Ralph Nader's campaign has been supported by the Republican Party. His whole party is being supported by crooks who haven't seen that registering to vote as "Mickey Mouse, John Kerry, etc." and registering under fictitious names with fictitious addresses is illegal as well as just plain WRONG. He insists he is running a separate platform, although some of the things he says are merely re-worded stances that John Kerry has already made. He is splitting the ticket on purpose and if the misguided persons who are supporting his actions in the name of "doing things our way" would look closely at who is supporting him (RNC party funded).
Now, the whole voter registration disenfranchisement thing is off and running. Florida was already trying to use the ficticious "suspected felons" list again and after a lawsuit by the news media was proven to have listed mostly democrats who have never been arrested. Not only have the Republicans been trying to do that again, they also got caught actually hiring people who would throw away anyone's registration if they registered as a democrat. How low will they go now?
The fact that extra stem cell research MIGHT have an impact on quadrapalegics is enough for anyone who asks themselves conscieniably, "Is it OK that stem cells are not being harvested from a fetus that was going to be discarded, anyway, so some neocon can act like he did the right thing, even though he is lying?" Someone who realises that these fetuses are going to be discarded anyway has to answer, whether a right to life advocate or not, "NO!" The same people who are trying to twist the idea of whether or not this was an issue, but once again, I have the question, "Why did you wait until an election year to "ACT" like you give a damn?"
Recently John Edwards made the statement that people like Christopher Reeves, (The actor who died after being stricken quadrapalegic after a riding accident.) would eventually be able to get up and walk if Kerry wins the presidency and removes the restrictions that George Bush has put on Stem Cell Research. Dick Cheney said that the statement was made that "Everyone in a wheelchair would get up and walk if John Kerry is elected." Once again Dick Cheney, who actually runs the White House more than his President, lied to make another photo op moment that will haunt him later on. This is another smoke screen. The fact that President Bush has restricted stem cell research, which is finishing off all hope of a significant amount of avenues for research is what was in question and continuing to STAY THE COURSE on a wrong turn is not even a smart thought. The whole issue for President Bush is based around "fetuses" being a living human being surrounding the "right to life" and moralistic catholic vote he is trying to pander to.
If President Bush really cared about human life and considered it a sacred thing he wouldn't have had more death sentences carried out under his watch as Governor than ANY OTHER GOVERNOR of the entire history of the state of Texas. Think about what that means. We are talking about TEXAS, where the judges are allowed to sentence "suspects" that are convicted to sentences as long as "two hundred years and a day". With the recent controversy over the amount of people who were wrongly accused of a murder and executed before the law could give them their right to appeal, this shows a complete lack of understanding that one might be the "W" word (wrong). In Texas, if one is accused and convicted of murdering someone and the prosecution can prove three credible eyewitnesses, then, that person is sent straight to the head of the line on the "waiting to be executed" list. They don't wait for years on death row, they don't wait in line, they are excuted immediately. As the comedian Ron White joked, "Most states are trying to abolish the death penalty, my state put in an express lane." And it also means that those actions that we see in the movies where (a) the Governor calls at the last minute to give a stay of execution, (b) that part in the movie where they find out that the guy, who has already experienced prison rape and had his family torn apart over a false charge, needs to be released and given compensation, and we, through the magic of Hollywood, get to have a renewal of faith in the system, and in the real world, that will never come. Houston, Texas, the handgun fatality capital of the world, allows drunk people to keep their gun near them in a bar while drinking. Their idea of checking the gun "behind" the bar is to allow them to pull it from their shoulder holster, pull the hammer back so it is ready for action, and then set it in the drink well on top of the bar to the rear.
I find it hard to imagine that anyone can, after listening to the debate, listen to George Bush and not consider him a liar. His statements were:
I can't believe the claims that everything one says during the political debate is an issue. The Republicans act like any truth said about them (obviously the truth is offensive to them) is "evil" although their fervor for lying, twisting, and spinning any few words said by an opposing party member are a whole sentence. This is called "TAKING IT OUT OF CONTEXT". E.G. If I said, "The lives of the American people are at risk of seeing a financial collapse in the next four years if the current fiscal policies are continued", and some spin doctor decided to quote, "The lives of the American people are at risk...", and suggested that I was trying to infer that we were in danger of atomic war, that is how taking things out of context is lying.
Today we hear that some soldiers in Iraq have refused to do their fueling duties in order to save their own lives, for fear that it was a suicide mission. I would be afraid to do just about anything in Iraq right now, as the same kind of people who ordered the prison abuse, are in charge. Does that show foresight and planning? Does that show that they care about the soldiers themselves, to say nothing of legallities and moral wrong doing? NO!
Some are saying that anything done to get the job done is OK and they are reassuring the rest of us that everything is OK in the white house. If you are one of those people who look at a flat tire and look at it as being OK, since it's only flat on the bottom, then, you might believe them. Some people tell us that disagreeing with anything they say, no matter how crazy they are acting, is "un-American". The say we "need" to give up our most important rights in order to be free. I don't need to hear much more. The fact that they already have been lying constantly is enough to get me to not trust what they say.
Hey Wolf, what is wrong with you? You are trying to spin the polls by polling the military? Who do they get their information from? George Bush. Who do they hear from on a regular basis? George Bush. Who has been their only commander and chief? George Bush. So, who are they going to trust, since they don't have ANY OTHER FRAME OF REFERRENCE? But, as you were told, the military doesn't think EITHER candidate has a plan to win the peace and get them out of Iraq.
So, once Again, let's ask ourselves the question: "Who do they hear about John Kerry from?" And the answer is, "George Bush." And even though we know all this, they are serving under the present commander and chief and who else don't they trust to keep them from being in an unnecessarily long war? So, the final question is, "Who is it they don't trust because of his past history serving under him?" And once again the answer is, "GEORGE BUSH!"
Mary Cheney / After the Debate
I find it interesting again that Mary Cheney, Dick Cheney's daughter, is bringing up all this controversy. If I could speak to her personally, I would say this, "Mary, I am so sorry for what you must be going through. You aren't being shown off in public at all the campaign functions like the Bush and Kerry daughters are, you are discluded from the pagentry and public conversations as if you are a family secret, and when Senator Kerry mentioned you were a lesbian the other night, your mother threw a fit. It must be rough to know your mother is so ashamed of you and that your father works for someone who doesn't believe that gays are born gay and should have the same rights as everyone else. When President Bush was asked if he believed being gay was a choice, he said, "I don't know." That might have been the most honest reply he made that night.
The part that I am always surprised by is that the Republicans don't understand that we can hear them NOT answer questions. Mary Cheney's sister also came on television in order to attack Kerry for saying something about Mary at the debate. His statement was, "I think we are all the same in the eyes of God." Then, to the president he asked, "Do you think that being gay is a choice?" Here is what both Mary Cheney's mother and sister said, "What kind of man says something like that?" I can tell you what kind of man says something like that- someone who isn't a religious, right-wing nutcase, born again Christian dry drunk that thinks he is the ruler of the world. He had complimented the Cheney family on their strengths in standing behind their daughter. When Mary's sister was finally asked, "Was your sister insulted?" She repeated her righteously indignant acting remark ("It was insulting.") to Senator Kerry's statement, which, by the way was scripted for her mother and her to say exactly in those words. ("It was insulting, that is all I am going to say.") It would only be insulting to someone who was ashamed of their daughter or sister.
My parents have some friends who are NeoCons like the religious zealots who have called Mary Cheney a sinner and they disowned their daughter because she is gay. After a couple decades, the father is dying from Alheimer's and the mother is lonely and wishing she had made a better choice than to listen to Radical Right Wing Religious Leaders who have destroyed their family. Was it worth it to destroy the relationship between a mother and her daughter in order to prove that something (albeit supposedly written in a book by people who still thought the world was flat) was correct? It brings to mind the old addage, "I would rather be happy than right." Lynn Cheney, you might want to think about that.
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Wednesday, 13 October 2004
A Return To Reason
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The attack of 9/11 was a terrible thing. But, just because we were attacked, we can't lose focus on our own homeland and the economy as we defend ourselves. Our commander and chief has to be able to chew bubble gum and walk at the same time. (Something comes to mind about pretzels and riding a bicycle.) Accusing anyone of being Un-American because they don't share the views of an administration that has already shown several failed attempts at policy decision is another attempt at being stubborn without reason. Following a paranoid leader who is grasping at straws as he plummets to his destruction, especially when he can't admit his own mistakes, has been the undoing of many a society (I am reminded of Nazi Germany before World War II). See, the NeoCons right there will be jumping up and down and saying I called George Bush a Nazi, even though that was nothing like what I said. They are so ready to jump at anything they consider a verbal faupaux now, because their spin and twist everything said to make anyone who doesn't agree with them sound like an idiot or a conspiracy theorist, not to mention a treasonous traitor.
In a fragile economy, with jobs on the increase at about one tenth of the rate needed, we are told things are getting better. That is like telling us that after a huge tornado, with death and destruction laid for miles in front of us, the only thing the people responsible for relief have to say is, "Gee, ain't it grand the wind stopped blowing? Everything is all better now."
George Bush says this is the bottom line: "ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO?"
And the answer is: "HELL NO!"
With a jobless economy, when wages are decreasing for those who have jobs, when benefits and health care have all but disappeared, and now they are messing with overtime for U.S. citizens who work overtime. Ask yourself, "Who is benefitting from laws that deny you a decent wage, benefits, and overtime?" Our country is beginning to look like it is a society of corporate facism. If you want to ask about what farm workers and migrant laborers think, when the Bush administration is supposedly working to help illegal immigrant workers, then, go check the AFL-CIO website. They have a section called the Bush Watch. Do George Bush and Dick Cheney really believe that we think a war created at a convenient target (especially since we now know it wasn't a security issue), in order to "act" like they are doing something about national security is going to distract us from the real issues that middle class parents in the U.S. are facing?
During the Ronald Reagan administration they borrowed massive amounts of money from foreign banks to "look like" we hadn't blown the national economy on a lost cause (the Viet Nam War) and that we were still the richest nation in the world. They were afraid that would cause us to lose faith in our government. That is where the disagreement starts. Looking good financially because we are doing so on credit doesn't make us the richest nation, we just look like we are. The problem with that kind of administration is that they leave the debt for future administrations to pay back. They never admitted that is what they did. They left office without anyone noticing they lied, so, why admit mistakes now?
That is the biggest part of the problem with our economy now. Let me explain the difference, using an analogy that the average person should understand:
If I were president of a small business and I told my employees that business was booming, although the amount of money needed to run that business was ten times what the business was really making, then, I would be lying. If the money that was really coming in was mostly from loans and I didn't divulge these transactions and kept telling my employees that everything was just fine then, I would be lying.
Now, here is a financial plan that worked during that time. The plan was not one of improvement. It was a plan of destruction. There were several countries we didn't really like, but payed to do some fighting for us and bands of terrorist cells were created and aimed at the U.S.S.R. When the Soviet government was bankrupt they went broke trying to fight that war on all fronts. Like what is happening to us now. It is almost like a cruel joke someone played our own dirty politics trick back on us and we fell for it. So, that is how America "looked like" it was still the richest nation in the world, but..., we were lied to. Just like Enron found out, a business can't just "SAY" that it has money in order to look good on paper.
Now, if I could retire in eight years and let the future owners take over the business as it was about to go bankrupt and say, "Gee, everything was fine while I was on the job", then, I would be lying.
Some people call lying to the public and telling them that everything in the economy is getting better, as if it was already improved to the point that "everyone here" should be seeing the improvement, is being "positive". The rest of us call that what it is. It still is "LYING".
First, and I might sound cold-blooded for saying this but, previous to the fifties, war was considered a manner of natural selection of our population. At one time, when our population was not as irresponsible about "booming" with babies that we couldn't afford as it is now, our population stayed down. War thinned out the number of young men available to be in the workforce so jobs weren't a problem. The draft took all but the disabled and the elite. After WWII, the number of jobs created was more than the men who returned. Then, the Rosey the Riveter type females wanted to keep the jobs they had filled during the war. Two things, 1) ERA, the equal rights of women who wanted to take jobs that were previously only for men, and 2) the volunteer army or a lack of a selective service draft into military service caused the job growth to be decreased. There just aren't as many jobs as there are people. After Viet Nam, several people were disillusioned with our military and it showed that pouring more money on defense problems doesn't work. LBJ tried. Nixon tried. We backed out. Some people here are misguided enough to think we won the war in Viet Nam. Here is some bad news, the other guys think we lost. When you fly away with the other side still shooting at you and run home, it is considered a loss. Get over it. Since we vowed to quit using nuclear weapons in World War II, we don't scare anyone.
Now, this is going to be the complicated part for some people to understand:
When the guy whose unemployment ran out three years ago and still can't find a job hears on the news that the Dow is doing better today, as if he supposed to be overjoyed that some people who can afford to own shares are going to let the money trickle down to him is expected to be grateful for this, don't expect it. Let me break that run-on sentence down for those who might have missed something.
Picture this: You want to be a tax-paying, hard working American. You always have been. You lose your job because of a disability to work in your chosen field and through no fault of your own. You are now a displaced worker. You are still looking for work and unemployment insurance ran out three + years ago. Some idiot on the news is telling you that unemployment is going down. You know that is because people like you, who can't file for unemployment anymore, are being ignored by the statistics. You are angry at the government for making it sound like the problem is going away instead of getting worse. Even though you have marketable skills for some reason you still can't find a job. You look at the "help wanted" ads in the local newspaper. For some reason the employers in your state are being so picky about who they hire that they are almost NOT hiring anyone except minimum wage and temporary positions. You remember that four years ago the help wanted section was about 25 pages long and now everything in that section of the paper has almost diminished. You went back to college and spent almost three years of your life re-educating yourself for a future goal in an expanding business field. Immediately after graduation you found out that the career that you studied so hard for and that was so available, in the good old U.S.A., land of opportunity, got sent overseas under the guise of "free trade" agreements (which you now know really means cheap labor used instead of paying American workers a fair wage and benefits). You have studied the economy in college and realize the statistics being published don't make sense in all this lack of jobs. You remember when you went to the investment seminar where the guy speaking told you said, "All you have to do is invest that "EXTRA Ten Thousand Dollars" in the stock market." You and almost everyone else there was looking around at each other wondering, "WHAT is he talking about?? What is an EXTRA TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS? If I had that much extra I wouldn't need to be worried about money." Then the stock market crashes. Now, some smiling idiot in a bow tie comes on television and tells you how the economy is doing great because the DOW went up a couple of points. The one thing you want to scream at this smiling idiot is that HE HAS A JOB. He is one of those people with an "extra ten thousand" and he doesn't understand who you are and what you are going through.
Welcome to George Bush's America. He thinks he owns it and doesn't have to answer to anyone for his actions. I am not even going to go into the quagmire of the debate about the war, that is subterfuge. The Swiftboat Veterans who might as well call themselves Liars Paid For By Bush Cronies are another example of how his own politics have blown up in his face. The war in Iraq is a smoke screen to avoid the real issues that President Bush is avoiding. There is NO plan for the Bush administration. To try to get America back on track and offset the damage the Bush administration's funding cuts have done to health care, John Kerry came up with a plan. It would be expensive to get started. George Bush is going to leave you without health care under the guise of saving the tax payers' money while spending BILLIONS of the tax payers' money on a war that he himself admitted can't be won. But he thinks that is a better plan.
I heard a message on a political anouncement today in which the president said, "We need to focus on developing jobs in America. We need to focus on providing affordable health care to everyone in America." To that I say, "No, we needed to continue to do that four years ago, using the same policies that the previous administration had already implemented, but this administration didn't want to do anthing the "other guys" did and that attitude has cost us the present problems with our economy. Being stubborn and not admitting mistakes is not being strong. It is continuing in a wrong direction. That helps no one.
If you doubt what I say is true, look it up. And if you think the present administration is out for the good of the country, ask them why the issues have been the same since the Clinton Administration and why the Bush Administration hasn't addressed them, except verbally, in the past four years.
Please vote for a return to reason. Thank You.
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