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Cheney at his best?


Former Vice President Dick Cheney of  “shooting his attorney and Halliburton” fame has loudly criticized the current nominees to the Presidents cabinet. This was done at a Republican gathering in Wyoming. It is certainly easy to point fingers when one feels that their hands are clean. This is a person who is apparently  more anti-American than some of our Asian allies. His dealings as CEO of a company that gouged the government during the WMD search and subsequent war in Iraq which cost billions in money and untold numbers of American lives to no good end needs to be held up for scrutiny as the self serving idiot he is. It is under stood that he absented himself from the actions of Halliburton but the company should never have gotten a government contract at all. Now the ( I consider) neer do well ex vice president will receive the gift of secret service protection for the next few years at our expense. How much more will he gouge the voters for? We have a vapid Congress that has through several Presidents done as little as possible until their hand was forced. Now that the current President has pushed the envelope the seat fillers have become outraged. As voters the outrage should be ours. There will never be a law creating term limits but the voters can set those limits by merely voting against the current members. We do not need a party or parties to tell us who to vote for, we do not need special interests to give us an opinion or validate our opinions, we just need to exercise our voting rights according to our own common sense and desires. As citizens of one of the Free countries in the world we have the ability to change the government from the outside of politics by merely voting ineffective officials out of office. This action should have nothing to do with Race or  Religion,  just what is best for all of us. Remember a political ad is just that -an ad- and like all ads is designed to sell you something.

Until The Cows Come Home


Our national fiscal health has been failing for years yet our 535 + set fillers are moving forward as if they have no clue to what actions are required to move us forward (or even backwards). The so called “fiscal cliff” is upon us but the fickle finger of Congress points to the Commander-in-Chief. The CIC is only in office (not power) for 4 to 8 years while the 535 have been in place ( most of them) for 12  or more years. In this years they have decided (I guess) that since we have re-elected them time after time that they do not need to put forth any effort and just wait for the next election. This is reminiscent of the haphazard (to say the least) operation of many of our major companies, banks and retail stores.  In comparison: have you ever gone to a retail store , one in which you have shopped before and found your favorite item (s) were out of stock. Did you wait until they had the item in stock or go elsewhere to make your purchase?

Should we wait until the “cows come home” before we start to remove the long term Congress from their comfortable seats?

Walnut


The prostate, a gland about the size of a walnut whose function is primarily sexual yet can be a problem area later in life. As men age the prostate depending on family history and possibly external  causes can become enlarged. This size change can result in the ability to urinate from poor to none. In either case it results in a visit to your primary physician, who will usually refer you to a urologist. The cure can range from medication to extreme measures such as surgery.  The surgery on the extreme side involves removal of the gland and resecting the urethra as it is surrounded by the gland. The surgery is common  and reserved for extreme instances of cancer or last effort after other treatments do not resolve the problem. Odd that a small gland can create a glitch such as being unable to p or do it in a normal fashion. Every man I know dreads the “finger wave” when taking a physical but this”wave” is an important diagnostic tool even if it doesn’t feel that way at the time. Which would you think is better a wave or a funeral?

OCE


OCE is the abbreviation for  the Office of Congressional Ethics. How odd that this office is investigating Aaron Shock of Illinois for alleged ethical errors(?), when so many of the current sitters are possible just as culpable in many ways. Let’s remember the past 20 years of political infighting and wars. If we want to look at the work of this office  as being of value perhaps we want to have them (the office) looked with an objective eye. This brings to mind the question of “who are the watchers and who are the watchees?” The ability of a section of Government to police itself  could be classed as an oxymoron, as I consider  the existing modern day Congress to be.

Enough!!


The   Boy Scout of America and their issue with gays is at once ludicrous not as Christian as they purport to be. Not so long ago, they were not that thrilled with minorities either. Considering my thoughts on this, first what does gay look like? It is easy to identify some one of another race by several factors such as skin color,speech patterns or some other physical facial feature. How do you identify some who is gay?, do they look like Rock Hudson, Jim Nabors or Randolph Scott? Coincidently all gay. It truly amazing that there still some “Christians” who are holier than thou yet condemn their fellow humans for who they are. These are possibly the same people who are for the “water boarding” of “suspected terrorists” and who during the Civil war  strung up any person of color who was in the wrong place at the “right” time or maybe did not move to the back of the bus. How many  of “those” people have been successful members of the scouts up the rank of Eagle without tainting this “hallowed”  institution?   Enough, enough  and   enough ,the scouts need to man up and be who they were supposed to be when started. There is no place for an organization discriminates based on out dated and unfounded ” christian?” beliefs. Christ preached forgiveness and acceptance unfortunately some his  modern followers don’t. Is there a need for a name change- for instance B_ _ _ _  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of America!

Scouting?


Let’s talk about the Boy scouts , et al. Any group or organization that is public can determine their membership qualifications. If these qualifications, after listing their qualifications for years can discriminate against potential members who through an act of birth then this organization is bound for the downfall of the self-righteous. Gaiety has no basis in the “assumption” of a life style by choice. It is a condition (for lack of a better description) that exists from conception and comes to fruition at various times of life due to peerages and work pressures. In modern times (2000’s) the pressures have been all but eliminated as most rational people accept and understand that the world is composed of multiple ethnicities, life styles, races and personal preferences. the BSA organization in spite of having “gay” scout masters and possibly members has recently removed the denial of “gays” in scouting. Being gay has nothing to do with a love of the outdoors and other scouting activities. This is about as ridiculous as the controversy and conversations about gays and women in the military. A life has value in what ever career one choses as long as that career contributes to society as a whole in taxes paid , products and ideas produced. These deeds have nothing to do with personal choices. These are the acts of primarily everyday people doing what they want and what is required by a normal society. Paraphrasing a line from a comedy show “THERE is nothing wrong with that”.

What Is The Answer?


Today I spent several hours listening and watching the Congressional hearing on the proposed “assault” weapons ban or what ever it will be called. The pro and cons are difficult to assess as the two overlap so much. No current firearms owner wants any more restrictions placed upon them yet the need for some sort of control over the availability or access to high capacity firearms or really the  magazines or clips is the  big issue. I did not see this addressed, I saw and heard the same information that has been out there for years. This information cannot, will not and has not resulted in the desired end. There have been some progress but not what current laws were purported to address. I t seems to me that we have a situation where any illegal weapons, no matter what the origin is will be available to people who use illegal means to get them. This process has nothing to do with the people who follow the laws, local and federal to own and procure firearms.  The issue appears be a way of halting the legal or illegal purchase and use of firearms with high capacity magazine or clips*. Laws do not work because the lawless do not follow them. Armed security in schools is  like having children in jail except for having no bars on the windows and doors. Many public buildings have metal detectors at the doors so there is no issue there but all of this still does not address the availability of illegal firearms and what to do about it. Until this issue is resolved this conversation will have no end and we will all be assailed by rhetoric on the subject until Utopia arrives somewhere in the far distant future, perhaps.

 

*Clip is synonymous with magazine

The Ediot


A book that could be set in today or tomorrow, not an action book but certainly futuristic in its scope. It reminds me of a combination of “Blade runner” in 1968 and “1984 “in 1956. This proves that writing becomes an art form when properly presented.

Learning Curve


The human learning curve has been studied (or not). The learning curve is possibly illustrated by the events surrounding a national election and reinforced by the lesser elections that occur in the states and cities. The learning curve is knowledge gleaned from events and disasters that around the world. This learning curve is: ” Early uses of the metaphor (learning curve) on the pattern’s positive aspect, namely the potential for quick progress in learning (as measured by, e.g., memory accuracy or the number of trials required to obtain a desired result)  at the introductory or elementary stage. Over time, however, the metaphor has become more commonly used to focus on the pattern’s negative aspect, namely the difficulty of learning once one gets beyond the basics of a subject”. This phenomenon has been broadly illustrated by the last election. The social economic conditions of the past 10 to 15 years have made the last 4 years a perfect study of the learning curve. With all of the “progress” made in Race and foreign relations, we have made little. This has shown up in the attitudes of the candidates for President and the long serving Congress. As a country we have fought tyrants and injustice around the world yet we have returned to a pre civil war mentality about race. This points out the efficacy of the “learning Curve”. As a country we have made more progress in 200 plus years than the old world countries yet we have made little in relation to Race. In this country where there is supposed to be equal opportunities for all, some still refuse to recognize that the success of one (1) is the success of all and should be supported. This is the learning curve in reverse.

Idoits with a forum


Ann Coulter and Charles Krauthammer both appear to so called conservatives who by the virtue of being read are essentially “idiots with a forum”. These two folks are blessed by the virtue of living in America, in any other country they would or could be arrested, tortured or worse. It is quite easy to throw out unfounded and seemingly truthful statement but to offer opinions based on real ideas and as much honesty as possible is different. There is nothing wrong with espousing a party line or a real belief but personal opinions based on nonsense is not laudable. It is unfortunate that these people have a following as their followers appear to be more believers of nonfacts rather than the real truth no matter if that truth flies in the face of their core beliefs (which are sometimes misplaced).