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The other day, there were two individuals who walked up to the door after parking in the driveway. I saw each one of them toting a bible and I knew what they were up to. The next evening, early evening, a young man and a woman entered the driveway and approached the door. It turned out that she and her friend were wanting to demonstrate a vaccuum, and naturally, with the hope of selling me one. In each case, I politely ran them both off. Then I got to thinking, which can be dangerous.
Both sets of these individuals were trying to sell me something, just like they and their kind do all across America every day. When you give them access to your ear, one tells you that their vaccuum cleaner is the best because…and then they attempt to show HOW and WHY it is the best. The religious people attempt to show you HOW and WHY their brand of religion is the best thing going.
If you purchase a vaccuum cleaner, the door-to-door salesman receives compensation, his boss receives compensation as does the broker and the factory. If you agree to accept as blind truth what the religious salesmen want you to, they will invite you to whatever church or Kingdom Hall or whatever they refer to their places of worship as. In fact, the more people they can get to attend, the more donations they will receive and, hence, the more money the religious “leader” will receive. It is not unheard off for these individuals to receive compensation in the hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, with free housing and free vehicles for themselves and spouses. If enough people can be sold on a particular brand of Christianity, then they can even get their service broadcast on the radio or TV.
The owner of the vaccuum factory gets to live in a nice mansion worth millions, and, if successful enough in selling their religious goods, the leader of the religious sect can do the same. Since very few of the religious individuals, outside of the Preacher, Bishop, Pastor, Father, or whatever actually get paid (volunteers can be found that are more than willing to donate time and materials to “help” the sect), large sums of tax-free money is deposited and used to build giant edifices sometimes referred to as “churches”.
The best vaccuum cleaner salesman can move up the ladder by selling great sums of cleaners. He may become a “team leader”, section manager or District manager or whatever. The good Preacher, Pastor or whatever can live in bigger and bigger houses and be enticed to do their thing in larger and larger congregations, naturally for a lot more money at each step up the religious ladder. The bottom line is, the better you are in selling your “product”, the further you will advance and the more money you will make. If you are, well, not so good at what you do, you will have to find another job or work part-time selling vaccuums or preaching.
The vaccuum seller can tell you how the thing works without a manual, and even then, doesn’t know why it works. The future preacher has to go to school to have HIS manual explained to him or her…of course for a cost. The reality is, most of these individuals who are “sold” the bill of goods by door-to-door religious salemen have no idea what their particular religious sect believes in or why it believes the way they do or the reasons behind it. So, over the next few months, I will write about these differences. Included will be Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, Presbyterianism, Baptists, Methodism, Anglicanism, Coptic Church, Mormanism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science and the United Church of Christ.
Last night, I watched the President address the nation. I don’t mind listening to him because it is very refreshing to have a President who can talk and enunciate the English language.
President Obama has only been in office 6 months. People seem to forget that. They also forget that he inheirited a DEFICIT of $1.3 TRILLION dollars, thanks to the conservative King George. People also forget that, when the King came into office, we had a SURPLUS! This country was like a runaway freight train headed straight to hell. On one car, was the out of control lending practices, on another was the financial health of the banks, another car had the economy on it and another car had out of control Medicare costs that kept rising, with no end in sight. Recession was slowly taking over this runaway freight train, and the King ignored it until his last 3 months in office. The fiasco of Iraq was sucking BILLIONS of borrowed dollars down the drain with no end in sight.
When Obama took office, he hit the ground running, trying to lasso this runaway freight train to slow it down. Remember, this train had been running and gaining speed for eight years. It is going to take far more than a couple of months to bring it to a halt. Republicans and those Democrats who come up for re-election in 2010, do not want to be a part of the lasso that slows the train down. In fact, even the leader of the Republican Party, the pill-popping Rush Limbaugh, has stated that he wants Obama and his policy’s to fail, and will do everything he can to influence his brethern to carry out his wishes.
See, the military-Industrial complex, along with the out-of-control Drug industry and Oil companies contribute HUGE sums of money to the campaigns and personal wealth of these individuals. Do you think any Republican Senator or conservative Democrat is going to bite the hands that gives them MILLIONS of dollars and perks by voting to reign in this runaway train? Not in my lifetime they won’t! It is called “greed”…simple as that. Greed is what makes this country run. When you have those individuals who surface and try to rein in this greed, they are called socialists (what do you think Social Security is?)
President Obama’s healthcare reform plan is only ONE part of this economy that needs fixing. To do nothing, or to let Rush and his co-horts have their way, would be a disaster for this country. Republicans don’t like to lose (they did). They don’t like not being in control of everything (they aren’t) They don’t like not being able to have their way (they can’t) and it infuriates them to no end! Just read anything by Ann Coulter. (She is either the most sexually frustrated woman in America or she wakes up laughing every morning)
President Obama did not cause these gigantic problems. He is trying to correct them by slowing down the frieght train. Stock market has stayed between 8000 and 9000, which means it has more or less leveled out. Some banks have begun paying back some of their bailout money. This could not have happened if no bailout money was given them. If these banks would have failed, from coast to coast, you would have witnessed a major disaster. If there is no healthcare reform, you WILL witness and your children will witness a medical disaster in this country.
President Obama’s health care plan is fast becoming a strange piece of legislation. Right now it is up to a thousand pages in length with more being added every day by Democrats and Republicans. Republicans have made 160 changes to the bill and more will be coming. This thing is fast becoming so complex that no one, including the President, will know or understand the full impact if it were to pass both houses of Congress.
Then there is the concept of placing a 5% surtax on small businesses that make $250,000 a year. That, I don’t comprehend at all. With the economy being stagnant, unemployent rising, businesses shrinking and inflation beginning to raise its’ head, then what sector of the economy is going to prosper enough to, not only be able to afford this 5% surtax, but hire more individuals for their workforce?
If the President is looking for the small businesses of this country to fuel the economy, then how is this burden of a 5% surtax going to help them succeed and become profitable?
I know the President had good intentions in his desire to overhaul the health care industry. Everyone knows that the costs are spiriling out of control and rising everyday. However, what started out as a “Health Care Reform” thing is so out of control that, in reality, it is not feasible to continue. If I was Obama, I’d cancel the damn thing because he isn’t going to get any help from the Republicans as they will obstruct the legislation in any way they can. Democrats who come up re-election in 2010, especially Senators, aren’t going to back it either. Everybody wants everything, yet nobody wants to pay for anything.
Healthcare reform should have started years ago. Now, it is too late to rein it in. Let these drug companies go bankrupt. Let these hospitals go down the tubes. Let those who can afford the rising costs get the healthcare they need. Let those who can’t afford it, sit at home to suffer and die. Simple as that. If you can’t pay for your medication…too bad. Can’t pay the doctor upfront to set your kids broken arm? too bad. He’ll learn to live with it and be more careful next time. Need a Caesarian? hey, not the rest of the countries problem. Why should some rich guy pay for YOUR baby? Call the Red Cross or the United Way…
Hell, this country is only one missed interest payment to China, Japan or India away from being a third world country anyway. Let’s get the ball rolling a little bit faster and get the transition over with. Guns and rifles are flying off the shelves now, violent crime is rising and so we might as well let the medically needy poor fend for themselves. Forget all of those vaccinations. Diseases will run their course and weed out the weak.
No, President Obama, a 1,000 page healthcare plan to fix America’s medical industry and the nations health won’t work. Let these Medical clinics and labs go under…like you should have done with General Motors, AIG and the banks.
Evidently, there are some politicians, including the president, that believe the top 2% of rich people have enough taxable wealth to finance the health care of every American. I just don’t think that there are that many Donald Trump’s out there.
American jurisprudence is not going to fall off a cliff when Sotomayor becomes a Supreme Court Justice. Those who dislike her claim, among other things, that she is a racist in some way. Somehow, I seriously doubt that she could have been appointed as a Federal Appeals Court Judge if she was a racist or a “brown supremacist”. Surely, she could not have risen to this point in her career if she was.
Another reason Republicans don’t care for her is a speech she gave eight years ago in 2001. In this speech, she stated: “ethnicity and sex of a judge may and will make a difference in our judging”. Well, sure it will! Women go through different life experiences than men do. They approach situations in life different, even things such as dating for instance or expectations of marriage if they are so inclined. Men do the same thing.
Lifestyles manifest themselves into a persons ultimate being. A child born into a wealthy family will have a different view of life than one born into poverty. A child that grows up with a single parent will develop a different perspective of life than one raised with both parents. Each child’s ethnicity, Asian, Black, Latin or White, will also develop different mores, values or sense of being in the world. I guarantee you, that Justice Clarence Thomas has a different perspective of justice, what is right and what is wrong, than Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Justice Anthony Kennedy. For instance, on a recent case before the Supreme Court involving an inappropriate strip search of a pre-teen girl by school authorities in Texas, eight of the Justices ruled that it was wrong. The one who voted for the school district was Clarence Thomas. Evidently, there was a completely different set of moral standards going on here. Somehow, I bet the vote by the Supreme Court on this case would have been 9-0 if Sonia Sotomayor would have been on the court.
Judge Sotomayor has also quoted professors of law who said that, “to judge is an exercize of power (which it is…just watch Judge Judy) and that there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives”, which it is. When a case is brought before a jury, prosecutors and defense lawyers attempt to prove their cases by trying to alter the perspectives of the case in the minds of the jurors. When lawyers bring a case before the Supreme Court, that is what they are attempting to do…alter the perspectives of the Justices by justifying the reasoning of their position.
Another complaint that Republican neocons have, it that she can’t write “proper” opinions concerning her decisions. I, personally, don’t view this complaint as really being a legitimate one. Evidently, she has done well enough over the years to achieve where she is at. I’d be willing to bet that there is a huge percentage of Americans, including myself, that lack superb English skills. However, in reviewing the qualifications to become a Supreme Court Justice, I didn’t see that requirement. Maybe I missed it.
Bottom line is, I’d rather have a Justice ruling against a school district that wants to strip search a little girl than one who thinks otherwise, whether she can write a “proper” opinion or not. Clarence Thomas has been on the court since 1991 and has yet to write a single opinion.
Also, there are more females in this country than males. It is just the way nature works. Latins are the second largest minority group in the country and increasing every day. There has been two white women on the court and two black males. It is time for a Latin to sit on the court. If not now, when? There is no such thing as a “perfect” Supreme Court Justice in an imperfect society.
This former NFL quarterback got himself killed messing around with someone who he shouldn’t have. I find it interesting the Nashville police can’t figure this thing out. They know that McNair was shot 4 times, twice in the head and twice in the body. They have determined that he was murdered and didn’t commit suicide. The young lady he was with, Sahel Kazemi, was shot once in the head with the gun pressed against her temple. The gun in question was found underneath her body. Amazingly, Nashville authorities haven’t said that her death was a suicide.
This is an easy case to figure out. For one, Steve McNair was a married man and had four children. Ms. Kazemi was twenty years old, very good looking and a “wild child”. She immigrated to this country when she was only ten, from Iran. Her mother had been killed over there and she and her sister left the country. In this country, she grew up fast. She learned real quick that the party life was for her, dropping out of high school to further her goals of living the good life through clubbing and alcohol. No doubt she dabbled in some form of drugs, however that hasn’t been established yet. When the party life became boring in Orange Park, Fl., she and her boyfriend took off for Nashville. Now, we’re talking about a teenager here, she was 17, not some older, mature woman.
In January, she meets Steve McNair at a club, a club she shouldn’t have been able to get into, but she did. McNair thinks that divine intervention brought him to this young, sweet and good looking lass. Let’s see here…he is 38…she is 20…hmmmmm. He is well off financially and her…well, not so well off financially. In her mind, McNair is going to be able to provide her with everything a young lady wants…money, love, security and maybe a stable life. But wait aminute…McNair is married!
Somewhere along the path of sexual heaven, Steve McNair either tells her he is married or she finds out. He tells her that he was getting a divorce and live happily ever after with her, and to prove his love, buys her a nice $40,000 SUV. Ms.Kazemi catches him in a BIG lie…he isn’t getting a divorce and is just using her for his wants…and you know what those “wants” were!
With the money that he gives her, she, unbeknowest to him, she buys a gun. She is really pissed. Her future is crumbling. The more she thinks, the more enraged she gets. Now, we’re not talking about a young lady that has lived a “normal” life. When he comes into the condominium, she confronts him, shoots him twice in the body and because he is a big man, falls down slowly, then she shoots him in the head, and when he is down, shoots him again in the head at close range. She then turns the gun on herself, because for all intents and purposes, her life is over, and pulls the trigger.
This is a clear cut case of a murder/suicide. There is a moral to this tragic event, and you know what it is.
Our celebration of the declaration of Independence just passed. I stop and think about how this country is now as compared to just a couple of generations past. A few generations ago, this country welcomed immigrants to our shores, however, they came legally. Now they come illegally by boat or walk into the country and they come from all over the world. Once here, they wave and display the flags of the countries they came from and march in parades and then demand that our government, which means you and I, take care of them. They use and abuse our welfare system, fill up our emergency rooms and bring with them diseases from their countries. Congress has become so impotent over the years that it chooses not to or isn’t able to kick them out.
The Constitution guarentees the freedom of speech and our courts used to really come down hard on the enforcement of that right. But in today’s America, people are afraid to express and write about their true beliefs, lest they be branded a hate-monger, a bigot, or a racist.
There are individuals losing their jobs by the millions because company’s and industries cannot survive under the demands of unions, impractical environmentalists and the mass of work rules imposed by government agencies that are contradictory. Other governments work with their industries that employ their country’s people, and thus, contribute taxes to maintain their infrastructure and services such as law enforcement. The main export of our country is now our military machine and the sale of military weapons from A to Z to countries around the world. America has undergone a social, moral and political change and mostly in a negative way.
Three generations back, children of all ages, rich or poor, black, white, or brown, could play outside until it was time to go to bed without parents worrying about neighborhood bullies, drug pushers, sexual molesters, or mindless gun-toting gangs. Now people can’t be safe in their own homes.
The American dream is to win the lottery – to get something for nothing, the mentality of entitlement gone wild. We tolerate lifestyle changes that have perverted our morals as a nation and destroyed traditional family values. We reward motherhood through promiscuous sex that creates millions of one parent families.
All of these problems are growing and they are not getting any better.
Ever wonder why the extreme lack of respect for the United States is prevalent throughout the world? This governments foreign policy is like a big snake with a forked tongue. Countries can’t believe anything that comes out of Washington. Under George “the King” Bush, Foreign Policy was a complete disaster and now, it seems that Vice-President Joe Biden, is continuing the same forked tongue approach.
Last year, the country called Georgia, which at one time was part of the former U.S.S.R., attacked two provinces that was comprised mostly those of Russian descent and Russia entered into the situation to repel the Georgians. Britain (the best hand puppet the U.S. has ever had), and the United States screamed foul…Russia had no right…Russia being mean…violation of rights…you name it and George “the cowboy” Bush, inflamed the situation. Want to know why he was so incensed? Bush was intending to place “defensive” missles in Georgia in order to protect Europe from any potential missles launched by Iran. Trust me, Russia is not buying it.
Now, flash to Israel, a country that has plenty of nuclear weapons AND defensive missles AND is in the flight path and fully capable of intercepting any missles launched by Iran towards Europe. Israel is such a close ally, that, instead of being in OUR pocket, the U.S. is in theirs.
Enter V.P. Biden: Joe says that Israel “has the right to defend itself and make its own decisions on national security”. So, Israel has this right, but Russia don’t? Biden further stated, “Israel can determine for itself – it’s a sovereign nation – what’s in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else”. Israel has the blessing of the U.S. to level Iran and do a “pre-emptive” type of thing,anywhere and to whomever, yet Russia is lambasted for stopping missle launchers from taking up residence on their border. The United States would be very, VERY upset if Russia placed missles in Mexico…oh, wait…they did that in Cuba once, and the reaction by Kennedy was what? We didn’t like their missles in our backyard and they don’t want our missles in their backyard.
You can’t gain and maintain world respect when you have a double standard. The U.S. shouldn’t treat Columbia any different that Romania. It is wrong to force country’s into capitalism as it is to force communism on them. If our goal is to eradicate dictators from the world, which seemed to be the case in Iraq< then we have a country right off our coast. There are many dictators in Africa that we should force into capitalism if that is our Foreign Policy. However, that isn’t our policy…and Russia knows it and so does Israel…and so does most of the world.
President Obama’s choice for the Supreme Court has placed the Republicans in unique position. Naturally, it is the responsibility of the G.O.P. to oppose every and anything that the President does or says. It is just the way they are. They are still bristling over the loss of the White House in the last election.
Since General Motors was contemplating changing their name, maybe the G.O.P. should actually do the same thing to “G.O.H.P.”…Government of the Hypocrite People. These people don’t like the the opinion that she wrote concerning the white firefighters in Conneticutt. Well, I didn’t like it either, however, the case did go to the Supreme Court and Justice was served. There is no such thing as a “perfect” judge.
The main contention of the G.O.H.P., lies just below the surface in American racism. Judge Sotomayor is Hispanic. When she is confirmed, and she will be, she will be the very first Hispanic to sit on the Supreme Court. Right now, Hispanics are the largest minority cultural group in America. Yet, when it comes down to backing up their whiney cries for “equality” in this country, they are trying to do whatever they can to stab “equality” in the back. They would much prefer a stuffy white guy, someone like the former Speaker of the House Newt Gringrich or Rush Limbaugh to be on the Supreme Court. Well, G.O.H.P., it ain’t going to happen!
Since their drastic loss in 2008, the G.O.H.P. has attempted to re-design itself by their feeble attempt to reach out and court more minorities. They are not doing very well in this regard, to say the least, and with the nomination of Sotomayor, they are flustered. They are trying to have their cake and eat it too.
They want the votes of the Hispanics, yet do not want one sitting on the Supreme Court! And a female Hispanic at that! I’m reminded of that little story about “Chicken Little”. I can just visualize all of the pompous Republican Senators running around in the Senate chambers, crying out “The sky is falling, the sky is falling”!
Now you have to think about this: The decision by the Supreme Court on the issue of reverse discrimination concerning the white firefighters, was the right decision, however, it was made by a 5 to 4 vote. What about the 4 Justices that saw it Sotomayors way as a Federal Appeals Court judge? Not one word was said about them…not one. Yet, the G.O.H.P. is silently screaming and twisting about having a female Hispanic on the Supreme Court. Is she going to write opinions and vote in ways that many of us won’t like? Probably will at times, however, Clarence Thomas has been doing it for years and so has many of the others. That is the way the Supreme Court is designed to work as the third branch of government.
Good news, bad news or newsworthy? The Princess of the G.O.P. has hit all three of them. The good news is the citizens of Alaska will now have a competent governor instead of a glorified member of the PTA as their “leader”. Yes, I’m aware that the Princess was duly elected, however it was those who voted against the incumbent,Republican Frank Murkowski in the primary (must be pretty bad when a sitting governor loses to a PTA parent in a primary) and then refused to elect a former two-term Democrat Governor in the General Election. It was just being in the right place at the right time. Evidently, Goofy could have been elected if he could have run.
In all actuality, just what did she bring to the table? She basically run the governor’s office from her home in Wasilla, using an abundance of state funds to do so. Then used her position in a personal vendetta against a retired Marine who was the Chief of Alaska Law Enforcement. She preached family values, however the message evidently get through to her minor daughter, who proceeded to become pregnant! She didn’t know anything about world affairs, not even the difference between Iraq and Iran.
The only reason, and I mean the ONLY reason that Sen. John McCain selected her as a running mate was that she was a woman. When Hillary lost to Obama, McCain was trying to capitalize on all the disappointed women who were loyal to her. Well, as history has noted, that political move ended the GOP threat to Obama. Then, the infamous Katy Couric interview by the Princess Pretender put the final nail in the coffin.
So, what does this woman bring to the table that would qualify her to be President of the United States and Commander-In-Chief of all the armed forces? Tell me just ONE thing. Right now, her popularity as a Governor is sinking faster than King George’s did…AND she had two more years to go to complete the job that Alaskans elected her to do! And She walks away from it, claiming the “attacks” on her family as the main reason. Boo Hoo. Then, using one of her children again, claims that her 14-month-old son who has Down’s Syndrome, “had been mocked and ridiculed by some mean spirited adults”. Yet, when questioned about her statement, she refused to say anything.
That is the way Republicans do things…throw out a red herring and hope people go for it. The Princess Pretender should have paid closer attention to King George and Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney instead of listening to McCain. Those two were masters of the red herring toss!
Bottom line is, the woman was in way over her head in the world of politics and her lack of experience was fast catching up with her in Alaska. Quit while I’m still a little ahead…don’t waste or risk all of my political capitol in the next two years. That was her reason, and nothing else…that is, unless there is some gross mismanagement issues that have not been publicized yet, which wouldn’t surprise me. Could it be yet ANOTHER illicit love affair by yet another BIG Republican?
Finally, after eight years, we are finally going after Osama bin Laden! Remember who he was? For thos of you with short memories, he was the single individual, in fact a Saudi Arabian who was behind the attacks of 9/11. He is now holed up in a cave along the Afghanistan and Pakistani border.
While King George was busy going after the boogyman in Iraq, the Taliban, which had all but been defeated in 2001 in Afgahanistan were quietly rebuilding. In case you don’t know, Afghanistan is the worlds leader in growing opium and the Taliban reaps huge profits from it…I mean huge!
Now, flash back to Iraq. In 2003, King George tells the nation that Saddam & Osama are in cahoots. Osama sits in a cave and, upon hearing this revelation by King George, scratches his head and a little light bulb comes on. He thinks, “Why devise plans to kill Americans in the U.S, when King George is directing them to play in our backyard? I’ll just send our boys across the Iraqi border (which Saddam wouldn’t allow before) and create havoc with them in Iraq! Which he did, and was able to recruit Iraqi’s to his cause.
Flash back to Afghanistan: What U.S. troops remain, are sent to Iraq to back up King George’s invasion. Afghanistan is a country in size of 250,000 square miles and the troops that are left behind are minimal…basically, 1 for every 250 sq. miles. The Taliban, which had once been close to absolute defeat, now sit and grin at each other. They quietly buy nice new rifles, mortars, bombs, missle launchers, and everything in between…and they recruit. King George brushes off the alarm that the Taliban are rearming and are planning to re-assert themselves.
Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld (Never trust a guy named Donald), figured that, if anything really got out of control in Afghanistan, he would just call up a boatload of Mississippi National Guardmen. However, he don’t even do that, instead further reduces the troop level because, well, things just aren’t turning out so good in Iraq.
Things are going pretty good for Osama…he has his guys blowing up U.S. Troops, stirring up sectarian violence between the Sunnis and the Shi’ites in Iraq and working with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Most of his forces join the Taliban (Like a Catholic joining the Boy Scouts…you CAN be both at the same time) . Now the Taliban are coming out of their valleys and caves and causing problems for the puppet Afghan goverment. Now the U.S. is forced, get that FORCED to go in again and eradicate the Taliban, which now have a bunch of new and improved weapons. If theKing would have followed through and wiped them out in 2001, there would be no need for the U.S. to lose more of our young fighting men and women. King George bailed out of Afghanistan before the job was finished, just as his dad did in Kuwait, by not going into Iraq and getting Saddam THEN! which cost us how many lives?
Now, there will be an untold amount of innocents killed…more troops killed and more billions spent to correct the situations caused by the King and his dad, George the 1st…
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