- In writing that last bullet, I had a thought and lost it while I completed that thought. Damn.
- When Democrats where in office, the Republicans, rightly, said that the Democrats were drunk with power and were abusing the perks of office and using the government treasury as their personal bank accounts. Now that the Republicans control the both halves of congress and the presidency, they are doing the same thing that they accused Democrats of doing.
- Negative news sells. Even when it distorts the picture of society or a part of society, negative news sells.
One day, Gregory Kane was the guest of a conservative radio talk show host. Kane was going on about some "problem" in the Black community. Actually, the "problem" was that "Black leaders" weren't saying something about a situation that Kane believed they should be saying something about.
I called in and launched on him and the host. I asked why it is that "Black leaders" are blasted for thing they are "not doing" when Blacks who are doing things are not pointed out. Specifically, I pointed out Black Professional Men, Inc., and asked why they are not given more press when they are doing things that "Black leaders" are not doing.
The host jumped in and said, essentially, because negative news sells. No one wants to talk about positive news.
That's the mindset that is part of the scrambled brain syndrome that Blacks suffer from that I wrote about above.
- Read this.
- Whe the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives, many on the right said that term limits need to be put into place to stop the abuses by the congresscriters. One of the voices AGAINST term limits was Rush Limbaugh. After the election which occurred prior to the Republican take over of the House, Rush Limbaugh was spitting fire about the Democrats retaining control of the House. He then became a term limits supporter.
The next election cycle, the Republicans gained control of the House. For most people, term limits stopped being an issue.
Does anyone else notice that the same people who were backing term limits of congress criters are now backing term limits for the Supreme Court?
- When someone says that capitalism is evil, do the following:
- Smack them.
- Tell the person that capitalism is an economic system. As such, it can't be evil. People are evil. It doesn't matter what system that person is in, if he is evil, he is evil and will find a way to exploit the economic system in a way that favors him.
- Smack them.
- Ask them if they realize that socialism and communism has similar abuses occuring those economic systems.
- Smack them.
- Tell them that you were mistaken. Capitalism is more economic based, while socialism and communism, while economic in theory, needs a repressive political system behind it to get it to work.
- Smack me for messing this up.
- The thrust is, people corrupt the system, the system doesn't corrupt the people.
- Many public Black conservatives, IMO, are just as much race hustlers as are "Black leaders".
- Women control relationships.
Attractive women -- women who are physically beautiful, have bodies that are "ideal", or have personalities that shine -- know that they are desireable. They know that they are wanted. They know that they have a larger pool to pick from. As such, they act accordingly.
Meanwhile, the men that go after them do some stupid and/or degrading, to themselves, things.
Until...
The women meet that man that they find attractive -- physically, financially, or socially -- then they lose control of the relationship. They tend to want that man so much that they "over look" things like behavior, attitude, the other women, etc.
Then the men gain control. If the men want to take advantage of the situation, they will. Then the woman gets hurt and blames men.
But in all of the bad relationships she has been in, she's the constant factor. So why doesn't she blame herself and get herself together?
- Men can only take advantage of women while the women allow men to take advantage of them. If women want better men, become better women who demand that their men are better men.
- Blogging, for me, is mostly brain spew, mental masturbation, throwing out of stuff. Spelling isn't a high concern for me. Make that of it what you will.
- It's easy to stand above the crowd because the average size of people in the crowd is small.
- Even though I wrote that Blacks as a group have scrambled brains, we still have a strength that cannot be denied. Well, actually, it is often denied. John H. Johnson is an example of the strength. The Perry family is an example of the strength.
You never heard of the Perry family? Well, you're right. But I can tell you stories of my clan that are nothing short of inspiring and life affirming.
I stand on their shoulders. I will not let them down.
- Being positive is hard work. Being negative is easy.
- Blacks can't afford to get caught up in the liberal vs. conservative garbage. The "conversations" based on "liberal" vs. "conservatve" proves it.
Church!!
Posted by: avery at August 11, 2005 05:57 PM