THE “GODLESS” SUBURBS

In the ’50s and early ’60s, the postwar exodus from the cities to the suburbs was just beginning. Veterans of the Second World War and then the Korean War sought inexpensive homes of their own.
The dream is dead. The optimism and hope that our parents had when they moved out of overcrowded, filthy cities to give their kids a better life is dead. The suburbs are dead, filled with godlessness, lawlessness, crime, drugs, poverty, alcoholism and despair. The Antisuburban film has become a staple of Hollywood.

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Forced retirement is a good thing for a failed presidency

George W. needs to leave as quietly as possible, with as little fanfare as possible considering the total mess he has left his successor. At first, President-electBarack Obama will be seen as the stable-boy cleaning out the stables after the departed master. His task, in cleaning up the mess in America will not be an easy one. Frankly, I do not think it can be done in one term. Rather thanpositoning himself for a run at a second-term like Obama is already doing, he is going to find that “words are cheap.” He made promises he frankly cannot keep to the American public, many of whom, the devout Obama supporters view him as some kind of Messiah. Here’s the thing about Messiah’s- often they are crucified by their own people. So the deaprting Prez, needs to leave as quietly as possible and the incoming Prez, who has shot off his mouth during the campign, telling the American people what they want to hear and not being able to keep many of the promises he made- needs to take office as “humbly” as possible and with little fanfare.

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“Wise guy, eh?”

It’s a weak case which I’m sure Blago and his army of legal-begals will have no problem getting tossed. One of the reaons the Feds come up with 70 or 100 different charges these ays against an individual is the “old shit sticks to the wall” theory. That is, if you throw enough shit against the wall some of it is bound to stick. This is how our top law enforcement officials are doing business these days. Instead of building a solid case with just one charge which would bring a long stint in the pokey, they throw as many darts at the dartboard as they can hoping one of them will stick. It is a theory that does not work for the most part, as juries, overwhelmed with 70 or 100 different charges are confused by the myriad of charges and evidence and do one of three things, throw it out, can;t decide on a unanimous verdict and come in “deadlocked” or convict on one or two of the lesser charges. A sharp criminal like formerGovernor George Ryan, who was convicted on one or two lesser charges and only given three years in the Crossroads Motel, know this, as do most mobsters, drug cartels, and etc. who keep onretainer an army of sharp lawyers.

But, it makes good headlines. Legal begal Fitzgerald gets to see his photo in the paper, a lot both when he indicts and when the case is summarily dismissed. This is not justice, this is not what we pay our law enforcement officials to do. We pay them to uphold the law, not run their own private little beauty pageant. If the Feds really had anything onBlago- if he was as corrupt, arroognat and stupid as they claim, do you really think they would allow him to return to the Govenor’s office. They are sworn to protect and serve. To protect the public, that’s us, from corrupt officials like the Govenator.

“Wise guy, eh? Why I oughta …………

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Won’t Get Fooled Again!

“There’s nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight.
Meet the new boss-same as the old boss.”
Way back in 1971, the English rock band, The Who,  had a hit song called “Won’t Get [...]

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THE BUSH LEGACY

Frankly, I’m glad to see George W, stepping back into the shadows.He stepped on too many toes, rubbed too many people the wrong way, stirred up animosity the world-over against the U.S. and its citizens which is why terrorists were singling out U.S. citizens for execution in Mumbai. Under Clinton, the world loved America- under Bush, the world hates us and seeks our destruction. So, it is time for him to go back into the shadows from whence he came.

So what will George W. Bush’s leagcy be? Simply this.

It will be that he foolishly believed that bringing democracy to a region that had never experienced it would remove the terrorist threat in the long term. You cannot give democracy to anyone. They have to want it for themselves and be willing to fight for it as our founding fathers did in 1776. Secondly, that you cannot defeat terrorists by brute force but that brute force you only emboldens them.

In the long term, these lessons might be a great legacy should Americans chose to learn from them and never forget them. But at the cost of almost ruining the American way of life, earning the hatred and murderous contempt of those around the world, it might have been a lesson we could have done without.

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THE WORLD MUMBLES IN MUMBAI

America’s foreign policy is in shambles.
As Americans headed over country and through the woods to grandmother’s house enjoying its most American of holidays, “Thanksgiving,” American foreign policy mumbled as terrorists calling themselves the Deccan Mujahideen stormed luxury hotels, restaurants, and hospitals in Mumbai, India rounding up Americans and British tourists for execution and spraying [...]

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Obama’s nation has begun

The man just won the election not one week ago, will not take office until Jan. 20, 2009, and already the Neo-Cons and Neo-conservative grassroots organizations like Grassfire.org and others are already on the attack.

But you know Grassfire.org will not publish the names of the 1-million so called resistance, because there are not 1 million people who resist an Obama administration (likely one hundred sore Neo_con losers who bungled McCains campaign and are now crying in their beer). Grassfire.org will not publish the names of the donors who are funding this “tripe” they call resistance because the names would be people like McCain, Palin, Limbaugh, Cheney, Limbaugh and other’s who have lost their power and now have to sit idly by on the sidelines the next eight-years planning and scheming their comeback like the little spiders they are.

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T

As Obama fielded phone-calls from various leaders around the world today, these world-leaders all saw the same thing that I did, that I hope, you all did, that America not only got a historic president, America got a courageous president.

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After today, (Nov. 4th) consider me gone

So, don’t listen to all the numbers crunchers, the bean-counters, media-pollsters, media armchair quarter-backs or you’ll drive yourself crazy. Instead, kick back, hold up your glass, and toast the obvious winner as America holds it’s breath and takes one giant and courageous step into our future together as Americans.

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Hey buddy, can you spare a cup of coffee?

The tragedy of the last 25-years is that we’ve seen corporate America like WalMart move in and take over America, peddling Chinese junk, thwarting unionization of its workers, working the employees to death while paying them meager wages.

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