My Family Makes the Addams Family Look Like the Cleavers

When I was a kid, I lived in that golden age of Camelot.  Actu­ally the warm and fuzzy glow of its after­math, just as it was get­ting mean.  I was born in the Sum­mer of Love (1967 right before RFK and MLK got shot and Amer­ica began to turn mean and paranoid).

Or at least more so, on the edge of a promise never fully realized.

And the War, that would be Viet­nam, Megan McCain, I know you weren’t born yet, took another turn for the worse.  But I remem­ber how dis­traught my par­ents still were over the shoot­ings of JFK, RFK and MLK (and the rea­son the links I have included here for their assas­si­na­tions are for the rea­son that my par­ents, like I do, never believed, given Joe Kennedy’s close asso­ci­a­tion with the Mob and CIA, plus Hoover, that these assas­si­na­tions were what they were claimed to be.  This is not as an unlikely sce­nario as one would have believed, con­sid­er­ing Obama’s about face in the after­math of the elec­tion and his reluc­tance to pros­e­cute the CIA, with NO PROTEST FROM KENNEDY.

How­ever naive this may sound in today’s Amer­ica, I was brought up to believe that equal­ity in reli­gion and gen­der, race and dis­abil­ity or able bod­ied was a given, and that dis­crim­i­na­tion, as much as my mutt of a reli­gious upbring­ing makes me, was the great­est sin of all, short of mur­der and mass genocide.

I was taught the Con­sti­tu­tion was a flawed doc­u­ment that could be made bet­ter, like amend­ments that made the slaves free and gave women the right to vote.  Born three years after the Civil Rights act of 1964, oth­er­wise known as Title VII, and raised by a South­ern mother who told me one too many sto­ries of seg­re­gated school busses going the other way to crappy and unequal schools, and watch­ing kids drink from dirty drink­ing foun­tains, and live in hor­rific con­di­tions and work and live in hor­rific lives, and watch­ing U.S. cor­po­ra­tions pour chem­i­cals into the air, water and even the food we eat, made me a com­mit­ted and life long envi­ron­men­tal­ist.  And that vio­lence was hor­rific; both on TV and that war was in gen­eral fought for profit.  Both from what I was taught at home and through my parent’s ground­break­ing work.  Still con­sid­ered clas­sics to this day.  And still used as the basis for both teach­ing teach­ers them­selves and in class­rooms.  Nation­ally.

One of my late pater­nal uncles, Peter Drucker is known to EVERY U.S. CEO at a For­tune 500 com­pany today — par­tic­u­larly the ones who go to Ivy Leagues.  He is known as the Father of Man­age­ment and the per­son who coined our work­force today “the infor­ma­tion econ­omy and worker.” And reor­ga­nized GM the first time around in the 1940’s.  And prac­ti­cally put on a pedestal by Jack Welsh and George Bush, who gave him the Pres­i­den­tial Free­dom Award.  For a White House sup­pos­edly look­ing for the best, my phone has remained remark­ably silent.

Maybe it’s because I’m a woman.  There aren’t too many in what is already being called a “boys club.”  And cer­tainly none in their for­ties who are white.  Gosh, what a change I can believe in.

NOT.

Peter’s wife is a pretty tough cookie too, along with a lot of other women in my fam­ily.  Although don’t hold Bush’s love of Peter per­son­ally.  I think of Bush kind of like the char­ac­ter of Otto in the film “A Fish Called Wanda” in that he read all the greats, but he just never under­stood them.  Much like the major­ity of cor­po­rate Amer­ica, and that includes you Sum­mers, who still don’t under­stand what “man­age­ment by objec­tive” really means, because they love the tri­an­gle struc­ture of power where white men, or in Obama’s case, an ego­tis­ti­cal black man, gets to boss every­one else around, and get paid gazil­lions, while under­pay­ing every­one else and treat­ing them like slaves.  Even when they ruin the worlds’ econ­omy and steal your tax dol­lars to do it all over again.

My other pater­nal uncle is a still well renowned scholar, for trans­lat­ing the Dead Sea Scrolls.  A man who might be rather famil­iar to any grad­u­ate of say Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity.  He was a leg­end in his own time for not only that, but for his abil­ity to speak 32 lan­guages.  Flu­ently.   So I may be a mutt, but I have a healthy respect for reli­gion and a very good his­tor­i­cal feel­ing for the region.

Plus of course my own extremely suc­cess­ful 11 year career in DC. Plus another ten plus in New York.

Did the White House ever call on me, despite my get­ting in touch early on in the cam­paign?   No.

I could never get my foot into the Obama cam­paign, as hard as I tried.  Or the Clin­ton cam­paign before it.  Because this time, I was a white girl in her for­ties who didn’t go to Harvard.

And last time I was poor, and the Clinton’s don’t really like women except for Hillary’s career.  Or ones who’s dad­dies don’t donate alot of cash.

Look at Mon­ica Lewinsky.

And appar­ently, accord­ing to Obama’s head eco­nom­ics advi­sor, the ex pres­i­dent of Har­vard, Mr. Sum­mers, women don’t know any­thing about any­thing except mak­ing babies.  An atti­tude appar­ently shared by Obama if you look at his actions and not lis­ten to his pretty speeches.

There are many days when I don’t think we’ve gone all that far in my life­time, I don’t care what the color of the President’s skin.  A dic­ta­tor can be of any gen­der or hue.  Idi Amin was a lot darker than Obama.  And Obama is a clas­sist, racist, sex­ist, elit­ist, and dis­crim­i­na­tory, f*ck.

I remem­ber on going on protests against the Viet­nam War in my stroller. That’s what Afghanistan is, at a much higher alti­tude, with two for­mer empires that’ve got­ten their asses kicked before you (not just the French).

I was taught that mak­ing money was a good thing, but not the end all and be all of what to do in life.  And cer­tainly not the mark of “the best and the brightest.”

I’m not say­ing my par­ents were per­fect.  They weren’t by a long shot.   In fact they were pretty screwed up in the end.

But they were right about a lot of things, includ­ing what we are see­ing right now in Amer­ica.  They pre­dicted it in many ways, and my dad tried to pro­tect us from it by mov­ing to Eng­land when I was a kid, a plan that became unstuck dur­ing a very messy sep­a­ra­tion, and my mother, I don’t know what she was think­ing, came back to the United States.  About six months before the elec­tion of Ronald Rea­gan.  I wore black to school in eighth grade the day he got elected.  My class­mates always thought I was weird. But I was polit­i­cal even then.

And I suf­fered from the anti Semi­tism of the Kennedys in a way most Democ­rats never did.   Thanks to the late Sen­a­tor Kennedy’s father, my father suf­fered from war wounds all his life, being forced to fight in the U.S. army to gain his cit­i­zen­ship.  He was a Ger­man Jew who escaped first to Eng­land less than a year after this pic­ture was taken, spent the next ten years as an unhomed per­son with no cit­i­zen­ship, and then only allowed Amer­i­can cit­i­zen­ship if he fought on the front lines of France and Ger­many because he spoke flu­ent French and Ger­man, thanks to Joe Kennedy’s hor­rific immi­gra­tion policies.

My dad was hor­rif­i­cally wounded on the front lines, sent there, despite the fact that he was Jew­ish, thanks to Joe Kennedy’s anti Semi­tism, because he spoke flu­ent Ger­man and French.

I lost him when I was 11.

My life has inter­twined with the Kennedys all my life, in a weird and very bizarre way.  From the fact that my mater­nal great rel­a­tives in the South were also boot­leg­gers (although with­out the finan­cial edu­ca­tion and smarts, they never were ter­ri­bly good at pol­i­tics and finance until sev­eral gen­er­a­tions later) to much more per­sonal rea­sons and ways.

So when I hear the trib­utes to Sen­a­tor Kennedy, the so called “Lion of the Sen­ate,” who never hired me dur­ing all my years in Wash­ing­ton, because I wasn’t the “right” PC hire (I wasn’t black, I didn’t have an Ivy League, I wasn’t pretty enough, I wasn’t a boy but inter­ested in tra­di­tion­ally male top­ics), I didn’t have a JD for purely eco­nomic rea­sons, and know that the Kennedys’, who bought 100 copies of one of my mother’s first books, The Mag­i­cal Won­der­ful World of Mar­guerite, the book I was named after, now a collector’s item for a birth­day party for Car­o­line, there is a sort of bit­ter­ness too.  Not to men­tion the real­iza­tion of the hypocrisy of time that makes the lion­aza­tion of the Kennedies as sup­pos­edly the great “lib­er­als” one of the great lies of all time.

While Kennedy died of a brain tumor, he earned it the old fash­ioned way.  He drank him­self into it.  While I’m sym­pa­thetic, let’s not get too maudlin here.  A friend of mine, who worked his way through school at Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity, learned to bar­tend at one of the favorite water­ing holes of the Sen­ate while he waited for his con­tract at the World Bank to come through.  This was in the early eight­ies. He remem­bers Kennedy hav­ing five and six drinks a lunch.

Dou­bles.

And being a very cheap tipper.

And fre­quently return­ing at the end of each day, with staff rolling him out the door when the doors closed for the night to the spe­cial black car to take him home.  I’m not say­ing I despise him for being an alco­holic.  Addic­tion is usu­ally the sign of a dis­abil­ity long gone unno­ticed, unheeded, dis­re­garded, in denial about or untreated.  Like say Obama’s smok­ing habit.

Tales out of school to dis­miss the “great man?”

No, not really.  Because every “great” man makes his mis­takes and in his last twenty years or so, Kennedy was very much about HIS legacy, and over­looked a lot of things he could have done to stem the Repub­li­can tide rather than just go sailing.

And over­looked a lot about Obama that never should have been.

So do I miss the great “Lion of the Sen­ate?”  Not really.  There was much he left undone and unsaid.  He could have picked up the move­ment where his broth­ers left off instead of floun­der­ing in his own ego and a bot­tle with­out a bottom.

Instead he retreated to one of the most exclu­sive and cor­rupt bod­ies on the planet, and while he passed some good leg­is­la­tion, he hid from the world, instead.

A price we are all now pay­ing for, with the cor­rup­tion of the DNC and the dev­as­ta­tion of some of his great­est accom­plish­ments, like the essen­tial destruc­tion of the EEOC.  And a fool in black­face, who the Kennedys just tried to pass their much sul­lied torch off too, called Obama.  Even in dis­cussing who would take Kennedys’ place so this awful bill that the Democ­rats are try­ing to pass called health­care deform won’t go south.

And in endors­ing an arro­gant fool who is going to drive this coun­try into the ground.  Called Obama.

So enough with the drama and with the tears.  Let’s remem­ber who the Kennedys were.  Start­ing with the fam­ily patri­arch.  Joe Kennedy actu­ally was an ille­gal boot­leg­ger thug, often con­nected with the mafia, who bought his way into respectabil­ity and pol­i­tics.  And cre­ated hor­rific suf­fer­ing by his anti-Semitic immi­gra­tion poli­cies while mil­lions of Ger­mans, includ­ing my father, were denied immi­gra­tion as polit­i­cal refugees from Europe, and were slaughtered.

Most of my fam­ily died in Buchen­wald, or made it out with hor­rific mem­o­ries and psy­cho­log­i­cal wounds that have stayed with them for life, much worse than Kennedys ever were.

Or, like my father, used as can­non fod­der.  Because they were “dirty Jews.”

Where’s my uncle Teddy?

He’s dead.

Where’s my father?

Lost to a war he should never been sent to fight.  It was clear he was already in trauma, called PTSD, that our cur­rent Pen­ta­gon is now deal­ing with in our ris­ing sui­cide rate they are try­ing to sweep under the car­pet of active troops who can’t han­dle the sit­u­a­tion any more.

What will ever make up for the loss of MY dad?  Emo­tion­ally?  Finan­cially?  As a role model?

As my Dad?

The Kennedies were directly respon­si­ble for his untimely depar­ture from my life.  And for which I will never for­give them.  Even though I’ve been a reg­is­tered Demo­c­rat all my life and fought for pro­gres­sive causes. At great per­sonal sac­ri­fice, I might add.

My father’s first wife dis­cov­ered Mar­i­lyn Mon­roe, my eldest brother played soft­ball in the surf with her when she was still mar­ried to Nor­man Mailer and they were neigh­bors in Long Island Sound.  I know sto­ries about JFK and Mar­i­lyn that I’ll never share.  I don’t dish the gos­sip easily.

But as for the Kennedies?  It’s time for Amer­ica to get over it’s fas­ci­na­tion with roy­alty and remem­ber why we have a Con­sti­tu­tion and pres­i­dents instead.

A les­son Obama would do well to remem­ber.  And lib­er­als, when they get bent out of shape when their so called Mes­siah turns out to be more Repub­li­can than George Bush.

And gets elected by the very cor­po­ra­tions and even cor­rupt black orga­ni­za­tions like ACORN who would indeed rather play king­maker than allow elec­toral democ­racy speak for itself instead.

Are we doomed to repeat the mis­takes of the past?  Or can we remake our­selves in a bet­ter and more per­fect union?   Where the votes and the voices of the peo­ple actu­ally count?  Not the machi­na­tions of back­room pols who now are usu­ally bought and paid for by cor­po­ra­tions instead of built on the ille­gal gains and for­tunes of drug lords, patient dumpers, slum lords, or other law break­ers turned “respectable.”

Or at least they want you to think they are.

And then of course there’s Wall Street and the drug indus­try for which there is no excuse.  But Joe Kennedy was right at home there too.  Like my father used to love to say, fruit doesn’t fall too far from the trees they grow on.

It’s up to you Amer­ica.  Repeat the past and we get the same results.  Last time I checked, keep repeat­ing the mis­takes of the past and expect­ing dif­fer­ent results is the def­i­n­i­tion of insanity.

The press under the tab about the cov­er­age of my projects, one of which was called  Stu­dio 650 (aka You Tube) which used basic tech­nol­ogy famil­iar to some­one who shot and edited her first fea­ture doc­u­men­tary film com­pletely dig­i­tally from start to fin­ish in 1993 (and a polit­i­cal one at that), and you can still find online because of the rar­ity and still unfor­tu­nately top­i­cal­ity of the sub­ject, was always a no brainer to me.  Not to men­tion it should have been to any­one who has used pro­fes­sional dig­i­tal edit­ing equip­ment, like say AVID (which I took my first class in, in 1991, in New York, because they weren’t taught in DC yet) or even the Media 100 for that matter.

But was laughed at by the boys who, nat­u­rally know­ing bet­ter by dint of bio­log­i­cal supe­ri­or­ity, called me stu­pid and this was a “fad” that would never catch on in the “REAL” pro­duc­tion business.

Ooops.

The web­site, for which only some of the art is pre­served here for my sec­ond com­pletely inde­pen­dent (mean­ing also inde­pen­dently as in self-financed too) fea­ture doc­u­men­tary, pro­duced in 1999, was also ground­break­ing in its use of soft­ware, design and inter­ac­tiv­ity and even using games online to pro­mote the actual doc­u­men­tary.  We got 50,000 hits in our first week alone.   But despite win­ning a very pres­ti­gious film fes­ti­val, even in rough-cut stage, we could never get dis­tri­b­u­tion.  You see what I mean about women in the film busi­ness?   There’s a no girls allowed sign on that front door too.

Being black and work­ing at the White House is not a defense for being above the law.  Nor is going to Har­vard.  But there’s a no girl’s allowed sign at the White House too these days, espe­cially for White Women in their forties.

And I don’t need to repeat why Mr. Sum­mers got fired from the Pres­i­dency of the Crim­son Tide.  Nor is there ANY excuse in Obama’s hir­ing him.

Appar­ently nei­ther one knows it was a WOMAN who invented sta­tis­tics, about a cen­tury ago, a rather impor­tant tool of econ­o­mists, but there is NO excuse for hir­ing any­one com­plicit in the fir­ing of the WOMAN who first brought the issue of the dan­ger of unreg­u­lated deriv­a­tives to Allan Greenspan’s atten­tion, about a decade ago, who promptly ruined her career.  Shows you where the White House really lives when it comes to women’s rights, now, doesn’t it?

Not only do I have more expe­ri­ence in DC on many issues than the Pres­i­dent and in ways and reach­ing out to audi­ences his team do not, such as very early use of mes­sage deliv­ery via viral mar­ket­ing both to sell prod­uct to niche and crossover audi­ences and for polit­i­cal pur­poses, and of course use of dig­i­tal video, and polit­i­cal cam­paign­ing on line (and this arti­cle from Cam­paigns and Elec­tions Mag­a­zine, a national trade ‘zine for polit­i­cal con­sult­ing pro­fes­sion­als, is con­sid­ered a clas­sic, cited in books on polit­i­cal cam­paign­ing that might even have been read by cam­paign con­sul­tants in Chicago, ahem, Axel­turf, used in cam­paign courses all over the coun­try for almost a decade and even in col­lege class­rooms as late as two years ago, an expe­ri­ence with polit­i­cal pro­duc­tion and dig­i­tal dis­tri­b­u­tion, includ­ing invent­ing the first You Tube, which got me dubbed a leader in the field inter­na­tion­ally (pri­mar­ily in Europe, but not here, where all film and IT inno­va­tions are sup­posed to only come from men, and the only com­pa­nies that are funded are always funded only if they have male leadership).

The web­site also had an on the ground pres­ence, the first inde­pen­dent screen­ing facil­ity in the coun­try, called Stu­dio 650, which beat Via­com for mar­ket share in the same mar­ket in DC and The Sun­dance Film Fes­ti­val, for adop­tion of the medium.

The overnight suc­cess of the project was mainly achieved through viral mar­ket­ing which I started using in 1989 to dis­trib­ute prod­uct to both seg­mented and main­stream demo­graph­ics, and began pro­mot­ing and sell­ing prod­uct using the tac­tic nation­ally as early as 1996 (and look who’s Repub­li­can daugh­ter is in the audi­ence by the way.)

And which, while a prod­uct, also cer­tainly had both teach­ing and polit­i­cal issues attached to it.

Obama’s genius advi­sor on dis­abil­i­ties issues dur­ing the cam­paign is a man by the name of Stan Klein.  I think he should be auto­mat­i­cally dis­cred­ited pro­fes­sion­ally on the grounds not only on his treat­ment of me, but appar­ently he’s never heard of adap­tive tech­nol­ogy.  Which is such a basic in the world of dis­abil­i­ties and lev­el­ing the play­ing field, par­tic­u­larly in employ­ment, he’s com­pletely unqual­i­fied for the posi­tion of advis­ing a pres­i­den­tial cam­paign on dis­abil­ity issues at all.

Com­pared to him, apart from my pro­fes­sional and own per­sonal sit­u­a­tion, I’m a damned genius, espe­cially as I was very famil­iar with the expe­ri­ences of the man I called “uncle Richard” as a child, who was the son of Ian Bal­lan­tine and was con­sid­ered retarded until he was 11, until his very rich par­ents dis­cov­ered he was deaf.  Not to men­tion my under­stand­ing of both dis­abil­ity law, neu­rol­ogy (Klein’s not even an MD, but a psy­chol­o­gist, usu­ally some of the dumb­est peo­ple on the planet), I have a back­ground that makes him look like an ama­teur.  Not to men­tion a com­plete and utter sex­ist twit.  He got my pro­posal early on in the cam­paign, and refused to take it any fur­ther.  And even admit­ted he was com­puter illit­er­ate.  Hardly some­one you want advis­ing you on adap­tive tech­nol­ogy for peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties, for which the blame squarely lies with Obama.

But cer­tainly indica­tive of the igno­rance of this admin­is­tra­tion and the lack of its con­cern, much less cre­ative solu­tions on the issue.  They’ve decided to ignore one fifth of the pop­u­la­tion of this coun­try with dis­abil­i­ties, 90% who are unem­ployed and live in poverty, because Obama has bet­ter things to do instead.  Like kill inno­cent civil­ians in a place called Afghanistan for a stu­pid war.  And call for “more study” on what to do with gimps instead of act­ing on my plan, included on this web­site and has sat gath­er­ing dust at many fed­eral agen­cies and the White House for months now, instead.

You know, if Kennedy, or even John­son had had the same atti­tude towards African Amer­i­cans, Obama would never be pres­i­dent today.  That’s just one of the rea­sons I think he’s such an appalling cow­ard and a hyp­ocrite.  He’d rather go play butch war games than help a com­mu­nity at home in dire need instead.

Even when we are mov­ing into an age where labor is less phys­i­cal and man­ual and more men­tal, and the “infor­ma­tion worker” as my late uncle coined the phrase, will be the worker of the future.  So dis­abil­i­ties, cer­tainly phys­i­cal ones, and many neu­ro­log­i­cal ones too, com­bined with other forms of IT, will dra­mat­i­cally drop the bar­ri­ers to employ­ment that have kept so much of this com­mu­nity in abject poverty and out of the work­force.  And con­tributed so much to the ram­pant dis­crim­i­na­tion, vio­la­tion of civil rights, lack of enforce­ment of them, and out­right hos­til­ity that exists when you exert your rights to be treated equally.  And get angry when you’re not con­tent with the sta­tus quo of being treated like sh*t, and fight back.

But accord­ing to the White House, health­care is a black issue.  Obama didn’t even con­sult, much less men­tion PWD’s in his speech to Con­gress on health­care deform, when we are the great­est con­sumers of it for most of our lives.  And rou­tinely get the worst kind.

It never seems to occur to ANYONE that some­times peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties, par­tic­u­larly ones like mine, CAN’T do the sup­pos­edly easy stuff, but can do other things very well. Per­fect exam­ple.  Stephan Hawk­ing.  And he’s not an excep­tion.  But he got free med­ical care and a free edu­ca­tion, so the eco­nomic dis­crim­i­na­tion that lies at the heart of this debate in this coun­try never held HIM back from reach­ing his true potential.

But in this coun­try, it’s a whole other ball of wax.  Because you have to pay out­ra­geous sums of money for both health­care and edu­ca­tion that effec­tively bar smart peo­ple from reach­ing their poten­tial, par­tic­u­larly if they have a dis­abil­ity.  Just so the med­ical indus­try and Wall Street, not to men­tion VCs and hedge funds can make out­ra­geous prof­its and con­tinue to rip off the tax­payer, get away with min­i­mal fines for fraud and mur­der, and the Pres­i­dent lets them get away with it so they won’t con­tribute to Repub­li­can oppo­nents to Demo­c­ra­tic can­di­dates in next year’s elec­tion.  Not to men­tion his own re-election in 2012.  And his future after the gig in the White House is over.

That’s absolutely dis­gust­ing.  How would he feel if JFK had done the same thing to blacks in this coun­try?  But Obama, along with most over­priv­i­leged Bup­pies of his gen­er­a­tion seem to for­get that and think that dis­crim­i­na­tion against them is the worst kind there is.  While not doing a damn thing to fight for other people’s rights.  Rather focus solely on self pro­mo­tion and mak­ing them­selves as rich as pos­si­ble on your dime, as fast as pos­si­ble and screw­ing every­one else.

That means YOU.  If you don’t work in national pol­i­tics or the White House, what­ever color you are, and aren’t one of the Obama inner cir­cle.  Because nat­u­rally you’re a nobody and don’t count.

Right?

And nat­u­rally Pres­i­dents are elected to make them­selves and their bud­dies rich, not pro­tect the peo­ple they are elected to serve and pro­tect.  I always thought that was their job.

Appar­ently not.  I’m not sure when that changed, but it hasn’t been that way for a very long time.  And Obama is cer­tainly guilty of it.

But it’s not just peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties we are talk­ing about who are affected.  It’s every­one.  Every­one is enti­tled to a decent edu­ca­tion, which is almost impos­si­ble to get in Amer­ica with­out pay­ing out­ra­geous sums of money for it.  Same goes for healthcare.

Last time I checked, being a cit­i­zen didn’t require money.

But it actu­ally does.

Because with­out them, in Amer­ica today, you’re screwed and Democ­racy means nothing.

But these issues are at the cor­ner­stone of both democ­racy and a healthy econ­omy.  And that is why the gov­ern­ment should be respon­si­ble for pro­vid­ing both, for free, and at good and equal qual­ity, for all.  That’s the point of being a cit­i­zen and what taxes are for.  Not bail­ing out cor­po­rate crim­i­nals who brazenly broke the law.

And keep on doing it.  With no real reg­u­la­tion in sight.

But dis­abil­ity dis­crim­i­na­tion is so ingrained it’s invis­i­ble.  There is absolutely no rea­son that I should be unem­ployed right now.  I know I’m a good writer.  My pol­icy back­ground is sec­ond to none. I’m one of the lead­ing clean­tech experts in the coun­try, and Work Fair, as you can see on this site, is way ahead of the game on mul­ti­ple levels.

There are plenty of things I could do that pay well.

D.E. Shaw in fact, when they were on their hir­ing spree last Octo­ber as they knew they were lin­ing them­selves up for big gov­ern­ment give­aways and a pres­i­den­tial appoint­ment thanks to Summer’s appoint­ment as Obama’s chief eco­nomic guru, were very inter­ested in hir­ing me.  Until I told them that I had a dis­abil­ity.  And then, well, I got that usual let­ter of “you have impres­sive cre­den­tials but…”

It’s not an uncom­mon experience.

I’m a gimp, and a woman, so it’s a dou­ble whammy, and auto­mat­i­cally regarded as stu­pid, unwor­thy, unequal, use­less and bet­ter off being stuffed in a cor­ner to rot in poverty.  An atti­tude this admin­is­tra­tion demon­strates very well, despite the lip flap.

Instead, I’m being shep­herded by gov­ern­ment pro­grams into admin­is­tra­tive, low end, jobs which I can’t do because the gov­ern­ment also thinks that one size fits all.  Unless of course you’re a rich gimp.  Espe­cially a rich male gimp.  And then of course the rules don’t apply.

If you don’t believe me, there are plenty of gimps who have done great things and held very impor­tant jobs.

Like say be pres­i­dent of the United States (like FDR or JFK), Win­ston Churchill had a severe men­tal dis­abil­ity (clin­i­cal depres­sion and bipo­lar dis­or­der) or even a US Sen­a­tor (like the late Sen­a­tor Kennedy who was both an alco­holic and ended up with a brain tumor or even his brother, the Pres­i­dent Jack Kennedy who suf­fered numer­ous health prob­lems through­out his life, as the pre­vi­ous link indi­cates in addi­tion to Addison’s Dis­ease). Richard Bran­son, head of Vir­gin Atlantic has ADHD.  As does the founder of Jet Blue.  But nobody treats them with the dis­re­spect, law break­ing activ­ity, or sub­jects them to the appalling, abu­sive and humil­i­at­ing treat­ment I’ve faced in the last two and a half years.

Maybe it’s because they’re men.  Who are nat­u­rally supe­rior, right Summers?

I was pulling down a six fig­ure salary when I was ille­gally fired, for a job I was way overqual­i­fied for and for get­ting hor­ri­ble reviews for a func­tion of my job I was never hired to do nor given accom­mo­da­tions for, three weeks before I would have started a long delayed MBA pro­gram at Colum­bia that I tested into with­out accom­mo­da­tions that the bank would have picked up the bill for.

And which by rights I should have got­ten years ago, but nobody would ever cosign my loans.  My step thing and my mother gave all the fam­ily money to my lit­tle brother, who has also now refused to help (despite a high six fig­ure salary and a ten year old daugh­ter who just received a $50,000 ring) and my step thing com­mit­ted fed­eral tax and mail fraud to try to pre­vent me from get­ting any fed­eral or state aid to go to col­lege at all and refused until I lit­er­ally forced him into it from even releas­ing his joint tax returns (filed with my mother), so I could obtain any aid on my own.  Includ­ing scholarships.

Nor did my aunt, who is a pro­fes­sional fundraiser ever do any­thing to help, when she was per­fectly aware of what was going on and delib­er­ately diverted her eyes.  Or even cared that I had no health insur­ance dur­ing this last cou­ple of years.  Or worse, helped me find a job, just like my brother didn’t either.

It’s dis­gust­ing.

They’d rather see me go home­less or dead than help me.

And in my aunt’s case, appar­ently rais­ing money, or help­ing other peo­ple and causes is impor­tant, except for her niece, even now, when it’s still not on her agenda, when she knows exactly what crap I went through as a kid.  Even when, accord­ing to her, “Women are, by nature, phil­an­thropists.  They take care of chil­dren; they take care of the sick; they take care of the elderly; they take care of the earth.”

Right.  Explain that to my land­lord when I get evicted and go home­less thanks to your lack of help.

Accord­ing to her, and the rest of my fam­ily, this is all my fault.

I guess when your clients and col­leagues are cor­po­ra­tions, par­tic­u­larly banks, media con­glom­er­ates and health insur­ance com­pa­nies, like hers are, not to men­tion my younger brother, or like my mother and lit­tle brother, you live in denial (or think it’s a river in Egypt), you can chuck your rel­a­tives over­board as eas­ily as these com­pa­nies do their patients and clients.

Appar­ently my aunt’s favorite phrase of women help­ing other women doesn’t count when it comes to me.  Wel­come to my Addams fam­ily.  And the lack of help extended to me, when I spent the bet­ter part of my teenaged years tak­ing care of the dis­as­ter that was the alco­holic that was my mother.  And got the least amount of help and most amount of crap for doing so from every­one in the fam­ily.  When it’s acknowl­edged at all, which is not very often these days.  They’d rather for­get and write me off as a gimp and a fail­ure.  They’re will­ing to let me go home­less and die.

Aren’t fam­ily val­ues just great?  And see how per­va­sive dis­abil­ity and gen­der dis­crim­i­na­tion is?

But they’re as dys­func­tion and screwed up as the DNC.

Most of my fam­ily died in the camps thanks to the anti-Semitism of Joe Kennedy, patri­arch of the Kennedy dynasty.  Buchen­wald to be spe­cific.  And I have the dis­turb­ing dis­tinc­tion of hav­ing more rel­a­tives on the Inter­na­tional Holo­caust Insur­ance Claims web­site than any­one in either Switzer­land or New York had ever talked to.

But I’m “priv­i­leged”, right, accord­ing to for­mer col­lege uh, “com­mu­nity orga­nizer” and anti-apartheid col­lege col­league Ms. Butts, who is now sit­ting her over priv­i­leged ass in a well paid job at the White House and this is what she told me the day I called her to con­grat­u­late her on her new gig when she never even both­ered to show up for more than ral­lies (but always lists her involve­ment with the group on her resume)?   Melody Barnes didn’t even do that, I sup­pose because they would have inter­fered with soror­ity par­ties, and of course being on the Best Dressed List is far more impor­tant than social change, and has always has been, accord­ing to her.

Nei­ther one of them, as far as I know got a merit based schol­ar­ship to Car­olina, faced the kind of fam­ily I did, or had to deal with the lack of fund­ing that was required of my fam­ily, so I had to make up for it some­how.  With no places to work on cam­pus (a pre­req­ui­site of my schol­ar­ship), and no place in Chapel Hill except bars to work in (I was under­age), I still have scars on my veins from sell­ing plasma to eat.  Given three times a week for which I passed out every time I gave blood.  And the scars on my arms make me look like a junkie to this day.

But of course, despite both black girls’ absence from a real fight for the rights of peo­ple of color with both local and inter­na­tional con­se­quences and their sub­se­quent hypocrisy, racism against African Amer­i­cans is the worst kind of dis­crim­i­na­tion there’s ever been, right?

And of course schol­ar­ship stu­dents who lead suc­cess­ful move­ments that change state pol­icy could never have over­come their own dis­abil­ity and a fam­ily so dys­func­tional that peo­ple still don’t believe me when I tell them sto­ries about my child­hood because peo­ple like me could never have over­come those kinds of chal­lenges.  AND accom­plished the things I have so far.

Plus I’m white so that all doesn’t count.

Right?

Because of course being black is the high­est bar­rier you ever have to climb, appar­ently, accord­ing to the sex­ist, hyp­o­crit­i­cal, elit­ist and racist bup­pies who now sit their under­qual­i­fied, ego­tis­ti­cal asses in offices at 1600 Penn, but have done NOTHING in com­par­i­son to what I have done and bar­ri­ers over­come, to achieve what I have to accom­plish social jus­tice and equal­ity for many peo­ple of all col­ors and gen­ders, and of dif­fer­ent sex­ual ori­en­ta­tions, and for the envi­ron­ment than they have.

Tell me, have you ever saved an Indian tribe?  I have.

Have you ever done any­thing on your own or just been a staffer?  They are all staffers who do what they’re told.

I’m the embod­i­ment of free think­ing entre­pre­neuri­al­ism.  I guess that’s what so threat­en­ing.  They don’t want a white girl show­ing them up.

God this is sick­en­ing.  First it’s the white boys and now it’s the black com­mu­nity.  When the fuck are women, besides rich cor­rupt ones like Mrs. Clin­ton, EVER going to be taken seri­ously or have doors opened or given chances?  Or let our accom­plish­ments speak for ourselves?

Christ.  Every time I feel I get close to get­ting my boul­der to the top of the moun­tain, some twit knocks my legs out from under me.

Explain how being black is the worst dis­crim­i­na­tion there is to my third cousin Rudy, who I found when I traced my fam­ily tree with the help of Man­fred Lahn­stein, who helped me trace my pater­nal roots back to the 1600’s.  He’s not Jew­ish, but his last name is Lahn­stein, which is a small town in South­ern Ger­many where my fam­ily set­tled too.  And like many Ger­mans took their home town as their last name.  And one of my rel­a­tives built the first syn­a­gogue in the neigh­bor­ing town of Idstein that was destroyed by the Nazis, but still has a street named after Felix Lahn­stein, the founder of that syn­a­gogue, that I would like to visit sometime.

If I ever have a chance.

But enough already with this chip on elite African American’s shoul­ders that being a pow­er­ful African Amer­i­can some­how gives you the right to abuse every­one else, break the law, and engage in com­pletely inap­pro­pri­ate if not out­right ille­gal behav­ior because you think you’ve been through more hell than any­one else on the planet.

If you talk to my cousin Rudy, who is a very gen­tle man, you will hear sto­ries that will make you change your mind rather quickly.  Rudy would wake up scream­ing in Ger­man lit­er­ally for decades (and he for­got how to speak the lan­guage while con­scious after he escaped to Amer­ica) about the ongo­ing night­mares of the tor­ture he went through and wit­nessed as a lit­tle boy dur­ing Kristall­nacht.  Until he was inter­viewed by Stephen Spiel­berg in his doc­u­men­tary about the Holo­caust.  And then the night­mares went away.  But that is what tor­ture does to you.

And of course, then there is my father.

Unlike Obama and Butts, I’ve paid my dues and taken a lot of crap because I lost my father at the age of 11, and had an alco­holic mother, a series of appallingly abu­sive step­fa­thers, plus many of her boyfriends to deal with and duck who share remark­ably sim­i­lar char­ac­ter­is­tics, and have worked in a coun­try that is still appallingly discriminatory.

On all levels.

Let’s put it this way.  The only way I sur­vived it is that I learned early how to defend myself.  And sur­vived the best way I could.  Actu­ally self defense was one of the last things I remem­ber my dad teach­ing me.  There have been a cou­ple of men who tried to rape me, par­tic­u­larly in the cir­cus of the house of my teenaged years, who found out very quickly that they should prob­a­bly change their plans or suf­fer severe consequences.

Which, trust me, they took very seriously.

But appar­ently Obama and Co. think that being black is the worst pos­si­ble dis­crim­i­na­tion one can face.  And are even sus­pend­ing civil rights in the White House by legal tech­ni­cal­ity that holds about as much water as Yoo memos on tor­ture, (not Title VII, but the Rehab Act), because in their minds, gimps have no civil rights.

I would sug­gest they widen their hori­zons and change their per­spec­tives.  FAST.  And def­i­nitely drop the ‘tude.  Because from what I’ve seen so far, I don’t see a sin­gle per­son on the White House staff who has accom­plished as much, over­come as much, and has authored a plan that STILL beats the pants off any of the eco­nomic and clean­tech pro­pos­als the White House is push­ing.  Plus has a plan for TBI, the ONLY ONE IN THE COUNTRY, and sav­ing a huge amount of fed­eral money and putting the entire econ­omy into overdrive.

And I have got­ten no breaks, from affir­ma­tive action to help on any loans, much less grants.  Or any men­tors.  All I get is sex­ism and “sorry, the boy with the Ivy League gets the job.  Or the money. Or the loan.”  And now I get “you’re a gimp, and worse, white, go away.”  And beaten up.  By Obama’s Goons for America.

I’m fed up.  This has crossed the line.

And it’s WAY OVERDUE for a change.

I’ve always been a com­mu­nity orga­nizer and social activist, start­ing from early on in my life.  My back­ground in work­ing to end vio­lence against women in both soci­ety and in biases in the judi­ciary and media in cov­er­ing such things as date rape and the pun­ish­ment of it, of course my col­lege anti-apartheid activ­i­ties, and also my work for social and eco­nomic equal­ity, equal rights for the LGBT com­mu­nity and peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties started rather ear­lier than most, thanks to a really dys­func­tional family.

Oh, and a conscience.

And a refusal to turn my head away.

And knowl­edge, based on a good under­stand­ing of his­tory and sus­tain­able eco­nom­ics, to quote Fred­er­ick Dou­glass, that “no man is truly free in a slave-holding state.”  Or for that mat­ter a vastly socioe­co­nom­i­cally unequal one where less than 1% of the coun­try con­trols about 95% of the wealth of this coun­try.  Which Obama is rapidly accel­er­at­ing, despite the promises of the campaign.

Well guess what?  Twenty per­cent of the coun­try right now are basi­cally being kept in legal­ized slav­ery by a gov­ern­ment who doesn’t give a fly­ing f*ck.  But is cost­ing you a for­tune.   Like the national debt ($1.4 Tril­lion a year) just in dis­abil­ity pay­ments alone.  Which keeps mil­lions of Amer­i­cans at poverty level.   But this sit­u­a­tion, per­pet­u­ated by our gov­ern­ment, keeps mak­ing poli­cies that makes bil­lions for their bud­dies and finances their cam­paigns, so it must be okay then, right?

Start­ing with Obama and Congress.

Who, despite what they say, haven’t done jack since the Rehab Act, passed in 1973 or the ADA, which was passed in 1990, despite all the fan­fare over the redo of the ADA last year and the sign­ing of the UN treaty.  And don’t even hire peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties as staff in their own offices.  Less than 1% of the fed­eral work­force has a dis­abil­ity, and is on aver­age employed two grades below, at grade 8, what their able bod­ied col­leagues are.  Sim­ply because of dis­crim­i­na­tion.  The pri­vate sec­tor doesn’t hire you at all.  You’re a lia­bil­ity remem­ber?  And nat­u­rally inferior.

You know it sounds just like if your skin is a dif­fer­ent color you don’t deserve to have equal­ity too, doesn’t it?  But black politi­cians and the elit­ist bup­pies at the White House are, excuse the pun, tone deaf to that analogy.

Just your health­care pre­mi­ums alone, not to men­tion pesky things like hav­ing to fol­low fed­eral law and imple­ment accom­mo­da­tions are a pain in the ass, so why bother.  Don’t hire the gimp.  Go for the able bod­ied can­di­date instead.  Prefer­ably male white boy.

That’s why our unem­ploy­ment rate is so high.  Notice how many staffers on the Hill have disabilities?

The White House only has one.  And he bought his job with daddy’s money.  So that doesn’t exactly count now, does it?  With no DC expe­ri­ence.  And who’s cur­rently call­ing for a study when he has my pro­posal and refuses to return my phone calls because his boss doesn’t want to do any­thing but give out all the best grants to his cronies.

No mat­ter what you say about pass­ing leg­is­la­tion, it doesn’t do any good until you change the atti­tudes of the judi­ciary and employ­ers, and stop cut­ting our damned pro­grams.  Not to men­tion leav­ing us until last and treat­ing us like sh*t.  Do you really think a treaty means a damn?  It’s just a piece of paper.

Where’s Con­gress’ rat­i­fi­ca­tion of it?  Where’s your hir­ing pol­icy and when is it going to change to be more reflec­tive of our pop­u­la­tion in the coun­try?  And when are you going to stop nom­i­nat­ing and approv­ing judges with appalling records on dis­abil­ity employ­ment law?  Like the one Obama just nom­i­nated to the fourth cir­cuit court of appeals and the Sen­ate just confirmed?

Where’s our minor­ity sta­tus with the SBA, our abil­ity to get loans and par­tic­i­pate in gov­ern­ment set asides, just like vets with dis­abil­i­ties get?  There are lots of ways of hon­or­ing vets with dis­abil­i­ties, but exclud­ing civil­ians with them from pro­grams that help wounded vets out of poverty is not only a vio­la­tion of Title VII, since most vets are men, but appalling.  You don’t “earn” a dis­abil­ity.  And typ­i­cal, yet again. Of the appalling and dis­crim­i­na­tory atti­tudes towards the abil­i­ties and open­ing doors of oppor­tu­ni­ties to peo­ple with disabilities.

Who at present have pre­cisely NONE.

Oops.  I guess you hadn’t con­sid­ered that.  It takes much more work to accom­plish than photo ops and speeches.   Much less, dol­lars to donuts you even for­got to fac­tor in the cost of treat­ing TBI in your health­care deform bud­get, not an unrea­son­able assump­tion to make, since you don’t even have a coor­di­nated national strat­egy to deal with the prob­lem yet.  Even for vet­er­ans, much less civilians.

I do, and accord­ing to the TBI Cen­ters for Excel­lence am far ahead of them.  With the ONLY plan in the coun­try to do so.

But I still can’t get a call from the White House.  Appar­ently because gimps are so worth­less they have noth­ing at all to con­tribute.  Because we’re all retards with poor bowl­ing skills, no mat­ter what our dis­abil­i­ties are.  I mean even the Pres­i­dent knows that, right?  And it’s so funny he makes jokes about it on national TV.

Even when DoD gives the idea an enthu­si­as­tic thumbs up.

What’s wrong with this picture?

My work started in DC started right after col­lege, work­ing for the leg­isla­tive offices of the ACLU, which I got on my own, with no help from any­one.  The orga­ni­za­tion at the time, other things were instru­men­tal in draft­ing and pass­ing such leg­is­la­tion as the ADA, or the Amer­i­cans with Dis­abil­i­ties Act, the pri­vate sec­tor ver­sion of the 1973 Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Act, that appar­ently they don’t teach at Har­vard Law.  At least if you look at Obama’s actions in office, includ­ing the fail­ure to include the def­i­n­i­tion of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties as “minori­ties” in the SBA Stim Bill that passed ear­lier this year.

And this com­mu­nity is being absolutely slaugh­tered by the reces­sion, or should I say Depres­sion, because that’s what this really is, since every state leg­is­la­ture tar­gets this com­mu­nity first for cut­backs in all of our pro­grams, since appar­ently we’re just worth­less worms, doorstops and bur­dens to soci­ety.  Con­ve­niently for­get­ting of course that we are barred effec­tively from employ­ment, and red­lined into the worst pos­si­ble jobs that most peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties can’t do.

Even by the gov­ern­ment.  And even in the best of times, pro­grams for PWDs are under funded.  Which is actu­ally ille­gal under the Rehab Act which requires equal access to equal resources which is far from real­ity now, isn’t it?

But nobody says a thing.  Much less sues.  Which if I don’t get some action on from the White House, like pronto, I’m going after every gov­ern­ment web­site that isn’t 508 com­pli­ant.  Which is most of them.  And of course sue on the TBI issue.  And eas­ily will cost as much to fix as the deal you just nego­ti­ated with the phar­mas.  If indeed a whole lot more.  Just fix­ing the 508 com­pli­ance prob­lems with ONE AGENCY in New York, by my con­ser­v­a­tive esti­mates, is in the neigh­bor­hood of about $5–10 mil­lion.  Plus dam­ages.  And a cake­walk to win in light of the Tar­get decision.

You’re screw­ing with the wrong per­son.  I’m warn­ing you now.  Seth Har­ris over at Labor doesn’t know the mean­ing of “dis­abil­i­ties terrorist.”

And I also worked on things like the FMLA (Fam­ily Med­ical Leave Act) which affects every fam­ily in Amer­ica right now with a child. Among much other domes­tic leg­is­la­tion that is too numer­ous to list, but changed the Amer­i­can land­scape dras­ti­cally and for the bet­ter over the past twenty years.  I guess that makes me unwor­thy of hold­ing a con­ver­sa­tion with ANYBODY at the White House either, right?

Unless I hold out a wad of cash?

As I seem to remem­ber that was exactly what Obama promised to END when he got to Wash­ing­ton, but he’s only per­pet­u­at­ing it.  Because so far it’s only kids and lob­by­ists who are get­ting any access.

Oh, and male movie stars.  Like Brad Pitt.  Who are break­ing envi­ron­men­tal law.

But I get no credit for my accom­plish­ments.  And even though it wasn’t Har­vard Law Review, I was writ­ing about both the leg­is­la­tion our office worked on and Con­gres­sional pro­ce­dure and how it related to con­sti­tu­tional issues in our national pub­li­ca­tions, with a cir­cu­la­tion of at least fifty thou­sand and at least as influ­en­tial as the Har­vard law review for those who cover civil lib­er­ties issues leg­is­la­tion (the ACLU is not called the nation’s largest law firm for noth­ing) by the age of 22.

I know that sta­tus and Har­vard are labels that peo­ple in DC and New York just love.  But is it labels or the work you actu­ally accom­plish that really makes a dif­fer­ence?   I mean does it make you a bet­ter per­son to wear Izod or J. Crew?  Or go shop­ping in a thrift store?

It’s a label, not an accom­plish­ment, you stu­pid twits.  Do you really want me to remind you that Bush went to Har­vard too?

How about that ol’ Abe Lin­coln, who made one hell of a lawyer, and a pretty good Pres­i­dent, but didn’t go to law school, much less Har­vard.  Uh, is there a dou­ble stan­dard here or what?  Oh, I for­got, he’s a guy and of course nat­u­rally genet­i­cally supe­rior.  I guess my leg hair will have to sub­sti­tute for Lincoln’s weird facial hair fashion.

Brand­ing does not make you a bet­ter per­son.  It’s a sta­tus sym­bol.  It has noth­ing to do with the qual­ity of the prod­uct, the per­son who is sell­ing it, the per­son who is wear­ing or asso­ci­ated with it, or the truth behind the claims the brand mak­ers are making.

The truth is in the pud­ding.  And in Obama’s case, the pud­ding stinks.

I’ve been a com­mu­nity orga­nizer and writer since I was a teenager.  Ibid.  That’s an old fash­ioned writer’s term, mean­ing see above.  Because I take on the hard issues.  Not suck up to cor­rupt politi­cians in office, who usu­ally avoid the hard­est issues and focus on the easy stuff.  Like um, guess who did when he attached him­self like a bar­na­cle and ass kissed the most pow­er­ful and cor­rupt ele­ments of black Chicago pols, not to men­tion kissed ass for the Clin­ton cam­paign and Demo­c­ra­tic Party, while claim­ing he was pure as the dri­ven snow to get ahead.  Same as his wife.  Who hasn’t done crap with her life either.  Except make money and abuse the poor.  And yes I know Vanessa Kirsh.  Pub­lic Allies was a joke.

And doesn’t touch my accom­plish­ments.  Not even the first chap­ter.  Start­ing with the fact that I had TWO par­ents with dis­abil­i­ties.  Not one.  And have basi­cally been on my own since the age of 13.  Com­pete with that lady.  You spoiled bitch, with extremely bad and nou­veau riche taste, who’s staff of TWENTY (for what may I ask) also hasn’t both­ered to call me back.  And is so unin­formed about organic gar­den­ing (also included in my pro­posal by the way) that she didn’t even get the SOIL TESTED, before she made claims of start­ing the White House’s first organic gar­den when it’s basic knowl­edge that you have to get the soil tested and organic cer­ti­fi­ca­tion to even make that claim.  And might as well be given credit for cre­at­ing the first HAZMAT site on the White House lawn in his­tory, and pass­ing it off as caviar instead.

Isn’t that what Ivy League degrees are good for?

Espe­cially when us gimps spent most of last sum­mer track­ing down the soil sci­en­tists in Staten Island so we could get the organic test­ing we needed done for the pro­posal that’s been sit­ting in the White House for months, and ignored.  But I guess since I didn’t go to an Ivy League I’m stu­pid and I don’t count.

And Mrs. Obama hasn’t both­ered to hire a sin­gle per­son with a dis­abil­ity to her staff either.  Or invite a kid with a dis­abil­ity to the White House.  Or even visit Gaulludet, one of the best uni­ver­si­ties in the coun­try for peo­ple who are deaf, less than five miles from the White House, who pio­neered wire­less online mobile polit­i­cal and com­mu­nity orga­niz­ing way before Obama even got into the race.

And as for her con­cern about mil­i­tary families?

Right.

She didn’t even know that ser­vice per­son­nel are so badly paid that their fam­i­lies live on food stamps.

And appar­ently doesn’t give a rat’s ass that their num­ber one con­cern, apart from see­ing their loved one come home alive, is that they come home in one piece, so I guess that’s why she hasn’t hired a sin­gle per­son with a dis­abil­ity to her staff either.  So much for dou­ble degrees from Ivy League insti­tu­tions.  Was she asleep dur­ing class or is she just dumb?

And cor­rupt.

I’ve also done a lot of work on national secu­rity and habeas cor­pus deform.  And touched almost every aspect of Con­sti­tu­tional Law.  Even if it was to watch the flag burn­ers on the steps of the Supreme Court — yeah, that was au courant then. I may not agree with burn­ing the flag, in fact my great grand­daddy Mon­roe raised the flag faith­fully every morn­ing out­side his house, and took it down every night before sun­down.  But I absolutely sup­port the right of protest, which includes the right to burn it.

See the Constitution.

Or watch as your con­fer­ence room was rou­tinely used for vic­to­ri­ous lawyers and their clients in Supreme Court Cases the ACLU had been involved in and either had pre­sented well or won.

Those were the days that the ACLU leg­isla­tive office was in the old Mott Build­ing, right across the street from the Hart Sen­ate Office Build­ing, and even more con­ve­niently, also across the street from the Supreme Court.

It was a good learn­ing expe­ri­ence, even if my boss, a Wash­ing­ton leg­end for those in the know, and who’s claim to fame in Belt­way cir­cles was that he was the per­son orig­i­nally sus­pected of leak­ing the Pen­ta­gon Papers, was an abu­sive, sex­ist twerp, who told me I never deserved to go to Har­vard law because I didn’t go to an Ivy League under­grad (because I was a girl).  Never mind I had just changed state pol­icy or faced dis­crim­i­na­tion and a hor­rif­i­cally dys­func­tional fam­ily that lim­ited my choices.  Or that given the oppor­tu­nity, like if I had still been in Lon­don, when I tested into the best school in the coun­try at the age of 11. If I’d had the same oppor­tu­ni­ties here as there, Har­vard or any of the Ivies would have been a breeze.

But no, in Amer­ica, it’s all about money.  Mer­i­toc­racy doesn’t count.  And gen­der doesn’t hurt if you’re a man.

Some things never change in Belt­way culture. Much less Amer­ica as a whole.  Just look at the “boys club” in the cur­rent White House.  The Mas­sah may be black, but all the chief deci­sion mak­ers are men.  And most of them still white.

What a change.

But unashamed, unabashed, and bla­tant dis­crim­i­na­tion is a trait my for­mer boss seems to have passed on to at least one of his sons.  A news direc­tor at a major TV net­work in DC that rou­tinely pro­duces appallingly biased and sex­ist cov­er­age of women.  And even dresses his reporters that way (for exam­ple dress­ing Diane Sawyer in blue, as in nun, for a story she did on pros­ti­tu­tion).  This is how the visu­ally skilled manip­u­la­tors enforce sub­tle mes­sages of behav­ior and belief.  From Madi­son Avenue, to polit­i­cal ad mak­ers, to the cor­po­rate owned giants sell­ing the news and how we are sup­posed to think about the sub­tle mes­sages they impart about the biases in such report­ing (or in the case of net­works like Fox, they dropped the pre­tense long ago).  For an inter­est­ing doc­u­men­tary on how the Pen­ta­gon uses this tech­nique to sell its wish list of weapons to Con­gress, albeit a lit­tle dated, check this out.

The tech­niques they use are not new, and actu­ally pio­neered by the Nazi’s.  It’s also called brain­wash­ing using sub­lim­i­nal visual tech­niques, and one of the first tricks of the trade taught to film­mak­ers.  And used fre­quently and often dur­ing polit­i­cal cam­paigns.  And used espe­cially adroitly by Obama.

And as for my ex boss’s other son, who now works at Podesta’s out­fit, he has cer­tainly ben­e­fited from nepo­tism.   As for Podesta him­self, a man I’ve known for twenty years?  Well, he wouldn’t even return my calls last sum­mer when I ran into him right around the time that team Obama was hir­ing (and he was their out­sourced HR depart­ment).  Then again Podesta treats every­one with­out money or who doesn’t fit through his fil­ter of clas­sist and elit­ist screen­ing like crap.  But has the balls to say, after mak­ing his mil­lions, that he could “eas­ily live on social security” in one of the puff ball pieces just writ­ten on him by one of the estab­lish­ment suck up sto­ries of the admin­is­tra­tion stars du jour.

Sure, with a house already paid for, and money in the bank, plus a pen­sion and big fat cor­po­rate donors to sup­ple­ment one’s own non­profit, these things are not hard to do.  It’s a lit­tle harder when that’s all you have to depend on.  Or noth­ing in the case of my gen­er­a­tion, when the pro­gram goes bust right at the time I’m set to retire because the Boomers, in their usual self­ish behav­ior, have been drain­ing the fund for years.

And that bias against women is per­va­sive in the media too,  In Wash­ing­ton and in fact in gen­eral.  Most of the women you see, espe­cially in national report­ing sit behind desks, are all blond, and don’t get the real career build­ing and pres­ti­gious assign­ments and beats, par­tic­u­larly the White House beat, where almost all the reporters are still all men.  Even the younger reporters as the dinosaurs die off.  As much as the dinosaurs refuse to die.  I mean WHY is George Will even still on TV?

There’s not a sin­gle female polit­i­cal con­sul­tant of national stand­ing.  Except Mandy Grun­wald, and she got her start because of daddy’s posi­tion at The New York Times.  Oh, and a lot of fam­ily money.  And she’s as elit­ist as the worst Repub­li­cans in office.   Despite the fact that I pro­duced the ONLY Gen-X PAC paid cam­paign com­mer­cial for Clin­ton (how young and naive I was) in 1992 that aired as a paid com­mer­cial on MTV nation­ally, I could never get hired by any polit­i­cal con­sul­tant in DC the entire time I lived there.

Those jobs are marked BOYS ONLY too, in cap­i­tal let­ters, like most real jobs that pay well in Amer­ica today, includ­ing the White House and this admin­is­tra­tion, where there are NO white women in posi­tions of power in either 1600 Penn or in any cab­i­net posi­tion despite a plethora of white boys of the same demo­graphic.  Oth­er­wise it’s sec­re­tary city.  And assign­ment to the crap­pi­est jobs while the boys take all the credit.  And make all the money.

And when you flip them the bird, and tell them this is not accept­able, well, you’re an “aggres­sive, man hat­ing bitch.”  Or dis­missed as stu­pid.  Or beaten up.  Why am I on this rant, well, you’ll see why this is rel­a­tive in a minute.

As much as I don’t like Hillary AT ALL, based on both suf­fer­ing through Clin­ton Wash­ing­ton (which wasn’t as cor­rupt as Obama’s is going to be, but still bad) and then as her con­stituent that her staff con­tin­u­ally brushed off in New York, I’m sure you remem­ber the appalling “pimp­ing out” episode for which there is absolutely no excuse, which if I were Hillary, or even Chelsea for that mat­ter, I would have got­ten the bas­tard fired over. And pub­licly humil­i­ated.  Because it’s an atti­tude that’s wide­spread, par­tic­u­larly among men in their late twen­ties and thir­ties right now.  And cer­tainly Gen-X.  Not to men­tion the Boomers.

Paul Begala is cer­tainly smart, but he’s a sex­ist son of a bitch.

You know if I wanted to get bitchy, I could air some dirty laun­dry that would start to make those boys blush.  Bright red.

For exam­ple, not only do I know where Spitzer decided to set up his whore house in New York, and who gave him the idea, not to men­tion rat­ted on him so he would be sure to be wire­tapped before he took Amtrak to DC, but I also know who let him into his hotel room the night he got busted.

And yes, he was wear­ing his socks.

That’s a warn­ing and a threat.  And push me too far and some very nasty and embar­rass­ing dirt will begin to sur­face.  I don’t play that game, but push too hard and con­tinue to ignore us, and play these stu­pid games, and you’re about to meet Larry Flynt meets Jason, chain­saw intact, (metaphor­i­cally speak­ing of course) on the pages of a global “National Enquirer.”

Don’t EVER screw with a girl with far too many gay friends in very strate­gic places in DC like me, or hope to keep some­thing secret.  Wher­ever I am on the planet.

I didn’t fight for racial equal­ity to have black snobs who got ben­e­fits I never got offered, ape white big­oted elit­ists.  But that’s exactly what the Obama admin­is­tra­tion is doing and many black elite politi­cians that con­sti­tute the “black clique” or “Obama crowd” depend­ing on whom you’re talk­ing to.  On steroids.

And these are ALL black male politi­cians by the way brought to you by the same man who has a daugh­ter with a severe neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­abil­ity.  Then again, Axel­rod shoved the child­care on his wife, who was forced to give up her career while he pur­sued his.

What a change, right?  And how pro­gres­sive.  Just like the “Mom-in-Chief.”  Keep mommy at home while daddy gets to pur­sue his career. How pro­gres­sive.  What a change.

Kiss my ass.

And of course women, accord­ing to the President’s chief eco­nomic advi­sor, Mr. Sum­mers, are only good for pro­cre­ation.  An atti­tude even Har­vard found so appalling they fired him from the Pres­i­dency of the Uni­ver­sity, but Obama over­looked both that and Sum­mers’ overly close, one might say inces­tu­ous, asso­ci­a­tion with Wall Street and hired him any­way.  Just like Gei­th­ner.  Says some­thing about Obama’s value sys­tem I should think.  Some­thing NOBODY has both­ered to even com­ment on.  I guess it’s okay to be a sex­ist, elit­ist, cor­rupt prick, and say absolutely awful things about women or hire those who do, if you’re black.  Or even dis­crim­i­nate period.

WRONG.  SPIN AGAIN and try another answer. Because that’s not the right one or one I’m set­tling for.  And as it hap­pens also is illegal.

I’m still the only film­maker TO THIS DAY, who has ever filmed real Native Amer­i­can reli­gious cer­e­monies (they don’t even like to be pho­tographed, much less filmed as they believe it steals your soul, like many indige­nous peo­ple across the world).  As well as the only inde­pen­dent film­maker to get onto the base of Fort Ben­ning, home of the noto­ri­ous School of the America’s.  I’m telling you, I kicked some ass at DoD, includ­ing for cost over­runs, and envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion.  And called the VA to task for mis­treat­ing vet­er­ans and DoD for its hor­rific exper­i­men­ta­tions on ani­mals.  Access was sort of like that scene in the first Star Wars when Luke and Obi Wan first encounter the Storm Troop­ers right before they enter the can­tina.  Luke freaks.  Obi Wan calmly tells the storm trooper what to say, and the storm trooper lets them through.  I learned Jedi mind tricks with DoD a long time ago.

I’ll leave it at that.  The next con­sult­ing ses­sion costs a bun­dle (just kid­ding.  Depends on who’s calling).

May the Force be with you.

But back to the seri­ous stuff.   Natasha Richard­son died from TBI.  And trust me, she had gold if not plat­inum rated pri­vate insur­ance, the best that money could buy.  We have no idea what’s going to hap­pen to our vets, when TBI is being called “the sig­na­ture wound” of both Iraq and Afghanistan.

It’s a rare neu­ro­log­i­cal con­di­tion that few physi­cians have the train­ing to treat, and that the pres­i­dent just dou­bled the num­ber of peo­ple in the United States suf­fer­ing from the con­di­tion with one war Obama’s extend­ing, and another he’s esca­lat­ing, with no plan to help those with the con­di­tion (mean­ing that every gov­ern­ment agency in the coun­try, both at the fed­eral level and every state and city depart­ment, is now prime for a class action Rehab Act suit on those grounds ALONE), i.e. Jane Doe et al vs. the U.S. gov­ern­ment kind of sit­u­a­tion baby, with puni’s in the solar sys­tem if you don’t take care of the prob­lem NOW, that will also help lower the deficit, employ both the able bod­ied and those with dis­abil­i­ties (that cost the feds just in dis­abil­ity pay­ments alone the equiv­a­lent of the national debt BEFORE the crash), lower our car­bon foot­print, and really spread the wealth around for every­one, nobody at the White House or three par­tic­u­larly salient fed­eral agen­cies thinks this is impor­tant enough to call me back.

In fact worse than that.

Con­sider that when you think about the fact that Con­gress was going to elim­i­nate neu­ro­log­i­cal care for the poor from health­care deform, which includes a lot more con­di­tions than TBI.   Can you imag­ine?  Sorry, we get the best health­care in the world on your dime, but if you can’t afford the thirty grand a year to man­age a neu­ro­log­i­cal con­di­tion (the aver­age cost), sorry, tough luck.  Goodbye.

You know, as my great grand­daddy Mon­roe used to say, “that dawg won’t hunt.”

And it won’t if I have to do some seri­ous ass kick­ing.  It won’t be the first time and so far the score is Mar­guerite 1, the White House 0.

But over at 1600 Penn, the Pres­i­dent prefers to be an elit­ist and go golf­ing with Tiger Woods and meet with the UNC bas­ket­ball team than deign to block out some time on his cal­en­dar for some­one like me.  And prefers to meet with Brad Pitt, the biggest builder in New Orleans, who funded his project with vio­lent movies and porno­graphic pic­tures of his wife, who has no expe­ri­ence in eco­nomic devel­op­ment, none in clean­tech, none in sus­tain­able eco­nom­ics, none in envi­ron­men­tal law, none in civil lib­er­ties, none in poverty issues on a sys­tem­atic, pol­icy level, none in DC pol­i­tics, not to men­tion, who’s vio­lat­ing SEVERAL major envi­ron­men­tal laws, and has no ongo­ing stim­u­lus effect, but “looks good” because they’re both celebri­ties.  And pulled off “in secret” just to dou­ble the intrigue.

Give me a break.  With the North Pole ice­cap melt­ing in about six years, do you want a dumb movie star hav­ing meet­ings with the pres­i­dent about these things, or a per­son with real experience?

Obama didn’t even invite me to the White House for the sign­ing of the Omnibus Pub­lic Lands Man­age­ment Act, when I spear­headed the effort to save the largest piece of land in it, the Owyhee Canyon­lands, in the process, stop­ping one of the largest ille­gal land deals in the his­tory of the United States.  In Con­gress.  Almost com­pletely by myself.

To give you an idea of what I was up against, the deal was bro­kered by a small and unin­flu­en­tial fed­eral agency called the Depart­ment of Defense (the largest spender of tax­payer dol­lars out­side of enti­tle­ment spend­ing), the State of Idaho, the Depart­ment of Inte­rior and implic­itly backed by the Clin­ton White House.

I was 27.

Let’s see.

What was Obama doing at the same age?

As I recall from cam­paign pro­pa­ganda, not doing a par­tic­u­larly good job at two obscure pub­lic hous­ing projects in the Mid­west.  And this is WITH an Ivy League under­grad­u­ate degree AND a sup­port­ive fam­ily, in a city known for being the cen­ter of black pol­i­tics in the U.S.  Oh, and a guy.  And don’t kid your­self.  The black com­mu­nity is decid­edly regres­sive in a lot of things.  Women’s, gay and dis­abil­i­ties rights being just a start.

Who did Obama’s min­ions invite to the White House for the sign­ing of the bill?  Well apart from the fact that the social sec­re­tary is stu­pid, I guess they thought it would be bet­ter press to invite the white boy son of a dead celebrity movie star who has done noth­ing to deserve it except be related to his father.  Another white male who had NOTHING to do with either the craft­ing or the pas­sage of the leg­is­la­tion.  But since the White House is basi­cally star f*cking and sex­ist, obvi­ously the more appro­pri­ate choice than an invi­ta­tion based on merit.

Right?

And it makes it even bet­ter to pass over a WHITE WOMAN no less, who actu­ally deserves the credit and recog­ni­tion.  Who also hap­pens to have a dis­abil­ity.   Not to men­tion a far bet­ter pedigree.

Obvi­ously.  Mer­i­toc­racy is dead.

I mean it makes per­fect sense to me, espe­cially in a White House that flaps its lips about mer­i­toc­racy and hard work pay­ing off, but I don’t see too much going on, except pro­mo­tion of the image of the Great Mes­siah.  White rich boys get all the breaks, along with Obama’s elit­ist black cronies, invi­ta­tions, pro­mo­tions, men­tored, the sta­tus jobs, paid more, and invited to things they take credit for with­out doing any work on, and the rest of us, espe­cially white women in their for­ties and gimps, not to men­tion poor minori­ties and even the mid­dle class, con­tinue to get screwed.

That’s EXACTLY the change I was vot­ing for.

Weren’t you?

I think some respect is in order.  Not to men­tion an apol­ogy.  In per­son.  In the Oval Office.  With some gen­u­flect­ing on the other side of the desk.  If you think you’re so bloody bril­liant you dumb son of a bitch, you’ve just met your match.  Tit for tat.  I dou­ble dare you.  And I deserve it.

And, I’m sorry, but how dare you ignore me.  I am your con­stituent.  You work for me.  Not the other way around.  Hate to remind you of that buddy, but that’s the real­ity.  And on pedi­gree, I match you any day of the week. I don’t care that you went to Harvard.

So what?  Is that a badge of merit that makes you a Messiah?

Lin­coln didn’t either and you respect him.  But then I for­got.  He was a man.  And obvi­ously dif­fer­ent.  Women don’t count. We’re genet­i­cally infe­rior.  Right Summers?

You have no idea who I am, or that half (if not more) of my rel­a­tives pro­duced clas­sics you prob­a­bly stud­ied and cre­ated or wrote many basic the­o­ries, or coined phrases in the last cen­tury we take for granted now.  Or maybe not, con­sid­er­ing the screw-ups you are making.

But Paul Krug­man, Mr. Stei­glitz, Mr. Volker and most of cor­po­rate Amer­ica, not to men­tion any­one with an MBA cer­tainly knows my late uncle’s work.  My other pater­nal uncle is also very well known in reli­gious and aca­d­e­mic cir­cles, par­tic­u­larly at Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity, you know, the Messiah’s under­grad school for your last two years of col­lege, and those who know what the Dead Sea Scrolls are (he trans­lated them and knew 32 languages).

And you, as in Obama, know how many?  One was it?  What was that about being so superior?

Many peo­ple still also remem­ber my father’s work and fre­quently cite his writ­ings.  As an author, designer/artist, and nation­ally syn­di­cated Chicago Tri­bune edi­to­ri­al­ist who’s work Michelle’s parent’s prob­a­bly read, and non­fic­tion book writer (you should look him up some­time Axel­turf, if you haven’t already), and even fre­quent tele­vi­sion inter­vie­wee (a very big thing in the six­ties and seventies) and a well known critic of Sesame Street which was an effort to cut down on spend­ing on pub­lic edu­ca­tion by the Nixon gov­ern­ment, increase the role of rote learn­ing in edu­ca­tion, pre­cisely the kind that does not encour­age cre­ative out of box think­ing and prob­lem solv­ing, cre­ated epilepsy in chil­dren (some­thing not dis­cov­ered widely until almost twenty years later).

And used tech­niques also used by fas­cist film­mak­ers and sub­lim­i­nal mes­sage spe­cial­ists.  There is a way that the brain can be fooled visu­ally.  It’s one of the first film­mak­ing tricks you learn.  And used by every cam­paign polit­i­cal strategist.

But it’s exactly anti­thet­i­cal to the kind of train­ing that we need now if Amer­ica is to regain its foot­ing.  Sorry Michelle, but that’s another thing you don’t have a clue on.  And if you’re going to teach the Mup­pets how to gar­den, please don’t do it on a HAZMAT site, like your ill fated exper­i­ment on the White House lawn.  You really need a decent aca­d­e­mic advi­sor if you are going to ven­ture into edu­ca­tion, because so far, you’re look­ing stu­pider ever step you take.  Were you asleep dur­ing both your Ivy League adven­tures or just feel­ing sorry for your­self that you were black?

And sorry Rahmbo.  You can’t have both.  Because a brain that ques­tions, ques­tions every­thing.  Includ­ing the Gestapo tac­tics of “Demo­c­ra­tic con­trol at all costs.”  No mat­ter how odi­ous the candidate.

No way.  No how.  And go f*ck yourself.

And if not, go join the Repub­li­can party.  That is not what the Democ­rats are about.  And if they are, I’m leav­ing the party.   And so will a lot of other people.

We don’t need brain­less fol­low­ers and sheep.  We need a coun­try of inno­v­a­tive thinkers.  Which you are sti­fling in this effort that, I’m sorry, looks down­right fas­cist.  Espe­cially after what hap­pened in mid August.  I was pre­pared to give you the ben­e­fit of the doubt when I showed up at your town hall meet­ing in New York City on the lower East Side, before your goons beat me up.  So far the Jus­tice Depart­ment has hung up on me three times, the White House refuses to return my calls, and Nancy “Don’t Cry for Me Phar­man­tina” Let’s get this awful health­care deform bill passed Pelosi’s office also hung up on me three times too (she’s both Speaker of the House and the tit­u­lar head of the DLCC, the head of Orga­niz­ing for America.

So much for Democ­racy.  So much for the Demo­c­ra­tic Party.  They’re worse than the Repub­li­cans because they’re hypocrites.

So you failed.   With an F-.

This absolute gravedig­ger of a review, cri­tiquing my dad for his actu­ally very on the mark obser­va­tion about the func­tional illit­er­acy of the Amer­i­can pop­u­la­tion is absolutely fatu­ous and absurdly ill informed, par­tic­u­larly as it was writ­ten in the early sev­en­ties when school seg­re­ga­tion was still a hot but­ton issue in the courts and African Amer­i­cans even today still have prob­lems get­ting their GEDs, not because they are lazy, but because of the appalling state of pub­lic edu­ca­tion, thanks to con­tin­ued cut­backs by the very elites who send their own chil­dren to pri­vate school (like Obama), but cut back gov­ern­ment help for those who need it the most, have aban­doned pri­vate edu­ca­tion almost com­pletely, and chan­nel ear­marks to friends and rel­a­tives and then blame the poor for being lazy, when in fact they’re just not being given any opportunity.

And uh, I think Obama just said the same thing.  Forty years later.  He’s a bit late on the uptake, don’t you think?  Not to men­tion those ideas come from some­where.  I know Obama likes to take credit for his own bril­liance on every­thing, but sorry honey, no dice.  There’s evi­dence on this web­site that proves it.

I doubt if any mem­ber of Con­gress has vis­ited a pub­lic school in DC, where paint rou­tinely peels from class­room walls, leaks in the ceil­ings are com­mon, com­put­ers are nonex­is­tent (and trust me they don’t have them at home), and the teach­ers barely lit­er­ate them­selves.  Not to men­tion use text­books that are at least thirty years out of date.

As of today, at least 30 mil­lion Amer­i­cans, or 1/10 of the pop­u­la­tion lit­er­ally can­not read, mostly due to dis­abil­ity.  Add that to tech­no­log­i­cal illit­er­acy, or the so called dig­i­tal divide, and the num­bers are much higher than that, and in fact much closer to my dad’s pro­jec­tions, a fact that the idiot reviewer at Kirkus and in fact the equally idi­otic and dis­crim­i­na­tory elected elite in DC refuse to address even today.  Because it’s to their advan­tage to keep the major­ity of the pop­u­la­tion une­d­u­cated and not under­stand what they are really doing.

My dad is also known as one of the lead­ing thinkers in game strat­egy, and indeed designed many games him­self, (as well as the clas­sic swirl trade­mark for Parker Broth­ers as described in this pub­li­ca­tion on the sub­ject below about clas­sic trade­marks in Amer­ica) which as every idiot grad­u­ate from an elite high school, even one in Hawaii, much less a BA recip­i­ent from Colum­bia in polit­i­cal sci­ence should know, is the basis for much of polit­i­cal strat­egy and so-called “real poli­tique.”  I started beat­ing my father in games of strat­egy by age 10.  And this is the work of a man with a dis­abil­ity and Pur­ple Heart, (note the commander’s greater con­cern about the jeep) gained as a sol­dier in the U.S. army in WWII.  My dad lit­er­ally had to have his leg bolted back onto his body and was on crutches for a year.  Wel­come to the way we treat our vets.  And always have.

Which is why I’ve always been opposed to war, includ­ing the ones we are fight­ing now.  Not to men­tion opposed to Pres­i­dents and arm­chair gen­er­als who love to send kids to fight them, but don’t give a shit about what hap­pens to them.  But feel really macho and butch about invad­ing other people’s coun­tries, and killing their women and children.

It reflects in how we relate to our own selves and soci­ety.  And why we as as a soci­ety are so damned sex­ist. And violent.

That’s why it was even more galling to the niece of Peter Drucker who reor­ga­nized GM the first time around in the early 1940’s to have the White House com­pletely ignore my plan.  Which also deals with the reor­ga­ni­za­tion and green­ing of GM.  And I have a plan to do it again in a hurry that the White House has stu­diously been ignor­ing for months.  And this time green it.  Fast.  While pro­mot­ing Amer­i­can prod­ucts abroad.

DoD thought it was cool.  They also thought my plan, the only one in the coun­try, to employ peo­ple with TBI (plus other dis­abil­i­ties) was the cat’s meow.  And admit­ted that I was light years ahead of them AS AN AGENCY. And I’m no fan of DoD.  And the dis­like is mutual.  Most of my time in DC was spent expos­ing the fraud, waste, cor­rup­tion, envi­ron­men­tal pol­lu­tion and vio­la­tion of human rights by the national secu­rity com­plex.  Includ­ing those employed in that five pointed build­ing known as the Pen­ta­gon.  But I man­aged to get away with mur­der.  Fig­u­ra­tively speak­ing of course.  It’s a very use­ful skill to have.

Almost every other fed­eral agency AND the White House don’t give a fly­ing f*ck about TBI though, to the point that there was actu­ally a dis­cus­sion about EXCLUDING peo­ple with neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­abil­i­ties from par­tic­i­pat­ing in gov­ern­ment run health­care pro­grams.  Dis­abil­i­ties like epilepsy, TBI, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Autism, and even dia­betes, even though we don’t treat it that way yet.

And if you have them and you don’t have the thirty grand a year to treat them?  Sorry, you’re out of luck.  Even though we won’t hire you and force you to live on gov­ern­ment assis­tance and in poverty, includ­ing sub­stan­dard gov­ern­ment healthcare.

So excuse the rant, but this is my life.

If you want more infor­ma­tion about my work, my project, or any­thing else, this blog is an open book.  If you want to join me in Work Fair, I’m look­ing for some good peo­ple.  If you want to con­tribute to my legal defense fund, check out Chan­nel­ing Melville on the tab next door.  Your con­tri­bu­tion won’t be for charity.

But this is me.  Real fighter for rights, righter of wrongs, and yes, I know I swear like a sailor some­times, but uh, com­plain about that to Rambo and see what reac­tion you get.

I thought peo­ple might like to know a lit­tle more about me.  Sorry if it’s bor­ing, but you can skip it.

Work Fair is one of the most excit­ing projects and far ahead of ANY clean­tech pro­posal in the coun­try.  If you want an adven­ture, get in touch…..as soon as I fig­ure out how to put a mail­ing list on my web­site.  We can’t do it all.  Or know it all.  The def­i­n­i­tion of genius, as I was always taught, is know­ing when to say “I don’t know.”

This is Mar­guerite unplugged.  I thought you ought to know.

Or even might want to.  There aren’t many labels peo­ple can accu­rately stick on me.

That’s why indi­vid­u­al­ism and free think­ing, com­bined with com­mu­nal instincts and a love of what is good about this coun­try make what is hap­pen­ing right now so utterly tragic.

And why I am doing what I am doing and saying.

I hope you will join me, if not directly, then in your own per­sonal fight for the free­doms that have been slowly eroded in our own life­times (and I’m Gen-X folks, with lit­tle respect for peo­ple like Megan McCain, who’s igno­rance I find appalling) but not quite so much as the media’s con­tin­ual usage of her as a spokesperson.

Can’t you find ANYONE more intelligent?

Not to men­tion dis­gusted at the appalling hyp­ocrite Obama has turned out to be.

Fight back, fight back, FIGHT BACK.

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