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Media Wimps

Posted by Roy Rolling on Monday, December 15, 2008 9:48:57 AM
So the Bush handlers thought it was a good photo op to go to Iraq?
 
Their stupidity now has put another black eye on the whole sordid Iraq operation.  They want to control the media and broadcast a story of Bush the Hero, but reality stepped in. (or was thrown, in the form of a size-10 shoe)
 
Morons to the very end, after a $1 trillion money pit, the White House media staff has provided an image that will never go away---like the failed hostage rescue in Iran when the helicopters crashed in the desert.
 
Why not demand pay concessions from US bureacrats like the UAW?  The US is just as bankrupt as GM and I think some of its paid employees should take a pay cut.  Especially the media propaganda team.
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Open Letter to Chuck Norris

Posted by Roy Rolling on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:01:18 AM
Subject: Your Letter to Obama
 
Chuck, I have a film industry background so I don't need to pander.

Your suggestion to govern from the center is an excellent idea.

But it is not the product of balanced and objective analysis, it comes because the battle cry of "govern from the right, conservative spectrum" failed.

Therefore your letter is disingenuous, you only demand to be governed by the center because you have been defeated in your very-polarizing attempts to govern from the right.

And don't think that ordinary Americans don't see that, they have learned from being exploited and seeing the philosophy fail for the same reason an ultra-left philosopy will fail---humans are humans and put in positions of temptation will succumb to weakness.

C,mon, Chuck. Get real. Anyone who thinks radical conservatives are superior citizens to radical liberals needs a kick in the head from "Walker, Texas Ranger." They are both so self-serving they are a danger to the real business of governing a country of 300 million people.
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Trickle Down Misery

Posted by Roy Rolling on Friday, November 07, 2008 9:33:06 AM

Who'd have thought that what flowed downhill was the sh*t and not the Shinola.---Roy

US jobless rate at 14-year high

The US jobless rate rose to 6.5% in October, official figures have shown, the highest rate since March 1994.

Figures from the US Labor Department showed US employers cut 240,000 jobs in October, the 10th month in a row that the economy has lost jobs.  The increase means that in the first 10 months of this year, 1.2 million people in the US have lost their jobs.

Job losses in August and September turned out to be much deeper than initially estimated by the Labor Department.

Employers cut 127,000 positions in August, compared with 73,000 previously reported, while 284,000 jobs were axed in September, compared with the first estimate of 159,000 jobs.

The revised figures for September showed the biggest monthly cut in jobs since November 2001.

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Joe Biden Was Right

Posted by Roy Rolling on Thursday, November 06, 2008 7:46:21 AM
The enemies of the US democracy challenged president-elect Obama the first day after the election---they said they rejected his win and vowed to begin 4 years of non-cooperation until the Republicans win back the presidency.
 
The honeymoon's over.
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Risk

Posted by Roy Rolling on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:45:33 AM
What if Democrats win?  Will Republicans support the president?  Or will markets take a juvenile attitude?  There is a real risk of what many allude to but do not address, it is the "I will take my toys home if I don't get to make the rules" attitude of some markets.

The simmering hatred by the oil markets from years of hammering boiled over in the Clinton administration and led to an over-correction by the Bush administration.

So as long as defeatism doesn't turn into sabotage the next four years will be compared to a "normal" business cycle. But if another presidential campaign starts the day after this one ends, neither side wins in such a manipulated economy and anything-but-free market.
Tags: free market  
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Colin Powell Veterans for Truth

Posted by Roy Rolling on Sunday, October 19, 2008 12:00:19 PM
So Colin Powell has endorsed Obama for president.  You could expect the smear machine to crank up into overdrive, but it was a little over the top to say Powell exaggerated his military claims as a swift boat commander in Vietnam.
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Obama is the Anti-Christ?

Posted by Roy Rolling on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:04:49 AM
For the umpteenth time I received an email saying Obama is the anti-Christ as predicted by "Revelations".  (since the book is called "Revelation" I am naturally suspect of the detail of the research when they can't even get the book of the Bible correct)  But I digress.
 
The point is:  Let's say, for the point of argument, I agree Obama is the anti-Christ, since I literally believe the words on the page.  And since I believe the words as written, then I must believe the other paragraphs as written, they cannot be discarded. 
 
The next words say nothing about "if an effective email campaign is run then the scripture will be null-and-void."  Because that's at the root of it---pride of some word editor thinking they've saved the world by composing an email.  I, however, am a very small player in this gigantic play and must, day-to-day, live, breathe, eat, pray, help others and perform the mundane activities of a "lamb of God" as Christians label it.
 
The book of Revelation---if you are a believer----will play out exactly as it is written. (even if I vote McCain)  So better to be prepared for the anti-Christ than to be surprised if the book of Revelation actually comes true.
 
What do you believe?
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Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Posted by Roy Rolling on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 6:48:52 AM
As I said before, "fanning the flames of the fire you pretend to put out."
 
As John McCain calls for civil discourse and lowering the level of emotion, his running mate does the exact opposite.
 
"There is a lot of anger. There is anger at the inside dealing and anger at lobbyists and anger at the greed on Wall Street. There is anger at the Washington elite and there is anger at voter fraud," she said.
 
I guess you can excuse her from differing from McCain, she can't even recognize supporters:

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin mistook some of her own fans for hecklers Monday at a rally that drew thousands.

A massive crowd of at least 20,000 spread across the parking lot of Richmond International Raceway, and scores of people on the outer periphery more than 100 yards from the stage could not hear. "Louder! Louder!" they began chanting, and the cry spread across the crowd to Palin's left. Some pointed skyward, urging that the volume be increased.

Palin stopped her remarks briefly and looked toward the commotion.

"I hope those protesters have the courage and honor to give veterans thanks for their right to protest," she said.
 
Thank God it's not real war or there would be plenty of casualties from friendly fire.
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Douse the Flames Part deux

Posted by Roy Rolling on Saturday, October 11, 2008 2:20:16 PM
Candidate McCain has  requested crowds to tone it down, now it's up to the attack dogs of the campaign.  If rallies become more civil, then the honorable McCain will hae regained control of the leash.
 
But right now, he's being dragged from pillar to post putting out fires from those who want him to ramp up the rhetoric.
 
There is a way to ramp up the rhetoric, but it's not by following the call of only those with the loudest voices.
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Pretending to douse the flames you fan

Posted by Roy Rolling on Saturday, October 11, 2008 7:21:53 AM
 
The head of the nation's biggest labor federation is joining the chorus of voices warning about the increasingly angry crowds coming to John McCain's campaign events.
At rallies this week, McCain's criticisms of Democrat Barack Obama have been met with shouts of "terrorist," "liar," and other harsh words.

"Sen. John McCain, Gov. Sarah Palin and the leadership of the Republican party have a fundamental moral responsibility to denounce the violent rhetoric that has pervaded recent McCain and Palin political rallies," said John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, which has endorsed Obama. "When rally attendees shout out such attacks as 'terrorist' or 'kill him' about Sen. Barack Obama, when they are cheered on by crowds incited by McCain-Palin rhetoric -- it is chilling that McCain and Palin do nothing to object.

"In a world where unspeakable violence is too often promulgated by extremists, it is no small or trivial matter to call someone a terrorist -- or to incite potentially dangerous individuals toward violence," Sweeney said in a statement. "John McCain, Sarah Palin and Republican leaders are walking a very thin line in pretending not to hear the hateful invectives spewed at their rallies. McCain should end this line of attack in the strongest possible terms. Anything less puts McCain in the same camp as the racists and extremists who are bringing their angry rhetoric to his campaign events."

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Bonus Rant

Posted by Roy Rolling on Monday, October 06, 2008 8:03:10 AM
Just because employees of a poltical organization fighting for their jobs tell us all Democrats are immoral and all Republicans are saints dosn't make it a workable fact.

The sham of promising moral reform, but delivering old-fashioned business greed, will no longer be tolerated by American voters---finally after 25 years the majority is smarter than television ads tell us.

This column is an example of the rosy picture of moral reform promised by certain politicans, but is really a vehicle for self-encrichment and not a model that will benefit those who were promised reform.

Those with a short memory forget voting for candidate Bush in 2004 who promised the end to abortions and other immoral practices. The very first thing they did after winning the election was not ending abortion, but pushing a bill in Congress to put social security in the stock market. If we'd have done that, the US would be toast by now.

Politicans have one creed: "Sincerity is the most important thing in life. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

Do not rely on them for your spiritual salvation.
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Time to Turn the Page

Posted by Roy Rolling on Monday, October 06, 2008 7:32:07 AM
The McCain strategy 30 days pre-election is to "turn the page" on the economic mess.   They can "turn the page" in their campaign but it doesn't do anything for the economy except encourage voters to put their heads in the sand and ignore the problem.
 
I think the campaign is all out of ideas and should follow the ignoble Republican strategy of turning the page on the election and focus on how to impeach President Obama like they targeted Clinton.
 
Too bad, while they were playing politics in 1998, they didn't have time to address the terrorism issue nor the financial market excesses.
 
My mistake.  Those things weren't a crisis until the president who was elected in 2000 dismantled the proven-effective guard dogs at the henhouse and replaced them with private-contractor foxes..
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Blogs are Like A****les

Posted by Roy Rolling on Monday, September 29, 2008 9:51:19 AM
The rules of the virtual BLOGOSPHERE are just like the rules of the real world of media.
 
Blogs are like a****les, everyone's got one.
 
I mean, really, have you seen how many blogs there are out there?  All of them self-absorbed insights from "genuises" like me with nothing better to do than spill words from an overactive mind.
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People Will Only Read This

Posted by Roy Rolling on Monday, September 29, 2008 9:10:21 AM
Nobody reads a nobody.  People will only read this if I am well-known.  Then, it is too late.
 
The Second Great Depression and banking failure is eerily similar to the first.  Back in the days of the "dust bowl" farming was in the throes of deregulation, too.   No longer were farm yields limited by the soil itself because "modern farming" of fertilizers and concentrated planting were giving far better yields.  If a farmer did not adopt "modern farming" methods of the early 1900s they were at a competitive disadvantage.
 
Fast forward to the 1930s when after years of over plowing the same fields and use of fertilizer, the soil was like sand and unable to produce.  In fact, it was hard just to keep the depleted soil even on the farm boundaries as wind would blow it away and produce gigantic dust storms engulfing entire counties and states.
 
So the exaggerated farm yields at the expense of the long-term health of the farm soil came to a crashing halt when "modern farming" methods were "discovered" to be  the cause of the death of the farms themselves. Farmers adopted conservative soil-erosion techiques and by slowing the process the long-term health of the soil was maintained.
 
Now, financial markets have been stripped of most regulation and produced 10 years of phantom yields.  But having plowed the same ground of poorer and poorer people, the poor people have been blown away from their mortgage and other financial obligations by the ever-present winds of new products.
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Leave Sarah---and Brittney Spears---alone

Posted by Roy Rolling on Saturday, September 27, 2008 9:26:47 AM
I think the focus is wrong when the media questions whether hockey-mom Sarah Palin is qualified to be Vice President of the United States.
 
This is the perfect opportunity to "de-regulate" the office of Vice President to make "hockey-mom (or dad)" one of the essential qualifications to the second highest office in the free world.  Make it a requirement.
 
Deregulation worked for Wall Street, didn't it?
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