It has been a while since I logged in and gave my thoughts about the condition of the United States. Its time to set the record straight.

Obama is pushing through his health care bill, convinced that he is the only one who knows what is best for the people. Little does he realize is that the American people have seen through his bombastic rhetoric and that this bill is all about the health insurance companies, not the American people. He has resorted to strong arm tactics, threats against those opposed to it and political slight of hand in order to get his way. He has forgotten that he was hired by the American people to do a job and that its a temp job at that. He has forgotten who he works for and how he was elected in the first place. By all accounts, he took less than six months to break most of his campaign promises and has ignored the will of the people. He continues to do so on a daily basis without regard for anyone.

The Catholic Church is in the midst of another sex scandal, this time right in the Vatican itself. Numerous Vatican officials have have been busted by Rome police for soliciting, recruiting and, according to news reports, operating a gay sex ring. Just how will this affect the millions of Catholics worldwide? Hopefully they’ll realize that the Catholic Church is just like any other religion, a for profit organization. In the United States they try to influence elections on both national and local levels, preaching from the pulpit just who the congregation should support. This alone is enough for them to lose their tax exempt status but politicians are afraid of making the first move. The Catholic Church is the largest in the world, only trailing Islam by a few million members, with billions of dollars in real estate. If that property was taxed, just how much money would be put into the economy? Its their way or the freeway; what kind of religion puts that kind of restraints on its members?

Millions of protesters braved adverse weather conditions nationwide to carry signs against abortion, same sex marriages, cruelty to animals, genetically altered crops, nuclear energy, trying to put a sand flea on the endangered species list or the strong arm tactics of the IRS. They protest against Columbus day, immigration, corrupt politicians, corrupt cops, legalizing marijuana, eating meat, crop circles, alien invasions, domestic spying, high credit card interest rates, all powerful banks, high unemployment and whatever else they can think of. What 99.99% of them don’t realize is that protesting never changed anything, nothing. Remember the Vietnam war and all the protests? They didn’t help end the war but did embolden the enemy and create a new breed of draft dodger.

There has been calls for a nationwide work stoppage, just don’t go to work for a day and bring the economy to a screeching halt. Ain’t gonna happen, folks. The ones it would be targeting are immune to such things simple because they’ll still collect their paycheck while you don’t. That should be a no-brainer.

Start a civil war? Well, that’s on its way as we speak, headed by state militia manned with disgruntled people just wanting to make a difference. It won’t be pretty when it happens, pitting ordinary citizens against the state and National Guard units. But will they actively engage citizen armys or hold their fire? That decision is up the individual and probably be surprising to those in command.

I have many other subjects to touch on but I’ll leave them for another day.

“I don’t care”. Those words were spoken to me by an agent of the Colorado Dept of Revenue recently as I tried to explain why I didn’t have any money left after paying for food, rent and utilities. I only owe them $300 now in back taxes and have faithfully been paying down my debt for more than a year. This month, my utilities were higher because of cold weather, groceries keep going up but my fixed income hasn’t. I have my daughter and two grand kids living under my roof since she lost her job and kids love to eat. What was the result of my telephone conversation? an attachment on my bank account, essentially wiping it clean, that in addition to the bank charging me $100 for doing so. So between now and the second Wednesday of December, I have less than $20.

As I still have my internet connecton, I began searching the state’s web sites, trying to figure out exactly how they can legally take every dollar without so much as a thank you or kiss my a**. It turns out that states base their laws on the federal government, especially the Infernal revenue Service. Did you know that the state, and IRS, don’t have to prove to anyone, like a judge, that you owe the money, they can simply serve a paper on the bank, usually electronically, and freeze your assets and they don’t even have to tell you. That’s right, the first inkling you have is when a check bounces or you check your balance and its sitting at zero. Don’t count on ever seeing that money again, it is GONE and you’re left with the financial disasters it causes. The states are bad enough but can’t hold  candle to the IRS.

Several years ago the IRS was dragged over the coals when they were tied to several suicides because of their tactics. They had hounded so many people for small amounts that the people saw no way out except suicide and they took it. It was only found out later that the IRS had made a mistake. Oops!!. Now here’s a fact you may not have known, you can’t sue the federal government without their permission. You have to go before the federal tax court and essentially prove your case before you can continue. If the tax court rules against you, you have nowhere else to go but home and forget about it. The IRS has their own set of rules, classified for obvious reasons, that details the methods approved for collection agents. They can arrest without warrants, seize assets without showing just cause, seize assets of relatives and then sell them off for pennies on the dollar and then bill you for the cost of selling them. Talk about adding insult to injury.

With the economy in the toilet, unemployment staying above 10%, foreclosures at unheard of numbers, families sleeping on the streets and children going to sleep hungry, our government thinks nothing of taking what few dollars remain. We didn’t have a say in whether we wanted a trillion dollar federal deficit, we don’t have a say in how and where our tax dollars are spent but yet we are expected to pay for it. Do we really need to send $30 billion to foreign countries when that money could be better spent right here? Again, we aren’t asked.

It is a small wonder that there’s a mini-revolution brewing against the very people who should be held accountable. It will only grow until the voice of the people can’t be ignored. I’m seriously thinking of lending my voice to the growing uproar.

Yes, it is Sunday morning, I’ve watched my news channels, read the morning paper and browsed the national newspapers searching for a single piece of good news. It is not to be found. The shootings at Fort Hood has been pushed off the front page by the news of the House of representatives passing Obama’s health care plan by a slim margin (it has yet to hit Congress and a mean battle is expected) after a late night session. I specifically told my representative that it was a bad idea and against it; he didn’t listen to me and voted for it anyway. Now I have to wait and see if my congressman will listen to me but I’m not holding my breath.

The Fort Hood shooting are equally as devastating, thirteen dead and eighteen still in the hospital. The suspect is in stable condition and expected to live to face the death sentence (in the Army, that’s death by hanging). There are several posters already rising to his defense stating that his Muslim faith made him do it (blah, blah, blah. I’ve heard that excuse many times already, usually right after a bomb has gone off, killing dozens of innocents) and he was persecuted or wasn’t in his right mind or was pushed to the brink because he was about to be deployed to Afghanistan to fight his fellow Muslims. There is no suspect to it, he has been positively identified as the lone gunman, so take him out behind the armory, stand him up against the wall and shoot his ass.

An Arizona Muslim father killed his daughter because she had become too westernized and disrespected him by refusing to marry the potential husband he’d picked out. Gimme a break here, this is America, not Iran. Women have a choice here but her father thought otherwise and killed her by running over her with his American jeep, on an American street. This is still America, the land of the free and if he chose to move here, he should have adopted our laws, not his. He’ll probably get a Muslim lawyer and argue a honor killing is perfectly legal for his religion. Sorry, I don’t buy it.

Muslim talking heads are arguing that calm should prevail, that Muslim’s shouldn’t be singled out for harassment because of their religion. I have a news flash for those same talking heads, it’s gonna happen. Only someone who has lived as a hermit for the past ten years can’t see that the Muslims are determined to change this great melting pot of religions into one — Muslim, and bring their backward religious laws with them. There are three Muslim lobby groups who jump at the chance to stand up and cry “religious discrimination” at the slightest excuse. And every time they do grab a headline, their donations skyrocket so they are monetarily motivated to get out there first. They have infiltrated every branch of government, including the White House, and use the slightest excuse to forward their agenda, based on religious freedom. The entire situation is disgusting to me and to most freedom-loving Americans.

I have a plan for them, if you don’t like it here, go back to herding camels in the desert. return to your country of origin and try to change the laws there before trying to change an entire country. If you don’t like your country’s dictatorship, change it but leave ours alone, we like it just the way it is. And I can promise you this, you will never, never change America into another Muslim country.

Yes, its my fault and I shamefully admit it. I don’t know all the major players in Washington, I should but there’s just too many, in front and behind the scenes, to keep track of. The ones I do know, like my state Senators and Representatives, just don’t have the juice to get anything done, or have the time to listen to the average American. So like a blind idiot, I sit in front of the TV during the evening news and shout insults to the talking heads. I rant and rave my dissatisfaction and in the end, all that’s happened is my blood pressure has risen dangerously. I’ve often given thought to the situation, I know, bad for the mental health and wondered just what I, just one senior citizen, can do about it.

In another post, I stated that we’re a non-issue because we don’t contribute enough money to political campaigns for these blowhards to get reelected. I still fell that way but thinking in a different direction, I have to ask why should we, after all, they work for us, draw their paycheck from the public treasury, have benefits the rest of us can only dream about and have a Colgate smile. I wouldn’t care if they had wooden teeth like George Washington if only they would do their jobs, represent us and not big business and special interests. We all know that is not going to happen because they know where their extra money comes from and it isn’t the little guys like you and me. Can anyone name even one politician who DID NOT become a millionaire while in office? I can’t and it sickens me.

Even those voted out of office continue to make money at our expenses, they are called lobbyists, the scum sucking, bottom feeding, lower than whale sh*t form of useless life form. Example, Karl Rove and Dick Cheney. We all remember our former vice president who continued drawing a salary from Haliburton while steering no-bid government contracts their way, but did nothing wrong, so he claims. If you believe that, I have some prime beachfront property to sell you east of Denver. Haliburton’s contract to build housing for our GIs has resulted in numerous deaths by electrocution, faulty grounding of electrical systems. But they did nothing wrong. You won’t read anything about that in the news now, its been buried.

Now we have our government trying to shove their version of health care reform down our throats while extolling its virtues, as if it had any. If I’m reading the bill correctly, and I have read it, unlike our Congressmen/women, it was written by the health care industry in cooperation with the pharmaceutical companies, designed to maximize profits at the expense of the American taxpayer. And we’re supposed to fell good about it. That is bad enough but now there are rumors floating around that there will be another round of bailout funding for those who missed out the first time, that doesn’t include those of us who would need it the most. President Obama has in his first nine months in office, driven the United States to a new record federal deficit, $1.4 trillion, with a capital T, trillion and he still has three years and three months to go. I shudder as to what he’s capable of in those three years.

Yes, I’m writing my Congressman, I know who he is now, and telling him that I don’t suport the current policies of spend, spend, spend. It has to end and let the market sort itself out. If AIG, Bank of America, Chrysler or insurance companies can’t compete, then the American taxpayer shouldn’t bail them out, There is no such thing as “too big to fail.”

Surprise, surprise, the answer is NO!! That is my position from watching college educated people try to run rough shod over non-college educated people. Specifically, college educated politicians in position of power in Washington D.C. I think it is safe to say that 100% of politicians have graduated from some college, usually one of distinction and renown. I think it is also safe to say that 90% of them are clowns who shouldn’t be allowed to manage a car wash, much less  a government department.

How does a college operate? Simple. A college professor writes a book and then makes it part of his program, thus insuring sales. Now where did that professor get his education? from reading books written by his instructor. Its all about book learning, not practical experience and it is practical experience that makes things work. Here’s an example. In order to get an electrical license, the electrician must know - as in intimately — the National Electrical Code (NEC). He/she must know formulas, calculations, conduit fill, amperage wire sizes and a thousand other need to knows. He/she must have the practical experience to install that conduit, size wires and pull the wires into the coduit. He/she must know, not guess, how to install an electrical system. That is practical experience.

Now, an electrical engineer has spent four years reading about how to do the same thing but doesn’t have the practical experience, they haven’t dug a ditch and installed the conduit, they haven’t pulled one wire and gotten their hands dirty. Yet they have the final say over the job and if they are wrong, the guy/girl in the ditch gets the blame. They don’t have the practical experience.

An aspiring politician has sat through four years of class room work but hasn’t the slightest idea of how the real world works, they lack practical experience. They do know how to rob Peter to pay Paul, juggle accounting books and make themselves look good in order to avoid criticism for the lack of practical knowledge. Just look at our present sitting administration. They have put the United States (read that American citizens) billions of dollars into debt and have the slightest clue as to how we’re going to pay it off. That’s where creative bookkeeping comes in handy. Call it slight of hand, they distract us from the real problem while giving us false hope. Does anyone really think that all this economic stimulas is about the American people. If you do, then get your head out of your a** and smell the roses. Its all about corporate America and bailing them out, not the American taxpayer. Its all about making them a profit at the expense of the age earner.

I must admit that I was anxious to hear how Obama would apply his problem solving skills to our problems as he campaigned for President, only to be disappointed as he plowed right into helping his campaign backers, those who handled him expertly before and after. Obama is now in the White House, for another 3 1/2 years and living the dream of every minority. It is unfortunate that he chose dept heads with little or no street smarts, a prime example of a college education going to waste. Obama is not helping the American people, he is repaying his campaign promises, at our expense. Maybe he can get a refund.

READ THE HEALTH REFORM BILL!

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL BILL

Look at what is in the Bill!:

Pg 22 of the HC Bill MANDATES the Govt will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure!!

Pg 30 Sec 123 of HC bill - THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get

Pg 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill - YOUR HEALTHCARE IS RATIONED!!!

Pg 42 of HC Bill - The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC Benefits for you. You have no choice!

PG 50 Section 152 in HC bill - HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise

Pg 58HC Bill - Govt will have real-time access 2 individs finances & a National ID Healthcard will be issued!

Pg 59 HC Bill lines 21-24 Govt will have direct access to you banks accountsts for electronic funds transfer

PG 65 Sec 164 is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in unions & community orgs (ACORN).

Pg 72 Lines 8-14 Govt is creating an HC Exchange to bring private HC plans under Govt control.

PG 84 Sec 203 HC bill - Govt mandates ALL benefit packages for private health care plans in the Exchange

PG 85 Line 7 HC Bill - Specs for of Benefit Levels for Plans = The Govt will ration your Healthcare!

PG 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill - Govt mandates linguistic appropropriate services. Example - Translationfor illegal aliens

Pg 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18 The Govt will use groups i.e., ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt HC plan

PG 85 Line 7 HC Bill - Specs of Benefit Levels for Plans. #AARP members - your Health care WILL be rationed

PG 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill - Medicaid Eligible Individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice

pg 124 lines 24-25 HC No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No “judicial review” against Govt Monopoly

pg 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill - Doctors/ #AMA - The Govt will tell YOU what you can make.

Pg 145 Line 15-17 An Employer MUST automatiocally enroll employees into pubic option plan. NO CHOICE

Pg 126 Lines 22-25 Employers MUST pay for health care for part time employees AND their families.

Pg 149 Lines 16-24 ANY Employer with payroll of 400k & above who does not provide public option. pays 8% tax on all payroll

pg 150 Lines 9-13 Business payroll between 251k & 400k who doesn’t provide public option pays 2-6% tax on all payroll

Pg 167 Lines 18-23 ANY individual who doesn’t have acceptable health care according to Govt will be taxed 2.5% of inc
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Pg 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill Any NON-RESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay for their health care)

Pg 195 HC Bill -officers & employees of health care Administration (GOVT) will have access to ALL Americans financial/personal records

PG 203 Line 14-15 HC - “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax” Yes, it says that

Pg 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill Govt will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors, low income, poor affected

Pg 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill - Doctors, doesn’t matter what specialty you have, you’ll all be paid the same

PG 253 Line 10-18 Govt sets value of Dr’s time, professional judgment, etc. Literally value of humans.

PG 265 Sec 1131 Govt mandates & controls productivity for private health care industries

PG 268 Sec 1141 Fed Govt regulates rental & purchase of power driven wheelchairs

PG 272 SEC. 1145. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS - Cancer patients - welcome to rationing!

Page 280 Sec 1151 The Govt will penalize hospitals for what Govt deems preventable readmissions.

Pg 298 Lines 9-11 Drs, treat a patient during initial admission that results in a re-admission- Govt will penalize you.

Pg 317 L 13-20 PROHIBITION on ownership/investmen t. Govt tells Drs. what/how much they can own.

Pg 317-318 lines 21-25,1-3 PROHIBITION on expansion- Govt is mandating hospitals cannot expand

pg 321 2-13 Hospitals have opportunity to apply for exception BUT community input required. Can u say ACORN?!!

Pg335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339 - Govt mandates establishment of outcome based measures. Health care the way they want. Rationing

Pg 341 Lines 3-9 Govt has authority to disqualify Medicare Adv. Plans, HMOs, etc. Forcing people into Govt plan

Pg 354 Sec 1177 - Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of special needs people!

Pg 379 Sec 1191 Govt creates more bureaucracy - Telehealth Advisory Committee. Can you say health care by phone?

PG 425 Lines 4-12 Govt mandates Advance Care Planning Consult. Think Senior Citizens end of life

Pg 425 Lines 17-19 Govt will instruct & consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney. Mandatory!

PG 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3 Govt provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in death

PG 427 Lines 15-24 Govt mandates program for orders for end of life. The Govt has a say in how your life ends

Pg 429 Lines 1-9 An “adv. care planning consult” will be used frequentlpatients health deteriorates

PG 429 Lines 10-12 “adv. care consultation” may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from GOV

Pg 429 Lines 13-25 - The govt will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.

PG 430 Lines 11-15 The Govt will decide what level of treatment u will have at end of life

Pg 469 - Community Based Home Medical Services=Non profit orgs. Hello, ACORN Medical Svcs here!!?

Page 472 Lines 14-17 PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORG. 1 monthly payment to a community-based org. Like ACORN?

PG 489 Sec 1308 The Govt will cover Marriage & Family therapy. Which means they will insert Govt into your marriage

Pg 494-498 Govt will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating, rationing those services

Everywhere you look jobs and pay go down and prices go up, and do you want to know the cause for some of it. Well hell most of it these stupid go green environmental assholes.

I mean you go to the store and you get almost crucified if you don’t use paper or those stupid cloth bags. I like the plastic bags for two reasons 1 I can grab more bags at once so I have less trips to the car. 2 When I take my dog for a walk they make a great tool for safely picking up shit. Oh I’m sorry in order to save the world we have to live in a world of shit filled parks. Then on top of that do you know why most stores go with plastic bags. You probably guessed it it’s cheaper! Now if we did away with plastic like the tree huggers would like then everything in the store goes up. The tree huggers and the people blindly following them would say “It’s a small price to pay for saving the earth”. Well that’s nice except when a can of soup goes from 79 cents to 3 dollars (yes that’s what it would be if only paper was available) then all you morons would cry corporate greed! And with everyone out of a job which do you think people care about cheap food that they need to survive or the planet

Here’s another go green thing that people should be shot for. In elementary schools in my area at least “a effort to be more environmentally conscious plastic water bottle are not allowed students may bring a reusable container for water“ What ever slow brained idiot thought that this was a good idea should be repeatedly slapped across the face with the working end of a power sander. Let’s examine the problems with this thought. 1 elementary kids are between 5 and 11 there is no way in hell they’ll remember to properly wash the bottles at least once a week. 2 most kids that are very young don’t think twice about drinking water that’s a day or two old if your lucky the water will just be stale 3 Now even if the kid rinses the bottle everyday and gets fresh water everyday bacteria can still grow because it’s stored in a warm dark space (the locker) now maybe we’ll get lucky and the kids won’t get Nagilieria but you will see kids get sick more often. Or do you really think that the schools have anything better than tap water.? Now I ask you parents which would you prefer your son or daughter sick or keep them healthy by giving them the evil plastic bottle that contains clean safe sterile water.

Now to all of you people that think that plastic is what’s going to destroy life as we know it I have a question. Plastic has not been around for that long. Less that a century as a matter of fact. Now your going to tell me that we’ve done in less than a 100 years what the universe couldn’t get done in the last 6 billion years. We’ve created something that’s more destructive to the planet than all the asteroid hits, comet strikes, worldwide fires, floods and all the other bad shit that’s happened to the earth over the years? Is that what you’re asking me to accept! Isn’t it possible that you’re creating a storm in a teacup?

Warcorpse

Yes a man who was light years ahead of his time penned this opening to one of the MOST influential documents ever written in history.

Sadly, today this means nothing to the elected officials governing our once great country. No it didn’t start sliding downhill when the Novelty Obama-nation uttered the statement, “We live in the greatest country in the world; help me change it, but that non hacker sure as fuck hasn’t HELPED things out a whole lot has he?

Motherfuckers (and father fuckers for you ladies who feel left out when I say it) Are lining up to defend this shitbird with statements like “No one can expect him to deliver on all of his campaign promises”. Then WHY the FUCK was he elected by a majority vote? If it doen’t matter what they say, why aren’t we picking a President’s name out of a fucking Fez? (Yeah a turban would just be a freaking hand towel with a bunch of clumps of paper inside it wouldn’t it?)

I’m getting off track here. HEALTH CARE for ALL should be FOR all not just one for us and one for them. I’f I’m having their shit crammed down my throat then at least tell me that they are getting the same lack of condiments that I am. REGULATIONS and REFORM are what the current System needs and not a Socialist, Eastern Block replacement for it.

While we’re at it, lets think about this. Nancy Pelosi and the fucking DNC is all over this shit about Leveling out the WEALTH of the nation. Lets call this what it REALLY is. They want You and I to be in the poorest 85% of the nation so THEY can be in the RICHEST 15% (if they will allow that many people to be as “privileged” as they are for being good enough to get you fucking moronic, mouth breathing masses to vote them into office.

“From Each According to His Abilities and To Each According to His Needs” is the mantra that these fuckaholics are chanting and the Public is chewing that up like it is a NEW concept. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov brought forth REFORM via these means in a little place that used to be called Russia with these EXACT words.

The FIRST thing that these radicals who wish to infringe upon OUR Inalienable Rights do is to take away the guns of the people that they wish to enslave.

Amendment 2 - Right to Bear Arms. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

This was written by men who had to shed blood to have the right to protect themselves from all enemies Foreign AND Domestic.

Hitler immediately took away every gun from the Jews and I hope you fucking idiots do remember what happened to them during his rise to power. NOW the Democrats have sought to take guns out of the hands of the people for many years and they always come back to the same thing. They SAY it is for OUR own good so that “Criminals” cannot get their hands on guns to harm us. WAKE THE FUCK UP. They are the criminals that wish to enslave YOU and make you work so that you get just enough to get by and they get MORE than they can possibly expect their grandchildren to be able to spend. if GUNS are so BAD, why are these people all Guarded by agents who have them?

AGAIN… WAKE THE FUCK UP PEOPLE! Our society is being dumbed down by the lack of a true Education System. Our Wages and Income are being attacked, we are being led like lambs to the slaughter and the apathy and brainwashing that our leaders MUST be right just because they hold that position is sickening.

We are soon going to need a Revolution to get the Government out of our wallets, schools, and privacy of our own bedrooms because the MASSES can no longer think for themselves or ask the simple questions and react to the answers that are given to them rather than just going with the flow.

I can no longer sit idly by and watch the destruction of the greatest nation in the world. Who has the guts to speak out with me?

The answer is simple - we don’t contribute enough money to reelection campaigns for our concerns to matter. I base this on several news sources but mainly on my personal observations of my elected representatives, both in Congress and the House. It has been documented that six of the Senators responsible for hammering out a new health care bill have accepted $11.5 million from pharmaceutical companies, others just haven’t been found out yet. Something new? No, this has been going on for many years and has cost Americans billions in excess dollars, billions that has gone into many pockets.

Take the Veterans Affairs (VA) for example. This one government health organization, responsible for caring for this nation’s war veterans, has overspent billions of dollars on medications for one simple reason - they are prevented, by Congress, to negotiate for lower prices based on their volume of buying. This one act alone would save taxpayers billions of dollars, dollars that could go toward improving the level of health care. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand why; our so-called representatives have been bribed to vote against any such act. Those are strong words and could get me into hot water but they need to be spoken, loudly and often.

Our government is corrupt, not above selling Americans down the river in order to increase their personal wealth, too many Congressmen, and women, have been caught accepting bribes for the truth to be otherwise. Corruption runs rampart in Washington, D.C. and has for many years. Each year we hear vows of cleaning it up but it never happens because it is so deeply ingrained that it is almost impossible to stop. Perhaps the one most important act that could happen is to outlaw lobbying in any form, except by the voters; let the American public be heard instead of big business and special interests. Has anyone heard of even one Congressman/woman leaving office poor? Of course not because most leave office millionaires, if they weren’t before entering office. They certainly weren’t frugal with their pay and wisely invested it but accepted money under the table for their vote, they just didn’t get caught doing it.

Just what can we, the American People, do about this, including the above suggestion? Demand accountability from our elected representatives in every aspect of their Congressional duties. demand explanations as to why they voted as they did, party lines be damned, was it the right thing to do. How did it benefit the American people, the ones who has to pay for every program they enact? I’d like to see a report card on each and every one of them at six month increments instead of two and four years, at election time. If they aren’t doing their job, then they are recalled, out of office, fired, canned, terminated. But will that happen, no. But we can always hope.

It’s been a while since I’ve been here to spread my insights of great ponderence, but this made me take pause and write.  So, a potentially racist situation goes down that results in a man’s arrest and Barack Obama immediately comes to the defense of his friend…Yale Professor of African Studies, Henry Louis Gates in the midst of the frey.

It has been an unnecessary crap storm if you will, that Obama has backed himself into regarding this incident having not been availed of the proper facts.  I’ve heard it said that there were mostly egos involved that got out of hand.  It is more a case of ONE ego, that of Professor Gates.  As the police reports have stated, Gates became belligerent the moment the white officer (there was also a black and Hispanic officer on the scene, as well) began asking routine questions that one would ask on a B&E (breaking and entering) call (i.e. Is there anyone else in the house? May we look around?, etc.).  These are all standard procedure for a call of this nature.  However, the YALE professor felt it beneath him to be questioned in any manner regarding suspicion of any kind. The “educated” and I believe correct response would have been…”Thank you for coming to my home when called in regard to something this serious. Certainly, you may check around. I’m happy to do whatever I can to help rectify any misunderstanding by the neighbor as well as the police department. In fact, I probably should thank the neighbor for his conscientiousness, as well.”

Instead, he was most likely irritable when the officers arrived, having been absent minded enough to lock himself out of his home. That disgruntled attitude (coupled with a predisposition toward racism as an African Studies Prof.) then manifest itself in the form of indignant arrogance toward an innocent officer who was simply trying to do his job.  In order for this to be even remotely considered racial profiling, Gates would have to have been randomly stopped.  This was a B&E call, plain and simple.  When the officer asked for Gates’ ID, he went ballistic prior to complying with the officer’s request. Then the officer was satisfied and began to leave with the other officers and Gates continued to berate and malign the officer all the way to the front door with racial epithets. The officer warned him to let it go and asked him to stand down.  Gates refused and the officer took out his cuffs and warned him a last time.  Gates, was relentless and as a result was arrested.  The only reason that the charges were dropped, in my opinion, is because not only was race introduced (by Gates) but also, because he is a high profile individual. It’s bad press for the department any way you look at it and the higher ups don’t need Obama’s camp looking down at their fair city.  They had no choice, even though it would have been a simple misdemeanor.

Adding insult to injury, Obama proceeded to call the officer “stupid” without having read even so much as a newsclipping on the incident.  The educated and proper response here, in my opinion, should have been…”I have not read the police report on the incident so, I won’t speculate and will reserve my comments until such time.”  His arrogance wouldn’t let him do that.  Instead, he chose to get out ahead of the situation and make it about defense of a friend over defense of the facts.

In closing, what this said to me is that both Gates and his buddy Barack arrogantly overstated their cases.  It continues to be revealed that Obama has some pretty outspoken friends (Rev. Wright, communist party devotees, etc.).  Being outspoken is not a bad thing in and of itself, mind you.  However, the destructive words of an outspoken person who is not intent on speaking words that teach, heal or inform for the progression and edification of the whole over self…is quite dangerous.  This further indicates to me that birds of a feather flock together. These “friends” of Obama’s that continue to pop up can only cause one to think…Who is the real man beneath the spit and polished President?  Is there an outspoken radical buried someplace deep down in there who thinks that every irresponsible, harsh and divisive situation can be excused and brushed off by simply sitting down and sharing a beer together?  Great idea, until the beer starts talking…then what?  Seriously, though, Obama and other educated black men such as himself have a huge responsibility to speak intelligently to such issues as racism…not perpetuate its destructiveness themsevles by viewing every given incident from a racially-motivate point of view absent of the facts.      

That’s my take.

Benman out!