excuses

I sometimes wonder how much of an excuse we as humans use the terms of “If I could have done it over,” “I wish I hadn’t said it that way”, “it’s the way it has always been”, and “the facts prove nothing”, I couldn’t say anything then because it wasn’t a good time”:, to justify an action we deliberately intended to create. How stupid do we find those around us, when we try our hardest to manipulate their thinking, arouse their suspicion, and cater to their dark side of intolerance and hate to offer a sickly and inadequate excuse. And ONLY when we are caught, and asked to account for our actions do we actually try to weasel our way out by using patronizing and meaningless gestures to diminish the gravity of our negative behavior.

“If I could have done it over.” It is the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina which devistated the city of New Orleans, leaving many of its citizens dead, distraught and still destitute. “You’re doing a heck of a job, Brownie,” Michael Brown is now speaking to the press and lamenting the low lights of the heck of a job he and the Bush administration did not do. If only the administration had been honest, if only the administration had cared more about the people of New Orleans than the reputation of the Bush/Cheney dictators, if only I had the courage to have said then what I am marketing now…

Five years after Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans, the federal official at the heart of a firestorm over Washington's slow response is acknowledging the government’s shortcomings.

Former Federal Emergency Management Agency director Mike Brown told Matt Lauer on TODAY “there was a disconnect” between what the Bush administration was saying about the situation and how bad things actually were. Today Reporters

“Spin. I think political and government leaders need to know that the American public wants accurate information,” said Brown, speaking from New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. “I think it’s a huge failure of government to fail to trust the American people with the actual facts of what’s going on.”—Today Show Reporters.

“I wish I hadn’t said it that way”. How often do we play the passive aggressive game in our communications? We want to call people names but as cowards can’t directly own up to our own hate, and shout epitaphs and insults, and asked to account for our actions deny that what we said is what we meant. We are bullies when we confront others but when asked to stand behind our words and deeds, we cower in the corner and cry, I was misconstrued, misquoted, misunderstood.

In the year 2010 especially from the Tea Bag Candidates and their promoters, like Glenn Beck, words of hate, innuendo, bigotry and bias have spewed from their mouths like the breach in the dykes holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans during Katrina. Thinking, as many a Tea Bagger does that we are still living in the Colonial period, the Tea Baggers recite negative, inaccurate, hate mongering speeches and forget that someone will tape them on audio and video. Many of these purveyors of evil want to get the message out to the public, but then hate being blamed for the venom and vile they transmit. Please the lemmings they suppose but avoid anyone with at least a high school education who may question your intention and fact.

The self proclaimed prophet of God, Glenn Beck (and God only knows what kind of God would make this man a prophet), has managed to harness the power of hate into a phenomenal estate of fame, glory and money for himself. He carefully speaks to the waiting peasants who want to be saved and when confronted with the facts, he turns weepy and wild eyed and says he was taken out of context by the progressive communistic, socialist Satan loving Democrats.

Mr. Beck has revolutionized and galvanized the Aryan nation, White Supremacists and the KKK, by stating the first black man to become President is a racist.

Beck is known for his strong opinions, including his statement that President Barack Obama is a racist; he later told CBS' Katie Couric that he was "sorry the way it was phrased."-- CBS News

“It’s the way it has always been.” It does not matter how the law is read, because the law is something they make up in that evil city called Washington DC. Those beltway bastards don’t know shit or shine-ola about the real lives of real Americans. The Constitution is not greater than the Bible and it states very clearly in some Bibles, translated by some Bible thumping bastions of religion that thou shall hate in the name of the Lord. We have always been a people of “we” vs. “they” and by God its just like creation… God made it that way and no questions will be asked.

Seems in 2010 the people in Nettleton Mississippi don’t care much for the laws of this nation. For them separate but equal is a mantra passed down from generation to generation. Hate must heal the soul.

Nettleton Middle School in Nettleton, Miss., has segregated its elected class positions by race, according to a memo sent home with children at the school last week that was obtained by NBC News.

If you’re black and a student at one public middle school in Mississippi, you can’t run for president – only whites need apply.

The memo indicates that only white students can be president of the school’s eighth grade, while only black students can be vice president.

In seventh grade, whites are the only ones who can be both president and vice president, while the only position a black student at Nettleton can apply for in sixth grade is that of the class reporter.

"The talk around the town is that this is the way it is, that's just the way it is and nobody knows any better, nobody wants any better and that's why nobody's challenged it," Springer said.--MSNBC

“The facts prove nothing”.

The Decoster conglomerate of egg farms and egg producers has had a very tainted safety tract record during its many years of operation. The Government, assuming that financial fees would correct all illegal and ill conceived actions by the Decoster group, has yet to shut down these hazardous locations or arrest the management for continuing to avoid doing the right thing. As is fitting for this Republican led deregulation of corporations, the culprits risk other people’s life, limb and health concerns to maintain a very profitable bottom line for themselves. We must worry about the ultra rich and at no time concern ourselves with the middle to lower class citizens say the party of “no’ Republicans and they remain idle in any kind of protections for the public.

With the latest recall and salmonella scare and the lack of hiding it under the radar, the Government has, once again had to call out the Decoster group and once again try and make them comply with some set of standards and rules. Once again, the attorneys for the Decoster group are pointing fingers away from their clients, and telling us the facts are fact less. Somehow it is the fault of the stupid people who ate the eggs in the first place.

The feed mill where the salmonella was found operates as part of the Wright County Egg facility and also provides feed to Hillandale Farms. Officials said they are not yet sure whether the feed came to the farm contaminated or was contaminated at the farms. They said there is no evidence at this time that the feed went to any other farms.

Wright County Egg's statement also asserted that a positive environmental test does not mean eggs from that barn would have salmonella. Mitchell said the company had tested some eggs from one of the barns where salmonella was found since July, and those eggs did not test positive for salmonella. The company began testing under new rules put in place for the egg industry this summer to reduce occurrences of the disease.

DeCoster, who has paid millions of dollars in fines over the last 20 years for health, safety, immigration and environmental violations, has not responded to interview requests.

“I couldn’t say anything then, because it wasn’t a good time” Former RNC Head and confidant to George W. finally came out of the closet and wants to embrace the demographic he helped to disgrace while one of the grand poo-bahs of the GOP. It is hard to say out loud, for many, that I am Gay, and everyone deserves his/her timing to do so. So to Mr. Mehlman congratulations for finally freeing yourself from the shackles you helped keep on your soul with the bias and bigotry of ignorant Americans. But Mr. Mehlman the destruction and lies you helped promote toward the LGBT community while you were in your closet has lasting effects and had lingering affects to a population during your reign of terror that can’t be changed. Your work for the devil, like Karl Rove changed the landscape of this nation, and you knew as you have stated in your own words all about the intentional devastation and havoc being created. So are we to suppose that as a “straight” man you had no concern or conscience except for your own selfish needs. And now as a Gay man you found a heart?

Mehlman's leadership positions in the GOP came at a time when the party was stepping up its anti-gay activities -- such as the distribution in West Virginia in 2006 of literature linking homosexuality to atheism, or the less-than-subtle, coded language in the party's platform ("Attempts to redefine marriage in a single state or city could have serious consequences throughout the country..."). Mehlman said at the time that he could not, as an individual Republican, go against the party consensus. He was aware that Karl Rove, President Bush's chief strategic adviser, had been working with Republicans to make sure that anti-gay initiatives and referenda would appear on November ballots in 2004 and 2006 to help Republicans.

Mehlman acknowledges that if he had publicly declared his sexuality sooner, he might have played a role in keeping the party from pushing an anti-gay agenda.

"It's a legitimate question and one I understand," Mehlman said. "I can't change the fact that I wasn't in this place personally when I was in politics, and I genuinely regret that. It was very hard, personally." He asks of those who doubt his sincerity: "If they can't offer support, at least offer understanding."—Atlantic Wire.

Excuses, excuses, excuses…do the damage, kill the innocent, smother the truth then one day wake up and worry you actually may be held accountable for your actions and make an excuse. The sad thing about all of this is the fact that more than one person ends up being the victim to liars, purveyors of hate, and delusional power seeking inferior individuals. The sadder thing, it seems in the America of 2010, is that we never learn any lesson from the past and let the lunatics run the asylum, over and over again. No excuse for that.