Archive for March, 2014

President Obama and President Putin can rectify the present indifferences without starting a war, but, the demagogues must stop their vacuousness!

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 30, 2014 by sheriffali

In the final analysis, President Obama and President Putin can resolve the indifferences over the annexation of Crimea. Mr. Obama using measured sanctions against Russia, while leaving Mr. Putin enough room to extricate himself, represents Obama’s intelligence over ego. It seems that Putin is not a crazy man but he is definitely a proud man! Putin initiating a call to Obama on Friday, is a sign that this brisk but dysfunctional period can end without each side killing the other!

 

If we step back for a moment and without ignoring the lives lost or the humongous number of injured soldiers, the trillions of dollars spent on both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars; we could have rebuilt all the damaged schools; repair our badly needed infrastructure; invest into retraining American Workers and do more to efficiently educate America’s Children.

 

What did we get for the thousands of lives lost and the trillions of dollars spent?

 

Iraq! After eight years all we did was replace a Sunni Dictator with a Shiite Dictator that cast his lot with Iran. I am no defender of Saddam Hussein, but Iraq is far worst today than when we unintelligently and arrogantly invaded that sovereign country.

 

Afghanistan! After thirteen years; the Obama Administration did finally kill Osama Bin Laden in 2011 and during the course over the past years, we captured some bad people. However, had we remained focused when we attacked Afghanistan, our Soldiers perhaps could have captured the bad people and we would have been out of there in a matter of two to three years.

 

John McCain and some Republicans that never saw a war they didn’t like should give heed to the words of the wise and the humble;

 

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can; only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.” DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

 

“All wars represent a failure of diplomacy.” TONY BENN

 

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination; when it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.” OSCAR WILDE

 

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil, but no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” JIMMY CARTER

 

Imagine the irony! Jeb Bush, the man who “shop-lifted” the State of Florida that propelled his brother, George W. Bush to the Presidency, attacked President Obama for “America’s Passivity.” People can agree or disagree, but it is the opinion of many that George W. Bush erased 225 years of America’s credibility by his futile and inept war expeditions. Bush started a war on “terror” in Afghanistan that became an Orwellian never ending war on “terror,” solely because Bush truncated Afghanistan in order to invade Iraq, for which the end results for both wars were; thousands of dead soldiers; tens of thousands injured; one hundred thousand plus dead innocent Iraqi’s that was caught in what is deemed as collateral damage and trillions of dollars spent.

 

If the Polls are correct majority of Americans are presently giving President Obama a failing grade and within the same Poll, predictions are that Republicans will win over the Senate. To think of the terrible state America was in at the end of 2008 and compare it with where we are today, it is positively shocking that so many people can believe wantonness by the Republicans over reality!

 

Is it hate or Obama’s race that make him prey to the many whites? Gallup just released a Poll for which the results reflected that “more whites” are more inclined to the Republican Party since Obama became President. 

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The Media, News is no longer News Flight MH370; Politics; etc; and

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 29, 2014 by sheriffali

Because Americans have become dependent on the misnomer news for information, our society has now accumulated more brainwashed; uninformed and ignorant people, than anytime before.

 

During the last GOP CPAC gathering Sarah Palin on National Television said; “Putin invaded Georgia and Obama didn’t do anything about it!” Ms. Palin got allot of traction from the extreme right wing and that was self-evident from the various social media comments. I am yet to see any bona fide News Organization, rebut the fact that Obama wasn’t President then. If it was anyone else but Ms. Palin making the statement I would give them the benefit of the doubt that they were willfully being pernicious, however, when it comes to Ms. Palin, nothing surprises me, because anyone living in Alaska who can see Russia from their back yard, I feel certain that “all of their dogs are not barking.”

 

Phantasmagoric rationales and Over-Speculation, Assumptions and way too many experts have caused and continue to cause, enormous grief to the families and friends on the Missing-Flight, MH370.

 

The News Media both Television and Print are continually reporting ostensible information from anonymous sources that are heart-wrenching and the worst part is that, 22 days into this tragedy, not one thing has proven to be correct.

 

However, if we move past the present Missing-Aircraft, just about everything else that the News Organizations classify as news, it is nothing short of gossip from their megalomaniac guests, the usual suspects that they constantly bring on their show, to add drama, especially when it comes to Politics.

 

For the five Corporations that owns all of the Television Stations, Radio Stations, Magazines, News Papers and the likes, News is no longer News; to them it is a race to report anything, irrespective of who gets hurts, so long as viewership increases and brings in more advertising for their unquenchable thirst of avarice for “mammon.”

 

I would like to say “shame on them,” however; I would be wasting my time because these Corporate Owners are bankrupt of all morale values which in turn, make them absent of shame!

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According to Gallup, Whites in recent years are now more aligned to the GOP than ever before!

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 25, 2014 by sheriffali

Two White Guys – George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and their Republican Party erased 225 years of America’s financial greatness and the prosperity of the hard working American people by doing more for the upper 2%. Bush and Cheney didn’t care if you were white, black, green or yellow, if you weren’t rich, they ran over everyone and turned the country upside down to the point at the end of Bush’s Presidency, we almost didn’t have an economy.

 

Then came President Black and saved everybody asses and just look at the Gallup Poll; “Whites find themselves more aligned to the GOP who screwed them until they turned blue!” Go figure what makes people tick; logic, hate, race, color, creed or class!

 

Obama gets blamed for all that ails America, despite factually if people are honest with themselves, they cannot deny that in the four plus years Obama has been President, we are in much better position than we were under Bush. The Housing Market has rebounded; The Stock Market is at an all time high; we are out of Iraq and soon we would be out of Afghanistan; under Bush, one million net jobs in eight years; under Obama, eight million plus jobs in the past 48 months; our financial system is more sound than it has ever been; Obama did not drag us into another war and so the story goes.

 

I am neither black, white nor Hispanic, but to deny “that racism no longer exist in America” would place me amongst the reprobates and it is one place I do not want to go!

 

Open Gallup link to the see the full details:

 

http://www.gallup.com/poll/168059/whites-solidly-republican-recent-years.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=Politics

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Everybody is an “expert!” The Right-Wing blames Obama for not intervening enough while the Left-Wing claim Obama is intervening too much – Ukraine – Crimea – Russia.

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 18, 2014 by sheriffali

 

Unlike President Obama or any other United States President that are subject to the Constitution, Congress, The U S Supreme Court and the American people, Vladimir Putin answers to no one except Mr. Putin. All the Dog and Pony show coming out of Putin’s Russia with claims that the Russian Parliament voted for this or for that, “it is just a farce.”

 

 

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia’s billionaire that opposed Putin’s Dictator-Ship was imprisoned for ten years; all of his assets seized and just before the Sochi Olympics, Putin had him released. Mr. Khodorkovsky is presently living in Germany. Putin used Mr. Khodorkovsky’s assets and created one of the world largest Oil Companies, Rosneft. Prior to Rosneft, Exxon Mobile was the largest Oil Company.

 

However, Exxon Mobile and Rosneft executed an agreement in December 2013 that together, the collaboration of the project is approximately 500 Billion Dollars for the Arctic Research Centre (ARC). With companies like Exxon Mobile and others tied into Putin’s Russia, Vladimir knows that he is playing with a marked deck in his favor. With such leverage and the great Political Divide in America, Putin’s challenges would be fast and furious. Most of the talking heads in the Media and the self indulgent Politicians do not stop to think, much less see that “everything is not just black and white.”

 

It’s been interesting to observe the large numbers of people who suddenly think they’re experts on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine-both those on the left who blame it on Obama for intervening too much and those on the right who blame it on Obama for not intervening enough.

 

On the right, you have political figures claiming that Obama’s supposed “weakness” somehow emboldened Moscow to engage in aggressive moves against Crimea. Sarah Palin, for example, claims that Obama’s failure to respond forcefully to Russia’s bloody incursion into Georgia in 2008 made Russia’s “invasion” possible, despite the fact that Obama wasn’t even president then and therefore couldn’t have done much. Even some Democrats, like Delaware senator Chris Coons, claim that Obama’s failure to attack Syria last fall made the United States look weak.

 

In reality, there seems to be little correlation between the willingness of Moscow to assert its power in areas within its traditional spheres of influence and who occupies the White House: The Soviets invaded Hungary in 1956 when Eisenhower was president; the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 when Johnson was president; the Soviets successfully pressed for martial law in Poland in 1981 when Reagan was president; the Russians attacked Georgia in 2008 when Bush was president.

 

In each case, as much as these administrations opposed these actions, it was determined that any military or other aggressive counter-moves would likely do more harm than good. Washington cannot realistically do any more in response to Russian troops seizing Crimea in 2014 in the name of protecting Russian lives and Russian bases than Moscow could do in response to U.S. troops seizing Panama in 1989 in the name of protecting American lives and American bases.

 

In the final analysis it is self evident that The GOP extreme right-wing megalomaniac torrent is fratricidal to America, both foreign and domestic! Their 24/7 individual and collective outlandish tongues, emboldens the Putins’ of this world! John McCain just returned from Ukraine and one day later, went on Television and said; “Obama is weak and timid.” A tartar may be more at home on Cheapside than the rant against Obama from the “know it all Republicans!”

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Republicans vacuous behavior is “aiding the enemy!”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 7, 2014 by sheriffali

Republicans disdain for President Obama has turned them into Patriots bankrupt of Patriotism! Their overwhelming glee for Vladimir Putin for storming his way into Crimea, some in the GOP and their mouth piece – FOX NEWS have buttressed Putin’s arrogance. Rudy Giuliani stated on Fox News; “Mr. Putin makes a decision and in half a day follows through, but Obama has to think before he acts.”

 

It could be that if former President George W. Bush didn’t allow the extremists that he surrounded himself with to dictate what he should do, perhaps, just perhaps, Iraq’s error would have never occurred.

 

It is difficult to understand why the Republicans that are always invoking God and Country, have allowed themselves to be captivated with such debauchery that is not in their country’s best interest, to become part and parcel of their daily lives.

 

These Congressional Republican demagogues and their rabble-rousers that flock to Fox and other News Outlets like white on rice and advocate such narcissistic, internecine deluge, that is backed up by only phantasmagoric rationales, apparently do not ascertain that their vacuous, sanctimonious repugnant behavior, have turned them into reprobates.

 

What the Republican Legislators and their followers have proven 100%, are the well thought out factual words of Frederick Douglass on September 25, 1883. Mr. Douglass said;

      

“Though the colored man is no longer subject to barter and sale, he is surrounded by an adverse settlement which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets with no resistance, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress.

 

If he comes in ignorance, rags and wretchedness he conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome; but if he shall come as a gentleman, a scholar and a statesman, he is hailed as a contradiction to the national faith concerning his race, and his coming is resented as impudence.” [Frederick Douglass, September 25 1883]

 

I think for some of us that are fortunate to live in the greatest country known to mankind; The United States of America, we should reflect on the words of Jeremy Taylor;

 

“It is usually not so much the greatness of our trouble as the littleness of our spirit which makes us complain.”

 

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John McCain and Lindsay Graham words embolden Putin’s resolve!

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 6, 2014 by sheriffali

Subsequent to Russia’s invasion of Crimea, Ukraine, both John McCain and Lindsay Graham have taken to the “airways” and have continued to make disparaging remarks about President Obama.

 

John McCain, the ultimate “war-monger” and a man who didn’t see a war that he didn’t like, have repeatedly called President Obama – “Feckless.”

 

McCain’s side-kick Lindsay Graham has been permeating that Benghazi is the reason why Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea, Ukraine. With words like that coming from two of the Republicans top demagogues, why Putin shouldn’t be embolden to continue down the road of perdition.

 

It is perhaps perplexing to World Leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and others, that America’s other rabble-rousers like Dick Cheney, John Bolton, Donald Rumsfeld [The Gang that couldn’t shoot straight], why should they the Europeans, whose own interest is at stake, implant their countries into such debauchery.

 

I think that it is a fact that “History” does repeat itself. According to some accounts it was estimated that the loss of life to stop Hitler at Munich would have been approximately 3,000,000. With such a large number many felt that Hitler would soon come to his senses. But, as we are aware, Hitler had totally lost his mind and by the time Hitler was stopped and World War 11 ended, approximately 63,000,000 people had lost their lives.

 

Chancellor Merkel in a most recent interview said that she thinks Vladimir Putin is living in a different world and that he is out of touch with reality. Well, so was Hitler! I am not advocating War, but I am advocating that Putin’s problem is the world’s problem and as such, all civilized society should speak with one voice and that is especially true when it comes to America’s self-serving Politicians, seeking to destroy one man’s reputation, President Obama, for self-gain and recognition.  

 

Putin said in 2005 that the greatest travesty of the 20th Century was the collapse of the Soviet Union. Then in 2008 he invaded Georgia and now he is in complete control of Crimea. For those that do not know, Vladimir Putin’s job with the Kremlin was a “recruiter,” and he was very good at what he did.

 

Vladimir Putin may not be trying to recreate the USSR, but it sure looks like he is attempting to create The United States of Russia, by brutal force!

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Crimea was given to Ukraine by President Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union in 1954!

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on March 3, 2014 by sheriffali

However, the Russian military took up residence in the Crimea more than 200 years ago, when Catherine the Great built a naval base at Sevastopol.

 

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia and Ukraine tussled repeatedly over dividing up the Black Sea Fleet  based there.

 

Today, Russia rents its Sevastopol base from Ukraine, where it has a presence better suited to being a Pariah than fighting a real war.

 

Russia which was the USSR literally incarcerated hundreds of millions of people by annexing countries in Eastern Europe. Their attempt to seize Afghanistan in 1980 and their occupation in Afghanistan that lasted eight years, ended in defeat and they went home with their tails between their legs.

 

It was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989 and in 1991, the USSR – “UNITED SOVIET SOCIALIST RUSSIA” crumbled financially and ended what was known as the once mighty USSR.

 

However, for some Russians, namely, Vladimir Putin who was head of the KGB, it was self evident that for him, his Russia was going to be if not what it was as the USSR, but for Putin, Russia was going to eventually flex it so called muscles again, and, Putin utilizing phantasmagoric rationales and internecine self indulgence policies, did so by invading Crimea.

 

Nikita Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine in February 1954. The transfer merited only a paragraph in Pravda, the official Soviet newspaper, on Feb. 27, 1954. The story was one long sentence and dense with detail. Here’s what it said

 

“Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet transferring Crimea Province from the Russian Republic to the Ukraine Republic, taking into account the integral character of the economy, the territorial proximity and the close economic ties between Crimea Province and the Ukraine Republic, and approving the joint presentation of the Presidium of the Russian Republic Supreme Soviet and the Presidium of the Ukraine Republic Supreme Soviet on the transfer of Crimea Province from the Russian Republic to the Ukraine Republic.” And with that, a region that had been part of Russia for centuries was “gifted” to Ukraine.

 

Crimea was given to Ukraine because Khrushchev’s transfer was ostensibly to mark the 300th anniversary of Ukraine’s merger with the Russian empire. And he probably didn’t think the Soviet Union would be gone less than 40 years later.

It may be that the United States and its Allies would have to bring enormous economic pressure on Russia that perhaps wouldn’t halt the possible secession of Crimea to Russia, but, if the economic sanctions has the teeth to bite like a Shark at Putin’s Russia, it would be a lesson to Putin that he wouldn’t attempt any invasion attempts in Ukraine or elsewhere.

If we can succeed with something of the sort without starting a shooting match, Ukraine can then join the European Union and in addition perhaps it can be added to the list of NATO countries, whereby, Ukraine’s sovereignty would be guaranteed by “meaningful” Military Might.

For America, the Politicians, especially Republicans, need to “act” like Americans and speak with one voice. Their disdain for President Obama has much to do with how the world, especially Vladimir Putin, views America and President Obama.

“Together we would aspire; divided we will fall!

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