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Quoting rumplestilskin2010:
being a voyeur has intrinsic benefits... you don't learn by talking unless you have a speech impediment or it's your profession. looking at the blogdumb's shrapnel since dec07/jan has been an amusing 'excorsize' without comedic component... casualties...??? not really and not casual... one MIA and the 'one' highly debatable... when you 'post' a note you expect it to get delivered and if not... return to sender and why and NOT to the dead letter box to never be delivered...
found this on the virtual floor...all the way from ireland... dublin, in fact... imagine that... pointed, poignant, articulate and worth its 'wait'... intense,not loud, strong... time wise is worth investigating... the 2nd half is from glen beck... and it's DEEP, as well...
EVENING MR WISE...I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT CAPS, ARE A RUDE AND NEEDLESSLY LOUD FORM OF TYPING.. .HOW ELSE CAN I SHOW MY PASSION AND FRUSTRATION IN MY EMAIL, BUT TO SHOUT THROUGH THE KEYBOARD.!I HOPE I DO NOT OFFEND!! TODAY, AS I WAS AT THE HOME OF MY EMPLOYER, ..I SUPPOSE BY BEING A NATURAL SPONGE TO THAT WHICH FASCINATES ME..OR IS MEANINGFUL TO ME...I SPIED FOR A FEW MOMENTS,[ TRYING NOT TO BE TOO OBVIOUS, AS I WAS SUPPOSE TO BE "WORKING".].. YOU WERE SPEAKING ON A PODIUM, IN SOME FOOTAGE THEY WERE VIEWING ON THEIR COMPUTER!. .WHERE YOU WERE? - I DO NOT KNOW ..WHAT I DO KNOW IS..I WAS RIVETED!.....I COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT YOU WERE A VERITABLE WATERFALL, OF ALL I FELT AND ANGUISHED OVER ALL MY LIFE!..IT WAS LIKE SOMEONE HAD SEIZED ALL MY THOUGHTS, MY BELIEFS AND OPINIONS..AND USED YOU AS A VENTRILOQUIST DUMMY..POURING FORTH SUCH RAW TRUTHS ABOUT THIS SOCIETY!........THE IRONY OF IT ALL IS..BOTH YOU AND I ARE WHITE PEOPLE! ..I EVEN SQUIRM, AT USING THAT TERMINOLOGY TO CATERGORIZE MYSELF..BUT , FOR THE SAKE OF THIS SUBJECT MATTER....I KNOW WE MUST...!..............I AM ORIGINALLY FROM IRELAND AND I FEEL SOME OF MY DEEP ROOTED FEELINGS ON THIS, ARE PROBABLY IN PART..BECAUSE OF MY NON-AMERICAN STATUS. THOUGH, THAT DOES NOT SAY IRISH PEOPLE ARE ALL INNOCENT OF THE CRIMES OF SUPERIOR THOUGHTS...BUT.. AMERICA, JUST SEEMS UP TO ITS NECK IN IT ..AND WADING THROUGH SO MUCH MENUTIA, THAT THEY CANNOT SEEM TO BECOME UNSTUCK!.......AS I JUST SHARED WITH THIS WONDERFUL MAN, WHO IS SOMEONE I HAVE JUST BECOME INVOLVED WITH RECENTLY, AND, WHO IS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN ...I SAID TO HIM...." ART, I HAVE TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU, HERE I AM, AN UNDER - ACHIEVER, WITH A FAIRLY INTELLIGENT MIND, YET..I AM PAINFULLY AWARE, THAT AS A WHITE WOMAN, IN AMERICA, I WALK DOWN THE STREET, CARRYING A RIGHT OF PASSAGE, I NEVER EVEN EARNED!".....I DO BELIEVE, WHITE PEOPLE, MORE DIRECTLY, AMERICAN WHITE PEOPLE, LIVE WITH AN INVISIBLE SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT.....THEY ARE NOT NECESSARILY CONSCIOUS OF IT...BUT THEY HAVE NEVER KNOWN LIFE ANY OTHER WAY..SO WHY WOULD THEY BE AWARE OF IT?.....I AM PERSONALLY A NON-RELIGIOUS PERSON.. CAN'T SAY I AM AN ATHEIST..BECAUSE I QUESTION THINGS TOO MUCH..LOL!........BUT I DO BELIEVE RELIGIONS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN CULTS...CULTS WITH AGENDAS, THAT USUALLY HURT THOSE, THAT DON'T "FIT" THE MOLD, AND AMERICAN CHURCH'S HAVE UNFORTUNATELY, BEEN AT THE ROOT OF MUCH OF THE DIVISIVENESS... ....I HAVE OFTEN SAID, THAT A BLACK MAN HAS MORE HONESTY FROM A KLAN'S MAN STANDING WITH A BURNING CROSS, SAYING."I HATE YOU N-----"!...THAN IF STANDING WITH A CO-WORKER, OR BOSS, WHO IS WHITE..WHO SMILES AND LAUGHS..AND TALKS ABOUT THE GAME SATURDAY NIGHT..AND FEELS GOOD ABOUT HIMSELF, BECAUSE HE IS "COOL" WITH THE BLACK GUY IN HIS OFFICE!. ..BECAUSE...THE GUY IN THE OFFICE IS LYING TO HIMSELF!.....HE WILL NEVER LOOK AT HIS BLACK COUNTERPART AS HE WILL SOME OTHER WHITE GUY IN THAT OFFICE, HE MAY WANT TO, BUT ,HE IS TOO CONSCIOUS OF THE DIFFERENCE, HE IS CONSCIOUS OF THE FACT, THAT HE IS CHATTING WITH THE "BLACK GUY"..AND THAT HE IS IN NO WAY..A RACIST...HELL, HE MIGHT EVEN INVITE HIM TO A BARBIQUE AT HIS HOME...MAKES HIS LIBERAL FRIENDS FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES TOO..WHEREAS, A CONVERSATION WITH ANOTHER WHITE WORKER..WOULD BE A NON-EVENT...THERE WOULD BE NO ADRENALINE RUSH OF SELF-SATISFACTION, FOR FEELING GOOD ABOUT A BLACK, WHITE INTERACTION....SO AS I SAID..THE KLAN'S MAN..JUST HATED YOU AND THERE ARE NO PRETENSIONS., NO SECOND GUESSING THERE!!.... ....AS WHITE EUROPEANS AND BLACK SLAVES CAME TO AMERICA, UNDER VERY DIFFERENT AND EXTREME CIRCUMSTANCES.....ONE GROUP ON A CLOUD OF GLORY AND. AND IMMEDIATE AIR OF SUPERIORITY AND ENTITLEMENT....AND THE AFRICANS AS DEMEANED, BROKEN, POWERLESS CHATTEL, WHO WERE BRUTALLY TREATED....HOW CAN ANYONE, IN ALL HONESTY, EVER TAKE THE VIEW,, "GET OVER IT"!. ."IT WASN'T ME, IT WAS LONG AGO..I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT"!....."TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR FUTURE..STOP LIVING IN THE DISTANT PAST AND GET A F*****G JOB"!.. .WHEN THE VERY FIBER OF WHO WE ARE, IS BASED ON THE PROJECTIONS OF OTHERS ONTO US....WHEN A PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FOREVER PLACED IN OUR SUBCONSCIOUS, AS LOWER FORMS OF LIFE, THAT WERE ONCE OWNED AND SOLD BY ANOTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE..HOW CAN THE GROUP WHO WAS GIVEN THE LEVEL OF A FARM ANIMAL..EVER RISE FULLY ABOVE THAT PAIN IN THEIR HEARTS..? HOW CAN THEY EVER, SEE AMERICA, LIKE YOU HAVE SAID...THROUGH THE SAME GLASSES, AS WHITE AMERICANS? .IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN..THIS DOES NOT MEAN BLACK AMERICAN INDIVIDUALS, HAVE NOT RISEN TO GREAT LEVELS IN THIS COUNTRY..BUT WHATEVER LEVEL HAS BEEN ACHIEVED....THE HEART CAN NEVER FORGET!..A TERRIBLE WRONG HAS BEEN PERPETRATED ON A PEOPLE WHO WERE ONCE KINGS AND QUEENS AND A PROUD THRIVING CULTURE!....THERE IS BITTERNESS..AND THERE IS ANGER...AND WE AS WHITE PEOPLE WILL NEVER , AS MUCH AS SOME OF US HAVE TRIED TO, CAN SIMPLY NEVER STAND IN THE SHOES OF A BLACK WOMAN, OR BLACK MAN..AND SAY.."I UNDERSTAND".......ALL ANY OF US CAN DO IN THE WHITE COMMUNITY, IF WE HAVE ANY SENSE OF WHAT IS RIGHT OR WRONG..AND ANY SENSE OF HUMANITY..IS BE AWARE OF THIS...BE AWARE OF THIS RIDICULOUS AND UNFAIR MEDAL WE WEAR..THAT WE SIMPLY...NEVER EARNED! AND THERE ARE SUCH SUBTLETIES IN OUR LANGUAGE, WHICH ALSO MAKE EVIDENT, THE ONGOING POLITE, YET, DEEPLY CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE OF THE WHITE COMMUNITY.....CODE WORDS!....WHY DO POLITICAL PUNDITS DISCUSSING THE CANDIDATES, NEVER SAY IN THEIR SUMMARIES OF EITHER , HILARY CLINTON, OR, JOHN MC CAIN.."THEY SPOKE SO ELOQUENTLY"..?..THERE IS THIS UNCONSCIOUS, YET.ARROGANT PRESUMPTION, THAT IT IS REFRESHING TO HEAR THE FLUIDITY OF INTELLIGENT SPEECH AND DICTION OF AN EDUCATED BLACK MAN..AS IF HE WAS HALF EXPECTED TO STAND THERE AND RAP!!!!!!..... THE ARTICLE I PULLED UP, PRIOR TO EMAILING, REFERENCING REVEREND WRIGHT, AND BARAK OBAMA?.....I AM SADDENED THAT OBAMA, CANNOT BE COMFORTABLE WITH THE OPINIONS OF WRIGHT.!...HE KNOWS, THAT WITH THE FEAR OF WHITE AMERICA FOR SEEMINGLY, RADICAL BLACK ORATORS..[..WHO BY THE WAY.. MADE A LOT OF SENSE TO ME, BAR ONE OR TWO POINTS !!]..THAT HE HAD TO DISTANCE HIMSELF, SO AS TO AVOID LOOSING A SECTION OF SCARED WHITE AMERICA,, WHO WOULD TWIST THAT INTO HIM BEING A BLACK PANTHER PRESIDENT!!!!!...SO IN TURN, BARAK, LOST A SMALL PART OF HIMSELF, TO SAVE THE THE POTENTIAL NOMINATION.....IT IS SAD WHEN A MAN MUST SUPPRESS PART OF HIS BELIEFS AND VIEWS, JUST TO APPEASE THE WHITE HIERARCHY IN THIS COUNTRY, WHO SIT IN THEIR IVORY TOWER AND SAY WHO WILL PASS THROUGH, AND WHO WILL NOT!....BUT AGAIN, AND FINALLY, DOESN'T IT ALL COME BACK TO THE THE TRUTH?......THE ENTITLED AND PRIVILEGED, CONTINUE TO CALL THE SHOTS..THE ENTITLED, PRIVILEGED WHITE MAN., FROM EUROPE
i give you glen beck
note: "Glenn Beck" is on Headline News nightly at 7 and 9 ET.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- My name is Glenn Beck, and I am a recovering alcoholic.
Glenn Beck says that we, the people, should take an honest look at ourselves and take charge of our country.
It took me a lot of years and a lot of pain to be able to say those words and really believe them. Along the way, I was arrogant, greedy and self-destructive.
But the worst part was that I didn't see any of it.
Even at the lowest, darkest points of my life, I still thought of myself as that successful guy who everyone loved. I was the life of the party, the guy who could do no wrong -- the guy who everyone else only wished they could be. At least that's what I thought.
Now I know better. People weren't looking at me with envy; they were looking at me with disgust as they watched me throw away everything I had worked so hard for.
I think America can relate.
Through hard work and unwavering principles, America took itself from a far-fetched idea to the greatest, most compassionate, most free country the world has ever known. But as our success has grown, so has our arrogance. Watch Beck discuss why America is killing itself ?
We've compromised our values, sold out our principles and used our freedoms to justify giving more power to the government. In the first century of America's life, its government was afraid of its citizens. Now, it's the other way around.
Maybe America should consider starting on the same kind of 12-step program that's helped millions of other addicts who couldn't see that they were slowly killing themselves. Here's my version of it, condensed to six steps since I know that Americans are way too lazy to stick around for all 12.
Step One: Admit we are not powerless.
Take a look at our Constitution. Not just a transcript; find an actual picture of it. The first three words, "We the People," are at least four times larger than the others. Do you think that was an accident? Of course not. Our framers chose those words, and made them that size, because they knew they were the answer to any problem we would ever face.
Step Two: Believe that a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.
I think this one pretty much speaks for itself.
Step Three: Decide to take our power back.
A recent polls says 81 percent of Americans now say that our country is on the wrong track. If you're one of those people, who do you blame? The Bush administration? Congress? The media?
Here's a crazy idea: How about blaming ourselves?
If you don't like the fact that your city has led the country in poverty and homelessness for the last 10 years, then ELECT SOMEONE NEW. Stop voting for the same people from the same party every year.
Our power hasn't gone away (see Step One), it's just been masked by politicians who are tearing us apart for their own gain. We need to reclaim that power, and then we need to use it.
Don't Miss
Read Glenn's 'Fusion' magazine
Glenn Beck on Headline News
Glenn's new book: 'An Inconvenient Book'
Step Four: Make a complete and fearless moral inventory.
Alcoholics aren't exactly big fans of introspection and self-examination, but this is one of the most important steps to recovery.
What are America's faults? What are our assets? By taking stock of both, we can start to work on maximizing our strengths and eliminating our weaknesses. It sounds simple, but when's the last time you really thought about what America does right? That brings me to Step Five.
Step Five: Admit our wrongs, and our rights.
We're constantly reminded about America's faults and flaws, but what about our achievements?
If you want to teach our kids about Vietnam, that's fine, but you better also teach them about World War II. And if you want to talk about our wars, you better also talk about our welfare. America is one of the most charitable countries in the history of the world, yet our mistakes are always glorified far more than our generosity. That needs to be reversed.
Step Six: Be ready to remove our defects.
Just like an alcoholic, we simply cannot go from sleeping on the street to perfection overnight. This is a big ship, and it takes a long time to turn it around.
But we have to start somewhere, and the best place is with the defects that almost all of us agree on. For example, does anyone really believe that being addicted to Saudi Arabia's oil is a good idea? What about China owning billions of our debt? Speaking of debt, what about the fact that we've saddled our children with $53 trillion in future Social Security and Medicare obligations?
But before we can address any problems, we have to first admit we have them. Many of us are in denial about just how divided we've become. We think that it's just the election or the war that's tearing us apart, but the truth is, it's much larger than that. We're every bit as arrogant, greedy and self-destructive as I was when I hit bottom.
Fortunately, it's not hopeless. It never is. If a program can work on a rodeo clown like me, it can definitely work for a country as great as ours. But until we're able to stand up and say, "Hello, my name is America and I have a problem," we'll never even have a chance.
like the pic...??? flamed kinda looks like red hair...
being a voyeur has intrinsic benefits... you don't learn by talking unless you have a speech impediment or it's your profession. looking at the blogdumb's shrapnel since dec07/jan has been an amusing 'excorsize' without comedic component... casualties...??? not really and not casual... one MIA and the 'one' highly debatable... when you 'post' a note you expect it to get delivered and if not... return to sender and why and NOT to the dead letter box to never be delivered...
found this on the virtual floor...all the way from ireland... dublin, in fact... imagine that... pointed, poignant, articulate and worth its 'wait'... intense,not loud, strong... time wise is worth investigating... the 2nd half is from glen beck... and it's DEEP, as well...
EVENING MR WISE...I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT CAPS, ARE A RUDE AND NEEDLESSLY LOUD FORM OF TYPING.. .HOW ELSE CAN I SHOW MY PASSION AND FRUSTRATION IN MY EMAIL, BUT TO SHOUT THROUGH THE KEYBOARD.!I HOPE I DO NOT OFFEND!! TODAY, AS I WAS AT THE HOME OF MY EMPLOYER, ..I SUPPOSE BY BEING A NATURAL SPONGE TO THAT WHICH FASCINATES ME..OR IS MEANINGFUL TO ME...I SPIED FOR A FEW MOMENTS,[ TRYING NOT TO BE TOO OBVIOUS, AS I WAS SUPPOSE TO BE "WORKING".].. YOU WERE SPEAKING ON A PODIUM, IN SOME FOOTAGE THEY WERE VIEWING ON THEIR COMPUTER!. .WHERE YOU WERE? - I DO NOT KNOW ..WHAT I DO KNOW IS..I WAS RIVETED!.....I COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT YOU WERE A VERITABLE WATERFALL, OF ALL I FELT AND ANGUISHED OVER ALL MY LIFE!..IT WAS LIKE SOMEONE HAD SEIZED ALL MY THOUGHTS, MY BELIEFS AND OPINIONS..AND USED YOU AS A VENTRILOQUIST DUMMY..POURING FORTH SUCH RAW TRUTHS ABOUT THIS SOCIETY!........THE IRONY OF IT ALL IS..BOTH YOU AND I ARE WHITE PEOPLE! ..I EVEN SQUIRM, AT USING THAT TERMINOLOGY TO CATERGORIZE MYSELF..BUT , FOR THE SAKE OF THIS SUBJECT MATTER....I KNOW WE MUST...!..............I AM ORIGINALLY FROM IRELAND AND I FEEL SOME OF MY DEEP ROOTED FEELINGS ON THIS, ARE PROBABLY IN PART..BECAUSE OF MY NON-AMERICAN STATUS. THOUGH, THAT DOES NOT SAY IRISH PEOPLE ARE ALL INNOCENT OF THE CRIMES OF SUPERIOR THOUGHTS...BUT.. AMERICA, JUST SEEMS UP TO ITS NECK IN IT ..AND WADING THROUGH SO MUCH MENUTIA, THAT THEY CANNOT SEEM TO BECOME UNSTUCK!.......AS I JUST SHARED WITH THIS WONDERFUL MAN, WHO IS SOMEONE I HAVE JUST BECOME INVOLVED WITH RECENTLY, AND, WHO IS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN ...I SAID TO HIM...." ART, I HAVE TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU, HERE I AM, AN UNDER - ACHIEVER, WITH A FAIRLY INTELLIGENT MIND, YET..I AM PAINFULLY AWARE, THAT AS A WHITE WOMAN, IN AMERICA, I WALK DOWN THE STREET, CARRYING A RIGHT OF PASSAGE, I NEVER EVEN EARNED!".....I DO BELIEVE, WHITE PEOPLE, MORE DIRECTLY, AMERICAN WHITE PEOPLE, LIVE WITH AN INVISIBLE SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT.....THEY ARE NOT NECESSARILY CONSCIOUS OF IT...BUT THEY HAVE NEVER KNOWN LIFE ANY OTHER WAY..SO WHY WOULD THEY BE AWARE OF IT?.....I AM PERSONALLY A NON-RELIGIOUS PERSON.. CAN'T SAY I AM AN ATHEIST..BECAUSE I QUESTION THINGS TOO MUCH..LOL!........BUT I DO BELIEVE RELIGIONS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN CULTS...CULTS WITH AGENDAS, THAT USUALLY HURT THOSE, THAT DON'T "FIT" THE MOLD, AND AMERICAN CHURCH'S HAVE UNFORTUNATELY, BEEN AT THE ROOT OF MUCH OF THE DIVISIVENESS... ....I HAVE OFTEN SAID, THAT A BLACK MAN HAS MORE HONESTY FROM A KLAN'S MAN STANDING WITH A BURNING CROSS, SAYING."I HATE YOU N-----"!...THAN IF STANDING WITH A CO-WORKER, OR BOSS, WHO IS WHITE..WHO SMILES AND LAUGHS..AND TALKS ABOUT THE GAME SATURDAY NIGHT..AND FEELS GOOD ABOUT HIMSELF, BECAUSE HE IS "COOL" WITH THE BLACK GUY IN HIS OFFICE!. ..BECAUSE...THE GUY IN THE OFFICE IS LYING TO HIMSELF!.....HE WILL NEVER LOOK AT HIS BLACK COUNTERPART AS HE WILL SOME OTHER WHITE GUY IN THAT OFFICE, HE MAY WANT TO, BUT ,HE IS TOO CONSCIOUS OF THE DIFFERENCE, HE IS CONSCIOUS OF THE FACT, THAT HE IS CHATTING WITH THE "BLACK GUY"..AND THAT HE IS IN NO WAY..A RACIST...HELL, HE MIGHT EVEN INVITE HIM TO A BARBIQUE AT HIS HOME...MAKES HIS LIBERAL FRIENDS FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES TOO..WHEREAS, A CONVERSATION WITH ANOTHER WHITE WORKER..WOULD BE A NON-EVENT...THERE WOULD BE NO ADRENALINE RUSH OF SELF-SATISFACTION, FOR FEELING GOOD ABOUT A BLACK, WHITE INTERACTION....SO AS I SAID..THE KLAN'S MAN..JUST HATED YOU AND THERE ARE NO PRETENSIONS., NO SECOND GUESSING THERE!!.... ....AS WHITE EUROPEANS AND BLACK SLAVES CAME TO AMERICA, UNDER VERY DIFFERENT AND EXTREME CIRCUMSTANCES.....ONE GROUP ON A CLOUD OF GLORY AND. AND IMMEDIATE AIR OF SUPERIORITY AND ENTITLEMENT....AND THE AFRICANS AS DEMEANED, BROKEN, POWERLESS CHATTEL, WHO WERE BRUTALLY TREATED....HOW CAN ANYONE, IN ALL HONESTY, EVER TAKE THE VIEW,, "GET OVER IT"!. ."IT WASN'T ME, IT WAS LONG AGO..I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT"!....."TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR FUTURE..STOP LIVING IN THE DISTANT PAST AND GET A F*****G JOB"!.. .WHEN THE VERY FIBER OF WHO WE ARE, IS BASED ON THE PROJECTIONS OF OTHERS ONTO US....WHEN A PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FOREVER PLACED IN OUR SUBCONSCIOUS, AS LOWER FORMS OF LIFE, THAT WERE ONCE OWNED AND SOLD BY ANOTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE..HOW CAN THE GROUP WHO WAS GIVEN THE LEVEL OF A FARM ANIMAL..EVER RISE FULLY ABOVE THAT PAIN IN THEIR HEARTS..? HOW CAN THEY EVER, SEE AMERICA, LIKE YOU HAVE SAID...THROUGH THE SAME GLASSES, AS WHITE AMERICANS? .IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN..THIS DOES NOT MEAN BLACK AMERICAN INDIVIDUALS, HAVE NOT RISEN TO GREAT LEVELS IN THIS COUNTRY..BUT WHATEVER LEVEL HAS BEEN ACHIEVED....THE HEART CAN NEVER FORGET!..A TERRIBLE WRONG HAS BEEN PERPETRATED ON A PEOPLE WHO WERE ONCE KINGS AND QUEENS AND A PROUD THRIVING CULTURE!....THERE IS BITTERNESS..AND THERE IS ANGER...AND WE AS WHITE PEOPLE WILL NEVER , AS MUCH AS SOME OF US HAVE TRIED TO, CAN SIMPLY NEVER STAND IN THE SHOES OF A BLACK WOMAN, OR BLACK MAN..AND SAY.."I UNDERSTAND".......ALL ANY OF US CAN DO IN THE WHITE COMMUNITY, IF WE HAVE ANY SENSE OF WHAT IS RIGHT OR WRONG..AND ANY SENSE OF HUMANITY..IS BE AWARE OF THIS...BE AWARE OF THIS RIDICULOUS AND UNFAIR MEDAL WE WEAR..THAT WE SIMPLY...NEVER EARNED! AND THERE ARE SUCH SUBTLETIES IN OUR LANGUAGE, WHICH ALSO MAKE EVIDENT, THE ONGOING POLITE, YET, DEEPLY CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE OF THE WHITE COMMUNITY.....CODE WORDS!....WHY DO POLITICAL PUNDITS DISCUSSING THE CANDIDATES, NEVER SAY IN THEIR SUMMARIES OF EITHER , HILARY CLINTON, OR, JOHN MC CAIN.."THEY SPOKE SO ELOQUENTLY"..?..THERE IS THIS UNCONSCIOUS, YET.ARROGANT PRESUMPTION, THAT IT IS REFRESHING TO HEAR THE FLUIDITY OF INTELLIGENT SPEECH AND DICTION OF AN EDUCATED BLACK MAN..AS IF HE WAS HALF EXPECTED TO STAND THERE AND RAP!!!!!!..... THE ARTICLE I PULLED UP, PRIOR TO EMAILING, REFERENCING REVEREND WRIGHT, AND BARAK OBAMA?.....I AM SADDENED THAT OBAMA, CANNOT BE COMFORTABLE WITH THE OPINIONS OF WRIGHT.!...HE KNOWS, THAT WITH THE FEAR OF WHITE AMERICA FOR SEEMINGLY, RADICAL BLACK ORATORS..[..WHO BY THE WAY.. MADE A LOT OF SENSE TO ME, BAR ONE OR TWO POINTS !!]..THAT HE HAD TO DISTANCE HIMSELF, SO AS TO AVOID LOOSING A SECTION OF SCARED WHITE AMERICA,, WHO WOULD TWIST THAT INTO HIM BEING A BLACK PANTHER PRESIDENT!!!!!...SO IN TURN, BARAK, LOST A SMALL PART OF HIMSELF, TO SAVE THE THE POTENTIAL NOMINATION.....IT IS SAD WHEN A MAN MUST SUPPRESS PART OF HIS BELIEFS AND VIEWS, JUST TO APPEASE THE WHITE HIERARCHY IN THIS COUNTRY, WHO SIT IN THEIR IVORY TOWER AND SAY WHO WILL PASS THROUGH, AND WHO WILL NOT!....BUT AGAIN, AND FINALLY, DOESN'T IT ALL COME BACK TO THE THE TRUTH?......THE ENTITLED AND PRIVILEGED, CONTINUE TO CALL THE SHOTS..THE ENTITLED, PRIVILEGED WHITE MAN., FROM EUROPE
i give you glen beck
note: "Glenn Beck" is on Headline News nightly at 7 and 9 ET.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- My name is Glenn Beck, and I am a recovering alcoholic.
Glenn Beck says that we, the people, should take an honest look at ourselves and take charge of our country.
It took me a lot of years and a lot of pain to be able to say those words and really believe them. Along the way, I was arrogant, greedy and self-destructive.
But the worst part was that I didn't see any of it.
Even at the lowest, darkest points of my life, I still thought of myself as that successful guy who everyone loved. I was the life of the party, the guy who could do no wrong -- the guy who everyone else only wished they could be. At least that's what I thought.
Now I know better. People weren't looking at me with envy; they were looking at me with disgust as they watched me throw away everything I had worked so hard for.
I think America can relate.
Through hard work and unwavering principles, America took itself from a far-fetched idea to the greatest, most compassionate, most free country the world has ever known. But as our success has grown, so has our arrogance. Watch Beck discuss why America is killing itself ?
We've compromised our values, sold out our principles and used our freedoms to justify giving more power to the government. In the first century of America's life, its government was afraid of its citizens. Now, it's the other way around.
Maybe America should consider starting on the same kind of 12-step program that's helped millions of other addicts who couldn't see that they were slowly killing themselves. Here's my version of it, condensed to six steps since I know that Americans are way too lazy to stick around for all 12.
Step One: Admit we are not powerless.
Take a look at our Constitution. Not just a transcript; find an actual picture of it. The first three words, "We the People," are at least four times larger than the others. Do you think that was an accident? Of course not. Our framers chose those words, and made them that size, because they knew they were the answer to any problem we would ever face.
Step Two: Believe that a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.
I think this one pretty much speaks for itself.
Step Three: Decide to take our power back.
A recent polls says 81 percent of Americans now say that our country is on the wrong track. If you're one of those people, who do you blame? The Bush administration? Congress? The media?
Here's a crazy idea: How about blaming ourselves?
If you don't like the fact that your city has led the country in poverty and homelessness for the last 10 years, then ELECT SOMEONE NEW. Stop voting for the same people from the same party every year.
Our power hasn't gone away (see Step One), it's just been masked by politicians who are tearing us apart for their own gain. We need to reclaim that power, and then we need to use it.
Don't Miss
Read Glenn's 'Fusion' magazine
Glenn Beck on Headline News
Glenn's new book: 'An Inconvenient Book'
Step Four: Make a complete and fearless moral inventory.
Alcoholics aren't exactly big fans of introspection and self-examination, but this is one of the most important steps to recovery.
What are America's faults? What are our assets? By taking stock of both, we can start to work on maximizing our strengths and eliminating our weaknesses. It sounds simple, but when's the last time you really thought about what America does right? That brings me to Step Five.
Step Five: Admit our wrongs, and our rights.
We're constantly reminded about America's faults and flaws, but what about our achievements?
If you want to teach our kids about Vietnam, that's fine, but you better also teach them about World War II. And if you want to talk about our wars, you better also talk about our welfare. America is one of the most charitable countries in the history of the world, yet our mistakes are always glorified far more than our generosity. That needs to be reversed.
Step Six: Be ready to remove our defects.
Just like an alcoholic, we simply cannot go from sleeping on the street to perfection overnight. This is a big ship, and it takes a long time to turn it around.
But we have to start somewhere, and the best place is with the defects that almost all of us agree on. For example, does anyone really believe that being addicted to Saudi Arabia's oil is a good idea? What about China owning billions of our debt? Speaking of debt, what about the fact that we've saddled our children with $53 trillion in future Social Security and Medicare obligations?
But before we can address any problems, we have to first admit we have them. Many of us are in denial about just how divided we've become. We think that it's just the election or the war that's tearing us apart, but the truth is, it's much larger than that. We're every bit as arrogant, greedy and self-destructive as I was when I hit bottom.
Fortunately, it's not hopeless. It never is. If a program can work on a rodeo clown like me, it can definitely work for a country as great as ours. But until we're able to stand up and say, "Hello, my name is America and I have a problem," we'll never even have a chance.
like the pic...??? flamed kinda looks like red hair...
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