Race and Face
What a sad story the Shirley Sherrod saga has become.
To recap, Andrew Breitbart, who paid for the people who did the ACORN sting, edited a videotape so that the remarks of Sherrod to a long-ago NAACP gathering falsely portray her as a racist rather than someone who, in recounting an example of her own racism long ago, goes on in the same tape to reject her former attitude and talk about the growth she achieved through the incident.
"Fix" News picks up the edited video and turns it in the context of black racism, trying to answer charges of racism leveled against Tea Party activists.
Next, the NAACP finds out about the edited tape from Fix and calls for Sherrod's resignation.
Then Tom Vilsack's deputy secretary of Agriculture calls Sherrod up as she's driving home from South Georgia and tells her the White House wants her to resign because Glenn Beck is going to use the item that very night. Sherrod resigns.
Vilsack tells CNN he never heard from the White House and that it was his idea alone to "save her job" by having her quit.
Then the White House denied it had contacted Vilsack about the issue.
CNN then contacts the aging white farmer that Sherrod was discussing in the original video, and he and his wife call her a "magnificent" person who helped them save their farm through her personal intervention.
Then the NAACP reviews the entire tape, not just the Breitbart-Fix News edit, and its leadership apologizes to Sherrod, saying it had been "snookered" by Breitbart and Fix, and calls on Vilsack to reconsider.
He tells CNN he won't reconsider.
Then the President says he backs Vilsack's decision.
And Breibart goes on CNN and tells John King it wasn't about Sherrod but about the NAACP.
Glenn Beck doesn't use the story. It's not on the Fix News programming at all Tuesday night.
Throughout all this, it comes out slowly that Sherrod really is a dedicated and wonderful public servant who has been grievously wronged by knee-jerk reactions by Vilsack, and that she has been lied to by the deputy secretary of USDA who told her
the White House was demanding her resignation and Glenn Beck was on her trail.
What all this reveals, shamefully, is that the White House really does believe it is going to lose the House and is desperate to avoid any mistakes that would make that a sure thing. This attitude has obviously infected the bureaucracy, producing the kind of nonsense the deputy secretary breathlessly relayed to Sherrod.
Never understimate the foolishness of human beings.
I hate to be the first to break the news, but the White House is not going to lose Congress. They do not have to panic. The polls may say something different, but the American people see a President who is winning for them. He's got us health care, he's got us Wall Street reform and now he's got us extended jobless benefits.
We can count.
Republicans have achieved zero, or as author Brett Easton Ellis would put it, less than zero.
The NAACP, on the the other hand, demonstrated some nobility of character in plainly admitting it had been fooled. I love that word "snookered."
Sherrod should probably change places with the deputy secretary at USDA; that would be only fair. Vilsack should vigorously apologize for being "snookered" by Breitbart and Fix News, the mortal enemies of the Obama Administration. And the President and First Lady should invite Sherrod to the White House to recognize her long years of hard work and many contributions to the hard-working farmers of South Georgia. I think that may go a long way to heal the damage.
No JobsThere is one, and only one - not "many different" cures for the U.S. economy.
Forget about people who talk about "multi-pronged approaches" - they have forked tongues. There is one cure.
I was again reminded of the need for this cure when I heard the President speak today in the Rose Garden about the need for Republican members of the U.S. Senate to step up and extend unemployment benefits for millions of jobless Americans who cannot find jobs and without those benefits can't pay their bills, feed their families, drive their cars - there's no end to the hurt.
The one clear answer is free energy. Yeah, right, you say, when pigs fly. With genetic manipulation, they may be flying any day now. And free energy
is, right now, the cure for our nation's joblessness and growing poverty.
Two forms of free energy, and a third that is on the way, offer themselves. The first is the "hydrino" reactor that uses the heat tghrown off by steakling a photon from the hydrogen atom creates electricity, while some of the resulting hydrinos are steered back to the catalyst that makes the pohoton loss happen and regenerate the material that created the loss in the first place. Thus, once it gets started, the hydrino reactor needs no more fuel. It is as cheap to build as any conventional large-scale power system, and far cheaper than nucklear power. Go to www.blacklightpower.com to find out more.
The second is a technology abandoned and rediscovered. You may have seen the "60 Minutes" show last Fall that profiled Dr. Michael McKubre, the director of the SRI International Center for Energy Research in Palo Alto,. At the annual meeting of the American Chemical Socity in May, he talked about the work done with cold fusion in Israel that has the ability to generate far more energy than is needed to start the process, just as the BlackLight Power project does. Environmental assessments need to be done, he told National Public Radio in another appearance, but it is commercially viable now.
The entire energy Establishment is powerfully arrayed against these technologies. no greater foe of free energy than Dr. Stepohen Chu, President Barack Obama;s unfortunate choice to head ther U.S. Dept. of Energy. Back in 1999, long before the BlackLight Power process could be explored, he went out of his way to warn investors away, saying he "felt sorry" for those who invested. Those investors include a former CEO of Westinghouse, some of the nation's biggest and most successful joint venture firms, and even a former USAF chief of staff, who together have given $70 billion for R&D. Eight utilities and private multinational firms have ordered BlackLight reactors that can serve about one million homes. The DOE has yet to invest a single cent.
Buit what do I mean when I say these technologies, and the near-complete perfection of the so-called magnetic motor projects, are the one cure for the U.S. economy?
You have to understand that the ciost iof ebnergy uin the United States is so great that the numbers are meaningless to many of us. ExxonMobil alone took in a trillion dollars in revenues last year. They are just one company, yet millions of other companies exist within their industry, which ultimately is the one that turns our lights on and off throughout the country and the world.
So how can we grow rich by bankrupting the source and endpoint of so much wealth?
It's u;ltimately pretty simple: By providing cheap or free energy, as these technologies can do, those trillions now supporting fossil fuels actually flow back into the pockets of the 300 million American consumers who spend it.
And the millions of jobs that flow from fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas?
They will be soaked up overnight by then deploymkent of the new technologuies in cars, homes, factories, schools, government buildings and other infrastructure. The CIHT car proposed by BlackLight Power will get $1,500 miles on a liter of water. There go the gas stations, but here comes the auto industry!
These enormous changes can be implemented far more quickly than anyone suspects. It takes a national will and public demand to make it happen, but it can. People will stop spending money on fossil fuels just as quickly as they can when they realize there's a cheap or free alternative.
Electric cars and wind turbines are neither cheap nor efficient compared to these newer technologies. Let's skip that step and go to the next one - the cold fusion, hydrino reactors and magnetic motors - that can transform and enrich us overnight.
The EditorialistThere are so many things that I'd like to write about that I sometimes give into despair and don't write about any of them.
The president's financial reform bill doesn't go nearly far enough to rein in banks too big to fail or to protect consumers from an abundance of evils.
"South Park" cartoons are a lame excuse for free speech. They are full of racial and gender bias, pornography and other evils that do not deserve contsitutional protection.
The health care reform enacted by Congress will probably never reach people like me - unemployed, broke, under 65 and in need of health care.
Mel Gibson is one of the world's most talented filmmakers, and he should no more be shunned than Roman Polanski. But Mel is under so much stress he has become temporarily ill - mentally ill, I'm sorry to say. Polanski is just an aging pedophile.
The Republicans are butt-kissers who divisively attack the President and Congress with invective formerly reserved to our enemies. They are like communists in wolve's clothing. They are destroying their party to win elections, and it won't take long before they become a third party, behind Independents, Libertarians or Tea Party people.
Racism is the basis for the Tea Party, but it is sublimated and rarely overt racism. They lump all black people in with the part of the black population they fear so much - the killers, rapists, gang leaders and other criminals who fill our jails with their numbers and their own neighborhoods' streets with blood. You can't help but be afraid of those black people, but it's apparently hard to remember that there are more evil white people in jail - and more white criminals on the streets - than similar black people. Obama suffers because of them, not because he is the most able, farsighted and effective reformer since FDR.
Obviously, I love Obama and believe in him. But I, too, believe he should display his original birth certificate for all to see. Like Ronald Reagan, my personal motto on matters of belief is "Trust, but verify."
Well, I've gotten all that off my chest. Maybe now I can start writing editorials again.
