The Key to Global Harmony

Our President is spending three days of meetings in China. He attends as a debtor. China is the USA's biggest foreign lender. We owe them billions. The president's approach is to set up a family relationship through talks. The poor relation, we want to be equally respected and considered the major power on critical global issues, nuclear arms agreements, global economy, global warming, joint clean energy projects plus pressing the Chinese government to expand human rights, political and religious freedoms to its 1.3 billion people.

China, in turn, has set aside the tradition of the population wearing pajamas in public as not in keeping with their new pitch as a developing nation hosting the world's fair next year in Shanghai. The Expo theme will be Better City, Better Life, emphasizing China - the world's third largest economy. It would help them to sell us 1.3 billion pairs of China made pajamas, binding the two nations together trade wise.

We Rock

The villager has been so stunned and discombobulated by the events of the past year, nationally and globally, to be rendered inarticulate and reduced to a mutter. However, a recent experience on a sunset evening along a river bank revived the "dead peasant" all because of the little guy pictured at the left. His name is Aaron. He was deposited in his car seat alongside his family of fishers trying to hook their dinner aided by blaring rap from their car radios turned on full blast.

Aaron sat solemnly where he was put until I came along and touched his toe, smiled and talked soft talk to him. He responded with a big grin and began rocking back and forth until he almost rocked himself over. Together we communicated. He got happy because he got attention. He just couldn't stop rocking.

The villager considers Aaron the epitome of the American people. They are sitting where they are put, in the class they are in, and they are waiting for attention to become active. When the Big Guy sweet talks them, they rock, they don't go any place but they rock.

Furthermore, Aaron is about one year old. In the year 2070, if there is such a year to be, how will have Aaron survived? Will he have received an education? Will he have a home? Will he have a safe country? Will he have had a successful financial life, will he be able to breath clean air, will he be a free person, will he be an American. There are at this moment in time millions of Aarons in the world, what will become of them? We must consider our world today in terms of the future of humans to come and make amends. Now the villager is engaged.

National Health Insurance Turmoil

From what the Villager has learned, the National Health Insurance legislation now being brewed up by the House and Senate is a thousand page document. Ludicrous. Every Tom, Dick and Harry across the nation has an opinion on it, hasn't read it, tells lies about it,
and the legislators writing it know not what a monster they are creating.

The Villager's answer to the reform in process is: that it is needed. Health care in America now is too costly, inefficient, uncoordinated and unregulated and operates with a high rate of failure in the sense that millions of people don't have access to it. Quality health care for all citizens of a nation cannot be provided fairly by private entrepreneurs in the business of making a profit.

The answer is a simple Bill of Health written and made into a basic law for Americans like the Bill of Rights. It should be no longer or no more complex than the Bill of Rights. It should be the law that every citizen of this country, regardless of age, gender, sex, or income is entitled to receive full medical care under the provisions and protection of the Bill of Health. How to pay for it? The same way we are paying for the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the occupation of American troops in foreign places throughout the world.

THE LAST OPTION - WRITE-IN

To protest the expenditure of millions of dollars on the part of the announced candidates to promote themselves and buy the presidency, and the corporate media's seizure of the nation's voting power, the villager suggests that all Americans write in their choice for President at the 2008 polls. An example, Senator Bill Nelson of Florida. Or write in Al Gore, Colin Powell, Oprah, Bill Gates, or whomever you want to run the country. In this way, the majority of write-ins will determine the course of our democracy in the next four years and truly represent the people's choice. True?

WRONG - NOT AN OPTION - The electorate (that's us) are restricted by RULES again and the people cannot choose in an open, free election in which the popular vote prevails.


A Daytona Beach News Journal (FL) reader in a letter to the newspaper reported that she checked in with the Elections Department, and there will be a place on the November ballot for the voter to mark and write in a name. The catch is, though according to the Editor's note, is that in order for votes for them to count in Florida, write-in candidates for president and vice president must qualify between noon June 30 and noon July 8 with the state Division of Elections. That's as much as the villager knows - voters might want to check out state rules themselves. Possibly Obama, Clinton and McCain would be pre-qualified in every state, but if voters are not satisfied with the press pre-selected nominee, they could write in their own choice and it would be counted. Who knows? But just tossing anyone's name in, including one's own, would not count! It's possible, of course, there could be unknowns qualifying as write-ins but none who could represent a preponderance of the vote and therefore a throw-away vote.

Has there ever been in the history of this country an election conducted to overcome and overrule the citizens' first and foremost freedom - the right of each citizen to choose their leader for a representative government. Not until now. People who do not want the far left or the far right but want a centrist, representing all the people, must listen for and make themselves heard above the hoof beats of the persuaders.

WHAT'S AHEAD

The road to the White House for Dems:

At Stake:

WEST VIRGINIA, MAY 13, 28 DELEGATES
KENTUCKY, MAY 20, 51 DELEGATES
OREGON, MAY 20, 52 DELEGATES

JUNE 1, PUERTO RICO, 55 DELEGATES
JUNE 3, MONTANA, 16 DELEGATES
JUNE 3, SOUTH DAKOTA, 15 DELEGATES

The Democratic National Convention will be in Denver, August 25-28.

"Like the Democratic Party itself, the Mile High City embodies the 21st century ideals of economic strength, environmental consciousness, regional collaboration, cutting-edge technological infrastructure and visionary zeal that will help lead America in the year 2008 and beyond." -- John Hickenlooper, Mayor of Denver"

IT'S THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE, STUPID

Today, May 6, 2008, primary elections are being held in Indiana and North Carolina. The media is telling the American people these two single state results will determine the Democratic nominee for the next president and will close the race. The villager knows this is wrong. This is manipulation. There are still other states in which primaries have not been held and the voters of each state have a right to be represented by their delegates to the national convention. Take it from a native of Indiana: every state in the nation has the right to select delegates, to send their committed delegates to a national open convention, and at the national convention select a nominee. At the convention there will be floor fights, deals and negotiations among legitimate participants; a true nominee can emerge who has not been chosen by special interests, millions of dollars of advertising and slanted media reports.

The villager is shouting a Paul Revere warning to all American voters. Do not permit one single vote to go uncounted in the process of choosing a candidate in the present party system. Florida and Michigan delegates must be there; so do the delegates from every state in the union. Those who are screaming closure now before convention time are plotting and interfering with the people and their one freedom left: representation. The press is not to be allowed to select our new presidential candidate and to contaminate the system before it can work within the party process. Egged on by the national press, the two Democratic candidates now bashing each other, state by state, to carry a majority are doing a disservice to their country and a service to the Republican forces laughing on the sidelines at their destruction and their gift of success to McCain in the general election, as Americans have already heard it all from the Democrats and are weary.

The villager issues this warning. Do not let your vote be stolen during the total election process. . It's the last and only power the people have to govern themselves. That's the issue. The primaries are party tactics. The results affect the general election. When the people go to the polls in November, there will be two choices only.

It's time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.

Welcome back Go Democrats

This picture announces a new dawn to a wonderful political future for we can finally place a Democrat back into the White House as President. My Choice is Hillary for a sound future and a better economy. It is time for the war to be dissolved and the troops brought home. Our economy is hurting at the gas pumps and slicing away jobs. Our economy cannot support a war for four more years or longer. It is time to place the focus back on our economic growth. It is time to reinforce our own security at the borders. May we have a wonderful future and improve the focus of our new direction. Hillary stands firm on the issues I believe are right. She is in touch with the people's needs.

Written by "Seaside" blogger 4-25-08

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