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Stop Playing Pastor and be President!

Sorry to be so candid about this subject, but my good brother, that's what you are doing. In making the statement that America will never be at war with Islam, was an over emphasis, because America was never at war with Islam, only the destructive practices carried out by  thieves and murderers. One such obvious theft is that of the deprivation of human rights, which we justifiably criticize other nations for doing that which is acceptable justice with these radical extremists that have managed to pervert the wisdom of the "Prophet" for their own selfish purposes. We all see the cases of murder over and over again with these self-appointed zealots of the Islamic faith.

I cite again, the wisdom of Mr. Elijah Muhammad, when explaining an experience of my coming across a Muslim from the east in downtown Mobile, and inviting him to the Temple for one of the meetings held that Wednesday evening. He was standing outside some night club that the seaman coming into port would frequent...he was smoking and you could smell the stench of alcohol on him. My being from a Catholic raised background felt he was a soul worth saving. Nevertheless, when I took him to the Temple, security would not let him in, because of his condition, which puzzled me.

I was later informed from the "Messenger's desk" about how Muslims who practiced Islam in the east had really gone astray in most instances from the delivery of the "Prophet" and he didn't want this "poison" to infect his following...thus, "watch while you pray" which meant being alert with both eyes opened as opposed to being on our knees with head bowed and eyes closed. To me, again, this man Elijah was wise beyond the depth of my shallow understanding.

America is my home, the home of my forefathers, my family, and their children. Therefore, you need to "watch while praying" for there is no home besides this...despite the Christian's belief of some locale in the clouds after physical death resulting from possible destruction by these fools.

The Pseudo-Saviour and the Rise of the T-Party...a satire, a documentary, a reality?

I start this novel based on some films I reviewed from "Netflix" which has been a tremendous resource in my process of research. One film I mentioned was the "The Confederate States of America" co-produced by Spike Lee, an excellent satire on what if the South had won the Civil War?

It shows the South as becoming a true dominant capitalist power in the western hemisphere for it had captured the North American and South American continents including the islands of the Caribbean. Slavery was still the law of the land, so blacks continued as free labor for this commercial growth. This western empire went on to influence the European world and aided and abetted the rise of leaders such as Adolph Hitler.

You have to see the film to get the full measure of the satire, although comical at times...thus, why it's called satire, a mockery of fact. However, I was able to find some relevence from this film and the beginning of the T-party's ploy.

The next film that I reviewed is a documentary entitled "Bonhoeffer" again from "Netflix". Bonhoeffer was a German religionist who might be termed a "pseudo-saviour" in his effort to destroy Hitler during his murderous reign. What I saw in this film were the ways Hitler rose to power in his getting not only the collaboration of the civil servants to put into plan his "final solution" but the cooperation of the Catholic Church and the Protestants. Come to find out that Martin Luther was a rabid anti-semite, thus given creedence for the religious crusade against Jews and eventually others, including homosexuals, Gypsies, clergy, and those considered a non-Aryan entity. From this film I was able to see close parallels with the rise of National Socialism and what we might call "Constitutional Conservatism" promoted by this T-Party movement. You have to see the films to see the possibility of history repeating itself, only this time in America.

So, let's extrapolate a potential reality. Hitler came to power because he got results that the cabal of politicians (DC Congressmen/Women) could not get...starting with "getting the trains to run on schedule"... just the beginning in the use of this rail transportation for more nefarious purposes. All Jews were stripped of any positions of authority, later their assets, their families, their labor, their blood, their lives, and eventually their remains of ashes were used to pave roads. This was the most deadly slave system since slavery in the west. In the west, the life expectancy of a slave was determined to be about seven years in toil and suffering by barely clothing them, breeding them well, feeding them little, and watching them die...renewing with replacements as needed.

So what could be the paradigm for this novel of reality if the T-Party takes over with some "strong woman" rising to lead this newfound patriotism based on the "Constitutional Conservative's" agenda? I perceive illegal immigration would be welcomed for they would be enslaved to do the manual labor in America with little chance of escaping, sort of like the Germans who were trapped behind the Berlin Wall.

Jews would be given an option to leave to go home to Israel with no assets whatsoever, just the clothes on their backs...the salvation? They won't have to worry about being skinned like the Nazis did in Germany before becoming oven fodder. The blacks would be forced back into slavery without so much as a boat to return to Africa...besides no other civilized country would want to accept these non-productive Negroes...leaving the only option of slavery, suffering, and death in the good old USA.

Could this novel reality have merit? Would a people ban and burn another people?

Al Sharpton-Newt Gingrich Relationship...Puzzling?

Just learned that Al Sharpton will get a syndicated half-hour television talk show featuring Newt Gingrich, that you would think are rivals in their political outlooks, but just as so many preacher/politician con artists, it's all smoke and mirrors, based on the outcome of these all so typical collaborations. Newt, who appears to be a "T-Bag convert" is swimming the waters to make a potential leap for the Presidential bid while casually undermining the current President with his smarmy comments, as if he really wants to see the President succeed?

Al Sharpton is being Al Shapton, like Jesse Jackson was being Jesse Jackson, in riding the coat tails of Dr. King while lining his pockets with cash, buying expensive suits, and new "Escalades" (ebonically, Cadillaxes) by threatening to "expose white folks' corporations" that didn't buy into his "civil rights' extortion"...got this half-hour, did-nothing televison show that just benefitted "Jesse and Rainbow, Inc."

I, and I believe so many other black folks are fed up with these con-artists and their bullsh*t. That's why Mr. Elijah Muhammad had the only sincere and effective economic movement in the history of black America...he got results! This is what all of America is seeking...black, brown, red, yellow, and white. It's the "pocket book" stupid, and not just for a few...jackleg or otherwise.

President Obama is the only man in a position to render these sorts of results for the nation, without these jackleg promotions from the so-called civil rights' activists. If Obama doesn't deliver on his watch within two years...it's all over but the shout!  And, that's no bullsh*t.

The "Democratic Disconnect" 

The disconnect started with me when I began seeing brother Barack on the golf course at every opportunity during this economic chaos. If he didn't know, this is a historically racist, economic, elitist game that has managed to absorb America's attention since Tiger Woods started pretending he was God. At the same time, the very idea of Negroes lounging around playing golf when they haven't secured their economic well being amounts to no more than "monkey see, monkey do."

Take that anyway you want, but you would never see a black man on the level of Booker T. or MLK,Jr., out there signifying with this fool's sport. Most of you, I'm sure have heard the whimsical tale of the "Signifying Monkey".

Of course, the other major screw up, came with the First Lady taking that ostentatious trip to Spain without any reasonable explanation of how it was benefitting the people of America...just, the heck with the country's ongoing trials and tribulations. The hypocrisy becomes overwhelming, when you come to the microphones and try to express the concern for what the nation is going through, with these public relation fiascos plastered before the world of the common man and woman.

True, the Republicans, known as the party of the elite drove the car into the ditch, but you don't get to golf and good time until we can see results of getting out of the ditch...pre-celebrations just don't look good. That's how we got into this mess, with the slipshod financial trickery of Wall Street at the expense of Main Street, being rewarded with all of those bailouts. Democrat Joe Six Pack has gotten into league with the "T-Bag" movement, and for good reasons, which is beginning to kick the Republican Party in the ass, and will soon be kicking some "donkey tail".

Go green and go lean... 

If you don't come to the microphone with a "cut the fat" proposal that the people can see and feel...you lose, pure and simple. Mr. President, stop spending when the bulk of average Americans are not seeing any benefits, only what appears to be your cronies...unions, bankers, and other special interests groups who are not coming out to vote as demonstrated with these recent "T-Bag" winners.

Stop digging deeper into the taxpayers' purse and start cutting the fat in the bureacracy, unfunded entitlements, and special interests making them sink or swim  based on their own merit in a free enterprise society...any other option, you lose...pure and simple.

This issue is more clearly focused in the film entitled "I.O.U.S.A" and can be viewed at no charge via "Netflix".

The T-Baggers' Lot...More Scatterbrained than not?

Mid term is turning out more interesting than thought with the T-Bag Ticket and recent revelations of the candidate wanting to replace Joe Biden, being a former practitioner of witchcraft and putting a spell on Delaware?

 Alaska, however, presents a very structured and formidable candidate not unlike Scott Brown of Massachusetts. Of course, there's "Brain-Freeze Brewer" in Arizona who might make it difficult for John McCain, although he's leaning more to the conservative right,  after defeating his looney opponent in the primary...can't remember his name. Nonetheless, the level-headed voting populous might begin to wonder if these "T-Bag" symptoms might rub off.

Jumping down to my home state of VA, to the district that I live and vote, should not be a problem for the current Republican Congressman, Bob Goodlatte, who showed me that he's all-outgoing when it comes to helping his constituency, despite party affiliation...not another politician but a real representative. Now, the two Democratic incumbents in those adjacent districts are in for a battle and a strong possibility of being defeated, unless the upcoming debates can show Virginians otherwise.

I still contend, unless the Democratic Party leader makes a bend to the right taking the game to the Republican/T-Bag coalition with cuts as opposed to more spending, figuring out a civil deportation process by November, reducing the Federal bureacracy, strengthening the military with dibs on jobs after serving, as opposed to these civilian unions, who may have never made a similar sacrifice, means you can kiss DC goodbye.

Tiger...now, Jesse, Jr.?

From the book: "How One Becomes Wealthy Despite Society's Ignorance and Stupidity"

"The women in all of the ports were nice, sexy, and good in bed for the right price. However, they could hold no measure to that old-fashioned, down home, southern sister. I even compared that to my going out with a white woman, well I didn't go out with her but met her at a club via Fred who I ran into in San Diego. He was there for survival training just in case he got trapped behind enemy lines in the 'Nam.' Fred invited me to meet him at this club in downtown San Diego and I said okay. Got there and behold there is Fred with a white woman on his lap and another one just sitting there at the table. I sat down after being introduced with the assumption I was being paired up. There was the voice in my head from my grandmother 'boy, leave them white women alone, they ain't nothing but trouble for a colored man.' I had to figure out how to handle this situation with finesse. So I said..."

You sons of "Ike"...Eddie, Creflo, T.D., and Al

Some of you may remember years back, this charismatic black radio preacher featured at night, I believed broadcast out of Nashville, the Reverend Ike...a preacher with the knack to entertain as well as "hustling" with various items such as prayer cloths...a preamble to internet marketing by those standards. Ike had this processed hair do, dressed like a pimp out of Chicago, a flair for the women, and street sense that would make most men fret. As a matter of fact, he was called the women's pet and the men's fret (fright) by some of his listeners, for most often it would be the women sending him those pennies and nickels for sundry religious items out of their men's pockets.

Anyway, there was another individual cruising the "chittlin circuit" down south as a "master of ceremony" for various rock n' roll shows, his name was "Gorgeous George." George would come out before each performance, hair conked to the max, dressed to the nines, and a mack that had women throwing their panties on stage...some he threw back.

Nonetheless, George was good, but he could not stand up to the "Godfather" James Brown. When James got to dancing with that gleam in his eye, and wide toothy grin, you knew he had the audience in the palm of his hand. He was so good, that he had this refrain, "Maceo can I quit it?" again, "Maceo, can I quit it?" and finally Maceo would acknowledge with three strong beats. That's when James went in for the knock out punch. He could lay out an audience. I guess that's how he got the name the "Godfather" because he took no prisoners.

Ike, like George, were both entertainers just with different gimmicks, Ike opened for "Jesus" whereas, George opened for James. What's the moral of this rambling? The sons of "Ike" are simply entertainers that have grown exponentially because of television, but it's no brand new bag...just the same old hustle. As Maceo would acknowledge James when he asked should he quit it?...It's time for the black community to ask you hustlers to do the same...now!

Addendum to a piece: Many women responded with curiosity as to why "Gorgeous George" threw back some panties when they were tossed on stage? Simple...they were "too holey"...Amen?

How to deal with religions and false prophets?

With all the scandals surfacing, surrounding religionists going back to the likes of Jimmy Swaggert, the Oral Roberts' spinoff, the "Glass Cathedral" Clan, Ted Haggert, any number of Catholic priests and bishops, hypocritical imams and rabbis, Jesse Jackson, Sr. and now possibly fast Eddie Long down in Georgia...many people want to say they are just mortals trying to carry the word of God. My response? "Bullsh*t"!!! They are just what they have turned out to be...cheap con-artists, jacklegs preying on the souls of men and women who have entrusted their faiths and lively hoods; with the expectation of getting some pay off in an after life.

Now, some of these "sheep" may truly suffer with human afflictions and addictions that I feel someone other than one of these religious magicians or erstwhile faith practitioners might be more professionally suited to address.

I went so far as to say all of these religious practices should be limited to people praying in their closets at home, with a better possibility of making a spiritual connection, as opposed to the multiple weekend entertainment sessions at a monetary cost.  But, we know the "Constitution" would not permit this sort of limitation, for this document can cut both ways.

So, what would be another method to protect the vulnerable from these "podium poachers"? You may not feel this is applicable, but I bet it would prove to be most pragmatic, and that would require that all religionists, including all faith promoters in America, to preach in public only while wearing a set of "Mickey Mouse" ears.