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Thursday, June 22, 2023

WOMEN RULE and GIRLS beat boys especially well too!

Women rule and girls beat boys too. 


Reverend Al Sharpton's, and MY, ANNOUNCEMENT 

Please do not support anti-ABORTION ads that position themselves on THE SOAPBOX VIEW page. Women through history taught abortion should be temporary till absurd SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS solved. Support ADOPTED BABIES heathens of the United States Supreme Court

IMPEACH OUR COUNTRY'S ENTIRE LEADERSHIP MESS.


Do we even pontificate on how much money circulates within our National Adoption non-system that gets nowhere near circulated for the adoptees' benefit. Great. Fixed for a child of the United States Supreme Court. THE CONTRIVED REPUBLICAN IDEOLOGY made some progress. 


Women can end abortion, within their own grasps, when boys get out of the way. 

☝☝☝ RALP REED despicably, well-tied, coughs it up. 

America stay asleep is advertised all across history's, REPUBLICAN REFUSE

STATUS, LIBRARY imaginings through generations of history books

I spoke in The Great Hall in order to deliberate on what Abraham Lincoln might want our fellow, kicked out, Republicans told about their ROGER STONE PEACOCK PARADE.


And that’s the way it was: February 27, 1860

Abraham Lincoln delivers an antislavery speech at Cooper Union in New York City that propels him to the presidency

    For two hours, the clean-shaven, gaunt, and ungainly “pioneer lawyer,” who underwhelmed many audiences at first glance, delivered an attack against proslavery expansionism that was both cogent and rousing. He skewered Stephen Douglas, deftly made the case that the Dred Scott decision was constitutionally and historically ungrounded, and forcefully articulated the Republican party’s moral opposition to slavery. Columbia Journalism Review.

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Open anything other than Rupert Murdoch's contrived mind for at least just once. 

STUFF IT

MURDOCHIAN NATIONAL TRAGEDY

I insist America LAYS TO REST where history's already described

ADAM SCHIFF (D- CA) CENSORSHIP

It is a game

Republicans already know Chump is a "Loser." Why McCarthyism is berserk on the disrupt House of Representatives floor.

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Reverend Al Sharpton's, and MY, ANNOUNCEMENT


     No kidding Tawana Brawley was contrived into another in a long-line of political hoaxing placed in the AMERICAN PUBLIC's Mind. 

    See what the team that defended Ms. Brawley realized was the whole thing was fabricated on fabrication. So in a sense this was really the window the WHITE ESTABLISHMENT clumsily allowed for their breakthrough. Perhaps debilitating for lawyers, but in this instance James Brown's protogè Al Sharpton kept plugging away at what we can all see is as always was. KILL ANY REAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ... Martin LUTHER King, Jr. knew he would be killed. Come on people. A feeling, Dr. King had, he shared with friends? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. read history and then Bobby Kennedy was killed bye another coincidental lunatic. History has been contrived by people unwilling to allow their names to publicly appear anywhere responsible. BUT THAT IS NOT AN EXCUSE FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC TO LET THIS KEEP HAPPENING. LOCK THEIR BIGGEST FIGUREHEAD IDIOT UP. 
    In Eustis, Florida about a block from the Symbol of American Black LEGAL Jeopardy, Sheriff Willis V. McCall stood back and watched over RACISM's hierarchy. That probably still places impediments of white aggression in front of me too, in the manner of without enough money what I say shouldn't be regarded as actual Contemporary History when really what I illustrate clearly is WHITE RACISM go to hell where you've portrayed yourselves belonging since the beginning. https://www.facebook.com/CriminalEnterpriseSystem/

Criminal Enterprise System
Criminal Enterprise System
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

INVESTIGATIONS IN PROGRESS

Yurmony's response to the file included "Chatter doesn't matter" and uncrossing a leg to recross the other. And his agreement, "When people have the end of the line drawn for them, you can stretch it however you want. But ultimately? Citizens don't care." Then his right eyebrow rose questioning whether I understood normal is following the rest in line with the façade?

So I pointed out for the lawyer that, "Ruthless jargon rules the world. Mere layers of more nonsense. Everything's just Goofy ruled by subterfuge and espionage. If evil's the problem? Stop raising it. Except for the various conspiracies of individuals' benefit, bitter rivalry hasn't been the solution for countless generations. Prosperity and patriotism shouldn't just be signaled by the ability to make and threaten war. Because as things cluelessly stand, we've proven to have not advanced past the Medieval Age. The future's here and we're a shameful lotCrying shame. But, suitingly, look darn good on the business page." 
Imagine lawyers getting digitally shortchanged but for a minute? Lighting out of there. Running away. Getting lost. Were my best options to elude repercussions. If there were any? While Yurmony's look just meant this should cost me. So he smirked, "Goofy's all you are," and waited a response. 

Squirm my eye. 

He sighed shutting off his screen. Then inserted finality in his voice, pausing after, "Well. It'll go this way." 

But I interrupted, "Sure it does. But by always going that way. Things can be turned a bit. Or there's no point. Unless it's the conspiracy that manipulates most has all the power. Where's the consent of the governed in that?" 

The attitude was all there in his answering me. The grinning self-assured mockery. Accusingly asking, "And you call others' jargon?" 

So I gave him his shrug back. 

He smiled, "Uh huh. Be realistic. Management is controlling people. Not what dissent fabricates and convolutes to mean tyranny."

"Ditto," I said because whatever he meant was questionable too. Power running roughshod.

"Uh huh," Yurmony pretended to have heard what I thought. "Individuals aren't successes by themselves."

"Why everything's a conspiracy." 

"Except for nothings." 

"Ah. You mean it's fruitless encouraging voters not to be sycophants?" 

He said, "I'm telling you. Twisting logic doesn't make you correct. Makes you a muddler." 

Nice to hear at least. 

But he continued. "To the point. Since this makes no difference. Why bother? It's impossible to be in everyone's corner disagreeing with both sides. Look"

"Look? Lawyers profit defending everyone. Even pro bono's good for business. Plus I don't advocate poaching. Tolerance doesn't mean tolerating crime. Our problems are deeper than the rule of law. Cultural and perhaps chemical, the way people, beneath the skin, always bother each other."

"O-kay. Let's stick to not making a case of this."

"There's no case," I replied. 

While Yurmony'd moved on and smiling, waved me through the Sliding Glass Door onto the balcony. Even designating a lounge chair, opposite him, where I sat on the edge. 

Grinning he, started a cigar and, waving it around, asked if I knew, "why people confer with lawyers?" 

"Paid to keep their mouths shut."

"Besides that, cynic. People need someone doubting them on their side to come to grips with the truth."

"You're psychiatrists?"

"Dude. The law supervises people's shortcomings in dealing with others."

"Noble calling. But The Fine Society? Culture by punishment. Crime should end because it's really not polite. There are solutions for problem people. Among which is releasing them from the internal cages their anger's in. 

"I can't help feeling one thing could help with disharmony. Start at the top and see how it trickles down. George W. Bush should apologize for opening the floodgates on aggression and prejudice. More permission to go off the deep end. 

"It was just bullcrap blaming God for any facet of our endless cycles of revenge. Revenge, the attitude that raises every generation's criminality in the first place. No one can actually pay for crime and we live with that result every day. Viciously recycling The Criminal Enterprise System's Criminal Industrial Complex. Supporting this cockamamy idea that not only fools go to war. Civilization's not war."

"Okay there," he said. "There you go. Whether you are or not. You're a hard case. Anyway. You can't land or shed light on anything critically when you sporadically, but consistently, use, but never criticize, The New York Times."

Theodore Roosevelt
"That's not sarcasm? You mean never bring up something like the May 23rd essay in The New York TimesThe Making of a Great Ex-President? Where the author, Boise State University's Justin S. Vaughn, slipped in a humble reference to Ronald Reagan's consideration among the near-great presidents. Presidents are important. 

"Yesterday even, David Leonhardt's A Ruling Even Reagan Could Embrace began a paragraph with - Reagan, whose political instincts were generally fabulous, understood this point. To, maybe lighten the blow for a paragraph later lead with - What Reagan got wrong, however, was the definition of socialism.

"Capitalism is socialism is the truth. And it would be nice if people weren't so numb to the meaning of ideology they're hoodwinked by the catchphrase, 'socialism doesn't work.' Private companies are social cells. The Fire Department is socialist. Reagan rode bandwagon contraption that defined political debate as narrowly as possible. A game of ping-pong really. This idea of conservatism vs. liberalism. Caging each others' ideals in warped senses of righteousness. Intellectually lazy and not at all what the public could understand. But what's simple to sell. There's really no freedom from the slant.

"Basically all of history's notorious ride their era's crest. Ivan The Terrible rode the military state that held off the Mongol Horde and made Moscow king. President Reagan kept intolerance profitable while Californians re-wired the world. Cut. 

"I'm past hoping it helps America to understand its' political veneers perpetuate simplistic façades. A joy ride of hype in a propaganda store. Meaning nothing's getting us through this obstinacy power has towards being influenced by substance of depth. 

"What history keeps repeating at a poundingly numb rate is, we're so far, far advanced and happy that, for the most part, things falling apart's profit and loss too. Because there's already tickets to the moon and beyond for anyone feeling threatened enough to get away from any deep thinking going on about planet Earth. No matter anyone's status. We're all a bunch of losers when it comes to handling money. Everyone working their hearts out for something worth less every day. End inflation or the madness never will. Because otherwise pretending to catch up seems to have irrevocably damaged us forever already."

"Listen," he said.

So I retraced, saying, "This is that Justin S. Vaughn quote. 'Favorites like Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy died as presidents, and others, including near-greats Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan and Lyndon B. Johnson, suffered health problems that severely constrained their post-presidential activities.'  

"Heavier than sound-bytes. The consolidating appraisal's meant to leave marks. Everything matters. But it's beginning to look a lot like history's become the number of times it's published you're an idiot." 

Yurmony grinned like I wouldn't shut up.

So I said, "What about Theodore Roosevelt's picture in that Professor Vaughn piece?" I threw up my hands. "He didn't like that name Teddy they used for the caption. Yet there the name sat under his picture in The Times. Naming him exactly against what he'd wish. Characterized. A small isolated incident. Yet there it was in The New York Times. A fact. In effigy over the Manifest Destiny attitude toward life and war that he hadn't created but built 19th Century America that raised him. Plus he even came to regret that warrior mentality after his son, Quentin died a WWI hero. But to conquer a nation you have to break a few heads and have no room for shame on the mantelpiece? That's what our world's been taught their elites thrive on for victory. Why I'm willing to lose repeating don't be anyone's sycophant.

"Meaning where there's a bandwagon? I prefer getting off. George W. Bush Should Apologize. Our American military has an obligation to go to war only as last resort. What's at question from my point of view is God was blamed for deciding this holy war nonsense could handle escalation. Beaten to submission never works except for those without a conscience. George W. Bush Should Apologize

"I can accept Reagan was an adequate president. But not when it comes to pinning responsibility for the forward progress many are responsible for achieving. Near-great denies the obvious. Permission for the hard____s to persecute life-style choices is on Reagan's mantelpiece and to take it off is lying. Exploiting America's flaws is not a sign of greatness but the petty opportunism all America hopes and wishes were out of the boardrooms and our lives. Tough enough to thrive has been made a joke when political identity's proven a comedy. Saying we're lost without presidents is like claiming William Henry Harrison contributed much more meaning than symbolizing a military general's reward coming late in public life." 

Yurmony was stupefied
___________
Quick. Take a look. Is your view asphalt as far as the eye sees?
The roads of America built this country one journey at a time. Still what's right for the future is right now. Bicycles and trains or smart cars for the perpetually entertained traffic living the excuse they're too rich to sit next to the poor? 
Hopelessness lashes out. - literal propaganda
Patriotic purity? As if there's no clue how nationalism's been historically used to cover the public's eyes to blind ambitionThe pragmatic jargon that's marginalized concerns for centuries. But what today's modern world's meaning for history, will mean to the future, is that with the potential for so much, we failed to deliver ourselves from profiting from evil. For instance, Pope on Weapons Industry.
Forget the dystopian future. 
It's this present pragmatic one heads will shake about. Perhaps laugh at our well-rewarded, laurel-sitting, generation that let festering passions fester on when we're smarter than this.
Criticism of Soapbox View South Carolina flag comment.
As musicians reminded, America's home of the red, white and blues. 
Enjoy the hope.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Why Branding News Is Best For Us, Is Not What's Best About Us

How cataclysmic events are defines newsworthiness. So it is a shame now news gathering expenditures are cut to the bone. Now that there's such an apparent necessity for timely informed updates on catastrophic natural events. Such as hurricanes and our heart beat in anticipation of Middle East developments again. Will cheap still mean we just ominously listen to what newsmakers provide? 

Public opinion is a potentially tough lucrative business. Be careful. Appropriately we've already had this modern age's lament for quality investigative journalism. - The,really loud, thumping of the oncoming collapse of serious news was extremely audible once 60 MINUTES, in addition to celebrity issues, began devoting a third of every program to celebrity guests. Popular television, so what?


ABC         NBC
If Barbara Walters weren't so embedded at ABC she'd have been a coup acquisition for turning that landmark television news magazine broadcast into a brand new genre buster of this next, new, finely tuned era shaped by celebrity. Cool. But partly why popularly elected political celebrities posture ("bombs bursting in air") from podiums, then militarily compromise violence that never actually starts to end. Concessions go unaccomplished because a frame of mind is carved in the Middle East. Where everyone is somehow not supposed to live with everyone else. This is not compromise. This is a civilization's responsibility. It should be Israeli law that West Bank settlements provide equal educations even if Palestinians are bused in. Period. This back and forth vengeful cycle of revenge over homeland lacks pragmatism. Killing is not redemption
Jeff Roysdon war comics

Well. For everyone concerned then this generation's news is, like others, better shown in installments too. Rather than peaceful permanent accord, story after story is polished well enough for various publics. Proving craft more valuable than substance. Revenge and vengeance still fill the paid seats. Yet uncompromising popular anger is a game more than defending principle. No? 

Sincere Walter Cronkite of CBS?
A very good essay, I read last weekend, that adds perspective to hero fascination was Lucian Truscott IV's A Phony Hero For A Phony War in The New York TimesDAILY ASTORIAN countless sources. 

So niche marketing is stealing our ability to properly pay for professional news gathering. While ironically the display hasn't changed on the page or screen. Nor has an extremely desperate desire to provide your information. Indeed it is easy to blame sponsors for marginalizing public taste for accuracy and authenticity. But what else can be done when we're so wrapped up in the need to be entertained, that news is made into game shows, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!and support for local news depends on really good funnies.

Of course everyone isn't particularly fond of when certain slants develop that are opposite our point of view. But someone paid to watch and pay close professional attention is all we have. When there's no such thing as bad publicity. And when unfortunately what's lost to understanding is that the peace loving people of the Middle East aren't really heard. 
Israeli beaches are among the world's best. While the world is just too modern for violent misunderstanding.

A Reproduction Of An Example Of A Noble Warrior's 
Hope For Reconciliation 
Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. Officially an annual tradition since 1863, when, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26.[1] The event that some Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in 1621.[2] The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, and was attended by 53 Pilgrims and 90 Native Americans.[3] The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought, though the 1621 events were likely not a religious observation.[4] 

Even Canadians and Americans like to think they're two countries.

* Full disclosure: I listen to Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Friday, September 28, 2012

The Great Hall at Cooper Union Introduction of Fifth, Park and Madison, Starring Stephen Athineos


September 28, 2012


The following was my introduction of 
Fifth, Park and Madison at the 25th Anniversary celebration of The Battle of the Bike Ban in 
The Great Hall at Cooper Union
Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.A., September 28th, 2012.


The Preamble: While humanity slowly woke to protecting our Earth, the bicycle contributed since the 19th Century.


Thank you for coming rain or shine – like a bike messenger. The artist Dragan Ilic videotaped all of Fifth, Park and Madison during the street protests of August, 1987. With interviews from a scheduled, but informal, forum and Labor Day Parade, plus street footage of couriers demonstrating for Dragan how they rode the avenues.

The documentary premiered, that October, a stone’s throw from here, at a short-lived downtown film and video festival. Across from The Public Theater in the basement of 432 Lafayette Street on Colonnade Row.

Art historian Alan W. Moore, who preserved this original copy, is right describing it a document. A slice of life, from a period of time, whose authenticity even makes me not regret that I didn’t put everything in.

Dragan found real jewels that made this documentary. So thanks to him, I welcome all of you to my little bike messenger’s interpretation of history.

September 28, 2012 - Times Up! Event
The Battle of the Bike Ban in The Great Hall of Cooper Union


receives all proceeds from your viewing this free documentary. 
TIME'S UP
Apologies for the poor resolution of the event program.
Steve & wife, Sheila Cobb
The Need For Speed - Steve, Fox, Vicki and ... 

Bob. Bob McGlynn Eddie. Eddie Williams

The 1987 Bicycle Uprising by Charles Komanoff 
Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4 @ Streetsblog

The Battle of the Bike Ban by Keegan Stephan


For more on the subject of bike couriers
From author Sydney Schuster, a comprehensive 1987 article on the bike courier profession, HELP WANTED/The Myth of the Mighty Bicycle Messenger including the web-link to 
Cheetah: The Nelson Vails Story
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The Couriers' Friend, Rogers Simon
Abraham Lincoln




25 Years After Ed Koch’s Proposed Bicycle Ban, Cyclists Have Gained Much Ground


en.wikipedia.org
Bicycle courier, London, UK, riding a fixed gear
Colonnade Row 






Peter Cooper