Nobody Reviews: Jack Abramoff
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Jack Abramoff…not exactly a household name. I heard Jack on Michael Savage not too long ago. If you watch Jay Leno, you know that not many people even know who our Vice President is, let alone who Jack Abramoff was.
Jack Abramoff…was one of the best lobbyist in history…and he hasn’t been out of jail for long. (2010)
Jack told Michael that the time he spent in jail made him realize, that even though in his job as a high paid lobbyist, he committed “crimes,” he never saw it that way at the time. Giving Congressmen money and gifts was just part of every good lobbyist’s job.
“What I did not consider then, and never considered until I was sitting in prison, was tha contributions from parties with an interest in legislation are really nothing but bribes. Sure, it’s legal for the most part. Sure, everyone in Washington does it. Sure, it’s the way the system works. It’s one of Washington’s dirty little secrets but it’s bribery just the same. “
After reading Jacks’ new book, Capitol Punishment, you realize that our whole political system is run on corruption and bribes, and you start wondering how much money is being given to Presidential candidates for their campaigns, not only from US companies, but from foreign countries? 
And what do those foreign countries expect in return? Bill Clinton’s Presidential Library was practically built by donations from the Saudi Kings. What did he do for them? The same Saudi donations went to George W. Bush ‘s Presidential Library…what? Are we not drilling for oil so that President’s can have billons dollar monuments— so that they can be immortalized forever… by Saudi Kings?
Nobody Wonders about that…a lot.
Jack tells you in the book just how easy it was for a Russian leader to give a million dollars to Tom Delay by losing in a round of golf.
For those of you, who like me, had no clue what Jack Abramoff did to go to jail: He was accused of stealing money from the various Indian Casinos. Jack was hired by many of them to lobby Congress on their behalf –to help them… 1. KEEP the profits they made…and 2. make more.
For his hard work, Jack got paid around $300,000 a year….(the average for lobbyists) but in his estimation, he saved them billions.
Jack was a superman when it came to getting things done: to bribe Congressmen, he would get them the best tickets in town to any sports game going on: take them on trips around the world to play golf, and then make all his contacts (which were in the thousands) give Congressmen big fat checks..in other words…the whole culture of Washington is set up in bribes. Big businesses pay big bribes to big Congressmen, who vote this way or that on some big project. 
It also runs major league sports teams too it seems, but that’s another blog.
That’s how Washington is run: You give to me, I’ll see that the government stays off your back, or as in GE’s case…you don’t have to pay any taxes. Or you can get out of Obamacare… Or in the case of Solyndra…you give Obama campaign money, and Obama will give you billions of taxpayer dollars.
So,…the very men that Jack gave big money to put in their campaign coffers, turned around and helped put him in jail. The question is why?
In an honest world, he should have gone to jail..but then, so should every lobbyist and every Congressmen in Congress. No matter what you think of Blogo’s hair, he is telling the truth.
When it comes to selling Obama’s senate seat. They ALL do it. Just about everything in Washington has a price, and the Congressmen do not think taking money for their vote is illegal. For instance, Jack gives an example:
Congressman Bustamante once said to Jack:
“The Defense Department is planning to place a new naval base in the Gulf of Mexico, and I want it for my district. I hear they are looking at Florida instead. If I get that base, you get the votes. (for his casino) If I don’t, you don’t. The votes are from the Hispanic Caucus and they are solidly in my control. What do you say?”
I must admit: the book is not what I expected. It’s mostly a testimony for a life that wasn’t all that bad, a man justifying to the world that what he did, was mostly good stuff. He built Jewish schools. He helped organized the Republican Party in all states of the nation. He helped Ronald Reagan get in the White House. He was great friends with Grover Rehnquist, Mark Levin, and Tom Delay.
He’s not so enamored of Newt Gingrich, John McCain, or George Clooney, who once said on the Golden Globes awards, “What kind of parents would name their kid “Jack” when his name ends in ‘off?’ No wonder that guy is screwed up!”
It drove his daughter to tears.
Yes, Jack lets you know all that goes into being a lobbyist, and what the book does do, is make you think about the whole concept of “lobbying.” You come away with the impression that— “Okay, we now know they all took bribes..but what does Jack leave out?” 
Prostitutes? Drugs? What? I’m convinced that Jack Abramoff knows more than he will ever tell because he loves his family. He’s not about to risk his life, or theirs. He swam with the sharks, he was the shark, and somewhere along the line, they went after him…because he knew too much.
And he was a devote Jew. I don’t know why, but I wouldn’t rule out his devotion to his religion as being a target. Somewhere along the line, and once in a while…our most corrupt politicians throw someone to the sharks..just to keep themselves out of jail. And the ones they throw into jail: know too much, or don’t follow orders.
If you don’t have time to read the book: go to the last chapter. Jack makes excellent suggestions:
“The reason there are tens of thousands of lobbyists is because the ever expanding federal government creates ever increasing opportunities of abuse. The more the federal does, the more lobbyists there will be to protect special interest at the expense of the common interest. “
“We need to eliminate any contribution by those lobbying the government participant in a federal contract or otherwise financially benefitting from public funds. If you get money or perks from elected officials be you a company, a union, an association, a firm, or an individual, you shouldn’t be permitted to give them so as one dollar.” “Lobbyists should be banned from contribution to official organization and campaign funds. They should be banned from gift given as well.” “Post public service lobbying employment needs to be eliminated. If you choose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization or association which lobbies the federal government. “
Nobody Says—They should throw in that Presidential Advisors can’t get cushy jobs on major televisions networks to “lobby” the American people either for their X- bosses : Dana, Rove–Mathews, Stephanopoulos…
“If you choose public serve choose it so serve the public. not your bank account. “
“Representatives should be allowed to serve for three terms of two years, senators for two terms of six year then they should get out of town.”
“Apply every federal law enacted by Congress to the Congress itself. “
Anyone can see that these are excellent…and this Nobody hopes Jack continues now to use his “gifts” for lobbying every one he knows…to keep our Constitution.
The Constitution could use a good lobbyist right now. If Jack wants redemption…Nobody suggests Jack starts with saving that, before it’s sold to Saudi’s for a future Obama Presidential Library. THAT would be an honest day’s work, and a much better legacy.
Diversity: Not Just Another Pretty Word
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Diversity. The word is thrown at you day and night. Now you turn on your TV and your news program is bound to have a Middle Eastern anchor, and sitting next to them, a Black. OR a White with a Black. OR a Black with a Hispanic. All the news programs from CNN to FOX news make sure that they are “diverse” and with good reason too…it’s in our laws. 
Even while you are watching STAR TREK, you see a Russian, an Alien, a Black, a White, a Scot, and an Asian– all working in cool harmony for the FEDERATION, and it becomes more than just a cool space movie. It becomes a feel good movie to make you want to be a part of it all. Everyone working for the planet of Earth. Who wouldn’t want that? 
But while we have been told that diversity is a “racial” equality thing…I found this little tidbit today from “FUTURE SHOCK” that made me realize there has been another reason for this push by our leaders for diversity.
There is much more to it then “We need to all get along and it will be a better world.” It’s all about control. If your neighborhood is made up of people of all different ethic backgrounds, you will never “bond” together and identity with each other, and therefore can be easily controlled by BIG BROTHER.
Says the Dean of Yale; “Of course we still send our recruiting people to out-of-the-way places like Nebraska, but there’s really as much diversity in taking Harlem, Park Avenue, and Queens.”
Right, the guy from Nebraska will more than likely want to return to Nebraska, and that’s not what he is being educated for.
It’s one of the reason that the TEA PARTY is attacked. These people believe in family, in America: passionately attached to the ideas of liberty, their communities, and willing to fight for its permanence. It’s why progressive Republicans, who want to continue the global one-world scenario control, tried to come in and take them over.
As we have all seen, affirmative action laws have forced “minorities” into colleges they were not even prepared to go to. Most of the Blacks, don’t make it past the first year…but Harvard and Yale have big monetary incentives to admit them…guaranteed money from the state. So, affirmative action was as much about keeping the universities and their administrations and salaries forever in place and assured with taxpayers money, as any “we want a diverse atmosphere” program.
It’s much the same reason the bankers could do anything…the FED backed it if they loss. Same reason: money.
But let’s go further:
“So far the decline in commitment to place is gone, according to Prof. John Dyckman of the University of Pennsylvania, that “Allegiance to a city or state is even now weaker for many than allegiance to a corporation, a profession, or a voluntary association.” Thus it might be said the commitments are shifting from place related social structures (city, state, nation, or neighborhood) to those(corporation, profession, friendship network) that are themselves mobile, fluid, and for all practical purposes, place-less.
This was a way to break down states rights, and communities, and families. The aim…global government and control by a powerful structure of very rich elites at the top. Jeffery Immult, the CEO of GE, once told Charlie Rose that he would fire any employee that refused to move to China.
So, diversity was sold to us as being the Christian tolerant thing to do. But in reality, it’s all about breaking up the strong family, states, and communities, to make people have no control over their lives..and by its very essence leaves every individual less free.
It’s the long version of the Tower of Babel. It’s also why they have at great expense, gotten rid of forcing foreigners to learn English. In the last five years, my neighborhood has changed dramatically. It is now filled with Muslims, Blacks, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Whites…who were the first ones there. I talk to my new neighbors in English, and they have no clue what I’m saying. 
They don’t WANT a united citizenship. They want to control an easily led sheeple.
How do we survive it? This utopia is not about “a global world of peace and property” it’s about..power and money for a hand-picked elite and their families.
Obama is the perfect president for this crowd. He looks like a Black, has a Muslim Name, pretends to be Christian, and can morph into any character that he needs to, to promote the NEW WORLD ORDER of diversity. Since they have mixed up America to the point of almost non-recognition, it’s a sure bet that Obama will be around for a long time. If not here, then in the United Nations.
George Will is right: Our best bet right now, is putting people in Congress that will fight for America, because if Obama is reelected, we will need one last place to make a stand.
The Tower of Babel was a forewarning to us all. And that’s why it’s more than likely that Obama will stay in place. He is very good at dividing and destroying.
Let’s not let him.
Globalization…Has Finally Taken Over the Oscars
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The day has arrived: globalization has hit the Hollywood elite. I don’t know if you watched the Oscars last night, but there was a horrible lack of “male” presence on the red carpet…every actress was dragging along their mother or their “best” friend. Even Jennifer Lopez and Cameron Diaz made sure they were just two little girls from…Little old Hollywood. Let’s not even compare then to Russel and Monroe.
My day is short enough already.
While Billy Crystal looked like his face had been duck-taped on by out- of- work construction guys from Mississippi, I tried to say, “Okay, maybe he’s sick.” BUT– when George Clooney kissed him, we pretty much all grossed out…and the pity left. Okay…the gays got their PR.
The good news is: Except for Meryl Streep, most of the awards went to foreigners. The French, the Iranians, the Pakistanis…and Oprah. The only thing missing was a message from Hillary.
While Angelina Jolie was the sex bomb of the night…I could not stop looking at her right arm…which is about the size of the top of a nine iron. Lopez had an exposed nipple moment that nobody talked about, (Half a nipple doesn’t count I suppose) and War Horse was snubbed badly along with Harry Potter….but that to me was a good sign.
After the beginning, the long hours of boredom are always hard to bear…but one thing was very noticeable. When a new black actress won for Best Supporting Actress the whole placed jumped up and went crazy with applause. And yet, after the acrobats of Cirque de Soleil did such impossible tumbling that one wonders if their mothers had them turning flips out of the womb…and how many hours of hard work it took to do those stunts…our glamourous and very weathy movie stars…did not want to give the ovation it deserved. Maybe they have seen it too many times, but still. The applause was…very polite. After about two minutes they finally stood and applauded because some producer went–“Oh my god…no one is standing! ” and called the sign guy out to go an hold up the sign to tell them to “STAND UP!” They looked as if they were being told to dig a grave for Obama.
So, they deserved to be victims of their own liberal hearts. I agree. Don’t give any of them anymore awards. What makes them think they are so much more speical than the rest of the world? What? Did they think that they were going to be protected against globalization forever? Yes, welcome Hollywood..to the world of “You cant’ have everything anymore you overstuffed rich moviestars…it’s the NEW WORLD ORDER where you NOW have to compete with the rest of the world!” You have to now share the stage.
It was a clear mandate down from the top. Someone must have pissed off Obama. What? You don’t think our government has anything to say about the Oscars? Remember, the generals took over Walt Disney’s studio during the war. The government has never left.
Which is why you have to wonder…is that why Sandra Bullock is speaking German when she was asked to speak chinese? Enquiring minds want to know.
Rockefeller Chu: King of Pond Scum
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What would you prefer? Would you like to get up in the morning, hook your car up to a few minutes of compressed air, at a few pennies of cost, or would you like to go miles out of your way to fill up your car with the new government mandated bio-fuel: Algae? It will only cost you about $38 dollars a gallon…(that’s before tax) That’s not so bad now, is it? If Obama is re-elected, not only will some 13 panel control freaks in Washington decide if they will allow you to live if you get cancer after 50, you might have to pay outlandish prices for Obama’s new mandated energy biofuel just to get to the hospital.
Algae is the new Obama dream. Right now, it will cost about $800 a barrel, but give a few hundred years or so..and you’ll see. It price will come down…or so portends Steven Chu. 
Obama, and his Energy Secretary Steven Chu, have decided that America can’t drill for oil, even though Obama has given the go ahead to Mexico and China to drill off our coasts. They both dished the recent Keystone oil pipeline from Canada, because they both believe that we are killing the planet with our emissions. Chu admits we can’t do anything about China’s pollution.(Chu calls them the gorilla in theroom) —but they are making themselves feel better, they are determined to make Americans stop using gas.
WHY? Because they, and all their liberal friends are going to make trillions off it. Steven Chu has plans to be the new Rockefeller of bio-algae. It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Steve after all, belongs to the Design the Future think-tank with all the other global alarmists who have decided to make a lot of money selling us solar panels, windmills, and now…algae.
Newt and Sarah Palin should be talking about this new insanity. Well, Newt did— but can we trust Newt? Forget corn…they can grow algae and make much more money off of it. Why? Well, for one thing, to save all those solar energy companies they have invested it. You see– algae grows best with …wait for it…wait for it……………….SOLAR PANELS!!
(Who decided that I wonder?)
Let’s talk about algae: first and foremost : know you enemy. Steven Chu, the man who gave the billions to Solyendra, has spent his life in academia. You know, those places that give out Nobel Peace Prizes to Presidents that bomb countries, and men who can cool atoms?
I’ve always wanted my atoms cooled, how about you?
As you can see by the video above, it took one engineer to develop a car that runs on compressed air. FREE compressed air. NO polluting emission. Just imagine what would happen if the inventors of the world put their heads together, and further expanded on this idea.
Minority Report? Jetsons? Come on…haven’t we been dreaming about air cars forever?
In a free market system, that’s what would be happening. But…the elites have been working night and day to get rid of that free market systems…where the lone inventor can invent something that changes the world. NO…globalization is where governments pick and choose who gets to manufacture what, and where they can manufacture it, and for whom. Unless your inventing something for the internet. Then…they let you get rich, because eventually, they plan to take it over.
The inventor of the air car, and his immediate investors would make the money…NOT the big liberal gurus like Al Gore and Chu who would not get a penny. Not to mention, they couldn’t take trillions of taxpayers’ dollars and give it to all the universities to keep the big academia of corruption going– could they now? 
U.S. universities which are working on producing oil for algae include: The University of Arizona, University of Illinois, University of California, University of Texas, University of Maine, University of Kansas, The College of William and Mary, Northern Illinois University, University, University of Texas at San Antonio, Old Dominion University, Utah State University, New Mexico State University, and Missouri University of Science and Technology. The University of Georgia…and…uh….just how many Universities does it take to put one algae on the head of a pin?
They are already throwing billions of taxpayers’ dollars at this..and why? This is Steven Chu idea. In the future he says, special varieties of high glucose plants would be grown in the tropics. processed, and then the chemical would be shipped around like oil is today to other countries. The St. Petersburg Times has stated that Chu’s concept “shows vision on the scale needed to deal with global warming.”
Chu wants to be the new Green Global BP rich man of the world. And don’t you want to see who’s going to get on the ground floor of this? Notice that in this video below that Obama makes it sound like we can just do this in our country. Chu wants to develop in the tropics. (Who’s going to win?)
But not so fast space cadets… there is lots of problems: The difficulties in efficient biodiesel production from algae lie in finding an algal strain, with a combination of high lipid content and fast growth rate, that isn’t too difficult to harvest; and a cost-effective cultivation system (i.e., type of photo bioreactor) that is best suited to that strain. There is also a need to provide concentrated CO2 to increase the rate of production. Open-pond systems for the most part have been given up for the cultivation of algae with high-oil content.
Oh…so Obama is just teasing us about this stuff can be taken from anywhere? Yep.
Most companies pursuing algae as a source of biofuels are pumping nutrient-laden water through plastic or borosilicate glass tubes that are exposed to sunlight and so called photo bioreactors or PBR. Running a PBR is more difficult than an open pond and more costly but more effective.
You can’t use waste water because it cannot feed algae directly and must first be processed by bacteria, or it could contaminate the algae. You have to clean and sterilize. Ocean water is not good either. Metals and other stuff can corrupt the algae.
Whereas technical problems, such as harvesting, are being addressed successfully by the industry, the high up-front investment of algae-to-biofuels facilities is seen by many as a major obstacle to the success of this technology. Only few studies on the economic viability are publicly available, and must often rely on the little data (often only engineering estimates) available in the public domain. The group found that capital cost, labor cost and operational costs (fertilizer, electricity, etc.) by themselves are too high for algae biofuels to be cost-competitive with conventional fuels.
Do you see another Solyndra here? Everyone told them NOT to invest, but Obama kept on going. Do you see WHY now? Pond scum visions of world domination…it’s enough to make you wince. Like global warming…there are hundreds of scientists who will argue that algae has great potential, but they are almost all of them making a nice living off of government grants.
Nobody Thinks that one man, with determinations, can do more for the world than a handful of corrupt pond scum elites who see a way to buy their own fortune.
This time the redistribution is going to the top. Would you rather breathe the creativity of clean cool air, or follow the money to the top of the pond scum, and smell the stench of infinite greed?
Chu wants to be Rockefeller…Nobody Hopes he stays in the pond with Kermit.
Obama’s Real Mantra Should Be: “Change, and Control.”
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How many times have you heard someone say, “They don’t make things like they used to.” ? Well they don’t. And there’s a good reason for that. 
Once America was famous for the quality of its products. Once upon a time, there was pride in craftsmanship, in even such little things as toasters. We are living in the ‘post-industrial’ future where the pace is hard to keep up with…and how can we? Now, it’s almost cheaper to buy…say a new vacuum cleaner, than to get it fixed. And there’s a reason for that too: profit. The less life years a product has, the quicker you have to replace it. The more the company makes. How do you think Bill Gates got to be so rich? Do all the updates on Windows really have vast improvements over the last? Was Windows 7 that much of an improvement over Windows XP? Or are these yearly updates carefully planned in order to make the most profits?
I was once very naive to the business world, and I learned this lesson the hard way: I remember talking to the President of a company that manufactured souvenir baseballs in China with team players pictures on it. I was looking for a company to “license” my patented ideas, and I had wanted to make a product that lasted….like a baseball. I wanted my product to be a sports collectable much like his.
He told me I was wrong. He wouldn’t make my product unless it was made cheaply, and as a throwaway. We argued that point for an hour. His reasoning was profits would triple if the product was cheap and had to be bought over and over, but it bothered me. Since I wanted to sell the product in the many sports arenas, the last thing I wanted to see was thousands of these things being discarded on parking lots after the games. 
To make it not a “throw away” item, would have cost only a few cents more. (In China of course.) I found out, that I didn’t really belong in the world of business, because my main motive was not profit. I wanted to make something of quality, something to treasure, and use for as long as possible. But in this world of buy, use, replace, buy it again..use it again…replace–we throw away everything now. Including our Constitution…but I’ll address that later.
In the book Future Shock, Alvin Toffler explains that billions of people on the planet are going to go into shock with the upcoming changes and transience of the future world.
“In this difference lies the contrast between past and future, between societies based on permanence, and the new fast forming society based on transience. Instead of being linked with a single object over a relatively long period of time, (Nobody says, like our first husband and first wives) we our linked for brief periods with the succession of objects that supplant it.”And Alvin is not just talking about the next IPAD. He is talking about political systems too.
There are “rulers’ in the world who want to change the Constitution, and representative governments with unelected elites chosen by a handful of the very rich and powerful. Right now, that’s the fight in the EU.
“I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012,” Ginsburg said in an interview on Al Hayat television last Wednesday. “I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, have an independent judiciary. It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done.”
Nobody Wonders what she was doing advising revolutionaries in Cairo in the first place. Obvious to this Nobody— she was sent by ‘President Obama” who gave her a big hug at his State of the Union speech. Something that our founders would have never dreamed of happening. And speaking of our founders…
Our founders made a product of the greatest invention: The Constitution was of the finest quality ever produced by mankind. It was built to last forever. And Obama is out to destroy it, because he believes in “change.”
He wants to replace a Lamborghini with a Volkswagen Beetle. A Rolex with a plastic dime store watch. Beethoven with Yoko Ono. He wants to replace freedom and creativity, with fascism.
And he’s doing it. The powerful in Washington do not want to be limited anymore to the rules of the Constitution. They are all rich. They are all powerful, and none of them have to live by the same rules as the people. They are no longer afraid.
And they are not going to stop talking about “change”—change our constitution, which Obama has said is old, change our customs, our culture, our way of life, and our children’s future in the name of “progress.”
Yes, they are the proud progressives. And they have brainwashed whole generation of our kids to think of constant “change” as a good thing. But as any Tibetan can tell you..not all change is good.
And all these advances were done, by the United States because of the quality of our institutions. And these great American institutions are being demolished as we speak. Green energy is being sold as the future…but whose future is it going to benefit? There is absolutely no advantage to using “food ” as fuel, or mandating light bulbs with mercury inside. Or making electric cars that can only travel fifty miles, Or printing money out of thin air in order to save dividends for the rich. These are not quality products. These are not products of progress. These are simply products that will make a certain few elites like Al Gore get incredibly richer.
And who is going to benefit when they replace “capitalism” with fascism?
One thing is sure: If Obama is elected again, the progressives will change so many things in our country, that in the future, the ONLY thing that won’t change…will be the same old boring and dictatorial political faces on our TV’s forever.
Now, Watch the Destruction of Rick Santorum
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First it was Sarah Palin…she was the rising star that the people were hoping would run…not even George W. Bush, or Richard Nixon was vilified as much as Sarah in the press. They attacked her children, her family, even her baby. It was too much for her..she got out. Then we had Newt. Newt was destroyed by the media, and his own past. Mitt Romney ran nasty ads while claiming that he had nothing to do with those ads. The media again…attacking viciously. Yes, candidate after candidate has rose up, and then gotten knocked down.
The people know that it’s Romney who bears the Bush mantle…which hold the powerful in Washington D.C.. What they don’t tell you is that the powerful from both parties..would prefer Mitt to run.Running out of choices, the people are now going with Rick Santorum. And already, he is the next man to fall.
On the left, he is being attacked as some kind of scary religious right-winger who is out to put women back into the 18th century.
From the right..we are seeing his past. Here’s a few things we should all know about Rick, put up by Chuck Norris, (who supports Newt) on WND last Sunday.
Rick said, “I’m not saying necessarily earmarks are bad. I have had a lot of earmarks. In fact, I’m very proud of all the earmarks I’ve put in bills. I’ll defend earmarks.”
• Santorum voted to raise the national debt ceiling five times
• Santorum voted for taxes in the Internet Access Tax Bill
• Santorum had the audacity to vote to continue funding the Bridge to Nowhere rather than send the money to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.”
• Santorum voted for CAFTA, which removes duties on textile and apparel goods traded among participating nations, resulting in nearly ALL textile companies leaving the South.
• Santorum voted for HR 3448 – Minimum Wage Increase bill
• Santorum voted for HR 796 – the protection of abortion clinics
• Santorum actively supports the Global Fund, which was created by the United Nations to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, but also “channels a large portion of its funds through Planned Parenthood’s affiliates around the world and through a British group Marie Stopes International (the largest chain of abortion mills in the UK, with 66,000 abortions a year.)… to operate in Cambodia, Fiji, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Burma, Kenya, Tanzania, and other countries,” according to the pro-life Gerard Health Foundation that provides millions of dollars to pro-life groups
• Santorum opposed the tea party and its reforms in the Republican Party and conservative movement just a couple of years ago saying, “I have some real concerns about this movement within the Republican party … to sort of refashion conservatism. And I will vocally and publicly oppose it.”
So, he’s going to get attacked from the left AND the right. After Rick, the only one close to the people will be Ron Paul.
Out of the clear blue sky, Rick is the poster boy for the ‘right’ taking away woman’s right to contraception. They are using Rick to SCARE the women into thinking they won’t be able to get contraceptives, AND in Rick they found a perfect opportunity to expose the “everyone has a right to free birth control” in the Obamacare. Since there are more single women than married, they are counting on them wanting that big free handout.
FREE PILLS GIRLS! FREE ABORTIONS! Obama is your sugar Daddy!
They use to just hand out beer for votes. Baby, you’ve come a long way.
If the feminists were smart, they would have insisted on vasectomy to control the population, but instead they make the women take those pills, which many believe to be the cause of so many future cancers. If I were a man, I’d sue for my free vasectomy. Especially if I were a Liberal man. How dare they forget you.
Rick is being made to be some kind of religious zealot who will put all woman back in the home having babies, and would outlaw contraceptives. That’s absurd, but it’s their talking point. It’s the old bogey man, works every time.
His record on voting to fund abortions throughout the world, proving that he supports contraceptives, will never be mentioned. Norris likes the tea party, and Rick..well…he’s a party man. And if you had listened to Obama’s big speech today, he sounds just like a party man too…republican. So, why does Obama have to sound all patriotic? Because he needs some conservative votes.
Would Rick be better than Mitt?
Nobody Knows…but if history go on as usually…he will rise and fall with the rest. All Mitt has to do is get out-of-the-way, and both party leaders will do the work for him. It’s all about protecting the rich of Washington.
Nobody Makes a Comment, About My Own Opinion
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In a former post I thought I’d show this Tommy Robinson person, who I had caught a video of, who seems quit reasonable. Then, the astute amfortas, (You read all his great stuff right here!) begged to differ with my opinion that Tommy was a sort of hero, one very badly needed. He called Tommy a “thug.”
So…I wrote a comment…and guess what? I spent two hours today trying to make my “comment” appear. I guess Google thought I was in India. So I’m retyping that comment that I made to amfortas opinion here:
Just because…well, this is MY blog and if I can’t comment on myself, then who can I comment on? The video above was taken after Tommy got beat up by the Muslims. He and his family are in danger. According to Tommy they are blowing up places and blaming the EDL. The cops are arresting Muslims.
Anyway, here’s my comment to my blog: Obama, Iran, and Tommy Robinson. If you’re confused, you might have to read THAT blog to understand. Sorry if this seems confusing but I seemed to have been blocked from publishing this. Must be a full moon.
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In answer to amfortas the EDL are thugs.
Mmmmmm the documentary did not mention any violence at all from this bunch. Give me some more information. Everything Tommy says makes sense to me. If they are burning Mosques and acting violently then tell me more.
To stand up and voice your opinion is a right of every citizen of every free country. I have five Muslim neighbors now, and the LAST thing they want to do is be a friendly neighbor. They talk to no one but their own people. Maybe it’s the Sam Adams in me, but like Tommy, I too find Sharia law to be horrible. And it is being used and practiced in both American and England. English law is not enforced in either country.
Australia must not be affected so far because their immigrants are mostly Chinese and the average Chinese person if very friendly and easy to get along with.
Not two houses down from me, a Muslim father killed his daughter because she was dating a non-Muslim boy from the high school. He was allowed to leave America. His family now lives in the house. He should have been put on trial and in jail..but nooooooooooo…he’s a Muslim.
To say that every young man who gathers in a group and protests is a thug is rather blind-sided. Even I get upset at the “right” saying that all the kids gathering at the Wall Street protests are thugs. Many of them are young rich kids from liberal universities being told what to think. They are taught leftist nonsense and “revolution” in their universities. Naive. Young.
And there are thugs in EVERY group. Every group. To label whole movements from a few thugs, is like missing the forest behind the few idiotic trees..and THAT”s how we are controlled. Whenever THEY get scared, rather than address the message of the unhappiness of the people, the people who control us turn us into “dangerous thugs.” For months we heard here in America how dangerous the tea party was.
Give me a break.
There are more communists in Obama’s Wall Street kids. There are some ‘white’ supremacists in the tea party,BUT…you have to look at the message.What are they complaining about? Most of the time, there is a good reason.
Thugs are the black kids running around in America robbing food stores, and beating up people….for no reason. Just because they can. Thugs are the Latino drug cartels cutting off heads in the Las Vegas sands. THUGS are Muslims killing Jews. Have you heard of any JEW gangs beating up Muslims?
Nazi’s? This young man reminded me much of the tea party people who are just fed up with our socialists leaders. Too often our leaders act like the “people” are just young children who should be “punished” and silenced. I’m with Daniel Hannan who says our leaders should represent “the people.”
Do they? Did the people of England vote to allow all those Muslims in the country? Do YOU care if England becomes a Muslim nation? Certainly..the Quenn cares..right? Do you think that her many castles will never be taken over? It’s impossible? Never going to happen? Is there not the biggest Mosque in the World going up in London? To protect this religion is to give up you English rights that your forefathers invented and gave on to the world.
The real Nazi’s to the people of the world, are the big government tyrants who are telling us all to behave..be good boys and girls, and accept their KUMBAYA utopia of insanity.
Die when they want…tolerate the behavior we tell you to tolerate. The Muslim people may be filled with many nice people but their religion rules their lives. And their religion demands that they have no tolerance for any other people on the planet. They have planned to infiltrate all countries to expand their power. And because our Anglo-Saxon rich elites feel protected in their vast castles and estates, they think that Islam will turn to democracy. They are wrong. The proof is Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, and Turkey..look around. All this “nation building” for democracy is just pushing Sharia law into more of a global power then ever.
It made some big corporations some money, but it didn’t do a thing to make the Western world safer. Coke is being manufactured in 13 places in Iraq now– whoopee.
The very essence of Islam is based on a dictatorship. Good lord, what happen to the great British laws? What is WRONG with our leaders? When did they lose their minds?
I’ll tell you what’s wrong: Power. The Muslims have 8 kids, the British have one. The big governments need the money to stay in power. Immigration is the only way they can keep up their big spending and promises.
Their utopia will never happen. In the meantime we are to VOTE them out? Right. They give us the choices where only they win.
I admire this young man. If he had committed atrocious war crimes, I want to be the first to know. But..he speaks from the heart. When you hear truth, you know it, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing.
I just saw this video and the man making it was trying to show what a thug Tom was. Instead, I heard a call for sanity from the “people” to their government. Men, not castrated by the politically correct notion that we should accept all religions, all behaviors, all nonsense because they say so.
How would you feel if these men were protesting “abortions’? Nobody Wonders.
Is Tommy Robinson a good man, or a thug? It depends on whether you are a lord or peasant. The answer is relative. But I feel like this man. This is MY country, the child of the laws of our parent country England, and I will stand up to any nation of people who wish to crash both houses of Western Civilization down to worship a REAL thug like Muhammad.
Because, that’s mostly, if you know his history, what he was. Just another Genghis. Just another ancient thug.
The last stand will be America, and what I find wonderful is that it seems our strongest voices of freedom, liberty, and the rule of law are coming from our mother country across the sea. Daniel Hannan, Mark Steyn, and Tommy Robinson.
We have many of our own…but we need more..and they will come.
(whew that was fun! )
Obama, Iran, & the Brave Tommy Robinson
Nobody’s Opinion
Yesterday, I watched a program about the EDL (England Defense League) called “Islamaphobia.” The reporter basically rode around in a car, with the leader of the group, a young Tommy Robinson, who has helped formed a movement of people in England who are tired of seeing their country being taking over by Muslims. There was a scene where a whole city was solid Muslims…and an Imam walked up to the car Tommy was driving, his long white dress flowing in the wind, and laid a punch right on Tommy’s face through the car window. Tommy did not hit back.
Here’s a few facts: by 2066, English, Welsh, Irish, and Scots will be a minority in their own country, due to their immigration. In Pat Buchanan’s book, “Suicide of a Superpower” he said this:
“Is it not treason to bring in foreigners, deceitfully, to swamp a people and dispossess them of their culture and country?”
He presented China and Tibet as an example.
And he’s right. Our leaders are doing the very same to by letting in the invasion of Mexicans into America, and just like the snob you will see in the video below, they don’t care.
Now…get this: the “reporter” of “Islamaphobia” was there trying to show the “hatred” of the English people and how unreasonable they are for being afraid of those peace loving Muslims who have a right by English law to take over as much of the country as they like.
Watch the video below.You can see the problem Tommy and the poor English people face: It’s not only the complete ignorance of his interviewer—a man who tries to make Tommy look silly for being scared of those innocent Muslims…it’s the sheer horror of his snobbery, because he represents the ruling class. Tommy is arrested if he even speaks in a protest.
This arrogant, pigheaded, insulting, boob of a man had me wishing I could press the delete button and send him back to Muhammad’s day and put him at the raid of Khaybar. That’s the trouble with these intellectual idiots…they’ll get us all killed because they all want to be so “fair.”
The interviewer is more afraid of Tommy and the EDL trying to save his country, then he is of the very Muslim who would think nothing of crawling into his very upper-class house in London and slitting his throat.
The young men of the EDL were a delight to see…finally…somebody willing to stand up to a religion that is abhorrent, and means to take over the world by sheer number. This is happening in the United States with the help of our own President, who has decided to be a Christian until the NEXT election, and for another reason:
Iran. Obama sees another blessing in Iran….it’s an election year.
The war drums are beating…but this time, we don’t have a 9/11. This time, we have the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announcement that: “ It is a ‘jurisprudential justification” to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.”
This statement came after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said publicly that Israel could be poised to make a preventive strike against Iran as early as late spring or early summer, which left Netanyahu to say:
“The chatter causes extensive damage, puts Israel on the front line and impedes the sanction efforts.”
So, what do we do? The American people all fear, and by his previous actions we know, that Obama LOVES to go in without permission from Congress, and prove what a macho guy he is, and bomb or kill some people.
This Nobody fears that whenever all this war stuff starts with Iran, it will put off the next elections because of the repercussions that will happen due to it. Obama will get his second term if for no other reason than the people will not want to have elections in the middle of a war.
So..if the Trojan Horse of Muhammad is about to be released, the only thing that would save us— is more Tommy Robinsons.
Prosuming the American Picker
Nobody Knows
Have you ever watched America Pickers? Pawn Shop Wars? Do you think all these programs popping up are just demanded by people because they are so poor, or are they “social engineering” classes? Nobody Wonders….
I have a wonderful friend named Missy, whose family used to be the typical middle class, and she is a great American Picker. Missy is an American woman in the style of Sarah Palin…don’t mess with her, or you’ll liable to find yourself up a tree. She’s feisty, intelligent, loyal, honest, compassionate, and very patriotic.
Her son used to own his own fitness center. Her husband, Mark, used to work for the Post Office. Missy and Mark used to live in New York, but they moved to North Carolina because the New York property taxes were just too much to bear.
Like millions of baby boomers all over America, they are struggling. Mark lost his pension that was promised, and they get a little from Social Security. Mark is good at being a handyman so they spent their lives buying homes, fixing them up, and then sellng them for a profit. They worked hard for their dream, and succeeded many times over.
You know where I’m going with this.
Nobody Wonders how Obama misses this stuff?
Her son has the usual divorce problems, and he is ordered to pay child support… but no matter how hard he tries, he can’t find a job. He went to a job fair and there were thousands applying. The jobs are just not there. And yet, he is still expected to pay child support. He hardly ever sees his daughter and it’s tearing him up inside.
It’s the same in every city of America. 
These are the kind of tough Americans the country was built on. Mark can fix, any car, build any house, fix any problem. Missy can cook fantastic meals from scratch, make her own jellies, skin and cook a deer— tell you how to store onions and eggs in sand. Whenever I have a medical problem I go to her first. Her knowledge of just about every single subject on disease is almost unmatched.
Yes, Missy has a very high IQ. She has saved me over my own doctor too many times to count.
But money is tight. And so, the family goes every Sunday and sets up their booth at the local community “fair.” They trade, they sell, they barter— whatever they can. Missy’s son goes almost every day, selling off stuff that he can find, make or barter. 
This is HOW the family makes money: Flea markets.
It was so touching last week, when Missy told me about how Mark found some pajama’s she liked for $2.50 cents at some booth, so he bought her three. It’s a strong marriage. It’s a good team.
Mark and Missy were once middle class. Those days are now…gone. We are not only the food stamp nation, we are the flea market, dollar store, pawn shop, and Criagslist..give it your best shot…country.
Now…Obama and Mitt are going to talk on and on about the “middle” class, but we will have no middle class: most of our jobs are “service.” If you listened to Obama say today we were on the path to recovery, remember: We owe $16 trillion.
The country is NEVER going to be the same. They just don’t want you to know that, because it’s an election year.
Missy and Mark get by, selling what little they have left, and I must admit, I’m looking around my house wondering..old comic books, old family deeds, heirlooms, old coins, drum sets (oh no!) …but, my house is mostly books. I bought books for knowledge, no collector items. So, really…not worth much. Luckily, my house is paid for. And common sense tells me, I’ll probably live here till I die.
And that’s okay. 
But, this is what bothers me. Now that the middle class has been downsized, and we are all feeling the pain, you can look at most of the millions anywhere on the planet and see people barely exiting. So, the very powerful see this: and see no problem with “downsizing” the people who live in United States to ‘Upsize” the rest of the world. The UN wants a universal purchase tax put on all rich countries to feed the rest of the world. They were going to use global warming to do this, but that’s not working out too well.
And that brings me to Alvin. 
Alvin Toffler ( author of Future Shock), predicted that in the future, we would all become prosumers. We would work at something we loved and would not get paid. He said we would become a nation of barterers and money would become extinct. Alvin said capitalism would become extinct.
He said this many years ago..as if he WISHED it would happen. Now, if you have read me at all, this isn’t the first time I have talked about Alvin And Heidi Toffler.
As I watch American Pickers on TV, I can’t help but think that the popularity of this program is because of our dire economic situation. Obama can say all he wants…
The facts are there: The US deficit will never be repaid, not in our lifetime. The jobs and money will run out…and bartering will be, as Alvin predicted, the only way to eat for many.
Alvin also predicted corporations would do this too:
Many corporations are now moving to a form of internal corporate money so that their subsidiaries can do off the books trades that do not require either taxation or foreign exchange transactions. Barter exists among government-to-government trades, or big company-to-big company trades, where the controversy about internal pricing may be too high to translate into pricing
And that’s what bothers me…Alvin Toffler and his wife are social engineers. They think capitalism is outdated, as is America. They spent their life living in China. They have been advisers to all the leaders of the world. 
Alvin Toffler wants YOU to be a prosumer, which in the American vocabulary means: slave.
Nobody says Alvin Toffler should meet my friend Missy. She’d pick him so bad, he would never heal. We must fight to save capitalism, and put the Toffler’s of the world back in the dark ages where they seem to want everyone else to be…or someday, there will be nothing left to pick.
When you find a “social engineer” who writes books for years predicting the future, Nobody seems to want to ask: Could he predict the future? Or…did Alvin Toffler help shape it?
Nobody Knows, but Nobody’s Opinion on the matter is very strong.
Another Great Dan Hannan Speech—It’s Important that THEY Represent You.
Nobody Knows—
Americans would do well to follow this man and his every speech. In this short video, he explains with the utmost clarity, the greatest gift that England has given the world, and that is the model for representative government.
England is on the path to losing their sovereignty to the EU, and Daniel is the Lancelot of the relm…slaying the dragons of insanity…one by one.
Here in the states, Obama is ruling by Czars, executive orders, secret orders, and pretty much any way he pleases….our rulers represent only one class. The very rich. Mitt Romney bought Florida. The bankers of Brussels would come for us next, just as surely as the bankers of Wall Street already have.
Yesterday, we had Allen West. Today…an even better speech from Dan Hannan. I just can’t get enough of this man.
Make the time to see this if you can. Nothing I could say today would be any more important….
Nobody’s Perfect: Mitt Romney VS Michelle Obama
Nobody’s Perfect
Mitt Romney got hit this week. After prolonging the release of his tax records as long as he possibly could, they were finally released. Many people were shouting, “Hey Mitt…be proud you’re rich! Show us the money!” The other half were saying, “Well, what are you hiding Mitt?”
And sure enough..it was just found out he WAS hiding something. Romney’s Federal Disclosures missed 26 accounts. He was hiding one, or two, or three..or four…bank accounts. 
The paper discovered at least 23 overseas accounts on his tax return that were not included on his financial disclosure forms. Among his assets were funds based in what the Times called “low-tax foreign countries such as Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg.”
Not only that…this!
The top donor to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, investment banking and securities firm, Goldman Sachs, received over $10 billion in emergency lending and bailouts from the Federal Reserve after the 2008 financial meltdown, according to public sources and published reports. Goldman backed Obama for election in 2008, and the firm, like many Wall Street institutions, is now backing Mitt Romney for president.
Nine out of Romney’s top 20 campaign contributors are big Wall Street Banks like Goldman. Six of those nine top contributors received over $161 billion in bailouts. Goldman leads in Romney’s donation, but Bain donated $327,000 to his campaign. Add George Soros telling the world there is no difference between Romney and Obama, well..just imagine how Obama is going to use this?
And speaking of Obama….it seems he’s married a serial thong abuser.
Our second contestant for having a problem with NOT acting like a big Marie Antoinette diva, is his wife, Michelle. 
You know, I can see our Presidents wanting to impress the King and Queen of Qatar. Qatar is now the location of U.S. Central Command’s Forward Headquarters and the Combined Air Operations Center. In 2010, Qatar had the world’s highest GDP per capita, while the economy grew by 19.40%, the fastest in the world.
What is not cool, is that they had to close down Madison Avenue just so the two Queens could go shopping.
As you can see…in addition to the thongs Michelle bought Obama some really cool sexy undershirts. But still…
Making half the city close down just so you can go shopping is more an action of a King than a President.
And I know…many of you say that “Joyanna…Snopes says this was a hoax!”
Right. Okay. Sure. Next time she leaves three hours before her husband on Air Force Two to go to Qatar, I’ll remember that.
There is no winner in this weeks contest.
Both Romney and Michelle were trying to hide their wealth and power. Nobody is used to it by now.
And I don’t know about you, but I’m having trouble picturing either one of those women in a thong. Do NOT look at this picture. 
Margaret Thatcher and the Fog of Davos
Nobody’s Opinion:
There was a terrible car accident on Florida’s highway 95 this weekend. Nine people were killed because of fog. In fact, there was so much fog that the ambulance and police had trouble finding the wounded once they got to the scene. That’s pretty much sums up the state of the world right now. If you watch the news, it looks like most of the people in the world are in a fog: mentally, spiritually, and economically.
Riots, riots, riots, and more riots.
As you can see from the words of Margaret Thatcher, this consolidation of a few unelected elite at the top controlling the money and therefore the lives of the global populations has been gaining momentum for quite some time now. Today, England is trying to keep it’s sovereignty, from the unelected elite in the EU, and it’s a hard fight.
Last week in Davos, Switzerland (What a better place for the rich to feel safe…hidden high in the mountains.) where the elite meet openly each year… Klaus Schwab said he remained a deep believer in free markets but that capitalism is out of whack and needs to be fixed “to serve society.” 
It’s the “needs to be fixed” that bothers me. There was nothing wrong with capitalism in the first place. Transferring trillions of dollars from the taxpayers of the United States to bail out banks all over the world is hardly what anyone would call “capitalism.” But that’s not the point is it? From 2002 to 2007, 65 percent of all income growth in the United States went to the top 1 percent of the population. No matter how you want to slice that…the rich are doing fine after the great “recession” the rest of us, are not.
I know. I know…you might say..Joyanna, Obama is using class warfare to justify his socialistic ways. And that’s certainly true. But Obama lies. If he really believed what he was saying, that we should take more from the rich…he would have NEVER bailed them out in the first place, making the poor people of the Unites States pay for all those big ‘evil’ companies and banks. He believes in redistribution alright..he redistributed all our money to the rich. And so did George W. Bush.
What if Obama is not different than a Romney, or a Newt, or even a Rick Santorin? What if, the network of the rich elites are all tied together? According Chrystia Freeland, in her article in the Atlantic, (Jan. 20111) “The New Ruling Class, How the Global Elite is Leaving You Behind”..that’s exactly the case.
According to her, (And she should know, she hangs out with them.) they go to the same hotels, fly private jets, and they all have many homes in many countries. And they stick together. They do not have, nor do they care to have, any affiliation with any one nation. It’s a borderless world, but to the few hundred elite, it’s a small one. 
As we watch Romney battle Newt in Florida, we take note: Now that corporations can run attacks ads on Presidential candidates and whoever has the most companies with the most money in their pockets, gets the permission to pass GO. Their payback is big. GE—who gave millions to Obama’s election, paid no taxes last year on their $14 billion dollar profit. Jeffery has hotels on Boardwalk. GE will try hard to get Obama elected again. It’s the least they can do for their shareholders, right? It’s the same with all the green energy plants that Obama gave billions to. They gave to him first.
So, do we still have a government that represents us? Here’s why you can be sure, whoever gets elected will always put the elites who gave them money, before YOU.
The proof is right before our eyes: When a man like John Corzine misplaces $60 billion dollars of other people’s money, and no one even arrests him, what does that tell you?
A. They are all stupid B. They just like the guy. C. He personally handles their stock portfolios. D. The corruption in Washington is all pervasive. E. He’s one of them. F. All of the above.
Not one person in Congress was even outraged. They gave him a “mock” scolding and he was let go.
Here’s more proof of this elite plutocracy, composed of our top politicians and multinational CEO’s:
Obama puts a woman on the Supreme Court who will be the deciding vote in keeping the unconstitutional Obama health care law of the land. The law says, since Sonia Sotomayor helped get the law passed, she should excuse herself from the process, because she shouldn’t be allowed to judge that which she help create: But Justic Roberts, the head of the Supreme Court, a George W. Bush appointee says: No. She’s okay.
NO? The Supreme Court does not even obey its own laws?
And how about that big difference between the parties? They are blending together like sugar in molasses.
Now as we find out that our Congress has been getting rich off of insider trading, oops, do they get punished for that crime? Nope. (I don’t care if they ‘let’ themselves get by with it, it’s still a crime.)
Obama wants to pass a law. Not that it will matter. Our elite politicians can break any law, and go unpunished. They don’t even have to pay taxes…or go by Obamacare.
They are a rich elite class. They fly on our dime, wine on our dime, and don’t care.
They have no answers to the widening inequality gap, but a mounting realization that economic growth must include the poor, that job creation is critical, and that affordable food, housing, health care and education need to be part of any solution. –AP
Nobody Says: Nice press release.
Frankly, I don’t think they are worried at all. One of the CEO of the world’s largest hedge funds said that his investment committee often discusses the question of who wins and who loses and his senior colleagues had said that the hollowing out of the middle class didn’t really matter.
“His opinion was that if the transformation of the world economy lifts four people in China and India out of poverty and into the middle class, and meanwhile means one America drops out of the middle class, that’s not such a bad trade.”
Here in the U.S., we have lived so very long in the richest and freest nation on the planet, that we can’t imagine our country not recovering from the spiral we see ahead of us. The rich are getting scared, and to hide their riches from the “people” and governments that wish to tax their riches, they now put all their wealth in philanthrocapitalistic foundations, where no one can touch it. They live in guarded communities, on yachts, and planes. 
But here’s the good news: The slave trade didn’t last forever….and neither will the global plutocrats. After the fog lifts, and the damage is seen, good people, like Margaret Thatcher will come about.
You can’t keep the whole world in a fog forever. There are many lights ahead. We just have to find them.
Education: There’s a Better Way….Find it.
Nobody’s Opinion
Not many candidates are talking about our very poor educational system. They all give lip service to it, but the fact is, it’s an overgrown behemoth bureaucracy of cancerous stagnation, that decade by decade, does nothing but leave too many forever in “service” jobs. 
If you watched this video you cannot but conclude that: maybe that’s the plan.
As the film suggest: the problems of our education or lack of thereof, has not been a big concern of our government. It’s NEVER been on the top of any party’s agenda: the subject is dropped once the President gets in office. The reason: unions and the money they supply.
George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” was noble in thought, it’s just that the schools had already left everyone behind so badly, nobody could catch up.
Higher education may be no better off. Both the so-called best online colleges and the so-called best traditional colleges are still not serving students well. Thirty percent of college and university students drop out after their first year. Half of all students never graduate.
Still, despite the odds, there are some who do not let our poor educational system get in their way.
There was a small piece tonight on Sixty Minutes about an autistic boy savant named Jake, who was going to graduate from college at age 14. He excels in higher mathematics. He had an unbelievable memory, which helped, but it was his passion and his love of numbers that is driving him to be probably the next Einstein.
Not all of us are born with “supercharged” memories in our brains. As Thomas Edison once said, “We have to learn how to think.” 
“I am frequently asked about our system of education. I say that we have none. Our system is a relic of past ages. It consists of parrot-like repetitions. It is a dull study of twenty-six hieroglyphs.”
“Groups of hieroglyphs. That is what the young of this present day study. Here is an object. I place it in the hands of a child. I tell him to look at it. If we begin before we have hardened and dried his mind he studies the object with kindling enthusiasm. The mind of the child is naturally active. Why should we make him take his impressions of things through the ear when he may be able to see?”
(Later he claims that’s why he invented motion pictures…to teach.)
“The folds of the brain grow deeper through observation; they grow fallow from disuse. If we educate too abruptly–if we cram the mind with facts memorized for themselves alone, what comes? Pure atrophy.”
“The trouble with our educating as generally followed is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mould. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and lays more stress on memory than observation.”
He goes on to say what happens to our kids from not being challenged but rather…bored to death:
Bad teaching promotes: “A flagging interest, which leads quickly to the habit of listening without hearing, of looking without regard to the existence or non-existence of interest. At present, most young leave their schools only partially educated, and rapidly forget a large part of that which they have been taught. They fail to learn because the methods of teaching are wrong. They forget because the methods of instruction have made them actually dislike knowledge. “
Now, remember, this was back in Edison’s day.
He goes on:
“Universities fail: Careful thought convinces me that this is because the men who run them never have been out in the great world of struggle. Professors usually are men untried in any sort of competition comparable with that which their students eventually must face. Speaking generally, such men cannot impart the right ideas to the boys, for they themselves are ignorant.”
Nobody Thinks this is one of the very reason we have failed in America: Too many of our teachers know nothing about the everyday world, or even how to use the subject they are teaching in the real world.
Not many algebra teachers can tell you HOW to use algebra, or why—or even who uses it and when. I know, I’ve asked almost every algebra teacher I ever knew, and they had no clue.
Too many of our leaders come from some of these many ignorant teachers, most of them from Harvard, who Henry Adams trashed with delightful abandon in “The Education of Henry Adams.” (You can imagine how I loved that.) 
For instance: Daddy Bush, a Harvard alumni, while President, had never been in a grocery store. He was shocked, when he visited one, at the price of bread, and how the items were scanned by the cashier.
It’s hard to believe, how removed from ordinary life some of these people are.
Can you imagine what Edison would think of the schools system we have now? Where kids are not only not being taught how to think, they are being stuffed with meaningless crap like: recycling, diversity, global warming, sex, gender issues, and the trashing of our own history?
All you have to do is watch Jay Leno’s boardwalk to see all the college graduates who don’t even know how many moons the earth has.
“The main objection that I have against a college graduate is that he objects to work, especially if it is dirty. He does not want a job with much work to it, and when he does get a position, he expects to be appointed foreman at the end of the sixth week. Most of the men working for me have never gone to college. Those college graduate that I have usually show a lack of imagination. They scarcely have any suggestions to make in their daily routine which might lead to improvement in their various departments. “
And so, we are ruled by those Harvard constitutional lawyers who “scarcely have any suggestions to make their daily routine which might lead to improvement in their various departments.”
Nobody Thinks…that’s also the point: the daily routine of our leaders can’t get much better, and that’s why “we the people” need to think: Do I leave my child’s education to the public school system?
Or is there a better way?
“There is always a way to do it better..find it.”…Tom Edison.
Live Free and Master the Art of BS
Nobody’s Notes
—That I missed the first part of the last Republican Presidential debate, but what I did see of it, gave me the impression that at this point, it really doesn’t matter much who is winning. (That’s me watching the debate. I put my best hat on.)
Mitt Romney did not make any sense when he was answering the attack by Newt Gingrich that his barrage of negative ads against Newt were filled with lies. Mitt said, “I didn’t see them.” then went on to address all the issues in the ads. So, if he didn’t see them, how did he know what they said? Then he blamed the people that MADE the ads. Not many people believe that Mitt Romney did not see those ads first, and if you do, then it’s not going to matter…unless you vote. You might want to do something else that day…I suggest, you go fishing.
Newt’s problem is his little cherub face. It’s a hard face to trust. Thomas Sowell has come out with his support, and that’s saying something. Also, Michael Reagan likes him the best— two people Nobody admires.
Quick thinking is Newt’s strong point, and he is the best reason to watch the debates. That, and Ron Paul’s funny faces. I watched Newt at a town hall meeting where he actually answered or (NOT) the questions from the people. He is much better at ad-libbing and LOOKING like he is answering the question, even when he is not. 
I don’t know what politicians call this little stunt, but they all do it: Let’s see how nebulous we can answer that without seeming snobby. They usually start off at the point, and lead it to another subject that they want to talk about and the question doesn’t get answered. It’s the old two-step, side-slip,then smile really big that every politican must master in order to succeed.
Mitt is not good at this, so like Obama, he is already not even allowing question and answer periods.
Obama handpicks his questions now. He looks down at his little piece of paper and says..”Uh…so and so.” And that reporter stands up and asks his question.
Very controlled. I simply don’t know why any of them show up. He could read their questions off a laptop. Mitt as President will do exactly the same.
Jon Huntsman’s strategy is to just say, “The American people want: Fill in the blank…HIM. Short. Sweet. Look in the camera. The audience loved it, which frankly, was pretty scary in itself.
What exactly is in their drinking water? And speaking of drinking…how about those NBC commentators? A bit too..passionate there, don’t cha think?
Nobody Thinks New Hampshire is Stephen King’s country. It is filled with scary liberals who know how to change a tire, and yet are highly educated at all the right schools—schools who have forgotten to teach them that in order to live free, you must pick the right leaders, who are NOT liberals. If you don’t, you are very likely to die sooner.
The “live free or die” motto would be better changed to: “Live well, or blame God, or George Bush.”
It’s timeless. Enjoy!
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I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
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