tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525Fri, 13 Sep 2024 06:12:55 +0000politicsimportscommentarypersonalobamablack starblogsdogseconomyentertainmentessayhealth carehistorymemoriespetspolireligiionspiritualityComments/notes on my move from L.A. back to hometown of Jackson, TNhttp://backtojackson.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-6175199210925153480Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:25:00 +00002010-10-26T09:29:41.360-05:00commentaryobamapolipolitics What follows is a response to an email sent by someone whose intellect and viewpoint I respect, but do not always agree with. This is a response to this an email which consisted of only a subject line and a link to videos:Email sent: Subject: I know I am going to get into trouble today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Z5KZ42GXw&eurlHere is my response: Hello my friend, OK, this one Ihttp://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2009/03/letter-to-obama-watcher.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-3472037402325345901Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:23:00 +00002009-03-05T15:29:12.489-06:00dogspersonalpetsSince relocating back home to Jackson, I have contemplated getting a dog. It had to be pure bred and it had to be totally devoted to me. So my plan had always been to get a puppy, well-bred, and bring him home at no older than 6-10 weeks.I approached this like I do everything, with much thought, preparation and research. I spent months poring over web sites, reading, and watching TV shows http://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2009/03/coco-canine-tale.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-9159717430940796609Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:21:00 +00002009-03-01T18:03:19.104-06:00obamapoliticsDo you wonder how we did it? This is long and detailed, but you MUST take the time. This is how we did it. Case Study: The Barack Obama StrategyView more presentations from Socialmedia8 Amsterdam. (tags: lacomunidad socialmedia8)http://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2009/02/yes-we-did.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-1158357712064920342Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:57:00 +00002008-10-16T20:32:34.273-05:00personalIt's been so long and so much has happened, personally, professionally, emotionally, and in the world since I last posted here. Where do I start. As is always best...at the beginning.Personally, I want to just be with me. Just me. I know it appears outwardly that is where I have always been. Not so. I have been me attached to someone or something or me reaching for someone or something. Nowhttp://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2008/09/back-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-1465353848933439855Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:32:00 +00002008-12-11T12:37:22.721-06:00economypoliticsI haven't been here in awhile, I know. I have to be truly moved. Count on my old ally the NY Times to do just that. Gretchen Morgenson revealed a story common to many Americans on the front page of the Sunday, July 20, 2008 issue that reveals the micro of our economy. Her article, "Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt" is an old song title that keeps on hitting home. Peter S. Goodman gives http://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2008/07/macro-micro-of-american-economy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-3229201905017605760Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:54:00 +00002008-12-11T12:37:23.016-06:00essayhistorypoliticsWhat follows here is an excellent treatise on the new world order. No more superpower for the US. We are heading toward a triumvirate of power: the USA, the European Union, and China.Parag Khanna, senior research fellow in the American Strategy Program of the New America Foundation introduces his essay on the new world order this way:"Just a few years ago, America's hold on globalpower http://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2008/02/waving-goodbye-to-hegemony-no-more.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-8213462518454509367Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:15:00 +00002008-02-08T12:15:51.670-06:00Full text of Barack Obama's platform and plans to change this country into the democratic roots of its past. This is a full text of Obama's plan, not just the overview from his web site. read more | digg storyhttp://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-blueprint-for-change.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-2514301591028508882Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:22:00 +00002008-12-11T12:37:23.199-06:00health carepoliticsPaul Krugman, New York Times columnist has a very clear, succinct explanation of the Obama and Clinton health care plans. Just when I thought it was safe to get Obama bumper stickers...again, I have to a pause. Read it Mr. Krugman's column here:The difference between the health care plans of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could well be the difference between achieving universal health http://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2008/02/health-insurance-clinton-or-obama.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-461779998065309088Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:37:00 +00002008-12-11T12:37:23.376-06:00politicsWe need a change in the leadership of this country; just as we did in 1960. We have that kind of opportunity with Senator Barack Obama. OVER the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the people who’ve told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That is why I am supporting a presidential http://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2008/01/president-like-my-father-by-caroline.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-4833589087821968786Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:11:00 +00002008-12-11T12:37:24.306-06:00politicsSomething fundamental has shifted in the Democratic Party, now that a throng of Kennedys has endorsed Barack Obama. Last week there was the widespread revulsion at the Clintons’ toxic attempts to ghettoize Barack Obama. In private and occasionally in public, leading Democrats lost patience with the hyperpartisan style of politics — the distortion of facts, the demonizing of foes, the secret http://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2008/01/kennedyobama-mystique.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-4468162664610569508Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:56:00 +00002008-12-11T12:37:24.501-06:00politicsAnyone following my political entreaties here will know that I supported Hillary Clinton. Hillary and Bill, always a safe bet in my book. Well...I am making a turn. I finally picked up Obama's The Audacity of Hope. The more I read, the more I heard my own voice. He did not just speak to me, he spoke for me, more eloquently and with more knowledge than I could have ever imparted. As I writehttp://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2008/01/making-turn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-1828315034203072493Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:39:00 +00002008-01-27T15:31:59.072-06:00entertainmentimportsDebra Dickerson's take on the return of late night pundits return to TV in January sans writers.read more | digg storyhttp://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-not-smoke-since-you-got.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-6762052556830894060Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:39:00 +00002008-01-27T15:34:24.719-06:00importspoliticsWASHINGTON—Republican strategist Karl Rove announced that he would step down from his role as White House deputy chief of staff to spend more time in the shadows. "I've been away from the shadows too long, and it's put a strain on my relationship with those black forces I hold dear," an emotional but upbeat Rove said.read more | digg storyhttp://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2007/12/rove-resigns-to-spend-more-time-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-1139463284805623413Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:16:00 +00002008-12-11T12:37:24.811-06:00importsDebra Dickerson could have ended this piece after this statement:"...more Americans will come to accept that race is an arbitrary system for establishing hierarchy and privilege, good for little more than doling out the world's loot and deciding who gets to kick whose butt and then write epic verse about it."My inclination is to go with oft used text abrv8shn "LOL'd" when I read this comment. http://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2007/12/great-white-way.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-5343627086120340942Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:48:00 +00002008-01-27T15:34:37.859-06:00importsMy blidol (blog idol) Debra Dickson weighs in on study touting mothers' influence on kiddy racism.read more | digg storyhttp://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2007/12/racist-like-mommy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-5281606251171266551Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:56:00 +00002008-01-27T15:34:56.492-06:00black starWhile that might be a creative opportunity for artistic photographers and designers, for news editors, it can all be a bit of a nightmare — and for readers too when the photos skip the newspapers and land straight in your mailbox. Here are seven of the most famous photoshop fakes.read more | digg storyhttp://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2007/12/worlds-most-famous-photoshop-fakes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-6460101165141613854Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:37:00 +00002008-01-27T15:32:17.081-06:00memorieshttp://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2007/12/merry-high-classes-of-62-and-63-dance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-5608158541458692549Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:50:00 +00002008-12-11T12:37:26.094-06:00commentaryFormer President Richard Nixon confirmed that women are stronger than men in 1992. He did it with this comment about Presidential candidates wives, "If the wife comes through as being too strong, and too intelligent, it makes the husband look like a wimp." Think of it in this light, if a kitten meows too loudly beside a lion, the lion will be less ferocious. Please! If you walk into a room http://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2007/08/woman-know-thy-strength.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-925126884699912850Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:48:00 +00002008-12-11T12:37:26.600-06:00commentaryNeed to know and feel the pain of the black American's struggle for civil rights in this country? If you are my age or older, you have some real memory of Jim Crow and his aftermath. For those of you too young to have lived through any part, go to Memphis, Tennessee to the National Civil Rights Museum. There you get a pictorial and memorabilia tour of what it was like to be "3/5 of a man", tohttp://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2007/07/white-entitlement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-1007545145094955899Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:38:00 +00002008-12-11T12:37:26.780-06:00politicsA vote for Hillary is a vote for Bill. The words we dare not speak. The truth hits the fan. But we have to admit it...we want him back. Only she can bring him back to us, so we follow her. Through Hillary we get health care, a balanced budget (surplus!) jobs, prosperity, compassion for others, and most of all intelligence and discriminating thought, all that Bill brought us. All these are http://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2007/07/its-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-2857371407305411778Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:23:00 +00002008-12-11T12:37:27.109-06:00politicsUndecided about Hillary Clinton? I'm not. She is my 1st choice for President of the United States. I admire her. I respect her. But, no, I do not, necessarily, like her, if you use that term to mean warm, cosy feelings.Judith Warner's column is a good explanation of how many of Hillary's contemporaries feel about her. While she does not evoke any venomous dislike as is described in http://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2007/06/hillaryyou-gotta-love-her.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-8156691164077253350Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +00002008-01-27T15:35:54.642-06:00blogsSince I have been subscribing to The Last Plantation...is the Mind, I have become familiar with the writings of John Schwade. At first I was not overly impressed as I found his writing a bit tedious and overly detailed. But I kept reading because his subjects were usually so captivating. Well, he has now become a favorite. I find myself, now, trolling the Internet looking for me more than I http://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2007/06/grows-on-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-2029075829106527963Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:11:00 +00002008-12-11T12:37:27.960-06:00Yes, it is over. The Sopranos are no more. I sat on the sofa last night watching the final episode of Tony Soprano, his family, and all his paisans. At the time, I was not sad, just apprehensive and excited. My excitement was sprinkled with dread and carried along by hope, but hindered by fear. Suppose Tony gets whacked. I can't bear it! Suppose he turns states evidence and totally wimps http://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2007/06/good-bye-ton.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-2332847818087095373Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:17:00 +00002008-12-11T12:37:28.161-06:00"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."Bill Moyers spoke at the 2007 National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis, TN. The gist of this speech is summed up in http://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2007/06/r-i-p-freedom-of-press.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037525.post-4935703330721283843Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:54:00 +00002008-12-11T12:37:28.378-06:00Now I know. I knew I was not ready for what God wanted me to do here. I thought all it would take was time and opportunity. But no. What God meant when He kept telling me "not yet" was that I was not even ready to get ready. Now He says I am. God is good. He allowed me to get all I thought I had to have. He gave me some strength, will, and self-confidence before He to revealed His first part of http://backtojackson.blogspot.com/2007/06/i-surrender.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1