Whoopity Dooopity Dooo Republicans Elect (African American) Michael Steele as G.O.P. Chair

On the surface I figure this can be taken two ways depending on whether or not your personality is one that would lean more toward your cup being half empty or your cup being half full. Direction#1 (Cup half Full) would be congrats the Republicans are finally coming around and getting with the program perhaps change REALLY is on the way - Good for them. Direction #2 (Cup half Empty) would be these dumb-butts think that we don't see that they are just trying to hop on the Goodship Lollipop with hidden weapons and without pitching in to row the boat.

Though I am currently on a "cup half full" kick after much spiritual seeking I am going to go with the "cup half empty" point of view. Before I did this I had to consider my spiritual points of view first to make sure that I wasn't just being negative due to conditioning from my past and here is what I have deduced: "The body politic does not yet have the container of love, compassion, health and sanity to "metabolize" ... political toxins that have accumulated over centuries. Those of us who can simultaneously hold "the awful truth" and the "awesome opportunity" are the leaders of this new spiritual evolution that will help heal the past and design the future." Basically, that means while you are holding your half full cup don't be in denial pretending the empty portion does not exist and is not a factor. Those of us who are willing to both hold the reality/truth of a situation while at the same time being positive and working to make the situation better are the ones who will really make a change.

So here is the situation - signaling a desire to put a new face on an embattled party Michael Steele, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, was elected the chairman of the Republican National Committee. What those of us who have fought for true freedom through the constant victimization at the hands of Republicans across America are thinking is that this "face" is just a mask. You can dress up a wolf in sheep's clothing but the fact is he is still a wolf. Other than this what has the Republican party really changed? Consider those in various power positions within the party for a moment. Steele beat out Katon Dawson, the very well liked and respected South Carolina Republican Chairman who had to be prompted by concerns raised by other Republicans to withdraw from the ALL WHITE country club he belonged to. THIS IS 2009 PEOPLE!!!!!! Why in the hell should anything ALL WHITE exist in this country at all? Your Answer: Because the first thing that existed at the founding of our country that was truly ALL WHITE is the asinine concept of ALL WHITE in the first place. This guy was elected to Chair a committee whose devotees almost all believe that African Americans are the reason for most of this country's problems. How do I know this? Feel free to come with me in July to my family reunion and you will quickly figure it out.

What we have to wonder about is whether or not the Republicans will change much other than their face:

While on their left hand Republicans across America feign patriotism and tell Democrats who are against the war that freedom isn't free -they are simultaneously using their right hand to prevent freedom of choice for women who would choose abortion while fighting about the value of human life. Will this new face have them changing their views on abortion or war?

In the most recent campaign it is easy enough to go onto YouTube and watch Sarah Palin videos to see that in psychological terms Palin's campaign activated that part of the psyche in people that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of “the other.” Will we see Republicans addressing truth and intelligence in the next election as opposed to stoking the embers of fear in order to win their race?

In the next major campaign who will the Republicans choose as their candidate? Someone like Palin who has a complete ignorance of world affairs repudiating the need to repair America's image abroad; who uses the term "family values" as a code for walling out anybody who makes a claim for social justice by dubbing them as outside the family and not needed; who has rigid stances on guns and abortion as a scornful repudiation that these issues can be negotiated with people who disagree; who uses patriotism as the standard Republican fall back to a failed war; who uses the word "reform" not as a term to define the cleaning out of corruption and excessive spending but instead as an excuse for throwing out anyone who doesn't fit her ideology ---- or will the Republicans finally remove themselves from the overall message of the reactionary right, which has been in play since 1980, that social justice is liberal-radical, that minorities and immigrants, being different from “us” pure American types, can be ignored, that progressivism takes too much effort and globalism is a foreign threat?

The list goes on and on with things like these small things and things much larger such as voting fraud and war crimes. I ask whoever is reading this to please not be in denial about what these guys are all about just because they changed their face and please don't distrust them and believe them to be incapable of change either. It is our jobs to recognize and face the truth about things and to in turn educate ourselves and others about the solutions in order to make positive change. It is time to quite whining about the negative when we aren't working for the positive.

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Mom Blog Crusade From The Living Room

Check out this great story in the New York Times. This is a story about a homemaker mom blogger and her fight for a Yemeni journalist's life. Jane Novak who knows (or at least when she started knew) nothing about Arab culture or language. She is a stay at home mom (wish I was) who has become such a popular person in Yemen that the papers sell more copies when her face is on the cover. Her outspoken blog on Yemeni affairs is banned there because the government officials have dubbed and villified her "An American Agent, A Shiite monarchist, a member of Al-Qaeda or "the Zionist Novak." She has been targeted by the Yemeni government largely because of her fight for the life and freedoms of journalist Abdul Karim al-Khaiwani. He is on trial for writing a story about a bloodbath in the northern part of the country and he is a supporter of freedom and democracy. Novak has worked hard in his defense contacting politicians from both the U.S. and Yemen, human rights activists and journalist from around the globe. She has a petition for al-Khaiwani's freedom. The penalty for his crime is usually death and the verdict is expected tomorrow. Novak and Khaiwani have become friends despite the language barrier because he wrote her to thank her for her fight on his behalf and the letter touched her so deeply it prompted her to fight further. He addressed his letter to Jane Novak the American journalist and political analyst. She didn't have the heart to tell him she was just a stay at home mom who agreed with his point of view and supported his freedom until much later because she did not want to make him lose hope. When she finally told him the truth about herself he said he became even prouder of her and her work. The story touched me a bit so perhaps it will touch you too.

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Fox Attacks the Blog World Like the Cry Babies They Are

Look at this video. These goofballs at Fox are just that "goofballs". They are mad because people actually have a voice now that they aren't controlling and that other people are listening to the voices and getting one of their own. Get over it! People other than those with big giant bank accounts and those who work for the people who have the big giant accounts have a voice too. I think it is hilarious that these people don't know what to do when they have to taste their own medicine. Bill O'Reilly talking about bullies is laughable. He is one of the biggest bullies I've seen. It is one thing to have an opinion and a television show, and a whole other thing to be rude and bully people to the point where you emasculate them and remove their voice. Now old billy boy is crying about people doing the same thing to him. He needs to get a life and realize that his point of view and voice are not the only one that counts and that if people are looking at the blogosphere there must be a reason. Poor little mr. bill and the big fox seem to have a problem with diversity the way I see it. I don't necessarily like the KKK or any sort of extremist either, but in this country we are allowed to have a voice and unfortunately for Fox and all the masses who follow the sound of their pied piper propaganda flute out of town our voices are being heard around the world and our voices are rocking the world. I say to Fox and the gang if you don't like this country then get the hell out because we are all a part of it and you can't hide in your kazillion dollar homes throwing stones any more. And to Bill O'Reilly I say "Waaaaaa" don't cry little man it will all turn out ok in the end when free diversity rules the world and homos, and brown people are allowed to roam free.



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