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sane in an insane world." -Susan V.
WEDNESDAY,
02.27.08 - I've written about Hawaii's Daniel Inouye and how his black
hair dye has poisoned the 80+ year-old-senator's brain and that he long ago
should have given up his seat and here's more proof.
Saying last week that Obama attended a ritzy, out-of-touch, Hawaiian high
school, is about as racist as it gets for someone who has lived well with
his Kahala and Roundtop Drive friends thanks to the lowly Hawaiian people
who pay his salary. While Punahou (Poo-na-hoe) is a private and a nice
school, it is by no means ritzy. In the 25 years I lived in Hawaii never
once did I see a single ritzy school. Unless things have changed since I
left, Honolulu is roughly ten years behind the rest of America. It was the
only place I'd ever seen with traffic lights on what it called a freeway,
the H-1. The teachers at the private schools may be better, but even that's
doubtful. What they call a ritzy school in Hawaii, we'd call second or third
rate. The public high school I went to in farm town Vermont was light years
ahead of anything I ever saw in Hawaii. And in particular, the outer-islands
which for the most part are riddled with poverty.
"If you ask the people in Hawaii what they know about Barack Obama, I think
the honest answer is, very little. He went to school in Hawaii but he went
to Punahou, and that was not a school for the impoverished. It's a fine
school. I would say one of the finest in the United States. But to suggest
that Punahou maybe set his life plan in place, I find it very interesting,"
Inouye said.
The statement that Punahou is "one of the finest" in the USA is another
example of how Inouye is now, and always has been, out of touch with the
people he represents. Obama went to Punahou on a scholarship. He was poor,
raised by a single mother and given the location of Punahou, lived in the
surrounding slums like Kalihi. It further blows my mind that Inouye wouldn't
know this, and that he himself went to Punahou and I'd venture a guess never
lived in Kalihi, or anywhere near the level Hawaiians to this day still
live.
Stuff like this that I know about from experience, so pisses me off. For all
the goddamn years Inouye has been sucking on the public teat, the poverty in
the Hawaiian Islands would astound you.
...
It took a damn power grid problem in Florida to get the CMTV to stop the
24/7 political coverage. At one point 4-million were without power in
Southern Florida. Only 86 degrees outside, eight power plants went down at
the same time due to a "problem" with two nuclear reactors. However, MSNBC
didn't interrupt it's countdown to the "debate" clock like anyone interested
in watching wouldn't know when it begins.
I watched bits and
pieces of Meet the Press, I mean debate, and came away muttering to myself
what a rude, obnoxious, old hag Hillary is. She'd make a great running mate
for McCain.
...
Warning that mortgages are at "moderate to high risk" of defaulting over the
next five years and that millions of families could lose their homes, Bank
of America wants us to bail it out. $739 billion is all it takes to buy up
troubled mortgages at a deep discount, forgive debt above the current market
value of the homes, and use federal loan guarantees to refinance the
borrowers at lower rates.
It's a bad idea. If the government pays too much for the mortgages or the
market declines even more than it has, we would be stuck with hundreds of
billions of dollars in defaulted loans.
...
Not that I'm watching much of it anymore, with the debate/politics hogging
the CMTV news, I was thinking there wouldn't be anything to write about
today because even the websites I monitor couldn't shut up about the debate
when a call came in from one of Gail's doctors about an insurance problem.
For the next two hours it was telephone tag until finally the problem was
cleared up. Lucky for me, Gail was able to speak without coughing during
that period and with her phone was able to obtain information that without
would have required I call back and have to start the process all over.
Thank God we've got a two-line phone plan.
...
A housekeeping note about an annoying ad seen on some of these pages. The
one where the audio starts without asking first, for the free iPod, has been
removed. Funny, for as annoying as it was, it had a significant visit ratio.
Regardless, I zapped it when two different versions of it came up at the
same time. The stereo was twice as annoying. Speaking of ad traffic, it's
gonna be close cracking the nut this month with only three days to go.
...
In case you didn't know why popcorn at the movie theatre costs so much, and
who can afford seeing a movie at the theatre is what I want to know, by
charging high prices on concessions, the theatres are able to keep ticket
prices low. It took a freaking study from Stanford and the University of
California, Santa Cruz to figure this out?
...
We've known for some time that grocery prices are up, but it takes the
government awhile to catch up and so with wholesale prices for January just
released, we see sure enough, food prices rose by 1.7%. That's the biggest
monthly increase in three years. Beef, eggs, and bakery products all up
sharply. Anything with corn in it is higher. Think Bush knows what it costs
for a gallon of milk? Remember when it became a Bush family rule in 1992
that no family member would ever be asked the price of anything in a grocery
store ever again after Bush couldn't come close to knowing the price of
anything at the market?
...
Now that I'm grabbing a few winks whenever I can, it's nice to know that
German researchers have found that if you nap just six minutes during the
day, it will make you feel better and improve your ability to learn and
remember. Researchers say the brain uses sleep as a time to consolidate
memories and to choose which details to park in a permanent file and which
to junk. Assuming you have one, like a computer hard drive, the brain has
limited storage space.
...
Have you seen or heard that ad for LifeLock where the CEO reveals his SS#
and then says he can protect you from identify theft? Credit bureau Experian
is suing the company accusing it of deception and fraud. Experian contends
LifeLock's advertising is misleading and that the firm is breaking federal
law in the way it goes about protecting consumers. Lifelock has 700,000
customers, each paying about $10 per month for the service.
Experian contends that LifeLock's chief ID theft prevention tool - the
placing of continuous fraud alerts on consumers' credit files - is illegal
because, under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, fraud alerts can only be
requested by the individual consumer or an individual acting on behalf of
the consumer. LifeLock's service includes an automated request for a new
fraud alert every 90 days, to create an indefinite fraud alert.
Experian says LifeLock is attempting to profit off a free service
established by Congress in the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Experian itself has been the target of criticism that it sells a service
that Congress mandated should be free. Its FreeCreditReport.com site has
been targeted by the FTC which expressed concern that the site could be
confused with AnnualCreditReport.com.
FreeCreditReport.com is a for-profit site, and consumers must pay for a
subscription service to obtain their reports. AnnualCreditReport.com is a
free site mandated by federal law which allows consumers to see their credit
reports once each year.
...
As expected, the Supremes gave Enron investors the final finger yesterday
when they refused to hear an appeal in which shareholders sought to recover
some of what they lost when Enron went belly up. I can still see Insane
McCain on the Senate committee looking into what happened. McCain sat there
pretending to be so moved by victims who testified that their life savings
were wiped out.
...
Starting this spring, sharpshooters will be allowed to kill elephants in
South Africa. Like the gray wolf in America, now that they've made a come
back from the brink of extinction, let's kill us some more pesky animals.
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