"A living nightmare"...

This sad story is everywhere. "A Japanese proverb says, 'Action without vision is a nightmare. There is no question that America is living a nightmare with no end in sight." Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez
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Rudy, John, Mitt, Fred, what country are you boys living in

A couple of weeks ago, on September 27th, Tavis Smiley hosted the second All-American Presidential Forum at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Some of the boys did not show up. Wonder why?

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A Bit of Advice ...

"I actually think that in a way, the fact that I've been through so much incoming fire all these years is an advantage," she said, adding: "It's been my observation that when you're attacked continually in American politics, you either give up or get disoriented or you either lose or leave -- or you persevere and show your resilience." H. R. Clinton (October 2007)

I am not going to vote for her but this is something I like ... I understand it.

THE WAR -- click on this Title for more information.

Watch it ...

When I first posted this I thought I was just talking about a show on PBS. And I was ... but just looking at those two words "The War" and having seen the show, I know those two words have so much more meaning. While the PBS series was not about our current war, it certainly does applies to all wars ... death and destruction ...

Fascist anyone?

Do these sound familiar?

Laurence W. Britt writes the following in an article called Fascist Anyone. He outlines 14 basic characteristics that are more prevalent and intense in some fascist regimes than in others, but they all share at least some level of similarity:

1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism.
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights.
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause.
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism.
5. Rampant sexism and homophobic
6. A controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security.
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together.
9. Power of corporations protected
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated.
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
12. Obsession with crime and punishment.
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption.
14. Fraudulent elections

Read the Link in the title above at Council of Human Secularism’s web site and get the whole article.