I don't understand the banking laws.
As we all know, drug dealers and terrorists and warlords all over the
planet can transfer millions of bucks in seconds to secret accounts in
any country, from any country.
If you want to cash a twenty dollar check, at your own branch, or
godforbid, deposit a check to your account, you have to show three
pieces of id, have a DNA sample taken, and your dental x-rays checked.
And I don't understand Homeland Security laws.
The airplane that you are about to board has seventeen tons of packages
in the cargo hold, none of which have been looked at in any manner.
And yet you have to stand in line for two hours, remove your shoes,
divest yourself of that little bottle of PeptoBismol and your tube of
Prell, undergo a strip search, and swear a loyalty oath in blood before
they let you on the plane.
How have we allowed this to happen to us?
"The Patriot Act" removes any rights The Patriots demanded for us, and delineates just how everyone qualifies to be a Traitor.
The "Forest Protection Act" declares our National Forests to be open for logging.
The "Clear Skies Act" allows manufacturers to increase emissions.
The "Clear Water Act" removes federal protection for wetlands and streams.
"Mission Accomplished" May 2, 2003. And six hundred billion dollars later, we are still there.
In 2001, oil was at twenty-five dollars a barrel. Now oil is over one hundred dollars a barrel. The National Debt is over 9 trillion dollars. Under the Fiscally Conservative President, operating for six years with a Republican Congress.
Hermann Goering:
"It is always simply a matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Saturday, March 1, 2008
YouTube
Yes We Can!
Grownups Can Watch YouTube Videos!
Or at least we can after someone explains where they are.
Whoopie Goldberg
Click here for Whoopie Goldberg video
Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson
Cher
Cher
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
The Snub
The Snub
Grownups Can Watch YouTube Videos!
Or at least we can after someone explains where they are.
Whoopie Goldberg
Click here for Whoopie Goldberg video
Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson
Cher
Cher
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
The Snub
The Snub
But Names Could Never Hurt Me!
The Newly Anointed One states "a long resume says nothing about your character."
This is to answer folks who worry about his lack of experience.
I assume that it also means that he claims to be a man of character.
When John McCain's adviser, Kevin A. Hassett, Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies, declares Barak Obama's economic plan to be plagiarism,
"The fact is that Obama’s [economic] plan today is the most shameless piece of potential plagiarism that I have ever seen. He basically took Clinton’s words and Clinton’s policies and called them his own. If I were a professor I’d give him an F and try to get him kicked out of school for something this terrible."
I would assume that a man of character would respond quickly to charges of plagiarism, and with great care and concern.
The response from the Man of Character?
"John McCain started attacking me on economic policy which I thought was flattering."
Flattering?? The Newly Anointed One is flattered.
“Don’t tell me words don’t matter! ‘I have a dream.’ Just words."
And when The Newly Anointed One is charged with plagiarizing this speech from Governor Patrick, the campaign responds
"The issue is a 'sideshow' that is not going to matter to real voters with real problems."
Plagiarism is a sideshow? Just ask Joe Biden or Doris Kearns Goodwin or Mike Barnicle or Jayson Blair. Trivial. Nothing to be concerned about. Honesty, integrity, character are just words. Nothing important. Just words.
Governor Patrick comes to the aid of his pal: "We're friends."
Go back and tell your arithmetic teacher that it is OK you copied those test answers, because the guy you copied from is your friend.
Just words. Nothing important.
So we have a Newly Anointed One who admits to having a short resume, but being long on character. Until a character issue comes up, when character, integrity, and honesty are dismissed as a sideshow, just words.
No experience, no character, no integrity, no honesty, and no words of his own.
What does the Newly Anointed One have going for him?
He is tall. He has a nice voice.
Maybe he should run for television commercial announcer.
This is to answer folks who worry about his lack of experience.
I assume that it also means that he claims to be a man of character.
When John McCain's adviser, Kevin A. Hassett, Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies, declares Barak Obama's economic plan to be plagiarism,
"The fact is that Obama’s [economic] plan today is the most shameless piece of potential plagiarism that I have ever seen. He basically took Clinton’s words and Clinton’s policies and called them his own. If I were a professor I’d give him an F and try to get him kicked out of school for something this terrible."
I would assume that a man of character would respond quickly to charges of plagiarism, and with great care and concern.
The response from the Man of Character?
"John McCain started attacking me on economic policy which I thought was flattering."
Flattering?? The Newly Anointed One is flattered.
“Don’t tell me words don’t matter! ‘I have a dream.’ Just words."
And when The Newly Anointed One is charged with plagiarizing this speech from Governor Patrick, the campaign responds
"The issue is a 'sideshow' that is not going to matter to real voters with real problems."
Plagiarism is a sideshow? Just ask Joe Biden or Doris Kearns Goodwin or Mike Barnicle or Jayson Blair. Trivial. Nothing to be concerned about. Honesty, integrity, character are just words. Nothing important. Just words.
Governor Patrick comes to the aid of his pal: "We're friends."
Go back and tell your arithmetic teacher that it is OK you copied those test answers, because the guy you copied from is your friend.
Just words. Nothing important.
So we have a Newly Anointed One who admits to having a short resume, but being long on character. Until a character issue comes up, when character, integrity, and honesty are dismissed as a sideshow, just words.
No experience, no character, no integrity, no honesty, and no words of his own.
What does the Newly Anointed One have going for him?
He is tall. He has a nice voice.
Maybe he should run for television commercial announcer.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Foreign Policy Highjinks
"It's that experience, that understanding, not just of what world leaders I went and talked to in the ambassadors house I had tea with, but understanding the lives of the people like my grandmother who lives in a tiny hut in Africa," Obama, D-Ill., told a crowd in Coralville, Iowa.
Little Hillary only had tea with ambassadors. She only spoke to world leaders. Silly Little Woman. But the Newly Anointed One wins because he has a poor grandmother living in abject poverty in Africa.
(He also has a white grandmother living in comparative comfort, but the Obama Campaign does not wish to release her photograph or information).
Perhaps, if the Senator from Illinois had spent a few more days actually being a Senator from Illinois, one of his staffers might have helped him send a couple of shillings to the Granny who has no running water. Or maybe they could have assisted him with Immigration Procedures; he does have that many-roomed mansion, right? No room for Grandma?
"Probably the strongest experience I have in foreign relations is the fact that I spent four years living overseas when I was a child in southeast Asia," says the Newly Anointed One.
When I was seven, I was collecting baseball cards and playing Stoop Ball. Who knew that made me a public policy expert!
Sorry, this post has to be short. I have to go and update my resume.
" Age 7 to 8, experience in Civil Engineering, United State Infrastructure."
" Age 9 to 10, experience in Cataloging Techniques and Archival Storage of historical memorabilia."
Little Hillary only had tea with ambassadors. She only spoke to world leaders. Silly Little Woman. But the Newly Anointed One wins because he has a poor grandmother living in abject poverty in Africa.
(He also has a white grandmother living in comparative comfort, but the Obama Campaign does not wish to release her photograph or information).
Perhaps, if the Senator from Illinois had spent a few more days actually being a Senator from Illinois, one of his staffers might have helped him send a couple of shillings to the Granny who has no running water. Or maybe they could have assisted him with Immigration Procedures; he does have that many-roomed mansion, right? No room for Grandma?
"Probably the strongest experience I have in foreign relations is the fact that I spent four years living overseas when I was a child in southeast Asia," says the Newly Anointed One.
When I was seven, I was collecting baseball cards and playing Stoop Ball. Who knew that made me a public policy expert!
Sorry, this post has to be short. I have to go and update my resume.
" Age 7 to 8, experience in Civil Engineering, United State Infrastructure."
" Age 9 to 10, experience in Cataloging Techniques and Archival Storage of historical memorabilia."
No More "Politics as Usual"
On the one hand:
"CTV News has learned that within the last month a senior member of the Barack Obama campaign telephoned the Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Wilson. In that call the Obama operative warned the ambassador that NAFTA would become part of the debate in the Democratic primary and that Obama would take some heavy swings at the trade deal, but told the ambassador don’t worry it’s just campaign rhetoric … it’s not serious."
On the other:
Obama Campaign Officials Deny the report.
On the one hand:
CTV (Canadian TV) then reports that the conversation on this matter was held between Obama's senior economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, and the Canadian Consulate General in Chicago.
On the other hand:
Obama Campaign Officials Deny the report and insist that no conversations have taken place with any of its senior ranks and representatives of the Canadian government on the NAFTA issue.
On the one hand:
On Thursday night, CTV spoke with Goolsbee, but he refused to say whether he had such a conversation with the Canadian government office in Chicago. He also said he has been told to direct any questions to the campaign headquarters.
On the other hand:
Obama Campaign Officials Deny that Goolsbee is a senior adviser to the Obama campaign.
And, finally, a bird in the hand:
Austan Goolsbee's Blog
This is the personal blog of Austan Goolsbee, senior policy advisor to Senator Barack Obama
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/austangoolsbee
"CTV News has learned that within the last month a senior member of the Barack Obama campaign telephoned the Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Wilson. In that call the Obama operative warned the ambassador that NAFTA would become part of the debate in the Democratic primary and that Obama would take some heavy swings at the trade deal, but told the ambassador don’t worry it’s just campaign rhetoric … it’s not serious."
On the other:
Obama Campaign Officials Deny the report.
On the one hand:
CTV (Canadian TV) then reports that the conversation on this matter was held between Obama's senior economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, and the Canadian Consulate General in Chicago.
On the other hand:
Obama Campaign Officials Deny the report and insist that no conversations have taken place with any of its senior ranks and representatives of the Canadian government on the NAFTA issue.
On the one hand:
On Thursday night, CTV spoke with Goolsbee, but he refused to say whether he had such a conversation with the Canadian government office in Chicago. He also said he has been told to direct any questions to the campaign headquarters.
On the other hand:
Obama Campaign Officials Deny that Goolsbee is a senior adviser to the Obama campaign.
And, finally, a bird in the hand:
Austan Goolsbee's Blog
This is the personal blog of Austan Goolsbee, senior policy advisor to Senator Barack Obama
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/austangoolsbee
Old Arguments
The Newly Anointed One says:
"But let me say this — the reason I decided to run is because I think what we need right now is someone who can bring the country together, get past some of the old arguments, some of the old bickering, some of the old polarization."
How very inspiring. And so uplifting.
But wait!
What are those "old arguments" ???
Oh - silly stuff. Unimportant, trivial.
Like civil rights, ending the war in Viet Nam (and now Iraq!), ending the proliferation of nuclear nightmares, ending hunger and homelessness in America, cleaning up the environment.
Silly stuff, really. And nothing which the Newly Anointed One bothers to acknowledge.
That "bickering" has got to go.
Imagine! People actually argued about nuclear warheads. Tsk Tsk.
And really! the energy they spent arguing about civil rights. Such nasty people they were. And they are still around and still bickering!
Polarization? Oohh! Big Word.
"Polarization" is code word for 'and I want to separate out all the black folks to shame them into voting for me, and I want to dismiss Little Hillary as just a woman, and I want all those easily-led kids to support me and run roughshod over any of those do-do birds left over from the sixties, and I want to make sure that anyone who says anything at all about me is branded a Racist.'
The Newly Anointed One says: "I am not invested in the battles of the sixties"
Hmmm.
We have had an inexperienced guy in the White House for the past seven years. He wasn't invested in the "battles of the sixties" either.
Hillary Clinton was, and is, invested in those battles. And the next President of the United States must be a person who understands that the country must continue that bickering, fighting those fights, and winning them. The battles are not yet won.
But they will never be won by an arrogant, condescending novice who happily accepts the benefits provided by those who went before without ever having gotten involved himself.
"But let me say this — the reason I decided to run is because I think what we need right now is someone who can bring the country together, get past some of the old arguments, some of the old bickering, some of the old polarization."
How very inspiring. And so uplifting.
But wait!
What are those "old arguments" ???
Oh - silly stuff. Unimportant, trivial.
Like civil rights, ending the war in Viet Nam (and now Iraq!), ending the proliferation of nuclear nightmares, ending hunger and homelessness in America, cleaning up the environment.
Silly stuff, really. And nothing which the Newly Anointed One bothers to acknowledge.
That "bickering" has got to go.
Imagine! People actually argued about nuclear warheads. Tsk Tsk.
And really! the energy they spent arguing about civil rights. Such nasty people they were. And they are still around and still bickering!
Polarization? Oohh! Big Word.
"Polarization" is code word for 'and I want to separate out all the black folks to shame them into voting for me, and I want to dismiss Little Hillary as just a woman, and I want all those easily-led kids to support me and run roughshod over any of those do-do birds left over from the sixties, and I want to make sure that anyone who says anything at all about me is branded a Racist.'
The Newly Anointed One says: "I am not invested in the battles of the sixties"
Hmmm.
We have had an inexperienced guy in the White House for the past seven years. He wasn't invested in the "battles of the sixties" either.
Hillary Clinton was, and is, invested in those battles. And the next President of the United States must be a person who understands that the country must continue that bickering, fighting those fights, and winning them. The battles are not yet won.
But they will never be won by an arrogant, condescending novice who happily accepts the benefits provided by those who went before without ever having gotten involved himself.
Yes We Can!
Yes! Grownups can rise above the silliness.
Grownups can remember recall events earlier than the last American Idol show.
Grownups can listen to pretty words and flowery phrases couched in sermon-like cadences, and discern that there are no facts hidden within these speeches.
Grownups can see through the hoopla and detect the arrogant ambition lurking there.
Grownups can look at the Newly Anointed One and see the condescending smirk.
"I will serve out my full six year term."
We can remember that.
And when someone promises World peace, a chicken in every pot, a Beemer in every garage, I-Pods for everyone, and no curfew or tuition bills for anyone,
We can see that for the usual b-s.
Grownups are registered voters, and we know that the Wave of Support for the Newly Anointed One will disappear long before November, when more interesting stuff might be around. Like fershure.
Grownups can vote for Hillary Clinton.
Yes We Can!
Grownups can remember recall events earlier than the last American Idol show.
Grownups can listen to pretty words and flowery phrases couched in sermon-like cadences, and discern that there are no facts hidden within these speeches.
Grownups can see through the hoopla and detect the arrogant ambition lurking there.
Grownups can look at the Newly Anointed One and see the condescending smirk.
"I will serve out my full six year term."
We can remember that.
And when someone promises World peace, a chicken in every pot, a Beemer in every garage, I-Pods for everyone, and no curfew or tuition bills for anyone,
We can see that for the usual b-s.
Grownups are registered voters, and we know that the Wave of Support for the Newly Anointed One will disappear long before November, when more interesting stuff might be around. Like fershure.
Grownups can vote for Hillary Clinton.
Yes We Can!
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