Adultery Execution Moves Afghanistan’s President Karzai

  CNN reports, after outrage mounted over an amateur video, that Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered Taliban members arrested for participating in the public execution of a burqa-clad woman accused of adultery who was shot nine times before a cheering mob. The statement from Karzai’s press office described those involved in the shooting death as “cowards,” and “such crimes are unforgivable both in Islam and under our country’s laws.”

  Reuters exposed the crime Saturday, but as tragic as this case is there have been countless other reports of uncondemned atrocities toward women. CNN also reported hundreds of students and teachers in the country’s girls’ schools have been hospitalized with suspected poisoning this year alone. Girls were forbidden to attend school during Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001. Violence against women has increased sharply in the past year, according to Afghanistan’s independent human rights commission. Activists have said interest in women’s rights have waned on the part of President Hamid Karzai’s government and the United States as both governments have sought compromise with the Taliban. While Human Rights Watch’s 2012 annual report said nearly nine out of 10 women suffer physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage at least once in their lifetimes in Afghanistan.

  Officials in Afghanistan believe the woman was executed because two Taliban commanders had a dispute over her, according to Gov. Abdul Basir Salangi of Parwan province where the killing took place. To save face, they accused her of adultery, Salangi told CNN on Sunday. Then they “faked a court to decide about the fate of this woman and in one hour, they executed the woman.” Salangi added that both Taliban commanders were subsequently killed by a third Taliban commander.

  Once again it’s hard to fathom anyone is telling the truth except for the victims when the cycle of revenge substitutes for the rule of law’s respect for individual rights.

July/9/2012

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Adultery Execution Moves Afghanistan’s President Karzai

O7/12/2017 concluded: Once again it’s hard to fathom anyone is telling the truth except for the victims when the cycle of revenge substitutes for the rule of law’s respect for individual rights.

May 30 - June 14, 2017

Convinced, Aren't We

That women’s plight is what their leverage earned, 
is admittedly conspiracy.

  The original Karzai essay concerned the ridiculousness of violence toward women as perpetual scapegoat. Depressing as h___. Humbug ... .

  Yet reality's leverage and power's the central component. While fight's become rallying cry for virtually everything.

  Close enough to irrefutable facts, portend the female species is welcomed to life in secondary status to male dominance. Power corrupted absolutely. For convenience. Like reversing civilization's progress, just to protect the manufacturing of billions of invested dollars better left in the ground, is what it is. 

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My Problem With The Presidency?

  Where I was going, Saturday, June 3rd, 2017, I'd have ordinarily gone from Park Avenue South, west on 23rd Street to slowly go north, up Broadway, to 25th. Then west toward Sixth Avenue. This time, though, at Park Avenue South, the light just snapped green, so to not have to deal with judging passing traffic, for the left turn, I went on ahead two blocks, then west over to Madison Square Park. Where only an idiot rides straight through to Fifth Avenue, that was the route during NYC's more anarchic days. The most perfectly placed water fountain in the city's now just another time-consuming detour. Ah, progress.

  Earlier, I'd seen huge cranes blocking 26th Street between Madison and Fifth. So I'd decided to slow ride the park's 26th Street sidewalk, and, after the turn, noticing three Port-o-Lets, on the right, I thought, "that can't be Bill Clinton," while realizing it most certainly was. Walking toward Madison meant he'd come right past me. I stopped the bike and stood, with both hands on the handlebars, and dropped my head, as the only humble act imaginable on such short notice, as, from the corner of my eye, saw his arm slightly raise his left hand's small wave. Then he turned north past the public restrooms and I said, "have fun" once the retinue passed. 

  And so? So all this adulation-like experience from being within proximity to a person who'd held the highest office in the land, does bring to mind the deeper fears. That the distinction of the presidency does offer and, convey, and perhaps enforce a super-human status. There's people alive, still, who believe Stalin, at heart, was a benevolent man. Though ruthless people manager, no doubt. Some of history's dustbins happen to be larger than others. Well. Perhaps I digress.

  Here I'd wanted something eloquent and longer, yet whatever could be added, pales in comparison to the meaning the 3rd paragraph conveys. Needless to say, as an American, I'm torn. And, as an American, thoroughly pissed. 
  Coincidentally, the Soapbox View essay, Elections For Everyone appears in, June 1st's, Issue 10 of The Wolfian - Special Edition for the United Kingdom's 2017 General Election. Including a first paragraph reference to - the President Clinton who waved that following Saturday. Yep, I can be extremely shy. 

Hillary Clinton, first woman to win the popular vote for 
President of the United States, with Bill 

  Reflection's not the only source of ideas. Complications intervene. People are ahead of themselves. Stuff happens.

  Of course if people are virtually lost in video games? Then they can't conceive how things are outside them. And aren't we all looking forward to when we really won't be able to tell the difference anymore? Unless that knowledge fulfills the suppliers' desires. Or is the process already complete? 
  Braggadocio and flippantly calculated empathy are acceptably shrewd leadership. As in the perpetual cause of arrogant patriotism? If not mistaken, what brought Rome, among others, down. Can this world, or not, reach such a stage, where what effects anyone affects all? As in all that liberal rot. Yet conservatives can't be pinned to disregarding and shrugging off history for convenience?   
  Truthfully I am ticked off having to take any side, due to my extreme aversion toward bandwagon-itis. Committing to a position, as was taken, November 23rd, 2016. So the big picture's situation is fearing the extremes. While everyone's relatively stunned, in awe of the political prominence given the 2nd definition of audacity. 

Soapbox View's other 100 Character Celebrity Sighting
(Steve Earl) of more words without the 100 character treatment.  

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The Senate Commercially Broadcast Live

  James Comey, former FBI Director testified, Thursday, June 8, 2017, before the Senate Committee on Intelligence. Chairman, Senator Richard Burr's first question was loaded down with many variables. But basically asked, in Comey's opinion, if there was an attempt by the president to use undue influence on the nation's enforcement apparatus? 
  I feel plausible deniability oozes from every crevice and, in the end, there's really, just more smoke and mirrors for sycophants to display, their wares, in, and toil towards. When so much of what constitutes the public sphere, consists of craftily polishing sloppy.   
  Since the president uses the word lie, it is only appropriate Mr. Comey did, as well, when assessing the president's sweeping accusations toward his FBI tenure and, for that matter, the country's institutions as well. You're not much of an American if you don't see the faults in our institutions. But the mere idea, there's a pedestal for anyone is preposterous. 
  We'll see. If even possible.
  The Committee ended the 10:10 AM, or so, convened open session at approximately 12:38, as memory recalls, then planned to reconvene in Closed Session at 1 PM. Maureen Dowd referred to as "three hours of earnest" testimony in The New York Times.
  ... Teflon Don. The problem is the nonsense can be explained, while we're all entertained in a perpetual loop.
     PBS Livestream, USA TODAY, Vox.com ... 

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  This is a music show, that interviews as well. Ah, Live Performance. 

  Then Tone, as the couriers' representative in The Great Hall 25th Anniversary showing of Fifth, Park and Madison, Starring Steve Athineos, is hosting the 30th Anniversary. 

   Think about it ...

   Some day's been waited on a long time. 

  And days go by and some feel better it's better than before. While others just expect worse from what they've lived through already. From what women are put through the world over, everywhere is in need of improvement. The violence? Chances are people aren't really thinking all that clearly about what facing Allah/God means. ...

  The nobility of the gesture that womanhood is balancing a, for too long, dis-balanced social norm requires a brazen image. As what's been done to one of us, was done to all. Means a lot more than one little girl who really does symbolize everyone. Let's get civilized.

  Saturday, June 10, with wife and friends, walking through Bowling Green, I turned my head away from the gleefully playing, huge smiles crawling all over the bull. And stood a while, watching people being photographed with the girl. Then I remember a young woman, from across the half circle, looking at me meaning it was my turn. I sensed most of the small crowd were, at least, surprised no one was poised to take the picture. Then I took hold of her left arm, above the elbow, and, I suppose, relatively not thinking, but on instinct, turned left pulling the girl with me. She didn't budge. But my right foot went up unable to finish the step. My hand had lost its grip and, turning back to the statue, I patted her left arm with a smile and left. 

  Women are cooler than we deserve. If the situations were reversed? I'd be pi____ as  heck (not to censor myself a third time).

  Chivalry isn't dead. Excuses have methods for not going away. 

The Soapbox View Satirical Twist pursues the

Twin Legacies Andy Rooney and I.F. Stone?

Putin Cabinet Picked From Associates That Ruled Russia All Along

  Still unyielding to the concept absolute power causes him appear to be a dictator, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his officially appointed Cabinet, semi-officially transferring government power from his parliamentary to re-assumed Presidential seat as The New York Times and Reuters report everything is the same as per usual. 

  Though half the Cabinet changed some clearly retain roles within their associations of friends that control those ministries.Igor I. Sechin is giving up the deputy prime minister post, but is expected to remain a pivotal figure in large energy negotiations. Meanwhile no one related to the dissident movements was chosen thereby affirming few if any were considered. 

  President Putin did not attend a weekend G8 summit at American President Obama’s Camp David because of preparations for today’s announcement in Moscow that technically were returning Prime Minister Medvedev’s job. Though that split of responsibilities was seen to emphasize President Putin’s power over the Prime Minister, this could be more about how overall powerful the president is. Maybe he just didn’t want to fly to America, and prove anything to anyone anymore. Visiting Camp David just meant being bothered by others that want something from him. After all what’s the polished publicity behind Prime Minister Medvedev for? 

  The Ministry of Culture went to Vladimir Medinsky, a pop histories of the Soviet Union author and chest-thumping advocate of patriotic education. A gallery owner Marat Guelman mused on Ekho Moskvy radio that “the ministry of culture could turn into a ministry of propaganda.” 

  Ah, we miss the good old days until we get them and we’re still not satisfied. As with today’s cake icing that Mr. Putin has not yet announced his own Kremlin staff, known as the Presidential Administration. He probably wants to see how the recent shakeup of internal alliances settles before making those critical choices. 

  Like who’s in charge of taking out the trash? With so many assorted pieces to keep in place how does one man control the entire board? Authoritarianism. Certainly. Mr. Putin should prove he’s more mature than that.

5/21/2012

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Putin Cabinet Picked From Associates That Ruled Russia All Along

5/21/2012 concluded: Like who’s in charge of taking out the trash? With so many assorted pieces to keep in place how does one man control the entire board? Authoritarianism. Certainly. Mr. Putin should prove he’s more mature than that.

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January  11, 2016 

  Yeah right. President Putin's picking up his pace attending to the roots of Russia's inequalities. Take the pacifier out of the public's mouths and get started and stop imitating this clown playing czar.

Obnoxiousness Is the New Charisma
by Frank Bruni in The New York Times
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David. Iman, my sorrow for you. My shy side misses you. And now with your husband's passing, who I never met, except, you know, in photos and sound. I miss him too, but more for you. Last night I first heard the new release Lazarus where he sings,"in heaven." It was so nice that while thinking heaven on earth after the song. My wife entered the kitchen from the office remarking how remarkable the song sounded. Just like people to play the hits today, and your husband left a special one for all. 

"Your friend," CMF

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Morality's Not A Threat?

  How about dissecting this El Chapo example from inside-out? Not just pass off the reality of Mr. Guzmán's claim environment raised him. The immorality behind creating the Criminal Enterprise System that blames others for the necessity to protect everyone is delusional scapegoating and ploy of every form of tyranny limiting our ability to solve crises rather than malignantly thriving on withstanding tragedy. Crime is simple. Ours' a real farce.

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  Ya notice, whether anyone could see profit from this, or not, that conservatives say liberals say conservatives are what liberals say conservatives say what liberals say conservatives say liberals mean conservatives mean liberal means as if it's almost the other's utter cluelessness that's what's right about what they're wrong about even when they're both right about being wrong they're right? Still it's a world class mind funk going on when public discourse is so ruled by cliché. Senator Ryan you jargon modifying politician you. Your move. You could suggest Hilary Clinton might consider what office she'd attempt to name Senator Sanders' appointment to if she were elected. Rather than allow the idea to blow in the political wind as well with other new Johnny One Note trills? 

  Life's not a bargain and neither is its' clean up and why someone's always cleaning up whether we are or not. No? Inspired not to work? Someone that lazy isn't the problem. And so it goes. 

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THE WORLD'S IDEALS?

  Is this story for forcing un-faced discomfort. Not just awful and awkward, but, downright shameful things a writer's role's to uncover after the truth. So once upon a time a, short, sickly at birth, youngster nicknamed Happy, by his parents, because he always seemed to laugh as a baby, turned into an uncommonly, arrogantly, ambitious child. Except for his extreme shyness around girls that developed due to his being overwhelmed by the extreme pulchritude of everyone of the female persuasion in his hometown. 

  So it was then, on this one particular day that he went to the home where all the neighborhood kids went to play sports and tag that would last hours. Even being an occasion for the last time his father spanked him when kids convinced him to continue playing hide-and-seek after the streetlights came on that was his time to go home and his father met him on the path running home, behind the neighbor's house, and grabbed his right arm and walloped his behind. After which telling his mother the episode was too violent and he never hit Happy again and they went back to the system where Happy'd feel too terrible defying his parents making that punishment enough. Being treated as a child was not really how a young man who had to grow up fast should be treated. 

  But on this other particular day the older boys decided, as was their inclination, to exclude Happy and so they had him hang around by the garage with a dog that belonged to one of the other boys and he was warned not to be friendly with the pet because the dog could get ornery. So literally four decades before his eventual wife would say all dogs are good and feed them even candy, if that's all there was available, to the most vicious fenced up guard dogs, Happy decided he'd be friendly as the dog was to him too. Except when the dog bit him and he cried and the boys came, not startled but telling him he'd been warned and the episode became hilarious when Happy screamed he'd have the owners sued for their dog's being allowed to have such a disposition. 

  Well. At home his mother medicated the wound and calmed him down and the next day was told of her being called by that county's Sheriff to make sure he was okay as the dog belonged to him and his son. Fascinatingly enough, for Happy, during his early high school years one of the nicest people towards him was a cousin of theirs whose father also went on to become that county's Sheriff. 

  Now. (See Sheriff link for the dog's owner's tyrannical history.) These facts are not being recounted as an act of revenge or to sound more properly moral in light of the racist atmosphere that permeated that town as the first black person in Happy's school didn't occur till his fifth grade year over a decade after that grossly, preposterously, racist nonsense had been allowed to permeate the spiteful culture for a century after the supposed ending of that cultural nonsense that had been theoretically put in its' proper place. 

  Needless to say the young world conqueror had to be educated to the fact his parents considered not moving there because of the actions of that particular Sheriff who was literally on record as having ruled that county with an iron racist fist. So he must act accordingly and not unsafely push that man. 

  So. If readers wonder why I apparently don't care who or what authority I stand up to as a writer, defying their power to disregard me? There's two reasons. 

1. Free Speech. 

2. I'm not a child anymore and will push satire's envelope limitlessly for the result that this world truly faces Allah/God believing everyone's your chosen people.

Link to church where when preparing to sing 
We Three Kings before the whole congregation, 
another child responded, "Happy's the black one." 

  So 3. My name's Charles Malcolm Fraser and I don't care what peaceful means anyone finds unnecessary for me to "misguidedly" use. Because I've had it with the lot of this world's excuse ridden, riddled, racist nonsense. George W. Bush you better g__ d___ed well apologize for claiming the right to perpetrate cycles of violent revenge in God's name because I think you're the example to make from your claim this racist nonsensical holy war/jihad bull-crap is and was your responsibility to to end through its' pursuit. This constant military solution when anyone with a clue can see Isis' children were born of you and your co-horts MISTAKES. Pragmatic? I confront you as a liar. Allah/God have mercy on your and Dick Cheney and all your other false brethren neocons' souls for perpetrating the continuation of this godawful bloody mess, cycle of revenge, you hypocrite of the lowest order. I actually don't believe God/Allah needs a revenge of that magnitude and maybe it's reserved for me. But my dare is you apologize or go to Hell. Thank Allah/God's judge because there's not enough time in the world for me to care to listen to another of your excuses. 
  Uh. See? Turned out I wasn't just after Sheriff McCall's legacy after all. I'm just a sarcastic s.o.b. What can I say, the world's an oyster irritating the hell out of me?

Awaken Gentle Mass Touch

  As of 9:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, Tuesday, September 17th, 2019, there's been no sufficiently acceptable world-wide public apology from former American President, George W. Bush. Sure. Presidential Candidates, and commercial track pundits, may excuse your critical mistakes to appeal to percentages of opinion while this complaint-ant is just a sarcastic Soapbox View. But! In lieu of no emphatic sincere apology, you, because the buck stopped with you and your responsibility for people's further lost perspective on why revenge is wrong. Please, really help. Not appease various angers that don't stop. Suck it up. You were swept up by history. The future needs to break from the crap. And that's that. 

(Edit - 8/22/19)

  And freaking? Yes freaking North Korea's playing with weapons. The crises established by the pathological sense of ruling war that's acted upon as if it's actually not known where they could have possibly gotten defeatist ideas like this from. C'mon. Can't everyone say hypocrite? That would be some bandwagon to jump off, eh? 

  Speaking of which, this morning, radio covered Governor "Gateway" Cuomo of New York's announcement, yesterday January 10th, endorsing a prison education program to be paid for from "criminal forfeitures." From upon his Criminal Enterprise System pulpit. When until the façade's dissected and remedied, this creation of a broad wide spectrum of criminality to protect the public from attacking itself is no more and no less than culturally scapegoating sin. 

  Because what I heard was ratification Saturday morning from a Corporation For Public Corporate Broadcasting commentator who balanced Pablo Guzman's defense, saying, still, he was "subverting the rule of law here." While reality remains unfazed by the rule of law's subverting the rule of law even the Supreme Court can face but facetious corruption of the economics can't? Law would have protected us already. Let go of this financial forest's façade so history's evolution doesn't remain so critically flawed. Police, the umpires are supposed to be on everyone's side. ... .

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History's More Than Understanding Tradition

  11,000 Cuban migrants. Senator Rubio needs to get off his anti-Castro revenge pulpit and participate in economically kick-starting the island that really at this point comes before running for any presidency. Because the cause of Yankee exploitation of Cuba does not need redeeming. And no matter how much sycophantic hoo-haw praise you can raise? God knows. Good luck with that. Everyone knows the answer's always how money flows. Shouldn't be the problem.

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100 Character Celebrity Sighting

  Traditionally this comment would appear towards the bottom right where there's a 100 character description of crossed paths with celebrities since New York's where a lot work etc., so paths do cross. But this celebrity crossing defies a 100 character description as simple as it sounds. So, locking my bike to a parking meter and, just before putting the lock around the pole, and between the front wheel and spokes, a black car pulls up beside the parked cars and I recognize a beard exiting, and having a five-year-old time of it getting his companion out of the backseat. So I remember this guy, close to right away, because a decade back, and probably just months before he became a bigger household name, I'd carried a package from his managing company to a record company on lower Fifth Avenue. I can't recall how I saw his name other than I never look inside so his name was outside. So he's got me grinning as he exists and carts his charge over the curb past me to go in St. Bartholomew's and we parted with like a nod. Then, at least an hour later, I walk up to unlock my bike and bending over, glance seeing him to my left about to saunter past with his child. Recognizing one another, from before, Steve Earle does his hey how you doin, and I reply good and ask how he's doin, and he says oh alright while tugging the kid along back up the street to a waiting SUV. Mr. Earle's, The New York Times, April 12, 2016, The Other Side of Merle Haggard, essay.

Why Would Anyone In Line To Be Emperor Have Clothes?

     The BBC headline Naked Prince Harry photos published online recounts today’s American gossip website TMZ exclusively describing pictures showing Prince Harry and a young woman naked in a Las Vegas hotel room. The BBC reports the two photos of the 27-year-old royal on the gossip website, TMZ, were taken on a private break with friends over the weekend. The site speculates the prince was in a group playing “strip billiards”. St. James’s Palace has confirmed the prince is in the photos but has made no further comment about the images. Which should be a story in itself and not buried, shallowly, in the copy.

     Nonetheless, the BBC guesses the two pictures of the prince were taken on Friday. And website TMZ claims the pictures came after the prince, who is third in line to the throne, invited friends back to his hotel room for a private party. That’s a story. The prince actually associates with people without Bold Print names to rival his own draw as gossip fodder. Associating with commoners? My gosh, that deserves to be brought before Parliament for a negotiated punishment of thirty lashes, at least?

     In an analysis from the BBC’s, Royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, Prince Harry’s gossip history is paraded forth, as per usual, when who has a clue what counts when people hardly read anything they’re not titillated by anyway? So why again, does it matter, Mr. Witchell whose explanation starts – There was a time when he was known as the partying prince, falling out of nightclubs in the early hours, getting himself into scrapes and generally showing a lack of good judgement. Acting like some inebriated kid at that age he actually was – and is?

     But then the BBC analysis gives the prince a break? – In more recent times, Harry has transformed his image. His military service has played a big part in the change. He served in Afghanistan with his regiment, and said he was keen to return.

     Sure, participating in the honorably centuries long family war-mongering business, that’s a real credit builder. We should all be proud the business of public relations has set the public straight on the purpose for war. To keep royalty from getting naked in Vegas, except when off-duty?

     So Mr. Witchell continues to make clear what the public is capable of being taught to think. Writing – And time and again during his royal duties he’s shown the caring instinct that his late mother demonstrated. Harry has become a huge asset to the Royal Family: committed, but with a sense of fun and mischief to which people have warmed. Dag-gum, it’s as if the Royal Family are real people. Gee, who’d have thought that’s what they’re supposed to be with all the pomp and circumstance?

     Mr. Witchell, taking his cues from TMZ, continues. – So this latest episode will surely be both an embarrassment and a disappointment to his family and, most particularly one imagines, to Harry himself. His friends say he was just “letting his hair down”, a young officer having a few days of relaxation before returning to military duties. But it can never be quite as straightforward as that when that “young officer” is third in line to the British throne. And other than Prince Charles installing solar panels throughout Britain, why and how is the pestered Royal Family necessarily politically relevant, unless for labeling as scapegoats in instances such as – this?

     To continue with the BBC’s charmingly detached, journalistically inclined description. – It is not clear how the photos were taken, but it is presumed they were captured on a camera phone. Uh huh. Maybe the lack of professional lighting and grainy texture accounts for that assessment? The pictures have since been picked up by much of the American media, but as yet have not been printed by any British newspaper. Nor this Journal Block essay, perhaps because of the shallowness that others comfortably like to be paid to portray the public as?

     As the BBC admits – The father of one of Prince Harry’s closest friends told the BBC’s The World at One the prince was “a very easy target” for the press. Alex van Straubenzee, whose son Thomas has known the prince since childhood, said that “more than anything [Harry] is a British soldier”.

     Well then? As this other pops says, “He has a very, very good qualification in the job he does for the Army and I think this is what people will look at.” Well raise the flag and strike up the bagpipes, The Queen and prince will, no doubt, share grins at the weekend retreat, Windsor Castle.

     But even the BBC can’t stop, redundantly stating – The emergence of the pictures is the latest colourful incident in Prince Harry’s life. In 2005, there was widespread outrage when an image of the prince attending a friend’s fancy dress birthday dressed as a Nazi emerged. Nah, he couldn’t possibly as a descendent of Germans be mocking tragic history? Now that was absurd. But a kid wearing a costume, really?

     Then the BBC vomitingly repeats- in 2009, Prince Harry was forced to apologize for using offensive language to describe an Asian member of his army platoon after video footage emerged. Sorry I missed that. Was the Asian’s member present, and why exactly does a whole continent describe that person’s lineage? I understand my not spending more time finding out, but with the sources of the BBC we settle for defining a member of the exalted British military as just being of Asian descent? Good work, if you can get it, I guess.

     But who’d have thought defending a prince would come my way as had happened to Michael Phelps having his private life exploited four years ago in the American Carolinas. Because what the story actually is, is someone took private pictures and sold them with at least an awareness that blackmail is out when people have such high profile. It’s really just us commoners that suffer from self-righteousness being sold to the world as a valuable commodity, so worth our attention that a trivial intrusion on the life of a member of the human family can be exploited in such a pathetically shallow method such as has been made out of this.

     Ha, ha. I’m not a lawyer. (satirizing, for the non-indoctrinated, TMZ’s television tagline) Stick that where the laughs belong, tabloid journalism.

     You know, I think we’ve all been had. Because this Harry from being angry at photographers who are a nuisance in his path, to whatever stunt he chooses tomorrow seems to always emphasize, Why Can’t The Rest Of You Leave Me Alone To Live Your Own Lives? Look what you’ve done being such pests badgeringly following my loved ones. And it wasn’t the photographers following his mother that made that tragedy happen. It was gossip haunting her life and I don’t think the world really can apologize to him.

8/22/2012

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Why Would Anyone In Line To Be Emperor Have Clothes?

8/22/2012 concluded: You know, I think we’ve all been had. Because this Harry from being angry at photographers who are a nuisance in his path, to whatever stunt he chooses tomorrow seems to always emphasize, Why Can’t The Rest Of You Leave Me Alone To Live Your Own Lives? Look what you’ve done being such pests badgeringly following my loved ones. And it wasn’t the photographers following his mother that made that tragedy happen. It was gossip haunting her life and I don’t think the world really can apologize to him. 

Nov. 11 - Dec. 31, 2019

Britain Leads The World Hiding From America's Same Embarrassments

     Jeremy Corbin wasn't the best choice for standing against the historically jingoistic political frame of mind. No choice the only option. The American side of the Atlantic is also torn. Re-idolizing ethnic superiority under the guise of a traditional nationalism that, as benign as represented, is malignantly self-serving. Tweaking political correctness to mean smoke and mirrors is all anyone's really seen. 
     Windbags. If only amazing the age old description's nowhere near the tip of 30% of the electorate's tongues. Settling like a fog, the pretensions have hardly been noticed. The Great Public Relations Presidency muddles on as enabled. Hardly having to obscure the gall at all by hiding behind nationalism, as probably, the biggest crutch of all. 

"Little Michael"

     Addressing (an) issue(s) from obscurity is, so to speak, an oxymoronic phrase. Yet how soapbox views form. Perhaps, especially, necessary when the world's sound bitten to delirious proportions. Where the field's throned masters are so immune to self-reflection, their own parodies even slip obedient consciousness past a trough of overlooked nuances. The ethics of arrogance having agendas all their own. Everything's a fight, isn't it? 

     Oh no, discuss (a) particular candidate(s). 
Full Disclosure: The Soapbox View 100 Character Celebrity Sighting feature, near the pages' bottom, includes this entrant in the Democratic Party Presidential Primaries: 

7/28/2019, 9:05 PM, LEAVING STREET FURNITURE LOCKED BIKE BY JUST PARKED SUV I HAD AN I KNOW THEM REALIZATION AND, TURNING, SAW MAYOR BLOOMBERG WATCH, MY BOWED LEFT HAND SALUTE, AND SAY “HELLO.”

     My explanation for saluting, came from an understanding, my wife and I arrived at, that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg civilized the city. A statement of unlimited contradictions. But, in fact, by banning smoking indoors, respect for everyone's rights peaked. Common sense and decency was hard to come by without a law. Pity decent culture couldn't have already handled that on our own.

     As a critic I haven't advocated political candidates and been against an average number. However I appreciate Michael "Mike" Bloomberg running for president. Same reason that, while watching Bernie Sanders rant in the U. S. Senate, I thought he should run for president. Because, historically, that's THE PLATFORM by which issues are faced by the American public. And not just where the Political Entertainment Complex processes celebrities. Because if the message something is extremely wrong here isn't getting across? That reality requires accentuation.

     Of course Mr. Bloomberg might hate my not caring whether, or not, he won. Despite all the platform engineering focused on his standing for rich enough to buy a celebritized way through, as happened last time, if we're completely honest with ourselves, there's a real solid reason, for running. It's extremely important people are reminded something's really off that should be righted. Conservative principles be da__ed. Mr. Bloomberg shouldn't even run against the other candidates and focus on President Trump in the most obvious fashion. Rip the entire arsenal of poppycock to shreds. The words. The shadowing of nuance with mediocrity. "Witch Hunt." As much as any of the trenches our president's built against introspection and observance, using that term, "witch hunt," as a reference point, associates himself with this country's politically persecuted that's an entirely inflated relationship. In a sense a mad man's on the loose with American History that no one has any right, or business, portraying as exclusively theirs.  

     Go after the words. Reducing the entirety of politics to flippant address. Ad infinitum. There's no narcissistic shame? 

GRANDSTANDING

December 4, 2019

     Throw words like "disgrace" around and portray offense. Our president's arrogance already acted out, nationally, by an eventual Supreme Court Justice, defending his bench seat, before the U. S. Senate. A hard pill to swallow these strange coincidences? As idolized arrogance's all that's necessary. "This is where we're at today. ... A simple railroad job." Thank you Representative from Georgia, sir. Whew. Badger the public with full speed ahead redundancy. When nothing's faced but bank accounts. Ba dump bump.

     Sigh.  

Eloquent Essay

November 10TH, THE NEW YORK TIMES Print Edition Title:

The 'Lost Cause' Built Jim Crow

By Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Online: 

 The 'Lost Cause' That Built Jim Crow, November 8TH.

     Nothing like nails hit on the head for a grand awakening the whole world crucially needs. Professor Gates' Pulitzer worthy essay is all that need be said, here, on a laudatory level, concerning his sharply accurate depiction of the underlying bunch of crap still toyed with by elitist manipulation. Good essay. I'll not repeat what the professor wrote. 
     It is amazing that something so wrong,   can, at its' core, be summed up with just two words as names often are. Jim Crow. The name would crop up, from time to time, through the years, but not anywhere nearly enough when facing Jim Crow was so much more vitally important than now, that's still just as critical. Identity politics. People must be kidding. Categorized, bundled, trundled  and de-independent-ized. 
     The Soapbox Views reparations. 

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Bill Weinberg's

COUNTERVORTEX

Remember: 

If every turn's a right, you're boxed in, somewhere, somehow, for whatever reason, there's no direction left.

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     From Facebook, concerning the Middle East. 

Charles M. Fraser Bulldozing the past's not facing the future by facing the past. Tough's proven not to be the answer. Unless arrogance's laid down, souls here can't really claim to be standing up.