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Saturday, August 28, 2010

RESTORING HONOR

08/28/2010

RESTORING HONOR

YOU MAY READ THIS AS A CONTINUATION OF THE PREVIOUS ARTICLES ALSO

I wanted to call it something like  " Mr. Beck goes to Washington", but hey, there is no comparison here. Mr. Smith though a fictional character was actually a decent human being with no hidden agenda, he did not talk in  circles, and was open about what he meant. Mr. Beck on the other hand is either shamelessly being coy, or worse does know what the hell he is talking about. If a lot a good people did show up for the rally, then it only proves that a lot of people are upset with the situation of the country and looking for some one to save them, Mr. Beck should not be very impressed with him self or his partner Sarah Palin, it is the same kind of Americans who elected Obama, only on the other side of the fence, the electorate is similarly ill informed on both sides and looking  for a Messiah, any one claiming to be the one will do.

Now that Mr. Beck and Sarah Palin have had their rally, what did they say? was i right?  Are you more clear about "honor", and what is expected of you  from here on out?

Honor is a construct that means what you want to make it mean. In some Muslim societies, men are known to kill their daughters, wives, sisters  and mothers for talking to a stranger, is that where we are going? In some societies revenge killing is a matter of honor, see Hatfield's and McCoy's. Then there is the tradition of dueling, I guess we could go for that. Or may be even tar and feathers if you like. But I do not think that is what Beck et all mean.

So what are we left with,



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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

A MOSQUE IN MANHATTAN

08/25/2010

A MOSQUE IN MANHATTAN

Let's start with a simple question, say you are driving a car and come up to a red light, you stop, the light turns green and you look to your  left, and you look to your left and there is a semi, a hundred yards away seemingly doing sixty miles per hour, do you still have the right of way?

I have few rules in life, a major one being, " Do not create "stuff", where "stuff"does not already exist. I hope you can figure that one out on your own too., I am not being helpful , am I?

Basically the answer is very simple, we are a free country with a guarantee of religious freedom, so the Muslims can build a mosque where they wish, problem solved, but the life is never this simple, you would know if you are old enough though.

I DO PUBLISH A COPY OF THIS BLOG AT ANOTHER SITE,  TIME TO TIME I ALSO MAKE REFERENCE TO IT OR TO WHAT WAS SAID THERE!

It was not my intention to start a new controversy, but the reaction is predictable,  and angry, but ok.Pleas rest assured I AM NOT advocating for a mosque in Manhattan, far from it,  but I  do  want everyone to look at their own self and their feelings, As I said in the  start of my book,  look at the man in the mirror.
So the question must be where do these feelings come from, and how to handles them.
But let me  talk to the Muslims first, not  like they do on the talk radio or the right wing blogs, but real questions for real Muslims, in the name of peace.

Forget about 9/11 if you ever can for a minute,  Do you  suppose God gives Muslim men seventy- two virgins in heaven, do you  really believe that?

What are you doing to improve the lot of non Muslims in your own country, ( where ever you came from). Started a letter writing campaign,  ask your friends, fun raising? what?

There is no making  one religion above another, so why you always ask for special rights for the people of your own religion.
Is the sharia law better than the American Constitution, would you like to impose sharia law or even try to  say it is better than the constitution.
Just stay on topic, don't go off on tangents like the talk radio hucksters are doing.

As any thirteen year old knows, you don't ask mom and dad for increase in allowance, or for new cell phone  when they  arguing over money.

As it happens, among other things, like the election of Obama, or the health care mess, the budget deficit, we are in a "recession", money is tight and the jobs are being lost as fast as the people are losing their homes. The stuff has hit the fan. For thirty years or more, we have been living on borrowed monies, and borrowed time. I have detailed this mess for many years, chronicling the miss steps of the Democrats, and Yes the Republicans also. Right now we can not even find our way out of this mess and there is no end in sight. Today Glenn Beck is holding a rally of something or another, about "restoring honor" he says, as if honor is something we have lost, have we? Really now, how many of you are considering yourselves to be dishonorable??????And if you are , is Mr. Beck is going to restore it and how?

I know what he means, like not having a tax cheat for our secretary of treasury for example, or not making a whore monger like Elliot Spitzer a news commentator, or Newt Gingrich who took divorce papers to his cancer stricken wife, or elevating another whore monger like Dick Morris, or honoring Rush Limbaugh who had his house maid shop for prescription pain killer. Well we ARE talking about honor are we not. But we listen to all of these for advice, corruption in the system swings both ways here. I will not discusses the personal morality or responsibility of the individuals of our nation, I have talked about it at length already elsewhere. NO I do not have book you can buy to make you feel better about yourself by blaming others for the decline of this country,  while it makes me rich.

Any way while we are, all sides, busy blaming each other for our  problems, the Muslims step in to this mess wanting this that and the other, and the mosque in Manhattan is only one item on the list of DEMANDS. Well, Good Luck! You know you are starting some  crap.




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Monday, August 23, 2010

Texting and teen development

08/23/2010

Texting and teen development


It should not take a genius, or a government sponsored study to find these things out, but I do believe this thing is a joke since on the "


same page is a link to this one too
Sex ed goes mobile
we are  forcing young people to grow up earlier and earlier, more particularly to  mature sexually.As young people get involved in sex,they become less interested in everything else, to include their education. And then it is not just texting, it is computer networking, web caming, and all the rest. Many more families than ever before are dysfunctional and piecemeal, not whole or wholesome, the resultant cost to the individual and the society is immense, mean while the  psychologists, and educators are mum if not out right enablers of bad behaviors

http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2006/08/death-to-america-part-2-female.html

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Friday, August 20, 2010

WATCHING THE WHEELS

08/20/2010


WATCHING THE WHEELS
Let me admit first that I sometimes chose titles of these posts from familiar phrases or titles that you may be familiar with to catch your attention and may be to get you interested in looking at these posts. I used the same method in naming my poems.

Back in  1981 "Watching the Wheels" became my favorite songs, I could relate to it well, but I am also living a day to day life which is very involved (the reason for my sometimes rushed, sometime rambling posts). So I can't just say that I am only watching the wheels. I do watch the wheels, and I watch the connections, I watch the minute changes, and I look for the "butterfly effects", not kidding.

You would notice how I relate things, one to the other to the other, in that I am so much unlike a talk show host that keeps repeating one thing and one thing only  as if all of the world's wrongs and ailments have a singular cause and a singular result, I am not that dumb.

I am like a lab worker that is watching a cancer grow in a petri dish, knowing the dangers of the cancer, knowing not much he can or will do to stop the  natural process, knowing the dangers, knowing the damage the cancer can do, trying to be careful and to immunize himself against the organism, all the time that the cancer is as much a part of his world as he himself is, neither can be eradicated by a simple salve. Knowing  that he can not just simply remove himself from the process.

In a way my life is at an impasse, I know I can not  do very much to  change the things,  the natural progression of things,  but I also feel obligated to keep screaming,  keep yelling and to keep informing others of the dangers of this cancer, and I have no interested audience. So my whole life is a sham in so many ways.

Years ago I had mentioned that  the only thing I learned  from my Calculus  classes was that  even a minute change in one perimeter is capable of making vast changes in the  equation, in the out come, thus I have spent  years connecting dots, seeing relationships, "The Interconnectedness of Things". So no large wonder that I would be looking at the relationship between  school kids dating and the falling grades, or the sexual freedom and the murder rates.

Today, many in this country are focused not on the problems of unemployment, and how we got to this point, but on the race of the president, and not on how this problem was created and that it will take a long time for us to get out of this mess, if ever. We are to forget the polices and the scams of the last thirty years or so.

I had been warning of the consequences of the policies of our government, but most of us were so busy "getting rich" that we  failed to realize we were getting screwed, even up until the last days of the Bush (W) presidency, now every thing that is wrong is being dumped in the lap of the current administration. If we as a country are marching towards socialism the path was already carved under the prior regimes, you just did  not know it. AMERICA WAS SET UP FOR A FAILURE,  and I had been telling you this.










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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Muslim prayers welcome at Pentagon chapel

08/19/2010
here, In America, some think that   only if we  had school prayer and did not have abortion this country would have no more problems,. I wish I could tell them, if your  sixteen year old is "dating"  no amount of school prayer will save  their virginity, not school prayer not public be headings, will make people live a moral life,  and no amount of prayer will stop a disaster. They have Taliban, and we have  white superamists  , black panthers, AND KKK, PLUS A THOUSAND at the ready.
Muslim prayers welcome at Pentagon chapel

If the Republicans, The TEA party, and the Right understood the situation, they would have said, oh yes, let the Muslims do what they want and then we will come back and try to pus our own agendas( creationism, school prayer, denying abortions, etc) in the name of religious freedoms, and the freedom of speech, too bad they were not quite as smart and blew it,  I hope it is too late for that , and the Muslims will understand and back off  NOW, without making much more of and ass of their selves,  the door  swings both ways!

Right now, it would be more appropriate to use the hundred million to try to help the flood victims that to build a monument to a GOD, surely the God would rather you help his people, that is the message of all the books, you could hold the prayers and the meetings in a tent if you wanted to. Surely if a god was worried about pretty buildings, or barbecue (ok, burnt offerings), he could get his own plate. 





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Saturday, August 14, 2010

draft

One of the dumbest, ( among many) that psychology has pushed on this nation, is that all babies should be standardized, or are in fact standard. They are not, not all three year olds are willing to sit in a place for any length of time. Thus they are  considered ADHD. Many poor and black families are  sold on the idea of a crazy check and everyone makes money, the family, the school, the psychologist. The same psychologist that are convinced that humans are not capable of monogamy   (no matter the  cost to society. cannot comprehend that some kids my be predisposed to being out in the fields chasing butter flies at three, or five or six) and may not be willing to believe till later. there is much more
tombstone001.blogspot.com


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Friday, August 13, 2010

DESPAIR Part one

08/13/2010

DESPAIR



Taliban execute pregnant woman in Afghanistan












When in power from 1996 untill 2001, the radical Taliban staged public stonings or lashings of those found to have sex outside marriage. – (File Photo)


HERAT: The Taliban publicly flogged and then executed a pregnant Afghan widow by emptying three shots into her head for alleged adultery, police said on Monday.

 If you are like me, you are disgusted, of course, the whole idea is patently sick. Or is it? 


The picture above is not the picture of the incident itself, and I know some in Taliban have even denied that it happened, but it could have, it is not past the Taliban justice.

Yet look at this scene, how proud we are that we are not like them, we don't do things like this, this is not how justice should be, no God will allow this, then look at us,  and look below,  ignorance of man has no boundaries.























This was also called justice, and if you  think we are past it, think again, look at the percentage of our country men who believe that torture is all right, of course they are criminals, aren't they? And so we justify torture for our safety's sake. And were not the black men danger to to our wives and daughters, and our system? Just as a fornicating Afghan woman is a danger to their values and society.

Let me assure you first that  if she was a widow of 35, she was raped by someone in the Taliban it self, or the poor woman had to turn to prostitution to feed her kids, that is the truth of the society there, poor women are either raped by the powerful, ( even some one with as little power as a local beat cop),  and the poor women are raped in this country, by cops, and judges and lawyers, just  not  to as large a degree as there may be, or may be more, if a woman is lose she  could cut a deal in trade for sex, we are all humans only.

We in the West feel morally superior to  to the others like the one's in the third world countries, but what is our responsibility in acts of the nations we are friends with, the regimes we support, like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Columbia and Egypt, not to mention Israel, but of course they are only torturing the Arabs.


Try on this scene, you send money to help a Pakistani charity organization, then tomorrow the homeland security, state department or any of the other one hundred US intelligence organizations declares that charity a supporter of terrorism. People in Black out fits come to your house and knock down your door in the middle of the night , they don't tell you why and tell your family not to ask any questions, you know now that it is being done to keep you safe in America, under the patriot Act so you don't say anything, Just keep imagining where it is going, welcome to the new USA.
The basic truth is this, that in there zeal to fight the terrorist, the United States has become a police state, while we pay lip service to  human rights, and freedom and democracy, we are torturing our "enemies" holding them without trial or even charges, we are trying child soldiers, we are "rendering" our "enemies to foreign governments for torture and running "black prisons" and prisons" outside the reach of the US constitution or the world court at Guantanamo, Bagram, Diego Garcia, Hungry and more. In the war on terrorism  the whole world is a prison for the United States.

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Program joins Palestinians and Israelis as interns in the District

08/11/2010

Program joins Palestinians and Israelis as interns in the District

Too bad that each and every religion must proclaim it's superiority over all others. When one is following a tradition that may be thousands of years old one forgets that fact that one might as well believe the story of "Cinderella" to be true also. One could hope that education may enlighten many, but the brain washing of a life time is hard to overcome. A Jewish state, or an Islamic state is by name based on religious prejudice.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL

08/10/10

MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL

The story line goes that the queen wanted an answer that would please her, so the mirror would lie and tell her how pretty she looked. Back in 2003, I also wrote that the Americans could not handle criticism of the country and her policies. Today the internet provides us with a venue for only the opinions that please us, but there is a down fall to this phenomenon.

Narcissism is a trait that suits a three year old perfectly, as we mature we have to be able to face an opposing point of view, to be able to handle criticism, to be able to adjust our demands to the reality, to take responsibility for our actions and even inaction. This is maturity.

Information first printed in news paper 2/20/2003

Ignorance

Night after night, and the day time too, the liberal media of this country has an on going peep show going on called entertainment. From the poor Michael Jackson interviews, to big brother, the Osborne, the Batchelor and the best thing to come out of Texas recently, by far, the Anna Nicole show. Our minds are numbed by senseless exploitation of the hapless of the society. People by the millions tune in, and like the Romans of the yore enjoy the public carnage while we try to forget, or are totally unaware of the moral and the economic demise of our nation.

Where are we headed as a democracy? While we hang on the cliches of the greatness of our country and its place in history, we constantly ignore the current trends and forget that the future of us (US) does not depend on our history alone ,but upon our actions and in actions as a people today.

A vast majority of the so called informed bunch, has never picked up a history book, or studied an economic thesis, traveled well or even listened to others with opinions contrary to their own. Our opinions are formed not on the basis of our own experience or research, but on the second hand information given to us by our so called "leaders" and the talk show hosts who must know all. The reasoning being that they must have attained their positions by their innate knowledge and experience, and thus being absolved of any responsibility to do the hard work of a democracy, the independent study and acquiring of knowledge.
Remembering that if you only listen to the people that you agree with, you only show your lack of intelligence, judgment and maturity.

Let me assure you, from someone who has been there, the greatest threat to our democracy and the economy is the ignorance of our populace, and our stubborn refusal to learn the facts.


Sincerely (M.N.R)



http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/11/24/bush-need-bailouts/


http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/bush-says-hes-c.html


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DO WE REALLY NEED MORE KIDS??

08/09/2010

DO WE REALLY NEED MORE KIDS 


Social security will support itself if the masters in this country were willing to pay a living wage, instead of globalizing  and sending real jobs over seas. Instead of promoting consumption,  we  would be  supporting saving the planet and education, consumerism and conservation can not co exist. Just as the technology is making more and more jobs disappear or shifted over seas as the unemployment number are showing already and  there is no recovery. As the government is going broke the ultra rich keeping taking that money and  are hording it, to what avail I do not know, but may to own the country itself.More children have no fathers around and the fathers do not pay child support because current lifestyle and wage structure does not allow sane men to   take care of their progeny, more and more irresponsible people are making more babies which are burden on the state  and welfare systems.
Countries do not  run and policies can not be made according to wishful thinking,  we can not force people to get more and better educated no matter how much money we  say we are going to  spend, money that  does not exist and must be made up , or we could increase taxes, RIGHT! we do not need more babies, citizens,  we need to  have fewer and better quality, some on welfare should be paid NOT to have kids.
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Sunday, August 08, 2010

WHAT DO I KNOW

08/08/2010

WHAT DO I KNOW


Back in 2007 I wrote about health care to the President George W. Bush, that was then. this is what the CBS news program sixty minutes have to say today






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Thursday, August 05, 2010

The Fed's great something-flation debate

08/05/2010




Whether inflation or deflation the future US looks more and more like a third world country with higher and higher unemployment, and many more ultra rich. With a predicted victory for the Republicans in the mid term election and their call for balancing the budget on the backs of the poor (doing away with the so called social net, and unemployment benefits), tax cuts for the rich and handing over the social security to the vultures of the private banking industry.
http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2007/08/breaking-thebanks.html


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PREDICTING THE FUTURE IV

08/05/2010

PREDICTING THE FUTURE IV

IT IS NOT HOW I SAY YOU SHOULD LIVE, IT IS NOT HOW I WANT YOU TO LIVE, BUT THIS THE WAY YOU WILL LIVE

Back in June I had started writing about the future under the same title but the circumstances delayed the completion of the series. 

If you read the title of my blog then you will understand that in many of the statements I make not just talking about the present, it is also how I see the future will be. And the statement below about connecting the dots is also very important, everything in life is connected so every step you  take or the politicians take, every policy of the government as effects far beyond what the intention of the rules or the laws may have been.

Many today blame the housing bubble and the following crash on the government policy of promoting home ownership  no matter how cursory the connection may have been. An honesty person will say well  if the government wanted poor to own homes surely it did not mean the the policy promoted flipping houses and multimillion dollar sub divisions, but many in the media are saying it and getting away with it and many fools are ready to believe them too. For a truer analysis you can read my exposition, " Braking the Banks". 

That was back in 2007.







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Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Fiery Rhetoric on American Islam

08/04/2010

Fiery Rhetoric on American Islam
All religions, by definition are exclusionary,  they must by default claim superiority over all others.  No religion could survive by  stating it is equal to all or any other, must promise a status not  given to any other.
The  Jewish claim to be the "God's" chosen one is no different than the Christian faith of only "Him" being the  way is no different than the claim of Mohammed to be the last prophet.

An Islamic center, by definition will be a place for the Islamist propaganda, they will not  claim that Islam is equal to or just like anyother no matter the claim to a different mission or agenda.

Any  facility that talks about a law or a legal system that is against the US constitution, or is designed to promote such is by definition out side the bounds of constitutional protections.




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Sunday, August 01, 2010

SAVE THE NAUGA IV

08/01/2010


SAVE THE NAUGA IV


We have become a people akin to a dog chasing its tail. China's economy is slowing down
OK. the manufacturing is, but it is the same thing is it not? But here is something to think about,
China's growth depends on the US consumer spending, US consumer spending depends on the US government spending herself in to oblivion. Thus China's growth is dependent on the US government going broke. Then all will be equal and will set the stage for one world government, OH, that was the plan wasn't it?
So are we or are we not being set up for a one world government.

We would like to save the earth and conserve energy, is it even possible in a consumer economy? 
Once again the reasons I keep referring you to these previous articles is that ! it is not something new that just popped   up iun my head, I have been thinking about these things, and 2 that you should be able to see my reasons for what I am saying.




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