Jordan Parisian, Prom, 2015

 

Jordan had a great time at the Prom this year.   He doesn't get dressed up in a tux very often as he prefers wearing Carhartt,  Sitka,  Merino wool and Berretta gear.

 

Check out this video he put together over the last year or so when he wasn't on a football field or in the weight room!

 

Jordan Parisian, Getting it Done, Having some Fun    

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A Voice in the Native American "Wilderness"

Monogamy and Lakota society today By Ivan F. Star Comes Out

I went to the Oglala Post Office the other day and found it unusually crowded. There were small groups gathered outside the building happily talking and shaking hands while some kept to themselves and still others scurried in and out as if they were extremely busy. I decided to wait for the crowd to clear out a bit and listened to KILI and watched people come and go.

Anyway, I noticed that most were young like in their 20s, 30s and 40s. I assumed that most have little ones to take care of. Then I thought about how many of these people are actually in a union where both the mother and father provide nurturing guidance and emotional stability for their children.

Based on what I have seen in my lifetime, I could almost guarantee that most were single parents and that this phenomenon is reservation-wide. In other words, most of today’s children are growing up without the benefits of a father and a mother within the context of a self-sufficient family.

From the teachings, stories, and songs I’ve heard in my 60-plus years on the homeland, I understand that such a union was not allowed until both man and woman were capable of self-sufficiency. I am referring to their ability to provide the necessary cultural teachings to their children as well as their ability to provide the necessities for them to grow up physically and emotionally healthy and stable.

Instead, I see young people “shack-up,” have children, and live off of and with their parents. This is bad enough but when one of the two decides to move on to another relationship because they did not like the one they are in, it is a devastating emotional blow to their children. The little ones have no choice but to survive in a less than healthy setting. The multi-family homes don’t help matters either.

I see that self-contained families are steadily becoming extinct. Such families were part of the structure of a tiospaye which comprised the nation. A child received the necessary nurturing within this unit. The strength and morality of a nation, or in this case, the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) was founded on the nuclear family unit.

Today, we are scrambling to “get a handle on” an alarming situation by identifying the cause (s) in order to arrest it. This is good and I apologize for not being able to participate. Standing to be corrected, we that finger of blame pointed at everything from alcohol/drugs to racism to bullying, but I contend that the absence of the nuclear family unit has played a major role in our overall situation.

Granted, there are single-parent families that came into existence through no fault of their own. We have no control over many things in this life. I applaud those single-parents and the few two-parent families who strove to raise their children in a good way. However, being few in numbers, these parents and their children are quickly overcome by the crushing distresses of our current morose society.

The nuclear family is not strictly a traditional contrivance as Christianity has its views on it too. Most Christian authorities and entities view marriage (also called holy matrimony) as a state instituted and ordained by God for the lifelong relationship between one man as husband and one woman as wife. They consider it the most intimate of human relationships, a gift from God, and a sacred institution.

Christ emphasized the importance and sacredness of lifelong marriage in his own teachings. He said that God had created mankind as man and female and that in marriage, “…the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Christian theology also affirms the secular status of marriage, but moreover views it from a moral and religious perspective that is above all social interests. In other words, even man-made civil laws recognize marriage as having social and political statuses.

Yet, I see that even mature and staunch traditionalists and Christians often don’t have a clear basis for their beliefs and/or principles. A sound perspective on the nuclear family unit or marriage is vitally important today as each new generation has been redefining the family unit to fit their particular social need or personal agenda.

I have to ask who is bearing the brunt of this societal shortcoming. Yes, our children are the only ones to suffer. I see that any original cultural teachings have steadily diminished with each generation. For one, my late father said that once a man and woman have a child, that child becomes a priority and their personal goals and desires are secondary. Only one of our children is following this protocol.

One debilitating but popular concept among Lakota people is polygyny. Primarily, polygyny is a Christian view of a man married to more than one wife at a time. I find this idea in government documents and American history in relation to the “Indian.” As a Lakota person, this concept always rubbed me the wrong way and caused me to search for answers. I share my findings.

First, tiospaye life was such that orphans, single parenthood, and homelessness did not exist, among other modern social troubles. So, very basically, if the male died during a hunt or a fight, his oldest brother’s or cousin’s obligation was to take in his surviving children and widow and would actually live in his home until the mother was able to enter another relationship/nuclear family for the children.

I can only imagine early European “explorers” seeing this, and being of sound Christian influence, saw polygyny. Today, polygyny is legal only in most nations on the African continent, in the Middle East, and for Muslims only on the island nations of Malaysia, Philippines, and Sri Lanka. Sadly, Lakota men seem to have been influenced by this model, even today. Thus, single parenthood.

Second, we must realize that when one nation overpowers another, widespread genocide takes place to ensure the smaller group does not regain stability and power. Thusly, the enervating idea of the Lakota practicing polygyny was implanted in our written history. It is not discussed openly. Instead I am continually hearing men joke and talk about their ancestor who had more than one wife.

Yes, we may be a broken group of people but that does not mean we have to accept it. As a group of mature adults, I have confidence in our ability to look past our petty biases and agendas and see our predicament for what it is. Perhaps, we need to look at Planned Parenthood guidelines for starters. Our ancestors used it within the nuclear family unit and were better for it.

(Ivan Star Comes Out, POB 147, Oglala, SD 57764; (605) 867-2448; mato_nasula2@outlook.com)

The Great American Recovery, Obama Style...........

This is what America gets for the last 6 years while adding $8 TRILLION of new debt.

Simply an embarassment to common sense.   There is no difference between Republicans and Democrats.

Never underestimate the stupidity of the American Voter.

Guard your liberty America!

The Clintons look good from a distance. As Yale Law School graduates they mastered the language and style of the mandarin class. It is only when you walk through the looking glass into the Arkansas underworld they came from that you begin to realise something is horribly wrong.

You learn that Bill Clinton grew up in the Dixie mafia stronghold of Hot Springs, and that his brother, Roger, was a convicted drug dealer who was once taped during under-cover surveillance saying "got to get some for my brother, he's got a nose like a vacuum cleaner". You learn about sworn testimony that links Clinton to cocaine smuggling in the early 1980s. You learn that Clinton's chief of security in Little Rock was gunned down in 1993 by assassins who seem to be enjoying immunity.

Oh, yes, and let us not forget the allegation that Bill and Hillary helped empty a bank called Madison Guaranty - but I will leave that to the special prosecutor, Kenneth Starr.

Bill Clinton is not the first president with the skeletons of the mob in his closet. Harry Truman, for instance, was a protege of the Pendergast crime machine in Kansas City. All you have to know about Bill Clinton is that he chose Patsy Thomasson - top lieutenant of convicted cocaine dealer Dan Lasater - to be his White House chief of personnel.

Once that has sunk in, you can start to understand how seriously this president has been compromised, and how much of a threat he could pose to the democratic system if allowed to get away with incremental abuse at a national level.

The Clintons wasted little time taking charge of the US Justice Department. All US Attorneys were asked to hand in their resignations. It was a move of breath-taking audacity, one that gave the Clintons control over the prosecutorial machinery of the federal government in every judicial district in the country.

They then set about eliminating the Director of the FBI, William Sessions, who was known for his refusal to countenance White House interference in the affairs of the Bureau. The post of FBI Director is supposed to be a 10-year appointment that puts it above politics. But Sessions was toppled in a Washington putsch, without a murmur of protest from America's press, and replaced by the hapless errand boy Louis Freeh. And I almost forgot, the Clintons installed their friend Webster Hubbell as "shadow" Attorney General - until Hubbell was jailed for Arkansas crimes.

When you are living through events day by day it is hard to know whether you are witnessing a historic turning point, or just mistaking the usual noise of politics for something meaningful. But there is no doubt that strange things have been going on in America.

The Clinton era has spawned an armed militia movement involving tens of thousands of people. The last time anything like this occurred was in the 1850s with the emergence of the southern gun clubs. It is easy to dismiss the militia as Right-wing nuts: it is much harder to read the complex sociology of civic revolt. At the very least the militias reveal the hatred building up against the irksome yuppies who run the country.

It is under this president that domestic terrorism has become a feature of life in America, culminating in the destruction of the Oklahama federal building on April 19, 1995. What set the deadly spiral in motion was the Waco assault two years before, and the cover-up that followed.

No official has ever lost a day's pay for precipitating the incineration of 80 people, most of them women and children, in the worst abuse of power since Wounded Knee a century ago. Instead of shame and accountability, the Clinton administration accused the victims of setting fire to themselves and their children, a posthumous smear that does not bear serious scrutiny. It then compounded the injustice by pushing for a malicious prosecution of the survivors.

Nothing does more to sap the life of a democracy than the abuse of power. Public trust is dangerously low. According to polls, barely a quarter of the American people now feel that they can count on the federal government to do the right thing.

A majority refuse to accept that Vincent Foster committed suicide, and they have good reason for their doubts. The paramedics and crime scene witnesses in Fort Marcy Park on July 20, 1993, tell a story that flatly contradicts the official findings. A police Polaroid shows a .22 calibre bullet wound in Foster's neck that the autopsy somehow failed to note. Are Americans to believe that Hillary Clinton's closest friend shot himself twice, with two different guns?

The Washington press corps has chosen not to report on this sort of thing, of course, because it always gives more weight to the utterings of an "official" source, with a title, than it does to the testimony of a common citizen. It has the matter backwards, in my opinion, because the "official" usually has the greater interest in lying.

Even so, the truth is getting out. Unauthorised stories are reaching the public through the samizdat links of the Internet and talk radio. From there it disseminates by word of mouth, spreading a thick layer of cynicism across the country.

Of all the bad things that Clinton has done to America, the worst is turning the FBI into a federal replica of the Arkansas State Police. Whether it is the persecution of dissident investigators in the air disasters of Pan Am 103 and TWA 800, or allowing the White House to peruse the secret files of political opponents, or the alledged intimidation of key witnesses in the Foster case, the FBI is starting to look like the enforcement arm of a police state.

The latest shocker is the decision to punish Frederic Whitehurst, the whistle-blower who first came forward with tales of corruption at the FBI crime labs. An internal inquiry has conceded that the lab tilted evidence "to incriminate the defendants" and cooked up the theory that a fertiliser bomb blew up the Oklahoma federal building after it found fertiliser at the house of a suspect, Terry Nichols. But the Justice Department seems more interested in denigrating Whitehurst, the lone hero of this sorry tale, than flagellating itself.

Look at the treatment of Carol Howe, the undercover informant who tracked the early stages of what appears to be the Oklahoma bombing conspiracy. The moment she surfaced as a threat to the "lone bomber" case against Timothy McVeigh, this January, she was indicted on criminal charges.

The FBI claims that she was dropped as an informant months before the bombing, but debriefing reports show the Bureau continued to receive her intelligence weeks after the blast. They also show that she named members of a neo-Nazi terrorist cell who had cased the Oklahoma federal building in December 1994 with the intention of bombing it. Yet the FBI did not follow up her reports. It conducted 26,000 witness interviews, most of them irrelevant, but could not find time to pursue the suspects who were specifically named by a paid informant.

This leaves the nasty suspicion that the FBI is shielding this neo-Nazi group in order to cover its own tracks. If it turns out that the bombing was a bungled sting operation by the FBI, as some of the victims are now alleging, the only fit response is to send bulldozers down Pennsylvania Avenue to flatten the Hoover Building once and for all.

A monument should be raised on the rubble of the FBI headquarters that reads Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? (Who Shall Guard the Guards?) as a warning to free-born Americans of the next millennium.

 

 

 

Jon Corzine, a Goldman Sachs Con

Written by Erico Matias Tavares of Sinclair & Co.

"Exactly two years ago we decided to visit the Matisse exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Here’s what we wrote to other UK clients later that night:

“Tonight a friend and I decided to go see the Matisse exhibition during the late night session at the Met. We got there late and had to rush in to have enough time to enjoy some of the finest paintings ever produced by Mankind.
As we got closer to the end, I found myself standing next to someone I had never met, but whom nevertheless felt very familiar to me. Then it struck me who he was. I turned to my friend in disbelief. We both took a step back, looked again at the person, then at each other once more. It had to be him. We were standing next to Jon Corzine.
My heart immediately started racing. Suddenly all those repressed sentiments were turning loose, though I could still not entirely believe that the man who caused so much misery to thousands of people around the globe was standing right there. In the flesh. Carefree, enjoying the wonderful art around him guided by his headsets.
I started to think about what to do next. Should I make a huge scene? Or should I just forget about it, now that the administrators indicate that we will get most if not all of our money back? No. I just could not let it slide.
I decided to wait for him at the exit. My friend moved away, not entirely sure about what was about to happen. Then he got out, put down his headsets and looked out into where I was standing. This was my chance.
“Mr. Corzine?”, I calmly asked. “Yes!”, as he immediately reached out for my hand. I said, “I am a client of MF Global. How do you feel about that?”
His eyes turned down as he began muttering some pavlovian remarks. The few things he said that stuck were “I’m sorry”… “I’m being sued”… “there will be losses”… Then he said people are getting their money back. At that point I replied, “My money is in the UK, most of us got nothing back. Many people are struggling.” More remarks followed: “bad regulations in the UK”… “there will be losses”… “I’m being sued”…
That is all I had for him. Did not want to dignify him by displaying any emotions. The courts will not criminally judge him for what he did. But he knows that the anonymous person in the crowd will. Anytime, anywhere."
 

Dean Parisian @ SPAGO, Beverly Hills

Obamacare, seriously...............

Why do Democrats want to exempt taxpayers who didn't enroll in Obamacare on a timely lawful basis, from paying penalties for not enrolling according to what the law dictated?

There isn't a shred of common sense with this bunch of theoretical idealists!

And they wonder why most Americans think the government is run by a bunch of fools.

It's obvious that former community organizers aren't worth shit at running any aspect of government!.