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This past Sunday, talking heads were giving their opinion of how bad Hurricane Irene actual was. Most felt and stated that the preparation was over stated. Conservative columnist George Will asserted that Obama was using it as a press opportunity and to paraphrase him said it was all “much to do about nothing.” Seems the ultra-wealthy in American media who have a Koch Brothers slant to their political thesis consider the havoc consequential of Irene as not worthy of the preparation and attention it received. What they failed to highlight was the dire predicament the nation has been put in – to deal with any unforeseen conundrum, natural disasters included, by mandating budget cuts regardless of what happens to the nation. For it is beyond irresponsible to outline cost for budgetary items that are not scripted and can occur without prior knowledge or warning.

The aftermath of Irene thus far has resulted in the deaths of at least 42 people in 12 states and this number does not include the deaths in Haiti or Puerto Rico. All Amtrak service was suspended between Boston to Philadelphia at a cost of millions of dollars not to mention the nearly 10 million Americans who have had to deal with, and some still do, existing without electrical service. It will take weeks before we can actually determine the extent and cost of damage to farmers who grow everything from blueberries and corn to Tobacco.

Tens of thousands of Americans in tows and hamlets in the region are cut off from the civilized world as well as from sources of food and clean water. States including Vermont, North Carolina, New Jersey and New York among others are suffering the wrath of flooding with the worse yet to come. Yes, some states from Maine to Virginia have experienced the worst flooding in decades yet Republicans play politics and consider Irene’s outcome equal to small apples. I guess if one losing their home or business is a small blip in the big picture.

The most irritating is the request from Republican leadership in Congress that there will have to be spending cuts in other needed programs for congress to do their job and deal with the problem. Seems as if they were unable to perceive that a natural disaster could occur and worse, that if needed any fiscal support, that it should have been foreseen and placed in the budget as a specific line item.

Through the GOP congress policy, FEMA will have to put other natural disasters including what happened in Joplin, Missouri and the Tornado’s across the South on hold from additional funding. Republicans would prefer to adjust the budget to cover cost, something that has never been done before, as opposed to add debt to provide funding to devastated communities hit hard by Irene, or any future natural disaster for that matter.

Irene will likely end up being one of the ten most expensive catastrophes in the nation’s history. Disaster relief historically has been seen by all as a major responsibility of the federal government and since 1989 congress has approved 33 emergency appropriations without offsetting cuts to other programs.

The Tea Party got their way in 2010, but if they do not get disaster relief, it may be an example of the chicken comings home to roost via their extreme and reckless mandate for spending to be offset by budget cuts.

Stupid pet tricks

Got damn revenuers. I tell you, at this rate, I will never run out of stuff to say about our government. I just found out that my tax dollars have gone to file an indictment against the all time home run leader Barry Bonds. A federal grand filed this for perjury and the obstruction of justice lying.

Of all folks, the Federal government have some nerve to call anybody a liar or to accuse anybody of obstructing justice. Last I heard, the filibuster was still used in the hallowed halls of congress. And why, for steriods? From what I have read, this is the result of a four year investigation. Four years – they don’t even take four years to investigate each other (senators and congress persons), or to investigate the fowl-up of FEMA with regards to Katrina, or why the mortgage lending industry has lead to an increase in foreclosures across the country, or why it take 93 cents to make one Canadian dollar, or why the Veternans Hospitals of American can’t provide health care to men and women who serve our country.

Streriods are a marvel of science. The are used every day. In medicine alone, they are prescribed daily to people who do not play sports to assist them with recovering after surgery. Steriods are also extremely useful ( both male and female sex steroids) in mediating or protecting against cardiovascular disease (CVD) and hypertension in some individuals. Anabolic-androgenic steroids are even used for alcoholic liver disease. Why can’t sports figures use them but regular folk like you and me can?

And why Barry Bonds, they didn’t indict Rush Limbaugh for his drug addict behavior of abusing Oxycontin. Shit, I bet half the folks in the legslative, executive and judicial branches of government are taking some prescription medication that is a steriod by the definitions of organic chemisty that learned back at Morehouse. Organic chemistry is the study of the properties of carbon-based compounds that are organic.

Just tell me, who are the members of this Grand Jury and why not make them take drug trest to discern if they using steriods. Why aren’t their names made public? We know that our current President is a recovering achololic and cocaine addict but they don’t indict him, and he running the country, spending more money than we have and sending men and women to die daily in a war over an emotion.

I tell you, is it just me, or is their no pragmatism in government anymore? Im a libertarian, but I feel that George Orwell when he penned 1984 and Aldous Huxley when he wrote Brave New World may have been right. You think Ray Bradbery will be next, I man wil they start burning books like they did in Fahrenhiet 451? Or is this a replication of an old David Letterman skit called “Stupid Pet Tricks?” If so can we put folks like this to sleep? Just a question.

point of order

Just left San Diego and they say it was an hour before an earthquake hit up North by San Jose. Now I am in DC, really Bethesda, Maryland for a scholars round table sponsored by NIH. As a scientist, I often make use of higher order statistical and mathematical models for the purpose of evaluating the efficacy of my research outcomes. My personal profiecincy ranges to cover Item response analysis, structural equation modeling and assorted regression analysis techniques.

Regression allows me (at least in theory) to predict outcomes of one variable based on another. Unfortunately utility is limited to numbers and not humans nor human actions or events. In the world we reside, regression means sliding backwards in time.

Last week, Clarence Davenport Jr. was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Although he should, from this purview listed in the annals of U.S. History somewhere, chances are his story won’t. You see the retired Army Colonel was the 6th African American to ever graduate from West Point. A member of the class of 1943, he matriculated some five years before President Harry Truman ended segregation in the military in 1948.

During this time at the academy, Davenport was subjugated to a practiced referred as being “SILENCED.” It was mainly used against cadet who had broken major rules of conduct. Not Davenport, his was the result of his skin color and ethnicity. He was made to eat alone, not speak or be spoken to by anyone unless it regarded official Academy activities and lived in isolation. It has been written that other cadets did horrible things to him including but not limited to putting sht in his bed, clothes and shoes.

This was some 50 plus years ago when segregation was retro chic. It just seems that the same attitudes are prevalent now. A lot of states now like Texas and California have passed ballot efforts that have banned the use of Affirmative action for college admissions. Some states such as Florida spend more of corrections/prisons that they do on higher education annually. The Supreme Court just struck down measures in Kentucky designed to curb school segregation issues resulting in race not being viable whe trying to implement equal and quality education for all students.

They say at his funeral, some member of his graduation class attended his funeral. They also say these same men, the ones that didn’t speak to him, stood in silence again as his casket passed them and placed in the earth. I guess showing up is a form of change. If it took them fifty plus years, how long will it take for the rest of the folk to fall in line?

Between San Diego and Basiden

Today, I am lost for words; not really, I just don’t have anything to write about. You see I just landed in San Diego. I was hoping to see first had the smoke and the flames from the devastating wild fires. But to my surprise, I aint see shit. Not Jack, not even any smoke. I was gonna write about how FEMA showed up on time here and was working, unlike during Katrina, but I can’t write about that either because I hear they had a staged press conference already where questions were asked by FEMA employees faking to be reporters.

So what does that leave me? Nothing really, except the fact I saw the Michael Basiden show for the first time on BET. I guess they trying to clean up their act. Anywho, the were talking about the “clean-up woman.” You know the woman that chases after married men. They even had one of them air heads from charm school, who obviously failed her classes and was allowed entry under what I presuppose was the Hoochie mama scholarship.

What struck me as interesting was that one of the ladies said it was impossible for a woman to love a married man, regardless of the mans situation because she would always be nothing more than his ho, even if she was able to get some loot from him. Interesting thought I said to myself in between tokes. So I ask yawl, is it possible for a woman to love a man who is already married, with a family and who is promised to someone else? Yawl clean up women holla? I figure a woman STUPID enough to deal with a married man, or a brother for that matter, is STUPID enough to love them – just my two cents. And wouldn’t be surprised if they got it from their parents. I can see a mother asking a married man to take care of her daughter if she had a history of adultery herself.

I guess the show is supposed to be like his radio show. Maybe I will check I out again, maybe not. Since I was passing through in search of a football game.