Racism and the Drug War

The "war on drugs" is as political as it is controversial.  Nothing is more revealing than the discrepancy in sentencing on crack cocaine, verses powder cocaine offenders.  Coincidentially, and yet suspiciously, African Americans are more likely to be caught with crack cocaine.  Thus, he comes the politics.  There is no difference other than who deals that drug, so why is there such a disparity. Thankfully, research and common sense have stepped in to alleviate the discrepancy.  Congress has enacted a bill designed to remedy the racist sentencing practices.  Typically, the users and lower level dealers will have crack cocaine, where http://huff.to/93C46q via @huffingtonpost as the actual suppliers will have powder cocaine.  So it makes no sense to continue this barbaric practice. http://www.drugpolicy.org/communities/race/

Ja'afar Hassan - They Taught Me

Thomas Jefferson on Public Education

Oh my God, are we going to have to go back to the basics?  I mean these People who go around toting their Constitution do not understand anything about it.  I just finished arguing with a "teabagger" and this person wanted to abolish the department of Education.  Okay, the Constitution allows for the United States to take interest in educating the electorate.  Thomas Jefferson was a passionate advocate for publicly funded education.  He believed it to be the cornerstone of a republic.  I agree with Thomas Jefferson.  Thomas Jefferson is one of my favorite founding fathers.  He actually understood that capitalism could become as tyrannical as the Queen of England.  If  you don't believe me, which I doubt you do, go check out this article about his views on Education. http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1370.htm
Now, after you have read this, actually have read what Thomas Jefferson actually believed, stop repeating Reaganomics, it is just not consistent with the Constitution at all.  I just want people to think.  You may not agree with my politics, but I know how I have reached my conclusions.  I am informed about the issues.  You cannot make decisions based on what Glenn Beck says.  Think for yourself please.  You will have my respect even if we don't agree,

Glenn Beck's Revisionist History Lesson

Glenn Beck has done it again. Either he is totally clueless, or he just doesn't give a damn about anything remotely close to the truth.  Martin Luther King was not a conservative.  Politically, Martin Luther King was as far left as one could go.  He made the statement that we need to totally restructure society as to assure the negro and poor whites have a chance at the American Dream.:lhttp://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/629.html.  So check out this article and please do not listen to Glenn Beck.  He is a total fraud and I want to expose him, as do millions of other people.

Tea Bagger Condundrum

Nothing would anger your average Tea Bagger like logic and consistency.  The Tea Baggers are infamous for waving the Constitution and evoking its power in order to advance their agenda.  It doesn't always work for them, especially since freedom of religion, contained within the First Amendment would necessarily apply to Muslims in their efforts to build the Mosque near ground zero. Now, I reluctantly agree with them.  I think it is in poor taste for a Mosque to be built so close to ground zero. However, I don't go around wearing the  Constitution on my lhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/18/ground-zero-mosque-debate_n_686001.htm sleeve, espousing it like a sacred text, as do Tea Baggers and the whole Tea Party movement.

So the recogniton of hypocrisy is obviously not their strong suit.  These little inconsistencies take away from the validity of their movement.  Is the tea party movement based on principal, or archaic "us verses them" fear? I would argue the latter fuels it, and the Constitution is their weapon of choice.,  Those who live by the sword die by it and sometimes a weapon backfires. 

Ground Zero is Bad Idea

I agree that building the Mosque at Ground Zero is in bad taste.

Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points: Bigotry and the Ground Zero mosque - 08/...

Rosie The Riveter - Research and Read Books, Journals, Articles at Questia Online Library

Rosie The Riveter - Research and Read Books, Journals, Articles at Questia Online Library

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Gibb's awkward move to the "right."

Apparently, Robert Gibbs hasn't noticed the Obama Administration's move to the right.  Well, guess what, the left has noticed.  The left elected Obama, and yes, they are getting frustrated.  Actually, they are pissed!
The idealism of the past election has evolved into a cynicism brought on by the reality of politics.
Our democracy is set up to make sure that progress is slow and gradual.  Every time the Left makes some political gains, the very rich and the Right fire back with all of their arsenal ..  All their money is then invested to buy back the election with their huge propaganda machine at work.
Now, for all of the skeptics out there that naively believe that we can change our society peacefully needs to wake up.  Now I understand Hugo Chavez. I am sorry to say it, but I do.

Michele Bachmann speaks for the "People." I think not!

I have a bone to pick with Michele Bachmann.  Of course, I am tired of her ignorant ranting, but it is more than that.  She claims to speak for the "people" quite often.  This enrages me.  She had not a clue what the people actually think of her.  She is an ill informed idiot.  She mocks the feminist movement with her every word.  She is a religious zealot who probably has not had an original thought of her own in her entire life.  Despite all of that, she is a congresswoman.