It's Hard To Clean House When Whites Live In A Vacuum

 The asshole with the megaphone is a white supremacist and Neo-Nazi who has recently been elected to represent the Republican Party as a committeeman in Luzerne County, PA. 

But - conservatives insist - the party doesn't have a problem,…

 

A Few Bad Breaks (Breaking Bad) Under Insane Beliefs

   "John Beard, Thomas Wilson, Alexander Scott, and Edward Thompson (the names they were known by in Pennsylvania) escaped enslavement of the Gorsuch family of Maryland and took up residence in Lancaster County.  Under provisions of the 1850 Fugitive Slave law,…

….Edward Gorsuch, a wealthy slaveholder, led a party of slave catchers into Lancaster County.  Hearing that they were on the farm of William Parker, a free African American, they, with the help of US Marshals, attempted to forcefully enact the arrest warrants. When Gorsuch and his men arrived, Eliza, Parker’s wife, blew a horn which summoned sympathetic neighbors.  Armed neighbors including former slaves as well as free black and white abolitionists converged on the Parker farm and confronted the Gorsuch party.  Fighting broke out and the elder Gorsuch was killed and his son wounded.  The US Marshals and the slave catchers retreated.

Later the Marshals returned with three detachments of US Marines.  By that point, William Parker and his wife Eliza were already en route to Canada, helped along the way by Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists.  Thirty-eight other men, however, were arrested including four white Quakers.  They were all charged with treason."

I Stopped Voting. Now It Must Be Time For Me To Leave The Republicans. They Don't Want Me. I Don't Like Them

America can be so disgusting, it's no wonder many conservatives are scared to be called racists:

"In 2009, I wrote about Judge Mark A. Ciavarella, one of two Pennsylvania judges who was paid bribes by a private prison contractor to send black children to prison and keep the for-profit prisons full. Ciavarella, who once sent an African-American child to jail for three months for posting negative comments about her assistant principal on MySpace, has been sentenced to 28 years in prison. He was convicted of racketeering, and has been stripped of his state pension."

Gee, I figure white kids go to jail for MySpace postings all-the-time - specifically to fill the prisons, right? But don't let a single black person in this country ever declare his home has it out for him, or he'll be shouted down by a self-righteous mob of white citizens, all insisting there's never anything unique about living with them. It's all in our minds. Like the Trayvon people. 

This is really starting to make my skin crawl. I know: 

 I'd better get used to it because - with these conservative cowards - I'm on my own,...

Erin In McClellandLand

Oh goodie - I've found a NewAge Democrat running for office - Pennsylvania's "New Kensington resident Erin McClelland, the director of a wellness center”:

"McClelland needs a compelling narrative to appeal to voters in Johnstown and Aliquippa. Former-ballerina-gone-curer-of-gastrointestinally-induced-depression just isn’t going to cut it as a storyline."

I don't know, it sounded like one Hell of a start to her,...

 

The Waiting Is The Hardest Part (One Of Them)

Ah yes, this sounds all too familiar:

"Her daughter disowned her as a devil-worshiping witch. Police didn't believe her allegations of brainwashing. And social services said they weren't equipped to deal with a cult."

Those first important days, when you're frantically trying to get help for your loved one and are, instead, forced to realize you've entered one of society's Twilight Zones, a gray cloudy area where speaking openly of cults and cultism are just as likely to get you deemed dangerous or crazy - or dangerously crazy - depending on how accepting of cultism's tenets your newly self-appointed interrogators are. And so, while you're coping with "you're just saying that because you don't believe" or "9-1-1 is a joke", events are allowed to proceed on their disastrous course, partially because you - the only advocate your mixed-up loved one has - have now been given reason to fear for your own safety and mental well-being. Meanwhile, the believers have gotten away with all you love and more. Inhale of it deeply, children, taste it like war. You'll never forget it:

"But Seeta Newton still would not let her grandson Javon go. Her dreams pushed her to hold on."

I've written too many times how the power of dreams undermine surrender. And can wreck whole days. Hell, the cult experience starts off surreal, which gets you to screaming in your sleep, and then becomes a mind-numbing day-to-day Banality of Evil kind of thing, much like watching a Nazi movie in slow motion; so, no, while they may subside for a while, dreams don't "move on", not when this type of belief is such a huge part of the zeitgeist.

"Two years later, police would find the petite young woman in a New York apartment, first mistaking her for a catatonic little girl. The mummified remains of her baby - starved because he wouldn't say 'amen' - would turn up in an old man's Pennsylvania shed, packed carefully in a green suitcase among mothballs and fabric-softener sheets."

Well, Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! The truth comes out and everybody swings into action, the publicity apparatus coiling around the latest bad news as it refused to do of the warnings that could've prevented them. Not a happy day, by any stretch, because this is now about facing the dead, and/or divorce, and/or financial ruin, or any number of other severe severings. I don't think dreams end, about anything of that magnitude, until something is somehow resolved. That's my experience anyway.

"It would take another two years for justice to be done."

Yea, like I said, it's all too familiar.

An Example Of The Government We Deserve

"The former secretary of a western Pennsylvania borough told a judge she spent some of the $200,000 she stole from the municipality on [a] psychic to contact someone in the afterlife."

-- The Associated Press

And isn't it bizarre that her "positive" NewAge beliefs didn't stop her from stealing?

Actually, no, it isn't.

Cultists Are The Same All Over: They Follow Everything - But The Law, Music, And Fashion!!!

"They have some philosophy,...It's kind of like a cult. They think they don't have to have insurance or driver's licenses. They don't even pay taxes. They basically think they don't have to follow the laws,..."

-- Bill Higgins, Bedford County, Pennsylvania District Attorney, on another crazy group of,...well, you know, on WJACTV.com.