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Arabic Language Diaries - In Memory Of Martyrs Found At US/Mexico Border

Weathered and rain-soaked for who-knows-how-long, an Arab-language Diary was found by ranchers along the drug-runners' trail linking Mexico's drug cartels with American-lodged buyers.  "In Memory of Martyrs" chronicles the messages of farewell along with the details of the identies of those who chose to die as human bombs.  It flags the presence in our midst of those Infidel-haters thrust upon our consciousness by bombings in New York City and Yemen.  How Home Land Security people can perform under the pretense that we're too honorable to deal responsibly with this threat is disturbing. 

We all read Historical accounts of the manner in which the White Man settled the West:  by preying on the "Advanced Native American Civilizations" who regarded with dismay, the desecration of their hunting grounds. Revolutionaries ravaged the King's Army who, in their Red Coats, expected the "Colonists" to fight according to their rules  This Country got on its feet by virtue of uniquely AMERICAN responses to oppression.  The Settlers were a volatile mix of religious independents and expelled criminals cut loose on a landscape hostile to those accustomed to the "cozy" confines of England and the European continent.  A Policy of our State Department has traditionally been one of containment.  Keeping a lid on things while cutting deals with the ring-leaders were, historically, the strategies that kept trouble in a structured zone.  

These are crazy times and, frankly, the men are out of control.  The modern "dance hall girls" are the Liberal Fools plunging into the fray, stubbornly supporting men who DO NOTHING FOR THEM, who sustain movement by destructive, disorderly disregard for those in line ahead of them.  Got a ticket?  You're in line.  Got an impatient streak and the young man's impatience with the Wimminz looking out for their kids, their stable, productive traditions, their rules?  Hey, you wanna just cop a snap-management, easy-out game plan of Hope and Change!  Sarah Palin's relationship with God offends you.  Your HOPE disconnects Faith and Charity, parting ways with traditional, TRIED & TRUE.  The progressives challenge practices, test and push the envelope attempting to get results without doing the work.  Take your best shot, then be prepared to - re-discover the only responsible way to maintain balance in a sea of CHANGE THAT'S ONGOING ANYWAY.  Wanna crash and burn?  Align with the men.  Have serious dreams of a home, community, gratifying work?  Let the dues-paid moderates demonstrate.  

These crazy, roll-the-dice Testosterone-driven warriors lack the Political Heft to build a base.  A return to stability and reconstruction necessarily follows a revolution.  Once the dust clears, the boom! boom! boys are as readily dumped as those "established" leaders they displaced.  When you view the street demonstrators in Tunisia and Egypt, do you see any Women?  No.  You see crazed young men lobbing stones and explosive devices.  You see SWAT armored 30 Something males resorting to force.  The Women and their children are riding it out, braced to lose their respective  XY to the glamour of the conflict. 

We all know that men, like children, are bearers of energies, muscle and mojo.  Wise mothers and baby sitters know to channel that energy into what nurtures self-esteem and respect for order.  "NOT IN THE HOUSE!!!" gets their attention - hopefully BEFORE, not as they break the lamp, up-end the snack bowl, whack their heads against the corner of the table or step on the dog.  "Take it outside" is the Proprietor's caution to the alcohol-induced bravado of their customers.  When it's done, and the Alpha Star that moved them moves on, it's the Beta Unit that presides over the recovery. 

Destruction takes but a moment.  What they do after the storm, measures the men.  My female colleagues on the State Democratic Committee of Pennsylvania endured the explosion of testosterone fostered by Hillary Clinton's candidacy and observed, objectively, as the license to corrupt was unleashed.  The "nuclear" tactic to which the too-immature men resorted had its day.  The road to the re-election of Barak Obama is littered with defeated Democrats who rode the wave of rejection of the Republican Spending Spree into the Majority.  Though challenged, Nancy Pelosi somehow holds onto her leadership position, as does Harry Reed.  The CHANGE is that the Democrats are the MINORITY.  The idiotic Male Ego Trip has run its course.  The men, in a reactionary gesture to preserve their way of life, have discovered through default, the value of their female colleagues and fellow (fellow?) Americans.  Yuppie men, never quite able to remove their femenist mothers from their conscious behavior, supported Obama for President, nonetheless, as a message of defiance to the Truth.  Sure, the Big Dick gets the tribute, but SYSTEM trundles on.  We have seen one system after another change chiefs without really changing.  Obama, like Egyptian President Mubarak, being politely shown the door by the People of Egypt, is just another chief.  If you're one of 10 little Indians, you know that CHIEFS come and go, the LIFE doesn't change.  We'll always support improvement that raises the boats of all while looking sideways at CHANGE FOR THE SAKE OF CHANGE...  Hey, guys:  We get it - Impatience drives Barak Hussein Obama.  Women have endured this very restlessness for centuries.  By putting this lightweight in office, you fostered the manifestation of the  very thing you coalesced to prevent.  In the Dunham Household, in which he grew up, Women were the breadwinners, the men spent all their time talking them down while they lived off their work.  In the Obama Household, Michelle, Sasha, Malia and Mrs. Robinson are in charge.  After seeing his family on an "Up Close and Personal" interview, the Obamas made the decision that there would be nor more of those.  It wasn't so much a privacy issue as it was the stark, EYE-OPENING demeanor of the pre-teen Obama Girls toward their Father, the attitude they learned and acquired from Mom.  Put-downs and dismissive ridicule of his clothes and tendency to not clean up after himself, never being there and more a "Visitor" in their lives than an essential member of their Family. 

The guy you elected is impotent and unimpressive.  His campaign was the result of his frustration with being "nobody," out-worked by everybody around him, gravitating to raised voices, expressions of discontent and complaining, all in a foolish attempt to beat the System.  His speeches reflect his impatience, his unwillingness perform rights establishing exercises, to respect work.   This appealed to the Lame Stream Media, "bare knuckles" expediency and the "accomplishment" of taking down the Clinton Machine, of becoming King of the Hill, by - as they themselves bragged - "Gaming The System."   I have acquired the utmost respect for SYSTEM.  I relate to the Communist claim that we are all cogs therein.  Where the egotist loses is reactionary rejection of just being part of a system.  In a system, you become utterly secure.  Threats of Arabs and Drug Dealers are little more than ape-chest-thumping.  In SYSTEM, all is covered, protected, allocated and recovered.  Order prevails.  Your work is part of the All.  Your Reward is as well.  In a system, thieves, cheats, imbalance and bombs are revealed by the fact that it doesn't work.  Attempts to cut corners, cheat the balance, steal from the resource or perform under the influence of artificial 'spirits' may crash or show up in the "dump."  In a SYSTEM everything is EYES.   Every cell SEES.  Nothing prompts immediate reaction, however everything is held for systematic review, response. 

"In Memory of Martyrs" acknowledges the loss, seeks solace in the preservation of the mystique of the Rash Brothers of the Bell, fuels the passion for violence and hate.  That it was found in a dropped back-pack hints at a walk with God.  Did the owner lose it in flight from the "higher power?" Was the backpack left behind in an effort to fly light and tight?  Or was it discarded by a newly-awakened sense of a better way?  The crazy, murderous Middle Easterners attempt to hide behind our American Principles.  Americans observe the "Chief" as a mouth detached from EYES, naieve and unaware.  They hide right before him, his own EYES not open to what he sees before him.  It is a much bigger system, a reflection of the Solar System that makes the sun rise on schedule, the rhythm of the water and the postition of the stars.  He doesn't see them, he doesn't hear them.  He doesn't feel them.  As the People of Cairo are showing, we all see.  We all control with our will, our eyes, our wisdom.  We remember the martyrs who chose to blow themselves up to get results.  We can wait our turn.  We can cash in the Peace Dividend.  We can politely remove the bad apples in our own  orderly, systemic fashion, and that gives us Faith.

"If we die, we want people to accept it. We're in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life." -Gus Grissom

Willy & "Friends" WAKE UP to Palin's WTF?!!

(...But UW and Big Fur Hat were there "furst:)"  with a WTF t-shirt...getchurs right here:  http://mcnorman.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/sotu/  posted at 7:07 a.m. Jan 26. 

Kudos to Governor Palin, who had the absolute K's to actually - with the straightest face - assert that there were "a lot of WTF moments" in the SOTU speech.  I love the plateau to which this woman has arrived in the tempering storm of media/liberal assault on her very right to exist!  As though she were a roach they could eliminate with a shot of Raid, those whose paychecks come from feeding the media found the 80/20 principle shaking out for them:  20% of their effort; smacking Palin down whenever she pops up, generates 80% of their income.   For those producing Cable Television, Palin has proven to be the GoTo subject that always delivers.  Hollywood has taught me that 'bankable' is the secret to stardom.  Have at it, Palin-haters.

Fox & Friends opened their show this morning with an amusing take on the WTF to which Palin alluded on last night's On The Record With Greta Van Susteren.  Brian, Steve and Gretchen all played "dumb" about why she'd bring up the World Tae Kwan Do Federation?  Says sweet Gretch, "Thank Goodness, that we all have kids, so that we actually know what she's talking about."  Over at "Way Too Early,"  GeistMeister is saying his viewers will all "be kicking themselves" that they didn't make the WTF association with the Win The Future meme.  Which brings me to the Steven Colbert moment -

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word of the day, "WOMEN"

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Palin, like the girls from "Hire Heels" and the fabulous "Jackie O" know not to be associated with Trolls.  We all learned to navigate them during the 2008 Primaries, as they trolled the internet in a search-and-destroy mission to eliminate supporters of HRC and Pawn-cum-navigate their King in Eleven-Level Chess.  They prooved that paid BlackWater Mississippi Moon Men had no earthly connection to the duties and spiritual precedents of the Oval Office.  None-the-less, because they existed and were "cleverly" deployed by David Phluph to disrupt the Caucuses and Primaries, the PUMA People were "Checked," but only on the level where "they" could play.....

...Pitiful little Trolls:  the "Harry Potter" fans - and especially the membership of the "Order of the Phoenix" were neither stalled nor deterred by the Kreachers of the Obama Campaign.  I now understand why the O lived so fatuously in his "I Won" bubble once inaugurated.  It was all he had. 

In his speech in Manitowac, yesterday, the Co-Manned In Chf spent a moment feathering his "Sputnik" moment.  Apparrently, (and coincidentally, he swears) that... "Almost 50 years ago, a chunk of metal came crashing down to the earth, right here!  I,I,I promise you, we did not plan this originally...Press won't believe me... It turns out that it was part of a satellite called, "Sputnik"... and, says Steve Duchie and his son, since that was not planned, it was QUITE the coincidence, eh? 

Steve D:  Yes, Indeed! "No Kidding.  They still remember the spot, over on 8th Street, in Manitowac, where it came down back in 1962."

Brian K:  "Right, so I'm sure no one was hit by it, right?  ...Sputnik landed in 1962; No Problem?"

Steve D:  A 20 pound chunk fell on the street...in the middle of the night." 

In 1962, I was in 5th grade in Saint Domenic's Parochial School, and remember how the nuns decorated the  tree at our get-away-day Christmas party with a tree topper that was, in fact, a glittery silver ball with sparkley little projectiles sticking out of it in every direction.  At lunchtime, I recall as though it were today, Sister Aquina, the school principal, leaning over among the 1st Graders pointing out "the little Sputnik" to them.  She was smiling and communicating to the 5 and 6 year olds, that the Russians were no longer able to strike fear into the hearts of Catholics.  Whether the rest of the world appreciated that, the nuns were a dyed-in-the-wool Advanced Warning System for:

"The Russians are coming!"

"The Russians are coming!"

The Religious Community knew the Communists as cruel invaders of churches and classrooms who murdered and imprisoned teachers who fed the "Opium of the People" Lennin despised. 

Here was Sister Mary Aquina, whom I was taught to consider to be a VERY smart woman, a "daddy's girl" mentored in managing men by her father in Rankin, PA  where she grew up.  With her awesome nature of generosity toward the uneducated, my 8th grade teacher and future boss had no qualms about pointing to the scientific performance of the Russian Space Program as a breakthrough for the entire world.  Ah! Educators.  Earn an "A" and all is forgiven...thus the 6th grade boys discerned the way to a powerful Academic woman's heart: do one thing right.  Shades of Janice Joplin, "Cry, Baby!"  When the "Woman" in charge goes "Boys Will Be Boys" on us, it's Crap Sandwich City, learned the girls.  Insight into the Black Hand was thus stamped into me.  In that same school, where I discovered that no woman had ever occupied the Oval Office, my Convent Catechists assured me that the Constitution didn't stipulate that the President must be a male.  It just never worked out that any woman had been elected over the nearly 200 years of the Republic.  "Could a Woman ever be President?" I wondered.  It might be up to me to change that "rule," the Nuns assured me.  And so it was, that I always looked to the "Alternative Universe" when I found myself - like a rat in a maze - being run around in circles with "No Exit For Women!" nazis stabbing my feet, shouting in my ear, disorienting my progress and slamming doors in my face.

Of course, it's a symbol, meant to assure me that I Am Loved.  The men in my life made these hurtles deliberately difficult for me to set me up for success.  On the floor in aerobics class, I pleaded for mercy from the "bitch" instructor who kicked my ass every morning, because I wanted her to kick my ass and drive me ever more deliberately to a new level of fitness.  On the selling floor, wise managers delighted in strong saleswomen egging the guys on to avoid being outsold by a girl.  Somehow, a few of us "performers" understood this game and revelled in play.  In the world of Sarah Palin, the game remains the GAME.  Thanks to "First Dude,"  nothing shakes her confidence, nobody "gets to her" to milk her of her power.  Palin, unlike the Occupant of the Oval Office (OOO for short) IS a PERSONAL POWER into which she has built herself over the years of taking it as it comes; not crying, "Pourquoi Moi?"

Indeed, boys will be boys.  And men, once they get their asses kicked by "The Bitches," will clean up their act and conduct themselves as gentlemen.   This Economy is now driven by Women.  The Electorate is at least 52% Women.  WOMEN, as truly successful men know, are "The ONES who can get it done.  (So fuck you, Oprah!)

The Republic, Founded by our Fathers, is primed, by those who love us, for a take-over by Women.  The symbols of a final bridal dance taught me these things.  The bride's mother removes her veil... (opens her eyes to reality.)  The bride's father joins Mother and Daughter, Bridesmaids, Brothers and Sisters to form a circle around the Bride to perform one final gesture of resistance to prevent the Groom from taking away their Little Girl.  It's bittersweet, yet the Family knows it must let her go,... to live her own life, ...to form her own family, and expand by doing so, the Love in the Universe. 

In her gracious heart, Sarah Palin firmly understands this tradition, and - God Delights In Her Doing So - she goes about digging back when the Trolls attack.  Pretty Girls just "seem" to find out early ... how to open doors with just a smile."  Smart Girls just know to stay clear of boy-crazies and stay focused on their work.  Nothing any guy might do can divert a Woman Called To Serve.  With God as her Witness, Sarah Barracuda knows the Republicans don't know any better than the Democrats.  So concerned with the Debt, they had no such qualms when Bush was conducting his disastrous policies, and Women Who Do Books never lost sight of the Triangulation of Bill Clinton co-opting Ross Perot's issue, taking the concern seriously enough to put the country on the right track, despite his "democrat" status.  Kitchen Table Economists are neither snowed by the O, nor concerned by his poor choices.  Divinely attuned, we who pray for guidance and give thanks for each day, are reassured that THEIR choices are THEIR responsibilities, and we are responsible for OURS.  That abortion issue?  It's not about Abortion: it's about CHOICE.  As you choose better, your choices improve.  As you "boot" the right choices, your subsequent choices are reduced accordingly.  As we observe these spendthrifts, we have the sense to protect our own interests, preserving them in Mama Grizzly fashion, from those who don't appreciate our worth.  In her days on the campaign trail, Sarah Palin - not unlike Hillary Clinton - had the proverbial kitchen sink slung in her path along with everything else.  Her Title IX traditions prevented her from making Hillary's mistake, putting loyalty to a "Party" ahead of her wicked sharp sense.  Running her miles, sweating and recreating herself made the Governor a great Sport.  Hillary, while accomplished on so many applicable levels, lacked the one area of inter-relate-ability Palin brings to this Game:  GAMESWOMANSHIP. 

Observe:  The HILL.  Level It!  The great thing about the GAME is this:  it's meant to be PLAYED.   The Women who are cheerleaders and fans of the Guy MAY BE WON by the Winner, and nothing in this world is more certain! 

Women who revel in the GAME learn a very special secret once they get out in front and away farom the frenzy.  The Great Guys, the fun ones, the ones worth the moniker, "The One" are delighted in you, too!  Of course, the GREAT Guys know no girl's ever going to beat them when they're on their game.  But no human being is on their game all the time.  We all take a turn.  We sort of "work the draft line" and give our all for the ALL.  The GREAT Guys know that the WOMAN'S turn is coming and they CANNOT WAIT for the girls to take over.  Saint Anthony: thank you in advance for helping us find those great men. 

Barbara Behrand Ernsberger For Commonwealth Judge

http://ernsbergerforjudge.com/ prevailed against endorsed candidates to win the 2009 PA Primary nomination for Judge of Commonwealth Court.

She appeared at caucus meetings that winter while still grieving the loss of her father days earlier. But she had a plan, viable financial support and the very things we have come to find helps women candidates at the polls.

She's going to try again.  With apologies to all the male candidates who will present themselves for consideration this upcoming month at the PA Dems Endorsement meetings, I refer you to the results of the last judicial elections.  While the County Chairs exerted arrogant pressure on the members to endorse male candidates (led by the male progressives) the Voters elevated the female candidates and then ELECTED the female candidates.  There's a message, here, men.  The women you so callously stepped on during the 2008 Primaries are expressing their displeasure AT THE POLLS!!! 

In the most American Way,

The Women take this opportunity to say:    More than half the population, more than half the workforce and more than half the top grade-earners in schools will not be reduced to behavior that permits you to call them names unworthy of gentlemen. 

Wake up!  Clean it up! Apologize to the true base of this party.  The ones who have declared their sovereignty and independence by changing their registrations are only a portion of the total numbers waiting for your return to respect for their votes.

Endorse Ernsberger. Work for her election.  Make a dent in the huge chasm your obtuse politicking has fostered with the female voters of this Commonwealth.  With all due respect to the hormone-driven females not disenchanted with the Left Wing tactics, the Menapausal Elders of this Party have taken a "no comment, no contributing, no volunteering" stand on future elections until their status is recognized.  Take your punk president and your threats of Primary Challenges to your own caucus and eat it for the forseeable future.  Democrats supporting this demeanor are dead in the water and unworthy of a cent of support until such time as this egregious offense against the true base of the Party is acknowledged.  Again, Valentines Day is coming.  Figure out to whom you need to extend the rose, and understand that your bare knuckles-dragging cave-man approach to cold, hard-assed politics has a counterpoint in those of us who joined the State Committee as part of the Gender Equity Building movement of the 70's.  To the Jill Krausses and her ilk in the Obama-Jazzed 30 Something Generation:  It will get as old for you and your daughters as it got for the families of Diana Oughtan, Bernadette Dohrn and the Weather Women.  While these arrogant guys sit around and play at making policy, you'll be burying (if you can find any parts of their exploded remains), rearing their motherless children and going to jail to appease the anger of the judicial system that KNOWS Bill Ayers preached without practice and got away with talking the talk when he never walked the walk.  For all your class warfare crap, Billy relied on the rich old man's money to escape justice.  

A Birdie Visit

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burial & obsequies. Execute ritual communicates a procedure as compared to a program which would include procedures.

Sharia Compliant Tinkering With The Legal Code: Look Out, Loretta!

The radio on behind me, I worked through the reconciliation of my bank statement and came gradually aware of a news item repeated a couple of times before it made its way into my conscious awareness.

Sharia Law, as it is practiced by Muslims, is not considered a threat to the constitutionality of http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011012012609/us/islam-in-america/sharia-law-gains-foothold-in-us-federal-judge-upholds-government-funding-of-islam.html how taxpayer funding precedent is established.  Ah! Mike Kelly, your phrase about how the effete political class "spends money they didn't earn" is racking up connectedness as I process the data thereto lodged in my scanner.  My inner executive/crowd-control mechanism tells me to read it, then test it against every other "factor" already manifest in my accepted-as-fact level.  Whirring away on the disc, the arcs are duplicating enough of the confirming data to make me pull up to other levels where I might not "live" at the moment, to examine whether, and if so, how this would drive an update to my response program. 

Snow On The Way

The President put a tepid toe in the water of displacement last night with - at least - the articulation of the sentiments we expected to hear two years ago.  But whatever :(  He and Axlerod, Gibbs and the media are ill equipped to ever do it.  I'm gonna do "something else" inasmuch as I see little point in wasting more time monitoring his performance looking for a glimmer of opportunity in the Economic Platform suggested.  The Left can get on with angry response to any gesture of respect for the business interests of the country.  Choosing to "appease" coupled with Taxing as Tactic alerts my Sales Conditioned business mind to an ineptitude that loses my inner "buyer."  This guy is terribly ill prepared for the very challenge he acknowledges.  On-The-Job-Training for the Affirmative Action Chief Executive is producing exactly what a reasonable person would expect.   The morons who placed the mantle of leadership on him are as full of themselves as he is. 

Editors & Publishers of Daily Newspapers:  Come On!  For your mentorship of his candidacy you get a big, fat "F" and the Academic you forced into the Glass Slipper that is the Presidency didn't deserve your cowardice and stupidity.  What were Yinz thinking?  All I can say is:  TOO GAY!!!  This blockade to prevent a Woman, moreover the Woman Behind The Man who was Bill Clinton, from serving in this office was a sheer gesture of male arrogance, deal-cutting and flat out corruption.

Well, Men, you got your Gender-Privileged Coup.  Thanks for making straight people eat it for long enough to put their finger on exactly what it is that makes them resist the Gay Agenda.  It's not that they want to diminish the opportunities for "same sex" Union Members, it's that they expect the Gays & Lesbians as well as the "African" Americans to find common ground and work there.  With Good Will toward each other, and respect for the relationships developed through generosity towards all, Gentle People of any background or orientation can make room for each other. 

As Families grow to love each new member, the Family of America can, likewise, grow to incorporate the strengths while suppressing the perception of weakness of each new Family Member.  When a new friend, special someone, "Mr. Right" is brought home to meet Mom & Dad, or a new baby is brought home from the hospital, or even a "pregnancy" is announced the attitude of the existing membership has all the world to do with how the expansion works.  That job is Mom & Dad's.  Fourth Estate:  As Mom & Dad, it was YOUR job to caution the kids that this new boss, while bringing great potential, was someone with whom to become acquainted.  Whom do we know that knows him?  Would he bring a circle of "friends" to our home that will enhance our lives?  Our security as a Family deserves answers to these questions.   Childish tantrums thwarting the responsible review of this newcomer won't do.  Families who look out for each other, build communities and support charitable efforts begin with stability,... with respect for themselves.

Saying What He Knows You Want To Hear



http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/

 I skated in the streets of Atlanta, too poor to even get a job or own a car during the 80's...Reagan had busted the Air Traffic Controllers Union and the Democrats - lost in the Misery Index of the Carter Administration's off the charts prices and interest rates - were too beaten to care. One memory of a time that launched my own economic recovery was the doper's routine. Not unlike the routine of adolescents, dopers would "Scam" you, tell you what they knew you wanted to hear, leading you to believe that they were decent, could be trusted, were honest, honorable and respectful of your friendship, loyalty, commitment to them.

Then, having navigated the encounter that stood between them and getting what they wanted, they'd do the very thing that got them in trouble before. Stiffed, you'd suffer the most heartbroken disappointment. Not because they failed you, but because they squandered the opportunity you had given them.  HAVING BLOWN IT, abusing your trust and failing to do the right thing, they would now have to re-start their lives elsewhere.  Having "burned you and learned you" you must now refuse any of their future pleas for your indulgence. That's where Barak Obama is with me. The expression, "Under the Bus" didn't come from the man of integrity who proved me wrong and made good on his promises of all the things he asked Democrats to reject Hillary for because he brought virginal purity to elections. He cemented my outrage at his willingness to represent what I was looking at as something other than what I was seeing! Classic Doper. He's going to say what you want to hear because he's working for your approval. He is showing himself to be even more clueless than was obvious to me all along.  He's going to appeal to your moral integrity as though to suspend sentence for a crime of theft by deception is the right thing to do. The same creep who dunns Sean Hannity and Fox News from the pulpit campaign podium, is going to cower in his comfort zone, utterly unwilling to just acknowledge what any good executive knows: The less I make it about ME and more about YOU, the more likely will be that you see the opportunity before you and get to mining your dreams. In Doper Land, there's always another fix. STATE OF THE UNION speeches are Obama's "Dope." The thrill exchanged with his media supporters has sustained and advanced his interests and he sees no reason to change a game plan that has never failed to deliver before...not for We The People, but for him and them. This manipulative "Pusher" traded cash in the form of campaign funds raked in from questionable sources, to the Editorial Boards of Daily Newspapers - teetering near oblivion, in return for their Bullshit Endorsements. He got it.  Tonight, he offers Installment #3 Payment.

Knock, Knock< Knockin' On Heaven's Door

http://www.nfl.com/videos/auto/09000d5d815238fa/NFL-GameDay-Packers-vs-Steelers-higlights It could be fun

From UppityWoman08, Getcher SOTU Barak Bullshit Bingo Card!

The alcohol to be consumed Tuesday night affords the Good Time Had By All those paying for the Joy Ride in the Ship of State - A detached view of the Traditions of our modern media.  The standing excuse to pre-empt NCIS on his plate, well ... he has to!  We have an alternative universe, kudos to iOwnTheWorld.com, BigFurHat and the lively hippies who created this Jewell:

the inspriration for the nickname "Joe Blow"

I received an email from Biden touting the "Promises Kept" report on the 111th Congress Hari Kari.  Did they promise change we can believe in, or an indefensible assault on We The People, our traditions and our American Values?  Methinks the #2 man in the Administration is a BFD wind bag who can't possibly recognize how detached from reality they are in the West Wing.  Obama reads speeches written by equally shallow blow-hards, and then as if his mouth is directly connected to the teleprompter with no cortex processing, he goes out and does exactly what he warned we shouldn't let Republicans do. 

Do any of those guys who so "innocently" played cut-throat with John Edwards in 2008 have anything to say about the manner in which he fulfilled his promise to Elizabeth in the years following her diagnosis?

Are they all just cads?  As if I didn't already suspect that this character-deficient politician will mouth sentiments with which he has no synchrony, this attempt to blow smoke up my skirt arrived as evidence that Biden is a fraud.  These porous layers of cheese calculated to draw a veil of believability over their antics just add weight to the mountains of evidence that point to his gamesmanship trumping his statesmanship.  David Axlerod has resumed his Jabba the Hut personna, and Biden will proceed to run these advertisements for snake oil in a distasteful measure of his contempt for my ability to recognize what I'm looking at with accuracy and understanding.

Open Letter To Fellow Members of the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party

I know it's too late to introduce a resolution for February, but would you be open to a resolution reprimanding the "Progressives" for their misconduct? 

I am disgusted with their tactic of threatening elected representatives with Primary opposition if their demands aren't met.  I consider it Voter Intimidation taken to the next level, which is criminal, and they should be called on it.  Any time a "Progressive" introduces a letter or a resolution to take down Blue Dog Democrats because they won't rubber stamp the Obama Agenda, I am scandalized that they are no better than the "Republicans they railed against for eight years!  When these progressives use the expression "push back" to justify their rudeness and ignorance when NOBODY but them are pushing, I want to object.

They have virtually destroyed the Democratic Party.  The very reason "Super Delegates" were devised in the 70's was to prevent the repeat of the desecration of Democratic Principles.  Neutered by the incivility we are finally addressing, Democrats must move to reclaim the Traditional Dems who have disassociated themselves from such unchecked personal attacks and reactionary assaults on the integrity of those who vote the will of their Constituents.

In my own Legislative District, Darryl Metcalfe, an absolute Cretin and ignorant bastard keeps getting re-elected...running virtually unopposed, because he observes ONE Principle: Don't raise our taxes!  Thus, he makes no effort to improve the economy or work with the business interests who want to participate.  He has locked down discussion and the Progressives have commandeered, by default, the Democratic Committee.  My experience with "progressives" in Butler County is that they are completely ignorant of Parliamentary Procedure and, because they Push, Push, Push, have actually undermined the potential of exchanges of ideas by departing from those very restrictions on emotional and personal affront Roberts' Rules were designed to prevent.

Too lazy to learn the Rules of Procedure in context, they have cited only those aspects of the Rules that serve their aggression and dispense with any that guarantee the rights of the minority.  I would like to request that the Chairman appoint an Ad Hoc Committee to air the grievances of those whose constituents have been denied Voice by the actions of the Progressives.  I would ask that the Committee clarify for its membership that WE ARE DEMOCRATS.   If one so identifies with the Progressive Visage that they are contemptuous of the Democrats of more conservative or traditional leaning, then it might be time for the PROGRESSIVES to get on the Ballot as Progressives and take responsibility by name for their indiscretions.  Let them learn, as have traditional Democrats, that we win elections by building coalitions, not just raising money.  Once we're elected, we get out of campaign mode and get on the clock to serve ALL THE PEOPLE!!!   When we reach the point where 30 something guys can get away with preposterous remarks like "He Who Has The Gold Makes The Rules." it's time to stand up and assert the dignity of all the things money shouldn't be permitted to buy - LIKE VOTES,  

The rules we will write regarding the 2012 Primary should be seriously considered.  I wish for the brats who so violated our process with their "gaming" of the rules, to get a full taste of their own tactics firmly forced into their faces.  I don't care if Barak Obama (Bush III) gets re-elected, but his people should face true justice by being treated to the very Primary Challenge with which - for two years - they threatened sitting Democrats who supported Hillary Clinton.  Until this matter of Party discipline is addressed, I will not be able to volunteer in support of candidates.  I will only circulate nominating petitions if I am paid from the same bottomless pit of George Soros money these bastards unscrupulously accept.  I will not extend one breath of courtesy to Joe Sestak for the primary he conducted once the progressives siezed on him as a willing accomplice to their ruthless disregard of the State Committee's endorsement of Arlen Specter. 

The People of Pennsylvania, not the Progressives, make the call.  A tenured Senator with a history of being elected by PENNSYLVANIANS was destroyed by such "friendly fire" as these idiots foster.  Instead of a powerful representative who can really help us, we have two freshmen who only listen to their string-pulling supporters, at odds with each other. 

I refuse to attend County Committee meetings to be insulted by Larry Kriess and his troupe of cronies - all Trolls who subscribe to the "I'm the Boss" managerial approach.  They want to reduce the requirements for a quorum to 25% because nobody will come to their meetings.  They step on everybody, shove through their meaningless agenda without discussion and pick fights with their opposition with personal attacks and gossip.  (Absolute MIRRORS of the Obama Administration!  -You know; the One that got its head handed to it in November, the One that demanded Party discipline at the expense of the re-election of some very fine public servants...)  A Primary Challenge will do this outfit some good.  They've got it coming!  And the juxtaposition of Primaries that will favor Obama's lock on the votes of blacks is unAmerican and offensive.  Put the Race Card, the Gender Card, the Class Warfare Card and all the other stupid, divisive bare knuckle political tricks on the table for these guys to own and acknowledge.  The Tool Chicago Thug can have this Party if he plans a repeat of his 2008 performance.  I want nothing to do with the Democratic Party as it is at the moment.  I speak for the many, many voters of my district, my family, my County who have refused to sign petitions, changed their registrations and expressed outrage over the way the Party has permitted itself to be commandeered.  If Jim Burn isn't prepared to face the challenge of purging the State Committee of the kind of condescending shit I was fed by Mary Isenberg, Jack Hanna and Shannon Bilger, I won't hesitate to join my kindred dissenters.

JETS Fans Re-Enact a T.J. Houshmandzadeh, LenDale White and Mayor Gordon?

We'll observe what would have been Myron Cope's 82nd birthday at Sunday's game, and, What the heck, we'll probably do that twirl wave thing.  A lotta beers and a lotta tears in them towels.  Kids from New York don't understand about the towell.  It was a fun thing for them.  But as the video plays for the Steeler Nation, Gang Green is enveloped in a membrane of ever-tightening pressure that you wouldn't wish on anybody. 

We don't imply that there's a threat, not even a curse,... uh, not really.  But, Jets Fans, uh, ... that towel wasn't meant for the gutter, not supposed to suffer an episode of abuse on camera on the world wide web for anybody to see!    We get old, we know.  But, come on... how can you hate the Steelers and expect everybody to love the Yankees?  Same story,...the business.  Point being, the Towel isn't an NFL thing or even a Pittsburgh Steeler thing.  It's "Myron Cope's."  We just smile, they're just kids, after all.   But that don't change the probable "thing" it brings.  We're  notsorry that happened.  It bears affirming.  And each generation learns.  I like the shade of green the Jets wear.  I loved Broadway Joe from this neck of the woods.  Joe said he could, he would and ... ok; he did.  That was bravado.  He was a little bit lucky - we don't discount luck.  And, not for anything; we don't discount disrespect for the Terrible Towel.  We watch these clips and just shake our heads.  There's always doubters.

The Baseless "Left Base" Is Getting Played, Not Played To

Hey, Hackers!  He's not playing to his "base" - he's PLAYING his Base.  Pull your heads out and try to act like you've got a clue:)  The Scribe of Western Pennsylvania Progressives forwarded this email Wednesday, the same day they pitched a righteously indignant fit over Governor Palin's Face Book video posting.  Mind you; I had to Google and go to Palin's FaceBook page to hear her message.  This trash was directed to me personally into my inbox with a caption applauding the author and assertion that he "speaks for All Of Us."

"The Wrath Of Fools: An Open Letter To The Far Right" ... authored by William Rivers Pitt.

The tirade begins with the title: Blood On Your Hands over a graphic of cross-hairs and launches into an insane collection of every trite, unfounded accusation hurled against Sarah Palin, Fox News, and anybody who dares resist the claw of Obama Worship.  These folk don't understand Muslim Jihad and Christian Holy War because they are, pathetically, consumed by that same irrational will to impose their beliefs on everyone.

This piece of irrational hate is a quintissential demonstration of  "Not My Fault, They Started It!" irresponsible blogging.  It has all the same earmarks of the sort of intensity the perp displayed leading up to his shooting spree in Tucson.  The emotion revealed here is both disturbing and preposterous.  The author is irrational and self-serving.  That his defiant accusations would be distributed by anybody is an offense to my rational understanding of what constitutes the sort of rhetoric and tone we've all been cautioned to avoid.  It is not something to which any responsible activist or leader should respond except to gently point out to the proponents that it is inappropriate.  (As I did.)  http://www.truth-out.org/the-wrath-fools-an-open-letter-to-far-right66686

The flag, here, is the name-calling, the pompous indignation and the general tone of outrage.  In business, we learn that political assertion-behavior is guaranteed to lose customers.  In volunteer work, we learn that people leave in droves when they are made to feel awkward or uncomfortable. I am coming to understand that instinct.  Get too far over the edge and nobody wants to be around you because you are obsessed.  This, I learned during my own crazy season, is dangerous ground.

In Grifford's district, guns are the big story.  Guns are bought from American Dealers by Mexican Drug Cartels and Jihaddists infiltrating the trafficers to defend the commerce of the underground most profitably engaged in the sale of drugs to Americans self-medicating.  Who needs "Health Care" and Prescription Drug coverage when we have the entire reason for 9-11 setting up in Arizona 8 to invade?  That crazy guy who attacked and slaughtered the peacably assembling Americans?  Yeah, he was the XY getting off on subordinating a woman who dared to exercise the Power of the People.  His day, however, has passed.  Griffords went on with her work with full knowledge of the inherent danger of being a "law enforcement professional" in this border district.  She had to be intimately aware of the kidnappings and assassinations of Office Holders and their families in the Mexican communities and embassies on the other side of the border -the urgency for protection of which the Obama Administration simply doesn't get.

I can no longer indulge this extended learning curve catering to the Locked In "Their Comfort Zone" Left.  As I hear the continued drubbing, by leftists, of Palin for her self respect, I am virtually re-living my own season of torment by these misguided people.  Stable, sober people living their lives and supporting their families, communities and dreams have simply dropped their interest in these grudge-nurturing demonstrations of unkindness.  They look around their meetings and discover they don't have a quorum.  Former loyal attendees' admonitions that their personal attacks are a waste of the time of those who have gotten involved to foster change, not beat proverbial dead horsemeat go unheeded.

Silent indifference to the moderates' pleas have evolved into abandonment by those Unheeded Moderates.  There are better ways to spend our time.  The trade-off of an evening with my Family to come to a County Committee meeting and listen to enraged "progressives" launch relentless, personal assaults on those who are representing an alternate view, is not the reason we got involved.  It has asserted the logical conclusion that It's time to get DISASSOCIATED with these unbusiness-like actors.

MSNBC gives Obama his daily blow job

Hacking away at Palin, the guys are in re-election mode.  No matter what O does, the sucking guys can praise and lavish compliments out their ears for the sopping public to consume without question.  To reflective, thinking Americans, however, the speech at the Arizona memorial was standard bullshit from Obama...feeding off Women and the cheers of the crowd.  This time, they don't see, however, that the crowd "gets the guy" and weren't cheering for him so much as for Gabby and themselves.

I was struck by the demeanor of the crowd, not weeping and somber, but applauding, whistling, resurging and full of the American Spirit.  They didn't need the President reassuring them.  Instead, they gave him the Arizona Phoenix: a bird that rises from it's own ashes.  The milling crowd awaiting the "service" included all the Women; Jan Brewer, the Governor who realized she'd have to get the job done without the feds and communicated to the People of Arizona 8 that the kidnapping and murders in Giffords' District would be addressed head on, as they come together.  Napolitano, former governor and Home Land Security director whose "inaction" in an attempt to be politically correct to the guy who appointed her, is forced to endure the suffering of her own constituents.

I'm sick of the way the press strains to stretch any little thing this guy does into a jewell, as though he personally manifests excellence with each breath.  I'm not jealous, just discerning.  I read and viewed Sarah Palin's statement - one that reflected the very sentiments we all need to "see."  The coverage on it was insulting to my intelligence, petty and vindictive.  The men who siezed the statement as yet another opportunity for a cheap, fraternity "take off" on the bitch who routinely kicks their ass, alerted me that the re-election staging and manipulation of the way we see the candidates is in operation mode.

Nancy Pelosi, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz and Kirsten Gillibrand comprised the "Girl Power" that OPENED THE EYES of Gabrielle Giffords.  In their presence, and with all the energy of the National Powers That Be, the healing happened.  But, it manifested to those who came to console and "see for themselves" what the residents had endured.  What the President, the Minority Leader and the media observed was the Strong lending their reassuring grace to Powers That Believe Themselves To Be."  What they saw was a community that refused to give Obama the unearned honorarium he has universally been handed everywhere else. The cultivators of the dessert, the tamers of the "Wild West" who will not indulge the pretentious prince and his sycophants showed up last night.  They courteously gave ground to the Pres, who was there to see his hospitalized colleague.  But they held their ground when the stage had been set for him to raise his "healing" hands of condescension of them.  They showed - instiinctively - who needed healing.  And in the moment of their first cheer, the People of Arizona, the People who re-elected John McCain for the umpteenth time, the People who dispensed with the preachy, "Christian" approach, and observed, instead, through the traditions and sentiments of NATIVE AMERICANS.  We are not "inner city" helpless here.  We are self-sufficient, self-respecting and self-actualizing.  You work for US, and while you're here, we'll give you a quick tutorial in how we get it done. 

Drug Thugs killing our ranchers?  We're fashioning a defense.  Illegal Immigrants exploiting the Fed's porous borders?  We'll call them ILLEGALS and you'll recognize we're a State that leads by observing the LAW, by enforcing it!  We're the tone-setters here.  We'll communicate our standards, our expectations, our CODE of conduct and ethics to our Visitors.  We stand in our 10th Amendment Soveriegnty and you'll respect us.

After weighing all that Arizona has endured, observing the demeanor of their leadership in response, I get this message:  Arizona does not surrender, but, in fact exercises fully, its reserved powers.  To the visitors, they have presented a dignified face, a gracious hosting attitude, but all the Force of The Ship of State.  Battleship U.S.S. Arizona, moored at Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, is the symbol of our memories of entering World War II.  The 1100 murdered by surprise attack are memorialized in Hawaii in the name of Arizona.  A bit of tradition, of understanding, of recognition was communicated to the visitors.

First Amenement

Some of us remain in our vortex amid storming, competing volatiles.  Nothing says more convincingly to me that we are in the throes of a revolution than the frequency with which I am reminded of politicians' settled differences with pistols in duels.  The 10 disc set audio book about Alexander Hamilton, who met his own end in a duel with Aaron Burr, (crooked, self-serving, devil channelling politician,) has accompanied me on long drives for the past month, chronicling the New York vs. Virginia struggle between the Federalists and
Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.
those who represented the original colonies advocating alternative forms of governing the newly born Nation.

Just days before she was shot, Congresswoman Giffords read the First Amendment on the floor of the House. It was a beautiful moment and more than simply “symbolic,” as some claim, to have the Constitution read by our Congress. I am confident she knew that reading our sacred charter of liberty was more than just “symbolic.” But less than a week after Congresswoman Giffords reaffirmed our protected freedoms, another member of Congress announced that he would propose a law that would criminalize speech he found offensive.

This woman, "Walking the Talk," proposed that Congress lead by example and take a 5% pay cut during these difficult times.  She represents the district that is the "most porous" along our nation's border with Mexico and where a rancher was killed on his family's own property by drug cartel thugs.   Gabrielle Giffords reveals more about herself, her courage and her fidelity to American Principles in this one interview than I could ever say about her.  Given the murder and kidnapping of public officials in her district, where sensitive Latinos lobby to stop even using the label illegal immigrant to reference the issues surrounding border trouble, she most certainly knew she faced a similar fate.  Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees,  Che poster hangers.  But "give your life for your country" knowing you will live on your feet ever vigilant of your freedoms, Giffords lived every day in service to her Country with the Grace of one who understands.  If we lose our freedoms, we have no reason to live.  And therefore, we stand strong in defense of our first amendment freedoms, reminding fellow Congressmen:  we shall make no laws ... Blue Dog (former Republican) Democrat, Gifford represents the very best of Women who represent us. While I may disagree with a percentage of her votes, I recognize her fidelity to serve honorably. Viewing this video, and knowing what I know about the law enforcement figures in Arizona's 8th Congressional District, Giffords led by example. Pima County Sheriff, Clarence Dupnik, likewise walks in this unrelenting terror of drug runners feeding the American demand for self-medicated escape from that which they have become. Tne Congresswoman lived in a vortex that anchors the faith of the residents of Arizona's 8th, AZ-8 In her district, John McCain and Sarah Palin developed the plans for their 2008 Campaign. She exchanged ideas with those at the very head of the trail leading to balance between the Progressive Agenda and the Tea Party Traditionalists. Little surprise that - in "reaction" rather than response to the incident last weekend in Arizona, the Chairman of the Philadelphia Democratic Party and Congressman, Bob Brady PA-1 announced plans to criminalize criticsm of his already too insulated colleagues. I have my own issues with Brady, on the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee, disgusted with his Progressive-Pushing manipulation of power mad young males, and his failure to respect the traditional Democrats of Eastern Pennsylvania. But the contrast between his big city district heavily supported, influenced and sprawled upon by organized labor, and Giffords is most demonstrated in the response each of them had to this attack. While Gifford coreographs her movements with her doctors, her constituents and her well-wishers, Brady attempts to refine the laws covering his behind. Again, reminders of the throes of revolution in which we function, Brady represents the district in Pennsyvania that was, in effect, the Nation's very first Congressional District.  Here the Spirit of Thomas Jefferson infuses the Patriot.  Here Ben  Franklin invented and developed revolutionary but every-day concepts like paved streets and volunteer fire departments that made for better living. Here  James Madison, John Hancock and Betsy Ross rose to the occasion and formed this Commonwealth, this Country.  And here lurks the Revolutionary Spirit. Work rather than fight, live in the protective light of divine protection and so long as your work remains to be done, you are secure. The bullet that penetrated her skull most surely was guided by gentle energies of those who have already crossed over and can now only remain near her as protective shields. ][ This "EYE" bridges those of us who remain condensed on this side. We applaud the work of those of you across the divide. We whisper our acknowledgement of your graceful presence and thank you for coming. By your results, we are alerted to all the reasons for which we believe. Here in our vortex, your ability to view all that is obscured by our malpracticing Fourth Estate is revealed to us as we need it. Your bird's eye perspective, your skelped warnings, your enveloping peace balances us. 

When operating harmoniously the Queen of Cups restores hope. She is like a burst of light in a dark place, a healing balm to a wounded soul, and a cleansing rain which allows new growth to move closer to bloom. She comes with good intentions and speaks openly without guile....Her throne of caste stone remains afloat in a sea of tumult.   God has surely bless't us in giving us this woman.  Her choice to serve when she could readily succeed in any business substantiates my faith in the divinity within me that longs to join the kingdom of professionals who put their Country first and endure the moments, such as these, that prepare us for even greater service.

Women: We Know Tea Parties

Yes, it appears that dems love leaders who lead them into massacres and then are in full denial about how bad it was.
Remember 0 making fun of Hillary and saying her foreign affairs experience was nothing but tea parties?
After the midterms, I think knowing how to manage tea parties would have been a good thing to know!

...the comment section over at Riverdaugheter  http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/ch-ch-ch-changes/#comments  comes late to the Party... I've said since '08 the punk was in for a demonstration of most elucidating proportions....and such Mistick Krewe of Comusas wanna-be's as Michelle and twice Queen of Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club paraders, Desirée Rogers, are dyed-in-the-wool Cultural Warriors. 

I've complained, at length, about the insider obscurity of the African Culture Game played by Obams.  While he permitted his obotomized minions to foolishly cannonize him without a miracle for proof, he laughed cynically at them, no less than he ridiculed "typical white woman" Teas.  Hey; my Hornies: Nobody Teases Like the O.  No Playah be smoother, be the Man Women want to ride in the limo with.  And no more prestigious limo in which to portray smooth operator than the one armored by the People of the United States. 

We The People...represents a Constitution unimagined by any pampered preppie generations removed from the American Revolution.  None of us choose that route knowingly.  We carry it, nonetheless, in our Independent Hearts.  A Child reared by a rebellious mother whose very conception was a middle finger to her father, is not fairly introduced to Americana.  Frank Marshall Davis: interchangeable with Angela of the same sir, infected the ten year old fatherless male with concepts much too philosophical for one whose formative years were lived behind the gated facade of a State Department compound. The women his mother tutored in survival practices were regarded with contempt by Soetero, who placed all his "trust" in and bet his house on the police and underworld thugs. Stanley Ann Dunham's greatest contribution to her Kenyan lovers was the know-how to beat oppression.   Yet throughout his writings, her son takes his resolve from machismo and do-nothing guy talk that tea partying divas would dismiss with equal disinterest.

Get with it, O.  For all your gym attendance and pretty-boy fitness for hoops and shirtless surf, you cannot, legitimately, flex muscle.  You parade around with Press-idolized bare knucklers, but you never studied the most important lesson of your mother's pre-dawn discipline:  Internalization.  Let We the People demonstrate "flex."  It is borne of "Hands Across America," of mutual connections.  Your obscure racist collusion is as readily rejected by black Americans who have earned their community membership in the wider world of the Spirit of Revolution.  A steadfast venture into legitimate exchanges with Republicans would not only teach you the "American Way," but would strengthen and substantiate you for leadership.

As for those Tea Parties Hillary held as First Lady, we wonder what you know about Women, and how Jarrett could let you be comfortable emitting such a stupid crack, dismissing 52% plus of the Electorate.  We "dumped" you like Wikileaks: your exposed butt all over the map from Boston to Phoenix and everywhere in between.  Brewing, like stewing, takes time.  Steak, like you think of yourself, is flash.  When you're alone in your comfort zone, like Jack Sparrow, seeing your own face behind every answer to your "Why Me?" woes, I guarantee it'll be women who will redeem you.  They'll begin by inviting you to "TEA."  It won't be celebrated by Devlin and her ilk, I guess.  But even Hillary got her come-uppance for rejecting the cookie-baking world of How to Channel Exasperation With Your kids' fathers' "Dreams" without substance.

Getting Thrown Off The Freight Train

Lamar Alexander raises a point during the 112 Congress gear up about the fools of the outgoing majority needing "schooled" in the ways of Leading.  Watch and Learn, progressivess.  Your "We Won/We (W)rite the (W)rules."  In Session.  Here's how WE Work, Posers.  Cats in a Cooler: "No Surprises, Please."

Byrd's Poetic message all over the road in Arkansas, Filabuster be Sacred!  Don't change the Rules, change course, attitude, level of willingness to adhere to the Rules that permit everybody due process.  The Roolz Gangsta don't play by Rules.  They MAKE rules.  They had their opportunity and BLEW it.  God Save the Republican Traditionalists who stand firm in the face of those who would Rule Us rather than learn, "play by" and win according to our rules.

The words of outgoing Speaker Pelosi said it all:  Don't judge us by what we DO; We'll tell you what we did, regardless of what you see us do.  We have no grasp on Authority;  it's all about the symbols to us.  It simply doesn't do for the defeated Speaker to leave under the pretense that her "drain the swamp" 111th was all about reducing the deficit, pay-as-you-go, and chanting the mantra of spending control.  I don't love being taken for a fool, but I really take unkindly to Nancy Pelosi representing herself as a Class Act.  When she has the chance, she shows - not Class, but her -can't-tell-a-lie-even-when-she-tries-to ASS. 

Political Weight

The governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards yesterday. The governor, Salman Taseer, a senior member of the Pakistan People’s Party, backed changing the blasphemy laws. He was opposed by hardline Muslims because he appealed for the pardon of a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy.

Reynaldo Dagsa, 35, had been taking a picture of his family on New Year's Day when Michael Gonzales - whose arrest Dagsa had ordered for stealing cars - stepped out from behind a car, took aim and fired. The left-hand portion of the photograph, seen here, shows how the killer came from behind a parked car to take aim at the politician. The gunman, also known by the underworld name of Fubo of Fish Pond Area was arrested soon afterwards when the district councilor’s wife, daughter and another female relative handed the camera to police. Dagsa had also photographed his killer's accomplice, seen lurking in the background. The gunman's accomplice, Rommel Oliva, photo right, watches Gonzales taking aim, the muzzle of his pistol highlighted by the camera flash. The main suspect, car thief out on bail, took revenge against Dagsa for ordering his arrest last year. The Gun rules in most Philippines cities and not a day goes by without someone being shot dead. Hired assassins are also on the loose, usually riding as pillion riders on motor bikes, their faces covered by visors. They pull alongside a victim's car, shoot him – and then ride off into the thick traffic. Cameras!!! Take One. And……

The Presence of a Child Makes It A Felony Offense

“Michael has tremendous pedigree, having been mentored by some of the very best coaches in the game. Most importantly, Michael is a man of character and integrity and will be an inspirational leader for our football program.”

University of Pittsburgh Football Coach, Michael Haywood, hired just 2 weeks ago, was released New Years weekend after posting bond.  A dispute escalated to physical confrontation in the presence of their child prompting his domestic partner to file assault charges.  ESPN reporting on New Years' Day, challenged the Panthers' fans and Alumni with a "Walk the Talk" moment.

For Panther Alumni, spending the Holiday in the company of familly members, the firing of Haywood was a no-brainer. Women, and the Men who love, cherish and respect them, rejected another "athlete" who missed the focal point of controlling one's self.  For her part in the dispute, the child's mother chose to go to the police rather than be pushed around.  As the result of her choice, the income, status and future in the rare air of privilege vanished.  Blink! He's gone.  Pitt Women wield a rare veto power over violent football and basketball players.  The message, over years of "communicating their displeasure" with jock violence, is getting across: "Not Here!" On College Football's biggest day, announcement of the arrest caught everybody in a "tight spot." 

The headline flashed over the presence of our own kids running around, playing with new toys as Families gathered for New Years Day dinners.   Uhh,... "Ouch."  That won't play. 

Nothing is left to say: Steeler Fans having already sorted out the responsible choice.  It is with delicious irony that the coach in question was hired away from the very football program that produced Big Ben; Miami of Ohio.  For the NFL, feeder programs that complicate the relationship with their audience and fan base are an issue.   The League also fined James Harrison hundreds of thousands of dollars for excessive roughness.  The message from the "Kingdom" NFL seems to be one of self control, restraint and legitimacy of strength.  Know The Rules!!!

For me, this is the "Black Hand on the Wall" meets the "Writing on the Wall" for the crowd that has been making their own rules as they need them.  For all the half-wit, dominance-driven "not-there-yets" the message remains a nebulous, indecipherable mystery.  Still "mad for the power," they must first be removed from the posts they abuse. 

Like the Income-Driven NFL, the incoming Republicans have a handle on making money vs. deficit spending that strangles development.  Instead of sweeping it under the rug, blowing smoke up our skirts and laughing all the way to the bank, the Pitt Alumnae just said, "No."

Sure, there's pain for the jocks, bowl game promoters, recruits and those who make a living in the program.  We hope they will find the support and needed counseling to get through this none the worse for wear.  For the Democrats, the Legitimately Strong participants in governing; the same fate looms.


  
This is utterly personal for me.  While Mike Kelly represents Notre Dame Football and men getting ahead on the strength of their football reputations, I know that Mike Walks the Talk. His own Republican Party is a joke next to the treatment everybody receives at Kelly's Dealership.  I can attest to that fact in my own experience.  Is it more about the almighty "program?"  Or is it, perhaps, the values, friendships and loyalties acquired via membership in any of the myriad "feeder programs" that make us adults, caring providers and role models for our children?  (in other words, Good Business Practices.)

Once we know better, it falls to us to do the right thing.  My money's on this rural, small town but big league player who has sold cars to Republicans, Democrats, Independents and even those who don't vote.  I have never met Mike Kelly, I only know him from the people who have dealt with him.  I know him from the people who have worked for him.  I know him from his advertising, his customer-centered service and the people who greeted me, treated me with respect and friendliness when I visited his dealership to sell them something.  Courtesy and Consideration were what I experienced.  They gave me their time and showed me - without ever having to try - WHY their boss is a gentleman.  His 70 year old Office Manager and one of his salesmen were generous and upbeat, energetic and healthy.  Even during times of economic downturn elsewhere, the dealership is jumping, people are getting the deals they need to go on with their work/lives and nobody is shunned.

I visited his campaign headquarters and received, likewise, a respectful greeting, a prompt and pleasant follow-up and an invitation to come back.  I get NONE OF THIS from the democrats.  From the Democrats, I get rude, insufferable abuse.  I get unrelenting criticism, corrected by people who clearly don't know what they're doing, treated like a child brushed aside by hackers unqualified to judge me so.  I get unbelievable stretched-to-the-limit assertions of all the things Obama has accomplished.  I get nothing I can verify, document or confirm anywhere but in the minds of those pitching the illusion that Obama is competent.   My journalistic training tells me that not only is the Country on the wrong track, the Fourth Estate is - like the Sugar Loaf Ski Lift, off the pulleys, about to fall and drop our trusting butts 30 feet.  Watching the "Face The Nation" clip, I am stricken by how routinely Harry dismisses Michelle Bachmann.  I am also losing patience with Wasserman-Schultz who allowed the Voters of Florida to be cheated out of their votes to obtain a leadership position - as a progressive - in the party.

REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT MIKE KELLY: No I’m not. I’m not. I-- I’ve always paid for my own

health care, I mean, you know, I-- I come from a private-- private sector, okay. I’ve been-- in my

whole life I’ve been responsible for everything that I do. And I think we’ve these conversations

and I think this absolutely goes back to the Middle Ages, we’re worrying about how many angels we can fit in the head of a pin. We got to start look at these things. There is a cost with

everything involved. My early time here in this-- in this city is so different than where I come

from, because I live in a real world where people actually have to use their own money to pay

for things. So this idea that you can keep doing this or doing that and I love this fact that we are

going to pay for it, we are not paying for anything. Not we in Washington, the people-- the

American taxpayer pays for everything and that’s bothers me, there’s such a disconnect

between this town--

Lost Sunday

Unshakeable cold has grippe on me, yet I know if I can just drive myself to get up and going... but I need cough syrup, decongestant and rest.  Yesterday I thought it was allergies because I wasn't sick, but today, ick.

Lots of issues await the new Congress, our own work.  Tomorrow resumes the work year, and I go forward with the EYES-EARS of Angels.  Yammer & babble, disruption of daily life order and talking over each other preventing any progress towards middle ground. 

I get above it with forgiveness.  Taking higher ground to witness and accept, now the discipline evolves to eliminate negative emotions from my processing of information.  1-2-11 Accepting what is, realizing it, understanding.  For me the way people "work" is different from professional people with a shared company mission.  I get it.  Politics isn't about what's best for the Country; it's about what's in it for the political.  So move onjtu a working professional, forget about EVER getting results working with "the political people."

You cannot run the government like a business.  The Government is a "lid" to be kept on the crazies that prevent things from getting out of control.   But putting "controlling people" in government just triggers revolt: the thing we don't want.  All we ask of our elected officials is to preserve a mechanism by which we can persue redress when it is our conviction that we've been wronged. 

A business "makes money."  A business, if it is to thrive, invites interaction, promotes itself and desires to expand the numbers of those they serve.  A business, if it is legitimate, seeks to get production out of employees and employ only as many as are needed to serve that customer base.  Does that sound anything at all like what we have in Government?

Likewise Medicine & Health Care doesn't qualify as business.  Advances in medicine haave so extended our life expectancy that our "Government" cannot keep up with all our healthy, wise adults.  Aside from Defense, the only growth in the Economy is in the Medical Sector.  The Bank-Busting risk to financial stability is the health care to which we have access.  Both my husband and my son's father-in-law survived health issues that would have been unlikely twenty years ago. 

American Business needs to take the same approach to evolving technology to a level of practice that mirrors what we find today in Hospitals.  First class care with a mind to maximizing income opportunities.  Some move at a pace that blurrs to the eye of the average person.  Some work together seamlessly, selflessly and with the utmost skill and great attitude.  And some just roam around labarynth - like hospital halls collecting huge paychecks and doing nothing of substance, but nobody asks. 

Hummin' performing providers at the top, hackin' slackers at the middle and "customers" who cluelessly demand services at the bottom.  Still smoking?  Driving recklessly? Not eating right, getting exercise?

Belly up, boys.  We had the climate change O/C writers predicting our planet was freezing in the 70's.  Dire predictions and warnings about the economic clash were forecast as early as Spring of '07, yet when the Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, who could have known that the over-reaction would foster conditions that would prompt the taxpayers to fund bonus billions to the crooks who caused it? 

Do your best and trust that things will be good.  Police your immediate colleagues, stay alert to things that "seem out of place" and expect a great 2011.  Blender: the elements of all you can be are directly in front of you.  Take it in with positive expectancy and know that YOU are the process that makes it work, and you make it work WELL because you're great!

Gordon Gekko "Observes"

The Godfather movies seduced the gangsta wanna-be's with cinematic violence, dismissive treatment of Women and glorification of expediency.  For years, I was concerned that inner city black males glamorized the "White House" attitude of the moment.  The lesson of the "Trilogy" most wrenching in the cruelty with which Michael, his soul imprisoned by the choices made, decimated his once great family.


This morning, 1.1.11 - Winter Classic Day, I view a clip from "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps"  asserts to a "still doesn't get it" apostle who sells insurance, not credit default swaps, that it's like selling crack to kids. 

HOPE & CHANGE. 
Rock & Roll. 
Reckless Insubstantiality.

To the! crowd:  ! get !t, alreadyi

Admittedly, along the curve at a "traditional" pace, the cost consideration eludes the "fearless don't-know-no-betters"

but can they make awesome breakfast?  Bill Telepan, Chef On a Shoestring Champ, offers apple pancakes with ... get ready:  BACON MAPLE SYRUP WITH BUTTER ALREADY MELTED IN IT!