The Non-Existent Poor in Both Campaigns.

Barack Obama has been totally focused on the middle class vote, while Mitt Romney has already made it clear what his stand on the poor is,  when he told America he’s not worried about the poor. I also remember something about a social safety net that is in my personal view, in tatters.

If no one wants to acknowledge the poor by even mentioning they exist, our political system in America will focus even more on telling people only what they want to hear, ensuring four more years of broken and unfulfilled campaign promises.

With no working safety net who will be there to help those in need when they fall?

Clint VS Chair

Everyone is all a buzz over the internet about Clint Eastwood’s speech to a chair at the Republican National Convention, In case you missed it here is the full transcript of that speech:

(Mr. Eastwood)

So, Mr. Chair, how do you handle promises that you have made when you were running for election, and how do you handle them?

(Chair)

I don’t know I’m just a chair, give me a break.

(Mr. Eastwood)

I mean, what do you say to people? Do you just -- you know -- I know -- people were wondering -- you don’t -- handle that OK. Well, I know even people in your own party were very disappointed when you didn’t close Gitmo. And I thought, well closing Gitmo -- why close that, we spent so much money on it. But, I thought maybe as an excuse -- what do you mean shut up?

(Chair)

I mean shut the hell up you nut job, you just took me from the back storage room, drag me up here in front of all these people, and now your gunna start grilling me about things I had nothing to do with; what the hells wrong with you man?

(Mr. Eastwood)

OK, I thought maybe it was just because somebody had the stupid idea of trying terrorists in downtown New York City.

(Chair)

 I don’t know, I guess so, I mean no, and what the hell are you rambling on about any way?

(Mr. Eastwood)

I’ve got to hand it to you. I have to give credit where credit is due. You did finally overrule that finally. And that’s -- now we are moving onward. I know you were against the war in Iraq, and that’s okay. But you thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean -- you thought that was something worth doing. We didn’t check with the Russians to see how did it -- they did there for 10 years.

 (Chair)

Once again Mr. I’m just a chair ,I don’t know anything about no war in Afghanistan or who the hell the Russians are, I’ve been sittin in that back storage room for four years now minding my own business until you puttered in there and took me up here.

(Mr. Eastwood)

But we did it, and it is something to be thought about, and I think that, when we get to maybe -- I think you’ve mentioned something about having a target date for bringing everybody home. You gave that target date, and I think Mr. Romney asked the only sensible question, you know, he says, “Why are you giving the date out now? Why don’t you just bring them home tomorrow morning?”

(Chair)

Cool, whatever man, if it will make you shut up and go away, fine ,I did everything ,I’m a bad chair, blah blah blah, is that good enough for you man, feel real good about yourself asshole, jeees, can you just take me back to the store room now please!

(Mr. Eastwood)

And I thought -- I thought, yeah -- I am not going to shut up, it is my turn.

(Chair)

Oh god no please, I can’t take it anymore Mr., would you just smash me up, light me on fire , anything but ramble on for one more second, Help! Help! For the love of Christ would someone please just make him stop?

(Mr. Eastwood)

So anyway, we’re going to have -- we’re going to have to have a little chat about that. And then, I just wondered, all these promises -- I wondered about when the -- what do you want me to tell Romney? I can’t tell him to do that. I can’t tell him to do that to himself.

(Chair)

I don’t give a shit what you can or can’t do pall, you and Romney can go fuck yourselves, or better yet go fuck each other for all I care.

(Mr. Eastwood)

You’re crazy, you’re absolutely crazy. You’re getting as bad as Biden.

 (Chair)

Biden who? Yea right, I’m the one who’s crazy, this coming from someone who’s onstage arguing with a chair in front of thousands of people.

(Mr. Eastwood)

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party.

(Chair)

Once again, Biden Who?

(Mr. Eastwood)

Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

(Chair)

I’ve already told you twice pal, I’ve got no clue who this Biden guy you keep grilling me about is, would you just go away and leave me alone now please.

(Mr. Eastwood)

But I just think that there is so much to be done, and I think that Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan are two guys that can come along. See, I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to the president, anyway.

(Chair)

Oh my god still, would a fat lady from the audience please come up here and sit on me to help muffle the sound of this guy, I’m serious.

(Mr. Eastwood)

I think attorneys are so busy -- you know they’re always taught to argue everything, and always weight everything -- weigh both sides.

(Chair)

Ok, that’s it, I’ve tried being reasonable with you Mr. but I’m done playing, talk all you want jabber mouth but I’m not going to respond any more.

 (Mr. Eastwood)

They are always devil’s advocating this and bifurcating this and bifurcating that. You know all that stuff. But, I think it is maybe time -- what do you think -- for maybe a businessman. How about that?

(Chair)

--Silence—

(Mr. Eastwood)

A stellar businessman. Quote, unquote, “a stellar businessman.”

(Chair)

--Silence—

(Mr. Eastwood)

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane.

(Chair)

Oh come on man really-uuuuurrrrr!

(Mr. Eastwood)

Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

(Chair)

I’m not listening to you—la la la la lalalalala! I can’t hear you LALALALALA!

(Mr. Eastwood)

You are an -- an ecological man. Why would you want to drive that around?

(Chair)

Somebody please have mercy, you guys are heartless bastards, and I hope you all rot in hell

 (Mr. Eastwood)

OK, well anyway. All right, I’m sorry. I can’t do that to myself either.

(Chair)

Sure you are pal, somehow I don’t believe you.

(Mr. Eastwood)

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we -- we own this country.

(Chair)

Whatever, talk to leg because the seat aint listening!

(Mr. Eastwood)

We -- we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

(Chair)

Yep I get it, done yet

(Mr. Eastwood)

And -- so -- they are just going to come around and beg for votes every few years. It is the same old deal. But I just think it is important that you realize , that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

(Chair)

Holy crap this guy runs on.

(Mr. Eastwood)

Okay, just remember that. And I’m speaking out for everybody out there. It doesn’t hurt, we don’t have to be

(Chair)

It’s hurting me pal, it’s hurting me.

(Mr. Eastwood)

I do not say that word anymore. Well, maybe one last time.

(Chair)

Anybody else looking at their watch.

(Mr. Eastwood)

We don’t have to be -- what I’m saying, we do not have to be metal (ph) masochists and vote for somebody that we don’t really even want in office just because they seem to be nice guys or maybe not so nice guys, if you look at some of the recent ads going out there, I don’t know.

(APPLAUSE)
But OK. You want to make my day?
(APPLAUSE)
All right. I started, you finish it. Go ahead.
AUDIENCE: Make my day!
EASTWOOD: Thank you. Thank you very much.
(APPLAUSE)

(Chair)

Thank god it’s over; I’m never coming out of the storage closet again.

Turn the Page: Please Don’t Rip It!

I think one of the best points Romney made in his acceptance speech to the Republican National Convention was when he looked America straight in the eyes and asked them truthfully,” If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama”. Well, if I have to look him back in the eyes and answer truthfully, I would have tell him that I should,  but I really truthfully don’t. Attacking Obama’s performance record and not the popular President personally was a brilliant move on the string pullers part.

One of the great advantages of running for office, rather than trying to hold onto office, is not having all the bold and lofty campaign promises you made in the last election come back and bite you in your but when they end up as failures or half victories.  Regardless of whether Romney wins the election in November, his party has done an incredible job in turning him into a personable, likeable, and trustworthy persona compared to the elitist robot that alienated him from voters before he decided to run in 2012. I think that putting the past disappointments of the last four years sounds tempting for voters regardless of their party affiliations. I can’t be the only one desperate to move on to somewhere, anywhere but where we are now. I am highly suspicious though of moving into Romney’s house; I have a feeling I would end up in the servant quarters with the rest of the poor people.

Paul Ryan Speaks

  
Paul Ryan touched on a subject of concern for the over fifty crowd tonight. That is the prevalent trend of our twenty something children to still live in our basements after putting up so much cash to send them through college. It seems on the mark to focus on jobs during this campaign when that is the issue on every citizens' minds regardless of what crazy is shooting who, or what dictator is getting his just rewards in the middle east.

    He was also very smart in tearing down the only real notable accomplishment of Obama's administration in being the first democrat to fulfill any type of health care reform against the raging rivers of defiance from the Republican Party.

    His mistakes on the specifics like who shut down what business or who’s responsible for that will most likely go unnoticed because who really cares anyway. Most of us secretly realize that both parties are to blame along with ourselves for not seeing it coming.

In order to cinch the election the Republican Party will have to stop pointing fingers and come up with answers and solutions rather than blame.

Make No Doubt About It People, Social Media Journalists Are the Future Of Journalism

    

The thing that I learned the most in journalism school is that journalism is not on the way out; it is in transition to becoming something better than it ever has been before. The old watch dog is not decrepit and failing, it has been rejuvenated back into the protector of democracy and free speech that we all as journalists have sworn to uphold and protect from the beginning, regardless of the threat to our own life, limb, and liberty. The old school and new school factions should not compete with each other, but combine together as one to form a global coalition of the protectors of free will and free speech, that no government or dictator can ever repress again. The Ideals of the modern day social media journalist have been tested in the uprisings of the "Arab Spring" and found not wanting, but empowering. The blogs and forums of our worldwide web have encouraged democratic debate not partisan division. Social media journalists are not the demons of the new age of journalism even though there are legions of them, but the followers of time tested journalistic ideals of decency, democracy, and liberty, ensuring justice for all, and putting the needs of the many before the greed and selfishness of the few. We are social media and we are here forever and always in the hearts, minds, and spirits of everyday people with the same journalistic ideals of social change, and the betterment of society. We shall remain so in spirit for as long as the spoken and written word continues to exist.

R.N.C.: Yes We Did, Not Yes We Maybe Can.

     I do not have a great fondness for the Republican Party, but I must admit there is something very likable about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. If Obama's speech blew away the D.N.C in 2004 when he was key note speaker, Chris Christie came through in the same way for the R.N.C.

     The implicit meanings of the Governors speech were very clear to both the working man, and the man of wealth and prestige:

Big Business is your friend and big government is your enemy.

Yes we did - instead of yes we maybe can.

Democrats are purposely tearing this country apart while republicans are trying to re-unite it.

     The main points of the Governors speech were valid and rationally to the point:

The working man built America, and strong republican women helped instill the upbringing that gave the morels, ethics, initiative, and compassion to Republicans that the liberals lack.

     And all this was under the added pressure of storm Isaac.

     L.O.L., now this is what I really think. These rich uptighty whitey bastards must really be scared of this November if they are willing to put all their regular guy eggs in the basket of a Jersey stereotype of not only the Irish mob, but the Italian mob as well. Yes you did it: you killed the whole worlds economy with your selfish greed, fueled by your intense fear of having to live in America as most of us who aren’t them have to; poor and struggling every day of our lives just to get by so rich pricks like Romney can lay us off two years before we can collect our f’n pensions.

     His Stepford wife was sickening enough, and this obviously desperate play by the Republic party to show off their "average guy" was actually a welcoming relief after I got done barfing in the kitchen sink because I couldn’t make it to the bathroom in time. My god do they really think the rest of us are really that stupid just because our parents didn’t have the money to keep us out of fighting their distracting profitable wars for every one of their defense cronies while the country go’s bankrupt, or pay their way through doctor and lawyer school.

     Their play on yes we can with yes we did, in one state, is barely believable by anyone not totally a mindless zombie infected by political party Voo-Doo dust, (both sides, not just theirs) that have no real minds or opinions of their own. The inference that big business is more trustworthy than big government will be hopelessly lost on all those who lost their small businesses, homes, savings, and stock portfolios by the incredibly rich getin richer schemes to be even richer at the expense of not just the usual poor, (their standard stock of victims) but greedily going after the middle class's life savings as well.

   Well I guess that’s enough venting for now, but I’m not willing to give them a celebratory cigar just yet: mostly because I can’t even come close to affording their brand. My advice to all the voters in this upcoming election  is to take both parties promises as they are, empty except for the standard piles of shit that they are traditionally full of.

The Never Ending Shooting Spree of the New Millennium

     Come on people! Are we just going to sit back and pretend this epidemic of indiscriminate shooting sprees isn’t really happening? Do you really want to be led like sheep to the slaughter by your own inaction? Lamb chops and sweaters are not going to protect us and neither is the government unless we force them to take a stand and quit worrying about their own selfish political agendas and actually stick their own necks out instead of ours,  calling for rational gun control nationwide immediately. There is no valid reason for an average citizen to need assault weapons or body armor. If you need a handgun to carry around with you, you better have a damn good valid reason like being a body guard or transporting diamonds or something, because saying you need a gun to protect yourself from people with guns just doesn’t cut it for the rest of us anymore. If you can’t protect your home or feed your family with a shotgun or single action dear rifle then why not? These are all valid rational questions that common sense dictates should have already been debated and acted upon if it wasn’t for greed, macho bravado, and self-serving politics. It is time for all of us to realize that we are creating and manifesting our own Armageddon not just in our own country but throughout the entire world.

     Write your state representative and senator regardless of what parties they represent; let them know you expect swift and decisive action without any more endless stonewalling, flip flopping or bureaucratic nonsense. Our men, women, and children are being gunned down in the streets before are very eyes for no apparent reason but that they lived. These shooting sprees are a direct threat and affront to our very right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. These maniacs do not care if their victims are democrats or republicans, so why is rational gun control a political issue? The next ruthless killer is not going to base his aggression on your ethnicity, party affiliation, sexual orientation, or social status; he will single you out for death simply because you exist. How about if all of us decide to choose our next president based on his abilities to give a crap about us instead of their own parties political agendas. Wouldn’t that be a surprising and refreshing change from the same old same old and empty promises of change? It is time to change our status as human sheep and choose to take action before some lunatic with an assault weapon or five semi- automatic hand guns decides to choose death for you.

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From Our Cold Dead Hands!

                  The Right to Bear Arms VS. The Right Not To Be Shot.

      The Second Amendment: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

     Militia- The trouble with the broad interpretation and wording of The Second Amendment is that gun nuts love to preach it like The New Testament. Our bill of rights as it stands allows any single individual to arm themselves like a real militia which is a dangerous and powerful thing for the average bigot or schizophrenic to be able to hold over the rest of us.

     We as everyday hardworking taxpaying American citizens should be able to also exert our basic human rights to Life, Liberty and the right not to be shot dead by some nut with a machine gun dressed in full body armor; which ironically is not part of The Second Amendment, even though the killers right to buy as much combat weapons as their credit card can handle is. The key word in The Second Amendment is, “A Well Regulated Militia”. What kind of regulated militia was “The Joker Killer” or “The Norway Shooter”, both armed to the teeth with assault weapons and body armor they most likely bought off the internet and had delivered to their front doorstep; they could probably have gotten it gift wrapped for free.

     Everyone loves to have as many rights as they can get in America, even if they don't know exactly what all of them are. Extra rights than other countries gives us a feeling of superiority that makes Americans feel extra democratically special inside. This is probably why we tell everyone we are trying to spread human rights worldwide, but then we are constantly being accused of violating human rights throughout the World. The true story is we like to hoard all the rights to ourselves to the point that we are so full of rights and ourselves, that we get violently ill all over the rest of society. This seems to be the unfortunate situation our nation's public finds itself in now. We are faced with a social disease of overly armed crazies posing a threat of not only a national epidemic of horror, pandemonium, indiscriminate violence, not to mention more brutal  killings, that will start to plague our very own lives if nothing major is done about it. The new threat of national and global terrorism is being reborn and manifested into our own people. This is very disconcerting because the next single terrorist cell is most likely going to be another delusional citizen acting out of his own crazed volition. These nuts cannot be allowed to hold more rights than the average moderately armed American citizen who feels perfectly comfortable with a deer rifle or shotgun. These weapons are  actually a useful and acceptable  tool for feeding or defending ones home from just about anything imaginable, along with a cell phone of course.

       Something drastic and intellectually heroic needs to be done immediately so the problem is not bureaucratically pondered over for another two hundred years. If we as normal hardworking citizens who just want to make a decent living, and then drive home without being shot dead, cannot rely on our government to actually do their duty and protect us, this gun violence epidemic sweeping across the country regardless of what the gun industry has to say about it, will cause us all the risk of one day facing armed maniacs in our own neighborhoods, grocery stores, religious functions, and movie theatres, no matter where we live in this country. It used to be in the old days you would hear about a restaurant shooting and automatically think it was a mob hit or civilians got caught in a cross fire between the crooks and police. Those good old days of at least rationally explainable criminal motives regarding the violence on our streets are now being taken over by the single armed to the hilt individual, who was allowed by our government to hold the power of life and death over us all. Capitalism should not mean you can play god over people’s lives just because you can afford an assault rifle, 2,000 rounds of ammunition, and full military body armor.

     Our human rights and expectations of protection from this violent gun epidemic through the security of our government is clearly spelled out in our Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be Self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights. That among these is Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” We as citizens and human beings need to reclaim our rights of protection, over the rights of murderous crazies, regardless of how some nut interprets The Second Amendment. We need to re-interpret the amendment to rationally include the safety of ourselves, our children, and our children’s children from more senseless gun violence.

    

   

A New World Epidemic of Evil Jokers.

     The latest senseless massacre of movie goers seeing the premier of the new batman flick “The Dark Knight Rises,” by alleged gunman and part time evil maniac, James Holmes, in Aurora, Colorado, has once again brought to the World’s attention the modern trend of seemingly normal, if maybe a little weird individuals losing total touch with reality and going bat shit nuts on the rest of humanity for no apparent rational reason.    

     Here is a brief rundown of just a few of the most notable mass shootings in the last five years: July 20, 2012 – James Holmes, alleged “Joker killer,” shoots 58 killing 12 in Aurora, Colorado, at a crowded movie theater.- Motivation : He’s the Joker? July 22, 2011 – Anders Behring Breivik, kills 77 as he massacres a youth camp in Norway. Motivation: Doesn’t like Muslims. Nov. 5, 2009 – Maj. Nidal Hasan, kills 13 troops and civilians at Fort Hood, Texas. Motivation: Bad career choice? April 16, 2007 – Seung – Hui Cho, kills 32 fellow students and staff at the Virginia tech. campus in Blacksburg, VA. Motivation: Student life in America is to stressful compared to South Korea?

     None of the motivations listed above, or in the news, and especially in the shooters minds,  can possibly justify the insanity of their terrible actions. So when did their insanity start, why were the warning signs ignored or tolerated; in some cases by their future victims. I think the answer to that question partly lies in our freedom of expression and right to easily and quietly buy as much weapons as we can afford. These important rights and privileges as Americans also have a tendency to bite us in the ass at the least expected moments; like when we decide to enjoy a good movie at the theater with our friends and families. The other sad blame also has to fall on the people who decide to throw rational reality aside and become the evil villains they always dreamed of being, inflicting all their self-loathing’s, short comings, and insecurities on the innocents around them. They do this in order to show us the power inside them, that they felt we as a society intentionally ignored all their lives. They will sit in their prison cells for the rest of their life sentences in solitary confinement with a goofy grin on their face telling themselves over and over agian throughout the years how they finally showed us, having crossed too far into fantasy to ever truly return to the terrible reality they have inflicted on themselves and others.

Is being fat going to be a crime?

           VS. >

      The newest report on American obesity has come out from the Trust for American Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation stating that not one state in the union has seen a decrease in the epidemic of obesity in this country. This fact is no surprise to me in our new modern society of spoiled decadence. The culminations of our greed are manifesting itself in our children and our cats in the form of gluttony. This being said, this is our right of prosperity as a country and the promise we made when we told the world, “Give us your Poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, and then giving them the promise of food, conning them into getting off one boat, just to get back on another to fight for a civil war they didn’t even belong to.  The “smart ones” we singled out, (mostly good looking women) to stay in New York and work for below minimum wage. This was the foundation of our immigration policy then as it is now, and all of a sudden we have the audacity to scold them for enjoying the food they were promised.  Now I recognize the need to take the soda pop vending machines out of the grade schools; those machines were just a blatant attempt to make quick untraceable cash for strapped under paid Principles from children with modern access to their parent’s cash flow. (Nickelodeon debit cards).

     The newest social hype now promoted by posturing politicians who claim to have the best interest in our nations fatties, is to fuel social hysteria about America's growing obesity problem in a poorly veiled attempt to gain votes from the skinny. The newest form of this practice in politics comes from New York’s current mayor, Michael R.Bloomberg. His plan is to ban large sugary drinks over 16 oz. from fast food franchises, sports arenas, etc., and who knows where else next. What’s funny about his supreme imperial majesties logic is that it’s OK to drink a 32 oz. beer but not a 32 oz. coke. This is a great example of our modern bureaucracy at its finest. I can just envision a patriotic New Yorker in the movie theater, sitting there with his 16 oz. mountain dew and his extra-large, extra butter bucket of popcorn feeling content that he took a big bite out of our nation’s growing fat problem, while the mayor of New York sits in his wood paneled office feeling confident he's winning the battle on American obesity.