THURSDAY
ima tell you dear reader
islamic anger about the cartoons
i think thats kinda silly and its hard
for me to be concerned about that
much less shamed
but those new abu ghraib pictures
thats hard to deal with
if the islamic world was enraged
about that i could understand that
dissing the prophet dont bother me
dissing people like that do
its unbelievable that americans could be so
perverted as policy - as policy mind you
have you seen them
these fools got to go
they got to go
ive been encouraged by the national rejection
of intelligent design lately - makes me feel
like this little fundamentalist era in american
history might be playing itself out
surely folk are tired of this mess
rdoc
latest on haiti: a luta continua
blank ballots dropped and preval declared winner
man aint that good news and lord aint good news rare
now the real battle starts
question: is preval really a good guy or is he just another haitian politician
question: can any one savior make a difference w/problems as entrenced as haitis
the african american foreign policy infrastructure, such as it is
really needs to take a high profile assistance role on this
we have got to break the cycle of destruction
that has crippled haiti since it became the first black republic
in the americas and now its poorest
some of us fear there is a connection there
and wonder what does it mean
stay tuned dear reader
a luta continua
rdoc
numbers
my numbers have fallen
still higher than before but
the doubling effect has receded
apparently it was the popularity of my muhammad post
that drove that little spike - now its back to it a normal
more incremental gain - long as its gain im cool
constantly monitoring what drives numbers and what dont
the weekly evolution of my title reflects what i think will draw
googles attention - im going to add abughraib in there now
makes for long titles but they longposts that cover a lot
of ground, what can i do except go w/the flow
later
WEDNESDAY
man im tired
got a full court press day today
and already im wore down tired
dont get no slack till tomorrow evening sometime
till then i got to be on it - ohwell, lets do it . . .
no sense whining about it, do it rick
quick recap of latest developments in haiti
- crises instigated when aristede driven out and us puppet government installed
- caricom refuses to accept puppet government as member
- un peace troops headed by brazil prove ineffective or worse - bootlicking compradors
- violence and chaos reign and rene preval becomes new champion of the poor
- puppet government, afraid of preval, repeatedly postpones scheduled election
- in spite of official shenanigans haitian poor turn out in support of preval
- international observers use votecount to predict substantial win for preval
- haitian government delays notice of winner and preval vote count starts falling
- preval falls beneath 50% majority and is told must endure a runoff
- international observers indicate fishy smell
- haitians take to the streets
- blank votes are counted to lower prevals % and 125,000 votes are tossed for 'irregularities, (holy hanging chad batman, sounds like haiti is closer to florida than we thought)
- local tv shows pics of smashed ballot boxes in garbage dump, leaking wads of preval ballots
- puppet government says it will run a recount
thats where it stands to date, best we keep an eye
on that sparrow
black inmate dies in los angeles coming
coming to aid of another
sheriffs department in la continues to bunk inmates of different threat values
sean anthony thompson, 38 year old father of 3, was arrested last week
on suspicion of drug possession after running a stop sign in long beach
he was placed in a cell with 4 level 8 offender latinos (attempted murder et all)
and one other 63 year old black drug offender (ie nonviolent)
when the latinos attacked the 63 year old because his bunk had better light
for reading, thompson came to his aid and was killed (what else could
the brother do, couldnt stand there and let them beat down an elder)
this situation of outnumbered blacks in california jail system and
other conflicts between blacks and latinos in california is probably
the harbinger of more conflict to come as we are replaced as most
favored minority across the country
if we get drawn into a battle with hispanics for supremacy,
thats a battle we likely to lose - settle down yall, focus - we got to bankshot this one
(forget mfm, it was weak game anyway, i say we move into global shadowplay)
apparently this kind of mixup (violent/nonviolet - racial ratios) has
resulted in deaths before and the sheriffs department had been ordered
by the courts to cease and desist
they say they got it now, we will see
whatever, its too late for sean anthony thomas
i call his name in the great black book of generations
sean anthony thomas
brother died coming to the aid of another
me and you brother, against the world
TUESDAY
forgive me dear reader, i cant help myself
its time for some cheney jokes
best headline: cheney bags lawyer
jay leno: "dick cheney tortured the guy for a half-hour before he shot him."
"according to the best intelligence available" says rob corddry, vice presidential firearms mishaps analyst, "there were quail hidden in the brush, and everyone believed there were quail in the brush and while the quail turned out to be a 78-year-old man, even knowing that today, mr. cheney insists he would still have shot mr. whittington in the face."
okay, okay, im thru, i spec you got the point: "its funny even if you like cheney," says lawrence mintz "but its funnier if you don't."
actually its not funny at all, thats why folk laughing
and wondering how long will this joke of administration go on
the gang that couldnt shoot straight
MONDAY
schoolhouse took the weekend, nothing but apps
badday for bush
lets look at what he carrying these days
bushabramoff pic #1 has risen, apparently abramoff
was at a function bush officials said he wasnt at afterall
bam: caught in another lie
while trying to redherring spygate w/fulminations
and investigations of who leaked it to the times
turns out cheney authorized libby leak to out
cia operative valarie plame
bam: caught in another lie
recent retiree from cia says prewar info was cooked
to support bushs pathalogical desire to invade saddam
bam: caught in another lie
latest blair memo says in january 2003
bush came up with idea to run a u2 over iraq
painted as a warplane to provoke saddam
yet they still say they didnt decide on war
until un resolution four months later
bam: caught in another lie
recent un report latest one to say
us torturing prisoners in guantanamo
bam: caught in another lie
(appparently feeding restrained hunger
strikers thru tubes in their noses - trying
to avoid the embarassment of one dying)
bam: not quite a lie but just as unsavory
brownie says he told bush admin officials when the levee broke
in spite or their contention that they just didnt know
what everybody else in america knew
bam: caught in another lie
or startling incompetency
its a toss which one
is worse
cheney shoots companion while
out hunting
well thats an easy call:
incompetency
SUNDAY
god help me
haitian woman arrested bringing head thru customs
complete with teeth, skin and dirt, ie a fresh head
freshly dug
article said she said it was a voodoo rite of protection
god help me im so tired
god help me what i got to work with
and keep me standing o mighty conqueroo
they trying to take me down lord
they trying to take me down
rdoc
hello world
was trying to think of a name for this weeks post
and thought about that old 3 stooges bit
inch by inch and step by step - sloooowly we turn
readership still going up
numbers have doubled in the last month
course its not hard to double my meagre numbers
but still, the trend is good, lotta blogs out there and
im grateful for my little slice of the blogworld
all praises to you loyal readership
okay, you know the routine: a couple of quickies
and im outta here
gotta keep it tight
so much work to do, so little time
who willing to bet
bush info about terrorist strike
they foiled using illegal wiretap info turns out to be
exaggeration, or rather more misleadment
or rather more lies
good news from haiti
seems transparent voting elected rene preval
man aint that good news and lord aint good news rare
african americans should do everything we can
to help that brother and the haitians who dared so much to elect him
we need to keep the bush administration off him too
they will try to control and/or subvert him as they did w/aristede
and as the united states has done w/any independent haitian government
that tries to empower haitis dispossessed
got to put this on the front burner, if they have their way w/him
he will survive only as their puppet
furor over cartoons continue to grow
my own post (2 posts ago) has been worked over everytime i get new insight
i been getting a lot of hits on that post, may be responsible for my numbers going up
still not comfortable with it, wonder if its reactionary but i dont think so
i think this west/islam thing has gotten mighty tricky
and while aspiring to dialogue and mutual evolutionary agreement
i am concerned about the dynamics of a relatively open society under assault
by relatively closed ones, the open society is at a disadvantage in this dynamic
in scifi the open society always wins, in real life im not sure
and i spec you know all that submission dont fly w/me
i man free man
but it appears that my concerns are mirrored by many of the islamic reports
ive been reading, they feel threatened too, o its a tricky moment in time
check out my muhammad cartoon post
i been struggling with it
working hard
got maybe one day this weekend i can do my work
schoolhouse got the rest
think ima work on the great black book of generations today
the hoodoo book of flowers
did a reading this weekend at ursinus college
spoke to charles rices african american religion class
and it was a joy to discourse on the sacred component
of my Work and when i mentioned the great black book of generations
said i wanted to do an african american holybook
a sacred history of the black world, a hoodoo sacred text/language and
spoke on the struggles i been having w/it over the years/decades (2nd)
brother rice was very encouraging
brother rice put it back on the front burner
i gave the whole last year to rest for the weary
gon maintain that but i got to work the hoodoo book of flowers some too
before the summer woodshed and its fullcourt rest for the weary press
i would the hoodoo book of flowers shaped enuf to put a rough (very) draft online
concurrent with rebuild of rootwork.com
eventually i want this to be an online text that grows as i grow
constantly
but schoolhouse got me humping this weekend (applications)
and an old literary buddy of mine, s pearl sharp, is in town
a queenmother in training
in the line of o killens
went to see her film on the middle passage last night
it was exactly the sacred celebration i would expect from s pearl
supposed to be taking her by harriet tubmans house and grave
the obligatory run for visitors in the tradition
cant begrude that, oldschool time at a premium in this the
declining years (mortality is deep and everyday is a blessing)
between pearl, harriet and apps, i can squeeze a day, would love to squeeze 2
(according to how the apps go maybe i can get monday - doubtful)
newren workshop in brooklyn last sunday, folk chewed up my submission
but they good at chewing up submissions without making
you question the value of your lick, they have encouraged my
attempts to style even when telling me something aint working
i value that
went to see john o while i was there
seems im the one tending his grave
i have a little altar there and i refreshed it
it was good speaking w/john and hanging with s pearl
whom i met in his colombia workshop in 73 and
seeing mi old companero tom feelings in her film
moved me
a couple of months before he died tom sent me
an original drawing he had done of babajohn
other folk got photos, tom sent me the original
i cannot tell you how much that meant to me
specially since he died a couple of months later
its like he was dispersing his Work whereever he
thought it would be most appreciated
that ackwnowledgement of me as johns protege
moved me too much and it was all brought back when
i saw tom in pearls film
so im feeling kinda fey today, im feeling oldschool today
today im invincible
gon ride that horse long
as i can
you know something else, ima get by the gym today too
what the hell
rdoc
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