Great Gig in the Sky

Rachel Maddow: Countdown

The most excellent liberal commentator just went BIG Time.

Sitting in for Keith. You Go Girl!

Freaky Sex Friday: Comparing Political Whores

WARNING: Rough Language 

Remembering Martin (from lrose)

I love this woman and her insight (I hope sharing this is ok, darlin’).

While reflecting on that terrible day and times immediately following Martin’s murder– my mind was flooded with many feelings and thoughts. The impact of his murder is still felt today, not just ebbed back then. It is felt in all of society as a whole. WE lost a leader with a global humanitarian compass and heart. Generations of young people lost a strong man with passion for right and wrong. And each generation raised without that embedded compass seems to have lost their way.

I wish I had learned more… read more… been enlightened more– why? Because when I reflect back– I clearly remember running! Physically running and hiding and zip zagging out of DC when the riots started. I can no longer run. No, not at all. I can no more run away from problems that still are here… BUT I can stand. Yes I can… and I can voice, yes I can. AND I can vote. I did all of those things back in the day also– but with far far less knowledge of WHY I was doing them. I must always remember to vote with all parts of my life– for many many didn’t have the right to vote — in my lifetime…. And died to get that right. Hell– they died for no stepping off the curb of a street as a white person passed by.

I recall that James Earl Ray did not kill him! No– no way. My theory has to do with Brushy Mountain Prison. Right up the road from me here in Tennessee. They kill child molesters inside… and Mother rapers. BUT no one touched James. Nope… and he mingled within the general population. And that same population was behind him. Leaders in America from diverse walks of life supported his innocents. Another killing just swept under the rug along with John and Bobby.

Just like a parent killed in a senseless war and the children grow-up parentless… and effected, so has our country grown without many many likes of Martin. I still sincerely cry tears when I hear clips of him speaking. If you wish to read at least one of his works… read “ Letters from Birmingham Jail” It is awesome and timely.

That ends my morning memo…

Love,

lrose
“…Live Simply, Love Generously, Care Deeply,
Speak Kindly and Leave the Rest to God. …”

Mike Gravel

Cry Me A Freaking River, Skyler.

I have received a comment and emails (regarding this post) and comments on YouTube from the Gravel Campaign on David Fleetwood’s channel taking exception to my bitch (having had “enough of this bullshit”). Now, from my experience this year, the secondary candidates have had poor campaigns (I think that only one from the campaign might disagree). Whenever I went to any of the straw poll sites or sites where you select your issues and compare them to the candidates, I was always very close between my #1 and #2 (Kucinich and Gravel).

This obviously means that I am liberal and a progressive, for both of those Democratic candidates matched me almost perfectly.

But it is obvious that the Dem Party doesn’t want either of these candidates and Mike was smart enough to bail on the Republican Lite Party.

I like Mike. A Lot. I saw this video from BrassCheckTV (had seen portions previously) this morning and thought it important that I share it… not to persuade any campaign dweeb that I agree with Mike, but to show readers here that his message is straight up. As ineffectual as his campaign has been, it is not totally their fault. They are playing against a stacked deck and everyone knows it. This is the catalyst for their anger and striking out.

Notice at around the 8 minute mark that Real News interviews him and he basically stresses what I have been saying since day one about the Big 3 (especially about the Clintbama Campaign). They are all part of the same party. They want the same shit, just slightly less evilly presented than McInsane’s stances… but little difference when you scrape back the bullshit.

So, for my desires of this country, Mike seems to match me pretty well.

But, even though the message is right, his campaign stands no chance without major reform in this election process. Nor will it help for the campaign to go out of its way to bullshit little blogs like this, knee jerk reactions when they are complicit. Don’t even try to push the blame totally on this little group, when we know better. It makes the campaign seem even pettier than I do. (But I am not running for president).

So, believe me, I like Mike. I think his message is excellent and his desires for this country wonderful. But explain to me how the hell he will ever get elected if people can’t get their shit together.