tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post3432876181194641718..comments2024-03-26T15:30:39.733-07:00Comments on Rainy Day Thoughts: Can't we all just get along?Rain Trueaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-16361004240028361532019-09-11T18:39:29.844-07:002019-09-11T18:39:29.844-07:00What i do not understood is if truth be told how y...What i do not understood is if truth be told how you are not really a lot <br />more well-preferred than you may be right now. You're so intelligent.<br /><br />You already know thus considerably when it comes to this matter, made me for my part imagine it from a <br />lot of various angles. Its like women and men aren't interested unless it is <br />something to accomplish with Lady gaga! Your personal stuffs outstanding.<br />Always care for it up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-65142098276307655902013-02-07T20:09:53.325-08:002013-02-07T20:09:53.325-08:00Congress and the American people have felt they we...Congress and the American people have felt they were at war with the terrorists since 9/11 and they are still determined to hit us and other western nations. I think that whether it's declared or not, most Americans know it's not over. The issue of drones and fighting it elsewhere is do we go after them or allow a country like Pakistan, which has the nuclear bomb but also a very active terrorist element to dominate what we do? Most Americans would say we should go after them. The question about the drones goes deeper. Whether we like them or not, how do we trust when the other side has the power. Judges are partisan; so this will get decided by the Supremes is my guess.Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-26960361649601500872013-02-07T18:40:56.488-08:002013-02-07T18:40:56.488-08:00That is what the judge that I listened to on the r...That is what the judge that I listened to on the radio said. If it was a declared war by Congress then it is OK to target Americans overseas as we did in WWII. Since this is not a declared war in Pakistan then it is not really legal. Most Republicans really don't mind that we are killing Al Qaida leadership so they are not making much of a fuss. But it should be done legally. It is matter of principle.<br /><br />Again I do not have a problem sending the military in either case. In Libya, he did the first time and not the second time. But he should follow the War Powers Act. It is nothing less than you would demand from a Republican President.Ingineer66https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-59819300157962244732013-02-07T12:09:09.477-08:002013-02-07T12:09:09.477-08:00And on Libya, how do you find fault with him not s...And on Libya, how do you find fault with him not sending in our military to Benghazi while you also fault him for giving air support to the Libyan rebels? Frankly that's way off base. One way or the other, don't you think? I've heard you criticize him on both fronts. You just hate him and quit saying you don't. You prove it by what you say time after time.Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-57108789796065661752013-02-07T12:07:33.218-08:002013-02-07T12:07:33.218-08:00Some in Congress disagree with you ingineer. You f...Some in Congress disagree with you ingineer. You find fault with ANYTHING the guy does. If it was okayed by Bush to do the drones, something I didn't check on, then it means a president had the power and it would carry over. Sen. Graham said it was legal. The problem with you is you listen and read right wing pundits who have only one stake in this to find anything they can to rile up their listeners.<br /><br />And whether we should rediscuss this being a war is the issue, one which I will bring up on Saturday's blog on another topic but that ties into drones. If we are at war, then a president has the right to do things which included a nuclear bomb dropped on Japan during WWII. If it's not a war, then the rules change. <br /><br />Democrats in Congress are more likely to find fault with this than Republicans who want the power themselves. In war you fight however you can. If it's not a war, then that should be redefined. He's Commander in Chief of the military and CIA is who has been doing the drone attacks which is also something Congress has okayed.. but just not okay when it's a Democrat, huh?Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-50504044499399625412013-02-07T09:34:24.712-08:002013-02-07T09:34:24.712-08:00Like I said, I do not mind the Drone Program. But...Like I said, I do not mind the Drone Program. But Obama broke a Federal law by not getting Congressional approval. Just like he did not get approval during the Libyan action. Bush got Congressional approval for drone strikes and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Like it or not Congress (Democrats and Republicans) approved what Bush did. Congress is not even reviewing what Obama does because the guy that told us he was going to run the most transparent administration in history is illegally keeping everything a secret.Ingineer66https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-29000205375950590962013-02-05T20:06:28.521-08:002013-02-05T20:06:28.521-08:00You cannot believe how little I respect that commi...You cannot believe how little I respect that committee or any of them but let me ask you, since the drone program began under Bush, did it bother you then? <br /><br />A lot of liberals are not at all happy about the drone use and maybe the courts will evaluate this but it really gets me when Republicans condemn Obama but didn't mind this and torture under Bush. Explain that one to me.Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-85247317466630872032013-02-05T18:31:35.822-08:002013-02-05T18:31:35.822-08:00Obama violated a Federal Law again by not consulti...Obama violated a Federal Law again by not consulting with the Senate Intelligence committee on his Extra-Legal program to kill Americans. It is the Chicagoisation of DC. No authoritarian mindset there.Ingineer66https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-1440666990274827792013-01-31T16:30:24.575-08:002013-01-31T16:30:24.575-08:00We certainly have a lot of that, Hattie. It seems ...We certainly have a lot of that, Hattie. It seems with the violence there are two types in public-- the going postal like we just saw in Arizona and then these young guys who just want to blast away a lot of people. I am not sure what we can do as a community about either but sure ought to be doing something.Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-40655307536423261232013-01-31T15:54:14.596-08:002013-01-31T15:54:14.596-08:00Lack of community and lack of strong intimate bond...Lack of community and lack of strong intimate bonds are causing people to become angry and unmoored. <br />I am hoping that well thought out social programs can bring more of these isolates into the fold. <br />Hattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02621439195920479957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-60319562748829199772013-01-29T15:11:17.238-08:002013-01-29T15:11:17.238-08:00Thank you for that helpful information, Wally. I s...Thank you for that helpful information, Wally. I suspect they will challenge it as it certainly is not how this has been done. For one thing a recess appointment is not permanent. It just enables the work to be done-- something Republicans don't want.Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-45306795240948446862013-01-29T11:30:23.496-08:002013-01-29T11:30:23.496-08:00Recess appointments have been used by presidents t...Recess appointments have been used by presidents throughout our history to overcome a recalcitrant Senate and avoid long term vacancies of government positions. They’ve been used by Democratic and Republican presidents alike. Congress has been able to prevent recess appointments by simply declaring pro forma sessions (no business is actually conducted ). George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments during his presidency, but Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, was able to prevent additional appointments by not allowing Congress to adjourn more than three days, preventing a recess. (Ronald Reagan made 240 recess appointments. Bill Clinton 139) <br /><br />The claim that these appointments are un-constitutional is unfounded. (Google Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution) It’s interesting to note that the senior judge on the panel that made the decision is David Sentelle, a judge who has spent the last 30 years practicing right wing political activism from the bench. If this decision is not challenged by the Justice Dept. the Republican Senate will be able to rob the president of his power to govern even more than they already have during his first term of office. But, they may have shot themselves in the foot. There’s coming a day when we will have a Republican president once more. The conservatives may be happy that they have sabotaged a Democratic president, but they have at the same time sabotaged future Republican presidents.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03204625068309822016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-28977724526227119452013-01-29T10:16:07.193-08:002013-01-29T10:16:07.193-08:00What is your alternative? I hope you know that bei...What is your alternative? I hope you know that being on food stamps doesn't mean you get all your food that way. It might mean $100 worth for a month. It's calculated based on need. It is a bad thing we have so many people who are poor enough to need them. Having jobs that don't pay a living wage doesn't help. Who has profited from this system currently? Hint: it's not the poor.Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-68529243415883650312013-01-29T08:46:54.087-08:002013-01-29T08:46:54.087-08:00I never said Food Stamps were bad. Having 40 mill...I never said Food Stamps were bad. Having 40 million people on them is a bad thing.Ingineer66https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-55617294951521810502013-01-28T16:40:47.079-08:002013-01-28T16:40:47.079-08:00And you prove my point about the inability of peop...And you prove my point about the inability of people to get along. Whatever the Koch brothers get <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/03/01/146847/charles-koch-welfare/" rel="nofollow">Charles Koch welfare</a> is good and whatever a poor child gets, that's bad. Food stamps not good but anything for oil companies who make massive profits well it's all for our good. You see what I am saying about the inability to communicate or get along. It's win or lose which is too bad. But it's what it is and right now the losers still want to act as though they won! Next time the victory needs to be bigger. Democrats got 1 million more votes for the House than Republicans who are doing all they can to manipulate districts to win anyway. Democracy? What is that???Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-1932738195611361662013-01-28T16:31:53.766-08:002013-01-28T16:31:53.766-08:00And why did he do recess appointments? because the...And why did he do recess appointments? because there is a Congress that won't do anything thanks to filibuster. The righties only want righties appointed. Where is to the victors go the spoils? not in any right wing thinking. Whether what he did turns out to be Constitutional will depend on the Supreme Court. The issue that the vacancy has to arise during the recess is nothing Bush did either! The Suprmes will work this out and probably right to left again.<br /><br />I'd like to see the numbers that you say are in these various countries. We know there is trouble in Mali but when Obama didn't send troops to Libya the right said he betrayed our country.<br /><br />And finally you most likely came from lower income folks like I did. The ones I know out here who are poor don't do starbucks, don't have new TVs, don't have good autos, and a lot don't get any government help either unless they have small children. I grew up without a lot but never considered our family poor even though there was hand me down clothes and very little money for any luxury. I think you have to know the poor as people rather than assuming something based on seeing someone walk into a starbucks. I don't know any poor who go there and I know quite a few of them out here. Heck, I don't even pay the price starbucks asks!Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-55215241014248764752013-01-28T15:48:22.390-08:002013-01-28T15:48:22.390-08:00I was a member of the poor, but I pulled myself up...I was a member of the poor, but I pulled myself up by my bootstraps. I see several members of the poor coming into Starbucks dragging their kids behind them.<br /><br />You act like we are just handing money out to the oil companies like we do with Tobacco growers.<br /> The oil companies get tax credits to stimulate exploration which creates jobs and new sources of energy. It is not a handout. It is not like we "loan" them billions of dollars and don't expect them to pay it back like Solyndra. It is a break from the taxes they are already paying and it stimulates more economic growth.<br /><br />Most farmers that I know are in favor of ending crop subsidies if we end them for all crops. Like Labor unions, They may have had their place back in the day when we needed to grow food, but now we grow plenty.Ingineer66https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-34546327019220704922013-01-28T15:35:53.615-08:002013-01-28T15:35:53.615-08:00I will have to research it to say exactly what cou...I will have to research it to say exactly what countries. But about every 6 months or so, the President sends US troops to a new country where there are Islamic terrorists running amok. Mostly they are in Africa and it is not the top story on the nightly news for 2 weeks like it would be if there was a Republican war monger President.Ingineer66https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-86518368419830011852013-01-28T15:32:32.036-08:002013-01-28T15:32:32.036-08:00Authoritarian Mindset?? Obama has more of an auth...Authoritarian Mindset?? Obama has more of an authoritarian mindset than anybody in Washington. He has said as much himself when complaining about having to deal with Congress. And last week the Court said that he violated the Constitution again. I know liberals think the Constitution is a "living document" that is outdated. But it is still the law of the land and there are a bunch of us that still believe in it. A guy that took an oath to defend it should be doing a better job of abiding by it.Ingineer66https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-74214453351733947822013-01-28T12:25:27.472-08:002013-01-28T12:25:27.472-08:00We just have a lot of people in this country with ...We just have a lot of people in this country with an authoritarian mindset. George Lakoff discusses this matter in his book, *Don't Think of an Elephant. *Hattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02621439195920479957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-64557084117989328112013-01-27T14:11:02.916-08:002013-01-27T14:11:02.916-08:00Where are you saying we are in wars right now? Not...Where are you saying we are in wars right now? Not denying you are right but trying to understand how you define them and where you see them?<br /><br />The Affordable Care Act will demand that people get insurance and it will help those pay for it who have limited incomes. How much do you expect that to cost the government? Medicare is the big cost but it could be made cheaper by letting seniors buy their prescriptions from wherever they wish. SS is only part of this equation because the government has been borrowing from the trust fund, otherwise it wouldn't be a factor.<br /><br />I've put up charts here showing how much spending went up under Obama and it's the least of any president in a long time. Reagan increased our debt 185%. Bush 80%. Obama's spending by 35% and some of that was stimulus which 1/3 went to tax cuts; 1/3 to the states to increase jobs; and 1/3 for various programs the feds decided would do it.<br /><br />I always wonder when you talk like this about the poor-- how many do you know directly? Living out here in the country, I happen to know quite a few and don't know any with the kind of luxuries you seem to believe they all have. I won't say we cannot do better with being sure the wrong people aren't being helped; but what about the money that goes to oil corporations, fat cat farmers, etc. And waste in the military with weapons programs that we don't need and don't end up working. Why do Republicans worry so much that a disabled veteran might get too much help and not that the Koch brothers got it?Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-83485413224624705462013-01-27T10:31:40.769-08:002013-01-27T10:31:40.769-08:00Yes, one big war is over and another is winding do...Yes, one big war is over and another is winding down. But Obama has got us into 5 new little wars. Maybe some exotic weapon systems will be cut, and he is reducing the numbers of people in the Army and Marines. But don't expect giant defense cuts. Won't happen. <br />And Obama and the Dems got the tax increase they wanted.Ingineer66https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-18976316184057367242013-01-27T10:28:20.057-08:002013-01-27T10:28:20.057-08:00How much did Obama increase the budget first and ...How much did Obama increase the budget first and how much is Obamacare going to cost? He said he was going to reduce the deficit but it has grown every year under his administration. <br /><br />How is cutting the budget always taking it out on the poor? Although being poor in this country means that you only have 2 flat-screen TV's and one cellphone and you can only afford Starbucks once a day. There are plenty of places that could be cut that do not involve starving people.Ingineer66https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-76005219992343120782013-01-27T07:59:53.961-08:002013-01-27T07:59:53.961-08:00Obama with the GOP control of the House cut $1.2 t...Obama with the GOP control of the House cut $1.2 trillion last year or something like that. The end of wars around the globe will help some but then what do we do about Mali and northern Africa? As long as the right resists tax increases, they don't want to cut military, the only thing left is taking it out of the poor, isn't it? Their idea of chained CPI will hurt military families also who are on disability due to their injuries. It's not going to be easy to cut more because each state thinks their projects will be good for jobs. and on it goes.Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-56224255556261076002013-01-27T07:47:21.119-08:002013-01-27T07:47:21.119-08:00I think the Tea Party crowd needs to lighten up on...I think the Tea Party crowd needs to lighten up on social issues and the Liberal crowd needs to realize that spending one Trillion dollars more than you make every year is not going to last forever. If any of us spent 33% more than we made it would not be long before it all collapsed around us.Ingineer66https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com