Friday, October 03, 2014
It's the technology, stupid --- NOT!
Mr. Duncan, the Ebola patient at Texas Presbyterian Hospital presented TWICE there with flu like symptoms and was sent home once with a course of antibiotics (useless for viruses and dispensed wily nily.) He was admitted two days later with more severe symptoms, giving him plenty of time to interact with the population. Now 100 people who came into contact with him either directly or indirectly, including children, are being tracked and/or quarantined.
The blame, now, is being taken off hospital medical personnel and is being placed on a technology glitch? Hospital big wigs are saying the computerized software did not share the TRAVEL part of the information so the treating physicians did not see it and did not know he traveled to Liberia. Now that is kind of an important question concerning Ebola one would think?! West Africa, including Liberia, is where over 3000 people have died from it!
Blame it on technology when you want to absolve humans of fault. A hugely horrible virus is out there in west Africa and medical personnel all over the world are informed of it. Travel, beyond almost ANY of the other questions one could ask a presenting patient, is one of the MOST IMPORTANT questions that should be asked everywhere. Maybe the doctors there or someone should have asked that vital question and made sure it was shared or if not ask why it was not.
Human beings are the ones who program these computers and human beings are the ones who see the data. Do you think one just ONE doctor or medical personnel could have asked an important question when they saw Mr. Duncan the first time and make sure that important information was shared? Uh, let's see, Mr. Duncan, have you traveled to west Africa? Easy question, right? Couldn't someone see they were NOT getting the most important data -- TRAVEL -- imparted to them then kick someone's posterior and say hey you know what why am I not getting travel info to help make my diagnosis of Mr. Duncan?
NO ONE RECOGNIZED the lack of travel information TO BE IMPORTANT? Oh, yeah Rick Perry, governor of Texas, let's see how you can blame it on Obamacare or how about blaming it on YOU who will not extend the Medicaid portion of Obamacare so people are not forced to use the ER for their primary care?
Democrats, get out your thinking caps and see why the head of the State of Texas, Governor Perry, his cronies and his Board of Health staff were not monitoring hospitals and the questions they ask of patients because it was known it was just a matter of time before a case of Ebola would happen here and whether a patient traveled to west Africa or not is a slightly important question to ask and then to share, doncha think?!!
EBOLA IN THE US IS IN TEXAS -- WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS GOING TO LOSE. GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE AND DO NOT LET THESE KNOW NOTHINGS WITHIN AN INCH OF HIGH OFFICE AND POLITICAL POWER!
Thursday, October 02, 2014
The HATCHET MOMENT!!!
My
faith is being restored!! Martha still has the lead but it is very
close. She came out fighting Baker's eye popping paid for by the
Republican party's scurrilous, mendacious and mean attack against Martha
Coakley's efforts in prosecuting child abuse cases. He downright
lied. So what else is new in Republican land? That is what Republicans
do ... they LIE ALL THE TIME. Martha was was by joined by Deborah Eappen mother of Mathew Eappen who died while in Louise Woodward's care and she supports
Martha whole heartedly and calls her one of the most ardent fighters
against child abuse and for children that Massachusetts has seen and she
should know as Martha Coakley was front and center on the Woodward case and its prosecution!
I call this the "hatchet moment."
I named it after the know nothing Scott Brown who accused the great
Elizabeth Warren (who of course supports Martha Coakley) about Warren's
Indian heritage by slurring her and his cronies waxing into a RACIST
Indian war hoop chant. Scott Brown lost the election for Senate and I
believe it was at that moment he blew it and even more so because Warren
was light years better than Brown.
Likewise Martha Coakley is LIGHT YEARS better and more qualified than Baker. Baker and his Republican cronies said the WRONG THING at the worst possible time. It is going to be his downfall. He BLEW IT!! So,
GET OUT THE VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS EVERYWHERE, WORK FOR AND ELECT MARTHA
COAKLEY THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF THIS FABULOUS STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS and
send Baker packing like we did Scott the know nothing Brown!!!!
The article is in the
Globe is pasted below send this email to anyone you choose especially
Democrats everywhere to GET OUT THE VOTE! Those
who are out of state get out to vote -- and do not step on your own
toes. VOTE the ONLY party that is for the 98%, the Democratic Party!
Coakley ‘disgusted’ by TV ad, calls on Baker to condemn it
Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe
Martha Coakley was joined at a press conference by Deborah Eapen
(left), mother of Matthew Eapen, who died while in the care of au pair
Louise Woodward, and state Rep. Jim O'Day (right).
SOMERVILLE -- A visibly angry Martha Coakley on Thursday demanded that Republican rival Charlie Baker condemn an outside group’s television advertisement that accuses the Democratic attorney general of not doing enough to protect children.
Coakley,
who at one point choked up discussing her work on behalf of an abused
youngster, called on Baker to seek the removal of the advertisement,
which is paid for in part by the Republican Governors Association. The
ad blames Coakley for failures in the state Department of Children and
Families, or DCF, which resulted in the deaths and abuse of children.
“That is absolutely over the top, it’s
outrageous, and I am disgusted by it,” said Coakley, who was flanked at
her Somerville campaign headquarters by Debbie Eappen, the mother of
Matthew Eappen, the 8-month-old who died in the care of his nanny,
Louise Woodward, in 1997. Coakley prosecuted the case against Woodward.
She was also joined today by Democratic attorney general candidate Maura Healey, a former Coakley aide.
Coakley accused Republicans of “using child abuse as a political football.”
In response, Baker’s campaign did not directly
address whether they would ask for the ad to be removed. Spokesman Tim
Buckley said in an e-mail that Coakley “has yet to explain to voters her
decision to fight child protection advocates seeking to reform a broken
DCF that has placed the Commonwealth’s defenseless children in harm’s
way. While Coakley defended the embattled agency and refused to call for
the commissioner’s resignation,” he wrote, “Charlie Baker proposed a
detailed plan to immediately fix the broken agency.”
Polls
show Coakley and Baker essentially tied in the race for governor, with
less than five weeks remaining before the Nov. 4 election.
Earlier
in the campaign, Coakley had called on Baker to sign a pact designed to
limit outside advertising, which Baker declined. Asked Thursday whether
she would insist that anti-Baker super PAC ads funded by her allies be
removed, Coakley demurred.
An aide later
said that Coakley was not asking for Baker to call for the removal of
other GOP super PAC ads, just the one discussing child abuse.
Wednesday, October 01, 2014
Vehemently VACCINATE
I
am sure most of you know and I am pasting a link below about the news
story that Children's Hospital in Boston has received four children
exhibiting polio-like symptoms similar to ones seen in Colorado.
Polio-like symptoms for those of you who are unfamiliar with the polio
virus itself means paralysis usually bipedal in both limbs but can be
all limbs. This paralysis often does NOT improve so one is left with
polio's significant orthopedic and other consequences throughout ones
life of a virus that is initially neurologically based attacking cells
in the spinal cord and killing them.
The virus seen now is an enterovirus labeled D68. Polio, too, is an enterovirus that means that it is ingested at first and if it breaks through to the blood stream it can cause paralysis and even in rare cases death. How close to polio is to D68 I do not know and neither does the medical community yet. A non-medical suspicion I hold (I am not a medical expert) is that viruses evolutionarily mutate and wonder if D68 had done that from polio but this is not based on any medical fact. It is simply educated questioning by me.
I know that there are some who do not realize the devastating effects of polio and are adverse to vaccination. The ONLY treatment for polio is prevention through vaccination. Vaccination SHOULD be mandated by law if one is to enter their child in school so a permanent herd immunity can develop. Children are most at risk but adults are too. I do not know if it is mandated in Massachusetts. My opinion is that ALL vaccinations available to humans should be given and/or taken even by adults. There is, as far as I know, absolutely no connection between vaccination and a disease such as autism. That is a false connection and, in my opinion, a morally indefensible one.
You will do your child NO favors by not immunizing them and you will do our nation at large no favors either. In my opinion, it is criminal not to vaccinate and I am living proof of why I vehemently hold this view. Polio paralysis is a life-long significantly life-altering disease that requires active attention always. It is disfiguring and sometimes painful, it is significantly disabling, it is psychologically difficult, it is expensive and its consequences later in life are profound.
I do not know where D68 will lead and if a vaccination can be perfected for it but the one fail-safe preventative is, of course, thoroughly hand washing MANY times throughout the day for at least 30 seconds or the time it takes to sing "Happy Birthday" especially after doing those excretory functions all humans must do to survive and if you are cooking and/or serving food. And I might add do not enter the population if one is sick. If you have to sneeze do so in your arm and try not to touch your eyes or your face.
I am a vehement vaccination advocate and have many personal reasons why I am.
The link is here or below
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/09/30/boston-childrens-hospital-treating-patients-with-polio-like-symptoms/
The virus seen now is an enterovirus labeled D68. Polio, too, is an enterovirus that means that it is ingested at first and if it breaks through to the blood stream it can cause paralysis and even in rare cases death. How close to polio is to D68 I do not know and neither does the medical community yet. A non-medical suspicion I hold (I am not a medical expert) is that viruses evolutionarily mutate and wonder if D68 had done that from polio but this is not based on any medical fact. It is simply educated questioning by me.
I know that there are some who do not realize the devastating effects of polio and are adverse to vaccination. The ONLY treatment for polio is prevention through vaccination. Vaccination SHOULD be mandated by law if one is to enter their child in school so a permanent herd immunity can develop. Children are most at risk but adults are too. I do not know if it is mandated in Massachusetts. My opinion is that ALL vaccinations available to humans should be given and/or taken even by adults. There is, as far as I know, absolutely no connection between vaccination and a disease such as autism. That is a false connection and, in my opinion, a morally indefensible one.
You will do your child NO favors by not immunizing them and you will do our nation at large no favors either. In my opinion, it is criminal not to vaccinate and I am living proof of why I vehemently hold this view. Polio paralysis is a life-long significantly life-altering disease that requires active attention always. It is disfiguring and sometimes painful, it is significantly disabling, it is psychologically difficult, it is expensive and its consequences later in life are profound.
I do not know where D68 will lead and if a vaccination can be perfected for it but the one fail-safe preventative is, of course, thoroughly hand washing MANY times throughout the day for at least 30 seconds or the time it takes to sing "Happy Birthday" especially after doing those excretory functions all humans must do to survive and if you are cooking and/or serving food. And I might add do not enter the population if one is sick. If you have to sneeze do so in your arm and try not to touch your eyes or your face.
I am a vehement vaccination advocate and have many personal reasons why I am.
The link is here or below
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/09/30/boston-childrens-hospital-treating-patients-with-polio-like-symptoms/
Transparent
Created
by Jill Soloway. With Jeffrey Tambor, Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Landecker, Jay
Duplass. An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and
future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to
spill out.
I have not seen this yet but Now With Alex Wagner
the WONDERFUL afternoon commentator on MSNBC had Jeffrey Tambor the
lead actor on for an interview. She called this series magnificent and
and the actor brilliant. For the little I've seen in clips plus the
interview of this wonderful actor this is I think a must see. I believe
it is on a new thing for Amazon called Amazon Prime unfortunately I do
not have it but at some point I HOPE Netflix will maybe or I will get it
as a rental on DVD.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Suicide Prevention
I
am a poll watcher because I am a fervent believer in science and the
statistical math from which all polls spring even though my own
abilities in math fall into the stratosphere of negative numbers.
Polls, math, and science often do not agree, however, and so the
question arises again who does one trust?
Nate Silver has been my guru of pollsters for many reasons mostly because he was one to get the 2012 prediction of the re-election of the president correct and predicted Ohio for the president.
I also looked to Silver because I found his predictions then before the election of 2012 comforting as Rove and his band of merry immorals danced a frenzy around Fox News computerized Fox election central calculation room desperately trying to find a result that declared a pounding victory for his boy Romney. The only pounding that Faux Fox News gave the romping Rove was that which the president delivered to him. Yes, I was giddy that night watching Republican racists wring their hands trying to figure out what oh what could they do to gain the minority vote. Republican is an oxymoronic word that connotes the opposite of egalitarian politics. Republicans trying to gain the minority vote is like the Ku Klux Klan trying to make a kosher meal.
Mid-term election November 2014 finds me in a worrisome stew. The pollsters, almost all of them, EXCEPT Sam Wang of Princeton are predicting a Republican takeover of the Senate.
Republican takeover of anything is impossible for me to digest but Republican takeover of the Senate makes me, well, suicidal. How ANYONE on planet earth who is not part of the 1% megga wealthy can bring themselves to vote Republican I will never, if I lived to be 110, understand. The explanation as I see it is white racism on steroids. Even though the president is not on the ballot white racists are voting for Republicans because they loathe a black man in the oh- so-historically-white house.
Take pity on me and work your posteriors off for a Democratic victory across the nation to prevent a suicide. Just kidding -- maybe. Send this to anyone you choose especially minorities and women to get them to vote Democrat and find ways to vote even IF the rancid Republicans try their damnedest to rob us of the vote. They cannot if you play by the rules and then show up November 4, 2014.
Call, write, smoke signal, contribute do ANYTHING you can to prevent a Republican takeover of the Senate. We could lose EVERYTHING we have gained ... EVERYTHING. I and we cannot take a Republican victory. Republicans RUIN a nation and then rely on Democrats to save us from drowning. PLEASE for my sanity crush Republicans in November. Prove Sam Wang right and save a life!
Nate Silver has been my guru of pollsters for many reasons mostly because he was one to get the 2012 prediction of the re-election of the president correct and predicted Ohio for the president.
I also looked to Silver because I found his predictions then before the election of 2012 comforting as Rove and his band of merry immorals danced a frenzy around Fox News computerized Fox election central calculation room desperately trying to find a result that declared a pounding victory for his boy Romney. The only pounding that Faux Fox News gave the romping Rove was that which the president delivered to him. Yes, I was giddy that night watching Republican racists wring their hands trying to figure out what oh what could they do to gain the minority vote. Republican is an oxymoronic word that connotes the opposite of egalitarian politics. Republicans trying to gain the minority vote is like the Ku Klux Klan trying to make a kosher meal.
Mid-term election November 2014 finds me in a worrisome stew. The pollsters, almost all of them, EXCEPT Sam Wang of Princeton are predicting a Republican takeover of the Senate.
Republican takeover of anything is impossible for me to digest but Republican takeover of the Senate makes me, well, suicidal. How ANYONE on planet earth who is not part of the 1% megga wealthy can bring themselves to vote Republican I will never, if I lived to be 110, understand. The explanation as I see it is white racism on steroids. Even though the president is not on the ballot white racists are voting for Republicans because they loathe a black man in the oh- so-historically-white house.
Take pity on me and work your posteriors off for a Democratic victory across the nation to prevent a suicide. Just kidding -- maybe. Send this to anyone you choose especially minorities and women to get them to vote Democrat and find ways to vote even IF the rancid Republicans try their damnedest to rob us of the vote. They cannot if you play by the rules and then show up November 4, 2014.
Call, write, smoke signal, contribute do ANYTHING you can to prevent a Republican takeover of the Senate. We could lose EVERYTHING we have gained ... EVERYTHING. I and we cannot take a Republican victory. Republicans RUIN a nation and then rely on Democrats to save us from drowning. PLEASE for my sanity crush Republicans in November. Prove Sam Wang right and save a life!
Saturday, September 27, 2014
It's a Girl!!
Chelsea
Clinton, the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former
Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, tweeted early Saturday morning that she had given
birth to a baby girl named Charlotte. A plethora of congratulations are
pouring in on blogs one of which, of course, is mine. Carrying one's
genes on to the next generation is, for most, a celebratory event even
if those genes one day get lost in an ocean of DNA.
It is that part of carrying on one's genetic heritage to the next generation for those of us who do not have children -- at least for me -- is the part I miss. Always contemplative about such things I think most know life and raising a child in it is not all roses and daffodils.
As I watched "The Roosevelt's: An Intimate Portrait," a Ken Burns's documentary Franklin Roosevelt, the future 4-term president, was a most loved and privileged only child. But his birth into this patrician family of wealth and privilege did not shield him from life's vicissitudinous onslaughts. Tragedy struck the gifted man upon whom fate, it seemed, always had shown and devastated his once beautiful body. Polio in the extreme permanently paralyzed both his legs. I commiserated with the life's burden he was forced to bear in the prime of his life, interrupting its trajectory as it placed a Herculean detour in his hoped-for road to the presidency.
I wish Chelsea, her husband and the child's famous grandparents well and hope the she grows up smart, healthy and strong as even privilege carries no guarantees. Franklin Roosevelt made his lemonade out of the sour-lemon fate he was dealt.
But in the brilliant film "Ordinary People" Beth, the mother of a beloved son who was killed in a boating accident cries to her brother on a golf course of wealth when he tells her to be happy. She says to him:
I love that scene, for which Mary Tyler Moore should have gotten best actress because it snaps us into reality that for some life does not always bring a festive New Year's Eve joy but a long difficult journey through a mountain of uncertainly. I wish for Chelsea's child the ability to plod on through the inevitable bramble seeking the light and the gift we are given for a very short time to see that light and all the beauty that shines through.
It is that part of carrying on one's genetic heritage to the next generation for those of us who do not have children -- at least for me -- is the part I miss. Always contemplative about such things I think most know life and raising a child in it is not all roses and daffodils.
As I watched "The Roosevelt's: An Intimate Portrait," a Ken Burns's documentary Franklin Roosevelt, the future 4-term president, was a most loved and privileged only child. But his birth into this patrician family of wealth and privilege did not shield him from life's vicissitudinous onslaughts. Tragedy struck the gifted man upon whom fate, it seemed, always had shown and devastated his once beautiful body. Polio in the extreme permanently paralyzed both his legs. I commiserated with the life's burden he was forced to bear in the prime of his life, interrupting its trajectory as it placed a Herculean detour in his hoped-for road to the presidency.
I wish Chelsea, her husband and the child's famous grandparents well and hope the she grows up smart, healthy and strong as even privilege carries no guarantees. Franklin Roosevelt made his lemonade out of the sour-lemon fate he was dealt.
But in the brilliant film "Ordinary People" Beth, the mother of a beloved son who was killed in a boating accident cries to her brother on a golf course of wealth when he tells her to be happy. She says to him:
"Happy? Ward you tell me what's happy? But first you better
make sure your kids are safe. That none of them have fallen out of a
tree, or been hit by a car, or drowned in that pool you're so proud of!
Then you come to me and tell me how to be happy!"
I love that scene, for which Mary Tyler Moore should have gotten best actress because it snaps us into reality that for some life does not always bring a festive New Year's Eve joy but a long difficult journey through a mountain of uncertainly. I wish for Chelsea's child the ability to plod on through the inevitable bramble seeking the light and the gift we are given for a very short time to see that light and all the beauty that shines through.
Friday, September 26, 2014
The Coffee Cup Salute
CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO KNOW EXACTLY WHY REPUBLICANS CAN NEVER EVER
BE ELECTED TO ANYTHING NOT EVEN DOG CATCHER. CONSERVATIVES IN THEIR
OWN DISGUSTING FASHION BY THE FOX NEWS CONVEYOR BELT WANTED TO GET A
BELT IN AGAINST GUESS WHO? YES, THE PRESIDENT FOR HIS SO CALLED "COFFEE
CUP SALUTE." JOHN STEWART GAVE IT RIGHT BACK TO THEM IN TRIPLICATE.
WATCH AND ENJOY AND WHILE YOU ARE AT IT DO WHATEVER YOU MUST DO SO THAT
THESE UTTER IMBECILIC, RACIST JERKS NEVER BE ALLOWED TO WALK UP THE
CAPITOL STEPS OR THROUGH THE WHITE HOUSE DOOR!!!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/26/1332511/-Jon-Stewart-slams-Fox-News-Hannity-on-Obama-s-coffee-cup-salute-critique#
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/26/1332511/-Jon-Stewart-slams-Fox-News-Hannity-on-Obama-s-coffee-cup-salute-critique#
Derek Jeter Delivers
I am a Red Sox fan from my toes to my brain but this man just captured
me. Derek Jeter, as Brian Williams said on the evening news last night, will walk into the Hall of Fame.
I haven't read about this game winning at bat last night, Jeter's last at Yankee Stadium after a storied career because I
want to see it on TV today.
This veteran Yankee great of all greats in league with Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio ends his baseball career in storybook fashion. Even I, with Red Sox in my blood, love him. In these days of sports and world corruption he shines like an angel -- a principled, man. I am crying just reading the first paragraph about the game last evening. I am sure I will be a puddle of tears when I see it on TV this morning.
Good for you Derek Jeter for giving the nation your best and for giving it a much needed moment about which to cheer for a good and honorable man. What a breath of fresh air he is amid all the bickering, anger and violence of the nation and the world.
He never married because he felt he could not give a family and children the necessary attention his big career demanded. Even that is the soul of a great man. He wants to marry and have a family now and I suspect he will have no trouble finding one. The woman who shares your life, Derek Jeter, will be a lucky one. Good luck to you. This Red Sox fan says thank you very much for delivering the wining run of your final game in the House that Ruth Built. It is a symbolic winning moment of your entire winning life!!
This veteran Yankee great of all greats in league with Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio ends his baseball career in storybook fashion. Even I, with Red Sox in my blood, love him. In these days of sports and world corruption he shines like an angel -- a principled, man. I am crying just reading the first paragraph about the game last evening. I am sure I will be a puddle of tears when I see it on TV this morning.
Good for you Derek Jeter for giving the nation your best and for giving it a much needed moment about which to cheer for a good and honorable man. What a breath of fresh air he is amid all the bickering, anger and violence of the nation and the world.
He never married because he felt he could not give a family and children the necessary attention his big career demanded. Even that is the soul of a great man. He wants to marry and have a family now and I suspect he will have no trouble finding one. The woman who shares your life, Derek Jeter, will be a lucky one. Good luck to you. This Red Sox fan says thank you very much for delivering the wining run of your final game in the House that Ruth Built. It is a symbolic winning moment of your entire winning life!!
Thursday, September 25, 2014
EXACTLY what is needed!!
Sheik
Abdullah bin Bayyah is considered one of the most influential Muslims
in the world. As a respected scholar, he has issued edicts to explain
why groups...
npr.org|By Dina Temple-Raston
The ISIS Crisis -- A Decision
Listening
to the president's persuasive eloquence at the UN, knowing that now we
have Arab allies among others in the armed coalition, and knowing this
president thinks things out scrupulously I am comfortable in my support
for his decision to act against ISIS and its affiliates.
The reports today from smuggled out film of the kind of humanity (if one wants to call it humanity) that ISIS, et al is I am sickened by their nauseating brutality and the monstrosity of their faux religious ideological belief if you want to call it religious belief. Islam surely is not about that.
Another French tourist hiking in Algeria was captured by the ISIS arm of death, promptly decapitated posting the decapitation along with other unspeakable behavior after the beheading on the Internet -- the fourth beheading barbarism in a short period of time. The other atrocities ISIS & Co. commit are enumerable. Who could allow these monsters born from the depths of a swamp to gain the foothold they are poised to gain if not stopped?
Covering up women Taliban style is not enough for ISIS. Women in an ISIS world would be covered in black from head to toe with NOTHING -- and I do mean NOTHING not even an eyebrow -- showing. The outrage at these outrageous sects leads me to conclude what the president has ordered is correct. ISIS, Inc. cannot be allowed to commit Medieval madness in the extreme.
I answered my question. Whom do I trust? I trust this president and the US military with Arab and other support in its attempts to rid the world of this savage and rapacious scourge no matter how long it takes.
We can ask nothing more of our gigantic power and expect nothing less. The US military is the only thing that stands between you and a new Dark Age!
We naturally need to elect Democrats across the nation so the brilliance of this president can be enhanced over the next two years. Think about what could be done and the legacy he would leave. SIGN UP DEMOCRATS ACROSS THE NATION AND BRING THEM TO THE POLLS NO MATTER WHAT THE REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONIST BRUTALITY DOES TO PREVENT IT. DO NOT LET THEM. OVERTHROW THROUGH OUR EXAMPLE OF THE ELECTORAL PROCESS THIS REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE AND LET THE PRESIDENT LEAD FOR THE BETTERMENT OF US, THE 98%!
The reports today from smuggled out film of the kind of humanity (if one wants to call it humanity) that ISIS, et al is I am sickened by their nauseating brutality and the monstrosity of their faux religious ideological belief if you want to call it religious belief. Islam surely is not about that.
Another French tourist hiking in Algeria was captured by the ISIS arm of death, promptly decapitated posting the decapitation along with other unspeakable behavior after the beheading on the Internet -- the fourth beheading barbarism in a short period of time. The other atrocities ISIS & Co. commit are enumerable. Who could allow these monsters born from the depths of a swamp to gain the foothold they are poised to gain if not stopped?
Covering up women Taliban style is not enough for ISIS. Women in an ISIS world would be covered in black from head to toe with NOTHING -- and I do mean NOTHING not even an eyebrow -- showing. The outrage at these outrageous sects leads me to conclude what the president has ordered is correct. ISIS, Inc. cannot be allowed to commit Medieval madness in the extreme.
I answered my question. Whom do I trust? I trust this president and the US military with Arab and other support in its attempts to rid the world of this savage and rapacious scourge no matter how long it takes.
We can ask nothing more of our gigantic power and expect nothing less. The US military is the only thing that stands between you and a new Dark Age!
We naturally need to elect Democrats across the nation so the brilliance of this president can be enhanced over the next two years. Think about what could be done and the legacy he would leave. SIGN UP DEMOCRATS ACROSS THE NATION AND BRING THEM TO THE POLLS NO MATTER WHAT THE REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONIST BRUTALITY DOES TO PREVENT IT. DO NOT LET THEM. OVERTHROW THROUGH OUR EXAMPLE OF THE ELECTORAL PROCESS THIS REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE AND LET THE PRESIDENT LEAD FOR THE BETTERMENT OF US, THE 98%!
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Who Do You Trust?
There
was a game show hosted by Johnny Carson in the early sixties called
"Who Do You Trust?" (Should have been whom but I digress.) In our time
as a rationale for war who you trust is not a game show.
I do not like war as it tends to kill lots of human beings many innocent and so I was initially against an air strike within Syria. I am still troubled by it not because the bestial behavior of ISIS, a brutally warped monstrosity, does not warrant elimination but because I simply do not know who is telling me the truth within the maze of anarchistic and religious conflict in the explosive Middle East of which this nation has been an integral and in 2002 an offending part. Is ISIS an existential threat to the west? Truly, is it?
The lies spun for war in this nation have been many. I will not enumerate them now but they surely include Bush's uber lie of WMD in Iraq creating the current never-ending explosions in that neck of the woods. Some say our historical memory is short and filled with historical fluff told by the winners.
THIS time the rationales for Fear, Inc, are ISIS, ISIL and the Khorasan Group (sounds like an insurance company.) The war may and perhaps will, as the president said, go on indefinitely. The true dilemma is whom can I trust?
Our commander-in-chief has a brain and is surprisingly this time finding allied support from a variety of Arab states who each have their own agenda. The words of war protestors "no more war" are like dust in the wind. They disappear into the cacophonous sound of the media stratosphere. The media talking heads blather on with few complex points made in the space of five minutes experts are given for each topic. Can they help it if our McDonald's nation wants news in the space of time it takes to cook a hamburger and has no patience for complexity? If points are made by "experts" the experts often get paid handsomely as mouthpieces for one defense industry or another which is not transparent.
Who can I trust? I suspect I will never know so, yet again, I acquiesce to war. In that neck of the chaotic woods filled with many who hate this nation rightfully or wrongfully can one take the chance that this president is wrong or worse lying?
Whether the nations of the Middle East survive and build democratic states is of no concern to me. BUT what is of concern to me is that this nation not suffer another attack and with it the possibility of nuclear peril.
At least for now (I reserve the right to change my opinion) I will take the words of our president as truth and support him because our very lives and this nation's existence depend upon his not lying to us.
Whom do I trust? I still do not really know do you?
I do not like war as it tends to kill lots of human beings many innocent and so I was initially against an air strike within Syria. I am still troubled by it not because the bestial behavior of ISIS, a brutally warped monstrosity, does not warrant elimination but because I simply do not know who is telling me the truth within the maze of anarchistic and religious conflict in the explosive Middle East of which this nation has been an integral and in 2002 an offending part. Is ISIS an existential threat to the west? Truly, is it?
The lies spun for war in this nation have been many. I will not enumerate them now but they surely include Bush's uber lie of WMD in Iraq creating the current never-ending explosions in that neck of the woods. Some say our historical memory is short and filled with historical fluff told by the winners.
THIS time the rationales for Fear, Inc, are ISIS, ISIL and the Khorasan Group (sounds like an insurance company.) The war may and perhaps will, as the president said, go on indefinitely. The true dilemma is whom can I trust?
Our commander-in-chief has a brain and is surprisingly this time finding allied support from a variety of Arab states who each have their own agenda. The words of war protestors "no more war" are like dust in the wind. They disappear into the cacophonous sound of the media stratosphere. The media talking heads blather on with few complex points made in the space of five minutes experts are given for each topic. Can they help it if our McDonald's nation wants news in the space of time it takes to cook a hamburger and has no patience for complexity? If points are made by "experts" the experts often get paid handsomely as mouthpieces for one defense industry or another which is not transparent.
Who can I trust? I suspect I will never know so, yet again, I acquiesce to war. In that neck of the chaotic woods filled with many who hate this nation rightfully or wrongfully can one take the chance that this president is wrong or worse lying?
Whether the nations of the Middle East survive and build democratic states is of no concern to me. BUT what is of concern to me is that this nation not suffer another attack and with it the possibility of nuclear peril.
At least for now (I reserve the right to change my opinion) I will take the words of our president as truth and support him because our very lives and this nation's existence depend upon his not lying to us.
Whom do I trust? I still do not really know do you?
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
A Beautiful Quote
I
have completed viewing two episodes of another Ken Burns Masterpiece --
"The Roosevelts: An Intimate History." Teddy Roosevelt the early 20th
century president has been the focus.
There are some great men and women who drop by our home for a visit, knock on the door and, while not perfect men or women, do some perfect things which help us all. Teddy Roosevelt, I believe, was such a man -- a rough rider, a bull moose who had a violence in temperament to be sure but also possessed a softness of soul.
He spoke the following words I thought to share because they are so poetically beautiful and profound in context. They encapsulate a part of who he was:
There are some great men and women who drop by our home for a visit, knock on the door and, while not perfect men or women, do some perfect things which help us all. Teddy Roosevelt, I believe, was such a man -- a rough rider, a bull moose who had a violence in temperament to be sure but also possessed a softness of soul.
He spoke the following words I thought to share because they are so poetically beautiful and profound in context. They encapsulate a part of who he was:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who
points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could
have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in
the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who
strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because
there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually
strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great
devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows
in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he
fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall
never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor
defeat.”
Excerpt from the speech "Citizenship In A Republic" delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910
Excerpt from the speech "Citizenship In A Republic" delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910
Monday, September 22, 2014
My Letter/Call to the Secret Service
I
am UTTERLY APPALLED, angry and completely incredulous about the rancid Secret
Service security breach of the presidential residence and I made my
feelings known by calling the Secret Service which is exactly what
Americans should do if they have strong feelings about something. Do
NOT keep it quiet make your voices heard. I am sickened by this failure
of the Secret Service to guard OUR president's residence.
This
president has received more angry threats, more opposition, more
Congressional Republican intransigence, more Fox News lies and bile than
any president in US history. There are those evil forces in this
nation especially Republican and Tea Bag forces that want this president
to fail WE MUST NOT LET THESE UGLY FORCES WIN. We must step up to the
plate and tell the Secrete Service in no uncertain terms that THEY
CANNOT FAIL not even once to protect the president.
Why was the door to his residence not locked? Why was this insane man with a knife even allowed on the grounds of the White House? I give up my rights
to the People's House when the president's security is at risk. HE
COMES FIRST, HIS SECURITY COMES FIRST and the SECURITY OF HIS FAMILY
comes first.
Secret Service GET YOUR organization in ORDER. This is serous business and the lives of many people here and
around the world are at stake. Revamp your processes. I do not care
what you do but PROTECT THIS PRESIDENT 100% and DO NOT FAIL! Shame on
you. I am stunned and sickened by this lack of security. GET YOUR ACT
IN ORDER and do your job!
WHY YET AGAIN REPUBLICAN
CONTROL OF ANYTHING IS OUT OF THE QUESTION. GET DEMOCRATS REGISTERED
AND TO THE POLLS ON NOVEMBER 4, 2014!
Democracy Now interview--Naomi Klein a must see
EXCELLENT
interview by Amy Goodman (Democracy Now) of Naomi Klein. You do not
have to take my word that Naomi Klein is brilliant and spot on correct
with respect our climate change catastrophe. See the interview of her
below and a link to her book "This Changes Everything Capitalism v. The
Climate" and .... then ACT!
here or http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/9/18/naomi_klein_on_motherhood_geoengineering_climate
Her book "This Changes Everything Capitalism Vs. The Climate" is at the link below or here.
http://www.naomiklein.org/main
here or http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/9/18/naomi_klein_on_motherhood_geoengineering_climate
Her book "This Changes Everything Capitalism Vs. The Climate" is at the link below or here.
http://www.naomiklein.org/main
Thursday, September 18, 2014
The Roosevelts--An Intimate History
ANOTHER
REASON TO GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE. KEEP FDR ALIVE. THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY IS THE ONLY VEHICLE FOR THAT. SIGN UP TO VOTE ALL MINORITIES,
AFRICAN AMERICANS, HISPANICS, WOMEN, THE YOUNG, THE DISABLED, THE
ELDERLY AND ALL THOSE YEARNING FOR JUSTICE. VOTE WHETHER REPUBLICANS
TRY TO OBSTRUCT YOU FROM ENJOYING YOUR BASIC FREEDOM OR NOT--THE RIGHT
TO VOTE. PASS THIS AROUND TO ANY YOU CHOOSE!
"The Roosevelts--An Intimate History" is FABULOUS PBS programming by Ken Burns. Again and again Ken Burns staggers me with his brilliant documentarian efforts from "Baseball" to "The Civil War" and to now to "The Roosevelts--An Intimate History." How much genius can exist in one man? (See links to info below.)
I ignore my boycott of certain PBS programming which I see may not be influenced by the Koch Brothers. I continue to boycott PBS by not contributing money and not viewing that which I know is influenced by Koch's, in my view, hostile takeover of PBS and NOT polluted by Koch billionaire right wing extremist money. I'm waiting for PBS to air "Citizen Koch" which, of course, was squelched. Maybe then I will rethink my stand.
"The Roosevelts--An Intimate History" is FABULOUS PBS programming by Ken Burns. Again and again Ken Burns staggers me with his brilliant documentarian efforts from "Baseball" to "The Civil War" and to now to "The Roosevelts--An Intimate History." How much genius can exist in one man? (See links to info below.)
I ignore my boycott of certain PBS programming which I see may not be influenced by the Koch Brothers. I continue to boycott PBS by not contributing money and not viewing that which I know is influenced by Koch's, in my view, hostile takeover of PBS and NOT polluted by Koch billionaire right wing extremist money. I'm waiting for PBS to air "Citizen Koch" which, of course, was squelched. Maybe then I will rethink my stand.
Thank you, Ken Burns, for this masterpiece about a family I adore. I
make no secrete of loving, especially, FDR. I went to Hyde Park to see
his home and his presidential library. I saw FDR's, Eleanor's
and their dog Fala's graves. I stood there and cried for a nation that
once was on a trajectory for helping the 98% but has morphed now into an
ugly Republican oligarchic takeover by the 1% richest. Even Teddy
Roosevelt, a
Republican, wanted a more egalitarian nation and his trust busting
emanated from that much to the chagrin of his own Patrician class.
How I long for the leadership of the Roosevelt era. The social conditions were nasty but the leadership reached Olympian Heights. My FDR, whom I never knew except through my parents' eyes, I love him even now. May someone come along as great as he to save our nation from the oligarchic obstructionist Republican reign of terror nightmare of division it is. I keep looking for that leader but do not see him/her ... yet!
See link here or http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-roosevelts
How I long for the leadership of the Roosevelt era. The social conditions were nasty but the leadership reached Olympian Heights. My FDR, whom I never knew except through my parents' eyes, I love him even now. May someone come along as great as he to save our nation from the oligarchic obstructionist Republican reign of terror nightmare of division it is. I keep looking for that leader but do not see him/her ... yet!
See link here or http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-roosevelts
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Can't we all just get along?
It is hard in today's Dickensian-like hard times to
find some levity. The only metaphor for
our times I could think of was the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz who, when
dying as water was splashed on her, said "I'm melting. I'm melting." And the world is in fact global climate
change melting.
Thanks to "Wars in the World" here or at the link below are the hotspots:
AMERICAS
Beyond that sad fact if one looks at a map there is conflict in countries seemingly everywhere. I have never
experienced in my lifetime an entire world at war until a reasonable facsimile
of it seems to exist now. My list does not even mention the soon-to-be-vote of Scottish secession and maybe even a revolt in Spain.
"What
a world, what a world" said the wicked witch as she was melting in the Land of Oz. What a
world, indeed!
Can't we all just get along? Did Oz's Dorothy or Glenda the Good Witch say that? No, I think I did!
Can't we all just get along? Did Oz's Dorothy or Glenda the Good Witch say that? No, I think I did!
It lists the following plus other in depth enumerations which I will not, of course, include:
By continent:
Africa
Hot Spots: Central African Republic (civil war), Democratic Republic of Congo (war against rebel groups), Egypt (popular uprising
against Government), Mali (war against tuareg and Islamic militants), Nigeria
(war against Islamic militants), Somalia (war against Islamic militants), Sudan
(war against rebel groups), South Sudan (civil war)
ASIA
Afghanistan (war against Islamic militants),
Burma-Myanmar (war against rebel groups), Pakistan (war against Islamic
militants), Philippines (war against Islamic militants), Thailand (coup d’etat
by army May 2014)
EUROPE
Chechnya (war against Islamic militants), Dagestan
(war against Islamic militants), Ukraine (Secession of self-proclaimed Donetsk
People’s Republic and self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic)
MIDDLE
EAST MAYHEM
Hot Spots: Iraq (war against Islamic State Islamic
militants), Israel (war in Gaza Strip), Syria (civil war), Yemen (war against
and between Islamic militants) and Somalia.
Not to be forgotten: The US led coalition to bomb ISIS/ISIL in Iraq and Syria -- GOOD LUCK WITH THAT! And then what?
(5 Countries and 25 between drug cartels,
militias-guerrillas, separatist groups and anarchic groups involved)
Hot Spots: Colombia (war against rebel groups),
Mexico (war against narcotraffic groups)
How
important is a vote for Democrats? VERY. Republicans never met a war they did not love or an issue of war fear it did not want to promote!
GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE in November 4, 2014 STOP REPUBLICON
OBSTRUCTIONISM TO OUR BASIC DEMOCRATIC RIGHT -- THE RIGHT TO VOTE!!!
Monday, September 15, 2014
LION KISSES!!!
On
a HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY note, the video below is GORGEOUS. How much do I
love our four legged beauties --- A LOT. Save our lovely environment
vote REPUGLICRATS OUT of office!
here or
http://www.vitality101.com/Fun/lion-kisses-rescuer
here or
http://www.vitality101.com/Fun/lion-kisses-rescuer
Stream of conscious--GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE:
How anyone on this planet can vote for the RepublCON Party I will NEVER on planet earth know. These 1%ers have those Baggers who support them utterly, totally significantly DUPED.
Send this around if you want. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE urge African Americans ALL OVER THE NATION to sign up to vote no matter how many rotten obstacles these VILE obstructionist Republicrats put in their way. IMPORTANTLY HISPANICS MUST, MUST, MUST, MUST get out to vote. Immigration reform will come later when the president can do it IF we can finally get a majority in both houses. Democrats HAVE the majority of the populous but in the mid terms some in the electorate, mind explosive to me, do not think it important to vote. That is a recipe for disaster.
DO WHAT YOU CAN BUT GET OUR DEMOCRATIC VOTERS ALONG WITH INDEPENDENTS WHO MIGHT VOTE DEMOCRATIC OUT TO VOTE: GET HISPANICS, AFRICAN AMERICANS, WOMEN, THE YOUNG, THE ELDERLY WHO DEPEND ON SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE, HEALTHCARE AND ALL THOSE WHO ARE NOT MEMBERS OF THE 1% RICHEST WHO ARE MAKING A HOSTILE TAKEOVER OUT TO REGISTER AND VOTE. DEMOCRATS MUST GET OUT THE VOTE. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A REPUBLICAN HOUSE AND A REPUBLICAN SENATE WILL DO TO US AND TO OUR PRESIDENT. HE WILL FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES BE DONE. DO NOT LET THAT HAPPEN. A PRESIDENT WITH CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT WOULD MAKE THIS COUNTRY THRIVE.
TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMICS IS REALLY TRICKLE UP TO THE 1%; UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATIONCREATES SPENDING WHICH CREATES JOBS AS DOES UPPING THE MINIMUM WAGE AS DOES INFRASTRUCTURE REPAIR AND ON AND ON TO DO WHAT GOVERNMENT AND ONLY GOVERNMENT CAN DO. DEMOCRATS KNOW THIS!
OUR COUNTRY WILL DIE UNDER A HOSTILE REPUBLICAN TAKEOVER AND WE THE MAJORITY 98% WILL DIE WITH IT! YOU, YOUR CHILDREN AND FUTURE GENERATIONS DESERVE BETTER. CONTRIBUTE AND SIGN UP DEMOCRATS AND GET THEM OUT TO VOTE!
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Can't Get Fooled Again
After 9/11 I was angry as most here were. Although a lifelong anti-war liberal Democrat
I took the attack by Al Qaeda and the horrific heap of metal and pile of bodies
it left personally as if I, too, had lost a loved one in the attack. It was exactly what Al Qaeda wanted us to
feel -- anger. My fury like so many
others could not be quelled.
When W. Bush stood on the fresh pile of 9/11 rubble
in New York and said
"I can hear you!
The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings
down will hear all of us soon!"
a cheer ran through me as if, since Vietnam, I never
protested a war at all. I wanted revenge
and watched the explosions from my TV at work set up for that express purpose
so that we could watch the US bomb Sadam Hussein and Iraq into oblivion. It was as if I were watching a July 4th
fireworks display. No dead bodies from
the bombing, of course, were shown but simply a night sky beautifully lit up
like Francis Scott Key was sitting at Ft. McHenry writing the words to the Star
Spangled Banner, our national Overture, written about our flag from afar during
the 1812 War and British invasion.
We now know that the Bush/Cheney administration and
all of its cronies took us to a hellish 13 year hardly short Iraq War based on
lies. Sadam Hussein hated Al Qaeda which
was not even in Iraq until AFTER the US invasion. There were no WMD, the trumped-up lie that
gave the necessary rationale for war the US could peddle to the UN. We were NOT greeted as the liberators the Cons
said we would be.
The Cons conned us
into a 5000+ American dead war because no one -- not the people, not the
Congress, and surely not the media -- thought critically to ask the critical
questions about the trillion buck war which was supposed to pay for itself but still
in religious war form rages. ISIS, the more
brutal Al Qaeda offshoot, never there before is there now, and has become the
latest rationale for war and perceived-by-us threat as it blasts its way toward
a territorial huge Islamic caliphate.
Again, we are being asked by our previously anti-war
president to go back into a war we just left by first sending more planes to
bomb and more advisers to advise failed states.
The only thing sure is more of us will die.
Are we not asking the hard questions again? It seems not as the desire to bomb is now
supported by 67% of the US population. Sometimes
there is no answer that will correct a problem. The cancer the president
describes correctly is the nature of ISIS and it is exactly that -- a religious
century’s long cancerous dispute that continues in a part of an Arab Spring
world which looks nothing like spring and more like eternal war that will
continue generationally.
Like some cancers sometimes one must face facts no
matter how much one "fights" it will ultimately return. And so it will be with ISIS; no matter how
many are killed more will take their place.
Americans with their white hat black hat world view cannot understand that
it is not as simple as kill the bad guys. The “bad guys" always return and
worse the hats the Arabs see us wearing are colored black and used as proof
the west wants to defeat Islam their sacred creed. We cannot understand that because we are fed
our own propaganda from a corporate media that slants its news to feed its
hungry advertisers to get us to watch.
I am VERY skeptical of it all. I have been third
degree burned once angered after 9/11 because I accepted W. Bush's horrific
Iraq war based on lies. Now should I get burned again because explosive
religious war bombasts decide to do what comes naturally to them and behead two
journalists who took a huge reporting risk going to a tinderbox morass to report
on a group that propagandizes them by killing them horrifically and placing it
on YouTube?
America should think well on what it does before it
becomes involved in an eternal generational conflict which will kill our own
and sap whatever resources we have left.
The Middle East we KNOW is about oil, the fuel of
life. We have needed desperately to get
off it as an addict hooked on heroin needs to get clean. Oil kills not only us in war but pollutes our
earth we need to live destroying it through climate change and filth. Alternative sources of energy must be developed
quickly and oil ultimately ditched to get the Middle East heroin monkey off our
backs.
Before we begin on our latest war venture as George
Bush so in-eloquently put it:
"There's an old saying in
Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says,
fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get
fooled again."
For once I agree!Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Moulton the Magnificent
Those
who do not care about Massachusetts politics you can ignore this but
mark my words -- as either being out on Planet Pluto or presciently
correct. You will have to wait until 2020 to see if I am. I will be,
well who the heck knows where I'll be, but I will say this anyway.
I know Seth Moulton is not even in my district. I don't care I am giving a shout out to this man whom I never even gave a first thought never mind a second to. He did something big AND he is a fabulous candidate for the 6th District of Mass. He unseated a nearly two decades Congressman Tierney from the 6th. This is why I love politics especially when someone comes from out of nowhere to win. (Republican rhymes with town, of course, an exception!) Seth Moulton did just that and he is a Democrat.
Okay, I'm getting ahead of myself but I will say it anyway. This man is going places. That district is his I predict for as long as he wants it. I see a halo of Jack Kennedy II above his head. Seth Moulton is a former Marine, a Philips Academy alum and Harvard grad to boot with a major in physics and -- excuse the looksist comment -- he is stunning. Am I dreaming? This is why I love Massachusetts and its all blue Congress -- Warren and Moulton, et al Nirvana.
Until he proves otherwise, I LOVE THIS GUY and say a big congrats to the 6th District that finally found a worthy man!
I know Seth Moulton is not even in my district. I don't care I am giving a shout out to this man whom I never even gave a first thought never mind a second to. He did something big AND he is a fabulous candidate for the 6th District of Mass. He unseated a nearly two decades Congressman Tierney from the 6th. This is why I love politics especially when someone comes from out of nowhere to win. (Republican rhymes with town, of course, an exception!) Seth Moulton did just that and he is a Democrat.
Okay, I'm getting ahead of myself but I will say it anyway. This man is going places. That district is his I predict for as long as he wants it. I see a halo of Jack Kennedy II above his head. Seth Moulton is a former Marine, a Philips Academy alum and Harvard grad to boot with a major in physics and -- excuse the looksist comment -- he is stunning. Am I dreaming? This is why I love Massachusetts and its all blue Congress -- Warren and Moulton, et al Nirvana.
Until he proves otherwise, I LOVE THIS GUY and say a big congrats to the 6th District that finally found a worthy man!
Saving Lives
It
is comforting to know there are still honorable people working
for what we, as a nation, should want -- humane, ethical good
government. We should accept nothing less. Through hard work we MUST NOT and will NOT give Republicons the victories they are so assured they will get.
Onward to electing Democrats throughout the land and nationally holding the majority in the US Senate. How phenomenal too if the miracle of flipping the House Democratic occurred. Okay so maybe that is a bit much -- NO it isn't. We deserve the excellence of leadership that in our time exists solely within the Democratic Party, a Party whose platform includes caring about the poor, valuing science, a Party that is diverse and a Party that cares for those who cannot care for themselves. It is a Party which will create jobs, infrastructure and a host of other things because of Republican obstructionism we cannot do.
It is honorable to be a liberal, honorable to be progressive and ever-so-honorable to be a Democrat. Do not falter and do not fail, as the drought stricken California proves science correct. Science is the only method to arrive at truth and is correct more times then it is not. Global climate man-induced climate change is a fact and we know Republicans through their corporate masters want to keep business as usual. Don't let them!
Elect Democrats across the nation and save lives!
Onward to electing Democrats throughout the land and nationally holding the majority in the US Senate. How phenomenal too if the miracle of flipping the House Democratic occurred. Okay so maybe that is a bit much -- NO it isn't. We deserve the excellence of leadership that in our time exists solely within the Democratic Party, a Party whose platform includes caring about the poor, valuing science, a Party that is diverse and a Party that cares for those who cannot care for themselves. It is a Party which will create jobs, infrastructure and a host of other things because of Republican obstructionism we cannot do.
It is honorable to be a liberal, honorable to be progressive and ever-so-honorable to be a Democrat. Do not falter and do not fail, as the drought stricken California proves science correct. Science is the only method to arrive at truth and is correct more times then it is not. Global climate man-induced climate change is a fact and we know Republicans through their corporate masters want to keep business as usual. Don't let them!
Elect Democrats across the nation and save lives!
The Laws of Physics
THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ARE NON NEGOTIABLE!!! Click on the link to this story.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/green/
Monday, September 08, 2014
House of Cards -- A Winning Hand
Keven
Spacey, Robin Wright and a host of other actors did what I thought was
the impossible -- create a series I love more than "Mad Men." Okay, so
the two series are completely different artistic endeavors but I have a
yardstick for how I rate the excellence of a film or series no matter
which genre into which it falls. I won't hold you in suspense, my
yardstick is how many times I look at my watch. Through this series the
only reason to look at the clock was in hope that the hour did not draw
too late so I would have to curtail my viewing.
I am a binge watcher of "House of Cards" and now have some idea even though I do not drink nor have I ever taken drugs of what pull addiction has on one's brain. I cannot stop watching this series. It is about Washington and its Machiavellian machinations guaranteed to glue you to the seat even if things political are not your cup of tea. Perhaps you enjoy playing cards instead. If so, this series is the most winning hand you will ever play. I highly recommend it!
I am a binge watcher of "House of Cards" and now have some idea even though I do not drink nor have I ever taken drugs of what pull addiction has on one's brain. I cannot stop watching this series. It is about Washington and its Machiavellian machinations guaranteed to glue you to the seat even if things political are not your cup of tea. Perhaps you enjoy playing cards instead. If so, this series is the most winning hand you will ever play. I highly recommend it!
Sunday, September 07, 2014
Martha Coakley--A Governor who can Win
Someone asked me if there was a Republican in the
Massachusetts gubernatorial race whom one could consider. I told her in our
time the two Parties are, sadly, diametrically opposed to one another. It means something now if one is a Democrat
or if one is Republican. There is,
therefore, in my opinion, never a good reason to vote Republican because if one
votes Republican one is voting for a conservative social agenda and destructive
economic policies as well. If one is
Republican one must strictly adhere to the party line. It means they are against marriage equality,
against a woman's right to choose, pro NRA and the expansion of gun owners'
rights even when it means the right to carry in a classroom and even in a
church. If one votes Republican one would
be voting for a strong religious influence in government and away from the Constitutional
Separation of church-state Clause.
Adding to that, one would be voting science deniers
into office, one would be voting for those who want to keep the division of
wealth in favor of the 1% by supporting tax law that shrinks the middle class. If one votes Republican one would be voting
for taking an ax to government programs that support the poor, the disabled, and
the elderly. One would be voting for a Party
that supports ultimately an end to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as we know it.
Republicans are against the strict regulation
of Wall Street and government oversight of the big banks. They support trickledown economics which has
never worked. One would vote for a Party
that shut down government and is threatening to do that again. The
Republican Party would even vote against raising of the debt ceiling so
America could not pay its bills send us into default and the world into
chaos. It is a Party that wasted taxpayer money
voting to eradicate the Affordable Health Care Act 57 times offering nothing to
take its place. It is a Party that cares
nothing about most of you.
The Republican code words are "small
government" but that really means few government programs and oversight
agencies except for the military as most Republicans never met a war they did
not like.
If one votes or is Republican one sinks or swims on one’s
own with no one but no one to help you out in times of trouble in an economic
system, mostly Republican-created that has provided plenty of trouble for the
middle class with it.
I want a Democrat in the Governor’s office who will
oppose all those aforementioned Republican policies. I want Martha Coakley as governor because she
is an experienced Democrat, she is smart, and she is progressive. She has proven that many times. I think she is capable and best of all she is
a Democrat who can WIN against the Republican Baker in the general election. I, therefore, unequivocally and for all those
reasons passionately support Martha Coakley for governor of Massachusetts.
Thursday, September 04, 2014
The Seriousnes of Our Time
I am critical of US policy to a point. History is necessary to know but, while
understanding its message, it is important to live in its present.
However critical one might wax against the west one must
make a value judgment for our time. Is
the west sinless? Absolutely it is not. Is western democratic free thought and its separation between church state crafted over Renaissance centuries better than
anything else the world has seen so far? Yes, it is!
The penchant to gain so called caliphate power by those who
are said to pervert Islam with unconscionable violence MUST be stopped. There is no other way as their zest for
compromise is nonexistent. Nearly
overnight the bestial ISIS/ISIL seemed to form as the Middle East through George Bush's so
called "preemptive war" destabilized an already unstable tinderbox region and now is descending into madness. Worse, some
very unstable states have nukes.
As man is prone the Islamic Spring which seemed so hopeful
at first quickly morphed into the most extreme chaos since the barbarity of
WWII. It happened during the French
Revolution, it happened after the Russian Revolution, and it happens after most
revolutions where man wants to vie for immense power, wealth and change through
revolutionary tactics and makes brutal war over it. Revolution's propaganda for those who want to
perpetrate it is their tool.
It is the Orwellian law of revolution the brilliant George
Orwell in his book "Animal Farm" instructs. Through his animal farm metaphor and the overthrow of Farmer Jones (a brutal and oppressive human) by
the animals -- the pigs -- he creates their new world order with its rallying cry: "All animals are equal!" That mantra
quickly devolves into "All animals are equal but some animals are more
equal than others." As stated in Wiki:
Years pass, and the pigs start to
resemble humans, as they walk upright, carry whips, and wear clothes. The Seven
Commandments are abridged to a single phrase: "All animals are equal, but
some animals are more equal than others". Napoleon (the leader of the
Pigs) holds a dinner party for them and local farmers, with whom he celebrates
a new alliance. He abolishes the practice of the revolutionary traditions and
restores the name "The Manor Farm." As the animals look from pigs to
humans, they realize they can no longer distinguish between the two.
The people, fodder of revolutions, ultimately get jackbooted
to the side and/or killed as power solidifies itself through Robespierreian
terror and tyranny. We cannot and we
must not let this happen in our time yet again.
Indeed, I believe, with all our frailties this nation is the
world's last best hope for civilized government no matter how many policy
errors it makes. It is amazing what our
Founders wrought and that it has lived as long as it has where change can be
perfected by law that civilizes man and averts violence. Our Founding Documents are precious because
they are a road map over time to peaceful change. I recognize even
more their life sustaining importance when a threat to them is hovering over our
world like the Angel of Death cloud and headed for our doorstep.
One must hope we with our allies are able to contain this
latest Middle East menace for world domination taking humanity back to a new Dark
Age with medieval tactics. No
matter how much my compatriots on the left are critical of our nation they are
in error to always think it wrong.
I paste a "Slate" article by William Saletan below to
reflect the seriousness of our time and what we must do.
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
The Artful Arti-T -- The Market Basket Miracle
I
have lots of thoughts about American business or lack of it and a
logarithm that supports employees, the consumers that purchase goods
and one that thinks of stockholders and CEO's bottom line after them.
The rich can live as well with less. The worker bees and consumers can
live decently if the rich accept just a little less. A thriving middle
class is formed exactly in this way and this above anything else is why
people risk their lives to get here.
Market Basket is an example of a wonderful marketing coup which should be taught in business schools and copied by other big businesses and chains everywhere. It was done with no unions just loyalty to a man CEO Arti-T who deserved it because he cared about those he employed and the consumers who buy what he sells.
I shopped there on Sunday and it was packed with goods and customers. I wanted to hug everyone -- Arti-T, the staff and the customers. More goods will be filling the shelves completely. I urge you to support this consumer friendly store and be the beginning of a movement! My food costs are 1/2 less shopping there than shopping anywhere else.
Arti-T is genius. He and all of us have done something amazing. Business may and should never be the same. Arti-T's formula WORKS to make millions and still be a caring and humane entity doing something for workers and consumers who need to save a buck.
Change, I have been told, comes from the bottom up and Arti-T knew how important his staff and patrons were so he worked at giving us lower lower-than-any-other-market costs and excellent quality to boot while he offered good benefits to his workers. People beat a path to his door. What could be bad about the success of that?
Arti-T thank you SO much! The win of Market Basket's Arti-T is the first good news in a long, long, long time.Yes, it and he will need our support and I am betting that both Arti-T and Market Basket will get it.
Natalie Rosen
39 Swift Road
Framingham, MA 01702
(508) 879-4170
Market Basket is an example of a wonderful marketing coup which should be taught in business schools and copied by other big businesses and chains everywhere. It was done with no unions just loyalty to a man CEO Arti-T who deserved it because he cared about those he employed and the consumers who buy what he sells.
I shopped there on Sunday and it was packed with goods and customers. I wanted to hug everyone -- Arti-T, the staff and the customers. More goods will be filling the shelves completely. I urge you to support this consumer friendly store and be the beginning of a movement! My food costs are 1/2 less shopping there than shopping anywhere else.
Arti-T is genius. He and all of us have done something amazing. Business may and should never be the same. Arti-T's formula WORKS to make millions and still be a caring and humane entity doing something for workers and consumers who need to save a buck.
Change, I have been told, comes from the bottom up and Arti-T knew how important his staff and patrons were so he worked at giving us lower lower-than-any-other-market costs and excellent quality to boot while he offered good benefits to his workers. People beat a path to his door. What could be bad about the success of that?
Arti-T thank you SO much! The win of Market Basket's Arti-T is the first good news in a long, long, long time.Yes, it and he will need our support and I am betting that both Arti-T and Market Basket will get it.
Natalie Rosen
39 Swift Road
Framingham, MA 01702
(508) 879-4170
What Could Have Been
I
try to hold the passion down but I just cannot help it. There is SO
much at stake for Democrats to GET OUT THE VOTE IN NOVEMBER 2014 and I simply cannot stand that for which Republicans
stand. Sure I know that Democrats, too, are beholden to monied interests
yes, people are often not in things for their health. But no one can
convince me that there is no difference between the two parties. There
is, it is huge now and white racism comprises much of the Republican
Party of the 1% all one needs to do is look at it.
IF the president in 2010 had a Democratic House and Senate think about all the things that could have been done. It is big and a minimum wage would have been one of them and stronger reform of Wall Street. There would have been no government shutdowns and no debt ceiling scare tactics, there would have been the wealthy paying more taxes and the middle class paying less so the deficit would have gone down even more than it already has and it HAS gone down under the president.
Roads, bridges, and infrastructure would have been fixed, the national grid would have been updated AND climate change would have been addressed as would alternative energy sources. Another stimulus would have created many more jobs and the economy would have improved more. Most importantly a change of just ONE just one more progressive on the Court and gd Citizen's United would be reversed, unlimited money taken out of the political realm maybe the oligarchy government by the rich which we have now would not be. Reform of the tax code and business avoidance of taxes rectified. And maybe there even would have been single payer health system which REALLY would work for the people. Women's rights would have been strengthened and the right to choose upheld. More egalitarian judges installed and appointments not delayed. AND A FAIR RIGHT TO CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRANT BILL PASSED! Attention paid to state and local governments turning them Democrat blue.
There would have been much less criticism of the president making us stronger and more unified. Sounds like heaven doesn't it? Yep it does and that is why the Democratic Party must win as our nation is, I believe, in trouble.
Just think about what our nation COULD have been had Bush the moron not been illegally installed as president -- NO 9/11, NO Osama bin Laden, and especially NO fraudulent lying war in Iraq. And most of all a Middle East NOT in turmoil. Thousands of lives would have been saved. Imagine....well, we must deal with what we have and Republican policies will create more gridlock and will add more fuel to the fire of an already nearly unrecognizably burned war weary nation! GET OUT THE 2014 NOVEMBER DEMOCRATIC VOTE AND YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL or AT LEAST SOME OF IT and do something with the two years left!!
IF the president in 2010 had a Democratic House and Senate think about all the things that could have been done. It is big and a minimum wage would have been one of them and stronger reform of Wall Street. There would have been no government shutdowns and no debt ceiling scare tactics, there would have been the wealthy paying more taxes and the middle class paying less so the deficit would have gone down even more than it already has and it HAS gone down under the president.
Roads, bridges, and infrastructure would have been fixed, the national grid would have been updated AND climate change would have been addressed as would alternative energy sources. Another stimulus would have created many more jobs and the economy would have improved more. Most importantly a change of just ONE just one more progressive on the Court and gd Citizen's United would be reversed, unlimited money taken out of the political realm maybe the oligarchy government by the rich which we have now would not be. Reform of the tax code and business avoidance of taxes rectified. And maybe there even would have been single payer health system which REALLY would work for the people. Women's rights would have been strengthened and the right to choose upheld. More egalitarian judges installed and appointments not delayed. AND A FAIR RIGHT TO CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRANT BILL PASSED! Attention paid to state and local governments turning them Democrat blue.
There would have been much less criticism of the president making us stronger and more unified. Sounds like heaven doesn't it? Yep it does and that is why the Democratic Party must win as our nation is, I believe, in trouble.
Just think about what our nation COULD have been had Bush the moron not been illegally installed as president -- NO 9/11, NO Osama bin Laden, and especially NO fraudulent lying war in Iraq. And most of all a Middle East NOT in turmoil. Thousands of lives would have been saved. Imagine....well, we must deal with what we have and Republican policies will create more gridlock and will add more fuel to the fire of an already nearly unrecognizably burned war weary nation! GET OUT THE 2014 NOVEMBER DEMOCRATIC VOTE AND YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL or AT LEAST SOME OF IT and do something with the two years left!!
Monday, September 01, 2014
GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE AND WATCH US WIN!!!
I have one sentence to all of you as I see and nearly explode as the Globe tries to make the NH senate race close by saying the NH Senate race between Shaheen and Brown "heats up."
Heats up my posterior. Jeanne Shaheen without question MUST win and WILL win SIGNIFICANTLY as Democrats CAN sweep all over the nation. Republicans are a bankrupt party with NOTHING to offer. So here is my one phase: GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE ALL OVER THE NATION.
DEMOCRATS WILL WIN IF YOU DO as we have the young, we have women, we have the elderly, we have African Americans, and we have Hispanics. What more do we need? WE NEED TO GET OUT THE [blank] VOTE, sit back and watch the Democratic victories across the nation if you do!!!
Heats up my posterior. Jeanne Shaheen without question MUST win and WILL win SIGNIFICANTLY as Democrats CAN sweep all over the nation. Republicans are a bankrupt party with NOTHING to offer. So here is my one phase: GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE ALL OVER THE NATION.
DEMOCRATS WILL WIN IF YOU DO as we have the young, we have women, we have the elderly, we have African Americans, and we have Hispanics. What more do we need? WE NEED TO GET OUT THE [blank] VOTE, sit back and watch the Democratic victories across the nation if you do!!!
The Artful Arti-T and the Miracle of Market Basket
What the Market
Basket has done was the GREATEST marketing coup of all time done with no unions
just loyalty to a man Arti-T who deserved it. I was just there shopping
today in Ashland and it was packed. I simply wanted to hug everyone --
Arti, the staff and the customers. More goods will be coming. I urge
you to support this consumer friendly store and be the beginning of a
movement!
Get rid of the supermarket you shop at and find a Market Basket. My bills are 1/2 less than everywhere else. Arti-T is a genius. I LOVE that man. He and all of us have done something amazing. Business may and SHOULD never be the same. I have LOTS of thoughts about the sad state of American business and ideas of what the young and business savvy person can do about it. Arti-T's formula WORKS to make millions and still be a caring humane person and do something for people who need it! Change comes from the bottom up and Arti-T knew how important his staff and patrons were.
Arti-T thank you SO much! First good news I have heard in a long long long time.
Get rid of the supermarket you shop at and find a Market Basket. My bills are 1/2 less than everywhere else. Arti-T is a genius. I LOVE that man. He and all of us have done something amazing. Business may and SHOULD never be the same. I have LOTS of thoughts about the sad state of American business and ideas of what the young and business savvy person can do about it. Arti-T's formula WORKS to make millions and still be a caring humane person and do something for people who need it! Change comes from the bottom up and Arti-T knew how important his staff and patrons were.
Arti-T thank you SO much! First good news I have heard in a long long long time.
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