the new era...

in US politics a crossroads has arrived and a path has been chosen, by the legacy of the Bush Presidencies, a poisoning of the political waters. Corporations now have been given free rein, insulated by an oligarchy of philosophically allied front men. The most telling result of the Supreme Courts decision to destroy democracy and turn it into a brainwash...was Clarence Thomas' wife positioned so grandly in a group established just to defeat healthcare reform aspirations of poor Americans...the group was started with some seed investments- donations in the range of $500,000. No shortage of healthcare options for that start up. No one questions his neutrality-- no need to, his record of hostility to human rights, individual rights makes the vote to destroy democracy a mere part of a pattern. There was probably more difficulty for his wife to avoid the millions than to accept them...there were millions everywhere it seemed to defeat the effort to bring medical care to the sick and needy. A true American cause was born once again on the backs of her neediest and most defenseless... and like a video of billion dollar smart missile flying into a window sized target in Iraq...many rich people cheering. Now there are rich people and Corporation owners who wish to see democracy restored, but now it will cost them hundreds of millions to attempt to restore the balance of propaganda, and if democracy were the first victim hare, then truth is, and will be, the honored second...
epilogue:
it troubles me to think of children dying here from a lack of healthcare while a few hundred million is spent to stop a healthcare law that might save them. Stop it because Insurance Executives want to determine who gets healthcare, and how much, and for what price...I mean that is our money they are spending, it will be on our insurance bills for the rest of our insured lives... yes?

Official google.org Blog: Official data underestimate global water and sanitation crisis, showing need for improved monitoring

Official google.org Blog: Official data underestimate global water and sanitation crisis, showing need for improved monitoring

the price of free speech...

 

I grew up around public opinion
it was a strange and mottled thing
all the colors and stripes of life,
a blend of all voices upon its timid tongue.
It has been fed to grow and while naturally shy
yet so much attention each second and fourth year
It seems to shine like the greatest of fascinations.

It was the anchor that dragged an awful war
until the ship-of-conflict ran aground
public opinion stood like the stand at New Orleans
when young America found a stone walled  will.

But in recent times it has been battered
abused and terribly despoiled; when her dim eyed guardians
failed; she became the victim of a false crusade
so many bombs bursting in meaningless airs
and New Orleans fell beneath the sea...

Treated so shabbily, even by those once so adoring
now they put on skirts to mock it , and paint it
in colors that frighten and warn, but none so much
as those it holds most dear.

Poor public opinion and now those that
worship at the altar of a vengeful,frigid love
have given her over to those who speak
from the fattened  land of profits, while many suffer
they grow great, deciding the fates of pieces of the world.

Oh, poor public opinion, where to rest our weary frame
when the mountains that make war come to take you?
Where will you go...the back alleys, ahh, yes
will be safer than Main Street,  and the ballot boxes
will frighten you...they will look like the boxes you once knew
covered with flags, one by one come home...
to your tearful refuge.

Now, you will sink beneath waves of tainted green
here when truth comes to auction
Public Opinion, you can do nothing more,
if you cannot pay the price of freedom...

I last saw public opinion on a rooftop howling at the moon
it was a dream, I am sure, but the lonesome desolate sound...

made me weep.

A sugar feast...

at the end of Ramadan, Eid ul-Fitr; the beginning of the new year Rosh Hashanah, and in America 9/11 is a day of remembrance a day of national unity. It seems 9/11 so quickly passed a period of solemn grief, to become cause for a re-election war, a bonanza for the war industry; has fallen further now: into the clutches of a new wave of political opportunity- politicians who want to feast on social division and fear, unholy crusaders who worship their personal hatreds, political parties who hide financial gains for friends and allies behind a veil of pretended patriotism, and of course the omnipresent American War Machine- reborn like an evil Phoenix from still warm ashes, moving towards the next Trillion dollar bloodbath.

In the midst of these booming thunder rolls, is a blip on the screen.. a misguided man who wants to burn the Moslem Holy Book to hallow the memory of 9/11. Te vultures from the right and their media have swarmed the occasion, one oddball who wishes to provoke a nation here to rise up against people who believe in a certain form of God... to blame all those for the terror strikes. Well he is going to need a bigger fire... the terrorists that have struck and killed Americans include Christians too, Americans of many stripes have committed terror attacks here...one need think no further that the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. There is no shortage of extremism and the will to violence among every Faith... my mind notes an exception perhaps for the followers of Dalai Lama. But the teachings of Christ have been used as a pretext for millions of murders, some called war, crusades, or even defense of the holy land, or self defense---as in the case of the invasion of Iraq ( no joke, the American President- a man named Bush convinced his country they would be attacked by a broken down Iraq government under a Dictator named Saddam)

That the Holy Book burning would do little here, except reinforce bigotry, and do potentially deadly harm around the world- many deaths and assassinations would be expected, was not a factor--the press eagerly covered the planned book burning, and geared up to cover the retaliations too. Somehow lost in all of this is the idea of 9/11...how we can honor sacrifice and move to greater world peace, better understanding. We will not advance the state of the world by retaliation, in word or deed. We will not improve the world by feeding the futures of our children to the War machine.

It is difficult to answer violence with understanding-- the highest ideals of Christianity and Muslim teachings call for this: to live in peace and abundance. I t requires something badly lacking in the world-- moral leadership focused on world peace, greater understanding, and most of all - rejection of violence.

There might be a sugar feast for all of the world, days to rejoice in peace and the victory of faith over the urge to conquer. The attainment of a higher purpose in life than feeding the greed of the war business, an abundance of life... the sweetness of life.

A Republican Apology...

Oh to the Big Business that they so dearly love, 

a moment we all can treasure;  APOLOGIA

the spirit of a political party  on display.  

Just like the rupture in the belly of the Gulf of Mexico, the true nature of a thing is revealed in the most dramatic terms. YES, the Republican Party values its corporate sponsors greater than this country, greater than the value placed on human life.  As if to them, life is unfortunately common, billionaire donors are unfortunately rare.  Well, let's see...if a man dumped 500 million barrels of oil on Joe Barton's lawn, he would apologize to the man if we demanded he pay for the clean up, or for the neighbors properties that then become toxic, cancer causing hazards...right Congressman, an APOLOGY TO THE MAN WHO POISONED THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT. 

It is important to remember, the oil companies do not own the oil, the oil belongs to everyone, it was made by the Sun and stored in Nature's vast undersea storage facility, the energy of the Sun... the oil companies simply get it and sell it back to us for enormous profits.  So it is not too much to ask that they do it carefully and prudently, and--if they make a mess, have a plan, resources for fixing it.

A bailout, a shakedown, ohh... the agony of making a rich donor pay a small price for an unfixable damage to the world.  So revealing this is, the true nature of the bungling oil industry, how willing they are to risk the assets we all need for survival; and how utterly contemptuous the Republican Party has become of the intelligence of the American People.

Republicans in the business world...

many of the major corporations and the military leadership have a common thread of Republican affiliation, it is in the cultures and  runs deeply, McCain over Obama deeply--and that is like Grand Canyon Deep, yes?
But consider the Republican's Supreme Court and its incredible bias towards giant corporations over the little people of the country- and by that I include the children, working families--people not living off the equity of the country; and consider the impacts of business on our lives--

shipping of our jobs and careers away for the country
moving whole industries away from the US
making a global preference for foreign workers
making tax laws favorable to global business and 
tax incentives for moving businesses out of the US
massive layoffs
massive bailouts
massive profits from military adventures 
and politically inspired wars such as the invasion of Iraq

The point is A Republican strategy to make things better or worse in the country would be an easy thing to accomplish, perhaps as simple as raising gasoline prices because of the Gulf Spill, or deciding it is a good time to cut back and trim payrolls- by the tens of thousands.  Or deciding to drop gasoline prices, deciding it is good to hire people here in the US.  We trust that these decisions are made without regard to political impact in the private sector, but after seeing the burn the earth strategy against the Health Care Reform in the Congress, a year of Senate filibusters...why in the world would we believe that!!!

Oh, and that Gulf Spill, it will have Obama's name all over it, in the fall elections---so he is doing the right thing to give it priority, so so very busy he has been cleaning up one after another Bush Era mess

a legacy for us all to endure, the badness of King George...on the humorous side, won't it be a hoot hearing Republicans talk about fixing the environment!!!!

The Gulf Oil Spill shows...

the business and greed  of people, the footprint of mankind on the environment, has the power to poison our world.  The Gulf Spill needs no exaggeration, no melt through to China story, no horror story about bumps in the night; this is the disaster that men could cause, unfolded before our disbelieveing eyes, it is already worse than we could imagine.
A school child, on the day after the explosion, said to me: " My teacher said there is an oil well in the ocean pouring oil into the sea and it could poison the whole Gulf of Mexico."  I smiled and had not even connected the explosion to the open well gushing oil. Then I thought-- the oil will stop, or the company will plug the well.  I thought about the first Gulf War when the oil wells were set on fire, how they never went out until we capped them.
Now, we are mute witnesses, because the company has so much money it does not need to listen to us.  It had no reliable plan for this event, and this event was not unlikely.  It was likely and still is.  The Bush years still haunt us, when government was like a rich man's toy.  Our chickens became diseased, and we still ate them, our government became the ministry of fear and alarm, we watched the colors of the alerts and felt afraid; New Orleans sank while the White House plotted against Democrats, we winced at the sight of destruction--although it affected me deeply, I wonder how many still feel anything.  Now the Bush policies that allow a corporation to ignore risks to the world for its profits; a Supreme Court that gives BP - a foreign corporation- the Constitutional Right to spend its billions to influence our elections, and who could blame them, if the Bush people allowed this disaster to take shape--they are worth every penny BP will will spend to get rid of Obama.

a change in the weather---man

NOAA is one of the more important agencies of government, like those that feed and heal it has a mission that is fundamental to our survival: the survival of our oceans. These wonders are part of the engine of the planet, holding sun heat, making winds, clouds and rain; feeding a majority of the world from its fish and seafood stocks.

 During the Bush years which is a little like saying the Dark Ages...it was politicized, its thought process co-opted by a ridiculous Party line...no danger to fish stocks from overfishing, the ocean dead zones might be natural and cyclical; the rise in ocean temperatures does not affect climate...and the biggie ...we must wait a few hundred years to be sure of anything.  NOAA was in the pettifog business ---big time, content to confound and confuse the big issues...the ones upon which our fates seem to depend.

Now there is NOAA the foot dragging non-presence while an incredibly bold and reckless corporation acts to damage the oceans in its world-be-damned pursuit of profits.  There are potentials for ruin of the nation's most productive ocean food supplier, irreplaceable estuaries, and a cycle of damage that we cannot yet foresee so powerful and unprecedented is the dump of crude oil into the oceans.
The Obama Administration has not been in Office long enough to have created this inert mass of political denial at NOAA that has displaced the effort--frank and open effort- needed to address the huge footprint of mankind on the oceans and climate of our little world's  eco-system, but they have been in Office long enough to see it.  Now that they have seen it, we will see if they will effect a cure.  The health of our place in the world...depends on things like this...

Election Day is a time to learn

sometimes the lessons are difficult and bitter, sometimes the sweet feeling is a very misleading sugar coating on a hard medicine inside.  This election day is about change and the opposite reaction to change---resistance.  I have read so many( and I think-- wrong headed) reports of the Tea Party movement and its power, I think it will be seen now and in November, that the Tea Party will affect one party more than another, because it borrows from the same bank of resistance as the Republican Party.
American voted for change in the society when electing President Obama, some opposed him then and now.  They have formed and reformed into a movement that is being led by ideals that seem more like a jingo--taking back our Government/ too big government/ socialist government.  They are a grass roots movement and have an internal structure of leadership that seems newly created and genuine.

Yet their spokespersons, the people who stand before the cameras, the candidates-- are people like Sara Palin, or Dr. Paul, the son of a Republican Congressman, who says he is an outsider to Washington... there is every appearance of a hijack of the energy of governmental resistance by people who are traditional, insiders, and have no real connection to reform of government.

I think the Tea Party will grow, gather more funds, and might eventually become allied with the flood of corporation monies that are now allowed by our Supreme Court's incredible decision  in the Citizens v. FEC case.  It may become a 3rd party that will consume a major party at least in some areas of the country and at least in some elections.  It is anathema to modern ideas of government- global government, the corporate world for which national boundaries are merely a fact of doing business.

I think there is a balance that has been lost in America-  so much acceptance of global factors, so much accommodation of external interests.  The Tea Party movement reminds that domestic populations, their aspirations and goals, have a priority at least as important as foreign corporations.  The Obama Administration has taken a quantum leap in that direction, and that...as much as anything... has inspired the strength of dissent, that so much change has come...proves that change can come.

Oil can still ruin the economy...

...even as we sit on the edge of electric cars and vehicles, truly synthesized fuels, the Earth's carbon storage system that we call --oil-- hangs over our heads and threatens once again to ruin our economies and change societies for the worse.  Here in the US let's say disaffection over the Administration's response to the Gulf Spill changes politics and we vote Obama out of office. Replacing him with a man/woman chosen by the War machine...the businesses that finance and equip our massive defense establishment.  Then  we would find a reason to go to war and begin to extinguish hundreds of thousands of lives...sisters, brothere, fathers mothers...loved ones, precious people to many others--and incidentally we terminate a wonderful adventure in this Obama Presidency.

We return our economy to a war footing just when green energy, and improvements in the American way of life...better health maybe, longer life spans; maybe some research that would improve the presently awkward state of medical science---we know so much more than we put into practice these days, and the gap is growing.

Oil--- and the people who would come to power are those who have kept us in the shadow of the Oil cloud, who eschewed or even blocked alternative fuels and hydrogen or electric vehicles. Oil can still ruin an economy because almost every contribution it makes has a damaging side effect- on air, water, even our physical routines of sedentary lifestyles...I walk a lot now and drive little---makes a big difference.
The thing itself is a vast energy source that we use in such a poor way...we burn it and send most of it off into the air, where we wear and breathe it.  I have a strong feeling one day OIL  will be used in many ways- to heal, to nourish, to build things ---and people will wonder of that primitive ritual of burning such a precious thing for a mere momentary pulse of energy.

things change into the same...

in America, there is change and then there is the appearance of change----like the TV commercial dominated society we have become, thoughtless wonders we...some ideas that appeal to us because they are cute or trendy, or more likely the opinion of our friends...I call them friend shepherds - they guide a flock of sheepish friends, guiding tastes in clothes, tastes in cool, approving an disapproving, by virtue of superior knowledge of life and happiness. They guide their friends through the perils of life, to the barn in the season of shearing, and of course the season of lamb chops too.
But here we have it, Segregated Public Schools, well segregation by wealth has always been the case here and continued with only small interference from the Civil Rights movement and government policies of progressive administrations--it has been a difficult thing for Americans to give up their idea of privilege. I think the whining Tea Party movement is born of this -- a sense of privilege lost,

how dare they tell me I can't carry my gun in public-- so that everyone will know I am a dangerous man, not to be taken lightly as my appearance might suggest-- having a palatial home, a space age car, and more credit cards than a wallet can hold...is not enough, someone has to lack all those things, many ...most people must lack them, then i feel ...like a real American; [oh and anyone who disagrees should leave the country...taking the memories of your children and family lost in war with you...]

yes, the Tea Party is a reflection of something very insidious indeed, privilege raised to the point of worship. The loss of understanding, the reduction in essential intelligence about a thing-- we must be free to have health insurance on our own, and not as part of a mandate--- we must be free to become burdens on the public, we must be free to be poor and uninsured against our will...

Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks died in recent days, Civil rights leaders who gave productive lifetimes to raising the level of life in the US. I also read that parents in Mississippi take their children into racially exclusive schools, not for racially discrimination purposes I'm sure ...but maybe somewhere a friend has been a shepherd.

Maybe the idea is to have more friends like Benjamin Hooks and Dorothy Height, then I would call them...Angels.

there will be war and rumors...

Foreign policy is important, sometimes vital to the nation's economy and security.  A nation that depends increasingly on the jobs we have exported to produce needs and wants is more and more vulnerable to the effects of events everywhere.

The Republican party-- which has centered it's approach on engaging in warfare at every opportunity-- would like to convince the public that:
it has a superior view of American international interests; and
that military policies and foreign policies overlap to an extent that perhaps only humanitarian aid is outside of the scope of military foreign affairs.
The result is that they would keep us at war and  profits from those wars would fuel their political base.  Corporate America is overwhelmingly Republican as is the military leadership, they say.

I have fundamental doubt about the affiliation thing, but the rest is unfortunately true.  It makes life smple for Republican leaders: GET SOMEBODY-- GET THE GAYS, FAMILY VALUES  man + WOMAN= Family.  Get the poor it is their fault they didn't pick rich parents.  Read the bible and support killing in the name of freedom. the art of hiding the ball at its best.

The lack of ideas and meaningful direction in governing the domestic agenda--the reason they are the Party of --No...is that governing is not important to them, war is.  That is the big payoff.  I think they are right, fixing domestic problems is not nearly as expensive nor profitable---quick example-- for the money we spent --no,  wasted in Iraq doing a job that might have been done much better and more quickly by an international effort without an invasion---lets say $1.5 trillion over  eight years--- every child in the US could have had health insurance, a college trust fund, down payment on their first home, and spending mney for weekends at the mall...or a ringside seat at the Iraq civil War, $1.5 Trillion essentially donated to a nation with more oil than political will to find peace.

Oh, I know my Republican friends, I hear your robotic voices - -- if we helped a generation of children become wealthy  and successful it would ruin the country, it would be un-American like giving rights to gay people, or saving lives in New Orleans instead of just finding a way to blame Democrats; but still it shows what you can buy when you pass by the daily special on war in aisle 7 and shop around a bit, many Americans see, there is an appealing sale on CHANGE.

How to measure...Change

Maybe the problem is that today's government is being measured by yesterday's standards, fear and loathing and the rainbow of dread ( I know you want to forget the red, orange chartreuse alerts--but I wont let you...;).  We were whipped into a frenzy to invade Iraq, and when allies insisted on sharing in contracts and rebuilding, they were dismissed. So it shaped up as a painless war, full of high-tech show, an opportunity to reward the people who elected George Bush, many of whom had made money in the first Gulf War--the righteous one- repel the invaders of Kuwait.  This one was not righteous, it was calculated and largely purposed to hide a vulnerable condition of our national defense, re-elect the man who oversaw the terror attacks; and spend as much money as possible before a grief stricken nation began to ask--we are invading who? For what? and why isn't my life as important to you Mr, President as the oppressed majority in Iraq...I mean we need roads, bridges, better education, democracy, economic growth, health insurance, better access to education, --did I mention roads and bridges?--all right here Mr. Bush---the answer was a trillion plus dollars spent in Iraq, which now---wants us out, wants to do business with practically everybody else but US companies, and are running elections that look a lot like Bush's elections, so much for democracy .

Instead of US, our money went to Iraq, we got the Republican style of management, see. e.g. New Orleans, hurricanes and old people...and they are still saying we can't afford to help Americans, still trying to convince people it is right to resent anyone who is not rich, and that it is a good thing for the poor to use their assets --even the lives of their soldier children-- for the benefit of the rich...oh man, if there were a higher superpower on the earth, like China may yet be, they will look at this era in America and say...they were so wrong headed, then found a chance for CHANGE.  Yes even China of the future may one day routinely do much more for its people than we do willingly here, the POLITICS OF RESENTMENT RUN DEEP, AND ONE PARTY HAS MADE IT,... ITS LIFE BLOOD.

The repeal of the Court...

this Supreme Court is no stranger to doing strange things and healthcare legislation, the lifeboat for so many millions of people will be in the crosshairs of the most philosophically backward Court since the days of the New Deal...they have proved that they will not respect the presumed power of Congress to regulate the things it finds fundamental and necessary if there is a conservative cause that can be promoted...and here it is no less a cause than the convenience of the War Machine---the Holy Grail of the Republican Party.  They could reword the dollar...in War we trust...

Healthcare is a blip on the screen--$120 Billion per year...the Iraq war on the surface was about $12million per hour...about  $1Trillion in six years, and that was just the parts that tended to show in the budget.  War is like an iceberg, the greater part is unseen, but it is the precedent that matters most, the idea that people might shape a priority for government.

During the Bush years, we needed healthcare reform- they offered to limit our right to sue for the unlimited damage medical mistakes, we were supposed to be happy if they reduced our insurance bill by a dollar. When we needed roads and infrastructure, they studied why our bridges were falling down; when we needed action to protect pollution of oceans and loss of whole food stock species- they gave us doubts that human pollution was polluting the seas; when we saw the weather weirding, power of storms swamping cities- they said we had to wait to be sure before we would make anyone change the way they do business, in fact wanted to relax air quality standards, mileage for cars ( can you believe they actually made bigger and bigger cars---and we bought them!!!)

So the war machine is starting to get antsy, they have many billions to spend, and the Supremes say baby we'd love to see you spend it to do to public opinion what has been done to the food supply here-- overwhelm the consumer until they think a grease burger and oily potatoes is God's gift -- and they once again choose war: expensive, pricey, high- tech conflicts that show how strong we are, invasions for our liberty...now admit it don't you feel more free now that there is a trillion dollars worth of democracy in Iraq...well you don't quite get what you used to...for a Trillion$ do you?

healthy days ahead

the Obama Administration has done something remarkable, they have overcome long odds to pass a health care bill that portends major change---that's right America--some change from the tired song of what we cannot do for our own people.  The Republican Party has once again disqualified itself from leadership, and discarded the interests of the American People in favor of the one thing that it does do--raise and spend other people's money for political victories.  They want to rule but have nothing to offer except war and spending massive amounts of our future to feed corporate allies--- look at Iraq--that is One Trillion of our dollars to one of the richest oil reserves in existence, look at it-- that is your child's college money, his/her future career in a new industry, the electric car, the healthcare so many millions need to prevent serious and costly medical conditions--there it is-- the incredible waste of our futures. The war did not have to be even 25% as costly as it was for us, the costs should have been shared by many including Iraq, should have been much lower to begin and end--yes it should have ended long ago too. It has not ended yet, and the lessons learned there, the bravery of the Iraqi people...so many good things, but the amount we paid-- the enormous lavish waste of money to reward the political allies of a marginally competent administration--that was the sinful waste of our futures.  Nothing is measured unless we know how much it costs to do it--- and these costs are deeply offensive to the national interests, we are weaker as a result.  So now we do something that is not for killing, but for saving life.  There is the difference between the Parties, one wants to keep us at war and ignore the needs here, the other wants to invest in the American people, in there needs and best wishes..I know which side I'm pulling for, isn't it nice to have a government that is trying to do something for the American people...i mean other than send our children off to die for corporate profits.

How's that Change thing workin for ya"

The voice of the Republican party has issued a call that sets the nation where it must truly be--- the election prey of a predator.  It is not a glad moment for me, I love my country... to see it set upon like a flock of sheep:  How's the change thing... the hopes of millions for better health is that change thing, the wishes for a failure that affects survival for many thousands came in the voice of the Grand Old Party...that now seems more like the Old Boy's Party than ever before.  I listened as one of them sat in the White House during the Healthcare Summit and thumbed through a 2700 page bill as if a stage prop which he appeared not to have read and said it would "Bankrupt the country"...to pay for the healthcare of its citizens...who as we speak are...receiving healthcare - medicare, medicaid, state programs, charitable sponsors- but this man wants us to believe that paying our medical costs will bankrupt us...why? What is bankrupt, like spending more than we have to pay for a pointless war somewhere-- Well, perhaps someone told him to say it, perhaps he earns monetary support by doing so, but that idea of bankruptcy- practical and moral- it did not stop him from helping his government spend a Trillion dollars for a front row seat to the Iraq Civil War.

Such dire, desperate tactics...to frighten people into believing in failure.

They ask Americans for many things, these people who ridicule the will of the people...they ask for our loyalty, our tax dollars, and when they find a war their supporters like...they ask for the lives of our children; and now they stand and ridicule the ambitions of American people...

I have a feeling in November, there will be a lot of voters eager to show the GOP ...how they like that change thing...the one that they voted for, worked for, prayed for...and now sit and watch them act like predators in the wild, try to take it down.
I think the voters will show they like that change thing...once again.

Taming the Tiger

I think many people expect something more, some have the temerity to criticze...without first baring their own lives to us...we frankly have no way of knowing if a morally worse person is doing the judging...yet they cluck and judge...My view is simple:  I am not the judge of another, and no-one should be so arrogant to self anoint him/herself as the arbiter of human values.

Tiger Woods owes us nothing.

He owes a great deal to his wife, his Mother, his children but that is for him to resolve with those people, if he believes in God he may have a moment ahead of him that will be stunning in comparison to anything he may have experienced, forgiveness is a powerful thing.  But to the public he owes them nothing. 

None of us has a right to believe that we enjoy this man's talent any more or less because of his morals, if we do then we delude ourselves.  We do not know the private lives of public people even as the press and money hungry people try to drag us into it to make what truly can be judged by everyone as morally tawdry money.  But Tiger has given all of us who feed on his exploits, ideate about his even greater potential, more than we have given him, he owes us nothing, no explanation, no apology --no personal reform. 

Look at it this way--- we have recently had a President and Vice President who many believed deliberately misled  this nation into a war in Iraq, where hundreds of thousands died, hundreds of billions of dollars-- of our scarce resources were spent, possibly wasted...truth was owed there, by a leader with a social contract with each of us.  I say save your angst for those men who have perhaps set us on a course for decades of continuous warfare, in a country where public opinion will legally be overwhelmed by billions of dollars from war profits; used  to influence elections to elect more leaders who resort to conflict at the highest costs of life, purposefully moralized truths, and pieces of our national future.

This man, Tiger Woods,  swings golf clubs, wins trophies...he owes us nothing.

Republicans, We All Agree are Experts on Failure...

So they have put their expertise on display, in one year President Obama has failed they say, he has not rescued the economy from the mess Bush made, brought back the millions of jobs lost while Bush spent a trillion dollars in Iraq;  and friends and allies of the Administration reaped hundreds of billions in profits.
 I think any one who listens to them has a memory problem...think of how they treated Americans, would they have spent a trillion on the war on unemployment?  replacing those jobs the Republican establishment exported?  and health insurance is also another way of saying ...lets save the lives of Americans, stressed people who are paying exorbitantly for health insurance, for whom many millions do not have it, without which  many needlessly suffer and die...while the Republicans rake in money--- some  from taxpayer- bailed out industries-- to stop progress so they can win the next election.

Think of Republicans and that New Orleans sank beneath the waves while they sat in the White House figuring out how to blame Democrats and win the next election; think of the Twin Towers and the way they invented the fiction that Saddam did it...Bin Laden was the one they promised to get...so much for keeping sacred promises. Yes, I'm sure there is another profitable war out there somewhere, but the rest of the world and most Americans are enjoying the idea of a year or two of no new wars, and trying to finish off the last ones Republicans have done...we 'd like to keep our children for something better than dying for corporate profits.
Yes, Republicans and Failure...joined at the hip and now dripping from facetious lips... How's that Change thing doin' for us...Sara Palin the palm reader asks? ...

well, it would be better if we had  more concerned leaders in Congress, men and women deeply concerned about the lives of the people...but unfortunately, we still have Republicans instead.

wait and see if it gets too warm...[a satire]

The advice of the Republican party to America and the world, stop health insurance legislation because it would give people who don't have much money a chance to live longer and healthier lives, and there is no global warming if remedies might interfere at all with any business anywhere; Corporations should be able to give us as much of their money as they wish to aid our campaign to stop the spread of better health, and public control of government, especially the war powers, by real people, instead of corporations.
It all makes sense - stopping health insurance reform really helps the wealthy have and keep an advantage over the poor, they can look down their well paid noses and watch them suffer from things that could easily be cured by a high priced doctor and some high priced pills. It is survival of the credit-fittest.
Global warming, well we all see it -- it is everywhere, science records the data, we see the massive energy of storms that hold so much more water and energy because the air is warmer-[storms that sink low lying cities, snow storms that have record dumps of snow, over again...are you listening in D.C. ???] yet we can wait because we don't have to change yet, we can afford to allow business as usual, don't stress the business world with safer business practices, and wait. Wait until it is too late and then we can pay every nickel we have to get some semblance of our lives back-- like the trillion dollar Iraq war- so many hundreds of billions in profits- will look like a blip on the screen when the cleanup of polluted air, and megatons of heat trapping compounds must be removed; or when artificial foods must replace the missing fish in the oxygen poor oceans, imagine the costs of trying to clone lost diversity back into ocean life food chains.
And those corporations in the war business should be free to spend their past war profits on candidates who will bring the next war, kind of puts war on automatic pilot...and the politicians get to pick whom we fight...maybe, I think some opponents might require a higher level of expenditure, those would be the "A" list wars...yes, this is a satire...no one would really do these things...I mean deny global warming just so companies can do business as they please; or elect people who are pro-war just to make more sales of missiles and bombs and guns and uniforms and tanks and planes and jet planes and bombers and ships and submarines and cool camo boots and hats, and bullets and machine guns, and electronics, and tactical computing devices, and infra red goggles, gas masks, and artificial limbs, cool commercials to attract young people to go fight in these wars for fairly low wages, and smart missiles and coffins...

Nope, no one would do that, not even Republicans... this is satire.

the TP - ing of America

Ok, I feel like the character in the Godfather part 25 or so who says...they keep pulling me back in...
I have been happy being happy lately, pursuing career stuff, but the Tea Party thing...well just when I think I'm out---they pull me back...well in this case they steeped me in a cup of lava.

What is the fastest way back into another trillion dollar war somewhere meaningless to the US and most of the world... or how do you turn a noble cause into a feeding trough for your hog-like appetites of your corporate friends. Corporations are not natural people, but like many natural people they have no apparent conscience, if corporations were people they could be serial suicide terrorists acting for self interest that has been poured into its ear, and without fear of its own demise...because it won't die, just be re-papered. But this is the point we are captives of a war machine here, of an interlocking political and economic force that will now be free to influence the choices on election day, if i were a betting man, I would bet the Hawk over the Dove, with this corporate shove...the voters throats will be stuffed on election day. Well that might solve the unemployment problems for a week or two--the people who go to work to lay the foundation for the next invasion, and maybe all of the slaughter will ease world populations pressures, and who knows maybe another Trillion or so will temporarily appease the beast-- I doubt that, truthfully, since WWII it seems the more we feed it, the more of us it eats...