Disenfranchised Citizen

The lawyer says:

It ain’t what you know, it’s what you can prove…

The toxicologist says:

Lawyers don’t know a whole hell of a lot about toxicology…

“Nicholas Forte has spent the last year with an array of health issues. Headaches. Migraines. Nausea. Breathing problems so severe they would land him in the hospital.

“We have no idea what it is,” the 22-year-old Battle Creek resident told Michigan Messenger. “Then it escalated to seizures.” And while the seizures landed him in the hospital — at one point stopping his heart and his breathing — doctors are at a loss to understand why. Tests indicate none of the expected patterns for epilepsy.

Finding out why the formerly healthy young man had suddenly fallen ill drove him and his family to listen to Riki Ott, an environmental toxicologist who has been tracking the health impacts of oil spills on human beings since her home was impacted by the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. Ott was in Battle Creek Wednesday night at the invitation of local activists. And when Forte asked Ott about his symptoms, she nodded an affirmative.

“We see that in 16-year olds in the Gulf,” she said. And Forte was not the only person she may have given much-needed answers to. Nearly 50 people gathered to talk about headaches, nausea, burning eyes, memory loss and rashes. There were young and old, African-Americans and whites, rural residents and city dwellers, all with one thing in common — they live by the Kalamazoo River and were exposed to last year’s Enbridge Energy Partners Lakehead Pipeline 6B.”

Ken Feinberg says, “Jesus, you didn’t actually watch all that did you? No? Thank God…oh, and she hasn’t proved a thing. Just check the methodology.”

Have a nice day.

Really, not making it up at all: Obama Delivers Impassioned Defense of the Labor Movement

And hey, sounds pretty good, until you remember that, well…this speech was given in front of Union People in Detroit on Labor Day.

Whereas on Debt Deal Day, in front of the Nation, he was all about giving all the money to all who were much more wealthy than laborers…not that I’m saying he’s a conniving politician/liar…oh wait, yeah, that’s what I’m saying. Ask the citizens of Wisconsin and Ohio, you know, when their governors were destroying unions and Presidential Obama was forgetting about his shoes, and the promises of Campaign Obama.

Perhaps it’s time to formulate the new narrative, one that no longer involves politicians and keeps its focus on protecting family, especially when one considers family is your entire community, your country… America.

But, more to come on that in the future…

I crushed up ergot and made it a paste. I spread it on the dollar bills.
Everyone who touched it caught the disease for luscious bits of landfill.

It sparked an epidemic of self hate. They wanted it so bad they could kill.
Everyone believing everything ain’t enough, trampling bodies on the tread mill.

Makin’ money, all things shiny
(If you don’t spend it, you are spent)

Bullet into gun, barrel lips pout, finger in the ring, money into mouth

The first letter in Sydney is a dollar sign. The first symbol in London is a pound.
The life ain’t yours ’til you fuck it away. The dream ain’t yours until it’s burned to the ground.
The city of beauty is built on the dead, temple of wealth is built on the poor,
Spend life just passing away ’til you get up off your belly and crawl.

You are allowed to burn books, hope can rot. Dreams go up in flames, that’s ok.
We’ll turn a blind eye if you burn a poor man but if you burn your money…

You’re going to pay.

Anger is a currency, acidically mad, hatred is the new economy.

I am the inspiration of every wicked woman, viciously corrupt, greed is monogamy.
All power, all truth, all knowing, all destroying, all dying… not caring

Have a nice day.