"...no net new job in ten years..." and Romney states 6% unemployment in four years.

Six percent is going to happen even without Romney in the White House. All the rhetoric in his speech is simply Republican mind speak, there is nothing new here.


President Obama is pro-business, too. The difference between President Obama and Romney is; President Obama doesn't only count on Wall Street and Big Box Supply Chain stores to participate in the American economy. President Obama believes in "Made in America" and that has been the slogan of unions for decades.

By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times

May 24, 2012

New home sales are up. (click here) The unemployment rate is falling. Companies are buying one another, signaling confidence in the economy.
But investors are turning their back on positive economic signs, looking nervously at Europe's seemingly never-ending debt troubles and Facebook's flat IPO, wondering whether the global economy is beginning yet another deep dive....

Wall Street is leaving the American job market. They aren't interested and haven't been interested in investments where a labor force is necessary. They are playing with commodities, currency and futures; they don't make rock solid investments anymore. They like the adrenalin rush of 'money now' too much. They are even laying new Trans-Atlantic cable to play that game. Romney can't do anything here, his methodologies are old and out dated. President Obama is on the ground with people that have been stalled in the economic platform for so long their trades were picked up by China. Romney's ideas won't work and he is not willing to move the needle for new business opportunities that come with paradigm shifts. 

President Obama is doing a great job. He is even covering the hole left where one was not believed to exist when the final numbers were in on the global economic collapse from 2008. He is incredible for what he preserved of our culture and where it is headed. I honestly believe there isn't anyone else with the 'city kid' diligence that would have reached as far and took the risks to keep the USA stable and growing. I might have the 'city kid' philosophy wrong, but, I've never seen him on a horse or milking a cow, so I think I am right about that.

The President needs to talk about his record, too.

I remember this moment. How could anyone forget? Dignity and grace all in one moment and a testament to American exceptionalism.


I sincerely believe President Obama is one of the most genuine and qualified Presidents of our time. He is correct to seek to define the To Be Candidate of the Republican Party, Mitt Romney, in the light portraying him as qualified for the job. I sincerely believe Mitt Romney is not. 


People like to portray President Obama, even with all the successes he has enjoyed while in office, as unqualified. I would like people to be confident of their President as I am confident of him. He and Biden make a great team. Joe doesn't let anyone forget what the Middle Class is all about and he is exactly where he needs to be at this time in our history.


The First Lady has taken on what I consider the most difficult topic next to healthcare and that is insuring our nation's children are healthier than their parents and able to meet the challenge of tomorrow. She along with Second Lady Jill Biden have moved opportunity for our returning military forward while protecting and supporting their families at home. I was sincerely touched by the effort they put forward on Mother's Day. That was more than compassionate, that was pure dedication to some of our most brave women.


I am proud of the people of the Executive Branch. The cabinet has been consistently working hard to improve the nation's recovery and there are no slackers.


I want them to talk about their record. I want them to prove to the people of this country they are admirable, steadfast, trustworthy and doing the absolute best of any to return sustainable prosperity to the USA. I don't know that I have ever witnessed a team as committed to the best outcomes to this country in a nearly impossible fiscal and financial environment.


The nation wants to address the deficit. The President had a resolution by Simpson-Bowles, but, it wasn't ready to hear it and there was no sense to push it when all other venues of expenditures by the federal government hadn't been exhausted. The entitlements are important to protect and support, the tax structure needs to have the reset button pushed and our children need to have a secure future, both in their health, their dreams and their fiscal viability on a global scale. The nation is ready to do some of the tough stuff and we need to begin the conversation, too. President Obama is capable of leading that conversation and he should. I am quite confident he sees the way forward, but, he needs to share it along with defining his unqualified opponent.

Sex parties with gangster at the Vatican? WHAT!

Italian teenager Emanuela Orlandi is believe to have been kidnapped after a music lesson in Rome on June 22, 1983 when she was 15 (AP)


Thursday, 24 May 2012

A Catholic priest has claimed a missing schoolgirl was kidnapped for Vatican sex parties and has implicated diplomatic staff and members of the Holy See.

Italian priest Gabriel Amorth, 85, said girls were recruited for parties at the Vatican and said the death of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi, last seen alive in 1983, “was a crime with a sexual motive”.

The priest spoke out last week as investigators broke into the grave of a known gang boss in Rome following an anonymous tip that the key to Emanuala’s disappearance would be “found there”.

But so far bones which do not belong to mobster Enrico De Pedis, have not be positively identified as the girl’s....

It is more than interesting how New York has started an amazing trend. Police Commissioner Kelly deserves a lot praise for his focus and efforts. This is not only important, but, these cases give police insight to such criminals.

Etan Patz case: NYPD says New Jersey man implicated self in 6-year-old’s ‘disappearance and death’ (click here)

Commissioner Kelly says ‘further details’ to come later today

Published: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 6:55 AM

Updated: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 7:12 AM

The NYPD may have solved the heartrending mystery of little Etan Patz’ disappearance 33 years ago, police brass said Thursday morning.

"An individual now in custody has made statements to NYPD detectives implicating himself in the disappearance and death of Etan Patz 33 years ago,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a statement. “We expect to provide further details later today."

The man is from New Jersey and was picked up Wednesday, a source told the Daily News....

Second day of extradition hearing for Assange.

Extradition showdown: UK Supreme Court to rule on Assange (click here)

Published: 23 May, 2012, 18:08

Julian Assange’s legal battle in the UK may be close to its end. Next week the country’s Supreme Court will decide whether the scandal-stirring whistleblower is to be extradited to Sweden, where he faces several sex crime allegations.

A panel of seven Supreme Court judges will make their decision next Wednesday, May 30. 

Assange’s lawyers are calling on judges to block the extradition. They say that the initial European warrant that put Assange under house arrest in Britain over 500 days ago was “invalid and unenforceable” and that Swedish prosecutor had no authority to issue it....

A Los Angles Class Submarine is destroyed?

This is the Wiki (click here).

US nuclear sub ablaze in Portsmouth shipyard (click here)

Published: 24 May, 2012, 10:52
Edited: 24 May, 2012, 14:46

...Crews from at least three states worked for six hours at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, but only just managed to stop the fire from spreading.

Workers from the dry docks where the submarine was maintained, had to be evacuated when its living quarters turned into a scorching inferno on Wednesday evening.

Four of the six firefighters injured have received treatment, shipyard officials reported.

The fire broke out in the forward compartment of the submarine, where the ship’s living quarters and command and control center are located....

Who do these arrogant idiots think they are?

This very brief article appeared in Reuters today and when I looked up the name on the net I found the resume below. Evidently, the real power in Pakistan is influenced heavily by USA investment and wealth. 


If this is correct, then the Taliban have control over an entire Plutocratic network in that country. The CIA would know, I would hope they would know if this is accurate, because, having one person control this much wealth in Pakistan is dangerous to the country's sovereignty and to the security of the international security.


The article by Reuters was very odd to me and I didn't take it for face value. It was short and the person in the article wasn't identified, except, for the name. If this person holds this much power in Pakistan then it is easy to control the country.

U.S. should respect decision to imprison doctor who helped CIA find bin Laden: Pakistan (click here)

ISLAMABAD | Thu May 24, 2012 5:39am EDT

(Reuters) - The United States should respect a Pakistan court's decision to imprison a doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden, the Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

"I think as far as the case of Mr. Afridi is concerned, it was in accordance with Pakistani laws and by the Pakistani courts, and we need to respect each other's legal processes," Moazzam Ali Khan told reporters.

(Reporting by Rebecca Conway; Writing by Qasim Nauman)

The picture above came compliments of "Linked in". This is the resume (click here). The resume states Kahn is a power broker. By every estimate, Kahn is a very powerful man and pulls many strings in Pakistan. I am sure Kahn receives many perks in life for the role played in that country.

This is the logo for Unilever Pakistan. 

Below is an article explaining how networking works well in Pakistan for the supply chain.

...Using a systematic approach (click here)  to networking – a social activity where the implicit objective is to form professional relationships that may increase one’s future business and employment prospects – each participant was made to interact with at least five supply chain professionals he or she did not know before.

“I ran out of my business cards today during the networking session,” a chemical engineer working in the supply chain of ICI Pakistan toldThe Express Tribune. “That was the most orderly and useful networking opportunity I’ve ever had.”...


This is a link to a Supply Chain Conference (click here). It is on Facebook. Somehow having Facebook become an IPO makes sense if one wants to control the viability of connectedness. I am sure that is what Morgan Stanley was thinking when underwriting it.

Regardless, this level of connectedness in the supply system of Pakistan has to dictate, the Taliban are involved. They have expanded their reach to major cities of commerce in Pakistan. If USA intelligence is expecting to find drug trades and monies as the only source of income to these criminal networks, they aren't looking hard enough. If what I am looking at is correct; then the Taliban not only have the potential to intimidate a government, but, control its wealth as well.

So, let me get this right, Occupy Wall Street is a covert organization for Left Wing Violence. Is that Right Bill?

Let's look at the facts, because Murdoch's Boy has got any.


#Occupy Wall Street is not funded by the Institute of Policy Studies. If anything I would expect the Institute of Policy Studies to be seeking funding from #Occupy. If one recalls there funding was given to them as donations within the first month of their organizing. A total of $500,00.00 as a matter of fact. I doubt seriously the #Occupy Movement is going to be impressed with the grant from the Tides Foundation to the Institute of Policy Studies in the amount of $162,000.00.  In case one cannot read the numbers accurately the Tides Foundation gave the Institute for Policy Studies a total of One hundred-sixty-two thousand dollars in 2011 (click here). Page 20 on that PDF.


Jay Carney is probably not the best person to ask about #Occupy, but, Vice President Joe 
Biden would probably say they are not affiliated with any movement in the USA, they are affiliated with the DNC. But, Vice President Biden would more than likely go on to say that after the global economic collapse Wall Street bailed on the citizens of most major countries. 


See, Bill, it goes like this, when the bailout for $800 Billion came down most everyone believed the 'status quo' of the USA and the Free World would remain STATIC (the same). We thought all the banks needed was their cash flow back again. Boy, were we "W"ronged! 


So, when Wall Street left with the USA Treasury we were left in the breech. Now, someone like Bill O'Reilly, whom sells books to a right wing conservative audience would not understand that. He would not have felt the pinch of the Wall Street abandonment, but, for those that did; they quickly realized an entire generation of Americans were now abandoned and could not find work. Wall Street banks left without an apology, but, only the money. The job market hasn't been the same since and only lately the housing market is actually picking up steam. Bill, MIGHT remember; poor man at his age still cranking it out for Murdoch, no rest for the weary I am sure; the housing market in October 2008 had a glut of housing and business property and the VALUE of land and homes fell drastically causing huge problems for many, many people. I think about 1 in every 5 affected homeowners is still underwater. So the recovery is very slow. I mean we are not printing money fast enough to hand it out to everyone. But, then there is such as a thing as the VALUE of the USA Dollar.


Now, I don't know about Bill O'Reilly, but when I was younger and faced with seeking employment I was ready. Dressed for success and everything. So, was this generation of Americans and the hopes and dreams of that readiness was destroyed when Wall Street decided to gamble with their bailout monies instead of providing stability to an economy that was fairly good to them all these decades.


The #Occupy Wall Street movement makes strong statements about their insight to their lives. Lives I might add that no one outside that generation can even begin to understand. So, for anyone like Bill O'Reilly to presume to speak for them is outrageous and for him to scandalize a single incident of a movement anchored in peaceful protest is even more exploitative than outrageous.


Bill O'Reilly was frustrated with not being noticed after last night's program at the You Tube video posted above; so I thought I'd accommodate him so he wouldn't feel as abandoned in his point of view and passion as the #Occupy movement often feels. This is the United States of America, Bill and everyone is supposed to count, so since you "...have a powerful program..." that wasn't being very powerful I didn't want you to be frustrated. One American to another.


Police have dangerous work and no doubt Chicago Police have some of the most dangerous work in the country along with a number of other large cities. Having NATO in Chicago was going to INVITE controversy on the street. It just was. I am confident there were also globalists among the #Occupy people as well. So, the globalists tend to be more overt about their anger and I think it went very well, all considering.


I apologize to the Chicago Police Officer that was injured. It is not condoned by #Occupy and if it were one of their members, perhaps, they were afraid of the police. It was not long ago when a very talented and wonderful young USA Veteran was smoke bombed and nearly died. He recovered, thank goodness, but that certainly sent a chill down the spine of the people in #Occupy.


I like those kids, Bill. They are young, full of passion with the will their American heritage left to them. I am sorry you want to demonize them and worried about their demonstrations getting out of control. I don't them hurt. I don't want them shot. I don't want them beaten. I want their dream back and the American Dream returned to the citizens of this country. Maligning people like George Soros is not becoming. He is a hugely generous man that have improved the lives of people globally. He is a decent man, seems rather humble to me and his generosity at a time when countries like the USA can't provide all the help others need, certainly is welcome.


The Tides Foundation has existed for 35 years. I doubt they would allow any of their grantees to promote violence. I find Bill O'Reilly's critique wrong and offensive of people not able to change their circumstances. 


I hope Bill O'Reilly has a better week rather than a propagandized one.

There is a solution to the drone strikes for Pakistan. Hand over all your international murderers.

(Reuters) / 22 May 2012

CHICAGO - President Asif Ali Zardari (click here) pressed the United States during a Nato meeting on Sunday to help find a “permanent solution” to US drone strikes that have fuelled tensions between the two uneasy allies.

“The president said that Pakistan wanted to find a permanent solution to the drone issue as it not only violated our sovereignty but also inflamed public sentiments,” Zardari spokesman Farhatullah Babar said in a statement after the Pakistani leader met with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the sidelines of the summit.
The statement did not specify what such a solution might entail. The tempo of drone strikes, the centerpiece of US strategy to fight militants based in Pakistan, has increased substantially since President Barack Obama took office in 2009....

Does Pakistan actually expect to receive praise for protecting Osama bin Laden?

By ISMAIL KHAN

Published: May 23, 2012

...A tribal court here found the doctor, Shakil Afridi, (click here) guilty of acting against the state, said Mutahir Zeb Khan, the administrator for the Khyber tribal region. Along with the jail term, the court imposed a fine of $3,500. Dr. Afridi, who may appeal the verdict, was then sent to Central Prison in Peshawar.

He had been charged under a British-era regulation for frontier crimes that unlike the Pakistan criminal code does not carry the death penalty for treason. Under Pakistani penal law, he almost certainly would have received the death penalty, a Pakistani lawyer said....

No sovereign nation can respect this decision by Pakistan to say Mr. Afridi acted against the state. That would indicate Pakistan willingly protected the most dangerous international criminal in the world. And the USA wants routes through this country? You've got to be joking. There needs to be sanctions placed on Pakistan until there is a reasonable government in that country rather than anarchy empowered by archaic law that has no place in the 21st century. This is outrageous. Mr. Afridi should be pardoned for his bravery in acting to end the life of the Pakistan's ruler of terror.

Pakistan is an illegal nuclear power that is out of control both internally and internationally. They are a danger to the global security and the country needs to be treated as such.


The top of the government of the United States of America sat huddled together to supervise the final act resulting from the bravery of Mr. Afridi to stop an international criminal responsible for killing thousands of people, assaulting government installations on multiple continents, including, the London Bombing, the Madrid Bombing, attacks against US military instillation and deploying trained members of al Qaeda to seek to kill more innocent civilians on airlines and Pakistan jails the man.


Osama bin Laden took a religious sect that has no legitimate ties to Islam or the Quran and dominated killings and fear in a region of the world that cannot recover a stable government and this is the result? Pakistan and Afghanistan are in ruins with generation after generation of war weary citizens facing chronic impoverishment, disease and desperate lives. Has Pakistan no interest in the future of their children? This is not the Zadari I know. Has the will of the people of Pakistan diminished so much that the memory of Benizar Bhutto is lost to brutal regimes seeking power rather than prosperity?


This decision, to treat a hero as a criminal, is wrong. It is more than wrong, it is profoundly wrong.

"Bowling for Columbine" turns ten and Fahrenheit 911 will be soon enough.

May 27th, 2002 12:00 AM

"Bowling for Columbine" Wins Cannes Prize (click here)

Dear friends,

By now you may have awakened to the news that last night, in Cannes, France, my new film, "Bowling for Columbine," was awarded the Special Prize of the 55th Cannes Film Festival. It had already made history by being the first documentary chosen to be part of the official festival competition in almost 50 years. And, last night, it was the only prize awarded that received a unanimous decision from the festival jury. The film's crew and I have never experieced anything like this.

Now, you're probably wondering what happened to that guy who wrote "Stupid White Men?" I know it seems like I disappeared for the better part of April and May. Contrary to the wild rumors I helped to initiate, I was not abducted by the Ashcroft Aliens for violating the new Patriot Act.

In truth, the book tour spun out of control when I couldn't say no to all the places that asked me to come and speak. Before I knew it, I had done 64 appearances in a total of 47 cities. Then, on the morning of my birthday, I was awakened with a call from France, asking me if I would allow my film to be shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. What do you say to a call like that? "Hey, it's my birthday, dammit, I'm trying to sleep!"...

...To now have this record-setting response to "Bowling for Columbine" happen here at Cannes is beyond belief. It's more than I deserve and I feel truly blessed and privileged. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I wish there was some way to repay all of you, like an internet version of let's all go out for a pizza. Maybe someday!

Thanks again.

Yours,
Michael Moore
Filmmaker
Author
Lifetime Member, N.R.A.

mike@michaelmoore.com

Michael Moore was victorious and as a consequence, so were we.

Two years apart, the victories were glorious.

BY ROGER EBERT / May 19, 2004
...In any event it was "the longest ovation in the history of the festival," according to Thierry Fremaux, the festival's director. At a party Monday evening, I asked Moore. "It depends on when you start counting," he said. "Do you start with the beginning of the closing credits or when the lights go up? When they just wouldn't stop clapping, I walked out and they kept applauding in the lobby."...

 'Fahrenheit 9/11' won the festival's top prize the
Palme d'Or on May 22nd, 2004 on its way to becoming
the highest-grossing documentary in history

RAW 250,000 Massive Montreal Rally marks 100 days of Student Protests

100th day of demonstration marked at the Vancouver Art Gallery today (click here)

By Janet Steffenhagen

Vancouver 

Sun May 22, 2012 7:59 PM

VANCOUVER -- A call for British Columbians to support Quebec students on the 100th day of their strike attracted only a small gathering in Vancouver Tuesday, while tens of thousands of people marched in downtown Montreal in defiance of a law declaring such protests illegal....


...B.C. students pay higher tuition than Quebecers attending post-secondary schools in their own province — a yearly average of $4,852 compared to $2,519. Quebec’s fees are the lowest in the country, where the national average for tuition at public post-secondary institutions is $5,366....

Tens of thousands (click here) of demonstrators have filled the streets of Montreal to mark 100 days since protests began against a planned rise in student tuition fees.

Jobs and Growth Bush Style. Just a reminder.

Posted at 12:00 PM ET, 05/04/2012

The Bush 2003 “Jobs Tour”: the “real” story? (click here for video)

By Al Kamen

In 2003 The Bush Economic Team campaigned for Tax Cuts. The story was in the "Kentucky New Era" on July 29, 2003 (click here for newspaper article).

By this time the USA was entrenched in two wars and Bush wanted more tax cuts. We are still paying for both the wars and the tax cuts.

The Daily Show (click here)

Monday August 11, 2003

Jobs and Growth Tour

You can keep your Ozzfest and your Lollapalooza. The hottest tour this summer is the Jobs and Growth Tour 2003, starring the monsters of government.

This is from the Office of Budget and Management on April 18, 2012; regarding continued and NEW tax cuts for the wealthy.

Job Training Cuts in the Republican Budget (click here)

Posted by Martha Coven on April 18, 2012 at 06:42 PM EDT

Earlier today, President Obama visited Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio to highlight how federal job training funding is helping unemployed workers get the skills they need to compete for jobs in high-demand, high-growth industries.

In communities like Elyria all across the country, federal job training programs are helping meet a critical need. As manufacturing jobs have shifted from assembly-line positions to advanced manufacturing, schools like Lorain County Community College have partnered with non-profits, business, and government to develop job training programs that help equip dislocated workers with skills that match employer needs. Many of these programs depend on federal funding through the Workforce Investment Act, which supports employment services and training programs that serve millions of workers across the country each year.

And yet just a few weeks ago, House Republicans passed a budget resolution that would cut spending for these kinds of services by over 5 percent in 2013 and 19 percent in 2014 – all while showering families making more than $250,000 per year with over $1 trillion in tax cuts. It’s an approach that fails the basic test of balance, fairness, and shared responsibility, and it would be a devastating blow to struggling middle class families in communities like Elyria across the country. Check out this (click here) chart to see how your state would be affected by these cuts.

NOW.

What is it going to be; growth or increased poverty, national stagnation and more contraction in the housing market !

Uniquely American

People are saying Democrats only focus on the failures of Bain under Romney's leadership.

Fair enough. Let's look at one success story that Romney touts has his best success. It is the company he holds as example to the jobs he can create for Americans.


Staples Founder -- Romney will clean up Obama's economic mess (click here)

By Tom Stemberg, Published May 22, 2012

FoxNews.com

I first met Mitt Romney in the fall of 1985 when he took a chance on me and my idea to sell discount office supplies. Together we then worked to found Staples. 

From the very beginning, I saw that he was super-frugal. He didn’t want to pay more than he had to for things like paper clips. 

That was the idea behind Staples. 

And for Mitt, cutting costs and running things well has been a consistent animating idea, whether he’s been in business or government or running the Olympics. 

Now that he’s campaigning for president, Mitt’s brand of leadership could not come at a more critical time....


Now, those in the work force in the Middle Class and Lower Middle Class that are basically without a trade or education will recognize 'The Easy Button" of Staples. We have all seen the commercials and we ALL KNOW THE BUSINESS MODEL. Now, I suppose Mitt Romney is going to deny many of the products sold at Staples are NOT produced by his own STAPLES COMPANY, but, imported from China.


This is the exact methodology promoted by Bush's Commerce Secretary. SUPPLY SIDE economics that deprive the American worker of benefits and good pay. These are the companies whereby employees usually have two jobs in order to support the family. 

It is the "Uniquely American" job market that has put our Treasury at risk, our homes at risk, our ability to achieve at risk and our lives in shambles. The people of the USA 'Have been there and done that." We don't want it back. 


Companies, like Staples, cause hardship in local economies and they do not benefit them. They close down small businesses without adding quality of life to citizens. 


President Obama has worked long and hard with the Small Business Administration when the banks left the USA behind for monies to expand or renew them the global economic collapse/depression hit. We have been building our small businesses over the past four years. We don't want to be abandoned by banks that don't care about us or businesses that count profits before sexual harassment, good medical benefits or whether at the end of the week when the paycheck arrives they'll have to take Food Stamps anyway. We have all had enough of the "Romney ideology of job creation' and we don't want it back!!!!

Murdoch is selling this rowdy classrooom encounter as a national trend in oppression.

How does FOX get away with calling an incident that should have ended at the Principal's office a national trend in oppression? How do they manage to indulge a video by a teenager as a Gold Mine of how our students are treated across the country. That isn't at all the case.


This teacher needs some peer review of how to conduct Freedom of Speech in the classroom. This is the worst classroom behavior in the country; by teacher and student. There is no order in that classroom. She is treating students as friends rather than students. That is a mistake on her part, but, this is all person opinion by the students and the teacher. There is nothing prioritized nationally for any point of view.


This 'venue of fear' is a chronic focus with Murdoch's media. They hate it when there are songs sung about President Obama or school activities honoring him as the First Black President. They seek to create paranoia about mind control and this episode with Murdoch's propaganda is just another event.


To the right is Mr. Rogers, the teen with the video.


Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:00 AM

SPENCER — The Rowan-Salisbury School System (click here) was propelled into the national spotlight over the weekend after a video featuring a heated political exchange between a North Rowan High School teacher and student went viral.

The student, Hunter Rogers, said Monday that he was surprised by how much attention the video has received. And at their regularly scheduled meeting Monday night, school board members said the system is taking action.

Views of the nearly 10-minute video skyrocketed from about 1,000 Friday to more than 740,000 by this morning.

A number of conservative news outlets on TV and online have picked up the story, which originally appeared in the Post on Saturday…

It is a good idea for teens to have an interest in the way their country works, they will be voting at the age of 18. Mock elections can be run in schools if there is that intense interest, but, it has been my experience young teens often hold the opinions on politics of their parents. It is still good exercise if a grade level has the will to vote on Presidential elections. Nothing wrong with it.


The class was "The Debate Club." Perhaps the teacher would be better to contain her lessons to material necessary for good grades, good grammer and critical thinking while being one of the advisors for extracurricular debate. The debating sounds promising. 


There is a chance she believed she intervened in a racial problem in the classroom, but, it still is not the place to correct that. An unruly and disrespectful student should not be tolerated in a classroom where instruction is taking place. Mr. Rogers should have been dismissed to the principal's office rather than have it all escalate. THAT by the way should have been the discussion on Murdoch's media service. Not extrapolating, as they always do, how student minds are poisoned by this President and his administration.

When I looked at the weather report today, it has "L" all over it.

Weather Channel 
May 22, 2012
1910 GMT
Current Weather Map

Weather Channel 
May 22, 2012
1915 GMT
Current Temperature Map

The Weather Channel notes today:


The Heat is Centered over the Ohio Valley with temperatures 15 to 25 degrees above average affecting 40+ million people.


...As the headline suggests (click here), 90s will be a common reading on thermometers from Kansas and Texas to Ohio and Georgia by this weekend.  You can see this depicted on the forecast maps to the left below in the red and pink shadings....

Weather Channel Prediction Map of Sunday's Temperatures.


We are not far from triple digit heat and governments at all levels need to prepare for a very long and very hot summer. 


Last year with prolonged dry, hot air, Texas experienced infrastructure failure. Skyscrapers need to be safe from extreme cold air inside and ever increasing temperatures outside. Their 'plasticity' needs to be intact, including expansion plates. Texas saw railroad tracks with potential dangers for warping. The railroads are going to have to pay attention to their rails. I have notice in my travels as of late there are many inspection trucks on the tracks. Thank you. Also, Texas experienced exploding sidewalks. The expansion space between the concrete slabs wasn't wide enough and the pressure on the concrete caused rippling which results in cracking due to the pressure of the 'rock' called concrete.


There has been some snow melt to infuse water sources in the west although it has been a late arrival, at least it arrived. The late arrival was probably due to melt from a high altitude, but, scientists more familiar with these areas are probably more than sure what caused it. My best guess is the snow at lower altitudes sublimed from solid to gas, whereas, in higher altitudes the heat would NOT be as intense, but, arrived later due to increasing hot air masses at those altitudes. So, the cooler 'warm' air actually melted the snow. If inspected I am fairly confident the scientists will find snow melt at altitudes not normally effected.


The thing is this; If snow is melting at higher altitudes to actually run off to fill the reservoirs, what happens when that snow is gone? What happens when subliming of snow reaches higher and higher altitudes and LATITUDES? Kindly give it some thought. Thank you.

This was after the tornado. A year later, the high school was absent of some graduates.

By Richard Wolf, USA Today

After hosting (click title to entry - thank you) the world's major economic powers at his presidential retreat in Maryland and the world's pre-eminent military alliance in his hometown of Chicago over the weekend,President Obama came to Joplin, Mo., Monday night for some inspiration....
..."In only 32 minutes, it took thousands of homes, hundreds of businesses, and 161 of your neighbors, your friends and your family members," he said. "It took Will Norton, who had just left this auditorium with a diploma in his hand. It took Lantz Hare, who should've received his diploma next year."...

An expensive hobby farm is not a good political asset, evidently.

Ann Romney's "Acres."


I know something about the business. The land alone is so expensive that in NJ the State purchased it to build a horse park for the county.


In 1979, Janet Schaafsma (click here) built the main horse barn with the indoor arena and began operating a riding and boarding facility. 


It is a very expensive hobby. No one can dispute that. It has some therapeutic benefits when one rides as a casual pleasure horse, but, international competition at this level is very stressful.


The horses are expensive and if a veterinary certificate does not reveal any problems with its health, there are legal consequences, because, it is more than a matter of livestock, this is a quality of life issue, expectations of the future in a show ring that carries status. So, if she is dealing in these horses and there are problems then she hasn't been managing the barn well. 


A person has to be able to afford this life style. Horse-persons in this market are usually interested in the well being of their animal. The horse has a high priority in the quality of care it receives, including pasturing and otherwise. This is not a fools game and if there is a poor reputation of selling or breeding inferior horses the stable will not sustain the community's distain.


It has to be realized, much of the horse riding sport is comprised of young people. They are sportmen and women at a young age and their mounts have to be sound. They have to be well tempered and easy schooled for competition. It is a matter of achieve for these folks. They love the sport and every aspect of it, they love their horses, but, they love to win and show off their accomplished riding skills. So, this is different from the race track, there isn't big money in it except for breeding, training and teaching. Most are invested in the sport, not the profit.


This article by the LA Times surprised me. I didn't think Ann Romney was heavily into the business end of this. I thought she was interested in the breeds and promoting the sport. I didn't expect this. It even surprises me more to realize she has a connective tissue disease and is this involved in a stressful business. Horses take a lot of vigilance. She had a family. Wow. I really didn't expect this.

By Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times

May 22, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

It was the end of a long day (click here)  in a stuffy Simi Valley office building. Ann Romney had been under oath for more than four hours, testifying in a sometimes contentious deposition about a pricey horse she sold that may or may not have been afflicted with a condition that made him unrideable.

In the airless room, Romney was getting annoyed.

"That really is — that really is irritating," she said when the opposing attorney implied she didn't know who looked after her horse in Moorpark when she was at her home in Boston. "Of course I know who was looking after my horse. You're just trying to irritate me."

It was a rare moment of pique for Ann Romney, not meant for public consumption, and one that opened a window onto the private world of the would-be first lady....


This is really different than what the Late First Lady Jacquelin Onassis Kennedy did in Bedminster, New Jersey, too. Those folks were sportsmen and women, they had their mounts for recreational purposes.


You know, I once heard Ann Romney state, about the GOP primary, "This is our time now."  Meaning her and Mitt. It was their time to have the spot light. It didn't ring right with me, because, democracy is inclusive and that sounded alienating. Not only that, but, it sounded very business like. Mitt was used to saying those things to the companies he took over. It was his time and the integrity of the company as it existed before was irrelevant and a matter of nostalgia. I find it abrasive. I don't how how else to describe it. When I listen with an open mind, both of them violate my sensibilities in ways I never would expect. Well. Whatever. I've already made up my mind and to me I don't know why others haven't as well.