Geeze...I so wanted to blog about a lot of nothing, laced with all cute little stories...but...the darn news keeps getting in my way! What can I say, I just have to share my little take on the state of politics from where I type. I don't think anyone needs reminding I welcome and encourage all to add their input and deepest thoughts on where the planet is headed today...even if you don't agree with me!
Even armchair critics can have an impact on the everyday if they share their thoughts in an effort to evoke change; hopefully that change would be in the spirit of developing closer, kinder and gentler ties with the other inhabitants of this tiny blue planet we call home.
If you never have an opinion then you are just existing. If you have an opinion and fear it's unworthy of sharing, then rest your weary soul, your opinion is as valuable as the next persons.
And that my friend is just my opinion...
Peace to you and yours,
Claire / OWW
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Showing posts with label political...Just my opinion..... Show all posts
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Disguising the real issues of healthcare for 9/11 workers...
Everyday there is talk of this Mosque being built within blocks of where the Twin Towers once stood.
Picture this…you are the Taliban…Alqaeda…Osama BinLaden…a militant waiting for the moment to destroy the values of America…an extremist that doesn’t want to share the planet, but own it’s heart and soul.
Not an easy task is the road of destruction within a country of people united in the belief that everyone is an equal…making no distinction of their race, political view, or religion.
Ah, but, an easy task in a country that allows itself to be divided or allows doubt to be planted within it's heart as to the value of even the simplest of rights.
Look at all this talk of the darn Mosque…people from all over voicing an opinion on what’s right or fair when it comes to building a house of worship within a city that has more blending of bloods then any in the world.
I ask you this…while you are so worried about who is building what…are you as active in voicing your concerns about the health care being denied those there for the clean-up of 9/11?
I live across the river from what was the towers…trust me, their’s was a major task. To this day I can’t imagine how they worked so desperately hoping to find someone, anyone alive…with no proper breathing apparatus to aid them…no proper clothing to protect their own fragile bodies…inhaling the very buildings themselves.
I do believe that those that were there those first few days did indeed carry from that sad place those lost souls within their very being. Not to homes they knew…but within the temples of these brave men and women…who inhaled their spirits and forever more were changed…mentally and physically.
Virginia Rep.Goodlatte said of the workers at ground zero...‘it was their job, no further compensation needed‘.
Texas Rep. Barton said of the workers from ground zero…as to their health problems now…‘the rest of the country shouldn't bear the brunt of paying for New York's problem.’
Should I go on?
Forget the Mosque, it's being used as a powerful political distraction from a very very serious issue.
It's a crying shame that this is front page. Make front page of the men and women who need your help today and tomorrow…and however long it takes.
Make front page of those that serve this country and make sacrifices every day.
I, like many others in this area, knew people that vanished on that terrible day. I remember as a young girl passing the construction site and thinking...how high can you really build a building.
If I were one of those souls stolen by hatred…I think I might be asking:
' Why aren't you all doing everything in your power to help those that searched for even one trace of me...for they labored under the most harsh conditions…they cared not for themselves as they dug, tears and sweat, binding to their very bodies…they carried me within their own being…I am now a part of each…and I make no distinction as to who is what…I only know they searched and found me…not as you would recognize, for I had changed as all do within death…I have been delivered from the pit of hell by another of God’s mortal angels…make me proud…prove that I did exist and live in a free and welcoming country…embrace the well-being of my angels.”
Of course this is only my thoughts on how it should be viewed.
God Bless us one and all...and forgive us as we speak of peace in your name and yet, do quite the opposite most times in your name. Protect the sons and daughters of all who truly fight the good fight in the name of Peace.
I am now stepping down from my soapbox...do hope you all realize that I did have an American Flag right behind me...for that's my protection of free speech.
Peace to you, yours & mine...
Claire / OWW
Picture this…you are the Taliban…Alqaeda…Osama BinLaden…a militant waiting for the moment to destroy the values of America…an extremist that doesn’t want to share the planet, but own it’s heart and soul.
Not an easy task is the road of destruction within a country of people united in the belief that everyone is an equal…making no distinction of their race, political view, or religion.
Ah, but, an easy task in a country that allows itself to be divided or allows doubt to be planted within it's heart as to the value of even the simplest of rights.
Look at all this talk of the darn Mosque…people from all over voicing an opinion on what’s right or fair when it comes to building a house of worship within a city that has more blending of bloods then any in the world.
I ask you this…while you are so worried about who is building what…are you as active in voicing your concerns about the health care being denied those there for the clean-up of 9/11?
I live across the river from what was the towers…trust me, their’s was a major task. To this day I can’t imagine how they worked so desperately hoping to find someone, anyone alive…with no proper breathing apparatus to aid them…no proper clothing to protect their own fragile bodies…inhaling the very buildings themselves.
I do believe that those that were there those first few days did indeed carry from that sad place those lost souls within their very being. Not to homes they knew…but within the temples of these brave men and women…who inhaled their spirits and forever more were changed…mentally and physically.
Virginia Rep.Goodlatte said of the workers at ground zero...‘it was their job, no further compensation needed‘.
Texas Rep. Barton said of the workers from ground zero…as to their health problems now…‘the rest of the country shouldn't bear the brunt of paying for New York's problem.’
Should I go on?
Forget the Mosque, it's being used as a powerful political distraction from a very very serious issue.
It's a crying shame that this is front page. Make front page of the men and women who need your help today and tomorrow…and however long it takes.
Make front page of those that serve this country and make sacrifices every day.
I, like many others in this area, knew people that vanished on that terrible day. I remember as a young girl passing the construction site and thinking...how high can you really build a building.
If I were one of those souls stolen by hatred…I think I might be asking:
' Why aren't you all doing everything in your power to help those that searched for even one trace of me...for they labored under the most harsh conditions…they cared not for themselves as they dug, tears and sweat, binding to their very bodies…they carried me within their own being…I am now a part of each…and I make no distinction as to who is what…I only know they searched and found me…not as you would recognize, for I had changed as all do within death…I have been delivered from the pit of hell by another of God’s mortal angels…make me proud…prove that I did exist and live in a free and welcoming country…embrace the well-being of my angels.”
Of course this is only my thoughts on how it should be viewed.
God Bless us one and all...and forgive us as we speak of peace in your name and yet, do quite the opposite most times in your name. Protect the sons and daughters of all who truly fight the good fight in the name of Peace.
I am now stepping down from my soapbox...do hope you all realize that I did have an American Flag right behind me...for that's my protection of free speech.
Peace to you, yours & mine...
Claire / OWW
Moving offending places...matter of opinion...
Back in 1993...Pope John Paul II, asked (or more like directed) a group of Carmelit Nuns (about 14 of them in all) to move their convent from outside the area of what was tragically at one time the Auschwitz Death Camp.
Jewish groups and some survivors found it to be an insult to those that died there at the hands of the Nazis.
Now how does one relate to the other? Surely these Nuns were not there to cause further pain...they were there more as good will ambassadors I would believe.
There will always be divided opinion on what was right...and is compelling one to do what is politically right...really right?
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/poland/Crosses/Crosses.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_cross
Peace to you, yours and mine,
Claire / OWW
Jewish groups and some survivors found it to be an insult to those that died there at the hands of the Nazis.
Now how does one relate to the other? Surely these Nuns were not there to cause further pain...they were there more as good will ambassadors I would believe.
There will always be divided opinion on what was right...and is compelling one to do what is politically right...really right?
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/poland/Crosses/Crosses.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_cross
Peace to you, yours and mine,
Claire / OWW
Friday, January 8, 2010
Wow…timing is everything…John O. Brennan, hard at work…
So now, I open my email, just after posting on my blog…and what do I find, an email from John O. Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (let me catch my breath there please.)
Mr. Brennan is announcing the appointment of Howard Schmidt to be the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator (boy, do they ever love titles.) Now it says that Mr. Schmidt will have ‘regular access to the President’ serving as not just a member, but a key member, of his National Security Staff.
Now I don’t want to say I have no confidence in Mr. Schmidt, (or as John ‘Brennan’ refers to him as Howard), but it does make me a little worried that the guy announcing the appointment was the one that who dropped the ball with the Christmas Day 2009 disaster (and I do mean disaster…let’s not think it wasn’t just because no one was killed this time…that is only to be credited to a guy that realized smoking pants has to be a bit more then a smoking gun.) NOTE: Must be a ton of run-on sentences in there…but I’m not counting…if I had money, I would have an editor!
And, while we’re at it…why is Janet Napolitano still Homeland Security Secretary???? Remember her, she said the system worked…when the nut job tried to blow up the plane on Christmas Day 2009…did she not read the paper…the man made it on to the plane???? It wasn’t the system that worked, it was a guy waiting for his flight to land, and determined not to have it delayed. I mean, being a woman, I’m all for advancing women to higher offices, but really, not when they are incompetent! Step out of the way Janet, there are a great many women out there that would love your job…and do it better…they just don’t have the political clout to get them there yet.
I really should have devoted myself to politics in my younger days…I too might have risen to the top ranks of incompetent something or other. I mean, I do come from Hudson County…oh, but that’s right, we keep it local here.
Make no mistake, I find there to be a genuine need for someone, with experience, heading some kind of Cybersecurity program…I just don’t want to hear later that that person made a ‘human error’ and is not truly held accountable.
Howard Schmidt, I do hope you make us no promises…just do your job as expected…and we can ask no more of you.
Just a thought here…but maybe “Howard” should monitor the emails of Brennan, Napolitano and Leiter. If ever there are persons that can’t figure the scammers from the good guys, these do fit the profile…of course, that’s just my opinion…and who am I, just an old woman in Jersey.
God Bless America…and all her family and friends (including those that aren’t too crazy about us, but not planning to kill us.)
Peace,
Claire / OWW
Mr. Brennan is announcing the appointment of Howard Schmidt to be the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator (boy, do they ever love titles.) Now it says that Mr. Schmidt will have ‘regular access to the President’ serving as not just a member, but a key member, of his National Security Staff.
Now I don’t want to say I have no confidence in Mr. Schmidt, (or as John ‘Brennan’ refers to him as Howard), but it does make me a little worried that the guy announcing the appointment was the one that who dropped the ball with the Christmas Day 2009 disaster (and I do mean disaster…let’s not think it wasn’t just because no one was killed this time…that is only to be credited to a guy that realized smoking pants has to be a bit more then a smoking gun.) NOTE: Must be a ton of run-on sentences in there…but I’m not counting…if I had money, I would have an editor!
And, while we’re at it…why is Janet Napolitano still Homeland Security Secretary???? Remember her, she said the system worked…when the nut job tried to blow up the plane on Christmas Day 2009…did she not read the paper…the man made it on to the plane???? It wasn’t the system that worked, it was a guy waiting for his flight to land, and determined not to have it delayed. I mean, being a woman, I’m all for advancing women to higher offices, but really, not when they are incompetent! Step out of the way Janet, there are a great many women out there that would love your job…and do it better…they just don’t have the political clout to get them there yet.
I really should have devoted myself to politics in my younger days…I too might have risen to the top ranks of incompetent something or other. I mean, I do come from Hudson County…oh, but that’s right, we keep it local here.
Make no mistake, I find there to be a genuine need for someone, with experience, heading some kind of Cybersecurity program…I just don’t want to hear later that that person made a ‘human error’ and is not truly held accountable.
Howard Schmidt, I do hope you make us no promises…just do your job as expected…and we can ask no more of you.
Just a thought here…but maybe “Howard” should monitor the emails of Brennan, Napolitano and Leiter. If ever there are persons that can’t figure the scammers from the good guys, these do fit the profile…of course, that’s just my opinion…and who am I, just an old woman in Jersey.
God Bless America…and all her family and friends (including those that aren’t too crazy about us, but not planning to kill us.)
Peace,
Claire / OWW
Monday, March 23, 2009
Just my opinon...
Just can't take it anymore...just not me!
Okay...been long enough that I haven't blogged on the politically correct, and thus usually incorrect decisions...legal, yet immoral and despicable behavior being tolerated...and that's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg...on this tiny bit of real-estate we call Earth.
Now for those that may not know me very well...do know that I am always interested in learning how others see things...I don't expect everyone to agree with me...just hope they do!
Seriously...please do share your thoughts. We all can only learn from each other. Don't let Hollywood or Washington know-it-all types or glamorous/daring/intriguing maybe even frightening headlines intimidate you...thus stealing that precious gift of free will/thinking without persecution. So many have fought the good battle for our rights...exercise those rights and make those valiant men and women proud.
Remember, your opinion is only as unimportant as you believe it to be.
so...here we go....
Okay...been long enough that I haven't blogged on the politically correct, and thus usually incorrect decisions...legal, yet immoral and despicable behavior being tolerated...and that's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg...on this tiny bit of real-estate we call Earth.
Now for those that may not know me very well...do know that I am always interested in learning how others see things...I don't expect everyone to agree with me...just hope they do!
Seriously...please do share your thoughts. We all can only learn from each other. Don't let Hollywood or Washington know-it-all types or glamorous/daring/intriguing maybe even frightening headlines intimidate you...thus stealing that precious gift of free will/thinking without persecution. So many have fought the good battle for our rights...exercise those rights and make those valiant men and women proud.
Remember, your opinion is only as unimportant as you believe it to be.
so...here we go....
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