Not wearing any special, but my hubby
Posted By: ss on 2008-11-04
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The U.S. Voted Wearing Their Change Goggles
The U.S. Voted Wearing Their Change Goggles
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
By Mike Baker
It seems that much of the nation rolled over on Tuesday night last week, lit a post election cigarette and dreamily congratulated themselves on a wonderful performance. Was it okay for you?
I’ve never seen anything like the global swoon we’ve been experiencing since the polls closed and Obama’s victory was announced. "OMG," cries the public, fueled by a media that got itself a bit more than a little pregnant, "how wonderful we are for electing Obama."
Maybe I’m just a cynical, churlish id*ot, but I woke up after the election with a feeling that, while historic, the result was more a vote against Bush than a vote for Obama. Dazzled by his speechifying and supercool ways, the partygoers opted for style over substance… for campaign skills over any discernible leadership record. Sure, we know he doesn’t have any significant experience and seems too smooth to be true, but what the h*ll. As a nation, we went out to the bar with our change goggles on.
So there we are the next morning, staring at our new companion for at least the next four years. You feel good for having brought home the most attractive candidate, and you did show how progressive you are… but what’s the person really like? Never mind. Let’s enjoy the feel good moment for a bit longer. Soon enough we’ll have to get out of bed and get something done. Here’s hoping the relationship works out and he’s a keeper.
Related
By the way, in last week’s PWB, we asked readers to tell us what they learned from the lengthy campaign process. The mailbag has been jammed with responses ever since. As a result, at the beginning of this week I formed a committee, led by Bobo the talking intern, to select the top ten reader responses to the question, "What have I learned from this campaign season?" Since then, the committee has been huddled in the conference room compiling the list and playing a lot of foosball. Their decisions will remain secret until next week, at which time we’ll announce the winners.
Unless of course one of the committee members opens their yap and leaks the results ahead of schedule. That would be unfortunate. There’s a no-leak policy here at the PWB, it’s enshrined in our employee handbook on page 7 in the section titled "Keep Your Piehole Shut."
In summary, if any staff or interns are unable to keep confidential information confidential, they shall be terminated. I also included a multi-panel drawing showing an employee being told a secret, then revealing the secret, then being escorted out of the office. Diagrams are always helpful in employee handbooks.
I mention this because just this past week we’ve been reminded how difficult it seems to be for some people to shut up. And refreshingly, this isn’t a Democratic or Republican thing, this is across the board. For some reason, usually because they’re complete tools looking to show how clever or important they are, many people can’t help talking out of turn.
This is why, when confronted by a rabid conspiracy theorist convinced that there is an evil cabal somewhere pulling the strings and screwing us all, I stare at them slack jawed while my thought balloon asks "Are you really that stupid?" Somebody in that cabal, whether at the top or the bottom of the cabal ladder, would eventually leak to the press.
The other day President Bush and the First Lady hosted President Elect Obama and his family at the White House. While the First Lady and soon to be First Lady successfully managed to keep their discussions private, we quickly learned from "anonymous sources" that Bush and Obama reportedly talked about striking a tit-for-tat deal on economic issues.
This is a classic example where grownups, you would’ve thought, would be disciplined enough to keep a lid on what was discussed in supposedly private discussions between two of the most powerful folks on the planet. How difficult is this concept?
It appears that the leak came from an Obama staffer, undoubtedly one currently consumed with their self importance and access. If the Obama transition team needs some help with the wording, I’d be happy to provide you with section 7 from the PWB employee handbook.
Also during the same week, the New York Times ran a front page article based on classified information provided from "anonymous sources" within the military and/or government. The story highlighted a heretofore secret executive order (exord) signed back in 2004 that gave authority for counterterrorist operations in certain countries in pursuit of AL Qaeda.
Basically, in carefully selected circumstances where operational intelligence warrants the risk, the exord allows US personnel to cross into listed countries to carry out operations against defined terrorist targets. I believe the codename for the exord is “Basic Common Sense”.
The New York Times managed to gather information on this exord from individuals, either currently active or retired, incapable of keeping their respective pieholes shut. Perhaps the sources disagree with the order and feel it their solemn duty to talk to a reporter. Maybe someone was upset over how the exord was managed or interpreted. It could be that one or more of the sources talked because they are starved for attention or recognition.
What they do have in common is an apparent inability to understand the concept of classified information and a disregard for whatever oath of office they took upon entering government or the military. Got a bone to pick? Go to the press, leak a little. Who cares if it’s classified… aren’t we all better off in a completely transparent society? What a load of crap.
If your job is to work with classified information… if you’ve been trusted with that authority and responsibility, then do your job and keep your mouth shut. If you want to talk to the press for whatever reason, man up, quit your job and go on the record. You’ll still be breaking your oath, but at least the rest of us could enjoy watching you deal with the consequences.
As always, we look forward to your comments, thoughts and insight. Send your e-mails to peoplesweeklybrief@hotmail.com.
Mike Baker served for more than 15 years as a covert field operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, specializing in counterterrorism, counternarcotics and counterinsurgency operations around the globe. Since leaving government service, he has been a principal in building and running several companies in the private intelligence, security and risk management sector, including most recently Prescience LLC, a global intelligence and strategy firm. He appears frequently in the media as an expert on such issues. Baker is also a partner in Classified Trash, a film and television production company. Baker serves as a script consultant, writer and technical adviser within the entertainment industry, lending his expertise to such programs as the BBC's popular spy series "Spooks," as well as major motion pictures.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,451004,00.html
ROFL!!! Yes she is all THAT..about her being intelligent, wearing fur and being blonde - who gives a
rat's tattered patoot. That woman is sick; I'm beginning to think that she and that Bachmann person are related..
I hope you are wearing a hat lined with tin foil
so the rays do not penetrate your brain. I'm convinced that people who can sit through one of his speeches have already been 'assimilated.' (Oh, and remember to blink occasionally too.)
And what is wrong with wearing sleeveless tops? nm
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Veteran arrested at VA hospital for wearing peace T-shirt.sm
Busted for wearing a peace T-shirt; has this country gone completely insane?
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/printer_956.shtml
Here's to your hubby
challenges that lay ahead in reaching our destination and restoring the greatness of our nation, block by block, brick by brick. Cannot think of a better path to take than one of "community enrichment." Good luck to him and I'll just bet he will rise to the challenge and be the one who grasps the brass ring. Please keep us posted.
hubby always had his sm
in fixed funds. People over the years made fun of him. Now is the one laughing. He has more in his retirement than any of them after the crash. Doesn't pay to make fun of others.
Hubby says (and I believe him) that
he saw this coming. That a friend of ours who hoarded his money all these years will be going to the grocery store with a wheelbarrow full of cash just to buy a loaf of bread.
He also said that his father told him back in the late 50s that there would be a depression like you never saw, bigger than ཙ and worse. I'm beginning to believe it.
I'm starting to wonder about those 2. LOL
My hubby and I feel that
we shouldn't just be handing money out to these banks to bail them out for their misdeeds and we shouldn't be bailing out people who were financially irresponsible. I truly don't know what the answer is here, but how is it fair to bail out crooks on wall street and/or people who have overextended themselves? The people we should be helping are the ones who were responsible with their money and finanaces and are now suffering because of crooks and low lifes who weren't responsible. Those are the ones who deserve help. The other ones made their beds. Let them lie in it.
Your hubby is one of the lucky ones
My father didn't get his and neither did I.
Hubby and I both lost $5K. Not much
if it would have been 6-digits, but it wasn't. We moved our money to the Money Market IRAs. That stopped the fall, and I've been hoping to get back into something soon, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.
We knew we didn't have enough to retire on, but were hoping it would be higher than it is now. Mine was doing great until November. His was really a flat line and I was planning on rolling his over to the company I am with last September.
Some people are destined to make money, others are destined to work their butts off to survive. I know friends that....everything they touch, turns into money, while we work twice as hard and everything we touch, turns to dust. Oh, well. That's the breaks.
If her hubby worked an outside job
or paid into the system, she could collect half of his SS.
Hubby and I heard different versions (sm)
Each household should get $275,000 to pay their mortgages, save, buy what they need, pay off credit cards, save, etc., but ONLY those who are really in need.
I heard each adult would get $297,500 and $127,000 would go straight back to the treasury (taxes), and the rest for mortgages, credit cards, cars, homes, etc., etc., etc. It would get the economy going, get everyone out of debt (maybe), get the car companies working again, the banks working again, etc. etc. The difference between this one and the above one is that a 2-person household would get $595,000.
Both the above plans would only cost between $37 million to $50 million, instead of $700 billion.
Now, I don't know about the rest of you, but I could go for that. Hubby doesn't want that much, says he doesn't need it (ha!) but we have hardly any retirement so it would really come in handy. Plus we have been living in a basement because we couldn't afford to finish building our house. I think he forgot about the house.In reality, I'd be happy with $100,000.
In reality, why hasn't anyone brought these plans up to the powers that be?????? Could it be because we're only the little guy?
Hubby's father told him we would
see a depression in our lifetime that would be 10 times worse than the great depression. This was back in the ླྀs. My husband always hung on to that statement and believes this is it. It's coming and there is nothing that will stop it. That's why we have been buying extra canned and dried goods when possible. We always made sausage and smoked a lot of pork but of course, we can't have animals here because of zoning, so we buy from a local farmer.
I know how to make bread and butter and have plenty of flour stored, but butter is going to be another issue since we don't have a cow and the last dairy farmer went out of business 10 years ago.
That's what I said to my hubby When Bush and Cheney..
...decided that we should go to war in Iraq, even when AL Qaeda was in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Decided that there were WMDs in Iraq, despite being told by an impartial panel (United Nations) that there were no such things.
We knew right then and there that this country was in deep trouble. We had an arrogant excuse of a president, who was bound and determined to follow his own agenda (or daddy's)no matter what the American people wanted.
I know how you feel, but this problem is NOTHING compared to the mess that the last administration left us in!
in the same boat! If hubby loses sm
job we are in a world of hurt. Have no bills but house and utilities, ins etc, no car payment but he has to have his job.
I have family and friends all over the place retired from the big 3 auto companies and are all worried about their pensions. Am originally from Michigan and it has kind of turned into a ghost town up there. Very sad. Never thought I would see the day when the auto companies would be in so much trouble. The auto companies have put a lot of food on a lot of folks table!
Moved hubby's 6 weeks ago. Mine only last week. (nm)
More Congressional Corruption - Feinstein Funnels $$ to Hubby
Paste the link into your browser or click the link at the bottom of this post:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/21/senate-husbands-firm-cashes-in-on-crisis/
An IQ of 135 is nothing special? I bet you never took
an IQ test and if you did, your score is probably judging on the substance of your posts, I would guess below 90.
Average is 90.
Special rights
I don't believe any group of people should have special rights, but I certainly believe they should have equal rights. I do believe homosexuals should be allowed to marry, be entitled to family health insurance coverage, etc. I am not sure what special rights homosexuals are looking for, other than fair treatment. If we continue to look at them as sinners, which I cannot believe God created a whole group of people and they are all sinners because they are homosexual, they will always be thought of as outcasts, as other races were (and still are) treated in this country.
Hopefully your children will never have to make the abortion decision, but I have learned to never say never. My best friend is the daughter of an Assembly of God minister, and she had an abortion at age 16. She has never told her parents to this day (24 years later).
Thanks, TLD. That is a very special video. (nm)
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Well aren't you just special then.
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We do think it is special. Everyone has access to...sm
affordable healthcare. We have one of the highest minimum wage rates, quite exceptional since we are a very rural state, and great support taxwise for small business. Please don't come here, you would not fit in.
You obviously have no idea just how special she is...(sm)
Whether you agree with her views or not, M is one of those people who deserve respect. From what I know of her, she is well-written, intelligent, can express her views logically, and has no problem with providing documentation/proof for any discussion. Pay attention, you may learn something from her posts.
And special rights for
the sexually confused.
It's 4 hours 15 minutes, an HBO special...sm
Yeah Spike Lee put it together.
You have to have special license from the state....
and it is done specifically to reduce the predator population where moose and caribou populations are in danger from too many predators in the area. It is not done for sport. It is done all over our western United States to reduce predator populations.
People don't want oil drilling to disturb the caribou, but don't mind large wolf populations taking them out? As far as hard to watch videos, have you ever seen a wolf pack attack a carbiou and devour it while it is still kicking? Not pretty.
This aerial hunting practice has been used for years, and while I would not engage in it, sometimes it is necessary to control predator populations. Environmentalists sometimes make a mistake in going overboard to protect predators, then when other species are endangered by the overpopulation, things like this become necessary.
Special about Obama's Neighbors on now
Hannity's America, FNC. It's on now, but will be repeated at 11PM (CST, I think).
Flame all you want, but can you refute it? Seriously?
I saw (but didn't read) a post in passing about Alaska and its meth labs. Shoot, I grew up in Nebraska, and back in the 70s it was totally out of control. Rural areas seem to be magnets for them, regardless of who's in office, so in my opinion neither party who is in control at this time or another can't and won't stop it. It's sad, but true.
HBO Special Hacking Democracy sm
Here is the link to the trailer for the HBO Special Hacking Democracy. There are also links up there to the whole thing (9 parts).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8O43LxV_Xw
Gosh: Hukabee had a special on TV
I'm sorry I missed it because I as out when his program was on. I saw the tail end. I'm sure it was interesting. If anyone knows of a link or something I can go to to see his whole program, please post a link. I'd really like to see what it was all about.
There's a special on PBS tonight about Lincoln
The author stated Lincoln suspended the right of habeus corpus and the constitution to justify his causes....so maybe this is why O is following along those lines.
Hope it's not on late. I can't stay awake past 8:30 anymore.
Who would Jesus Whack. Oh that's charming, just really special. nm
Yes! It's not the rich & special treatment that bothers me.
He made tougher laws for drug crimes. The rich will alwys get better treatment. Paris Hilton's special treatment doesn't scare me. She isn't putting people in jail for her same offense.
How many of you would leave your 4-month-old special-needs baby to run for VP? nm
Inciting hatred is SP's special mission.
this endeavor. The more she does it, the lower those number falls. McCain is back in double-digit deficit territory again.
So I guess your okay with insulting special needs people
by calling Bush "retarded". Have you addressed the people on the other side to ask them to stop calling Bush retarded because of the lack of compassion for the people who really are special needs. My best friends brother was born with mental retardation (yes I know they use another word nowadays) but he gets offended when he hears people calling Bush retarded. But I guess your okay with that. Only on your side do you want it stopped.
You said it alright, there is ignorance in some posters.
I am not offended by any of it. You want to call Bush retarded fine (sure he's one fry short of a happy meal), you want to call people kool-aid drinkers that's fine too because they are. But you don't see me up here asking people to please stop and be nice to only one specific side.
The Jonestown tragedy (and yes it was a tragedy, just like Waco and Heavens gate and all these other cults), and I have great compassion. But that happened in 1978 - 30 years ago. Would be nice if you could use some other excuse to not want to hear people being told they are drinking the kool-aid.
By the way "drinking the kool-aid is not just specific to Jonestown. The saying "Do not drink the kool-aid" does, but the phrase "Having drunk the kool-aid" or "kool-aid drinkers" also means being a strong believer in a particular philosophy or mission - wholeheartedly or blindly believing in its virtues.
From Wikipedia - The expression also refers to the activities of the Merry Pranksters, a group of people associated with novelist Ken Kesey who, in the early 1960s, traveled around the United States and held events called "Acid Tests", where LSD-laced Kool-Aid was passed out to the public (LSD was legal in the U.S. until 1966). Those who drank the "Kool-Aid" passed the "Acid Test". "Drinking the Kool-Aid" in that context meant accepting the LSD drug culture, and the Pranksters' "turned on" point of view. These events were described in Tom Wolfe's 1968 classic "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test". However the expression is never used figuratively in the book, but only literally.
I do have to laugh at your last paragraph because you must realize that I too find myself "fortunate not to come into personal contact with people such as yourself" (whatever that means), but if it means you don't want to know me personally then I'd just say I feel the same way.
Compassion goes both ways.
My last suggestion then if you want to continue coming would be just to skip over the posts you don't like. I do that a lot and it saves on the frustrations. There are people of all cultures that come to this board and speak their minds (on both sides). Both sides insult the others and that's just the way life goes.
What about special rights for the 'morally confused?'
Talk about special privileges.
Thanks. Was going to mention there's a special "monitor" board for reports.
Hope it works!!
special assistant to reagan sees the picture clearly
Federal Failure in New Orleans
by Doug Bandow
_Doug Bandow_ (http://www.cato.org/people/bandow.html) , a former special
assistant to president Ronald Reagan
Is George W. Bush a serious person? It's not a question to ask lightly of a
decent man who holds the US presidency, an office worthy of respect. But it
must be asked.
No one anticipated the breach of the levees due to Hurricane Katrina, he
said, after being criticised for his administration's dilatory response to the
suffering in the city of New Orleans. A day later he told his director of
the Federal Emergency Management Administration, Michael Brown: Brownie,
you're doing a heck of a job.
Is Bush a serious person?
The most important duty at the moment obviously is to respond to the human
calamity, not engage in endless recriminations. But it is not clear that this
President and this administration are capable of doing what is necessary.
They must not be allowed to avoid responsibility for the catastrophe that has
occurred on their watch.
Take the President's remarkable assessment of his Government's performance.
As Katrina advanced on the Gulf coast, private analysts and government
officials warned about possible destruction of the levees and damage to the pumps.
A year ago, with Hurricane Ivan on the move - before veering away from the
Big Easy - city officials warned that thousands could die if the levees gave
way.
Afterwards the Natural Hazards Centre noted that a direct strike would have
caused the levees between the lake and city to overtop and fill the city
'bowl' with water. In 2001, Bush's FEMA cited a hurricane hit on New Orleans as
one of the three top possible disasters facing the US. No wonder that the
New Orleans Times-Picayune, its presses under water, editorialised: No one can
say they didn't see it coming.
Similarly, consider the President's belief that his appointee, Brown, has
been doing a great job. Brown declared on Thursday - the fourth day of flooding
in New Orleans - that the federal Government did not even know about the
convention centre people until today. Apparently people around the world knew
more than Brown. Does the head of FEMA not watch television, read a
newspaper, talk to an aide, check a website, or have any contact with anyone in the
real world? Which resident of New Orleans or Biloxi believes that Brown is
doing a heck of a job? Which person, in the US or elsewhere, watching the
horror on TV, is impressed with the administration's performance?
Indeed, in the midst of the firestorm of criticism, including by members of
his own party, the President allowed that the results are not acceptable.
But no one has been held accountable for anything. The administration set this
pattern long ago: it is constantly surprised and never accountable.
The point is not that Bush is to blame for everything. The Kyoto accord has
nothing to do with Katrina: Kyoto would have a negligible impact on global
temperatures even if the Europeans complied with it.
Nor have hurricanes become stronger and more frequent in recent decades.
Whether extra funding for the Army Corps of Engineers would have preserved the
levees is hardly certain and impossible to prove. Nor can the city and state
escape responsibility for inaction if they believed the system to be unsafe.
Excessive deployment of National Guard units in the administration's
unnecessary Iraq war limited the flexibility of the hardest-hit states and imposed
an extra burden on guard members who've recently returned from serving
overseas. But sufficient numbers of troops remained available elsewhere across the
US.
The real question is: Why did Washington take so long to mobilise them? The
administration underestimated the problem, failed to plan for the predictable
aftermath and refused to accept responsibility for its actions. Just as when
the President took the US and many of its allies into the Iraq war based on
false and distorted intelligence. Then the administration failed to prepare
for violent resistance in Iraq. The Pentagon did not provide American soldiers
with adequate quantities of body armour, armoured vehicles and other
equipment.
Contrary to administration expectations, new terrorist affiliates sprang up,
new terrorist recruits flooded Iraq and new terrorist attacks were launched
across the world, including against several friends of the US. In none of
these cases has anyone taken responsibility for anything.
Now Hurricane Katrina surprised a woefully ill-prepared administration.
President Bush and his officials failed in their most basic responsibility: to
maintain the peaceful social framework within which Americans normally live and
work together.
Bush initially responded to 9/11 with personal empathy and political
sensitivity. But his failures now overwhelm his successes. The administration's
continuing lack of accountability leaves it ill-equipped to meet equally serious
future challenges sure to face the US and the rest of the world.
This article originally appeared in the Australian on Sept. 5, 2005
Not worried. O's request for a special prosecutor to investigate
DOJ regarding the pub party's umpteenth chapter in dogging this group will undoubtedly uncover both sides to this story...can you say voter suppression? How about election results challenges ala 2000 and 2004? Third time isn't always the charm.
Texas supreme court affirms special rights for religion
The Texas state supreme court ruled unanimously on Friday that a town which had altered its zoning to ban two church-sponsored halfway houses in a residential neighborhood was in violation of the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
That act, which was passed in 1999 and endorsed by then-Governor George W. Bush, affords greater legal protection to religious operations than to equivalent secular operations.
Under its provisions, cities have to prove that zoning regulations — like the one passed by the town of Sinton to ban jails and rehabs within 1000 feet of a home, school, or church — further a “compelling” interest, such as protecting public safety, and do not place a “substantial burden” on the free exercise of religion.
Town officials asserted that the zoning regulations placed no restrictions on worship or the practice of religion and were merely intended to protect the safety of residents. This position was upheld at the local and appeals court levels.
However, the all-Republican and generally conservative state supreme court agreed with Pastor Richard Barr’s claim that because the town of Sinton is so small, the regulation had the effect of excluding him from operating his “ministry” for parolees anywhere.
Barr’s case was argued by the conservative Liberty Legal Institute (LLI) and was also supported by the American Center for Law and Justice — founded by Pat Robertson — and by the ACLU.
LLI was involved several years ago in a widely-noted case against a Texas school district which its litigation director, Hiram Sasser, claimed had demonstrated “pervasive religious hostility” by banning the distribution at Christmas time of candy canes with a religious message.
According to Sasser, today’s decision “means that in zoning cases you have to give churches special treatment. … You have to have very special reasons for telling a church you can’t locate here and locate there. That’s going to be a touch burden for cities.”
“This is a home run,” Sasser proclaimed. ‘I think it will be a model for other states.”
McCain made tougher laws for drug crimes. It's not just rich and special treatment he is putting
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I only lost $1000 so far-Hubby lost $2000 in a week (sm)
so, I called his financial advisor yesterday and told him to put hubby in a "safe" plan. It's now in a money market fund that is part of his IRA.
I have no choice. I have to stay where I am. I have no "safe" available. Neither of us will be able to retire on what is now in our 401Ks and you're not the only one. We couldn't buy a car with Both our 401Ks, let alone live on it.
We are late starters for retirement not until our late 40s funds (most of our employers did not offer pensions). We are now of the first retirement tier and although we own our home outright, if we live until we are 90, there is no way we can live off retirement 401Ks or SS.
My husband's father told him back in the 50s that we would experience something like what is happening today and stated it would be worse than the ཙ crash. It is sure starting to look that way, but we will survive some way, I hope.
We need to pray for the people on SS now that cannot survive. I, for one, would love to help them, but can't help ourselves at this moment.
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