teddys wild eyed conspiracy theories

Consider the following. Is there a connection between the fact that the same year the U.S. Government ended the draft the Big Corporations started sending American Jobs to Mexico and Taiwan. Think about this, since 1974 there has been a constant and persistent propaganda campaign espousing the virtue of self-reliance and personal initiative like it was a religion and the preacher was Ronald Reagan .

Jimmy Carter decided Taiwan was not going to be our friend anymore and that China was going to be our New Partner. Then more of the American manufacturing jobs went to mexico and China. Carter knew what was going on and did his best to help. 1980 Ronald Reagan started his Revolution and Bill Clinton did his best to send the rest of the jobs south with NAFTA.

Then Real President Dick Cheany made a Deal with the Wall Street Smoothies to run the economy into the ground while the price of Higher Education climbed into the stratosphere. But Why?

Think about this. The best way to make sure there are plenty of healthy, smart and eager young men and women stepping up to volunteer to serve in the U.S. Military is to make sure it is the most attractive option available or in a lot of cases Thanks to the much whined about, but starved for cash, public school system there are plenty of young people with only one option, again Military service.

Sound crazy? Where does the Golden boy President Barack Obama think he is going to get 30,000 soldiers to send over to Afghanistan. Well the same place The War Monger in Chief Geo. Bush got the 40,000 to send to Iraq from the millions of under educated and unemployed American youth. It is a good trick no draft riots like the Vietnam war and because of the tremendous advances in Electronic Warfare, casualties low enough that the American Public would tolerate The War for years.

Consider some cold hard facts. It is costing a million dollars a year to keep a Soldier or Soldierette in the Iraq or Afghanistan take your pick as Our Obama has promised to get us out of both Wars. Big Disappointment Our Obama in Washington has Partnered with the Miliatary Idustrial Complex to keep The War going, to a flexible withdrawal date[ more bullspit]. Here is some more BullSpit from My Lord Barack he had plenty of money for the Wall Street Smoothies, plenty of Money for GM who has been selling out the Auto Workers for thirty years, but when it came to Job programs he says, Whoa limited funds. Why? again, to make the Military the most attractive option.

I hate to contradict all the conservative talking heads, but the American Taxpayer is not really paying for The War because The American Taxpayer was Tapped a long time ago. The Feds have been swapping Digital Money with the Military Contractors for since 1991. So why would The War ever stop. it won't because it is a war for profit and and has been ever since the Korean War. President Eisenhower warned us about the Military Industrial Complex and he was right and he will continue to be right as there is no reason to believe The War will be over by 2012.

It will be interesting to listen to a Nobel Peace Prize winner explain why he has escalated what should have been an Air War into a Surge Ground War. It will be even more interesting to see if Sarah Palin is truly Going Rouge or is just another pretty face for the Propaganda Machine. Stay tuned for the future.

Welcome back to the future/or New Century Capitlism

Unfortunately there is a historical shift that started with Henry Ford. The economy of scale. Big Business took over long ago and it is the Goal of the Corporation's with their whore the Federal and State governments to drive out the small business person because the economy of scale is to small with a small business but it is enough to steal the crumbs from the corporate table, and the Modern Robber Barons will not stand for one penny escaping their greedy grasp.

Now our President Barack Obama who is loved every where in the world but America and you can thank the News entertainment Industry for that because The Negative sells. Just ask TV producer Norman Lear the creator of All in the Family the show that started the Nasty Family which ended up giving us Family Ties and Everyone Loves Raymond. TV turning family from Sacred to an object of scorn and ridicule all in the name of profit at any cost.

Traditional Family Values have been turned into a marketing tool along with fear. The Advertising media long ago hired Physiologists to identify fear triggers and the advertisers have exploited those fears in their commercials until we have a public scared to death of germs, bad breath and haunted by the spectre of Home Invasion. The home has been invaded all right , but by the most powerful device ever invented by man The Television.

Back to President Obama he and what passes for Democratic Leadership want to bring universal health care to the 97% of us that are not Wealthy and the Captian's of the Health Insurance are fighting tooth and nail to keep the Rest of Us poor and sick. I have seen in my life time Hospitals go from an institutions that healed the sick and comforted the dying into a Industry that treats the Patient like a mechanic treats a car and with the same compassion.

The Corporate Chieftains keep us healthy enough so we can keep working so they can milk us like a herd of cows every month. I urge all the Free Market Fanatics to look around you have been Had. There are no free markets. The top 3% in this country that control 97% of the wealth. The people at Goldman and Sachs that took home multimillion dollar bonuses this year. To them there is no Liberal or Conservative , There is no Democrat and Republican. To them we are no more than sheep to to be sheared for their profit at any cost. America sliced diced packaged and sold.

One man President Obama is standing up to these People to these Industries and to the Special Interests groups and he is being mocked and ridiculed. The Lobbyists are flying to the offices of our Elected Repersentives like Demons with promises of wealth and power seducing our Senators and Repersentives to feed their greed. Former Senator Bill Fisk a doctor who was a leader in Health Care reform until he retired from politics and now is the Lead Lobbyist for the Association of Health care Companies. From Doctor to Whore. This is what passes for Captialism in the new century.

when is to much enough or when does it stop

The horrific rape and beating of a 15 year girl at a school homecoming dance last week in California happens with gruesome regularity in this country. What made this one different was the number of people who watched and actually called their Friends to come over and join them. How many bodies are found on the streets of America everyday? How many times are we told it is gang related or drug related and there does not seem to be any difference between the two.

Whenever a crime like this happens our elected repersentives such as the President or the Governor of the state always tell the press that " It would not be appropriate for me to comment on this issue. " Excuse me, I can think of no one more appropriate than President Obama to comment on these horrific crimes. We elected him to lead. The fact is they are never asked by the news media to comment on these acts of Brutality that take place daily on the streets of America.

When will Americans have enough of this Nation running scared of the Big gangs like the Crips and the Bloods and the Spanish Gangs? What if President Obama were to have the National Guard go out and round up all the Gang Members in the country and put them in Detainment Camps? Who would object? These Gang Members have sworn an oath to live by their own rules to take what they want and kill anyone who stands in their way. Why should we let them live among us?

The most disturbing part of this incident was the fact that so many men stood around and watched it and did not find it a horrible event to behold. Has the Prison/Gang culture in the Ghettos of America become so pervasive and normal that this kind atrocity is entertaining? Even the most Devout Atheist must surely look at this incident and find it to be evil.

The day will come when in the name of the People the President of the United States will have to declare Martial Law in our cities and start confining the Gangs in camps away from the rest of society. There will be those who will fight for their rights and file law suits in the courts. They will argue that we are opening the door for a Benevolent Dictator to take over, but I do not agree.

We the People have a right to live in a society where we do not have to be afraid. In a Country where we feel Justice is being served to those who deserve it. When will our elected officials who we have entrusted to protect us start doing their job and stand up to these Gangs of Predators that stalk the streets of our cities? This is not an issue that can be looked at with Academic Detachment it is an issue that has to be faced and action taken Now. Before another teenage girl raped and beaten while her attackers stand by and watch.

the straw man burns or nu wy dwn

The Straw Men in our American society are all burning. GM has been crying for twenty years that they could not make a profit because of the " Unions " . It is odd though that when the Executive Timber at GM had to decide which car line to drop they choose the Saturn"

This is the car company that twenty years ago GM set-up as the Car Company of the Future. It was set-up on the Japanese Model, " No Unions " managers and engineers had offices on the shop floor. This begs the question if the " Unions " were the problem why are they closing the only car company they own that has no " Unions" ?

Could it be that the profit in small, reliable , fuel efficient[ Japanese model] cars is not big enough? Could it be that GM wants to build only 50,000 dollar gas guzzling pick-up trucks because there is more profit in them. The "Unions " have always been a Straw Man for the big corporations to blame for everything. While Dividends Shrank , Executive Compensation has grown exceptional.

Let us look at another Straw Man " The Customer " Wal-mart is the leader in this one. Every morning their employees have to " Pledge in the name of Sam " that the customer is the most important person in their life today. The Big Corporations have run the Internal Customer scam for a long time, but Wal-mart has taken it to a new level with an Evangelical Zeal.

Why is the Customer a Straw Man because the Customer is the only thing left. The Wall Street Smoothies have stolen all the money that was left, America does not manufacture much anymore, so we are all turning into each others customers passing the Same Money back and forth to each other. This is the Wal-mart Model and it is the future of America

In ten Years we will all be working for about the same money everyone from Janitors to Computer Techs, Teachers to Managers will be making between 30,000 and 50,000 dollars a year. The American Dream that each generation will do better than their parents generation stops with the Baby Boomers. Our Children and Grand Children will not live better than their Parents. This is not a Bad thing because we live pretty good. I forgot to mention the Top 3% of the population[ the Wealthy] will probably be living in palaces by then and behaving like the Uncrowned Royalty they believe they are.


People 35 and under Text instead of talk, their friends are on the Internet. Every interest , every desire and shopping too done in Virtual Worlds until the Virtual is preferred over Reality. Truly a world their parents will never understand or appreciate.

So as the American Culture of Materialism Dies starved to death due to lack of money , accommodation and interest. A New American Culture of Virtual Life Rises it is going to be very interesting to see where this goes. With Japanese/ Chinese leading the Consumer Electronic Revolution one can only imagine how Real the Virtual Can Be.

The private world of public education

The New york Times printed a story Friday that gave an inside look into the politics of public education, though I do not think that was the newspapers intention. It seems that the Chancellor of schools in NYC Joel E Klein has closed a number of poor performing schools. This of course is the conservative dream, I always find it ironic that the conservative dream stops there. The reality is that there are now thousands of students and hundreds of teachers in NYC that now have nowhere to go when school starts. It seems that the better performing schools are all full of better performing students.Well who knew?

The teachers can not be fired because the Taylor Law not the Teachers Union provides for a lengthy process for firing public employees especially when there is no cause. The Administrators at the public schools in NYC have been given a budget and are responsible for hiring their own teachers. This is a quote from the NYT, I find the choice of words interesting as has been my experience that administrators always feel as if they literally own the people who work under them.

The problem is that these Administrators want to keep costs down by hiring younger teachers who do not make as much money as teachers who have seniority. So these older teachers are assigned to a sub pool and sent out to different schools everyday, and NYC is a big place. I wonder how the Administrators would feel about being sent to a different school everyday?

So we have the old system giving way to the new system and these older teachers are caught in the middle. The new system is really a Shuck&Jive shell game called whose got the Blame. There is a reason why Willie can not read and the reason is because Willie does not want to read. That is the ugly truth. Expensive and complex studies have been done on this subject, the strongest reason is Willie has a bad home life with poor role models, but no public official wants to lay the blame at the door of any ethnic group as this spawns a whole new set of expensive and complex studies into Racism in Education.

So unelected public officials play the blame game and the teachers are the victim this time around.{which is Propaganda at its worst a generation ago teachers were a valuable asset.} Before them, it was crumbling falling down school buildings and play grounds that were portrayed as third world hovels with incompetent teachers inside. The magic words "Federal Money' were uttered and millions were poured into renovations of the public schools, so now it is just the teachers left holding the Blame Bag.

The new system of Public Education is pretty slick it kills two birds with one stone. Make the School Principals responsible for hiring so he or she can be fired for poor performing teachers. Hire Young teachers on one year contracts with salary and health insurance , but no tenure and no pension so their contracts will not be renewed when the are needed to be blamed. This assumes that there will be a never ending supply of School Principles and Teachers to blame and fire. This is a big assumption.

Despite the fact the Conservatives and Republicans hate the Teachers and their Unions. Teachers are very smart people and they can easily switch professions and a few years of teaching experience is like gold on a Professional Resume. But I would like to suggest a different scenario.

Brazil and Bolivia to take just two examples will probably be two of the richest countries in the world over next fifty years. Brazil because of the discovery of the Biggest Oil Field ever discovered off the coast of Brazil and Bolivia because it has Lithium deposits that are so huge the geologists can not measure them and Lithium is the key ingredient in the batteries that will power the electric cars of the future. Third World countries looking to be world class.

Suppose the Governments of these countries were to offer American teachers Handsome salaries, Pensions and oh by the way some Respect to relocate and teach in their countries. Relocate into growing communities where a teacher was important and respected who worked with students that wanted to learn and achieve. Despite the cherished belief of the Conservative Republican true believers that teachers are the Problem not the Solution. Most teachers love teaching. It is what they have always wanted to do , It is their passion. Suppose they started to leave for better offers and some appreciation for the important job they do? Hey that's the American way.

Think it can not happen? Check out the number of Computer software and hardware designers and engineers who are moving to India for more Money and Stability in their careers or the number of health insurance companies that are sending patients to India for expensive operations because it costs so much less there.

America stands at a cross roads right now. The past two years have shown how the Wall Street Smoothies who practise fraud under the guise of free market capitalism have bankrupted the whole country. Do we as nation allow this to continue until we have devolved into a third world country with a Mexican style government where corruption,poverty and violence are part of everyday life. There is another way and we should find it before it is to late. Before Glenn beck is elected President for Life with Sarah Palin as his Vice President for life. The Conservative Republican Dream Team or the end of America as we knew it.

Residential Segregation the Final Frontier

August 23 1968 martian Luther king had a dream " That his children would be judged on the content of their character and not the color of their skin." The dream came true. Millions of white people across the country judged their neighbors by the content of their character and voted with their feet catching the next plane out on White Flight to the suburbs.

Quote from the NYT "This week a federal court ruled that the county of Westchester NY will be compelled to create hundreds of houses and apartments for moderate-income people in overwhelmingly white communities and aggressively market them to nonwhites in Westchester and New York City."

The use of the words Compel and Create are interesting. Does the court think that someone is going to wave a magic wand and say the magic words ' Federal Money " and apartment houses are just going to appear in the middle of affluent communities. These apartments also have to be " Permanently Affordable."what this means is the developers and builders are going to build a ghetto using Federal Money.

This all started because Westchester county applied for a Federal Block Grant for community development. That opened the door to be sued by the Anti-Discrimination Center, which filed the lawsuit. With the blessing of the Justice Dept and the Federal Housing Administration. What started all this litigation in the first place?

Perhaps it was this statement “This is consistent with the president’s desire to see a fully integrated society,” said Ron Sims, the deputy secretary of housing and urban development, which helped broker the settlement along with the Justice Department. “Until now, we tended to lay dormant. This is historic, because we are going to hold people’s feet to the fire.”

This begs the question " Which peoples feet, to what fire" Are we to assume that the citizens of Westchester county have been with malice and forethought keeping African-Americans and Hispanics out of their county? It has been my experience that people generally live where they can afford to live whether they like it or not.

Here is another zesty quote from the NYT "A federal monitor, James E. Johnson, has been appointed to ensure that the county abides by the settlement. Given that 120,000 acres in the county meet the criteria, the monitor “should have no difficulty making sure that Westchester ends its policy of allowing affordable housing to be off-limits in the most highly white neighborhoods in the county,” Mr. Gurian said."

A Federal Monitor? This is like some sci-fi novel about a forced social utopia except it happening for real right here in NYS. It is plain to see the agenda President Barack Obama has for America. It would have been nice if he had shared this agenda with the voters during the primaries . If this is how Barack Obama plans to heal the Racial Divide in this country, It may just make the situation much worse.

Fifty years of Racial Integration failures has proved that the government can not force people to like each other. No matter how much of the milk of human kindness is spilled people live where they choose to, they associate with the people they like and they send their children to the schools they feel are best. Freedom of choice is what the founding fathers believed in and it is what this country is based on. It is inherently wrong for American government to try and change those basic rights.

The strange case of Henry" gatemouth" Gates

I watched alot of the CNN coverage of the Prof. Henry " gatemouth" Gates televised arrest. After hearing our President Barack Obama comment about the Stupid Cambridge police force. I thought it would have been nice if President Obama had let America know his views on race before we voted for him. Not to be outdone the Black Governor of Massachusetts Patrick Deval announced that all citizens should have the right to shout at policemen in their homes.

This is very broad minded of the Governor, though I would not recommend shouting at police officers as I have noticed the police usually will give you all the attention you are asking for when you shout racist slogans at them.

Which brings us to Prof. "Gatemouth" Gates. Why would a man of his so-called educational status get into a racist shouting match with a police officer who is investigating a legitimate burglary complaint. I am usually impressed with educational achievements but it is sad when the Elite act so childish.

My feeling is Prof. Gates wanted to get arrested. He was not going to let police Sgt. Crowley leave until he had a camera ready and he was put in handcuffs. Here is a man who by his own admission has lived in an educational cocoon all his life. A man who has built his Carreer on cataloging and exploiting the stereotype of black Americans, but has never lived the black life himself. Now is his chance to prove to himself and all his African-American colleagues that he is a true victim of Racial Discrimination Finally. The Professor has been awarded many scholarships and opportunities because he is African - American. I wonder why he does not talk about that part of Being Black in America?

Let us leave rhetoric behind for the present and look at those pesky facts. When The police were on their way to Gatemouth's house they called Harvard Campus Police because the house is Campus Housing. When the police got there the good Professor was calling Harvard maintenance to come fix his front door. WHY because Harvard owns the house, Gates just lives in it. So it maybe his residence but it is not his house.

Police Officers generally can not enter you home unless they have a search warrant or you ask them to come in . Which is why the police officer asked him to step outside because Gatemouth was yelling racist slogans at him from his kitchen, two men were reported trying to break in to the house but the police only see one. Where is the other man? If you were a Police Officer would you have been suspicious?

The CNN talking heads were the best though after talking all day about this Racial Incident. The white talking head turns to the black talking head and says " well, I see now this is not a Racial Incident we have been talking about the wrong subject". Then they proceeded to launch into speculation about it being the fault of the woman who called the police and said " Two Black Men " . How this set into motion the profiling that caused this tragic incident. The longer it went on the funnier it got.

This whole incident has shown I believe how the Propaganda Machine works, how our President calibrates his words to start controversy. He knew exactly what he was saying and the effect it would have. CNN ran with it and kept changing the Propaganda just like a scene out of George Orwell's 1984.

We have reached in America a tipping point when it comes to Black and White relations. White people have moved on and are grappling with the real problems of living in the real world of America in 2009. The African - Americans are still living in 1967. Talking about prejudice and discrimination and rights. We all know living in the past is never good. There are going to be more so-called racial incidents and they will be less and less relevant until no one cares at all.

Apolgies to the blues guitarist Clarence " Gatemouth " Brown