R.F.R.A. (Really, FOR REAL, America) in Indiana?

Sooo…Indiana has just made RFRA official. Why all the uproar?
If you are a member of the LGBT community or a minority why does this law REALLY bother you? Because it gives a business the right to refuse your service if their religion discriminates against LGBT or minorities?
Good. In Fact, I think that’s Dope!
As a black man, I hope they do refuse my service. Now I KNOW where to avoid spending my money at! I want to help them decrease their annual revenue on all of our behalf!

Its NOT our job to change how people view us. A racist or a homophobe is gonna be exactly that. So why the hell are we trying so hard to be accepted by this small-minded group of people. I really could give a shit how they feel about me.

Personally, I don’t have a problem with racist or steretypical people! I used to until I realized that its actually a WEAKNESS for them. You cant avoid racism in America.
Not possible…
So, when you cant avoid dealing with racist people, use their ignorance to your advantage! Generally, a racist is too focused on trying to somehow screw you or some archaic stereotype. Let them focus on that! Focus your energy on advancing your agenda and goals while appearing to be the dumb person that you are to these morons.
In other words…play chess.
Don’t reveal your true strategy and appear to be the complete opposite of what you really are.
Resist the temptation to haul off and knock them out because then you hand them the victory.
By the time they figure out whats REALLY going on…
Its TOO late!
Now you can drop the sledgehammer and ruin them completely or end up as their boss (haha!)

Any business owner who uses this law as a key staple in their business practices is stupid and unethical. Black dollars, LGBT dollars, Athiest dollars, Christian dollars, and Muslim dollars all have the same value so thats a loss of revenue for YOU.

Dumb.

In a global market, that not a good formula for growth, Gov. Pence.  How much in revenue and investments has the state lost in the last 72 hours?
Time to take down those Illinois bashing billboards Governor.

Besides, everyone KNOWS that you’re trying to attract high roller ultra-religious Super PAC’s and big baller investor money to fill your campaign coffers as you explore a 2016 Presidential campaign. Sorry but…

Jeb Bush is going to lock up the Republican nomination…and he’s going to do it as a Moderate. Hell, you don’t even have a chance of being his choice as Vice-President!

Do you think the Repulican delegates are REALLY going to nominate you to run against Claire Underwood (Hillary Clinton)?

LOL.

Gov. Pence and our state Legislature had better hope that the state of Indiana’s minority and LGBT population in 2016 doesn’t reflect that of the United States. It would be a tragedy to lose your Indiana Governor and Presidential bids.

I guess we could call that “The Pence Effect”.

Can Pawns Cast Ballots?

OK, really people…This year’s primary election voter turnout set record lows across the country…but there are millions of Americans who sure know how to complain!

In my eyes, every 2 years we hold the most important elections in America: Congressional Elections.

Which means every other year we have a chance to change our policymakers.

So why do we wait for Presidential Elections to come out and vote, treating candidates like rockstars, while Congressional elections quietly slip by unnoticed?

Especially when Congress shapes the poilcies that dictate your life!

Whether you know it or not, YOU are the most powerful piece on the political chessboard: the Voter.

Yes, as pawns, we are often manipulated and overlooked by our more “decorated” boardmates, however…

There are more of us.

Plus, they have to get through us in order to achieve the ultimate prize.

Checkmate.

My brilliant wife (I’m required by law to say this…just kidding, hun) and I actually had a discussion about this on Election Day.

I Vote…
She doesn’t…for a logical reason.

She remembers the days of her youth when the candidates used to canvass the neighborhoods to actually TALK to voters and listen to their issues. We actually knew a candidate’s position on an issue BEFORE we voted for them because we heard it from the horse’s mouth, instead of a third party media outlet. These days, you have to Google and research a candidate in order to find out where they stand.

She’s right.

However…she’s wrong.

If your incumbent or hopeful City Councilman, state or U.S. Congressman or Senator is not holding Town Hall meetings and communicating with his constituents on a regular basis, in the words of the infamous Hermann Cain…

Blame Yourself!

Shame on you for allowing a stranger to represent the people of your community! The values of your community should be properly represented at City Hall, your State Capital, or Washington, D.C. Politicians should be held accountable for any proposed measures and/or ballots cast that does not reflect the will of their constituents. In other words…

Vote their sorry a@$es out!

I’ll bet there will be a record amount of Town Hall meetings next cycle.

Pizza with your Politics?

I’ve said it once, twice…hell I’ve lost count!
I’ll say it again though…
POLITICS IS EVERYTHING!
That being said…
America…
WAKE UP (Please)

A friend of mine challenged that statement and told me that I was full of…male cow excrement – not his actual words.

So…

I challenged him.

I told him to name any aspect of his life and I could show him how politics is a controlling factor.

He said, “my catfish dinner last night”, as he rubbed his stomach…must’ve been a memorable dinner!

OK. Here we go…

Was your catfish farm-raised or wild caught?

He didn’t know.

Well if you bought it from our local grocery chain more than likely it was farm raised. Let’s assume that it was.

Farm- raised fish are fed genetically modified oils, corn meal, antibiotics, and growth hormones, and (yuck) chicken feces for faster production.

They also contain 5 times the amount of PCB’s as wild caught fish.

There have been many medical studies that warn of the health risks associated with consuming GMO’s: cancer, lung & kidney disease, and infertility just to name a few.

The horrible part about it is 80% of U.S. produce sold in your local supermarket chains were grown with genetically engineered seeds!

Now for the connection…

(drum roll)

What branch of government passed the Monsanto Protection Act?

You know, the act that took power away from federal courts to halt the planting and sale of GMO’s?

That would be Congress!

Matter of fact, unless you’re from Montana, your senator voted to pass this bill. The lone dissenter was Sen. John Tester (D-MT). Senate Dems were so “distracted” with the threat of a federal government shutdown (which happened 6 months later anyway) the piece went unnoticed as part of H.R. 993.

Male cow excrement.

The majority of these lawmakers are lawyers or well-versed in Constitutional law. This bill was scrutinized, believe me, they saw it. Of course, they wouldn’t admit it…that’s political suicide!

Maybe its just a coincidence that Monsanto’s PAC (Monsanto Citizenship Fund) donated more than 1 million dollars to U.S. politicians and spent more than 50 million dollars lobbying Congress.

If you believe that, Kimye’s our next White House couple.

Unfortunately, its not an ethical violation because a conflict of interest or fraud cannot be proven in a court of law. However, is it morally right? Was Congress acting our best interest by passing this bill?

Sadly, the answer is NO.

Can you see the connection now?

As I said, POLITICS IS EVERYTHING!

Anyone else want to test that theory?

The PILF-side of Obamacare

OK…I get it.

I’m PISSED at Congress…

The GOP is pissed that Obamacare was activated today.

Now our great Republican representatives in the House have decided thay defunding the government was a proper response to Obamacare…

This temper tantrum has gone TOO far!

This action goes well beyond debate. It affects ALL of us.

I’ll bet you 100 million dollars that it does.

While I’m a big fan of the CONCEPT behind Obamacare…

I’m NOT a big fan of Obamacare.

I say this because of the influence  that Big Business has over our legislative branches: Federal, State, and local. A key provision of Obamacare is a mandate that employers who have any employees that work 30+ hours a week must provide health insurance for those employees.

Sounds good right?

In theory, yes…in reality?

In an already jobless and crippled economy, Obamacare gives an  employer an excuse to cut working hours because “they can’t afford to insure their employees and keep employees’ current salaries stable.”

Hogwash.

The average CEO in America makes 350 times more than his company’s employees. That’s INSANE! I am all for success & prosperity, but there NO LIMIT for these guys. No Morals. The health of the employees who help finance your beach house isn’t important enough for you to take a 1% paycut? In most cases, that’s all it would take.

There is little regulation of business because Big Business OWNS most of Congress.

It’s been like that since the 80’s.

One word: Reaganomics

The Affordable Health Care Act, aka Obamacare v1 – The Beta Version- was a good idea with bad timing.

Until we elect a Congress that ACTUALLY works in the best interest of the American people, Obamacare is going to SCREW alot of working Americans.

Full-Time workers become Part-Time…

Part-Time workers become even MORE part-time…

Screwed.

Then again, the White House and Senate Democrats were probably HOPING this would happen.

Yes. Hoping for a shutdown.

Anything to make the GOP look bad in the eyes of voters.

On our dollar.

I’m all for getting rid of the Tea Party wack jobs…

but not at our expense!

Over the next 3 years, watch how Democrats seize this opportunity in order to gain control of the Legislative and the Executive branches. To them, this is politics.

To us, this is our lives.

We need to start paying more attention to OUR Congress and less attention to propaganda.

Less attention to the Kardashians…

Less attention to Basketball Wives…

We ALL should be individual political watchdog agencies.

The other aspect about Obamacare that troubles me is FORCING every American to obtain insurance or pay a fine.

What happened to FREEDOM?

IF I don’t want insurance for whatever reason, I shouldn’t be forced to have it.

I don’t like Big Brother having that much control over my life…and neither should you.

We HAVE to send politicans a message that we are paying attention…so tread carefully.

We HAVE to force them to STOP acting in the sole interest of Wall Street and Big Business.

Its already out a hand and its gonna be a long fight…but the end outcome will be worth it.

Then maybe, just maybe we can get a final draft of Obamacare that works for everyone and not just insurance companies.

Until then…keep an eye out watchdogs…

http://www.govtrack.us

They work for US!!!

For those of you who didnt know…there are 800,000+ government employees officially on furlough as of midnight today this number multiplies when you include the contractors who provide support services & other products for the government agencies that were shutdown…the irony in this is the  members of Congress who are still getting paid their salary during this shutdown…BY OUR TAX DOLLARS!

The 2014 Congressional Elections are coming…we need to send a message LOUD & clear that they work for US, you’d think the 10% approval rating Congress has would be an indicator. The worst part about all this is this shutdown is gonna cost taxpayers $100 million dollars. If you didnt care before…ITS TIME to START!

Congress works for us. We are paying them to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Can you go to work and do that? No…you’d get FIRED! 2014 is coming…let’s fire THEM!

Get Informed, Stay Informed

If you’d like to see what your State or United States Congress has been up to, a good place to start is govtrack.us They list every proposed/passed bill, every measure, and how your Congressman or Senator voted on it! They also list your representative’s contact info so you can contact them.

You now have the right and means to complain…USE IT!

V.O.T.E. – Victory Over Trayvon’s Enemies

This morning, I had breakfast with my Dad, Dr. Alvin Gibson Sr. We talked about alot and somehow the topic of George Zimmerman came up. He made an excellent point! He shared an acronym he came up with that I’d like to share with you guys, my GREAT readers: Victory Over Trayvon’s Enemies. Get it? V.O.T.E.  The best way to defeat the forces that made this tragedy possible? Get out and V.O.T.E.!

Thanks Dad!

Educating the “Out of the Box” way

A GREAT example of “thinking out the box” in order to achieve a goal and educate at the same time. Good Job Aunt Gwen and Uncle James!

http://oysterbvi.com/bvi-press-releases/612-young-math-camp-students-and-airline-pilots-speak-same-language

ATHIEST?!

Hello, Readers!

Very recently, my Uncle Ronald asked me an interesting question…

Why am I an athiest?

Well…

I’M NOT!

However…

Most Christians that I know consider me an Athiest. The reason behind that is because I don’t believe in God in the same format as they do. Meaning, I don’t believe in God as he is portrayed in the Bible. Yes, I do believe God is all-knowing and all-seeing. To me, the God of the Bible has an awful lot of human values and qualities. I think HE deserves alot more credit than to be downgraded like that.

The God of the Bible is a Vengeful, and at times, Racist, God.

Racist?!

Yes, Racist.

Jews & Gentiles…

Philistines…

The Descendants of Ishmael (Arabs)…

Egyptians…

Need I say more?

Maybe, at one time the Bible was a PURE book. I have my doubts considering that HUMANS chose which gospels or scrolls were to be included in the modern Bible. There were many gospels, such as the Gospel of Thomas, that were NOT included because they lacked “Apostolic Authority”, according to whatever commission was the authority at that time. To me, that means that fellow members of our imperfect species dictated which documents were “holy” enough to depict the directions given by a Perfect God. More than likely, it would seem, the Bible was constructed with a motive, or I dare say, political agenda in mind.

I’M NOT SAYING THAT I DON’T BELIEVE THE BIBLE!

But…

I also believe the Koran, the Torah, and Buddhist Principles.

Alot of information and documents were lost or modified during translation. Also, you have to consider world events that were happening at the time of writing, for instance, why was Paul writing this letter to the Romans or Thessalonians? More importantly, why in this context? Not to mention, we should consider the amount of scientific knowledge most possessed at the time. For instance, Elijah was carried by a whirlwind to heaven. To the event viewer, “Elijah was carried by a whirlwind to heaven” because he was never seen again. Probably VERY true…

But…

If this happened in the present time, we probably would have said, “Elijah was carried away by a TORNADO”…and that same viewer probably actually said, “Elijah was carried by a whirlwind to the HEAVENS” Big Difference. The “heavens” was another term for outer space. Heaven is…well, heaven. This is an example of possible mis-translation within the Bible. Also, of how science and religion DO, in some instances, work together.

I will explain this in more depth in a later post.

In conclusion, I am NOT an athiest…according to Webster’s OR by my own definition. There may be thousands of Christians in Western Civilization who may not agree, due to the nature of my beliefs. That’s OK…I respect your views. I believe that God is flawless…too flawless to be portrayed or victimized the way he is in the Bible…or in church for that matter. God has a different message and mission for each one of us. When we listen to a sermon, are you actually listening to God’s message to YOU or…Are you willing to blindly obey a sermon, even if its not the message that God has for YOU?

Or, it could be that the sermon IS God’s message to you.

Something to think about.

As the Bible says…

God works in mysterious way that are BEYOND our understanding!

However…

I am NOT an athiest.

I hope that explains, Uncle Ron.

Trayvon Martin

Wow, this is an excellent, really powerful post written by Huff Post Blogger Romany Malco. This post echoes my sentiments exactly!
READ THIS!
I hear everyones passion and emotion with the Zimmerman verdict. Regardless of how you feel about the verdict, take all that emotion you have and put it toward improving this system that is a tragedy for ALL Americans. As far as this trial goes, the only entity who actually profited from this tragedy was the media empire. Out of all the crime committed in the U.S. on the day Trayvon died, ask yourself…WHY the media turned this one into a spectacle. Its because all of the elements were there to keep this fire burning for a looong time: “White man kills hooded black man in gated community in Florida which passed the Stand your Ground self defense law!” George Zimmerman’s victory pales in the comparison with the ratings victory by media outlets