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Link: shortlink Link: apple-touch-icon-precomposed Link: openid.server Link: openid.delegate sheriffali Accepting the unchangeable and changing the unacceptable! "A man or a woman never surfeits of too much honesty!" Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2011 by sheriffali "To appear an honest person, in one word you must be one. Honesty is the fine jewel, but much out of fashion. Honesty in public life is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded. Let God inspire you, make you want to begin to be your best self: not just to be proved right, but to be willing to be proved wrong when you are; to learn to laugh when someone trips you up. There is a great holy hilarity that we haven't even touched in store for the saints of God. I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." http://sheriffali.blogspot.com/2011/10/man-or-woman-never-surfeits-of-too-much.html[IMG] Leave A Comment >> "Kindness is like a garden of blessing and love endures forever!" Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2011 by sheriffali "We shall pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness we can show, or any good thing we can do, let us do it now; let us not defer it or neglect it, for we shall never pass this way again. Kindness has converted more hate into love than zeal, eloquence or learning. It is difficult to tell how much people's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech. So, be kind and remember that every one you meet is fighting a difficult battle. Kind words never wear out the tongue!" http://sheriffali.blogspot.com/2011/10/kindness-is-like-garden-of-blessing-and.html[IMG] Leave A Comment >> The "Tyrant" who sowed fear, murder and mayhem, certainly, reaped what he sowed." Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2011 by sheriffali Momma Qaddafi who for forty-two years raped Libya of its wealth at the cost of the Libyan people; a man who instilled fear into its citizens; tortured them; murdered them; he himself, got a large fatal dose of his medicine on October 20th 2011. O how the mighty subjugator fell seeking refuge in a drain-pipe (hole), was dragged out of there begging for his life and perhaps in the same manner that tens of thousands of the Libyan people pleaded for their lives, but in the end, he was all alone and dead. He was placed in a refrigerated container like a slab of meat at the Butcher's shop, except it wasn't buyers coming to visit, but instead it was the people whom he had terrorized that had the last laugh of this most egregious despot. One has to wonder what are these "Dictators" thinking when they are committing such heinous crimes against humanity? I wonder! Do they ever stop to ask how much is enough? Am I one day going to have to pay for my deeds? Perhaps they give no heed to such things and perhaps the avarice for power, money, attention and the likes, numbs their thinking process and placates any sense of decency, mercy or any form of goodness, from penetrating their conscience. Maligning oneself with evil for the temporary rush of life in the fast lane brings about the inevitable; sooner rather than later, you will have to pay the piper! Libya that has oil reserves of forty six (46) billion barrels of the richest oil in Africa with a population of approximately six million people, with proper management everyone could have had a good life, opportunities and pave new and better roads for their children, but Qaddafi's greed that all of Libya's wealth inures only to himself and his family, resulted in the suffering of immense proportion to 99.5% of the Libyan people. Qaddafi, Mubarak and others that fell in the Arab uprising should be a wake up call for the rest of the "Despots," that time is no longer on their side. But for them they should heed the words of President John F. Kennedy; it is never too late to do the right thing!" http://sheriffali.blogspot.com/2011/10/tyrant-who-sowed-fear-murder-and-mayhem.html[IMG] Leave A Comment >> "A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life! Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2011 by sheriffali The secret of success is constancy to purpose. To find his or herself place and fill it is success for every human being. By success I mean the development of mature and constructive personality. For in the final analysis, success is neither fame, wealth nor power; rather it is seeking, knowing, loving and obeying God. If you seek you will know; if you know, you will love; if you love, you will obey!" http://sheriffali.blogspot.com/2011/10/successful-man-cannot-realize-how-hard.html[IMG] Leave A Comment >> Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi is dead! Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2011 by sheriffali Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi is dead. The news from the Middle East is vindication of the Obama administration's policy in Libya. A man who was an enemy of the American people, someone who killed Americans aboard Pan Am 103, someone who was taking out Americans and acting against our interests in the Middle East for decades has finally been eliminated from the scene. And all this talk about "leading from behind" needs to be put in context. First of all, President Obama never said anything about "leading from behind." What the president said was he didn't want to put additional American troops in theMiddle East in the middle of a Muslim country. We are already fighting not only in Iraq but in Afghanistan. We have tremendous troubles in Pakistan. President Obama allowed the multi-national force to be in a position where they could act with tremendous American support. The American public would never have supported pouring additional troops intoLibya. By building an international coalition, the president managed, nonetheless, to make Americans part of the fight and oust Qaddafi. Critics on the right have flip-flopped on these issues from the beginning on whether or notAmericashould have played a role, any role, in supporting the anti-Qaddafi forces. Today's events are another reminder of how pure political concerns can blind people toAmerica's best. EssentiallyAmericahas been at war inLibya. And tonight or today, this morning, what we've seen is that that policy has led to the ouster and also the death of Muammar Qaddafi. That's good news forAmerica. I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat. This is good news. For President Obama, after the death of Bin Laden, Al-Awlaki and now, indirectly, Qaddafi, he's left with a terrific narrative in terms of making the case that Democrats aren't weak on national security and that he has pursued a number of President Bush's policies in terms of being aggressive. This has been in service to America's national interest and the best outcomes for every American. If you look at the president's use of drones, for example, he decision to keep using Guantanamo Bay to house detainees, these are things that have absolutely antagonized the left in this country. But if you're looking at results, you can't argue with the results. A man who wasAmerica's enemy, who was a destabilizing force in theMiddle Eastand a supporter of anti-American forces, has been removed from the stage. By Juan Williams Published October 20, 2011 | FoxNews.com http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/10/20/cant-argue-with-american-policy-now-qaddafis-dead-and-results-speak-for/#ixzz1bKmq0DES[IMG] Leave A Comment >> THE SOLACE THAT IT BRINGS! Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2011 by sheriffali Contemplating this world And the things people fight for, While sacrificing their very soul With greed for more and more Thinking about my life Just living day by day, I'm able to conquer strife With hopeful words to say Sharing my possessions And the solace that it brings, There are no illusions Same as the Robin sings See, I am no futile dreamer For this world can be a better one, I am a true believer In the mercies of the Almighty's Son! (c) Sheriff G Ali 2011 http://sheriffali.blogspot.com/2011/10/solace-that-it-brings.htm[IMG] Leave A Comment >> Why we are where we are today financially, and as a country that is spiraling out of control! Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2011 by sheriffali As I have always stated and will always declare, the American people andAmericaare the greatest People and Nation in the history of the world.Americaand its people have given much to the world and it is my belief that we would continue on that path, provided we have the means to do so. (History repeats itself - if we are not mindful it could be 1940's all over again) But, the reality of Americalies not only in the eight years of the George W. Bush Administration; but also the Clinton Administration; George Herbert Walker Bush Administration; and especially, the Reagan Administration. Ronald Reagan set out to destroy the Unions inAmerica- The Unions that gave people the right to collectively bargain for better working conditions, health care that really was the engine that helped to create the middle-class. Reagan began the deregulation of the Banks that took us on a path of Wanton Waste by the Bakers and people working for the Government that created losses of hundreds of billions of dollars of tax payer's money. Reagan also took a 930 billion dollar National Debt and increased it to 2.7 trillion dollars; George W. H. Bush enhanced it to 5.1 trillion dollars; under Bill Clinton the debt only grew to 5.6 trillion but he left a balanced budget with a surplus 5 trillion dollars; and then, George W. Bush spent the entire surplus and added 4.6 trillion dollars to our National Debt, that when he left office on January 20, 2009 our debt stood at 10.4 trillion dollars. All of the money that got spent; the wars that were initiated that still exist today; the two humongous tax cuts and other monies that were spent, was borrowed money and nothing was never paid for. And so, President Barak Obama got saddled with a Country and 99% of it people in deep and unforgiving waters. To Obama's credit he infused the necessary cash into the financial system that prevented us from becoming a bankrupt Nation, and despite what his critics espouse, he did stop the hemorrhaging of the loss of jobs despite the 9.1% employment that exist today. I wrote an entire book titled America's Paroxysm sometime ago, but I decided not to publish it when it was done because of some significant changes that took place, hence I would have to re-write various parts of the book, before publishing it. However, the first chapter of the book is listed below. You can read or not read it, but should you choose to read it, I feel certain that it would help to provide you with a balanced perspective that would assist you in understanding your country and what you can do, individually and collectively, to help us climb out of the mere we were tossed into by the end of 2008. AMERICA'S PAROXYSMS -SEEING "BUSH" AS THE "VIRGO INTACTA" http://sheriffali.blogspot.com/2011/10/why-we-are-where-we-are-today.html[IMG] Leave A Comment >> Sad moments for a President who cares about the people he governs... Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2011 by sheriffali The letters that make Obama long for his community-organizing days! By Eli Saslow, Published: October 14 (Washington Post) It had become one of President Obama's signature routines in the White House, a habit he mentioned in dozens of meetings and hundreds of speeches: Every night just before bed, he read 10 letters pulled from the 20,000 that Americans sent to him each day. The notes reminded him of why he wanted to be president, he liked to say. He called them his most intimate link to the people he governed. But by the time I visited the president in the Oval Office earlier this year to talk about the letters, some of his aides had begun to wonder if Obama's affection for the mail had outworn its usefulness. Gone were the post-inaugural thank you notes. Instead, Obama sometimes received letters addressed to "Dear Jackass," "Dear Moron" or "Dear Socialist." People wrote because they had lost their jobs, their homes or their relatives in the wars. Each day's mail brought another deluge of hard luck and personal struggle, a wave of desperation capable of overwhelming the senses. Most sobering of all for Obama, his self-described "direct connection" to Americans had also awoken him to a growing disconnect. People wrote because their problems demanded immediate attention, and yet the process of governing the nation was so slow that Obama sometimes felt powerless to help them. A few times during his presidency, Obama admitted, he had written a personal check or made a phone call on the writer's behalf, believing that it was his only way to ensure a fast result. "It's not something I should advertise, but it has happened," he told me. Many other times, he had forwarded letters to government agencies or Cabinet secretaries after attaching a standard, handwritten note that read: "Can you please take care of this?" "Some of these letters you read and you say, `Gosh, I really want to help this person, and I may not have the tools to help them right now,' " the president said. "And then you start thinking about the fact that for every one person that wrote describing their story, there might be another hundred thousand going through the same thing. So there are times when I'm reading the letters and I feel pained that I can't do more, faster, to make a difference in their lives." For the past year, I had been reading Obama's mail and traveling across the country to spend time with some of the letter-writers. I had learned firsthand that people tended to write to the president when their circumstances turned dire, sealing a prayer into an envelope as a matter of last resort. I had also read many of the president's handwritten responses, in which he sometimes assured in black ink that "things will get better," even if he wasn't so sure himself. I had watched him correspond with aMichigan woman while she went through bankruptcy; with a fourth-grader while she attended one of the country's worst schools; with a mother while she waited to hear from her son inAfghanistan; with a cleaning woman while she battled leukemia and worried about paying her medical bills. Months after these people wrote to the president, when I mentioned their letters to Obama, he remembered the details of their lives. Their letters had shaped his speeches and informed his policies, but it was their personal stories that stuck with him. "Reading these letters can be heartbreaking," he said. "Just heartbreaking." He said his nightly reading in the White House sometimes made him pine for his days as a community organizer back in the 1980s, when he was making $10,000 a year and working on the South Side of Chicago. He had just graduated from college, and he bought a used car for $2,000 and spent his days driving around to the city's housing projects to speak with residents about their lives. He became familiar with many of the same issues that would flood his mail 25 years later: housing calamities, chronic unemployment and struggling schools. Obama's fellow organizers inChicagoconsidered him a master of hands-on, granular problem-solving. He was skinny and boyish, a good listener, if still a bit naive; and some of the older women in the housing projects made a habit of inviting him into their homes and cooking for him. He looked around their apartments, keeping a log of maintenance issues, and then delivered that list to the landlords. He helped arrange meetings with city housing officials to talk about asbestos problems. He established a tenant's rights organization, founded a job-training program and led a tutoring group that prepared students for college. When he left forHarvardLawSchoolafter three years inChicago, Obama knew he wanted to become a politician, a job that would allow him to listen to people's problems and enjoy the simple satisfaction of solving them. Now he was the most powerful politician of all - but fixing problems seemed more difficult and satisfaction more elusive. He had yet to make progress on key campaign promises to reform education and immigration. Just this past week, his jobs bill failed to move forward in the Senate. When we spoke, Obama didn't blame the gridlock and partisanship of a divided capital, but instead stressed the paradoxical limitations of his office. Meanwhile, the letters kept coming. The president said he wondered whether a community organizer might have an easier time responding to them. "The people were right there in front of me, and I could say, `Let's go to the alderman's office,' or, `Let me be an advocate in some fashion,' " he told me. "And here, just because of the nature of the office and the scope of the issues, you are removed in ways that are frustrating. "Sometimes, what you want to do is just pick up the phone and say, `Tell me more about what's going on, and let me see if I can be your social worker, be your advocate, be your mortgage adviser, be your employment counselor.' So what I have to constantly reconcile in my mind is that I have a very specific role to play in this office, and I've got to make a bunch of big decisions that you hope in the aggregate will end up having a positive effect over this many lives. But you can't always be certain." An aide walked into the Oval Office and pointed at her watch. Our time was up. The day was almost over. Another packet of 10 letters was on its way to Obama's residence, tucked inside a purple folder in his nightly briefing book. Later that night, he would sit down on his couch, open the folder and find missives from ruralArkansasand downtownDetroit, notes of inspiration and devastation. He would read all 10 letters and reply to one or two. Sending a response still allowed him to provide one thing immediate and concrete. "It lets them know I am listening," he said. And sometimes listening was all he could do. Eli Saslow, a Washington Post staff writer, is the author of "Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President." This article is adapted from that book with permission from Doubleday. [IMG] Leave A Comment >> Governor Rick Perry's wife, Anita, should be renamed Anita Pinocchio Perry! Posted in Uncategorized on October 15, 2011 by sheriffali Anita Perry and Governor Rick Perry's avarice for power is so unrelenting, they trample over God, The Bible and any and everything that gets in their way - to win! To win what, one may ask? To win more Power! Mrs. Anita Perry on Friday October 14, 2011 at a campaign rally when told by a young man in the audience that he had lost his job, Mrs. Perry said to the young man; "My son lost his job because of this Administration (Obama). Rick and Anita Perry's son, Griffin Perry made a public announcement that he was resigning from Deutsche Bank to help his father raise money. This was necessary on Griffin Perry's part due to SEC regulations on conflict of interest. But yet, his mother blamed The Obama Administration forGriffinbeing out of a job. This shouldn't be important to only me, but it should be important to all ofAmerica, because "this is what is wrong with our country!" Politicians, lying, scheming, cheating, and unrelenting hypocrisy just to be elected, so that they can "screw" us more than they already have! One day before, October 13, 2011 at another campaign rally Mrs. Perry told the audience that people hate her husband because of his "faith." She went on to describe Moses' burning bush and Gideon's fleece as some of the methods her husband used in his attempt to determine whether or not he should seek the office of the President. She, Mrs. Perry said, her husband Rick, got his answer from God, yes Rick, you must run. I wonder if their god also told them that lying, scheming and blaming others wrongfully were also to be used to win the election! http://sheriffali.blogspot.com/2011/10/governor-rick-perrys-wife-anita-should.html [IMG] Leave A Comment >> Wall Street's "money nymphomaniacs and the Republicans, relentless assault on the poor and middle-class!" Posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2011 by sheriffali I think that if a "Gadfly" could speak and use words to "run down President Obama," the desperate Republicans would embrace the "Gadfly!" Despite some of the News Media calling the winners and losers of The Washington Post Republican Debate carried live on Bloomberg Television on October 11, 2011, it reflects the imbeciles phantasmagoric rationales and internecine policies that these sorry excuses for the Republican Candidates are promulgating, in their hopeless desire to become President, is a fallacy that have no chance of success! I think that if a "Gadfly" could speak and use words to "run down President Obama," the desperate Republicans would embrace the "Gadfly" that would result in a surge in the Polls for the "Gadfly." What came out of the debate was that everyone of the Candidates justification for wanting to be President is to blame President Obama for "shit" that happened for which he hadn't any part of. The Economy was already wrecked prior to Bush leaving office, the unemployment was stealing apace, peoples' life savings, homes and lives were being wiped out by Wall Street's "money nymphomaniacs," and the Republicans relentless assault on the poor and middle-class, was already a reality. So, let us summarize: Mitt Romney: He has and continues to change positions more frequently that people change their underwear! Rick Perry: He turned Texas into little China with 1 in 5 people living in poverty; 1 in 4 people do not have any form of medical insurance; he permeates a disdain for Government when in fact he accepted TARP funds and most of the jobs that were created in Texas are Government Jobs, at the cost of the most vulnerable and Texas Children's education. Herman Cain: A most pompous and arrogant man who became rich and forgot from where he came by condemning those that are out of work and not rich, and whose 999 trade mark should really be turned upside down to read 666 - "Mark of Herman Cain the best." Michele Bachmann: A woman who has Pinocchio's Diarrhea of the mouth that makes Sarah Palin look like Mother Teresa. Ron Paul: A good man, A Doctor who should have stuck to medicine because what he promulgates is self evident that he issued one too many prescriptions for himself. Newt Gingrich: A washed up Ex-Speaker of the House who preaches morality and in fact he is one person that is morally bankrupt, for taking divorce papers to his ailing wife's bedside to be signed, so he can get remarried! Rick Santorum: Mr. Extreme Right Wing Republican Christian who advocates Christianity but yet, permeates policies that would further suppress the vulnerable, poor and totally wipe out the middle-class, what's left of it. Jon Huntsman: With 1% Polling, all I can say about him is that he should have kept his job as Ambassador toChina. http://sheriffali.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-think-that-if-gadfly-could-speak-and.html [IMG] Leave A Comment >> << Older Entries * Search for: _____________________ [ Search ] * * Pages * About Me... * Blogroll * Aspire to do good for selfless reasons! * Discuss * Get Inspired * Get Polling * Get Support * Haljaba Food and Beverage Products * It is better to give than to receive! * Learn WordPress.com * WordPress Planet * WordPress.com News * Categories * Uncategorized (75) * October 2011 S M T W T F S << Sep 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 * Archives * October 2011 * September 2011 * August 2011 * July 2011 * June 2011 * May 2011 * April 2011 * Meta * Register * Log in * Atom 1.0 * Entries RSS * Comments RSS * WordPress Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Black-LetterHead by Ulysses Ronquillo. 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