Received yesterday, incited, in part, by the photo I used of a little girl shooting President Obama a bird and thanking him for spending her future:
I’m so sick of we Americans, all in the good ol’ name of freedom and liberty, being so crass – using a little child to be vulgar is just plain – no other word for it but what I said – vulgar. No-one bats an eye at all the pork Congress just slipped into the huge budget with smiles of glee on their faces, no-one bats an eye at the spending we do to go into outer space or to build up our military, to do so many other things one wonders about, yet when it comes to doing the right thing and providing the way for every American to be covered by healthcare, oh my, do we get up in arms about that. Sometimes I am just plain embarrassed by what goes on in this country. Why can’t we all just grow up, smell the coffee or whatever it takes to wake up to what we are doing in the name of freedom! It’s no wonder Europe wonders whether we are all going insane!
Enjoy your Monday, Sloan.
Peggy
Hi, Peggy.
Someone else wrote to me, a dyed-in-the-wool Republican, about the photo of the little girl. He said adults should not teach children to do that and photograph them. I wrote back that doubted the person who took the photo was a Democrat.
Alas, President Obama did go berserk fiscally, with money the US simply doesn’t have to spend. So it was created out of thin air — a trillion here, a trillion there. We had a balanced budge under Bill Clinton, the so-called fiscally-responsible Republicans labeled their own personal Anti-Christ. Yet they went berserk gleefully when their man George W. Bush lowered taxes (on the rich) and went to war in two different foreign countries, which is about as fiscally stupid, not to mention physically impossible to maintain, as, say, me trying to jump over the moon from here in Key West. So maybe the little girl’s older sister should have posed for a similar photo aimed at George W. Bush.
I agree, it is barbaric that America does not have health care for all Americans. There is no excuse. Far less wealthy nations have health care for all of their citizens. Even foreign nationals are treated for free in many of those countries. I was treated for free in England in 1969. In Costa Rica in 2000.
In this arena, I think President Obama is on target, but there was no way America could afford health care for all Americans and continue to prosecute George W. Bush’s wars and bail out American corporations which, under the Republican free enterprise mantra, should have been left to fend entirely for themselves, instead of receiving huge amounts of funds, thanks to Presidents Obama and Bush. Is it going to turn out that they are twiddly dee and twiddly dum?
For me, and it would seem for the angels who keep after me, who have never once mentioned the American health care system, President Obama getting the US out of George W. Bush’s wars is the most important thing. Yesterday wouldn’t be too soon. There will always be pundits, known and unknown, who make arguments, large and small, for why a war that should never have been started be continued.
I viewed a video sent the other day sent by Sancho Panza, showing Afghan troops getting high on MJ before they went into battle with American troops, also in the video. Standard procedure, the video suggested. I read stuff all the time about how much the Afghan government America is propping up depends on American troops to keep it going, because for sure as heck Afghan troops won’t keep it going. We could send in 300,000 more America troops and spend thirty years and thirty trillion more dollars, and after we left, guess what would happen? About the same thing, I imagine, that is going to happen if American troops are ever pulled out of Iraq.
I hate to think what’s going to happen if China ever invades Taiwan. We are going to go in there and defend Taiwan just across the Formosa Straights from China, whose military dwarfs ours in numbers. Dwarfs it. We, what, pull troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq to fight for Taiwan’s freedom? We do another Korea? Or attempt to do another Korea? The United Nations will join in, to defend Taiwan? China views Taiwan the same way Iraq viewed Kuwait: as a long lost part of itself; a part taken from it as the result of foreign meddling.
Chillingly, before Saddam Hussein sent his troops into Kuwait, he polled the American Ambassador for how the U.S. would respond? The Ambassador, a woman, talked to some people in the American government and came back with a reply, in so many words, that America would not intervene. So Saddam sent his troops into Kuwait, only to soon realize he had been set up, ambushed, by, you guessed it, his old CIA buddy, George Bush, father of George W. Bush. Was George Bush simply looking for an excuse to take out his old buddy, Saddam, whom he had done plenty to install in power and arm? Had George Bush come to rue what he had done and now wanted redemption? Sure looks that way to me.
You talk about America and Americans growing up. I tell you what I think it takes for that to happen. I think it takes what the European countries took for it to happen there. I think it takes getting beat good in a war in your own homeland to get a country over the idea that it is bullet proof and war is a solution. That’s what I think. That, and Jesus never was taken to heart by American Christians about living by the sword and giving up and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Maybe Osama bin Laden represents the wrath of God being unleashed against a proud, haughty, stupid people that bill themselves as “One nation, under God.”
Sancho Panza sent this yesterday:
They just don’t get it! It is the Fall of Rome, all over again!
Time runs in spirals and the wheel keeps turning
The King and the Pauper are ONE in their folly
Sancho, who sees no thing, hears no thing…….
Americans are not going to grow up, unless something tears them a new one and makes them grow up. Something designed by God, although I seriously doubt Americans will view it as coming from God, any more than the high-and-mighty Romans viewed the barbarians that invaded and sacked Rome as being sent by God. Likewise, the Jews wanted Jesus to deliver them from the Romans, not from the Devil. After Christianity took over Rome, the Jews got what they wanted without ever realizing it was all Jesus’ doing. This latter tidbit was explained to me in 1994 by a young Mormon man who had runaway from home and was homeless.
Ross Pero begged George Bush not to rescue Kuwait, on Larry King Live. Ross told America that he’d had business dealings with Arabs. No matter how hard he tried, he always got skinned. So he stopped doing business with them. He said they don’t think the way we do. He said Kuwait was an Arab squabble. Let the Arabs work it out. We’d still get the oil we need. He also said he was a patriot. He told of accompanying hired mercenaries he was paying to go into Iran and rescue his own employees being held hostage in that country. A successful rescue.
Pero was right. He was a prophet sent by God. But the bulk of American’s wanted a prophet sent by the oil industry and the devil: George Bush.
Yesterday, I received this forward Arab-bash below from an older man up the Keys. (I took out the photos, which didn’t seem to want to come through). Whoever made this “joke” up, about an event that apparently killed a few people and cost an Arab country a whole lot of money, strikes me as being as racist as the KKK. This “joke” is typical of some of the childish crap I’m forwarded from American’s who think it’s cute and bill themselves as patriots. Idiots. Little boys pulling out their peckers and playing mine’s bigger than yours; clueless that this sort of American behavior infames Islam and incites it to beat the crap out of America, but good.
Sloan
Priceless indeed…
OOPS! This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane ever built, sits just outside its hangar in Toulouse , France without a single hour of airtime.
Enter the Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies ( ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine run-ups prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi . The ADAT crew
taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area.
Then they took all Four engines to takeoff power with a virtually empty aircraft. Not having Read the run-up manuals, they had no clue just how light an empty A340-600 Really is.
The takeoff warning horn was blaring away in the cockpit because they had All 4 engines at full power. The aircraft computers thought they were trying to take off, but it had not been configured properly (flaps/slats, etc…)
Then one of the ADAT crew decided to pull the circuit breaker on the Ground Proximity Sensor to silence the alarm. This fools the aircraft into thinking it is in the air.
The computers automatically released all the Brakes and set the aircraft rocketing forward. The ADAT crew had no idea that this is a safety feature so that pilots can’t land with the brakes on.
Not one member of the seven-man Arab crew was smart enough to throttle back the engines from their max power setting, so the $200 million brand-new Aircraft crashed into a blast barrier, totaling it!
The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown due to the news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere.
Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Muslim Arabs.
A French Airbus …….. $200 million dollars
Untrained Arab Flight Crew… $300,000 Yearly Salary
Unread Operating Manual…… $300
AIRCRAFT MEETS RETAINING WALL — WALL WINS
PRICELESS!
“That’s why God
gave them camels”!