cspan #2 - Iacocca B&N book talk

Watching Lee Iacocca on CSPAN 2 and he is making sense, although I did not realize that he read his speech text so much. It does make you notice when he goes off text though. He might not be as inspirational himself anymore, but his 9 C's thing is quite interesting and as he talks, everything he is saying is antithetical to what the little cowboy in the "white" house is. Still, I am always suspicious of ex-car guys, especially when they're still shilling.

Another interesting nugget from his Q&A after. "Out of 24 ranked in math and science scores, the US came in 18th!"

That's why we need immigrants, especially from Korea (ranked 1st on the above referenced list). Ha.

The "C" I am most interested in now in relation to 43 is "character". He does not meet any of the "C's" that Iacocca has listed but George Jr's character is most lacking of all, immediately followed by common sense. Go the this link to see the list.

Saturday cartoons

Geiger cartoons that are somewhat painful to review but funny nonetheless. As I begin to write this blog I am astounded at how much work it is but it does turn into the something that makes you care about what is happening day to day even if NO one EVER reads these entries.

It is a weblog after all, just a diary that is public for who knows what reason? My reason for starting it has to do with what I am always thinking, "How do we create peace community and how can I do anything to create it when I am just a poor brown woman?"

As I write this, the PBS special, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" is on the tube. I have it on dvr record because I want to watch it several times to give it a good review. I hope against hope that outsiders can have some idea what has happened here, what IS happening here now, but usually, I am disappointed. Halfway through, I am not impressed with the acting and the storyline is way too familiar but it has another half to go, it might get better.

iraq reality

as long as these kids come from families that will continue to vote bushco there is NO risk to chickenhawks and seems to give them license to keep killing them. to have a coward like junior playing cowboy with your kids is only what you deserve if you continue to support this insanity.

or, if reality sets in, we admit that not only are they lying about why we went there, but they are lying about why we must stay.

the gist of what is really happening is: we want power and the "blood" of power in a backward society is still oil. oil must be sucked out of somewhere else because we cannot pull the wool over our own citizens eyes long enough to drill out our little slivers of wilderness, so iraq, you're IT!

so, we are going to stay forever, we will continue to bleed poor people to enrich the few and to hell with the godless brown people we kill while stealing everything they can make a profit off of.

if you're native american, this will sound woefully familiar.

bush/cheney/rove/feith/wolfowitz/miers/hughes/fielding/gonzales (aka the foggy bottom sludge) are only doing what is best for the Iraqi people, trust them, a few hundred years down the road, they will be vindicated.

reminds me of a bumper sticker i saw once - "Sure you can trust our government. . . just ask an Indian."

43 is a sociopath and the circle around him are enablers with their own not-so-hidden agendas, they must be stopped or we must secede from the "shadow" government and return to the rule of law.

Immigration, impeach vote and usaAttorneys

Cartoon here is reminiscent of how it must have felt for us to have the rampaging hordes invading our country a couple of hundred years ago. I understand the pain and fear of those that are so against what they perceive as a threat to them but they must see that it is not going to stop.

Vote on an msm link for impeachment here. This president is a disgrace. No other way to say it, he has proven Jimmy Carter absolutely right even though Jimmy backed off a bit. When we look back on this decade 50 years from now, we will either be already annihilated or wondering how we survived it. Go to msnbc and vote, even though it means nothing, it feels good.

Got this ex-usatty David Iglesias article from Truthout, it is the usual from him and well appreciated. It is so hard to see how any citizen comes out of this with any respect for the law. What prevents people from just plain bowing out now that it is clear that there is no real justice in this country after this scandal brings down Justice?

43 this morning & guy with the bullhorn

Sometimes watch the main stream media (msm for short) and this morning on cnn Tweety ( ) has cut to 43's presser (press conference) and some guy is heard in the background yelling about the wrongness of the Iraq occupation. Tweety, for once, did not make a snide comment and even said something about exercising first amendment rights. My fist went up and I cheered the guy on. I wish I could be standing there outside the "white" house and scream MY lungs out too.

Deep down, we want peace, I'm almost sure that. All people want a fresh, clean atmosphere to raise their kids and be part of a community. I'm possibly generalizing here but I went to a meeting of a bunch of Native Americans here in the NW and that roomful of beautiful people had the greatest time just being together and laughing even as we fought a little. Just having that community is the best feeling in the world. OR there are those who want war and could care less what kind of environment we live in because their "community" is made up of "stockholders".

BTW, I'm ready to jump from the democratic party after yesterday's vote to let 43 continue his mass murder in Iraq.

Maybe there has to be a party of Native Americans somewhere, or we have to make one happen. We can call it the Troglodyte Party after the little nickname that Jack Abramoff gave us. He called us 'moron's' too but the "Moron Party" is already in place at the "white" house.

Just Justice,

After watching the testimony of Monica Goodling earlier today, it is clear that the entire beltway is mesmerized by Turdblossom (aka KKKarl Rove). After the democrats caved on Iraq, this was supposed to be some kind of revelation, some kind of end that would give us a minute sense that something was being done with honor. Instead, there was not the final answer to who did what and how in the hell did this get SO messed up? She did not know what she was doing but she knows what she did was "right" but she may have crossed a line but since she is not qualified for what she was asked to do she gets a pass. At least Davis (D-AL) had his day, good on him.

What gets me is that the R's on the panel got only one thing right. yale and hahvaard were founded as freakin' xtian schools! He had to remind us again just how ingrained the godmyth crutch really is in ALL the major colleges in our country. Darn, I had almost forgotten the whole skull and bones thing too.

On top of that, moanica is just the tip of the corruption iceburg, there are probably thousands just like her still in the bushco "government". She was so clueless she and KKKyle could not come up with a plausible enough plan to make the firing "Plan" work much less explain how they fired perfectly fine prosecutors and replaced them with obvious hacks.

Must be tired and cynical. Hope upon hope that bush/cheney/rove/miers/hughes and now fielding & dowd are just as disturbed about this as I am.

I hope they are not sleeping either.

Justice means never having to say you remember.

Goodling is Fredora!

First of my cspan posts, so sorry if that sort of thing bores you but the whole justice area of our government (yes, NA's were citizenized, damn it.) and the corruption found within just about every department, including and of course, the BIA, is fascinating in a serial killer, forensic science kind of way. Sickening but you CANNOT look away.

For the love of all that I thought the "law" was about! The testimony in the house judiciary is stunning. She is the female gonzo. Wonder what clever alliteration will come out of that fact. Mine is Fredora, but I may reserve that one for Harriet instead.

More to come but one thing is clear--Fredo has one foot in the rowboat and the fishing rod wilts sadly. The other sad fact is that a new name for R's is "rebubliclowns". They have no reason for being there than to ask Monica for a date or through her, ask Fredo for a date. Cannot believe there is going to an R in government after this plays out.

She has convicted Fredo of perjury, of that there is no doubt. The parliamentary shenanigans reveals the level of panic that is beginning to set in among those who thought this whole thing would just go away.

Side note: Harvard and Yale stocked our courts and supremes from way back? Old news but good point, man! Just wish an R would actually ask a question but the D's are holding tough but still not tough enough.

Really, more later.

tribal & parental identity

For now, it's enough to know that the tribes that are in my blood are first nations only. Both kids are half European. They have strong opinions about that and I will let them tell it sometime in the future. Both parents are both full blood but each was of at least two tribes, my mom Flathead/Palouse(Yakama)/Nii Mii Puu and dad, Nii Mii Puu and Umatilla.

My family can be traced back to Tuekakas (Old Chief Joseph) of the Nii Mii Puu (Nez Perce) and Metatwaptes (Chief Three Feathers) of the Cayuse Band (Umatilla). Still doing research on the Flathead and Palouse bloodlines.

I have done a family tree that upon request, I may post. So far, the advice that I have gotten about blogging is that there is a level of caution you have to take in revealing too much personal information. Here is a good essay on Chief Joseph by David Buerge on the University of Washington Library Digital Collections. If my research is correct, Chief Joseph would be my great-great-great-Uncle, his father our great-great-great-great-grandfather.

This may be the last post on this particular subject as I have a genealogy site for family already running and it is mostly just interesting to family anyway.

Real name & content

Py is derived from a name that was given to me by my elders at my birth a number of years ago. It "means" Dawn or Sun Bringer. It gives the bearer an imperative to be in the moment and to smile a lot. Have posted to other blogs under Pre-Amerikkkan as well.

The content in this blog is focused on First Nations views in all times and places. There will have to be political content, because if there is nothing else that has negatively effected my people here it is the printed word in the form of the bible and the Law in the form of treaties.

Everything else will have no logic or end, and might even be circular and you may get tired of trying to find logic or some kind of organization and not find one, or not. Suggestions will be considered and implemented if it makes my job easier but mostly, we'll just be posting whatever we want, whenever we want, and in whatever form we want to.