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there is always a full moon over Republican-land, it is the way to explain the ravenous appetite for power and so little effort to use it for the benefit of the country. The recession has savaged America, it was brought on by a Governmental indifference, and needless, pointless $2 Trillion spending spree in Iraq---oh, you remember, the ringside seat in the Iraqi bloodletting, civil war, get rid of Saddam and turn the country over to terrorists. Yes, oh the wisdom of that choice---I mean it re-elected Bush, but Court-appointed Presidents are maybe prone to hyperbole- Weapons of Mass Destruction threatening America...hmmm. If there were a droplet of a poison in any country in the world, then we are threatened by a weapon of mass destruction. Kind of makes you wonder why we bother to have 2, 000 nuclear warheads primed and ready---when a few ounces of toxin might provoke our enemies to consume their economies and ruin their futures...like Bush did. Maybe we need to Plant a Bush among our enemies.
Ahhh but the Full Moon- howling the Constitution as if we should return to rule by rich white men and slavery, and obedience to the almighty dollar. Ruining healthcare reform because Insurance Companies want to kick sick children out of coverage; .convincing Americans that they have lost freedom - to dump their illnesses until death upon the public by not having healthcare insurance [ I suspect next will be a lets all start smoking and drunk driving while fondling our big guns] and when the finally invent the laser gun that can incinerate a man or building...they will be there to insist there is a right to bear arms.I am surprised we don't all get to own a nuke.
Turning down rapid rail funds in Florida- thousands of jobs hundreds of careers, because it was a Democrat idea...well if you had any ideas besides becoming a pimple on the butt of progress GOP, you would not be who you are--- howling at full moon, always a full moon in Republican-land
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
GOP will have to have better excuses...
Can't pick winners and losers... Can't aford healthcare reform...can't spend to create jobs..can't have public service jobs...can't rebuild crumbling bridges...can't have kids as smart and well educated as Europe and much of Asia...Can't get business to reinvest trillions they have taken out of the economy in the months before the recent mid-term elections( can't be anything other than coincidence there I am sure)
So shallow the pool of talent the value of their ideas, it is alarming that they will have power and money to shape the political agendas for the coming election cycle...but they will. The Supreme Court has handed the nation over to commercial interests who have no real concern with national progress, for them viable markets and the military are enough-- and that is likely all we will have if the GOP continues to roll with the flood of corporate money. A nation at a crossroads, and the GOP has us in their plan-- yes, their idea of America is the land of sleeping sheep. They spend their time destroying a worthy presidency, pandering to the whims of their business masters, cutting off public needs--and now we will pay more for health because so much was spent to destroy out attempts to put a sane policy into effect- that sick people, especially sick children should not be denied healthcare.
They block jobs and demean every effort to create a non- petroleum economy, despite the tons of snowy and pollution evidence they deny human activity is poisoning our environments, for them air and water are industrial privileges, the automobile makers should be free to dump carcinogens and deadly toxins into our bodies. The raise record funds from insurance to stop a plan to improve health here, give us longer, healthier lives- in exchange they will limit our ability to sue for incredibly harmful medical mistakes. The feast on American misery...but no one should blame them. The obstruct the will of the people for two years and some people give them more votes and support--as if they cannot see it is the GOP, their tax and national policies which has taken their careers, jobs and futures. Now because it is possible they will cut taxes further on businesses, take away more things government is needed for by the poor and middle class and continue a will deception that the debts of the idiotic Iraq War are not the base of the pyramid of national debt.
Even a nation of sheep can bear only so much before they begin to wake and question--- why the Party that represents business- seemingly to the exclusion of life itself- cannot bring business to do what it should do--- invest and grow in an America that has given them so, so much.
So shallow the pool of talent the value of their ideas, it is alarming that they will have power and money to shape the political agendas for the coming election cycle...but they will. The Supreme Court has handed the nation over to commercial interests who have no real concern with national progress, for them viable markets and the military are enough-- and that is likely all we will have if the GOP continues to roll with the flood of corporate money. A nation at a crossroads, and the GOP has us in their plan-- yes, their idea of America is the land of sleeping sheep. They spend their time destroying a worthy presidency, pandering to the whims of their business masters, cutting off public needs--and now we will pay more for health because so much was spent to destroy out attempts to put a sane policy into effect- that sick people, especially sick children should not be denied healthcare.
They block jobs and demean every effort to create a non- petroleum economy, despite the tons of snowy and pollution evidence they deny human activity is poisoning our environments, for them air and water are industrial privileges, the automobile makers should be free to dump carcinogens and deadly toxins into our bodies. The raise record funds from insurance to stop a plan to improve health here, give us longer, healthier lives- in exchange they will limit our ability to sue for incredibly harmful medical mistakes. The feast on American misery...but no one should blame them. The obstruct the will of the people for two years and some people give them more votes and support--as if they cannot see it is the GOP, their tax and national policies which has taken their careers, jobs and futures. Now because it is possible they will cut taxes further on businesses, take away more things government is needed for by the poor and middle class and continue a will deception that the debts of the idiotic Iraq War are not the base of the pyramid of national debt.
Even a nation of sheep can bear only so much before they begin to wake and question--- why the Party that represents business- seemingly to the exclusion of life itself- cannot bring business to do what it should do--- invest and grow in an America that has given them so, so much.
Monday, January 03, 2011
Republicans will make the economy worse
well they have too, it is the source of their power--anger over the way Government has lavished billions on business and seemingly nothing on the people who need jobs and better incomes, young people entering the workforce. Just as in the 80's and 90's when Republicans legislatively supported the export of US careers overseas- even an online tutor might be helping your child lean English from Pakistan or India-they will now have to do what they can to sicken and weaken the economy.
They successfully sabotaged the jobs and small business portions of the Obama Recovery plan, and these are the same political forces that destroyed the US economy, banking and finance systems during the Bush Era--so they are quite accomplished at this; a track record of proven effectiveness. They have taken power in the House--the press has disappeared- no one asks them what they have done to improve the economy--stopping Health care for uninsured Americans did produce a lot of jobs- lobbyists, communications expertise--and our insurance premiums Will rise for the money spent to defeat and dismantle a precious life saving healthcare reform law. But they have done little else--they support spending on war- even one like Iraq that produces no discernible advantages from 2 Trillion dollar investment---a nation there on the brink of civil war, a place where Christians must flee for their lives; a haven for terrorism--well I guess before they had Saddam and the innuendos of weapons---yes Republicans will need a lot of anger over the next two years to cover what they will not do for the American people, as they take away the sole effort to aid the people--the Obama Agenda. I thin the one good thing is that now we will hear a lot more news about the end of global warming, even as the sun emerges from the lowest levels recorded and begins to singe our hides---ahh, but then again we will be cutting out spending that might make things better, I guess we will have to be pleased with that, we reap what we have sown, a certain harvest of gain for business, we will have to work to avoid pain for everyone else. The GOP will work to make things worse; they are quite good at what they do!!
They successfully sabotaged the jobs and small business portions of the Obama Recovery plan, and these are the same political forces that destroyed the US economy, banking and finance systems during the Bush Era--so they are quite accomplished at this; a track record of proven effectiveness. They have taken power in the House--the press has disappeared- no one asks them what they have done to improve the economy--stopping Health care for uninsured Americans did produce a lot of jobs- lobbyists, communications expertise--and our insurance premiums Will rise for the money spent to defeat and dismantle a precious life saving healthcare reform law. But they have done little else--they support spending on war- even one like Iraq that produces no discernible advantages from 2 Trillion dollar investment---a nation there on the brink of civil war, a place where Christians must flee for their lives; a haven for terrorism--well I guess before they had Saddam and the innuendos of weapons---yes Republicans will need a lot of anger over the next two years to cover what they will not do for the American people, as they take away the sole effort to aid the people--the Obama Agenda. I thin the one good thing is that now we will hear a lot more news about the end of global warming, even as the sun emerges from the lowest levels recorded and begins to singe our hides---ahh, but then again we will be cutting out spending that might make things better, I guess we will have to be pleased with that, we reap what we have sown, a certain harvest of gain for business, we will have to work to avoid pain for everyone else. The GOP will work to make things worse; they are quite good at what they do!!
Sunday, December 05, 2010
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?
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?
Monday, November 01, 2010
Sunday, October 03, 2010
the price of free speech...
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.
Friday, September 10, 2010
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.
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.
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