Mehserle

Oscar Grant was a young Black male killed from a point-blank shot in the back while handcuffed by a BART police officer on New Year's Day 2009. A decision was reached today in the trial of the cop that murdered him, Johannas Mehserle. The only verdict that would have been worse in fairness would have been not guilty. He was found guilty but not of the most extreme and when compared with the evidence correct charge of 2ND degree Murder. No, he was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. This guilty should be imprisoned for this insane verdict.

This country has been built by the sweat of the Black man's brow and the strength of his back. It has been clothed by the cotton farmed by the Black man, and fed by his work in the fields. The least this country could do for the Black man is be fair to him.

Robert Byrd, Senate's elder statesman, is dead - KansasCity.com

Robert Byrd, Senate's elder statesman, is dead - KansasCity.com

Many of his colleagues had nothing good to say. It's sad how much you don't really know those you think you know.

Obama Lies 7 Times In Under 2 Minutes!

Mr. Fullofshit.

dickhead of the day

Z Brzezinski on MSNBC's Morning Joe this morning: " We had every reason to go to Afghanistan because we were attacked from Afghanistan, but not by Afghanistan".

Evil old bastard.

the Gulf of Death

It seems like every day we are finding out more and more bad news related to the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. We should be calling this the BP/Obama disaster. BP for the obvious reasons but Obama also for obvious reasons as well. Had this been a fire on land would Obama have stood back and watched the fire destroy and kill without doing anything to stop it? Of course not! Just saying he is holding BP responsible for this disaster is not enough. There were technologies available that have had success in other oil cleanups that were ignored. They should have at least tried them. This will more than likely be one of the worst catastrophes ever of any kind and it could have been prevented. It could have been prevented by not allowing off-shore drilling in the first place. The rules, regulations, and restrictions in place should've been enforced as strictly as possible. Random inspections at least twice a month should have been in place, with ANY safety violations cause for immediate shutdown until reinspected and authorized by the government to be in correct running order.

Certainly the horrible images of dead or dying wildlife has been something to behold but could this be a preview of what could happen to the human population of the region? Think of the chemicals and toxins released by this oil volcano and think what might happen if they become mixed together or exposed to water or air?

Is our country so fucking retarded that a) we believe the media, the White House, or BP's answers to any questions involving the Gulf , b) by the media taking it off the front page we lower the importance of the disaster, or c) that anything can be done to stop or repair the damage done from this disaster? As more oil comes out, and hurricane season begins, the ability for the government to hide the effects of this disaster on human beings will be lost and we will see what kind of lying motherfuckers they really are. I'm surprised that the usual lie the government assigns since 2001, "al Qaeda did it", hasn't came into play yet. Maybe when they let us know that the situation is thousands of times worse than they've admitted to they might throw the AQ line in.

If we didn't waste money on this war we wouldn't be able to say we can't afford this or that when it comes to disasters. Also, would the guardsmen overseas be better used to protect America by helping clean its southeastern shores?Considering the fact that we will lose children to wars fought over oil and other resources, with oil seeming to be the premium, why did BP and the U.S. let so much of it go to waste in this disaster? It seems like the protocol after ANY oil spill is recover as much as possible yet none here. Also how do you protect an underwater oil operation from earthquakes?

This translates to something and it's not going to be good.

Democracy?

Unhappy trails to General McChrystal. His COIN method he envisioned for Afghanistan should have disqualified him from the job at the start.

When I was in kindergarten the war in Vietnam was raging. As a child I always wanted to be a soldier when I grew up. Not just any soldier. I wanted to be a Green Beret. I even had a Green Beret uniform. A good friend of the family had a nephew that was a Green Beret. He would tell me of some of his "adventures" in Vietnam (keep in mind I was a 5 year old) in the same manner he would tell the adults (gruesome now that I think about it).

I thought it would be fascinating to live amongst the people of a foreign country and learn their culture and at the same time save them from the "bad guys". Now in 2010 we have a war that is longer than Vietnam, at the same time being fought for the wrong bullshit reasons like Vietnam, and also like the previous war, with no good way out.

McChrystal thought that we could take Afghanistan and be like the Green Berets in winning. He thought we could fight our enemies there, and live there and create a "democracy" from scratch. Of course he was wrong. Don't they interview for jobs anymore? Part of McChrystal's strategy sounded like others from the past. More and more men seems like something Napoleonic or like the Chinese during the war in Korea, or Iran during its war with Iraq. If it's down to that, we might as well do the right thing and quit. Is this really democracy if it begins with destroying a country so it can be rebuilt as a "democracy"? Seems akin to the Catholics converting Filipinos or Indians. And it is not democracy. How much of a democracy can something be if they have to do as we tell them? We sure didn't seem like a democracy ourselves when the Palestinians voted for Hamas under their own free will. Or when Hugo Chavez was repeatedly elected to our government's dismay. We kill in the name of Democracy yet we install dictators every chance we get.

One thing missing from the massive manpower strategies of the past that we have now is military technology/weaponry, which has to be counted as a positive for us but we're still not winning. We may not be losing (which is debatable) but we definitely are not winning. Have we ever considered that our opponent might have their own possibly superior "special forces"? We've faced special forces before: Native American, Filipino, German, Vietcong, even Noriega's special guards, who handled themselves pretty well against our SEALs. When we were behind the Taliban against Soviet forces did we give them instruction in combatives so that down the line if we had to deal with them we might be able to analyze their strategies and methods to our advantage? It doesn't seem so.

Anyway it goes military actions that aren't for the benefit of a people being slaughtered seem to be for the greedy agendas of the corporate overlords that rule our governments.

Obama Kills Fly During Interview