tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-198137032012-02-16T01:47:54.478-06:00Free association is the main entrée on an a'la carte menu that allows me to work my writing chops on anything. Emails and comments are welcomed and encouraged. Beyond a certain civility you are free to say whatever is on your mind any way you like. You're in a free speech zone. Send article ideas too, if you like. I hope readers will enjoy at least some of these ramblings of mine. If so, pass it on. Be good on yourself.......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.comBlogger2411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-77804052636845147062011-08-17T09:16:00.003-05:002011-08-17T09:25:36.496-05:00

Zach's Almanac is moving. Well, morphing is perhaps a more appropriate term. Anyone interested can find the stuff I say and go on about at "Foxisms" (click below) http://foxisms.blogspot.com/ I hope those of you who visit here, will follow on occasion over there. If it's easier for you, you can get there by clicking the "blurb" on the lower left of this screen. There's already a link to Foxisms

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Odd case of incompeten­ce. Taxes are still paid and collected, from the same people who are to be served with them, and they are told how much to pay, what to pay them on and how often to pay them and so the people must pay and we do...but the long term business plan created and supervised by the very people who are elected to manage and maintain the functionin­g of this (or any) state...or this

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What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding? ~ Elvis Costello

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I decided to forego my own personal series on the HP/AOL merger.By now it's a yawn inducing redundancy and all across the universe known as the internet, everything that could or need be said, has already been said...and said...and said...I took it on as a writing assignment and a contribution to another blog that I was courting...but soon found that it too was just another empty well

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Episode 2 in a series of experiences, observations, 'run ins' and general unhappiness with the moderation policies at Huffington Post in particular and posting and commenting to online sites on the web in general.I was later than some and sooner than others coming into the age of awareness on the whole Huffington Post thing.I became a member in April of 2008. My last 'post' being February of

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Episode 1: The first in a 4 part series of experiences, observations, 'run ins' and general unhappiness with the moderation policies at Huffington Post in particular and posting and commenting to online sites on the web in general.First, let's come to grip with something that few people will openly admit...or perhaps simply can't accept . (I'm sure, which one or the other varies from person to

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Every time a US President starts making demands on other heads of state for basically reacting in the very same way our own would in the case of a week of thousands of people protesting wildly in the street for the ouster of their leadership­, I get real nervous.Making it a point to present the US as the moral compass for the rest of the world, when reactions to this sort of thing from law

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Great photo of Assange to accompany this story.Makes Assange look like Billy Bob Thornton from Slingblade instead of the articulate and well educated person he is.This is but a small appetizer on a menu of how we are subtly manipulate­d by a press and media under the direct coercion of the state.Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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It hasn't been bad enough all the decades to have one side of the pseudo party play against the other endlessly with one taking a stand, popular or otherwise and the other playing the opposition in some good cop-bad cop scenario. Now we have yet another faction to blame or instrument so that even the staunch conservati­ves can publicly appear to have come to their senses only to have their own

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If "a sputnik moment' is one where (in the past) the American people became aware that another country was more advanced than we scientific­ally, or that 36 other countries now, are already providing their people with affordable health care and are more advanced than America on a humane social level ...or that more than a few countries now are investing in their own infrastruc­tures and using

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Invoking Socialism is an empty and misleading talking point.From unemployme­nt, bailouts for business and banks, social security, farm subsidies (which Bachmann helps herself to...) we have already let the socialism gorilla in the house a long time ago. So what's the problem, I wonder.If anyone is afraid that we will slip away from democracy to socialism, don't.First of all we slipped a long time

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I can't see how public elected officials, who in principle are meant to serve the running of this country and the American people, can hide informatio­­n pertaining to whether or not they are using public money to cover their health care and/or where public money is going in any event.I can see why I just can't see how. Because if our representa­tives are able to conceal it, they can always deny

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This is a very good piece.Why? Because emotionall­y it's very hard to read without wanting to do something of value for the cause yet knowing that at this point....a­fter all the promises and pledges of support from our people and our government and likewise from others, the western world still places more value in destabiliz­ing, dominating and rebuilding other countries in it's own ideologica­l

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"Black Listed" is an arbitrary designatio­n afforded to certain countries and leaders who choose to live their lives and rule their countries in a manner contrary to the way we do, ours.Whether it is necessary or conducive to building better global relationsh­ips has never really proven to be a workable option as can be seen with Cuba, NK, Venezuela.­..But to splash the word "evil" across

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One would think in general that any government truly inclined to serve it's people, follow a healthy course of evolution to better things and improve itself as needed would herald the informatio­n being distribute­d by Wikileaks. Instead ours disregards the implicatio­ns presented by these documents and internal correspond­ences along with the opportunit­y to learn of and from our shortcomin­gs

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If anyone remembers, when DADT was originally instituted it was a means to protect gays in the military. But like so many other laws, it was abused and by the very nature of the ignorance it was made valueless by those who opposed it or disregarde­d it, either then or since.While I believe it was right to abolish a law that shouldn't have required the government to instate in the first place, the

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Google has no obligation to turn over personal informatio­n (regardles­s of how intentiona­l or unintended­) it may have been acquired.It's enough that they openly admitted they have it, but turning it over (even and especially to government­) is beyond the wrong of simply having it, it's compoundin­g the wrong by disseminat­ing that informatio­n and a breech of public trust.The informatio­n

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Most any other person less articulate and concise in his accounting of the details in this interview would likely have been skewered and become fodder for even more speculatio­n and debate.The "Running Man" approach to creating spectacle and sensation in our national morning news programs rely on the cross examinatio­n aspect of their interviews­/interview­ers in an effort to create a story "with

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I happen to like Al Franken. I think he's a brilliant comedian, satirist and a politician with his heart in the right place. But his insight as to how he voted on this tax cut extension and the attached booby traps in favor of foregoing long term sustainab­­lity for some very minimal short term "relief" was simply the wrong way to go.This was a bad vote.If we don't draw a line and make a

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OK, so who remembers "the tale of the Walrus and the Carpenter" by Carrol Lewis in his book "Through the Looking Glass?Was the walrus crying because of his good natured intent for the oysters or because he had eaten them all and there were none left to devour?This guy brings all of that to mind every time I see him break down and blubber.And do we even need someone so emotionall­y fragile in

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Nowhere near perfect for 97% of the American people.And that's a long cry from simply being "not perfect".On the other hand, it's perfectly "near perfect" for the other 3% who are doing whatever they can do to buy the American political system for their own excess and greed.A 13 month extension of benefits for some (hardly all) of the unemployed to (as Bernie Sanders pointed out) put more

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If this country can slide by on the single bullet theory... slip around telling everyone that the WTC incident was thoroughly investigat­ed with only a portion of the evidence and get the world to go along with an unnecessary and morally wrong invasion of Iraq, they have pretty much proven that they can do whatever they like and do it whenever they like. But that doesn't by a long shot make any

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The self destruct sequence has commenced and the option to override has expired.This country was a lovely experiment while it lasted but like every empire that has fallen before us, it was brought to ruin by the same mindset of material greed and partiality to the wealthy that has brought down every empire in history.A country, a nation or an empire cannot cater to but 5% of it's population and

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If you or I were responsibl­e for hacking and disrupting­, say, Amazon, Yahoo, Google or any website of any notoriety or popularity we would be arrested for breaking the law. If you or I deliberate­ly locked anyone out or tampered with anyone's bank account we would be arrested for breaking the law.Assange and wiki ( Manning yes...but that's a military matter) have not been formally charged with

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Control the currency and you control access to sustenance for any individual­, population or business interest.Control the access to sustenance and you control any individual­, population or business interest.Following this to it's logical conclusion­, anything and everything that involves (a less than free) currency will surely be subservian­t to the government­.So basically, control the

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From people who are only seeking “truth” about 9/11 so many here demand incontrovertible proof and evidence that was never asked from the 9/11 commission or the government that failed us on that morning of September, 2001.As a matter of fact, prime evidence was removed from the site within 24 hours and none of these people so much as ask “why?” let alone demands that this “proof” be submitted and

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Big eye roll.I can see the scene now.High noon. The sun is effectively baking the earth's surface. Tumble weeds roll lazily across the dusty street between clap board building under the shade of post and beam over hangs...circa mid 1800's ...a lone old timer dozes while leaning back against a building on but two legs of a kitchen chair in the shade while a mangy homeless dog wanders the ally

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With all the hundreds of billions that have gone from our treasury to the banks and Wall St. so far; it appears some disciplinary examples will be needed if Bernanke and this govt is ever going to get another $600 billion to squander on the same sort of stimulus (giving money to the banks primarily) that has failed us for the last 20 years.Even Europe warns against it. But a little American

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"Militants in Gaza, meanwhile, fired rockets at southern Israel, causing no casualties..."Seriously, do they ever?For as small a geo as Israel is, you would think that if you spit out your window you would hit someone or something more than a vacant lot. I remember the SCUD launches in the 80's...they got nothing but air.Don't get me wrong. I think it's fantastic that so few are injured or maimed

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Oh, goodie!The divide and conquer isn't enmeshing the American people enough so now we need to give rise to yet another diversionary insurgency group to join the fray.Party affiliations just aren't enough, neither is basic ideology. To keep us (the sheep,) bleating through the night for the protection of the farmer we have political parties: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Green,

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Well if Rahm is being straight up about this, he joins a growing list of people surrounding this President who in spite of being chosen for what they could bring to the affair by way of advice and savvy who pulled in a different direction that that of the one the president wanted to, because it's been bipartisanship for this White House and Congress all the way for 2 years now.On the other hand

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Be sure to read the story linked below to see what prompted this post. It's an interesting piece that you might like to muse over. I did, until I came to the following line of quote. After listing the various hominids who have come before us...and departed the author (Dr. Robert Lanza) pointed out, in his opinion:"Indeed, we happen to be the only species of Hominina that made it."I'd definitely

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If this government gave one half as much concern for our people in the military or the voice of the people we could have had our troops home and safe years ago.There is no greater connection we can have with these men and women than to want them removed from the dangers of a theater of war or invasion that was neither necessary or warranting the sacrifices of life and family such as our troops

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Do the math people.435 people voting as often as they like on whatever they like and making life and death decisions for 307 million Americans who get the free-dumb to vote for little more every two years than who the next courtesans will be to make decision for us.These numbers of congressmen might have worked out well for the population of the 13 original states, but let's get real. This is

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Ok, this aristocratic, dual system of justice just keeps getting worse and worse.At what point does someone (anyone) call this sort of judicial latitude and preferential treatment of establishment figures, politicians and finance barons into question on a national level as an affront to our sensibilities and our constitution?A blind man can see that in 2010 America all men and women are no longer

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Well, there he is again. Bold as life.The newest wonder boy and future presidential hopeful of the GOP... Eric Cantor.We'll be seeing a whole lot of this guy between now and 2012 (or 2016).But how he or anyone can make the declaration at this point that any lack of progress in Congress will be the president's fault is insane.These are two separate, individual branches of our government.The

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Yet another issue that has become little more than the trials and tribulations of the rich and famous in the "green zone" that is DC, rather than the back story which is basically how legislation in America for the country and the people is in a state of stagnation with little to nothing being done to move this country in any direction at all...neither left, right or somewhere in between.All

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I wonder if the champions of capitalism rich and poor alike, (which has solidly failed the American people twice now in but 80 years) are ready to concede that it may not be all it has been cracked up to be?The immediate response to this (if any) will be through Ad Hominem from those who see the world in only two contrasting colors with the ever popular shield that surely I must be talking about

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I'm scratching my head over here... What's the issue?Knowing the sort of military conflicts and righteousness in pursing them that we have witnessed over the last decade, why in the world would anyone actually want to join or fight for the right to join the military in the first place.Sure, maybe some college opportunity. Perhaps a little financial security and a shot at a veteren's loan or

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GOP...DEM, what's the difference?The same party wins every time regardless of what they publicly call themselves or use to make it appear that there's actually a chasm between them.To muddy the waters further, these two (supposedly individual) entities hold an open exchange regularly and reverse their personae like a good cop/bad cop routine.Give yourself a pop quiz. Pick 10 random, major issues

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Hate to break this to anyone unaware of it, but if anyone thinks that we are going to resolve the banking problem in this country by going after one or more established banks at a time, you've got another think coming.By all reports and opinions I've heard on the subject by "expert analysts" BOA should have been declared bankrupt and seized and foreclosed upon by the US government rather than

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The hypocrisy is this, if the majority of nationals in America were not equally "nervous" about this or any other people, why would we have allowed our government to erode our constitution under the guise of the Patriot Act and Homeland Security in an effort to single out and scrutinize certain "types" of people who don't conveniently fit the christian cookie cutting mold? Why are we in a ten

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"Hateful" is a subjective and relative term...unless it's being used to inflame and create hate in someone for someone else...directly as it seems to be regularly in speeches and the press with regard to Iran. It's infinitely more hateful than anything said by A-Jad at the UN yesterday; no matter how much the feel good people wish to parade around in their their hypersensitivity in the 21st

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"It's all happening, NOW."Every possible permutation of every element be it physical or perceptual. Every possible outcome is laying out there active in every possible state, waiting for definition based on observation and observer...both individual or collectively.Given enough "physical" elements that can be identified and agreed upon "conclusively" (IE the JFK incident) the material becomes

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Someone (Huffington Post moderators) are really having a terrible time with this post of mine. Drop me an email mods and let me know why, OK? It's just an opinion, similar to so many others here on this subject. Not inciteful, not profane...So what gives?"When the prime objectives, which were never truly announced to the American people because of their distastefulness are considered, things like

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Did Obama's speech really fail? I think it was as good as any speech could have been compared to a magic wand under this country's current circumstances.Whether you like this president personally or politically or not...I think people should take a step back, draw a deep breath and realize that he is not the Wizard of Oz. When presented with problems of the scope of where this country stands now

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There are a sad few pieces of legislation introduced on the floor and made Congressional record that are as important as this.When someone decides to see which Congressmen are attempting to meet the needs and real issues of this country in this day and age, head on, w/out the BS, Grayson's name is sure to be found at the top of the list.This video is a must see.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

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Rather than applaud the fact that this woman saw a cause and went about addressing it within the limits of the law, people label her a "woowoo".Had she presented her arguments by blazing a trail of glory by opening fire on a few guards at the facility, those same people would have labeled her a "woowoo".In either case, anyone who thinks any person could close down a multi-billion dollar

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Why bother implementing new reforms if they reform little to nothing, and take months and years to debate things that still fall short of adequate?We are behind on so much legislatively in America and instead of taking the time and making the arguments needed to establish real progress on issues needed we spend the same amount of valuable time simply presenting one watered down, band aid fix for

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“Despite all rationale to the contrary there has been a noticeable increase in the frequency of event's such as this, that stimulate a larger than usual "problem, reaction, solution" scenario in the world community. The "why" (or who) has to come to people on their own terms and in their own time. But there is an increased frequency of these occurrences of quakes, tsunamis, erratic weather

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When a simple little agency symbol amounting to no more than a letterhead, which wouldn't even be used for mass public consumption can create such negative buzz as to have interest groups wring their hands over its perceived similarities to 1000 other 3 color insignias in common use, is there any wonder why America is 50 years behind itself in so many of the real and crucial issues that actually

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"...the president doesn't think the votes are there to get a public option passed through reconciliation..." When did this become a matter of whether or not it was popular within Congress? Everyone I know was educated in public or private schools to believe that Congress was supposed to vote according to the will of the people. We were told we were represented. Sure, I wouldn't expect a

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You can revolt against a monarchy. There's a tangible target for discontent over inequality. But you can't very well succeed with a revolution against a gov't that is set up as a democracy or a representative republic. By it's very structure, it is veiled as being based on freedom and the will of the people, whether (in reality) it is or not. Look around. What countries have a democracy that

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It's unfortunate that people are driven to such desperation that they will endanger others and end their own lives to make a statement. Sadder still is the fact that due to this act, very few willl see what truth there is in the message he left behind even though on places like this and other comment forums, it can be seen everyday and many Americans agree with his sentiments and frustration. His

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As soon as a society or culture begins to make killing other people conditionally acceptable behaviour through justifications such as land, resources, political differences, power, expansion of borders or profit for their military industrial complex, you can hardly expect the participants of that society to not begin to feel that they too are entitled to create conditionally acceptable

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There is a spectrum of realities based on and assigned to specific vibratory rates which, as with light and sound we are only capable of sensing a minute portion of, while encased in these physical forms we believe to be solid matter. Just as a radio or television transmission doesn't cease to exist when we change the channel/station or turn off the receiver, neither does the multiverse with all

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Since when is the Senate's inability to agree and pass a much needed bill that would directly benefit the people of America (rather than Corporate America) "news"? I can't help reading about these things everyday without hearing the words room Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" going round and round in my head. The constant and repetitive news of this order is beginning to feel as if the real

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And now, even our Supreme Court Justices, are refusing recogonize a bit of proper decorum for any but their own political positions. A Justice would never stand for so much as a shake of the head and a mouthed insinuation to express dissatisfaction with they way they get things done in their court room. But this one feels within his boundaries to do so to the president in a joint session and SOTU

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"OK...Who gave the C.I.A. the Predator Drones? Now we've told the Pentagon again and again that only they get to play with the drones. The C.I.A. gets all the cool listening devices, survellience sats, international agents, helicopters a bunch of really cool cars, a complete database on everybody on the frakkin' planet and unlimited dry cleaning for those black suits the agency boys insist on

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No matter how long or how much of this nonsense goes on, some people still want to hang tight on the divisional aspects of party and ideology as the problem.For Main St. there certainly is a problem. For Capitol Hill, everything is running like clock work.And as long as everyone clings to this being a matter of left vs right, conservative vs liberal, Republican vs Democrat, this gov't which

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The gov't here and elsewhere realize that the sting of being labaled a terrizt is not long for this world and a very hard sell to make when neighbors begin hearing that people they know are being arrested for peacful assembies as the constitution mandates they should be allowed to. In a world (NWO) where domestic uprisings are sure to become a more frequent event, we're now being bombarded more

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I'm not hearing a whole lot of what the people were told in Minnesota...or in the speech made to Congress when the drive to begin health care reform began.Everyone will need to acquire insurance...but from who? The same leeches that were selling Americans out for generations in the first place?And if this bill should follow the bulk of the other bills and programs that have come forth in the last

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Very hard to get this thing rolling when each time a measure is implemented it can't get into or out of Congress without being stepped on like a street bag of coke from the 80's.From presidential appointees to Senators and Representatives to final signature, these programs end up with strategic loop holes and weasel clauses that remove all the good it might have held in principle and bears no

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As long as there is but one random act of violence anywhere on the planet where the perpetrator can be associated with Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Nigeria, Iran, Palesitine, Yemin or a half dozen other primarily Muslim influenced countries, it will be called "terrorism" and the US and British led NATO will take it as a call to continue their mission and crusade to further occupy soveriegn

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There still seems to be an inordinate amount of concern for the preferences of the insurance companies rather than the people.If the dwindling middle class must accept new legislation as it is presented to them (whether it is what was promised or is tastefully acceptable or not) then why all the finagling to find a program acceptable to the whims of the insurance industry? This country was

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"We can still avert the worst." Gone are the days when our national incentives were to strive make things better than anyone else and do it correctly the first time around. We have finally been reduced to the realms of "it could be worse" and the minimist goal that we may "still avert the worst". Is it any wonder that our health care "reform" went from "best" to "2nd best" to "good" to "good

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While the good news remains good, I fear Congress may still be on the wrong track.Senators (and Dem Senators!) are already asking for no material changes to the Senate bill by the co-joining with the House.From where I sit, the Senate has to come in line with and incorporate quite a few items from the House bill before this even gets close to what this "reform" was supposed to be about in the

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This is how our system rolls.One party proposes and the other obstructs.When the party that issues a proposal has been beaten down in the name of compromise, the obstructionist party uses that to it's own advantage by claiming to be the champion of the people.I've watched this process back and forth with the two parties interchanging ideologies, loyalties, positions and intent publicly for more

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Watch Obama's speech to Congress on Sept. 9, 2009 and from Minnesota Sept. 13, 2009 (The first is on Youtube...it's part of the infamous, Joe Wilson "You lie" speech) The second, you may need to search for. There's no question that the President was At that time in favor and supportive of a public option and a litany of other health care proposals for the benefit of the people. Unfortunately the

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We have had better days. And unless a new approach is applied, we may not see the likes of them again. This is not going well at all. Obama is renacting the Dutch boy at the dike, trying to fill the leaks with cash, but everytime he does so, a new leak arises. This was perhaps not the best plan for us. Perhaps it would be different if we weren't locked into private banking and having a Fed.

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"Better late than never" and "Better than nothing" are going to be the slogans that this administration is remembered for if they don't get their heads in gear and start taking a direct management approach to providing for this economy and the needs of the American people. You can't just keep dumping money into the banks as though they are the financial equivalent of BlackWater/Xe and excpect to

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As a nation our leadership has the tendency to want to play the role of cartoonist Hank Ketcham's Margaret to the world's default enactment of Dennis Mitchell. We insist on when the tea party will take place, who attends, when and how the cups and saucers are arranged and God help Dennis if he doesn't want to sheepishly comply with every set condition, rule of etiquette or social agenda for the

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Whether or not Obama saying he would stay the course in Afghan surprised anyone or not, is not the issue. Doing the right thing according to the majority of Americans who put him in office and why and what is morally correct and in accord with the majority of all Ameircans and the better interests of this country is his primary responsibility. Continuing a course that has been attempted for 8

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As usual...th­e country is in the septic tank and far too many people use the opportunities given them to speak out by trying to generate a good spin for their party of preference. There's only one party people. That's why no matter who is in the White House or who has the majority in Congress evrything still remains a mess. Look at the economy, unemployment, outsourcing of jobs to foriegn

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These camps, while a stark reminder of our capability for inhumanity, are not religious or sacred shrines to the whole of mankind. If in the United States we can sculpt and erect larger than life carvings of the busts of US Presidents on the same sacred lands where millions of native American Indians were slaughtered and suburban housing and strip malls can be constructed, where are the

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As a smoker of 45 years (minus the attempts to shelve it) I think this is judgement is absolutely out of proportion text book case of legitimized insanity. If anyone that smokes tobacco, dosen't know that stuffing a paper tube with dried vegetation between your lips, lighting it and inhaling the smoke, 20, 30 or 40 times each day, year after year just might eventually lead to respiratory

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It's nice to see that the Republicans and Democrats can work together on something. Too bad it's on bipartisan greed and selling out the American voter for greed and profit. But many of us knew this already. It's time to see it and call it as it is. The American people no longer have the power of representation in government. It's also time for more self representation through developing a

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Before the banks, came industry that demanded maximum output for minimum input. Look at the salaries of degreed people in social service, teaching, nursing, health services, janitorial maintenance, food services. Consider the under qualified, over educated people in even low and middle management positions in corporate America who perform as little more than liasons and messengers between upper

......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-9267344492052573372009-11-12T03:14:00.001-06:002009-11-12T03:14:14.298-06:00

Is he really sending out messages? You really buy into that? How do you know? Because the people that want to continue this insanity tell you he is?? Not good enough for me. You're being sold one.About YemenRead the Article at HuffingtonPost

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It's not as if the formula for a rapid and effective recovery has never been used before in America. Why must this gov't be so egocentric as to think it need reinvent the wheel each time something need be done for this nation and its people? We need to first stop spending trillions on nuilding other nations which requires our military and those additional costs. Then we need to fund industries (

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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

......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-81267223450650560362009-11-04T10:36:00.004-06:002009-11-04T10:52:29.065-06:00

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

......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-45508575880641870572009-11-03T09:49:00.001-06:002009-11-03T09:49:45.232-06:00

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

......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-88563985944537088752009-11-01T12:47:00.003-06:002009-11-01T13:05:35.910-06:00

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

......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-42449697701683752972009-10-30T09:41:00.001-05:002009-10-30T09:41:25.760-05:00

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

......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-41224997722296090142009-10-28T12:32:00.001-05:002009-10-28T12:32:02.245-05:00

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,

......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-27049393502764408052009-10-17T19:27:00.002-05:002009-12-30T10:12:37.201-06:00

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 regulation 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

......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-86006425863889539002009-10-16T09:34:00.001-05:002009-10-16T09:34:53.127-05:00

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

......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-81096250529567154132009-10-15T22:18:00.001-05:002009-10-15T22:18:48.886-05:00

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

......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-25122930437152577052009-10-15T10:25:00.001-05:002009-10-15T10:25:13.665-05:00

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

......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-44006785428845009732009-10-14T11:42:00.001-05:002009-10-14T11:42:44.180-05:00

[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

......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-34342239519555627212009-10-13T10:58:00.001-05:002009-10-13T10:58:10.795-05:00

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

......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-27933686407692401662009-10-12T10:31:00.001-05:002009-10-12T10:31:52.679-05:00

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

......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-13859322114812291852009-10-12T09:59:00.001-05:002009-10-12T09:59:21.482-05:00

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

......Zach's Almanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006268363198808370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19813703.post-82594411054747230682009-10-11T12:30:00.001-05:002009-10-11T12:30:12.352-05:00

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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