Saturday, August 12, 2006

From Cynthia McKinney

From: Cynthia McKinney
>> <hq2600@earthlink.net
>> >
>> Date: August 10, 2006 4:36:41 AM PDT
>>
>> Subject: Cynthia McKinney's Election Night Remarks
>>
>> Tuesday, August 8, 2006
>>
>> After Listening to Pink's "Dear Mr. President"
>>
>>
>>
>> I wanted you to hear this song because it says so much about why
>> *this*
>> election in Georgia was so important.
>>
>>
>>
>> In the film American Blackout, you saw that I say that my
>> district needs
>> jobs. And so, in partnership with faith-based organizations and
>> labor, I
>> put together a program to train my constituents to acquire the
>> skills for
>> jobs that won't be outsourced overseas, and that pay more than a
>> living
>> wage, with health and retirement benefits. Last month, we took
>> in 500
>> students. Who at the end of their training will have
>> transportable skills,
>> internationally-recognized certification, and a chance to live
>> the American
>> dream, supporting their families and our community.
>>
>>
>>
>> The news media didn't tell you about that because they wanted you
>> to focus
>> on my hair!
>>
>>
>>
>> Tonight my mother was hurt by someone in this room, a member of
>> the press.
>> My staff assistant was hurt by someone in this room, a member of
>> the press.
>>
>>
>>
>> I first got into trouble when I was compelled in 1991, while
>> serving in the
>> Georgia Legislature, to speak against George Herbert Walker
>> Bush's war
>> against Iraq. And during a point of personal privilege, I
>> declared that I
>> could not support *any* of George Bush's reasons for war.
>>
>>
>>
>> My colleagues got up and walked out on me, I was vilified in the
>> press, and
>> compared to Julian Bond, who too had spoken out against an unjust
>> war.
>>
>> Ladies and gentlemen, there comes a time when people of
>> conscience are
>> compelled to dissent.
>>
>>
>>
>> Bobby Kennedy said, "The sharpest criticism often goes hand in
>> hand with
>> the deepest idealism and love of country."
>>
>>
>>
>> We love our country, and that is why we dissent: because we care.
>>
>>
>>
>> We care about the dignity of all the world's people.
>>
>>
>>
>> We care about minimum wage workers; we care about no wage workers;
>>
>> we care about the homeless--too many of whom are veterans;
>>
>> we want a healthy future for all our children;
>>
>> we want our seniors to live in dignity.
>>
>>
>>
>> Our country is too rich to tolerate such poverty in our midst.
>>
>> We have more to give to our people and the world than DynCorp,
>> Halliburton,
>> and the Carlyle Group.
>>
>>
>>
>> We care about the air and the earth and the water. And so we
>> reject George
>> Bush's science lessons that distort the facts and justify
>> policies that
>> support drilling for oil in Alaska; exacerbate global warming;
>> and allow
>> more human consumption of known toxins and pollutants.
>>
>>
>>
>> We care about the projection of US power around the world.
>> Either we can
>> be a force for good in the world; or we can rely on force and
>> upset the world.
>>
>> Sadly, this Administration has chosen the latter.
>>
>>
>>
>> At a time when this country has failed to train enough certified
>> teachers
>> to educate our children, George Bush is spending billions, nearly one
>> trillion, dollars for war. And in a point of personal privilege
>> right now
>>
>> I echo what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "A time comes when
>> silence is
>> betrayal; we are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless,
>> for the
>> victims of our nation, for those it calls 'enemy.'"
>>
>>
>>
>> One year to the day before Dr. King was murdered, he declared
>> that the
>> greatest purveyor of violence in the world was his own country.
>>
>>
>>
>> With Israel's invasion of Lebanon, there might even be a call for
>> more US
>> or UN troops to be stationed in the Middle East, we--here
>> tonight--say to
>>
>> our Commander-in-Chief: Sir, No Sir.
>>
>>
>>
>> And so, before we engage in yet more war, I declare tonight that
>> we stand
>> with the families of our hurt soldiers and the hundreds of
>> thousands of
>> innocent hurt and dead Iraqis.
>>
>>
>>
>> We stand with the homeless Vietnam and Gulf War veterans.
>>
>>
>>
>> We stand with the Agent Orange victims and the 160,000 sick Gulf
>> War veterans.
>>
>>
>>
>> We stand with the 37,000 green card soldiers, not even citizens, but
>> willing to trade their lives for a chance to live and work in America
>> because our foreign policy has failed to uplift their hopes and
>> aspirations
>> in their own countries.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dr. King told us that in order to stop the madness we would have
>> to match
>> actions with words. Mario Savio before that told us that we have
>> to put
>> our very bodies against the wheels and the gears and the levers
>> of the
>> machine and we have to say to those who own it, that they must
>> stop it, or
>> we will stop it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tonight I am joined by noted men and women activists who have put
>> their
>> bodies against the wheels and the gears and the levers of the
>> machine and
>> they are trying to stop it. They are not tricked by red herrings
>> that the
>> corporate media throw to us. They are focused on our objective
>> to make
>> America a better country.
>>
>>
>>
>> Something is happening around the world: countries with little
>> or nothing
>> are standing up, rising up against the utter and complete domination.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank goodness for the people in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,
>> Chile, Cuba,
>> Venezuela, Malaysia, all standing up and speaking for the weak
>> and the
>> voiceless in their countries. A change is sweeping the world.
>> And America
>> must not be left out.
>>
>>
>>
>> So my new friends are the mothers who have lost their sons in
>> George Bush's
>> war and we say to them hold fast to your faith--your suffering
>> will not be
>> a stumbling block for us. We will make this stand with you--you
>> are not
>> alone.
>>
>>
>>
>> Denise Thomas' daughter went to Iraq once and when they tried to
>> send her a
>> second time, Mama got political. She's now the founder of the
>> Georgia
>> Chapter of Military Families Speak Out. First told her story at
>> a prayer
>> vigil organized by Ann Mauney. Prayed at by Reverend Timothy
>> McDonald.
>>
>>
>>
>> Then one mother who wasn't so lucky. She couldn't save her son
>> from the
>> War Machine. The first Georgia soldier to die in Iraq came from
>> the 4th
>> District. Patricia Roberts, Jamal Addison's mother, now
>> politically active
>> and my new friend.
>>
>>
>>
>> Another mother, lost her son, Casey, and decided to take her case
>> directly
>> to President Bush. Cindy Sheehan.
>>
>>
>>
>> There's something special about these women. Their names aren't
>> Deborah,
>> or Esther, or Ruth. But they are women for these times. Women,
>> called to
>> make peaceful revolution.
>>
>>
>>
>> President Kennedy warned us that "Those who make peaceful revolution
>> impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
>>
>>
>>
>> Electronic voting machines are a threat to our democracy!
>>
>> So let the word go out: we aren't going to tolerate any more stolen
>> elections; we're watching you. And we want our leaders back--or
>> we will
>> become the leaders.
>>
>>
>>
>> And not only do we want our country back, we want our Party back.
>>
>> There *is* a growing force for peace in this country. And the peace
>> movement that we are building is backed by millions of young
>> people. I
>> want to thank the hundreds of people who volunteered in our campaign,
>> especially the young people who were excited about getting
>> involved in
>> something good.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you all for a lot of hard work, thank you for the thousands of
>> volunteer hours, thank you for helping to make a stand in Georgia.
>>
>> I wish the new representative for the 4th Congressional District
>> well.
>>
>>
>>
>> A snake in the bush is easy to fight. But one already in the house
>> becomes a problem!
>>

Friday, August 11, 2006

Someone called in to WSFA and asked how stupid Montgomery County is for letting Dr. Purcell go from the Board of Education. Very, very stupid.
Jerusalem should be given to the U.N and made its headquaters. That would take it out of the hands of Israel and would give all of the peoples of the Middle East access.

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Todays Terror Alerts

Firstly, I don't really believe anything that comes out of this administration or Tony the lapdog Blair unless it is corroborated by someone credible(not them). Alas, I have no doubt that there is someone out to Kick the United States' ass. The question, however, is not what should be done about it. The question is why they want to. This country learns nothing. You have to give everyone the very same respect for their humanity as you want them to give you.
My Grandmother says when they sent my Aunt Earnestine to teach at an integrated school Aunt Earnestine cried like a baby. My grandmother had been one of the first black teachers to integrate in Chicago by that time. She said she didnt cry, she just said her prayers and went on. As posted previously, when some white high school boys were going to throw snowballs at my grandmother and some other black teachers my grandmother's response was " I didnt get up at 4 o'clock in the morning to come over here to the northside and have you throw snowballs at me! Not one snowball better touch me or any of these other teachers! I swear to god I'll tear up the Northside of Chicago and this school with it!"

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Project Runway

How did I know that Bradley was going to be out? Probably because he has no imagination and is quite dull really. I did not like what Ule made, which is a first. What was wrong with the back of Kayne's dress?! I didn't like it at all.Robert should have gone too--his outfit was horrid! His Jackie-O looked like she was drunk and she didn't want ANYBODY taking her picture.I am so glad Michael won! I love Diane von Furstenburg!
Congratulations to Ned Lamont! The Ignorant negroes of Atlanta who have no integrity will definitely pay for what they have done to Cynthia McKinney!

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Call Me

Aretha Franklin

I love you (I love you)
An I love you (I love you)
And I love you too (and I love you)
Baby will you call me the moment you get there?

Hey baby, um-hum
And I love you (I love you)
And I love you too (I love you)
And I love you (and I love you)
Baby will you
(Call me) call me (the moment) the moment
(You get there) you get there? yeah
Yeeeeaaaah, bab-bay-a-yea-yea

My dearest, my dearest of all darling (ah-ooo)
I know, I know, I know
I know we've got to part
(Ah-ooo)
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby

It really doens't hurt me that bad yeah (ah-ooo)
Because you're takin' me with you
And I'm keepin' you
Right-a here in my heart

It's all because I love you (I love you)
Woo-hoo and I love you (I love you)
And I love you too (and I love you)
Baby will ya call me the moment you get there, bab-ay
Will you do that?
Will you do that for me now?

Oh-oh-oh-oh, call me
(Call me) call me the hour
(The hour) Call me the minute (the minute)
The second that you get there?
Baby, baby, baby, baby, call me (the moment)
Call me the moment (call me)
Cause I love you call me the minute (the moment)
Yeah, yeah, call me, call me, call me, call me, call me, bab-ay
Yeah, yeah, yeah (call me)
Call me the hour
(The hour)
Call me the moment ya get there?

(Don't forget, don't forget)
(Don't forget about me bab-ay)
No don't forget about me bab-ay
(Baby) I love you
(Baby) call me!
(And when you get there
Call me, call me, call me
Baby)
Call me baby

(Call me) call me the hour (the hour)
Call me the minute, the hour, the second
(Call me, call me, call me, call me, call me bab-ay
Yeah, call me baby (the minute)
Call me the minute (second) the second
Don't forget about the hour (don't forget, don't forget
About me bab-ay)
Don't forget, don't forget about me bab-ay
(The moment) call me the moment
(Call me) caaall me

(You got to call me
(call me, call me, call me, call me bab-ay)
Oh yeah...

Revelation for All

There is no such thing as an unbiased opinion. As a matter of fact, there is absolutely nothing that isnt biased. It is all human perception. God Bless Howard Zinn!

Monday, August 07, 2006

My Thoughts on Sexuality

I have for a long time been an adherent to Helene Cixous' theoryconcerning bisexuality,primarily holding the belief that everyone is bisexual to a degree. I remember my first introduction to Cixous'work as a freshman in college(thank you Chella!) which really enlightened me as to sex and provided a philosophy for understanding it. After that introduction, I recognized Cixous' theory imbedded within the characterization of the character Pierre on a re-read of Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy(I had read Possessingin high school, before reading Cixous--I would definitely love to ask Alice Walker about that). These two cornerstones in my literary/theoretical growth made me value and realize the ultimate freedom that we are supposedto have,but which most of us don't because we bow down to social constraints. Since that time, it very much amazes me how much that I have found that the rigid lies of sexuality become fluid in my own experiences, primarily in crossing boundaries(Anzaldua is coming into my mind)with socially defined straight men into the realms of the homoerotic. I find myself somewhat open-mouthed at the number of friendships that I have formed with men who have been blatantly straight and how easily those relationships become homoerotic. I am thinking at this moment of an experience that I had in befriending a jock that lived close by me-a young white male from Colorado attending graduate school. I had initially let him know that I was quite interested from the start--and he then informed me of his impenetrable straightness. However it quickly became homoerotic and definitely moved into the realm of queer. This leads me to ask, am I a queering agent? Furthermore and even more important to think about is this all too fresh discovery as to the fluidity of sexuality, and particularly male sexuality. The only way I can sum this up is by quoting Yentl--"The More I Learn, the Less I know." There is always more to discover. We simply have to open ourselves up to the discovery.

Dustin Hoffman Quote

"It is a luxury not to know."
Steve Oney will definitely be going to hell. I cant believe he tried to put Tom Watson in the same category as Jesse Jackson.
This Country is sick.