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BERKELEY (CBS SF) — Just how rampant is the sexual harassment problem at UC Berkeley? According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a total of 11 Cal staffers have been fired or disciplined for sexual harassment since 2011. That’s in addition to three more recent cases involving the law school dean, an astronomy professor, and an assistant basketball coach. Read…
via Rampant UC Berkeley Sexual Harassment Cases Prompt Firings — CBS San FranciscoCBS San Francisco
(OKLAHOMA CITY) — Oklahoma authorities on Tuesday urged residents of the small town of Freedom to evacuate as a wildfire flared in the same area near the border with Kansas where blazes last month scorched hundreds of square miles. The National Weather Service warned that most of the state was under critical to extremely critical…
via Wildfires Threaten Towns in Oklahoma and Kansas — TIME
As this post is being written the 2016 primary process has been decided in Wisconsin (The Badger State).
And as the process kicks further into the middle of New England and the Central United States as well as the remainder of the Mid-West and West I can’t help, again, but to be reminded of the movie, “Fargo” and the epic lines between the two kidnappers in that movie. Particularly this one. Watch.
And how this entire primary process has been nothing more than the politics of ‘We Split that’. What does the politics of ‘We Split that’ mean?
“Arguing about an inconsequential or trivial aspect of a task or issue…”
All throughout this process we have been regaled with the rules and regulations concerning the two-party system here in the United States of America by pollsters and pundits alike.
And it all adds up to just one thing, splitting hairs. When Hillary Clinton looses (or wins) a caucus or even a primary process like she did not all that long ago in Michigan (The Trojan State) its ‘We Split that’- meaning the delegates, BUT because I’m Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and Senator for New York and oh well hell former First Lady of the United States and before that First Lady of Arkansas, working mom, Grandma extraordinaire, etc. etc. I get more, am supposed to get way more, delegates than you Bernie Sanders; you goddamned pinko-commie-socialist-turned-temporary-in-name-only-Democrat. Now dry up, fuck off, bugger off and go away! Bastard.
And so it goes…
And the same can be said on the Republican side of the ledger. Trump, Cruz or Kasich win one or more than the other it is soon-enough arguing ‘We split that’ in terms of their delegates.
Remember though what happened in 2012, during the Republican primary process, it was down to Republican Congressman and OBGYN Dr. Ron Paul, M.D. of Lake Jackson, TX. USA by way of Pittsburgh, PA. USA and Mitt Romney, former Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts? And the infamous ‘Republican National Convention screw-job’ in Florida? Remember that? Watch.
Anyway, it came down to just two people then in the 2012 Republican party primary process. Dr. Paul and good old Willard Mittens Romney, the former Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Romney was what the political establishment is today. He embodied it. Watch.
And we all remember how this happened in the State of Louisiana when a Ron Paul supporter and a delegate for the state’s Republican party had his hip broken and he was arrested by police for attempting to lodge a complaint at a local party meeting. Watch.
Splitting hairs is violent, no? History repeats itself, no?
Especially when the so-called political establishment doesn’t get its way.
Threat. Innuendo. Summation. Lies. Aspersions on one’s asparagus. And splitting hairs politically, just so ‘the other guy’ can get his or her (as the case may very well be) way.
Split hairs much?
–Rhett.
It was on this day in history, forty-eight years ago today, that; father, son, senior pastor and infamous civil rights leader the Rev. Dr. Michael Luther King, aka Martin Luther King, Jr. M.E. & PhD. was reportedly put down by a lone assassin’s bullet while he stayed at the Lorraine Motel (now the site for The National Civil Rights Museum for the United States of America) in Memphis, TN. USA on the evening of Thursday, 04 April 1968.
History records that Dr. King and representatives from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as well as the Poor People’s Campaign had come to Memphis to stand in arm in arm solidarity with the Memphis African-American (and some White and Hispanic) Sanitation Workers, who were on strike then for; better wages, safety standards and conditions. As well as fairer treatment by City Officials, including then Memphis Mayor Henry Loeb, in terms of the sanitation workers wishing to join the Labor Union known as A.F.S.C.M.E.U or the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union.
During the last two weeks of his life Dr. King was under continued and constant threat, and his very words on the subject of his eventual demise were these:
“This is what is going to happen to me also. I keep telling you, this is a sick society.” – speaking to his wife, Dr. Coreta Scott-King, PhD. & Ed.U. about the assassination of then U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
“And then I got to Memphis. And some began to say the threats… or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?” – excerpt from “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” Speech, Masonic Temple at Church of God in Christ headquarters on 03 April 1968 (A Wikipedia Page on the Speech)
And even though history records both truth and fiction, strangely intertwined, in ‘amongst them’ that knew him best. That such a monumental undertaking – the putting down of the American dream – was the work of one lone man and one lone man only, James Earl Ray.
That no one from the Mafia, much less some “two-man hit team on the rooftop of a firehouse just across the street from the motel where Dr. King stayed at in 1968,” did this.
That to believe in conspiracy and ‘bogeyman theory’ or to make straw man arguments that it was any one or any thing other than James Earl Ray that did the deed on that fateful day forty-eight years ago, is to do the world a disservice. And to just go on and accept the fact that a two-bit thief and drifter from Ewing, MO. USA by way of Alton, IL. USA, “killed the dream”.
And so it goes…
But here’s the thing:
And the truth is, is that the Government of the United States of America conspired, plotted, and planned “the death of the Dream,” and that the Family of Dr. King proved it in open court and were able to bring suit (the only ones ever to do so by the way) against the government for his death, c. 1999.
And no [Chief Justice Earl] Warren Commission or a United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations in the United States of America is going to tell me otherwise.
No! Only God Himself, History and the man for whom this posting is written about will be able to tell me otherwise.
Rest in Peace Dr. King, though [y]Our Dream is not yet fulfilled…
–Rhett.
Published on Apr 2, 2016 An Israeli military court has ruled that the shooter will be released to open detention in a military base. That means he will not be held in prison. On Thursday, Israeli prosecutors reduced the expected charge of the soldier from murder to manslaughter. Meanwhile, Israeli police have summoned the man […]
via Israeli Soldier Who Shot Wounded Palestinian is Free — Socio-Economics History Blog
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — A scooter donated by Giants player Hunter Pence was taken during a break-in at the Make-A-Wish Foundation office in San Francisco. Thieves broke down an emergency exit door to gain entry before ransacking the office. “It’s so creepy. Everyone’s desk is gone through,” Patricia Wilson, Executive Director of Make-A-Wish San…
Two new Chinese movie releases and “Zootopia” this weekend dashed chances of “Batman v Superman” becoming a breakout hit in China this year.
via China Box Office: Sammo Hung’s ‘Bodyguard’ Beats Up ‘Batman v Superman’ — Variety
History repeats itself, often times in more ways than one. And in 2018 we will recall, reluctantly, a time when demented man of God Jim Jones lead nearly a 1,000 people to their deaths in November of 1978 in ‘Jonestown’ near Georgetown, Gianna.
Fast-forward to today, in 2016, and we are baring witness to thousands more being lead to their slaughter, politically, as they drink the kool-aide of Hillary Rodham-Clinton and her aspirations to become the first female President of the United States of America.
It wasn’t all that long ago that I began to write truth about where I stand on Mrs. Clinton and, for better or worse, how she has no business, again, at The White House as our president. Respectfully.
Within mere moments of my public service announcements I was rebuffed, in some cases vehemently, by the vast left-wing conspiracy for all things Hillary Rodham-Clinton.
Called everything from an ‘absolver’ to a ‘moron’ for posting the truth. And the truth is, Hillary Rodham-Clinton was, is, and always will be a two-bit political hustler. Just as Jim Jones was a psychopathic religious hustler.
A political and veritable ‘cult of personality’, and not in a good way.
Insulting and invading her way all the way to The White House.
And her supporters aren’t all that far behind.
But we are told that these kinds of efforts, to tell the truth, are degrading and demeaning towards ‘women and girls’, especially those trying to get into politics, right?
And when you call her bluff, politically, well…then you get toned and tendered responses like this. Watch.
Or how about this little known expose’ classic?
But we’re told by those who drink and have continued to drink Vince Foster-Whitewater-blood-laced-kool-aide that it’s really all ‘process’.
And to simply ignore the obvious for obvious sake. Make no assumptions. Don’t believe ‘absolutely everything that you see and read on the ‘Internets’…that this is all just ‘process’. ‘Political gamesmanship in a national election year.’
And so it goes…
But here’s my protactinium theory on all this. Hillary Clinton is the New Jim Jones of this our modern-day political era.
Dark glasses and kool-aide dipping ladle in hand, ready to serve the arsenic-laced cauldron of political brew.
Feminists crave it. Admirers sweeten it up, almost every day. And those who know not what they do drink it. And as the poisoned allure courses through their veins, and there sets the Grand Political Dragoness herself, repeating, “it’s not worth another minute to live in this life friend, this cold, cruel, dark and dreary life friend…drink the poison, go on and drink it friend, a better life awaits” what, I wonder, is to become of our New American Century and the people in it?
— Rhett.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. is calling his decision to donate his brain to science a “no-brainer,” according to the Associated Press. The NASCAR driver has pledged to donate his brain for concussion research when he dies, according to SB Nation. Earnhardt made the announcement on Twitter when retweeting a Sports Illustrated article about…
via Dale Earnhardt Jr. says donating brain to science a ‘no-brainer’ — myfox8.com
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