I would recommend that every one who reads my blog watch this video,  and I would like to hear your comments on this.   I really think that President Obama, in his heart, knows that this is the reality, and that he is in denial,  afraid that if he alters his course it would destroy his presidency and set back whatever progress he has been able to make so far.  I think that if he went to the American people and told them the truth and the hard facts they would stand behind him.

Please click on the link below and watch the video.   In the second half of Bill’s program on Friday April 10th on PBS he interviews author Louise Erdrich and they talk about her new book   – Shadow Tag.  I finished reading it last night and recommend it to everyone.

Bill Moyers Journal . Andrew Bacevich on Afghanistan | PBS.

What I cannot understand is why decent people really organize to combat the filth and nonsense spewed by the teabaggers.  They have become the darlings of the media – and not only the right wing media.  Why isn’t there more outrage?  It’s a scenario in miniature of what happened in Germany during the last days of the Weimar Republic.

Eric E. Schmidt: Davos Confidential.

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In this week’s current edition of The Nation Magazine ( www.thenation.com)  there is an interesting article about ACORN, the group involved in communiy organizing.  As you probably have read, a couple of right wing advocates went around to their offices trying to entrap some of their people by creating outrageous situations and secretly filming them and later posting the films on youtube. Congress reacted, and cut off some of the federal funding they were using to register voter, working for the 2010 Census \.

Contrast this with the government’s handling of Blackwater, the private mercenary force used in Iraq and Afgahnistan to perform work that should be done by the military.  A recent federal audit suggest that Blackwater may owe the government $55 million dollars for failing to meet the terms of just one of their federal contracts. Five of their employees face murder charges for their role in the murder of several Iraqi citizens. Yet Blackwater’s $217 million dollar contract was just extended by the Obama administration.  Also, consider the fact that Halliburton, Dick Cheney’s company, which received $80 million in contract bonuses to provide electric wiring in Iraq. Sixteen soldiers and 2 civilians have been electrocuted because of this faulty wiring. Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant was just fined 2.3 billion dollars in a fraud settlement, and yet had more than 73 million dollars in federal contracts in 2007 alone.

My daughter, Rosemary Tropman, is a 4th grade classroom

teacher in the Mentor, Ohio public schools.

She was recently awarded their Excellence in Teaching Award

which will be presented to her when the School Board meets

August 25th

desktop wallpaper.

I’m also working on a web page:

http://danvolper.com/IV/

I am putting together some information on my father so those who are interested in his paintings will know a little more about him.

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