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Mideastern Uprising...

This is a classic case of chickens coming home to roost...and it's not Israel's fault, but ours. Is it so bad that Muslims in the mid-east want for themselves what we have been boasting about here in the US...freedom, justice, and democracy? I think not, when they have been subjected by dictators including leaders of every Arab controlled nation via Islamic "mumbo-jumbo" when convenient, to maintain tyrannical control...all in the name of Allah...making Israel the boogey-man.

That's comparable to the Christian perverts taken advantage of their followers in the name of Jesus...and we have just begun to see the reaction to this by the victims in the Catholic faith. As Lincoln said (I believe) you can fool some of the people all of the time but you can't fool them all, all of the time.

What these corrupt cronies need to do is pack up with just the clothes on their back, get a job, if they can find one, render all of their financial holdings and off shore financial reserves in Swiss banks back to the newly established peoples' democracies, to bring them into modernity out of the state of poverty and religious slavery...thus, freedom in the name of Allah.

"Deathcare" or the unethical darkside of healthcare

One phase of my business serves to address the growing financial destruction of patients and family members when hospitalized. Find out more by going to http://infobuck.com. Some years back while working for one of the largest healthcare facilities in southwestern Virginia, I personally witnessed the final days of a patient with terminal cancer...a very painful ending requiring large daily and expensive doses of pain medication just to hang on in extreme agony for about thirty days.

I don't know if this person had insurance or not, but if he or she didn't, the hounds of hell or the collection agency for that healthcare facility and/or the personal physician, come out with all deliberate intentions of devouring every asset left by the patient or the surviving co-signer to pay the debt...driving them into financial ruin, if necessary. One of those agencies is SCA located in Roanoke, VA. What my business does in association with our team of consultants is to analyze that patient's bills to see if there are or were overcharges for services rendered...such as $50.00 for a box of tissues (slight exaggeration...but you get the point, if ever billed).

Because of many if not most patients' fear of death and the unknown due to religious or familial tradition, that patient is charged exorbitantly to live out those last few days of agony. Whereas, wouldn't it be more ethical to provide a quicker, painless, and personally approved death protocol to the patient by showing him/her what the costs would be to those after his/her death?

Crumbling Islamic Rulerships...just the beginning

When prophets speak. I have referred to many of the statements made by Elijah Muhammad that my memory brings to the surface and frankly, this man was not too far off base. In the publication, the Muhammad Speaks newspaper that was sold on the street corners at twenty-five cents a piece...there was some profound wisdom from him and should not be confused with the articles or comments of other than his. I know this for a fact, because I wrote some of the articles as well as freelanced for other publications as one of his representatives while in Mobile, AL.

I think the last bit of freelance submission I did before establishing Buck Publishing was for the student newspaper at the University of South Alabama, called the "Vanguard" about the "schlock" movie "Menance to Society"...which made excuses for young black men growing up as hoodlums in the poor communities of America. I saw where young black men that accepted the teachings of Elijah Muhammad got on a constructive and disciplined path, becoming a credit to their community as opposed to a criminal...to do otherwise meant they would not be around long enough to become a "recidivist."

Anyway, he prophesized drugs would become a plague in America, improper eating would cause a nationwide health epidemic, and of course, Islam from the East was out of step with the western society and especially in terms of solving the ills of the so-called American Negro. We now see that in what's taking place in the mid east. It is what he (Elijah) advocated for the black man in America...freedom, justice, and equality.  This is the cry that's being heard around the world by those Muslims subjugated to old, archaic, religious rulerships that have strayed far from the mission of "the Prophet".

Knowing the truth and refusing to adhere means the difference between life and death...a self-fulfilling prophesy.

When you are all so predictable...

This was a line from the movie "Marathon Man" starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier, although not a verbatim statement, but more of an accurate assertion by a Nazi (Olivier) when discovered by Hoffman, the young Jew. You are all so predictable...a downfall for most people who have been enslaved or dominated by another race.

The calculus always seems to be so predictable, and thus, unless that people can free itself of that predictability, it will remain enslaved or dominated. Therefore, the so-called American Negro is just such in the eyes of white America, through not only its past physical enslavement, but its continued religious, economical, and social domination.

It is why people such as Garvey, Muhammad, King and others who rise to the point of upsetting that calculus of predictability, create a concern in the status quo. The fear in Barack Obama being the President of the United States serves to arouse that "innate concern" among those who feel a sense of guilt toward those they have dominated for centuries. To these fools, I say get over it, for this man might be your last chance to save an otherwise potentially sinking culture, to which people of color around the world seem to be awakening...and not necessarily favorably.

The Beatification of St. Reagan?

This weekend represents the "100th" for former President Ronald Reagan, the cowboy actor who became the leader of the free world, and those on the right claim he's America's saviour, at least in their eyes. Granted, the man was a motivational speaker from his "PR" days working for GE. Ironically, the right criticizes President Obama for bringing aboard GE's Immelt in boosting free enterprise and American capitalism abroad.

Reagan was an adept politician but no saint, but came close to being martyred as was MLK, Jr. with he (Reagan) having to establish a national holiday for the man, just a man who boldly gave his life for what he believed...knowingly. Would Reagan be willing to bear that cross if known of the outcome in advance? 

The Governor of Virginia made this Sunday, Ronald Reagan's Day, which is token for a right wing conservative who wants to celebrate and honor Confederate "traitors" a month at a time beginning in April. However, before the right gets carried away on the boat of worship, take a real good look at his record, for there will be found no miracles.

However, the US became the largest debtor nation for the first time in its history, his deregulation policies unleashed the scourage of lobbyists and politicians that eventually put America into this eventual calamity on the Republican watch, with his slowly fading away from the world he manufactured.