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Finally! “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” Doesn’t Suck Anymore!
The producers and writers finally understand what the fanboys understood from Day One: “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” should be, and now is, a fast-paced spy show with superhero/supervillain undertones! RIGHT! Burn Season One! LOL! 🙂
And it was GREAT to see that version of Mockingbird! Y’know, while watching her, I kept thinking Adrianne Palicki would make a great Wonder Woman, without knowing she was Wonder Woman in that failed pilot!
Still Recovering From…….
My Root Article On Mumia Abu-Jamal……..

………..is here.
OCTOBER 24th UPDATE: Mumia speaks some more.
OCTOBER 29th UPDATE: And some more.
NOVEMBER 1ST UPDATE:
Another ‘Mumia Rule’
[col. writ. 10/22/14] ©14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Anyone even remotely familiar with my case knows about the ‘Mumia Rule’. That’s when the court or agency changes its rule or precedent to go against me.
When Amnesty International wrote about my case, that was it’s essential focus: that laws and precedents that applied to other cases, would be changed when it came to me..
In fact, when my habeas corpus case went before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, one judge, in dissent (Judge Ambro) essentially said, ‘I know of no reason why we don’t apply our precedents to Abu-Jamal.’
There was one reason: The Mumia Rule.
Now, the Mumia Rule has been enacted into law, the so-called Victim Revictimization Act, signed into law by unconstitutional Tom: PA Governor Tom Corbett.
What makes this remarkable is that Corbett, a former attorney-general, knows perfectly well that this is an unconstitutional law, in violation of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution. An unconstitutional law is like no law at all. He knows this for he’s a lawyer first.
Interestingly, he’s so much a politician, that he was busy running for governor when, under his very nose, children were being raped and abused in the Penn State scandal. As attorney-general, he was on Penn State’s board of trustees at the time these rapes and molestations were happening, and did next to nothing, until the scandal broke.
Oh-he reportedly received a generous contribution from the Chairman of the Board and members, and Jerry Sandusky, the central figure in the Penn State scandal.
Nice job, Tom. Too busy picking up campaign contributions to protect the kids?
Every politician and every lawyer who supported this so-called law did so by knowingly violating their oath of office to ‘protect and defend’ the PA Constitution, Art.1; Section 7; and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
They took an oath to honor the constitution – not their campaign contributors. They took an oath to protect the constitutional rights of all Pennsylvanians – not just their funders – the FOP (Fraternal Order of Pigs)
By violating their oaths they bring disrepute on their oath and office. By signing a law they knew to be unconstitutional they departed from the realm of lawmakers –and became constitutional outlaws.
They passed a Mumia Rule –yes- but the damage they have done is greater to themselves than to me.
–© 14maj
The Sore Winners In Pennsylvania
The people who have fought Mumia Abu-Jamal for 32 years (and won back then) won again a while back, and yet they still can’t enjoy themselves.
Below is Abu-Jamal’s statement to his supporters on his 60th birthday. He has been in custody since the age of 28, more than half his life.
His supporters have a point when they say that his opponents just want him dead. But the Abu-Jamal haters themselves took that off the table. So well into the 21st century, the former Black Panther Party member continues to write and speak. The fact that he is still alive–still conscious–rankles those who can’t destroy his presses, [OCTOBER 21st UPDATE] so…..
“Trangression: Whose Booty Is This?” Panel
Thought this was a nuanced discussion.
It’s A Superhero World, Vol. 2
And now, finally, DC strikes back! And with force! YES!
It’s A Superhero World, Vol. 1
Okay, all of us fanboys knew this was coming, but WOW! So soon!
(I thought it amusing that Robert Downey Jr. was allovertheplace discussing his future with Marvel.)
I will definitely take “Civil War” over “Iron Man 4.” (Particularly since Marvel made it clear it was going that way.) And Downey knows he has plenty of time to do the other things on his agenda once he finishes counting his Marvel money. 😉
It’s it all about Item 6 of this article, or is it that Marvel is just determined to go for broke creatively–and politically?
Theories abound as to how this adaptation will be handled. (I like this one and this one and this one.)
This is a wonderful age to live in, to see Marvel this serious about translating its characters’ conflicts into entertaining films.
Asante Sana, Ali Mazuri….
…..for giving me probably my first view of Africa–and one critical of the West, to boot!









