I watch the discussions on healthcare policy and think about Sisyphus. While the ideas are passionate, well researched and thought out I can only help thinking – this is a fool’s errand. Nowhere in the discussion of policy have I seen any discussion of implementation. I see the why, but not the how. I’m not talking about budgeting and funding, or even logistics, or implementation – what I’m talking about is the actual work of passing a vote.

When was the last time you looked at the comprehensive annual financial report, Read more…

Your Tax dollars at work: Read more…

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The silence is deafening.

January 18, 2008

Israel blocked shipment of food, fuel and all other supplies into the Gaza Strip on Friday and intensified airstrikes on the Palestinian territory, calling the steps a response to increasing rocket attacks into Israel. Ellen Knickmeyer, Washington Post

December 27, 2008

Hospitals crowded with people, civilians rushing in wounded people in cars, vans and ambulances. "There are heads without bodies .... There's blood in the corridors. People are weeping, women are crying, doctors are shouting, " Read more…

I just ran into some folk who know some folk, and got word on Michael Vick … the absurdity and hypocrisy of it all is just unbearable. Michael Vick gets annihilated for dogfights, and Cheney and Gonzales get cut loose for torture and genocide. Kill a dog go to jail kill a nation get a bonus. Fuck it, nobody said life was fair. I miss you Mike. Remember baby, nobody can hold out indefinitely. Keep your head up.

Now, on to the Gulf. I’ve been hearing chatter all over the motherfuckin’ bubble (globe for those of you in need of translation) about this oil thing. Except in the Mainstream Media. Read more…

I’ll be real quick about this. First you need to secure the vote. Second, remove slavery as a part of our constitution. But as for Illinois remember that deal to sell, I mean lease, the Chicago Skyway? Well here is a post from a while back about what that same program did in Britain. Meanwhile, while presidential nominee Sen. Obama is planning a public works project we need to ask do we really want government and corporations owning or leasing our infrastructure. Read more…

One of the great things about a blogg is that it allows for memory. I posted this back in August of 2007. It’s time for a reassessment. There is no social security, there is no pension plan, there is no Medicare or Medicaid. There is only Empire.

First, I want to give a big shout out to the whole Corrente Clan! Lambert love the new look. Yes I still live. Yes I will be on the low low a little while longer. At least until the systemic anomaly known as “THE ONE” has resolved itself. It seems Justice Thomas has found cause to scrutinize the allegation that “THE ONE” may not be eligible for POTUS status.

It seems all his mom’s anthropological jet setting may have jeopardized his status as a natural born citizen of the United States of America. Now, to be sure, I can’t imagine someone running for president wouldn’t have considered this. So, of course, it must be far fetched. But, out of all the allegations hurled against “THE ONE” this one has grown some legs. Read more…

Obviously very few of you have ever read a automobile magazine, a motorcycle magazine, or have ever heard of AFX, Moose Racing, Dennis Kirk, Arctiva, Arvin, Altimate, HJC – seriously. Am I the only one that has seen chicks with guns or car porn. Guess what? Governor Palin, the beauty queen, fits the bill and she is using it; the sexy girl who isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty routine, to draw public opinion. Get over it. It’s not mean (though BIO I appreciate the very diplomatic way you addressed you concerns) it’s the truth. Read more…

Believe me I’m not surprised. Right now I’m just trying to get out of the way. I was never a fan of the Obama candidacy but, as I travel and listen to people outside the US I realized how crucial this election is. The rest of the world really wants to believe in America. They want to believe the hype, excuse me, I meant the dream. They want to believe in opportunity, equality, justice, freedom … I listen, I smile, and I think, you don’t know shit about America.

The folks up at Stanford ran an AP-Yahoo News poll found that 40 percent of white Americans and one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks. Read more…

IF only this were a joke! I suggest you go see Uncounted.

"When the final report on the risks of the US financial system is released in 2010 — and it is likely to cause a stir internationally — only one of the people in positions of responsibility today will still be in office: Ben Bernanke."

I have to watch the election from a distance, the Potemkin village that is our political system is no longer funny or charming. Who the next President is, is largely irrelevant. Why such a negative disposition?

Because the IMF is going to subject the databases of major financial institutions in the USA to a stress test. Yeah, oh shit is right. Read more…

Sorry, I couldn't let it slide. I don't even like Obama. But, the thunderous righteous indignation coupled with hypocritical silence is just too much. Sweetie? Really? You got your panties in a bunch because somebody called you sweetie? *@#&! Nobody said a mumbling word about Michelle Obama. For real, hands off.  Read more…

Perhaps it’s about time to start thinking about secession when the organs of government are arrayed against you. First the secret service – this one breaks my heart, reminiscent of a Chekist.

The message, about a missile striking an airplane in which Mr. Jackson and his wife were traveling, concludes, it “certainly wouldn’t be a great loss and it probably wouldn’t be an accident either.” Link  Read more…

First, I just wanted to give a shout out to Xan, the comments were a bit much and … well… just wanted to say hey, good to see ya.

Will Barack and Hillary be the political Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon  Read more…

Remember this?

It really is weird. Everywhere this guy goes shit implodes. I’ve been watching him for years and it’s fucking amazing. He’s like that guy in the Stephen King Movie “Needful Things.” I mean Barry really has a gift for projection.  Read more…

Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968
Assassinated by the United States of America

I don't mean to be understated but ... Houston we have a major fucking problem.

Women serving in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq.Numbers reported by the Department of Defense show a sickening pattern. In 2006, 2,947 sexual assaults were reported -- 73% more than in 2004. The DOD's newest report, released this month, indicates that 2,688 reports were made in 2007, but a recent shift from calendar-year reporting to fiscal-year reporting makes comparisons with data from previous years much more difficult.

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Americans constitute 5% of the world's population but consume 24% of the world's energy.

Segregation and poverty have created in the racial ghetto a destructive environment totally unknown to most white Americans. What white Americans have never fully understood but what the Negro can never forget--is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it. Read more…

“several Africans who had worked at the Laboratoire Medical de Stanleyville (LMS) during the 1950s. These witnesses reported that tissue culture had indeed been prepared at the LMS, that it had been prepared "mainly from chimpanzees", and that moreover the head of the virology department, Paul Osterrieth, had been "making the polio vaccines" in his lab.”

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Earlier I mentioned the National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank in Britain they call it the PFI or private finance initiatives. It is a way to hasten feudalism and have the private sector loot the public commons. So what I need you to do is bend over and just relax.

Who the hell is Samuel Pierce?

We had to endure all these years of the Clinton Blackness bullshit. Finally, Dick Gregory dug Toni Morrison out of that deeeep hole. For those of you who missed the State of the Black Union.