SUPER BOWL: Obama / O'Reilly Interview...

Watched the Super Bowl last night.

The game had me going till the end. I wanted the Packers to win because they are in our division (black & blue) and the Steelers had won enough times already.

Thought Aguilera flubbed the national Anthem and basically screamed it although she did sing it live…balls.

Thought the Black Eyed Peas sucked (never liked them anyway) and the whole half-time show sucked.

Was looking forward to the commercials but they also sucked big time; it is as if imagination died and all they had left was mindless and tasteless nonsense…too bad.

The OBAMA and BILL O’REILLY interview before the game was a surprise to me at least. I think O’Reilly is an ass and I think the FOX news network is a lying, manipulating propaganda machine for right wing nitwits.

O’Reilly tried his old tricks like putting words in the president’s mouth and making sly comments at the end of Obama’s answers and then abruptly asking another question. Obama saw that and did not allow O’Reilly’s comments to stand without a proper answer.

O’Reilly tried to portray the president as a person the nation hates…how does it feel to be so hated…and opposes…the nation is against Obamacare…well the nation may be divided but it is definitely not all one sided as O’Reilly tried to imply…asshole.

O’Reilly also wanted to imply that the president does not like football or knows anything about it…not like a “real” American. Obama wanted to tell O’Reilly to eat shit but gracefully answered that he was having a Super Bowl party at the White House and once the game starts, he will be concentrating on the game.

I think the president acquitted himself well in the interview and anybody that really paid attention to the interview would have seen what an ass O’Reilly really is but many have blinders on and see and hear what they want to see and hear…unlike myself who is always oh so objective.

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WEATHER: Detroit weathercasters suck...

I just finished ranting about the weather forecasters here in Detroit that predicted two (2) feet of snow, causing a panic, and all we got was 4-6 in my area and now the same idiots went home on the weekends saying nothing to worry about AND WE GOT DUMPED ON.

At least the WXYZ-TV weather caster said he should be wearing a paper bag on his head for missing the big snow dump of 6-8 inches that we got on Saturday.

The problem with being sooooooooo wrong is that the snow plow crews listen to them to alert them to impending snow storms so they can get out there on a timely basis. In this case, they were caught by surprise as we all were and had to rush out there; traffic was a mess but THANK HEAVENS IT WAS A SATURDAY.

In the old days, professional weather forecasters would study all the instrument readings and actually “predict” the weather based on those readings.

Now they just depend on a computer to read those instruments and the computer actually creates a “computer model” of the weather to come.

These highly paid weather people need to start using their own brains and not the computer’s “brains” and don’t blame the damn computers for being wrong…

UNIONS: Obama to allow airport screeners to unionize...

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I have written on many occasions how I detest Obama’s pro-union stance and his constant attempts at helping the unions grow or shall we say survive, since many of those unions are dying and should be allowed to die peacefully and get the hell out of the nation’s hair.

But Obama feels he owes something to the unions as all Democrats do? What? Unions don’t control votes and that has been proven over and over again; union workers vote for whomever the hell they want to.

Unions do have money and maybe that is what Obama is doing this nonsense for. I don’t understand why Obama keeps pushing unionization when he knows full well that the country is sick and tired of greedy, lazy-ass, corrupt unions messing with our economy. In fact, many states are going bankrupt trying to pay inflated public union wages, benefits and pensions; states are considering just cutting those unions off.

Now Obama has decided to allow AIRPORT SCREENERS to unionize. The TSA is quick to point out that the unions would have limited issues they could bargain on after all the TSA protects American lives and can not be open to work slowdowns or strikes or deliberate worker sabotage of equipment to get their demands met…oh no!

Teachers cannot legally strike BUT THEY DO and so will the airport screeners and when they do you will have to resurrect Ronald Reagan to fire the whole bunch of them as he did the air-traffic controllers who also were not allowed to strike either because if they did the country and all its citizens  would be seriously disrupted.

I hope the Republicans and Democrats with a brain stop this madness from happening. I do not want my flight to be cancelled because airport screeners decided they would go on strike!

This is another strike against OBAMA in my book and he is going to have to weigh in the next campaign just how many votes he will lose due to his union ass-kissing. Americans want their economy back and they know they will not get it back if unions are allowed to keep sucking the life out of that economy.

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WEATHER: There is no end to this...

Here we go again...

TURNING 70: My sister is 70?

Yesterday, we celebrated a milestone in our family; my older sister Zenia, turned seventy…that’s right, the big 70.

She does not look 70 and is in pretty good health but the fact that one of my siblings turned 70 makes gives me pause…

It isn’t like we are getting any younger. I will turn 64 this year and my younger sister will be 63. I have a brother-in-law that will be 67 and my wife’s brother will be 69 so the 70s are around the corner for many of us but when the first person turns 70 it kind of seems special; good that the person made it to 70 but bad because time is slowly running out.

We had a good time at a local bar & grill and my mother also attended to help sing STO LAT. My mother who will be 89 this May must feel weird although she did not show it. Imagine having your first born turn 70; I can’t.

EGYPT: Mubarak supporters make their stand...

Watching the events unfold in Egypt, you could swear it was a love fest with families walking about so the children would have some history to be part of, soldiers hugging the protestors, protesters eager to be interviewed by the foreign media…wow, if all revolutions could be just like this one.

Well you knew it could not last. Mubarak promised not to run for re-election but would remain as a caretaker president until new elections could be held in the fall. Well, that is not what the protestors had in mind; they wanted him gone now!

Just as many people in Egypt wanted Mubarak gone so they can start enjoying some freedom and some economic opportunities, there were also those that have prospered under Mubarak; to get elected, he did need supporters after all.

So those who will suffer if Mubarak leaves hired some thugs to break up the love fest and we saw that happening today. I don’t think the revolution will end like in Iran because it has come too far and the army will not let the pro-Mubarak hooligans harm the legitimate protestors but some violence is inevitable.

You will notice that in Jordan, King Abdullah who sat on his ass all these years while his people pined for change got into gear hoping he is not too late.

Yemen’s president is also saying he will not run again and making concessions to the people.

I bet the boys in Saudi Arabia are sweating some, hoping the revolution does not come to their land; a land from which they have prospered immensely and still the women there have no rights whatsoever.

History is in the making and I am loving it…

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WEATHER: Snow at my house...

I will admit a snow day once in a while is pretty nice...

WEATHER: Forecasting games in Detroit...

We gave all the employees a snow day on Wednesday because were warned that the mother of all storms was going to be descending on Detroit Tuesday night (10 to 16 inches). We did not want people to be risking their lives coming to work.

Wednesday morning we were told that we received maybe 4 to 6 inches of snow and I could see cars zipping down Warren as if nothing had happened.

I will admit that because of the high wind, my house had some major snow drifts but roads appeared fine and our sub’s roads were already plowed when we got up in the morning. I am not sure how much snow accumulation to expect during the day.

All week, Channel Seven (7) WXYZ-TV was warning us about the calamity about to befall us. Schools were closed based on the forecast, some businesses like ours also closed based on the forecast and I don’t know how many thousands of people took the day off based on the forecast and for what…

My wife overheard a lady talking in the grocery store where people were stocking up for the end of the world, that only a weather forecaster can get paid handsomely to be wrong and never apologize for being wrong and the next day, people eagerly tune in to hear the forecast for the next day from the same guy…go figure.

All that fancy and expensive equipment they use to forecast the weather and Mother Nature still has her way. We have escaped all the big snow storms this winter and these guys are not bright enough to temper their words with well…MAYBE we will get this much snow instead of yup, definitely.

I am getting tired of the local news stations making weather as always the breaking news story; we live in Michigan morons, we expect snow.

I also get tired of all those reporters stationed all over the area to report if a snow flake has fallen in their area…how stupid is that and of what benefit to the viewer?

I have been watching WXYZ-TV News since I was a kid but lately I have been surfing; there has to be a saner station somewhere (2 or 4?). I still like the sports guy Don Shane because he is a serious reporter but Diana Lewis needs to retire. Her childish gaga-goo-goo  reporting is embarrassing; Robbie Timmons was good but old and knew when her time was up...Lewis may need a push.

Whoever makes the decisions at the station also needs to be replaced for sacrificing the news for basic feel good bullshit.

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Close Call for King Tut: The Break-In at Cairo's Prized Museum - Yahoo! News

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Close Call for King Tut: The Break-In at Cairo's Prized Museum - Yahoo! News

The idiots were looking for gold. Ironic that grave robbers hundreds if not thousands of years ago were looking for the same thing. Some things just never change.

EGYPT: A Historic Moment...

By now, I think everybody in the world is watching Egypt because events there will result in a historic change that may influence our history for many years.

I don’t think there will be an abrupt takeover by the Muslim Brotherhood; there will be a gradual transition but after that, who knows.

I was listening to some Egyptians in the U.S. who were protesting in Los Angeles. When asked why they were protesting they replied that they hated Mubarak and wanted him gone. When asked why they hated Mubarak, one of the ladies said that he supports Israel and Israel is our enemy.

That statement, from a person in the U.S., shows why the U.S. government is scared of a change in regimes. Mubarak was against radical Islam and actually worked for a Mid-East peace accord; the next regime may not be so moderate.

I was very saddened to see the Cairo Museum damaged. I am a huge fan of history and have studied Egyptian history for many years. To me damaging or looting artifacts that are 3,000 to 4,000 years old is a SIN. I was happy to see the army as well as ordinary citizens defend the museum.

Visiting Egypt is on my “Bucket List” (what to see before you kick the bucket) and we were planning a trip there when I noticed that elections were to be held this year and said that we better wait. Boy am I glad I did that but I am so sad for the people that went anyway; some 50,000 Americans are stranded there.

I hope the events in Egypt will domino in the Middle East and I hope the dominos reach IRAN for another try at toppling the clerics from power.

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Tunisian women rally ahead of Islamist leader's return - Yahoo! News

Tunisian women rally ahead of Islamist leader's return - Yahoo! News

The one thing that I mentioned could make matters worst in the Arab Countries rioting for change is if the change takes them BACKWARDS into a theocracy which is basically a dictatorship of religious clerics. Women definitely would suffer and they know it. One thing Tunisia did in the past that was good is to ban radical Islamic parties and their leaders, some were exiled. No use changing one dictatorship for another, democracy is the only way to go.

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EGYPT: Democracy on a roll?

The citizens of Egypt are rioting, sparked by the rioting in Tunisia.

The riots are fueled by Twitter and Facebook accounts?

Egypt is a much larger country (80 million) than Tunisia (10 million) and is a strong ally of the United States and stands firm against radical Islam.

The rioters in Egypt are also from a broad spectrum of Egyptian society; white collar, blue collar, peasant, professor, etc. which is a good thing. The group also includes Muslims and Christians and that may prohibit a radical Islamic party from taking power but the threat is always possible.

In similar situations, it is the army or the person that controls the army who decides how the country will be run.

Some are saying that the people have had it with dictators and want democracy? Wow, that is a tall order but could this become a domino effect?

George Bush attacked Iraq to make it into a democracy with the hope that once other nations see how great Iraq is doing, they will convert to democracy. Obviously, Iraq and all those dead American soldiers did not precipitate a democratic revolution in the Arab world but one young Tunisian may have.

This may be defining moment in our history….stay tuned…

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TUNISIA: And now it begins...

You cannot help but notice that something big is going on in the Arab world.

Tunisia, in Northern Africa, erupted in riots forcing the long term president and dictator to leave the country. Now people Egypt and Yemen are rioting. Algeria, Lebanon and Jordan are having issues also.

Why?

Tunisia, the historical Carthage of ancient history, has not been in our news until now. And it all started with one young man who abandoned all hope of a satisfying life in his country of Tunisia.

It appeared that this highly educated Tunisian could not find a job because of the miserable economic conditions and was reduced to selling fruits from a cart in the town square to support his family of parents and siblings.

A female police officer told him he cannot sell his fruits in the square and as he protested, she slapped him. When he went to complain to the authorities, he was thrown out.

Feeling he had reached the end of his rope, he self-immolated. Self-immolation is setting oneself on fire. As suicides go, this has got to be the scariest since you are alive while you burn.

I can just imagine the young man’s thought process before he set himself on fire, the despondency, the inadequacy, the utter hopelessness.

Obviously, others in Tunisia felt and feel the same way and his martyrdom sparked them to finally act.

This is not a new scenario. Remember Romania and its ruthless dictator who lived lavishly while the nation suffered; and the corruption running rampant where only the few can enjoy life supported by the downtrodden. I will learn more specifics about conditions in Tunisia but suffice it to say, they were not what the people wanted them to be.

This is a very tricky situation because usually in cases like this a religious faction can rise to the top and take control. This is what we saw happen in Iran after the Shah was overthrown and look at the problems we have with Iran today and more importantly, look what the citizens of Iran have got themselves into. They now try to riot to get back a semblance of democracy but the clerics are too strong and they must live, downtrodden in a theocracy.

So far, we have not seen a grab for power by any Islamic party and the rioters are from the broad spectrum of society; not representing just one group.

The world is holding its breath…could this change the face of the Arab world as we know it?

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DETROIT: Some progress...

I really have to say how much I admire the work Robert Bobb, emergency financial manager of the Detroit Public School (DPS) system is doing despite all the road - blocks erected to impede his mission; one brave and determined professional fighting Detroit’s entrenched culture of corruption and incompetence.

The latest brave move by Bobb was to privatize DPS custodial services to save $75 million. He is allowing five (5) minority-owned firms to take over custodial services for the school system.

Bobb defended his move by saying that the core mission of DPS is not cleaning schools but educating students.

One of Detroit’s big problems is that people depend on the city for employment when it is not the business of the city to employ people; the city must provide services not employment.

City unions, including the union providing custodial services to DPS have been riding a gravy train for many years with no real accountability for their performance. Yes, all the current jobs will be lost but the workers can be re-hired at their same rate of pay and doing the same job by the companies now taking over the custodial services after passing background checks and fingerprinting.

To me, this is the wave of the future and the only way cities like Detroit can survive. Bobb and Bing face tremendous obstacles but I am so buoyed by the successes they are having…

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DETROIT: THEY are trying to take over...

Didn’t take long for a Detroit issue to get me screaming at the TV again; this time it concerned the Detroit Water Department.

Recently, I reported that the feds uncovered long time corruption in the department most recently by ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his buddies. The department has faced corruption charges before and that is why the department was overseen by federal judge John Feikens since 1977. Now we know ole’ Feikens was not paying too much attention to the department letting all sorts of shenanigans go on under his watch.

The Detroit water and sewer department services the suburbs and charges the suburbs for the services at an increasing rate. Now some of the suburbs and specifically Oakland County’s L. Brooks Paterson, are saying that the city of Detroit can no longer be relied on to run the department as evidenced by the corruption and mismanagement revelations. That makes logical sense to me.

A bill has been introduced in the state legislature to create a regional (city & suburbs) authority to govern the system.

Mayor Bing has said that he and the city will handle the department’s problems and many want to give him the chance to do just that and I tend to agree with that but I can understand others saying that because of the culture of corruption in Detroit, it would be unwise to let Detroit and Detroiters handle the problem, not when the suburbs are paying ever increasing fees that appear to just feed the corruption and mismanagement there.

What got me on my feet and screaming at the TV news was not the above described dilemma but video of Detroit leaders screaming against the attempt by the “suburbs” to “steal” the water department from the city and its citizens with one leader screaming that “they” took our schools and now “they” want to take our water department.”

Well that just makes my blood boil.

How dare they complain that “they” took our schools away when it was they – Detroit and Detroiters – that allowed the school system to be so corrupted and mismanaged that parents were sending their children to the suburbs just to get a basic education with real pencils and books and computers; something unavailable to Detroit students because their teachers and principles stole their supplies to re-sell them.

I admire Mayor Bing and do believe he deserves a chance to make things right but those screaming meemies, inciting emotions by accusing “outsiders” of trying to steal city “treasures” when it is they that want to steal from the city treasures, need to get a kick in the ass and a dose of painful reality.

I applaud L. Brooks Paterson for pointing out that the emperor has no clothes on.

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DETROIT: Race and Remembrance...

I recently ran into a couple of articles about the African-American community that made me stop and take notice.

One was a letter in the editorial section of a Detroit newspaper. The letter was penned by Dr. Arthur L. Johnson, a former executive of the Detroit branch of the NAACP and former executive at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Dr. Johnson goes back quite some time in the whole civil rights movement and was president of the local NAACP till 1993. What prompted his long letter was a disappointment with the current local chapter of the NAACP leadership. According to Dr. Johnson, when he left his leadership position, the branch was the largest, the richest and the best run branch in the whole country; it is now destitute!

He specifically mentions the Rev. Wendell Anthony as the man who took control of the branch after he left and, it seems, as the man that brought the branch down to its present sorry state. The Rev. Anthony, if you remember, is one of the Baptist ministers that I mentioned as part of the Detroit culture that supported the now imprisoned Kwame Kilpatrick, former mayor of Detroit.

Dr. Johnson presents a partial list of transgressions of NAACP policies and practices which included the non-payment of dues to the national NAACP which led to delegates from Detroit to the national convention unable to be seated.

The branch headquarters is now in foreclosure due to non-payment of property taxes.

The Rev. Anthony established a Freedom Institute which hosts events and collects funds that do not go to the NAACP but to Anthony. The insinuation here is that Anthony collects these funds under the pretext of collecting them for the NAACP.

Dr. Johnson is calling for a forensic audit of all finances of the branch. These are very serious allegations but up to today, the Rev. Anthony continues to collect funds representing the NAACP and is featured in the papers and on TV as representing the NAACP but no one knows where the money is going and it appears, at least to me, that no one is questioning where the money is going.

Usually, the papers or TV news will investigate such serious allegations but nary a peep from them. Are they afraid of being called racists? Are they afraid to anger such a prominent Detroit leader and churchman? Is this the Kwame Kilpatrick story all over again?

Dr. Johnson probably resorted to writing such a scathing letter in a public forum, exposing the inner shenanigans of a once proud branch of the NAACP because he probably did not get any satisfaction when he presented his case to the leadership of the organization; it appears the public does not care either.

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UNIONS: All the other ones too...

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I am most knowledgeable about the UAW unions here in Michigan but unions in general like the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, etc. will be in the news in the coming months and especially what we call the Public Workers unions like government unions, teacher unions, etc.

The reason for unions to be in the news is that for us to fix our economy, we have to address taxpayer largesse towards the unions and how that needs to be ended.

I lump the Teamsters and the AFL-CIO with the UAW as greedy and corrupt unions that want to force themselves on our economy because, lets face it, they have it good and want the gravy train to continue.

Public unions like government workers, teachers, etc. I have special issues with.

Number one, public unions should not be getting higher benefits and pay than normal workers get in the private job sector. I think the old adage about civil service work still applies today when we say that they are lazy and really don’t have to try hard because they work for the government and that means they cannot get fired. Well, that needs to end and as in the Postal Service, that will end because the Postal Service will end.

Many states are broke and to balance their budgets, like in Michigan, they have to cut and the fat public unions are a good place to start and I know our governor definitely intends to do just that.

Public union workers like garbage collectors and teachers cannot strike but they do and we let them. I remember Ronald Reagan handling of the airport traffic controller’s strike; he fired them all and that is what needs to be done when public employees illegally strike. In many cases, such as the garbage collectors; their jobs need to be privatized.

Also, public employees are too cozy with elected officials that are supposed to be their bosses; give me what I want and I will vote for you and not make any trouble for you so you can get re-elected. That needs to end.

This year will be an interesting year as far as these unions are concerned because the taxpayers are mad that some people are somehow privileged and on a taxpayer gravy train while they suffer…things will have to change.

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UNIONS: The UAW wants forced unionism...

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Unions and unionism is another pet issue of mine even though many in my family were and are union members; mostly UAW.

Unionism had its place in history; there is no doubt about that. Workers were mistreated and they needed to have some protection from unscrupulous bosses that could fire people on a whim.

Unions did help create a middle class in this country and especially in Michigan as the auto capital of the world. Many people came to Michigan, including my family, because of the potential of good, stable jobs that were available in the auto industry.

Unionism was a success because their main weapon was the strike which crippled a specific company allowing competitors to gain market share.

The UAW grew fat, lazy, greedy, stupid and corrupt. My brother-in-law who was union for over 40 years complained about the gradual degeneration of the union.

The recent collapse of the auto industry pointed fingers at the complicity of the UAW in the collapse. All of a sudden the UAW wanted to be partners with the auto companies; willing to take lower wages just to preserve their jobs.

Things got better with a taxpayer bailout but now the unions want to go back to the days of yore’ and the taxpayers are in no mood for that nonsense to happen again.

The UAW, with the lowest number of members in their history, is now fighting for its life and Bob King, the president, readily admits that fact. He also says that the UAW must unionize foreign auto companies and he wants to force those companies to allow the UAW to unionize their plants knowing full well that the auto companies and their workers DO NOT WANT THE UNIONS THERE.

Our newspapers are filled with articles by union leaders trying to justify the need for unionization, even by force, as something this country must have; it makes my blood boil.

One of the positives of Republican rule in the House is to stymie forced unionism which Obama was willing to grant, knowing full well it was unfair and had a negative economic effect on the country just like unionization did during the Great Depression.

I will call attention to and write my Congressmen, every time unionism raises its ugly head to force itself on industry, especially the UAW.

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