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KING, N.C. — Robert Smith Jr., of Walnut Cove, often shares his birthday with Memorial Day. Monday he celebrated his 94th with family in King. Though it’s a time to celebrate, he also reflects on his own service in World War II. “I’ve lost a few friends in service, got some good memories and some bad…
via Veteran celebrates 94th birthday on Memorial Day in King — myfox8.com
Happy birthday and Happy Memorial day Mr. Smith! Godspeed…
–Rhett.
SEOUL — North Korea attempted a missile launch Tuesday at 5:20 a.m. local time, but it is assumed to have failed, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
via North Korean missile launch attempt apparently failed, South Korea says — myfox8.com
Uncle Sam’s Support for Terrorism Laid Bare by WAYNE MADSEN, http://www.strategic-culture.org/ The McClatchy news service scoop that Labib al-Nahhas, the Syrian foreign affairs director of al-Qaeda’s ally Ahrar ash-Sham, visited Washington, DC in December 2015 should have created a huge political stir in a presidential election year. – However, the fact that the Obama administration has been consorting […]
via Uncle Sam’s Support for Terrorism Laid Bare — Socio-Economics History Blog
ORLANDO, Florida – Barely twenty-four hours in and already the Libertarian party of two thousand and sixteen is starting to experience dissention in the ranks.
Over Memorial day weekend Libertarians came together from across the country and around the world to nominate their president and vice presidential candidates at their annual national party convention. And for many the top of the ticket for the fall and the general election season is troubling, deeply troubling.
Many Libertarians say that with the assention of former Massachusetts Governor William Weld to the vice presidency that it will just give the North American Union types and Wall Street Big Money Donors a paper tiger in a Gary Johnson administration, should he win the presidency in the fall.
Because from sun-drenched Florida and the grave of the late great Economist Harry Browne, the 1996 and 2000 Libertarian party nominee for President of the United States of America, you can hear the battle cry of LINO – Libertarian In Name Only!
But lets look at it from this perspective for just a minute, shall we? My prediction is that the Johnson-Weld ticket will be Libertarian-lite in that they’ll run under the Libertarian party banner but will, instead, draw from the well of the Never Trump Never Hillary movements in a kind of “A Coalition of the Willing.” Or as Bill Clinton and Dick Morris did so infamously in the 1990’s, “Triangulation.”
Seeking out those disgruntled and disavowed Democrats and Republicans who just can’t stand the idea, much less stomach it, of another Clinton or that for matter a Donald J. Trump in The White House.
In either case I like Bill Weld and have enormous respect for Gary Johnson, ever since 2011 when he first ran for the presidency. Then as now Johnson stands for some of the same things that I do, but with Charles and David Koch, through Bill Weld, pulling on Johnson like he’s a puppet and they’re the masters even I can’t stomach that!
I hate Charles and David Koch with every fiber of my being for what they have done to this great country of ours and this beautiful world in which we all live. They are evil incarnate, in my opinion, and hell itself would be a far worse place with them in it.
I call LINO – Libertarian in Name Only! And for those disgruntled and disaffected Libertarians I offer this as your Battle Cry:
Hold fast, and as Jesse Ventura says, “Stay Vigilant…”
–Rhett.
Years ago PD – Progressive Democrat Paul David Wellstone very famously quipped: My name is Paul Wellstone and I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party! And ever since the Democratic party has been trying to figure out what such a human qualifier like that even means?
But with the advent of Progressive firebrands like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren that human qualifier is being answered.
This weekend the Libertarian party or Libertarian National Committee held its national convention in Orlando, FL. C-Span covered the live event. I pretty much watched it all the way through, making a few exceptions for normally scheduled television and “honey-dos” for my lovely wife along the way. LOL.
I live in Kentucky and a few weeks prior to this event I sat down and made this video on Kentucky primary day for 2016. Take a look:
As most of you know I am throughly disgusted with the 2016 Democratic primary process. In particular how it is that Hillary Clinton has come so far without real question or scrutiny? Essentially, being handed my Democratic party’s nomination for the presidency of the United States of America in two thousand and sixteen.
Over this Memorial day weekend I have been thinking a lot about Mr. Wellstone and his epic qualifier and in the video above I lamented that after this Democratic primary and in particular the general election cycle for 2016 I am through with the Democratic party. Resolving to go the way of Independent or Decline to Say in terms of my voter registration thereafter.
Seemingly I’m not alone in this as many in the Republican party have followed suit. Burning their voter registration cards in effigy, like the peace nicks of the 1960’s that burned their draft cards as opposed to being drafted for service in the Vietnam War or the Women of the Women’s Liberation Movement who burned their bras and kitchen aprons as well.
But after this weekend and the last Libertarian presidential debate on C-span for 2016, and the epic opening and closing statements of Dr. Marc Allan Feldman and Mr. Darryl W. Perry my faith in humanity and the Democratic party has been renewed! Because it was both these men that managed to stir the echoes and fan the flames of democratic progressivism anew for me personally. Watch.
Hearing these men’s words and the stir of echoes from the late great Paul Wellstone in 1990 when it was first running for the United States Senate from Minnesota has renewed and restored my faith in the Democratic part of the Democratic wing of the Democratic party. Renewed that there is hope. Promise. And people out there filled to overflowing with a heart for the People of America and the World.
We cannot now nor anytime in the future let up folks. Our foot must stay on the gas pedal of progress, BUT not the kind of progress we’re seeing today. Instead it should be the progress that people like Senator Wellstone and so many others have advocated for, some for years some for decades, from the very beginning.
That healthcare for all is a fundamental right and not a privilege. That people deserve and have earned the right to a livable wage and a standard of living with access to housing and public transportation that is commiserate with the times. The right to organize and unionize for representation at the table of free markets. That as Americans we have a right to expect that our government will keep its nose out of our bedrooms and off our bodies. The right to come and go as we please and do business or not do business; politically, socially or ecumenically with nation’s, Peoples and places of our choosing. And the right that when we retire medicare, Medicaid and social security will be their for us in the twilight of our ‘golden years’.
To many these ideals seem ‘high-minded’, ‘professorial’ and downright nice, BUT they are ideals ‘devoid of reality’, for now. But that through the advent of time, hard work, dedication and small ball politics we’ll get there, eventually. Afterall this is not Scandinavia or the Republic of Myanmar, we are told. “Hello. I’m earth. Have we met?” And so it goes, right?
I am all for third political parties because they keep the Republican and Democratic parties honest and accountable. They hold the two-party system in this country to a full accounting of the American people. Moving forward in 2016 third political parties can and should expect more mainstream viewership.
Not all that long ago I was reading a posting from former Independent Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura that said that there is the very real possibility that we could see the emergence of three or four [mainstream] political parties from this 2016 election cycle. Giving us, the Voters, all the more to choose from. And as a Progressive, never mind a Democrat, I’m all for that. More Voices. More Choices, and when I get elected to high office I will work to preserve, protect and defend voting and the free exercise thereof for any candidate or political party of your choice, regardless of names behind it or the money that it has in its coffers.
And speaking of, “money in politics” or the epic Citizens United Supreme Court case I have to, as a Progressive Democrat, draw a line in the sand. And push back against the idea that somehow people like Charles and David Koch, Foster Friess and Sheldon Adelson, just to name a few BIG MONEY donors, will get to dictate to Us, We the American Voters that is, how our political process or Our Future should be.
BIG MONEY politics is not a march towards progress at all, instead its a means to an end.
And if true BIG MONEY donors, like the ones I just mentioned, will, through these Never Trump and Never Hillary movements, co-opt folks, good folks at that, like former Governor of New Mexico and 2016 Libertarian presidential nominee Gary E. Johnson and former Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governor and 2016 Libertarian vice presidential nominee William F. Weld or the Johnson-Weld Campaign for 2016, all for the sake of ballot access in all fifty states and an inside tract towards the interworkings of American democracy.
That is WHY I am renewed, restored and resolved to making the Democratic party Democratic again. Progressive again. Giving people a viable alternative(s) that will speak to and do far more than just be this candidate or a part of that political movement because its popular or politically expedient.
Because it’s not about a person or a slogan, a campaign or a dream, instead its about us, all of us together. We are, after all, all in this thing called life together and we are only as good as the person next to us. No better and no worse.
My name is Rhett E. Column (aka David Davidson) and I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party! Care to join me in the march towards progressive ideals?
–Rhett.
…Dejean-Jones was visiting his girlfriend (Baby Mama) in Dallas for his daughter’s first birthday, which was Saturday, according to Nichols. He said the girlfriend returned to the apartment first while Dejean-Jones went for a walk after they had gone out. “He went to the wrong apartment unfortunately and I think he thought his girlfriend locked […]
via NOLA Pelicans guard Dejean-Jones dead after being shot breaking into wrong home — The Grey Enigma
PADUCAH, Kentucky – So I’m watching tonight’s primary and caucus results for West Virginia and Nebraska come in, and it looks like another case of ‘We Split That’ in terms of things on the Democratic side of the political ledger, with Bernie Sanders taking West Virginia and Hillary Clinton taking Nebraska in this kind of non-binding binding primary process there. E.g.
Mr. Sanders has dug his heels in and is determined to win this Democratic primary process. No concessions. No ‘asks’ politically or socially. He will accept nothing less but “absolute and total victory,” as General Douglas MacArthur said of the War in Korea way back when.
Going on to secure the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States in Philadelphia during the summer and in to the fall of this year winning the White House against Mr. Trump.
And as the process now turns to Oregon and my home state of Kentucky (one week from today) already the political establishment in Washington, D.C. and the political party bosses in New York, NY. have ramped up the hand-wringing and lamenting about the general election for 2016 or Donald J. Trump, Sr. vs. Hillary D. Rodham-Clinton.
“What does Bernie Sanders want? I mean we all know that the ‘numbers’ aren’t there for him to win this primary, right? So what does he want, and that’s something that he is going to have to decide going into the summer [or else]. And then who will Donald Trump be able to sucker, we mean pick for a vice presidential running mate? His unfavorables are so very high right now, he’s toxic for the GOP down ballot races later this year. My God is he ever bad! But this is who the GOP voters picked. So what can we expect?” – Is what they all say in woeful glee.
And I can’t help but think who do I really wanna choose from out of that bunch over the Turkey and Swiss on Jewish Rye bread that is Bernie Sanders? Lemme think. Okay. Here goes…
Hands down, clear winner here: Turkey and Swiss on Jewish Rye Bread (Bernie Sanders) all day and twice on Sunday!
I mean think about it for a minute, won’t you? A guy comes up to you on the street and asks, “Hey! For this year’s presidential election cycle would you like a hot Turkey and Swiss cheese sandwich on Jewish Rye bread or Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to be your leader for the next four years?
What are you gonna say? Especially IF you’re really, really hungry, huh?
Hot turkey and Swiss or Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump?
If I’m hungry, I’m takin’ the sandwich folks!
And here’s WHY:
I know this sandwich. It’s a good sandwich. A filling sandwich. A time-tested and honored tried and true sandwich that tastes really, really good going down, if you know what I mean?
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton don’t taste good going down. I’m sorry. They don’t! And no matter how hard they try. How hard the political establishment or party bosses try to make the ham and cheese sandwiches that are Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton taste good to We the Voter they never ever will taste good. Bernie Sanders. The lovable curmudgeon. Little old white-haired grandpa-pa that he is tastes good. Makes me and millions more feel good from the crown of our head to the soles of our feet. We know him like we know our favorite sandwiches.
The Western World wants to go and have a sandwich with Mr. Bernie Sanders.
See you at the delicatessen America!
–Rhett.
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–Rhett.
To those willing to read: This post will take a bit for you to get through, BUT I promise you, you will get through it and come away wanting a far better way of life than the one that you have now…
If true, calls for the Revolution Leader Bernie Sanders to ‘drop out of the race’ for the Democratic candidacy for President of the United States of America in 2016 have begun in earnest now that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has inched herself ever more closer to becoming the defacto nominee of her party in two thousand and sixteen.
We’re told that calls such as these are normal, par for the course, etc. That it’s just political party bosses ‘sewing their oats’ and that since Mr. Sanders has built this grassroots movement, from the ground up for more than thirty years, and that’s nice and all, but look it Hillary Clinton is going to be the nominee come hell or high water so you little revolutionaries, you millennials, who don’t vote anyways, at least not enough of you to matter on the regular, you just need to set down, shut up and get in line behind Hillary Clinton okay, or else – we’ll talk about what that terminology “or else” means a little later on in the read.
You’ve had your moment in the sun, raised some seriously issues and concerns, but at the end of the day we need adults in the room to govern not little saggy pant wearing potheads with their fingers on the wheels of democracy. Such doesn’t play well with others, after all, in certain Cosmopolitan [European] circles.
And so it goes…
A Cautionary Tale about Revolution:
Revolution Leader Bernie Sanders is a nice old man, in his own way, were told. Is delivering a message of great social change(s) throughout America and the World, but this type of change(s) need to come slowly over space and time. That even Obama, when he first ran for the presidency of the United States in 2007,knew this, all to well. Or did he?
And us little people are reminded by those in authority over us, again and again, that these things are nice, make one feel really good deep down inside, but to just update your social media pages and forget all about it kids. Caution is the order of the day.
To ‘slow your roll’ or ‘pump your breaks’ their speed demon ‘Rome wasn’t built-in a day’ you know.
That these ideas are nice and all, but you can’t govern a nation and the free world in poetry, such takes prose or finesse Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have that finesse and would “make an excellent president, either one,” says the “political establishment,”watch:
And that the Revolution should go quietly into that long good night for your own (safety) good. That Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are the ones to choose from, choose from these and these only and keep your mouth shut.
And so that goes…
All Throughout History Though… (Revolution/Change comes with a price. Are you willing to pay? I am!):
Since the dawn of recorded history there has been revolution or social change for the better, starting with the Revolutions of 1848 throughout Europe. Costing many lives, to be sure, but bringing about change for the better.
These ideas, while abstract to some, are in no ways new to others. Remember they’ve been around since 1848 Europe.
They are the things that human beings have been asking for since the Tower of Babel, in terms of communication and respect.
The idea that “No man is an island unto himself,”that we are “all in this together;” politically, socially and ecumenically. No one is better than the other. No idea is best overall. No one concept is better than the rest are. We are. Life is a Collective Effort. When one of us hurts all of us hurts, and we should all be concerned about that. Watch.
And the idea that the elite and ruling class of this world cannot have it all. They do not own the world because the world belongs to us all, freely and equally.
Such an idea, such a notion scares the hell out of the establishment, here’s proof of that.
But this is just nuance, process or the tone and tenor of otherwise spirited debate on the campaign trail. Not unlike this I suppose from 2007?
But and again it could just be ,as they say, “all a part of the [political] process???” Or so they say.
And no one is to question these idioms of political process because a fear is instilled whenever questions arise through the rank and file of the people, by design to distract and deflect the people away from the truth. Not unlike that of the 9/11 attacks.
Watergate or the Iran-Contra affair.
In any case these are matters of the state that are long overdue to be settled no matter what the establishment might say or lead the public at large to believe. Because the public at large largely doesn’t believe them. Doesn’t buy into the official story.
(Even the late great Andrew Breitbart and his infamous Breitbart News got their start in the land of conspiracy theory, false flag and conjecture before they went mainstream news organization on the masses not long after Mr. Breitbart’s demise.)
So We the People should just ignore the questions that we have free-flowing in our minds and skip right to the answers, right to the proverbial climatic ending because this is all very easily explained by those in the know IF we just give ourselves over to the answers, willingly of course.
And we must be willing. And when one is not willing then he is not a willing convert to the easily explained now is he/she?
This is all very easily explained.
And so it goes…
A Manifesto…A (friendly piece of advice) Warning:
We’re told by our media, political pundits and talking heads to not ever venture down the rabbit hole; politically, socially or ecumenically. To stay strictly away from the truth of the matter. Else will live to regret it “if you live long enough to do so,” as our Mama’s used to say to us whenever we misbehaved as children. Right?
Warning signs, roadblocks and distractions from the truth are put up all around us. Books. Movies. Television.
Leaving it up to us to decide as to whether or not we want to quote unquote “buy in to the notion” of this that or the other thing. Some do. Largely though, some don’t. And it’s really all up to the beholder of the information that is in front of them, clearly, as to whether or not they want to believe it or not, accept or reject it or not, but always with the WARNING always with the caveat: Do not venture down this rabbit hole of conspiracy because you will live to regret it [maybe].
But here’s the thing:
The Elite cannot have it all, because there’s plenty to go around – for all of us.
You read that right my fellow American, my fellow free Western Worlder. There is plenty to go around. Plenty of natural resources. Plenty of finances. Plenty of healthcare. Education. Transportation and the like to go around. Enough in fact to circle our globe multiple times over IF you are willing to give yourself over to the truth or the axiom of the Native American which reads:
“Take only what you need and leave the rest as you found it…”
It was both a warning and a friendly request to the early American settlers of the 16 and 1700’s that their were/are plenty of natural resources to go around just don’t abuse the privileges that Mother Earth has bestowed upon us all. But through the advent of social privilege and the social climate of the day most of the white European settlers forgot that warning, willingly, and proceeded to take and take and take some more.
Greed and selfish behavior is the problem and it will always be the problem until the problem is gotten rid of by the Peoples of this World.
And the absolute best example of where I can find, where I can look to for a much-needed repeat of history is in that of the assassination and slaughter of the brutal Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his Italian Socialist Party henchmen. Drug through the streets of present-day Milan, Italy he was drawn and quartered by the People of Italy in April of 1945. A fitting end to an otherwise brutal, brutal man.
Mussolini’s death is a case study of what many, if not all, of our world leadership needs to endure. .
We have a duty to ourselves and our posterity to preserve what we can while it is still here. So as to replenish our natural supply. Otherwise people such as the Rothschild family, the Rockefeller family, and many others will continue to take what is rightfully ours, the Peoples of this Earth’s.
We are our own best friend or our own worst enemy folks…Choice is yours, a decision has to be made before it is too late. I’ve made mine. Care to join me?
–Rhett.
Good afternoon! An excellent read from the Constitutional Center and a fellow blogger on Sir Oliver Ellsworth, a Founding Father here in the US and one of our first US Supreme Court Justices as well as author to the Great Compromise of 1788. Read. Comment and share the wealth on this epic, unsung, hero of Modern-Day America; Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut…
–Rhett.
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