Just as I thought the political paradox of the week was going to be Gov. Sanford’s continued erratic, over revealing press conferences in lieu of his desire to stay in office, Gov. Sarah Palin resigns. My head performed an impromptu “Fred Flinstone” headshake when I saw the news. I then listened to her press conference and bam, there it was. Sarah Palin quit saying, “we know we can effect positive change outside government at this moment in time, on another scale, and actually make a difference for our priorities - and so we will, for Alaskans and for Americans.”
She wants to be a community organizer. A sevantly ingenious political move, Machiavellian in its audacity, “keep your enemies at arm’s length, keep your friends further”. Then, turning the classic saying, "if you can't beat them join them" on its head, she invokes; if you can't beat them whine, quit and then become them.
At this point the only thing Governor Sanford can do to reclaim his place at the top is to announce the forthcoming birth of a lovechild from his soon to be former wife or a soulchild from his soon to be former soulmate.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Allah in Iran
Of course I have an opinion about the election and subsequent slaughter for President in Iran. Ironically, the selected leader, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran is asking President Obama for an apology for meddling in Iran's election. It seems the only ones who meddled where those who defrauded the voting rights of the people of Iran.
It has long been my understanding that all Mankind, if not especially Muslims were subject to Will of Allah. It seems a deep heresy prevelant in a people who question the His Will and take matters of State, Politic or Theorocracy as theirs to manipulate. How can men who so trivialize the power and reach of their God call themselves Religious Leaders? No, I'm not really asking your opinion, I have mine. They can't. They are evil heretics, usurers, murderers of his children.
As to what we the World commumity should newly elected false Government of Iran, my opinion is; we should do nothing, not trade with them, not talk with them, not negotiate nor engage in any manner until they return their country to its rightful heirs, the people of Iran.
At least that's my opinion.
(In memory of Neda, another dead diamond.)
It has long been my understanding that all Mankind, if not especially Muslims were subject to Will of Allah. It seems a deep heresy prevelant in a people who question the His Will and take matters of State, Politic or Theorocracy as theirs to manipulate. How can men who so trivialize the power and reach of their God call themselves Religious Leaders? No, I'm not really asking your opinion, I have mine. They can't. They are evil heretics, usurers, murderers of his children.
As to what we the World commumity should newly elected false Government of Iran, my opinion is; we should do nothing, not trade with them, not talk with them, not negotiate nor engage in any manner until they return their country to its rightful heirs, the people of Iran.
At least that's my opinion.
(In memory of Neda, another dead diamond.)
$40,000.00 Is The MULE (A discussion on reparations)
The Mule
June 27, 2003 (revised 2007)
Forty Thousand is The MULE
Mutually Underwritten Legacy Estate
The Mule
I. Index
I. Index 2
II. Summary .. 3
III. Program Overview . .. 4
IV. Implementation .. .... 5
V. Financial Plan ... 5
I. Summary
Program Description
The MULE is a program whereby the United States of America can make reparations for its treatment of the Black slave and his descendents. The Mule provides a fair and equitable resolution to our country's infamous legacy. American descendents of Black slaves born on or before July 2, 1964 would receive taxable reparations in the amount of $40,000.00 each. The amount is significant because it is a historical number "forty acres and a mule", the date is appropriate due to it being the time, in modern history, that our nation accepted it's need to protect it's citizens from its own legislative tyranny. It is safe to believe that if a Federal law was required to mandate equal protections of the rights and freedoms a specific class of people that those peoples rights and freedoms where indeed in jeopardy. The goal is to close the books on our nation's debt to racism. $40,000.00 provides a means for self-determined retribution for the legacy of slavery and racisms as practiced in our government and society. The intangible benefit of the program is historic reconciliation; the tangible benefit is an ending to Affirmative Action policies and practices in our nation and the rebuilding of our states poorest urban neighborhoods.
Key Initiatives and Objectives
The primary objectives for this program are:
Reverse the effects of redlining and poor personal financial management training; payoff or greatly reduce current bad credit debts.
Secure down payment for new home ownership or reduce current mortgage principal or current construction maintenance grants.
Pay for or assist with tuition for educational training or higher learning.
Provide startup capital for entrepreneurial business ventures.
Provide principal payment for medical insurance coverage.
Give the Black American a final and fair end to the legacy of being born a second-class citizen in the country whose seeds of freedom, liberty and greatness are fertilized with his blood and fed with his misery.
Opportunities
We have the ability to end the scourge that is America's legacy. By providing the funding for the final payment on our history's debt we can welcome African Americans into our national society on a level that will end the need for Affirmative Action and give truth to the promise fore bearers so eloquently wrote about yet failed to practice.
Advantages
The key advantage of The MULE is its focus on self-empowerment. Every one who receives their form of restitution will use their proceeds to realize their American dream, that dream fulfilled will further enhance the communities, neighborhoods and towns where they reside. The monies used to pay off bad debt; pay school tuitions, purchase homes and other lifestyle amenities will positively impact our nation's economy.
Strategy
Our beneficiaries will be the 16 million Black persons born in America prior to the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights legislation. By providing substantive compensation to the heirs of the cruelty of this nation's centuries old practice of racially motivated persecution, bondage and repression we can break this cycle of poverty and societal maltreatment prognosticated by George Clemenceau in the 1860's when he said, "The real misfortune of the negro race is in owning no land of his [sic] own. There cannot be real emancipation for men who do not possess at least a small portion of the soil... The population of free negroes has become a nomad population, congregated in the towns and suffering wretchedly there, destined to be driven back eventually by poverty into the country, where they will be forced to submit to the harshest terms imposed by their former masters. "
Summary of Financial Projections (projection data approximations further study required)
Our cost projections are $640,000,000,000.00. These cost are based on 2000 census data that suggest there are approximately 16mil native born African Americans age 43 and over in America. We require strong participation in MULE sponsorship to create a trust in escrow to first build then disseminate benefit funds and services. The fund can be driven by tax deductible donations in $10,000.00, $5,000.00, $1,000.00, $500.00, $100.00 and $50.00 units. Donors are expected to be made up of all peoples who has historically, inherently and currently benefited from the fruits of the American slave trade and its intrinsic royalties. This will include nation states both overseas and contiguous that have benefited from the profits and so called "American Innovation" which spring boarded from the natural consequences of a nation of people who had nothing but time on their hands due to someone else providing their labor. Including the very African Americans to whom the royalties are owed.
III. Program Overview
Vision and Mission Statement
Our mission is to bring the original promise of freedom, liberty and justice as bestowed in the Declaration of Independence to the descendents of our nation most aggrieved victims. To quell the cry for justice and equality with economic restitution for centuries of aggravated repression and Government sponsored discrimination. Bring to a successful end the need for affirmative action policies and practices for African Americans as a people.
Objectives
Our primary objectives over the next year are to:
Fund studies to determine the total number of African American beneficiaries and the merits of a need based means testing for priority compensations.
Implement a cost effective promotional strategy to maximize awareness and promote available benefits.
Develop benefits structure that will promote intelligent proceed expenditures.
Beneficiaries
MULE beneficiaries will be all historically identified African American citizens born in the United States of America prior to July 3, 1964.
IV. Implementation Plan
Implementation Activities and Dates
In the next several months, The MULE will undertake the following activities:
Dates TBA.
Obtain initial funding.
Open Escrow Account for Trust Fund.
Begin accepting donations.
Initiate aforementioned studies.
Initiate grassroots education and understanding forum.
Begin payout schedules for initial reparations recipients.
V. Financial Plan
Discussion of Projected Costs
The unofficial number of African American beneficiaries is approximately 16 million the real number is millions less and diminishing daily. This corresponds to the assumptive cost of $600bil in total benefits expenditures. Individual benefits will not exceed $40,000.00 per beneficiary. Compensation will be prioritized based on identified need and social responsibility; bad debt repayment, affordable housing, primary dwelling beautification, higher education tuition and monies. The benefits will be tax exempt, and all participants will be required to participate in workshops to include information and orientation on issues such as, personal finance and credit management, voter registration and participation, resolving outstanding legal issues and other forms of civic responsibility. Over 90% of donated funds are expected to be available for benefit recovery, with the remaining 8-10% used for fund management.
At least, that's my opinion.
June 27, 2003 (revised 2007)
Forty Thousand is The MULE
Mutually Underwritten Legacy Estate
The Mule
I. Index
I. Index 2
II. Summary .. 3
III. Program Overview . .. 4
IV. Implementation .. .... 5
V. Financial Plan ... 5
I. Summary
Program Description
The MULE is a program whereby the United States of America can make reparations for its treatment of the Black slave and his descendents. The Mule provides a fair and equitable resolution to our country's infamous legacy. American descendents of Black slaves born on or before July 2, 1964 would receive taxable reparations in the amount of $40,000.00 each. The amount is significant because it is a historical number "forty acres and a mule", the date is appropriate due to it being the time, in modern history, that our nation accepted it's need to protect it's citizens from its own legislative tyranny. It is safe to believe that if a Federal law was required to mandate equal protections of the rights and freedoms a specific class of people that those peoples rights and freedoms where indeed in jeopardy. The goal is to close the books on our nation's debt to racism. $40,000.00 provides a means for self-determined retribution for the legacy of slavery and racisms as practiced in our government and society. The intangible benefit of the program is historic reconciliation; the tangible benefit is an ending to Affirmative Action policies and practices in our nation and the rebuilding of our states poorest urban neighborhoods.
Key Initiatives and Objectives
The primary objectives for this program are:
Reverse the effects of redlining and poor personal financial management training; payoff or greatly reduce current bad credit debts.
Secure down payment for new home ownership or reduce current mortgage principal or current construction maintenance grants.
Pay for or assist with tuition for educational training or higher learning.
Provide startup capital for entrepreneurial business ventures.
Provide principal payment for medical insurance coverage.
Give the Black American a final and fair end to the legacy of being born a second-class citizen in the country whose seeds of freedom, liberty and greatness are fertilized with his blood and fed with his misery.
Opportunities
We have the ability to end the scourge that is America's legacy. By providing the funding for the final payment on our history's debt we can welcome African Americans into our national society on a level that will end the need for Affirmative Action and give truth to the promise fore bearers so eloquently wrote about yet failed to practice.
Advantages
The key advantage of The MULE is its focus on self-empowerment. Every one who receives their form of restitution will use their proceeds to realize their American dream, that dream fulfilled will further enhance the communities, neighborhoods and towns where they reside. The monies used to pay off bad debt; pay school tuitions, purchase homes and other lifestyle amenities will positively impact our nation's economy.
Strategy
Our beneficiaries will be the 16 million Black persons born in America prior to the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights legislation. By providing substantive compensation to the heirs of the cruelty of this nation's centuries old practice of racially motivated persecution, bondage and repression we can break this cycle of poverty and societal maltreatment prognosticated by George Clemenceau in the 1860's when he said, "The real misfortune of the negro race is in owning no land of his [sic] own. There cannot be real emancipation for men who do not possess at least a small portion of the soil... The population of free negroes has become a nomad population, congregated in the towns and suffering wretchedly there, destined to be driven back eventually by poverty into the country, where they will be forced to submit to the harshest terms imposed by their former masters. "
Summary of Financial Projections (projection data approximations further study required)
Our cost projections are $640,000,000,000.00. These cost are based on 2000 census data that suggest there are approximately 16mil native born African Americans age 43 and over in America. We require strong participation in MULE sponsorship to create a trust in escrow to first build then disseminate benefit funds and services. The fund can be driven by tax deductible donations in $10,000.00, $5,000.00, $1,000.00, $500.00, $100.00 and $50.00 units. Donors are expected to be made up of all peoples who has historically, inherently and currently benefited from the fruits of the American slave trade and its intrinsic royalties. This will include nation states both overseas and contiguous that have benefited from the profits and so called "American Innovation" which spring boarded from the natural consequences of a nation of people who had nothing but time on their hands due to someone else providing their labor. Including the very African Americans to whom the royalties are owed.
III. Program Overview
Vision and Mission Statement
Our mission is to bring the original promise of freedom, liberty and justice as bestowed in the Declaration of Independence to the descendents of our nation most aggrieved victims. To quell the cry for justice and equality with economic restitution for centuries of aggravated repression and Government sponsored discrimination. Bring to a successful end the need for affirmative action policies and practices for African Americans as a people.
Objectives
Our primary objectives over the next year are to:
Fund studies to determine the total number of African American beneficiaries and the merits of a need based means testing for priority compensations.
Implement a cost effective promotional strategy to maximize awareness and promote available benefits.
Develop benefits structure that will promote intelligent proceed expenditures.
Beneficiaries
MULE beneficiaries will be all historically identified African American citizens born in the United States of America prior to July 3, 1964.
IV. Implementation Plan
Implementation Activities and Dates
In the next several months, The MULE will undertake the following activities:
Dates TBA.
Obtain initial funding.
Open Escrow Account for Trust Fund.
Begin accepting donations.
Initiate aforementioned studies.
Initiate grassroots education and understanding forum.
Begin payout schedules for initial reparations recipients.
V. Financial Plan
Discussion of Projected Costs
The unofficial number of African American beneficiaries is approximately 16 million the real number is millions less and diminishing daily. This corresponds to the assumptive cost of $600bil in total benefits expenditures. Individual benefits will not exceed $40,000.00 per beneficiary. Compensation will be prioritized based on identified need and social responsibility; bad debt repayment, affordable housing, primary dwelling beautification, higher education tuition and monies. The benefits will be tax exempt, and all participants will be required to participate in workshops to include information and orientation on issues such as, personal finance and credit management, voter registration and participation, resolving outstanding legal issues and other forms of civic responsibility. Over 90% of donated funds are expected to be available for benefit recovery, with the remaining 8-10% used for fund management.
At least, that's my opinion.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson in my opinon
Well, my first blog in this venue was to be, in regard to the luffa or loofah (more on the luffa at the end).
However, the recent death of Michael Jackson has drawn me to give my opinion on himself, his infamy and his passing.
First, allow me to give my condolences to the Jackson family. Also to all his fans myself included, who loved and adored him. I feel a deep and unquellable sense of loss at his passing. When I first heard about his death as after I heard the coroners preliminary report it’s my opinion Michael Jackson will forever be the Greatest Entertainer that ever lived, he is not a child molester and he died more from trying than from anything else.
Competing with the sales of Michael Jackson records, even before digital technology and P2P networks was made an impossible task over 20 years ago. The combined sales of Thriller (1982) the world's best-selling record of all time, Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and HIStory (1995) has sold copies in the 100’s of millions. No one can ever reach so deeply the musical soul of so many peoples in so little time. I remember one year, laughably, MC Hammer came out and said he was challenging Michael Jackson, live on radio, as the Greatest Entertainer; that was the last year he sold and album.
Michael Jackson is not a child molester, he’s a nut who never learned his lesson about how to act in the presence of children.
As to his death, Michael Jackson died of being a 50 year old man in a 50 year old body that hadn’t worked out thoroughly before bringing Titanic energy to a poorly supervised studio rehearsal based on poorly kept laurels. Everyone whose owned a cathode ray tube in the past quarter century knows Michael Jackson brings a frenic energy akin to the creation of electricity, when on stage or in front of an audience. His moves grace and precision combined with speed and perfection is only rivaled with the greatest of athletes and ingenious of engineering marvels. Attempting to recreate the kind of phenomenal physical abilities is can only be compared with Daedalus flying twice.
At least that’s my opinion.
We’ll get back to luffas, you know; the fruit of L. aegyptiaca may be allowed to mature and used as a bath or kitchen sponge after being processed to remove everything but the network of xylem. This version is called lifah in Arabic, bholor jaal in Assamese, dhundul in Bengali, ghiya tori or nerua in Hindi. A luffa or loofah sponge is used like a body scrub. Both the coarse textured sponge and the soft textured sponge are called luffas or loofahs. The latter soft textured luffa sponges aren't in fact derived from the luffa fruit, but are manufactured by folding in several layers of soft mesh-like fabric into a cloud-like shape; commonly used in tandem with shower gels/lotions. Its juice is used as an effective natural remedy for jaundice. The juice is obtained by pounding the bitter luffa and squeezing it through a cloth. Bitter luffa seeds and dry crusts are also available and can be used for the same purpose. (courtesy Wikipedia)
More on loofah's later.
However, the recent death of Michael Jackson has drawn me to give my opinion on himself, his infamy and his passing.
First, allow me to give my condolences to the Jackson family. Also to all his fans myself included, who loved and adored him. I feel a deep and unquellable sense of loss at his passing. When I first heard about his death as after I heard the coroners preliminary report it’s my opinion Michael Jackson will forever be the Greatest Entertainer that ever lived, he is not a child molester and he died more from trying than from anything else.
Competing with the sales of Michael Jackson records, even before digital technology and P2P networks was made an impossible task over 20 years ago. The combined sales of Thriller (1982) the world's best-selling record of all time, Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and HIStory (1995) has sold copies in the 100’s of millions. No one can ever reach so deeply the musical soul of so many peoples in so little time. I remember one year, laughably, MC Hammer came out and said he was challenging Michael Jackson, live on radio, as the Greatest Entertainer; that was the last year he sold and album.
Michael Jackson is not a child molester, he’s a nut who never learned his lesson about how to act in the presence of children.
As to his death, Michael Jackson died of being a 50 year old man in a 50 year old body that hadn’t worked out thoroughly before bringing Titanic energy to a poorly supervised studio rehearsal based on poorly kept laurels. Everyone whose owned a cathode ray tube in the past quarter century knows Michael Jackson brings a frenic energy akin to the creation of electricity, when on stage or in front of an audience. His moves grace and precision combined with speed and perfection is only rivaled with the greatest of athletes and ingenious of engineering marvels. Attempting to recreate the kind of phenomenal physical abilities is can only be compared with Daedalus flying twice.
At least that’s my opinion.
We’ll get back to luffas, you know; the fruit of L. aegyptiaca may be allowed to mature and used as a bath or kitchen sponge after being processed to remove everything but the network of xylem. This version is called lifah in Arabic, bholor jaal in Assamese, dhundul in Bengali, ghiya tori or nerua in Hindi. A luffa or loofah sponge is used like a body scrub. Both the coarse textured sponge and the soft textured sponge are called luffas or loofahs. The latter soft textured luffa sponges aren't in fact derived from the luffa fruit, but are manufactured by folding in several layers of soft mesh-like fabric into a cloud-like shape; commonly used in tandem with shower gels/lotions. Its juice is used as an effective natural remedy for jaundice. The juice is obtained by pounding the bitter luffa and squeezing it through a cloth. Bitter luffa seeds and dry crusts are also available and can be used for the same purpose. (courtesy Wikipedia)
More on loofah's later.
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