Governor Snyder and the High Speed Bus

I read today that Governor Snyder is proposing a high-speed bus network for southeast Michigan.  He’s going to another layer of government to the corrupt Charter County of Wayne, the paralyzed Detroit City Government and SEMCOG (also known as the solution waiting for a problem).

He’s not just poking around in southeast Michigan, however, his new plan , a new regional authority to oversee it.  The State pushing its way into local politics.

The worst part is new vehicle registration fees allowing counties or regions to raise funds for local transit projects.  ‘Allowing’ – he’s going to ‘allow’ you to pay higher fees so that your county or region is ‘allowed’ to raise funds for local transit projects.

I can understand town, village, city, county, state and I even willing to include ‘Charter Township’ when it is done for reasons other than greed – but what form of government does a ‘Region’ fit into?

As for the high speed busses – Governor Snyder recently endorsed Pete Hoekstra as Republican Candidate for United States Senator.  He said Hoekstra is the ‘right man’ for the job.

Pete Hoekstra’s family business puts together, sells, leases and maintains busses all across the State of Michigan.

From Hoekstra Transportation’s website :

“Welcome MDOT Agencies and Local Units of Government. This site is your resource for all open Hoekstra bus contracts as well as a source for links to the documents and forms required in completing your bus purchases.”

When it gets this bad and obvious then what’s next?

The Wars End Now

               I am going to borrow from George McGovern and paraphrase his remarks about Vietnam and turn them now to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Uganda.   I have taken the frame of what he said and have expanded upon it just as the architects of destruction have taken the Vietnam plan and expanded upon it.  An escalation in murderous action, after all, requires an escalation in opposition to it – if one is to preserve one’s spirit.

               Every Senator, Representative and Citizen in the United States is partly responsible for sending more than 6,230 young Americans to an early grave in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Senator Chamber, the House of Representatives and the Oval Office of the White House reeks of blood. Every Senator, Representative and the President is partly responsible for the human wreckage at Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval and all across our land – totally more than 35,000 - young men and women without legs, or arms, or genitals, or faces or hopes.

               There are not many of these children who think this war is glorious anymore or who feel that war as a means of spreading democracy is reasonable. Go and sit at their bedsides or talk to their parents and friends about or national honor, courage, voting rights in Afghanistan, abortion clinics in Pakistan or the price of land contracts for oil fields in Iraq. It does not take any courage at all for a Representative, Senator or the President to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Afghanistan, Iraq, bombing Libya and invading Uganda because it is not their blood that is being spilled.  It is not their bodies that are being blasted.  It is not their families that are being torn asunder.  It is not their lives that are being blown apart. But they are responsible for those young men and women, their lives and their hopes. If they do not end these damnable wars these young men and women, like tens of millions of Americans today and nearly one billion people around the world will curse them and all the people of the United States for our pitiful weakness in allowing the Executive Branch of the United States to take for itself like a thief in the night the responsibility of waging war that the Constitution places on our elected representatives.

               Please keep that in mind even if you decide to do nothing now.  Keep these words in mind and the lives lost and the opportunities missed and the destruction of our way of life and undermining of our beliefs as elections draw near.  These sitting Senators and Representatives and this sitting President – all of them – they need to be set aside so we can begin again.  They need to be set aside so we can live in peace and prosperity.  The United States of America is not the crime ridden, drug soaked, greedy, murderous, killing machine that the current President and members of the Congress have turned it into.

               Let them be retired and put aside to do something else with their lives and they can watch as we make a new and excellent nation.  Let them be put aside before they lay waste to yet another nation – to yet another generation – to yet another world.

               It is all up to you.

               Will you let them take even one more life?            

Judges Dying

"Five judges from the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals have died this year, worsening an already critical case backlog and spotlighting President Obama's inability to put his judicial choices and stamp on the powerful court."
The Department of Justice has been dispensing drugs and guns to criminals. The judges in the Judicial Branch are quite aware of this behavior but have done nothing and said nothing. Obama sits on one of the most vicious and cruel administrations this nation has ever seen. It is ravaging our economy and the government is stealing from itself. It is not just a measure of his incompetence in the matter but reasonable people do not want to see him infect the judiciary the way he has crippled the Department of Justice. Obama is highly intelligent and wily - less judges mean less likliehood that he and his cronies will get caught in their wicked ways. Representative Giffords was shot for her political views and now it turns out judges are dying and not being replaced. The evidence is here before our eyes.

The Engine of War - American Troops in Africa

Unfortunately, as I predicted some years ago, President Obama has sent American soldiers to fight in a ground war in Africa. Only a hundred at first...plus the thousands it will take to get them there, feed them, support them and help bring in more...God save the United States of America. The soldiers are going to Uganda where the previous American sponsored assault on the 'Lord's Resistance Army' ended in the loss of the Guatamelan soldiers sent to find it. The 'Lord's Resistance Army' is led by a man named Kony - he is accused of war crimes by the Ugandan Army (which is guilty of war crimes). Perpetual war. Exporting weapons, military training, high tech killing machines - all at substantial profit. Who says America isn't a world leader? The final product however, is the creation of enemies in every corner of the known world and the result that Americans are welcome no where and friends to no one. The engine of war to fuel industry is destruction. Film at 11.

Boss Bloomberg

I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the protesters at Wall Street and elsewhere are just drawing attention away from the true problems we are facing.  A Department of Justice that sells drugs and guns - empty promises of ending the War In Afghanistan - a President who leans on 'Drones' to kill whomever whatever department tells him to (drones made by companies who donated millions to his election campaign) - an immigration policy driven by profit instead of need - under representation in Washington and State capitols and the fact that the protesters main message seems to be not reformation of our financial system.  They state, in fact, that they are against corporations - but more importantly every time some spokesman makes that statement they also neatly include the statement that the Tea Party is against government.  I would take them more seriously if they had occupied the real center of greed and incompetence in New York - that would be City Hall where Boss Bloomberg rules the roost and rots the world with a Ponzi scheme the size of the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

Occupy Wall Street

               The people who are involved in the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ media event have struck me as an odd group.  I was watching Univision, the Spanish language cable station, yesterday and saw a reporter interviewing a student from Spain and then another from Argentina.  They were wearing designer jeans and nice shirts.  They were clean and looked healthy and bright…but they were in New York.

               I believe that the large banks and stockbroker houses in New York must be broken up so that they can reform.

               The mob sleeping on Wall Street in their designer sleeping bags wants more than that.  It’s not quite clear what.  The gang is made up literally of Communists, Anarchists, wealthy students with time on their hands, thrill seekers and criminals.

               Not the stuff for a revolution.

               Some compare these mob scenes to the American Revolution, however, the Continental farmer/soldier was not dressed in Ralph Lauren jeans and supported by a team of lawyers in designer suits.

               This crisis will only end when Mommy and Daddy grow tired of sending money to kids sleeping in the streets.

               As for the unions ‘supporting’ them – a union dock worker unloading foreign goods from a ship in Seattle and passing the goods to a union rail worker who passes them to a union trucker who then delivers them to a store with union clerks has not done me or America any good.  They’ve just stuffed their ears with Chinese Communist money because they don’t want to hear the truth.