I Am Not Very Optimistic.

I think of myself as a very conservative person and my conservatism places me in direct opposition with the vast majority of the political conservatives of today.  For example, I own a little over 20 acres in the foothills of the cascades on the way to Crater Lake National Park.  On my property I nurture a small forest of Douglas Firs, Ponderosa Pines, a few Cedars, a few Pacific Madrone trees, some Oregon White Oaks, a costal Redwood, and some other yet unidentified trees.  These are valuable trees as they protect and conserve the soil, they protect and conserve the water table, they protect and conserve the wildlife of the area, and they protect and conserve the beauty of the area. None of that is anything that political conservatives are the least bit interested in.  I know this since I have survived lived through a number of politically conservative administrations of our federal government and witnessed how they have routinely decimated the natural resources of our planet.  They care naught for anything in this world but money and everything else takes a back seat.  They have created huge corporations whose sole purpose is to create more money for their owners.  They have given these huge corporations incredible power and authority over the day to day lives of people the world over.

Further, these huge corporations control the information that reaches the average citizen on a daily basis.  That control allows these huge corporate money grabbing institutions to subtly manage the thoughts and perceptions of those average citizens.  That is why so many people with little or no financial resources passionately support the goals and ideals of the incredibly wealthy political conservatives.  Unable to think for themselves they fervently grasp onto the rhetoric of political conservatism and blindly vomit the rhetoric, agenda and arguments espoused by their masters.  They have effectively been brainwashed.  I have seen this even within my own family with individuals whom I love and yet fear because of their fervent, passionate and vicious support of political conservatism. 

I fear because I have witnessed too often in my life when opponents of political conservatism have been brutally slain by one of these fervent, passionate and vicious political conservatives.  The rising tone of their rhetoric reminds me of similar rising tones of rhetoric preceding the assassinations of others in opposition to political conservatism.  These politically conservative people seem to thrive on hate, they glorify others that routinely broadcast that hatred and yet deny that their words and actions reflect any kind of hatred.  What saddens me most is I can think of nothing that will effectively counter that hatred and alter the behavior and thinking of these individuals.  I am not very optimistic about the future.

The Philadelphia Eagles have signed the sadist Michael Vick to a contract.

Yes folks, there is much money to be made torturing dogs.  Today the Eagles hereafter to be known as “The Evils” have agreed to put the sadist Michael Vick  on their roster.  They have signed a contract with him.  He will earn lots and lots of money for torturing and killing dogs.

There is only only one way for the public to protest this and that is to boycott the networks that broadcast NFL games.  Boycott them, write their advertisers and promise to boycott them and continue that until the NFL discovers they are losing revenue because of this sadistic cretin.  Don’t show up at the parks, don’t buy their food and drinks. Money talks and unless we all do something this sadist will soon have millions of dollars. Next time he brutalizes something there is a good chance it will be a human and not an animal. But because he is also a coward, his next time will most likely be a female human or a child.  He has learned his lesson though, he will be much more cautious and we may never find out about his next time. 

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not opposed to him earning a living.  There are lots and lots of public toilets that need cleaning on a daily basis and that is a job equal to the kind of person he is.

 

This female pit pull was seized from Michael Vick’s property, along with 51 others. 
(The Humane Society of the United States)

Cop who arrested black scholar is profiling expert

 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The white police sergeant accused of racial profiling after he arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his home was hand-picked by a black police commissioner to teach recruits about avoiding racial profiling.            The Associated Press

I am not nor never have I been a member of the police department, however as a civilian and after over seven decades of living in America and observing humans I am convinced that regardless of their training and expertise the police in America are bigots.   Not just bigoted towards people of color, ethnicity, or class but mostly they are bigoted against civilians.  If you happen to be of color, speak with an accent, or seem to be of a lower economic group that usually does deepen their hostility.  Their attitude towards civilians has most likely has been shaped by unofficial conversations with their fellow officers, television, the courts, and the old west far more than all of their formal training combined.   Civilians are their enemy and their fellow officers are their allies.  It probably did not much matter what Henry Louis Gates Jr. did or said, the outcome of the confrontation was predetermined by the fact that this policeman had the gun, the badge, and the authority to do exactly as he did.

Actually we should be grateful that Henry Louis Gates Jr. did not get his skull bashed in or worse by this police officer.  Because police officers have the gun, the badge, and the authority to do exactly that if they choose.  They do not need provocation to use force if they choose to because their fellow officers and their superiors sanction the use of force daily.  Oh, not officially of course, but I have no doubt that privately they manage to do exactly that.  Further, across our nation even in those situations when police are video taped beating, clubbing, kicking and even shooting unarmed defenseless people, our nations courts will more often than not absolve them.  So why would this police officer or any other police officer do any less?

When asked if he would apologize to Henry Louis Gates Jr. this police officer vehemently denied that he would even consider doing that.  In effect he was saying “I have the gun, I have the badge, and I have the authority to do exactly what I did, and if you challenge me while I am on the job I will do it again”.

GOP: Sotomayor must assure she can be neutral

 

 

WASHINGTON – Two Republican senators on Sunday said they will press Sonia Sotomayor at her Supreme Court confirmation hearings this week to explain public comments that they say raise doubts about her ability to judge cases fairly.        Top News

I expect her to be far more neutral than the xian right wing freaks that inhabit the Supreme Court today.  Their leader Chief In-Justice Roberts is probably the most prominent example that one can find of a justice with a total bias who constantly favors a specific political and religious ideology.  I would be stunned and surprised to hear Republicans denounce him.  Why would they when he is their puppet on the court.

Human Rights mean nothing in America

 

In an appalling 5-to-4 ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority tossed aside compelling due process claims, the demands of justice and a considered decision by a lower federal appeals court to deny the right of prisoners to obtain post-conviction DNA testing that might prove their innocence.

…..  We are also puzzled and disturbed by the Obama administration’s decision to side with Alaska in this case — continuing the Bush administration’s opposition to recognizing a right to access physical evidence for post-conviction DNA testing.      NYTimes.com

What is more, they mean nothing to the demented, evil, religious, right wing, ultra conservatives on the United States Supreme Court, the Bush Administration, Barack Obama and his administration.

When will our country finally put an end to it’s continuing war on human rights.  I have serious doubts that I will see that in my life time. 

I no longer believe that Barack Obama is a kind and caring human being.

 

Yesterday, a Democratic President of the United States of America, in the year 2009, and an African-American child of inter-racial parents no less, gave his lawyers the go ahead to compare our marriages to incest on the same day that 42 years ago the Supreme Court ruled in his parents’ favor in Loving v. Virginia.
A great nation deserves the truth: A word about Barack Obama and the lawyers in our midst

Yes, the President of the United States of America, a man I voted for, compared same sex marriage to incest and pederasty.  This kind of bigoted attitude is what I expect from people seeped in religion and the hatred that religion fosters.  It is not the attitude and rhetoric that I will tolerate from someone I helped vote into office.  In the next election there is an excellent chance that my vote will be cast elsewhere.  I do not expect to have to endure such a high level of bigotry, hatred and ignorance from a politician I supported.

I am not alone in my reaction to President Obama’s bigotry.  A Coalition of LGBT groups and ACLU issued a statement condemning the Obama administration for their defense of DOMA. http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/relationships/39848prs20090612.html 

Additionally, here are a collection of related comments from around the internet http://www.americablog.com/2009/06/gratuitousness.html
http://www.americablog.com/2009/06/word-about-barack-obama-and-lawyers-in.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/12/obama-defends-antigay-def_n_214764.html

CATHOLIC SPOKESMAN SLANDERS SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AS NAZIS

 

Lawyers for a Catholic advocacy group that sued San Francisco for condemning the Vatican’s policy on same-sex adoptions are comparing the city’s supervisors to Nazis laying the groundwork for the slaughter of Jews.    San Francisco Sentinel

 

The Catholic Church knows a lot about the Nazis since their church led by their Pope at the time, Pious XII, did nothing to prevent, halt or mitigate  the holocaust that cost the lives of six million Jewish people.   The Catholic Church did not mind a bit that men, women and children of all ages were brutalized and murdered by the Nazis.   The Catholic Church simply saw this as an opportunity to eradicate the Jewish people and an competing religion.  In fact there is strong evidence to demonstrate that the Catholic Church cooperated with the Nazis.   More so, the current Pope, Benedict XVI himself joined the Hitler Youth.   Yup, the Catholic Church knows a lot about the Nazis.

The Catholic Church, protectors and encouragers of pedophiles, now want to prevent loving and caring individuals from adopting and rearing children.  Why?  The gender of these adoptive parents is not the real issue.  The real reason is that too many of these adoptive parents are of an opposing religion or no religion at all.   Thus, having those children reared by loving and caring non-Catholics would result in fewer Catholics in the world.   Fewer Catholics will dramatically reduce the Catholic Church’s income.  And let no one forget how important income is to all religions because money is how religions count souls.

Wanted for Solicitation of Murder – Bill O’Reilly

Now that is a headline I would truly love to see.

WANTED FOR SOLICITATION OF MURDER

 

I will donate $50 to Planned Parenthood in the name of the individual that makes a citizens arrest of O’Reilly for solicitation of the murder of Dr. George Tiller.

I will double my contribution to Planned Parenthood when O’Reilly is convicted.

Suspect in custody in abortion doc slaying

 

Prominent late-term abortion provider George Tiller was shot and killed Sunday in a church where he was serving as an usher, his attorney said. The gunman fled but a city official said a suspect is in custody.

Anti-abortion groups denounced the shooting and stressed that they support only nonviolent protest.

"We are shocked at this morning’s disturbing news that Mr. Tiller was gunned down," Troy Newman, Operation Rescue’s president, said in a statement. "Operation Rescue has worked for years through peaceful, legal means, and through the proper channels to see him brought to justice. We denounce vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place this morning."      EarthLink – Top News

These are the typical “politically correct” comments that frequently come from the criminal abetting anti-abortion community.  I watch the news and I witness the protests by their groups and I see that the vast majority of these murdering criminal bastards come from within their organizations.  Public statements like those above are simply fluff for public consumption.  I believe that privately the anti-abortion leadership encourages directly or indirectly the kind of premeditated murder that the citizens of Wichita witnessed today.

Muslims want tangible change on Mideast from Obama

 

Respect for Islam, a prescription for Palestinian statehood and assurances of a speedy U.S. pullout from Iraq — that’s what Muslims from Morocco to Malaysia want to hear from President Barack Obama this week when he addresses them from this Arab capital.   Yahoo! News

I have little respect for any religion, especially one that whose leaders and followers both historically and currently call for the death of those that do not follow their superstitious beliefs.  Muslims have been so indoctrinated into killing other humans that they regularly kill each other just because the other is of a different sect or tribe.  And just about every other Muslim leader has their own sect or tribe.   Respect for Muslims, hardly!  These are people that show absolutely no respect for anyone else and the only reason our and other governments give them any deference is because of politics and certainly not because they are the kinds of people that have earned respect because of their humanity toward others.  They show no respect for others and in fact have repeatedly strived for the complete eradication of other peoples and religions.   Governments may fear them because of their numbers and cruelty, but they have never been entitled to respect.

The change that needs to happen in the Mideast and Fareast must come from Muslim’s themselves.  When Muslims change into respectful human beings, learn the art of compromise, acknowledge and support the humanity of all other humans then they will have earned the respect they now demand.

Admittedly, there are some small percent of the Muslim world, especially in the western world, that do not conform at all to the stereotype I have drawn in my first paragraph.  But, in my estimation if the Mideast and Fareast Muslims had their way, these Western Muslims would be eradicated well before anyone else.