On Dimples and Dog Whistles: Why Tucker Carlson Dehumanizes Michael Vick

Very little left to add. The utter idiocy of what Tucker Carlson has been exposed enough, and still words fail. I wonder if Carlson realizes what the Mahatma Gandhi meant how, if only Christians lived as Christ, the whole world would no doubt follow suit.
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America's Political Class Struggle

"Amazingly­, the richest 1 percent of American households now has a higher net worth than the bottom 90 percent. The annual income of the richest 12,000 households is greater than that of the poorest 24 million households­."



Scary numbers there. [Food for thought for the rich] You think you'll ever be safe as long as those around you have a chance to envy your largesse? As long as you have plenty of food, drink, money to educate children to elite institutio­ns? It is much harder to redistribu­te your wealth, but far more gratifying­.



A simple case in point is John Davison Rockefelle­r, the man who looked ancient and was dying at 53, but who reinvented philanthro­py, living till 98! Whatever his motives were, there are poignant and sobering lessons there for the societal elite and haves.



Sadly, too many will opt to take the route of the rich young ruler in Mark 10:17-31, hold on to their wealth and risk isolation and paranoia to all around them. In truth, regardless of wishful thinking, the current situation where a group of ten millionair­es preside over the fate of 100 million paupers is simply unsustaina­ble.



Apparently common sense should be renamed as it is clearly not that abundant.-
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Top 5 Privacy Violations of 2010

Is privacy still plausible or just another academic concept? George Orwell's vision of the future, "1984", predicted a world where "Big Brother" would be all intrusive and snoopy. There are now more surveillan­ce cameras in the US and UK than there are people in some internatio­nal capitals. Email is routinely monitored, as are cell phones and all manner of computing devices.



All that makes the kind of data Google and Facebook collects seem like a bad joke. There could be a case for less data being posted on our "profiles"­, or even then, we should all just admit defeat in manners privacy and simply reach out to network with the rest of our global village mates. I generally take a pessimisti­c view and see privacy violations actually rising in future.
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Wall Street's Ten Biggest Lies for 2010

No need for caps, m8. Simple math. Money is not infinite and must come from someplace (read taxpayer, a.k.a. Peter). That collected tax must go someplace, in this case to bail out Paul (read financial sector, etc.) Reverse Robin Hood methodolog­y if you please.
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Wall Street's Ten Biggest Lies for 2010

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." - George Bernard Shaw, George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950)[1] was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
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In Money-Changers We Trust

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN". - Ecclesiast­es 1:9 (NIV)



The article only serves to point out the fairly obvious, viz. that power is the preserve of an elite club of few, presiding over the many. In effect, such is called an oligarchy. Government of the majority by a few.



is it any wonder that Peter Orszag's acts were futuristic in aim, thinking well beyond his tenure in government­? Who called him to occupy his former position as Director of the Office of Management and Budget? It's always a joke to the so-called, and often misused then overlooked "common man". It's a game that's played in smoky rooms, where old buddies congregate to strategize on protecting what they have.



It is man who matters

I call gold, it is silent.

I call cloth, it is silent.

It is man who matters. (Akan proverb)



Decide on what matters to the state, the oligarchs or the ruled. Only then would anyone purport to be zealous in driving out all money changers from the temple.
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America's Promise: Reflections on DADT

All men being created equal is not the same as all men being born equal.



Creation by the Deity is of course a matter of equality, the same material and blueprint used to create all homo sapiens. It sounds simple enough. The presence of contaminat­ion (theology would call this "sin", from the Greek, 'missing the mark') created castes, classes, discrimina­tion and suchlike.



In our actual existence, is a public or state university education equal to an Ivy League one? Is being a WASP the same as being born in the poorer South, or having more melanin the same as having less pigmentati­on?



The civil rights and women's suffrage movements have made epic strides forward, but the fight is still very much alive and well. Fraudsters like Bernie Mardoff come from the societal elite, controller­s of most economic resources, the chief oppressors of the have nots. While we are all created equal, it is clear this concept is more theoretica­l than actual.



The ball was thrown by the founding fathers, of whom Thomas Jefferson amply represents here. The fight is still far from won. Obama might have occupied the White House, but that edifice is still very "white".



We will only attain equal status for all that far off day when we choose to look at each other through the Creator's eyes, and those eyes only. It is only then that we can rise above our pettyisms and stop existing to start actual living.
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