DamSpot’s World

My wife is a neophyte when it comes to the World Wide Web. She doesn’t use a computer, email, or anything associated with it.
She relies, however lightly, on the MSM.
So, while the news arrives a bit later, she does get caught up in the ’sky is falling’ way that FOX and the print media spin their news to fit the Conservative views.
She was asking me if what could have been done in the past to have prevented the wars, financial problems, oil prices, etc.
My honest response was that the politicians and the voters then and now, have lost sight of history.
There is very little, in the way of problems we face today, that could have been prevented if everyone took a few minutes each day to review history, and the patterns in war and economics that we are seemingly cursed to repeat.
With the WWW, we are able, at a glance to spot trends in all of the problem areas. But, people are more concerned with their textting or My Space page to take the time to learn something.
And. God Forbid, the schools teach something other than their candy or gourmet food drives.

Basically, we are calling the business people, stock market and politicians to act far better than we are ourselves.
How many people out there are worried about where they are going to get money for the next holiday while their kid is running a meth lab in the basement?

Wanna know why there are no heroes left? It’s because no one has the guts to become the first to stick their neck out.
Heroes in the past may have been on the movie screen, but they were big as life. People listened to them when ever they had something to say.
I personally never liked John Wayne, but when he spoke, people listened and followed.

It’s pretty bad when you can’t depend on Fireman ‘cause 1 out of 5 volunteers, the backbone of most communities are pyromaniacs.
Can’t depend on Police. They see the money to be made in illegal weapons and drugs and wonder why they don’t get paid more to possibly, get killed.
Politicians, once farmers and small business people, your neighbors, are distant, uncaring, and only voice their allegiance to those who throw the most money at them to be a shill for their causes.

It was doom and gloom in 1929.
It was doom and gloom in 1987.
And it’s doom and gloom now.

And what will we learn from this?

Go talk amongst yourselves.

Well boy’s and girls. Somebody finally got the hint that they had better listen to their e-mail.
Is it the fact that the voters are speaking with something other than their votes?
Perhaps.
The more likely hint, could be that the PAC’S are screaming bloody murder about the massive slow down in the economy.
The PAC’S don’t care that Wall Street is having a melt down. They don’t even care if the banks fail.
The only thing more powerful than any of those is the consumer, holding on to their money instead of spending it on, even essentials, such as Health care or, in the case of a lot of elderly, food.
You say, ‘Damspot has really flipped this time’. Health care? People really do ‘put off’ health concerns, operations and essential medicines.
If you think suicides have been bad around the holidays, over the years, wait until this one. As the old saying goes, you ain’t seen nothing yet!

Lets look at today’s numbers.

The DOW closed at -777.68 points, the highest in history. Hmm, where’s that history book from 1929?
Dems and Repubs are finger pointing left and right and trying to protect their soft skins in November.

Mean while, the PAC spin machine will have Bush up on his little podium, like the dog he is, and he’ll be barking tales of gloom and doom about what will happen without passage. Even Warren Buffet was in the news crying about it.
But, the people aren’t buying it anymore. All the hype, crying and tales of whoa aren’t stimulating the masses anymore.
All there is left, is to figure out who is going to run to Israel or South America first; Bush or Cheney?

‘Ask not, what your country can do for you, ask what your country can DO to you.’

That should be the quote from every politician in every election.
One wants to lower taxes….a plus, except for the fact that the tax base has shrunk due to Nafta and all the industry that has left the country.
One wants to raise taxes…..a negative except for the fact that the country is literally broke.

As much as one says that they are cutting taxes, there have been significant tax increases in sales tax, gasoline tax, cigarette tax, liquor tax, motor vehicle tax. However, these same groups help subsidize farmers NOT to grow crops, prop up the diary farmers forcing the cost over $3.00 a gallon, and continue to support an ever expanding war. The only taxes that are being cut are for the upper percentage of wage earners and Corporations in order to “stimulate the economy”.
Yeah, I’m stimulated alright.

Then theres the group who wants to raise taxes. Over the years, they have also supported the Pork Barrel programs mentioned above, as much as they pretend to disagree with them all. One only has to look at their voting records to see that statement is true.
Will they raise taxes on the rich? Possibly, but they will also restore many deductions that were removed which will have the same result as the other program. Oh, this will cause Bill Gates to give a couple more million to starving Africans, all the while earning that total back in about 10 minutes.

Then theres the people who won’t get press. who won’t get heard, that want a fair flat tax, a fair medical support system, the elimination of troops in all countries, provided by the US, and have no interest in religious PAC’s or any others.
These people will be cast aside because they are nut’s. Why are they nuts? Because they are not spouting the same, tired rhetoric that we have been hypnotized into listening to. One only needs to go back and read Ross Perot or Ron Paul.
Nether one will ever be elected because they don’t make sense, according to what the American public has been trained to hear.

The American people, in order to continue to pretend, that we are the greatest country on earth, will, like lemmings, continue to jump off the cliff, rather than stand back and actually give the common sense approach to politics rather then the flash and bang of the current cast of characters.

Jut remember the following quote:

“The problem with political jokes is they get elected.”
Henry Cate VII

Ah, the holiday season is upon us. After getting off my school bus, (BANG) I went to my loving families house, (BANG) and talked to my family. Then my friends and I, (BANG) took the bus over to the mall, (BANG) where there seemed to be a lot of police in the lot. Then we went into the mall, (BANG) and had the shopping experience of a lifetime!
After leaving the mall, we walked over to the neighborhood burger place, (BANG) where we got a loud reception. We had to get our shopping done today, because we had to meet with our college admissions officer on Saturday, (BANG) and then sing at the church on Sunday.(BANG)
Early to bed tonight. Got a busy day at school, (BANG) tomorrow!

They’re at it again.
Who are ‘they’?
THEY are the right wing religonuts that seem to believe that this nation was founded for only Christians. That the only God that is going to smile upon the US is the one they think is their’s alone.
The other THEY, are the English only crowd. The only thing that is more of a ‘third rail’ subject other than Social Security is passing a law making English the official language in the US.
Apparently they must have skipped over the part of history that said that all attempts that were ever made to ratify any language for this country, since 1776 have failed. Had it passed the first time, we would have been speaking German.

So…..how’s that for some trivia, you flaming idiots?
Can’t you people read?
Our pledge says and poorly at best, is that we are ‘One nation under god’, which was added in the 50’s, does not specify a Christian God, Jewish God, Muslim God, a God of Beer or any other God.

Hows this for a statement. If there is a God, we all have the same one, you bunch of retards!

Get over your selves. Stop using a God as a crutch every time you want to steal land, steal oil or kill people.

Just admit that you’re a bunch of friggin’ thieves and go on and get your ass’s kicked for real.

Several Neo-Con and Liberal sites have been trumpeting how they are all predicting how the nation is turning out, both for the good or the bad.
Quite frankly, they can all go to hell. They are turning into nothing but Monday Morning Quarter Backs.
Instead of trying to change things, they are simply satisfied with looking at the what ifs, and whose fault it was.
As a matter of facts, they’re really no better than the MSM.
So, all you hungry readers out there that hunger for what the web is supposed to be, better get used to Floggers. They, not Bush is going to sink this nation.

Those are the words that many corporate executives should be hearing these days.

Ford recalls 10 years worth of vehicles with defective cruise control modules. So, how many vehicles/houses were burned?

Mattel recalls millions of toys coated with hazardous paint and plastics. Some are several years old.

Hundreds of pets die from eating, in some cases, high end pet foods that stores and vets recommended to pet owners.

Graco, a maker of children’s car seats, high chairs, and other child accessories found everywhere have issued yet, another recall for unsafe latchs on bottom seat belts on car seats.

So……what do all these events have in common? China?
Yes and No.
What we have are corporate pigs who put profit ahead of safety. So, they farm their manufacturing out of country to, of course, save labor costs.

What they don’t do is monitor and continuously check these resources for the specifications that they require.
So what? We save money. It won’t happen to my kid!

We have become very complacent in allowing companies to outsource our jobs and our safety.

Now, getting to China.
The biggest problem I see there is that in trying to kill those who actually are causing these problems, such as the pet foods, they have tipped off those who are also responsible, such as the Mattel lead paint, and missed justice, due to suicide.

I think American Corporations had better take heed of Chinas way’s of dealing with failure.
Our government is collapsing, as we speak, so pretty soon there will be no one to cover you’re sorry ass’s.