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This video just makes me feel so good! Hope you enjoy it.

August 2, 2009 Posted by Rolland | Thoughts | , , , , | No Comments Yet

I want to believe him…. UH Football coach apologizes for gay slurs

University of Hawaii football coach made a public apology for his use of gay verbal slurs while talking about the Notre Dame players several times during a WAC press conference.

Here is the video of his apology;

August 2, 2009 Posted by Rolland | Common sense?, Sad, Thoughts | , , , , | No Comments Yet

Get it done, or go home!

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Lot of talk by Sen., John McCain this morning. Seems he has something to say on everything from how Sarah Palin is being treated, to slamming the “Blue Dog Dems.” Granted, the dems have not handle the issue of healthcare very well at all. The dems are doing exactly what they cried foul on the republicans during the Bush years. But, isn’t that the circle we have been in for decades? It has only gotten worse with each passing election.

Both parties are wrong on this. The real issue is Mr. McCain, you and every other Senator need to stop talking on TV and talk to each other. We are tired of your (everyone’s) personal issues with this person or that person. You have a job, that we hired you for and to be honest the expectation is for the job to be done, and done right. So far, most of you are failing, miserably.

More and more, the issue of term limits is raising its head. Our chosen system of government does not support career politicians. How things are now, politicians are more focused on keeping their job, then ever doing their job. Does anyone really believe we are getting our moneys worth out of anyone in Washington? Its not like much you do up there isn’t changed every four to eight years. This is one serious problem, it makes most the things you “do” only a band-aid. One President signs that land must be protected for the citizens of the future, and then the next guy comes in the office and changes it. No doubt both can and do justify what they change. So, when we hear about something you wave in the air as an accomplishment, we don’t really get excited. It is temporary at best.

Know you ladies and gentlemen think we are stupid, (and in many cases your right) some of us can and do remember what and why you said we needed this or that. You get whatever it is you said we needed and then a few years later, opps, did a little “rethink on that” and you change it. And you can’t figure out why your approval ratings are the lowest in history. Course, you have learned, who cares? You people are sub 30% and it hasn’t changed a thing in your daily life.

Mr. McCain, if you want to make a positive change for the American people … institute term limits. We have heard the argument about how term limits would shorten us of those individuals that are good. I am sure there must be some good people in Washington, but human nature has proved that no matter how “good of a person” you are, corruption and worse, lethargy always sets in. Having a limited time to get things done is good. It pushes the person to get done what they came to get done.

Term limits also solves the campaign finance problem. Reduces the influence of big money, because they won’t be shelling out as much for someone that has a limited window of opportunity to give them what they want. Not to mention how much of a checks and balance this would install. (Makes you wonder how this would have impacted the recent Wall Street meltdown.) Encourages the person running for office to get in there and do some good without having the monkey of paying this group or that corporation’s “favors” back. For us citizens, it would be like watching Michael Phelps. Get it done, or go home. We can get behind someone who is working hard, check with NBC they will back me up on this.

America, take back your future, take back your government, lets get term limits in acted!

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive – McCain faults how Dems have approached health care reform: “”

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August 2, 2009 Posted by Rolland | Common sense?, Politics | , , , , | 2 Comments