When Did The System Failed?

By now everyone knows about the Christmas bomber.
But what is not known by many is that two of the Masterminds behind planning that Christmas attack were released from Grantanimo Prison in 2007 by Bush and Cheney.
Since those two detanees released in 2007 are really terrorists, then how many more of the released detanees in 2007 by Bush and Cheney are actually terrorists as well.

I remember Bush and Cheney telling us on TV in 2007 that the Detanees they were releasing were Not Terrorists. But their statement was proven a lie this Christmas.

By now everyone has probably heard Cheney's comments against Obama's handling of the Christmas attack.
But what is not known by many is that the Republican Senators have held up the appointment for the Head TSA for almost a year, leaving the White House without eyes and ears in that Security office.
The Republican Senators must know that without an appointed Head of TSA to communicate with the President that the White House would be in the dark.
Could the Republican Senators have done that on purpose, knowing that they were putting the lives of Americans in danger?
Did the Republican Senators hoped that an attack like the Christmas one would happen to sway public opinion for the upcomming elections for the Senate Seats in washington.
Are the Republicans playing Russian Roulette with American Civilian lives to sway voters against the Democrats by delaying the seat of the Head of TSA to be filled for almost a year?
Just how low will the Republican Party go?
So I ask you this question:
Did the system fail now because of incompetance at the White House?
Did the system fail because the Position for the Head of TSA has been left vacant because Republican Senators have been holding up the appointment for almost a year?
Or did the system fail back in 2007 when Bush and Cheney released the 2 masterminds al Qaeda Guatanimo Detanees who are responsible for planning the attack this Christmas?

As The Political World Turns

Nine months into the new presidency, a lot has changed. Yet the attitudes and push for what does not make sense remains the same.

In a television political commercial a woman claims that in these hard times moms are struggling to feed their families. The young actress hired to play a mom in that commercial also states that she is opposed to the tax on SODA, because as she puts it - that tax on soda will make it hard for her to feed her family.
I am a housewife, a mother, and a grandmother. I may not be a career actress getting paid good money to appear in commercials, but even I know that *SODA is a carbohydrate and that carbohydrates turn into pure sugar in the human body. And that one 12oz can of SODA is equivalent to one full cup and a half of sugar.
Why would a mom want to feed her children that?

Just wandering.

Los Angeles County Drivers

I have a hard time understanding the drivers in California, especially in Los Angeles County, California. It seems that the average driver in the Antelope Valley of Los Angeles County in California only obeys the Rules of the Road they agree with.

You see, I now live in Palmdale, California. A pleasant stretched out land of a desert type city where the Business districts and Residential districts or neighborhoods are clearly mapped out in the design of the city.

My street is a cuddle sack with a home at the end of the cuddle sack, yet on occasion I have witnessed a driver or two, who do not live on our street, turning into our street at high speed. But to get to our street there is two other small streets that are surrounded by homes. This is a residential neighborhood after all. And I have witness quite a few of drivers speeding up while children from school begin to cross one of those small residential streets. This is very frightening but also illegal.

Yep, according to the California DMV booklet for the Business or residence districts, Which does include neighborhoods, The speed limit is 25 mph, unless otherwise posted. Well there is no otherwise posted sign down my street.

So why are people in Palmdale's eastside in the Antelope Valley of Los Angeles County in the State of California Driving 40 to 50 mph down the neighborhood streets? And why have none of those drivers ever been issued a speeding ticket?

I have also witness this strange behavior of the California drivers in the Antelope Valley here in Palmdale driving that fast down other neighborhood streets as I walk to the stores. I can not even begin to tell you the number of times I have witness drivers trying to race a mother pushing a stroller crossing the street. It just boggles my mind how these drivers were able to be issued a drivers license in the first place.

Even in the Business corner of the Shopping centers drivers are driving a lot more than 25 mph. The speed limit signs giving the speed limit are away from those locations, so why doesn't the California driver obey the law of 25 mph in the business districts as well?

Maybe if Governor Arnold 'I'll be back' governor wanted to really make some money he would insist that the traffic cops plant themselves at these locations and right out those tickets so the State of California can make some money. I bet if everyone violating that law of 25 mph were given a ticket in the Los Angeles County alone, it would fix California's economic crises.

And The Beat-Goes-On!

I took a much needed break during the Holliday Season.

There is so much in the news with:
Hamas and the Israeli fighting in Gaza.
Russia turning the switch off on the gas for heating throughout Europe during a bitter cold winter.
A Power Plant in Tennessee releasing Toxic-Sludge, causing a Harmful Toxic mess. Pennsylvania Security guards sleeping on the job at a Nuclear Plant.
The truth about the Economic mess which will be inherited by the new Obama Administration when it takes over after the Inauguration swaring in ceremony on January 20 2009.
Another report being released about the most current job loss being higher than last reported.
The year end report of the jobs loss, the unemployment rate average for the year, and the average of those who just dropped out of the system (unable to get a job yet no longer qualifying for unemployment)
And the Beat-Goes-On!