I would hate to sit next to this guy

The old debate is on again. This picture was taken, by a flight attendant, to show her managers how difficult it is to deal with obese passengers. Some airlines are making people buy an extra seat if they can not lower both arm rest. It doesn't seem like a bad idea to me. If I was sitting next to him I would be pissed. What do you think? How would you feel if you had the other seat of if you had to get your cart of drinks by him?

Before the Mother came the Child

Before Rosa Parks made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus, Claudette Colvin a 15 year old high school student did the same thing. She refused to give up her seat to a white women and was arrested. This sparked outrage in the community and planted the seeds that would birth the civil rights movement. Though her name doesn’t appear in any history books, her strength and ability to keep her story a secret were key elements to the success of the movement. Now her story can be told thanks to the persistence of Phillip Hoose in his work “Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice,” published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

How do we claim to be a free nation when our choices consist of left or right, blue or red, Conservative or Liberal? How can we consider these choices when our options are picked for us? In every election people get excited to vote. Excited because they get to put their man or woman in office, but is that really their man or women? Is that the person you would pick if there were more options? Would there be more accountability if there were more competition?

I know I’ve listed a lot of questions but these questions need answers. Both parties are scared to death when a viable third party gets to run. That is why in most districts it is so hard to get on the ballot. The politicians (both Democrat and Republican) work very hard not to allow their lively hoods to be tested by chance. So they act like they are, for the people, like they feel your pain. The problem is these parties don’t represent the people. These are life long politicians that are living under the umbrella of the elite, protected and shielded from the people they are suppose to be serving.

We can do better. We must do better. As the divide between the rich and poor grows exponentially the middle class is disappearing. This represents the biggest problems for us as a people and as a country. We can not afford to let these same ole politicians with these same ole ideas to keep destroying the country. Help me in supporting a third party. I feel we need a strong third party to get new ideas in and to scare these guys into action. We need more reasonable conversation not screaming from the left and the right. These are the only people being heard, not because they have any thing good to say, only because they scream the loudest. It’s not he who screams loudest. Let’s change this now!

Who ever your elected official is, up to President Obama, reach out to them, lets them know your feelings and concerns. If they don’t follow through get them out of there. They work for us bank bailouts and things of that nature should not be tolerated. Let’s become more proactive and hold all the elected officials accountable.

The Next President

OH NO THE TERRORIST ARE COMING!!!!!

Can the Republicans find one sane person to speak on their behalf? How is it that the most idiotic statements keep coming out of their mouths? Then they blame the media for bashing them. There are so many logical arguments to be made about the Obama administration, but they have to reach for the farthest most ridiculous talking points. Like this crazy guy Rep. John Shadegg of Arizona who uses babies as props to discuss healthcare.


Now,this guy is taking on Bloomberg. " Well, Mayor, how are you going to feel when it's your daughter that's kidnapped at school by a terrorist?” Really, is that the best explanation you have against trying a man accused of terrorism? What about Aimal Kasi sentenced 1998 for the 1993 deaths of CIA agents or the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, four people were tried and convicted in 1994. Shall I go on? The ridiculous nature of this and other dumbfounded statement is they are believed. I'm sure there are people that really believe he was talking on the little babies behalf. Maybe he should go back to quoting babies and leave policies to the grownups.

In an interview, Representative Bill Pascrell Jr., Democrat of New Jersey, said: “I regret that the language was the same. I did not know it was.” He said he got his statement from his staff and “did not know where they got the information from.”
The New York Times: In House, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyists’

Where is the accountability? How does a Lobbyist get his words into Congressional Record and Representatives not be held accountable.
Representatives that don’t know where they are getting their information from should not use that information. This is where “We the people” need to take a stand. We need to stop listening to the politicians and make them listen to us. We need to hold them accountable and make them realize that representative means they serve us. This goes to show you Republicans and Democrats are all cut from the same cloth.

It is time

It is time to stop waffling and take action in Israel. This is where the greatest threat lies for the US. Because of the United States blind alliance to an oppressive, criminal state of Israel it has put us all at risk. The Muslim nations don’t hate us because of our freedoms; they don’t hate us because of our perversions, they hate us because of our involvement in this illegitimate state. It is time to right the wrong. Israel is running out of allies, with the public outburst in Turkey. Turkey’s government has taken an about face. Turkey has long been Israel’s biggest ally in the Mideast it has played the part of mediator in that region. With them gone Israel is in a bad state. Now, if the US joined in and put more pressure on Israel we could see real change in the region. A Jewish State doesn’t benefit anyone. It will only continue the violence.


What really baffles me is Israel wants to be acknowledged as a Jewish State, which would mean that everyone else (Palestinian or Christian) would be a second class citizen. Why would the US (who always talks about freedoms) back an oppressive state hell bent on keeping everyone that isn’t Jewish as a second class citizen? Any time anybody questions Israel they are called anti-Semitic or if they happen to be Jewish they are called self hating Jews. This is asinine, it is possible to disagree with someone without be a bigot, but how could a bigot call someone else a bigot and think that there words carry more weight than the person they are calling a bigot. Israel was a stark supporter of apartheid in South Africa (what a shock) and now they have their own (albeit different) apartheid.

The United States has always been involved in other countries polices, it is time to get really involved in this one. If the US wants to police the world then start with Israel. The argument for Israel is always the same “they have a right to defend themselves” that is true if that is what they are doing, but it’s not and we know it. What they are doing is criminal. They could stop this atrocity if they wanted to, but they don't want too. They have no business in the West Bank or Gaza so get out. But they have a right to defend themselves, really in territory that they are not supposed to be in. Would they need to defend themselves if they weren’t constantly breaking international laws? The World Court, the UN and the international Court of Justice has said they are breaking laws and what happens the US always backs them. I want people to grasp this concept. These criminals have been occupying these territories since 1967. They do not want peace that died with Rabin. The Politicians won't try what he tried so it's up to the world (and yes the US too) to intervene, but that will not happen. And you wonder why they hate us.

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