NO. THESE ELECTIONS ARE NOT RACIST!

This is something I wanted to talk about for a while. It has to do with the barrage of Internet emails sent by cowards and liars against Barack Obama. The way these emails begin is with a scary title, such as... "And he could be our next President!". They are all very sneaky at the beginning, for example one of them starts telling you about some people who fled a communist country after going through unimaginable torture and suffering. They paint that story so sadly and soapy that the majority of the receivers of those emails immediately submerge into them and sympathize with the story. What they don't know is that at the very end of those pathetic, but probably true stories they have a surprise for the avid reader. It is a sublime, and sometimes not so sublime message, to warn you NOT TO VOTE FOR OBAMA. One way or another they want to scare you about a communist regime here in the USA, or that he is going to fill up the White House with Africans wearing a bone between their nostrils, or 6 wide rings around their neck, or a huge plate inserted in their lower lip.
Most of these emails are sent by people or organizations that block the receiver from sending a reply. It is part of their cowardice.
Also, many try to scare you with the calumny of Obama being a Muslim, which automatically at the same time, according to these slanderous people, every Muslim is a bad one. Although I cannot unmask any of these bad imitation of human beings, I tend to believe by their tone and lack of truth in their writings that they are frustrated narrow minded Republicans, probably very right wing fanatics and bullies. These are the same people that justify the Iraq invasion by claiming that the poor soldiers over there are protecting our freedom. Perhaps these soldiers should be sent to the White House if we really want to protect our freedom, but that is another theme I am not going to touch now. I am an American and I consider myself a patriot. This country welcomed me at the age of 20 and gave me all the opportunities a legal immigrant is given by our government. We never started a war and the only times we broke that privilege were Vietnam and Iraq, both unnecessary and totally irrelevant to our freedom and economy . We were the world heroes and saviors, the example to follow, the best middle class on this planet,and a society envied by all. What we now have is a racist society more visible and audible than ever, thanks to the Internet, where all these cowards can hide while sending lies to every one of us. I am going to warn you about one screen name: " JOHANNA SHAGER-HOCKER.
I don't know who she really is, except that she is definitely a right wing Republican and a RACIST. I have more untraceable names, but I will only disclose them here when I investigate a little bit more.
So please don't tell me that the reason Obama is not 30 points ahead of McBush is because his lack of experience and youth. It is RACISM.

AMERICA STOP WHINING AND SEE YOUR SHRINK

July 15
"America, stop whining and see your shrink!"
That is what we've been told by "The Denial Masters". Maybe they are right. Maybe we should see the economy and the war and health care and gas prices and everything else that we "think" it's going wrong as a product of our vivid imagination. OK, I am going to start right now...Poof!
What a wonderful life! This is my itinerary for tomorrow: First, after I get up and listen to the news my reply to those broadcast liars will be "You are sooo negative! You are trying to scare us with news about recession, depression, inflation and all the negative -ations about our Nation. How poetic is that? I am not going to get psychologically influenced by your crap "
This is the best country in the world and we are better now than ever before! Our Commander-in-Chief said so this morning at the same time the Chairman of the Federal Reserve was giving us a report to scare us even more. Some nerve! Who picks these guys? And whatever our big honcho says we need to respect and adhere to with our eyes closed. He liberated us from Saddam Hussein and we should always be thankful for that. Imagine if Hussein were still alive? (I am trying to figure it, believe me).
I think I am regressing, sorry. Where were we...oh yes, we are a bunch of whiners and we are psychologically influenced by the media and those liberals!
So, after listening to the absurdities we have to deal with every single day for the last 7 years, I will go to fill up my gas tank and if it shows $90 in the pump I will go inside the gas station and hand the cashier a $50 bill. If he/she asks me for the other $40 my answer will be logical and emphatic: "I know you think the pump shows $90, but it is only in your mind, so take the $50 and please stop whining. You are not helping our emotional state".
Right after that I will run to my car and zoom as fast as I can, just in case that stupid cashier decides to call the police, who are probably also psychologically damaged by all these lies.
My next destination will be the supermarket. I go there about 3 times a week because, me too, I have been whining under the influence of the news and have, for the last two years. been under the impression that I could not afford to do a one big shopping. Thus if I split it into three times I do not get so psychologically sick. Anyway, I will fill up the cart and again I will pay cash, to avoid being ripped off by the cashier who even knowing that the computer is rigged will try to charge me more than what it really is. It is possible that I will save on this quick transaction about $60 bucks easily. You got it...I will speed off to my car, throw everything into the trunk and fly away to...my next destination: Home sweet home, where my mortgage, according to the bunch on incompetent Bank employees, is overdue. They are the worst offenders when it comes to whine. If your payment is not in their hands on the due date they start panicking and creating such a psychological confusion that they end up making us believe that we really owe them the monthly mortgage payment. Awful group of whiners!

It is raining and very dark and humid, although it's only 11 am. After unloading the car and loading the refrigerator I turn the air conditioned on to cool off from all that running and escaping from those whiners. I turn all the lights in the living room, after all we should take advantage that electricity is at the cheapest it has ever been. Wait till I get the statement from the only company that controls the electric energy where I live! Are they for a surprise when they realize I caught them lying in the billing, pretending it should be $300, when in reality I know it is under $100, and that's what I will send them! And if they whine with reminders and collection agencies and threatening to shut my power off I will remind them that they are not been patriotic, they are not in touch with reality and that the three rates increases for the last three years was just gossip, they never went through except in their weak minds psychologically massaged by the media and yes, those liberals!
July 16
I have never been in jail before. This is awful! Thank God they gave me a pen and some paper so I can continue telling you about all these whiners who believe the economy is the worst it has been in the last 20 years or more. The cops showed up in my house and arrested me alleging I had committed a crime by walking off (ran off, actually) from a gas station and a supermarket without paying or paying less, whatever. I tried to explain to them but they told me I had the right to remain silent, so I did. I will be released in a few hours because it's my first offense, but I have to appear in front of a Judge to explain why i did it and get my sentencing or dismissal. I hope I don't get a delusional Judge who believes the economy and everything else is going south. If that happens I am in deep trouble! I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO PROOF THAT THEY ARE ALL WHINERS AND I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS THAT
THIS IS ALL A PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE UNDER WHICH THEY ARE
TOTALLY BLINDED.

The best thing i could do, while out on my own recognizance, should be to contact the White House and try to get my President to stand by me as i followed his thinking, but I am sure he will be busy preparing for the next speech regarding how well we are doing in Iraq. I would not want to interrupt his trend of thoughts, because when he is inspired we all should listen, like E.F.Hutton. Bad example, sorry. I forgot they went bankrupt, probably for whining more than anybody else.

And that "my friends" (so wonderful to emulate McCain, the only guy with war experience, albeit as a prisoner all the time) is what happened to me for not joining the whiners.

LATEST PRESIDENTIAL POLLS

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

This morning, while watching the news on one of the TV channels, I think I heard there was a new poll on the presidential candidates... People with dogs favor McCain over Obama!I said I think because it is so retarded that I prefer not to believe it. People with dogs! What's next? OK, here is what's next:

1. Poll conducted among 1400 people who like radishes:
McCain...49%
Obama...49%
Nader.....2% (no teeth to bite into them)

2. Poll conducted among 869 people who sleep in the nude:
McCain...9%
Obama...18%
Nader.....0%
Carmen Electra...73% (And she is not running!)

3. Poll conducted among 1200 people who wear "no-name" sneakers:
McCain...23%
Obama... 32%
Nader.....45% (it definitely had to do with the fact he was a consumer advocate when he was normal)

4. Poll conducted among 530 people named Bufer:
McCain...88%
Obama...0% (did you expect anything else?)
Nader.....12%

5. Poll conducted among 962 people who only shave once a week:
McCain... 12%
Obama... 12%
Nader...... 76%

6. Poll conducted among 841 people who don't give a shit about polls:
McCain...10%
Obama... 5%
Nader..... 2%

7. Poll conducted among 1300 people who sell anything on Ebay:
McCain...83% ( I have no explanation on this. No idea why)
Obama...17%
Nader.....0%

8. Poll conducted among people who believe that Christ appeared on a piece of toast:
McCain... 3%
Obama... 2%
Nader.......3%
Local Parrish Priest....92% (we counted 132 different denominations, among them "The Church of the Appearance on French Toast")

9. Poll conducted among 777 McDonald's over the counter employees:
McCain...0%
Obama... 0%
Nader.....0%

10. Poll conducted among 2,658,350 people in Southern Florida:
McCain...30% or 12%
Obama...28% or 46%
Nader.....18% 0r 1%
Ileana Ros ...12%
Diaz Balart... 11%
Fidel Castro.....1%

And that my friends....is what I think about the stupid polls and the moronic people who think of them.

A POSSIBLE STORY

Fortunately, so far, this is a bad nightmare based on real facts. I hope it never happens, but just in case... here it goes...


Once upon a time, in a very remote land, called Bestonia, where no one would leave, except to the other world (is there another world?), there lived an almost-old man with his almost-old wife. They had both been celebrating his retirement and whatever was left of his 401K (considering that on September 11, 2001 he had lost a big chunk of well earned and saved money from more than 30 years of hard work and stressful days).


His name was Adam. her name Eve. Well, not really, but those names fit perfectly well, because sooner or later the nightmare would commence and they would eventually also lose their clothes too.


One day, after many years of living happily, things started to change in that land, which many claimed as the "Best Land in the World" (Hence the name...Bestonia). All the basic things to maintain a joyful peaceful life started going downwards. It all began with an invasion to a foreign land, where its people, in spite of all the deficiencies and lack of freedom, lived considerably contempt, as long as they would not infringe in their master's deranged ideology.


The original excuse for that invasion was to protect the entire planet earth from a possible man-caused-cataclysm, also known as Weapons of Mass Destruction, or WMDs. The excuse kept changing along the years to accommodate to the C.Y.A (and CIA too) convenience, as one by one, all excuses became apparent they were just that, excuses, justifications to hide the real purpose of that invasion. The invaders, along the years, depleted all the budgets assigned to different sectors of the economy in their own land to sustain their occupation, while many big corporations profited from it. Among them, Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil, BP, Chevron, and Halliburton, KBR, CACI, Titan, and Blackwater. I probably left out many more, but I am not a researcher, I am just a story teller who also lives in Bestonia, and who cares about Adam and Eve and their family's future.


Five years after that invasion the price of a barrel of oil shut up from $30 to $135, and that uncontrollable rise was felt at the gas pumps. People started paying more than $5 for a gallon of petrol, commonly known in that far, far away land as "gas".


As a consequence of the unmanageable cost of gasoline, all food products suffered unimaginable price increases, mainly the healthy ones, such as fruits and vegetables, because all those products had to be transported from other lands across the oceans. See, Bestonia could not grow them anymore because one of the parties that ran the land decided it was time to deport all illegal foreigners, who had entered Bestonia through areas that originally belonged to them and lost to another of the Bestonian invasions, many years ago. Therefore, Bestonia was left without farm workers. No more fruit pickers, no more vegetables growers. No more good healthy food. Imagine, Bestonians were not going to perform jobs for less than the minimum approved salary by their rulers, who had recently passed a bill to guarantee themselves the sum of $15,000 a month for life during their retirement.

Nevertheless, some of the more necessitated Bestonians who had lost their jobs to natives of India working in Bangalore for at least 1/10th of the salary, applied for odd jobs which they would have never done under normal circumstances. One of these weird jobs entailed picking tomatoes. Obviously, the tomato farmers made a colossal mistake giving these Bestonian those jobs. First because they had to dish out more money to meet the minimum salary requirements; and second because this was hard work, with no time to get to a bathroom to relief themselves. Consequently...Salmonella spread throughout the vast land of Bestonia by consuming those tomatoes. Rumor has it that this epidemic was probably caused by the few remaining illegal foreigners as a way to retaliate for their comrades sent back to their lands of origin, but the theory of hard work and incontinence by the new laborers was not far fetched either.

As everything in life, one thing lead to another and Bestonians had to be driven to hospitals, where many of them died waiting on line or trying to fill up 187 different forms to make sure, in case they would not die, the bills would be paid for, or if they succumbed to Salmonella somebody in their family would have to cough it up, should the insurance refuse to cover the $100 charge for a couple of aspirins administered by a licensed Filipino nurse.

All these back and forth trips to hospitals, added to the regular commuting to/from their jobs, plus the sky rocketing prices at the supermarkets, became a gargantuan burden and finally lead most Bestonians to bankruptcy. Unfortunately, the Maximum Ruler of Bestonia for the last 7 1/2 years, had passed a command eliminating the Personal Bankruptcy for all individuals. Big Corporations had nothing to worry, as the rule did not apply to them. Some of those screwed people from that immense land had a little money saved and opted for staying home and would walk to their closest supermarket to buy some groceries, except fruits and vegetables, and milk and many other items, that had experienced a price increase of up to 50% . Meanwhile they hoped that "things" would change by themselves, as if that ever happens. They really did nothing to provoke a change. Actually, all they did was to complain and whine, but they, as usual, were contempt with their situation because during many years of brain washing, they knew they lived in the Best Country in the World, Bestonia!

Unfortunately, nothing changed and Bestonians found themselves in a real jam. They already had lost their jobs to outsourcing, and now their savings got depleted. Soon they could no make payments on their homes either, actually on homes owned by the Banks or Mortgage companies, because let's face it, Bestonians, unless very rich or well off, never owned a home. Those homes were always owned by those Banks and/or Mortgage companies. Bestonians just made monthly payments to live in them, and no matter how much they paid and how many years had passed, they still owed the same amount of money due to a brilliant idea by those Banks, called Equity Loan. That caused millions of "homeowners" to default and "their homes" to go on the "F" word. (In this case both words apply...
...Foreclosure, and the other one you thought of first).

Adam and Eve, who saw the handwriting on the wall (who ever came up with that stupid saying?), decided to cut down on many superfluous things, such as long trips, clothes, Blackberries, long distance calls, the already mentioned unaffordable fruits, except bananas imported from another land, shoes, prescription eyeglasses, and dental care. Of course, gas was now a luxury, and every short trip to the food store or to the Doctor of the Week (remember that Adam and Eve where retired and their lives were programmed around food shopping and medical specialists) was calculated to eliminate backtracking, thus reducing gas consumption in their mid size car. It should also be noted that the mid size car they owned was sold to them as a good gas guzzler, 21 in the city and 27 in highways, but like everything else Bestonians bought, the real mileage was 14 in the city and 21 on the road.
Ah, those car sales people! and double Ah!, those TV commercials!

The years passed and although the economy improved a little bit, the damage was already done and Bestonia and most of the lands in the planet were never the same. Adam and Eve eventually passed away, but their children and grandchildren, and their great grand children had to witness all the changes that occurred on planet Earth. Bestonia and many other lands had been given new names by their owners. names such as HSBC Holdings, General Electric, Bank of America, J.P.Morgan Chase, Exxon Mobil, AT&T, Walmart, Chevron, AXA, and many more.
These were the rulers now. There was no more middle class. There were only 2 defined groups, The Corporates and the Poorates. Life as we knew it in the 50s, or 60s when Adam and Eve were proud of being Bestonians, had suffered tremendous changes. Instead of Elvis Presley or Nat King Cole, or Frank Sinatra, or Charles Aznavour, Earth was now the most noisy planet in the universe. Musicians and singers did not play their instruments or sang songs. They competed to break noise decibel records. Even Rap was considered outmoded and nerdy!

There was no more food, except in the form of pills invented by major Pharmaceutical companies and approved by the FDA, which in turn would get a big chunk of the generated sales.

Sex was only allowed if you paid a special tax to these companies. How did they control that? Very easy, most of the pills you ingested as food contained a fatal sperm killer. If you wanted to have sex then you had to buy THE PILL. It was only good for one shot, but it became the best seller of them all.

Until one day, whether because of the noise pollution, or the other killer pollution, Earth exploded and shattered throughout the universe. It was the end of it all!

Adam woke up that morning and his heart was pounding faster than ever. IT WAS A NIGHTMARE! OR...WAS IT?

POLITICAL GARBAGE FLOODS THE INTERNET

We've been watching the news and we are horrified by the tragedy in Iowa, where so many homes have been washed out and so many families are now trying to pick up the pieces after losing everything they had to mother nature. Of course, faulty levees built by unscrupulous engineering firms, and cheap construction collaborated in this demise. Our hearts are with these suffering people and we hope that the Bush administration redeems itself from the other catastrophic event during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans 2 years ago. That said I will remit to a different type of flood that is happening on a daily basis on the Internet. THE POLITICAL GARBAGE FLOOD. There isn't one single day that I don't open my email and find a piece of garbage forwarded to me by friends or family, who unbeknown to them (and this is the real problem) they also forward to other people. A geometrical progression occurs and all of a sudden thousands of people receive the same garbage.



These are emails generated by cowards who have a way to hide within the vast world of "Planet Cybernia" with phony names and undeliverable email addresses to avoid a reply from people like me who investigate all the lies they try to choke us with. They have a political hidden agenda, but the only way they know and choose to persuade us is by fabricating or using false material as truth. I would like to mention 2 names which I have seen now quite often as generators of false information. One of them is Gary Hancock, and the other one Joanna Shager Hocker. I don't even know if these people exist or these are invented names, like the information they send. The only Gary Hancok I knew was this mediocre baseball player from the late 70s and early 80s who played for the Red Sox and Oakland A's. As for Joanna Shager Hocker, the only thing I could find out in Google was a Psychologist somewhere with the same name. Both characters who send this political garbage have probably different names, and their cowardice can only be matched by their sick desire to spread their lies through the Internet.



If you read this blog I strongly recommend you do like I do every time I receive an email from a friend or a family member,which contains political information to demean or disgrace a political figure, generally degrading either a Democrat or democrats in general. I click on http://www.snopes.com/ and verify the authenticity of the article. I must say that so far, 100% of all the emails I have checked with http://www.snopes.com/ containing political information they are "so nicely sharing with us", are totally FALSE.

It is unfortunate that some people don't know how to accept defeat and the only thing left for them is to send us unsolicited garbage against a democratic candidate or a bill passed by the democratic majority in Congress, or to blame Bill Clinton for the mess created by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and his corporate cronies in the last 7 1/2 years.

If you happen to be a Republican, please don't take offense, this is not directed at you, unless you are a right wing extremist fascist who believes women are second-rated citizens, and all Hispanics should be deported, whether illegal or not. Then do, please, BE OFFENDED. My pleasure.

Tim Russert and the lesson

Tim Russert is dead but not his legacy. It was a shocking news, as it happened suddenly without any warning. He was 58.

I am not going to talk about Mr. Russert, or Tim, as everyone used to know him, because the TV media, especially NBC and its affiliates is doing that and with great love and admiration. I cannot top that, although in my thoughts I think of a million things why this man was examplary to all of us.

The lesson he gave us in life is what I would like to talk about. We have to disect this Tim Russert 101 class into two different courses, the lesson in humanity and the lesson in professionalism. With him, these two subjects never collided, in fact they blended very well and made him what he was.

What I learned from him as a person is that the basic things in life are the ones we tend to neglect as we take them for granted. We take for granted our family; we don't get passionate enough about our sport team (avoiding to cross the line into fanatism); we don't stop to look around and see where and how we live, we take for granted the smell of recently cut green grass; we keep our money (if we have any) in the bank, instead

of using it to live more comfortably; we don't help those in need because we are selfish. I don't go on for fear of being categorized as a "daisy picker" and that I am not.

TV OR NOT TV

Yes. Pretty corny, but I could not think of another title that denotes how confused I am about this incredible device that controls our lives.



I can't deny that I enjoy PBS when they have a rerun of the Doo-Bops. I don't know why since I am only 35. Family and friends...shut up!

I also like Animal Planet for its scientific value, not because I am an animal person, you know what I mean. Some sports, like the World Cup Soccer or the Eurocup; the 162 games played by the Marlins, which my wife watches religiously and I have to deal with it whether they win or lose. I hate to continue watching a game when my team is losing. Too stressful. And I also like science fiction. Anything with science fiction, even of the caliber of "Q"!



OK, so now you know , in my case, the first part of that Shakespearean famous quote. The bad part, the "Not TV" one includes the Local News, where all the non-sport news are about who got killed, raped, and crashed on the road; and the sports news about some who-cares-high-schools teams winnning or losing to other who-cares-less-team schools. Well, maybe the players parents are very proud, but... correct me if I am wrong...Aren't we ripped off by the Cable Company or the Satellite Network providing us with the audio and images just as those proud parents are? How about if some of the Local News could add a daily segment regarding Old Farts pride achievements, like...

"How to go to the bathroom at least 3 times a week without causing hemorrhoids pain"...or "Sex in the Rocking Chair"?

Here is more of the "NO TV"....Reality Shows. reality for whom? To me a reality show should be more something like how to survive with the economy crisis or how we are being held hostage by the gas companies and their providers; or what to do when you can't continue payments on your mortgage. Those are REAL topics for REALITY SHOWS. The other garbage they show on TV is just that...GARBAGE. Please keep in mind that this is my blog and I only reflect my opinion. You are entitled to yours, and you could tell me off in the "Comments" section...or start your own blog!

More on the "NO TV"? Oh, yes! The INFOMERCIALS! The infamous infomercials. The ones that force you to keep switching chanels at 3 o'clock in the morning if you are an insomniac like me, in order to find
something to put you back to sleep.


I have been listing all these NO TV culprits in reverse order of annoyance. Now comes the second annoying reason of why I would not have a television set: Senior Citizens dish out just about 10% of their social security check for a package of forty five thousand chanels (or fifty thousand, I am not sure), when at their age, after one program they are already asleep. The rest of the population need to work to earn a salary. They also need to commute, and to sleep. Those are basic and irrefutable requirements to have a job and to maintain it. Thus...how many hours are there left to watch TV? Why can't those cable and satellite companies allow people to select chanels, like we do when we go to a restaurant to eat? Imagine if we ordered lasagna and we would be told we also had to pay for chicken cacciatore and eggplant parmigiana as a "package deal"?

And now...the number one reason why I HATE Television!....

THE LOUSY COMMERCIALS during any program. They are the worst I have ever seen since 1961, They are false, mainly lies, loud, low class, stupid, lacking originality and subliminal with the intention of brain washing. They all insult our intelligence. Well, there are a very few exceptions, but just a number you can count with your fingers. Worst of all...WE ARE PAYING to watch those awful commercials! Unless, of course, you master the art of muting them by being the Quick Draw McGraw of the remote control. Nevertheless, even if you could pull the trigger faster than Doc Holiday, do we need all that stress in order to watch TV? Here is an idea to all of you lying and malicious companies...Since you've been bombarding us for years and years with a bunch of lies and deceptive advertising and we already know that you exist, unfortunately, why don't you save all that money that you waste and use it for instance...to lower the cost of your products? It would be a win win proposition. Who knows, perhaps we would even start liking you!

Definitely :"NO TV" outweighs "TV".