Rain rain go away

Having lived on the East coast for most of my life - I have lived in or very near many of the areas now affected by flooding... I-91 is closed? Wow! We all expect the dirt roads of Vermont and New Hampshire to have damage when it rains but not flooding on a major major north/south route that has heavy traffic from Connecticut to Canada....

And I bet King Shrub will still tell you he is "doing all he can" to help the environment and that global warming is a "theory" - just like evolution. Well mr shrub - the scientists think our weather patterns are a bit off kilter.... but then he is unable to listen to scientists - only to big oil company people...

Some of my friends and I knew this administration would implode - crime and corruption seem to do that at some point in time...the only bad thing is that we get another few years of this guy waging war on everything and I mean everything..

HE is the natural disaster!!!

What worries me most right now is that if his ratings stay low he will start another war or two - no matter what Congress says or the obvious lack of troops ... reality is not part of his psychological makeup. He is a bully who is used to getting his way so he pouts and screams and then does what he wants...

Hopefully the public will wake up more and start taking action....It's beginning to happen but until it includes a lot more of us, we will be ignored - big time!

peace

Cheer-leader-in-chief [c-i-c]

Why is the shrub doing so much cheer leading lately? Does he miss his days as a cheer leader at his all boys school? Is this another example of gender confusion? or latent homosexuality? [I think most of the "persons" in the WH have an issue with their own sexuality- why else are they so concerned with everyone's sex lives? ] And why else was Gannon/Guckert around thee so so much????

Back to c-i-c... seems to me if you have an ongoing military action [I am one who believes you can't have a "war" on a concept] - you should have the public's support and you should not have to be the c-i-c about that action. And if you need to be the c-i-c about that military action - maybe it's time to stop the military action.....

Real leaders don't need to be cheer leaders about their policies!

Who the hell is Harriet?

Yikes! Is she an unknown? Nope - like with Roberts her views are known in great detail - but only to the shrub and his cronies - after all she is yet another shrub crony.

Will the public find out anything about her? Nope - she too will refuse to answer questions at her senate hearings.. But info is dribbling out and will continue to come out from the researchers who actually care about the courts..

So far, from all I read, the firm at which she she was the managing partner has ties to Delay, and in 1998 and again in 2000 paid hefty fines in settlement of suits involving allegations of defrauding investors...So she fits right in with the bush crime family... a perfect person to put on the supreme court - that is if you want a court like one that could be run by Tony Soprano.

I mean, come on, if it looks like you might be facing indictments and impeachment - wouldn't you want to know ahead of time that the judges will always rule in your favor???????

George, G-d and Jesus

First a sort of disclaimer... I was raised as a protestant but gravitated to Judaism as a teen and during my adulthood made the label official...I say this only to show I am familiar with both religions.

George claims to be a Christian and to have found g-d but in so doing he has skipped away from the bible [if not run away] - at least the parts of the bible that speak of Jesus. Like so many right wing people of all persuasions, he has picked and chosen his way around the "old" testament [to use the common lingo] and ignored the "new."

Jesus was a Jew and I do think he would be astounded to see what some people do in his name. And those pickers thru of the old testament ignore all the years of rabbinical debate over many of the issues they raise...pretending instead to stick to the "original" concepts..

Hmmm....for starters there are many "versions" of bibles - sort of depends on who translated them and when the translating was done...so what is original? I have seen the portions of the Dead Seas Scrolls that are in the museum in Jerusalem and they ain't in English! And certainly not the version by King James or any of the other modern translations either.

We know George does not read so we can expect that he has been only given the briefest of summaries of bits and pieces of the bible - much like the DVD he got of the hurricane Katrina. He seems to have missed the parts that speak to treatment of the poor and loan sharking..and behaviors akin the credit cards and bankruptcy.

I don't have a problem with religious persons - I just do not want them telling me what to believe and especially when they have chose to ignore more appropriate parts of the bible than they spout off about.

To be continued....

George and Hitler

Over the past week I have been debating this "article" but I can no longer let it sit in my head... When I lived in D.C. I never went to the Holocaust Museum as I knew it was a depressing trip - so one did not go when it was cold, rainy, or if one was not in a very upbeat mood. When I was hanging around D.C. before my move West, there was a bright warm sunny Fall day and my friend and I went! It was still depressing but we made it through and then went immediately to a more joyful exhibit at another museum...

What was most depressing was the reading of the museum exhibits about the rise of Hitler....and in my head transposing Bush for Hitler...it was scary - well now it's only gotten worse...

Here are examples from the museum website http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en


"After a suspicious fire in the Reichstag (the German Parliament), on February 28, 1933, the government issued a decree which suspended constitutional civil rights and created a state of emergency in which official decrees could be enacted without parliamentary confirmation."


"In the first months of Hitler's chancellorship, the Nazis instituted a policy of "coordination"--the alignment of individuals and institutions with Nazi goals. Culture, the economy, education, and law all came under Nazi control. The Nazi regime also attempted to "coordinate" the German churches and, although not entirely successful, won support from a majority of Catholic and Protestant clergymen."

chilling...but it gets worse

There was a propaganda machine, Hitler saw himself outside the legal state and made his own "rules," criticism was suppressed and well we know what happened to Jews and others...

When anyone who is not a Republican likens Bush and the Repugs to Hitler - there is an outcry from the Repugs... Why - because they KNOW IT IS TRUE..But the propaganda machine whines and whines until some weak kneed person apologizes...

Well readers - we are living in a similar time here - corporations have all the power, poor people and minorities take back seat to tax cuts for the wealthiest of citizens, corruption and cronyism are rampant, the courts will soon be turning into more propaganda machines and citizens will lose what few rights they have not already lost under the ruse of the "war" on terrorism...

Beware - we are already living in fascist country "the united states of corporations."