Here, maybe I'll see you later
So, we send all these tax dollars to the National government and they send it back to us in projects as they see fit.
Instead of us paying for things that need to get done, such as helping a town save itself from the encroaching ocean, we rely on an inept government to do so. Instead of just going there and helping build the walls and such that is needed, we think we paid taxes so that emergency is averted. But the taxes we thought were reserved for emergencies somehow got reverted to something else entirely. A huge National government heard that 12 people in BFE wanted a little bridge and a road to go to and fro. Our money dwindles in a bureacracy. And from that bureaucracy we get price tags that balloon. So they say that the whole aforementioned town could move its 600 residents for 200 million dollars and it will take 20 years. Cut to news footage of Mexicans jumping the border
War on drugs
Have we become more sober through this war on drugs? The white-collared folks can afford to be prescribed drugs and can afford the unfortunate realities that join being high. The poor sit in jail.
I can't read it
What a surprise! Our lawmakers can't read the bills they write because they are too complicated and won't try because they are too long.
STOP
Paying for Obama to attend a Democratic fundraiser
1) Your not drawing any money or people to the fundraiser; that which will come will do so regardless.
2)Do your job-this is not a part of your job.
3)I'm not a Democrat, and my $ is not yours to go fundraising with.
I want a progressive society, not a progressive government. A progressive government means that our society has failed us and is lazy.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Aid and murder
What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan
Obama says that he will not commit more U.S. troops to Afghanistan until he is convinced that the central gov't can be a credible and effective U.S. partner. This begs the question of whether more troops are needed. If they are needed, then what kind of burden is this policy putting on the current troops there? The Afghan gov't says there are too many strings attached to our aid packages and are telling us what to do with our money. I say we should keep our money. We have enough money in our military to do what we need to do.
What the hell are we doing in Pakistan
We sent billions in aid to Pakistan's army and hardly any was spent on it. Later we send another package to them and they want assurances that it won't mess with their sovereignty. First off, we taxpayers that are sending them money should know exactly where our money is going. And apparently they have been using the money for whatever they want it to be used for. Our lawmakers should only be assuring them that they won't get any more aid.
-7.5 billion dollar aid package passed in congress unaminously.
Hillary Clinton says that all nations must play a part in Afghanistan mission. However, the terrorists don't hate all countries.
Is a deadline for troop withdrawal and a troop surge conflicting messages?
Obama says that he will not commit more U.S. troops to Afghanistan until he is convinced that the central gov't can be a credible and effective U.S. partner. This begs the question of whether more troops are needed. If they are needed, then what kind of burden is this policy putting on the current troops there? The Afghan gov't says there are too many strings attached to our aid packages and are telling us what to do with our money. I say we should keep our money. We have enough money in our military to do what we need to do.
What the hell are we doing in Pakistan
We sent billions in aid to Pakistan's army and hardly any was spent on it. Later we send another package to them and they want assurances that it won't mess with their sovereignty. First off, we taxpayers that are sending them money should know exactly where our money is going. And apparently they have been using the money for whatever they want it to be used for. Our lawmakers should only be assuring them that they won't get any more aid.
-7.5 billion dollar aid package passed in congress unaminously.
Hillary Clinton says that all nations must play a part in Afghanistan mission. However, the terrorists don't hate all countries.
Is a deadline for troop withdrawal and a troop surge conflicting messages?
Friday, October 02, 2009
simple media for simple people
http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/commentary/.../murrow.html
This is Edward R. Murrow's speech to the RTNDA in Chicago on October 15th, 1958.
In it, he told us what was happening to radio and television. He told us of the "evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world" that the media provided. He later said that he had no hope that his words would produce any change in the industry, which seemed determined to destroy itself. With the "exciting and fruitful method of communication" in the hands of timid and avaricious men and the apathetic appearing public, effort may prove to be futile.
This medium was never "corrected". There are few out there still that know how to run it correctly; it's so sporadic it is too hard to find. Those that know where to find it are already on board. (Even Olbermann, who emulates Murrow, mimics him to a fault.) The medium has grown too fat to correct now and money/entertainment rule the day. Too late now, media has destroyed the society it was supposed to inform.
A candidates image and timing are more lauded than his idea or design. So the public gets nothing and seems not to care.
This is Edward R. Murrow's speech to the RTNDA in Chicago on October 15th, 1958.
In it, he told us what was happening to radio and television. He told us of the "evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world" that the media provided. He later said that he had no hope that his words would produce any change in the industry, which seemed determined to destroy itself. With the "exciting and fruitful method of communication" in the hands of timid and avaricious men and the apathetic appearing public, effort may prove to be futile.
This medium was never "corrected". There are few out there still that know how to run it correctly; it's so sporadic it is too hard to find. Those that know where to find it are already on board. (Even Olbermann, who emulates Murrow, mimics him to a fault.) The medium has grown too fat to correct now and money/entertainment rule the day. Too late now, media has destroyed the society it was supposed to inform.
A candidates image and timing are more lauded than his idea or design. So the public gets nothing and seems not to care.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
what is liberty to them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei0ch-y7r5c
Interesting take on liberty. Easy to understand and a good way to tell what it is. Many Americans don't understand liberty and this could be a good tool to enlighten them.
Is it correct?
Interesting take on liberty. Easy to understand and a good way to tell what it is. Many Americans don't understand liberty and this could be a good tool to enlighten them.
Is it correct?
Saturday, September 12, 2009
next topics
You Lie! apology wastes congress' time.
It seems to be that all of this has been done before. What good does an "official" apology make. He apologized to Obama. Obama accepted. Move on. Some want to waste time and focus on the outburst and not on the issue of healthcare. What would have been cool would have been if Obama answered the outburst. I say Wilson shouldn't waste more time with another apology. The leaders calling for one should get back to work.
ex-gov Blago book a must not read.
Just let him bury himself.
It seems to be that all of this has been done before. What good does an "official" apology make. He apologized to Obama. Obama accepted. Move on. Some want to waste time and focus on the outburst and not on the issue of healthcare. What would have been cool would have been if Obama answered the outburst. I say Wilson shouldn't waste more time with another apology. The leaders calling for one should get back to work.
ex-gov Blago book a must not read.
Just let him bury himself.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
It's come to this?
http://www.insightbb.com/story.aspx?doc=ONLINE/D8LVMI103.xml&top=NEWS
Not only are people fighting each other to get their hands on the first PS3s, but they are mostly not even buying them for themselves. Then other people are actually buying them for extraordinary amounts on Ebay. Isn't this scalping?
Now people are beating the shit out of each other to steal them.
And finally cops are murdering kids for the theft.
The shooter may get off because the jury foreman checked the wrong box. I wonder which lawyer picked this guy in the voire dire?
Too far
Man in Atlanta was handcuffed and fined for selling a subway token because it is illegal to do so. He sold it to another person who was having trouble with a malfunctioning auto token seller. Ah, the law, protecting and preserving humanity once again.
The thing that bothered me about the small plane that crashed into the Manhattan apartment building was that all you heard was the baseball player's name and his instructer. "Yankee Cory Lidle and his instructer." As if the flight instructer, Tyler Stanger, was not as important as the guy who plays a game for a job. Ahhh, society. Fuckin' news.
Take this into consideration: There are American car companies. Those companies are Chevy.
Not only are people fighting each other to get their hands on the first PS3s, but they are mostly not even buying them for themselves. Then other people are actually buying them for extraordinary amounts on Ebay. Isn't this scalping?
Now people are beating the shit out of each other to steal them.
And finally cops are murdering kids for the theft.
The shooter may get off because the jury foreman checked the wrong box. I wonder which lawyer picked this guy in the voire dire?
Too far
Man in Atlanta was handcuffed and fined for selling a subway token because it is illegal to do so. He sold it to another person who was having trouble with a malfunctioning auto token seller. Ah, the law, protecting and preserving humanity once again.
The thing that bothered me about the small plane that crashed into the Manhattan apartment building was that all you heard was the baseball player's name and his instructer. "Yankee Cory Lidle and his instructer." As if the flight instructer, Tyler Stanger, was not as important as the guy who plays a game for a job. Ahhh, society. Fuckin' news.
Take this into consideration: There are American car companies. Those companies are Chevy.
Monday, December 11, 2006
divided we fall
-Alexander Hamilton-Federalist-
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are rich and wellborn, the other the mass of the people. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom determine rightly. Give, therefore, to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second.
-John Locke-The Second Treatise-
...Or else when by the miscarriages of those in authority, it is forfeited...it reverts to the society, and the people have the right to act as Supreme, and continue the Legislative in themselves (in new hands), or erect a new form.
-James Madison-The Federalist No.51-
The constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other
-John Stuart Mill-On Liberty-
...But when they are sure, it is not conscientiousness but cowardice to shrink from acting on their opinions, and allow doctrines which they honestly think dangerous to the welfare of mankind, either in this life or another to be scattered abroad without restraint, because other people, in less enlightened times, have persecuted opinions now believed to be true.
-James Q Wilson-Bureaucracy-
(American Paradoxical Bureaucracy)...two qualities ordinarily quite seperate: the multiplication of rules and the opportunity for access. We have a system laden with rules; elsewhere that is a sure sign that the bureaucracy is aloof from the people, distant from their concerns, preoccupied with power and privileges. We also have a system suffused with participation- councils, citizen groups, investigators, journalists, and lawyers,- elsewhere this popular involvement would be seen as evidence that the administration system is no good, inefficient and shot through with corruption and favoritism. These two traits- rules and openness- co-existing eludes many contemporary students of the subject.
-Thomas Jefferson-
"Given the choice between having a government without a press, or a press without a government, I would prefer the latter." While in office, though, he bitterly resented the press.
-Jefferson Davis-Inaugural Address 1861-
...I approach the discharge of the duties assigned to me with humble distrusting of my abilities, but with a sustaining confidence in the wisdom of those who are to guide and aid me in the administration of public affairs, and an abiding faith in the virtue and patriotism of the people... Our present political position has been achieved in a manner unprecedented in the history of nations. It illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is a right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established. (this right is inalienable)
(?)
-No man, the radicals urged in the most American of all arguements, ought to forget what level he came from; when he does, he ought to be led back and shown the mortifying picture of originality.
-Public virtue is not so active as private love of gain.
-Rulers, the constitution makers of 1776 realized, must be conceived as creatures of the people, made for their use, accountable to them, and subject to removal as soon as they act inconsistent with the purpose for which they are formed.
As Americans, we used to seek the removal of barriers. That day is gone. Rules and license has taken over. Fullest individual expression has been retarded due to ignorance and false morals. A true young American, convinced that he-a chosen one-stood on the threshold of true greatness-would feed others of his world democratic ideals.
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are rich and wellborn, the other the mass of the people. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom determine rightly. Give, therefore, to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second.
-John Locke-The Second Treatise-
...Or else when by the miscarriages of those in authority, it is forfeited...it reverts to the society, and the people have the right to act as Supreme, and continue the Legislative in themselves (in new hands), or erect a new form.
-James Madison-The Federalist No.51-
The constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other
-John Stuart Mill-On Liberty-
...But when they are sure, it is not conscientiousness but cowardice to shrink from acting on their opinions, and allow doctrines which they honestly think dangerous to the welfare of mankind, either in this life or another to be scattered abroad without restraint, because other people, in less enlightened times, have persecuted opinions now believed to be true.
-James Q Wilson-Bureaucracy-
(American Paradoxical Bureaucracy)...two qualities ordinarily quite seperate: the multiplication of rules and the opportunity for access. We have a system laden with rules; elsewhere that is a sure sign that the bureaucracy is aloof from the people, distant from their concerns, preoccupied with power and privileges. We also have a system suffused with participation- councils, citizen groups, investigators, journalists, and lawyers,- elsewhere this popular involvement would be seen as evidence that the administration system is no good, inefficient and shot through with corruption and favoritism. These two traits- rules and openness- co-existing eludes many contemporary students of the subject.
-Thomas Jefferson-
"Given the choice between having a government without a press, or a press without a government, I would prefer the latter." While in office, though, he bitterly resented the press.
-Jefferson Davis-Inaugural Address 1861-
...I approach the discharge of the duties assigned to me with humble distrusting of my abilities, but with a sustaining confidence in the wisdom of those who are to guide and aid me in the administration of public affairs, and an abiding faith in the virtue and patriotism of the people... Our present political position has been achieved in a manner unprecedented in the history of nations. It illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is a right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established. (this right is inalienable)
(?)
-No man, the radicals urged in the most American of all arguements, ought to forget what level he came from; when he does, he ought to be led back and shown the mortifying picture of originality.
-Public virtue is not so active as private love of gain.
-Rulers, the constitution makers of 1776 realized, must be conceived as creatures of the people, made for their use, accountable to them, and subject to removal as soon as they act inconsistent with the purpose for which they are formed.
As Americans, we used to seek the removal of barriers. That day is gone. Rules and license has taken over. Fullest individual expression has been retarded due to ignorance and false morals. A true young American, convinced that he-a chosen one-stood on the threshold of true greatness-would feed others of his world democratic ideals.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
more Big Brother
Government asleep at the switch
Much like smoking in a bar, emergency contraception handouts should be left to the owner of the establishment. If CVS says yes, then the pharmacist should oblige. If someone owns his own pharmacy, and he doesn't morally believe in the use of such, he should be able to not sell them. This should not be a force of the government. As Blagojevich wants, if the pharmacy is out of the contraceptive, it needs to suggest a suitable alternative, order it, or transfer the prescription to another pharmacy. While the big companies will do what they will, and that is to make money, an individual pharmacist should have the right to say,"If you didn't want to have a child, you should stop fucking".
Lies and misconceptions
Allusions to mushroom clouds in the build-up to the war in Iraq.
"Mission Accomplished"
Cheney: the insurgency is "in it's final throes".
McCain: "The frustration that America feels today was all too predictable because they were led to believe this could be some kind of day at the beach." If this was so predictable, couldn't have someone been more vociferous in preventing this?
The media says that we "NOW" reject the link the administration has made betwixt Iraq and the war on terror. But, many objected from the onset of the administration pushing this agenda. Many listened to the people, (Wilson, in particular) that Bush didn't listen to.
Rumsfeld: deeply troubled by the succes of the terrorist groups in manipulating the media to influence Westerners. Gee,who else does that?
In the 80's, many large cities carried urban renewal programs inwhich they put up modern apartment buildings. These buildings replaced hotels and boardinghouses that housed poor and single people, where rent was cheap. During the 70's, states and cities decided that mentally ill people would be better off in the community than in a mental facility. So, they were released, weren't ready, and became homeless.
Bail me out
Bailouts for business is the worst use of taxes. It's a business. If you fail, you failed. It is not fair for those that run a good business or struggle and come through.
tax $ for studies. Tax $ to see if being a rock star shortens your life. C'mon. Is this your science community now?
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