The Great Giggle – Oh!

Suave, debonair, possessor of commanding presence, threatener of succession from the union he is.  One who says he was hand-picked by God and told by God Himself to run, and his wife agrees with that.  Evidently, God apparently meant to run far away from seeking any higher office, and Rick misunderstood and he now stands more naked in some ways than either Adam or Eve ever were.

New Hampshire found him grinning,

smirking and dancing (alone with his lectern)

happily squirming, like a

tadpole swimming.  Really just a GiggleOh

Suave and debonair,

everywhere he goes

now people know the truth –

that he’s really just a GiggleOh

This grinning and giggling guy

thinks he should have his finger

on America’s nuclear trigger

should another coyote appear on the road.  Oh no Giggle Oh!

And the worst part is he said the next day that he hadn’t been drinking and he hadn’t had a medical injection for any kind of pain.  He said that was the way he sometimes is.  Hmmmmm.  I guess that depends on what the definition of “is” is.  Or was.  


At any rate he has a LOT of money behind him.  That only goes to show how the American government "works", where the guys who want to run the world, but who could not ever be elected to ANYthing, those people like Rove and Yoo and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and others, some even worse than those, have to find a good-looking horse to ride in on the main stage.  Then, if there is money behind all that, from some corporate bosses who want to run the world their way, then it is a done deal.  Especially now that the Supreme Court has ruled that dollars are free speech and corporations are people.   

Gotcha? Ha ha. Not ME!

Herman Cain really is a different breed of political cat.  For example, he proudly told reporter David Brody the other day that he was on the lookout for “Gotcha” questions.  He gave an example “When they ask me who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I’m going to say, ‘You know, I don’t know. Do you know?”  And he continued “knowing who is the head of some of these small insignificant states around the world.”  

Wow.  Surely Cain must know Uzbekistan is pretty significant in today’s world.  It plays a major part in helping supply American troops in Afghanistan and also a number of corporations are very active in that country.  Now you can agree or not with the war in Afghanistan, but surely no one thinks we should just abandon them there.  But?  Well, maybe he just didn’t know.  

At any rate, Herman Cain just “gotcha’d” himself. That’s one way to stay ahead of your competition and leave them scratching their heads.  Well, Cain is not the first candidate to Gotcha himself, he is just the first one I have seen who seems proud of it.


This is the guy who is "not a Washington insider"?  Well, that's what he said.  Of course he WAS a lobbyist.   He lobbied for the National Restaurant Association.   He lobbied hard to get legislators to continue letting their patrons smoke in the restaurants and fought hard against lowering the level of alcohol that determines the status of "DUI".  He also knows the Koch brothers pretty well, and apparently receives a good bit of money from them.  He also incurred a trail of two, three, four? sexual episodes, all paid off now with a pledge of silence obtained in exchange for that money.  Apparently there is a lot more than just some of the world's nations that are small and insignificant.  Ask Herman Cain.

Republican Candidates for . . . ?

 What are these guys campaigning for?  Are they trying to be elected Speaker of the House?  That’s where the tax bills originate.  Surely they know that don’t they?  That’s in the US Constitution.  Article I, Section 7.1 reads “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.”   And, of course I “assume” that both Perry and Cain have asked the permission of Boehner and Cantor and DeMint . . . right?  If either of those two get elected president, and the House of Representatives stays republican and the Senate goes republican too,  will they just do whatever the new president wants them to do?  For the first time in history?  Or do Perry and Cain know – or care – anything about the constitution?  Maybe they are running for Dictator of the United States?

And Cain was talking about an amendment to the constitution.  He said, eloquently I thought, that if the House and Senate and the states of the union passed a constitutional amendment that he liked, he would sign it.  Like maybe if he didn’t sign it, it wouldn’t become a part of the constitution?  Surely he knows that the president doesn’t even get to sign an amendment.  Of course he must?  Doesn’t he?  Ahhhhhh,  but of course!  Dictators would!  

Or maybe, just maybe, the republicans need smoke and mirrors to detract from President Obama’s constant reminders that the House and Senate need to get busy raising taxes on the richest people in the world so America can start hiring teachers to teach our kids, and policemen to protect us and firemen to come to our homes when we call them, and also hire some new workers who can go out and work jobs.  
The republicans have nothing to say about this, don't even want to talk about these things so they talk about Flat Taxes and 999s and so on.  

How to Fix Congress

These are not my ideas (actually they are, but it is not my writing).  However, the persons who sent it to me did so ONLY under the condition that I would pass it on to as many people as I could.  Here goes:

(Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:

 

"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election).

 

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only

3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc.

 

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.

 

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.

 

In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

 

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

1. No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

 

2. Congress (past, present &future) participates in Social Security.

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

 

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

 

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

 

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

 

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

 

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen.

Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

 

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.

 

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!!

 

Telephone Calls to Congress about Gun Control.

Today I called Senators Burr and Hagen, Representative McHenry, and Speaker Boehner about gun control in reference to the shooting in California yesterday in which 9 people were shot, 8 of them killed.  All this because a guy was unhappy with his love life, or his wife, or girlfriend or something.   

This was not an isolated incident. Every month 1,000 Americans are killed by gunfire. (*)  They are victims of American Terrorists.  Egyptian terrorists killed 3,000 Americans with airplanes on 9-11-01.  Because of that act we went to war on the other side of world, spent more than a TRILLION dollars, killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet that SAME number of  Americans were killed AGAIN before the Christmas Day which followed the attack on 9-11-2001!  

AND 3,000 more Americans have been killed by American Terrorists EVERY three months since then.  That is 120,000 Americans gunned down and killed by American Terrorists since 9-11-2001. That's so far – we're still counting – and still shooting.

Isn’t this a national problem?  What is the solution we are given?  Arm everybody?  Great - then a loud noise in a restaurant, or department store or mall and a number of people pull their guns out and what next?  I hear a noise and pull my gun out, somebody else shoots at something, then I shoot at him, somebody else shoots at me, three or four other people shoot at him and me?  Then everybody starts shooting? Huh?  

I realize that a lot of Republican Party members of Congress have taken pledges to other organizations, which include Grover Norquist and the NRA, and who knows who or what else, and they place those pledges ABOVE their oath of office, and honor those pledges BEFORE they honor their oath of office, but STILL – doesn’t something need to be done?  

All I ask is that we just start a democratic dialog in Congress and begin talking about our problem.  Bring it out from under the rug, and talk about it.  Will you help me?  

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•  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States  (!n the year 2000, 84 people died each day by gunshot for suicide and 34 each day were homicide deaths.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/10/gun-crime-us-state

n 2010 - the latest year for which detailed statistics are available - there were 12,996 murders in the US. Of those, 8,775 were caused by firearms. (excluding Florida and Illinois).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/opinion/18herbert.html  Approximately 100,000 shootings occur in the United States every year.  . . more than a million people have died from gun violence — in murders, accidents and suicides — since Dr. King was shot to death in 1968.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/more/facts.html

Number of murders committed in 1995 in the US:	20,043
Number of murders committed with a firearm:	13,673
Number of murders committed with a handgun:	11,198
(Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reports, 1995)