Decisions of the Past

It was reported on various news that the Fort Hood shooter was a soldier who was promoted to a high ranking officer during the Bush and Cheney years even though Hassan's Army file had reports and warnings in it of his Anti-American and Pro-Terrorism Views.
What ever policies and decisions made regarding Hassan's promotions while ignoring the warnings in his file during the eight years of the Cheney and Bush and the Republican Administration personnel prove to still Reek Havoc on the American People.

Two of the mastermind planners of the failed Christmas jetliner attack were released in 2007 from Guantanamo Prison by Bush and Cheney.
One of those masterminds was in a Rehab for terrorist program at Guantanamo just before he was released in 2007 by Bush and Cheney.
Bush and Cheney statements on National TV that the detainees they were releasing in 2007 were Not terrorists were proven to be a lie this Christmas.
What ever Policies and Decisions made regarding the two mastermind planners of that failed Christmas Jetliner in releasing them from Guantanamo Prison back in 2007 by the Republicans Cheney and Bush and the Republican Administration personnel prove to still Reek Havoc on the American People.

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!

Who is the real Maverick?

An interesting change is already happening in Washington, with the President Elect, Obama, having a productive meeting with John McCain. This is the first time since before the Presidential Campaigning that the two men have sit down to discuss the issues together in a bipartisan way.

In the news article on ABC News website the writer Jake Tapper tells us, The two later released a joint statement, saying, "At this defining moment in history, we believe that Americans of all parties want and need their leaders to come together and change the bad habits of Washington so that we can solve the common and urgent challenges of our time. It is in this spirit that we had a productive conversation today about the need to launch a new era of reform where we take on government waste and bitter partisanship in Washington in order to restore trust in government, and bring back prosperity and opportunity for every hardworking American family."

Yes it looks as if John McCain, who claimed to be the Maverick is out Mavericked by Obama whom McCain called 'That One'.

3 Major Auto Industries Blame Who?

It is Saturday, November 15 2008. A week after the election economic troubles is still brewing for GW Bush's year end. The Final days till January 20, 2008 are still filled with more financial evils with the 3 major American auto industries now threatening to lay off workers if they do not get a bail out. It seems so strange to me that just before the November 4 2008 elections, the American auto industry said nothing of any problems. In fact, they hid their predicament so well. So why did they all of a sudden feel they needed to make the demand? Just what brought that on? Would those 3 American auto makers had made the same threat if the Republicans, McCain and Palin, were elected?

Yet the same old imaginary villain who the 3 American auto makers blame are the Unions. It seems that the same old song of the Republicans and the manufacturing industry is to cry about how the Unions are to blame for the over spending, over extending mistakes of the Companies. Yeah it seems the Old 3 Manufacturers are following suite of the companies of our past of bellowing out that Old Republican refrain from Reagans time of blaming the Unions instead of taking a good look into their own mirrored past that could explain why their present situation has come to pass.

Those 3 auto makers had been sending jobs over seas as they opened new manufacturing plants in other countries where they were building the more economical cars for decades, while they laid off employees, down scaled work and jobs, and closed a few auto plants here in the States. During these last 8 years of GW Bush administration, toward the end of the year, at least one of the auto giants here in the USA has laidoff some of it's workers. But when you add the number of those laid off during these last 8 years, you can begin to realise that the auto makers have caused this negative aspect themselves.

How can Americans buy the goods and services in this country, if the American Businesses keep laying off the American workers in this country while closing up shop in this country? Yep, it still has not occurred to the American Corporations that taking jobs away from the American worker also takes away the buying power of the American middle class worker. The American companies have yet to figure out that by making the American Middle Class Worker unemployed and devaluing the work of the American Middle Class Worker has stripped away 'The Cycle of the Economy'.

When will the companies realise that every time they make Americans unemployed, those same companies which relied on the American consumer, just keep shooting themselves in the foot.