Instead Of Calling The Police
Listing a link in this venue does not indicate approval of, or agreement with, content ~ Dear readers: Please stop calling us ‘the media.’ There is no such thing. ~ Part Two ~ False Equivalence, Delusion-Grade ~ Charlotte police shooting: What happens next ~ Black Activists Rally For Unarmed White Man Shot by Cops ~ What To Do Instead of Calling the Police ~ What the Data Really Says About Police and Racial Bias ~ Teen in serious condition following accidental shooting to the head ~ The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated ~ Defending Hillary Clinton Isn’t Feminism ~ 10 Step Guide to Zen Meditation ~ Should the Media Downplay the New Murder Spike? ~ We Should All Be Outraged By Trump’s Absurdly Racist Pitch To Black Voters ~ Healing from Toxic Whiteness ~ Justin Carr ~ Mary J Blige ~ crispy chicken ~ R&B singer Mary J. Blige never got over the public response to her racist “Crispy Chicken” Burger King commercial in 2012. The commercial set in motion a backlash that ultimately derailed her career and her marriage. “It hurt my feelings and crushed me for two days,” Blige told Hot 97’s Angie Martinez. Apparently Blige didn’t learn a thing from her spectacular lack of judgment in 2012. ~ If an officer stops you Always be polite And never ever run away Promise mama you’ll keep your hands in sight Is it a gun? is it a knife? is a wallet? This is your life It ain’t no secret, it ain’t no secret No secret, my friend You can get killed just for living in…Your American skin ~ Wendy Williams rips Mary J. Blige for singing about fried chicken ~ Goodbye To Language ~ I Am NOT Black, You are NOT White. ~ 9 Reasons Why The “I Am Not A Label” Video Makes No Sense ~ Pedro Maldonado ~ Black Lives Matter protesters take over BLM debate hosted at U-M ~ Black Lives Matter Leader Jerry Ford Jr. Gets Robbed, Responds Exactly As Expected ~ Hoarder mom may have unknowingly lived with son’s body for 20 years ~ Looking Inward : On White Fragility, Guilt, and the Path Toward Self-Correction ~ Atlanta attorney accidentally shot wife after SUV hits bump in road ~ If @haroldpollack is a technocrat, maybe he could do something about that awful sound quality ~ Kraftwerk :: Live In Soest, 1970 (First Concert) ~ Man accidentally shoots, kills himself in southwest Atlanta ~ Are the US police intentionally hiring psychopaths? ~ #icandy racist video ~ Video Surfaces of ICandy Owner Darryl DePiano Saying the N-Word ~ Taxi driver shot and killed in Chamblee ~ Chicago homicides ~ Police investigate deadly triple-shooting in DeKalb County ~ Erica Nelson ~ Police: Teen killed father before school shooting ~ @WernerTwertzog Dear Twitter pedants: I do not make punctuation “errors.” I make aesthetic choices. That subsequently change the rules. ~ @SenatorReid Racist is not a term I throw around lightly, but Donald Trump is a racist. He says and does things with full intent to demean and denigrate.@chamblee54 @EmoNegro1 @SenatorReid people don’t toss the word racist around lightly…they aim and use great force with intention of hurting people ~ when BS was asked how to quit outsourcing of jobs to asia, he said raise the minimum wage ~ @jerryspringer Hillary Clinton belongs in the White House. Donald Trump belongs on my show. ~ At least we don’t have comedy insurance. ~ Its okay for a white person to be silenced in my opinion. ~ Comments have been disabled for this story. ~ The moderator of the debate was the Lester of three evils ~ @BCDreyer #CopyeditingProTip You’re not allowed to insult millennials if you can’t spell “millennials.” ~ In colonial India, the dam was a coin of little value. The British soldiers would say that something was “not worth a dam.” This got back to England, the n was added to dam, and stronger expletives used. After a while, instead of something being not worth a cussword, people did not give a cussword. This is said to indicate a lack of concern. Now, giving a shit is a peculiar way to say that you care. Feces is a nasty, smelly substance. To gift someone with ordure could be seen as an insult. “The Universe giving a shit.” Lets start with Universe. This entity is unfathomably large. English speaking Americans are a tiny, tiny, part of the universe. If the universe were to give a shit, it would overwhelm the milky way, with whatever goes for fecal matter in outer space. As for a church slogan, perhaps you can go back to the origins of “worth a dam.” Today’s american penny has very little value. Maybe you could say “People giving two cents.” Even adjusted for inflation, that is still not very much. At least it does not stink. ~ KimKierkegaardashian @KimKierkegaard Hair flip & eye roll belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. ~ “This HAS to be said!” No, it doesn’t. The hateful rhetoric on both sides of this nightmare election has been beyond horrible. ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The railroad pictures were taken by Jack Delano in January 1943 ~ “Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. Conductor Cunningham reports at the yard office where the yard clerk gives him the waybills for the train and instructions to deliver it.” ~ The other pictures were taken at Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida. “Students waiting to be taken to the agricultural school farm where they will learn modern methods.” Photographer: Gordon Parks, February 1943. ~ selah
Blackout Poetry
There is a thing called blackout poetry☽ . The instructions are simple. “how to make a blackout poetry: 1- find an old book, magazine or newspaper and a black marker 2- let the words find you.” If you google blackout poetry you will be sent hither dither and yon.
“Over the last three years, Atlanta based artist, John Carroll, has been on a journey of sharing a piece of blackout poetry with his social media followers everyday.” This is news to PG, who doesn’t get out much. Mr. Carroll tweets at @makeblackouts, and has a book for sale, Hidden Messages of Hope. Making your own blackout poems is cheaper, and more fun.
Most instructions for BP use the printed page, edited with magic markers. If you like getting ink on your fingers, this is the way to go. PG prefers a digital approach. Computers are cleaner, the base text is not rendered useless, and you can make mistakes. Once something is blacked out with a magic marker, it is gone forever.
When PG began to make BP, he used a paint tool to cover up excess text. Later, he would highlight the unwanted words, and apply a 33 point gaussian blur. This gave way to highlighting the words that are going to be used in the poem, invert the selection (cntrl + i), and apply the gaussian blur. If color is involved, open hue-saturation and lower the saturation to zero, effectively changing the image to black and white. Sometimes, the blurred out sections are made lighter.
Many of the original texts were found on facebook. Rants about racism, sexism, and the nightmare election have been used. Often, the words remaining address the inner truth, previously encased in the mudslide of text. The BP are frequently posted as a comment to the original rant. It is usually, though not always, well recieved. On September 23, this comment was made:Stephanie Gomez Grow up. To which PG adds, bless her heart.
The process described above uses GIMP. Follow the link for download information. Here are some examples of blackout poetry.
The Debate Part Three
America likes to use racist as an insult. Some say that is the worst thing you can say about a person. When you are called the R-word, you should cower in shame, begging forgiveness as the scarlet R is super glued to your chest. In the debate tuesday night, HRC applied the dreaded R insult to DJT.
Part of the problem is the definition of racism. It seems to have a different meaning for every individual. Some say it is whatever you don’t like. Another popular definition, courtesy of the Jim Crow Museum , says “a system of group privilege by those who have a disproportionate share of society’s power, prestige, property, and privilege.” By this standard, only white people can be racist, because they are the group with the power.
One phrase you hear is “systemic oppression.” Lets call this an act of prejudice that has results. By this standard, the 1973 shenanigans of Donald Trump’s real estate company can legitimately be called racist. The fact that he settled with the Justice Department without admitting guilt means nothing.
But why talk about substance, when there is a sideshow to gawk at? Of the many controversies about BHO, the notion that he was not born in Hawaii is one of the silliest. Tacky, yes. Insulting to the American intelligence, yes. But does this deserve the dreaded R insult? Apparently HRC, and her corporate sponsors, think so.
TRUMP: Well, nobody was pressing it, nobody was caring much about it. I figured you’d ask the question tonight, of course. But nobody was caring much about it. But I was the one that got him to produce the birth certificate. And I think I did a good job…. But let me just tell you. When you talk about healing, I think that I’ve developed very, very good relationships over the last little while with the African-American community. I think you can see that….
CLINTON: And clearly, as Donald just admitted, he knew he was going to stand on this debate stage, and Lester Holt was going to be asking us questions, so he tried to put the whole racist birther lie to bed. But it can’t be dismissed that easily. He has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American citizen. There was absolutely no evidence for it, but he persisted, he persisted year after year, because some of his supporters, people that he was trying to bring into his fold, apparently believed it or wanted to believe it… So he has a long record of engaging in racist behavior. And the birther lie was a very hurtful one…
While researching this story, PG stumbled onto another trivialization of the R insult. A few days ago, a video was released. Mary J Blige, wearing a blonde wig, sings to HRC “You can get killed just for living in… Your American skin.” The reaction has not been kind.
While searching for a copy of the video, PG saw an article, Mary J. Blige Serenades Hillary Clinton (Video). “R&B singer Mary J. Blige never got over the public response to her racist “Crispy Chicken” Burger King commercial in 2012. The commercial set in motion a backlash that ultimately derailed her career and her marriage.” In other words, an entertainer singing about Crispy Chicken, in a Burger King commercial, is racism. It is time for America to choose another favorite insult. Racist is past the expiration date. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
The Debate Part Two
When DJT and HRC agree on something, it is time to look out. While HRC did not explicitly say HELL YEA, you know that she agreed with this: TRUMP: And they’re going to end up getting nuclear. I met with Bibi Netanyahu the other day. Believe me, he’s not a happy camper.
HRC is in a bind on the Iran/Iraq/Israel conundrum. She is obviously on the Israeli payroll, and is all too eager to provide the services paid for. On the other hand, she has to do something. A nuclear war over Iran is just too tacky to contemplate. So she helps to negotiate a treaty, which may, or may not, prevent Iran from getting the bomb. Israel enjoys having a nuclear monopoly in her region.
CLINTON: “With respect to Iran, when I became secretary of state, Iran was weeks away from having enough nuclear material to form a bomb. They had mastered the nuclear fuel cycle under the Bush administration. They had built covert facilities. They had stocked them with centrifuges that were whirling away…”
DJT gets a lot of bad press, deservedly, for fibbing. To nobodies surprise, HRC tells a few whoppers. The bit about “Iran was weeks away” from having the bomb is simply not true. The whole Israeli pearl clutching about Iran thing is a distraction for the treatment of Palestinians. While Israel is blustering about Iran, she can ignore the horror that is Gaza.
Then there is the Brooklyn Debate. HRC recites the Israel line verbatim. She knows her lines. BLITZER: “Thank you. Secretary Clinton, do you agree with Senator Sanders that Israel overreacts to Palestinians attacks, and that in order for there to be peace between Israel and the Palestinians, Israel must, quote, end its disproportionate responses?” CLINTON: “I negotiated the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in November of 2012. I did it in concert with… President Abbas of the Palestinian authority based in Ramallah, I did it with the then Muslim Brotherhood President, Morsi, based in Cairo, working closely with Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli cabinet. I can tell you right now I have been there with Israeli officials going back more than 25 years that they do not seek this kind of attacks. They do not invite the rockets raining down on their towns and villages. They do not believe that there should be a constant incitement by Hamas aided and abetted by Iran against Israel…”
The paragraph before the “weeks away” comment was noteworthy. CLINTON: “Let’s talk about two important issues that were briefly mentioned by Donald, first, NATO. You know, NATO as a military alliance has something called Article 5, and basically it says this: An attack on one is an attack on all. And you know the only time it’s ever been invoked? After 9/11, when the 28 nations of NATO said that they would go to Afghanistan with us to fight terrorism, something that they still are doing …”
This was the only time during the debate that Afghanistan was mentioned. This is the longest war in American history. It is fifteen years after 9/11. The United States, and NATO, still have not gotten enough revenge. The only people to benefit from this war are the heroin merchants.
It should be noted that one country with a heroin problem is Russia. It is a wealthy energy producing country, it is near Afghanistan, and has a population that is well known for wanting to get fucked up. Could Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin be making money off the heroin trade?
Getting back to Mr. Dump Mr. Trump, he is in the position where he can endlessly complain. He can claim to be opposed to the war in Iraq, and then whine about the way it was fought. DJT can say anything he wants, because he never had to express an opinion on the record. By contrast, HRC was a US Senator in 2002, and had to vote, on the record, on the AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE AGAINST IRAQ RESOLUTION OF 2002. All of her campaign contributors called her before that vote, to remind her of their investment. (It should be noted that Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator at the time. He did not have to take a stand either.)
This was still a chance for the HRC moving lips to call out the DJT moving lips. CLINTON: “Well, I hope the fact-checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard. Donald supported the invasion of Iraq.” TRUMP: “Wrong.” CLINTON: “That is absolutely proved over and over again.” TRUMP: “Wrong. Wrong.” Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. They were taken in Douglas, Georgia. The date was July, 1938. The photographer was Dorothea Lange.
The Debate Part One
As you may have noticed, the Donald and Hillary show had a major performance monday night. With the help of a transcript, this slack blogger is going to express himself. The first part is going to be about the wit, and wisdom, of Donald J. Trump. Does he think he is impressing anybody? Maybe his base, and a few peeps put off by Hillary’s yucky personality, think picking a fight with the queen of nice is a good idea. And just how many people, living in states where your vote matters, are still undecided? Living in so-red-it-glows Georgia, it can be tough to know the difference. Anyway, here are a few examples of the orange goo soaking through his scalp, to further fry his mind.
CLINTON: “In fact, Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, “Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money.” Well, it did collapse.’TRUMP: “That’s called business, by the way.” CLINTON: “Nine million people — nine million people lost their jobs. Five million people lost their homes. And $13 trillion in family wealth was wiped out.”
CLINTON: “… Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it’s real.” TRUMP: “I did not. I did not. I do not say that.” CLINTON: “I think science is real.” TRUMP: “I do not say that.”
TRUMP: “And look at her website. You know what? It’s no difference than this. She’s telling us how to fight ISIS. Just go to her website. She tells you how to fight ISIS on her website. I don’t think General Douglas MacArthur would like that too much.”
CLINTON:” … Or maybe he doesn’t want the American people, all of you watching tonight, to know that he’s paid nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that anybody’s ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn’t pay any federal income tax.” TRUMP: “That makes me smart.”
CLINTON: “We have an architect in the audience who designed one of your clubhouses at one of your golf courses. It’s a beautiful facility. It immediately was put to use. And you wouldn’t pay what the man needed to be paid, what he was charging you to do…” TRUMP: “Maybe he didn’t do a good job and I was unsatisfied with his work…”
CLINTON: “You know, he tried to switch from looks to stamina. But this is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs, and someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers, who has said…”
TRUMP: “You know, Hillary is hitting me with tremendous commercials. Some of it’s said in entertainment. Some of it’s said — somebody who’s been very vicious to me, Rosie O’Donnell, I said very tough things to her, and I think everybody would agree that she deserves it and nobody feels sorry for her”.
One of the themes of the DJT crusade has been immigration. You are all familiar with the routine… *we are going to build a wall, and Mexico is going to pay for it*. He touched on the subject Monday night. TRUMP: “So we’re losing our good jobs, so many of them. When you look at what’s happening in Mexico, a friend of mine who builds plants said it’s the eighth wonder of the world. They’re building some of the biggest plants anywhere in the world, some of the most sophisticated, some of the best plants. With the United States, as he said, not so much.”
The reason for the Mexican diaspora is economics. People living there cannot make a decent living, and so they come north to work. One way to slow down immigration is to provide jobs south of the border. So this starts to happen, and DJT complains. The dude is never happy.
At least when the money was made in America, some of it was spent here. Now, the money is made in Mexico, and the workers, and their money, will stay there. Maybe some profits will flow back into the United States. With the global economy, it is tough to say where the money is goes.
All DJT does about the loss of jobs to Mexico is complain. This is probably better than the Bernie Sanders approach. In the Brooklyn debate, BS has a curious solution to the problem. Bear in mind… one of the main reasons plants are built in foriegn countries is the lower wages paid to workers. Much, much lower wages. And what is the BS approach?
BLITZER: “So how do you bring back these jobs to the United States without affecting the cost of goods to America’s middle class and poor?” SANDERS: “Well, for a start, we’re going to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour.” Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
Cemetery Blues
PG and Uzi had their usual Sunday phone call, and agreed to go to “Sunday in the Park”. It is a festival in Oakland Cemetery, with live music, people in costumes, open mausoleums, and lots of good clean fun. It wasn’t until that evening that PG learned that today is Dead Poets Remembrance Day. Edgar Allan Poe met his maker on this day in 1849.
There was a Chamblee54 post about DPRD two years ago. The idea is to go to a cemetery and read a poem. An effort will be made to do that tonight, although promises about dead poets are notoriously unreliable. The 2010 post is included as part two of this feature.
The first poem read that afternoon was “Looking for the Buckhead Boys” by James Dickey. In the intervening two years, PG listened to a podcast with Christopher Dickey, the son of the writer. Sometimes bard is short for bastard.
So PG, Uzi, and Hazmat went to a festival in Oakland Cemetery. Like everything else, it is more popular and expensive. You had to pay to park, which Uzi generously took care of. The brick walls around the boneyard have been repaired, and no longer look like they are going to fall down. Those walls are important, because people are dying to get inside. This is the second time that PG and Uzi have attended the October festival in Oakland Cemetery.
There are always things that you need to see at Oakland. Margaret Mitchell, the Lion Statue, and the mausoleums are important stops. PG followed the signs to the grave of Bobby Jones. It had golf balls and a putter, which was not necessary.
Don LeVert was a member of the Atlanta Sky Hi Club for many, many years before his departure in 1997. PG and Uzi always seek him out, and it is usually a bit of an adventure finding him.
After visiting Don, PG found the marker for “Brother John Wade”. His time on earth was September 23, 1865 to January 15, 1916. This was from the autumn just after the War Between the States until 37 days before PG’s father was born in Rowland, North Carolina. There was a renewed sense of connection to the stone monuments.
The facebook friend said “Today is Dead Poets Remembrance Day, Oct. 7th, the day Edgar Allan Poe died. Be sure to visit a graveyard and read some poetry today”. PG didn’t have anything better to do.
The first obstacle was finding a book of poetry. PG is not a poetry person. A look at the shelf turned up a paperback, “125 years of Atlantic “. Poetry was to be found between those covers.
The book had two stickers, both saying 69 cents. At the old Book Nook, this meant that the book was half the price on the sticker. With tax, that would be 38 cents.
125YOA had stayed in PG’s car for a few years. Whenever he was stuck somewhere with time to kill, this book was waiting. One afternoon in 1998, there was a slow day at work. PG read a remembrance by Gertrude Stein, about life in France at the start of World War II.
The cemetery of choice was connected to the Nancy Creek Primitive Baptist Church. PG has driven by this facility thousands of times. He walked past the graves until he found a fallen tree to sit down on.
The first poem was “Looking for the Buckhead Boys” by James Dickey. PG began to read out loud, and soon could smell the drug store air of Wender and Roberts. The author bought fifty cents worth of gas at a Gulf station. Today, fifty cents might buy a tablespoon of gas, and Gulf was long ago bought out by BP. Wender and Roberts became a bar, which was torn down, to make way for a shopping destination. Not all change is progress.
Buckhead is not what it used to be. When Mr. Dickey was the bravest man in Buckhead (he took a shit in the toilet at Tyree’s pool hall), PG was not even thought of. The traffic jams on Peachtree Street are still there, as the blue haired ladies follow poets into the ground.
When PG finished reading Mr. Dickey, he put a teal postit in the book, where the poem stood. PG looked up, and the graveyard seemed different. Maybe the sun had sank a bit in the sky, and maybe the poem had changed PG in a way he could not put into words. Maybe another poem was the answer. Take the glasses off, open the book at random, and turn the pages until a poem shows up.
On page 404…the historic Atlanta area code…was “The Wartime Journey” by Jan Struther. The 1944 work was unknown territory. A group of people are traveling on a train. The wounded vet, the untried recruit, the salesmen shared the space with a lady, taking a baby for her soldier husband to meet. The theme of the rhymes was that America was totally at war, and that war is different from peacetime. Today’s war in Babylon is not like that.
Halfway through the reading, a freight train pulled by. Today, passenger trains are a novelty, and freight rules the rails. The shipment today was double decked containers, ready to pull off and slap on an eighteen wheeler.
Deaths are said to come in threes, and reading poetry in a graveyard should be the same. PG went on a random search for a Moe, to go with the Curley and Larry already digested. A page of poems by Emily Dickinson was the result. These pages left PG unmoved. It was as if he was back in the sixth grade, with a horrible English teacher forcing him to memorize Hiawatha. It was time to go home.
Beach Town
It is a happy moment to find an unread Mary Kay Andrews book at the library. The pages of the story turn themselves. Beach Town is more of the same. A book like this is your friend.
The plot is a touch better than recent MKA stories. Greer is a location scout for a movie. She stumbles onto a forgotten town in Florida. Cypress Key seems to be all the Old Florida you can handle. The real life inspiration is Cedar Key, FL.
There are multiple sub plots. Families come together, and blow up again. Small town politics get ugly. A movie set comes to town, with some of the chaos that naturally occurs. Greer only gets fired from the movie once. She was ready to go.
There is lots of “adult activity,” some of which involves a minor. A one star amazon traveler, APNM is dismayed. “So disappointed by this book. I was completely shocked by the gratuitous graphic sex scene between the main characters early in the book, not at all typical in her earlier works. Not sure why the author feels like she must include this kind of stuff now.” One of the players lives on top of his grocery store. When things started to heat up, he went downstairs, and returned with a 40 pack of condoms. He was an optimist.
Him and her kiss for the first time on page 118. They spend most of the book mad at each other. Somehow, they manage to get back together, and then fuss a bit more. Since chamblee54 does not do plot spoilers, you will have to read the book to see how it turns out.
The plot gets a touch unbelievable about three quarters of the way through. In one sequence, Greer sees Allie, the teen aged nephew of the grocery store dude. Allie is horribly upset, at Greer, and the rest of the world. Despite all that, Allie gets in the car. Greer’s long lost father has wrecked his car in a swamp. Allie helps Greer find her dad, with assistance from law enforcement, and cell phone GPS.
Despite, or maybe because of, the insane plot twists, Beach Town is tons of fun. There is no redeeming social value whatsoever. This is reading to enjoy yourself… forget your troubles by worrying about fiction. Pictures for today’s digital entertainment are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Dick Nixon TV Critic
The text below is a conversation between Mr. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and H. R. Haldeman. The tape was made May 13, 1971. This is a repost. Pictures are from The Library of Congress.
NIXON: … CBS … glorifying homosexuality.
EHRLICHMAN: A panel show?
H. R. HALDEMAN: No, it’s a regular show. It’s on every week. It’s usually just done in the guy’s home. It’s usually just that guy, who’s a hard hat.
NIXON: That’s right; he’s a hard hat.
EHRLICHMAN: He always looks like a slob.
NIXON: Looks like Jackie Gleason.
HALDEMAN: He has this hippie son-in-law, and usually the general trend is to downgrade him and upgrade the son-in-law–make the square hard hat out to be bad. But a few weeks ago, they had one in which the guy, the son-in-law, wrote a letter to you, President Nixon, to raise hell about something. And the guy said, “You will not write that letter from my home!” Then said, “I’m going to write President Nixon,” took off all those sloppy clothes, shaved, and went to his desk and got ready to write his letter to President Nixon. And apparently it was a good episode.
EHRLICHMAN: What’s it called?
NIXON: “Archie’s Guys.” Archie is sitting here with his hippie son-in-law, married to the screwball daughter. The son-in-law apparently goes both ways. This guy. He’s obviously queer–wears an ascot–but not offensively so. Very clever. Uses nice language. Shows pictures of his parents. And so Arch goes down to the bar. Sees his best friend, who used to play professional football. Virile, strong, this and that. Then the fairy comes into the bar. I don’t mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, goddamn, I don’t think you glorify it on public television, homosexuality, even more than you glorify whores. We all know we have weaknesses. But, goddammit, what do you think that does to kids? You know what happened to the Greeks! Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates.
EHRLICHMAN: But he never had the influence television had.
NIXON: You know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were fags. Neither in a public way. You know what happened to the popes? They were layin’ the nuns; that’s been goin’ on for years, centuries. But the Catholic Church went to hell three or four centuries ago. It was homosexual, and it had to be cleaned out. That’s what’s happened to Britain. It happened earlier to France. Let’s look at the strong societies. The Russians. Goddamn, they root ’em out. They don’t let ’em around at all. I don’t know what they do with them. Look at this country. You think the Russians allow dope? Homosexuality, dope, immorality, are the enemies of strong societies. That’s why the Communists and left-wingers are clinging to one another. They’re trying to destroy us. I know Moynihan will disagree with this, and Mitchell will. But, goddamn, we have to stand up to this.
EHRLICHMAN: It’s fatal liberality.
NIXON: Huh?
EHRLICHMAN: It’s fatal liberality. And with its use on television, it has such leverage.
NIXON: You know what’s happened [in northern California]?
EHRLICHMAN: San Francisco has just gone clear over.
NIXON: But it’s not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time–it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can’t shake hands with anybody from San Francisco. … Decorators. They got to do something. But we don’t have to glorify it. You know one of the reasons fashions have made women look so terrible is because the designers hate women. Designers taking it out on the women. Now they’re trying to get some more sexy things coming on again.
EHRLICHMAN: Hot pants.
NIXON: Jesus Christ.
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Graphic video: Tulsa Police footage from fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher ~ I Used to Be a Human Being ~ gif ~ halloween party ~ The Meaning of Life ~ Shawty Lo ~ Another Day, Another Hashtag. White People, You Gotta Get to Work NOW ~ It Doesn’t Matter That the Cop Who Killed Keith Scott Is Black ~ OpEd: Charlotte is Burning: Waking up From the American Dream… Finally? ~ What did Mahatma Gandhi think of black people? ~ @THATSSHAWTYLO My brother has passed he is no longer here but his spirit, his kind heart , and his music will live on Long live Shawty Lo King of Bankhead ~ @ShaunKing 6 people were killed by American police…yesterday. That’s the most of any day this month and more than many nations in an entire year. 8:51 AM – 21 Sep 2016 ~ Tulsa Police Officer Shares Her Side of the Story in Terence Crutcher’s Shooting ~ The Real Reason White People Say ‘All Lives Matter’ ~ This rapper has an urgent message for racist Latinos ~ Zebra Fact Check evaluates statements other fact checkers ignore and provides information other fact-checking services may miss. Our goals are accuracy, balance and adherence to proper journalistic standards for identifying content as news, news analysis or commentary. ~ Why all white people are racist, but can’t handle being called racist: the theory of white fragility ~ Glenn Loury and Peter Moskos ~ Police Kill Too Many People—White and Black ~ Terence Crutcher shooting ~ Fatal Encounters ~ Claudette Noremia Duclos ~ white people get shot ~ 13 things ~ the list ~ Reducing police-involved shooting & “The List” ~ THREE DATABASES TRACKING VIOLENCE IN AMERICA ~ the guardian ~ washington post ~ Homicide Watch Chicago ~ What if W had told white people it was a personal insult not to vote for John McCain? ~ I think BS would have been a worse candidate than HRC. ~ We’re gonna feel pretty dumb if our weird obsession with calling other people racist leads to ethnic cleansing. ~ This why – complain- -about- X -but -nobody- complains- about- Y pseudo logic is getting old. ~ @chamblee54 #asksully who is more threatened by the people of Iran, their government, Israel, or Hillary Clinton? #asksully did you give your subscribers their money back when you retired? #asksully Why are you taking comments now? #asksully do you still believe that the worst thing you can do to a blogger is ignore them? ~ google has no fresh information on Darren Seals whodunit …. plenty of people with a motive ~ @pamnonga Why “POC” will never work as a substitute for black. Courtesy of @Senseilordd. ~ This account’s Tweets are protected. Only confirmed followers have access to @Senseilordd’s Tweets and complete profile. Click the “Follow” button to send a follow request. ~ @AngryBlackLady I’m trying to write this article about discrimination against Black women’s hair, but it’s hard to type with one fist raised up in the air. ~ Does 2000 years old qualify for the senior discount? ~ KimKierkegaardashian @KimKierkegaard Happy Birthday to one of the most genuine funniest guys I know: Goethe’s Faust ~ “And if anybody fucks with you, just kill ’em; they won’t be missed.” You do realize that the Stone Mountain area is predominately African American now. ~ i just posted a poem i *created* my new thing is “blackout poetry” you take a piece of text, and block out the words you don’t want to make a poem… evidence classified Repeated she lie pants, you political fool repeat ~ when white people fight black people the government wins ~ pictures today from The Library of Congress. One group is Yale Varsity Nine & Squad, taken in 1910. The other group is CHARLOTTE HALL. WASHINGTON JACKSON S., taken between 1905 and 1945. ~ selah
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