Posts Tagged ‘Political Opinion’

It seems that just by incorporating those words as a post title, I’m ensured a vast number of hits to my blog because so many depraved people do a Google search on that term. At least that’s what the article on Zdiaz says.

Zigfred’s article, titled "Pinay Scandal", takes it one step further pointing out where the REAL scandal lies — directly in the laps of those who seek to exploit the women and CHILDREN used on pornographic sites and in videos. I know how sickened I was by the ads being passed out in the form of baseball cards in Las Vegas for women to come to your hotel room and "perform"; reading this article, I’m even more sickened by just how low some people are. The numbers are shocking.

Poverty is a condition that takes your pride away. When you see your family dying of starvation, when there are no jobs and no way to earn money other than through crime, it creates a ripened field for the harvesters of the desperate to reap. Filipino pride may be rampant, but it’s only by changing human attitudes and human values that this exploitation of humans — specifically women and children can come to an end. Read Zigfred’s full article to find out what’s being done and by whom.

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Ok already, I’ve had enough with the sub-prime mortgage whining already. We’ve now had 4 months of the “poor me” crap and it’s time to suck it up and move on! You get to the point where all this moaning and groaning about how it’s going to get worse before it gets better is like the whole country has come down with mesothelioma for crying out loud! Trust me, America, it’s not life threatening, it’s just a common cold! We’ve weathered it before and lived. We’ll weather this one, too.

Yes, it’s been rough and yes, there is probably more to come, but this country is so rich and so deep in talent, smarts, and work ethic that I know we can pull out of it if we put our minds to it.

The more we worry about what HAS happened, the less we are focusing on moving on and digging out. We keep looking to the government to bail us out — the bubble burst people and the smell is rotting garbage — you don’t leave garbage on your front lawn, you remove it and get out the air freshener. Let’s get to work on that now. Once we’ve got clean up in hand, then we can get on with making sure we don’t leave the door open for it to happen again.

President Bush’s economic stimulus package is bull hockey. It’s no more going to make things right than my peeing in the ocean will make a high tide. Don’t be waiting for that hand out to make it all right and happy again.

How did we let this happen? Well, we let a few lazy and greedy folk lure us down a flower strewn path. C’mon — you can’t tell me that you didn’t see it was crazy to borrow more than your house was worth? You can’t tell me that the thought didn’t cross your mind that the bank had lost it’s ever loving mind when they offered to loan you $250,000 on your $180,000 house did you? Fess up now. You let greed and fast talking guys lure you into something you knew in your gut was going to blow up in your face. Suck it up. Pay the piper and let’s get on with life. Ok, so you’re losing your house and what you have invested in it. You took that risk when you signed that paper. I’m sorry for you a little — but only a little. You’re an adult and YOU KNEW BETTER. Now it’s time to act like an adult, take your medicine and start over. It’s hard but you can do it. You did it once and you can do it again.

This is the Home of the Brave, you know.

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Senator Clinton’s main platform seems to revolve around mandatory universal health insurance for all Americans.

Per the Baltimore Sun, “her plan would mandate that everyone obtain health insurance or face penalties, which she has not disclosed. ”

Penalties?? Isn’t this the land of the free? Don’t we have a choice in the matter?

It seems that if Senator Clinton is elected, we’ll lose more of our civil rights, good cause notwithstanding.

In a recent speech given in Parma, Ohio Clinton says “I  think it is morally wrong that in our country health insurance companies get to decide who lives or dies and who gets treated and who doesn’t get treated,” Clinton said. “It is economically disadvantageous for us not to have universal health care. I am the only candidate left in this race on either side who has a plan to achieve universal health care.”

Health Insurance companies don’t decide who lives or dies and who gets treated and who doesn’t. Please get your facts straight.  This is nothing more than inflammatory rhetoric designed to whip the masses into compliance with your message.

The mere term “insurance” implies some kind of pre-payment for services. We insure ourselves against the chance that we will get sick and insurance companies charge premiums based on complicated models that involve the likelihood that you will get sick and they’ll have to pay out those prepayments on your care. That’s how they work, how they make money for their investors. You know that. So, making it mandatory that everyone have insurance, that sort of tells me someone somewhere is going to have to pay that prepayment amount. Hillary, where is this money going to come from? How are you going to pay the hospitals, doctors and nurses? Medicare is already in trouble — why would you want to take a failing process and add to it’s burden?

People make choices every day on whether to seek medical treatment for a disease or condition. Yes, there are some people who don’t have health insurance. Some people don’t have Medicaid or Medicare, and don’t have a way to pay for medical coverage. They must seek free or low cost clinics to get treatment (if they even want it) and it’s the availability or not of those that could use your focus.

Even if you mandate that everyone have insurance, there are STILL going to be some people who don’t want it and won’t get it.

Are you going to throw them in jail?

Too many questions?

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I’m totally sick of the “race” and all the posturing and rhetoric. When I think about what my choices are going to be reduced to for the November Presidential election, I’m discouraged and disheartened. I’ve listened carefully to what each candidate is saying and I’m hearing more and more what they are NOT saying. I along with the rest of the nation want change, but instead of change, we’re going to get White House as usual with a different face in the Oval Office.

Hillary — you say you’ll get health insurance for everyone, but dear, you’ve been a Senator for what, six years now?? Why haven’t you already introduced legislation for this? Were you saving it for your bid for Presidency? What does that speak about your agenda? Doesn’t it show you up as having a personal one that only is “for the people” when it’s also going to benefit Hillary?

John — man, I have nightmares of you with the Joint Chiefs sitting around a conference table in your fancy leather office chairs putting pins in a map to decide on which country to invade next. It’s scary. I missed seeing George W invading Iraq — never thought he would summon up the balls to do it, and I was oh so wrong. I’m terrified of making another mistake like that with you.

Barak — sweetie, you remind me a lot of JFK — great charisma and you could talk Eskimos into eating ice cream in the middle of a blizzard, but where’s the beef man? Where have you already led your people? Hillary is not totally off the mark when she says hopes are insubstantial clouds in the sea of politics. I’ve been living on hope for eight years now — I need more than JUST hope.

Like so many other people, I yearn for the time when we had people running for office who had leadership credentials, solid workable ideas about where to lead our country and morals. I’m afraid we’ve gone over to the dark side and that the force will never be with us again.

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