Juan Gonzalez "By siphoning off those tax streams for decades to come, Bloomberg, like Giuliani on smaller scale before him, is effectively dismantling tax base that future mayors and city councils will need to pay for basic city services."

Wall Street is against Ferrer, who proposed a re-imposition of sales tax on stock transfers to fund public education. Everything in NYC taxed except stock sale. Ferrer was attacked across the board by all of the media; that created a furor.

Wayne Williams was never indicted nor convicted of murdering any children, despite what the promo for this production implies..He was convicted of killing two adult males..but not one child!..The murderers were KKK whites, not Wayne Williams

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones." William Shakespeare, English Dramatist, Playwright & Poet 1564-1616)

I heard young tenant shout obscenity..found a spot of blood on the vanity counter..went to his room; the door was open..He was holding his left hand in his right..I announced with pleasure, "You cut your left hand!".."How did you know?" I Smirked!

Sect2/Clause3: Representatives & direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States..according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons,..three fifths of all other Persons. (SLAVES!)

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from consent of governed, whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government

Wall Street Journal: Paul Wolfowitz as president of World Bank is catastrophe. Wolfowitz is thread that ties World Bank to Bush Administration to The Project For The New American Century. Humanitarian Institution? Or Capitalist Imperialism!

"How the NORTH Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from SLAVERY: COMPLICITY" by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang & Jenifer Frank of The Hartford Courant 2005.. Barnes & Noble price $26..Paperbook due in Aug '06.. New to Whites; Blacks already knew.

Who would have guessed that most Christians, the followers of the Man of Peace, would become the most violent, murderous, genocidal, inhumane and vicious collection of thugs and criminals on earth?..God bless Cindy Sheehan! - Watch for Followup!

This is August 19, 2005, and Southern White bigots are still attempting to revive segregation. You thought it couldn't happen again? Wake up America, we are under siege NOW..BOYCOTT TYSON FOODS! Newsday NY Article, Page A8, republished here. UPDATE

Goodall: "Whatever we believe, about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today, is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how do we get together now around the world and get out of the mess that we've made"

Cognitive Dissonance: discomfort felt at discrepancy between what you already believe and new data..majority of Bush supporters still believe there is link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda/that Weapons of Mass Destruction have been found in Iraq

The Emperor shivered, but thought it better to continue the procession under illusion that anyone who couldn't see his clothes was either stupid or incompetent. A child, who could only see things as they were, said, "The Emperor is naked!"

If you didn't finish high school & you say "between you and I", I forgive you; BUT STOP IT! If you went to college, degree or not, and you say "between you and I", you should be ashamed of yourself - I don't forgive. You should know better!

US actions: Gutierrez sold out. Cuba's Castro/Bolivia's Morales marginalized. Haiti's Aristide/Chile's Allende ousted. Panama's Noriega/Saddam Hussein jailed. Ecuador's Jaime Roldos/Panama's Omar Torrijos assassinated in plane crashes.

What?s the difference between a kakistocrat and a kleptocrat? Which applies to George W. Bush? What is America now? a) representative democracy b) plutocracy c) kakistocracy d) kleptocracy e) oligarchy f) theocracy g) all of the above

George Bush has a heart attack and dies. He goes to hell where the Devil is waiting for him. I don't know what to do here, " says the devil. "You're on my list, but I have no room for you. So I'll tell you what I'm going to do.

Former Republican strategist Kevin Phillips discusses his new book, "American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century." New York Times review, "most alarming analysis where we are”!

Have you ever cooked beans for hours & found they failed to soften? Chalky & tough-skinned, they might as well be raw. There are 2 possible culprits - but neither is salt! Blame wrong culprit, problem unsolved. Yes, it happened to Tabacco.

Liberia: American Colonization Society established 1816 -to satisfy two diametrically opposed American groups. 1-philanthropists, clergy and abolitionists "cannot assimilate" 2-slave owners who feared free people of color. –Sound familiar?

Sophists often ask the wrong question, which leads to an irrelevant answer. In a seat of higher learning, “Intelligent Design”, which may be true, is nevertheless irrelevant as intellectual fodder. Its advocates engage in "trivial pursuit".

In moves, calculated by Karl Rove, to reverse President Bush’s swan-diving poll numbers, the President, prompted by God Himself, has made bold and daring moves, he announced today at Presidential Press Conference to return democracy to US.

The Physics Geek makes three assertions in his Post- Myth #1: America is losing jobs. Myth #2: The low unemployment rate excludes many discouraged workers. Myth #3: Outsourcing will cause a net loss of 3.3 million jobs. - Tabacco responds!

"The American worker is now pitted against desperately poor people in the developing world in a race to the bottom, competing over who’ll accept the lowest wages, the least benefits, the most miserable living and working conditions."-Kernaghan