Don Quixokie

The killing of Trayvon Martin with impunity and the implicit blessing of the Sanford police department has brought to light some genuine ugliness in the American public in its discussion on race and justice. Apologists for George Zimmerman invariably bring up the recent St Patrick's Day killings in Chicago as an argument that black folks kill people too. No-one is disputing that. But unless the Chicago PD stood around, looked at all the dead bodies and the guilty with their smoking guns, pulled their thumbs out of their butts, sniffed them then said "Duhhh...okay. Nothing to see here. You can all go..." Then the situations are not nearly the same. The culpability for the crime is not for George Zimmerman alone, but even more for the police department for 1. Not arresting George Zimmerman. 2. Not even subjecting George Zimmerman to a background check, drug/alcohol test. Even though all of the above were preformed on the dead black kid. 3. Not even bothering to collec...

Originally posted on Newsvine http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/13/10670359-sarah-palin-freaks-after-obama-uses-her-racism-to-attack-the-gop?last=1331939307&threadId=3368565&sp=0&pc=25#c63433093 I Married an imperious Paleolithic Goddess! I'm with you women because my adoration for you goes WAY back! When Man was a hunter and a gatherer and even into the advent of Agriculture, Man enjoyed a special grace when he was moved to artistic and religious veneration of the corpulent female form. It was WOMAN that was the object that moved man to create the first realistic and abstracted image of art in the most durable materials he could find. That is ART and that is LOVE and that was the birth of CULTURE and Man's first step away from the world of beasts and toward Civilization. But there was a snake in the garden called Animal Husbandry. When men gave up hunting for herding they discovered that males impregnate females and that they can have chil...

excerpted from maddowblog: Jilly... the whole issue with religion and faith is that it is personal. Your relationship ( or not) with God is your own. As is mine. God is found in conciousness alone because this is a relative universe bound by space and time. An island in the eternal, infinite, and absolute that is the mind of God. The only place that those exist is in the hearts and minds of men. To go back to the cosmic watchmaker argument (for which **** is trying to find an organic analogue in the creation and structure of eyes) it doesn't matter whether or not it is found, no hand needs wind it...it just keeps ticking away. Did God create the universe, design the world? It doesn't matter. In the Bible, the Name of God is "I AM." Cogito ergo sum is only half right. Sum, what ever you cogito about it. Things ARE, life IS. Unarguable. That is the starting point. If you try to look any further back for first causes the way **** is, you might as well sit in a corner...

Don Quixokie Chi'ren chi'ren. You would think that because of Santorum's appeal to the Chistofascist segment population at the cost of demonizing the vast majority of Americans, you would THINK that he wouldn't have a snowball's chance right now. What everyone has forgotten is that the electoral, the participatory political process (oh Jesus, the alliteration!) has been chronically deformed since the Red Tide of 2010.

I dreamed that my wife and I were at a party and we were writing poems. Then we went to a park and heckled squirrels until they fell out of the trees, stunned by our taunting.

Excerpt from Newsvine thread samenslow Since I am experiencing the revolution in Egypt, I tend to follow American comments on events here. What is rather sad is the those who cry out over an Islamist takeover of Egypt are often the same people who favor America as a Christian nation. They refuse to see their reflection in the mirror of Middle East politics - just because they are using a different holy book. These religious movements, often tied to nationalism, are very dangerous to both the societies and to the religions involved. Imposes religion becomes religion of public ritual - not a matter of the heart or soul. It makes no difference if it is religious dogma or political dogma (communism) that is imposed. People adjust and learn to be great hypocrites. Human development and intellectual growth is stymied as all want to appear to fit the current orthodoxy. The major change of the 60's social revolution was not that we changed our behavior. We jus...

Just like I detailed in Pepper Spray Nation 7: Occupy Oakland and just like I told Frank Miller in the Open Letter. I was right! So let's think long and hard about the esteemed place we hold Ronald Reagan and Bush the Elder as Respected Statesmen, and just how much we can trust the CIA when it comes to foreign policy! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/30/ron-paul-conspiracy-theory-cia-drug-traffickers_n_1176103.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003 Posted: 12/30/11 02:13 PM ET