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Lyrics by ME – Apologies to Cher


I was born in the country that’s the best in the world
You knew we had real freedom when that flag was unfurled
Got me a job and tried to work hard
Trusting in the system threw me off of my guard

Repugs, crooks and liars
We hear it from the people who refute their statements
Repugs, crooks and liars
But every night all the stations air their views; not put the liars down!

Now my health plan sees me as just a checkbook
I got to pay big co-pays just for doctors to look
Heaven forbid they find something wrong
Insurance will deny me and I will not live too long

Repugs, crooks and liars
We hear it from the people who refute their statements
Repugs, crooks and liars
But every night all the stations air their views; not put the liars down!

My kid went to college and he got a degree
He studied hard and did real well the pride wells up in me
But there are no jobs, he’s looked everywhere
Americas Dream has become his nightmare

Repugs, crooks and liars
We hear it from the people who refute their statements
Repugs, crooks and liars
But every night all the stations air their views; not put the liars down!

Repugs, crooks and liars
We hear it from the people who refute their statements
Repugs, crooks and liars
But every night all the stations air their views; not put the liars down!

Repugs, crooks and liars
We hear it from the people who refute their statements
Repugs, crooks and liars
But every night all the stations air their views; not put the liars down!

Old Tune - New Words

We Didn’t Start the Meltdown

Lyrics by ME - You choose the music

(Apologies to Billy Joel for use of meter)

We didn’t start the meltdown

So just please don’t blame me

It was Bush and Cheney

We didn’t start the meltdown

Blame that squat sick possum

Known as W’s Turd Blossom

W won’t take advice

Doesn’t stop and then think twice

Doesn’t listen to his aides

Even though he had low grades

Won’t believe in any facts

Of Bin Laden’s planned attacks

Feels the fear rise in his throat

While he finishes, “My Pet Goat”

We didn’t start the meltdown

So just please don’t blame me

It was Bush and Cheney

We didn’t start the meltdown

But the gun was loaded

Kerry got “Swift Boated”

Katherine Harris’ ugly face

True official of disgrace

Hanging chads caused a stir

President then picked by her

Start the ball toward personal gain

Right wing sings same refrain

Plan your targets to get oil

Even when on foreign soil

We didn’t start the meltdown

It’s what we expected

When Barack was elected

We didn’t start the meltdown

But with determination

We can save the nation

9-11 sneak attacks

Showed what W really lacks

Cheney took complete control

Relishing war monger role

Mapping out retaliation

Halliburton salivation

Calling up the National Guard

Sending youth to death not hard

We didn’t start the meltdown

So just please don’t blame me

It was Bush and Cheney

We didn’t start the meltdown

But we lived right through it

Freedom’s light is still lit

Trample on the Constitution

Always find a fake solution

Wire taps

Truth gaps

Never mind congressional saps

Calling things acts of sedition

Use of tactics called rendition

Water boarding just for fun

Boy you had a real sick run

AIGs killing me

When will we all be debt free?

Unemployed and out of luck

Former boss was such a schmuck

We didn’t start the meltdown

So just please don’t blame me

It was Bush and Cheney

We didn’t start the meltdown

But with determination

We can save the nation

Health Insurance really blows

Cobra costs are through the nose

Congress sits back on their butts

I sit home just going nuts!

Rush Limbaugh and friend Glenn Beck

All the other Fox News dreck

Cantor Vitter Foley Hatch

What a stinking sorry batch

Condoleeza Chavez Myers

Rumsfeld Cheney all were liars

Show these losers to the door

I can’t take it anymore!

We didn’t start the meltdown

But with determination

We can save the nation

We must end the meltdown

And tell the Party of No

There ideas must all go.

Free Lunch Anyone?

We all know, or at least should know that there is no such thing as a free lunch. So why do so many people continue to line up whenever someone offers one?

Because no matter how often we are hurt we want to believe that the next person will be good to us. It's in our nature to trust and hope for better times ahead.

That is why we listen to so-called experts many of whom are actually not experts but merely representatives of one side of a discussion.

We have a health care crisis now - RIGHT NOW - in America. And while it appears that there should only be two sides to the argument there are actually many. And every side has its champion. The problem is to weed out the self serving ones from the truly dedicated humanitarians.

Unfortunately we live in the real world and very few humanitarians are in power let alone in our Congress and when last I checked Mother Theresa was not one of them.

Understand that our Senators and Representatives in Congress (leaders from now on) all have their health care taken care of by us, the people and their futures are set. Neither they nor their heirs will want for anything. They have Social Security in the true sense of the term. We elected to give it to them.

This means that they actually don't give a damn whether or not you and I get health care or even live long enough to retire comfortably unless we live in a swing state. To them we are votes not people. Our leaders have so many buffers in place between themselves and their constituents that there is almost no possibility your request or complaint will be heard. Frankly they just don't have the time.

Our leaders do however have the time for free lunches!
'But you said there was no such thing?!?'
Well technically it is not free, we the people are paying for them.

We need a fix to our broken health care system and we need the leaders to get it done for us. But when they start to look at ways to repair it they come up against the groups determined to keep the status quo. This group has far more cash than do all the rest of us and in fact they even have our money, by obscene premiums and our bailout checks.

I am naturally speaking of the health insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies and the doctors and the lawyers. These groups all have lobbyists on their payrolls and much of the money they spread around somehow finds itself in the pockets and stomachs of our leaders.

When was the last time you took your Senator out to lunch? Well that was the last time he or she felt obligated to help you out!

The Republicans and Conservatives - you remember them as the group that lost the last election - are playing fast and loose with our future and they are winning the battle. The so-called 'Blue Dog' Democrats, the ones who would not be too upset being Republican also seem intent on killing health care reform.

Just like the annoying advertisements that repeat the 800 number over and over again so that we cannot forget it so too are these friends of the Insurance companies repeating their lies.

One of the groups cited by the opposition to your healthy affordable future is the Lewin Group. One after another our leaders in Congress who oppose any change to the structure that gets insurance companies their huge profits tells us about a study by the Lewin Group. And surprisingly every one of the studies shows how bad any change to our health care system would be.
We will have to pay more.
We will get worse care.
We will be told when to die etc.
The one thing these studies don't point out is that THE LEWIN GROUP IS OWNED BY THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY!

Know thy enemy! Here is a statement by two of our enemies printed in that decidedly liberal paper, the Wall St. Journal (Owned by Rupert Murdoch of Fox fame.).

“The Lewin Group [is] the gold standard of independent, health-care analysis.” Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Bob Bennett (R-UT) Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2007.

Now for the facts (From the Washington Post July 22, 2009):
The Lewin Group is part of Ingenix, a UnitedHealth subsidiary that was accused by the New York attorney general and the American Medical Association, a physician's group, of helping insurers shift medical expenses to consumers by distributing skewed data. Ingenix supplied its parent company and other insurers with data that allegedly understated the "usual and customary" doctor fees that insurers use to determine how much they will reimburse consumers for out-of-network care.

In January, UnitedHealth agreed to a $50 million settlement with the New York attorney general and a $350 million settlement with the AMA, covering conduct going back as far as 1994

In other words they are a fraud as are all the leaders who quote their findings such as smirking Eric Cantor R-VA or Orrin (shut your) Hatch R-UT and many others.

We must not be fooled by these criminals. We must not believe their lies. We must tell our leaders that we are on to them and that they have to get this broken health care system fixed.

Here is a partial list of Senators and the money they have been paid by the insurance companies to stop you and I from getting reform.

Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT)	$1,203,205
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)	$206,297
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND)	$442,165
Sen. Mike Enzi (R-NV)	$342,228
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)	$702,595
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)	$161,706

Surprisingly or not Senator Baucus who was given so much power by Harry Reid that he no longer has to answer to the Majority Leader is highest on the list! Harry Reid would appear to be a moron and who am I to argue with appearances?

Tell your congressman that we will no longer allow the deception and that for them there is no more free lunch!

Citi Never Sleeps - Neither Do We

Jefferson Starship recorded a song (words by Bernie Taupin et al of Elton John fame) entitled, "We Built this City." And since the song was written by Taupin and recorded by Starship any time it is used by others permission and royalties must be paid to them.

The same should be true of all things owned by someone in that if someone else uses it a fee must apply.

The tax-payers of America bailed out Citi Bank to the tune of billions of our dollars and now one of the employees of a part of Citi Bank wants a bonus in the amount of $100,000,000.00!

Andrew Hall who runs a shady end of Citi and whose figures have never been disclosed in annual reports other than to say "money and investments from other accounts" make up this amount has made a profit for Citi in the past and now wants to be paid the greedy amount noted above.

Unfortunately for this shady SOB the people he made the deal with are no longer in charge, we are. And as the new owners I say this bastard should take his greedy ass and his small team of 'talent' and march the hell out of the bank. And if the disgusting piece of filth wants to sue us, the US Government that is then be our guest. I truly hope he lives a long life but even if he does it will not be long enough to finish the battle because I think we can drag this mother out until he finally does the rest of us a favor and drops dead.

Sovereignty Should Not Be Concealed

Senator John Thune, Republican from South Dakota has tacked on a tiny piece of legislation to a defense budget bill.

This in and of itself is not news as Senators frequently use this tactic to push through a possibly unpopular agenda of theirs along with a sure fire bill. Some Senators will actually place a terrible addition on a bill knowing it will never be passed in order to stop the original one from succeeding. Thus Congress never gets enough work done and we never get the governance we believe we voted for.

The Thune addition concerns guns. His addition to the defense bill would allow anyone obtaining a permit in a State that allows the carrying of a concealed weapon to legally enter any other State in the Union and carry the concealed killing device even if that State has outlawed the practice. And he has added the old Republican patriotic line that worked so well for the previous administration by saying that a vote against the bill is a vote against the defense budget and therefore a vote against our troops.

In other words Senator Thune does not understand the meaning of the word sovereignty. His former President, the illustrious and brainy George W Bush also had a famous problem with the word. So for the benefit of the gun-toting NRA lover from South Dakota and his supreme leader W let me learn ya sumthin.

A sovereign entity has control over itself when it comes to decisions concerning it's life and the safety and well being of its citizens. Outside forces must respect their authority and obey their laws within its borders. It is not a new idea and version date back fairly far in the history of the World. Hey guy, have you ever heard of the silly phrase, "When in Rome...?"

Senator you may keep your concealed weapons hidden along with your obviously low IQ and continue to worship the Gods of the NRA but please stop showing off your stupidity and lack of understanding when it comes to the real world.

Rapid City is nice but Rapid Fire kills.

Jordan, A Nice Place to Visit but...

For years the Palestinians have been trying to kick Israelis out of Israel and turn it into their own Palestinian state. And for years the Arab communities surrounding Israel have either remained silent or when vocal would lean on the side of the poor oppressed Palestinians.

Without going into the validity of who was where first there is one thing that must continue to be pointed out - None of the surrounding Arab Nations want Palestinians in their country.

With Israel making up a tiny percentage of all the acreage in the oil rich region how is it that the Palestinians cannot find land elsewhere with which to create their own country? The answer is as obvious as a suicide bomber - They want Israel gone. And while most of the other countries don't say it they have felt the same way for years. And without naming any country (Iran) some have even funded the fight and armed the fighters.

But slowly things are changing and Jordan is the latest chink in the armor of the poor people of Palestine.

King Abdullah, who's wife happens to be Palestinian has taken a step toward thwarting a perceived notion that Israel is about to ask Jordan to become the official Palestinian state. The reason this is a logical next step is that so many Palestinian refugees live in Jordan already.

His first step has been to revoke Palestinian citizenship en masse.

Here is the report from the Jerusalem Post:

"Many Palestinians living in Jordan are convinced that the Jordanian authorities are trying to squeeze them out," said Ismail Jaber, a West Bank lawyer who has been living in the kingdom for nearly 20 years. "There is growing discontent and uncertainty among Palestinians here."

He and other Palestinians said that Jordanians' "hostile" attitude toward them had escalated after the rise to power of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu earlier this year.

Several Jordanian government officials, they said, are convinced that Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman are secretly working toward turning Jordan into a Palestinian state.

As a preemptive measure, the Jordanian authorities recently began revoking the citizenship of thousands of Palestinians, leaving many of them in a state of panic and uncertainty regarding the future.

The Jordanians have justified the latest measure by arguing that it's aimed at avoiding a situation in which the Palestinians would ever be prevented from returning to their original homes inside Israel.

Jordan's population is roughly 70 percent Palestinian, making the difficulty of this move quite obvious.

However, Jordanian authorities say it is aimed at preventing Israel from forcing Palestinians out of Gaza. The former Palestinian citizens of Jordan will be allowed to stay as residents, so long as they obtain "yellow ID cards" from the government.

"We're not expelling anyone, nor are we revoking the citizenship of Jordanian nationals," said Jordan Interior Minister Nayef al-Kadi in an interview with Al-Hayat. "We are only correcting the mistake that was created after Jordan's disengagement from the West Bank. We want to highlight the true identity and nationality of every person."

-- Stephen C. Webster

Having them carry yellow ID cards?

Hmmmm.

And next wearing a patch of some kind on their arms might be a good idea.

Ooh, wait, they can move them all into a neighborhood all their own, sort of like a, uh what's the word, oh yeah GHETTO.

I thought this had been done before but after speaking with Mahmoud Achmadinejad and Hutton Gibson (Mel's father) I find I am mistaken.

And Israel is the bad guy???

A Demented Waterloo

Just as Goliath had his David and Napoleon had his Waterloo so too does President Obama have a foe determined to see him fail. Unfortunately for the rest of us in the country his foe makes up 40% of the U S Senate, not to mention 100% of one of the cable network so-called news programs.

When Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina opened his mouth and told his conservative supporters, and by that I do not only mean his constituency that if his group can hold together and delay any movement on health care they can destroy Obama.

His actual words were, "If you're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."

Senator Demented, uh I mean DeMint went on to urge the people listening to him to stand firm and fight for the insurance industry and big business so that America would remain safe for corporate profits. It was a sort of damn the torpedoes full speed ahead speech meant to rally the troops against the evil doer in the White House.

It is clear that the battle lines are well defined and the enemy is spending millions trying to get the uneducated masses of the country to join their cause. Too many people are swayed by classy advertising to realize that they are voting against their own best interests.

In the old days it was said that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. Obviously things change and we must change with the times. It is time for all Americans to come together and ask their representatives in government to get real and get us affordable health care.

I know that they get tremendous amounts of money from the lobbyists and industry pays their vacations and makes their lives wonderful but if we don't vote them into office they cannot flex their greedy muscles. Once in a while they actually have to do something for the people that make up the country and this is one of those times.

If you would like to help everyone then help yourself to this link and find your Senator. Send him or her a message today so that you don't have send a different message in November!

Baboons Boxers & Briefs

This is a warning to those of you visiting safari parks. The animals are out to get you!

Actually they are not out to get you personally, just your underwear. And not all of the animals are interested in your Victoria's Secret collection, just baboons.

Watch this brief video of a recent attack and be warned. (The link to the video will be slightly down the page.)