The Socialist are coming, the Socialist are Coming!

"A Rare Elected Voice for Socialism Pledges to Be Heard in Seattle"

KIRK JOHNSON; December 28, 2013; New York Times

People are used to liberals running things around here. But nobody reckoned with Kshama Sawant. Ms. Sawant, a 41-year-old economics teacher and immigrant from India, took a left at liberal and then kept on going — all the way to socialism.

When she takes a seat on Seattle’s nine-member City Council on Jan. 1, representing the Socialist Alternative Party

Ask her about almost any problem facing America today, and her answer will probably include the “S” word as the best and most reasonable response. Socialism is the path to real democracy, she says. Socialism protects the environment. Socialism is the best hope for young people who have seen their options crushed by the tide of low-wage, futureless jobs in the post-recession economy.

Progressive liberals — some of whom might look radical as well, at least to conservatives — made inroads in other places on Election Day, notably in New York City, where Bill de Blasio won the mayor’s race partly on his plan to address the gulf between the “two New Yorks” of poverty and wealth.

So should an elected 21st-century socialist hark back to the old Marxist passions of labor and capital, or more toward the welfare-state model of market regulation and high taxes on the rich?

Asked about Boeing, which is currently in a standoff with its biggest union and is threatening to expand outside its historic home base in the Puget Sound region, Ms. Sawant said the company was guilty of “economic terrorism” by “holding not only Boeing workers but the entire state’s economy hostage to their endless desire for profits.”

The daughter of a schoolteacher and a civil engineer, Ms. Sawant said she was seared by the disparities between the rich and the poor around Pune, India, which is near Mumbai and where she grew up. But she was also shocked, and radicalized, she said, by finding sharp income inequality in America when she immigrated here in her 20s.

COMMON SENSE REVIEW:

People like this are like chicken little "Life's not fair, Life's not fair!", yet feel that their ideas will make life fair without consideration of human behavior.  We all have the right to decide our lives and must take responsibility of our actions.  However people like this honestly feel people are being held down but keep no consideration people can pick themselves up. 

Unfortunately, creating laws or ordinances with a Socialist view doesn't create a strong economy..  A strong economy boosts so much.  Happiness in the family with jobs and no financial struggles, more tax dollars into the municipalities, and even more money available for grants to projects...

Bill of Right as a US Citizen

I have the right to demand my govt:

·        *  to put the people before their political advancement

·        *  to follow the laws they impose on the people

·       *   to secure the boarder from criminals who cross it illegally

·       *   not to have a secret court that imposes procedure that infringe upon the rights of the citizens.

·        *  to scrutinize those people who apply for visa to live in the US

·        *  not to choose one belief system over another

·        *  to leave decisions for my family and children in my hands.

·        *  to balance its budget (No Deficits)

·        *  not to give foreign countries money without a 90% approval vote from Congress

·        *  doesn’t regulate the education of my children

·       *   must have oversight and enforcement of fraud with the misappropriation of taxpayer funds.

·       *   Not to create a entitlement programs without the major vote by the people

·       *   The president cannot lie to or use “Plausible Deniability” in regards to National issues

·       *   That no govt family member can be  a lobbyist or lobbyist can have special  treatment by govt

·       *   Any govt official (Senator, Congressman, Director, etc) under investigation of fraud, must be suspended and if convicted fired without financial benefit from position

Bill of Right against being called a Racist

·     *    I have the right to disagree with anyone

·      *  I have the right to point out pool lifestyle choice by others

·       *  I have the right to show the ignorance of others

·        * I have the right to demand equal treatment for all

·       *   I have the right to use the same slang as others

·        *  I have the right to not to be labeled by false propaganda created by those who push an agenda

·        *  I have the right to  live without fear of being called a racist

Is New York City Mayor/elect Bill de Blasio the downfall of that city?

De Blasio’s team

·          Nick Baldick, Campaign Consultant – worked Clinton campaign 1996

·         Berta Lewis – Founder of Working Families Party ( created in 1998, a coalition of labor unions, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and other community organizations)

·         Patrick Gaspard, best friend – Former leader of SEIU Healthcare workers

·         Jonathan Rosen, Lead Communication and Police Strategist – PR for ACORN

·         Bob Master – Political Director for the Communication Worker of America union

·         George Gresham – President of SEIU 1199

·         Dominic Williams, chief of Staff – Obama campaign veteran and union advisor

·         Harold Ickes – Deputy Chief of Staff in the Clinton White House

·         Anna Greenberg , Chief Pollster – Pollster for Clinton

·         Jim Crounse, Consultant – Hillary Clinton for Senate 2000 campaign

 

-          So he has the former Clinton, ACORN, Union and Obama workers…. New York City is screwed!

The Problem with Govt

The Problem with Govt

Senate:

·          33 Senators are older that the retirement age of 67 years old

·         Average length of time in seat is 20 years

Congress

·          73 Congressmen are older than retirement age of 67 years old

·         Congressman with the longest time in seat is 57 years (Rep. John Dingell, (D-MI)

·         34 Congressmen who began their position in the 1970s &1980s

Note:

·          If we had a age or term limit on Congressmen or Senators, we would not have:

·         Senators

o   Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)

o   Chuck Grassley (R-IA_

o   Orrin Hatch (R-UT)

o   Carl Levin (D-MI)

o   John McCain (R-AZ)

o   Harry Reid (D – NV)

o   Pat Leahy (D-VT)

o   Lamar Alexander (R-TN)

o   Barbara Boxer (D-CA)

o   Max Baucus (D-MT)

o   Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

o   Dick Durbin (D-IL)

·          Congressmen

o   Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

o   Henry Waxman (D-CA)

o   Maxine Waters (D-CA)

o   Snader Levin (D-MI)

o   John Dingell (D-MI)

o   John Conyers (D-MI)

o   Peter King (R-NY)

o   Charlie Rangel (D-NY)

When The President misleads the US Economy… In the Shadow of Social Inequality

Obama Says Income Gap Is Fraying U.S. Social Fabric

JACKIE CALMES and MICHAEL D. SHEAR, New York Time, July 27, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/us/politics/obama-says-income-gap-is-fraying-us-social-fabric.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

In a week when he tried to focus attention on the struggles of the middle class, President Obama said in an interview that he was worried that years of widening income inequality and the lingering effects of the financial crisis had frayed the country’s social fabric and undermined Americans’ belief in opportunity.

If we don’t do anything, then growth will be slower than it should be.

Racial tensions won’t get better; they may get worse, because people will feel as if they’ve got to compete with some other group to get scraps from a shrinking pot

The economy is “far stronger” than four years ago, he said, yet many people who write to him still do not feel secure about their future, even as their current situation recovers.

“I will seize any opportunity I can find to work with Congress to strengthen the middle class, improve their prospects, improve their security

The priority, he said, should be spending for infrastructure, education, clean energy, science, research and other domestic initiatives of the sort he twice campaigned on.

Common Sense Review

How can the American people confidently follow someone with a ideas based in falsehoods, wrapped up in threats. 

This man has the power to let the economy work itself out without any interference from the govt.  Govt doesn’t create opportunity.  It creates regulation that hinders capitalism.  Obama is the down fall of the American capital system.  Yet he threatens that if there is no equal opportunity for the minorities to get jobs when there are no jobs available.  Your legislation of Obamacare and Stimulus is the over taxation of the middle class which closes the door for opportunity for all class and races.

Mr. President get out of the way!

Judge Halts Groin Searches at Guantánamo, Calling Them Abhorrent to Muslims

CHARLIE SAVAGE; July 11, 2013, New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/us/judge-halts-groin-searches-at-guantanamo-calling-them-abhorrent-to-muslims.html?_r=0

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the military to stop touching the groins of detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, when they are moved from their cells to speak with lawyers. The procedure had led some prisoners to stop meeting with or calling their lawyers.

In a 35-page opinion, Judge Royce C. Lamberth, the chief judge of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, called the searches — which included guards wedging their hands between the genitals and thighs of the detainees as many as four times when moving them to a meeting and back to their cells — “religiously and culturally abhorrent” to Muslims. He portrayed the procedure as unnecessary and intended to “actively discourage” meetings with lawyers.

He also directed the military to allow detainees who are weak from hunger strikes to meet with their lawyers in the same buildings in which they are housed

Colonel Bogdan introduced the new procedures in May, after a raid in which guards forced protesting detainees into lockdown in their individual cells. After the raid, officials said they found improvised weapons. In putting the policy into place, the colonel cited the risk of such weapons as well as the case of a detainee who committed suicide in September by swallowing an overdose of medication, raising speculation that he had hoarded the pills in his underwear.

Common Sense Review

   The atmosphere of “we must treat those who want to kill us better than they would treat us” need to go.  The detention centers (prisons) were created to house those who have chosen to commit crimes against society.  Yet they protection overrides the soldiers who guard them from hurting other prisoner and guards.  This judge has decided that they cannot not do this… What?!?

As well as, detainees who have chosen to be on a hunger strike must be allowed to have their lawyer to come into their housing barracks.  Why can’t people choose to harm themselves without interference?  I find this act disrespecting their wishes.  Now don’t get me wrong, the guards shouldn’t give in to their demands due to the hunger strike but the detainees should get special treatment.

If you want the patients running the asylum, why don’t we put these terrorist on a island in the middle of nowhere and they figure out to protect themselves and their rights to a civil existence.

Boston bombing suspect cites U.S. wars as motivation, officials say

Wall Street Journal, Scott Wilson, Greg Miller and Sari Horwitz, 04/23/12

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/boston-bombing-suspect-cites-us-wars-as-motivation-officials-say/2013/04/23/324b9cea-ac29-11e2-b6fd-ba6f5f26d70e_story.html?wpisrc=al_comboNP_p

The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told interrogators that the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated him and his brother to carry out the attack, according to U.S. officials familiar with the interviews.

From his hospital bed, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has acknowledged his role in planting the explosives near the marathon finish line on April 15, the officials said. The first successful large-scale bombing in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, era, the Boston attack killed three people and wounded more than 250 others.

The officials said, the evidence so far suggests they were “self-radicalized” through Internet sites and U.S. actions in the Muslim world. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has specifically cited the U.S. war in Iraq, which ended in December 2011 with the removal of the last American forces, and in Afghanistan, where President Obama has made plans to end combat operations by the end of 2014.

Common Sense Review

I am a believer in red flag intuition and this article is full of red flags..  

First if these two are “self-radicalized” through internet sites… we need to question their mental stability.  We as adults know that everything on the internet is not true.  But if you don’t have the mental capability to know the difference between internet and reality should they be under a doctor’s care like schizophrenics.  If these two are mentally challenged, then wouldn’t his wife, sisters and mother be aware?

Second,  Break down the cost of pressure cookers, nail, bbs, ball bearings , gun power, grenades, guns…. Wouldn’t someone in their family notice large sums of money coming out of accounts?  Or because they didn’t work, where did the large sums of money come from?

Third, Pressure cookers are big.  Wouldn’t someone ask “Hey Tamerlan, what is up with all the pressure cookers?”.  As well as the gun powder, nails, bbs and ball bearings… If that didn’t red flag, “Gee Tamerlan, why do you have grenades?”

Fourth, where do you learn to make Pressure Cooker bombs?  I don’t believe there is a book “Bomb making for Dummies” yet I could be wrong…

Fifth, if you are mad at the govt about combat in another country… When does it enter your brain, “Let’s blow up runners in a Marathon?”…. “Gee killing that child will show the US govt”  If you don’t like the US in another country, fight on the battle ground…Killing children are cowardly

Sixth, What piss poor bomber are you when you don’t research the area you plan on attacking?  In this age of technology and security, not thinking that there is a possibly cameras are not going to capture you image is a foolish mistake.   How many virgins do you get for being a bad bomber?

In my eyes, there is a group behind these two, who have educated and funded this endeavor… Yet due to the ignorant mistakes, where does the group go to a refund their money?

I’m just saying…

US pledges to double Syrian aid to $250M, rebels want more

April 21, 2013, Associated Press

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/21/us-doubles-aid-to-syrian-rebels-who-want-more/

The United States said Sunday that it will double its non-lethal assistance to Syria's opposition as the rebels' top supporters vowed to enhance and expand their backing of the two-year battle to oust President Bashar Assad's regime.

Yet the pledge fell far short of what the opposition had made clear it wanted: weapons and direct military intervention to stop the violence that has killed more than 70,000 people. The Syrian National Coalition had sought drone strikes on sites from which the regime has fired missiles, the imposition of no-fly zones and protected humanitarian corridors to ensure the safety of civilians.

The Obama administration's pledged to provide an additional $123 million in aid, which may include for the first time armored vehicles, body armor, night vision goggles and other defensive military supplies.

The additional aid, which brings total non-lethal U.S. assistance to the opposition to $250 million since the fighting began, "underscores the United States' firm support for a political solution to the crisis in Syria and for the opposition's advancement of an inclusive, tolerant vision for a post-Assad Syria," he said.

Common Sense Review

Here in America, we are fighting a war against rebels who want to kill us and our way of life.  Yet we fight our govt to keep us safe by funding border patrol, enforcing our laws and freeing the American citizens by supporting their rights to defend themselves. 

In this time of the American govt in debt up to their eye brows, they borrow money to give to another country to fight against their rebel populous.

We need to stabilize our country before we donate to another country…

Studying the Brain or Eugenics based on the brain’s function

The New York Times , 02/18/2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/science/project-seeks-to-build-map-of-human-brain.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1361282519-Ybvl+Fu+1cop8lMrRD9cgA

The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a comprehensive map of its activity, seeking to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project did for genetics.

The project holds the potential of paving the way for advances in artificial intelligence.

The project, which could ultimately cost billions of dollars, is expected to be part of the president’s budget proposal next month. And, four scientists and representatives of research institutions said they had participated in planning for what is being called the Brain Activity Map project.

The initiative, if successful, could provide a lift for the economy. “The Human Genome Project was on the order of about $300 million a year for a decade,” said George M. Church, a Harvard University molecular biologist who helped create that project and said he was helping to plan the Brain Activity Map project.

Scientists involved in the planning said they hoped that federal financing for the project would be more than $300 million a year, which if approved by Congress would amount to at least $3 billion over the 10 years.

The initiative will be organized by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, according to scientists who have participated in planning meetings.

Common Sense Reivew

If this doesn’t freak you out… this article makes this sound warm and fuzzy yet a little info about  the Human Genome Project, they bring up these questions:

Societal Concerns Arising from the New Genetics

Project goals:

·        *   identify all the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA,

·         *  determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA,

·         *  store this information in databases,

·         *  improve tools for data analysis,

·         *  transfer related technologies to the private sector, and

·         *  address the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) that may arise from the project.

http://ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/elsi.shtml

·         Fairness in the use of genetic information by insurers, employers, courts, schools, adoption agencies, and the military, among others.

Who should have access to personal genetic information, and how will it be used?

·          Privacy and confidentiality of genetic information.

Who owns and controls genetic information?

·         Reproductive issues including adequate informed consent for complex and potentially controversial procedures, use of genetic information in reproductive decision making, and reproductive rights.

Do healthcare personnel properly counsel parents about the risks and limitations of genetic 

technology?

How reliable and useful is fetal genetic testing?

What are the larger societal issues raised by new reproductive technologies?

·          Clinical issues including the education of doctors and other health service providers, patients, and the general public in genetic capabilities, scientific limitations, and social risks; and implementation of standards and quality-control measures in testing procedures.

How do we prepare the public to make informed choices?

How do we as a society balance current scientific limitations and social risk with long-term benefits?

·         Commercialization of products including property rights (patents, copyrights, and trade secrets) and accessibility of data and materials.

Who owns genes and other pieces of DNA?

Will patenting DNA sequences limit their accessibility and development into useful products?

I know this sound like a SyFy movie.  Yet from the lessons we have learn from Margret Sanger and Hilter, there are those out there who want to put us in categories and eliminate those they don’t like.