Domestic News

Hillary Clinton won West Virginia, six more primaries left before the convention.  I know that if she gets the nomination I will be a happy woman.  This is a step forward for the rights of women.  

But is it?  Does the first woman president want to get there because of being a past first lady?  Do we want the first female president to forge the way for female rights to be beholden to a husband because he was president first?

I don't know once again but as a voter I ask these questions.  It is sad that the first female presidential candidate was first lady.  It is as if she tasted power and is drunk on it.  

I am a Hillary supporter until the end of the primary season.  I will support Hillary if she has the nomination for president, but I wonder...

Credit Agricole-Fench bank Problems

I have never read in my life about bank asking share holders for money.  Well, I guess I did today on BBC.  France's largest bank is in trouble.  Credit Agricole has asked for 5.9bn euros from its shareholder to get it out of a financial crisis.

Will this happen here in the USA?

I am not sure about that, but... with everything going on today with mortgages that were not well written, share holders might have to shell out money or not receive huge dividends.  

I am not against share holder making money, so cutting back on dividends is a bad idea.  It is also bad business to ask share holders for money.  A share holder has already loaned a company money for the right to own a share.  But to ask for more you might as well be selling bonds not share.  

I could be wrong but I don't think so this time.  This French bank is in huge trouble; is this a sign of more trouble to come.

Mother's Day.

I did a lot yesterday, but not a lot of reading.  I did see a head line about 28,000 people that drowned trying to get supplies to Myanmar.  

That is an on going terrible event.  I hope the military government starts giving out the emergency supplies that they have confiscated.  

I had a good mother's day, I hope my readers did too. 

Hezbollah causes Unrest

What I just read is appalling, Hezbollah has taken West Beirut.  This thing that has engulfed the area is wrong.  And nothing will be done.  

This region has had hostilities for a long time.  It is mostly religious and tribal warfare, fighting over small tracks of land. Hezbollah is just a group wanting land.  

Land on this planet is not worth much and the idea that a man can own that land is ludicrous.  But that is what we do claim ownership, like lions fighting over tracks of hunting grounds.  We are supposed to be above animals like lions right?

A lot of fighting is over resources and land.   This planet is on a breaking point for population growth and I am afraid this fighting is only the beginning.

Hezbollah is wrong.  The fighting will happen.  I just wish people would be smarter and find a way to help one another, not kill each other over stupid pieces of dirt.

McCain the next American Tyrant

The political race once again gained my attention.  It is fun watching people nit pick the minutest detail.  But I digress.  

What did catch my attention was the fact that John McCain only made 400,000 dollars last year and his wife is worth 100,000,000 million.  Let's say that once again, John McCain only made 400,000 dollars, while his wife is worth over 100,000,000 million.  

Why does this read familiar?  Oh, I remember John Kerry had a similar situation.  But he was pounced on or being "elitist and out of touch" because he lived with an extremely wealthy woman.  Maybe John McCain has done the same thing?  Did McCain marry for money not love?  

And what happened to McCain's first wife.  The one who waited all those years for him to get out of the POW camp?  Well, we probably will not hear from her, since he dumped her.  The wife he married in 1965 and divorced in the mid 70's, yes, he takes responsibility for that divorce but he did not stay with a woman who had an accident of her own in 1969.  He could not deal with her and his own issues from being a POW.  

He seems to have recovered from being a POW since the divorce. He just uses being a POW for his own political advantage, to shut up his opponents.  He does not propose to improve veteran's  health care, nor propose an increase in mental health care for returning veteran's of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and these veteran's are committing suicide in the hundreds.  Again I digress.

His ambition set the former model, his first wife, aside.  IF the man is a "straight talker"  then he has to go over these poor character choices again and again to make the American public understand his ambition.  Maybe this is "old news".  But even I get sick to my stomach when I read his biography.  This hero treats people like they are to be road over by a street bike then plowed into by a monster.  

If you think Bush is a tyrant, imagine what McCain would be?

A Probe

Benazir Bhutto was murdered a couple of months ago.  Now some in the Pakistan government have asked the United Nations  to have a probe into her death! 

Well, it is about time!  I have been waiting to read what was going on with finding out who did the murder.  We know the why, she was too popular and talking against the current Pakistani Government.

The courage this woman had shown has not been rewarded.  She did not to be murdered.  It is about time the international community looks into what is really going on in Pakistan. 

 I don't think the international community will like what it finds out.

Iraq

Scribbling.  The act of placing random lines on a piece of paper.  Well, today I am feeling a bit random. 

The War in Iraq has been on my radar lately.  It is domestic policy.  I know.  And the "Fatigue" is only felt by the media not the American Public.  

But what about the celebrity "Fatigue" that is actually going on, in my opinion.  I am fatigued about the news of weddings, break ups, and other antics by individuals that I will never really want in my life.  

These stories are treated as if they are important.  The celebrity stories push the real news off of the front page.  Maybe it does sell papers, but I have not bought a paper in years and I scroll past them to get to the real news.

Today I am just interested in what is happening in Iraq.  The troops are not being sent home and they are sitting on a powder keg of hate.  Then those troops have to deal with the "contractors" who are profiting from the war continuing.  I want this war to end, but others who are making a good living from being a "contractor" are making it difficult for the troops to come home.  The Iraqi people only hate Americans because of the 160,000 contractors.  

But what do I know, I'm not over there, but I do know that if I was making money from the war;  I  would not want to see it end.