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Not 1941


A recent poll shows that  “a majority ” of Americans want American boots on the ground to fight ISIS. Personally I believe this to be a knee jerk reaction. First remember that wars are expensive and the money has to come at the expense of other stuff. Given the inability of the Congress to construct a budget where will the money come from? Currently the UN Security council has called for members to join the fight against ISIS this action will relieve the financial burden from the United States while affording quicker responses to the threat by local member countries. Keep in mind that ISIS members  are no more than criminals who have subverted a religion to gain recruits and unfortunately have used online methods to spread their message of hate around the globe. We can complain about what needs to be done, what is not done  or even who should do it but the fact remains that we cannot enter into another protracted ground war without the UN security council members. This is not December 7, 1941. The current Dupublicans can scream and shout about what should be done as long and as loud as they want but in the end we the people suffer for it. We lose resources such as irreplaceable human capital and hardware of all sorts. We (voters) need to keep in mind the knee jerk reactions are what put us in IRAQ, Afghanistan and Vietnam and we know how those incursions turned out.

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note This was from a Newsweek Poll

It Is Not What It Seems


To make a fine point, the US is in a war with the radicalized Muslims here and abroad. Unfortunately the solution is not troops on the ground as strongly suggested and advocated by member of Congress and many US citizens. If these pushers of a previous failed use of troops (Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq) would really pay attention to historic evidence and current events they would quickly understand that there are enemies hiding among the innocent, this situation makes the ground fighting difficult without the assistance of the assorted sects and nationalities. One must remember that the middle east has so many natural  and ethnic divisions  who have been at odds with the stringent laws of the leaders for centuries. The key to all of this is to identify the “normal” people and aid them however we can. Think about Vietnam and the Afghanistan losses, couple that with the Russian losses in Afghanistan and the French losses in Vietnam, do we really want to revisit the same problems again?

Our Congress is so set against aiding the current President that they will not agree to anything that would give him authority even if it’s the right choice. Their failure has become the yoke  we all bear and will continue to bear in future years long after  President Obama is out of office. Most of Congress will still be in office and performing as poorly as they have in the past while we  (voters) complain with no result yet the Congress will continue to speak in our names without our consent. Is it possible that the failure to have proper government ( we may never have good government) is the fault of the people (voters)? Have we given up our power to guide or direct our representatives by not paying closer attention to what they do or say? Isn’t it time we stopped complaining and ignore the entertainment news ? Isn’t it time we perform our duty and stop the rote method of voting by removing legislators who have been serving too long with less and less effectiveness as they age in office?  This country should not be a them against us as our leaders tacitly imply  but more of the people against bad governance and poor legislation done in our names and many times without our consent.

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As The world Churns


The Urban League of Springfield has received a grant to set up a “cease fire” program. This program is in place in other communities and is successful. I have only one issue with the program and that is the administrators. The immediate hands on folks are not the issue these are good people with good skills. The administrators have a track record of poor to mismanagement of grant funded programs due a dearth of understanding how these programs actually work. The ordinary work on the many programs administered by the league have been unfortunately side tracked by under or uninformed upper managers who have no apparent faith in the hands on coordinators and causing the programs to fail through their
micro management. Once a program fails, the local recipients are left in limbo and often worse off than before the program. The drop out rate in these programs is nothing to be proud of but the League often touts the few successes as being greater than it actually is. The effort put into securing grants is sizeable but the effort to sustain the programs is not. Given the large number of professional people who left the employ of SUL (voluntary and forced) has indicated all is not well in the kingdom! There are many wonderful people in the organization but the top tier of executives is rife with incompetence and greed. This has been voiced by many former and current employees. This “insider” information has come about by the accidental meeting of former employees who I’ve met around town. The shame is that this branch of the League has the air of  respectability from business friends and outsiders while maintaining the reputation of poor service in the community. Apparently there is a tacit approval of poor service by the State and National Urban League.

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Nothing more to Say!


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War Is Just A Racket


Excerpt explains war and possibly the push by The Dupublicans to out boots on the ground in the middle east (again!)

War is Just a Racket

Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933 by General Smedley Butler, USMC. General Butler was one of the few Americans to be twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its “finger men” to point out enemies, its “muscle men” to destroy enemies, its “brain men” to plan war preparations, and a “Big Boss” Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

See Also: War Is A Racket by Major General Smedley Butler

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Tough SEll?


 

   
   
   
 
 
We currently have political candidates for the Presidency uttering extreme and radical comments that often have no context in reality. These jump on, jump off the bandwagon of their parties candidates should be looked at very carefully. Their lies and basic suspect information has caused great harm to innocent people. In Texas the state legislature has created laws restricting Planned Parenthood from operating based on misinformation from the religious zealots who have rewritten the bible to suit their own beliefs (sounds like the Islamic State). Now in Colorado (a crazed gunman) shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic while muttering about baby parts being sold (this is possibly from speeches from Carly Liarina) . This man is a legal
firearms owner(?) who has a history of strangeness when he lived in Carolina yet he still had legally owned firearms which enabled him to shoot people in a clinic, killing a law enforcement officer and  patients while wounding other citizens and law enforcement officers. More gun laws will not do the job but more investigation into buyers (and sometimes owners) might. So here we are with our own home-grown extremists creating horrific situations in America and our aspiring candidates carrying the torch for them. If we as a country want to stop these types of events we need to elect people who “get it”. No one is perfect but an elected official needs to be more like a judge and that is to evaluate ALL of the information (evidence) and make a decision based on that information however unlike judges these are politicians whose focus is get elected and probably create more chaos while doing nothing of benefit to any of us.

 

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Chicago?? Toddling town!


Mayor Rahm Emanuel has relieved the top policeman of his duties and his job. This come 14 months after an officer shot a civilian 16 times and at least 14 times after the civilian was on the ground. From the top, Mr. Emanuel took over the position of mayor of Chicago and immediately alienated most of the residents, thereafter he barely won a second term. It is regrettable that too many political people do not do their homework when running for office. There is no way to know everything that is required but it is possible to look at the long simmering issues and on going long term problems and attempt to  make a plan to resolve them. As usual that did not happen, what did happen is that the rich handlers and more affluent held sway while the neediest and less affluent got squat! schools were closed in the neediest areas, services were lessened but the Mayor espoused a record of doing good work. Well my opinion is Bu****it! I now pronounce Rahm Emanuel to be less effective than Rahmen Noodles.

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No Change


The U.S. Congress is again on the move to do what’s best for them. The Combined Dupublican and Scamocrat cabal is quietly attempting to change the political funding for candidates. It is bad enough that the supreme court has condoned  super PAC’s being able to raise unlimited fund for candidates or causes now our Congress is attempting to create their own laws for unlimited funding along with preparing to defund the ACA, planned parenthood and create a war machine to put troops on the ground in Syria all of this to our ( the People) detriment. We as voters need to wake up and understand that these elected officials are no more than terrorists in their own right, they have assumed the mantle of protector of the people while quietly feathering their own nests. The quieter they get , the more we need to worry. If we are to survive and prosper , we need to ignore the blatant lies put out by the electorate and replace them with anyone new. We have less than a handful of Congressional members who could possibly be working for us and even then-who knows for sure?

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One Letter


A recent conversation brought about a idea about words that become another with the change of a letter or letter. First triggered by the question

” how do you spell Super?”, one p or two, reply is 1.

After thought is: 1 “P” is Super. 2 “p’s”  (peas) makes it Supper!

Black is a color and with “o” is a shape.

Gray is a color and with an “e” is a name (or British version of the color)

 

 

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