I know a lady who works as a hotel maid but has been told by her employer she has to have $78 per
week deducted from her pay because POTUS insists everyone have health care. I explained to her that was an absolute lie. I asked her to tell her bosses she would get her own insurance. This lady did
just that, and the hotel stop talking about deducting such exorbitant funds. This is happening in Michigan.
I have a friend who works for one of the county municipalities in Illinois. She cleans the court houses. Her personnel office told her she has to pay about $75 per month because Obama insists everyone have health care.
She doesn't make enough to pay that, so I asked her to tell them she will get her own health insurance.
They came up with a plan which will cost her $30 per month. I don't see why she should pay that either. A group policy should be cheap enough for the county to pay for its employees; but she is over fifty, so I kept my mouth shut.
When I spoke to her again, the county had decided she would have to pay $75 a month starting next year because she smokes.
Her overweight co-workers were told they'd be charged even more.
I wanted to ask her if she worked for the wacky tea party Lake County. But it's her job, so I wouldn't
do that. And I know she doesn't read blogs.
When I speak to her again, I think I will ask her if smoking and excess weight aren't pre-existing conditions.
Monday, November 11, 2013
Tamerlain And Dzokhar
Why would anyone considering themselves to be Caucasian immigrate to the U.S. by coming to Boston, expecting to assimilate?
Someone steered this family so wrong. Even the mom became radicalized.
I sure wish the sisters well. However...
Either a person is from Boston, or not from Boston.
Either a person is East Coast blue blood or not East Coast blue blood.
Even Southies, from early 20th century immigration, are Southies.
Boston is more or less a closed society, unless one is going to stay a short or finite amount of time.
Maybe some reincarnation of the Daughters of the American Revolution would be accepted. But of course, their clothes would be funny.
Attempting to be a Bostonian can only offer more and more profoundly disappointing failures
as an attempt continues.
Someone steered this family so wrong. Even the mom became radicalized.
I sure wish the sisters well. However...
Either a person is from Boston, or not from Boston.
Either a person is East Coast blue blood or not East Coast blue blood.
Even Southies, from early 20th century immigration, are Southies.
Boston is more or less a closed society, unless one is going to stay a short or finite amount of time.
Maybe some reincarnation of the Daughters of the American Revolution would be accepted. But of course, their clothes would be funny.
Attempting to be a Bostonian can only offer more and more profoundly disappointing failures
as an attempt continues.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
A Black Man As President
I heard Allen West say several days ago on Fox News, that President Obama wasn't black enough
to be considered a black man.
Well one thing is certain and two things true- Allen West definitely is.
to be considered a black man.
Well one thing is certain and two things true- Allen West definitely is.
Southerners Still Love George III
Back in the 17th century, American colonial farmers did beg the English Parliament and the British King, George III not to institute slavery in their colonies.
To their way of thinking, it would mean their ancestors and their families had left Europe and suffered and died to begin again for no apparent reason.
With all the work being done by slaves, how could an ordinary man secure work, or competitively
plant and farm.
George had other things on his mind.
Britain had shelled out big big money to protect American settlers from America's native populations,
and to fight the French-Indian War for them.
France and Spain were growing richer by the day from their slave-holding colonies in the new world.
As these countries were ever present threats to Great Britain, George felt if they got enough money
to launch and execute another attack on British soil, they would do so. They would most assuredly do so if they saw British coffers under a strain, or running dry. France especially, just loved land.
Besides, British people were in Parliament regularly to complain they were being worked long hours
at workplaces with few or no opportunities to take a break, eat a morsel, or relieve oneself.
The men complained bitterly that they made so little money, they had to succumb to employers' demands they bring in their wives to help with the work. Then, these same employers began to demand a man's children come in to become part of the workday.
Children testified their work got slower after mid-day, but if they began to miss something at their
work stations, or nod without meaning to, they were rapped sharply across the knuckles with some
sort of wood measuring stick. So Parliament and the King felt obliged to take that pressure off citizens at home, even if it introduced hardship to citizens abroad.
American colonists begged to be spared life in a place where landed gentry would become as rich as
can be, while the remaining colonists could find little to do to sustain themselves.
Apparently, by and by, Abraham Lincoln came to agree with these colonists; but I suppose of course by then it was too late. Emancipation of American slaves came more than two centuries after
slavery in the colonies began. By then, the disenfranchised turned their bitterness toward those who
could do nothing about it.
The slaves were available to be able to absorb all the hatred the average colonist could muster.
No ear was available to colonists in England. After a time, many of the poor among the colonists thought England should be willing to send the slaves back home.
They had no hopes of asking plantation owners to alter the money machines.
They were by then too proud to admit how lost was their cause.
They opened up whole-heartedly to what would centuries later be termed the Stockholm Syndrome.
Even today, so many southerners identify with the glories of slavery. So do their minions!
And yet, what could my ancestors do that theirs could not?
Now that my brethren are trying to catch up as well, we are to get no credit for having built the new
world. There was no real industry here before my ancestors arrived. Of course they brought forth the
crops which made these colonies rich enough to fight Great Britain- and win.
They made the country rich enough to offer immigrants work at the turn of the 20th century and since.
All of Massachusetts, all of New York got richer than rich right there in their harbors where the slave
trade was built, and where slave products were bought and sold. Naturally, all the patents involved
over the years went to owners, then to other Caucasians who happened upon such patents.
Are those of us who are descendants of African slaves not to be proud of them who built America, who only survived because they so loved one another? Well...
I hear, though, that Burkina Faso is lovely this time of year.
To their way of thinking, it would mean their ancestors and their families had left Europe and suffered and died to begin again for no apparent reason.
With all the work being done by slaves, how could an ordinary man secure work, or competitively
plant and farm.
George had other things on his mind.
Britain had shelled out big big money to protect American settlers from America's native populations,
and to fight the French-Indian War for them.
France and Spain were growing richer by the day from their slave-holding colonies in the new world.
As these countries were ever present threats to Great Britain, George felt if they got enough money
to launch and execute another attack on British soil, they would do so. They would most assuredly do so if they saw British coffers under a strain, or running dry. France especially, just loved land.
Besides, British people were in Parliament regularly to complain they were being worked long hours
at workplaces with few or no opportunities to take a break, eat a morsel, or relieve oneself.
The men complained bitterly that they made so little money, they had to succumb to employers' demands they bring in their wives to help with the work. Then, these same employers began to demand a man's children come in to become part of the workday.
Children testified their work got slower after mid-day, but if they began to miss something at their
work stations, or nod without meaning to, they were rapped sharply across the knuckles with some
sort of wood measuring stick. So Parliament and the King felt obliged to take that pressure off citizens at home, even if it introduced hardship to citizens abroad.
American colonists begged to be spared life in a place where landed gentry would become as rich as
can be, while the remaining colonists could find little to do to sustain themselves.
Apparently, by and by, Abraham Lincoln came to agree with these colonists; but I suppose of course by then it was too late. Emancipation of American slaves came more than two centuries after
slavery in the colonies began. By then, the disenfranchised turned their bitterness toward those who
could do nothing about it.
The slaves were available to be able to absorb all the hatred the average colonist could muster.
No ear was available to colonists in England. After a time, many of the poor among the colonists thought England should be willing to send the slaves back home.
They had no hopes of asking plantation owners to alter the money machines.
They were by then too proud to admit how lost was their cause.
They opened up whole-heartedly to what would centuries later be termed the Stockholm Syndrome.
Even today, so many southerners identify with the glories of slavery. So do their minions!
And yet, what could my ancestors do that theirs could not?
Now that my brethren are trying to catch up as well, we are to get no credit for having built the new
world. There was no real industry here before my ancestors arrived. Of course they brought forth the
crops which made these colonies rich enough to fight Great Britain- and win.
They made the country rich enough to offer immigrants work at the turn of the 20th century and since.
All of Massachusetts, all of New York got richer than rich right there in their harbors where the slave
trade was built, and where slave products were bought and sold. Naturally, all the patents involved
over the years went to owners, then to other Caucasians who happened upon such patents.
Are those of us who are descendants of African slaves not to be proud of them who built America, who only survived because they so loved one another? Well...
I hear, though, that Burkina Faso is lovely this time of year.
Climate Put The Fear Of Sandy In NJ
I know Barbara Buono could have won if New Jersey wasn't so afraid of hurricanes now.
Ms. Buono would at least have made a more powerful showing.
The city has yet to recover from Sandy, and as 'W' put it, they were NOT about to change horses
in mid-stream.
The tea party types also helped to elect Governor Christie.
Americans of African descent and other minorities and progressives, even some centrists loved the idea that Christie properly sought access to, and properly acknowledged President Obama in the devastation of the Sandy aftermath.
African Americans surely bristled, visibly, and were often quite audible in their disgust with
Haley Barbour of Mississippi during the BP oil spill. What state governor leaves town during a crisis, when the President is on his way?
Again, Governor Jan Brewer left an indelible image in the hearts and minds of so many with her
bony 'Halloween' finger pointed right in the President's face, again in a time when he came bearing
good will.
To note these behaviors, an untrained observer might think POTUS had gone to order federal troops for the desegregation of southern universities.
Oh, right, southerners may still be angry about that. Maybe they were taking it out on POTUS.
But no, Chris Christie's respect for and deference to our President painted a picture of such stark contrast to those other governors, that African Americans may always be loyal to him...at least 20%
of that voting public.
And African Americans, especially those in New Jersey, will always love Christie for the way he behaved at Whitney Houston's home going.
Even suppressed, if Christie can count on that minority vote in a close national election, he could win.
If he does manage to wrangle a nomination in 2016 to go head to head with Hillary Clinton, he might
easily cement great numbers of the African American vote. That could of course
make all the difference, unless all our large cities have been emptied by then. I doubt it could happen;
but that is another Republican aim...empty the cities of their minorities.
In the scenario that Joe Biden runs instead of Hillary- well Christie's chances seem a lot more dim.
With or without President Obama, Biden already has the hearts and minds of African America.
Governor Christie has two years to get right with the rest of centrist America.
The Tea Party, of course, is in a slow burn. That should help.
As for Ms. Buono, she took one for the team.
The Democratic Party wants to be influential in getting Christie to the primaries, even if is through
deft neglect of one of their own.
Democrats don't think he can withstand prime time; but they want all possible challengers on stage
at once, attempting to look as nutty as the man or woman standing beside him- or her.
Democrats don't want a so-called "moderate" coming from out of nowhere in 2016, pretending he or
she won't do all possible to flatten progressive ideals.
Christie has two years to work with his democratic legislature on record as a middle class advocate.
He will be under the Democrats microscope.
Time will tell if he can be the homophobic, pro-life, anti immigration tight-fisted hero of the right
who nevertheless finally properly disperses Sandy money, while spurring middle class job growth.
If he can do it, democrats have a heads up for 2016.
If Republicans are grooming someone else with Christie's electorate clout, the Ms. Buono has suffered the slings and arrows of a million Democratic Party slights for no particular reason. I hope
that doesn't turn out to be the case because she seems way more progressive than Terry McAuliffe
who did pull out the gubernatorial win in Virginia. Lord knows we need all the progressives we can get in this country, hurricanes notwithstanding.
Ms. Buono would at least have made a more powerful showing.
The city has yet to recover from Sandy, and as 'W' put it, they were NOT about to change horses
in mid-stream.
The tea party types also helped to elect Governor Christie.
Americans of African descent and other minorities and progressives, even some centrists loved the idea that Christie properly sought access to, and properly acknowledged President Obama in the devastation of the Sandy aftermath.
African Americans surely bristled, visibly, and were often quite audible in their disgust with
Haley Barbour of Mississippi during the BP oil spill. What state governor leaves town during a crisis, when the President is on his way?
Again, Governor Jan Brewer left an indelible image in the hearts and minds of so many with her
bony 'Halloween' finger pointed right in the President's face, again in a time when he came bearing
good will.
To note these behaviors, an untrained observer might think POTUS had gone to order federal troops for the desegregation of southern universities.
Oh, right, southerners may still be angry about that. Maybe they were taking it out on POTUS.
But no, Chris Christie's respect for and deference to our President painted a picture of such stark contrast to those other governors, that African Americans may always be loyal to him...at least 20%
of that voting public.
And African Americans, especially those in New Jersey, will always love Christie for the way he behaved at Whitney Houston's home going.
Even suppressed, if Christie can count on that minority vote in a close national election, he could win.
Whereas the Governor hasn't yet calculated exactly how to trounce the tea party, he does knows they are no friend of New Jersey in spite of whatever else may happen. Governor Christie also knows he will not see to what extent the teas have destroyed themselves on their own until after the 2014 elections.
He realizes he has nothing more to lose with those crackpots.If he does manage to wrangle a nomination in 2016 to go head to head with Hillary Clinton, he might
easily cement great numbers of the African American vote. That could of course
make all the difference, unless all our large cities have been emptied by then. I doubt it could happen;
but that is another Republican aim...empty the cities of their minorities.
In the scenario that Joe Biden runs instead of Hillary- well Christie's chances seem a lot more dim.
With or without President Obama, Biden already has the hearts and minds of African America.
Governor Christie has two years to get right with the rest of centrist America.
The Tea Party, of course, is in a slow burn. That should help.
As for Ms. Buono, she took one for the team.
The Democratic Party wants to be influential in getting Christie to the primaries, even if is through
deft neglect of one of their own.
Democrats don't think he can withstand prime time; but they want all possible challengers on stage
at once, attempting to look as nutty as the man or woman standing beside him- or her.
Democrats don't want a so-called "moderate" coming from out of nowhere in 2016, pretending he or
she won't do all possible to flatten progressive ideals.
Christie has two years to work with his democratic legislature on record as a middle class advocate.
He will be under the Democrats microscope.
Time will tell if he can be the homophobic, pro-life, anti immigration tight-fisted hero of the right
who nevertheless finally properly disperses Sandy money, while spurring middle class job growth.
If he can do it, democrats have a heads up for 2016.
If Republicans are grooming someone else with Christie's electorate clout, the Ms. Buono has suffered the slings and arrows of a million Democratic Party slights for no particular reason. I hope
that doesn't turn out to be the case because she seems way more progressive than Terry McAuliffe
who did pull out the gubernatorial win in Virginia. Lord knows we need all the progressives we can get in this country, hurricanes notwithstanding.
Michissippi
Here is the real 51st state.
Most Michiganders live in Michigan.
However, more than a million of us, including Detroiters, live in Michissippi.
The state has powers worse than those we complain about as imposed by the federal government.
Here in Detroit, the state put our elected mayor on trial...over and over again.
They finally got him, so that he was found guilty and sent to prison..
Then, they put one of our most loyal city council members in prison.
The person they tried to install in her place didn't have clean enough hands for that to work, thank
heavens.
We elected a new Mayor.
They dismissed him, putting someone of their own choosing in his place.
Meantime, they changed Michigan to a 'right to work' without unions state.
We got it on the ballot, voted it down, and they did it again. We have a 'right to work' without
proper work representation...again.
Walter Reuther is in heaven wondering how this could happen to us.
This state declared our city bankrupt, and is in court at this moment, attempting to take contracted
pensions from our retired.
They are attempting to force all our children into 'charter' schools.
Last night, during yet another city election, the state claimed someone called Mike Duggan won the
election fair and square.
That didn't happen. Detroit has two mayors. One Mayor is in prison. The other lives here as a private
citizen.
We need them back. However...
I here Burkina Faso is lovely this time of year.
Most Michiganders live in Michigan.
However, more than a million of us, including Detroiters, live in Michissippi.
The state has powers worse than those we complain about as imposed by the federal government.
Here in Detroit, the state put our elected mayor on trial...over and over again.
They finally got him, so that he was found guilty and sent to prison..
Then, they put one of our most loyal city council members in prison.
The person they tried to install in her place didn't have clean enough hands for that to work, thank
heavens.
We elected a new Mayor.
They dismissed him, putting someone of their own choosing in his place.
Meantime, they changed Michigan to a 'right to work' without unions state.
We got it on the ballot, voted it down, and they did it again. We have a 'right to work' without
proper work representation...again.
Walter Reuther is in heaven wondering how this could happen to us.
This state declared our city bankrupt, and is in court at this moment, attempting to take contracted
pensions from our retired.
They are attempting to force all our children into 'charter' schools.
Last night, during yet another city election, the state claimed someone called Mike Duggan won the
election fair and square.
That didn't happen. Detroit has two mayors. One Mayor is in prison. The other lives here as a private
citizen.
We need them back. However...
I here Burkina Faso is lovely this time of year.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Updated Is Not Cancelled!
POTUS is not an insurance salesman. And since when do health insurers not obfuscate? These
companies agreed to be grandfathered into compliance with health care law once the exchanges came online. Instead of rewriting policies so that they offer now regulated benefits, and advising beneficiaries about applying for available subsidy, these policy peddlers tell people their old policy
is cancelled due to Obamacare, and if they want a legal policy now, they must pay what...five times the previous cost in some cases?
Tell people the real story, the whole story, and nothing but the story, you phony execs.
Now we know more about why courtroom oaths are written the way they are under penalty of perjury. With better health care, we are also getting a lot of the requisite losers in these culture wars.
And while we are on the subject, let's let people go out of business if they are to provide me the
insurance of their religious belief instead of my religious belief.
Someone will come along to buy them out. Then they can use that money to go to their churches
and tithe.
companies agreed to be grandfathered into compliance with health care law once the exchanges came online. Instead of rewriting policies so that they offer now regulated benefits, and advising beneficiaries about applying for available subsidy, these policy peddlers tell people their old policy
is cancelled due to Obamacare, and if they want a legal policy now, they must pay what...five times the previous cost in some cases?
Tell people the real story, the whole story, and nothing but the story, you phony execs.
Now we know more about why courtroom oaths are written the way they are under penalty of perjury. With better health care, we are also getting a lot of the requisite losers in these culture wars.
And while we are on the subject, let's let people go out of business if they are to provide me the
insurance of their religious belief instead of my religious belief.
Someone will come along to buy them out. Then they can use that money to go to their churches
and tithe.
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