Saturday, March 22, 2008
Stimulus Bill is to stimulate what and when?
We are now hearing that the check people are going to get, could get to them as late as June or even July depending on how they get their tax return and their last two numbers of their social security number and when they get their taxes filed. It will be summer by the time most get it and by the time they spend it, we won't see any stimulation on the economy for a couple months later. The economic jump may not happen till as late as November, after the election. And then it could be argued that if the democrats were to win the election, the economic jump could be because they won the election, not the stimulus package. I fear that the stimulus package will stimulate nothing and cause more of an economic problem, as where is the money for it coming from? Not taxes, as that money has already been spent on the war and the next budget.
Feelings of Anger!
Yes, feelings of anger, when I watch what is happening to the democratic party and Obama. Hillary has no way of winning on her own the nomination, but she stays in the race to divide the party. By not withdrawing from the race, she is causing division. Her negative attacks on Obama does nothing but divide the party. Because of Hillary the democratic party polls on winning the election are falling. Hillary's numbers have always been below where McCain is concerned, and now she is bring Obama's numbers down.
We need change, but as it is now, we may not see it. The media is out with as much negative articles they can put out about Obama. They are hoping for a last minute turn over where Hillary wins her parties nomination. The Media still believe that Hillary is the best chance for McCain to win the election if she is the one he is running against and they are correct.
I am praying that my fears are for nothing. But I fear that the Clinton's have not only shot their selves in the foot, but also because they can not accept the idea they could lose, they will do everything they can to defeat the democrat who ever it would be if it isn't Hillary.
We have leaders that call for unity and the call to support the nominee who ever it is. If they want that unity, they need to put an end to this division now and support Obama as President. He needs only 2025 to win the nomination, and if the supper delegates would come out in support of Obama now, putting an end to this division, Obama would only need 420 more supper delegates to come over now of the 800 out there to win the nomination and put an end to the nasty fight Hillary is creating.
We need to start focusing on the national election in November now. There is no way for Hillary to catch up to Obama or over take him, without going totally negative and if that happens, the democratic party will lose many new registered voters that they have just gained this past two years with the Obama push for change.
The only thing the Clinton's can guarantee by staying in the race and continuing the negative attacks instead of joining Obama's campaign for the presidency, is that the democratic party will lose the presidency.
If she were to withdraw now, she could actually change and save the way people perceive her, and Bills and the legacy they leave. The legacy they will leave if she stays in is how they destroyed the democratic party and ended any chance the country has to correct the wrongs of the Bush administration at least for another 4 years.
Hillary need to stay in congress. but if this doesn't stop now, she will probably not only lose her bid for the presidency but also her senate set.
It is my hope that the democratic leaders out there that can do something, will see and understand what is happening soon, before there is no hope or possibility for change. They need to stand up now or it will be as much their fault as the Clinton's for destroying any chance for the democrat to win the presidency.
We need change, but as it is now, we may not see it. The media is out with as much negative articles they can put out about Obama. They are hoping for a last minute turn over where Hillary wins her parties nomination. The Media still believe that Hillary is the best chance for McCain to win the election if she is the one he is running against and they are correct.
I am praying that my fears are for nothing. But I fear that the Clinton's have not only shot their selves in the foot, but also because they can not accept the idea they could lose, they will do everything they can to defeat the democrat who ever it would be if it isn't Hillary.
We have leaders that call for unity and the call to support the nominee who ever it is. If they want that unity, they need to put an end to this division now and support Obama as President. He needs only 2025 to win the nomination, and if the supper delegates would come out in support of Obama now, putting an end to this division, Obama would only need 420 more supper delegates to come over now of the 800 out there to win the nomination and put an end to the nasty fight Hillary is creating.
We need to start focusing on the national election in November now. There is no way for Hillary to catch up to Obama or over take him, without going totally negative and if that happens, the democratic party will lose many new registered voters that they have just gained this past two years with the Obama push for change.
The only thing the Clinton's can guarantee by staying in the race and continuing the negative attacks instead of joining Obama's campaign for the presidency, is that the democratic party will lose the presidency.
If she were to withdraw now, she could actually change and save the way people perceive her, and Bills and the legacy they leave. The legacy they will leave if she stays in is how they destroyed the democratic party and ended any chance the country has to correct the wrongs of the Bush administration at least for another 4 years.
Hillary need to stay in congress. but if this doesn't stop now, she will probably not only lose her bid for the presidency but also her senate set.
It is my hope that the democratic leaders out there that can do something, will see and understand what is happening soon, before there is no hope or possibility for change. They need to stand up now or it will be as much their fault as the Clinton's for destroying any chance for the democrat to win the presidency.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Are You Hungry Or Thirsty?
If you go a day without eating, do you get hungry? If you go a day with out water to drink, will you get thirsty? Have you ever fasted? Have you ever went hungry?
We as human beings need food and water to survive! If we go without food or drink very long we get sick and have a hard time functioning!
Would you ever say, I hate going to the store and buying food so I'm never going to return there again!? I just don't like the people I meet there so I will not shop again!
You know I like grocery shopping. I like going to the store. I enjoy seeing people sometimes it is the only time I have seen them in several months. Sometimes I see someone I hadn't seen in years!
We humans are social beings. We need to have contact with others to stay mentally healthy! We need that interaction. Or we start having problems, like withdrawing into our selves. With out filling that social need, man will start to have mental problems. And once those problems start, they tend to keep us apart and separated so we end up having a hard time over coming our mental problems, thinking others will not accept us!
God new that man couldn't survive on physical food alone! He tells us in Matt4:4 "It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
The word is not just a written book, it is a relationship, and action. God created man with the need for food and relationship to survive in this physical world! He also knew that man need something else to survive completely. Man wasn't just a physical being but a spiritual being as well. Mankind was given a Spirit unlike the rest of the animal world around him!
We are told in Hebrews to not forsake the assembling together! This helps us in two area's as Christians. It helps us with our mental health and spiritual health in having close family in Christ to share and communicate with, and in doing so, assembling together, we do as Hebrews 10 tells us to do!
Heb 10:23-25 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
We stay close as a family in our belief and help one another stay close to God and our Lord! Showing our love for one another in Christ and exhorting each other in our faith!
Many say they can worship and read at home by themselves, but in do so, they over look a much needed area of fellowship and staying health in our walk with God!
Just as you would become weak by not eating, and our health would go down hill, so does our spiritual health if we deprive ourselves from spiritual sustenance in the fellowship with the body of Christ!
Paul goes a little further with this idea in 1 Cor. 12, in saying we are all different parts of the same body and we need each other to survive!
1Co 12:14-27 For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked: That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
A while back I heard about a man that got hurt in a field while working to take in his crop. He lost his foot, and a by passer saw him and helped. A sheriff's deputy went back to the field and found the foot. By getting the foot to the hospital on time, the doctors were able to reattach it and it survived and the man walks on it today. As a part of the body we need to be connected the same as that foot or we will die spiritually!
Arteries and veins carry our blood through our body, in the same way they carry the Holy Spirit that which gives life, through the body of Christ! Those arteries and veins represent Fellowship within the Body of Christ! We need that connection with each other to have those veins and arteries connected so the Holy Spirit can flow through us to one another, to other parts of the body!
No not everyone is as honored as the other! Some think they are better than the other, but we know they can not survive without us all! Sometimes we see people as hypocrites, they don't seem to be what we expect of Christians! Churches are just that, a place for sinners to go! We are all sinners and fall short! If it were not for Christ and what he did for us, we would all be lost!
So I hope you will think on not only your physical health but your spiritual health and see the need to fellowship with the rest of your spiritual body. It is then we can show them love by accepting them even if and when they are hard to accept! God accepts them!
Blessings,
Rev. Charles
We as human beings need food and water to survive! If we go without food or drink very long we get sick and have a hard time functioning!
Would you ever say, I hate going to the store and buying food so I'm never going to return there again!? I just don't like the people I meet there so I will not shop again!
You know I like grocery shopping. I like going to the store. I enjoy seeing people sometimes it is the only time I have seen them in several months. Sometimes I see someone I hadn't seen in years!
We humans are social beings. We need to have contact with others to stay mentally healthy! We need that interaction. Or we start having problems, like withdrawing into our selves. With out filling that social need, man will start to have mental problems. And once those problems start, they tend to keep us apart and separated so we end up having a hard time over coming our mental problems, thinking others will not accept us!
God new that man couldn't survive on physical food alone! He tells us in Matt4:4 "It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
The word is not just a written book, it is a relationship, and action. God created man with the need for food and relationship to survive in this physical world! He also knew that man need something else to survive completely. Man wasn't just a physical being but a spiritual being as well. Mankind was given a Spirit unlike the rest of the animal world around him!
We are told in Hebrews to not forsake the assembling together! This helps us in two area's as Christians. It helps us with our mental health and spiritual health in having close family in Christ to share and communicate with, and in doing so, assembling together, we do as Hebrews 10 tells us to do!
Heb 10:23-25 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
We stay close as a family in our belief and help one another stay close to God and our Lord! Showing our love for one another in Christ and exhorting each other in our faith!
Many say they can worship and read at home by themselves, but in do so, they over look a much needed area of fellowship and staying health in our walk with God!
Just as you would become weak by not eating, and our health would go down hill, so does our spiritual health if we deprive ourselves from spiritual sustenance in the fellowship with the body of Christ!
Paul goes a little further with this idea in 1 Cor. 12, in saying we are all different parts of the same body and we need each other to survive!
1Co 12:14-27 For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked: That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
A while back I heard about a man that got hurt in a field while working to take in his crop. He lost his foot, and a by passer saw him and helped. A sheriff's deputy went back to the field and found the foot. By getting the foot to the hospital on time, the doctors were able to reattach it and it survived and the man walks on it today. As a part of the body we need to be connected the same as that foot or we will die spiritually!
Arteries and veins carry our blood through our body, in the same way they carry the Holy Spirit that which gives life, through the body of Christ! Those arteries and veins represent Fellowship within the Body of Christ! We need that connection with each other to have those veins and arteries connected so the Holy Spirit can flow through us to one another, to other parts of the body!
No not everyone is as honored as the other! Some think they are better than the other, but we know they can not survive without us all! Sometimes we see people as hypocrites, they don't seem to be what we expect of Christians! Churches are just that, a place for sinners to go! We are all sinners and fall short! If it were not for Christ and what he did for us, we would all be lost!
So I hope you will think on not only your physical health but your spiritual health and see the need to fellowship with the rest of your spiritual body. It is then we can show them love by accepting them even if and when they are hard to accept! God accepts them!
Blessings,
Rev. Charles
Friday, February 08, 2008
Money? Romney left the race, is Hillary far behind?
Ok, Romney chose to leave the race for the presidency after not having a good showing in the Supper Tuesday primaries. McCain seemed to be the big winner out of Supper Tuesday. Huckabee came out with a surprise in winning Southern strong Evangelical voting states on the Republican side. It seems that McCain has it locked in for the nomination on the republican ticket, but he is going to have a hard time winning without the right wing Evangelical movement that elected both Reagan and the Bushes! If they stay home on November 4th he will loss! His only hope is that Huckabee joins him on the ticket as his VP and that Evangelicals will then support the McCain/Huckabee ticket. It seems that is what is working in the republican party towards! Not that I would support it! I don't really care for Huckabee myself! What scares me in that presidency is that McCain is in his 70's, and I know they say his mother is in her 90'sand still out and around on her own, but that speaks for the women in the McCain family not the men! How old was his father when he died? Do we really want Huckabee to be president? Huckabee would be set up to run for the presidency in 4 years, even if McCain lives that long! For this reason alone, I could probably vote for a Clinton in the White House again.
It is because of this I am hoping and praying that Obama is the Democratic nominee.
Not to the money issue. After the last poll closed on Supper Tuesday to the next day, Obama raised over 5 million dollars. By that time Hillary had only raised approx. 1.5 million and had to give her campaign and influx of cash by loaning it $5 million of her own money! Do we see a problem here? That gave her the ability to say the next day that they had raised approx 6.5 million and them later in the week a little over 7 million, of course 5 million came from her!
We have three primaries coming upon this next Tuesday that if pollsters are right, and they have been wrong in the past, and Hillary is sure hoping they are wrong this time around too! Obama will take all three, D.C., Maryland and Virgina. Mean while this weekend on Saturday we will find out about Louisiana Primary 67 delegates, Nebraska Caucus 31 delegates, Washington Caucus 97 delegates, Virgin Islands Other 9 delegates. Obama seems to do much better in caucus states too.
Maine Sunday Feb.10th, Hawaii and Wisconsin Feb. 19th, And then it is the next big Tuesday, March 4th with:
Ohio Primary 161 delegates
Rhode Island Primary 32 delegates
Texas Primary 228 delegates
Vermont Primary 23 delegates
Texas is going to be the big prize but by them if Hillary hasn't won any thing big, Texas may not help her, but bring it to a draw, where neither has the delegates it needs to win the nomination out right!
Wyoming Saturday March 8th,
Mississippi Tuesday March 11th,
Pennsylvania Primary 188 delegates April 22nd,
Oh, yea, now in the mean time, we could have caucus's in Michigan and Florida to chose delegates and give Obama time to visit and campaign there, so he could take a large majority of those delegates, which is Hillary's worst nightmare! She wants the delegates that have already been chose for her, to be seated, which won't or better not happen, as that would through the next presidential primary season in 2012? out the door with the National DNC and it's rules, and they will have no power or any meaning or control over when states hold their caucus's or Primaries. You will see 7 to possibly even 20 states vie for one of the front spots to hold their caucus or primary earlier or near the Iowa caucus!
So we watch Feb. 10th to see how it goes, and if thereis a clear winner by that time! We hope so, and we hope it is Obama! Obama will be the hardest for the republicans to beat! And Hillary could just inspire the republicans to get out to vote in record numbers to just voe against her!
It is because of this I am hoping and praying that Obama is the Democratic nominee.
Not to the money issue. After the last poll closed on Supper Tuesday to the next day, Obama raised over 5 million dollars. By that time Hillary had only raised approx. 1.5 million and had to give her campaign and influx of cash by loaning it $5 million of her own money! Do we see a problem here? That gave her the ability to say the next day that they had raised approx 6.5 million and them later in the week a little over 7 million, of course 5 million came from her!
We have three primaries coming upon this next Tuesday that if pollsters are right, and they have been wrong in the past, and Hillary is sure hoping they are wrong this time around too! Obama will take all three, D.C., Maryland and Virgina. Mean while this weekend on Saturday we will find out about Louisiana Primary 67 delegates, Nebraska Caucus 31 delegates, Washington Caucus 97 delegates, Virgin Islands Other 9 delegates. Obama seems to do much better in caucus states too.
Maine Sunday Feb.10th, Hawaii and Wisconsin Feb. 19th, And then it is the next big Tuesday, March 4th with:
Ohio Primary 161 delegates
Rhode Island Primary 32 delegates
Texas Primary 228 delegates
Vermont Primary 23 delegates
Texas is going to be the big prize but by them if Hillary hasn't won any thing big, Texas may not help her, but bring it to a draw, where neither has the delegates it needs to win the nomination out right!
Wyoming Saturday March 8th,
Mississippi Tuesday March 11th,
Pennsylvania Primary 188 delegates April 22nd,
Oh, yea, now in the mean time, we could have caucus's in Michigan and Florida to chose delegates and give Obama time to visit and campaign there, so he could take a large majority of those delegates, which is Hillary's worst nightmare! She wants the delegates that have already been chose for her, to be seated, which won't or better not happen, as that would through the next presidential primary season in 2012? out the door with the National DNC and it's rules, and they will have no power or any meaning or control over when states hold their caucus's or Primaries. You will see 7 to possibly even 20 states vie for one of the front spots to hold their caucus or primary earlier or near the Iowa caucus!
So we watch Feb. 10th to see how it goes, and if thereis a clear winner by that time! We hope so, and we hope it is Obama! Obama will be the hardest for the republicans to beat! And Hillary could just inspire the republicans to get out to vote in record numbers to just voe against her!
Friday, February 01, 2008
Universal Health Care by Hillary and Feb. 31st, 2008 Debate
Ok, as I watched the debate, I hoped Hillary would answer Obama's question on her Universal Health Care! I didn't hear it!
OK what was the question Obama had? Obama said last night that Hillary still hadn't said now she would in force mandated health care, if someone didn't have health care? What kind of penalty would there be? Fines? take it directly out of their paycheck? take their income tax refund away?
Hillary's plan does waver some from having to have health care. You can request a waver!
Many articles today say in the title, that Obama and Hillary played nice at the debate! I would agree, that Obama played nice over all! He should of stuck to his guns so to speak in asking Hillary about the penalties for not having Health Care! I do think that Hillary played a little more hard ball then Obama! But that is to make up for her husbands quieting down!
To be equal in this debate on health care, Obama hasn't said how he would penalize parents that don't cover their children that coverage is mandated for in Obama's plan! Or at least I haven't seen anything on it or heard anything!
Insurance Companies have come out in favor of the Clinton or Edwards Health Care, with mandates for everyone to be covered!
And some have compared this to mandated insurance for car drivers! The problem is that even though there is mandates for insurance, and mandates is the only way insurance companies say the cost would come down! Why hasn't Auto Insurance gotten cheaper? Well it hasn't worked with car insurance! People still can't afford car insurance, why would anyone think mandating insurance would work in the long term or even in the short term!
People without insurance loss their license to drive but they still buy cars and drive them, but then they don't have a drivers license or insurance!
I find the question about allowing undocumented aliens getting drivers licenses laughable. It was asked it they support the states doing this, well, it is the state not the national government and unless Congress passes a law outlawing it, the states have the right to give them licenses! Do I agree with the states doing it, no, do I understand their motives for doing it? Yes!
But then I also believe that Insurance companies are just organized crime gone legal under the states and federal mandates! I can only remember the gangsters pro-traded in movies I watched growing up. and how some gangs are today! How they went around and told the business they wanted so much money from them a week for protection! If the business didn't pay, their windows were broken, and maybe their business was ransacked!
Well today they don't have to brake windows, the government mandates you pay them insurance money so if something happens you are covered! Car accident/house fire/burglary/illness/loan insurance! Where does it stop?
But have they paid the coverage out they carried for people? For the most part no! Just ask people that lost homes during Katrina, or houses in California do to fire, who thought they were covered for replacement cost! Ask the family that lost their daughter just hours before the insurance company agreed to cover an operation she needed to save her life, but refused to up till just before she died! To little to late! So called for the insurance company to be held responsibly for her death and even that the executives should be charged with murder! Will it happen? NO! Who do you charge? The insurance adjuster that disqualified her surgery or the person over them that had the say on the matter or the ones over them! The old adage I was ony following orders!
The buck has to stop somewhere and this is where Clinton hasn't answered the question on, how will you enforce the mandated health coverage?
How do you fix a broken system? Sometimes you just have to do your best or start over from scratch!
And sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't just scrap the old system of medical insurance for a totally new one!
People will just do what they do in accidents, give phony names and information! Get ride of the car and get another one that isn't licensed or licensed under someone else's name!
There are to many questions on how well their plans will work! Something we won't know until they put it to work!
OK what was the question Obama had? Obama said last night that Hillary still hadn't said now she would in force mandated health care, if someone didn't have health care? What kind of penalty would there be? Fines? take it directly out of their paycheck? take their income tax refund away?
Hillary's plan does waver some from having to have health care. You can request a waver!
Many articles today say in the title, that Obama and Hillary played nice at the debate! I would agree, that Obama played nice over all! He should of stuck to his guns so to speak in asking Hillary about the penalties for not having Health Care! I do think that Hillary played a little more hard ball then Obama! But that is to make up for her husbands quieting down!
To be equal in this debate on health care, Obama hasn't said how he would penalize parents that don't cover their children that coverage is mandated for in Obama's plan! Or at least I haven't seen anything on it or heard anything!
Insurance Companies have come out in favor of the Clinton or Edwards Health Care, with mandates for everyone to be covered!
And some have compared this to mandated insurance for car drivers! The problem is that even though there is mandates for insurance, and mandates is the only way insurance companies say the cost would come down! Why hasn't Auto Insurance gotten cheaper? Well it hasn't worked with car insurance! People still can't afford car insurance, why would anyone think mandating insurance would work in the long term or even in the short term!
People without insurance loss their license to drive but they still buy cars and drive them, but then they don't have a drivers license or insurance!
I find the question about allowing undocumented aliens getting drivers licenses laughable. It was asked it they support the states doing this, well, it is the state not the national government and unless Congress passes a law outlawing it, the states have the right to give them licenses! Do I agree with the states doing it, no, do I understand their motives for doing it? Yes!
But then I also believe that Insurance companies are just organized crime gone legal under the states and federal mandates! I can only remember the gangsters pro-traded in movies I watched growing up. and how some gangs are today! How they went around and told the business they wanted so much money from them a week for protection! If the business didn't pay, their windows were broken, and maybe their business was ransacked!
Well today they don't have to brake windows, the government mandates you pay them insurance money so if something happens you are covered! Car accident/house fire/burglary/illness/loan insurance! Where does it stop?
But have they paid the coverage out they carried for people? For the most part no! Just ask people that lost homes during Katrina, or houses in California do to fire, who thought they were covered for replacement cost! Ask the family that lost their daughter just hours before the insurance company agreed to cover an operation she needed to save her life, but refused to up till just before she died! To little to late! So called for the insurance company to be held responsibly for her death and even that the executives should be charged with murder! Will it happen? NO! Who do you charge? The insurance adjuster that disqualified her surgery or the person over them that had the say on the matter or the ones over them! The old adage I was ony following orders!
The buck has to stop somewhere and this is where Clinton hasn't answered the question on, how will you enforce the mandated health coverage?
How do you fix a broken system? Sometimes you just have to do your best or start over from scratch!
And sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't just scrap the old system of medical insurance for a totally new one!
People will just do what they do in accidents, give phony names and information! Get ride of the car and get another one that isn't licensed or licensed under someone else's name!
There are to many questions on how well their plans will work! Something we won't know until they put it to work!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
"Senate Makes Fixes to Stimulus Bill"
"But Not Everyone is Happy"!
Some of the information I am using here is found in an article at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326928,00.html
Ok, why wouldn't a fix make everyone happy? Well I remember and you may too, a 20/20 program sometime back about how many illegal immigrants were actually paying taxes. How they were using ITINs that banks were giving them when they opened accounts! ITINs are Individual Tax Identification Numbers! Then when they filed tax papers for refunds they used these ITIN's to do so! Now most of these people work here and send or more precisely, wire the money back to their home land to their families to live on. Bank of America was getting hit hard on this because they were also issuing credit cards to people with accounts and only ITINs!
Well a Senator realized that the house bill was going to reward these illegal immigrants also, and that money would probably go back to their family in another country and stimulate the wrong country's economy! So in the Senate's version those that file income tax papers using ITINs numbers wouldn't get the refund, only those with valid SSA numbers would! A good fix as I see it!
The original senate version didn't have any caps, which I agreed need to have! So now the senate version caps it at $150,000 in 2007 for singles with a $500.00 rebate; $1,000 if married and filing jointly with a combined income less than $300,000. Families with children under 17 years old would get $300 per child. that is better than the house bill, it includes everyone with an income, even those with only $1.00 income and up. Not like the house bill that leaves those with less than $3,000.00 income out of it!
So this will cause the senate and house to have to enter a hearing to see if they can work out some agreement to send to the president! But that isn't all that they changed from the house version of the bill! They included an unemployment extension! Some argue that if people have an unemployment extension, it would give them an incentive to stay unemployed! Give me a break! No one wants to be unemployed! Sure it is nice to be able to pay your bills while you are unemployed, and be able to not end up homeless! Some argue they wouldn't look for work, as they would without unemployment.
"The committee extends unemployment payments for 13 weeks for those whose benefits have run out, with 26 more weeks available in states with a 6.5 percent unemployment rate. Only four states qualify for this extra assistance: Alaska, Michigan, Mississippi and South Carolina."
What is the real problem here? Bush's legacy! He doesn't want unemployment to appear to rise on the end of his watch! And it would! Because unemployment figures come from those applying for unemployment! If their unemployment ended, they are not getting any more and are not eligible, the numbers drop! That doesn't really mean unemployment went down, it means that those eligible went down.
The numbers of unemployment stats will go up if people who are unemployed become eligible for benefits! Because they will get a notice and reapply for it! A lot more states may jump up to 6.5 area if there are more benefits to be had!
Ok what else could there be? Oh remember I said in my earlier blog on this subject that the poor and seniors and disabled should get help too! Well under the senate package they will! Those that make under $3,000.00 a year would get the same rebate married and single!
"The Senate Finance Committee bill also gives rebate checks to more than 20 million low-income seniors who live on Social Security benefits. The disabled are also included in this, as they, too, get Social Security benefits. Baucus said 75,000 disabled veterans would get checks, as a result."
Great fix, the size of rebate down from $600.00 to $500.00 and $1,200.00 to $1000.00 and preventing money from rebates from ending up in foreign economy's will more than pay for the money going to those not included under the house bill! The economic stimulus will also pay back in more taxes collected by the government if the president is right and so how can that hurt? It can't!
So I say to the senate, stick to your guns, and house members get some back bone and fight for this senate bill if you are going to fight for a bill! You can over ride a veto if there is one!
There are enough republicans out there going to have to be reelected to over ride this veto if it is vetoed! If the republicans don't vote to over ride the veto, you have a very good campaign to unseat them and replace them with a democrat that would! And if there are democrats that vote against this bill, them we need to look at replacing them as well! Stop crying about what the president may do and do your job's!
Some of the information I am using here is found in an article at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326928,00.html
Ok, why wouldn't a fix make everyone happy? Well I remember and you may too, a 20/20 program sometime back about how many illegal immigrants were actually paying taxes. How they were using ITINs that banks were giving them when they opened accounts! ITINs are Individual Tax Identification Numbers! Then when they filed tax papers for refunds they used these ITIN's to do so! Now most of these people work here and send or more precisely, wire the money back to their home land to their families to live on. Bank of America was getting hit hard on this because they were also issuing credit cards to people with accounts and only ITINs!
Well a Senator realized that the house bill was going to reward these illegal immigrants also, and that money would probably go back to their family in another country and stimulate the wrong country's economy! So in the Senate's version those that file income tax papers using ITINs numbers wouldn't get the refund, only those with valid SSA numbers would! A good fix as I see it!
The original senate version didn't have any caps, which I agreed need to have! So now the senate version caps it at $150,000 in 2007 for singles with a $500.00 rebate; $1,000 if married and filing jointly with a combined income less than $300,000. Families with children under 17 years old would get $300 per child. that is better than the house bill, it includes everyone with an income, even those with only $1.00 income and up. Not like the house bill that leaves those with less than $3,000.00 income out of it!
So this will cause the senate and house to have to enter a hearing to see if they can work out some agreement to send to the president! But that isn't all that they changed from the house version of the bill! They included an unemployment extension! Some argue that if people have an unemployment extension, it would give them an incentive to stay unemployed! Give me a break! No one wants to be unemployed! Sure it is nice to be able to pay your bills while you are unemployed, and be able to not end up homeless! Some argue they wouldn't look for work, as they would without unemployment.
"The committee extends unemployment payments for 13 weeks for those whose benefits have run out, with 26 more weeks available in states with a 6.5 percent unemployment rate. Only four states qualify for this extra assistance: Alaska, Michigan, Mississippi and South Carolina."
What is the real problem here? Bush's legacy! He doesn't want unemployment to appear to rise on the end of his watch! And it would! Because unemployment figures come from those applying for unemployment! If their unemployment ended, they are not getting any more and are not eligible, the numbers drop! That doesn't really mean unemployment went down, it means that those eligible went down.
The numbers of unemployment stats will go up if people who are unemployed become eligible for benefits! Because they will get a notice and reapply for it! A lot more states may jump up to 6.5 area if there are more benefits to be had!
Ok what else could there be? Oh remember I said in my earlier blog on this subject that the poor and seniors and disabled should get help too! Well under the senate package they will! Those that make under $3,000.00 a year would get the same rebate married and single!
"The Senate Finance Committee bill also gives rebate checks to more than 20 million low-income seniors who live on Social Security benefits. The disabled are also included in this, as they, too, get Social Security benefits. Baucus said 75,000 disabled veterans would get checks, as a result."
Great fix, the size of rebate down from $600.00 to $500.00 and $1,200.00 to $1000.00 and preventing money from rebates from ending up in foreign economy's will more than pay for the money going to those not included under the house bill! The economic stimulus will also pay back in more taxes collected by the government if the president is right and so how can that hurt? It can't!
So I say to the senate, stick to your guns, and house members get some back bone and fight for this senate bill if you are going to fight for a bill! You can over ride a veto if there is one!
There are enough republicans out there going to have to be reelected to over ride this veto if it is vetoed! If the republicans don't vote to over ride the veto, you have a very good campaign to unseat them and replace them with a democrat that would! And if there are democrats that vote against this bill, them we need to look at replacing them as well! Stop crying about what the president may do and do your job's!
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Democrats Barely Show in Sunshine State
"In Florida, leaders of both state parties are confident the national parties will relent in order to avoid angering Florida voters whose support will be needed to win in November."
http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/01/29/democrats-barely-show-in-sunshine-state/
Why would Florida voters be mad or angry at the DNC or the Republican Party over losing it's convention vote? It seems to me, they should have angry at their state leaders who pushed their primary up that cause the lose of delegates to the convention! And that is what the leaders in both state parties are hopping their citizens will forget!
Michigan and Florida voters should be up set with it's own leaders not the national leaders! Their state leaders were told what would happen! Other states wanted to do the same thing, but listened to the national party leaders! By reconsidering Michigan and Florida would amount to punishment to the other states that abides by the nation party rules!
Get a life and do what you are suppose to, follow the rules!
Or suffer the consciences!
http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/01/29/democrats-barely-show-in-sunshine-state/
Why would Florida voters be mad or angry at the DNC or the Republican Party over losing it's convention vote? It seems to me, they should have angry at their state leaders who pushed their primary up that cause the lose of delegates to the convention! And that is what the leaders in both state parties are hopping their citizens will forget!
Michigan and Florida voters should be up set with it's own leaders not the national leaders! Their state leaders were told what would happen! Other states wanted to do the same thing, but listened to the national party leaders! By reconsidering Michigan and Florida would amount to punishment to the other states that abides by the nation party rules!
Get a life and do what you are suppose to, follow the rules!
Or suffer the consciences!
House Passes $146 Billion Economic Aid Package
Ok, what gets me is when Speaker Nancy Pelosi got up and said they tried for more but lost it in negotiations with the whitehouse and republicans! We wonder why the Democratric congress has less approval rating than the president? The democrats in Congress, especially in the house, have no back bone! God forbid that something would actually happen to the President and VP and Pelosi would become president! She shows no backbone in congress, she wouldn't get it as President!
What is the President going to do, if they had held to their guns in support of giving Seniors and the poor a little more? Vetoed it in an election year? And even if the president did veto it, do you think that the republicans in congress would vote against such a economic stimulus package during an election year? They would have a veto over ride it!
With the house plan you have to have an earned income of at least $3000.00 to get anything! Anyone under that gets nothing! And it caps at $150,000.00, anyone over that gets nothing!
With this years cold weather and the cost of energy, they should of added low income energy assistance increase along with a social security bonus for those eligible!
What are people being told to do with this rebate if they get it? Spend it like the President would like them to? No most economist and financial planners are say they should use it to pay down credit cards, or put it in a short term savings CD to earn on! People that get this money will not be spending it for the most part, they will do as their financial advisers tell them to do!
So we would of put out $146,000,000.00 to do nothing!
If you want to stimulate the economy, give it to the poor and senors, they need cloths and shoes and food for themselves and their families, they will spend it because they would have too to survive! Not that they would survive without it, so will, but there are some that won't and in our elderly community because of lack of money to pay for heat and freeze to death this winter or died because of the heat this summer and not be able to even afford a fan!
I for one hope the senate has back bone, and I for one applaud the 10 democrats and 25 republicans in the house that voted against this package as is!
It's not that I don't want people to get a rebate, but that if it is to stimulate the economy, everyone should get something! This package just doesn't do enough to be considered! The senate should hold out and put addon's on the package for the poor and seniors! And they should hold to their guns to force the issue and if needed push for a veto override!
We want change and this package doesn't even start to look or smell like change! It is the same old same old what we are against!
If we need to do something to afford this package, lets start bring our men and women home from Iraq tomorrow! Lets not allow any of them be redeployed to Afghanistan without at least a year of home time! Lets do it right not wrong!
What is the President going to do, if they had held to their guns in support of giving Seniors and the poor a little more? Vetoed it in an election year? And even if the president did veto it, do you think that the republicans in congress would vote against such a economic stimulus package during an election year? They would have a veto over ride it!
With the house plan you have to have an earned income of at least $3000.00 to get anything! Anyone under that gets nothing! And it caps at $150,000.00, anyone over that gets nothing!
With this years cold weather and the cost of energy, they should of added low income energy assistance increase along with a social security bonus for those eligible!
What are people being told to do with this rebate if they get it? Spend it like the President would like them to? No most economist and financial planners are say they should use it to pay down credit cards, or put it in a short term savings CD to earn on! People that get this money will not be spending it for the most part, they will do as their financial advisers tell them to do!
So we would of put out $146,000,000.00 to do nothing!
If you want to stimulate the economy, give it to the poor and senors, they need cloths and shoes and food for themselves and their families, they will spend it because they would have too to survive! Not that they would survive without it, so will, but there are some that won't and in our elderly community because of lack of money to pay for heat and freeze to death this winter or died because of the heat this summer and not be able to even afford a fan!
I for one hope the senate has back bone, and I for one applaud the 10 democrats and 25 republicans in the house that voted against this package as is!
It's not that I don't want people to get a rebate, but that if it is to stimulate the economy, everyone should get something! This package just doesn't do enough to be considered! The senate should hold out and put addon's on the package for the poor and seniors! And they should hold to their guns to force the issue and if needed push for a veto override!
We want change and this package doesn't even start to look or smell like change! It is the same old same old what we are against!
If we need to do something to afford this package, lets start bring our men and women home from Iraq tomorrow! Lets not allow any of them be redeployed to Afghanistan without at least a year of home time! Lets do it right not wrong!
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Ok, Obama won SC tonight. What is next?
I was reading an article tonight someone posted to a group I'm on, that Clinton is trying to get the DNC to reconsider their decision to not seat the Michigan and Florida delegates. She feels she would get the majority of Michigan delegates and if she were to win in Florida where they are not campaigning, she would have a major lead in delegates towards the nomination!
Florida democratic party is saying that supporters of both Clinton and Obama are out registering voters and trying to get them to vote early as you can now vote early in the primary to take place this next Tuesday.
Now, what is she going to do if Obama takes Florida like I think he will? Will she still be asking for the DNC to lift it's decision to not seat either states delegate. Well, we will have to wait and see! This Tuesday will tell.
It is my hope that a majority of those in the democratic party in Florida want change as well, after the 2000 fiasco, where 150,000 democratic were denied the right to vote after their names appeared on a list of felons put out by then republican AG, when they were not felons! They had every right to vote!
It is my hope that one family dynasty in the presidency is enough!
And after hearing our Ex-President Clinton mislead and lie, attempting to swiftboad Obama, like Bush supporters swiftboated Kerry in the 2004 election! At least it wasn't Bush doing it, it was his supporters! But having our ex-president, a leading democrat do this to a fellow democrat, it is inexcusable! And it was done with the approving nod of his wife the senator from New York that is running against Obama! And Hillary belittles Obama's spouse, Michelle Obama by comparing her to Mr. Clinton by saying "they both have spirited spouses supporting them"! Mrs. Obama has never said anything misleading or untrue about either Clinton's!
We need change! I hope those voting in Florida and the Super Tuesday Primary are smarter than the Clinton's give then credit for!
We need change and that change is Obama!
I was reading an article tonight someone posted to a group I'm on, that Clinton is trying to get the DNC to reconsider their decision to not seat the Michigan and Florida delegates. She feels she would get the majority of Michigan delegates and if she were to win in Florida where they are not campaigning, she would have a major lead in delegates towards the nomination!
Florida democratic party is saying that supporters of both Clinton and Obama are out registering voters and trying to get them to vote early as you can now vote early in the primary to take place this next Tuesday.
Now, what is she going to do if Obama takes Florida like I think he will? Will she still be asking for the DNC to lift it's decision to not seat either states delegate. Well, we will have to wait and see! This Tuesday will tell.
It is my hope that a majority of those in the democratic party in Florida want change as well, after the 2000 fiasco, where 150,000 democratic were denied the right to vote after their names appeared on a list of felons put out by then republican AG, when they were not felons! They had every right to vote!
It is my hope that one family dynasty in the presidency is enough!
And after hearing our Ex-President Clinton mislead and lie, attempting to swiftboad Obama, like Bush supporters swiftboated Kerry in the 2004 election! At least it wasn't Bush doing it, it was his supporters! But having our ex-president, a leading democrat do this to a fellow democrat, it is inexcusable! And it was done with the approving nod of his wife the senator from New York that is running against Obama! And Hillary belittles Obama's spouse, Michelle Obama by comparing her to Mr. Clinton by saying "they both have spirited spouses supporting them"! Mrs. Obama has never said anything misleading or untrue about either Clinton's!
We need change! I hope those voting in Florida and the Super Tuesday Primary are smarter than the Clinton's give then credit for!
We need change and that change is Obama!
Friday, January 25, 2008
Now starts the hard time!
Today we went to Ottumwa to see off my brother and his daughter and family. They are now on the way back to New Orleans on a bus.
This really starts a little over two years ago. Katrina hits New Orleans and the Levy's brake and water starts flooding the 9th ward in New Orleans. My niece was living in the 9th ward at the time. My brother had went to stay with them during the storm, during which the high winds took part of their roof. They ended up having to walk out in waist high water. N'Kenge was only 5 years at the time, had only attended kindergarten a couple weeks. Jazmin was only 2 at the time. Georgia, my niece was 9 months pregnant at the time. had been having contractions for some time.
My brother helped Georgia get the girls out of the 9th ward to safety, walking through waist high water a couple blocks till they saw a deuce and half truck, which picked them up and got them to the stadium. Georgia continued to have contractions, and those in charge wanted to air vac her out, but they wouldn't allow her to take her daughters and dad with her, so she refused to be air vac out without them.
They ended up on a bus to Houston TX the next day.
We had no idea where they were at the time, and I listed information on different web sites about them.
It wasn't long till I had heard from my brother John in Houston that they were ok. They were not sure what they were going to do. At first they thought of staying in Houston and finding work, but they couldn't find anything or housing.
We talked and they decided to come to Iowa for a while, and with help found a house in Ottumwa they could live in for 6 months rent free. They only had to pay their own utilities and phones. At the end of the 6 months they had to find another house to rent as the owner of the first house didn't realize it was a mix race family and her boy friend was black.
Now I'm getting ahead of my self.
There was an organization that was helping people get relocated. They had asked them if they could get help, and on Saturday September 9th, they got a call asking them if they were interested in relocating. Then Monday came, Georgia was hoping to have the baby and then relocate, or at least have a couple days to get things together, but the organization told them, they had reservations on flights to Des Monies Iowa that afternoon, and they had to be at the airport by 4pm. They, all four of them, and yes, still pregnant Georgia arrived around midnight on Monday night September 11th at the Des Monies airport, where I was waiting to pick them up and take them back to Ottumwa where they would stay with my oldest son for a few days till the house was ready. Thursday they were suppose to get in the house, and Georgia was only interested in getting the house cleaned so it would be clean for the family to move into! I had come to town on Thursday to take her around to a couple appointments that morning, she still having contractions! After our last stop at an office that was going to help her with items for the baby and kids, I asked her if she had been to WIC to get it? She hadn't so we stopped there. The WIC lady asked Georgia if she had found a doctor yet, and Georgia said no. So they called around and found a doctor at the Ottumwa Clinic next to the Hospital that would see her, and they wanted her to come out that afternoon as soon as she could so they could examine her as she was having contractions! Now it was approx. 1:30pm at the time, and they asked if we could bring her right out we told them yes. So we were at the doctors office at aprox. 2:15pm and at 2:30 they decided to wheel her over to the hospital as the doctor was over there getting ready to deliver another baby, and he wanted to examine her.
Georgia's oldest daughter had already been enrolled in school, and it was almost time for her to get out, and someone needed to pick her up. I left everyone at the hospital thinking it would be a few hours if she had the baby at all that day, and went after N'Kenge, and them drove to Bloomfield to pick up our daughter Beth at the high school as she got out. The girls and I arrived back at the hospital about 4:15 pm and was told Georgia had the baby right after I had left.
Yes, Georgia was in my car at 2pm and by 3:31pm the baby was here! It was a boy! He was so cute. They spent a couple days in the hospital and then went home. Georgia named him after his grandfather, my brother(John William) .
We helped Georgia by taking him home with us just a day or so after she took him home, and watched him a few days a week from a week old, to allow her a chance to recouple and get things settled in the new home in Iowa after losing everything they had in New Orleans. We continued to watch him a few days a week to help them, until this week! He spent this past weekend with us for the last time. We took him home for the last time Wednesday afternoon.
So we had helped care for little John William from a week old to after his 2nd birthday. He is our Bud! And today we bid them farewell as he and his mother and sisters and grandpa boarded a bus in Ottumwa to relocate back to New Orleans! He had turned 2 this past September 15th! We will not only miss our family that we had grown use to having close to us in Ottumwa, but miss a little guy we have grown so close to over the past two years!
This was one of the hardest days in my life! There is a chance we may have him for part of the summer, so summer will not come fast enough! We are looking forward to June 2008! Till then our home feels a little more empty! Our lives feel a little more empty without Georgia and girls and my bother John just 30 minutes away from us! Now they are a world away from us!
Georgia had been working at the WalMart in Ottumwa, and going to Ottumwa and WalMart there will not be the same!
We already miss them and they just left us this morning!
This really starts a little over two years ago. Katrina hits New Orleans and the Levy's brake and water starts flooding the 9th ward in New Orleans. My niece was living in the 9th ward at the time. My brother had went to stay with them during the storm, during which the high winds took part of their roof. They ended up having to walk out in waist high water. N'Kenge was only 5 years at the time, had only attended kindergarten a couple weeks. Jazmin was only 2 at the time. Georgia, my niece was 9 months pregnant at the time. had been having contractions for some time.
My brother helped Georgia get the girls out of the 9th ward to safety, walking through waist high water a couple blocks till they saw a deuce and half truck, which picked them up and got them to the stadium. Georgia continued to have contractions, and those in charge wanted to air vac her out, but they wouldn't allow her to take her daughters and dad with her, so she refused to be air vac out without them.
They ended up on a bus to Houston TX the next day.
We had no idea where they were at the time, and I listed information on different web sites about them.
It wasn't long till I had heard from my brother John in Houston that they were ok. They were not sure what they were going to do. At first they thought of staying in Houston and finding work, but they couldn't find anything or housing.
We talked and they decided to come to Iowa for a while, and with help found a house in Ottumwa they could live in for 6 months rent free. They only had to pay their own utilities and phones. At the end of the 6 months they had to find another house to rent as the owner of the first house didn't realize it was a mix race family and her boy friend was black.
Now I'm getting ahead of my self.
There was an organization that was helping people get relocated. They had asked them if they could get help, and on Saturday September 9th, they got a call asking them if they were interested in relocating. Then Monday came, Georgia was hoping to have the baby and then relocate, or at least have a couple days to get things together, but the organization told them, they had reservations on flights to Des Monies Iowa that afternoon, and they had to be at the airport by 4pm. They, all four of them, and yes, still pregnant Georgia arrived around midnight on Monday night September 11th at the Des Monies airport, where I was waiting to pick them up and take them back to Ottumwa where they would stay with my oldest son for a few days till the house was ready. Thursday they were suppose to get in the house, and Georgia was only interested in getting the house cleaned so it would be clean for the family to move into! I had come to town on Thursday to take her around to a couple appointments that morning, she still having contractions! After our last stop at an office that was going to help her with items for the baby and kids, I asked her if she had been to WIC to get it? She hadn't so we stopped there. The WIC lady asked Georgia if she had found a doctor yet, and Georgia said no. So they called around and found a doctor at the Ottumwa Clinic next to the Hospital that would see her, and they wanted her to come out that afternoon as soon as she could so they could examine her as she was having contractions! Now it was approx. 1:30pm at the time, and they asked if we could bring her right out we told them yes. So we were at the doctors office at aprox. 2:15pm and at 2:30 they decided to wheel her over to the hospital as the doctor was over there getting ready to deliver another baby, and he wanted to examine her.
Georgia's oldest daughter had already been enrolled in school, and it was almost time for her to get out, and someone needed to pick her up. I left everyone at the hospital thinking it would be a few hours if she had the baby at all that day, and went after N'Kenge, and them drove to Bloomfield to pick up our daughter Beth at the high school as she got out. The girls and I arrived back at the hospital about 4:15 pm and was told Georgia had the baby right after I had left.
Yes, Georgia was in my car at 2pm and by 3:31pm the baby was here! It was a boy! He was so cute. They spent a couple days in the hospital and then went home. Georgia named him after his grandfather, my brother(John William) .
We helped Georgia by taking him home with us just a day or so after she took him home, and watched him a few days a week from a week old, to allow her a chance to recouple and get things settled in the new home in Iowa after losing everything they had in New Orleans. We continued to watch him a few days a week to help them, until this week! He spent this past weekend with us for the last time. We took him home for the last time Wednesday afternoon.
So we had helped care for little John William from a week old to after his 2nd birthday. He is our Bud! And today we bid them farewell as he and his mother and sisters and grandpa boarded a bus in Ottumwa to relocate back to New Orleans! He had turned 2 this past September 15th! We will not only miss our family that we had grown use to having close to us in Ottumwa, but miss a little guy we have grown so close to over the past two years!
This was one of the hardest days in my life! There is a chance we may have him for part of the summer, so summer will not come fast enough! We are looking forward to June 2008! Till then our home feels a little more empty! Our lives feel a little more empty without Georgia and girls and my bother John just 30 minutes away from us! Now they are a world away from us!
Georgia had been working at the WalMart in Ottumwa, and going to Ottumwa and WalMart there will not be the same!
We already miss them and they just left us this morning!
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Media Bias!!!!!!!!!!! Clinton a Big Winner???
Ok, I thought it was so funny when the media made NH a "Big Win for Hillary"! When Hillary and Obama actually tied for delegates in NH! Now Nevada was a "Big Win for Hillary"! But it looks as if Obama will receive 13 of the 25 delegates with Hillary only getting 12!
Now I have a hard time figuring how one ties in one state and gets less delegates in another is a "Big Win"!?
Our media plays it like Hillary won big and got the hole ball of wax! They are trying to convince people in South Carolina and on Supper Tuesday that Hillary is the one winning so they will believe Obama will not be a viable candidate! They need to convince people this going in to Supper Tuesday or the voters may just decide to vote for Obama instead of Hillary! This is because the polls show Hillary steady fall from a double digit lead in the polls early to a very small lead going into Supper Tuesday! A lead that could evaporate by Supper Tuesday and make Obama a really Big Winner!
I hope people don't listen to the media! We in Iowa didn't listen to the media. People need to go home and turn their news programs off and not listen to anyone in the media until they have voted on Supper Tuesday! Go listen to each of the Candidates! And especially go to an Obama rally! Listen to him not what people are saying about him! If you have a chance ask a question or listen to the questions others may ask, as they may have the same questions as you!
I hope South Carolina voters are smart enough to go to the polls this coming Saturday and vote for Change and against the same old same old! By voting for Obama!
If Democrats really want to win in November and put a Democrat in the White House, they better start thinking for themselves and vote for Change!
I was a Reagan Republican, that went Independent until 2000! As a Independent I voted for Clinton for both terms! I registered as a Democrat for the 2000 election! I voted against Bush, the first time and second in 2004! I really believe that we need a Democratic President in office! I believe that president should be Barak Obama. He is the only one that will bring true change!
I am watching very closely the Republican Primaries this year! It is the first time in sometime, I have considered voting Republican in the general election in November! I am watching McCain, hoping he is the Republican nominee! Why? Because I'm afraid that many Voters will listen to the media and either vote for Hillary because the media portrays her as the winner all the time, and Obama as not viable! Or they will stay home figuring their vote for Obama won't count or he is going to loss anyway, just listen to the media as they push Hillary!
So this once Reagan Republican will possibly vote for a Republican again this November if that Republican is McCain and the Democratic nominee is Hillary!
This primary season is over the difference of Good over Evil! And if Obama wins the Democratic Primary, Good will have won! And I will vote for Obama in November!
My worst nightmare is that in November the choice will be between Romney or Clinton! That will be no choice at all! It will serve the Democratic Party right if Romney would win the presidency with that choice!!
Now I have a hard time figuring how one ties in one state and gets less delegates in another is a "Big Win"!?
Our media plays it like Hillary won big and got the hole ball of wax! They are trying to convince people in South Carolina and on Supper Tuesday that Hillary is the one winning so they will believe Obama will not be a viable candidate! They need to convince people this going in to Supper Tuesday or the voters may just decide to vote for Obama instead of Hillary! This is because the polls show Hillary steady fall from a double digit lead in the polls early to a very small lead going into Supper Tuesday! A lead that could evaporate by Supper Tuesday and make Obama a really Big Winner!
I hope people don't listen to the media! We in Iowa didn't listen to the media. People need to go home and turn their news programs off and not listen to anyone in the media until they have voted on Supper Tuesday! Go listen to each of the Candidates! And especially go to an Obama rally! Listen to him not what people are saying about him! If you have a chance ask a question or listen to the questions others may ask, as they may have the same questions as you!
I hope South Carolina voters are smart enough to go to the polls this coming Saturday and vote for Change and against the same old same old! By voting for Obama!
If Democrats really want to win in November and put a Democrat in the White House, they better start thinking for themselves and vote for Change!
I was a Reagan Republican, that went Independent until 2000! As a Independent I voted for Clinton for both terms! I registered as a Democrat for the 2000 election! I voted against Bush, the first time and second in 2004! I really believe that we need a Democratic President in office! I believe that president should be Barak Obama. He is the only one that will bring true change!
I am watching very closely the Republican Primaries this year! It is the first time in sometime, I have considered voting Republican in the general election in November! I am watching McCain, hoping he is the Republican nominee! Why? Because I'm afraid that many Voters will listen to the media and either vote for Hillary because the media portrays her as the winner all the time, and Obama as not viable! Or they will stay home figuring their vote for Obama won't count or he is going to loss anyway, just listen to the media as they push Hillary!
So this once Reagan Republican will possibly vote for a Republican again this November if that Republican is McCain and the Democratic nominee is Hillary!
This primary season is over the difference of Good over Evil! And if Obama wins the Democratic Primary, Good will have won! And I will vote for Obama in November!
My worst nightmare is that in November the choice will be between Romney or Clinton! That will be no choice at all! It will serve the Democratic Party right if Romney would win the presidency with that choice!!
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Michigan Delegates Seated in National Convention?
Both Florida and Michigan have been stripped of delegates going in to the national convention in Denver. Those delegates could determine which candidate wins the nomination if they are allowed to be seated and cast their support to one or more of the candidates!
What would happen if they are seated? The democratic party would be in turmoil! The National DNC would have no power over the next primary/caucus season in four more years! Any state could move up their date and argue that those this year were allowed to be seated and cast their support and so they should be able to as well and rightfully so!
States like Iowa would have problems because by Iowa DNC rules, we have to have our caucus first in the nation. NH law says they have to have their primary with no other primary seven days before of after it's and can't be on the same day as another states! Neither Iowa nor NH will give up their first in the nation spots, so we could end up with a free for all a hole year possibly two years before the actual presidential national election!
Does the National DNC want to give it's control up? I hope not!
We will now have to wait and see what happens!
What would happen if they are seated? The democratic party would be in turmoil! The National DNC would have no power over the next primary/caucus season in four more years! Any state could move up their date and argue that those this year were allowed to be seated and cast their support and so they should be able to as well and rightfully so!
States like Iowa would have problems because by Iowa DNC rules, we have to have our caucus first in the nation. NH law says they have to have their primary with no other primary seven days before of after it's and can't be on the same day as another states! Neither Iowa nor NH will give up their first in the nation spots, so we could end up with a free for all a hole year possibly two years before the actual presidential national election!
Does the National DNC want to give it's control up? I hope not!
We will now have to wait and see what happens!
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Where we are now!
Ok, it has been a while for me to post to this blog!
I lost the password and the account was frozen so I had to reactivate it.
My son Tom who was in the sand (when I first created this bog to play with and then conveniently forgot about) is now in S. Korea. No I didn't forget about my son, just the blog! LOL He had been home a while from the sand before being stationed for his second time in Korea.
He was home here in Iowa this past summer with his daughter and we had a grand visit. It was the first time I had seen him in almost 2 years. My granddaughter has grown up so much from the time I last saw her. She lives in Florida with her mother, we don't see her often.
Many of us have myspace profiles. Mine is www.myspace.com/afdadcharles
I try to keep up to date pictures on it in my photo album there.
Mean while this past year brought us two new grandchildren, to our two sons that live here in Iowa. Kevin and Mira had a little girl Sept.1st, 2007 Jaymie LeAnne and Franklin and Sam had a new little boy, Kaydan Lee July 23rd, 2007. That brings us up to nine total grandchildren so far.
Our youngest daughter Beth is a Junior in HS this year, hard to believe she is that old now!
My wife Bonnie and I will celebrate our 18th Anniversary this coming year in April, 2008, and I will turn 50 years old soon after on the 14th! Now there is another hard one for me to realize! I'm going to be the big 50 this coming April! This will be the year I don't open birthday card's LOL! So if you send me a card, it better have $2.00 in it to make it worth the opening for the joke about being 50! LOL, just think if all the group of 500+ sent a card with $2.00 in it, I would have a grand birthday present of over $1000.00 LOL keep on dreaming! LOL
Ok, send those cards to P.O. Box 364, Bloomfield, IA 52537 LOL
My hope for this year is that I hadn't hurt anyone being the group moderator, and if I had, I want them to email me privately and let me know. I haven't intentialy said anything in a hurtful way but from what I have found listening to the group we can say think without even realizing it that can hurt someone! So if I hurt you I didn't mean too! I truly love this group of parents that support each other while their children sever their county in the AF!
I'm not a prolific writer like many of our Mom's on the AF Mom's and Dad's group, with their blogs! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/airforce_moms_and_dads/
I hope this year was good for you and this next year is even better!
many blessings,
Charles
I lost the password and the account was frozen so I had to reactivate it.
My son Tom who was in the sand (when I first created this bog to play with and then conveniently forgot about) is now in S. Korea. No I didn't forget about my son, just the blog! LOL He had been home a while from the sand before being stationed for his second time in Korea.
He was home here in Iowa this past summer with his daughter and we had a grand visit. It was the first time I had seen him in almost 2 years. My granddaughter has grown up so much from the time I last saw her. She lives in Florida with her mother, we don't see her often.
Many of us have myspace profiles. Mine is www.myspace.com/afdadcharles
I try to keep up to date pictures on it in my photo album there.
Mean while this past year brought us two new grandchildren, to our two sons that live here in Iowa. Kevin and Mira had a little girl Sept.1st, 2007 Jaymie LeAnne and Franklin and Sam had a new little boy, Kaydan Lee July 23rd, 2007. That brings us up to nine total grandchildren so far.
Our youngest daughter Beth is a Junior in HS this year, hard to believe she is that old now!
My wife Bonnie and I will celebrate our 18th Anniversary this coming year in April, 2008, and I will turn 50 years old soon after on the 14th! Now there is another hard one for me to realize! I'm going to be the big 50 this coming April! This will be the year I don't open birthday card's LOL! So if you send me a card, it better have $2.00 in it to make it worth the opening for the joke about being 50! LOL, just think if all the group of 500+ sent a card with $2.00 in it, I would have a grand birthday present of over $1000.00 LOL keep on dreaming! LOL
Ok, send those cards to P.O. Box 364, Bloomfield, IA 52537 LOL
My hope for this year is that I hadn't hurt anyone being the group moderator, and if I had, I want them to email me privately and let me know. I haven't intentialy said anything in a hurtful way but from what I have found listening to the group we can say think without even realizing it that can hurt someone! So if I hurt you I didn't mean too! I truly love this group of parents that support each other while their children sever their county in the AF!
I'm not a prolific writer like many of our Mom's on the AF Mom's and Dad's group, with their blogs! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/airforce_moms_and_dads/
I hope this year was good for you and this next year is even better!
many blessings,
Charles
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