WHOM CAN WE TRUST?

It is about to be spring but someone forgot to mention it to Mother Nature.  In the Northeast, the six inches of snow struck a feeling of deja vu.  There is something about that kind of unpleasant repeat calling for action (like shoveling snow) that just weighs one down with the added overload of information.

It is unclear to me whether we are finally hearing about the lies of G W Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the others that seem not to care or feel any responsibility for the hundreds of thousands of lives lost because of them and, worse, the 32,000 maimed for life military personnel returned to the US while our Republican house majority is making their lives uselessly miserable for them and their families so they can continue to have the backing of the powers that pay them campaign funds, or some other equally shameful impetus.

When people have such little human empathy for their fellow men, they are viewed suspiciously as sociopaths.  The same can be said about CEOs of huge corporations whose salaries have expanded three hundredfold while minimum wage remains just that, as little as they can get away with paying.  More people should be educated in the signs and symptoms to look for in people not to be trusted.  It amazes me constantly that people seem so little able to put together people's behaviors and character as somehow not being connected.  Not so, my friends.  How people behave and judgements they make definitely indicates what you may except from them in other situations.  Romney's taped talk to his $50,000 a plate contributors tells much about his pleasure at telling about the conditions of young women in his factories in China.

Would he want one of his granddaughters to work in such conditions.  He likely would never consider it because his family is so moneyed that such conditions would never occur.  How did he think he could be President when he is hiding his money off shore to save his taxes so that the poor people (now the former middle class) can pay it all while he build 5 story elevators for his cars.

At last, we have been hearing media admits they were not doing their job when the Iraq Was was being pushed through.  I hope they will realize they are not supposed to run the country but simply hold elected  politicians to truth and their jobs being honestly and competently performed.  In today's world that seems to be more to ask from them than for which they have prepared.

WOULD YOU HAVE PREDICTED?

From BBC America: A Turkish shoe firm says it has had to take on 100 extra staff to cope with a surge in orders after an Iraqi threw shoes at US President Bush. Istanbul-based Baydan Shoes claims it made the shoes and says it now has tens of thousands of orders from around the world - including from the US and Iraq.
The shoe was called Model 271 but has been renamed Bush shoe, the firm said.

Shouldn't this give some indication of how people have hated Bush around the world? Why are so many people unable to accept the damage to the American people Bush has done in his Presidency?

Bush supporters march to their own drummer. Is it that they truly can't see what he has done to destroy this formerly great nation? Are they too proud to admit they could have been wrong? Are they just losers whose judgment is really bad? Should they never bet on MegaBucks?

FROM bbc: "{However, the brother of shoe-throwing journalist Muntader al-Zaidi says he believes the shoes were Iraqi-made.

Durgham al-Zaidi criticised people he said were trying to exploit his brother's actions for commercial gain.

"The Syrians claim the shoes were made in Syria and the Turks say they made them. Some say he bought them in Egypt. But as far as I know, he bought them in Baghdad and they were made in Iraq," he told the AFP news agency.

It is difficult to verify exactly where the shoe is from as Mr Zaidi has not been seen in public since the incident eight days ago, and the judge in the case says the shoes were destroyed during security checks." You see, everyone gets greedy. Even shoe companies get good marketing ideas, even if they have to make them up as American Admen also have to do.

Rove's defense of the low ratings is that people tire of a President after 8 years. Perhaps that is true, but why did they tire so much more of Bush than other recent Presidents? That is the poser on which the interest in the shoe thrower sheds light.
Recently the argument that it is the voter's fault because they voted him in really raises my ire. To me that is victimizing the victim. What choice do people have who are being told that Clinton dishonored the White House and Bush will bring honor back. The lies that were told, as most campaigns seem to have to do, were really whoppers and he failed in every one of his promises of which I'm aware. His failure reflects the troubled years he had in the past.

Going out on a limb, I look at Obama's past and see nothing reflected there that would suggest he is at all a man similar, in any way, to George W Bush. Only time will tell but educated guesses aren't always bad.




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