Just Noticing: “Observations of a Blogger”
Posted by Michelle Moquin on July 20th, 2014
Good morning!
Just noticing…
Americans Have Spent Enough Money On A Broken Plane To Buy Every Homeless Person A Mansion
An F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in its natural habitat: the ground
CREDIT: AP PHOTO/LOCKHEED MARTIN
Just days before its international debut at an airshow in the United Kingdom, the entire fleet of the Pentagon’s next generation fighter plane — known as the F-35 II Lightning, or the Joint Strike Fighter — has been grounded, highlighting just what a boondoggle the project has been. With the vast amounts spent so far on the aircraft, the United States could have worked wonders, including providing every homeless person in the U.S. a $600,000 home.
It’s hard to argue against the need to modernize aircraft used to defend the country and counter enemies overseas, especially if you’re a politician. But the Joint Strike Fighter program has been a mess almost since its inception, with massive cost overruns leading to its current acquisition price-tag of $398.6 billion — an increase of $7.4 billion since last year. That breaks down to costing about $49 billion per year since work began in 2006 and the project is seven years behind schedule. Over its life-cycle, estimated at about 55 years, operating and maintaining the F-35 fleet will cost the U.S. a little over $1 trillion. By contrast, the entirety of the Manhattan Project — which created the nuclear bomb from scratch — cost about $55 billion in today’s dollars.
“The political armor of the F-35 is as thick as the heads of the people who designed the airplane and its acquisition plan,” Winslow Wheeler, a former congressional staffer and outspoken critic of the F-35, recently told Foreign Policy about the longevity of the plane, despite the many setbacks it has endured. The support for the F-35 is so great in Congress that there’s actual a bipartisan Joint Strike Fighter Caucusdedicated to promoting it and keeping it alive. With that in mind, here are just a few of the other things that the insane amount spent on the troubled fighter could have gone towards instead, both at home and abroad:
Buying Every Homeless Person In The U.S. A Mansion
On any given night in 2013, the Department of Housing and Urban Development concluded, there were an estimated 600,000 homeless Americans living on the streets. Numerous studies, however, have showed that rather than putting money into temporary shelters or incarceration, communities have saved millions of dollars by investing in permanent homes for the homeless. A recent report showed that in one Florida community, it cost taxpayers an estimated $30,000 to take the homeless off the streets through traditional methods, but only around $10,000 per person to give them permanent housing and provide job training and other support. Expanding that concept to the Federal level, even taking into account things like varying real estate prices around the country, it’s possible that $7.4 billion would be more than enough to start a program nationwide. With the full amount spent on the F-35 at its disposal, the U.S. could afford to purchase every person on the streets a $664,000 home.
Unilaterally Funding Every Humanitarian Crisis
Overall, the United States less than one percent of its federal budget to foreign assistance. The State Department and USAID in Fiscal Year 2014 set aside about $31.1 billion in foreign aid funding, according to ForeignAssistance.gov. This includes $4.5 billion devoted towards funding the U.S. response to humanitarian crises around the world, including those in Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, and others. Millions of refugees and internally displaced people in these conflicts are struggling to survive, as the United Nations reports that each of these emergencies remain chronically underfunded. This year alone, the U.N. Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has raised only 35 percent of the funds it needs. In contrast, the $49 billion per year spent on the F-35 would singlehandedly fund not just UNOCHA’s $16.7 billion request, but also those of UNICEF and other emergency disaster relief bodies, saving countless lives.
In addition, U.N. officials want the situation at the U.S.’ southern border to be classified as a refugee crisis as well, as most of the thousands of children currently being detained fled their homes to escape a myriad number of life-threatening conditions. The Obama administration has requested $3.7 billion from Congress in emergency spending to help staunch the flow and provide for those who have already made it to the United States, but Republicans already appear to be lining up against the proposal. The F-35′s increased cost from last year alone would have easily covered that amount and then some.
Feeding Every Schoolchild In The Country
Earlier this year, President Obama signed into law an compromise version of the Farm Bill after months of deadlock saw the expiration of the former version. As part of the deal, House Republicans demanded huge cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), former known as food stamps, backing down only after a veto threat from the White House. The final bill, however, still included $8.7 billion worth of cuts, equaling about a $90 per month cut for recipients. The F-35′s excess costs for the last year by themselves could have nearly covered all of the losses, prevent state governors from having to scramble to provide families with the assistance they need.
As a backup when food subsidies are cut, low-income families often find themselves turning towards schools to provide meals during the day for their children. The National School Lunch Program feeds approximately 31 million students every year, at the cost of about $16.3 billion in both cash and commodity payments. The full cost of the plane so far would have funded this program as it stands for 24 years. If the amount being dispersed to schools was doubled, allowing the program to reach all 55 million students enrolled in K-12, the F-35 still would be able to cover that for the next decade.
Providing Security Around The World
Under the weighted system used to determine dues, the U.S. pays the lion’s share of funding to the United Nations’ 16 peacekeeping missions around the world. For the coming fiscal year, that works out to about $2.4 billion. That’s quite a bargain, as then-U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice argued in 2009, telling PBS: “If the US was to act on its own – unilaterally – and deploy its own forces in many of these countries; for every dollar that the US would spend, the UN can accomplish the Mission for twelve cents.” Given how cost effective blue helmets are at providing security in areas where conflict has just ended, it would behoove the U.S. to grant even more support to the system. Additional funds would provide better arms and equipment, as well as better training, as the number of peacekeepers required around the world increases. The amount the U.S. has spent on the F-35 could have funded this year’s level of peacekeeping — a record-high $8.6 billion — for the next 46 years.
Boosting Funding Needed To Rebuild America
The United States is falling apart. A lack of funding for bridges, roads, and other infrastructure has led to collapses across the country and the more than 63,000 bridges that have been labeled as “structurally deficient.” The Department of Transportation’s total budget request for next year is $90.1 billion, part of a four-year budget of $302.1 billion with $199 billion set aside to rebuild America’s roads and bridges. Obama has for the last two years called for a $50 billion lump sum to be added to the on top of DOT’s budget to help address the growing need, and twice Congress has rejected this proposal. If the U.S. were to have channeled the $298 billion is has spent so far on the F-35 — and continued spending at that level for the next six years — the U.S. would be halfway towards closing the $1.1 trillion gap in investment needed in infrastructure, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. In addition, a report from the Center for American Progress, citing Moody’s Analytic’s chief economist, estimates infrastructure investment generates $1.44 of economic activity for each $1 spent. That sort of claim can’t be duplicated in the spending on the F-35.
Along with the United States, seven other countries have committed to purchasing F-35 fighters from Lockheed Martin once they’re completed, which is helping diffuse the costs for the American taxpayer. But these partners are growing increasingly wary of the aircraft’s ballooning price. Australia recently announced that it was scaling back its purchase, as has the Netherlands. Those concerns will likely only be compounded by the current grounding of the fleet. And so, though the British Air Force intended to have the fighter in service a full two years ago, the only place you’ll be able to see the F-35 in action for now remains on the big screen — where its successes have been about equal to those in real life.
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Readers: Living in California and especially the Bay Area, I wouldn’t exactly call a $600K home a mansion. But on the other hand, to a homeless person living anywhere in the U.S., it would be. Regardless, I get the point. And obviously housing isn’t the only thing that could be bought with those billions spent on a plane that’s broken. I could certainly think of a few more things too.
What about you – what would you spend it on? You know where to leave your comments. Blog me.
Peace out.
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July 20th, 2014 at 1:48 pm
IDF Israel — Why didn’t you listen to me? I warned you the I.E.D’s would be there to ambush you if you didn‘t keep your distance. Even if you do not believe me, listen to what I am warning you about. It will happen just like the tank ambush.
Syria is not only sending military advisors, but troops who are fully trained Elite Forces and are dressed as Palestinians. Iran is sending in Technical Advisors to manage 4 tunnels which have not been discovered yet and can exit into Israel. The 4 tunnels are using the latest engineering from Iran.
They will pack them full of troops (1000+) so they can exit in 4 different places in Israel and do as much damage as they can. You must find these tunnels.
Please listen to me this time and avoid tragedy. Find the tunnels and keep your distance. Watch for ambush points. Be Careful.
HOWIE
July 20th, 2014 at 2:07 pm
Thank you Howie for your warnings. As you said the higher ups didn’t listen. They assured the rank and file that what you were saying didn’t count because you were not in the field and couldn’t possibly know anything about battle conditions.
And yet……………. It happened just as you said it would. The officers took the same position we did in 2009, but the I.E.Ds were more powerful and the trap worked because we were not as spaced out as we usually are. Plus we were cocky which you also warned against.
So we struck out on all3 of your admonitions. This time if they don’t listen the enlisted in the field will.
Thanks again Howie
You are a true Patriot and Hero of Israel
July 20th, 2014 at 2:13 pm
Sorry Peter#25, but virtually all of the “mass shooters” of recent record were on record as liberal Democrats. That’s data, not conjecture.
July 20th, 2014 at 2:24 pm
Michelle: Though it is necessary for a military to control the skies, the U.S. already does that. We need to spend this money right here at home. Our infrastructure is in shambles, schools and teachers are not worth a damn, we have so many homeless and people living in poverty, sick people with poor medical care, many who cannot afford food. I mean WTF does the Pentagon think it is doing besides supporting an enormously inflated project to please the military, industrial complex. That is enough cheese to bribe every republican down to their grand children.
These are our friggin’ tax dollars, the 1%er’s don’t even pay their share, all they do is buy off the GOP and S.T.A.R.K. and pollute us to goddamn death. The United States of America is not very united anymore. We need to waste this money on more of those F-35′s like we need a hole in the freakin’ head. So many other needs trump this stupid project. The Citizens of this country are being robbed blind.
July 20th, 2014 at 2:56 pm
Steward#3, Wrong again. Please cite your source, the title and the date so I can confirm what you’re saying.
We on this blog are not fox fake facts fans, we need to have some proof of what you claim here. But I really don’t expect any. Your choir are so brain dead they think because some one says its a fact that it is.
July 20th, 2014 at 2:57 pm
Ditto AL#4, “These are our friggin’ tax dollars,..”
July 20th, 2014 at 2:58 pm
Damn straight Al#4.” These are our friggin’ tax dollars.”
July 20th, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Bart#18, Steve#19, Keith#20 and Dan#21: It is more than obvious that all four of you are the same person, and no it is not substantiated that liberals are the major cause of gun violence, asshole.
July 20th, 2014 at 3:07 pm
Steward#3, Wrong again. Please cite your source, the title and the date so I can confirm what you’re saying. This is not fox fake facts fan blog.
You can’t just claim something is a fact without mentioning the source that verifies it.
Well, you can if you are on one of those Right wing blogs where if they are challenged they tell the challenger to look it up him or herself. And of course they throw in some insulting remarks.
July 20th, 2014 at 3:11 pm
Peter#5, Go do your own home work, most people recognize that most mass killing are liberals and democrats. You have to do a little digging because the liberal media never reports it.
July 20th, 2014 at 3:12 pm
Actually Al#7, it is absolutely TRUE. I can’t help it if you are a communist supporter who can’t read. Just put your head up the rear end of the closest liberal politician and follow along in lock step. You see, I understand you.
July 20th, 2014 at 3:18 pm
Why didn’t you listen to Howie’s warning. Sunday’s death toll for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was higher than that sustained by the IDF during the entire three-week duration of Operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009, the last time that Israel sent ground troops into Gaza.
July 20th, 2014 at 3:28 pm
Cowboy#9, Most right wingers – like you – aren’t about to cite a source, or a title or a date for their claims of fact. But who cares about being accurate or factual or having the decency to show your proof – certainly not people like you.
July 20th, 2014 at 3:44 pm
While all this is happening. The white boy is still killing black men using their racist thugs with badges.
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(CNN) — Confronted by police trying to arrest him for allegedly selling illegal cigarettes, Eric Garner raised both hands in the air and, with passive defiance, told the officers not to touch him. Seconds later, a video shows the officer behind him grab the 350-pound man in a chokehold and pull him to the sidewalk, rolling him onto his stomach.
“I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” Garner said repeatedly, his cries muffled into the pavement.
The video of the Thursday skirmish shows the Staten Island man lying on the ground motionless after the incident. An asthmatic, Garner was later declared dead at a nearby hospital, according to CNN affiliate WCBS. Police said he suffered a heart attack and died en route to the hospital.
“This is a terrible tragedy that occurred yesterday. A terrible tragedy that no family should have to experience,” said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, calling the video of the incident “very troubling.”
Police told WCBS that 43-year-old Garner, a father of six, had a lengthy criminal history and had been previously arrested for selling untaxed cigarettes in May.
Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who is seen on video choking Garner, was put on modified assignment and stripped of his shield and gun as the New York Police Department continues to investigate the incident, WCBS reported. The chokehold tactic is prohibited by the NYPD.
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We need to start killing these motherfuckers.
July 20th, 2014 at 3:50 pm
Please check out this video: http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/07/us/california-police-videotape-beating/index.html
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This cop is beating the shit out of a woman because she ran around a truck to avoid him.
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Los Angeles (CNN) — The family of a 51-year-old woman shown in a video being repeatedly punched by a California Highway Patrol officer says they plan to sue the agency.
“How do I know he’s not going to hurt me or anyone else?” the woman’s daughter, Maisha Allums, told reporters Sunday. “So I am just here with a voice for my mom and everyone else.”
The beating took place Tuesday along the Santa Monica freeway and was caught on tape by passing motorist David Diaz.
“This is not just jabs, they are hooks,” he said. “Those are lights-out punches. Those aren’t like taps.
“You see it, you heard it. It was like ‘thump, thump, thump’ and then you see her head bouncing ‘bam, bam’ on the concrete. Then you hear her screaming, ‘No, don’t, stop.’ Then you even — at the end where she has her hands up like this — when it’s clear there is no more resistance, he takes another four or five shots.”
The woman who was beaten is Marlene Pinnock, a great-grandmother.
Caree Harper, the lawyer who is now representing her, says Pinnock’s injuries are severe.
“Her family went to visit her,” Harper said. “She has multiple lumps in her head, lumps on her shoulder like the size of a plum, bruises and lumps all over her upper body.”
A police report released Friday says the woman posed a danger to herself and other drivers because she was “walking within traffic lanes” at times.
It also says that when an officer asked her to stop, she “continued ignoring the officer’s command” and ultimately she “becomes physically combative.”
“The tape only shows a small part of what transpired,” California Highway Patrol Assistant Chief Chris O’Quinn told reporters. “There are events that led up to this. Until all that’s collected and put into perspective we aren’t going to be able to make a determination,”
The agency didn’t identify the officer, but says he has been put on paid administrative leave.
“The CHP, to justify the beating, (are) saying they were trying to protect her from harm,” Harper said. “With a beating like that no one wants to be protected. She only needed protection from the officer.”
Pinnock is in a hospital under an involuntary psychiatric hold.
Harper says a hearing will take place Tuesday to determine whether she will remain in custody longer.
“We are concerned she’s still being involuntarily kept at a facility,” she said.
July 20th, 2014 at 3:54 pm
Why aren’t the officers’ badge numbers and names released? The public should know. These people are criminals and thugs. It’s a shame that they are still going to actively serve in the force. Won’t be too long before they find another victim that isn’t in front of a security camera.
July 20th, 2014 at 3:56 pm
Carol#15, this is just insane. the cops, in all states are the criminals. Anytime the city has to pay out money to someone for abuse by cops, the cops involved should be fired.
There’s no doubt it would soon put an end to this mess. They don’t care that camera’s are around, why should they, there’s no consequences for their actions ever.
July 20th, 2014 at 4:05 pm
“Most right wingers – like these – aren’t about to cite a source, or a title or a date for their claims of fact. ”
That is an opinion and I can state my opinion any time I like.
“most mass killing are liberals and democrats” pretends to be fact. Hence substantial was requested. None supplied.
And guess what? It is still my opinion Most right wingers aren’t about to cite a source, or a title or a date for their claims of fact. They just spew whatever they’ve read on right wing blogs – without substantiation.
July 20th, 2014 at 4:15 pm
Sonja,
I’m clear on what I said, and if you read my SECOND sentence then you wouldn’t have written the rest of what you wrote, so go ahead and be a hater just bc … (I’m very clear you don’t like me and it seriously is just not my job to care what you think of me).
Now, let me be clearer I DONT NEED A MAN TO TELL ME TO HAVE COMPASSION FOR BABIES or to keep my eye on a ball that someone else’s eyes are more clearly on … that’s just flat out BS on your part.
Now, if you would like to chalk that up to ‘my indoctrination’ or anything else, you go right ahead.
I am FOR women for women I’m only extending that to the tinier versions we also bring here…
I find your assertions that we should clean up air/water a little box of rocks-ish myself … powers that be (billionaires of a certain ilk and power player) could handle that tomorrow IF they cared, clearly they don’t…if fact, they’d rather spend the money for clean food/air/water and even easiy fixed homelessness on fixing expensive war planes, isn’t that obvious?
And you needn’t cite tens of thousands of cases of birth defects caused by water/air (tough to quantify and we are all being polluted that way) but so FEW of drug addled kids (if they’re so few why is it even an issue that brought up at all?), and are YOU lacking compassion that much that you’re cool with mothers doing meth bc hey it’s only a few babies and it’s her right to drug up whenever she wants to … ??
**I’m all for that, too, drug up if and when you want to, just know the meaning of 2 words: responsibility and accountability and own your natural consequences of all your life choices.
Sooooo, barring help from ‘men’ who are wealthy and those women who lock step with it … we must extend a hand to those who need it … in this case, and I won’t apologize for it — it’s BABIES … like I said I’m fine if a woman doesn’t want one, have an abortion, I’m totally cool with that for whatever your reason might be BUT the moment you accept your place as a freaking parent, then own it and get help if you have issues with drugs/alcohol or domestic issues, and go read the second sentence again – I agreed that the LAW WAS STUPID – so why don’t you go hate somewhere else … or read the comment again …
I won’t wait for an apology from someone as arrogant as you so carry on …
Al, I love you, too, my blogging bro and thank you for your words : )
Luv, Zen Lill
July 20th, 2014 at 4:22 pm
#15 Carol, I saw this video, it made made sick and angry, some cops need a lesson and I think you know what I mean, they’re clearly out of control…
July 20th, 2014 at 6:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHdoGbCKLII#t=79
PrP
July 20th, 2014 at 7:42 pm
Anonymous #8: You would be wise to remain anonymous you fuckin’ chicken shit republican shithead.
July 20th, 2014 at 7:44 pm
Anonymous #11 that is.
July 20th, 2014 at 7:47 pm
Zen Lill I don’t hate you. I admire your ability to wade in on any topic. But I stick by my statement that this pretend concern about the unborn is just that; bullshit by white men to get dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks white women to lose sight of the real threat to the unborn and born alike. Again to be clearer for you — that would be the mass murder and deforming of the unborn and born alike by the pollution that is done every day by the creeps that these same lawmakers ignore to pass these chicken shit laws to harass women.
If you can’t see that they are not genuinely interested in babies only in forcing women to have them, then you are just slow today.
My point is of course we are concerned by babies being hurt by mothers who abuse their bodies while pregnant. But the same people who claim they want to punish these women with draconian laws don’t pass a single bill to help those women medically, financially or otherwise.
If you bothered to do a little research you would discover that most of the women that abuse their bodies with drugs are homeless. Do you hear any of those lawmakers addressing finding shelterS for them?
No, they parade around mouthing the obvious which is no one wants a baby to be BORN deformed. Well how abut the TENS of THOUSANDS of babies that women are forced to birth who are born homeless?
I’m just saying you can feel for those drug deformed babies, but if you really want to see a change then change the subject to the bigger more real issue for the unborn and new born —– tell those manipulating lawmakers to go fuck themselves with this red herring topic and address the more relevant issue of passing laws to provide for the women they force to carry to term.
This is not personal to you are me. It goes to the heart of the issue of unhealthy new borns and those children we see every day in need of help. To make it simpler for you, tell your congressman to FUCK any new laws until they pass ones that address Women’s birth issues of poverty and corporate pollution of our environment today.
Why you would want to waste the time to swim out to save one drowning child when the same time could be used to get in a boat sitting on the dock and save dozens is beyond me. Sitting on the “dock” are laws waiting to be signed that would address most of these issues, but the republicans singled out this piece of shit emotional issue to get women like you occupied on it rather than hold them to those other more relevant issues concerning women’s prenatal health.
Again I say take your diverted eyes off that one drowning child (as sad as that may be) and get in that boat and save those dozens they have diverted your eyes from.
It’s that fucking simple and that is a fact which has nothing to do with me liking or disliking you. The NEEDS of the MANY OUT WEIGH the NEEDS of the FEW!
July 20th, 2014 at 7:49 pm
Al#22&23, welcome back. You are as succinct, direct, and honest as ever. If I could have said it better I most certainly would have.
July 20th, 2014 at 7:56 pm
Beautiful Prism Princess#21. It is such a shame that the people of Gaza support their representatives deciding to rain rockets down on the people of Israel, but cry foul when the people of Israel support their representatives deciding to retaliate.
July 20th, 2014 at 8:14 pm
Zen Lill#21, I love your commitment to the woman’s cause. In my book you are second only to Michelle in your unwavering loyalty to equality for women.
But I think you missed Sonja’s point in her post. I seems to me she was arguing that the condition that most of those poor women find themselves in is not of their choosing. They would probably have gotten an abortion if they were allowed to.
But the lawmakers who are passing laws like this are the very same ones that are forcing those women to have babies they don’t want. If you were forced to be a mother or more precisely a baby making machine, you might take drugs too.
I say you missed the point because of this statement in your post:
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“BUT the moment you accept your place as a freaking parent, then own it and get help if you have issues with drugs/alcohol or domestic issues,…”
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What makes you think those women who have been forced to carry to term have, or should for that matter, “accept” their “place as a freaking parent”?
Most of them are being forced to be parents. That is a recipe for child abuse before and after birth.
July 20th, 2014 at 8:19 pm
Michelle, if I may bring us back to topic. it’s mission to raid the US treasury has been spectacularly successful for these companies that build junk like this plane.
July 20th, 2014 at 8:21 pm
The beauty of it is No one can be held accountable. What a system.
Anyway, to lie to you, I will say I am happy to trade my mansion for something like this. Why? Because when I die my mansion could actually house some immigrants. Instead, this plane can be used to make sure immigrants stay way long after I am dead.
July 20th, 2014 at 8:22 pm
Yah well the Australian Government…
…Thinks it’s so good they just laid down another 12 Billion, yes Billion dollars on them. Funny thing is they are cutting pensions etc. and telling us we all have to share the pain, because times are sooooo hard.
July 20th, 2014 at 8:22 pm
There’s always money for war, er, defense.
July 20th, 2014 at 8:24 pm
Precisely;
It is hard to argue against the need to modernize except when there is no need to modernize. F15, F16 and FA18′s can all be upgraded, airframes & engines replaced and serve us very well for years to come.
Certainly many are worn out, but they can be replaced with far lower development costs. A10′s are singularly superb at what they do, but as I understand are being phased out.
The question comes, before we decide upon an aircraft, we have to decide upon who we are going to need to fight and frankly I don’t believe that anyone can best our current generation of aircraft.
July 20th, 2014 at 8:24 pm
If we can’t afford to educate our children, to heal our sick or care for our elderly …
… just what is it the defense budget is defending?
July 20th, 2014 at 8:26 pm
If our people are healthy, educated, and confident they are harder to control. Its easier to keep them sick, ignorant, and fearful, then they’ll believe it when you blame someone else for ruining their lives.
July 20th, 2014 at 8:27 pm
It still amazes me that people still think the Homeless, children and middle class should be a top priority. When in history has this ever been the case? The DOD budget is high because of Fear Mongering and the fat cat lining their pockets Pretty simple IMO.
July 20th, 2014 at 8:29 pm
Co-Designer of the famous F-16 explains why the F-35 is a failure and a dumb idea (10 min vid)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025128130
July 20th, 2014 at 9:07 pm
Just so you know, as much as I am not in those situations, Sonya, I do not ever vote for people who would do that to women in general … no matter where you think I lack ‘focus.’
Ellen, I get your point but it creates a cycle of horrifically tragic childhoods for unwanted babies so maybe they should just give them up for adoption if we cannot stop the forced pregnancies bc I will not stand down on the treatment of children …
…if you allow the mentality of ‘let’s give up one for many more’ attitude then we’ve truly reduced ourselves to a cattle planet
and methinks if it were sweet baby animals of any kind many people would be up in arms at the thought of such abuse …
…and no I’m not going soft as a female bc I say this either …
Sorry to burst your bubble on that.
Thanks for your two to both of you, I appreciate the dialogue, ZL
July 20th, 2014 at 10:57 pm
I agree with you Zen Lill#37. I will admit I don’t know how I would be mentally, if I were forced to carry a baby I didn’t want to term.
July 20th, 2014 at 11:17 pm
Janet#38, I can tell you what it is like to be forced to be a mother. I got pregnant at 15, by my mother’s boyfriend. He started raping me when I was 11 and continued until I got pregnant.
We are catholic so I was forced to have his baby. I drank, smoked, took drugs and did just about everything I could think of to kill that shit inside of me. I hated all the motherfuckers that fussed over me because I was pregnant. I hated that thing growing inside of me.
A week before I was due, I got on a plane for Australia. I went to the beach every day until my water broke. I waded out as deep as I dared to go and had that thing in the water, then I swam back to shore.
It was such a relief to get rid of it that I cried all night and then I took a flight back home . I told my family I gave it up for adoption. That was in 1992. I have 3 beautiful children and have never felt more satisfied for sending that thing to the sharks than I do today remembering how strong I was back then.
You people who come on this blog telling us how sad you feel for those things we women are forced to allow to grow inside of us have no idea what it’s like to have someone force you to allow a cancer to grow inside of you so they can see what it’s like when it pops out.
If you really had a heart you would feel sympathy for women like me who are forced by these sick men to harbor something inside of our bodies that feeds off us against our will.
You bitches that “feel” so deeply for those unborn babies would never accept any of us transplanting that zygote inside you so you could carry it to term without taking drugs.
That would be a different story. You want to “rescue” the thing as long as you can force someone else to have the parasite grow inside of them. But your bleeding hearts wouldn’t allow it to be put into your womb to nurse for 9 month or even 1 month.
Hypocrites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All your protestations to the contrary, you are but liars aiding and abetting these sick men. Unless you are willing to allow one of those unborn things to be transferred to your belly stay the fuck out of mine.
July 21st, 2014 at 4:47 am
Howie, you were correct about it being a Russian Buk that downed the Malaysian plane and the Russia complicity. There is a video that was sent to the US state department showing a launcher being moved back into Russia after flight MH17 crashed.
That video has made it’s way into the hands of several european countries. So has your post about Putin’s plans. Many are now stating to suggest that Europe and NATO specifically begin to prepare for a conflict with Putin’s aims.
My county the Netherlands is fed up with Putin’s lies and we want the bodies (193) of our dead back. Thank you for spilling light upon this criminal.
July 21st, 2014 at 5:02 am
Howie, I like others have used your post of the Putin involvement in the crash of MH17. I wish to correct some misunderstanding of some of the amateurs wanting to use their individual skills to help us.
First the flight originated from Amsterdam at 10:15 GMT. I was approved to and did pass through the air spaces of Germany, Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine. It was last heard from when it passed over The city of Donetsk in the Ukraine.
The passenger list released by Malaysia Airlines shows the plane was carrying 193 Dutch nationals, including one with dual US nationality.
Other victims included 43 Malaysians (including 15 crew), 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians, 10 Britons, four Germans, four Belgians, three from the Philippines, and one from both Canada and New Zealand.
July 21st, 2014 at 5:31 am
Anonz has arrived in Mexico. I saw him (mucho handsome hombre) when he was rescuing some of us from the Knights Templar cartel in my part of Michoacan. We were being taken from our homes and sold to their men as sexual slaves.
Michoacan is a state in Mexico. I live in a part of it called Tierra Caliente, about 20 miles from the town of Apatzingan. Us women have been used as the playthings of these criminals. Anonz brought many Mexican men who say they are Mexican migrants trained by him and returning to help Mexico fight these drug lords.
For the first time in my memory, we have a drug cartel on the run. That Anonz is kind to us women but he is a fierce and cunning adversary to these bandits. Many of us were being raped on a daily basis and if any resistance was made our men were killed and we never saw their bodies. We could not count on the police because they were working for the cartel.
Anonz called a meeting and told our town leaders they have to come to his classes and learn how to defend themselves because he is only here to help the women, but if they don’t learn how to defend themselves, the Cartel or some other bandits will return when he leaves because they will know that the men of this village are cowards or incapable of defending themselves.
I was so surprised how this gentle man could motivate my entire village to come together to learn how to use the weapons he brought with him and what he calls his “killer look” skills to track and combat the criminals.
He insisted that those of us women who are capable learn alongside of the men. He told them that if they sexually harassed us he would personally remove their balls and penis.
I was frightened at first but in my first fight the feeling of excitement took over and I have to say I was able to use the training he gave us to shoot, kill, capture and hang many who before had pushed my head in to the dirt as they raised my dress and raped me from behind.
God Bless Anonz he is a champion of women everywhere.
July 21st, 2014 at 5:58 am
I wish Anonz could make it to Pakistan we women here are being legally murdered in honor killings. The men get to use this a means of terrifying women into marriages they don’t want.
July 21st, 2014 at 6:20 am
#39 Casey & #42 Mina & GW, reading your stories is making me hate men other than the few and far between Anonz types.
Casey, I get it and I will humbly step down from protecting the children though it still troubles me fr society, you took a bold stance and I’m sure that took mega-strength to carry out your mission. Unfortunately the ones that are born and raised (unwanted children) grow up to be our next round of psychopath/sociopaths…and so I wish there was an Anonz available to serve the women of every country in making their men either protect them properly or learning how to handle a weapon on their own.
I wish him safety on the missions he goes on to serve the women of this world …
And now I’ll just be shutting the fuck up …
Luv, Zen Lill
July 21st, 2014 at 6:59 am
Zen Lill, I hope you will NEVER shut up. Women need your voice.
July 21st, 2014 at 7:55 am
Zen Lill:
I hope I didn’t offend you. I have been reading this blog for 5 years and you have been a big part of the reason I continue to come back. I was not trying to change anyone’s mind about those poor babies that are borne deformed.
I just wanted to speak for the women who are being forced to carry those unwanted things inside their bodies. I have been married for 11 years and I have 3 beautiful children that I wanted and love very much. I would never smoke or take anything that would imperil the safety of a child I was carrying in my womb that I wanted to have.
I am very happy and don’t have one second of regret that I got rid of that thing that was forced in me. I feel no different than any cancer patient that has had a huge unwanted growth removed from their bodies.
Until a woman has experienced being forced to carry something like that inside of her for 9 months, she has no right to tell those that are forced to how they should feel about that invasion upon their person.
July 21st, 2014 at 8:01 am
Please don’t shut up Zen Lill#44, we love hearing your opinion. It is nice to know that you are not above taking a step back if you feel you have offended or misspoke on an issue.
I now see another point of view. But as a Catholic, I still believe that if a woman gets pregnant it is God’s wish that she do everything in her power to insure that that child is born healthy.
Abortion in my view is not an option.
July 21st, 2014 at 9:03 am
GW, Casey & Alice,
I only meant I was shutting up on this issue … thanks for commenting though and Casey you needn’t apologize bc if I haven’t lived it I shouldn’t be commenting on what you went through, for that I apologize to you.
Now, if any of you all would like information on dealing with somatic or intellectual narcissists, that topic I can speak on *sigh* (and fek) …
I got asked on a date by a woman yesterday and I’m seriously considering it … most men don’t deserve the respect of someone like me.
Luv, Zen Lill