What news matters to me I have had enough of the news of Michael Jackson. Several people past away around the same time, and very little talk about them.

I am sick and tired hearing about the Republican Party saying that nothing will work to get us out of the mess. They were the Party in power that got us into the mess.

We need health care reform very soon. I am sick and tired of paying for ins. every month and getting very little for the coverage.

This Country needs jobs. I am working and I hate my job. I make no money, and the working conditions are horrible.

 I just go in line all the time and vent my feelings to the whole world. I am sure many people feel the same way I do. I am looking for your e mail to my message.

I live about 35 miles from where the Michael Jackson event will be taking place. There are 17000 tickets for the event, as I recall. While the LAPD expects near 1 million people to stand around the Staples Center, let’s assume that only the 17,000 ticket holders will show up.

17,000 people will have expended at LEAST 6 hours in relation to this event. That’s 102,000  hours. 102,000 hours that could have been spent doing volunteer work or otherwise being put to good use. Instead a population of fans find their world will become unglued if they are not present in masses outside the Staples Center.

What’s wrong with today’s society?

Meanwhile, Al-Jazeera is doing a better job reporting international news than CNN who also seems fixated on Jackson.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/07/20097612424648553.html

I cannot understand why anyone would want to glorify a drug addict…..and one with kids, no less. Very warped. This is our nation’s future.

Interesting news to me:

4:15 AM: OBAMA SAYS FUTURE DOES NOT BELONG TO THOSE WHO GATHER ARMIES OR PLANT MISSILES…
7:45 AM: Suspected US missiles hit militants…

Obama: ‘Absolutely’ no green light for Israel to attack Iran…
Biden: Israel has right to deal with nuclear Iran…

Hillary, after her rift with obama over Iran, she did not travel to Moscow with obama….It will go  down in history that our US Secretary of State will be the least traveled of all US SOS’s.  Maybe he should of had her by his side to keep him from a slip of the tongue who described Prime Minister Vladmir Putin on Monday as president, echoing the widely held view that he remains Russia’s most powerful man.

Libra, it is also interesting news to me.    I would like to see more documentation on President Obama’s years at Columbia University and his association with left wing radicals.    I recently ran across an article which I will share with you.    There are many  curious Americans who cannot understand why his four years at Columbia seem to have no trail with the excception of the following:

"Be clear on that much: Whether clothed as a terrorist or an academic, Ayers has made abundantly clear in his public statements, both before and after he established a working relationship and mutual admiration society with Obama, that he remains a revolutionary fueled by hatred of the United States. And while Obama now ludicrously pleads ignorance about Ayers’s terrorism — the terrorism that made the unabashed Ayers an icon of the Left — understand that this rabid anti-Americanism is the common denominator running through Obama’s orbit of influences.

Yes, Ayers is blunter than Obama. As he so delicately told the Times, America makes him “want to puke.” The smoother Obama is content to say our society needs fundamental “change.” But what they’re talking about is not materially different.

Such sentiments should make Obama unelectable. So, when it comes to his own radical moorings, Obama is engaged in classic liar behavior. He changes his story as the facts change — and the burden is always on you to dig up the facts, not on him to come clean. Yesterday, asked to comment on the Ayers relationship, David Axelrod, Obama’s top political adviser, hilariously chirped, “There’s no evidence that they’re close.” Translation: Get back to us when you can prove more damaging information — until then, we don’t need to further refine our perjury."

There’s more…

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjY4YzdhMDBkZGQ3ZmU2MTUzYjdkMzc5ZjUzYmViZWM=#more

I am exercising my freedom of curiosity as an American on this site and feel that is it now time for us to be able to access information that will help us understand how our president thinks, who he was inspired by as a young man to better understand his vision for the world.

Ah, yes.  Anyone who has had to spend a couple of hours on the phone for computer tech support trying to understand through a thick accent talking to "Frank" or "Joe" in India or Columbia curses the day they sent those jobs overseas.  I had a long discussion with one of them about our jobs being outsourced and, of course, they defended it righteously because they lives have so improved……but at our sacrifice, unfortunately.  

I spent 30 years working my way up through the ranks to the top of my field as an animation designer….one of the few women in the industry, only to lose it to seven other countries.    Before that I lost my work as an animator to Japan.  I am just one of the many who had to re-invent themselves in my late 50’s in "entry level" positions making a third of my previous income.   Never to make up for what I lost.  But, eventually, I was lucky enough to find  work in another field that is near and dear to me…..working with autistic children.   Much more rewarding.

Namastae.

More trouble on the Obamacare front?

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal published today, Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, suggested the administration is open to negotiations on one of President Obama’s central goals for a health care bill: a government-sponsored insurance plan – a “public option,” in Washington argot – that would compete with the private sector.

“The goal is to have a means and a mechanism to keep the private insurers honest. The goal is non-negotiable; the path is” negotiable, the newspaper quoted Mr. Emanuel as saying.

But Mr. Emanuel did not get the last word. Within hours, the chief of staff was big-footed – all the way from Moscow — by his boss, Mr. Obama, who is in Russia prior to the meeting of the “Group of Eight” economic powers. The White House issued an official statement declaring that Mr. Obama remains committed to the public option.

Nutroots aren’t happy.  (MM)