Is there an American history tutor in the house? 'Cause Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-MN, needs one bad. The Tea Party's fave said that "the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States....Men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country”.
It is true that John Quincy Adams didn’t rest before slavery ended and that’s because he was dead.
John Quincy Adams was so against slavery he became a leading opponent of the Slave Power and argued that if a civil war ever broke out the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers, a correct prediction of Abraham Lincoln's use of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
The debate of slavery didn’t start until Hamilton’s presidency. In Fact George Washington was a member of the House of Burgesses which drafted a petition to the throne labeling the importation of slaves into the colonies from the coast of Africa "a trade of great inhumanity" And two years later he was certainly involved in the composition of the July 1774 Fairfax Resolves one of the resolutions of which recommended that no slaves should be imported into the British colonies. The resolutions took the opportunity of "declaring our most earnest Wishes to see an entire Stop forever put to such a wicked cruel and unnatural Trade." On the other hand in 1772 Washington himself purchased five additional slaves for use on his plantations.
In her speech, Bachmann makes the case that those that founded this country, wrote the constitution - didn't agree with slavery.
Section 2 of Article I states that apart from free persons "all other persons," meaning slaves, are each to be counted as three-fifths of a white person for the purpose of apportioning congressional representatives on the basis of population. Section 9 of Article I states that the importation of "such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit," meaning slaves, would be permitted until 1808.
And Section 2 of Article IV directs that persons "held to Service or Labor in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another," meaning fugitive slaves, were to be returned to their owners.
It’s hard to imagine that someone who represents a population of 614,935, has the backing from such, to make such comments that challenge everything that we were taught in elementary school.
It’s hard to imagine that her constituents would elect someone so uneducated to represent them.
This isn’t the first time we have heard from the uneducated members of congress or those trying to get there.
• Congressman Frank A. LoBiondo (R-New Jersey) made a very impassioned speech about the constitution but couldn’t get it right. Article 1 Section 1, he said was Free Speech. The Constitution tells us that Article 1 section 1 is - All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. What’s even more impressive here is that Articles don’t contain any of the Constitutional rights per say. The describe legislative powers, Executive powers, Rules of elections, term limits, presidential powers, ETC.
• Christine O'Donnell got tangled in the First Amendment, appearing unaware it separates religion and government.
• Sharron Angle from Nevada who almost took Harry Reid’s seat offered her interpretation of the constitution by saying “the second amendment ensures our right to free speech”….Perhaps that’s what she meant by “second amendment remedies”?
• Congressman Hare (D-ILL) was asked a question about the Affordable Care Act (or as the republicans call it “ObamaCare”) whether it was constitutional or not and instead of giving an intelligent answer, he said “don’t worry about the constitution”. When those challenging the new law’s only basis for suit is the Commerce Clause, but a interesting one that could throw the new law into limbo once it reaches the Supreme Court.
Don’t worry? Thinking the 2nd amendment is about free speech? Or that ANY Article in the constitution pertains to any of the rights found in the Amendments? What is our nation coming to when it’s people elect uneducated people to our nation’s highest offices?
So clearly this may appear to be a rant, but in the true fashion, it’s a rant against the American people, not those fortunate to get elected. It’s high time we set standards when we vote for those we send to Capitol Hill. And even more so, to our state houses and state and local elected offices.
Can you imagine a nation where the people we elect are smart, well traveled, educated by our best educational institutions? Perhaps then we will see to fruition all of the strong policy that the American people demand from it’s government.
Take the time, investigate your candidates and expect a higher degree of education from our leaders. If a blue chip or fortune 500 wouldn’t hire a well educated person. Why should we hire them to represent us?
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Friday, March 19, 2010
Really?
Comprehensive health care reform will cost the federal government $940 billion over a ten-year period, but will increase revenue and cut other costs by a greater amount, leading to a reduction of $138 billion in the federal deficit over the same period, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office. It will cut the deficit by $1.2 trillion over the second ten year period.
It also extends Medicare's solvency by at least nine years and reduces the rate of its growth by 1.4 percent, while closing the doughnut hole for seniors, meaning there will no longer be a gap in coverage of medication. The CBO also estimated it would extend coverage to 32 million additional people.
So the basic question I have is; what is right wing scared of? I mean to lessen the burden on the American people from the evil that is insurance companies seems natural. I mean what are we saying when the wealth says that “No health reform is needed that has any government oversight”? What? Are we to suspect that the Insurance companies are going to go at this alone? I don’t think so.
In most cases, even over the last 6 months since this debate has overflowed and burst into the hot cup of shit it is today, the insurance companies have done the exact opposite than what the bill and new legislation calls for. It’s also curious that they continue to raise rates, when overall the country was healthier the last 2 years compared to the previous 4. So what’s the deal?
In my mind – the far right, which does have a tendency of being rich, is trying to prevent their tax cuts of George W. Bush, (Which also went through the reconciliation process) to go towards the healthcare of Americans that can’t afford it. So in essence their greedy. Say nothing of the fact that they are trying to present legislation that would give government money, to 28 of the richest 40 counties in America for new schools, when it is VERY clear that hard economic areas like Philadelphia, many parts of Ohio, and many poor southern states could use the money to update their schools and education systems.
It’s always about the rich people. And then they call themselves Christians. As if to suggest that their pure hearts that occasionally seep with sin, never hold greed or anger and always give what is in excess. Right! Sorry, I was dreaming of the perfect world there.
Money isn’t the value of your life, it’s what you chose to do with it that makes the impact.
So again, What are you afraid of – the fact that now everyone will have the same chance to live as long as you or that your greedy heart can’t stand that you in essence are helping them live?
Think about it!
It also extends Medicare's solvency by at least nine years and reduces the rate of its growth by 1.4 percent, while closing the doughnut hole for seniors, meaning there will no longer be a gap in coverage of medication. The CBO also estimated it would extend coverage to 32 million additional people.
So the basic question I have is; what is right wing scared of? I mean to lessen the burden on the American people from the evil that is insurance companies seems natural. I mean what are we saying when the wealth says that “No health reform is needed that has any government oversight”? What? Are we to suspect that the Insurance companies are going to go at this alone? I don’t think so.
In most cases, even over the last 6 months since this debate has overflowed and burst into the hot cup of shit it is today, the insurance companies have done the exact opposite than what the bill and new legislation calls for. It’s also curious that they continue to raise rates, when overall the country was healthier the last 2 years compared to the previous 4. So what’s the deal?
In my mind – the far right, which does have a tendency of being rich, is trying to prevent their tax cuts of George W. Bush, (Which also went through the reconciliation process) to go towards the healthcare of Americans that can’t afford it. So in essence their greedy. Say nothing of the fact that they are trying to present legislation that would give government money, to 28 of the richest 40 counties in America for new schools, when it is VERY clear that hard economic areas like Philadelphia, many parts of Ohio, and many poor southern states could use the money to update their schools and education systems.
It’s always about the rich people. And then they call themselves Christians. As if to suggest that their pure hearts that occasionally seep with sin, never hold greed or anger and always give what is in excess. Right! Sorry, I was dreaming of the perfect world there.
Money isn’t the value of your life, it’s what you chose to do with it that makes the impact.
So again, What are you afraid of – the fact that now everyone will have the same chance to live as long as you or that your greedy heart can’t stand that you in essence are helping them live?
Think about it!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Sarah Palin - SHUT UP
It wasn’t so many years ago that the Vice President, Dickhead Cheney told Senator Patrick Leahy to “Go Fuck Yourself” on the U.S. Senate Floor. Why wasn’t it that there was a Rash Call for Cheney’s resignation from Palin then? Why wouldn’t she have asked for the resignation when Bush 43 used the sentence “if they wouldn’t stop doing this shit and acting like retards”? Which leads into Sarah’s second issue with Rahm Emanual.
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is calling on President Barack Obama to fire White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel over Emanuel's penchant for using profanity and a statement he made that was derogatory of the handicapped. Really.
The 2008 vice presidential candidate put up a Facebook post on Monday evening arguing that Emanuel's offending slur (in which he said that liberal groups thinking of running health care-related ads against Democratic lawmakers were "F---ing retarded") was no less the equivalent of using the "N-word."
"I would ask the president to show decency in this process by eliminating one member of that inner circle, Mr. Rahm Emanuel, and not allow Rahm's continued indecent tactics to cloud efforts. Yes, Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces that our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone Rahm's recent sick and offensive tactic."
The Obama Administration's Chief of Staff scolded participants, calling them, "F---ing retarded," according to several participants, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.
"Just as we'd be appalled if any public figure of Rahm's stature ever used the "N-word" or other such inappropriate language, Rahm's slur on all God's children with cognitive and developmental disabilities - and the people who love them - is unacceptable, and it's heartbreaking"
said Sarah Palin.
The Emanuel remark was reported recently by The Wall Street Journal but dates back to the heat of the health care wars in August. And it certainly wasn't the first time the chief of staff (known for an acid tongue) has leveled an odious broadside at one group or another from his perch in the West Wing.
Palin presumably seized on this one because of her own experience with the issue -- her youngest child, of course, suffers from Down syndrome. But it's hard to ignore the fact that making hay out of "controversies" like these is her political trademark, regardless of whether there is a personal tie to the matter.
It makes me laugh sometimes when I read things like this. The Republicans or some of them, want us to be sensitive about certain things, but then on others, no so much.
Don’t use the word Retard, as it is offensive, but screw those that don’t participate in Christmas, (Jews, Agnostics, Muslims, ETC) “I am not going to change what I say, to appease those that don’t believe” said one Sean Hannity. I will not use Happy Holidays or Winter Solstice.
I don’t get it? Is it me, or does the right want to be the ones to make the make the rules, and not follow the rules?
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is calling on President Barack Obama to fire White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel over Emanuel's penchant for using profanity and a statement he made that was derogatory of the handicapped. Really.
The 2008 vice presidential candidate put up a Facebook post on Monday evening arguing that Emanuel's offending slur (in which he said that liberal groups thinking of running health care-related ads against Democratic lawmakers were "F---ing retarded") was no less the equivalent of using the "N-word."
"I would ask the president to show decency in this process by eliminating one member of that inner circle, Mr. Rahm Emanuel, and not allow Rahm's continued indecent tactics to cloud efforts. Yes, Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces that our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone Rahm's recent sick and offensive tactic."
The Obama Administration's Chief of Staff scolded participants, calling them, "F---ing retarded," according to several participants, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.
"Just as we'd be appalled if any public figure of Rahm's stature ever used the "N-word" or other such inappropriate language, Rahm's slur on all God's children with cognitive and developmental disabilities - and the people who love them - is unacceptable, and it's heartbreaking"
said Sarah Palin.
The Emanuel remark was reported recently by The Wall Street Journal but dates back to the heat of the health care wars in August. And it certainly wasn't the first time the chief of staff (known for an acid tongue) has leveled an odious broadside at one group or another from his perch in the West Wing.
Palin presumably seized on this one because of her own experience with the issue -- her youngest child, of course, suffers from Down syndrome. But it's hard to ignore the fact that making hay out of "controversies" like these is her political trademark, regardless of whether there is a personal tie to the matter.
It makes me laugh sometimes when I read things like this. The Republicans or some of them, want us to be sensitive about certain things, but then on others, no so much.
Don’t use the word Retard, as it is offensive, but screw those that don’t participate in Christmas, (Jews, Agnostics, Muslims, ETC) “I am not going to change what I say, to appease those that don’t believe” said one Sean Hannity. I will not use Happy Holidays or Winter Solstice.
I don’t get it? Is it me, or does the right want to be the ones to make the make the rules, and not follow the rules?
Friday, January 29, 2010
For All of You Who Think Without thought!
What I don’t appreciate is you trying to make a point that President Obama makes this country unsafe, and your line here makes it seem that way. Need I remind you of the terror attacks against our nation under Bush? Too bad, I am going to anyway.
Attacks on this nation that took place under George W. Bush
• United States September 11th, 2009, New York City 2973 people killed
• United States: Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloids.
• United States, December 12: Jewish Defense League plot by Chairman Irv Rubin and follower Earl Krugel to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, and the office of Lebanese-American Rep. Darrell Issa, foiled.
• United States July 4: An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing two Israelis before being killed himself
• United States July 26, 2006 A woman was dead and five others were hospitalized this afternoon after a shooting at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building in downtown Seattle by a man who declared he was "angry with Israel."
• United States August 30 2006 An Afghani Muslim hit 19 pedestrians, killing one, with his SUV in the San Francisco Bay area.
• United States October 22 2007, A pair of improvised explosive devices are thrown at the Mexican Consulate in New York City. The fake grenades were filled with black powder and detonated by fuses, causing very minor damage. Police investigate the connection between this and a similar attack against the British Consulate in New York in 2005
• SGT Hasan Akbar, US Army, murdered two officers and wounded 14 soldiers in a grenade attack at an Army base in Iraq
• Bombings of United States expatriate housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160 in the Riyadh Compound Bombings. Al-Qaeda blamed.
• March 3 2006 Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.
• December 22, 2001, Richard Reid “Shoe Bomber” aboard American Airlines Flight 63 failed attempt
• November 23rd 2008, Afghanistan, Insurgents attacked US & UN Supply trucks carrying ordinances including bombs
• November 29th 2007 Iraq, 14 US Soldiers were killed at Ali San Airbase after 2 RPG (rocket propelled grenades) were shot over the fence line at the air base.
We’re still at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. And the U.S. economy is about as vibrant as the 4-12 Redskins. And hardly a peep have we heard from George, the 43rd. Except with an occasional sighting at a Dallas Cowboys game or for a Haiti Relief Video.
I love you conservatives that pluck him up on a pedestal as a GREAT AMERICAN LEADER and a MORAL HUMAN BEING. Really?
This is the man who gave us the war in Iraq and Guantánamo and torture and rendition; who turned the Clinton economy and the budget surplus into fool’s gold and who dithered while New Orleans drowned; who trampled our civil liberties at home and ruined our reputation abroad; who let Dick Cheney run hog wild and thought Brownie was doing a “heckuva job”.
This is a guy who decided to take his own personal religious views to decide an extremely important Stem Cell Research issue and deny science any federal grant $$.
The Bush administration specialized in deceit. How else could you get the public (and a feckless Congress) to go along with an invasion of Iraq as an absolutely essential response to the Sept. 11 attacks, when Iraq had had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks? Exploiting the public’s understandable fears, Mr. Bush made it sound as if Iraq was about to nuke us: “We cannot wait,” he said, “for the final proof -- the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.”
He then set the blaze that has continued to rage for nearly 7 years, consuming more than 4,000 American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. (A car bomb over the weekend killed two dozen more Iraqis, many of them religious pilgrims.) The financial cost to the U.S. will eventually reach $3 trillion or more, according to the Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz.
A year into the war Mr. Bush was cracking jokes about it at the annual dinner of the Radio and Television Correspondents Association. He displayed a series of photos that showed him searching the Oval Office, peering behind curtains and looking under the furniture. A mock caption had Mr. Bush saying: “Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere.”
And then there’s the Bush economy, another disaster, a trapdoor through which middle-class Americans can plunge toward the bracing experiences normally reserved for the poor and the destitute. Mr. Bush traveled the country in the early days of his presidency, promoting his tax cut plans as hugely beneficial to small-business people and families of modest means. This was more deceit. The tax cuts would go overwhelmingly to the very rich. He even went as far to remove 22 regulatory and treasury oversight policies that had been in place, since get this, 1952. What did he deregulate. Remember the SEC saying that they lost the ability to track the complaints that were filed against Madoff. The office that had been in charge of investigating those claims was “re-assigned” to mortgage fraud and overseas purchase rights.
The president would give the wealthy and the powerful virtually everything they wanted. He would throw sand into the regulatory apparatus and help foster the most extreme income disparities since the years leading up to the Great Depression. This time the flames would engulf the economy and, as with Iraq, bring catastrophe.
If the U.S. were a product line, it would be seen now as deeply damaged goods, subject to recall.
There seemed to be no end to Mr. Bush’s talent for destruction. He tried to hand the piggy bank known as Social Security over to the marauders of the financial sector, but saner heads prevailed.
In New Orleans, the president failed to intervene swiftly and decisively to aid the tens of thousands of poor people who were very publicly suffering and, in many cases, dying. He then compounded this colossal failure of leadership by traveling to New Orleans and promising, in a dramatic, floodlit appearance, to spare no effort in rebuilding the flood-torn region and the wrecked lives of the victims. And instead of “dealing” with it as the Whitehouse said, he was in Arizona with John McCain for his Birthday, eating cake on the tarmac. (I don’t believe that was Obama’s response to Haiti)
He went further, vowing to confront the issue of poverty in America “with bold action.” It was all nonsense, of course. He did nothing of the kind. In fact poverty got worse. 1 out of every 12 veterans from either Iraq or Afghanistan wars are now homeless, and 3 of 7 had been waiting over 120 for urgent needs, well that was up until February 2009, when the new VA policy went into effect. Millions of those whom he said would “prosper” from his bold action, not only lost their jobs, but lost their homes and lost their cities. Just ask Lansing Michigan and Moraine Ohio.
The catalog of his transgressions against the nation’s interests -- sins of commission and omission -- would keep Mr. Bush in a confessional for the rest of his life. Don’t hold your breath. He’s hardly the contrite sort. He told ABC’s Charlie Gibson: “I don’t spend a lot of time really worrying about short-term history. I guess I don’t worry about long-term history, either, since I’m not going to be around to read it.” the president chuckled, thinking -- as he did when he made his jokes about the missing weapons of mass destruction -- that there was something funny going on.
Please don’t tell me, that the measly 12 months, this president has been in office, gives YOU any right to say that OBAMA is unsafe for America. GEORGE W. BUSH was the PRESIDENT on 9/11!
THE WORLDS GREATEST FAILURE!
Attacks on this nation that took place under George W. Bush
• United States September 11th, 2009, New York City 2973 people killed
• United States: Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloids.
• United States, December 12: Jewish Defense League plot by Chairman Irv Rubin and follower Earl Krugel to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, and the office of Lebanese-American Rep. Darrell Issa, foiled.
• United States July 4: An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing two Israelis before being killed himself
• United States July 26, 2006 A woman was dead and five others were hospitalized this afternoon after a shooting at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building in downtown Seattle by a man who declared he was "angry with Israel."
• United States August 30 2006 An Afghani Muslim hit 19 pedestrians, killing one, with his SUV in the San Francisco Bay area.
• United States October 22 2007, A pair of improvised explosive devices are thrown at the Mexican Consulate in New York City. The fake grenades were filled with black powder and detonated by fuses, causing very minor damage. Police investigate the connection between this and a similar attack against the British Consulate in New York in 2005
• SGT Hasan Akbar, US Army, murdered two officers and wounded 14 soldiers in a grenade attack at an Army base in Iraq
• Bombings of United States expatriate housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160 in the Riyadh Compound Bombings. Al-Qaeda blamed.
• March 3 2006 Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.
• December 22, 2001, Richard Reid “Shoe Bomber” aboard American Airlines Flight 63 failed attempt
• November 23rd 2008, Afghanistan, Insurgents attacked US & UN Supply trucks carrying ordinances including bombs
• November 29th 2007 Iraq, 14 US Soldiers were killed at Ali San Airbase after 2 RPG (rocket propelled grenades) were shot over the fence line at the air base.
We’re still at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. And the U.S. economy is about as vibrant as the 4-12 Redskins. And hardly a peep have we heard from George, the 43rd. Except with an occasional sighting at a Dallas Cowboys game or for a Haiti Relief Video.
I love you conservatives that pluck him up on a pedestal as a GREAT AMERICAN LEADER and a MORAL HUMAN BEING. Really?
This is the man who gave us the war in Iraq and Guantánamo and torture and rendition; who turned the Clinton economy and the budget surplus into fool’s gold and who dithered while New Orleans drowned; who trampled our civil liberties at home and ruined our reputation abroad; who let Dick Cheney run hog wild and thought Brownie was doing a “heckuva job”.
This is a guy who decided to take his own personal religious views to decide an extremely important Stem Cell Research issue and deny science any federal grant $$.
The Bush administration specialized in deceit. How else could you get the public (and a feckless Congress) to go along with an invasion of Iraq as an absolutely essential response to the Sept. 11 attacks, when Iraq had had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks? Exploiting the public’s understandable fears, Mr. Bush made it sound as if Iraq was about to nuke us: “We cannot wait,” he said, “for the final proof -- the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.”
He then set the blaze that has continued to rage for nearly 7 years, consuming more than 4,000 American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. (A car bomb over the weekend killed two dozen more Iraqis, many of them religious pilgrims.) The financial cost to the U.S. will eventually reach $3 trillion or more, according to the Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz.
A year into the war Mr. Bush was cracking jokes about it at the annual dinner of the Radio and Television Correspondents Association. He displayed a series of photos that showed him searching the Oval Office, peering behind curtains and looking under the furniture. A mock caption had Mr. Bush saying: “Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere.”
And then there’s the Bush economy, another disaster, a trapdoor through which middle-class Americans can plunge toward the bracing experiences normally reserved for the poor and the destitute. Mr. Bush traveled the country in the early days of his presidency, promoting his tax cut plans as hugely beneficial to small-business people and families of modest means. This was more deceit. The tax cuts would go overwhelmingly to the very rich. He even went as far to remove 22 regulatory and treasury oversight policies that had been in place, since get this, 1952. What did he deregulate. Remember the SEC saying that they lost the ability to track the complaints that were filed against Madoff. The office that had been in charge of investigating those claims was “re-assigned” to mortgage fraud and overseas purchase rights.
The president would give the wealthy and the powerful virtually everything they wanted. He would throw sand into the regulatory apparatus and help foster the most extreme income disparities since the years leading up to the Great Depression. This time the flames would engulf the economy and, as with Iraq, bring catastrophe.
If the U.S. were a product line, it would be seen now as deeply damaged goods, subject to recall.
There seemed to be no end to Mr. Bush’s talent for destruction. He tried to hand the piggy bank known as Social Security over to the marauders of the financial sector, but saner heads prevailed.
In New Orleans, the president failed to intervene swiftly and decisively to aid the tens of thousands of poor people who were very publicly suffering and, in many cases, dying. He then compounded this colossal failure of leadership by traveling to New Orleans and promising, in a dramatic, floodlit appearance, to spare no effort in rebuilding the flood-torn region and the wrecked lives of the victims. And instead of “dealing” with it as the Whitehouse said, he was in Arizona with John McCain for his Birthday, eating cake on the tarmac. (I don’t believe that was Obama’s response to Haiti)
He went further, vowing to confront the issue of poverty in America “with bold action.” It was all nonsense, of course. He did nothing of the kind. In fact poverty got worse. 1 out of every 12 veterans from either Iraq or Afghanistan wars are now homeless, and 3 of 7 had been waiting over 120 for urgent needs, well that was up until February 2009, when the new VA policy went into effect. Millions of those whom he said would “prosper” from his bold action, not only lost their jobs, but lost their homes and lost their cities. Just ask Lansing Michigan and Moraine Ohio.
The catalog of his transgressions against the nation’s interests -- sins of commission and omission -- would keep Mr. Bush in a confessional for the rest of his life. Don’t hold your breath. He’s hardly the contrite sort. He told ABC’s Charlie Gibson: “I don’t spend a lot of time really worrying about short-term history. I guess I don’t worry about long-term history, either, since I’m not going to be around to read it.” the president chuckled, thinking -- as he did when he made his jokes about the missing weapons of mass destruction -- that there was something funny going on.
Please don’t tell me, that the measly 12 months, this president has been in office, gives YOU any right to say that OBAMA is unsafe for America. GEORGE W. BUSH was the PRESIDENT on 9/11!
THE WORLDS GREATEST FAILURE!
Friday, January 15, 2010
Conan & the Barbarian
Ebersol calls Conan an "Astounding Failure"? This from the guy who brings you the Winter Olympics that will lose the net $200,000,000?
Professionalism :1. the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a professional person, 2. Act in a manner in a becoming way
Neither of which Dick Ebersol follows.
The true issue here is that NBC failed. NBC Failed to allow Conan O’Brien the appropriate amount of time to get the show established.
The other issue is that NBC is catering to a guy who in no time will become the Michael Jordan or Brett Favre of TV Talk Shows. “I’m retiring ..... Wait, no I am not”. Jay Leno, may have for a long time been a great leader for late night. But in this changing land of television where more and more generation x-ers who grew up watching Conan, NBC is likely to see some push back, and Like David Letterman’s mother said last night, we might now have to resort to watching Letterman.
We are all hoping that Conan will end up back on TV as it is obvious he is the leader in Late Night. What we are hoping is either CBS or Fox picking him up and giving him a time slot that makes sense and kicks NBC square in the sack!
Palin Around
Attention FOX news watchers – Prepare to get stupider by the minute. Now that Sarah Palin is going to be a FOX Contributor and Fill in Host, you can bet that we will hear more “you-knows” and “Hunker-downs”. But in-case you missed it last night. Glen Beck asked who Palin’s favorite Founding Father was, her response – “all-of-um”......... Really? You’re going to do that again, when that work out so well for you during the Katie Couric interviews? Moron!
Ebersol calls Conan an "Astounding Failure"? This from the guy who brings you the Winter Olympics that will lose the net $200,000,000?
Professionalism :1. the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a professional person, 2. Act in a manner in a becoming way
Neither of which Dick Ebersol follows.
The true issue here is that NBC failed. NBC Failed to allow Conan O’Brien the appropriate amount of time to get the show established.
The other issue is that NBC is catering to a guy who in no time will become the Michael Jordan or Brett Favre of TV Talk Shows. “I’m retiring ..... Wait, no I am not”. Jay Leno, may have for a long time been a great leader for late night. But in this changing land of television where more and more generation x-ers who grew up watching Conan, NBC is likely to see some push back, and Like David Letterman’s mother said last night, we might now have to resort to watching Letterman.
We are all hoping that Conan will end up back on TV as it is obvious he is the leader in Late Night. What we are hoping is either CBS or Fox picking him up and giving him a time slot that makes sense and kicks NBC square in the sack!
Palin Around
Attention FOX news watchers – Prepare to get stupider by the minute. Now that Sarah Palin is going to be a FOX Contributor and Fill in Host, you can bet that we will hear more “you-knows” and “Hunker-downs”. But in-case you missed it last night. Glen Beck asked who Palin’s favorite Founding Father was, her response – “all-of-um”......... Really? You’re going to do that again, when that work out so well for you during the Katie Couric interviews? Moron!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Where's Michelle's Voice Now on the Census?
I occasionally like to throw out some interesting straight political news…….Here is one of those times.
This is an interesting scenario coming out of Minnesota where congresswoman Michelle Bachmann could lose her house seat because of the very census she is asking people to boycott.
Here is the story as reported by the AP:
Seems like only six months ago that Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) was feverishly encouraging people to refuse to fill out their census forms, because of ACORN...and the Japanese internment camps...and, junk? It was, I'm sure, eloquently expressed at the time. But now, as the editors of the Minnesota Star-Tribune point out, this could all backfire on Bachmann, because as it turns out, it's really important for Minnesotans to participate in the census, lest they lose a seat in Congress:
“Minnesotans have extra incentive this year to be sure they are counted -- and counted here -- by the decennial U.S. census that will begin in March. The retention of the state's current complement of eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives is on the line.”
State demographer Tom Gillaspy has been warning for months that the next census could result in the loss of one congressional seat in Minnesota. In fact, he confessed last week that, until the recession hit, he was almost resigned to the probability that Minnesotans would be allowed to elect only seven U.S. House members from newly drawn districts in 2012.
According to Gillaspy, Minnesota is one of the states that are "on the cusp" of losing a seat in the House because of population, and is generally seen to be in competition with three other states -- Texas, Missouri, and California -- for three Congressional seats. In the past, the editors of he the Star-Tribune say, Minnesota has been advantaged by "the cooperation of its civic-minded citizens." But that was before their representative was telling everyone that the Census was some sort of diabolical ACORN plot to spread socialism, or something.
Here's what the Strib has to say about that, by the way:
It's ironic that a Minnesota member of Congress, Republican Michele Bachmann, went so far last summer to declare her intention to only partially complete her census forms, and to suggest reasons for others not to comply with the census law. If Minnesota loses a congressional seat, Bachmann's populous Sixth District could be carved into pieces. She likely would have to battle another incumbent to hang on to her seat. We've noticed that her anticensus rhetoric has lately ceased. We hope she got wise: Census compliance is not only in Minnesota's best interest, but also her own.
The next logical step in this is for someone to pretend to advocate non-compliance with the Census as a means of driving Bachmann from office, because I bet Michele Bachmann would believe this if we put it on the internet.
This is an interesting scenario coming out of Minnesota where congresswoman Michelle Bachmann could lose her house seat because of the very census she is asking people to boycott.
Here is the story as reported by the AP:
Seems like only six months ago that Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) was feverishly encouraging people to refuse to fill out their census forms, because of ACORN...and the Japanese internment camps...and, junk? It was, I'm sure, eloquently expressed at the time. But now, as the editors of the Minnesota Star-Tribune point out, this could all backfire on Bachmann, because as it turns out, it's really important for Minnesotans to participate in the census, lest they lose a seat in Congress:
“Minnesotans have extra incentive this year to be sure they are counted -- and counted here -- by the decennial U.S. census that will begin in March. The retention of the state's current complement of eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives is on the line.”
State demographer Tom Gillaspy has been warning for months that the next census could result in the loss of one congressional seat in Minnesota. In fact, he confessed last week that, until the recession hit, he was almost resigned to the probability that Minnesotans would be allowed to elect only seven U.S. House members from newly drawn districts in 2012.
According to Gillaspy, Minnesota is one of the states that are "on the cusp" of losing a seat in the House because of population, and is generally seen to be in competition with three other states -- Texas, Missouri, and California -- for three Congressional seats. In the past, the editors of he the Star-Tribune say, Minnesota has been advantaged by "the cooperation of its civic-minded citizens." But that was before their representative was telling everyone that the Census was some sort of diabolical ACORN plot to spread socialism, or something.
Here's what the Strib has to say about that, by the way:
It's ironic that a Minnesota member of Congress, Republican Michele Bachmann, went so far last summer to declare her intention to only partially complete her census forms, and to suggest reasons for others not to comply with the census law. If Minnesota loses a congressional seat, Bachmann's populous Sixth District could be carved into pieces. She likely would have to battle another incumbent to hang on to her seat. We've noticed that her anticensus rhetoric has lately ceased. We hope she got wise: Census compliance is not only in Minnesota's best interest, but also her own.
The next logical step in this is for someone to pretend to advocate non-compliance with the Census as a means of driving Bachmann from office, because I bet Michele Bachmann would believe this if we put it on the internet.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
McDonald vs Chicago
It is often argued that "the People" have the guaranteed right to keep and bear arms. Recent legal decisions which overturned the District of Columbia's gun ownership ban is likely to set forth a whole new amount of legal challenges to cities, counties and states bans on concealed weapons and hand gun ownership. The question is, do you believe that you have the individual right to keep and bear arms and if so, does the constitution give states the right to restrict "where" you can carry them?
In a new showdown in the U.S. Supreme Court, the court will have to decide whether or not McDonald (a Chicago Law Abiding resident) has the right to keep and bear arms.
Follow this link to view the information on the case
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=5170
While Chicago cops are trying to slow the progress of gangs getting their hands on weapons, they are also mostly not opposed to homeowners keeping arms in their homes. The Chicago branch of the FOP, has stated that many internal polls among police officers show that most Law Enforcement are “pro-gun”. This means that they favor law abiding citizens having guns.
My Opinion:
For too long the drug dealers, thieves, murderers and other criminals have had the luxury of carrying hand guns, mac-10's and AR-15's on the streets of Cook County. A recent news report on CBS news showed Chicago Police that are now driving the streets in their cars with Assault Riffles so that they are on an equal playing field as the criminals. But what message does this send to the residents of Chicago, who don’t see the police as a viable stopping power of violent crimes? What does this say to the residents who are scared they will be awakened in the middle of the night to an intruder and they have no way to defend themselves?
Gun slinging criminals have for too long had the knowledge that "law abiding" citizens aren't carrying guns and that gives the criminals an advantage. Without fear, they rob, maim and murder their victims.
Should Illinois decide to draft legislation that would give its citizens the rights afforded to them under the constitution, then criminals would have to contend with something that they haven't before. The mental anguish of not knowing whether or not the person they are robbing has a concealed weapon or not. Whether the home they are getting ready to rob has a armed owner inside or not. Whether the woman alongside the prairie path is carrying a weapon, might save her from harm, rape or murder (which was too often while I was growing up).
So Some Shit Head rolls into my pad, My Guns will take care of business, and ….Isn’t that how it’s supposed to be? I mean, what do you want from us? To sit at home, let someone break into our house, steal our shit, and kill us, and then NOT be able to defend ourselves? I think not Mayor Daley! I think not Lisa Madigan!
Let’s get past the idea that responsible people can’t manage themselves. We don’t need government to control everything, especially those things afforded to us by the United States Constitution.
In a new showdown in the U.S. Supreme Court, the court will have to decide whether or not McDonald (a Chicago Law Abiding resident) has the right to keep and bear arms.
Follow this link to view the information on the case
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=5170
While Chicago cops are trying to slow the progress of gangs getting their hands on weapons, they are also mostly not opposed to homeowners keeping arms in their homes. The Chicago branch of the FOP, has stated that many internal polls among police officers show that most Law Enforcement are “pro-gun”. This means that they favor law abiding citizens having guns.
My Opinion:
For too long the drug dealers, thieves, murderers and other criminals have had the luxury of carrying hand guns, mac-10's and AR-15's on the streets of Cook County. A recent news report on CBS news showed Chicago Police that are now driving the streets in their cars with Assault Riffles so that they are on an equal playing field as the criminals. But what message does this send to the residents of Chicago, who don’t see the police as a viable stopping power of violent crimes? What does this say to the residents who are scared they will be awakened in the middle of the night to an intruder and they have no way to defend themselves?
Gun slinging criminals have for too long had the knowledge that "law abiding" citizens aren't carrying guns and that gives the criminals an advantage. Without fear, they rob, maim and murder their victims.
Should Illinois decide to draft legislation that would give its citizens the rights afforded to them under the constitution, then criminals would have to contend with something that they haven't before. The mental anguish of not knowing whether or not the person they are robbing has a concealed weapon or not. Whether the home they are getting ready to rob has a armed owner inside or not. Whether the woman alongside the prairie path is carrying a weapon, might save her from harm, rape or murder (which was too often while I was growing up).
So Some Shit Head rolls into my pad, My Guns will take care of business, and ….Isn’t that how it’s supposed to be? I mean, what do you want from us? To sit at home, let someone break into our house, steal our shit, and kill us, and then NOT be able to defend ourselves? I think not Mayor Daley! I think not Lisa Madigan!
Let’s get past the idea that responsible people can’t manage themselves. We don’t need government to control everything, especially those things afforded to us by the United States Constitution.
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