Wednesday, August 04, 2004

Politics & Politicians

I don’t know what to do. I’ve started this many times but it just seems so pointless. There are many blogs out there that have something to say and perhaps they feel as I do that ‘we’ need to be doing something, I know I do. I don’t know if this specific problem is addressed or not but for the few, if any that read this, here it is. It is but a fraction of what I know of and that is only a fraction of what is going on, reason enough to be concerned.

Senator Bill Frist, M.D.  Republican, slipped a bill through congress that stops any law suits against pharmaceutical companies. Like they really needed it. Ah! Where to begin? The pharmaceutical industry spent 3 billion dollars last year convincing Americans they are sick and need to buy their product and/or ask their doctor to prescribe their product despite the fact that many do little or nothing and often they are just slight reconfiguration of older products sold at a new higher price. And it works. They have the doctors push their drugs with sweetheart deals and they (the pharmaceutical companies) have one of the largest lobbies in congress so be assured nothing is going against them there. As they spend heavily on advertisement you will never hear the media say anything bad about them or their products and news items going against the pharmaceutical companies are treated with kid gloves.

 Than, the FDA, who is supposed to be the part of the government on our side is packed with people catering to the pharmaceuticals. Virtually every head of FDA has left for very high paying jobs in the drug industry taking their government retirement with them.  The FDA has their own courts in their own building so if you have a problem with a drug company it is like holding court in the enemy camp with the enemy as your judge and jurors.

The government is in this so blatant they have decided to hide their corruption in plain sight. e.g. The drug bill for the elderly has one of its main components to stop people from going to Canada to get cheaper drugs. Hello! A drug manufactured in the US is cheaper to buy in Canada? You bet they are, and why? The drug companies make no attempt to hide the disparity in prices (hidden in plain sight), they argue that they need the “excess” profits to create new drugs. Is that right? They spend 3 billion dollars on advertisement and say they want the money for research? 3 billion dollars would have paid for a lot of research.

It is politics, if they repeat it enough times, you will believe it. They have the politicians, bought and paid for, now they are just helping them stay in power by keeping the focus on the drug companies and drumming into your head that they ‘deserve’ to screw people in the US. The drug industry has lobbied hard to get rid of all ‘natural’ substances that cure anything, they don’t make any money off of that. The FDA has issued what are essentially ‘laws’ that if it cures anything, the FDA has jurisdiction over it. Thus, if you put on a vitamin C bottle that it may help with the prevention of colds the FDA will demand millions of dollars of testing just to prove it. In the meantime they often exempt large manufactures of any external testing taking instead whatever ‘they’ say they did to test the product internally.

If it is some little guy trying to sell an inexpensive product that may help remedy something and he says so, it comes under the FDA and they make you prove that it will do what ever it is that it is supposed to do and in their eyes. You can bet you don’t have a chance.  The pharma owns the FDA. The little guy just doesn’t have a chance. I, personally, used to buy some herbs that helped with my allergies. There is no question, they helped. But it said “Allergy” on the bottle and the FDA made them quit marketing the product.

It is not Just the Pharmaceutical Companies, not by a long shot. It was found that putting ground up tires in asphalt not only did it substantially increase the life of the pavement, it was a use for the millions of old tires we have around the USA. A win win situation if you ask me. So what happened to that? The asphalt industry lobbied congress. They argued they would be losing so many jobs if we put out a better product. Since when do you lose money for putting out a better product? I'll bet you never heard that one on the media.

Speaking of the media, that 3 billion dollars the pharmaceutical industry spends each year, they spend it on the media. Do you really think the media is going to say something bad about a company that pays them 3 billion dollars a year? They (the media) don’t have a problem with telling Osama Bin Lauden that we are listening in on his phone calls but do you think they will tell us the pharmaceutical industry is making us sick and bilking us out of billions? Not a chance.

Did you know that you cannot start a farm growing peanuts and sell them in the US? You can't, it is the law. If you already are, your grandfathered in. Ex-president Jimmy Carter can sell his peanuts in the US, he’s protected. Why should you care? Because the price of peanuts is more than twice what it would be on the open market. 

A similar but much more complicated thing goes on with sugar. Importation of sugar into the US is restricted. Essentially only one company is allowed to.. The same group that gives lots and lots of money to both political parties every year. Yes, and the price of sugar in the US is almost twice what it should be. The candy manufacture of life savers moved to Canada and it wasn't because sugar cane grew better up there, the cost of sugar in the US drove them out.

So, who is paying for the pharmaceutical profits (as much as 3000%), the asphalt industry, the sugar industry, the, the, the, the, the? Why, we are of course. And the reason is the fat cats we call politicians, the people we elect to protect us are corrupt, corrupt corrupt. The standard of living should be twice what it is now for every American if it weren’t for congress spending all of its time figuring out how to stay elected in the most lucrative of jobs in the world. They keep that job by Bull Shitting Americans and they do that with the help of the media, big business and lots of money.

 Can you imagine working at the following Company? It has a little over 500 employees with the following statistics:

* 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
 * 7 have been arrested for fraud
 * 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
* 117 have bankrupted at least two businesses
* 3 have been arrested for assault
* 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
* 21 are current defendants in lawsuits
* 84 were stopped for drunk driving (in 1998 alone) Can you guess which organization this is? Give up? It's the 535 members of your United States Congress. The same group that perpetually cranks out hundreds upon hundreds of new laws designed to keep the good ship USA on an even keel. Did you know the average person making under $15,000 a year gives approximately $25 to chairty? Did you know the average politician/staff give 1/5 of a cent a year?

****************** Alexander Tyler, (in his 1770 book, Cycle of Democracy) "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over a louse fiscal responsibility, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."
*************************** War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest thing. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares about more than his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill 1806-1873
 ************************** BILL CLINTON's Service Record before becoming Commander in Chief: The truth must be known. You should see Hillary's file.
Bill Clinton registers for the draft on September 08, 1964, accepting all contractual conditions of registering for the draft. Given Selective Service Number 326 46 228.
Bill Clinton classified 2-S on November 17, 1964. Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on March 20, 1968. Bill Clinton ordered to report for induction on July 28, 1969.
Bill Clinton dishonors order to report and is not inducted into the military.
Bill Clinton reclassified 1-D after enlisting in the United States Army Reserves on August 07, 1969, under authority of Col. E. Holmes.
Clinton signs enlistment papers and takes oath of enlistment.
Bill Clinton fails to report to his duty station at the University of Arkansas ROTC, September 1969. Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on October 30, 1969, as enlistment with Army Reserves is revoked by Colonel E. Holmes and Clinton now AWOL and subject to arrest under Public Law 90-40 (2)(a) 'registrant who has failed to report...remain liable for induction'.
Bill Clinton's birth date lottery number is 311, drawn December 1, 1969, but anyone who has already been ordered to report for induction is INELIGIBLE!
Bill Clinton runs for Congress (1974), while a fugitive from justice under Public Law 90-40.
Bill Clinton runs for Arkansas Attorney General (1976), while a fugitive from justice.
Bill Clinton receives pardon on January 21, 1977, from Carter.
Bill Clinton FIRST PARDONED FEDERAL FELON ever to serve as President.
 All these facts come from Freedom of Information requests, public laws, and various books that have been published, and have not been refuted by Clinton. After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and injured 1,000; President Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished. After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five US military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished. After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 US military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished. After the 1998 bombing of US embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and injured 5,000; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished. After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39 US sailors; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished. Maybe if Clinton had kept those promises, an estimated 3,000 people in New York and Washington, DC that are now dead would be alive today. THINK ABOUT IT! It is important! It is a strange turn of events.
Hillary gets $8 Million for her forthcoming memoir. Bill gets about $12 Million for his memoir yet to be written. This from two people who spent 8 years being unable to recall anything about past events while under oath! PS Now daughter Chelsea, "The Horse Mouth", will get $120,000.00 a year right out of college. Will it buy influence with the Lady Senator or the former President? Sincerely, Cdr. Hamilton McWhorter USN (ret) This is an interesting bit of information that you don't hear much about in the media --- a.. Enron's chairman did meet with the president and the vice president in the Oval Office. b.. Enron gave $420,000 to the president's party over three years. c.. It donated $100,000 to the president's inauguration festivities. d.. The Enron chairman stayed at the White House 11 times. e.. The corporation had access to the administration at its highest levels and even enlisted the Commerce and State Departments to grease deals for it. f.. The taxpayer-supported Export-Import Bank subsidized Enron for more than $600 million in just one transaction. Scandalous!! g.. BUT...the president under whom all this happened WASN'T George W. Bush. h.. SURPRISE ......... It was Bill Clinton!
**************************** A letter to the President: Whether you love him or hate him...read this "letter," ... it's too good to pass by. Hate it as you may, but you can't argue with this letter to the President. This needed to be said a long time ago. Eric Jowers, a retired Army Officer, who served as public affairs officer at Fort Rucker from 1989 to 1991, wrote this letter. He now lives in Ozark, Alabama. Dear Mr. President: It's not about sex. If it were, you would be gone. Like a principal or teacher who had sex with a student teacher half his age at his desk during school hours, you would be long gone. Or, just like Army Sergeant Major Gene McKinney, while found not guilty, was forced to resign amid accusations of sexual abuse. Remember the Air Force general you refused to nominate as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff because he admitted an affair 15 years before while separated from his wife? Unlike you, he wasn't accused of having a starry-eyed intern my daughter's age perform oral sex on him while on the phone and with his wife and daughter upstairs. If it were about sex, you should be subjected to the same horrible hearings Clarence Thomas was because of Anita Hill's accusations. He was accused of only talking dirty to her. He didn't leave semen stains on her dress. No, it isn't about sex. It's about character, lying, arrogance and abuse of power. It's about dodging the draft. When it came up in the campaign, you concocted a story nobody believed, but we excused you and looked away. It's about smoking dope. "I didn't inhale," you said. Sure, and when I was 15 my buddies and I swiped some beer from an unwatched refrigerator. We drank it but didn't swallow. "I broke no laws of the United States," you said. Right. I guess you smoked it overseas where you were demonstrating against the USA. Nobody believed you, but we excused it and looked away. It's about selling overnight stays in the White House to any contributor with untraceable cash. It's about Whitewater, Jim and Susan McDougal, Arkansas former-Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, Vince Foster, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and countless others. It's about removing records from Foster's office while his body was still warm and "not noticing them" in your bedroom for two years. It's about illegal political contributions. It's about soliciting contributions and selling influence at Buddhist temples and in the same White House where Lincoln and FDR led their country through the dark days of wars that threatened our nation. But we excused you and looked away. It's about hiding evidence from Ken Starr, refusing to testify, filing legal motions, coaching witnesses, obstructing justice and delaying Judge Starr's inquiry for months and years, then complaining that it has gone on too long. Thank goodness, Starr didn't excuse you or look away. He held on like a tenacious bulldog. Your supporters say you've confessed and asked forgiveness. A confession in the face of overwhelming evidence isn't a confession at all. And you certainly didn't apologize. Not that it would matter. A confessed murderer is still a murderer. When your "confession" didn't sell, even to your friends, you became more forthcoming, but you've misled us too much already. Voters can't believe what you say, and neither can your cabinet, Congress or world leaders. When a leader's actions defame and emasculate our country as profoundly as yours have, it is no longer a personal matter among you, your family and your God. I don't believe Hillary was unaware of your sexual misadventures, abuses of power and pattern of lying. I believe she has been a party to your wrongdoings since long before Whitewater and Gennifer Flowers. Why? So she could share in the raw power your office carries. You two probably lied to Chelsea, but that is a matter among you, your family and God. Remember the sign on James Carville's desk in the 1992 campaign? It said, "It's the economy, stupid!" Put this sign over your desk: "It's about character, stupid!" No, it's not about sex. It's about character. But we must live with your lies and arrogance a while longer. Your amorality and lack of character have been as pervasive as they have been despicable, and we have no reason to believe you'll resign and go away. You'll count on half-truths, attack dogs and spin doctors to see you through, the country be damned. You think we'll excuse you and look the other way. No more. We've had enough. When every parent, grandparent, uncle, aunt, teacher, minister, elected official and diplomat has to apologize for your actions, you've lost all moral authority and the right to lead. Now go away and let us show everybody that our country was not without morals; only you were. Let us show them America wasn't the problem; William Jefferson Clinton was. Go away, Mr. President. Leave us alone. And when you leave, know that your legacy to the USA will be a stain on the office of president that is as filthy as that on Monica's dress. It will take a lot of scrubbing to make it clean again, and you're not qualified for the job.
 ********************************* Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow black panther named Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was suspected of disloyalty. Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized, his friends tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him. When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member, Warren Kimbo took Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn. Perhaps at this point you're curious as to what happened to these Black Panthers. In 1977, that's only eight years later, only one of the killers was still in jail. The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship to Harvard. He later became an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State College. Isn't that something? As a '60s radical you can pump a bullet into someone's head, and a few years later, in the same state, you can become an assistant college dean! Erica Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by boiling the water for Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was elected to a California School Board. How in the world do you think these killers got off so easy? Maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the defense of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as to shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black Panthers during their trial. One of these people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan Lee, as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He isn't a member of a California School Board. He is now head of the US Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? Is this other notable Panther defender now a school board member? Is this other Panther apologist now an assistant college dean? No, Neither! The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at the time. She is now known as The "smartest woman in the world." She is none other than the Democratic candidate for the US Senate from the State of New York----our lovely First Lady, the incredible Hillary Rodham Clinton. And now; as Paul Harvey says; you know (the rest of the story). Only in America! Alexander Tyler, (in his 1770 book, Cycle of Democracy ) "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over a louse fiscal responsibility, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage." During the cold war our congressmen built a bomb shelter costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars that was 40 minutes from Washington D.C.. Unfortunately, a submarine launched missile would reach Washington in only 20 minutes so the money was wasted. This is the same people that in order to save money they decided that ketchup could be considered as a vegetable when it comes to school lunches. Congress spent over one hundred thousand dollars each, for the video cameras (e.g. C-Span) that does electronic cosmetics on the congressmen so they don't look like the ancient decrepit old men that they are. The top Senator from Massachuset (Kennedy) has repeatedly secured funds for a road in Boston that surpassed a Billion dollars a mile for a 11 mile piece of road and it is not yet completed. But he is assured re-election at the rest of the nations expense. Homosexual I was thinking about the government and the way they will say or do anything to stay in power. The government/industry is using the Gay controversy, just as they used the UFO hysteria to hide military secrets, they are using it to hide their non-response to industrial pollution. It confounds me that this never hit the media or was never under investigation, but it makes sense. The government/industry doesn’t want you to realize the connection between pollution and gene abnormalities because they are getting lots of money from those very people to hide that fact. I had been reading about the effects of combinations of low level wastes (we are talking parts per billion) that combined; multiplied their effects on the body which effectively put the government toxic standards, which only tests one substance at a time; out the window. (http://www.eic.org). To capsulize what was said, Hormones are the bodies chemical messenger and they interact with something called receptors. So today with so many additives to our food and environment, so many chemicals being created and released accidentally or purposely it turns out that many of these chemicals fool the receptors into thinking 'they' are the messenger and are absorbed into the cellular structure. So here we are in the 21st century and virtually everybody has at least some Hormone Disrupting Chemicals (HDC) in our systems and without question some areas are going to be more susceptible than others. But by far the most susceptible are the unborn. Just imagine the problems that could be caused to a just forming human being if some of the earliest hormones (messenger) is gets are the wrong ones. It turns out that one of the things most affected is the sex organ. Go on the WEB and search ‘hormone disrupting chemicals’ and see for yourself. Many U.S. sites have recently disappeared off the WEB but they are having difficulty silencing all of them and especially foreign countries. No politician would dare acknowledge the fact that they are taking money from somebody that is making America homosexual.

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