April 21, 2009: TMZ reports on Sean Hannity's latest hairdo disaster while Fox News and Rush Limbaugh continue to undermine any attempts to repair the economic disaster brought on by the Republican Party.  Did you forget to attend the tea-bagging? A lot of people did, or just didn't buy into the stupidity of it all.
As you can see elsewhere on this site Fox News, and in particular Sean Hannity ,missed the coming of the economic collapse well after the stock market tanked and claimed that the country's economic fundamentals were still strong?  None the less, Sean and Rush are still pushing tax cuts and de-regulations in a supposed free-market enviroment.  Somehow no one at Fox News figured out that when Alan Greenspan said that the free-markets would self regulate themselves, he was clueless. Or, are Sean and Rush, unable to make the Reaganomics connection here?

As self anointed political and economic messiahs Sean and Rush defend torture (and Dick Cheney) claiming that these tactics have worked since there have been no attacks on our country...well, as long as you ignore the fact that we were attacked on their watch.  Sean Hannity claims that Los Angeles was saved by torture. That if we had not tortured there might not be a Los Angeles!  Anyone catching the fear mongering drift here?  If Rush and Sean aren't scaring you, their not doing their job. 

        

Republican crybaby syndrome reaches zenith as Newt Gingrich goes on the Today Show and blubbers that the sky is falling. That everything that Obama and the Democrats are doing are undermining our country's security.  Boo hoo.

But, true to Republican politics of fear mongering Newt does his best to whine about everything including his own irrelevancy, and why the Republican party has no new ideas until Rush comes up with them.

Then, Newt's buddy and Fox News spokesperson Dick Cheney goes on Hannity and explains why torture is a good thing.  Thank goodness we have Fox News to distort and decide.  Good thing they created and sponsored the "Teabagging Event!"  Now that's a real grass root movement. From the top down to the people that almost attended this event.

Is Glen Beck in therapy?  Who are the sponsors on that show? I'm not buying what he has to say, or what they're trying to sell. Now there's a grass root movement people can get behind!

        

Glen Beck continues to undermine the Republican Party. The gift that keeps on giving...  The Fox "TeaBagging" phony grass roots non-movement sponsored by Fox and Dick Army.  Thank God the Republicans have no shame, or conscience...

        

 Click on the white arrow and let the pogos begin!
                     
                       

        

        

        

Obliviousness is not an option, unless of course you're watching Fox News.

        

History vs. Bill Clinton

Deregulation Reagonomics, and the beginning of our Country's economic melt down/ the second Great Depression. 

Bill Clinton (with Alan Greenspan appreciatively looking on) signing the repeal of the Glass Steagall Act/Banking Bill of 1933. Huge mistake!  (No one in this picture is innocent. Big problem is if we look into this piece of history a lot of current Senators and Congressmen that voted for this repeal, at their lobbyist (banking and insurance industries) request, are hoping this can be swept under the carpet.

The bill that ultimately repealed the Glass-Steagall was introduced by Republican Phil Gramm. The bill was passed along Republican majorities along party lines: 54-44 in the Senate and 343-86 in the House.  The Republicans final bipartisan bill had a large enough majority to override a Presidential veto, so this new legislation was signed into law by Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999.

The Banking Industry had been seeking to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act since the 1980s.

The repeal enabled commercial lenders such as Citigroup to underwrite and trade mortgage back securities and collateralized debt obligations, and structured investment vehicles (SIVs) that bought those securities. Even though SIVs existed before the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act,  Most economist today see the repeal of this Act as the cause for our current economic problems.

WANT TO HELP THE STOCK MARKET? IT'S BEGGING TO BE REGULATED!  FIX IT!  NO ONE IS GOING NEAR THIS DISASTER UNTIL IT'S FIXED.  FIX IT!

        

Michael Steele apoligizes to Rush Limbaugh ,and Limbaugh becomes the spokesperson for the Republican Party making RNC Chairman Steele look like a complete idiot.
For Salon.com's take click: Head of RNC calls Limbaugh an "Entertainer" and not spokesperson for Republican Party

The Republican party continues to self implode, and Rush Limbaugh takes center stage.  As the  ultimate obstructionist Limbaugh movement to cripple the economy's recovery by imposing his Republican ideology never takes into account that Limbaugh and the Republicans got us into this mess. Amazingly, they want you to believe they have the answers. They don't.  Their answers are what created this problem.  Do you want more of the same?  That's all they're offering...

These obstructionist are the greatest threat to repairing the damage they've done.  They're betting against America. These  homegrown economic Terrorist pose the greatest threat to our country's safety right now.  They can wrap themselves in as many flag pins as they like, but betting against America will prove to be their greatest mistake.

UPDATE MARCH 4, 2009:  Michael Steele goes on the Today Show and tells Matt Lauer he has "no personal opinions" (?) about having to apoligize to Limbaugh and infers Limbaugh is a "sideshow" distractions...hah!  While Limbaugh's continues to drive down the Republican polling numbers  that show that not only are people sick of the Republican Party (including many one time Republicans), they're really sick of Limbaugh.  Keep up the good work Rush!

Rush wants Obama to fail.  Curiously, if Obama fails...America loses...how's that good?

        

Excerpts from Clint Reilly's article: The Cure
 
     Nationalize bankrupt banks? Hell, let's nationalize our bankrupt health care system. We are the sole industrialized nation without health coverage?  How does that make sense while American taxpayers are bailing out the financial system, the auto industry, and are being called upon to rescue free market capitalism from the abyss?

     Our employer-based health care model is as bankrupt as Detroit's auto industry - which ironically was laid low by skyrocketing health insurance premiums.

     A patented attack on "Socialized Medicine" has been the insurance industry's nuclear weapon in the long war to resist universal health care.  For two decades, they have argued that the same industry that spawned AIG (which required a $150 Billion taxpayer bailout) is better equiped to manage health care than the U.S. Government?

     The World Health Organization ranks France's health care system the best in the world.  The United States is rated an embarrassing 37th!

     Have you grown weary of the private sector's unanswered public relations war on government?  Is our Federal Government perfect? Oh course not.  But neither is it the corrupt and incompetent caricature portrayed in ads resisting oversight and regulations by utilities, banks, developers, insurance companies, and yes - Republicans.

     The demonization seems increasingly hypocritical afater these same corporate titans and their political allies have squandered so much of our national treasure.

     Who would you trust to manage America's health care?  Insurance companies like AIG or the people's government?

     The real question is: do you think access to health care is a right or a privilege?  Who could say to any person who was sick that health care is not a human right?  Only an Insurance Company (or a Republican).

For the whole article by Clint Reilly:  The Cure

 

 

        

    It's great to finally see a little color within the Republican party.  Michael Steele and Bobby Jindal seem like Republican oxymoron's though. How could a person of color support this party?
    Jindal is perceived by the Republican party to be one of their up and coming stars, and a possible Presidential candidate in 2012. Yet this 37 year old Rhodes scholar, that appeared Tuesday night after President Obama's speech to Congress, is drawing flak from both Democrats and Republicans.  
    The Louisiana Governor, that took billions of dollars of help from our government to help the victims of Katrina (a real Republican disaster!) came out and criticized any kind of government spending for the emercency economic relief?  He even suggested his State would not accept monies to extend unemployment benefits? 

     His comment sTuesday night has been widely panned, and Jindal's awkward delivery has drawn comparison of him to the geeky page, Kenneth Parcell, on "30 Rock."
     Conservative David Brooks called Jindal's arguments as "insane" and "tone-deaf given the challenges facing our country!"  Apparently the same old Republican rhetoric has worn thin even amoung die hard Republicans.  Sorry, Rush and Sean.

        

     While the economy continues to free fall Republicans are still pushing for tax cuts?  While States, Counties, and local government cut back on essential services such as Police, Fireman, and other Emergency Services severe cuts are being made throughout our Country's schools. How can tax cuts help at this time?

1.Tax cuts cannot provide Police protection
2.Tax cuts cannot provide a Fire Department
3.Tax cuts cannot build a road
4.Tax cuts cannot provide Social Secuity and Medicare
5.Tax cuts cannot provide for the disabled and other vulnerable members of our society
6.Tax cuts cannot create City Parks or preserve areas of our Country's natural beauty
7.Tax cuts cannot build or fund schools or hospitals
...and the list goes on.

      We need to re-frame the word taxes to take away the negative connotations Republicans would have us believe .  Taxes are the dues we need to pay to live in a civilized society, one that does not feed selfish greed but cares for our children's future, for the less fortunate, and for the common good.
      If you're better off today than you were 4 years ago (or even 8 years ago) continue listening to the Oxycotin poster child.  If not, then you might want to re-think this anti-Jesus mouthpiece's rants against the poor.  If being a ditto-head means that you believe, as Mr. Oxycotin has said, "the poor are  losers!" then it might be time to actually read the New Testament.

        

The Incredible Shrinking Republican Party or Remember the Republican Lemmings?

        

Music and Images for Today's Times
Keep On Smilin' by Wet Willie
and, some of the best Political Cartoons!

        

     The House Republicans/Obstructionist have bet the farm that following the economic policies of the last 8 years will somehow redeem their party?  More tax cuts, less government spending, and no regulation/oversight of our financial institutions is the answer. You think someone might have asked the question,"how did we get in this mess?"
     If Obama's administration starts getting "traction" with the new stimulus plan in the next year or two, this may be the beginning of the Republican party's "deathwatch."
     The Republican party seems lost right now.  Reagonomics helped get us into this mess, and most Republicans are in denial to that reality.  The Republican party doesn't seem to understand why so many red states turned blue, and in what few states they did win, how minimal those margins of victory were. 
     Republican pundits Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have become naysayers for anything the Obama administration attempts to do.   Their anger and frustration has a Jim Crow quality to it.  They keep calling Barack the "Messiah" or the "anointed one" and are forever bringing up Obama's past relationships with the Reverend Wright and former radical Bill Ayer's.  That's funny coming from a convicted narcotics felon and self professed (Hannity) "do as I say, not as I did growing up" hypocrite.  Hannity tries to malign Obama with guilt by association of people from his distant past, yet in Sean's autobiography, his past reflects highly questionable behavior that even Hannity says that he tells kids not to do what he did...?
Jim Crow Then


Jim Crow today: Rush and Sean



Jim Crow:  "Racist characterizations of black people as culturally, personally, and biologically inferior." 

New York Post Republican Right Wing Racist Cartoon (February 17, 2009)Nobel Prise winning Economist Paul Krugman has demonstrated scientifically and without any doubt that TAX CUTS DO NOT STIMULATE THE ECONOMY. He's confused why the Republicans would continue to push discredited policies such as Tax Cuts and De-regulation? Especially after so many AMERICANS, in the last election had voted against these kind of policies?

It's sad to watch Sean and Rush sink so deeply into denial.  Their  hero Ronnie Reagan was dead wrong when it came to Reagonomics which is now crippling our economy.   Will Republicans come to their senses and try to help America? Or, keep pushing for the same discredited Tax Cuts and De-regulations that got us into this mess?

Problem with the Republicans in the Senate is that if Obama's stimulus plan works....they lose.  I guess they can't get past partisan politics, or they could be actually helping our Country?  What a shame!  Nancy Pelosi isn't helping either....

Republican Obstructionist Ringleaders:

  John Boehner:  (Boner is pronounce Banner?) Just another Republican doing his job.  No new ideas.  Just more tax cuts for the rich.  Funny thing is where was the trickling down the last 8 years?  Never happened.

Lindsey Graham "The Stimulus Package Stinks, it's really a spending package" says Lindsey Crybaby Graham  Ahh, duh, of course it's a spending package.  Until the government stimulates the economy we will continue to be victimized as a country by the tax cut and deregulate Republicans that got us into this mess.  Worried about the debt Lindsey? You should of thought about that before you decided to finance an illegal war that drove our country into financial ruins.  C'mon, how about a little accountability for your actions before whining on the Senate floor...cause you know what the "stink" is Lindsey.  It's you ,and your buddies trying to gut the middle class. 

 Newt Gingrich  February 6th, 2009 Newt plays Matt Lauer for a fool on the Today Show promoting his new book that came out  basically DOA.   Newt's book is title: Ronald Reagan - Rendevous With Destiny. It's a yawner. Curiously  Reagonomics and our country's Economic Collapse is Reagan's real rendevous with destiny. But, to hear it from Newt, sounds like someone is re-writing history. What are you afraid of Matt?  Ask some real questions. This interview made you sound like you co-authored the book?  No testical fortitude.  Grow a pair, Lauer.
Richard Shelby, Alabama's Comb over King,  wants the Senate to filibuster the stimulus bill.  If you're better off than you were 8 years ago than Shelby is your man.  If not, then you might want to pay attention to the purely partisan politics of this Senator.  He tried to kill Detroit's automakers so as to benifit the foreign car dealerships and automakers in his state.  Now he's trying to kill the American economy.  Instead of taking responsibility for his party's economic policies the last 8 years that got us into this mess Shelby is trying to blame our current economic woes on the new Congress and new President? 

Many people believe that the Republicans, that were aware of the forthcoming collapes of our economy, were trying to stall  the melt down so that it would occur on the watch of the new Congress and new President.  Guess what, it happened on their "watch."

So who is really trying to help out American at this time of crisis? The obstructionist Republicans that got us in this mess, or the new Congress and New President that is offering unique innovative solutions that most every reputable economist in the world agrees with? 

Shelby, the Chairman for the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, somehow never saw this economic melt down coming?  How could the Chairman for Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs be so blind?  This is malfeasance or gross incompetence.  Clearly Shelby doesn't have the intellectual capacity to grasp the depth of these problems. Shelby also doesn't have the backbone to take some responsibility for his role in the creation of this mess.  On CNN Shelby said," we have to bring trust back to the banking system." But, doesn't offer any ideas how that could be done.  Maybe being beholden to Banking and Insurance lobbyist isn't the answer? 

Thursday February 12, 2009 Karl Rove is coming out with an article in the Wall Street Journal that suggest that the Republicans are on the wrong side of the "Stimulus Plan" that will probably cost them more seats in 2010.  How about that?  Karl Rove announcing the "Deathwatch" for the Republican Party."  And, whose the biggest fool of all?  You guessed it, it's the Comb Over King from Alabama!

On February 9th, 2009 both Hanninty and Limbaugh claimed that popular support for the stimulus bill had dropped to just over 50 percent support for Obama's plan.   But, that same afternoon, a Gallop Poll came out and suggested it was over 70 percent in support of the bill? 


REPUBLICANS IN VIOLATION OF THE PUBLIC TRUST....AGAIN.

        

        

(Cartoon by Mike Peters)
Once more George W. Bush has been declared  the most "Oblivious" person for 2008!  Never saw the economic collapse coming.  Never found Weapons of Mass Destruction. Never found the time, till it was almost too late, to help the Katrina victims. And yet, in his final days, W continues to try and re-write history?  Spin it any way you want George, no ones buying it.  No one seems more disconnected with reality than W himself. ( W says when he leaves the White House he'll miss Air Force One, and the White House chef ...the good news is nobody is going to miss him). The neo-cons, Alan Greensburg, Reagonomics, Secretary of State Rice, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News all came in a close second as being not only Oblivious, but irrelevant!
George W. Bush , The most Oblivious person in the world for 2008!

        

     Steve Pointer from Novato, California wrote in the Marin Independent Journal, "One of the unexpected, but none the less welcome results of the recent election is the status of talk radio thugs Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. 
     Almost overnight, both have become non events, irrelevant, anachronistic and obsolete!  Who would have thought that President Elect Obama's victory would be so overwhelming that these two radio hate mongers would simply cease to matter. (Any advertisers paying attention?)
     Their shows are almost funny now, like watching an old b&w Three Stooges show (two stooges?), only the Stooges were clever and their producers (listening Murdoch?) can still get sponsors.
     In further desperate acts the two are attempting to SPIN the turmoil in the economy as the Obama recession?  It must be disheartening to many Republicans to have to acknowledge that Reaganomics, which  they have so disparately believed in, is what really brought the economy to near collapse.  And now, Sean Hannity's partner for 12 years, Alan Colmes, has filed for divorce.
     Que sera sera....

        

"Not only have individual financial institutions become less vulnerable to shocks from underlying risk factors, but also the financial system as a whole has become more resilient." Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve Chairsman, 2004

"A critical pillar to market competition and free markets did break down. 
I still do not know why it happened?"

     Alan Greenspan, the Oracle, never really understood what he was talking about when it came to the economy. Greenspan was so consumed with his own self-importance he overlooked the most basic fundementals of a healthy economy, and helped create the current melt down on Wall Street that has now spread throughout the world.  Amazingly, Congress was so enamored with Greenspan they rarely questioned him. And yet, those entrusted to protect our Country...did not. Where is the accountablity? 
     On October 9, 2008 Peter S. Goodman reported in the New York Times: "George Soros, the pominent financier, avoids using the financial contracts known as derivatives "because we really don't understand how they work."  Felix G. Rohatyn, the investment banker who saved New York from financial catastrophe in the 1970s, desicribed derivatives as potential "hydrogen bombs."  And, Warren Buffett presciently observed five years ago that derivatives were "financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal."
     Amazingly, one prominent financial figure has long thought otherwise. And, his views use to be held in the highest regard in debates about the regulation and use of derivatives that he refered to as "exotic contracts" that promised to protect investors from losses, thereby stimulating riskier practices that led to the current financial crisis.
     Even more amazingly, on October 23, 2008, Greenspan denied before Congress that the nation's economic crisis was his fault, but conceded that the meltdown had revealed a flaw in a lifetime of economic thinking and left him in a "state of shocked disbelief." Greenspan was unable to defend his resistance to recommendations to use the Fed's power to crack down on sub-prime mortgages, and opposing efforts to impose regulations on derivatives (the complex financial instrument that include credit default swaps - that figured in prominently in the current crisis).
     On October 23, 2008 Greenspan was asked by the House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, after pointing out that Greenspan had contributed to irresponsible lending practices by rejecting appeals that the Fed intervene to regulate a surging sub-prime mortgage industry and also noted that the list of regulatory mistakes and misjudgments was long ... asked Greenspan, "My question to you is simple, were you wrong?" To which Greenspan replied,"Well, partially" And then Greenspan went on to blame overeager investors who did not stop to think about risks.  My question is ,"why didn't Greenspan, the Federal Reserve Chairman, stop to think about risks?"  Where is the accountability?
    

        

   Joe McCarthys not dead.  He's been reincarnated in the person of Sean Hannity.  By playing on the fears of what is now being referenced as "low information" voters, a polite way of referencing poorly educated white voters in red states, Hannity is speading his vile take on this year's election without a clue what's happening in the economy (see video below).
   Today, General Colin Powell came out in support of Barack Obama.   Fox News continues to exploit their viewerships fears with lynch mob racist rants about Reverend Wright, and polarizing accusations that Obama is friends with domestic terrorists (plural).  Fox News has sank so low they've become the domestic terrorist media network. This networks level of low gamesmanship reeks of treason against real Americans.  How are they going to attact General Powell now?  Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh should be taken off the air, or find another country to spread their lies, and misinformation RNC talking points.

        

     How did we find ourselves in such an economic mess?  How could the powers that be not have the foresight to see what was right around the corner?  We've been led to believe that the sub prime mortgage melt down was the cause, when the truth of the matter is - it's the derivatives, created by the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act by a greedy Banking industry.
    The Glass-Steagall Act, passed in 1933, mandated the separation of commercial and investment banking in order to protect depositors from the the hazards of risky investment and speculation - the cause of the 1929 Stock Market crash.  It worked fine for 50 years until the banking industry began lobbying for its repeal during the 1980s.
    The main cheerleader for the repeal was Phil Gramm, but there is plenty of blame to go around here. Both Republican and Democratic Senators and Congressmen supported this disgraceful bow to the banking industry which was eagerly signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1999.
    According to Wikipedia, many economist have criticized the repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act as contributing to the current economic volatility in the Stock Market.  The banking industy laid out more the 200 million dollars for lobbying in 1998 according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The banking industry succeeded  in their two decades long effort to repeal the act.  This lust for banking largesse is as wanton among Democrats as Republicans - right up to the current campaign, according to the Phoenix Business Journal.  Both McCain and Obama have accepted substantial amounts of money from Wall Street bankers, investment and securities firms, and their executives during this campaign cycle.


    Personally, I believe the Glass-Steagall Act needs to be re-enacted.  Before we bail out the banking industry, insurance firms, and Wall Street some reforms and regulations need to be put into place or the game will just continue.  The American International Group - AIG - upon receiving $85 Billion Dollars from the government recently sent executives to a $440,000 retreat at a posh California resort?  Where's the oversight?  How many times can the taxpayer's trust be betrayed before someone steps in and does something? Congress only acts in times of crisis... is anyone listening?!
    Late in the game our government realized what had to be saved was not the housing market or the dollar, but the financial derivitives industry: and the precepice from which it had to be saved was an "event of default" that could collapse a quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble, a bubble that could take the entire global banking system down with it.
     Right now  derivatives represent the biggest financial market in the world.  Derivitives are financial instruments that have no intrinsic value, basically they're just bets.  "The point everyone misses" wrote economist Robert Chapman a decade ago,"is that buying derivatives is not investing.  It's gambling, insurance and high stakes bookmaking.  Derivatives create nothing and they serve to enrich non producers at the expense of the people who do create real goods and services."  As bets, you can hedge your bet that something will go up by placing a side bet that it will go down. Hedge funds hedge bets in the derivatives market. Bets can be placed on anything, from the price of tea in China to the movements of specific markets.
                                                                                                                        
     What to do?  Re-enact the Glass-Steagall Act for starters.  Separate commercial banking from the stock market. Then, have Congress focus on the Dirivatives Bubble and articulate a solution simply and clearly. Steve Krofts on 60 Minutes last week did a great job of explaining what's happening.  Where's the political discourse?
     Just my opinion.

Some of the information for this post was gathered from Wikipedia, William Kaufman's "Shattering the Glass - Steagall Act", the Phoenix Business Journal, and Ellen Brown's post on her blog (Web of Debt) It's the Derivatives Stupid!

        

        

    " Most people are satisfied with a world in which survival is for the fittest, "might is right," competition is required, and winning is called the highest good.
     If such a system happens to also produce "losers" so be it, so long as you are not among them.
     Most people are satisfied, even though such a model produces people who are often killed when they are judged "wrong", starved and rendered homeless when they are "losers," oppressed and exploited when they are not "strong."
     Most people define "wrong" as that which is different from them.  Religious differences, in particular, are not tolerated, nor are many social, economic, or cultural differences.
     Exploitation of the underclass is justified by the self congratulatory pronouncements from the upper class of how much better off the underclass (victims) are now than they were before these expoitations.  By this measure the upperclass can ignore the issue of how all people ought to be treated if one were being truly fair, rather than merely making a horrible situation a tiny bit better - and profit obscenely in the bargain.
                                                                        
     Most people laugh when one suggests any kind of system other than the one currently in place, saying that behaviors such as competing and killing and the "victor taking the spoils" are what make their civilization great!  Most people even think there is no other natural way to be, that it is the nature of humans to behave in this manner, and that to act any other way would kill the inner spirit that drives man to succeed. (at what?!)
     Difficult as it is for truly enlightened beings to understand, most people on your planet believe in this philosophy, and that is why most people don't care about the suffering masses, the oppression of minorities, the anger of the underclass, or the survival needs of anyone but themselves, and their immediate families.
    Most people do not see they are destroying their Earth, the very planet which gives them their life, because their actions seek only to enhance their quality of life.  Amazingly, they are not far sighted enough to observe that short terms gains can produce long term losses, and often do...and will.
     Most people are threatened by a concept such as a collective good, a one world overview, or a God who exists in unity with all creation, rather than separate from it.
     This fear of anything leading to unification and your planet's glorification produces division, disharmony, and discord.  Yet, you do not seem to have the ability even to learn from your own experience, and so you continue with the same results.
     The inability to experience the suffering of another as one's own is what allows such suffering to continue.
     Separation breeds indifference, false superiority.  Unity produces compassion and genuine equality. This level of conciousness (separateness) could best be described as primitive." 
From Conversations with God, by Neale Donald Walsh

My thoughts: Divisive ideologies imposed upon us by religious, political, and media voices only enable their agendas.  Some of these voices have enjoyed undue credibility for far too long. (Many enjoy undue credibiltiy just by being on TV, Radio, Print, and now the Internet)  Question the message. Question fear mongering ( a very effective tool -scare people into believing what you wish), look behind the curtain...what is the real intent here?  Or, live out the consequences of obliviousness, which is NOT an option. 

        

        

     McCain claims that, "Change is Coming!"  And it's the kind of change that hard right evangelicals have prayed for.  Finally, a vice presidential candidate that can bring creationism into our public schools, cure homosexuality, and force other women to have no say or choice in having a child when raped, even in incest.

     The party that has crippled our economy, gutted our constitution, and led us into a war under false pretenses is absolutely confident they can play Americans for stupid.  I don't think so Mr. Karl Rove.
     The "Brain" ,or "Turdblossom" as George W. Bush affectionately calls him is truly politically brillant and continues to define the Republican party positions on almost everything.  Sarah Palins speech writers at the Republican National Convention gave this one time television sport's reporter red meat for the audience.  And when it comes to reading a teleprompter, the girl's got "game!" 
     Now step back, and check out the opening sentence at top here.  "Change is coming."  Do you really think so?  According to many people that have been close to John McCain over the last few years his health is not what we'd all wish (I actually like McCain and thinks he's - at least on the "Daily Show"-  a pretty funny old koot! Seriously, that's a compliment).  The "Change" I'm worried about is that he will probably have to step down during his first term if elected ,due to health considerations.  At that moment the hard right neo-cons can release their pit bull with lip stick on the world.  Bomb Iran...why not?  More tax cuts for the rich...you've got a friend in the White House, and  Karl Rove and Fox News aren't going anywhere anytime soon.  
     For McCain and Palin to attempt to steal the "Change" message from Obama and Biden right before everyone's eyes ignores the fact that John McCain has voted along with George Bush 90 percent of the time. How about that for Change and Reform. And, by putting neo-con Pitbull Palin in the vice presidential position insure's Bush's policies for another 4 years. If perchance, people are that stupid, and Karl Rove is betting they are!
     Wouldn't it be nice if we could get rid of the teleprompter?  It sure would be nice to hear our politicians speak their own words.  I'm sure Sarah has enough composure to articulate her own thoughts.  She has plenty of experience before a camera as a television sports reporter.  Let's hear what she has to say without being scripted.  When will she be on Meet the Press?  According to McCain's handlers, "only if we feel it's to our advantage." ?

        

     No one plays the public for stupid better than the Republican party. Fear mongering has become the message. Unfortunately, it's the only message they have.  And, they'll stop at nothing, including racism.  Whatever it takes!
   
    Mark Twain felt the lynching of blacks in the early 1900s, that was tolerated or overlooked by our government, reflected moral cowardice.  Fast foward to the present where Fox News - metaphorically - attempts to lynch Barack Obama at every turn.  Sean Hannity brings up Obama's past relationship to Reverend Wright at every opportunity. And, continues to play and re-play those videos of the Reverend, that plays to the fears of the Fox News viewership. Anything goes in Politics, and apparently the same goes for Fox News.  Moral cowards? 

    George Bush gave us a catastrophic unending war, Guantanamo, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Kangaroo Courts, Waterboarding, Black Sites, Extraordinary Rendition, Halliburton, No-Bid Contracts,Katrina, Cronyism, Recess Appointments, Warrantless Wiretapping, Fired U.S. Attorneys, Plamegate, Katrina, Doubling the National Dept, Denying Global Warming, and Katrina.  The Republican party, and Fox News has much to be proud of.  And ,what the hell happened to Mr. Santa Barbara Dennis Miller (?), he's sold his soul.   I don't think anyone begrudges Miller for all the money he's made, but it's cost him his sense of humor, and he's clearly lost his edge.  The only one who laughs at his moronic assaults on Barack Obama, and anyone that questions the occupation of Irag, is Bill O'Reilly. They're both moral cowards.

     Last night I attempted to watch Michelle Obama's keynote speech on Fox News while Fox News
ran a ticket tape running below her reminding their viewership about the Reverend Wright videos?  How low can Fox News go? (Just wait and see)

     Fox News, which is covering the entire Democratic National Convention, last night kept cutting away from Michelle Obama while she was speaking to people in the audience that appeared not to be paying attention? And, as reported in the News this morning, 80 percent of the cut aways were to black people giving the impression that the audience was primarily black?  A disinterested audience of black people? That's gonna play real well with Fox's viewership...  

     Getting tired of John McCain's the surge worked?  Well, when you pay off the people you use to be fighting to stop fighting it's not a military victory.  What happens when we stop the payments?  McCains more worried that if we leave now Bush, Rummy, and Cheney will have lied in vain.

     Recently in Time Magazine, The Reverend John Hubers from Chicago wrote: "As an Evangelical pastor, I find the high percentage of fellow Evangelicals who believe that Senator John McCain is the candidate "most guided by his religious beliefs" hard to fathom.  The testimonies of the two candidates in your "In Their Words" section shows McCain, in fact, to be far less connected to Evangelical Spirituality than Barack Obama, who can also lay claim to an authentic born-again experience.  Unfortunately, what this shows is that many Evangelicals believe that Republicans and Christian are synonymous terms.  It's time to put that to rest.
     
    

        

        

     Over the past two weeks Fox New's anchor E.D.Hill has apoligized for an affectionate onstage fist bump shared by Barack Obama and his wife as a "Terrorist Fist Jab" while Liz Trotta of Fox News joked about an Obama assassination.
     Joan Walsh, from Salon.com, asks," Are they racist, or just clueless? Isn't there racisim even in their cluelessness, if somebody didn't know what "baby moma" means, but used it anyway?  Even at Fox, won't somebody have to apoligize?"
     Senior vice president of programming at Fox Bill Shine said that," the producer used poor judgement" during the segment but was not fired?

Fox New's Liz Trotta's "Death Wish" for Barack Obama




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      Everything Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke does only drives our economy deeper into a recession while making the dollar weaker, stock market  lower, and oil prices higher. Why?
     After September 11th, then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, adopted an ultra easy money policy that drove mortgage rates to record lows. and got the real estate bubble blowing. At about the same time China joined the World Trade Organization and used "currency manipulation" to boost  its United States exports to keep it's currency undervalued and it's exports artificially cheap.  China recycled more than a trillion dollars back into the United State's bond market. This currency manipulation fueled the growing real estate bubble by artificially depressing mortgage rates - all the while laying waste to America's manufacturing base and ability to create jobs.
     As investors entered the real estate market buying properties and flipping them the Mortgage industry began offering risky mortgages that allowed people with no money to buy into homes with highly risky adjustable rate "subprime mortgages."  The stage was set... as Wall Street began to package these subprime mortgages into complex "mortgage back securities." Speculators jumped in and like a deadly virus, these mortgage back securities spread out to infect portfolios all over the world.
     In 2006 when home prices stretched far beyond their true valuations some speculators pulled the plug by foreclosing. Meanwhile, those "exploding adjustable rate mortgages" began to do just that. As homeowners could not make their monthly payments home prices dropped and pushed foreclosures to record highs.
     The downstream consequences for world credit market have been severe. As foreclosures have risen the value of mortgage back securities has plummeted. Until our economic leaders refocus on what made the American economy so great: sound money, fiscal responsibility, and a vibrant manufacturing base - a recommitment to those principles would do more to restore order in the global financial system and economy than more rate cuts and mulit-billion dollar bailouts!

(Some of the information here was gathered from UC Irvine buisiness professor Peter Navarro)
Peter Navarro's Web Site

        

      Last November President Bush said in a Fox New's interview that," We have a strong dollar policy, and it's important for the world to know that.  And if people will look at the strength of our economy, they'd realize  why I believe the dollar will be stronger!"  Since this announcement the struggling dollar, which has been slumping against foreign currencies for years, hit new lows last week.   For some strange reason Fox News, and George Bush will not acknowledge we are in a recession?
      Many believe that the negative perception of the dollar reflects the world's collective verdict on the United States - businesses, individuals, the government,and the Federal Reserve - to manage the global financial system and the world's largest economy.  How can that be good? 
     "International financiers are unnerved by the toxic combination of: "misplaced assumptions about housing (Republican Alan Greenspan was not only asleep at the wheel, but created the framework for the housing collapse), a lack of necessary regulation, and irresponsible use of debt with sophisticated financial instruments," said Ashraf Laidi (currency strategist at CMC Markets).
      Until recently American's ability to manage complex systems has been the competitive advantage. It has allowed the United States to enjoy high growth and low inflation. But today, thanks to widespread incompetence, America management is on its way to becoming an international laughing stock!
     Carl Icahn, the 80's corporate raider recently complained to Lesley Stahl about the incompetence of American management. "I see our country going off a cliff, and I feel bad about it." Icahn is crying all the way to the bank!  The market's recognition of management failures gives him the opportunity to acquire companies on the cheap. But for those of us who are not billionaire corporate raiders - which is to say pretty much all of us - must manage through this management crisis on our own.
     As long as the President, the Republican Congress, and Fox News continue their disinformation campaigns by playing on unfounded fears, and distracting the public from the "real issues" such as the economy and the war by continually re-iterating nonsense like: "We're fighting the terrorist there so we don't have to fight them at home, anyone who questions us is unpatriotic, we have to fear anti-christian fundamentalist secular progressive that don't wear flag lapel pins," and other ridiculous fear mongering tactics dished out by this administration and Fox News,  when it comes to the possibility for competent management of our current economy, we don't have a prayer...  The Fox is in the hen house!
     28 Years of Reaganomics have taken us from the largest creditor nation to the largest debtor nation. As long as we allow Republicans, Fox News, and  members of Congress beholden to Lobbyist and Special Interest Groups the dollar, and our country's well being is in jeopardy.  If we continue to run from our shadows, our fears will define us, and we risk economically becoming a third world country. 
     Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly supported Social Security being privatized, as did this administration, now that Bear Stearns has collapsed and our economy has fallen into a recession...why isn't Fox News still defending privatization of our Social Security system?   

(Some of the information here was gathered from Daniel Gross's article in Newsweek 3/24/2008)
    

        

     Recently President Bush visited an elementary school to give a civics presentation.  After he finished, he asked the boys and girls, "are there any questions?'
     A boy by the name of Bobby raised his hand and asked, "I have 3 questions: How did you win the election with fewer votes than Al Gore? Are you using the Patriot Act to limit Civil Liberties?  And, why havn't you caught Osama bin Laden?
     Just then the bell rang and the teacher announced it was recess.
     Half an hour later the children returned and President Bush said,"Let's start where we left off.  Are there any more questions?"
     A girl raised her hand and asked, "Is it really legal to hold suspected terrorist without letting them talk to attorneys?   Why did the recess bell go off 10 minutes early? And, where the hell is Bobby?"

        

     Along with "security lapses" by the United States Secret Service agents entrusted to protect Barack Obama, racist overtones by Fox News, Republican focus groups studying what degrees of racism might be permissable in political attacks against Barack, and right wing political pundits falsely accusing Barack of being a Muslim and that he's anti-christians is only just the beginning...
     Obama's "change and hope" mantra has not only generated electricity in the electorate, but for many, it's hard to forget how tragically such hopeful stories have ended in the past.  As Obama moves closer to becoming the first black President in America, many are worried about his safety.   And they should be.
     Obama's desire to truly help America threatens the Corporate-ocracy that runs our County. The lobbyist, corporations, and various business ties to our Government are worried that their influence over our Politicians may be threatened...as well they should. 
     As such, it's clear they will do whatever it takes to protect their interest. And, after the assasinations of John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King they should not be underestimated. And, perchance there are any attempts to harm Obama, these parties that believe they can operate without any impunity must be investigated, and punished.
      Some of these businesses/corporations that wrap themselves around the flag have nothing to do with America other than exploiting its resources willfully, ruthlessly, and dishonestly with the support of most Republicans and Right Wing Media Pundits.  These entities have become a cancer that's eating away at the heart of what makes America great, and now threaten the life of someone that truly believes in America.  That American is for Amercians, and that it shouldn't be beholden to special interests.
     Naive thinking...too idealistic...too hopeful for real change to turn our Country around?

  Full Story by David Crary - The Associated Press
      

        

  The Grateful Dead reunite for Barack Obama. For Paul Libertore's article in the Marin Independent Journal click:  Grateful Dead reunite for Barack Obama

        

        

     Welcome to the Democrat's Hall of Shame! And, shame, shame, shame on Bill and Hilary! The Clinton's are in full Rove-mode and will "Swift Boat" anyone that tries to stop them.  Turns out the supposed white "First Black President" is a racist (Thank you for clarifying that Obama is a Muslim (Bob Kerrey), and that the Obama's campaign is a "Fairy Tale" Bill.  Black America where are you? And, Black Republicans?  How are you NOT complicit in the Katrina nightmare if you stand with W and his party and all the other crap we, as a country, have had to endure the last 8 years?! 
    
      As we get closer to choosing a Democratic nominee for the President of the United States the Clinton's Campaign is beginning to act disparate and willing to try almost anything.  Former Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey, close friend of the Clintons said that, "Barack Obama had spent time in a "Secular Madrassa" implying that Obama may be or had been Muslim? Barack Obama never attended a Secular Madrassa, and is a devoted Christian.  Kerrey fed the press this information at a critical juncture just before the Iowa Primaries.

     Obama's middle name is Hussein.  Third Party Groups that back Hilary subtly play on prejudices by constantly repeating Obama's middle name.

     CNN's Donna Brazile, formerly and adviser to both Bill Clinton and Al Gore, said she,"was racially offended by Bill Clinton's recent attacks against Barack Obama.  Bill has gone out of his way to label Barack as a "kid" and that Obama's claims are a "fairy tale."

      What's most disturbing about the Clinton Campaign is where was Bill Clinton four years ago when John Kerry was running for President?   Bill rarely got out and stumped for anyone?  Now he's "en fuego!"  If Bill is really this powerful and influential person, where was he?  Oh yeah, that would interfere with Hilary's run for the Presidency in 2008.

     We've all had to endure the last four years of the Bush administration, and all the horrible mistakes they've made, because the Clintons are really only about the Clinton's.

     Whether it's fair or not, the Clinton's are so divisive that if she becomes the nominee they will galvanize every registered Republican and Independent to come out and vote against the Clintons.  And, if she miraculously gets elected, it's back to political gridlock in Congress, with the Lobbyist running the show. Back to business as usual in Washington.  The woman who voted for the War, and still won't admit it was a mistake.

            POW!

During her January 25th, 2008 interviewed with Matt Lauer on the Today Show Hilary whined that she's the victim in all the political attacks ,and that she's just, "counter punching" with her and Bill's attacks against Obama?  C'mon kid, lead with your left and.....

Rupert Murdoch has contributed to the Clinton Campaign.   When Fox News comes out and supports you what does that say?

        

     The 2006 Oblivious Blog Most Oblivious Person on the planet, George W. Bush for his inability to respond and general incompetence in regard to the "Katrina" disaster has repeated in 2007 as this year's Most Oblivious Person on the Planet!

        

     Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water.  They eat raw fish but like beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French Food are standard liberal fare.
     Another interesting revolutionary side note: most of the women have higher testosterone levels than their men.  Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalist, home interior designers, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapist are Liberals.  Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.
     Conservatives drink domestic beer.  They eat red meat and still provide for their women.  Conservatives are big game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, fireman, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively.  Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to actually work for a living.
     Liberals produce little or nothing.  They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production.  Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans.  That is why most of the Liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get MORE for nothing.
     Here ends today's lesson in world history:  It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.   A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers.  And to their Liberal friends just to piss them off.
 

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

The Bitter Vitters Press Conference  ... Welcome to the Republican Hall of Shame!

When the sanctimonious moralizers are repeatedly found to be secretly engaging in the activities they've built their public careers denouncing and/or legislating against it, becomes  a fundamental metaphor for a party whose every action seems rooted in hypocrisy and deceit.



     Amid new hooker allegations Republican Senator David Vitter, a staunch social conservative known for his outspoken condemnation of Bill Clinton's behavior, faces the press with his wife Wendy.  Wendy criticized Hilary's response to Bill's affair with Monica Lewinsky saying that, " she was more like Lorena Bobbit" and never would stand for that kind of behavior.  Well Wendy, what are you waiting for?  You don't look exactly happy here.
     David's response?  "I believe I received forgiveness from God.  I know I did from Wendy." 
     What a relief...and thank god that Fox News never reported this story... Republicans have so much to be thankful for.   And, remember Bill Bennet?  The one time voice for the Republican's "Moral Majority"?  Well Bill developed a gambling problem unbeknownst to his wife.  Lost around 10 million dollars before the news media picked up the story and his wife made him stop!   Well sadly Bill Bennet lost his mom... in a card game in Vegas!
      It's a joke! C'mon, a little Republican humor? Wendy and David can't have all the punch lines...


     Republican Senator Larry Craig's mug shots after being arrested in an airport bathroom for soliciting sex from a male police officer.   Craig admitted his guilt at the time of his arrest. Now that the media has picked up the story...he's changing his position and has hired an attorney. Craig  may be the ultimate flip flopper. One moment he declares he's guilty, the next he's not?  Another proud moment for Republicans! 
     After he was arrested Craig told police he, "was just trying to cop a feel!" When actually, he feeled a cop!

     Ruth Dell, Kentfield, California (Time Magazine 10.1.2007)"When politicians like Larry Craig divide our country by attacking a gourp to which they secretly belong, then "HYPOCRISY" is the operative word!"    Ted Haggard, voice for the Republican Moral Majority, turned out to be a sexual pervert with a penchant for methamphetemines.  And, after a couple of weeks of therapy, Haggard claims to be cured of his homosexual desires.  Hey, maybe he'll find God?  Could happen...



And who could forget Mark Foley the Republican child predator?  Rather then face the Press he went into Rehab and discovered God.  Shame, shame, shame... And check out what Fox News did - tried to portray Foley as a Democrat. Fox News distorts and then decides what you should be thinking...creative media outlet for the low information voters (oh hell, there not low information voters, they're just stupid...o.k. they're oblivious too.  Key criteria for Fox News viewers.

And, the most disgusting Republican of all is Bill-O (Bill O'Reilly), who during the Mark Foley sex scandal reported that Foley was a Democrat! 
This is the same Bill-O, who after paying off an employee that was on the verge of releasing to the media inappropriate (sexual) phone calls (she'd received and recorded from O'Reilly), refused to answer any related questions.  


Bill O'Reilly, sexual predator? Racist?
     A Sexual Harrassment Lawsuit was filed by a former Producer of Bill-O's show.   Andrea Mackris was paid to go away and drop the lawsuit. What evidence was there that would cause O'Reilly to buy her off.  Oh yeah, she taped all her calls from Bill.  She said he'd made a slobbery phone call saying he wanted to take a shower with her and rub her with a loofah, which he called,"the falafael thing."  Get help Bill!  If you don't know the difference between a loofah and a falafael you shouldn't be showering with women.  Fox News/Fixed News (Faux Facts) - "We distort and we decide"
     Mr. No Spin goest to a Harlem restaurant, reports that people there are as civilized as white people. Then spins!


Rupert Murdock

Keith Oberman, "Al Queda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murddoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News.  Fox News is worse than Al Queda - worse for our society.  It is as dangerous as the Klu Klux Klan ever was."


Republican Alan Greenspan, "Bush is a reckless spendthrift, and the war is about oil"
  W
 
            Keith Oberman was asked to describe W and said, "Nixonian. The difference between Bush and Nixon is that Nixon sent draftees to Vietnam.  If draftees, instead of  volunteers were dying in Iraq.  I think Bush would have been impeached by now.
     We will see a draft if the Republicans win in 2008, because they've got a plan to  invade every country except Liechtenstein, but not enouught soldiers to do it.  To get enough soldiers, they will need a draft.  And that would be interesting. You'd have rioting in the streets within 48 hours.  And, it wouldn't be the kids rioting, it would be their parents."


 The last question responded to at a recent news conference went to a Fox News reporter that had been prepped. As the last question there would be no follow up question. The Fox News reporter asked W about the General BetrayUs MoveOn.org ad. And W responded,"And that leads me to this conclusion: that most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left wing group like MoveOn.org or more afraid of irritating them, then they are of irritating the United States military."

Petraeus and Powell have been pimped by this President, and have forever lost any credibility. Good soldiers that answered to the Commander in Chief ,and in allowing themselves to be politcized, are no longer respectable voices.  But, as soldiers not politicians, are and have been excellent in their capacity within the military. 

Next stop (or bombing), Iran.  Bush is running out of time, but will play this card while America looks on as an ineffective Congress fumbles along, because they're too afraid to be called soft on terrorism.

Won't some politician that's not afraid of not being re-elected speak out?  We really aren't safer at home.   Hilary's handlers have her boxed in because nothing is more important than becoming the next President.  More so than speaking out truthfully. That's where she loses my vote. 

Where are the leaders? Who can articulate the truth here so that the Hannitys, Limbaughs,O'Reilly's, Rove's and other right wing facist media terrorist are exposed for who they are. Complicit in the many American and innocent Iraqi deaths.   What would Jesus do?  If he lived in a "Red State" he'd move.

Smile!
Discussing further dismantling of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights dinner.
Anyone out there paying attention? I hear Rummy's fellowship at California's
Stanford College is in question...that's a good thing.  Go Gonzales go, to Gitmo!

RUNNER UPS, AND MORE WOULD BE (BUT NOT TRUE) AMERICANS:

1. Rush Limbaugh ... leading the war against middle class Americans
2. Sean Hannity ... Reagan Republican...goodbye American Jobs, and kiss the middle class goodbye!
3. Laura Ingraham (not worth commenting on)
4. Michelle Malkin ... "Michelle, next time don't break the prozac tablet in half, take the whole pill!"
5. Glen Beck (how'd this guy get a TV show?)
6. Annorexic Coulter ...  making psychotic behavior fashionable
7. James Dobson ... Religious leader or soul(less) Political Hack?  The Religious Right is Neither!




 

        

        

      "We fight the terrorist in Iraq so they won't follow us home" is the line we are continuously fed to justify our occupation in Iraq.  Last week Secretary Chertoff said that he's got a "hunch" that we may be attacked at home sometime this year.  How did they follow us home?  They're not on the run? And, oh yeah, they can fight us here even if we fight them there.
        If there really is a war on terror shouldn't we start by fighting the people who attacked us on 911? If Al Qaeda is that group, why aren't we going after them?  Especially since it's been recently reported by our government that Al Qaeda is stronger now then before 911.  How could that have happened?  And, on whose watch?
       We know that Al Qaeda has it's training camps in Pakistan, and that there is a very real possibility that Osama Bin Laden is somewhere in Pakistan's mountainous regions or the Afghanistan/ Pakistani borders.  We also know that the Iraq occupation has become a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda, and that most of the people they're recruiting are coming from Saudia Arabia.  Wait a minute.  What's going on here?  Aren't Pakistan, and Saudia Arabia our allies?
      Our mainstream media doesn't seem able to articulate what's happening?  Is the subject matter too complicated for the media.  Or does the media feel the general public might not be able to understand the complexities of these issues, so they dummy down their reporting?  It's like our government is playing us for stupid, and the media is willing to go along without asking the hard questions.  How many Americans still think Sadamn Hussein attacked us on 9/11?  How many Americans think that because we're fighting them there, that there are no members of Al Queda already here in the United States? 
    Might that be foolish and dangerous thinking in light of Secretary Chertoff's "hunch"?
           
     Ms. Homeland Security: Illegal Entry Dress Tent, installed at the border between the US and Mexico in 2006. (Robin Lasser and Adrienne Pao creation)     I'm not sure if this is to make us feel more secure or less...but, it's kinda funny if not absolutely bizarre (the tent/dress)!  Oh well, now that W has begun saying again that, "The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us on September the 11th." His conflation is contradicted by the fact that al-Queda in Mesopotamia, as the Sunni terrorist group in Iraq is known, did not exist before 9/11 ?  Come on media, where are you, the public can handle the facts...it's not that complicated!
    Sure would be nice if we could go after the people who actually attacked us.  That really doesn't seem that unreasonable does it?

        

Coral Great Barrier Reef 1996          Great Barrier Reef  1998

     Not too long ago our oceans were abundant and clean. And now, most of the world's 17 major ocean fisheries are in decline, important coastal habitats are disappearing at an alarming rate, and climate change and pollution are harming corral ecosystems at an unprecedented rate.  Coral reefs are often called the rain forests of the sea.   And, like their terrestial counterparts, they're
in trouble.  Since 1980, an estimated 20 % of the world's coral reef have been destroyed.

     Our oceans are in serious danger. It's our responsibility to help ensure that the oceans are protected and conserved for future generations. The world's oceans, and their rich diversity of life belong to all the citizens of the world. Healthy oceans are essential for our planets health and well being.

     Scientist have been warning about Global Warning for years, but only recently have Governments world wide acknowledged its significance primarily due to greater public awareness.

     60 Minutes reported earlier this year about the decline of sharks in our oceans due to "shark finning" by fisherman that are selling the shark fins to the Chinese that regard "Shark Fin Soup" a delicacy.  The soup in Chinese Restaurants can sell upward of $400 a bowl, and hence the over fishing of sharks. 60 minutes then showed video of corporate fishing vessels that would bring the shark up into the boat, cut off it's fins, and then throw the live shark back into the ocean to die.  It was hard to watch. Sharks are the "Stewards of the Oceans".  Their decline directly affects the health of our oceans.  The sharks maintain the coral reefs and surrounding fish population. Without Sharks these coral reefs are dying.

     With the Chinese Olympics forthcoming, the opportunity to create greater public awareness about these horrific acts that our destroying our oceans is now.  Should the Olympics be boycotted?  Do we need to embarrass the Chinese into doing the right thing? What do you think?

     Write your Senators and Congressmen/women today!

 

For more information please click on: http://www.sharkstewards.com/  A great film by David McGuire

        

      By now you're well aware that Scooter Libby's prison sentence has been commuted by George W. Bush.  The responses from both parties are just what you'd  expect.  The Democrats are suggesting that cronyism in the Republican Party rewards criminal behavior.  The Republicans say that," since Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, what's the difference?" (did you know that Scooter Libby was Marc Rich's attorney!) The difference is that the American Public is learning that our elected officials play by different rules then they have to.  Marc Rich shouldn't have been pardon, and Scooter should be in jail. (Scooter's Cheney's fall guy) Two wrongs don't make it right.
      There is an assumption by Washington politicians, Lobbyist, and their powerful corporations that the public doesn't understand how Washington works, and hence cannot be trusted? Which is also the underpinnings of how the Electoral College was created. How did the Electoral College come to be?

      "Members of the Constitutional Convention explored many possible methods of choosing a president. One suggestion was to have the Congress choose the president. A second suggestion was to have the State Legislatures select the president. A third suggestion was to elect the president by a direct popular vote.
       The first suggestion was voted down due to suspicion of corruption, fears of irrevocably dividing the Congress and concerns of upsetting the balance of power between the executive and the legislative branches. The second idea was voted down because the Framers felt that federal authority would be compromised in exchange for votes. And the third idea was rejected out of concern that the voters would only select candidates from their state without adequate information about candidates outside of the state. The prevailing suggestion was to have a College of Electors select a president through an indirect election."

      Why can't the person with the most votes win an election?  The Electoral College reinforces the notion that your vote DOES NOT make a difference.  Washinton's K Street's gang (Corporate Lobbyist) also insure that your vote DOES NOT make a difference.  Who do you think the Democrats and Republican Politicians are beholden to?
      Why do we have to live in a corporate run Democracy? 
      If you have a chance, rent or purchase  Warren Beatty's movie Bulworth.  It's very entertaining, enlightening, and funny.  And, unfortunately, quite true.  It's time for a change.  It's time for someone "NEW"!  Anyone running for President of the United States has to tell the Country that they will not commute or pardon criminals, whether or not they have the authority to do so.
      If you can, go see Michael Moore's "Sicko".... it's a very important film !  As long as Politicians percieve us Americans as gullible, fearful, and naive, they will continue to do the bidding for the Medical Insurance Industry, the Pharmecuticle Companies, and possibly the most powerful lobbyist in Washington, the Military Industrial Complex.
      And, lastly, it's time for the Electoral College to go.  Let's have "Direct Elections" ! Bring back Democracy, and let's return to the land of the free our forefathers envisioned for us.

T

        

   Obliviousness is not an option. How can you text message and safely drive a car over 60 miles an hour?  You can't.  So, why do so many people  think they are entitled to wander around and about, oblivious to the world around them?  This really wouldn't be a problem ... if it wasn't for that idiot obliviously babbling away on their cell phone ... while trying to cut you off in traffic! 

   Welcome to the Oblivious Blog, where we try to humorously point out the risk of obliviousness in a society and culture that has come to embrace and glamorize stupidity.  Turn off your Ipod, unclip your Blue Tooth , or get in line with the rest of the lemmings.    
   
     Our Government was oblivious to Hurricane Katrina when it slammed into New Orleans.  We watched our televisions for 5 days wondering when someone would come to help! What happened?!   Jay Leno said that if Osama Bin Laden  moved to New Orleans our Government would never find him.  

      Bush originally called the war on Iraq, Operation Iraqi Liberation, until someone explained to him that the first letter in each of those words spelled O I L .   In a White House Rose Garden Press Conference a few months back Bush said that, "we can't leave Iraq or the Terrorist will take over the oil fields!"  Well all right,  at least now we know what our energy policy is?

     And now, the Neo-cons wants to divide Irag into 3 sections? 
     Simply, regular, premium, and high test!

     So, how do you fight someone else's Civil War? And, when did the Iraqi civilians become the terrorist?  

    According to 60 Minutes the Janjaweed Tribe(supported by the Sudanese Government) are responsible for 300,000 dead (400,000 cited by United Nations and 2.5 million displaced) in Darfar, and are our Government's source for intelligence on Al Qaida  (source: 60 Minutes).  So naturally, we have to allow this mass genocide to continue? (11/13/2006 NBC reports the Janjaweed have now entered Chad)

    How to help?  Take Action for Darfur  and Divest For Darfur  (sites from Marin IJ September 19, 2007)

      At least 8 billion dollars is unaccounted for in the Iraq War.   A large portion of this missing money, according to 60 minutes,  has filtered back to the insurgents we're fighting? Large deliveries of weapons and ammunition are also missing according to 60 minutes... guess who has them? That's right, the "Terrorist". Who's responsible here?  If this were a business, wouldn't someone be fired! (Ok, since this was first Published Rummy is gone but why is Cheney still here?)

     
      But, as long as we're oblivious to what's going on around us, does it really matter?

      Just remember, when you go to pay your taxes in April, that there are 2 Ls in Halliburton.

      Obliviousness is not an option...




"I'm not oblivious, I'm just distracted"....oh geez....the best definition of a blogger came from a post on Tom Delay's Blog the day he launched it (12/10/2006), "Bloggers have always had the reputation as being unemployed losers... and now Delay is reinforcing that stereotype!" Tom DeLay's Blog came down later that day when they realized they were being inundated with negative responses/posts. TomDeLay.com yuck.

Please feel free to post comments or email to poopaloopa@gmail.com

        

In a letter to the San Francisco's Chronicles Mick Laselle, W.Lin of San Leandro writes, " We went to the movies recently and had to leave after 10 minutes because the woman behind us would not quiet her kids.  They were about 6 years old and the two kids mom talked to each other repeatedly and loudly.   We asked them twice to please be quiet to which the mother replied, "they're kids" as if that excused their behavior.  This same scenario played out around us the next time we went to the movies.  Do we have to build a home theatre of our own?"

Mick LaSalle, "There's an element in today's culture - a slightly morbid element - in which kids are like a religion and parents are like martyrs.  It's as if the children are vessels of purity and wisdom, and the parents are corrupt entities who just have to clean up after them, and so discipline is not an issue.  The best they can be hoped for is crowd control. 

A generation ago, things seemed a little more casual, and it was more understood and accepted that children were children, that they entered the world knowing nothing, and the mission of parenting was to let them know how to behave.

So, in response to your question, yes a home theatre would not be a bad idea."  Bad parenting wins again.



Larry David on the front lines.....
 

        

   Recently on NBC's evening news a soldier was asked, " now that the majority of Americans are against the war in Iraq, how do you feel?"  The soldier responded by saying, "those people don't see what we see here on the front lines ,and you can't say you support the troops over here, and not support the war. You can't have it both ways."  When I heard this my heart sunk.

   My father served in the Calvary as a Captain in World War II, and after my oldest brother became a Navy Seal, he decided to serve our Country by volunteering to go to Viet Nam during that conflict.   Neither believes we should be in Iraq now.  Both believe the soldiers are following orders, as they should, but that they can't see the forest for the trees.

  We have not found any weapons of mass destruction, and ever since we claimed Mission Accomplished we've become mired down in a horrific Civil War. Our continued presence appears to only further divide this country. So, who's side are we on? The Shites or the Sunnis?  According to Time magazine 2/12/2007, " the only thing Sunnis and Shi'ites  agree upon is that they hate us." You can't have it both ways!

    Iraq has become a disastrous distraction from the real war on terrorism that is worldwide, and only just beginning.   A military depleted and exhausted by a tragic and unnecessary war will become W's legacy.  This war is not making anyone safer.  Are there any leaders out there?  Will enept Politicians cause the fall of our great country?  Politician or leader?  How will you vote in 2008?  You can't have it both ways.
   

        

MR. RUSSERT: I want to ask you both about the economy. Jim Webb, when you were running, you said, “I’m not just running about Iraq, I’m running about what I see happening to the economy in this country, the divisions between rich and poor, as a Jacksonian Democrat.” And let me show you an op-ed piece that you wrote on Wednesday for The Wall Street Journal, and have both you and Jon Tester talk about it.

         “The most important ... issue in politics today is our society’s steady drift toward a class-based system, the likes of which we have not seen since the 19^th century. America’s top tier has grown infinitely richer and more removed over the past 25 years. It is not unfair to say that they are literally living in a different country. Few among them send their children to public schools; fewer still send their loved ones to fight our wars. They own most of our stocks. ... The top 1 percent now takes in an astounding 16 percent of national income. ...

         “This ever-widening divide is too often ignored or downplayed by its beneficiaries. A sense of entitlement has set in among elites, bordering on hubris. When I raised this issue with corporate leaders during the recent political campaign, I was met repeatedly with denials and, from some, an overt lack of concern for those who are falling behind. A troubling arrogance is in the air among the nation’s most fortunate. ...

         “With this new Congress ... American workers have a chance to be heard in ways that have eluded them for more than a decade. Nothing is more important for the health of our society than to grant them the validity of their concerns. And our government leaders have no greater duty than to confront the growing unfairness in this age of globalization.”

         SEN.-ELECT WEBB: No, and I, I strongly believe that, that it’s the most important country—issue facing our country. We have corporate profits at an all-time high, wages salary—and salaries at an all-time low as a percentage of our national wealth. And it’s sort of a three-tiered problem, a very difficult problem; it’s going to take years, years to break it down.

         The first is, what is fair trade in the, in the age of globalization? We can talk about free trade agreements, but when are, when are they not fair?  China’s the best example of that, where we have a situation now rather similar to what we were seeing with Japan 20 years ago, but much more dangerous in terms of its size and our—and the issues of national security, where you have a devalued currency that is enabling them to bring goods into this country at a very low price. And at the same time, they’re using that money to help finance our national debt. We’re becoming dependent on them.

         The second is, what has happened to the American workers in, in this environment. Because when you look at the movement from GATT toward the WTO, the American workers, the workers around the world, were not addressed as an, as an issue in terms of fairness. So we have situations here, a different type of, of economic and governmental system, where does—where do you pay health benefits? Where do you pay retirement benefits in the different countries? What’s equality of condition on a workplace that all goes to the worker?

         And then the third is, who is benefitting from the bene—you know, from the, from the larger benefits of globalization? It’s not getting down to, to the workers. And that can be addressed, in my view, as a—at a starting point through corporate tax loopholes, there’re many of them; through how the tax code is structured that—in a, in a way that benefits the, the, the top 1 percent.

         But this is an issue, it’s not just rich and poor anymore. It’s an issue of what is happening to workers worldwide and how the American worker fits into it. And that is my number one priority as a senator.

MR. RUSSERT: Jon Tester, do you share that concern? And would you be willing to roll back the 1--tax cut of the Bush administration on the top 1 percent and look at trade agreements?

SEN.-ELECT TESTER: Well, I, I think we do need to look at trade agreements for some of the reasons that Jim Webb just talked about. You know, as I go around the state of Montana, you see more and more people working more and more jobs, trying to make ends meet, and I’ve got story after story about folks who are really having trouble making their, their, their budget balance.  And, and it ends up, you know, where we have a society where there’s no middle class, and, and the working poor aren’t being addressed.

         And I think we do need to address, I think we do need to address it in the tax code, make sure we have a tax code that works for the middle class, small business, working families, family farms and ranches, and make sure that those people are empowered to move our economy forward. Those are the folks, really, that, that brought us here, was a vibrant middle class, and they’ve been forgotten about over the last many years, and it’s time to show them some attention.

         And when you look at, look at the tax cuts from the Bush administration, let’s look at it from the middle class. Let’s look at those tax cuts that empower the middle class and move forward. 

         And I can’t agree more with what Jim said about the, the trade, free trade vs. fair trade, devalued dollars and workers’ rights in other countries. We’ve got to make sure these trade agreements work for us and other countries so we’re not continually pushing jobs out of this country.

        

Some insights by Arianna Huffington and then a list of the Top Political Web Sites from Left to Right !

Arianna:
*"Hilary Clinton should not be the Democratic nominee. Period. The end. She has failed to speak out when it matters.  She has failed to show leadership on Iraq.  Anybody who wants to support her is part of the problem."
*"The more powerful bloggers become, the more money and access are thrown at them.  Bloggers are just as susceptible to the problems of mainstream media; they just havn't had the opportunity until now.  Let's see how they use it."

1. The Huffinton Post         www.huffingtonpost.com/       Arianna Huffinton 
    Ariana Huffington varied mix of authors
2. The Daily Dish                www.andrewsullivan.com/    Andrew Sullivan  
    Conservative 
3. Power Line                     www.powerlineblog.com/     Hinderaker, Johnson,
    &Miregoff  ...   Ultra extreme right Conservatives...took down Dan Rather
4. Daily Kos                        www.dailykos.com/                Markos Moulitsas Zuniqa
    Liberal
5. TPM Cafe                        www.tpmcafe.com                 Joshua Micah Marshall
    Pioneers of the left wing Blogoshpere...liberal
6. Hit and Run                    www.reason.com/hitandrun/  Reason Magazine
    Libertarians
7. Unclaimed Territory        www.glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/ Glen Greenwald
    Gleen Greenwald ...  liberal
8. Pandagon                      www.pandagon.net/               Pro-sex feminist
    Pro-sex feminist - fierce, funny, targets blowhard moralist
9. Tapped                        www.prospect.org/weblog/     Health Care, Education,
    &Foreign Policy .... Progressive view on health care,educacation,&foreign policy
10. The American Scene    www.theamericanscene.com/  Douthat and Salam
    Conservative
11. The Oblivious Blog       www.obliviousblog.com/          Humor and Politics
    Not for humor impaired



And, from the New York Times 2008 best seller's list:



And, don't forget about Ann Coulter!

        

         On November 8, 2005 Fox News, Bill O'Reilly said to San Francisco, " If Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, were not going to do anything about it.  We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off-limits to you, except San Francisco.  You want to blow up the Coit Tower, then go ahead."
         Sounds to me like Mr. O'Reilly is obviously an enemy combatant and should be treated as any other detainee... time for Mr. O'Reilly to go to Gitmo...



Painting by Carl Chaplin

        

"I'm tired of being eye candy for my girlfriend, the next person who comes up to me and says, it's all good, gets to wax my back!" W said when the Iraqi's stand up then we will stand down ... in these shoes!?

Oy Jesus!

        

         Remember "United we stand, divided we fall?"  Well, welcome to the Right Wing's version of the World Wrestling Federation of neo-con nut job talking heads, where right wing talk show host (Sean Hannity, Laura Ingram, Rush Limbaugh, and other lackeys) have a direct connection with the White House.   Fair and Balanced? Not for one minute.  How do you report the news objectively when your an operative for the people your supposed to be investigating?

         Fox News:    "We report and you decide"...well, not exactly, they distort and they divide.


         If the bogeyman doesn't get you the terrorist will,
"If you vote for the Democrats the terrorist win!" George Bush just before the November 7th 2006 elections
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How Do you differentiate Islamo Fascists from the Neo-Con Fascists? 
Here's a little chart that might help!

 

        

...blissful obliviousness...
















Van's Skatepark Milpitas, California   56 year old
dropping in........






Who knew the Silver Surfer was a progressive Liberal ?


National Lampoon Nostalgia
The dog is fine...enough issues were sold...Michael Vicks was not
working fror the National Lampoon at the time...





Bill Press, a part time resident of Inverness in Marin County California.
His web site is: www.billpress.com

Bring Back the Draft?

Congressman Charles Rangel just learned an important lesson.

He may be the new and powerful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, but there’s someone who wields even more clout: the new and powerful speaker of the House of Representatives. No sooner had Rangel announced plans to introduce legislation reinstating the draft than Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it wasn’t going to happen.

For Democrats in the House, Pelosi’s decision is smart. Having won back the majority, Democrats have barely a year to convince the American people they made the right decision. They’ll use that time trying to enact a handful of specific, family-oriented proposals: raising the minimum wage; making college tuition tax deductible; cutting interest rates on student loans; and fixing the prescription drug plan. The last thing they want or need is a controversial push for a draft, opposed by 70 percent of Americans.

So the draft is dead. Too bad. Because on the merits, if not the politics, of the argument, Charlie Rangel’s absolutely right: When a nation goes to war, all Americans should share the sacrifice. But that’s not the way it is in Iraq.

Almost 3,000 Americans have been killed so far in this senseless war — which we started, remember? But it’s no skin off the back of most American families. They have no connection to a war that will soon have lasted longer than World War II. Only a small slice of Americans have sons or daughters serving in Iraq. For the rest of us, the war is simply something we hear about on television. We’ve been called upon to make no sacrifice to support the war: no rationing, no shortages, no higher taxes. Meanwhile, we’re content to let other people’s kids fight it for us. Some call it “patriotism lite.” Congressman Rangel’s even harsher. “I don’t see how anyone can support the war and not support the draft,” he told CBS’s Bob Schieffer. “If you do, you’re a hypocrite.”

Contrary to what opponents argue, calling for a revival of the draft is in no way a slam on today’s volunteer military. Just the opposite. We have the finest military in our history today: highly educated men and women with broad geographic and economic diversity. The only problem is: They’re already stretched too thin, and they bear the entire burden of the war.

As several Iraq veterans told me on my radio show: “We’re proud of our service in Iraq, and we’re willing to go back. But we don’t think we should have to fight this war all alone.” And they shouldn’t. Indeed, if it’s important enough for our country to go to war, it’s important enough for all Americans to participate. Otherwise, maybe we shouldn’t have gone to war in the first case.

And that’s the larger point Rangel is trying make, by renewing his call for a draft. The truth is, had conscription been in place, we would never have gone to war in Iraq. As Congressman Rangel told CBS’s “Face the Nation”: “There’s no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft and members of Congress and the administration thought that their kids from their communities would be placed in harm’s way.”

Today, the surest way to end the war would be to extend the military summons to sons and daughters of the rich and powerful. You could bet the ranch on this: Once first twins Jenna and Barbara were called upon to put on the uniform, troops would be coming home from Iraq within hours.

True, the draft by itself is not enough. What this country really needs is a system of national service for all Americans, giving young people the choice: two years of mandatory service to the country, either in the military or in schools, hospitals or national parks — in return for a guaranteed college education. But until we get the whole enchilada, the draft is a good place to begin. And, of course, once we add Iran, Syria or North Korea to our war plans, the draft becomes absolutely essential. Otherwise, there simply won’t be enough troops to go around.

Congressman Rangel has the facts and the logic on his side. Unfortunately, that’s not enough to win the day.

In the interest of pure fairness, we should bring back the draft. In the interest of pure politics, it’s not going to happen.



"BRING BACK THE DRAFT!"

        

        

      The United States has long thought itself to be a nation "under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."  It is not a coincidence that the United States has rose to be the most prosperous nation in the world.  Yet now, this great nation is gradually losing all that it has worked so hard to create. For this nation - has lost its vision.
      Religous freedom has become religious righteousness bordering on religious intolerance.  Individual freedom has all but vanished as individual responsibility has disappeared.  The notion of individual responsibility has been distorted to mean "every man for himself."  This is the new philosophy that imagines itself to be harkening back to the early American tradition of rugged individualism.
      But the original sense of individual responsibility upon which the American vision and the American dream was based found in its deepest meaning and its highest expression in the concept of brotherly love.
      What made America great was not that every man struggled for his own survival, but that every man accepted individual responsibility for the survival of all.
      America was a nation that would not turn it's back on the hungry, would never say no to the needy, would open it's arms to the weary and the homeless, and would share its abundance with the world.
      Yet as America became great, Americans became greedy.  Not all, but many.  And, as time went on, more and more.
      As American saw how good it was possible to have it, they sought to have it better.  Yet there was only one way to have more and more and more.  Someone else had to have less and less and less.
      As greed replaced greatness in the American character, there was less room for compassion for the least among the people.  The less fortunate were told it was there "own damned fault" if they didn't have more. After all, America was the Land of Opportunity, was it not?  No one except the less fortunate found it possible to admit that America's opportunity was limited, institutionally, to those on the inside track. In general, these have not included many minorities, such as those of certain skin color or gender.
      American have become arrogant internationally as well.  As millions starve across the globe, America throws away enough food each day to feed entire nations.  America has been very generous with some, yes - but increasingly America's foreign policy has become an extension of its vested interest.  We've helped others when it serves ourselves.  That is when it serves America's power structure, the richest elite, the military machine, and their collective assets.
      Our founding father's ideal of brotherly love, United we Stand, has been eroded.  Now, with any talk of being your brother's keeper is met with a new brand of Americanism is a sharp mind toward what it takes to hold on to one's own, and a sharp word to any among the less fortunate who would dare ask for their fair share, for their grievances to be redressed.
      Each person must take responsibility for herself or himself - that in undeniably true. But America - and our world -can truly work only when every person is willing to stand responsible for all of us as a whole.

CWG2  N.D. Walch       

 Remember Terry Shaivo?  Remember how Congress convened when they were closed for a special vote to extend her care ?  And, W in Crawford, was willing to disrupt his vacation and come back to Washington but was unwilling to get involved when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans?  Yes, he finally did find his way in front of a camera... (but after so much loss of life and suffering)
         Right to Life groups have become so politicized they seem to have lost their way.  If they are so concerned about the value of human life , why havn't they responded to very real right to life issues such as: 
           655,000 Civilians are estimated to have died in Iraq as a result of the current war, according to a study by researchers at John’s Hopkins and Bagdad’s al-Mustansirya Universities.

           62,000 estimated Iraqi deaths are due to post invasion violence, according to the Brookings Institution, using data from the UN. 

       Along with the 400,000 reported deaths in Darfar and 2.5 million displaced (United Nations), where are the right to life voices? What an opportunity for those voices ... just a thought?

        

 

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The ability to register to vote, to cast a ballot, and to have that ballot counted accurately is the very foundation of our democracy.  To that end, every voter is entitled to the following rights:

         1.The Right to register to Vote
      2. The Right to Vote
      3. The Right to Vote in a tamper proof election
      4. The Right to Vote on paper
      5. The Right to Election Officials Who Operate free
                of Partisan Influence
      6. The Right to know that elected Officials are free 
               from the influence of campaign contributions
          from Voting Machine Vendors
      7. The Right to find out how money is being raised 
               and spent in the Political process
      8. The Right to have each vote counted accurately
      9. The Right to have election results properly audited
       10.The Right to an open transparent, Public Process

In Marin County 60% of those who vote use the Absentee Ballot.  This methodology should be considered for all.

     Obliviousness is not an option. 

Please feel free to post comments...all the best! Truly!

        

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