Shame-OUT: Republician Stubborness

IT's NOT time to sit and ARGUE

We're in a Financial Crisis as bad (I believe) as the "Great Depression" (or as I call it now, the Second Depression)...

We are no longer in:

* An election cycle
* A presidential Election
* A period of ""loyal opposition"*
* A time when we can use the 'same old' arguments for/against 'growth' or big government.

The time to argue is OVER. We as Americans have not lived through the times that were prevalent in the first depression of the 1930's.

We can pray, and be grateful, that the head of the Federal Reserve Bank, Ben Bernanke, received his doctorate in studying the 'first (great) depression'.

If Bernanke had not studied the depression so much we would not be at 7.6 percent unemployment on 2/9/09, but we would already perhaps be at double that rate (15%).

I further my argument that now is not the time to play "partisan politics" (democratic or republican). I think that our new president is doing a spectacular job of attempting to be non-partisan, but am totally mystified at the reaction of the republican so called "loyal opposition" when they either say, "More tax cuts, or worse yet, "No more big spending".

Here's what I call the "real deal". (In my opinion), It's going to get much much worse. The economy will not be improving in the short term, or even within 18 months. It will (again in my opinion) get much, much worse.

* The Stock markets will not improve.
* The banks will need to start lending money to people and businesses, but won't until pushed.
* The jobless rate will continue to grow.
* The homeless rates (and foreclosure rate) will continue to skyrocket.

And my number one take-away from this situation:

It's going to require MASSIVE ** amounts of CA$H to pump into our country for us to get out of this second depression. It isn't pretty, it isn't documented (except if you carefully look into the way FDR got us out of the 'great' depression.)

And (as usual for me) *** I used the first depression, and took notes, and came up with a twelve point plan (that the current president has mostly agreed with) to get our country out of this mess.

---> nuff said for now<------

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* Loyal opposition? What happened to the Majority in Congress during the eight years of the 'failed presidency' of George W?

** Excuse the CAPS. I have been attempting to use less capitalized words (I see this as emPHASis), in my posts, but some are occasionally needed.

*** I have no problems admitting that my mind, while less "classically trained" (read: educated), functions faster, and better then some people with doctorates out there. Those with advanced training might disagree, and even violently disagree, but remember it's my blog, but I keep commenting totally open and anonymous comments ARE allowed.

I will be posting an example of this later today/tomorrow as a 'shout-out' to myself for correctly calling the "waterboarding is torture" debacle of three years ago...

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I have been consistently saying many of these things for many years. (This blog has been going since 2006, and has over 600 posts...)

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Dereliction of Duty: Treason Continued

Dereliction of duty

According to Reference.com,
Dereliction of duty

Dereliction of duty is a specific offense in military law. It includes various elements centered around the avoidance of any duty which may be properly expected.

In the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), dereliction of duty is addressed within the regulations governing the failure to obey an order or regulation.

It means that one willfully, through negligence or culpable inefficiency, fails to perform one's expected duties. (Added EMPHASIS:)

Ineptitude is a defense against the charge.

Well I'm on board for that.

We can't impeach the President, but we can charge him with DERELICTION OF DUTY, he can plead guilty by reason of ineptness, and we can all move onThe maximum penalty in the U.S. is

1. a bad-conduct discharge
2. forfeiture of pay
3. and six months confinement

Let's GO FOR it. Prosecute for Dereliction of DUTY!

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Debate: Treason: True or False?

OK. The web makes us lazy. Dictionary.com reports the following meanings for the word TREASON.

trea·son –noun

1. the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
2. a violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state.
3. the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.

—Synonyms

1. Treason, sedition mean disloyalty or treachery to one's country or its government.

1. Treason is any attempt to overthrow the government or impair the well-being of a state to which one owes allegiance;
2. the crime of giving aid or comfort to the enemies of one's government.

Reference.com's encyclopedia entry for Treason shows:

Treason, legal term for various acts of disloyalty.

(source):
The English law, first clearly stated in the Statute of Treasons (1350),
originally distinguished high treason from petit (or petty) treason. aka High Treason.

Petit treason was the murder of one's lawful superior, e.g., murder of his master by an apprentice. In the 1800's, English law was reformed; petit treason was abolished, and cruel methods of executing traitors were forbidden

High treason constituted a serious threat to the stability or continuity of the state.

1. It included attempts to kill the king, the queen, or the heir apparent or to restrain their liberty;
   
2. to counterfeit coinage or the royal seal;
3. and to wage war against the kingdom.
   

Treason is specifically defined in the U.S. Constitution:

Article 3 of the Constitution thus provides that treason shall consist only in levying war against the United States or in giving aid and comfort to its enemies and that conviction may be had only on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act or on confession in open court.

Status in USA:
There have been fewer than 40 federal prosecutions for treason and even fewer convictions.

Proposed:

Based on The new Bob Woodward book, The War Within: A White House divided
In an interview on NPR with Terry Gross, Bob Woodward discusses his fourth book on the Bush 43 Presidency. Listen to the interview HERE:

Woodward states quite clearly, based on personal interviews with the president, that "In key moments, the president was not there at the meetings where [administration members] were confronting the reality that they had a strategy that was not working.”

Hmm. Maybe it's NOT Treason after all. Perhaps "Dereliction of Duty" fits better. Or, perhaps, simply "criminally stupid"?

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Shame-OUT: Alberto won't walk away...He just SLINKS away

Owwwwwwwwwwww.

I thought now that Alberto Gonzales has been gone from our lives for almost a year and a half I'd have nothing else to say about that lackluster, legal lackey.

Yeah, it looks like the ALBERTO man has no ethics, and no B R A I N S either.

Maybe he just forgot that he was the TOP lawman in the country --- Higher then even J. Edgar Hoover was in his cross-dressing life.

Yeah. That's the ticket. He just plain FORGOT he was in charge.

Just like he FORGOT the combination to his SAFE as the Attorney-General of the UNITED STATES.

Now remember I've worked in Computer Security for almost 20 years, and am a VERY big supporter of Individual passwords...

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(Digression:)
That means if you have two email accounts (say gmail and yahoo),
you would NEVER ever EVER use the SAME password for both, in case ONE of them got compromised!

(end digression)

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BUT ... THIS BOZO forgot the password to his OWN SAFE!!!!!

(another digression)

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In my professional life, I never gave the password out to different systems. However, in case I was hit by a truck, the manager was given a double sealed Envelope.
Inside the First envelope was a envelope saying. Master Password list for XYZ system
do not open unless an emergency.
The outside envelope was simply a handwritten message, saying "From Mark"
(and ideally, that envelope would go in Manager's Safe (or in this case Manager's Secretary's Safe!)
to quote Bugs Bunny, "What a Maroon"

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But ABC/AP reports (oh, my head hurts again!)

Internal DOJ Report Found AG Had a Safe, Forgot Combination

The inspector general's investigation found that despite the highly sensitive nature of the National Security Agency program, which has been shrouded in secrecy for years, Gonzales not only failed to keep notes and documents related to it in proper safes, but he also kept top secret classified notes about the program unsecured at his house.

"Our investigation found that Gonzales mishandled classified materials while serving as attorney general," the report from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine noted. "The evidence shows that he took [Top Secret]/[Sensitive Compartmentalized Information] notes about the NSA surveillance program to his residence and improperly stored them in a briefcase there for an indeterminate period of time."

OW... The pain of it... Poor (dead/buried/gay/anti-gay) J. Edgar Hoover must be rolling over in his grave....

I can't go on. Read about the indignities the chief lawyer of our country
performed as he mis-handled the {CLASSIFIED} papers he was using to misHANDLE the laws and duties of OUR COUNTRY..

I want a TREASON investigation!

DO you?

TORTURE=TREASON


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The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.