The Enemy Within:
With all the spying going on in our country why was all the thievery overlooked that has brought our country to its knees? The enemy was within, not in other countries and it wasn’t the terrorist, it was our government.. All our electronic surveillance has gone for naught. But I think the people in charge knew what was going on and protected the people of their own ilk.
All the changes needed and brought to the attention of our politicians were overlooked. No one in charge wanted to regulate what was going on the financial world. They just wanted to continue getting their large salaries from the taxpayers and their friends to keep getting rich. They did, now we have to bail them out with the taxpayers money. Actually they are all a bunch of slimy thieves. Why is it that we have prisons full of people who have stolen less than what these thieves make in an hour??? I’ll bet you a dollar to a doughnut that none of them will ever be prosecuted and spend a day in jail.
All of their bank accounts and properties should be ceased. Every politician and government employee that knew or suspected that this was an on going, and was funneled money under the table should go to prison and all their pensions stopped, with the money returned to the treasury. The very idea that any of these people be given a bonus or a golden parachute is revolting. Remember the Bonus Army after World War one. They were promised one dollar a day for every day in service and one dollar and twenty-five cents for every day over-seas. Our government delayed and delayed, congress didn’t pass it. A group of veterans went to Washington and waited and waited, it didn’t pass. They stayed and waited. Finally the president ordered them removed, so they “great officers, MacArthur, Eisenhower and Patton, took the big guns and ran them off. Killing many of them. They deserved their bonus and much more. One reason I’m not patriotic. These bunch of thieves and politicians need to be sent to prison for the rest of their lives. They are worse than any enemy combatants we now have in prison. (At least they were fighting for something they believed in, be it right or wrong).
This bunch of thieves were American citizens stealing and harming other American citizens. Our Judicial system has been shot to hell. Laws are made, but not for everyone alike. It’s how rich you are and who you know, then you can get out of anything. I have watched this proven time and time again. I quote again what my husband said on March 20, 1994, “The worst enemy that the people of any country has, is its government and leaders”.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Wars
November 9, 2007
I read the article in November 5, 2007 in the Fort Worth Star Telegram. About all the homeless veterans in this country.
It reminded me again of why I have no respect for the Government of the United States. Our veterans from all the wars, from 1790 to 2007, have been promised many things and our government have reneged on their word and treated them all so disgracefully. I have had relatives in all these wars. In the Civil war I had two great grandfathers and five great uncles. Three of the great uncles never returned. We never found out where they died. We never knew whether they were buried or they were left to rot and the vultures ate them. They were young men. The ones that did return had to walk and find their way home from wherever the war ended.
We finally got markers showing they were Civil War veterans and buried them in Spirit in the family cemetery next to their Father and Mother. Records, forget about it. This was on just one side of my family.
Either they didn’t keep records or they were burned by the union army. This was Americans fighting Americans. My daughter has searched by internet all the records available. Before that we traveled and searched courthouses and graveyards in many states. We searched through all the census records available. It is so sad that one can’t find what happened to the ones who died, and sadder yet to know what happened to the ones who returned, to realize that your country who turned their backs on you did not appreciate your fighting so bravely for them.
It has been the same in all the wars. In WW1 I had many relatives who went to Europe, some returned and some didn’t. Many of the ones who did return had been gassed and were in poor health all their lives, but they still had to farm or run sawmills to make a living, believe me neither one is an easy way to make a living, at least they could eat by having a garden, hunting and fishing in the swamps.
Many died along with their families when influenza hit, old veterans and young ones. I am now 80 years old and I remember the veterans from WW1 talking about the war. One, a cousin whose farm was next to ours, he died January 3, 1965. He was in the outfit that was headed by Capt. Douglas MacArthur in Europe. He was gassed and nearly didn’t make it home. I am going to quote an article called, “The Bonus Army”.
In 1924, a grateful Congress voted to give a bonus to the World War 1 veterans. $1.25 for each day served overseas, $1.00 for each day served in the States. The catch was that payment would not be made until 1945. However, by 1932 the nation had slipped into dark days of the Depression and the unemployed veterans needed and wanted their money immediately.
In May of that year, some 15,000 veterans, many unemployed and destitute, descended on Washington, D.C. to demand immediate payment of their bonus. They proclaimed themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Force but the public dubbed them the “Bonus Army”.
Raising ramshackle camps at various places around the city, they waited.
The veterans made their largest camp at Anacostia Flats across the river from the Capitol. Approximately 10,000 veterans, women and children lived in the shelters built from materials dragged out of a junk pile nearby – old lumber, packing boxes and scrap tin covered with roofs of thatched straw.
Discipline in the camp was good, despite the fears of many city residents who spread unfounded “Red Scare” rumors. Streets were laid out, latrines dug, and formations held daily. Newcomers were required to register and prove they were bonafide veterans who had been honorably discharged. Their leader, Walter Waters, stated, “We’re in for the duration and we’re not going to starve. We’re going to keep ourselves a simon-pure veterans organization. If the Bonus is paid it will relieve to a large extent the deplorable economic condition.
June 17 was described by a local newspaper as the “tensest day in the capitol since the war.” The Senate was voting on the bill already passed by the House to immediately give the vets their bonus money. By dusk, 10,000 marchers crowded the Capitol grounds expectantly awaiting the outcome. Walter Waters, leader of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, appeared with bad news. The Senate had defeated the bill by a vote of 62 to 18. The crowd reacted with stunned silence. “Sing America and go back to your billets” he commanded, and they did. A silent “Death March” began in front of the Capitol and lasted until July 17, when Congress adjourned.
A month later, on July 28, Attorney General Mitchell ordered the evacuation of the veterans from all government property, entrusted with the job, the Washington police met with resistance, shots were fired and two marchers killed. Learning of the shooting at lunch, President Hoover ordered the army to clear out the veterans. Infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks were dispatched with Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur in command. Major Dwight D. Eisenhower served as is liaison with the Washington police and Major George Patton led the cavalry.
By 4:45 P.M. the troops were massed on Pennsylvania Ave. below the Capitol. Thousands of Civil Service employees spilled out of work and lined the streets to watch. The veterans, assuming the military display was in their honor, cheered. Suddenly Patton’s troopers turned and charged. “Shame, Shame” the spectators cried. Soldiers with fixed bayonets followed, hurling gas into the crowd.
By nightfall the BEF retreated across the Anacostia River where Hoover ordered MacArthur to stop. Ignoring the command, the general led his infantry to the main camp. By early morning the 10,000 inhabitants were routed and the camp in flames. Two babies died and nearby hospitals overwhelmed with casualties. Eisenhower later wrote, “the whole scene was pitiful.” The veterans were ragged, ill-fed, and felt themselves badly abused. To suddenly see the whole encampment going up in flames just added to the pity.
(How to Cite This Article: “The Bonus Army” Eyewitness to History, www.eyewitnesshistory.com (2000)
What I have quoted here is not all of the article. I originally read the full story in the Smithsonian several years ago. The people were helped by some of the more wealthy matrons in Washington. Had all of the veterans been able to go to Washington with this group, we would probably had another Civil War. Or if all of the veterans had known about this, there would have been no more patriotism when WW11 came along. Many people did not get newspapers unless they had to go into town or someone wrote them about what was going on in the world. The government sure didn’t let you know. The only time they came around, was for taxes, or try to catch people making whiskey. But they sure let you know what was going on when they needed all our young men to fight wars on their behalf. Same old lies and promises again.
I had a husband who was a pilot in WW11 in Europe and many, many relatives, some came home and some didn’t. I have my three cornered flag, from a cousin who my parents helped raise. His body lies at the
bottom of the South China Sea, 200 miles south of the Formosa Strait. He was taken prisoner of war by the Japanese in the Philippines, May 6, 1942 and held in the Cabanatuan Camp No.1, until October 10, 1944. He was placed on the Arisan Maru, with 1800 other American prisoners being transferred to Japan. The Arisan Maru was torpedoed by the USS Snook on October 24, 1944. Not more than 10 americans survived the sinking. He was 22 years old. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Citation of Honor, all signed by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. And the bastards didn’t even spell his name right, and we tried to get the government to correct it and they wouldn’t. I don’t consider it an honor, even though lots of people consider it an honor.
We buried him in spirit in the Family Cemetery, by our other family veterans. I will never forgive or forget.
WW11 veterans were to some extent treated better than the WW1 veterans, but none have since. I hate war, I do not salute the flag, as it is only a symbol, nor am I patriotic. A quote from Guy de Maupassant, “Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.” I love all people of every nationality and it is too bad that the government and leaders of all countries are greedy, corrupt warmongers and waste so many human lives. That is not what the Supreme Power God put us on this earth for. He said live in peace. Until all the people in the world who believe this rise up and put a stop to it, it will never cease until the end. We all have to die, but after we have lived our lives, not have it ended in a war for naught.
I read the article in November 5, 2007 in the Fort Worth Star Telegram. About all the homeless veterans in this country.
It reminded me again of why I have no respect for the Government of the United States. Our veterans from all the wars, from 1790 to 2007, have been promised many things and our government have reneged on their word and treated them all so disgracefully. I have had relatives in all these wars. In the Civil war I had two great grandfathers and five great uncles. Three of the great uncles never returned. We never found out where they died. We never knew whether they were buried or they were left to rot and the vultures ate them. They were young men. The ones that did return had to walk and find their way home from wherever the war ended.
We finally got markers showing they were Civil War veterans and buried them in Spirit in the family cemetery next to their Father and Mother. Records, forget about it. This was on just one side of my family.
Either they didn’t keep records or they were burned by the union army. This was Americans fighting Americans. My daughter has searched by internet all the records available. Before that we traveled and searched courthouses and graveyards in many states. We searched through all the census records available. It is so sad that one can’t find what happened to the ones who died, and sadder yet to know what happened to the ones who returned, to realize that your country who turned their backs on you did not appreciate your fighting so bravely for them.
It has been the same in all the wars. In WW1 I had many relatives who went to Europe, some returned and some didn’t. Many of the ones who did return had been gassed and were in poor health all their lives, but they still had to farm or run sawmills to make a living, believe me neither one is an easy way to make a living, at least they could eat by having a garden, hunting and fishing in the swamps.
Many died along with their families when influenza hit, old veterans and young ones. I am now 80 years old and I remember the veterans from WW1 talking about the war. One, a cousin whose farm was next to ours, he died January 3, 1965. He was in the outfit that was headed by Capt. Douglas MacArthur in Europe. He was gassed and nearly didn’t make it home. I am going to quote an article called, “The Bonus Army”.
In 1924, a grateful Congress voted to give a bonus to the World War 1 veterans. $1.25 for each day served overseas, $1.00 for each day served in the States. The catch was that payment would not be made until 1945. However, by 1932 the nation had slipped into dark days of the Depression and the unemployed veterans needed and wanted their money immediately.
In May of that year, some 15,000 veterans, many unemployed and destitute, descended on Washington, D.C. to demand immediate payment of their bonus. They proclaimed themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Force but the public dubbed them the “Bonus Army”.
Raising ramshackle camps at various places around the city, they waited.
The veterans made their largest camp at Anacostia Flats across the river from the Capitol. Approximately 10,000 veterans, women and children lived in the shelters built from materials dragged out of a junk pile nearby – old lumber, packing boxes and scrap tin covered with roofs of thatched straw.
Discipline in the camp was good, despite the fears of many city residents who spread unfounded “Red Scare” rumors. Streets were laid out, latrines dug, and formations held daily. Newcomers were required to register and prove they were bonafide veterans who had been honorably discharged. Their leader, Walter Waters, stated, “We’re in for the duration and we’re not going to starve. We’re going to keep ourselves a simon-pure veterans organization. If the Bonus is paid it will relieve to a large extent the deplorable economic condition.
June 17 was described by a local newspaper as the “tensest day in the capitol since the war.” The Senate was voting on the bill already passed by the House to immediately give the vets their bonus money. By dusk, 10,000 marchers crowded the Capitol grounds expectantly awaiting the outcome. Walter Waters, leader of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, appeared with bad news. The Senate had defeated the bill by a vote of 62 to 18. The crowd reacted with stunned silence. “Sing America and go back to your billets” he commanded, and they did. A silent “Death March” began in front of the Capitol and lasted until July 17, when Congress adjourned.
A month later, on July 28, Attorney General Mitchell ordered the evacuation of the veterans from all government property, entrusted with the job, the Washington police met with resistance, shots were fired and two marchers killed. Learning of the shooting at lunch, President Hoover ordered the army to clear out the veterans. Infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks were dispatched with Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur in command. Major Dwight D. Eisenhower served as is liaison with the Washington police and Major George Patton led the cavalry.
By 4:45 P.M. the troops were massed on Pennsylvania Ave. below the Capitol. Thousands of Civil Service employees spilled out of work and lined the streets to watch. The veterans, assuming the military display was in their honor, cheered. Suddenly Patton’s troopers turned and charged. “Shame, Shame” the spectators cried. Soldiers with fixed bayonets followed, hurling gas into the crowd.
By nightfall the BEF retreated across the Anacostia River where Hoover ordered MacArthur to stop. Ignoring the command, the general led his infantry to the main camp. By early morning the 10,000 inhabitants were routed and the camp in flames. Two babies died and nearby hospitals overwhelmed with casualties. Eisenhower later wrote, “the whole scene was pitiful.” The veterans were ragged, ill-fed, and felt themselves badly abused. To suddenly see the whole encampment going up in flames just added to the pity.
(How to Cite This Article: “The Bonus Army” Eyewitness to History, www.eyewitnesshistory.com (2000)
What I have quoted here is not all of the article. I originally read the full story in the Smithsonian several years ago. The people were helped by some of the more wealthy matrons in Washington. Had all of the veterans been able to go to Washington with this group, we would probably had another Civil War. Or if all of the veterans had known about this, there would have been no more patriotism when WW11 came along. Many people did not get newspapers unless they had to go into town or someone wrote them about what was going on in the world. The government sure didn’t let you know. The only time they came around, was for taxes, or try to catch people making whiskey. But they sure let you know what was going on when they needed all our young men to fight wars on their behalf. Same old lies and promises again.
I had a husband who was a pilot in WW11 in Europe and many, many relatives, some came home and some didn’t. I have my three cornered flag, from a cousin who my parents helped raise. His body lies at the
bottom of the South China Sea, 200 miles south of the Formosa Strait. He was taken prisoner of war by the Japanese in the Philippines, May 6, 1942 and held in the Cabanatuan Camp No.1, until October 10, 1944. He was placed on the Arisan Maru, with 1800 other American prisoners being transferred to Japan. The Arisan Maru was torpedoed by the USS Snook on October 24, 1944. Not more than 10 americans survived the sinking. He was 22 years old. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Citation of Honor, all signed by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. And the bastards didn’t even spell his name right, and we tried to get the government to correct it and they wouldn’t. I don’t consider it an honor, even though lots of people consider it an honor.
We buried him in spirit in the Family Cemetery, by our other family veterans. I will never forgive or forget.
WW11 veterans were to some extent treated better than the WW1 veterans, but none have since. I hate war, I do not salute the flag, as it is only a symbol, nor am I patriotic. A quote from Guy de Maupassant, “Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.” I love all people of every nationality and it is too bad that the government and leaders of all countries are greedy, corrupt warmongers and waste so many human lives. That is not what the Supreme Power God put us on this earth for. He said live in peace. Until all the people in the world who believe this rise up and put a stop to it, it will never cease until the end. We all have to die, but after we have lived our lives, not have it ended in a war for naught.
A Change is Needed
It’s time for a change. Remember the beginning?
The Declaration of Independence was the promise; the Constitution was the fulfillment.
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. (Alexander Hamilton, 1775)
From The DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, I quote: “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation”.
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and Happiness.
I will stop here: I realize this was written to separate us from England and their unjust laws. But it really should apply for what has been going on in the United States for many years and it has only gotten worse. If people will read the rest of the Declaration, you will note some of the reasons given to separate us from England, can very definitely apply now. This Country still uses some of the Old English Laws, that the King used. Complete and total control, and that has become the agenda of our Government. I for one don’t like it, as I am a Citizen, not a Subject. I will follow just laws, but not the ones I feel are unjust.
Since we have a Government that does not respect the Citizens, as was intended. We have over these many years elected officials that have taken advantage and are dishonest, greedy and corrupt. It is time to go back to the original Constitution, remove and ratify all changes that have been made that do not apply to its Citizens. I had an ancestor who wrote in 1822, “Government was not Government for and by the people, it was a Government of favoritism and control by a few. And he came to realize that power over a man’s substance, in the normal course of human nature amounts to power over his will”. So the original Independence and the original Constitution didn’t last very long.
Many things in the original Constitution I don’t like, the exclusion of the inhabitants of this land the Indians, when all the immigrants came and set up shop. They were here first. But all those supposedly good Christian people didn’t consider them human beings and treated them ungodly. They forgot what the Good Book said, “That all men created equal”.
The many changes made over the years have been made for control and favoritism for a few of the Citizens. The first ten Amendments (Bill of Rights) were ratified, effective December 15, 1791. These amendments should stand today, as it did in 1791. We should go back and deleted all changes within reason.
The one I want changed back to the original amendment is Amendment V., or the part, now know as the Eminent Domain Law. But I would like it to read: Private property cannot be taken for any reason, without explicit permission of the owner and if permission is granted, just compensation by the taker. The law has been changed to benefit the Government and wealthy corporations. The loss has been to the property owners. My law is: If you set foot on my property and try it, I will use my right under Amendment II. Or the old range law,”SADDLE YOUR HORSES, LOAD YOUR WEAPONS AND PROTECT YOUR CASTLE.”
“The worst enemy that the people of any country has is its government and its leaders”. This is a quote from my deceased husband, made March 20, 1994. He was a lawyer and always told me, beware of lawyers, you can’t trust the majority of them. He said,”they will steal the pennies off their dead grandmothers eyes and the gold from her teeth”.
We need to eliminate most lawyers from the government and replace them with learned Professors, without a political affiliation. Just be sure they are honest and have integrity. You can’t find many politicians that have this quality.
The President that we have was not elected by the people, he was assigned by the Supreme Court. It is their fault that he is president. Which shows they are not capable of being a Judge for any reason, as they can be swayed by a political party or bought off like our other dishonest politicians. After he and his cronies got their foot in the door, they knew it would take longer than four years to get total control. For their second term that would be coming up, they knew that the chance of being assigned by the Supreme Court again would be risky. So they had to think of something else to keep everyone off guard for them to stay in the White House until they could get all the power they wanted.
I believe, along with many other people that Bush and Cheney along with their other warmongering friends, and with the help of their Saudi friends, planned 9-11, in order to start all the terrorist fears and get everyone off guard. Our Senate and Congress and many of our citizens believed this horrible ruse. The Senators and Congressmen started signing practically everything put before them in order to protect the people, or so they thought. Actually it was so that Bush, Cheney, friends and all the large corporations could take over and make all the rules and not let the citizens know what was going on behind closed doors…..Classified?
The Bush-Cheney propaganda machine, along with the war hawks, many of them republicans, went to work on keeping everyone scared out of their wits. We never heard the word TERRORIST or Al Qaeda so many times in our life. Reminds me of when we were kids, our parents would say, “if you aren’t good the old buggerman will get you.” They had to get to the middle east to try to take control of all the oil.
He didn’t really try to find Osama bin Laden, since he is from one of the large influential families of Saudi Arabia. Bush and Cheney don’t really want to capture him. It might upset their playhouse in Saudi Arabia. But since the Saudi family and Bush family hated Saddam, they went after him with a vengeance. They lied to the American people and everyone else. Just like they lied to us under Reagan and Bush about the Iran-Contra affair. They still have some of the same corrupt people back in the government that was in all of this. Surely someone remembers all this.
The only terrorist we have in the world are the governments and dictators ruling the countries. The majority of the citizens of these countries are gentle people. They have had rules forced on them and persuaded by the governing bodies, that it was the right thing to do and they believed them. Forced to believe that their religion said it was the right thing to do. Their “Good Book” has been changed over the many years by the rulers and religious fanatics, to say what they wanted it to say. Just as our various religions have changed to what various denominations wanted to say.
I listen and have listened over all these years to our government officials talking about values, morals, frankly none of them have any. There is no honesty and integrity in any of them. I remember my history, way back to year God one. We have had cruel uncaring rulers in every country. The ones that were supposed to be civilized. I have watched and listened to the Presidents of this country, put their hands on the Bible and swear to up hold the laws of this land. Well, they have to some extent, after they change the laws to suit themselves for their own selfish and corrupt reason, but not for the benefit of the majority of the citizens. Part of the citizens of this country have been reduced to third world status.
England, France, Spain, and other countries, along with the United States have for years exploited all the third world countries for their minerals, and other various riches within these countries. They made themselves and corporations from their various countries very rich, but the poor citizens are still left without and treated very badly. Man’s inhumanity to man has never ceased to amaze me.
As for the United States, we the people need to stand up and change things. We need to Impeach the President, Vice-President and fire all his followers. Get rid of all the corrupt politicians and make new rules for running this country.
When I get really upset, I sit down and start writing to vent my spleen. I have done this for years, it really helps to get it off your chest, but doesn’t really change things. I’m an 80 year old woman and too old to start a revolution, but I would help. I still can shoot.
The Declaration of Independence was the promise; the Constitution was the fulfillment.
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. (Alexander Hamilton, 1775)
From The DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, I quote: “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation”.
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and Happiness.
I will stop here: I realize this was written to separate us from England and their unjust laws. But it really should apply for what has been going on in the United States for many years and it has only gotten worse. If people will read the rest of the Declaration, you will note some of the reasons given to separate us from England, can very definitely apply now. This Country still uses some of the Old English Laws, that the King used. Complete and total control, and that has become the agenda of our Government. I for one don’t like it, as I am a Citizen, not a Subject. I will follow just laws, but not the ones I feel are unjust.
Since we have a Government that does not respect the Citizens, as was intended. We have over these many years elected officials that have taken advantage and are dishonest, greedy and corrupt. It is time to go back to the original Constitution, remove and ratify all changes that have been made that do not apply to its Citizens. I had an ancestor who wrote in 1822, “Government was not Government for and by the people, it was a Government of favoritism and control by a few. And he came to realize that power over a man’s substance, in the normal course of human nature amounts to power over his will”. So the original Independence and the original Constitution didn’t last very long.
Many things in the original Constitution I don’t like, the exclusion of the inhabitants of this land the Indians, when all the immigrants came and set up shop. They were here first. But all those supposedly good Christian people didn’t consider them human beings and treated them ungodly. They forgot what the Good Book said, “That all men created equal”.
The many changes made over the years have been made for control and favoritism for a few of the Citizens. The first ten Amendments (Bill of Rights) were ratified, effective December 15, 1791. These amendments should stand today, as it did in 1791. We should go back and deleted all changes within reason.
The one I want changed back to the original amendment is Amendment V., or the part, now know as the Eminent Domain Law. But I would like it to read: Private property cannot be taken for any reason, without explicit permission of the owner and if permission is granted, just compensation by the taker. The law has been changed to benefit the Government and wealthy corporations. The loss has been to the property owners. My law is: If you set foot on my property and try it, I will use my right under Amendment II. Or the old range law,”SADDLE YOUR HORSES, LOAD YOUR WEAPONS AND PROTECT YOUR CASTLE.”
“The worst enemy that the people of any country has is its government and its leaders”. This is a quote from my deceased husband, made March 20, 1994. He was a lawyer and always told me, beware of lawyers, you can’t trust the majority of them. He said,”they will steal the pennies off their dead grandmothers eyes and the gold from her teeth”.
We need to eliminate most lawyers from the government and replace them with learned Professors, without a political affiliation. Just be sure they are honest and have integrity. You can’t find many politicians that have this quality.
The President that we have was not elected by the people, he was assigned by the Supreme Court. It is their fault that he is president. Which shows they are not capable of being a Judge for any reason, as they can be swayed by a political party or bought off like our other dishonest politicians. After he and his cronies got their foot in the door, they knew it would take longer than four years to get total control. For their second term that would be coming up, they knew that the chance of being assigned by the Supreme Court again would be risky. So they had to think of something else to keep everyone off guard for them to stay in the White House until they could get all the power they wanted.
I believe, along with many other people that Bush and Cheney along with their other warmongering friends, and with the help of their Saudi friends, planned 9-11, in order to start all the terrorist fears and get everyone off guard. Our Senate and Congress and many of our citizens believed this horrible ruse. The Senators and Congressmen started signing practically everything put before them in order to protect the people, or so they thought. Actually it was so that Bush, Cheney, friends and all the large corporations could take over and make all the rules and not let the citizens know what was going on behind closed doors…..Classified?
The Bush-Cheney propaganda machine, along with the war hawks, many of them republicans, went to work on keeping everyone scared out of their wits. We never heard the word TERRORIST or Al Qaeda so many times in our life. Reminds me of when we were kids, our parents would say, “if you aren’t good the old buggerman will get you.” They had to get to the middle east to try to take control of all the oil.
He didn’t really try to find Osama bin Laden, since he is from one of the large influential families of Saudi Arabia. Bush and Cheney don’t really want to capture him. It might upset their playhouse in Saudi Arabia. But since the Saudi family and Bush family hated Saddam, they went after him with a vengeance. They lied to the American people and everyone else. Just like they lied to us under Reagan and Bush about the Iran-Contra affair. They still have some of the same corrupt people back in the government that was in all of this. Surely someone remembers all this.
The only terrorist we have in the world are the governments and dictators ruling the countries. The majority of the citizens of these countries are gentle people. They have had rules forced on them and persuaded by the governing bodies, that it was the right thing to do and they believed them. Forced to believe that their religion said it was the right thing to do. Their “Good Book” has been changed over the many years by the rulers and religious fanatics, to say what they wanted it to say. Just as our various religions have changed to what various denominations wanted to say.
I listen and have listened over all these years to our government officials talking about values, morals, frankly none of them have any. There is no honesty and integrity in any of them. I remember my history, way back to year God one. We have had cruel uncaring rulers in every country. The ones that were supposed to be civilized. I have watched and listened to the Presidents of this country, put their hands on the Bible and swear to up hold the laws of this land. Well, they have to some extent, after they change the laws to suit themselves for their own selfish and corrupt reason, but not for the benefit of the majority of the citizens. Part of the citizens of this country have been reduced to third world status.
England, France, Spain, and other countries, along with the United States have for years exploited all the third world countries for their minerals, and other various riches within these countries. They made themselves and corporations from their various countries very rich, but the poor citizens are still left without and treated very badly. Man’s inhumanity to man has never ceased to amaze me.
As for the United States, we the people need to stand up and change things. We need to Impeach the President, Vice-President and fire all his followers. Get rid of all the corrupt politicians and make new rules for running this country.
When I get really upset, I sit down and start writing to vent my spleen. I have done this for years, it really helps to get it off your chest, but doesn’t really change things. I’m an 80 year old woman and too old to start a revolution, but I would help. I still can shoot.
Voting Rights
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Anyone who goes to vote, who is registered to vote and they have their voter registration and or other identification with them and they are told they cannot vote. They should have the worlds first revolution in each of their polling places. Everyone who was not allowed to vote should sit down or lay down on the floor and stay there, until the matter is cleared up. No police should be allowed to intervene. Each person who is registered to vote has that right. If the people in charge do not have their records correct, it is not the fault of the person who have registered to vote. It is time for this type of thing to stop.
That’s why we need to change our voting system NOW.
Anyone who goes to vote, who is registered to vote and they have their voter registration and or other identification with them and they are told they cannot vote. They should have the worlds first revolution in each of their polling places. Everyone who was not allowed to vote should sit down or lay down on the floor and stay there, until the matter is cleared up. No police should be allowed to intervene. Each person who is registered to vote has that right. If the people in charge do not have their records correct, it is not the fault of the person who have registered to vote. It is time for this type of thing to stop.
That’s why we need to change our voting system NOW.
Friday, October 03, 2008
R. Gerald Turner
February 24, 2008
R. Gerald Turner, President
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750100
Dallas, Texas 75205
Sir:
I can not believe that a group of supposedly intelligent people, as the SMU trustees and others, (of course I understand Donald Evans, he is one of Bush’s cronies, even before he got in the white house) would allow a presidential library to be built on the grounds of Southern Methodist University for King George Bush (some of us old folks refer to him as the village idiot from Midland). I wondered why Evans left his soft job in the white house. Evidently he headed straight to Dallas to start the details for the library and back into the energy business.
I’m sure you are all good republicans, but if you are his type of republican, it does not say much for your character. Don’t tell me that you don’t know all about him, if you said no, I wouldn’t believe you. Not with all the access you have for information. If you are interested in the affairs of the world, you can easily find out, what the majority of the people in the world already know. He is without a doubt one of the worst men in this country, along with his friends. He started a war without reason, but of course he used the excuse of 9-11, but his plans were already in place to go after Iraq’s oil reserves and get rid of Saddam.
He has ruined our country, raped our constitution and politicalized our justice department. He is disliked around the world.
You consider it a great day for SMU, frankly you have sullied your reputation. It is strange what people will do, for what they consider an asset, prestige and money. I was hoping by now that Bush and Cheney would be impeached and deported to Maine and Wyoming, anyplace except Texas. Or on the other hand we convict mass murderers and put them in jail for life . Our young men have died and many have been maimed for life, the citizens of Iraq have died and many of them have been maimed for life, on a whim of a bunch of greedy corrupt men, who claim to be Christians.
My husband now deceased was a graduate of SMU Law School. He once said, “the worst enemy that any country had was its government and its leaders”. I have found that to be true, especially during the Bush 1 and Bush 11 years. Many of our journalist, who really searched for the truth, have written some great books. Ask an honest journalist that you know and they will give you a list. The ones who told the truth, not biased for or against, just the old unadulterated truth, which we don’t find much of in this world anymore.
To bad your heart is not on the right side of SMU.
Shotgun Granny
(P.S., he answered and said he did the right thing!)
R. Gerald Turner, President
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750100
Dallas, Texas 75205
Sir:
I can not believe that a group of supposedly intelligent people, as the SMU trustees and others, (of course I understand Donald Evans, he is one of Bush’s cronies, even before he got in the white house) would allow a presidential library to be built on the grounds of Southern Methodist University for King George Bush (some of us old folks refer to him as the village idiot from Midland). I wondered why Evans left his soft job in the white house. Evidently he headed straight to Dallas to start the details for the library and back into the energy business.
I’m sure you are all good republicans, but if you are his type of republican, it does not say much for your character. Don’t tell me that you don’t know all about him, if you said no, I wouldn’t believe you. Not with all the access you have for information. If you are interested in the affairs of the world, you can easily find out, what the majority of the people in the world already know. He is without a doubt one of the worst men in this country, along with his friends. He started a war without reason, but of course he used the excuse of 9-11, but his plans were already in place to go after Iraq’s oil reserves and get rid of Saddam.
He has ruined our country, raped our constitution and politicalized our justice department. He is disliked around the world.
You consider it a great day for SMU, frankly you have sullied your reputation. It is strange what people will do, for what they consider an asset, prestige and money. I was hoping by now that Bush and Cheney would be impeached and deported to Maine and Wyoming, anyplace except Texas. Or on the other hand we convict mass murderers and put them in jail for life . Our young men have died and many have been maimed for life, the citizens of Iraq have died and many of them have been maimed for life, on a whim of a bunch of greedy corrupt men, who claim to be Christians.
My husband now deceased was a graduate of SMU Law School. He once said, “the worst enemy that any country had was its government and its leaders”. I have found that to be true, especially during the Bush 1 and Bush 11 years. Many of our journalist, who really searched for the truth, have written some great books. Ask an honest journalist that you know and they will give you a list. The ones who told the truth, not biased for or against, just the old unadulterated truth, which we don’t find much of in this world anymore.
To bad your heart is not on the right side of SMU.
Shotgun Granny
(P.S., he answered and said he did the right thing!)
Just Wondering
January 12, 2006
Just wondering.. Paul Wolfowitz, who was No. 2 at the Pentagon, is now at the World Bank, with a $300,000 tax-free annual salary, a mortgage allowance and a golf-club membership. IRS criminal investigators routinely freeze thousands of tax refunds without notifying taxpayers. I wonder if they will freeze his refund. If Wolfowitz salary of $300,000. can be tax-free, why can’t everyone who makes under $300,000. be tax-free also? The old saying of something is rotten in Denmark could apply as something is rotten in the United States.
The tax on $300,000. is more than most people make. What’s wrong with this picture? Can someone tell me?
Shotgun Granny
Just wondering.. Paul Wolfowitz, who was No. 2 at the Pentagon, is now at the World Bank, with a $300,000 tax-free annual salary, a mortgage allowance and a golf-club membership. IRS criminal investigators routinely freeze thousands of tax refunds without notifying taxpayers. I wonder if they will freeze his refund. If Wolfowitz salary of $300,000. can be tax-free, why can’t everyone who makes under $300,000. be tax-free also? The old saying of something is rotten in Denmark could apply as something is rotten in the United States.
The tax on $300,000. is more than most people make. What’s wrong with this picture? Can someone tell me?
Shotgun Granny
Mass Murder
February 26, 2008
When people commit mass murder, they should be convicted and put under the jail for the rest of their life. Why hasn’t George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the rest of his cohorts been impeached, and sentenced? Along with the rest of the dictators around the world. Their excuse of protecting the citizens is a bald faced lie. They attacked Iraq for the oil to line their pockets. They used the excuse of 9-11, but their plans were in place before then.
Shotgun Granny
When people commit mass murder, they should be convicted and put under the jail for the rest of their life. Why hasn’t George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the rest of his cohorts been impeached, and sentenced? Along with the rest of the dictators around the world. Their excuse of protecting the citizens is a bald faced lie. They attacked Iraq for the oil to line their pockets. They used the excuse of 9-11, but their plans were in place before then.
Shotgun Granny
Mass Murder
February 26, 2008
When people commit mass murder, they should be convicted and put under the jail for the rest of their life. Why hasn’t George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the rest of his cohorts been impeached, and sentenced? Along with the rest of the dictators around the world. Their excuse of protecting the citizens is a bald faced lie. They attacked Iraq for the oil to line their pockets. They used the excuse of 9-11, but their plans were in place before then.
Shotgun Granny
When people commit mass murder, they should be convicted and put under the jail for the rest of their life. Why hasn’t George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the rest of his cohorts been impeached, and sentenced? Along with the rest of the dictators around the world. Their excuse of protecting the citizens is a bald faced lie. They attacked Iraq for the oil to line their pockets. They used the excuse of 9-11, but their plans were in place before then.
Shotgun Granny
Something to think about
September 27, 2007
Something to think about:
Not to long ago I was listening to a group of television ministers talking about religion. Talking about the Holy Land. They were discussing working with all the different religions. I didn’t hear them mention the Muslim religion. If they did I missed it.
They began talking about the Anti-Christ and Armageddon. The place where the final battle between good and evil will be fought. The Anti-Christ is the one who will show up with the numbers 666 on his head and corrupt the world. I think he will be a little late, as it is already corrupt.
This one fellow started talking about the number 666. Said all of the Anti-Christ followers would have the number 666 on them also, and if anyone didn’t have this number on them, then they would not be able to buy or get anything. That means that the mild and meek who are supposed to inherit the earth are going to be up a creek, which they are now.
A few days later there was an article in the paper about how your credit score affects us, with a wheel showing the numbers 660-679 with the average US credit score as 678. I thought to myself, HEY maybe the battle has begun. As people have to have a certain credit score in order to buy a car, insurance, get a bank loan or mortgage loan to buy a home, plus many other things.
He sounded sincere and acted like it was the GOD’s truth. What do you think?
Shotgun Granny
Something to think about:
Not to long ago I was listening to a group of television ministers talking about religion. Talking about the Holy Land. They were discussing working with all the different religions. I didn’t hear them mention the Muslim religion. If they did I missed it.
They began talking about the Anti-Christ and Armageddon. The place where the final battle between good and evil will be fought. The Anti-Christ is the one who will show up with the numbers 666 on his head and corrupt the world. I think he will be a little late, as it is already corrupt.
This one fellow started talking about the number 666. Said all of the Anti-Christ followers would have the number 666 on them also, and if anyone didn’t have this number on them, then they would not be able to buy or get anything. That means that the mild and meek who are supposed to inherit the earth are going to be up a creek, which they are now.
A few days later there was an article in the paper about how your credit score affects us, with a wheel showing the numbers 660-679 with the average US credit score as 678. I thought to myself, HEY maybe the battle has begun. As people have to have a certain credit score in order to buy a car, insurance, get a bank loan or mortgage loan to buy a home, plus many other things.
He sounded sincere and acted like it was the GOD’s truth. What do you think?
Shotgun Granny
Space Program
September 22, 2007
Space Program:
These people grew up reading to many comic books, Flash Gordon and the like. So they have been flying around in space, landed on the moon. They have not accomplished one single thing for the good of humanity. A lot of people have been killed and nothing to show for it except some moon rocks. They have built a space station to spy on the rest of the world. This is to help keep up with their war efforts in trying to take over the rest of the world and rule it.
I’m no Pat Robertson and I don’t pretend to know what God thinks, as he doesn’t talk to me, as he supposedly does Rev. Pat. But this planet is where he put ALL of humanity and we can’t even take care of it. If God had of wanted us on the moon and other planets, he would have put us there. Why waste the money and our time and energy, when it would be better spent on all the things needed here, and I don’t mean fighting wars and telling other countries how they should live, when we can’t even take care of the people in the United States. The space program is another type of corruption affiliated with our government. The taxpayer’s money has been going down a rat hole and to the big corporations.
This country has millions of people living in poverty and no way out. Let’s vote to stop the space program until there are no more poor people and we have a balanced budget. The price of gasoline might go down, if we quit using so much in the space program and the airplanes flying all over the world.
Just another opinion from and old citizen.
Shotgun Granny
Space Program:
These people grew up reading to many comic books, Flash Gordon and the like. So they have been flying around in space, landed on the moon. They have not accomplished one single thing for the good of humanity. A lot of people have been killed and nothing to show for it except some moon rocks. They have built a space station to spy on the rest of the world. This is to help keep up with their war efforts in trying to take over the rest of the world and rule it.
I’m no Pat Robertson and I don’t pretend to know what God thinks, as he doesn’t talk to me, as he supposedly does Rev. Pat. But this planet is where he put ALL of humanity and we can’t even take care of it. If God had of wanted us on the moon and other planets, he would have put us there. Why waste the money and our time and energy, when it would be better spent on all the things needed here, and I don’t mean fighting wars and telling other countries how they should live, when we can’t even take care of the people in the United States. The space program is another type of corruption affiliated with our government. The taxpayer’s money has been going down a rat hole and to the big corporations.
This country has millions of people living in poverty and no way out. Let’s vote to stop the space program until there are no more poor people and we have a balanced budget. The price of gasoline might go down, if we quit using so much in the space program and the airplanes flying all over the world.
Just another opinion from and old citizen.
Shotgun Granny
I have voted
March 7, 2006
I have voted in every election for the last 57 years, for all the things I believed in. As one gets older, they do not like changes. I like the old fashioned paper ballots.
I decided years ago that I did not like machines ruling my life. I like my paper copies with my notes, dated and initialed on all items that I worked on. Then computers came along. After 35 years in the insurance industry, I decided that’s enough. They have not made life any easier, only companies get richer. After a couple of years they become outdated and can’t be repaired and you have to buy a new one, which is supposed to do bigger and better things.
If the voting machines will run you a copy of your vote, then this could be acceptable, otherwise I don’t trust them or the people running the elections. Since Weatherford has become a haven for republicans, there really isn’t anyone to vote for, if you aren’t a republican. The old expression of a cold day in hell, or a nicer one, icicles in August, which it would have to be, before I voted for a republican candidate. Over the many years, they have not done one single solitary thing to change my mind.
Shotgun Granny
I have voted in every election for the last 57 years, for all the things I believed in. As one gets older, they do not like changes. I like the old fashioned paper ballots.
I decided years ago that I did not like machines ruling my life. I like my paper copies with my notes, dated and initialed on all items that I worked on. Then computers came along. After 35 years in the insurance industry, I decided that’s enough. They have not made life any easier, only companies get richer. After a couple of years they become outdated and can’t be repaired and you have to buy a new one, which is supposed to do bigger and better things.
If the voting machines will run you a copy of your vote, then this could be acceptable, otherwise I don’t trust them or the people running the elections. Since Weatherford has become a haven for republicans, there really isn’t anyone to vote for, if you aren’t a republican. The old expression of a cold day in hell, or a nicer one, icicles in August, which it would have to be, before I voted for a republican candidate. Over the many years, they have not done one single solitary thing to change my mind.
Shotgun Granny
I Have A Question
July 26, 2007
I have a question. Do you think the United States would allow another Country to come here and tell us that we need to have another type of government? Tell us that our various religions are bad and we need to change? Tell us that the way we live is wrong and that we need to change? I don’t think so….After all, these countries the United States are trying to change, are centuries older than we are, and have survived, without our help. Yes, they have fought among themselves, just as we do in the United States.
Take our individual states in the United States, do you think the Governor of any state would allow the Governor of another state to come into their territory and tell them how to run their state? I don’t think so…
The United States has allowed large corporations (with their help) to go into other countries and exploit them, with the help of their rulers. Telling them it would be good for them. That it would make rich, and it did, but not for the poor people of these countries. Greed is a terrible sin. This is what all this exploitation is about. The rich get richer and the poor of these countries suffer, and have no one to turn too. Envy is another sin, and this sin has been forced onto the poor people, which has been a lot of the cause of the in-fighting among their own people. I have never been able to understand how rulers of a country could live in such immense wealth and allow their people to be treated so badly.
Foreign countries aren’t the only ones that treat their people bad. The Government of The United States does the same thing. The Government of The United States takes our tax dollars and waste them and do not feel that they have to explain or account for it. They treat our poor people less than human beings.
Our Government of The United States allows the people of this country to be exploited by Pharmaceutical companies. The same drugs sold in the United States are sold in other countries for 50, 60 and 80 percent less than we can buy them here. They are all made by the same companies. Many bought here have to have a prescription, so you have to go back to the doctor (plus another charge) for another prescription. Many of these can be bought across the counter in other countries. I know this is true, because I have relatives that live in other countries and take the same medications I do.
Medical facilities exploit people, by padding their bills. I was in the hospital once and needed sanitary napkins. They charge me $26.00 for a box of 12 and they were the type we used back in the 1940’s. I called back later and asked if I could get the franchise to furnished sanitary napkins for the hospital? I could go to the drug store and buy cheaper and better ones for $3.95 a box. Their answer was no. I really didn’t intend to, just wanted them to know I knew they were a bunch of crooks. When I had my handicapped Son in the hospital, he had restraints (made free by the Gray Ladies), they charged me $12.50 for each one. So I took them home with me, as they don’t use them again. What a waste. I have used them at various times since 1988, so I got my $25.00 dollars worth after all.
Insurance companies exploit our citizens. Since I was in the business for 35 years, I know this is true. The have raised the rates so high that most people can’t afford to pay for it, then more or less force you to take high deductibles in order to lower the rate a little. When you have a claim they act like you intended to have it. I have told them if I knew when I was going to have a claim, I would have waited and bought the coverage a month before the claim. If your credit record doesn’t suit them, they can refuse to write you coverage. Everyone doesn’t have a good credit record. Automobile insurance should go by your motor vehicle record. If you have had tickets, then you should charge for the tickets for the past 36 months, or fire insurance according to construction of the home and rate for the area. When people drive and they haven’t been able to afford coverage or their policy expired and they get caught, then the state feels a big fine is in order and they impound your car. Another big fine is in order to get it out. If you can’t afford to buy coverage and you can’t afford to get your car out of the pound, then it is sold, for more money for the establishment. Back again to GREED.
Automobile companies exploit our gullible citizens. Automobiles aren’t made a well as they were 50 years ago. All plastic (which helps the oil companies) and if you get clobbered you have to replace half of the vehicle. Every vehicle sold should have a 10 year guarantee in writing. Everyone should keep their vehicles and not trade them in every year. Vehicles cost more nowadays than a 4 bedroom home cost in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Carburetors were invented that I know of in the 1960’s that got 50 miles a gallon. They were bought up from the inventor by the oil and gas companies, GREED again on part of both parties. Our government if they really were looking out for their citizens would see that this is changed. Frankly they have no interest in the citizens of this (except the rich ones) country.
Banking facilities have gone to hell in a hand basket. Bank presidents steal, misuse funds and lie to clients and then act like they did nothing wrong. Many are now incarcerated but many are not. You can no longer get your checks back, you can’t get past records if needed. They don’t keep them, or so they tell me. Even if you offer to pay for them and their time. You are no longer important. Everyone wants you to bank electronically as if you don’t have sense enough to take care of your own business. Everyone doesn’t have a computer. Lots of people don’t have telephones, lots of people don’t have cars and they depend on the mail, which isn’t very reliable at times. It used to be nice to have your own bank, now all the big hogs are buying up all the little banks. Sort of like Walmart coming into town and running all the small businesses out of business. I don’t shop at Walmart’s. I hear they have a banking facility in house. Don’t know this for sure. All of our little hardware stores have fallen by the wayside, run out of business by Lowe’s and Home Depot. GREED again.
Credit card companies exploit people to the point of disgrace. They are the scum of the earth. No, I don’t owe a credit card company anything. But they are guilty of offering people cards and they take them, then if they are late paying a couple of times, they charge an outrageous late fee, then they double, then triple the interest rate. Which is usury. The practice of lending money at an exorbitant interest rate. The Bible states in Exodus, Chapter 22 vs. 25, “If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.” This applies to the banks also. The government does nothing about high interest rates with the banks, credit card companies or mortgage companies. The government and politicians are bought off by the lobbyist. Exodus, Chapter 23 vs. 8 “And thou shalt take no gift; for the gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the righteous.” This applies to all the crooked politicians.
None of the people in our government are truthful. Some do not say anything, which is just as bad. I read somewhere, where someone said, “The truth lies buried in the darkness of the soul.” My husband once said, “The worst enemy that the people of any country has is it’s government and it’s leaders.” I have found this to be true. Another quote, by Gerald R. Ford, “Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.” William Jennings Bryan said, “The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.” And another from Robert F. Kennedy, “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”
I started out to ask questions and wound up making a lot of statements that I truly believe to be true. No one has proved me wrong yet. I will start on the Justice Department and the State of Texas another time.
Shotgun Granny
I have a question. Do you think the United States would allow another Country to come here and tell us that we need to have another type of government? Tell us that our various religions are bad and we need to change? Tell us that the way we live is wrong and that we need to change? I don’t think so….After all, these countries the United States are trying to change, are centuries older than we are, and have survived, without our help. Yes, they have fought among themselves, just as we do in the United States.
Take our individual states in the United States, do you think the Governor of any state would allow the Governor of another state to come into their territory and tell them how to run their state? I don’t think so…
The United States has allowed large corporations (with their help) to go into other countries and exploit them, with the help of their rulers. Telling them it would be good for them. That it would make rich, and it did, but not for the poor people of these countries. Greed is a terrible sin. This is what all this exploitation is about. The rich get richer and the poor of these countries suffer, and have no one to turn too. Envy is another sin, and this sin has been forced onto the poor people, which has been a lot of the cause of the in-fighting among their own people. I have never been able to understand how rulers of a country could live in such immense wealth and allow their people to be treated so badly.
Foreign countries aren’t the only ones that treat their people bad. The Government of The United States does the same thing. The Government of The United States takes our tax dollars and waste them and do not feel that they have to explain or account for it. They treat our poor people less than human beings.
Our Government of The United States allows the people of this country to be exploited by Pharmaceutical companies. The same drugs sold in the United States are sold in other countries for 50, 60 and 80 percent less than we can buy them here. They are all made by the same companies. Many bought here have to have a prescription, so you have to go back to the doctor (plus another charge) for another prescription. Many of these can be bought across the counter in other countries. I know this is true, because I have relatives that live in other countries and take the same medications I do.
Medical facilities exploit people, by padding their bills. I was in the hospital once and needed sanitary napkins. They charge me $26.00 for a box of 12 and they were the type we used back in the 1940’s. I called back later and asked if I could get the franchise to furnished sanitary napkins for the hospital? I could go to the drug store and buy cheaper and better ones for $3.95 a box. Their answer was no. I really didn’t intend to, just wanted them to know I knew they were a bunch of crooks. When I had my handicapped Son in the hospital, he had restraints (made free by the Gray Ladies), they charged me $12.50 for each one. So I took them home with me, as they don’t use them again. What a waste. I have used them at various times since 1988, so I got my $25.00 dollars worth after all.
Insurance companies exploit our citizens. Since I was in the business for 35 years, I know this is true. The have raised the rates so high that most people can’t afford to pay for it, then more or less force you to take high deductibles in order to lower the rate a little. When you have a claim they act like you intended to have it. I have told them if I knew when I was going to have a claim, I would have waited and bought the coverage a month before the claim. If your credit record doesn’t suit them, they can refuse to write you coverage. Everyone doesn’t have a good credit record. Automobile insurance should go by your motor vehicle record. If you have had tickets, then you should charge for the tickets for the past 36 months, or fire insurance according to construction of the home and rate for the area. When people drive and they haven’t been able to afford coverage or their policy expired and they get caught, then the state feels a big fine is in order and they impound your car. Another big fine is in order to get it out. If you can’t afford to buy coverage and you can’t afford to get your car out of the pound, then it is sold, for more money for the establishment. Back again to GREED.
Automobile companies exploit our gullible citizens. Automobiles aren’t made a well as they were 50 years ago. All plastic (which helps the oil companies) and if you get clobbered you have to replace half of the vehicle. Every vehicle sold should have a 10 year guarantee in writing. Everyone should keep their vehicles and not trade them in every year. Vehicles cost more nowadays than a 4 bedroom home cost in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Carburetors were invented that I know of in the 1960’s that got 50 miles a gallon. They were bought up from the inventor by the oil and gas companies, GREED again on part of both parties. Our government if they really were looking out for their citizens would see that this is changed. Frankly they have no interest in the citizens of this (except the rich ones) country.
Banking facilities have gone to hell in a hand basket. Bank presidents steal, misuse funds and lie to clients and then act like they did nothing wrong. Many are now incarcerated but many are not. You can no longer get your checks back, you can’t get past records if needed. They don’t keep them, or so they tell me. Even if you offer to pay for them and their time. You are no longer important. Everyone wants you to bank electronically as if you don’t have sense enough to take care of your own business. Everyone doesn’t have a computer. Lots of people don’t have telephones, lots of people don’t have cars and they depend on the mail, which isn’t very reliable at times. It used to be nice to have your own bank, now all the big hogs are buying up all the little banks. Sort of like Walmart coming into town and running all the small businesses out of business. I don’t shop at Walmart’s. I hear they have a banking facility in house. Don’t know this for sure. All of our little hardware stores have fallen by the wayside, run out of business by Lowe’s and Home Depot. GREED again.
Credit card companies exploit people to the point of disgrace. They are the scum of the earth. No, I don’t owe a credit card company anything. But they are guilty of offering people cards and they take them, then if they are late paying a couple of times, they charge an outrageous late fee, then they double, then triple the interest rate. Which is usury. The practice of lending money at an exorbitant interest rate. The Bible states in Exodus, Chapter 22 vs. 25, “If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.” This applies to the banks also. The government does nothing about high interest rates with the banks, credit card companies or mortgage companies. The government and politicians are bought off by the lobbyist. Exodus, Chapter 23 vs. 8 “And thou shalt take no gift; for the gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the righteous.” This applies to all the crooked politicians.
None of the people in our government are truthful. Some do not say anything, which is just as bad. I read somewhere, where someone said, “The truth lies buried in the darkness of the soul.” My husband once said, “The worst enemy that the people of any country has is it’s government and it’s leaders.” I have found this to be true. Another quote, by Gerald R. Ford, “Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.” William Jennings Bryan said, “The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.” And another from Robert F. Kennedy, “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”
I started out to ask questions and wound up making a lot of statements that I truly believe to be true. No one has proved me wrong yet. I will start on the Justice Department and the State of Texas another time.
Shotgun Granny
Honor
July 2, 2005
The article I’m typing is from the Fort Worth Star Telegram, written by Steve Stockdale. It is a
Great article. I had to keep it and I re-read it every once in a while.
HONOR
The code of our country
■ In 21st-century America, honor is an option – not necessary, not sufficient, desirable only if it doesn’t jeopardize the bottom line.
I grew up playing sports in the Texas Panhandle. On my bedroom wall, I had a plaque inscribed with a then-famous Grantland Rice saying: “For when the one great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks – not that you won or lost – but how you played the game.”
I didn’t like to think I took that value to heart.
In 1972, my ability to throw a football, and a decent SAT score, earned me an appointment to the Air Force Academy. On the field, “how I played the game” warranted only a two-year intercollegiate career.
Off the field, I persevered to graduate. I attribute that in large part to my early-ingrained respect for how I (in the broader sense) “played the game.”
At the Air Force Academy, how you were supposed to play the game was enshrined in the cadet honor code: “We will not lie, steal, or cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does.”
Those first three will-nots were straightforward enough. The sticky wicket was that toleration thing, which meant that if you knew of an honor violation, we were bound by the code to report it.
If we didn’t report – if we tolerated a violation – we could be judged as guilty as the deed-doer, and expelled just as quickly.
What’s up with that?
I recollect the rationale as this: Honorable behavior breeds honorable behavior. Tolerating dishonorable behavior breeds more dishonorable behavior. Dishonorable behavior acts as an invasive cancer, eating away at integrity, trust, confidence and respect. It jeopardizes mission and thwarts duty.
In effect, the toleration clause means that honor trumps loyalty. Misguided loyalty results in blind faith. Trust rooted in honor is fully deserved and rewarded.
Simply not violation the will-nots doesn’t ensure that one has internalized a sense of honor – but it’s a start. The “end game” of the honor code is to develop officers, commanders and leaders whose character is clearly above reproach. “How you play the game” is integral to reaching the end game; the end is defined by the how.
Granted, some Air Force Academy cadets, and graduates, have not always brought honor to their institution. Periodic cheating scandals and worse, including the sexual assaults of recent years, cannot be condoned, rationalized or in any way tolerated.
But for those who continue at the service academies in Colorado Springs, West Point and Annapolis, honor is still taught and valued as the bedrock of their institutional cultures. At least they’re trying.
At least that’s what we were taught.
Yesterday, President Bush addressed the 2005 graduating class of the Naval Academy. Today, Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is scheduled to speak to the graduates at West Point. On Wednesday, Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to give the commencement address at my alma mater.
These three men will welcome 2,700 new lieutenants and ensigns to the “real” America that lies beyond the parade grounds, math blackboards and fields of friendly strife.
What might they say to these young officers to prepare them for what lies ahead? What pre-eminent American value should these future leaders embrace to guarantee success in the “real” America of the 21st century?
Just win, baby.
Whatever it takes. Make it happen. Ignore the rules. Make ‘em prove it. It’s not how, just how many. Failure’s not an option; admitting it isn’t, either.
Image is everything. Dress for success; line the right pockets. Say it is anyway. Claim a mandate. Perception is reality. Buy two flags: Wrap yourself in one, salute the other and they’ll love ya forever and ever. Amen.
Do the deal. Round it up. Make the numbers. Cork the bat. Shoot the ‘roids. Get the votes. Get the confession. Give ‘em his medal, but don’t tell ‘em it was our bullet.
And, dude – keep it real. Cause “it’s all good.”
In 21st-century America, honor is an option – not necessary, not sufficient, desirable only if it doesn’t jeopardize the bottom line. As an American value, it ranks a little above recycling but way below redistricting.
Americans talk a good game, but Col. Nathan R. Jessep had it right in A Few Good Men: We can’t handle the truth.
We’ve tolerated our vain hypocrisies, quibbles and misrepresentations for so long that we can’t distinguish fact from conviction, trust from hope, appearance from reality.
Reporting to the Classes of 2005, and to honor America: May the Code be with you.
Steve Stockdale, Spirit of ‘76, serves as executive director for the Institute of Genera Semantics and is a Star-Telegram community panel columnist.
Shotgun Granny
The article I’m typing is from the Fort Worth Star Telegram, written by Steve Stockdale. It is a
Great article. I had to keep it and I re-read it every once in a while.
HONOR
The code of our country
■ In 21st-century America, honor is an option – not necessary, not sufficient, desirable only if it doesn’t jeopardize the bottom line.
I grew up playing sports in the Texas Panhandle. On my bedroom wall, I had a plaque inscribed with a then-famous Grantland Rice saying: “For when the one great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks – not that you won or lost – but how you played the game.”
I didn’t like to think I took that value to heart.
In 1972, my ability to throw a football, and a decent SAT score, earned me an appointment to the Air Force Academy. On the field, “how I played the game” warranted only a two-year intercollegiate career.
Off the field, I persevered to graduate. I attribute that in large part to my early-ingrained respect for how I (in the broader sense) “played the game.”
At the Air Force Academy, how you were supposed to play the game was enshrined in the cadet honor code: “We will not lie, steal, or cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does.”
Those first three will-nots were straightforward enough. The sticky wicket was that toleration thing, which meant that if you knew of an honor violation, we were bound by the code to report it.
If we didn’t report – if we tolerated a violation – we could be judged as guilty as the deed-doer, and expelled just as quickly.
What’s up with that?
I recollect the rationale as this: Honorable behavior breeds honorable behavior. Tolerating dishonorable behavior breeds more dishonorable behavior. Dishonorable behavior acts as an invasive cancer, eating away at integrity, trust, confidence and respect. It jeopardizes mission and thwarts duty.
In effect, the toleration clause means that honor trumps loyalty. Misguided loyalty results in blind faith. Trust rooted in honor is fully deserved and rewarded.
Simply not violation the will-nots doesn’t ensure that one has internalized a sense of honor – but it’s a start. The “end game” of the honor code is to develop officers, commanders and leaders whose character is clearly above reproach. “How you play the game” is integral to reaching the end game; the end is defined by the how.
Granted, some Air Force Academy cadets, and graduates, have not always brought honor to their institution. Periodic cheating scandals and worse, including the sexual assaults of recent years, cannot be condoned, rationalized or in any way tolerated.
But for those who continue at the service academies in Colorado Springs, West Point and Annapolis, honor is still taught and valued as the bedrock of their institutional cultures. At least they’re trying.
At least that’s what we were taught.
Yesterday, President Bush addressed the 2005 graduating class of the Naval Academy. Today, Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is scheduled to speak to the graduates at West Point. On Wednesday, Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to give the commencement address at my alma mater.
These three men will welcome 2,700 new lieutenants and ensigns to the “real” America that lies beyond the parade grounds, math blackboards and fields of friendly strife.
What might they say to these young officers to prepare them for what lies ahead? What pre-eminent American value should these future leaders embrace to guarantee success in the “real” America of the 21st century?
Just win, baby.
Whatever it takes. Make it happen. Ignore the rules. Make ‘em prove it. It’s not how, just how many. Failure’s not an option; admitting it isn’t, either.
Image is everything. Dress for success; line the right pockets. Say it is anyway. Claim a mandate. Perception is reality. Buy two flags: Wrap yourself in one, salute the other and they’ll love ya forever and ever. Amen.
Do the deal. Round it up. Make the numbers. Cork the bat. Shoot the ‘roids. Get the votes. Get the confession. Give ‘em his medal, but don’t tell ‘em it was our bullet.
And, dude – keep it real. Cause “it’s all good.”
In 21st-century America, honor is an option – not necessary, not sufficient, desirable only if it doesn’t jeopardize the bottom line. As an American value, it ranks a little above recycling but way below redistricting.
Americans talk a good game, but Col. Nathan R. Jessep had it right in A Few Good Men: We can’t handle the truth.
We’ve tolerated our vain hypocrisies, quibbles and misrepresentations for so long that we can’t distinguish fact from conviction, trust from hope, appearance from reality.
Reporting to the Classes of 2005, and to honor America: May the Code be with you.
Steve Stockdale, Spirit of ‘76, serves as executive director for the Institute of Genera Semantics and is a Star-Telegram community panel columnist.
Shotgun Granny
Honest Men
May 13, 2003
Honest men do not play with a stacked deck. This is what the Democrats are having to play against in Austin and Washington. You have the corporate prostitutes lobbying, political prostitutes led by former “Bug Man” Tom Delay (who is not really a lily white compassionate Christian as he claims), plus you have all the political and government prostitutes in Washington putting pressure on all the weak men of low character who were elected (under another stacked deck) to the Republican Party, all bought and paid for by corporations.
Greed and corruption have become a way of life for the majority of politicians. For some it has always been that way. From the lowest office to the highest. I can remember during the depression in THE 1930’s, politicians coming out to visit the farmers and offering them $2.00 up to $5.00 to vote for them, my Father would tell them, “if I wanted to vote for you I would and I wouldn’t have to be paid.” Of course the price has really gone up.
People wake up! Read, read your history, listen and investigate. Every time we have had a Republican president in office, we have gone in the hole. It is not sour grapes, it is a fact.
You can tell by the number of people voting, that they are not all at the polls. A lot of people consider our election process a sham and feel it doesn’t do any good to vote. The deck is already stacked. The common people weren’t allowed to elect a President. So the supposedly honest Supreme Court assigned their choice. But the majority of the people know what happened. The deck was really stacked.
To change the subject. The US Government is to manage Iraq’s oil production! Talk about the Fox guarding the hen house. Reminds me of the US Government managing the American Indians assets. This has been one of the most shameful things the government has been guilty of. My husband once said that the worst enemy that any country had was its government and leaders. Enough for now.
Shotgun Granny
Honest men do not play with a stacked deck. This is what the Democrats are having to play against in Austin and Washington. You have the corporate prostitutes lobbying, political prostitutes led by former “Bug Man” Tom Delay (who is not really a lily white compassionate Christian as he claims), plus you have all the political and government prostitutes in Washington putting pressure on all the weak men of low character who were elected (under another stacked deck) to the Republican Party, all bought and paid for by corporations.
Greed and corruption have become a way of life for the majority of politicians. For some it has always been that way. From the lowest office to the highest. I can remember during the depression in THE 1930’s, politicians coming out to visit the farmers and offering them $2.00 up to $5.00 to vote for them, my Father would tell them, “if I wanted to vote for you I would and I wouldn’t have to be paid.” Of course the price has really gone up.
People wake up! Read, read your history, listen and investigate. Every time we have had a Republican president in office, we have gone in the hole. It is not sour grapes, it is a fact.
You can tell by the number of people voting, that they are not all at the polls. A lot of people consider our election process a sham and feel it doesn’t do any good to vote. The deck is already stacked. The common people weren’t allowed to elect a President. So the supposedly honest Supreme Court assigned their choice. But the majority of the people know what happened. The deck was really stacked.
To change the subject. The US Government is to manage Iraq’s oil production! Talk about the Fox guarding the hen house. Reminds me of the US Government managing the American Indians assets. This has been one of the most shameful things the government has been guilty of. My husband once said that the worst enemy that any country had was its government and leaders. Enough for now.
Shotgun Granny
Federal Reserve
VERY INTERESTING CONVERSATION: It applies on this date 9/30/08
Subject: Conversation with Mr. Supinski
Jefferson, declared, "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
Did Jefferson have a crystal ball when he spoke these words? Has a private bank taken control over our nation's money supply?
The following is a conversation with Mr. Ron Supinski of the Public Information Department of the San Francisco, Federal Reserve Bank. This is an account of that conversation reconstructed to the best of my ability from notes taken during the conversation on October 8, 1992.
CALLER - Mr. Supinski, does my country own the Federal Reserve System?
MR. SUPINSKI - We are an agency of the government.
CALLER - That's not my question. Is it owned by my country?
MR. SUPINSKI - It is an agency of the government created by congress.
CALLER - Is the Federal Reserve a Corporation?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes
CALLER - Does my government own any of the stock in the Federal Reserve?
MR. SUPINSKI - No, it is owned by the member banks.
CALLER - Are the member banks private corporations?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes
CALLER - Are Federal Reserve Notes backed by anything?
MR. SUPINSKI -Yes, by the assets of the Federal Reserve but, primarily by the power of congress to lay tax on the people.
CALLER - Did you say, by the power to collect taxes is what backs Federal Reserve Notes?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes
CALLER - What are the total assets of the Federal Reserve?
MR. SUPINSKI - The San Francisco Bank has $36 Billion in assets.
CALLER - What are these assets comprised of?
MR. SUPINSKI - Gold, the Federal Reserve Bank itself and government securities.
CALLER - What value does the Federal Reserve Bank carry gold per oz. on their books?
MR. SUPINSKI - I don't have that information but the San Francisco Bank has $1.6 billion in gold.
CALLER - Are you saying the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has $1.6 billion in gold, the bank itself and the balance of the assets is government securities?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes.
CALLER - Where does the Federal Reserve get Federal Reserve Notes from?
MR. SUPINSKI - They are authorized by the Treasury.
CALLER - How much does the Federal Reserve pay for a $10 Federal Reserve Note?
MR. SUPINSKI - Fifty to seventy cents.
CALLER - How much do they pay for a $100.00 Federal Reserve Note?
MR. SUPINSKI - The same fifty to seventy cents.
CALLER - To pay only fifty cents for a $100.00 is a tremendous gain, isn't it?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes
CALLER - According to the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve pays $20.60 per 1,000 denomination or a little over two cents for a $100.00 bill, is that correct?
MR. SUPINSKI - That is probably close.
CALLER - Doesn't the Federal Reserve use the Federal Reserve Notes that cost about two cents each to purchase U.S. Bonds from the government?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes, but there is more to it than that.
CALLER - Basically, that is what happens?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes, basically you are correct.
CALLER - How many Federal Reserve Notes are in circulation?
MR. SUPINSKI - $263 billion and we can only account for a small percentage.
CALLER - Where did they go?
MR. SUPINSKI - Peoples mattress, buried in their back yards and illegal drug money.
CALLER - Since the debt is payable in Federal Reserve Notes, how can the $4 trillion national debt be paid-off with the total Federal Reserve Notes in circulation?
MR. SUPINSKI - I don't know.
CALLER - If the Federal Government would collect every Federal Reserve Note in circulation would it be mathematically possible to pay the $4 trillion national debt?
MR. SUPINSKI - No
CALLER - Am I correct when I say, $1 deposited in a member bank $8 can be lent out through Fractional Reserve Policy?
MR. SUPINSKI - About $7.
CALLER - Correct me if I am wrong but, $7 of additional Federal Reserve Notes were never put in circulation. But, for lack of better words were "created out of thin air " in the form of credits and the two cents per denomination were not paid either. In other words, the Federal Reserve Notes were not physically printed but, in reality were created by a journal entry and lent at interest. Is that correct?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes
CALLER - Is that the reason there are only $263 Billion Federal Reserve Notes in circulation?
MR. SUPINSKI - That is part of the reason.
CALLER - Am I mistaking that when the Federal Reserve Act was passed (on Christmas Eve) in 1913, it transferred the power to coin and issue our nations money and to regulate the value thereof from Congress to a Private corporation. And my country now borrows what should be our own money from the Federal Reserve (a private corporation) plus interest. Is that >correct
and the debt can never be paid off under the current money system of country?
MR. SUPINSKI - Basically, yes.
CALLER - I smell a rat, do you?
MR. SUPINSKI - I am sorry, I can't answer that, I work here.
CALLER - Has the Federal Reserve ever been independently audited?
MR. SUPINSKI - We are audited.
CALLER - Why is there a current House Resolution 1486 calling for a complete audit of the Federal Reserve by the G.A.O. and why is the Federal Reserve resisting?
MR. SUPINSKI - I don't know.
CALLER - Does the Federal Reserve regulate the value of Federal Reserve Notes and interest rates?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes
CALLER - Explain how the Federal Reserve System can be Constitutional if, only the Congress of the U.S., which comprises of the Senate and the House of Representatives has the power to coin and issue our money supply and regulate the value thereof? [Article 1 Section 1 and Section 8] Nowhere, in the Constitution does it give Congress the power or authority to transfer any powers granted under the Constitution to a private corporation or, does it?
MR. SUPINSKI - I am not an expert on constitutional law. I can refer you to our legal department.
CALLER - I can tell you I have read the Constitution. It does NOT provide that any power granted can be transferred to a private corporation. Doesn't it specifically state, all other powers not granted are reserved to the States and to the citizens? Does that mean to a private corporation?
MR. SUPINSKI - I don't think so, but we were created by Congress.
CALLER - Would you agree it is our country and it should be our money as provided by our Constitution?
MR. SUPINSKI - I understand what you are saying.
CALLER - Why should we borrow our own money from a private consortium of bankers? Isn't this why we had a revolution, created a separate sovereign nation and a Bill of Rights?
MR. SUPINSKI - (Declined to answer).
CALLER - Has the Federal Reserve ever been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court?
MR. SUPINSKI - I believe there has been court cases on the matter.
CALLER - Have they been Supreme Court Cases?
MR. SUPINSKI - I think so, but I am not sure.
CALLER - Didn't the Supreme Court declare unanimously in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. vs. U.S. and Carter vs. Carter Coal Co. the corporative-state arrangement an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power? ["The power conferred is the power to regulate. This is legislative delegation in its most obnoxious form; for it is not even delegation to >an official or an official body, presumptively disinterested, but to private persons." Carter vs. Carter Coal Co.]
MR. SUPINSKI - I don't know, I can refer you to our legal department.
CALLER - Isn't the current money system a house of cards that must fall because, the debt can mathematically never be paid-off?
MR. SUPINSKI - It appears that way. I can tell you have been looking into this matter and are very knowledgeable. However, we do have a solution.
CALLER - What is the solution?
MR. SUPINSKI - The Debit Card.
CALLER - Do you mean under the E.F.T. Act (Electronic Funds Transfer)? Isn't that very frightening, when one considers the capabilities of computers? It would provide the government and all it's agencies, including the Federal Reserve such information as: You went to the gas station @ 2:30 and bought $10.00 of unleaded gas @ $1.41 per gallon and then you went to the grocery store @ 2:58 and bought bread, lunch meat and milk for $12.32 and then went to the drug store @ 3:30 and bought cold medicine for $5.62. In other words, they would know where we go, when we went, how much we paid, how much the merchant paid and how much profit he made. Under the E.F.T. they will literally know everything about us. Isn't that kind of scary?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes, it makes you wonder.
CALLER - I smell a GIANT RAT that has overthrown my constitution. Aren't we paying tribute in the form of income taxes to a consortium of private bankers?
MR. SUPINSKI - I can't call it tribute, it is interest.
CALLER - Haven't all elected officials taken an oath of office to preserve and defend the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic? Isn't the Federal Reserve a domestic enemy?
MR. SUPINSKI - I can't say that.
CALLER - Our elected officials and members of the Federal Reserve are guilty of aiding and abetting the overthrowing of my Constitution and that is treason. Isn't the punishment of treason death?
MR. SUPINSKI - I believe so.
CALLER - Thank you for your time and information and if I may say so, I think you should take the necessary steps to protect you and your family and withdraw your money from the banks before the collapse, I am.
MR. SUPINSKI - It doesn't look good.
CALLER - May God have mercy on the souls who are behind this unconstitutional and criminal act called the Federal Reserve. When the ALMIGHTY MASS awakens to this giant hoax, they will not take it with a grain of salt. It has been a pleasure talking to you and I thank you for your time. I hope you will take my advice before it does collapse.
MR. SUPINSKI - Unfortunately, it does not look good.
CALLER - Have a good day and thanks for your time.
MR. SUPINSKI - Thanks for calling.
If the reader has any doubts to the validity of this conversation, call your nearest Federal Reserve Bank, YOU KNOW THE QUESTIONS TO ASK! You won't find them listed under the Federal Government. They are in the white pages, along with Federal Express, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), and any other business. Find out for yourself if all this is true. And then, go to your local law library and look up the case of Lewis vs. U.S., case #80-5905, 9th Circuit, June 24, 1982. It reads in part: "Examining the organization and function of the Federal Reserve Banks and applying the relevant factors, we conclude that the federal reserve are NOT federal instrumentalities . . . but are independent and privately owned and controlled corporations . . . federal reserve banks are listed neither as `wholly owned' government corporations [under 31 U.S.C. Section 846] nor as 'mixed ownership' corporations [under 31 U.S.C. Section 856] . . .
28 U.S.C. Sections 1346(b), 2671. `Federal agency' is defined as: the executive departments, the military departments, independent >establishments of the United States, and corporations acting primarily as instrumentalities of the United States, but does not include any contractors with the United States . . .
There are no sharp criteria for determining whether an entity is a federal agency within the meaning of the Act, but the critical factor is the existence of the federal government control over the `detailed physical performance' and `day to day operations' of that entity. Other factors courts have considered include whether the entity is an independent corporation . . . whether the government is involved in the entity's finances, . . . and whether the mission of the entity furthers the policy of the United States . . . Examining the organization and function of the Federal Reserve Banks, and applying the relevant factors, we conclude that the Reserve Banks are not federal instrumentalities . . .
It is evident from the legislative history of the Federal Reserve Act >that Congress did not intend to give the federal government direction over the daily operation of the Reserve Banks . . .
The fact that the Federal Reserve Board regulates the Reserve Banks does not make them federal agencies under the Act . . . Unlike typical federal agencies, each bank is empowered to hire and fire employees at will. Bank employees do not participate in the Civil Service Retirement System. They are covered by worker's compensation insurance, purchased by the Bank, rather than the Federal Employees Compensation Act. Employees traveling on Bank business are not subject to federal travel regulations and do not receive government employee discounts on lodging and services . . .
Finally, the Banks are empowered to sue and be sued in their own name.12 U.S.C. Section 341. They carry their own liability insurance and typically process and handle their own claims . . ."
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, "When the Federal Reserve was created, its stock was sold to the member banks." ("The Hats The Federal Reserve Wears", published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
The original Stock-holders of the Federal Reserve Banks in 1913 were the Rockefeller's, J.P. Morgan, Rothschild's, Lazard Freres, Schoellkopf, Kuhn-Loeb, Warburgs, Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs.
The MONEY-CHANGERS wanted to be insured they had a monopoly over our Money supply, so Congress passed into law Title 12, Section 284 of the United States Code. Section 284 specifically states, "NO STOCK ALLOWED TO THE U.S."
* Monopoly - "A privilege or peculiar advantage vested in one or more persons or companies, consisting in the exclusive right (or power) to carry on a particular business or trade, manufacture a particular article, or control the sale of the whole supply of a particular commodity, A form of market structure in which only a few firms dominate the total sales of a product or service.
`Monopoly', as prohibited by Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, has two elements: possession of a monopoly power in relevant market and willful acquisition or maintenance of that power, as distinguished from growth or development as a consequence of a superior power, business acumen, or historical product. A monopoly condemned by the Sherman Act is the power to fix prices, or exclude competition, coupled with policies designed to use and preserve that power." (Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edition)
The Federal Reserve Act goes one step farther, "No Senator or Representative in Congress shall be a member of the Federal Reserve Board or an officer or director of a Federal Reserve Bank." They didn't want We The People to have any say in the operation of their monopoly through our elected officials.
Shotgun Granny
Subject: Conversation with Mr. Supinski
Jefferson, declared, "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
Did Jefferson have a crystal ball when he spoke these words? Has a private bank taken control over our nation's money supply?
The following is a conversation with Mr. Ron Supinski of the Public Information Department of the San Francisco, Federal Reserve Bank. This is an account of that conversation reconstructed to the best of my ability from notes taken during the conversation on October 8, 1992.
CALLER - Mr. Supinski, does my country own the Federal Reserve System?
MR. SUPINSKI - We are an agency of the government.
CALLER - That's not my question. Is it owned by my country?
MR. SUPINSKI - It is an agency of the government created by congress.
CALLER - Is the Federal Reserve a Corporation?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes
CALLER - Does my government own any of the stock in the Federal Reserve?
MR. SUPINSKI - No, it is owned by the member banks.
CALLER - Are the member banks private corporations?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes
CALLER - Are Federal Reserve Notes backed by anything?
MR. SUPINSKI -Yes, by the assets of the Federal Reserve but, primarily by the power of congress to lay tax on the people.
CALLER - Did you say, by the power to collect taxes is what backs Federal Reserve Notes?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes
CALLER - What are the total assets of the Federal Reserve?
MR. SUPINSKI - The San Francisco Bank has $36 Billion in assets.
CALLER - What are these assets comprised of?
MR. SUPINSKI - Gold, the Federal Reserve Bank itself and government securities.
CALLER - What value does the Federal Reserve Bank carry gold per oz. on their books?
MR. SUPINSKI - I don't have that information but the San Francisco Bank has $1.6 billion in gold.
CALLER - Are you saying the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has $1.6 billion in gold, the bank itself and the balance of the assets is government securities?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes.
CALLER - Where does the Federal Reserve get Federal Reserve Notes from?
MR. SUPINSKI - They are authorized by the Treasury.
CALLER - How much does the Federal Reserve pay for a $10 Federal Reserve Note?
MR. SUPINSKI - Fifty to seventy cents.
CALLER - How much do they pay for a $100.00 Federal Reserve Note?
MR. SUPINSKI - The same fifty to seventy cents.
CALLER - To pay only fifty cents for a $100.00 is a tremendous gain, isn't it?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes
CALLER - According to the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve pays $20.60 per 1,000 denomination or a little over two cents for a $100.00 bill, is that correct?
MR. SUPINSKI - That is probably close.
CALLER - Doesn't the Federal Reserve use the Federal Reserve Notes that cost about two cents each to purchase U.S. Bonds from the government?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes, but there is more to it than that.
CALLER - Basically, that is what happens?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes, basically you are correct.
CALLER - How many Federal Reserve Notes are in circulation?
MR. SUPINSKI - $263 billion and we can only account for a small percentage.
CALLER - Where did they go?
MR. SUPINSKI - Peoples mattress, buried in their back yards and illegal drug money.
CALLER - Since the debt is payable in Federal Reserve Notes, how can the $4 trillion national debt be paid-off with the total Federal Reserve Notes in circulation?
MR. SUPINSKI - I don't know.
CALLER - If the Federal Government would collect every Federal Reserve Note in circulation would it be mathematically possible to pay the $4 trillion national debt?
MR. SUPINSKI - No
CALLER - Am I correct when I say, $1 deposited in a member bank $8 can be lent out through Fractional Reserve Policy?
MR. SUPINSKI - About $7.
CALLER - Correct me if I am wrong but, $7 of additional Federal Reserve Notes were never put in circulation. But, for lack of better words were "created out of thin air " in the form of credits and the two cents per denomination were not paid either. In other words, the Federal Reserve Notes were not physically printed but, in reality were created by a journal entry and lent at interest. Is that correct?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes
CALLER - Is that the reason there are only $263 Billion Federal Reserve Notes in circulation?
MR. SUPINSKI - That is part of the reason.
CALLER - Am I mistaking that when the Federal Reserve Act was passed (on Christmas Eve) in 1913, it transferred the power to coin and issue our nations money and to regulate the value thereof from Congress to a Private corporation. And my country now borrows what should be our own money from the Federal Reserve (a private corporation) plus interest. Is that >correct
and the debt can never be paid off under the current money system of country?
MR. SUPINSKI - Basically, yes.
CALLER - I smell a rat, do you?
MR. SUPINSKI - I am sorry, I can't answer that, I work here.
CALLER - Has the Federal Reserve ever been independently audited?
MR. SUPINSKI - We are audited.
CALLER - Why is there a current House Resolution 1486 calling for a complete audit of the Federal Reserve by the G.A.O. and why is the Federal Reserve resisting?
MR. SUPINSKI - I don't know.
CALLER - Does the Federal Reserve regulate the value of Federal Reserve Notes and interest rates?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes
CALLER - Explain how the Federal Reserve System can be Constitutional if, only the Congress of the U.S., which comprises of the Senate and the House of Representatives has the power to coin and issue our money supply and regulate the value thereof? [Article 1 Section 1 and Section 8] Nowhere, in the Constitution does it give Congress the power or authority to transfer any powers granted under the Constitution to a private corporation or, does it?
MR. SUPINSKI - I am not an expert on constitutional law. I can refer you to our legal department.
CALLER - I can tell you I have read the Constitution. It does NOT provide that any power granted can be transferred to a private corporation. Doesn't it specifically state, all other powers not granted are reserved to the States and to the citizens? Does that mean to a private corporation?
MR. SUPINSKI - I don't think so, but we were created by Congress.
CALLER - Would you agree it is our country and it should be our money as provided by our Constitution?
MR. SUPINSKI - I understand what you are saying.
CALLER - Why should we borrow our own money from a private consortium of bankers? Isn't this why we had a revolution, created a separate sovereign nation and a Bill of Rights?
MR. SUPINSKI - (Declined to answer).
CALLER - Has the Federal Reserve ever been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court?
MR. SUPINSKI - I believe there has been court cases on the matter.
CALLER - Have they been Supreme Court Cases?
MR. SUPINSKI - I think so, but I am not sure.
CALLER - Didn't the Supreme Court declare unanimously in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. vs. U.S. and Carter vs. Carter Coal Co. the corporative-state arrangement an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power? ["The power conferred is the power to regulate. This is legislative delegation in its most obnoxious form; for it is not even delegation to >an official or an official body, presumptively disinterested, but to private persons." Carter vs. Carter Coal Co.]
MR. SUPINSKI - I don't know, I can refer you to our legal department.
CALLER - Isn't the current money system a house of cards that must fall because, the debt can mathematically never be paid-off?
MR. SUPINSKI - It appears that way. I can tell you have been looking into this matter and are very knowledgeable. However, we do have a solution.
CALLER - What is the solution?
MR. SUPINSKI - The Debit Card.
CALLER - Do you mean under the E.F.T. Act (Electronic Funds Transfer)? Isn't that very frightening, when one considers the capabilities of computers? It would provide the government and all it's agencies, including the Federal Reserve such information as: You went to the gas station @ 2:30 and bought $10.00 of unleaded gas @ $1.41 per gallon and then you went to the grocery store @ 2:58 and bought bread, lunch meat and milk for $12.32 and then went to the drug store @ 3:30 and bought cold medicine for $5.62. In other words, they would know where we go, when we went, how much we paid, how much the merchant paid and how much profit he made. Under the E.F.T. they will literally know everything about us. Isn't that kind of scary?
MR. SUPINSKI - Yes, it makes you wonder.
CALLER - I smell a GIANT RAT that has overthrown my constitution. Aren't we paying tribute in the form of income taxes to a consortium of private bankers?
MR. SUPINSKI - I can't call it tribute, it is interest.
CALLER - Haven't all elected officials taken an oath of office to preserve and defend the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic? Isn't the Federal Reserve a domestic enemy?
MR. SUPINSKI - I can't say that.
CALLER - Our elected officials and members of the Federal Reserve are guilty of aiding and abetting the overthrowing of my Constitution and that is treason. Isn't the punishment of treason death?
MR. SUPINSKI - I believe so.
CALLER - Thank you for your time and information and if I may say so, I think you should take the necessary steps to protect you and your family and withdraw your money from the banks before the collapse, I am.
MR. SUPINSKI - It doesn't look good.
CALLER - May God have mercy on the souls who are behind this unconstitutional and criminal act called the Federal Reserve. When the ALMIGHTY MASS awakens to this giant hoax, they will not take it with a grain of salt. It has been a pleasure talking to you and I thank you for your time. I hope you will take my advice before it does collapse.
MR. SUPINSKI - Unfortunately, it does not look good.
CALLER - Have a good day and thanks for your time.
MR. SUPINSKI - Thanks for calling.
If the reader has any doubts to the validity of this conversation, call your nearest Federal Reserve Bank, YOU KNOW THE QUESTIONS TO ASK! You won't find them listed under the Federal Government. They are in the white pages, along with Federal Express, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), and any other business. Find out for yourself if all this is true. And then, go to your local law library and look up the case of Lewis vs. U.S., case #80-5905, 9th Circuit, June 24, 1982. It reads in part: "Examining the organization and function of the Federal Reserve Banks and applying the relevant factors, we conclude that the federal reserve are NOT federal instrumentalities . . . but are independent and privately owned and controlled corporations . . . federal reserve banks are listed neither as `wholly owned' government corporations [under 31 U.S.C. Section 846] nor as 'mixed ownership' corporations [under 31 U.S.C. Section 856] . . .
28 U.S.C. Sections 1346(b), 2671. `Federal agency' is defined as: the executive departments, the military departments, independent >establishments of the United States, and corporations acting primarily as instrumentalities of the United States, but does not include any contractors with the United States . . .
There are no sharp criteria for determining whether an entity is a federal agency within the meaning of the Act, but the critical factor is the existence of the federal government control over the `detailed physical performance' and `day to day operations' of that entity. Other factors courts have considered include whether the entity is an independent corporation . . . whether the government is involved in the entity's finances, . . . and whether the mission of the entity furthers the policy of the United States . . . Examining the organization and function of the Federal Reserve Banks, and applying the relevant factors, we conclude that the Reserve Banks are not federal instrumentalities . . .
It is evident from the legislative history of the Federal Reserve Act >that Congress did not intend to give the federal government direction over the daily operation of the Reserve Banks . . .
The fact that the Federal Reserve Board regulates the Reserve Banks does not make them federal agencies under the Act . . . Unlike typical federal agencies, each bank is empowered to hire and fire employees at will. Bank employees do not participate in the Civil Service Retirement System. They are covered by worker's compensation insurance, purchased by the Bank, rather than the Federal Employees Compensation Act. Employees traveling on Bank business are not subject to federal travel regulations and do not receive government employee discounts on lodging and services . . .
Finally, the Banks are empowered to sue and be sued in their own name.12 U.S.C. Section 341. They carry their own liability insurance and typically process and handle their own claims . . ."
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, "When the Federal Reserve was created, its stock was sold to the member banks." ("The Hats The Federal Reserve Wears", published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
The original Stock-holders of the Federal Reserve Banks in 1913 were the Rockefeller's, J.P. Morgan, Rothschild's, Lazard Freres, Schoellkopf, Kuhn-Loeb, Warburgs, Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs.
The MONEY-CHANGERS wanted to be insured they had a monopoly over our Money supply, so Congress passed into law Title 12, Section 284 of the United States Code. Section 284 specifically states, "NO STOCK ALLOWED TO THE U.S."
* Monopoly - "A privilege or peculiar advantage vested in one or more persons or companies, consisting in the exclusive right (or power) to carry on a particular business or trade, manufacture a particular article, or control the sale of the whole supply of a particular commodity, A form of market structure in which only a few firms dominate the total sales of a product or service.
`Monopoly', as prohibited by Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, has two elements: possession of a monopoly power in relevant market and willful acquisition or maintenance of that power, as distinguished from growth or development as a consequence of a superior power, business acumen, or historical product. A monopoly condemned by the Sherman Act is the power to fix prices, or exclude competition, coupled with policies designed to use and preserve that power." (Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edition)
The Federal Reserve Act goes one step farther, "No Senator or Representative in Congress shall be a member of the Federal Reserve Board or an officer or director of a Federal Reserve Bank." They didn't want We The People to have any say in the operation of their monopoly through our elected officials.
Shotgun Granny
Sunday, September 21, 2008
JPS Hospital
May 19, 2008
Letter sent to Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Congratulations to all the reporters on the article about JPS. It really was great. County Hospitals are really supposed to help the poor and they do to some extent, but on the other hand they take advantage when they have a chance. One thing I would like to know since it states you checked into their tax documents. I know that in various businesses, when you cannot collect what is considered a bad debt, they can be counted off on your income tax. This happens in insurance agencies when premiums cannot be collected, or did when I was in the insurance business. The premiums in the insurance business are set by the state and are in the rate manuals, and can’t be increased to any amount just to suit the agent.
But doctors, labs and hospitals seem to overcharge on everything, even aspirin. When they send their bills to the insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid they really up the amount. Bills are paid and then they bill the difference to the patient. Some pay and some cannot. Are these amounts charged off on their income tax?
Just before I was 65 I had surgery. I had 3 types of insurance, my husband’s company policy, My personal policy and they had already sent my medicare cards with being requested. I checked in gave my 2 policies information. It was 3 days before I was 65, they asked me and I told them I did not want to use medicare. My husband’s company policy was to pay first, then my personal policy the balance. I was in the hospital 8 days. I had requested my bill be sent to my room, before I was to check out. The didn’t want to, but finally did. When I got the bill to check over, it had already been paid. By medicare….The whole bill…I called the office and told them to return medicare’s check NOW. The other 2 policies were to pay the bill. They didn’t want to, but I told them I would sue
them for not doing as I instructed. They did. It seems easier to cheat the government. Seems Medicare just pays whatever they are billed, evidently Medicaid does also. But private insurance companies do not.
In checking my bill I noted the cost of a box of sanitary napkins, I had used 6 of them (and they were the type we used back in the 40’) and they had charged me $26.00 for them. I called the office and asked if I could get the franchise to furnish sanitary napkins for the hospital. I could go buy them at the drug store for $3.95 for 24 and make quite a profit. They said no. I didn’t really intend to, just wanted them to know I knew they were crooked. This was at Presbyterian hospital in Dallas.
When my husband was going to Law School at SMU, I worked at Parkland Hospital emergency admitting 11PM to 7AM. The very sad thing I took note of; a lot of poor elderly people would not come to the hospital until they were at deaths door and neighbors would bring them in. They wouldn’t come as they had no money or insurance. The saddest was an elderly woman brought in DOA. She had left a note that she had no money and this was the best way to go. She cut her throat with a dull old butcher knife. I put her in the morgue.
I thought surely God’s poor could be treated better than they were being treated. Another sad thing I ran into. I left my office to go into the hall for a drink of water. I saw this lady sitting out in the hall, she was crying. I went back out later and she was still there. I went and asked if I could help her and what was wrong? She had had a baby 3 days before and they told her she had to check out. They told her she couldn’t take the baby until the bill was paid. It was late at night and the business office was already closed. I called the nursery and asked why they did that. Seems that was orders from the business office. I went back to my office and called Judge Richburg and asked if he could come out to Parkland, we had a problem of the hospital holding a ladies baby for ransom.
It took him about 30 minutes to get there from Oak Cliff. He took the lady to the nursery to get her baby. He got the baby and took her and her Mother home. He told me he would be back and take care of the hospital in the morning. He did and as long as I was there and as long as he lived they didn’t hold anymore babies for ransom. There were always a lot of problems, but all in all it was a good place to go in case of an emergency. The doctors and nurses in emergency were great and the people got good care. Parkland was always clean at that time.
It seems to be the people handling the bottom line in the financial portion that have a different mindset than the doctors and nurses. Everyone had to pay hospital district taxes if you owned property. We had patients brought in from other counties, and those counties were billed for their care. The poor people were classified as charity patients and their cards I stamped with a C if they were admitted. I could go on with many things, but I know you have more things to do, to try to keep these things in check. I will close with a verse from Deuteronomy, Chapter 25, vs. 11, “For the poor shall never cease out of the land. Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto they brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.” There is retribution for those who oppress or neglect the poor.
Shotgun Granny
Letter sent to Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Congratulations to all the reporters on the article about JPS. It really was great. County Hospitals are really supposed to help the poor and they do to some extent, but on the other hand they take advantage when they have a chance. One thing I would like to know since it states you checked into their tax documents. I know that in various businesses, when you cannot collect what is considered a bad debt, they can be counted off on your income tax. This happens in insurance agencies when premiums cannot be collected, or did when I was in the insurance business. The premiums in the insurance business are set by the state and are in the rate manuals, and can’t be increased to any amount just to suit the agent.
But doctors, labs and hospitals seem to overcharge on everything, even aspirin. When they send their bills to the insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid they really up the amount. Bills are paid and then they bill the difference to the patient. Some pay and some cannot. Are these amounts charged off on their income tax?
Just before I was 65 I had surgery. I had 3 types of insurance, my husband’s company policy, My personal policy and they had already sent my medicare cards with being requested. I checked in gave my 2 policies information. It was 3 days before I was 65, they asked me and I told them I did not want to use medicare. My husband’s company policy was to pay first, then my personal policy the balance. I was in the hospital 8 days. I had requested my bill be sent to my room, before I was to check out. The didn’t want to, but finally did. When I got the bill to check over, it had already been paid. By medicare….The whole bill…I called the office and told them to return medicare’s check NOW. The other 2 policies were to pay the bill. They didn’t want to, but I told them I would sue
them for not doing as I instructed. They did. It seems easier to cheat the government. Seems Medicare just pays whatever they are billed, evidently Medicaid does also. But private insurance companies do not.
In checking my bill I noted the cost of a box of sanitary napkins, I had used 6 of them (and they were the type we used back in the 40’) and they had charged me $26.00 for them. I called the office and asked if I could get the franchise to furnish sanitary napkins for the hospital. I could go buy them at the drug store for $3.95 for 24 and make quite a profit. They said no. I didn’t really intend to, just wanted them to know I knew they were crooked. This was at Presbyterian hospital in Dallas.
When my husband was going to Law School at SMU, I worked at Parkland Hospital emergency admitting 11PM to 7AM. The very sad thing I took note of; a lot of poor elderly people would not come to the hospital until they were at deaths door and neighbors would bring them in. They wouldn’t come as they had no money or insurance. The saddest was an elderly woman brought in DOA. She had left a note that she had no money and this was the best way to go. She cut her throat with a dull old butcher knife. I put her in the morgue.
I thought surely God’s poor could be treated better than they were being treated. Another sad thing I ran into. I left my office to go into the hall for a drink of water. I saw this lady sitting out in the hall, she was crying. I went back out later and she was still there. I went and asked if I could help her and what was wrong? She had had a baby 3 days before and they told her she had to check out. They told her she couldn’t take the baby until the bill was paid. It was late at night and the business office was already closed. I called the nursery and asked why they did that. Seems that was orders from the business office. I went back to my office and called Judge Richburg and asked if he could come out to Parkland, we had a problem of the hospital holding a ladies baby for ransom.
It took him about 30 minutes to get there from Oak Cliff. He took the lady to the nursery to get her baby. He got the baby and took her and her Mother home. He told me he would be back and take care of the hospital in the morning. He did and as long as I was there and as long as he lived they didn’t hold anymore babies for ransom. There were always a lot of problems, but all in all it was a good place to go in case of an emergency. The doctors and nurses in emergency were great and the people got good care. Parkland was always clean at that time.
It seems to be the people handling the bottom line in the financial portion that have a different mindset than the doctors and nurses. Everyone had to pay hospital district taxes if you owned property. We had patients brought in from other counties, and those counties were billed for their care. The poor people were classified as charity patients and their cards I stamped with a C if they were admitted. I could go on with many things, but I know you have more things to do, to try to keep these things in check. I will close with a verse from Deuteronomy, Chapter 25, vs. 11, “For the poor shall never cease out of the land. Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto they brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.” There is retribution for those who oppress or neglect the poor.
Shotgun Granny
I love my country
I love my country, but am not patriotic. I read the quote by
Guy de Maupassant, “Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. I do not believe in wars. If two countries disagree, let the leaders of each country go out behind the barn and fight it out. Neither one was right, they just wanted their own way about whatever the disagreement was in regard too. More territory or wealth, greed is a sad thing.
As a Mother I have said, “over my dead body will they take my child to fight a damn unjust war.” Of course some of our young men and women do get “the religion” after listening to the leaders of all our different countries tell them it is the honorable thing to do. Have any of you noticed that once they get home all broken, busted beyond repair and so many gone to meet their maker, that they no longer have much interest in you? In fact we have to beg for help for all them. Being honorable doesn’t seem to work, once you have done their dirty work that none of their children seem to participate in. The ones that God took back, you get a nice folded three corned flag to put up. I have mine, but his body lies in the bottom of the South China Sea.
I believe in having a military, but to help with disasters that occur in our country and in others when they need help. This we should do on a friendly basis.
Shotgun Granny
Guy de Maupassant, “Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. I do not believe in wars. If two countries disagree, let the leaders of each country go out behind the barn and fight it out. Neither one was right, they just wanted their own way about whatever the disagreement was in regard too. More territory or wealth, greed is a sad thing.
As a Mother I have said, “over my dead body will they take my child to fight a damn unjust war.” Of course some of our young men and women do get “the religion” after listening to the leaders of all our different countries tell them it is the honorable thing to do. Have any of you noticed that once they get home all broken, busted beyond repair and so many gone to meet their maker, that they no longer have much interest in you? In fact we have to beg for help for all them. Being honorable doesn’t seem to work, once you have done their dirty work that none of their children seem to participate in. The ones that God took back, you get a nice folded three corned flag to put up. I have mine, but his body lies in the bottom of the South China Sea.
I believe in having a military, but to help with disasters that occur in our country and in others when they need help. This we should do on a friendly basis.
Shotgun Granny
Empire building
May 28, 2008
Empire building: Bush, Cheney and Cohorts, actually the oil conglomerates.
This has been planned for a long time. All of the military bases around the world in other countries. In Iraq we have built military bases, a large embassy with all the bells and whistles. Bush doesn’t plan on leaving, he plans to stay, this is his empire beginning. But we the people of the United States have paid for this with our blood, sweat, tears and our taxpayers money.
Hey people are we going to let them loose? Let’s not. Let’s strip the whole bunch of them of all their rights, like he has tried to do we the people. Impeach him and Cheney. Freeze their bank accounts, take their pensions and health benefits away. That’s what he has done to people, here and in other countries. He and his friends have been traitors to this country. It is my understanding that this crime deserves a like sentence or the firing squad.
Shotgun Granny
Empire building: Bush, Cheney and Cohorts, actually the oil conglomerates.
This has been planned for a long time. All of the military bases around the world in other countries. In Iraq we have built military bases, a large embassy with all the bells and whistles. Bush doesn’t plan on leaving, he plans to stay, this is his empire beginning. But we the people of the United States have paid for this with our blood, sweat, tears and our taxpayers money.
Hey people are we going to let them loose? Let’s not. Let’s strip the whole bunch of them of all their rights, like he has tried to do we the people. Impeach him and Cheney. Freeze their bank accounts, take their pensions and health benefits away. That’s what he has done to people, here and in other countries. He and his friends have been traitors to this country. It is my understanding that this crime deserves a like sentence or the firing squad.
Shotgun Granny
Divide and Conquer
June 19, 2008
Divide and conquer the people. Oil prices have gone up due to a collusion of our Executive branch of government, with bed partners, the oil industry and friends in OPEC. Sort of a conspiracy to overthrow our country, so they can control everything and make everyone subservient to their demands.
You have noticed that the heat has been on to drill in Alaska, all our coastlines, all public lands (which they already have leases on) and harassing private landowners. So the prices will keep going up until they force us to give into their demands. Then they will have us locked in and control all the oil and gas in the United States, just like all the OPEC countries. They will control all the deregulated energy industries.
Now is the time to put a stop to the rape and ruin of out country by unethical, corrupt, greedy politicians and corporations.
Shotgun Granny
Divide and conquer the people. Oil prices have gone up due to a collusion of our Executive branch of government, with bed partners, the oil industry and friends in OPEC. Sort of a conspiracy to overthrow our country, so they can control everything and make everyone subservient to their demands.
You have noticed that the heat has been on to drill in Alaska, all our coastlines, all public lands (which they already have leases on) and harassing private landowners. So the prices will keep going up until they force us to give into their demands. Then they will have us locked in and control all the oil and gas in the United States, just like all the OPEC countries. They will control all the deregulated energy industries.
Now is the time to put a stop to the rape and ruin of out country by unethical, corrupt, greedy politicians and corporations.
Shotgun Granny
Military Law
Military Law
How can a man be convicted by military prosecutors, with a jury of military officers, when he is not even in the military? How can his defense counsel defend him, when there is no way for them to get the proof of his innocence? The military already had the deck stacked against him. He only had a job as bin Laden’s driver. He had to make a living doing something. I understand jobs aren’t too plentiful in that area.
Bush’s civilian people working in Iraq, the Blackwater bunch, killed some Iraq civilians. If we can convict Hamden, and he didn’t kill anyone, why aren’t that bunch of thugs in one of Iraq’s prisons? Different strokes for different folks! This uneducated person could drive a car and did his job for money to support his family. Wrong place at the wrong time.
Some of our military and other people also, have a mindset of looks like one, must be one, grab the sucker, he’s a terrorist. It has been pounded into their heads that everyone is an enemy. Some of them are, but some are looking for a safe place to hide and no one knows the difference. It’s like out hunting, all snakes you see aren’t poisonous and wont bit you, they will scare you, but people kill them anyway, then gripe because we have so many mice around.
My husband once said, “the worst enemy that any country has is its government and its leaders.” Think about it, way back to year God one.
Shotgun Granny
How can a man be convicted by military prosecutors, with a jury of military officers, when he is not even in the military? How can his defense counsel defend him, when there is no way for them to get the proof of his innocence? The military already had the deck stacked against him. He only had a job as bin Laden’s driver. He had to make a living doing something. I understand jobs aren’t too plentiful in that area.
Bush’s civilian people working in Iraq, the Blackwater bunch, killed some Iraq civilians. If we can convict Hamden, and he didn’t kill anyone, why aren’t that bunch of thugs in one of Iraq’s prisons? Different strokes for different folks! This uneducated person could drive a car and did his job for money to support his family. Wrong place at the wrong time.
Some of our military and other people also, have a mindset of looks like one, must be one, grab the sucker, he’s a terrorist. It has been pounded into their heads that everyone is an enemy. Some of them are, but some are looking for a safe place to hide and no one knows the difference. It’s like out hunting, all snakes you see aren’t poisonous and wont bit you, they will scare you, but people kill them anyway, then gripe because we have so many mice around.
My husband once said, “the worst enemy that any country has is its government and its leaders.” Think about it, way back to year God one.
Shotgun Granny
Banks
December 13, 2006
BANKS;
My husband and I had multiple-party accounts at Weatherford National Bank, Joint Tenancy with Rights of Survivorship. CD’s set up the same way. All of our other accounts with other organizations were set up the same way. He set them up in this manner so as to avoid probate.
His son and his attorney went to the bank and the bank allowed them to go into our personal accounts, which had nothing to do with the estate or them, and the bank did not call or notify me. When I found this out I moved my account to the First National Bank of Weatherford. I explained this to the person at the bank.
Everything went along fine, then all of a sudden, I did not get my checks returned with my statement. I called the bank and asked where my checks were. They told me they were not sending the checks back anymore. I told them I paid for the checks and I wanted them returned to me. They told me I could pay $20.00 a month and they would return my checks. I said alright I would pay $20.00 a month. As time went on I got more irritated. I moved my account to another bank, who said they would return my checks. I moved money from that account and left enough in the bank to take care of the two checks I had written, plus $5.00 to pay for the return of the 2 checks I had written.
When my statement came I was shown to be overdrawn $15.00. They still wanted that $20.00 for the 2 checks being returned. I called and told them I felt that $2.50 for each check was enough. Next month I received a bank statement and it showed that the $15.00 had been taken care of and it showed how. I am on an account of my brother’s, so that if he needed me to buy something for him and send it to him, as he lives out of the country, I could write a check and ship it to him. It is not my money. Lin Bearden actually took money from this account and transferred it to my account to make up the difference of the $20.00 he wanted from me to get my checks back. I went to the bank and told him he better put that $15.00 back into my brothers account, as I didn’t steal from my brother and I didn’t expect him to. And that $2.50 each for the 2 checks to be returned to me was enough. I had already paid for the damn checks when I bought them from the bank. He put the money back into the account he had taken it from. It wasn’t much, but it was the principle of the matter. Integrity is a rare quality and he AIN’T GOT NONE ….
An account, which I have the Power of Attorney over to handle things for the owner should he ask me to, was opened with Bank of America. It was a regular savings account, for two minor children and he was custodian of the account. Two separate accounts. Money was deposited into the accounts each month. Nothing was to be drawn out. The statements came each month to my address. Then they didn’t come. I tried to call the Bank of America in
Mineral Wells, Texas. Hey, have you ever tried to get hold of anyone at the
BofA.??? They have a little canned speech, with a bunch of numbers for you to push and if those numbers do not apply to what you want, they put you on hold, then just hang up. Try to get hold of a real live people person!!!!! Forget it. If you do after days and you do get hold of someone, they ask “is your name of the account?” And you say no, they say, “we can’t help you”, then I tell them I have the Power of Attorney and they tell you “we don’t accept a Power of Attorney and hang up. No more statements came, the owner had not moved the accounts. But he felt that the accounts were safe, as it was a savings account and that the Bank of America was a reputable bank, and maybe since banks were changing ways of doing things and deposits were being made and no withdrawals, it was okay. Well it wasn’t. When I finally went out of town to the bank, with my papers and Power of Attorney, the bank wouldn’t accept. I asked why, as all banks accepted them. He then told me it hadn’t been filed. I had checked with the County Clerks office when it had been given to me and they said it did not have to be filed. I had it filed and started over. All I got then was the accounts has been closed.
They would not tell me by whom or when, or anything else. The owner did not close the accounts, I, as the only other person who could have, at the owner’s request did not. It took me more than a year, with help from several outside sources to find this out. Each account should have had $28,990.00 in it. A total of $57,980.00 for both accounts, which was for their college.
After letters, many more calls and trips to the bank, still no information, other than the accounts has been closed. I went to the Federal Reserve, they couldn’t help and sent me to the Office of the Comptroller of Currency. I called and asked if I sent them all the information with a letter of explanation, along with the Power of Attorney and identification would they look into the matter. They said they would. I did, nothing yet!! It seems the bank has allowed a third party (no name) to remove all funds to an account that had been set up in the owners name and their name and the children’s name by way of online or telephone. I received a letter on October 3, 2006, telling me this had been done, still no name. This is the first time the bank admitted what had occurred and that it was not their fault. Funds were moved to another state and a different bank. Can’t find the person who set up a fraudulent account with Bank One and Chase Bank in another state. Did you ever try to get information from a bank in your own state, well try out of state, same old run around. I finally found a friend at a bank and with my Power of Attorney and they found an account with owners name on it. Wound up finding $1,935.41 in one account and $1,924.23 in the other. Took that out and put in a 529 college account, so no more crooks or bank employees not paying attention will let it happen again.
I have already spent too much on a lawyer and it has been no help. All the B of A does is deny any wrong doing. It will cost more than the amount stolen to continue. At this time I do not know what the outcome will be. I have come to the conclusion that I no longer trust banks or bankers.
Shotgun Granny
BANKS;
My husband and I had multiple-party accounts at Weatherford National Bank, Joint Tenancy with Rights of Survivorship. CD’s set up the same way. All of our other accounts with other organizations were set up the same way. He set them up in this manner so as to avoid probate.
His son and his attorney went to the bank and the bank allowed them to go into our personal accounts, which had nothing to do with the estate or them, and the bank did not call or notify me. When I found this out I moved my account to the First National Bank of Weatherford. I explained this to the person at the bank.
Everything went along fine, then all of a sudden, I did not get my checks returned with my statement. I called the bank and asked where my checks were. They told me they were not sending the checks back anymore. I told them I paid for the checks and I wanted them returned to me. They told me I could pay $20.00 a month and they would return my checks. I said alright I would pay $20.00 a month. As time went on I got more irritated. I moved my account to another bank, who said they would return my checks. I moved money from that account and left enough in the bank to take care of the two checks I had written, plus $5.00 to pay for the return of the 2 checks I had written.
When my statement came I was shown to be overdrawn $15.00. They still wanted that $20.00 for the 2 checks being returned. I called and told them I felt that $2.50 for each check was enough. Next month I received a bank statement and it showed that the $15.00 had been taken care of and it showed how. I am on an account of my brother’s, so that if he needed me to buy something for him and send it to him, as he lives out of the country, I could write a check and ship it to him. It is not my money. Lin Bearden actually took money from this account and transferred it to my account to make up the difference of the $20.00 he wanted from me to get my checks back. I went to the bank and told him he better put that $15.00 back into my brothers account, as I didn’t steal from my brother and I didn’t expect him to. And that $2.50 each for the 2 checks to be returned to me was enough. I had already paid for the damn checks when I bought them from the bank. He put the money back into the account he had taken it from. It wasn’t much, but it was the principle of the matter. Integrity is a rare quality and he AIN’T GOT NONE ….
An account, which I have the Power of Attorney over to handle things for the owner should he ask me to, was opened with Bank of America. It was a regular savings account, for two minor children and he was custodian of the account. Two separate accounts. Money was deposited into the accounts each month. Nothing was to be drawn out. The statements came each month to my address. Then they didn’t come. I tried to call the Bank of America in
Mineral Wells, Texas. Hey, have you ever tried to get hold of anyone at the
BofA.??? They have a little canned speech, with a bunch of numbers for you to push and if those numbers do not apply to what you want, they put you on hold, then just hang up. Try to get hold of a real live people person!!!!! Forget it. If you do after days and you do get hold of someone, they ask “is your name of the account?” And you say no, they say, “we can’t help you”, then I tell them I have the Power of Attorney and they tell you “we don’t accept a Power of Attorney and hang up. No more statements came, the owner had not moved the accounts. But he felt that the accounts were safe, as it was a savings account and that the Bank of America was a reputable bank, and maybe since banks were changing ways of doing things and deposits were being made and no withdrawals, it was okay. Well it wasn’t. When I finally went out of town to the bank, with my papers and Power of Attorney, the bank wouldn’t accept. I asked why, as all banks accepted them. He then told me it hadn’t been filed. I had checked with the County Clerks office when it had been given to me and they said it did not have to be filed. I had it filed and started over. All I got then was the accounts has been closed.
They would not tell me by whom or when, or anything else. The owner did not close the accounts, I, as the only other person who could have, at the owner’s request did not. It took me more than a year, with help from several outside sources to find this out. Each account should have had $28,990.00 in it. A total of $57,980.00 for both accounts, which was for their college.
After letters, many more calls and trips to the bank, still no information, other than the accounts has been closed. I went to the Federal Reserve, they couldn’t help and sent me to the Office of the Comptroller of Currency. I called and asked if I sent them all the information with a letter of explanation, along with the Power of Attorney and identification would they look into the matter. They said they would. I did, nothing yet!! It seems the bank has allowed a third party (no name) to remove all funds to an account that had been set up in the owners name and their name and the children’s name by way of online or telephone. I received a letter on October 3, 2006, telling me this had been done, still no name. This is the first time the bank admitted what had occurred and that it was not their fault. Funds were moved to another state and a different bank. Can’t find the person who set up a fraudulent account with Bank One and Chase Bank in another state. Did you ever try to get information from a bank in your own state, well try out of state, same old run around. I finally found a friend at a bank and with my Power of Attorney and they found an account with owners name on it. Wound up finding $1,935.41 in one account and $1,924.23 in the other. Took that out and put in a 529 college account, so no more crooks or bank employees not paying attention will let it happen again.
I have already spent too much on a lawyer and it has been no help. All the B of A does is deny any wrong doing. It will cost more than the amount stolen to continue. At this time I do not know what the outcome will be. I have come to the conclusion that I no longer trust banks or bankers.
Shotgun Granny
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Fraud, Greed and Corruption
May 27, 2008
Fraud, Greed & Corruption:
I wonder how much longer the citizens of this country are going to allow all the many frauds to be perpetuated on us by the government of our country. We can start with the ordinary carburetor, since we seem to have a gasoline problem. I think someone should be allowed to go through all the files in the patent office. It is my understanding that there have been many inventions for carburetors that got great gas mileage, but they have been bought up by the big companies, thereby more demanded for there product. If they were patented and bought from the inventors, will the record still show in the patent office? If not I can’t understand why, since we have so many brilliant minds in this country that someone can’t invent one. We can invent things to go into space, we can invent all type of terrible war machines. We can invent things to spy on countries and people all over the universe. We can listen in on everyone’s conversations, under the ruse of protecting our country. Surely there is one decent, honest and ethical inventor who can do this, one that will do it for mankind instead of greed.
I have not seen one thing that going to space has helped anyone except greedy corrupt companies. It has killed a lot of people. Starting the war in Iraq has done nothing but kill people and made a lot of companies and politicians rich, plus caused our country to be hated by other countries.
The corruption is so ingrained in all facets of government and large companies that we need to impeach and fire all politicians. Shut down the government and revamp our system. Out of all the people in the United States there is bound to be a few honest ones who could run this country for we the people. I can find no need for us going into other countries and messing in their affairs. I can see being able to travel to another country to see the wonders of their world, visit relatives and help if they have had a terrible disaster. To help only. Actually all people over this universe are not bad. Only their leaders like our leaders who have become greedy, corrupt and unethical. What is the saying about power corrupts. There was a time, when we couldn’t see all of it, but things have changed and we can see nearly all the bad things that happen, except the things that the governments want hidden, then it’s classified. And then there are the things that they don’t want known at all. Maybe we should try waterboarding on some of our leaders to find out.
It will eventually become known, if we ever get an honest and ethical leader.
We the people of this country need to take a good look at ourselves and all the people who request to be elected. We do not really vet these people. We just listen to all their promises and nine out of 10 lie through their teeth. Why? Wouldn’t it be easier to tell the truth, then they would have nothing to worry about. But most of them have no consciences and are not worth shooting. All they are interested in is lining their pockets and helping their friends screw the people of this country. This type of corruption has corroded every town, county and state of this nation.
Shotgun Granny
Fraud, Greed & Corruption:
I wonder how much longer the citizens of this country are going to allow all the many frauds to be perpetuated on us by the government of our country. We can start with the ordinary carburetor, since we seem to have a gasoline problem. I think someone should be allowed to go through all the files in the patent office. It is my understanding that there have been many inventions for carburetors that got great gas mileage, but they have been bought up by the big companies, thereby more demanded for there product. If they were patented and bought from the inventors, will the record still show in the patent office? If not I can’t understand why, since we have so many brilliant minds in this country that someone can’t invent one. We can invent things to go into space, we can invent all type of terrible war machines. We can invent things to spy on countries and people all over the universe. We can listen in on everyone’s conversations, under the ruse of protecting our country. Surely there is one decent, honest and ethical inventor who can do this, one that will do it for mankind instead of greed.
I have not seen one thing that going to space has helped anyone except greedy corrupt companies. It has killed a lot of people. Starting the war in Iraq has done nothing but kill people and made a lot of companies and politicians rich, plus caused our country to be hated by other countries.
The corruption is so ingrained in all facets of government and large companies that we need to impeach and fire all politicians. Shut down the government and revamp our system. Out of all the people in the United States there is bound to be a few honest ones who could run this country for we the people. I can find no need for us going into other countries and messing in their affairs. I can see being able to travel to another country to see the wonders of their world, visit relatives and help if they have had a terrible disaster. To help only. Actually all people over this universe are not bad. Only their leaders like our leaders who have become greedy, corrupt and unethical. What is the saying about power corrupts. There was a time, when we couldn’t see all of it, but things have changed and we can see nearly all the bad things that happen, except the things that the governments want hidden, then it’s classified. And then there are the things that they don’t want known at all. Maybe we should try waterboarding on some of our leaders to find out.
It will eventually become known, if we ever get an honest and ethical leader.
We the people of this country need to take a good look at ourselves and all the people who request to be elected. We do not really vet these people. We just listen to all their promises and nine out of 10 lie through their teeth. Why? Wouldn’t it be easier to tell the truth, then they would have nothing to worry about. But most of them have no consciences and are not worth shooting. All they are interested in is lining their pockets and helping their friends screw the people of this country. This type of corruption has corroded every town, county and state of this nation.
Shotgun Granny
Clothes
Does anyone over sixty, remember their Mothers sitting up at night patching overalls, jeans and various other children’s clothes, so that their children wouldn’t have to go to school with holes in their clothes? My Mother put double patches on my marble playing brothers britches. You were looked down on if you allowed your children to go to school with holes in their clothes. If they could have saved all those clothes and realized what styles would be now, they could have been rich….
I look at the cost of these jeans with holes all over them and think to myself that amount of money would feed a poor family for a month. Evidently they don’t make suspenders anymore, as all the kids wear their jeans hanging on the posterior part of their anatomy, with their naked body showing when they bend over. Boys and girls……
Half of the clothes that are being worn have never seen an ironing board. Remember back in the fifties, when young men wore their jeans starched and ironed with a crease, with belts and long sleeved white shirts, with the shirttail tucked inside the jeans or pants. They always looked nice, neat and clean. Most of the clothes worn by children these days look like they came from a rummage sale. I know times have changed, but not for the better.
The opinion of a grandmother.
Shotgun Granny
I look at the cost of these jeans with holes all over them and think to myself that amount of money would feed a poor family for a month. Evidently they don’t make suspenders anymore, as all the kids wear their jeans hanging on the posterior part of their anatomy, with their naked body showing when they bend over. Boys and girls……
Half of the clothes that are being worn have never seen an ironing board. Remember back in the fifties, when young men wore their jeans starched and ironed with a crease, with belts and long sleeved white shirts, with the shirttail tucked inside the jeans or pants. They always looked nice, neat and clean. Most of the clothes worn by children these days look like they came from a rummage sale. I know times have changed, but not for the better.
The opinion of a grandmother.
Shotgun Granny
Justice Department Investigation of 2001 Anthrax Mailings
Justice Department Investigation of 2001 Anthrax Mailings:
First run out of the gate it was “the terrorist”. Everyone was afraid to open an envelope, everyone scared to death. I didn’t believe it. But you would have thought our country was full of terrorist trying to poison all the citizens of the US. Then after they checked out the source of the anthrax they realized it came from the US government supply.
Things were quite for awhile and then they decided they had found the culprit and started in hounding the employee by the name of Hatfill. For years they did this and really tried to ruin his reputation (frankly I thought it was the bunch of warmongers working for our government trying to keep everyone afraid of their shadow). But since he fought back and got them off his back and sued the pants off the government they had to find someone else. Our course they stated they have been looking at Mr. Ivins all this time. Seems odd because they were still after Hatfill.
The FBI and CIA started hounding Ivins, his family and anyone else involved with him. Which they do and always have. When he has worked at the job so many years and they had never found anything wrong, then this bunch of goons start in for the kill to close this case. No wonder he might have committed suicide, I said might. People are put in jail for crimes they have never committed for years before the truth comes out. If people are dumb enough to believe that no one could have got their hands on a sample of things in the lab where this man worked, just remember drugs disappearing from locked up hospital labs, nuclear labs and any other place people want to get into.
Remember who gave Saddam the poisons to use on the Kurds and the Iranians. Did anyone do a DNA to see where they came from? I find it hard to trust anyone.
Shotgun Granny
First run out of the gate it was “the terrorist”. Everyone was afraid to open an envelope, everyone scared to death. I didn’t believe it. But you would have thought our country was full of terrorist trying to poison all the citizens of the US. Then after they checked out the source of the anthrax they realized it came from the US government supply.
Things were quite for awhile and then they decided they had found the culprit and started in hounding the employee by the name of Hatfill. For years they did this and really tried to ruin his reputation (frankly I thought it was the bunch of warmongers working for our government trying to keep everyone afraid of their shadow). But since he fought back and got them off his back and sued the pants off the government they had to find someone else. Our course they stated they have been looking at Mr. Ivins all this time. Seems odd because they were still after Hatfill.
The FBI and CIA started hounding Ivins, his family and anyone else involved with him. Which they do and always have. When he has worked at the job so many years and they had never found anything wrong, then this bunch of goons start in for the kill to close this case. No wonder he might have committed suicide, I said might. People are put in jail for crimes they have never committed for years before the truth comes out. If people are dumb enough to believe that no one could have got their hands on a sample of things in the lab where this man worked, just remember drugs disappearing from locked up hospital labs, nuclear labs and any other place people want to get into.
Remember who gave Saddam the poisons to use on the Kurds and the Iranians. Did anyone do a DNA to see where they came from? I find it hard to trust anyone.
Shotgun Granny
Power and Greed
September 19, 2007
Power and Greed:
Not a few created with supreme power, as the leaders of the different countries think. The United States passion for supreme power is going to get all of us blow to that place that none of us want to go, unless we all try to put a stop to it. The leaders of the world are the reason for the terrible unrest in every country.
We have laws made by God, which should be the prime law to follow. Then we have the man made laws by governments. These have been changed and added to when they don’t suit the leaders, to the point where it is a crime.
Surely there are still some honest decent people in the world. Not the kind that goes along to get along, or what’s in it for me kind, you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. You vote my way on my bill and I’ll vote your way on yours. None of our politicians feel like they have to be responsible to the people that voted them in, only to the ones that greased their palm, the large corporations and very wealthy individuals.
I won’t be around to see it, but one day the meek and mild mannered people of this country will get fed up with the state of affairs and we will have a revolution. If I catch anymore oil and gas people trespassing on my property I will help start it before I go. The majority of our politicians have no conscience or they couldn’t look at themselves in the mirror to shave, but again, since electric razors they don’t have to.
Shotgun Granny
Power and Greed:
Not a few created with supreme power, as the leaders of the different countries think. The United States passion for supreme power is going to get all of us blow to that place that none of us want to go, unless we all try to put a stop to it. The leaders of the world are the reason for the terrible unrest in every country.
We have laws made by God, which should be the prime law to follow. Then we have the man made laws by governments. These have been changed and added to when they don’t suit the leaders, to the point where it is a crime.
Surely there are still some honest decent people in the world. Not the kind that goes along to get along, or what’s in it for me kind, you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. You vote my way on my bill and I’ll vote your way on yours. None of our politicians feel like they have to be responsible to the people that voted them in, only to the ones that greased their palm, the large corporations and very wealthy individuals.
I won’t be around to see it, but one day the meek and mild mannered people of this country will get fed up with the state of affairs and we will have a revolution. If I catch anymore oil and gas people trespassing on my property I will help start it before I go. The majority of our politicians have no conscience or they couldn’t look at themselves in the mirror to shave, but again, since electric razors they don’t have to.
Shotgun Granny
Power and Greed
September 19, 2007
Power and Greed:
Not a few created with supreme power, as the leaders of the different countries think. The United States passion for supreme power is going to get all of us blow to that place that none of us want to go, unless we all try to put a stop to it. The leaders of the world are the reason for the terrible unrest in every country.
We have laws made by God, which should be the prime law to follow. Then we have the man made laws by governments. These have been changed and added to when they don’t suit the leaders, to the point where it is a crime.
Surely there are still some honest decent people in the world. Not the kind that goes along to get along, or what’s in it for me kind, you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. You vote my way on my bill and I’ll vote your way on yours. None of our politicians feel like they have to be responsible to the people that voted them in, only to the ones that greased their palm, the large corporations and very wealthy individuals.
I won’t be around to see it, but one day the meek and mild mannered people of this country will get fed up with the state of affairs and we will have a revolution. If I catch anymore oil and gas people trespassing on my property I will help start it before I go. The majority of our politicians have no conscience or they couldn’t look at themselves in the mirror to shave, but again, since electric razors they don’t have to.
Shotgun Granny
Power and Greed:
Not a few created with supreme power, as the leaders of the different countries think. The United States passion for supreme power is going to get all of us blow to that place that none of us want to go, unless we all try to put a stop to it. The leaders of the world are the reason for the terrible unrest in every country.
We have laws made by God, which should be the prime law to follow. Then we have the man made laws by governments. These have been changed and added to when they don’t suit the leaders, to the point where it is a crime.
Surely there are still some honest decent people in the world. Not the kind that goes along to get along, or what’s in it for me kind, you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. You vote my way on my bill and I’ll vote your way on yours. None of our politicians feel like they have to be responsible to the people that voted them in, only to the ones that greased their palm, the large corporations and very wealthy individuals.
I won’t be around to see it, but one day the meek and mild mannered people of this country will get fed up with the state of affairs and we will have a revolution. If I catch anymore oil and gas people trespassing on my property I will help start it before I go. The majority of our politicians have no conscience or they couldn’t look at themselves in the mirror to shave, but again, since electric razors they don’t have to.
Shotgun Granny
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Terrorist
September 28, 2006
Terrorist—We hear this word terrorist all the time. We have them everywhere and they come in all kinds and sizes. We have always had terrorist, caused by believe it or not, religion, class differences and greed.
Children have often been terrorized by people in power. In their own homes, in schools, both public and private. Especially orphans in religious, private and State run orphanages.
Unfortunate poor people are terrorized by government establishments, where they go looking for help. Employees working for the government treat them with contempt (not all of them, but the majority) and act like any help they give comes out of their pocket. They have a very malevolent attitude not a benevolent one, as they should, as they are there to help people not mistreat them. It should give them a good feeling to be able to help someone less fortunate than themselves. Instead some people are treated like a beggar with leprosy like in the old days.
Most are looking for a place to stay, food to eat as they have children to feed and take care of. Most can only find part-time work, some have no way to get to work, other than walk miles or find some kind soul to take them. Some do not have telephones, much less computers. Getting help was bad, but soon it will be worse, as the State has decided, they will now have to call in or go online in order to get food stamps and other help. Seems they want to close many of the offices of the Texas Department of Human services. Frankly I had rather our tax money be spent to keep the offices open and help poor people, than pay for all the pomp and circumstances of a bunch of dishonest lousy politicians.
What little money they can earn is used for rent and utilities, which is often not enough. They get behind and worry about being evicted and having their utilities shut off, and they often are. We have paid in our utilities for years, money to help these people, and the governor cut them off, but still takes money from our utilities. I guess he and the other politicians get to use the money for all of their POMP. When these people are evicted and utilities are cut off and they can’t pay, they move from one run down place to another. They live on food stamps, which is never really enough to feed a family.
The majority of these people are uneducated, with no money and no way to better themselves. What clothes they have are purchased at garage sales, Goodwill, Salvation Army or they are given to them. There is no one in their corner to help them. Most of their families are in the same boat. Some will live with other relatives and share food, rent and utilities. Some get into Housing, but if their credit report is bad, they are turned away. Living like this is a kind of terror most people do not know anything about. I know these things are true because I have helped people in this condition and circumstance. We have a lot of homeless people and they would prefer to live on the street and under overpasses after going for help and being treated so bad and questioned by the states Gestapo. People with children can’t do this, as they have to keep the children in school. State employees act like the people prefer to live like this.
I see people put their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the law of the land. But they don’t swear to uphold the laws in the Bible in regard to the poor and downtrodden. Deuteronomy, Chapter 15 vs. 11, “For the poor shall never cease out of the land. Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
There is retribution for those who oppress or neglect the poor.
Shotgun Granny
Terrorist—We hear this word terrorist all the time. We have them everywhere and they come in all kinds and sizes. We have always had terrorist, caused by believe it or not, religion, class differences and greed.
Children have often been terrorized by people in power. In their own homes, in schools, both public and private. Especially orphans in religious, private and State run orphanages.
Unfortunate poor people are terrorized by government establishments, where they go looking for help. Employees working for the government treat them with contempt (not all of them, but the majority) and act like any help they give comes out of their pocket. They have a very malevolent attitude not a benevolent one, as they should, as they are there to help people not mistreat them. It should give them a good feeling to be able to help someone less fortunate than themselves. Instead some people are treated like a beggar with leprosy like in the old days.
Most are looking for a place to stay, food to eat as they have children to feed and take care of. Most can only find part-time work, some have no way to get to work, other than walk miles or find some kind soul to take them. Some do not have telephones, much less computers. Getting help was bad, but soon it will be worse, as the State has decided, they will now have to call in or go online in order to get food stamps and other help. Seems they want to close many of the offices of the Texas Department of Human services. Frankly I had rather our tax money be spent to keep the offices open and help poor people, than pay for all the pomp and circumstances of a bunch of dishonest lousy politicians.
What little money they can earn is used for rent and utilities, which is often not enough. They get behind and worry about being evicted and having their utilities shut off, and they often are. We have paid in our utilities for years, money to help these people, and the governor cut them off, but still takes money from our utilities. I guess he and the other politicians get to use the money for all of their POMP. When these people are evicted and utilities are cut off and they can’t pay, they move from one run down place to another. They live on food stamps, which is never really enough to feed a family.
The majority of these people are uneducated, with no money and no way to better themselves. What clothes they have are purchased at garage sales, Goodwill, Salvation Army or they are given to them. There is no one in their corner to help them. Most of their families are in the same boat. Some will live with other relatives and share food, rent and utilities. Some get into Housing, but if their credit report is bad, they are turned away. Living like this is a kind of terror most people do not know anything about. I know these things are true because I have helped people in this condition and circumstance. We have a lot of homeless people and they would prefer to live on the street and under overpasses after going for help and being treated so bad and questioned by the states Gestapo. People with children can’t do this, as they have to keep the children in school. State employees act like the people prefer to live like this.
I see people put their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the law of the land. But they don’t swear to uphold the laws in the Bible in regard to the poor and downtrodden. Deuteronomy, Chapter 15 vs. 11, “For the poor shall never cease out of the land. Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
There is retribution for those who oppress or neglect the poor.
Shotgun Granny
McCain-Palin
September 15, 2008
John McCain:
I just saw the old baldheaded, bald face liar speaking in Jacksonville, Florida. Yep! We really need another Bush
Republican in Washington. Four more years of republicans and China can buy the whole US for a dollar for each citizen. I’m glad I have lived long enough to know when a person is lying. I hope the majority of our citizens aren’t gullible enough to believe all the lies. He states that the reason our country is in such bad shape is because of the Democrats have been in charge of congress for the last two years. The Republicans were in charge of congress from January 1994 to January 2007. Now we know better than that. This country was already in this mess when the Democrats came back in charge of the committees, but have not been able to do too much, due to republicans and the President.
Some people might not like Bill Clinton, but under great adversity he overcame part of the mess the last 2 republican presidents left. I hope we have another president like him, and I wish most of the politicians in congress were just like him. I’m not interested in their personal private lives, just what good they can do for the good of the citizens of this country, and let us handle our own personal private lives. All the republicans have done is rape this country. Not one single solitary republican worked for the good of all the people, only for themselves, friends, and corporations that gave them the most money.
Sarah Palin:
Hey, come on folks, Obama didn’t refer to Sarah Palin as a pig, he was making reference to McCain and the republican regime. Changing from Bush to McCain, was just like putting lipstick on a pig, it would still be the same.
After all Palin referred to herself as a pit bull, “the difference in a hockey mom and a pit bull was lipstick”. Well even with lipstick, most people do not like a pit bull dog, as they are meaner than a junk yard dog. They are trained to be used in dog fighting. It’s they way and reason they are raised. Maybe that’s why John McCain chose her as his VP.
Shotgun Granny
John McCain:
I just saw the old baldheaded, bald face liar speaking in Jacksonville, Florida. Yep! We really need another Bush
Republican in Washington. Four more years of republicans and China can buy the whole US for a dollar for each citizen. I’m glad I have lived long enough to know when a person is lying. I hope the majority of our citizens aren’t gullible enough to believe all the lies. He states that the reason our country is in such bad shape is because of the Democrats have been in charge of congress for the last two years. The Republicans were in charge of congress from January 1994 to January 2007. Now we know better than that. This country was already in this mess when the Democrats came back in charge of the committees, but have not been able to do too much, due to republicans and the President.
Some people might not like Bill Clinton, but under great adversity he overcame part of the mess the last 2 republican presidents left. I hope we have another president like him, and I wish most of the politicians in congress were just like him. I’m not interested in their personal private lives, just what good they can do for the good of the citizens of this country, and let us handle our own personal private lives. All the republicans have done is rape this country. Not one single solitary republican worked for the good of all the people, only for themselves, friends, and corporations that gave them the most money.
Sarah Palin:
Hey, come on folks, Obama didn’t refer to Sarah Palin as a pig, he was making reference to McCain and the republican regime. Changing from Bush to McCain, was just like putting lipstick on a pig, it would still be the same.
After all Palin referred to herself as a pit bull, “the difference in a hockey mom and a pit bull was lipstick”. Well even with lipstick, most people do not like a pit bull dog, as they are meaner than a junk yard dog. They are trained to be used in dog fighting. It’s they way and reason they are raised. Maybe that’s why John McCain chose her as his VP.
Shotgun Granny
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Liberal
June 26, 2008
FOR THE HOLIER THAN THOU MORAL MAJORITY:
Thank God I am a LIBERAL and that I do focus on things that have meaning to the American people. I have noticed in many of our newspapers and on TV, that we have a certain type of people that the only thing they seem to focus on is other peoples personal private lives. Mostly Republicans, they seem to set themselves up as judge and seem to forget we are citizens, not subjects of this free country. They should look at their own lives and households before opening their big mouths. It is my understanding by the good book, that is the Lord’s job. People seem to forget that HE has his own judicial system and each of us have to walk that path alone. Each of us have the supreme human dignity of being master of their own fate, and sometimes trying to handle that job is very hard.
People have children, some by choice and some accident. Either way you take what God through his wonders of life gives you, and you love them no matter what. Be they perfect or imperfect. You do not get to make that choice. I considered mine, God’s gift to me. I accepted them heart and soul and wouldn’t trade them for all the riches in the world. Many children that came to us handicapped are not accepted by their parents and are shipped away to institutions and never go back to see them. Some have been used as guinea pigs by the American Medical Association.
I have known many gay couples from every walk of life, doctors, lawyers, teachers and numerous other professions, and found them all to be productive citizens, loving, kind, considerate and all believe in the “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” None would have chosen to be different, to be persecuted and reviled, but that’s the way they were born into our world of trial and tribulation. Many who are born different live a long lonely life alone, afraid to share the fact that they are different. Many decided to end their existence, because their differences are to hard to live in a hate filled world of supposedly Christians who do not accept anyone different than they are. They are the ones who could not master their fate. Always remember to say, when you see someone who is different than you would wish to be, “But by the grace of God their go I.”
I always think of one thing I would wish to ask my Maker to do, when the end comes. All of the people who had a choice and lived their lives, leave them in their graves, and take all of our handicapped, institutionalized, abused children and adults and all genocide victims and people who did not have a choice, make them whole and let them inherit the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.
Shotgun Granny
FOR THE HOLIER THAN THOU MORAL MAJORITY:
Thank God I am a LIBERAL and that I do focus on things that have meaning to the American people. I have noticed in many of our newspapers and on TV, that we have a certain type of people that the only thing they seem to focus on is other peoples personal private lives. Mostly Republicans, they seem to set themselves up as judge and seem to forget we are citizens, not subjects of this free country. They should look at their own lives and households before opening their big mouths. It is my understanding by the good book, that is the Lord’s job. People seem to forget that HE has his own judicial system and each of us have to walk that path alone. Each of us have the supreme human dignity of being master of their own fate, and sometimes trying to handle that job is very hard.
People have children, some by choice and some accident. Either way you take what God through his wonders of life gives you, and you love them no matter what. Be they perfect or imperfect. You do not get to make that choice. I considered mine, God’s gift to me. I accepted them heart and soul and wouldn’t trade them for all the riches in the world. Many children that came to us handicapped are not accepted by their parents and are shipped away to institutions and never go back to see them. Some have been used as guinea pigs by the American Medical Association.
I have known many gay couples from every walk of life, doctors, lawyers, teachers and numerous other professions, and found them all to be productive citizens, loving, kind, considerate and all believe in the “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” None would have chosen to be different, to be persecuted and reviled, but that’s the way they were born into our world of trial and tribulation. Many who are born different live a long lonely life alone, afraid to share the fact that they are different. Many decided to end their existence, because their differences are to hard to live in a hate filled world of supposedly Christians who do not accept anyone different than they are. They are the ones who could not master their fate. Always remember to say, when you see someone who is different than you would wish to be, “But by the grace of God their go I.”
I always think of one thing I would wish to ask my Maker to do, when the end comes. All of the people who had a choice and lived their lives, leave them in their graves, and take all of our handicapped, institutionalized, abused children and adults and all genocide victims and people who did not have a choice, make them whole and let them inherit the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.
Shotgun Granny
Friday, September 12, 2008
More Republican Propaganda
September 10, 2008
More Republican Propaganda:
What is all the hell raising about Obama saying putting lipstick on a pig, its still a pig. That’s true, I’ve heard that all my life, plus, you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
You can’t make a president out of someone just because he gets a lot of mileage out of saying he was a POW. There were lots of them and I don’t think they would say that qualifies them to be president. I listened to McCain say they offered to release him, because his father was an admiral in the navy, but he wouldn’t accept it unless they let all of his crew go, so he chose to stay. Now that’s another thing that is hard to swallow. They wanted to capture officers and keep them. Wonder how many other officers got that offer.
Some of us old democrats couldn’t believe that Texas would elect the village idiot George Bush as governor, but they did and then the Supreme Court assigned him the job of president. But they still were not able to make a president out of the village idiot. He was a lousy governor and a lousier president.
Sarah Palin reminds me of a 44 year old Brittany Spears, they both bounce up onto the stage alike, hair all over the place and always, the thumbs up after they perform.
More Republican Propaganda:
What is all the hell raising about Obama saying putting lipstick on a pig, its still a pig. That’s true, I’ve heard that all my life, plus, you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
You can’t make a president out of someone just because he gets a lot of mileage out of saying he was a POW. There were lots of them and I don’t think they would say that qualifies them to be president. I listened to McCain say they offered to release him, because his father was an admiral in the navy, but he wouldn’t accept it unless they let all of his crew go, so he chose to stay. Now that’s another thing that is hard to swallow. They wanted to capture officers and keep them. Wonder how many other officers got that offer.
Some of us old democrats couldn’t believe that Texas would elect the village idiot George Bush as governor, but they did and then the Supreme Court assigned him the job of president. But they still were not able to make a president out of the village idiot. He was a lousy governor and a lousier president.
Sarah Palin reminds me of a 44 year old Brittany Spears, they both bounce up onto the stage alike, hair all over the place and always, the thumbs up after they perform.
Republican Propaganda
September 5, 2008
Republican Propaganda:
If John McCain accomplished all the things he said he did in his speech, everything would be peachy keen in Washington, DC by now. He been there 26 years, he said he knows who he works for, not a party and not himself, he works for us, all of us, BALONEY!
If this were true maybe we would have a few bucks of what he has in his pocket. Most of the politicians fill their pockets first and none of it seems to trickle down to the people they are supposed to work for.
They play this big game of one-upmanship and nothing gets done, except for themselves and their friends. If they all worked together to get the job done, that they promised to do, if we elected them, we wouldn’t be in this damnable mess the country is in.
Republican Propaganda:
If John McCain accomplished all the things he said he did in his speech, everything would be peachy keen in Washington, DC by now. He been there 26 years, he said he knows who he works for, not a party and not himself, he works for us, all of us, BALONEY!
If this were true maybe we would have a few bucks of what he has in his pocket. Most of the politicians fill their pockets first and none of it seems to trickle down to the people they are supposed to work for.
They play this big game of one-upmanship and nothing gets done, except for themselves and their friends. If they all worked together to get the job done, that they promised to do, if we elected them, we wouldn’t be in this damnable mess the country is in.
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