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Monday August 10, 2015 · 9:49 PM PDT

2015/08/10 · 21:49

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I'm angry. Always angry. Have been for years and for many reasons. Here is me in 2013:

Why do you feel the need? (29+ / 0-)
I'm just curious.
The people you are condemning deserve it.

The people that will understand, understand.

I'm a white male and I can bash my fellow white males like the best of 'em.

To be honest, I'm so ashamed I want a hostile relationship. This is not a touchy-feely situation. Look at the Senate! A bunch of rich white

males faking they give a damn. The silence after the elections in 2000 and 2004 when untold African-American votes were not even cast or counted is telling.

The continued economic policies that benefit the rich white in America while condemning the poor to poverty is not a mistake. It is easy for the lazy Senators to point fingers at others. It is hard to write laws to stop the corrupting influence of money THEY ALL TAKE. The Republicans blame the poor blacks. The Democrats blame the poor whites.

Social ladders? They give you the George Burns logic.
George Burns smoked cigars and lived to be a hundred. Colin Powell rose up to be a powerful member of society. Smoking doesn't kill, being black is not an obstacle.

I prefer anger. Disdain.

by mickT on Mon Jul 15, 2013 at 07:58:05 PM PDT

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Thursday June 04, 2015 · 8:12 PM PDT

2015/06/04 · 20:12

So last night I wrote about how FOX news had PJ Crowley on spewing nonsense that the Syrian Regime was quietly working with ISIS.

http://www.dailykos.com/...

It was a simplistic article showing just how easy it is to go on Cable News and spew nonsense that could be easily refuted.

I was angry enough that FOX did it, but today it is worse. NPR and our person who is supposed to be leading the fight against ISIS joined in. The results are not pretty.

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Wednesday June 03, 2015 · 8:03 PM PDT

2015/06/03 · 20:03

I quit watching cable news in 2002. At work, we moved into some fancy workplaces where one of the great offerings our management provided us with was big screen TVs on the wall to watch CNN or FOX. The idea being they would provide us 'news' of what was going on. Ours is turned off. Management hated that as they spent all that money for the TVs and cable to get the 'news' feeds to us, we had to use it. We kept turning it off. It took six months but they haven't turned ours back on.

Other sections haven't done their due diligence. So today I looked down and saw a bunch of people looking up at their TV and laughing. I went over to see what was so funny. It was FOX news. Granted they were actually spewing out nonsense that other 'established' news organizations were spewing, it was just the timing that made it so funny.

To wit:

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Thursday May 28, 2015 · 7:42 PM PDT

2015/05/28 · 19:42

Well, when I say never, I mean almost never. Really it gets complicated....

So the Al Qaeda branch gave a TV interview to tell the West what swell guys they were. And they aren't to be feared by the West. They only want to remove the evil Bashar Al Asad.

Christians? They aren't aiming to kill them. So don't worry. Their Sharia law doesn't condone that. Treating them as second class? Don't ask, don't tell.

Alawites? As long as the convert to the proper religion, no problem! That is how Western and liberal these nice guys and friends of the West are.

Extremist groups in Syria, including al-Nusra and IS, have been accused of targeting these minority communities. But al-Nusra’s chief seemed to try to play down those fears, saying his group “only fights those who fight us”.
“If the Alawites leave their religion and leave Bashar al-Assad, we will protect them,” he said.

the Guardian

This is treated as being kind by the journalist. Can you imagine the scream if an armed group was threatening Tel Aviv and said and we have no problem with the Jews as long as the convert and disavow Netenyahu.

Yet the West, like FIFA officials, are blinded by Gulf State money.

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Sunday September 21, 2014 · 7:24 PM PDT

2014/09/21 · 19:24

Thank you for your wonderful piece on ISIS laying the sole blame on Obama for allowing ISIS to grow.

I really like how you question such all-knowing, all-being people such as Leon Panetta to provide a very serious person to establish your very serious point that if only Obama had fully supported the moderate opposition from day one, the Middle East would be fine.

I do have just one or two minor little quibbles.

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Tuesday September 09, 2014 · 7:13 PM PDT

2014/09/09 · 19:13

After the meeting with congressional leaders Tuesday, Boehner was supportive of some of what he heard. The speaker’s office issued a statement saying, “The Speaker stated he would support the President if he chose to deploy the military to help train and play an advisory role for the Iraqi Security Forces and assist with lethal targeting of ISIL leadership.”

Washington Post

While the speaker's office may have presented a case for his support for targeting an extremist organization that has killed Americans, this is not the case! Follow me below the fold to see just how evil Boehner is.

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Who will really lambast Boehner for calling them ISIL?

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Who will really lambast Boehner for calling them ISIL?

Allen West

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Rush (the band)

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Rush (the blowhard)

0 votes

Chuck Todd

2 votes

No one. That's not how Washington works. The meme was designed to smear the President. Despite the idiocy, it worked. "Mission Accomplished"

20 votes

time to start shooting and drop a few of them.

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Sunday September 07, 2014 · 7:59 PM PDT

2014/09/07 · 19:59

Sure glad we live in a 'post racial' world'.

linkee

I was going to write a long story, but why?

p.s

Yes I've been here ten years. No I don't condone it. I thought it was obvious.

Someone hit a Nerve

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Saturday March 08, 2014 · 9:29 PM PST

2014/03/08 · 21:29

The argument about the U.S. role in Ukraine seems to have a hit a nerve among some people. To the point that strawmen are being destroyed.

When people are out hitting strawmen, people are getting nervous.

First, let's define the argument. Actually, let's start with 'Foreign Policy'. Russia, England, France, China, and the U.S. all have the same foreign policy. It is about resources. How it is sold to masses is the only difference.

Follow me below why the whole thing is broke and no one gives a damn about people.

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Sunday September 15, 2013 · 8:37 PM PDT

2013/09/15 · 20:37

I'm glad many people think Pres Obama is able to play the world on Syria. I'm really sure all the refugees and families of the dead in Syria are singing his praises.

This is not a slam Obama diary. He is but a human in the middle of massive interests far beyond the control of a single power.

This is to try to explain why some of us on the left are pissed. Pissed at a lot of people playing games with Syria as millions suffer.

mickT

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Tuesday June 25, 2013 · 8:19 PM PDT

2013/06/25 · 20:19

I just finished rereading Seymour Hersh's article from 2007 called the Redirection.

If you care about what is going on the Middle East right now, this is a wonderful read. In fact, if you want to know what killed the Arab Spring, this is a must read. Because you will find that all the B.S. our politicians say is just that, B.S.

A quick synopsis. Despite people with actual knowledge of the region say the Shi'ites in Iraq would align themselves with Iran, and strengthen Iran, if Saddam was removed, Bush removed Saddam. Then he had to scramble to come up with a policy to counter the now strengthened Iran. So he turned to Saudi Arabia. Who then turned to their great Salafists buds in the region.

So, what does it look like today?

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Thursday April 18, 2013 · 8:31 PM PDT

2013/04/18 · 20:31

So this week, more news comes out about how poverty in the U.S. on the rise.

The United States ranks 34th of the 35 countries surveyed, above only Romania and below virtually all of Europe plus Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

Washington Post

As a nation, this is bad.

In Michigan? Even worse!

(AP) - The number of Michigan children living in poverty soared to more than a half-million by 2011 as many families in the state continue to face low wages, unemployment and cuts in social programs, according to a new report released Thursday.

WXYZ news

So what does Sen Levin do to help the less fortunate in his state?

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Wednesday February 15, 2012 · 8:08 PM PST

2012/02/15 · 20:08

I, like the majority of serious Americans, take 'democracy' seriously. Coming from Chicago, I especially have reverence for 'democracy'. 'Democracy' has been held so lofty by our society and our leadership that I am just astonished you would dare tarnish it.

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time to start shooting and drop a few of them.

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Carl Levin, or why I hate the Senate

Kos, how dare you?