Wiki leaks have exposed the embarrassment of our country. It has also exposed the fact that Obama and his hope and change is just an illusion. It appears that Clinton has been doing business the exact same way as Rice was.Some hope and change.Another reason, I have the feeling I have been suckered.
The republicans aren't even in "power" yet and already they have stoped the Homeless Vet.Bill and the unemployment extension. They say they don't have the money to pay for it. They don't want to bankrupt our children's and grandchildren future. But they sure as heck don't mind messing with the Climate change that will screw them up way more than no money ever could!One guy actually had the audacity to say God will take care of it! I think the Koch's, among others, will actually NOT take care of it!I can only imagine how much money is being tossed around to keep the greenhouse effect from being an issue.
If you are looking for ways to "trim" the budget how about starting with defense? Base closings are a great way to start. I think the best way,though is to check the bills being submitted by private contractors. The $1000.00 hammers,for starters!If we actually had someone working for us in congress,scrutinizing every single bill that was turned into the pentagon,then we would be saving billions,right there.And the homeless vets and unemployed would be taken care of. Among other worthwhile causes.
I will be voting for Obama again in 2012,but I won't be a happy camper about it . I am convinced that he is not the man I voted for.I also think that it is too late in the process to get a viable opponent up and running with a war chest large enough to defeat him. I would not want the Democratic party split . As much as I have been disappointed with Obama, I still want him over ANY Republican there is .ANY Republican!My fear is if we split the party,then some knucklehead like Sarah Palin or Newt Gingrich ,might slip in. I would rather have Obama ,with all his MANY, faults ,than either of those two know-nothings.Can you imagine Sarah as president?Get the passports ready. Canada would be looking mighty good!
I love when I cruise thru the FB pages of the right wing and see all the hatred that is thrown toward Obama.They can dress it up any way they want but it is pure racism. If they took the extra second and googled some of the stuff they rant and rave about ,they would see he isn't anything near the big ,bad,bogey man they make him out to be. With all his talk,we still have the Patriot Act. Drone missiles.Iraq is still being fought. .Afghanistan is huge, The wiki leaks have shown us that most of the war mongering Bush policies haven't changed. Gitmo is still open for business.Off shore oill drilling is still allowed...and the beat goes on.And that was pretty funny last year, when he joked about the drone missiles taking out the Jonas Bros. About as funny as Bush looking for the WMD's, at same function a few years ago.
So I guess if you have read this, you can see I am not a happy camper. The way this country is headed ,I don't think I will be for a while. But,I have lived thru Kennedy being killed,Nixon, St. Ronnie,Bush 1 Bush 2,Cheney, and I will get thru this. After all it is just politics.......As usual.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
The Concept of Big Box Stores
Let the games begin!Only 28 days til Christmas! Get your shopping done!The flyer's have been put in the papers.The bargains are there for you. All that's left is for you to do your part in making some corporation richer.The Walmart's ,Best Buy's ,Target's,etc.are waiting for you to enter.Spend,spend,spend.If you don't ,you will be hurting the economy! Plus,your kids will have a lousy Christmas, if you don't get the newest item! And millions and millions buy into that BS.
These places are not your friend!They are not your community's friend.hey are not America's friend .They roll into town with cheap items.They get tax breaks .They hire hundreds of employees,but with the exception of a few pay them minimum wage.They also make sure their hours are under 32,so they don't have to be called full time. They open up local bank accounts,which they promptly close .This means their money is heading right back to Home Office. They cherry pick their charities.Meaning, they don't ,in actuality, help the town at all.
They lure you in with cheap prices,but how many times have you just bought what you went in for .You roll in planing on spending say $25-50 and roll out having spent well over $100. Some savings. Meanwhile,the folks down on main street are soon out of business,because they were charging an extra $5 on same items. You know those people .They are your neighbors.They go to the same church ,or are members of the same clubs .You went to school with them. You may have even worked for them when you were in school,or just starting out .They are also the ones who year after year have kept their money in town,so it could be reinvested into local projects. They are the one's, who if you were a couple bucks short, would let you slide til payday. They are the ones, who might give you a temporary job, until you got back on your feet ......or might even drop off the product on their way home.
As someone who once worked at Walmart,for two and a half years,I can tell you, for a fact ,they are not your friend!.I have also known people who have worked for other Box store and it is the same game plan..Screw the worker,screw the consumer ,and make as much money as they possibly can. Nothing wrong with making money. Plenty wrong with how you do it.
I haven't even touched on how the BBS spend their profits,on candidates and projects,that want to ruin this country, even more . That's a whole other kettle of fish!
This Christmas season ,I will be doing ,as I have for the last 40 years, shopping downtown,spending a couple extra dollars on stuff , and knowing I am, in reality, helping the economy,far more that I ever would shopping at the Big Box Store.
These places are not your friend!They are not your community's friend.hey are not America's friend .They roll into town with cheap items.They get tax breaks .They hire hundreds of employees,but with the exception of a few pay them minimum wage.They also make sure their hours are under 32,so they don't have to be called full time. They open up local bank accounts,which they promptly close .This means their money is heading right back to Home Office. They cherry pick their charities.Meaning, they don't ,in actuality, help the town at all.
They lure you in with cheap prices,but how many times have you just bought what you went in for .You roll in planing on spending say $25-50 and roll out having spent well over $100. Some savings. Meanwhile,the folks down on main street are soon out of business,because they were charging an extra $5 on same items. You know those people .They are your neighbors.They go to the same church ,or are members of the same clubs .You went to school with them. You may have even worked for them when you were in school,or just starting out .They are also the ones who year after year have kept their money in town,so it could be reinvested into local projects. They are the one's, who if you were a couple bucks short, would let you slide til payday. They are the ones, who might give you a temporary job, until you got back on your feet ......or might even drop off the product on their way home.
As someone who once worked at Walmart,for two and a half years,I can tell you, for a fact ,they are not your friend!.I have also known people who have worked for other Box store and it is the same game plan..Screw the worker,screw the consumer ,and make as much money as they possibly can. Nothing wrong with making money. Plenty wrong with how you do it.
I haven't even touched on how the BBS spend their profits,on candidates and projects,that want to ruin this country, even more . That's a whole other kettle of fish!
This Christmas season ,I will be doing ,as I have for the last 40 years, shopping downtown,spending a couple extra dollars on stuff , and knowing I am, in reality, helping the economy,far more that I ever would shopping at the Big Box Store.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
The Bush Tour 2010
Right out of the box,I want to know why this guy isn't in jail?Bush,Cheney,Rumsfeld,etc.Why aren't they in jail? I am greatly disappointed in Obama,Holder,Pelosi,and whoever else felt they needed to be absolved of the war crimes, committed by those guys. Torture and false imprisonment are just two of the jailable offenses.Outing an active CIA agent,because you don't like her husband, is pretty disgusting,also. Now Bush is going to be making millions,probably,off of his book . I know there are also millions of people who feel the same way as I do.I hope there are ,at least.
This man lied about a war the we are still in nine years later.The cost has been in excess of 4000 dead and over 30,000 wounded!The fiasco in Katrina was not all of his fault. The New Orleans' government were just as unprepared. It is the aftermath,though.As president of the USA,that should NEVER have happened !He should have immediately had what ever supplies were needed brought in.He waited 2days at least before doing anything.
This man is a disgrace,and our country will be paying for years ,based on his incompetence.His vice-president has made millions off the war and Bush is going to make millions off his version of history. Again ,a disgrace.
To go back to my original question.Why is this man NOT in jail!
The financial ruin of the country is a direct result of his lack of oversight on Wall St. and the banking industries. It all looked rosy, when he was in charge .People buying houses , walking around, with pockets full of money.It was nothing more than a house of cards which have come tumbling down.! And we are holding the bag!
I wish that instead of Matt Lauer or Oprah Winfrey, it was Bill Moyers ,Keith Olbermann ,Tom Brokaw,Rachel Maddow ,someone of that stature ,interviewing him.But that's a pipe dream.It will never happen ,because then he might have to answer some real questions .,and follow ups to those questions!
So carry on war criminal . Make your millions with your revision of history,but I won't be either reading it or watching you push it .You will never ever screw me again!
This man lied about a war the we are still in nine years later.The cost has been in excess of 4000 dead and over 30,000 wounded!The fiasco in Katrina was not all of his fault. The New Orleans' government were just as unprepared. It is the aftermath,though.As president of the USA,that should NEVER have happened !He should have immediately had what ever supplies were needed brought in.He waited 2days at least before doing anything.
This man is a disgrace,and our country will be paying for years ,based on his incompetence.His vice-president has made millions off the war and Bush is going to make millions off his version of history. Again ,a disgrace.
To go back to my original question.Why is this man NOT in jail!
The financial ruin of the country is a direct result of his lack of oversight on Wall St. and the banking industries. It all looked rosy, when he was in charge .People buying houses , walking around, with pockets full of money.It was nothing more than a house of cards which have come tumbling down.! And we are holding the bag!
I wish that instead of Matt Lauer or Oprah Winfrey, it was Bill Moyers ,Keith Olbermann ,Tom Brokaw,Rachel Maddow ,someone of that stature ,interviewing him.But that's a pipe dream.It will never happen ,because then he might have to answer some real questions .,and follow ups to those questions!
So carry on war criminal . Make your millions with your revision of history,but I won't be either reading it or watching you push it .You will never ever screw me again!
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Tuesday..Nov.2 and Keith O.
Well ,Tuesday sure sucked!I honestly wasn't prepared for the way 3/4 of the Tealiban got in. I expected a few..I never expected the amount that did. It has left me a little shell shocked. I am so disappointed that so many of my country men would get sucked in like that.I am determined to never let this happen again.Whatever it takes ....whatever...I never want to see this travesty of the politcal landscape change for the worse,like it has.
I am prepared to help organize ,volunteer,join people united in the same cause.If Obama gives in to their whims,then he needs to go.This country might very well pay for this voter apathy for decades,or we can unite and make it a fleeting blip on the radar. It is up to us .Talk is cheap.It really is time to put up or shut up.And I am talking about me and like minded people.It is already starting ,the pushing "their agenda.
Keith Olberman got tossed off the air Friday. I think it is a direct result of the huge move to the right ,the country took. They can deny it anyway they want,but it is pretty strange they get in on Tuesday and he is gone by Friday.
I know they are saying he broke some kind of company policy,but I think that it a lot of smoke and mirrors. He is the loudest voice of the left out there. The list is a small one who speak up the way he does
I have known about Keith ,since his days in Boston,as a local sportscaster. As with most of his jobs he wasn't here that long.He did leave an impression on me though.I liked his style. I have bumped into him around the dial here and there through out the years.He at some point fell of the radar. Imagine my surprise channel surfing one night and there he was. As a newsman,no less. I was instantly hooked.That was around six years ago.
A kind of strange thing happened Monday night with me .I was watching his show and he dropped the Worst Persons in a large part to what Jon Stewart had said the previous Saturday . Stewart had commented on the fact that Fox and MSNBC ,in particular seemed to be a main reason for the hate being ratcheted up in the country.I tended to agree ,to a point,clearly, myself falling on the MSNBC side. I will save it for another day my thoughts on Fox. Keith then did something that surprised me .He proceeded to rip Stewart for ten ,minutes defending both himself and MSNBC.He was right on a few points ,but overall ,to me, it almost came off like sour grapes. I was extremely disappointed with his attitude.
Tuesday arrived and as I have said ,it wasn't any fun. I made a decision to cut back on my TV politics viewing and rely more on what I pick up on the web.Newspapers and blogs that I trust.I thought that I would watch maybe a little more CNN and maybe a little less MSNBC. Nothing cast in stone,but that was my short term thoughts. Then Friday afternoon arrived. Keith Olberman had been stripped of his show for what amounts to a minor infraction.
I am now outraged.I honestly think this is the start of something very ,very, wrong.You can justify his suspension, til the cows come home,but I truly think, this is exactly what I was afraid of, in the first place. Keep the voices quite,unless you agree with us. There was a country, back in 1930, that did this exact same thing,and we all know how that turned out.
I am not going to be quite about this. It has started and now we must also. Who will be next?What minor infraction will Rachel Maddow do? What line will Micheal Moore cross,that will be deemed illegal? What will any Left thinking person do, that will cause the Right to silence them?
This isn't 1930,this is 2010!Let's act like it!
I am prepared to help organize ,volunteer,join people united in the same cause.If Obama gives in to their whims,then he needs to go.This country might very well pay for this voter apathy for decades,or we can unite and make it a fleeting blip on the radar. It is up to us .Talk is cheap.It really is time to put up or shut up.And I am talking about me and like minded people.It is already starting ,the pushing "their agenda.
Keith Olberman got tossed off the air Friday. I think it is a direct result of the huge move to the right ,the country took. They can deny it anyway they want,but it is pretty strange they get in on Tuesday and he is gone by Friday.
I know they are saying he broke some kind of company policy,but I think that it a lot of smoke and mirrors. He is the loudest voice of the left out there. The list is a small one who speak up the way he does
I have known about Keith ,since his days in Boston,as a local sportscaster. As with most of his jobs he wasn't here that long.He did leave an impression on me though.I liked his style. I have bumped into him around the dial here and there through out the years.He at some point fell of the radar. Imagine my surprise channel surfing one night and there he was. As a newsman,no less. I was instantly hooked.That was around six years ago.
A kind of strange thing happened Monday night with me .I was watching his show and he dropped the Worst Persons in a large part to what Jon Stewart had said the previous Saturday . Stewart had commented on the fact that Fox and MSNBC ,in particular seemed to be a main reason for the hate being ratcheted up in the country.I tended to agree ,to a point,clearly, myself falling on the MSNBC side. I will save it for another day my thoughts on Fox. Keith then did something that surprised me .He proceeded to rip Stewart for ten ,minutes defending both himself and MSNBC.He was right on a few points ,but overall ,to me, it almost came off like sour grapes. I was extremely disappointed with his attitude.
Tuesday arrived and as I have said ,it wasn't any fun. I made a decision to cut back on my TV politics viewing and rely more on what I pick up on the web.Newspapers and blogs that I trust.I thought that I would watch maybe a little more CNN and maybe a little less MSNBC. Nothing cast in stone,but that was my short term thoughts. Then Friday afternoon arrived. Keith Olberman had been stripped of his show for what amounts to a minor infraction.
I am now outraged.I honestly think this is the start of something very ,very, wrong.You can justify his suspension, til the cows come home,but I truly think, this is exactly what I was afraid of, in the first place. Keep the voices quite,unless you agree with us. There was a country, back in 1930, that did this exact same thing,and we all know how that turned out.
I am not going to be quite about this. It has started and now we must also. Who will be next?What minor infraction will Rachel Maddow do? What line will Micheal Moore cross,that will be deemed illegal? What will any Left thinking person do, that will cause the Right to silence them?
This isn't 1930,this is 2010!Let's act like it!
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