Monday Musings.....

About Health Care Reform....as the GOP tries to torpedo the plan with the help of the Blue Dog Democrats..

I am serving notice as a taxpayer that I am going to start refusing to pay taxes if we don't get changes in the health system in this country..

The status quo is not working...It isn't even skewed to help people...It is skewed to make corporations and the people who run them richer....

And if I can't have health care that works for me...then neither should our Congressmen...

Since we pay for their health care....I think they should suffer right along with the rest of us for a change..

I've written more than once that dropping a bomb on Capital Hill would go a long way in clearing up the problems we face in America...

This Congress has done nothing to change my mind about their inept effectiveness.

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The Three Musketeers...Thomas, Keys and Steele

I didn't think it was possible for anyone to out Tom, Thomas..but Steele has managed to do so...Every time he opens his mouth...

And as for Keys...well that man is simply certifiable..there is no other explanation....

Why did I bring up Thomas...He opened the judicial door for Keys' most recent round of ignorance in questioning Obama's birth and citizenship...

The D'Artagnan to this group is Ward Connerly...but he's been quiet for awhile..

Connerly, for those of you who don't recall is the guy who led the battle against affirmative action in California....

If I ever meet Mr. Connerly I intend to ask him how he feels about legacy policies....all universities have them....

Legacy policies are those programs that allow for entry into prestigious schools like Harvard and Yale to those scions of the rich who don't otherwise qualify....

Like George Bush, for instance..

Ya'll didn't really think that frat boy George got into Yale due to his scholarly prowess, did you?

Legacy....affirmative action for the rich and white in America...However nobody is talking about doing away with those programs....

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Afghanistan...

Will somebody please refresh my memory.....why are we in Afghanistan?

It seems that the only thing going on is our soldiers are being killed by people who America armed to fight the Russians...

We gave the Taliban those guns and bombs...I'll bet we even taught them to build the IED's, too....

So why are we there?

What is the objective these days......Kill Osama?.... Win another unwinable police action? Nation rebuilding?

What the hell are we doing?

It seems as if Obama is following in the footsteps of George....Big mistake...

When an idiot says.....”let's go this way” you don't follow...that's stupid....Yet that is what seems to be going on....

If it has become Obama's war....then he should set a new course...the old one has run into a roadblock..

And as far as Osama is concerned...anybody check the penthouses in the hotels in New York, lately?

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Call me skeptic....but the hair on the back of my neck is standing up over the pictures of this latest soldier allegedly taken hostage...

I wish him well..I hope he comes home safe, if that is his intention...

However..something is not right about that picture...

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People I would like to take my size 10 foot and stomp a hole in their ass so deep it would make the Mississippi river look like a dried up creek bed...

Jefferson Beaureqard Sessions

Ms. Linsey Graham

Dowager Mitch McConnell

Jim DeMint

The Cambridge Police who arrested Dr. Gates late last week for breaking into his own house.....

That fool at Fox who talked about whites marrying outside their species....He apologized today...two weeks late....

When is..Enough is Enough

It's time to pry the mike from Pat Buchanan's cold, dead and heartless hands...




Why, Thank You, Massa, suh!

"First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ’60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.

Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks — with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas — to advance black applicants over white applicants.

Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.

We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?"- PJB, 3/21/08

More, From His Own Mouth.........

"[W]hat did white males do? OK, they were the only guys signing the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, all the dead at Gettysburg, all the dead at Normandy." PJB 2/28/09

The truth of the matter is that 2000 Blacks took part in the Normandy invasion....

At least one woman and Black, that we know of....died at Gettysburg

For most of my adult life I've conducted my own personal boycotts....Pat Buchanan is being added to my official list of things I don't need in my life....So as of today....NBC, MSNBC, CNBC and every other spin off is off limits in my house...

I do not patronize anyone or anything that refuses to recognize all aspects of my humanity..

Like Eddie Murphy said in Trading Places....”the best way to hurt a rich man is to make him poor.”

Maybe if enough of us get together and he gets fired...It will hurt a little bit and make him think the next time he opens his mouth...

Only in America-Can't Make This Stuff Up

On a day when 12 White men claiming to represent a diverse and just America, sat down to question Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor's diversity-inclusive credentials...

GOP chairman and token black man, Michael Steele talked about why minorities should join his party...



He made this statement at this past weekend's meeting of the young republicans, who by the way elected a MILF bigot to lead them....young repubs are supposed to be between 18-40...She's 38...looks every bit of...well...I'll be nice..

Also on this day...a judge has agreed to hear arguments about whether or not our President is legally president...

It's a case brought by Fake Negro Alan Keyes who is questioning Obama's citizenship...

Correct me if I'm wrong...but doesn't the law state that you are a citizen of the United States if one of your parents is a citizen of the United States...regardless of where you are born...

In other words.....Obama could have been born on Mars..... But his momma was born in Kansas...

That makes him an American...a legal American...

And as far as this soldier who is refusing to serve in afghanistan because he says Obama is not legal....well....just shoot the MF....He is a deserter...

but then he follows and listens to a party of men who are serial draft dodgers at every given opportunity...so it's understandable that he feels like he has the right not to defend this country...just like all the rest of em...Rove (college dropout and draft dodger)...Cheney(five deferments)..Bush (awol frat boy)...and the list goes on...

Name one of these warmongering cowards who volunteered to go fight, outside of McCain who was forced into it because of his daddy and his grandfather...

I Love The View!

Can you believe it....Five women....Whoopie Goldberg (my favorite)...Barbara Walters (my idol)....Joy Behar...Sherrie Shepard and Elizabeth the Republican....

Debating the merits of MASTURBATION on Daytime TV...

I love it!

No double entendres....no bleeps.... no word substitution.......just plain talk....

honest talk from Whoopie...as in “yes” I do pleasure myself....

to sillly talk from Sherrie....trying to turn the conversation to abstinence...

Then...they segued to a story from Japan that said People who are chubby at 40 live longer than skinny people....

Young GOP Tone Deaf, Too

Group elects Audra Shay to leadership position

The 38 year old republican with a taste for racist remarks on her Facebook page has been elected national chairman of the Young Republican organization, proving the apples don't fall too far from the tree.

Find the full story here:

Shay won by 50 votes. A total of 950 were cast.

Bet she's chomping at the bit to get out there and convince all of America's Black, brown, yellow and red people that the GOP is our only salvation...

After all, she occasionally talks with the Hip Hop Republican Group...(a group of young Black GOP)..so there may be hope for the rest of us...huh.

Probably thinks like her elders, that she can ignore Black people and go after Latinos and Asians, and people from Bobby Jindal's mother country.

Probably also thinks that by coddling gay white rich boys she will wrap up the LGBT vote, too.

Good luck with that.

More on the story here:

Another Movie List

Whenever some organization or critic puts together a best movies list, he/she also puts together a worst movies list to compliment and contrast with the good.....

Recently I posted my favorite Black movies list as well as my favorite overall list. I always intended to revisit this subject and eventually post my worst movies list, as well....

However there is a problem in that I am having trouble naming any movies that I don't like, primarily because I only go see movies that catch me with the trailer in the first place...

The cost of a movie ticket these days makes me very selective in what I go to see. It also makes me selective in the bootlegs that I buy on the street, since they do cost a few bucks..

And the movies that I may download from the internet...If I'm gonna get busted for movie theft....I want it to be a movie that I liked and actually wanted to see...

I can name movies that I refused to see.......”Soul Plane” for instance....
I can name movies that I walked out on.....”Hotel New Hampshire" to name one...

But a list of movies that I didn't like.....well....here goes... In no certain order...

The Color Purple...or Stuff by Steven Spielberg...He whitewashes good stories..takes the teeth out of them for the masses....turning mature stories into bedtime stories for children..

Brokeback Mountain....bored me to tears....If I had been in a theater, I would have left within 20 minutes...as it was, I was viewing a friend's copy and simply turned it off...There are straight guys who can play gay...but these two weren't it.....

Claire of the Moon....an absolute joke of a movie...saw it at the premier in Chicago...the entire audience loudly and verbally abused this movie during the screening...It remains a travesty..

Thelma and Louise...I wanted this one to be good...It was girls night out.... One of my favorite actors (Susan Sarandon)...two of us didn't like it and said so....blew that date...

Jodie Foster movies....with the exception of Silence of the Lambs...that includes Taxi Driver

Tropical Thunder....Robert Downey was funny as hell...but the movie was too damn long...fell asleep on it...still have it in my rack of movies to revisit in order to give it a second chance...maybe..

Dave Chapelle's Block Party....another one turned off after 20 minutes in...

Steven Seagal movies...nearly all of them....seen a few...hated em...they were usually always date movies not of my choosing... the one about the submarine with Tommy Lee Jones and the blond crazy guy...that one was okay..

Animal House and Animal House genre movies...young white boys getting stoned, puking, drinking beer, and doing tricks with feces and their undersized male parts don't tickle my funny bone in the least...

American Beauty with Kevin Spacey....boring.....

X Files....movies and TV series......boring....and I paid for that one....Only one episode that I liked...it was called, I believe....”Humbug”....It contained a character named The conundrum...

Bruno movies....He's so not funny....

Wow....I'm getting a headache trying to think about stuff I don't like....so I will stop now...

My list of best movies continues to grow...I think at my age, I need to do a “best” list for every decade...

Because after the fact...I left out some damn good movies on my first list....like

The Godfather movies...all three...
Bonnie and Clyde....Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway
The Hunger with the afore mentioned Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie
Street Car Named Desire with Marlon Brando and Karl Maldon
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Paul Newman, Liz Taylor
Suddenly Last Summer, Liz Taylor and Montgomery Clift and Katherine Hepburn
Silence of the Lambs
The Long Hot Summer.... You can see, I've just got a thing for Tennessee Williams...

I quit....

to be continued later...

Friday Rap

Nominees for the “Walking Wastes of Oxygen Award"

The Obama Administration-for not killing DADT, while yet another gay naval officer dies while serving his country...brutally killed on base here in the US....shot three times...his body burned to hide the crime...Rod 2.0

The Cincinnati Enquirer-shrinking and now disappearing, will anyone notice?

Charles Krauthammer- (future Hall of Famer) Usually wrong and continually unrepentant about his ongoing obtuseness...

Sarah Palin-Make no mistake about the naked Emperess, she quit for the money..no other reason, Alaska be damned

Representative Peter King- Me thinks he dost protest too much about everything...can't wait to see his skeletons come falling out of his closet

Blue Dog Democrats- Don't want a public option on health care, then don't take it, but leave the rest of us alone. Choice and competition.. isn't that capitalism...we have choice, your business buddies say they thrive on competition...or do they? Isn't it just more of they want to get paid and damn the consumer...isn't that the real capitalism at work?

John Ensign- Man, those are some cojones...gets Daddy and Mommie to pay for his mistress, all the while playing holier than thou Christian Congressman leading the “do as I say, not as I do”crowd..

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III- 2009 congressional version of Strom Thurmond and ranking bigot on Capital Hill, except he doesn't have a Black daughter hidden somewhere, does he?

Audra Shay- a walking example that racism is taught....too young to have experienced the 1960's, all the while continuing to live in a bigoted time warp perpetuating the thinking of past generations. She represents the cluelessness that permeates the GOP.

Bill O'Reilly- bigot with a mic who apparently hasn't yet received the email....that old world colonialism is dead...white people can no longer dictate to the masses what is and is not...

Rupert Murdoch- for destroying journalism and the once honorable fourth estate

Brian Kilmeade- the most brain dead of the talking heads on Fox and Friends, who said this week that America is being destroyed because white Americans keep marrying outside their species...huh?

Congressman Steve King for his ongoing fight against Black people over running his white christian nation..

Cincinnati Link to Chicago Cemetery Scandal

Burr Oak Cemetery final resting place of Heavyweight Champ Ezzard Charles

The manager and three gravediggers at historic Burr Oak Cemetery, located outside of Chicago have been charged with desecrating more than 300 graves in a scheme going back some four years, say officials. The plan was to empty the graves and resell the plots. Full story here.

Cincinnati son and former heavyweight boxing champion Ezzard Charles is one of many luminaries buried within the Burr Oak confines. Charles who succumbed to Lou Gehrig's disease in 1975, was ranked by ESPN as the 27th greatest fighter of all time, ahead of Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather, Jr, Larry Holmes and Jake LaMotta.

He was preceded by Joe Louis and followed by Jersey Joe Walcott and held the title from 1949-1951.

At one point in time, Burr Oak Cemetery was the only place where Blacks could be buried in or near Chicago. Many people, including Emmett Till, the 15 year old boy who was lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman, his mother, Singers Dinah Washington and Willie Dixon, among others are also interred there.

Ezzard Charles, who was a friend of my Dad's, was a graduate of Woodward High School. He fought Rocky Marciano twice in two fights that are considered classics among boxing aficionadoes.

Downtown Cincinnati has a street named Ezzard Charles Boulevard in his honor.