Treating Each Other as Countrymen

Well today's subject came to my conscience as I was listening to several people not only on television but also on the radio. It seems that in this country people really don't have a feel that we are all in one family. We treat each other like strangers and we are out to get one another. even those people that call themselves patriots and good Americans don't treat their fellow Americans as country men.

You hear it all the time. This person is going to get that person. Madeoff steals Billions from people whom he should count as brothers. The executives of Enron set up a whole plan to steal the hard earned money by falsely creating energy shortages. Mass shootings have taken place in our collages and high schools. Poor people are killing each other for almost no reason at all when they should be helping each other out of their situation.

The strange thing is that many of the most egregious act are perpetuated by those who call themselves Christians. I have no idea why we don't have sympathy for those of us other people who call ourselves Americans, but it has become a large flaw in our countries psychology. Someplace we have start acting like we're in this country together and that we all have a steak in seeing to our mutual well being. When we start doing this perhaps our country will again become the attractive flame to the world it once was.

Idiot of the week of 5/20/09

Today's idiot is the 21% of the people that still call themselves republicans. There leaders today wasted their time by meeting and deciding that they should rename the Democratic Party. I don't understand why they think that calling names is the way to grow their party. Truth is they have offered no alternatives and they think that people are so stupid that this diversion will attract anybody. Its sort of like when they offered an alternate budget without any numbers. So if you are still a republican please change your leaders and get them to take their politics seriously. We really need a second party that's a loyal opposition (just to let you know I'm neither a Republican or a Democrat)

IOW for 5/15/09

This weeks IOW is Nancy Polosi. All she really had to do was tell the truth about her knowledge of water boarding. Everybody already knows that she knew all about it. She could have simply said it was information that was classified and she couldn't discus it. Instead she decided to parse words and change stories several times. All this was going on while the president was trying to get legislation to protect people from the predatory practices of credit card companies. The country should have been paying attention to this instead of hearing her tortured explanations

5/9/09 A new Idiot

This weeks Idiot is pretty obvious. Its the newest Democrat in the Senate. Yes its Arlen Spector. First he changes parties because he says he can't be elected as a Republican. Second he then goes on all the talking heads and says he is not going to be a loyal Democrat. Then He claims that he'll retain all his seniority. Then to insure that he gets none he says he would like Norm Colemen a Republican to be seated in Minnesota over the Democrat Al Franken. ......... Congratulations you idiot.

Idiot of the week

I watch a lot of political shows. I actually enjoy listening to them. From time to time these shows broad caste a story that deserves special mention. I will strive to remember where this article came from so that you might know the source. The articles that catch my attention are ones that are so silly you'd have to be an idiot to believe them or that the person that is the main subject of the article had to be an idiot to say or do what he or she did. The first week I have three outstanding idiots

In third place is the federal and state and local governments that called the current swine flu a real threat ..... This came from all the news on television that devoted most of the week trying to panic the public about this story. By the end of the week scientist were reporting that this flu was not very virulent and that it wasn't as bad as any normal winter flu outbreak

Michele Bachmann is in second place for an article from the Huffingtonpost. Miss Bachmann linked the swine flu to the Democrat party and used the last outbreak as proof. Not only does this linking show she's an idiot, but she got the history wrong. The last outbreak of swine flu was during the Ford administration.

The winner of the week comes from "Real Time" It concerns Governor Rick Perry. After he appointed a creationist as the head of the Texas board of education showing that he doesn't believe in evolution and suggesting that the State might succeed from the union. He now wants the federal government to give a large share of the Flu vaccine to help him fight this new strain of flu that has evolved. Governor Perry ...... You get the Idiot of the week award

Grading the Republican

We always grade the president after 100 days. On television and in talking head land they have spent a lot of time grading how the president has done during the first hundred days of his presidency. Nobody has talked about grading the Republican Party during this first 100 days of being a minority party. Are they doing what a strong minority should be doing during this time.

Its important that the Republican party be more than the party of “no” They are needed to have a healthy discussion of the issues that are coming up. So how have they fared during this time. The other day when Senator Spector changed parties, Chris Mathews on hardball gave his assessment by saying that they are quickly becoming the party of the South, The Religious and the intolerant.

So here goes…….. For coming up with alternate ideas they get an “F” Mostly because they haven’t come up with any.

Helping to raise the psychology of the country. They get an “F” because they continue to fear monger and look for enemies under any rock they can find

Finding new and interesting leadership into the national conscience, they get an “F” because they continue to defer to the tired and old leadership they have had in the past. They seem to love the old and the dumb leader because that about all they have shown.

All and All the republican party gets an “F” as the minority party and it’s the main reason that they have sunk into a regional party with a narrow focus.