I will finally be able to buy a new pair of glasses thanks to the $250 you are sending to all of us Social Security beneficiaries. I've been wearing these for 17 years and they're way past the point of no return.
Thank God for Socialism.
Capitolism doesn't work.
Subject: Tell CNBC: Listen to Jon Stewart and report the news.
Dear Friend,
We know about the Bush administration turning a blind eye and refusing to regulate bad behavior. We know about the banks that played fast and loose with our retirements, and then, when it all blew up, they took golden parachutes lined with our tax dollars.
On March 12, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show discussed another serious problem: financial news networks like CNBC that promoted Wall Street propaganda and then blamed the financial crisis on "losers" who couldn't make their mortgage payments.
Stewart took on Jim Cramer of CNBC; the interview was moving, appalling, and a searing indictment that really hit home.
I just watched the interview and signed a petition to tell CNBC that they should be ashamed of their behavior. A financial news channel should investigate and report the truth, not merely air infomercials for Wall Street.
Please have a look and take action.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/cnbc/?r_by=-1964854-uU3xycx&rc=paste
Thanks!
Executive assassination ring reported directly to Cheney
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the military was running an "executive assassination ring" throughout the Bush years which reported directly to former Vice President Dick Cheney. The remark came out seemingly inadvertently when Hersh was asked by the moderator of a public discussion of "America's Constitutional Crisis" whether abuses of executive power, like those which occurred under Richard Nixon, continue to this day. Hersh replied, "After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet." Hersh then went on to describe a second area of extra-legal operations: the Joint Special Operations Command. "It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently," he explained. "They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. ... Congress has no oversight of it." "It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on," Hersh stated. "Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us." Hersh told MinnPost.com blogger Eric Black in an email exchange after the event that the subject was "not something I wanted to dwell about in public." He is looking into it for a book, but he believes it may be a year or two before he has enough evidence "for even the most skeptical." Stories have been coming out about covert Pentagon assassination squads for the last several years. In 2003, Hersh himself reported on Task Force 121, which operated chiefly out of the Joint Special Operations Command. Others stories spoke of a proposed Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group. As Hersh noted in Minnesota, the New York Times on Monday described the Joint Special Operations Command as overseeing the secret commando units in Afghanistan whose missions were temporarily ordered halted last month because of growing concerns over excessive civilian deaths. However, it appears that Hersh is now on the trail of some fresh revelation about these squads and their connection to Vice-President Cheney that goes well beyond anything that has previously been reported.
Republicans are the guy that cuts you off, then gives you the finger.
Usually driving some flashy vehicle designed to make up for the lack of a certain part of the male anatomy.
Then you see his car parked at the rest stop on the interstate where he hangs out in the bathroom.
They are cutting their own throats. Their excuse-fest will make it easier to defeat them at the polls.
Funny, funny stuff going on with the head of the Republican Party arguing back and forth with Rush Limbaugh. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.
The Republican Party is leaving their future in the hands of a fat, worthless, Oxycontin addict.
lmao
And it feels great! Make no mistake... Barack Obama is not the end all, be all... he is just a start. But what a great start he is. A breath of fresh air and a leader we can be proud of for a change.
It won't be long before Americans can travel around the world without claiming to be Canadians.
You can take the maple leaf sticker off your luggage soon.
And never, never forget how we got in the mess that we are climbing out of now. It will be a cold day in hell before another republican is elected to anything higher than hall monitor as long as I have any say in it.
And let them hear about it every friggin' chance you get so they won't forget either.
Just Say No to Republican Leadership!
Advocates of legalizing marijuana are having a great week in California.
First, San Francisco's Tom Ammiano initiated a bill to legalize pot use in the state, and tax it at about “a buck a joint,” one report claimed.
Today came word that newly installed U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder would stop the practice established by the Bush administration of raiding legally licensed medical marijuana dispensaries.
The Drug Enforcement Agency will now cease the raids that have continued, according to reports, even after Bush left office. Holder said Obama’s campaign promise to stop the raids is “now American policy.”
San Francisco has about two dozen such clubs, and has often been targeted by the feds. The city recently passed legislation to regulate the businesses more effectively.
“Holder's declaration is a high point for the movement to legalize medical marijuana, which has been growing for decades despite federal hostility,” a report in the Huffington Post stated.
And this line from their story is just to good to pass up: “Patriotic potheads love to point out that cannabis was grown at Jamestown, that George Washington might have used hashish, and that Thomas Jefferson wrote a draft of the Declaration of Independence on hemp-fiber paper,”
Read the rest of the report for all you ever wanted to know, and a lot you probably didn’t on the push to legalize marijuana.
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Feb. 25, 2009 | by Andrew Cohen
“Last year, in an effort to cut costs, probation and parole agencies in Arizona, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Jersey and Vermont reduced or dropped prison time for thousands of offenders who violated conditions of their release. In some states, probation and parole violators account for up to two-thirds of prison admissions each year; typical violations are failing drug tests or missing meetings with parole officers. As prison crowding has become acute, lawsuits have followed in states like California, and politicians find themselves having to choose among politically unattractive options: spend scarce tax dollars on expanding prisons, loosen laws to stem the flow of incarcerations, or release some nonviolent offenders.”
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The Best Musician You've Never Heard Of.... Manu Chao
Obviously from dealing with the Chiefs of Staff and all the WAR MONGERS inside our government who want him to continue to invade some small country and committ mass murder in order to improve Defense Corporation and Oil Company profits.
And dealing with the HUGE MESS THE DEADLY, RETARDED REPUBLICAN EX-PRESIDENT LEFT US IN.
This stimulus thing is not just some idea that Barack invented. Japan went through this in the 90's and we know what worked with their stimulus package and we know what did not work. We are following their pattern.
Once again the Democrats are going to save country from the problems caused by the Republicans.
IT WILL BE A COLD DAY IN HELL WHEN ANOTHER REPUBLICAN ELECTED TO ANYTHING HIGHER THAN HALL MONITOR!
WE WON'T FORGET! (how can we when we're starving in the streets)
What would you do with an extra $18,000 in your pocket?
That's the amount of extra cash each and every Burger King employee in America would have received last year if Goldman Sachs (one of the fast-food chain's largest owners) had shared its bailout billions with rank-and-file workers. Instead, Goldman Sachs squandered 6.5 billion of our taxpayer dollars on bonuses for their financial staff. These were some of the highest bonuses on Wall Street! Meanwhile, Burger King workers earn wages averaging just $14,000 a year -- well below the federal poverty line for a family of three.
Watch the harmful effects of Wall Street's greed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wABI2dwbQMQ
Goldman Sachs has been having it their way with Burger King workers for too long. It's high time you had it your way with Goldman Sachs. Tell the Wall Street giant how they could have used the $6.5 billion blown on bonuses. We're looking for the most creative, constructive, or comical ideas to curb corporate greed and help fix the financial crisis. We will send all ideas to Goldman Sachs as a reprimand for their wastefulness. The winner of the Have It Your Way with Goldman Sachs contest will have their idea featured in our next video. The contest ends March 3.
Pass this video and contest to your friends and family, and don't forget to digg it. Tell them working people all over the country are pushing back against Wall Street excess. Tell them we're joining with SEIU and others to stage demonstrations and hold Goldman Sachs accountable! And tell them it's time to end this era of corporate greed and impunity.
Yours, Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Films team
P.S. - Do you think Goldman Sachs should be forced to give back their bailout money to taxpayers, should they have to raise Burger King workers' wages, explain their spending to the government, or be left alone because they are living the American dream? Vote now in our online poll.
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Rotten Apple Pie
ps... she was a Republican.
Or, Nero Was No Hero
“But one of the good things about reading history is you learn a good deal. And, we know for sure that the big spending programs of the New Deal did not work. In 1940, unemployment was still 15%.” – Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), speaking the untruth of the powerful, Feb. 6, 2009. “[O]ne of the things that really has gotten dumber about our culture: the media constantly talks about truth as if it … were always equidistant from two points. In other words, sometimes the truth is one-sided.” […] “[I]t’s exactly like saying … ’so-and-so says, two plus two equals five. But, of course, mathematicians say that it really equals four.’ The mathematicians are right. The people who say that two plus two equals five are wrong. The media blurs that constantly.” – Susan Jacoby, from Bill Moyers’ Journal, PBS, Feb. 15, 2008.
“But one of the good things about reading history is you learn a good deal. And, we know for sure that the big spending programs of the New Deal did not work. In 1940, unemployment was still 15%.” – Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), speaking the untruth of the powerful, Feb. 6, 2009.
“[O]ne of the things that really has gotten dumber about our culture: the media constantly talks about truth as if it … were always equidistant from two points. In other words, sometimes the truth is one-sided.” […] “[I]t’s exactly like saying … ’so-and-so says, two plus two equals five. But, of course, mathematicians say that it really equals four.’ The mathematicians are right. The people who say that two plus two equals five are wrong. The media blurs that constantly.” – Susan Jacoby, from Bill Moyers’ Journal, PBS, Feb. 15, 2008.
That great economic historian, Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, took to the floor of the Senate last week to excoriate the memory of FDR and claim the New Deal didn’t end the Great Depression. In fact, Roosevelt’s New Deal programs put millions of average Americans to work and reduced unemployment from a high of over 35 percent to 14 percent. Aside from that, if FDR was such a failure, why did he win by 62.6 percent of the popular vote, and 98.5 percent of the electoral vote, in 1936, and 55 percent in 1940, with 84.6 of the EV? Why was he retained in office for 12 years, from 1932 until his death in 1945, the longest-serving president in our history, if he accomplished nothing toward solving the primary issue of that time – the economic crisis? Some smart reporter should ask McConnell those questions.
“Only with the New Deal’s rehabilitation of the financial system in 1933-35 did the economy begin its slow emergence from the Great Depression.” – Ben Bernanke, the Republican-picked Fed chief, from his book, “Essays on the Great Depression.” “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.” – President Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Only with the New Deal’s rehabilitation of the financial system in 1933-35 did the economy begin its slow emergence from the Great Depression.” – Ben Bernanke, the Republican-picked Fed chief, from his book, “Essays on the Great Depression.”
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.” – President Franklin D. Roosevelt
In his first press conference on February 9, Obama put the screws to the GOP, albeit wrapped in enough padding that no blood was drawn but, to mix metaphors, this is Obama’s style – wear them down with civility while you score with shots to the gut and dance away. Our ‘Gentleman Jim’ President nimbly peppered the punch-drunk Republicans just as ably as the original did in 1892 to win the heavyweight crown from the blundering beast that was John L. Sullivan who had only his ’strong right arm’ as a weapon.
Pushed by such withered toads as McConnell, blatant numbskulls like Mike Pence of Baghdad street bazaars are ‘just like any open-air market in Indiana in the summertime’ fame, and the inchoate babblings of the evidently very corrupt new RNC chair Michael Steele, the GOP is collectively lurching toward irretrievable disaster, one every bit as bad as anything the Dimbulb Son who just left the White House wrought — you know, the one whose name must never be mentioned in public by any Republican ever again. They seem determined to take the mean-spirited, unpopular opinion on nearly every issue, just to gratify a shaky base of fringe nutcases, religious retrogrades, Fox News employees, Wall Street Journal editorial board members, Coulter cultists, racist rednecks, professional malcontents, crumb-bum lobbyists, and off-shored-assets tycoons channeling Leona Helmsley.
But the final stake in the heart of the party of Nixon won’t come from the current brouhaha over economic stimulus – the near future holds the prospect of national health care reform, and it’s a fight they can’t win. Almost every average American, or someone close to them, has or had a health problem that was either insufficiently covered by their health insurance, not covered at all, or their policy was canceled due to long-term illness. Add in the millions who have no insurance whatsoever, and you have set up a situation wherein if the Republicans cooperate with Obama they lose the Limbaugh Loonies, and if they oppose the President, chance the GOP dwindling to a little rural party, incapable of electing much more than some red-dirt congressional candidates as they narrow their appeal to scary Jim Bob snake handlers invoking dire imprecations on the heads of Muslims, liberals, agnostics and Unitarians; cardboard-sword Risk board imperialists; permanently-outraged Freeper peepers, and a few scatterbrained latter-day Friedman groupies on the payroll at one of those fog-bound think tanks with a life-size framed portrait of St. Ronnie in the lobby wearing a white cowboy hat to hide the halo. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is moving on into the twenty-first century.
The Bush/Rove Republicans are now barking like a crazed dog trapped in a vet’s office corner — they are lashing out, barely making sense anymore. A friend who once worked for a psychiatric hospital said when a patient with psychotic delusions was provided with incontrovertible, undeniable proof that their delusion was wrong, the common reaction was to first rave hysterically, denying the evidence, and then weep and crumple into incoherent nonsense.
With some patients, this could be a breakthrough that led to them accepting reality and dealing with life as it is; with others, it caused a further retreat into their hallucinatory world, some eventually becoming catatonic.
Look what’s happening with the right these days; radio propagandist ‘Tokyo Rose’ Limbaugh has slumped into hoping America slides down the tubes to save his shrunken ideology, while McConnell and his merry band of GOP moon-howlers are fighting battles with a man who has been dead for 64 years, furiously trying to demolish the history he made, while they tilt at windmills most Americans want to power our future of cheap green energy as we wean ourselves off of the Middle East oil teat.
Just ponder the true madness contained in these words of a prominent Republican Congressman, advising his colleagues on how to go about reelection in two years:
“Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban. And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person’s entire processes.” – Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), Chairman of the GOP 2010 Election Committee.
The GOP has openly declared war on the American psyche; a war they’re destined to lose just as surely as they lost Iraq, the economy, and the last two elections.
Starting with Senator James Inhofff from Oklahoma.
This BOZO rubber stamped everything that came from Bush, the Mass Murdering Moron.
And now he is trying to kill everything that comes from the best president we've had since JFK simply out of partisan politics.
People like James Inhoff MUST be defeated in the next election. We just can't accept this kind of corrupt leadership that only represents the wealthy and deliberately tries to screw the average working American for personal financial gain.
תוויות: kellogg's Phelps
posted by Daniel Brenner @ 2/06/2009 02:08:00 PM
They dumped Michael Phelps, so we'll dump them.
Don't you know that cereal turns to sugar once processed by the liver?
You might as well eat a bowl of pure, white, sugar. Carbohydrates will KILL YOU! KELLOGS WILL KILL YOU!
Michael Phelps is the most positive person that has come out of this country in years. So mass murderers go free, but the BEST SWIMMER IN THE WORLD goes to jail for having some fun and hurting noone.
(yeah, lets all run down to South Carolina on vacation right away, huh?)
BOYCOTT KELLOGS... that crap will kill you anyway!
DETROIT -(Dow Jones)- Ford Motor Co.'s (F) Transit Connect commercial truck, due midyear in U.S. showrooms, will feature a battery-electric powered version in 2010 promising 100 miles per charge, the company said in a statement Monday.
This is the first time Ford has said which of its products will feature a battery-electric powered counterpart. The auto maker intends to introduce a battery-electric powered small car in 2011 followed by a plug-in hybrid vehicle in 2012. Ford is showing off the gas-powered Transit Connect, starting at $21, 475, at the Chicago Auto Show on Wednesday.
Ford was the last of the Detroit auto makers to put a name to its electric powered vehicle plans. General Motors Corp. (GM) is working on the Chevy Volt, a Malibu-size four-door vehicle while Chrysler LLC has begun developing the two- seater Dodge Circuit. Both vehicles are to be introduced in 2010.
The announcement is another image boost for the U.S. auto industry, eight days before GM and Chrysler are scheduled to submit viability plans in order to access more federal low-interest loans. Ford hasn't needed to access the loans, although Wall Street analysts have said it's likely to be only a matter of time as the economy worsens.
In the past three weeks, the Detroit auto makers have worked out a deal with the United Auto Workers unions to get rid of the "jobs bank" program. GM and Chrysler have also begun a new round of worker buyouts and Fiat SpA is reviewing a deal in which it will take a 35% ownership in Chrysler in exchange for giving the third-largest U.S.-based auto maker access to its small car technologies.
Ford's Transit Connect is aimed at the small business owner since it is closer to a van - 6-feet,8-inches tall - than a full-sized pickup truck. It has a two- liter, four-cylinder engine and the cargo-space can be fitted with shelving, racks and bins to fit the customer's need. The Transit Connect will be imported from Kocaeli, Turkey.
When introduced here this year, the Transit Connect vehicle will be the first platform offered on five continents. Ford wants to introduce more "global platforms" as part of its plan to quickly get new vehicles in more regions with only minor adjustments. Ford is making the same move with the Fiesta subcompact due in the U.S. next year.
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I would buy this puppy right now. Put a couple of solar panels on top and never buy gas again... charge up anywhere there is sunshine!
Get off of oil... get out of the middle east!
Obsolete Ideas:Printing information on paper.Pumping oil out of the ground.Driving cars and trucks.Insurance.Credit.Commuting to school and or work every day.Paying payments every month for the rest of your life to live in a crappy box.Owning the Earth.Large Corporations.Religion.Flying jet airplanes to / from every city every 5 friggin' minutes.Coal Fired Power Plants.Going Bankrupt due to illness.Bankruptcy.Dying for lack of health care.Processed Foods.Standard Telephone Lines.Incandescent Light Bulbs.Analog Television.Television News Networks.Government Censorship.Violent, totalitarian Governments.The Republican Party.
