This is the year that has proven that Democrats don't clean their own messes. I am seeing commercials run on TV scaring the public with lies and untruths.
Either hit the link or visit the sidebar. A little support for the Valley goes a long way.
Now that the commercial is over, time to meet a Gothic Muse who can outthink you, her name is Nicole Sixx.
She is an author, works with a famous director (This is Hollywood, discretion is best unless you live here, just like DC) and also frequents the Sunset Strip (there is a future post on the Strip coming up).
Ten Suggested Discussion Points for Unity 1. Reparations for African-Americans- support the John Conyers Bill H.R.40 Now! (Coates.) 2. Stop the war of genocide against Black America! A young black male was killed by an officer of the US law enforcement agencies every 36 hours alone in 2012, according to a study by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. This is Fascism “Amerikkkan” style. Killer cops must go! Stop police killings, brutality and harassment. 3. Fight back against the gentrification against African American working class communities by “globalized” universities, hospitals, and corporate contracting interests (developers). 4. Fight back against right wing (Tea Party) takeover of state governments in eliminating the right to vote particularly for African Americans and the elderly, and attacks against public sector workers and labor. Support “Moral Monday” in North Carolina, Georgia and other places. 5. Fight to save local autonomy (democracy) from corporate takeovers, right wing assaults by emergency fiscal managers appointed by governments (Detroit, Newark, NJ). 6. End all student debt now! (Past, present, and future.) Make education from K to post PhD free – if Cuba can do it, so can the U.S. Fight for academic freedom – 1500 colleges and universities in the US. 7. Demand freedom for all US political prisoners! End the mass incarceration of African people. 8. Demand affirmative action now in the construction industry and related organized unions – particularly in the private sector. (Read “Black Power at work”, Dubois, The Philadelphia Negro, pg 331-332) 9. Down with Zionism! Boycott Israel – the New Nazis of the 21st Century. Cut off funding to Israel. 10. Struggle against fundamentalism of all forms – Christian, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, etc. and Eurocentric Marxism.
And here is the Valley's response:
From the shadows of North Hollywood and the mind of a KPFK radio host, comes hate speech (again). For a person like Alan Minsky who wants to build coalitions, his morning crew seems set to destroy any chance of them. For my candidates from San Pedro to Santa Clarita, every Democratic and Liberal candidate should learn about this "unity"
One thing I learned about "Unity," you give to get. AND don't sound like a Hater. Look at all these requests. Not one shows understanding of the other side. Not one amount of (as the song for her program ) "One Love,"
When you compare Jews and Israel protecting themselves in the ONLY Jewish State in the world to Nazi's, you share the same political bedsheets as ISIS. Every Jew killed within the sound of your radio show is on your hands. The blood is yours.
Send missiles into Israel with it. If the Gazans want a country, all they need is to build roads, schools and have elections. And stop attacking their neighbors. You wouldn't like it if someone threw bombs in your backyard everyday, especially if you gave them the nice house next door.
Tea Parties and the Right Wing: We're here, get used to it!
I see in number 4 you Hate the Right wing. You Hate the Tea Party.
But in your show,
A) You never interview a Republican or Conservative or Local Tea Party Member;
B) Every time you bring up the Republicans, Conservatives or Tea party, you get it all wrong. Even WBAI interviewed Ayn Rand. Are you so scared of other ideas that you refuse to call up and discuss if a rumor is true?
Apparently your Hate wants the Tea Party (Fiscal Conservatives), Republicans (usually Establishment from DC fighting against the local groups) and Conservatives (You don't even know the branches Ms. Prescod) to stop being part of the American Polity. That means if anyone of the Right goes to your website or FB page or Twitter, your issues are moot.
If you can't play nice with others (and that goes for my side too), don't expect any give. If you live in America, you're going to have to meet us and speak to us.
Go back to Haiti if you Hate Jews and Republicans.
Watch this video:
No Unity on Racial Issues either
1,2,3,5,7 and 8 all deal with racial issues with a slant that does not say "Unity" but says "America is horrible, let's take from it,"
Now, some good issues are addressed among them: incarceration rates among African American boys and men. Yes, I would rather that not happen. Before the 1968 social explosion, even if you protested you wore a shirt and a tie.
But Prescod also opposes business' entering poor areas. OK Ms. Prescod (and Mr. Minsky), hire up the impoverished (such as those on Skid Row) at KPFK. You don't want others doing it? Government (local, state and national) is not filled with funds
Ms. Prescod, you don't want things to get better, you want to complain. I'm not even going into your support of Dictators everywhere and dancing on graves of people of the Right. But this is America, we like fair play and Democracy.
I am willing to look at these issues (as a Pragmatist; 1,2,3,5,7,8 are ideals, what gives Unity? Nothing). But what will be given in return? Ms. Prescod, Mr. Minsky, what are either of you doing for "Unity" in America? NOTHING. The hate speech on Pacifica is getting known. Try being nice next time.
My question: Ms. Prescod is an immigrant from Haiti, yet she never reaches out to those who thinks differently. Why?
When I geeked out to Star Wars back in the 70's, I found Star Trek (The Original Series), and then Doctor Who. What sci-fi offers is a (hypothetical for now) trip to the Stars, to dystopias, and to other times.
Twelve Monkeys (1995) has been hailed as a film that gets concept of Time Travel (and Predestination Paradoxes) correct. The movie touches on madness, reality and fate vs. free will. And yet, even though the plague in the movie was fake, the current fires in foreign policy are just as bad. Both threaten to engulf humanity, what happens next?
James Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back in time to find a pure sample of the virus that kept humans off the surface. He gets sent back to 1990 (6 years before it starts) and ends up in a sanitarium in Balltimore. There, he meets Jeffery Goines (Brad Pitt), whose father creates diseases and Dr. Railly (Madeline Stowe), who treats him. He bounces through time and place eventually ending up in Philadelphia 1996. A mysterious message was heard in the future, the most haunting scene is where Dr. Railly calls off-screen. The quote:
COLE
You... you left them a message?
RAILLY
(impishly)
I couldn't resist. I was so relieved.
Wait'll they hear this nutty woman
telling them...they better watch out
for the Army of the Twelve Monkeys...
Looking at her laughing face,
COLE is struck with horror as he realizes the truth!
He starts to recite...
COLE
"The Army of the Twelve Monkeys --
they're the ones who are going to do
it. I can't do anything more. The
police are watching me."
Now she's stunned.
She glances back and sees the phone booth twenty yards away.
RAILLY
You... you couldn't have heard me.
COLE
They got your message, Kathryn. They
played it for me. It was a bad
recording...distorted. I didn't
recognize your voice.
President Bush's strategy was to bottle up Iran and bring more Democracy, thus more peace, into the Middle East (When Thomas Friedman wasn't a hack, he wrote how Democracies don't make war on each other. A theory I have always subscribed to, see Truman) The Democrats heard the wrong message, Senator Obama was playing animal activist while the threat of the plague hung over the story.
Now throughout the Obama Administration, the President has ignored the intel briefings on the World. Thus, any foreign policy that President Obama acted on, he had no sense of causality. There was a plan to take out troops from Iraq, but there was no Mission Objectives in Afghanistan since 2009. Thus, without a sense of causality or intel, the World started to burn this past summer. Sun Tzu made it very clears that without Spies a State is defenseless Since the Church Commission, Democrats have made it very clear they don't trust Our Men and Women in the Dark. I do. President Obama thought he was smarter then the people extracting the information and only reacted when the news became bad on television. Cole in 12 Monkeys was the scientists spy into the past. Cole was a pawn by everyone save Railly. They were the only ones talking Cassandra like about the danger of Jeffery Goines and the Army of the 12 Monkeys. No one listened. Jeffery Goines thought (due to his wealth and madness) he was better then everyone else in the movie; Whether in the Sanitarium or at the party. Because there are no Senator Baker's and Goldwater's in the current Democratic Party, there is no one to tell the President to read the Daily Briefing. There are no Goldwater, Rhodes and Scott in the current members of the Left. Not since 1994. What is my solution? Before the Presidential primary of either side, I would hope the members of the US Intelligence vet the candidate's foreign policy because the media did not (well, with the GOP they will). If you are a member of that Industry, pleads note that since the Church commission, the Democrats use the members (like Cole was used by the scientists) and throw you away. Look here:
There is fire and embers from the Middle East, why is the President re-acting rather then taking the lead? My question: Can we now point and laugh at the Anti-Bush protests and Democrats and say their foreign policy endangers us all? (especially our men and women in the US Intelligence)
Why is this the non-bucket bucket list? While I love the Darkness as a Goth, I was consoled that I was too young to have one…..So thus, future Goals and Dreams.
I have a belief if you put your dreams and goals out into the Universe, and stick with getting to them, maybe (with help from Providence) it happens. Never hurt before.
Some relay to work (If you enjoy what you do, it is never work), others to things I want to do. One last indulgence before I get serious here in the Valley.
The Work Goals
1. I want to do Appropriation Policy work in either Sacramento or DC.
2. There is one fiction novel that wants to get out and a non-fiction book about Politics; And a third (if I manage to do well) about being in Politics and dealing with Bipolar Depression;
4. Also, I want to earn enough so I don't have to worry where the next dollar is coming from. Lobbying is also a nice job (Los Angeles, Sacramento or DC on this)
6. Have an article written about me, as the only Active (and only partisan elected) Goth Republican. Either inGothic Beautyor some other Goth magazine. Yes, I still love the deep and dark.
7. Work for a Presidential Campaign, New Media -- either here in California (Los Angeles, second biggest Media market!) or the candidates Home State.
8. I want write more consistently here in the Valley. And I'd love to make more money off the Blog writing. Look to the sidebar for prices.
9. My family has helped in my wilderness time since I fell in 2008-09. One day, I'd like to give them something nice in return. That requires (4) to happen. I know I am lucky, even my future brother in law is cool. (Hell, I'm a Goth Republican in LA: I am as cool as a Bow Tie)
10. Running for office here in LA or for the State Assembly or State Senate. That is still being thought and planned out. The decision will come if some factors come into play. (No, you don't get to know what they are...)
3. See Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel, Jimmy Buffett (again) and all of my friends' bands in concert.
4. One place I dream of going to: Scrub Island with the person I am married. (That belongs after (10) in the Work stuff). While there, learn to ride a Sailboat and Scuba.
7. Create an Major Event. Political or whatever. But something nice, here in LA or DC.
8. Take a boat ride up the Southland Coast. Take a copter ride around LA. Stay up and see the sun rise from the Hollywood sign with a Muse.
9. Own a condo, settle down. Have enough funds to help the poor souls down on Skid Row. My heart saddens that people have fallen, I could have ended up there.
10. Learn to be content. Have a significant other by my Birthday.
Next up, posts on the CAGOP Convention. I will post again on Sunday, there will be news there and one other place in LA (But I'm not telling....)
My question: What are your goals and dreams? What do you wish for?
I go away from The Valley for the summer and the World Burns.
Even worse, the World Burns and it seems there is no one running things.
Either the Universe needs my input here in the Valley (or shaping the world some other way) or my absence created a Hole in Reality that was plugged by everything going on…..
Signing of the Declaration of Independence by Trumbell
This is the time of year, I re-read AJ Langutth's Patriot's. It is a great re-telling of whole American Revolution. Here is the best quote of all. If you don't feel proud today of this, maybe this poll was right....
"When members of the Continental Congress
came to Jefferson's stirring conclusion, a majority thought it should
include one last appeal to the power even greater then George
III....They did not meddle with Jefferson's last oath, more solemn than
anything they might devise:
"And for support of this declaration, with a firm reliance
on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each
other our lives, our fortune and our sacred honor'"
"On July 4, 1776, independence was declared in language worthy of it."
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States
...[BREAK]...
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Time for a history and Government lesson. Sit back and enjoy!
Electoral College
How a Bill Becomes a Law
Checks and Balances
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Signing the Articles of Confederation
We won our freedom against the Mother Country. As the war was going on, the Second Continental Congress drafted the Articles of Confederation. At it's heart was a weak Executive, weak trade and currency zones between the States and useless Congress.
If you know my background, you've already figured out I love being a Goth (and Politico). I grew up relishing the prospects of a Cyberpunk world (Where is the off-world colonies and Replicants?) Meet the (Cyber) Gothy Muse who brings that world to the people:
Say Hello to Shannon Chromegirl.
An LA woman who models and create her own clubs. I have seen her around, we have (not) yet met on a personal level. Everyone who knows her says she is smart and sweet. (The Goth Muses I have met, usually are)
Let me introduce you to the Girl of the Future (with underquotes from Neuromancer describing Molly Millions):
Steppin' Razor
Near the Jarre de The
"Crack it," She laughed. "Earn your keep for a change,"
"Welcome to the Rue Jules Verne,"
"We were in LA.... Next day, I was playing Ghost with you in Night City,"
"'Love you, Cat Mother'," whispered the Panther Modern's link man," SC at the SDCC
And if you're still geeking to Neuromancer, I give you this:
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel -- First words of Neuromancer
Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button. Stop hustling and you sank without a trace, but move a little too swiftly and you'd break the fragile surface tension of the black market; either way, you were gone, with nothing left of you but some vague memory in the mind of a fixture like Ratz, though heart or lungs or kidneys might survive in the service of some stranger with New Yen for the clinic tanks.
And since I might confuse those with Ivy educations working in the Eastern Newsrooms, here is the annotations (or Cliff note's in my day):
Reporters: The baseline of who meets the people involved in the stories and then writes those stories;
Partisan Press: i,e. MSNBC, Daily Kos, the Nation from the Left and National Review, Weekly Standard, Fox News (evening) and Talk Radio for the Right (and multiple Blogs such as this one);
Old Fourth estate: Newspapers, TV and Radio News Stations, and Fox (daytime).
New Fourth Estate: Bloggers, macro and micro; the general public watching the reporters. Or to put it simply: Quis custodiat ipsos custodes?
WHCA: The White House Correspondents Association
WHCD: The White House Correspondents Dinner aka "Nerd Prom"
The Current Administration: The Obama Administration (D)
The Past Administration: The George W. Bush Administration (R)
Partisans: Those who fight for and against candidates and ideologies.
It is the Partisan's job convince the public to vote for their candidate, using the information gleaned from Reporters.
How Messrs. Press, Mitchell and Rainey see themselves.
Yes, the image is correct
I.
Republicans have always felt the media actively work against our candidates (1964, 1992 , 2004 and 2012 are the Prime years they complain about). With the rise of Fox News (evening) and Talk Radio, these activists felt they had a voice and support from News Stations.
Election Time is coming. Partisans are watching the Fourth Estate
My first question: What has the Old Fourth estate done to mend fences with Republicans? Why is only Fox News attacked (and by the most Powerful Man in America) and their audiences spat upon by the Old Fourth estate?
First question, subsection A) If fences are not mended, what do members of the Old Fourth expect to happen?
II.
Even with High end degrees, the modern Reporter from a National Newspaper understands little to nothing about protocols, people or the differing branches within the GOP. It does not take a genius to figure out if someone likes you or not.
There have been many stories I knew from my time in DC how Reporters like hanging out with Democrats and very warily (say, like any writer of The Atlantic magazine or the NYT -- which has not endorsed a Republican for President since 1956) visit Republicans in social settings unless they had to.
Do you have any on the ground Tea Party or GOP person as a contact?
And here is the most important question, which I think an answer is deserved:
Second Question, subsection A) Where are the modern Woodward and Bernsteins during the First Democratic Administrations or even the First Obama Administration? Or even when the Democrats hold Power in Government? (No News Reporter ever cares if Minority Leader Pelosi or Majority Leader Reid are corrupt. At all.)
If it is bad for a GOP President to do something,
why do Democrats in Power get a free ride doing the same thing?
Third Question: In a bicameral Two party system, why does Fallows' call for censorship not wake up the Watchdogs of the Fourth estate? Fallows is promoting China Communist Government tactics in America.
Third question, subsection A) If Reporters daily lives allows them to NOT interact with people and activists from one of the two major parties in America, why should they be trusted to report the News?
All the Major Media read and watch the same things to inform them. Epistemic Closure indeed!
Every major reporter follows the lead of the New York Times (No endorsement of Republicans for President since 1956), the Huffington Post (Founded by a Liberal), Media Matters (a Liberal check on the press), and the Daily Show (Holds Republicans accountable, not President Obama or Democrats in Congress). See a trend, yet?
Third Question, subsection B) In stories about Republicans, why does the Fourth estate have NO Republican contacts? I have seen more wrong stories by the Old Fourth estate about Republicans then I have lived. If Reporters cannot get intra-party Politics and personalities correct, why are they there?
Gentlemen, that is your Homework assignment. Please write your answers on your respective platform. No claiming false dichotomy or any weasel word cop-out. The major media is not trusted by half of American Political activists, step up.
The Right side of the line is doing more for First Amendment rights then you gentlemen (or the Left)
Republicans on the Modern Media. You are too scared to talk to us.
Ignoring concerns on the Right is the De Facto act when questions are put to the media. Some of us around the country are saying "No more,"
MY question to my audience: Your thoughts on the Modern Media Mantra?
