Sanford In Argentina, Not On Appalachian Trail, He Says On Return

His cheatin' heart, lying lips, and and mean spirit done him in. My sympathy to his wife and children.



He can kiss being President goodbye.
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Graham Open To Dem's Health Care Compromise, But Not Public Plan (VIDEO)

Please folks can't we just pet him and ignore him? Why is anything Lindsey Graham says given any credence? The overwhelming public wants public health care. Graham's wishes does not matter.
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TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

Unfortunately, I was too slow to reach the remote and failed to cut off Meet the Press before hearing that whiner Fred Thompson's spew nonsense. How can a show make a person be really, really grateful that Sam Nunn was defender of good? Have boring old saggy Fred Thompson that's how.



See what happens when you finally sleep late knowing that some other person will watch the talking heads for you and give you the high and low points without having to be subjected to George Will's whine, Cokie Roberts' kookiness, and Fox News' Chris Wallace attempt to be half the reporter his old man was on CBS. I like Bob Schieffer but I still don't like the flapping lips that are often booked on his show.



Whew! That brought out the crankiness in me. Anyway, thanks and better you than me Jason.
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Dan Froomkin's Firing Leaves <i>Post</i> With Glut Of Neocons

WaPo, no Dan? No reader here either. I'll get my Eugene and E.J. fixes elsewhere.
About Newspapers
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TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

Jason,



I lasted two seconds with each show. I tried. I just seem not to be able to sit through nonsense from the GOP and a couple times from the Democrats.



I cannot see Iran being this volatile over their election sans the Obama Muslim World speech. That said, the President seems to be a patient long range thinker/planner. That speech may pay off late next year after the Iranian students get their teeth in a real rant. I was in college when the few Iranian students in Baton Rouge held so many protest marches and parades about the Shah of Iran that you would have to be blind not to get that they felt grieved. Those student protesters were consistent and persistent. Getting the attention of a backwoods student body consumed with getting ahead and having fun in such a desolate town was and still is remarkable. I still remember the hanging effigies.



I have faith that the youth of Iran will do what they must for their future in their country. Just like here the youth are becoming more aware and serious about our country and how they will make their way in it. I have great faith in young people everywhere to save us by saving themselves.
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George Tiller Killed: Abortion Doctor Shot At Church

If the killer was so pleased with what he had done he would not have fled. It was a barbarous act of cowardice. I hope that the prosecutor indicts all of those so-called pro-lifers who support this kind of terrorism as co-conspirators in this senseless death.



If all life is valuable as they claim certainly the doctor's life was valuable too. The hypocrisy of this sickens me.
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Corruption Is Dangerous to Your Health

At this point, anger cannot be raised in me any more about the skulduggery of the Congress. They have no shame and care not one whit for us. They prefer us tired, scared, and clueless. While i am struggling my eyes are not fixed on the new messes they are making. Since I am struggling to deal with the fallout in my life from their last mess. Some how I think that that is purposeful on their part.
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I am not angry any more just tired. I mean we have been robbed up one side and down another since the spring of 2008. It is just another step towards the new slavery...financial bondage. There's simply nothing to feel good about in this mess. The Democrats are leaning toward their own self interest (staying in office) and te Republicans are crazy and confused. We are at the mercy (of which these guys have none) of the bankers who are forcing usury rates on people. Bend over.

The fierceness in my soul could never understand why so many folks got on the trains to the death camps during WWII and did not fight back. I now have but a glimmer of how when crushed repeatedly you get on board and hope somebody would save you. Shame is that not so many try to help, many try to stand you in front of them.

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Opposition Grows To Obama's Decision Not To Prosecute CIA Agents

I do not support investigating and/or indicting the CIA agents who tortured the "enemy combatants" or whatever made up words Bush, Inc set for folks who wound up in Cuba. I think that they should lose their jobs and pensions and testify in the trials of the people who made the decisions to torture, who condoned torture through ginned up legalistic scrawlings that green lighted the CIA agents to do what they did. Those lawyers and doctors who aided and abetted torture should be drummed out of their professions and be sent if convicted to jail.



We cannot afford to dismiss the gravity of what was done in our name. Our military personnel, NGO and other aid workers, Americans traveling and living abroad have been made more vulnerable because we failed to stay true to our values...we do not torture.
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Let them go! Just let Texas go with its nutty governor on their own. They are armed to the teeth and will wind up causing a war with Mexico after they have bumped off all of their neighbors. Let them succeed and take all of those weird Texans who are a law unto themselves with them in this foolish experiment.



Just be sure to give those fleeing the Texas government time to escape and then we must close our borders to them. Buh-bye Texas!
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Bank Stress Tests: Obama to Meet With Economic Team On Topic

Put an end to this PONZI scheme and take over, break up and sell off the banks that are failed banks. Why should the American taxpayers be forced to pour good money after bad. It's time to bailout of the bailout.



I believe William K. Black and think that our President should too. Cut the losses and sell off the remains providing taxpayers with some type of financial recovery from this mess.
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The Geithner-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than We Thought

I saw that segment and sent the link to everyone I know. I believe Mr. Black and I am enraged again at the Treasury Secretary who is preparing to fleece the taxpayers in this country. This time folks need to go to jail. I am contacting my Representative and both of my Senators (even though one is sick) to try to head off this crass stick-up with a pen.



Wall Street bankers have taken enough of our money. Break them up! Sell them off and get the heck on out of our pockets!
About Timothy Geithner
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Ed Schultz On MSNBC Gig: People Will Know Where I Stand

I am looking forward to this show.
About MSNBC
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Michelle Obama In Prague: Back In Black (PHOTOS)

Look after flying to Europe, dressing up and down, being on tour with 20 countries' first ladies and husband, hewing the protocol of every one of them and visiting "the people" in several countries I would be a crank, snarling, and y'all would be glad that I had any kind of clothes on rather than running screaming mad and naked about the continent. I am delighted that Mrs. Obama is handling herself well and covering all of the legally mandated spots on her body. I am just glad that it is she and not me to do the traveling and meeting and greeting of so many global officials.



Both the President and First Lady are doing us proud in Europe. I think that he is doing much better than just OK. They are doing what we elected him to do win the world back on our side.
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Please Watch: Bill Moyers: William K. Black CSI Bailout

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html

Be sure to contact your Congressperson and the President after viewing the show.

We all need to ask more questions and demand more answers.

2 Trillion dollars in taxpayers money is nothing to sneeze about.

We need to know the answers to typical questions regarding the banking crisis such as who, what, when,where, and how? Until we know the answers we are simply sheep monitored by hungry wolves.

Watch the show!

Tammy Bruce Calls The Obamas "Trash In The White House"

I'd pay to see her say it to Michelle's face. I know lot's of folks that would pay too. Mrs. O without a touch would wipe the floor with her. What makes people hate so much? I did notice that she did not attack the President directly. She's not that crazy.
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The Short, Happy Iraq War of Howard Kurtz

Look it really was a simple thing that grew both large and in the wrong direction...capturing or killing Osama bin Laden. What we now have a mess thanks to our lying ex-President and I for one want us up and out of Afghanistan too since it at this point merely wants to left alone in the 16th century.



More important is the containment through diplomacy and whatever shred of credibility we have left in the world of Pakistan that has what seems to be a plethora of blood feuds going, nuclear warheads, and hosting Osama bin Laden. We need to do something much different than asking them to "bring it on" as did Mr. Bush.



Mr. Kurtz has been on the wrong side of several issues on the war he was very wrong.
About Iraq
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Lifting the Tarp: Will President Obama's Economic Team Lead Him Off a Cliff?

It is time to fire the Treasury Secretary and Larry Summers. Do what Kuttner and Krugman have been suggesting all along and get us out of this stinking financial mess.



Enough with hedge funds, insurance companies, and investment banks. They are greedy bottomless pits unwilling to change or adapt to reality. Seize the shaky banks restructure them, set them on their feet, privatize them and move forward.



This spiral has gone on long enough! Mr. President, buck up and fire those guys now.
About Bailout Bandits
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The Real Scandal of AIG

They can have their bonuses or retention payments provided they give us back immediately every penny we have loaned them. I am not against AIG bonuses as long as they use their own money. Other than that as the owners of this behemoth we have the right to fire them and hire people who will follow our dictates because that is what happens when you own the thing...YOU are in charge!



Please start sending a few of these clowns to jail and I think we will see a whole lot less of this defiance.
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AIG Outrage Dominates Sunday Shows

This is just crazy. Why reward failure? Get our money back and let AIG pay the bonuses out of THEIR money.



Why hasn't someone gone to jail yet?
About Larry Summers
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South Carolina Governor: Obama Stimulus Will Turn U.S. Into Zimbabwe

My thinking exactly. My home state Louisiana, is headed by its own fruitcake that plans to continue keeping the state moored into the 19th century. Wage suppression, hostility towards unions, very poor race relations (if folks told the truth) and serious ecological concerns with its large petro-chemical industry that fights regulations to the tooth. You have Louisiana, a banana republic that has great natural resources, a hard working populace, and loads of potential if only it had the right leadership and moved past its past. It is really a shame that almost the same thing can be said of each of the southern states that are resisting moving forward with the rest of the nation.
About Stimulus Package
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Jon Stewart is great. He nails CNBC to the wall. Glad to see some folks are fearless. You MUST see it! Not only is it hilarious but it is dead on. Read it! See it! And please folks pass it on!
About Barack Obama
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I cannot condone violence against women for any reason. In her article, Ms. Greene though is way over the top in suggesting that there is/was no concern about Rhianna's beating at the hands of her boyfriend Chris Brown by black folks. Much as it pains me to learn of any woman being beaten I have to hope that the justice system will address the wrong done to her. We do need to be concerned that his celebrity status and money may make his penance a lot lighter than a regular Joe is the same position.

It enrages my soul that Ms. Greene would equate the two events, Brown's beating of Rhianna and the New York Post's publishing an editorial cartoon that is NOT being misinterpreted by any thinking person as an invitation to kill our President. Ms. Greene must know that it takes very little to set our home grown nuts and terrorists off. So yes, assassinating a duly elected President is more important than a domestic violence case where the victim is alive and able to address her abuser on several levels.

Is this fair? No. Life is not fair. It is not fair that the health and safety of our President is more important than a case of domestic abuse between two black celebrities who can afford counseling and to live apart.
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Gibbs V. Santelli: He Should Read President's Plan (VIDEO)

How silly is this going to get? We have had Joe the Plumber get months of fame basically saying nothing worthwhile. You get a commodity trader having a hissy fit on tee-vee because folks who are caught in the cross hairs of the lousy bankers' meltdown need help to stay in their homes. I don't know about that Rick guy but every neighbor that loses their home makes my neighborhood less desirable and soon dangerous. You need not mention the fact once reasonably priced homes are left to rot because the homeowners lost their jobs and could no longer afford the mortgage through no fault of their own.



Rick is just a J*ck*ss! These guys have no conscience so they never see the lack of logic and humanity in their drivel.



Let him and folks like him rant. Turn the channel or read a book.
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The Loyal Opposition

I find it interesting that several Republican pundits write scathing columns about Democrats are rather thin skinned when called out. Why be in the word-war business if you cannot take a hit or several?



Yes, we need opposition but we need principled opposition that put America before party. There used to be names of Republican Congressmen I knew to have a deeper love for this country than even themselves. I cannot name one today in this Congress.



Newt Gingrich shut down the government because his feelings wee hurt. How principled is that?



You have Republican governors who are saying that they will refuse money to help the tens of thousands unemployed workers because they don't want people getting used to more. Do they understand that there are people's lives involved here? Have they no empathy? How principled is that?



It galls me that the impetus is to do less, be less, and watch the weak struggle. Where's the principle in that?



Republicans certainly don't believe in anything beyond lip service concerning workers and the middle class. They project a loathing and blatant disregard for the weak and the poor. Where is the principle in that.?



We are all Americans and we need both parties to provide their best service. The Loyal Opposition needs to show some loyalty...to us the American people because there's good principle in that.
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Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero Defends Working Class On Fox News (VIDEO)

I don't care else the Mayor has or has not done well for what he said about working stiffs I think earns him another round as leader. It is high time somebody stepped up for workers who on their backs will the bills for this financial mess be paid.
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Obama Stimulus Speech: "Time For Action Is Now" (VIDEO)

My Congresspeople are voting for the stimulus. My ex Congress people in Louisiana, a backwards state if there ever was one, are teetering towards voting no. I have called and email all of my family and friends to call, email and write their Congress people about voting for the stimulus bill because as high as unemployment there is now it will get worse and resemble not a banana republic but sheer anarchy.



Put people back to work. Tell your Congresspersons vote for the stimulus and that you will remember them on next election day.



Some of those Congresspeople need retiring.



Let's move forward!
About Barack Obama
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Dems To Leadership: Cut GOP Loose

"For now, said Durbin, Democrats haven't yet pulled out Republican provisions or asked the GOP to leave the table."



"We haven't reached that point," he said. "In fact, Republican senators I've spoken to today said, 'Don't give up on us. We still want to work with you.'"



Frankly Senator, why would you believe them? Why should anyone believe that the Republican Party means the American People well? They serve only the rich for the rich at the expense of the rest of us. Take the tax cuts out. Increase the money for infrastructure, states (with the stipulation that they spend exactly as written) and education. The point and whole purpose to me is to increase the number of jobs so that those workers like all of us presently hanging on to our jobs can pay TAXES. Taxes will reduce our debt.



Nationalize the banks now. When we privatize them we use our profits to reduce our debt.



We need money to pay for the incompetent bankers and apparently the Republicans who still have not "gotten it" yet that things are different and the masses are very, very angry. We could do quite well with out you.
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Obama Incredulous Over School Closing, Says DC Needs To Toughen Up (VIDEO)

I was enjoying the global warming until faced with the reality that winter had finally but firmly arrived. in the northeast for this southerner that snow and God forbid the ice makes for a very stressful day. Now, a six months long searing drought? Easy.



I get our President's joke but I am miffed that he doesn't acknowledge our pain.



Now, I wonder how tough he would be riding out a hurricane? Or worst running from one?
About President Obama
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Bailout Recipients Hosted Call To Defeat Key Labor Bill

They simply have no shame.
About Bank Of America
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Obama Doesn't Defend House Dems

We need jobs. Tax cuts will not provide them. Under the Bush administration we gave FREE money to banks and AIG without any conditions. We have learned that the banks are not willing to change and provide businesses with the credit they need to stay in business. So the businesses lay off workers who PAY TAXES and they hold onto their money which means businesses don't get to sell or provide services. So, businesses lay off workers who PAY TAXES. It would seem to me that everybody would get that we need more people working so that we can help those who are not until they are working. The bonus in this? TAXES paid by workers along with those on goods and services will stem our growing insolvency.



How hard is that to understand?
About Rahm Emanuel
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It's Show Time for Obama

President Obama needs to ram that stimulus bill through with the required number of votes it takes to pass it. It's nice to liked but frankly he wasn't elected to be a nice guy he was elected to lead us out of this mess and if the Republicans (and the Blue Dog Democrats) refuse to move along with him the n he needs to run over them. We need to act fast. I agree with Mr. Kutter's exact proposal of what the stimulus should be comprised of (he had the estimated costs for each area) and Congress should PASS IT!



I'm sick of this hemming and hawing as we steadily lose jobs, economic security, and our peace of mind.

Face it REPUBLICANS (and the almost useless Blue Dog Democrats) we cannot tax cut our way out of this mess y'all made. Grow up and do your jobs.
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Anonymous Hold Put On Confirmation Of EPA Chief, Environmental Quality Chair

'Put away our childish things." It seems as if some folks in the Senate are stuck in the past. They are hanging on to childish things like petulance. Grow up.



Let the President have his people and let's move forward Or get the heck on out of the way at least.
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Juan Williams Chokes Up Discussing Obama Speech, Benediction (VIDEO)

Rev. Lowery is cool. I liked the benediction best of all. When he started with the last stanza of Lift Ev'ry Voice my heart soared. It was so appropriate. When he made us laugh even at such a solemn occasion as a benediction and the inauguration by making hurtful saying joyful, I teared up. We truly are all in this thing together and we must make it work for us all.



This was a good day.
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Obama's Election: "This Thing Is Ordained"

I can understand the hesitation at the word ordained. Yet, I understand exactly what Representative Meeks' mother meant...prayers long forgotten by a people without hope sent up for deliverance from bondage, segregation, lynching, acquisition of civil rights (remember the I AM A MAN posters?), and acquisition of political power are being realized. The prayers sent up long ago are being realized and that is ordained by God.



We cannot rest with an Obama we have a much longer road to travel to realize the ultimate ascendancy to be "judged [at all] times by the content of our characters," the work we produce, the communities we build, and the legacy of good citizenship we leave with and to our children. That is the end of the answers of long ago said prayers by the ancestors who believed even though they knew that they would not see the realization for themselves. Those prayers are ordained by God.
About Barack Obama
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The Biggest Loser

Fire this time! Excellent article articulating all that is discussed behind closed doors. Kudos! Yes! Amen!
About Obama's Inauguration
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Bush Commutes Border Patrol Agents' Sentences

The pardons that concern me are the torture pardons, the DOJ politicalization pardons and of course pardons for himself and his sidekick Cheney. If we fail to find out what they have done to this country then only hope will be some ticked off Geneva Conventions signee's capturing (upon visiting outside the US) them and trying them for war crimes. We must if we are to regain our moral high ground sort out this mess ourselves and not hide behind moving forward something as important as refuting through word and deed torture.
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<i>NYT</i> Reporter Warns Of One-Term Obama

These are the same folks that predicted a speedy end to the Iraq war, that nuclear weapons would be found and that Bush is a fine leader. The NYT is as fallible as the rest of the commercial papers.



I would rather read about how to fix things than if a guy who has not even been inaugurated yet is going to be a one term President. These guys need a new line of work. They are not reporters they are partisan hacks.
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Can the GOP Expand Its Demographic Base While Moving Right?

Can the GOP expand its demographic base while moving right? Yes, if all they want are more flaming nuts and bigots. It seems that they do.



I'm only hoping that the Democrats can hold on to our new members and do right by them and the rest of us too.
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Replace Harry Reid?

To the question, Replace Harry Reid? I say, PLEASE! I would not cry if the Democratic Party replaced Nancy Pelosi too. We have had 8 years of the wet noodle spined Democratic Party members cowering from every stupid law and idea that arose from the Republicans which has led us into the heckovamess we are in now. Step up Democrats! Dump the dead weight and move the party and America forward.



The new slogan should be move or get out of the way so other can.
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Feinstein: Seat Burris In Senate

Sen. Feinstein, an attorney should be acquainted with the law. First, the Governor of IL has not been indicted. He has not be convicted. In THIS country you are innocent until proven guilty. He is STILL governor and so has all powers of that office which includes but is not limited to appointing people of his choice to open Federal seats.



Next, no Secretary of State can withhold his/her signature certifying state documents approved by the governor that would be a step towards anarchy.



Finally, Sen. Burris will be seated because it is a legal appointment how and when he will be seated is a choice the Democratic members will have to make and go back to their communities and explain to voters why when a man held in high esteem with a clean political record has his rightfully appointed seat withheld.



The governor of IL has a nasty mouth and it seems a larcenous soul and maybe a trickster's heart but the choice he made has slowly but steadily raised the suspicions of black folks across the country about why Burris cannot be seated. That is what the Democratic Senators who have tough battles ahead would not want to wrangle with during this political season. Seat the guy and get on with the People's business.
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Happy New Year!
2009 Hope for a Brighter Future for Us All

It is after 5:00 p.m. here in snowy Boston. I am home with Ma and Joel and we are planning to get some early Zzzz in as a celebration of the coming year. I have no plans to cook anything special nor do I intend to go to any parties or even public prayer service. A meaningful end to this year is a private prayer of thanksgiving to God that He is bringing to an end a very, very stressful year.

The great thing is that for 2009 I have high hopes. My hopes are rising each day. The are not placed on our brilliant new President but on the resiliency of the American people and most importantly on my faith and trust in God. I have been delivered from some very scary things, forced homelessness (hurricane Katrina) , sparse resources, no job, no job again, explosive rent, and family illness. Yet, from each thing I have been delivered. I now have a home, a second new job, the family health is improved, more resources, and the blessing of caring friends and strangers. God has been faithful to me even when I have wavered. For Him I am grateful always.

To the people who read my musings I say thank you. To my friends and family who agree and disagree with what I have written at times or in some cases all of the time thank you. God has bestowed his grace and mercy on us all. May God continue to bless us. 2009 is our year to shine!

Happy New Year!

Christmas Day in a Louisiana Dungeon

Louisiana, the state I was born in, raised in, and lived in until recently is as backwards a place you would ever want to see. It is still living as if it the 19th century and what it calls justice is an atrocity. If you are black or poor white your life has little value. I grew up with the stories of Woodfox and Wallace. I am stunned that they are still there held down by the system. This is a shame in a shameless state.
About Bobby Jindal
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What Happened to Kwanzaa?

First, Kwanzaa is not a holiday. It is a cultural celebration. I have celebrated Kwanzaa for over 25 years. My family will be celebrating it this year with each of us hosting in our homes a different principle. Kwanzaa was not designed to be a commercial "holiday" because it is not a holiday. It was developed to learn about and celebrate our culture and to use seven principles to guide our lives and strengthen our communities. It is not a separatist celebration just an African centered one.



Most of my friends across the country celebrate Kwanzaa in their homes with the exception of attending large public events on the first and sixth nights (Umoja, unity and Kuumba, creativity). Some cities have large public celebrations each night. Most practitioners have small gatherings at our homes.



Kwanzaa is not a replacement for Christmas. It is not a "black Christmas". It is a ritual developed as a mechanism to learn and to teach about the culture of African Americans.



So, if Hallmark is not making much money from it I am not distressed being a commercial endeavor is not the purpose nor desire of the celebration. Gifts are for children and they are either handmade or books.



To the key to Kwanzaa is its second principle-Kujichagulia, self determination we determine what our cultural celebration will be not Hallmark or American Greetings.
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Property Developers Want Bailout Money

Bail out commercial property developers? I think not! Let them go bankrupt and foreclose on their properties like the system is supposed to do. Enough free money. Is no one responsible for their choices?
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FBI Forced To Divert Antiterrorism Agents To Help Untangle $50 Billion Madoff Swindle

Now? That cow is so far out of the barn that it headed over to the other farm's pasture. Why couldn't they do this before we went broke?
About Bernard Madoff
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Rick Warren And Obama: What Is 'Traditional Marriage' Anyway?

Let's let everybody marry so that we can raise money on marriage licenses and divorce court costs. I believe in EEO and all recognized marriages are recognized by the government and not the church so let's just let everybody marry whomever they please...we need the money.



Also, CA was wrong to allow a majority to vote on limiting the rights of the minority. If this is allowed to continue then we have hearkened back to Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Will it take 30 years too before this is investigated, prosecuted and put to rest like the Emmett Till case? Will the justice department continue to allow the lawless live out their lives and then say after they are dead what a shame it is that those men cannot be punished because oops they are dead already? The state of Louisiana and certainly the dysfunctional police department of New Orleans will not do anything about these men because they are white and because their victims are black. Louisiana and New Orleans will never progress as long as it continues to live as if it is the 19th century and black lives are worthless.



Louisiana to be viewed as the backwards banana republic it is.
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Harry Shearer, an good advocate for the attention to repairing New Orleans from the damages of the flooding after Katrina was het up about the Algiers Point vigilantes. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/new-orleans-faces-the-nat_b_153163.html

I responded to his post with this:

There was no massive damage until the flooding occurred. Anger still flows at the U.S. Corps of Engineers whose job it is to design, build, and maintain the levee system that prevents off exactly what occurred...massive flooding and a loss of life that exceeded the Oklahoma bombing tragedy. Residents are vulnerable to the weakest of hurricanes coming ashore.

Does it mean that The Nation was wrong in its report about the murder of black men because they were black? I say no. Does it mean that racism is intricately laced in the community where one can kill black people with apparent impunity? I say yes.

Like the Emmett Till case 30 years from now some writer will dig up the the story about men killed by (by then) dead vigilantes pointing out how justice was denied. These men are known and free. There will be no trial and certainly no conviction because a black life in New Orleans, in Louisiana is worthless and that is the ugly truth.

Louisiana operates in a racial atmosphere that still believes that it is the 19th century. New Orleans, the place of my birth, where I was educated and lived for most of my over 50 years is stuck in the 1950's progressive in comparison to the rest of the state. Black life in both eras is valued less than that of whites. The very sad part is that the Algiers Point vigilantes demonstrate how true this remains.

Time Mag Columnist: Obama Is "Very Rational-Sounding Sort Of Bigot"

I am aggravated by the dismissal of the Rev, Lowery , by the gay community of a man who has battle scars from the civil rights movement AND who supports gay marriage . You get all het up over Rick Warren and fail to see the bigger picture of a man who put his life on the line for people and freedom of others, a man who has credibility, who is ON YOUR side as if his stature and influence does not matter. It does. Rick Warren is a bone. Rev. Joseph Lowery is a true example of agape love that we Christians say we seek to exemplify. Listen to his prayer of benediction at the inauguration he will deliver.
About Barack Obama
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Rove Will "Help Lead" GOP Fight Against Holder: <i>WaPo</i> Reporter

No, he needs to jailed for leaking information on Valerie Plame. It seems to me that the Obama administration needs to spend a little time on investigating the Bush Administration for every single crooked thing they have done.If that is a not a WPA project for lawyers and accountants I can not think of another one.
About Karl Rove
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Evan Bayh Forming Conservative "Blue Dog" Caucus In Senate

Please, is it not time to dump both Reid and Pelosi? Supporting the DLC folks...again is simply madness. They were wrong before and surely they are wrong now. Both the DLC (Bayh, Ford, Landreau, and a few other lunkheads) and the awful Democratic leadership need to be banished along with the troglodytes southern Republicans from the Congress.
About Evan Bayh
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Democrats Go Down on the Auto Bailout

At this point I am sick of everybody involved including the media. Millions of jobs are at stake and businesses other than the automakers are too. The unions have given up concessions and I am sure could maybe do a little more but not so much that they are destroyed which is the aim of the Republicans. They weak kneed lily livered Democrats astound me have they no backbone? We need to keep manufacturing companies so that like oil we will not be dependent on foreign countries to build and sell us our own weapons (see bullets) so that we can defend ourselves. Some industries are vital to ourself defense and the automakers certainly are one of them.
About Job Cuts
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Rod Blagojevich Arrested: The Damage He Could Do

What the point of this article? Democrats are responsible for Rod Blagojevich? Or is Obama? Or is it just that the governor is responsible for his actions alone? As a Louisianan I can say the IL politicos are second leaguers compared to us in graft, greed, and corruption. Even Louisianans are getting tired of constantly being embarrassed by the people we have elected to office only to have them get themselves tossed into Club Fed. It's Y'all's turn now. My advice: find another Democrat, one with integrity (don't laugh politician and integrity are not an oxymoron) and let that person lead the way out. You do not want to switch to a Republican because there really is no change there simply better finessed graft.
About Rod Blagojevich
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