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"I Heard The News Today, O Boy"

Posted by Jay R on Tuesday, January 05, 2010 8:21:50 PM
I heard the explanatory speech today on my satellite radio as I drove to a neighborhood destination. It was not a mea culpa dissertation featuring self responsibility. So I wanted to devise some light humor however this one is slightly interesting and thought provoking when you dice it up. It is an old World War ll story that has not been repeated too many times father to son as in my case. Here goes:
 
A Navy contingent in full dress were ordered to line up  100 strong for inspection on the deck in 15 minutes, shoes spit shined. After taking their position in line up, the inspecting officer proceeded to one end and looked right down the formation. Immediately, the officer noticed that one solitary Navy man toward the middle of the line up was 3 inches forward, his name was Joe.  The officer stormed over to Joe and confronted him harshly, after all this was the military. The officer yelled  at Joe and asked him why he was out of line. Joe replied instantly, "I am not out of line, Sir, everybody else is".
 
THIS STORY ACTUALLY HAS A NAME---- "EVERYBODY ELSE IS OUT OF LINE BUT JOE"
 
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RIP Gilda Radner

Posted by Jay R on Sunday, January 03, 2010 1:49:29 AM
From Day1 of the primaries for Election 2008, I was right here blogging under my previous title Musicman. Obama's stump speeches and during the race, the events, misspeaks and promises remind me in 2010 of a bit Gilda Radner the adored Prime Time Player for SNL used to do called Rosanne Rosannadanna. Gilda Radner was one of the best physical and impromptu comedians we have ever seen and to our great lament no longer here to make us laugh on television. As far as tying this to the political travails of Mr. Obama who just presented us with another one to consider, I remember Gilda saying every week "A Mr. Feder Just wrote me from Fort Lee, New Jersey. Gilda at the conclusion of her bit would look into camera 1 and say the words which cause me to think of what our country has been through from Day 1 as referenced above , Gilda said "If it isn't one thing it's another".
 
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Wall Off The Public Option If We Have To

Posted by Jay R on Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:59:33 AM
I heard the features of the proposed bill today and sad to say it was more of the same. Incidentally, Senator Boxer may have confused Viagra which makes couples happy with Prozac which sometimes can be a downer. There is nothing joyous about the Democratic Party continuously trying to side step us into the public option and then Socialized medicine. Nobody can fool the American people. There
are  80% and climbing that say no nothing, we will fix it. Obviously with our President pushing and a Democratic Congress this is unrealistic however savored that it is. We can "wall off" a public option by not hitting the private insurers over the head to cause them to leave town like lonesome cowboys.Then do an up to the minute review of who exactly qualifies for public insurance. I have yet to hear two politicians offer the same accounting.The gargantuan number and majority of Americans will be life as usual. The public plan would be walled off to the uninsured. Requirements for getting into the public plan would be a documented process as is SSI or disability is. but evaluated to the letter. Companies would have to permanently close in order for any employees to be shifted from private to public.The underlying mission of the proponents is to create a mad flight to so-called safety and into the public arena. By allowing credible individuals to get in who are properly checked and screened, we avoid the vast number of satisfied insured from seeing our system colllapse and evolve into this single payer with unknown repercussions. I volunteer to pay for this with higher taxes and so will every other American that has actually worked to earn sound medical care. We must not be misled by any bill that starts out nice and ends up with all of us in a catastrophic meltdown that will disable our fine medical system as we know it. A plan as I have outlined above will paint the Democrats into a corner because it will completely insure the uninsured which they seem to highlight every time we hear from them. What they really want is to dismantle the entire system by causing the private insurers to give up and create the shifting that greedy employers would want. The suggestion above gives them what they plead for and disables the overall mission because the Left cannot really admit then that they wanted  more territory. Reasearch and developemnt and maybe cures will blossom.
 
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Memory Lane, I used To Get Jobs All By Myself

Posted by Jay R on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 3:36:43 AM
My first big job came about when a Madison Avenue employment agency in 1973 heard me doing my radio spot in New York entitled The Wandering Correspondent Man About Town. I was featured on two small stations and I would run around New York reviewing restaurants, movies and creating music reviews. The employment agent contacted me and told me about the big money I could make in Sales. He arranged a sales position for me with Smith Corona. I underwent massive sales training and called on clients and learned. We must stop here and mention that my family are all full blooded Hungarians threaded back to the original Magyar nomadic tribe and boy did they have the wanderlust. From 1974 straight until 1979 I would work for several business machines companies and even became a sales manger for a time. The end, in 1979 was the first time as a high powered, trained, direct salesman I was out of a job and had trouble finding one. I believe the economy was in flux but I was trained never to blame the economy for your failures ie. sales, job interviews, debt. So one day I put on my best suit and cologned up and went to the corner of 57Street and Third Avenue and pointed my self and my briefcase full of resumes downtown toward the Empire State Building on 34Street. I went to every building and believe me there was some kind of climate warming then because it was 90 degrees in New York as usual in the summer. We had no War on Terror then, you just walked into smiles in every office. It took me until I got to the Empire State where I got a lead and landed a job with the illustrious Burns International Security Services as Sales Representative. The money I made working for this name company was more than I ever saw. Mr. Obama is spoon feeding people who do not want to leave their TVs and stay on unenjoyment, or give up which in life you should never do, or blame Mr. Obama,or say there are no jobs. If you maintain your standards and blame everybody else and the downturn, you are right, you will never get a job. Believe me there are plenty of jobs out there but you will not find them in your house. I suggest that Obama throwing money at companies will not be the answer. The American spirit and your own initiative will find you a job and maybe you will have to advance to make your money. My mother came to this country with $80 and a bag of grapefruits. Today there is an Olympic size swimming pool and a health club in her condominium. She worked in America as a French teacher and a court interpreter and married a Park Avenue Attorney. You should have seen the "economy" she had in war torn Europe.     Jay R 
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Senator Reid's Slavery Statement Was Tricky

Posted by Jay R on Tuesday, December 08, 2009 3:26:13 AM
What I will tell you in a bar or in a back room about what I think Senator meant by saying that if the Republican Party objected to Health Care with a public option, it mirrored those against the abolition of slavery is more shock value than what I am going to say to you here and in public. (I just gave an overview of his statement, I was not supplied with his speech verbatim). Reid was ambiguous enough to prevent anybody from correctly concluding his exact intent and meaning. So while I have given his text as an overview, Reid nevertheless and beyond any misunderstanding used slavery as a wedge, an arm twister and  most implicating to him, as an actionable word. He did use the word slavery as the nexus of his argument.Do you remember that teary eyed talk by Nancy Pelosi just at the time when everyone and his uncle was talking racism? In hindsight I think she detoured us in a similar fashion. She said we have to curtail our racist tendencies because she had seen riots and they were on the way if racism continued. I thought she was talking about the race riots beginning in 1964 and especially because at the time our family apartment was 1 mile north of Harlem. Turns out she elusively and deftly framed her talk about the gay murders in San Francisco a long time ago. I not only never realized this artful twist but being from the tri-state area  3,000 miles away, Nancy Pelosi shrewdly detoured me into thinking of racism possibly causing the riots of my lifetime ie. Watts, Harlem et al. All of us have come light years from those awful times and we all know that that kind of thing will never happen again. I think any American listening to her would make the same conclusion,a guy in Arkansas who had never lived in San Franciso would be just as misled as well. Please remember that it it depends what the definition of is is. Another is I voted for the 84million but I did not vote for it. If we get to the public option you will be handled in the same way. He had a heart attack or maybe indigestion. I am retiring tomorrow.   Jay R
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What Was Chris Mathews Thinking Tonight?

Posted by Jay R on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 3:20:49 AM
December 2, 2008
I saw a clip tonight that I may have misinterpreted. Summarizing the Afghan speech tonight, did I hear hear Chris Mathews refer to the West Point future soldiers as the enemy? Was this his way of upping his fragile standing among his Left Wing viewers with psychotic shock value statements. Can some corporation or super wealthy magnate entice Mathews into moving to Havana with the promise of an oceanfront palatial mansion and a harem and a million dollars a year in stipend. It would be well worth it even to take up a collection all over America to convince him to move. What has Chris Mathews done to the hearts and minds of the parents who will lose their kids fighting for their country and soon. He should least apologize to our citizens but I do not know what his operative reason would be.
 
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Are You As Successful As Sarah Palin?

Posted by Jay R on Saturday, November 28, 2009 1:46:45 AM
Sarah Palin has been making the rounds of the MSM and Fox News I guess to promote her book but also to trot out all the studying and make over work she has done since the Election. The Left was always and currently terrified of her chances to become the first female to be President of the United States and they have been hitting her with shots since then. Fox did a relentless tear down of Obama based on his questionable associations and I think that actually helped him. The countless jokes and tirades and stand up comedy that goes to demean Sarah Palin has helped her in the same respect. Detractors that include Letterman and Maher and the comedy store set and the ladies that would need a total makeover to look as fresh and alive and fit as Ms. Palin after so many kids all boil down to this. It's the pot calling the kettle black. Sarah Palin has already made much more money then all of these individuals combined in their lifetime. She has the propensity of a net worth ten years from now that will be greater than at least one of the networks that uphold this childish dart throwing. Unless you have run on a national ticket, written a massive best seller, brought out thousands of people where ever you go, are the talk of every town in America, realistically you should try some Don Rickles material somewhere else where it counts. I hear the parrots saying that Sarah Palin is dumb and they continuously refer to her getting Russia in her sites. I will tell you that she is dumb as a fox. I will trade everything I have sight unseen for 10% of what she has in the bank and if I could have her potential for whatever she decides I would settle for zero and take that. I believe that the Left is realizing that they are in flux now and the country is dialing the mindset right. We could see a Huckabee or Pawlenty and Palin as VP ticket, you never know. Let's face facts, Sarah Palin is getting wealthier, responses showing political acuity and  and people are impressed and listening. You have to be nice to the people you meet on  the way up because you are going to meet the same people on the way down. Jay R
 
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Somewhat Presumptuous

Posted by Jay R on Monday, November 02, 2009 9:15:50 PM
President Obama has made a couple of campaign trips down to New Jersey to help fellow Democrat John Corzine achieve reelection. Obama said something on the stump that I am a little confused about, especially in light of the abysmal economic hole we are mired in as Americans. Obama said that he needed Corzine to win so that he with his record could help Obama continue his agenda. How does Obama know that New Jersey voters want either politician to continue the current agenda. Something does not make sense to me.
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Leave Unto Caesar What Is Caesar's

Posted by Jay R on Sunday, October 11, 2009 6:52:37 PM
Whenever the Obama administration comes to a decision and either goes their own way or listens to the Generals informed decision, I have led my entire life based on the hackneyed and shop worn aphorism subjected above. It is a big part of my present and continuing success.
 
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Here We Go Again

Posted by Jay R on Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:00:00 AM
As many of you know, I covered Election 2008 from the first day of the primaries. I still do not understand that if any one of us were to sit down at a computer and hit Excel and chart the gaffes, the associations, the insults, the impossible to understand speak from the podium, we would be out of graph lines. Do you realize that this continued on almost a daily basis until today? How could all these implications and events add up like this? It is global and domestic in scope. I am from a mixed neighborhood, all races and ethnic groups slammed together on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the 1950's. I did not have a TV so we would spend our summer nights standing with a bag of cold cherries in front of the Radio Clinic on 98th street and Broadway so we could watch Lucy and Ernie Kovacs through the huge picture window showing 50 TVs on the same channel. Black, White and Puerto Rican in front of that store, never a problem. To this day I have never had a problem that can be threaded to race. So I have to listen to these ultra rich politicians and entertainers decide what is good for the Black community has they play the R word all day. I think Black people can speak for themselves, many of them as professionals have succeeded in this economy much better than I have. The conundrum for me, a Republican who absolutely disagrees with the administration's domestic and foreign policies, is that as opinion polls confirm, I like Mr. Obama as a human being and I think he is a brilliant Harvard lawyer and as shown recently in the Congressman Wilson matter a class act in settling disputes amicably and without repercussions. After that point of view I dispute everything else his administration has put on the table. So in summary, Mr. Obama and his family and friends are welcome at my house or a neutral location anytime and I will welcome them. My feelings about him personally have nothing whatsoever to do with my belief that this country is headed in the wrong direction and now there is a real big controversy ready to blow, I think there is gonna be trouble in them thar hills. Maybe he is being advised by too many  individuals in view of the fact that he came in with no CEO experience, something everybody was well aware of.
 
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Going Against The Tide Obama Keeps On Going

Posted by Jay R on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:15:24 PM
June 24, 2009
 
Barack Obama may succeed in getting some form of Government Health Plan out there but poll after poll indicates that whatever evolves will not be all encompassing. Most Americans are very nervous about the costs we will incur and the level of care that we can anticipate as already noted in Canada and England. I see a President who is not listening to the American people on Health Care We seem to be floating away from any desire to even initiate it and if not have substantial fears about the properties of the bill and how it might play out. It may start as a minor protagonist in a gargantuan final act. That is when the delayed PSA tests and following of women breast cancer victims becoming played out will begin. The widespread lessening of quality care will begin should the plan rope in at some point more and more Americans from plans that they will be forced to shift from. If Barack Obama continues in his quest  to institute this unworkable plan which is essentially fueled by ideology as opposed to clear fiscal resolve I would say that we as Americans should proofread the language of this bill word by word and communicate with your representatives immediately should you become aware of any implicating provisos as far as your personal situation is concerned. I worked in local government for almost 17 years and the health plan I took with me is massively more protective than any federal government could ever possibly be. Obama keeps telling us that we can keep our plans and our doctors. I would like to see stronger assurances in the ultimate bill such as guaranteeing absent listed complications that I can continue on my plan for life as it is currently guaranteed and that I have the right to refuse any offer to move to a Federal plan excepted by for example the insolvency of my provider simply by signing it off on a offering sheet. Telling us that we can keep our plans and doctors has to be expanded and explained in order to be more specific as to telling us under what possible scenarios we could be shuttled over to the Federal plan. At that point we can have a better understanding of what we are getting into and enable us to speak more intelligently and pointedly with our representatives.
 
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It Looks Like We are All Going To The McDonald's Plan

Posted by Jay R on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:04:07 PM
June 23, 2009
 
From the inception, Barack Obama has never shut the door on a man like me losing his government plan by some happenstance to what I call the government or McDonald's Plan. Right now there are individuals like myself who spent years as public and civil servants working for less while protecting our communities. I was involved among other things in shellfish management and water quality issues. Maybe I will be able as a retiree to keep my plan for my wife for awhile as other individuals go on the government deal. My Governor, who has enormous fiscal problems could then turn to Obama and shift our comprehensive and medically safe plan, giving us over to the Federal plan and soon after all Americans will begin to have the serious health issues that Canada and the UK currently have. There are 50 million Americans who at some time see psychiatrists, what happens to them under a Federal Plan? The needier will be shuttled around both with their medication and physicians. This is a big vital market that you want to move forward not fool around with their treatment.
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The Mack Is Back McCain Advising All Over Networks

Posted by Jay R on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 3:31:14 AM
June 23, 2009
My recent comments have all professed the suggestion that it is too early subsequent to Obama's economic policies being implemented to start jumping all over him. In general, I do not think it is going to help us become victorious in 2010 if Conservative media bangs on him every day and continuously as if we were hitting him with a Hindu chant. We should all be a bit more discriminating in what we say about him and when we say it. He has some good days too. The reason I say this seemingly awful stuff is that sure, Obama's numbers are dropping but if you analyze the new electorate on a pie chart, the Republicans cannot win in future elections without the support of moderates, independents, and a fast growing group, Hispanics. The latter is a voting block that judging from what happened with George Bush, we can capture as our voters. All of the individuals in this group of three have a common view of politicians and moderators spewing venom at a fast clip, they do not like it and keep characterizing it as "politics as usual" It's a turn off we cannot afford to have happening. Anyway, things in general are horrible now both domestically and globally while I get to hear a Jan Murray wannabee the other night as a frigate knifed through the Pacific carrying the hint of harmful freight dedicated to the destruction of our beloved citizens. So most of America is already pretty angry and impatient now, I would temper down the strategy we used in 2008 and be more strategic, shoot where the ducks are and remember something chilling for our party. Obama is still a very brilliant and educated politician, you do not want to completely disavow him in June when by the Fall things go his way and all our cares and woes could conceivably improve. I compare it to having a prodigal son in your house who never contributes anything of value. You yell at him to get off his duff and get a job and 8 months later he joins the Trump Organization. Old saying: "Don't Yell Unless You Have To".
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Tags: obama   economy  
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I Will Go On The Record As Saying Sotomayor Will Fly In

Posted by Jay R on Friday, May 29, 2009 11:11:56 PM
You just have to use a little old fashioned logic. Whatever Judge Sotomayor said once and believe me, I thought it was very much over the top, in the political climate of 2009, it is not nearly enough to deny her the seat. This is a different world. Look at Hillary Clinton and the gaffes and mistatements she made during Election 2008. The repercussions of that is that she is now calling our foreign policy. President Gerald Ford forgot who the Communists were once and lost the election. A pretty girl sat in Gary Hart's lap once, I think he was correct, and because someone snapped a Polaroid so he was turned back from a Presidential race. If we applied the Ford or Hart doctrine today, I do not think Obama and certainly not Biden would be in there. It's sheer syllogism. The Democrats are in charge, Ms. Sotomayor is a Latina, difficult to throw barbs at anyway but certainly impossible when the Hispanic vote and coming of age to do so is growing exponentially and both parties want it. Additionally, I think Rush should tone it down a little bit. We are not going to win elections making those the type of statements where he incredibly compared this jurist to a segregationist hate monger. I am a life long Republican but I want to win back the Congress in 2010 by furthering rhetoric that while showing dominance over the opposition is not smothered in nonsensical grasping at straws insults.
 
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I NOW MODIFY A TIME HONORED QUESTION

Posted by Jay R on Monday, May 25, 2009 11:30:08 AM
May 12, 2009
 
Is your level of fear and anxiety referring to global events and considerations and domestic outlook for the American economy higher or lower now than during the last administration?
 
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