"Took a ride and found a good place to take a picture of my bike..."
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Sunday, January 25, 2015
Friday, January 23, 2015
Mr. Cub
I lived the credo when I was a boy, how about you?
Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks dead at 83.
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Reading Lips, Sinking Ships
In the tradition of the best football follies. This has over 9 million views.
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Thursday, January 22, 2015
Cindy
How much courage does it really take for a sniper to be given co-ordinates from a spotter and then firing from hundreds of yards away? To me that is the definition of cowardice even forgetting about the lies that got both Casey and Kyle to Iraq and the ones who made billions in profits while Casey died thousands of miles away from his loving home and a vet with PTSD would ironically end up murdering Kyle back here in the states.
I will always be proud of my son who is a grand hero to me for refusing orders in the heat of battle and ashamed by a cold-blooded killer like Kyle and a nation that lifts him up as the standard of heroism. I find it supremely ironic and sad that NOT being a killer is frowned upon here while being a happy killer makes one a best-selling author and garners all kinds of award nominations and ticket sales for those who wish to exploit this nation’s bloodlust.
A mother's anguish continues.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Sawant's Response
Working people have faced nearly four decades of wage stagnation and rising income inequality.
Four decades, with four Republican presidents and three Democratic presidents. Four decades that show neither party can solve these problems and that both fundamentally represent the same interests – the interests of the super-wealthy and big corporations.
We will only make progress on the basis of fundamental, systemic change. We need a break from the policies of Wall Street and Corporate America. We need a break from capitalism. It has failed the 99%.
Both parties bow down before the free market, and loyally serve the interests of their corporate masters – the only difference being a matter of degree.
The political system is completely dysfunctional and broken. It is drowning in corporate cash.
Working people, youth, people of color, women, the elderly, the disabled, immigrants – the 99% – have no voice or representation
We need our own political party. Independent of big business, and independent of the parties of big business.
Best response by Seattle councilwoman Kshama Sawant.
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The Speaker is a Prick
Boehner appeared to be drunk, slurred his speech and acted out like the contemptuous asshole that he is.
As difficult as it is for me to accept much of the horseshit Obama dishes out, particularly at the foreign policy level, the Republicans are truly unconscionable pricks.
Their contempt for ordinary Americans is glaring, and Boehner is exhibit 1-A. The Republicans stopped just short of turning their backs on the president like the NYC cops who turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio while mourning two dead officers last month.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
B&W
Nebraska was resting there a few days ago and I didn't hesitate. Interestingly, the director had to agree to an eventual color restoration and secondary distribution to finish his financing for the film, but I watched the B&W edition.
What a fine film.
One of the more interesting artistic compromises I've recently heard about. Doubt that I'll pay any attention to the color version if I run across it, as that would be sort of pointless.
People have to have their technicolor, I guess. Just as they need their sniper/heroes to rub out any sense of moral ambiguity in regards to empire.
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Sacrifice
Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of their concerns this query has often loomed large and loud: Why are you speaking about war, Dr. King? Why are you joining the voices of dissent? Peace and civil rights don't mix, they say. Aren't you hurting the cause of your people, they ask? And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live.--MLK, Riverside Church, New York City, April 4, 1967.
Exactly one year later King was assassinated in Memphis.
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Monday, January 19, 2015
Hidden Hong Kong
This 30 min. documentary is both heartbreaking and joyful. Please watch it if you have a half-hour to spare. You will not be disappointed and you will be moved.
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Unholy Trinity
Something to ponder as we celebrate the life and message of Martin Luther King on this national holiday.
It is important to recall that King was assassinated five years after the "I Have a Dream" speech that most Americans associate with the civil rights leader.
By 1968, the Vietnam War was in full, ugly bloom and King was making associations that made the powers-that-be extremely uncomfortable. This included members of his own organization who deemed that MLK had become "too radical."
His message had evolved from a call for "brotherhood" to a condemnation of the American status quo. He had begun to speak out against the war and settled into a routine recitation of the unholy trinity of what ailed the U.S.--"racism, poverty and militarism."
Sadly, in the years since his murder we haven't moved very far off the block.
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Friday, January 16, 2015
Suddenly Pertinent
Didn't think it would ever happen. My pal Buddy Dooley is 64 today. Happy birthday, asshole!
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