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Was Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech purposely underwhelming?

You know?  I can see a great deal of strategy going on in this election and the news commentators have opened my eye's to this a bit.  Some of those expert panels have caused me to become a bit cynical in that I now actually watch for politicians behaving according to some form of scripted sculpted mass media stratagem that has but one goal in mind... getting elected to the office for which they are campaigning.

Now a pretty common criticism of Senator Obama has been a praise... a praise that the man gives a really good speech.  In fact... quiet as it's kept if you want to snare someone you praise them on their strong points and then you praise them some more before pulling the ripcord... but it seems to me that's already been tried enough in American politics (not to mention in films and novels) to try and actually catch someone that way.  So why not give a speech that knocks one out of the ball park?  Was he being purposely underwhelming?  Why didn't Senator Obama give the kind of speech that would go down in the annuls of history along side of other great speeches of our times?

Well... perhaps because it was a good solid tactic... because Senator Obama is running to become President Obama and not become the next American folk hero.  Like the great Roman Generals who would march triumphantly into Rome to be honored by Caesar I could see the old man in Obama's chariot whispering into his ear..."remember... thou art only a man."

I'm sorry but I'm beginning to think that mass news media ownership has fallen into showbizness in a very hard way and we the people have let it happen.  The Obama Clinton fued is but one of the things that seems to Fuel Info'tainment.  So I'm going to try to be very specific by pointing at one show on the Fox News Network that I find particularly disturbing.   But first!

As a sophomore in Missouri Military Academy in 1980 I won the end of year speech contest delivering a speech that called media and political partnership "The Unforeseen Problem".  In the speech I pointed out that more and more political parties were using the media to perpetuate their own agendas and were getting better and better at it.  I can't remember the authors I had been reading at the time but I read alot more then than I do now... and I regret that a bit...

Anywho...

My specific example of showbizness Info'tainmen that I feel is an extreme example of the worst kind of showbizness crowd drawing/pleasing/disgusting exploitation is the Hannity And Colmes news commentary show.  I watch the show so I'll have something funny to say in my blogs.  The so-called conservative news man Sean Hannity is in my opinion a man who the American public would do well to ignore.  So far at my count the man has put forth several ideas that are nothing more than pet projects like Senator Obama being someone who wants doctors to be able to kill babies who don't die during an abortion, a man who is secretly connected to terrorists, a man who is a secret Muslim who goes to a church who hates America and has a pastor the hates America and a wife who hates America.  My conclusion is that the big cheese board of folks who own Fox News Network are secretly Obama Supporters who hire the absolute worst form of mentally unstable representation to represent conservative ideologies to well... prove a point.

For may part I cannot give up on conservative ideals because I feel they are sound.  It's people who claim these same conservative ideals and actually support Sean Hannity's brand of conservative news presentation that give me the creeps.  I feel that liberal ideals are great when you do them quietly... you know, like the little old lady with the soup kitchen who does good without blowing a trumpet?

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A blond reporter who's name I can't remember said after Michelle Obama's monday night speech that Barack and Michelle had a long way to go to prove they were "like us".  I'm sorry but I've seen this same female reporter on Hannities show and this sort of commentary scares me... because do to the fact that Fox News enjoys high ratings I can hardly see how this kind of news "reporting" is beneficial.   At what point does reporting stop and  the battle for the human mind begin?  Are we, the commodity of mass media, being peddled off to the highest bidder?  Is the sale going to go through?

There is a horrible sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach that makes the same sensation of watching a really good horror flick the kind of appeal I have for watching Hannity and Colmes.  The Fox commentary after the last two nights of the Democratic Convention continues to give me this sensation.  What's more the most alarming thought in my mind is that Fox News Network is secretly conservative and that Sean Hannity is the best they've found to represent the cause.  The fueds that fuel this pathetic form of info'tainment are unquestionably great cause for concern... as is the info'tainment itself.

(PS Thanks Leelila for the word "Info'tainment")

There are some in this country who have an attitude of Paternal Racism that assumes superiority of character and morality.  These are they who owe the greatest debt to this country because of their arrogance and strife causing assumption of having the best possible solutions to everyone else's problems within their own person.  These are they who believe the world cannot do without them putting forth their beliefs and opinions since they contain the truth in everything they say and do.

These are the gods who put forth the truth as they see it for those of us who only think we know everything.  These are those who are so glad they are not like the rest of us... and they take pity on us who do not see the reality they have created through sheer force of personal being and their ever enduring light of personal perfection.

Those who practice the blogger bully-ism through their paternalistic racism cannot help it if we do not see their enhanced birthright for relative rule and denigrating disregard for all who would disagree with their presumptuous assessment of our beliefs as being inferior to their own.

So now... we bask in the glory of your wondrous light and receive with gratitude the corrections of your beneficent wisdom.  Thank you for bringing us here to pick your cotton...  We never had it so good.

Why not?

Do it and get it out of the way.

I've joked about this for years... dismissed it out of hand.  But you know what?  Where's my casino?  Forget going back to Africa and you can put those government jobs where the sun don't shine.

Some of ya'll got all the problems of us black folks in this country all figured out.   Some of ya'll were crying reverse racism 2 seconds after the Civil Rights Amendment.  Some of ya'll want to bring up race and then accuse us of turning it into a racial issue... "Nothing to see here folks... it was just a racial issue."

Restitution for Slavery...

Do you really think that a clear majority of black people in this country would even accept it?  Would a guy like me take partial acceptance, after all... look at the picture... I'm as black as I look... that's not a perm.  But then of course it depends on what that Restitution would mean.

I have no idea but I have some suggestions.  Give us the border with Mexico.... and 200 miles north of it to do with as we please.  We'll enlist a border army and build a huge fence... Or we'll simply open the borders wide and suggest a back to Europe and England movement.  After all England biggest mistake in history was loosing the colonies to slavery... Which is why God took early America from the English and gave it to the French.  But too much debauchery caused God to take America from the French and give it to various Protestant, Catholic and Jewish corporations.  Now too much religious, economic and racial bigotry is leaving God with no choice but to give America to well meaning secular humanist, liberals, gays and black people. 

Better yet... give us Hollywood!  That great shining beacon of hope that sits on seven hills...

Wait... wait... no.... give us Washington DC.  Yeah we'll repaint the white house and you can move the Capitol to Des Moines Iowa.

See! Problem solved... restitution for slavery... that's what I'm talkin' bout.

10.  Wanted to watch the Olympics with a clear conscience.

9.   Was afraid of being the first celebrity to get sued by the National Inquirer

8.  Trying to put a spotlight on how much the poor really do need help in this country.

7.   Heard James Baker was preaching on TV again.

6.   Missed being in the spotlight.

5.  Started Campaigning early for 2012.

4.  Wasn't really on Obama's shortlist anyway.

3.  Because Crocodile tears only come after you get caught.

2.  Got a late night phone call from Michelle Patterson.

And the top highest reason John Edwards confessed to adultery was!

Hillary promised him a cabinet position.

Freedom of the press.... Freedom of expression... Freedom of information.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we the People of the United States of America had an expanded and concise definition of what freedom of the press meant?  What if we decided that what we wanted most as a nation is to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth all the time?

Well... then we would need a representative news media that had a clear objective with guidelines acceptable to our ideals of peace and freedom.  We are a nation of ideals... our ideals come before us every day as we go about making laws and accepting the enforcement and authority of those laws upon our person.  We need to have a new operational procedure consistent with the establishment of these ideals... these laws that our collective conscience has deemed most beneficial to our highest intentions of life, liberty and the persuit of happiness.

In our day we have seen a new branch of our government that we seem to want to remain in denial of.  That new branch of our government is most accurately described as the American News Media.  Our present government dating very strongly from the first televised presidential debates has become more and more the tool of those in government who have the knowledge of how best to implement the use of wide spread dissemination of information.

How do we address this?  How do we switch from press based on the capitalistic and governmental uses that are now being applied to press based on the ideals of peace and freedom that require truth and accurated unbiased reporting?

Well... we elect someone to ask the questions that a majority of us deem most appropriate and beneficial.  The President of the United States of America has a Press secretary that answers questions so if follows that we the people of these United States elect a Press Secretary that asks them.

I suggest that we work toward electing a Peoples Press Secretary with a clear cut set of practical objectives and perhaps a pioneering constitution of operational procedures for what mass media trial and error has already shown us to be responsible and irresposible reporting of news.

So... who should we elect?  Anderson Cooper and CNN?  Sean Hannity and Fox?  ...statueman and myfoxla?

Ok so in another blog we read what many of us felt was resentment against bloggers and blogging.  My last comment in that blog left me with an exploratory question... one I'm not sure how to even begin researching.  I said, "Freedom of the Press perhaps needs to be set free from Capitalism... but I don't have the knowledge base to go any further with this thinking. Looks like I have an idea for my next blog."

So today fresh from my brain with no editorial refrain I give you the following non-linear thinking of my most idealistic mind.

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Now I've always loved... like most Americans... the story of how our Constitution and Bill of Rights came into being...

I'm alittle jealous though.... I want' to pioneer a new country too... but unfortunately there are none left.

But then.... perhaps there is a place we Americans can pioneer that we haven't tapped into.  Perhaps we have yet to exploit the most almighty resource of mankind... more powerfull then the devistation of wind and water or the destructive powers of the atomic bomb.... more influential than the largest and most powerful religion, philosophy or governmental type.... Perhaps we have neglected as a people and a nation the mandate to protect peace and freedom as much with new and innovative ideas as we do with high tech weaponry.

I strongly suggest we ban together and elect a News Media that is of the people, by the people and for the people and that we allow the current mega news organizations no quarter until they give us what we want.  We the American Citizens of these United States can and should create a representative news media corperation that will aid and add too government and be ready if needed to take over certain institutions that have otherwise broken down and been allowed to exist simply because nothing is readily available to replace them.

Yes... I want to vote for the people who I allow to put news of what's going on in my head.  Yes... would pay for such a media and vote as well for who was allowed to advertise on it.  Yes... I would love to have Information of Representation on a wide spread scale.  I want to be the first King of Representative American Propaganda Incorperated. 

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OK so fascinatingly enough I google in quotations the phrase "Information Without Representation" and found that is was used in reseach papers about quantum physics and the The role of aesthetics in intelligent systems  so I'm fascinated by this new idea of mine and will perhaps research the idea and makie it a pet project that could perhaps be a way to earn a living that I could enjoy in the future.  So.... whose with me?

Information with Representation!

I stop watching the news every once and awhile... the last time I did this I don't think I watched any news program for about 6 months.  This time its been from about a week after Senator Obama won the democratic race till now.  I mean oh sure.... a snippet of Hannity a dash of O Rielly (who for some odd reason I'm starting to like) and about a halve a bowl of CNN's Lou Dobbs.

Last couple of nights I watched alittle bit of CNN's "Black in America" since, well... I wanted to know what it's like to be black in America.  Every once and awhile I think I might even be black in America.  Wasn't there an old rock song about being Black in the USSR and not knowing how lucky we are?  Oh don't mind me I thought Hendrix was gay for years cause he was always asking to be excused so he could "kiss this guy".

Anywho...

Every once and awhile the news gets boring and redundant to me to the point where I wonder how I could have ever watched so much of it with such avid interest before.  Seems I've taken a day or two off blogging as well.  Every once and awhile it seems to me I get tired of my own agenda and start to realize that I'm just a silly old blogger with a thumb print picture and a few folks who seem to like to read my stuff and give me a hard time about it.

This is sort of a Sienfeldian blog if you haven't figured that out yet... I've really got absolutely nothing to say but 'hello' and 'you know' you know?  Every once and awhile I step back and read what I've already written and ask myself (if writen has two 't's or one) if the points I'm trying to get accross have any validity to them at all.  Ten years from now what will I think about the blogs I've written. (OK yeah two t's I googled it.)

So if the news has got you down just remember... you don't need those expensive anti-depressants.... just stop watching the news and stop worrying about the state the worlds in and every once and a while, if you do that then you may start translating the writing on the wall... and you might start hearing solutions in the donut shop...  and then, every once and a while a little child may prophesy to you as you serve soup at the local soup kitchen. 

I'm sorry... I wish there had been a better way.  I wish we had an army of peace... an army of 10% under arms and 90% under humanitarian supply that we could have sent into Iraq and Afghanistan.  But we don’t have such an Army.  We have a military with hi-tech weaponry and youthful Americans who volunteer to serve this country for any number of reasons.  And we have President who got congress to support a move that many have re-considered as a mistake.  I don’t think it was... I don’t think any American service member has died in Iraq in vain.  I don’t think that any American service member that is now serving in Iraq is serving there in vain.  But I do think we’re making one very huge blunder…

As I watch the History Channel sometimes (I called it the Hitler Channel when it first came out) I’ve been very entertained by a show they produce called “Great Blunders in History”.  Now if I look back at the time where Saddam Hussein was thumbing his nose at United Nations inspections and re-write history without an invasion by US Forces I cannot help but think that we’d possibly be in much worse shape than we are right now.  It is possible that our resolve to help maintain stability in the Middle East while at the same time combating terrorist organizations toe to toe, boot to boot would have been seriously in question.  It seemed to me at the time that Saddam Hussein had beaten off the whole world and it would be business as usual until the day he died.  I couldn’t bear the thought of it at the time… how far was he from forming alliances and propelling yet another war with Israel and greatly effecting world trade and oil prices.  It didn’t seem to far fetched to me…

It was time to roll… we knew it… and we did.  Because we elected a recovering alcoholic nut for President who had the guts, the foresight and the will to let the world know that when it comes to terrorism… we mean business.  For my part though… I think we are making one huge blunder…

 

We as Americans of the United States need to establish a “Say and Do” foreign policy.  We need to tell Mexico that there will be no more illegal immigration coming out of their country into ours.   After an agreed upon period of time we should draft an Army… maybe one made up of all those illegal immigrants already here and we need to go to war over the blatant disregard for our border.  How many more deaths and kidnappings and illicit drug trading do we need to put up with?  How about a 5 year war using an Army instead of a 50 year police action using an agency?

For my part I think that this “Say and Do” foreign policy need’s to be enacted and ran like a war… funding it by the spoils of war and not just by taxation.   When violence is done to our nation then we can talk to the nation who is at fault after we have conquered that nation in a war.  We can enact diplomatic solutions that will benefit both nations after that we have killed and/or imprisoned those perpetuating the problems that require those diplomatic solutions.

 

Now… our huge blunder wasn’t going to war in Iraq and occupying their nation.  Since we disbanded the Iraqi Army one blunder is not putting enough American troops in the region to let Iran know that we mean business.   By now we should be amassing troops along the border of Iran.  Didn’t we all put nations arming and sending off terrorist to do their thing on notice?   Shouldn’t we be putting Iran on notice?

No… our great blunder is not in going to war in 2004.  Our great blunder is in not having one very large exit strategy that we enacted with a timetable announced as soon as the war was won.  We can only offer the potential for Individual peace and freedom in a nation… because truly-truly that is all we really have here in this country.  We should have a clear objective and clear statement that we as the American people make to the Middle East nations and indeed all the worlds nations.  We need to make a new Constitution that addresses foreign policy issues.  Not a constitutional amendment but a clear Constitution between the American People and the World on what will get a nation in serious trouble with us.   And what we will do after we invade and as we are pulling out.  Yes, it’s time we let the world know what parts of our constitution we will require of nations who want to have dealings with us in a simple… short… concise document that speaks to the next 100 years of American "Say and Do" Foreign Policy.

You know every once and awhile I check out the myfoxphilly site cause for a time I was blogging here with you folks and it got alittle heated over the police beating those suspects.  Then I tried to write from a more comedic viewpoint using movies and popular history and television... you know... those shared experiences that we can all relate to?  For my part though I do what I do with my blogging cause I got faith.  I'm not just talking about faith in Christ as our Savior but faith in people.  Sometimes it seems to me like some of us have lost faith in some folks in this country... some of those folks we've lost faith in do indeed seem to have lost faith in themselves... and to make things worse some of those who have lost faith in themselves have lost faith altogether.

Sometimes like everyone else I just wonder what it is I can do to help.  For my part I think the answer is simple... so simple that we would... faith or no faith...just quiet down and ask our God or our conscience what we can do to make things better then we might actually get an answer.  Then of course it's either we act on it or we don't.  I think that for some of us it will be as simple as asking God if what we are thinking and saying about our fellow humans is the right?  Are we calling people animals and having no faith in them?  Are we thinking rightly about one another or have we got a mindset that is allowing the cycle of violence and neglect to continue? 

According to New Testament scripture "we all fall short" of the glory or God.  We don't earn the grace we recieve... none of us.  So what does it profit us to have an attitude that others don't want to change when we won't even change the way we're thinking about them?   If we claim to love the God we don't see how can we hate or otherwise lack faith in the folks we do see unless we think God did not create all humans in his image. 

Are some of us working so hard that we take the time to notice how everyone else isn't working as hard as we are?  Don't be that one who lets sound bite or tid bits of gossip or news form your whole opinion of a person or a group.  Don't be that one who idolizes one man over another since judging others is not good in either direction since everyone can let you down and everyone can suprise you. 

Be that one who takes the time to breath deep and instead of cursing that driver who cut you off says a prayer for them.  Be that  one who has faith that with God all things are possible and be ready to help do the impossible.  Be that one who has faith in yourself because you have faith in your God, faith in your family and faith in those who you have direct influence on and faith in your country.   Ask God today to show you something you can do, say or even just think that will give good faith for all the folks in Philly.

We all want to know what's going to happen next.  Sometimes we look to our horror scopes (misspelling intentional) and sometimes we look to our pastors and preachers and sometimes we call the psychic friends network or even look to our political leaders.

I'm tired of it... nobodies making accurate prophecies these days... and I mean the kind of 100 % accurate prophecies that those who sit and really listen to our original being "I AM" can and do give.  I mean that humble soul that like the one Milla and Lee Lee got to play who told the British that France will be it's own country within so many years and it happened.  And I'm not Catholic but I respect most of the saints they burnt and later cannonized. 

Anywho...

What I'm talking about is the tendency for folks in this country to idolize the wrong folks and then get suprised when they vomit.  Dr Dobson, Rev Hagee, Rev Wright are all equal examples of people in powerful positions who let their influence and authority over-ride their submission to well... God.  And can I judge these men?  Well... I can read and I've read many parts of the New Testament many times inorder to correct myself and assumed they were doing that too.   However what I'm finding is that maybe these hot heads are in the positions there in because most of us wouldn't know a man or woman of God if we tripped o'er them.

Most of us are looking for the End Times Prophet... the one who will accurately herald the return of the one none of us would have ever persecuted or put up on a cross.  But what's funniest to me about this is that those who think they would have never crucified a truely good person are elevating somewhat good people and perverting the humility that service to God should entail.  That's why we have so many competing prophets... and I'm here to tell you that it's your fault if you still believe in a prophet who has made inaccurate prophecies.

My prophecy is there are no real prophets of God speaking at this time.  We'd have to humble ourselves as a Nation and cry out to God for it to happen.   Alot of folks have a part of the truth but they arn't sharing and what's worse they are clinging to errors in principle or errors in practice.  We are lost as a nation and we are ripe for invasion from within from millions of illegal aliens who we don't seem to want to convert ...

Oh well...  So I'm seeking the End Times Prophet.  I won't pay him or her a dime unless they call me to walk with them.... then I'll give everything I have.  But if I'm just meant to listen then listen and obey I pray I do... but doubts always plague us when we're looking for the End Times Prophet and then find him or her... So we wind up back at Hagee's church paying $29.95 for prophetic theory...  excuse me while I scratch my ears.

OK so Ward, June, Wally and the Beaver are all sitting around the television today cheering on Doctor Dobson as he gave Obama what for on how he views this wonderfully free country as long as you're a christian.

Here we go again... first they call him an appeaser like ole Wilt Chamberlain (or was it Neville)... then they try to take him out for not taking government campaigne funds(a brotha that don't take welfare how dare he)... now they gonna really get him for not accepting the fact that this country is mostly christian and everybody seems to know that and accept that but Barack Hussein Obama.

Here we go again...  crying out that the typical leer jet liberals are going to march us into another world trade center cause republicans do war right.   Only now ole James Dobson is going to sit this election out cause Mc Cain ain't as conservative as he thought.  Wow... John may be craftier than even the Obama camps giving him credit for.  Nothing saying Dobson knows that to... it is, after all, an election.

Yeah... hold on... the beaver is asking me if I'd like to go outside and play catch.   Well, I love the Beaver, he's a good boy and Ward and June are such nice people who usually look alot more deeply at what's going on in their country... sometimes they even ask me what I think and I appreciate that.  "Oh no... wait a second Beaver... Wally!  Eddies here!"

(So in a nut shell... Senator Obama challenges christians to make their arguements according to reason and not just according to scripture.  This is a very novel approach to an old arguement and he's going to win it.  Dobson is looking like an offended Hannity and is showing why Republicans don't want to talk to anyone without asking unaswerable questions.  Alan Keyes, the black republican who ran against Obama in the senate race questioned Obama's christianity and this is still a personal attack on Obama's beliefs.  Republicans had their chance to groom a black presidential candidate but it looks like the secular humerist family guys happy gay baby democrates stole their chance.   Republicans tried to legislate morality since conversion was too hard and time consuming.   Conservative Evangelicals need to get a clue... survival might require revival and that within and not without since Dobsons message is sure falling on deaf ears outside of his own followers.  After all it's hard to focus on a family when dads in jail and momma's on drugs and the only job offers coming are from the guys on the corner.   Boy that's a big nut shell.)

"When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job, or your home, or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies – to be met not with cooperation but with conquest, to be subjugated and mastered.
We learn, at the last, to look at our bothers as aliens, alien men with whom we share a city, but not a community, men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in a common effort. We learn to share only a common fear – only a common desire to retreat from each other – only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force.
Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done is too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in this land of ours. Of course we cannot vanish it with a program.
But we can perhaps remember – even if only for a time – that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short movement of life, that they seek – as do we – nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can.
Surely this bond of common faith, surely this bond of common goals, can begin to teach us something.  Surely we can learn, at the least, to look around at those of us of our fellow men and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our hearts brothers and countrymen once again." Robert F Kennedy, April 5, 1968

One day when I was watching "Oh Brother Where Art Though" a solution to one of the problems facing the United States of America came to me in a waking vision.  The following blog explains that vision.

Are you concerned?  Are you fearful for your country and it's future?  If there is one problem that is contributing to what ultimately will threaten the future peace and prosperity of this nation what would that problem be and how would you address it?

I think one such problem is the economic and social state of many African American communities in this country.  And I'm speaking specificly of communities populated with the descendants of former United States of America's African slaves.  I am not talking about the new immigrant African American communities. 

Here are some psychic solutions for the problem of continued African American slave mentalities and resentments in the United States of America.

Solution Number One

   Outlaw and irradicate institutions in this country that have a history of civil rights abuses against ancestors of former United States of America's slaves.  Any institution that murdered large numbers of African Americans in this country and is still protected under the laws of free speech and religion need to irradicated and outlawed.  These organizations should be named and their rallies stopped, their property confiscated and the groups or families perpetuating these organiztions and unwilling to denounce named organizations be promptly exiled.

(Note:  This not to exclude any organization of any anti ethnic persuasion of any type that has a history of murder and civil rights abuses.)

Solution Number Two

  Open the coffers of the Faith Based Initiative funds and let large numbers of religios and secular charity organizations mobilize a Philantropic Army immune to legal prosection with the express purpose of transplanting whole inner city and/or problem area communities with training and counselling and economic empowerment zones.  A new domestic Peace Corps if you will utilizing recent college graduates (student loans repaid).  Please note that many organizations who are successful at doing this already exsist and merely expanding and implementing things they cannot now afford to do would see drastic reductions in crime and unemployment in less than 10 years time.

(Note;  These organizations will be racially integrated and help all those in poverty who have a downtrodden mentality or stigma place upon them.)

Solution Number Three

  Re-write and unify  law enforcement Standard Operational Procedures for all States and put every Law Enforcement Officer, Institution and Court System under research survaillence by creating racial cases and assessing once and for all if our own legal system is perpetuating racial injustice in this country.  Nothing wrong with alittle ethical retraining of those in the legal justice system is there?

(Note; Some of these organization may have to be disbanded and temporarily replaced with National Guard Units.)

Ok so... that's just off the top of my head in 30 minutes ... but I've watched... listened too and paid enough attention to know that the seeming absurdities you've just read are not without merit.   This need not happen with the spilling of blood if a clear majority of us agree that certain institutions and operational procedures need to irradicated and disposed of peacefully and yet with extreme finality. 

So there you have it... Oh Brothers where art thou?  Do we keep singing Enie Menie Miny Mo in this country or do we get behind those misogynistic Soggy Bottom Boys and sing "Man of Constant Sorrows" along with "You are my Sunshine" as we run the real root of our problems out of town on a rail?

It's good to be back in L.A.!  But after a mere 14 days back in the Southern Illinois in a small town outside of St Louis Missouri I've discovered that my love for Los Angeles has returned after being absent for many years due to some unreasonable fear of living in a largely populated metropolis.  I would call it Metrophobia but apparently that's a fear of poetry... must have been a cityboy that came up with that...

Anywho... While I was in Alton/Wood River Illinois I decided to blog at myfox St Louis and my picture was even placed on the blog page a couple of times!  I kind of like the picture of me cause it hides the fact that I have no chin.  And the image presents an aspect of humor that I try to maintain most of the time.  Not all issues are humorous and I think one of our mistake as a culture is to find humor in everything.

Last Anywho... Now that I'm back in Los Angeles blogging with a most famous group of myfox bloggers who are known at the other myfox blog sites around the nation I just wanted to say I missed you guys.  We have here at myfox Los Angeles blogs a more personal touch then most other myfox blog sites.  Many times here you'll actually get a chance to conversate a bit with the reporters that work on the local news.   From what I've seen this happens here more than the other myfox blog sites with the exception of myfox philly.

Something about writing to folks that you might see on the street that day gives me a boost inside.  I find this blog thing to be very theraputic... and an article in some science journal backs that up... oh heck let me google that... Yes, yes my father showed me the article in "Scientific American" entitled "Blogging--It's Good for You" and I won't post a link so google it if you're interested.  Already this morning I'm feeling a bit better... had horrible jet lag from having to spend the night in the Denver Airport due to bad weather so of course, no hotel spif.

I never thought I'd say it's good to be back in Los Angeles.  So my fellow bloggers and staff of Fox News LA who may be reading... please know that you guys are a big part of the reason I feel that way.  Please also have a look at the blogs I wrote at the myfox St Louis and do post some thing in them if I interest or anger you.  After all... it's theraputic.