The Senate is out of our control...

The Senate failed us... no gun control-- We are controlled by gunseller$

A Nation held hostage  terrorized from within.  We have demons that only 100 round clips can exorcise...deep and haunting demons, dark skinned men in the dark demons...so they turn to guns, manly guns, the sacred right that never was until we invented it a few years ago and declared our history rewritten.  There is no right to own guns in the Constitution and we all know it-- the 2nd Amendment protected State militias and slave killers in the 1790's does not mean every imbecile with a yen to kill can go into Walmart and buy a machine gun in 2013-- which they can.
 Abolishing guns, as a rule, excepting for hunting and recreation with strict licensing is one way.  Shotguns and hunting ammunition would be a good start..i mean last i saw  deer dint have unions nor the ability to shoot back!  Multi- round magazines and high velocity bullets will ruin a venison stew --yes?  Infringing freedom, well 40,000 Americans per year are killed by guns, nearly as many as on our highways. I'm in favor of banning cars too, but one demon at a time, and blown tires on the highway are not the same as pointing and squeezing the trigger and watching children's lives disappear...the cars should be non polluting and drivers should be trained-- now we pollute and most drivers are dangerously ignorant, as are most US Senators-- openly corrupt, inventing bullshit lies to avoid the truth-- one actually said we cant have gun laws because criminals dont obey them...ahhhmeeiii-- no wonder the rich don't pay taxes, i mean after all criminals dont pay taxes, and criminals dont vote  or give a good damn about this country but the rest of us do and i hope we are burning inside on this issue. I hope we will carefully and eagerly try our best to vote these idiots out of office-- after all, like a human life, a Senate seat is a terrible thing to waste on gun violence...hdm

abolish congressional districts

 A scourge of our times- when the economy is in peril, a backward and determined group of House or Representatives repeatedly act to further weaken the economy, punish voters they purportedly represent, and  by making and following extra-governmental commitments in clear conflict with their duty to use their best efforts to promote prosperity and public well being. They are in effect sabotaging the economy and depriving Americans of the one means we have to directly create jobs and industry in America- to spend our collective resources to create jobs and industry.

A Representative's pledge not to raise taxes made to a campaign funding group is in a fundamental sense a conflict of interest, in a broader sense a violation of an Oath of Office. A clear duty exists in the Constitution a unique power of the House of Representatives to levy taxes.
It might be more clear to the vengeful progeny of the business of international conflict if a President to  a pledge to a group of rich philanthropists never to wage war.  We would all - especially if it were a man or woman of color- immediately be thrust into a Constitutional crisis- It might sound a little like this:
what do you mean we wont go to war-- we force the poor to pay enough in taxes to be able to maintain two wars at any time!!!
So this pledge on taxes is a deeper problem than wrapping one's self in a cloak or RIGHTeousness and talking about keeping your money while taking every benefit in sight-- i chuckle at all of the tax rebates that have come from business lunches to discuss "no more corporate taxes". Yes. those ungrateful Bastards for whom we spend more for defense than the next 5 highest nations combined, for whom we maintain peacekeeping nearly worldwide so that they can safely export our economy to Singapore and the Philippines. Those for whom we enforce patents and incredible debt collection laws, give them a safe and trade-able international benchmark currency.
So, we need to explore this urgently: can we abolish these gerrymandered Congressional Districts- probably not without  an amendment to the Constitution but - can we broaden each to be co-terminus with the boundaries of a State? Essentially remake all of them like Montana or Wyoming- places with two Senators but barely enough population to have two House seats?  I doubt John Boehner would win in a State race in Ohio, I mean unless the amount of idiots per square mile has suddenly increased in Ohio; OOOhh and that jerk in Texas who apologized to BP for having to pay for nearly destroying the Gulf of Mexico; and Michelle Bachmann- who has single-handedly proved women are not superior- the list goes on-- yes.  We who love this country, need to go on attack against the bought and paid for House Republicans- it really is a matter of them or US. It has been shown by their conduct- debt ceiling blackmail, the sequester-  they will not rest as long as there is a breath of life in our Nation's economy.

Ghosts of Conservatism - a Satire

I am more convinced now than ever, there really is no such thing as a Conservative: it is like describing the shape of an Amoeba one can never be wrong unless one says the shape is true.  The Conservative is that way- it can be anything but true.  It cannot be true to voters nor to the speaker of the phrase "I am a conservative".

History of conservatism in the US can be summarized very briefly because it is nearly empty. In the Revolution these were the men who wanted to belong to the King and then wanted to be the king. Our Founders were firebrands of their day- they risked hanging to declare their love of money in America -so i give them credit for conviction- they loved money and ALLLL the freedom it could buy.  In a broader perspective the Founders were complete phonies- in the model of say 4th Century Athens, where philosophers spoke of freedom on and on till weak and redfaced; then turned TO A SLAVE- for a goblet of wine. So these Athenian disciples of freedom had a limited view.  The Founders in America were similar. They wanted everyone to fight and die for their right to own and be rich and lead the rabble, namely- The people who actually fought, some of whom suffered awful deaths- were not worthy of voting or any say in government- only the Founders and their 'kind" were so endowed - by God- of course.  They too turned to their SLAVES for refreshment and sex and cute little brown children who would also be slaves- what the hell  is it about White Men and Freedom and Slavery- at least in Asia and Africa they said 'we are slave owning, murderous bastards who have no souls - here they pretend to be-- well Thomas Jefferson--anyway-- Conservatives are like that.  They get elected and tell voters they are Conservatives-- well there is that little thing-- the Constitution and the duties it imposes upon the elected-- to use their best judgment UNDIVIDED TRUTH AND LOYALTY and BEST efforts to benefit the people who elected them-- nothing in there about being an Amoeba-- you are supposed to be a Senator-- obligated to the people-- so  what is the Conservative crap-- are the people fed by it, housed, and educated by it-- are they made safer by it-- OR ARE YOU JUST AN  AMOEBA  BEING TRUE TO NOTHING
I look at the latest Crop of Republicans who go on these sabotage missions to ruin the economy, who exalt debt- which they largely have made in Iraq to feed their greedy billionaires-  and tell America it has no future.

 Note:  if debt were really the concern, a sincere concern for future Americans- we still must judge Republicans/Conservatives by how you treat present day Americans- those you wish to put nearer starvation on social security, those you refuse to give jobs to  today-- we cannot believe you would treat future Americans any better, that this is just a leverage point to disguise an assault on those you view a rabble- unworthy of a voice in their futures, those who want the jobs you block and refuse to create.  Just a note in case you missed it earlier - i even changed fonts to make it stand out !!  ;)

Yes they actually try to convince us we cant build bridges or reinvent the railroads, or run cars on electric power-- or create new industries.  They DAMN sure say we cant have say a million public service jobs to give young people a decent start in life.  THEY say we can't have a rising standard of living unless the millionaires FEEL LIKE INVESTING as opposed to collecting bets in the DERIVATIVES MARKET-- well that is a Conservative- a great ball of failure and bad karma-- when what we need - is the American way- we spend to raise our standard of living, invest in US- us- we the people- rails, roads, bridges, solar energy on every roof, make-work jobs for those with no skills, skill training for those who want- and millions want it.  New industries: we need to grow healthy food, and people need to know how to do it- we can do jobs for that; we need to improve our water conservation before we run out- jobs for that.  We need to fix bridges that are falling down  - i drive on some everyday.  We need to better educate our kids- more teachers, more online teaching, more tutors and help for those who need it-- jobs to do that-- see i can come up with a million jobs quite easily.  Elected people could too if they weren't a bunch of FRIGGIN AMOEBA--- and really I apologize to the Amoebas out there  i don't mean to put you in the same class as these Republicans  -- you are brainless but innocent of  efforts to destroy progress.

So this is satire except for the parts about Conservatives and their phony ideals, and attempts to ruin the economy, and divided loyalties-- the rest is clearly satire...;)

Green Jobs

There is something so sad about a nation that loses its energy- seems old, feeble and incapable of dynamic action.  I thought of the British that way for many years- and watched as pieces of their treasures went on the auction bloc- how London became piece-mealed to Arab oil money, Indonesian manufacturing money and so on.  There was some poetic symmetry in the vast British Empire being auctioned off to billionaires from India and Pakistan-- what in the name of a caste system have you done to deserve such Karma!!!
The US was supposed to be different the inexhaustible reserve of our national spirit-- it has been sapped away.  Not from the people- they still hunger, not from the economy- well despite our ridiculous treatment of oil, derivatives, and insurance- all of which need attention from criminal law prosecutors; we still have a vast economic potential here. We are weary because we have parasites in the heart in our energy-generation part of us.  The Republican Party has been waging an assault on the US economy an insidious cancer eating away at the strength of government.  They have starved the US economy to plunder Iraq for the war machine- creating a few hundred billionaires at the expense of economic collapse.  We collapsed and Obama rebuilt the economy with bold action.  The the Republicans went at it again- using State governments which they had starved under Bush.  By the time we got the Recovery Act money to the States- they had no resources to plan and do thing- they mostly  just took $billions and fixed a few streets, rebuilt a few collapsing bridges-- projects that had been there on the shelf-- because they were so cash strapped they could not plan, could not develop new and  meaningful ideas.

So we still have more sunlight than Germany and use a fraction of the solar panels they do.  WE still have young inner city workers who have never had a job- 20% unemployment in Detroit few months back  - maybe 40% among young Black men-- We have windy planes and no windmills. We only use enough biomass to tease ourselves and we have deliberately dragged our national ass on electric cars.

So many Could Be's :

• subsidize the costs of electric cars for female single heads of households so that the effective cost is say$5,000 which we can provide guarantees and let the thieves in commercial finance - finance it.

• Lets have every city  that wants it to have some double tractor city buses- natural gas powered to use on their most populous routes- like in Detroit up and down Woodward, Jefferson , 8 Mile,  or Gratiot-- Broadway or 7th Ave. in Manhattan,  Pennsylvania Ave and 7th street/Georgia Ave in DC.-- capitol grant  and operating subsidy.

• Lets solar panel 100 homes in each of 50 medium to large cities- buy America, install and service them.  Free to the owners picked by lottery from the tax rolls.
• Lets initiate urban farming in an organized way- with heirloom vegetables and training on organic farming techniques, and hope we can foster a new source of food production - safe foods, traditional foods- and sell them at nominal fees and donate to food banks, schools, charities.
• Lets pay teachers and other qualified people to make instructional videos that add knowledge and skills: tutorials on math from Master teachers; how to repair things in a home by craftsman; how to build things - book cases, small furniture- something o reacquaint Americans with hand tools and wood.

Why do these things?? - just to prove we can  make a plan that makes a POSITIVE difference, one we can see.  Just to put some $ in some green collar American wallets. The Republicans have been trying to convince us we are only good at making War somewhere, that  everything else is less important than the national debt- which they ran up in War and destroying our economy. So lets make some green jobs- electric car builders, bus builders, solar panel builders and assemblers.
So we need a reminder that the even if we have been infected by fatal levels of insurance,derivatives hoarders, and Republicanism-- we are still the USA, we can still make a way when no one believes we can-- its a tradition here-- winning!