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Friday, January 04, 2008

I Find Comfort Buried Deep Within History's Pages . . .

I Find Comfort Buried Deep Within History’s Pages . . .

Lately, I’ve been doing a little research. Not for anything in particular just to understand some things. I started researching early American poets and from there I read a little about The Reign Of Terror . . . You might know the Reign of Terror as the French Revolution, but it really wasn’t. It happened somewhere in the middle. The people of France rose up and heads rolled . . .

Louis XVI and wife Marie and other leaders walked the stairs at the beginning. And as always, history remembers those events with purpose . . . Life doesn’t always happen with purpose in mind. But the soil ran red . . . Somewhere between 18,000 and 40,000 . . . But I bet it was far more than that.

And somehow they did some statistics, how? Anyway, they say that 8% were the upper crust, 6% were religious sorts, 14% middle class, 70% were those that just got in the way, crimes and the likes . . .

You see while all this was going on fear had grasped the country, so many people starved. I surely can’t imagine such a time . . . And those that started the Reign of Terror, they too met their end at the gallows.

And then came, Adolf and his reign, his numbers were 8 million . . . History repeats, again and again.

And to come to think of it, all those that live by the sword, do indeed die by the sword. Clichés and you know they usually are true. Maybe not literally, but then smite works in mysterious ways. Rest assured . . .

This year is our King George’s last year of his monarchy. Thank the good Lord. I’m not sure what comes next, although I do know it can’t be any worse then where we’ve been. Change is in the wind . . . Life as an American is riding the wave and we will again be so very proud, together as Nation, again, a proud nation. The Brave Few. Dan

Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books:
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

Thursday, January 03, 2008

I'm Tired of Watching CNN . . .

I’m Tired Of Watching CNN

I’m tired of watching CNN, I’m tired of all of it . . . My mom always said, if you’ve got nothing good to say, don’t say anything at all. And so I’m avoiding all newspapers, news channels and blogs. Mine included.

I wish for a moment we could stand back and see where we’re going . . . If Corporate leaders are to run the whole world then understand that you’re either an asset or a liability? A liability is always cut, an asset is merely property . . .

Make sure that’s the path you want for you and yours to dance to. No matter who you are, you’ll be owned by corporate interests . . .

Oil prices are at an all time high . . . I own a GMC diesel 3500 . . . Today I got a letter from a Dealership. They would like to buy my truck. Sure they do. I take great care of it and that truck is not one of those tiny foreign models, it’s a big bad boy. I always tell everyone sincerely, I could pull your truck and your house with that bad boy. It’s true. Not very far, just off its foundation.

And now gas prices are going up . . . Hey, what about diesel? Folks, diesel has been paying your way for the last five months. Soon you’ll be paying the same as me . . . How’s it feel to be screwed? The same people complaining are the same ones that said Globalization was a good thing, the same people that said labor prices are too high . . .

The truth will hurt you more than me. Business will always seek lower costs, anyway they can get them. But you and me, whether you own a business or work for one, we are not a business, we work for a living. Lower wages mean lower wages for everyone. Oh and did you the American Market is tied to American Wages? When the market can’t get high prices, it has to lower its price . . . Even if it is below cost.

In the long term no one wins . . . Short run, those at the top will win, that is until it turns against them. And it always does. Greed destroys everyone and everything around it.

No new taxes . . . Right. Wisconsin just added a dollar to a pack of cigarettes to be used for, I forget where . . . Oh, to pay for children’s health insurance . . . It’s like, if you could kill with a gun, then everyone with an index finger, we’re going to sacrifice that for the whole . . . You won’t mind too much if we cut off your index finger, right? Could you visualize that pile of index fingers . . . ?

I’m not sure if it’s the Republicans going nuts or the Democrats running amok? Doesn’t matter much, they’re all the same. Does anyone remember a party held in Boston several hundred years ago? I wonder what that was all about . . . Tea, wasn’t it?

The truth . . . The end doesn’t justify any means. Both sides believe it does and this has to stop. That’s what got us into Iraq. That’s what got Bush into power, thank you Mr. Clinton . . . That’s what got us into Vietnam.

Everyday we live on a path, an American path . . . We used to know what that meant, what it meant to be American and somewhere we figured that the world needed to know who we were . . . Silly, we have become those we fight, those that hate. The Brave Few. Dan

Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books:
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

What is Censorship . . .

What is Censorship?

The action of stopping the transmission or publication of a matter considered objectionable. So the dictionary states . . . But censorship is any act that stops the normal activity publishing to readers . . . And it’s funny how so many just don’t get it.

As a writer I have a problem with all censors. Not because some things are of a nature that offends, but because it is easy to earmark anything as being offensive . . . I have always been for the little guy

. . . In the late fifties and early sixties. It wasn’t a proud time in the U.S. We had the so called communist threat and we rounded up citizens as subversives, jailed them and even put two to death. Freedom of speech is not a right but merely words. You see it works like this, what ever the majority wants, it gets. The Constitution was penned for those of us who sit outside the masses . . . And a Senator from my state started the whole witch hunt. Something I’m not very proud of.

I’m against all needless rules. I don’t believe the majority is always right. If we were, we would never go to war for unknown reasons.

And then there was Vietnam . . . A war that was a police action, to stop the spread of the plague called communism. And for all the trouble we got a wall in Washington for the fallen. Now we can go and feel the pain, get an etching of a fallen friend. And our leaders figured out that the draft was what was wrong with that war . . . What is a draft? Conscription, forced service to fight in the name of our country. We have always had conscription until now.

And do we learn . . . The Russians got their butts handed to them Afghanistan. For ten years they fought until they fell . . . And now we find ourselves there also and in Iraq . . . Turkey is fighting on their border. We don’t count the dead that die in hospitals . . . We use contractors to kill and the media … And today in Pakistan a leader was slain . . .

And I was looking back on this year, I realized that this is a year I’m not so proud of . . . From Imus, Michael Vick, Jones, Nowack, Paris Hilton, from all of these a common thread exists . . . We have become a nation of haters. And the internet is quickly becoming just another boiling pot of thought. A place where the haters can get together and do what they do best . . . I feel the pain that the hate is spreading. I hope I’m wrong, but then look at Blog Catalog . . .

I have reached my Limit on friends . . . The reason is server space. But that doesn’t hold water. It doesn’t because all they had to do is eliminate dead links on our friend’s links . . .

And someone said it was their servers they should be allowed to do what they want . . . Friends that’s so true, but who’s making them do anything different. Words and actions are two separate things.

They’ve done it in the past. But pressure, you know how that works. The one that sits back, get s**t on. And I’m not really mad at the act, I’m mad that we are so quick to throw freedom away . . . I call this censorship. Maybe most won’t see it that way. But anyone can justify taking a stand that causes a writer not to write. You see, I get requests all the time from members of BC to be their friend. I can’t . . .

The funny thing is that all the others with their small numbers of friends don’t maintain their friend lists . . . Too lazy I guess.

Anyway ever sense I been at BC, I have been getting job offers from the Judicial System . . . I wonder? My thoughts . . . Blogging, the internet was developed by the DOD in case of a holocaust . . . All computers wouldn’t be wiped out . . . And during Clinton they gave it to us . . . Ever wonder why?

They talk about wire tapping in Congress, so you think their going to do something about it, their not. Ever wonder who Google is? Who Blog Catalog is or could be? Now they tried to pass a bill to give the phone companies a pass on prosecution . . . ATT bought SBC Global. They bought Yahoo. Wasn’t Micro something looking into buying Google or maybe they did . . . ?

Hey do you remember MS getting off with a slap on the wrist for monopolistic practice? Could it be . . . No, it couldn’t, could it? How’s your computer running these days? Mine’s kind of slow . . . I wonder. Once I sent an email to myself, because my emails were getting to me very slowly . . . So I simply sent an email to myself, asking who was reading my emails . . . And when I got it the subject said, ciao . . .

Ever wonder who owns what? It doesn’t much matter, because with pressure we know what they’ll become.

The haters are growing in their numbers and the rules are growing. And the internet is already closing on our freedoms, and this door will be shut forever. So I’m gonna get mine now . . . How about you?

Have you looked around lately? Camera’s dot our intersections. Watchdogs . . . They record our transactions at the ATM’s and outside of buildings. Our emails are being read, phone calls are being listened to for what ever reason . . . The truth, fear is the plague . . . And so we go to work each day, pay our taxes and dream of retirement . . .

One thing everyone needs to know, the bad guys don’t use the internet . . . We do. Ever wonder who paid for the internet? The porn sites . . . Things are never what they seem. The Brave Few. Dan

Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books:
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Christmas is almost here . . .

Christmas is almost here . . .

Christmas is almost here and then comes my annual soul searching. This year I have so much to be thankful for.

+ My son is CANCER-FREE
+ The publication of Sleepless Nights
+ Finishing Writing Sins of a Father

And I always make a list of goals and prioritize them. And this year will be no different, though my readers will notice that my blogs will not consume more of my time than things I view as being more important. Blogging is necessary, although it is not going to be number one on my list, anymore.

What I’ve learned is that so many people hide behind a façade, too afraid to be themselves . . . I prefer knowing my friends, not something that was just pretend. I write fiction, I don’t live it. Our country is living in a mist. Soon the sun will heat the earth and reality will burn through and we’re going to realize with regrets what we have let slip between our fingers.

I thought that if my readers would read my words they would take a moment and realize what is at stake. And then they would catch to the wave . . . Everyone has had a part to play and everyone is just as guilty of looking the other way. Does anyone remember the pain of 29? No one reading this I’m sure.

I am not overly religious, though I believe in the words of the Bible . . . Probably for reasons that would astonish most. And yet I know that any group that hates can’t be good . . .

My goals have always been to try to help this world to overcome the hatred and to become great again. And then everything else just fit in where it may. But now I realize that everyone has their own silly reasons for being and nothing I do will help them find a cause more righteous than what others have sold to them . . . You see, hatred is a tool used by leaders to control you and me. And we decide not to hate anymore, we take their power away from them.

And this Christmas time our leaders would have us believe they have won in Iraq and yet no matter what they tell me, I can’t see a victory with so many lies . . . So we’re supposed to believe they have achieved what so many have failed to do. And it stinks when the words start up again about Iran, Korea, Syria . . . Will the next leader be any different?

How could they? Our leaders think they have found a way to have wars and peace at home at the same time . . . That’s because we’re so stupid . . . To back a war is to give them what they need so desperately. It’s funny, I mean the bridges to no where . . . You don’t really think the hundred dollar toilet seats are for real? And now your President doesn’t even bother putting everything in the budget, he doesn’t have too. No one will hold him accountable. And the economy doesn’t even look at the cost of food or gas to calculate inflation . . . And so one day we’ll surely know 29 once again . . .

And the internet is great . . . It allows us to get our message out, or does it? What if search engines don’t put your posts on their sites, but send them to some watch dog instead? What if ISP’s screen everything for certain words, regardless of intent or what was meant? What if the social blog logs are really gardens of chatter for the gardeners to sift through? Where we’re going, someone has gone before us . . . And it didn’t have good results. Warrior and Wars. The Brave Few. Dan

Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books:
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

We need to shift our focus . . .

We need to shift our focus . . .

During and after the cold war, we became deathly afraid of community, maybe with a good reason . . . And now we’re afraid or working for the common good and that doesn’t help anyone.

Look at it this way . . . Our local governments are willing to take anyone for any position. They are the ones making budgets and spending our tax dollars. We don’t know what they know, how they think or even if they are responsible. And the same gets magnified at the state and Federal levels.

Everyone knows this . . . Everyone wants to pay less taxes, but are you willing to do with less?

Are you ready to go back to gravel roads? Are you ready to tear down school buildings for online schools? Are you ready for private companies to pay their fair share? I’m talking about the stadiums? The cable the cable companies use? The electric provider’s grid? Don’t forget we paid for the infrastructure, we should be compensated . . .

And all those contractors, they’re raking in the doe because all they provide labor . . . You should be mad. Republicans you should be mad for the entitlements have gone to members of our tribe and must likely, not you . . . It will never be you or me.

Today in my community, I noticed camera’s on the new intersection . . . Why? Because we might need them . . . Pray tell who’s watching you?

Everyone should read Mein Kampf and yes, Communist Manifesto, but keep your dictionary next to you. You’ll need it. Hate is a tool to bring members into the fold. The more you hate the more haters fill your ranks.

Today both parties use hate . . . All they want is your vote. They’ll throw you a bone, maybe make you think they’re in your corner. And what’s truly hilarious, is their pork makes us think they are working for us . . . We’ve got to come together before it’s too late. Katrina should have been the wake up . . . Katrina could have been you or me.

Everyone wants you to believe that Iraq is because of 9-11, that it is over oil. It’s neither of those . . . It’s simply to spend the national resources so the other side can’t . . .

And now we’ll never get healthcare, education for all, maybe even Social Security funded . . . No matter what they do or don’t do, they win. No Government can be so chaotic without being planned . . . The Brave Few. Dan

Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books:
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Rambling on the Wires . . .

Rambling on the wires . . .

I haven’t been feeling like writing about politics. I just don’t like the hate that is there. I think of myself as a Republican, although, I am a human being first, not a Republican, not an American. You see where this is going. Who you think you are, will determine your choices . . . And you must know yourself, before any of it will really be who you are.

To vote Republican as a Union Worker is not too true to who you are or is it? It all depends on what you value and the order you value it in.

What if we eliminated public schools? Our taxes would be less right? No . . . Our schools would be better. Not so fast . . . Those that couldn’t afford the better schools would get the raw end of the stick as always. We’d home school. Right, don’t we read anymore . . . The public school system was created because we had a society of illiterate workers. Sure we had the Rockefellers and all the Robber Barrens. Wonder why, so many of them were saved from the Titanic?

What if we eliminated the American Armed Services? Taxes would go down, wouldn’t they? No . . . We’d pay more for the private army.

What if we eliminated the Post Office? Taxes? No . . . It would cost more to mail a letter.

So what does it mean . . . Balance my friend, a smaller, more efficient, Government. Whoever thought Republicans wanted privatization anyway? The New Conservatives, why? Simply, because with a smaller Government they win or privatization they win also.

And why? Because we believe we will pay less taxes. But wait . . . If the Fed doesn’t do it, who will? You know who. In the short run, we’ll get their tax break. That is until, you know who starts taking on those activities the Fed won’t do anymore.

The truth, you pay X. X is made up of State taxes and Federal taxes and City taxes and maybe County taxes. If the Federal Taxes goes down, the others will go up to cover the lost services. And because they are starting from nothing, it’ll be more. And that will be X + Y, where Y will be the cost of the new service startup.

My brother-in-law and sister-in-law are die hard Republicans . . . They would never ever think to vote another way.

I wonder if auto-bots are good for our way of life? A paradigm shift doesn’t solve it . . . The paradox is destroying us . . . Then what? Start over . . . Civil War, usually does that.

I am a human being first, remember? War is not acceptable. Then what? Balance . . . Our Government is what it was designed to be. Now we need to understand the Government is not the enemy as long as we keep the checks in place and as long as we balance the two. That is privatization and Government, conservative and democrat and work together . . .

Screw this up and we’ll have to deal with it and the truth, our American Civil War wasn’t fought over slavery . . . It was fought because one day Senators walked out, southern states seceded from the Union . . . Some might think that’s not so bad, but then we would look just like Europe with 50 countries with passports to boot!!!! The Brave Few. Dan

Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books:
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

The World Outside My Window, AuthorHouse, 2004

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Saturday, December 08, 2007

Here We Go Again . . .

Here We Go Again . . .

I really don’t like any of the candidates for President . . . Every one of them has great defects in my thoughts. Let’s call it like it really is, no party will alienate the Illegal Aliens because they control votes . . . Maybe it’s just perceived votes, but no one wants to lose the election because rallied at the polls afraid they’d be sent back.

Ok, let’s say they stay. What does that do for us? More taxes going at the retiring baby boomer crises, for the Bushes Deficit. To be honest with you, I think we should throw all the bums out, even Lou Dobbs . . . He’s really not helping anything.

Sure everyone with a brain would like to pay less in taxes, but you won’t if everything gets kick to the states . . . That means duplicating everything fifty times. Then why would we need the Fed? Wait a minute, didn’t we do all this before? No that was because of slavery. Are you sure? Seems to me it didn’t start until the Southern States Senators walked out . . . Hmmm.

Anyway, everyone is against price caps . . . But folks it has to happen, it’s out of control and no one is being reasonable. They just as soon kick the money somewhere else . . . Did you hear the rich are fleeing to Dubai, what does that mean?

They got off Scott Free . . . A new world order, that’s what we let Bush do, that’s us, the Republicans. Boy don’t we feel smart . . .

And you know what’s coming? Fifty percent taxes . . . Oh and they’ll throw in healthcare. Maybe that’s a good deal. But you know that’s what I proposed long before Bush and 9-11.

Something like this . . .
+ 50% taxes
+ Free college for everyone forever
+ National healthcare
+ National Pension Plan
+ 6 Weeks Vacation for everyone
+ Mandatory Community Service forever for every American
( Build a bridge, low income housing, help a child )

Sounds like socialism . . . How else do you think we’re going to survive those modern Rockefellers?

What do you think will even the playing field with China? Didn’t we beat Communism? I think it beat itself, the same way our cherished capitalism is going. Privatization is obsessive behavior, we can’t afford run away inflation and that’s what that is . . . Is anyone happy with what their making? Now I ask you, privatization, really? Sounds like we’ll need a bushel basket to carry the dollars we’ll need to pay for a loaf of bread.

These guys are criminals . . . They don’t need us, but we have no choice . . . The Brave Few. Dan

Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books:
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

Saturday, December 01, 2007

I think all politicians are nuts . . .

I think all politicians are nuts . . .

Politicians are nuttier than squirrel poop . . . Sorry, J.K. Rowling and all you Harry Potter fans for steeling her metaphor, I couldn’t help myself. It was just too good not to use again.

Why now? Well everyone is saying the surge is working in Iraq . . . We have to believe because no news is good news, isn’t it? To be honest, whether they tame the rattler or not doesn’t take away the fact that the jumped into it’s nest, does it?

Long ago I learned that if I attempted a project with an endless budget and no time constraints, I couldn’t lose, so who are they kidding? What we need to realize is this bunch thinks they are better than us, that they are acting for us. Right . . . ? Now the Democrats are jumping on board with the surge. Hey Dip Shits, you can’t tell me you haven’t figured it out? The insurgents have moved somewhere else. Pakistan seems ripe for the picking . . . Da?

This thing is a long way from being over. And the dollars are going to go into the trillions. And why now? Seriously why are the Democrats jumping on board? Can anyone speak Chinese? It seems the die is cast. Iran, China, F-it, let’s just take on the world, why not, we’re better than them, right?

Hey where did all the rich people go? Can you say the Kingdom, Dubai or is it King George’s middle name, Dubia, oh that’s spelled with a W.

To be honest, I don’t like war. I don’t like that for 3000 plus lives we destroyed two countries and killed so many. I don’t like the lies they used, for their shock and awe. I don’t like that they all decided to use a private army. I don’t like what they did to the Geneva Convention and our sacred Constitution all for a victory . . . It just won’t taste as good as it could. And you know George is right, history will always remember him kindly. The deck has always been stacked . . .

So what does that mean? Maybe our honorable, beloved country isn’t so honorable? Maybe we are only as good as our leaders? Maybe it’s all a lie? George Washington was a coward. The civil war wasn’t over slavery. The USS Maine wasn’t attacked, a boiler blew up. The Japanese declaration for war sat on FDR’s desk before the Pearl Harbor attack. Truman didn’t have to use the second bomb. Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs was a sham. LBJ lied about the bay of Tonkin and Vietnam. What about the Cole? What about 9-11? If the past is any indication then there lies too. The Brave Few. Dan

Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books:
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

What Are We Thinking . . .

What are we thinking?

Are we stupid? Why is everything crashing down around the world? You probably don’t know. Everyone seems unhappy with their leaders, why? Argentina, Pakistan, U.S. and on and on.

Is it only when they stop listening or something else? This is the first time in history that the media is part of the problem, the first time when the people of the world aren’t sure of anything around them.

And it is so disconcerting knowing that up, may not be just above our heads . . . Last night was the Republican Youtube debates. Watching I felt an uneasiness, an uneasiness from both parties equally . . . So we go through this CRAP and then we vote and four more years of the same or slightly different or dumped on our heads

. . . . Still there is no way for the people to oust a leader they dislike. Be it a President, Senator, Congressman or a Mayor. I have learned something through all this BS, we’re all in this together and payback is hell.

Our leaders, swear to their views and they change and they lie . . . I am tired of this . . . Tired knowing that no one wants to pay taxes and that is solely how they vote.
And are we better for the last eight years? Does every American have healthcare? Does every American have a savings? You don’t know about them, only about yourself . . . Do you? Are you better off than you were eight years ago?

But look around, everyone is struggling with no help available to pick up the pieces . . . Do away with the rest and we’re just one earthquake away from nonexistence . . . . And why?

What’s sitting in your driveway? Your closets? Drawers? Not American made products, because . . . Because we all think cheaper is better. But you can’t always get it both ways. I mean you buy at Wal-Mart, you say to put the kid through college . . . But why bother if Wal-Mart is the only job left?

Like you, I like what money buys. I like high returns on investments, I like feeling important and today we get to experience something we’ve never experienced before . . . Runaway spending with no end in sight. Iraq has ruined our credit in the world. It’s been paid for with a credit card.
And guess what? Our creditors are those we fear most . . . What if they come to collect?

When the house is lost the bank takes it back. But when the country fails, who’s going to take back the country? And guess what? They did it on our watch, with out a fight. Shame on us Republicans . . .

Shoot we’re still trying to privatize everything and don’t know it’s already been sold. But my fellow Republicans, who do you think bought those institutions, the ones you wanted privatized? Americans? Think again.

The first lie they sold us was that the Government can’t run anything well . . . That is so much CRAP and you know why . . . You see it everyday, you see it at the gas pumps . . . G R E E D.

Privatization only works when everything is at the same level, everything is at the same demand, same supply with no constraints, no controls. But folks you can’t control the board . . . And here’s the sad truth.

Your Government has known all along that Globalization means taking a pay cut. For you, for every American and still they push it as being part of a free market . . . But it’s not a free market. The Chinese businesses don’t pay labor, the country does. That means, every country in the world practicing free market trade with China is being duped because you pay labor and they don’t . . . But profits is all that’s important, right?

Well when you lose your job because it isn’t needed or out sourced to China, India, Mexico or some other third world country, then you can say I helped bring in on . . . The Brave Few.

Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books:
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

I've Grown Tired . . .

I’ve Grown Tired . . .

I’ve grown tired of complaining with no sight in end. I have a diesel pickup, when did diesel cost more to produce than gasoline? It doesn’t cost more . . . Just like these prices aren’t prefabricated . . . Mr. Bush has rolled back history. During Reagan’s reign we had lines at the gas pumps, why? Iran . . . Always Iran.

Don’t you grow tired of this S**t . . . What if you started walking? What if everyone started walking? The prices would fall overnight . . . They wouldn’t be able to give that s**t away . . . And you know, we’d all be better off for it.

The truth, we can’t believe any of them . . . What’s going on in Iraq? How about Afghanistan or anywhere for that matter? Who knows? Not the U.S. Media, they on a need to know basis. I wonder if the BBC or CBC?

And we don’t need to know . . . Who determines who needs to know? And the Vice President is ok . . . What’s happening in Iraq? Bush is meeting in Maryland with leaders trying to fix the Middle East . . . Heaven help us all. And still what’s happening in Iraq?

I’m disenchanted. I have been so naïve. It’s like being asleep and waking up and realizing it’s all been a dream, a lie. So now what?

I put my head down and trudge that American path of ignorance, apathy and one of no action . . . What happened to my Country of my youth? Was it ever what I thought? I think not . . . But each day I thank God for our Dreamers, they believe and they fight for us, they die for us.

And we don’t hear anything. We don’t know anything . . . Does a tree in the forest make a noise when it falls when no one is there to hear? When no one is there to cry for our fallen? This is so unfair of them . . . BRING EM HOME. The Brave Few.

Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books:
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

Friday, November 23, 2007

Health Insurance For Life . . .

Health Insurance For Life . . .

What if we awarded health insurance for life if a donor gave a piece of his liver, a lung, a kidney to someone who really needed it? Would you do it? I would. And to be honest that excites me . . . I believe that it is time for us to stop paying for health insurance through our employers.

What if someone signed up for being a donor when they died, would it be worthy of giving them health insurance for the rest of their life?

If everyone didn’t have to worry about health insurance do you thing we could afford to work for less? If so, then why aren’t we? I think it would allow us to be happier in our career paths . . .

How do you feel about national health? What effect do you think that has on labor costs? Do you realize that we are no longer playing in an even playing field with any of the industrialized countries?

Now is there a way to give everyone the same insurance as those in congress? I think John Edwards has the right idea, take congresses insurance away until they find a way to give every American the same coverage they enjoy. I wonder when did they become better than the people they server? The Brave Few. Dan

Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books:
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

Monday, November 19, 2007

When Did We Become The Party Of Hate . . .

When Did We Become The Party Of Hate?

Why Do We Hate? The other day I went to a conservative blog . . . I won’t say the one. And I was disappointed, disappointed in the hate mongering. Why have we become so filled with hate? When did we become so judgmental?

It’s almost as thou those that led in the 60’s have become saints . . . They weren’t saints. It was s trying time at best. Everyone hated so . . . Everyone seemed to be so bigoted. There were marches, black and whites, the kkk and peace rallies. Vietnam had become the joke . . . We woke up and realized LBJ had thrown us into the fire.

We’re better than that . . . For so long I have said nothing about my party, thinking I am an Independent or that I could be a Democrat. But I’m not an Independent and I can’t believe that I want someone to baby sit me, I have always been a Republican and somewhere you’ve changed, not me.

And today I’ve decided that’s enough . . . I will never condone fighting to the last man standing, not when we started the stupidity. And torture, hmmm. Where have we let them take our values?

I believe in truth, honor and the American Way . . . I will never believe in the end justifies any action and I will never give the whole party to the rich. Screw them . . . They will you.

I am a conservative. What does that mean? I believe not in privatization, but less Government. Those so called leaders have taken us down a path of CRAP. They think privatization is better than the Government . . . Now that’s just silly. Every business owner knows privatization drives the price up. The lack of competition kills all advantage, the lack of controls kills all levels of success. You need to be honest with yourself. Being conservative means balanced budgets and lower spending, not being a party that’s afraid of losing the next election . . .

But what happened to just being better than them . . . To be honest, I don’t think I can sign on with a fiscal policy that spends ridiculously and has no concern for human life. That’s hate . . . Not a Republican.

Who are our leaders? What are they selling us? Hitler sold the same CRAP and his closest advisors turned on him. The Brave Few. Dan

Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books:
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

Friday, November 16, 2007

What if we get Bush lite . . .?

What If We Get Bush Lite . . . ?

What if we have another five years of this CRAP? Do you feel comfortable with another Clinton? An ex-mayor of New York, who couldn’t keep his pants up, either?

All I ever wanted was to be proud of my America. And that means having leaders that know right and wrong. And ours are arrested for solicitation in airport bathrooms or don’t know whether their zipper is up or down . . .

How do you like being played? Winning an election has become synonymous with manipulation, the illusion of being a good leader . . . But isn’t being a candidate an oxymoron of a sort? To be wealthy, independently wealthy, hasn’t some moral fiber been eroded in the process? I wonder . . . ?

Who ever gets the nod to be our next President, it doesn’t look good. But won’t they be better than what we have now? We can hope, but history tells us otherwise. The damage just might not be repairable.

We have a problem in this country, when does the cause become more important than the country? The Civil War wasn’t fought over slavery. It was fought over beliefs . . . Today the line has been drawn in the sand. Sides are being drawn and soon the fight over right and wrong will begin. Will either back down? NO.

Nuts right . . . ? Watch and see. All Governments have to have boundaries, they have to know when a cause is just too extreme, too much to bare without losing its core belief. The storm is brewing, it’s in the wind. Righteous rocks are being tossed around as if they’re loafs of bread. And don’t kid yourself, everything is connected . . . Barry Bonds, Iran, Iraq, port security, the border, oil prices, mortgage problems, everything is held together by a single tiny thread called confidence. And it’s been eradicated by the few, our so-called leaders . . . The brave Few. Dan

And today I only see one choice, John Edwards . . . And that’s looking at all candidates. I am a Republican, but these guys aren’t Republicans and if you still think they care about you, you better get a life because when one company owns everything, you are screwed . . . Balance is all that works, well. Checks and balances . . . And today I announce my support for John Edwards, the only candidate worthy to be called President of the United States. The brave few. Dan

Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books:
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

I Sensed There Was A Problem . . .

I Sensed There Was A Problem

Today I took my GMC 3500 truck into the dealer. My service guy, he acted strange . . . He has always been good to me. I should explain. Before I bought my first GMC I checked out the service department. I meet everyone, I was hunting for a long term relationship . . . I told them I planned on buying at least five more trucks and I wanted to buy from someone that would treat me good. That was four GMC trucks ago and that company is long gone . . . But I followed the service rep. to another dealer . . .

And today for the first time he insinuated that the dealership would likely get mad at him for doing the right thing. My tail light had fell out. It was screwed in too tightly from the factory, broke the clips that held it. He more or less said that his boss would probably be mad that he warnteed it . . . He would probably lose his job.

So this is what has happened to our American Dream? So when are you going to wake up? At what cost will corporate pressure keep you from doing the right thing?

It happened to me long ago. I tried to sell a demo as a new computer, pressure from the bosses . . . The whole deal went to hell, no sale, no commission, no referrals . . . And today, no one will tell me not to do the right thing, ever. I will have their job in a flash . . . But that’s me.

So when does an employee have to do the right thing, have to take a stand? Would you?

The Enron fiasco cost a whole lot of people to lose so much and it was only brought down by someone who talked . . . The fox is in the hen house, we must take a stand. We can’t let fear beat us down . . .

My service man, he took a stand for me and when he gets the axe, I’ll go where he goes . . . The Brave Few. Dan

Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books:
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Things Go Better With Gore . . .

Things Go Better With Gore . . .

With out any doubt . . . But would the U.S. be recognizable? I’m not sure. You see I was one of those idiots that thought Georgie was different than his old man. I thought he was more like me. How wrong I was, but I new 150 days into his Presidency that he was not our savior but something much darker . . .

And then came 2004 and somehow Dean was bumped for JFK. Another Yale grad, another Skull and Bones man, just what we needed . . . John Forbes Kerry.

So we’re afraid of what? More of the same or them other guys?

Georgie got my vote because I was afraid my country was becoming too soft, too afraid of its own shadow. And of course I thought he would bring sense to the Office. I was wrong, but do we have other choices? I’m not sure . . . Money, corporate power, elitism has taken over. Both sides are part of this whale, both sides look at things differently and yet they seem to find the same end, hmmm.

Ok, maybe we wouldn’t be in Iraq with Gore or Kerry or would we? Iraq sits on a third of all oil reserves. And before Clinton left office, he was gearing up for something, but what? He was using contractors. The USS Cole was attacked, presumably by a bomb . . . Funny it looks my like a missile to me . . . Supposedly he fired a missile a terrorist camp. And if the Monica thing never happened, who knows where we’d be fighting?

And so here we are . . .
9-11, anthrax, patriot act, Afghanistan, Iraq, Abu Ghraib, torture . . . Deny, deny, deny.

And winner of today’s headlines are . . .

FBI Says Blackwater Killings Unjustified . . .
Da . . .

Price of Oil hurts . . .
Can you say National Energy Bill?

FCC, says it’s ok for Corporations to own the Media . . .
Ha . . .

Clinton, Obama and Edwards, oh my . . .

And so Clinton is more of the same, Obama different, yet maybe too young, too naïve and Edwards maybe our only chance to leave something worth a damn to our children. It’s just too bad we have to accept whatever we get . . . Where are the candidates that are for the people, to do the peoples bidding?

We are in desperate need of a Gun Toting Marshal and our choices don’t seem too willing. The Brave Few. Dan

Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

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Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

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Monday, November 12, 2007

Veterans Day . . . A Day To Forget Politics

Veterans Day . . . A Day to forget Politics

Today is for those who have gone to war, the fallen. Thank you . . . I wish there was more we could do, but . . . I’m not writing about politics today.

Several years ago, I visited a very sacred place, Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. I witnessed a very special ceremony, the changing of the guard. I was moved to tears. Standing there before the tomb of the unknown soldier, tears rolled down my cheeks, over looking the manicured landscape and all those bleach white markers . . . I stood on sacred ground.

And in the background I heard the guns of a twenty-one gun salute; another soldier had been laid to rest. Pride abounds all around those acres. Everyone that visits feels it. Every one knows they are heroes laid to rest, sleeping the eternal rest. That is most of them, anyway . . . Sure others lie there, but I won’t talk politics today.

Veterans Day has always been celebrated on November 11 and it was always special to me . . . The day after my birthday, I had it off for so many years. But it also didn’t take me long to realize what it meant, what it should mean to all Americans . . . And yet we don’t . . . I’m not writing politics, not today.

J.F.K. is buried there and so many others. Generals, enlisted men, famous men, so many and all received a military funeral. An honor guard, a rider-less horse with a pair of boots facing backward and a wagon with a casket with our flag draped over it. And always, ceremonial marches, slow and resolute, precise salutes for the fallen. Never does it matter, whether they fell in battle or from a long healthy life, a soldier has gone to his rest . . . Once a soldier, always a soldier. And always they hear the reports gun salute and a bugle playing taps on a hill. And always the flag is folded and handed to a loved one. The Brave Few. Dan

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