"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?" — Chuck Palahniuk
I have said this before and I will say it again, "There is nothing more than I want than to see a Black Man as President of the USA, but Barack Obama is not that man!" Now I would love to think that Barack is repeating the same lies about Iran and Georgia and has essentially the same foreign policy plan as McLame just to win the election and then start speaking the truth and ending all this war madness that the retugs and the men in the shadows keep calling for. The part about Iran trying to acquire nuclear weapons and that they have went from 0 centrifuges to 4000 is just not true as stated in the International Atomic Energy Agency report (pdf). The IAEA found no evidence to support that claim and further stated that any program that did exist was terminated years ago and that Iran would not be able to divert any nuclear material to weapons programs without them knowing about it. Let's not also forget about the NIE report on Iran said basically the same thing.
So I know longer get really excited about the campaign or what Obama said, McSimpson said or did nor what question "The Iditabroad" couldn't answer because they are all on the same team. The more I keep hearing about Barack and the company he keeps I keep getting this sinking feeling...But I am getting a little ahead of myself...The following is from Dr. Ray Nagins. It is a great read and it really helps put things into perspective...
Greetings Brothers & Sisters,
It is no secret that I do not do the political thing. Of course, there are several reasons for this; the first and foremost reason being that I am no longer “in the system” for the sake of my own personal empowerment. Connected to this is the knowledge that I acquired while in military service as to the overt and covert devices used by the government to manipulate the minds of the people into making them think that something is…that is not!
It angers me (in a way that I am inadequate to describe) to see how the powers-that-be plays with the minds and emotions of my people in the areas of religion and politics. And, needless to say, today I am infuriated even more.
I am often asked by people why I don’t participate in socio-political events. When asked this I try to answer as briefly as I can because I have learned that every answer that I give creates another question. And then it goes on and on and on. So now, I simply tell people, “If you knew what I knew, then you would understand why I do what I do.”
Many people are so emotionally attached to the idea of “a Black man about to become the President of the United States” that the practice of criticism and analysis (critical thinking skills) has been completely pushed aside. What I mean by that is, people are so happy about “a Black man is about to be elected President” that they are not even looking at what or who is behind this historic event.
Now, please be sure that I am not against Obama (or McCain)! I am against the puppetmasters who SELECTED these puppets, and then put them out front to be ELECTED by a group of people who genuinely think that they have some say in the outcome of things. As I watched the Presidential debate, I couldn’t help but see the invisible strings attached to both of these men who were the stars in one of the greatest puppet shows of all time. What’s even worse is that hundreds of thousands of people (myself included) were glued to their televisions to see which puppet was going to “win the debate.”
What did it for me was when Obama charged McCain with listening to (and being influenced by) his advisor Henry Kissinger. Obama made repeated references to this! I couldn’t believe what I had just heard! Obama made it clear to everyone that Henry Kissinger was McCain’s advisor. Right on! Major points for Obama (at least with me). But, what's was up with THAT?
Well, for those who don’t know, Henry Kissinger was the head of National Security for the United States from 1969-1975. He (along with Alexander Haig) created and implemented one of the world’s greatest genocide programs called “The Haig-Kissinger Depopulation Policy.” Kissinger also committed massive war crimes against humanity and was never brought to justice for this!
But wait a minute Obama, what about YOUR advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski (who was the head of National Security for the United States from 1977-1981)? Is he any better than Kissinger? What if McCain had revealed during the debate that Obama is the protégé of Brzezinski? How many people know that Brzezinski authored and implemented National Security Council Memorandum - 46?!?!? This document was signed into LAW and literally states that the activity of Blacks in America must be suppressed through covert CIA operations in Black communities throughout America! It also states that the relations between Blacks in America and Blacks in Africa must be prevented! And what's worse is that this LAW is still in effect at this very moment!
Obama openly praises Brzezinski, but renounces Jeremiah Wright for telling the TRUTH!
The question that Marvin Gaye posed in his song still rings loud today..."What's Going On?"
As I always say, DON’T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT…DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH! Click on the following links and LISTEN and READ for yourself:
My good friend and brother, Dr. Maulana Karenga says, "Rescue me if I'm wrong." Maybe there is something that I am missing here, but WHO is on our side? Who is on the side of what is RIGHT?
Join us for “Sunday Night Live with Dr. Hagins” as we discuss this in more detail. Log on to www.wblr.com on Sunday at 8:00 p.m. (7:00 Central Time) and open your eyes (if you REALLY want to see…that is).
Peace,
Brother Ray
You remember that scene in the Lord of the Rings and the King of the Rohan constantly had Wormtongue whispering in his ear?! Well these guy's in the background that make Presidents, like Kissinger and Brzezinski are the real "Wormtongues" and like I said before hopefully Barack is currently under their spell and needs someone like his wife Michelle to slap him around to break their grip, but then again she is probably all in too...
Grima Wormtongue & King Theoden
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There he is the man! Probably the most famous political prisoner in recent times. Now before they scrubbed him up for press conferences and to meet the GOP he used to be such a rebel...
And as he described it himself:
On his MySpace page, Johnston boasts, "I'm a f - - -in' redneck" who likes to snowboard and ride dirt bikes.
"But I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing, shoot some s- - - and just f - - -in' chillin' I guess."
"Ya f - - - with me I'll kick [your] ass," he added.
He also claims to be "in a relationship," but states, "I don't want kids." MORE!
Mr. Johnston seems to have gotten some ink, hardly noticeable too...Maybe that was the trade off...Todd Palin forced him to get a tattoo of his daughter's name but Levi got to choose where he would put it...
Smart move, at least it looks easy to cover up just in case they...*gasp* God forbid don't make it...We all know how those "shotgun" weddings normally work out right?!
As usual the rethugs want to use this "wedding" for some kind of personal gain and maybe even delay the elections...From the Times Online UK:
Inside John McCain’s campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a popularity boosting pre-election wedding in Alaska between Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18, her schoolmate and father of her baby. “It would be fantastic,” said a McCain insider. “You would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.” MORE!
Does John McLame and the rethugs really want to delay the campaign and somehow delay the election? Or is this a hint as to what's coming? Anyway ya slice it looks and smells like desperation, but to use these kids as pawns is about as low as you can go.
Now I seem to remember from watching a lot of court show's on TV that if the Judge suppresses some evidence but the defense brings it out and speaks on it then it is fair game in court. So if Caribou Barbie and McInsane Camp go with "plan b" then her and her family is back in play and fair game also!
Bill Mahr said it best the other night on Real Time...Check out the video!
Well if it is Friday then it is definitely time for the Weekly (C)Wrap-Up and we have had a doosey of a week! So the big news that has been leading all of the headlines this week is the government bailout bullshit. You know where they privatize the profits and socialize the losses, and we come to find out that this is nothing but a money grab, mafia style protection scheme, more corporate welfare, extortion and __________ (insert your bogus pyramid scheme here). They just pull some bogus number out of the air and have absolutely no plan, just a shit load of money and asking everyone to "trust them"! Yeah that train left the station in 2000!
The impact of this financial crisis and the bailout is touching everyone and effecting everything but let's not get crazy. First off mcSimpson wants to cancel the debates. sounds like the same move he tried when Hurricane ike was heading for Texas, this was a poorly advised campaign stunt that backfired. Let's not forget for one second that McLame is a big part of the problem and now he thinks he can fix the problems he caused when he was starring in his role as "The Dereugulator"! From Thinkprogress:
In the wake of last week’s financial meltdown, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has been calling for more regulation and criticizing lax oversight of Wall Street, despite the fact that he and former senator Phil Gramm passed much of the deregulatory reforms that led to the current crisis. Interviewed on CBS today, however, McCain said he does not “regret” championing the deregulation of Wall Street:
Q: In 1999, you were one of the senators who helped pass deregulation of Wall Street. Do you regret that now?
McCAIN: No. I think the deregulation was probably helpful to the growth of our economy.
Watch it:
Do these people understand that they are being recorded?! I understand McInsane is old and out of touch with this new highfalutin technology but damn...
Barney Franks had the best line of the week when he said:
Senator McCain has said he had to interrupt his campaign and couldn’t do a debate because he had to come here to help us. God save us from such help. But in any case, there is no sign whatsoever that Senator McCain’s got any real role here, so he certainly ought to feel free to go back and debate. (from Crooks & Liars) Watch it:
Let's also stop all of this madness about McPOW suspending his campaign too because he has been doing interviews, raising money and giving stump speeches all over the country. His minions have been attacking Obama non-stop! It looks like he is running scared and that is what Letterman bashed him about the other night and I think it stuck and he realized that if he didn't show for the debate that somehow he would seem afraid! I mean he is afraid especially if they talk a lot about the economy or any other relevant issue for that matter.
Here is how McLame's plan is supposed to work...He has his man Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) hold up the process on some silly technicality, McStupid comes in and makes some minor adjustment or conceedes a minor point to the Demo-rats the proposal goes through and Mcselfish takes all the credit for brokering the deal like his campaign guy Tucker "His Insanity Knows No" Bounds tried to do yesterday. I guess he got his talking points late. Like that TV commercial where the boss sent a message to the guy not too mention the merger and he got the message too late. yeah it's like that!
Now before someone say's I am just bashing McCrazy, his own party member Huckleberry Huckabee said this...From Thinkprogress:
In Mobile, Alabama last night, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee called Sen. John McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign and possibly skip tonight’s debate a “huge mistake.” Saying that he “still backs McCain’s candidacy,” Huckabee said McCain shouldn’t have paused the campaign because a president has to “deal with the unexpected”:
Huckabee said he still backs McCain’s candidacy, but said the Arizona senator should not have put his campaign on hold to deal with the financial crisis on Wall Street. He said a president must be prepared to “deal with the unexpected.”
“You can’t just say, ‘World stop for a moment. I’m going to cancel everything,”‘ Huckabee said.
I am still amazed that McBush got the nomination in the first place. How the hell did that happen?! You can see the Alzheimer's setting in as this election get's closer and we still have some bobble heads claiming they are going to vote for McHalfdead and more of the same madness of the past 8 years...UNBELIEVABLE!
Moving on but not away from this financial crisis fallout...Now this is not a stretch to believe at all. From Thinkprogress:
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill said President Bush is “in a panic” over the financial crisis and isn’t well-equipped to deal with it. “I don’t think he understands or knows much about any of this and it shows,” O’Neill told ABC News. In his 2004 book, The Price of Loyalty, O’Neill revealed that Dick Cheney argued in a White House meeting that “deficits don’t matter.” O’Neill also said that he was disturbed that Bush was so disengaged on domestic issues.
Really?! This just came to you now...after all these years?! The rethugs have been propping this economy up on smokescreens and mirrors for the past 6 years and now the smoke is dissipating and the mirrors are starting to show big ass cracks. Jon Stewart over at The Daily Show breaks down the shrub's speech on the economy and it is surprisingly familiar...
Be Afraid...Be Very Afraid!
While we are hearing a lot about the big major firms slipping and sliding around but seldom do we hear about all the little lesser known banks and corporations that are dropping like flies on a state by state level...There has been a lot of volatility in local markets also caused by this meltdown. From Thinkprogress:
Yesterday, the federal government seized troubled lender Washington Mutual and then “brokered an emergency sale” of the bank to JPMorgan Chase for $1.9 billion. Washington Mutual’s collapse represented the “largest bank failure in American history,” and “JPMorgan Chase will absorb at least $31 billion in losses that would normally have fallen to the F.D.I.C.”
Hmmmmmm, here we go again. the last time JP Morgan was buying up all the financially troubled banks it was the 1920's and the Great Depression was about to go into full swing mode for almost 30 years. Can you say repeating history?! Here is that gangster posturing again, "Forgetaboutit! If someone don't come off with that cash you know the result could come in the form of a mushroom pizza pie!" I'm just saying...From TP:
“If money isn’t loosened up, this sucker could go down,” said President Bush at a White House meeting yesterday “as he watched the $700 billion bailout package fall apart before his eyes.” In a statement outside the White House this morning, Bush attempted to project confidence in an eventual deal, saying, “There is no disagreement that something substantial must be done.”
Really! Hollywood can't come up with better scripts or they would sell them to NBC. Now CBS on the other hand got it going on with their big time female anchor Katie Couric landing the interview of the century with the most elusive politician since Dick "Trickshot" Cheney, Sarah "The Iditabroad" Palin. Now I am not saying that Katie has shown a lot of right wing bias and a flair for rethuglican fuckery, although it is documented that she has, but I think even Katie was a little disappointed and disgusted with her interview with the VP wannabe Caribou Barbie...Check out the two clips...
Katie Couric - Palin Interview - Clip 1
Katie Couric - Palin Interview - Clip 2
“She’s not always responsive when she’s asked questions,” Couric said of Palin. “It was a really interesting experience for me to interview her yesterday,” she added. (Translated: What a complete waste of my time)! The Stupid must really hurt sometimes! I wonder if she has any trade agreements with Santa Claus, like she has with Russia?! From Thinkprogress:
Although Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) “has made a crackdown on gift-giving to state officials a centerpiece of her ethics reform agenda,” she has accepted 41 gifts “valued at $25,367 from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center whose board includes officials” from large mining interests. These gifts include free travel, expensive artwork, and “a gold-nugget pin valued at $1,200.”
Yeah a real reformer like McKeating 5!
Okay time for the Asshole of the Week and we have a couple of folks in the running this week and of course the competition is fierce...We got an old favorite in the race this week and that is Trudy Giuliani...
Trudy makes the list for doing what he does best exploiting a bad situation to enrich himself once again. This time it's the financial crisis and getting some of that $700 billion bailout money...
Rudy Giuliani flew to Memphis this afternoon with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), on the way to tonight’s presidential debate. Giuliani “is positioning his law firm to cash in on Wall Street’s train wreck,” according to the New York Daily News. The former mayor announced yesterday that his firm, Bracewell & Giuliani, would set up a task force “to help corporate clients get a piece of the action — or keep federal wolves from the door,” as the Daily News put it.
Up next and there is no lack of viable candidates in this campaign is this Eugenics (the bad kind) idiot advocate...From Thinkprogress:
Louisiana State Rep. John LaBruzzo (R) recently stirred controversy by advocating a form of eugenics to decrease the number of poor. “I realized that all these people were in Louisiana’s care and what a massive financial responsibility that is to the state,” he said. “I said, ‘I wonder if it might be a good idea to pay some of these people to get sterilized.’” His plan would also give tax incentives to the rich to encourage procreation.
Appearing on CNN today, LaBruzzo defended his proposal by arguing that “the taxpayers of America are kind of getting fed up” with supporting welfare programs. He cited the “totally reliant” residents who relied on government evacuations during Hurricane Katrina. When CNN’s Kyra Phillips asked why he couldn’t invest in education and poverty-reduction programs, LaBruzzo faulted the media for focusing too much attention on his eugenics program:
Every one of the ideas you brought up were talked about in the brainstorming session. Obviously the media thought this was the one they could get some ratings out of. We talked about getting involved in the community. … We talked about a lot of those issues. This is one that the media grabbed hold of because it gets ratings.
He also blamed the “tremendous influx of illegal aliens” for “bringing down the economy even more.” MORE!
I think I got my guy...But like I said this isn't over by a long shot and the hit's just keep coming with these idiots...I have to give a shout out to Rachel Maddow who is also on top of that idiot LaBruzzo and if you don't watch her new show you are missing out...From Crooks and Liars:
You know, it would really be much easier to not go all Godwin on the Republicans if they wouldn’t just open themselves up for such blatant charges of being Nazis. The thing that never ceases to astonish me is how little they attempt to hide it. ABC News:
That heartbreaking scenario (of people displaced after natural disasters like Hurricane Gustav) inspired Louisiana Republican State Rep. John LaBruzzo to start thinking about ways to stem generational welfare, in which many welfare recipients have children who also end up dependent on government assistance, according to the representative.
His idea — giving $1,000 to poor women to undergo reproductive sterilization by Fallopian tube ligation — is stirring up controversy among some medical professionals, who say that the proposal is offensive and smacks of long-discredited eugenics programs.
LaBruzzo has also suggested other controversial ideas: paying poor men to get vasectomies and giving tax incentives for college-educated wealthy couples to have more children.
LaBruzzo doesn’t know why it would be considered eugenics if it’s voluntary or racist if most welfare recipients are white. I don’t know why this guy has a job representing the people of Louisiana.
This is what happens when we let stupid people get into political offices.
The third person to apply for the AOW Title this week is...The Maverick himself John McLiar himself...from Crooks:
Or, more accurately, before he even announced he was definitely going to attend. Click the image for a full screenshot of the Wall Street Journal source page.
Then of course there is more McSame lying ..From The Jed Report:
Since I already know that Grampa McSimpson is a delusional, pre-Alzheimer, pathological liar, I am going to still have to cast my vote for La Bruzzo! However, we do have a late entry in the running this week and it is always such a joy watching hypocrites like this bite the dust especially when there are kids involved...From CNN:
Evangelist arrested in child porn case
(CNN) -- Evangelist Tony Alamo was arrested Thursday in Flagstaff, Arizona, on charges related to a child porn investigation, an FBI spokesman said.
The 74-year-old founder and leader of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries was arrested without incident at 2:45 p.m. (4:45 p.m. ET) as he was departing the Little America Hotel with his wife, said Manuel Johnson, spokesman for the FBI in Phoenix, Arizona.
The FBI, the Flagstaff Police Department and the Arizona Department of Public Safety were involved in the arrest, he said.
Alamo was charged under a federal statute with having knowingly transported a minor across state lines with the intent to engage in sexual activity, Johnson said.
Alamo, whose real name is Bernie Hoffman, was taken to Coconino County Jail in Flagstaff, where he is to have an initial appearance Friday in federal magistrate court, Johnson said.
Over the weekend, about 100 federal and state agents authorities raided Alamo's 15-acre compound near Texarkana, Arkansas, and took six children into temporary custody. MORE!
This guy is a real predator that thinks puberty should be the age of consent...These are also the type of people out front leading the debates, setting policy and generally making a mockery of the process by doing shit like this...
So this is starting to get a little long and I am getting a headache digging around the net pointing out the mess and it is Friday so I am going to end this little post with this email I keep getting in my inbox...I thought all of these type emails have been proven hoaxes and no one falls for them anymore except this one...
Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.
I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.
Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson
Don't fall for it people it is just another big scam being perpetuated on the American populace to again enhance the rich at the taxpayers expense..."Privatize the profits, socialize the losses"!
As usual with these post's tell me what I missed, got wrong or you need clarity on and have a great weekend in spite of them...
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I couldn't pass this up and after the last few days I needed a laugh...
"It's like a really bad Disney movie, "The Hockey Mom.' Oh, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska, and she's president," said Damon. "She's facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It's absurd." -Matt Damon
Okay so my buddy called me about 5pm this afternoon asking me if I heard?! I was like heard what? He then told me McSimpson was canceling the election. I still have my doubts that this election is going to happen anyway so I didn't think twice about it. I said it figures and here comes martial law. Which is also a real reality in New America especially if the rethugs try and steal this election like they already are trying to. Not too mention the Demo-rats and other congress critters had 8 years to fix the problems of 2000 with Diebold, voter suppression, caging, disenfranchisement and other dirty tricks rethuglicans use to win elections and did absolutely nothing!
The next thing we know we are in a "War" in Iraqnam which is really just an occupation, and we come to find out that the...
The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.
Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home.
Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks. MORE! (emphasis mine!)
Hmmmmm, I can remember telling people a year or so ago that the reason we are still in Iraqnam with General Betray-us, the army's go to guy when it comes to urban warfare he wrote the book on fighting counterinsurgencies, is the fact that they are teaching these soldiers to go door to door like they would have to in heavily populated urban areas in America. Just like the folks in Iraq they are going to go door to door in America disarming people and then herding the more militant (like me) off into Haliburton concentration camps. However, I got a trick for their asses! Now having a standing army patrolling the streets of America is against the Constitution, remember that piece of paper? Not that it hardly matters anymore as long as some crook can make insane profits...But I am ditriculating (not really a word but it sounds cool 'die-trik-ulating')...
I posted this great read from Naomi Wolfe the other day now I have a great vid in which Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur breaks down the whole financial crisis and then offers great solutions in a bill she is sponsoring to counter giving the BCS and neo-clowns almost a trillion dollar check with NO oversight. Uh, Huh...NO!
Seems like Marcy was talking to a specific group of folks when she kept calling the Fed's money "poison/toxic paper"...We need more like Marcy bringing this type of heat, light and scrutiny to the puppet leaders and ultimately the puppet master's!
You know We the People are being strong armed, getting locked into a government protection scheme...Wall Street Blue chippers are in effect telling us, "Look here give up the money or you know anything might happen, like say a depression...I'm not saying that it's gonna happen...but you know how unstable the market is right now...Now if your willing to deal then maybe we can stop that from happening..." Sure the debt is radically inflated and no where near the price they are charging for it, but of course no one wants a depression right?!
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"The Matrix is a Belief System & That System is OUR Enemy!"
This is a must read and I thought I do my part to spread it around. Please do not be fooled by the media driven hype surrounding this election. The republican base totals around the 26% range of the American electorate, the 24 hour corporate media propaganda machine needs something to sell ad time for all of those non-stop hours of "programming". Anyway this was posted at the Huffpo. Anywho, it is a little long but you will be better off after reading it...
Naomi Wolf, The Battle Plan II: Sarah “Evita” Palin, the Muse of the Coming Police State
Naomi Wolf writes:
Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah “Evita” Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state.
You have to understand how things work in a closing society in order to understand “Palin Power.” A gang or cabal seizes power, usually with an affable, weak figurehead at the fore. Then they will hold elections — but they will make sure that the election will be corrupted and that the next affable, weak figurehead is entirely in their control. Remember, Russia has Presidents; Russia holds elections. Dictators and gangs of thugs all over the world hold elections. It means nothing. When a cabal has seized power you can have elections and even presidents, but you have freedom.
I realized early on with horror what I was seeing in Governor Palin: the continuation of the Rove-Cheney cabal, but this time without restraints. I heard her echo Bush 2000 soundbites (”the heart of America is on display”) and realized Bush’s speechwriters were writing her — not McCain’s — speeches. I heard her tell George Bush’s lies — not McCain’s — to the American people, linking 9/11 to Iraq. I heard her make fun of Barack Obama for wanting to prevent the torture of prisoners — this is Rove-Cheney’s enthusiastic S and M, not McCain’s, who, though he shamefully colluded in the 2006 Military Tribunals Act, is also a former prisoner of war and wrote an eloquent Newsweek piece in 2005 opposing torture. I saw that she was even styled by the same skillful stylist (neutral lipstick, matte makeup, dark colors) who turned Katharine Harris from a mall rat into a stateswoman and who styles all the women in the Bush orbit –but who does not bother to style Cindy McCain.
Then I saw and heard more. Palin is embracing lawlessness in defying Alaskan Legislature subpoenas –this is what Rove-Cheney, and not McCain, believe in doing. She uses mafia tactics against critics, like the police commissioner who was railroaded for opposing handguns in Alaskan battered women’s shelters — Rove’s style, not McCain’s. I realized what I was seeing.
Reports confirmed my suspicions: Palin, not McCain, is the FrankenBarbie of the Rove-Cheney cabal. The strategy became clear. Time magazine reported that Rove is “dialed in” to the McCain campaign. Rove’s protégé Steve Schmidt is now campaign manager. And Politico reported that Rove was heavily involved in McCain’s vice presidential selection. Finally a new report shows that there are dozens of Bush and Rove operatives surrounding Sarah Palin and orchestrating her every move.
What’s the plan? It is this. McCain doesn’t matter. Reputable dermatologists are discussing the fact that in simply actuarial terms, John McCain has a virulent and life-threatening form of skin cancer. It is the elephant in the room, but we must discuss the health of the candidates: doctors put survival rates for someone his age at two to four years. I believe the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist face on the coming police state and be the talk show hostess for the end of elections as we know them. If McCain-Palin get in, this will be the last true American election. She will be working for Halliburton, KBR, Rove and Cheney into the foreseeable future — for a decade perhaps — a puppet “president” for the same people who have plundered our treasure, are now holding the US economy hostage and who murdered four thousand brave young men and women in a way of choice and lies.
How, you may ask, can I assert this? How can I argue, as I now do, that there is actually a war being ramped up against US citizens and our democracy and that Sarah Palin is the figurehead and muse for that war?
Look at the RNC. This is supposed to be McCain’s America. But you see the unmistakable theatre of Rove’s S and M imagery — and you see stages eight, nine and ten of the steps to a dictatorship as I outlined them in The End of America. Preemptive arrest? Abusive arrest? “Newly released footage, which was buried to avoid confiscation, shows riot cops arresting and abusing a giant group of people for nothing.”
Journalists were arrested — for reporting. Amy Goodman and ABC producers were arrested. Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake and others were forced to lie face down as armed agents tied their hands behind their backs. The riot police wore the black S&M gear of the Rovian fantasy life and carried the four foot batons cops carry in North Korea. All this is not John McCain’s imagery or strategy: it is Karl Rove’s.
In McCain-Palin’s America, citizens who are protesting are being charged as terrorists. This means that a violent war had been declared on American citizens. A well known reporter leaked to me on background that St Paul police had dressed as protesters and, dressed in Black — shades of the Blackshirts of 1920 — infiltrated protest groups. There were also phalanxes of men in black wearing balaclavas, linking arms and behaving menacingly — alleged “anarchists.” Let me tell you, I have been on the left for thirty years and you can’t get three lefties to wear the same t-shirt to a rally, let alone link arms and wear identical face masks: these are not our guys. Agent Provocateurs framing protesters and calling protest “terrorism” constitutes step ten of a police state:
“In what appears to be the first use of criminal charges under the 2002 Minnesota version of the Federal Patriot Act, Ramsey County Prosecutors have formally charged 8 alleged leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee with Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism… [they] 7 1/2 years in prison under the terrorism enhancement charge which allows for a 50% increase in the maximum penalty.”
“Paid, confidential informants… infiltrated the RNCWC on behalf of law enforcement. They allege that members of the group sought to kidnap delegates to the RNC, assault police officers with firebombs and explosives, and sabotage airports in St. Paul. Evidence released to date does not corroborate these allegations with physical evidence or provide any other evidence for these allegations than the claims of the informants. Based on past abuses of such informants by law enforcement, the National Lawyers Guild is concerned that such police informants have incentives to lie and exaggerate threats of violence and to also act as provocateurs in raising and urging support for acts of violence.”
Under the Palin-Rove police state, you will see escalating infringements on your access to a free internet:
“Sarah Palin was baptized at Wasilla Assembly of God…Last Sunday our research team released a video, a ten-minute mini-documentary, focusing on the Wasilla Assemblies of God and the video seemed on the verge of a massive “viral” breakthrough when YouTube pulled it down, citing ‘inappropriate content’. At the point the video was censored by YouTube it had been viewed by almost 160,000 people. The short of it is that YouTube has censored a video documentary that appeared to be close to having an effect on a hard fought and contentious American presidential election…”
Under the coming Palin-Rove police state, you will witness the plans now underway to bring Iraqi troops to patrol the streets of our nation. This is not McCain’s fantasy: it is Rove’s and Cheney’s.
Under the Palin-Rove police state, there will be no further true elections. Mark Crispin Miller has done sensational and under-reported investigating t o establish that — as I warned — indeed the GOP staffers on the US Senate Judiciary Committee have been .
The evidence is also buried on the Website of the Majority House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
WASHINGTON — Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe. From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications witho ut a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight — and with what tactics.
— “Senate panel’s GOP staff spied on Democrats” By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | January 22, 2004
Do you think that spying like this will ever end under a Palin-Rove regime? Dream on. If she and McCain are elected, then every single strategy memo and speech and debate prep note from every opposition candidate from now and on into forever will be read by the regime in power while it is still in the computers of the challengers.
Under the Palin-Rove police state, citizens will be targeted with state cyberterrorism. Bruce Fein of the American Freedom Agenda, a former Reagan official, warned me three years ago that the Bush team went after a Republican who had crossed them through cyberstalking: they messed with his email, messed with his phones and I believe messed with his bank account — he became a cyber-pariah, unemployable and haunted. With modern technology, there really is less place to hide from the state than there was in East Germany in the Cold War era. I remember feeling a chill: of course. That is the wave of the future once we breach the protections around citizens of FISA and the fourth amendment. That way lies the abyss for us all.
Am I trying to scare you? I am. I am trying to scare you to death and ask you to scare your Republican and independent friends most of all. How do you know when it is war on citizens? When there are mass arrests, journalists are jailed, the opposition is infiltrated, rights are stripped and leaders start to ignore the rule of law.
Almost everyone I work with on projects related to this campaign for liberty has been experiencing computer harassment: emails are stripped, messages disappear. That’s not all: people’s bank accounts are being tampered with: wire transfers to banks vanish in midair. I personally keep opening bank accounts that are quickly corrupted by fraud. Money vanishes. Coworkers of mine have to keep opening new email accounts as old ones become infected. And most disturbingly to me personally is the mail tampering I have both heard of and experienced firsthand. My tax returns vanished from my mailbox. All my larger envelopes arrive ripped straight open apparently by hand. When I show the postman, he says “That’s impossible.” Horrifyingly to me is the impact on my family. My childrens’ report cards are returned again and again though perfectly addressed; their invitations are turned back; and my daughters many letters from camp? Vanished. All of them. Not one arrived. Try explaining that to a smart thirteen year old. Try explaining it in a way that still makes her feel secure and comfortable.
I am not telling you this because it’s about my life. I am telling you this because it is about your life — whoever you are, Conservative or Liberal, independent or evangelical. Your politics will not protect you in a police state. History shows that nothing portects you in a police state. This is not about my fear and anxiety: it is about what awaits you and everyone you love unless you see this for what it is:
Scharansky divided nations into “fear societies” and “free societies.” Make no mistake: Sarah “Evita” Palin is Rove and Cheney’s cosmetic rebranding of their fascist push: she will help to establish a true and irreversible “fear society” in this once free once proud nation. For God’s sake, do not let her; do not let them.
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So I dodged a bullet this morning...I stayed up all night as usual last night not realizing I had to go to court this morning. The last time I was summoned was a mere 4 months ago and I didn't even show up for that date. In all honesty I was hungover that morning, but this time I decided to stay up, go downtown and show up for my civic duty. So I put on my "GUILTY!" T-Shirt with the big letters and went to court today.
I was really dreading the whole sit and wait style of jury duty in Baltimore City, because I knew I had to write this Weekly (C)Wrap-Up!, so as to keep the masses informed about what is really going on in their world. They summons 1000 people a day in Baltimore City and then you are herded into this waiting area and you wait until your number is called. Well today I was expecting to be sitting for 8 hours, but the gods heard my plea's of deliverance from that place of "In-Just-Us" and when I got up to the counter to sign in, because I lost the summons slip, the guy at the counter looked at my ID then matched it to his computer print out and said, "You are free to go! We are only using the first 600 people and your number 603! Nice shirt!" I vaguely head that last part as I was halfway out the building after he said, "free to go!".
I bring all that up to offer you the first story in this week's (C)Wrap-Up! From Yahoo News:
The First Dud(e) of Alaska Refuses To Testify Despite Subpoena!
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The husband of Gov. Sarah Palin will ignore a subpoena from Alaska lawmakers investigating whether the Republican vice presidential nominee's firing of a state commissioner constituted an abuse of power, officials from her campaign said on Thursday.
Todd Palin was among 13 people, including several Palin administration staffers, subpoenaed by a legislative committee to testify in private or at a hearing scheduled for Friday.
The governor's husband, however, refuses to answer questions to a panel that he believes is politically motivated, according to campaign officials for Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Palin.
"The objections boil down to the fact that the legislative council investigation is no longer a legitimate investigation because it has been subjected to complete partisanship," campaign spokesman Ed O'Callaghan said. MORE!
You know the next time I am summons to come to court I am going to use the "First Dude Defense", claim the court summons is politically motivated and ignore it! Yeah I know, my black ass will get put under the jail for that, but not rethuglicans. The laws of the land do not pertain to them.
Up next is our old racist buddy George "Macaca" Allen, remember this asshole?
The one that had a Confederate flag and noose in his office?! The one that called a campaign worker of Indian descent "macaca" (a racial slur)? Well, seems the rethugs of North Virginia are planning a "Unity Rally" to improve relations with all the diverse ethnicities in that part of the state and who is going to be the featured speaker at this rally? Yup! George Allen Jr. I guess the GOP figures that it's been a couple of years so people have forgotten about the fact that George Allen once bragged about killing a dear and stuffing the head in a black person's mailbox. Or I guess they thought we would forget that he called that Indian kid a "macaca" which is a type of monkey. Maybe the GOP is just that delusional and is assuming that you are too. I mean the communication director for the state party had to say this, from Thinkprogress:
“George Allen has an excellent record on issues of diversity, reaching out to people,” Gerry Scimeca, communications director for the state party, told us. “His whole career, his whole life have been a testament to a guy who’s treated people equally across racial lines, across every kind of line.” […] MORE!
You see the look on the horse's face?! Even it can't believe Allen is speaking at this "Rally"! Allen being a featured speaker changes the whole meaning of the word rally!
Since I just happened to be up early this morning and the wife usually watches NBC (nothing but crooks) so against my better judgement I happened to catch the "Today Show" and they had Ari Fleischer on talking about the mortgage crisis and this whore had the nerve to say, "If people would not have tried to buy houses they couldn't afford then the us wouoldn't be in this predicament" or something to that effect. Of course I lost it this morning after hearing that. What a bunch of sleazy lying scumbags these GOP whores are! Then to top it off I went to Crooks & Liars and saw this:
By: John Amato on Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 5:30 PM - PDT
Larry Kudlow proves once again that he’s nothing more than a right wing, free market, Milton Friedman hack that just lies at will. Doesn’t he have a conscience? Nope…It’s never the big money freepers that horde the wealth of this country and have no restrictions on what they can do thanks in part to Mr Deregulation himself, John McCain. Jon Perr has more...
Kudlow: It’s time for the Congress, Republicans and Democrats to stop encouraging—exhorting and forcing banks to make low income loans with no documentation. Stop that—literally pushed these lenders to make low income loans
Scarborough: Hold on a second. You cannot blame this on low income people that are getting a house.
Kudlow: I’m not blaming them. Kudlow: Sub prime, sub standard loans were a creature of the US Congress in the 90’s and the 2000’s.
Scarborough: Are you saying that poor people have caused this crisis?
Kudlow: Not poor people. Members of Congress who were rich people. But their Liberal guilt consciences forced banks and lenders to make lousy sub-standard loans and that has to be repealed…not everybody can afford a home, Joe. Some people have to rent.”
What a crock. Kudlow blames it all on the liberals. What a joke this man is. This is another case that proves conservatism is dead. Of course not everybody can afford a home. Sorry, the irresponsible lending practices went on because it kept Bush’s economy chugging along for years before it crashed and burned. The ownership society Bush and conservatives called it. Morning Joe actually takes him apart for even suggesting that low income families are the root cause of our economic problems in the housing market. It’s up to the lenders to qualify people for loans. PERIOD.
I watched this crisis unfold and saw people walking into fairly expensive homes in Venice, CA with no down payments and either low or no interest loans. Yes, I’m a renter now. I couldn’t believe my eyes when the property values skyrocketed (went up to 1 million) because of these lending practices. People can apply for a loan all they want, but that does not automatically mean they should be approved. That’s up to the lenders. Liberal guilt is never an issue and a lie, Mr Kudlow. They aren’t supposed to hand over thousands of dollars without knowing that they will be paid back. The predatory lenders made boat loads of cash at will with a conservative philosophy in hand. Just ask your best friend for a hundred bucks and see what happens…Naomi Klein writes: Disowned by the Ownership Society
Washington think-tanker Grover Norquist predicted that the ownership society would be Bush’s greatest legacy, remembered “long after people can no longer pronounce or spell Fallujah.” Bush has turned out to be the ownership society’s undertaker.
Yeah remind Larry that this too is Bush's bullshit. Remind Larry that Bush campaigned on home ownership. Called it the "Ownership Society" to get everyone in homes and which was really just propping up the economy and the way they tried to get folks into homes was the sub-prime loans. Yeah we can put Larry in the running for "Asshole of the Week along with Fleischer!
Next up and I should have followed up the "First Dude Defense" story with is the sweetheart interview Palin has done with Sean "Insanity2x" Hannity, however I am going to let Jon Stewart at the Daily Show fill you in on that love fest. You thought the Gibson interview was sweet wait until you see this...
Ha! Jon could play her on SNL he has the voice down. Do these people ever answer the questions?! Here she is again evading a slo-motion softball from one of her rabid ticket only having adoring fans at a supposed town hall meeting. I understand completely why Barack doesn't want to play silly "town hall" debates with McSame. First and foremost they will packed with McSimpson plants and if they do let the public attend the crowds will be because of Barack and I wouldn't let the old man ride my coattails either, but before I get off on a rant here is the video from the other day that I snagged from Crooks & Liars (most of them are snagged from Crooks -I'm ordering basic cable tomorrow so I can make my own):
And this is what Amerikkkans prefer to a smart well spoken articulate black guy?! He even has a white VP and people say racism is dead in this country...Yeah WHATEVER!?!
So I just saw this pop up over at Crooks also and thought I would re-post it too. This time it is Olbermann...
Okay moving on...The big big news is all of the government bailouts of these mega corporations! I posted about that here and I don't want to re-post it today, however I did want to mention that we are only hearing about the big major or multi-national Wall Street corporations, but local companies closer to home like Constellation energy in Baltimore has been greatly affected by the fluctuating markets and the demise of these other major player's in the Corptocracy...From The Baltimore Sun:
Our view: Warren Buffett may be just the savior Constellation Energy needed to stay afloat, but the deal and its myriad ramifications merit close scrutiny by Maryland regulators
September 19, 2008
This week has brought a stunning reversal of fortune for Constellation Energy Group, its shareholders and employees. Seven days ago, the company was trading at more than $55 a share. Now, it may be scooped up by a Warren E. Buffett company for a mere $26.50 a share under a tentative deal announced yesterday that may have spared Baltimore Gas and Electric's parent from financial meltdown.
Is the proposed merger of Constellation with Iowa-based MidAmerican Energy Holdings Group in the best interests of its owners, workers and BGE customers? Constellation executives say yes, but a great deal more will need to be known before the rest of us can accept that judgment.
The Maryland Public Service Commission is one of the various government agencies that will review this deal. We would urge state officials to hire qualified investment bankers and others with appropriate expertise to explore every aspect of the transaction with far greater care than was given the state's deregulatory efforts nine years ago. MORE!
There's that dirty word rethugs hate so much...Regulation! Let make no mistake about it de-reuglation is the enemy and the cause of all this countries financial woes. What did they think would happen when they gave the wolf free reign over the hen house?!
There was a lot of stuff I wanted to get around too but it is getting late and this is dragging a lil bit. Plus it is the first time in a couple of weeks so I will go easy on ya's! Have a great weekend in spite of them! Go Skins! Go Ravens!
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I have been watching the corporate news with some amazement here lately and it started on CNN and now it seems like a lot of other networks are picking up on it too, they are starting to call out McSimpson staffers and lackey's out on their bullshit and it is rather refreshing to say the least. Now I don't know how long this period of Glasnost is going to last and when I see the same things in Pravd...errr...I mean the WaPost I will really get excited but then again there is still Fux and the idiots who watch it.I have this dislike/hate type relationship with Chris Matthews who I refer to as Tweety! Just like when Tim Russert would take people to the videotape, when Tweety get's pissed and has heard enough bullshit he let's whoever is trying to bullshit him have it with both barrels. For example he had Rep. Cantor from Virginia on the show the other day and it was pure comedy...
Did you see the look on Matthew's face? He looked like he was about to go postal on Cantor. I saw a little Jack Nicholson from "The Shining" coming through.Next up on Tweety's hit list was self deluding lying McPain staffer Nancy Pfotenhauer! The name should tell you enough but wait until you hear the bullshit coming out of here mouth. Plus she just looks weird, almost like her head is too narrow...
I think Tweety is a little tired of hearing the bullshit and on top of that a lot of those corporate media clones are getting pummeled in the stock market. So watching their portfolio's go down the drain on top of trying to justify the bullshit is just too much for Chris. Ohhh yeah and maybe he is really just pissed about him an Olbermann being taken off the presidential debate hosting schedule by the McStupid campaign ...Hmmmmmm!The thing I really find encouraging in all of these new developments is that not only are people like Matthews and the rest of the bobbleheads is that the networks are also starting to question the bullshit McPlain has been serving up to them...Here's CNN (comedic news network) getting a few digs in they still tried to frame it as Barack was lying too and that their both guilty but we all know that is where the bullshit comes in...From The Jed Report...Check him out!
At least it's a start even though it's probably just temporary out of anger. Then last but not least even old ABC and the Disney folks must have gotten slighted or feel as though this is over for McBush and has even started questioning the McSenile lies! Here is a great line from Nicole Bell over at Crooks & Liars: "Dude, you’re losing ABC…that’s like FOX-lite"! that cracked me up because it is ohhhh so true...Anywho, the guy's and girls McPalin pissed off over at ABC had this report to file and it was on McPOW's constant flip-flops about the economy...
If I can remember correctly and I probably can't, but this is about how the tone was with the CMSM before McSimpson even got the nomination. Remember?! He was all but out of the race, no staff, no "Straight Talk" hahahaha! "Straight Bullshit" Express Driver and he was even carrying his own bags! Then all of a sudden he is the front runner in the primaries, and now rethug candidate for the top spot! That doesn't sound a little strange to you?!
Now I swear it seems like Johnny Mac is deliberately trying to throw his own campaign or at least someone is, because I know my government wouldn't be engaged in some kind of Kabuki theater just to benefit the masses. Right?!?
"We Are Watching A Poorly Staged Rendition Of 'Wag The Dog', Interpreted For The Morbidly Stupid & Performed By The Criminally Insane." -JCarlysle
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