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If there is anything to all that, it should be remembered that most of the people who belong to Bohemian Grove are of a conservative political and social bent. Not that many are liberals.

Always the doom and gloom from your type here.
Talk about toxic...

And while the Left is always tearing things and people down, some other folks are working to build people up:

Ben Carson: Donald Trump’s New Deal for Black America Begins With a Good Education

In this op-ed for The Root, Carson outlines how African Americans need a new deal with clear policies for creating jobs, protecting our communities, making health care more affordable and renewing our urban areas.

Donald Trump often says things that many people believe to be true but dare not say.

He did it again recently by saying that nobody needs to tell African Americans in this country that the old New Deal from the Democratic Party isn’t working for them. Trump made the simple but accurate observation that in election after election, Democratic Party leaders take African-American voters for granted, and year after year, the condition of black America gets worse.

Trump is right: African Americans need a new deal from the next president. In a speech last month in Charlotte, N.C., Trump proposed just that, with clear policies for creating jobs, protecting our communities, making health care more affordable and renewing our urban areas.

The foundation of Trump’s new deal for black America is education.

Without a good education, it is very difficult to get a good job, support a family and have the sense of dignity that every American deserves.

All Americans know how important this is. That’s why whenever a family is considering moving into a neighborhood, the first thing they ask the real estate agent is, “How are the schools?” When Americans can, they pick where they live based on the local school. And if they don’t like the local school, they move.

The only Americans who don’t have this choice are the ones who need it most—the poor—whether they’re black, white or Hispanic. As a result of this lack of school choice, poor Americans are stuck in the worst schools.

Most of the very worst schools in America are in cities run by Democrats, and it is Democrats who oppose every effort to reform them or let the students trapped in them choose a better school.

The system is rigged. And the victims are largely African American.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/politic ... education/

we can't all get college degrees. enough with the Pollyanna. show workers some respect by offering them something instead of just the high-IQ types.

I don't want any occultists in charge of anything fwiw, Republican or Democrat

Democrats and thier pet unions that protect loafers, thieves, bullies, and sundry other ne'er-do-wellers.

OHwhat's wrong with dabbling in the occult,it was good enough for the Nazis and Nancy Reagan.You all should embrace it.
Me,I love the conspiracy theories.According to them I'm one of your Reptillian overlords.lol

Really?Everyone I know that worked a Union job WORKED,and they got a decent wage.My eighty year old friend that recently died worked as produce manager,years ago of course.He made a decent living and could afford a good home,see if that happens now with a produce manager.Union job.

Because of organized labor, my dad was able to provide a middle class lifestyle for us, in which my mom didn't have to work outside the home. He was a union grievance man (shop steward), and he was never, ever a loafer, a thief, or a bully. But thanks to attitudes of yours like that, the American working class has lost footing since the advent of Ronny Raygun. I don't tear down your old man, so don't tear down mine.

Even if that was somehow true, the fact remains, this country has a long tradition of freedom of religion. Occultism is covered under that, like it or not.
And what about the sinister evangelical cabal known as the Family? They are a group of Washington politicians who are mostly of a political and theological far right bent, such as that governor who"hiked the Appalachian trail" to cheat on his wife back back when he was still in congress, though there have been conservative Democrats who have belonged to them. This group teaches a theology, largely beyond prying eyes, in which the founder claims he had been visited by Christ back in the 1940's, who told him how everyone had gotten the message wrong. Rather than helping the weak, the poor, the downtrodden, Christ allegedly told him how they were supposed to court the powerful with a Nietzschean ideology in which the powerful are to be left unconstrained by morality to reach for even more wealth and power. The Family has denied the research presented in book form and magazine articles by a brave journalist who had infiltrated them, though surprise, surprise; the rest of the fundie establishment backed away from the Family's rather unorthodox theology.
If you want to look for occultists with powerful political connections, the Family would be it. Moloch by another name is still Moloch.

I think he's talking about public sector unions, like the police and teachers, who no less of a Labor man than FDR called an abomination. You going to argue that the police unions don't protect thieves and bullies and worse?

Yes, police unions should be dissolved, then rebuilt and reinvented from the bottom up, completely devoid of the corrupt thugs who have always been present in police departments.
If that was what the Zodiac was meaning, I wish he would have taken pains to make that clear. Incidentally, I was hardly the only poster on this thread who took his comment as an attack on all unions.

Why do the police need unions at all? The whole idea of unions was to give workers leverage to receive a greater portion of the profits of their labors, while cops are servants of the state who produce no product. More problematically, they negotiate with politicians, whom they also help to elect or defeat, injecting an unnecessary element of corruption into the system. I know you have a problem with corporations supporting politicians who then give them sweetheart deals, why do you think it's okay when the unions do it?



What is it with you and the name calling lately? I know Blabby is congenitally incapable of referring to any Republican by their given name, but even he doesn't seem to have a problem referring to other posters by their chosen names.

will somebody please tell me who is "the zodiac"?

He was a notorious serial killer of the sixties and seventies who hid his identity by wearing a hood-like mask, looking a bit like Raptor's new image. He would send letters to the police with a coded message that people outside the police department finally solved, taunting them, and signing himself the Zodiac. Sometimes he called the police directly, letting them know he was responsible for this or that murder. He usually killed with a gun, but once he knifed a couple, killing the young lady, while the man barely survived. He was never caught. Or if he was imprisoned, it had been for something else, and the law never knew who they really had. Possibly he was committed to a mental hospital without anyone ever knowing who he was. Maybe he just died, or was killed (a very real possibility, as serial killers and mass murderers live close to violence). As the police began ignoring his letters, despite his threats to murder a whole bus load of school children, his letters eventually just petered out, and he was never heard from again. Much later, there was a forgettable serial killer in New York who had killed homeless people, and had claimed to be the original Zodiac, but when caught it was found he was nothing of the sort (for one thing, he was much too young, and hunted the wrong kind of victims). There have been a plethora of suspects and theories, but none of them ever led to an arrest. Maybe that hood is hanging in someone's closet to this day.
A very good movie about him came out a few years ago, called Zodiac.

thank you Bill