INCOME DIFFERENCE AND POLITICAL POWER

INCOME DIFFERENCE AND POLITICS I'm just sharing my thoughts about income disparities and political power. As I look at the political landscape in our country my sight informs me that the superrich have more political muscle than the rest of us. Don't jump to the conclusion that I dislike rich people – I don't. I'm an independent writer and actor – I decide what materials I write and make available to prospective buyers; I decide which producers I allow to rent my acting talent. I select and pay professionals to help me in my efforts to make a profit. My bank balance doesn't show it yet but I like to make money – I like deciding what I do, when, where, how, and who with. The superrich continue in their efforts to privatize anything that has the slightest chance of making a profit – they're buying up public resources, they're stripping the government of any regulatory powers while diluting existing policies designed to enhance the economic growth of others. With their money they're shaping the future of ordinary citizens by controlling the pathways to economic wealth – education, jobs, mobility, taxes, investment, etc. The verbiage of the superrich is laced with belief in a god. It implies that they have been chosen by god to set the economic lives of everyone else. There is fervor in the talk that almost convinces me god actually ordained them to be my economic savior – if I did believe in a god they may have had a convert. https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/adolphusaward

PHONE OR NO PHONE

I've been listening to those ins and outs of government intrusion into the nature of our telephone communications. I'm convinced that our government's reach – when added to credit card companies, large retailers, corporations, and think-tanks – into our lives is well passed the fragile membrane of chastity protecting our privacy. Our vocal concerns are well behind the Nano speed of super computers – data is already retrieved and now being correlated. It's a done deal. The only decision left for us citizens is to determine how much intrusive pain is more than we can tolerate. We could give up our phones or do what we usually do – shut up and bare the pain. http://twittercomadolphusward.blogspot.com/

POLITICAL FRONT GROUP TAKES IRS TO WOODSHED

POLITICAL FRONT GROUP TAKES IRS TO WOODSHED As an American it's really encouraging to see our democracy at work. It isn't every day that a political-front-group can take the IRS to the woodshed and blister its behind for doing its job. What's a little confusing, though, is that same front-group applauded the IRS for taking the NAACP to that woodshed and looked on while the NAACP received a Taliban-Caning for daring to do what it – political-front-group – does. More confusing is that Americans are asked to be outraged at the insulting pain inflicted on the sensitive behinds of the front-group. No such lamentations were even hinted at for the long suffering guardian of social justice – the NAACP. I don't give a shit if your eyes are cocked to the right or left: our nation is sinking deeper in the bogs of hypocrisy. Adolphus A Ward

ASSADA SHAKUR to be killed

ASSADA SHAKUR okay to capture or kill A few days ago I wrote a short piece on FB that suggested the ease at which we as Americans and the American Government seem to be able to take a human life – it is true in other parts of the world as well. I thought and still think that human life is losing the value once embraced by most Americans. Where murder used to be whispered about after the fact, it is now boasted about before the fact. It seems that Americans have decided that Assada Shakur's life has no value and that she should either be imprisoned or executed – by any one.

ME AND MURDER

THINKING ABOUT ME AND MURDER Just thinking out loud about the anguish I once endured when the thought of killing someone entered my mind. As a boy the thought of killing another human-being was difficult to conceive and next to improbable to actually carry out. To be sure, there were those moments when anger and revenge made the thought of taking a life less remorseful to contemplate – but when that moment of rage subsided so too did the thought of me ending a human life. Something has happened with my thoughts about murder over the years between my boyhood and now. I now know that I could kill in defense of my life and the lives of others without remorse. I know that if I were certain another human being was plotting to kill me and others that I would seek and destroy him without remorse. It scares me to think that the value of life has been reduced to the point where there is no remorse. In some odd way I'm a direct reflection of the American Government and its willingness to murder in order to achieve its ambitions: that thought does causes me remorse. Adolphus A Ward

Americans Shound Educate All Children

Melissa Harris-Perry (MSNBC) doesn't need me defending her; she's more than capable of defending herself. But anyone making statements like (I'm paraphrasing) we (Americans) have never spent enough money on public education; and being bold enough to add that we (Americans) should see all children as our own – is begging for a return of The Inquisition for such blasphemous reasoning. I have peeped Melissa's hole-card – it's a Joker (Lady Justice) – with the scale in one hand and a smiley-face in the other. Melissa, you sly little devil you, I'm with you on this. Adolphus Ambrose Ward https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/adolphusaward http://twittercomadolphusward.blogspot.com/

CHOICE EXPECTATION REALITY

THE CHOICES WE MAKE LEAD TOWARD OR AWAY FROM PEACE AND WELL BEING Abdul, a longtime friend and fellow artist, recently commented that growing old is not for the faint of heart. I'll leave that stand as is and add that life in this and the coming century is not for the faint of heart. I share the philosophical notion that injustice anywhere will inevitably lead to injustice everywhere. Hunger anywhere will inevitably lead to hunger everywhere. Disregard for human dignity anywhere will inevitably lead to disregard for human dignity everywhere. Race-phobia, gender-phobia, religious-phobia, intellectual-phobia, you-name-it-phobia anywhere will inevitably lead to phobias everywhere. The choices we make as individuals, as a people, as an organization, as a government, will shape the realities of our future. What we do now establishes expectations and expectations lead to predictable outcomes. In short we are at this moment creating the realities of our own future. The question to ask is, what the fuck are we doing? Adolphus A. Ward https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/adolphusaward http://twittercomadolphusward.blogspot.com