The uprisings in the Arab world are good. They show that we are winning the 'War On Terror'.
The event that started in 1776 at Philadelphia like a Tsunami has finally reached the shores of the mid-east. What is written in the Declaration of Independence, these People know and are acting upon, because they have been living under tyranny their entire lives.
The events in Libya show that the U.S. and the free-world are doing what they can to help the transition in this part of the world.
Once Liberated, and these People achieve Freedom of Religion (*we should seek changes in the Constitutions of Iraq and Afghanistan or Withdraw Immediately, because those nations do not have Freedom Of Religion in their Constitutions) and the other Human Rights, they will through Elected Governments stop within their own midst terrorists from gaining foothold, and as well present a much more favorable disposition to the Jewish State which has been a democratic-state since it's creation. These Dictatorial States have been the ones that have instigated and cultured the bigoted side of Islam against the reborn Israel.
To the remaining dictators of the mid-east I say: Schedule elections for the People, lift your police-state abuses, agree to step-down and not run for office as free and fair elections replace you. Otherwise the People will pull your bloody regime apart fistful by fistful. This is not Israel or America doing this to you, but the need of every person everywhere to live free to choose for themselves!
Monday, March 28, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
MY PROPOSALS FOR - NFL & Major League Baseball Reorganization
REORGANIZATION OF NFL
#1 Instead of playing teams in ones Division twice, home and away every year, there will no longer be Divisions of the NFL, and no team will be played more than once a year during the regular season! So, sixteen 'different' teams will be played in the Regular Season. (pre-season schedule is up to each team and/or league)
#2 Standings consist of all teams in one single listing.
#3 Immediately following the last game of each season, the next seasons schedule will be made entirely by 'random' draws.
#4 Playoffs will consist of the top sixteen teams with best won-loss records in regular elimination rounds, (tie-breakers = head to head, mutual opponents, etc.). #5 Pro Bowlers will be selected by determining the Stat Leaders in every category. If they wish to take part in the Pro-Bowl they will be named to one of two teams: Dividing the NFL in half & Consisting of Cities of the East and those West!(based on longitude of the stadiums). The highest finishing coaching staff from the west and the east cities, desiring to take part will fill that role.
REORGANIZE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL:
#1 End DH Rule. In practice that rule elevates the Pitcher above all the other Positions on the Field. Thus it is no longer a 'team' sport.
#2 Combine American & National Leagues into one. The new 'American National League' (combine - overlay - redesign the logos into one).
#3 The American National League Champion every year would compete in a Real World Series against the Champions from an Asian National League, Latin National League, European National League, etc..
#4 Our All-Star game would rotate from city to city through all the major league towns in order (not as to who has the newest stadium), starting with the cities where it has been absent longest, i.e. Tampa Bay Rays and so on, and alternating North to South. The players leading in Stats in every category, after adding the previous season's 2nd half to the new season's 1st half will be the All-Stars, those receiving the highest marks, those representing the Northern Cities and those of the Southern Cities, based on latitude of the Stadiums. (throwback to the Civil War, when baseball was a momentary release for troops & citizens of the North & South). The highest finishing team of the previous season, of the north and of the south, will provide the manager and coaching staff. (Eventually there may be a World All-Star Game)
#5 The sub division of the 'American National League'(ANL) will be Divisions based and kept strictly on the longitude of the various Stadiums. No more than six teams in a division. Adding divisions as expansion occurs, and keeping teams in divisions east to west, and with team moves. Teams will play those within their division slightly more than all others.
Pacific Div. = SF Giants, SE Mariners, OA Athletics, LA Dodgers, LA Angles, SD Padres.
Western Div. = AZ DiamonBs, CO Rockies, TE Rangers, HO Astros, KC Royals, MN Twins.
Central Div. = SL Cardinals, ML Brewers, CH Cubs, CH White Sox, CI Reds, AT Braves.
Eastern Div. = DE Tigers, TB Rays, CL Indians, MA Marlins, PI Pirates, TO BlueJays.
Northeast Div. = WA Nationals, BA Orioles, PH Phillies, NY Yankees, NY Mets, BO Red Sox.
#6 With five division there are three wildcard slots, etc..
#7 Would also like to see: go to non-splintering bat (for public & player safety) of metal or other substance that would be of equal weight of the ash/maple wood and of the same resonance, thus producing the same distance/force hit with a same swing.
#8 Salary Caps and effective parity between teams!
#9 Due for Expansion: Montreal - Vancouver - Porland - Las Vegas
(no Latin Am. cities, for reason previously noted in #3)
#1 Instead of playing teams in ones Division twice, home and away every year, there will no longer be Divisions of the NFL, and no team will be played more than once a year during the regular season! So, sixteen 'different' teams will be played in the Regular Season. (pre-season schedule is up to each team and/or league)
#2 Standings consist of all teams in one single listing.
#3 Immediately following the last game of each season, the next seasons schedule will be made entirely by 'random' draws.
#4 Playoffs will consist of the top sixteen teams with best won-loss records in regular elimination rounds, (tie-breakers = head to head, mutual opponents, etc.). #5 Pro Bowlers will be selected by determining the Stat Leaders in every category. If they wish to take part in the Pro-Bowl they will be named to one of two teams: Dividing the NFL in half & Consisting of Cities of the East and those West!(based on longitude of the stadiums). The highest finishing coaching staff from the west and the east cities, desiring to take part will fill that role.
REORGANIZE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL:
#1 End DH Rule. In practice that rule elevates the Pitcher above all the other Positions on the Field. Thus it is no longer a 'team' sport.
#2 Combine American & National Leagues into one. The new 'American National League' (combine - overlay - redesign the logos into one).
#3 The American National League Champion every year would compete in a Real World Series against the Champions from an Asian National League, Latin National League, European National League, etc..
#4 Our All-Star game would rotate from city to city through all the major league towns in order (not as to who has the newest stadium), starting with the cities where it has been absent longest, i.e. Tampa Bay Rays and so on, and alternating North to South. The players leading in Stats in every category, after adding the previous season's 2nd half to the new season's 1st half will be the All-Stars, those receiving the highest marks, those representing the Northern Cities and those of the Southern Cities, based on latitude of the Stadiums. (throwback to the Civil War, when baseball was a momentary release for troops & citizens of the North & South). The highest finishing team of the previous season, of the north and of the south, will provide the manager and coaching staff. (Eventually there may be a World All-Star Game)
#5 The sub division of the 'American National League'(ANL) will be Divisions based and kept strictly on the longitude of the various Stadiums. No more than six teams in a division. Adding divisions as expansion occurs, and keeping teams in divisions east to west, and with team moves. Teams will play those within their division slightly more than all others.
Pacific Div. = SF Giants, SE Mariners, OA Athletics, LA Dodgers, LA Angles, SD Padres.
Western Div. = AZ DiamonBs, CO Rockies, TE Rangers, HO Astros, KC Royals, MN Twins.
Central Div. = SL Cardinals, ML Brewers, CH Cubs, CH White Sox, CI Reds, AT Braves.
Eastern Div. = DE Tigers, TB Rays, CL Indians, MA Marlins, PI Pirates, TO BlueJays.
Northeast Div. = WA Nationals, BA Orioles, PH Phillies, NY Yankees, NY Mets, BO Red Sox.
#6 With five division there are three wildcard slots, etc..
#7 Would also like to see: go to non-splintering bat (for public & player safety) of metal or other substance that would be of equal weight of the ash/maple wood and of the same resonance, thus producing the same distance/force hit with a same swing.
#8 Salary Caps and effective parity between teams!
#9 Due for Expansion: Montreal - Vancouver - Porland - Las Vegas
(no Latin Am. cities, for reason previously noted in #3)
Friday, March 04, 2011
The Tennis Game
What do the Republicans think they are pushing for now? The ball is in their court to give up something not the Democrats. After all, how soon they forget that tax reprieve for the rich. Now they need to give up something!
Either way, all the Social Security and Medicare will have to come under Means-Testing! Everyone would still pay into the Social Security System and the cap on high earnings lifted! Come retirement time if anyone hasn't money worries going in, they'll not need a government check coming from the U.S. Treasury or their medical paid by Uncle Sam. When we hear about Entitlements, this is where the drain is coming from. Well-enough-off Americans receiving government checks!
Medicaid is already Means-Tested. There is no logical sense cutting into that. Those who can't find a job with a living-wage use it. The same folks that wouldn't be much good at paying off the Republicans Wars!
Either way, all the Social Security and Medicare will have to come under Means-Testing! Everyone would still pay into the Social Security System and the cap on high earnings lifted! Come retirement time if anyone hasn't money worries going in, they'll not need a government check coming from the U.S. Treasury or their medical paid by Uncle Sam. When we hear about Entitlements, this is where the drain is coming from. Well-enough-off Americans receiving government checks!
Medicaid is already Means-Tested. There is no logical sense cutting into that. Those who can't find a job with a living-wage use it. The same folks that wouldn't be much good at paying off the Republicans Wars!
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
REPOST FROM MAY 2008
How to Bring the Price of Gasoline Way-Down.
We have no leadership in the USA! Our elected officials are suppose to watch out for the General Welfare of the People! Because of the effect the private campaign financing system that has evolved, our leadership now consists of the 'Take the Money & Run' type personalities. Why would our leaders allow gasoline prices to get out of hand like it has, and we're being told by them, "You peons have seen nothing yet"! Either they are complete morons (and can't figure out how to solve the problem), or they are pocketing somehow the money we are paying at the pump or are already so wealthy that the gasoline prices haven't pinched them yet, and are buying into Al Gore's preaching that the U.S. must lead by example and force gas prices so high that the peons can't pollute the planet anymore. What they don't see in that regard is that the other nations don't operate the same as the U.S. and Americans are left bearing the pain at the pump when others are drilling and refining more of their own oil. But the Eco-Loonies(they believe they are going to save their own skin at the expense of everyone Else's) are running America and the World following, into the ground! These prices not only effect our personal auto budgets, but will begin a irreversible snowball effect raising every thing involving travel and transport, which is just about the price of everything. That will then weaken our ability to wage overseas military operations. Thus localized warfare will begin to spread across the globe as no superpower will be around to police such situations. With local warfare comes the inability to plant and grow crops. Famine will result. I mentioned our political campaign & election system is now completely eroded from within, and we are getting the kind of politicians that only know how to raise instant cash and spend it foolishly. Not the type of Common Sense people that know basic right from wrong, and stick to it! As an example of the foolish type of thinkers we now have in our legislatures, most will jump on any idea whether they have tied to think it through or not, only if it is the latest fad idea, or if it will somehow fill their pocketbook, no matter if it is right or wrong. For example, recently most every legislator jumped on this bandwagon of 'putting food down inside some fuel-tank or another'. They all praised it and took credit for it. I ran for office myself (I didn't have money to spend on yard signs & radiomercials, etc.), but told my audience that was a damn stupid idea of taking our God given produce and sticking it into a contraption to make it go up in flame in an instant. Whereas the purpose of the sustenance of the ground, sunshine, and rain the Lord gives us is for our bodies fuel alone. Now look what's happening. The cost of food is moving up & up because these moron legislators are only out for the buck, and are not of the mind to do right from wrong. As well, using extensive acreage of arable land for the inexhaustible appetite of the Internal Combustion Engine will wear out the soil so much more rapidly, it may not be good for growing 'anything' within fifteen years, resulting in more famine (and deaths worldwide and here in the U.S.) Don't laugh, I'm telling you so. How to bring down gasoline prices, so that inflation on everything doesn't throw the planet into war & starvation within Fifteen years; Well I will tell you: Common Sense that isn't so common these days. #1 Do not give government subsidies or tax-breaks to already rich Oil Business People. #2 Deregulate the whole Energy field (allow the market place-engine to work) and remove disincentive rules and laws to refining, drilling, exploration. #3 When we are dead out of oil, alright then worry, but until that point don't tell the people we are, and don't act falsely like we are. #4 Give no foreign aid to(except for natural disasters) , borrow money from, or sell military items to governments that are not democratic and that do not extend human rights (As are in Our Bill of Rights, especially Religion, Speech, & Assembly) to it's Citizens. Kowtowing to Saudi Arabia, and the like will only come back on us in a big, bad way. As it is already doing, IE. 9-11, Iraq war, etc.. #5 Accommodate the Caribou, as best as possible and drill in ANWR. Build new Refineries. I live in NW Missouri, and it's said a large gas reservoir is under here. It's everywhere, we are not running out! But, open up the marketplace (not try & force it in one way or another) and it will solve our energy problems all by itself, with every new invention, resource, etc.. #6 Let's change our election system, so it can work for and not against us (this controls everything about our society). We can no longer put every elected office up for the highest bidder to take and use as their own private possession. The playing field Must be Level! Have office seeking candidates be chosen at random (form of sortition) for a predetermined number to appear on the ballot. Then all given equal media coverage run by an independent state agency, so everyone rich or poor is on an equal footing. Our generation Must make this advance on the road of democracy. {read blog entry Oct. 26, 2009 - Public Sponsored Election Campaigns} #7 During the administration of Andy Jackson was the only time in our history when we had zero national debt. Yet now it is at a point where inflation can not be held back. THE GOAL of our next Congress, President, Supreme Court, States, and All The People MUST BE to Pay Down steadily, consistently, reliably, over time, until it is GONE. If we Do not right away, we will have Dooddly-Squat to say on the World Scene very Soon. The Baby Boomers have been Coddled since we drew our first air; however, those of us that are set for life by this time must be taxed, and taxed well. The poor of our nation are not going to provide the funds to save our culture. I support a true proportional income tax, (the so-called fair-sales tax is completely regressive) where ALL individuals rich or poor (no tax on business or organizations) are taxed at the same percentage on their total yearly increase. No exemptions, shelters, etc., etc.. You, whoever you are in charge, I have this to say to you: Crime Never Pays
We have no leadership in the USA! Our elected officials are suppose to watch out for the General Welfare of the People! Because of the effect the private campaign financing system that has evolved, our leadership now consists of the 'Take the Money & Run' type personalities. Why would our leaders allow gasoline prices to get out of hand like it has, and we're being told by them, "You peons have seen nothing yet"! Either they are complete morons (and can't figure out how to solve the problem), or they are pocketing somehow the money we are paying at the pump or are already so wealthy that the gasoline prices haven't pinched them yet, and are buying into Al Gore's preaching that the U.S. must lead by example and force gas prices so high that the peons can't pollute the planet anymore. What they don't see in that regard is that the other nations don't operate the same as the U.S. and Americans are left bearing the pain at the pump when others are drilling and refining more of their own oil. But the Eco-Loonies(they believe they are going to save their own skin at the expense of everyone Else's) are running America and the World following, into the ground! These prices not only effect our personal auto budgets, but will begin a irreversible snowball effect raising every thing involving travel and transport, which is just about the price of everything. That will then weaken our ability to wage overseas military operations. Thus localized warfare will begin to spread across the globe as no superpower will be around to police such situations. With local warfare comes the inability to plant and grow crops. Famine will result. I mentioned our political campaign & election system is now completely eroded from within, and we are getting the kind of politicians that only know how to raise instant cash and spend it foolishly. Not the type of Common Sense people that know basic right from wrong, and stick to it! As an example of the foolish type of thinkers we now have in our legislatures, most will jump on any idea whether they have tied to think it through or not, only if it is the latest fad idea, or if it will somehow fill their pocketbook, no matter if it is right or wrong. For example, recently most every legislator jumped on this bandwagon of 'putting food down inside some fuel-tank or another'. They all praised it and took credit for it. I ran for office myself (I didn't have money to spend on yard signs & radiomercials, etc.), but told my audience that was a damn stupid idea of taking our God given produce and sticking it into a contraption to make it go up in flame in an instant. Whereas the purpose of the sustenance of the ground, sunshine, and rain the Lord gives us is for our bodies fuel alone. Now look what's happening. The cost of food is moving up & up because these moron legislators are only out for the buck, and are not of the mind to do right from wrong. As well, using extensive acreage of arable land for the inexhaustible appetite of the Internal Combustion Engine will wear out the soil so much more rapidly, it may not be good for growing 'anything' within fifteen years, resulting in more famine (and deaths worldwide and here in the U.S.) Don't laugh, I'm telling you so. How to bring down gasoline prices, so that inflation on everything doesn't throw the planet into war & starvation within Fifteen years; Well I will tell you: Common Sense that isn't so common these days. #1 Do not give government subsidies or tax-breaks to already rich Oil Business People. #2 Deregulate the whole Energy field (allow the market place-engine to work) and remove disincentive rules and laws to refining, drilling, exploration. #3 When we are dead out of oil, alright then worry, but until that point don't tell the people we are, and don't act falsely like we are. #4 Give no foreign aid to(except for natural disasters) , borrow money from, or sell military items to governments that are not democratic and that do not extend human rights (As are in Our Bill of Rights, especially Religion, Speech, & Assembly) to it's Citizens. Kowtowing to Saudi Arabia, and the like will only come back on us in a big, bad way. As it is already doing, IE. 9-11, Iraq war, etc.. #5 Accommodate the Caribou, as best as possible and drill in ANWR. Build new Refineries. I live in NW Missouri, and it's said a large gas reservoir is under here. It's everywhere, we are not running out! But, open up the marketplace (not try & force it in one way or another) and it will solve our energy problems all by itself, with every new invention, resource, etc.. #6 Let's change our election system, so it can work for and not against us (this controls everything about our society). We can no longer put every elected office up for the highest bidder to take and use as their own private possession. The playing field Must be Level! Have office seeking candidates be chosen at random (form of sortition) for a predetermined number to appear on the ballot. Then all given equal media coverage run by an independent state agency, so everyone rich or poor is on an equal footing. Our generation Must make this advance on the road of democracy. {read blog entry Oct. 26, 2009 - Public Sponsored Election Campaigns} #7 During the administration of Andy Jackson was the only time in our history when we had zero national debt. Yet now it is at a point where inflation can not be held back. THE GOAL of our next Congress, President, Supreme Court, States, and All The People MUST BE to Pay Down steadily, consistently, reliably, over time, until it is GONE. If we Do not right away, we will have Dooddly-Squat to say on the World Scene very Soon. The Baby Boomers have been Coddled since we drew our first air; however, those of us that are set for life by this time must be taxed, and taxed well. The poor of our nation are not going to provide the funds to save our culture. I support a true proportional income tax, (the so-called fair-sales tax is completely regressive) where ALL individuals rich or poor (no tax on business or organizations) are taxed at the same percentage on their total yearly increase. No exemptions, shelters, etc., etc.. You, whoever you are in charge, I have this to say to you: Crime Never Pays
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