THE FICKLE CLIFF

You may call it the fiscal cliff. I call it the fickle cliff, based on the extreme political caterwaling spewing from all the tv news channels. Does anyone care? Do the yack-yackers really give a damn? What do the people think? That they are ok, and only their neighbors get screwed?

People, get in touch with your representatives and make sure they understand that your vote will be gone if they screw up. And remember, if Washington screws up, you are screwed.

POLITICS AND SEX

walk through the halls of power, hand in hand.

grift

Fiscal cliff, or fiscal grift?

The Current Republican Party

Lord, what fools these mortals be! These words were spoken by Puck, a mischievous elf in Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (from google}

Did Shakespeare anticipate the current Republican Party?

CHRISTMAS

The Christmas Holiday is supposed to honor the birth of Jesus. It's not intended to be a contest of who can spend the most money for material goods that will soon be set aside and forgotton. Instead, it should be for, as Jesus said, to feed the hungry and heal the sick. In the USA, and many other countries, there are multitudes that are malnourished and sick at heart. This is a condition that demonstrates the evil that men do, and the opportunity to do good that too often is set aside and forgotten.
Let us remember that the Government is our representative and the doer of our will. Let us direct our government to concentrate on careing for the hungry, the poor, and the sick at heart. Let us direct our Government to cease making war, and in so doing, honor the Prince of Peace.Only in that way will we escape the evil that men do and enter into the kingdom of the good that can be done. I believe this would honor the birth of Jesus, and the lives of the many who did their best to be teachers of goodness.

NRA

Wayne LaPierre, the head goon of the NRA is making the rounds of the news programs trying to justify murder and mayhem. NRA atands for Not Really American. Can you imagine if a majority of citizens carried a handgun with them whenever they were out in public, how many gun deaths there would be? It would make the old GUNSMOKE tv western seem like kindergarden.
Unfortunatly, many people have a shoot first, ask questions later mentality. If they were armed and out in public, imagine the carnage.
How many children must be killed, before common sense takes hold? Or should we take the Ebenezer Scrooge attiude that it "reduces the surplus population"?
In closing, let me say that I'm not opposed to gun ownership. Only irresponsible gun ownership.

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PEACE

There have been suggestions that schools should have armed guards on duty. Are we talking about schools attended by little children? Are schools to be like prisons with guards carrying rifles and pistols? What a terrible environment for children. As they mature, will they have a vision of the world as an armed camp with danger around every corner?

Will this situation promote peace and safety? I think not. Just as more vehicles on the highway mean more accidents and death, more guns in public mean more shootings and overflowing mortuarys.

In this time of celebrating the birth of Jesus, the Prince of Peace, let us do much more to promote peace and safety for all people.

CONGRESS?

I propose to change the name of the Congress of the United States to the Regress of the United States. More and more, it seems that their policies are  regressive rather than progressive. Has the transmission of the vehicle of government gone haywire and only has two gears left? Neutral and Reverse? Is it time for the ELECTORAL TRANSMISSION REPAIR COMPANY, aka the votors, to take over and do the overhaul? Lots of defective "parts" to replace.

Maybe the time has come.

Chevron

San Francisco CHRONICLE, December 22.

CHEVRON TO PAY $145.000 fine for 28 regulatory violations.

GIVE ME A BREAK! This makes about as much sense as a $1.45 fine for driving 100 mph in a school zone. Is this what our 'regulators" consider to be an adequate fine for egrigious violations of laws that are supposed to protect the health and well being of both workers and the general public? A fine for law violation should hurt! This is just a chuckle for the Chevron board members as they sign the check to pay the fine.
Next time regulators, MAKE IT HURT!

Idiocy

The Constitution says:
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.


The Fact Is
An unregulated idiocy being necessary to the destruction of a free state, the right of the NRA to arm lunatics shall not be infringed.

GUN WORSHIP

I feel that there are many people for whom the words gun and god are interchangeable, if not the same. They worship the instrument of death more than the giver of life.

NRA

"The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with" the NRA.. Nasty Rotten A-------. Bury them deep.

THE GUN

The gun according to Freud.
For some of these nuts, the gun is an extension of their penis. It has the power they don't have. The penis has the power to participate in the creation of life. The gun however is more powerful. It can destroy life "In a moment. In the twinkling of an eye. At the last trumpet". Therefore, the strength these poor people don't have can be put into their hands, and  they will rise up and show the world their power and glory.  Hallelujah!!!

NRA

Does the NRA own Congress?
Has a cat got an ass?

Connecticut

'No Man is an Island' by John Donne


No man is an island entire of itself; every man

is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;

if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe

is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as

well as any manner of thy friends or of thine

own were; any man's death diminishes me,

because I am involved in mankind.

And therefore never send to know for whom

the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Damn the NRA

From this day forward, I will not vote for any candidate for public office that accepts money from the National Rifle Association. I hope that this doesn't mean that I will no longer be able to vote. Wake up candidates. Some money is much too tainted to be acceptable.

The Right to Bear Arms

The Constitution of the United States says:
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
The Bible says: "Thou shalt not kill".

The Supreme Court of the United States, in it's infinite wisdom decided a "militia" could be as small as one private citizen with a gun. This is the best example of the power of the NRA to influence government at the highest level. What chance do we, as innocent private citizens have against the power of a government that decides we are fair game for target practice by looney gun owners?

I'm not saying all guns should be banned. What I am saying is that high powered rapid firing guns should be strictly regulated, and not allowed to fall into the hands of ordinary citizens. The founders of our country and the writers of the Constitution had no way to forsee the advances of firearm technology. I'm sure they would be aghast at the slaughter perpetrated by one deranged individual armed by a military style weapon.

NRA

National Rifle Association

No Regulation Accepted

Nutty Republican Assininity

There is no reason for non-militay or non-police citizens to possess high power assualt type weapons. Not needed for target practice. Not needed for home protection. Not needed for game hunting. I don't believe that the writers of the Constitution could possibly have forseen the weapons that would become available to private citizens.
The NRA lives off the revenues aquired from arms manufactuers and gun nuts.. Both of these groups better start taking more responsibility for the evil that occurs when these weapons fall into the hands of the mentally deranged. If they don't, there should be a special place in Hell for them to reside in agony for all eternity.

READY

AIM

FIRE in Hell

Mitt at the Fights

Mitt Romney and Mrs. Romney went to the Paciaio-Marquez fight in Las Vegas the other night. Before the fight, Mitt fawned all over Pacciaio in a tv interview. The Pacman got ko'ed in the 6th round, much like the Mittman got ko'ed in the Presidential election. When the Pacman saw the Mittman approaching, he should have fled the scene. Bad luck hangs over the Mittman like stink hangs over the cattle farm. Poor Pacman failed in his quest much like the Mittman failed in the election. Two losers. How sad.

FISCAL CLIFF

I suspect that the Repubbys want us to fall off  the fiscal cliff. The economy would be wrecked and the R's could blame the D's.
The R's would use this in the next Presidential election, presumably against Hillary Clinton, the expected Demo nominee. I'm sure the R's are terrified of the prospect that Hillary will be elected in 2016. As usual, the desperate will stop at nothing to get their way. Beware of Mitt the Twit, the Devil in disguise.

CANCER CURE?

I watched some of a tv program on cancer, and the possibility of a cure. It seems that huge amounts of money will be necessary to fund the research necessary to understand the problem and rid us of the problem.
Here's a suggestion on how to fund the research: STOP FIGHTING STUPID WARS!!!!!!
Try to imagine the money that would be available if the billions and billions of dollars spent on the Vietnam war had been made available to medical research insteat of being spent killing millions of poor people.

WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN?

I will always remember the afternoon of December 7, 1941. My brother and I were sitting in our Dad's red 1941 Ford 4 door sedan listening to music on the radio. The program was interrupted to announce the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan. I was only 8 years old, but I knew something terrible had happened. Everything changed on that day.

TWO PARTY GOVERNMENT

The Republican Party is becoming a pathetic shadow of what it was in the days of Thomas Dewey, Dwight Eisenhower, and even the morally flawed Richard Nixon. As a Democrat, I view this with a certain amount of glee, even though I realize that the 2 party system cannot continue to function properly under the shadow of political decay.

We need two strong political partys to provide a competetive balance to the system of two party elective government. If one party becomes too strong and smothers the other party into non-competitive existence, our democracy could be in danger.

We need the debate, and the voters to decide who won the debate, and therefore will become the governing party.

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letter to SSF

I bought my house at 284 Sequoia Ave. over 40 years ago. It was a nice and quiet street then. Not so now. There are buses roaring by at all hours of the day and night. Is this to be permanent? I certainly hope not. Sequoia Ave. was not meant for this kind of traffic. The street will be damaged and need repaving long before it should be necessary. I hope you can do something about this noisy nuisance, and peace and quiet will return to my street. Thanks.

Mark H Page.

Dear Mr. Page, on behalf of the City Council I want to thank you for sharing your concerns with the increased traffic on Sequoia Avenue. I have copied our Public Works Director, Terry White on my response as the increase in traffic is likely connected to the detours associated with the PG&E work on Mission Road. Mr. White can provide you with additional information on this project and any future disruptions that may take place. Thank you again for taking the time to contact the Council. If you have additional questions or concerns, please let us know.
Best regards,
Susan
Susan Kennedy
Assistant to the City Manager
City of South San Francisco
400 Grand Avenue
South San Francisco, CA 94080
650-829-660