Native Americans and The Poverty of Ignorance

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Sunday June 13, 2010 · 9:42 AM PDT

2010/06/13 · 09:42

I know Teacherken is a well read and is a respected writer here. I know the New York Times is well read and respected by some.

Why is it that both of these information and opinion sources discuss poverty and race in America in a very serious way, but fail to mention the poorest communities in our nation, which happen to be Native American?

The invisible people.

Ignorance is where someone or something is uninformed. There is a poverty of ignorance in America regarding The First Americans.

More below on poverty in America based on my experience in Shannon County on The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

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Wednesday May 26, 2010 · 7:52 AM PDT

2010/05/26 · 07:52

It is very alarming to see how vigorously the right is directing blame and responsibility for the BP disaster at The Obama administration. This is completely consistent with their disregard for the truth, and their ability to manufacture false political realities out of thin air. Alarmingly, voices on the left are reinforcing this message by complaining about the administration's tepid response. The last straw for me was hearing Sarah Palin claim that Obama was in the pocket of big oil.

It is critical that Obama shed his nice guy persona and start going for the throat, or this could fulfill the Right's wishes and end up being a Katrina-like event for his administration.

A perfect step would be to demand that Dick Cheney testify before Congress regarding his secret energy policy meetings early in the Bush admnistration.

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Sunday November 01, 2009 · 9:02 AM PST

2009/11/01 · 09:02

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Ceator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness."

Let me begin by saying that I may offend some in this community, because I will bring a spiritual perspective to a political discussion (particular apologies to Atheists). In fact some may see it as a very primitive sort of a spiritual perspective...one associated with tents on hot summer nights and snake handling. But I will leave the tent preaching aside for a moment.

Join me below the fold for a discussion of the most important issue currently facing our nation, a little snake handling, a little Constitutional theory, a little preaching, and the proposed ultimate solution.

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Thursday August 13, 2009 · 3:10 PM PDT

2009/08/13 · 15:10

Allow me to share my story of searching for a new Prius as an indicator that car dealers are abusing Cash For Clunkers.

Poll

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Do you think that car dealers should be prevented from increasing prices due to increased demand from Cash For Clunkers?

64 votes Vote Now!

Do you think that car dealers should be prevented from increasing prices due to increased demand from Cash For Clunkers?

Yes, they are abusing the program

52 votes

No, dealers are struggling also and can use the assistance

12 votes

A return to local banking

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Tuesday December 02, 2008 · 10:58 AM PST

2008/12/02 · 10:58

I recently removed my money from a consolidated, large regional bank to a local bank with a healthy balance sheet. It is healthy because they are in touch with the local community and understand the risk involved in loans based on that local market knowledge and direct contact with the person(s)or business receiving the loan.

A modest proposal: Instead of taking deposits of large failed banks and passing them to another large bank that is backstopped by the Treasury, why not distribute the deposit portfolio of a failed bank to various local banks based on the zip code of the depositor?

The money would be deployed in the form of loans much more rapidly and intelligently.

Madam Speaker, think of future Americans

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Saturday June 30, 2007 · 9:16 AM PDT

2007/06/30 · 09:16

There have been two impeachments of Presidents in the history of The United States. We all remember the most recent one and its shameless political motivation. The one prior to it, of Andrew Johnson, was equally political and almost as frivolous, though set against the background of difficult times historically.

Here now, in the case of the Cheney/Bush administration, the Democratic leadership is sidestepping the issue of impeachment because of anxiety about politics. Yet in this case we are dealing with SUBSTANTIVE abuses of office that deal with the very foundation of the Constitutional architecture of this Republic.

If we fail to punish this administration we will leave in place the laws, interpretations of laws, and the precedents that a future administration more devious and sinister than this country has yet seen could abuse in ways too horrible to imagine.

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Saturday June 16, 2007 · 8:58 PM PDT

2007/06/16 · 20:58

I called the chairman of my state’s Democratic party this week. I had been ducking his phone calls for a few weeks because he had been calling me to buy a table at our state partie’s big annual fundraiser. I have always been a team player and typically go along with the politically expedient path, but unfortunately the last two election cycles have taught me that the politically expedient path is too often a path into a dismal swamp of compromised principles.

So last week I informed our state chairman as well as our Democratic Congressman, that I would no longer donate to or support any Democratic organizations or candidates until impeachment was on the table in a big way. My only exception: if an individual candidate was both a credible candidate AND one that actively endorsed impeachment, I would consider donating to them (Sorry Dennis K...you only meet one criteria).

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Tuesday December 12, 2006 · 6:39 PM PST

2006/12/12 · 18:39

To me these questions about our media are as important as any I know. All the other issues members of this audience care about are funneled and filtered, increasingly, through big media. Dumbed-down news is not helping our democracy any more than homogenized music and national play-lists are giving us entertainment truly reflective of the creative genius of this diverse nation. We are paying too heavy a price for the lack of diversity, localism, creativity and competition that so much consolidation has visited upon us. There is a bottom line here and it’s this—the people don’t have enough say as to how their airwaves are being used and it’s time to do something about it.

These words were part of the public statement of FCC Commissioner Michael Copps at the second of six FCC public comment hearings on media consolidation and deregulation held Monday in Nashville, TN.

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Tuesday November 07, 2006 · 10:11 AM PST

2006/11/07 · 10:11

12:30: Reported from WSMV-4 in Nashville:

With Tennessee voters going to the polls, Ford claimed that a precinct in Jackson shut down because their voting machines weren't working. "They told all the polling workers to go home and the election officials to go home without giving any real guidance to voters. We've already leveled one (challenge) on behalf of voters who have been told they'd have to wait until later today to vote," Ford said.

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Monday November 06, 2006 · 10:11 AM PST

2006/11/06 · 10:11

I have been watching the TN weather forecasts all week, pinning a map of Knoxville and Chattanooga on my wall and doing a rain dance. Maybe it's paying off.(Maybe Pastordan can help with a weather prayer group).

Right now a front is headed into Memphis with rain. It will pass through Memphis into middle TN in the night and hit East Tennessee on election day.

Forecasts for election day from Weather.com: Read More

What Does The NY Times Have To Hide About U.S. Government Debt?

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Saturday November 04, 2006 · 9:22 AM PST

2006/11/04 · 09:22

Being very concerned about the level of our national debt and the threat it poses to our future economic security, a New York Times column by Floyd Norris caught my eye today. The article discussed foreign holders of U.S. Treasuries. It included a chart listing the top holders of U.S. debt. But that chart EXCLUDED two of the top debt holders listed on the U.S. Treasury website.

The chart lists the top ten holders (which are actually only part of the top 12 from the Treasury page), and the dollar amounts listed accurately reflect the numbers from the Treasury. But these two from The Treasuries top ten are omitted:

#4 Oil Exporting Countries (3) $ 104.8 billion.
#5 Caribbean banking centers (4) $ 68.2 billion. Read More

Dixie Chicks hold number 1 position fifth week running

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Wednesday June 21, 2006 · 7:50 PM PDT

2006/06/21 · 19:50

Wednesdays are chart day in Nashville with Sounsdscan advance numbers for the following weeks sales charts.
Today the Dixie Chicks hold their number 1 position on the Country Music sales charts for the fifth week, selling
130,242 units for a combined 5 week scanned total of
1,103,443 units. The number 2 album, Rascal Flatts is at
1,883,297 units after 11 weeks selling 72,804 this week.

The Chicks album continues to rock. Tell your friends, at this point every album sold is a poke in the eye to all those who try to undermine 1st ammendment rights.

(my usual disclaimer: I have no economic interest in the Chicks success)

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