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by Oscar In Louisville
Over the last few weeks there has been much Sturm und Drang regarding some of the sermons of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Immediate-Past Pastor of Chicago's Trinity Church of Christ, church-home of Senator Barack Obama. The crux of the current controversy has been Reverend Wright's sin of blaspheming the righteous name of the United States of America, rejecting its omnipotence, infallibility and inerrancy in all that it declares or does. Naturally, Reverend Wright's message has been received about as well as Jeroboam II received Amos' acute assessment of Israel's apostasy - with lots of large stones flung at the messenger. Reverend Wright has been called a "hate-monger," "racist," "Black David Duke," and worse - everything but a child of God - for saying that America has been weighed on the scales and found wanting. This controversy, however, misses the point. Reverend Wright's words were accurate, and it brings up a prescient point that ought to be addressed: the audacity of hope has a necessarily equal and opposite perspective - the audacity of hate.
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There are some things so secret, so shameful, that people dread the day when their inner thoughts and desires are aired for all the world to see. There are some activities that are so perverse that no human being should ever participate in them, yet many do so anyway. I have found myself in such a situation, wondering if I am alone in my inner perversion, but I have found that there are many more people out there who are just like me, people who share in my shame.
Let me explain. Read more... (8 comments, 1177 words in story) by Oscar In Louisville Originally posted at The Underground Railroad
The only remaining question about the Democratic primary for Senate in the state of Connecticut is how just wide Joe Lieberman's margin of defeat will become. The MSM is framing this as anti-war, dovish liberals taking the Democratic Party into the abyss just like in the '70s with Vietnam. This perspective is wrong on so many fronts that it should be obvious to anyone paying attention, but few people actually pay attention any more so let's spell it out.
Read more... (4 comments, 798 words in story) by Oscar In Louisville Apparently, there are Democrats who have a problem with filibustering Samuel Alito, primarily out of fear that the Party doesn't have a plan to win the overall campaign against Scalito. My response is this: if the Democrats do not have a plan in place for this fight then they ALL need to be voted out - right here, right now. We knew this day was coming as of November 3, 2004. Plans should have been set way back then. If the Democrats don't have a plan for dealing with the narcoleptic public then every last one of them need to find themselves challenged by a well-funded primary challenger, from Harry Reid to Barak Obama. WTF are they there for if not to stop this very nomination? It's kinda like in Goodfellas. Remember when Henry Hill talked about Paulie?
Now the guy's got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with the bill? He can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, he can call Paulie. But now the guy's gotta come up with Paulie's money every week no matter what. Business bad? F you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? F you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning huh? F you, pay me. Read more... (1 comment, 838 words in story) by Oscar In Louisville Originally posted at The Underground Railroad
We need to assassinate 700 Club chairman Pat Robertson to stop his organization from becoming a launching pad for crony capitalist infiltration and right-wing extremism. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion federal court case to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm televangelist. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with. You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do Robertson instead. After all, Robertson has made controversial statements in the past. In October 2003, he suggested that the State Department be blown up with a nuclear device. Clearly, this man is not stable and is a threat to the well-being of millions of Americans. We need to take him out.
Read more... (19 comments, 550 words in story) by Oscar In Louisville (Originally posted at The Underground Railroad)
I think it is fair to say that I am not fond of Republicans or the GOP as a whole. However, I do believe in being fair, and Reynard Blake's assault on the Black Church in his Black Commentator article was in no ways fair to the Black Church or to the Bush Administration. I have no affection for Bush's regime - I want to see it changed ASAP - but some of Blake's charges need to be answered beneath the fold.
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Growing up in Detroit, I - like all youth in Detroit - was well-acquainted with the criminal element. There were the Seven Mile Sconies, the West Wood Hoods, Pony Down, and the world-renowned Young Boys Incorporated running the streets. The Big Four also rolled through the 'hood in that dark blue Ford LTD, busting heads from time to time. When you grow up in the urban jungle you quickly learn which animals are predators, which animals are prey, and where you fit in the food chain.
(Shit hits the fan beneath the fold)
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crossposted at http://www.blogforamerica.com, http://www.mydd.com, and http://www.dailykos.com
Across the United States of America, Americans are celebrating Juneteenth: Black Independence Day. Seven score and three years ago President Abraham Lincoln issued these words: On the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. That word did not make it to Texas, however, until June 19th, 1865 - two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation and two months after General Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox Court House - when Major General Gordon Granger landed in Galveston, Texas and proclaimed General Order Number 3: Read more... (2 comments, 593 words in story) |
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