by MJ | Sep 27, 2007 | Politics |
Today, I sat there on my day off and sat back and flipped through the channels on my TV, and of course it happened to be Oprah, and Michael Moore, and several other people.
<p>Today, I sat there on my day off and sat back and flipped through the channels on my TV, and of course it happened to be Oprah, and Michael Moore, and several other people</p>
<p>I honestly can say that I do agree with Mr. Moore on many great details of the American Healthcare system. For many years they have known there is a problem with their system and a situation in which the health care system is for profit. I agree with Mr. Moore when he says that we should not be playing roulette with peoples lives when it comes to the health care system.</p>
<p>How I see the only change being made is on a state level where each of the states purchases healthcare facilities and then hires the staff to do the job. All it takes is passing a law stating that no person shall be denied healthcare, irregardless if they are insured or not. They should be able to receive healthcare needed for an operation.</p>
<p>The problem is that healthcare companies do not understand politics and nor do they care to understand the taxation quotient that decides how much taxes have to be paid. If that person was able to be healed and put back into work, and if they made 7 dollars an hour, how much in taxes would there be put back into the system.</p>
<p>When people are healthy, they tend to enjoy life more, and tend to spend more. Thus in the mathematics of everything brings in more taxes.</p>
<p>You see, politicians in America are not in your pocket, and that also needs to change, they need to be there for the people. There needs to be accountability to the highest levels of government. People need to be in control of their Government, and the people in America need to stand up for their constitution, their rights, what many have fought and died for. The constitution is not just a god damned piece of paper you know, it’s an ideal, it’s a belief in a better way of living. In the words, We the people of the United States of America, it does not say We the corporations of America in order to form a larger bank account and line our pocket book.</p>
<p>People need to stand up and realize that when all that violence that happened with the Civil Rights Movement, it changed America, it made the Governments take notice and listen. I believe that it is time for Americans to once again wake up and use their voice, use their vote.</p>
<p>Don’t vote for the Democrats or the Republicans. They have the same sponsor’s stickers on the side of their car. Vote for the person that you believe to be honestly there for the people and by the people do you realize what would happen if there were a lot more independents in the House and Senate?? It would change the shape of politics in Washington. Political parties would take notice, that lies and deceit will not be tolerated in America.</p>
<p>Don’t vote one way because of your grand pappy did it or your brother does it or another family member or your best friend. Stand up use your voice, and let them know that We the People will not sit here and take their lies anymore.</p>
<p>Let us find a way to change the healthcare system in America as I said on a state level. Do you realize what it would do to the corporate healthcare system? While it would not destroy it, it would sure make it smaller. There should be both sets of systems, one for those that want to pay and those that can not afford it.</p>
<p>Honestly, the costs that they were talking about on Oprah today for procedures have to be highly over priced. How the hell can you justify seven hundred thousand dollars for a procedure? I believe that the prices are unjustified and are highly over inflated.</p>
<p>The American healthcare system is flawed because of how it operates and is setup. There needs to be a change and no one seems to want to deal with it because it is too much of a problem.</p>
<p>In American Politics they never solve the problem only talk it to death and another election comes along and talk about it again.</p>
<p>It is time for a serious change in both the healthcare system and the political system. If it takes the people, marching and voicing their opinion in the streets so be it, because talking on the radio sure the hell as not done anything at all to change anything.</p>
<p>It if takes an amazing amount of civil disobedience like during the civil rights movement, so be it.</p>
<p>But if it be your will, to live in a flawed system and do nothing; not to take your government to task for their wrong doing and their evil deeds against you, then you are as guilty as those that destroyed your country. Take heed knowing that your choices are yours.</p>
I honestly can say that I do agree with Mr. Moore on many great details of the American Healthcare system. For many years they have known there is a problem with their system and a situation in which the health care system is for profit. I agree with Mr. Moore when he says that we should not be playing roulette with peoples lives when it comes to the health care system.
How I see the only change being made is on a state level where each of the states purchases healthcare facilities and then hires the staff to do the job. All it takes is passing a law stating that no person shall be denied healthcare, irregardless if they are insured or not. They should be able to receive healthcare needed for an operation.
The problem is that healthcare companies do not understand politics and nor do they care to understand the taxation quotient that decides how much taxes have to be paid. If that person was able to be healed and put back into work, and if they made 7 dollars an hour, how much in taxes would there be put back into the system.
When people are healthy, they tend to enjoy life more, and tend to spend more. Thus in the mathematics of everything brings in more taxes.
You see, politicians in America are not in your pocket, and that also needs to change, they need to be there for the people. There needs to be accountability to the highest levels of government. People need to be in control of their Government, and the people in America need to stand up for their constitution, their rights, what many have fought and died for. The constitution is not just “a god damned piece of paper” you know, it’s an ideal, it’s a belief in a better way of living. In the words, “We the people of the United States of America”, it does not say “We the corporations of America in order to form a larger bank account and line our pocket books”.
People need to stand up and realize that when all that violence that happened with the Civil Rights Movement, it changed America, it made the Governments take notice and listen. I believe that it is time for Americans to once again wake up and use their voice, use their vote.
Don’t vote for the Democrats or the Republicans. They have the same sponsor’s stickers on the side of their car. Vote for the person that you believe to be honestly there for the people and by the people do you realize what would happen if there were a lot more independents in the House and Senate?? It would change the shape of politics in Washington. Political parties would take notice, that lies and deceit will not be tolerated in America.
Don’t vote one way because of your grand pappy did it or your brother does it or another family member or your best friend. Stand up use your voice, and let them know that “We the People” will not sit here and take their lies anymore.
Let us find a way to change the healthcare system in America as I said on a state level. Do you realize what it would do to the corporate healthcare system? While it would not destroy it, it would sure make it smaller. There should be both sets of systems, one for those that want to pay and those that can not afford it.
Honestly, the costs that they were talking about on Oprah today for procedures have to be highly over priced. How the hell can you justify seven hundred thousand dollars for a procedure? I believe that the prices are unjustified and are highly over inflated.
The American healthcare system is flawed because of how it operates and is setup. There needs to be a change and no one seems to want to deal with it because it is too much of a problem.
In American Politics they never solve the problem only talk it to death and another election comes along and talk about it again.
It is time for a serious change in both the healthcare system and the political system. If it takes the people, marching and voicing their opinion in the streets so be it, because talking on the radio sure the hell as not done anything at all to change anything.
It if takes an amazing amount of civil disobedience like during the civil rights movement, so be it.
But if it be your will, to live in a flawed system and do nothing; not to take your government to task for their wrong doing and their evil deeds against you, then you are as guilty as those that destroyed your country. Take heed knowing that your choices are yours.
by MJ | Mar 21, 2007 | General Editorial, Politics, Travesties |
I often think as I listen to all these people that sit and argue about 9/11 and who did what and it was either gravity or an inside job.
I will tell you, if it was an inside job, a black op, such as many of those carried out. If it was, if it was the highest part of the most secret parts of the United States Government, military, alphabet agencies, and so forth acting on their own to remotely control aircraft, or having pilots actually flying those planes or other people flying those planes into the buildings.
Let me ask one question, and this is the one that I love, is proof. You can prove there was a crime scene on 9/11, and planes flew into those buildings. You can prove that people died. You can prove the buildings fell, and you can prove a lot of things.
But what can not be proven is a conspiracy in the highest levels of government, what can not be proven is explosives brought down those buildings.
Eye witness testimony 4-5 years later is not really accurate, as can be shown in The Pentacon where one witness says he is at one place in the Citgo gas station but really in another. At one of the front, pump instead of the back pump. But he does remember when asked. I don’t see conspiracy in this movie, as I recall it.
Recalling your story 5 years later with so much media and controversy and getting it correct is at best ambiguous. I am not saying these people lied, what I am saying is time does play tricks on the memory, and media influence plays tricks on the memory.
The people were doing the news that morning would probably recall things differently, as well as the people that watched it. Time is a major factor in recalling your memories, like it only happened yesterday, but I tell you if you wrote down what happened so many years ago, and recalled it, and then read what your wrote it would be different. But then again going back and re-reading what you wrote is also a level of self-indoctrination otherwise known as brainwashing.
We listen to what is said in loose change, but there are also a lot of truths omitted in that as well, we listen to so many people that say they are an expert without being one. We listen to other people that saw the buildings collapse and take that as gospel, and we take what the passerby says to be the truth.
Let me say this, if there was a conspiracy, you and I assure you are not going to figure it out completely. I like to say people that know the truth, know there is no conspiracy.
The conspiracy is in not knowing and a lot of people seem to think there was a conspiracy and others say there was not one.
There are two sides to all this right??? I have to say, dead wrong.
Let’s look at facts, the real facts, not surmised facts by someone that is a film making student, using artistic license to sell his movie.
When you look at the one side, and that’s the truth, you seem to find out what is going on. Ignore the hapless arguments by those that smoke their drugs, and suffer from paranoia.
Ignore the arguments by those that can not provide evidence and proof. Ignore the lies and the assumptions and suppositions. Separate the crap from the truth. That is the biggest problem with the “truth movement†they want to say it was an inside job without looking at science.
In all investigations you have to find one thing, and that’s the truth. Evidence never lies, only the interpretation of that evidence can be skewed to what ever truth the person is telling their perception of that evidence.
Perception and Reception of information, as well as facts in this case is overwhelming, and too much for one person to absorb and completely understand. The magnitude of information is staggering, and to understand it all is too much.
The truth movement would have you believe it was an inside job, and I say find the witnesses and people involved and the truth to prove that theory, find the proof, and find the people that are willing to talk. People are always willing to talk it is a fact of life.
I can not firmly believe one way or another that it was a terrorist attack or a staged event. If this was a staged event, then they had to have their own people in place either controlling the planes or otherwise. If this was a staged event, then let me ask one thing, where would you control those airplanes from to make sure they flew into those buildings with perfect precision??
In many of these movies we always see one side of building 7; we never see the other side. I like to call it the picturesque side of the building; the side that everyone can believe looks perfect.
What I am saying is conspiracy theorists use their logical deduction to prove a conspiracy without using science and facts and knowledge of science or being educated in such fields. They provide people that are also known in the conspiracy group, as valid resources and knowledgeable to talk about something as fact without proof.
I have listened to enough conspiracy people to know how they think. They huddle in their group and look to each other for answers and when they find the best one, which has to be the truth.
Meanwhile the rest of us listening to the television being told what the truth is; because, we know for a fact that the news does their research and does not grab the story from the newswire and repeat it verbatim back to us.
I have watched a lot of television, and I can say for a fact that being without it for a while is actually good for you.
What I am looking for is proof based on math, which is based on factual numbers on why those buildings fell in the first place. Let us use actual mathematical computations, based on actual data available, for the plane itself, the building design, where and how the plain hit the buildings, the instant damage done on impact.
I guess you see what I am saying, eliminate all the facts first, and if the answer is not there, then use theory.
Ockham’s Razor is the principle proposed by William of Ockham in the fourteenth century: “Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate”, which translates as “entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily” Or in plain English “All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.”
But let us add another to all of this, Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity”.
Let us look at all the stupidity that happened the day of 9/11, let us look at the Flight Traffic Controllers that did not have clue what to do, there was procedure right, of some kind?
There was procedures, and there were rules, but where these rules in place or did people not know what to do?
Many of these conspiracy movies talk about planes that were flown way out into the southern USA. What they don’t talk about is what was their standard base assignment, flight assignments, assignment roster, preplanned maneuvers, which happened to be on that day. But it’s all implied that it was setup in the highest levels of government to change plans and set this up from the beginning. There may be proof, but we need a whistle blower to be protected that will tell the truth sure protected my ass. These people have more power and the knowledge of who is who and what is what to deal with people that might talk or will talk.
People don’t understand that in the military you are given a direct order you follow it without question. Let me explain what that means, reduction in rank, prison time, dishonorable discharge, no pension, etc. Let’s think about this carefully, a reduction in rank means less salary, which means you, might not be able to pay your bills. Prison time usually follows a trial, and disobeying a direct order of a superior officer, is not something people are willing to do, knowing the rules are given to them before hand to follow.
What I am saying is people follow orders because that’s the rules, regardless of a gut feeling or knowing that they should not do it, but they do. Failure to follow the orders of a superior officer is not something that is taken lightly.
So back to that little conspiracy, those planes were not in position, not because the pilots felt like it, but because they followed orders. And in loose change they say the planes should have been elsewhere up north near their base. Let’s look at that little fact again as stated above. None of the film makers know or even have a clue what the military is about and what failure to follow an order really means. You can not just choose not to follow an order without violating the UCMJ.
Another conspiracy is that the buildings were brought down by explosives, in a controlled demolition ask experts that know what the rubble looks like after a proper demolition, don’t just create supposition based on hearsay evidence.
All I ask is people to think logically and not jump into one theory or another unless they can back it up by fact.
On 9/11 there was confusion among those that were supposed to know what to do, why was there not?? That’s simple; there was no rule in place saying which agency took control of the situation. No one knew which agency should take the lead in this situation.
Was it NORAD, the Whitehouse, FAA, Military Command, which group here had the lead, who had seniority, who was in charge?? Do you know? And If you do, please enlighten me, because I am interested in facts, not supposition.
What I am looking for is simple facts, to put together a factual time line of events of that day. The: who, what, when, where, why, and How?? Yes those questions I was taught in school which is the basis of investigations.
Provide facts and provide truth, and provide the data and all sources, no hidden or private sources, about that day.
There are people that know what happened that day and are not talking under national security rules. Remember what I said about following orders? These people can only talk after their oath has expired and their national security authorization has expired and after they can not provide proof. They can talk, but they don’t because they take that oath as serious as it gets, no joking in what I say. I have asked a few people about what it means when they take that oath of secrecy.
People that are not in the military do not get it when the people in the military are given a direct order. That order stands until it is rescinded. It is that simple.
Those conspiracy theorists have to learn all the rules that government organizations have to follow, before they can say it’s a conspiracy but they don’t.
There is only one conspiracy, and that’s withholding of the information that has been kept secret/classified. That’s it, and that’s all.
But there is no conspiracy if you are in the know. Conspiracy as defined: A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design. Please note the words as if. If you know the truth it’s no longer sinister or is it??
People are so afraid; I say stop watching television and read. Learn your history and understand the present. History only repeats itself when we do not learn from the past.
by MJ | Jan 25, 2007 | Politics |
After doing a lot of research on the electric car and how it just was not to be again… and how it was ripped out from people that were willing to sign away any and all rights and go as far to sign agreements not to ever sue for anything that happened to them because of the car… many were willing to go to that extent… to never have to pay for gas again…
I am talking about the GM EV1 using NiMH Batteries. From what I am reading the EV1 could go over 100 miles on a charge. 100 miles… and if you had a small commute to work of 5-10 miles that’s great you would only use 10-20 miles worth of battery power a day.. Only having to charge the car, if that’s all you did once every 2-3 days.
The maintenance costs were next to nothing. The only real big cost is the battery that would have to be changed out every 3-5 years or so if the car was still running using that battery technology.
There was no maintenance, no spark plugs no wires, no distributor and the cap and router, there was only 5-10% of the mechanical parts that could break down on it, in comparison.
We have to look at this realistically here… you can not have a car that burns no gas and does not break down a lot.. IT’S NOT GOOD… You put people out of work with a car that efficient… you eliminate a mechanic’s job or two or over 100,000 American jobs just there alone…
But lets talk about building those parts… well how many of them are REALLY made in America any more, so there is not a loss of American jobs… but only if those are not American made parts… if there were American made parts then you would have lost more American Jobs… who cares about the rest of the world… elected politicians only care about Americans… at least we think so anyways…
Then we have to look at the people that work in the oil and gas industry… we just would not need those people, they would be useless… we would not need refineries, oil platforms, drillers, and the like that work out there… but then you forget the truck drivers that are put out of work because there are no refineries to make gas… then you don’t really need oil companies and executives and the like and support people there at corporate offices… and the little guys that run each and every gas station out there from the managers/owners to the employees… Let us examine in the USA alone that has to be over 100 thousand to over a million people at least… think about this… and understand there is more to all this then people imagine.
Now when you do not need all those people that are primary bread winners in the family… and they now have been trained in a profession that is defunct… where society as it is stands…
The EV1 was never mass marketed because simply it put people out of work… and in the end; elected officials actually saw what was sold to them…
The hell with your health and the air you breathe if it puts people out of work… your one person in the grand scheme of things you can die… it does not matter… and honestly that’s how big business feels…
They believe in money and the bottom line not your health and not the environment. If it destroys the way we live then you know what that’s not good…
The basic principle of change is that you have to be willing to change and be willing to struggle though any issues that come up, instead of running away…
Its going to be the small people that make the change, not the big business… its going to have to be all us small businesses working together as one and all us people concerned.
Park that gas guzzler, get LED Lights get off the grid… insulate the interior walls of your house… get rid of that 40 gallon water tank and get an on demand system… have them put under the sinks in your new home, think of how much it costs to keep your water hot sitting on standby..
Creating a better world has never been a prime concern of big business and rich moguls. Solving problems is not there concern. It is sad that corporations and moguls can destroy a great idea and destroy our world at the same time.
It is sad that they will tell us the technology is not here, and does not work and people buy it hook, line and sinker. It says that people are just as stupid as you get. People are as stupid as they get, when they would do something like this to placate to big oil. Thank you for not giving a damn about your progeny, and thank you for not caring.
As TV Killed the radio star, Gas killed the Electric Car.
by MJ | Dec 16, 2006 | Politics |
We live in a society where politically correct is the needed thing here, it’s a must have, you can not live without being politically correct.
I personally feel that politically correct is a made up word and way of being nice. It serves no purpose other then to hide the truth or misalign the truth. It is a lie, a line of BS.
While people say its how we should be is nice to people because it’s politically correct. I do not believe that politically correct is even correct.I call a spade a spade, I call a person as they are and a situation and a place how it is.
I say this because I got fired for saying how things are… and people complain… be nice be politically correct, be nice to everyone because you could hurt their feelings…
Well the REAL world it does not work like that, the real world does not care about being nice to you. They do not care about YOUR feelings, sorry to say but that’s how it is.
The world as it stands does not care if you live or die and if you’re nice, so here is my Christmas present, I got fired…
So to hell with politically correct, it’s the biggest lie that was created to get around the truth and to beat around the bush.
Lets be nice to little Johnny and sugar coat the truth and make it better for him, lets make the pain not hurt as bad… but lets not tell him the truth and say, you know what you’re a an idiot or otherwise..
I am as they say an asshole, because I tell it how it is, and I tell people how it is without the sugar coating, no matter the situation, being nice is just that to make people feel better about themselves. I am an asshole because I do not play nice and by the rules as society likes to have it, and make nice to every person going.
I say being nice and sugar coating the truth is for babies and wimps that can not accept the truth… its like saying its ok to do drugs as long as you don’t hurt anyone else… well that’s just it… doing drugs ALWAYS hurts someone else and its sugar coating the situation…
You know I think that politically correctness has gotten over rated and has gone overboard… its time to clean this crap and get of the sugar coating of it all.
Tell the plain truth as it is, and how it is, forget the extra, and get to the point, don’t beat around the bushes and honestly people can not handle the truth, because they might take it the wrong way.
We live in a society that makes rules to make sure that we are all that much nicer and we sugar coat everything. I think this is ludicrous, a sham a line of crap.
If we can not stand and be honest to people then what does that say about us, and what does that say about society as a whole.
by MJ | Jun 8, 2006 | Politics |
Somewhere in this thought, I was trying to make sense of this whole generation that is being brought up today. I figured that since most of them could not do math by hand it was not a requirement, that being able to write by hand was a requirement in school.
How about this?
Have yourself or if you have children in today’s schools write out a sentence or two, or a paragraph from a book. It does not matter what is written, as long as it is.
I was pondering this thought when I was listening to the news about how many of our children and how many are there that can not write, not simply print, but write. Actual writing is what I am talking about, the penning of ones thoughts on paper with ease and elegance. It would appear that this has become a lost art, and a lost skill, to the computer, PDA, cell phones, and so forth.
The days when Shakespeare would write out his work by pen and paper, and thoughts flowed from the quill with ease. I do not know how and when it all started to be lost, and how many people encourage their children to use a lost art of writing.
There are days, when I trade up the computer for a pen and paper to write my thoughts. When I put my computer to rest, and let it know that my hands must remember that writing is something that should be a gift.
When I write these days, when I put the keyboard down as it were, I pick up the pen, I wonder, will this paper be read, and will it be remembered? When I write, I write with love, because for me it takes skill to pick up a pen and write.
About three weeks ago the power went out. I did not have a computer or a phone or anything, I realized that I had an electric can opener, and it make me sit and think about this, about what I would do and how would I survive without power. It was the longest six hours of my life, without my computer. So I picked up a pen, and started to write my thoughts.
It’s funny how much reliance we have on technology that in the dark we sit confused, alone, unsure, afraid and scared. We do not know what to do in the dark, without power, without the hum of our electronics to keep us going.
The silence was deafening, so I wrote with my pen.
by MJ | Apr 20, 2006 | Politics |
As the Gas Prices keep rising, people are struggling to make ends meet. People are only driving when they need too… or are they??
Those people that are feeling this the most are those that are the single people and the families with kids.
The old saying of family comes first, but now to care for the family you need gas.
In the event of an emergency you need gas…
It’s like money it makes the world go around. Alas, here is the problem not everyone has enough money to pay for the price of gas.
Rumors say $1.50 cents a liter in Canada and about $3.00 a gallon in the USA, this summer alone.
And this is only the beginning.
Over the next 5 years Canadians can expect their gas prices to rise up to at least $6 a liter. In the USA, people can expect $5 a gallon.
Between the taxes on fuel and the numbers of refineries that will go offline due to weather, terrorism, and being shutdown by the corporations themselves.
So when it comes to digging into the pocket book, SUV’s and big trucks are not going to be the best choice, people are going to be looking for the smaller compact car that will be able to get them to where they need to go.
Hybrid cars are coming, and are slowly coming, and more people want to start saving money with new and top end hybrid cars.
So when you go to fuel up, and find that reaching into the bottom of the wallet to go somewhere is costing a little too much in your SUV, perhaps its time to get a smaller car.