Friday, October 09, 2009
The Psychology of Encouragement by Alfred Nobel
I was driving to a Health Fair this morning and got reminded again how we, Americans and America, are still the center and the focus of the World. As much as others like China and Russia would like to compete with us, they still look to us to compete. We set the standard. When we abuse that position, as we have for the last eight years, the world shudders, it feels out of control.
As an example of the above, just look at the cold War. The Russians copied every piece of military technology we put in the field. We were considered the leader by them. We built a bomber they built a bomber. We built and ICBM, they built an ICBM. We built a swing wing jet, they built a swing wing jet. We built a MIRV warhead, they built a MIRV warhead. We would build something that did not work, and they would copy it.
The Chinese copy everything from DVD’s and CD’s to tools and trade secrets. They started their own space program with the intent to send a man to the moon. Is this the ultimate flattery or what?
The largest spy network in the United States is run by Israel. They copy technology from military to industrial and take it home to reproduce. We like to brow beat the Chinese about not honoring these proprietary rights but it is Israel that does the most industrial espionage in the United States, and we send them 30 billion dollars a year in foreign aide to help them do it.
In the last eight years, we acted like a 3 year old having a tantrum. We acted on magical thinking, we wanted what we wanted, and we bullied and emotionally derided those who would not go along with what we wanted. We did not play nice in the World, and the World took a back seat to wait till we did something that showed we would come to our senses. The World thought this would happen in 2004 with the election. It did not. We continued our infantile rampage with spokesman like Rush Limbaugh, Jerry Falwell, Glen Beck, and OReilly. This is what the world heard along with the shock and awe of our weapons.
Barack Obama won the Nobel Prize today. The World is sending us a message. They are pleased that we have started electing smart people to be our leaders again. They are saying that we need more reasoned policies, like those proposed by this young President. They are encouraging us to be the best we can be, to take the moral high ground and not wavier from this position of leadership in the World.
I am proud of my country, America. I believe it is a privilege to be the moral and economic leaders of the World. I believe it is also a responsibility we must hold as sacred, to be good stewards of the position we are looked to to perform and that we created. Our new President is leading us in this New direction, not enough of us are willing to set aside politics to follow. They offer no alternatives, only the desire to cling to the disasterphilosophy of the last eight years. Whatever that was.
The Noble prize was awarded to our President not because he has accomplished his many goals working toward Peace, Prosperity, and Safety in the World. The last President gave the message to the World ‘Mission Accomplished’. It was a lie, a publicity campaign to cover up the destruction and despair we had brought to the World, for no good reason than we wanted to. This President has made bold proposals, set high moral goals and expectations for America and those in the World that will be our partners again. He has told America and the World the Truth. We are in for rough times. It will take hard work to get out of the mess we are in and we created. He has set the challenge for America in Health Care, in Energy, in Nuclear Proliferation, in Pollution, in the Financial Markets, and most of all in Philosophy.
I am elated that our President, who happens to be Barack Obama, won the Nobel Prize for Peace. He won it and deserves it because he represents such a starkly positive contrast to the last eight years of disasterphilosophy, that the World now wants to engage with us again.
The addendum to this story is the response. The Radical Republicans that mortgaged the future we are now paying for with our blood and treasure are lining up to condemn this award. They condemn our President, and our country in doing so. They are showing their true colors. They are in the company that befits the bankrupt philosophy they have championed for the last eight years and longer. They line up with the Taliban. They line up with Al Queda. They line up with Hamas. They line up with O’Reilly. They line up with Beck. They line up with Limbaugh. With this stance, they can only retreat behind the walls of hypocrisy or Treason.
As an example of the above, just look at the cold War. The Russians copied every piece of military technology we put in the field. We were considered the leader by them. We built a bomber they built a bomber. We built and ICBM, they built an ICBM. We built a swing wing jet, they built a swing wing jet. We built a MIRV warhead, they built a MIRV warhead. We would build something that did not work, and they would copy it.
The Chinese copy everything from DVD’s and CD’s to tools and trade secrets. They started their own space program with the intent to send a man to the moon. Is this the ultimate flattery or what?
The largest spy network in the United States is run by Israel. They copy technology from military to industrial and take it home to reproduce. We like to brow beat the Chinese about not honoring these proprietary rights but it is Israel that does the most industrial espionage in the United States, and we send them 30 billion dollars a year in foreign aide to help them do it.
In the last eight years, we acted like a 3 year old having a tantrum. We acted on magical thinking, we wanted what we wanted, and we bullied and emotionally derided those who would not go along with what we wanted. We did not play nice in the World, and the World took a back seat to wait till we did something that showed we would come to our senses. The World thought this would happen in 2004 with the election. It did not. We continued our infantile rampage with spokesman like Rush Limbaugh, Jerry Falwell, Glen Beck, and OReilly. This is what the world heard along with the shock and awe of our weapons.
Barack Obama won the Nobel Prize today. The World is sending us a message. They are pleased that we have started electing smart people to be our leaders again. They are saying that we need more reasoned policies, like those proposed by this young President. They are encouraging us to be the best we can be, to take the moral high ground and not wavier from this position of leadership in the World.
I am proud of my country, America. I believe it is a privilege to be the moral and economic leaders of the World. I believe it is also a responsibility we must hold as sacred, to be good stewards of the position we are looked to to perform and that we created. Our new President is leading us in this New direction, not enough of us are willing to set aside politics to follow. They offer no alternatives, only the desire to cling to the disasterphilosophy of the last eight years. Whatever that was.
The Noble prize was awarded to our President not because he has accomplished his many goals working toward Peace, Prosperity, and Safety in the World. The last President gave the message to the World ‘Mission Accomplished’. It was a lie, a publicity campaign to cover up the destruction and despair we had brought to the World, for no good reason than we wanted to. This President has made bold proposals, set high moral goals and expectations for America and those in the World that will be our partners again. He has told America and the World the Truth. We are in for rough times. It will take hard work to get out of the mess we are in and we created. He has set the challenge for America in Health Care, in Energy, in Nuclear Proliferation, in Pollution, in the Financial Markets, and most of all in Philosophy.
I am elated that our President, who happens to be Barack Obama, won the Nobel Prize for Peace. He won it and deserves it because he represents such a starkly positive contrast to the last eight years of disasterphilosophy, that the World now wants to engage with us again.
The addendum to this story is the response. The Radical Republicans that mortgaged the future we are now paying for with our blood and treasure are lining up to condemn this award. They condemn our President, and our country in doing so. They are showing their true colors. They are in the company that befits the bankrupt philosophy they have championed for the last eight years and longer. They line up with the Taliban. They line up with Al Queda. They line up with Hamas. They line up with O’Reilly. They line up with Beck. They line up with Limbaugh. With this stance, they can only retreat behind the walls of hypocrisy or Treason.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
The Health Care problem in America
You are witnessing a fight to the death of the Profits, overcompensated CEO's, and shareholders of the Health Care industry with the people of the United States. I have heard polls saying that 70% of the Americans support a Public Option. I have heard that the government is going to take over YOUR Health Care. I have heard that the government is going to decide whether your Grandmother should live or die. I do not believe a lot of the rhetoric from either side of the debate vs shrill screaming maniacs.
Here is what I know. I am a provider on many different insurance panels. A lot of my colleges are not. I know why they are not, they got tired of the constant fight with Health Insurance companies to get paid. They take private pay(CASH)only and certain EAP's(Employee Assistance Program) that are very easy to work with. These same Therapists are now seeing dramatic drops in their Private Practices because most of the public in these hard times cannot afford $120 an hour, even for Therapy. I do not want to embellish my ability, but I saw this coming. That is one reason I decided to get paneled on every insurance that I could.
My other reasoning for taking and keeping my standing in the Health Insurance quagmire is I believe that if people earn benefits they ought to be able to use them. I encourage people to use what they pay for if they need it. In this time of economic challenge, my Private Practice is full. This does not mean I am doing better than other Therapists, I am not. I spend a minimum of 60 -90 minutes a work day per week trying to extract payment from the Health Insurance industry. So, per hour if someone charges $100, and they take cash, they get $100 for their effort minus overhead. I charge $100, but Health Insurance companies will only pay $60(which I am willing to take for the sake of the client) minus overhead, but it is also minus $15 for the extra time I have to spend trying to get paid from the Health Care industry. So, I make $45 an hour minus my overhead. This is dramatically less than my colleges make per hour because of the Health Insurance industry.
This is the same industry which the naysayers to Public Sponsored insurance say does a better job than the Government. This is the same industry that pays their CEO's 7 and 8 figure incomes, 9 figure incomes if you include bonus and stock options. This is the same industry that is spending 1.8 million dollars a day on the Congress to stop a Public Option in any reform bill that comes from Congress. Gee they must be really scared.
Something else I know, Health Insurance company profits increased during 2002 to 2006 from 1.7 billion to 15.6 billion dollars.
This is the same percentage increase as the rise in Health Care costs. This happens while the same companies deny payment to me for silly reasons like, they cant read the date of birth, they do not have the name spelled correctly in their system, they did not record an authorization when they client called in to get the authorization(even though they have a record of the client calling), and sometimes they just do not pay until I have submitted the bill several times. I have gotten paid as long out as 8 months. This is ALL of the Health Care companies. Some EAP's are good to work with. Victim Witness(a government sponsored Health Payment program)is good to work with and pay full fee. This is what I know about the Health care industry.
It is time to have a real debate about Health Care in America. Everyone agrees that we need a change. If government sponsored Health Care is so bad, we will need to change Medicare and the Veterans Administration, because they are the largest government sponsored Health Care administrations in the world. I would prefer to have the government to work with, they would have one set of forms to fill out instead of 12 different forms. I would have only one set of benefits to bill for instead of the convoluted 4-5 sets of benefits for each company. The government does this kind of thing out of stupidity, insurance companies make this process confusing in order to make money. They do make a lot of money.
Here is what I know. I am a provider on many different insurance panels. A lot of my colleges are not. I know why they are not, they got tired of the constant fight with Health Insurance companies to get paid. They take private pay(CASH)only and certain EAP's(Employee Assistance Program) that are very easy to work with. These same Therapists are now seeing dramatic drops in their Private Practices because most of the public in these hard times cannot afford $120 an hour, even for Therapy. I do not want to embellish my ability, but I saw this coming. That is one reason I decided to get paneled on every insurance that I could.
My other reasoning for taking and keeping my standing in the Health Insurance quagmire is I believe that if people earn benefits they ought to be able to use them. I encourage people to use what they pay for if they need it. In this time of economic challenge, my Private Practice is full. This does not mean I am doing better than other Therapists, I am not. I spend a minimum of 60 -90 minutes a work day per week trying to extract payment from the Health Insurance industry. So, per hour if someone charges $100, and they take cash, they get $100 for their effort minus overhead. I charge $100, but Health Insurance companies will only pay $60(which I am willing to take for the sake of the client) minus overhead, but it is also minus $15 for the extra time I have to spend trying to get paid from the Health Care industry. So, I make $45 an hour minus my overhead. This is dramatically less than my colleges make per hour because of the Health Insurance industry.
This is the same industry which the naysayers to Public Sponsored insurance say does a better job than the Government. This is the same industry that pays their CEO's 7 and 8 figure incomes, 9 figure incomes if you include bonus and stock options. This is the same industry that is spending 1.8 million dollars a day on the Congress to stop a Public Option in any reform bill that comes from Congress. Gee they must be really scared.
Something else I know, Health Insurance company profits increased during 2002 to 2006 from 1.7 billion to 15.6 billion dollars.
This is the same percentage increase as the rise in Health Care costs. This happens while the same companies deny payment to me for silly reasons like, they cant read the date of birth, they do not have the name spelled correctly in their system, they did not record an authorization when they client called in to get the authorization(even though they have a record of the client calling), and sometimes they just do not pay until I have submitted the bill several times. I have gotten paid as long out as 8 months. This is ALL of the Health Care companies. Some EAP's are good to work with. Victim Witness(a government sponsored Health Payment program)is good to work with and pay full fee. This is what I know about the Health care industry.
It is time to have a real debate about Health Care in America. Everyone agrees that we need a change. If government sponsored Health Care is so bad, we will need to change Medicare and the Veterans Administration, because they are the largest government sponsored Health Care administrations in the world. I would prefer to have the government to work with, they would have one set of forms to fill out instead of 12 different forms. I would have only one set of benefits to bill for instead of the convoluted 4-5 sets of benefits for each company. The government does this kind of thing out of stupidity, insurance companies make this process confusing in order to make money. They do make a lot of money.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Welcome to the new theme
I believe I have found my voice again. The last administration was terrible, and I needed to speak out against it vehemently as I did. Others did as well. But they were only part of the problem, and you will see many more things come out where they committed agregious acts against our freedom and civil liberties for purely partisan gain. The horrors that have yet to be reveiled about the last administration will pale as I illuminate the real problem facing the United States in the 21st century.
Please stay tuned and hopefully together we will be educated.
Rest easy tonight for we have a long road ahead of us.
Please stay tuned and hopefully together we will be educated.
Rest easy tonight for we have a long road ahead of us.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
GMAC bail out, good money after bad.......
This BAIL OUT BULLSHIT has now become personal. GMAC the economic lending institution that has helped GM sell us all those gas guzzlers that killed our planet is now getting money to sustain itself.
I remember these guys. I lost my job in another city and had to move back to my home town to start over. I had to declare bankruptcy. It was hard times in the 80's but I did it I had a brand new car, financed through these BASTARDS at GMAC. I wrote them letters and tried to negotiate with them. They would not. I went to Bankruptcy and wrote them saying that I would keep making my payments. They charged me a late fee for each and every payment that I made for two and a half years on time to them after that. I tried to make double payments. I tried letters. No. GMAC charged me a late fee for all the time left on my contact. I vowed never to do business with them again and I have not.
I did have a great time with the $600 that the disasterpresident sent me for stimulating the economy. I am not enjoying the payoffs of 4 billion dollars to the BASTARDS that were not willing to help me out when I was down. It is time to let these old institutions fail. We need a NEW WAY of doing CAPITALISM, because 'Free' Market Capitalism does not and is not working. We need to move to COOPERATIVE CAPITALISM, where people and not institutions or the FED have a say in how wealth is distributed in society.
I remember these guys. I lost my job in another city and had to move back to my home town to start over. I had to declare bankruptcy. It was hard times in the 80's but I did it I had a brand new car, financed through these BASTARDS at GMAC. I wrote them letters and tried to negotiate with them. They would not. I went to Bankruptcy and wrote them saying that I would keep making my payments. They charged me a late fee for each and every payment that I made for two and a half years on time to them after that. I tried to make double payments. I tried letters. No. GMAC charged me a late fee for all the time left on my contact. I vowed never to do business with them again and I have not.
I did have a great time with the $600 that the disasterpresident sent me for stimulating the economy. I am not enjoying the payoffs of 4 billion dollars to the BASTARDS that were not willing to help me out when I was down. It is time to let these old institutions fail. We need a NEW WAY of doing CAPITALISM, because 'Free' Market Capitalism does not and is not working. We need to move to COOPERATIVE CAPITALISM, where people and not institutions or the FED have a say in how wealth is distributed in society.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Our double standard at work again........
It amazes me again. We are going after some silly Governor for selling a Senate seat. For a pay for play system of campaign contributions to stay in power. The press are hounding him. He cant go out for a jog without a troop of reporters there, asking him questions that everyone knows he is not going to answer. He told them the other day 'Hang Loose'. Everyone took this as brazen. Dont we still live in a Democracy. Have you all gotten so jaded by the elimination of Habeas Corpus and having your phones tapped that you have lost your sensibilities of peoples rights? This guy is getting assassinated in the press before he gets his day in court. Do we rule by the mob, or by Jerry Springer Justice? That was France in 1789.
I dont see anyone going after the disasterpresident for giving out no bid contracts to the people that made contributions to get him into office. I dont see the press interrupting his jog to ask him why he and his vice disasterpresident and his disastersecretary of Defense authorized the torture, and rendition of US citizens and foreigners. I dont understand why the American people have not stood up and thrown shoes at these Traitors to American(and World)Democracy. We have lost our senses as well as our rights under the Constitution. We are allowing now the Rape of our wilderness and the further erosion of our rights by the last minute orders of Treasonist Bastards.
Of course this does not surprise me, we stood by and allowed this disasteradministration to Kill and Maim thousands of our sons and daughters for Political and Economic gain.
The guy(Muntazer al-Zaidi) is the bravest man in the world the other day. He did what we have all been thinking, show this coward for what he is. We need to hold ALL our leaders to a better standard and do something about it with all of them if they appear to go astray. THERE NEEDS TO BE A WAR CRIMES TRIAL FOR ALL THE TOP DISASTERADMINISTRATION LEADERS. If we as a people dont do this, then it will be our sons and daughters that were ordered to do their dirty work(just like at Abu Ghraib)that will be put on trial for WAR CRIMES.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Our pockets being picked again......
Why not let big OIL bail out big AUTO.......
Well here we are again. Corporate SOCIALISM run wild. We the tax payor are looking to bail out the auto industry. If we look at who owns the Auto industry, we would say why bother. My blog of 1/9/07 spelled it out well;
Oil Prices Fall About $2 a Barrel to Lowest Levels in 18 Months on Rising Inventories in U.S.
LONDON (AP) -- Oil prices fell about $2 a barrel Tuesday to their lowest levels in 18 months in a market expecting more mild weather and rising inventories in the United States.
Temperatures in the U.S. Northeast have been above normal this winter, curbing demand for heating fuels in the world's largest heating oil market.
The above is just the first catch lines from an AP news post courtesy of Google where most of you search and get your news today. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE NEWS? I posted a blog in early October regarding Oil prices and supply and demand. I warned then that Big Oil was lowering gasoline prices($2.15 per gallon) in the face of rising Oil prices($68 per barrel) at the time to ease the Republican midterm election. Did anyone listen? Maybe. I said that after the election there would be higher prices because win or lose, Big Oil would not need to help anyone, just themselves to gross, unheard of profits. These profits come from you and me. Are you ready to still buy gas guzzeling cars America? Are you ready to continue with the same popaganda campaign from American auto makers for the global damaging cars that they have to give you incentives to buy? The price of a barrel of Oil is less than $59. The price of a gallon of gasoline now is $2.55 now. Lets see.......that means supply and demand work opposite than what I learned in school. I was taught with more supply price goes down. I am so glad to live in America, the land of the FREE MARKET, where Oil prices go down and the cost of gasoline miraculously goes UP. That is not the only thing, the profits of Big Oil go up also. You know what does go down? The cost of GAS GUZZELING autos goes down. Since the Republicans are no longer for sale in Congress because they were marginalized by the American People, the only way Big Oil can shove their profits down the throats of the American public now is to control their driving habit. See the website below for the details of Big Oils ownership of the American Auto Industry and therefore The Gas Guzzelers that We 'Choose' to drive.
http://www.ev1.org/gmoil.htm
ownership of shares by company of GM stock:
Chevron $469,000,000 worth
Exxon $844,000,000 worth
Connoco Phillips $312,000,000 worth
BP $82,000,000 worth
other $404,000,000 worth
Boy you would think that these companies have a vested interest in America buying gas guzzeling cars. I guess if I was making 10 billion dollars a quarter like Exxon, I would have a vested interest.
There are a couple of Dirty Harry questions that you have to ask yourself.
Was it worth having the Rebulicans giving tax breaks to Big Oil?
Was it worth getting rid of alternative energy vehicles at the cost of the Environment?
Was it worth turning economics on its head to put money in the pockets of a few rich Corporations?
We have to demand a fair society, where market forces are governed by market forces and not the manipulations of a few wealthy corporations with the purchase of government co-conspiritors(Read Republicans). You elected people to Represent a new direction for our society, hold their feet to the fire.
I do know why we got rid of the electric vehicles in the 70's and I do know why we have not been able to build other than gas guzzlers. So lets figure, Exxon made 33 billion dollars last year with the last quarter yet to be counted. They could actually bail out the auto industry, and tuck away a tidy profit of 8 billion dollars. We could keep buying the gas guzzlers that they direct the big 3 auto makers to build, and they would still OWN, with the rest of Big OIL, two profitable industries. Hey they could even lobby Congress so that we still consume FOREIGN OIL at a higher rate......Wait a second. They already have done that.
Like the price of gas now? It has no relationship to the real price that they are paying in the world. So go out and buy that SUV that is on sale now. Cheap gas is designed to make you feel better so you will continue to purchase the gas hog. The industry keeps saying we did not build green cars because America did not want green cars. Of course, they did not tell you that it was their advertising that got you out to buy the crap they were selling, rather than what America really wanted. That is really why smaller foreign cars gained so much market share in the last two decades. Big Oil through Big Auto are trying to pick your packets again. Do you feel it America?
Phillip Wister
Well here we are again. Corporate SOCIALISM run wild. We the tax payor are looking to bail out the auto industry. If we look at who owns the Auto industry, we would say why bother. My blog of 1/9/07 spelled it out well;
Oil Prices Fall About $2 a Barrel to Lowest Levels in 18 Months on Rising Inventories in U.S.
LONDON (AP) -- Oil prices fell about $2 a barrel Tuesday to their lowest levels in 18 months in a market expecting more mild weather and rising inventories in the United States.
Temperatures in the U.S. Northeast have been above normal this winter, curbing demand for heating fuels in the world's largest heating oil market.
The above is just the first catch lines from an AP news post courtesy of Google where most of you search and get your news today. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE NEWS? I posted a blog in early October regarding Oil prices and supply and demand. I warned then that Big Oil was lowering gasoline prices($2.15 per gallon) in the face of rising Oil prices($68 per barrel) at the time to ease the Republican midterm election. Did anyone listen? Maybe. I said that after the election there would be higher prices because win or lose, Big Oil would not need to help anyone, just themselves to gross, unheard of profits. These profits come from you and me. Are you ready to still buy gas guzzeling cars America? Are you ready to continue with the same popaganda campaign from American auto makers for the global damaging cars that they have to give you incentives to buy? The price of a barrel of Oil is less than $59. The price of a gallon of gasoline now is $2.55 now. Lets see.......that means supply and demand work opposite than what I learned in school. I was taught with more supply price goes down. I am so glad to live in America, the land of the FREE MARKET, where Oil prices go down and the cost of gasoline miraculously goes UP. That is not the only thing, the profits of Big Oil go up also. You know what does go down? The cost of GAS GUZZELING autos goes down. Since the Republicans are no longer for sale in Congress because they were marginalized by the American People, the only way Big Oil can shove their profits down the throats of the American public now is to control their driving habit. See the website below for the details of Big Oils ownership of the American Auto Industry and therefore The Gas Guzzelers that We 'Choose' to drive.
http://www.ev1.org/gmoil.htm
ownership of shares by company of GM stock:
Chevron $469,000,000 worth
Exxon $844,000,000 worth
Connoco Phillips $312,000,000 worth
BP $82,000,000 worth
other $404,000,000 worth
Boy you would think that these companies have a vested interest in America buying gas guzzeling cars. I guess if I was making 10 billion dollars a quarter like Exxon, I would have a vested interest.
There are a couple of Dirty Harry questions that you have to ask yourself.
Was it worth having the Rebulicans giving tax breaks to Big Oil?
Was it worth getting rid of alternative energy vehicles at the cost of the Environment?
Was it worth turning economics on its head to put money in the pockets of a few rich Corporations?
We have to demand a fair society, where market forces are governed by market forces and not the manipulations of a few wealthy corporations with the purchase of government co-conspiritors(Read Republicans). You elected people to Represent a new direction for our society, hold their feet to the fire.
I do know why we got rid of the electric vehicles in the 70's and I do know why we have not been able to build other than gas guzzlers. So lets figure, Exxon made 33 billion dollars last year with the last quarter yet to be counted. They could actually bail out the auto industry, and tuck away a tidy profit of 8 billion dollars. We could keep buying the gas guzzlers that they direct the big 3 auto makers to build, and they would still OWN, with the rest of Big OIL, two profitable industries. Hey they could even lobby Congress so that we still consume FOREIGN OIL at a higher rate......Wait a second. They already have done that.
Like the price of gas now? It has no relationship to the real price that they are paying in the world. So go out and buy that SUV that is on sale now. Cheap gas is designed to make you feel better so you will continue to purchase the gas hog. The industry keeps saying we did not build green cars because America did not want green cars. Of course, they did not tell you that it was their advertising that got you out to buy the crap they were selling, rather than what America really wanted. That is really why smaller foreign cars gained so much market share in the last two decades. Big Oil through Big Auto are trying to pick your packets again. Do you feel it America?
Phillip Wister
Monday, October 13, 2008
A letter of response to the Brainwashed of the Country....
Well, lets see, most all the White guys that have sat in the Oval office for the last 200+ years have been RACIST so why not try another kind of RACIST there. What could it hurt? Their characters were never questioned from this standpoint until you got to George Wallace and then Racism was no longer tolerated by the MAJORITY of Americans. So now we do our RACISM below board, just like Barack is now according to this email. So let's sit back and enjoy another RACIST in the oval office. Maybe Barack will favor Black people and then they will get rich like their White neighbors across town and then maybe they will not be on welfare.
Phillip Wister MFT
---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:07:30 -0700
>From: Sandra Graham
>Subject: Please Read
>To: Bill Fratus,Bonny Roberts ,Brian Graham ,Camille Coulter ,Cheryl Loring ,Christina Veltkamp ,Denise McDonald ,Donna Haggerty ,Gene & Linda Henrich ,Jeri & Ron Green ,Jim & Lynette Gibson ,Kent Graham ,Linda Trotter ,Mike & Donna Berry ,Phillip Wister ,Rai McGee ,Renee Kenyon ,Rod Ballou ,Sharon Varness ,"sundertease61@yahoo.com" ,Tammy Krumvieda ,Tammy Srch ,Tosha Casagrande ,Val Vigil ,Wendy Payne ,Wendy Saffold
>
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>
> For all of you who still think this man is not a
> racist and a Christian read some of the excepts from
> his books. Sandra
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> From Dreams of My Father:'I ceased to advertise my
> mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began
> to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating
> myself to whites.'
>
> From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in
> nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and
> animosity against my mother's race.'
>
> From Dreams of My Father:'There was something
> about him that made me wary, a little too sure of
> himself, maybe. And white.'
>
> From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary
> to prove which side you were on, to show your
> loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and
> name names.'
>
> From Dreams of My Father:'I never emulate white
> men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my
> own. It was into my father's image, the black man,
> son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes
> I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and
> Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'
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> And FINALLY the Most Damning one of ALL of them!!!
>
> From Audacity of Hope:'I will stand with the
> Muslims should the political winds shift in an
> ugly direction.'
>
> * If you have never forwarded an e-mail, now is
> the time to Do so!!! We CANNOT have someone with
> this type of mentality running our GREAT nation!!
> I don't care whether you a Democrat or a
> Conservative. We CANNOT turn ourselves over to
> this type of character in a President. PLEASE help
> spread the word
Phillip Wister MFT
---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:07:30 -0700
>From: Sandra Graham
>Subject: Please Read
>To: Bill Fratus
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> For all of you who still think this man is not a
> racist and a Christian read some of the excepts from
> his books. Sandra
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> From Dreams of My Father:'I ceased to advertise my
> mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began
> to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating
> myself to whites.'
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> From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in
> nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and
> animosity against my mother's race.'
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> From Dreams of My Father:'There was something
> about him that made me wary, a little too sure of
> himself, maybe. And white.'
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> From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary
> to prove which side you were on, to show your
> loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and
> name names.'
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> From Dreams of My Father:'I never emulate white
> men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my
> own. It was into my father's image, the black man,
> son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes
> I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and
> Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'
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> And FINALLY the Most Damning one of ALL of them!!!
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> From Audacity of Hope:'I will stand with the
> Muslims should the political winds shift in an
> ugly direction.'
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> * If you have never forwarded an e-mail, now is
> the time to Do so!!! We CANNOT have someone with
> this type of mentality running our GREAT nation!!
> I don't care whether you a Democrat or a
> Conservative. We CANNOT turn ourselves over to
> this type of character in a President. PLEASE help
> spread the word
