This blog's mission is to improve Cultural Health, by raising Cultural Literacy and reducing Cultural Poisoning.
With respect to Cultural Literacy, I am focused on Classical African Civilization. With respect to Cultural Poisoning, I will help you understand how to Detect it, Correct it, and most importantly, how to prevent little children from catching it.
This site is for Americans in general and African Americans in particular. Video: Politics to Physical Health
The Republican Cultural Terrorist of South Carolina have been stopped. The Justice Department must declare Voter Suppression as a crime second only to treason and deserving of the same penalties.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday blocked a new South Carolina law that requires voters to have photo identification because of concerns it would hurt minorities' ability to cast a ballot.
Republican Gov. Nikki Haley in May signed into law a measure that says voters must show a driver's license, passport or military identification along with their voter registration card in order to vote.
The Justice Department said the requirement could harm the right to vote of tens of thousands of people, noting that just over a third of the state's minorities who are registered voters did not have a driver's license needed to cast a ballot.
Cultural Comment
Republican terrorist are attacking African Americans, Latino Americans, older Americans and the poor in 30 states with voter suppression (pole tax/pole tests type dirty South tactics from the days of post enslavement.) These individuals that would tamper with an American citizens right to vote must be rounded up and put in jail.
Take a look at the flag of the enslavers and those who faught to continue the enslavement of Africans. Their untreated sons and daughters carry this Cultural Poisoning forward in our American military to this very day.
No place is this dis-ease more dangerous them in the military, cultural poisoning and guns don't mix. I like all solders was taught to be a killer of the first order. If a person comes to the service filled with hate and you add killing skills to the hate you get an explosion.
Pvt 19 year old Daniel Chen
This happen recently when an Asian American soldier was ethnically taunted by culturally insane sociopathic soldiers and then found dead. Like in days of old, no one seems to know "what happened".
8 soldiers charged in his death Click Here for details at MSNBC/Newsvine
I was in during Nam and the good news is everyone had guns so it was even Steven. Folks like the ones in this picture knew that if they were caught in a fire fight with charlie and AA soldiers they were not coming back. What was amazing is the fact that their were not more killings in base champs. Those in charge kept a lid on it. Now this Asian American soldiers "death" tells me that the Bush Republican "leaders" that have infiltrated the military no longer care to keep a lid on the crazy's.
Just in case you did not know about Cultural Poisoning in the military. There is a history to it. Look at the tea party Palin mob pictures on the net. I have seen culturally poisoned soldiers here on the vine.
When I went in, my friends and the older guys would tell you that racism was worst in the Navy, then Air Force, Army and least in the Marines. Things have improved considerably from those days with an African American four star general in Colin Powell and our first AA commander in chief. However, the Attacks on this Asian American soldier is a sad reminder during this holiday season that more Cultural Health work needs to be done in the military.
I turned this MSNBC/Newsvine comment into a blog. Cultural Poisoning anywhere is a threat to American freedom everywhere. If we see it running wild in the Republican party and say nothing and do nothing, we can expect to see it in our military, in our education system, in our "health" care system and other places more close to home.
It is sometimes amazing what you find when you look into a Presidential Candidates cultural orientation. Here is a headline on Mr. Paul from this week.
"News Bulletin: Ron Paul Is a Huge Racist"
The article says,
"...Around four years ago, James Kirchick reported a lengthy story delving into Paul’s worldview. As Kirchick writes, Paul comes out of an intellectual tradition called “paleolibertarianism,” which is a version of libertarianism heavily tinged with far-right cultural views. The gist is that Paul is tied in deep and extensive ways to neo-Confederates..."
If you are a critic of the Bush administration, chances are that, at some point over the past six months, Ron Paul has said something that appealed to you. Paul describes himself as a libertarian,
Most voters had never heard of Paul before he launched his quixotic bid for the Republican nomination. But the Texan has been active in politics for decades. And, long before he was the darling of antiwar activists on the left and right, Paul was in the newsletter business.
Paul’s newsletters have carried different titles over the years--Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, Ron Paul Political Report, TheRon Paul Survival Report--but they generally seem to have been published on a monthly basis since at least 1978.
a controversy dating to 1996, when Charles “Lefty” Morris, a Democrat running against Paul for a House seat, released excerpts stating that “opinion polls consistently show only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions,” that “if you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be,” and that black representative Barbara Jordan is “the archetypical half-educated victimologist” whose “race and sex protect her from criticism.”
Venus Williams, of the United States, returns the ball to Italy's Francesca Schiavone during an exhibition tennis match in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Photo: Antonio Calanni / AP
"As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign," Like Palin, the real bad actors seem to be getting knocked out of a serious national race. Rick, the "N" word, Perry is next.
There are psychologically disturbed GOP'ers and Paid GOP'ers running loose in a Cyberspace near you. Be careful one of them could be your neighbor or on your committee.
Anonymous Insane Racist Internet Troll Turns Out To Be Florida GOP Politician
the St. Petersburg Times has discovered that one of the more frothing racist loons littering the comments section on its news articles with vulgar diatribes is — GASP — an elected Republican officeholder! ...in addition to the bucketfuls of hateful slop that this Pinellas County Commissioner Norm Roche regularly dumped under his brilliant commenter handle “Reality,” he also went around anonymously insulting all the local officials in his county (which includes St. Petersburg) that he apparently just pretends to work with when he isn’t feverishly spewing bile at them online.
All GOP politicians are insane, racist trolls who appear regularly on the insane, racist troll news network FOX. This guy just wasn't high enough on the political ladder to get TV time so he had resort to anonymous internet diatribes. These right wing clowns are becoming increasingly desperate because their ideology is as attractive as that of Al Queda. The proof is in the pudding.
Ginger White, with Iphone in hand, came forward with her allegations of an "extended" extramarital affair with the Republican presidential candidate. The Iphone is important because, this time, their is phone evidence to back up the allegations. (Video)
I think it is fair to say that Cain has driven his political train into the ditch. He is a disgrace to himself and all those "republicans" who blindly followed his hustle. His train will not only not take him to the White House, it probably will not take him home either. I can hear his wife now. The train is bringing you where? No it not!
When Herman, I ain't no African American, Cain uttered those faithful worlds, we tried to warn you on these pages that this was a bad actor that no self respecting AA would touch with a ten foot pole. We will not miss Mr. Cain and his brand of honesty.
As I have said in the past, if you see a Black Republican, put both hands in your pockets and run.
I don't think I have heard a clearer description of the Southern Cultural Terrorist's flag.
"Confederate flag is nothing more then a treasonous flag of HATE!!!!"
Amen!
Good bless our elder the honorable Reverend Clark, for standing up and speaking plainly.
Good bless the members of the DMV who voted down this dastardly idea, striking a blow for Cultural Humanism. The fact that they were appointed by the Tex. Gov. and Republican Presidential primary candidate Rich, the "N" Word, Perry makes their Culturally Healthy action even more valuable.
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a case lawyer-ed up by the sore looser Republicans. What to you think the leading judges were doing on the day that they decided to hear this case regarding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act?
Now, how do you think the "court" that decided that corporations are people will decide?
I think it is time to impeach Clarence Thomas and the corporate crack mules on his court for high crimes and misdemeanors.
After the 2012 election with our President at his post with the bullet proof health care congress to help him achieve our (American People) goals, we need to do two things. Pass ACA 2.0 (Single Payer health care for all) to nullify any ruling from this criminal court. And second, we need to impeach Thomas at a minimum as an example of why low morals and crime does not pay and to set high 21st Century standards for our highest court.
The question is how can we apply pressure on this court from now to election time? I don't see an app for this on my Iphone.
Muhammad Ali among the mourners at Joe Frazier's funeral
• Ali stands and applauds to 'show his love' • Don King and Larry holmes pay their respects
A mourner holds a photograph of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier as he leaves Frazier's funeral in Philadelphia. Photograph: Tim Shaffer/Reuters
Frazier and Ali faced each other in three legendary fights, including the Thrilla in Manila in 1975. Ali won that epic contest, calling it the "closest thing to dying that I know of".
Now that I have been told that the children were AA's I am even more inclined to see the death penalty employed. Here are my thoughts and President Obama's thoughts on the matter. (Video)
Here are my thoughts on the matter as set forth on MSNBC/Newsvine. "Death Penalty" administered by the football regulating organization.
In my mind this thing was already bad enough without the racial aspect.
You are right about that. I called for the football program to be ended for five or then years. Sports when I was a youth was for fun, fitness and the learning of the moral lessons of life, like honesty, sportsmanship etc.
Now sports and education is ruled by the God of money, and children are taught that the purpose of life is to worship the God of money, which, is how we get Republicans like Herman Cain and Clarence Thomas and the Republican God of money that lead to Bush and the forty thieves bankrupting America.
Here is what President Obama had to say about it.
Let's Go To The Video Tape
So as the President challenges us, what can you and I do? In another piece he said regarding wrong, the lesson is we "must step up".
I started thinking about what could be done to detect this kind of criminally insane sexual perversion and protect children. I have grandchildren and a daughter. You just caused me to look at my Iphone sex offender app. Their is one SxO in my town (from out of town, visiting) and four across the river in the next town near the YMCA.
Everyone who has or has responsibility for children should have an Ipone and this app. You can also search for an individual SxO by name. I put in Jerry Sandusky the SxO in the Penn State case and his name did not come up. And the Judge let him loose on the street without bail.
My recommendation suspected SxO's on trial should also be in the Sxo data base, if proven innocent take them out of the base. The people who covered this up should be considered accomplishes and get jail time and may need to be put on a list as having sufficient moral turpitude as to be considered a danger to the welfare of children and bared from having any job where children may be involved.
I remember thinking that the state is known as the headquarters of the Clan (KKK) in the East. And one kind of mental perversion leads to another. But I did not give any thought to the ethnicity of the children who were attacked. As I remember most of the students, faculty etc. were European American.
The racial aspect can only make it worse.
Yes, now there is a massive Cultural Health aspect to the crimes. I heard about this from an AA woman at my Sunday swim workout. I was shocked. she said when she first heard the story, that is the first thing that came to her mind as to why there was a cover up. Mother's always seem to have better antennae then men.
I am expanding my thinking on detection prevention and correction. There needs to be a means of testing teachers, law enforcement and others who deal with children for Sexual poisoning and Cultural poisoning.
Like the Cain story I think we have just seen the tip of the ice berg.
It now strikes me that the University itself my need to be shut down and reorganized under new management by the court.
What do you think?
First it was animals, 50,000 scanners sold. now humans, next will you be forced by law to be implanted?
I would not trust the FDA as far as I could throw them. I take no vaccines or drugs and you can bet I will not be letting anyone implant me either.
Devices could help doctors with stored medical information
WASHINGTON — Medical milestone or privacy invasion? A tiny computer chip approved Wednesday for implantation in a patient’s arm can speed vital information about a patient’s medical history to doctors and hospitals. But critics warn that it could open new ways to imperil the confidentiality of medical records.
The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that Applied Digital Solutions of Delray Beach, Fla., could market the VeriChip, an implantable computer chip about the size of a grain of rice, for medical purposes.
With the pinch of a syringe, the microchip is inserted under the skin in a procedure that takes less than 20 minutes and leaves no stitches. Silently and invisibly, the dormant chip stores a code that releases patient-specific information when a scanner passes over it.
Devices could help doctors with stored medical information
WASHINGTON — Medical milestone or privacy invasion? A tiny computer chip approved Wednesday for implantation in a patient’s arm can speed vital information about a patient’s medical history to doctors and hospitals. But critics warn that it could open new ways to imperil the confidentiality of medical records.
The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that Applied Digital Solutions of Delray Beach, Fla., could market the VeriChip, an implantable computer chip about the size of a grain of rice, for medical purposes.
With the pinch of a syringe, the microchip is inserted under the skin in a procedure that takes less than 20 minutes and leaves no stitches. Silently and invisibly, the dormant chip stores a code that releases patient-specific information when a scanner passes over it.
MSNBC/Newsvine, what do you think, come vote in the poll. Will Romney and Perry eat Herman, Sexual Harassment, Cain alive in the Republican debate tonight?
More and more doctors are becoming more competent about all patient care. If we can do it for dogs we can do it for people. Let's Go ACA 2.0
Alternative medicine finds place in veterinary offices
Just 10 minutes earlier, the pit/boxer mix, who was facing surgery on his cruciate ligament, was held steady as Franklin veterinarian Marc Smith placed about a dozen acupuncture needles in the dog's back and aching leg.
Smith regularly mixes Western medicine with Eastern techniques at his practice, Natchez Trace Veterinary Services. Animals are often treated with acupuncture, chiropractic and herbals, along with traditional therapies. Milo did very well post-op.
Apple's iPhone 3GS model is more than 2 years old and shunned by gadget snobs. But it's turning into one of the company's bigger weapons against devices running Google's Android software this holiday season.
When Apple rolled out its new iPhone 4S on Oct. 4, it slashed the price of the 3GS model to zero - if it's purchased with a contract. The decision thrust the company into the free-phone market for the first time and will help the 3GS account for as much as 20 percent of iPhone sales this quarter, said Shaw Wu, an analyst with Sterne Agee in San Francisco.
"Apple can shovel them out by the millions," he said. "What free phone or even $50 phone is going to be more appealing to consumers than an iPhone 3GS?"
GRAPH: Android Users Get Terrible Support Compared to iPhone
Android has the potential to take on the mighty iPhone, with decent reviews, plenty of apps, and competitive pricing. Oh, but that operating system…
A recent blog post shows that while iPhones receive updates constantly, almost all Android phones are left years behind the current OS; many are never even sold with an up-to-date OS.
Michael DeGustaat The Understatement researched every Android phone released in the U.S. through mid-2010. He then tracked what OS updates (if any they recieved), and color coded whether a phones OS at any given time was current, or how behind the current OS it was. The literal resulting picture wasn’t pretty.
Another thing from Google that disappears, this is be coming a pattern and practice that Google needs to fix. They do not seem to have the focus on quality and customer satisfaction that apple has except in search.
I have a lot of Google stuff, I had their personal health record app. It IMHO was the best PHR out there with graphs and all before anyone else. it is scheduled to disappear. I had Buzz it is scheduled to disappear. I had Sidebar it is scheduled to disappear.
People are simply not going to invest their limited time in stuff that is going to disappear. If something is bata say so. Then we know you are not committed to it yet and will be doing nothing regarding customer satisfaction.
75% of Droids are bricks because you can not upgrade them to the latest OS. A Retail public really will not put up with this kind of abuse as the word gets out. Google you can do better, do it.
Mr. Gumbel in his senior years seems to have grown some Cultural orbs. This article is not a pro worker, pro AA article but it will bring you up to speed on the battle between the workers (Players) and the no talent folks who rip off most the money that smarts skill and talent generate.
Bryant Gumbel Calls NBA Commish "Plantation Overseer"
TV talker goes racial as pro basketball talks falter
Bryant Gumbel compared NBA Commissioner David Stern to a "plantation overseer."
Gumbel ended Tuesday's edition of HBO's "Real Sports" by taking aim at Stern, who he said is to blame for the lockout that threatens the entire season. He said Stern's "disdain for the players" is "pathetic."
"But his efforts were typical of a commissioner, who has always seemed eager to be viewed as some kind of modern plantation overseer treating NBA men as if they were his boys," Gumbel said. "It’s part of Stern’s M.O. Like his past self-serving edicts on dress code or the questioning of officials, his moves are intended to do little more than show how he’s the one keeping the hired hands in their place."
You may not be old enough to remember the Mainframe Wars but the players were known as IBM and the 7 dwarfs. Now in the cell phone wars we have the same thing all over again, with one big difference.
Back in the 60's I worked for one of the dwarfs and we all made an IBM Clone that was either, faster, had more memory or was cheaper. The Droid Iphone clones have the same game plan except we provided all software updates and our machines were always up to date.
I have an Iphone but I know people with Droids at the Gym who are always complaining, now I understand why. Most of these phones are not supported, they can be as much a 3 OS's behind. The graph shows that many Droid clones become simi-bricks as early as the first year. Wow, you got to see this graph.
I went back and found every Android phone shipped in the United States1 up through the middle of last year. I then tracked down every update that was released for each device - be it a major OS upgrade or a minor support patch - as well as prices and release & discontinuation dates. I compared these dates & versions to the currently shipping version of Android at the time. The resulting picture isn’t pretty - well, not for Android users:
Other than the original G1 and MyTouch, virtually all of the millions of phones represented by this chart are still under contract today. If you thought that entitled you to some support, think again:
7 of the 18 Android phones never ran a current version of the OS.
12 of 18 only ran a current version of the OS for a matter of weeks or less.
10 of 18 were at least two major versions behind well within their two year contract period.
11 of 18 stopped getting any support updates less than a year after release.
13 of 18 stopped getting any support updates before they even stopped selling the device or very shortly thereafter.
15 of 18 don’t run Gingerbread, which shipped in December 2010.
In a few weeks, when Ice Cream Sandwich comes out, every device on here will be another major version behind.
At least 16 of 18 will almost certainly never get Ice Cream Sandwich.
Also worth noting that each bar in the chart starts from the first day of release - so it only gets worse for people who bought their phone late in its sales period.
Siri, are you male or female? If you ask this question of the iPhone 4S voice assistant, it won't give you a clear answer, but most people assume that the distinctly feminine-sounding voice comes from a woman.
Many electronics, such as GPS devices or voicemail boxes, are female, and according to a CNN report, there is likely a psychological reason behind this. Siri sounds female in at least the U.S. and four other countries, although in France and the U.K., Siri sounds male.
A deep search alternative to Google is what we need in the new Job's era of Artificial Intelligence. I think Apple should immediately if they have not already make strong connection between Siri and WireDoo. I would also expect they are looking close at WireDoo for purchase.
As a Cultural Health note, it is also nice to see an AA on the business end of a potentially revolutionary technology in the big game.
MC Hammer, the Oakland rapper/dancer/preacher/spokesman, is looking to take on Google and Bing in one of the most competitive segments of the tech industry -- online search -- with a new start-up called WireDoo.
Hammer, whose real name is Stanley Kirk Burrell, announced WireDoo at O'Reilly Media's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday. He described the project as a search engine that offers a level of "deep search" and related topics that Microsoft's Bing and Google don't offer.
Wow, by the holiday everyone will be talking to, or wanting to talk to their own personal assistant. (Video)
Lets Go to the Video Tape
Two things about this short Ad, it is amazing how much you can pack into 30 seconds. Second all of us with Iphones immediately went to play this commercial back to see if our phone could do that too. Sure enough, when I asked Siri who to time a bow tie if found a great video for me. And how about that little girl about my grandson's age, "fund me a picture of a Weasel" . I tried it, and yep, Siri found me a picture of a weasel.
Aside from the fact that this is the best holiday present since sliced bread there are a couple of things the public should get from this commercial. One 4S is not just simple Speech Recognition (SR) like non-intelligent Google voice or that type of technology that was in the Iphone 3GS and 4. This is a whole new level of Speech recognition combined with artificial intellegence (A.I.) to assist you.
So the new Iphone feature is the unique combination of SR and AI in a hand held device. The benefit you handled now does no longer just make phone calls but assist you find things and get things done. It strikes me that it will be a great help to the disabled, especially those that can not or have trouble typing or spelling.
Imagine that a phone that tries to figure out what you want, instead of you trying to figure out what it wants.
Google Just made their big 4.0 announcement, is it a game changer or just more Iphone cloning?
I like the face lock feature. Apple this is something you should clone from the other side. putting all the connections in contacts is also a good feature.
Droid is the Same As Iphone - You Can't Be Sirious (Poll)
I ran into a friend who had a droid. After I offered my condolences, he told me that the salesperson who sold it to him, did not sell the Iphone he asked for, but assured him the droid was a smart phone the "SAME" as the Iphone. With shock and dismay, like my tennis hero John Mcenroe, I said, you can't be Sirious!
That should read who's got the Iphone +[;-)
I then went on to explain to my locked in for two years unhappy Droid friend about Siri (Job's Personal Assistant That learns) and the general position of Apple and the Seven Droids (like IBM and the 7 Dwarfs). The good news is, now that Iphone is carried by more carriers, there will be less to of this bait and switch happening to the poor clueless customer.
