RAIN Minus 18
Item First – Let it RAIN: From now until the presidential Election Day we will begin each post with a review of the Remove All Incumbents Now (RAIN) campaign. A good rain washes clean all the road scum, dust and filth. We hope that a cleansing of Congress will result in the firing of the legislators who are part of the group that bailed out Wall Street with nearly a trillion dollars, at least 150 billion of which was blatant authorized pork by Democrats to appease Republicans who had previously rejected the bill then changed their vote allowing it to pass after being seduced by pork. We are not sure how much of the bailout, if any, was actually needed.
The following item was sent to me by a dear friend and former colleague, Dr. Jerry. It was written by a newsman and columnist of nearly 50 years. If you still doubt the need for the RAIN campaign, read on:
545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese (former Orlando Sentinel columnist)
“Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we still have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes? You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices; 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank. I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes. Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted - by present facts - of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist. If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. If the Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ. If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do. Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They and they alone, have the power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!”
Say it ain’t so, Joe: "Joe the Plumber" isn't really a plumber. As the result of the mention of his name more than two dozen times in the 90-minute presidential debates, and Senator McCain’s tongue in cheek remark that he has fired his entire staff and replaced them with Joe the Plumber, he reached instant stardom. An internet company began selling “Joe the Plumber” tee shirts, baseball caps, buttons, and yard signs. But it seems that Joe got the same amount of pre-star status vetting as did the VP candidate – little to none. Turns out Joe the Plumber is actually a guy named Sam – Samuel J. Wurzenbacher, an unlicensed and unregistered employee of a small plumbing and heating company in suburban Toledo, Ohio. Had the McCain handlers set up their opponent with Joe, uh, Sam? A senior adviser to the McCain campaign said it had been in contact with the plumber before the debate but it apparently failed to look carefully into his background before McCain made an unwitting celebrity of him. Before the debate was even finished, three local television stations had parked live satellite trucks outside his home and the networks were rushing to interview him. He was portrayed as an “ordinary Joe,” a proxy for working people and an ordinary American.
Biggest plumber’s leak since Watergate: “Every Joe” turned out to be a 34-year-old plumber's assistant – not a registered plumber but a registered Republican with a quick racist remark that Barack Obama "can tap dance - almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr." Setting his toiletries aside, Joe/Sam the non-registered plumber shook hands with Senator Obama and told him he wants to buy the business he works for which would increase his income and therefore his taxes, although it turns out that higher taxes aren’t his only problem. There is no record of him in the database of the Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board, he is not registered to work as a plumber in Ohio, he had a lien against him by the Ohio Department of Taxation in January, 2007, for failing to pay $1,183 in property taxes. To add more egg to their faces, the business manager of the Toledo local of the United Association of Plumbers, Steamfitters & Service Mechanics issued a statement complaining Joe the Plumber hadn't even undergone apprenticeship training.
A little blogging music Maestro… The odie by the late Rick Nelson, ”Fools Rush In.”
Dr. Forgot
http://drforgot.com
Read me also at http://vegasnews.squarespace.com/dr-forgot-andrew-r-nixon/
Friday, October 17, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
19 Days to RAIN Day
RAIN Minus 19
Item First – Let it RAIN: From now until the presidential Election Day we will begin each post with a review of the Remove All Incumbents Now (RAIN) campaign. A good rain washes clean all the road scum, dust and filth. We hope that a cleansing of Congress will result in the firing of the legislators who are part of the group that bailed out Wall Street with nearly a trillion dollars, at least 150 billion of which was blatant authorized pork by Democrats to appease Republicans who had previously rejected the bill then changed their vote allowing it to pass after being seduced by pork. We are not sure how much of the bailout, if any, was actually needed.
Hello, calling Joe the Plumber: Not since Jake Plummer the quarterback from Arizona State University was drafted by the hometown Cardinals has a Plummer received so much attention. Joe the Plumber was mentioned 23 times in last night’s debate, 20 of which were by Senator McCain. That was not so unusual except that Joe the Plumber from small-town Holland, Ohio was visited before the debate not by Senator McCain but by Senator Obama. Joe, a single father who works from sunup to sundown unplugging drains and installing toilets, asked Senator Obama what would happen if he bought a business and earned between $ 250,000 and $ 270,000. In fairness, Senator Obama told him his taxes on everything over $ 250,000 would increase by 3%. Let’s see, that would be an increase of $ 600 if he hit the $ 270,000 per year goal. Not exactly a royal flush but Senator McCain insisted the increase would further clog the drain and money would not flow. After hearing the potential earnings we have to believe that applications for plumbing jobs have increased substantially in Ohio.
No tulips or windmills in this Holland: Hans Brinker wore silver skates and was an amateur plumber as he put his finger in the dike to save Holland in a children’s story. Senator McCain did his best to put Senator Obama in Dutch by not holding back any water about Joe the Plumber in Holland, Ohio. In the children’s story Mr. Brinker is unable to work as the result of a fall from a dike. Mrs. Brinker, son Hans and daughter Gretel all worked various jobs to support the family, and were looked down upon in the community because of their low income and poor status. In real life in Greta grows up to get her own show on Fox News Hans becomes a fake weightlifter in a Saturday Night Live skit. Joe the Plumber, meanwhile, dreams of skating to annual riches of $ 270,000 silver dollars. We are not sure what happened to the Mrs. in real life. All we know from news reports is that Joe the Plumber is a single father. We hope Joe (Wurzelbacher) the Plumber’s family lives happily ever after just as the Brinkers did in the story.
Barack and John bob and weave: The debate between the two presidential candidates was the most spirited meeting the two have had. Even though, that giant sucking sound heard round the nation was most likely not hot air coming from the candidates. Although there was plenty of that. Rather, the noise was a collective sigh from the American public that the debates are finally over and the election cannot come soon enough. Presidential elections come every four years in America but the process of identifying a candidate and selecting a president seems to have lasted for at least a decade. We’re not sure if the weariness of the public over the long and arduous process will favor one candidate over the other but it is our hope that both parties will have learned a lesson and will not repeat the torture they’ve put the public through. No doubt CNN, Fox News, and CNBC will take an opposing view on that opinion.
Senator McCain assumed a pugilistic stance in the debate and took nearly every opportunity to jab at Senator Obama. Most polls, including the CNN and CBS flash polls taken after the debate, reported Obama won though certainly not by a knockout. Senator McCain danced around questions and sparred with the Illinois senator. He tried landing punches with the left hook (William Ayers), and with a right cross, as well as comments by Rep. John Lewis of Georgia. He relentlessly tried rabbit punches and hammerlocks by using Joe the plumber. But in the end it was a split decision by the judges with Fox News declaring McCain the winner and CNN and CBS declaring it an Obama victory.
Internet buzz suggests Joe the Plumber was a plant: Is there really a Joe the Plumber? Is he a member of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union? Could he have been a plant? Let’s see, if we were conspiracy theorists we would consider that Senator McCain brought the topic up and used it more than 20 times during the debate. What is the official position of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union? According to a letter on their website:
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
On January 9, 2008, the United Association became the first International Union to endorse Senator Barack Obama as its candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. This endorsement was discussed with the General Executive Board and they concurred.
Barack Obama is the choice of the UA because he has always fought for working people throughout his career and will do the best job of bringing badly-needed change to Washington. Obama will help us keep existing jobs and work to develop new, higher paying jobs here in America, reform our health care system, fix our ailing schools and make sure that the pensions of our retirees are safe.
So is Joe a disgruntled member, not a member (Heavens, a SCAB?????) or just a guy who wants to buy a plumbing company who thinks Senator McCain offers him more than the opponent? Or was John McCain simply well prepared for the debate. Of course, Senator Obama had his won cause célèbre in the name of Lily Ledbetter. Ledbetter, 70, a former supervisor for an Alabama Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant, lost her gender pay-discrimination suit more than a year ago in the U.S. Supreme Court. Regardless, let’s hope it is a slow toilet flow week so Joe doesn’t miss many calls.
The left wing buzz: Many left wing blogs have brought up questions about Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher. The questions include: The Plumber was playing football outside with his son when he came upon the crowd gathered around Obama. What else would explain how conservative sites got stories posted about him in advance of the debate and how easily everyone else found him for interviews? Others rumors suggest The plumber is not a registered voter, is not a licensed plumber in the state of Ohio, already owns several companies, and that he might be related to Charles Keating’s son-in-law (Keating of the Keating 5 scandal that implicated McCain. The only thing that news media has confirmed is that he is not licensed. However, it seems the left has learned from Karl Rove how to trash a person.
A little blogging music Maestro… The old Country standard ”Flushed From the Bathroom of Your Heart.”
Dr. Forgot
http://drforgot.com
Read me also at http://vegasnews.squarespace.com/dr-forgot-andrew-r-nixon/
Item First – Let it RAIN: From now until the presidential Election Day we will begin each post with a review of the Remove All Incumbents Now (RAIN) campaign. A good rain washes clean all the road scum, dust and filth. We hope that a cleansing of Congress will result in the firing of the legislators who are part of the group that bailed out Wall Street with nearly a trillion dollars, at least 150 billion of which was blatant authorized pork by Democrats to appease Republicans who had previously rejected the bill then changed their vote allowing it to pass after being seduced by pork. We are not sure how much of the bailout, if any, was actually needed.
Hello, calling Joe the Plumber: Not since Jake Plummer the quarterback from Arizona State University was drafted by the hometown Cardinals has a Plummer received so much attention. Joe the Plumber was mentioned 23 times in last night’s debate, 20 of which were by Senator McCain. That was not so unusual except that Joe the Plumber from small-town Holland, Ohio was visited before the debate not by Senator McCain but by Senator Obama. Joe, a single father who works from sunup to sundown unplugging drains and installing toilets, asked Senator Obama what would happen if he bought a business and earned between $ 250,000 and $ 270,000. In fairness, Senator Obama told him his taxes on everything over $ 250,000 would increase by 3%. Let’s see, that would be an increase of $ 600 if he hit the $ 270,000 per year goal. Not exactly a royal flush but Senator McCain insisted the increase would further clog the drain and money would not flow. After hearing the potential earnings we have to believe that applications for plumbing jobs have increased substantially in Ohio.
No tulips or windmills in this Holland: Hans Brinker wore silver skates and was an amateur plumber as he put his finger in the dike to save Holland in a children’s story. Senator McCain did his best to put Senator Obama in Dutch by not holding back any water about Joe the Plumber in Holland, Ohio. In the children’s story Mr. Brinker is unable to work as the result of a fall from a dike. Mrs. Brinker, son Hans and daughter Gretel all worked various jobs to support the family, and were looked down upon in the community because of their low income and poor status. In real life in Greta grows up to get her own show on Fox News Hans becomes a fake weightlifter in a Saturday Night Live skit. Joe the Plumber, meanwhile, dreams of skating to annual riches of $ 270,000 silver dollars. We are not sure what happened to the Mrs. in real life. All we know from news reports is that Joe the Plumber is a single father. We hope Joe (Wurzelbacher) the Plumber’s family lives happily ever after just as the Brinkers did in the story.
Barack and John bob and weave: The debate between the two presidential candidates was the most spirited meeting the two have had. Even though, that giant sucking sound heard round the nation was most likely not hot air coming from the candidates. Although there was plenty of that. Rather, the noise was a collective sigh from the American public that the debates are finally over and the election cannot come soon enough. Presidential elections come every four years in America but the process of identifying a candidate and selecting a president seems to have lasted for at least a decade. We’re not sure if the weariness of the public over the long and arduous process will favor one candidate over the other but it is our hope that both parties will have learned a lesson and will not repeat the torture they’ve put the public through. No doubt CNN, Fox News, and CNBC will take an opposing view on that opinion.
Senator McCain assumed a pugilistic stance in the debate and took nearly every opportunity to jab at Senator Obama. Most polls, including the CNN and CBS flash polls taken after the debate, reported Obama won though certainly not by a knockout. Senator McCain danced around questions and sparred with the Illinois senator. He tried landing punches with the left hook (William Ayers), and with a right cross, as well as comments by Rep. John Lewis of Georgia. He relentlessly tried rabbit punches and hammerlocks by using Joe the plumber. But in the end it was a split decision by the judges with Fox News declaring McCain the winner and CNN and CBS declaring it an Obama victory.
Internet buzz suggests Joe the Plumber was a plant: Is there really a Joe the Plumber? Is he a member of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union? Could he have been a plant? Let’s see, if we were conspiracy theorists we would consider that Senator McCain brought the topic up and used it more than 20 times during the debate. What is the official position of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union? According to a letter on their website:
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
On January 9, 2008, the United Association became the first International Union to endorse Senator Barack Obama as its candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. This endorsement was discussed with the General Executive Board and they concurred.
Barack Obama is the choice of the UA because he has always fought for working people throughout his career and will do the best job of bringing badly-needed change to Washington. Obama will help us keep existing jobs and work to develop new, higher paying jobs here in America, reform our health care system, fix our ailing schools and make sure that the pensions of our retirees are safe.
So is Joe a disgruntled member, not a member (Heavens, a SCAB?????) or just a guy who wants to buy a plumbing company who thinks Senator McCain offers him more than the opponent? Or was John McCain simply well prepared for the debate. Of course, Senator Obama had his won cause célèbre in the name of Lily Ledbetter. Ledbetter, 70, a former supervisor for an Alabama Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant, lost her gender pay-discrimination suit more than a year ago in the U.S. Supreme Court. Regardless, let’s hope it is a slow toilet flow week so Joe doesn’t miss many calls.
The left wing buzz: Many left wing blogs have brought up questions about Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher. The questions include: The Plumber was playing football outside with his son when he came upon the crowd gathered around Obama. What else would explain how conservative sites got stories posted about him in advance of the debate and how easily everyone else found him for interviews? Others rumors suggest The plumber is not a registered voter, is not a licensed plumber in the state of Ohio, already owns several companies, and that he might be related to Charles Keating’s son-in-law (Keating of the Keating 5 scandal that implicated McCain. The only thing that news media has confirmed is that he is not licensed. However, it seems the left has learned from Karl Rove how to trash a person.
A little blogging music Maestro… The old Country standard ”Flushed From the Bathroom of Your Heart.”
Dr. Forgot
http://drforgot.com
Read me also at http://vegasnews.squarespace.com/dr-forgot-andrew-r-nixon/
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
20 Days to RAIN Day
RAIN Minus 20
Item First – Let it RAIN: From now until the presidential Election Day we will begin each post with a review of the Remove All Incumbents Now (RAIN) campaign. A good rain washes clean all the road scum, dust and filth. We hope that a cleansing of Congress will result in the firing of the legislators who are part of the group that bailed out Wall Street with nearly a trillion dollars, at least 150 billion of which was blatant authorized pork by Democrats to appease Republicans who had previously rejected the bill then changed their vote allowing it to pass after being seduced by pork. We are not sure how much of the bailout, if any, was actually needed.
April in Paris; Paris in November: That darling of the horny teenage boys, Paris Hilton has struck again. To refresh your failing memory, assuming you’re a typical U.S. voter, the good Senator McCain’s campaign ran an ad some time ago referring to his opponent as a rock star. The ad overlaid (no pun intended) the Divine Ms. Hilton (sorry Ms. M) to imply, I guess that she and other groupies are the only ones who support Rock Star Obie. Paris, in a move that stunned those who saw her as a typical blonde airhead (the world) struck back with a fake ad of her own that had her discussing real issues in a tongue-in-cheek fake run for the presidency. Well, she apparently hit another one out of the park. With her political advisor – fake president Martin Sheen (not to be confused of that late night idol of old, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen), Paris talks about her Fo-Po, “That’s Foreign Policy, silly.” You can view the full video on funnyordie.com. The scary part is that some of her comments make more sense than those of the real candidates.
She fought the law and the law won: While not exactly the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Orange County (Florida) Sheriffs apparently got their man – uh woman. Her lawyer painted her as a half step behind Mother Teresa and at least close to sainthood but the smokeys just went ahead and slapped the cuffs on her anyhow. Who was the object of the gendarme’s attention? Casey Anthony. Doesn’t ring a bell? She’s the Florida mother of toddler Caylee Anthony who disappeared. Authorities have believed for some time that Casey was complicit in some manner but she’s been able to evade arrest. However She’d been indicted by a grand jury and was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child and four counts of providing false information to police. An undercover car observed her as she drove home on the pretext of turning herself in then quickly hopped into another car in what appeared to be a possible escape attempt. So they nailed her. The body of little Caylee has not yet been found.
Sex drugs rock and roll by the barrel: As the gentle Pacific breezes waft through his island cottage, Bobby Maxwell reflects on how his life has changed since he blew the whistle. For more than 20 years Bobby was an auditor for the government – ours, not OPEC’s. It was his duty to monitor the goings on in the oil industry. He along with others in his department were charged with keeping the oil flowing to the American public honestly and smoothly. Bobby took his job seriously. He claims others did not and his version of the “cult of corruption” that he tried to derail is backed up by a recent government report. The tiny agency within the Department of the Interior is called the Minerals Management Service, which manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on federal lands. The Interior Department's inspector general report was released earlier this month. It found that between 2003 and 2006 employees at the agency received improper gifts from energy industry officials and engaged with them in illegal drug use and inappropriate sexual relations. After receiving an award for saving the government a half billion dollars by collecting unpaid royalties, Bobby’s job was eliminated. Shortly after the Bush administration took office the improper gifts of sex, drugs, and rock and roll began to flow. Add one more reason to vote every incumbent out of office November 4 and hope that those who participated in the above do hard jail time.
All hail the passion pit of days gone by: Back in the days when men were men and women were glad of it many children were conceived at the drive-in movie. A popular bumper sticker from the 1950s read “Baby made in back seat of car with automatic transmission grows up to be shiftless bastard.” Let me set the stage; he wore a form fitting t-shirt – that alone was brazen as the tee shirt was considered to be underwear by the older generation. He also wore Levis – not just any brand of blue jeans, and engineer boots – big black clodhoppers that were so ugly they were cool. He drove an old Ford with a “necking knob” on the steering wheel. It allowed him to turn the wheel easily with one arm in those pre-power steering days. She wore a hoop skirt and blouse. Together they went on a date to the drive-in movie (admission 35 cents) but he was determined to not watch the film. The speaker was a little metal box that hung over the window and had one button for volume. Before the movie started he played tag on the movie screen with the spotlight attached to his car’s door, but once the lights went down and the music came up romance was the main feature. First base, second base, third base… use your imagination. After 75 years the drive in movie still exists but today’s patrons are more likely to be families in pickup trucks. It just isn’t the same.
The bailout – why every incumbent needs to be dumped - NOW: We are so easily led. George Bush and his administration took advantage of the panic after the 9/11 incident to lead us into war with a country that posed no threat, had nothing to do with 9/11, has cost us billions of dollars and the lives of four thousand of our bravest young soldiers. Yet congress applauded the furor-based tripe like so many seals clapping their flippers. Nearly every Congressperson followed in lock step. But they learned from the fiasco that followed, right? WRONG! Slick Georgie Boy tried it again. When the investment banks run by his buddies began to stumble his Treasury Secretary joined him in another sky-is-falling panic speech. A $ 700 billion bailout was needed NOW! Hurry! If we wait even 24 hours the entire country will collapse. This time the conservative House Republicans said uh-uh so Happy Harry Reid bribed them with another hundred billion or so in pork. Both presidential candidates voted “Aye.” Now that’s bipartisanship not seen since they marched lockstep into the Iraq quagmire. Ten days later the U.S. Treasury has decided to give banks another $ 250 billion. If Congress was a comic strip character they’d be Charlie Brown and W would be Lucy snatching the football away each time he kicked at it. Sadly Congress is not a comic book character, although some of their antics belong in the funny pages, and your grandchildren and their grandchildren will be paying off Bush’s Bungles. They all need to be fired and you, the voter have the authority to do that. I urge every reader to join the Remove All Incumbents Now (RAIN) campaign. On November 4 vote for the presidential ticket you believe will damage our country least, then vote against every Senator and Congressman who is running for reelection.
A little blogging music Maestro…”Deal With the Devil” by Judas Priest.
Dr. Forgot
http://drforgot.com
Read me also at http://vegasnews.squarespace.com/dr-forgot-andrew-r-nixon/
Item First – Let it RAIN: From now until the presidential Election Day we will begin each post with a review of the Remove All Incumbents Now (RAIN) campaign. A good rain washes clean all the road scum, dust and filth. We hope that a cleansing of Congress will result in the firing of the legislators who are part of the group that bailed out Wall Street with nearly a trillion dollars, at least 150 billion of which was blatant authorized pork by Democrats to appease Republicans who had previously rejected the bill then changed their vote allowing it to pass after being seduced by pork. We are not sure how much of the bailout, if any, was actually needed.
April in Paris; Paris in November: That darling of the horny teenage boys, Paris Hilton has struck again. To refresh your failing memory, assuming you’re a typical U.S. voter, the good Senator McCain’s campaign ran an ad some time ago referring to his opponent as a rock star. The ad overlaid (no pun intended) the Divine Ms. Hilton (sorry Ms. M) to imply, I guess that she and other groupies are the only ones who support Rock Star Obie. Paris, in a move that stunned those who saw her as a typical blonde airhead (the world) struck back with a fake ad of her own that had her discussing real issues in a tongue-in-cheek fake run for the presidency. Well, she apparently hit another one out of the park. With her political advisor – fake president Martin Sheen (not to be confused of that late night idol of old, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen), Paris talks about her Fo-Po, “That’s Foreign Policy, silly.” You can view the full video on funnyordie.com. The scary part is that some of her comments make more sense than those of the real candidates.
She fought the law and the law won: While not exactly the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Orange County (Florida) Sheriffs apparently got their man – uh woman. Her lawyer painted her as a half step behind Mother Teresa and at least close to sainthood but the smokeys just went ahead and slapped the cuffs on her anyhow. Who was the object of the gendarme’s attention? Casey Anthony. Doesn’t ring a bell? She’s the Florida mother of toddler Caylee Anthony who disappeared. Authorities have believed for some time that Casey was complicit in some manner but she’s been able to evade arrest. However She’d been indicted by a grand jury and was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child and four counts of providing false information to police. An undercover car observed her as she drove home on the pretext of turning herself in then quickly hopped into another car in what appeared to be a possible escape attempt. So they nailed her. The body of little Caylee has not yet been found.
Sex drugs rock and roll by the barrel: As the gentle Pacific breezes waft through his island cottage, Bobby Maxwell reflects on how his life has changed since he blew the whistle. For more than 20 years Bobby was an auditor for the government – ours, not OPEC’s. It was his duty to monitor the goings on in the oil industry. He along with others in his department were charged with keeping the oil flowing to the American public honestly and smoothly. Bobby took his job seriously. He claims others did not and his version of the “cult of corruption” that he tried to derail is backed up by a recent government report. The tiny agency within the Department of the Interior is called the Minerals Management Service, which manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on federal lands. The Interior Department's inspector general report was released earlier this month. It found that between 2003 and 2006 employees at the agency received improper gifts from energy industry officials and engaged with them in illegal drug use and inappropriate sexual relations. After receiving an award for saving the government a half billion dollars by collecting unpaid royalties, Bobby’s job was eliminated. Shortly after the Bush administration took office the improper gifts of sex, drugs, and rock and roll began to flow. Add one more reason to vote every incumbent out of office November 4 and hope that those who participated in the above do hard jail time.
All hail the passion pit of days gone by: Back in the days when men were men and women were glad of it many children were conceived at the drive-in movie. A popular bumper sticker from the 1950s read “Baby made in back seat of car with automatic transmission grows up to be shiftless bastard.” Let me set the stage; he wore a form fitting t-shirt – that alone was brazen as the tee shirt was considered to be underwear by the older generation. He also wore Levis – not just any brand of blue jeans, and engineer boots – big black clodhoppers that were so ugly they were cool. He drove an old Ford with a “necking knob” on the steering wheel. It allowed him to turn the wheel easily with one arm in those pre-power steering days. She wore a hoop skirt and blouse. Together they went on a date to the drive-in movie (admission 35 cents) but he was determined to not watch the film. The speaker was a little metal box that hung over the window and had one button for volume. Before the movie started he played tag on the movie screen with the spotlight attached to his car’s door, but once the lights went down and the music came up romance was the main feature. First base, second base, third base… use your imagination. After 75 years the drive in movie still exists but today’s patrons are more likely to be families in pickup trucks. It just isn’t the same.
The bailout – why every incumbent needs to be dumped - NOW: We are so easily led. George Bush and his administration took advantage of the panic after the 9/11 incident to lead us into war with a country that posed no threat, had nothing to do with 9/11, has cost us billions of dollars and the lives of four thousand of our bravest young soldiers. Yet congress applauded the furor-based tripe like so many seals clapping their flippers. Nearly every Congressperson followed in lock step. But they learned from the fiasco that followed, right? WRONG! Slick Georgie Boy tried it again. When the investment banks run by his buddies began to stumble his Treasury Secretary joined him in another sky-is-falling panic speech. A $ 700 billion bailout was needed NOW! Hurry! If we wait even 24 hours the entire country will collapse. This time the conservative House Republicans said uh-uh so Happy Harry Reid bribed them with another hundred billion or so in pork. Both presidential candidates voted “Aye.” Now that’s bipartisanship not seen since they marched lockstep into the Iraq quagmire. Ten days later the U.S. Treasury has decided to give banks another $ 250 billion. If Congress was a comic strip character they’d be Charlie Brown and W would be Lucy snatching the football away each time he kicked at it. Sadly Congress is not a comic book character, although some of their antics belong in the funny pages, and your grandchildren and their grandchildren will be paying off Bush’s Bungles. They all need to be fired and you, the voter have the authority to do that. I urge every reader to join the Remove All Incumbents Now (RAIN) campaign. On November 4 vote for the presidential ticket you believe will damage our country least, then vote against every Senator and Congressman who is running for reelection.
A little blogging music Maestro…”Deal With the Devil” by Judas Priest.
Dr. Forgot
http://drforgot.com
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Monday, October 13, 2008
22 Days to E-Day
RAIN Minus 22
Item First – Let it RAIN: From now until the presidential Election Day we will begin each post with a review of the Remove All Incumbents Now (RAIN) campaign. A good rain washes clean all the road scum, dust and filth. We hope that a cleansing of Congress will result in the firing of the legislators who are part of the group that bailed out Wall Street with nearly a trillion dollars, at least 150 billion of which was blatant authorized pork by Democrats to appease Republicans who had previously rejected the bill then changed their vote allowing it to pass after being seduced by pork. We are not sure how much of the bailout, if any, was actually needed.
Up your stock market: Who can follow the logic of the market? The Wall Street pundits are in the same category of John Madden and other football commentators. They can always tell you what happened and why it happened after it happened. Last week when the market dropped nearly 20% - the largest one week drop in the history 100 plus years it has been operation, the pundits fell over one another trying to get face time on TV to tell the viewing public why it happened. Of course, none could predict that today more than half of that loss would be made up as the stock market had its biggest leap in history. But there they are again telling exactly how it happened. These are the same geniuses on whose watch the market fell last week and the week before and the week before and…
Boys will be boys: The waaaaaay-too-long election campaigns continue to drone on. Three long weeks of childish playground arguments between the principal parties – tongues wagging and other silliness. One candidate sticks his tongue out the other answers by making donkey ears. Today in Ohio one laid out a recovery plan that included tax credits and a stimulus package and the other promptly responded that the plan was irresponsible. My greatest fear is that the voters in America will become so fed up with the back-and-forth between the candidates and their childish surrogates that there will be a loss of interest and many will not bother to vote. The mudslinging from both sides has become such that the average American voter, who at best makes up their mind based on those 30 second sound bites, will decide that both sides are corrupt and stay home on Election Day. I’m sure some pundit somewhere has figured out that if that were to happen it would favor one candidate over the other. I urge every voter to not fall into that trap. Choose the candidate who you feel would do the least damage and vote for the presidency, but vote AGAINST all incumbents. Send a message to congress.
Continued hatred from the pulpit: Few things are so disheartening as when a so-called “Man of God” or one who calls himself a Christian speaks with such un-Christ like rhetoric. Today a clip was shown of a minister giving an invocation at a political rally who suggested that if the opponent won God would be mocked. In California at least two churches (Mormon and Catholic) are sending emails and letters to all their members and their priests and bishops are pounding the pulpit in an effort to support legislation that would not allow gay couples to marry because it is not of “God’s word.” I might be going way out on a limb here but why is it that every time a person who preaches to a congregation wishes to make a particular point they use God as their source of information. For some reason I have to think that if God wanted the world to know how he feels about the bedroom behavior between two consenting adults He would have let us know – and it would not be by whispering to all those folks who presumably have spoken to Him. Somehow I can’t imagine that God has an opinion of who commits their lives to whom, who the winner is in a given war, or which football team wins the Brigham Young University/Notre Dame game.
Other news – really there is some: Well, at least the news ticker lists it. I must have been absent during the years The Brady Bunch sitcom ran on TV as I did not watch it. I don’t know Marcia Brady, played by Maureen McCormick or her TV sibling played by Barry Williams. I’m sorry if those poor coddled kids who were making millions were getting stoned while I struggled to eke out a living. The million-heiress Miss had such a difficult life that at age 14 she was making more per episode than many a worker did in 40 years of struggle. So it is difficult to sympathize with her. Little Miss Perfect on TV apparently snorted cocaine on set, dated celebrities including Michael Jackson and Steve Martin, went to parties at the Playboy Mansion, and traded drugs for sex. Now she has written a tell all (or “Who cares?”) book and hopes you buy it so at age 52 she doesn’t have to live such a hard life any longer. Poor baby.
Recession, Correction, Depression obsession: Many of my relatives including my parents, uncles and aunts and their peers lived through the “Great Depression.” Based on stories I’ve heard and photos I’ve seen of that era of the 1930s – this ain’t it. Pundits have a tendency to understate the stock market – like when it takes a dive and they call it a “correction,” I call it a crash. Or when the economy is struggling as it has for the past months and they call it a Depression. Taking a page from the oral history of those how lived through the Great Depression, and reading logs, and accounts of that era including novels (that’s what we had before TV docudramas) such as John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath,” A snapshot by Donna LeBlanc of Louisiana of the depression appeared recently appeared on the CNN news blog. A firsthand account of Depression life follows: "She remembered vividly the barrels of flour, the bolts of cloth and the hunger in the faces of people as they begged for store credit," LeBlanc said. "The store must have been at least marginally successful, because my grandmother was able to purchase, a piece at a time, a complete six-person setting of Gorham Chantilly silverware for her trousseau, linens and even a Lane cedar chest to house her treasures."
The couple would catch wild hogs, feed them corn for a year and eat them once the wild taste was out of the scavenging animals. They also took advantage of available squirrel meat, a common food in the South at that time.
"It was a uniquely disgusting thing ... to see my grandfather take a stewed, skinned squirrel's head, smack the skull's dome with a heavy silver tablespoon, and dine on the brains."
A little blogging music Maestro... “Poor Unfortunate Souls” by the Jonas Brothers.
Dr. Forgot
http://drforgot.com
Read me also at http://vegasnews.squarespace.com/dr-forgot-andrew-r-nixon/
Item First – Let it RAIN: From now until the presidential Election Day we will begin each post with a review of the Remove All Incumbents Now (RAIN) campaign. A good rain washes clean all the road scum, dust and filth. We hope that a cleansing of Congress will result in the firing of the legislators who are part of the group that bailed out Wall Street with nearly a trillion dollars, at least 150 billion of which was blatant authorized pork by Democrats to appease Republicans who had previously rejected the bill then changed their vote allowing it to pass after being seduced by pork. We are not sure how much of the bailout, if any, was actually needed.
Up your stock market: Who can follow the logic of the market? The Wall Street pundits are in the same category of John Madden and other football commentators. They can always tell you what happened and why it happened after it happened. Last week when the market dropped nearly 20% - the largest one week drop in the history 100 plus years it has been operation, the pundits fell over one another trying to get face time on TV to tell the viewing public why it happened. Of course, none could predict that today more than half of that loss would be made up as the stock market had its biggest leap in history. But there they are again telling exactly how it happened. These are the same geniuses on whose watch the market fell last week and the week before and the week before and…
Boys will be boys: The waaaaaay-too-long election campaigns continue to drone on. Three long weeks of childish playground arguments between the principal parties – tongues wagging and other silliness. One candidate sticks his tongue out the other answers by making donkey ears. Today in Ohio one laid out a recovery plan that included tax credits and a stimulus package and the other promptly responded that the plan was irresponsible. My greatest fear is that the voters in America will become so fed up with the back-and-forth between the candidates and their childish surrogates that there will be a loss of interest and many will not bother to vote. The mudslinging from both sides has become such that the average American voter, who at best makes up their mind based on those 30 second sound bites, will decide that both sides are corrupt and stay home on Election Day. I’m sure some pundit somewhere has figured out that if that were to happen it would favor one candidate over the other. I urge every voter to not fall into that trap. Choose the candidate who you feel would do the least damage and vote for the presidency, but vote AGAINST all incumbents. Send a message to congress.
Continued hatred from the pulpit: Few things are so disheartening as when a so-called “Man of God” or one who calls himself a Christian speaks with such un-Christ like rhetoric. Today a clip was shown of a minister giving an invocation at a political rally who suggested that if the opponent won God would be mocked. In California at least two churches (Mormon and Catholic) are sending emails and letters to all their members and their priests and bishops are pounding the pulpit in an effort to support legislation that would not allow gay couples to marry because it is not of “God’s word.” I might be going way out on a limb here but why is it that every time a person who preaches to a congregation wishes to make a particular point they use God as their source of information. For some reason I have to think that if God wanted the world to know how he feels about the bedroom behavior between two consenting adults He would have let us know – and it would not be by whispering to all those folks who presumably have spoken to Him. Somehow I can’t imagine that God has an opinion of who commits their lives to whom, who the winner is in a given war, or which football team wins the Brigham Young University/Notre Dame game.
Other news – really there is some: Well, at least the news ticker lists it. I must have been absent during the years The Brady Bunch sitcom ran on TV as I did not watch it. I don’t know Marcia Brady, played by Maureen McCormick or her TV sibling played by Barry Williams. I’m sorry if those poor coddled kids who were making millions were getting stoned while I struggled to eke out a living. The million-heiress Miss had such a difficult life that at age 14 she was making more per episode than many a worker did in 40 years of struggle. So it is difficult to sympathize with her. Little Miss Perfect on TV apparently snorted cocaine on set, dated celebrities including Michael Jackson and Steve Martin, went to parties at the Playboy Mansion, and traded drugs for sex. Now she has written a tell all (or “Who cares?”) book and hopes you buy it so at age 52 she doesn’t have to live such a hard life any longer. Poor baby.
Recession, Correction, Depression obsession: Many of my relatives including my parents, uncles and aunts and their peers lived through the “Great Depression.” Based on stories I’ve heard and photos I’ve seen of that era of the 1930s – this ain’t it. Pundits have a tendency to understate the stock market – like when it takes a dive and they call it a “correction,” I call it a crash. Or when the economy is struggling as it has for the past months and they call it a Depression. Taking a page from the oral history of those how lived through the Great Depression, and reading logs, and accounts of that era including novels (that’s what we had before TV docudramas) such as John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath,” A snapshot by Donna LeBlanc of Louisiana of the depression appeared recently appeared on the CNN news blog. A firsthand account of Depression life follows: "She remembered vividly the barrels of flour, the bolts of cloth and the hunger in the faces of people as they begged for store credit," LeBlanc said. "The store must have been at least marginally successful, because my grandmother was able to purchase, a piece at a time, a complete six-person setting of Gorham Chantilly silverware for her trousseau, linens and even a Lane cedar chest to house her treasures."
The couple would catch wild hogs, feed them corn for a year and eat them once the wild taste was out of the scavenging animals. They also took advantage of available squirrel meat, a common food in the South at that time.
"It was a uniquely disgusting thing ... to see my grandfather take a stewed, skinned squirrel's head, smack the skull's dome with a heavy silver tablespoon, and dine on the brains."
A little blogging music Maestro... “Poor Unfortunate Souls” by the Jonas Brothers.
Dr. Forgot
http://drforgot.com
Read me also at http://vegasnews.squarespace.com/dr-forgot-andrew-r-nixon/
Friday, October 10, 2008
RAIN - 25 Days to E-Day
RAIN Minus 25
Item First – Let it RAIN: From now until the presidential Election Day we will begin each post with a review of the Remove All Incumbents Now (RAIN) campaign. A good rain washes clean all the road scum, dust and filth. We hope that a cleansing of Congress will result in the firing of the legislators who are part of the group that bailed out Wall Street with nearly a trillion dollars, at least 150 billion of which was blatant authorized pork by Democrats to appease Republicans who had previously rejected the bill then changed their vote allowing it to pass after being seduced by pork. We are not sure how much of the bailout, if any, was actually needed.
It’s the economy, stupid: Some have declared the economy to be in free fall. Well it isn’t free for millions of Americans who have been seduced into buying stock over the years. Remember the good old days? Passbook savings, certificates of deposit (CDs), money markets and other interest-bearing instruments? What did they all have in common? They all guaranteed a return. What else did they have in common? Since they were guaranteed, they produced modest returns but the Wall Street stock market pimps figured out that if they developed an advertising campaign that targeted all those savings account owners, they could sell more stock. The plan was as simple as snake oil sales. Feed on the greed. Tell people they were better than a measly x percent return. They could invest in the stock market and make millions. And the masses listened to the propaganda and invested. First it was so called dot-com stocks. We really didn’t understand this computer revolution but hey, why can’t we make money like all those geeks at the dot coms? So we invested.
A bust is something other than a statue head: The dot-com revolution made millionaires out of pimply face kids. So we invested and the bubble got bigger and bigger and bigger and BOOM! All those multi millionaires became thousandaires then hundredaires then $ 10.00 per hour geek computer repairers. We didn’t learn. Savings accounts are for saps. The real money can be made in real estate and yes, stocks. The dot-com bust was a freak of economics. It would never happen again. Flip that house. Buy those stocks. Washington will even help you be removing all those pesky rules and regulations from the market and from the banking industry making it easier for you to buy stocks. As for real estate, no market was hotter than the Las Vegas market. As soon as a new models were opened in developments people bought a house that wasn’t even built yet. Within a month, with the house under construction, the buyer-speculator sold to another buyer-speculator, often with a profit of $ 100,000 or more. Homes were sold with zero down at 120% of the purchase price. To qualify no documentation was required, just say you could qualify and get the loan – they were called liar’s loans in the industry. Then the house of cards came tumbling down and dragged with it not only the housing market but the stock market and every other business that depends on credit.
My mother was so out of touch: My parents were born early in the twentieth century. In fact, my father’s birthday was an easy one to remember, 12/13/14. My mother was born the following August. Both were children of immigrants struggling to make ends meet and as teens lived through the Great Depression when some of the same problems created some of the same problems we see today. Mom managed the household money and was cutting edge enough to trust banks, unlike many of her peers. But she neither parent understood nor trusted the stock market. Every extra penny she could scrape up went into saving accounts, CDs, money markets and other instruments with fixed returns. She even kept a stash of cash hidden in the bedroom “just for emergencies.” Her four college-educated kids often teased her about being old fashioned and not making more from her investments but Mom would not budge. And when she passed away a few years ago in her 91st year she left a fiscal legacy that stunned all her children. They lived frugally, invested conservatively, and saved for the next generation. The same story can be heard over and over among baby boomers that have taken inheritances and plowed them into real estate and the stock market. Our parents were not the fiscal old fools we accused them of being when they refused to learn about stock market investing.
The plan from this point forward: In times such as these we look to our leaders to provide direction. A hotly contested presidential race has the economy as its center point with each candidate promising to have the cure all. The lame duck president, who no doubt will be glad to leave Washington albeit with his tail between his legs, spoke to the American people 14 times in the past 16 days including today, but his speech simply increased the anxiety of many Americans as the stock market continues to fall. Investors are pulling their money out of stock mutual funds making this week the worst in the 112 year history of the stock market. The president’s approval rating among Americans is at a meager 24% but if the diehard block of party members is taken out of the mix that approval rating sinks to single digits.
The responsibility provides enough blame to go around: Who is responsible for the current economic mess? The investment bankers who gave the easy loans, the lenders who made the loans to unqualified people, the appraisers who overvalued houses which encouraged homeowners to “bet on the come” and buy homes they really could not afford, and of course the politicians who deregulated the industry which allowed many to prosper and those in the business to live high off the hog. We have little power to make any changes among any of the above groups save the legislators who took money from PACS and legislators and stripped regulations from the banking industry. Democrats blame Republicans, Republicans say it started during the Clinton administration. It matters not whether one party is more culpable than the other, all incumbents are guilty. We have the power to throw the bums out.
RAIN storms are on the horizon: The RAIN (Remove All Incumbents Now) campaign asks you to not be tricked by a political party that tries to seduce you to vote for its candidate. Vote for the presidential candidate you believe will do the least harm. Then vote AGAINST every incumbent on the ballot. That will be the strongest message the American public can send to congress. It might not cure cronyism and abuse, but it will cripple the corrupt system as it now exists.
A little blogging music Maestro... “November Rain” by Guns ‘n Roses.
Dr. Forgot
http://drforgot.com
Read me also at http://vegasnews.squarespace.com/dr-forgot-andrew-r-nixon/
Item First – Let it RAIN: From now until the presidential Election Day we will begin each post with a review of the Remove All Incumbents Now (RAIN) campaign. A good rain washes clean all the road scum, dust and filth. We hope that a cleansing of Congress will result in the firing of the legislators who are part of the group that bailed out Wall Street with nearly a trillion dollars, at least 150 billion of which was blatant authorized pork by Democrats to appease Republicans who had previously rejected the bill then changed their vote allowing it to pass after being seduced by pork. We are not sure how much of the bailout, if any, was actually needed.
It’s the economy, stupid: Some have declared the economy to be in free fall. Well it isn’t free for millions of Americans who have been seduced into buying stock over the years. Remember the good old days? Passbook savings, certificates of deposit (CDs), money markets and other interest-bearing instruments? What did they all have in common? They all guaranteed a return. What else did they have in common? Since they were guaranteed, they produced modest returns but the Wall Street stock market pimps figured out that if they developed an advertising campaign that targeted all those savings account owners, they could sell more stock. The plan was as simple as snake oil sales. Feed on the greed. Tell people they were better than a measly x percent return. They could invest in the stock market and make millions. And the masses listened to the propaganda and invested. First it was so called dot-com stocks. We really didn’t understand this computer revolution but hey, why can’t we make money like all those geeks at the dot coms? So we invested.
A bust is something other than a statue head: The dot-com revolution made millionaires out of pimply face kids. So we invested and the bubble got bigger and bigger and bigger and BOOM! All those multi millionaires became thousandaires then hundredaires then $ 10.00 per hour geek computer repairers. We didn’t learn. Savings accounts are for saps. The real money can be made in real estate and yes, stocks. The dot-com bust was a freak of economics. It would never happen again. Flip that house. Buy those stocks. Washington will even help you be removing all those pesky rules and regulations from the market and from the banking industry making it easier for you to buy stocks. As for real estate, no market was hotter than the Las Vegas market. As soon as a new models were opened in developments people bought a house that wasn’t even built yet. Within a month, with the house under construction, the buyer-speculator sold to another buyer-speculator, often with a profit of $ 100,000 or more. Homes were sold with zero down at 120% of the purchase price. To qualify no documentation was required, just say you could qualify and get the loan – they were called liar’s loans in the industry. Then the house of cards came tumbling down and dragged with it not only the housing market but the stock market and every other business that depends on credit.
My mother was so out of touch: My parents were born early in the twentieth century. In fact, my father’s birthday was an easy one to remember, 12/13/14. My mother was born the following August. Both were children of immigrants struggling to make ends meet and as teens lived through the Great Depression when some of the same problems created some of the same problems we see today. Mom managed the household money and was cutting edge enough to trust banks, unlike many of her peers. But she neither parent understood nor trusted the stock market. Every extra penny she could scrape up went into saving accounts, CDs, money markets and other instruments with fixed returns. She even kept a stash of cash hidden in the bedroom “just for emergencies.” Her four college-educated kids often teased her about being old fashioned and not making more from her investments but Mom would not budge. And when she passed away a few years ago in her 91st year she left a fiscal legacy that stunned all her children. They lived frugally, invested conservatively, and saved for the next generation. The same story can be heard over and over among baby boomers that have taken inheritances and plowed them into real estate and the stock market. Our parents were not the fiscal old fools we accused them of being when they refused to learn about stock market investing.
The plan from this point forward: In times such as these we look to our leaders to provide direction. A hotly contested presidential race has the economy as its center point with each candidate promising to have the cure all. The lame duck president, who no doubt will be glad to leave Washington albeit with his tail between his legs, spoke to the American people 14 times in the past 16 days including today, but his speech simply increased the anxiety of many Americans as the stock market continues to fall. Investors are pulling their money out of stock mutual funds making this week the worst in the 112 year history of the stock market. The president’s approval rating among Americans is at a meager 24% but if the diehard block of party members is taken out of the mix that approval rating sinks to single digits.
The responsibility provides enough blame to go around: Who is responsible for the current economic mess? The investment bankers who gave the easy loans, the lenders who made the loans to unqualified people, the appraisers who overvalued houses which encouraged homeowners to “bet on the come” and buy homes they really could not afford, and of course the politicians who deregulated the industry which allowed many to prosper and those in the business to live high off the hog. We have little power to make any changes among any of the above groups save the legislators who took money from PACS and legislators and stripped regulations from the banking industry. Democrats blame Republicans, Republicans say it started during the Clinton administration. It matters not whether one party is more culpable than the other, all incumbents are guilty. We have the power to throw the bums out.
RAIN storms are on the horizon: The RAIN (Remove All Incumbents Now) campaign asks you to not be tricked by a political party that tries to seduce you to vote for its candidate. Vote for the presidential candidate you believe will do the least harm. Then vote AGAINST every incumbent on the ballot. That will be the strongest message the American public can send to congress. It might not cure cronyism and abuse, but it will cripple the corrupt system as it now exists.
A little blogging music Maestro... “November Rain” by Guns ‘n Roses.
Dr. Forgot
http://drforgot.com
Read me also at http://vegasnews.squarespace.com/dr-forgot-andrew-r-nixon/
Thursday, October 9, 2008
26 Days to RAIN Day Plus OJ
RAIN and OJ
Item First – Let it RAIN: From now until the presidential election day we will begin each post with a review of the Remove All Incumbents Now (RAIN) campaign. A good rain washes clean all the road scum, dust and filth. We hope that a cleansing of Congress will result in the firing of the legislators who are part of the group that bailed out Wall Street with nearly a trillion dollars, at least 150 billion of which was blatant authorized pork by Democrats to appease Republicans who had previously rejected the bill then changed their vote allowing it to pass after being seduced by pork. We are not sure how much of the bailout, if any, was actually needed.
Mudslides splatter both candidates: A bucket of blood, a field full of mud, and two candidates spewing crud. That is the viscosity of the election at the moment and I see no likelihood it will change in the next 26 days. The candidates remind me of my days as a junior high school in charge of discipline and attendance issues. The only difference is that the junior high school kids mudslinging always started with “Yo Mamma,” as in “Yo Mamma wears tennis shoes,” countered by “Oh, yeah? Well, yo Mamma buys your cloths at the thrift shop.” And so it goes until a fistfight begins. When the two miscreants were finally hauled into the office each one claimed of the other, “He started it.” So it is with the two presidential candidates, except their diatribes are neither as clever nor as passionate as the kids mostly because theirs is scripted by party writers. Both are disgusting but the polls say that kind of slime is what changes the minds of the voters. If we are to believe that, we indeed live in a sick society. Vote for the least slimy presidential candidate of your choice, but beyond that fire every legislator who is running for election. Vote against EVERY incumbent and make it RAIN. That is the only way this (to borrow a famous line from a Middle East despot) stinking corpse of a political system can be cleansed and resurrected.
A postscript to the OJ Trial: Poor OJ. He has gone from a star football player and winner of the Heisman Trophy to a second rate hack whose only sprinting will be trying to evade Bubba in the showers. Let’s do a rewind of his fall from grace. OJ was born shortly after the end of WW-II in the City by the Bay where Tony Bennett left his heart. He was raised by his granny and became a star running back at USC. Most of his professional career was spent with the hapless Buffalo Bills. His handsome looks and charismatic personality brought him more glory as a sports announcer and movie star then as the spokesman for Hertz car rentals. On June 12, 1994 his beautiful wife and a friend were brutally slain at her home and suspicion immediately focused on “The Juice.” He was captured after a bizarre nationally televised slow-speed chase up and down L.A. freeways. The resulting murder trial was also nationally televised and became one of the first made-for-TV reality shows.
Could have been Marshall Tito or Lance Ito: The trial was proceded over by Judge Lance Ito, the first of many caricatures with oversized round eyeglasses and a black judges robe that cried out for pundits to satirize him. The trial took as long as making a baby with all the cartoon characters one could imagine from “The Constant Chiseler” Kato Kaelin to the defense attorney, may he rest in peace, Johnny “If the gloves don’t fit you must acquit” Cochran. It was a look into our judicial system through a pair of $ 500 Hollywood Chanel sunglasses. Of course, the jury cut him loose, so to speak but OJ kept on getting into trouble.
Living the life: Instead of getting life for murder OJ was living the life of your average bankrupt Floridian (he declared bankruptcy rather than have to pay a judgment the victim’s family had won against him) playing golf daily, living in a castle, exhibiting road rage and generally thumbing his nose at the courts. Had he been a consultant for Wall Street investment bankers we wouldn’t be in our current pickle. But when OJ got a call from another upstanding citizen telling him some of his memorabilia was being sold in a hotel, OJ and his goons went in with guns drawn and promptly got arrested for theft, kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, and a host of other charges. Piece of cake. Hire the best defense a bankrupt ex-jock’s money can buy and prepare for another carnival trial.
You’re not in Kansas (Hollywood) any more Dorothy (OJ): This time the trial was a real one – not a made-for-TV event like the one in tinsel town. Only a handful of fans showed up outside the courtroom and inside Judge Jackie Glass was no Judge Ito. She ran a tight courtroom just like in a real American city and when the gavel came down and the jury’s verdict was read – guilty on all 12 counts. The defense lawyer immediately began weeping, wailing, and gnashing his teeth. Oh the unfairness of it all. He painted his client as a step above Mother Teresa for purity and threw out every possible reason that his poor innocent client was wrongfully convicted: the jury had too many whites, not enough women, too many right handed people, not enough hair color, and oh yes, they MUST have found him guilty not because of the evidence but because somewhere in the recesses of their mind they were making up for his prior acquittal. Alas and Alack. OJ will now change his name to Orange Jumpsuit. Although he’s not been sentenced, he’ll likely have plenty of time to kill.
The rest of the story – with a Palin wink: With Halloween around the corner OJ costumes are popular, but stores have been receiving complaints that the gloves don’t fit. Rumors are that he’s landed an endorsement from jail for, “I Can’t Believe it’s not an Acquittal.” Superstitious? OJ was convicted 13 years to the day after he was acquitted. Perhaps 13 years from now his sentence will be overturned.
A little blogging music Maestro... “Guilty Conscience” by Eminem
Dr. Forgot
Read me also at http://vegasnews.squarespace.com/dr-forgot-andrew-r-nixon/
Item First – Let it RAIN: From now until the presidential election day we will begin each post with a review of the Remove All Incumbents Now (RAIN) campaign. A good rain washes clean all the road scum, dust and filth. We hope that a cleansing of Congress will result in the firing of the legislators who are part of the group that bailed out Wall Street with nearly a trillion dollars, at least 150 billion of which was blatant authorized pork by Democrats to appease Republicans who had previously rejected the bill then changed their vote allowing it to pass after being seduced by pork. We are not sure how much of the bailout, if any, was actually needed.
Mudslides splatter both candidates: A bucket of blood, a field full of mud, and two candidates spewing crud. That is the viscosity of the election at the moment and I see no likelihood it will change in the next 26 days. The candidates remind me of my days as a junior high school in charge of discipline and attendance issues. The only difference is that the junior high school kids mudslinging always started with “Yo Mamma,” as in “Yo Mamma wears tennis shoes,” countered by “Oh, yeah? Well, yo Mamma buys your cloths at the thrift shop.” And so it goes until a fistfight begins. When the two miscreants were finally hauled into the office each one claimed of the other, “He started it.” So it is with the two presidential candidates, except their diatribes are neither as clever nor as passionate as the kids mostly because theirs is scripted by party writers. Both are disgusting but the polls say that kind of slime is what changes the minds of the voters. If we are to believe that, we indeed live in a sick society. Vote for the least slimy presidential candidate of your choice, but beyond that fire every legislator who is running for election. Vote against EVERY incumbent and make it RAIN. That is the only way this (to borrow a famous line from a Middle East despot) stinking corpse of a political system can be cleansed and resurrected.
A postscript to the OJ Trial: Poor OJ. He has gone from a star football player and winner of the Heisman Trophy to a second rate hack whose only sprinting will be trying to evade Bubba in the showers. Let’s do a rewind of his fall from grace. OJ was born shortly after the end of WW-II in the City by the Bay where Tony Bennett left his heart. He was raised by his granny and became a star running back at USC. Most of his professional career was spent with the hapless Buffalo Bills. His handsome looks and charismatic personality brought him more glory as a sports announcer and movie star then as the spokesman for Hertz car rentals. On June 12, 1994 his beautiful wife and a friend were brutally slain at her home and suspicion immediately focused on “The Juice.” He was captured after a bizarre nationally televised slow-speed chase up and down L.A. freeways. The resulting murder trial was also nationally televised and became one of the first made-for-TV reality shows.
Could have been Marshall Tito or Lance Ito: The trial was proceded over by Judge Lance Ito, the first of many caricatures with oversized round eyeglasses and a black judges robe that cried out for pundits to satirize him. The trial took as long as making a baby with all the cartoon characters one could imagine from “The Constant Chiseler” Kato Kaelin to the defense attorney, may he rest in peace, Johnny “If the gloves don’t fit you must acquit” Cochran. It was a look into our judicial system through a pair of $ 500 Hollywood Chanel sunglasses. Of course, the jury cut him loose, so to speak but OJ kept on getting into trouble.
Living the life: Instead of getting life for murder OJ was living the life of your average bankrupt Floridian (he declared bankruptcy rather than have to pay a judgment the victim’s family had won against him) playing golf daily, living in a castle, exhibiting road rage and generally thumbing his nose at the courts. Had he been a consultant for Wall Street investment bankers we wouldn’t be in our current pickle. But when OJ got a call from another upstanding citizen telling him some of his memorabilia was being sold in a hotel, OJ and his goons went in with guns drawn and promptly got arrested for theft, kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, and a host of other charges. Piece of cake. Hire the best defense a bankrupt ex-jock’s money can buy and prepare for another carnival trial.
You’re not in Kansas (Hollywood) any more Dorothy (OJ): This time the trial was a real one – not a made-for-TV event like the one in tinsel town. Only a handful of fans showed up outside the courtroom and inside Judge Jackie Glass was no Judge Ito. She ran a tight courtroom just like in a real American city and when the gavel came down and the jury’s verdict was read – guilty on all 12 counts. The defense lawyer immediately began weeping, wailing, and gnashing his teeth. Oh the unfairness of it all. He painted his client as a step above Mother Teresa for purity and threw out every possible reason that his poor innocent client was wrongfully convicted: the jury had too many whites, not enough women, too many right handed people, not enough hair color, and oh yes, they MUST have found him guilty not because of the evidence but because somewhere in the recesses of their mind they were making up for his prior acquittal. Alas and Alack. OJ will now change his name to Orange Jumpsuit. Although he’s not been sentenced, he’ll likely have plenty of time to kill.
The rest of the story – with a Palin wink: With Halloween around the corner OJ costumes are popular, but stores have been receiving complaints that the gloves don’t fit. Rumors are that he’s landed an endorsement from jail for, “I Can’t Believe it’s not an Acquittal.” Superstitious? OJ was convicted 13 years to the day after he was acquitted. Perhaps 13 years from now his sentence will be overturned.
A little blogging music Maestro... “Guilty Conscience” by Eminem
Dr. Forgot
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Wednesday's RAIN - 27 Days To Go
More RAIN Support
RAIN Refresher: From now until the presidential election day we will begin each post with a review of the Remove All Incumbents Now (RAIN) campaign. A good rain washes clean all the road scum, dust and filth. We hope that a cleansing of Congress will result in the firing of the legislators who are part of the group that bailed out Wall Street with nearly a trillion dollars, at least 150 billion of which was blatant authorized pork by Democrats to appease Republicans who had previously rejected the bill then changed their vote allowing it to pass after being seduced by pork. We are not sure how much of the bailout, if any, was actually needed.
Response is overwhelming: We have heard from average working Americans across the country. Each as promised to forward our RAIN campaign to all on their respective contact list. Today we spoke to a friend and physician who not only agrees 100% with throwing the bums out due to a corrupted system, he suggested term limits of two terms be imposed on Congress and that the presidency be limited to one six-year terms as is done successfully in many other democratic country. The campaign continues.
No comment on the presidential debate: The debate, such as it was included enough Pabulum that we will not bother to comment on it. As we have stated before, we encourage you to vote as you please for the presidency but PLEASE vote every single incumbent out of office. Fire them and continue each election until the corrupt cronyism of the system has been purged. This is serious stuff so we will take a bit of a respite with some political quotes by politicians and pundits. We will begin and conclude with quotes by founding Father Thomas Jefferson: "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
Thomas Jefferson
OTHER POLITICAL AXIOMS
'If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed;
If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.'
-Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress....
But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
-Richard Armour
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity
is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul
can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man
which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
-G. Gordon Liddy
Democracy must be something more than
two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from
poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
-Douglas Casey,
Giving money and power to the government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody
endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
Government's view of the economy could be
summed up in a few short phrases:
If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan (1986)
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
I don't make jokes...
I just watch the government and report the facts.
-Will Rogers
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
-Charles de Gaulle
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
-Plato
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river.
-Nikita Khrushchev
If you think health care is expensive now,
wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
- P.J. O'Rourke
In general, the art of government consists of
taking as much money as possible from
one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-Voltaire (1764)
Just because you do not take an interest in politics
doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
-Pericles (430 B.C.)
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe
while the legislature is in session.
-Mark Twain (1866 )
Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-Unknown
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.
The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist
is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain
The ultimate result of shielding men from the
effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
There is no distinctly Native American criminal class
...save Congress.
-Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
A government big enough to give you everything you want,
is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson
I will continue to write daily about RAIN both in my blog and my news media column at: http://drforgot.com (my blog) and at http://vegasbuzznews.com/ where I am a featured columnist.
A little blogging music Maestro: From Glen Yarbrough, “Baby the RAIN Must Fall.”
Dr. Forgot
RAIN Refresher: From now until the presidential election day we will begin each post with a review of the Remove All Incumbents Now (RAIN) campaign. A good rain washes clean all the road scum, dust and filth. We hope that a cleansing of Congress will result in the firing of the legislators who are part of the group that bailed out Wall Street with nearly a trillion dollars, at least 150 billion of which was blatant authorized pork by Democrats to appease Republicans who had previously rejected the bill then changed their vote allowing it to pass after being seduced by pork. We are not sure how much of the bailout, if any, was actually needed.
Response is overwhelming: We have heard from average working Americans across the country. Each as promised to forward our RAIN campaign to all on their respective contact list. Today we spoke to a friend and physician who not only agrees 100% with throwing the bums out due to a corrupted system, he suggested term limits of two terms be imposed on Congress and that the presidency be limited to one six-year terms as is done successfully in many other democratic country. The campaign continues.
No comment on the presidential debate: The debate, such as it was included enough Pabulum that we will not bother to comment on it. As we have stated before, we encourage you to vote as you please for the presidency but PLEASE vote every single incumbent out of office. Fire them and continue each election until the corrupt cronyism of the system has been purged. This is serious stuff so we will take a bit of a respite with some political quotes by politicians and pundits. We will begin and conclude with quotes by founding Father Thomas Jefferson: "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
Thomas Jefferson
OTHER POLITICAL AXIOMS
'If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed;
If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.'
-Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress....
But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
-Richard Armour
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity
is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul
can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man
which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
-G. Gordon Liddy
Democracy must be something more than
two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from
poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
-Douglas Casey,
Giving money and power to the government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody
endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
Government's view of the economy could be
summed up in a few short phrases:
If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan (1986)
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
I don't make jokes...
I just watch the government and report the facts.
-Will Rogers
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
-Charles de Gaulle
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
-Plato
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river.
-Nikita Khrushchev
If you think health care is expensive now,
wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
- P.J. O'Rourke
In general, the art of government consists of
taking as much money as possible from
one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-Voltaire (1764)
Just because you do not take an interest in politics
doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
-Pericles (430 B.C.)
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe
while the legislature is in session.
-Mark Twain (1866 )
Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-Unknown
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.
The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist
is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain
The ultimate result of shielding men from the
effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
There is no distinctly Native American criminal class
...save Congress.
-Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
A government big enough to give you everything you want,
is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson
I will continue to write daily about RAIN both in my blog and my news media column at: http://drforgot.com (my blog) and at http://vegasbuzznews.com/ where I am a featured columnist.
A little blogging music Maestro: From Glen Yarbrough, “Baby the RAIN Must Fall.”
Dr. Forgot
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