Mark and I have been together for more than 7 years. We have just adopted a baby girl who is the love of our lives. We live in a small town in the North East with our three dogs and one obnoxious cat who believes himself to be a dog. This blog is set up to express my views and my feelings on a day to day basis. I will write about things that make me happy, sad, and angry. Hope you enjoy and get outraged a little.
Mark sent this article to me this afternoon. It's from the Army Times. It's kinda of scary where our country is going. The article, "Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1", tells of how the 3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT is going to be redeployed here in America. Yes, that's right they are going to be here to "help people at home" and this may be a permanent part of the Army now. This may sound good, but lets look a little closer.
They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.
So at the end of Hurricane season, near the election, and after many years of disasters already, the government has decided that they are now there for the average person. I don't think so. If you think that when this happens we are able to fight back - think again. Below is a video from Prison Planet that tells about Concentration Camps for Americans. We should all be afraid.
Now of course people are saying that this cannot happen in America. Maybe, maybe not, but why don't we all unplug from the Television News that only wants to give you the stories that would play on Jerry Springer and do some research. Look at America since Bush took office and notice a change. Read other people's information. The information that is out there cannot be given to you in a two minute story surrounded by pharmaceutical ads. Unplug from the MSM and notice that we are in a world of hurt here that is only going to get worse.
On Tuesday night Cindy McCain and Laura Bush asked that the people attending the RNC not be Republicans during the Gustav crisis. They needed to be Americans and to dig deep into their pocket books and help. But how do you think the average American feels when Cindy McCain shows up on stage in an outfit that cost anywhere between $299,100 and $313,100. The earrings cost $100,000 + more than the house I am living in. How special. The pearl necklace alone could pay for some people to eat for a year. So yes the Republicans really do understand the plight of the middle class and what we are going through. Even if they realloy did, why rub it in the face of the Hurrican victoms. The ones that they want (or so they say) to help.
How can people like this really understand that most American are living from pay check to pay check - if they are getting a paycheck. Most Americans are trying to decide if they should pay for the medicine that they really need or buy groceries. Most Americans are trying to figure out a way to pay for the high cost of oil for the winter. And the solutions that most Rupulicans tell them - get another job becuase its not our problem. So the new standard in America is for people to be working three or more jobs or they are not holding up their end of the bargin.
We cannot do this for four more years. We cannot lose all that America stands for. We cannot let these rich, out of touch, fat cats ruin our country (although GWB has already done that). We cannot let these people take away the future of our children and their children. It will already take way to many years to repair what GWB has done in just eight. Don't be afraid to talk about the issues, but know the issues and where each canidate stands. Don't become a talking head for the out of touch MSM. Do your own research and inform people. Know your stuff and let the other people prove you wrong.
I am not sure if I mentioned it before, but Keith Olbermann is my hero. Of all the newscasters out there (and there are many) he seems to tell it like it should be told. Yes, he is giving his opinion, but isn't that what news is all about now? There is no more news, there is only a perception of the world that we see and how it is reported depends on the person sitting behind the desk. With that said, I like Olbermann's perception on the news. With Bush's approval rating at an all time low (sorry dad), how can Olbermann be wrong.
This is from a while back, but it still resonates with me and how I feel about the dumb-ass, dick-head that has taken the country, that so many love, and driven it into the ground. To give you a little setup. On May 13, 2008, the president sat down with Politico.com to answer some questions from online users of Yahoo. His answers to some of the questions should not have been spoken from a president. But of course we all have to realize that this was unscripted (very rare for this idiot) and we all know that Bush cannot think and talk at the same time.
Here is Olbermann's comments. When you watch him, you can tell that what he is saying means a lot to him.
Update: Here is an update on the "cold-blooded killer comment" that Olbermann made during the video above. It is amazing that when I watched the video and he made the comment on the "cold-blooded killers" I thought only of the Bush administration, not the troops. Why do the Right Wing lunatics hate our troops?
I just took The Bush-McCain Challenge -- an online quiz to see if you can tell the difference between George W. Bush and John McCain. Check it out, and see if you can do any better than I did! I only got 2 out of 5 right. Just click the link below and see how you do.
Well finally after seven and a half LONG years, George Bush has finally succeeded at something. According to CNN, 71 percent of the American people "disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as president". Now think about this people. Obviously the Democratic party does not make up 71 percent of America so there are some republicans that feel this way as well. I know that this information is going to do nothing to my father's ideals which are "George Bush is the best president ever, right after Ronald (let's not talk about AIDS) Reagan".
How can people, even jokingly, think that this moron is doing a good job? Gas will surpass $4 a gallon soon, 4065 (as of 5/2/08) American service men and women have died in a false war, 1,205,025 Iraqis have perished since our occupation, and we have spent more than $515,918,607,081 on Iraq alone. Take the last number into consideration. That is $4,681 per household, $1,721 per person, $341.4 million per day. (National Priorities Project).
So back to only "The Worst President EVER". Although Harry Truman and Richard Nixon's approval rating were in the low 20's, their "disapproval" rating never broke the 70 percentile. Isn't this dick-head an employee of the American people? Isn't he supposed to care what we think and how we feel?
"No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup Poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director.
The scary thing is people are starting to buy into what McCain is selling them. With the Democrats screwing up their chance of getting someone viable into the White House, it seems we may have another 4 years of Bush-like stupidity!
Lets take a walk down memory lane. Why is it that in just seven years we have gas prices that seem to benefit only the oil companies. When Bush took office on January 20, 2001, the gas prices on a national average was $1.46/gal. Now, just seven years later we are at $3.29/gal. This is more than 125% increase!! Compounded annually, this represents about a 18% jump each year Bush has been in office.
When Clinton took office on January 20, 1993, the national average gas price was $1.06 per gallon. six and a half years later, the national average gas price had jumped to $1.22, roughly 15% higher. Compounded annually, this represents about a 2% jump each year.
Now ask yourself why prices have taken a steep climb in the last seven years. Can we blame the Iraqi war. The same didn't happen when we declared war in 1990. The problem seems to be once again the Bush administration. We have a group of people that have close ties with the oil companies. There are just too many people in the Bush administration that have their hands in the pants of the oil companies.
When the oil companies tell us that they made BILLIONS in profits over the last year and we have to pay for it, who is getting screwed. Then we have Bush telling the American people that "America is addicted to oil" (State of the Union, January 31, 2006 ) and that his administration was going to help rid us of this addiction:
To break the addiction, Mr. Bush announced new research into clean energy, including pollution-free autos and a push to make ethanol
"Breakthroughs on this and other new technologies will help us reach another great goal: to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025," Mr. Bush told a joint session of Congress and a national prime-time television audience.
We need to take the next President to task and find a way to help relieve the stress of oil from the American people. We have the technology, but why haven't we created the answer? Bush and his administration helped to destroy America in many ways, the next president will have a long hard task in front of them. That is unless the next President is McCain. Then he will just follow in Bush's footsteps. God help us all if that happens.
With all that said, we are not the country that is paying the highest price for gas. How would you like to pay $4.00/gal. That is what India is paying. Still not the Highest though. Turkey is paying over $7.00/gal. Nice!
Dick Head sings: After YouTube took down a cell phone video recording of the president serenading the White House press corps, Salon’s Scott Bateman put together this animated video to go along with an audio recording of Bush’s song.
While I was watching the primaries last night like a lot of other people, Mark decided that he was going to see what was really going on in our wonderful nation. The primaries are important, but what Mark found showed me that the news could have been doing a little more.
Here is Guest Blogger - Mark:
Tuesday, March 4th, while the media was obsessing about the democratic presidential primary. These were some of the other headlines of the day: NOTE: THESE ARE ALL FROM ONE DAY!
It is known that President Bush doesn't read the newspaper:
HUME: How do you get your news?
BUSH: I get briefed by Andy Card and Condi in the morning. They come in and tell me. In all due respect, you've got a beautiful face and everything.
I glance at the headlines just to kind of a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves. But like Condoleezza, in her case, the national security adviser is getting her news directly from the participants on the world stage.
Mark just emailed me and told me that it took $54 to fill our gas tank today. Fifty-four dollars. How is this OK? The average gas price today (2/29/08) is $3.169. Last month, the average was $2.939 and a year ago it was $2.409. So we have gone up almost a dollar in the last year. Actually it will go up over a dollar (and more) in the next couple of months. Today, the price for a barrel of oil has reached a record high of $103. I remember when it was high at $76 a barrel and that was just last summer. Now are you going to tell me that people's pay rates have been increased as well? I think not. So what is the problem here?
"We've acted robustly and now it's time to determine whether or not this programme will actually work," Bush said, referring to a $168 billion stimulus plan he signed into law this month.
"There's no question the economy's slowed down," he said at a White House news conference. "I don't think we're headed to a recession."
NBC's today show points out that oil and gas prices are up, home sales down, the dollar is down against the Euro. Amazingly the only place that the dollar is up in the world is South Africa and South Korea. We have a war where we are spending millions daily and we are financing this war by borrowing money from other countries. How is this good. To fill our oil tank yesterday cost us $3.49/gal. This is getting out of hand. With one person working (by choice), how are families supposed to survive in this mess?
Mark and I are lucky in that we had a chance to pay off all our bills when we were both working, This cost us some things though. For three years we didn't do anything really. We rarely ate out, we didn't see any movies, we rarely went anywhere or bought anything except the needed essentials. We see the middle class fading away and what remains is the upper class and lower class. How can we keep going like this? How can we have a president that is so delusional that he truly believes that America is doing well? It will be interesting to see what happens over the next couple of months. Both Mark and I think there will be some sort of major change.
And to close out the week (Thank God It's Friday), here is a little something from Bush's first term. I think we should have known something back then.
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.'' Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001
George W. Bush has shattered a record that has stood for 55 long years, and there's not any one reason. It's everything, although I suspect that liberals would more likely say Iraq and torture, conservatives would say immigration and runaway spending, and everyone would now say the economy.
Worse the Watergate: Bush scores lowest presidential approval rating EVER!!!
You gotta love this, and he thinks he is doing what the American people want! Right now Bush stands at 18% believing that he is doing a good job. How does he stack with the other presidential lows: Nixon, as he was hounded out of office in August 1974, never dipped below the mid-20s.
How arrogant can someone be? Well seems like the president is topping the charts when it comes to arrogance and even ignorance. I got this clip from Crooks and Liars. In it Laura is quoted as saying that "No one suffers more than their President. I hope they know the burden of worry that is on his shoulders every single day for our troops"
OH MY GOD!!! She is telling the American people that this moron is suffering more than the 3,963 soldiers that have lost their lives? That he is suffering more than the families that have lost their loved ones in this stupid war? That he suffers more than the men and women that are going back on their third, fourth and FIFTH rotation? How dare she!!!
And Him, what an idiot. It like listening to a third grader that was held back for four years. Here is his response to Ann Curry's question about the burden:
Ann Curry:So I’ve been wondering, ever since she said that, will the burden of worry, do you think about this war in Iraq, will ever truly leave you?
Bush:Well, what, what what, what, what,(Yes he actually said what five or six times - One great speaker) we mean is the fact that a mother has lost a son, or a wife has lost a husband, or husband has lost a wife. I’ll forever, ya know, uh, carry that with me. On the other hand, I firmly believe that the mission will yield piece. And as people are now beginning to see, Iraq is changing. Democracy is beginning to take hold. And I’m convinced 50 years from now people will look back and say Thank God there were those who were willing to sacrifice.
Here is the video:
The best part of this video is the mentality that Bush has concerning the economy. He thinks that our economy is deteriorating because we built too many homes. Not because we are spending $275 million per day and $4,100 per household. This couldn't possibly be the problem. On the other hand he did make a point that he believes the war is good for our economy. How you may ask? "Because we are buying equipment". So according to our president, War is good for us, but if the war is good then why are we heading into a recession? Oh ya, because we don't have the money to spend on the war, we are borrowing from China (among other countries), the companies that are buying the equipment do not have their offices in the U.S. Why would they, then they would have to pay taxes. Check out this transcript from Andy Rooney
This all comes down to what Eisenhower said about the Military Industrial Complex:
Here is something that people should watch to understand why we are where we are with this war: IRAQ For Sale:
Blackwater, America's Private Army:
We have lost more than 3,900 men and women in this war. The Iraqis have lost 1,173,743 due to the invasion/occupation by the U.S. Military. It's time to get MAD! It is time for a change. It's time for Bush and Cheney and the evil administration to be held accountable for the War Crimes they have committed. One president got impeached for getting a blow job, why let this one go for getting people killed?
