Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Frame by Frame


Frame by frame (Suddenly)
Death by drowning (from within)
In your own, in your own analysis.

 
Step by step (Suddenly)
Doubt by numbers (from within)
In your own, in your own analysis.




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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Socialism in a Republic


I laugh at how the Right counts on the ability to characterize what 'Socialism' is.

They count on the ability to feed other peoples ignorance by redefining and repainting definitions in order to run a forced narrative that relies on fear mongering and misdirection.

Anyone who submits themselves to the demonizing of 'Socialism' as a result - Should consider themselves ignorant.

Among other things, the roads they drive on, the schools they attended as kids, the fire and police are all examples of Socialism.

Socialism and Communism are NOT the same things.

The entire concept of the 'American Republic' is a construct that cannot exist without co-operative efforts that are inherently 'Socialistic'.

That co-operative / 'Socialistic' element is vital to creating and maintaining a functioning infrastructure, and it plays heavily into the ability to retain livable wages as well.

Kind of odd that the same agenda that is working to mis-charicterize and demonize the concept, is the same one working to defund infrastructure, lower wages, interfere with the free flow of information on the internet, and run a never ending war.

The co-operative / 'Socialistic' construct is not a construct that saturates, it just folds into other concepts and fills gaps where individual efforts and / or dominance either cannot address an issue or become problematic.

Friday, July 10, 2015

'Share to G+' BOOKMARKLET


Google has taken away the convenient link at the top of the G+ page - For sharing content.
This Bookmarklet is designed to grab the current page address, and create a pop-up dialog to share the current page.
I have it on my bookmark bar... 
NOTE: Clicking on the link from this page will pop up a share for a blank page...
Drag this link into your 'Favorites' / 'Bookmarks'
[Share to G+]
Find a page you want to share - Then click on the bookmark you just added.
ANOTHER NOTE: If you share THIS page - it will include the below image... So that's cool! 

Here is the code that makes it work (tested in Firefox:


Here is one for Facebook too... If you are into that sort of thing:
https://www.facebook.com/share_options.php

For Firefox:
Share on Facebook
Drag me to your Bookmarks Bar to quickly share any web page with your friends, even when you're not on Facebook.
If you can't see the Bookmarks Bar, Choose "Show Bookmarks Bar" from the View menu.
After you drag the button to the Bookmarks Bar, it will look like this.

Here is that code (for the Firefox version)
For Internet Explorer
Share on Facebook
To quickly share any web page with your friends, even when you're not on Facebook, you can add the Share Bookmarklet.Right-click me and choose "Add to Favorites", then select "Create in" and choose the "Links" folder.
If you can't see the Bookmarks Bar, choose "Show Bookmarks Bar" from the View menu.
After you drag the button to the Bookmarks Bar, it will look like this.

Here is the code for the Explorer version:


Saturday, July 4, 2015

Subjugation - Americana

No matter what a collection of people who are either; open or closeted bigots, or are otherwise uneducated may think, say, or do...

The icon of a defeated government - That specifically insisted upon the subjugation of other (specifically Black) humans - Does not belong on any government building, at any government function or event.

I'm really surprised that it took THIS long for this sort of dialog to be happening...

That flag and what it stands for, should have been gone a long time ago...

Just like the Nazi flag was taken out of Germany... And for the same reasons.

I wonder how many of these 'Confederate Flag' waving folks, would find it in poor taste to walk into a synagogue / or through a primarily Jewish community carrying a Swastika banner?

I have found that most people who try to invoke the flags 'history' are either pulling from a fabricated construct (because they don't actually know the history), or are otherwise misinformed or ignorant of the actualities...

In addition to THIS sentiment being a 'Cornerstone' of the Confederacy :

"... the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man;
that slavery, subordination to the superior race,
is his natural and normal condition."

Let's clarify some of the basic history about the Confederate Battle Flag, more accurately known as the Battle Flag of Northern Virginia.

The flag has no meaning "regardless" of politics, or above politics; it's heritage is not exempt from history. Anyone can interpret anything any way they want, but if they claim historical sanction for their interpretation, then they'd best be accurate. And in that sense, history is clear: There is no revolutionary cause associated with the flag, other than the right for Southern states to determine how best to subjugate black people and to perpetuate slavery.

First sewn in 1861 — there were about 120 created for the war — the flag was flown by the cavalry of P.G.T. Beauregard, the Confederacy's first duly appointed general, after he took Manassas, Virginia, in the first Battle of Bull Run.

After the Civil War, the flag saw limited (and quite appropriate) use at first: It commemorated the sons of the South who died during the war. We can easily forgive the families of those who died for grieving. No account of the Civil War can be complete without noting how vicious the Union army could be, and how destructive its strategy toward the end of the war had become. That the cause of the war, once the damned Union army actually invaded the South and started destroying it, came to be associated with an actual, guns-out defense of real property and liberties — mainly, the liberty not to die during a war — is not controversial. That's what happens during wars.

But never did the flag represent some amorphous concept of Southern heritage, or Southern pride, or a legacy that somehow includes everything good anyone ever did south of the Mason-Dixon line, slavery excluded.

Fast-forward about 100 years, past thousands of lynchings in the South, past Jim

Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson, past the state-sanctioned economic and political subjugation of black people, and beyond the New Deal that all too often gave privileges to the white working class to the specific exclusion of black people.

In 1948, Strom Thurmond's States' Rights Party adopted the Battle Flag of Northern Virginia as a symbol of defiance against the federal government. What precisely required such defiance? The president's powers to enforce civil rights laws in the South, as represented by the Democratic Party's somewhat progressive platform on civil rights.

Georgia adopted its version of the flag design in 1956 to protest the Supreme

Court's ruling against segregated schools, in Brown v. Board of Education.

The flag first flew over the state capitol in South Carolina in 1962, a year after George Wallace raised it over the grounds of the legislature in Alabama, quite specifically to link more aggressive efforts to integrate the South with the trigger of secession 100 years before — namely, the storming of occupied Fort Sumter by federal troops. Fort Sumter, you might recall, is located at the mouth of Charleston Harbor.

Opposition to civil rights legislation, to integration, to miscegenation, to social equality for black people — these are the major plot points that make up the flag's recent history. Not Vietnam. Not opposition to Northern culture or values. Not tourism. Not ObamaCare. Not anything else.

There's only one uncontrived association that's a step removed from racial subjugation, and it's the initial post-war use of the flag: to celebrate the victories of the Confederate army and to mourn those who died while fighting in the Civil War. But today, 150 years later, such flags are best and most appropriate displayed in museums and at cemeteries.

It should not be controversial to say ~ That people should not spend their days mourning relatives they never knew from a war that ended 150 years ago ~ Especially if that feeling is so paramount that it outweighs the sense of brotherhood they might feel toward fellow humans who are alive, and for whom the flag's presence and endorsement by the government is the personification of the evil of white supremacy.