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OBL DEAD.

I’m not sad he is dead, murdered even, but I’ve written several emails this morning to different friends, friends heading to India and Australia, asking them not to go. My brother is in China. He is due home this weekend. I’ll be relieved when he returns, as will his gf. No one looks more like an American than my brother. I can pass for Persian or Latino — depending, but he might as well wear a sign.

I wonder where this all ends? Do we leave Afghanistan, save us some soldiers and some money?

What of Libya? The whole killing kids in Libya thing is hard to swallow. Though I’d have to be morally lethargic not to have visions of the innocents Gaddafi has been murdering for decades when hearing of “the collateral murder” of the children, I can’t stomach it. I still retain some hope of it not being true.

Now can we work on making health insurance/health care not only available, but affordable — in case you hadn’t noticed the cost of health insurance has tripled in some states over the last three years. You wimped on a national plan, and now more people are on that insidious high deductible plan, the one the insurance companies are making billions from because the small biz owner with two kids and a family plan deductible of $2700.00 can’t always come up with that cash. Consequently, these adults skip going to the doctor for check-ups for those “little things”, things that turn out to be a curable cancer that is no longer treatable because they waited too long. Exactly what the insurance companies knew would happen.

Gas now over four dollars a gallon, amalgamation of communications and the financial industry continue to destroy the middle class and now we need to concern ourselves with shortages (real or fabricated for profit), and price gouging for medicines, as WAPO tells us there are Shortages of key drugs .

Sure, I know they will call you socialist, but they will always call you something. A lot of people can’t wait until after your reelection when don’t give a hoot about the financial powers backing you. The brave thing is to actually do something before you are reelected the second time.

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“China is raping this country”.

Ignoring, for the purpose of this post, the ridiculous use of the word rape, there is nothing with even an inkling of logic in this slightly mad, Qaddafi like statement.

I can only guess that the cry baby Meatloaf ( his fascinating anger management issues notwithstanding), was not enough to hold the ratings on The Apprentice once his high-craziness, Gary Bucy, was fired by his Trump-up-ness..

Let’s be clear. The violation comes when US corporations, having been given (over the last 35 years), some sweet tax breaks and some of the best tax loopholes to crawl in and out of, continue to send their jobs to China. So, if we are using the world rape, it is certainly not China doing the savage deed.

tears of laughter
tears of pain
salty all
but not the same

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