PA State Committee Meeting Thoughts

Notes from the February 5 meeting of the Pennsylvania State Democratic Committee meeting in Hershey, Newly elected State Chairman, Jim Burn faces another tough election cycle.  Let’s see how he goes about sharpening the saw.  Supposedly, the party has the registration edge.  Why didn’t that translate into ballot casting in November, 2010?

PA State Committee challenged by:

A.      Small staff (1/3 typical State Committee Staff)  Cool.  More jobs to be created for Progressive Aggressives who don’t listen, don’t respect their elders and don’t have a clue about building consensus with well-positioned older and women voters.  Applause: you galvanized the youth vote with one candidate for one election.  Do you appreciate, yet, how the Democratic Base was cannibalized to game your own rules and elevate a less qualified candidate in a year that supposedly “any” democrat was going to win?  Do you relate, yet, how pissed off those old women still are?  Do you want to continue to fan the flame of their anger which they express in the voting booth with that “Get over it” Shout?

B.      Lack of (as the result of the freaking progressives dissing the) sitting Governor

Fundraising needs:  The kids of the Onorato campaign, the Sestak campaign, the various congressional campaigns, made no effort to cultivate the older participants in the process.  A lesson they’re unable to comprehend is about Democrats of Substance who want to know who they’re electing, want to meet “the Candidate,” checkbook in hand, and be treated with respect.  A bold young guy with all the talking points about the number of rocks they needed to look under for small change were NOT working the Establishment donors.  Couldn’t you see?  They had done such a hack job on the goodwill of those Democrats that the reputation for DISRESPECT was unavoidable. 

The State Party can point to the get-out-the-vote model of Nevada which managed to re-elect Reed to the Senate… (Not because he represents their voice, but because he is Senior enough to procure – via pork barrel measures such as earmarks – funds for Nevada.)  I’m pretty sure all the tactics employed in behalf of the Reed campaign were legitimate.  In Pennsylvania, on the other hand, Bobby Casey managed to undermine the Governor, the sitting Senator whose seniority, likewise, served the voters, and the Democratic Candidate for Governor with the aggressive promotion of the Progressive Agenda.

I get it.  This is a Casey Grudge Game.  He despises the Clintons, he despises Ed Rendell.  He exploits the trust of undiscerning Democrats.  Raising money?  The big check donors will first ask you if you can convince Bobby Casey to grow up and get with the full Party.

Senator:  dumprick wasn’t about electing Bobby Casey.  It was about taking down Santorum.  Given the Progressive tactic of threatening Primary Challenges to any Democrat that didn’t give their super delegate vote to “the One” or rubber-stamp the Obama Agenda, a primary challenge to Casey is certainly in order.  I hope it’s a WOMAN!

REDISTRICTING:  Mark Longietti

“Ten years ago, (1991) I knew nothing about the re-drawing the boundaries of the congressional and legislative districts.”  Turnovers.  Losing control. In fact, the Progressives have  been so “successful” in pushing out all the “establishment” democrats who would KNOW how to fight for the Democrat’s fair share of the redistricting balloon, that nobody in today’s party leadership was even around then.  So it’s another “On The Job” training program for the party  as the Republicans let them choose the poison they want to take for the seat they’re about to give up in Congress.  

Fadia says that they “failed to get their message out, about all they had done for the voters.

HELLO! ! ! !  So, y’ur saying you didn’t do enough talking?

Rich.  These “progressives” are just so full of themselves, they’re beyond hope.  They’re just going to have to lose yet another election – like they did in November 2010… Now, they don’t acknowledge that the Republicans didn’t beat them; the voters simply saw that they were absolutely not capable of being any better than the politicians they bashed for eight years.  Women, are you innerested in putting up your hard-earned 70 cents on the Dollar to let them indulge for a couple more years?  I’m not.  I see a bunch of ‘I’m-tired-of-hearing-it” guys who just refuse to hear it and a bevy of ambitious young women willing to cower in compliance just to get a shot.  These young women break the hearts of their mothers, grandmothers and teachers by their failure to grasp the importance of Sisterhood in the Political Power Struggle.  This trend, on the part of the Progressives driving the agenda, means I’ll be getting my popcorn and settling back to watch the show.  No way am I putting ANY effort into working with, for or on them.  They’re like those Jewells in Jewel Quest that are encrusted, hidden behind a caste or somehow not in play until they’ve been “opened.”  I’m not feeling sorry for the Democrats, and I’m certainly feeling no duty to advocate for the young women who so callously disregard the value of the work their “ForeMothers” did in their behalf and the opportunities they enjoy today as the result.  Pay It Forward is not a feature of these young women’s attitudes. 

Any Guy who can rationalize rape by arguing that the woman “asked for it” can relate.  These people are demanding the next level of their political education.  It has nothing to do with Party.  It has to do with relationships.  There they are up front talking about how they’re about “relationships,” yet they say stupid things like: “I’m sick of hearing it.”  Yeah; RELATIONSHIP-oriented.  Here comes Valentines’ Day, Here comes Valentines’ Day, right down “Relationship” Way.  Do any of you guys realize the hole yu’r digging into?  Do you understand that the “People” tell the pollsters that they like the Obama’s but they don’t plan to VOTE for him?  It’s like the really nice people at the office who think you’re GREAT and you have the best personality and you show up on time and do everything right, but they’re firing you.  Nothing personal:  They just aren’t getting rich your way.  Good luck to you.

February 5, 2011 Hershey Lodge, PA Meeting Rooms

I’m auditing the “Credentials Committee Meeting” and am surprised that the four men present for this meeting are giving their impressions from a very subjective viewpoint.  So this is how these guys come up with their strategies.  I’ve really got to call bullshit on them.  They don’t offer substantial reasoning to support their conjecture.  Point is, I doubt they have minds open enough to really read the electorate.  They don’t know, not interested in finding out.  My experience with these progressives is basically about how little they actually know.  Sure, they work hard – beating the ear of anybody who gives them a moment.  But they’re like their poster boy: big ears that don’t work.  They are absolutely and utterly indifferent to your input.  They know where they’re going and assert that they know best what is best for you.  They judge the voters “crazy,” racist, unqualified to choose.  They operate from an impenetrable “above it” disengaged attitude that they work hard and deserve to win.  In what vacuum do you expect to collect a paycheck for that level of a rigged playing field?

We hold elections to find out…  Who Cares (?) enough to come out, cast a vote, exercise the sacred right/perform a civic duty? 

Here’s Kathryn Boockvar, a kid, basically, who arrived in rural northeast Pennsylvania, fresh out of college, to be the only attorney serving the legal needs of the poor.  OK, Ms. Boockvar, you operated in a learn-by-doing atmosphere, free of influence from either mentoring elders or competing savvies.  You have a practice with your husband and, for some reason you have convinced the other provincials that you are qualified to be a judge!  This is the instant replay of the manner by which your generation of women fail the litmus test to reflect understanding of the struggle for women’s’ rights.  Yes, I got your letter inviting me to your reception…three days after I got home from that meeting.  You convinced enough people that you could beat Barbara Ernsberger straight up in a primary election because you are organized.  But, Kathryn, besides the same bunch of blowhards and bullies that brought in new leadership to the State Committee, WHO DO YOU KNOW?  WHO KNOWS YOU?  The Bar Association?  Their recommendations are for amusement only, like Blackwell’s best dressed lists.  Conversely, plenty of people know Barbara Behrend Ernsberger.  Barbara, likewise is in practice with her husband.  She has chaired the City of Pittsburgh Democratic Committee, an organization that elects its candidates.  This volunteer work, along with her pro-bono representation of the communities opposed to a WalMart causing landslides and road closures in her county, has schooled Barbara in dealing with people who are out to get her.  In your cozy little rural, quasi challenging world, Kathryn, I cannot imagine that you have encountered the level of humanity that Barbara has, due mostly to the number of years over which she has produced a body of work.  Her 2009 lap around the track established her as a qualified candidate for this cycle.  The Caucus remarks by the men about the Bar Association not recommending her totally frosted me.  They NEVER mention the Republicans either out of respect or with responsible knowledge of their campaign tactics.  They want you to accept that the failings of Barbara Ernsberger cost the Democrats those seats.  For my money, the County Chairs got “push back” from the Primary Voters and their male, endorsed candidates got shut out.  So there was zero effort to get out the vote for the two women who won the democratic primary and the County Chairs showed, not only their lack of class, but their irresponsible inability to admit they are out of order and, as the result, out of favor with the voters – THE MAJORITY OF WHOM ARE WOMEN!!!  You want to bank on the youth vote?  Be our guests.  (Good luck getting them out of bed on Election Day,)  For Bookvar to play on the Bar Association  gossip is profoundly disturbing to me, tells me that another untested, unproven commodity of the “Progressive” label is shoving aside a substantial Democrat to waste a ballot position.  If you Progressives are out to destroy the Democratic Party by preventing us from winning elections, the endorsement of Bookvar was a step in that direction. When you hit the campaign trail to meet the voters, they’ll be asking you what happened to Barbara?  Just like they asked, “What happened to Hillary?”  Bewildered initially, by party roolz they thought were on the level, the women who were poised to elect a woman president in our lifetime, know something bad went down and want nothing to do with the perpetrators.  In 2009, women went to the polls and expressed their displeasure with the men of the Democratic Party by going down the list and voting one-by-one, for all the Republican WOMEN. In 2011, it’s not about taxes, social issues or competence anymore.  It’s about class.  The Republicans were tossed from office in 2006 for their boorish intolerance of female leadership.  It was expected that the Democratic Party would respect the numbers, if not the gender.  Traditionally, women vote Democrat.  One would expect that the politicians , whose bread and butter is that female voter, would conduct their business with cognizance of the women working beside them, volunteering for them and convincing their neighbors to believe in them enough to get out and vote for them.  In 2008, under the toxic influence of rash young males doing a “Tonya Harding” on the Women of the United States of America, the Democrats sent a vile and malicious message:  “We’ll put a black guy in there before we let a woman be elected President.  We make up all these bullshit rules to run you around and waste your time under the naïve supposition that we play by our published rules.  Psyche!!!” 

To the young women like Kathrine Boockvar who are entering the arena under the impression that they might serve the MAJORITY of the population, the workforce, the Democratic Party: Have At It.  Like your Affirmative Action President, learning on the job, you are about to squander the remaining faith women have in the two party system on a candidacy before your time.  Shove aside yet another accomplished woman and proven vote-getter on the free ride given by a bunch of disrespectful guys just looking for you to buy into their disloyal, discriminating sexist power trip.  As you embark on your tour of the Commonwealth’s 67 Counties, prepare to get an earful from the voters about the democrats.  Whether or not you are equipped to realistically evaluate the input you’ll get, I am not convinced that you possess the political insight to respond with the level of loyalty to women that the voters are looking for.  Ernsberger has proven she does. Before the influx of the “bold” progressives, accomplished political activists of the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee had respect for each other.  They left these meetings with as good a chance of winning elections as the Republicans had.  DEMOCRATS, not Progressives, can respectably represent the Party.  Progressives are done, as Joe Sestak proved, as Jack Panella proved, as Dan Onorato proved.  It’s not because you didn’t tell the voters enough about all you did for them, Fadia.  It’s because the voters saw what you did to them.  You defied their wishes, tossed their votes in the trash and forced a stepsister’s foot into Cinderella’s glass slipper.   From the top of the ballot to the bottom, Democratic Men, and the Progressive Women they rode in on, were given the finger by the voters.  Sideways.

The real question for me is this:  Where do Women stand?  I heard a couple of put-down stories that just reinforced my outrage with the way men “assume” the choice, the option, the “decide.”  Hey, William O. Douglas!  You checked in yesterday and reminded me of the relationship we have – Choice.  You showed me that my “Choice” is very much a responsibility.  Your intervention in my actions was to both save me from myself and to communicate to me that passive doesn’t exonerate me from the consequences,  If I choose not to choose, that’s still a choice;  Madness.  So, I get this filter installed, which is crazy excited to be spoken to with such gentle oneness with my own mind … I understand that you are on the other side.  In the thirty odd years since we had that exchange, I haven’t thought much about it. 

            "To say that life is present at conception is to give recognition to the potential, rather than the actual. The unfertilized egg has life, and if fertilized, it takes on human proportions. But the law deals in reality, not obscurity -- the known, rather than the unknown. When sperm meets egg, life may eventually form, but quite often it does not. The law does not deal in speculation. The phenomenon of [410 U.S. 218] life takes time to develop, and, until it is actually present, it cannot be destroyed. Its interruption prior to formation would hardly be homicide, and as we have seen, society does not regard it as such. The rites of Baptism are not performed and death certificates are not required when a miscarriage occurs. No prosecutor has ever returned a murder indictment charging the taking of the life of a fetus.⁷ This would not be the case if the fetus constituted human life."

When you passed away, I had a sensation that my mother was dying.  I felt foolish to recognize that I could ever believe that my Mother was dying.  I know her.  It is quite easier to accept that Death could match with you more readily than her.  As I see Bob Casey’s Progressives elbowing themselves into control of the Democratic Brand, I just want to step aside and let them destroy themselves.  They have even attempted to impose a bastardized Obama brand over the D, a marketing concept not unlike pet rocks.  Taking over the “brand,’ (trademark infringement) doesn’t mean they are taking over the Democratic Party.  Traditional Democrats with zero connection to the bold progressives who are, essentially a flash in the pan, simply drop out and fail to show up for elections, for nominations, for contributions, volunteering and even finding common ground with them.  In fact, the incentive is now there to flat out reject them, tell them to get off their lawns and don’t come around them anymore.  They won’t necessarily change their registration, but until some genuine Democrats get the respect the voters expect for them, the “bold” progressives are just digging in deeper, learning nothing and their rising star status will quickly turn into shooting stars and be yesterday’s news.   I know I am alerted to the lack of basic reciprocity from these asses.  I’ll go hear the “progressive hour” and get the fuel for my next big choice.  Go, Sarah!

,,,It turns out the Progressive Hour offered zero incentive to stay,  Just as well; The Executive Committee was supposed to meet at 10’30.  Limited to a mere half hour wedged between the interest group caucuses and the regional caucuses, the meeting was delayed by the double-dipping County Chairs whose own meeting in the scheduled salon “went long.” The imposed delay of the Ex Com’s meeting stranded them in the foyer.  Queued for a truncated half hour meeting to consider and approve the 2011 Budget, arriving committee members became too big a crowd – to the point of actually sounding like one – so much so that, GASP! The County Chairs had to raise their voices to hear each other’s extended discussion.  By 10:40 a.m. the reprimand from Fadia that our chatter was disturbing the over-staying Chairs was totally frosting.  Let them move their “posturing” to the foyer, stick to the schedule and give up the room!  They had already slashed our meeting by a third!  State Committee is supposed to be a mutually cordial, respectful gathering, but the County Chairs really take a “sprawl” approach by their presence at these things.   Christ!  Their elected colleagues extended them the courtesy of a vote at the meetings, reciprocal consideration is in order, any legitimate political professional would think.  It’s a real pain in the ass how they try to control everything when they can’t even control their own meetings!

Congrats to David Wecht.  I look forward to hearing your dad’s rousing speaking style on the campaign trail.  The voters sure let Mary Beth Buchanan know where they stood on that waste of money.  It didn’t bother them that the Coroner’s expertise that got us an inside look at Celebrity and High Profile cases came at a bit of a cost to the taxpayers in staff time and office resources for which they had already paid.  Cut the crap.  Again, we don’t support everything he says and does, but we respect the body of work.  Hey, celebrity honkers: even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gives a lifetime achievement award to distinguished performers.  Observe some tradition.  Your day is coming.  Learn from the poor performance your President is turning in.  It’s imprudent to push yourself on the big stage before you’re ready for Prime Time.  Even Saturday Night Live had some “lemon” comedians.  Winning elections is no guarantee you can do the job.  With the Progressive concepts as your guideposts, it’s doubtful you can succeed.  Do yourselves a favor: pay your dues, wait your turn, work on the campaigns of politicians who know what they’re doing and learn from their mistakes.  After dissing the Clintons for a campaign cycle, it must really be an ego squasher for the Occupant of the Oval Office to have to turn to the Big Dawg for rescue.  Sestak too,  who almost brought down the whole house of cards with his rash, mouth-running accusations of how the Established Party people tried to force him out of the race.  Thank God Bill Clinton has the grace and love for his Country to step up and do what he does best: let the brats blame him for their self-created crisis.  In the process, everybody was reminded how peaceful it made us feel to know a grownup was at the helm.

Tahrir Squared Away - Democracy Rools

The young males addressed by departing Hosni Mubarak, Omar Suleiman and Ahmed Shafiq are now to conduct maneuvers with the newest top dawgs of Egypt;  two of Egypt's most senior military officers - Defence Minister, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, and Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Sami Hafez Enan.

A professional demeanor as demonstrated by the Egyptian Army during the 16 days of protests in Tahrir / Liberation Square emboldened the testosterone-driven day by day right up and through to the realization of the abdication of the Dictator, Mubarak moments after his "Psyche!" speech pretending to step down when he was really going nowhere if it were up to him. 

News of the protest routinely credited the Egyptian Army, an investment by the United States and it's ranking Professional Military, as the single stabilizing force in this nation reaching the natural end to a thirty year structure that saw Mubarak oppress with the Army as his big stick.  Events of the past two and a half weeks, however, showed the Police "Force" rather than the military as the goon squad.  Armored and poised, the Soldiers who rolled army tanks into Tahrir Square seemed more like the Americana Community Day appearances of the Municipal Vehicles Zoo where firemen and police give the kids a tour of the awesome machinery owned by their neighbors to defend and protect them and their parents' property.

Of course, it was not necessary to address the young women of Egypt, nor their mothers, for that matter.  Those citizens had already made it clear to the young men departing each day for demonstration duty that the use of "inside manners" would be observed under pain of execution when they returned home.  All of Egypt is a museum of civilization.  No household permits the venting of pent-up steam indoors for the threat posed to lamps, walls, dogs and clean floors.

Google Guys cultivated the demonstrations and Social Media electronics contributed vastly to the connectedness with the rest of the world as it happened.  Why Obama didn't take more purposeful action a year ago in Iran during similar efforts by the youth to release themselves from despotic rule is unclear to me at this moment, but I have no doubt that the restraint practiced by the professional Military, not the rash behavior of the "Young Males," ultimately encouraged Mubarak, Suleiman and Shafiq to place the future of Egypt into capable hands.

 Tantawi and Enan are among top level members of the Egyptian Military Command who exchanged training and planning with U.S. Military Professionals and are perceived as capable of delivering an Election in Egypt with the proper temperence and equanimity the idealistic young men demand at this moment.  I cannot, however, take seriously, any of those "demonstrators" who appealed emotionally both in the hours of tense standoff leading up to the transition, nor during the celebration which followed.

The next leaders of Egypt, or at least the parties that will form around them, were planning, already, for the outcome, whichever way it went.  I hope there were Women among them.  I hope that cooler heads were wisely noting that what was coming as "Change" was best served battened down with responsible funding, respectful channels for redress and an open platform for economic development.  In such an ancient civilization, one in which a tradition of Queen Hatshepsut and Cleopatra holds as much lustre as any Pharoah, it is my sincere hope that the 52% of the citizenry rendered invisible to the media will make the most of that much desired "Super Power" by going about their power-securing work in plain sight of the "emotionally blinded" usual suspects of anarchy.  As modern Egypt knocked on electronic wood to announce itself to the future, the reasons for governing success and prosperity were revisited on us:  invention of Papyrus and hieroglyphics combining to serve posterity with written history.  Learn from that which your forebears have written and keep those young males busy.  If they "believe" that they rool, they do...what care you that they can neither see you nor covet that wealth which you comprise. 

Great site for "playing" Egypt:  http://www.eyelid.co.uk/index.htm

Walk Like Egyptians

We all remember Michael Jaxon assembling models and celebrities for a production number in costume for that Bangles Hit.  The moves weren't as challenging as those of the "Thriller" re-enactment by prison yard Phillipine Orange Jump-suiters, but it was cool. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trPbqYBFvWk

COOL.  That is the hope of observers monitoring

Tahrir Square goings on.

GOOGLED right out of sight by secret detainers,

Wael Ghonim, a young techie who wept at the deaths caused by his efforts, represents the highly unanticipated consequences of the take-over by rash young activists.  

"We are wealthy and want nothing for ourselves!" he

asserted..."Egypt Above All!"  This is not the tough guy with the cold heart we've observed in most uprisings around the world.  This entity does not call for the blood of his detainers.  He doesn't demand the overthrow of his stabilizing government.  He just wants to support the effort to exercise rights among his youthful contemporaries.  Perhaps, because he HAS a nice job, working for a New Age employer that represents a gateway to technology as an economic force, Ghonim can temper his statements with the insistence on correcting details mis-reported while he was held captive. 

My instincts tell me there's more to the detention. He confessed that he "tricked" his employer into letting him use vacation time to attend to a pressing personal matter (the need to be with his fellow demonstrators; to be part of the protest.)   He gave it no serious thought, I'm sure, as he embarked on his adventure, that innocent people on all sides of the issue would die violent deaths as the result of choices made by the organizers.  Does Social Media bear responsibility for the outcome?  Certainly, this prospering young Egyptian, so unlike the many unemployed who filled "Liberation" Square since January 28 when he was "disappeared," never imagined that any among those he was supporting would turn destructive. 

In Northampton, England, an older woman under the misconception that a gang was beating up a fellow Citizen, busted up a jewelry heist under a Rolex Sign with her hefty handbag.  "I was standing talking with a woman when I heard a commotion, and I looked across and saw six young men on scooters," she said. "At first, I thought one of them was being set upon by three others. I was not going to stand by and watch somebody take a beating or worse, so I tried to intervene." 

The Generational Divide could not be more enlightening.  Here a woman of frail stature, equipped with only her Social Determination, takes on both numbers and physical strength beyond her own, demonstrating unwillingness to permit such criminal element to rule her streets.  To the Women of Egypt, I say: "Load Up Your Handbags!  Speak gently and carry a heavy purse.  When appropriate, USE it!  Learn from the women who supported the campaign of Hillary Clinton and do not permit yourselves to be eclipsed by rash young males driven by foolishness, to undermine your dignified progress towards realizing your efforts to be free.  Certify Patience as responsible.  Insist that "Reformers" work within the system and make certain that your country develops on the strength of Professional Conduct, not disruption and disrespect for your status.  Your Government needs to know that you are mature members of a Society Prepared for Freedom,

Deconstructing Bill O' Bama

OK... it was a well-considered investment of the audience, state of anticipation and general mood of national celebration of media hype that would end come kick-off.  It was Super Bowl Sunday afternoon.  If you weren't already where you were going for the game ... the GAME, you were not going to have a live participation in the viewing thereof.  O'Reilley was neither The Factor host nor the "Worst Person In The World" number one, two or three.  He was a matador, cape-waving and flambouyant, the perfect "Show" leading up to the pre-game show. 
The Occupant of the Oval Office (OOO) was his considered, corporate banker self.  On an information mission, he's the "do it myself" original researcher finally writing his dissertation.  His uninformed, too frequent lapses into Fox News-bashing made new enemies of the very independents who elected him.   Dynamics of ratings being what they are, folks tune out Rush, dial over to Kieth/Whoopie/Maher for their take. Once the Bush Administration Information Ministry; un-questioning, imbalanced and, frankly contemptious of other views, Fox acquired new respect for professionalism following the 2006 elections and are ahead of the Democrats on the learning curve. Viewers are, for a brief moment, also "Voters."  2008 Primaries exposed the entire Fourth Estate, forcing Viewers/Voters to dial around to achieve balance not offered by individual news organs. 

(Did 70 million viewers really tune in to see Barbara Walters interview Monica Lewinski?  Says a lot.
Viewers look for two things:

1. a chance to see for themselves
2. how the interviewer treats the interviewee)

Gradually, I come to accept that our Affirmative Action President is teaching the children who elected him by letting them watch his evolution from a Socialist into a full-blooded Patriot.  He persued the power without performing the empowering exercises.  Misconceptions about Power are no different than those about Love.  We don't always realize what it is we're in,...love, power, trouble,...'til a "Higher Power" brings us up short.  Smackin' down Bill Clinton was a favorite Troll Game for a while, and Hillary was/is fair game for their dismissive review.  Sarah Palin, likewise, keeps them "distracted" from the duties of the "empowered" for long enough that the POWER - always seeking a worthy, able processor - finds one and takes up residence therein...."worthy, able" being the opreative characteristics.

I guess the Chamber of Commerce members know a user when they hear one.  In the President, they heard a user, albiet one with the keys to the vault they want to check out.  So there he was, before them yesterday, dangling the keys, playing the Business Community, no reason to expect anything less than the same "Fools Willing To Play By His Rools." that he found in organized labor, the Fourth Estate and Congress.  They're not looking at what they have, what they're IN:  they're looking at what they can - or believe they can - GET!

Submission disabused me of the notion that Obama has power.  Holding the office doesn't equate to having all the resources of the United States "Under My Thumb."  Love reassures me that resources demand to be exchanged, incorporated into the process and developed.  Egypt is the demonstration of HUMAN RESOURCES looking for validation through gratifying work.  The billions funnelled by the United States into the Egyptian Army fostered a taste for stability.  The Human Resources of Egypt want nothing more than a system in which to apply their skills and resources, for an opportunity to earn and play.  We're all the same; we all want the same things.  Even the Muslim Brotherhood, given the chance, would drop their hate/fight if something worth doing was available.  Wanting to Be the Boss just because, is a childish, ignorant, unworthy goal.  Those who put their efforts into such pursuit arrive, inevitably, to that awareness.   Thus we hear the "O" --- not loving being in the Bubble, the ultimate prison where Wanna Be Tough Guys of the jungle are sent to "Hold Office."

"Can't Get No Satisfaction" gave us somewhere else to look while the Beatles were re-inventing themselves, looking within to find their Musician Selves.  Touring Japan, their audience was warned not to scream or act up and thus - for the first time in years, the Band had to actually hear how poorly they were performing.  Into the Studio they fled, never again to emerge ... except, once, impromptu, on the rooftop of a London building.  "Get Back To Where You Once Belonged." they sang...anybody within ear shot knew something awesome was going down and they stopped  ...
                                                                              before Twitter or cell phones,
just aware,
knew enough to prepare
- to capture the response of the people
with cameras
everywhere

                                                                        ...  not all were delighted.  Some were inconvenienced - business interests acted a little like a Train Wreck mangled their day.  One liked the free concert, Elders were "cool" with their lads checking in. 

Hearing the set, it appears from their playlist, that they knew

they were

Moving onjtu another Plane... 

Catching the Train...

Get Back, Loretta!

Be what you are and Enjoy Your Band, your Mates, your Ensemble. 

I ask you, Barak: what do you love doing?  What's both the hardest and the most gratifying work you do?  How does it "Recreate" you?  How does it help me?  Here it is, BO:  it's my job to off-load every facet of your Presidency.  Without me, you can't.  Period.  I have nothing to dangle before you, no tricks, no gateway to the next power trip, no praise, no party.  All I can show you is the better way.  All I promise is instant affirmation.  All you get from me is the demand for more, more, more, and I ain't talking physical.  You can't push me, you can't test me.  You can't take me anywhere I haven't already broken ground, and until I break new ground, you can't either.  The next game on the calendar is for Gentlemen.  Only teams with a female performing member may play.  Because they're TEAMS, they unite in their purpose, exchange freely and benefit equally, mutually.  You cannot pay to play this game.  You just have to be good enough.

NFL Overload: Steelers Quest For 7 Cheesed

Super Bowl Sunday had finally come and the Burghers and Cheese Heads were at last in those seats for the big one. How all of them got there was an Odessey that all but matched the challenges met by the respective teams. A Storm of Mothra proportions commandeered the resources of the Dallas Billionaires and everything North of North Texas. The once-in-fifty-years blizzard re-directed flights and exhausted travelers who arrived in Dallas/Fort Worth to streets treated -not with salt to deal with the ice and snow - but with sand...ah, Southerners. Green Bay and Pittsburgh alike deal with such conditions as just winter, and go on with the day. De-icing equipment passes over every flight leaving PIT, GRB,EWK and points north this time of year, and no big deal. Delays weren't about leaving cities to fly to DFW, but rather, to land there. By mid week, it was clear; this wasn't shaping up to be anybody's idea of a vacation. The work to get there nearly bested the fans who happily paid three grand for tickets. For Steeler Fans, it was not a year in which 7 had a clean path to Heaven. Lombardi went home to purify. To avoid being charged with a crime that would have forced the Roonies to cut him, Big Ben turned over the bulk of his salary for 2010 to Ed Garland. The Michael Vick experience was affirmed. #7 jereys burned. Vick has served his time and returned to the NFL to make the most of the 2nd chance he's earned. Ben was pummeled by TMZ for taking his Offensive Linemen to dinner - as they always do on Tuesdays, and closing out the evening at a karaoke bar. Geeze! Media can really hold a guy's feet to the fire, no? Big timer, Ed Garland negotiated a couple of incentive clauses to rep Ben's case down there in Georgia. 

Option Ben's Super Bowl bonus /  Milledgeville LawEnforcement off his case.



Media Glare

_________o_________

Back to Business

It's just business to the piranha drawing a paycheck in sports reporting.  Sensation IS substance.  Ben now undertakes the off-season of reflection on the responsibility of being 'the Man.'  This jock made an idiot's choice to ride a vroom, vroom motorcycle built for the race track without a frickin' helmet!  ABATE, an "activist"  biker crowd succeeded in having the helmet law revoked in Pennsylvania.  

Here's what I know:

Stars are "Bankable"

Prima Donnas are ballerinas. 

  Yet the ballerina, Tom Brady, won the MVP award.

Quarterback Gunslinger almost pulled it off but those subtle influences that weigh the scale

                                    __In favor of one well-matched team  /

over another___weren't on Ben's side. 

It was the subtlety awaiting the Business Man, Ben.  Deion and Marshall and Shannon entered the NFL Hall of Fame.  Dermonte Dawson and the Bus didn't.  There's this business arrangement known as a contract.  Nothing about Dawson and Bettis mattered.  It was that Steeler National Embarassment, Big Ben being a lowlife at a college bar in Georgia, trolling for action with a wing of off duty law enforcement sleaze pimping for him.  An offseason civil lawsuit filed by a ski resort concierge to whom the guy's style was just too presumptive weighed them down as well. Nothing the reporters can quite put their finger on, just a missing ingredient that gives the trophy to the others.  

Ok, the Steelers shouldn't get SEVEN Super Bowl Trophies before the rest of the league can even get One For The Thumb...we GET it.  But, Ben, ... Mr. Rooney, ... your MAN'S WORLD game has made for a lot of really akward moments.  I remember when the Media covered things like the incidence of Domestic Violence spiking on Super Bowl Sunday.  The volatile combination of gambling, alcohol and football was observed to be a life-threatening one for some family members.  A "google" of the claim turns up the astonishing and universally quoted Public Relations assertion that the whole thing's a myth.  Whoah, Clydesdales!  Does that mean it isn't happening, or that it isn't reported?  Are folks having Super Bowl gatherings to provide outlets for energies that might otherwise go haywire?  Or has the NFL succeeded in dismissing the notion of mahem off the field in the business interests of the owners?  I'm not suggesting that gentlemen who own NFL Franchises have swept it under the rug, but rather, that the wholesomeness of the GAME is the money-maker to be protected.  Early in the 2010 season, James Harrison was fined repeatedly for hits that went a jarring bit beyond the League's ability to sustain.  They demonstrated a distaste for the brute hit and it showed in the play of the League's MVP defensive player, Polamalu.  Once an "everywhere" "Out Of Nowhere" threat to quarterbacks, the playoffs reflected the HAIR, not the muscle.  The Ad Men were about the "Pola Molecules" not the athletecism.  I thought it looked as though the men in the striped shirts were keeping the rest of the League in the Game; penalties called on Steeler players eclipsed play in the games following Ben's return after a four game suspension.  Coach Tomlin and the players who covered Ben's behind discreetly, but at a price, demonstrated the level of substance that the Business Interests of this country have the ability to communicate.

I won't go reactionary on the NFL here.  I applaud their genuine business savvy.  People benefit from stability. Crazy, negative focus on the dark side of people, such as that delivered by main stream media, has a tendency to diminish confidence.  Work in Syndicated News Features Sales brought me into contact with the folks who "keep the doors open."  I learned that the Business of News is supported by Advertising.  Eight years of Clinton-bashing by the "Vast, Right Wing" conspiracy, followed by eight years of Bush-bashing conducted in the blogosphere and on TV confirmed for me that which I had discerned from the vibe I get from well-dressed women.  If you don't have something positive to say; say nothing.  Nobody "buys" opinions.  Opinions appear on the EDITORIAL Page, where you'll find NO Advertising.  That and the Front Page, are sacred common ground.  There the rules are universal.  Center.  Balance.  Equal Coverage.  Tight and slightly "to the Right."   It's just good business.  Worried people don't buy.  A buyer is one who manifests a "healthy discontent" with things as they are, and takes a calculated step toward improving the conditions of their respective lives.  In considering the move, they plan, anticipate obstacles and incorporate all other factors influencing their life.  Wholesale Change is poison to that balanced approach.  "Throwing out the Baby with the bathwater" is never a wise man's game.  Improving, not Overhauling, is the way to go.

An Editor can "influence" with the choice of headlines, photos and cutlines. But the Opinions are relegated to the inside first page.  Who reads that?  NOBODY!!!  So, the back page and page 3 are the high-priced real-estate of the Newspaper Convention.  Enter the Internet/Cable News.  Perhaps it's time the Journalism Major, Sarah Palin, gets the call to restore the rules and the knowledge thereof to those whores of us presently cranking out undisciplined, unrestrained, inartful excess. 

There!

I'm over myself.  My anger, frustration and disapproval of ignorant, pushy Progressives is contained.  I've been here.  I know this game.  It was the same challenge faced by the newspaper industry in the 70's when television Network News was overtaking daily newspapers.  Space is premium.  Items crystallized into tight quarters to maximize profits.  Stories that conflicted with the business interests of the Advertisers found themselves buried in the throw-away sections of the  "fish wrappers" - if they were published at all.  Folks checked the Sports Page, looked at the Gossip and the Comics and after that, had little time for the day-to-day stuff.  There, TV delivered.  "Stories" were parsed according to a Good News / Bad News quotient for the 12 year-old mentality to which news is pitched.

Here, in my private moment, I share this culmination of years of "Observing Objectively."  My choices have delivered me here, on my own door step, so to speak.  I am "reading" myself, understanding where I go from here.  I want to contribute, to be a respectable influence on my "universe."  To achieve that, I must find a way to communicate my insight in a language and slant that a twelve year old can process.  Becoming a multi-level processing unit has not been an easy task for me, but, here I am, Mother Mary.  Back from the "Cleaners" with enough to recommend me to the Editors.  My attempts to write for Children initiated twenty years ago get the call.  Again.  While JR was long-handing and outlining Harry Potter, I was skating the skreets, stretching my neck and EYES to make contact with myself in the mirror behind me.  Cleaning Ladies:  we have a job call.  Let's grab all the tools our expertise has earned and start the economic recovery for ourselves.  Last night's super bowl made it quite clear, it's not hard times for everybody.  Our success is our business.   We have always made our rules and so it is that we do today.       

The Legacy of R&BL Committee 5-31-2008 ... the Long "Progressive" Line

The Chicago Mob Style take-over of the Democratic Party launched by the Rules & By Laws Committee Actions of May 31, 2008 has resulted in the general thuggery now sweeping the PA House.  With zero sympathy for the "Members Of The Committee" being denied Voice by the Republican Leadership, I can only observe that the "Push Back" was easy fun for the boyz of the Progressive Leadership when it was Women and respectful traditional Democrats being pushed around.  With respect for the way men win, the way they cut deals, short-circuit the process and generally CHEAT wherever they can, we Women came to the DNC with the idea that we offer something of worth that will change the world.

Ah! The Wimminz.  We can't have them in charge.  They's already got half the money and ALL the pussy... which only counts in the straight world.  We need MEN in charge.  You know, the kind of guys, ... Congressman Bob Brady, D Philadelphia, who reacts to the shooting of his female colleague with a motion to protect himself and his fellow representatives with legislation.  I thought - or my high school teachers taught me to believe - that the wheels of Government gear slowly; deliberately so, to prevent reactionary legislation...or men like John Edwards who would play "cut throat" with the nomination process, jamming a female candidate as though we were conducting a mugging instead of an election. 

That Mob-Style "Push Back," of Adam Greene http://boldprogressives.org/sestakpollresults.html and  these NutRoots guys doesn't fly, as Alan Greyson discovered.  Supported by 20 and 30 Something women who take their opportunities for granted, the guys must now, themselves, make the Forced March back to stability.  Even the Gentlemen of the Democratic Party stood by and took delight in the Circus, no, the Bacchanal that was the Democratic Convention in Denver.  They tried to pass it off as SUCCESS!   I have never had a worse taste in my mouth than when I endured the gloating of FORMER Pennsylvania Democratic Committee Chairman, T.J. Rooney about their "great" victory in 2008.  At that same Executive Committee meeting, Rooney impatiently verbally abused the member who objected to the inclusion of the County Chairs in the Executicve Committee's Budget Approval meeting.  He then proceeded to flag his plans to further pile on the Woman who objected to the DNC's theft of the votes of 18 million Democrats.  SOME WINNERS!  He's gone now, along with his sour-faced Executive Director, Mary Isenhour who somehow didn't make the association between asking State Committee people for $100 to attend a weenies and beanies fundraiser to pay her salary and treating those contributing members with respect. 

For all you PROGRESSIVES out there:

• When you equate taking money from manipulators who will use you and lose you, you'll learn how it feels to be called a whore.   
• When you think full campaign coffers trumps courageous votes, such as those caste by Arlen Specter
• When you "threaten" members of Congress, who don't rubber stamp your agenda, with Primary Challenges
• When you accuse female candidates for high political office of corruption while defending, to the hilt, a corrupt politician
• When you adopt an "Ends Justify The Means" policy to ensure that at the end of each day YOU WIN
• When you run your mouth, curtail discussion and refuse to even consider the views of the minority

...It's just a matter of time before YOU ARE THE MINORITY!

Boo! Freaking Hoo!  Mike Turzai is violating your rights!  I can't hardly stand it, it's so poetically right on target!  Now the "Progressives" can - in the words of Ben Franklin - "Repent At Leisure."  Nice work, Guys.  How's that PUSH BACK thing working for yinz?

From My Brothers & Sisters



The Only Jet Going To Dallas



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 -

- DING -

word of the day, "WOMEN"

- DING -

- DING -

-DING -

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.