Would somebody at Fox or in Alaska or in the Palin family please inform the full time mayor, half time Governor, part time writer, no time interviewer Sarah Palin that there is only one u and no y in the word nuclear. Somebody please tell her that it is not nuke-you-lear or nuke-ya-lear. It is like she knows somebody on a lear jet and wants to nuke them. Maybe she wants to nuke king Lear, I do not know, but until she learns how to pronounce the word she should really lay off the criticism of the Presidents policies.
What experience does she have in this matter to be critical of anybody else anyway? Last I checked neither Wasilla nor Alaska was a nuclear power. Now it may be possible that Fox news could be a nuclear power and maybe she has learned something in her time there. I would really like it if she would just not speak of things she knows no more about than I do.
All I can say is that if the President continues on his path and the Republicans nominate her in 2012 I guess I will have to vote for myself again.
Of course Sara Palin has probably not done any interviews for this show on Fox. That would not really be American. How can she possibly be paid the large salary that she is and be expected to actually have to work for it? That would not be a real American story. I do not understand the infatuation that some people have with this woman. The best I can do is “hopey” that someone can “changey” things and get her back to Alaska and out of the infatuation spotlight asap.
OK so now we have passed some sort of reform for health care, now what? Now we try to repeal it or make sure that it somehow does not work. What else would one expect from this great nations political machine. After all that is all any of this is about anyway is politics. This entire fiasco has not been about the American people. It has been about political wins, losses, and legacies.
What else would one expect in our great nation where politics has become a major industry. For as long as I can remember it has never been about what is good for the people of the country but what is good for the people in office. I am still not ready to give up on our great Country, nor will I join the ranks of idiots calling for violent acts in the name of protecting their version of it.
What I will do is to keep living my life in this Country that I was born into and to hope that I can continue to be employed and be blessed with at least decent health. As I am not wealthy I do not feel my health care will improve any with the passage of this bill, nor do I feel it will really get any worse. Oh well life will go on for me and hopefully for you as well.
OK, should Harry Reid resign? I think that if both sides want to play fair and judge comments made as opposed to who made them, then yes he should be forced to resign. Will this happen? Yeah right! Oh well it was a nice thought while it lasted.
I see this as the usual double standard politics we have in this Country. Yes this goes both ways as well it is not only a democrat thing the republicans do the same stuff. This is just the way politics works and one of the many reasons I see a need for change in our system.
I like this idea of a third party. I have always liked this and though we need more than two major views in our system. I like that we may get a third party soon from the looks of things happening in our system now. I do not like to think of Sarah Palin leading this party though. That however is another story.
Well everybody is talking about lists from the past year and decade so I will tell you a few things that annoyed me in the past decade. There is no order to these things they are just all annoying things to me.
- Bailing out banks and companies that should have been left to either survive or die. After all that is capitalism is it not. Along with this is hearing people try to explain why some of this needed to be done. There is no explanation for this at all, just should not have been done.
- Being attacked by terrorists. This was probably about the most annoying thing that happened this decade for me. I know I said there is no order to this and that stands, it is just that this really did annoy me. I was living overseas when this happened and had to travel back stateside a few months later. That trip was extremely annoying.
I think I must look like a terrorist as I was checked, extra checked and double checked at every point of this journey. Let me tell you going through this with a near one year old that just learned to walk and run is real annoying. For some reason the security had no interest in the security of my child but seemed to enjoy telling me I could not go after her myself that I must stand still while my child runs off and out of sight. They knew it was only her and I.
- Invading foreign countries. While there seems to be some strong arguments as to why we should have gone into Afghanistan I still see no reason we should ever have entered Iraq. Needless to say we are still in both countries with no exit in sight.
- Not being elected President in 2000. To think I could have served my time and been retired with a pension by now.
- Any moment in time I ever had the misfortune of hearing the voice of either Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh. These two guys are some of the most annoying people I have ever heard.
- Any moment in time I ever had the misfortune of hearing the voice of Nancy Pelosi or Barney Frank. These guys are like the anti Hannity and anti Limbaugh and just as annoying.
OK that is not all that annoyed me, but I do not have time to write more at the moment. Maybe I will add to this later as there really was so much more that was annoying in the past ten years. Hopefully things will get better and less annoying in the next ten, but I am not sure.
Happy New Year and decade to all!
After hearing Shawn Hannity last night discussing his very one sided view of the Presidents address about troops to Afghanistan, my conclusion is that he is delusional. Yes I know his name is not spelled Shawn, but I will only give him the same respect he gives to those he does not like, none. I really do believe him to be delusional and that is all I have to say about this. Just my opinion and who really cares about that anyway?
I heard some of the interview and comments from guests on the O’Reilly Factor the other night. Of all that I heard one thing struck me as being part of the problem of our entire political system. When one of the liberal guests stated that they wondered if she is committed because she walked away from being Governor. Mr O’Reilly said he could understand this as she has to make money.
That to me sums up the majority of problems in our current political state, it is all about money. It is not about money for our Country. It is not about money for our States. It is all about money for ourselves and our friends. I feel that there are few in office that are truly concerned with the big picture of the Country, but much more concerned with the big outcome of their futures.
Mrs Palin stated that she left what would have been her lame duck session or something of the sorts, but I say so what. If the job were not prestigious enough or did not make enough money for her, then she should not have taken it in the first place. Just my opinion.
While listening to the O’Reilly Factor the other night Mr O’Reilly was speaking with Karl Rove. I cannot remember the exact topic of discussion but a question was asked of Mr Rove as to why he thinks that President Obama would continue to push for things that may seem to be unpopular with many in our Country. A comparison was made to President Bush pushing and continuing in the war with Iraq and why did he do so even when it was not popular.
Mr Rove said that President Bush did what he believed was right for our Country, but yet seemed unsure why President Obama would do what he is doing. Has it not occurred to Mr Rove that just maybe President Obama is doing what he believes is right for our Country as well. While I understand that Mr Rove probably does not agree with what is happening, I would hope that he could understand the reasons as to why.
OK, here are my thoughts on Carrie Prejean. She is a fraud. I think that she is just riding the “I’m a Conservative” train for all it is worth. If she is truly a conservative she must be a recent convert. Look at her past before the gay guy question and she does not look all that conservative. Oh well it looks like she found her way into the spotlight which is what she probably wanted and is riding it for all it is worth.
As far as I am concerned she is really nobody of importance, not unlike myself, she is just looking to make as much from this as she can. I really can’t blame her as this is the American way. I hope that people get tired of hearing her say nothing of importance soon, because I know I am tired of hearing her sound like a talking Barbie that needs new batteries.
Just a few quick thoughts on the economy. Is it better than it was a short while ago? Yes I think it is. Is it going to start booming soon with lots of new jobs? No I do not think it will. Is the good that is happening all to be credited to the Stimulus? No I do not think so. Is all that is bad to be blamed on our former President? No I do not think so. Can it all be blamed on our current President? No I do not think so.
I wish I had spent a little more time listening to my teacher in 1981 when I was taking an economics class. If I had, I might have a better understanding now of some of this crazy stuff all of the large headed people are spouting about. I do have a little understanding though as I have lived and worked in our economy for the past three decades.
Our economy in my opinion is on the path that our leaders and corporations have put it on over the past several decades. In my life I have seen our economy stumble and prosper. It just seems to be the way it is. My personal thoughts are that until we can create jobs that pay well in our own Country, it will just continue as it has. It will go up, it will go down. If we do not stop the loss of good paying jobs in this country it will sooner or later go down until it is gone.
