Mr Abdallah, please listen—and learn:

“Bob Beamon didn’t get a lot of encouragement as a child. Raised by his grandmother, his mother died of tuberculosis when he was 11 months old, and he never knew his father. He struggled with doubt, thinking he was unwanted, for many of his early years. In high school, a coach offered a glimmer of hope, saying he had the talent to go to the Olympics if he kept working hard. And he did.

It’s been 40 years since Beamon literally walked on air, obliterating world and Olympic records with a long jump of 29 feet 2½ inches at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Eloquent and thought-provoking, Beamon has become a sought-after public speaker. “I have a few messages, but education is the main thing,” he says. “It’s to get kids to deal with reality. Many of them become involved in drugs or something else, and it’s a dirty world when they get into drugs.”

Beamon compares the situations of stuggling inner-city youths to those in Third World countries, hoping to awaken a sense of appreciativeness and esteem.

“You know, overseas in the little villages of Africa, for example, there is no hope,” he says. “The children are dying of diseases and hunger and they can’t get medicine. Our kids here are throwing away food. We are really blessed over here, and I tell them that. I tell them, ‘I don’t care what color your skin is, what nationality you are or what religion you preach, there is opportunity here.’ ”

A few years ago, at a Manhattan hotel where he was a guest, the hotel’s assistant manager approached him. “Remember me, Mr. Beamon?” the young man asked. Beamon smiled but shook his head. “One day you gave an incredible speech at our school,” the young man told him. “I just followed what you said and tried to make something of myself. I just wanted to thank you for it.”

For Beamon, those experiences are the payoff and motivator behind his success, and the success of those he inspires.”

The Lesson:

The Bob Beamon’s of world will do far far more good than your proposals ever will—because Bob Beamon life is a living testament to the hope and power and promise of America.  Perhaps, Mr. Abdallah, you see yourself and others as helpless victims, destined to be nothing in this world. If so, you do a profound disservice to yourself and those others.  The Bob Beamon’s of the world have done more good for more people than any radical leftest agenda:

‘I don’t care what color your skin is, what nationality you are or what religion you preach, there is opportunity here.’ ”

Bob Beamon is a living proof of the truth of that statement.  Bob Beamon offers people something the Left never has—he believes.

The liberal blogsphere has largely accused HRC of being a Neo-Con, but Neo-Cons generally believe that Iran cannot be rationally deterred and that leaves the U.S. and it’s allies no choice but to launch a pre-emptive war with the goal of regime change.

HRC, instead, is arguing for deterrence, probably because she understands that this neo-con position is the real incentive for Iran to build nuclear weapons.

For a fuller discussion, see

Deterrence Works you Silly Little Liberal Nimrods.

My Alternative Plan to Hillary’s Obliterating Iran

First, a publicity campaign comparing the Jewish Holocaust that will never be forgotten with the Afro-American and Native Americans Holocausts that should not be forgotten either. Rev. J. Wright is the most qualified and most eloquent to lead this campaign; he has already started.

Second, a financial plan for reparations should be prepared, with every family of these two victimized groups receiving at least one million dollars, so they can be financially uplifted and they can build businesses and create dignified jobs.

Third, a similar economic uplifting plan for poor Americans, of all backgrounds should be devised and implemented.

Fourth, outlaw all racial and ethnic census and classifications. Just one nation of all nations.

Fifth, all this compensation for both groups should be borne by well-to-do Americans, not as charity, but as an overdue duty, especially the wealthy ones. And the cost of this reparation plan can be easily born by the government at less than one year cost of the Iraqi war. So, it’s doable.

Sixth, two huge memorials should be built to commemorate the victims of the Native Americans and the Afro-Americans.

Seventh, a formal apology by the U.S. Congress and Government should be issued to both these groups.

My sense of justice tells me that this is the minimum that can be done to heal the wounds of the past, and to start this nation on the path of healing and rebirth. Though I do not belong to one of these two victimized groups, nor I am a victimizer, being a recent immigrant myself (30 years), I am willing to accept a special tax to help finance this plan if necessary. However, I think the financial aspect of the project is the least problematic. The problem will remain with creating a noble political and social good will and sincerity to attempt to right great historical wrongs.

Finally, unless and until a plan of this nature will be enacted, with good faith and sincerity, America will continue its downward movement towards destruction; all the signs are already there!

Both Hillary and Barak have been playing a game of “Can you top this”, (or maybe it’s a game of “chicken") trying to outdo each other in declarations of devotion to Israel and hatred of Israel’s rivals.

This outlandish statement by Clinton, expressing her willingness to “obliterate” Iran, is just the latest round.

So now the ball is in Obama’s court. What will he say now? “I promise to nuke BOTH Iran AND Syria, twice EACH — no matter WHAT they do!”?

And Israel, the pampered bitch of American politics, just stands by, primping as she enjoys watching the candidates destroy themselves, their party, and their country in fighting for her repulsive favors.

Wildness of my claims? Huh? Israel’s apartheid regime has long plotted the destruction of Iraq and Iran to eliminate obstacles to Israeli expansion. What you are seeing in Palestine is a small taste of what Israel has planned for the rest of the ME. Right now Israel and its powerful US lobby, including Christian Zionists, are howling for our current thug leaders to attack Iran. Big Oil and the MIC aren’t seeking to destroy Iran. Zionists are, and they’ve never denied it. The Zionists are much more dangerous to us than the Iranians. Stop deluding yourself and others.

“Neither the Japanese then nor the Iranian people now were in a position to hold their leaders accountable”

What a crock of ‘scheer’ BS.  It should read “Neither the Japanese then nor the Iranian people now had the will or courage to hold their leaders accountable”.

Iran has elections which reflect the complicity of the populace. Whether by ballot or by revolution, they could change the regime if they really wanted to.

What Hillary expressed so ineloquently was the US cold war doctrine of deterrence called Mutually Assured Destruction which prevented such a nuclear exchange from ever happening between the US and the USSR. Making it clear to Iran what the consequences of such an attack on Israel would be is just a reiteration of long standing doctrine on nuclear war.

Non-Credo, what Ahmadinejad has said about the holocaust and Israel:

“They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets.”

“We ask the West to remove what they created sixty years ago and if they do not listen to our recommendations, then the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do this for them.”

“The real Holocaust is what is happening in Palestine where the Zionists avail themselves of the fairy tale of Holocaust as blackmail and justification for killing children and women and making innocent people homeless.”

“The West claims that more than six million Jews were killed in World War II and to compensate for that they established and support Israel. If it is true that the Jews were killed in Europe, why should Israel be established in the East, in Palestine?”

“If you have burned the Jews, why don’t you give a piece of Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska to Israel. Our question is, if you have committed this huge crime, why should the innocent nation of Palestine pay for this crime”

“Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury.”

“Remove Israel before it is too late and save yourself from the fury of regional nations.”

“The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land. As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map.”

“If the West does not support Israel, this regime will be toppled. As it has lost its raison d’ tre, Israel will be annihilated.”

“Israel is a tyrannical regime that will one day will be destroyed.”

“Israel is a rotten, dried tree that will be annihilated in one storm.”

jackpine savage, April 26: “If we wanted to rid the world of nuclear weapons, we might start by decommissioning ours....”

As long as people still think that aggressive posturing is clever and that building nuclear umbrellas or whatever is good for employment, it is impossible to achieve any real or lasting progress never mind peace.

But supporting the military-industrial complex is no kind of answer to the needed solutions for global warming and climate change. Here we are with the economic recession and the food crisis and the GREAT USA FUCKWIT wants to go off and bomb Iran!!!

The writing is on the wall that the wrong kinds of expenditures are leading to disaster. Now you want to add nuclear contamination and mass murder as well??? So too do the unthinking Neocons in France and even still in Britain.......

The quandary of the disappearing bees which left crops unpollinated in America recently will be nothing to what comnes next if this military madness is allowed to continue as the excuse for solutions which really need global CO-OPERATION!!!