Thursday, September 11, 2014

9/11 In Remembrance

We all know exactly where we were the moment that everything started going down in New York, something that had been completely unthinkable, that no one could ever be able to touch our country ever had been broken.

13 years ago on this day, our great nation was attacked, and while we now know more today than we did back then. The load of theories that came up, both factual and completely idiotic, became the near main stream with the Republicans calling all of them except for the ones that they released at the time crack pot ideas. They made sure that none of them were believed at all.

However as time passed and more and more things started to get proven over time, it meant that the correct truth was continuing to come out, what really happened with the attacks that took place. In all honesty this is the day that will go down as two things. 1)The day that other countries learned not to piss us off lest we retaliate (of course some still haven't learned that yet), and 2)A party's true face came to light that day. Now I'm not going to take that my eyes were opened right off the bat, but I'll tell you this right here and now that I used to be a blind Republican back then. However once I started learning the truth, I realized that I couldn't be with a party that kept telling lies to their own party and to the rest of the people of this country.

Now I've been trying to think of everything that I could write for this, but in truth, there's really not much that I can write considering that we all know that Bush and company allowed this to happen since they figured that if they ignored the warnings that it would go away. Sorry but that's not happening and didn't happen. Instead we were attacked, and now we know that not only did Bin Laden do it, but Bush and company allowed them to do it in the first place, to not only piss us off, but at the same time to get us into a war of their choosing. That's not even the correct way of running a country. Personally I'm thrilled that the Republicans aren't in the White House. However this November, we have to make sure that they don't continue to ruin our country. We must purge them out of office period.


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Felix Sanchez
Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
My Political World Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Political-World/

Monday, September 8, 2014

The end of Citizens United…Or is it?

The one thing that has been a thorn in the side of voters, dems, and those that are any other color other than red, has been Citizens United. In truth it really shouldn't be named that in the first place, after all the citizens aren't united in giving unlimited money to the rich and the Republican's, hell the worst words that were ever said by a Republican "Corporations are people too." Ye…no they're not. Corporations are run by people however they don't live think and breath like we do, and they sure as hell don't pay taxes like the rest of us do.

Nope, when that came down from the conservative idiots of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), that basically was the green light for the ultra rich to do whatever the hell they please. Well right now, in the Congressional Senate, an Amendment to the United States Constitution is passing right now to not only end Citizens United, but to make sure that money is completely kept out of politics forever.

Now what might this mean for you and I, well for one thing it means that the Kochs and their ilk can no longer buy the political world like they've been doing since Bush Jr. had been in office (and if you don't think that happens to be the case, then you've been watching Fox News for way too damned long), and where they've been making sure that those of minorities have been not only getting punished, but also making sure that they can't vote in the least. Trust me on this, even having a state issued ID card, doesn't cut it for some states. Nope in some of them, even if you've got that ID card, you actually need to have a full on driver's license. Here's the catch though, you can only get one of those if you're going to be driving a car. So if you're not driving, you don't get that card, and you don't get to vote either. Now this only seems to be happening in red Republican controlled states, in blue states you can have an ID card that government issued and still be able to vote.

This right here is actually good for us when it comes to Citizens United getting torn down; however there's a little wrinkle to the entire plan. That wrinkle is the Republicans in the Congressional House. They're the ones now that this now has to go through, and more than likely they're going to vote the way of their masters and end all of this making sure that Citizens United stays going, saying some stupid idiot thing like "this is what the citizens want in the first place, why would they end something that deals with them." Well it doesn't, the rich citizens yes, but the middle and lower classes, it has never dealt once with them and it never will either.

Now we just have to wait and find out what happens in the House, I for one am not going to be surprised if the House kills this, I honestly won't be surprised in the least.


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Felix Sanchez
Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
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Saturday, September 6, 2014

Social Media: The Real Fifth Estate

 

Now with that title one would honestly think of the movie The Fifth Estate, well no. I'm not talking about anything like that at all, and to be honest I don't either condemn what he did nor do I support it. However if you think about it, we're already doing that today with social media.

Now how might you ask are we doing that? Well with the better advents of Facebook, Google+ (G+ for short), Twitter, etc, they allow people to connect faster than ever before. So instead of having to wait for a newspaper to come out with the latest news, one just has to have access to one of the above to know what's going on. Plus with smart phones, we can take photos and video and share them over the internet for just about everyone to be able to see and have a video go viral in a matter of moments. This right there is the true and real fifth estate.

One of the things that social media can do these days that seem to be either escaping some people minds or they just want to ignore it and hope that it happens to go away, is to change the course of the way governments and politics run and take place. Now there are those out there that fully understand this and try to take full advantage of it, both good and bad. However for those that think that they can control social media and what is placed out there, that right there is a fools run. After all as it has been proven time and again, the net is protected under the first amendment as free speech, and that means over all that those that want to have a voice (doesn't matter if it's the truth or not) will get to have their say.

On that note right there, the goal I for one try to make sure of is that the truth gets out there about the Republican Party and everything that they're trying to do to make sure that they can not only take over the government, but to also at the same time correct the mistake that they made before which is to get rid of the US Constitution and invoke Marshal Law and make the Bible only the law of the land. At which point, both the military and the local citizens would go completely nuts over everything that was going on.

However enough of that, for one thing the Republicans favor too much that document that they keep trashing left and right and only wish to make sure that they can do whatever they can to make sure that people believe one thing and not the only and then flip it. It's one of these reasons that there are more people changing from being Republican than actually move towards it in the first place. However more often than not, their only media outlet Fox News actually does grab the attention of those that it seeks for and when they do, they try and make sure that they get their gospel word out to their faithful followers. It doesn't always stick, but when it does, we have stupidity coming from all corners of the country.

Look the only reason why I condemn the Republican Party as much as I do, is because while Bush had been in office (and yes I'm going back to him, and you'll see a lot of people going back to him because he really did screw this nation up, him and the rest of the people that were working with him, along with those that were lobbying for him in the first place, along with all of the churches and people that shouldn't've been doing it in the first place (however that list is so bloody long that you'll be still reading this straight for the next three days tops, if not longer depending on how fast you read in the first place).), I started to look at what was really going on, and I realized that there really was some messed up things. For one trying to give more and more power to the next President (though they had been hoping for a Republican President, but lost on that note), and to take power out of the hands of Congress, doesn't matter if it happens to be the Senate or the House. The debt ending up skyrocketing, not just because of the war that was taking place, but also because the people of this nation couldn't spend anything on crap that they didn't need in the first place. Plus no matter what they kept saying, everything that they didn't want us to see we saw anyway. Take for example the original theater operation name that they had for the Iraq war; it was originally called Operation Iraqi Liberation. Yeah they realized they screwed up, and when they hoped that no one noticed, they changed it from Liberation to Freedom. Here's the hitch of that, the reason why they changed it as fast as they tried to in the first place is because the original theater name was also spelling out the real reason they had invaded in the first place, the OIL. So when they realized they screwed up, they hoped that no one would notice and they changed it over to Freedom. Yeah people noticed and started letting others notice as well. So what do you do when that happens, you try and discredit them as conspiracy people never to be taken seriously. Only problem with that little idea was that the price for fuel here in the US started going up like crazy, and that's when people started to take notice.

Now all of this took place during the first set of four years that Bush was in office for in the first place, which means that there's still the other set of four years. Well that right there is all because of the tax breaks that were supposed to do the one thing that they never really did in the first place, and that was to create jobs. Come on, trickle down was a joke that Reagan came up with to make sure that the rich could not only get their money, but also keep it as well. So with everything that Bush was doing while in office, it was continuing to screw up the country to no end. Thing was, people actually believed that the trickle down actually worked considering that Clinton had a surplus while in office. The only reason why Clinton had a surplus was because he was able to do the one thing that Republicans can't seem to do EVER, and that's balance a budget. All they seem to do is spend like crazy and then blame someone else for not balancing what they spent in the first place.

Now there's a reason why I brought up Bush once again like I've done several times in the past, and that's because we can't forget what him and the rest of the Republicans have done to this nation and will do once again if they not only keep the House, but get a hold of the Senate as well. Not only will it be bad for this nation, but with all of the players in place, it sets the country up for the biggest fall in the history of the nation, one that even I'm doubting we'll ever be able to recover from. This is why we have a fifth estate that the Republicans can't control, after all if they could control social media, then they'd have this year's midterm election in the bag. Right now they've got the news (at least with Fox News), they've got the TEA Party (which even they're regretting right now too), they've got their rich masters, and they've got the money. However the one thing that they don't have right now is you and I, voters are the one wild card for each election, and if they fully take over, in both Congress and the White House then they can be able to strip away the Constitution and fully do everything that they've been wanting to do. This is honestly something that we can't allow them to do no matter what, so come November, make sure that you vote and get rid of the Republicans once and for all.


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Saturday, February 8, 2014

Life Plan B getting changed to A

Question, when does Life Plan B become Life Plan A, Answer when the economy is not giving you a choice and your dream ends up getting put on hold for the rest of your life.

 

That right there is the main reason why a lot of people these days end up going to college and they get asked, what is it that you want to do, and the answer most often doesn’t fit what the college mainly offers when it comes to what your dream career happens to be in the first place. Personally I have zero desire to go into a field that happens to have zero openings in the least; yes certain new laws are opening the doors for those areas, but in truth, the area ends up becoming flooded with new applicants to the point that they’ll end up hiring very little of those that actually apply in the first place.

 

Yes the medical field and science field is a very high paying area to work in, but who in their right minds ever decides that their dream career is going to be that in the first place, usually that’s the secondary one that becomes the main stay for only a short time. However when certain factors prevent your dream from becoming the truth in the first place why is it that Life Plan B gets turned into A. Not only is that not right, it shouldn’t be happening in truth.

 

However all too often those dreams are getting destroyed and there isn’t anything that one can actually do to stop that. Personally I want to be a writer and get paid for that, I’ve even got a book out there right now in eBook format, however with no one ever buying the book, my back up plan is now becoming the main stay, and the end result is that I continue to stay in the current world that I happen to live in, which is being homeless. The one thing that I want most in the world is to have a place to live in, for not only me but also for my wife, and that’s the one thing that I honestly can’t provide right now because the level of pay that we’re forced to have right now is getting completely screwed over by those that are currently in charge right now. They not only refuse to raise the min wage, they honestly want EVERYONE to think that by having the min wage raised that it’ll end up killing jobs, actually in fact it not only won’t, it’ll jump not only the economy, but at the same time it’ll bring production to an to a high like never before.

 

Republicans on the other hand don’t want that at all, no they want to keep their money and make sure that this nation is kept only for their masters, those that would rather have the corporations in control over everything in the first place. Well for me, that’s not going to sit well at all. I’m sorry but I don’t want to get paid min wage for the rest of my life while the cost of everything around me goes right through the roof with no ending in site. Yes I’m a writer, but since my eBook (which is science fiction by the way) isn’t selling like I’d hoped it would, well then Life Plan B becomes A out of lack of choice, and right now my plan B is constantly looking for a job that I can’t get because of the things that I need and don’t have. Yes I’m going to be going back to school, but that’s not going to solve the current and first off problem because of the economy at the current state that it happens to be. And even though my book is extremely low cost, and the app is free to get for your phone (or tablet), not everyone is into science fiction, and I understand that, so I do my best each day to make sure that the book gets out there to sell, because I want my Life Plan A to stay my Life Plan A and not become B.

 

Question is, what do you want?


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Felix Sanchez
Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
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Monday, December 30, 2013

End of the year BLOW OUT!!!!

2013...2013...2013..., what an amazing year that we've had, and believe me this is going to be one year that we happen to look back and think, what the fuck were we thinking!! After all this year the Republicans have done even more that one could even think of to lie their way into EVERYONE's homes and to continue to try and take over the country and rule for the rich.

I mean all the way from Paul Ryan admitting that they wanted to destroy the healthcare system for the American people (http://youtu.be/R2AHp9YKzrY) to the Duck Dynasty interview (http://www.gq.com/entertainment/television/201401/duck-dynasty-phil-robertson) where the guy really didn't know what he was talking about when it came to the Bible.

But beyond those two, there have been other things that have been making the political news, like the filibuster gone nuts in Texas with future Texas Gov Wendy Davis, for which the Republicans in charge there tried to change it so that her filibuster didn't count or matter and everyone caught onto that little scam that they did there. However thanks to Perry, it was still pushed through and her efforts had been naught.

Now I know that you might be expecting a whole year long blog entry here that would cover everything that's happened, however that's not the one thing that I can do. After all between running the page and helping run the group and writing my stories (that I'm currently still having a hard time trying to sell right now). But with all the past entries it still gives you a chance to read over those as well.

However what do the past lesson of this year mean for the coming year and the future, for me it means more than ever that the GOP need to be purged out of office and that their reign of terror that they've been bringing on us needs to end, that if we can get rid of Fox News, that would also help things out. So yes I am looking forward to the elections that happen this year, getting rid of the Republican contenders that show up in June, and then doing a full on out Purge in November. This is going to be one year coming up that's going to be different for EVERYONE.

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Felix Sanchez
Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
My Political World Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Political-World/
Ninja Chronicles Blog (fictional): http://ninjachroniclesstories.blogspot.com/
Ninja Chronicles: The Return Blog (fictional): http://ninjachroniclesthereturn.blogspot.com/

Monday, November 25, 2013

Holiday hell on wheels

I know that it's again been a while since I last wrote an entry for this blog, but considering that I've been doing a bit of fictional writing and publishing (Ninja Chronicles for the Nook, and the Kindle, shameless plug, but hey it's my blog :D, and they're both only $2.99), but considering that politics doesn't end or hold even when I happen to be writing this, I figured that it's about time that I wrote something considering everything that I've been seeing, namely since I've already written something for my local hometown paper that I deliver three days a week the Martinez News-Gazette, however this right here I figured might be time considering EVERYTHING that the morons over at Fox Lies and the GOP idiotic command center have been putting out.

Now just today, I've noticed that the CEO board controlled Walmart is at it yet again, the employees are getting the royal shafting thanks to Sam Walt's vision being totally destroyed by the ones that were put into control after his death, and no it's not his son. His son never wanted the company, and so handed the entire thing over to the board of directors who then went and did the one thing that would've gotten them all fired had Walt still be alive to this day, basically made working conditions like crap, which then in turn goes over to the customers seeing as there are things that should be there that aren't. (Believe me, one visit to the bathrooms, I know not the best to go on but still, shows you what's going on.) Either way it doesn't help things that Walmart has now become the impossible store, impossible because they can't be stop, protested against, or boycotted at all. After all one still has to go there for things that you can't get literally any where else (including online), It's because of this that they've become the Impossible Store that's what doesnt help anyone or anything at all. Plus what they've done because of the poor pay that they refuse to raise (and they're also one of the companies behind eliminating min wage, which means that if they do that, then we'll get the same level of pay that the sweatshops overseas (and down south) get for their workers. So unlike the TEAPublican's fake war on whatever they decide for the week there's a war over, this right here is a war on people right to work here in the US fairly.

Plus the one thing that I don't happen to like is the GOP beating a dead horse all over again, and this time not everyone is going for it. So while President Obama and the White House actually deal with a very real crisis (one that if a Republican had been in control of the White House would've let it go right to hell, then again if a Republican had been in control, we'd still be fighting and endless war overseas right now) namely with a religious zealot country having nukes, the GOP in this country is still going nuts over the ACA site, considering that even if you can't get through on the site, there's still the phone option too.

The one thing that I have noticed is that the GOP have their idiots already lining up to try and take the White House in 2016, kicker is, they're not looking to what happens in 2014. After all 2014 is where the turning point is going to be when House reps get fired so that way we can actually take back the country from those that would like to completely destroy it. I've seen a few reports that have been saying that the Democrats could lose both the House and the Senate, but the fact of the matter is, people are tired of the TEAPublicans and everything that they're doing in order to make sure that nothing works, and then placing blame on the President even though it was them that did it all in the first place.

So I will continue to harp on everything that the Republicans do to make sure that this country isn't ever going to work again, and still continue to call for a Republican Purge in 2014, each and every single one of them getting fired and tossed out of the House and Senate to make sure that we can actually take back this country for the working people.

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Felix Sanchez
Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
My Political World Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Political-World/
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Saturday, November 2, 2013

Biggest unknown breakdown in history

Considering everything that the Republicans have been doing as of late, including screwing over the people of this once great nation (and I say once, because it's thanks to that party right there that we've fallen so far from grace that other countries are really starting...no they're not starting, they already hate the crap out of us right now thanks to these morons). Unless one is looking right at everything that's currently going on right now, and there are a few people out there that I've talked to that have zero idea what's really going on, it's like they want to have a blanket of blinders always covering their eyes.

Now one of those things that I've noticed, and this came out a few days ago, and it's that TEAPublican Senator Ted Cruz is being likened to that of Jesus Christ. Now aside from the fact that TEAPots are becoming the biggest religious zealots in this country, we're look at a group of people that would like to destroy EVERYTHING that has made this country now one of the best that has ever been created on this world.

Now aside from the Republicans self imploding on their own party, there are a few of them that realize what's going on and are actually breaking away from the pack and understand that they can't continue with the norm that has become of the rest of the party.

Yet the kicker is, from what I've seen of those that want to keep those blinders, they honestly still continue to think that the Republicans will actually take over the Senate and maintain control of the House. Thing is with the shutdown behind us and the possibility of another one before us right now, the Republicans don't realize that they're shooting themselves not only in the foot, but at the same time, in the head. I honestly think that the ones that are doing this in the first place don't ever want to think that they really doing it in the first place. I've stated this several times before that they honestly think that they're doing the will of the people, but the will of the people is nothing that the Republicans are doing in the first place. Now the Republicans and they're sound machine continue to say that Obama is the worst thing for this country, and yet everything for this country is actually starting to get better despite the Republican obstruction that they're doing in the first place.

With the Party of No self imploding, this actually is going to be a good thing for this country, because the fallout is going to be something that is going to actually benefit those that would like to see this country become great again, and one of the ways that this country will become great again is to stop being isolationist, reform immigration laws, and show that we do welcome other nations in, and that we're not all racist. However as long as the TEA Party continues their murderous rampage, that's going to be extremely hard to prove.

We need to end the Koch sponsored TEA Party, and return this nation to the glory we had before them, and kick the religious nuts out of the government forever.

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Felix Sanchez
Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
My Political World Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Political-World/
Ninja Chronicles Blog (fictional): http://ninjachroniclesstories.blogspot.com/
Ninja Chronicles: The Return Blog (fictional): http://ninjachroniclesthereturn.blogspot.com/