has been. The conservative woman did not get that right until the liberal woman got it - not before. If the conservative brain can receive, the majority of people in this country and mostly the world over, are liberal, by necessity if nothing else. They might not be able to admit it openly for many reasons. Also, liberal does not mean to one liberal woman what it might mean to another liberal woman. These pages prove the same is true of the conservative woman, except when they disagree on a thing, one or other is labeled as a LIBERAL, as if that might whip them into submission to the fold. Lord help.


ANOTHER OF HER FALSE STATEMENTS: the two black men she puts up before the world as examples of blacks not considering themselves as victims of racism. Another exaggerated half-truth and misstatement. First, neither of those two men are poor black men. They are men of means and/or status. Of course, they would not feel the chill and sting of racism as readily as a poor black or white man, or a poor black or white woman would. Money makes a change. It might not change a pig from being a pig, but it does enable that pig to live in a better pig sty, and frequent the exalted places other exalted pigs frequent. The insult is that she puts these two men in the same category as all black men. I said about injustice that it is unjust - this is a prime example of injustice in thought and perception.


I am a minority. I have lived with racism all of my life. Yet I am not a victim. I am a world citizen who suffers from the aspects of racism. When I was able to work, I suffered that everywhere I went as did other also. Whether it was in pay relations or anything else, it was there. People still suffer it today and work to overcome the negativism associated with it. Not only those who suffer it but those who do all they can to eliminate it where they can, which is also suffrage. They are many. Many, many have died in this country and over the globe combating racism - all were not black were they? Racism is the victim itself of the need to outgrow itself. As souls increase, it will decrease. Racism is a racist - against anyone it does not want to admit has as much a right to be on this planet as it does. When racism comes to terms with that, it will cease to be a tyrant in its entirety.

Geoffrey Dunn: Sarah Palin Slams Michelle Obama in Racially Charged Passage From New Book

Geoffrey Dunn: Sarah Palin Slams Michelle Obama in Racially Charged Passage From New Book

(This of course will probably get axed but here goes:) A person must be versed by participation in the plight of the ages in human equalities/inequalities. He would possibly concede that no, Madam Obama's comments were not uttered as a racist or by racist attitudes, but rather as a pragmatic minority who is honest and in touch with her feelings. I suggest she is one who is above all sober in her way of thinking. Also, she is one who is not intimidated as some black people are by the sheer magnitude of this subject and their reactions to it. Some people don't get involved in overtly working for their own rights because they don't want the "hassle" of speaking the truth without fear of reprisal as slaves were when slaves were not free. Today we have free slaves who are still not free, mostly by choice. I suggest that is what people like Palin count on (subconsciously if nothing else). That is why so much is said about PATRIOTISM, as if only a certain sector of society can be patriotic.

If patriotism depended on the one-pointed view of some people, there never would have been any amendments to the Constitution initially or thereafter. Further, even the woman who is referenced would not be able to vote or have others vote for her. There are people who appreciate history because it is a good teacher for those who look for clear cold truth and not biased truth tainted with misperceptions and willful ignorance (which also can still be found in history books). This same tactic was used just after Michelle's and my families were emancipated and then freed by LAW, which law is still to this day needed and we know it.

When the rich and powerful lost their free labor among other things, the first thing they set out to do was to divide and conquer: POOR, RURAL WHITE PEOPLE AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE WHO HAD EVEN LESS. The aim was to set the black man up as the "poor white trash's" worst nightmare. That has not changed. I have found in my lifetime that the most prejudiced people are often some of the poorest. But having been born and reared in the country, I have of course seen both of these conditions. If people are honest today, they can see the outworkings of it. Some say this is the "German" in white people. I suggest it is the "history" in those who play that card that Sarah Palin is playing in this subject.

I also suggest that there are those who like to throw out that "card" under different disguises, who think others won't discern its true tincture or concoction. When some do not want others to work on race relations in any situation, they will accuse anyone they want, seeking to paralyze (a scorpion) with the sting of playing the race card. They use that card as if it were a Scrabble piece or a domino to be played at the opportune time. Sarah Palin plays it adeptly and subtly. For example, she and those like her will throw out the name of Rev. Wright in playing this card, as if just to mention his name will 1) make people cower in fear of being misunderstood, or worse than that, 2) make them just plain cowardly whereas they will slink back into corners they never crawled out of anyway.

Many years ago I read one history book, "BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA:  1860-1880," by WEB du Bois, in particular (among many others I read), which made me very aware of this subject, and appreciative of how white people have been manipulated as pawns against black people and other minorities (among others in those days: Jews, Chinese, and other white people even). The rich uses the poor and sometimes ignorant against the poor and sometimes ignorant. Yet I was determined because of two politicians in that book, that I would love the whole rainbow of colors for their sakes as well as that of Jesus. A real study of them made me deeply examine myself because I did not want to be like the prejudice I witnessed against my parents and everyone else like them. Yet nothing was breathed about it except in the safety of the heart or among "friends."

Sarah Palin Slams Michelle Obama in Racially Charged Passage From New Book

I commend you for trying, which makes all the difference in the world. There is a book I mentioned earlier on these topics ("Black Reconstruction in America: 1860-1880"; that is the CORRECT NAME). It graciously deals with the reasons the prison system is as it stands today. The project began during the so-called reconstruction; it is a continuation project designed to enslave ex-slaves and other minorities (especially Native Americans) in one way or another (drugs anyone?).



The ways and means of that project are well-depicted in that book in various places (and is playing out in the lives of many today). We all know the judicial system is not based on equality as yet. Further, its yield is the uneven judgment criteria in crime and punishment. I think that is why books like that one were never circulated in the American school systems much, especially in the South, because they are among the many MUZZLED "light-bringers."



But the Universal Code as I like to think of it is the equilibrating factor, that is, whatever hurts one will hurt the other as much in the long or short run; whatever is good for one (if it is harmless) is good for another; whatever good is withheld from one maliciously will be deducted from the other's pocketbook (whatever it is). We all pay for the ignorance of many; we all reap the benefits of the philanthropically good-hearted few.
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Dancing With the Tea Party

Here's hoping all your predictions come true, General. I didn't delve into that scenario. It's like playing lottery - it is too nerve-wracking for me. Good luck. Don't forget if you saw Barbara Walters that Palin said "I think so" when asked if she could beat the President in a 2012 election. To me that was a sure admission that she WILL run for president in 2012.



I hope the DWTS finale ends with worthy dancing taking the trophy. This I believe is a duel between QUALITY and QUANTITY. She has no quality but she has manhandled (or the mama grizzly one) quantity to her advantage, via manipulation somehow. My hope is that quality will win out. Yet, if utter embarrassment happens, I will forgive all those involved in it, because this involves good taste and style in the Arts. I do hope true art wins out simply because it should. If this were a case of the Prince and the Pauper, I'd take the prince this time. That, too, is why I don't watch it except for last season.
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Dancing With the Tea Party

It's just too bad that Americans must seek stars rather than consider themselves as lights they can seek out and better from within. We wonder why our children have such feeble values in so many areas of life. It is not fair, because they see these things in the grown-ups and they emulate those values; thereby seeking out star power too, no matter how corrupt it is or how far below "good" they slighter. So long as they are stars, they must be accepted. This is what they are taught.


I suggest this sentiment is a backlash of early American history when (in reality taking a homeland from the AMERICANS) the people also decried the "celebrity" connotations of "King" and "Monarchy." In addition, they were also stars, and people did and do hold them as stars. It is going on right before our eyes today with the coming royal wedding in Great Britain! We went about to establish tour own types of stars, short of kingdoms of crowns and thrones.
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Carole Bayer Sager: Dancing With the Tea Party

Carole Bayer Sager: Dancing With the Tea Party

This reminds me of one of Homer's epics here & there. I heard a preacher (Apostle Charles O. Miles) that "If we don't stand for something, we will fall for anything." I have said it, say it again: No, young Miss Palin cannot dance, and nobody except pretenders'd say she can except under duress of some kind or to get a favorable recognition of some sort. At least it is a WAKEUP call (as if they needed it) for some to deduce that anything can happen if the right people are behind it - for good or bad. Laziness will not apply henceforward.

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Digg - Do U.S. Airport Need Israelification Instead of Naked Body Scanners?

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Man Shoots TV Because Bristol Palin Still on DWTS | WSAV TV

Man Shoots TV Because Bristol Palin Still on DWTS | WSAV TV

I'm so sorry this gent got that irate about a no-dancing dancer. I bypassed this show because Palin was on it, and the first episode showed she was not a dancer (and I'm sure she won't become one). No matter what lies anyone tells about how well she does, she is not a good dancer. She knows it, her mom knows it, and those who are voting for her know it, too.

This reminds me of some people who, in order to get on the NYT bestseller list or some other list, might go out and buy up their own books to meet the requirement for getting on those lists. Someone has a mojo working here and it is a disgrace to the profession, because those who are worthy of staying and competing with the best, are and have been eliminated, especially Brandy and her mate. Even though ABC says to the contrary, I suggest somehow this show is rigged (that's the mojo - and only those who use it know what it is). The Tea is somehow seeping into the election system - somehow.

Those two (Brandy and M.) are so gracious it is awe-inspiring. Nobody wants to really tell the truth about what an awful dancer this young woman is, as if that will make her a better dancer. Also, that some people pay for their college degrees, is a certainty, somebody must be paying for her tenure on this show, whatever the mojo is. It is so superficial, because she ALWAYS looks as if she knows she should not be there (even while she is dancing), yet she pretends that she is doing well, and blast all the "haters" and etc.

I'm glad the man's wife is okay. I'm sorry too, that he gave up his freedom for a woman who is not worth the time he will spend in prison. Rash judgment never pays good dividends. Never. As for me, I'm embarrassed that such a sophisticated show as DWTS will always be connected with this SCANDAL.

I've heard some say they will NEVER watch the show again, I know how they feel. I only watched it last season because I knew the GooGoo Doll would win - she's a dancer and she won worthily. All last season's stars were worthy opponents. This is the paltriest presentation ever as far as I'm concerned. Brandy and her dance mate should still be there contending. I am not a lonely camper here.

Bill Clinton Bans Facebook, Twitter Use During Dreamforce Keynote Address

Bill Clinton Bans Facebook, Twitter Use During Dreamforce Keynote Address

Well. He will be labelled as one who does not want there to be TRANSPARENCY to aid the public. That is the label given when reporters want to be in the know to ensure they come out from there with evidence in hand - before anyone else if possible.

Already I've read comments about possible ways to evade compliance with this request. We are or we can be willfully stiff-necked about our druthers on the pretext of wanting the public "to know." No. I suggest in this situation the nay-sayers want to be the FIRST to get the word out, even if illegally, since they are being asked to refrain from using social media reporting DURING the speaker's time at the podium. The agency should band having gadgets for all speakers, which would help anyone who has labored in preparation for the work, and which is no small feat.

It is a sorry state of reporting when journalists fail to see the big picture of media. Who wants to take a chance on having such highly important and intelligent communications as this will be, interrupted by foreign elements and interference, even if so-and-so did it in the past ("last year").

The subject and purpose of this meeting (I suggest) has world-wide importance or they would not be having it. Some journalists' ego-mania will get the best of them, though, and they will probably "disregard" whatever they please. I would not want to miss a word Mr. Clinton (or the other speaker(s) either) will say. He is thorough, and he is an excellent orator.

Now watch the media be plied daily about this requirement. Probably there will be topics on prime time reporting, talk show news, radio stations, etc., unless something truly drastic happens elsewhere. If journalism concentrated more on that word, those who are prone to sensationalism and drama would cease and desist, thereby becoming news reporters again instead of overbearing intruders and actors (I miss the dry (precise) and orderly facts of news I used to delve into when CCTV news was on the air. I could use my own imagination and think for myself more, without having so much to filter out.

Of course, we know ALL media are not this way, including biased among other things. But those that are, are unprofessional. It is amazing. Where media should be staunch in their resolve to report things of utmost importance, they allow for the most part for that reporting to be overlooked, distorted, or compromised in some way.

In this case, the implications of not having media devices in the meeting place is being blown out of proportion at this minute and will probably get more distorted, while suggesting someone be held in suspect for lack of transparency. I believe in transparency, but not self-willed intrusion.

Alaska Sen. Murkowski prepares to claim victory in reelection bid - CNN.com

Alaska Sen. Murkowski prepares to claim victory in reelection bid - CNN.com

It looks like the Palin backed the wrong horse this time. It looks like a shoe-in and a history-making event for the incumbent. The contender, though, is a die-hard and loathes to lose the race to this woman, who it seems, is giving him "a whuppin'.


I say "is" because he has not as yet conceded, even though her camp has claimed the victory. The Mama Grizzly's fangs were not strong enough to wrest the victory from the incumbent's hands. Therefore, she drew three prongs of fire from those opponents (three veins). We'll see how long it takes for Miller to throw in the towel. At least they can console themselves that it is a GOP seat.

KANYE WEST CANCELS UPCOMING 'TODAY' SHOW PERFORMANCE

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101112/ap_en_ot/us_tv_today_vs_west

Good for you, Kanye.  The media has a nasty habit of trying to coerce people into admissions, denials, and confirmations about things they would not ordinarily do.  I suggest that is why these "talk" people like to get their guests flustered, make them nervous, press them with questions like shooting pistols before they get one answered.

This reminds me of another recent episode in which I felt the same thing happened to him.  He was pressed into a corner by the host where he was never given time to finish a statement before being plied with another question, which never clarifies anything anyone is trying to say.


I feel the journalism field is falling down on the job in a lot of ways.  It is as if they are trying to become celebrities themselves.    Journalism used to be more principled than it is today.  It is quite like a drama scene rather than a fact-finding/gathering disciplinary work anymore.


Also, it is deceptive when the subject was about his desire to apologize to George Bush about the Katrina statement, yet the host Matt Laur went and brought another subject (the Taylor Swift episode) from the past.   West is a strong person in his own right.   I admire people who try to correct a wrong publicly with shame.  It truly speaks of a sincere aspiration to right a wrong and go on, even if he was not wrong in what he said about George Bush.  


Maybe he was.  Maybe he wasn't.  Bush knows for sure; he said it was not true.  Kanye is sure he needed to apologize, so he did.  Journalism/media needs to be as open and apparent about their motives.

Pentagon Group Finds There Is Minimal Risk To Lifting Gay Ban During War

http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=Aoai10MTgsgOptczN18KpqJzfNdF/SIG=1381ojuin/EXP=1290713805/**http%3A//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/10/AR2010111007381.html


Okay, that's a large majority of military people who are not horrified  about banning the atrocity (DADT).  Utter discrimination screams loudly when this country (which the present admin did not initiate) accepts military personnel who are secretly gay, yet would FIRE them if they were found out.

If PEOPLE in this country, especially those conservative thinktanks large and small, are so against enforcing gay peoples’ CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, why allow them to serve at all.  If gays did not enlist in the military, some sector of this society, and especially the people who decry open gayness in the military, would be screaming foul, because they are not 'SERVING OUR COUNTRY."   For example, conservatism DID NOT overturn SEGREGATION of minorities from the REST of those military human beings, but fair-mindedness and broad-mindedness did.



This survey shows the MAJORITY of this Constitutional Democracy favors sexual  deviants' rights to be full CITIZENS with no qualifications but those Constitutional ones.  The opposite view is a very hypocritical stance to take.  Further, fair-mindedness is needed to accept it.  I'm for the rights of all people - THIS IS a CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY.   We really need to get past the subconscious (indeed) perception that giving humans their rights is being asked to SLEEP WITH THEM.  God told us to live the Golden Rule, he did not command us to sleep with everybody and their neighbors.  I suggest, though, that one must be sort of, well, liberal-minded for that mindset.

KANYE WEST APOLOGIES FOR CALLING BUSH A RACIST

lhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/10/kanye-west-apologizes-for_n_781655.html

If Kanye needs forgiveness and has admitted he was wrong in what he said (I don't think so), then GB should forgive him.  Forgiveness breeds forgiveness.  Maybe those to whom he should apologize might render forgiveness to him (that is, if he were to apologize for anything).

Deficit panel leaders' plan curbs Social Security - Yahoo! News

Deficit panel leaders' plan curbs Social Security - Yahoo! News

Age 69!!  Some people never live to see 69.  Some are on their death-bed by age 69.  The gvt or someone already gets too much money to waste, since the families of loved ones who die before collecting Social Security (which they have already paid in) don't get the money.  Anyway, that measly death benefit (is it still $255?) is shame, since as stated the gvt already get the dead man's chest.  



@American:  It is always easier to blame the people who, like you at some time or another, will need something.  That is, unless you are some rich person talking out of his arrogance.  The people that have the money are those who waste the little man's money.  The poor minimum and/or under-minimum waged workers are the sufferers.  They are also the ones who suffer the most; however, that includes the Middle Class (maybe even more so) who pay the brunt of EVERYTHING.  When it's time for them to retire, there will be people accusing them of sucking on the teats of the GVT, into whom they have already paid their social security funds.

Patty Murray Defeats Dino Rossi In Washington Senate Race

None. Another thing Dem's didn't seem to get is they must do what they did to get these blocks in order to keep them. When someone gives you their all, and you in turn virtually ignore them when they cry out for validation, they feel "deserted." This is the most obviously prevalent issue for this past general election.



One would think that as doggedly as the Repus ran their campaigns and all the BIG BIG money they amassed, the other side should've begun to campaign earlier than they did & to shout louder. They (TP&R) were out to demean a President, not a Congress. Their pressing aim is to get THIS MAN off the plantation, & anyone who overlooks this is in denial big time. The Ruling Passion for the Repus and Tea Baggers if they are Repus(?) is to defeat the Socialist!! Before it's all over, they will be so confounded they will tell it without intending to. Notice that not a word lately has been said about his citizenship. It will come up again when they get it tied in to something else. Anything else.



Since the Middle Class is the backbone of a society, it is truly amazing how they are so shortchanged and relegated to a non-urgent­-attention position by most, no matter how much they might lie about it. Those who are for getting the middle class back on solid ground again need to speak up and then do it.
About Elections 2010
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TICK-TOCK, THE SHOW-DOWN BEGINS

Election doesn't end major discord for GOP, Obama 
And there you have it.  The agenda is to impede any progress the President might seek to work out with the Majority.  I've never understood why they wasted so much time trying, when they knew as they do now that the GOP was NOT willing to participate in bringing solace to a hurting people.  Talk is cheap; effort counts. They clearly have their aim in focus:  Make sure that this particular president is not re-elected.  More and more, we will see the true GOP as it unveils itself before our eyes, once again.

The pretext of "taking back a Constitution" that has never been stolen anyway, is only a blind - that of wreaking havoc on the present administration because, it truly is their "enemy" as they admit.  We will get lost in the shuffle of those working overtime using the BIG money the courts cleared the way for them to get elected with (in part), and we will be overshadowed, again.  The people will see what they have done.  Those who could have (but did not) exercised their constitutional right to vote for their employees, will have to admit it is as much their fault is anyone elses.

Election doesn't end major discord for GOP, Obama - Yahoo! News

Election doesn't end major discord for GOP, Obama - Yahoo! News: "Election doesn't end major discord for GOP, Obama"
@Scott.  It is one thing to be deficient of brain power by a quirk of nature or some accident, but it is another to be WILLFULLY idiotic.  It is probably true that one of your elders is on "WELFARE" of some sort.  All countries afford or should afford assistance to their citizens, most of whom have worked for what they get, or have become disabled trying to do so.



There is not a person who can constantly get assistance without some sort of checks and balances.  I know it and you know it.  You stupid willful idiots overlook the fact that one day you, too, will be receiving WELFARE of some sort - Social Security, disability (SSI, SSDI, in case you butt your head by walking into a wall, being so senseless).  All these things people have worked for.  Therefore, for those whom you say are on WELFARE, look in your closet, a loved one is in there somewhere.  Would you acknowledge that or keep on being stupid.

Election doesn't end major discord for GOP, Obama

A QUESTION OF PRIDE OF POWER OR OVER-WHELMING TUNNEL VISION AND SO MANY PRIORITIES

The lesson for the Dems (I believe the past 2 yrs) is not intoxication of POWER and the destructive results of the love of power, but that tunnel vision that focuses on a few firmly-held intentions, while not embracing them all as a pot of soup - all equally important and needing to be acknowledged that they are equally important, and worth fighting for simultaneously. This should have been the impetus continuously because surely they knew that they would have more opposition than ever before in United States politics.

That has been and will continue to be the case as long as the current president is in office. In the past system, that was a true display of lust for power and the pride of living by it. Great was that fall. To date, nothing has been accomplished by that sector but firm opposition to anything they didn't initiate. In the past system, they never accomplished anything worthwhile for the people, but everything against their welfare (except for the few). Not only will the future be a thing to be prayerful about, but it will be interesting to see what the end of all this will be.

A PRAYER PRAYED IS A PRAYER ANSWERED

For years I prayed for this.  Now it has happened.  My heart pain is, as I knew, a real pain.  Now, new doctors confirm it.  Aside from that, I have TWO heart murmurs, left and right at that.

When one goes to the doctor  for one thing, and ends up getting help for the unmentioned ailment, except in prayer, that is answered prayer, I'm sure.