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April 2, 2008

                                       Comments of the Day

We should sue the U.S. government. Assassinations and executions. Civil liability. Wrongful death. Gross negligence. Diligence and responsibility. Lack of protection for political agents within the cause of U.S. judicial and adjudicative matters. Conspiracy theories. He was our messiah for human rights. That was our King. His dignity. Our dignity. They betrayed him. They betrayed all of us. And that is the true source of our pain. Had he not been murdered, then perhaps the promise, the bargain, the new social and political contract would not have been breached. Why was this great man not allowed to live to observe the beneficence of his works? Who can truly believe that he was not "good"? That he was self-centered and egocentric. That he had his own personal agenda. That he had Communist ties and affiliations. That perhaps also as politician, that he had played the political game. Negotiating and sacrificing the future and "good" of his people for the sake of superior blacks and those more inclined to gain and receive the favor of whites. Is it obvious? But to have been murdered by a Southern renegade with alleged ties to key U.S. agencies and political figures. This is the sorrow. This is the true foundation for eternal injustice. Perhaps had King not been educated at the Seminary. Perhaps had he not been a pastor. Perhaps had he not been a religious, educated, and sophisticated human being. To receive all of the accolades. Perhaps had his Nobel Peace Prize been awarded posthumously. How many such recipients have been assassinated, murdered, or killed? Perhaps had he been a mere "man" and social rebel rouser. These are the legal and corrobative principles for which the morality and guilt of a nation must become definitive. These are the historical and philosophical diatribes in which your guilt and retribution as blacks and African-Americans determine your responsibility and censure by the King legacy. You. Who are you compared to him or to any successful, "superior" African-American? It is not your role or function to decipher or analyze his comments about being a "street sweeper" during the "I Have A Dream" speech. Don't try to be different. It was not his purpose. Perhaps you have mistaken individuality for integration or assimilation. Be like other blacks. Be like whites. Because you will certainly be judged and attenuated accordingly. By acting as yourself, you offend this society and the King legacy.  Be like somebody else. Someone superior and accomplished.   No. As you are, we don't like you

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                                                   Anonymous

So just because you are living within the state of Florida, you really believe that our psychics and savants are more evil. That you would certainly experience the hardship and deprivation that most people naturally assume occur subsequently to obtaining a reading. Yet you have obtained previous readings without incident. Okay. So there was one occasion in New Jersey, in which, like a parlor game, you were given your date and place of birth, your astrological sign, and the number of members within your immediate family just by greeting the representatives at the presentation. How impressive! But, or course, you only thought about visible and other verbal or non-verbal cues which would have informed the psychic. Maybe your personality. Maybe the type of clothing that you wore that day. What else happened in New Jersey? How many pleasant as compared to dreadful experiences have you had there? The cosmic consciousness attunes to those most receptive at any location. Maybe you were more susceptible to events and circumstances while there. Such events and circumstances which could drastically be different in Florida. There is absolutely no reason to believe that they could be worse. Much worse.
So many people receive readings on a constant basis that it is ludicrous to believe that they also experience misfortune. Why don't you ask them? People are the same everywhere. Our psychics are just as competent and capable as any that you may have previously consulted. Jersey has its share of charlatans, too -----------
                                                       A Florida psychic

For the last time, you have to see yourself as others see you. The only method in which you gain any positive feedback about yourself and your relationships to others is by allowing others to attenuate and react to you. Its not what you think. Its what they think. Its always what they think and people's perceptions define you. Defining moments are not personal or private. They're whatever someone else says that they are. Your defining moments are stupid, if I say so. Remember that, too. When you re-define yourself, you are consenting to a different acceptance by others. Acceptance and conformity. Not for peace of mind but to mitigate the hostility of the world. Its obvious that people don't like you.  What isn't always obvious is what you intend to do about it. They might be fearful. You would be too if you were concerned that some psycho might pull their switch. You legitimize other's thoughts and actions by not reacting to them. You don't legitimize racism by failing to respond to insults and defamations. You don't legitimize racism by refusing to debate race relations and perceptions. Everytime someone reveals or exposes their mentality by expressing their opinions about being black, it is not condescension and patronage. Even if their assumption is that they are better than you and you disagree. Hey, what's it like to be black? Why should you respond?   Because people will think that you're unintelligent if you don't. They will think that you're incapable of responding or defending yourself. So disagree. Tell yourself that you're being insulted, condescended, and patronized when someone discusses their racism or racist views with you and that you would never dignify them with a response. That is, dignify them or their racist views. Acquire their reaction. Listen to their defense of your noncomittal. Who are they? Who are you? You obviously tell yourself that you're too good to even respond to others when your views are questioned. They might learn from you. Learn how you think. Learn how to respond to others who they may further question and debate. If the United Auto Workers union rank and file wants to know why you don't know or do what they do, tell them its because you are intelligent. Because you are an college educated accountant. If the local VFW wants to know why you don't have their experience as U.S. military veterans, just tell them its because you were intelligent and that you successfully graduated from high school and college.  They'll understand. Or maybe you'll realize what Archie Bunker was really all about --------
                                                                     Anonymous

                                         Questions of the Day

Why is it that whites can do whatever they choose and please? Do you know how much you are hated by women? Why? Are you familiar with the hatred of blacks? The hatred of whites? Do you feel guilty? What have you done to feel guilty? Have you discussed this with anyone? Is guilt the most hateful and destructive emotion known to humankind? What is a "pathology"? How does it develop to perpetuate a cycle of pain and abuse? What is your pain and abuse? Do you even fell pain? Or are you numb? Can we know further pain when we are numb already? If value systems meting rewards and penalties is a human criteria, is it possible that some people are inhuman? Are whites human or inhuman? Can inhumans experience guilts, pains, indignities, or feel poorly and badly?  Does the recognition of guilts and pains humanize people? Why does guilt motivate some people to change yet immobilize and pathologize others? Are there such things as "guilty" pleasures? Is that a misnomer or oxymoron? If people are so guilty, then why don't they do something about it? Especially if they're human?  What is a "complex" human being? Are blacks "complex"?
Why is it complex for a human being to perpetuate his or her own cycle of pain and abuse? How do we know that some people don't enjoy pain and guilt vis-a-vis harming and injuring others? Can we resolve the guilts and pathologies of others? Would you feel less guilty if a person shared your guilt and blame? More guilty? Would you blame others for your own guilt? Would you hate them? Would you kill them? Do the "bargainers" appeal to the guilt pathologies of whites? If whites like the "bargainers", will they like you? Would you feel better about yourself and your race perceptions, omissions, exclusions, or denials, if "happy" successful, likable blacks made you feel good about this? Are all blacks supposed to be "bargainers"? Isn't "bargaining" another form of accepting condescension from others? Has America been able to successfully attenuate "Northern" dignity and "Southern" indignity? Why do so many people now believe that life in the South is better than life in the North? What is the "new" Southern "exodus" or migration? What is the per capita vagrant, transient, and homeless populations for Northern and Southern cities or states? Do larger city populations necessarily infer larger numbers of homeless individuals? Are "new" Eastern European immigrants in America for a reason? Is it a covert or overt reason?  Why do whites hate themselves? Why do we necessarily and perpetually conduct and tolerate "bad' decision-making?
Should people strive to be "intelligent", "different", and "individual"?


                                        Contention of the Day

Michael Hemingway was dead from birth. All African-Americans are born dead within a racist society.  People hate you because you are you and, if applicable, because you are black. The U.S. government spends too much
money to preserve their economy.  America denies blacks economic opportunity. The sub-prime lending and mortgage foreclosure fiasco was a racist conspiracy to deprive and acquire excess equity and credit from blacks. Blacks, alone, have lost more money, equity, and credit opportunities through that debacle than at any other given time in U.S. history, to also include slavery, reconstruction, Southern disfranchisement and Northern migration, and during The Great Depression combined with any other economic deprivation, circumstance, and condition. The U.S government is spending too much money in Iraq, within the Middle East region and yet is still dependent upon those Arab nations for oil. President George W. Bush would have spent just as much money for his domestic agenda to include housing and education. The U.S. capital markets are speculating and hedging the price of oil for investment profits. The high gasoline prices at the pump are the result of excessive federal excise taxes instead of oil corporation profits. Gasoline stations will bankrupt and close business before consumers pay more than $4.00 per gallon for regular gas. Securitization was devised and should only be utilized for commercial real estate properties. Consumer credit card and auto loan debts are also securitized for domestic and international investors. U.S. Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate, Barack Obama, is also a "bargainer" for the favoritism and admiration of whites. People are too unintelligent and cowardly to buy and read THE WRITING SAMPLER, written by Michael F. Hemingway.


                                             Thought of the Day

When our allegiances and affirmations re-align too rapidly, we are confronted with the situation in which we must justify and explain
our rationale. Or why did we initially believe than modify our positions? Faith too easy a skeptic, what, then, motivated us to support our decisions?
It is a given that information is imperfect and conditional so we adhere to our sensates to lead and guide us. Have they changed? Have we become better or different human beings? Are the sensates no longer pleasurable?
We are not like the wind. Although specious and frail as human beings, our thoughts or beliefs are monolithic. The objects of our appraisal deserve so much better