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It Sucks to be America...

Kevin Bluitt

An extension for unemployment benefits and COBRA subsidies for millions of americans is being held up in the senate because of one senator, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY). Sen. Bunning has said he wants the benefits to be offset elsewhere in the budget, or paid for with unused stimulus funds, and argued that the costs would add to the deficit. He also wants estate tax cuts for the rich to be in the bill as well.

Now he is concerned about the deficit. He wasn't concerned about the deficit when Bush gave a trillion dollar tax cut while fighting 2 wars in the middle east. He voted for George W. Bush's efforts with no problems. Now the middle class needs help and his response is "tough shit".

Over a million people across this country will loose their unemployment because of this one senator. Bills will not be paid, food will not be bought, and needs will not be met for thousands of hard working, tax paying, american citizens because of the action of this 1 senator and his political interests.

In other "fuck off, America" news, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) is holding up confirmation for the number 2 person at the Air Force in a time of war because he wants leverage against the Obama administration on behalf of the defense contractor Northup-Gruman over a tanker contract. The fact that these offices may be necessary for our military in a time of war only adds to Shelby's position of leverage and never mind if it endangers the country and the country's war effort and, in my opinion, borders on sedition/treason.

This is the republican plan to dismantle this country in order to get back into power. The needs of the people and the needs of the country are expendable in the republican's quest for power. The republicans are pure corporatists who are working on behalf of corporate interests and consolidating the wealth of the wealthy. As for the middle class, working people, the poor, people living paycheck to paycheck, and the country in general, sucks to be you.

Where's Your Apology? It's $100 on the nightstand?

Kevin Bluitt

Jamie Junger aka Tiger Woods mistress is calling Tiger's statement and apology "crap". She says Tiger owes her and his other mistresses an apology as well.

Tiger don't owe you a damn thing. You agreed to the terms of this relationship (be his jumpoff piece on the side) and now you are looking for an apology, some attention, and some money, from Tiger because whatever money he was spending on you has been put to a screeching stop.

The fact that you hired a lawyer and went public with this drama shows your true motives. This is not about love, commitment, and a relationship. This was about sex and money from the beginning, nothing more. Therefore the only thing Tiger owe you is probably whatever cash you forgot to pick up off the nightstand.

One less angry bell to answer. One less anti-egg to fry.

Kevin Bluitt

A guy named Andrew Joseph Stack crashed his plane into the IRS Federal Government building in Austin Tx. in response to his experience and treatment in dealing with the IRS. He left a suicide note explaining why he committed this act of terrorism on American soil. We don't need to know anything about Mr. Stack's experience to determine what his motives were. He is the latest in a string of psychotic conservative republican nutcases who want to burn the government down because they don't want any governance in this country at all.

He spoke in his suicide letter about how our government favors the rich over everyone else, how tax policies of the 80's impacted his life, how the S&L scandal, 911, and the dot com bubble crippled his life. In reading his letter you can easily tell that he is a republican and has been a republican for years. Mr. Stack fails to realize the he is the cause of his problems also. He probably voted for Reagan twice, for H. W. Bush twice, against Clinton twice, and for McCain. What the hell where you expecting? Now you discovered that the policies you voted for were against your interest. Now you want to blame the government, blame the IRS, and everybody else except you and the votes you casted over the past 30 years.

Please spare me!!! Mr. Stack is nothing more than Joe "The Plumber" with a pilot license. Stack drank the conservative Kool-Aid for 30 years and he finally realized they lied to him. Reagan lied. H. W. Bush lied. W. Bush lied and after 30 years, he see he has nothing to show for it. 30 years of voting for conservative economics has destroyed his life.

He fits the profile for the conservatives to recruit. Angry, white male, anti-taxes, anti-government, wanting to give a violent response to his situation. This is the guy who is filled with anger by conservative media yet votes against his own interest. This is the conservative who is wondering why it all didn't work. This is the guy who is looking for someone to blame for his lot in conservative life.

Question: If he is having financial problems, how did he get a plane? Call me stupid but if you are having money problems, here is a suggestion. Sell the damn plane and use the money to pay your bills!! He didn't want to do that. He was thought he deserved and entitled to everything he wanted. Idiot!!!

The truth is people like Joe "The Plumber" and Andrew Joseph Stack are what is wrong with this country. They vote against their interest with an entitlement mindset then get mad and look for something to blame when it doesn't work out. The sad thing about Mr. Stack is that he did not care if he hurt or killed innocent people just because his delusional bubble has bursted. If Andrew Stack and his like feel that suicide is a better option than facing the truth and realities of conservatism, then go for it. Just don't hurt any innocent people along the way. It's just one less conservative nutcase holding back this country.

Palin got caught cheating.....

Kevin Bluitt

Since she is going to act like a 3rd grader, the country should treat her like a 3rd grader.

USA - Mrs. Palin, do you have something in your hand that you would like to share with the class?

Sarah - No.

USA - Let me see your hand. I see you have cheat notes in your hand. Very well, you have failed the exam. Now go back to your seat.

Sarah - Wah!!!

How can anybody want this poor excuse for a person to be anywhere near the presidency of this country? The woman criticized Obama for using a teleprompter in his speeches while she uses crib notes scribbled into her hand like a cheating little 3rd grader.

What's more pathetic is that 3rd graders don't use crib notes scribbled into their hands anymore. They use laptops now. Kids use laptops. Obama uses a teleprompter. Palin scribbles in her hand. Yo, Wilma Flintstone, put down the hammer and chisel and buy a laptop or a smart phone. It's called technology.

A grown ass woman who scribbles notes into her hand because she doesn't have the sense to remember her talking points, and likes to criticize others who are smart enough to use technology to do so wants to be president of the United States.

How can anybody take this woman to be serious about anything? What an idiot!!!

New Orleans Saints win Superbowl 44

Kevin Bluitt

Congratulation to the New Orleans Saints in winning Superbowl 44. Their first championship in franchise history.

With life saving help like this, you don't need to just die.

Kevin Bluitt

The United Stated has just announced that critically injured Haitians will no longer be transported to the US for medical treatment because the medical cost being accrued are not being paid.

So in other words, the earthquake victims are being victimized again by our healthcare system, just like us. The Haitians are being asked if they have any means to pay for the medical service they critically need and if they don't, they are being left in the streets to die. Just like us. This is the old american system of disaster capitalism at work again. If we can make any money saving your life, then you can just die.

What kind of help is this? Is this the type of nation we have become? Any nation can claim they are trying to help while leaving people dying on the street. Only America can inflict more grief on earthquake victims by claiming to help and withdraw that help when the job gets tough or expensive. We say we will take over the relief effort and send billions of dollars to haitians relief organizations. In the end, many of those organizations are taking their profit skim off the top of the billions while food, water, rescue equipment, and medical supplies sit in warehouses just yards away from people dying.

Just like Katrina in New Orleans, the United States is showing to be a clumsy, incompetent, and greedy giant posing as helpers. It sad to think the U.S. is too incompetent and too consumed with the quest for profit to assist a 3rd world country get back on their feet and help them get back to being a 3rd world country.

How is it that we can send billions in relief for Haiti and the help is not being fully received? If supplies are sitting in haitian warehouses and we can't transport haitians to America, then where did the money go? Someone in America is profiting off the blood and death of haitians and calling it American Haitian Relief.

When Money Talks, The Democracy Walks.

Kevin Bluitt

The Supreme Court, by a vote of the usual 5 to the usual 4, has ruled that campaign regulations limiting corporate contribution to a political campaign is unconstitutional because it violates the corporation right of free speech. The conservative block of the Supreme Court has once again ruled against the rights of people in favor of corporations and pushed this country another step closer to a fascist state.

This legal precedence is based on 2 false premises adopted by modern conservatism.

1. Corporations should be given constitutional rights as a person.
2. A corporation's money and the actions committed with it are forms of protected free speech.

Corporations are not people. They are economic entities. They need to be regulated in order to maintain order and fairness in our economy. There is nothing in our constitution to imply that corporations should have the same rights as individuals. This is liken to Bush vs. Gore in 2000. It's a conservative court ruling pulled out of the thin air.

If a corporation has free speech rights, what rights do corporations not have? Can a corporation raise its own army under the right to bear arms? Can a corporation refuse to disclose any records or accounting books to it's shareholders under it's 4th amendment right? Can a foreign corporation, that may or may not be controlled by a foreign government, legally influence this country's political system? The Supreme Court says yes to it all.

The Court has opened the door to unlimited amounts of money flowing into the american political system from any source. You can know that none of the influence all of this money is intended to buy is not for you and me. Because the "every day people" don't have billions to spend on politics and corporations do, they will never have their interests and needs met over the corporations. This ruling turns our government of the people over to corporations. This ruling turns our democracy into governance to the highest bidder.

If you are not a corporation, you have no free speech voice in our system because it is drown out by the billions of dollars free speech from corporations.

An Open Letter to the President. I Give Up On You.

Kevin Bluitt

Dear Mr. Obama

For the last 12 months, I have watch you and your administration take the helm as president of the United States. I have watched with pride as you were sworn in as the 44th president and America's first African American president. I knew the task you were undertaking in the wake of the failed Bush administration were great and would take time to turn around. I knew this so I was patient. I waited.

I waited while you gave up on universal health care and the public option while claiming that you were for it.
I was patient while you cow tow to Joe Lieberman and Olympia Snow knowing that they would never agree to follow you.
I waited while you bailed out banks at the expense of the stability of the middle class.
I was patient while you willingly hesitated to regulate the financial system and the people who profited from the collapsed our economy.
I waited for healthcare reform and got nothing.
I was patient while seeing the republicans still execute their agenda even while you and the democrats held the majority in congress.
I waited for change and I got nothing.

It has been a year and our economy is still in trouble. The republicans still rule the nation's agenda. Our government is still the property of special interest and you and the Democrats have been complicit in it all. I don't know if the job is more than you can handle or you are just determined to be a weak figurehead for the republicans. Nevertheless, your decisions throughout the past year have been woefully inadequate to the situation this country is in.

You and the democratic party have made yourselves very clear. For whatever reason, you and the Democratic party are willfully choosing to not implement your parties principles even at the command of the majority of the people. If George W. Bush was still president and he wanted universal healthcare, by now, we would have universal healthcare. We need a FDR or Truman, and instead we have you. A scared, distant, easily pushed, self compromising, man who does not want to be nor has any ambition to be the president this country needs and his hollow, morally cowardice, complicit party.

You may be the first black president but you are not the first black person who did me wrong.
I see what you are about and I see what the Democratic party is about. I give up on you both.

Sincerly
Kevin Bluitt
BluestoneBlog.com

Did you really think this land was your land?

Kevin Bluitt

Recently in Kansas City, the National Association of Free Health Clinics held a Free Health Clinic opened to the public. Thousands show up to receive free healthcare services from this charity group they otherwise could not afford in the United States. Nevertheless, in the face of this moral disgrace in one of the richest countries on earth, the Congress reached an agreement to dismantle the public option in the current healthcare reform legislation.

When banks and the auto industry needed a trillion dollars to bail themselves out from their own tragic stupidity, the government handed the money over in a matter of days. For the past 9 months, our government has debated, wrangled, hedged, and finally agreed to side with the health insurance industry over the will of the people and call it reform. In the end, no one will benefit. No one will be saved from recision of their insurance policy. No one will have their lives saved from medical bankruptcy and we will all pay higher premiums for it all.

Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are all responsible for this and when Obama signs this into law, he too will bear the responsibility of what they have done to this nation and what the future holds for us all. The realities are staggering. The middle class is suffering under the weight of healthcare costs. Healthcare costs are bankrupting this nation. Manufacturing companies must move more jobs overseas because they cannot compete while being burdened with their employee's healthcare costs.

All of this could have been resolved with a universal healthcare program or a public option. Not to mention, pressure could have been applied to the health insurance industry to make their premium pricing more competitive. But our government is on the verge of discarding the resolutions to our healthcare problems and do what is best for the healthcare industry. (as they were bought off to do.) Our government acts on behalf of the ones who wield power over it. This whole healthcare debate clearly shows that is not the american people.

Make no mistake. They have done it. Over the next 20-25 years, we will see that they have collapsed the middle class of this nation, bankrupted the nation even more than before, destroyed any hope of rebuilding our manufacturing base, and gave a death sentence to millions with little or no insurance. All of this was done for the sake of preserving the healthcare industry profits.

Now you tell me, who's land is this?

Dear "Side Pieces"

Kevin Bluitt

An open letter to all "Jump Off" bitches.

Look. I am sick and tired of hearing of yet another high profile man getting busted for hanging with you. Everybody from Bill Clinton, Kobe Bryant, David Letterman, and now Tiger Wood all have to have their dirty laundry (i.e. you) aired because of you. Your job is to keep your mouth shut, be where you are suppose to be and be on time, and do what you do best. Afterwards, you are suppose to cover both of your tracks and go home and wait for the next call. That's all. Being the "side piece" is a simple job but too many of you can't do right!!

You want to talk. You want to go out together. You want to call him when you shouldn't, and you want to see him when you damn well know he is with his wife. This ain't dating, fool!! This is cheating, baby!! If you want to date, go get you a "broke ass Joe" to take your ass to the movies and do whatever you want to do. If you want to date a superstar and he is married and you know he is married, then you have to obey the "Side Bitch Rules".

1. Cover yours and his damn tracks. Delete all photos, emails, receipts, videos, cell phone numbers, dresses and other suspect clothing, everything!! There should be no evidence of him within 100 miles of you.

2. You don't know him. When you're in public, you don't know him. If you see him, you don't talk to him. You don't talk about him. You don't talk about him to your ugly ass friends. Nothing!! You just tell him just like my girl does in her song. "I'll give you mad sex, and when we're through, I really have no problem acting like I don't know you." Me'shell Ndegeocello

3. He ain't leaving his wife for your stup-ass. I don't care how freaky you are nor how much you love him. He's not leaving his wife for your ass. He's not going to leave his wife, get a divorce, have his wife empty all of his bank accounts, pay child support, pay alimony, and move out the house he paid for just to be with your broke ass. (Especially since he already hit that)

4. Stay in your damn lane!! Wife gets the wife perks. You get no wife perks. He may do something for you but you don't get better than the wife, and you don't pressure him on that. Otherwise you are fired. Remember, me Tarzan, she Jane, and you" jump off"!!

Now, for those punk sucker whores who think they can bust him out in public for the money? Fool, you could have stayed with him and made more money than the chump change you might get from busting him out. You may think you making moves but that just dumb on 15 to 20 different levels.

Now these are the terms and conditions of the "jump off" relationship. If you down with it, cool, roll on out. If you are not cool with it, have some dignity about yourself and walk the fuck off and go find yourself some real love.

Happy Thanksgivings!!

Kevin Bluitt

I would like to take this time to wish you and yours a very happy thanksgivings.

Are you kidding me?!?! Are you still talking?!?! "You betcha.."

Kevin Bluitt

Sarah Palin is making the interview rounds. she has gone on Oprah and Barbara Walters hocking her book "Going Rogue". She says the presidency is not on her radar screen. Then why are you on my TV screen? Sarah Palin is a political version of Paris Hilton. she hasn't done anything worthwhile but for some reason, she is still famous.

Right now she is getting paid for all of this media but she still wants to be president and a force in the nation's politics. The problem is that she is still the same VP candidate that the nation turned down. She is still the empty headed ditz from Alaska who thinks she can look like she knows what she is talking about. She is still the prettiest bonehead on TV.

Conservatives are not sure what to do about her because she has fallen out of favor with them. She only speaks for the extreme wing of the right wing conservatism movement. She speaks for the nutcases, the psychos, the Obama hating lunatics, and the people who love America so much, they will destroy it and everything it stands for.

She is not what she appears to be. She is not the future of the country. She is not a historic figure marching toward destiny. She is yet another conservative who is playing with fire. You Betcha!!

2012 Countdown to the end of the world!! Bring it, bitch!!

Kevin Bluitt

Let me be the first to say that nothing is going to happen in 2012. The world is not going to end, the oceans will not boil, the skies will not turn black, the earth will not swallow whole nations, the electricity will not be cut off, my girl will still be asking me why I don't take her anywhere, and the bank will still ask me when am I going to make a payment on my credit card.

Nevertheless, I am going to have to sit through the delusional babblings every doom and gloom dumbass our so called media can dig up for the next 2 years. Now to kick the whole thing off, a movie call 2012 has been released.

Without seeing it, I can guess that it's the same old plot. Boy and Girl fight, boy and girl break up and just as boy leaves, the world explodes. Boy goes back to rescue girl and they realize they really love each other and the world still blows up then stops.

I think I'll go see the movie just to see them blow shit up. I'll be The one in the back of the theater cheering for the destruction. Bring it Bitch!!! I never liked that Eifel Tower nor the Taj Mahal anyway!! Personally, I think the end of times is just an opportunity to redecorate. (if you survive, of course)

Let's try and get through the next 2 years without losing our collective minds. Calm down, chill out. Remember that sometimes shit happens, and shit is going to happen in 2012,

Like my brother said when he was 12, "shit happens but that don't mean it's the end of the world." As an 8 year old listening to his stupid big brother, I never knew he was revolutionary visionary who was so far ahead of his time..

Gold is Up and the Dollar is Down. Yikes!!

Kevin Bluitt

Ever look at a dollar. If you look at the very top of the dollar it says "Federal Reserve Note." The dollar is actually a note backed by the assets of Federal Reserve. That use to be the gold reserves until the 1970s when Richard Nixon ended the dollar valuation based on the Federal Reserve gold reserve. Now the dollar valuation is based on it being the chief world currency for oil.

Now the national debt is up to 12 trillion dollars with no end in sight. Our national debt has crushed any valuation of the dollar. If the euro becomes the world currency for oil, the dollar becomes a Federal Reserve Note representing 12 trillion dollars of debt. It literally won't be worth the paper it's printed on.

Reports are stating that the value of gold is skyrocketing and the value of the dollar is collapsing. As more world currencies are backed by gold, they will far exceed the dollar in valuation on the world stage. Our national debt greatly exceeds the valuation of our gold reserve and the dollar doesn't have the valuation to acquire more. This is a huge problem.

We have to get some stability into the dollar valuation. Whether by oil, gold, or by a growing economy at home, we have to stabilize the dollar valuation against other world currencies. If our debt holders call in our debt or the euro becomes the currency for world oil, or both, we are screwed. We become a banana republic that use to be a superpower. Yikes!!!

We are finally back!!!

Kevin Bluitt

BluestoneBlog.com is back. We had some major technical problems and we have resolved them. We apologize for our absence. Thank you for your understanding.

Rush Limbaugh, the coach wants to see you and bring your playbook...

Kevin Bluitt

Rush Limbaugh has been removed from the group who is trying to buy the St. Louis Rams. The problem with Limbaugh is the same with all other bigoted racist is that he believes his words will never catch up to him. He believes that his words will never have any consequences to him. Does he really believe that after all he has said about black people, Hispanic people, and race in general that he can be the leader of a NFL franchise comprised of players from all races, religions, and backgrounds? Yea, right.

2 things are clues into the type of man Rush Limbaugh is. If any other person were on the verge of being rejected by the NFL, they probably would have invited all of the owners to their mansion for a posh dinner party and socialized their way back in. Limbaugh can?t do that. He may know many people but he doesn?t have any real friends. He has been married 3 times. He is dealing with a drug addiction. He is very rich and very lonely. The truth is he is really a small, empty man.

Secondly, his reaction to the slight was typical of his character. The first day after his rejection, he went on the air and you could hear the dejection and disappointment in his voice. The next day he went back to his old ways of blaming liberals, blaming democrats, blaming the NFL itself, and blaming everybody except himself and his actions.

Limbaugh is the greatest example ignorance, arrogance, hypocrisy, selfishness, bigotry, racism, greed, and immorality. Which is really the reason he was denied ownership, but he is too empty a man to admit it.

He got the Prize. Now lets see if he can make the Peace.

Kevin Bluitt

President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. I thought a requirement for the prize is to create peace. As of right now, Obama has not made any peace. We have no universal healthcare and the wars in Iraq and Afganistan are still raging.

The Nobel committee has put a ton of pressure on Obama to follow through with his promises of good intentions. Otherwise, he will be made to be an international hypocrite. You can't be a "war president" and win the Nobel Peace Prize. You can't compromise on universal healthcare and enrich corporations while people are dying and win the Nobel Peace Prize.

It is clear that Nobel committee is flipping W. Bush the bird with this choice. They can choose to send that message to the world if they choose and it is courageous statement on their part. However, it is still too early to determine if the Obama administration is worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize. If it turns out that Obama is not worthy, then I hope they will have the courage to rescind the prize from Obama, the war president.

Finally a Democrat Worth Fighting For!!

Kevin Bluitt

Rep. Alan Grayson, democrat from Florida recently address the floor of the congress.

Grayson's comments lead to a call for him to apologize to the republicans. Here is his apology.

What we are seeing is something never seen before. A democrat who has a backbone and who is standing up to the republican hypocrisy. In one single speech, Alan Grayson has stood up to the republicans, the republican media machine, the corporations backing them and corporatist democrats. This freshman representative has shown more courage than Pelosi, Reid, Obama, and the entire Obama administration.

He needs to be the speaker of the house, house whip, senate majority leader, or something greater because this man has set the tone for how the democrats should respond to all of the republicans attacks. Bravo for having the courage for saying what the whole country was thinking. Of course actions has brought criticism and scruntinity to the democrats, but that should not matter if they standup like Grayson. I hope millions of americans make a donation to the Alan Grayson campaign because the democratic party and the progressive movement cannot afford to loose a congressman like Rep. Alan Grayson. In the words of Abraham Lincoln regarding General U. S. Grant, "I can't spare this man. He fights."

New blogs soon.....

Kevin Bluitt

Sorry I have not posted any new blogs. I have been crazy busy but I will make up for it. New blogs coming soon!!! Thanks

China is Back!! Europe is Back!! The U. S., eh...not so much...

Kevin Bluitt

There is a report from the New York times that China's economy is back. Factories that were closed due to the economic downturn are now reopened and are hiring. The european economy is coming back strong as well. The US economy on the other hand, is still struggling with its recession and massive job losses.

This should be taken as a sign that the world debtor nation can no longer be the striving force for the worlds economic engine. The United States can no longer be the leading player on the world stage when the world is propping the US up by lending us trillions to survive. Nevertheless, we are blinded by our arrogance while Europe and China blow past the US. It's as if we are running a race and we can no longer see Europe and China so we arrogantly think we are far in the lead when in truth we are far far behind.

Our kids can use a little indoctrination, and their parents too.

Kevin Bluitt

The right wingers are afraid that Obama will indoctrinate their children with his speech. Sounds like the parents and school officials need to be indoctrinated with some intelligence and common sense. The only indoctrination going on is from the people who are trying to prevent their children from hearing the president's speech. They are brainwashing their children to believe that it is ok to have delusional fears about anybody different from you.

By the way, has anyone been to a mall lately? Have you seen some of the nation's teenagers? These greedy, selfish, lazy, poorly dressed, ill mannered, sex crazed, slackers can use some indoctrination. Also, I don't hear these people complaining about the things these very same teenagers have access to.

The president can't speak to the children but they can pull up any piece of trash on the internet. The president can't speak to the children but they can play video games where they can pretend to shoot drug dealers and hookers. The president can't speak to the children but they can listen to any two bit rapper spitting his profanity laced rap song, full of the "f" word, the "b" word, the "sh" word, and all variations thereof.

In view of the trash the kids have access to, these parents should be proud that the president would like to give them a positive message. Nevertheless, these parents and school officials can't get past their delusional partisan politics, even if it causes their children to suffer.

Our nation has lost it's mind and it's soul

Kevin Bluitt

The town hall meetings are a daily display of how much America has lost its moral soul. Our once great political system has degenerated to nothing more than a shouting match between 2 opposing parties resulting in nothing being done. Today, our choices are between the corporatist republican party, who are paid to do the will of the healthcare industry and the weak and fearful democratic party, who are paid off to abandon their party's principles for the will of healthcare industry. This is precisely why the will of the healthcare corporations is executed while the needs of the people continue to suffer.

Their has been town hall meetings where people and political leaders have cursed at the sick, criticized the people who are trying to help, and openly threaten the life of the president and his family. Where is the nation's morality? Where is the nation's compassion for their fellow man? Where is the nation's respect for the dignity of the sick? The answer, gone, disappeared, lost, and forgotten. We have placed corporate profits ahead of humanity and common decency and even though we see the results of it in our people, our government, political leaders, and political parties just don't give a damn.

No wonder 9 dumb dumbs can hijack 4 planes and crash them into the Pentagon and World Trade Center armed with box cutters. No wonder Rush Limbaugh, an overpaid drug rehab addict radio talk show host, is the moral judge and jury for our government. No wonder Glen Beck can brazenly lie on television and willingly and purposefully misinform the public.

We are a nation of the corporation by the corporation interests and for the corporation profits.

30 years of conservatism has bankrupted America, consolidated the wealth of the rich, and propagandized the people into thinking we are better off because of it. Those people shouting at the town hall meetings believe that their constitutional rights are linked to the profits of corporations and they cannot separate the two because separating the two would require a soul and a kind heart. As the behavior of the people at the town hall meetings has shown, we have no kind heart and we have lost our soul long long ago.

Senator Ted Kennedy 1932 - 2009

Kevin Bluitt

"For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end.
For all those whose cares have been our concern,
the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives,
and the dream shall never die. " Ted Kennedy 1980

There is nothing that can be said about Ted Kennedy that has not already been said. He is a man who helped change this country for the better. He was a progressive liberal through out the entire conservative revolution, which is why he was known as the liberal lion of the senate.

He was not a perfect man. He was a very flawed man who made mistakes, Chappaquiddick, drinking, women, failed presidential runs, and dealing with his family's run in's with the law. However, through it all, he was the standard bearer for the liberal cause and the commitment to service to the country for the Kennedy family. He represented the progressive future of the country as well as his own past era.

You can always tell how someone was raised and it is unthinkable to believe that this very privileged man was raised with a sense of commitment to service for the country, especially compared to today's time. All that he suffered, he could have used his wealth and easily walked away from it all, but he choose to serve, to help, and to change the country he loved.

Ted Kennedy was born and raised in a family with the utmost wealth and privileges and his parents instilled a duty to serve your country and your fellow man. Looking at today's world, it would be like Paris Hilton feeding the hungry or Kim Kardashian working for the poor. They just don't have that in them. They just weren't raised that way, but Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was. He was the last link to the great legacy and history of the Kennedy family.

He was a man from a historically great family who served his country and help all people from all walks of life. He helped take America from segregation to the first black president. He was a great man in his own great times.

Like Attracts Like

DC Dating Diva

I take-2 steps forward
I take-2 steps back
We come together
Cuz opposites attract

Lyrics: Opposites Attract-Paula Abdul

Opposites Do Not Attract - Sorry Paula, you got it all wrong. - Diva

Ok, so I know we heard the term "opposites attract" when it comes to dating and relationships...but I'm here to tell you NO, NOT REALLY. I mean someone may have a characteristic or two or four that is opposite from you or what you're used to: they may not look like someone "you would date", they may be from a different part of town, or went to a "special" school, but, those trivial traits don't make them completely different from you. Don't hop on the bandwagon and think just cause, he likes the lights off and you like them on, that you guys are sooo different yet sooo meant to be together. In saying this, I'm saying the person you are completely and utterly attracted to, is probably JUST LIKE YOU.

Example: You usually like someone because of how much you have in common. You get excited because you both are gym freaks. You get excited when they can quote every Bruce Lee movie at will, and we all know that's a challenge in itself! You get excited when you find out he (or she) likes Prince too and your heart flutters (maybe that's just me). In any case, most relationships that I see that are successful (note: this doesn't apply to everyone) has way more in common than meets the eye. Ok, he's a little shorter than you, and dresses like he invented the short bus, but it's the Law of Attraction (i.e.: like attracts like) that brought you two together.

It's like PB & jelly: or better yet Tequila & salt, or vodka & cranberry...

Think about some couples you know. Or maybe current or past relationships you were in. Which one's were the most successful? The one where you guys pretty much seen eye to eye on everything, from religion, politics to music choices, or the one's where you guys couldn't agree on anything but the horizontal tango? Inquiring minds want to know!!!

Taking a Break....

Kevin Bluitt

Sorry I have not made post in a while. I am taking a break from blogging. I will be back on Mon.

See ya!!!

You know you're a 3rd world country when RAM shows up.

Kevin Bluitt

Remote Area Medical, the world wide humanitarian free healthcare organization, is currently providing healthcare services to people in Los Angeles Ca. USA. RAM usually provide healthcare services to people in 3rd world country, people in a famine, people in war torn countries, and 3rd world poor nations around the world. For the rest of the week they will be in the Forum in Inglewood Ca. giving away free healthcare services, dental services, and minor surgeries for people who can't afford it.

Why is RAM in America? We are suppose to have the best healthcare system in the world. Breaking news, we don't. The World Health Organization gives that title to France. The US ranks 37th. RAM has done it's work in the Tennessee Valley and Appalachia Mountain areas. Now they are in the 2nd largest city in the US.

In this country, we believe that we must protect the profits of our medical industry even if it means denial of care and bankrupting whole families. To have RAM provide free healthcare services in the 2nd largest city in America and american citizens show up by the thousands, is a glaring example of the lack or morality this nation has on the issue of healthcare for all of its citizens.

Please donate to this organization because just like people in 3rd world countries, this may well be the only healthcare these american citizens may receive. Donate to RAM and help save the life of an american citizen. WTF?!?!

No healthcare insurance for you!!

Kevin Bluitt

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Mr. Kenneth Gladney of St. Louis Mo., the stupidest man in America. Kenneth Gladney was at a town hall meeting being a loud and obnoxious conservative protester when a fight broke out and he was injured. Apparently, he injured his knee in the melee and that required medical attention. According to his lawyer, he is now asking for public donations for his medical bills because he lost his healthcare coverage when he was laid off from his job.

In other words, Mr. Kenneth Gladney of St. Louis Mo., who had no healthcare insurance and was facing huge medical bills if he got hurt was protesting against the government trying to give him healthcare insurance in order to protect him from huge medical bills if he got hurt. (I don't think you folks heard me...)

This is what is wrong with this country. We have too many dumb asses, like Mr. Gladney, who work against their own interest and are proud of it. Mr. Gladney got laid off and had no healthcare insurance then he gets hurt while protesting against reform that could give him medical insurance while he is out of work. What was he expecting to happen if he has to go to the hospital? What was the scenario did he thought was going to play out if he got hurt?

He was one of those fools acting a fool at those town hall meetings yelling "no socialized medicine!" and "no Obama-care!" and now that he is hurt, he wants to ask for public donations? Donations my ass!! If you don't want healthcare insurance, don't ask me to donate to you when you get hurt. By protesting healthcare reform, you just volunteered to pay your medical bills out of pocket. Freedom isn't free and being stupid isn't free either. Stupidity has a price and its time for this nutcase to pay up.

Where is all that conservative talk now Mr. Gladney? "Why do I have to pay for your medical care?" "That's socialized medicine and that never works." "We can't have a big government take over of our medical system." How is the conservative philosophy working for you now, Mr. Gladney? I guess that mythical Death Panel would have decided that you should die for being an idiot.

Only a stupid person learn things the hard way and Mr. Gladney is truly an idiot. He learned the hard way that we need healthcare reform before it bankrupts our nation. He learned the hard way that health insurance companies will drop you when you need them the most. And most of all, since he got hurt while protesting against healthcare reform, he learned the hard way that there is a god and he don't like stupid people.

The peasants rise up FOR the corporate overlords

Kevin Bluitt

What the F#%@ is wrong with these people?!?!? What is your brain damage?!?!? The tea bagger protest tax policies when Obama gives them a tax cut. Now these astroturf nut cases are protesting healthcare reform when is meant to save them money on their healthcare expenditures. These people are spinning the usually lines like "no socialize medicine" and "big government in our lives" but in truth they are working and protesting on behalf of the healthcare industry.

The same healthcare industry that is bankrupting this country. The same healthcare industry that will drop their coverage if you illness exceeds their profitability. The same healthcare industry that is gouging the very people protesting on their behalf. These people are brainwashed by the neo-con proparganda machine to the point that they will protest against any policy opposed by their corporate masters, even if the policy is to their benefit. They are so dedicated to serving the interest of their corporate overlords that they cannot see that they are handing the country and its treasury to the healthcare industry. There is nothing you can say to these people to change their minds.

The sickest part of all of this is that they know what they do. They know their protests are not the result of a true grass root movement. They know they are organized and funded by the healthcare industry. They know they are working for the profit interest of the healthcare industry. They know they are advocating for policies that will bankrupt the middle class, the country, and themselves. They know the reason why and end results of what they are doing and they are doing it anyway.

These people, the tea baggers and the town hall meeting protesters, don't profit in any way from their protests. They are peasants who proudly serve their corporate overlords. They are the most dangerous people in America because they willingly and knowingly serve the interest of the healthcare industry whether or not it benefits the country or themselves and they will follow any racist, fascist, psychotic-babble from any right wing nut case.

What Exactly Is Dating?

DC Dating Diva

A Dating Series According to DC Dating Diva of DCDatingAdventures.Blogspot.com

I've come across many articles, many definitions, and many p.o.v's on defining dating. Is it seeing multiple people? Seeing one person? Going out as friends, going Dutch, meeting up to "talk"? Wiki defines dating "any social activity undertaken by, typically, two people with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as their partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse. The word refers to the act of meeting and engaging in some mutually agreed upon social activity. Traditional dating activities include entertainment or a meal."

I like their definition, however some people think when you say "I'm dating", that you are seeing one, count it. "one" person. And that is where I disagree. I also disagree with their terms spouse or intimate relationship. Ok, maybe as a whole I sort of disagree with the statement. It's not really a matter of rolling the dice and seeing where you land. There are distinct differences, and there are levels, yes levels. Let me give you the Diva's definitions:

Dating: Going out with people (i.e. more than one person), once, twice, or multiple times with the aim of having fun, while you are dating said person, you should assess whether or not you want to see one of them exclusively, or if you are better suited as friends, movie buddies, vodka buddies, etc. If one person continuously lands on boardwalk and you two began to develop more than a friendship, they get a gold star! You are ready for the next step, advance to Go, do not stop.

Seeing Someone: So after said party passes go, here is where things get a little more serious and interesting. Perhaps, you two have already had "the talk", and you've agreed to stop seeing other people for the time being. If you haven't already done so, you should do it at this point if the two of you want to become more serious. This is the stage where you are on the track to becoming boyfriend and girlfriend, or girlfriend and girlfriend, or boyfriend and...well you get the drift. At this point it's safe to introduce said person to close friends and co-workers, and "mention" said person to family members.
(Side note: I advise against immediate introductions to family members as it could send the wrong signal to both family members & the potential.)
This is also the stage that, when someone inquires whether or not you have a bf or gf, you say "I'm seeing someone". This line is straight and to the point. You are 1) seeing one person 2) taking it seriously and 3) are not interested in seeing someone else at the moment.

Boyfriend/Girlfriend Status: If said party made it to this round, it's now safe to introduce them to family members and pets. They can go to family functions, and can pet sit your beloved Fido or Paws (you don't have to worry about them slipping something in their food while you're out). A lot of people now and days don't like to put a title on "what they have" however, if the said person has done everything right, and you are absolutely sure you are ready to take the chance card, they can advance to this stage. This is where you are exclusive. Period, end of discussion.

Hope these definitions help. Happy Dating!!!

A Tale of 2 Obama Responses

Kevin Bluitt

A friend of mine ask me what I thought about Obama's two responses to the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates by the Cambridge MA. police. In his first comments, Obama said "the Cambridge police acted stupidly." Later, he retracted his statement. I said that I agreed with the first response and saw no need for the second response. He should have let his first comment stand. Then I thought about it and it came to me. Obama's first response was the "black" response.

This is an issue I am beginning to see in Obama. There appears to be a different tone in how Obama speaks to a black audience and how he speaks to a white audience. Obama speech on father's day and to the NAACP 100th Anniversary ceremony were considered his "tough love" speeches. I have never heard Obama speak with a critical tone to a white audience until his first response to the Gates arrest. Afterwards, he retracted his statement for a more conciliatory tone. ("white" response)

Obama can't save a critical tone in his speeches for minority audiences. Calling the Cambridge police actions stupid was the same critical tone he used in calling for fathers to be better fathers for their kids. ("black" response) Obama must be consistence with his critical tone otherwise he will loose the support of the people who help him become president. Inviting the cop and professor Gates to the white house for a beer ("white" response) may squash the disagreement between them but it will not end the bad relationship minorities have with the police all over the country.

I know Obama has to give a calm, constructive, and inclusive response from time to time in order to keep the peace. However, when cops arrest black people in their homes for disorderly conduct, in other words acting like an uppity negro, showing anger, outrage, and giving harsh criticism is usually the best response in putting things like this to an end and Obama should not retract it.

New Crime Wave - Sitting In Your Living Room While Black

Kevin Bluitt

Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates and his driver were trying to open his front door at his home. Someone called the police and reported it as 2 black men breaking into a house. Later, the police arrived, the situation escalated, and Gates was arrested at his home for disorderly conduct. Afterwards, the charges were dropped against Gates. There are varying version of the story but the basic trend is all the same. Gates was mouthing off to a white policeman who did not like this black man's "attitude" and he placed Gates under arrest.

First of all, I don't care if you are the most decorated policeman in the history of cops and robbers. If you don't like me using the F-word in my living room, then you need to get the F-word out of my house. Gates had no responsibility in this situation. Anytime a person gets arrested is a volatile situation and the police brought this volatile situation into the man's home.

This was a stupid, racist, and unprofessional situation and stupid, racist, and unprofessional situations involving the police can become deadly situations, especially for profiled black people. Gates is a famous person, which is why we know about this and the press is reporting it today. Nevertheless the question remains, what if this had happened to an everyday person? What if this had happened to someone just getting off of work and they can't pickup their kids from daycare because they had to spend 4 hours in jail because some "tin-horn" cop didn't like the way that person was talking to them while the police was in that person's house. What if this had happened to a black person in their 20s or some poor person who could not afford to loose 4 hours of their life because they have a second job to go to? This lack of common sense on the part of the police affect people's lives and does harm to innocent people going about their business.

Gates is in his late 50s and walks with a cane. Gates telling the cops to get out of his house would receive one type of response. If a 25-30 year old black man was to tell a white cop to get out of his house in the same manner as Gates did, that would illicit a whole different police response that would be escalated 1000 times more than the police's response to Gates and that is how black people get killed by white policemen.

With the resources policemen have, one thing is clear. From the time the police arrived at Gates' home to the time they place the handcuffs on him, somewhere within that span of time the police determined that there was no burglary and the property was secured by the owner. Why didn't that discovery de-escalate the situation? The police knew there was no burglary and that Gates was the owner but the incident continued to escalate to Gates arrest. That is the fault of the police no matter what Gates may have said to them.

This is a clear example why many black people would rather see the devil parked in front of their houses than the police. Because of racial profiling, police training, racial stereotypes, and the court system in general, many black people feel that any contact with the police can easily and likely escalate to a bad ending. If a Jew was in his house and some Nazi came to his door, he is going to jump to a negative conclusion, and he will probably be correct. If a black man was in his house and the KKK came to his door, he is going to jump to a negative conclusion, and he will probably be correct. Gates was in his home not violating any laws and the police came. When he objected to their presence, they took him to jail. If he jumped to a negative conclusion beforehand, his arrest shows he was correct as well.

A Letter to the Birth Certificate Assholes

Kevin Bluitt

Here is Obama's birth certificate. He was born in Hawaii and his mother was a citizen of this country. Therefore, he is a citizen of the United States. Now, shut the fuck up!!! I'm tired of you birth certificate assholes wasting the country's time and energy of this mess. The only reason you continue to bring up this idiotic bullshit is because you are too prejudice to accept a black man as president and that we have a media industry who is too retarded to tell you that you are all ass-backward wrong and to shut the fuck up!!!

Only the most strident racists can create a delusion of this magnitude in the face of the mountain of facts that proves you wrong. I know you people are retarded enough to go to your graves thinking that Obama is not a citizen of America but that is your issue and I would appreciate it if you stop making it ours. You know that there is nothing Obama can do to change your brainwashed minds. If Obama hand delivered his birth certificate to each one of your front doors, you still would not acknowledge the truth and end this mess.

You are doing what people have done for hundreds of years in this country. You want to use some lie/propaganda based on race to scapegoat your personal issues in difficult economic times. This birth certificate controversy is a manifestation of your racism, your amorality, your hypocrisy, your political partisanship, and your stupidity.

You birth certificate lunatics spend the last 8 years kissing Bush and Cheney asses while they stole the country, the economy, the military, the treasury, and all of our money and now that you are broke and unemployed, you want to drum up this delusion about Obama's birth certificate and say Obama is illegitimate? Get some help, get some counseling, go to a 12 step meeting, check back into rehab, put the meth pipe down, stop smoking that stuff, or get some better stuff to smoke, and go talk to someone before you hurt somebody.

The country is about to go over an economic cliff and if this is what you want to bring up, then I have a suggestion for you. Why don't all you conservative psycho dumb asses go to hell, get your birth certificates, come back and show them to us because I don't believe you are born with the damn common sense that God gave you?

Walter Cronkite - The Anchor Who Broadcasted American History

Kevin Bluitt

Walter Cronkite passed away at the age of 92. Cronkite was what the founding fathers meant when they wrote the first amendment and created the idea of a free press. Cronkite gave the people 2 things, the news and the truth and most important of all, he gave them to the people whether they wanted it or not. He was attacked by several state governments over civil rights. Her was criticized by some of the highest levels of the governments for his stance against the Vietnam War. Through it all, he was still considered the most trusted man in America because broadcasted the truth as objectively as possible and allowed the people hold it government responsible for it's actions.

He was the greatest media voice for America's greatest events. The JFK assassination, the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Watergate, The Vietnam War, NASA Moon Landings, National Elections, and many other national historic events are the important events of American history because they were broadcasted by Cronkite. Any one of his historic coverages would make a career for most reporters. He was the voice of american history through the 60's and 70's. He not only broadcasted american history, he broadcasted american history over and over and over again.

Today we have a fractured, undisciplined, unethical, disorganized, partisan, selfish, and dishonest 24 hour news cycle that doesn't broadcast anything of any importance. The people know less about the acts of their government today even with a 24 hour news cycle. The media today is not a watchdog over the government but a willing accomplice in the government's deception of the people.

To a generation of americans, the passing of Walter Cronkite is made sadder because of the state of the national media today. If you were too small to remember Walter Cronkite and grew up with the media of today, you may not have any idea as to how a trusted news organization broadcasted real news to inform the people.

Sadly, we may never see another Walter Cronkite because it is unlikely that today's media will ever stop providing entertainment dressed up as news and assume the responsibility of keeping the people adequately informed and standing up to our government and tell us the truth.

Thanks Mr. Cronkite for telling us "the way it was".

Dating Is Mostly About Probability

DC Dating Diva

A Dating Series According to DC Dating Diva of DCDatingAdventures.Blogspot.com

Like most things in life, dating boils down to a little math and science. Skipped math? Flunked science? Well let me break it down. You are not going to meet him or her at home on the couch watching reruns of Desperate Housewives or 24. Better yet, you probably won't meet the love of your life at Friday night book club meetings, knitting class, or the secret society of poodle dog walkers.

Although some think I'm an expert in dating, because I can go out on a date at least weekly (or daily if I choose). I am not. What I understand is this: the probability of meeting a guy with whom I can laugh with and or share a special moment with over fries and a vanilla vodka gimlet will increase if I get out the house. Ok, so that's the first step. Get out the house.

Oh but the laws of probability don't stop there. You can't just step outside and expect the dating stork to deliver your dream man or woman that easily. Next, you have to work on your social skills. Getting out the house is great, but if you cannot communicate, well, then you're S.O.L. How does social skills and the laws of probability have anything to do with each other? Well you have to talk. A sentence or two, a little eye contact, some flirting...that all applies to probability. Because if you put those things in motion, it increases the chances of you actually meeting someone. Do it often enough, you can increase your probability ten-fold. So that's the second step. Be social, engage in conversations, even with people whom you may never talk to again.

For purposes of this post, the final step is your personality. Work on it. the laws of probability say, you probably will not meet someone worthy if you are a nagger, negative, an extreme curser, loud, rude, have low self-esteem, or are overly cocky, well this list could get pretty long.

The point is, you should be balanced. You should smile, be happy. Be engaging. Yes, we all have our shitty idiosyncrasies, but you have to check them. If someone is feeling the negativity seeping from your pores, they are most likely going to turn and bolt the other way. So, a sunny, positive, somewhat temperamental, intelligent outlook on dating and life should be displayed as much as possible, then you will probably meet someone.

1st Lt. Brain Bradshaw versus Michael Jackson

Kevin Bluitt

Michael Jackson died last week and the media world exploded. A soldier named 1st Lt. Brian Bradshaw died in Iraq on the same day and there was virtually no media covering at all. Some people are making the point by saying that this is the problem with our celebrity chasing media. They are right, but don't blame Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson was a world famous superstar before 1st Lt. Bradshaw was born. His place as a celebrity was secured long ago. Nevertheless, Michael Jackson's celebrity status cannot be used as an example of the media's indifference toward our soldiers when our government made great efforts to exclude the media in the first place.

Who ordered a media blackout when the war started, when the war was fought, and when our solders came home in caskets? These people can't blindly support the government's actions in a war that includes a media blackout and then get upset when the media doesn't cover the soldiers.

1st Lt. Bradshaw was not going to receive no more media coverage than the previous 6000 dead soldiers over the past 7 years whether Michael Jackson died or lived. Where was this dialog about the media 7 years ago? It is true. In 2009, the death of Michael Jackson received more media coverage than the death of our soldiers in Iraq. However, in 2008, Paris Hilton received more media coverage than the death of our soldiers in Iraq. In 2007, Kim Kardashian received more media coverage. In 2006, Britney Spears running around with no panties on received more media coverage. 7 years and 6000 dead soldiers later, these people are now bringing the media's coverage into question.

Remember when Cindy Shehan received media coverage about her protests over the death of her son in the war in Iraq. Because of the media, she received death threats, counter protests, was called unpatriotic, and her son's actions in the war were questioned. Now that 1st Lt. Bradshaw and Michael Jackson die on the same day, now these people want to raise the question adequate of media coverage? Well, I'll be damn....

The people criticizing the media's coverage of Michael Jackson versus 1st Lt. Bradshaw knew it was convenient to not raise this question during the past 7 years and they have to accept their share of the blame now. They made their media coverage bed hard and now they have to sleep hard.

If these people are going to raise the question of the indifference of the media toward our soldiers now, then they have arrived very, very late to this truth and they are just as much a part of the problem as the media itself.

You got 60 votes and you still come up short?

Kevin Bluitt

Al Franken has been sworn in as the senator from Minnesota, making the 60th democratic vote in the senate. Once again the democratic party stands on the precipice of solidifying yet another grand place in social justice history for generations to come. They have the house by wide margins. They have a filibuster-proof 60 vote majority in the senate. They have a liberal democratic president in the white house. The country needs it's markets regulated, it's banks regulated, it's economy fixed, it's healthcare system reformed and a variety of other things done. There is nothing they cannot pass through congress and have signed into law. The only way for the democrats to fail is to do nothing and they are on the precipice of doing just that.

On all of the issues facing the country, the democrats must stand up to all lobbyist opposition opposing the necessary changes to our country. Even with 60 votes in the senate, a majority in the house, and a democratic president, the democrats are still afraid to stand up, or sold out, to the lobbyists and the republicans.

Polls show that a majority of the american people support the issues supported by the democrats and still, they are afraid to stand up, or sold out, to the republican minority and the industry lobbyists. The democrats appear to be searching for a compromise between what the people want and what the industries will withstand. This is failure staring them in the face. They are searching for a solution to a political problem instead of the national problems. If they fail to implement the changes our country needs, the american people will never trust them with this type of majority again.

The people have done their job by electing change. Now it is up to the democrats to follow through. They cannot reform our medical system by dragging these corporations with their obsolete delivery system against their wills. They cannot reform our financial system by making the bankers happy. The democrats must stand up for the american people, not the corporate interests. It is all of nothing for the democrats. The people want the problems in our nation fixed and the democratic party has been tasked to fix them.

If the democrats succeed, they can retain a congressional majority for a generation. If the democrats fail, they will surely loose their majority, inspire republicans, and give life to a 3rd party movement. Failure is not an option, doing nothing is not an option, and seeking compromises in fear with huge majorities in congress is not an option either.

Ding! Dong! The Witch is Dead or has Quit!

Kevin Bluitt

Sarah Palin has announced her resignation as governor of Alaska.

This is the woman who the republican party and John McCain put up to be 1 heartbeat away from the presidency and she can't even finish her own term as governor. Now we can only speculate as to why. So let speculate. When was the last time a high profile politician abruptly resigned from their office for the sake of the people? Never. Therefore, this could only be 1 of the usual 2 possibilities.

1. An indictment Sarah Palin is still under investigation by the attorney general in the state of Alaska for ethics violations. She may have resigned knowing that the investigation will produce enough evidence to indict her. She may want to leave office before the information goes public. If the investigation returns an indictment, that is the end of her career as well as her chances in 2012. It will be the final nail in her coffin.

2. 2012 Presidential Campaign Sarah Palin is planning to make a run for the presidency in 2012. She saw her political chances in Alaska disappear and she sees that she will not be able to win a second term as governor. If she resigns now, she can dedicate all of her time to raising money and planing a strategy for 2012.

Option 1 is highly possible and more probable and option 2 is destined to crash and burn. Nevertheless, she is out of the governor's office. She is not doing this for the people of Alaska. She is doing this for the republican party or to save her won hide. The true reason for her resignation will come our soon enough. Whether it is based on an indictment or a future presidential run, her future in the party is clear. Over the next few years, Sarah Palin will become the face of a divisive, arrogant, selfish, hopelessly lost, and completely imploding republican party.

Go to bed in a democracy. Wake up in a dictatorship.

Kevin Bluitt

Iran had democratic elections to choose the government that will serve the people. The people went to be to bed after voting and woke up to find that their country and their democracy has been hijacked by a gang of religious clerics. The people woke up in a whole different country than the one they had an election in. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared president by the clerics and the people erupted in protest.

The nation of Iran is comprised of a very young population. 50% of the population is under the age of 30. They want to be connected with the outside world, be a part of pop culture, and move Iran into a more peaceful direction. The old guard will not all it because it challenges their power and their money. Therefore, the election was stolen. Protestors were beaten, imprisoned, or killed. The U. S. and Great Britain we blamed in order to scapegoat the Iranian government. Next, a media blackout was imposed on the nation so that the whole world could not see this tragedy.

But the world has seen this tragedy through the internet and Iran has shown the world who they really are. They are a tyrannical dictatorship ran by brutal religious zealots who will kill their own people by the thousands to retain their wealth and power masquerading as a democracy. The facade has fallen away and the world see the despotism in it true form. Iran has set events in motion that will result is a removal of the government by forces inside or outside their country. One way or another, the Iranian dictatorship and it leaders will be casted on the trash heap of history and it's people will go to bed in a democracy and wake up in a democracy.

Michael Jackson, Rest In Peace

Kevin Bluitt

Growing up in the 70s, I remember the Jackson 5 very well. I was watching the Jackson 5 appearance on Soul Train and my mother walked in and said "is that little Michael Jackson?" That was the first time I heard her call him "little Michael Jackson" and that's what she call him through for 2 decades. When he began to grow up she said "little Michael Jackson is getting tall." When "Off the Wall" came out she said "little Michael Jackson cut off his afro." Even when "Thriller" came out and Jackson became a mega-superstar she said "I can't believe that is little Michael Jackson is all over the TV."

She came to me one day and asked "why is little Michael Jackson turning white?" I did not have an answer but I can tell she really did not like that part of his career. Now that Michael Jackson has passed way, I can clearly see what he was and what he meant to millions of people and many generations.

It wasn't just his entertainment value. We cared about this man. He really had no power by force. He did not command an army. He made music, he danced, he sung, and the whole world like him. From the age of 5, he has been in front of the whole world and in his death, good or bad, the whole world has an opinion about him and the whole world is thinking about him.

To millions of fans, he will always be the mega superstar who was the king of pop. To others, he will be the weird eccentric hermit. To others sadly, he will be a pedophile. To others, he will be peter pan. To my mom, he will be "little Michael Jackson"

To me, he was the whole package. Michael Jackson will always be that kid singing "ABC" in the Jackson 5, the bad jerry curl guy from "Off the Wall", and the mega-superstar from "Thriller". It was the whole Michael Jackson package and I loved it all. The music, the videos, the clothes, the hair, the dance steps, the kid singing about a rat, the middle age guy trying to moonwalk, the family drama, the lawsuits, the spent money, the hermit, the marriages, the kids (his kids), the concert tours, the reunion tours, plastic surgeries, lightening of his skin, and everything else that made up this 40 year multigenerational experience called Michael Jackson. I loved it all. I laughed, I was surprised, I was shocked, I was angry, I was disappointed, I cheered, I hoped, and I grieved. Thorns and all. I loved the whole damn ride.

It feel strange to know that there won't be anymore Michael Jackson music, Michael Jackson news, Michael Jackson concerts, and everything else. His show lasted for over 40 years, but now it is over. The final curtain has fallen. Little Michael Jackson has left long ago. The Michael Jackson show has come to an end. As he leaves the stage for the last time, I hope he finds peace. Whatever he was lacking in life, I hope he finds it in the here after.

Thank you for a great performance. If you can, say hi to my mom. She'll get a real kick out that.

Bravo!!! Love onto you. Peace onto you.

Dude, 3 words...Fly Her In!!!

Kevin Bluitt

Once again, another republican is caught with his pants down. South Carolina governor Mark Sanford admitted an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina when he disappeared for 4-5 days and no one knew where he was. The thing that stands out is the fact that he did not tell his staff. With all due respect, the purpose of your staff is to cover your tracks to the media! That tells me that whatever he was doing in Argentina was so freaky, he knew there was no way his staff could cover it up. So this fool disappeared for 4-5 days and his wife and staff did not know his whereabouts. All the while, he was in Argentina with his mistress and all of this happened....on Father's Day!!

Personally, this looks like a payback situation. This is the kind of thing a husband does when he really, really wants to get back at his wife. You just can't go to Argentina like you are going to the grocery store. You have to reserve a hotel, move money around, etc. The logistic of this are huge. To not tell his staff is to make sure his wife can't find his ass and to do it on Father's Day is putting the cherry on top. He wanted to emotionally "OJ" his wife without the blood and the knife.

How many times do the republicans have to prove to this country that the republican party don't have any of the family values, religious morals, and common decency they like to lecture the rest of us on. Of course, Democrats cheat on their spouses too. However, Democrats don't claim to be holier than thou. Democrats don't claim to be the party of christian faith. Democrats don't claim to be the party of family values. Republicans have chosen to portray themselves as having a moral standard that advances their political agenda, but, in truth, they cannot reach themselves.

To all the cheaters in our political world, if you are going to cheat, have the decency to make an effort to do it right. If you want to cheat with a woman in Argentina, don't wait till Father's Day to disappear and don't tell your staff and lie about where you are. Wait for a quiet weekend, take a day trip somewhere, have your staff cover your tracks, and fly her in, fool!!! We have beaches here in America you can have plenty of sex on. Save yourself and the country all of this stress and have a little style in your cheating.

Give the people enough rope, they will hang their dictator

Kevin Bluitt

All week long, the republicans and conservatives have been wanting for Obama to speak out in stronger support of the Iranian protests. The reason why the people are protesting is because their government stole an election. Why should he speak out? The people are putting more pressure on the Iranian government than anything Obama can say or do.

Obama is correct when he said that if he speaks out, he will become a foil that can be used as propaganda by the Iranian government. The people is standing up to the government's policy of cracking down on protesters. They are using the internet to communicate to the world the state of their protests. They are using the death of Neda Agha Soltan, the poor woman who was killed during a protest whose was broadcasted on the internet, as a martyr for the people's cause. In the end, the Iranian government will have to come up with a concession that will satisfy the protesters and allow them to govern the country.

The Iranian people are flipping their government to a government that is favorable toward America. This is a free revolution in an enemy state. We don't have to send any money, no supplies, no troops. All we have to do is sit here with our hands in our pockets and let the Iranian people do the work for us. This will weaken the Iranian government and weaken Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to our advantage. Bottom line is if we give the Iranian people enough rope, they will hang their tyrannical dictatorship government. Obama needs to say nothing and give them all the rope they need.

Today is Father's/Lecture/No Credit/Cheap Tie Day!!! Yea.....

Kevin Bluitt

Father's Day use to mean something. It was about getting a good meal, getting some credit for being Dad, and getting a gift from the wife and family. Today, instead of a good meal, Dad gets a lecture from the women and kids whose dad left them. Instead of getting credit, he gets no credit for anything. Instead of a cheap gift, he gets an even cheaper gift. I know one dad who, instead of getting an actual tie, he got a gift card to go buy a tie. That's cold...

I think it's time to end father's day all together. Deadbeat dads have jacked up father's day for all the other fathers and it just isn't worth it anymore. Obama said that "dads need to be better dads to their kids than their dad was to them." I know there is a case to be made there but what kind of father's day message is that. That's like the president saying on Mother's Day, "moms need to be better cooks for their kids than their moms were to them." Stores don't advertise as many father day sales like mother day sales. Mother's Day is like the president of the USA. Father's Day is like the vice president. He is necessary but there is really nothing for him to do and unless something goes bad, it's never going to be about you.

I think sometimes Father's Day inspire fathers to leave their families because this day is not inspirational at all. It is nothing like mother's day. I don't think that was the intention. Oh well, to all the father's who are still there and still trying and still hanging in there, happy father's day. Try not to let the lectures and bad stories get you down. Don't pay your wife's cell phone bill and cut your kids allowance for a week. Bet you'll get some credit then. Order you a pizza, watch some TV, and take a nap because that's what you really want to do. Now that's a happy father's day...

Obama's Poll Numbers Are Going Down

Kevin Bluitt

I was watching Bill Maher on HBO and he said that this nation has 2 political parties. One party is a centrist/dright leaning party and the other is party of nut cases and psychos. He was referring to the republicans as the psycho party and the democrats as the centrist party. The problem for both parties is that the nation is a very liberal nation. The people want government single payer universal healthcare, regulation of our financial system, more money for education, improve housing, regulate credit card companies, and a host of other liberal issues and are willing to pay higher taxes to get them.

Obama and the political parties are more afraid of loosing their corporate campaign contribution than they are of loosing the vote of the people. The people are not stupid. They can see that the government is making a greater effort to please their corporate overlords than the people and their poll number reflect it, including Obama's poll numbers too.

Obama has a opportunity to change the course of our nation just by doing what the people want him to do. You can't suffer any political consequences by doing what 70% of the public want done. We need our government to start choosing to serve interest of the people over serving the interest of corporations. As long as Obama takes into consideration the interest of .005% of the people who make up a corporation over the 70% of the people who want it done, his poll number will continue to drop, and rightfully so.

GM goes bankrupt. As the auto industry goes, so goes America

Kevin Bluitt

Unbelievable!! General Motors Corp. has filed for bankruptcy. GM has been delisted and removed from the U. S. Stock Exchange. For decades, GM has done everything possible to stay afloat except sell good cars. They have smashed unions, fought federal regulations to increase gas mileage, shutdown factories, and moved jobs overseas. All in an an attempt to, as GM stated, "compete in the marketplace".

Well, GM was given everything they wanted to "compete in the marketplace". They had regulations removed, the unions made concessions, they shut down factories and moved them overseas. Local, state and federal tax regulations were removed and a host of over forms of corporate welfare was given to GM by the GM truckloads and they still went bankrupt.

Who is at fault? The answer is GM themselves. They failed to create products that could "compete in the marketplace". They were making big trucks when the rest of the world was making small cars and the small cars won out. Nissan, Toyota, and Honda did not beat GM by selling more trucks and SUVs. They beat GM by sell more 4 and 6 cylinders cars than GM could sell trucks and SUVs. GM also helped the competition by adopting a stupid business strategy. GM thought they could close down a factory in a town, move the factory to Mexico for cheap labor, then sell GM cars to the people in the same town.

Basically, the times changed and a new generation of consumers took over. GM made products that were not suitable for the times we are in today and that today's consumer did not want. They were subsidized by governments, financial institutions, and the tax payers. It all failed. Sadly, GM is not the only failed corporation subsidized by our governments, banks, and tax payers. As the old saying goes, "as the auto industry goes, so goes America."

Go back to the dark side and shut the f%#k up!!!

Kevin Bluitt

Get in the backseat, sit down, and shut the f%#k up!!! It is the most sickening thing to see Dick Cheney give a speech trying to validate and justify his failure to this country at the same time as Obama gives a speech on resolving the country's problems with Guantanamo Bay. Obama is trying to clean up the international and domestic mess Bush and Cheney made and here is Cheney trying to convince the country that Obama is mishandling the national security of the country. Cheney is saying Obama is the problem for this country, not his and Bush's legacy. That is stupid and insane on it's face.

The country doesn't care what Cheney has to say because the country is in a very different place now. The country has confidence that Obama will work through this mess and that is something Bush and Cheney could never get. Bush and Cheney had to scare the country in order to get the country to respect them. Obama treats and speak to the people like adults. This is why he is more respected, has more of the country's confidence, and the country is more hopeful about the future than any time during the Bush/Cheney years.

Cheney is like the rest of the republican party. They refuse to believe that they are out of step with the country and the country has moved on beyond their politics. Cheney still believes that he matters and he doesn't. His words, his beliefs, his stories, his lies, even his truths, they just don't matter anymore. For all that he said in his speech, there was not one apology, one admission of fault, nor one acceptance of responsibility. That's why he needs to shut up and accept his infamous place in history. Cheney made his bed in history, now he has to shut up and lie there.

Pelosi Must Investigate or Resign.

Kevin Bluitt

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is stating that the Bush administration and the CIA mislead her and congress regarding the use of torture techniques on enemy prisoners.

First of all, Pelosi is covering her backside because in the past few months, she stated that the she was never informed at all about any torture techniques being used. Now she is saying she was informed but she was misled. She stated "at every step of the way, the administration was misleading Congress and that is the issue". Pelosi is correct. Misleading Congress is the issue. That is why she must now call for a congressional investigation and a special prosecutor to investigate this immediately.

Don't come before the american people and tell us that the Bush administration and the CIA mislead Congress and not call for an investigation. This is not the only time Pelosi and the democratic congressional leadership allowed people to skate on their crimes.

I am tired of seeing Dick Cheney on TV saying "hell yea we tortured them, tortured them all day and all night and twice on Sunday" and there is no action by the congress. I am tired of seeing Karl Rove on TV ignoring a federal congressional subpoena to appear before congress while there are people are sitting in jail right now for ignoring a parking ticket.

Pelosi is admitting that people lied to Congress and if she does not call for a special prosecutor to investigate, she needs to go.

Obama will not release torture photos. What's the problem?

Kevin Bluitt

President Obama has decided not to release the torture photos, that were taken during the Iraq war, to the public. His reason not to release the photos is that, due to the graphic nature, they could incite the middle east forces to target all U. S. troops and undermine America's efforts to negotiate an end to the Iraq war. Obama made the correct decision on this matter. The interest of the public and the troops are being upheld.

For the organizations who disagree with this decision, the question they must answer is do they have a problem with the photos or the information behind them? They cannot have a problem with the information because the information is already out. If they have a problem with the withholding of the photo's, that is a trivial position to hold.

The problem with the Bush administration was that the people did not get any photos nor any information. The evidence was hidden. The records were destroyed. As far as the Bush administration was concerned, it never happened and the public was in the dark.

The difference with Obama is that even though he is withholding the release of the photos, the public still have the information behind them. We know the torture that took place. We know how many times each prisoner was water boarded even though we don't have the photos of it.

Obama is upholding the public interest by releasing the information to the public and he is protecting the interest of our soldiers by not releasing the photos. If Bush was still in office, we would have no knowledge that the photos existed and no knowledge the at torture ever took place. When the time is safe for our military, he will release the photos. Until then, the public will be well served in having the detailed information regarding the torture performed in our name.

Joe the Plumber is leaving the republican party. It's about time!!!

Kevin Bluitt

Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher is so outraged at the overspending of the republican party that he has decided to leave the party. It's about time he smelled the coffee that has been brewing for the past 8 months. This is the first mature, intelligent, and enlightening thing this man has said in the past 6 months.

Joe and his friends supports the party of small government, tax cuts, deregulation, and spending cuts. Joe is a man under the delusion that the republican party represents him. The reality is that the republicans are not the party of small government, their tax cuts are only for the wealthy, their deregulations favor corporations at the expense of the people's well being, and their spending cuts are for the programs that benefit the "Joe the Plumbers" of America.

The republican party is not doing anything it has not always done so why is he really leaving the party? I believe this delusional soul is waking up to the reality that the republican party used him and screwed him. The republicans were never going to adopt his brand of politics because it was not in the interest of their wealthy base and their corporate overlords.

"Joe the Sucker Plumber" is finally realizing how much a sucker he really was and how he played a role in duping conservatives into supporting a party who was working against their own interest.

Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher has worked very hard against his own interest for a number of years now. We can only hope he is finally realizing how stupid, insane, and economically dangerous his politics are in this economic climate.

Obama's first 100 days. Where would we be without him?

Kevin Bluitt

Obama has reached his first 100 days in office. The 100 day benchmark is not much of a measure of the president but it can still give you a sense of where he is going to take the country. We still have a recession. We still have banks not lending. We still have job losses and all of the other problems this country faces. Nevertheless, most americans feel at this point that Obama is doing the right things to get the country back on the right track.

Now that Obama has been in office for 100 days, the question can now be asked. What if McCain/Palin had won the election? Where would we be now if we were 100 days into the Mcain/Palin administration?

Based on the actions of the republican party, I can guess McCain/Palin would have done nothing. They would have opposed everything that would help the people. They would cut taxes on the rich in order to help them weather this economic storm and allow the rest of us to sink. They would oppose regulating the banks and trading companies that has destroyed Wall St. They would have sat in the White House and watched more and more of the middle class loose more of their 401ks and watch more and more of the "real americans", they claim to represent, loose their homes and their futures. Our allies would still lack respect for our country. In short, we would have more losses, more economic destruction, and more collapsing of our middle class with no end in sight.

Everything we are seeing from the republicans as a minority party is what we would see if McCain/Palin had won. Everything the republicans and conservatives have presented as solutions to the country problems would only continue the failure of our nation. With their nonsense rhetoric, propagandizing media, and stupid tea bag protest, the republicans and conservatives are validating the choice America made.

Michael Steel is giving black slang a bad name.

Kevin Bluitt

I'm going to court to get a temporary restraining order to stop RNC chairman Michael Steele from using black slang. He need to stay at least 500 feet away from black slang because he is beating it to death!!! Michael Steele must stop using black slang and never attempt to do so ever again.

He has said he was going to give an "off the hook makeover for the GOP." He has referred to the economic stimulus as "bling bling." He was just on MSNBC Morning Joe telling 3 of the whitest white people about how people were their caps injecting terms like "it's cool" and "that's how we roll." Steele use of black slang in his speeches and interviews is embarrassing even to rappers, let alone everyday black people. He believe this stupid, mindless, inane attempt to "talk in our language" and connect with minorities will bring more minorities to the republican party. What is wrong with this man?

Well, allow me to tell you.
1. Anyone who thinks using black slang is the best way to connect to black people has never held black people in any high regards to begin with. He is showing how he thinks of black people as simple minded and ghetto thinking people who embrace the racist stereotypical black culture. Bill Clinton, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Bobby Kennedy never used black slang to get black people to follow them.

2. He is a minstrel. He is not the RNC chairman, he is the RNC minstrel and just like any minstrel, you have to be fine with perpetuating racist stereotypes against your own people and play to the racist mentalities of white people. That is what he is doing because that is who he is.

Using black slang in entertainment is one thing, using black slang in politics as a way to formulate public support for the RNC is stupid and offensive to black people. It is obvious he doesn't care how this "talking black" act affects black people outside of his party and politics but he still should damn well know better.

Tea Bag Protests?!?!? Don't Tea Bag Me!!!

Kevin Bluitt

This has got to be the most stupid, wrong-headed, and insanely delusional protest this country has ever seen. If it is stupid, wrong-headed, and insanely delusional, it must have something to do with the republican party and conservatives. Here is the protest. The republicans and conservatives are protesting the Obama tax plan that do not affect them, government spending that they did not oppose when president W. Bush did it, socialism that does not exist, and tax hikes for the rich who they are not.

First, these people are delusional. They are protesting out of their own delusional fears, prejudices, and politics. These people are not suffering because of Obama. They are suffering from the policies that they voted for when they voted for Bush. They are protesting Obama because, according to their brainwashed mindsets, he is responsible for the ills in our country, not W. Bush. Obama is responsible for the economy, the failed wars, the thieves on Wall Street and the republican/conservatives must take to the streets in protest. Even though he is reversing the Bush policies that has economically devastated them, that doesn't matter. They just can't have that.

Secondly, this is not a grass root movement protest. This is a orchestrated publicity stunt backed and financed by the usual conservative zealots, namely Newt Gingrich, Dick Army, and Fox News Corp. They are creating this mess to try to give the American public the impression/propaganda that there is still a major conservative political movement in this country. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The truth is that the republican party is in disarray and relegated to a minority status in our government. Conservatives don't know what they stand for because they are constantly tripping over their own hypocrisy. This tea bag protest is a symbol of what the republican/conservative revolution has become. A poorly manufactured, pathetic, and hollow cause filled with empty americana pipe dreams, follow by small minded, prejudice, and fearful people grasping at their delusions of grandeur.

Also, a waste of perfectly good tea.

Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck tell us what they really think...about the us.

Kevin Bluitt

Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck are examples of what the modern conservative movement is all about. A multimillion dollar driven, fear mongering, loud mouth, enterprise whose purpose is to dumb down, and keep dumb down, the American people for their own profit and quest for political power.

Rush Limbaugh got a call on his show from a veteran and he call him ignorant because he disagreed with him and had the nerve to tell him so.

Glen beck is a train wreck looking for a place to happen. He is a lying psycho. He is the most dangerous man on television because he is openly trying to incite some nutcase to do something extreme and someone will get killed.

The election of Obama as president was the American people taking back their country from the likes of the Becks and Limbaughs of the world. Like any wounded animal, they are more desperate than ever. They will do anything and say anything to get their power back. They will incite any act, misinform all of the masses, and destroy this country to get the political power they want. To them, the people are peasant serfs who can be manipulated to do their will, even if it means smashing this country to pieces. These are not the kind of people who will burn the country down in order to save it. They are far worse. Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck are the kind of people who will burn the country down just to watch it burn.

What was the point, America?

Kevin Bluitt

The media has been broadcasting tragic stories about the medical industry crisis in this country. Frontline on PBS broadcasted a report entitled "Sick Around America." Several news organizations have been broadcasting reports on how medical industry costs are crushing the middle class in this country, especially in this recession. As I listen to the stories of people loosing everything to medical industry costs, one question keeps popping up in my mind. If America's middle class can go bankrupt because of medical bills, what was the point and purpose of all that America has accomplished in the past?

What was the point of being the economic engine for the world if medical bills can bankrupt our nation and it's people? What was the point of winning 2 world wars and a cold war if we can loose our homes simply because we became too sick to pay? What was the point of creating the industrial age, putting a man on the moon, and creating the computer age if we can have poor and middle class citizens going broke and begging in the streets for dialysis and chemotherapy?

It appears that this country is not benefiting from it's all that it has accomplished throughout it's history. This country use to be the beacon for the world, the example for the world, and our people benefited from it. Today, this country is the world's debtor nation, the world's greatest global warming offender, and sanctioning a medical industry that is collapsing our middle class.

The U.S. is still a wealthy nation. Nevertheless, the U.S. is not using it's resources for the benefit of it's people. In the U. S., medical care is still thought of as a commodity for profit. Whereas the rest of the world thinks of it as necessary service for their people. What is the point of being a superpower if we do not cash in our own chips for ourselves. That is what our f!@#%ing wealth is for!

The U.S. use to be the country that had the foresight to shape the future for the rest of the world. Today, the U.S. can't even follow the example of the rest of the civilized world on the issue of universal health care. The U.S. government would rather watch it's economy and middle class collapse than to admit the rest of the world has a better philosophy on universal healthcare. After all this country has accomplished for itself and the world, if we allow it all to fall down to where we are now, what was the point?

Murders, robberies, and crimes. Oh my......god!!!!

Kevin Bluitt

The number of mass shootings and robberies appears to be occurring more and more often. Although statistics show that crime in our country overall is going down, these extreme crimes seems to be happening more often.

The shooting in Alabama that left 10 dead, the North Carolina shooting that left 8 dead, the shooting of 4 police in Oakland Ca., and the Bingington NY. shooting, most recently, are all examples of how violent a society we have become. These hard economic times are stressing people beyond their limits and some have completely snapped.

All across this country, more desperate people who have lost their jobs are turning to robbery. Here is a robbery where a desperate man robs a convenience store with his child. What the hell is wrong with this guy?

For all of our conservative political preaching, we have never been a "family values" or "small town values" nation as McCain/Palin said last year. We are a nation who is in economic decline with it's people becoming more and more desperate and hopeless. Because we have made "values" nothing more that a political catch phrase, our nation doesn't seem to have any when it needs them the most. Over the past decade, we have exchanged hope for capitalism and as anyone can see, a few has profited, the many has lost hope, and we are a declining nation because of it.

Where are the Republican People Police?!?!?!?

Kevin Bluitt

Republicans have no shame, respect, descency, morals, and intelligence. Not the party, that goes without say. I'm talking about the republican people. Whatever they call themselves, "right wingers", "red state voters", "red necks", "Fox News watchers", whatever!! You republican people need to police your people!!!

Democrats has crazy people in it's clubhouse too, but republicans have a truckload of people who are in need of some serious counseling. Who is the Glenn Beck of the democratic party? The Rush Limbaugh? The Michell Malkin? The Ann Coulter? The Bill O'Reily? These people and their congressional representatives are completely absent of any morality and any bounds of reason.

My question is why? Why are these people running this party? Why are these people allowed to say the things they say? Simple. The people who they represent do not hold them accountable. The "right wingers", the "red state voters", the "red necks", the "Fox News watchers" have no interest in policing these people. If Keith Oberman goes off like Glenn Beck, he would loose half is audience. You can't be a loose cannon and reach the top levels of the democratic party. On the republican side you can.

These times are too difficult to tolorate such loud stupidity. These media talking heads on the republican side are simply not helping anyone, especially republican voters. These people have the careers they have because no one on the republican side speaks up for common descency by telling the Rush Limbaughs, the Michelle Malkins, and the Glen Becks to shut the hell up!!!! Until then, I can have no respect for republicans and I can only think of them as a party represented by psychos, nut cases, zealots, and the totally amoral.

So long Rick, Nice working for you. Love U.S. Government

Kevin Bluitt

Rick Waggner, CEO of GM, gets "laid off" by the White House and gets a 20 million dollar payout. If you want to know the difference between you being laid off and Rick being laid off, this is it. He gets 20 million to be shown the door. You, on the other hand, get maybe a month of severence, loss of medical coverage for your whole family, and whatever you can get from unemployment.

First of all, with the state of GM, Rick Waggner should be fired and no severance given to him at all. Nevertheless, he is given 20 million on top of the millions he already has for the job he did at GM. Rick Waggner is not 6 months away from loosing his house to foreclosure. Rick Waggner will not have to sit his kids down and tell them they can't go to college this semester. Rick Waggner will still have health coverage, even if it is on COBRA. You, on the other hand, eh...not so much.

We will never get over this economy and it's problems until we stop talking about the rich and start talking about the poor. I am tired of hearing about the concerns of the rich, their privacy concerns, their bonuses, their bailouts, their offshore accounts and tax havens, their toxic assets, their golden parachutes, their 10 year old Ponzi Schemes, and their congressional hearings with no arrests.

I am not hearing anything about the poor nor the middle class becoming poor. Our country is lost if we have no concern about the middle class in a of a huge recession. This is our country validating greed over people. What we have here is rich people thinking they don't have to sacrafice and cannot be touched in this recession and our government is covering for them.

Hey!! What happened to "for better or for worse?!?!?

Kevin Bluitt

ABC has published a report about how some wives of husbands who have been laid off are having difficulty adjusting to being the sole breadwinner. What happened to "for better or for worse, richer or poorer"? Did these women think that part of the marriage vows didn't really count? I have so many ways of dealing with this so let me get started.

Lets start with Dr. Phil / Kev......
Look, times are tough and you can believe that the last thing these men need is for their wives to look crossed-eyed at them because they got laid off. He didn't cheat, he got laid off. He didn't go Chris Brown/medieval on your ass, he just lost his job. By loosing respect for your man in these times, you have become another problem he has to deal with and you have just made yourself an enemy to your husband. Nice way to stand by your man ladies....

And now Marriage Counselor Kev......
Ok now here is some truth. Loosing respect for your mate is a very very big deal. If loosing a job can cause a loss of respect for your man, then that can only mean 1 of 2 things is true. 1. You based too much of your relationship/marriage on everything except the love for the actual man or 2. you never had too strong a relationship/marriage to begin with. Either way, you have work to do to repair your relationship.

Here comes Grandpa Kev.....
I think the men of our grandfather's generation (World War II era) were better men than the men of today partly because they had better women by their side. The women back in those days helped their men get through the great depression and WWII. They worked in factories, worked on farms, and did anything to keep the family and their marriages going. How can a man not stay married to a woman like that for 50 years. Older generations have pulled their families and their marriages through worse than this and you can too.

Here comes Sweetheart Kev....
To the ladies, the next time you feel like you are loosing respect for your unemployed man, try to remember this economy is not his fault and he needs a loving word and support from the woman he loves the most. Remember the marriage vows that you and he took before god...."To love, honor, and cherish. To have and to hold, for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, through sickness and health, till death do you part."

And now Pimpin' Kev....
To the men, the next time your wife looses respect for you because you were laid off, just remember this for the next time she ask you if something makes her look fat. Tell her in no clearer terms, "hell yes!!!" And if she ask why you are saying that, tell her because you lost all respect for her fat ass too.

Why the f@#$% are you yelling at Cramer?!?!?

Kevin Bluitt

I saw the interview with Jim Cramer on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and I was very upset with Mr. Stewart. The interview consisted of Stewart yelling, cursing, and lecturing for the collapse of our financial markets. Although I agree with the points he was bringing up, Stewart was yelling at the wrong person.

For all the problems he causes, still Cramer is a symptom. The disease is deregulation, lack of oversight, and our government complicity in the crimes on Wall Street. Stewart wants for CNBC to do a better job of covering our financial system. How?? When the regulatory and oversight system has been dismantled and our government is paid off by corporations, what does he expect for CNBC to do?

Stewart made the point that Cramer and CNBC knew what was going on. Maybe so, but who knew first? Who was the first to know about our financial markets, Cramer or the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)? Who was the first to know about our banks, CNBC or the Federal Reserve? The "powers that be" decided to manipulate our financial system to their advantage and our regulatory system complied and our Congress got paid off and looked the other way. As of right now, there has been no indictments for the failures of AIG, CitiGroup, Merrill Lynch, and other major financial institutions. That is at the behest to our government, not CNBC nor Cramer.

Stewart said that he wanted the TV version of Cramer to protect him from the Wall Street version of Cramer. Stewart's anger is very very misdirected because that is not his job. It is the job of the S. E. C., the Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve, and the Congress. All of these government entities has failed in their duties and that is why the country is in the jam it is in now, not due to Cramer's stock advice nor CNBC's corporate cheerleading. If Stewart want to be angry at someone, he needs to be angry at the lack of government oversight, deregulation of our financial system, and our government being sold to the highest corporate bidder.

This is a stickup!!! Give me all of your money or I'll blow your economy away!!!

Kevin Bluitt

AIG has given a confidential report to the Treasury regarding the impact of a possible failure of the company. The report stated that "the failure of AIG would cause turmoil in the U. S. economy and global markets and have multiple potentially catastrophic unforeseen consequences." In other words, if AIG goes down, so does the nation's economy.

The government has already given AIG $130 billion dollars and it was not enough so the government gave them an additional $30 billion dollars. Although that may be a huge sum of money, it did not mean too much since AIG lost $61 billion dollars in the fourth quarter of 2008. According to AIG, the whole financial of the United States could collapse if they were to go bankrupt.

The sad part of all of this that AIG may be right. AIG is involved in so many ventures and markets around the world that bankruptcy would have a huge impact on this economy and economies around the world. AIG should not have gotten this big. I remember the government breaking up AT&T when they wanted to capture such a large part of the market. If AT&T was broken up, what happened with AIG? What happened to federal regulations? What happened to the Sherman Antitrust Act? What happened to the Glass-Steagle Act?

These regulations were put in place so that the collapse of these companies would not collapse the nation's economy. It is the heights of hypocrisy that these companies spent millions buying our congress to have these regulations removed in order to be more capitalistic when they profit and then demand socialist bailouts when they fail.

Our government and oversight system has allowed these corporations to become too big to fail. That is not the purpose of a regulated capitalist system. If a corporation is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. Otherwise they will do what AIG is doing. Place a gun to the head of our economy and threaten to shoot if we don't give them all of our money.

Our government, economy, and corporations are so intermingled that in order to save our economy, we have to save these wretched corporations.

Rush Limbaugh wants to debate President Obama.... Like Obama doesn't have anything better to do.

Kevin Bluitt

I am not sure who is a bigger idiot, Rush Limbaugh or the republican party for giving Rush Limbaugh such a high profile in their party. Limbaugh is the driving force behind the republican party. His words, his radio show, his uncompromising stance on the issues are the backbone of the republican party and the conservative movement.

Does anyone really think that Limbaugh speaks for those who have watched their jobs disappear? Does he speak for those who watched whole industries disappear? Does he speak for the collapse of the middle class in this country? Absolutely not. Rush speaks for himself. Everything he does is for his own self-aggrandizing purposes and the republican party allow themselves to be used by him for his ends.

Now Rush is calling for a debate with Obama. Obama is trying to salvage the country from the failed policies that Limbaugh have been selling to the masses as "the conservative movement." Obama is working for the people. Limbaugh is working for himself. These times are too hard and the lives of too many people are hanging by a thread to tolerate Rush Limbaugh selfish silliness.

The press has reported that Michelle Obama has done some work in a soup kitchen to help feed some of the Washington D. C. homeless. Barack Obama is working to implement his budget and help save whole industries that are on the verge of disappearing. Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh is still on the radio running his dumb-ass mouth. The Obamas are the kind of people who walk the walk and they don't need to stop walking to debate some loudmouth lunatic who just talks the talk.

War of the Worlds 2009 - Republicans vs. Reality

Kevin Bluitt

The republicans are in their own world. Literally. Their world is called the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC 2009 in Washington D.C.. This is a conference for all of the major players in the republican party and the conservative movement. Some of the many speakers at the conference were Joe Scarborough, Tucker Carlson, John Bolton, Bay Buchanan, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, and you can't have a serious republican conservative conference without Joe the Plumber.

Some of the topics on the conference agenda that they will be addressing are "Protecting the Secret Ballot", "Targets of the Fairness Doctrine", "Bailing Out Big Business: Are We All Socialists Now", and "Al Franken and ACORN: How Liberals are Destroying the American Election System."

How about having some topics on their agenda like "Oh Shit, The Economy is Collapsing", or "We Broke America, What the F#@k Do We Do Now?!?", " or "Why Aren't These Banker CEO Assholes in Jail?" or "Dude, Who Stone My House?!?!?" or my favorite "Where the Hell Did America's Money Go?!?!?"

Placing those meetings on CPAC's agenda means that the republicans would have to deal with reality and you know they just can't have any of that. That would cause them to seriously look at their hand in creating the nation's problems. Why blame deregulations and insane tax cuts for the rich when you can blame Al Franken and ACORN? Why talk about George W. Bush when you can talk about Joe The Plumber?

The republicans and the conservative movement have lost all respectability as a political ideology and a political party. The battles and enemies the republicans are fighting are all in their heads and they are willfully using this as a distraction from dealing with the hard realities facing the country and most of all, accepting their share of blame. The republicans are loosing the country because they cannot be trusted to abandon their political propaganda in dire times when we need to place the country's interest above party loyalties. They are not up to the challenge. So it is probably for the best that we have some real grownups deal with the nation's problems and let the republicans and conservatives stay in their own little imaginary conservative republican world.

Obama's predecessors spent trillions and you have the same old crap.

Kevin Bluitt

I once had a credit card I used quite often. The payments kept rising and so did the interest rate. I finally stopped looking at the balance and started looking at what I was spending the money on. I spent credit card money on clothes I hardly wore, restaurants I was not impressed with, girlfriends I broke up with, cars I should have got rid of, and stuff in general I did not need. I looked around my apartment and saw the same old crap I had for years but I was deeply in debt. I spent all of that money and paid all of that interest and I had nothing to show for it.

The reason I am reminded of this story is because president Obama released his budget proposal to congress. It's a 3.55 trillion dollar budget with 1.75 trillion dollars in deficits. This is a staggering amount of money considering the U. S. is already 10 trillion dollars in debt right now.

In 1980, the national debt of the United States was 60 billion dollars. After 8 years of Reagan, 4 years of Bush Sr., 8 years of Clinton, and 8 years of W. Bush Jr., we now have a 10 trillion dollar debt. Now the question is, what do we have to show for the 10 trillion dollars spent? Since 1980, we have had recessions, wars, military spending, domestic spending, tax cuts, and every other kind of spending. Nevertheless, what does America as a society has to show for it's 10 trillion dollars?

I don't mind spending trillions as long as we get something to show for it. That is the problem with the deficit the United States has. This country spent 10 trillion dollars over the past 30 years and has very little to show for it. Other countries spent trillions of dollars over the same period and they have universal healthcare, high speed rails, fair trade policies, subsidized education, upgraded infrastructure, and other things to show for their expenditure. The U. S. has nothing to show for it's deficit but a failing economy, failing banks, failing corporations, 2 failed wars, failing infrastructure, failing middle class, and failure after failure after failure.

Obama is trying to change the financial course of our country. He has no choice. He has to or the failures of the past 3 decades will finally bankrupt this nation. Just like I looked around my apartment and saw the same old crap, americans are looking around the country and are seeing the same old crap instead of seeing 10 trillion dollars worth of new stuff. From this point forward, every trillion dollars the U. S. spend must have a beneficial result, must produce something tangible, and must have something to show for it! If Obama can get something to show for the trillions he is spending, he will be more successful than his recent predecessors.

Obama addresses the nation as a statesman.

Kevin Bluitt

President Obama made his first state of the union address to congress. Obama speech was lofty, high minded, and straight forward. He spoke of the state of our country. He spoke about the people and how this recession is crushing their dreams. How the economy can be fixed. How healthcare, financial industry, and education can be reformed.

He was part leader and part cheerleader. His speech was thoughtful and detailed. He spoke to the needs of all facets of the country. He has laid the cornerstone for his administration and his response to the national crisis. Now the question is can he pull it off?

Nevertheless, it was a very good, inspiring, and uplifting speech. Whether you agree or disagree, Obama tried to speak to the reality of the country instead of spouting political philosophical nonsense. He spoke about the the real problems in "real America", as republicans like to say, and, once again, looked to unite both parties with inspiration and a plan. Well done.

By the way, why do he republicans look so pissed? McCain, Shelby, Hatch, Mitchell and all of the others look like they still haven't extracted Obama's shoe from their conservative butts.

Jindal addresses the nation as a delusional partisan fool.

Kevin Bluitt

La. governor Bobby Jindal gave the republican response. My response to it was "what the hell is this?" He told a story about his mom and dad going to the grocery store? He kept saying "Americans can do anything" as if he was talking to grammar schoolers. He talks about "american spirit", "compassionate hearts of americans", and family stories. Foolish conservative babble that is no help to anyone in these time.

The problem is not that american can't do anything. The problem is that too many of his conservative republican brethren don't want to do anything except cut taxes.

"Americans can do anything" but I didn't hear anything that can help anyone keep their house out of foreclosure.

"Americans can do anything" but the republicans have no plan to do anything.

Jindal said that "the strength of America is not found in our government. It is found in the compassionate hearts and enterprising spirit of our citizens." They just don't get it. Our government must lead the way out of this mess. Our government must fix this mess. To adopt a political philosophy stating that government has no role in resolving this economic crisis does not in any way help the people of this country, fails to speak to the crisis that is the reality of this country, and is just plane stupid.

This economic crisis is beyond the republican's conservative ideologies. You can't hate government and expect to govern the country out of this economic collapse. Only the last believers of the conservative movement still hold on to that belief. Jindal and the republicans are still only talking to their 25% hardcore believers. They have still have no interest in talking to the rest of the country.

Welcome back to 1999.

Kevin Bluitt

Well it is official. The stock market has closed to it's lowest point in over 10 years. What this means is that we, as a country, have economically regressed back to the point to where we were 10 years ago. Our 401ks, our homes values, our personal income, and our stocks portfolios are right back to where they were in 1999.

This country has spent 6 trillion dollars and launched 2 foreign wars for over 10 years just to get back to the same economic point where we were 10 years ago. (Talk about going around the world just to get to the other side of the street.)

The only results we have to show for all that has passed over the past 10 years are that we have indebted our country to the tune of 10 trillion dollars, we have destroyed our foreign policy credibility, our financial system is collapsing, our failures in 2 wars, and our economy is crushing our middle class.

Economically speaking, it's as if the last 10 years has been a complete waste. That is the saddest of all commentary for the economic state of our country.

P.S.
I was dreaming when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray.

Where are our protests? Already done.

Kevin Bluitt

I have been hearing over the past few months about protests in other countries about the world wide recession. There are protests in Germany, France, Ireland, Russia, Iceland, Greece, Bulgaria, Japan, and several other nations against the way their governments are responding to the world wide recession.

There are no protests against how our government is because we already had our protest in the shape of the 2008 election. Our election was the same protest against our government's policies and the recession as the protest in countries around the world. Though our government's handling of the recession has been far from perfect, the general consensus is that it is moving forward with policies that will help resolve the recession.

Democracy is the best way to resolve the protests. As elections are held in those other countries and the people responsible are removed from office, the policies will change for the better and the protests will cease.

If anyone had any doubts about the statement this nation made to the world in the 2008 election, the absence of protests in the street should remove them.

Right America: Feeling Wronged because they are too stupid to know what's right.

Kevin Bluitt

I just finished watching the HBO special "Right America: Feeling Wronged, Some Voices from the Campaign Trail". The producer, Alexanda Pelosi, travels around the south and film the opinions of people who call themselves god loving christian, patriotic, small town values, all american, conservative republicans.

These god loving christians called Obama "nigger", "666", "Hitler", and "the antichrist". These patriotic americans said that if Obama wins, they will move to Spain, Canada, Costa Rica, and the Bahamas. They can't deal with Obama in America but they handle black people in the Bahamas.

I saw these people bitch, moan, cry, and get very angry about Obama winning the presidency. I knew these people existed and I knew their views and opinions regarding Obama, the democrats, God, and everything else. I am still surprised and shocked when I hear their naked, unfiltered, brazen opinions.

These people think the rest of the world thinks they are stupid, small minded, racist, psychotic, christian hypocrites because they live in small towns, have christian values, they do blue collar jobs, and live in "real America". Wrong!!!

People think they are stupid because they vote against their own economic interest and are proud of it.

People think they are small minded because they think that just because they live in the back-wood sticks, they know more about blue collar hard work than people in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. (as if there are not any blue collar hard working jobs in those cities.)

People think they are racist because they fly the confederate flag and refer to a well spoken, intelligent, educated black man as "nigger".

People think they are psychotic because their beliefs about Obama, Bush, the country, and why they are in the state they are in are completely irrational and absent of any reasonable and sensible thought.

People think they are christian hypocrites because as christians, they should damn well know better!!!

I feel angry and sorry for these people. These are the people who the republican party have banked on for the past 30 years. These are the people who bought into all of the republican narratives. From Ronald Reagan's "welfare queen" to George H. W. Bush's "Willie Horton" to George W. Bush's WMDs. They are living in a collapsing economy they voted for. They are fighting illegal wars that they thought were noble crusades. They are loosing their jobs, homes, savings, and everything they have worked for for the past 30 years and still believe their issues (abortion, anti gay rights, small town values, etc.) are worth the losses.

Because these people have more faith in their republican delusions than in the truth, they helped bring this country to this point and, just like the republican party they worship, they have no conscience about it. They still worship the republican party, still watch Fox News, and still follow the conservative philosophies even though the current economic state clearly shows them that the republican party has left them high and dry. They followed Reagan and the 2 Bushes for over 30 years and they have nothing to show for it. Their jobs are gone. Their businesses are going bankrupt. Their small towns are boarded up. Their farms and homes are near foreclosure. Their medical coverage gone. They have more meth-labs in their small town than dope houses in big cities. They are now the welfare queens and kings that Reagan criticized. They are now living the disaster they feared, and it is caused by their own conservative voting hand.

I think in their hearts of hearts, they know the republicans politics have betrayed them but they just cannot bring themselves to face it. All they can do and all they have left to hold on to is their belief that they are living in "real America."

What's Wrong with "Buy American"? Especially Now.

Kevin Bluitt

The stimulus bill has passed congress and is headed to the white house for Obama's signature. The stimulus package contains a "buy American" clause that states that any infrastructure project paid for with money from the stimulus package must use materials made in America. Many people have said that this is protectionism and this move could start trade wars with foreign countries.

This is not protectionism. This is common sense trade policy. We are trying to build jobs in America, not create jobs in other countries. Every penny of the stimulus package must be used to build American industries and create jobs in America.

For too long, we have had a trade policy that benefited foreign countries more than the U. S. In these economic times, we can no longer support American companies that want to use tax dollars to acquire foreign materials at the expense of American industries and jobs. These companies' interest rest with foreign industries, some of which are subsidized by their government. American companies using foreign materials will not help rebuild America's economy.

Right now, we need for all American companies to use American goods and services and if that requires a "buy American" clause to guarantee that tax dollars are spent in this manner, then so be it and we will risk the trade war.

The "No Help" Republicans

Kevin Bluitt

Harry S. Truman referred to the congressional republicans as the "do nothing" republicans. Today, they can be called the "no help" republicans. Our nation is on the brink of a economic collapse and the republicans are adopting a political strategy of obstructionism to any effort by our government to directly help the people.

Whether Obama won or lost, the republicans had no intention of helping the people weather this economic crisis. If Obama had lost, president John McCain and the republicans would enacted tax cuts that would not help anyone facing a layoff or foreclosure. Now that Obama has won, the republicans are hindering any effort to help the people and failing to come up with any plan of their own other than give more tax cuts to the wealthy and hope for the best.

This is about dedicating the nation's resources to directly help the people, not corporations and the republicans were never going to do that. They never had any intention of helping and they are proud of it. Obama's stimulus package it not perfect but it is all we have. The stimulus package is the only hope for people who are loosing their homes, for people loosing their jobs, and for people loosing everything.

Whether or not it will work is debatable, but it is a good start and a good effort on the part of the democrats. For the people who are victims of this crisis, the only questions that remains is who is helping and who is not. The democrats are trying to help. The republicans are absolutely no help at all.

We need a stimulus package for common sense.

Kevin Bluitt

Obama is loosing patience with the congress and their foot dragging for passage of the stimulus deal. The rest of the country is loosing patience, jobs, homes, 401ks, and what use to be the american dream. There is no sense of urgency in congress, especially on the part of the republicans.

The republicans in the house did not vote on the stimulus plan and it looks like the senate may follow. This Hurricane Katrina-like response to the crisis in our nation speaks volumes of what the republican really think about the people. They weren't obstructionists when it came to the bailout for banks and tax cuts for the rich.

Big business and the rich get tax cuts and bailouts within days. Middle class and the poor loosing their jobs and homes, they need to deliberate for weeks on end and find the most advantageous political position. It's is no wonder Obama won.

For the first time in his life, Rush is not proud of his country.

Kevin Bluitt

Recently Rush Limbaugh went on national TV an said that he hopes president Obama and his policies fails.

Barack Obama is the president of the United States. If he fails, we all fail. He should know this because of the failure of the Bush administration. As we all can see, Bush failed, and the whole country failed with him.

Let me try to point out the hypocrisy of this man. Remember early in Obama campaign when the country became unhinged because Michelle Obama said that for the first time in her life she was proud of her country.

Her comments kicked of a huge firestorm in the media. Limbaugh responded to this by saying:

"It is unbelievable to me that -- and this goes to the root, I think, of some of the things we discuss here frequently, and that is people taking this country for granted, not having any understanding what it took to get this country where it is."
Rush Limbaugh Show 2/19/08

And then he followed that up with:

"Doesn't it just grate on you that liberals in general are not proud of their country, period? Doesn't it grate on you that they're embarrassed; that they hate the country; that they dislike it, and now she comes out with this kind of comment and all these people sitting around and hoping for whatever, are swooning and fainting? "
Rush Limbaugh Show 2/19/08

Hoping the president fails is not what it took to get the country to where it is. And yes Rush, it really grates on me when people hope our president fails. Rush is under the delusion that liberals are the problem. In truth, it is Rush Limbaugh who takes this country for granted. It is Rush Limbaugh who does not understand what it took to get this country to where it is. It is Rush Limbaugh who hates the country and sits around and hopes for whatever. It is the hypocrisy of Rush Limbaugh and his followers who are the problem for America.

Michael "Drill Baby Drill" Steele was elected head of the RNC. He and the party are screwed baby screwed.

Kevin Bluitt

Michael Steel has been a loyal soldier for the republican party for a number of years and now he has been rewarded. He has been named head of the RNC in a "johnny come lately", "knee-jerk reaction", "Sarah Palin picking fashion" mess of an party election dressed up as racial and social progress within conservatism. It took 6 ballot votes to vote him in. That tell me 2 things.

1. They really really really did not want him.
2. The republicans chose him the same way they chose Sarah Palin. They wanted a face they can sell.

As much as I disagree with Steele, I feel sorry for him for the job he has in front of him. Steele, a black man, will be head of the republican party. A party who has profited from race-baiting and divisive politics. Then he will have to go to states where people voted against Obama because he is black and ask for huge sums of money. Then he will have to go before the conservative media machine, Rush, Hannity, Fox News, etc., and persuade them to stop broadcasting their racist, sexist, and homophobic rants. Then he will have to ask people of color and gays, who the republican party have exploited, maligned, lied to, and disrespected, to vote for their party after the democrats put in office the first black president. It looks to me like this has the makings of a pretty tough gig.

Do the republicans really think that white southerners who voted against Obama because he is black will support Steele because he is black? I'm going to guess not. There is no way he would have been made chairman if Obama was not the success he has become. It like the republicans said "we need a black person who is blacker than Obama to head our party too."

I have said this before and I am saying it again. The republican party need not bother. If the republicans and Steele think people of color are going to abandon a party who put the first black president in office for a party singing "Barack, The Magic Negro", you need not bother.

If Michael Steele is serious about making the republican party more inclusive and less divisive for the country, then I commend him for it. However, the republican party has sold it's soul to the devil a long long time ago and if he want to get it back, he better pray baby pray.

The Power of Obstructionism

Kevin Bluitt

As president Obama pushes for a stimulus package to revive the nation's economy, republicans are voicing their opposition. They are claiming that the package doesn't have enough tax cuts, includes wasteful spending on unnecessary programs, and the overall price tag is just too big.

Where was all of this fiscal concern when Bush ran our deficit from 4 trillion to 10 trillion dollars. Our economy is in trouble and the republicans want to complain about 200-300 billion dollars worth of spending to get our economy out of the ditch that they ran us into? The worst part is they do not have any plan of their own for this crisis except to cut taxes and hope for the best. The best part of this was Obama's response when he said to them in a white house joint meeting, "I won."

Obams won. That means your way is out.
Obama won. That means you are no longer in charge.
Obams won. That means come up with a sound plan based on facts or shut up.
Obama won. That means if the country wanted to do things your way, McCain would have won.

Now the republicans only source of power is obstructionism. They can only obstruct any effort by the administration to reverse the Bush years. They have no plan and no clue as to what to do about the economy, about people loosing their jobs, nor about people loosing their homes but they want to be obstructionists. Obama is the only person with some kind of sense about the reality we are in now.

This is a different time now. The republicans think they can still play the same game of red state/blue state, liberal/conservative, etc. Obama is playing to try to keep you in your house, to help you keep your house for the next 5-10 years, make sure you can make a living for the next 20 years, and have something to pass down to your kids. This is the game that Obama is playing. The republicans are clearly not playing this game because this game is about the people, not their corporate friends and overlords.

The republicans can't see anything past their partisanship politics. If we continue to do things the republican way, the whole country will all be living under a bridge.

What has Guantanamo Bay done for you lately?

Kevin Bluitt

President Obama has sign an order to close Guantanamo Bay Prison. Polls show that 49% of Americans want to keep Guantanamo Prison open. Why? If Osama Bin Ladin is still on the loose, how is this prison keeping us safe? A few of the prisoners are "back-benchers" for Al-Qaeda at best. The rest are innocent and are as much a threat to America as Sasha Obama.

Why keep this charade of national security going. It is a violation of international laws, international treaties, and is nothing more than national security planning based on stupidity. Obama is right to close it down. He should shut it down, enact habeas corpus, give the "Al-Qaeda wanna-bees" a day in court, and ship the rest back to their homes.

To the 49%-ers who want to keep this prison open, remember Abu Ghraib in Iraq? The reason it was torn down is because the prison became a symbol of American tyranny to the Iraqi people. If you can understand that reasoning, then you can understand how Guantanamo Bay prison has become a symbol of American tyranny and human rights abandonment to the rest of the civilized world. If it doesn't keep us safe and it has become a disgrace to the world, we don't need it.

Ok, Party's Over. Let's get down to work. Right Now!!

Kevin Bluitt

The inauguration is over, the galas are over, and Obama has been sworn in as the 44th president. Now it is time to get down to work. Now it is time fix all of the broken things and to rebuild our country.

We need a new economy, new energy policy, new foreign policy, new infrastructure, and a new everything. Obama has 4 years worth of work just unwinding Bush's stuff before he starts doing his own thing as president.

It feel good to have an insightful pragmatic person instead of an blind ideologue in the White House. In these times, only an insightful pragmatic person and unite us. The job before us us huge but we are optimistic and united. America is greatest when we all pull in the same direction. Let's put aside the divisive and gridlocking politics and get to work.

E Pluribus Unum. Barack Obama

Kevin Bluitt

"Out of many...One." The latin phrase we see on our U. S. currency is very suitable for the Inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. He is the sum total of all the blood, sweat, tears, great victories, and even greater losses for generations of Americans who worked to make sure that "all men are created equal."

I have not purchased one single magazine nor newspaper covering this event. I just felt that they are not covering this event with a prospective that I can relate to. This was until I saw the cover of The Nation magazine.

When I saw this I said "Wow!! That is how I feel about this moment in history." All of the heros of all races must be given credit for their work to make this day a reality. As I look at this magazine cover, I think about all of the work and sacrifice from so many brave people. From Martin Luther King Jr. to Malcolm X, from "4 little girls" to Emmitt Till, from Abraham Lincoln to Jackie Robinson, each person laid a piece of our nation's moral foundation so that this nation can reach it's highest moral being.

This nation stands on the shoulders of great generations who passed before us. It is through their work that many black people, for the first time in their lives, feel that they are a real and equal part of America. It is through their work that their E Pluribus produced the Unums of Barack Obama, FDR, JFK, LBJ, Thurgood Marshall, me, you, my parents, your parents, and future generations of americans who will carry on the principals of this country.

These heroes, known and unknown, worked and sacrificed so that this nation can become morally enlighten enough to make this day happen. It is not only Barack Obama's inauguration, it is all of their inauguration as well. It is also the inauguration of their morality, courage, and patriotism. It is the enshrinement into our nation's soul, their belief that we are truly one nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men and women are created equal.

Although we have massive problems facing our country today and many of our social ills still exist, we can take heart in the belief that we have conquered a major part of our racial, social, and moral fears and advanced our nation forward. Thank God.

Bush's Farewell Speech. Why is he still here and still talking?

Kevin Bluitt

Yesterday, George W. Bush game his Farewell Address to the nation. Here is Bush's Farewell speech.

If you didn't see it or don't have time to view it, allow me to summarize it.
Blah Blah Blah.... 911.... Blah Blah... Tough Decisions.... Blah Blah Blah.... War in Iraq..... Blah Blah Blah..... Terrorists want to attack us.... Blah Blah Blah..... Brave Troops..... Blah Blah Blah...... Freedom in Iraq...... Blah Blah Blah..... Tax Cuts....Blah Blah Blah.....Good and Evil......Blah Blah Blah.....Our nation is strong our future is bright.....Blah Blah Blah ......Thank you and god bless America.

Nothing new here. Nothing to see, nothing to remember, just nothing at all. The rest of the country has moved on so far past this president, he is more and more forgotten as he is speaks.

I'm sure the 27%ers who still worship this president enjoyed his speech and will spin it into something more than it was. It is sad to say that is the only hope for Bush and company. They are hoping for history to spin the Bush administration into something more than the failed presidency it really was. Unless history become blind, deaf, dumb, and can't smell, I doubt their hopes will come to pass.

Bush's Final Press Conference....The Final Insult.

Kevin Bluitt

Today George W. Bush had his final press conference.

Here is the full press conference.
Here are the highlights.

His final press conference is no different than the first. He is awkward, he mumbles, he babbles, and he overstates the obvious. He clearly has no idea what to do about any of the problems the country faces. No ideas on the first day, no ideas on the last.

100 years from now, historians will look back on this man and ask, not how nor if he failed, but how did this man rise so high? This man is an insult to the intelligence of all Americans, past, present, and future. He still is trying to lie his way into a positive view of history. In his mind, the failures are "disappointments", the broken laws are "necessary actions in a time of war", 2 failed wars are "crusades against terrorism", Katrina was a "quick response to a crisis", and a collapsing economy and bankrupting the nation is not his fault. After 8 years, he has not gotten any smarter, any wiser, any more insightful, nor any more mature. He just cannot bring himself to say to himself to say even to himself, "I screw up", "I messed up", "People died because of my errors in judgement."

He is still the same man as he was in 2000. His demeanor, his persona, all the same as in 2000, loud, arrogant, wrong, stubborn, and dumb. He is a one man lost cause. President Obama will have a better chance of turning the country around 100 times before Bush ever sees the arrogant ass he really is.

May this country never make the mistake of choosing to suffer under a man like this again. All that is left to be said about George W. Bush and his administration is Goodbye, Farewell, Amen.

Mr. Roland Burris goes to Washington…..and get sent back home.

Kevin Bluitt

The Senate has rejected Roland Burris claim to the Illinois senate seat. Since when does the senate have the legal right to tell the people of a state who can represent them? It is true that the governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is under federal investigation, but as of right now, he is still the governor. He has not been impeached. He still retains all of the powers of the office. Since he is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, he can still legally make this appointment to the senate.

The senate does not have legal standing to reject Roland Burris because of the investigation into the governor’s acts when the governor still has the legal power to make the appointment. Since the secretary of the state of Illinois cannot unilaterally veto an act of the governor, the secretary of the state of Illinois must certify his appointment as well.

If Blagojevich is impeached and the congress want to recall Roland Burris as part of it, that is fine. If Blagojevich is impeached and removed from office, the next governor can recall Burris and appoint someone else. The people still have the power to organize and recall Burris themselves. The state and the people of Illinois have enough power to remove Burris if they choose to do so. That is the duty of the people of the state of Illinois, not the senate.

Bernard Madoff is the difference between high class thieves and low class thieves.

Kevin Bluitt

Bernard Madoff was arrested after it was discovered the investment company he own and ran amounted to a Ponzi scheme that bilked 50 billion dollars from investors. In order for Madoff to pull this type of con game off, he had to have virtually no oversight, no regulations, and no policing from the Security Exchange Commission. Where was the SEC? How can they miss 50 billion dollars worth of transactions? How can this guy move 50 billion dollars around the country and the world for over 10 years and no red flags went off? No SEC flags and no IRS flags at all. What this means is not only is our financial oversight system is broken, it almost doesn’t exist. The key work here is “almost”.

If me and 10 of my buddies pooled our cash together, which would be far far less than a million dollars, and made some traded with some inside info, the SEC and the IRS would be on our collective butts in a Wall Street minute, but Madoff can runs a Ponzi con for over 10 years stealing 50 billion dollars.

You see, we don’t have the name cache’, we are not on anybody’s “who’s who” list in the financial world so they can put the handcuff on us in a second. Where was the oversight and regulations when Madoff stole the first million dollars, 10 million, 100 million, 1 billion, 10 billion, or 20 billion??!!?? They probably didn’t get suspicious until he broke 30 billion dollars.

Madoff is not the first con man to walk on Wall Street, and as long as there is no policing in the financial industry for high class thieves, he surly won’t be the last. Madoff made off with trust fund, charity funds, 401ks, investment accounts, and retirement nest eggs from rich and poor.

Madoff proved that none of our investments are not safe because regulators are too close to the financial industry. Everybody’s investment accounts are nothing more than a big trillion dollar pot of money collecting interest, securing the present and future retirement years, and serving the public good. The Wall Street thieves just can't have any of that. The low class thieves will get caught every time and the high class thieves won’t get caught, as long as they don’t steal too much.

Israel has gone way over the top

Kevin Bluitt

I understand that Israel is an important ally and has to defend itself, but when you kill hundreds of innocent Palestinians civilians in the cause for making war on Hamas, you undermine your own cause and remove all morality from your actions. It is true that Hamas fired rockets into Israel Jewish settlements but Hamas did not kill hundreds of innocent people indiscriminately. Hamas did not bomb Palestinians out of their homes that did nothing to Israel.

Israel feels that if they show a massive force for every attack on its people, it will detour Hamas and other forces. The truth is this contributes to the endless cycle of violence between Israel and the Palestinians. Regardless of America’s support, Israel does not have a license to kill Palestinians as collateral damage for a war with Hamas. If Israel believes that it can kill hundreds of Palestinians for every attack by Hamas, then they have given Hamas a reason to escalate their attacks against them. Then the cycle of violence goes on and on.

Hamas was wrong to fire rockets into Jewish settlements, but the use of massive military force in Gaza and hundreds of dead Palestinian civilians are greater wrongs on the part of Israel.

In 2009 we will all be fine.

Kevin Bluitt

I would like to take this time to wish everyone a happy and safe new year. See you all next year!!! Bye.

Delusions of Grand Delusions

Kevin Bluitt

Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice gave an interview to ABC news defending the Bush presidency. She said that the idea that the Bush presidency is one of the worst in history is "ridiculous". She said "I think generations pretty soon are going to start to thank this president for what he's done." Then she announced that the Easter Bunny is doing it with the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus has Tivo it.

In order for a president to be thanked, he has to have a success. What success has the Bush administration had that has not been accompanied by an even greater failure? What does she think the future generations will thank him for? The failed 911 response, the failed wars, the failed tax policies, the failed economy, the failed Katrina response, the failure after failure after failure.

It is an insult to the people's intelligence to state that the people will be thankful for his administration and history will overlook his failures. Rice is trying to convince the public that Bush is an undercover FDR and we just don't know it yet. Based on this logic, we should start to chisel his face into Mount Rushmore and wait for history to catch up. I'm sorry Ms. Rice. I think that would be a waste of perfectly good rocks.

Ms. Rice can hold on to her delusions as long as she can but the people know this man and his failures. History will reveal the truth. The Bush presidency is not worth the rocks to throw at it.

Barack the Magic Negro??

Kevin Bluitt

The chairman of the Mike Huckabee presidential campaign Chip Saltman, who is running for the Republican National Committee chairmanship, was distributing a cd to other republican party members with a racist parody entitled "Barack the Magic Negro". Rush Limbaugh played this tune on his show and the man who wants to be chairman of the RNC found it "funny" enough to give it to other Republican Party members.

The republicans have called Obama "uppity", "elitist", "radical Muslim", "Arab", and according to Sarah Palin, "pal-ing around with terrorists." Now the republican strategy appears to be just straight up racist. They want to call him everything except "nigger" but as always, the republican will lead their sheepish followers to the line and let them cross it on their own.

Of course the republicans and conservatives will cry the same old cries. "It's a joke." "They didn't mean anything by it." "It's just political satire." "Well, I have known him for over 20 years and he has never said anything racist." "I'm not racist, I have black friends too." "You people are taking this way too serious."

Here is a question. How are black people suppose to respond to this if not with anger and outrage? What are black suppose to think about the Republican Party if not as a party that caters to the most amoral of us at the expense of the lives of people of color? Are we suppose to laugh along with this? Are we suppose to get the joke? Well, here is why I believe we don't.

Racism for white people is, a for the most part, a moral issue. Racism for black people is an issue of life and death. The morality of the issue of race is what causes whites to act. For blacks, racism kills as surely as cancer and heart attacks. This is the basis of our difference on this issue. You don't treat morality issues like life and death issues and vice versa. Also, with someone as the RNC chairman holding these racist views, the issue of race will have the power of the political system behind it.

This is why blacks get upset at "Barack the Magic Negro", Obama-Waffles, and that cover of the New Yorker magazine. Also, this is why blacks vote 80%-90% against republicans in federal, state, and local elections. Every campaign season the republicans trot out the same 3 to 7 black republicans to portray themselves as a diverse party. Once again, after the elections, the republicans have shown that their attempts for diversity in their party are as empty as Chip Saltsman's head.

Also, let me say to the entire Republican party and conservatism regarding diversity in your party and hopefully gaining my vote. You need not bother.

The Democratic party is far from perfect but the Republican party? You need not bother.

Civil rights, voting rights, desegregation, black presidential candidates in my lifetime, and the first black president in my lifetime, all done by the Democratic party. You need not bother.

You can keep your "Barack the Magic Negro", "Obama-Waffles", that cover of the New Yorker magazine, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Fox News, Willie Horton, race-baiting politics and everything else. This is and will forever be the basis of our relationship. You need not bother.

For the rest of my life and at least 5 future generations, you need not bother.

"Merry Christmas Everyone, and God Bless Us All." - Tiny Tim

Kevin Bluitt

I would like to take this time to wish everyone a very very Merry Christmas. I will be off for the rest of the week.

Thanks you for your support of BluestoneBlog.com. Without you readers, this blog would not exist. Well, no blog would exist really, but you know what I mean.

Any-who, Merry Christmas!!! Bye Bye.

Hey Ben, we'll mind our money, you can mind your own business...

Kevin Bluitt

I was looking at the CBS Morning Show on Sunday where the actor Ben Stein gave a commentary as to how we should get the economy started. He advised that those of us who are still employed and still have some money should spend the most we can in order to get the economy started.

I thought this was the most insane and irresponsible fiscal advice anyone ever gave. He seems to think that it is irresponsible for people who can potential be unemployed to hoard their money. First of all, the reason why people are not spending this Christmas season is because they already spent their Christmas money on gas back in April. Secondly, getting people through hard economic times is what savings are for, not for Christmas shopping sprees in the middle of a recession.

With banks tightening credit lending, the people have no choice but to mind their money on hand. Mr. Stein is wrong. Those of you who are still employed had better start building your savings right now. The old saying, “save your money for a rainy day” is good advice. Because if you look at our economy, you will see it's pouring down storming.

Where is W. Mark Felt when we need him?

Kevin Bluitt

The chief informant for the Watergate scandal known as "Deep Throat", has died. W. Mark Felt was a top commander of the FBI and he leaked information to Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstien about the role of Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal. The Watergate scandal led to the resignation of Nixon.

In light of the scandals of the Bush administration, we sure could use Mr. Felt now. A secret informant on the inside of the Bush administration is exact what the country needs now.

Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld were a part of the Nixon and Ford administrations. Apparently they learned the lesson that there cannot be a informant like a Mark Felt in the Bush administration. Without that, they can act with impunity.

The people of the Nixon administration suffered the consequences of their scandal. Nixon was going to be impeached and resigned. His aids went going to jail. In recent years, when the people of the Watergate scandal talk about it, they appear to have a sense of how this scandal has impacted our nation. They seem to understand that their actions has taken something from the nation that we can never get back.

The Bush administration people have an arrogance in their actions and they do not seem to care how it impacts our country.

This revelation from the Nixon era people shows a sad and disgraceful truth. The thieves and liars of the Nixon era are more honorable than the thieves and liars of the Bush administration.

Federal Reserve Math. Bailout + Rate Cut = No Lending.

Kevin Bluitt

Let me see if I have this correct.
All regulations for banks are removed.
Banks go wild and loose everything.
Banks get a 700 billion dollar bailout to remove red ink off their books.
Then the federal reserve drop interest rates to 0.0%, giving them free money on top of the bailout???

If you give banks a 700 billion dollar bailout, why does the Federal Reserve need to cut the rate to 0.0% too? I can understand doing the bailout or the rate cut, not both. This is handing hundreds of billions of dollars to the banks on top of the bailout. If the bailout covers the bank's losses, they should be able to afford a fed rate of 3.0%, especially since the government is clearing bad debt off their books.

The reason for the rate cut is the same reason for all rate cuts, to encourage banks to extend credit. But the banks have their bad debt removed off their balance sheets. Isn't that enough to extend credit? If not, it is because they banks are hoarding the bailout. The banks are using the bailout to shore up their accounts and buy out their weaker competitors and the rate cut becomes pure profit. This is not what the bailout and rate cut were intended for.

If the banks do not extend credit with the bailout nor the rate cut, then I suggest the government rescind the bailout and leave the rate cut. If they do not have any bailout to hoard, they will have to lend money or go broke under the weight of their own bad debts. Let the banks choose the method of their own demise.

If you do both, you are handing a blank check and our treasury over to every bank in the country. Under this system, banks will be given a 0.0% rate from the fed to extend credit. Banks who fail to lend will fall and I say good riddance. In times like these, the last thing America needs is a bank that won't lend.

"Greeted as liberators" my a**!!!

Kevin Bluitt

Bush showed up in Iraq for his final visit to the war he screwed up. An Iraqi reporter stood up during a press conference and threw his shoes at Bush. Afterwards, Bush gives an inane babbling response as to the reasons he did this. The reporter who threw the shoes is portrayed as a hero throughout the Middle East.

What happened to "greeted as liberators" and "throwing flowers at our feet?" For far too long, America has been under the delusion that the Iraqi people grateful to our troops for "liberating" them. Now we see an example of how many Iraqis feel about Bush and his war. Bush, in his usual detached from everything/clueless manner, responded with "so what if a guy throws a shoe."

Bush is showing that he is about as insightful and thoughtful as a rock. He is totally detached from everything he has done. He just doesn't care. You look at some of the worst presidents of our time and you will find that they may have screw up, but they cared about the country. Lyndon Baines Johnson screwed up Viet Nam but he cared enough to regret it. Richard Nixon screwed up in Watergate but he cared enough to regret it. Bush has no regrets at all with anything his administration has done because he never cared about anything to begin with.

Economy tanks on his watch, "so what." Millions loose their jobs and their homes, "so what." Bin Laden still threatening our nation, "so what." Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed in your war, "so what."

He may wonder why people want to throw shoes at him, but I doubt if he cares about that too.

As American as baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Nissan.

Kevin Bluitt

The auto industry bailout failed to pass in the senate by a vote of 52 - 35. It needed 60 votes to move forward. 40 democrats, 10 republicans, and 2 independents voted for the bill. 31 republicans and 4 democrats voted against it.

The point of contention was that the republicans wanted the salaries of auto factory workers to be cut to the levels of american nonunion foreign competition factory workers. The thing that makes this stink is that 6 southern senators are clearly working on behalf of the foreign auto companies in their respective states.

There are 2 disgraceful things going on here.
1. The republicans are taking this opportunity to win huge concessions from and to break the american auto industry unions.
2. They are aiding foreign auto companies at their behest by dismantling american auto companies.

When the financial industry wanted a bailout, the republicans did not demand concessions from their workers. No way, they just handed them over half a trillion dollars and said "have a nice day." The conservative republicans are choosing to have a ideological fight at a time when millions of families are in economic trouble. This action by the republicans is not about what is good for the country. This is about killing off organized labor in accordance with conservative ideology and if that means handing a big chunk of America's manufacturing base to foreign interest, so be it.

If our government was handing 14 billion dollars to Nissan, Honda, and BMW to keep their factories running in America, I don't think the republicans wouldn't mind at all. The only people who benefit from the republican's dissent is foreign auto companies. 3 to 5 million families throughout the midwest, the northeast, the southwest, and the west are being thrown away by the republican party to preserve foreign auto factory jobs in the south. If you didn't know before, you know now. This is yet another sign that foreign interests own our government.

Banks Get Bailed Out. Workers Get Sold Out.

Kevin Bluitt

Let me get this straight.
Banks are deregulated so that they can underwrite loans with money they do not have.
The bank loans go into default and the banks are looking at going bankrupt.
Banks get a bailout from the federal government.
Instead of extending credit, banks are using the bailout to shore up their defaulted loans and remove red ink off their books.
Small businesses go bankrupt for lack of credit.

That is what is happening at Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago. This small window and door manufacturing company has closed it's doors and gave it's employees a few days notice. The workers are protesting their dismissal by forming a sit-in at the plant. The company is financed by Bank of America Corp.

Bank of America is hoarding their bailout and not extending credit and small businesses like Republic Windows and Doors are suffering because of it. It's as if Bank of America said, "how do we move all of our debt off our books and on to small businesses?" Answer, apply the federal bailout to our books and don't extend business credit.

This is what american capitalism has degenerated into. It has become a system based on privatizing the profits and socializing risk. Because small companies cannot get the credit from banks that the government have bailed out, the banks have in effect transfered it's insolvency to small business with the federal government's consent. Small businesses bear the burden of the banks risks. By the government bailing out the financial institutions, they have given them a license to destroy every small business who burden their books with debt and the banks are covered for the loss.

The government bailouts has reaffirmed a system where workers like the ones at Republic Windows and Doors are put on the street while banking CEOs make huge salaries. Which is easy, when CEOs bear no risk and share profits and workers don't share the profits made but bear all of the risk.

"It's Only Common Sense." - Thomas Paine

Kevin Bluitt

Barack Obama has a weekly address on youtube where he talk about what he will do as president.

Throughout his address, he is not talking about something radical nor revolutionary. He is only talking about common sense things this nation should do to be a world class nation in the 21st century. I just realized how starved we are as a nation for some basic common sense talk from a president who has an ideal of how the real world works.

The real world does not work according to someone's ideology or political persuasion. It works based on the strengths and weakness in all. We did not get to be a superpower by blindly following a political ideology. We became a superpower by being intelligent and executing wise strategies, foreign and domestic, while the rest of the world blindly followed their ideologies. Now it seems that the tables are reversed. We are the ideology nation while China adopts capitalism, Russia wants to sell oil to the world, Europe become a huge economic engine for the world, and India becomes a tech superpower.

Obama understands that America must go back to being "America" again. America has to go back to being the country that invented the industrial revolution, won 2 world wars, was the first to reach the moon, and that won the cold war. Therefore, we must abandon the failures of conservatism and go back to being the nation that innovates and creates a new path for the new century. It's only common sense.

The Bush Legacy Project

Kevin Bluitt

There is a white house executive branch project whose objective is to create revisionist history for the George W. Bush administration. It has been reported that Karl Rove and Karen Hughes are working on something called the Bush Legacy Project. The purpose of the project is to put a positive spin on the George W. Bush's legacy as he leaves office.

It is hard to believe that in these difficult times, Bush is more concerned about how he will be viewed in history than the problems facing this country. This act alone speaks more about the man and his legacy for history. It appears that he will spend more time on spinning his legacy for history than fixing the economy, catching Bin Laden, dealing with 2 failed wars, home foreclosures, etc. etc. etc.

This is typical of Bush. He can deal with the problems that affect his image better than the problems that affect the country. In Bush's mind, there is no bigger fish to fry than this. Once again, George W. Bush has shown the country that he just doesn't give a damn, and that is his legacy.

The Economy Looks Bad and Getting Worse

Kevin Bluitt

The news on the economy is going from bad to worse. The senate leadership says they don't have the votes to pass a bailout loan for the big 3 american auto corporations. People are not spending as they did in past holiday seasons because they are fearful of not having a job soon. The impact of just these 2 events alone will have huge repercussions for our nation.

It seems strange for people to have a general sense of sadness, fear, and anxiety during the holiday season right after the euphoria of electing Obama. Now the reality of the nation is becoming more and more clear. We are falling.

We are loosing our superpower status right before our eyes. Our economy is falling because more industries are showing signs of how they are struggling to survive. The housing industry, financial industry, and now the auto industry are in free fall. Soon we will be hearing reports about commercial real estate and the airline industry looking for help from the government.

Another reality of the nation that is becoming clearer is that all of this is self inflicted. We, the government and the people, have allowed for this to happen to our nation. We took a 3 trillion economy generating a 250 billion dollar surplus in 2000 and smashed it to pieces to satisfy the greed and avarice of the elite.

The collapse of our economy and industries is the price we pay.

It's official. Our government and economy are being ran by idiots.

Kevin Bluitt

Today, the national Bureau of Economic Research has officially confirmed what Americans have already known. Not only is the United States in a recession, the recession started last December.

The layoffs, the corporate bankruptcies, the crashing stock markets, and the home foreclosures that have been going on for over a year have never caused our government to acknowledge the existence of a recession until a year after it started. What this means is that our government has done nothing, absolutely nothing, about our economy being in a recession for over a year.

These people of the Bush administration are not only idiots, but irrational and incompetent idiots. They are ideologues with no concept of reality and they are too stupid for the jobs they have. If the Bush administration had wanted to save the country and the economy more than save it's political face, they could have recognized the recession back in March or April and began to act on reducing the impact of it. But instead, in Bush's hurricane Katrina-like response fashion, he once again did nothing about the problem that is staring him and the country in the face. It 's not until the markets and our financial system completely collapsed when they began to act with bailouts.

It's one thing to be incompetent, but these people are crushingly incompetent and the problems they cause for our country are compounding. This is why our government has to fix 10 to 15 problems before we can fix the problems with the economy.

Obama cannot take over soon enough.

He did it. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Kevin Bluitt

Hillary Clinton has been tapped to be Secretary of State in Obama's administration. I don't see the need for this move. I see the need for Joe Lieberman, to consolidate a filibuster proof majority in the senate. I am not sure about this move. While Hillary Clinton is qualified to be secretary of state, I am concerned about what she brings to the table, namely Bill.

Hillary and Bill have made some huge concessions in order to make way for her nomination to the post. The terms basically state, we want to see the Clinton stuff before it hits the fan. That is smart on Obama's part but can the Clintons be trusted is the question. It not getting in with the Clintons that difficult, it's cutting yourself loose from them.

I have never been a fan of the "team of rivals" concept that Obama is building his cabinet upon. I believe if you fail, you are fired. I think as long as it benefits her, she will do a good job for Obama. Nevertheless, Obama should keep her resignation on a hair trigger.

As the shoppers rush home with their treasured lives.

Kevin Bluitt

In New York, a stampede of Walmart shoppers trampled a man to death.
Walmart Trampling

In California, 2 people are dead when they began to have a shootout at a crowded Toys-R-Us.
Toys-R-Us Shooting

I know times are hard for many but my god!! I have been in Walmart and there isn't a damn thing there I would step on someone's toes to get, let alone trample over them. I have been to Toys-R-Us and I would not cause any kind of disturbance with all of those kids running around.

In this holiday season, we have once again replaced the true meaning of christmas with commercialism christmas and once again we see the end result. These 2 tragedies show the same old hedonism and nihilism trend for our country. To the people in New York, all that mattered was grabbing some reduced price throw away item and if someone gets trampled, that's his problem. To the people in California, all that mattered to them was settling their dispute with violence, no matter how many innocent children around them may get hurt.

Well I hope the Walmart shoppers in New York got a hell of a deal because they can go to their homes and be with their families with their christmas crap and that poor guy can't.
I'm also glad to hear that the 2 shooters in the Toys-R-Us settled their argument. They shot each other and they both died.

As tragic as these incidents are, they are small examples of the moral and social values in our country. As I have always said, values are not the things you vote for at the polls. They are what you show on your way to the polls.

It is no surprise to find our country in the dire straits we are in. It is sad to say that these are the values our country has brought to the economy, making war, foreign policy, natural disasters, governance, class disparity, justice system, health care, and educating our children.

Obama Expectations.

Kevin Bluitt

As I look at the country's reaction to the incoming Obama administration, I cannot help but notice how high the expectations are placed on this man. It is as if the skepticism of the people, on which this country was founded upon, disappeared during the Bush years and has returned for the Obama years.

Never before has a president received so much of the people's trust and was so undeserving of it. Bush completely abused the trust the american people placed in him and the country is suffering because of it. Be that as it may, Obama is going to need some of the same level of trust that Bush received in order to fix the country's problems. I think it will be different this time because Obama and his people are not ideologues. They are rational, pragmatic, and realistic people who decide policy accordingly.

Now the people are going to have to have faith that Obama will act based on pragmatism and not on ideology. If the american people withdraw their trust and support for Obama based on fears or skepticism, they could bring down an administration that is trying to help. As amazing as it sounds, some people still believe that the republican policies are best for these trying times and Obama and the democrats are the enemy. They truth is the Obama and the democrats are the only friend the middle class got.

Getting out of this hole will not be done overnight and the people must be patient. The people was patient and trusting with the wrong guy, now they must be patient with the right one. We cannot afford to have a situation where the american people have placed too much trust in the wrong man and not enough trust in the right one.

Happy Thanksgivings!!!!

Kevin Bluitt

I am taking the rest of the week off for the holidays. Have a safe and happy thanksgiving!!!

Don't eat too much. That should be easy since everybody is on the "George W. Bush diet". You can't eat what you can't afford.....

I will be back on Monday December 1, 2008

Bye Bye!!

Brother, Can You Spare a Billion?

Kevin Bluitt

What is going on with Citigroup (stock symbol C)? How can they go broke? They charge 18.5% on a credit card, 8.5% on a mortgage, and 9.5% on auto loans and they are still going broke!!!

Last year, I repeat - LAST YEAR, Citigroup was projecting earnings of $4.25 a share, profits would be $30 billion dollars, and their stock was $57.00 a share. Today, they are projecting earnings of a -$2.31 loss per share and their stock price is $5.27 a share.

I have 2 words for this, investor fraud. This is the main problem with all of Wall Street. All of these companies you are hearing about that need a bail out, if you look at their books as recently as 2 years ago, you will see they were making and estimating huge profits and huge stock prices. There is no way they could make the profits they made 2 years ago and go broke today. It is clear to me that they cooked the books to defraud the investors, take your stock portfolio, and empty your 401k's and they need to go to jail.

Obama must to unleash the SEC and order them to do an audit of all of the corporations who are asking for a bailout, for the past 2 years. GM, Ford, Chrysler, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, and all the rest need to be investigated for investor fraud. If the CEOs and board members of these bankrupt corporations do not want to resign as a condition of the bailout, I recommend the SEC investigate them, and charge them with fraud, and throw them in jail. I should know because I use to own stock in Citigroup (C).

The Big 3 tried to sell a lemon and Congress walked off their lot.

Kevin Bluitt

The Bailout Loan for the Big 3 American auto industry has failed in Congress. The Big 3 tried to run the same game on Congress that car salesmen have been running for years.

The Big 3 said to Congress, "this is be best deal in town." "This is the last model we have at this price." "You have to move now or the price may go up." Congress asked, "what is the warranty?" "What is the interest rate?" "What is my monthly payment?" "We have some terms we want in this deal too." "We need to have some details." The Big 3 said "we'll work all of that out later." "Just sign these papers and give us the money before it's too late." Congress said, "if you can't give me the details, we can't give you the money, good day gentlemen" and Congress walked off the lot.

This was a bad car deal and Congress was right to walk away from it. The Big 3 must now come up with answers to all of the details Congress wanted answered. If the Big 3 can't come up with some good answers, Congress need to keep right on walking.

Pirates of the Indian Ocean

Kevin Bluitt

Modern day pirates are occupying the waters off the cost of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden. These pirates are heavily armed and well organized. Currently they are holding over 60 cargo vessels and over 300 sailors hostage. All of these vessels and crewmen are being held for ransom. Most recently, Somali pirates has hijacked a Saudi oil supertanker carrying over 100 million dollars worth of crude oil.

The waters that the pirates are patrolling are essential to international trade. Because the pirates have a safe haven on the cost of Somalia, they have become more bold and brazen than ever.

The piracy on the waters of Somalia must be dealt with now before the US is pulled into this. If a group of pirates fire upon or seize an American naval vessel, that would constitute an act of war and America will be involved in a third war. The Obama administration must act quickly with the UN to avoid this catastrophe. This issue will be the first major international crisis of his administration and American force may have to be used because seizing ships with resources bound for the US is clearly a threat to our national security.

Right now, the Somali pirates are so brazen that it is just a matter of time before they fire on or seize an American vessel.

Article about Somali Pirates

Oh Please Don't Do It!! Please Please Don't Do It!!!

Kevin Bluitt

Hilary Clinton is being considered for secretary of state in Obama's cabinet. Allow me to say this with all due respect, but the Clinton's days are over and it is time for the democratic party and the Clintons to have a parting of the ways. Obama's elections signals the coming of a new generation of democrats who are way more progressive than the Clintons ever was. The Clintons come from the DLC wing of the party and that wing has fallen way out of step with the country.

Hilary Clinton has more baggage than American Airlines. Her vetting must be more intensive than anybody else because if one of her bones, or Bill's, fall out of the closet, it could bring down Obama's administration. We have to know everything about the financing of the Clinton Library, the financing of the Bill Clinton Foundation, and every deal they have made since leaving office. Anyone who knows the Clintons will tell you that will not happen.

I doubt Hillary can stand up to the vetting. I don't think they will disclose all of their private information to the satisfaction of the Obama team. The only way she can get the job is through exchange of political favors. Also, Bill will be looking over Obama's shoulder on every move he makes. It seems like a huge amount of unnecessary stress on Obama's administration.

Their contribution to the democratic party is greatly appreciated but it is time for the new generation to take over. It is time for the Clintons to finally make a graceful exit or be shown the door.

Don't Do It. Don't Do It!!

Kevin Bluitt

Joe Lieberman is a liar and a back stabber. He is only hoping Obama will allow him to retain his position as the powerful swing vote that decides the fate of the democrats or the republicans.

Obama doesn't need him. I say let him caucus with the republicans, remove his committee chairmanship and run over his face with the majority votes. He is a minor player who want to play a big role.

Lieberman must be punished and removed from all power position in the senate. If he is allowed to stay in the good graces of the democrats and Obama, he will surely betray them again, the first chance he gets.

California Fires. Where is the federal assistance?

Kevin Bluitt

These fires have been burning for over a week now. Reports state that the fires can burn for another week. If the state can handle this, the fires should be out by now. Here are the latest numbers on the fires.

35,662 acres burned in three fires.
510 homes destroyed in Sayre Fire.
210 homes destroyed in Santa Barbara/Montecito.
38 people injured altogether.
26,000 ordered to evacuate in O.C. area.

Where is the federal assistance? Where is the national guard? Once again, the answer is Iraq and Iraq. Once again, we have more resources dealing with fires in Iraq than here at home. Once again, national guard personnel and equipment is stuck in Iraq when it is needed here at home. Once again, our federal government, with all of it's resources at it's disposal, is acting like it just don't give a damn.

Are you kidding me?!?! They are still counting votes!!!

Kevin Bluitt

Almost 3 weeks after the November 4 election, the senate races in Alaska, Minnesota, and Georgia are still yet to be decided. They are still counting votes, except for Georgia where they are having a runoff election because none of the senate races captured a plurality of the votes.

This is what our democratic process has come down to. Court cases are filed, lawyers are hired, vote counts are questioned. When elections are close, there is a temptation for one side to "fix" the election by hook or crook or by a team of high price lawyers.

I always say the government should count votes like they can count money. If the federal government sent each one of these states 10 billion dollars in nickels and dimes and gave them 24 hours to verify the amount, they would move heaven and earth to get it done.

I don't think any of these elections are as close as they are reported. I think the people have spoken clearly in this election. However, our broken democratic process, over burden courts, and teams of manipulating lawyers say that the people may have spoken, but they don't think it is very clear.

California Prop 8 Passed

Kevin Bluitt

Let's see if I have this correct.

Blacks = 6% of CA. population.
Prop 8 = Passed 52% to 47%.
Blacks = 100% of the blame.

Why are gay rights groups blaming california blacks for the passing of this proposition? The numbers for the black vote on this issue are not sufficient to lay blame on blacks. True, 70% of the black vote went to pass this law but blacks make up only 6% of the California population and 10% of the electorate. Even if a massive turnout occurred for blacks opposing this law, there still would not enough to make a difference in the passage of this proposition.

This campaign depended on swaying the predominate white voters and they failed to do so. They did not have the black vote, hispanic vote, nor a majority of the white vote. This tell me that this act was going to pass even if a majority of blacks had voted against it.

I know the black vote was disappointing to the anti-Prop 8 cause, but they cannot lay the entire failure of this campaign on it. They failed to make their case to groups of people who could have potentially supported them. You cannot take any minority vote for granted and it appears that's what they did. They did not turn any Bush voters, any conservative voters, nor any rual parts of the state to their side.

They needed to do what Obama did by challenging all parts of the state and not just rely on their base. Thats what the Mormon Church did and it work out well for them. The failure of this campaign does not belong to blacks nor any other group who voted against it. The failure of this campaign belongs to the anti-Prop 8 groups themselves.

So now she wants to talk

Kevin Bluitt

Sarah Palin has launched a media blitz unlike anything she has done in the campaign. She has done interviews with Larry King, Today Show, Fox News. She has done numerous interviews and given numerous speeches on the campaign, the media, the economy, and everything else.

Talk about too little too late. She didn't want to talk to the people when she was running for VP, but now that the campaign is over, now she wants to talk, now she want to give speeches, and now she wants to give interviews. Talk about being a day late and a dollar short while closing the barn door after the moose has ran away.

This makes me like her even less. Where was all of this "yak yak yak" when she was trying to be VP. She didn't want to talk when the campaign was on and everything was riding on it. Now that the campaign is over and she has nothing to loose, because she already lost it, now she won't shut up.

She may think she is jockeying for a place in 2012, but she needs to stand down and go away. She is still a distraction for the republicans. She has no more substance than when she was running. If she is the future of the republican party, happy days are here again for the democrats!!!

The Big 3 need a bailout, again?!?!?

Kevin Bluitt

The news reported that when president Bush and president elect Obama met, he brought up the topic of a bailout for the big 3 american auto companies. GM sales are down 45%. Fords are down 30%. GM will not survive without a massive federal bailout.

The argument is that these companies are too big and too vital to our economy to allow to fail. We are not allowing these companies to fail. They are failing because of their own devices. I have never seen an industry who has gotten more of what it wanted and still was unable to generate a profit. The auto industry has gotten federal and local tax breaks, land deal breaks, favorable trade policies, financial deals, special loan deals, federal loans, huge union concessions, and foreign market deals. Over the past 30 years, everything the auto industry wanted, it got. Today, they are still going broke.

With the downturn of the auto industry, the question is raised. Should we save this industry with our tax dollars or just allow the to fall in our capitalist system. It is clear that there is no way the government can hand this industry another quarter trillion dollars without some huge concessions.

1. A new executive board for all 3 companies be put in place. All shares and ownership in the companies by the present board must be surrendered. That means the Ford family no longer owns the Ford auto company. The boards have shown that they are incapable of turning a profit by selling a quality product.

2. The companies must bring back the jobs they sent out of the country. The tax payers of this country cannot finance the exportation of auto industry jobs with their tax dollars. If the tax payers are going to pay, then their must be jobs in it for them.

3. The auto companies must retool and develop new technologies for their cars. For years, the auto industry has passed on making more fuel efficient products and now that the world has leap ahead of them, passing again is not an option. The american auto industry must produce cars of the highest quality and the highest fuel efficiency right now, not in 10 years, right now.

Their are more but I think this is a good start. If any of the auto companies balk at these concessions, let them go bankrupt and the government will get these concessions in a bankruptcy court settlement. I understand that the auto industry is very important to our national economy but we cannot just give a quarter of a trillion dollars to the Moe, Larry, and Curly of the auto industry because if they were smart and ran their companies in a competent manner, they would be financially sound and would not need any help from the taxpayers.

Ok, I'm Over It.

Kevin Bluitt

The next president of the United States will be Barack Obama. I am done. I celebrated, I laughed, I drank, and thought about the journey to this point. Now, I'm over it. I have moved on. I am getting ready for the next fight that I know will come. I see a lot of people, especially black people, still celebrating. Though this is a monumental moment in history, our fight is still not over. We have new wars to win and those wars are not far away.

As the light of the moment fades into history, I have discovered that there are a lot of sore looser white people who are really upset about not only loosing the white house to the democrats, but to a black man on top of that. People on TV are asking every black person "did you ever think this day would come?" I would like to see a reporter ask a racist if they ever thought this day would come. Just as we are elated, they are angry and scared.

I think the real problem we have with the issue of race is that we see who we truly are. The race issue enables us to see the truth in each other regarding morals, faith, country, and humanity. Sometimes it is not a pretty picture. Like it or not, we all are going to have to deal with race now. This election has shown that over 50% of our electorate is ready for this. A large portion of our electorate are not. Some of them may want to cause problems for our new progressive nation and they must be met by a stronger progressive force. I am apart of that force and I am ready for the next fight. In the words of G. W. Bush, "Bring It On."

The 44th President of the United States, Barrack Husein Obama

Kevin Bluitt

Obama has won and won big. When Ohio went for Obama, I knew it was over. The win is at total rejection of the Republican Party and Conservative politics that has ruin and damaged our nation. Obamas has not only won the democratic base in the northeast, but he has won the northeast, midwest, and the west cost. The only region dominated by the republican is the south.

The Democrats has won the congress by huge majorities in both houses. The democratic party has ushered in a sea change over our whole nation. This amounts to a 180 degree change in the direction of our country.

Now comes the question, are we up to this? Are our news media outlets up to this. This being our first black president. Let me remind you that a rather large percentage of our population still thinks he is a godless, terrorist, muslim, who is an inexperienced radical celebrity. Let me remind you that the media indoctrinated these ideas into the minds of americans.

The good part of this a larger percentage of the people are ready for this. Once again, the people's resolution has been applied to this nation for the better. The people are leading the way. Although the people have a history of reverting back to the old fear based, ignorant, bigoted ways, for now, the people are dragging the media, our government, our financial system, our ignorant fellow countrymen, and our image to the world into the 21st century. I only hope we remain as enlighten on November 5th and going forward. Thanks god.

To coin a phrase from Fredrick Douglas, "bitterly, the work does not end with the election of America's first black president, but only begins."

Ted Stevens busted

Kevin Bluitt

Ted Stevens has been busted on 7 counts of influence peddling. Good day for Obama, bad day for McCain/Palin, especially Palin. Sarah Palin has been trying to sell the idea to America that she has cleaned up the coruption in Alaska. I guess she forgot about Ted Stevens and his dirt.

Obama '08

Kevin Bluitt

Obama is going to win!!! Obama is going to win!!! Obama is going to win!!!

Hell yeah!!! You cannot tell me this is not good for America. I think America is a better country when it is not bound by the incompetent, insane, and stupid philosophy of conservatism. For the past 25 years, conservative national policies has been the bane of my economic existence. I see a light at the end of the conservatism tunnel and finally, after 25 years of this mess, we are abandoning the conservative dogmas for common sense rational national policies.

Barack Obama will change the course of this country for the better and their will be peace, intellegence, and enlightenment in our country.

Oh by the way, Obama is going to be the first black president so all of you right-wing, voter list caging, arrogant lunatics, Bush loving, Cheney worshiping, war mongering, christian hypocrites can just suck it!!!!

Republican Collapse

Kevin Bluitt

Although I am a democrat, I cannot believe the collapse of the republican presidential campaign machine this year. I don't believe the problem with the republicans is McCain and Palin because, as bad as both candidates are, they are still more competent than George W. What put Bush in the office was the republican campaign machine. Now, the republican campaign machine has collapsed under the weight of our economy, the state of the nation, and endless middle east wars. It seems as if the republicans have indoctrinated the people to vote for a president you like more so than their policies. I always believed that democrats vote for a president. Republicans cast a president. Republicans have been looking to cast a president like a hollywood producer looks to cast a movie. They want someone they like, that has the right look, that has sex appeal, and have a hollywood type story to sell.

This year, finally, the people have gotten wise to this game. In the face of a broken economy, 2 failed wars, crashing stock markets, and scandals throughout our government, the light of reality has shined though the darkness of the failed republican machine. It is truly sad that the republicans have so debased themselves to the point that the only attack they can come up with is to call Obama a socialist. The people now see that the only way for the republicans to win this election is to suppress voters while calling themselves patriotic. They are truly pathetic hypocrites.

We can only hope that Obama and company can come up with a resolution for all that has passed over the last 8 years. We finally see that not only the republican emperor has no clothes, but he has no morals, no common decency, no answers to any problem, and no hope to win this election.