This is a website that I have been following for a while and today was very impressed by the illustration of this very talented individual who continues, day in and day out to express his views in a very interesting and amusing at times way. If you have not seen his web site, you must. Go into the link below and see the illustration. I copied and pasted the text below. All women should see this! Thank you Mario Piperni!
http://twurl.nl/2pqhnp
A new low for the party of shame.
It turns out that in eight states, plus the District of Columbia, getting beaten up by your spouse is a pre-existing condition.Under the cold logic of the insurance industry, it makes perfect sense: If you are in a marriage with someone who has beaten you in the past, you’re more likely to get beaten again than the average person and are therefore more expensive to insure.In human terms, it’s a second punishment for a victim of domestic violence.
It turns out that in eight states, plus the District of Columbia, getting beaten up by your spouse is a pre-existing condition.
Under the cold logic of the insurance industry, it makes perfect sense: If you are in a marriage with someone who has beaten you in the past, you’re more likely to get beaten again than the average person and are therefore more expensive to insure.
In human terms, it’s a second punishment for a victim of domestic violence.
Ugly enough…but it gets worse.
In 2006, Democrats tried to end the practice. An amendment introduced by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), now a member of leadership, split the Health Education Labor & Pensions Committee 10-10. The tie meant that the measure failed.All ten no votes were Republicans
In 2006, Democrats tried to end the practice. An amendment introduced by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), now a member of leadership, split the Health Education Labor & Pensions Committee 10-10. The tie meant that the measure failed.
There’s been plenty of opportunities to feel disgust for republicans but today they take me to a new place. Their actions are inexcusable and is another vivid reminder of who they are and what they represent. For all their talk of patriotism and love of country, they once again reveal themselves to be the ugliest part of America. Their callous and cold view of their fellow citizens, devoid of compassion, appears to have no bounds. For Republicans, taking care of the insurance industry takes precedence over the needs of battered women.
If it gets more disgusting than that, I don’t know how.
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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE US CONGRESS
Heed this or enjoy your last term in US Congress
We, the people, DEMAND that a strong condition-free PUBLIC OPTION be included in whatever Health Care Reform legislation you enact. We will be watching your actions closely, so, keep the following in mind before casting your vote. Make it count for all Americans :-
Health Care Reform is MEANINGLESS if:
1. There is no Public Option ( with clear path to SINGLE PAYER, No Co-ops, No Triggers ).2. Everybody is not covered. (Without Exception)3. Coverage can be denied based on “Pre-existing” conditions.4. It does not contain Patients’ Rights.5. Strict Regulations are not imposed on insurance plans.6. Affordability and costs to consumers, as well as providers, are not addressed.7. Accessibility, delivery and quality are not maintained and/or improved.8. There’s NO oversight from medical, financial and national security perspectives.9. Profit motive is NOT REMOVED.10. Innovation, Research guidelines and funding are not addressed.
Health Care For Patients, NOT For Profit because Health Care For Profit is Health Care DENIED.
Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should an insurance middleman come between a patient and his/her doctor - especially, if the insurance middleman stands to gain from it.
Insurance and Employers have no business being in Health Care. They contribute nothing towards it
There are not that many people which we happen to call terrorists that have any concrete information that we want or need. Missions are carried out by what we call “terrorists, CIA agents, or our military.” Know that each person carrying out the mission in any of the groups I reference here are not privy to the information of each other. This my friends is where the torture issue breaks down and does not work. Why? We don’t know if Johns’s information is related to Sam’s or if he knows anything at all. These unknown factors make torture an act of trial and error. How on earth are we going to torture people on a trial and error basis? How can we move forward believing that this is an act of self-preservation of a nation? How can we involve ourselves in such grievous and heinous crimes against humans whether they are guilty or not, just because we are out to find the truth? How can we search for the truth employing our own men? Do you think our men will be the same after they torture someone? Do you know that these men that perform the torture are just as victims as the ones they are torturing? Why do we do this to our own?
How, please tell me how, can conservatives that are out there in search of preservation of life, as in the unborn child, risk the adult child’s mind by forcing them to torture others? How, can the conservatives who claim to have such fundamental truths to withhold do such atrocities to other human beings? How, can conservatives claim that life is to be honored and cherished and yet have such double standards for US citizens vs. the rest of the world? Why? I am appalled today and disgusted with this. I am furious that we are even discussing this. How can self-righteousness make us cruel? How? Two wrongs do not make a right! And worse of all when we don’t even know if we are taking our 6th degrees of separation terrorist cousin that grew up in the other side of the word and degrading his human nature to the point of total surrender! Yes, why don’t you conservatives ask McCain? Ask him why he does not agree with torture. Ask McCain why this practice has to be abolished. Ask McCain how he broke down. For what? If Sam is captured, do not fool yourselves, someone else will carry out his mission. There is always a plan B!
Cheney can talk, Rumsfeld can talk, and everyone out there Republican, Democrats, Independents can talk…. But the truth of the matter is that we hurt our own! Why? Why?
Has humanity gone bonkers? Today I am angry at this issue. Angry that we even have to discuss it!
Conservatives, do on to others… does not mean just us, it means humans… wake up people…. Wake up!
On November 28, 1897, Spain granted autonomy to Puerto Rico after the Independence Party’s coup of September 23, 1868, El Grito de Lares. General elections were held in March/July of 1898 and Puerto Rico's autonomous government began to function, but not for long.
BUCHANAN: “… We liberated Puerto Rico. We offered Puerto Rico the freedom to go independent, to go commonwealth, to go statehood.”
The Spanish American War broke out and on July 25, 1898 when Puerto Rico was invaded by the U.S. The Spanish forces retreated and on October 18, 1898 Puerto Rico's autonomous government was officially changed to an American military government. The Treaty of Paris was signed and it stated that Spain was to cede Puerto Rico, Guam and Philippines to the U.S. Under this treaty Cuba would become a protectorate of the U.S. The Foraker Act of 1900, changed Puerto Rico’s military government to a civil government.
The President of the U.S. appointed the governor, cabinet and delegates. Puerto Ricans were distressed after having been granted autonomy by Spain, it had now taken a step back to colonialism. On March 2, 1917 President Woodrow Wilson signed the Jones Law. Granting Puerto Ricans American citizenship.
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Hardball, April 20, 2009 (guests Pat Buchanan and Lawrence O’Donnell)http://bit.ly/SyCk6
MATTHEWS: OK, let me ask you about—let‘s get to the facts here before we move on, a little history here. We have two veterans here of history…. What is the legitimate complaint by Latin America against the United States, Lawrence, because Pat says you‘ve got one. What is it? In terms of Latin America, where have we been bad? Where have we been bad. Let‘s hear the worst….
The double standards of the United States politics is what bothers and enfuriates Latin Americans as well as the rest of the world. The U.S. wants to have policies for their own protection and will not grant the same courtesy to other countries. Nuclear weapons, torture, invasion of other countries… etc.
The great historian, Pat Buchanan, was totally misinformed as to what he called the “liberation” of Puerto Rico from the Spanish, when the Spain had already given them the autonomy!
BUCHANAN: Sergeant Batista came to power, I believe, in 1932 under— ‘34, under the Good Neighbor” policy of FDR. He was in power to 1959. Is that our fault, or is it Cuba‘s fault that they can‘t get rid of dictators? Good heavens, there‘s been dictators all over that place. Juan Peron—that‘s all our fault? Blame America first because we did it all!
You indicate that Obama should not be fraternizing with dictators as Chavez but let me help you Pat with a bit of the history this since you seem to be a bit cloudy in this matter. The U.S. was fraternizing with dictators when they gave the green light and back-up to Battista to do as he pleased.
On April of 1933 U.S. Ambassador Benjamin Sumner Welles was sent to Cuba to mediate differences between the government and opposing political groups and he said to Battista, "I will lay down no specific terms; the matter of your government is a Cuban matter and it is for you to decide what you will do about it." To Batista, this was an invitation to rule. So on September 4, 1933 an uprising known as the "Revolt of the Sergeants," Batista took over the Cuban government and he emerged as self-appointed chief of the armed forces and a favored U.S. strong man.
From 34 to 40 Batista ran the country with puppet presidents and was a friend of the U.S. and the mafia until 1940 when defeated Grau San Martín in the first presidential election under a new Cuban constitution and U.S. trade relations increased. But in 1944 Grau San Martin was elected president Batista was forced to relinquish control.
On March 10 1952, 23 months before the upcoming elections (because he was sure to lose) Batista took over the government against elected Cuban president Carlos Prío Socorras. FYI: Also running in that election (for a different office) was a young, energetic lawyer named Fidel Castro. On March 27 Batista's government was formally recognized by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Note Pat Buchanan: Batista was acting as a dictator at this point because he did not get elected with total and full support from the U.S.
Batista opened the way for large-scale gambling in Havana, and he reorganized the Cuban state so that he and his political appointees could harvest the nation's riches. He announced that his government would match, dollar for dollar, any hotel investment over $1 million, which would include a casino license, and Lansky became the center of the entire Cuban gambling operation. Under Batista, Cuba became profitable for American business and organized crime making Havana the "Latin Las Vegas," a playground of choice for wealthy gamblers, and very little was said about democracy, or the rights of the average Cuban.
Every time we torture someone we open the door for someone to torture our kids. It is the universal law of karma. Besides this holistic interpretation of same, you can also say, "what you put out you will get back multipled (good or bad)!"
We cannot lose ourselves as citizens of USA and this world attempting to equate our actions with the people we named as "terrorists!"
We need to learn from them, we need to familiarize ourselves with their beliefs, as we would do with any child in our home that was experiencing difficulties relating to the rest of the family... with careful attention and an open mind. Tit for tat is not going to cut it... not at this moment in history. Our president is not perfect but he is attempting to rise above policies which come from a fear based center.
Never, never, never, never, let them see you sweat! Fear based attacks on people we do not understand, is just that, attacks without fundamental basic respect, seeking our commonalities rather than our differences, just as we do with our inner circle of friends and others around us.
Well, well, well, here is our brilliant president taking the floor guiding this country through the perils of our economy.
How unbelievably clear and precise is this president? How can someone who is out of work and sitting at home not feel the urge to get up and change his/her course, his direction, lift his/her spirits to find solutions in a battered economy and improve their personal circumstances after listening to our President? How proud I am of this man! His calm, precise, determination to make things happen, his thorough and complete understanding of how we got into this mess and how we are going to slowly creep out.
He clarifies complaints by many that the money is not trickling down to the common folks. He said that $1 of bank capital can be $10 of loans to family and businesses which would enable a “faster pace of economic growth.”
He explained why AIG had to be rescued and that we had to “provide support for AIG because the entire system as fragile as it is” would go down if AIG would go bankrupt. He said that we are starting to see some move in the right direction… small businesses jump in loan activity... encouraging but hard times are not over. 2009 will be difficult for the economy... they will be more foreclosures and loss of jobs and credit will not be flowing, and market will fluctuate. “You can continue to expect unrelenting effort from administration to fight on all fronts.” He continued to say that he is of the “firm believe that the next task beginning now is to make sure such a crisis never happens again.” The state of affairs of this country tis of thee has been carefully clarified. The solutions to the current conditions enumerated and explained and why this administration is taking such actions to effect change. “After we get the credit flowing, we cannot go back to a bubble and bust economy” that led us to this point with all the rules and regulations out the window. Having this said, our President and his administration propose the following set of NEW RULES:
1. NEW RULES FOR WALL STREET;2. NEW INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION MAKE WORK FORCE MORE SKILLED AND COMPETITIVE;3. NEW INVESTMENTS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY AND NEW JOBS AND NEW INDUSTRY;4. NEW HEALTH CARE; and5. NEW SAVING IN FEDERAL BUDGET THAT WILL BRING DOWN DEBT.YEAH! You go Barack! Your steadfast determination is admirable.
I was so proud of him. I watched and heard him at the office via NBC6. It was really nice to hear the military band play for about half an hour prior to Barack coming out. I was happy for him and for our nation… that he is getting around and getting this country running! Love him and believe in him!
Wondering how life will guide my steps in the future… just a passing thought … one of many… a moment of feeling love for life for no particular reason passed through me as I walked into my kitchen… maybe because I can honker down because all the errands, food, potting soil, gas, bank, physical therapy have been accomplished. Yeah!
Went to the Coconut Grove Arts Festival yesterday and it was packed with people. It looked like a rock concert. We had 2 kids, 3 women and 2 men in our group. We spread out a sheet next to El Presidente beer tarp, just in case those ugly crowds that were approaching reached us. We managed to get 2 chairs and our group grew to about 20. We were right about the rain… only problem it fell at 6 and the event closed and they threw us out of the tent under the rain. Needless to say I am having a very, very bad hair day… the two little girls were precious… one had a pink summer dress and yes, you know it… pink Converse high top sneakers! I wanted those sneakers myself …they are so marvelously cute. But not only did she not want to trade shoes with me but she did not want me to ride with her and her sister in her “red covered Radio Flyer!” By the end of the evening she was my friend because I had chewing gum. The other one was too active to care about anyone except her ball.
We walked to and from the Grove. Going the sun was shining and the temperature was around 75 degrees with a nice ocean breeze. Coming back was drizzling all the way. Thank God for my cap I did not get wet.
It is nice to write again. Had not written anything since November 12 after the election and sharing about “my life being in a moment of change as America.” Thank you to all that respond and comment on my blogs. It is good to know you read them and can relate to some of what I experience.
Please share one thing that you have changed in your life that has made it more complete and rewarding.
The military is now investigating its own senior officers, who are suspected of trading contracts for huge bribes. The New York Times reports an investigation is focused on two officers in Iraq who held top positions in distributing reconstruction funds shortly after the invasion—Lt. Col. Ronald W. Hirtle of the Air Force and retired Col. Anthony B. Bell of the Army.
YEAH THAT IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT!
Just wanted to share with your all my experiences of this day and last evening. I am, of course, having my Alto Grande nice warm coffee which numbs my lips when I drink out of my favorite French Market Coffee Chicory mug from New Orleans. Love big sturdy mugs that fit into my hand as a soup bowl. Idiosyncrasies that I have picked up along the way and have stuck with me.
My apartment looks like a Capitol Hill Office during a congressional session… papers all over the place… in their relative piles… showing some order in my temporary madness to complete my taxes expeditiously… and in a quasi-panic mode. I filed it electronically but since my old computer did not work and I did not print out my last year’s returns they rejected it because I did not have my “AIG” or “adjusted gross income” from 2007. Well, can’t they just ask another question? Don’t they want to return my money to me? Should it be so difficult? Why did they burst my bubble? Well at least I relaxed financially for a few hours…
I took my “I am going to get a tax return YEAH disposition and temporary bliss” to CocoWalk last night to say goodbye to Lili, who is going to Argentina to take care of her mother for 6 months and will be returning back to Miami in September. Lili and I worked together for a while and enjoyed it. We are both free spirited and pretty much say what is on our minds when it slightly enters the cerebral cortex… causing some problems with those who are exposed to our brilliance (which is what I decide to call it)… you can define it as you wish but we always end up being the life of the party regardless of behind the scene “these ladies are something else” remarks.
Today I have to devote my day to exercising my arm and shoulder and organizing the combat zone which I solely and exclusively created. It is actually quite interesting that I can have 2 rooms full of paper from 2008. I also have 2 drawers full of my mami’s documents and files that I have created to keep it all under control. Or so illusion of such… Still wheeling and dealing with documents and tasks to finalize this aspect of her life with “dignity and honor” as a very dear friend of mine says is what at the end matters. My mother was simple and in her own way she was very special and giving… Feisty, energetic, opinionated, in “15 minutes its not fast enough” attitude, but out of her way to feed you with your favorite dish -- all you had to do was ask. I miss her and will share that when it happens. Going through papers, copies of pictures and dealing with her life and end of same brought her to the surface yesterday and it was nice but a bit sad but happy that she was my mother and that she was special… that is something I fought with all my life, how not to be like my mother, but I looked exactly like her and I had her ADD, not her ADHD, but definitely the ADD part. I have to follow myself because I have string consciousness. Have to write notes and that is why I am so visual, it brings me to focus when I read something. While I am given instructions in the office I write them down because they do not register as they are being told to me except when I write and see them. My brain will change the instructions if I do not write them down. Funny how that works, but I have learned to live and be successful with it… actually by instinct… in school I used to write and take notes very fast. I would read the material and I would have the best grades.
Today will go to the Art Festival in Coconut Grove... will walk with my neighbors since it is so packed with cars. We are about 8 blocks from there. It is a nice walk. Maybe I will take my camera and take some pictures and share with you all.
Will stop boring you… have a wonderful DAY AFTER LOVE/FRIENDSHIP day and do something loving for you and for someone else -- and I am definitely open and receptive to being that someone else... HA!
Now that I have taken you with me to my coffee experience, know that if you receive a can of this coffee you are amongst my favorite few. But if you have not received a can that you should order it and try it. This is one of the things I love the most in my current life… my puertorican coffee. So on this day of love and friendship I wanted to share this with all of you.
Another thing that I love and if you have received some you are also amongst the limited loved ones… my homemade pesto … I just harvested and made pesto with my friends from PR that were visiting me last week and it was the best pesto I have made to date. Don’t know if it was the company or what. They could not believe that it would take so long to make 5 cups of Pesto. We ate 3 in one night… with pasta and sun dried tomatoes and just with crackers. I grow my basil in my porch in my Miami apartment. My plants are limited because I just experienced some life changing experiences and my plants were in the backburner… but they are there hanging in there with me. I have to start new plants with seeds so I can harvest a lot for the next holiday season. It takes about 3 months for them to grow : “el manjar de los dioses” or “delicacy of the gods” is what my friends and I called it. Find something you can grow and harvest when the spring comes. Oregano survives the winter and comes back. Basil will not survive but you can start in the spring and harvest up to the fall. Basil is a good for the source of vitamin K and a very good source of iron, calcium and vitamin A. I think it is the perfect herb. I am thinking about writing a small pesto cookbook and sell it with basil leaves. What do you think?
Now that I have shared a few of my favorite and loved things in life must also say that I love Michelle Obama. What a woman! Not afraid to be who she is and she is definitely not like the rest of the first ladies. She has been my sister since the beginning. And we are somewhat connected by my best friend’s family. You go Michelle, love your Vogue cover! And that picture in the inside with the black dress! Girl, no wonder Barack loves you.! You look real good and forget what the media says. You should hang that picture in the black dress in your White House bedroom. For real! You go and do your thing… I will follow you…
I am learning to live without my mother and without my son at home but it is something I have to get used to… same as we have to do with the new president who is bringing change to America. Change is not easily accepted and it takes work and determination to make peace with it.
I miss this website and do not know what if anything they will be doing with it. Maybe we will get an email that this is not longer it. Maybe we can run the White House with Barack. Well we actually will be doing that because the man listens.
Just wanted to say it has been a pleasure to be on this website and I have been away and not writing and I have missed doing so. To all of you may you have a great holiday season. I will continue to write as long as they will have us.
… terrorists?
Palin where have you been? Palin what moves you to blatantly speak in damaging and condemning “tongues.” Palin where did you learn this behavior? Palin if you have totally disregard for animal life why should homosapiens be any different? Palin has anyone showed you that prejudism is against what you preach in your church, temple or whatever you call it? Palin don’t you know that your disabled child will experience rejection and prejudism as you have in your own way fired up in your rallies? Palin don’t you know that you will squirm when you feel this against your child when he grows up? Palin don’t you know there is a law of Karma? Palin don’t you know that the wildlife of America is not here for your slaughtering unless you are hungry and need to feed your children? Palin you have children and through your children God and the gods of this world will teach you and it is already happening. Palin, you who are so self-righteous have a pregnant teenager and a disabled child. I have a disabled adult child so I have experienced the suffering of others staring, rejecting, etc. You will get yours and you will feel the pain as your baby grows up. And using him in your campaign as a ginnie pig? Watch out Palin you have a few coming and I will sit back and watch.
But you Palin seem to be clueless to compassion and humanity so not much is expected of you. But McCain you have allowed this defamation of Barack Obama to go on without standing up for what you so very much acclaim you represent, honor! What has possessed you to do that? How can you allow someone to yell out "kill" at a rally? This is dispecable and appalling. May your God and the gods of this world guide you both because you will get it back multiplied! That is what I have been taught. No wonder Palin has had to have her little witchcraft procedures done in church to remove evil. Even her ministers believe she needs it!
God and gods of the world protect us from evil and those who spread it or condemn it. Protect our nation by putting Barack and Joe in the White House. And God and gods bless America!
Latinos unidos venceremos en esta campana de Obama. Aqui les envio una cancion que me envio el grupo de National Latinos Unidos. Muy linda la cancion. Gracias a Alejandro Suave y a Josue Levi por su gran interpretacion.
http://www.youtube.com/sabrelevi
Joe is the man of the hour. He is such a good VP candidate. He is a class act. Very, very proud of your debate last night. You were all that I was expecting you to be. I have been following you for years and you and Barack make the perfect couple... you compliment each other. Barack is a bit more measured and you are more passionate and determined. Great marriage for our White House.
The Rovian/Cheney animal killer was pathetic. She looked as Chris Matthews said "like she was at a spelling bee." I was correct yesterday when I said that she was going to be eating out of Rove's hand before the debate. She did resemble these two evil forces. Cold, calculating and totally brainwashed and without any reality to her display. She almost choked on the gay rights question. The word she used was "tolerated." "Tolerated another human being that chooses to have displays of love different from yours? Please woman, heavens forbid one of your children need you to 'tolerate' them in their lives, they will learn to hate you."
Cold hearted woman, you have sold your soul to the republicans and they believe they have acquired a treasure and they cannot see through your greed and determination to get them. At one point you even had a freudian slip and said "ending" instead of "spending" time with John McCain. Yes indeed John, watch out.... watch your back specially when there is a helicopter flying above... those good old Vietnam days will all come back... God bless you. When Joe Biden choked up at the rememberance of his son's possibility of death, she went right into her speech with a big smile and without an ounce of compassion. Again, watch out McCain, she does hit her prey from the helicopter but she gets close for the true kill...
To the one God that repesents all of the different religions of the world, bless our country and bless our two guys, Barack and Joe.
All of a sudden all the lawmakers have become religious and are respecting the jewish holiday. Well everybody, its supposed to be Happy New Year to them. Isn't that the day where everyone gets happy and can do anything they want ... including working to save Americans savings, credit, etc.? Well well well religion again mixed with government. Whatever.... how can they practice their religion and watch America squirm? Does that make them good citizens? Religion, religion, religion.... Again it proves to be useless in our society. Wake up people stop the madness handed down to you and be true to one another. It has nothing to do with traditions that are truly worthless when we cannot be good to one another... It has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with sharing the goodness within each of us.
I will respect the religions of the world if they respect my lack of religion and consider it politically correct to work on a day when Americans need you to be there to vote on a very very very important moment in American history.
Sorry if I have offended anyone out there but I feel offended by this and maybe they are just hiding behind the holiday to stay away. Who knows....
What do you think?
It shames me to be a citizen of America. Yes, I said it. This “country tis of thee” that brought goose pimples to my skin when I sang America the Beautiful… “America is a nation that tackles problems head on.” said our mighty president. Yes. Let’s tackle our problems with the lives of other people that are not ours (meaning leaders who make decisions), our soldiers, our citizens who suffer the loss of their dear ones at war and suffer financially. Yes, our leaders believe that they are above the citizens of this nation. Yes, our leaders believe that we are expendable. Yes, our leaders believe that this nation of hard working people can work a bit harder to reach the goals that they have made harder and harder to reach every year. Yes, our leaders have taken our money. Yes, our leaders have abused their governing powers. Yes, our leaders have lied to us and made us panic under imminent danger of world leaders who supposedly had weapons of mass destruction and had been involved in the 911 massacre. Yes, they have painted stories to us with only their personal financial goals at stake. Yes, they have stolen money that has not been found to date. Yes, they have made money off the tax dollars of the citizens of this country and no, we have not seen the profit of same. Let’s say Cheney profited and made millions in the Iraq war that we, the citizens funded. Should we not get tax credits for his profits? Should we not profit for every dollar that Shell Oil makes in Iraq since we opened the avenue for them with our tax dollars?
I am appalled at the mishandling of money, or human lives, of the trust given to the civil servants, or the lack of common sense, the lying, the focus of our leaders does not go beyond our leaders. The focus of our leaders is concentrated in a few. They have taken and taken and taken without remorse and have the nerve to ask for more. Their greed at the mercy of us. Us is a lonely word in this administration.
I must say before I end that McCain again with his post war trauma behavior. This man is a man of drastic moves. He scares me. He does not have the charisma to keep the attention of his followers so he has to make drastic moves. No way. No way will the people of America believe that this is a good quality in a president. Please America wake up. This man is not stable and he has bipolar tendencies. And the beauty queen cannot even answer questions about McCain political background. That is scary that she did not even study that aspect of her campaign. Oh well, the faster they rise the faster they fall. Barack and Joe, just stay focused on the issues of this country and ignore the Bipolar Dude and the Beauty Queen. They are not fit and your time is precious to be wasted on them.
Bless America and bless our future leaders, Barack and Joe. We have to make sure this pathetic administration does not steal another election.
Well, well, well here we are in a big empty well that looks more like a $11 trillion deficit very deep into our pockets. Since we are perceived with such love around the world, I am sure that there must be many smiles of satisfaction as we squirm through this weekend of financial turmoil. In my ignorance I set out to learn a bit about the subject and what a socialist government is and why we would be in that direction and moving away from capitalism.
So here is the definition of what I found: "An economic system in which the basic means of production are primarily owned and controlled collectively, usually by government under some system ..." So now it makes our government officially in charge of our money... which is what they have been doing so far but not to the degree that they will be now. Now they can have a license to steal and own us.
This might be the perfect solution for our democrats. We would have to become more socialist to be able to help distribute the wealth in America... or will the wealth still be with the greedy ones? Will the greedy ones be the ones paying up the larger taxes? Well then... maybe there will be justice after all.
McCain and his POW post trauma has shown us this week why he is not fit to lead this country. He has exhibitted very distinct signs of his disabling condition which noone has talked about or discussed in the airwaves. They are afraid of disclosing his condition: a "severe psychological reaction to an extreme psychological trauma." Not fit to be president! Not fit to be president! Not fit to be president!
Barack, proud of you and your calm disposition under pressure. Your focus... your determination to gather your forces to help you preside over whatever comes up... You are the man! You are the person to lead us out of this... You already had socialist tendencies of your own so now you have the power to use this in our favor. That is how I see it. This is our moment. You also knew that Pakistan was the country to watch out for! And here we are today with a terrorist act in Pakistan. Your insight, COMMON SENSE, determination to gather your people to help you solve your tasks as president will set us free of this corrupt government.
We have to impeach this president! That will be the final icing on the cake after the elections are over in November. Yes, Bush, we have to bring you down and it would be a mild retribution for what you and your adminsitration has done to this country. Impeach Bush! Impeach Bush! Yes, now you have a reason to drink and choke over your pretzel!
Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for 'The Vagina Monologues', wrote the following about Sarah Palin:Drill, Drill, DrillI am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, 'It was a task from God.'Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the li brary, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healt hcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, 'Drill Drill Drill.' I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?Eve EnslerSeptember 5, 2008
It seems that our economy has brought us to our knees. Maybe some crawling around the bottom might bring some change to America. Maybe hitting bottom enlightens the powers in charge or not in charge for that matter. Maybe this is the best thing for our candidates, Barack and Joe. Maybe the American people will see that our guys have the energy and the desire to at least attempt to make great changes in America and have some idea as to how to go about this. Maybe America will see that the good old POW and Beauty Queen cannot get us the results we need.
This week I have heard all kinds of documentaries on Melanoma and how when it recurs it is fatal within 3-4 months. That we need to be cautious as to our pick for VP and the more I listen to the beauty queen the more I know she is not ready to lead America -- and not definitely get us out of this mess we are in. Heard and read how McCain has voted for the SS to be privatized -- invested in the stock market. Funny McCain... how the universe is teaching you. Heard that with McCain's health plan we would be paying taxes on our contributions toward our health plan. Funny McCain... this has been one of the only benefits of being sick in America... its tax deducion... actually the percentage of health costs to qualifiy for the deduction should be lowered -- anyone that has reached the percentage needed for the deduction knows that they were in debt because of the expense. Heard McCain minimize our economy and its problems. Funny McCain, have seen "grown men cry" on national TV. Not all of them are the CEO's that with their greed paralized the economy. Some of them are regular folks trying to go to their daily jobs and provide for their families. I have seen them in the building I work in Miami. Lehman shutting down and folks had to leave the office within 24 hours with all their personal stuff because the office was going to be under investigation. Funny McCain its all good for you... married into money and totally clueless as to the suffering of the working class. Heard about how McCain has to be suffering from post trauma from his POW experience. Funny McCain... your post trauma is seen at times when you are cornered -- do not want you cornered as president of the US making rash decisions.
I pray to every God of every faith out there in America and around the world that America realizes how absurd it is to vote for the POW and the beauty queen. Even if you have doubts, give the Obama/Biden ticket a chance. They are true to their mission and they have the energy and enthusiasm to effect the changes we need and in my belief the most important thing that the current administration lacks and this country needs in its leadership, COMMON SENSE.
