You likely wouldn’t notice this, but I haven’t done much to promote this blog. In fact, with the exception of a very small handful of instances, I haven’t even told my online friends about mentalunrest. Of course I’m not ashamed of my posts, and I’m completely cool with folks finding and sharing my words. But […]
Read More BLOGKEEPING NOTES – GETTING THERE…I’m not surprised to hear about the New York City Police Department extending its stop-n-frisk behavior to upscale joints like Barneys when they falsely arrested 19-year old African American Trayon Christian, after he legally bought a $350 Ferragamo belt from the retailer. But since we now know the NYPD “periodically” visits Barneys to nab credit […]
Read More STOP AND FRISK COMES TO BARNEYSRemember when I talked about America’s standing in the world? Well, America’s superpower rating and President Obama’s absence from the recent Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit because of his domestic budget drama were not lost on the Jakarta Globe newspaper. “Diminishing Superpower…” Painful. And while the Party of No Brains and the Party of No Guts […]
Read More US FADING SUN SPOTTED IN ASIAWhy would the South Carolina House pass legislation that makes the implementation of Obamacare a criminal act, and why would South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley support the bill? As Rep. James Clyburn points out, South Carolina has one of the most jacked-up metrics in the nation for health outcomes, and almost 20 percent of the […]
Read More OBAMACARE TO BE ILLEGAL IN SOUTH CAROLINA?US Congress voting to cut the food stamps program under the disingenuous title of Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act is not only heartless, but dumb. “Work Opportunity” is a real laugher since Congress has proven during the past half-decade it doesn’t know how create a job. But they now created a magical […]
Read More WE’RE CUTTING YOUR FOOD, B***HES. NOW WORKFirst, we had the Texas school system moving to strike the term “Transatlantic Slave Trade” from history textbooks. And now the Randolph County, North Carolina school board bans Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man with one of the board members saying that he “didn’t find any literary value” in the book? Congratulations, Brother Ellison! In […]
Read More INVISIBLE MAN…BANNED…IN AMERICA?I can’t say for sure if the following events are related, but their ordering is curious. First, in what barely made news in the United States, a large CIA and Jordan-trained rebel force was preparing for a move into Syria and toward Damascus, thus changing the balance of Syria’s civil war. Then, in a […]
Read More NOTICE HOW THESE SYRIAN EVENTS FLOW TOGETHER?My initial dilemma was whether or not I should write about Senator John McCain’s latest bout of tangential erraticism, better known at the moment as his recent Pravda.ru op ed response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s NY Times article. My subsequent decision point was to decide how much time to spend on my response. Hint: I’m […]
Read More WARNING – MCCAIN’S THINKING AGAINHow many adults you know will respond favorably to a request you make that’s been packaged with a threat? How many adults will feel insulted, and likely not listen to anything else you have to say? World leaders aren’t much different from the rest of us humans. Think about what went through the […]
Read More IRAN – THE TABLE, THE BULLET, OR BOTH?The US Congress appears close to crushing President Obama’s dreams for a punitive Syria military adventure, thus ostensibly rendering the President’s credibility to a state of suspended animation at best. Reading the bones on the ground, what’s Team Obama’s next brilliant idea to get as many “Yes, you may bomb Syria” […]
Read More OBAMA HAS LOVE FOR BLACK CAUCUS – AT THE MOMENT
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