Palin, The Election and Justice

It's time for another rant. I don't trust anybody on either side of the aisle on Capitol Hill, however the Republican choice for this years presidential contest is just crazy to me. In her acceptance speech at the RNC, Sarah Palin says she has her share of troubles like everybody else. This may be true, but "everybody else" isn't trying to convince the American public that they are the best VP choice going.



I have never been accepting of the Hollywood stars that don't need a husband to have a baby. This is wrong. I understand that accidents happen, but in this day and age, the number should be very small. The idea we are sending a just-approaching-middle-age grandmother of an illigitimate kid to Washington just shuts me down. She wants the world to know that she is ready to look after our country when she can't even look after her kids properly. I'm sorry, but a mother in her situation put in place as the VP just sends the wrong message to the American public. Palin can't wait to tie Obama to this radical or that "terrorist" or whoever, but while she may not be a member of the Alaskan party her husband belonged to, sleeping with the enemy just doesn't send good messages either.



Enough on Palin



The bailout package that just recently passed is a big sore spot for me. I saw on the internet the other day, a picture of a man carrying a sign that read "pennies for the people, billions for the banks". I feel this is more truth then anybody on Capitol Hill will admit to. As for what caused the problems, this is where it really gets silly to me. Everytime something goes wrong the Republicans can find a way to blame Clinton. Somehow they look and don't see the deregulation that Regan started in 1980. Regan, GHW Bush, and their allies made life misserable for people like me. Every time a Republican cries tax cut, I'm spending more out of my pocket. It cost me $200 to put my kid in one semester of marching band in the 9th grade. I work with a woman who's teenage girl is a cheerleader. For her, that little treat cost her $600. I had $400 in savings 2 weeks ago. Its gone just paying the dentist and my kids tutor. Who do I turn to when my bills outlast the money that comes in for the month.



The Repbulican crowd in this country talks about how Gorlick and her Democrat friends ran Fanny or Freddy and caused all this. BULLSHIT. It wasn't the Democrats who said give out liar's loans. It wasn't the democrats that made mortgage money available to instutions that had no expertise in mortgage lending. The idea that you have a segment of society earning 8 to 9 figures a year from this mess and another (far far larger) segment struggling with the day to day expences of living is just criminal.

While Al Gore is a favorite to be made fun of, I believe he is correct about his call for civil disobedience. I'm not running out and starting a riot, but lets look at where we are today in this country as far as justice is concerned. Nifong got off with only a token day in jail for all the trouble he caused. We have the Durham PD rivialed by the Hillsborough County Sheriff''s Office (Baby Sabrina Aisenberg) for being able to manufacture evidence quickly. How many Crystal Mangums do we have to watch lie and profit before we start calling for justice. How many innocent men and women have to go to jail and be proven innocent 3,5,maybe even 20 years after the fact before we start investigating DA's. My brother is a lawyer. He is the first one to giggle when I talk about the DA's duty to the truth and not convictions. It was a nice dog and pony show to put Bernie Ebbers in jail and give him people to talk to like Kozlowski of TYCO or Skilling of ENRON. I believe there should have been more. Will there be an investigation into the WaMu's and other instutions that failed followed by prison for the people who ran our financial sector into the ground. I hope so but it will be at best, another dog and pony show.

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