Legalizing discrimination under the guise of religion
05.11.12 (12:27 am) [edit]Are gay people part of God's creation or are they aliens planted among us. Why are we so homophobic and pretentious?. The same sex marriage act that was defeated in North Carolina is nothing more than discrimination against people who are different from the so call straight people.When straight people deny them the same rights that they enjoy under the guise that marriage is strictly for procreation leads me to ask them did God make a mistake,if not then why are there so many infertile women and impotent men alive and why did he allow the creation of invitro fertilization, sperm banks and egg depositories. The reason this arguement doesn't hold water is that procreation has evolved to the point of choosing your off spring sex,color, hieght and intelligence from sperm banks and egg depositories. This country has an ugly history of denying people their inalienable rights garuanteed by the declaration of independence in the 1700's Black were only considered 3/5th human simply because of their color they remained in slavery until 1863.In 1896 state sponsored segregation was instituted to keep blacks from enjoying the same privileges that whites enjoyed even though it was supposed to be separate but equal. In 1954 in the brown vs board of education decision it was discovered that priveleges and services was separate but not equal for blacks there by ending school discrimination. In 1964 we had the civil rights act which declared segregated public eating establishment. water fountians, bath room,libraries and movies illegal was followed by the 1965 housing act which ended housing discrimination on the basis of race and in 1967 interracial marriages became legal. As ugly as the history of America is toward certian segments of our society it continues to evolve and I hope to the point where gay people can enjoy all the rights and benefits that straight people enjoy. Civil rights should not be denied because of religious rights.
On top of the car or under the bus
05.05.12 (9:50 pm) [edit]In many parts of the country Mitt Romney is seen as being and uncaring and unprincipled business man by the havoc he left some people in the small town of Marion Indiana, Paris Arkansas and edge field South Carolina. These small towns were considered one industry towns because usually one corporation employed the majority citizens of the town. Romney purchased the corporation in each of these towns dismissed the majority of the employees, cut their salaries took away their medical benefits sold the company to a foreign entity to be transferred to China or india. We find this behavior is not only limited to his business ventures. The family dog became ill due to motion sickness on a vacation trip rather than seeking a vet Mitt secured the dog to the top of the car for a 12 hour ride and states that the dog did not complain. Un be knowing to him his campaign staffer hired a gay foreign policy expert to the staff when the religious right zealots discovered this they complained and the guy was terminated immediately. It is apparently obviously that if you cause Mitt Problems you have two options to be strapped to the top of the car or kicked not only to the curb but under the bus.
He exits with his ego finally deflated
05.03.12 (11:35 am) [edit]Newt Gingrich a self made icon politically finally had to face reality and suspend his campaign for the nominating process of being the Republican candidate for president. Newt kept going around declaring that it's not over until the nominating convention in June. Every one else affiliated with the campaign was aware that his campaign was beyond resuscitating in early March. Newt declares himself to be clairvoyant and a critical thinker but he couldn't decipher that America was just not that into him. He professes to be a staunch conservative but he milked the American treasure out of all the equal campaign contributions that he could muster and the cost of Secret Service protection until the very end. Currently he is 4 million dollars in debt and departs the campaign trail with the grace of a wounded duck and probably the last platform to try and impress America of just how smart he is.
Danger! when the interpreter becomes opinionated
04.28.12 (8:49 am) [edit]In looking at the the Supreme Court's hearing on whether Arizona's immigration law was constitutional or not I was amazed at the line of questions ask by Judge Anthony Scalia. He appears to have made up his mind in advance, he ask no questions regarding how Arizona's immigration law conflicted with the Federal Law on Immigration or how this law would affect business people who have contracts with illegals, he acted as if the immigration problem exist in a vaccum and only affects the undocumented. His main attack was on the officer who was presenting the case before the Court. Immigration has always been a federal program whether the federal government performed it's duty or not. Only the Federal government can issue visas's, grant cititzenship, deport undesirables or communicate with foreign government.If this Arizona law is held to be constitutional will we end up having 50 different immigration laws and all being different. If this law is up held we will have legalized racial profiling because the only people who this law applies to will be individuals with Latino like features. Will every Latino or Hispanic be considered to be undocumented until proven other wise in Arizona. We seriously need a federal immigration policy so that this issue can be solved once and for all because now it's nothing more than a political football that is kicked around at election time.
America in peril
04.25.12 (2:16 pm) [edit]In looking at Ben Bernanke's report on the condition of the United States this morning I came to the conclusion that we are in serious trouble with no viable solution. In education the price is threatening the opportunity to get a 4 year degree, In only 21 years the price of attending college not including room and board has increased 300 percent. Students are leaving college with debt that is equivalent to carring a house mortgage but salaries and the standard of living has remained stagnant or decreased for the poor and middle class during the same period, College loan debt is 1 trillion dollars our national deficit is only 1.4 trillion dollars this is a serious disconnect in what education is supposed to provide. 8 percent of the population is unemployed which represent about 24 million people with an untoward number being unemployed. we presently have a 15 trillion dollar national debt with no valid solution from our congressional representatives on how to deal with it as evidenced by the gridlock in Washington. At present there are 59 million people without any form of healt insurance mainly due to the unemployment situation and the exhorbitant cost of premiums. This popublation is proving to be an unsustainable burden on the entire health care system, yet we are argueing about mandates. As a former member of a Marine artillery unit when we were unable to hit our target the battery commander would give the order to make a bold shift we know that the present system is failing the American public so why not?. Our present housing and mortgaging system is like playing wack a mole in which you solve one problem and create another one. On most block in certian cities in California you can still find three or four vacant housing in a block due to default,foreclosure or abandonment. in some cases the price of the house has been reduced 50 percent through short sales when the occupant next door finds out that he is under water due to that deal and can't qualify for mortgage reduction he simply abandon the property creating another vacant house on the block. There are about 1.5 million vacant houses in America depressing property value but increasing the property tax on the community. It is quite obvious we face a myriad of problems that has lingered for a long time. In a few months we will be in the midst of an election campaign rather than concentrating on our conservativeness or our liberalism why don't we look for practicality by vetting thoroughly the candidates on their proposed solution we need a leader with a vision not just nice sounding bites because America is really in peril.
He's at it again
04.24.12 (9:28 am) [edit]I know you will not be surprised but Mitt Romney is flip flopping again on the illegal immigration issue. When campaigning for the Republican nomination he wanted to be so hard on illegal immigrants in denying them jobs and education so that they would self deport. Now that he realizes it's going to be a political massacre of the Republican party by the Democrats if he doesn't do something to change the Latino attitude, he's endorsing the dream act proposed by President Obama's administration that would grant the off springs of illegals who came here as young children the right to participate in the student loan program, grants and scholarships if they met and satisfied the requirements. Did he forget where he was or what he had said previously?. How will that contribute to self deportation especially after he told the people of Arizona that his immigration bill would be modeled after theirs. Mitt Romney has no core or backbone, where ever he is is what he is his name should be synonimous with appeasor or could he be the reincarnation of whitterca chambers.
Who is he
04.17.12 (11:43 am) [edit]Remember the theme song from the old TV program cheer's that stated, does anybody know my name. That appears to be the question we are going to have to ask the Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney. According to an article in the Los Angeles Times Mitt has changed his opinion on 22 different subjects and it is based on what ever audience he is addressing. He has gone beyond the title of flip flopping to almost being characterized as a pathological liar he appears to be a chameleon in human form. A person who's decision is no more stable than this should be carefully vetted and examined for some form of organic brain disease.
Really! how hard was it
04.16.12 (12:53 am) [edit]Hillary Rosen made a statement regarding the wife of Presidential candidate Mitt Romney that cause a real dust up among both liberal and conservative women when she stated that Ann Romney was not a good source of information on women affairs since she's never worked hard a day in her life. Mrs Romney retorted that being a mother who raised 5 boys was a hard job and it was the choice she made. On second thought how hard was the job when you had the services of a full time maid and baby sitter, what was there for her to do.
There is a real watermelon man
04.03.12 (10:44 pm) [edit]There was a movie in the 50's where a black man dreamed he was white and now the Black congressman Alan West from Florida revealed his self hatred of his skin color in an interview with John King from CNN when asked how he felt being a black congressman during black history month. West replied that he felt no way involved with the negro communist celebration. He is so shallow in the history of America that he disrespected the civil rights pioneers who braved the past history of segregation being denied the right to vote taxation without representation and other forms of humiliation that these brave souls suffered. Does he realize that it was only 47 years ago that black people were granted the right to vote?. and not only should he celebrate Black history Month but he should carry a Biography of Dread Scott, Benjamin Banneker, George Washington Carver, Marcus Garvey, Malcom X, Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King so that he will realize whose shoulder he stood on not only for the right to vote but the right to compete for elective office. He stated that he was a white man in a Black man's body and that he cursed the day he was born. How sad.
Franklin Graham realizes he's not Clairvoyant
03.01.12 (11:57 pm) [edit]The Reverend Franklin Graham the son of Reverend Billy Graham had to make a confession that he is not Jesus junior and retract and outlandish statement he made regarding to President Obama's christianity when he stated that because of Obama's muslim father he could only take his word for it but he could vouch for Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. This was totally contradictory to the bible regardless of your position no one can look at a person regardless of his behavior and say what you believe about his christianity.The bible states if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus is the son Of God and that God raised him from the dead you are saved. I am personally glad the Franklin had an ephinany and saw the light.
When Denomination vs civil rights
02.08.12 (4:11 am) [edit]The Catholic church is in an uproar due to a ruling under the affordable health care act that demands that contraceptive medicine be included in the health care bill. Their up roar has a hollow ring to it since a report states 98 percent of all Catholics of child bearing age use some form of contraceptive medicine as evidenced by the precipitous decline in births to Catholics. This like the tail wagging the dog because it is obvious that when the Priest preaches against contraception he is not preaching to the choir. There is a clause of separation of church and state in the constitution. How can you claim a hospital and college as a church when you are accepting federal funds, that is a violation in itself. It is not like the Priest is commanded to stand before the nurses lounge and the female dorm at Notre Dame and hand out contraceptive pills, all they have to do is make them available. Is it an excommunicable offense for consenting adults to have sex for pleasure or are all sexual relations between a man and his wife must be for procreation. There should be a line a mile long at the confession booth. I am confused by their dogma, they allow homosexual priest pedophile priest to serve in the heiarchy of the church, pay out many of dollars of the diocese money to protect them from the law but refuse to allow females the choice of preventing an unwanted pregnancy not abortion but pregnancy. I know the bible says that God never created a mouth that he couldn't feed but since humanity refuses to oblige I think contraception is a good idea.
Denied my inalienable right
02.03.12 (9:54 am) [edit]Am I not guaranteed the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What gives a right wing Governor and her minions the right to deny me the opportunity to organize and form a bargaining union for wages and benefits that I think I am worth. A right to work state as decided by the Governor and the legislature is no different from the working conditions in China and other slave labor countries where the government decides your wages and benefits. Since the Governor and the legislature is elected by the citizens of the state why can't the decision to be allowed to form a collectively bargaining union be decided by the citizens. Did the Governor and her minions become omniscient all of a sudden or could it be like the Supreme Court said, money talks. The right to work states provide no significant benefits because the unemployment rate is the same or higher than in unionized states. If we are a Democratic Republic what happened to we the people rather than the Governor her minions and the corporate world. Unions never took a dime from me that I didn't vote on, it was always majority rule. Why is a corporation allowed to form a political action committee with investors fund give it to a particular candidate without the investors consent but laborers are denied the same right. If a right to work state is so important to a corporation why did over 400 textile manufacturers leave the deep south right to work states all the way from Virginia to Arizona for foreign countries like China,Vietnam, India and Bangladesh other than to enslave workers and deprive them of a living wage. People need to look and listen to what is happening because we are being sold out by our government to the highest political donor for the purpose of enslaving us. Mitt Romney has said he is not concerned about the very rich or very poor but he will concentrate on the shrinking middle class. I bet it is to hasten their exit to that safety net that the very poor is resting on if you consider what he did in Arkansas, Indiana and South Carolina.
Disrespect for leadership
01.27.12 (10:37 am) [edit]Doesn't Arizona have a standard of behavior for it's elected leaders?. Aren't they taught anything about protocol and etiquette when in the presence of public officials?. If this lady is as temperamental as she behaved, Arizona is in bad shape when it comes to leadership because she is obviously 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental. Why don't somebody explain to her that simply because you're ugly you don't have to act that way. She really think she's disrespecting President Obama but she's really disrespecting the office of the President and it deserve better. She accosted him and has the audacity to say that she felt threatened, how ludicrous is that. She illustrated to the world how crass and low class she is.
positive effects of infidelity
01.27.12 (9:33 am) [edit]In one of the interviews with the focus on the family Newt Gingrich stated that hard work and love of America were the cause of his infidelity. Now he states to the Christian Broad cast net work that infidelity made him more normal. My question is compared to what?.
My image of the American voter
01.24.12 (11:52 am) [edit]IN trying to discuss the condition of American politics with some voters you would believe that our government was created in a vacuum. While at a breakfast rally listening to some people complain about government you would not believe that it is created by the American public and that it is the way it is because of the people we elect. One lady came up to me and begin talking about the problems at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and believed that Senator Dodd and Representative Franks was the sole cause of it's mortgage problem. And the bill was legislated to provide home owner ship to the poor who could not afford homes. I was alarmed by her ignorance and explained to her regardless of how bad she thought the legislation was that 60 Senators and 218 Congressional Representatives voted for the bill to become law. All three of our representatives for the bill and if the bill was so bad why did they vote the way they did?. Our Representative not only voted for the law but took advantage of the provision that provided preferable terms to elected politicians. Our representative complained loud about the problems of Freddie and Fannie but he reminded me of a little boy who had thrown a rock and was now trying to hide his hand.
The mythology of GOP social conservatives
01.20.12 (9:58 am) [edit]The GOP social conservatives have been hypocritical and regressive in their social stance. They claim to have a deep abiding faith in God,apple pie and the American way. Yet they are supporting a candidate Newt Gingrich who has a large bag filled with a long history of moral and bad professional behavior. If I remember correctly it was at a wedding where Jesus performed his first miracle. The wedding vow reads in sickness, in health,for better or for worse till death due us part. What is it about this vow that social conservatives republicans take so lightly. Also I must play the race card, when Herman Cain's sexual peccadilloes were exposed the republican social conservatives discarded him like used tissue with snot on it. When ABC news exposed Newt sexual transgression he received a loud standing ovation then he preceded to blame the media.
Happenstance of being born in America
01.11.12 (8:09 pm) [edit]Read this sad story in the local section of the news paper this morning regarding two young people who met disaster in the prime of life. Jeff and Christine two bright promising Americans who did things the right way, finishing their education and looking forward to contributing to the American way of life. Jeff with a degree in personnel administration and criminology and Christine with a degree in education. By all accounts the wedding was breath taking beautiful. They had planned on pursuing their married life as an all American couple. Three months later Christine fell suffering a head injury, the medical examination revealed that she had an inoperable brain tumor and was not able to continue working. A month later Jeff received a pink slip from the police personnel department, now they are not able to continue to pay the health insurance premiums or a doctor and is now at the mercy of doctors who decide to volunteer their services but this is limited because they can't afford to pay for the treatment or lab test that must be done at a medical facility. They have also lost their apartment and car and had to move back in with their parents whose house is not equipped to take care of a person with a terminal disease. IN the mean while Jeff is looking into all the programs that should provide relief assistance for a family in their condition but the bureaucracy is over whelming and very slow in responding. We pride ourselves on bearing the torch of liberty and freedom and we boast about our independent nature when in fact most of us are in the same predicament as Jeff and Christine one pay day away from disaster. I believe that health care should be as much of a right as freedom of speech religion and assembly. What kind of nation are we when the only people who can afford health care are those who are rich or lucky enough to have jobs that provide health insurance coveraqe. Our present system puts profit over humanity because it is controlled by corporations that has purchased our political institutions. Every other developed country in the world provides health care to it's citizens cheaper than our market economy model. As dire as Jeff's and Christine situation is, just think there are 50 million more Americans without health insurance with the potential to be just like them. Life is slowly ebbing from Christine and Jeff will be saddled with more medical debt than he can ever pay.
Ronald Reagan Legacy Myth
12.31.11 (12:14 am) [edit]If you listen at the Republican rhetoric about their mythical legend you swear that he was able to walk on water and calm the ragin seas but when you examine the facts of his administration you will discover that nothing could be farther from the truth. 1. He talked about family and family values but he was divorced and remarried. The only vow you make where you place your hands on the bible is the marriage vow and entering the military. 2 He talked about faith in God but was not an active member of a church while he was govenor of california or president of the U.S. 3. He advised men to take care of their wives and children yet he is the only president to call a dallop of catsup a vegetable when served as a school lunch to kids. 4. He is described as being a conservative yet he raised taxes 11 times and there was no war going on. He raised the debt ceiling 18 times, how is that for controlling spending 5. Ronald Reagan was the first president to quadrupled the national debt. 6. Obviously all the accolades imputed to him are mythical except for a mellifuous sounding voice. He was not our Santa Claus by any stretch of imagination. So let's let the dead past bury it's dead regardless of how mythicalogical and move forward rather than wallowing in a jaundice view of our past. Think on this, If Reagan was such a panacea for the country during his presidency why did George W. Bush have to raise taxes and violate a promise that he made of no new taxes within 2 years of his administraton?.
Absence of a well regulated militia
12.28.11 (10:44 pm) [edit]Gun lovers will quickly quote you the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution when it comes to owning a gun, which supposedly gives every citizen the right to bear Arms. In a 75 mile radius during the Christmas season 17 people were murdered by people who had a back ground of violence including robbery, murder,stalking and domestic violence. All the assailants owned a gun even though they had prior prison records. The second Amendment states that we have a right to bear arms as part of a well regulate militia. When a violent felon can purchase a gun with little or no background check who's doing the regulating, since when did one person become a militia, Militias are illegal that is why we have Federal, State and local police forces. If we are going to say one person is a militia we need to do some serious examining of our regulations,
We aren't free loaders after all
12.22.11 (4:40 am) [edit]Remember when the Republican rhetoric was that 53 percent of Americans pay no income tax and saying it as if the 47 percent was bearing the entire debt burden of the country. If that were the case how come the 53 percent of free loaders will get a tax increase if the payroll holiday tax is not extended. I was feeling bad about myself because I felt all those deduction on my pay stub was going for naught. Now I find out that I am a team member and a pretty valuable one at that. so cheer up you hard working individuals who can only pay by a pay roll deduction you are not a free loader.
Historian Really
12.21.11 (11:23 am) [edit]Has there ever been a more selfish, self absorbed and self servient individual than Newt Gingrich. He claims to be an historian but does not realize that we have three department of our federal government and each is independent. Newt talks about bringing federal judges who affirm decisions that he does not agree with before the Congress to explain their decisions. Doesn't he realize what the word independent means Newt begins every sentence with I and let him tell it he was part of everything positive accomplished in this country. He helped Reagan destroy communism and yet none of Reagan former staff gives him any credit. Former Reagan press secretary John Sununu could not recall any important meeting held or any summits with Russians that Newt was a part of. He helped Clinton reform welfare but no one recalls any important idea or solution submitted by Him. If you listened to him without consulting his past record you would be ready to crown him as Jesus Junior who was at the creation of the world, gave life to Adam Free the Children of Israel from Egypt and parted the Red Sea until you examine all the baggage he's carring he was forced to resign as a congressman due to unethical behavior. He was made to pay a 300 thousand dollar fine for taking government material writing a book and lecturing in college for a salary without paying for the material or getting permission to use it for his own personal gain. He reminds me of some old guy who looked in a trick mirror and said what a great guy am I.
What was it good for
12.18.11 (1:16 am) [edit]I watch the President welcoming the the troops from the Iraq war home. After listening to all the accolades given for their service I begin to wonder what did we accomplish and was it worth it. Consider after decimating Iraq, killing 2 million of it's citizens, destroying it's infrastructure through bombing and killing Saddam Hussein, In part we inflicted 45 hundred fatalities, 32 thousand seriously wounded and 1 trillion dollars expended from our treasure which we could ill afford. So we leave Iraq with no democratic form of government Islamic in it's governing and worship. Former President Bill Clinton predicted that the U.S. would lead a whole world of democracies but he did not state it would be through invasions and war. We invaded Iraq under the false pretense of them possessing weapons of mass destruction. We like to brag on America's exceptionalism but if you consider the condition we left Iraq in the only thing we are exceptional in is being the world's most destructive force.
Heads they win tails we lose
12.17.11 (9:46 am) [edit]The American public just can't win, first they pay the salary of crooks and then are required to pay the lawyers that defend the crooks. The SEC sued the former heads of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for doctoring and lying to investors who bought sub prime mortgages that had been secured and sold on the open market. The portfolio should have had only 4.3 billion dollars in sub prime loans when it fact it contained 44 billion in sub prime loans and 90 percent of them went into default and foreclosure. The SEC found that during their investigation this was a real attempt to defraud investors. All of the suspects had changed the application forms raising the applicants worth and financial stability to enhance their commission. None of the heads of the firms made less than 16 million from 2005 to 2007. The entire deal cost the Federal government a 160 billion dollars. Now here is the kicker even though these crooks played by their own rules due to the way their contract were written the federal government is responsible for 58 million dollars of their legal fees. The injustice as I see it is in California any crime over 5 thousand dollars is filed as a felony and you are tried in criminal court, these individuals cost our government over 160 billion and are only required to go to civil court and we pay for their defense. Heads they win Tail we lose.