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President Obama, man that still sounds good doesn’t it, has only been in office 6 days as of this post, and already the conservative mouth piece, Rush Limbaugh, is talking trash. The “pill-popper” said this past week that he hopes President Obama fails because the Republican party is working with the Democratic led government to get America out of the financial mess we are currently in. I doubt that anyone in their right mind, and not in some pill fueled haze, could say that the last 8 years has been a success. The policies of the past administration has not only plunged this country into the worse DEPRESSION, EVER, but because we are the biggest consumers in the world, the rest of the global economy, is hurting as well. Anyone who says that they want “Obama to fail” is Anti-American. Where is Joseph McCarthy when you need him?
It is reported that we are spending 1 BILLION DOLLARS a day financing the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq. A billion dollars a day that could have gone to building and maintaining roads, bridges, and our transportatiom infrastructure, provide reserves for the upcoming Social Security deficit, upgrade our educational system, or to get people who don’t have health care, the ability to see a doctor if they get sick. But noooo. We were “led astray” by the lies and decit of weapons of Mass Destruction. And slowly our economy went down the drain.
We watched as Wall Street, the Mortgage Industry, the Banking Industry, and now the Auto Industry MILLIONAIRES, come with their “hats in their hands” asking for handouts. And they got them! This bailout was done so quickly, and with so little oversight, that executives who left these “sinking ships” were able to take millions of tax payer’s dollars with them. Gee, who didn’t see that coming? Am I to believe that no one has ever heard of a “Golden Parachute!!!!”
And now we have a President who can see the bullshit through the trees, and is trying to undo 8 years of fiscal, political, and social mismanagement. And we have a loud mouth with a microphone, saying he hopes America fails. That statement is Un-American. Since Mr. Limbaugh is fond of popping pills, maybe he needs to take a “CHILL PILL.” Now is not the time for divisiveness. We need all hands on deck. Because if this ship sinks, we will all go down together! Republican and Democrat alike!
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President Elect Barack Obama, still sounds good doesn’t it, who isn’t even in office yet, is the victim of more Republican nastiness. I guess the Republican party is still smarting from the OLD SCHOOL ASS KICKING they took this last election. Not only did they lose the presidency, but their loss of both houses is also complete.
Chip Saltsman, who is running for the presidency of the Republican party, sent out a Christmas CD titled, “We Hate the USA” that has a song on it named “Barack the Magic Negro.” In the song, with music from the Peter, Paul, and Mary’s 1960′s hit, “Puff the Magic Dragon“, it states that Barack isn’t really “Black“, and that the only reason white people voted for him is because of the guilt they feel for how African Americans were and are treated in this country. (The War, the Economy, a crumbling financial structure that many Republicans helped create, maintain, and profit from, had nothing to do with it ). The song says that in comparison to Louis Farakkhan, Al Sharpton and Snoop Dogg, Barack isn’t really Black or Black enough. As if the Republican party can ever say who is Black enough. They are claiming that the idea for the song came from a Los Angeles Times article so that gives them permisssion to create this nonsense.
The real reason the Republican party is trying to compare Barack to Farakkhan, Sharpton, and Snoop unfavorably, is because the later don’t inspire FEAR in the Republican Party’s HEARTS like Barack does. All Sharpton does is make speeches and run around looking for a camera to put his process in front of. And while I like Snoop, he is, and never will be the equal to Obama. Farakkhan’s influence is no longer what it was. What SCARES the Republican party the most is that Barack has come out of NO WHERE to become the President of the United States. He has inspired hope not only in this country, but in the world as a whole. None of those guys have EVER done that. EVER! PERIOD!! Continue reading “Barack the Magic Negro” »
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Let me get this straight. An industry that is as old as damn near the Industrial Revolution is now asking for a bailout. And the CEO’s of General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford came to ask Congress for the money on THREE SEPARATE PRIVATE JETS no less! Does anyone see something wrong with this picture? Because I’m still walking!
I remember a time when “Buying American” essentially meant you were buying an American made car. And Ford and General Motors were the car makers to buy from. Cadillacs, Impalas, Mustangs, and a litany of Ford trucks cruised our highways and byways. Since there was no competition from foreign cars, these car manufacturers had a captive audience. You either bought one of their cars or you walked or used public transportation. And the bigger the car the better!
Slowly but surely, foreign cars began to come onto our shores. With Toyota, Datsun/Nissan, and Honda manufacturing cars that were economical, better made, and not as expensive, the American car began to slip in the minds of the very people Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors needed to keep … Americans! How many people remember when Ford meant “Found on Road Daily?” Or remember the Pinto and the memo that allegedly came from the higher ups at Ford who said that paying out money in lawsuits would be cheaper than fixing an obvious and fatal design flaw? By the mid 80′s, the American people stopped thinking, and rightfully so, that supporting an industry that didn’t care about them or that produced whatever they wanted whether we liked it or not, should end. Why would I pay for a car that is poorly made, guzzles gas, breaks down every other day, and costs more than a better produced foreign car? I wouldn’t and didn’t!
By the time the American manufactures realized we weren’t going to buy “just anything”, it was too late. Our pocketbooks and wallets dictated what kind of a car we would purchase. While owning a Cadillac is still a “status thing” owning a Lexus, built by Toyota no less, succeeded in putting a major dent in the definition of “status.” Most people don’t even know that the Lexus is made by Toyota because the name “Toyota” is not on the car. We see “Lexus” and that is all we need to know. They were given billions of dollars in subsidies, local, state, and federal tax relief, and were able to lobby the government when they wanted or needed something.
In 1989, documentary maker Michael Moore foretold this current auto industry meltdown in his movie “Roger and Me.” In the movie, Moore showed just how cold and callous the deeds of General Motors and his attempts to get an interview with CEO Roger Smith. The loss of more than 30,000 jobs and the ensuing housing crash dealt a death kneel to the city of Flint, Michigan, from which it still hasn’t recovered.
The CEO’s of these companies made obscene amounts of money and stock options and will walk away with millions more in Golden Parachutes. That industries who made BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars over the last 30 years or more are now asking to be bailed out by the government is appalling at best and atrocious at worse. Yet the only people who seem to be suffering are the average American. We are losing our jobs, our houses, and our way of life while these “fat cats” keep getting fatter at our expense. Where is the bailout for all those people taken in by the mortgage industry? Where is the forgiveness of our consumer debt? And the only jobs that are hiring are debt collectors!
But the government has to bail them out. What would happen to the millions and millions of Ford, GM, and Chrysler cars currently on the road? Would you buy a car from a company that is “going out of business?” It looks like the American government has now gotten into the Insurance business, the Mortgage business, Wall Street, the Banking business, and will now get into the Auto business.
Can you say SOCIALISM? I know you can!
But wait a minute. I’m still walking?
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As I said in an earlier post, this year’s election is probably the biggest election in modern history. Projections are that this election will have the largest voter turnout ever. With the Democrats seeking to take over the White House and control both houses and Republicans seeking to hold onto the White House and maybe gain some seats in both houses, the political future of this country is up for grabs. With so much at stake, is it really a surprise that Republican supporters are pulling out all of the stops, including breaking federal laws, to win?
There have been numerous reports coming from many areas of this country stating that someone Republicans supporters have passed out flyers in minority areas that are meant to scare, confuse, and discourage us from voting. Many of these flyers state that if you have warrants out for your arrest or unpaid parking tickets, you will be arrested if you go to the polls. Calls have been made to voters who are registered as Democrats saying that “Republicans vote on Tuesday and Democrats vote on Wednesday.” Text messages are being sent to cell phones stating that voters can “phone in” their votes. People are being told that if they don’t have any identification, they won’t be allowed to vote. For Latino voters, they are being told that their citizenship papers can be revoked, they can and will be arrested and deported. These are blatant lies and are federal crimes.
The 1965 Federal Voters Right Act, an extension of the 15th Amendment of the Constitution, states that no one can be denied the right to vote based on their race or color. It also states that voting literature must be in the languages of the people in that precinct.The subsequent extensions of the Act in 1970, 1975, and 1984, also make it a crime to intimidate or mislead voters. This is EXACTLY what Republican supporters are attempting to do. They are attempting to intimidate, misled, scare, and surpress Democratic and by extension, Black and Latino voters, from voting. And let’s not forget that in the 2004 election, we had “hanging chads“, voting machines that were said to have been “hacked“, and excessive lines that discouraged people from voting. Or more inportantly, polling places that closed even though people were still waiting in line to vote.
For a country that claims to be ”for the people and by the people”, it seems like only certain people, Republicans, think they should be the only people to decide how this country is ran and who should run it. The CIA could take lessons from the Republican Party because the Republicans have no shame in getting what they want. And that includes breaking federal laws.