Motley Moose – Archive

I know, a lot of you don’t think reality television can get an audience this season, given the entertaining realities being broadcast from political rallies, women’s health clinics, churches, talk shows, and cable news interviews, but let me tell you, this stuff just inspires game show producers, and they have some great shows coming soon, to the small screen next to your bed.

Keep these under your hats, dear Mooses, they’re supposed to be an October surprise. But, just happens that an intrepid investigative reporter who knows how to uncover stuff has leaked them to yours truly.

Here they are:

It always happens that the reactionaries among us, and those rugged individualists, react to any public program with fear.  The fear is personal, that someone will be able to tell them how to live.  In some ways they do the rest of us a service, by complaining about any government intervention, they force a debate, individual choice vs. public good, think gun control.

This fear is there, and ready to be tapped by any Rovian who’s read the book.  We could not have had such high public approval for invading Iraq without that fear, and the name that was put on it by the ad men, mushroom clouds, and expanded ‘terrorism.’  For two.

It’s an easily made observation that adults often have some idea or other about how their dads failed them, in this way or that way.  He wasn’t home enough, and when he was home he was distant, ‘not there.’ He didn’t manage at home very well, he let the mom take over and he was a passive perhaps pussy-whipped appendage.  Or he was domineering and controlling and nothing was ever good enough for him.  He was maybe like another one of the kids, like an older bully brother who took out his frustrations with verbal, emotional, and/or physical abuse on his weaker ‘siblings.’  

It’s also easily observed that some adults (mainly girl adults) idealize their dads, can see no mistakes, only the goodest, kindest, bestest, and nicest of men whose only failing, if you can even call it that, was marrying the wrong girl, or not being firm enough with her nutty demands.  

Where else but the moose site to try to potentially help newbies on the internet keep from forking over their cash to scoundrels?  

(hint, no where else I can think up).

How many prizes do you ‘win’ daily from bogus schemes to rid us of our cash? But, what do we do? Erase? Forward to a bogus email, like interpol.org?

Someone in international law enforcement needs give us a real forwarding address so we can forward them to the police and perhaps make them switch addresses before they ‘catch’ some hapless dreamer!!! (!!! denotes outrage, sincere variety)

How about it, international law enforcement, where should we forward this stuff to?  I mean, of course, to where?  

I’ve been noticing that we have elected a guy that Europeans have a hard time dismissing, even with their often lofty anti-American sentiments (hey, I’ve traveled).  Seems Barack could get elected over their own leaders, in their own countries, he’s so popular.

Yet, Europeans don’t expect miracles from him; they just like him and see him doing his best. I mean, he’s a nice person, and he’s obviously humbled by the trust of Americans; he’s not one of those politicians that live in their own special bubbles and say only what they’re ‘supposed to,’ not what they really mean (unless caught without knowing there’s a live microphone nearby.)   But, why sooo popular?

He has some cool characteristics, it’s not just that he’s not beholden to special interests, he’s not beholden to special friends (not sure about Tim though) and not beholden to special ideology.  Even though I disagree with some of what he’s proposed, I know he’s thinking and he’s thinking his policies will be workable and are our best options.  

I was against the war from the get go and hardly think any gain is worth the cost, in lives and treasure and oh so more, but there is one triumph in Iraq, and that’s newspapers.

Seems there are now hundreds of local newspapers in Iraq, written in the many dialects spoken by the many disparate groups.  You see, in Arab speaking countries the elite write and read in the formal language, that is no longer spoken in homes. Indeed, there are hundreds of different Arabic dialects spoken in homes, but these languages are seen as a sign of not being in the educated class, they are not respected, no literature written in them, and no translations of literature into them. (It’s similar to our condition centuries ago, when the educated learned and wrote in Latin.)  

Back when Ted Kennedy was too drunk to ask for help when he drove his car off a bridge into some very deep water and a girl ended up dead, it looked like his political future would also die.  His hometown constituents forgave him and he didn’t even go into recovery.  Then he became a voice for the progressives, and it seemed like, hey, he’s made up for it.  

Well, I know he’s dying, long after Mary Jo of course, but he’s going out the way he nearly did before, not by letting a girl die, but by killing this girl’s dream.

Check this out:

http://voices.washingtonpost.c…

It seems Ted won’t allow Hillary to work on health care reform.  I wonder why? She’d put in universal health care, which is less than single payer, something Barack would like to see, but more than universal access, which is less than I’d like to see.  And less than Paul Krugman thinks can actually work.  

How small and petty of Ted, to take his last days to keep a good girl drown (I mean down?).  Hillary’s plan would have sucked the huge profits out of that industry and led to the real possibility of single payer.  

I hope Barack isn’t too respectful toward the dying to say something to Ted about his refusal to share.   The primary is over, she helped Barack win, but no, can’t let that girl have anything she wants. Ted doesn’t want her cooties fooling around with his committee.  

Now that Barack has his job application site on line and everyone is in hurry up to be part of his efforts to change our landscape, I’d like to suggest a new cabinet position – Tinker Secretary.

It’s time to rebuild our infrastructure, which will provide training in the trades for a new generation and bring the green revolution into the trades too.  

But, universal health care, preferably single payer, would do more to help businesses compete in the world market than any tax break some pug administration might have given them.

Why:

Missed work hours and reduced production because people go to work sick and then get sicker when they don’t have access to doctors and medicine.

Mobility, workers need the option of relocating where the new jobs are.

Businesses ability to forecast future expenses can then ‘set aside’ the growing cost of health care.  And it won’t grow as steeply once everyone is covered and there are checks on the medical ‘industry,’ so there won’t be the same opportunities to ‘make a killing’ on illness.

I’ve probably missed a lot of points too?

It’s emotionally healing for those who have health care to trust that everyone has it, it’s not a privilege, it’s a right.