10/30/14

VOTE AGAINST COMMUNISM'S SEDUCTIVE CALL TO SLAVERY POST 226

Hi,

Maybe it's my age level or my innate optimism but this blogger has never given up on the United States of America not becoming a Communist power. This blogger  just never wanted our country to take a step backward in time to embrace a pretty much failed philosophy that just won't give up or admit its failure until it drags everyone into the mire.

However, the future for America as more people vote for fools like Obama and Crist in Florida is not as shiny bright as it might be. The rhetoric of the slaves to Communism is and always has been a mother's cry. "I'll take care of you! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll look after you."  !!!!!!!!!!! No mention of cost, of course.  IT'LL ONLY COST YOUR FREEDOM, YOUR FREE WILL. BUT THAT'S A LONELY TUNE IN A COUNTRY THAT HASN'T EXPERIENCED THE LOSS FOR 200+ YEARS, THERE'S JUST MOCKERY IN THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT ANOTHER SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WILL PROVIDE MORE FOR THEM AND DON'T BELIEVE THAT WILL TAKE AWAY THEIR RIGHTS AS FREE MEN.

POOR, POOR BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!  MOTHER COMMUNISM  CALLS TO SUCKLE AT THE BREAST OF PERSONAL SLAVERY,  PRETENDING IT'S THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS. PRETENDING IT'S A GENTLER, SAFER, MORE EQUAL WORLD IN WHICH EACH WILL SHARE WITHOUT ANY RECEIVING MORE THAN ANOTHER.

THE FANTASY OF COMMUNISM IS BUILT ON HOW THEY CAN HIDE A COMMUNIST CALLED SOROS THAT HAS MORE WEALTH THAN WE ARE GIVEN THE RIGHT TO KNOW AND BUYS PRESIDENTS AND STEERS COUNTRIES IN HIS COMMUNIST DIRECTION.  IF EVERYONE  IS EQUAL THAN HOW DID HE ACQUIRE THE RIGHT TO SO MUCH WEALTH AND SO MUCH POWER ??????????????????

 HOW DOES THAT WORK ???????????? IF COMMUNISM CREATES EQUALITY THEN WHY IS OBAMA SO WEALTHY ????????????? SO MUCH MORE SO THAN MOST OF THE BLACK PEOPLE HE CLAIMS HE REPRESENTS???????????????  THAT'S A FORM OF RACISM.

 WHAT IS THE MAGIC THAT FLOWS THROUGH THE VISION OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT BLOTS OUT THE UGLY REALITIES THEY ARE FACING AND CLOSES THEIR MIND TO THEIR DESTINY ???????????? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ARE WEALTHY NOW ?????????? WILL THEY RIP THE GOLD AWAY FROM THEM TO SIMPLY GIVE IT TO ANOTHER GROUP AS EVERYONE ELSE  STAYS  POOR  OR POORER AS THEY HAVE IN EUROPE ??????????? IN RUSSIA ????????????? IN CHINA ???????????

WHERE IS THIS MAGIC LAND WHERE YOU AND THIS BLOGGER AND ALL THE REST ARE AT THE SAME LEVEL OF WEALTH AND EQUAL IN EVERY WAY ???????????

BECAUSE THIS BLOGGER SEES NO REALIZATION ANYWHERE OF THAT KIND OF EQUALITY IN OTHER LANDS WHO HAVE FOLLOWED THE COMMUNIST BANNER !!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT IS SEEN IS THE DEPRESSION AND MINDLESSNESS THAT FOLLOWS BEING ENSLAVED AND THE LOSS OF HOPE THAT FOLLOWS A LOST CAUSE. THERE IS NO MOMMY TO SUCKLE HER POOR LOST CHILDREN, JUST A BIG BROTHER TO KEEP THEM IN LINE. THE DOORS ARE SLAMMED SHUT WITH NO WAY OUT OR UP OR DOWN FOR THE MAINSTREAM.

IS THIS WHAT IS VISUALIZED AS EQUALITY ????????????? POVERTY OF SPIRIT ?????????? POVERTY OF BELIEF IN REALITY ??????????? POVERTY OF SPIRITUALISM ??????????? POVERTY OF MIND ??????????? POVERTY OF BELIEFS  BEYOND WHAT ONE IS SPOON FED ?????????? AND THAT GREATEST POVERTY OF ALL--THE LOSS OF FREE WILL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAVE ANY OF THE PEOPLE WANTING THAT MOTHER NURTURING  LOOKED AT FRANCE NOW COMMUNIST AND AT  THE INEQUALITY AND POVERTY OF THE ALGERIAN COMMUNITY BOTH BLACK AND WHITE??????? HOW ABOUT A LOOK AT  CHINA WHERE COMMUNISM HAS RULED LONG BEFORE THIS DECADE. THE OUTLYING DISTRICTS HOLD MILLIONS OF POOR PEASANTS.  WHAT ABOUT BRITAIN NOW COMMUNIST THAT HAS A LARGE AND RIOTING POVERTY STRICKEN MASS OF PEOPLE AND ON AND ON.

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE ???????????? THE COMMUNIST SMOOTH TONGUE WILL TELL YOU IT'S ONGOING CHANGE. IT WILL ALL COME RIGHT IN TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!

BUT IT DIDN'T COME RIGHT IN CHINA UNTIL THEY ESTABLISHED PART OF THE COUNTRY AS A CAPITALIST CAPITOL AND THOSE WORKING IN IT ARE NO LONGER POVERTY STRICKEN. HOWEVER THE PEASANTS AREN'T ALLOWED TO ENJOY CAPITALISM. THEY REMAIN IN POVERTY.  IT'S ONGOING ALL RIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS ON GOING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND NO EQUALITY IN SIGHT.

THIS BLOGGER CAN ONLY OPEN EYES AND HEARTS THAT ARE WILLING TO SEE THE TRUTH AND THE REALITY OF THE HYPE. IF COMMUNISM CAN BE PRAISED FOR ONE THING THEN THAT WOULD BE THE PUBLIC RELATIONS SPIEL THEY HAVE INVENTED AND MADE THEIR OWN. THEY USE WORDS TO SMOOTH OUT THE "BUMPS" IN THE ROAD, THE LACK OF INTENTION, THE LACK OF EQUALITY OR THE LACK OF REALISM.

 YOU ARE WOOED WITH WORDS. SWEET AS A LOVER'S GLIB LIES AND TAUNTED WITH YOUR DESIRES FOR GOOD AND REAL LOVE. YOU ARE WOOED AS NO PHILOSOPHY HAS WOOED  AMERICANS SINCE THE DAYS OF THE REVOLUTION AND YOU ARE AFRAID IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW, YOU WILL BE JILTED, REJECTED, AND LEFT BEHIND.

 OH HOW LUCKY YOU WOULD BE IF THAT WERE INDEED THE CASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT YOU ARE THE VALUABLE TOOL THAT WILL BRING COMMUNISM THE MAJOR WEALTH OF THE WORLD AND WITHOUT YOU, AMERICA, THERE IS NO WORLD CONQUEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND WORLD CONQUEST IS THEIR GUARANTEE. !!!!!!!!!!! THEY FEEL THEY CAN  MAKE THE WORLD AND AMERICA MOST OF ALL THE PAWN AND SLAVES  OF THE POWERFUL RICH COMMUNISTS.

EQUALITY---------THIS BLOGGER THINKS NOT.

MORE LIKE SLAVERY OF THE WORLD.  WEALTH CHANGES HANDS AND COMMUNISM REAPS THE DIVIDENDS, POWER AND WEALTH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO A CHANGE IS MADE IN NAME ONLY.  WHAT ELSE IS NEW ??????????????????

POOR BABIES, NO SUCKLING AT YOUR MOTHER'S GENTLE BREAST. NO FREE MEALS. NO EQUALITY, JUST THE LOSS OF BELIEF IN THE LIES OF YOUR ERRANT LOVER, COMMUNISM. TOO BAD. SO SAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VOTE FOR FREEDOM NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CHEERS, CONNIE


10/23/14

CHOOSE TO VOTE TO STAY FREE! IN AMERICA POST 225

VOTE VOTE  VOTE VOTE.....................................................................VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IF YOU DON'T THEN YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM OF LOSING FREEDOMS !!!!!!!
NOVEMER 4 OR EARLIER WHERE ALLOWED.

HI,

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN WHEN YOU SHOULD MAKE GOING TO THE POLLS NUMERO UNO ON YOUR LIST !!!!!!!!!!!!! IN FACT, THE PEOPLE WHO BECAME AMERICANS FROM OUR SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE KNOW THAT ALL TOO WELL

 VOTING IS A PRIVILEGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  NOT VOTING IN A FREE SOCIETY IS A SACRILEGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FREEDOM IS COSTLY BUT WORTH EVERY EFFORT !!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT MARXIST GULL MARX INSTRUCTED HIS FOLLOWERS TO TAKE A FREEDOM AWAY A YEAR AND SOON THEY WILL ALL BE GONE AND NO ONE WILL BE THE WISER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DON'T TAKE COMMUNISM LIGHTLY. IT HAS INVADED THE WESTERN WORLD WITH "PHONY BALONEY" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY DON'T WANT JUST YOUR PURSE. THEY WANT YOUR SOUL LIKE THE DEVIL IN DISGUISE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 THEY STARTED THE RUMOR "COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY" (TITTER--TITTER) SO THAT YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE TRUTH WHEN IT STARED YOU IN THE FACE, EVERY SOLUTION AGAINST THEM HAS BEEN MADE INTO AN EFFORT FOR THEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THEY'RE NOT DUMB--JUST IDEOLOGICALLY FLAWED. THEY TRUST CONTROL OF THE MASSES ABOVE ALL ELSE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THEY HATE FREEDOM OF THE MASSES AS THE WORST OF ALL ATTRIBUTES BECAUSE  IT MAKES CONTROL
 IMPOSSIBLE.  ONE WORLDISM IS THE OLD PHRASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GLOBALIZATION IS THE NEW WORD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT ALL ADDS UP TO  LOSS TO A CULTURE THAT HAS CONSISTENTLY FAILED ACROSS THAT VERY GLOBE.

SO VOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  VOTING IS THE SUPREME ACT OF FREEDOM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT MEANS YOU HAVE A CHOICE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. IF IT' WAS A BAD CHOICE AS PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS PROVEN TO BE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET OVER IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 GUESS WHAT ???????????? YOU GET ANOTHER CHOICE AND ANOTHER CHANCE TO CHOOSE FREEDOM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND A GOOD CANDIDATE !!!!!!!!!!!!

DISAPPOINTED IN WHAT'S HAPPENING ????????????? YOU ARE FREE TO CHANGE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU DON'T HAVE TO PROTEST IN TIANANMEN SQUARE LIKE THEY DO IN CHINA-----------AND BE MOWED DOWN BY BULLETS, TEAR GAS, OR THE LIKE AND SENT TO PRISON BECAUSE YOU WANTED THE RIGHT TO BE FREE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU ARE FREE  UNLESS YOU DO NOT VOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!! BAD CANDIDATES????????????? LET YOUR RAGE STIR YOU INTO THE ACTION OF FINDING GOOD ONES !!!!!!!!!!!!! LET YOUR RAGE AT OBAMA AND HIS LIES STIR YOU INTO THE ACTION OF CHOOSING THE CANDIDATES WHO WILL FULFILL YOUR EXPECTATIONS.

DON'T SET OUT TO KILL THE WORLD AROUND YOU. SET OUT TO HELP THEM CHOOSE PEOPLE WHO WILL SET THEM INTO MOTION AND MOVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERCA BACK INTO ALL THE FREEDOMS PROMISED IN THE CONSITUTION, BILL OF RIGHTS AND DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND MAKE THOSE CANDIDATES FUNCTION TO REMOVE LAWS THAT TAKE AWAY THOSE FREEDOMS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 IT CAN BE DONE.  THAT'S WHAT RONALD REAGAN REALIZED AND THAT'S WHAT HE DID--ONLY TO HAVE IT SOME OF IT  UNDONE BY THOSE WHO FEEL CONTROL IS THE ONLY WAY TO RUN A WORLD.  BUT REAGAN DID IT AND SO CAN EVERY VOTER OUT IN AMERICA IF THEY ONLY HAVE THE WILL. HE SHOWED THE WAY AS OTHERS BEFORE SHOWED THE WAY. FOLLOW IT AND ADD TO THOSE FREEDOMS !!!!!!!!!!!
 SUCKING AWAY FREEDOM IS NOT CHANGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS THE PAST REINCARNATED.   CONTROLLED SOCIETIES ARE A PRODUCT OF ANCIENT TIMES.

CHANGE IS CREATING NEW FREEDOMS AND RESTORING THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN SUCKED AWAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VOTING DOESN'T GET YOU THERE INSTANTLY BUT IT WILL GET YOU THERE!!!!!!!!!! DON'T POUT LIKE A CHILD BECAUSE IT WENT WRONG THIS TIME.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAKE IT RIGHT EVENTUALLY BY THE ACTION OF VOTING FOR CANDIDATES WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM NOT ANARCHY OR DICTATORSHIP OF CONTROL OF THE PROLETARIAT (THE MASSES). PUT THE RIGHT CANDIDATES  ON THE BALLOT,  HELP THEM TO GET TO SUCCEED.

TO MISQUOTE MARX: REPLACE ONE FREEDOM A YEAR AND SOON WE WILL BE FREE AGAIN AND WE WILL BE THE WISER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BY VOTING!!!!!!! BY ACTIVELY SUPPORTING THE CANDIDATES WHO STAND FOR FREEDOM AND REFUTING THE OTHERS.

VOTING IS THE PRIMARY EXPRESSION OF FREEDOM  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TO PROTECT THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE YOUR WAY OF LIFE, YOUR OCCUPATION, YOUR PLACE TO LIVE, YOUR RELIGION OR NOT, YOUR PATTERN OF ALL THINGS INDIVIDUAL...........YOU MUST PROTECT FREE VOTING BY VOTING.

VOTING ALLOWS YOU TO CONTINUE TO HAVE THE MOST FRUITFUL SOCIETY EVER FOUNDED BY MANKIND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT ==DO SOME RESEARCH. IT WON'T TAKE LONG TO UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT WE HAVE EVOLVED IN AMERICA IS UNIQUE IN THE HISTORY OF MAN.

VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE.................................................................VOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE

10/16/14

PRESIDENT OBAMA RECALLTHE 5000 TROOPS TO SAFE HARBOR.! NO EBOLA EXPOSURE! POST 224

Hi,

This blogger hates to say "I told you so" on the Ebola crisis. Where's our PRESIDENT WHEN HE'S NEEDED ????????????? HAS HE CALLED BACK THE TROOPS HE SENT INTO THE EPIDEMIC OR ARE THEY STILL BEING TAKEN TO AFRICA TO BE EXPOSED TO THE EBOLA EPIDEMIC THAT WE CAN'T REALLY TREAT OR STOP??????????????

THIS BLOGGER POINTED OUT THAT HE ORDERED THE TROOPS TO THE AFFECTED AREA.  HE ORDERED THE FIRST AMERICAN EBOLA PATIENT SENT TO ATLANTA, GEORGIA,  INSTEAD OF SENDING MEDICAL STAFF THERE TO TREAT HIM UNDER COMPLETELY SANITIZED CONDITIONS. HE APPEARS TO BE SYSTEMATICALLY  CREATING SITUATIONS THAT WILL INFECT ENOUGH AMERICANS TO  CAUSE THE  WORRY OF AN EPIDEMIC HERE.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAVING A PRESIDENT WHOSE MAIN RESPONSIBILITY IS THE PROTECTION OF ITS CITIZENS FROM THE DANGER OF ATTACK WHETHER BY DISEASE OR BOMBS ?????????????????? PRESIDENT OBAMA IS DOING NEITHER AND STILL NOT BEING CRITICIZED FOR HIS ACTIONS BY THE CONGRESS OR THE PRESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS BLOGGER IS DISGUSTED BY THE CARELESS ATTITUDES OF EVERYONE CONCERNED WITH THIS SITUATION FROM THE PRESIDENT ON DOWN. IT WAS ALWAYS SAID THAT CARELESSNESS, LACK OF CONCERN, AND DOWNRIGHT NEGLIGENCE STARTS AT THE TOP. WELL, THIS IS CERTAINLY A HORRIFYING EXAMPLE OF THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 OBAMA'S CASUAL ATTITUDES TOWARD AN EPIDEMIC OF THIS PROPORTION AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF CONTAMINATION AND SPREAD SETS THE TONE FOR ALLL THE REST OF THE ACTIONS TAKEN BOTH BY THE MILITARY, CDC AND HEALTH OFFICIALS PLUS THE STAFF OF THE TEXAS HOSPITAL.

OBAMA HAD A HUBRISTIC  ATTITUDE OF "WE'RE IMMUNE" THAT MAY TAX (AND THAT'S WHERE THE COST WILL GO) OBAMACARE AND ALL HEALTH CARE IN THIS
 COUNTRY IF THE SITUATION CONTINUES TO GROW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OBAMA BY SENDING 5000 TROOPS WHO ARE CITIZENS INTO THE INFECTED AREA MAY HAVE SHOT HIMSELF IN THE FOOT AS OBAMACARE  FIELDS A LARGE EXPENSIVE FAILURE IN TRYING TO STOP THE RESULTING EPIDEMIC FOR WHICH HE WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR CENTURIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OBAMA WON'T BE REMEMBERED FOR THE OBAMACARE PROGRAM BUT FOR THE FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO PROTECT AMERICANS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IF HE HAD A CLUE, HE'D CALL BACK THOSE TROOPS IMMEDIATELY AND AVOID THE RESULTING POSSIBLE CATASTROPHE THAT SENDING TROOPS INTO WEST AFRICA MAY CAUSE. THE RESULT COULD BE A RAGING EPIDEMIC AS THE TROOPS MUSTER OUT AND COME HOME ALL OVER THE COUNTRY SPREADING THE DISEASE EVERYWHERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IDIOCY COMES FROM AN OVER SHADOWING EGO  AND LITTLE REAL KNOWLEDGE.

SO CONGRESS WHAT THE DEVILL ARE YOU DOING ???????????? CALL THOSE TROOPS BACK-- DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO COUNTERMAND HIS ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MILITARY COMMANDERS.....................PROTECT YOUR TROOPS. IF YOU HAVE AN IDIOT IN CHARGE --CALL ON THE IDIOTS IN  CONGRESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 RISE TO THE CHALLENGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! START A WAR WITH THE PRESIDENT !!!!!!!!!!!!! DO THE RIGHT THING EVEN WHEN IT COSTS YOU PERSONALLY!  SAVE OUR COUNTRY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  DON'T LET OBAMA GET AWAY WITH  DOING THESE DASTERDLY THINGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAVE WE LOST OUR COLLECTIVE MINDS ???????????????? ARE WE HELL BENT ON SELF-DESTRUCTION??????????????????????? WHEN A HUGE NATION LOSES THE  HOLD  THAT CONTROLS THE ACTIONS OF A SINGLE MAN, WE ARE WITHOUT DOUBT  PROVING THAT WE ARE THE IDIOTS WHO ARE TO BLAME FOR THE RESULTING CHAOS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WAKE UP AMERICA. YOU ARE UNDER SEIGE. JOIN THE FIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STOP OUR PRESIDENT FROM ANY MORE EXECUTIVE ACTIONS BY WHATEVER LEGAL MEANS IS AVAILABLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  OBAMA FOUND LOOP HOLES IN THE LAW TO DO WHAT HE HAS DONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF HE CAN DO SO, A GANG OF LAWYERS SHOULD BE ABLE TO SPOT A FEW AS WELL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  OR IS HE SMARTER THAN THE CURRENT CROP OF LEGAL EAGLES ??????????????????? THIS BLOGGER SHUDDERS AT THAT THOUGHT.

CALL THOSE TROOPS BACK FROM WEST AFRICA TODAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CHEERS, CONNIE

10/9/14

EBOLA AND FEAR OF EXTINCTION! POST 223

Hi,

EBOLA. EBOLA. EBOLA. THE PRESS CAN'T LET IT GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FEAR OF EXTINCTION SEEMS TO BE THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS PROFIT OR POLITICAL MOTIVE TO DATE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS BLOGGER SURMISES THAT WE MUST BE ASKING FOR THE FEAR !!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY ELSE WOULD FEAR BE A PROFIT  OR POLITICAL MOTIVE ????????????

Remember that Television is a PROFIT MAKING MEDIUM WITH ADS NOT THE ONLY SOURCE BUT PROGRAMS AND OF COURSE NEWS, NEWS, NEWS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO SELLING THE TIME  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF THE NEWS SELLS FEAR OF WHATEVER COMES DOWN THE PIKE AND VIEWERS RESPOND POSITIVELY, THEN THAT ENCOURAGES MORE FEAR STORIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! POLITICIANS USE FEAR OF THEIR OPPONENTS ACTIONS TO CREATE A PANACEA FOR THEMSELVES UNTIL THEY GET CAUGHT IN THE FICKLE WIND OF FEAR.

NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES ???????????????? THEY DROPPED THE BALL YEARS AGO AND JUST FOLLOW THE TV AND MEDIA SO WHATEVER TV DOES, THE NEWS IN OTHER MEDIA REFLECT  IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TRAGIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!

OKAY, LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE EBOLA EPIDEMIC RATIONALLY. IT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN AFRICA FOR YEARS BUT THIS - ONLY THIS YEAR - WE HAVE CASES IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA !!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT CHANGED ?????????? WHAT CAUSED THE EPIDEMIC TO FIND A FOOTHOLD HERE ?????????? WHY THE FEAR ????????????

NOTHING HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT THAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS BLOGGER RESEARCHED AS BEST AS  COULD BE DONE AND ALTHOUGH THERE ARE ALWAYS EXCUSES IN CASES LIKE THIS, IT DOES APPEAR THAT OUR REACTION TO THE AIRLINE SITUATION WAS VERY RETARDED. THERE IS A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN LIBERIA  (WHY WAS IT PLACED THERE WHEN THERE ARE PERIODIC OUTBREAKS OF EBOLA ????????????? ) THIS BLOGGER FINDS THAT ALARMING AND THE AIRPORT HAS NOT BEEN TEMPORARILY CLOSED DOWN TO AVOID THE SPREAD OF THE DISEASE. THIS BLOGGER FINDS THAT ALARMING !!!!!!!!!!
WITH 5000 AMERICAN TROOPS GOING INTO THE AREA, HOW WILL WE PROTECT THEM ?????????????? AND PROTECT AMERICA????????????? NOW YOU CAN WORRY. IT IS AN IGNORANT MOVE  BY A PRESIDENT WHO HAS NO REGARD FOR OUR MILITARY !!!!!!!!!! OR THE COUNTRY HE LEADS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT WEST AFRICAN AIRPORT WAS NOT RESTRICTED AND NO RECOMMENDATIONS CAME FROM OUR GOVERNMENT OR THE OBAMA "ALL MIGHTY U.N." FOR TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING OPERATIONS.  NEW SCREENING PROCESSES WERE JUST HAPPENING IN EARLY OCTOBER AND AS FOR THE PATIENT IN TEXAS, HE SEEMS TO HAVE LIED ABOUT BEING NEAR THE EPIDEMIC SITE WHICH SOME ADVANCED SCREENING MIGHT HAVE POSSIBLY CAUGHT. THERE IS NO GUARANTEE OF THAT.

 IN AUGUST CDC TEAMS TRAINED  WEST AFRICAN AIRPORT WORKERS IN THE USE OF HANDHELD SCANNERS FOR FEVER.  IT FOUND 74 IN 30,000. MOST PASSENGERS WITH FEVER HAD MALARIA ( NOT A GOOD IMPORT EITHER). IT DID NOT CATCH THE TEXAS MAN'S FEVER SINCE IT IS NOT USED ELSEWHERE AND EBOLA HAS A 21 DAY INCUBATION PERIOD SO THAT SCREENING IS IFFY IN NEW CASES.

A WHOLE COMEDY OF ERRORS HAS INCLUDED POLITICS AS USUAL AND SOME ERRORS THAT THIS BLOGGER IS PROBABLY NOT PRIVY TO KNOW. IT TENDS TO POINT UP THE FACT THAT WE ARE NOT READY TO GO GLOBAL. WE ARE  ILL PREPARED TO FACE THE PROBLEMS THAT WILL EMANATE FROM MORE INTIMATE GLOBAL INTERACTION.

INSTRUCTIONS TO AIRLINES AND AUTHORITIES BY DR, THOMAS FRIEDEN, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, SEEM TO HAVE BEEN SLOWED BY POLITICS IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AS USUAL. THE REACTION MAY BE BECAUSE WE HAVE ESCAPED OTHER EBOLA EPIDEMICS OR BECAUSE WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH AN AFRICAN NATION. THIS BLOGGER HATES TO BRING UP RACISM AS A CAUSE BUT IT IS RATHER RIDICULOUS TO EXCUSE A WIDE SPREADING DISEASE ON THE FACT THAT AFRICA IS THE SITE AND IT MIGHT CAUSE RACIAL REPRESSION  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TEMPORARY CONTROL WHILE THE EPIDEMIC IS ONGOING CAN NOT BE JUDGED AS PERMANENT CONTROL OR AN ATTEMPT AT RACISM. RIDICULOUS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE FEAR IS THAT THE WORLD CANNOT REPRESS AFRICA OR IT BECOMES A RACIAL DILEMMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT THAT IS A PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION THAT CANNOT BE USED TO DETERMINE THE HEALTH OF PEOPLE WORLD WIDE. WE MUST BEGIN TO SEE PRIORITIES IN THE PROPER ORDER AND HEALTH HAS TO BE ABOVE PHILOSOPHY IN MAKING THESE DECISIONS. I DOUBT PRESIDENT OBAMA WOULD PUT RACIAL DIVISION ABOVE THE THREAT OF A EPIDEMIC DISEASE IN THE HEALTH OF HIS FAMILY.

THERE IS DEFINITELY A LOSS OF PERSPECTIVE IN THE HANDLING OF THE EBOLA CRISIS THIS YEAR. ALTHOUGH THE CDC HAS BEEN PRAISED FOR ITS ACTIONS IN TESTING AND EXAMINING THE DISEASE OF  AIRLINE PASSENGERS, THERE IS A NEED TO SHUT DOWN FLIGHTS TO AREAS BLIGHTED BY  EPIDEMIC DISEASE.

IF THE WISH IS TO HAVE A "GLOBAL COMMUNITY" , THERE IS A NEED FOR RATIONAL THINKING THAT WILL ALLOW THAT GLOBAL COMMUNITY TO PROTECT ITSELF FROM ITSELF.

WE SIMPLY CANNOT ALLOW POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS TO INFLUENCE OUR CONCERN AND CARING FOR "ALL PEOPLES" OF ANY RACE OR COLOR.  A REFLECTION OF RIGHT THAT THIS BLOGGER WOULD ORDINARILY CONSIDER UNNECESSARY TO POINT OUT BUT THIS SITUATION POINTS UP THE NEED.

"GLOBAL COMMUNITY", "ONE WORLDISM", "EVERYONE IS IN THIS TOGETHER" ATTITUDES ARE PHILOSOPHICALLY SPOUTED REGULARLY BUT LIKE MOST PHILOSOPHIES MANY OF THE DETAILS AND PROBLEMS EVOLVE RATHER THAN ARE INCLUDED IN THE IDEAS.

PHILOSOPHERS ARE NOT BIG ON "RAINING ON THEIR OWN PARADE" AND TEND TO PUSH ASIDE THE PROBLEMS THAT CAN OCCUR WITH THEIR LOFTY IDEAS. THE REST OF US PLEBIANS HAVE TO ADDRESS THE OUTCOMES OF THEIR PHILOSOPHY. AND MAKING THE GLOBE EVER CLOSER IN DISTANCE BY AIR AND SEA WILL PRESENT US WITH SOME "DOOZIES" AS IT HAS NOW..

WORLD HEALTH IS ONLY THE BEGINNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CHEERS, CONNIE



10/2/14

KEEPING AN ETHICAL-HONEST PRESS CORPS POST 222

Hi,

This blogger was more than pleased to see that Edward Wasserman of the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism had addressed publically the problem of Journalistic Ethics. It most certainly needs the attention continually.

Wasserman points out that the 1998 code most widely used and most influential  for U.S. Journalists, was updated just before Labor Day this year with the hope it would cover more of the recent problems presented both by TV and the computer.  He also pointed out that most of the other codes he had perused aren't much help. His summary concluded that journalists want to do the right thing and earn respect.

In this blogger's view, that means essentially:  THEY MEAN WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT PHRASE IN RECENT YEARS HAS EXCUSED SOME ROTTEN BEHAVIOR THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE OCCURRED IN MANY FIELDS INCLUDING JOURNALISM !!!!!!!!!
IT IS AKIN TO  BEING DAMNED BY FAINT PRAISE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PROBLEMS IN JOURNALISM. THE SO-CALLED 'YELLOW PRESS" THAT BEGAN IN THE EARLY 1900S AND CONTINUES TODAY IN SCANDAL SHEETS ROCKED THE PRESS IN EARLY DAYS. THEY HAD TO TIGHTEN THEIR ETHICAL STANDARDS TO FIGHT AGAINST IT THEN. NOW IT'S WHAT WASSERMAN CALLS "CLICK-BAIT" OR WEB ANALYTICS, THE EASY ROAD TO POPULARITY AND LITTLE NEWS VALUE FOR READERS OR LISTENERS. "HERDING" OR "KEEPING  IN THE CONVERSATION' AND "TRENDY" FORCES ABANDONMENT OF EDITORIAL JUDGEMENT AND MOVES FOR PROFIT MOTIVE. READERS DON'T ALWAYS KNOW WHAT THEY REALLY NEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOO BAD BUT TRUE.

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE ????????????? YOU'VE GOT YOUR OWN ETHICAL PROBLEMS.

THE MEDIA INFORMS YOU ABOUT EVERYTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS A NUMBER ONE SOURCE OF INFORMATION IN A COMPLEX AND EXPANDING WORLD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND MORE IMPORTANT IN YOUR LIFE THAN YOU EVER WANTED IT TO BECOME !!!!!!!!!!!!

BUT IT HAS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THIS BLOG IS PROOF OF THAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BLOGS HAPPEN BECAUSE WE NEED THE INFORMATION THAT IS NOT BEING PROVIDED IN AN UNDERSTANDABLE AND DIRECT WAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE BEING STARVED OUT OF THE NEWS WE NEED TO SURVIVE IN OUR MODERN WORLD SO LISTEN UP AND LEARN WHAT YOU NEED TO DEMAND OF YOUR PRESS, YOUR TV STATIONS AND YOUR COMPUTER YAKS.

WASSERMAN POINTS OUT THAT "DATA PILLAGE" IS ANOTHER JOURNALISM LOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  NEWS RELIES ON GETTING INFORMATION AND ETHICAL JOURNALISM RELIES ON  THE WAY IT IS GOTTEN, USED, AND THE PRIVACY GIVEN TO OTHERS. ALL OF THOSE MOVES REQUIRE ETHICAL CONSIDERATION OFTEN MISSING. WASSERMAN POINTS OUT THERE HAS TO BE RESPECT FOR SECRECY AND PART OF THAT HAS TO BE OFFICIAL SECRECY. HEREIN LIES THE RUB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHEN DOES OFFICIAL SECRECY BECOME CONTROL OF KNOWLEDGE  WITHHELD FROM THE PUBLIC OR IS SLANTED TO PRESENT A VIEW THAT IS UNREALISTICALLY ONE SIDED. THIS BLOGGER HAS CERTAINLY  COMMENTED OFTEN ON THE  PROBLEM WITH THE RECENT ADMINISTRATION'S CONTROL OF NEWS AND SLANTED BIASED REPORTING. THIS BLOG HAS ATTEMPTED TO PRESENT ANOTHER VIEW TO PROVIDE SOME REALITY. THERE CERTAINLY IS A NEED IN GOVERNMENT FOR SOME SECRECY BUT IT HAS TO BE RESTRICTED CLEARLY TO SECURITY ISSUES AND NOT GOVERNMENT POLITICS.

BUT WE MUST BE CAREFUL THAT AN OPEN SESAME POLICY DOES NOT EXTEND TO BECOMING ACTUAL "YELLOW JOURNALISM" WITH A REVEAL ALL POLICY THAT INVADES EVERYONE['S PRIVACY OR UNDERMINES OUR GOVERNMENT.  THE CAUTIONS CAN NOT ALLOW POLITICIANS TO HIDE THEIR PUBLISHABLE WRONG ACTIONS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  WASSERMAN POINTS OUT THAT "THE PRINCIPLES THAT MIGHT GUIDE JOURNALISTS IN DECIDING WHEN TO PUBLISH ARE MORE URGENTLY NEEDED THAN EVER" AND OBVIOUSLY THE ETHICAL PUBLIC HAS NOT FORCED THAT ISSUE WITH THE PRESS.

RESPECT FOR THE PRESS IS VERY IMPORTANT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE MUST BE ABLE TO TRUST THEM TO DO THE RIGHT THING AS OUR SOURCE OF INTELLIGENT INFORMATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, IT IS NOT AN EASY ROAD TO TRAVEL. THE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS ARE FRAUGHT WITH PERIL AND ALL BASED ON A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL'S BELIEFS AND INTERPRETATION. UNLESS THE RULES OF BEHAVIOR ARE CLEAR, IT IS A DAUNTING TASK.

THERE ARE ALSO THOSE LIFE THREATENING SITUATIONS IN JOURNALISM THAT RECENT MEDIEVAL KILLINGS HAVE HIGHLIGHTED. WHEN DO YOU DEEM IT BEST TO REMOVE YOURSELF FROM HARM'S WAY AND NOT GIVE THE ENEMY A PUBLICITY STUNT BY KILLING YOU ???????????????? NOT A LOVELY CHOICE.

CONSIDERING OUR DEPENDENCE ON THE MEDIA AND THE PROBLEMS THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH THAT DEPENDENCE, IT BEHOOVES (I LOVE THAT WORD) US TO TAKE MEASURES IN COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE NATION TO SET UP CONFERENCES WITH THE PRESS AND ASK FOR MORE REALISTIC GUIDELINES IN THE KINDS OF SITUATIONS JOURNALISTS FACE.

 NATIONALLY WE NEED TO TALK WITH THE SPI AND SEE IF MORE CREATIVE IDEAS CAN SURFACE TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR JOURNALISTS TO EARN RESPECT AND YET DO THEIR JOB EFFICIENTLY. JOURNALISM SCHOOLS MUST PREPARE THEIR STUDENTS WISELY AND TEACH THEM HOW TO WEIGH ETHICAL AND MORAL PROBLEMS EFFICIENTLY FOR ON THE SPOT DECISIONS.

RESPECT IS NEVER EASY TO EARN BUT IT IS WORTHWHILE!  IN THE LONG RUN THE PROFIT MOTIVE (ALWAYS A PART OF MODERN MEDIA)  IS ENHANCED AND BOOSTED BY THE RESPECT JOURNALISM EARNS. SURE, THE IMMEDIATE SENSATION MAKES A BUCK BUT THAT'S NOT A LONG RANGE PROFIT AND IT SEEMS THAT "LONG RANGE" HAS BEEN NEGLECTED IN THE LIGHT OF COMPETITIVE FORCES.

IF NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES AND THE LIKE ARE THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION, IT IS BECAUSE THEY TOOK THE WRONG DIRECTION. THEY SHOULD LEAVE THE IMMEDIATE TO THE QUICKIE SOURCES AND DEMAND THE LONG TERM WITH ETHICAL AND MORAL REPORTING THAT GIVES THE PUBLIC THE INFORMATION  THAT IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY REALIZE IT NEEDS AND REQUIRES.  THAT RESULTING RESPECT WOULD MAKE THOSE NEWSPAPERS FLY OFF THE NEWS STANDS AS IF BY MAGIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE LONG RUN..........A TERM LITTLE HEARD NOW AND LESS OFTEN UNDERSTOOD!!!!!!! PROFIT IS NOT THE ONLY THING THAT LIVES HERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  SO DO GOALS AND UNDERSTANDING !!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEEDS AND RESOURCEFULNESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RESPECT AND GROWTH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  IT IS HERE WHERE THE ETHICS AND MORALS GROW STRONG AND  LIVE WELL.

WAKE  UP THOSE VALUES AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GIVE JOURNALISTS A "RAISON D'ETRE"  AS THE FRENCH SAY.  "A REASON FOR BEING"--HONEST, ETHICAL AND MORAL AND A WAY TO ACCOMPLISH THE "UNACCOMPLISHABLE".

ISN'T THAT WHAT MADE AMERICA THE GREATEST, STRONGEST, AND MOST INNOVATIVE LAND IN THE PAST. LET'S GET IT THAT WAY AGAIN.

CHEERS, CONNIE