America Hearts Barack OBama?

Sure It was Valentine's Day. People are going trough the motions' set out by the retailers who love V Day, but cannot get money flowing on any of the Monday Holidays, can't pay the rent, and will lose the house or job or both by tax day. So is there love in Washington for the President the nation has come together over? Hell No! Obama calls on us to "prove equal to this task", speaking of the hardships we must overcome due to the absolute failure of the Bush Hegemony. Despite all of the stimulus pandering, we need an injection of money, dispersed to as many right economic sectors as possible, and we need it now. The biggest complaints the Republicans are crying sour grapes over-other than Big daddy W's leaving office-is the digital-analog conversion money(650M), 190M for Phillipino War vets(who helped us in Asian Campaigns and are our trusted ally still today) , and the evil empire known as the National Endowment for the Arts(50M). What should have been the focus, tied directly to the stimulus and economic crisis, is that Richard Holbrooke(Pakistan and Afghanistan), George Mitchell(Israel and palestine), and Hillary Clinton(China, Korea, and India) are now meeting with heads of state in the places that we are at war,helping to fund war, and trying to prevent war, respectively. If any future America wants to keep its' money flowing and its' people safe, these three agendas-designed and assigned by President Obama-will be greater than the sum of all Domestic Efforts of Stimulus. But Republicans and their media slaves want to focus exclusively on nuances of stimulus, because its' easier to blame Obama if this does not work than to blame him for the multi national war Bush created for us.minimum expenditure thus far-ONE TRILLION DOLLARS(1T-yes trillion). Oh yea, lets not mention-shut the fuck up CNN don't say it- that "Asian central banks altogether own about a quarter of the Treasury market of over $5.5 trillion"(Reuters 11/09/09) So that means that simply between our direct war funding-not the subversive underpinnings of war economics, and Asia's free market-6.5 Trillion Dollars of our taxpayer money is being spent to "help" our foreign "allies". That does not include South America, where the Bush Regime has jacked up the price of "Help" in Colombia's' War on Drugs to 4 Billion Dollars, and according to Colombian Journal "The U.S. indictment provided no evidence to support its claim that FARC leaders have earned $25 billion from drug trafficking and are responsible for 60 percent of the cocaine shipped to the United States.

Meanwhile, most Colombia experts agree that the country’s right-wing paramilitaries are far more deeply involved in drug trafficking than the rebels, a fact supported by the numerous drug busts in which the seized cocaine was traced back to paramilitary groups. In fact, former associates of Pablo Escobar, the notorious leader of the now-defunct Medellín cartel, established some of Colombia’s most prominent paramilitary groups.

At the same time that the Bush administration is making the FARC the focus of its drug war propaganda, it is becoming increasingly evident that the U.S.-backed paramilitary demobilization is nothing more than a charade. Last week, demobilized paramilitary leader Ivan Roberto Duque confirmed publicly on Caracol Radio what Amnesty International, the United Nations and many analysts had been alleging for more than a year: that demobilized paramilitaries are taking up arms again. According to Duque, ex-militia fighters are offering their services to drug traffickers or “private justice” groups, also known as paramilitaries. As a result, the number of killings by paramilitaries in 2005 more than doubled that of the previous year"

Meanwhile, Mexico, our bordering neighbor, is picking up whatever the Colombians don't control, and killing thousands along the way. Right next to Texas-the best nation on Gods' Green Earth!

We can no longer blame this travesty on Bush's poor decisions, bad management, or over-extended resources. This effort to undermine the Common Good for personal gain is overt, and Bush-Cheney, and everyone in media who supported the lie-should be prosecuted. These people committed treason with every breath. We fund other militaries' better than we fund our own. We need another tea party-of 2009 proportion .

As we get set to increase weaponized attacks into Pakistan, decide on a number to put hastily into Pakistan, while owing all the bad guys billions of dollars in the region, one can only HOPE that Obama really pushes the economic crises through the proper channels, because this cannot remain the priority after the states and private institutions begin to recieve billions in funds. I hope that their is oversight, Justice Department oversight, when the money starts to flow around, and popular oversight, because WE, THE PEOPLE, are more capable of getting us in and out of financial disasters than any Adminstration. When people think of money, they simplify is into a very, very small box, yet it is the pian in the ass key to the game of life. Most of us, at work, will never admit a dire money problem in our life, yet most of us that work have issues pertaining to cahs flow, saivings, etc. So we bottle it up and suffer the consequences of capitalism. Rather than bruise our pride at our "career"(in quotes because we may all chaneg careers more thna twice in our lifeltime), we hurt our spouse, our families, and our neighbors. For a "Cristian" nation, thats' whats' too hard to swallow. If you horde money it-or even if you horde information about how to get it, save or invest , money that can help someone else-you are a miser. People usually don't understand that hording money is a group thing. The One-percenters-those ferrari driving, red carpet walking people who flap about charities only to get drunk at a cocktail party and write meaningless checks, and the other 99% of us who worship them. Other than that you have the Wall Street crowd, who never knows which way is up and down, Doctors andLawyers who are communal by nature, andTrust fund babies, all grown up and ready to be President for 8 years and run teh Free World into the ground. I hate money, but I know I need to live well with it in order to breath fresh air, know who'd going to call me,know how I can see the world, expcet to grow,and above all, provided for my family. The system is not set up for such simplcity, but its' not the moneys' fault. I know enough of the history of it that its' not going away, and none of us can live without it. If America as a population rises up to meet the money with a whole hearted work effort, we can be turning the corner by 4th of July. If not, we may never see an American Indpendence Day again.

3's a Charm!

It took only this long for the honeymoon to be over? The bitterness I discussed last week got really really ugly, as Republicans bickered and slandered the new Administrations' attempts to solve a problem created by the GOP, and the Democrats in Congress stood on the sidelines and watched the fight-without jumping to Obama's side. This is the part that underscores the whole issues: RACE. The skull and bones white boys would rather support the guy banging his wife than an honest black man with a good idea. The Democrats, too feel they are entitled to what Obama has "yet to earn". Geithner, Daschele, and even femme fatale Nancy Kellifer felt they could cast aside shortcomings because of white privilege. The problem is that this activity resonates to the street, and while I don't have the same opportunities as the ones these others' squander, people of other backgrounds and skin tones will equate whites in the same way whites categorize others. Dacshlele is too soft spoken, too soft in general, so its' good he isn't in charge of anything. If he were a more robust persona, he would already have run for the White House. Obama was forced to waste three critical days of would-be stimulus lobbying by apologizing for other prominent public servants' lack of credibility. Chances are high that he won't let them put the egg on his face again. Of course the media spins their own whirlwind of bullshit to make these incidents somehow tie dinto the stimulus, thus making teh American peopel more skeptical than we already are, more skeptical than when we wnet to Bush's war all gung=-hio despite the fact that 911 and Iraq-or Afghanistan-have no relationship what so ever. But lets' bicker over tax cuts some more. Lets' moan about the relevance of education. Lets overlook that 4 MILLION CHILDREN are going to get health care now, which should have been the high point of the week. Instead its' a cute footnote on the bottom of page one, right next to the story about "Obama Hope poster artists"(Shepard Fairey) arrested in Boston. I guess we don't need arts funding if we already have such advanced coverage like that! Three things ring true because of this weeks action:
1.Media Reform
should be the priority in years 2,3&4, because these assholes, like the AP suing Shepard Fairey only after he gets famous-Boston PD arresting him after he brings Good press to the once dilapidated shithole known as Southie- while at the same time spinning lies and deceit that costs lives, billions of dollars, and all of our independent voices as people. media:reformation.

2.Criminal Justice System overhaul
Cops-yes, the ones who busted SF-and me, are included. these usually uneducated morons can arrest you, beat you, rape you, throw you in the slammer-because they feel like it. Then they can walk always regardless of what happens in court. They, like the media, are more prejudice than the Morton Downey JR show with Roy Ennis v the KKK(best hour of TV ever)-F*** the POLICE:

Cole was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 1985 rape of 20-year-old Michele Mallin. He maintained his innocence, but it was not confirmed by DNA until years after his 1999 death, when another inmate confessed to the rape.

"Everybody thinks he died a felon, a hardened criminal," Cole's brother, Cory Session, told CNN. "That's what hurts."

As he huddled in an Atlantic City hotel room last May with a handful of reputed drug dealers, Boston police Officer Roberto Pulido boasted that he knew how to test the loyalty of officers he was recruiting to help protect cocaine shipments being trucked through Boston: threaten their children.

The powers given by the state to the police to use force have
always caused concern. Although improvements have been made to control
corruption, numerous opportunities exist for deviant and corrupt
practices. The opportunity to acquire power in excess of that which is
legally permitted or to misuse power is always available. The police
subculture is a contributing factor to these practices, because
officers who often act in a corrupt manner are often over looked, and
condoned by other members of the subculture. As mentioned from the
very beginning of this report the problem of police deviance and
corruption will never be completely solved, just as the police will
never be able to solve the crime problem in our society. One step in
the right direction, however, is the monitoring and control of the
police and the appropriate use of police style to enforce laws and to
provide service to the public.

3.Non-US Citizens using American institutions &technologies-universities, web companies, blogspots, etc., to slander American ideals. I pay taxes, I vote, I work here, I can use the Constitutional Rights responsibly. If you do not meet ALL of those qualifications, you should be relegated to speak differently. Don't move here to rain on our parade. I ain't your military son-and they ain't listenin' anyway-Don't come to our education system, , study our way of life, our technology, our business strategy, and then throw us under the bus back home. Not fair. Not productive. Not what we're about. Or is it what we're about:

The largest number of foreign students in the U.S. come from India; about 76,500 Indian students were enrolled at American colleges or universities in the 2005-2006 academic year. China comes in second place with some 62,600 students. Despite these numbers, however, enrollments from India declined 5 percent, while the number of Chinese enrollees stayed about the same as the previous year. Among the countries sending the greatest numbers of students, the largest percentage increases in enrollments came from Korea (up 10% to about 59,000), Taiwan (8% to 28,000), and Mexico (7% to 14,000). While sending smaller numbers overall, both Nepal (6,000 students) and Vietnam (4,600 students) each increased their enrollments by 25 percent over 2004-2005.

The countries sending fewer students to the U.S. include Japan (down 8% to 37,000) and several predominantly Islamic nations: Turkey (7% to 11,600), Indonesia (2% to 7,600), and Pakistan (9% to 5,800). Other decliners include Brazil (down 3% to 7,000), Kenya (3% to 6,600), and Nigeria (2% to 6,200).

Long story short, our nation is boasting opportunity and then giving it away, then the people in turn use such an invitation benefit for means not beneficial to the people of the United States. Hypocrisy knows no borders. this happens, regionally, too, when southern fried rednecks, in collusion with the wealthiest, elitest bankers(Madoff, etc, etc. ) come to wall street and steal money, get reimbursed, than steal again. No democracy anywhere from sea to sea lately. This government better be sincere, or we all may be doomed. Seriously.

Week 2

OK. The week ended with a Super Bowl almost as good as last year. I was watching all week to see when the country got complacent again before the Big Game, and sure enough both wall Street and Washington were pushed done the page, and sometimes put in the "Nation" section of the locals rags. Did anyone notice how inexpensive the TV commercial production was, the studio for Madden and Michaels? At least the dialogue of commercials has to be improved, in order to replace the bells and whistles? Instead, we read about things flaring up in Gaza, North Korea getting belligerent, and Terrorism in Kenya, Obama's fatherland. We got the list of guests at both Obama and Bidens' SB party. Why couldn't they hang out together? Biden was the 3rd Senator of PA, so he had specific interest in the Steelers. Obama most certainly got a huge donation from the Rooney's' , in part because Teresa Heinz Kerry owns Pittsburgh. Since her current husband couldn't beat Bush, Obama must've received her attention. What the government failed to recognize-a first slip- was "If we work on the weekend, if the nation sees us working through the Super Bowl(maybe an address to the nation on TV), not only will we lead by example in a new way, but things will get accomplished to days faster". Instead,what does team Obama do? Under the radar? He finalizes his pick for Commerce Secretary(after Bill Richardson(D NM) stepped down (because of a corruption investigation), and will name Conservative Reganite Judd Gregg (R NH) as soon as Monday afternoon. This not only puts a possible Neo-con at the post of Commerce, but the New Hampshire Governor, John Lynch(D) is planning to do the honorable thing and put a Republican in his place. This weakens the otherwise advantageous position the Democrats are showing in an era where they haven't had a total majority, and probably never will. But instead of CAPITALIZING, they want to play nice. Ok, so was Obama around-or any of his ingenious, brilliant-and totally unproven cabinet-when Bush-Cheney-Rove were stealing all of our money, getting our teenagers killed, and completely ignoring all states that didn't rhyme with Lexus? What a noble deed it is for the "above that" Dems to play nicey nicey. I didn't elect these clowns so they could hang out at the Super Bowl party with the people that robbed all of us for 20- years! Yale men, Harvard men, all those silver spoon babies, with their tostitos and Bud Light, single malt they can't really explain, seriously think that we stop paying attention on the weekend. Not this time, people. Just look at the energy in the Game last night-the crowd may have chanted "Recession! Recession!" Until the 4th quarter, most people were hoping to God the game was good enough to justify the next three years of family trips on a 4 hour ballgame, in which half the people leave broken-hearted, and the other half just broke. I love football-I don't gamble, but I watch sports and news-no movies, no shows) as don't get me wrong. But these days we cannot afford to take a break. Watch the game at work, Washington. Thank God both the Nationals and Orioles are terrible. The stimulus may not have passed till '10! Anyway, these problems are far too serious to slow up on, to give kudos to the other party, to wait on a solution across the world. The other Big events of the week to check in on:

What Republicans consider Unnecessary spending in the stimulus package(hint-banks, not people, need help first)

Michael Steel fmr Lt Governor of MD (R) was pawned up as the Republican National Committee, in a move that says howout oftouch Republicans are with the world, with their statement: "Hey we have a black guy, too!"

Daschle, Like Geitner, can't downlaod Turbo Tax without help-from the IRS

First week in the books!

In college sports, teams begin a season with a ranking based on the performance of the previous year, key returning players, coaching staff, conference, and opponents' corresponding data, all yielding a level expectations, reflected by this rank. Most of these categories depend on one thing: Booster support. The colleges with the biggest volume of donations boast the most dominant sports programs, all under the guise of the NCAA's loophole ridden system. Nonetheless, the rankings come out every year, and millions of fans-half of whom bet on at least their own team-watch multiple games a week, hoping for the glorious victory. When I was a student at the University of Arizona, the biggest fans were those that never even really knew that there were classes on the same campus as the stadium. These were the lower class, uneducated locals or transients who got behind a team cause you could get drunk, stoned and gamble while supporting the local college team. Students of course, often fall into this category as well. What, you may be asking, does this have to do with Barack Obama's first week in office? Well, the same people supporting those teams-those millions and millions of Americans, uneducated and scholarly, lower and high class, are all weighing in on the Administration Preseason ranking as a powerhouse team, who for this stretch will at least face the ol' skool opposition, the Republican Party.
The first week of business could be called "putting your money where your mouth is"
Most people are interested in the politics of the measure, when these are simply necessary business decisions aimed at preventing further disaster to our economic stability.

Of course, no-name Republicans, vying for position among the murky remnants of the party both uplifted and destroyed by the Bush family, and clamoring about Stimulus for banks-again-and that the infrastructure-designed after the New Deal model FDR struggled to passes, and then succeeded in getting us not only our of s depression, but to the World's most formidable economic, social, and military power. But after the Bush regime threw a trillion or two dollars at military and banking, we must assert that another option may be needed to drag us from the mat that such Republican Policies knocked us onto.
The obvious problem is that Neo-cons and regular Republicans, both born out of the Torrie British colonial ideology-which says be loyal to your party regardless of right and wrong- still play the same amateurish game of unilateral partisanship that will, if it continues by way of Democrats taking the bait(as they usually do), lead to further deprecation of America as a nation, as a culture, and as anywhere near what we should expect ourselves to be as a population.
Both the floundering neocon media pundits and their mid-level, post Cheneyism republican shrapnel in the Congress are all now making comparisons to the National Endowment for the Arts spending as if its' the same as supporting Communism. Please, don't Fuck with the NEA. Culture is very important, after Human Rights, safety, health, and job security. The cultural arts define a populations, its' history, its' contemporary beliefs, its diversity, etc. The free press hides behind it, than stabs it in the back when the ratings will benefit. These people are still simply descendants of generations of An American culture stooped in Betsy Ross, Abe Lincoln, and many histories that overlaid a foundation of nation building. They don't even want to investigate truth that the NEA is supposed to carry on the tradition, only to take the ignorant, redneck Jesse helms stance of the mi 1980's. Its a sad day when nothing changes, especially when everything had almost appeared to. See you next week

Instead of Pandering

Its' fair to say that all of us have tremendous emotive strength in our opinions. The entries herein will be my assessment of the facts, the opinions I form about the response to them, and the subsequent development of our broken culture from this first week of the new America. The promise is about progress, and it will take years just to get back to where we were culturally a decade ago when the 1990's sparked a resurgence in peaceful expression, cultural experimentation, and tremendous economic growth. . In many ways, the awful acts committed since 911 by American hierarchy in government and business, has given great potential to the truth of a more galvanized civilization. But humans are fickle, and it may be difficult to retain such unity over the coming years. People want Obama to wave a magic wand, give us a new Ten Commandments, end the Wars, and feed the starving. That won't happen.He has a job to do just like the rest of us. The process is not only intentionally drawn out, but experimental and rooted by compromise. The good thing is that he and his Administrators don't appear evil, as was the case with our figurehead leadership the last 3/4 of a decade. A lot of Americans are new to the political process, a residual effect of the last campaign and election. This will pave a simultaneously beneficial and difficult road for our nation and our world. Newcomers to any group will assume that Promise is always kept, or that the process of election will be the hardest part of an Administration. Reasons why I feel so strongly about these times are summed up, in short, by stating that the Baby Boomers have blamed the following generations on so many things wrong with the world, even before any of us entered the workforce. This is not to say that my family had any hand in such matters, and my families strong political arguments and discussions at the dinner are certainly the rocket boosters that elevated my own consciousness to the height that requires action, response, and reaction. The sixties were a great time for action, change, and outspoken demonstration. But it was not unique, as some claim, to civilization, not ever-changing, and most of all, no more significant than the actions of those who came before or after those who participated in all of the Equality movements in Human History. Obama signifies the passage from the Baby Boomers-most who traded in their bandannas for a necktie-to a generation that defined the way America is today, and will be for the next half-Century. We are the hip-hop heavy metal suburban culture with less hangups about race, gender, orientations, etc, and more hangups about fairness, rationalization, and culture wars that have existed since the beginning of modern civilization. This is not an end, but a beginning, and as baby Boomers retire and count their blessings, I would like to be a tiny, part of the progress of civilization, as America no longer has to be the first to do things right, but we must be the next.