Obama's Speech: Not The Turning Point He Had In Mind

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 his job is to pull together the necessary data from his professionals and academics and promote what he feels is our best opportunity to resolve them as they arise. There is no bag of brick-a-brack to offer the woodsmen, the tinman, the lion or Dorothy that will make it all better before he leaves for Kansas or the end of his term, whichever might come first.

Neither is he our "sin eater" who will partake of food from the chest of a deceased loved one (America) and make all the sins of our past administrations and congresses be forgiven.

This government has been run poorly for a long. long time.

Obama is perhaps one of the last few presidents this union will have that will be lucky if he can simply hang on to this country that's spiralling out of control and not have it implode completely.

It's foolish to think we can ask any more from one mortal man.

But more than a small handful of people surely are doing just that.
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The War Is Making You Poor Act

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/rep-alan-grayson/the-war-is-making-you-poo_b_585343.html
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Woman Tries To Shut Down Large Hadron Collider Over Apocalypse Fears

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 establishment scientific research field of study like this one has got to be at least a little "woowoo" whether they be right or wrong about it.

The inequity in it becomes apparent in that given the same requirements to continue this study as this woman had in trying to stop it, the science community involved could do no better than she, to give a coherent account of how results of the creation or collection of this "God particle" would play out.

The science community has never seen one. Neither have they any factual knowledge of the actual effect of isolating one and what it effect that would have on the existing natural universe...any more substantially than this woman could "give a coherent account of how her fears would come about."
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Reform Déjà Vu: Democrats Follow Failed Health Care Strategy and Preemptively Surrender on Consumer Financial Protection Agency

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 this country and it's people after another.

This is no way to provide this nation with the dynamic democracy that is necessary to have it remain vibrant and responsive to the changing times and demands that a government for the size of the country we live in needs to survive and prosper.

Rather than provide America with the legislation needed, this Congress, as well as so many before it are allowing us to remain stagnant and static in an ever changing world and as such, they are all but guaranteeing our decay.

This is the wrong biosphere in which to think that on any level, any static endeavor, entity or political system can survive.
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CHILE EARTHQUAKE: 8.8 Magnitude Quake Hits Chile

“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 patterns and uncommon and extreme levels and locations of precipitation and/or drought all over the planet.

Call it nothing or call it what you will, but it's happening. No matter what the cause(s) it may be time to ask ourselves in any event, how can we dare to be wrong?”
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Missile Defense Agency Logo Upsets Right: Comparisons To Obama Campaign, Islamic Crescent

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 matter to daily life and gov't in this country???

The dollars alone that will be spent on the design and redesign of this sort of thing and the time spent in salaries for staff meetings over it is further indicative of how out of touch with our real financial issues people remain and what sort of priorities our elected and appointed officials spend their time deliberating on while "Rome" reaches its flash point.
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Gibbs: The Public Plan Doesn't Have The Votes

"...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 landslide...but I certainly would expect that the majority of Americans would like a public option, in leiu of single pay if that's too much to ask.

But no matter how many letters, phone calls or emails are sent or how many more reps one side of the aisle has over the other...this Congress again and again decides not to represent the people.

And the White House, in spite of the the "Yes we can!" campaigning now says "No we can't.".

Adding insult to injury, Iraq and Afghanistan continue, without the support of the majority of Americans, leaving us without representation on those issues as well. And don't get me started on the TARPs and bailouts for Wall St.

What a lack luster cluster fugg this representative republic/democracy has turned out to be. And in only a little over a relatively short 300 years. Some bragging rights there, my compatriots!

"I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the United Snakes of America..." because I have no other choice.
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Iranian Opposition Demoralized After Failed Protests At Revolution's Anniversary

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 follows the literal meaning of the word?

"Democracy" in essense, as it is presented in any country today is little more than voluntary imprisonment within a very tightly controlled political frame of reference, limiting social conduct while wrapped in the illusion of freedom.

Iran is no different than the US to this extent.

And that's why "democracy" as we know it today is the most popular and sought after political facade preferred by those who wish to create government for the purpose of controlling the freedom of the people and the course of their nation without fear of being concerned about any possibility of a successful revolution.
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Austin Plane Crash: Office Building Hit In Northwestern Austin, Texas (VIDEO)

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 actions are reprehensible but his message is not so far off in pointing out that our system of gov't is (perhaps) irreparably broken and the American people are being farmed for capital and property. This is all done with the indoctrination that Americans have equal rights when it has become more and more obvious that the elite have a set of rights that far exceed that of the common person of Main street. Our input to the process of gov't is pretty much limited to voting for one candidate or another who has been hand picked by the keepers of the status quo and a media owned by the elite who wish to retain the unequal rights they are privileged to and the continuation of the same.

Say what you will about his methods and his maddness and the endangerment that he wreclessly exercised with his actions, but his message is valid in many aspects.

It's a wake up call for all of us to consider what works in today's America, what doesn't and what hasn't for sometime.
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Amy Bishop ARRESTED: University of Alabama Huntsville Shooting Suspect Is Biology Professor, Harvard-Trained

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 justifications at their own level in said culture to also take another's life for their own immediate gain and/or self satisfaction.

Throughout the course of our history as a nation, we in the US have been inundated with a near constant paradox declaring murder a social taboo, while our laws and history show it to be a perfectly acceptable solution for gov't to resolve it's issues with other people, other countries and even it's own citizens.

How long did anyone hope that in time, this erradic and psychotic hypocrisy would be able to remain prominent in our culture without our culture becoming exactly that which has been exemplified through repeated example?

We may never see a better living representation of "you reap what you sow" than what this country and its more than 17,000 indcidents of domestic homicide per year (11,000 of which where guns are used) has become in the 21st century.
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Anything Beyond The Universe? New Theory Changes Our Destiny

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 of it's alternate realities and it's infinite potential for possibilities Those frequencies are still being broadcasted whether we are aware of those transmissions or not.

In times of severe trauma, while in the dream state, a deep meditative state or under a "mind altering" hallucinogenic experience we can temporarily find a resonance with some of these other, vibratory frequencies which are in close proximity to our own creating a temporary harmony which allows us to experience some of those properties that are generally hidden to us due to our limited sensory capabilities or the limited strength of our receiving equipment with regard to a larger section of the spectrum.

This is what I personally believe...this time around.

I also think this was a very good article and well worth the read.
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Senate Jobs Bill Stalled

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 message is for the people of America to become desensitised to the plight of this country and simply accept things the way they are. Because expecting them to change for the better is totally unrealistic. We are being programmed to become numb.

After a few decades of this stuff, you can find yourself ready to accept almost anything from rampant incompetence from the gov't or soldiers in the strreet rounding up you and your neighbors for a camp somewhere.

"Hello, Is anybody out there?...

...I have become "comfortably numb."
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Alito Mouths 'NOT TRUE' At State Of The Union (VIDEO)

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 address on national television.?

This guy was a bad choice for a lifetime position in a body of people who have such a powerful voice in the highest levels of American law.

And based on this last decision rendered soley to the benefit of Corporate America and the detriment of our democratic processes...so were at least 4 others.
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CIA Avenges Suicide Bombing With Barrage Of Predator Drones

"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 wearing....

You guys already get to run the drug operations and the covert stuff everywhere! When is it enough for you guys?

But listen up, team! I only want to say this once.

The Predator Drones and where they get thrown at people is strictly off limits for civilian intel agencies.

That stuff, along with the phosphorus bombs, the depleted uranium, the fleet of Humvees, the really cool jets with the heat seeking armament and stuff like that is strictly for the guys in uniform in our military.

I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings but theresa constitution and a chain of command...and we have to still abide by it until we finally render the darn thing pointless...We're working on it, ok? But give me a break. Rome wasn't destroyed in a day!

Don't make me have to tell you again.

Dismissed."
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Rise In Secret Bill Writing In Washington

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 consists of but one party is free to do as they please and drag their feet on the needs of the people while moving forward with an agenda that has never been disclosed to the American people but remains a topic of conversation only in elite circles of business and in the back rooms of gov't.

The divisional properties of party and ideology as simply a means to difuse and redirect the anger of a distraught public and offer an ever shifting target for that displeasure while the machine of gov't conveniently moves on it's own accord towards whatever it intends to do and has intended to do for a century or more.
Perhaps it's time we as a populace should begin to hold government itself responsible for ethical behavior and producing the desired and promised results that a free society has demanded of it all along.
It doesn't matter which party "takes the hit" or appears to be responsible for the failure of existing or pending legislation.
Perhaps it's time we made it known of our displeasure with gov't as a whole and make Congress and the president accountable as a whole.
It's due time to strip gov't of the double blind it has created through the media and let our elected politicians know that hiding behind party lines is not going to afford either party absolution from the accountability they accepted when they were elected and swore an oath to this country and her people.
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Protest Against America's Toughest Sheriff Turns Violent in Arizona

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 and more often with the word "anarchist" because that other word isn't going to cut it for classifying everybody.

As sad or as ominous as it may be we'd better get used to it, just as we have gotten used to seeing our police forces no longer simply in uniform but in full paramiltary (swat) gear for even the most benign public gathering and events.

I say "get used to it" but I'm not implying that we endorse, accept or enbrace any of it as if it were a good thing.
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Obama Weekly Address: President Details Changes In Health Care Legislation (VIDEO)

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 year...there will be loop holes for the insurance industries, so large, they'll be able to drive a (omni)bus through them. In the wake of the multiple failed bailouts is there any reason to expect otherwise?

This was not what we were told we should expect in health care reform in view of the 36 other countries providing their citizens with more accessible health care opportunities.

Perhaps it would have been prudent to have said nothing publicly at the onset of this reformation and then perhaps people would have been happy with whatever scraps of progress they were ultimately offered.

Instead we have gone from "near perfect" to "good" to "good enough" to "not nearly enough" to "better" to "better than nothing".

It's very hard to get positively excited about "better than nothing" when so many other poorer and less endowed countries have managed to achieve more lofty goals and aspirations for providing their citizenry, health care.
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Nine Months Later, Obama Plan To Help 1.5 Million Struggling Homeowners Yet To Launch

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 teeth to make corporate America comply with the original intent of the program... which was to improve the economy, not the financial footing of the housing/banking industry.

It's beyond unfortunate. I believe initially, President Obama had his heart in the right place and now, in the light of a Washington day, he is as surprised and disappointed as any of us with the limited service our system can actuall deliver to the people and for it's own maintenance in these current times.

Of course he is neither blameless for adding to these obsticles or solely to blame.

It just appears, that in the wake of the callousness of the last few administrations, the greed of Wall St. and industry, the incompetence and self serving nature of Congress, the subordinate approach to corporate America shown by his appointees and his own unwillingness to stand in opposition to those same people and forces...there is little less than a clean slate either with or without President Obama that will solve our current social and econimic problems and put America back on track.
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'Afghan Insurgency Can Sustain Itself Indefinitely,' Top U.S. Intel Chief Says

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 nations in the name of "global security".

Meanwhile, in Dafur and other parts of Africa, hundreds of thousands of people are being killed and brutalized by machette weilding conscripted citizen armies led by power driven warlords whose brutality shadows that of the past 10 years of AQ, the Taliban or Hamas combined.

And in America (according to the FBI web site) approximately 17,000 souls per year are lost to homicide on the streets and in the home across the US.

The response to "global security" is misplaced, misdirected and out of proportion for the majority of the people on the globe who remain to be victimized by whatever existing barbarians there are doing them harm, for whatever the cause or for none at all but the most base of human nature.

If America and the western alliance insists on deploying untold weapons, troops and mercenaries to stem the increase of organized or random violent insanity in this world, their efforts are wasted and their ulterior motives are painfully transparent to anyone capable of seeing and thinking.

We are not providing "global security" neither here or abroad. We are following a self serving agenda and portraying the terror we contribute to the ME as heroic and noble.
But it is neither.
Enough.
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Obama Tells House Democrats He Supports Senate Tax On Cadillac Health Care Plans

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 founded on the rights of the people, not on the "rights" of industry and the interest of corporate Kings.

Had our legislators kept this foremost in mind, perhaps we could have had a single pay or public option program like countries with existing universal health care programs already do, and we wouldn't be reinventing the wheel now and making things twice as lengthy or complicated as they remain to be.

America was established to serve the people, not industry and corporate entities.

Until that ideal returns to American government, it can no longer profess to be a workable form of government for the American people.
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