Tsunami Grief - one among many

Tsunami Drama getting all the $$$ and the headlines, while Pensacola people are living in mold and misery..I'm singing at a Tsunami Relief benefit today while People in Darfur are dying and homeless, Guyana and Panama just had humungous flooding...and Africans die every day of Malaria and AIDS for want of mosquito netting and condoms..(a UN worker here told me that in parts of Africa, men believe if they have sex with a 10 year old virgin, they will be rid of the AIDS virus..)
Tho' I am relatively poor, I cannot feel sorry for myself..I think of children on garbage piles in Brazil foraging for food, I think of abandoned babies with HIV being used as guinea pigs in NYC by the drug companies...this is the one that freaks me the most..this is the Millennial Tusgegee Scandal..please google "guinea pig kids." Somehow this needs to be exposed in a BIG way..
I wrote down a quote from Ossie Davis a few months ago which said that "truth is the goal toward which we sail". or something like that..

I looked at TEd Becker's 'Teledemocracy" review at Amazon..I sort of understand naybe, using quantum physics..which I don't know about..but the idea of grabbing a random group of people for voting..reminds me of the Neilson ratings.. I envision using the American Idol voting technology to do away with the electoral college...or voting from our ATMs, complete with paper reciept. In my perfect world, the FCC would mandate all stations to give equal time to all candidates...no advertising allowed..this is not private enterprise, electoral politcs are not to be made a profit based enterprise for ad agencies and TV networks....anyway, Peace, Joy

hands off my social security!!

what did my dad, my ex's dad and mom have in common? not much. they never met each other, lived a thousand miles from each other. one was white, two were black. my ex and i never got it together to introduce them all, and pretty soon they were more or less dead. but what they had in common was that they all worked for small companies, and they were all screwed out of their pensions...3 small companies gone bankrupt, and three aging employees with nothing to show for their years except some savings...what kept them from destitution was SOCIAL SECURITY!! THere's nothing wrong with social security..Bush has a way of presenting his ideas..first he says theres a BIG DANGER!! ie..iraq has weapons of mass destruction poised to attack at any time. ..of course the CIA and the UN inspectors said he was WRONG..then COLON POWELL went to the UN with documents, saying Iraq had been dealing with Nigeria, and was getting nuclear materials..turns out the documents were forged..my kid wouldn't even go to the teacher with a forged note from me!! the supposed signator of the document had been out of power for 10 years..they didn't care..they were off..NOOWWW its SOCIAL SECURITY..now again it's a BIG SCARY PROBLEM..and we needed to fix it..NOW!! I don't believe them...the republicans in their red ties, giving a standing ovation to every word of bush..NOOO..NOO A european friend told me we were heading toward an imperial state..5 years ago..i didn't believe it...HA..the ONE PARTY SYSTEM..lucky us.