Steve's barking those who should thank Snowden

Those who should thank Edward Snowden.
All those American Union guys who don't have to fight for their jobs because of another free trade deal that negotiations may fall apart because of Snowden blowing the whistle.
All those European heads of state who continue to unleash unrealistic economic hardship on the population of Europe who now have a place for the people to look at that's not them.
All those foreign leaders who can now say look in the mirror to the United States.

There are a lot more would be terrorist in Europe, do you think that listening to there conversations helped.
Did they have another country help them out?    

Steve's barking, I'm shock there's gambling in the back of Ricks

I'm shocked there's gambling going on in the back of Ricks, or as the EU might say America is bugging our conversations, we're shocked. Germany taking the lead saying US you g ot some (ex)plaining to do.

I always thought it was the right of passage between nations, even ones that are allies to spy on one another.
Hay look at the US and Israel. Every five or so years we throw a Russian diplomat out of the country and they do the same to us for spying. We want to know what our NATO allies are doing and I'm sure they want the same from us.

In the late fifties and early sixties the CIA had so many goofs that some one gave them the nickname certified incompetent agency, what will the NSA be called? The not (very) smart agency.

We had Bradley Manning in the Army and Edward Snowden volunteering to do the glamorous yet tedious work of looking at  and or ease dropping on telephone conversation and e-mails. They knew what  they were doing yet they were shocked ( were they naive) at the carrying on of the government.

I was in the park the other day and this child maybe 9 or ten starting to annoy this senior citizen. The senior got angry and the child laughed at her. The senior started to chase the child, which made the child taunt the senior more. This incident made me think, perhaps these leakers were going after there iner-child and if we    ignored them that would be there greatest punishment.

Steve's barking getting a round peg into a square hole

I'm barking at one of my favorite topics again. Think Tanks!
I've read some stuff from The Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, and The Manhattan Institute.
Their findings are audit reports. I just happen to know a little about audits and every one that I've reads are incomplete at best at worst the're out and out frauds.They seem to have the conclusion first, then they try to find facts that justify their conclusions, or even worse make up the facts. You don't have to know much about auditing to know that these reports are garbage and many of the facts are suspect.
There are two problems with political economic think tanks, they have to justify there findings by those who pay them and those in the media who take their findings as fact are too lazy to do their own research.
Because of my readings of conservative think tanks I take all think tanks with a ton of salt.    

Steve's barking conservative think tank is an oxymoron

Here we go again, another unable to think tank has stated were all going to go to hell in a hand basket because of the unfunded government pensions. Or is it underfunded government pension. This hold especially true for city and state pensions.
Now ladies and gentlemen  if this being true sell all your stocks in insurance companies especially the ones who have annuities. Well the reason I say that because aren't annuities based on the same bonds and stocks as the pensions are?  Of cause the governments can always raise taxes. Wouldn't that send businesses away. The workers would leave. I guess all the jobs in California have left for no tax states.

Now this same institute in Manhattan claims that New York Housing Authority is three Billion in the in the red for repairs. That selling off airspace is a good idea.
The Housing Authority has a billion dollars in the bank, and repairs are not being made.
New York has one of the nations best public housing if not the best. Why would you mess with the formula.

I remember when the middle class would move if they thought a housing project was going up in their area, now the city wants to place expensive housing in the middle of the projects. People think the acceptance of gay marriage was a big deal.  

Steve's barking as good as isn't good enough.

We ought to hire more (name your gender, race or ethnic group) for top executive positions for they are as good as White Males.
Now with the idea that I may sound prejudice, I wouldn't hire ( name your unrepresented group) if there only as good as, I would hire them if they had a chip on their shoulders that they had something to prove. If they were more hungry then those White Males or they had proven to be better then. Because that what I want to run a company or even a lesser entity called a country. I want better then the rest.

When I look around this globe I see health care that's not good enough, we tend to compare ourselves to other societies instead of looking at what is needed and making an effort to get it done.
All the counties of the world need better health care systems.

We tend to compare our education to other counties and all countries are lacking in some form or other.
I ask myself in the United States are we catering our education to what we believe would make us stand out (this being the most likely scenario)?
Our we trying to have our education meet what is believed the education needs of the future?
What were not doing ( an impossible task) is meeting the individual student's need.

If any country is trying to be as good as the United States, they are making a terrible mistake, that's not good enough, just as the United States keeps saying that were number one, that's not good enough. The countries of this planet have got to strive to be better tomorrow and even better the next day.

Striving to be better then the best is what it's all about.

    
 

Steve's barking Unions raising the white flag

Here in America our unions are are raising the white flag.
Now one reads about Walmart workers wanting to join a union, and Walmart just giving a big yawn.
One even hears that there was a one day strike at Walmart. Sounds like the United Autoworkers holding sit ins at the big three Automakers during the great depression.
Being a good union person from a union shop were one had to pay union dues I realized that in order to be a real good union person like most things in life you need enthusiasm. Why can't unions bring enthusiasm to a younger generation? Now I'm not just talking about young pups just getting into the work force, I'm talking about some middle aged far*s. Is because the unions have lost there way? Has the worker been brain washed, that its not good to have a contract that's the same as the person next to you. Why should a person worry about being brought up on charges, that person would never do anything wrong. Does the modern worker know any of those old Union songs or even know the history of the union movement in this country.
What's wrong with the leadership of our unions, are they more interested in keeping power and closed to new ideas? What new ideas can they come up with that would excite the workers in this country that they would want to belong to a union?

Today most unions in this country are but straw dogs being used by bullies to keep the worker down.

Steve's barking at Brazil's no bread too much circus

Remember from the history books how the Roman Republic kept the populaces happy with full bellies and entertained. Well it seems to me that the of  Brazil is trying to give the people of Brazil somethings that they could all be proud of, holding the world cup and the Olympics so why is there rioting in the streets? Perhaps the government forgot to keep the peoples belly full.
Now it seems that the rest of the wold is happy with Brazil and until yesterday or the day before it was a good place to invest your money after all it's GDP and it's GNP keep going up  and I was told on the tube that income disparity percentage wise was going down (what ever that means).Ah but even the reporter on the financial news network that I was watching stated that the poor (which there are many) in Brazil couldn't afford a small increase in the bus fare. One could say that it was lowing the poor's discretionary income but that would be a lie, the poor in Brazil have no discretionary income. Now it's also come to my attention through this same financial news network that a lot of people in Brazil are upset that the Government is spending all this money on the World Cup and the Olympics and 88 percent of the roads (and there are plenty of them) are unpaved. There are way too many shanties in Brazil why can't the government build new housing?
Now this rioting and calling the government corrupt is news to me, especially when the president of Brazil Dilma Rousseff rating in April was 65 percent called her good to excellent. Over night her government is corrupt and incompetent.


Now I'm in shock again, I'm usually in favor of Sports venue being built, after all new housing is needed for Olympic contestants and when the Olympics are over this housing should be turned over to the poor.
When planning to host World Wide Sporting events the host country normally improves it's infrastructure and creates hundreds if not thousand temporary good paying jobs.