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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

lets keep our fingers crossed

In a move clearly designed to embarrass the House, the Senate is going to take up their vote on the bailout package tomorrow. Of course members of the house don't think thats fair because, if anything it takes away some of their spotlight. A spotlight that shines on representatives, like those from Michigan who voted 12-0 to bailout the automakers of Detroit then voted 11-1 not to allow credit bailout to flow money back into the dried out credit markets so that people can buy those cars. One congressman while being interviewed on PBS' News Hour stated that he did not want to simply give Hank Paulson 700 billion in tax dollars without any congressional over sight to go with it. The first thought that came into my mind, and i do have a mind, was is this guy kidding! Doesn't he read the papers, watch News Hour! Doesn't he realize that there is NO TIME TO DEBATE! The money has to get to the patient stat. Thank God I'm not drowning and he's holding the rope I would have to wait for him to set ground rules on how I can use the rope. Does he think that Paulson has a wife that demands he throw her a toga birthday party and use the 700 billion to do it. Only a democrat can come up with this type of thinking. Now for you Republicans, on that same show a republican from the great state of Michigan stated that he wanted to see if there was a better way to do this. to try and at least save some of the taxpayers money. A noble thought but a very rapidly mute one. Once again THERE IS NO TIME!!!!!! You need to act the way you did to save the automakers the way you worked together democrats and republicans to march off to war in Iraq based upon the thought that Saddam had WMDs. You know there is a very wise comedian named Lewis Black who said that Democrats are the party of no ideas while the Republicans are the party that can screw them up. I hope the last laugh is not on US

A few difining words

CONGRESS, n.
A body of men ,and lets not forget women, who meet to repeal laws.
POLITICIAN, n.
An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles [sic] he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Now thats courage!

Did anyone for one second think that the congress would do the right thing for the American Taxpayer when throughout it history it has done nothing but? Their failure to act in the very best interest of our nation must make us call into question their motives if not their sanity. These pompous windbags that said they were merely voting the way their constituents wanted them to vote are the cowards. Did they ask their constituents how to vote when they voted on spending over 800 billion of our tax money on a war that has gone nowhere? No one wants to see 700 billion dollars of taxpayer money go to bail out the so called free market, however the free market, as Adam Smith wrote of it” doesn’t exist in this country and never did. Throughout our history those who have hesitated to inject a little “socialism” into the veins of our failing markets to keep people working have caused their constituents enormous harm, just ask the Greatest Generation about that. I only hope that I am wrong, but if I am not those in congress who voted the way their constituents wanted them too will have no problem discussing their next vote when they meet them on soon to be formed soup lines.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Hey Plaxico i almost feel your pain...

....except that if it were me and I wanted to take a day off to attend to"personal" issues and didn't call my boss, who by the way pays me a little less than your boss pays you, I would have been fired. So Plaxico, please remember that if something comes up and you need a day off, you can use that little devise called a cell phone to at the very least call if at not your employer, your agent.

The Mets are not collapsing

They are simply trying to pull off another miracle. Thats right, miracle, lets face it if you are a true follower of this team then you know that losing a seven game lead in the last two weeks of the season was a collapse and that then Manager Willie Randolph should have been fired the minute that last game ended. This year you have had to deal with a team whose players, though they deny it, shut down on their manager, a team whose front management made that manager travel 3,000 miles before firing him. Now his replacement has this team in a fight to get into the playoffs and many still that its go around screaming its a collapse all over again. Perhaps what we have here is a miracle in the works. The Mets have a aged first baseman by the name Delgado who in the first three months of the season couldn't hit a beach ball rolled to him from the mound, now is hitting to the tune of MVP, they have had their closer go down to injury and they have had rookies come up and preform like seasoned vets. In my book if they pull this off and get into the playoffs this season should be looked upon as another Met Miracle. If they don't well look toward next season and hope like hell that as they enter into a new stadium they do so with new faces on the field but the same face of this years manager.

OH boy! When they got you they got you.

You know there is this quote I once heard in the movie "All the Presidents Men" Jack Warden, who plays an associate editor of the Washington Post tells, actors Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman , who are portraying reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, that then Presidential counsel, Richard Colsen had a saying hanging on the wall behind his desk that proclaimed;"if you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow".

More truer words have never been pieced together to bring to light what is happening to this country's middle class. The middle class, the back bone of the US economy, and who, at the rate things are going, will one day be on display along side the dinosaurs, must feel like the tough luck character in Larsen's far side cartoon. We have all seen Larsen's cartoons, if you haven't well then I suggest that you do so soon because once our duly elected, pompous windbag representatives, get finished with this bailout plan we are going to need all the laughs we can get.

Since WWII this country's government has declared war on communism , internal criminal elements, diseases, hunger, poverty, you name it if we don't like it we declared war on it. And now am afraid "our" government has declared war, on its own middle class. Yes; the middle class, the back bone from which the government extracts, through those skilled surgeons at the IRS, the funds needed to carry out their wars, wants to insert another long needle into our very marrow and extract whats left to bailout those irresponsible, greed driven, investors who have put their own personal financial wealth ahead of the health of the very institutions they are a apart of. "Their" pursuit of happiness through greed, has thrown the baby(our financial system) out with the dirty bath water, and now we are being asked, as if we have a choice, to help give that baby CPR to try and save it. The sad thing about all of this is is that as the great minds of Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke plead their cases to congress two things are certain: first they will get their money: second any real and comprehensive accountability that should be included with a bailout plan will not happen because quite frankly they have us by the balls and unfortunately with it comes our hearts and minds.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

9/11/2001

Today as we come together to remember the events that took place seven years ago we remember that 2,975 people lost their lives on that faithful day. They were White,Black,Latino,Muslim,Jewish,Christan all. They were Republicans, Democrats and Independents. They were brokers,custodians,food service workers,cooperate executives,law enforcement officers, and fireman. They were sons and daughters, mothers, fathers, aunts uncles, grandfathers and grandmothers, wives, husbands, friends or people we never knew. They were airline workers,college students, and government workers and they all died that day because they had one thing in common, they were AMERICANS. So as we remember those events lets us also remember that in the seven years since those attacks the U.S. has been safe because of the commitment and sacrifice of our armed forces. As of today our military loses in the war on terror have surpassed that of Sept 11th. and yet as of today they still carry the fight to those minority extremist who have taken it upon themselves to speak and act for the millions of peaceful Muslims around the world. So, today, as we honor the memory of our dead and debate whether or not we should continue that fight, let remember that those still serving today need our support because we are all AMERICANS and still targets.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Lets give Jerry Manuel what he deserves..a contract!

To sit and listen to all those so called baseball experts talk on and on about how great the Mets have played under Jerry Manuel and then here them turn around in the same sentence and say that he should get a contract extension only if he makes the playoffs, is beyond belief. This team was all but dead under Willie Randolph, heck why Met management brought him back after last years historical collapse is still the question of this young century. Manuel has gotten these players, all of whom had shut down on Randolph, to pick up their games and has even gotten this under achieving pitching staff to throw competitively since taking over. Now with his "closer" out for the year and a middle relief that suffers from shell shock and neck spasms (turning to watch the ball rapidly leave the park does that to the neck of a pitcher)I think that for the Mets to be in first place is nothing short of spectacular and a testament to Manuel's ability to being a winning manager here. From the minute he took over this downtrodden team in California, Jerry Manuel has made it clear who is in charge, ask Jose Reyes. Ask the pitcher Manuel comes out to pull from a game or even a player who doesn't preform. Some have stated that the Mets, after last years collapse, don't want to be committed into carrying baggage into their new ball park next season. However, after they bungled the Randolph firing,he should have been shown the door at the end of the season last year, adhering to that policy, will only deprive them of Jerry Manuel's skill as a manager and a chance to make next season in that new park extra special.

Lipstick and the Pig and experience.

PLEASE!!!! ENOUGH ALREADY!!! Do we have to sit here and take in another Presidential campaign full of enough smoke to choke the all of the electorate? Talk about greenhouse gases both these campaigns have enough to melt the polar ice caps three times over! The latest storm is over Obama's use of pigs and lipstick in the same sentence. When challenging whether or not his opponent, John McCain's, had the ability to bring change to Washington, Obama said that you can put lipstick on a pig and it would still be a pig. Well, Obama may be correct about McCain's 30 years in Washington and his ability to bring about change as president, but as a first term senator does Obama, himself have the experience to be president?
Lets face it, if you know your government then you know that a senator's job does nothing to prepare him or her for the presidency. If anything being a governor of a state holds more of the same responsibilities as that of a president. A governor is the commander in chief of the state police and national guard. A governor prepares a budget, nominates judges, and signs and vetoes laws. Sound familiar? That's right the president does all of that too. So then, who would you think is more qualified to become president? A Senator who hasn't been in Washington long enough to put a dent in his seat cushion or his running mate and opponent, who have both been in the Senate long enough to see the curtains changed at least three times. Or perhaps the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin and her two years of experience as the executive officer of that state? I don't know sounds like it sells itself.

The Yankees lost season

2 bleacher tickets to a Yankees vs Red Sox game $37.50 Parking $17.00 Two Hot Dogs and two sodas $18.00 waiting until next year with a team with a payroll worth that of a small nation GNP: PRICELESS!!!! Fire Cashman, get rid of Abrue, great arm no nerve for the wall, give Cano a month in the minors and please keep Joba in the pen, he is more valuable being available to us every night then every four days. Wave goodbye to Giambi and lets see if we can get A-Rod a therapist to help him find his clutch. The Yankees will be opening up a new stadium next season to which i hope to see some new faces on the field.