Presidential Polling with 59 days to go and counting
Region: California
Now comes the good part. Now comes the time when all political junkies are overdosing on polling stats. There are more polls than you can shake a stick at and many of them are full of bunk and a lot at them are very effect... more
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Pit Bull with Lipstick
Region: United States
Rant Alert, do not read this if you are a Conservative. For two nights I have watched loser after loser parade across the TV screen and try to persuade me to vote for another loser. John McCain is a lost soul.&... more
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Club Apple
Region: California
I have to admit that I had a bit of a flashback while standing in line to get my new iPhone. The feel was kind of like standing in the line to get into an exclusive nightclub. There were bouncers at the doors and a long wa... more
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Darker than Blue
Region: United States
In the 1970s, a prophet of soul music, Curtis Mayfield chronicled the Black experience in urban America. His songs are revolutionary, filled with hope, unity, and togetherness. One song titled “We People Who Are Dark... more
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Obama Reminds Me of Patches of My Past
Region: United States
Listening to Obama’s speech on Race in America today took me back to a time of my childhood. As he spoke of the environment in which his Pastor came into manhood, I started to replace his influential people with my o... more
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Africa Burning
Region: United States
Looking outside of America, I see many people all over the world existing in instability. At times is seems as if all the continent of Africa is warring. Crimes being committed there on a daily basis are so horrific and ha... more
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The swift-boating of Dennis Kucinich and Party Politics
Region: California
The news hit me like and urgent call in the middle of the night about a dear friend being in an accident. How could this be happening and why to him? When it comes to championing the people's cause, Dennis is a... more
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Yes, he can and why I changed
Region: California
It’s kinda hard to put my finger on what made me switch from Hillary to Obama. Color was not it and that’s evident of my initial support of Hillary. I didn’t change because it’s Black History Month ... more
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Reality Bites the Democrats at the debate
Region: United StatesSome may call me a bit of a weirdo, but I love the primary season. My guy or girl verses your guy or girl. We parade them around on TV and radio and now the Internet. It's amazing how these guys will go on national TV with... more
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The rise of the Citizen Journalist
Region: United States
With the Nevada caucus and super duper Tuesday barreling down on us, I find it odd that the mass media are asking different question sets to the Democrat and Republican candidates. In my opinion, all the republicans are cu... more
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I am a Democrat and mostly lean to the left. I believe ours is a nation that is at its best when we work together. I have on occasion voted for a Republican (never for a Conservative). Republicans and Democrats are not that far from each other on many issues and my true Liberal friends and family are very fond of reminding me of that :)
My life has been varied and full. I grew-up a love-child, living in the South during segregation and Jim Crow Laws. I remember holding my mothers hand in the back of the bus or entering back doors to department stores. There were heroes, great men and women that helped bring about a change in the South and the rest of America. Muhammad Ali, Bobby Kennedy, James Brown, and more than I can name were some of the heroes of my generation. They were people of principle, people that stood-up for the "mythical little guy" against the System (or Power as it was called then). Watching them being jailed for their beliefs and even give their lives for the greater cause impacted me early on and motivated me to do something with my life.
I am not as religious as my mother would like me to be, but I am a Christian with Moslem and Atheist friends and family members. I respect everyone’s right to believe or not believe in whatever. I am a twenty year retired veteran and have worked on everything from bombs to bacon. I spent over 14 years abroad defending our great nation and hopefully promoting goodwill with many other people and cultures. I am an Artist and have a never ending thirst for technology and the sciences.
The phase "I am because we are" comes from the African word Ubuntu. Ubuntu has many meanings, but the one that I like the most is;
A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.
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