Obama, Congress, Finish Strong

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As a political consultant it always amazes me how focused my clients become when they are in real political trouble. So congratulations to President Obama for pulling a couple of rabbits out of a couple hats and getting the Senate to ratify the New START Treaty with the Russians and to repeal the military’s odious “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy against gay soldiers and sailors. The folks on Fox News were hopping mad at the Senate and that’s good enough for me.

As the faithful readers of the TJS blog know, I was angry at the president for caving into congressional Republicans and agreeing to extend the Bush tax bonanza for bankers and billionaires. But the president demonstrated leadership and a deft touch in the last week of the lame duck session.

And as a college professor, it is always striking how much of their course work my students do in the last week of the semester. So I want to congratulate Congress for getting off its butt and finally doing the right thing for the people who worked on the 9/11 cleanup.

It was good to watch Congress address the tough deadlines that it faced this week but members of Congress need to demonstrate the same urgency when it comes to addressing other pressing national problems. The official unemployment rate is still near 10 percent. But Washington seems content to hope the economy gets better instead of taking any concrete steps to improve what is still a dire situation for millions of American families. And I don’t think giving Donald Trump another tax cut will do the trick.

And finally there are two other issues that will not go away even though Congress appears indifferent to them. Congress failed to pass the DREAM Act which would have rewarded young immigrants with American citizenship for their service to their adopted country. And the Senate failed to pass any legislation that would address the health problems created by greenhouse gases. [See a roundup of editorial cartoons about immigration.]

But Christmas is the season to be thankful so I am content to congratulate Congress for what it has done and wait until January 1 to push Capitol Hill to do what it needs to do.

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MUTINOUS -- BARKING AT THE MOON

Thank goodness for the poster called Edward. This person

recognized the twin sides of hundreds of canine owners, in trying to

conceal individual anxiety, while suffering from paranoid

inclinations, that harbor split personalities, bordering upon

self-induced masochism of repressive Oedipus encircling infantile thought.Dr. Sigmund Freud surmised these types of personalities as

suffering with the ( Personality Suppression Complex Syndrome ). This

clever master of unraveling disassociated minds, and their subconscious

willingness to conceal pent up erotic inhibitions, that exceptional racket was the driving force

behind a more arising psychiatric classification, as the ( Personality

Suppression Gravitational Complex Syndrome).

Mr.Edwards was on to something in discerning that possibly a

variation of specific personality traits. Masochism has become a religion

with hundreds of canine lovers across America. The late Emily

Zola, one of France's eighteen hundreds authoritative writers on canines, used

Freudian concepts in declaring that too much mutt consoling would

possibility lead into a mental disorder termed ( Ineluctable Determinism

). This is an individual pre-neurological mental disorder, that requires

self-torture through elevated masochism, or a perpetual monologue [ deified ego ], in

enjoying the comfort of barking dogs. Here we have psychotic manifestationsof an inhibited class, in attempting to impose, transpose , disturbed personality traits into mutts. that cannotcomprehend that their so-called [ master [ might be a raving lunatic in need of mental hygiene

Hogorina of GA 10:11AM March 26, 2012

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hogorina

TRAMPS AND MUMMIES A SUPERB DISH

THANK GOODNESS SOMETHING APPEARS ON NATIONAL NEWS IN TAKING A LITERAL TWIST OVER THE LOVE-A-DOG MANIA THAT HAS BEEN LEGALLY RAPING SORDID INTELLECTS, IN EXPANDING COLLECTED PASSIONS OVER MUTTS LOCKED INTO THE ANIMAL KING0M. GREAT FOR A BREATHING SPELL FROM THE NEUROTICS THAT MUST LUST UPON BARKING DOGS, AND THE MASSIVE MASOCHISTIC PATHOLOLGY OF TWISTED MINDS BEING GLUTTENIZED UNDER THE SPELL OF VETNARIAN VOODOISM.

The late Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the Supreme Court surmised: ” Tourists are nothing more, nor less, than universal tramps “. Pharoah Hubarak has decided to send all tramps back to their original watering holes and to leave the state’s mummies and canines at rest. All in all, the world’s free lance roaming tourist and their pets, are loosing their wits over some slave driver of whom lashed a government’s collective herds into the hands of professional task masters four thousands years past. Huraka is no different.

So these road hustling tramps are fast learning that Moses welcomed Jacob and his twelve sons into Egypt four thousands years past as tourist, but was mystified to learn that Israel was far from the world’s roving tramps. This people had found a home. Robbed and plundered for four hundred years, a peculiar people pulled up roots and fled. IN contemporary Cairo bums and Tramps should take a hint and catch the first passage back to their earlier roosting grounds, in dragging their mutts with them without disturbing the mummies at rest.

No doubt bout it, we have a man-made triangle here consisting of tramps, State Department run-a-rounds, and mummified stragglers, howling over a long departed humanoid. Quite an equation, this paraox. God classed his enemies as dogs. Mohammed some what a little less. The Pauline doctrine supported this option in both assessments, but least of all, a common cow was at one time a representation as a ( god ) of ancient Egypt. Yes, dogs in America, cows in Egypt, and tramps caught in the middle of a vast religious revolution, fronting for millions of unemployed, which are hoping to milk the system in throwing Price Buraka to the universal wolves of international financial engineers, The Calif system has a dwelling for infidels of which plow along with such creatures, rulers, and to eventually wind up in New York’s Waldorf Astoria, as another dictator being protected by moles within the State Department. More than likely, Ben login has a suite awaiting him.

What is ugly is the International Monetary Fund and another designated, secretive monetary Vauht, with its inherit nature of graft. Both of these collaborators are in the art of destabilization. Here, no ground in revolutionary Egypt. This is obvious for the State department usually is the installer–

one dictator in power for thirty years, Even the United Nations remains mute, and this is the key!

Rounding the situation at home, is that the global anti-social tramps depart.

hogorina of GA 8:34PM December 11, 2011

FOOLS RUSH IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD–MISINFORMATION

It takes an uneducated man to see through journalistic loops, just as a lion would do the same. Naturally, both are well trained at voice indictiveness. The real problem with hundreds of journalists is individual perception, as to what would tickle the innards of a fool, or actually placate genuine intelligence as to public inquiry.

No doubt about it, the art of genuine journalism is to inform on state issues, not gossip for morons of whom are tied to minor issues based upon comic meditation.

True, the reading public, generally harbors to the herd instinct, and must be fed with something palatable and reassured that their trough will be refilled on each morning.

Absolutely, our nation depends as a whole, on professional printed input which rolls truth forward, that will give pertinent facts, as a safety net in keeping our Republic at odds with alien influence that too, have printing presses on hand!

hogorina of GA 1:13AM February 10, 2011

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