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.

Campaign Lies

Yesterday, November 4th 2008, a Democrat who is a Black man named Barack Obama was elected to be president. Of course he will be sworn in during the inauguration ceremony on January 20, 2009 Inauguration day. But this campaign was unlike any other. There were the lies and innuendo, which we do normally experience. But this time, we actually had a fact check to mark the lies. John McCain, the Republican candidate told quite a few out right lies. Of course my list only has a few of the false, misleading, lies. I only went as far as one month's worth.

John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin called Obama a Socialist. They said over and over again that Obama was going to share their supporters wealth and distribute their income to others. They had a Joe the plumber who they paraded around as proof because Joe the plumber said that Obama's tax plan sounded like Socialism.

Well Fact Check called that misleading (a lie). According to Fact Check During the panel discussion, Obama talked about court rulings and "redistributive change" from a historical legal perspective but there's no indication that he was advocating "redistributing wealth and income" which McCain and Governor Palin lied about. That also means that Joe the Plumber whom McCain and Palin had campaign with them also lied when he said that Obama's tax plan sounded like socialism.

John McCain and Sarah Palin claimed that Obama has Political links to Khalidi whom they claim is a Muslim terrorist.
What was the verdict from Fact Check regarding John McCain's claim against Obama? The verdict was considered misleading (a lie), since John McCain chaired the IRI which funded the CPRS which was co-founded by Khalidi.

And what was the verdict from Fact Check regarding Sarah Palin's claim against Obama? The verdict was considered misleading (a lie), While Khalidi eight years ago hosted a political fund-raiser for Obama, the two men strongly disagree over the Israeli-Palestinian issue and there's no evidence of a continuing political relationship.

John McCain made the statement: "According to the independent Center for Data Analysis, Barack Obama's new policies will destroy nearly 6 million jobs over the next decade."
What was the verdict from Fact Check regarding John McCain's claim against Obama? According to Fact Check the verdict is False (a lie). The study does not say Obama's plan would "destroy" jobs.

John McCain said that Obama and Biden are inconsistent on who will get the tax cuts. According to Fact Check the verdict is False (a lie). What McCain is doing here, in part, is comparing apples and oranges. He compares two different aspects of Obama's tax plan as if they were the same. And Biden never said people making less than $150,000 are the "only" people who would get a tax cut under Obama's policies.

McCain's VP running mate Governor Sarah Palin stated that Obama only served 300 days in the Senate before he became a presidential candidate.
What was the verdict? According to Fact Check that statement was false (a lie). Actually Obama served 743 days in the Senate working. Now 304 of those days he worked while the Senate was in Session. But the Senate works in the Senate even when the Senate is not in Session. So again, according to Fact check Sarah Palin lied.

McCain made said, "Sen. Joe Biden, Obama's VP running mate, had this cockamamie idea about dividing Iraq into three countries."
What was the verdict? According to Fact check it is false (a lie). Biden proposed decentralizing Iraq's government, but not breaking up the country.

Change Is Here

I have witnessed many things in my life time. At 4 years of age in 1957 in Chicago Illinois, I witnessed my father being told that he had to sit in the back of the bus, but because I was white looking the bus driver told my father that I could sit in the front. Even then I had the good sense to grab my father's hand and say, "Daddy, I want to sit with you."

At the age of 12, I remember watching TV at a peaceful civil rights march led by Martin Luther king in Chicago South Side in the 1960's. I watched in horror as white men, their wives, and their children were throwing bottles and bricks at the peaceful marchers as the Police stood on the side lines and did nothing. And as the civil rights marchers were being hit by the bottles and bricks thrown at them, I witness the blood as the marchers fell.

One news reporter captured a Chicago police officer saying, "We don't want their kind here."

Yes, I have witness many things in my day. But I never thought I would ever witness a Black man elected President in my life time. God Bless the United States of America. God Bless Barack Obama. God Bless the Obama family. And God Bless the Biden family.