***** By no stretch of the imagination did Obama save America. He may have turned the Titanic a tiny bit. He may have slowed the Titanic a tiny bit. Would anyone in history......

By no stretch of the imagination did Obama save America. He may have turned the Titanic a tiny bit. He may have slowed the Titanic a tiny bit. Would anyone in history have done a better job? I can't think of anyone, particularly if their skin was turned black before they took office in 2008. Was he ever the well intended man I thought he was? I don't know anymore. I don't know if I ever will. My best theory is that there is a small circle that controls the government machine. They keep themselves hidden until the President is elected. And then they reveal themselves and literally scare the s*** out of him. I can't see any other way to explain Obama.  http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2016/02/james-sanders-supporters-are-fraud-if.html

***** James: The Sanders supporters are a fraud, if, as we did in 2008 and again in 2012, go home after the elections as though anything significant has been won. Chris Hedges: the Democratic Party is the old Republican Party rebranded. The Sanders campaign is a fraud, and can lead to nothing but disappointment. Hedges is sadly, correct, if he is telling us that the entire Democratic machine is against us before, during, and forever after any given election. Their loyalty is to the corporate fascist status quo. Chris Hedges, our consummate, our ultimate intellectual today. A disturbing article. Maybe it is just a cry for attention by Chris. Maybe it is a poorly worded attempt to wake us up. Maybe he is attempting to give Sanders an opportunity to step things up. Maybe he is right.

http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/bernie_sanders_phantom_movement_20160214

***** Hillary is a bureaucrat, NOT a leader. You know the difference, correct? She couldn't, she WOULDN'T, lead a group of preschoolers out of a burning building. She.......

Hillary is a bureaucrat, NOT a leader.  You know the difference, correct? She couldn't, she WOULDN'T, lead a group of preschoolers out of a burning building.  She would create policies , organize committees, phone political cronies,  pontificate to the press, blame others, raise election funds and make excuses why the children can't be saved, instead. All the while believing herself to be a great leader, and  deep inside knowing she is a total fraud, and terrified that others will see the truth, too.

***** Must must read!!! War Is Realizing the Israelizing of the World

http://original.antiwar.com/dan_sanchez/2015/12/21/war-is-realizing-the-israelizing-of-the-world/

To my shock......

To my shock I may accept the apartment that is available to me. It is a very difficult decision for me, but I have done great due diligence and if it holds that with the apartment I can serve not only me but at least regularly a dear friend with special needs, and possibly the occasional zero risk zero maintenance homeless person or true activist, then as early as the end of this week I may commit to a one year lease. I also feel, if it holds that in all likelihood I can help others directly with this apartment, then I also perceive that my second issue which is homelessness, poverty, gentrification, can be better advocated for by me if I am a person with an apartment, a normal resident of the city who was long homeless himself, as opposed to continuing as a homeless person. This is not a decision about which I am happy, or unhappy. My only desire in life is to be as helpful to the neediest with each breath, with each penny, as I possibly can be. And what I have just outlined appears to be how things are sorting out.

The thought of spending hundreds of dollars a month on me that I have not been spending is sheer agony for me. I need billions billions of dollars, quite literally, for my human family that is suffering so badly. Now with few exceptions I eat for free. One hot meal per day that I turn into two meals per day, a small supper and a cold larger meal in the afternoon. And I spend about $4 a day on coffee or an orange or a banana in some combination to morally justify using a restroom in a restaurant while I am on all day post in the free Palestine vigil at various strategic locations around Washington DC 7 days per week. Thus I am free so far to joy fully donate every penny to those who serve the needy and Palestine, those who work productively for human rights for Palestine, in support of Syrian refugees, Doctors Without Borders, etc. I am horrified by the idea of diverting even a penny from those.

If I accept the apartment it will be entirely unfurnished, literally, but for a mattress on the floor, and possibly a small refrigerator. I intend to harness the excess electricity I generate with this vehicle from the Sun for most or all of my indoor energy needs by carrying a battery to and fro. I envision beans and rice as my staple meal which is not too much different than what I have gotten in the shelter, and at sometimes I will eat at the homeless food truck and make monthly donations to the operator of that truck so that I am NOT a burden on them. So then I also minimize costs. 

if this transpires, and there are a few big if's which have to do with whether or not I'll be allowed to have frequent guests, if this transpires I anticipate very substantially ramping up my advocacy for the poor, homeless, disenfranchised here in Washington. I have no illusion I'll be able to make any significant difference. But if the apartment materializes then I feel myself moving substantially to add that advocacy alongside the advocacy for Palestine. I'm not certain why within me having the apartment is so strongly linked with that move, but I feel that it is.

The degree to which we don't live out the love inside of us is the degree to which we truly suffer. And there are those who have shown us that, the truth is, there is no price too great to pay to love fully. I experience my recent decades has learning to follow their example. It is heaven. It looks like hell, but it is heaven. Those lifestyles that look like heaven, are hell.

The degree to which we don't live out the love inside of us is the degree to which we truly suffer. And there are those who have shown us that, the truth is, there is no price too great to pay to love fully. I experience my recent decades has learning to follow their example. It is heaven. It looks like hell, but it is heaven. Those lifestyles that look like heaven, are hell.

Maybe there is a God. Thank you. Justice Antonin Scalia, Who Led a Conservative Renaissance on the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 79

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/antonin-scalia-death.html?_r=0&referer=https://news.google.com

***** Hillary: No We Can't!

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/18/1471309/-Hillary-No-We-Can-t

The ‘Clinton Bubble’: How Clinton Democrats Fostered the 2008 Economic Crisis

http://m.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/the_great_american_stickup_is_bush_really_20100916

John Lewis just revealed himself as a selfserving, grandstanding, selfcentered fraud, as I have seen him to be for years now. "When you use your history as a hero of the Movement to disparage others because you never personally knew them, it is a slap in the face to all those people who fought hard and never made it into the history books or into Congress. It is a slap in the face to people like my grandmother."

https://thesouthlawn.org/2016/02/12/an-open-letter-to-rep-john-lewis/?utm_content=buffer6a1c4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

!!!!! ***** video. I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. Bernie Sanders

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1151096204908469&id=100000243025319

Regarding Bernie, Hillary, and the rest. To my friend who started storm is coming, who I still respect: There are 6 captains on the Titanic. Four......

To my friend who started  storm is coming, who I still respect: There are 6 captains on the Titanic. Four of them demand that the ship go faster in the same direction. One of them, a lady, of very questionable sincerity, says that maybe, possibly, under certain circumstances, don't look at my crossed fingers, I might want the ship to turn a little bit and to slow down a little bit, but you know, that really isn't possible we have to be real. And one of them, and old man with white hair but full of fire says that the ship is going too fast that it has to turn or it will hit the iceberg, that we will all have to stand together to overcome the forces that want to go straight and fast, and you say, folks we have to stand together and no matter what, vote for him or the lady? F*** you.

No credit to me, for years now, I pretty much live as though Creator is watching me every moment. I pretty much live accordingly. And it is so superior to.......

No credit to me, for years now, I pretty much live as though Creator is watching me every moment. I pretty much live accordingly. And it is so superior to all the other ways I've tried, so infinitely joyful, interesting, enriching, absorbing, challenging. One of the major ways, if not the major way, that we defend ourselves from a radically moral life, is the device, good. Being good. We use that name to turn the joy of radical virtue into the endured suffering of taking one's bitter medicine because it is good for us. That which is the joyful path is the radically virtuous path, the extremely virtuous path. And we have a trillion reasons that we've created for ourselves to not see it. Oh well. Thanks for hearing me. Hugs I will fail in trying to have radical virtue proliferate. But I will not fail to try. It is the hope. It is the only practical hope.

***** NY’s Public Theater cancels Palestinian production, ‘The Siege,’ it agreed to stage in May

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/02/nys-public-theater-cancels-palestinian-production-the-siege-it-was-to-stage-for-may/

"For anyone who wants to diminish murder and mayhem and terrorism around the world, and to protect the earth and everything in it from the ravages of capitalist greed – getting the United States off the neoliberal-neoconservative track that it has been on since at least the late 1970s should be Priority Number One. This means that the first order of business now is defeating Hillary Clinton....„

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/05/smash-clintonism-why-democrats-not-republicans-are-the-problem/

Video. Watch. Israel's policy of breaking the bones of Palestinians. Watch. You are funding this with your taxes. You are supporting this with your silence.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153536055956925&id=655846924

Netanyahu Goes Full Trump: Surround Israel With Barrier ‘To Defend Ourselves Against Wild Beasts’ GettyImages-51037982

http://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2016/02/09/netanyahu-goes-full-trump-surround-israel-with-barrier-to-to-defend-ourselves-against-wild-beasts/

I voted for this Fascist snake twice: Bill Clinton gutted welfare and criminalized the poor, all while funneling more money into the carceral state.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/welfare-reform-bill-hillary-clinton-tanf-poverty-dlc/

Jewish theologian and philosopher Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, “In a free society, some are guilty but all are responsible.”

Jewish theologian and philosopher Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, “In a free society, some are guilty but all are responsible.”

Bernie Sanders is the future of the Democratic Party

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/9/10940718/bernie-sanders-future-demographics

What Clinton said in her paid speeches Recalled one attendee: 'She sounded more like a Goldman Sachs managing director.'

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/clinton-speeches-218969?cmpid=sf

***** How Pope Francis shakes up what it means to be ‘pro-life’

http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2016/02/08/how-pope-francis-shakes-up-what-it-means-to-be-pro-life/

***** ‘Barbarism by an educated and cultured people’ — Dawayima massacre was worse than Deir Yassin

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/02/barbarism-by-an-educated-and-cultured-people-dawayima-massacre-was-worse-than-deir-yassin/

Help requested: if you know who is playing in this year's Super Bowl, please make absolutely certain, not to tell me. Yes, I am not kidding. I always hated our worship of this type of competition, from my earliest memory. It is absolutely how we prepare our children and ourselves for colonial wars, and justifying the wars of economy that we participate in against each other, thinking that it is virtue. I hate it.

Help requested: if you know who is playing in this year's Super Bowl, please make absolutely certain, not to tell me. Yes, I am not kidding. I always hated our worship of this type of competition, from my earliest memory. It is absolutely how we prepare our children and ourselves for colonial wars, and justifying the wars of economy that we participate in against each other, thinking that it is virtue. I hate it.

***** I was kindly asked if I knew of any Muslim Americans who distance themselves from so-called Islamic terrorists and I replied: By a factor of 100, or 1000, or 10,000 Muslims are the victim of so-called Muslim terrorists. Frankly, I question the decency of Muslims in America who publicly decry so-called Muslim terrorists. Had......

***** I was kindly asked if I knew of any Muslim Americans who distance themselves from so-called Islamic terrorists and I replied:  By a factor of 100, or 1000, or 10,000 Muslims are the victim of so-called Muslim terrorists. Frankly, I question the decency of Muslims in America who publicly decry so-called Muslim terrorists. Had I been alive in the time of slavery, or more particularly the time of Jim Crow, I would have decried the blacks who spoke out in favor of the white oppressors and against the black people struggling for their basic human rights. We Americans have slaughtered millions of Muslims in the last 50 to 100 years. Between us and the French and the British we have colonized, disrupted, terrorized, carved up the Muslim Middle East so that we could divide, conquer, oppress, and rape their resources. We have bombed advanced civilizations of Iraq back to the Stone Age, and Yemen, Libya, Lebanon and Palestine. I have trouble respecting a Muslim that speaks against resistance to this colonial oppression. But there are many. America and Britain have absolutely created Muslim terrorists. Without dispute Britain and America funded and armed the Taliban, a brutal, KKK version of Islam, as a proxy army against Russia in Afghanistan. Beginning in the 18 hundreds Britain, followed happily by America, funded the small KKK like Muslim sect now called Wahabi, that the vast majority of Muslims around the world they are not Muslims at all. Decade after decade after decade through today America and Britain fund them, now, as their proxy army against the government in lran.  All that I have just stated is very clear, my point being, that each and any point that I have just made can be quickly determined to be lie or fact by anyone with an interest to do so. And I have not spoken about how Britain and America have tormented, humiliated, desecrated the Muslims in the Middle East by thwarting the government that they seek to establish and installing instead of oppressive puppet regimes who screw their people, skim off oil revenues for themselves, but pass on the bulk of their people's wealth to western corporations. If Islam were not profoundly profoundly profoundly a religion of peace I can't explain why 1.5 billion Muslims in the world aren't at perpetual war against we Western barbarians.

***** 2010. This Saint, this Jew, is risking his life everyday in Palestine, Israel, to tell us the truth. Must read. Is Gideon Levy the most hated man in Israel or just the most heroic?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/is-gideon-levy-the-most-hated-man-in-israel-or-just-the-most-heroic-2087909.html

***** Some of us crave social power, social significance, the way a crack addict craves the drug, and or fears the lack of these things the way some people are terrified of torture and death.......

***** Some of us crave social power, social significance, the way a crack addict craves the drug, and or fears the lack of these things the way some people are terrified of torture and death.

Now Democrats, you educationally intellectually emotionally advantaged... what is it that you still don't understand about white male Republican's bullying, guns, hatred of human rights, women's rights, and minorities?

Till they recognize a better way to achieve social power, social significance, or a preferable substitute for these, they are not going to change their ways.  They prefer death over feeling weak (preferably your death... but even their own.)

How Hillary Clinton sold out working women and never apologized

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/3/1443758/-How-Hillary-Clinton-sold-out-working-women-and-never-apologized

WATCH: Israelis and Palestinians join hands to say no to occupation

http://972mag.com/watch-israelis-and-palestinians-join-hands-to-say-no-to-occupation/116734/

***** To paraphrase the newsroom, you know why the right hates you lefties? Because you fail to pay the price to achieve your platitudes so goddamn always.

***** To paraphrase the newsroom, you know why the right hates you lefties? Because you fail to pay the price to achieve your platitudes so goddamn always.