Ten years ago I saw two airplanes on TV hitting the towers and the events that followed. I just wanted to tally up where we are today ten years later here is where we are:
1. Three wars with no way out.
2. Record unemployment.
3. A financially bankrupt government.
4. A morally bankrupt system of government.
5. Trillions of dollars in debt
6. The first black president
7. Millions of refugees and hundreds of thousands dead with our weapons and armies
8. Bin Ladin is dead by a team of only 12 brave men in an operation that cost only millions.
9. Weiner showed everyone his Weiner
10. Arnold fathered a child out of wedlock
11. Michael Jackson died.
12. Egypt went through a revolution so did Tunisia Libya and Syria.
13. Europe is in near financial ruins.
14. Greece, a country I love, is near bankrupt.
So when are we going to start living again? Just a simple question from an ordinary person who will vote next year for the next corrupt politician to sit in the oval office. The world around us is changing fast and America is having trouble coping. Let us live again America isn't it time?
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The NEW Enemy!!
I was watching some of the videos that came out of Tahrir in Egypt during January and February of this year - what a moving experience. Today, over six months later, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF, a Mubarak bunch of lackeys) are arresting activists left and right, ordering military tribunals for them one after the other. Some of the evidence presented against those activists are tweets and Facebook pages they used to express their opinions. That is not a good turn of events since recently the Army arrested an ex-officer who was helping secure the field hospital in Tahrir in a sting operation.
Recently BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit Authority) shut off all cellular communications to thwart some civil action in California. Similarly, Prime Minister Cameron of the UK said the UK will ban all forms of social networking after the riots in London. It is becoming ever so clear that those fascist governments are becoming more and more concerned with the increased mobilization and involvement of people that is being aided by social media. Now we can mobilize action against corrupt politicians in Egypt as easily as we would in the USA. We can communicate our hopes, aspirations, frustrations, disappointments and share them with the world. Those governments are more afraid of the people they govern than any outside enemy. That is becoming more and more evident.
The role social media plays today as a catalyst can be easily replaced and I wish to inform those governments that there were riots and revolutions before there was ever Twitter, Facebook or Google+. People when cornered are going to do amazing things, there are not enough bullets in this earth to kill someone who really has to defend himself and family with nothing to lose.
The New enemy is you, me, freedom of speech, the Internet, social media and people who are fed up with any corrupt system of government. A system of government that only wants to protect itself and will go to extremes to do so.
Tunis, Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Syria thank you and the snowball effect already started it will not stop there. I, for one, am sick of DC and the corrupt politicians that are running my country. They all must be recalled and we need to start afresh with younger more pro-active people with a fresh view and another set of rules that allows us to monitor them and recall whomever is corrupt and not doing their job.
Friday, July 29, 2011
US Budget Talks - Who CARES!!
I am fed up with corrupt politicians in Washington DC from both sides of the aisle. All those people it appears only care about re-election I say recall them ALL and fire the whole lot. They continue to fail us the people time after time.
They talk about the nation's future and they already mortgaged it three generations ahead on failed projects useless wars and many other pork projects. FIRE THEM RECALL THEM AND LET'S REDO THIS CORRUPT SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IF OUR FOREFATHERS KNEW WHAT IS GOING ON BY THOSE CORRUPT PUBLIC SERVANTS THEY WOULD HAVE STARTED ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
Obama, All of that lot including you SIR are a bunch of no good corrupt politicians. I don't care if the debt ceiling is increased or the federal budget is approved I need to pay my bills next week and sell my house. Screw you DC, screw the Republicans and the Democrats you all put us in this position and you are selling our children's and grandchildren's future. Shame on every one of you SHAME SHAME SHAME.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Norway - What a Tragedy!
What happened in Norway just two days ago is indeed a tragedy; I am saddened by the unjustifiable loss of innocent lives. I have very little to say except it is sad and unfortunate for such a beautiful country to have to endure something so tragic.
On the other hand the 1500 page manifesto written by the perptrator in this event is even more troubling than anything I could imagine. Let's see, if a deranged Muslim, for example, would have written something similar to this what would have happened. I would assume that the whole world would clearly attack him, his thoughts, his religion, his country, his background and possibly arrest him for saying such things. The media would try and convict him before any evidence was heard and instantly his life would be ruined and he would be in jail. But for a white person similar hate documentation is tolerated, encouraged, discussed, allowed and in some instances condoned as being "patriotic".
Muslims are currently being banned of their basic human rights like the freedom of expression (example is the European fervor on banning Muslim women wearing Niqab in public) like other citizens of France, Belgium, Australia and many other countries. To me a Niqab and a mini-skirt are freedoms of choice afforded individuals and they should be allowed equally unless we live under Nazi or communist style rule where a certain uniform is allowed only.
In the USA now there is this fervor of anti-Share'a (Islamic rule) where state after state is voting a ban share'a law. Wow why don't they also ban Jewish laws governing family, marriage, divorce, inheritence like that. I guess Islam has been tried and convicted in their eyes for no apparent reason than what Fox News says (which is owned by a Muslim the second largest shareholder is Prince Waleed of Saudi).
We can start by counting the people that are in jail for alleged "plots" that were instigated by entrapement efforts by the police, FBI and other agencies just to make work for themselves. How many innocent lives have been damaged for those agencies to just claim success in their crusade against Islam and Muslims. Yet this Norwegian terrorist is called a "madman" and nobody even hinted at him being a terrorist murderer and should be tried like one. The Washington Post so valiantly blamed and convicted Islam and Muslims before any details were made available to the public what a travesty.
What a hypocritical world we live in, to me a terrorist is a terrorist no matter the background. A terrorist is worse to me than a petty thief. Also a human life is sacred and should not be spent under any guise so a poor farmer in Afghanistan holds the same value like the President of the World no difference. I am saddened by the daily unwarranted deaths of people in Norway like I am saddened by the unwarranted death of Palestinians, Afghanis, Egyptians and many others for no apparent reason.
In my personal opinion I believe that the real terrorists are Hosni Mubarak, Gaddaffi, Asad and other leaders that do export and sponsor terrorism. The real terrorists are Blackwater and other mercenary organizations that kill for no reason. The real terrorist is any of the wackos in this world that can't seem to be able to live with others peacefully.
The real terrorists are being exposed every day, in my opinion, it is every authoritarian government that perpetrates human indignant acts on its people or instill fear so they can continue to rule. People of this world have already spoken in Egypt, Tunis and other countries like Syria and Libya. Others will move soon and once they start the snow ball effect will wipe out all terrorist totalitarian governments in one felt swoop.
I live in a neighborhood with many colors, religions and backgrounds. We don't walk every morning with knives waiting to kill each other we are neighbors and some are friends others are not but they are neighbors. Soon, once the political insanity goes away countries will live together in harmony like our neighborhood. This is my hope for the future world where my children will live.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Amazing This world!
Someone tweeted during the revolution in Egypt that it is interesting how those governments that sold its people the only enemy Israel for fifty years never fired ONE shot toward Tel-Aviv but during three weeks they totally spent their munitions against its people.
The enemy then was and have always been the people and Israel was a convenient target. I think the world is changing and the real purpose of governments is becoming more and more evident. The question today is the West going to become like the East was? I vote YES.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Comic explores a changed Cairo - CNN.com
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