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Ferguson

I'm a person of mixed racial descent, I have African blood, Scottish blood, Irish blood, Puerto Rican blood, and Native American blood running through my veins. Here in America, most people may identify me as either Black or Hispanic, some have even mistaken me for Southeast Asian or some other ethnic group. I identify myself as all of the above 'races' that I have running through my veins. It was my first generation Irish Nana (grandmother) who told me to be proud of ALL of the blood running through my veins when I expressed to her my problem with so-called 'racial identity'. I am eternally indebted to her for her sublime advice.
I'm NOT a so-called 'Black conservative', in fact I have a problem with some of these guys, especially the ones who parrot the insulting phrases stating that "The Blacks are on the Democrat plantation." and other similar blanket generalizations and insults. How would people react if someone said that "The Jews are in the Democrat concentration camp." because the overwhelming majority of Jewish people vote for democrats? I think that there would be quite an uproar if some people (Jews or non Jews) stated that phrase over and over again. Yet it's just fine when they say that about "the Blacks".
Let's get to the Ferguson Missouri situation. In my opinion, officer Wilson was in the RIGHT, Michael Brown was in the WRONG and he paid the ultimate price for being in the wrong. Sometimes SOME Black people choose the wrong 'battles' to fight  and in my opinion this is one of them. Looting, rioting, and stopping traffic is NOT  a way to win the hearts and minds of some people on the 'fence', it only causes animosity and resentment. Sadly this puts a bad 'face' on my fellow Black Americans who have NOTHING to do with the above actions. I agree that we should be judged as individuals, but sadly it doesn't happen this way when people see SOME Black people all around the country acting in such a negative manor all over the news media.I'm not blaming the media for reporting a story, it is what it is.
It's sad that it seems that the only time when some Black people can get together, it's for a negative and destructive purpose instead of a positive one! It's insulting that some people think that "the Blacks" can't handle the truth and that they have to be handled with kid gloves as to when the best time of day the Grand Jury's decision should have been presented. It's also sad that some Black people PROVE them right! I wish that this time they would have proved them wrong and expressed their disappointment with the Grand Jury's decision in an intelligent and lawful manor. Don't they realize that they are just fulfilling the bigot's assertion that 'they" are just a bunch of animals who don't know how to act? Don't they realize that their actions will lead them into the true 'plantation' which is the prison industrial complex? Don't they realize that they are alienating themselves from other minorities who had businesses in that very community? Don't they realize that they are only hurting their own community? Don't they realize that they are creating their own public relations nightmare? Don't they realize that their own boys are killing each other at a MUCH higher rate than any police officer or officers are killing them? I wish that they/we could harness all of that anger they are displaying and channel it towards a POSITIVE reaction and actions. It's easy to blame "Whitey", but really we should take a look in the goddamn mirror! Whitey is not killing us at an alarming rate, we are killing each other at an alarming rate. Whitey is not mucking up our neighborhoods, we are. Whitey is not stopping us from being educated, we are. WE ARE! Get a blanking grip and look at the real truth. All of my adult life I have been fighting against the stereotypes and statistics that afflict my people, so far at 48 years of age, I have been successful. I have faced plenty of discrimination in New York, but I found ways to overcome it. My voice sounds pretty "white", so I started a business where I could obtain customers over the phone without even seeing them face to face. On the phone I live in a "White world" and being in a real estate related industry, I have had ample opportunity to hear what SOME White people think about "the Blacks" and it's not pretty. Even when I meet some White people face to face, I can sense some inhibition, but as soon as I speak, it tends to throw them off and I gain some 'acceptance'. It sort of messes up their paradigm, so even walking around I live some what of a 'White life'. My wife is White and my in-laws with the exception of one brother in law are White conservative republicans and they are not too fond of President Obama, yet they love me. We have had PLENTY of discussions regarding race and social issues and even with our differences, we love each other  and try to concentrate on where we do agree.
Upon reading the above comments, some ignorant fools who happen to be Black MAY refer to me as an 'Uncle Tom', but that wold be TOTALLY inaccurate! I am a Liberal and a 'Free Thinker', I'm not a Herman Cain, Bishop Jackson, Ben Carson, or an Alan West 'type'. In fact I have a problem with those guys, the same with Mia Love . I don't like the fact that they make blanket generalizations about "the Blacks" to satiate the venomous bigots who want them to "run for President", which is laughable in itself. I have noticed that those venomous bigots don't gravitate towards the Black conservative republicans who DON'T make those blanket generalizations. There's no talk about J.C. Watts, Michael Steele, Colin Powell, or Tim Scott being President. These aforementioned gentlemen also don't get much love from the so-called Black community as well and I think that it's pretty tragic, as they are intelligent and decent people with great minds and intentions. In my opinion we (the so-called Black community) shouldn't throw all of our eggs in one basket, I want to see positive Blacks and Latinos join the Republican and Libertarian parties as well as the Democratic party. I think that we should vote for the individuals we think that are good regardless of party affiliation. Scott Rigell is someone I support and admire, though we may have some minor disagreements. It's the same with our former Governor, I admired/admire the man and supported him and I find his current situation tragic. I supported Gary Johnson and Sarvis, I also like the fact that Rand Paul, Tim Scott, and Corey Booker have worked together across the aisle in support of certain legislation, I think that we need more of this. I would love to see Duvall Patrick run for President. Malcolm X was an advocate of non party affiliation and suggested that we vote for the INDIVIDUALS who best support our needs and desires.
One of the greatest men I have known in my life besides my Father, was my Black Grandfather, who told me: "Son, don't worry about Black power, think about Green power." . He was a Black conservative born out of poverty from South Carolina and an orphan who managed to have one son join the Navy who eventually went on to play in Duke Ellington's band and went on to be a Monsignor in the Catholic church, my Uncle looks like Mario Cuomo....go figure! He also managed to put five daughters through college, all of them have gone on to live very successful lives and produce successful offspring. That generation with the exception of myself and my little sister, tend to vote for Democrats and they are DEFINITELY not on any 'plantation' or government assistance. We have lawyers, judges, oil execs, computer execs, and entrepreneurs, they also tend to vote for Democrats because like you have stated: "The Democrats talk to "the Blacks" and the Republicans talk at or about  "the Blacks". I also find it "funny" that some Republicans are now "concerned" for the Blacks and jobs when it involves the "illegal aliens", these are the same Republican conservatives who tend to think that the Blacks don't work in the first place and are on some 'blanking' plantation as well as on government assistance. In my opinion, they are trying to utilize a "divide and conquer" tactic that I hope doesn't work.They seem to imply that "the Blacks" are only qualified for the menial jobs that some so-called illegal immigrants gravitate towards.
In closing; I think that some of my fellow Black Americans should try to prove the bigots WRONG instead of proving them RIGHT. As Americans, we have a First Amendment right to demonstrate and air our grievances; stopping traffic, burning buildings down, and messing people's days up, is NOT  a way to win the hearts and minds of people who are on the 'fence'. Behaving in an intelligent and articulate manner and expressing our grievances that way is the best course of action in my opinion.          

Enlightenment In America

This is an EXCELLENT historical, social, and philosophical reference:

Enlightenment in America by Jay Rodenbeck

http://courses.missouristate.edu/ftmiller/518/WebBib/jayrodenbeck.htm

Carlos Casteneda's Works

Well here's the whole she-bang

Teachings Of Don Juan

Good Reading!

The Teachings of Don Juan

Interesting read. from Carlos Casteneda's Don Juan

Our lot as men is to learn. I have learned to see and I tell you that nothing really matters. A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it; and then he looks and rejoices and laughs; and then he sees and knows. He knows that his life will be over altogether too soon; he knows that he, as well as everybody else, is not going anywhere; he knows, because he sees , that nothing is more important than anything else. In other words, a man of knowledge has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country, but only life to be lived, and under these circumstances his only tie to his fellow men is his controlled folly. Thus a man of knowledge endeavors, and sweats, and puffs, and if one looks at him he is just like any ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under control. Nothing being more important than anything else, a man of knowledge chooses any act, and acts it out as if it matters to him. His controlled folly makes him say that what he does matters and makes him act as if it did, and yet he knows that it doesn't; so when he fulfills his acts he retreats in peace, and whether his acts were good or bad, or worked or didn't, is in no way part of his concern.
You think about your acts, therefore you have to believe your acts are as important as you think they are, when in reality nothing of what one does is important. Nothing! But then if nothing really matters, as you ask me, how can I go on living? It would be simple to die; that's what you say and believe, because you're thinking about life, just as you're thinking now what seeing would be like. You want me to describe it to you so you can begin to think about it, the way you do with everything else. In the case of seeing , however, thinking is not the issue at all, so I cannot tell you what it is like to see . Now you want me to describe the reasons for my controlled folly and I can only tell you that controlled folly is very much like seeing ; it is something you cannot think about.
Our lot as men is to learn and, as I've said, one goes to knowledge as one goes to war; with fear, with respect, aware that one is going to war, and with absolute confidence in oneself. Put your trust in yourself. There's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal. For me there is no victory, or defeat, or emptiness. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal and my struggle is worth my while.
In order to become a man of knowledge one must be a warrior. One must strive without giving up, without a complaint, without flinching, until one sees , only to realize then that nothing matters. You're too concerned with liking people or with being liked yourself. A man of knowledge likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whoever he wants, but he uses his controlled folly to be unconcerned about it.
My controlled folly applies only to myself and to the acts I perform while in the company of my fellow men.

You must talk to the plants you're going to pick before you pick them. In order to see the plants you must talk to them personally, you must get to know them individually; then the plants can tell you anything you care to know about them.
You fail to understand that I am not joking. When a man of enlightenment attempts to see , he attempts to gain power.
You think everything in the world is simple to understand because everything you do is a routine that is simple to understand.

You have to have an unbending intent in order to become a man of knowledge.
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A warrior takes responsibility for his acts; for the most trivial of his acts. He waits patiently, knowing that he is waiting, and knowing what he is waiting for. That is the warrior's way.
What makes us unhappy is to want. Yet if we would learn to cut our wants to nothing, the smallest thing we'd get would be a true gift. To be poor or wanting is only a thought; and so is to hate, or to be hungry, or to be in pain. They are only thoughts for me now, I have accomplished that feat. The power to do that is all we have, mind you, to oppose the forces of our lives; without that power we are dregs, dust in the wind.
It is up to us as single individuals to oppose the forces of our lives. Only a warrior can survive. A warrior knows that he is waiting and what he is waiting for; and while he waits he wants nothing and thus whatever little thing he gets is more than he can take. If he needs to eat he finds a way, because he is not hungry; if something hurts his body he finds a way to stop it, because he is not in pain. To be hungry or to be in pain means that the man has abandoned himself and is no longer a warrior; and the forces of his hunger and pain will destroy him.
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The countless paths one traverses in one's life are all equal. Oppressors and oppressed meet at the end, and the only thing that prevails is that life was altogether too short for both.

You must act like a warrior. One learns to act like a warrior by acting, not by talking. A warrior has only his will and his patience and with them he builds anything he wants. You have no more time for retreats or for regrets. You only have time to live like a warrior and work for patience and will .
Will is something very special. It happens mysteriously. There is no real way of telling how one uses it, except that the results of using the will are astounding. Perhaps the first thing that one should do is to know that one can develop the will . A warrior knows that and proceeds to wait for it.
A warrior knows that he is waiting and knows what he is waiting for. It is very difficult, if not impossible, for the average man to know what he is waiting for. A warrior, however, has no problems; he knows that he is waiting for his will .
Will is something very clear and powerful which can direct our acts. Will is something a man uses, for instance, to win a battle which he, by all calculations, should lose. It is not what we call courage. Courage is something else. Men of courage are dependable men, noble men perennially surrounded by people who flock around them and admire them; yet very few men of courage have will . Usually they are fearless men who are given to performing daring common-sense acts; most of the time a courageous man is also fearsome and feared. Will , on the other hand, has to do with astonishing feats that defy our common sense. You may say that it is a kind of control.
Will is not what one calls "will power." Denying oneself certain things with "will power," is an indulgence and I don't recommend anything of the kind. The indulgence of denying is by far the worst; it forces us to believe we are doing great things, when in effect we are only fixed within ourselves.
Will is a power. And since it is a power it has to be controlled and tuned and that takes time. When I was your age I was as impulsive as you. Yet I have changed. Our will operates in spite of our indulgence. For example your will is already opening your gap, little by little.
There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head of a child which closes with age, this gap opens as one develops one's will . It's an opening. It allows a space for the will to shoot out, like an arrow. What a man of enlightenment calls will is a power within ourselves. It is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. An act of "will power" is not will because such an act needs thinking and wishing. Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated. Will is a force which is the true link between men and the world.
The world is whatever we perceive, in any manner we may choose to perceive. Perceiving the world entails a process of apprehending whatever presents itself to us. This particular perceiving is done with our senses and with our will . Will is a relation between ourselves and the perceived world.
What the average man calls will is character and strong disposition. What a man of enlightenment calls will is a force that comes from within and attaches itself to the world out there. One can perceive the world with the senses as well as with the will .
An average man can "grab" the things of the world only with his hands, or his senses, but a man of enlightenment can grab them also with his will . I cannot really describe how it is done, but you yourself, for instance, cannot describe to me how you hear. It happens that I am also capable of hearing, so we can talk about what we hear, but not about how we hear. A man of enlightenment uses his will to perceive the world. That perceiving, however, is not like hearing. When we look at the world or when we hear it, we have the impression that it is out there and that it is real. When we perceive the world with our will we know that the world is not as "out there" or as "real" as we think.
Will is a force, a power. Seeing is not a force, but rather a way of getting through things. A sorcerer may have a very strong will and yet he may not see ; which means that only a man of knowledge perceives the world with his senses and with his will and also with his seeing .
Now you know you are waiting for your will . You still don't know what it is, or how it could happen to you. So watch carefully everything you do. The very thing that could help you develop your will is amidst all the little things you do.

This is a pretty interesting translation of the Bible. As usual my caveat is to check with other Aramaic translations to see if things pan out. Aramaic Bible NT
Here's an excerpt it makes for interesting reading.

Aramaic Bible

Jesus Christ spoke Ancient Aramaic, the language in which the disciples and apostles preached the Gospel and the scribes recorded the Scriptures. The New Testament has been preserved in the sacred scribal language since the Apostolic Age. The whole Bible was preserved in this language by the saints of the Ancient Church of the East at the cost of their lives. This Church emerged out of Jerusalem during the 1st Century of Christianity. It was established by the disciples and apostles of Jesus. The Scriptures that this Church used were the first ever recorded. The translation you will find on these pages is made from the original Ancient Aramaic Scriptures directly into English. This is the first true translation of the entire New Testament in the English language.

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Constitution Party Platform

I know Tony Macrini has mentioned this party before. They are pretty interesting, I disagree with them on maybe two issues. Abortion and First Amendment constraints that they are in favor of. Agreed that there still have to be some controls and not just rampant anarchy on our air waves. Otherwise they seem pretty squared away. If I had to align myself with them or the Libertarian Party, it would be a hard choice. How about creating a Libertarian Constitutionalist Party a moderate mixture of both parties. In my opinion it's time for a viable and strong, Third Party representation.


Constitution Party Platform

Colin Powell: A Short Bio

Colin Powell's Bio

I have a great deal of respect for this Great American.

Gillean

National Intelligence Estimate Information

Pretty good information

NIE

You know my cavet, always check and double check the sources.

Gillean

Project Vote Smart

This is an excellent tool to see your potential candidate's voting record, if they have one.

Vote Smart

Radio Left

Should I say more? I like to hear all sides of an argument or debate.
Radio Left

Tennis Basics

Tennis Basics

Good intro to Tennis Much more of these to follow.

Esoteric Christianity

Esoteric Christianity

Bible Truth Online

Pretty good blog about the Bible

Bible Truth

American Civil War

American Civil War Website

If you are a Civil War buff or just curious this is a good site

DIXIE'S CENSORED SUBJECT: BLACK SLAVEOWNERS

Black Slave Owners

Excellent article. Check the facts. Here's an excerpt:

" The fact is large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves; in fact, in numbers disproportionate to their representation in society at large. In 1860 only a small minority of whites owned slaves. According to the U.S. census report for that last year before the Civil War, there were nearly 27 million whites in the country. Some eight million of them lived in the slaveholding states."

The Philosopher's Stone

Philsopher's Stone

Apretty "heady" read here's an excerpt:

"Alchemy hovered between worlds. It emerged in a time-between-times, after a Dark Age had brightened but before a Renaissance had dawned. It came from Arab and Greek sources, but it flourished in theWest. It lay between faith and philosophy; it still dreamed of heaven, but it focused on the Earth. Alchemy sought abundance in this world for the sake of living men.

Alchemists aimed to transmute base metals into gold. Why gold? Evidently because observation declares that gold is the principle of wealth. A man who has drink may not have food, or he may have these but lack fine clothing, or horses, or mansions, or lands. But a man who has gold may have all these and more. Gold is special; it is not just one kind of wealth among many: it is a means to the rest. Gold is the means to everything that can be bought. "

A Slavery Time Line

Slavery Time Line and reference


Good reading.

Osiris and The Tree Of Life

Osiris

From whence many of our "modern" beliefs come from ;)

New Age Writings

I try to be inclusive and look at all points of view.

Here it is

The African Prescence in.................

African Prescence In...............


Another interesting read.

Links between Asian & African Languages

Links Between Asian and African Languages

Good read, remember my caveat.

Black Shogun

Black Shogun

Interesting reading about African presence in ancient Japan ,some plausible theories. Many people dispute this as afro-centric B.S. I say check his facts out for yourself if you so choose and come to your own conclusions.

Northwoods Project

Conspiracy Theory Website

Regarding the Bay of Pigs

Hegel's Dialectic

Dialectic

Hegel's Home Page


Good reading when you have time to bend your brain!!!

Great History/ Anthropology Website

This is good reading!!!!!

Great History/ Anthropology Website

Military Video Clips

For all you wannabe Rambos, welcome to the real world of war and not the shoot 'em up video games.

Military Videos

AN EXPOSE' ON GHANDI

Now this was a VERY eye opening look at the real Ghandi according to this fellow. Check the facts for yourselves.


EXPOSE' ON GHANDI

Meaning of the Star of David aka Magen David

An excerpt: Click Me to read article

"Through our long and often difficult history, we have come to the realization that our only hope is to place our trust in God. The Magen David (literally "Shield of David") has six-points, which symbolize that God rules over the universe and protects us from all six directions: North, South, East, West, Up and Down. A similar symbolism is found in reading the "Shema." ("Code of Jewish Law" O.C. 61:6)"

China's Strategy of Containing India

Interesting read

China's Strategy

Gnostic texts

Gnostic Texts

If you can sit and figure this shit out.....I bet you will be closer to God and the Godhead!!!!!!! Good reading though.

Barbelo Defined

Essay on the Life of Muhammed

Life of Mohammed

I am not a Muslim but I feel it is good to read about all religions and dogmas, so we may be better educated about our fellow earthlings. lol

USDA Nutritional Database for all food

Nutritional Database

This is an excellent resource to figure out what is in the food that you eat.

How to Choose a Stationary Bike

For you fitness conscious people out there:

Choose a Bike

THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES by Manly P. Hall

Secret Teachings

Very interesting read.

Life of Pythagoras

Very, very good reading about the predecessor to Euclid.

Pythagoras

Again my caveat to check out the research and sources for yourselves.

Triathlon Training Tips

If you can hang with this, you have my respect!!!!

Triathlon Training
Publish

W. E. Dubois Research Institute

W. E. Dubois Research Institute

Securing the Leg Irons: Restriction of Legal Rights for Slaves in Virginia and Maryland, 1625 - 1791.

Slavery In Early America's Colonies-- Seeds of Servitude Rooted in The Civil Law of Rome

History of Slavery 1619-

History of Slavery

Very interesting read, check the facts out for yourself with other sources.

Religious:Philosophical: Sun Diety

The Sun, a Universal Diety

THE adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief. The primitive mind, recognizing the beneficent power of the solar orb, adored it as the proxy of the Supreme Deity. Concerning the origin of sun worship, Albert Pike makes the following concise statement in his Morals and Dogma: "To them [aboriginal peoples] he [the sun] was the innate fire of bodies, the fire of Nature. Author of Life, heat, and ignition, he was to them the efficient cause of all generation, for without him there was no movement, no existence, no form. He was to them immense, indivisible, imperishable, and everywhere present. It was their need of light, and of his creative energy, that was felt by all men; and nothing was more fearful to them than his absence. His beneficent influences caused his identification with the Principle of Good; and the BRAHMA of the Hindus, and MITHRAS of the Persians, and ATHOM, AMUN, PHTHA, and OSIRIS, of the Egyptians, the BEL of the Chaldeans, the ADONAI of the Phœnicians, the ADONIS and APOLLO of the Greeks, became but personifications of the Sun, the regenerating Principle, image of that fecundity which perpetuates and rejuvenates the world's existence."