In Memory of Carol Ann

Dedicated to Erin Elizabeth and Deanna Carol


Any society that would give up a little liberty for a little security deserves neither and will lose both.

Benjamin Franklin.













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Thursday, September 30, 2010

September Wrap


In the news today are the Bush ERA Mega 2big2fail Banks disclosure they have stopped all pending foreclosures due to crooked law firms representing the Banksters.
The disclosure in foreclosure is a result
of claims the Banksters were taking property they had no note invested. They were simply throwing people in the street and taking ownership through the courts.

The Law Firms are taking the Fifth Amendment 2crooked2blegal.

In addition to 2big2fail the Banksters have also found they are 2big2loan and 2big2foreclose, deeming them useless in American Banking. They will continue to bolster the phony DOW Jones by investing Houdini Dollars printed at the US Treasury. The zero percent interest is the new Obama program officially identified as Zero4Zeroes.
The Banksters defended all allegations claiming the government was 2big2regulate.

Lindsey Lohan, Brittany Spears and Paris Hilton are rumored to be collaborating on a new line of designer prison wear for their faithful. The 2Lo2B2Hi brand will follow with a press release of a new fragrance "Onyobak".
The bottles will be a traditional long neck, dual purpose design. It will also be a first ever vibrating container (batteries not included) Similar to vibrating phones the bottle will vibrate every time a celebrity get arrested or posts bail. The fragrance will be a select blend of stale smoke, essence of Coors and hint of chlorine bleach . The announcement is expected to be followed by a class action infringement law suit from the inmates of the L.A. Jails.

BP announced their company would not release further information regarding the Macando Well Explosion that killed 11 men. It seems their computers crashed due to overloads of irresponsibility and lies. The CEO reports the only reliable information available indicating the catastrophe happened at all is the incessant Harp Music that mysteriously cannot be turned off from the computer. A BP spokesmen said a covert radical group known only as the Oily Pelicans are implicated in the Fowl play.

The US Senate announced their intentions to ban Mr Goodwrench from their chambers. They were tricked into believing he represented Government Motors and were horrified when he exposed elements of the truth that may cause pillars of salt forming in the chambers.
The vote will be taken immediately following the Republicans locating their yes button lost for 18 months.
MSNBC launched their new 10:oo pm time slot show "Are You Smarter Than Sarah Palin". The moderator Lawrence O'Donnel asks simple yes or no questions as the competitor makes up their own vocabulary. Levi Johnston was the first contestant and a estranged member of the Palin clan. An indisputable advantage when scoring. He won the competition which should qualify him for a GED and Mayor of Wassilla, Alaska.
The new programming is an attempt to break away from the 24 hour cable news cycles where pundits create news by interviewing round tables of other pundits to be aired at another time slot. Perpetual nonsense and very little responsible journalism regardless of the channel you select.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

World War Three / Part Two


News cycles are a little slow. The Talking Heads are focusing on a newly released movie" Waiting for Superman". I have a lot of first hand knowledge on the topic because I watched his speeding bullet and jumping over tall buildings after school for many years. Black and White only 3:oo pm Monday thru Friday. I must admit I secretly new the Comic Book story was fiction.


The government and media have used the new release to expose the deplorable condition of our Public Schools. This is also another topic I'm familiar as a graduate of the Public School System.The deplorable status is not news but, the movie evidently is new. Ditto for the White House Spin Meisters who have known the system was in decline for years. They never understood the answer was right in front of the problem. The problem is government separating the people from the school. Not all Public Schools fail but some fail while others have remarkable successes. Money spent is not a determining factor. Nor does the structure they attend guarantee success. Neighborhood involvement is the source of success. Even if you must donate your time and do it yourself this is how it's done. If you believe the government will perform, you will be disappointed every time. You are government! A child will not learn from a huge budget, tall buildings or a thousand screaming ethnic ministers.



The government is for lip service and wasting your money. The bigger the government the more and faster the waste.

President John Kennedy's famous speech "Ask not what your country may do for you" should be taken as face value. President Bill Clinton said we ( the government) will provide a level playing field for you to compete. A level playing field is your right in America. If you are not receiving special rights, join the club.


I was Born in the Mid-West In 1950 I began school one step at a time . I walked to school until old enough to drive and then commuted on motorcycle, about a mile. Neighborhood schools were standard and only country kids rode a bus. The school was central to the neighborhood and the people of the neighborhood took pride in their township supported school district. My school did fund raisers pitch ins and cakewalks until the Board of Health deemed the school could not participate in selling food with out a license. So we continued on by purchasing cooked foods at retail and then reselling them for profit. It didn't work as the costs were to great to resell. This marks the beginning of our declining Public School System. When the government tell the people what they may do, is a sad day indeed. The larger the school district the less people support the school. Our school had an identity of the people in the neighborhood. Court ordered busing for desegregation brought and end to my Antebellum. The Schools became a political football for social issues as education quickly fell to second place priority. The logic supported the building and location was producing better students. Not true, the people inside were producing better students through neighborhood involvments and participation. Removing the people from their local school was the beginning of the end for Public Schools.


In High School we did not have a Football Stadium for the first eight years. We had a planetarium instead. None of the schools I attended had a swimming pool or air conditioning.


The school system did not build our Stadium. The Stadium was built from donations of money, work, materials and lots lunch money. Talk about nickels and dimes. I remember the playing field seeded and the fathers hoisting the newly acquired but very used scoreboard from somewhere into place. The stadium was a testament of the powers of a strong middle class. We would not travel to another school for home games again. The government provided nothing and more surprising, we did not expect the government to provide.

As Public Schools fell victim of Court Ordered Busing, Private Schools emerged. Taxpayers paying twice for education. The buildings they erected and location were suspect of their immediate successes. The success of Private School is not due to huge budgets or fine buildings. The building is a by product of the very education taking place within the walls. People without government involvement dedicated to education rather than politics excel in education. It's not the quality of the teachers either as Home Schooled children out perform Public Schools children consistently. It's not geography, neighborhoods, structures or the teachers to blame. It's the government that is destroying Public Schools. Restore neighborhood schools run by neighbors and the system will correct itself as long as government remains uninvolved.
Educators should not be responsible for anything but education. Politics, busing and racial equality are not central to education.

The failure of some schools is a failure of the people who failed to support the school. It is up to parents to be empowered to run their schools not government.

At the same time Washington was busy destroying the schools they were also destroying the middle class. They didn't take people out and shoot them ,they just took they're money and self respect. Exporting their jobs overseas to avoid workers right and environmental standards not present in foreign countries. All of the advancements of labor law against the robber barons vanished in government supported Wall Street enterprises overseas.

The Third World War began as the Cold War against the former USSR. The Cold War was won on the backs of American Workers out producing Communist Countries. Our economy so strong the USSR eventually ran out of money. Without the USSR in competition the USA began spreading the same uncontrolled capitalism around the World. The Pharaohs of Wall Street invaded every economy and exploited their people. Our American government endorses this uncontrolled capitalism as world trade. The truth is America is engaged in a Third World War and seeks to conquer each countries economy, enslave it's people and capture their wealth.

The once powerful American Middle Class and their jobs have been sacrificed to a third world country. The workers who won the Cold War are now peons and sharecroppers not shareholders in the American Dream. We need an American Economy supporting American values. The Welfare of American People should always take precedents over the Pharaohs of Wall Street. There should not be Pharaohs on Wall Street, just people going to work like the rest of America once worked.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Mr. Goodwrench Goes to Washington,DC

First we sent Davey Crockett to Washington and then Jimmy Stewart went as Mr. Smith goes to Washington and now Comedy Central's very own Stephen Colbert is added to the list of morally acceptable representation at our nations capital. How refreshing to have political conversation without someone filling their pockets from the GDP Storehouse.



Friday, Stephen Colbert testified before Congress representing Farm labor legislation. His performance could have been better if he had found a straight man to play pitch and catch. Straight is a rare commodity in Washington,DC.



Mr Goodwrench did not receive compensation for his community service, nor was he lobbied by huge corporations to spin the news cycles. Stephen went to represent his people to the blind congress that refuses to see or hear the demands of "We the People".

His topic was Farm Labor but the truth of his sarcasm could be applied to virtually any topic. He was direct and addressed the injustice of Farm Labor. What was missing in his speech was the typical Congressional Presentations to the public that awards a small but, noble much needed legislation for the people and then adds heavily laden PORK and Corporate Cronyism for the Oligarchy Icing.

A small bone for the public while Corporate Banksters feed upon the GDP meat and gravy.

The best Comedy was provided by Congressmen John Conyers who was probably the only person in America who was not interested in Mr. Colbert's statesmanship. Congressman Conyers is the second longest serving representative from Michigan's 14th Congressional District (Detroit).


The irony of coarse is the dismal condition of the state of Michigan but, also the plight of their leadership in Detroit. Rep. D- Michigan John Conyers is obviously happy with the current in denial philosophy of "Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Speak No Evil" that plagues Washington, DC. His timing should be rewarded at his next election.
The one person Americans are most anxious to see leave Washington would be none other than Mr. John Conyers. It's painfully obvious he's been feeding at the public trough much to long.

Wisely, Mr Colbert responded he was there by invitation and of coarse would yield to Rep. Zoe Lofgren's judgments.
Mr.Colbert focused some on the plight of Farm Labor but then asked why does Congress choose to ignore this topic and others for years. Why do they spend all of their efforts to being elected.

The answer is; those who do nothing, do nothing wrong and therefore excel at doing nothing as their platform for re-elections. Campaigning solely upon the success of mistakes that weren't made.

Mid-Term elections are coming soon and after the election dust settles Congress will once again focus on squeezing more blood for the Oligarchy Banksters while, BP plays the Harp music backgrounds in accompaniments as Rome burns again.

We need election reforms that provide the American voter to select "None of the Above". When "None of the Above" captures the most votes all candidates for that office are dismissed as unacceptable regardless of incumbents and would require a reset to begin primary election process over. Now that's what I call an election!!!

Friday, September 24, 2010

Deer Season

It was 2003 as I remember.

High in a tree, in mid November.
A chill in the air, deep in woods of nowhere
Daisy McVey took skillful care,

fired her shot on a Buck she thought?
On her way down she fell to the ground.
On Daisy's trail is what I found.
What happened to you lying in the dirt?
You've torn your shirt and appear to be hurt
I lost my grip, when I tripped and I've broken my hip
By the way, just how old are you Miss Daisy McVey?
I'll soon be 92 come next June.
Miss Daisy you must be crazy
We need to go to the road when you unload.
She said don't be lazy, you get my Buck, then I'll go back to the truck!
called her son Lee who was 73 and told him what his mother had done.

I He came in hurry and listened to her story.
She said I got some meat for us to eat. The Buck I shot is stuck in my truck. Get my gun and we'll head for downtown son
I soon discovered Miss Daisy had recovered.
Two years later I found Lester Slater.
Not far away from Daisy McVey had lay.
Sittin on a rock holdin his gun.
How old are you Mister Slater.
This coming December I'll be 91

I fell from that tree and I've hurt my knee
Come with me.
This is the reason we all call this deer season,


Carolina Fall

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Where Does Capitalism End and 2big 2 fail Begin

The discussion of the Lehmen Bros. Bankruptcy continues on 2 years after they went under. There are talking heads still claiming Lehman Brothers should have been given clemency from their own ignorance. The logic is beyond comprehension. Rewarding failure is now the pinnacle of success in American business. The American taxpayer is mystified as to how they became financially responsible for the failures of the Banksters.

We were told the TARP bailouts initiated by George Bush and continued by Barack W Obama are necessary to prevent another Great Depression. What it really did was prevent the top 1% from depression and threw the other 99% Americans to Hooverville. (not Hooterville)
Worse yet, it prevented the necessary redistribution of wealth, allowing new investors to bring new blood to failed industries.

Had we let Capitalism work foreclosed homes would have immediately been bought at true market values and Auto Companies would have been liquidated and bought at discounts from investors with skin in the game. The only skin in the game today, is the hides of the taxpayers.

Capitalism is self cleaning only if you allow markets to work. When gasoline was $4.25 a gallon it was free markets. A year later when the Banksters and Auto Czars are broke it's Corporate Welfare 2big2fail.

The TARP legislation and Stimulus Recovery impede a healthy correction and perpetuates the wealth to those who are parasites on the host taxpayers. We loose both ways.

All this and Hank Paulson claiming he saved your retirement money that should have never been put at risk by the Banksters. They are truly nothing more than a bunch of thieves with ties.



My question is simple. How big must you be to operate failure in perpetuity? Who determines which failure should be saved and how stupid must you become to qualify for 2big2fail?



Capitalism is a system that we are all familiar. The first rule of Capitalism says when your out of money your broke and liquidation is eminent. Bankruptcy is defined as unable to borrow money. Those who declare bankruptcy cannot borrow money and may not operate as a bank.

These rules prevent bankers from borrowing money from one bank to pay another bank. Kiting loans to create an even bigger bubble of insolvency. Sound familiar?

Using Lehmen Bros. as example; they filed for bankruptcy on 9/15/08. British owned Barclays bought a large portion of Lehmen Bros. the next day 9/16/08.
Nomura of Osaka, Japan bought the Asia Pacific operations 9/22/08.
In one week it was history with no cost to the taxpayer. Two years later they are still crying we didn't bail them out!!!!

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

BP, Please turn off the Harp Music

Now that BP has claimed the Macando Well is sealed, will they finally turn off the propaganda lies and Harp music on my television. Your propaganda will not cause me to purchase your products.

Americans need to devote more airtime to corrupt politicians, electric wheel chairs, bathtubs and other government freebies taxpayers can't afford.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

BP Declares the Macando Well Officially Dead


The needless Macando Lease explosion April 20, 2010 has been sealed according to a BP press release. The well is dead along with 11 men and thousands of miles of beach, estuary and tons of sea life. Millions of dollars of costs to the taxpayer for the Coast Guard, NOAA and countless other government agencies