Laws, We don't need no stinking laws

"We will never follow the laws unless it's to are advantage. If there isn't a law, we will make one. We only go after democrats and never find republicans doing wrong or if they are we won't charge them."

"Torture, we don't torture but we just talk real loud to prisoners."

Bush to vote to stop the war.

Bush is threading to veto funding for the war saying this war has to much pork, Halliburton and Bechtel. He said today there will be no compromise. So it looks like the troops will be coming home sooner then what the demarcates date of next year. This would be great for the suffering economy where they can fund no child left behind, the VA and other social programs the Bush has been trimming to pay for this war so far. I guess this might anger the defense contractor and oil companies who thought of this as their cash cow. They will have to work for a living now, no more free lunches.

How to stop inflation

How to stop inflation. Seems one of the biggest contributors to inflation is insurance companies. In a way it's like having your own ATM machine and print money never loosing as a business. If you take a hit like after Katrina, you just raise your rates. That's what they did after Andrew. When they made bad investments in energy futures they raised the rates. Some insurance are being looked into here in California for terminating people policies after they get sick. That amazes me they will insure you as long as you don't get sick. It's "Give us you money and we will protect you as long as your healthy." What kind of deal is that? Sounds like "Life Insurance" which in itself is an oxymoron in terms. It should be called death insurance because you pay into it and collect when your dead. What really gets me is the insurance companies pushing to make it a state law that you have to buy insurance. What a deal! You don't have a choose and they can charge any price they want after that because you have to have it or what, go to jail or be fined because you don't. Health insurance is going up faster then inflation rates. Doctors have to have insurance to protect them and there it's another program of printing your own pay checks. You need a new boat or summer home, then raise the rates. Cars getting old and the ash tray is full, time to raise the rates to get the next year model.

To curb the health care problem a single payer system needs to be made excluding the insurance companies. Other countries have done it and done it rather well. The only people that will disagree are the insurance companies like they did several elections ago with their scare tactics.

Other parasites of society

I just listened to a show about credit card. Very interesting! Seem like the mafia moved into legal businesses like credit cards and set up their loan sharking business. Seems it doesn't mater what the rate they promise you going to pay a higher rate. They also do tricks like just put a charge on your bill in hopes you miss it. The woman talking was a law professor at Harvard. She said she would have her class take a letter offering a credit card that pays you some percentage back each year. Her question to the class was to fine out the rate of interest you need to pay to get cash back. Turns out he low interest card wasn't, you had to pay 17% on the card to get 3% back which makes it a 14% card. She went into the other ways card companies get you like sending you payments to a small town on the opposite coast from you so it takes longer for the mail and they can get you with a late fee. She said the card companies even shred payments so they can say they never got the payment and charge you a late fee. One example she gave was parents buy new baby all the junk for the new kid and the total charge was $5000 dollars. If you make minimum payments on that it would take 35 years to pay it off, never charging anything else on the card. Talk about parasites worse then tapeworms.

Cut up those cards. They can take you to the cleaners if you don't have a card.

Where does the buck stop?

For the past 200 years congress has tried to get the "Department of Peace" established but it has been voted down.

Yesterdays blog in the morning after hearing the "Morning News" on NPR after hearing that Congress added a few conditions to Bush's money wants. (The blank check) I wrote the previous post.

Last night I listened to a lecture from a former CIA employee. A rather smart person and former "cold warier" as he said. He answered a lot but not all my questions about how much money goes to the "Military Industrial Complex." He says that every year they budget "$3/4 Trillion Dollars" and that's not to say how much is spent for the "Black Projects" which aren't seen by Congress or any over sight, which he clams is about 40% more then the $750,000,000,000.00 dollars.

The VA, Social Security, Social Services, "No Child Left Behind" are not part of the military bills but seem to be cut to pay for the military industrial complex. Bush has a pet project he's been pushing, The Missile Defense Project" which still doesn't work and will cost some where around $1,000,000,000,000.00 dollars and still won't work but it sounds good and suppose to scar other countries from trying to shoot any missiles at the United States. Sort of like the "Star Wars Project" from the Regan years where nothing worked, it was just talk.

Some of that extra money attached to the "supplemental funding bill" is to go to the Katrina victims which Bush dropped the ball on. So far only 4000 people have got any money to rebuild their homes. Meanwhile the situation in the South is getting worse. Contractors brought in illegal Mexicans to work and they seem to forget they needed to go back home after the work was done. Many of them are gang members and help in the body count in the cases of murder. One group is an international drug smuggling gang that they brought here to work and now they have a foot hold in the Southern States

Bush takes republicans on a road of self-destruction

Bush takes republicans on a road of self-destruction. By hold out and not letting Rove and Myers to testify, they leave attacks open by the demarcates in the 2008 presidential election. What's going to happen is that the republicans are a bunch of liars and can't be trusted because they fix court cases in favor of the presidents and republicans friends. By hiding behind the presidential office and not let people testify in the federal prosecutors firing inquiries it will support the ideas that the demarcates will bring out the Bush lied to everyone following the advice of Karl Rove.

 

If you think the 2006 election was a big deal the 2008 election will be a landslide because the republicans who support Bush will be impaled. Who is going to trust any republican that keep supporting the war that Bush tried to tie to the war on terror. Iraq according to Dr. Rice was contained until a day after Baghdad fell. No ones going to support a war that's going to go one for the next two decades, not at this price tag of $3 billion a week not when people want security of jobs and health care.

 

Everything Bush has done over the past six years has turned into a can of worms. While supporting war profiteers and out sourcing the military to companies like Blackwater who are held to no oversight, Rumsfeld's lighter nimbler military is now a pipe dream. You can't build up the military by cutting taxes to the rich and cutting services to the poor. Bush won't stop until he pisses off everyone in the world including everyone in the United States. What Bush doesn't get is you can't force people to do thing. He should understand this, like the old saying, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

Why is crap going wrong

I can't stand it, my dial up that is. ATT sure is putting the squeeze on other internet services then theirs. I can get hooked up but it just sits there. What sucks is there's no other DSL service that people can get besides ATT here. They said competition and free market is good but that only means monopoly, high prices and low quality. The rest of the world is light years ahead of us. Gates was in Washington a week or so ago telling congress we are getting to dumb and won't be able to design our way out of a paper bags.

 

Senator Dodd who is running for president doesn't want to control black market money since he's gets a lot of funds from the banking industry. Bush said follow the money to get the terrorist but there's a road block by the banking industry keeping black market money changing hands. You might think it's only a third world problem but there's more black market money changing hands in the United States then any other country. We're getting around $500 billion dollars coming in from China alone.

 

Why hasn't Bin Laden been captured? The great Bush and his Neocon buddies want to keep the war machine going making money of this war you can't see but spending your money with no strings or oversight attached. The problem with having an "Ideologue" as president verses a good administrator like Bill Clinton is the ideologue make decisions without thinking he could be wrong or see the outcome of his dissensions. Going to war with Iraq to get oil for Bush and Chaney's oil buddies might have sounded good at some drunk dinner party but when you sober up you not suppose to follow through with drunk talk.

 

Voting against gay marriage will not make the country safer, it didn't catch Bin Laden, it will not stop terrorist. What is in the heads of those people? What is wrong with them? Have they been dropped on their heads one to many times? Was it those above ground tests back in the 50's then effected their brains?

 

ATT after taking over Bell South says it will keep the internet neutral for two years. That was the deal the FCC made with ATT. The FCC under leadership of Powell let the mergers of several media giants. Now if you turn your TV, radio on you don't get news but cutesy stores about Anna Nicole when there's a war going on. Keep the people uniformed and you can keep control of the masses. Even on the internet there is religious groups putting up web pages saying it's science but it's theology. It's not just religious groups but republican groups making the case that global warming is a good thing.

 

You can't learn science with a book of myths. I knew someone that wanted to learn computer programming so he was reading the bible. There's nothing wrong with theology as long as you don't let it fog the facts.

Brownie your doing a heck of a job

Look out I'm coming in

Mmmmm Flowers. Bee flying to pollinate plum blossom.

Today is one of the those days, warm, air slowly moving, suns out and the only thing you hear is bees flying from blossom to blossom. It's so nice to live in paradise. It looks like it's going to be a good year for fruit. Last year the storms came when the plants started putting out blossoms. This knocked them off the trees and there wasn't much fruit at all. Last year it was snowing this time of year. Todays high was 78 degrees. I was warm with a long sleeve tee shirt on. Last year I was wearing three of everything to stay warm.

How about a few extra billion, we can cut it from the VA's budget

Bush is asking for another 4,700 troops and 3 billion dollars. He also wants all the money to be unaccountable with no strings attached. That's like telling someone here's my ATM card and here's the password, don't spent too much, it doesn't matter because I won't be checking to see how much you spend.

Halliburton is moving for better tax breaks. I hope someone will point out since they are no longer an American Country that they can't get government contracts, security risk, there in an Arab country where the terrorist are. Chaney being the biggest one pushing all these anti-terrorist programs has to see the risk, but he's still on the payroll. Maybe that makes him a security risk or have a conflict of interest.

In fifty years will Bush be remember as the president that ran the country into the ground? That he started a war to help his oil buddies out? That he lied to the American people. What will be Bush's legacy? The president that cut the VA's budget five years in a row always saying we have to support the troops. Was that a lie too.

Price of Oil

Now I heard everything, the oil companies are blaming a raccoon for knocking out two refineries in Los Angeles. That must have been taken from an old school excuse, "the dog ate my home work."

 

Bush is in South America making a some sort of deal to bring in sugarcane made alcohol. He doesn't care to help the American people though because there's a import tax of $.50 cents per gallon. Meanwhile the price of feed corn is almost doubled in the last six month which will mean high meat prices.

 

Can't Bush do something good for the country and not for only his friends. He's fighting the airport screeners from unionizing. That was the first law Bush insisted on for Iraq after the invasion.

 

If the American people would get behind the war in that they would put up with all the crap until we get oil companies drilling and removing oil the price of oil and gas would go down.

 

Remember Bush doesn't mind sending people to there death. He sent a lot of people in jail to there death but clams to value life but won't watch any executions. Seems like it should be a law that if you are sending some one to there death you must watch it if you claim to be a right to life person. Sounds like a flip-flopper to me.

Putnam say the funds can go on to infinite

Congressman Putnam was asked if the funding would go on indefinitely without any goals or conditions, he answered, "Yes, I can't see stopping the suspension of the cash cow machine. It's real good for arms manufactures and give Americans job and stimulates the economy." He also said he would stick by the presidents decision to stay in a war, that change direction would make the president and republicans look bad.

 

Mean while the right leaning oil companies that supported Chaney's energy program of sucking every last drop of oil from the ground of Iraq are putting the pressure on the American people raising the price of gasoline to get more support for the war.

 

Republican Senator Bohnener said he would support any withdraw or premature evacuation, stating he took the 36 hour pills and can't pull out now.

 

United State people pray that Chaney's blood clot moves to his brain, so that Nancy Pelosi could become Vice President.

Pastor Ted smokes the White Owl

Pastor Ted smokes the White Owl but he said he didn't swallow. I'm sure that doing "Crank" didn't help him take it in the butt either. Now he claims he's not guy. Like other Evangelicals that sell to many shares to an theme park and retirement community the lies keep coming. It's a corporation not a church people, figure that out. They don't want to save your souls but get your money and live the good life. The Evangelical Church in the United States is more about a non-profit political party then anything else.

 

Bush's faith based initiative is more about how to funnel money to them by the government then saving souls also. Stores are giving or donating the food that reached it's expiration date to church's which give that to the poor. They get reimbursed at full price from the government like the store was selling it itself. What a deal, food destine for the dumpster ending up in peoples kitchens because they are poor, while the church makes out to build super sized churches. That only brings in more people which makes them more money. How many churches do you know of that have gift shops and restaurants.

 

What really gets me is the Evangelicals think other religions are all wrong. The criticize the fundamentalist clerics but they are no different then them. When you start using religion as a political party things tend to go drastically wrong. That's why the founding fathers wanted to keep the separation between church and state because they saw what happened in England. What people seem to fail to see, the Evangelical church takes in book from the church of England and the puritans bible which was rewritten to suit the king to dominate the people. It's all about control and taking free thinking away from the people and filling their heads with myths rather then facts. The bible is a history book of the past with  lot of embellishments making it look like people can do things above what men can do. Hollywood does that with movies and the church does that with the bible or what ever book you want to believe in.

Miracle of Green

Miracle of Green after 5 days of rain. What was once brown dried leaves on the ground melting into the soil and slivers of life turning a bright green. Seems you can water and water but the rain does such a better job of nourishing the land. The birds seem so happy it's not raining today. They say it might rain later today but the suns out now so I'll take advantage of it and clean up the fallen branches. Looks like it's going to be a two of everything day, two shirts, two pairs of socks two of everything. The squirrels are running and playing so gracefully. Looking around quickly I have some cleaning to do. I'll have to tape up my waste to keep my spine from moving to cut down on the pain. I did an MRI last week and my spine looks real bad. Even the tech said, "that's got to hurt."

"Office of Dubious Information"

"Office of Dubious Information" that's the latest finding of who came up with the information for the lead up to the Iraq war. When I heard this I just had thoughts of impeachment. Not only did this Bush administration lie to us they made an office position in the Pentagon to do that. The Troop Surge, which Bush came up with, is more smoke and mirrors. He's sending 21,500 troops but he didn't say how many support troops there would be. There's also the matter of the amount of civilian contractors in Iraq which last I heard was around 100,000 people. Now there's a call for more civilian workers to go to Iraq to rebuild the country. We hear about the amount of troops dying but don't really hear the amount of civilian workers being killed unless it's a helicopter crashing or being shot down. We did hear about the guys that were killed and strung up on the bridge. The other day I heard about a group killed and strung up on power lines. Then there are the convoys that get blown up but we generally only hear about the ones they died with troops. Hearing how many Iraqis has been killed since the war started varies from tens of thousands to 650,000 depending on whom you believe. One the governments own web site that said that there were 50,000 but it was revised after a negative story that came out about the lack of health care for the wounded troops. If anything this administration will go down in history for the amount of lies it's told the public. Simple bottom line is a oil president and vice president tied to oil companies went to war for the oil. If the war on terror was so important that the problems in Afghanistan would have been solved first.

This water, it's hard!

Think this picture speaks for it self.

What's really going on?

What is really going on?

Cost and how many wounded during the war so far.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7165869

How many deaths on both sides.

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/tollofwar/tollofwarmain.html

Bush is asking for another 249 billion dollars for the war and paying for it by cutting Medicare and Medicaid. Mean while corporations keep getting more and more tax breaks. Why doesn't the president and his administration, the senate and congress give up their extreme wages and only take the new minimum wage. It would be the fair thing to do and lead by example.

Bush said he was a compassionate conservative, what that means is he's compassionate to his rich friends and big business. He keep saying he wants to reform immigration but that means he just wants cheap labor and to drive down wages of everyone else. The first law he insisted on for Iraq was that the people couldn't unionize. Were seeing how pension plans are going form the Airlines, GM, Ford, US Steel, Bethlehem Steel and several other large corporations. Mean while CEO's are walking away with millions to leave the company like Home Depot's CEO who got 210 million for his bad performance. Exxon's CEO walked away with 400 million. The head of the New York Stock Exchange which is a volunteer position and doesn't pay a salary walked away with 250 million retirement package. This was after the stock market was caught selling junk stocks and making 200 billion. When they were caught the fine was 1.2 billion. This show me that crime pays. There was no jail sentences but they were told, "don't do it again."

Bush's idea of a perfect country is if the countries labor laws would go back the 19th century where the robber barons ruled.

Bush has been pushing this "Ownership Society Idea" where everyone banks on buying stocks for their retirement and wealth holdings. Last time people believed the republicans about putting all their earnings into the stock market we had, "The Great Depression." Everyone didn't loss during the great depression, the extremely rich took a loss for a while and bought up all the stocks at real cheap prices. A few years later when the economy recovered those same people became filthy rich. The stocks they bought for pennies when now worth 100's of dollars.

"Of course I lie, I'm a drunk"

"I've got a real big penis"

Mayor to get rid of Roots

Mayor Robert McGarvey of Rancho Cordova to displace founders and affordable housing to enrich tax base with new high priced living. His plan is to blight homes and nickel and dime the homeowners that help found the city out. It’s a case of an over zealous mayor trying to make a city he wants and not what the residents want or need. It’s a common theme used to get imminent domain of people affordable housing and replace it with high priced high tax based housing discarding the historic homes and business that founded the city. The idea of living in the country only to have a city move in on you is a common problem. Along with the city come nose and air pollution, higher prices and the loss of green areas. It’s a step backward as far as concerns health is for people. With more noise the immune systems of humans are compromised. With more traffic there is more “green house gases” and air pollution. McGarvey is on the board of directors for Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District. Some people call it progress but what about the people who wanted to live in the country and didn’t want these entire new problem. The mayor admitted that he wanted to drive land prices higher, which increases the taxes that the city can collect. I’m sure if it were looked into you’d find that the mayor is connected to land developers and realtor's all who live for greed and their god money.

2 AM and can't sleep

Got up at 2 AM, didn’t want to but woke up feeling hot like my skin was on fire. Watched a movie and checked e-mail and quake reports. Lay back down on the heating pad on the couch. Then the skunks started in. George got into a fight in front of the house, didn’t see whom he was battling with. He came on the porch to eat but I was standing there. I told him it was okay and at first it looked like he was going to come into the house. Things quieted down for a while until 6:30 AM. Another skunk fight under the house. I could hear it was a small one fighting most likely some one took her sleeping space. That would piss me off too.

Have a pain in my lower left back. It’s where the spine is shifting and the bone is poking me. Don’t know if that’s why I’ve got a headache or the cortisone shot last week or the skunk’s odor. I’m pretty tolerant to the skunks smell in that I can smell it but it doesn’t bother me. Maybe I’m just used to it from being expose to the smell on a regular basis.

Been listening to the radio. The Iraq situation reminds me of what happened in Vietnam, they didn’t fight a war but just hung out and got shot at. The military knows where different groups are but the new Iraqi government restricts actions. My pissed of view is kill them all and let God sort them out. There was a barricade around a segment of Baghdad but the president told the Americans to leave them, even though an American had been kidnapped. When I see large groups protesting against the Americans and dancing around blown up military vehicles with dead bodies, I have to say bring out the gun ships and cut them down. Innocent people are dieing over there a few more won’t make a difference if it gets things under control. Iraqis for the most part are living several centuries behind the modern world. They understand things like heads on a stick, so give it to them. Hang up the insurgent’s bodies on light poles. Fly them over cities and drop them out of helicopters onto houses. When 80% of the Iraqis hate us and won’t support the new government then 80% of the people can be eliminated. There could be one or two people left from a battle and they believe that they won the battle because they are still alive. If they want to meet their God them help them along with that wish.

What would make better sense is to take over Southern Iraq where the oil is since that what Bush went to war over. It would be easier to hold a smaller area like Basra. You could get the oil build up the lower end of the country while the rest of the country kills each other off. Come in later after the country gets done killing each other and then start reconstruction. Less American troop would be put at risk. You could fly around the border of the country and pick off anyone trying to get in.

The Palestinians are the same way. They could be totally defeated but will continue to fight when they could say, “We give up, you won and we wont’ fight anymore.” But no, they are obedient to their own cause. Israel has offered them medical supplies but the Palestinians turned them down because the supplies were made in Israel. When ever there’s a ceasefire the Palestinians start shooting rocks in to Israel. If you show a Palestinian a swatch of color and tell them it’s blue they will say, “No it’s not.” What I don’t understand is they will fight not for the good of the people but just to fight with no goal in mind.

It must be this headache I have to present a view like this. Sure makes you fell better having a good rant. I’m just tired of hearing about crap from the Middle East. They have been fighting for thousands of years and for them stopping now is only a dream. Some of the areas of the Middle East need a good carpet-bombing like Dresden, that sure got the Germans attention.

Went outside to put out seeds for the birds. Tiny Girl was coming home but I scared her from getting under the house. She ran down to the creek and looks like she will circle around. This time of year they need a good warm nest with other skunks to cuddle up to stay warm.

I really need to stop walking outside barefoot in 20 degree weather with a tee-shirt and sweats.

To top it off after switching to the new format of my blog the word plug-n isn't working.

Cold again this morning

Was up early this morning, the coldest it got over night was 17 degrees. As the turkey came off there perches and running down the hill towards the house to eat. I noticed on hen acting slow. She kept laying down. I think it could be hypothermia. Another hen I think it was her mother came over and got her up and scavenging. The other hen kept her going and moving to stay warm.

I had to put out water because the water bowls were all frozen. Being cold like this the critters need to eat a lot more because the cold burns calories. You can stay moving but that also burns off calories.

Last night the skunks didn't want to stay out in the cold. They came out for water but it became frozen. They didn't even eat much when they came out. I'm still thinking on how to build them a condo which will be water proof and warm.

Real cold, brain hurts

What a past couple days. Been sleeping way to much. I've been so tired since I had the cortisone shot on Monday. Had the happy knock out juice which at the time was rather nice. Backs feeling much better but having headaches from the cortisone. Now it's cold, real cold, been in the low 20's in the morning. Think last time I was outside it was 28. Skunks are making a bit of noise. I'm sure the cold isn't making them to happy. Having a problem with the phone company and lifeline and the California public utilities commission. I'll sign up for lifeline but it take so long for them to get me the form they disqualify me. Last month they billed me for $90. They been charging me $15 dollars for every time I sign up for lifeline. So far that's cost me $60 dollars and I haven't got the service yet. The CPUC is no help either even though they administrate lifeline. This time I got the form in on time and they sent me a notice which I got on the 9th of January telling me I need to get the form in by the 5th of January. The disqualified me again because I circled to many qualifiers, SSI, Medical, and one other I can remember. They were suppose to send me out a form about the 16 or so but it still hasn't gotten here yet. Talking to them over the past two days has got me so mad I feel like I could blow a gasket. Greed and the monopolies are going to be the downfall of this country. You only have to look at the Roman they were crushed from within before they were conquered from outside.

Did you here Bush's speech the other day. Looks like he wants to start a bigger war since he can't solve this one. They are moving "Patriot Missile Batteries" to the middle east which are anti-missile missiles. Iraq doesn't have any of those that's what the war was about. Bush did say that he would put a stop to the networks in Iran and Syria which means cross border raids or an invasion. Another Carrier Group which is about a dozen ship has left for the gulf. I heard there was already a couple carrier groups already there. I'm sure the subs are there leaking around with those ICBM's. Well if you can't win a war make it bigger and blame the other people for making you invade them. Isn't "Surge" the guy from the Eddy Murphy movie? Escalation is a bad word that the public doesn't want you to hear because it bring back memories of Vietnam.

I remember a song from the 60's, "the revolution won't be televised" I think that's wrong, it going to be on all the channels coming to you live.