tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449585739874626782.post7978459328013932293..comments2023-10-24T05:17:46.635-07:00Comments on A Hollywood Republican: The President Admits His Limited Power Regarding Gulf Oil Spill by Craig CovelloFrank T. DeMartinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331950484624529967noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449585739874626782.post-7415623320979611602010-06-16T16:45:21.110-07:002010-06-16T16:45:21.110-07:00The thread here is the magic of the magician. What...The thread here is the magic of the magician. What happens when the attraction for what the left hands is doing consumes all recon.<br /><br />Next the issue of the rising tide of economic fires, the firm storm of financial and private enterprise difficulties, caused by increasing unsustainable rules and regulations. The ever expending, government insidious control over the continuing and ever expanding wall street/main street/union disasters, no one ever asking or investigating who is causing these fires and why are these fires happening. Both subjects, why the fires and who is starting them, integral to progressive advancement.<br /><br />Then there is the philosophy of the Sal Alinsky Rules for radicals and the Cloward and Piven Strategy, a welfare crisis (over 40% of the nations population is tied to government largess) will cause a political crisis, blatant, but ignored, clues to what is happening, never analyzed by this blog and referred to only as the “buzz” words of our predicament.<br /><br />Thus as the crisis appeared in succession, there was TARP, Stimulus 1, Stimulus 2, a Jobs Bill, Student Loans, Emergency measures, ObamaCare and now we are on the precipice of Cap and Trade. And we diddle over watching the errors of the left hand of the magician while he is lifting our wallets and our souls with his right hand. <br /><br />America, the unfunded national liabilities is now at 130 trillion. And all this is happening while we focus on dissecting, with great detail, skill and facts, on the administration’s failure to react properly to BP’s Deep Water Horizon disaster. The commotion is framed, hyped and agitated on the Louisiana coast while the crime is happening in Washington DC. It is called misdirection and done with brilliance. <br /><br />Our nation has moved from the wall street melt down to TARP, from union unsustainable wages/benefits/bloated legacy costs to the nationalization of a major portion of the auto industry, from unbalanced budgets in states going bankrupt due to greed in the public sector, from recessionary pressures to ridiculous stimulus infusion that shows no results, from a government take over of students loans which will ultimately prove that President Eisenhower was correct when he warned us of the corrupting influence of the growing complexes of government, military, academia and pharmaceuticals.<br /><br />And a prediction, the CCX exchange is packaging some form of CO2 derivatives to be offered as IPO’s as soon as Cap and Trade passes. And it will be a 10 trillion dollar stock market “scam” exchange. Just like ENRON.<br /><br />And so now there is a $20 Billion BP trust fund with an additional $100 million for those whose livelihoods in the Gulf are affected, caused mainly by the Government’s drilling moratorium. One has to know that politics will control and corrupt this trust fund, turning it into a “slush fund.” <br /><br />And final the issue is of “truth” and how that anchor of our cultural has been twisted and torture until no one can recognize it any longer. One must revert back to the wisdom of a very great man, had he lived in Russia instead of India, he would have been snuffed out, stolen from humanity, destroyed before the light of wisdom could shine, like we fear for our liberty and freedom, and he said, “A “no” uttered from the deepest conviction (of our souls) is better than a “yes” merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” “Whenever you have truth (a personal journey, mind set, and accumulation of facts and experiences) it must be given with love (absent spin, ideology, wrong headedness, prejudices and biases), or the message and the messenger will be rejected. <br /><br />And we focus on that oily bird and forget about the double digit unemployment. What is happening in the gulf, due to BP and this administration as they puts the “feel good” environment and progressive agendas priority over the humanitarian lively hoods of Americans. Put out the last fire down the street but ignore that progressive agenda meteorite headed straight for America.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449585739874626782.post-33769167556426333162010-06-16T10:54:30.367-07:002010-06-16T10:54:30.367-07:00After yesterday's address by the President, it...After yesterday's address by the President, it appears that the liberal media has finally realized that Obama is a big speaker but does nothing. He has finally turned off his two cronies at MSNBC to the point where they are disallusioned. In fact, most people realize that they change they are getting is not the change they wanted. Let's see what happens in five months.<br /><br />Remember, vote in 2010.Frank T. DeMartinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18331950484624529967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449585739874626782.post-3848491568543605952010-06-16T07:49:58.094-07:002010-06-16T07:49:58.094-07:00There is great potential in this forum but very li...There is great potential in this forum but very little growth. The message is mostly solid and informative in that it represents an easily understood point of view, the view from Republicanism and Conservatism. The frustrated, combative, maybe viral, comments that are camouflaged by symbols, rows of symbols, “hernande said”are meaningful, challenging and represent a definite opposing point of view. To respond in kind is sophomoric. Try to get inside the head of these individuals. You have obviously managed to take up residence, if only a few seconds in their head, they possibly read what was blogged, and continue the conversation. If you are only un-pensive, un-meditative, unthinking, un-caring, equally as emotional, then you have absolutely nothing meaningful, informative, probative to say, you effectively make their point, and that is sad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449585739874626782.post-85591204133157971492010-06-15T21:24:01.372-07:002010-06-15T21:24:01.372-07:00And we also are victims of analysis paralysis.
“A...And we also are victims of analysis paralysis.<br /><br />“And we will make BP pay.” Our politicians forced BP to drill in deep water and protected them with limited liability. What did they know, and when? Those who can make us believe absurdities can make us accept atrocities. Anyone who doesn’t know that any and every bit of reparations and legitimate compensation will not eventually trickle down to a liability shared by each every person who buys a petroleum touched product, does not understand the free market or any market. There is a place for negligence and criminality, and it is in the courts. There is an acceptance of and a place for accidents, otherwise our cars, trains, planes and ships would cease to exist. Empathy is a wonderful emotion until it gets distorted into guilt, fear and doubt. George Orwell was a socialist but even he acknowledged that “scary” stuff was headed our way. Triangulate Orwell off of Ayn Rand and today’s reality. They have merged and are not compatible.<br /><br />We can demonize and destroy or we can embrace and progress. The analysis of an accident is easy. It is prevention that is a challenge, the vision and here the vacuum. Patience is adaptive as the best lies are covered with half truths. And he died saying to himself, “I should have known that was poison.” The world was once believed by the best minds in the universe to be flat. They were all so wrong. And many died as heretics before the “truth” was accepted. <br /><br />“One of the methods used by statists (statism is the practice or doctrine of giving a centralize government “insidious (sic) control” over economic planning and policy) to destroy capitalism consists in the establishment of controls that tie a given industry, hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that “freedom” has failed and stronger controls are necessary.”<br /><br />Our politicians, many, to many, of them, were not, are not, good individuals. They had, have their petty personal agendas and were, are more concerned with holding on to their positions of power than doing what was, is right, year after year. They say they were, are for benevolent change and then behind closed doors, shuttering out all promised transparency, they energetically, purposefully block the very reforms they had, did once espouse while running for election or re-election.<br /><br />Lying, obfuscating, clouding, misdirection, ignoble stratagems, once the hallmark of tyrants, have been, are the character traits, accepted morals of all too many of our public servants, politicians and even the residents of a soon to be (we hope not) legendary, now almost mythical, executive branch. Transformation is happening. There will be a day when the “White” House adjective will turn gray, in a temporary retreat from the pristine definition eternally framed by a brides color selection of her bridal dress. Run George Washington, run, the barbarians have breached our capital.<br /><br />There is a need to revisit a mind set that says, if terrorists and evil men would lay down their weapons of war, peace would breakout. If America and Israel lay downs their arms there would be no more, any America or Israel. Imagine a “medal” for “restraint” instead of “Valor” or “Honor”, as we know the definitions to be. David of David and Goliath fame, would have died…laughing. <br /><br />“Term Limits” is the political limitation of a politician’s office tenure. Beware, of the Sal Alinsky lethal redefinition to make it seem like their corruption of the Palin “bull’s eye” on those we wish only “vote” out. Who are the barbarians in the mob? Just research the news videos. <br /><br />Rediscover unselfish patriotism. Return to spirituality enshrined by an action plan, the original mission and goal of our Constitution and the bill of Rights. Grow our imagination and intellect. Bolster, protect and nourish principled capitalism. Embrace shared sacrifice and pain. Rediscover the courage of our convictions. Do not abandon our allies, like Israel and the UK. Restore honor and rediscover common sense.<br /><br />Stop the analysis paralysis, please!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449585739874626782.post-61961398785237231512010-06-15T07:54:31.865-07:002010-06-15T07:54:31.865-07:00或许如此,有许多步骤之间或许如此,有许多步骤之间Iranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449585739874626782.post-33541980907518427032010-06-14T12:56:01.849-07:002010-06-14T12:56:01.849-07:00Great article Craig. The time for the blame game ...Great article Craig. The time for the blame game is long past. To be quite frank I could give a shit at this moment who is responsible. Someone needs to step up and take the point with this disaster. It's obvious BP is incapable of the task and as you said in the article it also appears our president is too. This ecological disaster will be with us for generations and WILL change the face of the gulf area probably forever. As a result BP international will probably go under and who will be left holding the bag AGAIN...you guessed it..American taxpayers. The sad thing is at the present time there is absolutely nothing we can do about it except watch this nightmare unfold in front of us. Place a moratorium on all new off shore drilling....absolutely until we can find a way to properly monitor every friggin' rig that is pumping oil in our waters. Every rig already pumping needs to be immediately inspected and those in violation need to be shut down until they can properly be brought up to code. And for every day they are in violation the oil companies need to be fined hundreds of millions of dollars for each violation and the fines can be used to help clean up their mess. If they try to raise the price of oil to pay for their mess then the fed needs to step in and set a freeze in oil and gas prices. It has been done before and can be done again. This crap has been going on far too long. The gloves need to come off and the situation fixed and it needs to be fixed yesterday.Iranoreply@blogger.com