Sunday, March 28, 2010

Louisa's Mother

Beyond all the things we want for ourselves, are all those things we want for our children. When we arrive at the moment of recognition that we've not gone as far in life as we would have expected, and admitted that our mistakes limited our progress, the mothers in us vow to benefit from our lessons learned; that our kids make it when we could not.

Thus, in her determination to preserve her family, BJ reached out to the farthest corners of the universe with a Mother's anguish.  Criss/Crossing tangents of emotional connectedness, she touched us with a compelling question: "What Would I Do?"

 Voice of All, the Universe, resonnated John Lennon's
"Come Together, right now, over me."
Without consciously understanding it, we are each others' prayers answered. 

First bringing comfort, then distributing the pain to permit a sharing of suffering, letting others All Of Us, respond to her courage, her faith, her love for her daughter. 

When, in happier times, could Mama have brushed Louisa's hair, painted her toenails and hummed a tender theme of  gently comforting affection?  In their previous "lives" in each others' worlds, but not, they would have both been too busy.  They'd be thinking of each other, going about their respective days, jointly mourning the beloved Denise.  As Life would have it, however, DeeDee and Mikey, sibling presence within Louisa, folds together what has been the loss in that "world" with salvation in this: tenuous wisps of life together saved by the will to love and be loved.  A mother's decision to capture what they share, made sacred, celebrated...not what we would have chosen but what is. 

During my own darkest days, I kept a diary, wrote out my feelings and spilled emotion in a lonely noteook, handwritten entries that sometimes penned themselves as I watched my hand move the pen - detached and objectively reading that which had been written from another part of my being to my self in the misery of the moment.  Crazy?  Can't say for sure: but I learned that one comes back from crazy, caught at the last split second, by a network of caring friends who call, visit and comfort.  Then the path to crazy becomes a "known" we never re-visit.  Detached, Miserable goes onward ever, into that tangenital universe, like another color of light, blinking a warning more useful than the Big Bang.  Did We All see that?  And instantly, our focus is centered / advised / forewarned.  Making it right is our only desire.

By the Divinity Within, we are all together, processing away the suffering, noting the breeze of Spring lightening our hearts and rejoicing as though we, too, post a bit of ourselves on vigil in the nursing home, to sustain our Sister, Betty Jean, in the only thing that truly matters, Louisa's choice to live. 

Monday, March 22, 2010

So: They Passed their Gas Bag Bill, now they want paid

I have already this morning, received emails from the Idiot OAF machine and Dahlkemper who ended up tossing Right To Life Language overboard with Stupak and voted with the pricks of the Democratic Party. They couldn't just knife the country like thugs, they had to trot out the claim of racist epithets and gay bashers in the crowd of Tea Party demonstrators driven crazy by their deliberate demonstration of ignoring them (except as it could serve them to play their race-gay baiting martyrdom.) This appeal for campaign money simultaneously spun with bogus self-congratulations for passing this health care bill their constituents passionately rejected is a difficult one to endure. The Democrats were incapable of bringing substance to the debate, supported the President who, on the one hand, taunted the Republicans for their past failures then on the other hand poked a stick in their faces with each attempt to elevate the discourse to a here and now level in response to the voters.

I want women to take up their rightful place in representing the people. I recognize that Kathy Dahlkemper voted for this bill as a concession to the Women-hating DNC, now headed by Obama, Plouff and Axlerod, and
I regret that something as principled as The Right To Life demurrer was dealt away like yet another piece of booty the Chicago Mob owns.
Kathy truly let me down. I am represented by Altmire in the 4th,who did stay true to his principles. I had told him to his face that I did not vote for him in 2008 because of his endorsement of Obama - abusing the Super Delegate vote of a district that chose Clinton by 40% for a $12,000.00 PAC contribution. By my account, the Congressman OWED me redress. His NO vote on this health care bill reconciles his account with me. My UNDERVOTE was simply a Pass over Altmire's name on a ballot which I cast as a conscientious citizen.

My dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party grows by the moment as crude, political tactics are rewarded by the complicit obsequiousness of Women. We elected Democrats to bring about a change from partisan political rhetoric concealing back room deals, eleventh hour muscle and disgusting accusations of race discrimination. Dahlkemper's YES vote constituted "looking the other way" while permitting her innocent constituents to be victimized once again.

Her fundraisers may write all the lofty assurances they think we want to hear about not being driven by fear, but the TRUTH is, the fear of the Administration being exposed as incompetent, objectionable and divisive drove the House vote. Covering the corrupt ass of Barack Hussein Obama - NOT the Health Care Rights of the Citizens, was the stink put on even the most admirable women of the party,even as Women's rightful place in the Democratic Party is diminished as a matter of policy borne out by male-entitlement practices. The results speak for themselves.

I spent weeks trudging in the snow, enduring outright rejection of Democrats who refused to sign my nominating petitions. I dodged eight foot icicles poised to split my skull as I stood on doorsteps in Butler County. I shoveled out of driveways to get my car out of ice and snow, dislocated my back and neck nearly falling or slipping on ice numerous times. I paid for the gas and mileage to drive to the voters with my own money; my husband drove 40 miles several times each week to chop wood for the wood burner. There was no money for heating oil, Christmas, or recreation.

NO MORE!!!
Enough with the lofty speeches to cover for the cowardice.
Obama and his Men of Dishonor must pay this price, not me!!!

Kathy's re-election campaign could respectfully be supported by Republicans, Independents and Democrats to recognize her honor, integrity, and courage. It took no courage to bend to the ego trip Obama is on.

In order to earn a second term, this Congress Woman must now produce something of equally solid value to prove to her constituents that she can find the center and restore balance to her district, as Altmire has been doing. If, indeed, she believed in her vote, she needs to get out there and explain it to anybody who will listen. This "morning after" appeal for campaign contributions to help her face the opposition is like a laser shot to my optic nerve. We ALL KNOW money was thrown around in every direction to force this square peg through a round hole. An elementary test of serving the will of the people was failed.

I learned in Atlanta, on my skates in the streets and parks: level the hill. The exhaustive effort and resources demanded to get as far as we'd gotten trying to make this an honest Administration must now be spent all over again just to get back to this point before we can pull together and get it done right. Who needs it? I don't worship basketball players the way the guys do. To me, a pivot is still them playing their game while real people pay for the testosterone trip. I am disgusted that Kathy bought into the Party Putsch without getting a fair concession for the Women of the Party. She represents the district; All the citizens. But as the one Woman Representative from Western Pennsylvania in D.C., she is also burdened with the duty of Party Leadership in behalf of the Women whose contributions and votes are being squandered. If you thought the Women of the Democratic Party are on board with this administration, you are mis-led. They voted for Republican Women rather than reward the dishonor of the men of the democratic party. Kathy needs to caucus with the Women of the party. Not the Women of Color, not the Liberal Women, not the LGBT Women, the WOMEN who are unwilling to behave selfishly to get theirs at the expense of the ALL, the WOMEN who refuse to wink at the cheaters while their children are scandalized, violated and neglected. Mrs. Dahlkemper KNOWS that Women have worthy input to offer, reasonable solutions that they can actually implement and police, STANDARDS we can respect, support and enforce.

She would do well to dump this parasitic appeal for money which is a micro of the scandalous behavior of the endless campaign of the obama administration. The Women and decent citizens have just watched a Bacchanal of sleaze by a guy with some of the biggest ears on the planet making a career of refusing to listen to anybody but his sycophantic insiders while he churns for cash constantly. He's even replaced the American Flag and the Insignia of the President of the United States with that bullshit logo.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The PROGRESSIVE SCHOOL OF PUSH-BACK

Ladies' Luncheon "Look Out Loretta!"  We've all attended them: the social gathering of girls who hate each other and need to purge those negative energies. 
We've gotta stay pretty, Coach. 
OK, we showed some ugly face when the O Brats gave us lip on the campaign trail.  My son would NEVER address me with such impudence, and I don't know about how the rest of you raised your children, but both mine are under control.  (at a price, I assure you we just don't get together until we get back to pretty)  It's the sons of the others of you I need to call out.   How could they be so separated from their home energies that they could doubt the essential goodness of this society.  Instead, they want to just toss it out with the old folks and start all over with something that makes it easy for them to succeed.  Are they discovering that a win at the expense of the rest is not a win"   ....Is not a winning way? 
So the Ladies gather to recognize the Courage of those who faced and fared strong in behalf of what was right.  Showing uncharacteristic Grace, Michelle Obama greets the group with acquired respect for the better way.  Be nice to the old girls: they've got "Push Back" you won't see coming til it knocks you off your pedestal.   Defense is a constantly layering project.  Never rest: never take any defender lightly.  Kids.  Women, geeks and other Americans of standing participate in the game.  As a free country, we let all comers in at some level, but our survival instincts condition us to structure access to our true powers.  Navigating the Paths to Power is a game of Tickle Bee.  Your bug moves along the corridors of the maze guided by your magnetic leverage.  In the "game" which is truly a Board Game for the Bored, ages 3 and up, you hold a WAND tipped with a magnet.  You play along with a screen that poses as the Scene, but is really designed to conceal the true paths.  Here we see flowers, streams and walkways painted on the screen.  Try to take your "Beta Unit" along that path, however: and you get Stung!  Remember "The Sting," the Redford-Newman fun fest set to Joplin Rag Time?  One Sting is never enough.  The venom pumps.  The predator repeats the attack like an electrocutioner, until the circuit is broken.  The Prey is held captive.  Thus the Alpha Unit, Massa, turns 50 and burns learning - taught the maze through painful, expensive experience.  The pain is shared through the magnet in a fashion not unlike the sensation in the wii control when your Mario dies falling off the path.  The creators of the GAME call it tickle, but we know it to be the complete take-over of Choice, sprinkled with some MOB Justice and a lot of pain for everybody connected in the TAKE DOWN.  Thus is the programming world of Defense. 

Ben Roethlesberger is OFFENSE.                                                          Dick LaBeau is an OLD Player.  Trench Warfare-wisened Hall of Famer from his playing days, silver and "Honolulu" Blue,  44's Defensive Schemes have inspired NFL and ESPN alike.  "Tickle the Old Guy if you can." say the Linemen.  In this game, there's a game you BELIEVE you're playing, a game in which you get caught, shot and plastered all over FaceBook, and a game of Survivor where your alliances can prove to be allied elsewhere at Tribal Council.  Many, many games all going on simultaneously.  What does it take to make it to the House and over the Goal Line and Survive to the end?  FRIENDS.  True, always-there-for-you friends.  People whose personal happiness, security and survival are directly tied to yours.  Success, for friends, is getting through the toughest times together.  Power is what we feel when we shake each others' hands over a Ladies' and Gentleman's agreement.  Oneness with the All, The Grace of the best within us coming together in the interest of making life worth living.  As kids in the 50's, threatened by nuclear extinction, we braced for fall-out in underground shelters.  What actually got us were those pesky asbestos tiles in our ceilings.  Who knew?  

Trust in the hand holding the magnet and live as though the power can be switched onto that magnet at any time.  Detached and seemingly "defeated,"
"Senator Clinton; er, Secretary Clinton...I almost said: "President Clinton :)" admitted Michelle.
  What went unspoken was the recognition of Hillary, a profile in Courage, who let the Push Boys dispose of her in favor of a young Lion touted for his leadership, and went into the maze to experience sting after sting after sting until she knew the ropes.  We of the P.U.M.A. were there with her for every one of them, absorbing and chanelling the pain while evaluating the threat.  We of Goal Line Stand play our super bowl where the action really is: at the luncheon.  We graciously hear our "First" Lady acknowledge our Former First Lady as President.  And that says "Peace."   Who'se really #44?  It's enough to know the Secret of Service to the Country. 

Back in the days when "Ozzie and Harriet" and "Leave it to Beaver" were all the rage, a little bee found its way into the mainstream and took the toy world by storm. Now, the buzz is that the bee is back!

Simple, yet challenging, the object of the game is to maneuver the magnetic bee around the plastic maze until it returns to the honeycomb. Using a magnetic wand, the child (or, adult for that matter) "tickles" the bee ... moving it in any direction. Look out though! If you get too close you might get stung. Get stung 3 times and you're out. 
http://www.boardgames.com/ticklebee.html

Monday, February 15, 2010

Bayh, Bayh Baby

"There is too much partisanship and not enough progress -- too much narrow ideology and not enough practical problem-solving,"   

His heart's just not in it.  And all that party discipline cannot cover up the reality for men of principle.

"...why Democrats are going to keep winning. (Two words: young people.) In short, the Republicans are going to keep getting spanked again and again for forty more years because we're right and they're wrong, and Americans know it."                        wrote James Carville following the 2008 Election. 

To parrot the girls on the blog pages:  ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, hee, hee, ho! Ho! Ho! hiccup.  tears in my eyes, and laughing so hard I can only nod and say, "Amen."  That Obama Train full of kids who get out the vote can sure deliver!  Did James remember to put the sign on his bank account before he doled out that advice?  Eek!  And to think we shed even one tear that these political genii so enjoyed their inaugural celebrations. 
Last Laffers Last Long and Love.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

PREDATOR

A "layer" in the People Parfait; the Predator is closely attached to the Prey.  Pradators of the Lending Practice Species have consumed the foolish home-buying dreamers.  Until time and interest claimed them, the Predators' hunted were abundant and blind to the true identity of their exploiters.

They were primed by the carefully cultivated "Trust" in House and Senate Banking Committee Chairs, their regulatory agents, in the SEC, in the long-revered houses like Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch:  unable to even process the idea that the contract into which they entered was - by definition - their demise.

...Alway a bigger dawg.  The Predators of the Lending Species, now flush with bonus money, dominate campaign fundraising, spawn natural enemies,   keep up appearances and with the Joneses and hide in Congress. They enter their own version of the Arms Race, matching dares, out-witting the cunning cheats poised to eat them alive for the slightest mistake, surviving - just barely - in a dog-eat-dog, "Trust Nobody" scheme to find fresh turf, virgin voters and property buyers.  We of the PUMA cult warned; the top three recipients of Wall Street Campaign contributions were Christopher Dodd, Barney Frank and Barack H. Obama.  Oh, Oprah, the molested-as-a-child Mogul, opened a school for African Girls and who moves in?  PREDATORS.  She became one of the richest people on earth.  No predation there.  What Woman wouldn't trust such a success purist to pick her President for her?  She of the Trinity United Church of Christ,
http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2002/april1/1.38.html 
What the Oprah phenomenon also shows, though, is that this brand of spirituality is ultimately unsatisfying. Perhaps the most telling thing about Oprah's role as a spiritual leader to the seeking masses is that she herself is such an ambitious seeker. Indeed, the smorgasbord of religions and ideas that make up her belief system suggest that she still has not found what she's looking for.

Soon there'll be none left to eat but each other.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Headin' To Gobblers' Knob

Cameras up, Budget Comment...Mr. Progressive
1.  Glares / Bristles at the mention of "Triple the National Debt"
2.  Looks away, then down, nods condescendingly
3.  Shakes his head "no"
4.  Nods in communion to the EGO within
5.  Holds his nose!
6.  Interrupts impatiently to "Just Gotta take this last question as an example..."
7.  "...with all due respect" of how (for HIM) it's very hard to have the kind of bipartisan work that we're gonna do."  




...no ideas and no solutions, in spite of the fact...(interrupt) to correct the questioner about what he didn't think he said, what he said was within the context of healthcare.. "I...I...I...I remember that speech pretty well, it was only two days ago...
" 
precisely the kind of detailed legislation that Speaker Pelosi and your Administration have been busy ingoring for twelve months..."Now, hold on ... No, No, No, No ..."

 
(background applause for the Republican assertiveness)  We know that we have offered these solutions and yet hear from the Administration that we have offered nothing...again, interrupting .."I'm spinning using this as a specefic example, so, let me answer your question, you asked a question; I want to answer it."

  
... and my question is... "Jim:"  (he interrupts, again,) I know there's a question in there somewhere, cause you're making a whole bunch of assertions, half of which I disagree with."... and I'm having to sit here LISTENING to 'em!....
That has always been the essence of it, really...What? Me Listen? 

Thursday, January 28, 2010

You Just Can't Say It Better....WE'RE the Boss, He's just Ross.

http://usgovinfo.about.com/blquotes3.htm

Ross Perot: Now, just hold on a second! I've got ears! I'm all ears, and I'm gonna 
listen!
You're the BOSS, and I'm just Ross.
Now, do you like the ears better up?     ...or down?
or just flapping in the wind like a fiddled daisy?
I'm listening.
What do YOU want?
What do you WANT?
Do You want to hear another great speech?
Do You want to hear yet another pundit gush over a great speech? 
Or, maybe, you want to be heard, heeded and -
In a State Of The Union Address -  you want to hear what this Administration HAS DELIVERED while On The CLOCK for a year! 
HERE'S ANOTHER GREAT IDEA BY THE PROGRESSIVE PERSONIFICATION OF PULLIN' THE WOOL: Bring back the Primary Campaign MATH GENIUS, Plouf.  Just returned to the trail after taking some top priority time to write his book of 'Superlatives'
... 
Punch Out, Pauncho.  Bring in some RESULTS we can believe in. 
Enough with the PIVOT, LeBraun wannaa-be...grow up and get in your own game:  there's a shot clock on you... is anybody in there watching it?  Do any Officials know the "delay of game" penalty?  This isn't half-court Recreation League.  This is the Business of the United States of America and it's PEOPLE. There's a Visitor fixin' to SCORE on your bogus bamboozle.  When they force a turnover in YOUR League, how is it they still let you have the ball?   

Monday, January 25, 2010

Gibbs On Fox

So; the Whitehouse discovers the cable news outlet that delivers more viewers than all others combined, ceases to cite Fox News as the enemy of the Annointed One, and participates in the Sunday News interview programs complete cycle for the first time in the year in office....


Not only have they learned nothing from their outrageous manipulation of public opinion with a deliberate slant of the news via their paid pretenders of the Press Corpse, they are defending it.

Wait for it, y'all;  the State of the Union speech will make you forget all about the job you lost, the 401-K in the tank, the incompetence and lack of dot connecting on national security,...proving EVERYTHING they promised is fools' gold.

Friday, January 22, 2010

My Way or the Rocky Mountain High Way

There we were, in conference at 10:00 p.m. on 08-08-08...Olympics Fireworks Opened in China, PUMA's convened in Virginia and John Edwards was "Pants On the Ground" Look'n like a fool. Right after he sank Hillary's battleship.

The OBOTS had all the answers, the judgement, the MATH on their side...so they copped the nomination and "Bought" the election....that was some Historical Inaugural, though, wasn't it?

In one year, the BOYZ go from the Rocky Mountain "High" Way 
to Joe
Dirt
Roadies... 
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/joedirt/rockymountainway.htm

Way Is better than the way we had (remember the toga party in Denver?  Seems like we had it all then...what happened?)
Spent the last year ... Couldn't get much higher ...  Think it's safe to say:  "Time to open fire..."

And we don't need the ladies ... Crying 'cuz the storie's sad ... Well he's tellin' us this ... And he's tellin' us that ... Changes it every day ... Say's it doesn't matter.    Bases are loaded and Casey's at bat , Playin' it play by play ,  Time to change the batter ...

O; HI! O He noticed you!!!  He's coming to make another speech, just for you.  As always, he's incapable of LISTENING TO YOU!!!

(And we don't need the ladies)  Senator Specter is a Democrat Now.  We just need to act like ladies.

DISASTER RECOVERY - CALLING ALL EXPERTS

The Russian Fleet includes the world's largest plane:  it's a

wait for it:  WATER BOMBER! 

We're letting it land in Florida prior to it going on releif effort mission to Haiti.  That's Beating the Sword Into A Plow Share if I ever saw it.  Well Done, Medved!

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Survivor Haiti

Urgent!


  
Calling ALL  Survivor fans, refugees from summer re-runs, and wanna-be's, students of human behavior/ group psychology / team-building and "Other-siders."   We posess, among us, the coaching skills and insight to support the relief effort in the earthquake-ravaged Haiti.  Together, we maintain the memory files of a decade of shuffling, cheering and learning vicariously from the gamers who spent 39 days on the side of the island sealed off from the natives - except for Reward Visits. 

Those of us who tuned in for episodes where sixteen or so contestants were dropped onto a remote island with little more than their instincts, character and wit have seen what winning looks like and how losers lose. Here's a "REALITY" project for younz: The prize isn't a million dollars: the winners are those who actually survive and those who help the dysfunctional, poor island nation deal with the immediate challenges and pull together a working strategic plan from grassroots "contributions" of mind over matter.  Some of us have no phones from which to text our ten dollars: but we can get involved as seasoned planners and project managers to participate in the most important early phases:  Restoring order, establishing shelter and coordinating essential services.
HAJTI


What is it Jeff Probst offers them first?  FIRE.

Or not:  tell me what the priority should be.

Shelter, latrines, nutrition, communication with producers and

... oh, yeah:  the camera crews.  We can share the footage.  Some 24/7 cable shows are going for the tragedy or the "send money" format while others endeavor to preserve balance with something for those who are just unable to watch more than a few moments of the heartbreaking footage.  Our instincts are to help, but how?  Some care deeply, yet face their own crises and can only lend a contemplative heart.  Challenges for those who've lost or can not yet connect with loved ones bring focus from around the world. 

For once: the mission is Peace Through Connectivity:  Some of us are touched instantly.  We become the first responders with our Prayers, Faith and Spiritual Networking.  Together we can sustain the despairing, comfort the suffering, assist the searching, and reassure the panicking.


Let your Survival Instincts kick in.  What comes first?  Shuffle into teams.   +  Each of you carries a thread of connectivity to all of mankind +  Those of you who only know "Man Unkind" might suspend the rules of your game for the moment and psychically trade places with rescue workers, logistic servers and recovery operators.  Your underwold familiarities are an asset in this endeavor, as you are readily equipped to think like Machiavellians inclined to exploit  the unfortunate.  Kieth Olbermann, going for the ratings with a judgemental take on the competition's coverage is neither helpful nor demonstrative of your superior view.  We're all here to help: whatever that takes.  Leave your self-interest at the gate:  There are no losers.  Win Winners Only.  Bring it all to the table and arrive there at your best pace.  The Chutes are set up to direct traffic in an orderly fashion to prevent bottle-necking or impede the distribution of aid.  Finish Line people, Human Directionals, Security, Check Point People, SAG units, ... the idea here is not to DIVIDE into teams, but - rather - to magnetize into balance-evolving platforms that function at the amoeba level.  Be what is needed, interface senses.  Adapt, Invent.  NASA tight inventory of what has survived the quake   
http://www.biddytarot.com/card.php?id=34&name=Five%20of%20Cups

Vulcans:  control emotions.  Process and redistribute.  Do no harm.  Preserve Balance.  On Deck:  NFL Kickers, Special Teams Players and Coaches.  Your Special Services are in demand.  Those of you who can give up your Green Beret, Medal of Honor, Patches, Stripes or Lapel Pins, please see the Coordinator of Volunteers Recognition.  Scribes:  access Notation Programs as available.  Record Contributions via Scanners.  As your replacements are sent in; imprint / implant ID Bar Codes.  Maintenance:   Stay on that Finish Line Job...Keep Moving...Those of you who require megaphones, see the Sulahi woman in that magnificent dress.  She's in charge of Speakers.  For the players who are adelpt at eye contact or listening for signals of life: please join the dogs in the ear pen.  We can asess your tune perception and assign you accordingly......9 Wands
Bear with me, one moment, please:
Hollywood is requesting that I change channels for a break-in.
http://www.angelpaths.com/wands/wands9.html
 They bring re-inforcements. 
Nobody special.  Celebrity Watchers: tune into MSNBC for the glamor coverage.  We need this channel for The Factor's Auditors.  Thanks for yielding.  You'll be re-assigned as soon as you can be sorted into your pods.  Circles of Contributors are filling pretty quickly, but we could use fresh hands and hearts to inventory what's on the ground and make separate segments for anything that might be recycled for deployment as shelter or morgue.

Thank you ALL for responding.  Experience has taught me that you will naturally coalesce into functional units with the joint mission to protect and perform as needed.  Please alternate with your replacements as you are contacted.  We'll smooth out the batan-pass as we get up to speed.
 "Let's Roll!"

Saturday, January 9, 2010

From Sister S&Y

SMART ASS
>
>
> Two businessmen in Florida were sitting down for a break in their
> soon-to-be new store.
> As yet, the store wasn't ready, with only a few shelves set up.
> One said to the other, "I bet any minute now some senior is going to
> walk by, put his face to
> the window, and ask what we're selling."
>
> No sooner were the words out of his mouth when, sure enough, a
> curious senior walked to the
> window, had a peek, and in a soft voice asked, "What are you sellin'
> here?"
>
> One of the men replied sarcastically, "We're selling ass-holes."
>
> Without skipping a beat, the old timer said, "You're doing well.
> Only two left."
>
>
> Seniors -- don't mess with them!

Friday, January 8, 2010

Put Me In, Coach

This came from my baby sister, Claire 8)(my orphan annie emoticon)

Thought you'd like to know this piece of baseball history. This is profound.
A LITTLE KNOWN BASEBALL FACT:
The first testicular guard (Cup) was used in baseball in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1934..

It took 60 years for men to realize that the brain is also important.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Are They All Just Pumped Up On Viagra?



Rush Limbo and all the Pelosi People out in Hawaii.....hey, I think I know what's gotten those Iraqi and Nigerian trainees so strung out...that sales pitch they give them about the 21 Virgins awaiting them in heaven... the vacation in paradise at the taxpayers' expense "covered" by the Journalist/ Voice of the Republican Party... Um, Limbaugh's "date" was getting her nails done at the spa when he called (check out aol.'s articles of today, January 7, 2010) me thinks that warn't no heart attack Rushin him to 911 but rather an erection lasting more than four hours... Arnie, "the Pumped Up" want's Nebraska's Health Care Deal, ...O's hand on Michelle's backside ascending the stairs to AF-1 truncating the vacation,... could we persuade Pfizer to spread the wealth any further? Oh, and remember, women who are pregnant (already) should not take or even handle the little blue diamond.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

There's a difference between Insurance and Business

Medicine isn't Business. 

Government isn't Business.

The Myrmidons loved the heel.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Senate $ in a pile


The boyz in the Senate no longer benefit from the presence of Hillary Clinton.  Today, with a mere eight days remaining in 2009, they shoot the coop; AWOL Jim Bunning, (R) Kentucky, goes home for the Holidays to be with his family.  Major League.  When this card, symbolizing Family Connections, is inverted, EYE SEE the sheepish grin of a chicken shit loser who sells out his own mother for a worldly gain.  Walter - 1st spouse - always gave me that face when he broke a promise to me and expected me to just take it in stride.  Trust.  Integrity.  Selfish prick.  Kentucky is all about this vibe...sell it.  Get yours before anybody else, then forget you owe them.
                                                                                                                                 

That's a track we needn't go 'round again.  It's Christmas Eve.  Medicare Advantages.  Physician Owned health care insurance.   Citibank repays bail-out, bonuses its Boyz... see the Cheshire grin, Alice?      He don't mean nothin' disrespectful, ...  He knows EWE.                                                                                                                                                 

..........................................................................................................................................won't kick his ass.  He'll be sellin' tobacco and whiskey for the New Year's Eve party but can't collect in time for making Christmas for the kids.   So, you know, Mountain Mama:     cover for him and let the Boyz be boyz.  Poverty ain't an accident.    Here's a noogie for Ewel  
hey, BABE.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

What's Left of the Roaches is Spinning to the Raid

Michaele and Tareq Salahi completed the challenge to Secret Service Wii with a platform that showcased a magnificent dress. India's diplomatic mission, State Dinner Debut, surprises reigning D.C. Dawgs with dazzling ringer.

Kids: Thanks to you, Chelsea can get married, Windows can go 7 Up and every one of you, born since we landed on the Moon, can turn 40 and pass the Lamp.


Good Game

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Vogue V. SNL

Still cracking up over the SNL skits - Press Conference in China / 2012.  We're feeling like Pennsylvanians driving our cars up our hills after first rocking them out of the snow drifts.  (It's coming, Oh, Yeah.)  What began as a movement for Womens' Rights has finally levelled onto the plane of balanced forward momentum.  Women's exercises for the strength and flexibility to carry themselves with the poise, dignity and confidance those rights empower.  You can't "hide your stuff."  When you haven't got it, the handicappers see it.

A nice balance is - as I learned on my skates - a force in itself.  After weeks of getting out there and try, try, trying to stay up on them, my reward was crossing the threshhold of the "Limelight" on Piedmont and feeling my spine flex to hold me upright when a momentary mis-step almost levelled me. 

Ah! Epiphany.  The
Work!
                                                                        Work!
Work!                                                                      
...of Madonna Mixes for extended aerobic effort and learning the pacing and endurance required to develop my skills.  I had arrived at the first plateau of the infinite upward hill climb.  Onward, Ever!

Days later, crossing Piedmont Park enroute to the Skate Escape, a slight waver of my center of balance wreaked a sideways sway that, again, snapped me into upright and then ....  whoosh!  I was moving forward effortlessly at the next speed.  It was a "gear" dropped by angels into my backbone and I went from Ice Cream Truck Driver (If you can't find 'em; grind 'em.) to Sally Ride smoothly maneuvering a space craft.

Getting enough of us up to speed eventually - and inevitably - forces us forward via sheer know how.  Read the history of American Patents and see for yourself how many of our greatest inventions were processed through the unique working system of female inventors.  They don't call "Necessity" MOTHER without respect.  Those of us attending the birth of women into gender equity can take a long view 3 Wands

Each of us is an unique, multi-level processing system through whom the divinity within expresses our best.  Take a moment for yourself and 4 Swords redistribute the competing forces.  Celebrate Thanksgiving with those you love.   As you give thanks for all your blessings, remember your Sisters, especially the Burka-Wearing Middle Eastern ones, who are penetrating the mystique in their own special systematic way.  Page (Daughter) of Pentacles

Hagall spread  as chosen via ISIS Significant, and the Three Fates Simplified by the Magician ...  Look at that center card long enough 10 Cups, Reversed and you'll see what Castaneda teaches us to see in the UN:  the adult's heads are EYES and the bowed cup array is a sheepish grin.  They COULD have been gentlemen and shown us their class....instead they chose to slide and expected us not to notice.  What's special about women?

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Daughters / Doubters

Next week when President Obama is in China he’s going to hold a “town-hall” meeting with Chinese citizens. Their first question for Obama is expected to be, “Why would anyone have two daughters?”

...   and feigning disinterest.  Boring as per Carol and CNN... as always, mean girls doing what they do.  Hootie, Tootie, (with the lib-elite accent) "13 of 400 some pages devoted to substance."  The women thing and those of us who related to Hillary recognize it:  that second "X" in the DNA having a girls' night.  Do you preserve your dignity, or do you "blend?"  WASP-reared Obama is so much more their speed.

But it's votes, friends.  The Quakers call their wives "Daughter." and embrace all aspects of the Male/Female relationship.  Cultural.  OK, they don't get Alaskans.  They probably don't hunt (except Karen Hughes & Company ridiculing John Kerry resplendent in Mossy Oak) and they certainly don't "CAMP" as do more Americans than all spectator sports combined.  

Let them.  Oprah and company focus on the "Dallas" stuff: fashion, money, jealousy-driven crime... Charlie's Angels stars blew a gasket when Farrah showed up in designer-fitting jeans while they were wearing 'wardrobe' so.... "Who's prettier:  Vanity or Aphrodite?"  Prince fans will remember the competition for "The Artist's" libido...and the radio rock jocks came clean:  "What IS this?  The guy's five feet tall and he's getting laid right and left?  And the women are lining up?

And Gayle.  Oprah, thanks for treating her like another girl,  Barbara: bring on the View.


Thursday, October 22, 2009

Oops! My Bad...Chicken WASTE. (Thank you Terry McAuliff, for your dignified style)

The Baseball fan in me over-took the political reflector, briefly.  But this morning's MoJo revisited "Gov. Terry" and his campaign innovation centered on turning the polution that ravages the Chesapeak into the fuel to power the light in Virginia homes. .  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D14s42rL4UM&

On the same segment, Mika lent a woman's voice of support to Savannah Guthrie for stepping up during her one-on-one interview by calling out the President on his basketball game / networking opportunity with a Boys' Only Night at the White House.  In the words of ObaMAO's Foreign Policy advisor's daughter, The Campaign staff was invited to play B-Ball with the MSNBC morning crew - and inasmuch as THAT game has yet to hit the court, Brzynski concludes:  "They're Scared."

It's that Beat the Girl thing...and we are getting another whiff of Chicago Street Thug style of how the President's MEN "play the game." 
  1. WE Won, WE'LL Call the tune.
  2. Women, as we demonstrated in the Primaries and post VP announcement, just can't play.
  3. Don't be lookin' for Gentlemen around here.  We're Professional GUYS.
  4. Pay Attention, XX's: we'll let you suggest the rules, but look out for the FOWLERS...we have every intention of playing our strengths - cutting you out prior to the National Anthem - whatever it takes.  Expect the males of this country to join ranks.  On this matter; we are fearless, because we'll bet the White House that women WON'T.
The Boys of Fannie Mae, Goldman Sachs, the inner city... SOME women in this country legitimately FIND WAYS to survive financially.  They trace their paper, monitor accounts and find creeps like Charlie Rangle and OMG! John Edwards, hiding out in the macho.

Arrogance & Cozy.  The late Anna Nichole Smith said it best:  "Freakin' Genius."  about a jerk who proceeded to step on a Grammy Winner's acceptance.  Class.  The "Women's Nation" series on the Morning Joe show takes a drawlin' view of the Shriver Report.  ... when the discussion doesn't degenerate into a man's joke, I'll view the clips. 

Expect the hit.  Prepare to field it.  Don't look for sisters to defend you.  My experience has taught me that the Gay Men will be there for you first.  Only in the prospect of being thus shown up, will the Guys get it. 


Boys Club
... really means the instrument by which the beat-down is issued. WHO'S the Barracuda? Tip Off...Let Women on the White House Basketball court and Rogue gets her shot. I'll sell tickets, advertising and T Shirts. C'mon. http://sarahbarracuda.com/

Wiki Pootie says she 'earned her nickname for her competitive streak' and in the next sentence, notes she went to college to major in communications and become a sportscaster.  Again, experience competing straight up with men teaches things you won't learn in the typing pool.  Word to yer sista;  let a winner show you how to beat these guys ... or is that what yer scaird of?
November 16: Oprah entertains the Author of "Going Rogue" and the EYES of Womankind will be scrutinizing how the South Carolina Swing follows up chin music with "Sorry, Charlie." Oprah and Sarah can, maybe, run together before the show (does Oprah still run?) and size each other up...(I think I just 'got" what that expression really means!)

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Sisters: He EARNED It!


Woke up Friday morning and the TV was replaying the previous evening's O'Reilly Factor on Fox. Bill-O had queued up the story of what BO the pup did on AF-1. I was just "waking up" when Brian Kilmead of Fox & Friends broke in a few minutes early to announce that President Obama had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.




The universal response, - it became evident almost immediately, - was:

"For WHAT?"



I had to get up and crank the coffee, grab the remote and check in with Morning Joe to get the View from the Cheerleaders. Scarboro and Mark Halpern were comparing it to Marissa Tomei winning the Oscar for My Cousin Vinnie. Joe made the point that Tomei had done far more to earn the Oscar, guaranteed.



I looked up the design of the prize and can attest, for the doubters, that President Obama did, indeed, win the Peace Prize as it was intended by Alfred Nobel.



DLS commented over at the Moderate Voice, "...As to the American people, as I've written, this Prize was mis-directed; given the actual timing of the decision, the American Voter should be the recipient, for voting a black American into the Presidency (the relevent question to the feminists now being, Would the award be given if Hillary Clinton has been elected, instead, or is Obama personality cult and idolatry too much in effect here, too?). As I also have written, it's still not too late for Time Lite to select the US Voter as "Person of the Year" to properly honor him and her."



(Especially those of us who saw our votes dismissed in June, 2008.) The really important contribution made by Barack Hussein Obama, is to let men all over the world sleep nights for keeping the uppity women out of the Oval one more time.



The reverse shows three naked men embracing one another - a symbol of the international fraternization that Nobel wished to contribute to through the Peace Prize.



Maybe the "brothers" took the brotherhood thing too literally, or maybe the sisters have just found another speedbump on the road to the Whitehouse. I'm nothing if not a good sport, and the "Winner" in me responded the way I'd like to be received if such a prize were "handed to me." OK, is this their way of telling us: "Be Careful What You Wish For?" Life teaches us all that it is real Challenge, Adversity and Proving Ourselves that brings out the greatness in each of us. He'll need our support if he's going to do us proud after this. Funny, all the calls for School Kids and bold progressives to 'help President Obama' didn't strike me as my patriotic duty as much as this. He REALLY needs all the help he can get. Our job as citizen-journalists is to challenge him respectfully, to cheer him on through all adversity and when he proves himself, be the first to give credit where credit is due. Patriots: let us affirm that the Job, here, will truly make The MAN. Humbling has that effect. Carrying that "seal" around will process all the lightweight ore outta him and make a gentleman of him. (I bet he keeps a chatroom to Bill Clinton always on that blackberry.)





You go, guys!

Monday, September 28, 2009

Can O's pitch score 2-fer: Olympic Nod & Passage of ERA?

Illinois remains among states that have failed to ratify ERA.
Click here: Political Status


Both Oprah and Obama are pushing Chicago for the Olympics. Connect Title IX, which has made it possible for US Women to win their share of gold, and patriotism.

States like Georgia and Utah, where recent Olympic gold has been mined, proudly stand with Illinois in the rejection of equal rights for their female citizens.

The President announced today that he will tag along with the Mrs, Winfrey and tear-jerkers to Sweden for the IOC presentation.
Click here: Michelle Obama's Olympic bid: Kleenex: The Swamp

There is a sort of Connection / Disconnection here. If the possible passage of the Equal Rights Amendment were tied to the Olympic Sponsorships, might the Land of Lincoln lead the Country on the final march to Freedom NOW?

Monday, September 21, 2009

When They Ain't Bullshit, They're Chicken Shit

All Obama All The Time! ... The Prex was everywhere (almost) he could bend an ear yesterday ...
... except on Fox. Some campaign advisor (Axlehat?) chose to pass on the news agency that outdraws ALL THE OTHER NETWORKS COMBINED!!! Maybe because her message was always respectful, consistent and out front, Hillary Clinton had the confidance and courage to sit down and exchange ideas with Dick Scaiffe and Company (the vast right wing conspiracy foundation) AND Bill O'Reilley, the Bold Fresh Piece Of Humanity whose respect for WOMANKIND was engendered in him via a Catholic School education; the Nuns and the Community. In my years of selling, I learned one strategy for getting my message out: reach. Unlike weighing the cost-effectiveness of advertising on the news station with the biggest ratings, the White House messaging unit was faced with the decision of which of the FREE ACCESS outlets would best take their tide-turning message to the largest audience. The news program drawing that audience which represents the most skeptical, most readily turned-around potential new supporters, as opposed to preaching to the choire as it were... So ... do you go to the network you routinely bash by name in your own appearances on the networks that openly love you? Or ... do you take a shot on reaching an entirely NEW MARKET with that venue?

Might we get back to Professional Conduct of the Nation's Business? Do those of us who are participants in the process actually have someplace else to go? I can only reference the dumb-as-dirt response from the pre-election Obama Camp. Floods and fires serve as their reality alerts to all the alternatives available to the disenfranchised.

After setting the partisan world afire with speechified foolishness, the fourth estate (lower case deliberate) must now flood the scene of their crimes of omission of their journalistic responsibilities with a watered down version of the White House pitch coming from the hand-picked heir to the Kennedy Mystique. In political circles, that's known as running it up the flagpole to see who salutes.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Flagging Air Puppets Up






Sunday Morning News paydirt this weekend, for all the Hillary-sabataging round tables conducted last year. Their attention-grabbing scheme required a larger-than-life COOL guy they could put out there and animate. He could make the skies open with his speaking style, inspiring and hiring fans.



Thus September winds to a close, and they're expecting to shut these things down...Ocktoberfest on deck, y'know. So, on with the show! Spammin' the health care overhaul nobody needs 'n@.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Hacking Insurance

I hear about the single payer health care concept, the price we pays for the good ol' days is washed up hippies chasing those hours they spent out of it. My dfa 'buddy', Lou, is the product of Delphi methodist frogs in a small pond.

Commenting from what are the most incredibly insulting positions, Lou reveals a lot of what he don't know. Trying to tell black guys they don't is only a problem in the insurance business. Fire 'em up and get ready for a ride, guys. Those crazy Viet Nam era draft dodgers are back. They be crazy... (and creepy)

I cannot locate the parable about the money changer who greased the cup used in counting so that coins would stick and be held back. The grease isn't needed. Power cannot truly pass through us without generating a buzz that doesn't miss.

Slowing it down, diverting or posessing it- is, frankly, an oxymoron. Conduit consciousness conducts us. Power, itself, corrupts. When will they learn? As they pass by me on their way outta here.

Friday, August 21, 2009

MoJo Puts it Clearly

This morning, Joe Scarborough gave me the most solid list yet to express what kind of reform the voters want and would support:

Not Health Care Reform,

but

Consumer Protection

in a bill that addresses these elements favored by most of us who are willing to pay for our health insurance, rightfully expecting value for our contributions and reasonable stability of our liabilities.

1. My insurance cannot drop me for reaching some arbitrarily derived threshhold.
2. My children can stay on the family policy until the age of 25.
3. If I get fired, or otherwise lose the employment to which my health care insurance is tied, I won't be charged exorbitant costs for COBRA that expires in 18 months.
4. My insurance, once established, will follow me for three years.

Each of these elements address the true issues

consumers actually have with their coverage not the
problems with health care itself.


Rather than villifying Insurance Companies, I wish to make a stand-up statement about them that is fostered by the respect acquired through my work with them. Wall Street and the Government programs notwithstanding, Insurance Companies' funds pool has been the financial source of much of this country's economy. If not for insurance policies on the consumer, banks wouldn't loan you the cash to purchase an automobile or a home. Sure, the bank is fronting the risk of your keeping your word and making all the installment payments on your car. But in addition to the threat of repossion, the Bank also goes to good ol' American Security Insurance Corporation and purchases a two dollar per month insurance policy to back itself up and adds that to the cost of your loan. You pay the premium as the debtor, but the Bank owns the policy and collects the equivalent of the balance on YOUR loan if you default. Your company life insurance, the liability on your property, even the dental plan for preventive care you wish you had, are all regulated by the States in which they do business. The Federal Government is not in the position to make universal regulations affecting health insurance.

President Obama is slummin' with the folks who continue to support him as he lets them in on his "thought processing" about his (and by extension, their) political enemies. He targets those hard working Americans employed in the vast insurance administration business, who are on the job year in and year out finding better ways to build their communities into the kind of places where they can earn an honest living doing business among the neighbors and projects they fund.

I'm sick of being talked down to by a too cool critic who is clueless about the amount of work that goes into the management of an Insurance Company. Like the hospitals they reimburse, these Americans are 24/7/356 at the wheel. Fair business practices and quality products are their bread and butter. AIG and the Wall Street cronies who looted the pool should be hearing his denigrating remarks. The folks seated behind him at the Town Hall meetings are foil for sound-bytes. He dredges up his old rival for the fad-of-the-moment adulation he briefly ceded to Sarah Palin before his junkyard dogs "took care of her." By their approving applause and demeaning laughter, his "peeps" show they agree that the August vapors make disposable citizens all

"Wee wee." Jeez! I love how the Left glorifies their chosen one for his tough Chicago Style, hard knuckle politics and sees no loss of dignity when their boy gets down with them and drives home the unsavory JOB they've been doing.
Instead, why is he not focusing unflattering dirision - in detail - on those individuals who first violated their insurance business licenses by mismanaging the funds, then took obscene bonuses from the rescue moneys coughed up in the name of the very taxpayers they've robbed?

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Ed Rendell HOUNDS the Mobsters as "Crazies"

I never thought much more of Beck and O'Reilly than I did of Matthews and Olbermann. But, I borrowed the Audio book of Bill-o's "Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity" from the library and listened to it when I was driving. I found it to be a reflection of the people educated in Catholic Schools. Little did I expect to understand so much or laugh so loudly. Direct TV News Mix on channel 102 or 352 show eight news channels at once, CNN, Headline News, Bloomberg, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox Business, Fox News, and the Weather Channel. you can monitor the screens and tune in the sound on whichever you want. I compare the coverage and find real differences. For example, Fox treats the town hall incidents as news. NBC lumps all the protestors into the 'birther, crazies, republican sponsored.' Rendell was even on there today saying the "Majority of Americans are going to be turned off by these crazies, and are going to stand up and be heard." News Flash, Eddie, tea baggers birthers and protestors ARE the majority of Americans. It left me wondering why I've put myself in uncomfortable positions defending him. The very people he's describing are the ones who voted for him. What these people want is information in a language they can process with relevance and results they can see as the direct result of the actions our leadership takes. They want it paced responsibly, without the stampeding and doomsday predictions of the terrible things that will happen if we don't pass them RIGHT NOW!!! when the terrible things happen anyway! They simply do not believe they are getting straight answers. They don't appreciate being denigrated, dismissed and defamed when they question. They saw Obama pledge with McCain to accept the public financing for his campaign. He swore he'd filibuster FISA, then voted FOR it. He campaigned on the lily pure assurance that lobbyists would not run his white house, then both his first and second appointments were lobbyists. All records of his work at Occidental, Columbia and Harvard are sealed: we can't even read his dissertations or Harvard Law Review editions. So everything adds up to a person who we are to believe on his word, who has repeatedly failed to keep his word once he's in the position required by trust. It is little mystery that these people are "nuts" - they are the classic victims of deception!

My closest comparison is a bad boyfriend who makes a date with you, and after you've turned down other appealing offers, stands you up. Or the spouse whose affair is common knowledge to your social circle, yet NOBODY tells you the truth, they change the subject, clam up or your trusted friends pretend not to know about it. People are uneasy because the things that are happening do not correspond to the promises that were made, nor do they reflect traditional American values.

We sat through years of these people disrupting meetings, led by Kreiss who challenged and denigrated our efforts. They were roused to attend the meetings by the very people who were funding the illegal activities that victimized our good faith efforts. We were called liars and fascists, shouted down, hissed and subjected to interruption whenever we spoke. The blog they posted savaged our reputations, yet they carried on like babies when exposed. The footnote I have attached to my signature is from Roberts Rules of Order. Five of us voted against the suspension of the rules to elect Larry chairman, yet our votes were dismissed and the minutes say he was unanimously elected. There was no discussion because we had no quorum and felt no need to engage, yet badda-bing! They didn't have a quorum, but they had a majority, so they forced themselves in. And Larry assures them that the State Committee will back him up! Instead of finding common ground, we find constantly shifting rock underfoot where nothing can grow or be built. The Tea Party people are Americans who have heard enough, seen for themselves and made up their minds to doubt the media and the Administration. Good salespeople recognize these gestures as an invitation to up-sell. They're missing it. Instead, they inflame the voters with personal insults to their intelligence thus bringing ever more protestors to the street. That filibuster proof majority is a curse on both our houses. Rendell acknowledges that he has never seen this level and intensity of rage.

"The fundamental right of deliberative assemblies require all questions to be thoroughly discussed before taking action! The assembly rules - they have the final say on everything! Silence means consent!"*
*Roberts Rules of Order


So, if you don't want to be taken advantage of just because you reserve comment as a gesture of restraint, let it fly! Either way, YOU'RE pickin' up the tab.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

The Empire Says: "We Double-Dare You!"

Chicago tactics fall short. Accomplished diplomats burnish the façade, but fail to justify Obama's rapid rise through the ranks predicated on the willingness to violate rights. Where's the elected Win / Win approach?

"If they hit, we hit back twice as hard."
"If they bring a knife to a street fight, we bring a gun."
Such thuggish language! You need your mouth washed out with soap.
You cannot possibly hear and see yourselves, or you'd tighten up and observe WORK ZONE RULES!!! We evolve as reviewers of Presidential Leadership.

The White House is the seat of Constitutional Law Enforcement. The pyramid of power peaks at the Oval Office, yet its occupant resorts to street-level consciousness and the bully pulpit. We the People expect our President to undertake the exercises that legitimize and build consensus.

The DNC – taken over by the AxelPunks and moved to Chicago, served as the template for these MöB tactics. Overtly aggressive operatives were delivered by Obama campaign buses to disrupt, commandeer and, yes, rig (known in low level mob circles as Game) the 2008 Caucuses.

The Blog Rolls of the Just Say No Deal Coalition testified to the tactics of suppression leveled at Pro-Hillary posters on such sites as Daily Kos. Scandalized, shocked and utterly unprepared to meet with such un-American violence of our first amendment rights, the mantra, “Country before Party!” synchronized rebellion. Holding the Democratic Party Accountable was the mission. And now we hear our principles; abandoned during the Primaries, preached against the very level of public misconduct we were shown. We demanded; “Where is Obama? Where is the Leadership? Why has he not spoken out against this unacceptable conduct from his supporters?” Underground entities – practiced in secrecy and espionage – HOPE to intimidate a free people into compliance. Ayers, Wright, Acorn were explained away. "No Drama" Obama, who then remained 'above the fray', now appears - daily- donning Nixonian bluster, to force what he is unable to sell.

Bots, paid to troll pro-Clinton sites, did as coached. Piranha Schooled, they swarmed and consumed political opponents. You are what you eat. Social experiment in the Presidency is disorder. LBJ, elevated by an act of unspeakable violence, was the quintessential demonstration of just what NOT to do.

We are bemused. The Obots exploded into the consciousness of patrons of change, billed as new “Sopranos.” Knowledgeable Opera fans heard for themselves and had their doubts. Opera, Italian for work, was never documented by these pretenders. Where was the score for reviewers to follow? Where were the notes indicative of original composition? They were all sealed from review. Scholars were forbidden access to any of the early works by which we evaluate and substantiate the influence and genius of the untested, unproven freshman Senator, endorsed for his ‘leadership,’…. Study Group colleagues are neither identified nor interviewed. We have, on the other hand, the transcripts of Hillary Clinton’s college day speeches, documentation of her activism and corroboration by her contemporaries.

It’s Violence against our Spirits, not violins in those unique cases; a mob of pretenders to Executive Office using tactics of intimidation to assert their half-baked concepts. Concerned Citizens, alarmed by inexplicable haste, concerned by recent admissions of having "Mis-read" the severity of problems, reject the ruse “Urgency of Now.” They are driven to crazed outbursts by the continued gestures of dismissive contempt from their own representatives! The message they bring to their Town Hall meeting is; "Read the Bill!" "Let us look at it together. We're not here to be told what you want us to believe, to be spun and judged incapable of self-determination."

On display is the Audacity of Incompetence, sloppy research, failure to communicate. We who actually work at our jobs are neither impressed nor convinced by these occupants of the Agencies of the People. We expected to find them undertaking actual Work, as the BUSINESS OF THE PEOPLE prescribes. Throughout a six month review period, we’ve indulged trial-and-error-chaos, having seen none of the touted superior judgment and leadership we were assured would shine through.

At Town Hall meetings, we, the owners of this country, express disappointment and disapproval, urging a change in the approach, not the System!

The School Board steps in; the Stock holders, who have become mere “bag-holders,” demand supervision of these first time Administrators pending a successfully completed probationary performance. Did we not pass over a qualified, experienced commodity at the urging of these young cult leadership pitch people?

“Oh Captain, My Captain!” Whitman’s ode to fallen President Lincoln, suggests, perhaps a game changer. While the Media and DNC have adopted the Chicago Style of citation, it may actually be appropriate to cite via the AMA Style. http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Cite&page=O_Captain!_My_Captain!&id=776898.

Do surgical candidates want the medical student who is tops in his class, or the surgeon who has performed in the operating theatre under the scrutiny of accomplished performing providers?

The town hall mobsters are saying: “We're making you an offer you cannot refuse!”
Tables turn.

We’ve objectively observed the tactics of this crowd. We are hearing the bases of our own complaints, dismissed in the primaries, now being righteously recycled as their defense. The "Mobs" reject deaf D.C. insiders, social climbers posing as journalists and fugitives from justice launching political careers. Put the workhorse in its rightful place: before the bandwagon.

What the Health Care Reformer presents is perceived as clear and present danger to the Citizenry. Incapable of reassuring us, the Aristocratic Citizen of the World ratchets up name-calling, threats and the Bully Pulpit. The mis-named Mobsters reject their Representatives’ failure to represent them. They represent themselves, responding in kind, to the tactics used against them. These were the same less-educated, downscale voters Obama's campaign tried to buy with newspaper endorsements in Appalachia. He had the opportunity to hear these people out and understand their needs during the campaigns, but hid, instead, behind the Race card.

Town hall meetings are intended to be an exchange. The Citizenry has observed a collapse of our financial system, the corruption of our political system and the hijacking of our Fourth Estate by special interests. We arrive ‘ginned up’ for the bullies we have learned by experience to confront. We demand that our President present Health Care ideas clearly, patiently and respectfully. People who aren't normally disposed to attend these meetings can no longer trust that their interests are being represented. Taking personal responsibility for their future, the urgency of now has shifted to "Now hear this!"

Let’s all get up and dance to a song
That was a hit before your mother was born,
Though she was born a long, long time ago,
Your mother should know,
Know-ow
Your mother should know.
Know-ow
Sing it again! McCartney-Lennon

These very Congress People, Super Delegates trusted to provide a grown-up’s sensibility to the nominating process, got their guy.

OK, you won; get over it! The Election is history. You’re on the clock, now. Get serious!

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Add this to the pile already on the camel's back, and it shouldn't be long before the "straw" that breaks it drops. I'm in a little wrestling match with the County Committee again. They scheduled a meeting to elect a new chairman for last night, but failed to get a quorum. Undaunted, they moved to go ahead and elect the unopposed nominee anyway, and dismissed the bylaws by a voice vote. When they heard a few "no's," they counted a show of hands for no's only, and a mere 5 of us were expecting to observe our own rules of order. I had to reflect on the irony of these "by the book" by-laws thumpers making such an overt power grab. Even more ironic, is that the alledged power of this organization is zero, due to their capricious practice of only observing the rules that serve their agenda of the moment.
In submitting letters of resignation, those Committee People who have left, cited the organization's failure to conduct business in the atmosphere of respectful consideration of one another and regard for their reputations. The remaining participants are either ignorant of or indifferent toward procedures and protocol by which all in attendance are singing from the same hymnal. aa