After the Bear had read several critiques of the Coen Brothers "Burn After Reading", the tendency was to feel "big letdown" after "Old Country For Old Men" but being a "coen head", I just had to take a peek at their new production and though it's not their greatest, I liked it plenty!
Joe Williams of the St. Louis Post wasn't too kind to the film but one thing we both agreed on: Brad Pitt is hilarious working with Frances McDormand in a Washington D.C. health club and with Pitt and McDormand hoping to reap rewards for information found in a lost memoir of a fired CIA lower eschelon spook, they dance there way around the nation's capitol eventually finding there way to the Russian Embassy where they encounter whatelse somber Russkies!
By the way, the CIA guy is none other than everyone"s favorite wierdo John Malkovich!
Everybody's sleeping with everybody and word ..... is employed at record breaking pace so for you people who get the shakes when you here the word, this flick is not for you. When will we Yanks get over our sexual bugaboos and enjoy life a bit? Are we really holier than the rest of the world?
There are too many of my favorites cavorting around in this one for me not to like "Burn After Reading." Clooney, Swinton, McDormand, Malkovich, Pitt, what more can I say and you know they are loving every minute with the boys directing. Actually I'm told they take turns being the top honcho. Why can't we have a few belly laughs with our friends those nutcases, the Coens without trying to dissect the meaning of life? Thank you Joel and Ethan for all those old familiar places!
Friday, September 12, 2008
ST. LOUIS RAMS AND WIDE RECEIVERS
The Bear does not like to talk about "pencil neck" wide receivers. Who can forget the good old days when the mid summer football camp was enjoined and players lined up in their 1/2 shirts and shorts at various positions. Each position had its standard number of players interested in those jobs but when it came to wide receivers, you know way out there from the action, what you got was 25 guys just so anxious to catch the ball. Half of em would not be there when August 15th rolled around and pads were distributed for the real game of football.
The St. Louis Rams, my Rams, who are this week considered to be the very worst team in the NFL because of being decapitated by the tough Philadelphia Eagles, are taking on the defending Super Bowl Champs, the New York Giants here in St. Louis Sunday and suddenly there has been a rash of injuries at the WR position which has led to the team signing a receiver no one loved much when he last played here in 1998, Eddie Kennison. Coach Al Saunders, who I have always felt was a solid offensive mind had much to do with this having coached Eddie at KC. Earlier this year we had Reche Caldwell in camp and he has always been in my mind a good wide out but after cutting him, it appears he was not in the mix. There were many others who might have been considered. After all they would be replacing the worst receiver in St. Louis Ram history,
#83 Drew Bennett, who we paid considerable money to when he became a free agent having left Tennessee where at one time, he supposedly was their best receiver. Unfortunately the Rams liked what they saw. I can find no Ram fan who has anything good to say about Drew these days or last season. He is not too fast! He is not too fearless! He wears goooy white gloves. He misses assignments quite regularly. While we don't like players to get hurt, it would have been far better we hurt his feelings and cut this underachiever.
Now we drafted Ronnie Avery second and the fleet young man had only one game in the pre-season where he played any length of time and he performed well and showed some of the speed we expected of him. But alas, he's hurt too! So many Rams continue to have hurts or owiees or whatever, one might have to be concerned about training methods utilized by this organization.
Avery must and should be productive if he is ever healthy.
Keenan Burton will play this Sunday. He did not see much action in game one and did not see many passes coming his way. Of course Philly blitzed poor Bulger the Ram QB so often and so successfully that we might deduce his time as the starter of this team are numbered. Burton, who definitely has talent and according to his college coach, former Ram head man Rich Brooks, as much talent as Issac Bruce. Wow! I concur and feel he should be starting with Tory Holt!
Dane Looker is a solid four receiver, who can get you first downs and more and has longevity with the team and is a producer, not a talker. Dane is a solid citizen!
Now we come to our captain and smiling receiver, one who has been a sensation for many a year for the St. Louis Rams Tory Holt. Tory has had a lot of trouble in the past two years staying healthy but still producing good numbers. Unfortunately we think he and Coach Linehan do not connect and hopefully this is not true of Coach Saunders.
NOW: REMEDY We need to play the following: Starters: Burton and Holt Third Receiver:
Dane Looker Who goes fourth: Take your choice.
BIG REMEDY: We need a offensive line which can run block, pass block, stay healthy and show some toughness. We also need a fullback to protect our QB, especially against the blitzers. In case you want to see a good one watch Madison Hedgecock. Oh yeah! We waived bye bye to him a few years back and he led the Giants, along with their solid line to great things last year.
He is a winner! The powerless Rams didn't want him! He will be blocking Rams Sunday!
So what did we do when we went after a player in the first round this year. We signed a defensive player (not that our defense was good) instead of an offensive player, the starting left tackle of the Denver Broncos Ryan Clady, who should have been our first choice in the draft. We drafted ahead of Denver. Our line is already been exposed: Pace is semi-hurt playing LT at 75%. Our new LG Jacob Bell is out this week. Our center Leckey is very so so. Our RG Richie Incognito was a no show in game one and who knows when he will explode or get hurt again. Our right tackle Alex Barron is blamed for every mistake this line makes and is the only player who continues to struggle his way thru game after game. Our tight ends, led by Randy McMichael gave a decent account of themselves in the Philly game. Romberg will start this Sunday for Bell and can expected to give a fair accounting of himself.
WHEN WILL ST. LOUIS BRASS, GM'S, HEAD COACHES ETC. START TO REALIZE WE NEED SOME TOUGH ROUGH SMART OFFENSIVE LINEMEN TO PROTECT OUR QB OUT THERE AND BLOCK FOR THE GREAT STEVEN JACKSON? WE MUST GET TOUGHER TO WIN!
WE MUST SHOW UP HERE IN ST. LOUIS THIS SUNDAY AND TAKE OUT AFTER ANOTHER VERY PHYSICAL TEAM, THE GIANTS, WHO ARE VERY WELL COACHED! WE NEED TO PAY THE BIG BUCKS FOR QUALITY BLOCKING FULLBACKS AND UMONGIS LINEMEN WHO HATE THE WORLD!
Then our wide receivers will start to show up and balls will suddenly reach their mitts and yards and touchdowns will result!
The Bear will be in section 405 row 2 in the lower balcony scrutinizing every move by our linemen and fullback and hoping for something special to happen. It's too early to throw in the towel, but progress must be shown!
The St. Louis Rams, my Rams, who are this week considered to be the very worst team in the NFL because of being decapitated by the tough Philadelphia Eagles, are taking on the defending Super Bowl Champs, the New York Giants here in St. Louis Sunday and suddenly there has been a rash of injuries at the WR position which has led to the team signing a receiver no one loved much when he last played here in 1998, Eddie Kennison. Coach Al Saunders, who I have always felt was a solid offensive mind had much to do with this having coached Eddie at KC. Earlier this year we had Reche Caldwell in camp and he has always been in my mind a good wide out but after cutting him, it appears he was not in the mix. There were many others who might have been considered. After all they would be replacing the worst receiver in St. Louis Ram history,
#83 Drew Bennett, who we paid considerable money to when he became a free agent having left Tennessee where at one time, he supposedly was their best receiver. Unfortunately the Rams liked what they saw. I can find no Ram fan who has anything good to say about Drew these days or last season. He is not too fast! He is not too fearless! He wears goooy white gloves. He misses assignments quite regularly. While we don't like players to get hurt, it would have been far better we hurt his feelings and cut this underachiever.
Now we drafted Ronnie Avery second and the fleet young man had only one game in the pre-season where he played any length of time and he performed well and showed some of the speed we expected of him. But alas, he's hurt too! So many Rams continue to have hurts or owiees or whatever, one might have to be concerned about training methods utilized by this organization.
Avery must and should be productive if he is ever healthy.
Keenan Burton will play this Sunday. He did not see much action in game one and did not see many passes coming his way. Of course Philly blitzed poor Bulger the Ram QB so often and so successfully that we might deduce his time as the starter of this team are numbered. Burton, who definitely has talent and according to his college coach, former Ram head man Rich Brooks, as much talent as Issac Bruce. Wow! I concur and feel he should be starting with Tory Holt!
Dane Looker is a solid four receiver, who can get you first downs and more and has longevity with the team and is a producer, not a talker. Dane is a solid citizen!
Now we come to our captain and smiling receiver, one who has been a sensation for many a year for the St. Louis Rams Tory Holt. Tory has had a lot of trouble in the past two years staying healthy but still producing good numbers. Unfortunately we think he and Coach Linehan do not connect and hopefully this is not true of Coach Saunders.
NOW: REMEDY We need to play the following: Starters: Burton and Holt Third Receiver:
Dane Looker Who goes fourth: Take your choice.
BIG REMEDY: We need a offensive line which can run block, pass block, stay healthy and show some toughness. We also need a fullback to protect our QB, especially against the blitzers. In case you want to see a good one watch Madison Hedgecock. Oh yeah! We waived bye bye to him a few years back and he led the Giants, along with their solid line to great things last year.
He is a winner! The powerless Rams didn't want him! He will be blocking Rams Sunday!
So what did we do when we went after a player in the first round this year. We signed a defensive player (not that our defense was good) instead of an offensive player, the starting left tackle of the Denver Broncos Ryan Clady, who should have been our first choice in the draft. We drafted ahead of Denver. Our line is already been exposed: Pace is semi-hurt playing LT at 75%. Our new LG Jacob Bell is out this week. Our center Leckey is very so so. Our RG Richie Incognito was a no show in game one and who knows when he will explode or get hurt again. Our right tackle Alex Barron is blamed for every mistake this line makes and is the only player who continues to struggle his way thru game after game. Our tight ends, led by Randy McMichael gave a decent account of themselves in the Philly game. Romberg will start this Sunday for Bell and can expected to give a fair accounting of himself.
WHEN WILL ST. LOUIS BRASS, GM'S, HEAD COACHES ETC. START TO REALIZE WE NEED SOME TOUGH ROUGH SMART OFFENSIVE LINEMEN TO PROTECT OUR QB OUT THERE AND BLOCK FOR THE GREAT STEVEN JACKSON? WE MUST GET TOUGHER TO WIN!
WE MUST SHOW UP HERE IN ST. LOUIS THIS SUNDAY AND TAKE OUT AFTER ANOTHER VERY PHYSICAL TEAM, THE GIANTS, WHO ARE VERY WELL COACHED! WE NEED TO PAY THE BIG BUCKS FOR QUALITY BLOCKING FULLBACKS AND UMONGIS LINEMEN WHO HATE THE WORLD!
Then our wide receivers will start to show up and balls will suddenly reach their mitts and yards and touchdowns will result!
The Bear will be in section 405 row 2 in the lower balcony scrutinizing every move by our linemen and fullback and hoping for something special to happen. It's too early to throw in the towel, but progress must be shown!
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
LETS GET SOMETHING STRAIGHT
It's so wonderful to be nicey nicey about your opponent but I cringe every time this Democrat hears one of my candidates like Joe Biden say: John McCain is my friend! We all know they are a part of major club, called the US Senate and boy the decorum there is like no other body in the world.
Why that might be great for the US Senate, forget it when the gloves come off in any political race. I can speak to a lower escelon race as three times the Bear stood as a candidate for Democratic Committeeman of Gravois Township. I am happy to report that I was successful in every race and after 12 years of politicing for various Demos, retired from the field undefeated. Now even for these lowly offices, you were subjected to a variety of browbeating from my opponent's followers. Whereas I ran as a Democrat running against other Democrats in my race, it was quite funny when at the Webster Groves Community's July 4th parade, while waving to the crowd on the street, several Repub folks held up the almighty finger to show their disdain for any Demo! My favorite comment came from a Republican State Senator in Mo, A.Clifford Jones: When asked in my Government class: "How do you feel about mud-slinging in politics, had this to say: "When the son-of-a-bitch thats my opponent slings mud, I'm slinging it back!"
Now for all you holier than thou politicos that feel the two sides in this year's Presidential race are getting rowdy, I say: Bullshit! If you know anything about the political scenes of year's past, going back to the earliest of battles, e.g. The Washington-Adams-Hamilton-Jefferson days, each side had their own newspapers which had no mercy on their opponents. The Andrew Jackson era which gave us the very first Democrat in the White House was as brutal as any we can recollect and Andy was given to fighting a dual now and then.
Now I find Repubs or independents leading towards the elephant party, all want to claim to be above the battle but in reality they are about the worst, take for instance Karl Rove, a slovenly,
crude, icey, punk, who called the present candidate for the White House every name in the game when he ran against the no-show National Guard pilot, I mean AWOL puke, who has given us eight years of the worst government in our history. Yes, the nasty clean shaven white Republicans were more naucious in 2000 than their Demo counterparts when fighting with one another. Shameful!
Now lets talk facts: First of all, Bush stole the election. We'll give him that since we have been guilty of that from time to time. Then he gave us 8 years of lazy, lacadaisical effort, got us into a ridiculous war, supported by the man who wants to keep this occupation going! I am a veteran so don't wave the flag around me. I served in the area now governed by "the squeeky pig with lipstick" a major fraud, who if she ever allows herself to be interviewed by the press will be shown to have supported the "bridge to nowhere" and bilked her own constituents out of big bucks collecting her per diem on travel to a house she didn't live in! This "my friends" is what I call "cheating." She's part of the group of Repubs up there who would have made Lou Brock seem sincere while he pilfered third base. McCain, when he wasn't collecting rich wives, was all too busy taking his slices of cake under the table and was barely punished by the Ethics Committee in the Senate for conduct unbecoming a US Senator.
I don't ever recollect WWII military being given medals for being imprisoned but I'll give him a pass on that one. At least he showed up unlike the mealey mouthed phony from Texas who not only didn't show for his Alabama national guard meetings, but didn't show on issues like the middle east where he chose to sit this one out when the Palistinians and Israelis were begging for US intervention, where he chose to delay, (not Tom Delay) when thousands were suffering from the ravages of Katrina. He also, with the blessing of our dear friend "old Mac", tried to privatize social security, one of the greatest legislative efforts in American History (mid thirties under FDR), and vetoed an important bill to help our vets only this year because he felt there were too many boondoggles in the bill. Say, I ask, has Iraq been a super boondoggles with all these businesses donning military gear and fighting over there for three times what we pay our troops.
Yes, and the Senator from Arizona wants to keep them there "100 Years" if necessary. Pardon me mister but didn't I see you walking over there with more protection on your body than "Transformer!" "Oh things are just peachy kean!"
McCain is another of these doubting Thomas's when it comes to the environment. He has never been known to favor legislation which would take out after the polluters. In fact he never saw a corporation he didn't embrace.
Well, guess what Lehman Brothers is all but going down on Wall Street, another company which
bought the Republican laissez-faire form of economics which made Herbert Hoover and his boys so famous over the years. More is to come but don't worry Bush, you'll probably be down there in Texas cutting down trees while our Democrats will be doing what they did in the 1930's, fight our way out of the Depression with programs to put people back to work, you Repubs know, those Socialistic kind of programs like the Post Office, Social Security, Medicare, Aid to Education, CCC, AAA, all those Eugene Debs type ideas passed during the New Deal.
Lets compare Presidents over the past 150 years. Here is the Republican lineup: Fighting for the worst President of all times but losing to the present occupant: Warren G. Harding 1920-24.
"Silent Cal" Coolidge, his quiet leadership led us into the Depression! 1924-1928. William McKinley 1896-2002) His political machine might have been the dirtiest of all time and his boys apologized for selecting Teddy Roosevelt as his running mate! Thank God, one Repub we can respect. Oh, of course Tricky Dickey Nixon, who I personally didn't think was too bad, was run out of Washington and oh yes, a guy some people seem to like who gave us a deficit which has hurt us to this day. Bonzo Reagan! Bush Sr I would rate ok and he must be shamed shamed shamed by his son's lack of interest in governing and major indecent and wrongful decisions on foreign policy.
Then you have the Demos and I'llbe quick since their record speaks for itself. Bill Clinton, two terms and just a great and smart President, who did make some personal decisions that we could question and paid for it. Jimmy Carter brought us peace in the Middle East, at least for awhile,
but he might have been the weakest of our recent Presidents Democratically. Lyndon Johnson was a powerful leader, who gave us the "Great Society" and made civil rights a reality, rather than a talking point. Medicare--Great! So many sensational programs. Then there was the only four time elected President FDR. We can only say: THE GREATEST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Woodrow Wilson took us thru WWI! FDR took us thru WW2.
Enough Bear: How any independent, how any laborer or middle class individual could even think about giving Repubs another 4 years to destroy our country, infrstructure, foreign policy,
energy and economy boggles my mind. I probably didn't really say what I think: THE BUSHIES SHOULD BE INDICTED AND SENT AWAY AND MAY EVEN HAVE TO FACE THE INTERNATIONAL COURT AT THE HAGUE FOR THEIR INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF IRAQ! One of the biggest jokes was Bush's comment about bringing a divided country together. He not only made this government the bain of every joke but ordered his Attorney Generals to
violate the law time and time again in their relations with the United States Congress. This Repub run bunch of outlaws ignored the US Constitution time and time again! Of course they were aided six of those eight years by a shoddy Republican Congress.
The Bear wants Barak Hussein Obama to fight with every weapon in his arsenal to counter the dirty, ugly, false, profain, TV ads, E Mails, he will encounter. One last item: This guy Obama is just as much a hero when it comes to his attitude about war and the military as would be hero McCain! The Bear served his two years and he's patriotic too. So are his counterparts who served in Korea, Afganistan, Iraq, Europe, the Pacific and at home. This is not true of Bush. The worst criminal act is to take a country falsely into war, knowing young men and women are going to die and innocent civilians will be slaughtered! Especially when he and his vice president (had at least five deferments I'm told to keep him out of service) wave the flag! When I think of WWI and WWII and compare them to the weenie wars of Grenada and Iraq, I ask you, who was called upon to fight for our country and who led our country in these major catastrophic battles! I ask you!
So come November please, I ask my fellow Democrats, don't be lazy and stay home, my friends who are Independent, be especially independent and "throw the bums out." And then my fellow Dems, it will be up to you to fly into Washington and begin to work extra hard to clean up the crap you will see waiting for you left behind by the most inept, decrepid, stinko, phony, crooked bunch of bad guys our beloved country has ever had lead them! For the people of New Orleans and Mississippi this the Bear has to say: "No Brownie, you and your lazy boss did not due a hellova job!"
Why that might be great for the US Senate, forget it when the gloves come off in any political race. I can speak to a lower escelon race as three times the Bear stood as a candidate for Democratic Committeeman of Gravois Township. I am happy to report that I was successful in every race and after 12 years of politicing for various Demos, retired from the field undefeated. Now even for these lowly offices, you were subjected to a variety of browbeating from my opponent's followers. Whereas I ran as a Democrat running against other Democrats in my race, it was quite funny when at the Webster Groves Community's July 4th parade, while waving to the crowd on the street, several Repub folks held up the almighty finger to show their disdain for any Demo! My favorite comment came from a Republican State Senator in Mo, A.Clifford Jones: When asked in my Government class: "How do you feel about mud-slinging in politics, had this to say: "When the son-of-a-bitch thats my opponent slings mud, I'm slinging it back!"
Now for all you holier than thou politicos that feel the two sides in this year's Presidential race are getting rowdy, I say: Bullshit! If you know anything about the political scenes of year's past, going back to the earliest of battles, e.g. The Washington-Adams-Hamilton-Jefferson days, each side had their own newspapers which had no mercy on their opponents. The Andrew Jackson era which gave us the very first Democrat in the White House was as brutal as any we can recollect and Andy was given to fighting a dual now and then.
Now I find Repubs or independents leading towards the elephant party, all want to claim to be above the battle but in reality they are about the worst, take for instance Karl Rove, a slovenly,
crude, icey, punk, who called the present candidate for the White House every name in the game when he ran against the no-show National Guard pilot, I mean AWOL puke, who has given us eight years of the worst government in our history. Yes, the nasty clean shaven white Republicans were more naucious in 2000 than their Demo counterparts when fighting with one another. Shameful!
Now lets talk facts: First of all, Bush stole the election. We'll give him that since we have been guilty of that from time to time. Then he gave us 8 years of lazy, lacadaisical effort, got us into a ridiculous war, supported by the man who wants to keep this occupation going! I am a veteran so don't wave the flag around me. I served in the area now governed by "the squeeky pig with lipstick" a major fraud, who if she ever allows herself to be interviewed by the press will be shown to have supported the "bridge to nowhere" and bilked her own constituents out of big bucks collecting her per diem on travel to a house she didn't live in! This "my friends" is what I call "cheating." She's part of the group of Repubs up there who would have made Lou Brock seem sincere while he pilfered third base. McCain, when he wasn't collecting rich wives, was all too busy taking his slices of cake under the table and was barely punished by the Ethics Committee in the Senate for conduct unbecoming a US Senator.
I don't ever recollect WWII military being given medals for being imprisoned but I'll give him a pass on that one. At least he showed up unlike the mealey mouthed phony from Texas who not only didn't show for his Alabama national guard meetings, but didn't show on issues like the middle east where he chose to sit this one out when the Palistinians and Israelis were begging for US intervention, where he chose to delay, (not Tom Delay) when thousands were suffering from the ravages of Katrina. He also, with the blessing of our dear friend "old Mac", tried to privatize social security, one of the greatest legislative efforts in American History (mid thirties under FDR), and vetoed an important bill to help our vets only this year because he felt there were too many boondoggles in the bill. Say, I ask, has Iraq been a super boondoggles with all these businesses donning military gear and fighting over there for three times what we pay our troops.
Yes, and the Senator from Arizona wants to keep them there "100 Years" if necessary. Pardon me mister but didn't I see you walking over there with more protection on your body than "Transformer!" "Oh things are just peachy kean!"
McCain is another of these doubting Thomas's when it comes to the environment. He has never been known to favor legislation which would take out after the polluters. In fact he never saw a corporation he didn't embrace.
Well, guess what Lehman Brothers is all but going down on Wall Street, another company which
bought the Republican laissez-faire form of economics which made Herbert Hoover and his boys so famous over the years. More is to come but don't worry Bush, you'll probably be down there in Texas cutting down trees while our Democrats will be doing what they did in the 1930's, fight our way out of the Depression with programs to put people back to work, you Repubs know, those Socialistic kind of programs like the Post Office, Social Security, Medicare, Aid to Education, CCC, AAA, all those Eugene Debs type ideas passed during the New Deal.
Lets compare Presidents over the past 150 years. Here is the Republican lineup: Fighting for the worst President of all times but losing to the present occupant: Warren G. Harding 1920-24.
"Silent Cal" Coolidge, his quiet leadership led us into the Depression! 1924-1928. William McKinley 1896-2002) His political machine might have been the dirtiest of all time and his boys apologized for selecting Teddy Roosevelt as his running mate! Thank God, one Repub we can respect. Oh, of course Tricky Dickey Nixon, who I personally didn't think was too bad, was run out of Washington and oh yes, a guy some people seem to like who gave us a deficit which has hurt us to this day. Bonzo Reagan! Bush Sr I would rate ok and he must be shamed shamed shamed by his son's lack of interest in governing and major indecent and wrongful decisions on foreign policy.
Then you have the Demos and I'llbe quick since their record speaks for itself. Bill Clinton, two terms and just a great and smart President, who did make some personal decisions that we could question and paid for it. Jimmy Carter brought us peace in the Middle East, at least for awhile,
but he might have been the weakest of our recent Presidents Democratically. Lyndon Johnson was a powerful leader, who gave us the "Great Society" and made civil rights a reality, rather than a talking point. Medicare--Great! So many sensational programs. Then there was the only four time elected President FDR. We can only say: THE GREATEST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Woodrow Wilson took us thru WWI! FDR took us thru WW2.
Enough Bear: How any independent, how any laborer or middle class individual could even think about giving Repubs another 4 years to destroy our country, infrstructure, foreign policy,
energy and economy boggles my mind. I probably didn't really say what I think: THE BUSHIES SHOULD BE INDICTED AND SENT AWAY AND MAY EVEN HAVE TO FACE THE INTERNATIONAL COURT AT THE HAGUE FOR THEIR INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF IRAQ! One of the biggest jokes was Bush's comment about bringing a divided country together. He not only made this government the bain of every joke but ordered his Attorney Generals to
violate the law time and time again in their relations with the United States Congress. This Repub run bunch of outlaws ignored the US Constitution time and time again! Of course they were aided six of those eight years by a shoddy Republican Congress.
The Bear wants Barak Hussein Obama to fight with every weapon in his arsenal to counter the dirty, ugly, false, profain, TV ads, E Mails, he will encounter. One last item: This guy Obama is just as much a hero when it comes to his attitude about war and the military as would be hero McCain! The Bear served his two years and he's patriotic too. So are his counterparts who served in Korea, Afganistan, Iraq, Europe, the Pacific and at home. This is not true of Bush. The worst criminal act is to take a country falsely into war, knowing young men and women are going to die and innocent civilians will be slaughtered! Especially when he and his vice president (had at least five deferments I'm told to keep him out of service) wave the flag! When I think of WWI and WWII and compare them to the weenie wars of Grenada and Iraq, I ask you, who was called upon to fight for our country and who led our country in these major catastrophic battles! I ask you!
So come November please, I ask my fellow Democrats, don't be lazy and stay home, my friends who are Independent, be especially independent and "throw the bums out." And then my fellow Dems, it will be up to you to fly into Washington and begin to work extra hard to clean up the crap you will see waiting for you left behind by the most inept, decrepid, stinko, phony, crooked bunch of bad guys our beloved country has ever had lead them! For the people of New Orleans and Mississippi this the Bear has to say: "No Brownie, you and your lazy boss did not due a hellova job!"
Monday, September 1, 2008
THE BEAR SALUTES OUR LABOR FORCE
In 1935 Robert Wagner, a great Congressman and Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, put together a bill that allowed for the labor folk of the United States of America to collectively bargain for wages, benefits etc., a bill, which would allow for many American to advance his life style in the years to come. With legislation setting a minimum wage at .40 an hour and a variety of other perks, the United States of America was able to move the Industrial Revolution in this country forward in a dignified yet controversial way.
Republicans battled every social program introduced by the Democratic Party under the great FDR but because of the laissez-faire that had existed before the advent of Roosevelt, and the suffering of the American people in the early thirties, Democrats controlled both houses of the Congress and this led to what became the New Deal, a series of laws, which to this day, have been a source of controversy but no doubt aided in the growth of this country economically.
Today, the major issue socially is: HEALTHCARE! There is no doubt that in the next ten years a bill will emerge which will, after much debate, fiibustering in the US Senate, speeches by fear mongers that we are becoming a Socialist country, but it will come. In what way it will be fashioned only the times will tell. The Bear has always supported the "single payer" program, which has been espoused by people like Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio. We need to get rid of the private sector completely when it comes to healthcare.
Is healthcare a right? You better believe it! We must allow equality in service to every American when it comes to protecting our health. Almost every progressive country has some form of socialized medicine but for some reason, we are under the impression, the world would come tumbling down on us should we adopt a national program.
So as we stop today to focus however slightly on the advance of Labor or the decline of their influence on American life, remember that in the mid-thirties, the Republican Party opposed Social Security, in the mid sixties Medicare, and in the 21st Century National Healthcare!
Congrats to the pioneers of American Labor, men like Walter Reuther, John L. Lewis, yes even Jimmy Hoffa, wherever you are, for the fight for the common man!
Politically, I urge every independent, who labors every day to create a better America to remember the candidate who will be standing with you in the years ahead. It won't be John McCain and his Repub Party.
Republicans battled every social program introduced by the Democratic Party under the great FDR but because of the laissez-faire that had existed before the advent of Roosevelt, and the suffering of the American people in the early thirties, Democrats controlled both houses of the Congress and this led to what became the New Deal, a series of laws, which to this day, have been a source of controversy but no doubt aided in the growth of this country economically.
Today, the major issue socially is: HEALTHCARE! There is no doubt that in the next ten years a bill will emerge which will, after much debate, fiibustering in the US Senate, speeches by fear mongers that we are becoming a Socialist country, but it will come. In what way it will be fashioned only the times will tell. The Bear has always supported the "single payer" program, which has been espoused by people like Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio. We need to get rid of the private sector completely when it comes to healthcare.
Is healthcare a right? You better believe it! We must allow equality in service to every American when it comes to protecting our health. Almost every progressive country has some form of socialized medicine but for some reason, we are under the impression, the world would come tumbling down on us should we adopt a national program.
So as we stop today to focus however slightly on the advance of Labor or the decline of their influence on American life, remember that in the mid-thirties, the Republican Party opposed Social Security, in the mid sixties Medicare, and in the 21st Century National Healthcare!
Congrats to the pioneers of American Labor, men like Walter Reuther, John L. Lewis, yes even Jimmy Hoffa, wherever you are, for the fight for the common man!
Politically, I urge every independent, who labors every day to create a better America to remember the candidate who will be standing with you in the years ahead. It won't be John McCain and his Repub Party.
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