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America has lost Economic Authority
The past century saw American dominance in the world foreign policy and Economic Markets. Pearl Harbor awakened a ‘sleeping giant.’ The rise of Communism in the Far East and the spread of Socialism in Europe and other geographic areas saw an advancing economic influence of free market capitalism. In the span of eight short years […]
25Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on America has lost Economic Authority | Continued
McCain to Suspend Presidential Campaign
2:00 PM: John McCain wants to suspend his campaign for President in order to return to Washington to work on the economic Crisis. McCain wants to postpone the Presidential debate scheduled for Friday, September 26, 2008. That debate was to focus on national security. What is McCain trying to do? Is he trying to show […]
24Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on McCain to Suspend Presidential Campaign | Continued
The Wall Street Bailout is Personal – KISS
This is personal. This disaster on Wall Street and in the halls of Washington. Most of us have no idea what our Government leaders are talking about. Most of us don’t understand why every man woman and child in America has to put up something like $2,500 to bailout a rich Wall Street Banker. But […]
24Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 6 comments | Continued
Commander in Chief – Role of a Citizen
The Constitution of the United State of America vests the power of Commander in Chief with the Executive – The President. This feels clear to this writer that the intent was for a citizen, elected by the people, to act as Commander of the military. There was purpose in this intent. Here is a quote […]
22Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 2 comments | Continued
The Iraq Surge Has Not Worked!
On September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked America. America launched a military assault – The Mission – find and either kill or capture the murderous terrorists. But the George Bush administration did a shell game with the American people, distracting everyone from the defined mission. As a result – The terrorist leaders have not been punished. […]
22Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on The Iraq Surge Has Not Worked! | Continued
Songs of the Great Depression
These are some very nice videos posted on youtube about the Great Depression. Well at least we got some good music out of the national sadness. Get ready for another renaissance in music. Woody Guthrie sang about the hard times in America. “This Land Was Made For You and Me” has become a folk classic […]
22Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Songs of the Great Depression | Continued
McCain/Palin – Unstable/Unable
This is the week that was. John McCain could not have had a harder time. Every day, and sometimes twice a day, McCain changed his position and philosophy on the economy. At times he sounded like he might be in early stages of oldtimers disease. John McCain, that once bold and brave warrior, has been […]
21Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 5 comments | Continued
Wall Street – Thunder Road
Do you remember Robert Mitchum in Thunder Road. He reminds us of the CEO’s of Exxon, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, etc. “The Law they never got him cause the devil got him first,” sort of thing. The Thunder Road movie was about moonshiners of the early 1950’s. Their daring driving gave birth to […]
19Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Wall Street – Thunder Road | Continued
McCain gets really NASTY!
Check out his new ad. Three black men doing bad things followed by an elderly white woman. What a cheap and nasty campaign ad. Let’s elect McCain and Palin, we can set Civil Rights and the Women’s movement back fifty years in one shot. The Republican Party is the Lynching Party – bring your own […]
19Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 2 comments | Continued
Wall Street Terrorizes America
Osama Bin Laden, who remains free, launched four planes at American’s financial and military structure on September 11, 2001. Bush reacted and has weakened our military. The Republicans reacted and eliminated regulations on Mortgage Banks and Investment Banks. Then the American Terrorists took over. The Stock Market has dropped more this week than at any […]
18Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 2 comments | Continued
Tony Soprano is Running Wall Street
The Bush Administration has made Wall Street an offer they can’t refuse. Suck the life out of the company, siphoning money from the investing middle class, then we will tax the middle class to bail you out. The movies have had great material with organized crime. The rage began with The Godfather, continued with Goodfellas, […]
17Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Tony Soprano is Running Wall Street | Continued
Bursting the False Palin Bubble
Everybody loves a parade. All of us want something good to happen in our lives. This is particularly true in desperate times. And these times (2008) are certainly desperate in America. The desperation has been magnified in the Republican Party. With an old bore as their nominee, facing the charm and charisma of the youthful […]
17Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 8 comments | Continued
McCain, “My Friends, trust me”
McCain wants the people to trust him. We are nauseated every time we hear McCain use the term ‘my friends,’ he wears it out. He suggests he is your friend – but we should all check the value of or 401k’s today. That is the true measure of how much the Republican brand is your […]
17Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
The Palin Principle (Peter Principle revisited)
Sarah Palin has resurrected an old business adage: The Peter Principle. The idea is relatively easy to grasp: A good employee is promoted to the point of their incompetence. It is a classic management error. Take a good Surgeon and make him Administrator of the Hospital. Take a good computer analyst and make him the […]
16Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on The Palin Principle (Peter Principle revisited) | Continued
Eroding Deliberative Democracy
The United States of America is a Republic. From Wikipedia: The word originates from the Latin term res publica, which literally translates as “public thing” or “public matter”. The idea resides in a representative form of government. The people elect one of their own to represent them in the government. Deliberative Democracy is a form […]
15Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Eroding Deliberative Democracy | Continued
Obama’s Rope-A-Dope Strategy
McCain swings a haymaker. Obama ducks – suffering only a glancing blow. McCain swings again, connecting solidly on a defensive shoulder. Obama is against the ropes, protecting himself with energetic arms – arms raised to defend against a fatal blow. The barage continues. Obama dances away from the ropes. McCain stalks, bristling for opportunity. Then […]
15Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Obama’s Rope-A-Dope Strategy | Continued
McCain’s Health Care TAX
Senator John McCain again figures on the lack of sensibility by 51% of the population. He may be right. But we will investigate his Health Care TAX position for laughs. Suppose you are a young family. The husband makes, say forty thousand dollars a year. The wife also works and makes twenty-five thousand dollars a […]
12Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
John McCain is General George Armstrong Custer
History tells us of a West Point General who graduated last in his class, General George Armstrong Custer. It turns out he was a little man with a huge ego. His scouts said, Don’t go down in that valley – there are ten thousand Indians waiting to scalp you. But General Custer had his eyes […]
11Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
The Red Cross – Darn Community Organizers
Community Organizer – what the heck is that? The Republicans of today’s world suggest there is something demeaning or degrading about the role of community organizer. There are two videos in this post to support that position. But our local Community Chamber of Commerce might take exception to the degrading comments. And those darn Red […]
9Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
Mortgage Crisis – the Case For Regulations
This writer is a fiscal conservative who believes THE GOVERNMENT should simply do their job. Partisan politics shake out like this – The Democrats act like the Government is the mission – and the Republicans think the Government has no mission. They are both frustratingly wrong. The Bush Administration’s Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is leading […]
8Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 2 comments | Continued
Writing versus delivering speeches
Barack Obama has raised the bar on the delivery of speeches. Sarah Palin did not match him – but she is better than many politicians. But the question for this writer remains – is speech delivery as important as original thought? We know today that Barack Obama writes his own speeches. The delivery is superb […]
6Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Writing versus delivering speeches | Continued
Sarah Palin RNC Speech video and text – 2008
The McCain staff did a nice job of writing this speech for Governor Palin. Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States… I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America. I accept the challenge […]
4Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Sarah Palin RNC Speech video and text – 2008 | Continued
Anarchy – The Slippery Slope of Deregulation
The failure of Wall Street this past few weeks is the result of John McCain abdicating his responsibilities as a United States Senator. A stable society rests on the rule of law. The Government of the United States of America was founded on the premise that the government would represent the common welfare of all […]
2Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 2 comments | Continued
Barack Obama DNC speech, Video and Text, 8-28-2008
Some speeches are meant to be read, some to be heard. Barack Obama’s style punctuates his rhetoric with exponential force. Obama’s speeches are meant to be heard – delivered by Obama himself. Barack Obama’s prepared speech for the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, August 29, 2008. “Four years ago, I stood before you and […]
31Aug2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Barack Obama DNC speech, Video and Text, 8-28-2008 | Continued
Obama and Biden on 60 Minutes
These are true statesmen. Senator Barack Obama is ready to talk policy – he does not have to attack John McCain for making the most ludicrous choice for Vice President since that guy in 1856.
31Aug2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Obama and Biden on 60 Minutes | Continued
Governor Palin – a UFO
We live in a dangerous world. Our leaders must be thoughtful, careful, calculated. John McCain has proven himself to be reactionary. Republican or Democrat, we must be proactive in our approach to the world. Reactionary government is something one expects from a totalitarian dictatorship walking the line of collapse. The dictator fears only one thing […]
30Aug2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 5 comments | Continued
Dichotomies of Political Philosophy
We live in a world of politics – but politics creates strange bedfellows. The Republican nominee for President, John McCain, is about to pick Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for the Vice President spot on the ticket. What a strange turn of events. Governor Palin is a fierce conservative – and that creates a real dichotomy […]
29Aug2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Dichotomies of Political Philosophy | Continued
Obama and Biden, 8-23-2008
Barack Obama has show his maturity and self confidence, he has chosen a sophisticated political professional as his running mate. A less confident man would have chosen someone less qualified. Obama knows that Joe Biden is a powerful and forceful Senator with a great deal of knowledge about foreign and domestic policy. Congratulations, Mr. Obama, […]
24Aug2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Obama and Biden, 8-23-2008 | Continued
Obama, McCain, and Elitism
This writer finds the current political process somewhat disheartening. The sadness is that we the people are getting what we ask for. Political sniping has become an essential element of political campaigning. In this video we find Barack Obama pounding John McCain on McCain’s elitist view of the economy. McCain had been asked how many […]
22Aug2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Obama, McCain, and Elitism | Continued
The Brink of World War THREE!
The world is in grave trouble, potentially on the brink of World War Three. The hard liners in Russia are giving an ultimatum to America – that means they are giving an ultimatum to the Cowboy in Chief, George W. Bush. CNN is reporting that Russia has demanded that America choose between continued relations with […]
14Aug2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on The Brink of World War THREE! | Continued
NBC Fails the Olympic Opening Ceremony
NBC has completely failed in their presentation of the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China. A masterfully choreographed 2,008 drummers, rhythmically moving in unison, were to cast a staggering effect of art in motion. NBC thinks they are at an NFL game and demonstrated how many cameras they have on the floor […]
9Aug2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on NBC Fails the Olympic Opening Ceremony | Continued
John Edwards – Craig, Clinton, Delay
So John Edwards has admitted that he had an extra marital affair. Is this important? Possibly. The admission will definitely affect his box seats at the Democratic Convention. But is this event any different, more or less important than other travesties of silliness by other public figures. John Edwards ran for President but failed to […]
9Aug2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on John Edwards – Craig, Clinton, Delay | Continued
intimate anonymity in the electronic age
If you are reading this article, then it is no surprise to you that our electronic culture is changing faster than we can measure and our connectedness boasts the largest geographical and numerical network in history. The phenomenon of our communication age is a child of several technologies that all dramatically shaped our culture, and […]
2Jun2008 | bryan | Comments Off on intimate anonymity in the electronic age | Continued