Proles, your name inspired some research and recollection of 1980's, thank you. Though you may be of the outer party mocking us proles, it matters not. For I am a prole, the working class with a....
Ah, I can see it now, soon our "Ministry of Love" will take over a Guantanamo, the newly formed "Ministry of Peace", will begin the end of conflict, even if it requires a bigger war to attain economic balance,.. er,..peace.
What brings this up that with the ever increasing unemployment, here in the United States where real numbers suggest over ten percent currently in Texas, and in the rust belt to twelve percent and higher,.. though the 'official' number is just five to six percent, and 'slightly' higher.
How is China doing? The number of people make even low unemployment percentages devastating, how to maintain control becomes the real issue. Just as in Orwells book;...that the motivation of the Inner Party is not to achieve a future paradise but to retain power, which has become an end in itself.
And the ever shifting alliances maintained an ever existing war, not for property or control, but to maintain the economic engine while controlling the population numbers through patriotism and war.
In my short lifetime since 1954 we've (U.S.) warred with China through Vietnam and Korea, then been friends in economic boons. Been in a cold war with Russia and allied in the UN. We've sided with Iran to only now wonder about Iran, Set up Qaddafi to take him down, the same with Saddam. Noriega comes to mind as well.
The "Ministry of Peace" at work.
And soon to be passed here is the "Fairness Doctrine", where freedom of speech is taken away for 'fairness'. Any 'right wing' publication and news letter, radio show or broadcast will be "Required" to be fair,.. but who makes that decision?
Maybe the new "Ministry of Fairness"
just words.....
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Ethnically ambiguous
I found this interesting that according to this BBC link embedded in my title, the world now see the United States as 'progressive' on one hand in that we elected an African American President,.. and in the other hand state how he is not actually from 'slave' stock. Matts article says way more than that and puts it very well, a perspective I had not considered. Here is a section just about Barack:
I think the bottom line should be one that makes you think, I know this one surprised me from the same article above:
Barack Obama's election is indeed an inspiration.
But we should not not forget that America's first black president is also half white.
He was raised by a white mother and white grandparents.
He thrived in the largely white ivory towers of Harvard and Columbia.
He is not the descendant of african slaves but the son of a Kenyan economist, who was educated at American universities.
So if Barack Obama is post-racial it is also because he is ethnically ambiguous enough for most Americans to feel comfortable with him.
In that sense too he is the Tiger Woods or Lewis Hamilton of American politics: cool, concentrated and ethnically mixed.
Remember, the biggest hurdle at the beginning of his campaign was not that he was black but that he was not black enough.By Matt Frei BBC News, Washington
I think the bottom line should be one that makes you think, I know this one surprised me from the same article above:
The Middle East is lost for words that a man called Barack "Hussein" Obama can be at the helm of the Great Satan.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Obamas Employment Plan
So what do all think of "Obamas plan to create 2.5 million jobs" fixing bridges, roads and wind energy? I can see the clerk from the local defunct clothing store Mervyns that just went belly up looking forward to digging in the dirt, hammering forms and finishing concrete. Heck, can't be nothing to building a bridge, we all have played with 'Legos' and 'Lincoln Logs'.
What a crock of re-warmed liberal stupid soup, er kool-aid,... touted by all the networks (include the BBC) as "wonderful" and an answer to the stuggle of unemployed middle managers in thier fifties everywhere. You can bet every overweight paper pusher is just dying to work in the elements and live in man camps in the wild and desolate areas of the Mid West.
All those former coffee servers from nearly defunct Starbucks will be glad to live in the desolate midwest of Wyoming or western Texas setting up wind towers, setting the base forms, tying the steel and pouring/finishing the concrete. Heck, once you do that it's easy to step into a crane and erect a wind tower without years of training and experience. Just give them 'Cake' eh Obama.
And the disenfranchised Auto worker from Detroit would love to leave his home for a mobil home in the tornato rectangle, rigging and wiring poles and setting up an electrical grid, heck, its just like installing the dashboard in a Ford Focus.
Two million four hundred thousand and swarming into unknown fields with out training or experience,.. ya'll got to be crazy not in seeing that this is nonsense.
Just words, just speeches and the masses will say 'sieg heil'.... OMG..
What a crock of re-warmed liberal stupid soup, er kool-aid,... touted by all the networks (include the BBC) as "wonderful" and an answer to the stuggle of unemployed middle managers in thier fifties everywhere. You can bet every overweight paper pusher is just dying to work in the elements and live in man camps in the wild and desolate areas of the Mid West.
All those former coffee servers from nearly defunct Starbucks will be glad to live in the desolate midwest of Wyoming or western Texas setting up wind towers, setting the base forms, tying the steel and pouring/finishing the concrete. Heck, once you do that it's easy to step into a crane and erect a wind tower without years of training and experience. Just give them 'Cake' eh Obama.
And the disenfranchised Auto worker from Detroit would love to leave his home for a mobil home in the tornato rectangle, rigging and wiring poles and setting up an electrical grid, heck, its just like installing the dashboard in a Ford Focus.
Two million four hundred thousand and swarming into unknown fields with out training or experience,.. ya'll got to be crazy not in seeing that this is nonsense.
Just words, just speeches and the masses will say 'sieg heil'.... OMG..
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
White Guilt is Dead
Follow the link that make the title, there you'll find a letter written by Tom Adkins. Interesting to say the least that the thought of this is alive and well. I have to wonder just how guilty a man must be to feel this way.
Comedy is Funny
Comedy is good for the soul,.. I think it is anyway. One of my brothers sent me this piece written by 'unknown', and thought it was funny enough to share.
A teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it.
The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories. There were all the regular type stuff, spilled milk and pennies saved. But then teacher realized, much to her dismay, that only Ernie was left. 'Ernie, do you have a story to share?' Yes ma'am. My daddy told a story about my Aunt Karen. She was a pilot in Desert Storm and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory and all she had was a flask of whiskey, a pistol and a survival knife.
She drank the whiskey on the way down so the bottle wouldn't break and then her parachute landed right in the middle of twenty enemy troops. She shot fifteen of them with the gun until she ran out of bullets, killed four more with the knife, till the blade broke, and then she killed the last enemy with her bare hands. ''Good Heavens' said the horrified teacher. 'What kind of moral did your daddy tell you from this horrible story?
'Stay the fuck away from Aunt Karen when she's drinking!'
A teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it.
The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories. There were all the regular type stuff, spilled milk and pennies saved. But then teacher realized, much to her dismay, that only Ernie was left. 'Ernie, do you have a story to share?' Yes ma'am. My daddy told a story about my Aunt Karen. She was a pilot in Desert Storm and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory and all she had was a flask of whiskey, a pistol and a survival knife.
She drank the whiskey on the way down so the bottle wouldn't break and then her parachute landed right in the middle of twenty enemy troops. She shot fifteen of them with the gun until she ran out of bullets, killed four more with the knife, till the blade broke, and then she killed the last enemy with her bare hands. ''Good Heavens' said the horrified teacher. 'What kind of moral did your daddy tell you from this horrible story?
'Stay the fuck away from Aunt Karen when she's drinking!'
Friday, November 7, 2008
Where Do "We" go from Here?
Yo Brit-ish,... my friend,.. it is going no where because it can't. Obamas first news conference is no more than that,.. him saying he can't,... won't do any of what his campaign has led his followers believe.
There is no miracle of the messiah coming,.. he is Chicago Politician from the get go,.. just more polished and stage viable... better actor if you will.
Hollywood selling us movies not worth watching, a series of commercials ever so more enticing as to make not seeing the movie is unbearable,.. such intense noise and build up,... such desire,.. then there it is... Kung Foo Panda!!!!!
pooh..
Such is change for/to fools,.. and we, the republicans and democrats alike have been played for fools that we are. World wide marketing and advertising, the making us want what we don't need, and the desire to buy it at any cost.. from IPOD to Play Station, Sega, Atari and cell phone upgrade mania, when all we want is a 'diversion' and a portable 'phone',... to talk, not text.
Where is it we want to go from here is the meat of this blog, if we are to have any meat. Affordable medical that is competent and viable,... real food for thought and an education system without limits on, where of when, or what of why, the idea is to learn,... the realization that some are meant to be mechanics or carpenters.... and damn good at it... and they are no less valuable than anyone else in status or earnings.
Why should the man that builds the dream have any less profit from the same dream, when it is his life that is traded for it? Is the money the investor places in the project allow him ninety percent of the profit on an unfair means of measuring risk?
Define justice in twenty words or less... the lawyer or the court typist, the bailiff or the officer. What each of us does in this society must be equal, for to divide the rich with a [phd] or the name of doctor behind the name is a false reading,.. the farmer that put food on the plate is just as valuable as the doctor that saves the farmers daughter, to have a son, that is a policeman,..
...in hospital built by the carpenter with material from the factory or plant, served food by the immigrant with hope in his heart.. for his daughter that is yet to be born, who will be mother to the child that will end all inequality...
..that will see we are the 'body' of man.. where the ass is just as important as the heart, that is worthless with out food or blood.
It is not the politics that are wrong, it is 'us' that are being fooled into our own self destruction by our insane desire for a power that is fleeting,.. a life that is wanting, for a value placed on paper with no joy or care,.. to die alone in a place where the body of man is in denial.
There is no miracle of the messiah coming,.. he is Chicago Politician from the get go,.. just more polished and stage viable... better actor if you will.
Hollywood selling us movies not worth watching, a series of commercials ever so more enticing as to make not seeing the movie is unbearable,.. such intense noise and build up,... such desire,.. then there it is... Kung Foo Panda!!!!!
pooh..
Such is change for/to fools,.. and we, the republicans and democrats alike have been played for fools that we are. World wide marketing and advertising, the making us want what we don't need, and the desire to buy it at any cost.. from IPOD to Play Station, Sega, Atari and cell phone upgrade mania, when all we want is a 'diversion' and a portable 'phone',... to talk, not text.
Where is it we want to go from here is the meat of this blog, if we are to have any meat. Affordable medical that is competent and viable,... real food for thought and an education system without limits on, where of when, or what of why, the idea is to learn,... the realization that some are meant to be mechanics or carpenters.... and damn good at it... and they are no less valuable than anyone else in status or earnings.
Why should the man that builds the dream have any less profit from the same dream, when it is his life that is traded for it? Is the money the investor places in the project allow him ninety percent of the profit on an unfair means of measuring risk?
Define justice in twenty words or less... the lawyer or the court typist, the bailiff or the officer. What each of us does in this society must be equal, for to divide the rich with a [phd] or the name of doctor behind the name is a false reading,.. the farmer that put food on the plate is just as valuable as the doctor that saves the farmers daughter, to have a son, that is a policeman,..
...in hospital built by the carpenter with material from the factory or plant, served food by the immigrant with hope in his heart.. for his daughter that is yet to be born, who will be mother to the child that will end all inequality...
..that will see we are the 'body' of man.. where the ass is just as important as the heart, that is worthless with out food or blood.
It is not the politics that are wrong, it is 'us' that are being fooled into our own self destruction by our insane desire for a power that is fleeting,.. a life that is wanting, for a value placed on paper with no joy or care,.. to die alone in a place where the body of man is in denial.
Uncle Sam
The Vultures are circleing, what will we have to offer those of lesser needs if we need ourselves?Thursday, November 6, 2008
The Hunt for the Texas Fox Squirrelope
The Texas JackalopeI am still looking to get a picture of the Fox Squirrelope seen in North Central Texas this past spring. He is said to eat whole squash, pumpkins and to wipe out whole gardens,.. and scare dogs.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Political Recipe. from the kitchen of DougTexan
The system will work once again, whether one or the other find himself in office, the limitations are found in the standard political recipe:
1. one cup of tribulation
2. two egos, slightly beaten
3. one tablespoon greed
4. a sprinkle of unknown
5. large serving of personality
In a large bowl known as an event, add in egos, personalities and greed, slowly mix in the unknown while blending tribulation to a smooth texture. Place into oven of promises for four years or until stale or given up on.
Serve with crow to the electorate with a glass of whine, desert is humble pie.
1. one cup of tribulation
2. two egos, slightly beaten
3. one tablespoon greed
4. a sprinkle of unknown
5. large serving of personality
In a large bowl known as an event, add in egos, personalities and greed, slowly mix in the unknown while blending tribulation to a smooth texture. Place into oven of promises for four years or until stale or given up on.
Serve with crow to the electorate with a glass of whine, desert is humble pie.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Quagmire
We have one day left to see the election through, and granted the prognosis is that Obamas got it. MA2, I like your analogy of the 6000 crew and the battleship, fitting for the ship of State.
Let us not lose the wonder for that which is the election, the democracy on tap as it were. I fear as y'all do, that with the double digit win, Obama will win a mandate. This is not necessarily bad, but the 'new' friends of state surely will be an indication as to the direction the new President and congress will take us, as sure as his friends of old indicate the new presidents political leaning, whether he reclaims them after the election or not.
Will that put in peril the balance of power world wide,... already Chavez is requesting a meeting with Obama when he wins. Russia has Georgia nervous on the balance, Israel is plowing down houses on the west bank, Mexican police are being murdered, our borders are still unchecked,....
At this point I wonder, 'is the support for the "New President of the United States" unilateral amongst nations and governments of our Allies, or is here a concern'? How about in our own internal security departments/agencies?
This is exciting, as come January 20th, we will be facing a brave new world, one of just more of the same, where behind closed doors destinies are decided, wealth is accumulated and power is divided,..
..or one where the very fabric of what is 'normal' is ripped, shorn into pieces that will confuse the very astute, confound the insider and without the guidance of a past,.. seek a new pinnacle of balance.....
or just Jimmy Carter all over again.
Let us not lose the wonder for that which is the election, the democracy on tap as it were. I fear as y'all do, that with the double digit win, Obama will win a mandate. This is not necessarily bad, but the 'new' friends of state surely will be an indication as to the direction the new President and congress will take us, as sure as his friends of old indicate the new presidents political leaning, whether he reclaims them after the election or not.
Will that put in peril the balance of power world wide,... already Chavez is requesting a meeting with Obama when he wins. Russia has Georgia nervous on the balance, Israel is plowing down houses on the west bank, Mexican police are being murdered, our borders are still unchecked,....
At this point I wonder, 'is the support for the "New President of the United States" unilateral amongst nations and governments of our Allies, or is here a concern'? How about in our own internal security departments/agencies?
This is exciting, as come January 20th, we will be facing a brave new world, one of just more of the same, where behind closed doors destinies are decided, wealth is accumulated and power is divided,..
..or one where the very fabric of what is 'normal' is ripped, shorn into pieces that will confuse the very astute, confound the insider and without the guidance of a past,.. seek a new pinnacle of balance.....
or just Jimmy Carter all over again.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
TODAY, November 2, 2008
If I may, today is the day that the reality of a failed republican bid for the white house is announced. Granted, there is one very unlikely path that may make the difference, but I would not want to see the ensuing legal battles a close race would warrant.
True, as a 'sitting on the fence Republican', my real tilt was to my party and values. That said I had to evaluate my value system and realise 'we won'!
1. Democracy: Freedom and choice. By presenting all sides of an issue, having it debated, found wanting or not, and the best done for the most as possible through freedom. Accomplished.
2. Fairness: Truly served in this round as in most of our elections. Race relations and unification, all sides got to air the differences and similarities,... we are Americans is a simularity that is undeniable. Accomplished.
3. Exposure: Again a rallying success. The exposure of right and left thinking is above board. We have once again to the chagrin of the world, been able to expose differences that would have torn a lesser country in half, to our benefit, to our liking and a salute to our new President.
4. Continuity: The arguments and bargains, the compromise and win, once again begin the next four years as we, yes I said we, the people once again hold our heads high as the beacon of freedom and truth for mankind.
5. Pride: What is a win or loss if not being proud of the battle waged. The shaking of heads and hands, the campign behind, the job of our nation is now upon us. With pride in all, we face the new day, new challange, with a new respect for ourselves.
True, as a 'sitting on the fence Republican', my real tilt was to my party and values. That said I had to evaluate my value system and realise 'we won'!
1. Democracy: Freedom and choice. By presenting all sides of an issue, having it debated, found wanting or not, and the best done for the most as possible through freedom. Accomplished.
2. Fairness: Truly served in this round as in most of our elections. Race relations and unification, all sides got to air the differences and similarities,... we are Americans is a simularity that is undeniable. Accomplished.
3. Exposure: Again a rallying success. The exposure of right and left thinking is above board. We have once again to the chagrin of the world, been able to expose differences that would have torn a lesser country in half, to our benefit, to our liking and a salute to our new President.
4. Continuity: The arguments and bargains, the compromise and win, once again begin the next four years as we, yes I said we, the people once again hold our heads high as the beacon of freedom and truth for mankind.
5. Pride: What is a win or loss if not being proud of the battle waged. The shaking of heads and hands, the campign behind, the job of our nation is now upon us. With pride in all, we face the new day, new challange, with a new respect for ourselves.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Where do we go from here?
This is a different place with a different idea,. on 'where do we go from here?
Wikipedia Re-Write
"Find me an example from an unbiased source. Michelle Malkin is in bed with McCain. She would print any bad thing anyone tells her about Obama; it wouldn't have to be true."geomapgirl responding that Wikipedia is a better source.
And the Obama faithful have rewritten Wikipedia,.. literally. From the "Community Organizing" page, re-written 200 plus times to purge any prior page showing him not there,(check the re-write date, one after another) nor in the manner they show now. I know this as I was on that page in the beginning of his campaign, he wasn't then (nor is now?) a 'famous' top ten community organiser. Though wiki says he is.
Same with any anti-Obama you-tube video, you cannot find any anymore, but suspect no foul play when all is 'video no longer available'
The liberal mind is an odd thing, as it should be calling foul here, really, have a McCain video removed because of its content and it would make the news.... "What is he Hiding?"
No school records, no old flames nor friends, no history.
just words, just speeches
Jenna & Jack & Someone
Jenna and Jack on the cutting edge of Pumpkin History!!
Who is that helping teen?
Jenna, your a star!!
Obama Media Mania
Not so sure if his attempt at dirision will work, read first thing this morning how McCain voters don't even need to vote, its over. What kind of sad media reporting is that, the only races being played out is not the presidential race. We have highly contested seats in congress, bonds and liquor/road/police issues being on the ballot.
I am finding more wrong with this whole election, not just Obama or McCain, but the strong feeling 'We The People' are being sold a bill of goods. The over the top 'selling and marketing' of the presidential office like it is product to be used to control us. A marketing tool is being displayed out on how much crap will the people actually believe, how many changes in policies and taxes can be thrown before us where we know less now than in the beginning on where either stand, on all but one or two items.
We know the pro-lifer, we know the pro-deather, we know the Alaskian, the Delaware and the Arizona and the Illinois. Tax plans have changed and grown, shrank and from high of 250 thousand to the low of 42 thousand will be effected and every one inbetween, beyond and before those ammounts. Big whoop.
The change man Obama has all of the existing and prior cabinet and bankers of yore, including the same foriegn relations committee chairman as his runnnig mate. Change my ass, just change from the same of one party to the same of the other.
Obama people cheery and bright in the streets, to others they look like the buyers of a lemon, but don't know it till the thirty day no exchange period is over.
just words, just speeches
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