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At some point Obama needs to own the problem and get on with fixing it.  Where is the plan?  The Ten Point list of programs that need to be implemented?

So far the solution has been to throw a big stimulus program out, spend all year debating a Health Care Bill, and then just hope that things will change.

Poor Taylor Swift, where is the outrage? Just as she was accepting the award for Best Female Video (“You Belong With Me” ), Kayne West jumped on stage and made a fool of himself. Multiple people have reported seeing him taking swigs of Cognac before the show, perhaps he needs to enroll in AA.

Did he really need to take the mike from her and state his opinion to everybody at that moment. That was a very selfish, sad, and shallow act. On a night that is paying tribute to the idea where we should all respect and Love one another, this Loser shows a great example of how to not treat people. Taylor Swift is a great example of how you should treat people and we could only hope more people would follow her example.

Taylor Swift 1, Kayne West 0.

Under no circumstances will ANY benefits be allowed to be delivered to any other than lawful, established citizens of the United States. Citizenship will be verified as a condition of receiving benefits. The burden of proof will reside with the applicant, with denial as the default. Any case where benefits are alleged by anyone to have been given to other than a US Citizen will be investigated by Homeland Security and the FBI. If true, the officials who failed to properly make this assessment will be disciplined with a warning on first offense, a $250 fine on second offense, and termination on 3rd offense. Managers whose staff accumulate more than 30 offenses will be terminated.

Applicants found to be non-U.S. Citizens will be immediately reported (and detained if in the presence of government officials) to ICE for deportation.

U.S. Representative. Lynn Jenkins, a Republican  from Kansas,  told a recent gathering in northeast Kansas that the Republican Party is looking for a “great white hope” to help stop the political agenda of the Democratic party and President Barack Obama.   Apparently Jenkins was unaware that The Great White Hope was a play/film that focused on racism, looking at how segregation and prejudice affected human behavior.

Was this a simple slip of the tongue, or proof that subtle racism still exists today, even among our political leaders?

Mary Jo Kopechne was killed in an auto accident in which Edward Kennedy was the driver of the vehicle.  Kopechne was a former campaign worker for Kennedy’s older brother, Robert F. Kennedy.  On 18 July 1969, Kopechne attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island, a short ferry ride off the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. E dward Kennedy and Kopechne left the party together later that night in Kennedy’s Oldsmobile Delmont 88.  A short time later, their car plunged off the Dike Bridge into a pond, where it overturned.  Kopechne died in the car.

I guess in the end you get what you pay for.  I am not sure that we would be in a better place with McCain, but I think few people would have expected so little Change out of Obama at this point.  To most, it is just more of the same.

  The protest was held in Lykes Gaslight Park in downtown Tampa Bay.  Protestors walked back and forth across the street while cars waited at red lights.  The folks in the cars  leaned out hollaring support and honking their horns in approval.

 Look at this crowd!  Why was MSNBC minimizing the crowd sizes?  You can see hundreds in this one view, there was this number of people on all sides of me.  

  Folks of all backgrounds in the crowd, not just your crazy right leaning whackos.

 The population of Tampa is 10% African-American.  I do not believe that they we represented at the same rate as other races, however there were quite a few.  This did not appear to be a race or class protest.

 Most protestors were outraged by two issues.
 1) The excessive spending by Congress
 2)  Unfair tax policies

 While some protestors were direct in blaming Obama, I believe that they were in the minority.  Most seemed to blame government as a whole.

 These folks were singling out Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank.  ”Congress is a Toxic Asset”

 Don’t Tread on Me

The G20 protests in central London turned violent today ahead of tomorrow’s summit, with a band of demonstrators close to the Bank of England storming a Royal Bank of Scotland branch, and baton-wielding police charging a sit-down protest by students.

Much of the protesting, from an estimated 4,000 people in the financial centre of the capital, was peaceful, but some bloody skirmishes broke out as police tried to keep thousands of people in containment pens surrounding the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street. A minority of demonstrators seemed determined to cause damage, seeking confrontation as they surged towards police lines. Late tonight, much of the City remained cordoned off.

Perahps the G20 is something worthy of demonstrating, but who are these kids?  Half of them are wearing Nike, Puma, and Atlanta Braves gear.  Give me some people living off the land with some locally made clothes and then I will listen to you as opponents of capitalism and the global economy.  It is a worthy event to protest, just don’t look like whiny hypocrites that participate in the system that you are protesting.

The majority of these protesters are just wannabes. They missed the great protests of are time and are overly attracted to the “mystique of protesting”. Most have no depth of understanding of the issues and are really nothing more than caricatures.   These pictures show a sad kind of protest. It’s more smashing and looting than protesting. I always wonder if these people after a protest think, what did it change? They are not winning peoples hearts and minds with this.