Daily PUMA Column - Commentary by Alessandro Machi

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Incredibly bad timing for Judge John Roll who was murdered at the Congress on your Corner, Gabrielle Giffords event.

The final time line may reveal if the Gabrielle Giffords assassination attempt that has taken the lives of several other innocent bystanders was actually meant as a double hit on both Gabrielle Giffords and Federal Judge John Roll.

Is it possible this was a lie in wait double murder attempt and the unknown "person of interest" knew Judge John Roll was coming and only signaled the shooter to go out and shoot when Judge John Roll had arrived at the event?

Otherwise, why did the shooter wait to shoot Giffords? I don't know how these events are run, should we assume that while the event is being set up that Giffords is not even there? Or, is Giffords there for the final hour before she is to speak while the sound crew is finishing setting up their sound reinforcement gear?

If Giffords was there before hand, what did the attacker wait to shoot Giffords? This then brings up the question how long the shooter was lurking around before the attack.

If Gabrielle Giffords had been there for any length of time, and Judge John Roll shows up and a short time later the shooting happens, it makes me wonder if both Giffords and Roll were being targeted.

The Giffords and Roll connection has to do with immigration.

Apparently Judge John Roll approved the right for illegal crossers into Arizona to sue ranch owners who may have had conflicts with the illegal crossers. I wonder if it is possible for the shooter to not have known who Judge Roll was, rather the "person of interest" may have known that Roll was coming.

This would read right out of a CSI episode where someone allegedly collaterally killed was actually a target as well. Of course it's important to know this because it would help establish the level of sophistication related to this attack.

If I were a judge, and I had to rule on a case as controversial as giving the right to sue to illegally crossing people over private property, I would probably have sided with the ranch owners up to a point.

Yet it seems that no matter which way the judge ruled, he might have had either the Mexican drug lords upset with him if he had ruled that illegal crossers could not sue american ranch owners, or internal american groups mad at him if he ruled in favor of suing american ranch owners. Truly a lose lose type of case for a judge to rule upon.

Was it really just a coincidence that Judge Roll had arrived just before the shooting occurred?


Saturday, January 8, 2011

Congress on your Corner results in terrorist attack against Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.


American citizens can also be terrorists. When a politician is willing to put on a "Congress on your Corner" public event in a supermarket in the middle of her political district, and is shot for her efforts, the person who did the shooting is a terrorist.

If it was a man who did the shooting, I find it even more troubling. If the shooter has a demonic axe to grind, do it against your own sex, coward. You can read more here.

Donna Brazile chimed in with the most obnoxious message one could imagine, it actually sounded like Brazile was describing her own despicable behavior in 2008 when she said "The increasing levels of incivility, intolerance and a political climate that favors those who threatens, bully others must end. I am so sad".

That is pretty much what Brazile did in 2008, at one point actually threatening to riot in the streets if Barack Obama did not win the democratic nomination.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Oh NO, It's SPOKEO, and you should be SPOOKED by Spokeo.

Basically, if you go to spokeo dot com, and type in your own name, there is a chance that you will see a surprising amount of information about you, including photos of your home, your income, your marital status, your age, perhaps relatives as well.

If you are listed and do not want to be listed, you can opt out by clicking on the privacy tab at the bottom of the web page. First you cut and paste your own URL name search, then follow the directions after clicking on the privacy tab located at the bottom of the page.

Edit update: Sat. Jan 08, 2010 (9:28:00) It is patently ridiculous to equate this shooting with anything to do with the economy, jobs, or even the home foreclosure situation. Politicians who reach out to the community and actually put themselves within reach of the public should be respected for their willingness not to hide in Washington or their presumably expensive homes.

Based on where the shooting took place, to imply that the imbecile who shot into a public crowd represented others is crap. Politicians who are approachable should be respected, cowards found guilty of shooting politicians who are reaching out to the public should be put to death within a year.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Robin Carlson, Proud PUMA and much much more, Rest in Peace.


It's nice to replace the prior Oprah story with someone more important and spiritual, but I'm saddened I was only able to meet Robin in the late summer of 2008 during a Los Angeles area Hillary Clinton meet up. However, I happily bought a PUMA shirt at that meeting and wore it several times.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Oprah Winfrey's trip to Australia while thousands of americans are thrown out of their homes at the same time, explain it to me Oprah.


I recently caught an episode of Oprah Winfrey to see what makes Oprah tick these days and found the answer in a quote by Oprah.
"Never tear others down, always build yourself up, Never tear down, always build up". -Oprah Winfrey
There is a ton of wisdom in that quote, and that's where the problem lies. Oprah's "Never Tear Down, Always Build Up" is such a solid philosophy that it becomes too easy to follow that advice 100% of the time.

One thing I have learned in life is that there may not be a true failsafe philosophy that works 100% of the time.

If Oprah follows her own wisdom 100% of the time, it requires Oprah believing she can only improve people if they want to build themselves up. Again, another solid foundational premise. However, there are times when what someone really needs is for someone else to help them fight an aggressor so that the aggressor backs off, or at the vert least treats the aggrieved person, fairly.

Oprah's philosophy of "never tear down, always build up", does not work in a triangular situation where a group or individual needs help battling an unfair foe. In Oprah's fantasy world come to life, it appears Oprah avoids triangular confrontations no matter how badly mismatched the two sides are.

Oprah is a fountain of success, come along and watch Oprah's fountain florish and it may just wash upon you as well.

The Oprah Winfrey show I recently saw was Oprah's behind the scenes 25th anniversary show. I cringed at one point when Oprah glowingly talked about how reliable one of her producers was for coming to work every day even while that producer had family members dying from cancer.
The pain that I saw in that producers eyes while Oprah floated her own fountain of success a little higher by raving about the producers loyalty to her, was a pain I can relate to. Except I did the opposite to what the producer did, I kicked out the Oprahs from my life specifically because they were so self absorbed.
So it appears that part of floating one's own fountain of success higher and higher is to forget those whose personal situations cut into their devotion towards your fountain of success. Doesn't the U.S. just wreak of that attitude ever since Barack Obama became president?

Just ask Haiti.

Haiti is still struggling a year after their horrific earthquake. Apparently the United States has held hostage a majority of the funds that were already pledged to Haiti. So where did Oprah Winfrey just go for December of 2010? Oprah Winfrey went to Australia and apparently paid the way for a few hundred of her studio audience members as well.

The sad part is, Oprah has fed her own fountain of success to such an extravagant level that skipping Haiti and going to Australia was an obvious fountain swelling decision.

Could you imagine if Oprah had bellowed to her own studio audience in that big booming yell she seems to have grown fond of..."You're all going on a trip with meeeeeeee........ (the audience is giddy beyond belief)....toooooo
Haaaatttttiiiiiii.......!"

An interesting irony, Oprah Winfrey left Australia just as the northern part of Australia was hit with rain of literally biblical proportions. Oprah arrived in the U.S. just after tornados devastated several communities in several states on New Years Eve.
Is it Oprah's responsibility to save the world? That's a hard one to answer. However, once Oprah Winfrey injected herself into the 2008 presidential race, she kind of should do more than just keep filling her own fountain of success, no?
In the case of Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey to this day believes she helped unleash Barack Obama's fountain of success while not breaking down Hillary Clinton's fountain, and there in lies the delusional danger of never tear down, always build up.
Nor will Oprah do anything but continue to support Barack Obama no matter how badly he intentionally bungles the foreclosure issue while pretending to be the good guy hamstrung by the same Wall Street fellows that are also his pals and even part of his cabinet.
Years ago Oprah Winfrey was tried in Texas for slander against the cattle industry. From what I have read, Oprah was a trembling wreck, fearful that she could go to jail. It was not until Oprah Winfrey met up with Dr. Phil was she able to conquer her own fear her impending trial.
At one of Oprah's presumably weakest moments in her life, it took triangulation to rescue her, courtesy of Dr. Phil.
Dr. Phil DIRECTLY HELPED Oprah Winfrey battle a specific enemy.
If Dr. Phil had pulled an Oprah, he would have waited until after Oprah battled her lawsuit demons to help Oprah fill her fountain of success, even if Oprah's fountain had been from jail.
Even though Oprah Winfrey benefited from triangulation Winfrey seems less likely to save others through triangulation. It appears Oprah's solution to how one should live their life is to avoid triangulation at all costs. If you need triangulation, don't ask Oprah for help until you become a devoted follower of hers who does not need saving. In essence give to the Romans what belongs to the Romans, give to Oprah when you are ready to focus your energies on Oprah.



Thursday, December 30, 2010

In Barack Obama's home town of Chicago, Local Banks work with families to Redo predatory loans.



Or, we could re title this article, Things Barack Obama supports for his hometown of Chicago that he doesn't support for the rest of america, certainly not for gun toting, bible thumping, bitter people.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Football: President Obama chats with Jeffrey Lurie, Congraulates him for signing Michael Vick - mcall.com



There is more to this story. If the only reason Barack Obama had called Jeffrey Lurie was to talk about Michael Vick, that would absolutely freak me out. However, once again Barack Obama dodges a huge faux pas by also talking about the alternative energy plans that Lurie is planning on installing at Eagles stadium.

hey Barack Obama, there are millions of homeowners being foreclosed on every year in this country, and HAMP is bait and switch and probably a violation of the Federal Hobbs act, the extortion clause, lets focus on what matters.

Unless Barack Obama is eyeing the stadiums as foreclosure homes for those he's helping make homeless.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Beware, Objects are not what they seem.


What's that saying, there's a bracelet born every minute? If you click on the youtube icon, it takes you to the youtube landing page for the I renew bracelet commercial and you can then read the comments.

The comments are a hoot.

Friday, December 24, 2010

"Barack Obama Congratulates Himself" is a GOOGLEWHACK!

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I just don't understand what is going on. I thought I recently saw Barack Obama congratulate himself for doing more in the past two years than any administration has in recent and far away memory. So for kicks, I did the following google search, "Barack Obama congratulates himself", with the quotes wrapped around the phrase which is CRITICAL so that google only looks for those four words in that exact order.

Amazingly, ONLY ONE LISTING CAME UP, and it was from a year and a half ago!
"Barack Obama Congratulates Himself" is a GOOGLEWHACK! (well, presumably now that I have written this article "Barack Obama Congratulates himself" will become a GOOGLETHWACK.)
Am I to believe that no other blogger in the past two years has observed Barack Obama congratulating himself and written those exact four words in that exact order? I kind of wanted to watch the recent video news clip again of Barack Obama congratulating himself over all that his presidency has done in his first two years in office, but I guess it never happened?

What amazes me about Obama's sentiment that his administration has done more in the first two years in office than any recent presidency, assuming I wasn't dreaming, is that Barack Obama has turned his back on over a million HAMP applicants who were the victims of parallel foreclosure. Barack Obama basically prioritized a realistically flawed healthcare program that may be overturned by the courts rather than dealing with the home foreclosure issue head on that is foreclosing on up to 10,000 homes a day.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

When Does ACORN, and all of their NEW NAME offshoots, apologize to Hillary Clinton?

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I am completely supportive of homeowners in the home foreclosure controversy that has swept the nation for the past couple of years. However, I think I'm starting to see ACORN sponsored foreclosure protestors on television, being arrested, speaking on capitol hill, and so on.

Until ACORN admits to their cheating ways in the 2008 democratic caucus contests that favored Barack Obama and were against Hillary Clinton, they won't be absolved of their past sins, and their complaining about foreclosure won't have the impact it could have.

If ACORN truly cares about the downtrodden and those who are being victimized by parallel foreclosure and other unfair foreclosure actions, they would apologize to Hillary Clinton for their unseemly actions in 2008. Hillary Clinton was the only remaining 2008 presidential candidate that advocated a 60 day foreclosure freeze so the foreclosure issue could be dealt with fairly and squarely.

In the fall of 2008, before the actual election contest against John McCain, Barack Obama favored a 90 day home foreclosure freeze. Certainly looks like another HUGE promise made by Barack Obama that never came to pass.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Blame Betty Grable for Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

In the 1940's during World War II, millions of american soldiers had Betty Grable posters pinned up over their baracks bunk beds. Unfortunately, if a soldier was gay, they could not put up a hunky poster of their favorite male movie star.

Whether you google male pinups from the 40's, or female pinups from the 40's, the images are basically all of women.

Fast forward to today, and the repeal of don't ask, don't tell. Is it possible that once the pinup posters of Brad Pitt go up in the male barracks, a rift might form among soldiers who are supposed to put aside all of their differences and be there for each other on the battle field, as soldiers?

I would assume that gay soldiers having to look at heterosexual pin ups in their baracks, but not being able to put up a pin up of a male figure that they admire, is discrimination. Is that what the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell is about. Well, yes.

But if you are a commander in the army, you probably care less that 10% to 20% of your soldiers can't put up the pin up poster they want, if it might make some of the other 80% to 90% uncomfortable in such a way that it could subliminally impinge their performance in pre-battle or battle time situations.

You can sit there and say, screw you, you homophobes, that's your problem. But a commander in chief is still going to want what produces the most effective result ON THE BATTLEFIELD. Strengthening the resolve for a much smaller percentage of the troops, at the risk of possibly weakening the resolve of a portion of the majority of the troops, may not be the ideal scenario for a commander in chief.

What I always thought was cool about "don't ask, don't tell", was that even if someone revealed they were gay, in theory, they could not be prosecuted because nobody else was allowed to tell, even if they heard. It was double protection against persecution. However, my perception of what Don't ask, Don't tell, might not actually be how it was followed.

In terms of the military, all I care, as an outsider, is that the entire troop watches out for each other to the max, and I wonder if Betty Grable changed that for all time. Maybe one day only posters of family, or friends of family will be allowed up on a barracks wall, thereby making the issue moot. Oh wait, that won't work either until anyone can legally be married.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Sad Tale of Oprah Winfrey and her farewell Victory Tour while millions of americans suffer foreclosure fraud.

In just the past week, I have seen THREE Oprah Winfrey spoofs, one on Jimmy Kimmel, another on David Letterman, and another on Saturday Night live. While the spoofs are probably meant in fun and jest, in my opinion they are a condemnation of Oprah Winfrey's over the top narcissim during her retirement victory tour that appears to be lasting an ENTIRE television season!

In the past few weeks, without even looking, I have been exposed to Oprah Crying opposite Tyler Perry. Perry was recounting his horrible childhood, and began gushing at how Oprah inspired her, which got Oprah crying. It would be all well and good if Tyler Perry had not been also hawking his new movie, For Colored Girls, and if we didn't have 10,000 people being foreclosed upon every day in this country, many of them unfairly. It's just the wrong time to be making it about you, Oprah and your rich and successful friends.
Can there be anything more pathologically narcissistic than the site of two BILLIONAIRES crying on stage about how hard their lives were growing up, while every day in the United States 10 thousand homeowners are foreclosed upon?
Then there was Oprah crying as she and Whoopi Goldberg confab'd. It reminded me of the almost overdone sit com plot line where the protagonist on the show can't stand it when somebody doesn't like them. Gosh Oprah, how about asking Whoopi OFF CAMERA, why she doesn't like you, and not on! By the way, that may just be why Whoopi doesn't like you, your opportunizing a moment on camera, that could have been more productive doing off camera.

Just what is Whoopi Goldberg supposed to say ON AIR about why she doesn't like you, Oprah?

Then there was Barbara Walters asking Oprah if she was a lesbian and Oprah's vehement lie, er, denial that she was not. "Not that there's anything wrong with that" (a Seinfeld reference), but does anybody really believe Oprah's lesbian denials?

I have never bothered to calculate the percentage, but I believe that at least 50% of all female talk show hosts that have hosted their own television show, have been lesbians, and it could be as high as 75% if you count the couple who never came out. So this isn't really groundbreaking stuff even if Oprah is a lesbian. Anyways, all of these moments were rebroadcast on other television shows as excerpts, and these moments found me, I didn't find them, and I am the worse for it.

Speaking of Oprah's victory tour, she's in Australia for several weeks doing her farewell victory show and just a short while ago Hugh Jackman crashed into a light while making a special entrance for...Oprah Winfrey in Australia!

By the way, Aussies have been coming to the U.S. and gleefully buying up Florida properties for pennies on the dollars. Glad to see Oprah so in tune to her own countries troubles, snark, or that of Haiti's in their struggle to get any of that money that the United States allegedly raised for Haiti, but has held onto. But rumor has it that Oprah did fly over Haiti on her way to Australia and gave Haiti her blessings.
Has there ever been a television personality with the reputation and clout of Oprah Winfrey who has frittered away their final year in daytime programming by focusing on their own narcissistic journey, when the country and the audience that made her famous needed her to protect them from predatory banking and foreclosure practices that have been surfacing at an alarming pace?
Oprah Winfrey could have used the final year of her television show to expose the dastardly deeds of her own business acquaintances, such as those of Jamie Dimon of Chase Bank, but instead we are treated to a trail of Oprah's tears as guests tell her how much she has meant to them...meanwhile, TEN THOUSAND homes are foreclosed upon every day in the United States, and many of them are not being fairly treated.

The closest Oprah Winfrey went to addressing the home foreclosure issue that I can recall seeing is her focus on how YOU could take control of your own finances. That is fine and well, but what about predatory lending, foreclosure fraud, parallel foreclosure that americans are being victimized by Oprah? That woud require Oprah doing battle with the business establishment, and apparently, those who are Oprah Winfrey's closest friends.

I have a theory as to why Oprah Winfrey seems to have developed a weak spine. I think when the Texas Beef Council sued her for slander in the late 90's, and she had to go to Texas, (ironically, this was how she met Dr. Phil and he ultimately earned a shot at his own show), Oprah Winfrey was really really scared she could go to jail. She might have lost it if not for Dr. Phil.

It's my opinion that Oprah probably had a relapse of fear when the girls orphanage in South Africa that she funded ended up with accusations of abuse. I guess Oprah lives in fear that she will be sued if she gets involved in noble causes, and the result is a shell of what she could have done in her final year in the daytime television spotlight.

And of course, there is Barack Obama. Oprah Winfrey is quite proud that helped a racist country (that embraced her whole heartedly 25 years ago) elect Barack Obama, irrespective of his actual experience, to the presidency of the United States. Oprah did a show after the 2008 elections where she talked about Barack Obama being elected president as being as big of a deal as B.C. and A.D. (before christ, after death). I recall that Oprah show, she literally repeated herself two or three times on how miraculous it was that Barack Obama had been elected.

G'day Oprah.


Friday, December 10, 2010

New Agenda video "Searching for Sexism" offers some disturbing images, and maybe some "change".



The first video clip of the very young kids dancing is really, really, creepy.

If I could sheepishly suggest a title change to your series. I would call it
"Escaping Sexism".

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Jonathan Alter Tributes Elizabeth Edwards, Alter also ridiculed John McCain for praising Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.

I am fuming right now. But, rather than spew here, read what AN ARSEHOLE Jonathan Alter was in 2008 when he visited Keith Olberman's show and spent over four minutes ridiculing John McCain after McCain made an incredibly eloquent speech about Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the media attacks she had to preservere through.

So I guess Alter can tribute women who have passed while piling on the BS against strong, successful women who are alive. Newsweek, and Alter, you stink.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Shouldn't documents be stolen and leaked from ALL COUNTRIES before discussing punitive actions?

The belief that because top secret documents were stolen from the United States, and therefore whatever they reveal should result in punitive actions, does not allow for a comparison to be made to all other countries and their top secret documents.

It is silly to demand that one country be punished for leaked top secret documents when no one knows how they compare to the unleaked top secret documents from all other countries.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

UPDATE: Plight of Family With "Tacky Lights Tour" House Gets National Attention




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Friday, November 26, 2010

Nancy Pelosi is the poster child for the abolition of gerrymandering.


Nancy Pelosi is only one of 8 DEMOCRATS that increased their margin of victory in 2010 from 2008 within their own voting district.

This helps explain how one becomes a narcissistic power monger in Congress. Gerrymander your own district to the point where you could win under almost any circumstance, grab power by intimidating those around you because they all know you will be back term after term, and then do whats best for yourself and your political cohorts even if it hurts millions of american homeowners being victimized by the very president she helped cheat to get into office in 2008.

Nancy Pelosi's sidekick, Harry Reid, was also able to win against a somewhat scatterbrained, fast talking unknown who actually should have won, and no doubt, once again, gerrymandering made the final difference as the race was not even that close. (edit update: Nov. 28, 1:53pm, 2010 lol, I just realized that gerrymandering doesn't affect the Senate, only the house.)

Nonetheless, Democrats are dumbocrats for allowing gerrymandering to continue as it allows the truly crazy to stay in power for far too long.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Pelosi, Reid retain their leadership seats, Pelosi minority mode style, but something just does not make sense.

Pelosi is beyond narcissism. Just today she talked glowingly about JFK, and how Barack Obama was like JFK. It is so clear that Pelosi, like Arianna Huffington and Oprah Winfrey, could not stand the idea of another female, Hillary Clinton, one upping their places in history.

But besides that, can someone, ANYONE, explain why the democratic LOSERS are determining next years minority leader of the house, NOW? Does that make any sense to anyone?

When there is upheaval in congress, I can see the "winning" side voting before the newer party members arrive next year because the argument can be made that it was the work of those already in that helped pave the way for their gains (although this year it was more the democrats dropping the ball then the republicans earning it).

But the democrats LOST. They lost BIG TIME.
Why is the democratic party voting before next years democrat herd comes in? Why are the SAME DEMOCRATS who helped LOSE the House Majority getting the opportunity to vote on who runs things for the NEXT 2 YEARS?
I don't know how long this style of voting has gone on before next years class of politicians comes in, but it is clear to me that the winning side should go before the new class comes in, and the LOSERS wait until next term to select their minority "winner".

I wonder if that is the way it used to be and somewhere along the way somebody just changed it.



Saturday, November 13, 2010

The Misogynistic, Racist Wrongness of Jeremiah Wright revisited two years later.



This four minute video of Jeremiah Wright talking about the plight of the black man versus the white privileged Hillary Clinton was minimized by the media back in 2008. Yet two and a half years later and the racist, misogynistic message has been upstaged by something else.

What the heck does ANY OF IT, have to do with being president of the United States?

Ask yourself that question as you watch this video, what does any of the blather by Reverend Wright have anything to do with being president, and being a GOOD president.

I seem to recall that Caroline Kennedy is seen as "privileged". Is Reverend Wright putting Hillary Clinton into the same class as Caroline Kennedy? Really? Can there be a bigger slap in the face then to imply that Hillary Clinton and Caroline Kennedy are the same type of people when they have led entirely different lives?

Who is Reverend Wright to start lumping entire races of people into one type? And to do it to the Clintons, of all people, is just beyond insane verbosity.

It saddens me that some PUMA's, rather than fight for their own party, chose to switch, and in the process, allowed lunatics like Wright to continue to win.


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