McCain’s Picks Palin
Ian @ August 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
While the media fumes at McCain’s choice for Vice President, it is a choice that shows just how crafty the old man from Arizona truly is. It is a good move, because it will negate the influence of the press, to a degree, and will help focus the election more on the differences, than on who do you hate the least. It makes a case for change, which is good. Is it a cynical choice, or is it a jab at the old established party politics. It highlights the differences between both candidates, and it could keep the focus on the issues, rather than on attacks based on hate. Is she qualified, well no one truly is qualified for the job of President, but can she lead? Time will tell, as the election gets properly underway, and one thing is certain, John McCain knows how to make his case for change, just as Obama does. So at last, an election that will highlight the choices people have, without it being pre determined by the Big Business or Big Labor. It will force people to think, and that can’t be bad, can it?
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Big Talk, Can He Deliver?
Ian @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
If all you do is listen to the sound bites from the Media, you may not get a clue as to what Barack Obama really said. After listening to the sound bites, to the pundits, and then actually listening to the speech, there was a huge difference. There is no doubt that he gave a good speech, and if watch it, you can see that he believes it, that it wasn’t an attack speech as the pundits and Republicans claim, but a clear defining outline of the differences between Democrats and Republicans. Yes it was firm, but attack? No, not even close, certainly not like Hilary Clinton’s red phone ringing, and some of the latest McCain ads. Watch the whole speech, then you’ll know what I am talking about. It’s worth the time.
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Obama’s Big Night
Ian @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Obama has come out fighting, and it has the Republicans squirming. For the first time, America may actually have an election that might have some decency in it. Though it will depend on whether or not the handlers will allow it to happen. Somehow I don’t think they will, but man it should be fun. Tonight a non white is a candidate for President, and that in itself is historical. How far it can beat back the racism that exists, well, 70 odd days will tell.
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Convention Overload
Ian @ August 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
If you listen to the pundits from the various news agencies, you have to wonder if you were listening to the same speeches, or if somehow the words were changed for our listening, but they got the real speech. How arrogant these political pundits, these news anchors are. To assume THEY know what a candidate or speaker meant, or for that matter, how we should judge the speeches. Then to add insult to it all, they tell us how we should be feeling, and what we should be expecting. Like who in the hell made the media the deciding factor? Sure as hell wasn’t me, and it is sickening to listen to. After all, it isn’t like they report the news, they just tell a good story, based on little fact, just on what will sell advertising.
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Mystery Meat
Ian @ August 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Do Corporate Interests count more than the safety of the individual? I wonder, given how the latest Listeria recalls come late Saturday, and Sunday. It isn’t like they didn’t know beforehand, but the announcement comes Saturday evening? So what, after most people go for their weekend grocery shopping, they tell us what to look for? Course that is assuming we checked the website first, or were lucky enough to hear about it on the radio or news. Not like the media bothers, as they are too busy pushing the hidden agendas of their corporate sponsors, which is what the Government is doing, as well. I don’t get it anymore, have we all lost of morals, our values? When did a companies bottom line become more important than human lives?
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Hilary Fans Not Certain
Ian @ August 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The fans of Hilary Clinton still aren’t sure they’ll support the Obama nomination, which shows you how much of a sore loser they are. It also shows what is wrong with a nation, that can’t accept the victory of one over another, when the victor isn’t white. Poor sportsmanship is at the root of it, nor has Hilary Clinton done much to help smooth it over. She has lost, though I don’t think she has yet accepted her defeat. After all, she was the odds on favorite to take it all, and she expected it. Too bad, she couldn’t manage her campaign any better than she could handle her husband and his affairs, and his blatant racism. Least she has a ton of cash to help ease the pain of losing.
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Biden for Obama, Who for McCain?
Ian @ August 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
They say Mitt Romney is the leading choice for VP in the McCain camp. Like Hilary Clinton was a negative for the Democrats, Romney should be the equivalent in the Republican side. Still, it seems the so called conservatives would like him, but then they would like Hitler too, if he agreed to their hate agenda. Obama in choosing Biden doesn’t signal change, just smart politics, now will McCain signal change, or more of the same old style politics? The kind that brought you George Bush.
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Oil Drops but Does It at the Pump?
Ian @ August 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Oil declines on the market, appreciatively as well, but the price at the pump remains unchanged. Demand is down, supply is up, but the price isn’t going down, which only shows that Government has been bought off. They should be hauling the executives of the Oil Industry before Grand Juries, and charging them with price fixing, price gouging, and anything else they can think of. Of course that wont happen, because then who will fund their pension plans, who will fund their re-election bid to protect the average citizen?
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They Play Cards, He Dies
Ian @ August 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Why have we forgotten the simple golden rule, do onto others as you would have them do unto you. Nurses play cards, ignore the needs of their patients, and one dies. Yet they blame poor working conditions, being overworked, yet they had time to dance, to play cards. Seems today more and more hide behind the title, of being a so called professional, instead of standing up and doing the job they chose. People are hired to look after sick people, they weren’t hired to not feed them, to not check on their health while under their care. That is abuse, plain and simple, but instead of filing charges, they give the facility time to make up a plan to correct the issue? That is so called government oversight? I call it bullshit.
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Mutant Salads
Ian @ August 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Nuke It and hey, no more germs, no more bacteria, no more sickness from eating fresh food. Least that is what the FDA wants people to believe, as it approves the plan to radiate lettuce & spinach. Course meat, mainly hamburger, is already been radiated for years, and look at how well that is working. I mean all those millions of pounds of hamburger recalled for having ecoli, well that is nothing to fret about. Teething pains, but hey, they got it right for lettuce. And no, dont’ worry if that head of lettuce glows in the dark, least you know it won’t kill you, that all those nasty bugs are dead. Okay not all, not even really any, just that they are weakened, and shouldn’t pose a problem. Like that is nice comforting thought, isn’t it? And to think some say the FDA doesn’t care about people.
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Fixations
Ian @ August 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Why should McCain not announce his VP choice on the 29th? Why Obama will choose Clinton according to Nader. Who of the surrogates enhanced their standing, who failed, are todays leading questions, which frankly shows how inane the Media is. How starved they must be for non threatening news items. No word about any specific policy plans for Obama, for McCain, just threats, just bombast, and just plain attacks. That is all the media is presenting, is interested in. They aren’t about to discuss the real issues, and where the two political parties stand. Instead they focus on how party leadership is scrambling for keeping lobbyist money without seeming to keep it. Nice, but that isn’t gonna help those paying high fuel costs, or those who no longer have a job. Nor is it helping those who can’t afford health care. But hey, that would upset the corporate sponsors.
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FDA and Your Safety
Ian @ August 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The FDA wants a stronger warning on the labels for Byetta, a diabetic drug that is widely used for Diabetes treatment. Despite several deaths, and a growing number of serious side effects being developed among users, all the FDA wants is a stronger warning issued with the drug. Like what the heck is that about? Protecting the consumer, or covering the fat asses of the Drug Companies who make the stuff? Seems the FDA is a bit more concerned about their corporate clients, than the people they serve. Why does that not surprise me, anymore?
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Safe Injection Sites
Ian @ August 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Like his hero George Bush, the entire Harper regime knows only how to attack, not debate, not discuss. To them, a drug user is a wasted citizen, not worth their help. The attack by the Health Minister on the ethics of doctors who support safe injection sites shows the mentality of the Harper Government, in its bid to stay in power. Using fear, they attack those whose job it is to provide proper health care, irrespective of politics. These sites aren’t pretty, but they safe lives. They help contain the spread of infectious disease, by insuring needles are clean, not contaminated. They provide a laison with those who can be best served, before the infections get out of hand. It saves not only lives, but money too. Yet instead of embracing it, the Harper Government wastes taxpayer money to try and shut these sites down, because George Bush & his Republican Conservatives oppose helping anyone that isn’t part of the Fortune 500 or some fanatical religious sect. And like a good toady, Harper is quite willing to follow along.
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Will Harper Join Bush?
Ian @ August 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
NATO won’t meet to discuss the Russian invasion of Georgia until next week, Harper & Bush have a telephone tete a tete, and the stock markets are relatively calm. So why does this worry me more than all the bombast that Bush is noted for? How come the financial big shots are so quiet, as are the other nations in Europe, including the European Union?
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Taunting Doesn’t Pay Off
Ian @ August 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
There is a lot to the invasion of Georgia by Russia, that somehow just doesn’t get reported on. Does anyone know what started this shooting war, or have we been left out in the cold, once again? Bush rattles his sabre, but the world knows America can’ do diddly, thanks to Bush’s invasion of Iraq. So now we come to the brink of another possible Cold War Era, simply because one nation, the USA, has no real foreign policy, nor does it have an inkling of just how big of a bully it looks like, to the world. Putting missiles on Russian borders, is not about defence, least in Russian eyes. They said they’d respond, and it looks like they have. This is what happens when you taunt people, eventually they strike back.
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