First posted on FB 11/24/12:

Not to gloat, but let's face it, the American corporate model needs a drastic makeover and a diet. CEOs should not make hundreds of times what average workers make. Workers need to be valued as the real engines of industry through their productivity and as the real job creators through their role as consumers. That's not socialism but common sense economics with attention to the bottom line. Obama got way more "bang for buck" out of Axelrod and the real grassroots than Romney got for Rove, Sununu and all his fat head old boys and paid grassroot posers. Corporate America will either learn the lesson or they will fail. Never underestimate American workers. In solidarity.

Occupy Sandy Relief NYC: A Model to Remember

First posed in FB 11/12/12:

Last night, representatives from The National Guard, the Bloomberg administration, and the NYPD attended Occupy Sandy Relief NYC's center in powerless Red Hook to assess and learn from the movement's efforts.

Glenn Nisall, a 53-year-old homebound man living in the Rockaways without power and no family to help him. Occupy Sandy volunteers brought him hot food and water. "I said: 'Occupy? You mean Occupy Wall Street?' I said: 'Awesome, man. I'm one of the 99 percent, you know?'"
http://gothamist.com/2012/11/11/occupy_sandy_recognized_by_ny_times.php

GOPs Play the race card

First posted 10/26/12:

No doubt top Romney campaign advisor John Sununu will say this is because the former Secretary of State's race, just as he did a few days ago regarding former Secretary of State Colin Powell. This is a diabolical tactic to invalidate and marginalize the opinions of a large group of Americans. No wonder so many Americans who members of the GOPs attempt to marginalize (based on ethnicity, gender, age, so-called "race," and religion) are likely to vote for President Obama. Never forget it was the GOPs who played the race card.

Regarding: Condoleezza Rice Agrees Obama Didn’t Lie About Libya (VIDEO)
and also Colin Powell's Former Chief Of Staff: 'My Party Is Full Of Racists'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/26/lawrence-wilkerson-colin-powell-sununu_n_2027721.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Money corrupts at the Local Level

First posted FB 10/25/12:

In related local news, the Reno City Council doubles down on their--NO OUR debt adding $30million loan to the old boy hucksters who conned the City into paying for the ballpark in the first place. Has anyone looked at recent ticket receipts? They are not pulling many more than Moana Park did. At the same time, they still haven't acted on the broken parking meter scandal that shifts profits (revenues) out of our area.
 TAKING NAMES.
Regarding: "CEOs Call for Deficit Action"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203937004578076253372633058.html

Roof Vegetable Gardening in China

First posted FB 10/8/12

Regarding: "Roof vegetable garden in Zhejiang"

IF the Chinese are winning, its because they are using the skills we used to have, ingenuity, innovation, ability to be resilient and to maintain their sustainability. Remember when that was us, before we got bogged down in bureaucracy and corrupt monied interests? I believe we can do it again. We need to stop letting the corporate monied interests run us. No more b.s. virtual reality shows, not more corporate network TV. We need to remember how to think for ourselves. By the way, its not really a competition with China, its about our own cultural survival as a people and more fundamentally and globally as a species.

 

 

 

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/2012-06/14/content_15501616.htm

 

War is Not Healthy

Posted on FB 10/3/12: International Day of Peace's photo:

  

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." ~ Bertrand Russell

GOPs: Please Send Away the Clowns

First posted on FB 9/18/12:

Republicans friends and kin. I can no longer stand to watch your disgraceful self-destructive path. You have now hit rock bottom. Please get into rehab and heal thyself. Stop being the party of hate and no. President Obama may not be the best president in history, but he's far from the worst. How can we do better as a nation if you insist on running corrupt clowns for candidates who are hell bound on destroying our economy for the sake of partisanship? Please focus on ideas to improve our country not to tear it apart with this constant temper tantrum of what you are against and this class war that disproportionately benefits the rich at the expense of everyone else. Kick the moronic anti-science, anti-education Tea bagger hyperbole to the curb and restore fiscally responsible conservative values. This means that rich bums like Romney also have to pay their fair share. I was raised in a can do family, that believed in hard work and American ingenuity. I believe we can make America self reliant in terms of our energy needs and that we can learn to live more balanced, sustainable lives that are more in tune with the earth and other peoples of the world. The United States can once again be number one in education, science, the arts and technology. But we conservatives and progressives BOTH need to do a better job of thinking positively, advancing our very best ideas, and consistently striving to achieve excellence. We need to stop settling. Send away the clowns.

http://www.rgj.com/article/20120803/NEWS19/308030068/Mitt-Romney-collects-more-than-1-million-Reno-fundraisers