The Way I See It!

There is a difference between what is politically necessary and what is actually necessary, and those with simple minds can not tell the difference. Intelligent people understand the president can do his job from ANYWHERE in the world at ANYTIME, therefore his APPEARANCE is not needed to show awareness and or leadership. George Bush should not have been judged in this manner either. He should have been judged as one example, for how long people waited to be evacuated from the largest building in the south also know as the SUPER DOME! For anyone to die within reach of Coast Guard helicopters is unacceptable. If there had been more white voting republicans in the mix there would have been hundreds of rescue choppers within 2 days. Do some research into what actually occurs when the president travels, you will then understand how unneeded his presence is. I will address the TEA party in my next post.

Has anyone figured out yet that the more we talk about the Tea-unist Party we are affording them credibility through air time.

I know how easy it is to think things may never get better when times are tough. But as I sit thinking about this past year, I remember two of the most magnificent events of my life have happened in the past seven months. In May I went with my wife and my best friend Troy (Closest to a brother I have ever know for over twenty-six years...I really miss my brother) to show him around NYC, it was more fun than I have had for many, many years. This may have been partially due to the reason for his visit in the first place; which was to attend my graduation from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy -University at Albany- State University of New York with my Bachelorette degree in Political Science. The jobs may be elusive as yet and the student loans loom near, but I did it none the less. Then just a few months later I was able to know my father for the first time in all of my life. After forty years on this earth I met my father for the first time. I am still in somewhat ...

I found this post unpublished in the draft folder so it is a little late but still useful. I really hope Senator Obama does not pick Senator Dodd as his running mate. Senator Dodd is personally responsible for the law that allowed the crimes at Enron to occur. He initiated the veto override that passed said law. The following excerpts are from an article in the NY Times dated, Dec. 23, 1995. By NEIL A. LEWIS Published: December 23, 1995 For the first time, Congress overrode a veto by President Clinton today, as the Senate mustered the necessary two-thirds majority to enact a bill to limit stockholders' rights to file fraud suits . Because the House had voted decisively on Wednesday to override the veto, the law took effect immediately upon the Senate's action. As a result, it will be far more difficult for individual stockholders to file suits against underwriter-brokers, company officials and accountants in cases of securities fraud....... the ringmaster of the event w...

“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” Hermann Goering “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” General George S. Patton “Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.” on Albert Einstein J. Robert Oppenheimer

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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it. -Frederick Bastiat

This story took me several weeks to finish. As you notice the date I started is a month ago. I am posting this on July, 22 2009. October 6, 2002 It is a day I will remember for the rest of my life. I was working the 10pm to 6 am shift at the Bay County Jail Annex in Panama City Florida. During that time the facility was under the direction of a private company called, Corrections Corporation of America (C.C.A.). I was approaching my two year anniversary with the company, having worked my entire time in corrections at the Bay County jail and jail annex locations. It was a shift like many others. That night I was scheduled to be the "transportation" officer, which meant I would be responsible for transporting inmates to and from the annex for whatever reasons there might be. Some of those reasons might include; release from custody which was done through the downtown jail, early morning trips to the main jail downtown for holding until court, and trips to the hospital should th...

Southern California girl gets dying wish to see movie 'Up' Associated Press Posted: 06/19/2009 09:16:59 AM PDT Updated: 06/19/2009 09:18:28 AM PDT HUNTINGTON BEACH — A 10-year-old Southern California girl has died after getting her last wish: to see the movie "Up." Colby Curtin of Huntington Beach had advanced vascular cancer and couldn't watch the Disney-Pixar movie in a theater. Her mother says Colby desperately wanted to see the animated film about a man who flies off in his house to fulfill a dream after his wife's death. A friend managed to contact Pixar, and on June 10 a company employee arrived with a DVD copy at Colby's house. Colby's mother says she asked her daughter if she could hang on until it arrived. The girl said she was ready to die but added: "I'm going to wait for the movie." By then, Colby couldn't open her eyes but her mother described the scenes. Colby died that night. If you are not in tears you are a sad, cold ...