Tag: Issues

To Journalists: What Now?

I have had a few comments from journalist and how much that some of them dislike bloggers…but the way I see it …….is their problem not mine!  But beyond that, I have a few questions that I would like answered by journalists.

Primaries are over–may I get an AMEN?–now the Repubs and the Dems can discuss what is important–the ISSUES.  Damn!  Wrong again!  The media seems to not want to talk about the issues.  The pundits, almost to the person, is still focused on Clinton’s supporters and her wins in KY, WV, PA, yada yada.  The media is fixated on hindsight and in doing so the voter is learning nothing of substance.  But yet, the media keeps saying how important the issues are and how diverse the candidates are.  But I guess the issues are not important enough to cover and inform.

Clinton won big in the closing days of the primaries, but what does that mean now?  NOT A DAMN THING!  She lost and analyzing that to death will not change the outcome–she still loses!  They, the media, is spending all their waking hours trying to decide who will vote for who and why. but seldom are they talking about issues, instead gender, race age and other assorted crap are covered.

Why not let them, the caandidates, talk and debate real issues and then the pundits can check with the mamby pamby polls and tell us who is winning and why.  Just a thought.

Instead of moving forward with the candidates and their positions they, the media, spend countless hours on worthless speculation and analysis.  They seem to resist looking forward to the general election and the issues.

Ballot Box Gives What Revolution Cannot

For many many years Maoist guerrillas fought to control the country of Nepal.  Many deaths and many peace attempts and nothing was accomplished but more and more blood shed.  Recently a peace accord was signed and basically all parties honored it with minor outbreaks of violence here and there.

Then the election process began and the results were not what most of the world was looking for.

Nepal’s Maoists have accomplished at the ballot box what they did not achieve as guerrillas on the battlefield — winning a chance to transform their country.

Officials said Thursday that the former rebels have won the most seats in the Himalayan nation’s new governing assembly.

The Maoists, who are still considered terrorists by the United States, took more than double the number of their nearest rival in an April 10 election meant to seal a peace deal that ended their decade-long insurgency.

While the Maoists will not have an absolute majority in the 601-seat Constituent Assembly, they are expected to form the backbone of Nepal’s new government and usher in sweeping changes to the impoverished country.

Now we will see if they will try and push their Maoist ideology or if it was just they wanted the power to control the country.  Once again, extremist gain more power through the ballot box than with the gun.