Second Thoughts on the Auto Industry

Our Auto Industry, in all reality, is the true child of America's Democratic Capitalistic (in a good way) Industrial Revolution, This is not a happy child. This child has been abused and molested and encouraged to follow the wrong path.

We would put a real child in foster care and try to heal them. But there are those who would recommend throwing away the decrepit buildings and facturies along with the CEOs and employees all in one.

Our American Auto Industry, as opposed to our banking industry, is more than an industry, it is the embodiment of American ingenuity and spirit of accomplishment. Putting men and women on those lines working on those cars used to be a proud profession. If any money, unlike that in the banking industry, was to be given to the auto industry, or "loaned" to them, it could be done in that spirit of growth and gleaming leadership in the world.

I don't have the exact answers, but an incentive program would not be difficult to achieve and I'm not so sure we can depend, or should depend, on the current leaders of that industry to come up with that plan. If I went to a bank for a loan, well, if I went to what we used to think was a bank for say a small business loan, I'm pretty sure the bank wouldn't let me dictate the terms of that loan. Why do we want the auto industry to come up with the terms of this loan?. We do it. We ask our government to form it and insist on investement specifically in updates and factury repair while the development departments are working on the new designs. We start now, on an unprecidented edict for innovation and change. We reinvent the industry and don't stop until we are considered the best in the world, again. We spend our money where we need it spent, out of a responsibility to family and a commitment to communities, and save our working families supporting that industry.

Save the auto workers, save the world.

Auto Industry Dream

Kay, let's focus on the auto industry, shall we?

Just a thought. One of our contributors had this crazy dream last night that he went to Detroit and talked to the guys on the line. This was their idea:

Why don't we ONLY give the auto industry money IF they present plans for a new car. One that would radically change the world's concept of power usage. That is in terms of how humans get around in their daily life. First of them to step up, gets the most money. And less and less for each company in order as they come up with plans they probably just have to dust off. They can keep their CEOs, but they will have a specific amount of time to come out with the prototype or those same executives lose their jobs. Then, a certain amount of time for testing, or they lose their jobs. Then a certain amount of time to get to assembly line or they lose their jobs. I betcha we'd have a radical world changing international lead in innovation overnight. And we'd make money on the deal.

Thoughts?

Big Props for Rove

Missed me? Well, I've been awfully busy. And sort of speechless. You see, we won.

We made history. Check.
Make sure we witnessed it. Check.
Celebrate. Check.

Presidential Transition web site. Check.
Name Chief of Staff. Check. (and isn't he's gorgeous?)
Float Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Check.
Crush The Right so hard (sore losers) they start calling us Nazis. Wah?

In point of fact, it would seem, we turned on a Right Wing Propaganda Machine and we can't find the off button.

Wall Street Journal (11/5) said:

"Criticizing our President has been catastrophic to our country, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have."

So, in order to quotethe rest of "their propaganda" properly, I went to find the Wall Street Journal article that The Colbert Report mentioned this last week

(http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=210365)

which stated: "The GOP, while in power, was brutally victimized by the Democrats. This is the price (demonization) Mr. Bush is paying for trying to work with both Democrats & Republicans." I thought maybe they were kidding.

So I looked it up, and what do I find? A whole bunch of the same. Unbelievable. Look here at the American Sentinel:

http://theamericansentinel.com/2008/11/06/do-unto-obama-as-liberals-did-unto-bush/#comment-9376

This is what they say: "Democrats have been utterly vicious rabid political monsters for years."

This must be a Rove web site. No one is this wrong. Check it out for yourself. The title of the article is, "Do Unto Obama As The Liberals Did Unto Us."

I responded:

"Really? You think doing something you condemn and despise, as in slandering any U.S. leader, is a good idea, now? Hmmm… Be very careful how you sling around that word “stupid.” Treat the government and your elected officials how you yourself would like to be treated, and perhaps we could get something accomplished.

I’m just trying to get this straight. You are calling for treason, speaking out against the government elect, even before they take office. Is that right?

You are bearing false witness against a man who has yet to do anything to harm your way of life. You are actually saying “they” as if somehow because you figured out how to use a computer you are better than “they.” Love it or leave it, Mister. Where’s your patriotism? Speaking out against the future Commander-In-Chief who is to be in charge of our dear troops, and you are planning and plotting before he takes office to make his job running OUR country, MY country, and God help us, even YOUR country difficult just because your side lost. How dare you? Act like an American citizen. Proud to be here and part of the solution. Or shut up."

That's all for now. I have to finish filling out my employment application to work in the Obama-Biden Administration. I hear he's hiring Republicans, too. Maybe this pissant should put his livelihood where his mouth is. (Don't miss that Colbert episode, one of his best)

Oh sweetie

I just saw you on a tivo'd Colbert Report. You poor thing. You walked right into that and got boo eed off -- and you were just being loyal. Yeah, even back here in Maui I was booing, but that's just part of the Colbert schtick. He loves "getting" someone and you, my dear, got got. And we, as avid fans, who love you too, each and every one of us, booed out of love. It was a playful boo. We wouldn't know how to make it through a weekday without you. Thank God you keep them on point. Thank God you were such a large part, a trim tab in some ways, of the wonderful Obama movement for change. Not your goal, I know, but nonetheless for the last couple of months, you were on national cable television, putting some of us to sleep, in a good way, after Hardball, and Keith had accompanied us through pajamas and cocoa up here in the surprisingly cold mountains of Maui.

The Episode:
http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=189598

Once Upon A Time....

A Word on Love and Marriage.

Marriage was around a long time before the bible was. That's why the good book should not be an instruction guide for who to love. In fact, being gay was around a long time before the bible was. Its horrible and sad and unethical to take away basic human rights of anyone in the U.S. The right to love and marry is a basic human right and should not be controlled by an apparent majority vote of religious centric folk. Its embarrassing and historically something many of us will have to explain to our grandchildren in the future when acceptance is the norm and loving thy neighbor is the true way. It is in fact no one's business who a person loves. Its no one's business who a person marries. Since when does the state decide who you marry in the U.S.? Since this election. Horrible, nasty blight on an otherwise incredibly moving time in history. Bush started this useless debate to distract the public from what he was really doing as President. And those who were told that their religion agreed ate it hook, line and sinker. There are so many beliefs in so many different religions, but no one in the U.S. has passed a law saying I have to cover myself with a veil or pray 6 times a day. No one has passed a law saying I have to fast on certain days and atone for my sins on others. No one has passed a law that I must rest on Saturday or Sunday. Cows are not considered sacred and allowed to roam the streets in the U.S. All these other instructional books from religious organizations aren't allowed to slide over into political and national laws in the U.S. Why should the beliefs of SOME of the U.S. citizens be imposed on others when it comes to love and marriage. Its our generation's version of Jim Crow laws and its wrong on EVERY level. Humans have basic rights. Food, shelter, clothing, love. How dare the few dictate the basic rights of the many because of some book they believe in? If God created everything, then God created people who are gay. Even flowers change their sex when there are too many of one type in an area. It happens with some animals too. So it is completely natural. A book, printed on paper from fallen trees, is not natural. Love is natural. Laws that control who you can love are not natural and are unconstitutional. I, for one, will do everything in my power to have these hateful laws repealed. And those who support them should be ashamed of themselves and the way they let their religious beliefs be hijacked by haters.

Perhaps you can be helpful while we work to repeal it. I am not gay, but I plan to be helpful. I just don't think anyone should be robbed of the happily ever after endings we are all promised from our story books as children. We are all taught as we lay down to sleep and listen to fairy tales from our parents that true love is the goal. Even if you came from a horrible broken home, movies teach the same truism. Placing boundaries on who that true love can be just feels wrong. I don't want to be told who I can and can not love. Do you?

If you should feel the same way, please do something. Protest, or write your Senators or Congressmen. Write to your local paper. Sign petitions that come your way. Make your own video for free at OneTrueMedia.com and send it around or post it on You Tube expressing your thoughts. Write your vision for a better America in a letter to Obama at Change.Org. But please, do something. Don't let this incredible momentum be a huge step for mankind, but an embarrasing step backward for humanity.

lisa that one lindo
URL: IfTheBuckStopsHereShootIt.com
Twitter: lisalindo
Videos: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ConcernedMilf
Blog: http://concernedmilf.blogspot.com/
Citizen: The United States Of America -- born and raised!!

P.S. Keith Olbermann may have said it best,when he asked, Why?

Link to his Special Comment:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27652443#27652443

Just Returned From Grant Park - Hutchinson Field, Chicago...

I've been on such a high, I wore my laminate invite all the way home on the various planes. On the last flight, a Rabbi befriended me as I lay down in the "row" American Airlines so graciously gave me.

I settled in, listening to his mission of practicing mitzvahs (good deads), and my eyes just began closing without permission.

As I started to pass out, I felt a real life size pillow being placed under my head ...and blissfully drifted off with the satisfaction of having fought the fight of the just, and won.

lisa that one lindo
www.IfTheBuckStopsHereShootIt.com

We Must Fix Voting

We must fix voting.
Our elderly and sick can't wait in line.

We must fix voting.
Registration must be streamlined.

We must fix voting.
We owe it to our founding fathers.

We must fix voting.
No one should have to wait for hours.

We must fix voting.
The decisions are hard enough.

We must fix voting.
There's no excuse for making it this tough.

They run large crowds through Disneyland.
So I would say, Oh, Yes We Can!"

To make it work, and have our say,
We must fix voting, and fix it today!

And for dessert: Our latest short saying goodbye to the bad guys...

Take A Boy Y'All

http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/view_shared?p=74a3d9635bdbcd7f46e985&skin_id=601&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=email

What does it say?

This one is startling. Its the story about the white girl who cried 'tall black man wolf', and lied. Not new. But the way the police reacted...by giving her a lie detector test instead of conducting a witch hunt does show that we have evolved....a bit. Although, it should be mentioned, the cops aren't total idiots to begin with. The B she said was carved into her cheek by the evildoer, was backwards.

MSNBC (video)

I have to disagree with Ms. Maddow. Not everything that woman said was a lie. She said,

"You are going to be an Obama supporter."

She was right, wasn't she.

Missed you guys. Been locked out of AOL, and "our" (my) web site so its been really hard to keep up. Spent a few days in bed with OpEd. Oh, that Ed....he can be such a tease. Placing endorsements and passing along info. Today was Endorse Obama day. So I made a short film, and sent it out to everyone I know:

You Made Me Love You!

So, if you love it, please pass it on or make your own 'Endorse a Candidate' project. Get involved. Get your eagle on. Don't fall for the name calling and fear mongering and tomato throwing. Just be creative and brave and state your opinions like an evolved member or the collective forms of energy of these United States Of America.

ConcernedMilf
www.IfTheBuckStopsHereShootIt.com

P.S. Many of you who know me write in and ask, "Why do you call yourself 'ConcernedMilf'? Simple. Concerned Cougar was taken.

P.P.S. Pray for grandma. She is here in Hawaii. Her injury is such that quite often people will pass on. Use every bit of blue and green light you can muster and project it to her on Ohau. See it wrapping around her and dancing and twirling to heal her. You never know.

All Hat and No Cattle

Palin's campaign wardrobe has come to $150,000 since 9/4/08. I'd say that's All Hat and No Cattle, wouldn't you? Now, get a load of this:

Per Daily Kos, reported on October 21, 2008

Barack has had to resole his shoes during the campaign. That probably ran him, what? $10 - $50 bucks? Hmmmmmm. "Senator Obama was doing press interviews by telephone in a holding room between events. Sometime later as he was getting ready to begin his event, he asked me if I was photographing his shoes. When I said yes, he told me that he had already had them resoled once since he entered the race a year earlier. Providence, R.I., 3/1/2008." Great photos of his shoes and lots of other campaignin' stuff: http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0810/callie-bp.html

And, of course, we were lucky enough to have historical records. McCain quote from '93:

"The Amendment before The Senate is a very simple one. It restricts the use of campaign funds for inherently personal purposes. The Amendment would restrict individuals from using campaign funds for such things as home mortgage payments, clothing purchases, etc. If we are truly going to have campaign finance reform I do not believe that campaign funds should be used for such things as country club dues and tuxedos.. If we in Congress learned on thing from President Clinton's $200 haircut last week, it should be that the public does not approve of its elected officials being treated as royalty. We should be no different." End McCain Quote

. AND IN '94...McCain quote:

"Campaign fund have been used to buy such items as a Jumb Illuminated Globe from Hammacher Schlemmer, for trips to exotic locals such as Thailand, Taiwan and Italy, and for tuxedos and an unexplainable $299 for bow ties." End McCain Quote #2.

If the Palin wardrobe malfunction wasn't bad enough, it turns out the Republicans sure know how to spend our money. Go ahead, you know you're dying to ask. Who was the highest paid individual in Senator John McCain's presidential campaign during the first half of October as it headed down the homestretch? Not Randy Scheunemann, Mr. McCain's chief foreign policy adviser; not Nicolle Wallace, his senior communications staff member.

It was Amy Strozzi, who was identified by the Washington Post this week as Gov. Sarah Palin's traveling makeup artist, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday night. Ms. Strozzi, who was nominated for an Emmy award for her makeup work on the television show "So You Think You Can Dance?", was paid $22,800 for the first two weeks of October alone, according to the records.

I've been an agent for a decade and a half. A makeup artist does not need to cost that much money for ANYONE, let alone the gorgeous and photogenic Sarah Palin.

Lisa Lindo aka ConcernedMilf
www.IfTheBuckStopsHereShootIt.com

Memo To Still President Team

FROM: RESPECTFUL REPUBLICANS
DATE: October 22, 2008
RE: MCCAIN DEFAME CAMPAIGN
TO: Still President Team

Desperate Times?

Well, that's how it would seem to be playing out for your Palin/McCain campaign. Per Chris Mathews of Hardball, "Every time conditions prevail, that is the current status of things causes McCain's poll numbers to dwindle, McCain cancels, curses, fires, stoops, postpones, distracts, and starts making wild accusations. That is to say, he pulls a 'razzle dazzle,' 'hail mary,' 'bootleg,' 'statue of liberty' play in a scattered move to distract the public from the real issues."

Instead of talking about cleaning up the mess that the current administration -- THAT MEANS YOU MCCAIN, AND YOU TOO GEORGE -- instead of showing us all some sort of Brave New Deal, Cheney you're hiding, Bush is trying to figure out where the ball rolled behind the couch, and Rov is calling the game off. And your love child, the not-so-honorable Senator John McCain is telling the American people "Hey! Look over there!"

As you've probably heard by now, dear Frank, chairman of the Financial Services Committee said, "McCain's trying to pull the longest 'Hail Mary' in the history of either football or Marys."

Last week on Bloomberg News, Chris Buckley, son of William F. Buckley (the recently departed -- God Rest His Blessed Soul), was being interviewed about his new book, "Supreme Courtship." When asked about McCain's name calling and terrorist accusations, he replied, "It's gone beyond saying a Hail Mary. He's saying the whole rosary!"

Name Calling. Inciting crowds to call for mob violence. Taking the Milf on a shopping spree. Saying one day that Obama is a decent family man, and the next calling him an elite, terrorist, socialist muslim.

Really, McCain? Don't you know there are Respectful Republicans out there?

Last night, Buckley made an appearance on the Daily Show where he was quote as saying, "I didn't leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left me."

You know what, McCain? You're mother dresses you funny.

McCain's Response To McCain's Actions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHW-RO1_WN0