FACEBOOK SPECIFICITIES. My account was accessed by others and I decided to change the password today. The Facebook window read to click onn reset passwork, while the only directions to click on were Send codes and access (my email account). A Dafne Veg-alf Turillazzi is probably involved in password stealing.

BUDGET BRILLIANCE. Tax cuts in California to favor companies like Apple caused a loss of 9.2 billion in revenue and have lead to cuts in social services such as schools and programs for the disabled.

ACCRETIVE HEALTH is a debt collection agency that impersonates hospital workers to pressure even emergency room patients into paying their bills now with money and later with body parts from the morgue.

A NEW CREATURE IS BORN. Sidetracking lobbying rules the Conservative American Legislative Exchange Council mixes a blend of legislators and business interests to reduce government, harm labor unions and diminish public interest legislation. To do so they claim to interact equally while not declaring the origin of the bills, by using loopholes to aid business interests and by outvoting legislators in favor of business. All this paying what they call scholarships to legislators for conferences supported by child care facilities.

WHAT PEREMPTORY CHALLENGE REALLY IS: When both the defendant and the prosecution determine through years of personal bias to exclude a majority of African Americans from jury duty.

How many Bosnians and Croatians does it take to change ethnicity?

The Miss Universe Competition has opened its doors to transgenders: one big move forward for stereotyping.

Hate for injustice keeps you safe; love keeps you whole.

GOTTA SAY,there's nothing more repugnant than those who think people are worth dirt. Now spin that into meaning I'm not eco conscious.

Life is a wonderful, delicate mess.

DO GET A GRIP. In a country that has seen anarchists, communists and socialists run for office successfully, in a country in which even Richard Nixon opened doors to China,in a country that survived Regan's fiery rhetoric and his flirt with Iran to become palsies again with Nicaragua, in a Germany who has judges who supported the Red Army Faction, in an Israel in which its own politicians are worried about possible future apartheid conditions, but with labor still going strong, in a world in which even Reagan had to triumph Mandela, in a world with a Communist party in Russia opposing Putin and Medvedev's fascistic nationalism, in a world filled with socialist parties and governments, in a world open to reform and increased democracy and plain being more just and equal because that's the way to fulfillment in life, you still have a man like Florida Republican Allen West demonstrate his brilliance, farsightedness,concern with the wellbeing of the United States and thorough understanding of politics and foreign policy by trying to stir up trouble claiming there are up to 80 Communists in the Democratic party only because he doesn't get out much and hasn't read the constitution of the United States? Okay, granted, it's not like big business makes this information available to you and bookstore workers don't switch material on the display tables at the speed of light because you're not a celebrity or paying them cash on the sly not to do so or don't get paid by others in some kinda tender to enact scenarios that might get you arrested based on false testimony in the bookstore, even if for now all you're left with is catch phrases and old time dictionary entries,it's not over until it's over. Don't cede to the bait. THINK.LEARN. THEN DECIDE. Don't believe the bullshit.Whatever would happen if word got out that an elected official is violating the constitution of the United States?

MALE POTION IN A BOTTLE. Trying to breach the same barrier as deodorant, Dr. Pepper 10, a soft drink with 2 grams of sugar and ten calories, is being advertised as a men only drink that promotes roaming jungles at high speeds in beefy wheeled vehicles. The only other products that can claim such gender specificity in a supermarket are the feminine hygiene items on display in aisle 6 and one shouldn't eat them.

THE MARLINS AND SPANISH, PART TWO. See what the results are for objecting to a knowledge of other languages? At a press conference held to illuminate us concerning anticonstitutional suspensions and threats of firing for wishing Fidel Castro a long life, supported by fiery indignation bubbling to the surface of a cauldron of bullshit, Guillen said he was speaking Spanish and in that language he had expressed what amounts to amazement and disappointment that Castro was still alive. Now THAT'S constitutionally protected thanks to a Supreme Court decision considering death threats freedom of speech when flung by a crowd of baptist protesters discriminating against gays by crashing a funeral for a member of the military who wasn't even gay, and makes Guillen less of a sissy. So when they bury Castro in Florida, Guillen can follow his mistaken critics, have his say again in Spanish if they let him and claim to have God on his side. In the meantime, he and his partners can bandy that opinion at grandma's funeral without a peep from anyone. One major exemption, of course, are threats against the President of the United States.

THE MARLINS AND THEIR TAKE ON FOREIGN POLICY, PART ONE. With Santorum quitting someone else needs to play God,and CBS reports the Marlins's little showdown of their own. Ozzie Guillen was reported as saying that he loved Castro and was glad he had stayed in power for so long. Result? He was suspended for five games, the Cuban community is in an uproar and there's clamor from two "officials" that he should be fired. Mr. Guillen has since retracted his statement, claiming ironic immunity. CBS has him say that he meant to express amazement at how Castro had not died sooner and was upset that he discombolulated people who hated Cuban politics for whatever reason so much so they jumped on rafts to float on over to Miami. CBS also edited a "no I didn't" out of context as the answer to a question posed on the air by a newscaster as to whether Guillen meant what he said or not. Let alone that it's illegal to fire anyone for political beliefs that aren't at odds with the basic tenets of the constitution of the United States,or for reading,or for voting, the Marlins must have seen the chance to apply for a position as Romney's influent cabinet members since, after the candidate's on again-off again play on self-deportation not even his ID card can identify him. Their plan is to influence foreign policy as baseball players since the sport is spread throughout the world and they know nothing of presidential politics not at odds with countries like Cuba. After all, even Russia has its political party run by a sports team owner, and I should brush up as well, since I thought the Marlins were a football team, not a baseball team. Castro just doesn't have the build of an effective supporter, so he's out. I mean, even the Pope picks on him in his own country, while visiting a shrine to the virgin of good luck.

OVERHEARD ON THE SUBWAY, FROM AN AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILY: A MOTHER, TWO DAUGHTERS AND TWO SONS, CHILDREN. "Venus in furs"; "we're cops too";"white" as a blanket statement, neither preceding or following any conversation; two of the boys mock leave the subway car at a stop not theirs, after feigning it to be theirs, no comment by the mother; the mother asks if the eldest girl is talking to the whole subway car or her sister; the mother scold a boy saying "you sound like a girl" and the eldest girl mocks up a paranoia that the train won't stop at the last stop.

CROSSROADS DENIES PRESTIGE ITS HEREDITARY RIGHTS. Steven J. Law, the chief officer of Crossroads, the Republican superPAC that lobsters to President Obama's Priorities USA Action shrimp, is complaining that Demoratic strategy for the election campaign will remind its voters that prejudice, exclusivity and an entire set of supposed values having nothing to do with capacity determine income and create social status in this country. He calls it a "dystopian vision" and a "narrative" that "has some gravitational pull." In the meantime, yesterday President Obama was extolling the virtues of natural gas versus oil dependency, which is all fine and dandy, unless one takes into account that fracking as a means of extraction creates one hell of an inflammable and chemically redolent dystopian reality for those whose only access to water is from aquifers in the general area of gas deposits.Why not find a better technique?

FEDERAL FUNDS FOR JOB TRAINING AT RISK. The New York Times reports that the amount contributed by the Federal government to job training programs was 2.1 billion a year, in a country that currently has 12.7 million job searchers. For two years the stimulus plan contributed 1.5 billion, bringing the total up to 3.6 billion. Then funds were reduced to 1.2 billion. In the meantime, the new presidential budget wants to allocate 2.8 billion, still a loss from the stimulus year amounts that already is affecting many who are being turned down for assistance due to lack of funds.

Previous post reedited. Much better. Cheers.

THE TEA PARTY MARINE AND THE PRESIDENT CONTINUED AND EXISTENTIAL COMPLAINTS. The internet is circulating this composition as President Obama's words: "Because I was kind you thought I was a lamb; because you went too far you will see I am a lion, And I will rise" which, in a world shaped by the mythology of hagiographic absolute monarchs one worse than the other still strikes a key in some who confuse rules of order with a belittling patronizing kindness and the power concerns of a man compared to a rampant limb mauling animal with justice. Kind of a jeremiad, all to say you thought I was weak, but I'm strong and I'll rise above, even though for a man who is the president of the United States where is there to go? This trend is not surprising since the Bush presidency photographs had their subject illuminated by behind, and included even Clinton,perhaps less heroically, who as a Democratic centrist thought for Republicans by believing with Justice Ginsburg that it's a tough deal for "us" to pay for those without health insurance,economic disparity be damned, by seeing foreign aid as a good platform for future business opportunities, which in itself is not inherently bad, by trying to privatize social security but failing because it brought an unproar, and who as one of the richest presidents we have ever had (Kennedy being another; all self made) narrates how he like all those who know how to accrue capital was in debt at the end of the presidency. This did not impede an attempt to impeach him for sexual impropriety by a team of Republicans who, as a party, said absolutely nothing when the first President Bush had been discovered having an affair at the end of his presidency, why is anybody's guess since now both he and George Bush the second head a charity to bring aid to Haiti. He did much good as well; is working to help people with AIDS and to improve the living conditions of people in Africa, creating extra income that helps educate children. Perhaps if he had been more of a president with New Deal plans in times of less Republican opposition than today, more would have been done. But Hillary Clinton did have a plan for universal health care and that failed, criticized by car stickers as being socialist. So centrist it was, and centrist is what Barack Obama is, promising not to bow down to the right wing inspired individual mandate, then ceding, only to have the same conservatives claim it anti constitutional and universal healthcare an affront to American freedom. Same process in promising not to build the XL pipeline one day, then the next inaugurating its southern states construction. So with this whole new debacle involving the Free Speech rights being sustained by the ACLU for a political thought that sustains discrimination in its ideology, isn't it truly "bipartisan" if you coalesce further power to the presidency by legitimizing the Tea Party constitutionally while also scaring away Democrats from satirists with Darrell Issa? And allowing for the lives of marines to be endangered by a Californian Republican claiming that all marines think alike in a case involving the burning of the korans? And, as an aside, why do emails requesting set amounts to contribute to President Obama and not only vary in amount, seemingly depending on the income of the recipient? Isn't that too much information to have? And who else is doing what with that information, if it's so readily available, information which may amuse giggling social calvinists doing God's work by impoverishing the wretched, so as to have a repository of convenient help Columbus for one exploited, as long as it is not those directly involved, because the draw to get something for nothing until there's nothing left because it isn't you is a powerful lure from which no group has ever been exempt, and after all, isn't you builds the complicitness needed for exploitation. Interesting days, these. Things have been getting on my nerves. By coincidence, the day of the Supreme Court decision to body search, I was stared at by a cop in a bad mood as I ate my meal, this as he went back to his car not the same way he had taken in, for whatever reason. I'm sure he thought of mixing business with his own lunch break, as overdiligence allows. Crime, after all, lurks everywhere. I can't wait until they declare eating a hamburger by someone they don't like a felony, with the full blessing of the Supreme Court, who instead of being concerned with how universal health care will affect us the people, mostly asked questions on whether the expenses would be too elevated for the Health Insurance companies. It'll be a ground breaking decision, based on the one instance a man who flung his patty on the ground and stepped on it kidnapped and serially stabbed loaves of bread from supermarkets at a later date. And for that matter, when I was in the same general area where Occupy Wall Street took place, I was asked by a chatting stranger if I had been around "those parts", gesticulating toward the general direction of Zuccotti Park. The person seemed unconnected to them, vaguely unsympathetic, and the place I was in had nothing to do with Occupy, but there you have it. Never hurts to ask out of the blue. Or for that matter,lately everybody's in a state. I recently went to bookstores where the staff suddenly finds something to do in the area you're in, and shouts they're walking by, or looks at you with hostility, with you left wondering what exactly it is you did to elicit such a response besides browse, when other areas depleted of customers would beckon their restocking as mine would the courtesy of waiting until I moved on out of the way. This at the Barnes and Noble on 18th and Fifth, which also cut its return time in half of what it usually is: no longer 14 days, now seven.Tomorrow just about fifteen minutes. And at Saint Marks Bookstore.So I usually make their jobs easier for them and leave the store to allow them to cherish the customers they deserve.

RED BAITING. Those specialized in red baiting must have undergone one hell of a check on their capacity to harm with Gorbachev and Glasnost, the push for transparency by the Soviet Premier allowing them to save some face. But, to this day, even those who organize their extremism religiously cannot give up the ghost.