Considered musings and random commentary.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
"Hillary could be *GOOD* for your career?" Not bloody likely.
There is a little problem with my Jott blog publishing, resulting in a lot of posts never making it to the blog. This is a BAD thing, as I've been submitting a lot. Until I can get it figured out, here's a little something that I wrote in response to some knuckle-head's blog post that "Hillary could be good for your career." I won't fill in who wrote this, but I will tell you that it is a new blog (from what I thought was an experienced blogger), that shows that her new blog is un-important and can be avoided without penalty. Anyway, on with the show:
"Sadly, the FIRST entry I've read from your new site shows it to be trivial. I had higher hopes, but at least I know I won't miss anything if I never return.
So, I should vote for the vagina, or the melanin? Is that what it comes down to for you? What about character or issues?
So, I should vote for the lying fascist or the shrouded socialist? What about the individual or issues?
If you make LOTS of money, it doesn't matter WHO is elected, as you can hire great tax lawyers to find ways around anything.
If you make little or NO money, then either of the socialists will be fine, as you will get SOMETHING out of the deal. Obama might be a little better in that case, as he is openly socialist, and you stand a better chance of an open property grab and wealth redistribution.
If you own your own business or ever want to, then Clinton would be a better bet, as she will leave business in the hands of individuals, just control everything through legislation.
The only DOWN side is if you make SOME money... If you WORK for a living, YOU will be the one who gets the squeeze. The folks above you won't pay any more in taxes (until they kill all the lawyers... an attractive proposition, just not likely any time soon). The people below you won't be paying any more in taxes, they will be getting a chunk of YOUR money.
If you have any ambition or talent, you can bet that you will be on the losing end of the deal. There will be pockets of opportunity... women may be given some largess, out of the tax-payers' pockets, of course. Blacks may be in for a wild ride... I don't think that Clinton would support reparations, but I'm sure she'd throw them some kind of bone. After all, she is the wife of America's First Black President (Bill's words, not mine).
If Obama get elected, then all bets are off... Reparations will become a topic again, and it will be paid by the government, except that the government gets its money from the taxpayers, which means the regular wage earners again.
Of course, if either of the socialists gets in, everyone's health care will be taken care of... except that the government will have to tax the regular wage earners to pay for it.
In either case, the old and infirm would have to be taken care of, but the government would have to increase taxes to do it, and with all of the other programs that will need money, SOMETHING will have to suffer... and the old and infirm aren't a wealthy voting block, and don't have to be catered to, so look for government to continue to limit benefits, all the while decrying the cost, blaming the problem on the previous administration, and adding more conditions and limits to the benefits.
Either of the socialist candidates would do a fine job of lowering the standard of living for the majority and take away the majority of the incentive for the rest. I am certain that with careful planning and determined execution, either of them could turn America in to a wonderful second rate nation in all due time.
To sum it up: If you like paying taxes, have little or no talent or ambition, or really hate America, either of those candidates could be good for your career. If you work for a living, worry about how high taxes are, do not have socialist values, or are reasonably and logically intelligent, either of those candidates will be horrible for your way of life."
Labels: feminist, Hillary Clinton, Obama, socialist, useless
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
It appears to me more...
It appears to me, more and more, that the standard litmus test for who should NOT be president is whether the they are supported by many of the public papers. If a major newspaper gets behind the candidate, that is the clear indication that there is no way in HELL that he should be allowed into the presidency -- or in this case SHE should be allowed into the presidency. listen
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Labels: endorsement, Hillary Clinton, newspaper, Politics, Presidency
Monday, January 28, 2008
rolling forward...
South Carolina is over, and the show rolls on. The pundits are alternately picking and panning the favorite whipping boys on the conservative side. Rudy is down (in the polls) and Fred's dropped a while ago. Mitt and Hucky are sniping. Ron can't get press to save his life -- wonder what that's about... isn't the media supposed to cover news? I guess he's not alive, but I would think that covering a zombie running for president would be a REALLY good story. Unless you didn't want anybody to know about the zombie.
Anyway, just a quick thought on the remaining suspect. McCain. What's not to like? He's running for president, he's a war veteran, hell, he's even a former POW!
Why does that bother me?
OK, let's take more inventory...
He's not quite good on the 1st Amendment
He's not quite good on the 2nd Amendment
He's not really good on ... well, the first two are good enough.
Let me see... why does that BOTHER me so? Something so ... unclean about the idea of him for president. Why? Would he really continue to limit our freedom of speech? Would he really try to weaken and strip us of our Right to Keep and Bear? Why would I be thinking about this?
Oh well, it will come to me if I don't pursue it.
So, what else can we discuss. Oh, seen any good movies? I have not seen the remake, but has anyone seen The Manchurian Candidate? 
The original, baby. It's about a bunch of guys who were prisoners of war and wound up coming back. Some of them were associated with politics in one way or another, and we find out later -- almost too late, that they had been brainwashed and were actually TOOLS of the bad guys. The evil bad guys were going to use them a sleeper agents and have them sabotage American politics so that ultimately the bad evil guys would take over. If they did a really good job, they would probably have gotten one of the brainwashed guys INTO politics. Wouldn't that have been a real kick if, instead of having one of the brainwashed soldiers assassinate a candidate so his WIFE could get in on a sympathy vote, they actually got one of the brainwashed guys into senate, or even into the PRESIDENCY.
The original, baby. It's about a bunch of guys who were prisoners of war and wound up coming back. Some of them were associated with politics in one way or another, and we find out later -- almost too late, that they had been brainwashed and were actually TOOLS of the bad guys. The evil bad guys were going to use them a sleeper agents and have them sabotage American politics so that ultimately the bad evil guys would take over. If they did a really good job, they would probably have gotten one of the brainwashed guys INTO politics. Wouldn't that have been a real kick if, instead of having one of the brainwashed soldiers assassinate a candidate so his WIFE could get in on a sympathy vote, they actually got one of the brainwashed guys into senate, or even into the PRESIDENCY.Wow. That would have been a cliff hanger. An edge of the seat ride fearing that a man would become president who would ultimately be supremely detrimental to the United States and the freedoms that we enjoy.
But, it was only a movie, and not in any way am I implying that John McCain, former prisoner of war, returned to the states and gone into politics, could possibly be a sleeper agent, somehow unhinged, and a possible threat to the United States should be be elected through the complicity of the media to prevent voters from learning about about possibly sane, if mainly independent, candidates -- say, like Ron Paul.
Anyway, the next movie review I do will be a heart-worming tail about the wife of the first black president who winds up running against an unknown half-muslim, half-black socialist with Christian black-supremecist ties who is dating a world famous talk-show host. It promises to be the feel-good, slasher/monster mystery event of the year. Tune in!
Labels: Bill Clinton, Clinton, communist, Hillary Clinton, Manchurian Candidate, McCain, Oprah, Ron Paul, sleeper agent, socialist
