Divinity Within - Cameras on the Arabs Voting NO!

Why do they even say they run their meetings by Roberts' Rules?  They don't observe Parliamentary Procedure and they don't treat each other with respect.  Did Michelle really say you don't slam the door in the faces of the ladies who helped Black Men gain Citizenship and the Vote?  Great speech, Mrs. O.  I'll bill you for my material.


From The Associated Press: 
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Embarrassed by Republicans,
Democrats amended their convention platform
Wednesday to add a mention of God
and declare that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

But back to the procedure.  The Chair should have called the Roll and forced the Nays to put themselves on record as voting against admitting a higher,  spiritual force as party to our deliberations. 

As Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, surrogate Chair,  called for a third voice vote to restore the language of our traditional observance of freedom of religion in the platform, the Fox Cameras were focused on a delegate seated with others holding placquards calling themselves Arab American Democrats.  He stood and waved both hands in a symbol of firm rejection of the Chair's ruling.  It reminded me of the 2008 primary when the "Chairman" ruled - in the face of evidence to the contrary - that his Chosen One had "won" the nomination.  Just so you know, God's here, within, whether acknowledged or not.  One can only speculate how Wasserman-Schultz would have ruled, inasmuch as the Jerusalem wording was also challenged.

So, the hotshot punks and company are relocating their coronation to indoors breaking hearts of campaign volunteers all along the East Coast.  I guess they can call them volunteers, and we'll buy their 'splainin', but you couldn't pay me to endure the level of abuse I'm told volunteers to the 2008 campaign suffered - especially the well-meaning Hillary people who got onboard the "Unity Pony."  Oh, and too late to order the balloons.  I'm sorry; did the "Yes, We CAN!" kids say there's nobody who'd move heaven and earth to see to it that 100,000 red, white and blue balloons would descend on the heads of the delegates to celebrate the acceptance of the nomination? 

GIVE ME A BREAK!!!! 

 

All those "broken hearts" were wind beneath his fairy wings who would have blown up a hundred balloons apiece themselves!  What a bunch of slackers.  Can we move this travesty along?  Big Dawg's on deck and the sooner we get his take the sooner we can move along to Big Brother.

As for the demeanor of Dick Durbin when Brett Baer asked about the omission of the language in the platform, we can't reconcile Durbin's hostility and over-the-top objection to Fox addressing it as "harping on a trifle."

Oh, yeah.  And, if the punks were "knocking it out of the park,"  there's NO WAY IN GOD'S CREATION that Bubba would be speaking tonight.  For me, getting fired from my job while the One was delivering his inaugural address, a scant week after receiving a good review and a raise was perceived as an act of one who fancies himself the Godfather during the Baptism scene.  To heap insult upon injury, the State Committee tried to shove me out of my seat to esconce a trans-gender for "giving voice" to the candidate of the opposition party.  I objected to the disgraceful fashion in which the men of the Democratic Party and Obama's Trolls treated female candidates.  I regret, as Captain Barbossa would say, that I am disinclined to acquiesc to their wish that I be a good democrat and support the candidacy of the Occupant of the Oval Office.  Had these bastards made a single gesture of fence mending, instead of going into vindictive vendetta against me for my one vote, I might be less chary of their appeals.  I'm watching Big Brother on the other channel and I KNOW how these gamers swear on their children then do exactly as they promised they'd not.  Taqiyya - Subterfuge and bad faith at the highest level.

Obama's Excuse Mill-ions

"Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours."
Author, Richard Bach
 

Your action for today is to question one of the limitations you think you have.
 

My Send Out Cards mentor's daily challenge nails it.  The Pecker In Chief, the Top Cock, the Rooster (X_____________________) on your paycheck is all about why he hasn't gotten it done. 

When I got my ass kicked out of Syndicated News Features Sales, (by a selection of colleagues incapable of valuing me - hey, wasn't that hatchet job done enough by my Ex Husband?) I sought consolation among other unemployed professionals in Atlanta who were victims of Jimmy Carter's Economy and Ronald Reagan's beatification. (He wasn't yet cannonized, but declared "Blessed and on the path to Sainthood" by Les Miserables.)   We had a colleague in the skate rental business near Piedmont Park whose counterpart was better situated and winning the Michiganders' Competition.  The idea was to offer free skate rentals to night skaters of the streets who would meet in the Sears Parking Lot in Buckhead after the store had closed, lace on their reserved rentals delivered personally by the proprietor, and go for a social skate/Buckhead Bar Roll in the neighborhoods of West Paces Ferry.  They tuned up with a buzz around the lot before embarking, and until the headphones went on, would engage in chat with the regulars and newly attracted skaters.  It was all blow'n b.s. and we all tried to build up our egos with accents on the positives of why we were here.  Despite falls from grace from once nice jobs, we were resilient and pulling ourselves up, literally, by our skateboots.

By and by, as Deborah Norville, my sister Claire and I eventually discovered, those who held onto their jobs were knifing each other, clients and stockholders in the back with cocaine and other drug-induced political will, and we who were economically ditched, learned we didn't lose our job; we were ejected from the magnetism of  Le Cage Aux Folles and rescued, by our "misfortune," hence preserving our ability to pass a mandatory drug test once employers got wise.

Each of us so delighted in the awesome experience of "skating the skreets" in night lights and traffic with our rapidly evolving headsets jamming rock that we invited everyone we knew to come out and skate with us on Wednesdays.  We formed a club, established a philanthropy and found new identities as a flock of flying friends.  We got noticed, we got honks of all natures and we got to feeling better and better about ourselves as we grew increasingly more fit and flashy with our tricks.

So, as new inductees joined us on our Friday Night Downtown Skill Skates, intent on impressing us with their no-longer-validating achievements in the corporate realm, we would just adjust our headphones on our ears, pause before we cranked the volume on the latest 'Brothers In Arms' and simply dismissed the notion of living in the past with one question of our own:

Are you here to talk or skate?

Ya gotta ask yourself one question: Do You Feel Lucky, PUNK?

Chris Kofinis appeared on Fox today, a political strategist who left the Joe Manchin staff to support Obama.  He's got this little thing about forming his hand into the shape of West Virginia with his middle finger representing the projection that reaches along the Virginia border to Maryland.  He says, he means no disrespect, he's from West Virginia and this is really how West Virginia is formed.  I say:  "I'm glad you're not from Florida."

 

 

The strategy should be this:  Obama inherited a “mess” from Bush, to be sure.   He shoved a qualified, seasoned accomplished political professional out of his way, so full of himself that he was possessed of greater judgment, skill and ability.  He was touched by the heavens and expected that Affirmative Action would trump experience and substance in the face of great challenges because “it was his time.”

 

Well, Chris, The pompous academic in chief, who was never so much as tested nor run through the preliminaries to validate and certify his capacity to perform, had neither the relationships to foster a legitimate support system nor the respect for his predecessors to benefit from their wisdom and skill.  His autocratic arrogance has condemned us to poverty and his threat of punitive taxation motivates us to refrain from attempting to work ourselves out.  What small business owner hasn’t been forced to protect his day’s receipts from  would-be robbers?  The Workers of this country recognize a PUNK calculating his opportunity to relieve them of their earnings with utter disregard for the degradation of society his policies foment.

 

The Autocrat made all the calls, took all the authority away from Congress because he refused to hear them respectfully.  He now stands singularly responsible for the results of his ignorance.  His lack of diplomatic training, his lack of experience in any type of private sector work, his failure to develop relationships with his own people to assume positions in his cabinet are the trifecta of reasons why you hackers should never have been permitted to represent yourselves as Democrats.

 

Hence the words everybody heard - though Eastwood never spoke - to the Empty Chair:  Do You Feel Lucky, PUNK?  Well, DO ya?

 

I am so

Brews A Monument

Mr. Baseball Immortalized

Along a path inhabited by bronze effigies of Henry the Hammer, Robin Yount and Bud Selig, a new brew crew mate has been esconced.  It's amazing.  A statue of Bob Uecker makes all that's coming out of Wisconsin snap to a balance.

Major League is my all time favorite movie, Charlie Sheen as the "Wild Thing" coming out of the pen, the fans in the bleachers, Rene Rouseau and the Indians were fun and the Game.  When I heard that the Brewers had the statue made and unveiled today, I just smiled. 

I've never been to Milwaukee, but Aramas Ramirez once - as a Pirate - made national news by popping one of the running sausages on the head with the baseball bat as she ran by him and she fell flat on her face. 

Aramas hit a homer tonight and the Bucs lost, but we have two more to play there and I hope they get both, but it was kinda cool to hear the broadcast booth doing their take on Uecker Seats and "Juuuuust A Bit Outside" in the course of tonight's game.  Some funny jokes come to mind as I see the hands in the pockets, the simple sweater and relaxed pose.  I walked out of the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport yesterday and almost said, "Hello." to Arnie.   The statue stands along the sidewalk at the entrance, holding - what else? - a golf club.  Maybe the one of Franco Harris in the Greater Pittsburgh Airport is another life-sized contender. 

So, I can get with the idea of a statue of the team's broadcast voice ranking right up there with the bigger-than-life Arthur J "Chief" Rooney near Heinz Field or the now removed Joe Pa running out onto Beaver Stadium field.  It's cool to know, Bob.

Talked out of my senses

Paradoxical Quote of The Day From Ben Stein:
"Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires
every citizen to prove they are insured...
but not everyone must prove they are a citizen."

Now add this,
"Many of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens
will receive free insurance
paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance
because they are citizens."

My sister sent this.  I'm a recent fan of Ben Stein and appreciate the poetic rhythm he works this in.

Extremes vs. Middle - Out Values

Here I was thinking Claire McCaskill would have a difficult time winning re-election along with so many of the Progressive-Waved-In Crowd that got elected in the 2006 recoil from Bush.  Since then, we've observed that same "progressive" contingent squander the Democratic Majority with obsessive and overbearing pressure on fellow Democrats to "Fall in Line" behind the Cult Con, Obama, who is in no way a genuine Democrat as I know my Party to represent. 

I have witnessed the leadership of Organized Labor rejecting this tactic which was once their own.  Republicans who - for eight years - conducted themselves with the same "rubber stamp" slavish support of the Bush / Cheyney extremism, now contend with TEA Party ideologues passionately opposing any spending that would trigger new taxes, ATR activists strangling the Washington Way Things Get Done with the Norquist pledge and the "Progressives-in-Heat" young lions eager to wrench the reigns of power from their Boomer Elders.  A caste-in-cement Vegas Odds-Defying Harry Reed is lining up with Pelosi to repeat the 2010 debacle with a middle finger to the voters.

Somewhere in here, the Evangelicals are striving to uphold a Pro-Life slant to paint with broad brush, any woman's choice to abort as a murder.  As a result, McCaskill most likely skates and gets away with outright stupidity by way of HER slavish proclivity to vote as the children instruct her. 

Republicans who assailed Senator Arlen Specter for representing his Constituents rather than his Party, forced him out behind the rude, ignorant, overbearing Sean Hannity while the Democrats were equally compromised when Admiral Joe Sestak, a One Time Clinton colleague spewed shallow and meaningless electioneering jargon to attract Clinton-Haters to his campaign. 

The accusation that I'm known to Vote the Vagina had initially struck me as a legitimate call to be certain that I held Women Candidates to the same low standards I'd expect of any male.  After much soul-searching and careful self-scrutiny, I concluded that while Women have no corner on morality or integrity, they do process with a slightly differing capacity for survival.  Women have never, however, had much of a formal voice in the debate, and are, therefore, still finding their voices, so I lean to the distaff preference all other things being "equal."  Equal for this application is this: knowing little about either candidate, I'll give the Woman the shot.  Easy.  Done.  I've been burned a couple of times with that approach, and the outcomes have, nevertheless, confirmed my policy.  I've been burned at least as often by male candidates I've supported. 

In the matter of the Missouri Senate race, a question from the Press Corp opened a "fall to your death" trap door for Todd Akin.  He declines to acquiesce to the concerns of his colleagues and proclaims, instead, his divine mandate to redouble his campaign efforts despite the millions retracted from his finance committee by once-interested backers.

As with racially charged incidents, the Occupant of the Oval Office promptly weighs in, with equally meaningless statements of a bandwagon-hopping nature.  In 2006, McCaskill received the support of many Hillary Progressives whom she promptly stiffed in 2008 with a Bill-Bashing endorsement of the One.  This time around, she has only herself, not her children, to credit with her standing among her Constituents.

It shapes up to be an odd one.  Karl Rove, who didn't like Sarah Palin, Christine Donahue or Romney, is steering money into campaigns that might win, to ensure his own status with them for bargaining purposes on their future votes.  A career in Sales has taught me that the negative energy of bullies and hacks is a turn-off to the legitimate.  As the manipulators abandon the righteous, a completely alternative contingent rushes to populate the void. 

Todd Akin is about to have a "religious experience" that will dispel any doubts he may have about the existence of a God.  The super-nature of collective minds working together can demonstrate for him the various "Powers That Be."  They have an approach to penetrating pressure that many hopeless souls have witnessed.  In Humans, doubt and fear have emotional connections that move us in erroneous paths.  Akin uttered poorly-worded personal views that alerted liberal-minded voters to a thought process by which he would make decisions.  Like a junkyard electronmagnet kicking on, the shrapnel that dropped when the charge was taken up by the one side will be replaced by something else just as responsive to this altogether "useful idiot" vibe.    New backers will crawl out of the slime, having smoked out a perfectly-primed but otherwise hapless wanna-be who will be as receptive to the forces of foolishness as the One, himself has so satisfyingly proven to be.   Ah!  Power.  It flows as it is processed, and those of us who respect it can only hope to survive its possessors.

Getting The Irish Up, The Protestant Lamp Passing

Mitt Romney, Mormon, selects Paul Ryan, Catholic.  The Irish Times notes that  "lace curtain" and  "Shanty" Irish are represented on the national ticket and 10-11-12 promises to be a battle for the ages.  Obama, a Muslim/Christian/Secularist rounds out the field.  No Protestant appears on either ticket.  Irish Times' Niall O'Dowd takes notice. I've been reading the Irish Times for years, can't say why, for sure.  But the point of view is distinctly unique; not British, not Jewish, not crazy.  I remember when Dan Rooney, Catholic, Republican owner of the Steelers sold out Western PA to buy the Ambassadorship to Ireland from Obama - the Brother - as he made his way around the leagues high-fiving with the Bros before Hos creeps.  Since then, the Bros have kinda "distinguished" themselves more as Ho Hounds than Gentlemen and the Ambassador has shown "preferential treatment" to some players whose behavior towards women has gotten them arrested. 

But the Irish Times has followed U.S. Politics faithfully, and notes "daughter" Maureen Dowd's pieces on occasion.  This OpEd, however, opens my eyes to an otherwise bypassed matter of fact.  The U.S. Supreme Court now consists of 6 Catholics and 3 Jews.  Whoah!

W.A.S.P. where art thou?  My Sister-In-Law, Ernestine, is a practicing Catholic.  She teaches C.C.D. classes, performs the Eucharistic Ministry, has been a choir singer and committee volunteer.  I love that she maintains contact with all my mother's church friends.  I go to church with her sometimes.  It's "mass" to them.  To me, it's a gentle exchange with the kind of folks with whom I matured.  Some of us Catholics struggled with the shield behind which too many pedophiles hid.  I had more of an issue with the distribution of decision making authority in the Church, namely the same bishops who quietly re-assigned child-molesters and allowed pastors to enrich themselves.  I also rebelled utterly against my judgmental family who considered my life their personal playground in which they could bully and push me around by asserting MY responsibility to just eat it when I was stiffed or cheated by a spouse, employer, rival, "turn the other cheek" advice which they never applied to themselves.  I learned the difference between Christian and Catholic.  I was happy to see John Paul II go so far to advance the value of "Being With You" as the essence of his Papacy. Ironically, in passing, he was received by Terri Schaivo whose end of life saga was the battleground of political evangelists.

So, when I read for the second time in as many days, that the two Irish Catholic Americans on the Vice Presidential campaigns represented a change in American Power, I did the extra clicks to read the entire article.  O'Dowd notes, also, that the U.S. Supreme Court, once a bastion of Protestantism, has surged to the forefront of "diversity" with, whaddya know?  Catholics and Jews!!!

Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr...Roman Catholic
Justice Antonin Scalia....................Roman Catholic
Justice Anthony Kennedy..............Roman Catholic
Justice Clarence Thomas...............Roman Catholic
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.........Jewish
Justice Stephen Breyer..................Jewish
Justice Samuel Alito......................Roman Catholic
Justice Sonia Sotomayor...............Roman Catholic
Justice Elena Kagan......................Jewish

Ryan Ups the Hope, The Soap and the Mope

The Tea Party must be ecstatic.  The Elders drawing Social Security are those who were reared by Depression Era parents and teachers who know perfectly well why the Young-uns are on a highway to hell, and have no intention of bailing them out by dying early and leaving them their retirement.  We who were brought in with the Baby Boom look at the generation behind us and find it amazing how simple-minded they are about ethics and how it impacts everything. 

Work with a group of great Sales and Operations Professionals and you would see the self-policing practices that preserve the economy.  Observe the current crop of "paid aparatchick" forcing the obama agenda and notice the unquestioning loyalty to their mind trap.

The Issues, I suspect, include the Pocket Book.  The characterization of the Ryan Budget as a cruel, stingy, worst of the Republican Rap is - like so many PAC ads - grossly wrong.  I can imagine that Bill Clinton is happy enough to have a document such as Path To Prosperity as a starting point.  As with all legitimate politicians, Clinton will work with whomever "shows up."  On the budget, unlike any Democrat except the President, whose own offering is unworthy of even a single vote, in either the House or the Senate, Ryan addresses the reality of the cost of government.

His working document provides the basis for those who show up to do the work of establishing the ground on which we'll stand going forward.   The impact of leverage requires only a place to stand.  With Ground, Romney-Ryan is enabled to present a plan and begin the positive activity of making it one that is workable for the American People.  Brilliant, flexing cortex attracts its equal.  The lesser-brain powers of the Democrats' offering is the result of misguided cultural dysfunction.  Amid the forces scuttling the real work of legitimacy, the swirl is not the alternating forces that mutually respect, but, a splattering of competing interests intent on annaihalating the alternative. 

A vibe sets up, a chorde is stricken, a note rings out.  It is an irresistable force within all of us called to serve to which we respond.  The dispirited condensors that dragged along for, now twelve miserable years obstructed from viable exercise of our will as citizens by the Bush and Obama Administrations have felt the call, are twisting their heads and necks as the power, once again, courses through them, dislodging obstructions, expanding to fill the gaps.

Around every circle may be drawn a bigger circle.  DNA is the proof.  Only the circle comes to degree 359 and decides whether to degenerate to a lower circle, take another lap around the track of the familiar and the easily done, or reach up for the hand reaching down from the higher powers to whom we offer our best in the exchange that will up us a notch when we log '360 as a two-way. 

Paul Ryan putting up half a "Zoltan."

As Americans, it's in our DNA to go for the two-tip, double-duty with another hard working healthy animal on a betterment track, and get to the next level.  We'll get a chance to re-visit the turf when we come back to coach, mentor and advise our successor.  I get Romney's "bold" pick.  It was the best candidate for the opening.  He picked the hardest working, most serious available option.  I pray that the same long view Wise Guides who pointed Mitt in the right direction will, likewise, continue to flush fullness through our systems to carry us along to the results the country needs.

Media Overbears - Education In Progress

In his remarkable piece discussing how the Media may have framed Joe Paterno, John Ziegler does the excruciating work of sorting the nuances gleaned from the coverage of the Sandusky matter.

 

John Ziegler Editorial

 

"It was very clear that the students were mostly angry over the lack of due process and simple respect shown for a man who was the reason many of them had applied to the school in the first place. It was also obvious that the focus of their outrage was on the news media for their disgraceful coverage of the story and the board of trustees for caving into the media pressure."

Ziegler methodically corrects the misguidance of each spun detail.  His extensive discourse reflects professionalism.  I found this material while reading a blog comment on a piece about Ed Rendell questioning the reaction of Tom Corbett, his successor as governor of Pennsylvania, to the implications of the Freeh report.  Rendell distinguished himself as a prosecutor, 2-term District Attorney then 2 terms as Mayor of Philadelphia before two terms as Governor.  Progressives and Republicans alike bashed "Fast Eddie" but he served the People of Pennsylvania tirelessly. 

 

While promoting his new book, "A Nation of Wusses:  How America's Leaders Lost The Guts To Make Us Great," Ed has expressed a number of views affecting the egos of sitting office holders.  Hey, that's his theme!  What the rest of the Country may not know is that the prosecutorial zeal of their legal system have the support of Pennsylvanians.  Arlen Specter, a Democrat, was written in as the Republican nominee and later elected DA in Philly, a town whose DA can make or break it.

 

I guess it follows that Ziegler's detractors would be the same obats who reject any notion that the election of Obama was a Media bamboozle. 

Bloomberg

Mayor Bloomberg, for all his New York savvy, is crest-coasting and missing a key ingredient in his assertions that the Presidential candidates should both address the issue of control of assault weapons.  His liberal, almost San Fransisco views are skewed toward the way the cash flush live.  He is unschooled in the understrength and current of substance ingrained in most of Middle America. 

Space premiums in his constituency drive a far different valuation of security than he would find beyond his city limits.  In central Pennsylvania, Western Tennessee, Colorado and Arizona, the numbers of humans per square foot is vastly lower.  The dumpiest piece of NYC real estate is of value due to the location and its demand.  There is, nonetheless, some avoidable real estate in New York City.  Here, for certain, serious crime flourishes, the turf unworthy of even basic surveillance equipment except to record its lowlife traffic. 

For the Mayor, the sad truth is this:  There is far greater incentive among 2nd Amendment proponents outside Gotham to own such guns for protection and preservation than there is agreement with his assertions.  These people remain sensitive to things New Yorkers no longer notice.  The trade-off in terms of what they value in life is such that to reside in that city is a choice they would never make.  Nothing could lure them to that environment. 

Most of us out here have a perspective on politicians, police and media that serves a survival instinct of even greater importance than avoiding a gun nut on a murder spree.  In our politicians, bankers, police departments and news media, we discern a collusion intended to hide their misdeeds and protect themselves with force sprung on us with the same advantage of surprise as the heavily armored "scientist" deployed at the premier of the Dark Knight Rises. 

The only thing, in the view of most of these 2nd Amendment defenders, that seperates the gunman from the colluding, big city collective of self-preserving thugs is singularity.  The ungodly scheme that actualized on Friday night was conducted by a solitary misanthrope.  City Government, Police, Media and Financiers, in fact, share that shooter's contempt for people and equip themselves, moreover arm themselves and as a way of life, scheme to outwit by all means available to themselves, to preserve what they consider theirs.  In a crisis, the coalition of Haves would be every bit as ruthless in their choices, and Middle America, scorned as bitterly clinging to their guns, knows that.  The Bail-Out of 2008 proved it. 

We risk OURS and lose, WE lose.  The "Club" risks OURS and loses, WE endemnify THEM but we LOSE what we paid them to protect, invest and police in our interest.  Do we suppose for an instant that they wouldn't move to exploit an unarmed population?  It matters less what they say and do behind closed doors and more that We the People are neither surprised nor proven wrong about our low opinion of them, Hope notwithstanding.

I believe now, more than ever, that it must be legal for American Citizens to own and be prepared to use assault weapons.  The behavior of the political class, obviously NOT concerned with the will, best interests or prosperity of the People, has made it clear that we must have the same means of defending ourselves as those who cut deals in back rooms while telling us they are a NEW kind of politician. 

Forensic Pathologist - Facial Recognition

I'm listening to Dr. Michael Baden speaking with Alisyn Camerota on Fox & Friends reveal that Medical Schools profile their candidates for psychopathic anomalies.  Baden opines that some quirk was uncovered via this screening suggesting James Eagan Holmes's "withdrawl" and calculated murderous actions are contained in data thus gleaned.  I gather that the "power" invested in Doctors by their training institutions is tempered with a responsibility on the part of the investor to calibrate obstacles calculated to winnow the field of prospective trustees.

Photographs of the "PhD Candidate" have a "look."  This guy reeks of it. 

My six year old nephew was SOOOO ecstatic about a new Batman movie, portions of which were filming here in Pittsburgh at this time last summer.  He asked me for spelling help several times as he googled the various points of interest to him.

His most revealing comment was, "FINALLY!  A REAL VILLAIN!"  ... "A Scientist!"  He was so done with the run-of-the-mill facist dictator.  His fantasies longed for a truly scary, KNOWLEDGABLE misanthrope.  This little boy, whose father has spent more time in jail for doing stupid things than he has around his son, had a decided preference for the nuts and bolts of a truly competitive wit with which to challenge the defender of Gotham.  That same weekend, he made me watch Kung Fu Panda with him to further convey to me that the minds of our youngest Americans are stimulated by skillful counterparts tinged with humor and artistic flair.

EEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS

have it!

http://www.pcworld.com/article/259579/facebooks_facial_recognition_draws_us_senate_scrutiny.html

   

"I think Facebook could still do more to explain to its users how it uses facial recognition," Franken said.

Facebook Recognizes You

Facebook's tag suggestions feature uses facial-recognition technology to automatically suggest the names of people pictured in new photos that users upload to the site. Tag suggestions has been offline for several weeks as Facebook has been conducting maintenance, a move that was necessitated by the widespread usage of the feature, according to Rob Sherman, Facebook's manager of privacy and public policy. Sherman said that the tag suggestions feature is set to come back online "soon," though he did not specify a timeframe.

Forget profiling, and understand that Israel feels the baseline motivator that triggers the "Survive!" response.  I applaud the wise, experienced Senator Lieberman's insistence on identifying Islamist Extremism as the Fort Hood catalyst.  Jerrod Loughner, and I advance the notion that when I meet and am approached by psychos, I see it in their eyes.  It is a vibration, a side-to-side motion of the iris.  Sometimes the symptom presents itself in a piercing intense gaze meeting my own eyes.  Sometimes it is clustered with averted eyes, fluttering and inability to make eye contact.  But the "Vibe" is definitely something I have seen often enough to be aware.  The other thing I sense is a "Mirage-Like" warping of the air around certain people, typically men, whom I encounter.  I have learned to identify this as a "group psyche" connection.  I used to associate the beady-eyed vibe with sexual pervs, but I wouldn't dismiss the symptom as a possible flag of psychosis of a more villainous nature. 

What connects these two parts to this post?  Suppressed Intuition.  Some of us act on our impulses, called "Promptings" by my "Send Out Cards" presenters.  Most of us learn, through loss, to take these seriously.  Along the path to yesterday's tragedy, many of those who dealt with Jimmy Holmes were thus touched.  We can't go about over-reacting, to be sure.  But when two or more such impulses make themselves significant, we must teach ourselves to take another look. 

I couldn't do anything to prevent what happened in Aurora.  I could only lodge the factors that "touched" me yesterday in the aftermath of the news, and to sort them properly for insertion into my own "data files."  Although I face frustrating financial circumstances and deal with what seem like unrelenting obstacles to my success, I give thanks for the time I had yesterday to process all of this.  I didn't have to suppress it in order to meet the demands of a grinding career or employer.  I was not pulled in other directions by toddlers needing fed and supervised.  I was allowed to think.  I was permitted to sit in my back yard and observe a family of wrens teaching their little ones to harass my cat in emulation of the pair who defended their nest each time Valentine was out.  They loudly announced his emergence and bobbed along within feet of him to foster a cyclone of disturbance around him in the work of keeping him clear of their babies.  The parents peeked at me and my "familiar" from the eaves of my house, from the branches of the trees surrounding my gazebo, even from the hanging planters suspended from the shade structure where we sat.  Monitoring AND warning him that he was being watched.  It was part of the "Promptings Cluster" that was imparted to me.  As I read my cards, the first two, then 7 were followed by 9,9,9.  I had to recognize 4 successive 9's just as I had to read the 4 Aces that came up in a reading on April 4, the anniversary of the assasination of Martin Luther King.  A reading full of ominous cards of violence and death foretold of the news I was about to receive of a colleague who had shot herself.  I got the Chariot and numerous 3's along with the Death card the day Dale Earnhardt was killed in a NASCAR race.  The word the cards conveyed was the Intimidator.  As I looked at the cat, I saw passivity.  His eyes showed me both awareness and detachment.  He was "hangin' with me," and I have no doubt that he presents a threat to these birdies.

I'm listening to Rep Mike Rogers, R-AL discuss the level of "denial" Janet Napolitano demonstrates in her position as Secretary of Homeland Security failing to deal with foreign nationals taking flying lessons without concern for their demonstrated lack of interest in getting a license or certification.  They are only interested in learning how to take off and fly. 

Reason your way through PROMPTINGS.  Look at their EYES.  Process, don't suppress.  Act on your intuited insight.  For me, personally, I am acquiring the "integrity" of a business person no longer to waste myself in effort that will be hijacked by the unethical.  I am flattened down, against the dirt, but facing up.  EVIL pressures me to despair, to submit, yet the Temperence Card exhorts me to "dance" with the upward lifting pressures helping me onto a plane where I may release the imbalancing forces.  I am called by the tuning forks to penetrate the illusion of obstacles and see my way through.  Ave Maria.

Good One:!

Of the two candidates, one is used to signing the back of a paycheck, and one is more accustomed to signing the front.

Chicagozz Real

Jackson’s representatives did not disclose what specific psychiatric problem the congressman has. A mood disorder can mean many things. According to Mental Health America, formerly known as the National Mental Health Association, there are four basic forms of mood disorders, including "major depression, cyclothymia (a mild form of bipolar disorder), SAD (seasonal affective disorder) and mania (euphoric, hyperactive, overinflated ego, unrealistic optimism)."

I can extend compassionate concern for Mrs. Jackie Jackson's son as she implored Jackson's mom appeals for privacy and space ... a moment for him to heal, as she described it in her remarks to the PUSH Coalition Conference in Chicago.

Did Mama Jackson not teach her son that Pushing invites Pushing Back?  Did not the Obama Campaign thrive on "Pushback" even when civil discourse was branded (improperly) push on the part of Americans expecting their institutions to observe reasonable standards of decency during the 2008 campaign?  Aside from the Clinton-Haters and Misogynist Opportunists, the big damage done by the Chicago/Howard Dean DNC was the astonishing hubris of this entire collective of thugs who inexpertly endeavored to impose their own cultural arrogance on the entire country.  The "ink-blooded" 4th Estate was "objective enough" during this reign of abuse, commenting that they stood willing to observe how this Chicago Style would play nationwide.  The bare knuckles show of force got "The One" elected, and it should be revised to the "Only" One.  The Democratic Majority for which I worked tirelessly throughout the Bush years and prior was wiped out in 2010 followed by the loss of State Houses (not to mention Court Houses) in every state. 

Jesse Jackson jr.'s mother stated that her son was dealing with "enormous" political disappointments.  He had been expecting to become Senator (Candidate #5 who escaped prosecution while the duly elected Governor was roused from his bed at 6:00 a.m. by Patrick Fitzgerald's office, and now sits in a penitentiary,) he had expected to have the opportunity to run for mayor of Chicago,  ... such "Illusions and Trinkets dangled in the face of young people..." sprinkled in her remarks about how she, who "plays" politics, doesn't LIVE politics, but rather, lives in the house with God, and is thereby made resilient in her faith.  I feel for Mrs. Jackson.  Her husband, Jesse, was seated next to her at the podium, applauding her worth as a founder of the PUSH Coalition and a faithful spouse.

I cannot recant my wish in an earlier posting, that he suffer.  Nor can I take back calling him an asshole.  He is and he should, moreover, he must.  In his confinement, Jackson must confront all that he did, all the times he faced a choice between doing the decent thing and doing the bidding of the Obama Campaign.  Raum Emmamuel self-righteously opines that Jr. should heal and not concern himself with returning to work in a Congress that "doesn't work."  EXCUSE ME?!!!  Emmanuel, are you honestly calling out the very Congress who's Campaign and Fundraising Committee you chaired prior to ascending to Chief of Staff in the Obama White House?

Lord, grant me the serenity to

Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,

Taking, as Jesus did,

This sinful world as it is,

Not as I would have it,

Trusting that You will make all things right,

If I surrender to Your will,

 It leaves me wondering what is going through Jr.'s head right now, but I can extend him my very best wishes for a complete and joyous recovery.  I wish him the comfort of his family, the vindication of his mother and most of all, I wish him the evenness and legitimacy in leadership that will result from his encounter with the Divinity Within.  We ambitious Catholics are cited the story of St. Paul, the Apostle, a powerful politician temporarily blinded by the light of the Risen Christ.  His subsequent writings initiated the Gentile's New Testament principles: the gentling of behavior and the relaxation of the laws of Moses mandating dietary and judicial harshness.   Perhaps these two kings of cruel; JJJ and Raum, will find the mercy and kindness from the people that they were too callous and driven to perceive while they are in a position to actually make a difference.  In forgiving them, I acccept my own many political disappointments and embrace my periods of unemployment, despair and financial hardship as badges of blessings of the God who will make it right. 

This is one of those things for which I can only pray I be granted the serenity to accept that this is one of those things I cannot change.

Candidate #5 Off His Horse

It appears that Jesse Jackson, Jr. is the victim of the push-back he personally set in motion four years ago.  I recall that this fraud was the arm-twister behind so many Clinton Super-Delegates flipping for her opponent.  I'm still not over the rumping of my Party's convention in 2008 and with Jackson so full of himself as to drive the delegates into the blind canyon of June when our votes were dismissed without further consideration.

I'd like to see JJJ continue to suffer the throes of conscience, the insecurity, the anguish, the humiliation that this prick and his hood fostered in my life.  Suffer, Asshole!

GodParticalistan

 http://youtu.be/Cl1uHSgxrgQ 

Because I taped "Cavuto" last evening at the same time I was "d-v-ring" the Pirates v. the Astros, my tv was on Fox Business this morning when checked in with my first cup of coffee.  He had interviewed Ralph Nader (should spell it Nadir, because he really fostered the low point of our history by 3rd Partying ?W? into office.)  Cavuto was graciously entertaining the book recently offered to explain that the Feds are ill-equipped to police the current corporate crime wave. 

He suggests getting "steamed" to overcome corporatism.  Cavuto, as a good friend, slaps the cuffs on his frequent guest with a caveat to avoid the broad brush smear approach to calling Corporaters Criminals.  Always a Gentleman, Cavuto. 

As the result, instead of Fox & Friends, I morn'd with Imus, another gentleman wannabe, who asked Brian Wilson to stop hating on his daughter, Carnie, but only AFTER airing a few laughs for the guy's cheaply-shotting the obesity issue that has plagued Ms. Wilson.

So he was being a guy.   Dagen McDowell hangs in there with those guys, and probably because she makes them, they treat her with deference.  Her fellow correspondants carry the day with notes about the Regie Remarks to the effect that legitimate HOFers will boycott if A-Rod, Bonds, Maguire, and such "tainted" MLBoys of Summer are elected.

Recalling the "Unsafe At Any Speed" manifesto pantsing the US Auto Design Community, A "Spyder" Corvair owner and driver wasn't looking for safety, Ralph.  Any more than I was, on my skates for 10 hours a day.  There's a mindset that accepts "risk" as a factor to diminish in the pursuit of excellence.  A "safe" path that is applauded by your mother isn't a path they'll advocate or enjoy... it carries, (wait for it .....) RISK!   There's risk in change, I guess, which should make me love the progressives, but after countless bruises acquired in skate falls, and loss of my favorite tights and crete burns, I came to balance risk against probabilities. 

I learned to incorporate likely successes into my risk taking.  When I had so mastered a maneuver that I could make it my "GOTO" for eluding danger, it became clear to me that risk needn't be massive.  A minimal risk, taken regularly, had the same cumulative effect of advancing my skill level as a leap of faith taken rashly.

Ralph is a Leaper.  He ain't finance.  He ain't design.  He ain't administering the resources of 300 million people paying taxes in the country.  He ain't PR.  He is a scavenger who lives off the decomposition of once living organisms he destroyed with such broad-brush paint jobs as he's peddling in "Steamed." 

Greenies like steamed foods, and should love this latest Nader pea.  I don't need to be listening to live TV to "get" in touch with the likes of Charles Payne, http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/18/charles-paynes-charged-argument-with-an-ows-protester-i-took-my-opportunity/ who articulates, beautifully, on a regular basis, my sentiments regarding the Whiner In Chief.  The Prompting from the airwave says it like we mean it:  ATTRACT business and create jobs.  What the Obats attract are cop-out, craven quitters.  What manner of "business" wishes to locate itself in a steaming exchange of excuses for failure? 

Legitimate analysis - as experience has taught me - is performed in the wake of extreme loss.  Do we set idle without resources or self-respect, self-medicating and languishing?  Or do we find another way to process our excellence? 

From Payne's interviews, I glean a "too legit to quit" American, self-made and successful in the face of the "Brother's" bogus explanation of the Obama World.  I just heard him ranting that Obama's Class Warfare game pisses him off, "There are Rich people who aren't responsible and they don't care for others" meme.  

The Italian Spider Visit

The Progressives are now understood to be low hanging fruit, soon to be lumped together with the launchers of the movement to make the word "Illegals" illegal. They are actually calling it the "I" Word to link it to the "N" Word as an unacceptable, racist slur. A young woman, who represented herself as a refugee from a banana republic tribal conflict

“You haven’t even thought this out, Miss Novoa,” O’Reilly said coldly. “You have not even thought this out. And with all due respect, because I appreciate you coming in here, you come in here with a very hot campaign, alright? Run by a far-Left website, demonizing people like me who are accurately telling the people what’s happening. And you don’t even know what you want. You don’t even know what you want.”

The appeal to suffering people has always worked on Americans who are known = worldwide - as a soft touch. Maybe "Drop The I Word" campaign should note, first and foremost, that her cited source, Fox News Latino, is a SPIN-OFF of Fox News! Now, having been "created" by a Fatherly Fox and an American Media Marketing Mother, Fox Latino makes its first move to take-over the parent news organization, the one who earned the ratings and fostered the journey back from the Cleaners to - in fact - serve as the 4th Estate. I think that the Progressives have made a bad marriage in hopping into bed with Obama without being properly introduced and insisting on a history of Family exchange, such as a dowry or a political appointment. Face it. Obama has no American Leverage

He was reared in a country that eats dog, rules militarily and requires Muslim inculcation of all citizens! He has no history of Red, White and Blue patriotic development and his associates are deliberately anti-american. How can these misfits expect to ever truly be inducted into the American Way? They come from other countries to sleaze into a country that endeavors to support individual independence. They are generations behind those brought here to work mines, mills, railroads and farms. They wish to deal drugs, invade schools and abuse hospital services.

Upon his return to the United States, Obama lived in Hawaii, the 50th State, a former Monarchy, disconnected from the Main Land by two time zones and marooned from us in too many ways to enumerate. There, at the age of about 14, the young Obama began smoking dope. It was at that time that he ceased to develop that area of his ethical intelligence, and the progressives are forever wed to a thus-addled, immature, slick, cynical manipulator who went onto Columbia (Harlem) and Harvard (Boston Commons) to master schmoozing, manipulation and Affirmative Pandering. On a legacy as porous as that of George W Bush. NOT on Merit, Gary. I know you despised the Yale grad and your own "Peers"
who - frankly - would sneer
to be so smeared
by a classmate
attempting to equate himself in any way
to those born to privilege.

Monica Novoa attempted to shame Bill O'Reilley into submission and
to reinforce her derision of users of the "I Word"
as Racist. Obama's Black Bandwagon has hitched a cattle car to its engine which is steamed by malicious exploitation of suffering human beings.

I remember Bobby Kennedy going into ghettos and actually sitting among the poorest black children and holding them on his lap, comforting them. Encouraging and smiling with them. Princess Diana, likewise, went into hospitals and touched victims of Aids, went to Africa and sat with and held victims of land mines, toxic water and poverty. Obama EXCLUSIVELY associates with the most obnoxious of the rich, cruel, selfish and full-of-shit academics. He married his boss, and his only job before entering politics was spending the money given by the Annenburg Challenge to fundamentally change the Chicago School System. What were the results?

Here in Pittsburgh, The Gates Foundation gave millions to the City Schools to reinforce the Pittsburgh Promise, a program started by the young mayor, Luke Ravenstahl, to reward families who chose to live inside the city limits and send their kids to the city schools with the tuition to attend college. To administer this Fund, Melinda and Bill Gates did not hire a pompous race-hustler; they placed the funds under the joint management of themselves and the Teachers Union, which, in the City, under the Presidency of John Tarka, had not struck the city schools for a raise or a contract in more than ten years. Proven initiatives supported. Not a gesture of grandiosity by people with money on their hands to interfere and impose on a system, but - rather - recognition of initiative and responsible management endowed with enough material support to reinforce the "divine" charge with which the Promise was conceived and the commitment with which it was launched.

When the Fox Latinos sent Monica Navoa to "school" O'Reilley, they obviously didn't do their homework nor familiarize themselves with the qualities that have made the O'Reilley Factor the #1 Cable News Opinion program in the United States for more than a decade. I recommend they give "Bold, Fresh Piece of Humanity" a listen and grasp the respect O'Reilley shows for his Catholic / Parochial School education and the nuns who molded him into a great teacher-turned-commentator. I have yet to hear Obama allude to his grade school teachers and any influential educators prior to his pan-handled admission to Harvard on the legacy of his rabid father's exchange school affirmative opportunity.

Most of them are not radicals, but they do have the skills that come from political organizing in Central America."
California State University, Northridge, Gregory Velazco y Trianosky, associate dean for humanities and the Central American student association's advisor.

Ms Navoa doesn't understand that, as an El Salvador emigrant, regardless of circumstances, she and her family fled oppression and threats to their way of life. Because her father was a leftist educator, he was targeted by dictators. Likewise, today, because Bill O'Reilley is an influential counter-balance to the Leftist demands, she considers herself superior to him ethically.

I, too, came out of the dirt with "radical" notions fostered by my exposure to academia, but like O'Reilley, I recall the influence of Sister Generossa, Sister Claudia, Sister Aquina and lay teacher, Joe Francis. I grew up with daily mass, fundraising to enhance the quality of my school experience and no access to transportation to and from school except as my mill-working, carpenter father provided us each day. My mother kvetched endlessly about the trouble my ideas would bring me. But called from the darkness, I stepped - foolishly, my Angels would say - into the world of White, Anglo Saxon Protestants who were those among whom Obama gained his Ivy League Credentials. Likewise, Ms Navoa enjoyed the will of the people of California to nurture and reward her and her family for choosing, like Mary Magdalen, the Better Way.

Dr. Betty Siegel, first Woman President of Kennesaw State University, in an address to the Atlanta chapter of the National Association of Professional Saleswomen, taught me the single most critical cross-over lesson of my life: She came from a Jewish New York family to the South where she melded the best of the Culture of her Religious Background and Kin with the fierce determination to spread the wealth of cultural strength to the poorest young people of Georgia. The Legacy of Jimmy Carter's Presidency nourished and supported the rise of the Owls under this pioneer, but her own closing line, hand outstretched as she delivered, "Whattya Say?" made even the most reluctant, traditionalists trust her and buy into HER version of spreading the wealth. Not via taxation and celebrity, but via respectful, PLEASANT exchange

Above all, she was respectfully entertaining, not a smart ass critic of her opponents. Betty SOLD her stuff, she didn't strut it. She was accomplished and solid, but, above all, she was aware of her Odyssey and alluded to it always as she recounted the set-backs that made her such a great saleswoman and closer. Would that the modern activists get themselves a telemarketing job or two to learn these skills lacking in the low-hanging-fruits' approach.

"You've never lived until you've almost died; as for our freedom, for those of us who have fought for it, life has a flavour the protected will never know." - Anonymous

 

Convention Calamaty Jones

In the run-up to the 2008 North Carolina Primary, I frequented the sites of the State's Daily Newspapers to gain insight into how the Democrats would view the Obama/Clinton race. The article that stands out isn't the one about the poll that quoted North Carolinians as saying they'd vote for Change, Obama, etc...Given NC's proximity to Virginia and South Carolina, this seemed consistent with the area.
It was the one about Dems taking the cardboard cut-out of Hillary to the sidewalks and people were buying "photo ops" with it.

Obama was having his crooked ass pampered up one side and down the other, being lauded for his vaunted judgement and superior management, strategic planning and ground 'game' as affirmation that he was, despite what everybody with a brain could see, qualified to be President.

Once. He was good enough once. To read "Game Change" and "Audacity to Win," one would think the entire Obama Team was something other than a cash flush, rolling beer fest promising to "Party the Party" to any half-wit that glanced their way. Their self-evaluation consisted of a string of superlatives and bragadoccio about their man. The one thing Hillary Clinton shared was the audacity to expect to be taken seriously. The message: Any Male, even an unqualified one, is more fit to serve than even the most accomplished Woman. He never won a contested election in his career, served less than 2 years in the Senate yet his colleagues were tripping over themselves to advance his career without mentoring him in the courtesies of political battle.

The DNC celebrated their Rules & By Laws coup by moving the headquarters to Chicago reflecting Obama's ownership of the Party. They had great difficulty funding their Roman Orgy in Denver and appealed to the kegger kids they had scammed to kick over $5 bucks a head to get into the convention as a maneuver to elbow out Clinton supporters.

They're losing North Carolina and cancelled the kick-off scheduled to roar out of Concord in a NASCAR event and have been snubbed, first by the West Virginia trio that includes the Governor and Senator, a Pennsylvania Congressman and yesterday, Claire McCaskill confirmed she'll be taking a Pass-a-dina on Labor Day in Charlotte. No sympatico with Claire at all. She's toast. Expect Bill Clinton to deliver a severe blow to her campaign around the 23rd of October. As we close in on the actual convention, keep an ear to the ground for rumblings as to whether Bubba even attends. Bet there'll be intense "negotiations" about whether to even have him speak. I'm betting not.

Dos Equis Beer Ad Notches "the (arrogant) One"

Greta closed tonight's "On the Record" with a parody ad that takes off on the Dos Equis Beer ad about the most interesting man in the world.  The Conservative group, Right Change, has posted this spot and Greta hosts it on her wire tonight with the invitation to us to post our impression.

I was most impressed by the comment of Neil Turner, who posted

It's nice to see some real truth in advertising for a change.

Now if they would only address the fact that the preponderance of evidence shows that he was NOT born in Hawaii, that he is NOT a natural born U.S. Citizen, that he is NOT a Christian (truth be known, he is a Muslim - since there is no fatwa of death on his head for apostasy), that he did NOT register for the draft in 1980 (which he would have been required to do so IF he was a U.S. Citizen rather than a foreign student), and that is is NOT, and never was, eligible for the Office of President and Commander in Chief.

Now let's stop looking like absolute fools by giving legitimacy to that which is so obviously illegitimate. Expose his ineligibility NOW, before it is too late to be able to ever make such a truthful and humorous ad again.

#LiftaFingerForObamainNovember

In response to the Whiner In Chief's prediction that the Republicans won't lift a finger to help pass his jobs bill, the Tweeters say:

FormerDeminTX‏@FormerDeminTX19h

My entire family will ‪#LiftafingerforObama‬ in November. It’s ‪#forthechildren‬ ‪#caring‬ pic.twitter.com/5JkVMCJv

I'm sorry.  I was reading Crawdad Hole's comment section about Toure Neblett on MSNBC carping that the Press "disrespected" the godfather President with interruption of his recent press conference. 

WMCB commented:  Obama whined today again that R’s won’t lift a finger to pass his jobs stimulus boondoggle. New hashtag game! Everyone lift a finger for Obama! and FormerDeminTX had this beauty up ...

Like I said:  I'm really sorry to be laughing at a child being used so improperly by an adult.  It's not funny, but I laught...sorry



Gadget Geek In Chief Confiscates Others'

A President who's addiction to his Blackberry forced the Secret Service to devise one capable of satisfying his own brat-bink fixation while remaining secure from hackers and spies, has his staff confiscate and separate his fellow suckers from their own cell phones if they are to be seated at "private fund-raisers at which he is to appear.

The bugaboo of the two-faced political hack - the revealing video - has so threatened the candidate running "unopposed" by his own party is the concern of all his campaign handlers.   Isolating and pampering the Little Prince has so led him to paranoia that while, on the one hand Obama is disguised as a sitting President campaigning on the taxpayers' largess, maximizing the advantage of the incumbency, on the other hand, the prospect of video of one of his arrogant say-whatever-will-seperate-them-from-their-money videos appearing on You Tube so threatens his icon status that the deep pockets at the event will be separated from their techno-toys as a condition of admission.

This "news" of the management of news is, of course, routine for this crowd, but to be outed this way on a level that is so central to his identity as a hipster clearly disrobes the "Judgment" candidate as somebody who thoroughly doubts himself.  Hidden in his eyes, the fear and the resentment of anybody attempting to be regular folks in his presence is driving the billion dollar campaign to curb the very unifying practice that made the arrugula-munchers his social kin in the first place.

It would appear that four years of lap-dog media treatment has solidified the staff's copping of the right to commandeer the evenings of those who pony up and attend such functions designed to fill the coffers for their continued self-indulgence.