Republican Party Socialism and John McCain

The wild principles of Neo-liberalism promulgated by the right wing Republican conservatives believing in laisse-faire capitalism, where all free markets would regulate themselves because they contain rational and quantifiable principles were all but an economic evangelical fairy tale preached to a flock of dutiful corporate/business elites, who were granted permission by their principle leader, Milton Friedman, to go forth and pursue their greedy and fraudulent slight-of-hand tricks to their would be clients. What resulted was a collapse of the very free market principles that really never existed. The markets were never rational, nor quantifiable. They were all make-believe, manipulated, textbook and non-fiction book driven, as well as fraudulent from the bad mortgages to the fabricated securities to the dishonest Moody's ratings and to the misleading credit default swap insurance scheme. All make-believe. All a big, giant fantasy-style football game made so convincing that it looked true, real and academically principled.

None of this was based in core democratic principles because when it failed the elitist oligarchs were first in line to wrestle the lifeboats away from the ordinary people who were, and still are, about to drown as a result of their economic pleasure craft crashing into the iceberg called default, bankruptcy, foreclosure, failed currency speculation and excessive leveraging liabilities.

So when one thinks of oligarchy, what comes to mind? One goes back to Germany, 1911, when Robert Michels first created the political theory. This Iron Law of Oligarchy was rooted in Germany's socialist political groups, and later, adopted by Mussolini's fascism. Democracy does not come to mind when speaking about oligarchs. Today, one might think of Putin and his state-owned, formerly private, and controlled enterprises. 

And, which U.S. political party has held power for most of the time these Neo-liberals, ie. free market elite oligarchs have controlled our government? The answer is the Republican Party-the right-wing conservative movement. It started to take off in 1978 and Ronald Reagan had the ear of Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan, two Chicago School of Economics gurus.

And which presidential candidate has affiliated himself with many of these Chicago School of Economics principles? John McCain, my friends. John McCain calls himself a Reagan Republican, who voted with President Bush over 90% of the time, and espouses Trickle-Down, Supply-Side economics; the very principles that have unequivocally  failed America.

McCain and Palin and many of their supporters point the finger at Obama as they call him a socialist when it has been the Republicans who have embraced the socialist mantra by bailing out the top-tier corporate elitists with trillions of dollars they had transferred over to them taken from the pockets of ordinary people in order to protect their own wealth, power and greedy ways from collapse and bankruptcy.

This Bush administration did everything they could, with the support of John McCain, to hand over as much of the federal government to these top-tier corporate elites paying them from the pockets of ordinary Americans furthering their wealth, while the economy never expanded except through the gains acquired through the financial sector, which then invested their Treasury obtained wealth in these "new-fangled", sure-fired, 99.9% guaranteed exotic (but toxic) securities. These rich oligarchs would throw a few temporary jobs to the "peasants" below making it appear like they were "creating" new jobs through Trickle-Down economics. Where are those jobs now? Gone, my friends. "But there will be more wars, my friends." 

They corrupted the motto used for the Union Jack, "Don't Tread On Me", to be reinterpreted to say, "Don't Tread On Me Through Regulation."

It has been Putin's government that has replaced government employees with 'The Friends of Putin' members, where the Communist Party hierarchy gets a big piece of the corporate action. It is sort of like Tony Soprano shaking down those he is to "protect". It is not that much different under Bush and McCain. The corporate partisan oligarchy elites return the favor of being "allowed to obtain" government contracts to do what non-partisan government employees used to do by writing big checks to the "Party" members! Charles Keating, Enron, Haliburton, and others have done, and still do, just that for Bush, the RNC, and McCain!

So, to call Obama a socialist has to make a person wonder. Where does that accusation come from when right before their eyes the Republican Party has delivered those very clear and bountiful socialist goods to the elites. 

Under a democracy, the government's general fund is to be used for public good and not handed over to a bunch of corporate elite oligarchs. As a result of this transfer of the government tax dollars to these privileged top-tier elitists, either through the war machine, HLS spying and surveillance programs, etc., while ordinary Americans must drive over poorly maintained roads and bridges, send their kids to decaying and overcrowded public schools, continue to watch health care expenses skyrocket and become more unaccessible to nearly 50 million of us, and the dismissal of a national alternative energy nationwide network, as well as a global warning solution pushed aside, and our food supply becoming more and more dangerous while being consolidated into the hands of the rich corporate elites, and finally, college educations becoming unattainable for many very bright and competent students.

In addition, we watch more and more of our budget grow into bigger and bigger deficits as we spend more and more for Chinese products, oil from OPEC, and auto parts and supplies from Asia and beyond, while real good jobs that produce exportable products, as opposed to service jobs that are not exportable, become only a memory for most.

This administration has said there is no money for anything related to the ordinary family, but there is darn plenty for the crooks and thieves who committed fraud through our financial sector. "Come to trough and feed, my friendly banksters."

So, if there is anyone to be frightened of, America, it would be those members within the political party who delivered to us this hugely destructive mess, which has turned into a massive national security threat. And that current party member, my friends, is running for president today. His name is John Sidney McCain!

Thanks for reading, Jerry

POSTSCRIPT: Palin said in one of her stump speeches the following, "And Alaska...we are set up, unlike other states in the union, where it is collectively Alaskans own the resources. So, we share in the WEALTH when the development of these resources occur." That sounds like socialism to me, Sarah! And, don't you chastise Obama for being a socialist? Is it not socialism when the wealth gets redistributed, as McCain likes to point out? As Keith Olbermann says so simply, "Governor Palin, you are a fraud!

No Obama. No Socialism?

"No Obama. No Socialism", was a yard sign I saw today. Today, that sign put me over the edge. What are these Republicans thinking? Who are they trying to kid? The greatest implementation of a socialistic government program ever put forth by the United States has been launched by the one and only President George W. Bush, the first and foremost Republican master of ceremonies. The head of the dog and pony show. The prince of economic darkness. The broken and deranged toy soldier of mission accomplished. There is nothing worse than a deranged toy soldier running havoc throughout your beautiful White House.

This is one person who decided to take nearly $2 trillion of taxpayer dollars, obtained through the Treasury of the United States, which was begged for from China and other countries telling them that if they bought more Treasuries, then the United States would turn around and bail-out any foreign central bank that was holding toxic mortgage and credit securities, including credit default swaps. "Socialize the losses; privatize the gains." That has been the Republican mantra, and not the call from Democrats.

Now, as you recall the Mr. and Ms. No Obama and No Socialism-property-owner-displaying-such--a-yard-sign McCain supporters, that this all began under Ronald Reagan, and Alan Greenspan, along with the support of the one and only Mr. Johnny Boy Mave-rickie McCain. He and his no-whiner-weasel pal former (thank goodness for that) Phil Gramm deregulated the financial industry, in 2000, so the banksta gangstas could never be regulated by the government when they wrapped and packaged over-leveraged, fraudulent collateralized debt obligations coated with the deadly explosive called credit default swaps timed to go off in 2008 burning down the house! This over-leveraged, toxic securities meth-type lab brought to all of us by registered Republican banksta gangstas from J.P. Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, AIG, and the rest drove this train wreck through the Reagan Station, on past the Bush 41 Terminal Building, on into the Clinton Crossroads, and ending the trip with a full-blown explosion and fireball at the G.W.B. Grand Ole Plundering Pavilion. 

So, these No Obama. No Socialism Republicans actually believe they are NOT culpable for this economic disaster? They voted for this president. They twice voted for this incompetent fool!! And now, they support McCain, the very senator who fully endorsed the deregulation, signed on to the Project For A New American Century, voted with Bush 90% of the time, and palled around with terrorists (G. Gordon Liddy, former Army major general John Singlaub, and economic terrorist, Charles Keating). Yet that wasn't good enough for John Boy. He had to go pal with the violent and murderous dictator from Chile, General Augusto Pinochet, back in 1985, with no pre-conditions. McCain tried to keep this a secret, but fortunately, it has now come out in the open as a result of a declassified U.S. Embassy document.

No Obama. No Socialism? Where does that all come from, Mr. and Mrs. Republican? Have you actually listened to John McCain's stump speeches? This ignorantly dangerous and frightening candidate says he does not want to raise YOUR taxes. He wants YOU to keep more of what you earn. He wants to take a hatchet to government programs. Across the board, he says. So, who does that sound like to you? No, not Obama. That sounds like Herbert Hoover, the president who brought us the Great Depression. He gave us a nation of poverty, high unemployment and the loss of working America's personal wealth. That will be the real John McCain, if elected.

You cannot cut everyone's taxes and restore an economy about to experience a raging recession. You cannot restore a raging recession by bailing out failed financial institutions which are hoarding the bail-out money, borrowed from foreigners, prolonging the market's frozen condition, so they can keep their rotten financial institutions solvent and from decomposing. Two trillion dollars is locked up by these Paulson and Bernanke fraudsters. Remember, McCain, Mr. Maverick, voted for this Bush Bail-out. Nothing Mavericky with this guy!

We have heard McCain say over and over that Obama wants "to spread the wealth around." What is he talking about? Spread what wealth? Most of America is seeing their wealth disappear, except for the upper 10% of the income ladder. The upper 10% has been and under McCain will continue to see massive tax cuts resulting from a tax shift from the middle income brackets to the upper income brackets. More of the middle gets their income taxed more than the upper because they don't have as much wealth, capital gains, and right-offs. The middle uses much more of every paycheck to live on.

Mr. McCain has stated in his stump speeches that Joe Biden told all of us that Obama would be challenged within the first 6 months of his presidency like never before, and not unlike John Kennedy. THAT IS RIGHT JOHN! If you become president, you will be challenged in the very same way! Are you that inept and stupid that YOU cannot admit that YOUR presidency would be challenged, too?

McCain is a fraud. Whatever he accuses Obama doing, it ends up that McCain is worse than guilty of doing the same thing. Is McCain so clueless that he believes he won't be exposed for being a fraud? It seems that more and more of McCain's sleazy past gets unfolded. So, is "No Socialism" a code word for racism? First, they tried it with "pals with a terrorist". Was that code for 'be afraid of the black guy', too? The way McCain has so poorly run his campaign is a perfect example of how he will act as president. He is reactionary, unstable, loose with the mouth, confused, and mentally ill.

And as Palin goes around the nation propagandizing her talking points stirring applause from drunken Kool-Aid drinkers whose personal wealth has been burned up in the economic bonfire brought to us by the Republicon Party and the upper 10% who have gotten rich off of them, she proclaims that Obama is all about big government. HUH? John McCain, Bush and the Republican party have now given the United States the biggest government this nation has ever seen with the Pentagon taking 1/3 of the yearly budget, along with Homeland Security's many useless and Treasury draining projects that have been totally ineffective while invading America's privacy to a point where one can describe it as only neo-fascism, and concluding with Bush's gluttonous and impotent FEMA, as well as a bail-out package to beat the band. So Sarah, what are YOU talking about? She is nothing but an agitprop barnstormer for her self-destructing political party.

So, what will happen in 6 months? We will be embroiled in a raging recession in 6 months, John? Will the next president have to take drastic economic measures to begin to restore an economy headed for a depression? Are you aware of that? What about an expansion of the Middle East conflict? The Bush military attacked Syria this week? Might you do the same? And then, there is Iran.  Obama might actually try and talk with the Syrians, or the Iranians before killing them. You, John, are not like that. You don't believe in anything but winning a war. "I have to give you some straight talk, my friends. There will be other wars. I am sorry to say, there will be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars. There will be terrible combat wounds to treat. There will be a lot of PTSD to treat. More wars, my friends. There will be more wars", as we heard this Maverick say over and over again.

It really amazes me that Republicans continue to drink the Kool-Aid by the gallon full. As I said in my last post, they suffer from an extreme case of the Republican Psychological Disorder, ie. the Patty Hearst Syndrome. They still have a chance to show they can rise above such a disabling condition and send McCain back home where he belongs.

Thanks for reading, Jerry

P.S. Thanks for the comments written regarding this post!

The Republican Party Disaster

With only days left in the campaign, one has to ask the most perplexing national question yet still unanswered, "What is wrong with Republicans?" When you see them in the shopping check-out lines, or pumping their own gas, or at the pharmacy window it maybe hard to identify them. Some people, many people may dress and talk like Republicans, but actually are not that way. And the same goes in reverse, as well.

So, why do registered and non-registered Republicans continue to support the current Republican choice for president? My feeling about it is that they are NOT of sound mind. They suffer from a 30 year mental condition called the Republican Psychological Disorder, or what some call the Patty Hearst Syndrome. As we all recall back in 1974, Patty Hearst, the millionaire heiress of the Hearst family publishing fortune, was abducted and held by an American bred terrorist cult. It wasn't too long after being captured that she was indoctrinated into taking on their guerrilla-style militant ways and joined them in their psychopathic violent and murderous assaults, even though those acts would affect her forever. So, what we have today are average working American Republicans captured by the Republi-con Party, held hostage, and given propaganda-tainted Kool-Aid to drink so as to believe they are correct to accept the dysfunctional, disruptive and devastating rules and ways of the Party abductors, or one could say "Takers", even though it would be harmful to them and their family.

WOW! That sounds just like John McCain! He was "Taken" not only by a "Taker" after crashing into that Hanoi lake during the Vietnam War, fished out of and saved from drowning, and then imprisoned. He pleaded with his "Takers"--the North Vietnamese army to deliver him, the Commander in Chief Pacific Command admiral's son, to a hospital, and in return, he would confess (in a  signed confession) to what he knew about the bombing mission operations he was sent on. My guess is that he still harbors significant self-loathing over that submission he willingly gave, although under duress, to his "Takers". He has never forgiven himself, the confession given by the admiral's son, for his weakness. This is why, even to this day, he continues to demonstrate an explosive temper over the slightest challenges.

In addition, add the Kool-Aid poison he drank from the chalice given to him by the Republican Party paralyzers, such as Karl Rove, to sterilize him from his Mavericky self-depiction and sliver down into their dirty ways. He has turned into Golem from Lord of the Rings. "The ring my precious."

The Republicans, and those 80% who are not in the upper income brackets, would be severely harmed by a McCain presidency. The facts are spelled out in black and white, and proclaimed by him and Palin in their stump speeches. This dysfunctional Maverick would represent the upper 10% of the income earners. He has already said that to the American people, therefore, working class Republicans must have a psychological disorder to support a person who would actually cause them harm if elected. Just look at his record.  It must be that the Republican voter drank the Kool-Aid Bush gave them in 2000, and again, in 2004. Bush, an incompetent, and clearly a sociopath individual, drank the Kool-Aid, too; and now the country has sunk into the deepest and worst economic and social crisis since 1929!

Under this disastrously ideological belief system sung by the Republicon Party elite, and with the full support of John McCain, have taken the country, and the globe, into what might actually end up evolving into an economic depression--a global depression! It is not out-of-the-question that this great nation might fall into default of its debts.

This is the party of John McCain. John McCain's playbook is an extension of the party's playbook, and Bush's playbook, too. And the protocols existing within that playbook are to continue the building of a kleptocracy for the Republicon elite. It is a continuation of the theft of this nation's financial resources right into the hands of those who destroyed the economy in the first place.

McCain wants to lower the capital gains tax from 15% to 7.5%. Only 0.2% of middle class Americans would actually have received a capital gain break lowering their annual tax bill by $4.00! Under the current Republicon-made crisis, the upper 1% with income above $600,000 gets 75% of the gains, for an average benefit of $37,600, and the average tax savings for the top 0.1%---income above $3 million---would be $244,000. American families would continue to suffer under the Republicon designed recession. (Jared Bernstein, 10-15-08, Huffingtonpost.com, "Again with Trickle Down!").

So, does McCain believe that the government subsidized wealthy 10% would Trickle-Down their good fortune to those reaching upward from the bottom of the Pyramid (scheme) ladder? We have had this scam delivered to us for over 8 years, and this Trickle-Down disaster is what we got for all the trouble. An $11 plus trillion national debt, a $500 billion budget deficit, an evaporation of $2-3 trillion in home asset wealth, a million plus loss of manufacturing jobs, a net loss of total jobs over the course of Bush's disastous experiment with neo-fascism. From this experiment, beginning with Reagan, and running through to this moment in time, with McCain, Bush, and the rest of the Kleptocrats trying to make the failed and ill-tuned Trickle-Down economic misfire work, look what it created. A true collapse of a system built upon a greed oriented house of cards.

What we are hearing from McCain is that he wants to bail-out homeowners in foreclosure or behind in payments by allowing a government-sponsored lender to assess their home at the original market value, instead of at the current market value. McCain would have the government purchase the home at the original market value, which would reward the lender/banker who originally made the bad loan, while placing the burden on the taxpayers instead of the lender. McCain would rather NOT force the lender to accept the market losses, and renegotiate the loan with the borrower at the current market value. Instead, McCain would rather the original lender take no loss or hit from writing an over-inflated loan, but to force the taxpayers to come up with the cash to buy the originally inflated high-priced loan and rewrite it with better terms. This plan actually props up the housing bubble problem that first instigated the market collapse. This plan only benefits the banker and not the consumer, as we already have learned.

McCain's history has shown he does the political bidding for the rich and powerful elites and not the general population he is to represent. This was seen when he tried to change the law allowing Charles Keating, of Lincoln Savings and Loan, to legally commit fraud against his bank customers, which were average Americans who had trusted his bank with their life savings. He went to jail for fraud and racketeering. He financially contributed to McCain.

McCain continued to engage in, what might be called influence pedaling as a senator and as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee when he started doing the bidding for the most powerful insurance and telecom corporations, while at the same time, received millions of dollars in "contributions", as well as lavish gifts, such as the use of private jets, for acting on their behalf instead of protecting the nation from these goons.

McCain was instrumental in the actual take-down of this economy when he supported Senator Phil Gramm's deregulation legislation of the financial industry during his time as chairman of the powerful Senate Banking Committee.

McCain fought for a ban of political "soft money" contributions, yet after he formed his non-profit organization called the Reform Institute, which was set up to promote his "Mavericky" image, he accepted soft money donations from the very telecom companies that benefitted from his political bidding. If you grease my palm, I will grease your palm, too!

McCain claims he wants to "clean up" Wall-Street, but his legacy has shown he is a deregulator so why would anyone believe he would change the "Casino Culture" on Wall-Street? In 2001 and 2003, he declared the Bush tax-cuts were wrong for the country (the first sign of his country first branding) during a time of war and hardship, yet now, when the economy is worse than anytime since 1931. He rallies his base by saying he wants to make the Bush tax-cuts permanent and even expand those cuts to benefit corporations whereby many, already, do not pay any taxes.

Even though McCain was tortured as a P.O.W, and later spoke against the use of torture, he stood alongside his commander-in-chief ("It is now my turn to be the big commander.") when Bush said he needed to torture. The Mavericky Maverick caved in and embraced Bush's torture policy. Anything to get nominated. Right, John?

McCain railed against lobbyists, yet employs them throughout his revolving door campaign. The last count was 177 in total.

McCain howled against ACORN and Obama's connection to the organization that he accused of committing voter fraud. But now, it has come to pass that McCain has ties to voter fraud in California and Arizona. (Keith Olbermann's Countdown).

McCain's poor judgement reaches back even when he totally embraced the Iraqi war con-man Ahmed Chalabi, the liar who wooed himself into the arms of Cheney and McCain and fed them lies and misinformation regarding Saddam's WMD program, ultimately giving them a reason to go to war. McCain was wrong with nearly every assessment regarding the success of the war, which was really the lack thereof.

McCain is nothing more than another neo-con version of George W. Bush, but worse, because he chose an incompetent person for V.P. during a time of heightened disaster and crisis. Palin lacks intellectual readiness if she would need to assume the role and duties of President of the United States. You are not in Wasilla anymore, Sarah!

For all of these reasons and examples, and I have only scratched the surface, why do Republicans continue to support an incompetent? If elected, he would end up hurting the lives of 80% of Americans throughout his Herbert Hoover-type of presidency.

The answer must be because so many are suffering from Republican Psychological Disorder and need immediate treatment!

Thanks for reading, Jerry

The Economic Crisis Leading Up to the G-7 Bail-out

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. We have heard that a thousand times. But now, it absolutely corrupted every pore of the body politic.

John McCain was absolutely corrupted by Charles Keating during his control over the Lincoln Savings and Loan debacle. Keating wanted his "boys" in Congress, McCain especially, to do his corrupt bidding by rewriting the regulatory rules allowing him to legally rob his customers. McCon carried the water for him by introducing a bill that would further Keating's plot to expand his racketeering scheme to commit fraud. Fortunately, it erupted into a scandal that lead to hearings. Keating got 5 years in the slammer for racketeering and fraud charges. McCon got paid by Keating for his bidding. Johnny Boy got off with only an ethics violation hand-slap reprimand. Guilty-by-association, John? It was more like guilt-from-association. Keating has currently contributed to McCon's presidential campaign, so the association continues.

Now, Sarah Palin has, too, demonstrated that her absolute power has corrupted her absolutely! Trooper-gate has now become one of her jar-full of "red herrings". An Alaskan favorite, my friends. The investigation found that she was guilty of an abuse of power, an impeachable offense. Guilt-resulting-from-association.

McCon, the I-can-reach-across-the-aisle-Maverick, dismissed the findings of the Trooper-gate investigation saying that it was led by a Democrat, in spite of the fact that the process was originally organized by Republicans. I guess for McCain, if the findings aren't to his liking he whines and cries partisanship. Sorry Johnny Boy, Sarah brought this all upon herself, just as you did with your scandal. I guess you are the current leader of the Party of Whiners.

Speaking of whiners. Is that not what McCain's pal, Phil Gramm called all of us who have watched our life savings disappear from a Republican driven Reagan-style Trickle-Down economic crisis? Consumers, you were scammed and "Trickled" into believing that outsourcing and job cuts, along with declining wages and benefits were good for you! You gonna like it! Just keep spending with your credit cards, home equity loans, and the kid's piggy banks and you'll feel better.

Just go shopping America. And when you do, you will make the upper 10%, who outsourced your jobs in the first place, and cut your wages, and benefits, all the more richer. YEAH!!! You keep paying your usury and compound interest charges, while the rich take it out of your hands and put into their own through dividend checks, rent checks, fees and bank charges, as well as other forms of investment return revenues.

But wait, their returns got burned, too!!! They were attempting to double and triple their wealth holdings by selling all types of securitized investment vehicles, made from loans, especially mortgage loans, and now they lost a big portion from their pot-of-gold. Top of the mornin' to ya, John and Sarah! I've got some moose patties and eggs for yur breakfast!

Stop! Hold on! There is a way to make part of it back! We will have Mikey eat it!  You remember Mikey. The kid who ate the cereal when his brother was skeptical about the taste. Yes, Mikey is all grown up now; Mikey, now a taxpayer, will eat our losses, and in return, he will turn over his income tax withholdings, and social security contributions so the richest people can stop their bleeding losses so as to prevent cancelling their trip to somewhere, or their daughter's 500 guest extravaganza wedding party (black-tie only), or their tricked out Mercedes, or their 200 foot luxury liner (the honeymoon get-away). 

We cannot let them feel any pain.

So now we have arrived at the bail-out plan. After the G-7 raked the Bush Crime Family bosses over the hot coals, they told "The Paulie" Paulson to change gears. Don't mess with those Ole School Europeans. They've been through way too much tough stuff to let a brat like Little Boy Bush give any directions. (Shut up; sit down; hold on!) The Bush-stapos said they would be willing to buy shares of the biggest banks using taxpayer dollars creating ownership rights in exchange for bail-out bucks. But here's the rub, the taxpayers have no voice in the bank's operations, or at the stockholder's meetings, or before anyone running the Banksta Show. It is a "corporate welfare funded bank operation" with no voice in exchange for the government handout. Silent Partner might best describe this scam. Paulson wrote the plan this way because the Bankstas did not want any government interference. Hey, this very reason was just the thing that caused these bank failures. How about a little interference from this point forward! It shouldn't hurt! It will hurt me more than YOU. It's not so bad; it could be worse.

So, the taxpayer instead of offering a bail-out, is now injecting the greedy junkie bankstas with taxpayer borrowed bootie, re-capitalizing the junkie bankstas so they can get on with making more money in the form of loans! How about another hit of that stuff, Paulie? Yikes. How many more loans will be written? How much more debt can the country take? How much bigger can our budget and national debt rise? So tell me Paulie Paulson, who will be borrowing? How much further out on a limb can the consumer go before THEY crash?

President Bush put forth a doctrine to steal the American economy from its citizens in order to give it over to those who had signed up as card carrying members of his Dynastic Crime Family, who would then be given access to the riches that had been amassed resulting from his corrupt administration and policies.

He assisted in the mastermind of the world's biggest bank heist( the Treasury), then got busted for the job which ended badly in a massive implosion causing most of the vault's contents destroyed. The major depositors (Congress and many big time corporate and financial players) came running to the site with frantic arms flailing raised in fear and anger. But instead of calling in the cops to arrest Bush and the rest of the Treasury-gate Burglars, they were given brooms and shovels to sweep up the mess.

The final insult to all the smaller depositors (taxpayers) was to watch as the Treasury-gate Burglars were given the power as to how to rearrange and rebuild the rubbled depository. The arsonists were allowed to rebuild the burned out building. No time spent; no fine paid; no penalty pelted.

What can be said without a doubt is that Bush squandered every ounce of America's goodwill by rising up in his emperor-clad robes in order to take down America.

Bush's 9-11 never stopped on that tragically memorable morning. It has been burning to this very day, like a forest fire raging through villages, towns, and families leaving a smoldering wake trailing behind it along with shards of a ruined nation having to face its economic peril exacerbated by one hapless unitary executive so emphatic on using every drop of his political capital wished for in a psychopathic daydream that would bring him a successful presidency.

Thanks for reading, Jerry

McCain-Country Last and A National Security Risk

John McCain and Sarah Palin have run very far away from the nation's frighteningly dangerous economic crisis in order to lower the debate by spewing fearmongering, and dangerous political rhetoric that appears to be insighting hate speech among supporters. "Kill him", was yelled from a Palin rally crowd by a person who concluded a statement of Palin's that made the point that she was frightened by Barack Obama, who palled around with a terrorist.

Palin has been saying for days that Obama pals with a Chicago terrorist named William Ayres. Here is a guy who was part of a radical group, the 1960's Weather Underground, that set off a bomb in the men's bathroom of the New York City police headquarters, back in 1970. No one was injured at the time that Ayres was involved with this incident. He turned himself in to authorities in 1980, and all charges were dropped, at that point. He was found innocent of any charges, John and Sarah, my friends.

Since then, Ayres went on to become a University of Illinois professor of education and performed public service by sitting on an education reform organization funded by the Annenberg Foundation, named after and funded by a political conservative, and an anti-poverty group, the Woods Fund of Chicago.

Both men were active in their communities and tried to give back something worthwhile; yet, McCain sat on the extremist group board founded by retired Army Major General John Singlaub. This radical right-wing organization had McCain on their board for a few years in the early 1980s. This international organization, the U.S. Council for World Freedom, had affiliations with former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right wing death squads, or should I say terrorist groups, in Central America.  It appeared that McCain did the political bidding on Capital Hill for this group's support of the Contras, a CIA-organized guerrilla force in Central America. (Associated Press, 10-7-08, "McCain Linked To Private Iran-Contra Group")

Guilt by association, Senator McCain? Or, was this just your way of giving back to the community, too?

Is McCain a supporter of American style fascism with his association with convicted felon G. Gordon Liddy, who spent 4 years behind bars for the Watergate break-in crime? Liddy got googoo-eyed when speaking about Adolph Hitler. "[He] made me feel a strength inside I had never known before." "Hitler's sheer animal confidence and power of will [entranced me]." " He sent an electric current through my body." In 1998, Liddy sponsored a fundraiser for our Mav-wreck. He referred to McCain as an "old friend". Or, should we say "my ole friend". (HuffingtonPost.com, 5-5-08, "G.Gordon Liddy: John McCain Finds His Own Radical"). Found guilt by association.

William Timmons, McCain's fantasy presidential transition team head, had represented Saddam Hussein, after the 1st Gulf War, in Washington. His job was to convince lawmakers to ease sanctions. Later, Timmons, and pals, tried to score a $45 million deal which would have allowed for a contract to purchase, and then, to resell Iraqi oil, back in 1992. So, McCain supports terroristic despots? What a record, "My Friend"!

And, then, Senator McCain there is the matter of your culpability in the Keating 5 scandal, which ripped off the taxpayers in the biggest banking scam of modern time. Charles Keating spent 5 years in prison for a $1.1 billion fraud and racketeering charges. Keating gave McCain money. You like being treated like a king and showered with very expensive gifts. Don't you? That must be why you dumped your first wife for the ultra-rich girl, Cindy Hensley.

And then we have Sarah Palin's affiliation with the secessionist group called the Alaskan Independence Party, which is a third party making up around 38% of the voters. She even gave a keynote address at a conference for them and said how this party was important to Alaskan politics. Palin's husband had been, and may still be, an active member of this party.

Guilt by association? Country Last, Sarah? Un-American affiliations? Don't wanna be a part of the United States of America, but want to be vice-president? Help me understand this duality, please. This group sounds like it could be potentially terroristic. Don't you? Or, is this YOUR way of giving back to the community, too?

And then, there is the frightening affiliation Sarah Palin has with a witch-hunter named Pastor Muthee, who presided over her church services as a guest pastor. He laid hands on her, as her church often does to its members. He prayed that the Lord "make a way for Sarah" so she can succeed as the governor of Alaska, and bring it a bunch of goodies. Muthee went uh huntin' for witches in Africa as his religious mission from God. Palin praised Muthee's contribution to her successes. Oh gee, it sure is nice to make friends, my friend.

Is Sarah Palin a witch-hunter, too? Does she support violence against women as Muthee demonstrated by running a supposed witch-lady from a village in Kenya? Guilt by association? One might say that a person who insights violence against women is a domestic terrorist, Sarah. Are you one, too? Or, is this just your way of giving back to the community, too?

And finally, there is the small point McCain was trying to make against Obama when he voted to give the Chicago Planetarium a few million dollars, for a high tech projection device,  in the form of an earmark, which McCain called a $3 million overhead projector. This stupidity on McCain's part just shows what a fool he is, and arrogant when demonstrating his 

asinine behavior. This "overhead projector", in total, costs $12 million, and is a projection device that creates a visual extravaganza of stars, planets, and the Milky Way Galaxy upon the ceiling of a theater inside the Chicago Planetarium. It is truly an educational tool used to excite children to love science and appreciate what it has to offer them. The old machine was failing and had parts that could not be replaced anymore due to its age.

John McCain appears to find little appreciation for such an earmark and its contribution to society and the education of children, yet he finds it a top priority to make sure we win in Iraq, and at any cost. Have we had enough of him yet?

Thanks for reading, Jerry

POSTSCRIPT:

McCain has had several melanomas. It has been revealed, anonymously by credible medical sources, that he is very likely being treated of one that may have metastasized in his lymph nodes and/or in the jaw area. He is likely receiving radiation, since his puffy jaw appears to be shrinking in size. Are we willing to have Sarah Palin as the next president of the United States? Is she intelligent enough, capable enough, or sane enough to be handle the trials and tribulations this nation is experiencing?

In addition, it has been revealed by Congressman Brad Sherman, a California Democrat, who opposed the bail-out, that the Bush administration threatened the American people, Congress, and the world that if Congress did not pass the bail-out bill, then Bush might have to institute Marshall Law throughout the country! The president was granted such powers through two Presidential Directives: #51 and #20 under the authority of "Continuity of Government" and "Catastrophic Emergency".

Now, the 3rd Infantry's Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team, placed under NorthCom, to respond to protests and unrest that might occur within the country.