A Few Recent News Articles and Observations

Now that I am working fulltime with an hour and a quarter roundtrip commute daily, I do not get to study all the news articles out there as deeply and take the time to contemplate as many of them as I would like. But such is the tyranny and oppressiveness of American corporacy, and where and how I am in my life at this time and for the near future. And to think I am still actively looking for a second fulltime job to better position myself economically sooner (all this might end up doing is probably endangering my health, perhaps even fatally).

But I do get some time to do some reading and reflecting, and here are a few articles recently and my observations briefly on them.


A. The Hypocracy and Contradiction of the Flim-Flam Man Limbaugh as to Don Imus

Imus, of course, was ousted from his high-profile media jobs due to some language that was too politically incorrect even for him. While the end result was overkill, his schtick was getting to be passe and he will land on his feet and probably in better shape financially longterm. The fact that the fatman and mouthpiece for the junta, Limbaugh, regularly plays on his radio program a song based on the lyrics and music of the Peter, Paul, and Mary folk music classic, "Puff the Magic Dragon" titled "Barack, the Magic Negro" and not be subjected to the same outcry and punishment is utterly appalling and disgraceful. Limbaugh is even more passe and boring than Imus and his day has passed and his daily blather and wind is of no consequence and relevancy anymore. Limbaugh is nothing but a has-been huckster who should be put out to pasture to play golf in Costa Rica and spend his late afternoons drowning his ego in numerous glasses of various booze and nodding off to sleep after emptying into his voluminous rotund belly his daily pailful of various pharmaceutical substances, both legal and illegal. The EIB does not stand for "Excellence in Broadcasting" but instead "Evidently Its Bu____it"!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/24/10141/1844

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B. A Call for Impeachment for Vice-President Richard Cheney

I expect the number of voices making this call to grow tremendously in the coming months and there very will may be a formidable legislative effort initiated in the US House, although it will not go anywhere unless there is something far more serious that develops during this year and more Republicans defect from supporting Bush to save their own hides and keep their seats when the election in '08 occurs.

http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0148.html

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C. Boris Yeltsin, 1931-2007

Undoubtedly, Yeltsin played an important role for a brief period in helping make sure the USSR would not make a comeback. Although he was a crude man and overall an ineffective leader, his place in history is one of significance and he helped ensure a period of relative peace after over a half-century of war and a wartime economy for the Russian people which really most knew only as well as the prior two to three generations of those people.

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D. Further Revelations Concerning the Friendly-Fire Death of Pat Tillman

Every week, more and more information comes out about this coverup by military officials. I would not be surprised if the trail of deceit and deception leads directly into the White House and Joint Chiefs. I would not put it past such "men" as Rove, Rumsfeld, or Cheney to have given the direct order to officers in the battlefield and in command to take this terribly wrong and immoral action. What a shame that such honorable and heroic man like Pat Tillman who took on a sacrifice and responsiblity NONE of his athletic peers in any professional sport have the courage and heart to do has had his name in the middle of all of this chicanary. Lets hope there are criminal consequences for those that initially ultimately gave the order for the coverup and lies.

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E. Nacchio gets what he deserved

Like so many other citizens here in the Rocky Mountain region, the Northwest, and the Northern High Plains, I was greatly pleased to learn of the conviction of former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio on numerous counts of various crimes. Hopefully he will spend most if not all of the rest of his life in a federal penitentary. His criminal behavior and ruthless cold greed has destroyed or damaged the lives of countless citizens. No punishment will ever be enough to atone for what he did to these folks, many of whom were elderly and suffered greatly beyond any reason. It is sad to think, however, that for every Nacchio and his ilk convicted and punished, there remains dozens, probably hundreds, of corporate officials, managers, and lackeys that have gotten away with and continue to get away with sins on a similar scale.

One day we will wake up and make the necessary adjustments and corrections that are so desparately needed to make our economy and society work for the best interests for many more of our citizens in respect to the runaway amok Market Capitalism and the corporacy which is setting the agenda for the nation and in so many wrong ways. The current model of American Capitalism is seriously broken and, if not corrected soon, will result in the destruction of the United States and the end of liberty and freedom for many citizens.

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Poignant, Powerful, Ominous Words

This letter from the late David Halberstam was written to his daughter Julia in 1982 and he reflects back on his early days in Vietnam and what in hindsight he then began to understand and realize about that war and war in general. So much of what he says rings so true about what our nation, we citizens, and particularly the men and women serving and sacrificing in a strange land so far away physically and in our conscience are going through now are much the same things as before almost 40 years ago.

Read the letter carefully and more than once. The impact of the words will stir your heart, probably emotionally move you, and give pause to think and reflect about the magnitude of what it means to be serving your country in a wartime theater. The consequences of reading these words may further reinforce the realization of the emptyness, the waste, the foolishness, and the futility of what this nation's failing and floundering leadership of Bush, Cheney, Rove, and many others have done to our nation, America, and another people and nation, Iraq. The end results for this war are likely to be far worse than what resulted from Vietnam, which for many was only yesterday: yet, for so many others, is already lost and forgotten in history apparently.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/24/707/