DamSpot’s World

Ol’ DamSpot has been MIA for awhile. Got another operation done to try and survive long enough to see George Bush run out of office.
Gas prices are going through the roof as well as food prices.
One thing I don’t see the candidates doing is assuring us that there is a way out of this mess.
McCain figures the war is going to drag on. Hillary…..she’s a total wash, and I’m seriously keeping my fingers crossed that Obama makes it, as he has a lot of big people pissed off, and that’s good. Just hope he lives long enough to see the victory. He wouldn’t be the first one that crossed the Clintons or Israel and was found dead.

Dear Mr Obama,
You are coming into the final lap of the race for President and there are a few things you need to work harder on.
Stay away from 3rd rail politics like Social Security And Health Care issues. Focus your energy on the illegal war and what you would propose to put a speedy end to our involvement. That will automatically free up money for future programs after you are elected.
Stay away from talking about bailing out the people who willingly gambled on the housing market and lost. Same with the lending institutions and credit card companies. They weren’t ignorant, just greedy.
Talk to the companies who are in the process of or already have outsourced. Make it feasible to do business in the US as opposed to China, and Mexico by reading the next sentence.
Encourage more people to get out and work, while assuring a raise in the minimum wage. The biggest squawkers will not be the small guy’s, but those who have outsourced. Use that as a hammer to bring their manufacturing back here.
Ask the oil companies that if they are using their excess profits to do exploration, then why isn’t there an oil drill working in every back yard in this nation.
Stay away from discussing Hillary. Right now, she has a huge rock around her neck and sinking fast. Every time you mention her name, that rock will get lighter. Let her sink herself.
On the other hand, a few pointed jabs at McCain won’t hurt. A discussion about how he first hated Bush and then decided to flip flop on just about every program after that will ’swift boat’ him for sure. There is no defense for flip flop.
Speak to the military. Get out on the bases and meet the soldiers, especially the marines. For some reason they feel that the Republicans are next to God when it comes to budgets. Assure them that any soldier who returns from Iraq or any other country, will be given a job protecting the borders here in America. Right now they are not concerned about the budget as much as getting their butts blown off. But, given down time, their eyes will focus on that ‘Democratic gutting’ of the military budget. If you must reduce the budget, apply the difference to the VA and out patient services for returning Vets. This will put you over the top with the military.

All I can add, is, so far, you are as clean as a virgin when it comes to politics. People will listen and believe. Don’t screw it up with weird rhetoric that is so famous in the world of politics.
Listen to ‘ol DamSpot. Trust me. I’ve seen ‘em come and go. And they all made the above mistakes. Don’t speak for the PAC’s, speak for and to the people.

This little gem appeared in CNN today.
“A leading Democratic senator today cast doubt on the rationale for the “surge” of U.S. troops in Iraq. Recent violence in the country raises questions about both the military and political success of the strategy, said Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan.”

No shit, sherlock! What have we all been saying since the beginning? Since when, did it become obvious that when you gave the keys to this war to George Bush, that he would eventually drive it over a cliff?

The man has been a failure at EVERYTHING that he has ever done in his life.
They require background checks on people who go to work for Home Depot. Didn’t anyone bother to check how many businesses this idiot has ruined?

Why would you let a man, who drove an oil company out of business………AN OIL COMPANY, run a country?

That’s right. Sheeples! It was the sheeples who put him in there, and it’s the sheeples who handed him the Presidency and the keys.

Now, 7 years in, they want him to give back the keys to the wreck he caused.

Tell that to all the dead and wounded. Tell that to the homeless vets. Tell that to the vets with mental problems.

This administration, Republicans and Democrats are so screwed up that the only thing short of firing everyone of them, is for a coup to occur and reinstall a constitutional government.

Today is a day when all should pray to what ever entity they believe.

It’s no longer about the day Christ rose from the dead. It’s about achieving peace among all warring nations and religions.

Many times I have spoken the religion is the cause of the worlds problems. From the crusades to Iraq, it has always been about religion.
Religion sets morals. If it be the Ten Commandments. If it be wearing a bur qua on the streets, or scaring your children about purgatory, which was a burning trash dump outside of Jerusalem. It has been used since the Roman God’s to set morals.
For without religious morals, we would be nothing but a pack of peaceful, sharing people, and only people, not a religion which advocates war and hate.
We would be feeding the starving. We would be sharing medicine technology, and we would care that as industrial nations we have to work to prevent killing all of us.

But, that’s just my opinion. To me Easter is just another day that we attempt to separate ourselves from all non-Christians.

The headlines scream “THE ECONOMY WILL REBOUND IN 2009″.

Let’s see, by my last count, the price of Gas is predicted to be somewhere around $4.00 a gallon this summer, and already is in some areas.
Manufacturing is not going to increase, unless it is a war related business.
The service sector, which is pretty much all we have left, is shrinking, due to higher food and ingredient prices to make the food, and the fuel to carry it.

The stock market, which by the way, means squat to the average consumer is being propped up by the fed’s, who themselves are already broke. They are, as we speak, printing paper money 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Banks are failing. It is predicted that the housing market AKA foreclosures won’t stabilize for up to 3 years.

So, tell me, dear readers, how are things going to rebound in 2009?

Went to the gas station this morning and had the oddest thought, that I was actually happpy to be paying two cents a gallon less than I did last week.
With gas over $3.00 a gallon, why would I feel that way?
It’s because I’m a sheeple. And, what is a sheeple you ask?

A sheeple is a capitalist consumer.

A capitalist consumer knows that in a capitalistic society, such as ours, a person can strive to become rich by selling items at what the market will bare.

Now, having said this and knowing that despite the cost of oil per the barrel is high, and also knowing that oil companies are making record profits and giving huge bonuses to their CEO’s, we sheeples do nothing, because we are capitalists first and sheeples second.

We have chosen this type of government and this system of free enterprise due to all the other freedoms it affords us.
However, there is no reason why us sheeples cannot rise up against the oil companies and the government that helps to prop up these costs with taxes and say that we have finally had enough. The old flaming torches and pitch forks didn’t die with the middle ages. They were just replaced by lawyers. Well, us sheeples know lawyers don’t work, so it’s time to appear in front of the capitals, representative offices, and oil companies with torches and pitch forks once again.

If the only thing that these people understand is war, then let’s give them one.

The problem is in Houston, Washington, Chicago, or New York.
We are paying entirely too much for consumer goods. Consumer goods, includes Gasoline.
Day after day, we hear of Gasoline Companies setting record profits while the price creep ever higher at the pump.

As a capitalistic society this is how the system works. But, the system also says that a man is to be paid a fair wage for a fair day’s work.
When oil and fuel goes up, so go freight charges, anything made of plastic, utilities, food and on and on.

If a fair days wage no longer supports that worker, then someone has to step in a set the situation straight.

Between January 1 and February 29, 86,000 workers lost their jobs.

In some cases, they will be permitted to collect unemployment for 26 weeks. Most, only 13. Not only do they, in most cases, have no health care, but after their Unemployment insurance runs out, they’ll have no prospects either.

It’s an election year. Nothing gets done during an election year. The lame duck president does nothing. No new government contracts are issued or approved. The congress and the senate might as well not be there at all.
And, no one gives a rats ass what any of the candidates have to say. But, will any of those same people still be around or care at election time?

Wake up, Dammit! People are dying, people are starving, children are being abandoned, whole families are living in cars, tent and parks.
I’m talking about the United States, people! Not some third world back hole.

My friend, a good Christian man I asked where his church’s money was going as far as helping people. He admitted that while some was used for local families in need, the bulk was going over seas. He said that’s pretty much the same for most congregations.
This at a time when Israel, one of the richest countries, in the world, receives in excess of $80 billion dollars a year from our government as a line item budget. People, they are budgeted like school lunches!!!

For God’s sake, please do something. I am personally 2 steps away from living the rest of my life in a wheel chair and cannot help any further than to tell you readers the truth.

Voting won’t help.

An old sage once said “One person throwing a pebble in a river will not stop the flow. A thousand people throwing pebbles will slow the flow. But a million people throwing pebbles will stop the flow.”

Help stop the flow any way you can. Take any risk. Break any law. Stop the Flow!

Someone today blew up a bomb outside of a recruiting office in New York.
Really rather insignificant on the surface.

But it has deeper roots than just an ‘incident’.

People are sick and tired of this government. They are sick of the police state that has been formed by the Bush/Cheney Kabul.
This is just the first of many things that have been identified. But, perhaps some of the gas line, oil refinery, and warehouse fires are also ‘incidents’.

I believe that more and more people are about to strike back at this government, in more ways than all the politicians will have ever accomplished.

I believe the correct term is “BALLS”

Damspot has been having severe health issues, but has become intrigued with the letters R & N.
What these 2 letters represent is Religion.

Has Damspot gone on one of his Jew baiting tirades again? No. Not at all.

First off, let’s discuss what religion is. Religions, over the years have had many Gods to worship. There was Thor, Neptune, and many others. Then, Judaism, came along, then Christianity, and finally Muslim. What did they have in common? Moral control over there people. For without morals, we will run willy-nilly all over the place. Religion has always been a way to control the people. Love thy neighbor, the Ten Commandments, Do unto others and on and on.

Where the problems began is when different people had different views on what the passages in the Bible, Koran or many of the other religious groups meant to them. So they splintered into different sects, churches, Mosques or what ever.
They then referred their beliefs as religion.
Catholics dislike Lutherans. Episcopalians hate the Roman church. Baptists dislike most other ‘religions’ for being too loose, they also dislike Fundamentalists who tell it like it is. And, there are divisions there. Why do you think there are so many store front churches?

So, what we have here are not moral issues, but definitive issues as to how each book should relate to their actions.
While all books preach peace, there are terms such as “An eye for an eye” or ‘’Vengeance is mine'’ or ‘’Smite thy enemies.'’
So, they skip over the peace part and go right to war.
Let’s see. We have the Orthodox Russians, but they are described as a ‘Godless people’. We have the Muslims, who can’t seem to get along with themselves, let alone anyone else, so they are all enemies of Christianity. Jews are hated because some idiot, banished to a cave, during Roman times, wrote a book called ‘Revelations’ that says’s that if everyone doesn’t bow to Jesus and become Christians, they are all going to hell.

Lets talk a little about hell, or purgatory. What to know where this came from? Before the time of Jesus, there was a garbage dump, outside of Jerusalem that burned 24 hours a day. The locals referred to it as Purgatory and would scare their children by telling them if they didn’t behave, that is where they would end up.
So, now we have gone from a burning dump to tithing at church every Sunday to buy our way into whatever you think heaven is, to avoid going to hell.

There is no country on earth that could successfully be ruled by Atheists. Why? They don’t scare themselves with morals, based on religion. However, they still practice them because of the very religion they don’t subscribe to.

Let’s try a little experiment.

Let’s make religion go away. None of this ‘My God is better than your God’. Most if not all religions base their beliefs that there is a God. That is something nearly everyone can agree on. Where the similarities break down are with the prophets.

Now, all you Christians get over your fit about Jesus being the son of God. All Prophets proclaim the same thing.

Get over it. There is but ONE GOD. Forget the books. Forget the prophets.

Just remember that we are all just people, attached to a very unstable spinning blue ball.

Share the food, share the water, share the wealth. Share the peace between all men and woman that GOD intended.
Stop trying to read your own definitions into books that, at their best, have been changed to fit the times repeatedly over the years.

Believe in one GOD. Share that belief. Forget heaven, forget hell. Just worry about what you have to deal with as you live.
What difference is it truly going to make where you go when you are dead?

If you don’t live now, and in peace, then you are all going to go to that burning trash dump.

I received an e-mail tonight from a friend of mine, whose site I write for once in a while, Joey Picador. He writes JUSTICE FOR NONE .
His niece is in a world of trouble with her health care provider. Here is an excerpt from the article.

She Was Only Fourteen

Saturday, February 09 2008 @ 10:18 AM PST
Contributed by: CinDan
General NewsShe was only 14 years old when she was an eighth grader, a cheerleader, a young, vibrant girl with her whole life ahead of her. She was only 14 years old, when she enjoyed her last year of life as a normal, healthy girl.

She was only 15 years old, when she started chemotherapy for Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare form of childhood cancer that attacks the bones. She lost her hair, had the cancerous bone in her pelvis removed, and then her lungs started to deteriorate.

She lived through her 16th year with an oxygen bottle her closest companion, as her lung function approached a mere 20% of normal capacity.

In May of 2007, she was only 17 years old, when she finally had a double lung transplant, to replace lungs killed by interstices lung disease, brought on by the chemotherapy which saved her from the bone cancer.

When her health insurance is canceled later this year, it will be canceled with the simple explanation that she has reached her “lifetime maximum benefits.”

And she has just turned 18…

Her name is Brittani. She is my niece. And she needs your help.

Damspot isn’t asking you do do anything but read the post. Let your heart tell you what needs to be done.

Thanks!