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  • "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Innocents Abroad -- Mark Twain

    "It liberates the vandal to travel--you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction." - The American Abroad speech, 1868 - Mark Twain

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What's Left After the Purge

Monday, November 21, 2011

3 Important videos to be certain to watch if you really want to know where your tax dollars go, and why.

1)

2)

 3)

Factor in a quote from a U.S. Marine who was the only person ever awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor TWICE: "War is a rackett"--Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps, 1881 - 1940.

Go ahead, argue with either. Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower who graduated West Point, was a five-star general in the United States Army. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942-43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45, from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.

Or, Smedley Butler, a Marine Major General who was awarded the Medal of Honor, not once, but twice.

Do you REALLY think that the collection of pinheads (Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, Romney, Paul, Perry, Santorum, Huntsman) that you are seeing every day in media reports knows better than either of those two? Really?

Eisenhower and Butler warned us that what those videos document will happen to us if we weren't careful.

Gee, I guess we failed to listen, were simply to stupid and / or too afraid to heed their warnings.

The next time some low-information voter opens their misguided pie hole and includes the word: "entitlement" in anything they say ... have them watch these videos. After they watch explain to them how they are being sodomized by the Corporatocracy and the greedy sock-puppets who report to them, on a daily basis. The country is not broke. Social Security and Medicare have nothing to do with the economic condition we find ourselves in today. We are just wasting money paying the private Corporatocracy inflated prices for crap that does not enhance our military stength, but only the bank accounts of corporate executives, their lobbyists, and their Congressional sock-puppets.

Tally this very real 'issue' as one of hundreds of issues that the Occupy movement and the 99-percenters are all about.

Low-info-voter types frequently ask what it is that the Occupy crowd wants. Generally speaking, they want ALL of the 99-percent to wake the hell up and begin to GET-IT before it is truly too late ... and it's getting close to that point.

To address the argument that if we 'balance' our military spending with our non-death-and-destruction-spending we will be left defensless and vulnerable. Pure crap. U.S. military spending outstrips ALL other militarys on the planet COMBINED. And yeah, that does include China. Get your head around the numbers, and the facts.

The thing that Eisenhower warned us about and the current imbalance between the military spending and everything else positive we might do with those dollars ... posiitve, non-destructive things has little to do with our nation's security, and everything to do with excessive, private corporate profits, and greed.

The military-industrial-complex has used 'fear' to get We-The-People to buy into their 'need' for 53% of every tax dollar. That's nuts.

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -- James Madison

"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." – Herman Goering - Nazi


Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Congress Can Shove the Robocall bill HR 3035 Up Its Pork Fed Ass

Yet another reason to use a Google Voice phone number on all forms, and all your calls!

http://gizmodo.com/5858727/congress-can-shove-the-robocall-bill-up-its-pork+fed-ass

http://lifehacker.com/5846185/congress-is-about-to-make-it-legal-to-robocall-your-cell-phone-heres-how-to-speak-up-against-it

http://gawker.com/5733642/robocall-victim-takes-robo+revenge

http://lifehacker.com/5674575/press-pound-to-escape-political-robocall-lists

SIGN THE PETITION

CALL EVERY ONE OF THEM and tell them what you think!

 

Saturday, November 05, 2011

Using Your Zip Code Find a Credit Union

 Click this link to:

Use Your Zip Code to Find a Credit Union

Friday, November 04, 2011

Keep the banks "occupied".

Sunday, October 16, 2011

The 'Occupy' Movement confuses the easily confused (Republicans).

I find it a bit funny that the Repukes keep trying to diminish the "Occupy" movement because they cannot identify a lone leader who they then could focus their attack-dog strategies on ... I think that the lack of a lone / central leadership figure is a freaking stroke of genius! ;-)

I heard an audio collage of the right's confusion in trying to attack the 'Occupy' crowd. They have called them Wall Street worker’s rich kids; they have said they were homeless, dirty, young, unemployed, Woodstock-Wanna-Be's, etc, etc, etc. They have been unable to find a characterization that sticks so that they can focus their lemming, sheep, brown-shirt, goose-stepping, and scripted attacks upon.

When you present a lone, dynamic and public leadership figure what always happens? Ask Abraham, Martin, and John what happens. Ask Mandela, ask The Dalai Lama. ;-)

We don’t need one leader; we need WE-THE-PEOPLE to stand up and take this nation back from the Corporatocracy and the crazies.

'BS News' is more accurate than Faux News

Saturday, October 08, 2011

Grover Norquist is still trying to drown the government in a bathtub.

 

Grover Norquist is a soldier in the same army as the Koch brothers. I consider both to be enemies of the state. Both their names closely entwined with the names of either those convicted of, or investigated for, criminal activities.

Grover Norquist is a demented zealot who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth; born to a Corporate VP, Norquist is a fat, middle aged, radical right-wing lobbyist. After being a career student who has never worked a real J-O-B in his entire 54 years on the planet, Norquist became a lobbyist.

THAT is why Norquist has ZERO frame of reference for what WE-THE-PEOPLE are all about. He is clueless about what it means to be an average American under seige from the right for at least the past 30 years.

Grover Norquist is a soldier in the War againt the American middle class. He fights from behind the front lines, preferring to manipulate and financially influence his causes from the shadows.

When Norquist steps into the daylight, below is the kindda crap he spews:

"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

Truth is ... Norquist probably struggles to drag his own pasty-white buttocks to that tub.

So, when you wonder what is motivating the current Republican Congress to hold our nation hostage, the answer is easy. Private money. Money funneled from the Corporatocracy through lobbyists like Norquist to their sock-puppets in Congress.

Here ya go, read more about it in the LA Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-norquist-paralyzing-congress-20111004,0,2329509.story

 

 

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

"First Technology" Credit Union is an oxymoron.

I've had an account with this credit union since 1973 when it was known as the Tektronix Credit Union.

I think that it was a marketing miscalculation for them to rename themselves "First Technology" anything.

I say that because over the years I have witnessed both their service level and their technical expertise deteriorate.

They have me associated with someone else's account and each time (at least 4 times so far) that I visit them in person to help them correct their mistake, I receive the same excuse for why they are unable to correct this recurring problem ... according to even one of their branch managers "it's a software problem". They say that they can't fix it. So I'll just have to live with my name being associated with someone else's account.

Gee, so much for "First Technology ...". What a joke this credit union has become.

It gets even better. The person with the other account that these morons have associated me with, apparently has a past due account. So I get a call from their number one Moron, named "Antonio" (likely hiding behind an alias) leaves his contact number as 855-855-8805 Option 5, extension 4202.

It wouldn't be so absurd if I had not visited with them in person multiple times, and each time they promise that they have annotated the "system"/file, and each time it is the same old BS with this group. They continue to get things wrong.

Ah well, I'll update after I contact regulators and legal-beagles about how to get through to these clowns and get them to do the right thing finally. Meanwhile, I have to switch my auto-deposit and prepare for an exit from this PITA credit union.

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, July 11, 2011

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Call the freak-show and let 'em know what you think: 202-456-1111

NYT: Health care cuts proposed in deficit negotiations - politics - The New York Times - msnbc.com


Obama selling out to GOP=Get-Old-People!

Where is ANY news about the end of Corporate Welfare!!!???

Where is the tax increase on the upper 2%???

Use the write-in part of your ballot in the next election because there simply are no choices among politicians.

They are all bought and paid for whores of the Corporatocracy. Vote 'em ALL out.

NYT: Health care cuts proposed in deficit negotiations - politics - The New York Times - msnbc.com.

It is time to get on a bus to D.C.

It is time to go visit this freak show and make these losers understand what is at stake for them and for the nation.

Before the bus leaves the station, pick-up your phones and rain a shit-storm of calls on all your elected officials in Washington NOW. This morning. Let 'em hear it. Don't wait. Do it today.

Friday, May 06, 2011

This is a Union Town.

Sunday, May 01, 2011

It is truly a Happy May Day. Osama Bin Laden is Dead!

 

PIECE OF GARBAGE Osama Bin Laden is DEAD!  Carcass in US Custody!

Thank You U.S. Military, Intellegence Community, and President Obama!

Now let's get the rest of them.

 

 

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Not impressed with General Motors (GM) ascent toward #1

 

I have either owned outright, or have been co-owner of 7 GM vehicles in my life time.

I did not use the words "so far" because to borrow a line from Chief Joesph, and take poetic license with it,

" ... from where the sun now stands, I will never buy another GM vehicle."

7 GM rigs are enough to convince me that General Motors produces an inferior product.

Why I stuck with them as long as I did, escapes me now.

They are crap. I will elaborate in a future post.

GM is not ascending to #1, Toyota is falling from #1.

 

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Tax Time? Not for Giant Corporations - Newsroom: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont)

 

Release: Tax Time? Not for Giant Corporations - Newsroom: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont)

BURLINGTON, Vt., March 27 - While hard working Americans fill out their income tax returns this tax season, General Electric and other giant profitable corporations are avoiding U.S. taxes altogether.

With Congress returning to Capitol Hill on Monday to debate steep spending cuts, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the wealthiest Americans and most profitable corporations must do their share to help bring down our record-breaking deficit.

Sanders renewed his call for shared sacrifice after it was reported that General Electric and other major corporations paid no U.S. taxes after posting huge profits. Sanders said it is grossly unfair for congressional Republicans to propose major cuts to Head Start, Pell Grants, the Social Security Administration, nutrition grants for pregnant low-income women and the Environmental Protection Agency while ignoring the reality that some of the most profitable corporations pay nothing or almost nothing in federal income taxes.

Sanders compiled a list of some of some of the 10 worst corporate income tax avoiders.

1)      Exxon Mobil made $19 billion in profits in 2009.  Exxon not only paid no federal income taxes, it actually received a $156 million rebate from the IRS, according to its SEC filings.  (Source: Exxon Mobil's 2009 shareholder report filed with the SEC here.)

2)      Bank of America received a $1.9 billion tax refund from the IRS last year, although it made $4.4 billion in profits and received a bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department of nearly $1 trillion. (Source: Forbes.com here, ProPublica here and Treasury here.)

3)      Over the past five years, while General Electric made $26 billion in profits in the United States, it received a $4.1 billion refund from the IRS. (Source: Citizens for Tax Justice here and The New York Times here.  Note: despite rumors to the contrary, the Times has stood by its story.)

4)      Chevron received a $19 million refund from the IRS last year after it made $10 billion in profits in 2009.  (Source: See 2009 Chevron annual report here.  Note 15 on page FS-46 of this report shows a U.S. federal income tax liability of $128 million, but that it was able to defer $147 million for a U.S. federal income tax liability of $-19 million)

5)      Boeing, which received a $30 billion contract from the Pentagon to build 179 airborne tankers, got a $124 million refund from the IRS last year. .  (Source: Paul Buchheit, professor, DePaul University, here and Citizens for Tax Justice here.)

6)      Valero Energy, the 25th largest company in America with $68 billion in sales last year received a $157 million tax refund check from the IRS and, over the past three years, it received a $134 million tax break from the oil and gas manufacturing tax deduction. (Source: the company's 2009 annual report, pg. 112, here.)

7)      Goldman Sachs in 2008 only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.  (Source: Bloomberg News here, ProPublica here, Treasury Department here.)

8)      Citigroup last year made more than $4 billion in profits but paid no federal income taxes. It received a $2.5 trillion bailout from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury. (Source: Paul Buchheit, professor, DePaul University, here, ProPublica here, Treasury Department here.)

9)      ConocoPhillips, the fifth largest oil company in the United States, made $16 billion in profits from 2006 through 2009, but received $451 million in tax breaks through the oil and gas manufacturing deduction.  (Sources: Profits can be found here.  The deduction can be found on the company's 2010 SEC 10-K report to shareholders on 2009 finances, pg. 127, here)

10)  Over the past five years, Carnival Cruise Lines made more than $11 billion in profits, but its federal income tax rate during those years was just 1.1 percent.  (Source: The New York Times here)

Sanders has called for closing corporate tax loopholes and eliminating tax breaks for oil and gas companies. He also introduced legislation to impose a 5.4 percent surtax on millionaires that would yield up to $50 billion a year. The senator has said that spending cuts must be paired with new revenue so the federal budget is not balanced solely on the backs of working families.

"We have a deficit problem. It has to be addressed," Sanders said, "but it cannot be addressed on the backs of the sick, the elderly, the poor, young people, the most vulnerable in this country.  The wealthiest people and the largest corporations in this country have got to contribute. We've got to talk about shared sacrifice."

Sunday, February 06, 2011

Mark Shields: Dan Snyder Is Washington’s Leading Jerk - Noozhawk.com


It is Super Bowl Sunday.

Journalist Mark Shields tells it like it is with his commentary on Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder's latest lawsuit over "Washington City Paper" sportswriter Dave McKenna's article.

The link to what Shields said is at the bottom of this post. Shield's commentary includes a link to the original piece, which is at issue.

I said "latest lawsuit" because Snyder's team once sought to take a 72 year old grandmother and Redskins fan to court.

One wonders if the billionaire boy-marketing-genius understands how these things become cumulative, and serve to define their perpetrators. Looks like money not only can't buy love, it can't buy either wisdom or a Lombardi trophy.

Mark also risks being the target of Daniel Snyder's next lawsuit.

I agree that Daniel Snyder is a jerk.

I have frequently said that I doubt that the Redskins will return to glory with Daniel Snyder at the helm.

I really do wish that Snyder would sell the team to an adult.

Here is a link to Mark Shield's commentary:

Mark Shields: Dan Snyder Is Washington’s Leading Jerk - Noozhawk.com.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

GOP Republicans Vote Against 911 First Responders!

 

Have I mentioned recently that I don't like Republicans, or that I don't even like anyone who likes a Republican?

Republicans are a lower life form. They recently proved it beyond any shadow of a doubt by voting against permanent, long-term health care for those 911 first responders and workers who became ill. And against a bill which would also re-create a victims’ compensation fund to make cash payments to sick 911 workers or their survivors. Republicans are forever attaching themselves to 911 in campaign speeches and promises, but here is the truth:

"Senate Republicans are coming under fire from various quarters for putting tax cuts for the wealthy ahead of health care for sick World Trade Center responders. By a vote of 57-to-41 Senate Republicans last week successfully blocked debate on the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, essentially preventing a vote on the bill. The blockage of the Zadroga bill was part of a GOP Senate strategy to stop any legislation until the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy are extended. With the clock ticking on Congress’ lame duck session, it’s now doubtful that the Zadroga bill will ever become law.

The Zadroga bill would provide permanent, long-term health care for those workers who became ill, and it would re-create a victims’ compensation fund to make cash payments to sick workers or their survivors. The Zadroga bill was approved in the House of Representatives this past fall, but still needed to make it through the Senate."

Republicans are totally anti-American hypocrites of the worst kind. So all you genisus out there who helped add to the ranks of Repukes in Washington, D.C., either by actively supporting their lame asses, or those who allowed their seats in Washington to increase by staying home and not participating in the process ... here is just a sample of the shit you've helped to cause. May you rot in hell along side your fellow hypocritical Republicans.

Republicans hate the 98% of WE-THE-PEOPLE, about average American workers, about the poor. Republicans care ONLY to do the bidding of their rich corporate handlers.

Anyone who works in the Fire / Police Services who voted for any critter called a Republican ... you just got your just deserts:

http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/law_enforcement/130331/senate-votes-against-beginning-debate-on-9-11-health-care-bill/?ap=1&MP4

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/nyregion/10health.html

http://www.newsinferno.com/legal-news/senate-republicans-blasted-for-holding-911-health-bill-hostage/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/09/AR2010120902841.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/12/911-health-bill-failure-c_n_795510.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-us-congress-attacks-health,0,4202738.story

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/12/09/911-health-bill-fails-senate-vote/

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/15/thune-911-responders/

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/republican-senator-calls-cops-911-responders/

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/dc_disgrace_woIdZRECOsNwAOg8DE1heO

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012130016

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/12/shameless-senate-rejects-911-health-bill.html

 

 

 

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

More them versus us.

Here we go again, more of "them" versus "us". Repukes are the party of Billionaires. Over and over again it has been proven that trickle down economic do not work, but Repukes are the party of greed that is too slow to learn the lesson.

Regarding "Trickle-Down Economics: "If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows."--John Kenneth Galbraith

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."--John Kenneth Galbraith

Read what the party of "NO" is up to now:

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/16/camp-no-compromise/

 

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Who's your favorite person to see movies with? What makes it more fun than watching a movie alone?



“The American people’s voice was heard at the ballot box,” said Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio. But Boehner knows this is not so. He knows that the ballot box merely reflected the successful disinformation campaign, consisting of lies and Orwellian propaganda, perpetrated against uninformed and disinformed (consequently, easily manipulated) voters (see http://www.restore-integrity.info/ ). Boehner and others must be held accountable. We need to prevail upon the Office of Congressional Ethics, en masse, to investigate the unethical activities of various right-wing individuals and organizations, including, but certainly not limited to, Citizen's United, Liberty Central, Americans For Prosperity, John A Boehner, Koch brothers, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Dick Morris, and Karl Rove. An on-line campaign, "Require Accountability From GOP Leadership" was recently started at The Point (link below). Also visit, http://www.accountabilityproject.org/ and http://sunlightfoundation.com/about/



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Monday, September 06, 2010

Ready for Whoppers made with Brazilian beef?

What went wrong at Burger King? (maybe McDonalds is what went wrong with Booger King)

http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/03/news/companies/burger_king_buyout.fortune/index.htm

Time runs short for America's jobless

Time runs short for America's jobless and more become jobless as the Corporatocracy exports American jobs and the GOP wages war on the American middle class. And it all started with Reagan.

Families count down to a financial abyss after their unemployment benefits expire

Human Trafficker Profiled in MoJo Is Arrested | Mother Jones


A Story about the Corporatocracy's Support and Promotion of Illegal Immigration & Anti-Labor, Anti-Union, Criminal Causes. Happy Freakin' Labor Day:

"At the head of this exploitive system was Orian, who acted as a go-between for the pineapple companies and egg farms that needed cheap foreign labor, and the tired, the poor, the huddled ...masses trying to make a quick buck for work that came naturally to them back home. (According to Raw Story, the Israeli Orian was also a bigtime contributor to Republican causes.) While reporting his MoJo story, Bowe caught up with Orian to get the kingpin's side:"

Human Trafficker Profiled in MoJo Is Arrested


Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Reagan insider: 'GOP destroyed U.S. economy'

It is sad that the average conservative on the street continues to back policies that have since even been abandoned by the original policy makers themselves, and which go against their own personal interests and well being.

I believe it is because they don't have the time to READ when it is quicker and easier to rely upon info-tainment instead. Partisan YouTube videos, and partisan talk radio show hosts supply them with all their busy life styles permit them time to digest, and their is no time left for fact-checking. Here's one fact for ya:

"How my G.O.P. destroyed the U.S. economy." Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed piece, "Four Deformations of the Apocalypse."

Yet Douche-Baggers, oops, I meant Tea-Baggers are STILL too sheltered to have figured out that Reagan fired the first salvos in the war on WE-THE-PEOPLE and the American middle class and that our elimination is nearly complete.

I dunno if the mid-term election will go true-to-form or not, but if it does, we will have reverted to the policies that got us into this mess in the first place. There will be no time left for us to heed Einstein's advice that:

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."--Albert Einstein

Reagan insider: 'GOP destroyed U.S. economy'

Sunday, August 01, 2010

Swipe fees really are swiping from our economy.

If you pay cash, you are helping to buy that rewards card holder's next free flight!

Below is a link to a terrific report by Oregonian Economist Brent Hunsberger, from his "It's Only Money" column. The online version of the report includes an informative video too.

A swipe at swipe fees

The Corporatocracy has WE-THE-PEOPLE in a choke hold. It is a war that is all but lost. Jefferson warned us a very long time ago about the banking industry.

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations will grow up around them, will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."--Thomas Jefferson 

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."--Thomas Jefferson

We've met the enemy, and they are us. This is simply another case of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. And to enlist us to do it to ourselves, they offer you a reward.

Like a bounty on the scalps of the working poor.

ByTheNumbers

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

The Corporatocracy & the Gubbermint conspire together to screw our troops.

Mommas don't let your sons and daughters grow up to be soldiers until after you enlist to win a war against this kind of corruption first!

Hexavalent chromium case: Iraq contractor cut deal for lawsuit immunity

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/taxpayers_not_kbr_could_foot_l.html

If you want to learn more about what really happens when you turn a government / military job over to a private sector member of the Corporatocracy visit:

http://mssparky.com/

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

When the going gets tough Congress turns tail and runs. Bank Lobby owns Congress.

Congress drops new credit rating rules.

Candy asses like Rep. Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer and even Al Franken PROVE, without doubt, that they are whores of the banking and credit rating agency lobbyists.

In a New York Times News Service story buried by corporate owned media outlets, and placed in the back business pages (B7) of the Tuesday, 6/16/10 Oregonian newspaper, those Congressional DEMOCRATS are quoted as whining excuses like:

"The thought in the Franken amendment is to have some independent non-conflicted verification. It is a good thought. It makes a lot of sense. As you said Mr. Chairman, the trouble is in implementing it."

Translation:

Gee, that's a perfectly sensible legislative proposal but, our powerful banking lobbyists, owners and handlers wouldn't like that very much.

So instead, we'll have to think of yet another EXCUSE for not doing the jobs that the American people sent us to do.

It should be easy to explain away though, because the great unwashed masses are just a bunch of RUBES and turnip truck drivers anyway.

We'll just say that it's a nice idea but, it's just too hard to do ... too much like real work for us old, rich, lard asses to be bothered with when it might derail our lobbyist gravy train.

MAYBE, if WE-THE-PEOPLE paid us more, gave us a sweeter Health Care Plan, and otherwise made our lives half as cushy as the corporate lobbyists are promising to do when we leave office, maybe then we'd consider getting off our asses and doing at least a little bit of the people's work. Nah!

The real "trouble" is not in implementing it. The REAL trouble is that the people doing the whining, that it is too difficult to implement, lack one respectable nut-sack and spinal column between the entire lot of them. They are all whores of the Corporatocracy. Every muther f'ing one of them.

Screw 'em all. I hate Tea Baggers, and now I hate all politicians equally. Democrats, Repukes, Independents, the whole stinking lot of them suck purple canal water. What a pack of nut-less wonders!

I am going to cut out multiple copies of this story, place one in an envelope for each of the above listed whores, and mail them each one with the added notation:

"You can fool some of the people, some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people, all of the time."

Then in November, I will vote for my own write-in candidates for every damn office on the ballot.

Here is the link to the source of my rant as it appears on the NYT's blog:

Congress Drops Changes for Credit-Rating Agencies

Saturday, June 12, 2010

t r u t h o u t | The Supreme Court Says NO to the People - Again

Big Money & the Corporatocracy limit Government to the rich and powerful. It's not a democracy anymore, it's a Corporatocracy. Government for and by the Corporations:

t r u t h o u t | The Supreme Court Says NO to the People - Again.

Jefferson Warned Us


  • "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations will grow up around them, will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."--Thomas Jefferson

    "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."--Thomas Jefferson

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  • "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
    -- Republican President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt

    "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." --Sinclair Lewis

    "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -- James Madison

    "When the government fears the people it is a democracy....when the people fear their government it is tyranny..." -- Thomas Jefferson

    "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." – Herman Goering - Nazi

    "patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels." - Samuel Johnson

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  • "I like guys who've never been there that criticize us who've been there. I like that. I like guys who got five deferments and never been there and send people to war, and then don't like to hear suggestions about what needs to be done."--John Murtha Congressman (D-PA) -------
    "War is a rackett"--Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps, 1881 - 1940, Double recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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    "Many of those who want to rush this country into war and think it would be so quick and easy don't know anything about war. They come at it from an intellectual perspective, versus having sat in jungles or foxholes and watched their friends get their heads blown off."--Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska
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    "We're in Bush country," Bradach said. "There will be a lot of detractors, people saying we aren't patriots. I'd like to know what they've given up.

    There is no way our children died in vain, not if we pay attention, not if we learn. I'm proud of my son. I love the Marines. And I'm very much against this war and always have been.

    I guess our children went and were sacrificed for us to take a look at what we let happen. We let this war happen. If nothing else, this is a huge lesson. Watch who you vote for. Watch what they're telling you. Don't be so afraid."
    --Lynn Bradach, mother of a fallen American Hero, from Oregon, in support of Cindy Sheehan

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  • Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.--Aristotle

  • A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.--Leonard Bernstein

  • The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.--John Kenneth Galbraith

  • The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.--Albert Einstein

  • The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.--Dante Alighieri

  • Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.--Albert Einstein

  • Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.--Plato

  • Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.--William E. Simon

  • Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.--Alexander Hamilton

  • They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Ben Franklin

  • "Fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --The Biggest Fool of 'em All

  • Regarding "Trickle-Down Economics: "If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows."--John Kenneth Galbraith

  • "This is not about who they are. This is about who we are. We are Americans and we hold ourselves to a higher standard of conduct. And, no, the end does not justify the means. Not now. Not ever, when the means include torturing prisoners." --Republican Senator John McCain

  • "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth"--Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. --Edmund Burke

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