Stupidity

I thought I had heard it all until I heard someone say that we should support our leaders in everything no matter what, because they were voted into office by a democratic process. This was almost as bad as President Nixon saying that no one should question him because he was the president.
Someone should explain to these people that being elected is not the same a getting the keys to the kingdom. Because you were elected, does not mean that you are above the law. We, the people, elected you to help the democratic process along, not to be king. We elected you to represent the people, not the rich and powerful or the big corporation.
Given enough money, anyone can be elected to any office. Look how long Mubarik bought the election in Egypt.

The Wisconsin War

I have talked with both wings and it just doesn't make sence. It probably does to someone who is blinded by party politic, but in my humble opinion is that both side are so far off coarse it is mind bogggling that they were ever elected.
1- The dems who left the state were in the wrong. The people of Wisconsin elected you to run their state. The bottom line is that it is wrong, but what choice did you have because.......
2- The Gov. wants to break the unions. Why not just step on the constitution. Just because you were elected doesn't mean that you abuse your power. They thought you were wise enough to work with the other side, and vise versa.
The Republican "give us your tired, your poor, and you mass seeking freedom and we will ship you south of the border" attitude is morally represhensible. The party that claim to have God on their side has gone to Hell in a handbasket.
The dems who claim to support the poor and middle class has the financial backing of some of the richest people in the world.
aonce again it will be the poor and middle class that will lose. The almighty dollar will win out. The country will be run by big business, financial speculation, and greed. The only chance for equality for middle and poor is the union, their only voice. The unions have screwed it up before and now have a chance to make it right.
I pray for both sides, shake my head and keep on going.

Who can you trust for honest answers?

The other day I went to the dentist. No cavities but he want to do so much extra work. periodontal cleaning, a bit to stop my teeth from grinding, etc...... I have had other dentist do this, so this one is not alone.

The other day a roofer came by and told me I need a new roof. I told him that there are no leak, but he tried to convince me that there was. Sorry, no sale

The other day I had my car in for an oil change and was given a list of thing that needed to be done on my car. My car is ten years old. How many time do you have your car in for something, and as a result there is a lot more to be done.

The other day the Governor came out with his proposed budget for the year. It cut into healthcare, the poor, and education. It did tax the rich and big business, but we all know how that trickles down. Let's all be like the democrats in Wisconsin, run and hide.

The solutions are simple, do we need it or not? Can we get by without it? Tell both parties to stop playing games and do the job we elected them for.

Good Luck Governor Snyder of Michigan.
He presented a proposed budget to Michigan today. I realize that no one is going to agree with every part of his proposal but at least he trying something. He has to try to correct the problems that were ignored by the last three governors. Michigan has grown on the back of the middle class and poor, the crash effected mostly the working class, middle class, and poor, and now it is up to us once again to bail out Michigan. The Gov wants to tax the big business and upper class, but this will just be past down. This is another form of trickle down.
Cutting education at first seemed like a bad move but it really isn't. One reason is that the population has decreased thus there are less students. It's time that our educator and school administrator become accountable. Give us a program that will work and more money can become available. "Count Days" to determine how much money should be an average year count. We need the students to be in class more that 2 days a year. Why not tax professional sports for reimbursement for our student athletes, tax our recording industries for the training that school have provided for their profit. Our education system need to be reimbursed for their training.
Detroit is a perfect example of raising prices for professional venues and the people will still show their support.

Valentines Day, what a joke.

I have been married to the same women for 29 years and I don't need a greeting card holiday to tell her that. I also don't need the guilt trip that others put on me when I don't celebrate this day. I celebrate everyday with the ones I love, not just one or two days per year.

Almost nine years ago I nearly lost my life when my heart stopped. Thru dozens of heart events, TIAs , and stints I have relished life in a way that few can imagine.

My love for my God is the strongest, then my wife, family, friends, animals and so on. I love my house, my car, my lazyboy and my neighborhood. I love music and a good movie. I love my grandchild and will love more grandchildren when they come.

I love my time alone and I love my time with friends and family.

I love the feeling and emotion of love and thank God everyday for it.

LORD, HELP ME TO SHARE MY LOVE WITH EVERYONE, RICH AND POOR ALIKE.

Donna Summer Mac Athur Park

Capitalism, right or wrong.

I love it when people throw around words like capitalism, socialism, and Communism.
If you are on the right you are a capitalist, if you are on the left you are a socialist, and if you are neither, you are a Communist(according to Rush). Our love for capitalism has run it's coarse. The lumber barons who cut down the forest without replanting were capitalist. The large and small companies that polluted our planet are capitalist. The one who profit by taking and not replacing are capitalist. Those who want to give yours and my money away are socialist. What we get down to is the childish ranting of, "it is mine". What we need to do is to get rid of the political parties and their rantings.
What we give to Egypt per year to support our capitalist ventures over there, we could pay for every ones health care in the United States. What we give to support capitalism in other countries, we could use to educate our own. In little over 200 years, capitalism has caused recession or depression at least three times. That means that once in every Americans lifetime, greed has hurt us all, yet we continue down the same path. We are so busy pointing out the problems of the world, looking for weapons of mass destruction, searching for ALkida and BinLadden, and telling everyone how they are running their countries wrong, that we fail to look in the mirror. We are the greed merchants of the world, we are the polluters, we are the uneducated and we can't even see that. We are blinded by greed.
"IT'S MINE AND I'M NOT GOING TO SHARE IT"

LORD PLEASE HELP ME TO SEE THAT ALL I HAVE IS YOUR.

My nephew Kevin's band(Chasing the Sky) was on local TV this morning. Their music was also played on the comercial for Glee during the Super Bowl. Kevin plays bass.
My nephew Christian, his band(The Vincent Hayes Project) is up for a blues award. He plays Keyboards.
I know how hard it is to make your bones in the music world and I am very proud of these two.

How can we fool the public into believing that everything is ok. The American media makes everyone else look bad. I heard on the news that Japan has a worse job situation then we do. My son lives and works in Tokyo and he say that this is a lie. The same thing happens when a country that is run by profit margin and ridiculous claims that are unfounded. (example being health care) Don't believe everything you hear in the news.

The sun shown down on a foot and one half of fresh snow. The front and the back door were drifted shut. Two hours later with the help of neighbors, our walks and driveways are clear. Thank you Lord for a great neighborhood and the kind hearts of good people.

Getting ready for the storm of the century. Is this the big one? Will it paralyse the state for weeks. Supplies are running out in the stores, people are panicking, the end of the world as we know it. People standing on roof tops, waiting to be rescued, The wind will bring the temp 50 degrees below zero, even the ice road truckers won't be able to make it. There will be so much snow, it won't melt until July.........................maybe, maybe not. This is Michigan, it might be sunny and 90 by tomorrow morning. The lake effect might blow all the snow on Detroit or even farther to the east coast where they need more snow. Sit back, throw another log on the fire, and drink your hot chocolate. The sun will rise tomorrow to a brand new day.