[At Least] 11 Broken Promises of Obama

Broken Promises:

Broken promise No. 1: ‘Sunlight Before Signing’

Broken promise No. 2: Capital gains tax elimination

Broken promise No. 3: New American jobs tax credit

Broken promise No. 4: Hiatus on 401(k) penalties

Broken promise No. 5: ‘No jobs for lobbyists’

Broken promise No. 6: Earmark reform

Broken promise No. 7: Bring troops home in 16 months

Broken promise No. 8: Sign ‘Freedom of Choice Act’

Broken promise No. 9: $4,000 college credit

Broken promise No. 10: Transparency

Broken promise No. 11: Executive signing statements

(see evidence on original list here)

Woodstock Attendees Running Government?

If I was to ask what happened in August 15-18, 1969, some may know and some may know all too well. If you don’t that is OK because I wouldn’t know as it was before my time. What happened then was the original Woodstock.

So, after 40 years, what has Woodstock delivered? Do we have more peace and no war? Do we have more love? Do we have more understanding? Do we have a greater tolerance for others around us? What ever happened to the attendees of Woodstock anyways? Exactly, how influential has Woodstock been on our culture as it is deemed to be?

Of course, as this article mentions here, “what strikes me now – long after the event – is the false promise of Woodstock. For the tolerance and understanding, the peace and love, were not built upon a change in the human heart. Instead, they were built upon – in the Woodstock generation’s own words – sex, drugs, and rock n roll.”

Indeed, humans never did change deep-down by the event we call Woodstock. In fact, it almost seems ironic that a push to change the basic societial relationship of humans was attempted to be built on drugs which seperated you from reality, sex which is naturally euphoric, and music which can also trigger euphoria of a sort. In other words, the change was being brought on an imaginary cloud induced by some sort of alternate reality.

Of course I don’t completely condone their efforts. I think that everyone should explore their inner-being to the degree that they feel comfortable with themselves. If you need to use drugs to do that, I don’t really have a problem with that either – so long as you don’t harm or interfere with others. I also am very much into the tolerance and acceptance of others. However, the progression of the human race seems to be squarely in the corner of the traditional conservative education and exploration. This can be evidenced by the Moon Race from 1957 to 1976.

I want to take a real quick tangent to tolerance and acceptance before I forget though. I consider myself very tolerant and accepting of others. I do this by first recognizing that everyone is an individual. There are bad individuals and good individuals. Secondly, I recognize that I am not like anyone else – I am unique. Between these two attributes, I think that this is how we will make real progress on the issue. This is versus the idea of the hippy and now Liberal movement where we need to give special privledges or extra help to groups of people.

So where are the attendees of Woodstock today? In this article here they say, “Now hippies have all become Republicans and instead of taking LSD, they’re taking Viagra and losing their hair.” Inversely, to me it seems that with the severe push in all levels of government to become more Socialist that they all went home from Woodstock, took a bath, got haircuts, put on some clothes and got jobs as todays Democrats.

Barack Obama and Iraq: WYSI[N]WYG. Are You Surprised?

It is beyond me how anyone, after a detailed review, could think Barack Obama qualified to become president of the United States (I used to before my own detailed review). His campaign has been a perpetual Beatles concert, with not only the girls swooning.

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A great small synopsis of how Obama is a crowd pleaser – he will say whatever he needs to say to get people to like him and think that he is going to do what they want. However, in reality, he almost adds little quips and stipulations on when he is going to act. It is a perfect coverup. If you take a solid stand and, in this case, name a definite date people can nail you to that date. If you make a fluid date (read, no date) then nobody can ever point the finger at you and say that you didn’t do what you said. Perfect!

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

I found this article and man-o-man is it a gem! I am going to repost here in-whole just in case something happens to the original found here. Below is the article in it’s entirety.
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I Had Enough?

Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, “Stay the course.”

Stay the course? You’ve got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I’ll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out!

You might think I’m getting senile, that I’ve gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies. Congress responds to record deficits by passing a huge tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don’t need it). The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we’re fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving pom-poms instead of asking hard questions. That’s not the promise of America my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I’ve had enough. How about you?

The Al-Qaeda That America Made

 I agree. Most of the “terrorist” problem is severely inflated.

(Putting on my conspiracy hat) I personally believe that most of this “problem” is inflated to give certain people more power than they already have. To example this, look no further than things such as the Patriot Act, the suspension of habeas corpus, et al.