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Thanks To Congress


Our Congress has opened the door to the Racism against President Obama and by extension perhaps all non-white Americans. Israel has forgotten that they were once on the bottom and now it seems that they have forgotten the assistance America has given them in aid and arms. We still contribute billions to Israel and we allow this kind of  attack on our President. This is due to our inept Congress inviting a war hawk to speak in the combined chamber with speaking to the President. This is not to say that the President had any power to prevent it but our poorly functioning 535 has proven again that they are not the legislators they need to be. This tweet should have been directed at them but instead we see the Racism that is still prevalent in the world and how our “ally” is truly not as trustworthy as we need them to be. The Israelis for all of their travails should be a better friend but it is apparent that they have no loyalty to us in spite of the funding they receive and our Congress will no doubt ignore this since our CIC is not white. It is our duty as Americans (all of us) to stand behind the President especially as far as the world is concerned. This divisiveness is exactly why our country is in the financial and moral tumult we are now experiencing. Consider the message we are sending to our children and the haters of America.

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Insurance


All insurance is the best insurance until you need or use it. Do you find it curious that your policy is along the lines of a contract with fine print that is tediously involved with huge amounts of “legalese”? The reason many of us do not read contracts fully is the extensive amount of language in small print. The small print and language is a deadly combination for the best readers let alone the poorer readers. Insurance policies are especially bad as their contracts have many items that serve to deny payment on coverage and restrict payouts on coverage’s. Why can’t the contract be simple like an index? The contract could use a list type structure. this would make it simple as you could look at the list to see what is covered and what is not. Instead you have this mind-boggling,  multi-page, small print documents that when read gives one a headache (by design?) and halts the process of reading it. When you start a claim you have 50-50 chance of getting a denial, then you appeal according to their  (the company) process, you are denied again and you usually have another appeal. The next appeal stands a better than average chance of being denied, these appeals stretch over weeks and months until you grow tired of it or there is a final denial or if you feel up to it sue for payment and or damages. In my opinion we should be pushing our legislators to overhaul the contract wording to reflect a simpler form of understanding for the average person, this format should extend to all contracts. This may eliminate the use of some legal personnel in writing contracts but would be a boon to the everyday person who can then understand what they are signing on to. I have elected to pursue all denials until I reach the end no matter what the end result  and thereafter I look for hopefully a better (?)  company to do business with. In the pursuit of another company I know now what questions to ask and hopefully get a better deal overall. One part of all of this the agent you deal with, often their assistance can help but more often they are implicit in the denial while affecting a sense of caring about your situation.

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Haters Still Hate


Tennis is a sport that few Blacks have participated in, yet non players (spectators) who follow the game have not gotten the memo that they (non Blacks) are not the only “race” in the world. Deriding and slurring a player due to Race is at once ridiculous and out of touch. For years it was fine to have one of “them” once in a while but not to dominate as the Williams sisters have along with  Ali, Tyson, Holmes, Woods, Ashe and Jack Johnson just to mention a few have done. This about sports not race and Racial identity, it is well past time that the bigots (closeted, non closeted or hangers on). The bigots have to remember some of your ancestors “stole” millions of non whites from hundreds of countries around the world so they could amass fortunes and avoid hard labor. These pimps even imported their own (white) race from many places for the same reasons. We “real” people understand that they (whites of that ilk) are now more the exception than the rule and  “all” of us real people of all colors and cultures tolerate you until your “true colors” show then we out you and wish you were somewhere else. You have you favorites like “Rush, Bill and others on Faux news but those are not the standard bearers of the rest of us who read and understand the modern world. If it were practical we  (the real people) would gather you morons up and ship you somewhere else, that is if anyone wanted you! Keep in mind that “nobody wins when the price is hate” (this is a line from a song that many of you have heard but paid no attention to.

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535 Nattering Nincompoops


What ever happened to the premise , idea or fact that our elected officials represented us instead of praying to the dollar gods? Recent legislative actions aimed at cutting the Government deficits will directly affect the less fortunate and  financially challenged Americans (you know the same people who were slammed with subprime loans). Our erstwhile legislators have spent an enormous amount of our money (yes our money-remember our taxes pay their $175000 annual pay) crafting laws to cut expense to Medicaid, and other social programs while boosting the money for the war machine. This is not to say that the military spending should not be funded but at the same time many lower grade military families will be affected by the cuts made by the 535. I am wondering how long will it be before  the American people, who are so often cited by the legislators start to see the true nature of our political “leaders”. If we look at the really big picture we can easily see the trend of our current representatives from both sides to do as little as possible while espousing record of getting things done “for us”  (or more precisely -to us!). Our country is under the grip of huge moneyed people who have essentially bought and paid for our Congress and will attempt to purchase the Presidency in the next election. As a minor observer of politics and by no means an expert, I can see the forest for the trees and hope that some others will observe the same.

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The Clowns


 

The song ” Send in The Clowns” was written by Mr. Steven Sondheim, it was performed by Judy Collins when I first heard it and that’s the version I remember . That was just to present this theory: the “clowns” were sent to Washington to represent us. The Dupublicans are still using the media to campaign for the Presidency in 2016, the string of uninformed statements from various Congressional members on everything from Healthcare to Iran is as close to proof of ineptitude as you can get. We have a long way to go before we can fix this including the missteps by the High Court (which has comforted the misled constituents of the Dupublican base). I am hoping when the real dust settles many of us have the ability to vote the pimps out. We the people should and have to realize we have two houses of legislators whose sole purpose now is to gain the presidency of the United States to convert us all to conservatism whether we want to be converted or not. This is not to demean Conservatism as  in any belief needs to be taken in the context of other beliefs and realities while not infringing on those beliefs and rights held by other people. The current Congress has made the very office a joke and impugned the already fragile integrity of the office. We are experiencing the rise of deep pocket politics which is of no real benefit to the majority of us. If we are to survive this all, we should pay attention to who we elect and their long range effect on our future. A note to non voters-It is true our choices are not the best but we still need to exercise that right!

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Where Do We Go From Here?


How can we trust the upcoming Congress? During the last 6 years the rift between Congress and  POTUS has grown larger. It is naïve to think that this divide is not about power and who has it. Hypothetically the two major parties have the best interests of the people and our country yet we see the long term representatives  espousing the same rhetoric  to their constituents with a twist. Unfortunately it is human nature to align one self with some one who looks like you, has the same general (supposedly)  life desires. What this means is that except for people who recognize and embrace the differences in other people, our long termers are no more than “Bernie Madoff” in  politics. They have  perfected the knack of  promising enough to stay in office and enhancing their own  futures rather than taking care of the people who elected them time after time. This mid term election has shown that desperation leads ambitious people to do whatever it takes. It is not a far stretch to think that in close company the President has been labeled with the “N” word to forward an agenda. The new Congress still has to put up or shut up but be assured that any failure on the part of the House and Senate will be redirected to what ever the President has done or not done. We can already see the media campaign in the  press releases and talks from the two top Dupublicans but  onus is on them to produce results. The keystone pipeline is a sore spot and all of the information on it has never been revealed, the only information out is how many jobs will  created, no matter what the potential risk of  damage to the route of the pipeline. This pipeline will be delivering Canadian oil to the Gulf of Mexico for processing and shipment out of the country.

It is easy to present partial information and appeal to the  jobs situation but remember who has been in office during the fiscal troubles  of the past 15 years and did nothing to stave off the problems. To top it all, the Prime minister of Israel used  our Congress to further his own ambitions and he did in true Dupublican fashion and they willingly  (possibly unwittingly) allowed it because his speech was  without the normal courteous  notification to our President and the State department . The Leader of the House is now journeying to Israel (why?). Here at home the candidates are jockeying for position to run for President  but to no good end. We must understand that our political process is flawed and can only be repaired by the voters. Our task is simply to gather as much information as possible on the candidates and ignore 90% of what is aired in the media. Keep in mind that these candidates are spending millions to gain offices that do not pay millions which makes one wonder what the real reason for the campaigning?

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We Allowed It.


The larger world outside of the United States is in turmoil, every country large and small is making headlines of some sort. We have the health epidemics in many areas, small wars and incursions in the Eurasian areas. We have the popular uprisings in several countries around the globe. All of these issues point to the progressing world we live in. Meanwhile our gang of 500 plus have factions who are attempting to influence politics outside the U.S. by writing letters to countries involved in critical negotiations and inviting high profile  political speakers without notifying our state department. These 2 actions alone seem to show their disrespect for the President of the Unites States and the American people  (who they purport to represent ). It is unfortunate that our Current Congress has no other purpose than their own personal gratification which history will show as massive ego and ineptitude. The overall Congress (a name I mistakenly attributed as the name for a troupe of Baboons (what an insult to the Baboons) has several factions whose sole purpose is to overturn the ACA and put the middle class in a lower position and the lower class in yet a lower class. We have the Supreme court (almost solidly pro Dupublican) which has effectively overturned the voting rights act and created a 1960’s feel to the country. Our current sitting Congress are no more than a group of men obsessed with power and  beholding to them selves. The factions therein who we voted in have now shown their true colors and those colors run! The bottom line here is our Congress had an opportunity to act as legislators but decided that acting in a covert and many times overt racial manner have brought the office down to a criminal level.

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M. Brown & E. Garner


Is it about time we looked at this situations seriously? Some police groups are concerned about their supposed lack of support by their municipalities however have they really looked at what the effect of their actions are? did you make mistakes? Were mistakes made by the now victims? If we were to put aside our learned biases and perceived knowledge, what would be the outcome? I know from personal experience that it s easy to fall into the rut of common knowledge about many things and people. Where we all need to be is on the same or even similar  planes of thought and realities. Many or most of us have met and worked with people who are different in many ways but we consider them friends and colleagues. We probably do not consider  their religious, personal or other leanings and proclivities to be an advantage or deterrent to our relationship with them but we will look at people we do not know and judge them out of hand. This is called bias, prejudice or bigotry. It is unfortunate that too many of us  never look at how we interact with all other people and make an attempt to do better if we need to. The real issue is our “leaders” in the political arena have for the past 10 to 15 years used bigotry as wedge and  coercive agent to gain elective advantages. It is unfortunate that some of us haven’t realized that your fellow Americans are not the problem-the problem is with the people we have elected. Their focus is and always has been remaining in office and maintaining the power with that office. Our collective objective as voters needs to be holding the elected officials accountable and not be persuaded by  half truths, racial or ethnic  slurs that many of us have heard time after time. America is a multiracial, multi-ethnic  and  ultimately humane country that is (in spite of what is in the media) aspired to by other countries. To continue being who we are, our changes need to be in our government.

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Lets Look At Facts


 The now majority party in Congress has set us on a path of grinding poverty for the poorest of Americans and almost sure denigration of the upper to middle class. The 1 week funding of DHS (National security) is another step in their commitment to their masters (not the American People whom they are so fond of citing). These Dupublicans now have the ability to do something right but have began to follow the path of ineptitude and dragging the country along with them. I am sure that their actions do not represent the will and needs of the “American People”. I have listened to and read many editorials and opinions by many people from ordinary folks to political pundits and very few of us fully grasp the impact this Congress will have for years to come. I suggest that if all or any of us ignore  what is said and look at the actions, we will quickly understand that we are the government and we have allowed these politicians to pull the political wool over our eyes. The two party system is useless and it is time we as voters abandoned it and find our own voices with non party or apart candidates yet  be  prepared to remove them when necessary. Voting as independent as possible which then becomes “term limits”!

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Being in Majority means -What?


The U.S. Senates strikes again! The Senate has deemed themselves to be doing their jobs by passing a temporary funding of one the most important agencies we have. Hey- isn’t Mitch McConnell in charge of the Senate? Did we not hear him say how the Senate was going to be functional again? Thank you all of the folks who voted these guys in the majority in spite of information indicating the results of poor information and the Government shutdown several years ago. Is it possible that many voters have been “Koched”

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