Insensitive to Japanese, Ammiano’s AB 9, the Anti-Bullying Bill, & Jerry Brown’s Loony Tax Proposals; Poll Saying Voters Have No Faith in Obama & GOP Fixing the Economy:

“Telling it like it is;” Insensitive to Japanese, Ammiano’s AB 9, the Anti-Bullying Bill, & Jerry Brown’s Loony Tax Proposals; Poll Saying Voters Have No Faith in Obama & GOP Fixing the Economy:

By Marc Chamot

Dealing with Morons: First of all, Japan is no joking matter! Anyone who pokes fun at Japan ought to be tarred, feathered and fired. There are some crazy Americans out there, who are coming up with their sorry Japanese Tsunami comments; it’s all absurd, thoughtless and tasteless.

Japan is in the midst of a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, millions of Japanese go to sleep every night in fear of radiation poisonings, and then we’ve got foolish Americans like, “Dan Turner resigned just hours after media reports of his comments in a daily e-mail sent on Friday to the governor's staff and other political allies.

According to a recipient of the e-mail, Turner joked that on that day in 1968, "Otis Redding posthumously received a gold record for his single, '(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay.'" The e-mail added: "Not a big hit in Japan right now."

Aflac has also fired Gilbert Gottfried, “the comedian who is the voice of the insurer's quacking duck in the U.S. Gottfried, who has voiced the duck in numerous commercials since 2000, posted a string of mocking jokes about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on Twitter over the weekend.

"I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, 'They'll be another one floating by any minute now," he tweeted Saturday.”

Not only Japan is the butt of jokes, but folks with mental problems are getting hit too. “Rep. Martin Hardy, a Barrington Republican, resigned from the New Hampshire House days after making comments supporting eugenics. Today, Harty, a first-term representative, gave his letter of resignation to House Speaker William O’Brien.

“We both agreed that this is what is best for the House to move forward and focus on critical issues,” O’Brien said. Harty’s resignation will become official tomorrow, and there will be a special election to fill his seat.

The 91-year-old Harty made national news last week when he told a constituent that he supported eugenics to get rid of “defective people.” 

Governor Jerry Brown’s not the BIG Moron he looks; California has the initiative process you know? If Jerry Brown really wanted that tax increase measure, he could bypass assembly GOP, and he could have an independent source go out and get the initiative signature drive for it. But why isn’t he doing it, if he wants that tax increase so badly? Because he knows, Californians aren’t fools that he wants them to be. Who in their right mind would sign a petition to pay more taxes? 

California Gay Assembly member Tom Ammiano is pushing for AB9, the school anti-bulling bill through Sacramento. Good idea! But the problem, the meat of the bill is more about protecting homosexual kids from school bullies. We should have NO tolerance policies on any kind of school bullying, whether someone’s fat, skinny, nerdy, and wearing glasses or speak funny and or they are just red headed.

Problems in 2012, Recent Polls show voters have no faith in President Obama and with GOP/Republicans, in turning the bad economy and lackluster job situations around. “The Democratic president still does better than Republicans: When asked who has a better vision for the years ahead, 45 percent of poll respondents chose Obama and 33 percent picked the Republicans.

“He was promising change,” says poll participant Jessica Wolf, 20, who attends Ivy Tech Community College in Lafayette, Indiana. “I haven’t seen any change. There are no jobs out there for us.”

The poll’s findings underscore the difficulty Obama faces in convincing voters he can boost employment and cut the deficit. The public’s perception of his ability to implement an effective strategy to improve the nation’s long-term prospects is likely to be one of his top hurdles to re-election.”

Telling It Like It Is!

Telling it Like It Is! New changes on this blog:

Time is a killer for most independent bloggers like me. So much is happening around the world and all over, but there’s no time to cover it all.

Ever since I created the Marc Chamot Report, I have been able to make it into a successful and workable blog as is. But somehow, this one has been neglected.

So what’s going on with this blog? I have decided to use this blog as a column, reporting different news events and then opinion on them, all under one posting every week. My other blog delves more on political issues that affects us all and it is in more detail.

This one will be brief, about subjects that interest me and my opinion. I will try to cover more San Francisco and California news since I live here.

I will also use my signature title that I once had, when I published a newspaper many years ago. It will be preceded by “telling it like it is.” I will become free and personal on every posting and that’s a guarantee.

Thank all you for reading my blogs.

Best Wishes,

Marc Chamot

British Mourn Hero Soldier and His Bomb Sniffing Dog Theo, Who Died of Broken Heart:

British Mourn Hero Soldier and His Bomb Sniffing Dog Theo, Who Died of Broken Heart:

By Marc Chamot

I never thought much about dogs, while growing up. This silly man always knew they were around, but what they were for was a mystery to me. 

I’ve heard terms used you dog! You dirty dog, I’ll kick you like a dog, and you nasty dog, so why are we being so harsh on dogs?

Dogs are more loyal and loving than most human beings I know, how about them apples, eh? Dogs have saved countless of human beings throughout the ages. Dogs have even kept lonely folks alive through companionships and dogs have been our eyes when we’re blind.

In San Francisco, practically everybody has service dogs and now I understand why. So it isn’t so surprising that we’re hearing about another British, Afghanistan war hero and his dog, who are being mourned in Britain.

Theo was a British bred, and one lose and wild MUTT, but he was no ordinary mutt, he was a very special mutt, to fun-loving Lance Corporal Liam Tasker and Theo was a bomb sniffing specialist dog. Theo was smart, and Theo the mutt worked played and slept with Lance Corporal Liam Tasker, they were both inseparable from each other.  

But sadly, they both died the same day. They were both flown back to Britain in a somber memorial, for the soldier remembered for his LOVE of animals and the companion he LOVED.  You see, Lance Corporal Liam Tasker a dog handler, with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps was killed in a firefight. And his partner, the mutt, with Springer spaniel mix died a few hours later.

British commanders say Teho the mutt died of stress related illnesses, but they don’t want to admit that Theo truly died of a broken heart.  I have no doubt that Theo died of a broken heart, along with stress related illnesses. It’s not uncommon to hear about dogs dying when their partners pass away.

Here is more to the sad story; UK soldier, loyal dog, make final journey together "I think we often underestimate the grieving process in dogs," said Elaine Pendlebury, a senior veterinarian with animal charity PDSA. "Some dogs react very severely to their partner's loss."

She said it was not uncommon for pets to respond to an owner's death by refusing food and becoming sick — and the bond between working dogs and their handlers is especially close.

"The bonding that I have seen between soldiers or police and their dogs is fantastic. When you see them working together, it's really one unit."

A military Hercules plane carrying Tasker's body and Theo's ashes touched down Thursday at a Royal Air Force base in southwest England. As the funeral cortege of black vehicles drove slowly away, it was saluted by a long line of military dog handlers, their dogs at their sides. A black Labrador retriever sat quietly beside its handler as the hearse carrying the flag-draped coffin disappeared from view.

Tasker, 26, from Kirkcaldy in Scotland, spent six years as an army mechanic before joining the military working dog unit in 2007. He felt he had found his calling.

"I love my job and working together with Theo," Tasker said in a profile of the pair released by the Ministry of Defense before his death. "He has a great character and never tires. He can't wait to get out and do his job and will stop at nothing."

The soldier and the 22-month-old dog had been in Afghanistan for almost six months, uncovering roadside bombs and weapons in a dangerous daily routine.

Theo became a bit of a military celebrity last month after the defense ministry released photos and video of him and Tasker to highlight the lifesaving work of military dogs. The footage, now deeply poignant, shows Theo — energetic, ears cocked, tail wagging — alongside Tasker searching a compound for explosives.

In it, Theo is seen feverishly circling the dusty area, his nose pressed to the ground. At one point he stops, tail wagging furiously, and begins digging the rocky earth before turning eagerly toward Tasker, who calls out "good boy!" and lets out a chortle of delight before tossing him a treat.

The ministry said then that Theo had been so successful — finding 14 hidden bombs and weapons caches, a record for a team in Afghanistan — that the dog's tour of duty had been extended by a month.”