Shut Us Down to Show Us Down

October 1st. What a beautiful day to shutdown NASA. What?! Son of a dog. Now they done did it!  You thought that they were done creating crises for us? How do you like your shutdown? Shaken or stirred? Poor Denzel. He is going to have a hard time playing Obama in the movie. Obama plays Obama best. Never mind the weak jokes. What I want to know is how many years it took them to prepare this cherry on top of their terrorist pie. This is too big of an operation to put together within a few months. You still care about who utters what lie?

GOP shutdown. What do I care?

I Am Tired of Looking at White Pete

As I was reading a post written by Hued Flower, I felt like writing a comment. I had a long day, and as I lost my notebook with over three weeks of unprocessed notes, I was not fully centered. My notes are useless to other people, because I do not use names of others unless I make lecture notes. I can imagine that the notebook nevertheless makes an interesting read. I learn from this. I should not have let go of the notebook so someone could write something down that I did not need. I have already taken steps to change this habit.

Without my notes, it is more difficult to put together articles. I was going to write on banking for one site, and on using temporary work agencies to get employment on NBP. Among many many other things.

The White Serenity Spell

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt. -- The Counsels of the Holy Father St. Francis, Admonition 27

This quote calling for submittance by Francis of Assisi is used, because some attribute the serenity prayer to him. White Wikipedia shows that a guy named Niebuhr is to be credited. Let Pete and the pale horses argue about it. The serenity prayer is only relevant because it is the main spell used in AA, and the Twelve Steps of Black Anon are based on the twelve steps of AA. Once upon a time some jhws got together and decided that they were going to start a cult based on helping themselves to ban the-evil of alcoholism from their lives. They had such an appetite for alcohol that the only thing that was left for them to do, was to put a Higher Power in between them and the-evil. As they claimed success,

Black Anon

The Twelve Steps of Black Anon

1. We admitted we were powerless over racists and racist behavior - that our lives had become unmanageable because we gave them our power.

The Ridicule Points Towards A Precious Mind

It is important to attend to the minds of your children. If you do not do it, the school will when they train their brains to comply with their sick teachings. They will infuse them with the images of powerful white people and a pitiful Black Pete. The acceptance of these distortions opens the way to our children being ridiculed, and held back without a second thought.

I take offense to the ridicule, but it is the covert operation to hold our children back that really gets me upset. Our children are neglected and abused.

Now Where Did I Leave My Kwakoe?

In 2011 the Dutch government refused to give a license for the yearly Kwakoe (Kwaku) festival in Amsterdam, and for the first time in its history there would be no festival for the Surinam community to enjoy. The government claimed that it could only allow for a budget of 100,000 Euro when a total of about 200,000 Euro was needed.

The government did not want to invest, even though it would see a return in its investment in the form of jobs, licenses, public transport and parking, and of course taxes.

Article 1 of the Dutch Constitution

Article 1
All persons in the Netherlands shall be treated equally in equal circumstances. Discrimination on the grounds of religion, belief, political opinion, race or sex or on other grounds whatsoever shall not be permitted.

Article 1 of the Dutch Constitution stands for equality before the law and the prohibition of discrimination. However, when it comes to Sinterklaas en Zwarte Piet (Santa Claus and Black Pete) the Dutch act as if article 1 only applies to the white Dutch. They consider their blatant exhibition of racism in the form of their blackfaced Petes - and thus ridiculing Black people as a whole - as their constitutional right, instead of a violation of other people’s human rights. Especially the Black Dutch from the former Caribbean colonies are not entitled to equality before the law nor can they successfully claim protection against discrimination.