tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-198137032009-11-05T13:29:59.060-06:00Free association is the main entrée on an a'la carte menu that allows me to work my writing chops on any thing. Comment and/or email me on anything you find here. Beyond that all will simply be thought bubbles on any sparkly thing that catches my attention. I hope readers will enjoy at least some of these ramblings. If so, pass it on to somebody else who might be interested. Be good on your self.......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370zach@zachfox.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-36873376652091393362009-11-05T13:29:00.001-06:002009-11-05T13:29:59.173-06:00

Quite the inflammatory main. What did anyone expect? Credit card interest rates are being increased so that the taxpayer can help pay back the money that was loaned to the banks and credit industry by the same people that gave them the bailout. And the banks took all that they could get and still appear squimish to lend any back...again to the very source of where the bailout came from...the US

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It should be becoming apparent to even the stanchest believers that the office of the President no longer wields the sort of power that it may have at one time in America.The system is far too convoluted and fractionalized with those powers being distributed between industry, banking interests and the flow of capital from these entities and into the halls of our representation in Washington to

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The audacity of my hope was that Obama would enter office with pen a-blazing and he would repair the damage that the past POTUS and CO had inflicted on this country, our gov't and the office. While the reality of his term is turning out to do otherwise, that hope has diminished to a large degree, to the point where much to my disappointment and unfortunately, less to my surprise, he appears to

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Some people feel we are holding Israel hostage with the funding we provide them with on a regular, ongoing, annual schedule.Funny (and not in a "ha-ha"way) the term "hostage" is used.Because that is exactly the image that comes to mind when I consider the plight of the people in Israel who are not Israeli and confined to Gaza.I'm not talking about the radical fringe, extremists who keep lobbing

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Term limits, investigations, caving into industry pressures and approving multi-industrial bailouts to the point where it interfers and alters providing legislation in accordance with the will of the people on issues such as the use of our military, job creation, healthcare, the economy, credit and housing regulations (the list goes on) and the corruption of individual representative stemming

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I find it interesting that this video was every bit (or more) as much a piece of anti-hallucinogenic propaganda as it was (as announced) an information piece on the research being done in mapping the brain using hallucinogenics. It was not balanced in that only the negatives of the drug were highlighted to any real depth while the positives such as resultant individual consciousness expansion,

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WHy the buzz? Obama is either for it or against it but it's not in his hands at the moment. If any bill for reform gets passed by the House and the Senate, Obama (if he's truly against it) can simply veto. If he signs it, it's law. Either way, either the people get reform or Obama will face the consequences of killing the bill, a very hard thing for him to recover from after all these years of

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In America the media can eliminate presidential candidates from scheduled nationwide televised debates based on whether or not the media considers any given candiate to be a credible contender or whether the media feels any candidate is or isn't electable, months before so much as a primary has been held. No Problem. But heaven forbid the White House elminate a "news source" from an interview

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I'm tellin' ya! This is scarey.The people are so tired of hearing about HCR that they appear willing to just take whatever the Congress can sell us on as being "good enough" rather than us insisting that the best option is what they need make law and nothing less.By the time this "Public Option" hits the table in it's final draft, it isn't going to look anything like what a lot of people think

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There is nothing here that compares to the last 8 years of press blackout that America has experienced or the draconian restrictions that the press were eager enough to give way to during that time. Information blackouts on character and professional histories related to the President and Vice President, permissibl­e/allowabl­e questions provided for reporters before speeches and interviews,

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This is starting to resemble the ol' razzle-dazle. While the health care reform package is capturing everyone's attention, there's bill upon bill being whittled and stripped and made worthless regarding the banks and the necessary regulating of the money industries. Yesterday, a bill that makes 98% of the banks exempt from oversight, today it's more lieniency for derivitives and again exemptions

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The beauty of this whole teabaggers movement is this, the tea party of historic fame was carried out by the Tories, or the "liberal" independence favoring colonists while the "conservative' or Whig party, which favored the monarchy of England over self rule we're opposed to demonstrations that opposed King George and often went out of their way to help the Brits bring the true people with the

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Having this health care bill, as it is, meet with bipartisan approval isn't going to make it for for the needs of the people or the consumer protection required for an industry gone wild with gouging an already injured consumer base. This needs to be a tripartite bill with the third party in approval being the American people. Over 65% of the people in multiple polls have favored a bill that

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Just a thought. Aside from the cost to our economy at this particualr time, Americans mind and efforts might best be put to entertaining how we can get the domestic terrorism off the streets of Chicago, L.A.. New York, Philadelphia, Miami...and almost every other major metropolis in this country rather thanin Afghanistan. If you do a little research you'll find that the death rate from

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You can dish out bail outs all day long, but if you don't have any regulations with teeth in them to prohibit the very same business behavior that fueled the original problem, the stimulus won't stimulate and the bad practices will continue to drag the country and the economy down. As things are, someone could have just driven by the houses of these housing jackels and just threw money out a car

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[Def.] "Voyeurs: Obsessive observers of sordid or sensational subjects. (Compare to Peeping Tom) The recovery and resilience of this woman and her children is a testimony to the human spirit. But somehow, I don't think that is the part of the story that America is collectively and compulsively drawn to, is it. We, (thanks to television and media) are unexplicably drawn to the scene of road

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The Taliban is an internal affair for Afghanistan to deal with as their self determination dictates and allows them to. It is by no means a moral objective warranting our presence, but a blind disguised as a defense concern and an undeclared matter of pride and revenge against a small group of apha goat herders with financial backing, visions of grandure and political aspirations to rule the

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Despite my reluctance to subscribe to any of the "social networks" that have propagated on the internet, I suppose it's true. MySpace and FaceBook have opened great opportunities and new vistas for people and families to stay in touch with each other. Aside from the positives of allowing people to remain in touch and to express themselves they also present us an abject lesson in the nature of

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We've been discussing this, it seems forever. My dogs, by now have a better understanding of the pros and cons of health care reform and the difference/benefits involved with public option than it appears the well paid and pampered people who are putting this reform together for us are. If but one of them, or a family member had the immediate need for some sort of insured health care just now

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Does anyone mind if we put a little extra time into our own 300 + year old country and the mess we have to get on top of here for awhile rather than continue to wail and moan over the Middlle (frakkin') East and their 2000 + years of discord which they' seem quite content to carry out for the next 2000 years??? If they were as worried about it as much as America has been since 1948...they could

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We have much more pressing issues that warrants occupying our attention in America than this weekly barrage of empty threats from a country without nuclear capabilities, making angry overtures about how they would defend themselves from attack from an even smaller country which has an active and ready nuclear arsenal and (most likely) the international sympathies that would allow them to use

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NASA or the United States does not own the frakkin' moon! By what rights does anyone have the ownership to deface the moon under any circumstances?? And look...it's not like they've run out of constructive things to do in space. Nasa hasn't figure everything out yet. The way I see it, we're all equal owners of the moon. Next time you want to rape it, call me first. I'll remind you of that while

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There ar 2 points I fear many here today are missing completely. 1) This should be a good day for America. OUR President (whether you voted for or like him or not) has won a very prestigious award which reflects well on our country and all of us. And 2) It doesn't matter one iota whether you think he should have won this award. It's not within your jurisdiction or "field of entitlement" to have

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No one argues that Fox Broadcasting isn't a master at media manipulation, choosing just the right people (no pun intended) of any given stereo type because the messenger better carries the message. And too, they do manage with news and programming to cater to the baser wave lengths of the public as much as possible because it (through no fault of Fox) is an easy draw audience. The argument is

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Uh,...lessee...94% of 360 million...­h-m-m-m-m. That would leave 21 million Americans in the same boat that approx 20 to 45 million of them are already in now.H-m-m-m. What does Baucus think we are, idiots??Back to the drawing board fellas. If it were your family in that 6% of Americans uncovered, you never would have brought it to the table.Why, oh why is this guy even on this committee???He's

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