mindOFdemus User Blog

Hunt & Kill of Trayvon Martin

MoD Squad — 2012-03-20T19:34:19Z

This 1 is loaded! Stand Your Ground, NRA, Guns, ALEC, States' Rights, State of Racism, da South, Jeb Bush, Profiling, Safety, Vigilantes, Lazy Stupid Police, Loss, Justice, a Latino guy named George Zimmerman? Serial 911 callers may help police fight crime, clog-up emergency service or simply be a nuisance. After listening to the call before he murdered young, innocent Trayvon Martin and some of the calls he made prior to that, it was only a matter of time until Zimmerman shot him a nigger. Listen to psycho's calls

LeBron James - Closer, Choker, or just Confused?

MoD Squad — 2012-03-04T00:09:13Z

Some say he's scared to take the game winning/losing shot because he's been criticized for missing them in the past, but then, he's made quite a few. One thing is for certain, it's in LeBron's head now. Is shedding the responsibility of "closer' part of the reasom he's in Miami?

Piss in the Fridge - The Ryan Braun Controversy

MoD Squad — 2012-02-24T20:58:45Z

Baseball arbitrator, Mr. Shyman Das recently overturned Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun's suspension. In an interview following his exoneration, Braun vehemently defending the case's outcome. His camp raises questions about the chain of custody with the urine specimens that revealed testosterone levels three times higher than testers had ever seen. Apparently the samples were in the collector, Dino Laurenzi's care for over 40 hours before being delivered to FeDex. Seems like somebody is fibbing, or maybe a lab snafu, or maybe his testosterone level was spiked by something he ingested innocently. Your Thoughts...

Is Jeremy Lin the real deal?

MoD Squad — 2012-02-20T11:20:37Z

Linsanity? SuperLINtendo? Call him what you want, the media wasted no time or effort anointing this NBA rising star, the MSG Messiah. He's settled into being a pretty good player. Palo Alto to Harvard Yard to the Concrete Jungle. Will he crash & burn? Will his star continue to rise?

Whitney Houston: Best female singer U ever heard?

MoD Squad — 2012-02-20T11:07:45Z

Late great Whitney Houston has been a world music icon for decades, playing an essential role in the musical upbringing of many millions. We've not only sung along with Nippy's music, our mental musical library has her melodies splattered all over it. Most people agree, she's the finest female vocal talent they've ever heard. A combination of power, precision and sweet sound. What do you say?... Listen

Eradicating Stupidity

MoD Squad — 2012-02-20T11:03:10Z

Like an army of marauding ninja vampires, slithering around the underbelly of life, waiting to slip through the smallest crevice and seize the first opportunity to reappear and muck things up. Even while their thirst is dormant, they proceed to sink their fangs into the necks of the rational, sucking the sweet blood of logic from the veins of life. Before you can mount a defense, or even reach for an intellectual band-aid ---Boom! It's in your face and all over your favorite pair of shoes.

....You may ignore it, but that cuts to the heart of the matter. Asking some of us to ignore the power of nonsense, is like telling us to continue to brush our teeth with sandpaper because eventually it's going to feel better. You can run from it, but that's like trying to beat Jamaica's superhuman Usain (lightening) Bolt in a 100m dash. You can counter it with logic, reason and common sense, but that can prove to be equally exhausting, and in the end you may give in due to the sheer power in numbers. (read entire op-ed column @ mindofdemus.com)

Wall Street to K Street Pick-Pockets

MoD Squad — 2012-02-20T10:56:25Z

“Even banks are refusing to loan other banks...We need bottom-up economic reform” -Robert Reich
Wise words indeed. The test period has run its course on trickle-down economics and the result is rolling in right before our eyes. The cancer in our economy is no longer just the rebellious teenage version of “Reaganomics” We let it fester. Now we have a full grown bearded tumor eating at our gut.
The Occupy Wall Street movement, while still too fragmened to lay down a solid economic and/or political platform, fights a good fight in theory. What has been going on on Wall Street with giant investment firms and insurance companies has simply been fraud! Even after greasing their blue-blood palms with hard earned red blood money for decades, they continue to gouge the pie and cry hungry. Instead of going to jail for deceptive business practices, performed in new, innovative, unprecedented ways, they are getting bankrolled by the very people they have taken advantage of. The American people at large are clearly the pawns in this debacle, and it often seems their government is not on there side. Enough with politicians trying to score points by saying they’re going to "fix Washington” “Washington is broken.” (follow the entire "Crisis of Confidence" series @ mindOFdemus.com)

Negotiating with Terrorists

MoD Squad — 2009-10-22T13:48:00Z

Bill Clinton's trip to North Korea to meet with former N. Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and broker the release of two US journalists was judged by some, to be poor political strategy.
What do you think constitutes "negotiating with terrorists" and is it acceptable, depending on the terms and conditions?

Supreme Court

MoD Squad — 2009-10-22T13:36:00Z

Should Judges be selected to intentionally balance culture, race and gender on the bench?
What do you think about a Supreme Court Judge, waiting to see who becomes the next President, before he/she resigns, in order to ensure that they get replaced by another liberal or conservative?