"Blessed are you who are poor..."

"There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land."~ Deuteronomy 15:11 ~

Since we are so close to Easter I am going to go ahead drop a religious post on you. And no, I am not going to blog about the Pope's issues. I don't want to offend my Catholic friends out there. (Not to mention a certain Catholic wife)

I come to praise religion tonight, not to trash it. Especially now that I see some religious leaders are calling for a boycott of a certain nut job who has managed to make himself relevant in the A-merry-can body politic.

"Last week, the conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck called on Christians to leave their churches if they heard any preaching about social or economic justice because, he claimed, those were slogans affiliated with Nazism and Communism.
This week, the Rev. Jim Wallis, a liberal evangelical leader in Washington, D.C., called on Christians to leave Glenn Beck.

“What he has said attacks the very heart of our Christian faith, and Christians should no longer watch his show,” Mr. Wallis, who heads the antipoverty group Sojourners, wrote on his “God’s Politics” blog. “His show should now be in the same category as Howard Stern.”
Mr. Beck, in vilifying churches that promote “social justice,” managed to insult just about every mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, African-American, Hispanic and Asian congregation in the country — not to mention plenty of evangelical ones.

Even Mormon scholars in Mr. Beck’s own church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said in interviews that Mr. Beck seemed ignorant of just how central social justice teaching was to Mormonism. " [Story]

Oh my, what are all those god fearing wingnuts going to do? I think that old song, "torn between two lovers" would be appropriate right about now. Well, better late than never I guess. The thing is, if you let a crazy man loose on the radio and on television every day, at some point he will snap and the craziness will come out. But I worry about all his followers. (Including the ones who are regulars on this blog.) How can you follow a man who asks you to leave your church if it is about social and economic justice? Isn't that what theology is all about? Wasn't the life of a certain man who walked around with long hair and sandals back in the day about the "values of compassion mercy, forgiveness, and reconciliation."? I mean doesn't damn near every religion teach about empathy for your fellow man and compassion for the lessor among us?


So what new kind of religion is this guy teaching? It looks like the religion of every man for himself to me.

“I beg you, look for the words ’social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words."

"Code words" for what? Oh yeah, the evil bogeyman, Barack Obama's Socialist plot to take over A-merry-ca. What a loon. And the sad thing is that millions of people hang on to this guy's every word.

And before you tell me that Glenn Beck and his ilk aren't dangerous, remember what is happening in Texas right now. Trust me, that is the tip of the iceberg. There will be more of this kind of thing to come. Just remember; it's happened before.

How do they do it?

I got an e-mail the other day (h/t to Deborah Lyn) with an article that broke my heart.

I know that these are tough times economically. And, that everyone is suffering here in A-merry-ca. But in the wealthiest country on earth there is no way in hell that any segment of our population should have a median wealth of five dollars. That was not a typo; I wrote FIVE DOLLARS.

"Women of all races bring home less income and own fewer assets, on average, than men of the same race, but for single black women the disparities are so overwhelmingly great that even in their prime working years their median wealth amounts to only $5.

In a groundbreaking report released Monday by a leading economic research group, social scientists turned a spotlight on the grave financial challenges facing an often overlooked group of women, many of whom could not take an unpaid sick day or repair a major appliance without going into debt.

"It's rather shocking," said Meizhu Lui, director of the Closing the Gap Initiative based in Oakland, Calif., who contributed to the report "Lifting as We Climb: Women of Color, Wealth and America's Future."

Racial disparities in net worth
Among the most startling revelations in the wealth data is that while single white women in the prime of their working years (ages 36 to 49) have a median wealth of $42,600 (still only 61 percent of their single white male counterparts), the median wealth for single black women is only $5. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041225-84.stm"

This is sad, because many of these women are at home trying to hold it down while some of us brothers are out...well, doing what some brothers do. Honestly folks, if we are ever going to get serious about building as a community, stats like the one you just read are going to have to be turned around.

FIVE DOLLARS? Oh well, hold your head up my sisters. What's that saying?" The night is darkest before the dawn".

Ward, that is not June.

I guess we have to add white women to the list of people that the TSA people will be giving the fuzzy eyeball this summer. What is the world coming to? You can't even tell your garden variety terrorist from your neighbor anymore. Great. And here I thought that it was only Arab men (and the occasional Negro) that I had to keep my eyes on when I got on the plane. Now I have to be worried about soccer mom in the aisle seat as well.

Then, to make matters worse, Jihad Jane (I love that name) was right here in my back yard, and the feds didn't even warn a brotha. What if her al-Qaeda friends decided to break her out of the federal detention center and blow up a few city blocks while I was on my lunch break? Not cool Uncle Sam, not cool.

Colleen LaRose literally lived on Main Street in a very Norman Rockwellesque[made up word] area outside of Philly. - "Bye bye American pie". - And she is being accused of doing some crazy things online in the name of Jihad. Thankfully,- contrary to what the wingnuts would have you believe- his O ness and his peeps are fighting terrorism and catching the bad guys, one soccer mom at a time.

Speaking of wingnuts; I love what Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Films people are doing with Glenn Beck. It's always good to use a little satire to expose craziness. Lord knows nothing else is working here in the land of the free.

Barbie, Dan, Eric, and Rahm.

WTF is going on in A-merry-ca? Are you telling me that even if you are a black doll you can't get equal treatment with your white counterpart? Barbie, if you need a good civil- rights lawyer, call me, I can refer you to somebody. Wal-Mart knows they are wrong for that. Shame on you Wal-Mart!

But I am not going to stress about Black Barbie tonight. There is too much other stuff going on.

For instance, I see that folks have caught yet another old white guy in a racial faux pas. This time it's the venerable television journalist, Dan Rather:

" Rather spoke about how he feels Republicans will regard Democrats, especially Obama, in the fall election.Rather said the GOP would say, 'Listen, he's a nice person, he's very articulate. This is what's going to be used against him. But, he [President Obama] couldn't sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic."'

OUCH! Dan I think it's the watermelon part that got you in trouble. You know the stereotypes about us Negroes and watermelon. But I am not mad at you, so don't bother to call Rev. Al. I see what you were saying. Actually, you didn't go far enough. The republican's narrative has been, and will continue to be, more racially charged and insensitive. So relax. They will feign outrage and demand that we are as hard on you as we would be on the Glen Becks of the world, but it ain't happening. Why? Because we know that when they are alone with each other, the shit they say is a lot worse.

And finally, I have to talk about this Eric Massa ( I swear you can't make this up. The guys name is Massa) character. So he says Rahm Emanuel- all 5 feet of him- stepped to him in the shower and started poking him in the chest. (Eric, are you sure that was his finger?) Seems he ticked off old Rahm because he wasn't acting like a loyal dumbocratic soldier. And, apparently, Rahm doesn't like the guy too much.

"He added that Emanuel confronted him in a shower once over his opposition to one of Obama's budget proposals. "I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me,...

...When I voted against the cap and trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff to the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983," Massa said. "And I gave it right back to him, in terms and words that I know are physically impossible."

"Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn," Massa said. "He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive."

Yep, no love lost between Rahm and my man Eric. But why come out about Rahm now Mr. Massa? Could it have anythng to do with the ethics violation swirling over your head? Oh field, the man is battling cancer, that's why he is resigning. Battling cancer? Or his sexuality?

"Later in the day, Massa released a statement saying that after discovering he had a recurrence of cancer, he learned he was the subject of an ethics complaint by a male staffer who felt "uncomfortable" during an exchange with Massa. The exchange reportedly had sexual overtones. "

So why is he really leaving public office? Cancer? The Chicago style politics of the Obama crew? Or, because of more stories to come from this ethics violation hanging over his head?

My man has already been embraced by some on the right (He was on Glen Beck's show tonight.) because they sense an opening to go after his O ness and his boyz. I wish them luck with Eric. But I am sure he will turn on them as well. Here is hoping that he doesn't tell us that Glen Beck confronted him naked in the shower. That imagery would prevent me from holding down my food for days.

LET'S ALL PLAY FAIR.

Some of you Negroes really need to get a clue. Look, I am all for creating a level playing field, and no one despises discrimination-of any kind- like moi. But there are certain things that you just don't -allegedly- do, even if you mean well.

Take the case of Captain Troy K. Gore of the Philadelphia Fire Department. [Capt. Gore is not *shown in the pic with this post] It seems that Captain Gore sent out an e-mail to the leadership of an African American fire fighting organization, and, in it, he allegedly was plotting to get minorities hired by doctoring the "city's computerized application process." No thanks Captain Gore. This is not how we create a level playing field; by-allegedly- cheating. This is what was done to us in the past to insure that we didn't get a fair shot. Now that laws are in place to give us a fair shot, we have to work our butts off to pass the written and physical tests.

"Gore said he had rescinded his e-mail minutes after he sent it and sent a follow-up message: "This is a bad idea. Forget I sent it and be blessed. Just trying to get people hired."
In an interview, Gore said: "It was just a thought that came to my head. It wasn't something I ever intended on doing."

Valiants president Kenneth W. Greene Sr. provided a copy of the e-mail to The Inquirer along with a statement rejecting its contents.

"We regret the need to issue this statement, but find the suggestions made in the e-mail to be most unfortunate, and feel that we must disassociate our organization, in the strongest possible terms, from any possible suggestion that the conduct proposed in the e-mail is acceptable," read the statement, released Friday.
Deputy Mayor Everett Gillison on Friday called the e-mail "highly inappropriate" and asked Ayers to look into it. Gillison and Ayers said they had not seen the e-mail before The Inquirer provided a copy.

"I look at this as serious, and we're going to continue to investigate," Ayers said. "We're going to find out exactly what happened here."'

Here is hoping that this is not the tip of a very large iceberg. If it is, some very good men could have their stellar careers in the department now viewed with a jaundiced eye. That would be sad. Because the last thing that we need in post racial A-merry-ca, is something that gives those folks who want to take us backwards a reason to gloat. [Story]

And now for a positive uplifting story: (No, not a Lark sighting.) I have to give a BIG SHOUT OUT to the wonderful and inspirational young men of Urban Prep-, which is an all male African American school in Chicago. Every single one of the 107 young men graduating have been accepted to college. EVERY SINGLE ONE! Damn it feels good to write that. I guess all of the young men in our inner cities aren't "street pirates", as some people just love to point out.

Young men, that is serious field Negro behavior.

Thanks for the story Barbara!

Take a bow Liz.

On this the night of the Academy Awards, let us take the time to honor the best supporting actress in a political drama, shall we? If only our friend Joe McCarthy was around to give out the award.

"As ThinkProgress has noted, Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol’s Keep America Safe organization released a web ad on Monday targeting yet-to-be named Justice Department lawyers who had worked on Guantanamo detainee issues as the “al Qaeda 7.” “Whose values do they share?” asked the ad over an image of seven silhouettes juxtaposed with images of Arabic men. When Politico’s Ben Smith first reported on the attack ad, he noted that it “questions the loyalties of Justice Department lawyers.”

But in an interview today on the Washington Times’ “America’s Morning News” radio show, Cheney denied that the ad questioned “anybody’s loyalty”:

HOLMES: Liz, good morning. So you released a fairly provocative ad, I have to say. And you ask the question “whose values” [does] Eric Holder share? In your view, whose values does he share?

CHENEY: Well, what the ad does — and actually it doesn’t question anybody’s loyalty. What the ad does is it says that there are nine lawyers in the Justice Department who used to represent al Qaeda terrorists and the Attorney General will only tell us who two of them are and we want the American people to have the right to know who the others are.

Guest host Amy Holmes continued to press Cheney on the point, repeating her question. “But your ad does raise the question ‘whose values’ does Eric Holder share. Who would you say?” Cheney dodged the question, stating that she thinks Holder “believes that you can defeat terror, you can win this war we’re engaged in by treating terrorism like law enforcement.” Listen here:

Cheney is simply lying. Not only does the ad suggest that the lawyers might “share” the “values” of al Qaeda, but it also flashes an image of a headline from the far right Investor’s Business Daily asking if the Justice Department was the “Department of Jihad?” “Just whose side are they on?” asked the editorial.

When Politico’s Smith first reported on the ad, Keep America Safe spokesman Michael Goldfarb gave him a quote that essentially accused the lawyers of treason, saying that they “did far more than represent criminals.” “They have propagandized on behalf of our enemies, engaging in a worldwide smear campaign against the CIA, the U.S. military and the United States itself while we are at war,” said Goldfarb. On Tuesday, Keep America Safe released a fundraising letter in Cheney’s name that used the exact same language:

Former Bush administration officials have pushed back against the ad. “While it’s legitimate for the public to inquire about the past work of DOJ political appointees, we need to recognize that our judicial system cannot function without pro bono counsel, and it doesn’t make a lawyer less patriotic just because he or she has represented a criminal or terrorist suspect,” former U.S. attorney and homeland security adviser Kenneth Wainstein told the Washington Post. “It’s beyond a cheap shot to suggest that a lawyer is an al-Qaeda sympathizer because he advocates a detainee’s position in the Supreme Court,” said former Bush White House lawyer Reginald Brown." [Story] [More]

Yes, the Oscar should go to Liz Cheney; for her wonderful supporting role of the conservative movement. Or, maybe not; since she isn't acting.

Oh, and for more information about those evil terrorist, the al Qaeda 7, go to this link.

YOU DON'T ALWAYS GET JUSTICE IN THE LAND OF THE JUST.

I am not sure why, but I don't think I will want to see his O ness on AMW. O man, stay away from FOX and crime shows. That's where they want you. I know John Walsh does great work, but I am not feeling you having a sit down with him. Let Eric Holder go and talk to him, you have more important things to do.

And speaking of crime, I think the following story is important. I have featured this story before, and other bloggers have blogged about it. But it's important that we keep shedding light on the curious interpretation of justice by some people here in A-merry-ca.

"Jamie and Gladys Scott
Even amidst this kind of rhetoric, it would be difficult to see the Scott sisters as dangerous or violent offenders, although the state of Mississippi went to great lengths to depict them as such. On Christmas Eve of 1993, Jamie and Gladys, then 22 and 19, were both young mothers with no criminal records. They were at the local mini-mart buying heating fuel when they ran into two young men they knew, who offered to give them a ride. Sometime later that evening, the two young men were robbed by a group of three boys, ages 14 to 18, who arrived in another car, armed with a shotgun.

Jamie and Gladys say that they had already left the scene to walk home when the robbery took place, and had nothing to do with it. The state insisted they were an integral part of the crime, and in fact had set up the victims to be robbed. Wherever the truth lies, trial transcripts clearly reveal a the case based on the highly questionable testimony of two of the teenaged co-defendants–who had turned state’s evidence against the Scott sisters in return for eight-year sentences—and a prosecutor who appears determined to demonize the two young women.

Jamie and Gladys Scott were not initially arrested for the crime. But ten months later, the 14-year-old co-defendant–who had been in jail on remand during that time–signed a statement implicating them. When questioned by the Scotts’ attorney, the boy confirmed that he had been “told that before you would be allowed to plead guilty” to a lesser charge, “you would have to testify against Jamie Scott and Gladys Scott.” The boy also testified that he had neither written nor read the statement before signing it. It had been written for him by someone at the county sheriff’s office, he said, and he “didn’t know what it was.” But he had been told that if he signed it “they would let me out of jail the next morning, and that if I didn’t participate with them, that they would send me to Parchman [state penitentiary] and make me out a female”—which he took to mean he would be raped. The 18-year-old co-defendant who testified against the Scott sisters also said he was testifying against the Scotts as a condition of his guilty plea to a lesser charge.

But the prosecutor succeeded in depicting Jamie and Gladys Scott not only as participants in the crime robbery, but as its masterminds—two older women who had lured three impressionable boys into the robbing the victims at gunpoint. (This despite the fact that the oldest of the co-defendants was just a year younger than Gladys, and was driving around with a shotgun in his car.) In his summation, he told the jury: They thought it up. They came up with the plan. They duped three young teenage boys into going along and doing something stupid that is going to cost them the next eight years of their lives in the penitentiary.

That probably makes me, at least, as mad about this case, simply at least as much, as the fact that two people got robbed. That three young boys were duped into doing the dirty work.
The prosecutor also reminded jurors that while Jamie and Gladys Scott admittedly did not have a weapon, the judge’s instructions “tell you that if they encourage someone else or counsel them or aid them in any way in committing this robbery they are equally guilty.”

It took the jury just 36 minutes to convict the Scott sisters. And while there was a range of possible sentences for the crime of armed robbery, the state asked for—and received—two consecutive life sentences for the Scott sisters. In contrast, Edgar Ray Killen, the man convicted in 2005 of manslaughter in the 1964 deaths of civil rights workers Schwerner, Cheney, and Goodman, received a sentence of 60 years–meted out by the same judge who presided over the trial of Jamie and Gladys Scott. A direct appeal, carried out by the same lawyers who defended them at trial, failed to overturn the Scotts’ conviction.

Because they were tried for a crime committed before October 1994, when even harsher sentencing rules were put in place in Mississippi, the Scott sisters will be eligible for parole in 2014, after they have served 20 years—though there is no guarantee they will receive it. In the meantime, Evelyn Rasco is praying for mercy, for a good lawyer—and for her daughter Jamie to live that long." [h/t to Nancy Lockhart for this story]

Hey, if they can put someone away for-at the very least- 20 years of their life for a robbery of $11 worth of goods, maybe it's the people who make the laws in Mississippi who should be on America's Most Wanted.

NICE TRY!

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” ~ Shakespeare!

You go that right, Bill. And I believe you because of the latest from my god fearing friends on the right.

Seems that there is a new campaign going on to get black women not to have abortions. Why? Because abortions are part of a racist plot to exterminate black people.Yep. All those poor single mothers who decided that they weren't going to bring a child into the world, because, oh, I don't know; they wanted to maybe make something of themselves, are being tricked by pro-choice racist.

I swear the anti choice folks will do anything to get their way. I wonder where these people were when black folks -who were actually fully developed humans- were being killed in this country, for no other reason than the fact that they were black?

Field, did you know that the founder of planned parenthood "was founded by a woman who was a leading proponent of eugenics"? Yes, and I also know that Henry Ford hated Jews. But that doesn't mean that all those anti choice folks who drive Fords hate Jews.

Then there is this latest slave catcher, Catherine Davis, who makes the following comments with a straight face:

"The abortion industry is targeting the black woman," she said. "There is no lynch mob wearing white sheets and hoods. What they've done is take off the hoods and put on suits and say: let's go and kill the black people. It's cloaked itself by talking about choice. But the industry has targeted the black community. If people were put on the endangered species list then certainly black children would be there because more are aborted than at any time in history."

Davis also shows a film,

Maafa 21, made by a Texan anti-abortion group that alleges the white elite has used terminations since the abolition of slavery as a means of containing black population growth

"Targeting the black woman"? Ms. Davis (and this comment is going to piss off some of you) I submit to you that the pro choice industry is not targeting under served communities enough. If I see one more poor black single mother at the bus stop with three or four kids and not a man in sight, I will scream. What we need is more pro active sex education in schools. (Where is Joycelyn Elders when you need her?) We also need more counseling for these young girls out here who think that having a baby is like having a f*&^%$g doll. And, getting in the face of some of these young boys who think that raising a child is some sort of joke.

But field, what do you do after the horse leaves the barn? Well, it depends on how far out of the barn the horse is. If he only stuck his tail out of the barn and you cut it off, you cut a tail, not a horse. (That was a weired analogy, but hey, it's late, it's the best I can do right now.)

I love these anti choice people ranting about abortions when they know damn good and well that if mommy brings the child into the world, they are the ones who are going to fight the hardest to make sure that he or she isn't playing on an equal playing field. Talk about irony. This isn't only about abortions this is about a woman's right to reproductive freedom. I don't care if a woman is black, white, purple, brown, rich, or poor; she should have the right to do what she wants to do with her own damn body. And I submit to you that if she does not think that she can raise a child she should NOT have one. Period.

"It is a message that plays well in parts of a community that remains suspicious of the intent of parts of the white establishment, including the medical industry, after revelations of experiments on black people as well as the second rate care they sometimes received in the past.

Other black leaders are backing the emotive message. Johnny Hunter, an African-American pastor and president of the Life Education and Resource Network, a Christian coalition, told a rally in Georgia last month that opposition to abortion is the new civil rights struggle.

"The civil rights activists did not fight to make lynching safe, legal, and rare. They ended it. We must fight to end the ugliest form of racism: abortion," he said. "More black children die every four days from abortion than the Ku Klux Klan killed in 144 years … All the civil rights gained in education, voting and equal job opportunities mean nothing to a dead black child."

Johnny, what does it mean to a child who is alive but wishes they were dead?

BUSTED!

Like we didn't know it all along. Seems the folks over at the RNC have been organizing a fear campaign to paint his O ness as a Socialist. (As if that's a bad thing.) Nice folks those republicans. Instead of trying to come up with ideas to make our country better, they are trying to find ways to take back power from the beige man in the people's house.

"National GOP leaders are doing damage control today after a Politico scoop lifted the curtain on the party's plan to tap voters' "fear" in the coming campaign season. The PR problem started when an absent-minded attendee at the Republican National Committee (RNC) confab on February 18 in Boca Grande, Florida, left a 72-page document from its 2010 strategizing session in a hotel room. Today, Politico reporter Ben Smith's expose is making headlines.
The memo tracks the fundraising presentation that RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart delivered to the RNC's $2,500-a-head annual retreat. The best path to victory in 2010, the document advises, is for Republican candidates to depict themselves as the best hope for resisting the "trending toward socialism" taking shape in a Democrat-dominated Washington.
And the document doesn't shy from making its points graphically. MSNBC showed the images this morning on "Morning Joe":"

[That's the image you are seeing with this post]

Hip Hop Mike sure knows how to disappoint a brother. Just when I was starting to think that there might be hope for him- not to mention trying to talk other Negroes out of calling the "Drop Squad" on his ass- he pulls a stunt like this. Shame!

Oh well, I guess his O ness wasn't being paranoid when he said that the rethugs are trying to scare the A-merry-can people by calling him a Socialist and a Manchurian president. O Man, for every little doubt I had about how nefarious these people truly are; let me be the first to say that I am sorry.

"Niggers" on plantations can't teach.

There are times when that little "N" word can get us in all kinds of trouble. My good friend Brown Dartanyan got me to dig out my racism track shoes when he sent me the following story from down the road in Maryland:

"Towson University promptly fired an adjunct art professor after he characterized himself as "a nigger on the corporate plantation" in a classroom discussion last week.

Allen Zaruba, a professional artist who has taught at Towson for 12 years, used the racially charged term to describe his employment rights as an adjunct professor during a broader discussion of representations of power in contemporary art. A student reported him to the provost's office after the lecture, delivered on Monday, February 22, and that Thursday, the art department's interim chairman, Stuart Stein, told him over the telephone he had been dismissed.

In an interview on Tuesday, Mr. Zaruba said he deeply regretted using the phrase as soon as he had uttered it, and had apologized to his students when their class met last Wednesday. At the same time, however, he also said the university's decision to dismiss him without a formal hearing illustrated the broader point he was trying to make, about his status as someone who has few workplace rights and can easily be fired.

"I just finished talking to a lawyer," he said. "I have no ability to appeal anything." [Story]

Yes Allen, I am not sure how much rights you have as an adjunct prof. That's why some folks will literally kill for tenure.

"A nigger on a plantation" huh? Hey, I feel you Allen, I think quite a few of us in A-merry-ca are feeling like "A nigger on a plantation" these days. But we don't just go telling that to a class full of students; even if they are in college.

But you know what I like about Allen? He regretted using the phrase as soon as he "uttered" it....As opposed to when, Allen? As soon as you thought it? Let me stop.

I am going to surprise some of you: If old Allen is a good teacher and his students (black and white ) want him to stay; I say let him stay.

Hey, it's not like lots of people we encounter in the majority population -present company excluded of course- every day don't have that word right at the tip of their tongues. (Watch FOX NEWS one evening between 5-10) So Allen slipped, it happens every now and then.

And let me preempt all the e-mails and comments I will get from the you say it so why can't we crowd right now. Yes, we say it among each other, but no, you cannot. Well, you can say it among yourselves, just don't say it in public; or, god forbid, around us.

Good luck Allen, I hope you land on your feet. Maybe FOX NEWS can use an in- house artist.

Alvin Robertson and Dr. Seuss.

What the hell is wrong with you people in New Jersey? First you throw your infants over bridges and now you leave them abandoned on top of freezing cars? You people are sick, sick I tell you.

But you are not alone. Here in Philly we caught the two scumbags who robbed that jewelry store and left their four year old child behind to make their escape. The beautiful irony in all of this is that it was the child who led the police to his sicko parents.

And speaking of sickos; it looks like the body of that missing teen out in Cali has been found (Hmmm, still no sign of Mitrice Richardson? ) and a registered sex offender has been arrested. He joins former NBA all star, Alvin Robertson, on the recently arrested sex offender's list. Robertson was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting and participating in the sexual trafficking of a 14 year old girl. If true, he should go under the jail with the rest of the scumbags in our society. Being a former NBA baller doesn't get him a pass.

This is all so sad. People who have been charged to protect the least among us and the fairer sex, acting in ways (allegedly) that is contrary to what is expected of civilized human beings.

It's getting old.

Finally, shout out to Dr. Seuss! I have mad love for the good doc and his creations. And, apparently, the first lady loves him as well.

"First lady Michelle Obama celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday Tuesday by reading "The Cat in the Hat" to a group of children wearing red-and-white-striped stovepipe hats like the book's main character's."

I can just hear Michelle reading now:

"That Sam-I-am That Sam-I-am!I do not like that Sam-I-am Do you like green eggs and ham I do not like them, Sam-I-am.I do not like green eggs and ham.Would you like them Here or there?I would not like them here or there.I would not like them anywhere.I do not like green eggs and ham.I do not like them, Sam-I-am"

Now that's classic!

I bet they don't have sex offenders in Seusville.