Rich people makeover

New show soon on ABC called Secret Millionaire appears as another attempt to trick people. Much like undercover boss this is rich makeover tv.

Undercover boss is a show where CEO's go and work on front lines of their corporations and help out the people they meet. Here is the things I have observed watching the show.

While I am happy that some people get the help they need, what about the others that work for the company that might be in same or worse predicament. It's really just winning the lottery. Unless the show results in serious fundamental changes in the company then what is the point, other than making the CEO's feel good about themselves. Also it's makes viewers feel that the company and
CEO are "not that bad". Don't get it twisted, most of these guys live pampered lavish lives and would fire or crush the common worker if it was an extra nickel for themselves.

I guess my point is don't feel bad for these guy. They can pay more taxes. They can get their companies taxed more. They can be forced to hire more Americans and not offshore jobs. Their workers should be allowed to join collectively in bargaining. Don't fall for this makeover attempt. The last thing these guys deserve is our sympathy.

Remote blogging

Testing out new app to blog from my iPod. Perhaps it will force me to be more active.

Green Zone

It has been a while and a lot has happened.

I would like to address a recent movie that i have seen Green Zone. This movie like it seems most everything else anymore seems to have angered the conservatives around the US. I say like most everything else because i find that they are angry about everything from small to microscopic that they feel is not something that fits in their narrow view of their "American ideals".

Green Zone is a historical fiction type movie. It asks question what if someone had not just blindly trusted the Bush Admin intelligence and asked for reason why we kept coming up empty in search of WMD. This movie does a good job of questioning why reporters never bothered to question validity of "sources" from within WH. Now the "stretch" is that the bureaucrats had a deal in place with Iraq military to work with them in rebuild of country. Other than that though the rest was fairly accurate. Clown Bush did stand on a air craft carrier and say Mission Accomplished (nope wrong again Bush) the moronic decision to disband the Iraq military which lead to the rise of insurgency.

This leads me to why neo-cons and Conservatives hate this movie so much. They want to whitewash the 8 years of failed Bush policy and rewrite it into some romantic good triumph over evil fairy tale. You can see it on TV every day. Bush failed policy cronies Rove, Thessen, Cheney, Ect Ect waxing over mistakes. The press is complaisant in this as well. Never calling out the falsehood they peddle on daily basis on the shows. Face reality, our intelligence was wrong, we went to war with wrong country for wrong reasons. Many lives were lost and wasted in some kind of crusade to invade Iraq. So Neo cons if anything this movie is PRO American and PRO Military. Why? Because its PRO American to have the right intelligence before making decision like war and invasion of other countries. Its PRO Military to make sure that we are sending our troops to war for right reasons with facts. Sorry if these things dont work for you and your 8 year memory wipe attempt.

Ways to and not to upset Republicans

Ways to upset.

1. Vote a black man president
2. Decrease taxes to real middle class
3. Increase taxes to upper class
4. Spend tax money on something other than wars
5. Nominate a Hispanic woman for Supreme Court

What will not upset them.

1. Murder a doctor who has preformed abortions.

What a proud group of people. They must be real Americans. The must have strong ideals and principals. They must have a large faith in god. Proud to be Republican 2009.

Are you more american than me?

You want to know how to tell if you are look at republican web site or radio talk program or show. Count the number of times the following words are said, America, American, Freedom, Patriot, Country, and more recently Tea. Most of the time the context is something along the lines of , Real American, True Patriot, and so on. What these people like Hannity and Rush and others are implying is that anyone who does not agree with them is not truly American. This is a trick used by these folk to try and paint Dems and Libs as people who hate the US and everything it stands for. The difference as i see it is that anyone who dosent agree with their agenda of extream religious, fiscial, and socal right wing ism is unamerican. Just ask them, their america is Center Right. That means that most of america leans more to right wing ideals and moderate than left. The problem with this is that their view of what is Center right had steadly become more and more right wing extream.

Types of Republicans

In my view I have seen 2 types of republicans. The religious republican and the wallet republican. These 2 creatures have some things in common..but if they took time to look at each other with an objective eye they might not even like each other.

I will start out with the Wallet republican (WP for now). You can identify these guys buy how they are worried about tax increases for them and how their portfolio went down so much. Also how Social Security is a waste and how people should just save on their own. No this is true, partly. Social Security is not a "retirement plan". It is supplemental money provided to all Americans to assist those who either could not or did not save for later years in life. WP also do not want government in their way unless they need bailouts or deregulation to destroy our environment and to take advantage of the workers under them. They care nothing for labor or poor people. The most important thing to them is $$$ and staying on top. Examples are http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/17/michele-bachmann-were-run_n_167650.html

AIG, Halliburton, Bush Family, Rush Limbaugh, ect. We are not running out of rich people and they will not become poor by a few extra percentage points of tax on their 250k+ a year salary.

The next is the RR or Religious republican. Their 2 biggest beefs with "liberals" are abortion and gay marriage. These are not the most important issues....ever in an election or our nation. IF you find someone who first thing they say is something like Obama Killing babies...back away slowly you found an RR. The past 8 years have basically been an assault on science and intelligence by these people. Stem Cell research is important to finding cures to many diseases including cancer. Evolotion is real and we did not get here buy magic. The RR would have u belive that. Now dont get me wrong, I go to church, i have faith, but i also live in reality and belive that these 2 things can work together (science and religion).

Anyway, i am tired of writing about this right now. There are may sides to all issues. Try to look at everything your represtitives stand for.

Such anger

So I read alot of news and political articles. The best part about reading them are the comments at the bottom of the articles. Most all of them have much hate speech about President Obama and democrats in general. It is amazing that these people can get so upset about a guy whos only done this job for 1 month, but stood by 8 years of Bush. They probally cheer for him still.

I blame the media for this anger these people feel. The 24/7 assault on Obama from Fox, Hannity, Rush, and other of the same ideology are the cause of this deep resentment and anger felt by right wing supporters. I cannot remember people being so combative about their views before. The major change over the past 4-5 years has been these 24 hr "news" shows. What bothers me most about channels like Fox is that they lie about not being slanted or biased, when they clearly are. People get tricked into beliving that everything they say is "fair and blanced" when its not.

Their is also a Fox news effect. Fox news does a great job of trying to paint the other media as biased. This causes not only people watching but also the news channels to try and force more coverage for the right wing. This creates a distorted view of an issue.

Friends...please stop watching Fox's Fake news. Its not good for your health. It makes you and angry bitter conservitive. IF you must watch, then realize that Fox has an agenda. Do research of your own. Dont be a ditto head. Realize that if you shout words like Socalist, earmarks, or generational theft...i turn off my ears to you. The reason is you clearly have turn off your brain and just become a mouth peice to the Radical Right Agenda.