Showing posts with label middle class. Show all posts
Showing posts with label middle class. Show all posts

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Modern Day Illuminati, Masons, Tea Party, Freedom Caucus – Anarchists towards America’s Middle Class




Modern Day Illuminati, Masons, Tea Party, Freedom Caucus – Anarchists towards America’s Middle Class

What better than hide in the open in the age of social media and hire thugs to sit in Congress and espouse the Illuminati / Tea Party / Freedom Caucus / Destroy America, power mad white males who want only white males to vote and control society. 

Masons, secret societies that plot against their fellow citizens and call it Freedom. The founding fathers would have this Tea Party Trash run through or tarred and feathered and run out of town and pointed west toward Utah.


Members of the House Freedom Caucus
as of October 2015 include:
·        Jim Jordan of Ohio, Chair[18]
·        Justin Amash of Michigan[18]
·        Brian Babin of Texas[19]
·        Rod Blum of Iowa[19]
·        Dave Brat of Virginia[20]
·        Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma[21]
·        Mo Brooks of Alabama[22][23]
·        Ken Buck of Colorado[24]
·        Curt Clawson of Florida[25]
·        Ron DeSantis of Florida[18]
·        Scott Desjarlais of Tennessee[26]
·        Jeff Duncan of South Carolina[27]
·        John Fleming of Louisiana[18]
·        Trent Franks of Arizona[24]
·        Scott Garrett of New Jersey[18]
·        Paul Gosar of Arizona[28]
·        Morgan Griffith of Virginia[3]
·        Andy Harris of Maryland[19]
·        Jody Hice of Georgia[29]
·        Tim Huelskamp of Kansas[30]
·        Raúl Labrador of Idaho[18]
·        Barry Loudermilk of Georgia[29]
·        Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming[24]
·        Mark Meadows of North Carolina[18]
·        Alex Mooney of West Virginia[19]
·        Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina[18]
·        Gary Palmer of Alabama[21]
·        Steve Pearce of New Mexico[24]
·        Scott Perry of Pennsylvania[19]
·        Ted Poe of Texas[19]
·        Bill Posey of Florida[19]
·        Keith Rothfus of Pennsylvania[19]
·        Matt Salmon of Arizona[18]
·        Mark Sanford of South Carolina[19]
·        David Schweikert of Arizona[24]
·        Marlin Stutzman of Indiana[19]
·        Randy Weber of Texas[31]
·        Ted Yoho of Florida[31]


       (Wikipedia)



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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Don't Hate Unions (please)




Culture and Economic War by the white 1% on Minorities (a rising future middle class) Continues.



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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Hipster – Honkey – It’s All Rock And Roll To Me




I have seen many comments made because rich “Ghetto Blaster” Director and Writer Spike Lee is not happy to see so many white people living in his old Fort Greene Brooklyn neighborhood.

As for gentrification, I for one don’t see how to stop it short of restoring a lot of old so-called obsolete Capital Gains Taxes and apply them to real estate.

In a way, a lot of the beauty of nineteenth brownstones restored is expensive and now upper class. In a way it is unfair that value is now given to a place that was devalued over time simply because African-Americans ended up there and inhabited the cast-offs of a bygone era. Spike in giving value to his own memories is entitled to his 140 character opinions without all the new rich white trash in Fort Greene getting into a tizzy and spreading it like Brie cheese and or dog shit all over the media. 

Who you calling rich white trash, boy? Who you calling boy, boy? Kind of like the giraffe calling the zebra "Zoo" as I see it. 

I can remember thirty-five years ago when some of the cheapest rents in New York City were advertised in the Village Voice in Fort Greene. And I also heard the horror stories of people seeking decent affordable housing in a decaying part of the city and not being able to live there in Fort Greene because of constant burglaries while at work in Manhattan.

I am sorry that Spike cannot open his eyes without getting a rosy glass filtered image of the place he grew up which was in fact a living hellhole by most middle class standards when America was allowed the luxury of middle class standards, of and by their own origins, and not standards now imposed on us from above by corporations.

I for one am jealous when I see photos of Spike courtside at a Knicks game and have to wonder how much money that kind of shit costs. But as J.P.Morgan once said to riff-raff and middle class trash (like me) – “If you have to ask, you cannot afford it.” lol

Spike’s bitter pill of words is sometimes reflected I think in the environment of his youth that is perhaps too candy coated in memory to touch reality compared to the new global culture.

I have also taken a lot of Spike Lee’s bravado over the years with a big grain of salt. I remember an interview of years ago about why there is no great slavery movie(s) and he responded that American Blacks were not ready for it. In other words not interested in digging up the nasty past. And or a middle class black POV? Valid point then or now?

I see that a front runner for the Oscars this weekend is “Twelve Years A Slave”. I have to wonder if Spike has in any way invested in such an old Brownstone of an idea as a producer in such a film. 

Your guess is as good as mine.



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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Fake Mustard Seed Parable -- Greco-Roman Urban Legend?


I happen to like mustard as a condiment.  Researching it, I see its history as both a condiment and a medicinal herb going back to ancient Rome and Egypt.

Problem with that is that it had always been a rich man’s condiment in ancient days and all the way up until Columbus.  Indeed the whole Columbus thing of going out of the superstitious Christian European box was a marketing strategy to obtain greater market share and greater market profits out of the spice trade that had been disrupted by the collapse of the Center of the Christian World in Constantinople in 1453. Center of the European distribution network too regarding the spice trade from the far east.

Greed was the motivating factor in Columbus’ zeal to find a shorter trade route to India.

When I read the parable of the Mustard Seed in the synoptic Gospels I wonder why a simple man of the people, a day laborer, a migrant homeless man in the form of Jesus, why he would preach to the simple masses, mostly farmers and goatherds etc. about the very complex and exotic spice trade item from India such as mustard and or the mustard seed.

I understand the power of metaphor, the power to illustrate a small lurching into the big, to illustrate some other point.

Indeed, I feel certain that the Jesus-y feel of the mustard seed parable has an overlaying stink of an urban scholar that knows all the aspects of primitive botany from books and also commodity profits of an earthy sounding farm product that Jesus must have had knowledge of, but probably did not.

In fact, in one of the synoptic passages, the mustard seed parable is preceded by a parable of weeds among wheat.  While an urban dweller who wrote this mustard seed parable might stick his nose up at weeds, many weeds are indeed edible and the poor, the starving unentitled poor, Jesus’ poor, would have gathered up many of those weeds separated eventually from the wheat and ate them.  Survival makes more sense than urban vested scholarship in the early church’s reconstruction of a holy man who few if any recorded any details about.

Not only eat the weeds, but dry the ones that were not edible and use them as fuel, not burn them up foolishly like waste in an urban middle class garden.

Mustard, where it can grow, not the Holy Land, is also considered a weed.

A middle class Greco-Roman urban garden view of the natural world?

Confused mixed message from early paid for Jesus scholars? Greco-Roman urban myths? Faulty creationist type middle class science? If it sounds good in an abstract middle class context, it must be true.


Problem with scholars, urban middle class scholars, like the ones involved with the Jesus  Seminar, who have signed off on makes sense, sounds like middle class, myths like the Mustard Seed parable, is that they are middle class and see the whole world with their born to, ingrained way of looking at the world. 

This middle class urban way of looking at Jesus, invention then and still now, is an interesting illustration of the human condition but it is not the true Jesus. 



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