by Rupe | Apr 15, 2016 | what the...?
“My personal feeling is that this bill trivializes the Bible, which I believe is a sacred text,” Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam said.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have made the Bible the state’s official book.
“In addition to the constitutional issues with the bill, my personal feeling is that this bill trivializes the Bible, which I believe is a sacred text,” Haslam (R) wrote in a letter to the speaker of the statehouse.
Source: Tennessee governor vetoes bill making Bible the official state book
My Comments: Thank you governor. This crap is excruciatingly annoying. It is full time we kick out these friggin’ yahoos who busy themselves with all kinds of bullshit instead of doing the people’s work. The problem is current politicians are all wicked or stupid (Republicans and Democrats alike).
by Rupe | Apr 11, 2016 | Social-Race Issues
Data suggests risky behaviors are working to defy modern trends of mortality, perhaps most starkly among middle-aged white women.
White women have been dying prematurely at higher rates since the turn of this century, passing away in their 30s, 40s and 50s in a slow-motion crisis driven by decaying health in small-town America, according to an analysis of national health and mortality statistics by The Washington Post.
Source: A new divide in American death: Statistics show widening…
My Comments: This is about lack of governance. Some of our leaders (and lets not beat around the bush here – Republicans mainly) are busy pitting poor and uneducated whites against peoples of other color, while the poor and uneducated of all colors suffer and die at obscene rates. The same people dying are the ones who blindly, and dare I say ignorantly, support rich tricksters in high places, who couldn’t care any less about them.
Our country is in crisis because of moral bankruptcy and wickedness by a ruling class (some would argue that this has been an ingrained part of the American story) that is tone deaf to the misery of the ruled.
Preying on the ignorance of people with a false narrative is evil and will only continue unless we change our system. The current Republican and Democratic parties are NOT taking care of us and the leaders are only using their office to further their ends. Black and brown people have been and still continue to suffer at far higher rates (as the article affirms that mortality rates for both group are still higher than whites) due to structural wickedness, but we are waiting for the false narrative to continue (it has already started with Trump and others) that whites are dying because black and brown peoples are getting better treatment. As ridiculous as that might sound, worse and more absurd ideas have been peddled to the gullible minds of poor and uneducated whites, who have historically been used as pawn in a system that cedes very little advantage to them.
United we stand – we are divided…we are falling…
by Rupe | Apr 11, 2016 | Money Matters
There is an ongoing perception that most of the workforce has a college degree. When we say college degree we mean at a minimum a bachelor’s degree. You would think that with $1.3 trillion in student debt outstanding a good portion of the work force would be college educated.
Source: The education and employment myth: Almost two-thirds of ...
My Comment: Pretty interesting and concerning piece…
by Rupe | Apr 2, 2016 | Inspiration, Military-Political
Demonstrators are shown during a Black Lives Matter protest last year.
When several black celebrities refused to attend the Academy Awards this year, their protest was initially dismissed as a futile gesture. Yet their boycott succeeded in exposing Hollywood’s subtle but deeply ingrained form of racism.
Source: Corporate America supports the fight for LGBT rights…
My Comments: Thank you so very much Ms Cohen for this piece. The nasty hypocrisy under which we move about our daily lives as a society is killing us. Your piece is well put and much appreciated.
by Rupe | Apr 1, 2016 | what the...?
Aiken, S.C., cops had no reasonable cause for even the traffic stop, much less to violate the man’s body.
For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on an investigative series about police abuse in South Carolina. I’ve found a dizzying number of cases, including illegal arrests, botched raids, fatal shootings and serious questions about how all those incidents are investigated.
Many of these cases were previously unreported, or if they were reported, the initial reports were a far cry from what actually happened. The series will run at some point in the next week. But in the meantime, I want to share one particularly horrifying incident that I came across this week while researching the series.
Source: Video shows white cops performing roadside cavity search of black man
My Comments: This definitely a WHAT THE FUCK! Here we go – this what the black experience is under the New Jim Crow System in a Post Racial America. We will get this to stop. By the hook or the crook it will stop!
