HOPE

"What oxygen is to the lung, such is hope for the meaning of life."

Monday, April 23, 2012

Republicans in Congress act like a bunch of petulant children who refuses to play at all if they are not in charge!



CONGRESSIONAL OBSTRUCTIONISM!

Ninety eight percent {98%} of the American people are being deprived of the benefits that should be implemented by the House of Representatives and the Senate.

The Republican controlled House of Representatives are blocking any and all meaningful legislation because they hold the majority and Republicans in the Senate are doing the same, because the Democrats do not have sixty votes to break the “Filibuster and Cloture Rule 22.”

If the Bills that are blocked in the House of Representatives and Filibustered in the Senate by the Republicans were in the interest of the American people, that would be admirable, however, the Republicans are using these methods “as a deceitful means to a deceitful end!”

Just imagine that these are the same people that literally tossed us into deep and unforgiving waters from 2001 through 2008, when they controlled the House, Senate and the Right Wing Supreme Court, and yet, without any sense of conscience or shame, their aspiration isn’t to make your life better, it is “to once again control The White House, The House of Representatives and The Senate, come November 2012!

Are the American people going to allow this to happen on November 6, 2012? Well, I am not sure because I “know” that the American people are goodhearted human beings, but I also know “that they are big on mouth and short on memory!”

The proof is that it only took two years [November 2008 through November 2010] for the American people to reinstall the Republicans in control of the House of Representatives and increase the Republicans number in the Senate, despite the “calamity” these same people imposed on us!

One cannot attribute this type of behavior to having any nexus with logic, this is just plain “dumb!”

To those that are constantly criticizing President Obama!

To those that are constantly criticizing President Obama as a “dictator” I say to you “stop the whining!” If you are honest with your self you have been saying the same thing since he became President, comparing him to Hitler and Stalin for wanting to provide Health Care to every American.

This is pure hypocrisy because the truth is you have never accepted him as President because of his race. Perhaps you should stop and think that he is “50% white as he is 50% African American.

His first two years in Office he reached out to the Republicans and was sorely criticized by some of his fellow Democrats. Again and again he reached out with not just and Olive Branch but Olive Branches, only to be reciprocated by the Republicans undignified and insulting manner any former President has had to endure in the history of our country.  Overriding our country’s critical priorities, The Party of “NO,” has been using obstructionism as a political tactic to enhance their Party’s chances for victory in 2012.

After going the distance with patience, endurance and goodwill, the President has initiated Executive Orders to accomplish vitally needed objectives. He hasn’t been and is not becoming a Dictator or doing anything unconstitutional. He hasn’t declared Martial-Law or has endowed himself with powers the Office of the President has never had. He is finally using some of the powers that he has been reluctant to use in the past.

He honestly tried bipartisanship for years only to have the Republicans in Congress act like a bunch of petulant children who refuses to play at all if they are not in charge. Our country has too many serious problems to wait for the Republican Officials to start acting like adults, hence “I applaud the President’s decision to use “Executive-Power.”


Sheriff Ali

Friday, April 20, 2012

6 – year-old African American child handcuffed and jailed for throwing tantrum at kindergartner; 12 – year-old Hispanic child is being tried as an adult; but yet, George Zimmerman is allowed bail!



Most of the time if you are a “minority” [non-white], justice is blind, deaf and dumb, and that is a fact!


If TRAYVON MARTIN was the “shooter,” he would have been charged for First Degree Murder and ordered to stand trial as an adult despite being 17 years of age at the time of his death.

A 6 year old child in Georgia was handcuffed and taken to jail because the child was misbehaving. She is African American.

In another case in Florida, a 12 year old Hispanic child is being tried as an adult for murder.

And yet, George Zimmerman whose father is a retired Magistrate, killed Trayvon Martin in “cold-blood,”  was allowed to walk around for 53 days; subsequently arrested and charged for 2nd degree murder [a non-bail-able offense] but yet granted a $150,000.00 bond so that he can go back to his normal life while Trayvon Martin decomposed body continues to deteriorate.  

Bottom line is; most of the time if you are a “minority” [non-white], justice is blind, deaf and dumb, and that is a fact!

Open the link to read the full story: http://wp.me/p1wG70-bo

Sheriff Ali

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Wendy’s, Kraft Foods, Mars and many other companies are running for cover for indirectly supporting Bad Laws!



“American Legislative Exchange Council [ALEC] wrote and continues to write prototypes of State Laws to promote corporate and conservative interests, spreading them from one State Capital to others, financed by business leaders, this forty-year old organization is run by right-wing extremists

With News Agencies alerting the public to the damage caused by ALEC; voter ID laws that marginalize minorities and the elderly; antiunion bills that hurt middle class and the total destruction of the Environmental Regulations that protects our society and way of life, the Council known as ALEC has become better known for their egregiously pernicious machinations.

American Legislative Exchange Council [ALEC] and the National Rifle Association [NRA] have played a big role in the passage of the “STAND YOUR GROUND” self defense laws around the country. It is self evident that the Original Statute passed in Florida in 2005 and signed into law by then Governor Jeb Bush was a main factor in the local police inability to arrest George Zimmerman after he killed the teenager, TRAYVON MARTIN.

The pernicious killing of the teenager that permeated pressure from activists and consumers who formed a grass-root COUNTERWEIGHT to Corporate Treasuries; caused the above Companies and others to have stopped funding [ALEC].

This pressure by Consumers is likely to continue as long as State Lawmakers are more responsive to the needs of big donors than the public interest.

The former Miami Police Chief John Timoney called the “Stand your ground” law a “recipe for disaster,” and he said he and other Police Chiefs had correctly predicted it would lead to more violent road-rage incidents and drug killings. Indeed, “justifiable homicides” in Florida have triple since 2005.

Former Governor Jeb Bush signed into law in 2005 the “Stand your ground” law against the objections of Law Enforcement groups. The N.R.A. pushed Florida’s “Stand your ground” law through the State Legislature.

ALEC bemoaned the opposition it is facing and claimed it is only interested in job creation, government accountability and pro-business policies. ALEC like the NRA makes no mention of its role in pushing a law that Police Departments believe is increasing gun violence and deaths. That’s probably because big business is beginning to realize that the “Stand Your Ground” laws are indefensible.

Sheriff Ali

Sunday, April 15, 2012

EVEN THE POPE CAN’T BELIEVE WHAT HE SEES!



Think of the music from the song…
(Take these chains from my heart and set me free)


Newt, take these pains from my heart and set me free
How the hell Romney is going to be the nominee?
Mitt lies faster than he can run
Now, the GOP White House hope is gone,
And all my pain just lingers on!

If the GOP finds somebody new
Newt, what do you think that would do?
Rick, we would still be tattooed and blue
Romney will always wear the flip-flopper shoe
And yes, our pain just liners on!

Newt, please give my heart some sympathy
Even the Pope can’t believe what he sees,
And just take a good look at Mitt Romney
All he’s doing is counting money,
We should have never listened to Sean Hannity!

© Sheriff Ali 2012




Friday, April 6, 2012

OBAMA – ROMNEY – “AMORE!”



When Obama’s ads hit Romney in the eye
Where Romney cannot hide,
That would be Amore!
When the GOP see Romney cannot shine
They would think they had too much wine,
That would be Amore!

The GOP bells would ring ting-a-ling-a-ling
They would say Mamma Bella did not sing,
That would be Amore!
GOP hearts would tippy-tippy-tay tarantella
O! That Romney is an uncaring Fella,
That would be Amore!

When Obama’s 2012 victory cause the GOP to drool
It would taste like pasta fazool,
That would be Amore!
With white clouds at their feet
The Democrats would dance in the street,
That would be Amore!

© Sheriff Ali 2012

Thursday, April 5, 2012

HAPPY EASTER TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND TO EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING, IN THIS BLESSED LIFE, THE ALMIGHTY HAS AFFORDED US!


“When iron is rubbed against a magnet it becomes magnetic, just so, love is caught not taught. One heart burning with love sets another on fire. The Church was built on love; it proves what love can do!”

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family a most blessed Easter with all of God’s blessings, this special season and throughout the rest of the year, and beyond.

By freely loving God and fully trusting Him, will not the distresses of life and the pangs of death; will not the corruptions within and the snares without; will not the trials above, and the temptations from beneath, all seem light afflictions, when we can hide ourselves beneath the bulwark of God’s promises? Yes, whether for delight in our quietude, or for strength in our conflict, taking it all to our Lord, must be our daily resort. There may be a promise in the Word which may exactly fit your case or there may be a potent medicine in the great pharmacopoeia of Scripture, and you may miss its comfort or you may yet continue rent, unless you examine and search the Scriptures to discover what He hath said to you!

Irrespective of what your circumstances are this day and at this present time; God in His mercy will light the lamps of the past and it shall glitter through the darkness, till the day break and the shadows flee away. Always remember, it is not what happens to us in this life that defines who we are, but how well we rise after we fall


Sheriff Ali 

Sunday, April 1, 2012

May America’s renewed resplendency, usurp the paroxysm that took us into deep and unforgiving waters….



Apart form the light heartedness in the photo, on a more serious note the fracas that is exuberated on a daily basis for one year and counting, with the [GOP] Republican Voters trying to decide on a nominee, is the result of the Republicans previous control of the White House, The Senate, The House of Representatives and a Right-Wing Supreme Court Majority, from 2001 through 2008. They the Republicans, crashed and burned our country’s resources, literally bankrupted us and left us for dead.

So, it is only natural that the turn out for all of the Republican Primaries in this Presidential cycle has been far less than in previous elections. However, I do believe that the more centrist Republican Voters who faced down economic death with all of us, they too are sane enough to see that the wantonness that was perpetrated by their reckless leaders that almost caused our economic demise, they too, see better days are here again, even though we still have an uphill battle in order to put our country back on track.

As a reminder to all of us: we were losing jobs at the rate of 800,000 per month during 2008; banks were going bankrupt by the hundreds, wiping out people’s life savings; the uncontrolled Pariahs of Wall Street along with the Mortgage Companies and a complacent Government, wrecked the lives of tens of millions of home owners because of Wall Street “Ponzie Scheme” titled “Derivates; two unpaid wars; two unpaid tax cuts during a time of war that was never heard of in any time in our history, people are beginning to see the “light” at the end of a very long and dark tunnel.

We have a steady growth in the Job sector, not as much as we all would like but we are getting there slowly but surely; a stock market that fell to 6,500 in 2008 is today well over the 13,000 mark; consumer confidence is getting better and yes, in the grey dawn an era of hope is being ushered in again, but if you listen to the people that are aspiring to be the GOP Nominee and their supporters, including HACKING MURDOCH FOX NEWS, you would never know that good tidings are rolling our way.

They blame President Obama for the massive National Debt when in fact, they the Republicans ran up the debt by placing all charges and future charges on the Chinese Credit Card, and when the bills came due, they refused to pay by holding hostage an increase in the “debt ceiling,” that catapulted our AAA ratings.   

As a business owner I am truly optimistic about the future of America and the world, but I am also frightened on the inside about the capriciousness, lackadaisical; uninformed electorate, that allows their emotions to be their guide in the decisions they make when they enter the Voting Booth!

May the wisdom in the words that Emil Brunner invoked; “What oxygen is to the lung, such is hope for the meaning of life,” become our mantle and not our ember, so that the wicks from our lamps at this moment, becomes the resplendency of the morning sun!

Sheriff Ali