West, Texas: Why @MattDavies Cartoon Sucks More Than the Last Cartoon

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Cowardice.

@MattDavies 

Another a tasteless cartoon about the tragedy in West, Texas. You can visit my last post regarding what I believe in terms of freedom of expression. 

This cartoon is just as bad in terms of its depictions as the cartoon by Jack Ohman of the newspaper Sacramento Bee. In Ohman's case, we get it: California hates Texas. Fine. But I pose the same question to Davies as I did Ohman: Some deaths are more eligible to be mocked than other deaths, such as those in the Boston bombings?

But Cartoonist Matt Davies's cartoon is worse because it's the proverbial salt in the wound. This cartoon is syndicated. So a good number of  well-known nation-wide liberal rags have likely run it. AFTER the Ohman cartoon was run. AFTER the memorial services have been held. That's what makes it worse: the timing on this tasteless piece of work is beyond insensitive.

Fifteen people are dead, Mr. Davies, five of them brave firefighters who ran into the disaster, not out of it. Over 200 people were injured. Families are changed forever, jobs lost, children father or motherless. What purpose does this serve? 

More regulations do not make accidents go away. Blaming our Governor is, quite frankly, doltish and immature. And the cartoon is an act of cowardice. 

West, Texas is not an affluent city. People there live below the poverty level. Aren't the liberals the ones who are supposed to be for these kinds of people? Maybe I'm being too presumptuous to include Mr. Davies, a Londoner now living in the United States, as a liberal. But I doubt it.

No matter in the long run. Texans help Texans in tragedies like this, where politics and idiotic cartoons don't get in the way of providing a leg up.

God Bless Texas.

An Open Letter to The Sacramento Bee @SacBee_News

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Ugly.

To the Editor and Publisher,

Two days ago you published a cartoon depicting Governor Perry and the State of Texas as being culpable for the tragic explosion that resulted in 15 deaths and more than 200 injuries on April 17th at the fertilizer plant in West, just outside of Waco.


As a libertarian, I actually embrace the individual artist's First Amendment Right to depict the tragedy into a grotesque image.  As an artist, I recognize and encourage free expression coming from an individual artist's mind, heart, and/or soul. 

But as an ethical human being, I would question the intent behind the publication of this the cartoon. The Sacramento Bee is (a  McClatchy Company Newspaper), the 27th largest newspaper publication in the country. And it has a website that is visible to the entire world.

What message does this cartoon send to all of your subscribers? To anyone who sees it on the internet? Have you published a cartoon about the Boston bombings? Is Governor Deval Patrick culpable for the 3 deaths and horrific injuries of over 200 people? By publishing this cartoon did you give any thought at all to the victims and families of the disaster in West? Any thought to how many lives this tragedy, just like Boston, have been affected forever?

Or is it just that deaths and injuries in a prosperous, primarily Conservative and Christian state are less equal than the deaths in, say, a Liberal, largely agnostic state?

In the First Amendment there is also the right to free association. I would not associate with the Sacramento Bee. 

The logic behind publication of this cartoon is lacking. You published this cartoon to punish, with most ignorant intent. Somehow, Governor Perry and the State of Texas is to blame because of "lack of regulation." 

image courtesy of Twitchy.com

Guess what, California? It's not against the law to make mistakes, have accidents, or even to  be stupid in the Lone Star State. 

So Cali, how are massive amounts of regulation working out for you?

I lived in California the first three decades of my life. I've lived the past decade in Texas, which I call my true home state.

Mnemosyne

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Amazing band, beautiful song, beautiful sound. Enjoy.

Mnemosyne (1881)by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
a Pre-Raphaelite interpretation
of the Greek goddess of Memory
 

AMNESIA 
by Dead Can Dance
On remembrance day
Lest we forget the lesson
Enshrined in funeral clay
History is never written
By those who've lost
The defeated must bear witness to
Our collective memory loss

With every generation comes
Another memory lapse
See the demonstrations of
Failing to learn from our past
We live in the dreamtime
Nothing seems to last
Can you really plan a future
When you no longer have a past

Memories fall from the trees
Amnesia
Memories like autumn leaves

If we are subject to
Empirical minds
I wonder what lies beyond
Our memory's confines
If memory is the true
Sum of who we are
May your children know the truth
And shine like the brightest star

Memories help me see
Amnesia
Memories set me free

All my love and all my kisses
Sweet Mnemosyne
All my love and all my kisses
Sweet Mnemosyne
Sweet Mnemosyne

Ready for The New America?The State Department & The Media ElitesHave It All On Your Screen

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Something huge and scary has prompted me to finally return to writing again. In other words, this is too big for just posting on twitter. 

I was told by Conservatarian (@wilkow1), a military veteran, today that he learned of an atrocious (Progressive) narrative targeting Conservative Military Veterans, deeming them Right Wing Extremists, and that this Prog plan is being funded by the State Department.  Your tax dollars at work, again, America! Conservatarian's words today:

"OK..Pay Attention! I'm posting this story, written by David Sterman. David Sterman is on the National Security Advisory Team at NewAmerica.net. New America is a George Soros funded entity that focuses on changing public policy to impact our traditions and values. They have a propensity for damning what they call 'Right Wing' extremists (Like Me). This story is aimed at Right Wing Extremist Veterans as being more of a threat to the country than Muslim Jihadist Extremists. When I dug into who funds this type of manufactured lies about military Vets, I found more than Just Soros. Also listed as funding them: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, Microsoft, The FORD Foundation, Theresa Kerry, and THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE." 

Um, conflicts of interest much? He continues:

"Yes, The State Department, headed by John 'effing' Kerry; and before him, Hillary Clinton. SO, The State Department is funding an organization that points fingers at ME and my fellow Veterans, and labels us right wing domestic terrorists. And this New America National Security Team is supplying the National Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security with their 'Advice'. If any of you believe ANY of this, or sympathize with them? Don't ever ask me for any kind of assistance again. This makes Me SICK."

While I am not a veteran of any kind other than parenting, I have a passion for supporting all things American Soldier. Naturally, I wanted to know where I could find evidence of this plan, which I immediately determined was truth because the Federal Government has become a ten-thousand headed hydra that is completely out of control. I could only find one article, published by The Atlantic on April 24th.

The article says this: "Right-wing extremists are more likely than violent Islamist extremists--or, as they are sometimes called, jihadists--to have military experience. They are also better armed, and are responsible for more incidents. The past two decades have seen multiple attacks from right-wing extremist veterans..."

This is already news, since the article was published yesterday. However, the website NewAmerica.net is new news, at least to me anyway. Navigating around the site led me to discover that there is a "National Security Advisory Board" at NewAmerica. It can be viewed HERE. More on that in another post.

George Soros's Empire makes cookie-cutter websites. I recognize them immediately, as I have done research on it in the past. NewAmerica.net is no exception. I will prove Soros is behind it in a later post.

For this post, I want to expose what I found.

Let's zoom in a bit:

Conveniently captioned in white on white, what that says is, "What we can learn by comparing how the Tsarnevs' stories corrolate with those of terrorists living in the West."

Wait. What?

How odd. When we click on the area as highlight above, we get THIS.

On the sites homepage, there are links for navigation around the website. Immediate red flag:

There is an additional menu on a corresponding side bar, to navigate to specific topics. Since "Open Zion" made my skin crawl. I am an Evangelical Christian, and I take Genesis 12:3 very seriously. Look what clicking on the "Open Zion" link took me to:

The Daily Beast? That's weird. Why is The Daily Beast promoting "A new conversation about Israel, Palestine, and the Jewish Future." The Jewish future? What about the "Palestinian" future? The article is titled "What Response to Different Tragedies Teach Us About Ourselves."

I haven't read the article yet. That will be covered in my next post. 

The larger picture I wanted to point out requires connecting a few dots: Isolate Conservative Veterans, A story about the Boston bombings, The Atlantic article, and a website called "New America" with links to both the State Department and The "Mainstream" Media. 

I have a whole lot more to explore with this. None of it spells out anything good.

Please stay tuned to my future posts. We're chasing evil here, and it must be exposed and stopped.