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Yes, It's Because He's Black, But It Doesn't Help to... Yes, It's Because He's Black, But It Doesn't Help to Say So (more)
+4 raves Yes, some of it is his race. Another great big part is the snow job that the average Republican l... Yes, some of it is his race. Another great big part is the snow job that the average Republican lives under. You know, where the big corporations have our best interest at heart and the good ole boys run the show. So yes, a big part of their hysterical rage is race.
I, like my avatar, have a slightly reddish tint to my skin and some of my cousins look like full blooded Northern American. GG Grandma was full blooded. I know that many of the 'tough breaks' that life has dealt me were dealt by people who (giving them the benefit of the doubt) sub consciously 'had something against me'.
It's just a fact.
Funny thing is, the president was right. They ARE just clinging to their GUNS, RELIGION, AND IGNORANCE all that much tighter.
I am so glad 'most' of us learned our lessons well.
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+2 raves Opiates ... successfully helping sufferers of chronic pain for over 5000 years. Over a hundred ye... Opiates ... successfully helping sufferers of chronic pain for over 5000 years. Over a hundred years of American statistical data that shows that many people can take it for fifty years with no side effects, whatsoever.
Doctors are pushed into not prescribing them because the profit margin on the pain killer invented last week is a lot better ... and so what if they find out many people taking the new pain killers drop dead after a couple years ... it's not like they are going to be asking for a refund.
Maybe if the fed loosened up a little on people getting real pain killers ... there would be less people going to the street to get them.
Not everyone is as rich as Rush.
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Geothermal project near San Francisco raises earthqu... Geothermal project near San Francisco raises earthquake fears (more)
+2 raves Fascinating ... the one thing to be sure of is that we don't understand all of the facts and ... Fascinating ... the one thing to be sure of is that we don't understand all of the facts and ramifications ... but it is certainly worth pursuing ... look at the economy of Iceland. Compare it to what it would be if they did all their heating with coal or diesel ... not to mention the environment. (more) -
+3 raves After FOX caused a measurable amount of this problem ... now, they are all concerned ... where wa... After FOX caused a measurable amount of this problem ... now, they are all concerned ... where was their righteous indignation when they were fanning the flames.
Maybe they have gotten some of that email ... you know the kind that NJs like 'MillhouseNixon' the Troll posts among us, targeted at themselves.
I am going to allow myself a very tiny satisfied smile now that i just thought of that ... hope that doesn't qualify me as a domestic terrorist. (more) -
+19 raves Let me tell you a little story ... They were the founders of a branch of the counter culture c... Let me tell you a little story ...
They were the founders of a branch of the counter culture called the Yippies; name is not important. Abbie said that being a Yippie meant you were, "A flower child who'd been busted. A stoned-out warrior of the Aquarian Age." The events planned for the '68 DNC in Chicago were to be a follow up to the 'Be-In in Central Park' in 67. When MLK was asassinated by a conservative right wing lunatic, the civil rights movement which was a close ally of the anti war movement (MLK was openly speaking against the war along with other members of our leadership that year) and thereby the entire counter-culture movement was severely wounded. This was one reason why things got a little out of hand ... between the assasination and other strong arm tactics of the establishment to destroy us; it was clear to most all of us that they had fired the first shot.
There was a great deal of unrest focused on the inner cities and the college campuses including riots because most of the country wanted the war stopped, and civil rights guaranteed and there was no answer from the government ... they just kept on bombing, and manufacturing more Napalm and death to be spread over the people of VietNam and the poor blacks in the south and in the cities. Did you know that Gunship pilots were ordered to completely obliterate (level; killing everyone) any farm (straw hut, patch of crop) that was seen to have it's crop planted in rows because the Army had intelligence that said only the Viet Cong do that and so those farmers must be the enemies?
Bobby Kennedy joined the spirit of the movement, he didn't grow his hair out but he began to speak the same messages ... things started to quiet down and then BAM another nut job assassination. Who was pulling those strings ... we will never know. The country was as close to total chaos as it ever has been.
The events planned for Chicago gained more steam, but there was difficulty getting permission to have the rally. Mayor Daly was a notorious strong arm. That to answer your question was what they were guilty of 'gathering without a permit'. There was only one death at the Chicago demonstrations. Two policemen shot a young Native American named Dean Johnson. Needless to say they never faced justice for it. The protesters tried to keep it low key, they knew their best bet was to garner publicity and thereby more support for our cause ... but Mayor Daly was having none of that. He amassed over 25,000 pigs to meet us and they were all hyped up on rumours and fear mongering (sound familar) .
When the rally started there was a huge amount of grass and hash consumed and everyone was singing and grooving and that is where it would have sat if the police hadn't kept pushing and pushing. On Sunday morning the Festival which was really a washout as far as turnout went, was surrounded by a fierce, angry, hyped up bunch of short haired, right wing, violent police; a virtual army intent on causing pain and hurt to the otherwise peaceful, stoned hippies just trying to get their message out to stop the war. Don't get me wrong. There was hype on our side too but it wasn't serious. We had aspirations that this could be the start of something that would snowball into bringing about real change (nuff said) but it became obvious way before the event that it wasn't gonna happen. We weren't going to get the revolution off the ground quite yet. By noon on Sunday the police had stormed the peaceful pot smoking protesters and were bashing their heads in with clubs, gassing people, kicking them to the ground and dragging them off to jail.
Abbie was like the character in Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano who at the end of the book when the revolution has started and the high ideals seem no where to be found explains to another character who has just expressed his disamy at that fact asks him what he expected. After the DNC and the Chicago event the media took off with it, the symbolism was cast but, as so often happens, a good bit of the message was mangled by the media frenzy. Abbie became the symbol for our movements unflinching demand to be heard and as such, became a much loved hero to many and a much hated symbol to others. Same old story same old song and dance. The media part of it, the hype and hate, were in many ways the precursors for the politics of division to which we have all been victims over the last eight years. In those days, the bad guys were Nixon, Hoover, and the FBI . Between them and the very militant forces of the Chicago Police they were getting ready for a hanging. They were going to make an example out of us in the hopes of crushing the New Left and sending everyone back into a 50's Pleasantville-style world which they could not see was never gonna happen. A land where the government does whatever it wants and the people had just damn well better shut up and let them. Nixon hated Hippies. Let's face it he was a twisted little man with multiple delusions. Enter a major henchman to help carry out this plan to destroy the New Left; Attorney General John Mitchell ... think Karl Rove but slimier. We found ourselves persecuted at every turn. The media and a smear campaign was turning the general country against us and in particular was going out of it's way to demonize the 'Chicago 7'. Abbie was doomed before he ever stood before that Judge. Abbie was a showman, a point man as it were. He was no great leader. But some of us knew him; knew exactly what he and we stood for ... The trial was another chance for theater to Abbie and he did us proud on several levels ... unfortunately the trial wasn't covered like O.J.s, otherwise, the mockery that our boys made of the justice system may well have re-fueled the fires of revolution. Instead, Abby received an eight month sentence for contempt. The longest sentence meted out was four years. Abbie got one of the lighter sentences. The conspiracy charges that the court had hoped to get pushed through were just ridiculous ... simply put ... we just weren't that organized. I mean underneath it all we were just a bunch of hippie stoners who wanted the killing of poor third worlders to stop and maybe the price of weed to stop going up. Freedom of Information Act files released that show that the Battle of Tonkin which was the administration's excuse for escalating the war in Viet Nam never happened (can we say Weapons of Mass Destruction?) also showed that Judge Hoffman was being puppeted by the FBI. That plans were finalized to guarantee (not that the courtroom antics did not merit them but those happened almost a year after the decision was made) that the defendants would all be nailed for contempt no matter what.. witnesses for the defense were tampered with with the full knowledge and cooperation of Judge Hoffman. Nixon and his henchman had Abbie identified as a terrorist and he was followed everywhere, and continually harassed. The accidental explosion that killed several Weather Underground members happened the next year. Although Abbie was with us in many ways, he could not bring himself to advocate violence against innocent people and later ... well. Here is something Abbie had to say about it: the accident was "both a tragedy and a blessing in disguise ... People are flesh and blood, not symbols. Not only is this kind of terrorism an unworkable strategy, it is one which would only replace one heartless system with another." He was right. In many ways, we were as bad as the bombers of abortion clinics and motivated by the same desire to save the innocent underneath it all ... just very misguided. Well, that's about all I have to say about it for now.
There are hash cookies and brownies on your way out of the hall. Do try one or two ... and may they bring you peaceful loving thoughts that rub off on everyone around you.
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+2 raves I do it all the time. It is completely subconscious, too.
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