Folks, keep in mind that George H. Bush, in his inaugural speech called for "a new world order". That was his battle cry to his compatriots, who are part of all the economic turmoil we're embroiled in presently. It does take more than one person, or family in this case, to take over the world and create a lasting fascist regime. The other players included Heinz, JP Morgan, GM and many other powerful business people and corporations. Don't think for a second that many of the players then aren't players now.
I'm sure some of you are wondering why I post so much of this heavy, crazy sounding political crap. Here's why.
If we don't pay attention to the government they will do anything they want to do because no one is, guess what? Paying attention; just like a mischievous child. Of course the problem with this child is that it can kill the world ad everything in it if it wants to.
Pay attention and stay alive. Ignore the truth and you'll need to pray to that fictional god you believe in. A lot. Hey, if you can't see the truth, maybe the imaginary will protect you, at least in your head.
Read ahead folks.
The Bush coup d'etat
Posted: December 20, 2001
1:00 am Eastern
By Harry Browne
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt was elected promising a 25 percent reduction in the federal budget, an end to deficits and the restoration of a sound dollar.
Within eight years, the federal budget tripled, federal debt increased 155 percent and the gold standard was repudiated – making the U.S. dollar a fiat currency.
Roosevelt's New Deal transformed America from a unique country in which everyone could live his life as he saw fit into a welfare state in which most business was supervised from Washington.
No longer was America run by the people – or even by Congress. Instead, it was now directed by bureaucrats operating in regulatory agencies like the AAA, FCA, CCC, FCI, SMA, FSA, NLRB, PWA, WPA, FDIC, FSLIC, SEC, SSA, REA, EHFA – directing when we shall sow and when we shall reap.
Effecting a revolution
Why would Americans give up their freedom for a system that had never worked well in the Old World?
They did it because Roosevelt never attacked the American Way head-on. Instead,
1. He praised the Constitution, but said it must be updated from "horse and buggy" days.
2. He never discussed the liberties he was stealing – talking instead about government's power to do good.
3. Any objectors were challenged to prove that some other program could cure the Depression perfectly overnight.
4. Those who protested the loss of freedom were dismissed as alarmists and "economic royalists" who wanted to continue exploiting their neighbors.
The magic words were "recovery" and "emergency." They justified everything – even though the New Deal produced no recovery, and there were far better ways to deal with the emergency.
The mess of pottage
The writer Garet Garrett called the New Deal "The People's Pottage." Esau had traded his birthright for a mess of pottage. And now the American people had traded their birthright – the freest nation the world had ever known – for a mess of pottage.
And what did that pottage consist of?
In 1940, the unemployment rate was still 15 percent, the Depression was still severe and Roosevelt was maneuvering America into war to distract attention from the New Deal's failures.
The Bush revolution
In 2000, George Bush won the presidency promising "limited government," reading the Constitution literally, and rejecting the concept of "nation-building" – the practice of imposing pro-American governments on foreign nations.
But, once in office, he produced a federal budget limited by nothing. And now he's making the Constitution an instrument of his own power – even as he imposes a new government on Afghanistan.
The last of the Bill of Rights
The Roosevelt coup d'etat destroyed the Ninth and 10th amendments – the ones limiting the government's functions.
The First and Second Amendments remained in form – although the Supreme Court now decides when they can be overruled by the government's "compelling interest."
Amendments 3 through 8 have survived, although considerably battered. But now, the Bush coup d'etat is aimed at erasing these last restrictions on government power.
Bush wants to decide when people can have a jury trial, be safe from cruel and unusual punishment, be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures and able to confront their accusers.
When the Bush New Deal is completed, the Bill of Rights will survive in name only. And you will live and breathe only by the sufferance of the all-mighty government. Your fate will be in the hands of people like George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Teddy Kennedy and Strom Thurmond.
Of course, George Bush is doing this to save America. (sic)
But what is America if there's no individual liberty?
Effecting revolution II
Like Roosevelt, George Bush isn't attacking the Constitution and the American way head-on. Instead,
1. He claims to want to preserve the Constitution, but says we must put security first.
2. He diverts attention from our lost liberties by talking about ridding the world of evil-doers.
3. Objectors are challenged to provide another program that can destroy terrorism perfectly.
4. Those protesting the lost liberties are dismissed as unpatriotic, paranoid or "America-haters" – who are aiding the terrorists by "scaring peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty."
The magic words are "security" and "emergency." They justify everything – even though Bush is increasing the world domination that made us vulnerable to terrorism in the first place.
If George Bush were a Democrat, many conservatives would be fighting him to the death. But too many conservatives have abandoned their principles and begun deciding right and wrong on the basis of party labels.
More pottage
We, too, are trading the last remnants of America for a mess of pottage.
The War on Terrorism has no more chance to succeed than the New Deal, the War on Drugs, the War on Poverty, or the War on Illiteracy.
The first revolution for big government was effected by a man who railed against big government and said he wanted to save capitalism. The second revolution is being engineered by a man who claims to be for limited government and the preservation of freedom.
Even as he seeks to destroy the last vestiges of a free America.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Will Bush cancel the 2008 election?
Will Bush cancel the 2008 election?
By Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis
Online Journal Guest Writers
Aug 1, 2007, 01:11
It is time to think about the "unthinkable."
The Bush administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 election.
The GOP strategy for another electoral theft in 2008 has taken clear shape, though we must assume there is much more we don't know.
But we must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006), we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention.
The real question is not how or when they might do it. It's how, realistically, we can stop them.
In Florida 2000, Team Bush had a game plan involving a handful of tactics. With Jeb Bush in the governor's mansion, the GOP used a combination of disenfranchisement, intimidation, faulty ballots, electronic voting fraud, a rigged vote count and an aborted recount, courtesy of the US Supreme Court.
A compliant Democrat (Al Gore) allowed the coup to be completed.
In Ohio 2004, the arsenal of dirty tricks exploded. Based in Columbus, we have documented more than a hundred different tactics used to steal the 20 electoral votes that gave Bush a second term. More are still surfacing. As a result of the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal lawsuit (in which we are plaintiff and attorney) we have now been informed that 56 of the 88 counties in Ohio violated federal law by destroying election records, thus preventing a definitive historical recount.
As in 2000, a compliant Democrat (John Kerry) allowed the coup to proceed.
For 2008 we expect the list of vote theft maneuvers to escalate yet again. We are already witnessing a coordinated nationwide drive to destroy voter registration organizations and to disenfranchise millions of minority, poor and young voters.
This carefully choreographed campaign is complemented by the widespread use of electronic voting machines. As reported by the Government Accountability Office, Princeton University, the Brennan Center, the Carter-Baker Commission, US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and others, these machines can be easily used to flip an election. They were integral to stealing both the 2000 and 2004 elections. Efforts to make their source codes transparent, or to require a usable paper trail on a federal level, have thus far failed. A discriminatory Voter ID requirement may also serve as the gateway to a national identification card.
Overall, the GOP will have at its command even more weapons of election theft in 2008 than it did in Ohio 2004, which jumped exponentially from Florida 2000. The Rovian GOP is nothing if not tightly organized to do this with ruthless efficiency. Expect everything that was used these past two presidential elections to surface again in 2008 in far more states, with far more efficiency, and many new dirty tricks added in.
But in Ohio 2006, the GOP learned a hard lesson. Its candidate for governor was J. Kenneth Blackwell. The secretary of state was the essential on-the-ground operative in the theft of Ohio 2004.
When he announced for governor, many Ohioans joked that "Ken Blackwell will never lose an election where he counts the votes."
But lose he did . . . along with the GOP candidates for secretary of state, attorney general and US Senate.
By our calculations, despite massive grassroots scrutiny, the Republicans stole in excess of 6 percent of the Ohio vote in 2006. But they still lost.
Why? Because they were so massively unpopular that even a 6 percent bump couldn't save them. Outgoing Governor Bob Taft, who pleaded guilty to four misdemeanors while in office, left town with a 7 percent approval rating (that's not a typo). Blackwell entered the last week of the campaign down 30 percent in some polls.
So while the GOP still had control of the electoral machinery here in 2006, the public tide against them was simply too great to hold back, even through the advanced art and science of modern Rovian election theft.
In traditional electoral terms, that may also be the case in 2008. Should things proceed as they are now, it's hard to imagine any Republican candidate going into the election within striking distance. The potential variations are many, but the graffiti on the wall is clear.
What's also clear is that this administration has a deep, profound and uncompromised contempt for democracy, for the rule of law, and for the US Constitution. When George W. Bush went on the record (twice) as saying he has nothing against dictatorship, as long as he can be dictator, it was a clear and present policy statement.
Who really believes this crew will walk quietly away from power? They have the motivation, the money and the method for doing away with the electoral process altogether. So why wouldn't they?
The groundwork for dismissal of both the legislative and judicial branch has been carefully laid. The litany is well-known, but worth a very partial listing:
The continuation of the drug war, and the USAPATRIOT Act, Homeland Security Act and other dictatorial laws prompted by the 9/11/2001 terror attacks, have decimated the Bill of Rights, and shredded the traditional American right to due process of law, freedom from official surveillance, arbitrary violence, and far more.
The current attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, has not backed away from his announcement to Congress that the Constitution does not guarantee habeas corpus. The administration continues to act on the assumption that it can arrest anyone at any time and hold them without notification or trial for as long as it wants.
The establishment of the Department of Homeland Security has given it additional hardware to decimate the basic human rights of our citizenry. Under the guise of dealing with the "immigration problem," large concentration camps are under construction around the US.
The administration has endorsed and is exercising its "right" to employ torture, contrary to the Eighth Amendment and to a wide range of international treaties, which Gonzales has labeled "quaint."
With more than 200 "signing statements," the administration acts on its belief that the "unitary executive" trumps the power of the legislative branch in any instance it chooses. This belief has been further enforced with the administration's use of a wide range of precedent-setting arguments to keep its functionaries from testifying before Congress.
There is much more. In all instances, the 109th Congress and the public have rolled over without significant resistance.
Most crucial now are Presidential Directive #51, Executive Orders #13303, #13315, #13350, #13364, #13422, #13438, and more, by which Bush has granted himself an immense arsenal of powers for which the term "dictatorial" is a modest understatement.
The framers established our government with checks and balances. But executive orders have accumulated important precedent. The Emancipation Proclamation, by which Lincoln declared an end to slavery in the South, was issued under the "military necessity" of adding blacks to the Union Army, a step without which the North might not have won the Civil War. Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order #8802 established the Fair Employment Practices Commission. Harry Truman's Executive Order #9981 desegregated the military.
More to the point, FDR's Executive Order #9066 ordered the forcible internment of 100,000 people of Japanese descent into the now infamous concentration camps of World War II.
There is also precedent for a president overriding the Supreme Court. In the 1830s, Chief Justice John Marshall enshrined the right of the Cherokee Nation to sovereignty over its ancestral land in the Appalachian Mountains. But President Andrew Jackson scorned the decision. Some 14,000 native Americans were moved at gunpoint to Oklahoma. More than 3,000 died along the way.
All this will be relevant should Team Bush envision a defeat in the 2008 election and decide to call it off. It's well established that Richard Nixon -- mentor to Karl Rove and Dick Cheney -- commissioned the Huston Plan, which detailed how to cancel the 1972 election.
Today we must ask: who would stop this administration from taking dictatorial power in the instance of a "national emergency" such as a terror attack at a nuclear power plant or something similar?
Nothing in the behavior of this Congress indicates that it is capable of significant resistance. Impeachment seems beyond it. Nor does it seem Congress would actually remove Bush if it did put him on trial.
Short of that, Bush clearly does not view anything Congress might do as a meaningful impediment. After all, how many divisions does the Congress command?
The Supreme Court, as currently constituted, would almost certainly rubber stamp a Bush coup. If not, like Jackson, he could ignore it as easily as he would ignore Congress.
What does that leave? There is much idle speculation now about what the armed forces would do. We also hear loose talk about "90 million gun owners."
From the public side, the only conceivable counterforce might be a national strike or an effective long-term campaign of general non-cooperation.
But we can certainly assume the mainstream media will give lockstep support to whatever the regime says and does. It's also a given that those likely to lead the resistance will immediately land in those new prisons being built by Halliburton et. al.
So how do we cope with the harsh realities of such a Bush/Cheney/Rove dictatorial coup?
We may have about a year to prepare. Every possible scenario needs to be discussed in excruciating detail.
For only one thing is certain: denial will do nothing.
Harvey Wasserman's "History of the United States" is at www.solartopia.org, along with "Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030." The Fitrakis Files are at www.freepress.org (where this article was originally published), along with "How the GOP Stole America's 2004 Election & Is Rigging 2008," which Bob and Harvey co-wrote.
Copyright © 1998-2007 Online Journal
Cancellation of U.S. election now possible!
MOSCOW, Russia - September 19, 2008 - The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) is reporting in the Kremlin today that the Bank of England has received from the United States Federal Reserve Bank a ‘notice’ that President Bush is preparing to declare an ‘Economic Emergency’ during the week of October 5th and will further announce that the American presidential election due to be held on November 4th will be indefinitely suspended.
These reports state that the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, had expressed his ‘shock and outrage’ to his American counterparts at the U.S. Federal Reserve after the catastrophic collapse of one of the largest financial banks in the World, Lehman Brothers, and which caused both the Bank of England and the European Central Bank to rush $42 billion into the European economy yesterday to keep it from collapsing, and their own banks from running out of money, necessitating the response from the U.S. Central Bank leader Ben S. Bernanke.
As Prime Minister Putin had previously warned, the horrific hurricane storm that has devastated the State of Texas, and where a humanitarian crisis is presently unfolding, has, indeed, proved to be the proverbial ‘straw that broke the camel’s back’, as the catastrophic damage from this storm raced beyond the Gulf of Mexico coast and ravaged the heartland of America to such an extent that the Governors of Ohio and Kentucky have declared states of emergency as millions have been left without power.
The significance of this historic storm damage to the American economy, these reports say, led to the unprecedented pressures put upon the world’s largest insurance company American International Group (AIG) and its halt in negotiations, during a rare Sunday meeting in New York, to support the near bankrupt Lehman Brothers on Sunday, but which was then allowed to collapse and is now threatening to also destroy AIG itself.
Not being explained to the American people is that AIG, the world’s largest player in the $45 trillion derivatives market, during the past two weeks had bet heavily on the world markets against the damage from Hurricane Ike exceeding $2 billion in property damage, lost oil and gasoline production, lost wages and payments to companies forced to close, etc., that it is obligated to pay, but which the actual damages are now being estimated will exceed $1 trillion as the damages throughout the United States are finally tallied.
Such a calamitous action by AIG has basically shattered the western economic system, as reported by The Australian Business News Service in their article entitled, “Global banks brace for derivative blow-up,” which says:
”So here we are on the morning of D-Day. The world's major counterparties on the $US455 trillion derivatives market go into technical default and no one is sure what is going to happen.”
Lehman Bros yesterday formally petitioned the State Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District Court of New York for Chapter 11 protection.
Lehman would also have filed what are called "first day motions", which allow the bank to pay salaries and wages, while it continues to market its non-toxic, broker-dealer operations and work out what on earth to do with its highly toxic $US53 billion residential and commercial mortgage portfolio.
But as scary and Spartan as it might sound, failure is as essential to the workings of an effective marketplace as is success.
Which means only that, given that this shattered, battle-weary investment bank is unable to find itself a new owner or think its own way through the current calamitous circumstances, then one of the legendary brands of Wall Street should be left to fail.
In a weekend of unprecedented drama, the Fed seems to have been forced to play Solomon and choose between Merrill Lynch and Lehman. Both were facing mortal threat. But it seems only one could survive intact.”
Even worse for the American people during this unprecedented crisis is that one of their top economic experts, Wilbur Ross, chairman and CEO of WL Ross & Co, is now warning that over 1,000 U.S. banks are nearing collapse, and one of their top economists, Nouriel Roubini, of NYU's Stern School and RGE Monitor, is further warning that “there is already a ‘slow-motion run on retail banks’ occurring nationwide.”
Russian military analysts commenting on these reports state that though it is unlikely that the American president can suspend U.S. elections solely on the basis of an economic emergency alone, it is entirely probable that he could do so should their nation suffer another 9/11-type attack, and which they ‘cryptically’ observe could happen as early as September 22, 2008, as American military forces begin to conduct worldwide tests of their new nuclear alert system while they conduct another test of their so-called Star Wars Missile Defense System.
It should be further noted that as their once great nation continues sliding towards the abyss of total ruin, the American people still refuse to acknowledge the substance of the many warnings being issued to them from all corners of the world, as if even with eyes and ears they do not see and do not hear anything other than what they are programmed for by their masters.
How sad for these people, how much sadder for the rest of us that these people are now all but lost.
http://www.freedomradio.us/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3379&Itemid=167
By Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis
Online Journal Guest Writers
Aug 1, 2007, 01:11
It is time to think about the "unthinkable."
The Bush administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 election.
The GOP strategy for another electoral theft in 2008 has taken clear shape, though we must assume there is much more we don't know.
But we must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006), we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention.
The real question is not how or when they might do it. It's how, realistically, we can stop them.
In Florida 2000, Team Bush had a game plan involving a handful of tactics. With Jeb Bush in the governor's mansion, the GOP used a combination of disenfranchisement, intimidation, faulty ballots, electronic voting fraud, a rigged vote count and an aborted recount, courtesy of the US Supreme Court.
A compliant Democrat (Al Gore) allowed the coup to be completed.
In Ohio 2004, the arsenal of dirty tricks exploded. Based in Columbus, we have documented more than a hundred different tactics used to steal the 20 electoral votes that gave Bush a second term. More are still surfacing. As a result of the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal lawsuit (in which we are plaintiff and attorney) we have now been informed that 56 of the 88 counties in Ohio violated federal law by destroying election records, thus preventing a definitive historical recount.
As in 2000, a compliant Democrat (John Kerry) allowed the coup to proceed.
For 2008 we expect the list of vote theft maneuvers to escalate yet again. We are already witnessing a coordinated nationwide drive to destroy voter registration organizations and to disenfranchise millions of minority, poor and young voters.
This carefully choreographed campaign is complemented by the widespread use of electronic voting machines. As reported by the Government Accountability Office, Princeton University, the Brennan Center, the Carter-Baker Commission, US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and others, these machines can be easily used to flip an election. They were integral to stealing both the 2000 and 2004 elections. Efforts to make their source codes transparent, or to require a usable paper trail on a federal level, have thus far failed. A discriminatory Voter ID requirement may also serve as the gateway to a national identification card.
Overall, the GOP will have at its command even more weapons of election theft in 2008 than it did in Ohio 2004, which jumped exponentially from Florida 2000. The Rovian GOP is nothing if not tightly organized to do this with ruthless efficiency. Expect everything that was used these past two presidential elections to surface again in 2008 in far more states, with far more efficiency, and many new dirty tricks added in.
But in Ohio 2006, the GOP learned a hard lesson. Its candidate for governor was J. Kenneth Blackwell. The secretary of state was the essential on-the-ground operative in the theft of Ohio 2004.
When he announced for governor, many Ohioans joked that "Ken Blackwell will never lose an election where he counts the votes."
But lose he did . . . along with the GOP candidates for secretary of state, attorney general and US Senate.
By our calculations, despite massive grassroots scrutiny, the Republicans stole in excess of 6 percent of the Ohio vote in 2006. But they still lost.
Why? Because they were so massively unpopular that even a 6 percent bump couldn't save them. Outgoing Governor Bob Taft, who pleaded guilty to four misdemeanors while in office, left town with a 7 percent approval rating (that's not a typo). Blackwell entered the last week of the campaign down 30 percent in some polls.
So while the GOP still had control of the electoral machinery here in 2006, the public tide against them was simply too great to hold back, even through the advanced art and science of modern Rovian election theft.
In traditional electoral terms, that may also be the case in 2008. Should things proceed as they are now, it's hard to imagine any Republican candidate going into the election within striking distance. The potential variations are many, but the graffiti on the wall is clear.
What's also clear is that this administration has a deep, profound and uncompromised contempt for democracy, for the rule of law, and for the US Constitution. When George W. Bush went on the record (twice) as saying he has nothing against dictatorship, as long as he can be dictator, it was a clear and present policy statement.
Who really believes this crew will walk quietly away from power? They have the motivation, the money and the method for doing away with the electoral process altogether. So why wouldn't they?
The groundwork for dismissal of both the legislative and judicial branch has been carefully laid. The litany is well-known, but worth a very partial listing:
The continuation of the drug war, and the USAPATRIOT Act, Homeland Security Act and other dictatorial laws prompted by the 9/11/2001 terror attacks, have decimated the Bill of Rights, and shredded the traditional American right to due process of law, freedom from official surveillance, arbitrary violence, and far more.
The current attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, has not backed away from his announcement to Congress that the Constitution does not guarantee habeas corpus. The administration continues to act on the assumption that it can arrest anyone at any time and hold them without notification or trial for as long as it wants.
The establishment of the Department of Homeland Security has given it additional hardware to decimate the basic human rights of our citizenry. Under the guise of dealing with the "immigration problem," large concentration camps are under construction around the US.
The administration has endorsed and is exercising its "right" to employ torture, contrary to the Eighth Amendment and to a wide range of international treaties, which Gonzales has labeled "quaint."
With more than 200 "signing statements," the administration acts on its belief that the "unitary executive" trumps the power of the legislative branch in any instance it chooses. This belief has been further enforced with the administration's use of a wide range of precedent-setting arguments to keep its functionaries from testifying before Congress.
There is much more. In all instances, the 109th Congress and the public have rolled over without significant resistance.
Most crucial now are Presidential Directive #51, Executive Orders #13303, #13315, #13350, #13364, #13422, #13438, and more, by which Bush has granted himself an immense arsenal of powers for which the term "dictatorial" is a modest understatement.
The framers established our government with checks and balances. But executive orders have accumulated important precedent. The Emancipation Proclamation, by which Lincoln declared an end to slavery in the South, was issued under the "military necessity" of adding blacks to the Union Army, a step without which the North might not have won the Civil War. Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order #8802 established the Fair Employment Practices Commission. Harry Truman's Executive Order #9981 desegregated the military.
More to the point, FDR's Executive Order #9066 ordered the forcible internment of 100,000 people of Japanese descent into the now infamous concentration camps of World War II.
There is also precedent for a president overriding the Supreme Court. In the 1830s, Chief Justice John Marshall enshrined the right of the Cherokee Nation to sovereignty over its ancestral land in the Appalachian Mountains. But President Andrew Jackson scorned the decision. Some 14,000 native Americans were moved at gunpoint to Oklahoma. More than 3,000 died along the way.
All this will be relevant should Team Bush envision a defeat in the 2008 election and decide to call it off. It's well established that Richard Nixon -- mentor to Karl Rove and Dick Cheney -- commissioned the Huston Plan, which detailed how to cancel the 1972 election.
Today we must ask: who would stop this administration from taking dictatorial power in the instance of a "national emergency" such as a terror attack at a nuclear power plant or something similar?
Nothing in the behavior of this Congress indicates that it is capable of significant resistance. Impeachment seems beyond it. Nor does it seem Congress would actually remove Bush if it did put him on trial.
Short of that, Bush clearly does not view anything Congress might do as a meaningful impediment. After all, how many divisions does the Congress command?
The Supreme Court, as currently constituted, would almost certainly rubber stamp a Bush coup. If not, like Jackson, he could ignore it as easily as he would ignore Congress.
What does that leave? There is much idle speculation now about what the armed forces would do. We also hear loose talk about "90 million gun owners."
From the public side, the only conceivable counterforce might be a national strike or an effective long-term campaign of general non-cooperation.
But we can certainly assume the mainstream media will give lockstep support to whatever the regime says and does. It's also a given that those likely to lead the resistance will immediately land in those new prisons being built by Halliburton et. al.
So how do we cope with the harsh realities of such a Bush/Cheney/Rove dictatorial coup?
We may have about a year to prepare. Every possible scenario needs to be discussed in excruciating detail.
For only one thing is certain: denial will do nothing.
Harvey Wasserman's "History of the United States" is at www.solartopia.org, along with "Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030." The Fitrakis Files are at www.freepress.org (where this article was originally published), along with "How the GOP Stole America's 2004 Election & Is Rigging 2008," which Bob and Harvey co-wrote.
Copyright © 1998-2007 Online Journal
Cancellation of U.S. election now possible!
MOSCOW, Russia - September 19, 2008 - The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) is reporting in the Kremlin today that the Bank of England has received from the United States Federal Reserve Bank a ‘notice’ that President Bush is preparing to declare an ‘Economic Emergency’ during the week of October 5th and will further announce that the American presidential election due to be held on November 4th will be indefinitely suspended.
These reports state that the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, had expressed his ‘shock and outrage’ to his American counterparts at the U.S. Federal Reserve after the catastrophic collapse of one of the largest financial banks in the World, Lehman Brothers, and which caused both the Bank of England and the European Central Bank to rush $42 billion into the European economy yesterday to keep it from collapsing, and their own banks from running out of money, necessitating the response from the U.S. Central Bank leader Ben S. Bernanke.
As Prime Minister Putin had previously warned, the horrific hurricane storm that has devastated the State of Texas, and where a humanitarian crisis is presently unfolding, has, indeed, proved to be the proverbial ‘straw that broke the camel’s back’, as the catastrophic damage from this storm raced beyond the Gulf of Mexico coast and ravaged the heartland of America to such an extent that the Governors of Ohio and Kentucky have declared states of emergency as millions have been left without power.
The significance of this historic storm damage to the American economy, these reports say, led to the unprecedented pressures put upon the world’s largest insurance company American International Group (AIG) and its halt in negotiations, during a rare Sunday meeting in New York, to support the near bankrupt Lehman Brothers on Sunday, but which was then allowed to collapse and is now threatening to also destroy AIG itself.
Not being explained to the American people is that AIG, the world’s largest player in the $45 trillion derivatives market, during the past two weeks had bet heavily on the world markets against the damage from Hurricane Ike exceeding $2 billion in property damage, lost oil and gasoline production, lost wages and payments to companies forced to close, etc., that it is obligated to pay, but which the actual damages are now being estimated will exceed $1 trillion as the damages throughout the United States are finally tallied.
Such a calamitous action by AIG has basically shattered the western economic system, as reported by The Australian Business News Service in their article entitled, “Global banks brace for derivative blow-up,” which says:
”So here we are on the morning of D-Day. The world's major counterparties on the $US455 trillion derivatives market go into technical default and no one is sure what is going to happen.”
Lehman Bros yesterday formally petitioned the State Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District Court of New York for Chapter 11 protection.
Lehman would also have filed what are called "first day motions", which allow the bank to pay salaries and wages, while it continues to market its non-toxic, broker-dealer operations and work out what on earth to do with its highly toxic $US53 billion residential and commercial mortgage portfolio.
But as scary and Spartan as it might sound, failure is as essential to the workings of an effective marketplace as is success.
Which means only that, given that this shattered, battle-weary investment bank is unable to find itself a new owner or think its own way through the current calamitous circumstances, then one of the legendary brands of Wall Street should be left to fail.
In a weekend of unprecedented drama, the Fed seems to have been forced to play Solomon and choose between Merrill Lynch and Lehman. Both were facing mortal threat. But it seems only one could survive intact.”
Even worse for the American people during this unprecedented crisis is that one of their top economic experts, Wilbur Ross, chairman and CEO of WL Ross & Co, is now warning that over 1,000 U.S. banks are nearing collapse, and one of their top economists, Nouriel Roubini, of NYU's Stern School and RGE Monitor, is further warning that “there is already a ‘slow-motion run on retail banks’ occurring nationwide.”
Russian military analysts commenting on these reports state that though it is unlikely that the American president can suspend U.S. elections solely on the basis of an economic emergency alone, it is entirely probable that he could do so should their nation suffer another 9/11-type attack, and which they ‘cryptically’ observe could happen as early as September 22, 2008, as American military forces begin to conduct worldwide tests of their new nuclear alert system while they conduct another test of their so-called Star Wars Missile Defense System.
It should be further noted that as their once great nation continues sliding towards the abyss of total ruin, the American people still refuse to acknowledge the substance of the many warnings being issued to them from all corners of the world, as if even with eyes and ears they do not see and do not hear anything other than what they are programmed for by their masters.
How sad for these people, how much sadder for the rest of us that these people are now all but lost.
http://www.freedomradio.us/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3379&Itemid=167
Alaskanese? Palinian? Greek? Old, lost version of Aramaic? Oh, Tongues!
Palin, asked by Katie Couric, on whether the $700 billion bailout of the U.S. financial sector is a good idea.
That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Helping the—it’s got to be all about job creation too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans and trade—we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as competitive, scary thing, but one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today—we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity.
Now if any of you speak Alaskanese, or maybe Palinian, please translate this and let me know what it says. Taking a guess at the meaning I'd say it means she should stay the hell out of Washington, and McCain should get his head out of his ass for thinking she was a good choice! Well, this crazy pentecostal should probably go back to Pastor Ed Kalnins of The Wasilla Assembly of God and work on their tongues thing. That's right, people from her church, that she grew up in, speak in tongues. Some of you may believe that's real. The rest of us sane people know it's just what it is: CRAZY.
Now where's my English-Alaskanese dictionary?...
That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Helping the—it’s got to be all about job creation too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans and trade—we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as competitive, scary thing, but one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today—we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity.
Now if any of you speak Alaskanese, or maybe Palinian, please translate this and let me know what it says. Taking a guess at the meaning I'd say it means she should stay the hell out of Washington, and McCain should get his head out of his ass for thinking she was a good choice! Well, this crazy pentecostal should probably go back to Pastor Ed Kalnins of The Wasilla Assembly of God and work on their tongues thing. That's right, people from her church, that she grew up in, speak in tongues. Some of you may believe that's real. The rest of us sane people know it's just what it is: CRAZY.
Now where's my English-Alaskanese dictionary?...
Friday, September 26, 2008
Remember Ronald Reagan?
"By 1960 our national debt stood at $284 billion. ... Today the debt is $934 billion. ... We can leave our children with an unrepayable massive debt and a shattered economy."
- Ronald Reagan, February 5, 1981, two weeks after taking office.
What does this mean in today's terms since the debt is now over $10 Trillion?
Ronnie spent more (and grew the government more) than any administration since WW II. Then Bush Sr. demanded war with Iraq. Iraq back then. Are you serious? Iraq now. No, they're still backwoods, so to speak. Gotta love the dirt houses those threats to America live in!
The debt grew to 3 trillion by the time Clinton took office. Clinton was paying it back and even had budget surpluses.
Then Bush Jr. happened.
Now if $934 billion is unrepayable, and this out of the mouth of "The Great Communicator", what are we supposed to think of $10 Trillion plus?
A new national debt clock has to be installed on Wall Street because it doesn't have enough digits for tens of trillions. Most of this money is going to the war effort. Do you feel any safer? Do you feel it's reasonable to bankrupt the country to go chasing ghosts through the dessert? Keep in mind that SOMEONE is getting rich off of all this. The money doesn't just disappear.
Larry Silverstein certainly profited. Don't know who he is? He's the owner of the World Trade Center. Man did the insurance industry lose on that one! Halliburton sure made a lot! Wow! The whole of the defense industry? It's nothing but riches, bitches.
Have you been getting your money printed out of thin are stimulus checks? Money printed out of thin air and given to everyone. That can't hurt the economy and cause inflation to run rampant. Nor can incredibly, artificially low interest rates. While the money is false and free lets totally deregulate the credit card industry and allow sub-prime, predatory lending. As a final touch let's kill any hope of viable, functional, realizable today forms of alternative energy and replace them with dangling carrots like "hydrogen cells" and "next generation batteries". Don't worry, these nice pills will make you feel better about all of it.
Capitalism can be a blessing. So can nuclear power. When in the wrong hands it can be a force to be reckoned with, and in the wrong hands it can become something else: Fascism.
Two more things:
The government is selling our missile defense system to the United Arab Emirates for $7 Billion. Seems kinda low. <--(i mean low in many ways)
Blagojevich is selling the illinois lottery to private interests. Where does all the bullshit end? Next time around vote for the strongest competitor to Rod. Next time around vote for the strongest competitor to Daley. Next time around we can change the world.
- Ronald Reagan, February 5, 1981, two weeks after taking office.
What does this mean in today's terms since the debt is now over $10 Trillion?
Ronnie spent more (and grew the government more) than any administration since WW II. Then Bush Sr. demanded war with Iraq. Iraq back then. Are you serious? Iraq now. No, they're still backwoods, so to speak. Gotta love the dirt houses those threats to America live in!
The debt grew to 3 trillion by the time Clinton took office. Clinton was paying it back and even had budget surpluses.
Then Bush Jr. happened.
Now if $934 billion is unrepayable, and this out of the mouth of "The Great Communicator", what are we supposed to think of $10 Trillion plus?
A new national debt clock has to be installed on Wall Street because it doesn't have enough digits for tens of trillions. Most of this money is going to the war effort. Do you feel any safer? Do you feel it's reasonable to bankrupt the country to go chasing ghosts through the dessert? Keep in mind that SOMEONE is getting rich off of all this. The money doesn't just disappear.
Larry Silverstein certainly profited. Don't know who he is? He's the owner of the World Trade Center. Man did the insurance industry lose on that one! Halliburton sure made a lot! Wow! The whole of the defense industry? It's nothing but riches, bitches.
Have you been getting your money printed out of thin are stimulus checks? Money printed out of thin air and given to everyone. That can't hurt the economy and cause inflation to run rampant. Nor can incredibly, artificially low interest rates. While the money is false and free lets totally deregulate the credit card industry and allow sub-prime, predatory lending. As a final touch let's kill any hope of viable, functional, realizable today forms of alternative energy and replace them with dangling carrots like "hydrogen cells" and "next generation batteries". Don't worry, these nice pills will make you feel better about all of it.
Capitalism can be a blessing. So can nuclear power. When in the wrong hands it can be a force to be reckoned with, and in the wrong hands it can become something else: Fascism.
Two more things:
The government is selling our missile defense system to the United Arab Emirates for $7 Billion. Seems kinda low. <--(i mean low in many ways)
Blagojevich is selling the illinois lottery to private interests. Where does all the bullshit end? Next time around vote for the strongest competitor to Rod. Next time around vote for the strongest competitor to Daley. Next time around we can change the world.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
The Sarah Palin Causeway
Spectacular view isn't it?
BTW, did you know about the $15 million ice rink Sarah built for her son with taxpayer's money? Sure others benefited too, but they all were riding his coat tails on that one.
Once again proving that lower animals are, at times, smarter than humans.
BTW, did you know about the $15 million ice rink Sarah built for her son with taxpayer's money? Sure others benefited too, but they all were riding his coat tails on that one.
Once again proving that lower animals are, at times, smarter than humans.
Money, money, money, money... MONEY!
So what type of economy do you want to be a part of? Yes, this is 100% verifiable.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Ask yourself a few questions
September, 2000. National debt at $5.7 Trillion. Budget surplus at $230 Billion. The largest surplus ever. Debt reduced by $233 Billion by September, 2000.
Clinton is President.
Projections indicate a budget surplus of $1 Trillion in 10 years while further reducing national debt.
Current national debt is $9.8 Trillion and continuing to rise. $700 Billion promised to banks that got themselves into their own problem.
Our money. Our money. Our money going to save the fat cats that ran the economy into the ground to take money out of our pockets. Now their robbery has just been legislated and fully sponsored by the Federal Government. $700 Billion. That's a lot of money. Wow. $9.8 Trillion? Wow.
Now if you have any debt whatsoever you should ask yourself, would the banks just let it slide if I stopped paying them? They are after all getting paid to survive on on my tax dollars. I'm sure the upper management isn't taking pay cuts or getting laid off.
Hmmmm...
I've always heard people talk of Democrats as tax and spend commie liberals. Here are a few questions for you.
During Bush's presidency have you...
... seen anyone except the richest people's taxes go down?
... found yourself more, or less in debt?
... seen more or less freedoms given to you?
... noticed the government curtailing spending and being fiscally prudent?
... paid less than $1 for a gallon of gas?
Ask yourself more questions. At one point it was not a bad thing at all to be a Republican. Republicans came from all walks of life and eschewed a prudent and logical way to live. Nowadays there are two kinds:
Millionaires, and Suckers.
Are you one of those?
The drum keeps beating on the GOP's political machine, and it's not looking pretty for the proletariat. That's you and me. The common man. The next time you're at the gas pump, or the grocery, or paying your utility bills, or buying clothes, or buying pizza, or doing anything at all that costs money, remember who made it just that much less of a good experience: The GOP.
Vote for whoever you chose this year, for the presidency and all the other offices in contention. Just know that you do indeed make a difference in matters of state. Make a wise choice.
BTW, think of polar bears. Cute aren't they? I sure will miss them when they're all gone. Nobody misses the Dodo though. It's just not as cute.
Not a Dodo, just a Dumdum.
Clinton is President.
Projections indicate a budget surplus of $1 Trillion in 10 years while further reducing national debt.
Current national debt is $9.8 Trillion and continuing to rise. $700 Billion promised to banks that got themselves into their own problem.
Our money. Our money. Our money going to save the fat cats that ran the economy into the ground to take money out of our pockets. Now their robbery has just been legislated and fully sponsored by the Federal Government. $700 Billion. That's a lot of money. Wow. $9.8 Trillion? Wow.
Now if you have any debt whatsoever you should ask yourself, would the banks just let it slide if I stopped paying them? They are after all getting paid to survive on on my tax dollars. I'm sure the upper management isn't taking pay cuts or getting laid off.
Hmmmm...
I've always heard people talk of Democrats as tax and spend commie liberals. Here are a few questions for you.
During Bush's presidency have you...
... seen anyone except the richest people's taxes go down?
... found yourself more, or less in debt?
... seen more or less freedoms given to you?
... noticed the government curtailing spending and being fiscally prudent?
... paid less than $1 for a gallon of gas?
Ask yourself more questions. At one point it was not a bad thing at all to be a Republican. Republicans came from all walks of life and eschewed a prudent and logical way to live. Nowadays there are two kinds:
Millionaires, and Suckers.
Are you one of those?
The drum keeps beating on the GOP's political machine, and it's not looking pretty for the proletariat. That's you and me. The common man. The next time you're at the gas pump, or the grocery, or paying your utility bills, or buying clothes, or buying pizza, or doing anything at all that costs money, remember who made it just that much less of a good experience: The GOP.
Vote for whoever you chose this year, for the presidency and all the other offices in contention. Just know that you do indeed make a difference in matters of state. Make a wise choice.
BTW, think of polar bears. Cute aren't they? I sure will miss them when they're all gone. Nobody misses the Dodo though. It's just not as cute.
Not a Dodo, just a Dumdum.
McCain does not support our troops
McCain's Voting Record: He Does Not Support Our Troops and Veterans
John McCain skipped close to a dozen votes on Iraq, and on at least another 10 occasions, he voted against arming and equipping the troops, providing adequate rest for the troops between deployments and for health care or other benefits for veterans.
In mid 2007, Senator Reid noted that McCain missed 10 of the past 14 votes on Iraq. However, here is a summary of a dozen votes (two that he missed and ten that he voted against) with respect to Iraq, funding for veterans or for troops, including equipment and armor. I have also included other snippets related to the time period when the vote occurred.
September 2007: McCain voted against the Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments. At the time, nearly 65% of people polled in a CNN poll indicted that "things are going either moderately badly or very badly in Iraq.
July 2007: McCain voted against a plan to drawdown troop levels in Iraq. At the time, an ABC poll found that 63% thought the invasion was not worth it, and a CBS News poll found that 72% of respondents wanted troops out within 2 years.
March 2007: McCain was too busy to vote on a bill that would require the start of a drawdown in troop levels within 120 days with a goal of withdrawing nearly all combat troops within one year. Around this time, an NBC News poll found that 55% of respondents indicated that the US goal of achieving victory in Iraq is not possible. This number has not moved significantly since then.
February 2007: For such a strong supporter of the escalation, McCain didn't even bother to show up and vote against a resolution condemning it. However, at the time a CNN poll found that only 16% of respondents wanted to send more troops to Iraq (that number has since declined to around 10%), while 60% said that some or all should be withdrawn. This number has since gone up to around 70%.
June 2006: McCain voted against a resolution that Bush start withdrawing troops but with no timeline to do so.
May 2006: McCain voted against an amendment that would provide $20 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for health care facilities.
April 2006: McCain was one of only 13 Senators to vote against $430,000,000 for the Department of Veteran Affairs for Medical Services for outpatient care and treatment for veterans.
March 2006: McCain voted against increasing Veterans medical services funding by $1.5 billion in FY 2007 to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.
March 2004: McCain once again voted for abusive tax loopholes over veterans when he voted against creating a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Veterans' medical care by $1.8 billion by eliminating abusive tax loopholes. Jeez, McCain really loves those tax loopholes for corporations, since he voted for them over our veterans' needs.
October 2003: McCain voted to table an amendment by Senator Dodd that called for an additional $322,000,000 for safety equipment for United States forces in Iraq and to reduce the amount provided for reconstruction in Iraq by $322,000,000.
April 2003: McCain urged other Senate members to table a vote (which never passed) to provide more than $1 billion for National Guard and Reserve equipment in Iraq related to a shortage of helmets, tents, bullet-proof inserts, and tactical vests.
August 2001: McCain voted against increasing the amount available for medical care for veterans by $650,000,000. To his credit, he also voted against the 2001 Bush tax cuts, which he now supports making permanent, despite the dire financial condition this country is in, and despite the fact that he indicated in 2001 that these tax cuts unfairly benefited the very wealthy at the expense of the middle class.
Project Vote Smart Ratings Of Senators John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning.
"The mission of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is to ensure the enactment of policies that properly provide for our Troops & Veterans, keep our military strong, and guarantee our national security for the purpose of a stronger America. We uniquely empower Iraq & Afghanistan combat veterans to use their credibility and experiences to speak truth to power, shape public opinion, and place a priority on these issues."
John McCain= D
Barack Obama= B+
Hillary Clinton= A-
Mitch McConnell= D
Jim Bunning= D-
So there it is. John McCain is yet another republican former military veteran who likes to talk a big game when it comes to having the support of the military. Yet, time and time again, he has gone out of his way to vote against the needs of those who are serving in our military. If he can't even see his way to actually doing what the troops want, or what the veterans need, then how can he be a credible commander in chief?
John McCain skipped close to a dozen votes on Iraq, and on at least another 10 occasions, he voted against arming and equipping the troops, providing adequate rest for the troops between deployments and for health care or other benefits for veterans.
In mid 2007, Senator Reid noted that McCain missed 10 of the past 14 votes on Iraq. However, here is a summary of a dozen votes (two that he missed and ten that he voted against) with respect to Iraq, funding for veterans or for troops, including equipment and armor. I have also included other snippets related to the time period when the vote occurred.
September 2007: McCain voted against the Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments. At the time, nearly 65% of people polled in a CNN poll indicted that "things are going either moderately badly or very badly in Iraq.
July 2007: McCain voted against a plan to drawdown troop levels in Iraq. At the time, an ABC poll found that 63% thought the invasion was not worth it, and a CBS News poll found that 72% of respondents wanted troops out within 2 years.
March 2007: McCain was too busy to vote on a bill that would require the start of a drawdown in troop levels within 120 days with a goal of withdrawing nearly all combat troops within one year. Around this time, an NBC News poll found that 55% of respondents indicated that the US goal of achieving victory in Iraq is not possible. This number has not moved significantly since then.
February 2007: For such a strong supporter of the escalation, McCain didn't even bother to show up and vote against a resolution condemning it. However, at the time a CNN poll found that only 16% of respondents wanted to send more troops to Iraq (that number has since declined to around 10%), while 60% said that some or all should be withdrawn. This number has since gone up to around 70%.
June 2006: McCain voted against a resolution that Bush start withdrawing troops but with no timeline to do so.
May 2006: McCain voted against an amendment that would provide $20 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for health care facilities.
April 2006: McCain was one of only 13 Senators to vote against $430,000,000 for the Department of Veteran Affairs for Medical Services for outpatient care and treatment for veterans.
March 2006: McCain voted against increasing Veterans medical services funding by $1.5 billion in FY 2007 to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.
March 2004: McCain once again voted for abusive tax loopholes over veterans when he voted against creating a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Veterans' medical care by $1.8 billion by eliminating abusive tax loopholes. Jeez, McCain really loves those tax loopholes for corporations, since he voted for them over our veterans' needs.
October 2003: McCain voted to table an amendment by Senator Dodd that called for an additional $322,000,000 for safety equipment for United States forces in Iraq and to reduce the amount provided for reconstruction in Iraq by $322,000,000.
April 2003: McCain urged other Senate members to table a vote (which never passed) to provide more than $1 billion for National Guard and Reserve equipment in Iraq related to a shortage of helmets, tents, bullet-proof inserts, and tactical vests.
August 2001: McCain voted against increasing the amount available for medical care for veterans by $650,000,000. To his credit, he also voted against the 2001 Bush tax cuts, which he now supports making permanent, despite the dire financial condition this country is in, and despite the fact that he indicated in 2001 that these tax cuts unfairly benefited the very wealthy at the expense of the middle class.
Project Vote Smart Ratings Of Senators John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning.
"The mission of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is to ensure the enactment of policies that properly provide for our Troops & Veterans, keep our military strong, and guarantee our national security for the purpose of a stronger America. We uniquely empower Iraq & Afghanistan combat veterans to use their credibility and experiences to speak truth to power, shape public opinion, and place a priority on these issues."
John McCain= D
Barack Obama= B+
Hillary Clinton= A-
Mitch McConnell= D
Jim Bunning= D-
So there it is. John McCain is yet another republican former military veteran who likes to talk a big game when it comes to having the support of the military. Yet, time and time again, he has gone out of his way to vote against the needs of those who are serving in our military. If he can't even see his way to actually doing what the troops want, or what the veterans need, then how can he be a credible commander in chief?
Monday, September 22, 2008
Wanna help save the economy and the Arctic at the same time?
Let's be real folks, the Bush administration put us right into the economic hell we're going into. Financial experts the world over, and the media that reports on their finding, all believe we haven't even seen the bad part yet. Thank you Mr. Bush.
If McCain wins this election it will surely get worse. He is a full supporter of all Bush's major policies. He is a puppet for corporations. Should he die of old age in office we'll be left with Palin, who is governor of a state that has a smaller population than the major cities of this country. Niles, IL has roughly 40% of the total population that Alaska has. Is she ready to lead such a vast number of people?
Not for nothing, a Juris Doctor Magna Cum Laude Harvard educated man is probably a better choice for the presidency than a man who finished 6th from last at the US Naval Academy, and a Juris Doctor from the Syracuse Univiversity College of Law is more qualified to be the Veep than someone who takes over 5 years to get a bachelors in journalism.
Are you independently wealthy? Do you not worry about the costs of things? Would you fill up the car at $4.75 a gallon if it's $3.95 across the street? Can you rack up $10,000 a month on credit cards and just pay it off when the statement arrives? Then vote for McCain. You have no need to worry or give a damn about the economy.
At one point in American history it would have been a proud thing to say that you are a Republican. Now that the "Republicans" <--(please note the quotes) have created the largest, most intrusive, limiting, spendthrift government this nation has ever seen. The Great Presidents of our past are rolling over in their graves. The whole world is worried about what our mess is going to do to their economies. They should be worried as it will definitely have an effect. It also creates a climate where our industrial leadership may pass the torch to another nation stronger and more fit to carry it like... China. Thanks Mr. Bush. Thanks Wal-Mart. Thank you, the consumer. It's all of us. We can be saved, and it doesn't (and shouldn't) involve Jerry Falwell. Vote for Obama. Not because he'll be the best president ever. We all know he won't. It's just that on a bad day, he'll be better than McCain ever was on any of his best days. 6th from last, or Juris Doctor Magna Cum Laude? BTW with a specialization in INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. McCain will send bombs. Obama will make friends. Here's what the world thinks of our economic situation: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080921/flaherty_bailout_080921/20080921?hub=TopStories http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,578944,00.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/09/16/ccjeff116.xml http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24380988-20501,00.html Here's what the oil companies want to do now, now that we've melted away half the ice in the Arctic. BTW, anyone that thinks it won't raise the sea level should try this: fill a glass with ice until it is over the top of the glass. Now fill with water. Add more ice as necessary to insure that the ice is still over the top of the glass. Be sure to fill up with water until it is even with the rim, all the while maintaining the ice level above the top. Now let it melt and watch what happens. Why do I say to do it this way? Well, if you've ever seen PBS, Discovery, Animal Planet, National Geographic, you know that the ice sheet towers over the surface of the ocean. People seem to focus on the Greenland Ice Sheet at the last stand of our now precariously balanced ecology, but this isn't so. Living in the Midwest I won't have to worry about rising sea levels ruining my home. I do know that I won't be left unaffected. It'll be fucked up. A toast to Big Oil, Coal and Natural Gas! Thanks for the memories. Thanks for the lies. Thanks for making nuclear war seem like no big thing. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,579265,00.html
If McCain wins this election it will surely get worse. He is a full supporter of all Bush's major policies. He is a puppet for corporations. Should he die of old age in office we'll be left with Palin, who is governor of a state that has a smaller population than the major cities of this country. Niles, IL has roughly 40% of the total population that Alaska has. Is she ready to lead such a vast number of people?
Not for nothing, a Juris Doctor Magna Cum Laude Harvard educated man is probably a better choice for the presidency than a man who finished 6th from last at the US Naval Academy, and a Juris Doctor from the Syracuse Univiversity College of Law is more qualified to be the Veep than someone who takes over 5 years to get a bachelors in journalism.
Are you independently wealthy? Do you not worry about the costs of things? Would you fill up the car at $4.75 a gallon if it's $3.95 across the street? Can you rack up $10,000 a month on credit cards and just pay it off when the statement arrives? Then vote for McCain. You have no need to worry or give a damn about the economy.
At one point in American history it would have been a proud thing to say that you are a Republican. Now that the "Republicans" <--(please note the quotes) have created the largest, most intrusive, limiting, spendthrift government this nation has ever seen. The Great Presidents of our past are rolling over in their graves. The whole world is worried about what our mess is going to do to their economies. They should be worried as it will definitely have an effect. It also creates a climate where our industrial leadership may pass the torch to another nation stronger and more fit to carry it like... China. Thanks Mr. Bush. Thanks Wal-Mart. Thank you, the consumer. It's all of us. We can be saved, and it doesn't (and shouldn't) involve Jerry Falwell. Vote for Obama. Not because he'll be the best president ever. We all know he won't. It's just that on a bad day, he'll be better than McCain ever was on any of his best days. 6th from last, or Juris Doctor Magna Cum Laude? BTW with a specialization in INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. McCain will send bombs. Obama will make friends. Here's what the world thinks of our economic situation: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080921/flaherty_bailout_080921/20080921?hub=TopStories http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,578944,00.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/09/16/ccjeff116.xml http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24380988-20501,00.html Here's what the oil companies want to do now, now that we've melted away half the ice in the Arctic. BTW, anyone that thinks it won't raise the sea level should try this: fill a glass with ice until it is over the top of the glass. Now fill with water. Add more ice as necessary to insure that the ice is still over the top of the glass. Be sure to fill up with water until it is even with the rim, all the while maintaining the ice level above the top. Now let it melt and watch what happens. Why do I say to do it this way? Well, if you've ever seen PBS, Discovery, Animal Planet, National Geographic, you know that the ice sheet towers over the surface of the ocean. People seem to focus on the Greenland Ice Sheet at the last stand of our now precariously balanced ecology, but this isn't so. Living in the Midwest I won't have to worry about rising sea levels ruining my home. I do know that I won't be left unaffected. It'll be fucked up. A toast to Big Oil, Coal and Natural Gas! Thanks for the memories. Thanks for the lies. Thanks for making nuclear war seem like no big thing. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,579265,00.html
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Planet? We don't need no stinkin' planet!
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/flash/syndicatedVideoPlayer.swf?vid=sea-ice-vin
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/threats-to-animals-environment/polar-bears.html
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/preserve-our-planet-env/greenhouse-what-counts-env.html
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/animals/mammals-animals/bears-and-pandas/panda_giant_atlanta.html
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/threats-to-animals-environment/polar-bears.html
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/preserve-our-planet-env/greenhouse-what-counts-env.html
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/animals/mammals-animals/bears-and-pandas/panda_giant_atlanta.html
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Jon Stewart for President
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=184086
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=184113
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184114&title=the-best-f#king-news-team-ever
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=185103&title=rnc-coverage-highlightshttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=184113
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184114&title=the-best-f#king-news-team-ever
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=185103&title=rnc-coverage-highlightshttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
Who to hire?
With America facing historic debt, multiple war fronts, stumbling health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, skyrocketing Federal spending, mortgage crises, bank foreclosures, etc. etc., this is an unusually critical election year. The idea of "leadership" must be broadened from mere "experience" to include knowledge, learnedness and insight.
Let's look at the educational background of your two options:
Obama:
Occidental College - Two years.
Columbia University - B.A. political science with a specialization in
international relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
& Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in history and B.A. in political science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank 894 of 899
& Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in journalism
Now, which team are you going to hire ?
Got family at the draft age? The election is just around the corner!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMJFEamOB1Y
If you notice, the question was asked by a woman who will likely be dead within the next few years. What makes you think she really gives a shit about those that you love?
Let's look at the educational background of your two options:
Obama:
Occidental College - Two years.
Columbia University - B.A. political science with a specialization in
international relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
& Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in history and B.A. in political science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank 894 of 899
& Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in journalism
Now, which team are you going to hire ?
Got family at the draft age? The election is just around the corner!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMJFEamOB1Y
If you notice, the question was asked by a woman who will likely be dead within the next few years. What makes you think she really gives a shit about those that you love?
Science, Theology, and Polar Bears
This election we have two candidates for president that are controversial for different reasons. Obama is part African-American, Palin is a woman. Wait, what about McCain you say? Let's think about this one. Statistically speaking he'll succumb to some ailment of old age before his first term comes to an end. Wouldn't it be convenient for big oil and other corporate cartels to have a puppet that would guarantee their dominance of our failing economy? (okay, McCain already is, but he's old as Pompeii and, let's face it, on limited time)
Maybe she's here to fulfill the prophecies written out for those who study eschatology. Now I believe it's up to each and every individual to be a good person. A person's religion has nothing to do with the quality of their character. It is indeed easier to be bad, especially if a person's twisted view on religion leads one to believe that all the bad things will be forgiven, or worse, it doesn't matter anyway because this world doesn't matter, only the next one.
Science is science. Religion is theology. Those that study and teach religion in seminary (religious college) are called Theologians, not Scientists. Both schools of thought have had their moment of shinning glory and dark horror and neither is an absolute bastion of correct thought or application. Galileo was a moment of shinning glory. Palin is a moment of dar horror. Let's hope (and pray) that she is nothing more than a moment.
Sarah Palin: The ice queen
Sarah Palin, the Republican party's vice-president nominee, governs an oil-rich area that has seen some of the most dramatic effects of climate change. So what's her record on environmental concerns? By Britt Collins
* Briit Collns
* The Guardian,
* Wednesday September 17 2008
Earlier this year, while writing a documentary on Kivalina, one of several Alaskan barrier-reef islands slipping into the sea, and among the world's worst ecological disasters, I stumbled on the state's 44-year-old governor Sarah Palin. Even then, as she posed in the snow-covered wilderness beside her seaplane and fresh animal kills, rumours swirled around her that she might be a vice-presidential contender. In an extraordinary twist of fate, this sharp-shooter and former small-town beauty queen, who until two years ago was mayor of her tiny hometown, Wasilla, Alaska, has become the American right's golden girl.
Ever since the Palin family soap drama hit prime time, the mainstream media has focused on digging up the dirt, but there have been few mentions about her environmental history. Palin is governor of a state that has seen the most dramatic effects of a warming world, yet until last week she remained unconvinced that climate change is in any way man-made. "The jury's still out on that one," she said, just days after the recent hurricanes and tropical storms were making their way across the Atlantic, offering a glimpse of the climate chaos that may be left for future generations.
Palin, in a recent interview with Newsmax.com, accepted that warming would affect Alaska "more than any other state, because of our location". But she added: "I'm not one though who would attribute it to being manmade." Such a position would put her to the right even of President Bush and some of the oil companies - and it is now scaring the international community.
Last Friday, she finally conceded that the problem might be man-made. In an interview with ABC television, she said: "I'm attributing some of man's activities to potentially causing some of the changes in the climate right now."
Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science, says: "The irony of a climate change denier being based in Alaska is breathtaking. The state is warming faster than practically anywhere else, with winter temperatures up by 6F since 1950. Visitors to Alaska can see the evidence all around, from drunken forests of semi-fallen trees and sunken roads, all unseated by the melting of the permafrost, to unprecedented forest fires."
For conservation and animal protection groups, Palin has long been considered an enemy. According to Greenpeace, "Palin has the most anti-environment records of any governor in the US. She has supported oil drilling in some of the most ecologically sensitive areas in Alaska, even when it meant sacrificing polar bears and beluga whales."
Only this month, Palin told the Republican party convention: "We Americans need to produce more of our own oil and gas. And take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska, we've got lots of both."
Brent Blackwelder, president of Friends of the Earth US, says: "Sarah Palin's record is not extensive - just two years ago she was the mayor of a city of fewer than 10,000 people - but what it indicates is troubling. She has been a friend of Big Oil, opposing a windfall profits tax on the oil industry that could fund affordable clean energy for more Americans. Oh, and Palin's husband works for BP."
Literally drowning
Palin is, if nothing else, consistent. She tried to sue the US government to derail the listing of polar bears as a threatened species, fearing that it would get in the way of oil and gas development - this as the ice melts under their paws and they are literally drowning.
She then wrote a piece for the New York Times, saying that these "magnificent cuddly white bears are doing just fine and don't need our protection. If the ice melts, they'll adapt to living on land". That is a contention most scientists found reckless, given that polar bears have shown little ability to feed on land.
Palin also questioned the scientific consensus that global warming is melting the Arctic sea ice, but failed to mention oil drilling or the routine oil spills that, over the years, have destroyed the ecology of nearly 18,000 acres of wildlife and marine habitat.
"We need to drill, drill, drill," she told the Wall Street Journal recently, and she is in the forefront of moves to exploit the long-protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). "If Alaskans can't do that on our own land, then the nation is going to be in a world of hurt, depending on dangerous foreign powers." She argues that "ANWR is only the size of the Los Angeles airport, and drilling there isn't environmentally destructive".
In oil-rich Alaska, that goes down well. Many residents support drilling in the 7.7m-hectare refuge on the north coast, an area considered by conservationists as a treasured wild place. "If you're not for opening ANWR, in the state of Alaska, you couldn't get elected dog-catcher," says former Alaska state representative Ray Metcalfe, a Republican-turned-Democrat who supports Barack Obama.
Alaska is wildly beautiful and sparsely populated, with abundant natural resources that more recently have started to become scarce. In her two years as governor, Palin has got her own pleasure out of its wildlife. There are photos of her posing with the bloodied carcasses of moose, caribou, elk and grizzly bear.
This summer, she reached new lows in the eyes of conservationists by approving the killing of black bear sows with cubs. The year before, she put a $150 bounty on wolf paws to entice hunters to kill more of these elusive wild dogs. She also spent $400,000 of public money to defeat an initiative that would have banned aerial hunting of wolves for sport.
"Palin is an environmental horror story," claims conservationist Dave Chandler. "Alaska's out-of-control wolf slaughter is pretty brutal. When she approved the killing of all wolves in the Cold Bay area, state officials illegally killed 14 wolf pups - after killing their mothers - by dragging them out of their dens and shooting them."
When environmentalists or concerned citizens from the other 48 states (where wolves are protected) dared to object to the idea of a hunting free-for-all, Palin protested that they didn't "understand rural Alaska".
The state that Palin governs consists of 660,000 people, with a minority that loves the wilderness and is animals, and a majority - mostly Republican - that appears to want to squeeze all the cash it can get out of the state before the oil dries up, the fish die and the wildlife disappears.
Alaskans, who annually receive oil-royalty dividends - $1,654 each last year - think of themselves as fiercely independent, but in fact are completely dependent on oil. As in many resource-rich economies, this has tended to encouraged corruption and bad governance, and a culture of impunity among lawmakers. After a four-year FBI investigation, several Alaskan businessmen and politicians - including the state's US senator, Ted Stevens - have been convicted of making and taking bribes to keep a tax on oil profits at an artificially low 20%. Palin herself is facing one abuse-of-power investigation for allegedly using her position to settle family scores by exacting retribution against her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, and firing officials who would not toe the line.
Selling out
Palin claims to be embarrassed by Alaska's national reputation as a corrupt backwater. Yet critics say she is in the pocket of Big Oil and is maintaining the state's tradition of selling out its natural resources. She swept into the governor's office as a self-styled renegade, promising to shake up the status quo, but has fallen in line with the Republican political establishment who have traditionally served the interests of multinationals and their hunting, fishing, mining and oil-drilling buddies at the expense of the environment.
John McCain's choice may reassure hardline Republicans, but for many Americans she is a frightening prospect: an anti-environmentalist who puts special interests above science and whose policies make the Bush administration look progressive; a pro-life hunter who opposes abortion, even in the cases of rape and incest, yet kills other living creatures for entertainment; and a Christian fundamentalist who thinks that the Iraq war is "God's task for America".
She certainly stirs strong emotions. As former New York mayor Ed Koch said: "She scares the hell out of me."
For those of you that are parents, would you find this chain of actions out of the ordinary? It's all a verifiable chain of events, except for the actual birth. There's no record of it in the state of Alaska. It's pretty weird.
Maybe she's here to fulfill the prophecies written out for those who study eschatology. Now I believe it's up to each and every individual to be a good person. A person's religion has nothing to do with the quality of their character. It is indeed easier to be bad, especially if a person's twisted view on religion leads one to believe that all the bad things will be forgiven, or worse, it doesn't matter anyway because this world doesn't matter, only the next one.
Science is science. Religion is theology. Those that study and teach religion in seminary (religious college) are called Theologians, not Scientists. Both schools of thought have had their moment of shinning glory and dark horror and neither is an absolute bastion of correct thought or application. Galileo was a moment of shinning glory. Palin is a moment of dar horror. Let's hope (and pray) that she is nothing more than a moment.
Sarah Palin: The ice queen
Sarah Palin, the Republican party's vice-president nominee, governs an oil-rich area that has seen some of the most dramatic effects of climate change. So what's her record on environmental concerns? By Britt Collins
* Briit Collns
* The Guardian,
* Wednesday September 17 2008
Earlier this year, while writing a documentary on Kivalina, one of several Alaskan barrier-reef islands slipping into the sea, and among the world's worst ecological disasters, I stumbled on the state's 44-year-old governor Sarah Palin. Even then, as she posed in the snow-covered wilderness beside her seaplane and fresh animal kills, rumours swirled around her that she might be a vice-presidential contender. In an extraordinary twist of fate, this sharp-shooter and former small-town beauty queen, who until two years ago was mayor of her tiny hometown, Wasilla, Alaska, has become the American right's golden girl.
Ever since the Palin family soap drama hit prime time, the mainstream media has focused on digging up the dirt, but there have been few mentions about her environmental history. Palin is governor of a state that has seen the most dramatic effects of a warming world, yet until last week she remained unconvinced that climate change is in any way man-made. "The jury's still out on that one," she said, just days after the recent hurricanes and tropical storms were making their way across the Atlantic, offering a glimpse of the climate chaos that may be left for future generations.
Palin, in a recent interview with Newsmax.com, accepted that warming would affect Alaska "more than any other state, because of our location". But she added: "I'm not one though who would attribute it to being manmade." Such a position would put her to the right even of President Bush and some of the oil companies - and it is now scaring the international community.
Last Friday, she finally conceded that the problem might be man-made. In an interview with ABC television, she said: "I'm attributing some of man's activities to potentially causing some of the changes in the climate right now."
Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science, says: "The irony of a climate change denier being based in Alaska is breathtaking. The state is warming faster than practically anywhere else, with winter temperatures up by 6F since 1950. Visitors to Alaska can see the evidence all around, from drunken forests of semi-fallen trees and sunken roads, all unseated by the melting of the permafrost, to unprecedented forest fires."
For conservation and animal protection groups, Palin has long been considered an enemy. According to Greenpeace, "Palin has the most anti-environment records of any governor in the US. She has supported oil drilling in some of the most ecologically sensitive areas in Alaska, even when it meant sacrificing polar bears and beluga whales."
Only this month, Palin told the Republican party convention: "We Americans need to produce more of our own oil and gas. And take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska, we've got lots of both."
Brent Blackwelder, president of Friends of the Earth US, says: "Sarah Palin's record is not extensive - just two years ago she was the mayor of a city of fewer than 10,000 people - but what it indicates is troubling. She has been a friend of Big Oil, opposing a windfall profits tax on the oil industry that could fund affordable clean energy for more Americans. Oh, and Palin's husband works for BP."
Literally drowning
Palin is, if nothing else, consistent. She tried to sue the US government to derail the listing of polar bears as a threatened species, fearing that it would get in the way of oil and gas development - this as the ice melts under their paws and they are literally drowning.
She then wrote a piece for the New York Times, saying that these "magnificent cuddly white bears are doing just fine and don't need our protection. If the ice melts, they'll adapt to living on land". That is a contention most scientists found reckless, given that polar bears have shown little ability to feed on land.
Palin also questioned the scientific consensus that global warming is melting the Arctic sea ice, but failed to mention oil drilling or the routine oil spills that, over the years, have destroyed the ecology of nearly 18,000 acres of wildlife and marine habitat.
"We need to drill, drill, drill," she told the Wall Street Journal recently, and she is in the forefront of moves to exploit the long-protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). "If Alaskans can't do that on our own land, then the nation is going to be in a world of hurt, depending on dangerous foreign powers." She argues that "ANWR is only the size of the Los Angeles airport, and drilling there isn't environmentally destructive".
In oil-rich Alaska, that goes down well. Many residents support drilling in the 7.7m-hectare refuge on the north coast, an area considered by conservationists as a treasured wild place. "If you're not for opening ANWR, in the state of Alaska, you couldn't get elected dog-catcher," says former Alaska state representative Ray Metcalfe, a Republican-turned-Democrat who supports Barack Obama.
Alaska is wildly beautiful and sparsely populated, with abundant natural resources that more recently have started to become scarce. In her two years as governor, Palin has got her own pleasure out of its wildlife. There are photos of her posing with the bloodied carcasses of moose, caribou, elk and grizzly bear.
This summer, she reached new lows in the eyes of conservationists by approving the killing of black bear sows with cubs. The year before, she put a $150 bounty on wolf paws to entice hunters to kill more of these elusive wild dogs. She also spent $400,000 of public money to defeat an initiative that would have banned aerial hunting of wolves for sport.
"Palin is an environmental horror story," claims conservationist Dave Chandler. "Alaska's out-of-control wolf slaughter is pretty brutal. When she approved the killing of all wolves in the Cold Bay area, state officials illegally killed 14 wolf pups - after killing their mothers - by dragging them out of their dens and shooting them."
When environmentalists or concerned citizens from the other 48 states (where wolves are protected) dared to object to the idea of a hunting free-for-all, Palin protested that they didn't "understand rural Alaska".
The state that Palin governs consists of 660,000 people, with a minority that loves the wilderness and is animals, and a majority - mostly Republican - that appears to want to squeeze all the cash it can get out of the state before the oil dries up, the fish die and the wildlife disappears.
Alaskans, who annually receive oil-royalty dividends - $1,654 each last year - think of themselves as fiercely independent, but in fact are completely dependent on oil. As in many resource-rich economies, this has tended to encouraged corruption and bad governance, and a culture of impunity among lawmakers. After a four-year FBI investigation, several Alaskan businessmen and politicians - including the state's US senator, Ted Stevens - have been convicted of making and taking bribes to keep a tax on oil profits at an artificially low 20%. Palin herself is facing one abuse-of-power investigation for allegedly using her position to settle family scores by exacting retribution against her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, and firing officials who would not toe the line.
Selling out
Palin claims to be embarrassed by Alaska's national reputation as a corrupt backwater. Yet critics say she is in the pocket of Big Oil and is maintaining the state's tradition of selling out its natural resources. She swept into the governor's office as a self-styled renegade, promising to shake up the status quo, but has fallen in line with the Republican political establishment who have traditionally served the interests of multinationals and their hunting, fishing, mining and oil-drilling buddies at the expense of the environment.
John McCain's choice may reassure hardline Republicans, but for many Americans she is a frightening prospect: an anti-environmentalist who puts special interests above science and whose policies make the Bush administration look progressive; a pro-life hunter who opposes abortion, even in the cases of rape and incest, yet kills other living creatures for entertainment; and a Christian fundamentalist who thinks that the Iraq war is "God's task for America".
She certainly stirs strong emotions. As former New York mayor Ed Koch said: "She scares the hell out of me."
For those of you that are parents, would you find this chain of actions out of the ordinary? It's all a verifiable chain of events, except for the actual birth. There's no record of it in the state of Alaska. It's pretty weird.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Ex wives, fascism and the polar ice island, er... sheet, no, now island
It's all short stuff and worth checking out. Just a note, you may notice that some pages cited as sources, photos, and articles have mysteriously disappeared from the net. It smell strongly of political tampering. If there's nothing wrong, there's nothing to hide, so why is so much hidden? Maybe it's under a $420 some odd million dollar, actual, in the flesh, not allegory, pork barrel bridge to nowhere in Alaska. I'd look there. Wait, the multi million dollar road to the bridge to nowhere isn't finished yet. Guess I'll have to wait.
http://politicati.blogspot.com/2008/02/did-john-mccain-cheat-on-his-wife-again.html
http://politicati.blogspot.com/2008/02/mccain-left-his-crippled-wife-for-25.html
http://politicati.blogspot.com/2008/06/john-mccains-first-wife.html
http://politicati.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-needs-tutors.html
http://politicati.blogspot.com/2008/09/will-palins-crazy-pastor-get-coverage.html
http://politicati.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-was-member-of-fringe.html
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/another-aip-off.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4thvQ0XHfZQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjS5sjxTnwo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9DhDfqi7U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK3Y1KPzW9k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_ci5hTHl3A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lor25g9v84s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFxHZd4sEWo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUZ3WX9OXW4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlXz-0eHjDY
How shameful that Bill Clinton would cheat on his wife while he was President of the United States. Now as John McCain has taught us you should do that before you run for the highest office. I mean just look at the two wives (ok, one ex, one just about), one is a senator and one is still crippled. You see, it all works out in the end.
BTW, the Arctic Ice Sheet has gone from being 7.8 million square kilometers in 1980 to 4.2 million square kilometers in 2007. That's an over 46% reduction. Almost half. If you've just passingly been paying attention you understand that if it's all gone a large portion of Florida will be under water, as will much of the habitated world.
The only solution to all this is to bring forth the teachings of the book of revalation and give the world the fiery end it deserves so all the heathen of the world will suffer the wrath of god in hell.
We can start by drilling the shit out of Alaska, our mother superior's home state. Everybody chant with me:
Drill! Drill! Drill! Drill! Drill! Drill! Drill! Drill! Drill!
Duh Führer. Duh, duh, duh.
http://politicati.blogspot.com/2008/02/did-john-mccain-cheat-on-his-wife-again.html
http://politicati.blogspot.com/2008/02/mccain-left-his-crippled-wife-for-25.html
http://politicati.blogspot.com/2008/06/john-mccains-first-wife.html
http://politicati.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-needs-tutors.html
http://politicati.blogspot.com/2008/09/will-palins-crazy-pastor-get-coverage.html
http://politicati.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-was-member-of-fringe.html
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/another-aip-off.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4thvQ0XHfZQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjS5sjxTnwo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9DhDfqi7U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK3Y1KPzW9k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_ci5hTHl3A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lor25g9v84s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFxHZd4sEWo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUZ3WX9OXW4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlXz-0eHjDY
How shameful that Bill Clinton would cheat on his wife while he was President of the United States. Now as John McCain has taught us you should do that before you run for the highest office. I mean just look at the two wives (ok, one ex, one just about), one is a senator and one is still crippled. You see, it all works out in the end.
BTW, the Arctic Ice Sheet has gone from being 7.8 million square kilometers in 1980 to 4.2 million square kilometers in 2007. That's an over 46% reduction. Almost half. If you've just passingly been paying attention you understand that if it's all gone a large portion of Florida will be under water, as will much of the habitated world.
The only solution to all this is to bring forth the teachings of the book of revalation and give the world the fiery end it deserves so all the heathen of the world will suffer the wrath of god in hell.
We can start by drilling the shit out of Alaska, our mother superior's home state. Everybody chant with me:
Drill! Drill! Drill! Drill! Drill! Drill! Drill! Drill! Drill!
Duh Führer. Duh, duh, duh.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Eve Ensler on Sarah Palin
Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist Best known for 'The Vagina Monologues', wrote the following about Sarah Palin:
Drill, Drill, Drill
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of Drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a Particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or Their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have Never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that They live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar Bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life Trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence Against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people Who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical To Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves
and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, 'It was a task from God.'
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, 'Drill Drill Drill.' I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008
Drill, Drill, Drill
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of Drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a Particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or Their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have Never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that They live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar Bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life Trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence Against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people Who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical To Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves
and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, 'It was a task from God.'
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, 'Drill Drill Drill.' I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008
What Obama Waffles are made of...
...John McCain's dead, flaky skin cells picked out of George W. Bush's bed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c
White Privilege
For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.
White privilege is when you can call yourself a "fuckin' redneck," like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll "kick their fuckin' ass," and talk about how you like to "shoot shit" for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.
White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.
White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don't all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're "untested."?
White privilege is being able to say that you support the words "under God" in the pledge of allegiance because "if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me," and not be immediately disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s and the "under God" part wasn't added until the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.?
White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you.?
White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was "Alaska first," and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she's being disrespectful.?
White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college--you're somehow being mean, or even sexist.?
White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a "second look."?
White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you must be corrupt.?
White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a good church-going Christian, but if you're black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you're an extremist who probably hates America.?
White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a "trick question," while being black and merely refusing to give one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.?
White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a "light" burden.?
And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren't sure about that whole "change" thing.Ya know, it's just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain…?
White privilege is, in short, the problem.
From:
http://forums.myspace.com/t/4170038.aspx?fuseaction=forums.viewthread&PageIndex=3&SortOrder=0
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Saying "Climate Change" is like saying "Pre-Owned"
If there is any doubt that we are causing global warming you are on of two things: 1) an idiot, or 2) looking forward to a time without human life on earth (which brings you back to 1).
If you would like to be a number 1 please vote McCain this election so Palin can drill the shit out of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge and kill the polar wildlife that live in the area. Who needs polar bears and seals if your not making coats out of them or using their fat in a lamp, right?
If you live along a low lying coastal area, or an area near sea level, please be prepared for a change in property value.
http://climate.weather.com/articles/arcticice091501.html
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Paleoclimatology_IceCores/
There's our man on peace! Rock on ya fucking fascist!
I like my bike
I no longer own a 13.5 MPG Lexus. The Ford Model T got 25 MPG. Think about that. The 1984 Honda Civic CRX scored 67 MPG and was not a hybrid. The 1986 Chevy Sprint got 60 MPG (also not a hybrid). The Hummer H2 gets a real world 8 MPG. Let's melt some ice caps!
If you would like to be a number 1 please vote McCain this election so Palin can drill the shit out of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge and kill the polar wildlife that live in the area. Who needs polar bears and seals if your not making coats out of them or using their fat in a lamp, right?
If you live along a low lying coastal area, or an area near sea level, please be prepared for a change in property value.
http://climate.weather.com/articles/arcticice091501.html
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Paleoclimatology_IceCores/
There's our man on peace! Rock on ya fucking fascist!
I like my bike
I no longer own a 13.5 MPG Lexus. The Ford Model T got 25 MPG. Think about that. The 1984 Honda Civic CRX scored 67 MPG and was not a hybrid. The 1986 Chevy Sprint got 60 MPG (also not a hybrid). The Hummer H2 gets a real world 8 MPG. Let's melt some ice caps!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Who is Palin?
Palin is not a Scientist. She is a scared, superstitious person who bases her life on mythology. While I'm sure she's enjoying her new found super stardom, I can't help but think she is the Kim Kardashian of the political world. Why is she there? Of course we all know the future that will become center stage. With any luck we'll be to old to care. Too bad the children of today will have to suffer.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid823425597/bclid877032950/bctid1657741041
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid823425597/bclid877032950/bctid1657741041
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Interesting...
Balanced budget. First time in 3 decades. Hmmmm.
http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/New/html/19980202-14467.html
We owe China over half a trillion dollars. What could you do with that type of cash?
http://www.ustreas.gov/tic/mfh.txt
http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/New/html/19980202-14467.html
We owe China over half a trillion dollars. What could you do with that type of cash?
http://www.ustreas.gov/tic/mfh.txt
Where do we go now?
Notice the "peace"signs in the crowd? McCain wants to continue this war in Iraq that, at this point, cost us over 577 billion dollars. By tomorrow morning it will be over 580. The death toll continues to rise, the economy continues to suffer, and only McCain is allowed to mention lipstick and not have it be sexist, even when he directs it at Hillary Clinton while Obama directs it at... McCain.
McCain is a man of change like Ghandi was a man of war.
Peace? Yeah, right... :-/
Try to remember what war is, what it always has been, and the mentality it takes to wage war.
Choose wisely this November, with all your choices, not just the presidency.
This is our world. As far as we know the life on this planet is the only other life anywhere. Other life has not been found or proven. To turn our back on this world for convenience or money would be to turn your back on the only life we actually know, and bring this world to an end.
McCain is a man of change like Ghandi was a man of war.
Peace? Yeah, right... :-/
Try to remember what war is, what it always has been, and the mentality it takes to wage war.
Choose wisely this November, with all your choices, not just the presidency.
This is our world. As far as we know the life on this planet is the only other life anywhere. Other life has not been found or proven. To turn our back on this world for convenience or money would be to turn your back on the only life we actually know, and bring this world to an end.
Only after the Last Tree has been cut down,
Only after the Last River has been poisoned,
Only after the Last Fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that
Money Cannot Be Eaten.
Only after the Last River has been poisoned,
Only after the Last Fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that
Money Cannot Be Eaten.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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