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Monthly Archives: June 2014

History,Greed=Results


T.E. Lawrence attempted to tell the British high command how the Middle east should be handled and was ignored, Generals Patton and Mac Arthur attempted to tell the American high command about Russia and China but no one listened. We now have desperate situations in the Mid east and  Eastern Europe yet our  Congress is intent on following the same path of illogical thinking of how they can win control of the government and avoid assisting the President in any way at all. This Congress has spent all of their political capital on winning elections instead of serving the people who elected them. Anyone who believes that Congress is OK doing what they are doing is either blind or completely cut off from the everyday. Our current ability to receive news in a timely fashion has put us at a disadvantage rather than an advantage as we have become so inured by  events and especially events that have been in evidence for centuries (middle Eastern religious wars), Russian pogroms and other mass human near extinctions in other near third world countries. America has just 250 years of existence as compared to Europe and the Far to middle east having thousands of years in existence while committing the same criminal acts against their neighbors and citizens.t  Our Congress unfortunately has adopted a “cut off your nose to spite your face” attitude that has divided our country in a way unseen since the Civil war. The Congress has been bought and paid for by deep pockets, by association the highest Judiciary which has all but gutted the civil rights act of 1965 along with all associated changes. This Congress has said no to Presidential initiatives and publicly denounced them with misinformation and innuendo hoping to sway us toward voting their party into the “driver’s seat”. Our option is accept them no matter what or vote against them to save our nation.

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Eric Cantor’s loss is a defeat of a reasonable but able to disagree lawmakers. His loss has put more stress on an already distressed and malfunctioning Congress. We have observed and heard from and about many fringe voting blocs whose interests do not coincide with the majority of Americans yet they have an undue influence on our electorate. We unfortunately, the everyday voter complain about our Congress and all other elected officials but we tend to turn a selective deaf ear to the events that affect us for years down the road. We have largely ignored the role of a Congress that has done little to fix our fiscal and other problems while castigating every President since Eisenhower. We need to ignore the media coverage as much of it is hype, erroneous and particularly biased. Where we need to put our focus is on the lack of real information coming from the Congress. Recently the speaker was overjoyed over a supreme court decision on the President’s appointment during a bogus recess which was applied to keep the President from making appointments. The problem is that this court case which cost taxpayer dollars is just another wasted effort by our Congress as this court decision which was so loudly touted has no effect on the issue that was brought before the court. If we continue to let these 535 want to be kings and queens run this country any way the see fit in our names, we will continue to go downhill at the pace of a landslide. The whole idea of  modern Congress is merely one of control over special and pet projects that only slightly are for the public good. This is food for thought.

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Can It Be any Clearer?


I am concerned that our Congress for the past 15 to 20 years has been driving towards ineffectiveness and inadequacy yet remain perfect at fund raising for reelection and  their party’s. With all of the problems that are becoming known  now  and have been in evidence for some time but under reported, where has the Congress been? They have in the last 10 years done their best to gut any programs that benefit the poorest of us and assist their large money donors. We are still backing these neer do wells as seen by the swarming win by one Dupublican stalwart in Kentucky, where the one of the Koch brother’s non profits successfully defeated an attempt to get a bill passed allowing for mass transit in Nashville. Recently Eric Cantor , a Dupublican stalwart was defeated in a primary and the President  was verbally assailed for the current uprising in Iraq. Our some what lackluster Congress in its entirety has done nothing more than collect a paycheck. The American voters have been deluded with incomplete facts and massive innuendo  to lull us into a sense of trust about our Government. Our sole purpose should be controlling who represents us in Congress. there is no old guard just 535 people looking for a paycheck, pension and lucrative payouts after under serving us in Congress. The time is now and actually was 15 plus years ago to renew the representatives in Congress. There should be no time for these folks to make contacts that do not serve the people who elected them for service .

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Jointly and Severally


President Obama has been lamed for Eric Cantor’s political primary loss-WTF!

Hillary Clinton has been blasted for here book signing tour and from out the past (?), a former victim has accused Hillary of malfeasance while a defending counsel.

The Congress  (some of them) are blaming President Obama for the escalating war in Iraq yet Vice President Joe Biden warned of this event in 2009 (Obama’s second in command).

Dick Cheney and his daughter have condemned the President for cleaning up their mess by removing troops from an unwinnable war.

It appears that the Dupublicans are desperately trying to gain control of the Government while the Scamocrats are desperately trying to hold on to what they have.

Meanwhile the assorted candidates for the Presidency, Congress and all other State offices around the country are jockeying for position to ascend to some higher office or at least be seen in a National forum.

Jindal used humor in criticizing the Obama administration on several fronts, referencing the Bergdahl prisoner exchange and the deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.

“Are we witnessing right now the most radically, extremely liberal, ideological president of our entire lifetime right here in the United States of America, or are we witnessing the most incompetent president of the United States of America in the history of our lifetimes? You know, it is a difficult question,” he said. “I’ve thought long and hard about it. Here’s the only answer I’ve come up with, and I’m going to quote Secretary Clinton: ‘What difference does it make?'”

The conference featured most of the well-known Republicans considering a 2016 presidential run, including Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. Jindal is expected to announce after the November midterm elections whether or not he will launch a presidential bid.

Meanwhile we the people are bombarded by seemingly true sound bites and buzzwords that do not mean anything but some urges us to vote for them sight unseen.

One old cliché fits this country’s election and governing process “caveat emptor”.

Remember only you can get better government (paraphrasing Smokey).

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Politricks As Usual


Also ran “Mitt Romney” has buzz worded Hillary Clinton after her book tour kicked off. This is just another Dupublican ploy to  discredit her “in Case” she runs for the Presidency. This indicates to me that first our political system is in disarray, second our elected representatives are no better than any known criminals except we know what motivates criminals and we have yet to determine what motivates our elected representatives beyond staying in office as long as possible, collecting a pension (under false pretenses ( as far as I am concerned) and creating lucrative connections for the time when they are no longer in office. It appears that the Dupublicans are a bit fearful of their chances of gaining the Presidency  and gaining Congressional control are not good. As voters what are we to think of people who use media blurbs to assail potential candidates for office to poison the voting pool for future elections. This does not apply only to the Dupublicans but the Scamocrats have done the same. What we have are 2 (two) political factions who have outlived their usefulness and have allowed the rise of smaller factions whose limited vision could spell disaster for the voters in one way or another. I cannot stress enough that we as voters need to pay attention to all things political because the people (all factions no matter who they claim to represent)  seeking office  often have an agenda that does not include our welfare. It is time to put the naïve and uninformed ideas we have about other people and ethnicities since this country was colonized and founded by emigrants from everywhere. These differences are what made us unique and American aside from the fact that we are not Native American and who we as explorers displaced and misused.

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Do You see IT??


The GOP (John Boehner) has blamed President Obama for Eric Kantor’s primary loss and also for the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan where many American and UN troops were killed by Afghan soldiers who were being trained to fight the Taliban. So if I calculate correctly, this is an election year that Dupublicans hope to own the Congress after the elections but unfortunately they have performed so poorly and worse than the Scamocrats that their chances are becoming slimmer. We have as I have stated before the worst Congress overall in 20 to 30 years. These pimps (or are they the workers?) have  spent more time (and our money trying to win a popularity contest and elections than just doing some real legislative work. Our Media only covers what’s available to them and often have information (misinformation too) leaked to create a stir which creates enough time for them (Congress)  to think of something worth while to issue, even then it is just so much tripe. These legislators somehow hold onto the belief that we trust and believe in them. They do not and have not for years had a handle on the pulse of the nation (us) yet they pay pollsters millions to get a consensus on what they think we think  and want to believe we think. SO much for character since there is none in Congress.

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Congress – Not Obama is the Problem!


 

During the course of several days, the news was filled with the world events, including the recent release of a longtime U.S Army captive.

Our so-called representatives made a big deal of this by stating that what was done was illegal and that they to start an investigation.

This is another case of Congress avoiding real work to gain votes with another issue to fire up the public. Congress has been our failure, as we have kept them in office because of their promises and often outright lies.

I know many people will disagree with me, and that’s OK, but the fact remains that we have tended to turn a blind ear to what our elected representatives tell us and what they actually do.

Look at the past years. Congress has fought the president on issues that affect us in big ways and made these issues out as bad for all of us. They added insult to injury by ignoring their real duties of making practical and realistic laws.

They have allowed the laws of the land to be subverted, while their focus has been to hack up the Affordable Care Act instead of doing what they should have done initially by participating in the process to make it better.

If you believe the president is wrong, then you should hate Congress. They have been in place for two decades and have gone steadily downhill, dragging us with them.

If your issue has to do with religion, race or ethnicity, rather than the ineffectiveness of Congressmen, then you are probably beyond help until you arrive in the here and now.

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Here is another Crock!!


Here we are again a talk show host who wants more listeners and reader to support his pseudo-conservative views, He has jumped on the bandwagon which has viable leaders to further his reader and listening gathering efforts which serve only his interests. This personality has no more credibility than Hitler.

 

Limbaugh: Cantor Lost Because ‘His Constituency Became Barack Obama And House Leadership’

The Daily Caller

 Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary Tuesday night because “his constituency became Barack Obama and the House leadership.”

Limbaugh claimed the Virginia Republican congressman — who had been widely expected to defeat tea party challenger Dave Brat by double digits — “forgot who his constituents are.” While Cantor and President Obama often butted heads, the Majority Leader was more sympathetic to immigration reform than many of his colleagues and may have been the White House’s best chance to push a bill through Congress.

“His constituents ceased to be the people that live in his district,” the radio host explained. “Eric Cantor became a creation of Washington, and his constituency became Barack Obama and the House leadership. That’s why he was doing what he was doing, that’s for whom he was doing what he was doing, and the people of his district finally figured it out, I think.”

“You don’t take pictures of yourself arm-in-arm with Barack Obama when the subject is immigration and expect there to be no kickback, or pushback, on that,” Limbaugh continued. “But the tone-deafness, and, I think, the willing disregard of public opinion on any number of issues, is unlike anything I’ve seen.”

The radio jock noted that it wasn’t always this way — at least with the Republican Party. “The Republicans have always been . . . distant, or not tied to that elitist, establishment existence,” Limbaugh said. “And I think that’s changed.”

“I think the pressures of that town is such — you know, the libs run it,” he noted. “They run it politically, they run it socially — which is crucial — they run it media-wise.”

“All these guys are caught up in this notion that they can’t be confrontational,” Limbaugh concluded. “That that’s going to kill them, it’s going to wipe them out. They’ve got to be agreeable, they’ve got to be bipartisan. Well look where it’s getting them!”

The onslaught of suppositions and innuendo has begun with no end to ignorance disguised as fact.

 

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Prisoner Release- More Electioneering.


The recent release of Sgt. Bergdahl for 5 prisoners to the government of Qatar has raised  a rash of statements from many elected officials and the Congress has initiated yet another investigation (as if we did not enough diversions). The Taliban has used the release as a means to get into the news by stating we will capture more Americans for trade. The underlying truth is that the Taliban is not as welcome in the middle east as they would like the world to believe. Many Middle East countries would just as soon not have them. Bear in mind that the negotiations to release Sgt. Bergdahl were done quietly and efficiently by rational people with no political agenda (imagine if it were up to our Congress). The Middle Eastern countries have the responsibility for these former prisoners and it is in their interest to perform this responsibility well. Many of us fail to realize that the punishments in these countries are direct and concise with little debate.  Our Congress is in total election mode at this time and every opportunity will be used to that end rather than doing the work they have been elected to do.

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Assigning Tasks


 

I receive  these missives from the Whitehouse on subjects in the news, most are interesting enough alone but this one gave me a thought about some of the rhetoric that has been put forth for several years. The Dupublicans (especially the representatives of “Coal country” have stated that Mr. Obama will kill jobs in coal country with new standards on carbon pollution. It is possible that carbon pollution control may affect jobs and by extension living conditions and after reading this statement I realized that Coal producers have been eliminating jobs by closing mines and the job itself (mining) has taken many lives due to “Black Lung” disease, cave ins and the explosions that have occurred. It is understood that mining is the lifeblood of many communities but the ability to survive a life of mining and after is sometimes not much of a  life at all. There are programs to retrain mine workers but the Congressional representatives are not making any efforts create alternative means of earning for their constituents. The letter below talks about the EPA position on Carbon pollution.

 

Hi, everyone —

This past Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed national limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants for the first time.

Since then, folks across the country — on editorial boards, in classrooms, on front porches — have been weighing in on why this is so important. And with that in mind, here’s something I want to make clear:

We’re already experiencing the effects of climate change today — but don’t just think about this proposed rule in terms of the country we’re living in right now. Think about the one we and our children are going to be living in by 2030.

Thanks to these limits, that country will have a 30 percent reduction in carbon pollution from the power sector. It will also have 25 percent less smog and soot, meaning children will have an estimated 150,000 fewer asthma attacks each year — and they’ll miss an estimated 180,000 fewer days of school. Americans across the board will have up to 3,300 fewer heart attacks a year.

And now that the rule has been proposed, you can participate in the process.

Right now, we’re accepting comments from the public about the proposed power plant rule.

So if you’ve got something to say, you can submit a public comment here.

And if you want to get some more details about why this is good for the environment and public health — or spread the word about why it’s a big deal — you can take a look at this infographic, and then pass it on.

Right now, we’re in the process of developing the policies that will keep our planet clean and our kids healthy for years to come.

You can participate in that process right now. So if you’ve got a comment, you can make it here.

Thanks,

Administrator Gina McCarthy
Environmental Protection Agency

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