Here we go again, It must have been "the tone and tenor" of something I said.

 

First I was banned from the AL.com forum because I opposed George W. Bush's policies, especially the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Then I was banned from Left in Alabama because I didn't support Artur Davis for Governor of Alabama.

 Next I was banned from The Attack Machine for defending the feckless leader of a failed party.  Now I've been "un" friended (yes I know that's not a word)  by a friend on face book and removed from their Yahoo group because I stood up for Dr. Joe Reed and Nancy Worley. Sigh

The funny thing is it's OK for them to attack  Reed and Worley and accuse them of corruption, racism,  bigotry and everything else under the sun, but when I defend or rebut the charges  made against them I'm attacking democrats and being divisive.

There is a lot of misinformation being spread that needs to be cleared up.  The Alabama Democratic Party isn't in debt because Joe Reed is borrowing and spending money like there is no tomorrow.  Most of the debt stemmed from elections before Kennedy’s tenure and from former Gov. Don Siegelman’s failed drive for a state lottery in 1999.

It's not true no one wants to lead the Alabama Democratic Party because they don't want to bow down to Joe Reed.

 Birmingham attorney Ed Gentle had sought the chairmanship, but Worley said Gentle decided not to take the post on a judge’s advice because of his work as a special master in a couple of cases involving politics.

It's not true  donors won't contribute to the ADP as long as Joe Reed is in control with no accountability.

“I can tell you we are broke, but today I’ll remove two of the brokes,” Worley said.
Worley said some donors stepped up "to keep the doors open for the party" and the rent is now paid through June at the party headquarters in Montgomery.
“We are working the bills down as we can get money,” Worley said.
Worley said about half of the party's $500,000 debt dates back to the 1999 lottery referendum when the party spent considerable funds on get out the vote efforts.

I could care less about being banned from the AL.com forum and The Attack Machine because I expect them to close their eyes, ears, and mind, to people who don't agree with them, and you would think I would learn by now real  friends respect each others opinions and treat them as  equals. 

 I've discovered a disturbing pattern in all of this...don't like what I'm saying, ,on't  want to heari it.........shut me out   and maybe I will go away.  If that doesn't work.....  shut you down, or worse. 

I still believe we should test the theory that all will magically be right (pun intended) and white men will flock back to the party, a new generation of leaders will emerge, candidates will run for office, and donors will dig deep into their pockets  if the Alabama Democratic Party got rid of Joe Reed and his bunch.

While the ADP is destroying it's on the Roberts Court is poised to strike down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. I'm going to say as an African American I feel like I'm under attack not only by the republicans, but the democrats too.   Republicans don't want us to vote,  and some democrats (not confused with all) don't want us to have any power.  What to do and where to go?

In any event I'm through with the ADP vs ADM psycho drama and moving on to something important.
Black leaders plan caravan in support of Voting Rights Act.

The National Coalition of Leaders to Save Section 5 announced on Tuesday that Farrakhan would join them for a June 14 caravan and pilgrimage that will stop at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, at the Shelby County courthouse in Columbiana, at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, and conclude with a 4 p.m. event at the state Capitol in Montgomery.

The caravan will start at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama  where four little girls were killed when a bomb exploded during Sunday school class, in the state where their killer died after serving 6 months in prison, and the 85 year old father of one of those girls is serving time in prison convicted of bribery and conspiracy in 2007 for his role in the Jefferson County sewer scandal.

I wouldn't want to see/hear/think about stuff like this either.

RedEye tiptoeing away from the computer to 'Comfort the disturbed, disturb the comfortable' one blog post at a time.

 

Edit~Vote YES on the September 18th Constitutional Referendum

I'm voting YES on the Constitutional Amendment on  September 18th to transfer money from the Alabama Trust Fund to make up for a shortfall in the state's General Fund Budget....

Because the following people are voting NO.

House Minority Leader Craig Ford (d)

State Senator Scott Beason (r)

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If the people listed above are against it, I'm FOR it.  After all what have people who share their point of view ever been right (pun intended) about?

Right-wing ignorance and inaction; Proof that history really is circular~ Fist Dap What Would Jack Do

RedEye's Week in Review Hypocrisy Edition

For anyone keeping score~Fist dap jobsanger

The prize for hypocrisy in the name of Lord goes to Chik-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy, who says he respects LBGT workers and patrons in spite of the fact they are inviting the wrath of God with their lifestyle.    Translation the CEO of Chik-fil-A worships  money more than he fears God's wrath. Amen and Amen.

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With Democrats like Craig Ford who needs republicans?  Craig Ford is the latest so called democrat who believes the way to the Governor's office is to pander to the right at the expense of the traditional democratic base.  He should ask his friend Artur Davis (r. turncoat VA) how that worked out for him.

Second prize for hypocrisy goes to LiA bloggers countrycat and mparus, who don't want to revoke Craig Ford's membership in the Alabama Democratic party, and are standing up for marriage equality but had no problem revoking my front page and posting privileges because I stood up for who I believed in,  and what I believed in.

I was forced to watch CNN this week because MSNBC aired the Olympics during the day, and I would rather run through hell with a pair or gasoline drawers on than watch Faux News.  Remember when CNN used to be the most trusted names in news?  Where is CNN (said in my best James Earl Jones voice)?

 In their effort not be called liberal (like that was a bad thing), they turned into Fox Wanna Be. No wonder the CNN chief is "stepping down" because the network needs new thinking.  Ya think?


Psst CNN!  Check out Newsroom on HBO, it's the kind of media we wish we had instead of the media we have.

The Rightards are licking their chops at the prospect of former Governor Don Siegelman (D.) being re sentenced for crime he shouldn't have been sentenced for in the first place,  by the same judge who sentenced him the first time.  Confused yet? 

All I'm going to say is if Siegelman is sent back to prison for being too liberal,  it will be because  democratic leadership didn't confront  the right wing Bullies.

 If democratic leadership is afraid to stand up to the right wing Bullies,  maybe we should all be afraid, and just bend over and take our Gang Banging like Girlie Men.  I'm just saying...If the Left were anything like the right....

Fist Dap-Liberal Bias

Noted scholar and world leader Evo Morales has definitively proven that eating chicken causes male homosexuality. Why? Because chickens that are raised to be eaten are artificially injected with female hormones to make them plump and tasty.  Thus, when a male eats the hormone-filled chicken, it will cause him to deviate from normal maleness and therefore TURN INTO A HOMOSEXUAL.

I've been hanging out in Right Wing Land so you won't have to

Fist Dap Truthout

Recently I broke a longstanding, self imposed, rule of  not commenting on right wing radio host Dale Jackson's  The Attack Machine blog, and I'm glad I did, because I've learned a lot about who they are, and how they think.

One of the things I've learned is there more than a whiff of hypocrisy in Right Wing Land.  For example, their underwear is all in a knot over The City of Huntsville Joins the Fight For Secrecy,  at the same time they defend republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney fight for secrecy

Another thing I learned is they don't like to be questioned, or to back up their assertions with facts.  For example, they say the high unemployment is because the democratic controlled Senate refused to pass 30 jobs bills passed by the republican controlled house.  When you ask what 30 bills they either say "look it up" or resort to name calling, personal attacks and insults.  Then when you call them out, they call it whining.

I learned they are school yard Bullies, who try and intimidate those who dare question them, or have an opposing point of view.

I learned they believe so called independent voters are stupid.


The last thing I've learned is they more interested in doing what's right, pun intended, than being right.  It's all about winning elections. It's not about governing.

What if there were a great debate concerning the future of American Society and only one side showed up?

"Democracy demands an educated and informed electorate"~Thomas Jefferson

Unless and until the progressive left develops an effective media voice, there can be no restoration of American Democracy, no return to political sanity, and no establishment of economic justice.~ Ernest Partridge

Today's Must Reads
The  Azalea Trail Maids, The NAACP and The Media

It's the Media Stupid!

Politico Reporter  Admits The Press Is Covering For Republican Obstructionism

Update-RedEye's Independence Day Open Thread~2012

 

A funny thing happens when I attempt to reply to post comments on The Attack Machine.....I can't.  Guess I've been banned from there too.  Bummer.  It's a good thing I have my own blog so I can reply to Brian's concerns about  the implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act.  Psst Brian!  You are welcome to continue the discussion here at RedEye's front page! All points of view are welcome here.  Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism!


Brian :"It’s not that we have problem with people having health care, but it is the quality of health care that they receive."

RedEye:  Yeah, right.

B:  "Problem is that through this system, the people that are getting what you call access to health care aren’t paying for it, the government is and through the government, the taxpayers are paying for it. And those that aren’t paying will receive a level of care that they paid for."

R:  Problem is the people that are getting what I call access to health care CAN'T pay for it.  We the people (the government) CAN pay for it, and we should, because that's the American Way.  Health Care shouldn't be available only to those who can pay for it.  

B:  " If Medicare/Medicaid were equal to private insurance, there would be no need for supplemental plans."

R:  Bull Poop.  If we had Medicare/Medicaid for all there would be no need for supplemental plans. :)

B:  " Granted, your employer might cover you or they might not. They might look at the costs and decide that paying the fine is cheaper then providing health insurance."

R:  Keys word MIGHT NOT.  If they decide paying the fine is cheaper than providing health insurance that's on them.  We (the government) will use the fine money to  provide health insurance for their employees.

B:  I am not against affordable health care, but regulations and bureaucracies are not going to provide it."

R:  Says who?  The same people who want regulations and bureaucracies to provide and administer a government issued Voter ID card? :)

B:  "Telling insurance companies that they must spend 80% of premiums on health care might just encourage them to start paying more to doctors if they want a raise."

R:  Huh?  I don't hear Doctors complaining about needing a raise.

B:  "'One more thing that just occurred to me. The Affordable Health Care Act says that insurance companies cannot deny someone coverage for preexisting conditions, but doesn’t keep insurance companies from jacking up their rates if somebody does have a preexisting condition(s)."

R:  On this we can agree, insurance probably will jack up their premiums, which makes it a win, win for them and for the people who don't have access to health insurance. 

B:  "BTW, who do you think is going to pay for the subsidies and those added to Medicare/Medicaid?"

R:  The same people who pay for all war all the time.
     The same people who pay for NASA.
    We the people are going to pay for the subsidies added to Medicare/Medicaid.

     God Bless America!

July 4th Must Reads

What, to Black Americans, is the 4th of July

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.

Remember Thomas Jefferson's Betrayal

So, the ideal of equality Jefferson proclaimed, he also betrayed. He got it right when he wrote about "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" as the core of our human aspirations. But he lived it wrong, denying to others the rights he claimed for himself. And that's how Jefferson came to embody the oldest and longest war of all - the war between the self and the truth, between what we know and how we live.

Obama's not the first black President, he is the first President who is black. 

Here’s the reality that must be clearly understood. President Obama is not the first Black President; he’s the first President who is Black.  A Black President would have come into office with a “Black Agenda.”  If he were the first Black President he would be using his bully pulpit to champion legislation targeting unemployment in urban areas, poverty, income disparity, and other issues. This in no way should be interpreted to challenge his “Blackness.”  It’s about the agenda not the man.

What's that you say?  Obama has a white voter problem.  I'm shocked!  Shocked I tell you!  Not. 

The 4th of July  Indoctrination, Oppression, and Hypocrisy

Message to jobsanger, getting a warning that malware is attached to your blog and that you may have been hacked  when I attempt to click on your blog.

Racial Profiling for Dummies Trayvon Martin Edition

"TRAYVON BELONGS TO ALL AMERICA, AND UNTIL YOU  SEE HIM AS YOUR CHILD TOO, WE ALL REMAIN IN BONDAGE

I recently broke a long standing, self imposed, rule not to comment on Dale Jackson's blog, appropriately named The Attack Machine, because I couldn't let the lies and the misconceptions continue to go unchallenged.  Although I'm often called everything but a child a God for daring express my point of view, I'm glad I did, because I learn something new about the right wing psyche everyday.

One of the things I learned as a result of a discussion about Stand Your Ground laws in relation to the Trayvon Martin case, is some (not to be confused with all)  Righty's honestly don't know what racial profiling IS.

Dale and Brian contend George Zimmerman was standing his ground when he shot and killed Trayvon Martin because "Trayvon Martin confronted him and was on top of him, bashing his head into the ground."

I contend IF Trayvon Martin was on top of Zimmerman bashing his head in, Trayvon was standing his ground  in fear of his life as a result of being profiled, stalked, and approached by Zimmerman.

Why did Zimmerman profile, follow and approach Trayvon Martin in the first place?

Well, according to  Dale Jackson it's because he thought Trayvon was up to no good.

Why did Zimmerman think Trayvon Martin was up to no good?

Because according to Zimmerman and his defenders, there had been a rash of break ins committed by young black males in the neighborhood.

Was Trayvon Martin breaking into someones home when George Zimmerman called 911?

No.  He was walking home from the store in the rain, talking on his cell phone to his girl friend, wearing a Hoodie, armed with a bag of Skittles and a can of Arizona Iced Tea..

Why did Zimmerman think Travyon Martin  was up to no good?

According to Zimmerman and his defenders,  it's because he was a young, black male, and all young black males are guilty of breaking into people's houses and stealing their stuff because they are young black males.

That is RACIAL PROFILING.

Why was George Zimmerman in fear of his life?

What was Trayvon Martin's motivation for attacking him in the first place?

According to Zimmerman and  his defenders Trayvon attacked George Zimmerman because he was white, and because black males go around jumping on white men just because they are well....thugs, and that's just what they do.

Why was George Zimmerman screaming for help knowing he was armed with a 9 mm handgun?

If George Zimmerman had not continue to pursue Trayvon Martin with a 9 mm hand gun, and just stayed in his automobile as instructed by the 911 dispatcher, he wouldn't be on trial for 2nd degree murder, and Trayvon Martin would be alive today.

Maybe.

Today's Must Reads

Trayvon Martins parents  call for change in stand-you-ground law

Stand Your Ground Laws Caused "Net Increase in Deaths"