The Uncomfortable Truth

Last week I was explaining to a very good friend my position on Obama and his chances of actually being nominated, or elected. I am told she was somewhat taken aback by my arch position. It is possible she thinks I dislike the candidate. After all, I stated my belief he is a fascist.
I personally like the man. I want very much for Obama to be the man many people believe him to be.
If I had only two choices in November, he would get my vote. (Thank god I have more than two choices.)
I love it when he shoots his mouth off and says stuff like Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount tells him that Jesus would have no problems with gay marriage. It’s true! It’s damned controversial too! A tough sell in the Bible Belt! The last thing Christians want to hear is the truth of Christ’s teachings. But, I digress.
Anyway, the “handlers” come in and spin what he actually said into something more palatable to the wider audience.
Actually listening to our enemies’ concerns without all the BS posturing? What an excellent idea! Oops! Here come the handlers.
When the government/corporate media jumped on the Rev. Wright for essentially telling an uncomfortable truth, these handlers told Obama to cut the man loose.
Again, I would love to see a man with his moral character and vision elected president. Unfortunately, with Obama, we get all the handlers too. OK, so maybe Obama isn’t a fascist—I misspoke—his administration will be.
One of Obama’s advisers is a fellow named Zbigniew Brzezinski (pronunciations differ), one of the founders of the Tri-Lateral Commission. If you think the Council on Foreign Relations—of which McCain and Obama are both members—holds goals contrary to America’s, Google the TLC. These guys invented the “New World Order” Bush the First spoke so fondly of.
The guys who advised Bush are advising Obama. There will be no fundamental differences in Obama’s presidency. His handlers will not allow it.
Hope will not make it so.

Posted by Quentin Colgan at 08:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The biggest lie we’re hearing lately is about America’s oil crisis
It seems that when people are paying $75 to fill up the tank in their economy car, you have their attention. It’s a shame the media has to deceive people once they get their attention.
America has an energy crisis—we don’t use it efficiently enough. Our crisis only becomes an “oil” crisis because our government/corporate media does not want us to lose our focus on oil.
We are told that wind energy is impractical—we lack the infrastructure to deliver it. As I was driving up the Skyway to Paradise recently—in a fresh gale—I passed under several sets of high-voltage transmission lines strung along the ridge, despoiling the view. I wondered, how hard would it be to put a series of wind generators along that ridge-top and the thousands of other ridge-tops over which high-voltage transmission lines already are strung? The view is already ruined. Personally, I find that renewable energy has a beauty all its own. As much as I abhor mega-corporations, I have to give GE credit for the wind turbines they have developed in the past few years. They have one unit that will power 2500 homes. It is truly an objet d’art.
A wind generator--strong enough to power the typical household--can be mounted on the typical house with zero investment in infrastructure. A generator strong enough to recharge a “commuter” car could be mounted damn near anywhere.
Another huge myth is being spread in transportation circles. It goes something like, “The energy used by electric vehicles is the same amount of energy used by cars—it just comes from somewhere else. Further, just as much CO2 is released when the electricity is generated.
Bull.
Electric motors obtain 90% efficiency. The best a gasoline motor can do is 24%--the rest is lost to heat. Electric cars can go three times as far for the same amount of energy.
Where and when the wind blows, electric cars are virtually free to drive!
Of course, the wind doesn’t blow everywhere, or reliably enough in many places, but that’s not the point.
The point is, no one is even talking about the simple ideas!
We don’t have to make oil companies even richer to solve our energy problems. The energy is all around us, we just have to make wise use of it.

Posted by Quentin Colgan at 08:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

It’s hard to believe it’s been that long.
I awoke with anticipation and worry. Did Bobby Kennedy survive the night? He had not been doing well when I had gone to sleep the night before but doctors were saying there was hope.
I half-ran to the family room to switch on the TV so it would have time to warm up while I washed my face (you had to do that back then). As I came down the hall I saw that my sister had gotten there first. The news was written on her face.
Maureen was sitting on dad’s chair quietly sobbing. We weren’t really taught to be demonstrative so, not wanting to embarrass her, I did not make my presence known. I did watch her though.
I was ten at the time, and though more politically savvy than your average ten-year-old—and all of today’s dittoheads--the only thing I really understood about Kennedy was that he was JFK’s little brother: JFK was America’s only Irish-Catholic president, and that was good enough for this Irish-Catholic kid.
My sister, on the other hand was old! She was thirteen. She knew who the next president should be.
I can still recall the utter sadness I witnessed that day.
I cry now at the memory as I write this.
I realize now I cried as much for my sister as I did for Bobby.
RFK’s assassination was a personal tragedy for me. Those bastards! They made my sister cry!

I’m glad the truth is finally coming out.
A new feature documentary, “RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy” will be released in England, later this month (click HERE for the link).
When it gets to the US, please make an effort to see it.

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It looks as of Barack Obama has the nomination of his party all sewn up. However, looks can be deceiving.
It’s comical to watch on the government/corporate media.
There stands Hillary, not giving up just yet. And why should she?
Contrary to what we are hearing, those much-vaunted superdelegates are not committed until the third day of the convention, when they actually cast their votes.
The whole concept of superdelegates began in 1982 when the Democrats decided the “liberals” were taking too much control away from the seasoned party members. The idea was that by having people who actually knew how to win elections help decide the nominee, a more electable nominee would be chosen.
I think that between now and the convention, Hillary will step up and make more plain what she has been trying to say all spring.
She will be reminding the superdelegates of the Bradley Factor.
Tom Bradley, in case you do not know, was the Black Democratic candidate for governor of California back in 1982. Coincidence? Yeah, probably.
Anyway, Tom Bradley was easily beating George Deukmejian in the polls. The race was “all but over,” etc.
Until the racists got into the voting booth.
As I sat with my then-future wife, watching the returns, I explained to her that there was no way Bradley could win. She refused to believe me, having grown up in an upper-class suburb, the child of one of Mr. Bradley’s business partners.
Nobody likes to admit it. Hillary is trying damned hard to be politically correct about it, but the ugly, uncomfortable truth is that an huge numbers of White folks will not vote for Obama because he is black. Neither will large numbers of Hispanics. (Most Asians won’t either, but they do not make up a large voting bloc, so strategists don’t really care about them.)
In the media they refer to them euphemistically as “working class,” and point up their education—or lack of it.
In West Virginia, they are kindly called “rural.” I guess terms like “ain’t too bright” and “hicks” would be politically incorrect.
In California, I call them rednecks. They’re prejudices are more subtle—and they will lie to pollsters so as not to appear racist.
Whatever you call them, they vote. And they won’t vote for Obama.
A few weeks ago, a democratic strategist was quite blunt when he said the democrats “[C]ould not win the presidency with just the African-American and the intellectual vote.”
He was right. Especially when they are up against a genuine former POW/Hero who has served his country, and who has a son in the current fight.
At least with Hillary, they will have a seasoned fighter. They will get a team that knows how to win.
Anyone who tells you this is over before the convention in August is crazy.
My money is on Hillary.

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