Clear Channel Communications Inc., the radio broadcaster, which brought the nation the drugged induced rantings of Rush Limbaugh announced recently a 59 percent drop in earnings in the first quarter of this year.
They are getting their hands burned for backing their self styled wild man who apparently was popping pills while he was popping off on national radio.
Clear Channel is also slimming down by splitting up its operations by spinning off its live-entertainment division.
Clear Channel was also in difficulties over the way in which it accepted and paid for recorded music. Many musicians claimed the company was over controlling and did not pay market prices for the music presented and actually limited play time to bands that would agree to their strident demands.
The San Antonio-based company said it plans to sell stock for 10 percent of its outdoor advertising division (highway billboards). Around the nation the company owns thousands of billboards on the highway. A large portion of this company’s revenue is generated by road houses featuring scantily clad women serving alcohol to truck drivers as well as advertising political candidates.
Clear Channel reported a $47.9 million profit in the first quarter, down from $116.5 million in the same quarter in 2004 which was an election year.
The radio company's revenue in this quarter totaled nearly $1.9 billion, down 4 percent from $2 billion in 2004.
The company has begun to expand however in outdoor advertising on billboards, as well as at malls, airports and taxis.
Saturday, April 30, 2005
Como Se Dice?
To hold forth that every word in the King James bible is direct speech from God and should be taken as literal and infallible truth is more of a mistake today than it was 100, 200 or 300 years ago.
It is quite widely known that in the first preface to the King James bible that the translators of that master work admitted to translating one word of the original into several different English words. They said they did this because ‘it would be unfair to choose some words for the high honor of being the channel of God’s truth and to pass over others as unworthy’. – (R. D. Owens, The Debatable Land)
Let’s try that with some modern English.
We’ll take the phrase in Spanish, ‘Como se dice?’ (How do you say?)
1. How do you speak it?
2. How does one utter?
3. In preparation which meaning doth fit this item?
4. By God’s name, which is divined that which is known to utter the sounds most careful to breath life into this meaning?
Well – you get the picture.
Let’s try some modern political speech translations.
We’ll do – ‘That’s not wise.’
1. The Iraqis have chemical weapons.
2. The Iraqis have lots of chemical weapons.
3. The Iraqis have lots of chemical weapons pointed at you.
4. The Iraqis have lots of chemical weapons pointed at you and they are about to use them.
5. Enjoy the flag, we’re sorry your son didn’t make it back home alive.
It is quite widely known that in the first preface to the King James bible that the translators of that master work admitted to translating one word of the original into several different English words. They said they did this because ‘it would be unfair to choose some words for the high honor of being the channel of God’s truth and to pass over others as unworthy’. – (R. D. Owens, The Debatable Land)
Let’s try that with some modern English.
We’ll take the phrase in Spanish, ‘Como se dice?’ (How do you say?)
1. How do you speak it?
2. How does one utter?
3. In preparation which meaning doth fit this item?
4. By God’s name, which is divined that which is known to utter the sounds most careful to breath life into this meaning?
Well – you get the picture.
Let’s try some modern political speech translations.
We’ll do – ‘That’s not wise.’
1. The Iraqis have chemical weapons.
2. The Iraqis have lots of chemical weapons.
3. The Iraqis have lots of chemical weapons pointed at you.
4. The Iraqis have lots of chemical weapons pointed at you and they are about to use them.
5. Enjoy the flag, we’re sorry your son didn’t make it back home alive.
Saturday, April 23, 2005
AIDS Continues to Kill
As time goes on it becomes apparent that the AIDS epidemic was not the result of a natural incident but was caused and encouraged by man.
Reading the history of the disease we pick out a man by the name of Gallo - a disgraced scientist who claimed to have isolated the virus but who actually seemed to use his association with the Center for Disease Control to get more funding for his lab.
The confusion that followed Gallo’s selfish behavior allowed the disease to spread further than it might have had something been done earlier. In any case - the disease would still have reached modern proportions because of the way it was introduced into our population.
It seems that, like the polio vaccine of the 1950’s and 1960’s, a hepatitis B vaccine had become contaminated with a virus that causes sarcoma. The polio vaccine actually had been contaminated with a cancer causing virus from Green Monkeys - so something of what Gallo was saying was true - but he was far off the mark. The polio vaccine contamination, originating at Cold Spring Harbor, has never been followed up but it is generally agreed that it caused rapid increase in cancer in the decades following the distribution of these immunizations.
Along with the Hepatitis B vaccine it has been reported that a smallpox vaccine was also contaminated with the sarcoma virus and has been distributed widely by the World Health Organization throughout Africa.
It is time to correct this.
Reading the history of the disease we pick out a man by the name of Gallo - a disgraced scientist who claimed to have isolated the virus but who actually seemed to use his association with the Center for Disease Control to get more funding for his lab.
The confusion that followed Gallo’s selfish behavior allowed the disease to spread further than it might have had something been done earlier. In any case - the disease would still have reached modern proportions because of the way it was introduced into our population.
It seems that, like the polio vaccine of the 1950’s and 1960’s, a hepatitis B vaccine had become contaminated with a virus that causes sarcoma. The polio vaccine actually had been contaminated with a cancer causing virus from Green Monkeys - so something of what Gallo was saying was true - but he was far off the mark. The polio vaccine contamination, originating at Cold Spring Harbor, has never been followed up but it is generally agreed that it caused rapid increase in cancer in the decades following the distribution of these immunizations.
Along with the Hepatitis B vaccine it has been reported that a smallpox vaccine was also contaminated with the sarcoma virus and has been distributed widely by the World Health Organization throughout Africa.
It is time to correct this.
Yemen Polio
Polio has returned to Yemen. It is said it was imported by pilgrims returning from Mecca. The disease was nearly eradicated in early 2004, but has spread to several African countries and across Saudi Arabia.
Four children with polio have been found in Yemen.
The Yemeni government and the World Health Organization are planning immunization drives to get drops of oral polio vaccine into the mouths of all five million Yemeni children.
Polio had not been seen in Yemen since 1999 but a surge of new cases in Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Ethiopia made precautions necessary.
Saudi Arabia – one of the richest nations in the Middle East has brought the United States a wave of terrorism and now has crippled our economy with rising oil prices.
In the meantime – they are exporting death and disease to their neighbors without so much as a peep. This disease and others like it which persist within the borders of Saudi Arabia get less attention from the King than women smoking or men wanting to vote for a candidate of their own choice.
If a women is caught smoking she could be brought to jail and possibly tortured.
In the second case a man may be arrested and even tortured for speaking freely in public about his choices for elected officials – if they are not governmentally sanctioned.
Now the King’s ineptitude is laying children to waste not only in his own nation but across the continent of Africa.
Saudi Justice springs from American money.
Four children with polio have been found in Yemen.
The Yemeni government and the World Health Organization are planning immunization drives to get drops of oral polio vaccine into the mouths of all five million Yemeni children.
Polio had not been seen in Yemen since 1999 but a surge of new cases in Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Ethiopia made precautions necessary.
Saudi Arabia – one of the richest nations in the Middle East has brought the United States a wave of terrorism and now has crippled our economy with rising oil prices.
In the meantime – they are exporting death and disease to their neighbors without so much as a peep. This disease and others like it which persist within the borders of Saudi Arabia get less attention from the King than women smoking or men wanting to vote for a candidate of their own choice.
If a women is caught smoking she could be brought to jail and possibly tortured.
In the second case a man may be arrested and even tortured for speaking freely in public about his choices for elected officials – if they are not governmentally sanctioned.
Now the King’s ineptitude is laying children to waste not only in his own nation but across the continent of Africa.
Saudi Justice springs from American money.
Sunday, April 03, 2005
Culture of Death
Kathleen Kennedy is a news anchor for CNN Headline and sits beside Stephen Frazier each day. Kennedy rose to prominence in the network's coverage of the war in Iraq in the spring of 2003.
Recently she has become a bit of a questionable character. For example, she has sported a black jewel mounted on a black necklace in an object with the shape of a black star. She has been reporting on the likely death of Terry Shiavo and nearly erupted in exultation when the reports confirming that woman’s death were made public. Kennedy has also been covering the sickness of Pope John Paul with a great deal of enthusiasm and interest.
Her reports concerning H&R Block’s standing in the investment world spill out together with her next startling announcement concerning the sickness, impending death or passing of some prominent figure.
Her most recent target has been the Prince of Monaco.
Her reporting style and the manner in which CNN has drifted away from serious reporting on issues such as the war in Iraq, continued loss of life in Iraq and the deterioration of the national and global economy leads me to believe that Kathleen Kennedy has taken the lead in marching the CNN news coverage team down that very corridor which leads to the culture of death which has permeated our society
Recently she has become a bit of a questionable character. For example, she has sported a black jewel mounted on a black necklace in an object with the shape of a black star. She has been reporting on the likely death of Terry Shiavo and nearly erupted in exultation when the reports confirming that woman’s death were made public. Kennedy has also been covering the sickness of Pope John Paul with a great deal of enthusiasm and interest.
Her reports concerning H&R Block’s standing in the investment world spill out together with her next startling announcement concerning the sickness, impending death or passing of some prominent figure.
Her most recent target has been the Prince of Monaco.
Her reporting style and the manner in which CNN has drifted away from serious reporting on issues such as the war in Iraq, continued loss of life in Iraq and the deterioration of the national and global economy leads me to believe that Kathleen Kennedy has taken the lead in marching the CNN news coverage team down that very corridor which leads to the culture of death which has permeated our society
Friday, April 01, 2005
National Farmworkers Jobs Program
Thankfully migrant workers in Michigan could have a harder time getting training for permanent jobs under President George W. Bush's proposed budget cuts.
One thing Bush wants to eliminate is the National Farmworker Jobs Program, which gives migrant workers training and support to get jobs as nurses assistants, dental technicians and other jobs.
Michigan leads the nation in job loss and these jobs are well paying jobs, not jobs that Americans ‘don’t want to do’.
45,000 to 65,000 migrant workers come to Michigan mostly from Mexico. Many stay illegally with false documents.
Telamon, Inc. is responsible. They also oversee Head Start. Listed as a ‘non-profit’ it maintains 23 permanent offices in Michigan and hundreds of others across the United States.
Telamon works with the United States Department of Agriculture to spend money through the National Farmworker Jobs Program.
Farms of all sizes are able to hire and employ workers at very low rates that are further subsidized by Telamon and the USDA through housing efforts, training, food stamps and health care.
Food prices rise as competition is stifled and farms are joined in ever larger conglomerates. Americans can’t find work as Mexican laborers step into them eager to do any work after abandoning their homeland in order to satisfy their personal greed.
Why allow Telamon to continue to hand out personal welfare, homes, health care, food and a free ride while Americans are being forced up against the wall and into hunger from coast to coast and border to border?
One thing Bush wants to eliminate is the National Farmworker Jobs Program, which gives migrant workers training and support to get jobs as nurses assistants, dental technicians and other jobs.
Michigan leads the nation in job loss and these jobs are well paying jobs, not jobs that Americans ‘don’t want to do’.
45,000 to 65,000 migrant workers come to Michigan mostly from Mexico. Many stay illegally with false documents.
Telamon, Inc. is responsible. They also oversee Head Start. Listed as a ‘non-profit’ it maintains 23 permanent offices in Michigan and hundreds of others across the United States.
Telamon works with the United States Department of Agriculture to spend money through the National Farmworker Jobs Program.
Farms of all sizes are able to hire and employ workers at very low rates that are further subsidized by Telamon and the USDA through housing efforts, training, food stamps and health care.
Food prices rise as competition is stifled and farms are joined in ever larger conglomerates. Americans can’t find work as Mexican laborers step into them eager to do any work after abandoning their homeland in order to satisfy their personal greed.
Why allow Telamon to continue to hand out personal welfare, homes, health care, food and a free ride while Americans are being forced up against the wall and into hunger from coast to coast and border to border?
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Tyrranosaurus Ostrich Lays an Egg
A series of strange events accompanied the ‘discovery’ of 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex in Montana.
The ‘scientist’ that made this discovery ‘Doctor’ Mary H. Schweitzer has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communicative Disorders from Utah State University. She got a Certificate in Secondary Education and ‘Broadfield’ Science from Montana State University and a Ph D in Biology from Montana State University.
This Communicative Disorders expert went into what she calls a remote part of the ‘Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge’. The ’remote’ area is accessible by automobile, surrounds a man made lake and attracts over 200,000 visitors a year. That is where they uncovered the bones in the wildlife reserve by blasting them out with dynamite.
‘Doc’ Schweitzer ordered some of the bones broken in half so the helicopter could carry them away.
In Bozeman, Mt, Schweitzer inspected the damaged specimen before applying preserving chemicals and noticed unusual tissue fragments. She concluded fossilization had not completed over the past 70 million years.
She then had a scanning electron microscope examine the bone. ‘Doc’ Schweizeer announced the dinosaur's blood vessels to be "virtually indistinguishable" from those recovered from ostrich bones.
In the last ten years Montana has become a major producer of ostriches and has over 100 ostrich ranches. Bozeman isover 385 miles from the discovery point and deep in Ostrich ranch country.
In my opinion ‘Doc’ Schweizer may either be exhibiting a communicative disorder or may be the brunt of some fossilized Montana humor or may be committing fraud.
The ‘scientist’ that made this discovery ‘Doctor’ Mary H. Schweitzer has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communicative Disorders from Utah State University. She got a Certificate in Secondary Education and ‘Broadfield’ Science from Montana State University and a Ph D in Biology from Montana State University.
This Communicative Disorders expert went into what she calls a remote part of the ‘Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge’. The ’remote’ area is accessible by automobile, surrounds a man made lake and attracts over 200,000 visitors a year. That is where they uncovered the bones in the wildlife reserve by blasting them out with dynamite.
‘Doc’ Schweitzer ordered some of the bones broken in half so the helicopter could carry them away.
In Bozeman, Mt, Schweitzer inspected the damaged specimen before applying preserving chemicals and noticed unusual tissue fragments. She concluded fossilization had not completed over the past 70 million years.
She then had a scanning electron microscope examine the bone. ‘Doc’ Schweizeer announced the dinosaur's blood vessels to be "virtually indistinguishable" from those recovered from ostrich bones.
In the last ten years Montana has become a major producer of ostriches and has over 100 ostrich ranches. Bozeman isover 385 miles from the discovery point and deep in Ostrich ranch country.
In my opinion ‘Doc’ Schweizer may either be exhibiting a communicative disorder or may be the brunt of some fossilized Montana humor or may be committing fraud.
Saturday, March 05, 2005
US Navy Plans to Sink America
The United States Navy is planning on taking the aircraft carrier USS America 300 miles off the eastern coast of the United States to sink it in international waters on April 11, 2005.
The navy will attack the aircraft carrier to see how many weapons it will take to sink it. They already know it will cost about 20 million dollars.
The aircraft carrier displaces over 82,200 tons. The total tonnage of steel and specialty metals on the ship are worth well over 70 million dollars - especially in today’s constricted steel market.
The US Navy will spend more than 100 million dollars to sink a ship which cost more than 400 million dollars to build.
This particular ship wasn’t put together very well in the first place.
The ship never went through the Navy's Carrier Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) and was falling apart before it was mothballed in Philadelphia. In the early 1990s one of the flight deck elevators fell with S-3B aircraft and several sailors on it.
The ship also experienced steam and fuel leaks. Also in the early 1990s while returning from a cruise - the captain took a shortcut though a hurricane which destroyed most of the flight deck catwalks.
Our national steel industry is in dire straits. Expenditures on weapons continue to spiral up.
The sinking of the USS America at a cost of 20 million dollars and a total loss to the United States Treasury of more than 100 million dollars is being done against recommendations that include having the ship broken up in an American port in order to salvage the steel.
Facilities for this sort of work exist in all of the states on the eastern seaboard of the United States.
The decision to sink the ship in international waters has been condemned as an act of negligence on the part of the United States.
In 2001 Polio National Immunization Days were instituted in rural areas in Africa and Asia. During the course of that work over 27 million children were immunized against polio at a cost of 60 cents per immunized child.
The money saved by not attacking the ship (20 million) could immunize 33,333,333.33 children.
The potential income by selling the ship for scrap (50 to 70 million dollars) could immunize between 83 million and 116 million children.
The USS Oriskany is due to be sunk off the coast of Florida as an artificial reef to attract fish. Globally 40,000 children under the age of five die each day from malnutrition and vaccine preventable disease.
The navy will attack the aircraft carrier to see how many weapons it will take to sink it. They already know it will cost about 20 million dollars.
The aircraft carrier displaces over 82,200 tons. The total tonnage of steel and specialty metals on the ship are worth well over 70 million dollars - especially in today’s constricted steel market.
The US Navy will spend more than 100 million dollars to sink a ship which cost more than 400 million dollars to build.
This particular ship wasn’t put together very well in the first place.
The ship never went through the Navy's Carrier Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) and was falling apart before it was mothballed in Philadelphia. In the early 1990s one of the flight deck elevators fell with S-3B aircraft and several sailors on it.
The ship also experienced steam and fuel leaks. Also in the early 1990s while returning from a cruise - the captain took a shortcut though a hurricane which destroyed most of the flight deck catwalks.
Our national steel industry is in dire straits. Expenditures on weapons continue to spiral up.
The sinking of the USS America at a cost of 20 million dollars and a total loss to the United States Treasury of more than 100 million dollars is being done against recommendations that include having the ship broken up in an American port in order to salvage the steel.
Facilities for this sort of work exist in all of the states on the eastern seaboard of the United States.
The decision to sink the ship in international waters has been condemned as an act of negligence on the part of the United States.
In 2001 Polio National Immunization Days were instituted in rural areas in Africa and Asia. During the course of that work over 27 million children were immunized against polio at a cost of 60 cents per immunized child.
The money saved by not attacking the ship (20 million) could immunize 33,333,333.33 children.
The potential income by selling the ship for scrap (50 to 70 million dollars) could immunize between 83 million and 116 million children.
The USS Oriskany is due to be sunk off the coast of Florida as an artificial reef to attract fish. Globally 40,000 children under the age of five die each day from malnutrition and vaccine preventable disease.
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Self Directed Accounts
I have a 401K retirement account.
I have been offered a Self Directed Account.
I looked into it.
I called the company and was told me that I had to call another number. The guy I spoke to didn’t know much about the accounts. I had to read to him the document his company sent me with his phone number on it.
I called the other number looking for some municipal bonds.
I was told that I could not look the bonds up myself. I would need to call on the phone and the clerk would tell me about the bonds in their ‘inventory’.
I asked the fee.
I was told it was ‘built into the cost of the bonds’.
My private account charges 30 dollars.
The clerk told me that the fee for purchasing the bonds ‘varied’.
I asked for 5 triple-A municipal bonds in either West Virginia or Michigan.
He told me that I could get Virginia bonds for 54 hundred dollars.
(I didn’t ask for Virginia bonds.)
He said municipal bonds were not a good idea to put into a retirement fund because they are not federally taxed but that he wasn’t offering advice.
It took 5 minutes to realize that a Self Directed Account would be a rip off.
Individual trades cost $19.95 and dividends go into a money market account. If I didn’t get that cash out fast enough I might lose it all.
What makes you think George Bush’s personal accounts will be better?
I have been offered a Self Directed Account.
I looked into it.
I called the company and was told me that I had to call another number. The guy I spoke to didn’t know much about the accounts. I had to read to him the document his company sent me with his phone number on it.
I called the other number looking for some municipal bonds.
I was told that I could not look the bonds up myself. I would need to call on the phone and the clerk would tell me about the bonds in their ‘inventory’.
I asked the fee.
I was told it was ‘built into the cost of the bonds’.
My private account charges 30 dollars.
The clerk told me that the fee for purchasing the bonds ‘varied’.
I asked for 5 triple-A municipal bonds in either West Virginia or Michigan.
He told me that I could get Virginia bonds for 54 hundred dollars.
(I didn’t ask for Virginia bonds.)
He said municipal bonds were not a good idea to put into a retirement fund because they are not federally taxed but that he wasn’t offering advice.
It took 5 minutes to realize that a Self Directed Account would be a rip off.
Individual trades cost $19.95 and dividends go into a money market account. If I didn’t get that cash out fast enough I might lose it all.
What makes you think George Bush’s personal accounts will be better?
Friday, February 04, 2005
Let Go of the Desk, Donald
Donald Rumsfeld the headlines now read – offered to quite over Iraq abuse.
This is 21st century America.
Donald Rumsfeld – Secretary of Defense – in charge when our troops went mad and tortured prisoners for fun. Donald ‘General’ Rumsfeld who let his generals run his war just the way he told them to.
He offered.
Perhaps this is a nerdish, bureaucratic attempt to enter the pantheon of American heroes.
Rumsfeld claims Bush refused the resignation so – Donald went back to his desk and kept cranking out those ‘Sorry your son is dead’ letters. (He’s a hard worker.)
History will be written of the mighty and noble offering Donald Rumsfeld made – not once I understand – but three times. His tenacity is inspiring.
I think of our other American heroes and see how by offering to resign Donald is just like them.
General MacArthur offering to return to the Phillipines.
General Washington offering to cross the Delaware.
General Grant offering to defeat the Confederate Army.
General Lee offering to oppose him.
These were men that Donald Rumsfeld can stand with – not proudly – but stand with them.
His genius should be remarked upon.
Like Thomas Edision offering to invent the light bulb.
The Wright Brothers offering to fly the first plane.
But wait – they didn’t just offer.
They did it.
Rumsfeld didn’t
Looks like this is just one more thing in a long line that Rumsfeld couldn’t get done right – in fact, not at all.
Try again Donald – this time let go of the desk.
This is 21st century America.
Donald Rumsfeld – Secretary of Defense – in charge when our troops went mad and tortured prisoners for fun. Donald ‘General’ Rumsfeld who let his generals run his war just the way he told them to.
He offered.
Perhaps this is a nerdish, bureaucratic attempt to enter the pantheon of American heroes.
Rumsfeld claims Bush refused the resignation so – Donald went back to his desk and kept cranking out those ‘Sorry your son is dead’ letters. (He’s a hard worker.)
History will be written of the mighty and noble offering Donald Rumsfeld made – not once I understand – but three times. His tenacity is inspiring.
I think of our other American heroes and see how by offering to resign Donald is just like them.
General MacArthur offering to return to the Phillipines.
General Washington offering to cross the Delaware.
General Grant offering to defeat the Confederate Army.
General Lee offering to oppose him.
These were men that Donald Rumsfeld can stand with – not proudly – but stand with them.
His genius should be remarked upon.
Like Thomas Edision offering to invent the light bulb.
The Wright Brothers offering to fly the first plane.
But wait – they didn’t just offer.
They did it.
Rumsfeld didn’t
Looks like this is just one more thing in a long line that Rumsfeld couldn’t get done right – in fact, not at all.
Try again Donald – this time let go of the desk.
Social Security and the Press
Bush had apparently approved payments to write stories and produce commercials that supported his narrow minded social agenda.
That narrow minded agenda reaped some pretty wide financial benefits.
They bamboozled us out of more than 1 billion dollars in one year alone.
Using electronic systems groups like the ‘Arlington Group’ were able to streamline the manner in which they drew down Federal funds to their bank accounts.
People as varied as a Mexican church in Michigan securing money to buy houses for illegal immigrants to large commercial religious institutions like Jerry Falwell’s ministry were able to get right in and sink their teeth into the Faith Initiative.
Then he got caught.
For about a week we saw journalists admitting that they had ‘done wrong’ and Bush ‘promised’ to stop it.
He pushed an unpopular and corrupt system on us with propaganda.
Why believe that the same thing isn’t being done about the Social Security system? Do you think the Wall Street Journal would have any problem with running stories in support?
But George promised not to pay them to do that anymore, comes the retort.
Do you really think that they need to get paid? Bush let televangelists rip us off for a billion dollars. Wall Street is foaming at the mouth and government bond issuers are on their knees to Alan Greenspan.
Look for billboards, newspaper stories and direct mailings from banks, brokerage houses and insurance companies over the next two years. Listen for radio and television shows extolling the virtues of the Social Security system.
Who do we believe? Supporters of the system who are probably being paid to support it or the opponents – who George will say are angry because they didn’t get a piece of the pie?
He has gutted our treasury and undermined our free press and right-to-know in one fell swoop.
That narrow minded agenda reaped some pretty wide financial benefits.
They bamboozled us out of more than 1 billion dollars in one year alone.
Using electronic systems groups like the ‘Arlington Group’ were able to streamline the manner in which they drew down Federal funds to their bank accounts.
People as varied as a Mexican church in Michigan securing money to buy houses for illegal immigrants to large commercial religious institutions like Jerry Falwell’s ministry were able to get right in and sink their teeth into the Faith Initiative.
Then he got caught.
For about a week we saw journalists admitting that they had ‘done wrong’ and Bush ‘promised’ to stop it.
He pushed an unpopular and corrupt system on us with propaganda.
Why believe that the same thing isn’t being done about the Social Security system? Do you think the Wall Street Journal would have any problem with running stories in support?
But George promised not to pay them to do that anymore, comes the retort.
Do you really think that they need to get paid? Bush let televangelists rip us off for a billion dollars. Wall Street is foaming at the mouth and government bond issuers are on their knees to Alan Greenspan.
Look for billboards, newspaper stories and direct mailings from banks, brokerage houses and insurance companies over the next two years. Listen for radio and television shows extolling the virtues of the Social Security system.
Who do we believe? Supporters of the system who are probably being paid to support it or the opponents – who George will say are angry because they didn’t get a piece of the pie?
He has gutted our treasury and undermined our free press and right-to-know in one fell swoop.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
State of Disunion
It’s supposed to be an address by the President to the Congress talking about the State of the Union.
President Bush has turned it into a costume party.
The military was there all dressed up in their fancy uniforms - and for some reason it was apparent tonight more than any other night in recent memory - just how frail the palsied, old men are that are still playing army at ages when other men are retiring.
He ignored the past year’s failures and whistled into the wind about the future. Once again he dug up more snakes that he can or is even willing to kill. Just as long as there are a lot of snakes and no one is paying attention to what he is up to.
In truth - if he paid more attention to domestic issues he wouldn’t have had to spend 80% of his time explaining why he is poking his nose in other people’s affairs.
He explained to the country quite brazenly that he wants to take the social security money of anyone beneath the age of 55 and use it to pay into mutual funds that hold primarily government bonds. Government bonds are usually held in guarantee of future tax revenues. He is asking for a mighty piece of our paycheck to invest in bond issues guaranteed and paid by our taxes to support his continued abuse of our government.
His actions tonight have convinced me that he is a domestic tyrant and an international aggressor.
He spoke about ‘the force of human freedom’ being applied to spread liberty around the world. What is the ‘force of human freedom’
He described a plan whereby the United States would set up government after government around the world - but he also denied that we intend to force our form of government or way of life on anyone. Of course he didn’t say he wouldn’t force the British Parliamentary form and leave the people in chains and poverty - like in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He has improved his Glenn Ford impression quite a bit - but unlike other men who make their living imitating others his imitation is an insult to the acting ability of Glenn Ford.
After listening to him describe the manner in which he was going to force our military to use the ‘force of human freedom’ to knock down and set up governments around the world and how he was going to use the transforming power of economic witchcraft I began to wonder why he was talking.
Isn’t the State of the Union Address supposed to tell us about the State of the Union and not act as a vehicle for hair brained schemes?
I heard more about Iraq elections than I heard about our serious trade imbalance with Communist China. I heard more about the peace and security of the Iraqi people than I did about the illegal aliens and foreign nationals in this country stealing American jobs. I heard more threats from him to Iran but no information about why we have seen industrial accidents and explosions that appear to be terrorist actions increase over 100% in the last four years in the United States.
I heard nothing about the continued bankruptcy of American companies even as foreign companies take up permanent residence in our nation by buying land.
I am not seeing any leadership from him. I am beginning to feel he is more of a distraction and a worry than a President.
I felt a wide and black hole opening beneath my feet as he spoke and I realized that the hole is 4 years long and many lives deep.
Let me give this example of how disconnected he is from this nation he is pretending to lead.
He introduced the parents of Sergeant Norwood who was killed in , Falouja, Iraq.
Sergeant Norwood comes from Pflugerville, Texas.
President Bush mispronounced Pflugerville but he got Fallouja just right.
He used to be the Governor of Texas but obviously he paid as much attention to that job as he is paying to the one he has now.
President Bush has turned it into a costume party.
The military was there all dressed up in their fancy uniforms - and for some reason it was apparent tonight more than any other night in recent memory - just how frail the palsied, old men are that are still playing army at ages when other men are retiring.
He ignored the past year’s failures and whistled into the wind about the future. Once again he dug up more snakes that he can or is even willing to kill. Just as long as there are a lot of snakes and no one is paying attention to what he is up to.
In truth - if he paid more attention to domestic issues he wouldn’t have had to spend 80% of his time explaining why he is poking his nose in other people’s affairs.
He explained to the country quite brazenly that he wants to take the social security money of anyone beneath the age of 55 and use it to pay into mutual funds that hold primarily government bonds. Government bonds are usually held in guarantee of future tax revenues. He is asking for a mighty piece of our paycheck to invest in bond issues guaranteed and paid by our taxes to support his continued abuse of our government.
His actions tonight have convinced me that he is a domestic tyrant and an international aggressor.
He spoke about ‘the force of human freedom’ being applied to spread liberty around the world. What is the ‘force of human freedom’
He described a plan whereby the United States would set up government after government around the world - but he also denied that we intend to force our form of government or way of life on anyone. Of course he didn’t say he wouldn’t force the British Parliamentary form and leave the people in chains and poverty - like in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He has improved his Glenn Ford impression quite a bit - but unlike other men who make their living imitating others his imitation is an insult to the acting ability of Glenn Ford.
After listening to him describe the manner in which he was going to force our military to use the ‘force of human freedom’ to knock down and set up governments around the world and how he was going to use the transforming power of economic witchcraft I began to wonder why he was talking.
Isn’t the State of the Union Address supposed to tell us about the State of the Union and not act as a vehicle for hair brained schemes?
I heard more about Iraq elections than I heard about our serious trade imbalance with Communist China. I heard more about the peace and security of the Iraqi people than I did about the illegal aliens and foreign nationals in this country stealing American jobs. I heard more threats from him to Iran but no information about why we have seen industrial accidents and explosions that appear to be terrorist actions increase over 100% in the last four years in the United States.
I heard nothing about the continued bankruptcy of American companies even as foreign companies take up permanent residence in our nation by buying land.
I am not seeing any leadership from him. I am beginning to feel he is more of a distraction and a worry than a President.
I felt a wide and black hole opening beneath my feet as he spoke and I realized that the hole is 4 years long and many lives deep.
Let me give this example of how disconnected he is from this nation he is pretending to lead.
He introduced the parents of Sergeant Norwood who was killed in , Falouja, Iraq.
Sergeant Norwood comes from Pflugerville, Texas.
President Bush mispronounced Pflugerville but he got Fallouja just right.
He used to be the Governor of Texas but obviously he paid as much attention to that job as he is paying to the one he has now.
Monday, January 31, 2005
American Elections
I am wondering about our representative government.
I think we have got a lot more government than representation.
In 1823 the population was about 9,650,000 of us. There were 213 representatives at that time in office.
There was one representative for about every 45,305 of us.
In the year 1913 there were about 93 million people in the United States.
There were 436 representatives in the House of Representatives.
That got us one representative for every 213,302 of us.
In the year 2005 – including the 5 million illegal aliens that George Bush slipped into Texas – there are over 300 million Americans.
We still have only 436 representatives in the House of Representatives.
That’s about one representative for every 688,073 of us.
Back in 1823 or even in 1913 there was a small chance at least of meeting your Representative.
Now who among us feels that 1 man can adequately represent 688, 073 of us with any degree effectiveness? I personally feel that these representatives are better able to represent their own selfish group interests to us than they are able to represent us to our government.
Don’t you think it is time to increase the number of representatives in office, time to reduce their pay, time to remove their extraordinary health benefits? Why are some backwoods hicks directing the lives and fates of millions of city dwellers? Don’t you think it is time to reduce them to the office of Representative from the throne in which they have forced themselves?
I think we have got a lot more government than representation.
In 1823 the population was about 9,650,000 of us. There were 213 representatives at that time in office.
There was one representative for about every 45,305 of us.
In the year 1913 there were about 93 million people in the United States.
There were 436 representatives in the House of Representatives.
That got us one representative for every 213,302 of us.
In the year 2005 – including the 5 million illegal aliens that George Bush slipped into Texas – there are over 300 million Americans.
We still have only 436 representatives in the House of Representatives.
That’s about one representative for every 688,073 of us.
Back in 1823 or even in 1913 there was a small chance at least of meeting your Representative.
Now who among us feels that 1 man can adequately represent 688, 073 of us with any degree effectiveness? I personally feel that these representatives are better able to represent their own selfish group interests to us than they are able to represent us to our government.
Don’t you think it is time to increase the number of representatives in office, time to reduce their pay, time to remove their extraordinary health benefits? Why are some backwoods hicks directing the lives and fates of millions of city dwellers? Don’t you think it is time to reduce them to the office of Representative from the throne in which they have forced themselves?
Sunday, January 30, 2005
Deontology
Deontology
The science of moral obligation or duty; ethics.
It is possible to know of morals, preach about them, even profess to have them – but unless there is an obligation or duty attached to carry them out they are of little practical use.
Therefore we see with what ease people like Billy Graham, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice and various members of the Bush family can profess moral right, can represent those that also profess moral right but do not practice morality.
Their belief that the end justifies the means – as Rice essentially said during her confirmation hearings – is an immoral, unjust and evil belief. It has been proven wrong throughout history and these modern days are no different. It is as wrong today as it was 10, 100 or 1000 years ago.
Moreover, because they represent this as truth and their followers and supporters do not call them out on it we can extend that belief to them as well. It is a shame and a worry but all those people professing the will of God are merely aiding and abetting criminals, murderers and incompetents.
Like a person whose home has been robbed while they are at work, or like a man or woman a pickpocket has hit – but has not noticed it yet – the supporters and followers of these liars pretend to moral superiority and act comfortably in their belief that everything is fine.
Even though the crime has taken place they stand mute to the reality.
As time passes and they come to realize what has happened to them and then – what they have been tricked into doing to themselves – there will be a wave of outrage and grief.
Will it be too late?
Who can say? Our economy is being destroyed by Communist Chinese companies in an effort to support that oppressive regime. The Israelis continue to hound and persecute their people. The Saudi Arabians won’t let women drive automobiles and don’t feed their people properly. The Iraqis are getting held up at the end of a gun. The Pakistanis are a bunch of thugs and they have nuclear bombs. The Indians are awash in hatred and confusion. Great Britain continues to feed on the world and its allies and enemies like a parasite.
I hope it comes out all right – but it doesn’t look good. If this is the end they were seeking I have to ask why they wanted it in the first place.
The science of moral obligation or duty; ethics.
It is possible to know of morals, preach about them, even profess to have them – but unless there is an obligation or duty attached to carry them out they are of little practical use.
Therefore we see with what ease people like Billy Graham, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice and various members of the Bush family can profess moral right, can represent those that also profess moral right but do not practice morality.
Their belief that the end justifies the means – as Rice essentially said during her confirmation hearings – is an immoral, unjust and evil belief. It has been proven wrong throughout history and these modern days are no different. It is as wrong today as it was 10, 100 or 1000 years ago.
Moreover, because they represent this as truth and their followers and supporters do not call them out on it we can extend that belief to them as well. It is a shame and a worry but all those people professing the will of God are merely aiding and abetting criminals, murderers and incompetents.
Like a person whose home has been robbed while they are at work, or like a man or woman a pickpocket has hit – but has not noticed it yet – the supporters and followers of these liars pretend to moral superiority and act comfortably in their belief that everything is fine.
Even though the crime has taken place they stand mute to the reality.
As time passes and they come to realize what has happened to them and then – what they have been tricked into doing to themselves – there will be a wave of outrage and grief.
Will it be too late?
Who can say? Our economy is being destroyed by Communist Chinese companies in an effort to support that oppressive regime. The Israelis continue to hound and persecute their people. The Saudi Arabians won’t let women drive automobiles and don’t feed their people properly. The Iraqis are getting held up at the end of a gun. The Pakistanis are a bunch of thugs and they have nuclear bombs. The Indians are awash in hatred and confusion. Great Britain continues to feed on the world and its allies and enemies like a parasite.
I hope it comes out all right – but it doesn’t look good. If this is the end they were seeking I have to ask why they wanted it in the first place.
General Luck
Retired General Gary E. Luck was sent to Iraq to look over the troops and provide some low key suggestions on how to improve matters.
Who is General Luck?
Ex-commander of troops in South Korea. He was tasked with waiting to get attacked by the North Koreans. Luckily they never did.
Then he had an opportunity in the Gulf War Luckily he was on the winning side.
Following that war he continued on in his career until retirement, luckily receiving fully retirement pay with medical benefits for services rendered.
Donald Rumsfeld has decided what the United States needs in Iraq is not more body or vehicle armor. He has decided we need a little Luck.
The retired general is rolled out of bed, has his uniform dusted off and the moth balls removed from the pockets and he is sent tottering into battle.
What kind of luck will General Luck bring our gallant troops now stuck in a war for profit?
He is to provide instruction on how to stay alive. Failing that he can help find the way to Fort Scott National Cemetery.
From Kansas City take Highway 69 south for approximately 110 miles to Fort Scott and take Highway 54 exit (left turn) toward Nevada, Mo. Cross the railroad tracks and go two blocks to Margrave. Turn right on Margrave. Follow Margrave for approximately 17 blocks to General Gary E. Luck and turn left. Follow General Gary E. Luck (East National Avenue) to cemetery.
Feeling lucky today?
Who is General Luck?
Ex-commander of troops in South Korea. He was tasked with waiting to get attacked by the North Koreans. Luckily they never did.
Then he had an opportunity in the Gulf War Luckily he was on the winning side.
Following that war he continued on in his career until retirement, luckily receiving fully retirement pay with medical benefits for services rendered.
Donald Rumsfeld has decided what the United States needs in Iraq is not more body or vehicle armor. He has decided we need a little Luck.
The retired general is rolled out of bed, has his uniform dusted off and the moth balls removed from the pockets and he is sent tottering into battle.
What kind of luck will General Luck bring our gallant troops now stuck in a war for profit?
He is to provide instruction on how to stay alive. Failing that he can help find the way to Fort Scott National Cemetery.
From Kansas City take Highway 69 south for approximately 110 miles to Fort Scott and take Highway 54 exit (left turn) toward Nevada, Mo. Cross the railroad tracks and go two blocks to Margrave. Turn right on Margrave. Follow Margrave for approximately 17 blocks to General Gary E. Luck and turn left. Follow General Gary E. Luck (East National Avenue) to cemetery.
Feeling lucky today?
Riggs Bank
Riggs Bank, which employed on of President Bush’s uncles and its parent company have agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge and pay a $16 million fine for failing to prevent potential money laundering at the District bank, according to sources close to the matter.
The investigation focused for more than a year on Riggs's longtime specialty in diplomatic and international banking. In May, Riggs and its holding company agreed to pay a $25 million civil penalty as part of an agreement with federal bank regulators stemming from its handling of accounts and apparent money laundering officials of the governments of Saudi Arabia, Chile and Equatorial Guinea.
Riggs and its holding company, Riggs National Corp., has plead guilty to one count of failing to file suspicious activity reports. Those documents are required to submit to law enforcement authorities when officers are aware of questionable activity involving a client.
The failure to file such a report is the most basic violation of law.
The agreement includes descriptions of transactions with officials of Equatorial Guinea including its dictator president. It also details the activities of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet who conducted business at Riggs under assumed names.
Riggs may be sold to PNC in Pennsylvania. If the sale continues under the current terms the Allbritton, who own most of it, will walk away with nearly 300 million dollars.
The small size of the Riggs fine is a suprise.
"I had expected it to be larger," said an analyst, "I had heard numbers bandied about as high as $100 million."
A source familiar with the deal said the negotiations with the Justice Department were affected by a lot of different things. It appears apparent that the most important item was the embarrassing position of President Bush’s uncle – who is apparently in a position to reap a financial reward similar in many ways to the deal that made the President his first few million dollars. That was a questionable stock deal whereby he was able to sell his stock just before the price fell. No wrongdoing was proved in that case and apparently no wrongdoing will be investigated in this case as the Justice Department commences to seal records and put the case of sight – and they hope – out of the mind of honest, hardworking Americans.
The investigation focused for more than a year on Riggs's longtime specialty in diplomatic and international banking. In May, Riggs and its holding company agreed to pay a $25 million civil penalty as part of an agreement with federal bank regulators stemming from its handling of accounts and apparent money laundering officials of the governments of Saudi Arabia, Chile and Equatorial Guinea.
Riggs and its holding company, Riggs National Corp., has plead guilty to one count of failing to file suspicious activity reports. Those documents are required to submit to law enforcement authorities when officers are aware of questionable activity involving a client.
The failure to file such a report is the most basic violation of law.
The agreement includes descriptions of transactions with officials of Equatorial Guinea including its dictator president. It also details the activities of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet who conducted business at Riggs under assumed names.
Riggs may be sold to PNC in Pennsylvania. If the sale continues under the current terms the Allbritton, who own most of it, will walk away with nearly 300 million dollars.
The small size of the Riggs fine is a suprise.
"I had expected it to be larger," said an analyst, "I had heard numbers bandied about as high as $100 million."
A source familiar with the deal said the negotiations with the Justice Department were affected by a lot of different things. It appears apparent that the most important item was the embarrassing position of President Bush’s uncle – who is apparently in a position to reap a financial reward similar in many ways to the deal that made the President his first few million dollars. That was a questionable stock deal whereby he was able to sell his stock just before the price fell. No wrongdoing was proved in that case and apparently no wrongdoing will be investigated in this case as the Justice Department commences to seal records and put the case of sight – and they hope – out of the mind of honest, hardworking Americans.
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Color Coded Political Parties
What we need is a new color code system for the political parties in America.
The Libertarians can be gray.
The Greens – well – they can be green.
The Republicans want to be red so the Communists will have to take another color as soon as they form a new party.
The Democrats are blue.
The Conservatives can be yellow – because they hide behind the Republicans and won’t come out in the open.
The Christian Conservatives can be purple – and their party leader can wear a robe and a crown.
The Liberals can be orange – a little red, a little yellow.
This way we can avoid the lies attached to the present red/blue state problem. As before the Civil War there were plenty of people in the south that didn’t want their states to leave the Union and raise a traitorous army – in today’s America there are plenty of people in many of the ‘red’ states that didn’t want to watch Rumsfeld mishandle Iraq for another 4 years – but it’s kind of hard to get around those pesky bureaucratic and corrupt election boards that have sprung up in Ohio, Florida, New Mexico or the entirely upside down system in Texas.
The colors I choose are Red, White and Blue – before I answer to party or religion – I am an American.
What are you?
I want my vote counted. I want my borders secure. I want my military home. I want the budget balanced. I want taxes reduced.
What do you want?
The Libertarians can be gray.
The Greens – well – they can be green.
The Republicans want to be red so the Communists will have to take another color as soon as they form a new party.
The Democrats are blue.
The Conservatives can be yellow – because they hide behind the Republicans and won’t come out in the open.
The Christian Conservatives can be purple – and their party leader can wear a robe and a crown.
The Liberals can be orange – a little red, a little yellow.
This way we can avoid the lies attached to the present red/blue state problem. As before the Civil War there were plenty of people in the south that didn’t want their states to leave the Union and raise a traitorous army – in today’s America there are plenty of people in many of the ‘red’ states that didn’t want to watch Rumsfeld mishandle Iraq for another 4 years – but it’s kind of hard to get around those pesky bureaucratic and corrupt election boards that have sprung up in Ohio, Florida, New Mexico or the entirely upside down system in Texas.
The colors I choose are Red, White and Blue – before I answer to party or religion – I am an American.
What are you?
I want my vote counted. I want my borders secure. I want my military home. I want the budget balanced. I want taxes reduced.
What do you want?
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Kenyan Connection
Recently a little more than ¾ of a ton of cocaine were seized in Nairobi, Kenya. The cocaine had been concealed in a speedboat and parked at a local house. Other large shipments which have been traced through the Nairobi airport have been in large quantities as well – a quarter ton, a half ton – all concealed in different packages.
In December a ton of cocaine was discovered in a shipping container. Police held two Italians and three Kenyans in connection with the seizure but under Kenyan law, suspects cannot be held for more than 24 hours without being charged in court unless they are being investigated for a capital offence such as murder or armed robbery.
Cocaine moves to Kenya and is then sent back to the United States or on to Europe and Asia. Heroin moves in the opposite direction from the east and into Europe, Asia or through Africa.
How can all this traffic move without constant detection?
Without putting a name on it please recall that KLM is based at Amsterdam, Holland. Holland has the most lenient drug laws of all ‘modern’ nations.
KLM is one of top 20 largest airlines in the world and partially owns Transavia – a Dutch holiday airline, Kenya Airways, and Martinair.
Dutch carriers KLM Cargo and Martinair have an agreement with Kenya Airways to form a joint venture cargo sales and service organization in Nairobi
The company uses Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as its hub to link African freight markets to the international route networks of its three founding owners.
Through the joint venture, KLM, Martinair and Kenya Airways lease freighters with 15 to 40 tons capacity to serve the intra-Africa freight market.
The company will tailors services according to market needs
KLM is based in a country with a tiny market, yet maintains one of the world’s top 20 airlines in a time of financial instability for most of the airline industry.
KLM operates a trans-Atlantic alliance as well.
This global network maintains all certificates and documents necessary to ship internationally. Remarkably – each one of them maintains special privileges in their home countries which excuses them from inspection merely by keeping their permits in order. This airline network is one of the most blatant examples of international trade failure and security danger that the United States and civilized nations face today.
It is clear from the continued problems surfacing in transit points like Kenya that these airlines may be the mainline in drug trafficking for most of the world. They also point out a severe security lapse that must be addressed.
It is not a ‘level playing field’ when a cash strapped industry is used openly by drug traffickers to distribute their cargoes of death around the world at their pleasure.
Eastern Airlines was destroyed because of their support of the international drug trade.
I believe it is time to look at why KLM prospers in the face of the same pressures their less ‘well-connected’ competitors are ravaged by.
Clearly it is not a matter of superior management ability. All things being equal it is difficult to tell these airlines apart from the competition except for the fact of their continued outrageous profitability. The success of this small sector in the global industry is a glaring indication that things are not what they seem to be just as assuredly as the failure of US Airways and their continued support by the Bankruptcy Courts.
In December a ton of cocaine was discovered in a shipping container. Police held two Italians and three Kenyans in connection with the seizure but under Kenyan law, suspects cannot be held for more than 24 hours without being charged in court unless they are being investigated for a capital offence such as murder or armed robbery.
Cocaine moves to Kenya and is then sent back to the United States or on to Europe and Asia. Heroin moves in the opposite direction from the east and into Europe, Asia or through Africa.
How can all this traffic move without constant detection?
Without putting a name on it please recall that KLM is based at Amsterdam, Holland. Holland has the most lenient drug laws of all ‘modern’ nations.
KLM is one of top 20 largest airlines in the world and partially owns Transavia – a Dutch holiday airline, Kenya Airways, and Martinair.
Dutch carriers KLM Cargo and Martinair have an agreement with Kenya Airways to form a joint venture cargo sales and service organization in Nairobi
The company uses Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as its hub to link African freight markets to the international route networks of its three founding owners.
Through the joint venture, KLM, Martinair and Kenya Airways lease freighters with 15 to 40 tons capacity to serve the intra-Africa freight market.
The company will tailors services according to market needs
KLM is based in a country with a tiny market, yet maintains one of the world’s top 20 airlines in a time of financial instability for most of the airline industry.
KLM operates a trans-Atlantic alliance as well.
This global network maintains all certificates and documents necessary to ship internationally. Remarkably – each one of them maintains special privileges in their home countries which excuses them from inspection merely by keeping their permits in order. This airline network is one of the most blatant examples of international trade failure and security danger that the United States and civilized nations face today.
It is clear from the continued problems surfacing in transit points like Kenya that these airlines may be the mainline in drug trafficking for most of the world. They also point out a severe security lapse that must be addressed.
It is not a ‘level playing field’ when a cash strapped industry is used openly by drug traffickers to distribute their cargoes of death around the world at their pleasure.
Eastern Airlines was destroyed because of their support of the international drug trade.
I believe it is time to look at why KLM prospers in the face of the same pressures their less ‘well-connected’ competitors are ravaged by.
Clearly it is not a matter of superior management ability. All things being equal it is difficult to tell these airlines apart from the competition except for the fact of their continued outrageous profitability. The success of this small sector in the global industry is a glaring indication that things are not what they seem to be just as assuredly as the failure of US Airways and their continued support by the Bankruptcy Courts.
Sunday, January 16, 2005
Calling People Names
The man who calls himself the President, Mr. Bush, is in the habit of making up nicknames for people.
One of his aides I understand he refers to as ‘High Prophet’.
On the face of it this may be considered a habit of man of immense faculties using mental tricks in order to remember individuals out of a river of faces.
In reality though, through his words, speeches and actions, we can see that he is not just delivering nicknames – he is delivering abuse.
He called Senator Ben Nelson ‘Nellie’ for quite a long time.
He recently stopped this practice and now calls him ‘Bennie’.
Should we breathe a sigh of relief?
I think we should take note that Bush as an individual appears to willfully and joyously exhibits traits of being rude and impertinent and is inclined to take uninvited personal liberties with others.
In fact, it is my opinion that this man regularly desires to harm others or to see them suffer and exhibits extreme ill will or spite.
He may be filled with a hatred of mankind or dull and ignorant of our nation’s strengths. What strong man would act weak the way he does? What moral person would disparage the morality of others? What honest man would impugn the honesty of good men while helping dishonest ones?
Just because he acts in an insolent manner does not mean that he is right in his assertions. His name calling is a demonstration of personal malice – not communication.
One of his aides I understand he refers to as ‘High Prophet’.
On the face of it this may be considered a habit of man of immense faculties using mental tricks in order to remember individuals out of a river of faces.
In reality though, through his words, speeches and actions, we can see that he is not just delivering nicknames – he is delivering abuse.
He called Senator Ben Nelson ‘Nellie’ for quite a long time.
He recently stopped this practice and now calls him ‘Bennie’.
Should we breathe a sigh of relief?
I think we should take note that Bush as an individual appears to willfully and joyously exhibits traits of being rude and impertinent and is inclined to take uninvited personal liberties with others.
In fact, it is my opinion that this man regularly desires to harm others or to see them suffer and exhibits extreme ill will or spite.
He may be filled with a hatred of mankind or dull and ignorant of our nation’s strengths. What strong man would act weak the way he does? What moral person would disparage the morality of others? What honest man would impugn the honesty of good men while helping dishonest ones?
Just because he acts in an insolent manner does not mean that he is right in his assertions. His name calling is a demonstration of personal malice – not communication.
Candice Miller
Recently it was announced that Michigan had, for the past few years, supported a loophole which allowed illegal immigrants to walk into Secretary of State offices and pick up a Michigan Driver’s License.
Saying ‘loophole’ gives us the idea that the situation happened by accident. It’s more like a hole that was drilled into our State operations by Candice Miller. As a result of this horrible fact coming to light she has decided to not run for Senate. Her bragging has evaporated before the cold wind of apparent treason and that she helped a large number of illegal aliens.
She sits in congress now admonished for her ethical behavior with Tom DeLay – her partner from Texas.
Her actions have allowed tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to get jobs as truck drivers and on rail roads such as the Southern Pacific.
That railroad regularly advertises jobs in Asian and Latin newspapers. Critical well paying jobs in our economy’s infrastructure are regularly given to men and women whose loyalty may be questionable to say the least.
Southern Pacific at this time – which deals with heavy traffic from Communist China through Los Angeles ports leans heavily towards hiring Asians that may be immigrants from that same repressive country.
Right now they are not able to ship normally because of traffic delays, track damage and other problems. Meanwhile – Burlington Northern with tracks right next to them is not having any problems.
Candice Miller has done great harm to our state and our nation.
Saying ‘loophole’ gives us the idea that the situation happened by accident. It’s more like a hole that was drilled into our State operations by Candice Miller. As a result of this horrible fact coming to light she has decided to not run for Senate. Her bragging has evaporated before the cold wind of apparent treason and that she helped a large number of illegal aliens.
She sits in congress now admonished for her ethical behavior with Tom DeLay – her partner from Texas.
Her actions have allowed tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to get jobs as truck drivers and on rail roads such as the Southern Pacific.
That railroad regularly advertises jobs in Asian and Latin newspapers. Critical well paying jobs in our economy’s infrastructure are regularly given to men and women whose loyalty may be questionable to say the least.
Southern Pacific at this time – which deals with heavy traffic from Communist China through Los Angeles ports leans heavily towards hiring Asians that may be immigrants from that same repressive country.
Right now they are not able to ship normally because of traffic delays, track damage and other problems. Meanwhile – Burlington Northern with tracks right next to them is not having any problems.
Candice Miller has done great harm to our state and our nation.
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