Shirley Smith

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Misers

Thief: Don't make a move, this is a stick-up!

Jack Benny: What?

Thief: You heard me.

Benny: Mister . . . Mister, put down that gun.

Thief: Shut up . . . Now, come on . . . your money or your life.

(Long pause) Look bud, I said: Your money or your life.

Benny: I'm thinking . . . "The Jack Benny Show," NBC-Radio, 1948

Divide and conquer. Isn't that what the plantation owners did at sometime during the 1600s when they became worried that the thousands of Indian, white and black slaves might band together and take over the plantations? So, they devised ways to get the slaves to hate or despise one another. Separate the masses? Well, the Republican Party has being doing so since Nixon. Pitting American citizens against their fellow Americans.

People should be responsible for their own behavior and judged accordingly. Not because of the color of their skin. Not because of their sexuality. Not because of where they are from, but because of who they are or their own actions . . . and that leaves us with those who voted against gay marriage in Maine. Those people voted against the happiness and well being of people that they don't even know or could never understand because of their narrow minded approach to people who are different from themselves. 

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Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with grade to reason . . .

Robert Frost, Reluctance, 1913
 
 
From reason to what's reasonable. A wide gap for this country's citizens to cross. People are hurting and wondering why, when in MSM they read that the U.S. crisis is over. Wouldn't it be reasonable for all of us citizens to hear the truth and then try to deal with it? Or, do we have to wait until we see people in long lines for jobs and food and people living in cars or more and more just out on the street, all the while, our Congress discusses reasons and what is reasonable.

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Government is more than the sum of all the interests, it is the paramount interest, the public interest. It must be the efficient, effective agent of a responsible citizenry, not the shelter of the incompetent and the corrupt."
Adlai Stevenson, Speech, Bloomington, IL, 1948.
 
The above written by a genius, yes, and a great reminder of what true leadership is all about, but today, all we hear are attacks on the Obama administration as if President Obama and the Democrats are responsible for the past eight years of the criminal Bush/Cheney/Rove GOP regime. Well, many Democrats in Congress did not speak up, especially, the leadership, and just let things slide real friendly like, which is why the Bush GOP wants to blame them for what they (Bush GOP) did for eight years . . . they are so confident, because they, so far, do not fear accountability and they think whatever they say and do can be achieved. And, why should they feel differently, when they were able to get this country to illegally invade and occupy another country, when they were able to get away with outing a CIA agent who tracked terrorists? When they were able to get away with election fraud, twice? When they got away with a war against the world and a legislative war against American citizens, who did not support their greed?

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"If thought corrupts language, language also corrupts thought." -- George Orwell
 
It's the corruption of thought through language from our government for the past eight years that has caused a large number of American citizens to become paranoid and fearful. Those actions and the language were used against us Americans for eight years, whether it was through legislature or through something as simple as just trying to travel. The Bush GOP's use of terrorism, paranoia, and fear was out there every day in order to control our thoughts and our behavior. And, our Congress allowed this, knowing it was all fake. Remember the stupid color-coded system announced every day or the duct tape protection? Stupidity ruled this country and most of our members of Congress went along with this. Our multimillionaire, well educated, members of Congress, I might add.

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On AOL this morning. Just in case you all haven't seen this. And, these idiots actually were in government, which the buying and selling of U.S. govt by Bush GOP bozos has to stop. It has always galled me that people stick up their noses at prostitutes and yet, those women wouldn't be doing what they do, if the men didn't go after them and give them the job, sorta speak. What creeps. Larry Flynt was right, you know. Dems, it's all about money and the Bush GOP, it's all about sex. I guess these guys should give out "secret" awards to those businesses they frequent.

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A philosophy that describes the loyal Bush GOP . . .

Weakness . . . The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak. J.B. Bossuet, Politics from Holy Writ. 1709

And, in some deranged form of ideas, Bush and his followers thought fighting was a sign of strength. Sitting behind a desk and starting wars does not make the man or a good leader. We have the debt, death, and destruction to prove it.
 
The 20th century protection racket is still in top form . . . during the past few months, we Americans have seen that the infamous protection racket is still up and running. Insurance companies seem sure that they will make out in the healthcare debates. What happened to the healthcare bill that was supposed to be dedicated to Senator Kennedy? Eh? A government that can't take care of its citizens is no democracy.

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What does life look like when standing on a pedestal looking down at the masses and thinking that "There won't be enough left if we share?" And, having the power to forget the masses and just take their share.
 
When we Americans think we've seen it all . . . people willing to support this nation into an illegal invasion/occupation, crimes without any fear of stopping, and they continue, we can see through the actions of our own government that the brutal ideas that started with the annihilation of our indigenous people are not dead, but very much alive, even after a Civil War among the people of this nation, the hatred, the stupidity, the bigotry, the criminal hearts keep beating generation after generation. Does anyone understand why?
 
There's never any accountability for the actions of the elite and leadership of U.S. government. Their influence was what we saw during the media TV shots of the tea parties and the neocon mugging of the town hall meetings. So, we have a flag that people can go to jail for if they burn that flag, but no one ever thinks that debt, death, and destruction and complete disrespect for the common worker of this country, for U.S. military, for our friends and neighbors around the world, and for our immigrants, who come here, so they don't starve . . . that these insults to our flag and to those who died for this country, they amount to much more than the burning of any U.S. flag in protest. Much, much more. And, out own government puts up with it.

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"Yes," I answered you last night;
"No," this morning, sir, I say:
Colors seen by candlelight
Will not look the same by day.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "The Lady's 'Yes,' " 1844.
 
Sometimes it's not so easy writing a column that might make sense when all I can think of are four letter words to describe what I'm feeling. I thought eight years of the Bush GOP neocon regime would finally make me burst a blood vessel before it was over, and when we had the great organization across the country put together by Governor Dean, all things suddenly seemed possible . . . that we could finally get this crime family out of U.S. government once and for all, and into the narrow halls of justice using U.S. law . . . at last. It's been since Nixon that us Americans have had to live with the crimes of debt, death, and destruction caused by our own government officials. The destruction of hundreds of thousands of fellow human beings' lives. It would seem that every democratically thinking American, especially those in government working for the people, would want to finally clean up U.S. government's acts of incivility towards this country and the world.
 
However, Clinton didn't do it. He brought us NAFTA instead, and what did the Bush GOP neocons do, they impeached him for a dalliance. They couldn't care less about doing their job and working for the people. As it's been quoted by Bush number one, (paraphrasing) that he thinks he was the father that Clinton never had. Well, how does it feel to have a father who should have been investigated and prosecuted for crimes during his reign of terror known as the Iran/Contra affair. Great family values.

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In deep sorrow, I weep for such a loss as the death of Senator Edward Kennedy. Like many Americans, I didn't know him personally, but I didn't have to, to understand that he cared about every person who lived in this country. We could see it clearly in his years of work, and especially in his book that came out in 2006, "America Back on Track."
 
He talks about "the seven challenges." 1) Reclaiming our Constitutional Democracy; 2) Protecting our national security; 3) Participating fully in a shrinking world; 4) Creating an economy that works for all; 5) Guaranteeing healthcare for every American; 6) Continuing the march of progress toward equal opportunity for all; 7) Uniting our nation and restoring our basic values. All of those same problems, I hate to say, that we are still facing today.

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The hippopotamus is one of the most aggressive creatures in the world and is often regarded as the most ferocious animal in Africa.
 
Hippopotamus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
With all of this talk against healthcare for American citizens by the neoconservatives in Congress . . . I've noticed something very obvious in MSM's reporting lately. We all have seen the numbers. Seventy-five percent of us Americans want good healthcare. Personally, after seeing Sicko by Michael Moore, I want what Canada has or the French have or the kind of caring healthcare that Great Britain has for its citizens and/or copies of the healthcare that many other countries around the world provide for their people. And, what do people do when they want to copy successful programs? They talk to those people. But, we haven't seen any of that, have we?
 
With the type of coverage by this country's MSM, all of the reports that we Americans see in the media are all about the Bush GOP support group of 25%, all of the time. A group, who, through whatever rose colored glasses they see with when viewing this Bush GOP today, are against their own good health care, their families' good healthcare, their neighbors' good health care . . . who is going to take care of them when this nation, a nation that has over 50 million people without healthcare at all, comes down with some national tragedy. No one should die because they cannot go to a clinic or a doctor.

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