   Travels And Travails! By Ernest Stewart Round, round, get around "I am running to put an end to the Bush-McCain philosophy. The idea that we should give more and more to millionaires and billionaires and hope that it trickles down on everybody else. It's a philosophy that gives tax breaks to wealthy CEOs and to corporations that ship jobs overseas while hundreds of thousands of jobs are disappearing here at home." "Why wasn't Assange garroted in his hotel room years ago? ~~~ Jonah Goldberg "Welcome, back, welcome back, welcome back!"
Our traveling hamburger clown, oops, strike the hamburger, was on the road again. That's three major overseas trips since the election and Mr. Obama is batting 0 for 3. Ever since his sell out of the left caught up with him on election day, Barry has been traveling around and around the world trying to get rid of that bad news bug that bit him on the ass! I wonder, did BartCop put the curse on him? First he was off on a round-the-world flight to sell India billions of dollars of our secondhand inventory weaponry. His next stop was in Korea, where he fumbled the G-20 meeting. Then he jetted on to the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Summit meeting in Yokohama, Japan where again things didn't go quite as planned. The very next week, Barry was off to Portugal for a NATO meeting where he failed to get the members to buy into his long haul plans in Afghanistan. Seems everyone decided on removing all of their troops as soon as they were already scheduled to and not staying another day. However, he was able to get them to sign off on the end of M.A.D. and to sign onto Ray-Guns "Star Wars" insanity, which means WW III is just that much closer, Yippee? Then this week Barry flew off again, this time on a surprise visit to Afghanistan for an annual Christmas photo-op with the troops who can't refuse the "Commander and Chief" and for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai who apparently can refuse. Hamid couldn't be bothered to drive across town to see Barry nor would Barry drive from the airport to the palace. It must be a drag when you can't even drive across town, in the middle of the night, in an armored car, as everyone in the country wants to kill you, huh? Cest la guerre! He certainly has earned the epithet Cave Man. Of all the promises he made during his run for the presidency, he has caved on at least 99% of them, most always without a fight. He keeps telling us that we want him to make nice with the Rethuglicans and we keep telling him we want him to grow a pair and bring these criminals to justice, not bend over and pull his pants down in a compromise. Besides, compromise my ass! A compromise is where each side gets mostly what it wants, it's not always 90% for them and 10% for us. If the Cave Man had a pair, he would take the Rethuglicans words and use them against them. He had a majority in both houses and could have given us all the things he promised to. He is supposed to be some sort of genius, but can't deliver a thing he promised while Bush without a lock on both chambers and the brains of a duck got everything he wanted, including two illegal, immoral wars! Of course, the Cave Man, too, has gotten everything he was supposed to for his corpo-rat masters, everything he promised them in back room deals. You'll recall that he removed the single payer choice from the healthcare insurance rip-off long before there was a debate, but lied to us saying it was on the table when it never, ever was. As for this "sanctimonious and purist progressive," go f*ck yourself, you corpo-rat traitor! The tax relief for the insanely rich was never in jeopardy of being allowed to expire, the fix was in before he took office and the rest has been a rather bad song and dance and nothing more. I'm looking forward to see the Cave Man reelected in 2012 as the Rethuglicans run their weakest candidate, assuring the Cave Man four more years and the George II presidency a 16 year run. After all, why quit a winner who is already giving you everything your heart desires by running a strong candidate, who might have a back bone? Why indeed? WikiLeaks let the cat out of the bag with Jonathan's and Todd's attempts to do just that. The WikiLeaks cables help explain what happened. One of the most outspoken critics of developed countries in the lead-up to Copenhagen, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives, ultimately signed on to the Copenhagen Accord. A secret U.S. State Department memo leaked via WikiLeaks, dated Feb. 10, 2010, summarized the consultations of the newly-appointed Maldives ambassador to the U.S., Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed. The memo reports that the ambassador said, when meeting with Pershing:
"Maldives would like to see that small countries, like Maldives, that are at the forefront of the climate debate, receive tangible assistance from the larger economies. Other nations would then come to realize that there are advantages to be gained by compliance." He asked for $50 million, for projects to protect the Maldives from rising sea levels. Pershing appears in another memo, dated Feb. 17, 2010 about a meeting he had with Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for climate action, who played a lead role in Copenhagen, as she does today in Cancun. According to the memo: "Hedegaard suggested the AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States) countries 'could be our best allies' given their need for financing." In yet another memo dated Feb. 17, 2010, WikiLeaks reports: All this to avoid doing what 190 countries from around the world did, i.e., signing on to the Kyoto Protocol, which unlike the Copenhagen Accord, makes reductions in carbon emissions mandatory and not just a promise to do so. The whole world knows what they can make of our promises! Cancun is being orchestrated by the same group as before in Denmark and will no doubt come up with something similar. A paper that no one will buy into, no matter how much money is spent to protect the corpo-rats that are poisoning us all. Because their very best plan will cause a rise in temperature of slightly over 7 degrees which is several degrees more than what it will take to to melt the polar ice caps and drown a billion people! Again, could someone please explain the difference between Bush and the Cave Man? I'll be damned if I can see a major difference! I think I may have dodged a bullet with my plans for a radio show. Apparently the company who was going to host it is having some financial problems. First they wanted an extra $500 for a half hour more of time, a half hour that everyone else, apparently, gets for free. When I asked for an explanation, I got instead several letters offering to sell their domain to me! In the old daze, I probably would have bought it, of course, in the old daze I had money, unlike these new daze! I'll take a serious look around after the first of the year and see if I can't find somewhere to hang my audio hat!  04-10-1938 ~ 12-05-2010 Thanks for the laughs!
 07-03-1949 ~ 12-07-2010 R.I.P. sweetie! ***** We get by with a little help from our friends! So please help us if you can...? Donations ***** So how do you like Bush Lite so far? And more importantly, what are you planning on doing about it? Until the next time, Peace! (c) 2010 Ernest Stewart a.k.a. Uncle Ernie is an unabashed radical, author, stand-up comic, DJ, actor, political pundit and for the last 9 years managing editor and publisher of Issues & Alibis magazine. Visit me on Face Book. Follow me on Twitter. |
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