DonCoquixote
DonCoquixote's JournalWhy are some people so eager to kill the idea Warren might run?
Now, you see people bring up OPS that say "liz said she will not run, deal with it!" Granted, Hillary herself has not delcared she will run, and when asked about 2008, she said she would not run, and she did. But why is DU so dedicated to the idea that Liz will not run?
The fact is, the Hillary supporters already had an experience where people opened the package, and did not like what they were being fed. There are many who are still angry, especially as frankly they felt it was their "turn." Now, the idea of Turn is ill defined; is it a generational thing? Is the idea of a turn somethign to base the presidency on? Then of course, she ran a campaign that was awful, gaffe ridden, where Bill Clinton reminded people that he loves to run his mouth, at a moment where he needed to let Hillary get some limelight. Then she was sec of state, where she pretty much ran over the peace crowd, ensuring that we went to both Syria and Libya.
The point is, Hillary supporters know there is a lot that many people do not like, and that they will only support her if it is the only choice between her and a GOP slime. Are Hillary supporters so scared that people cannpot wilingly take Hillary that she must be inevitable?
peoplewill hate to admit it
but frankly, they failed to do the work needed. Yes Obama has not a strogn leftist, but when we failed to vote because of various reasobns, some good, some outright awful (I am gonna punish him because I did not get what I want now, or I am not gonna vote for him becvause i want Hillary) than who the hell is to blame. I do not agree with some Foprginers hating all Americans, but there is a point where we have to look and say whether or not we as Americans diod iour part, and the fact is, we did not.
Former New Beginnings homeless shelter residents decry 'pits of hell'
http://www.tampabay.com/news/specials/former-new-beginnings-homeless-shelter-residents-decry-pits-of-hell/2210057Here is a perfect example of why Churches must NOT be the only social programs for the poor. Here a church BLATANTLY exploits the Homeless, turning them into slaves!
Just like in America
Where every Criminal syndicate from the Bloods to the Crips to the Latin Kings actually USED prisons as a means to gather recruits and train them. Most people would be shocked to realize that the American prison system is in effect, a recruiting and training area for criminals, part University and part Cult compound.
Take some small time crooks, maybe some kids busted for weed. Throw them in with an ORGANIZED GROUP of criminals, whose groups literally have international chains of command, written constitutions, and infrastructures both in and outside the Prison walls. Once in, make the petty crooks have to do anything to survive in an overcrowded place where supervision is impossible, which of course makes the guards either corrupted, or frustrated, which means hyper violent. Make it IMPOSSIBLE to survive unless you join a gang, and difficult to survive even if you do join a gang. Then throw in the facts these gangs have means of training and indoctrination that would make most cults jealous, because they can take advantage of the fact people are isolated from family and in constant, 24/7 fear.
Make sure they are literally slaves of experienced criminals, who will make sure they need to know everything they need to know when they hit the outside, from simple criminal skills to talents like the ability to kill your best friends because the Boss wants you to. The major gangs do this like an apprentice program, think of a perverted version of Union apprenticeships. Add in nice touches like prison rape, which is really all about breaking the spirit of someone (same reason the CIA just got caught doing it in Iraq.) In the end, you have a taxpayer funded, often privately owned, means to turn out experienced criminals, most of which costs a lot more than to send someone to college.
The big danger
Will not be from the Tribes themselves, but the army of scumbag lawyers and rich investors that will seek to swoop in like half-starved Vultures. The template for exploiting Indian businesses and making sure that most of the money went to Whites was set by gambling as folks like Jack Abramoff can tell you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff_Indian_lobbying_scandal'
I do hope this works out for the First nations, but I would hope they already have defenses against the Vultures that will gladly come to steal from them again. Sadly,I will also bet that whatever is set up will be just another resort where rich suburban types go to get their "spiritual retreat", feasting on Gourmet brands of Cannabis the same way they would 10 dollar a cup Coffee, while the Michael Browns of the world still get beat up by cops over a dime-bag of Grade F weed.
Why Landrieu deserves the hate sent her way.
Now, I have heard a lot of the arguments to flagellate ourselves now that mary landrieu is gone. "She at least voted for gay rights" says one, "She at least voted for Abortion rights" says another. Now, we DO, repeat DO, Italicize, Captalize, underline and Boldface DO need Southern leaders who will be UNCOMPROMISING in ALL of those areas. Putting food on the table may require discussion, bit civil rights are ABSOLUTES, period.
So why am i not mourning Landrieu? Because she embodies a myth which has caused the Demcorats to be weak defenders of both Civil rights and Econimic rights, because she is one that will bow to big money, regardless of the harm done.
Remember when Obama was at least trying to act like he was going to talk tough against BP for Deepwater Horizon? Then this happened.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/11/18/131209/landrieu-omb/
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/11/sen_mary_landrieu_demands_clea.html
Here was Louisisana, still bleeding after Katrina,a disaster which was made wrose by the Oilcompanies destorying the wetlans that normally would help asborb water surges, and here is their rep, mary, demanding that Obama stay out of the way of her beloved Oil companies. She sent a loud, clear signal that she would hamstring the left, holding up the budget diretcor that the left needed, in order so that the Oil companie get what they wanted, Nevermind that when Katrina hiot, Bush ignored her, and the Oil companies ignored her, and that many of those GOP made shamless attempts to profit off it.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/3990-obama-to-blame-for-hurricane-katrina-response-say-a-third-of-louisiana-republicans
Now, does nto negate the fact that she stood up for Civil rights, no. But it does show that if you help the very people that use money to strangle civil rights, you cannot be called their ally just because you wrote Yes on a piece of paper. It also means that if you want to bring people to the polls, you cannot attempt to cury favor with the good ol boys who have the advantage, thanks to bad schools and really bad churches where the GOP outright programs them like robots. You need to get people out to vote that KNOW what the stakes are, like the many Black people in Louisianan that have one of the hgihest cancer rates in the nation thanks to the fact Oil Refineries are convently placed in Black areas.
http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/5/0/9/9/6/p509969_index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/20/gulf-oil-spill-anniversary-children_n_1438959.html
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2012/pollution-poverty-and-people-of-color-richmond-day-1
Now,not to take ONE THING away from the authentically need anger about Cop Shootings,but those cancer victims are every bit as dead as Michael Brown, and they died for the same reason, because to the powers that be, BlackLives do not matter,and when Mary even goes toe to toe with Obama to defend people that kill black people with every bit the arrogance as darren Wilson did, we have to really question whether or not this person is an asset. If a person dies because they live in Cancer Alley, they will not be in a good posotion to excercise any civil rights/ That is where bad cops and bad corps get together, they know Civil rights don't mean shit once people get killed.
BRAVO!
If you were to ban any books or artworks for sheer amount of suffering, you would have to ban: The Bible, The Koran, the Torah, and the Communist manifesto, all works that say "because we have x opinion on whatver God is or isn't, we have a right to kill those who disagree with us."
Janay Rice tells 'Today' Ravens suggested she apologize at news conference
http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football/bucs/janay-rice-tells-today-ravens-suggested-she-apologize-at-news-conference/2208517OK, this has got to be one of the major stomach churners in period full of them
It is one thing for the NFL to say "Hey, we had no idea this guy was a wife beater", even though evidence points to the NFL. and the commisioner himself, LYING about that.
But how could these bastards see the tape where Rice was beaten into a coma and then ask her to apologize?
NFL, you are despicable. Balitmore ravens, you should be boycotted and fined.
And no, I do not care one whit about whetehr or not she forgives him, loves him, or for that matter, if she would not change one thing, because when one SOB gets patted on the back for wicked behaviour, all SOBS do.
OK, let's say Michael Brown did...
I have heard a ton of apologetics for Wilson, so let me attack them with logic.
Suppose,for the sheer sake of argument that Michael Brown stole the cigars. Let's say he was the mastermind and had planned to steal those cigars, right down to him shaking his fist at the clerk that tired to stop him.
Let's say he mouthed off at the cop...hell, let's even say he charged at the cop,looking like a full blown "demon" (whatever meaning THAT had in Wilson's head)
Let's say he did NOT raise his hands, even though most say he did, there will be some here who will insisit he did not, because in their minds, young black men never do that.
OK,
what the hell justified Wilson firing 12 damned bullets? Any one of these could have shot an innocent bystander.
what the hell justified him shooting someone who is unarmed? Do you honestly think that if a black cop shot an unarmed white kid that Fox would nto be questioing the cop?
why did he not use a baton? A taser? mace? or for that matter, a PUNCH or KICK? All of the listed methods are taught to cops, at taxpayer expense.
The fact is, this is about the fact a frightened cop reached for a gun, and this is about, as Michael Moore so points out in Bowling for Columbine, we have a nation that thinks those scary brown people who come and take their stuuf unless they are prepared to shoot to kill, be it here, or around the world.
It means that even if you put a dozen tools in someon'es hand, there is one they will reahc for,a gun.
an announcement at night (i.e. ferguson)
Even airheads like Andrea Mitchell question why this was made at night. Why not during the day, when sunlight and work during the day would have discouraged riots.
It could not have anything to do with the fact the prosecutor got to interrupt prime time TV,as if he were the president.
It had nothing to do with the fact it allowed the prosecutor to get a good night's sleep after whisking himself off the podium and scurrying off to wherever,nor the fact it gave the Ferguson PD a whole night for whatever lawyers,experts, and other professional liars to do damage control.
It had nothing to do with the fact that a riot would look good for Ferguson's cops, as if to say "see, you know those peopleriot, and we alone protect you form those animals!"
It had nothing to do with the fact that it would make it harder for the churches and others to organize efforts to contain the riots.
It had nothing to do with the fact that it made fires show up so nice for cameras, especially that one BBQ that they keptf ocusing on, as if to say "see, they burn their own businesses down, they are too stupid to be trsuted.:
No, this has nothing to do with the fact that Riots, and the ability to focus on riots, were needed by the powers that be to both hide their screw up, and corral all the suburbanites into little tunnels of fear so that they shut up and vote people back into office.
and it most certainly had nothing to do with the fact that just asriots are done at night, so are other things peoplewant to keep hidden, like the sheer incomptence of the prosecutor who even hard core prosecutors state at the very least did things different, not frumalting and presenting a theory of guilt to a grande jury like every other Prosecutor does, but instead want to make this a "truth finding process". When will this become the new standard, hint, not when a young black person is beeing prosecuted.
The fires do burn in the night ferguson, but the match was a crime that was done in the courtroom, by people who, unlike Rioters, can use the law to make sure they are never held to account.
Side note. To all the people who leap on here and defend Wilson, just like you did Zimmerman, just like you willthe next time some angry dude with the right skin tone shoots some kid with the wrong skin tone, I say this: before the middle of this centiry, thetime when you and your kind can hide behind your skin color and prvileges thereof will be over. Even if you banned immigration tomorrow, the very money that is the base of that power is being given away to elites around the world. Even the PBR you are sucking down now is owned by China. When the foriegner comes to treat you like you treated them, do NOT expect tohide behind us, because those of us with the different skin tones know you never meant for US to share in what you thought this country was.
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