Wisconsin GOP shame on you

Is this the best you can do?

The Wisconsin GOP must be getting desperate because I just received a glossy piece in the mail trying to link William Ayres and 1960s one time weather underground terrorist with Barak Obama. They try to make it sound like this is a true story that Mr. Obama has close ties to domestic terrorist is a heading on the inside page. Inside of this glossy brochure are a pile of lies are pictures of the 1960s protests having to do with the Vietnam war. There's only one problem with this glossy advertisement that they purposely failed to tell us that Barak Obama at the time was only eight years old when all this happened. Now I don't know about you though when I was eight years old I wasn't very much interested in anything except Cowboys and Indians riding my bike and maybe playing basketball. I probably knew about the war, but I really didn't care about it. After all when is the last time you ever saw an eight-year-old kid drafted into the Army? What they also fail to tell you is that the only way that Mr. Obama got to know Mr. Ayres is through a local youth group similar to the Boys and Girls Club that both of them alonged to.

I've got news for the Republican Party of Wisconsin, we aren't as dumb as you think we are! We've grown weary of the scare tactics and all the lies spread by the GOP and the Bush administration and the never ending efforts to control the minds and thoughts of the American public. Guess what? We learned a lot in the last eight years and were not going to fall for that stuff anymore. It seems to me like you guys are getting desperate that you are losing ground rapidly because we can see through all your twisted rhetoric and lies and were not falling for it anymore.

So boys and girls take that for what it's worth I just wanted you to know what the real truth is and the kind of lies the GOP is trying to feed you. I predict that the presidential election is going to be a landslide. And believe me it's not McCain who is going to be in the winning circle. With that I urge each and every one of you to get out and vote because this is a very important election. I know I will be out there, even though I am recuperating from spinal surgery I hope to be recovered enough to go cross the street and vote on election day. Believe me if I can do it so can you.

Report: McCain Exploded With Rage During Gambling Outing

Report: McCain Exploded With Rage During Gambling Outing

How about this one? It seems to have been glossed over by almost everybody including the press. Do we really need John McCain as president with somebody who is known to have an explosive temper? Read the article and then watch the video. And make a decision for yourself whether you would want to have somebody who explodes the way Mr. McCain did with very little provocation. I certainly don't think I want somebody as president who acts like that. I don't get me wrong I don't see anything wrong with gambling although I don't do it myself. I think it's a waste of my hard earned dollars. The only times I've ever been to a gambling hall has been to attend a show but never to gamble. But that's beside the point.

Mr. McCain comes across as very controlled, calm cool and collected during his many debates and this is what is being shown on TV to the American public. This is the persona he wants to project as a public image, but what we don't see behind the scenes is a very explosive Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde persona that he so carefully hides. This is what he does not want you to see. Like Gov. Palin this is a personality trait I don't want anyone to ever have was going to be in such a high public office such as the president of the United States. Here again I ask the same question, what would happen if he blew up when confronted with a very volatile situation? Politically and internationally we cannot afford this type of outburst because the consequences would be disastrous. And my question once again, is do you want somebody like this as president? Your comments are always welcome.

In Dozens of Calls, Palins Pressed for Trooper’s Removal - NYTimes.com

In Dozens of Calls, Palins Pressed for Trooper’s Removal - NYTimes.com

There's nothing like a woman scorned. I just found this article in the New York Times and think it's rather interesting about Gov. Palin. I don't know about you but I don't know if I'd want to have somebody like that in office who holds a grudge the way she does and the way her family does. I've had bosses like that. They tend to be vindicative when they can't get their own way and it seems like a trait that Ms. Palin has shown to the public in a way that says to me at least, that she is not the type of person I would want as a vice president or even as the president should that ever happen.

One of the things that I've noticed in heterosexual marriages or should I say divorces is that one or the other party or both parties usually wind up hating each other and become very vindictive during the course of their divorce and especially if there are children involved. Although most people tend to overlook this it is a very common trait amongst many many people. To me it shows a much darker side to Ms. Palen that I think every one should know about and take into consideration if you want her leading our country. I guess one of the questions I would have is how vindictive she would be if she could not get her way in the position of either vice president or president? This would leave me to question her stability and capacity to lead a country. I do not want an unstable person in office ever. And I certainly don't want somebody who's going to go off half cocked or who might become unstable under pressure.

Heaven help us if she was forced into a position of authority and something really bad happened to our country. I don't want somebody who's going to be come vindictive or explosive in a highly volatile situation. This I am afraid can lead to very direct consequences and possibly even lead us into a world war or some sort of nuclear confrontation which I don't think anyone wants to see happen. Anyone who is elected president or vice president must be very stable and I don't know if they're psychological profile shows that. And I really think that this is something that should be looked into and very carefully considered. I don't think that this is the proper type of behavior that I want to have for somebody in a high office and I don't think you do either. It sure would be nice to know what other people think. So if you would like to leave a comment please do so.

Deregulation is the problem

This may be a short post, but I think or should I say I know that the problem is deregulation. Under the Bush administration most of the stuff has happened has been caused by the deregulation of most industries especially the banking industry and mortgage industry. I would strongly suggest that the next president whoever he may be, including Congress and the Senate implement regulatory measures on our financial industries. The problem with deregulation is that it has allowed those greedy people who are thinking nothing but how much money they can make by any means possible that has caused all these problems. A we need laws to stop the hemorrhaging of the financial industry and we need checks and balances to regulate our banks, our mortgage industry, and the stock market. We especially need to regulate, or at least put on the brakes on short sales and on futures within the stock markets. This is precisely what is driving up the price of oil and gasoline. By putting a cap on the futures market we can regulate the wild fluctuations in our gasoline prices and oil prices. This is critical to the stabilization of our economy.

Secondly I think it is imperative that we demand that the countries we are spending billions of dollars in like a Iraq and Afghanistan which has a huge surplus of oil reserves. Instead of asking them to pay back with dollars we should demand that they pay us back with the oil reserves that they already have. This in turn would alleviate some of our oil problems. Of course this will not solve the problem but it will help it somewhat.

Thirdly we need to develop new sources of energy especially renewable energy. It is critical that we get away from fossil fuels such as coal and oil. We need to turn to alternative energy sources especially organic sources. Although many people will squawk, I think wind energy is one of the ways that we can go to produce electricity. Also I think that atomic energy is another way to go. Although with atomic energy we also need to know how to reprocess it so that it can either be used over again or we need to find better ways to store spent fuel in as safe a manner as possible until we can devise a way to use it once again. I am sure that as our technology progresses and it seems to be happening logarithmically, that we will be able sometime in the not-too-distant future to find a way to reprocess spent uranium that we use our power plants. Perhaps by the knowledge we gain from the hadron collider that we may be able to develop some sort of propulsion system to be used in outer space. Perhaps sometime in the future we may learn through our use of quantum physics how-to use uranium or its byproducts in space travel. Who knows, we may even develop some sort of warp drive for spaceships. You never know. Right now that may seem like science fiction but in the not-too-distant future it may become science fact.

The other possibility is to use battery powered vehicles. But first we need to develop a much more efficient electrical storage system for those vehicles. They need to be much lighter and more efficient than the batteries we now use. Instead of using wet cells perhaps we can develop a dry cell battery or batteries that can be recharged over and over. They also need to hold their charge longer so that we are able to drive farther without having to plug the car in to recharge it. Another thing is that we can also use solar energy which unfortunately at this time is pretty expensive, but I think if we can develop new technology to increase the efficiency of solar energy collectors this may also become a viable source of energy especially in the home.

We need to also build a more energy efficient houses in order to conserve our energy usage. We need to develop new materials that provide much better insulation for our homes. The better insulated our homes are the more energy efficient they will be both during the summer and the winter. We need to develop systems to both heat and cool our homes much more efficiently than the systems we are currently using. We could possibly even use a solar heating and cooling system combination that would be used in the summer to cool our homes and into winter to heat it. That my friends is my take on the situation.