As talk, it was pretty - but you don't build a BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE WITH "Pretty"

Essay with 2 Rebuttals


As talk, it was pretty - but you don't build a BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE WITH "Pretty"


Equal under law, playing by the same rules?  A new cop on the wall street beat?
Maybe we should stop incentivizing OUTSOURCING OF JOBS?


A real Mortgage solution for Mortgage Holders, not just bankers not just a few dozen?
Serious Commitment to Education? A New Fairness in Tax policy?


Since we've seen pretty words before...


I will be waiting for more than the waving of the bloody summary-execution flag.


We dont need to balance a clean environment with full energy development?
Didn't work out so well for the Gulf Coast BP's BFF or those town with FIRE-WATER!


Like ol Ronnie Reagan used to say "Glasnost and Perestroika"... Trust but Verify
(He's one of the President's Role Models)


THEN I RECEIVED THIS EMAIL:


Your negativity is not appreciated & your sarcasm is uncalled for!  
Please remove my name & email from your list b/c I'm not impressed with your 'whine & cheesy talk' anout the eloquent challenge Preident Obama laid before the American people & the hope he engendered to a nation disrupted & bankrupted by GOP greed & glib talk like yours in this email!
Good Bye,
Dan X




SO I REPLIED:

DONE

It's not complaining, to ask if the speech was anything more than just rhetoric.

I don't believe that asking if his ACTIONS will follow his words, is too much. Maybe all you were looking for was an inspirational speech. 

I appreciate a good speech, but I know also know about a Nobel Peace Prize winner, who continues rendition and prosecutes justice with Drone Missiles. Who's prosecuted more whistle-blowers than even the Bush/Cheney team. Who declared that Bradley Manning [BTW detained by the Commander-in-Chief naked in solitary for 10 months] is guilty, without benefit of a trial. (He did say Manning was being treated completely fairly)

A President who has worked to reduce Habeas Rights, and Expand Indefinite Detention. Whose rhetoric on the Economic Crisis has been completely refuted by his actions. (How many occupy protesters have been jailed vs how many criminal banksters)

But nevermind, he at least quoted Elizabeth Warren's comment that no one gets here alone. But he does give a helluva speech. And he's certainly not CRAZY like any of his potential REPULSICAN OPPONENTS.

Support him if you wish, and I will be remain skeptical of any rhetorician who uses his verbiage to collect supporters, and then ignores his own allies needs and his own promises.

solidarity & peace

Rick@AveryVoice.com

MIC CHECK as a tactic? It troubles my heart

Brothers and sisters, let me say this as a concerned colleague. I get the idea of "SPEAKING UP" and being part of the dialogue. But in my heart of hearts, I am concerned that when we speak up to disrupt a speech. We invite the same karma. We damage, dialogue, we "SPIKE" the give and take and prevent speech.



I do not condemn, I was not there. I only raise the question. IF WE DISRUPT do we not give others license to disrupt our speech?

I speak not in condemnation, but only from my honest heart. I want the right to give my speech, free and continuous, I will give my opponent, the respect of hearing their "pitch" as I demand the respect to give mine. By withdrawing that respect, do we not invite the same?


I know full well, they do not respect us, our values or our ideas.


I just think we should set the example of giving the respect that they do not give us, then giving our ideas. Speaking our minds.



I share these thoughts, not in condemnation, and not seeking the validation, of agreement, only to raise a question of tactics.


solidarity & peace


Rick@AveryVoice.com

www.NewMercuryMedia.com

Long Live Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the American Ghandi

How curious, how many "conservatives" (right-wing radicals) want to somehow reframe Dr. Kings' support of human dignity (which they opposed and undercut) every way they could, try now to corral the HUMANITARIAN Dr. King into their Mood Ring chant of the moment. Dr. King opposed exploitation.

Remembering Lincoln, as a republican while their standard bearers today, say, Black People need to "learn" about hard work, or ask for Paychecks not Welfare, [because they ignore that there are more unemployed white people on welfare than any other color] Or snort and complain that the todays' President is a Welfare president, when it has been their OUT SOURCING and TRICKLE DOWN VooDoo Economics that caused the loss of good American Jobs. Their corporate off-shoring via TAX POLICY and their gutting of regulations, so their Masters on WALL STREET and K Street who line their gucci loafers and gold trimmed pools with thousand dollar bills.

All that I can stand all that I can expect. The only thing that is over the top, is when some ignorant savage writes in to remember a mercenary assassin, like the refuse that was hired to martyr Dr. King. 

Dr. King uplifter of humanity, cannot be slain, cannot be murdered. cannot be silenced. He will live longer for humanity than any tired mercenary.

Long Live Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the American Ghandi

On the Noble Dr. King

A Commentary on an Essay on Dr. King by Vicki Impoco
[Original Essay]


Dr. King brought a new level of moral authority to the struggle for human dignity, especially in the American civic arena. That he succeeded so dramatically despite the forces that continued to be arrayed against him, speaks to the efficacy and strength of the human spirit, undiminished and undefeated even in death.

What American voice, what American figure has currently a fiftieth the gravitas of that towering figure of Human Rights. His labors, for human dignity, equity in the workplace and opposition of senseless wars must continue. Join with those of us, who count ourselves as enriched by this gentle genius and Humanitarian. Occupy Human Rights!

Thank you Dr. King we are in your debt still and thank you Vicki


solidarity & peace

Richard W. Spisak Jr.
www.NewMercuryMedia.com/pnn.html

Why do we protest - comments to FDL article

Why do we protest - Why did Time Magazine honor the Protestor? Whither Occupy?

original article

All good points, and I’m in full agreement. I would like to add an important intangible that can also spring from the smallest protest. Despite the dangers of acting against the tide especially a BLOOD TIDE.

I was among the earliest protestors against both “Desert Storm ™”, and then the second even more disastrous “Shock and Awe ™” full invasion, or Act II of the MIC’s occupations in South Central Asia.

Standing with a few hearty souls along side the rush hour traffic, on US Highway 1 south of urban Miami, in a very conservative section of town we few stood nearly alone. The few furtive signs of solidarity signalled sometime from only one occupant sprinkled among the majority of Thumbs Down and Middle Finger up signal, or our favorite the “finger drawn across the throat” that we saw quite often.

These surreptitious signs of solidarity convinced us, that many of those who were morally with us, needed a public acknowledgement to comfortably express their opinion. They needed the comfort, the “space” for confirmation of their honest belief, that the war, no matter the Cheerleaders, was bloody murder at its technological peak of efficiency.

SHOCK and AWE … that we dared oppose the status quo.

See you on the Corner opposing the IRAN vendetta

solidarity & peace

Rick@AveryVoice.com
http://www.NewMercuryMedia.com/pnn.html

Jebby resurfaces... the stench remains the same.

Like a burp of ill-smelling undigested fast food, Jebby places his "stink-foot" back in the public discourse. [Surprised? Not this writer]

I will quote excerpts from his WSJ OpEd:

Jebby: "Have we lost faith in the free-market system of entrepreneurial capitalism? Are we no longer willing to place our trust in the creative chaos unleashed by millions of people pursuing their own best economic interests?"

Translation: In defense against another attack by socialists, our profit-seeking free-market cannibals must learn to step over the staving poor, littering the streets.  

JB - "The right to rise does not require a libertarian utopia to exist."

Translation: A robber baron great-grand-daddy will do.

JB - "Rather, it requires fewer, simpler and more outcome-oriented rules." 

Translation: Outcome oriented rules - Rules that allow, river to be poisoned, air to flow freely with dangerous particulates.

JB - Rules for which an honest cost-benefit analysis is done before their imposition. Rules that sunset so they can be eliminated or adjusted as conditions change. Rules that have disputes resolved faster and less expensively through arbitration than litigation."

Translation: Rules that don't encumber THE JOB CREATORS, or if they do... not for very long.

JB - In Washington, D.C., rules are going in the opposite direction. They are exploding in reach and complexity. They are created under a cloud of uncertainty, and years after their passage nobody really knows how they will work. …

Translation: Some rules haven't yet been completely gutted. Not that consumers face any uncertainty.

JB - In short, we must choose between the straight line promised by the statists and the jagged line of economic freedom. The straight line of gradual and controlled growth is what the statists promise but can never deliver. The jagged line offers no guarantees but has a powerful record of delivering the most prosperity and the most opportunity to the most people. We cannot possibly know in advance what freedom promises for 312 million individuals. But unless we are willing to explore the jagged line of freedom, we will be stuck with the straight line. And the straight line, it turns out, is a flat line.

Translation: Statists a new pejorative. If we seek to tame the excesses of our Corporate Overlords... we are now STATISTS  - newer than socialists and it reeks of Fully Market Tested Curses. Instead Jebby offers us, the JAGGED DANGEROUS RAZOR SHARP EDGE OF CORPORATE POWER Run-Amuck. Aww, the poor were just savaged by the JAGGED EDGE of the FREE MARKET. It's nobody's fault.... poor dears poisoned by Industrial Runoff - too bad... they were just destroyed by the Jagged Vicious Edge of FREEDOM.

OCCUPY your conscience.

"The group's underlying motivation seems to be rooted in a fundamental concept that if you make a bad decision somebody else will pay for it. ... it's really OK; the taxpayer will simply foot the bill."


Odd that as you try to address the OCCUPY MOVEMENT you state the BANKSTERS position.


They (The Banksters) made bad choices, prioritized "LIAR LOANS" profited on both sides of the deal, which had nothing to do with the American Dream of home ownership, and everything to do with GREED, and gaming the system. 


They paid themselves exorbitant salaries and then when the gush of money ebbed - Got the taxpayers to "bail them out!" And yet refused to help the very taxpayers that bailed them out. They just wave from their Billion Dollar Bonus Parks.


So who's "entitlements" are you defending. When Banksters and Wall Street Traitors (or is that TRADERS?) benefit when they bet against America's Interests? When the tax incentives favor the offshoring of good paying American Jobs - who benefits there? Why do you defend those business men and women who hide their schemes and business practice behind page after page of "fine print"?


When OCCUPY insist that the robbers of Millions and Billions, get the same justice that the villains who steal hundreds and you complain? I got to say, which side are you on?


When OCCUPIERS suggest that medical care, and education should be available to all Americans and you complain 


- Is it your position that your grandmother should die, if she can't afford the thousands of dollars a month that private health insurance costs? 


Which side are you on?   {The Spirit of OCCUPY} asked this question before, and I think I know how you would answer.


OCCUPY your conscience.
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