WHEN WILL THE WORLD PAY ATTENTION TO THE SUFFERING CHILDREN WHO WILL BE GROWING UP AND VOTE OR KILL SOME DAY

The other day so channel on TV was running a documentary (or maybe it was on radio) about the number of children abducted throughout the world and put in to a sex slave trade.  A few days ago, California law enforcement made a tiny chip in the iceberg of sex slaves.  Ron Jones, reporting from Sacramento wrote:  "Michelle, a 26-year-old homeless woman who lives in downtown Sacramento, said she was the victim of sex trafficking by her own parents when she and her sister were just three years old.
"My mom and dad sold me and sexually molested and exploited us," Michelle said. "They sold me and my twin sister to support their own habit."

It is estimated that more than 12 million people as of a year ago were victims of forced prostitution and labor across the world. The buying and selling of humans is a $32 billion global business, according to the U.S. State Department's 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report.  There is no reason to think that number is less today despite the attempts of law enforcement trying to eliminate this problem.  To read more on this, click here.  Isn't it amazing that with all the problems humanity, especially young women and even children, must face, we have politicians who don't even know there are people out of work and desperate and who have no health care when they need it.. This does not make for happy campers.

However, poverty has its own toll as we see from this article about Mexico's children.James Cheng writes and shows photographs    Estimates range up to 1 in 50 children are homeless in the United States.  Yet we are locked in debates about 'pro-life' forcing unwanted children to be born.  Should there not be a campaign launched to show these 'do-gooders' ,who want less government intrusion into their lives, to stay out of women's wombs?  Those who object to abortion do nothing significant to save the children after they are born...at least we hear nothing about it on the media, do we?

Wake up people/voters, stop being brainwashed and order your priorities.

IT HASN'T CHANGED FROM THE WW2 ERA; IT'S STILL 'LET GEORGE DO IT'.

Why is everyone waiting for Obama to get action on bringing Bush to legal task for waterboarding?  Obama is the last person who should waste time on that.  However, cannot the Legislature take it on seriously?  Is it not possible for the citizenry to take it up on class action?  Why can't there be a group of lawyers to take it on from a legal sense.  It might make lawyers less hated by the masses.  Some political action group like Move On should do it, possibly.

Have I missed some point of the law?  Can only a new President suggest that an old President  who admits breaking the law, on TV, to the whole nation, should  not have that admission followed up in the courts?  Watch the Lauer interview five years after 9/11.  Watch this.   Bush insisted to Stephanopoulos that we have never planned 'to stay the course'.  In his own words on film, check him being caught in his own lie.  What example and precedent is being set to avoid prosecution.  After all, if convicted, his \sentence could be commuted or he can be pardoned as previous presidents have done.

Since Bush was so blatant about basing his torture policy on the word of one lawyer, he made it sound like he knew ignored..The job should not be left to the historians to make it all clear for posterity.  People alive now should benefit from the example that no one should be above the law.  We elect Presidents, not Dictators or Gods.

NO, VIRGINIA, OBAMA IS NOT SANTA CLAUS NOR DAVID COPPERFIELD

Obama has not been perfect and his advisers have done what most have done...they make the mistake of thinking they can decide from what Obama should be shielded. Currently they seem to go further and try to make decisions FOR him.  He is no longer new at the job and should now have figured out that his biggest mistake was to hold any faith that those who worked for Bush would serve him well, especially the bank, the Wall St crew. See this    and then  this one.

James Galbraith wrote an excellent article on just this subject.   Read what he has to say here.   I believe I have written about this before but certainly cannot articulate it as clearly as Galbraith.  Obama should have stopped trying to appease the Republicans long before this and there might have been a few more gains.  However, it did not happen that way and so we will now see a new set of rules in order.

Hopefully the Democrats will no longer be able to simply block everything as they had about Health Care.  Focus should be on jobs and the economy, which most of the nation backs.  Obama got many jobs back on the sale of planes but now jobs have to come back to the US and the ability of American companies to move their companies out of the United States and still call them American companies must cease.  Whether Congress can make such daring moves seems unlikely with so many Teapartiers in who have a different agenda, as they have stated all along.

What in the world could Obama have been thinking to leave that economic crew in when there were great economists advising otherwise.  Were they heard or did the foxes in the hen house not allow then to be heard.

SARAH PALIN BLAMED FOR LOSING THE SENATE FOR REPUBLICANS

It seems someone always has to find someone to blame; as though that solves all problems.  The double standard is alive and well in American politics.  The men let the women do the dirty work, the hard work, the PR, all sorts of things, then when it seems that the ducks are in a row, the men swoop in and take over.  Note smart women did not fare as well as they had in the last election.

Women don't want gender quotas aimed at promoting equality.  They simply want equal pay for equal work.

Palin, several pundits believe, could easily win a nomination but they are convinced she could not win an election.  The people who are determining that are now talking about the errors of fact she makes in her speeches.  I find it amusing that  it is only now that it is being openly spoken about by Republicans since she has been doing since the VP campaign with McCain.  It shouldn't matter to Palin at this point...she has made enough money on her 'con' of the public to last her qujite a long time if she invests and spends wisely.

To see proof that Americans are gullible and many have too much money to spend, click here.

Fame is sometimes short-lived but politicians and their consultants may be surprised that this is a lady who will not quickly nor quietly go away.  The taste of fame and money is addictive to many people.  After all, Not even Rove has been able to shut hjer out, so far.

SOW'S EAR IS STILL NOT A SILK PURSE

Matt Lauer interviewed former president, GW Bush, so we got to hear the same denials of responsibility we heard for eight years.  To me, there were some very telling moments.  Lauer had the same reaction to one that I had.  The worst moment in his presidency, Bush said, was when someone in New Orleans (a black man at that) said Bush doesn't care about black people.  Bush said it was a personal remark that he is a racist, which he claims not to be, and that hurt and angered him.  Lauer said he was surprised the worst moment was a personal slight rather than what was happening to all those people.  Bush seemed to miss the human point there.

The producer(s) for the interview had a wonderful Karl 'Rovian' touch.  It was filmed in a church with the lovely stained glass windows as a backdrop.  At one point, a profile of Bush was in view with a large gold medallion of some sort on the wall in the background.  His face was perfectly superimposed over the gold circle so that it look like an icon of a saint with a halo.  Some PR person should get an A+ for that touch, n'est pas?  While I can applaud the attempts, no one can make a silk purse out of GWB, #43.  The man was as devoid of any real sensitivity to the American people, just as he completed his eight years as president with the same lack of awareness as to what he owed his countrymen.

A brief review of some of his political talent can be viewed here.

I've been convinced for years that, while I am not typical, nor am I alone in my thinking and feeling about things.  Recently I have stopped watching the major news (which really aren't) channels because I have wearied of listening to media time being given to so many who do nothing but tell the world what they would do if they were present, though that is not what they admit to doing.  The world could be falling apart, but as long as panels require less work from production staff, they will probably be the word of the day just as 'reality' shows are to commercial fodder for the masses.  Spoken of as 'our all-star roundtable' we get to hear arrogant speaker after egotistical speaker who thinks they have worth by telling what they would do if they were President or, if that is even beyond them, have the temerity to tell the sitting President how to do his job!

Another on which I rant is that these self-called 'journalists' (but who aren't, really,) were paying off gambling debts on the elections on Fox News today.  It was an anathema for me to have been on Fox News at all, in the first place.  The second shock was what I saw, renewing my reasons for staying away from that channel which is like the black plague to me.  Have they no shame?  Apparently not.  Even though when they paid their debts off, the money went to charity.  But it was arrogant to giver away such large sums as a game when so many people are out of work.  He grandly paid off a $1000 lost bet in the amount of $10,000, writing the check as he said he was happy to pay because it was a donation to Doctors Without Borders.  Did he really have to do that before the poor millions in the country?  I doubt he would even understand the criticism of 'lack of sensitivity'.  Another big payer was John Stosssell and a third was a beautiful blonde whom I would not have recognized, since I rarely watch the channel, having promised myself a fast death rather than the slow death viewing Fox would give me.

News Channels have sunk to being gossip channels with people speculating with as much accuracy as predicting (without an ultrasound ) the sex of an unborn child!!

A NEW LOOK IN WASHINGTON

An article on Boehner as House Majority Leader writes the following quote from him:  "In an emotional victory address, Boehner promised an agenda of cost-cutting and "reducing the size of government..  Where has he been and what has he been doing on these issues for the past ten years.  I will always wonder why voters are so taken in by campaign promises.

The fat cats who got there on the backs of poor, working folk, have no conscience about the money wasted on campaigns for the losers of the Teaparty.  The joke remains on those who still think that things can be changed quickly in Washington and that Obama is a failure because he didn't do the job they wanted in less than two years.  It is obvious that no one noted the 60 vote rule, threats of filibuster, and overt hostility by the Senate Republicans and promises to make Obama fail.  Do those supporters really love their country more than their job.

Morning Joe (MSNBC) :11/3 

Joe Scarborough:"How ironic that [Obama] paid in part for bailouts of the banks, that began with Bush. For bailouts of Fannie and Freddie, that began with Bush. For bailouts of the auto industry, that began with Bush... I just wonder if [the midterm election] is not more of a rejection of both parties than it is the Democratic  party."

While it may be true that it was a rejection of both parties,  what kind of mentality does it take to put in people who have an agenda that has nothing to do with the real issues.  They know what they don't want but have no ideas about how to go about getting what they do want.  I was always taught that you should never ask for your boss for anything unless you can also suggest a way to get it done.  Amputation of programs without a replacement of the service it had provided is not my idea of a viable suggestion.

Are we headed for two years of a Mexican Standoff in the Legislative houses?  Perhaps those people complaining about the economy will note that most of those for the past two years were the Bush appointees who allowed the problem to get to the magnitude it now enjoys.  The many opposing forces may be a change from the lockstep of the House and Senate under Bush.  The Republicans have continued the same stance.  What is it that is blackmailing them; refused a chair position?, no support for re-election? squealing or blackmailing them about their actions?  Something other than they are all always of similar mind HAS to be the answer.