Great White?
Greetings and salutations from the sand, sun and surf of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and the once again sunny, temperate, beautiful island of Nantucket! Great to be with you on this Wednesday morning, the 11th day of July, 2012, another stunning day on the Cape and Islands as we all have been enjoying what most in southern California experience year round, say in Newport Beach for example–sunny skies and dry air, with temperatures in the lower to mid 70’s…, perfect for watching the Great White Sharks that have been spotted off of Coast Guard Beach in the fair lower Cape town of Chatham, as you look up at “Chatham Light” where the first pilgrims on the Mayflower and other vessels actually landed in the early part of the 17th century. At the ‘time’ they could not find water and thus, moved up the coast where they found some in what is today known as Provincetown, the furthest hamlet on this little sand bar created 11,500 years ago by that Last Great Ice Age. Of course it is only a few hundred miles from another island to the east of Chatham–Bermuda. Bermuda, Blindness, Bogus? The funny thing about sharks, such as the Great White, is that they, unlike some private equity firms, are benign and avoid most human beings, whereas companies like Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s claim to ’success’, eat at will…, destroy rather than create. To quote the presidential hopeful, Willard “Mitt” Romney, regarding his holdings, vast holdings in foreign banks, such as the aforementioned island of Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and the great country of Switzerland, “I don’t even know where they are”… Really? How blind and dumb do you ‘think’ the people of this great country are sir? Further, just how far are you fellas gonna take this voter suppression? How far do you think it will take you? Is it going to work? I highly doubt it. Mystery abounds with Mitt Romney and if he, unlike his father, won’t even release his ‘papers’, i.e. his tax returns such as his father did, who claimed years ago that the standard for someone attempting to reach that highest office in the land should be at least 12 years worth of said papers, well then, you sir are going in the wrong direction. In the words of the great Vice President Joe Biden of the great state of Delaware, “…he wants to SEA you papers, but won’t show US his…”. A good point of parliamentary procedure sir and well stated, calling out Mitt only yesterday in a speech given with grace, COMMON SENSE and FAIRNESS–you know REASON! Yet, still, this man wants to be the President of the United States of America, when we all know that should he, God Forbid, win the election, this country will become more akin to the “United States of Exxon-Mobile & Friends”, plutocrats who care NOTHING for the common man or woman, child or even wild thing, rather, care only about gaining the ’system’ for their benefit, or, as Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina put it, “…it is only a game”, speaking of taxation and the evasion of taxes by ‘men’ like Mitt or any one of his pals who cheats within a system of an outdated and quite corrupt tax code that favors that .001 percent and leaves the rest of America twisting in the wind, with crumbling bridges, roads and schools. With mother’s who can’t afford to feed their babies and can’t see a doctor because ‘ole Mitt, and I quote, “…oh, Planned Parenthood?, we are going to do away with that”, leaving millions of poorer women without any access to health care of any kind. This must be a bad JOKE, for that IS what this choice amounts to. Pushing money off shore IS tax evasion. It is that simple. So when you are down in Bermuda, you can put that FACT in your proverbial pipe and smoke it, for the PEOPLE of this most sacred nation will not stand for a man whose main goal is to destroy what many have died defending, preserving and nurturing. WE will SEA who WINS in the end. Cheaters are not normally good presidents, just ask ‘tricky Dick’ (Nixon), who left office in shame because he felt he was above the LAW at that famous hotel in Washington D.C. known as Watergate. So as the republican clowns on Capitol Hill, such as Speaker of the House John Boehner, attempt (for the 31st time) to repeal the Affordable Health Care LAW, upheld recently, bravely, I might add, by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts, kudos again sir!, here are some FACTS to chew on during your morning breakfast–the C.O.B. (congressional budget office), a fair, bipartisan body in congress, estimates that should, again, God Forbid, this law be repealed, it will actually ADD 145 billion dollars to the national debt over a ten year period. Hmmmm. I thought those republicans were all about reducing the deficit? At least that is what they say on FOX “NEWS”. Have a nice day folks and remember, WE ALL have a VOICE and a dog in this fight. Educate yourself, your neighbors, your children, your friends, your colleagues, your mom and your dad, for in the end, this country is worth saving. A country that has come so far in regard to African-Americans being able to vote, women having the right to their own bodies, and rules of the road when it comes to OUR precious environment. PRESERVE THE WILDERNESS! Peace~M
