06 February 2010

What Colour Is Your Teapot...?

Well, it was just a matter of time before the Wasichu made it's appearance, enit? How dare us, People of Colour, go to the polls and vote one of our own into office?

--ryan




White Racial Resentment Bubbles Under the Surface of the Tea Party Movement
The simmering movement is the whitest phenomenon on the national scene, evident not just in its Caucasian numbers but in the bedrock beliefs stirring its anti-government contempt.

Editor's Note: Rich Benjamin's commentary on the underlying "white grievance" currents in the Tea Party movement were buttressed Thursday by the statements of Republican Tom Tancredo, the opening speaker at the Tea Party convention. Tancredo told attendees that President Barack Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country," an allusion to how Southern states used literacy tests as part of an effort to deny suffrage to African American voters before the civil rights era.

Quote of the Day...

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity..."

--Robrt J. Hanlon

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05 February 2010

Shift Happens...

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James Ray Goes To Jail!

I wonder how long Mr. Ray will manage to last in a Southwestern jail before he ends up having a close up and person chat about his future with some fine NDN citizens...?



CAMP VERDE - James Arthur Ray returned to the Verde Valley this week to face charges in the deaths of three participants in his October "Spiritual Warrior" retreat. Ray is known as a self-help guru who espouses principles of financial wealth and freedom.

04 February 2010

Jahrzeit...




One year ago yesterday, my younger brother David Brian Waldon was found dead in his Hollywood apartment. He had died suddenly, and quite unexpectedly, from a ruptured aortic aneurysm on Groundhog Day. He was 39 years-old and a 19 year liver transplant survivor. David was an journalist, entertainment critic and an internationally published author. He was an amazingly intelligent and talented individual, a real modern day Renaissance Man.

David was a kind and giving person, generous beyond measure, both materially and spiritually. He went out of his way to help his fellow journalists, especially those who were just starting their careers.
David was well-known for his optimism as epitomized by his motto “Half-Full!” --as in the glass is always half-full.

If the quality of a person's friends is the truest measure of their character, then David was a real Mensch.

His many friends are among the most caring, devoted and giving people I've ever had the pleasure to meet. When my mother, my wife and I had to make the long painful journey to Los Angeles last February to arrange David's affairs, we were met at LAX by a brigade of his friends. They provided us with food, transportation, moral support and more. They opened their homes and their Hearts to us. My mother and I had often worried about the possibility that David was socially isolated in California, because he had no family nearby. We couldn't have been further from the truth. David had an extended “family” in Los Angeles, Altadena and Santa Monica. Without these wonderful people, I can't imagine trying to get through the situation we were facing as well as we did. I am forever thankful for their help and love.

David's passing has left a huge void in the lives of our parents, his many friends and myself. My mother and I have both, at various times, fought depression and despair. I have dealt with feelings of guilt and suicidal ideation. I can still remember the dread-shock of the moment when I received that fateful phone call from my mother. It's been a long, hard journey.

Despite the pain of the loss, we are all better people for having known L.A. Dave.

I've away from my blog for too long now, David would surely give me hell for slacking-off. If he were here, he would tell me to "move along, nothing to see here!" Life is fleeting and I must heed the words of the poem:

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.


Godspeed Little Brother, I'll see you on the Other Side...

--ryan

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