Free Apps!!! The Whole Hog. August 31, 2014
Posted by voolavex in Economics, Social Issues.Tags: Phones and Tablets
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I do not own any mobile devices. Primarily because I don’t need any. I have a cell phone I hardly use and a nice MAC consoleI use at home. Would I like an iPad – yes, because I am lazy and like to loaf and be on the computer in bed, but I don’t need one and I am not in any need of a smartphone – although they make photos much easier. I did have a laptop I never used much either. Full disclosure.
I stood with my best friend in line for the first iPhone. They ran out and we left. I was fascinated but not compellingly so – I went to events where folks – later on – played AB on their iPads and I was really excited (indication of shallowness). I hinted and whined but got no offers so I shut up, went home and killed green pigs at the console.
This was just about the time we were all invited to “Like Us” on FB or “Follow” us on Twitter. Easy. Great way for biz to collect data but wait…..data. Collect data? What kind of data? Oh never mind. Just press Like.. So we did. Luddites didn’t but I suspect there will be a time it will happen. As a former PR person I really admired how fast a business or person could get publicity without much work. We did the work then; the “social media” does it now.
And then came the APPS. Download the app. Get the app. Use our app. In the car – try out our app. The bank app, the grocery store app, the unlock your home app, watch your kids on the sly app, watch anyone on the sly app. Read a magazine on our app. Order anything on our app. See how easy a colonoscopy is on the free app. Mobile phone, tablet/pad – wait – there’s an app for that. The catch – you gotta buy the device. Oh yea – some things can be used/had/bought for your lame old sit at the desk/console computer, but not the kind of stuff you can get with a “FREE APP”. And you can “scan” – just wave the mobile device over something and off she goes. So you get discounts and insider offers and special perks (the now tiresome and mostly data collecting “rewards points”. OMG – Pavlov was right. The catch? You gotta own some device to do all this. In order to join this mobile app extravaganza – you have to go and get the device. These cost money and there is no app for that. And once you succumb, you have to have a plan. So now you have bought the device and the case (I like Ghurka, Fendi or custom color leather) that you must have to have to flaunt your style and the free apps and wait for it…the plan. Since I don’t have a plan I have no idea what they start at but $40 sounds about right, for which you get access (use of) to the carrier and a certain amount of data space. The more space, the more apps you can get FREE but then the meter starts to tick.
Do I have to explain this? You have been offered yummy, scrumptious candy on a stick (the perks offered by the apps that are FREE) but in order to have them, you must have the device and what good is the device if it has no plan to store data? So the circle closes and you are chatting and killing pigs and taking selfies (I HATE this word) and giving money to all these vendors of devices and plans (the apps remember are FREE) agreeing to required contracts with fees to opt out and “friends who can’t get one so would you help”, who don’t pay the bill and before you are even old enough to suck back a martini – your credit is ruined and you are facing Judge Judy being called a moron.
Since it is de rigueur for any child over five to tote a cell phone and/or tablet (and in some cases required) this runs into money. Serious money. So when you see a gaggle of goslings chatting to each other on devices – tack on $40 a month a piece. The cost of living increase con can rationalize it.
For me, however, the best part is that you got all this tech because you were persuaded by the people who profit into getting it. Without the tech you cannot get the FREE apps. So the very next time you see an ad for anything at all – offering the FREE app – just remember all the steps you took to have it and buy it and pay for it monthly. Those apps are not really FREE.
Next blog. Texting and terrorism.
Some Florida Moron May 21, 2014
Posted by voolavex in LBGT, Social Issues.Tags: Agenda, Bisexual, Florida, Gay, GOP, Lesbian, LGBT, Moron, Out, Republican, Transgender
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These are what I would like to ask him and I would like reasonable, logical and substantiated answers: Describe for me the LGBT “Agenda”. How does it work? How do you “turn” kids gay? Exactly how does it happen? Is it the soft massage of their brains that do it? No? Oh you’re not sure exactly how it happens but you know that LGBT is like a “cult” that preys on kids? Why? I would ask you this – when you were a adolescent, to which gender were you attracted? It is that simple. If your first crush and every subsequent romantic or physical feeling you had was for the opposite sex – you consider that “normal” but it isn’t a question of what is “normal”. It is a matter of attraction, emotions, feelings and it is not learned. If you liked the captain of the football team a bit more than just admiration for his sporting prowess or you wanted to date him – that was “normal” too. It is pretty much a given in history that opposites do not always attract. But it’s “not normal” to you – so instead of trying to understand why you fear it so much – what about learning about same sex relationships in history, in your family and in your community (and the world). I would bet some of your biggest “role” models were LGBT. You might not know they were LGBT but that is pro forma in some political parties. The ones outed were really vehemently anti gay but oops – I guess they were framers of that “LGBT Agenda” you are so afraid of. They are now retired or in jail. Some are even registered sex offenders but not for LGBT issues. The RSO are child molesters. Members of other political parties in the US and actually worldwide seems to have made peace with their demons and the world is enjoying the minds and visions of many LBGT politicians who started their careers out by being out. No shame in their game. I look forward to a time when no LGBT human has to “come out” or use a qualifier before their name, title, job position or anything else. So moron in Florida in government – driven by fear and loathing, isn’t it about time in our history we start seeing all humans as humans and stop worrying because IT IS NOT ANYTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. And if you were really concerned about “our” children – you would work harder to create a world class educational system before we imprison our future generations with propaganda and lies that suit really nasty agendas that are non-equal, non-inclusive and bigoted.
In the New Yorker today – HCV News April 24, 2014
Posted by voolavex in common sense, Economics, Health, health care, Medical, Social Issues.Tags: cost, Cure, HCV, James Surowiecki, The New Yorker
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The day after my post: The Cure. Your Liver. $84.000. The brilliant financial author James Surowiecki, wrote a piece on the Financial Page (p23) in the New Yorker. entitled “Biotech’s Hard Bargain”. I am most grateful to read a piece on the cost of HCV in such a prestigious and well read publication. He brings a much needed reinforcement to the arguments of others who find the $84,000 price tag distressing. In his piece he points out that Medicare is forbidden to bargain for better prices for drugs and that private insurers are very upset and pharmacy benefit companies are suggesting their customers wait for a cheaper “cure”. Pharma has tremendous pricing power and this is one of the lures for investors. Rather than dropping price, pharmaceuticals actually increase. Wonder leukemia drug, Gleevac, has tripled since 2001. I would strongly suggest you read Mr. Surowiecki’s piece and see for yourself. Some people want to wait until it is cheaper, but others simply can’t wait – and are on donor lists in serious need of a fix of any kind. I am grateful to have my observations reiterated in this post. Thanks James. The New Yorker is online, on newsstands and in the library – I invite you to read the Financial Page and my own post. And I wish all of you good health – at a price you can afford.
Their Cure. Your Liver. $84,000? April 23, 2014
Posted by voolavex in Egypt, Health, hippies, Medical, Social Issues, solutions.Tags: $84, 000, ACA, AIDS, Big Pharma, cancer, Egypt, felons, Gets my goat, Hepatitis C, Hippocratic Oath, HIV, insurance companies, liver transplants, medicare, oral cure, Pharma
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I grew up in the age of “wonder” drugs. New discoveries for diseases that needed eradication. Dedicated researchers who had devoted decades to finding cures. Period. In the words of Jonas Salk, when asked about patents for his polio vaccine, he replied, “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun” and with those words the Salk vaccine eliminated – for the most part, polio. Albert Sabin developed the Sabin vaccine with the help of the Russians and it too was given freely – I received both while in grade school. I have never had polio. There was time when kids could not go swimming for fear of polio; couldn’t play with others for fear of polio and people whose lives were lived in a contraption called an “iron lung” that breathed for them. It was not a good thing. The moral compass and integrity of Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin pointed in a different direction and they found a cure that was made available to everyone. Polio is largely gone from the planet and with the efforts of the Gates Foundation may soon be simply extinct.
Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath which includes the words “First do no harm”. I don’t think it includes the words – do not treat those with no money. I could be wrong. I am not certain what Big Pharma swears to do – but one thing it knows how to do is make money. In my very skewed way of thinking if you are in the business of finding treatments and cures for deadly diseases, your motives should include making sure as many of those afflicted get them. My first hint of the slippery, slimy slope Big Pharma had chosen were the TV and print ads for prescription drugs – to the public. I couldn’t figure out whyBig Pharma was appealing directly to consumers for medications that had been the sole domain of the prescribing physician. And the laundry list of side effects – read by a serious voice – was a legal requirement. And scary. In print it required pages. Humans are gullible. We want quick fixes. Better, quicker fixes; an app for a cure. Sneeze? Wheeze, scratch, fidget, get the runs – watch and listen – an ad will tell you which med to “ask your doctor about”. (One appears to come with two free bathtubs but I am not sure). I have a suspicion doctors do not like to asked about these things. But Pharma spends a lot on consumer ads. Does this expand profit or eat into it. Someone should ask.
It used to be that Baby Boomers, who were usually old Hippies, had the PDR or the US Pharmacopeia stored away in their heads somewhere. I did. In the 60’s we knew who made what and the side effects, the contraindications and the uses to which these meds were put. Words like “sulfate, hydrochloride, spansules, tartrate and indole rings” flowed poetically from many of us who chose an alternative lifestyle. And FYI – the “meth” we spoke of was not the meth cooked in kitchen and garages. Ours came straight from drug companies; as my son used to say: “Back when drugs were good for you”. He was not far wrong. Such was our mindset. Bad drugs were cocaine and heroin. For me they still are.
Which takes us to 2014 and BIG Pharma – the profit stream that can mean life or death – your very own.
Recently a small “pharm” created a “cure” for Hepatitis C (for certain genotypes. and not a 100% cure – more like 95%). It made it through clinical trials, appeared and appears to be very beneficial and was approved for use by the FDA. Millions of us have this virus which didn’t even have a name before the 90’s. Millions didn’t know they had it. Millions still don’t. It is global. It is a slow progressor and can be asymptomatic for some and the virus is only interested in the liver. Unlike HIV – it does not wreak the same havoc with the immune system but many with HIV also have HCV and this is a horrid situation. Adding insult to injury. Unlike HIV (in its early days) HCV is possible to acquire by anyone who might be exposed through blood transfer. Unlike certain cancers it can afflict males or females equally. So,unlike many more publicized viral infections it can get lost in the shuffle. But if you have it – you could be facing cirrhosis, liver cancer or chronic fatigue and for many, a liver transplant. It is more complicated than this but that is a nutshell.
Voila!!! Someone finds a really effective oral treatment that can nail and rid many a body of it without the hideous side effects of previous treatments (interferon and ribaviran are two). A ORAL medication that is shown to be extremely effective, short regimen and now what? Oh, now here’s the price tag for this: $84,000 for an 84 day course. ACA, Medicare and insurance companies are not happy campers. I am not a happy camper. I have the right genotype and I have Medicare – but I am short about $84,000. Which brings me back to Big and small Pharma and their duty of care to cure if they can ,incurable diseases that will hugely reduce organ transplants, hospital care, rejection drug costs and generally better this country, both financially and medically . Do they even have a duty of care or do they first shun no profit. A drug company will tell us the costs for developing effective and important new drugs is astronomical – but who ever asks to see a breakdown of those costs? Seriously. The company I have in mind is publicly traded so showing investors a HUGE profit is, I suspect, far more important that cleaning up some sick livers. The Pharm contrasts the $84K spent to the cost of liver transplants but if this drug can reduce dramatically the need for this procedure, it makes more sense to dispense it to more people. And on the subject of liver transplants: donor organs are just that – donated. You cannot go to the doc and say – “okay let’s get me a new liver – when shall I come back” because you may never get one. So a liver transplant v. a high percentage cure is not a bet I would take to my turf accountant. I find it a specious argument.
But it gets better. Oh yes it does. It is perfectly legal for Pharma to sell pricey drugs to foreign countries at very discounted prices. Let’s say Egypt has a large load of cases of – let’s say – HCV – a pharm with a good product that can achieve maximum results can be had at a 90+% discount. Feeling edgy right about now? There’s more. Individual state Departments of Corrections can choose to give their felons and bad folks, let’s say, a certain high result drug for about a $3750 per inmate pop. So let’s say a slammer treats everyone – it could cost up to $315,000,000 to cover them all. Which takes us back to the duty to heal. The duty to cure. The duty to care? And my question is simply this: when does the humanitarian good exceed the addiction to profit. For me, right about now. It gets my goat.
Appreciation and Depreciation April 8, 2014
Posted by voolavex in common sense, freedom, Random thoughts, Social Issues.Tags: app, guns, Jews, life, mother, time
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In a blinding epiphany last night, I realized that I am beginning to appreciate my life Accomplishments are not appreciation. Accomplishments are simply the things you have done and they have a positive aura – but even robbing a bank can be a sort of accomplishment. It is not so much the “aha” moments – but the number of them that snowball down the side of our individual middens as we careen through the years. And we do careen – I can’t walk a straight line in bare feet anymore. Sad. True.
In my case it was like suddenly understanding string theory or hearing the music of the spheres or realizing that all the crap I think is crap IS crap. I no longer ask why we cling to our 2nd Amendment rights, nor shoot each other or serial kill each other – that’s what we watch on the screen. Big, little, on demand, anytime – click and kill. There’s an app for it. But I now appreciate that this is what is happening and I can see it and despair or see it and know I will not change my direction due to it. For example; I do not own a gun. The reason is simple. Fear that I will use it. Most people don’t actually think of this when they shy away from the gun issue. They are afraid it will get into the wrong hands, they hate guns, it won’t make a difference in the long haul. Not me. I am simply afraid I will not be afraid, I will be the wrong hands and I will use it. My feeling is that to own a gun you must be willing to use it. My fear is that I would. So no gun. But it is the appreciation of that knowledge that anchors me and lets me out of the whole argument. Guns may not kill people, but people with guns do. I am grateful I am not a bigot. I like being a Jew. I do not trust Putin. I know I am being watched. I treasure the right to vote and still get a frisson of joy when I do it. I do not miss having grandchildren (from my own kids).
As I really begin to appreciate these small things, other smaller ones follow. I hate to go to movies. Very simple. I do not like to go. And I get so many arguments (not offers) and find myself using hackneyed phrases like “it’s not my cup of tea” – and this works because everyone knows what a cup of tea is. I have no desire to own property. I have by and large always been a cliff dweller (as my mother would say) and I like apartment living. It’s not for everyone, but it is for me. And all this appreciation is not always positive. I realize that I was a very terrible mother – something two other adults know too. And in the fullness of knowing comes the reality there is nothing I can do to go back and do better. Even though I know better. But I do know it and I can say it and I know why it is true. I don’t want to have a dog. I do like the way many dogs look, but they are not an animal that lures me. For some this is character flaw – but it’s just what I know.As I know I like red meat. And these shocks of wisdom – as I personally depreciate and time becomes more scarce also allow me to let stuff go. Like movie theaters, mortgages and dusting. They allow me to read India (my preferred subject matter), mystery novels, genetics, Jewish history, and anything else whose title sounds alluring. Because I appreciate that time does flow like a river and we all sink at some point as we float.
Is there a message in all this – kinda. If you can feel the shocks of appreciation, wait for even more. You will get them and for the fortunate ones who do, they will lighten it up as you drift – the buoyancy will astonish you as it does me and you may even appreciate that our demographic may be the last who can do this and probably because there is no app for it.
Just One Day and So Many Fools April 1, 2014
Posted by voolavex in Social Issues.Tags: April Fool's Day, autopsy, beta, Internet, Luddite, rewards, Rummy, Rumsfeld, spying
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March went out with a short squirt. April 1st is chilly.
I imagine most cogent people have some sort of love/hate relationship with the Internet. I do. In our 15 year romance we have spent far too much time together. I have found and met many people I would like to know better. I have shopped online and thus no longer cruise the shops in general (sort of sad too). I play far too much Angry Birds. But the downside is the information and lies I find everyday. And I have figured out that it is possible to know too much about everything because everything known is not always knowledge. (Bet you wish you had used that one Rummy).
Having been a Luddite spin doctor in the 80’s I know the value of the media and I also know how it is manipulated and used to make or break almost anything. Put another way – the Internet has turned this mechanical spinning into an acid trip. We can eliminate the word “discovery” from our reality (assuming this is one) because there is nothing unknown under the sun or if there is you will know it in a second. If this were coming from people with any sense of proportion or vestigial dignity – it might be okay – but it is a tabloid covered world. And we are all susceptible to it. If you say you are not you are probably deluding yourself. Be careful – someone with take a picture of you in this state of mind and upload it somewhere and your dilemma will soon be the object of worldwide ridicule. Viral.
Full disclosure: I watch TV and I like TV. I am torn between really enjoying the dramas I like but then wondering if they are actually training films for a specific audience. I know I will not be quite as squeamish about autopsies. “Victim or perpetrator – it seems we are being watched.” This does not come as a shock to me but I wonder why it comes as one to so many others. As a species we are not a very nice lot. The Internet is a dream come true. We covet and envy and want what is usually not easily available to us. Technology, countries, oil, money in large amounts, sex. As the ability to “spy” gets better and better and easier and easier – we have embraced spying with a vengeance. But, in the words of Tom Lehrer – “always be sure to call it research”.
Do the terms beta version, beta testing, focus group slink by you so often you no longer pay attention? Not a good idea. We are being made part of a global family of guinea pigs. Every time a bank or grocer or credit card gets a swipe from your “rewards” card – believe me they first reward themselves. None of this comes to me as a shock. Occam’s Razor – usually the simplest answer is the right one. If any of those aforementioned places really wanted to reward us they would give better interest rates, sell goods at much better prices and dispense with the little plastic cards. Businesses, the governments of the world, religions, arms dealers and even nice folks are finding out things about you that you thought were secrets locked in your own head. Wrong. We can fight it or yield to it but we have become so delighted to have these little perks that they will continue. We will no longer be as surprised as we once were and we will soon eliminate naiveté from the world. It still exists so enjoy it while you can. There is a preciousness to it – it’s in the eyes of a newborn creature but it doesn’t last very long. In a not too distant future it will vanish and as we look back and try to regain the feeling it gave us – we will realize that for the last 15 years or so – everyday has been April Fool’s Day.
China Thinks Jews Control Everything! March 31, 2014
Posted by voolavex in Social Issues.Tags: China, Democrats, Expulsion, Iberia, Jews, Mad Tea Party, March, War on Women
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From their mouths to God’s ears. Another round of bubbemeisses that asks the question: if that’s true why are we still fighting for a sandy little schnip of land in the desert? It’s not so much that Jews control everything – it has to do with survival and nowhere to go. Today is the 622nd Anniversary of the Expulsion of Jews from Spain. This opened the door for what we now call (and overuse) the Diaspora. I suspect if the Jews had been left alone in Iberia and subsequently the known world; we might have simply gone about our business, enriched Europe and the world could have been a much sweeter place in general. But nooooo. From 1492 until 1968 the Inquisition was on the books; the 1517 mishegass at the Diet of Wurms gave us horns and tails and we were cast out, into the world. We did pretty well all things considered. So what Jews control – in my opinion – is the circumstances of own own destinies. Being a Jew is an endurance test. The universal concern by others about what we do and don’t control shows us ahead in the polls. Without armies or soldiers or rights we do what we can and we learn to do it well. Maybe the real mistake was letting us play with the kings in the counting houses.
March cannot decide how to make its exit.
Here is what has become tiresome lately. The Democrats (my party) has taken to tabloid emails. And I am very tired of them. Since I don’t get GOP emails I suspect this is the done thing but enough. I will not chip in $3. Hint: Ask rich people for much more money.
I am beginning to understand “The War on Women“. Beginning to?? Yes – about the only group left that is not a color or culture or religion is women. Sonofabitch – we are everywhere and so who better to descend upon and try to control. Clearly the Mad Tea Party has decided if you limit the rights – sorry – eliminate the rights of women – you will have a superior sense of control that will help you get past the fact that there is a man of color in the WHITE House. They cannot move past it – so they are stuck in a briar patch of their own creation. Who’s left? Wimmin. And they must sit up nights thinking about things to do to shut down everything but menopause. And they simply don’t make sense – but if they can exert some form of control then it must soothe their outrage and bolster their own sense of purpose. I like Hillary but I don’t think she will fly in 2016 because if a woman follows a person of color into the WHITE House – they will grab each other’s tails and turn into butter. Just a thought.
Out Like A What? March 30, 2014
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Waiting for March 2014 to leave tomorrow and realize I spend lots of bon mots on FB. Opinions that should rightly be here. And owing to laziness and lack of energy ( that is another term for laziness) I have left poor Voolavex to its own devices. Having none so it sits.
Is it the most fabulous blog written? For me yes because I am an unabashed fan of my own writing style. It flops at times but not in a way that cannot be fixed – editors have told me this and I believe them because they are editors after all. With that in mind I shall return to these eldritch pages and be more productive. Hits would be helpful. Writers are serious egotists and they do love positive (and even negative) input.
Things that Voolavex me:
Icon. Please let it be a nice illuminated portrait of Byzantine saint or the Lord or his mother. Nothing else. It usually takes eons to achieve the position of icon. Justin Bieber is not nor will he ever be one.
Signature style. Boring. It ended for me with Diana Vreeland’s wonderful t-straps and those hideous Chanel cuffs Carrie Donovan wore. Audrey Hepburn had it and some truly do wear their personalities – but damn. Everyone writes differently and therefore each style is a signature. Let it be so. (this includes other things like “brand”,”iconic style”, “trademark look”.)
Breaking News. Usually it isn’t actually “news”.
Imported. Now a euphemistic term for “Made in China”. Beware this word when spending more than $10 on anything.
Pet Rescue Groups. Used to be real and very good at helping animals. Now the purview of sad folks who also like money and judging other people’s lifestyles. I support Best Friends for the most part because they do exactly what they say – they work to Save Them All.
Lawd I haven’t done this in ages so I will post it and then take up the screed betimes. If you like it – please do. And then check in again.
Not The Age of Aquarius. September 19, 2013
Posted by voolavex in Social Issues.Tags: abortion, Black, choice, Congress, Jim Crow, misogynist, Obama, rape, United States, vagina
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In the course of an average day something usually occurs that gets my goat. Often more than one and it generally has been exaggerated by social media. I know – blame it on the Internet – but nothing is sacred and now the profane has entered the realm of the used to be sacred and we are in a mess. This doesn’t mean I am going to leave FB or go offline. I love it most of the time but there is soooo much stupid crap shared it can drive a reasonably intelligent human crazy.
Todays’ review:
The United States – “not the greatest country in the world” (I agree with Putin on that) has spun out of control in ways I don’t think anyone could have imagined. Post-racial? I don’t think so. Jim Crow is alive in every corner and on the Internet. He jumps out constantly allowing us to know just what a screwed mentality exists in this “land of the free”. It is embarrassing and downright shameful for a “natural born” American who wishes all that buying and selling of humans never happened. And has never ended – at least in the hearts and minds of too many 21st Century Americans. What so many of us imagined…no fantasized…would happen when Barack Obama was elected is that the lion would lie with the lamb and love would steer the stars. Folks. This is not the Age of Aquarius. Look at the Congress. They make me sick. They are disgusting and they know it. Lazy, bigoted, misogynist old men who are scared of the Black Guy in the White House. Hot mess scared. And stupid and don’t have a real grip on what they are doing and what it bodes for the future.
I am not worried about the death of the middle class as much as I am afraid of the quantum leap in crime we will face if essential services to low income (poor) Americans are cut or denied. Angry, jobless, homeless, hungry individuals and families will be willing to do almost anything to feed their kids. Crime will escalate. And since many who are having babies (and for some odd reason the true believers think this is really a smart move) are in the lower income bracket or worse, teenagers who will be denied any assistance, those babies if they survive without, will see themselves as worthless and act accordingly. There will be a ton of secret sex going on too and no birth control and no choice and no assistance and no food and medical care and then what. John Boehner is gonna order another pitcher of martinis and tee off? The people who support this philosophy have not realized that Harry Potter is a made up character and no magic wand is going to return us to the era of black and white TV. In fact, lots of these “true believers” weren’t even born then. Thus far I have not heard a single answer from any of these miscreants about the “babies”. And believe me, the more mouths there are to feed on this dying little planet, the worse it will be – not the better. Read Malthus.
Post racial? Do Not Be Black in America. Don’t do it. Forget the Happy Family in the White House – being black in this country is a capital crime. Ask Miss America? Ask anyone who has ever been pulled over driving while black. Ask my family? Jim Crow is alive and just because you wish it was different – it isn’t. Just because Mr. O wishes it were different – it isn’t and Mrs. O rolls her eyes with good reason. If Mr. O had to run again – he could simply choose as his campaign slogan “damned if you do and damned if you don’t”.
Women? Close your legs girlies. You are the Holy Grail for the crusaders. Your vagina and your reproductive decisions and your right to decide your own fate. Rape? Nahh. You asked for it? It wasn’t really rape. That outfit. Gang rape? College boy antics. Drugged date rape? Well – what did you think would happen? This is mainly white guy rape. Black guy rape is depraved. Period.
Abortion – or as I call it “choice” = murder. You are going to burn in hell. Don’t believe in hell? Well THEY do and that’s where you are going because they do. The babies. Ask them. I have no idea.
Gay? Shame, shame, shame. Well mostly males shame, shame, shame. Straight men like to watch “two gals go at it”, so Lesbians take less of a hit – but they are disgusting in general because they do not all look like Penthouse models. And a good shtup would cure all that anyway – preferably using their penis. Gay marriage? Legal, mostly but disgusting too. Pray it away but not in their churches because it is against God’s will. Which God? You can love your fellow person but make sure it is not your fellow man if you are a man and not your fellow woman, if you are a woman (unless you are Penthouse material).
Universal health care? Commie, pinko, socialist, weirdo wrong. Uncivilized even. Oh Canada.
Jingo Journalism. Sounds like a jumprope rhyme. Reads like a jumprope rhyme. Proliferating in geometric progressions.
Peace? Highly overrated because it is a fantasy. We like to kill. Been doing it since written history. We love it. Any method, any reason, anywhere. This is a blood soaked planet.
So as I approach another alpha boomer birthday, this is what gets my goat. This not all that gets my goat but this is today’s list. Don’t abandon hope,but don’t confuse this with the Age of Aquarius because it isn’t.
Trayvon Martin and the World He Left Behind July 19, 2013
Posted by voolavex in despicable, Race and the Law, Race and the Law.Tags: Barack Hussein Obama, Black male, cold blood, George Zimmerman, Jim Crow, killing, Trayvon Marton
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You can find me on FB and I have found a very fine group of FBFs with similar thoughts and opinions as mine. That’s what it’s for isn’t it. So I can be found there – just FYI.
When George Zimmerman was acquitted of the charges against him in Florida for the cold-blooded shooting of an unarmed teen-age boy it made my heart twist and hurt and ache and then I got very angry. You see I was a teen-age girl in the Civil Rights Era and I was nurtured in my feelings by my own father who did not play racism. But he never told me it was going to go away just because MLK Jr. had a dream or because I stocked a “Negro” college in the South with donated books (they had none) or because I sang (off key) Kumbayah. The entrenched ugliness of this country’s relationship to race was far too old and too polarized to make that happen quickly. We felt in 1964 we were making a dent. When I was old enough to know much more about the matter I saw the dent was made in 1865 and destroyed by the name of Jim Crow. In the brief glorious time between 1865 and Jim Crow – the black colleges were founded, black writers wrote, black politicians gave voice to the needs of a whole new group of voters. Freed men and women flocked to find work and education and a better life until they were deemed separate, oh but by the way, equal – just not in white folks domains.
If I didn’t believe that for a second (and I have always known how white folks felt) I believed after Trayvon Martin was murdered by a self declared vigilante with a gun and no reason to shoot. Trayvon had a bag of Skittles, an Arizona ice tea and was walking home while black when George Zimmerman – the poster boy for Big Bullydom, decided to stop him with no cause and no right. And then he shot him – not to scare or wound or threaten but to kill. Bang, bang Trayvon is dead. GZ has the smoking gun in his hand. A few days later (after anyone else would have been charged, jailed and held), GZ was out on the streets, begging for money on the Internet and Trayvon was stone cold and in the morgue. And when at last the trial took placed, six Bingo ladies fell in love with their handsome defendant protector who made sure none of those nasty black thugs in hoodies came into their neighborhoods (armed with Skittles and ice tea) andsaid – no – not our George. He is NOT guilty. And Trayvon is still cold and six feet under and George is a free man.This morning our president, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a white mother and black father spoke on a subject he has known all his life. Being black and male in America. This is part of what he said:
But in an unusually personal moment, he began talking about the broader context of the case and the need to better understand the experiences of black men in this country.
“I think it’s important to recognize that the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away,” Obama said. “There are very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me.”
He went on to recount instances when he had heard “the locks click on the doors of cars” as he walked down the street. African-American men are used to getting into an elevator and seeing a fellow passenger “clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off,” he said.
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