We Now Have Change - All We Have is Change,

I saw this "teaser" in the news list today - unbelievable.

"WASHINGTON – Knocked off balance by the bonuses brouhaha, President Barack Obama is relying on direct appeals to the public to refocus attention on his ambitious agenda and drive the debate."

OK, Maybe he did not personally know about the bonuses - but he should have.  His administration definitely knew about them before the money was dolled out.  So did Congress.  It is public record - the Treasury Secretary before the house Finance Committee talked about these bonuses.

Maybe the guys getting the bonuses do not deserve it.  However, contracts are contracts.  But to put on a show like that of Obama and Barney Frank have, and they pretend to now be "outraged" or "angry" - That is just pathetic.  Yes, we got change - just a change in administration, but Obama's and the Democrats version of deirty politics.  Yes we have change - that is all we have left is change, as Uncle Sam with the help of "daddy" Obama has sold us all down the river.

Stay Safe!

Who Needs Gun Control? - Just Take all the Ammo

It appears that the current administration is more clever than expected on gun control.  They already figured out how to control the ammunition distribution for civilians.

How did they do that?  They made new rules concerning spent ammunition casings - basically requiring all of it be destroyed instead of being bought by ammunition companies that reloaded the casings.  Why is this a big deal?  The ammunition manufacturers cannot hardly keep up with the military's demand for new ammo, so that left reloaded stuff for civilians.  Now that the reloadable supply of casings is cut off - all ammo prices will go through the roof for civilians in the near future.

For more info - see the site the Shootist's article of March 15th.

Try to Stay Safe - since it is getting harder and harder to do so.

International Women's Day

I read about a bloggers Unite thing for International Women's Day. Hence the wandering thought of why isn't there an International Men's Day? I will digress on that later.

From Bloggers Unite: “Started as a political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries (primarily Russia and the countries of former Soviet bloc). In some celebrations, the day lost its political flavour, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love to the women around them in a way somewhat similar to Mother's Day and St Valentine's Day mixed together. In others, however, the political and human rights theme as designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner. The IWD is also celebrated as the first spring holiday, as in the listed countries the first day of March is considered the first day of the spring season.”

Here in Liberia - they are having the Women's Colloquium. Why they had to use such an odd word as Colloquium I don't know - but probably an internet registration thing - hence the site womenscolloquium.org. Yes a reaqal site you can go to to see what the women's colloquium is all about. All I know is that it means more work for us here and some of the higher-ups have been all over-stressed about it.

Why not have the colloquium here? The President is a woman. Not a lot of countries have that.

The good news - it will be over soon and things will go back to "normal" for here.

So why not an International Men’s Day? I doubt we will see that one come around. After all, women are special and men, well we are just men. :)

Going Backwards in Somalia

I just received a notification in my email concerning Somalia:

"Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed met with religious leaders and elders and accepted their demand for ceasefire and reconciliation with the opposition members. He gave in on Saturday to demands from Islamist insurgents agreeing to a truce and the introduction of sharia law.

When in power in 2006, the Islamists introduced a strict form of sharia and carried out executions, shut cinemas and photo shops, banned live music, flogged drug offenders and harassed civilians, mainly women, for failing to wear appropriate dress in public. They also banned foreign music, romances between unmarried teens, all commerce and public transport during prayer times and decreed that Muslims who do not pray daily can be punished by death.

The proposal to introduce sharia law must still be ratified by Somalia's parliament."

Nothing like a government that wants to go backwards concerning human rights. I am glad I am not there.