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G-20 In The ‘Burgh

17 September 2009 in Pittsburgh, Politics | 3 comments

With the G-20 on it’s way to Pittsburgh, the city has been full of craziness and massive preparations. I have one request though, and only one. Well okay, actually two requests.

1.) Pittsburgh is a beautiful city, and while I respect protesters wishes to demonstrate, please don’t destroy or muck up this alluring city. We have lots of cool & unique features… and it’d be good to leave it that way. PLEASE! Some of us have to live here after things get pointlessly destroyed.

2) Terrorists, stay away! I don’t want any death or destruction in the air.

Other than that, have a great G-20 Pittsburgh! It’ll be an entertaining few days.

Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle

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Socks, Sandals & I’m not a racist!

9 September 2009 in Nonspecific, Politics | 4 comments

The other day I was at the bar having one of those conversations that probably should not be held when alcohol is involved. As the discussions continued to escalate, the person I was in a debate with resorted to some low-blows. The only low-blow that bothered me was when I was accused of being a racist. I am not sure why that one really pissed me off, but it did. I know I am often an ass to people, I like being blunt and I’m not afraid to say my mind… but I do not care how someone looks. Seriously, out of ALLL the unique characteristics of someone, I am going pick the color of their skin as the reason I don’t like them? The color of someone is so trivial compared to their character, actions and how they do what they do.

I looked them in their eye and said, “I am not a racist, if I am not going to like someone it is because either I don’t like their character or what they are doing.”

I sometimes think people who call others a racist are sometimes racist themselves. Perhaps by me making that statement I am a racist myself? Although I could give a flying fuck about what someone looks like. Or dresses for that matter… if only I couldn’t be judged for wearing socks & sandals. sigh.

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Mrs. Grinch

27 January 2009 in Barack Obama, Democrats, Pelosi, Politics | 3 comments

You’re a mean one, Mrs. Grinch.
Your promises are an empty hole.
Your brain is closed to opposition.
You’ve got power trip in your soul.
Mrs. Grinch. 

I wouldn’t trust you, with an
Eight hundred n’ fifty billion stimulus.

You’re dividing Washington, Mrs. Grinch,
You’re without regard for America,
Incapable of respecting,
You have all the intentions
Of your personal ideals.
Mrs. Grinch.

Who is this Grinch you ask?
Here are two quotes, see if you can guess without clicking on the links.

“Yes, we wrote the bill. Yes, we won the election.” - That surely shows regard to others with ideas, because everyone else must be wrong.

“If people are ripping your face off, you have to rip their face off” - Because that will solve the problem?

It’s no lie, I don’t like that women and I hope Obama sets her straight… and soon. Obama, your getting it right by engaging in discussions!

 

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Happy MLK Day! & Get ready for Team-O!

19 January 2009 in Election, Politics | No comments

This year Martin Luther King day falls on the eve of a most auspicious election. Tomorrow is a new day for this country, be it your belief for good or worse. It is a trying time on the third rock as every year brings more population, globalization and tax on earth’s resources.

While controversial, I would like to thank Bush for his years of service to this country. However, as our fathers in the past knew all too well; a fresh mind is need at the helm every few years. Just as I find it easy to judge on the negative, I like to remember the good Bush did, the good Clinton did and so forth. It’s difficult to always make the right decision when you have the weight of a country on your shoulders, its a matter of trusting your team and hoping. We all know Obama has put forth the hope in this country and raised many morals, time will hopefully not yield people apathetic towards politics and government.

Here’s to you MLK & Team-O, a dream has certainly taken place:
 

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Congratulations America!

5 November 2008 in Barack Obama, Bush, Clinton, Democrats, Election, Politics | 4 comments

Congratulations America! You have just elected a fantastic political speaker and public manipulator who unfortunatly does not agree with our founding fathers, whom which I’m sure are turning in their graves right now.

You have voted for change! And when that socialistic change trickles down in the form of higher taxes, more national debt, less personal liberty, less decisions when he signs a bill as “present” and a screwed up health care system like England’s… I can atleast say, you voted for it America.

As for me? Luckily I can hide much of my income under the table to prevent my wealth from being distributed.

On the positive side, I’m happy America was able to vote a black man into office, just a shame it was this one. Adam said it well. 

On the brighter side, Atleast this guy will probably keep his pants on in the oval office. Bush had no chance of getting any like his predecessor.

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Eve of election thoughts

4 November 2008 in Democrats, Politics, Ron Paul | 1 comment

Forward 1: So die-hard democrat fans, I’m sorry… you will probably disagree with everything I say. I am not here to change your mind, because the universe sure as hell knows that aint possible.

Forward 2: Most of you who know me, know I am a Libertarian. I vote Libertarian. I breath Libertarian. If I ever find a female Ron Paul, I’ll be marrying her tomorrow. Normally I just sit back and laugh and move on knowing that I am doing the best I can with support to the Libertarian party. This time though… I’m actually really nervous for this country if a certain candidate gets elected.

Having said that, I will say this. Since about mid-summer when I realized that Obama was going to be a presidential candidate I started looking deep into his records, past, viewpoints and thoughts. What I found is that I believe him to be very anti-American. In contrast though, I wouldn’t be worried if it was Biden or Hillary being president. It is solely Obama I am against… and don’t anyone mention race, because we all know its not that.

I find Obama to be anti-American who just smooth talks people into hearing what they want to hear. Most people just say “Amen brother” and agree to vote for him. Then there are people like me who say… uhh WHAT!? Because we look at the fine print and meaning.

We question the basic items about the man:

  • Why was it like pulling teeth to get him to wear the American Flag?
  • Why does he flick off his opponents? (He did it to Hillary & now McCain.)
  • Why is he afraid to release his original birth certificate?
  • Doesn’t it bother anyone that he votes, “Present.” Seriously, a leader makes decisions.
  • After listening to 20 years of hate spewed by his reverend… why did he now decide to break ties with him? Listening to so much hate sinks in over time… and he only broke ties with him because of his candidacy.
  • Am I the only one terrified over his economic ideas? Bankrupt the coal industry? “Spread the wealth?” Tax me more? I have a hard enough time staying afloat, and you want to tax me more?!
  • Why did he kick every member of the press who did not endorse him off the plane? It takes an endorsement to be part the O-press corps? Because endorsements mean non-biased reporting.
  • I love your unrealistic and bankrupting propositions that seem to have spun off the TV series, The West Wing. Seriously, good idea… just need a realistic approach to implementing them, to which he forgot to mention.
  • - An energy plan that is essentially rabbit power?

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  • Why can I not come up with nearly as many question about McCain? 
  • My main fear with McCain is he wants to keep fighting wars. :(
  • That I have several main fears with Obama compared to the couple for McCain. 

 

Hope everyone has a great voting day! I’m gonna leave you with two final thoughts.

“People should not fear their government, their government should fear the people” – bigger the government and more control placed on a society = less freedom = more fear. Who is the one proposing those controlling socialist ideals?

One of the great leaders this country has had is Teddy Roosevelt. (Source) “Roosevelt had no tolerance for laziness, indecision, cowardice, or those who prefer to sit life out on the sidelines and criticize others. He respected those who made the effort to get in the arena.”  - I can tell you one candidate who has not gotten in the arena and has a habit of cowardice and indecision… Mr. I’m voting “Present.”

With that, I conclude the 2008 pre-election political posts!

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Very Liberal ehh?

2 November 2008 in Barack Obama, Democrats, McCain, Politics | 5 comments

I asked one of my female friends the other day who was bleeding Obama-mania and supporting Obama nation why she was doing that. Her response, “I’m very liberal at heart…”

My response to her was, “Liberal at heart and liberal in politics are two different things, because people who are truely liberal often disagree with the democrats for their historically ‘controlling’ & big government policies.”

Moral of it all: Just because it’s cool to be “very liberal” when your in the famous 20’s doesn’t mean its necessarily the right thing.

After all… what are all we bloggers going to do when Obama taxes the electric companies to bankruptcy and we have no more power? If wind, solar and other alternatives were available, we’d be already using them… trust me. Someone is just wanting to start a fortune 500 that pulls clean electricity out of the sky! The overhead costs would be significantly lower than a traditional power plant. If the technology was there, we’d be using it.

Despite the belief, I’m a firm believer if you are interested in voting for the lesser of the evil – it is John McCain. He seriously is quite different than Bush (despite what Obama’s ads say) and he would have a strong administration surrounding him. But I’ll have more on “the lesser of evil” in a post I hope to publish tomorrow, I just have to finish refining it.

Ofcourse we all know, I’m a bleeding Libertarian.  ”More Freedom, Less Government = Less Taxes“

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Concluding the 2008 Debates

15 October 2008 in Election, Politics | No comments

A picture on the drudgereport this morning features the best representation of how I feel about the debates discussion tonight and the candidates speaking.

Bobbleheads.

Bobble Head debate

Seriously, a debate is between several people – a discussion is between two people. The American people have a right to hear voices and opinions from other than two first class clown bobbleheads. There is no lesser of the evil, they are both pathetic excuses for candidates out of the entire American population. The presidential election debate should be between candidates from the Green, Libertarian, Conservative, Democratic, Republican Constitution, American Independent, Socialism, Reform, and Prohibition. That my friends would be a debate!

I could envision it now, set up the debate similarly to the House of Commons in British Parliament with the candidates at the floor. When a question is asked they jump up and answer it while fielding opposition with other candidates jumping in and out. Oh man… that would be a debate!! We could see true debating from candidates, hear several view points, see how strong each candidate is while being blindsided with opposition and tough questions. Yes, that would be a debate worth seeing!

There wouldn’t be rehearsed speeches and candidates making pleas to the American people. I’m tired of the sad sob stories, I want to see debates, anger, yelling, politics!, real answers and all candidates tested! And if a candidate didn’t speak up, then thats their own fault.

But sigh, instead we have mundane debate between two bobbleheads who despite their pleas are nothing more than traditional washington giving a scripted story on tv tonight.

So much for a real debate, a true debate.

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Politics is just bad Girl Drama

1 October 2008 in Clinton, Election, McCain, Politics | 1 comment

Politics is just another phrase for bad girl drama… except it’s gender neutral and slightly celebrity-ish. It’s all about talking behind backs and being two faced, pointing the finger and claiming no responsibility, trying to stay off of CNN when you do something wrong and on when you think your right and ofcourse taking back handed deals.

My personal opinion to the solution of this economic crisis is very simple. If these companies need money, then they should go after everyone they gave multi million dollar bonus for doing such a good job of running the company into the ground and get those bonus back. Problem solved.

Now this is what kills me, see… these companies have been having problems for some time now and it’s been well known and documented. Yet, these financial companies kept giving out money and people kept reciveing as typical greedy politicians and executives do.

Looking at the list on public record:
Campaign Contributions

Okay. So those are all democratic party leaders. Note that the list is not party specific, the republicans start showing up at number five… McCain is not even on that list of the top 25.

Now there is Hilliarly Clinton… okay, okay… we can just assume she’s going to pull the, “I did not know” card – it’s a Clinton style and tradition. But Obama? Come on… I thought you were representing change!!? I’m starting to think that the only change you’re representing is that of your color. Because I want to believe you are full of change, I want to believe you are full of hope… but everywhere I look your just a same damn old greedy politician. The more I dig for information on you, the less hope I see. I’m sorry… I’d like to believe a candidate is all about change and hope, but how can I put my hope into someone knowingly takes campaign contributions from a failing company that is going to ask for tax payer money? It’s like having my tax dollars feed your party. Well I’m a Libertarian and I don’t want my money in your pocket.

If you, Mr. Obama, were all about change and hope… you’d be giving back your campaign contributions AND asking for all those people who had multi-million dollar bonus to hand back the money the received. That is the real bailout solution.

The other real solution is bankruptcy, not bailouts.
Here is an excerpt from an excellent article on CNN – one of the few they have:

“The current mess would never have occurred in the absence of ill-conceived federal policies. The federal government chartered Fannie Mae in 1938 and Freddie Mac in 1970; these two mortgage lending institutions are at the center of the crisis. The government implicitly promised these institutions that it would make good on their debts, so Fannie and Freddie took on huge amounts of excessive risk.

Worse, beginning in 1977 and even more in the 1990s and the early part of this century, Congress pushed mortgage lenders and Fannie/Freddie to expand subprime lending. The industry was happy to oblige, given the implicit promise of federal backing, and subprime lending soared.

This subprime lending was more than a minor relaxation of existing credit guidelines. This lending was a wholesale abandonment of reasonable lending practices in which borrowers with poor credit characteristics got mortgages they were ill-equipped to handle.”

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Journalism down the crapper

25 September 2008 in Barack Obama, Election, Politics, Radio | No comments

I share this message to the media with you today not for political reasons, but because there is some serious media bias going on.

I went to broadcasting school in the US and England. Enforced heavily in both schools are journalistic values. But where are those values now? Why are journalists and news organizations not following them? Where is the watch dog?

I have lost respect for the US media. The press should not “endorse” a candidate. I can give a negative 2 cents about whose endorsing who – I’m not paying to hear, read or see your endorsements. All I want is the news and to have it be unbiased. Toss in some unbiased political coverage from all the political parties and you can really shine. I’m also not interested in your flagrant stories, features or coverage. Is that really a hard thing to do when the net is full of free blogs for you to share your personal views? Come on reporters.

So what does this all come down to? That I am hurt. As a broadcaster, I am now just labeled as part of the clan which broadcasts their bias. I take offense to that because I am very careful not to! It’s not the time or place for my bias when I’m a reporter or broadcaster. The time and place is in a bar, around the dinner table and on my blog with hosting paid for by me, not a company. 

I’m sorry if this seems to be another political post, it’s not intended to be. It is meant for me to vent my frustration at the mainstream media in America. (Politically, America has over 301,139,947 people… and this is what we’re left to choose from? I should at-least be entitled to fair representations of all the candidates I’m not thrilled about.)

Thank-you American Media, if I had the time I’d draw a big eff you sign.

PS: Isn’t it sad that an organization has formed to tell and watch the news of the news? Check out their weekly podcast, it’s pretty sweet.

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