This'n'That; June Seventeenth #1 More Weiner(s)

Weiner Resigns For $1.3Million Benefit!
    I knew the professional politicians at the federal level were "screwing us to the wall," but I didn't think it was this bad!!  SmartMoney Magazine (published by the Wall Street Journal) has a really good expose' which explains (just) this one area that the politicians legally screw us.  I highly recommend that anyone interested, read the SmartMoney article:
http://www.smartmoney.com/retirement/planning/why-im-jealous-of-weiner-1308253690928/?link=SM_hp_ls1e
    The retirement benefits you and I fund for these schlubs is disgraceful!!  They only have to 'work for us' for ten years and can retire with a substantial (to me) monthly check starting at age 56!  In the Weiner's case, he can take reduced benefits of $25,000 at that age or wait til he's 62 and receive an annual benefit of $35,000 the rest of his life!!  That's with just 12 years' federal employment.  The aforementioned SmartMoney article does a comparison between the Weiner and a commoner like you and I.  Very Informative!
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This'n'That; June Sixteenth #1; Huntsman, Jr

I'm Not Sure....
    Mr Huntsman Jr's primary 'claims to fame' seem to be that of both a businessman and a career politician.  As a businessman, Mr Huntsman has concentrated on the family 'businesses;' the Huntsman Corporation and other family interests.  After college graduation, he worked as an assistant in the "Ronaldus-Magnus" White House-back when it was still "the people's house."  In all, Mr Huntsman has worked for three presidents and one "Clown Prince!"
    There's no question that Huntsman has both business experience and political accumen.  His business exposure has been from at or near the top-but a learning experience, to be sure.  The Huntsman political exposure is primary as we enter the quadrennial pay-cut job quest.

[Why seemingly intelligent, diligent, hard-working {in some cases, hard-golfing} individuals spend un-told millions of dollars to get a $400k-a-year job? It can only be the power and the here-to-fore, prestige attached to the job!]

    Jon Huntsman--much like his father--started early in the political arena:  The aforementioned "Ronaldus-Magnus," the President George H.W. Bush-41, the President George W. Bush-43, administrations as well as the Soros/Jarrett/owe-bama regime.  His experiences include Staff Assistant (Reagan), U.S. Ambassador to Singapore (Bush-41), Deputy Ass't Secretary of Commerce-Trade Development (Bush-41), Deputy Ass't Secretary of Commerce-East Asian, Pacific Affairs (Bush-41), U.S. Trade Representative (Bush-43), two-term Utah Governor and U.S. Ambassador to China (Soros/Jarrett/owe-bama).  This last bit of experience has me a bit concerned.
    Seemingly for all his life, Mr Huntsman, Jr., has been a moderate (at best) republicRAT, then changed horses--midstream--to accept the Chinese Ambassadorship within the current socio-fascist administration.  How does one make that drastic a change in political loyalty without a compromise of one's basic principles?!?  To go from a republicRAT middle-of-the-roader to an allegience with socio-fascism is one hell'u'va leap!!  As for Mr Huntsman's moderatism: A middle-of-the-roader--much like our current socio-fascist--is not what America needs at this point in history!!  The country needs a true hard-liner, somewhere to the right of Limbaugh, Beck, Ingraham, Savage, Hannity, et al!!  The successful republicRAT candidate for president must be ready, willing and able to do the heavy lifting required to bring the country--not back from the brink, but--out of the Soros/Jarrett/owe-bama depression!!  I'm not so sure that--as a moderate--Mr Huntsman has the testicular fortitude to make the tough, temporarily punishing, decisions necessary to get out-of-control spending--and the resultant borrowing--under control!  As Utah Governor, Mr Huntsman has proven he knows both the overbearing effects of a smothering tax policy and the proven results of necessary tax cuts.
We shall see what we shall see!
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This'n'That; June Fifteenth #2; Never Too Late!

owe-bama Proves: Never Too Late....
    "Clown Prince" owe-bama yet again, proved that it's never too late to blame someone else for the country's problems; a quote from the "Clown's" Puerto Rican comments:
"....I see families facing challenges like these, but they are facing them with resolve and determination.  You know, these problems didn't develop overnight here in Puerto Rico or anywhere else, but that means we're not going to solve them overnight.  But day by day, step by step, we will solve them."
    As most socio-fascists do, "Clown Prince" owe-bama refuses to take responsibility for any of his actions.  At every turn--where the economy and jobs are concerned--"Clownie" pushes the blame back onto President Bush-43.  Everything this incompetent boob tries-fails miserably!!  If he throws enough shit at the wall--eventually something will stick!!  It's just the law of averages.
    The primary point of this "Tour d'Lies" visit to Puerto Rico is two-fold.  First, to use the island's residents to sway Puerto Rican voters in the U.S. toward supporting owe-bama's failing campaign for a second reign.  Secondly, to stir shit with respect to Puerto Rico's possible statehood.  The socio-fascists think they'd gain a vast majority of the 2.4million voters currently registered.  Another quote:
"....a report from our presidential task force on Puerto Rican status provided a meaningful way forward on this question so that the residents of the island can determine their own future.  And when the people of Puerto Rico make a clear decision, my administration will stand by you."
     We can all bet our "sweet patooties" that the decision won't be a 'clear decision' until the decision is for statehood!
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This'n'That; June fifteenth #1; Last Of The Pearls!

More Mid-west Pearls Of Wisdom-Again!

• I give you Chicago.  It is not London and Harvard.  It is not Paris and buttermilk.  It is American in every chitling and sparerib.  It is alive from snout to tail. -H.L. Mencken
• [Chicago] The hub of the continent.  -Federal Writers' Project, Illinois: A Descriptive & Historical Guide
• Iowa winters were very cold and I well remember seeing the coal oil frozen in the lamps in the morning. -Catherine Ann McLollum, The Crossroads of America
• The farms and small towns in the eastern half suggest the rich, more densely populated country of Iowa and Illinois.  The cities have much of the fast tempo and business-like ways that prevail in the larger cities of the Midwest.  But, in western Nebraska, fields give way to the great cattle ranches of the sandhill area, life is more leisurely, and manners area more relaxed.  Something of the Old West still survives. -Federal Writer's Project, Nebraska: A guide to the Cornhusker State.
• The people who know the place only by driving through it know the flatness.  They skim along a grade of least resistance.  The interstate defeats their best intentions.  I see them starting out, big-hearted and romantic, from the density and the variety of the East to see just how big this country is.  They are well read, and they have a vision as they come out of the green hills and the vista opens up, a true vision so vast that at night as they drive there are only the farmyard lights that demonstrate lane geometry by their rearranging patterns. -Michael Martone
• Old, genteel St. Louis--T.S. Eliot's city--thought of itself as a slice of cultivated Europe.  It seemed mysitified as to how it had landed here, stranded on the wrong side of the big American river. -Jonathan Raban
• This is a most peculiar state [Indiana].  It may not be so dynamic not yet so creative, sociologically, as it is fecund of things which relate to the spirit-or perhaps I had better say to poetry and the interpretive arts. -Theodore Dreiser
• I had visions of a dark and dusty night on the plains, and the faces of Nebraska families wandering by, with their rosy children looking at everything with awe. -Jack Kerouac
• Iowa is graced by absolutely marvelous people.  I know you hear that all the time, but it's true.  They are clean, brave, thrifty, reverent, loyal, honest and able to brush after every meal. -Donald Kaul
• Indianapolis.... where the practice of the arts was regarded as an evasion of real life by means of parlor tricks. Kurt Vonnegut
• Its women are lovely and stubborn, its men angary and ingenious.  Is there a land anywhere like southern Illinois? -Baker Brownell
• There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood. -Herman Fetzer
• I would never have been President if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota. -Theodore Roosevelt
• Indianans have an ability to see sin at a distance but never at their very feet.  Indianapolis is shocked by vice in East Chicago; Bloomington is horrified by what goes on in Terre Haute or South Bend, and so on. -Roger Branigin
• New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los angeles is a constellation of plastic, San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington wink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter.  Detriot is a one-trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle, St Louis has becom e the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early.  The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught by checkerboards for this sort of game.  But Chicago is a geat American city.  Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities. -Norman Mailer
• That peppery, independent spirit, not entirely foreign to the onery mules who helped make Missouri famous, hs surfaced again and again in Missouri history, redent decades not excepted. -Neal R. Peirce
• Everybody in Des Moines is insured-against fire, flood, theft, hog cholera, death, crop failure, rickets.  Name it, and Des Moines has the insurance to cover it. -Philip Hamburger
• Here is the difference between Dante, Milton and me.  They wrote about hell and never saw the place.  I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years. -Carl Sandberg
• It is a remarkale thing to meet such an assemblage of educated, refined and wealthy persons as may be found there, living in small inconvenient houses on the edge of the wind and prairie. -Harriet Martineau
• Iowa is top-choice America,  America cut thick and prime. -Harvey Arden
• I adore Chicago.  It is the pulse of America. -Sarah Bernhardt
• We struck the home tril now, and in a few hours we're in that astonishing Chicago--a city where they are always rubbing the lamp and fetching up the genie and contriving and achieving new impossibilities.  It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago--she outfrows his prophecies faster than he can make them.  she is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time. -Mark Twain
• Iowa is more a demonstration farm than a place; more some cosmic public relations project to prove that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world. -Richard Rhodes
• Chicago's greatness, her unique qualities, her amazing rise and advance as a ciy cam from an unusual and balanced combination of the best bloood of New England and of the South. -Robert Shackleton
• When an Omaha man (or boy) speaks of a steak, one expects him to pull from his pocket a series of treasured snapshots of steaks. -Philip Hamburger
• Chicago is the ideal locaion for dancing on top of a volcano.  Eruptive and exciting, a city of superlatives.  It exaggerates all the splendor and squalor in America. -Anne O'Hare McCormick
• A Missourian gets used to Southerners thinking him a Yankee, a Northerner considering him a cracker, a Westerner sneering at his effete.  Easteners and the easterner taking him for a cowhand. -William Least
• I feel it is the Amerrican city, a blend of giant industrialism and the rest of America.  New York is a polygot and to me the connecting link to Europe, whereas I regard Chicago as the heart of America, urban, and that strange blend of Sandberg did such a great job of describing. -Ed Asner

    And so it ends!
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This'n'That; June Fourteenth #3; Why Puerto Rico?

Is It The Money?  Sure Can't Be For The Votes!!
    Why did George Soros send "Clown Prince" owe-bama to Puerto Rico?  It can't be the money, there ain't much there!  I didn't think it would be for the votes, cuz those not living in the fifty states can't vote in US elections.   Maybe it is the votes, by association: there's lottsa 'PRs' living in the US who are citizens and thus subject to being hoodwinked into voting for more unemployment, fewer jobs and a worse economy!
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