The Mideast Peace Direct Talks were based on No Precondtions, Good Faith and No Hidden Agendas.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset in 2009.
Photo by: Archive / Tess Scheflan 

The Politics in Israel is hedious.  The New York Times needs to Editorialize and Op-Ed this thing to death.

Arabs live in Israel.  There is nothing to say the settlements being built cannot include Palestinian families.  If they don't want their children attending local schools, Israel can arrange for safe buses to Palestinians schools.  

Part to the chronic problem is that many passionate and brilliant people live in Israel and Palestine and it is the size of a dime for the populous.

Israeli Foreign Minister breaks with Netanyahu over peace talks  (click here)

UNITED NATIONS--Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday broke ranks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's peace strategy, telling the UN General Assembly that Israel should drop plans to negotiate a peace deal within the next year, and pursue a two-stage interim pact that could lead to decades of negotiations and the redrawing of Israel's borders to separate Arabs and Israelis....

This will be gruelling and difficult, but, Prime Minister Netanyahu is the man to get this done.  He is not creating a dreamscape so much as trying to accommodate all the parties involved and this can be settled with a year !

Israel showed the (click title to entry - thank you) international community on Tuesday that the country is ruled by a circus, not a responsible government with a policy. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told the representatives of the world's nations from the UN podium that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is spreading illusions and silly talk about peace. There is no chance for a permanent settlement for a generation, Lieberman said, and it is necessary to "exchange" populated areas and adjust the state to its correct size. Or, in less diplomatic English, the Arab citizens of Israel must be expelled to the Palestinian side of the border....

Bulldozers get to work in the Israeli West Bank settlement of Revava on Sept. 27, 2010, the day after Israel's 10-month settlement construction freeze expired. (Wagdi Ashtiyeh / Flash90)

NEWS ANALYSIS  (click here)

Why Israel allowed the settlement freeze to expire

By Uriel Heilman

September 28, 2010

...Having offered the freeze unilaterally 10 months ago to coax the Palestinians back to the negotiating table and satisfy U.S. demands for an Israeli good-will gesture, the Israeli government sees itself as the accommodating party whose gesture was never reciprocated. Rather, it took the Palestinian nine months to agree to resume negotiations, leaving virtually no time for substantive progress before the freeze expired.
Then there are the political considerations: Netanyahu’s right-leaning coalition partners made clear that extending the freeze was a nonstarter. Perhaps most important, however, the freeze was seen by many Israelis as unfair.
The vast majority of the 300,000 or so Jews who live in the West Bank are families living in bedroom communities within easy commuting distance of Jerusalem or metropolitan Tel Aviv. While some Israelis moved to the settlements for ideological reasons, for many the motivating factor was economic: Housing was much cheaper in the West Bank than in Israel proper....

There is a lady I am thinking off that intimately understands these problems.  She would be the best ambassador than anyone, to end any 'silliness.'  She paid a visit to New York recently.  I hope she is recuperating well and will be back to home and as gracious as ever.

Jordan's Queen Rania undergoes treatment for irregular heart rhythm  (click here) 

By the CNN Wire Staff

September 27, 2010 2:24 a.m. EDT

Jordan's Queen Rania was recuperating in a New York hospital Monday after she underwent a medical procedure to correct an irregular heart rhythm. "The procedure went very smoothly and Her Majesty is well and in good spirits," the Royal Court in Amman said in a statement Monday.
She will remain hospitalized for two nights while she recovers before returning home later in the week, the palace said.
Rania was in New York with her husband, who is attending the United Nations General Assembly...

Jordan’s King Abdullah II ‘cozies up to’ Leonardo DiCaprio at UN  (click here) 

September 28th, 2010

New York, Sep 28 – Leonardo DiCaprio and Jordan’s King Abdullah II were spotted together at the UN General Assembly.

The king and his beautiful wife, Queen Rania dined at The Lion while DiCaprio, Cindy Crawford and husband Rande Gerber sat at a nearby table.

“King Abdullah went out for a smoke during dinner and told the security outside, ‘If my daughter finds out that I’m sitting next to Leo DiCaprio, she’ll never forgive me’,” the New York Post quoted a spy as saying.

And when the King went back inside, he approached the actor and posed for two photos with him, even though cameras are banned in the restaurant. (ANI)

Jordan's queen encourages Mideast talks  (click here)

by :    Administrator

Published : Sunday, September 26 2010 14:02

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Jordan's Queen Rania urged Israel and the Palestinians to keep talking as the moratorium on new Israeli housing in the disputed region expired.

Appearing on ABC's "This Week," Rania said the goal of the negotiations was to end an untenable and volatile situation that was fueling extremism throughout the Middle East.  

"The Palestinian people and the Israeli people need to see change -- tangible change in their lives very soon," said Rania.

Rania said the most positive development  would be that Israeli settlement expansion remained on hold after the moratorium expired. "What  matters to me is what actually happens on the ground," she said. "If both sides are still talking and in the spirit of peace these settlements are not expanded upon, then I think both sides need to be flexible."

The queen also predicted that U.S. President Obama's flagging popularity and prestige in the Muslim world would "skyrocket" if the current talks produced a meaningful agreement between the longtime adversaries.

Thank you, Queen Rania. Her birthright gives her a truly unique place in all this.  She is a powerful woman.  She loves her people and those that surround her chosen country with the marriage to King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein.

In some ways, it is almost as though God has 'fixed' the entire situation in one marriage.

Rania Al-Yassin was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents from Tulkarm.  Tulkarm is a rather unique place.  If I may?

Between games and propaganda: the removal of checkpoints and roadblocks in the West Bank  (click here)

Palestine Monitor

19 April 2008

...A close examination of the 44 roadblocks which existed and were removed reveals that most of them had no implications whatsoever for Palestinians’ freedom of movement. Only 5 of these 44 obstacles were classified by the U.N. as “significant” for Palestinians living in the area. The remaining obstacles were classified as of “little”, “no”, or “questionable” significance, often noting that there were other major roadblocks nearby, that they were located in insignificant areas (such as open fields) or even that some had been built and removed on the same day.

Building roadblocks in the morning, removing them in the afternoon

This is what happened in the area of Tulkarm, more specifically on the roads connecting the villages of Bal’a to Anabta and Dhinnaba to Izbat Abu Khmeish.

On 31 March, Israeli soldiers went to this area and closed both roads by blocking them with stones and sand, preventing anyone from getting through. The main roads in between the villages were closed as well as the smaller alternative dirt roads, leaving would-be travellers no option but to return from where they came.

Later that day, soldiers returned to the area and removed a few of these roadblocks. The Israeli army then published an official statement explaining that they had removed the promised number of roadblocks. Their list included the roadblocks near Tulkarm established in the morning and removed in the afternoon.

The Israeli statement obviously did not mention the absurd character of these roadblock removals, neither did it mention that several roadblocks on the road between Dhinnaba and Izbat Abu Khmeish were also established on the same day, but were not removed....

A Palestinian city in the Tulkarm Governorate in the extreme northwestern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Satistics, Tulkarm city and the adjacent refugee camp had a population of approximately 58,962 inhabitants at mid-year 2006. 

http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/populati/pop03.aspx

^{Click on image to enlarge.}

^{Location of  Tulkarm on more detailed maps.  I am sure the Queen of Jordan would take offense to any 'gaming by the Israeli political system of people in Palestine after all.}

Its land area consists of 28,793 dunam.  A dunam is "forty standard paces in length and breadth",   (Origin of measure is the Ottoman Empire and is still used today.)  A pace?  Oh, a pace.  Yes.  Well.

It is the measure of a full stride from the position of the heel when it is raised from the ground to the point the same heel is set down again at the end of the step.  (Origins of Ancient Rome.  These folks are really 'hung-up' on old stuff.  If you ask me, but, no one ever does.)  

So considering a pace can be no more than two feet long, maybe slightly more, that would be 28,793 multiplied by 2 feet and then multiplied by 40.  That would be about 230,344 feet.  I am assuming that is square feet, but, an authority in Palestine would have to validate that.  A fairly small hamlet.

Sometimes it takes a Lady you know?  I mean to cut through the politics of all this mess. 

Perhaps when she is feeling better, she could join the King and bring some very needed insight to the depth of meaning the land has to Palestinians and how they need to be settled and feel a sense of BELONGING and sincere purpose other than being 'pawns' in Israel's political theater.  Just a thought.

Global warning: environmental refugees make landfall

Women and children first ... tens of thousands of walruses, mainly mothers and their calves, have crowded on to a beach in Alaska because their usual home has vanished. Photo: AP/US Geological Survey

Seth Borenstein



September 15, 2010
 
...Researchers from the survey,(click title to entry - thank you)  who have been tracking walrus movements using satellite radio tags, say 10,000 to 20,000 of the animals, mainly mothers and calves, are now congregating in tightly packed herds on the Alaskan side of the Chukchi Sea.
Geoff York, of the WWF's global Arctic program, said: ''As the ice decreases, the walrus are abandoning it earlier and earlier. They are having to swim ashore, or to linger on less suitable drift ice for long periods of time.''...

The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (crystal wind chime) is still warm:

Local Time :: 2:35 AM AKDT (GMT -08)
Lat/Lon :: 58.8° N 137.0° W
Elevation :: 33 feet
Temperature :: 45 Fahrenheit
Conditions :: Overcast
Windchill :: 42 Fahrenheit
Humidity :: 100%

Dew Point :: 45 Fahrenheit
Wind :: 5 mph from the SE
Pressure :: 29.50 inches (Falling)
Visibility :: 10.0 miles
UV :: 0 out of 16
Clouds :: Mostly Clouds 2300 feet
              Overcast 3100 feet

Gulf Oil Spill, Two. 

Possibly.

The companies are mandated to drill a relief well at the same time as any exploration or permanent well.  BY NORWAY.  Whether those rules apply here is a good question.

North Sea, Barents Sea wells approved  (click here)
Published: Sep 27, 2010

Offshore staff
OSLO, Norway -- Wintershall Norge has been cleared to drill an exploration well in the northern Norwegian North Sea using the Songa Delta.
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) approved the well (35/12-3 S) on production license 378, at a location 120 km (74.5 mi) northwest of Bergen and 24 km (14.9 mi) northeast of the Troll C platform. Drilling should get under way in October. The program could last up to 84 days in the event of a discovery, including testing and/or a sidetrack.
PSA also waived through Eni Norge’s request for exploration drilling in the Barents Sea with the Polar Pioneer.


The consent applies to well 7120/12-5 in PL 489, around 80 km (49.7 mi) northwest of Hammerfest. Drilling activity here should last around 57 days for a dry hole, but up to 73 days if a geological sidetrack is drilled.
09/27/2010

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev

Russia, Norway sign border deal after 40 years of talks (click here)
Russia and Norway signed a deal on Wednesday to delimitate their maritime border after 40 years of negotiations.

The document was signed after talks between Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the northern Russian city of Murmansk.

Medvedev said the treaty would "open a new page in bilateral relations" and boost cooperation in the energy and fishing sectors....

There really is NO REASON to prolong death and failure, except, to secure Pakistan from being overrun by al Qaeda.

That is why the Afghan picture is complicated, because, Pakistan won't disarm from nuclear weapons IF India doesn't.  Bush complicated any of those outcomes with the introduction of the nuclear industry to India.

Believe me, he and Cheney did a real 'number' on world order and the potential to global peace.

Karzai isn't a 'bad guy' but he is as despirate as anyone to 'be a player' since he was abandoned by Bush in March of 2003.  It is debateable that Karzai was abandoned by Rumsfeld and Bush and Cheney long before March of 2003.  After all, the plans for invading Iraq had to be 'in the works' long before March 2003.  By testimony at the hearings indicated a move of purpose into Iraq back on September 12, 2001.  So, the question that Afghanistan was ever of importance is a really in question.

Afghanistan is an interesting 'STUDY' in some ways.  Karzai is battling 'religious insurgents' that have obtained militarization that can overrun the government.  Whether he can incorporate the Taliban into the society of Afghanistan in a peaceful way is what is occurring.  Karzai needs to succeed.  But, Pakistan and India need to seriously consider disarming from nuclear weapons.  They aren't suppose to have them in the first place.  It is the 'NUKES' that are the issue.  Not the people.  The nukes is what al Qaeda is trying to achieve. 

The serious dialogue of disarmament by Pakistan, India and the other 'minor' nuclear nations would start to reduce the attempts by al Qaeda to continue on path.  If Iran believes for one minute that al Qaeda won't seek to take over their military as well when they try to move to weapons, they are fools.

The Wackos of the World are still being wackos and the USA has their's as well.  The problem with these minor nuclear countries is that, as we have witnessed with Pakistan, even their 'intelligence' isn't necessarily loyal to their political government structure.  The ISI is a huge worry as to 'whom' infiltrates it and 'has control' over the nuclear facilities.  Believe me, the Neocons have left the global balance of power challenged and a huge mess.

Petraeus issues guidance for Afghan contracting  (click title to entry - thank you)

By DEB RIECHMANN (AP) – Sep 12, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — The NATO command has issued new guidelines for awarding billions of dollars worth of international contracts in Afghanistan, saying that without proper oversight the money could end up in the hands of insurgents and criminals, deepen corruption and undermine efforts to win the loyalty of the Afghan people at a critical juncture in the war.
The guidance, issued last week by Gen. David Petraeus and obtained Sunday by The Associated Press, was issued in response to concern that the military's own contracting procedures could be, in some cases, running counter to efforts on the battlefield.
The changes are aimed, in large part, at addressing complaints that ordinary Afghans have seen little change in their daily lives despite billions poured into their country since 2001....

Just in case you don't get the entire picture. The Christian Coalition has their own military under sanctions of the USA.

Compliments of Bush and the Neocons.  If Bush, Cheney or any other Republican believes they will control the growth of this movement, they are sadly mistaken.  They fully intend through policital and military dominance to replace the sovereign government of the USA. 

The way they wrap themselves in the flag and the Constittution is nothing.  At this point they only believe they are 'stuck' with all 'that mess' that allows gays to promote their rights and an enforcement of 'common funds' such as Social Security.  Privatization is the first step to 'ending it.'  God help you, if you tred on their wealth and hence their power.

Say "Hello" to mandatory service and the ambition of global military dominance.

At least they believe it will happen through the grace of god.

Are McVeigh and those bozos starting to make a little more sense?  The 'grassroots' military.  The USA SINCERELY needs to disenfranchise the government from using private military contractors. Occupation is NOT an option.  COIN is an abject failure and has been since the illegal invasion into Iraq whereby a disarmed country was invaded for the purpose of securing a 'fuel supply.'  Boys will be boys, I guess.

Interesting they should have an affiliation with Murdoch's ambitions as well.  Voluntary and 'grassroots' as it is.

 My fearless leader Eric Prince, former Navy Seal and Board member of the Christian Coalition, has sold the company Blackwater, now called Xe “pronounced Zee” and has stepped down as the CEO. His quote to congress was ” Im just plain exhausted by it all…” Eric will always be known as the best leader of the best Para military group in the world. Xe will continue all contracts including but not limited too security, consulting, armed escort and humanitarian missions formally ran by Blackwater. I will for ever be a supporter and Alumni of my Blackwater brothers at arms.  And the Mission Continues….. Long live BLACKWATER…

Archive for March, 2009  (click title to entry - thank you)

There is some extremist in North Carolina. NC was the birth place of Eric Prince's Blackwater.

There is this mess left over from the Bush Administration that equates Christianity with the Red, White and Blue.  The Bush Administration was very willing to blur the line between church and state.

I think it is a good thing that the Christians are acknowledging the difference between their flag and the nation's flag.  To me that is a very clear statement that there is a sincere separation of church and state. 

So, displaying the Christian flag is somewhat of a step in the right direction, but, the Afghanistan veteran is correct on this instance.  It isn't as though there is a 'ceremony' in the park that would allow such a symbol to become an integral part of the park.  The veterans seeking a permanent place for their Christian flag in the park is attempting to make a public park into a Chrisitian sancturary.  They don't own the property and there is no other religious flags or symbols there along with the nation's flag and the flag of the State of North Carolina.

This 'movement' is sincerely inappropriate.  It might be benign, but, it is really very inappropriate.  If the local town council wants to display all the religions in the park with a flag or a symbol that is somewhat different, but, it would require an ordinance that specifically states the limits and the purpose of such a display.  Then there is the issue of 'how to do display' the belief by citizens of the 'lack of religion.'  So, it really is inappropriate. 

They need to remove 'their flag' to 'their church' and hold their rituals there.

Veterans Standing Guard Of Christian Flag In King  (click title to entry - thank you)
Rhonda Evans   
Created:  9/24/2010 5:27:58 PM Updated: 9/24/2010 11:22:20 PM
King, NC -- Veterans are making sure that a Christian flag remains at a park in the City of King.
They're guarding the flag and a monument at the Central Park in Stokes County.
King city council members voted last week to remove the banner after an Afghanistan war veteran voiced a complaint . The city's attorney warned it violated the first amendment. The council decided to remove the flag rather then endure the cost of a possible lawsuit....

"Rock the Fort" is a concern among some in North Carolina - click title for video. thank you.

The concern is the potential for intimidation and coersion.  North Carolina military instillations know the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan very well.  Any deployment in the region requires a reliance on 'unit' members.  There really isn't room for discrimination of any kind.

The "Rock the Post" concert is not a 'minor or ? normal ?' concert.  It is being sponsored by Evangelical Christians.  With that comes 'an asking' for all attendees to have seven other people sign an agreement to come and be open to the 'suggestion' of becoming an Evangelical as well.

The 'idea' that unit members are not suppose to see each other's differences, so much as their mutual cause, is what is 'at risk' with this particular concert.  If the concert were simply open to anyone and there wasn't any type of 'pressure' that goes along with it, I wouldn't think anything of it.  But, Evangelicals are very difficult to get along with.  We have witnessed the 'extremism' of these military members and their intimidating behaviors at the USA Air Force Academy.

The military administration at Fort Bragg needs to 'manage' the concert differently.  If they weren't soliciting 'on base' for church members 'as the ticket' to the concert I doubt there would be objection.  This isn't an average rock concert.  This is a concert specifically sponsored by an Evangelical preacher 'with an agenda.'  That should not be part of it.  Would any other rock group seek to 'enlist' the members of the military into their 'group?'  No.  Why should this one?

I would think the preacher sponsoring this concert should believe the artists and their performances would be enough 'inspriation' to the audience.  I just don't think it is right.  At the end of 'joining' the church is tithing.  That is a bit of a contract.  So, the dynamics of this sponsored concert is very different than if Billy Joel was holding a USO concert for the troops.

I believe there is some danger here for the troops and it is the obligation of the administration to reduce any possiblity of discrimination among their 'unit members.'   I think the sponsor needs to drop the sign up sheets.  That is more than should be allowed.  Why haven't they worked through the USO to bring this concert to the troops?  I think it shows an unwillingness to 'work within' the 'usual' venues for entertainment.


09/25/2010 06:04 PM



Christian rock concert at Fort Bragg sparks controversy  (click here)


By: Gavin MacRoberts


Organizations have complained that a Christian rock concert should not be hosted by a government agency. Their stance is that it is a violation of separation of Church and State and displays a preferential treatment of a religion. However Army officials counter that it is a well settled Constitutional law for Chaplains in the Military to offer religious events.
"Really, this is just one aspect of it. We have programs across Fort Bragg for many different faiths and our Christian faith is just one of those," said Col. David Hellis, Chaplin.
Col. Hellis said that the Army is a diverse organization with all major faiths represented and celebrated.

"Morning Papers" - It's Origins

The Rooster
"Okeydoke"

I don't regret my confidence in the Dems.

I don't regret my vote and never will.  I don't miss 'bad government.'  I don't miss the lies and the deceptions.  I don't miss being played for a fool.  I don't miss the anti-American agenda.  I welcome all the change President Obama and the majority Congress has brought and I look forward to more of the same to reclaim my country.  I know the Founding Fathers of the USA are breathing a sigh of relief with the Democratic leadership that works  as hard as they do to 'right the ship.'  It isn't going to be easy and it won't happen with rhetoric.

In 2008, the American people elected the best man into office. Don't hurt yourself again by going 'back' instead of forward.

President Obama and the Democrats have been more productive in less than two years than most presidents in eight years.

What Has Obama Done For U.S. Lately? Plenty! (click title to entry - thank you)



Believe President Obama has been ineffective? Think again!
 
By Marlys Shulda
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Barack Obama has become the whipping boy poster child for everything wrong in our country right now. The ease with which the right bandies about slander would be funny if it weren’t so scary. President Obama has enacted an inordinate amount of legislation and policy changes that will benefit the United States for decades to come but that doesn’t stop the detractors from claiming he “is destroying America.”...

...President Obama has spent all or part of 26 days "on vacation" during his first year as president, according to CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller. President Reagan, in 1981, spent all or part of 42 days away from the White House "on vacation" at his home in Santa Barbara, California. President George W. Bush took a total of 77 "vacation" trips to his Texas ranch while in office, nine of them — all or part of 69 days — came during his first year as president in 2001. President George H.W. Bush took six trips — spanning all or part of 40 days — to the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1989, his first year. President Jimmy Carter spent just 19 days "on vacation" in 1977 and President Bill Clinton took 21 "vacation" days during his first year.
The President’s vacation days are minor when compared to the myriad of complaints that his opposition touts. Lies, half-truths, distortions, exaggerations, innuendo, and flat-out ridiculous accusations have been thrown out. Interested in knowing what he’s been doing in Washington for the past 20 months or so? Try turning off the cable and talk radio to find out what has been happening on the hill at Govtrack.us. If you don’t have time to do your own exploration, here is a short summary of a few things President Obama has accomplished in the past 20 months....

You heard it first here. Where is the USA going to compete, it is already defeated in Australia.

When is the USA going to wake up to its own reality?  When is it going to realize 'the consumer' of the USA is a slave to a Chinese economy?  Where are all these jobs from the Right Wing actually coming from?

China’s Rise Curbs US Influence in Australia  (click title to entry - thank you)



By Rocky Vega


09/24/10 Stockholm, Sweden – Michael Pascoe, writing for Australia’s The Age, argues the US has nowhere near the potent influence on China many assume, despite that idea’s widespread belief. He tackles in particular the unassailable concept of the US consumer, suggesting this group not only fails to support practically all of China’s expansion, as is so often implied by the media, but is in fact only responsible for a measly-sounding 0.3 percent of China’s often double-digit GDP growth....

Where is the USA going to compete?

Now that the Bush Dynasty has robbed the USA treasury and exported all the monies to China, so it can throw $100 billion into a 'deal' with HP to produce products in Taiwan, where is the USA going to compete?

What products is the USA going to manufacture that will compete in a global economy with countries that treat their labor like chattel and ship goods everywhere regardless of the issues of carbon dioxide emissions?

The USA has to  'reclaim' its economy and stop allowing Third World treatment of people THAT ARE NOW DOING THEIR JOBS !!!!

The reason the Plutocracy is so VILE, is because of their practices.  They not only robbed the USA of every dime they could find, they moved their production plants to countries where people are paid subsistence wages IF THEY ARE LUCKY. 

And USA consumers actually purchase those products.  Without a thought to the conditions the people in other countries are 'surviving' in, we simply purchase them. 

I don't.

I make sure everything I purchase is made in a country where citizens are regarded as important and vital to their country's interest.

I want people to consider what they are doing.  Purchasing merchandise from China 'empowers' China to build more weapons and expand its influence.  Do you want China's influence globally or that democracy and peace?  Do you want citizens to be regarded as important to their countries or simple 'laborers' that produce an income to the treasury? 

Where have Americans put their morality, "on the shelf?"  When it comes to purchasing 'cheap' goods and food, where is the pride in that? 

Wait.  Let me guess.  It is okay to purchase cheap goods, but, expect them to be COMPLETELY safe as if there were inspectors to ENFORCE laws that make producers care.

So, purchasing 'cheap eggs' and getting samonella in them isn't to be expected when one is paying absolutely nothing for them to begin with?  Is that right?

I've never had a problem with the eggs I purchase because they are either raised locally from 'range fed' chickens or purchased from 'moral content' producers that carry pride in their products and put it on the carton.  "THESE CHICKENS WERE NOT CAGED."

You know.  All that 'hippy' stuff.

The Republcians are absolutely right. Small businesses making over $250,000 per year will create jobs. JOBS IN OTHER COUNTRIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you understand that concept? "Burning down the house." Do you understand it?

Because if you do, you could never again justify a vote for a Republican of any venacular. 

What occurred under Bush and Cheney was exactly that.  They took EVERY fiscal reserve available to them and 'drained the swamp' of any assets within the USA Government.

I don't care where it was, they raided this country and then set a course for disaster to destroy it so they couldn't be held accountable.

They even wanted to drain Social Security.

$2 tillion to 'privately finance' Social Security.

Set aside $2.4T for seniors as well as younger workers (click title to entry - thank you)



I’m going to set aside $2.4 trillion of Social Security surplus. That’s $2.4 trillion more in payroll taxes than we owe the seniors, which means there is a really interesting opportunity to make sure we not only fulfill the promises to the seniors but we have a social security system that is hopeful for younger workers. We must let younger workers take a portion of their payroll taxes and put it in the marketplace. The agents of the status quo have misread the people.


Source: Speech in Florida Oct 26, 2000
 
 
This election isn't about 'dreamscapes.'  It is about serious issues and what the future holds.  It isn't about 'bring alive' the past.  It is about the future needs of the country and the path it is heading on.  We have made incredible progress under the Obama Administration.  The people of the USA should be proud of that.  He sincerely cares about the country and its people. 
 
THINK  PEOPLE.  I really don't believe we are actually thinking so much as being lead around by Plutocrats that have 'no interest' in what is best for the country's populous so much as what is good for Wall Street. 
 
I mean it..
 
Do NOT elect people that will take away everything previous generations have worked for to provide 'a better life' for their children.  We are their children and the Plutocracy has ONCE destroyed their 'dreams for us' already.

"Burning Down the House" by Talking Heads from the album "Speaking in Tongues"

Watch out you might get what you're after

Cool baby strange but not a stranger
I'm an ordinary guy
Burning down the house


Hold tight wait 'til the party's over
Hold tight we're in for nasty weather
There has got to be a way
Burning down the house


Here's your ticket pack your bag; time for jumpin' overboard
Transportation is here
Close enough but not too far, maybe you know where you are
Fightin' fire with fire


All wet yeah you might need a raincoat
Shakedown thieves walking in broad daylight
Three hundred sixty five degrees
Burning down the house


It was once upon a place sometimes I listen to myself
Gonna come in first place
People on their way to work say baby what did you expect
Gonna burst into flame


My house S'out of the ordinary
That's right Don't want to hurt nobody
Some things sure can sweep me off my feet
Burning down the house


No visible means of support and you have not seen nothing yet
Everything's stuck together
I don't know what you expect staring into the TV set
Fighting fire with fire


Burning down the house
 

You have got to be JOKING !!!!!!!!!!! Everyone of these people are manufactured from the Murdoch Plutocratic Machine.

Loyalists? 

NO !!!!!

To themselves, but, not to the country.  They are no more patriots than 'The Crown' itself !

They 'have plans.' 

Not intentions to govern.

But, PLANS !!!!!

The Preamble to "Lemon Pledge" is really amazingly done. It captured the hate and lies of the past two years and put them into pretty words and a fanciful presentation.

 people can govern themselves

powers are derived from the consent of the governed

economic, political, and religious liberty

advance themselves, their families, and the common good

 determine their own destiny

the agenda of government becomes destructive of these ends

 a new governing agenda and set a different course

enshrined in the Constitution

endured through hard sacrifice and commitment by generations of Americans - generations of Americans that passed all the Amendments to the US Constitution. 

unchecked executive, a compliant legislature, and an overreaching judiciary

scorning the deepest beliefs of the American people

arrogant and out-of-touch ruling class

joblessness, crushing debt, and a polarizing political environment

AND.

It goes on and on and on with all the superlatives of hate, division, defiance and lies.

Wow, a real 'Preamble' just like the old days. "...America is an idea..." Really?

An idea with nuclear weapon capacity.  I think its more than an idea and "America" is NOT the only country on the face of the planet to practice the principles of LIBERTY, FREEDOM AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.

Let's see.  There is Canada, Great Britain, Germany, well let's just say all of Europe.  Then there is St. Petersburg which may as well be Europe.  There there the southern hemisphere.  If South America isn't about keeping the people happy then I don't know what is.  And don't forget about Australia and New Zealand.  Johannesburg and all those FORMER colonies. 

When one really looks at the globe.  If there happens to be one on your desk, there is a whole lot of folks that practice democracy and freedom and darn well try to pursue happiness. 

The pursuit of happiness really gets muddied up in the USA.  It is always attached to 'status' and 'wealth.'  In most of the world, including Europe, happiness doesn't come with a price tag.  Health doesn't either, but, that is an entirely different subject.  Or is it?

At any rate, I am a liitle miffed at the 'idea' that the country I LOVE and the historical documents I ADMIRE are being used as a method of 'political monkey business.'
So, to the content of this mess...

The ADOPTION of the US Constitution occurred on September 17, 1787.

Much of the wording of those historical documents resulted from 'the language of the time.'  It had dearly little to do with abiding to a belief in any other authority than the governance of the people elected to lead the country.

Never once, did the US Constitution ever intend to replace The President, Congress and Courts with sovereign authority of a church of any kind.  For God sake they just finished fighting years and years of war to rid themselves of entanglements with royalty that demanded 'the subjects' worship one god in one church.  Whatever gives the Right Wing political elements in the USA the idea they can actually 'ride' the rest of the country for the sake of Socail Conservative values and completely disregard the values of others?  What the heck?  And people are actually voting for these 'icons' of deception?  Wow.

The Revolutionary War started in 1775. It started before the Declaration of Independence.

The beginning of unrest was due to the fact the King of England didn't extend "The Rights of Englishmen" to the colonists.  Due to that the colonists rejected the legitimacy of 'The Crown' to dictate law.

Basically, the colonists weren't extended CIVIL RIGHTS by 'The Crown.' 

What started as an argument between the colonies and the King ended as a global war.  As a matter of fact, it could be argued it was actually the first world war.

It encompassed the powers of many countries to defeat the English in 'The Americas.'  The colonists accumulated allies.  The British Isles were very powerful.  The war to 'back' the colonists was a way of other sovereign authorities to dilute the power of England.  England has wealth and with wealth came power directly from its 'colonial lands.'  The 13 colonies of The Americas were providing Britain with great deal of wealth. 

So.  To disillusion the populous of the USA to believe this 'dreamscape' that exists due to 'Populous Politics' and put the history of the country in a neat little package to provide an impetus to a 'so called' new party based on history is grossly in disrespect of the actual suffering of the people of those times.

The Revolutionary War lasted a long time.  It didn't end until 1783.  It was a war of blood and bone.  People suffered and died.  I don't think that is taken seriously by the people that would seek to 'REPRESENT' the past and THE PURITY of our country. 

The United States of America was 'won' by a global community, NOT simply a group of colonists determined to 'start a new venture.' 

When people say, "The Founding Fathers," in the year 2010 it is almost as though it is a caricature of the past.  A contrived truth.  There is absolutely no reverences by the Tea Party or the Republicans to the ABSOLUTE truth of our ancestory and absolutely no reverence for the actual suffering of the people 'of the time.' 

Then the Year was 1776, and Thomas Jefferson wrote and passed to the congress, and the congress signed it.

July 4, 1776.

That was just the beginning.  It was the first act of autonomy for the 13 British colonies.