Showing posts with label voters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voters. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Voting is not getting the results we expect ed...hmmm

"Information about Gonorrhea Lectim=

[read aloud to pronounced it correctly ]

The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of this old disease. The disease is called "Gonorrhea Lectim." It's pronounced "Gonna re-elect 'em," and it is a terrible obamanation.

The disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior involving putting your cranium up your rectum. Many victims contracted it in 2008...but now most people, after having been infected for the past 1-2 years, are starting to realize how destructive this sickness is.

It's sad because Gonorrhea Lectim is easily cured with a new drug just coming on the market called Votemout. You take the first dose in 2010 and the second dose in 2012 and simply don't engage in such behavior again; otherwise, it could become permanent and eventually wipe out all life as we know it.

Several states are already on top of this, like Virginia and New Jersey , and apparently now Massachusetts , with many more seeing the writing on the wall.

Please pass this important message on to all those bright folk you really care about"

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and these thoughts follow after what happens when we do vote or hope:

Let us try not to catch the dis-ease called [illusionary] "hope" with the continual cliches made as "promises" of cures - that then do not occur in real life & time, as they are
only self-serving words .

There is no research to prove that "hope" provides any real actual events -
though it is known to be a pacifier that falsely reassures all publics to "do nothing"- thus nothing is actually done to prevent another repeat of prior thievery, corruptions, lies, and more frauds. Including bailouts of the same people who create financial chaos for the many and profits for them few.

If USA TODAY reports that 70-80% of American public is against bailouts and some of these have written their congress and govt, and yet....the bailouts sail right on thru with the secret consent of those who previously worked for those same money-rich-power-full corporations, what kind of OLIGARCHY are we denying we are in ?

"Hope" as defined by politicians and thieves, is intended to pacify, to lull and to keep inert all dissent, revolt, or live actions. That means everyone with a differing opinion than they one that profits those few who OWN us all . This helps create the proper environment for more proliferation of more fraudulent acts that impoverish many and profit the powerful few. Again.

and Again.

and More.

Again.

what is going on here ? in this republic, democracy, voting with honest resolve .... what ?


Sorry, but the CDC and other health authorities have no information on how to discern all the political fake fronts with their dis-eases and 'agricultural policies' made by giant corporations- the fear mongering created by body diseases that again profit corporations, drug companies, animal feed and animal prison farms.

The media helpfully disseminate all of their flapping faxes of P.R. to keep us in FEAR and afraid, and waiting for someone to tell us when and what we can eat, drink, think, and buy. Of course.

The advertising from the same corporations that sell us stuff is used to sell us FEAR and anxiety and pills to quell those tremors. Most Media is owned and obligated to those who pay them to advertise and thus pay salaries. Reporting is repeating PR material faxed hourly everywhere.

And excuses are made about any future disasters and more thefts. There is inadequate funding for more research in the area of voter acquiescence, pubic conformity, American dulled minds, and how USA politics interacts with those believing in hopeful lies, once again.

What is wrong here, in the "freest country in the whole world" ? hmmmm ?

We 'the American People' vote and yet an 'electoral college' decides what we want ? Only 2 same-old same-ones choices allowed, more of the same only permitted.

Political campaigns now more easily paid for by inhuman-like Corporations, that own us in all other ways as well ? Corporations are just humans in powered moneyed forms ? But they pay taxes at different than human rates and often are 'overseas' based so not even here at all ?

Hope?

for change that comes in tiny increments if at all, but promises repeat the same words we voters think we want. We want "hope" instead of truth. We demand illusions instead of actions. We are powerless and depressed already and realize we vote for nothing more than the same we had when we thought we had "hope" before.

Sad.

Sorry.

Futile.

Vote.

and wonder....what went wrong when ?
hmmm....

[c] 2010 maryjanie

Friday, June 4, 2010

CA Assembley Passed Bill to eliminate free plastic bags

CA Assembley Passed Bill to eliminate free plastic bags

see latest article from LA Times online:

http://mobile.latimes.com/inf/infomo?view=page7&feed:a=latimes_1min&feed:c=localnews&feed:i=54078612


"Californians would no longer get plastic bags at supermarket check-out stands ...[snip]

....The hottest debate Wednesday was in the state Assembly, which voted 41 to 27 to pass a bill that would ban single-use plastic grocery bags — the first of its kind in the nation, according to lawmakers and environmentalists.

Shoppers would have to bring reusable bags to the store or pay at least 5 cents each for recycled paper bags at the checkout counter.[snip]

Schwarzenegger has indicated that he would sign the bill, AB 1998 by Assemblywoman Julia Brownley (D-Santa Monica), if it passes the Senate as expected. [snip]

The measure was sponsored by
Santa Monica group Heal the Bay.

Cities including
San Francisco, Palo Alto, Malibu and others across the country have already instituted such bans. "It's easier to have a statewide ban than it is to have to figure out how to operate city to city," said Assembly Speaker John Pérez (D- Los Angeles).

The California Grocers Assn. has endorsed the ban [snip ] "


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commentary:

[of course ! saves stores' money and they gain from paper bag sales now too ]

anything 'free' is called a luxury we cannot afford to get, so now pay 5c for paper bag or bring your own ?? huh?

because some people think they are saving the environment from our REUSING plastic for leaky wet garbage in cans too ?

The rest of the world is still free to smoke or use plastic bags, but not in
California ...huh ?
Free choice to choke ourselves or recycle our products is removed by a govt paid for by whom?

We may wonder who also PROFITS and gains from these 'bans'..even transfat oils...
good to label all foods, good to give information, teach people to read, help people to decide but NOT to decide FOR THEM...by govt decree...

and some of us who thought we were 'liberal' before cannot agree to have others liberally remove OUR FREEDOM OF CHOICE as in small consumer items... and it is hard to liberally agree to have our liberty removed by those who do NOT represent us, when we vote regularly.

what do you think of this ?
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please WRITE your state senator and Assemblyperson too and just in 1 sentence give your opinion, whatever it is YOU chose it to be. Or write them all, because Assembly is not the Senate tho the Gov wants this to pass for his own political reasons, not for our good, for His mostly.

Some Points you may want to add:

Remind them that we need waterproof plastic bags to RECYCLE for other uses, or purchasing them is another basic-living cost...

that those who disregard & discard are probably the 10% for whom the 90% responsible recyclers are being asked to pay for now.

Without input from voters, the Assembly has decided for us from lobbyists, even do-gooders, but those in richer
Santa Monica that are NOT representative of California as a whole

That we need proofs and surveys that show they asked the general public before taking this act and they do Not Represent US when they act on their own biases.

With our common basic living is not lowered while our salaries & savings have diminished, every penny counts, even if govt officials have well-paying jobs and it is 'nothing' to them.

Carrying bags everywhere is inconvenient & often insufficient when doing a full shopping trip. It is an additional burden to carry bags around all the time.

Those who manufacture those bags are winners, the consumers are losers now.

It's like another fee/ tax on us.


WRITE or CALL:


CA Senators from wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Senate#Senators scroll 2/3 way down and click on a familiar name

CA Assembley-people from wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Assembly scroll down to any one you want to contact on their page or get their email

CA governor to contact: [see "email" which includes 1 page, goes to page 2 for content ]
http://www.gov.ca.gov/



EVERY LITTLE ACT BRINGS ON ENERGY AND WILLINGNESS TO DO EVEN MORE AS NEEDED.

DO A LITTLE. LEARN A LOT. BE MORE POWERFUL.

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our email written to Gov Schwartznegger re plastic ban bill passed: at his website: 6/3/10 at http://govnews.ca.gov/govmail/webmail.php


"Because most of Californians RECYCLE and reuse these plastic bags for many uses, including leaky garbage, and other daily uses/needs, the charging or substitution for paper bags or cloth is not suitable and becomes costly.

Easy for govt officials on high salaries to dismiss 'pennies' as if they can be discarded, as are the penny-saving people in this state. To have 10% who misuse and are irresponsible is not a reason to ban or punish the 90% who are thrifty, cautious, re-using plastic items of all kinds, and who are being 'banned' out of their own free choices and rights.

To not have adequate surveys or input to the bill the Assembly just passed that YOU seem to like for your own political reasons [image and alliances] is not a way to to make a good choice to make for the 'rest of us'. We were not asked for our choices. We were informed that those claiming to represent us have "passed" a bill...for their own reasons [exaggerations & platitudes dont count as actual facts].

We are disappointed in your acting not for the common people but for the few who you like and may benefit from. We do not benefit from these interferences in our personal lifestyles, livelihood, and good clean decent habits.

Please stick to what you have been elected to do and stay out of making consumer choices that are not protective nor financially helpful to 'the American people'.

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"No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this we become free. FEAR is always an anticipation of what has NOT yet come. FEAR is our gross national product & export."

"wherever you are is home, and earth is a sacred place"

(C) maryjanie 2010

Friday, February 26, 2010

The "millennials" are surveyed by Pew and makes many people wonder...

This information has been selected from the sites below to disseminate the information openly.
Please refer to the full report for more details.
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Source:


http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1501/millennials-new-survey-generational-personality-upbeat-open-new-ideas-technology-bound [site containis graphs but not all of these can be copied ]


"the American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium -- have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change.[snip]...



They are more ethnically and racially diverse than older adults. They're less religious, less likely to have served in the military, and are on track to become the most educated generation in American history.
[snip]...



Their entry into careers and first jobs has been badly set back by the Great Recession, but they are more upbeat than their elders about their own economic futures as well as about the overall state of the nation


See chapter 4 in the full report) [[ it's 149 pp on PDF file]] ...[snip]...



Only about six-in-ten were raised by both parents -- a smaller share than was the case with older generations. In weighing their own life priorities, Millennials (like older adults) place parenthood and marriage far above career and financial success. But they aren't rushing to the altar.



Just one-in-five Millennials (21%) are married now, half the share of their parents' generation at the same stage of life. About a third (34%) are parents, according to the Pew Research survey.



We estimate that, in 2006, more than a third of 18 to 29 year old women who gave birth were unmarried. This is a far higher share than was the case in earlier generations.




(See chapters 2 and 3 in the full report) .[snip]...



[snip].....Among 18 to 24 year olds a record share -- 39.6% -- was enrolled in college as of 2008 ...



And now, hard times have kept a significant share of adult Millennials and their parents under the same roof. About one-in-eight older Millennials (ages 22 and older) say they've "boomeranged" back to a parent's home because of the recession. (See chapters 3 and 5 in the
full report)...... [snip]...



...relatively few Millennials -- just 2% of males -- are military veterans. At a comparable stage of their life cycle, 6% of Gen Xer men, 13% of Baby Boomer men and 24% of Silent men were veterans. (See chapter 2 in the full report)......[snip]...



...About half of Millennials say the president has failed to change the way Washington works, which had been the central promise of his candidacy. Of those who say this, three-in-ten blame Obama himself, while more than half blame his political opponents and special interests......[snip]..



They are still more likely than any other age group to identify as Democrats. Yet by early 2010, their support for Obama and the Democrats had receded, as evidenced both by survey data and by their low level of participation in recent off-year and special elections. (See chapter 8 in the
full report)......[snip]...



AND MORE HERE:


Source: December 2009 Current Population Survey (CPS)

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1437/millennials-profile



"... we focus on Millennials who are at least 18 years old.... roughly 50 million Millennials who currently span the ages of 18 to 29 ...[y.o.]... [ this report ] profiles the roughly 50 million Millennials ......[snip]...



...Most of the findings in this report are based on a new survey of a national cross-section of 2,020 adults (including an oversample of Millennials), conducted by landline and cellular telephone from Jan. 14 to 27, 2010; this survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.0 percentage points for the full sample...[SNIP] .... we also know this is not an exact science....


Most Millennials (61%) in our January 2010 survey say their generation has a unique and distinctive identity. That doesn't make them unusual, however. Roughly two-thirds of Silents, nearly six-in-ten Boomers and about half of Xers feel the same way about their generation...[snip]...24% say it's because of their use of technology......[snip]...



Boomers' feelings of distinctiveness coalesce mainly around work ethic, which 17% cite as their most prominent identity badge. For Silents, it's the shared experience of the Depression and World War II, which 14% cite as the biggest reason their generation stands apart.



..Millennials are the only one that doesn't cite "work ethic" as one of their principal claims to distinctiveness...Asked who has the better work ethic, about three-fourths of respondents said that older people do....[snip]



Likewise, Millennials are more receptive to immigrants than are their elders.. .[snip] The same pattern holds on a range of attitudes about nontraditional family arrangements, from mothers of young children working outside the home, to adults living together without being married, to more people of different races marrying each other....[snip]



Some 41% of Millennials say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the country, compared with just 26% of those ages 30 and older......[snip]


see [Download Complete Report [PDF ]



They are the most ethnically and racially diverse cohort of youth in the nation's history.

Among those ages 13 to 29:


18.5% are Hispanic;


14.2% are black;


4.3% are Asian;


3.2% are mixed race or other; and


59.8%, a record low, are white



They are the least religiously observant youths since survey research began charting religious behavior.



They are more inclined toward trust in institutions than were either of their two predecessor generations -- Gen Xers (who are now ages 30 to 45) and Baby Boomers (now ages 46 to 64) when they were coming of age



[[why this trust...trust is what ? trust how ? huh ? bailouts is not in their vocabulary nor is bankrupcy yet ? huh ?]]


also:



One is the life cycle effect. The biological impact of aging and the changing roles that people play as they grow older typically produce changes in attitudes and scial behaviors over time. In short, young people may be different from older people today, but they may well become more like them tomorrow, once they themselves age.



The second is the cohort effect. Generation differences can be the byproduct of the unique historical circumstances that members of an age cohort experience during adolescence and young adulthood, when awareness of the wider world deepens and personal identities and values systems are being strongly shaped. The unique nature of the times imprints itself on each successive age cohort, producing differences that persist even as a cohort ages and moves through the life cycle.


In addition to life cycle and cohort effects, there are also period effects. These are major events (wars, social movements, scientific or technological breakthroughs) that are likely to have a simultaneous impact on all age groups, though, again, their impact is often greatest among the young because their values and habits are less fixed than those of other age groups.



The most common approach to trying to understand how each of these processes plays out ...at different times to track changes in the attitudes and behavior of cohorts as they age. [snip]



...that there is an upward trend in acceptance of interracial dating in most cohorts as time passes. For instance, just 36% of the "Silent" generation (born before 1946) approved in the first interviews in 1987, but by 2009, 67% of members of this cohort approved .. [snip]


....the continuing cultural forces also persuaded some individuals to change their views on this topic at some point during adulthood.It is also possible that the growing racial and ethnic diversity of the U.S. population over this period contributes to the trend, since blacks and Hispanics are more supportive of interracial dating than are whites ...


[[ what creates changes of attitudes and behaviors is not part of survey, only surmises of other cultural, political, religious and practices in arenas such as immigration, transportation, technological invovations make a difference.... change does not 'just occur' in any vacuum. ]]



so decide for yourself what this survey tells us about our decendants and the future they will 'hold' for us and the earth itself....how caring,

how active,

how independent,

how non-militaristic,

if not-passive,

how critical thinking

and how benevolent and generous these 'new' folks are and will be.





The future is not dependent upon them, neither mostly nor alone as a group, but they in this USA will have a say and act as a model, as shown in movies, in social technology, in advertising the USA ways of life. What have we taught them, or what has been taken out of parental family hands and handed to the governments, states, privatized-contractors for the states and local institutions and
out of actual ancestestral influence.



ill millenialls be more followers than leaders ? more self-absorbed in their electronic toys than in their human humane contact ? more reliant on things-ready-made-and-purchased ? more led by instant media and thus with less time and inclination to think for themselves?


and then what ?


will the changes that must occur be beneficial ?


for them ?


for the sentient beings on this planet ?


for the future of this biosphere ?

what then ?


what then ?


what now ?






"No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this we become free.
FEAR is always an anticipation of what has NOT yet come.
FEAR is our gross national product & export.



"wherever you are is home, and earth is a sacred place"

(c) maryjanie 2010