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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Doctors Come Out Against Endangered GOP Senators. AMA to Campaign Against Obstructionist GOP Republicans

This, according to ‘Direct Democracy’ (myDD.com) the GOP is losing yet another key support group:

Doctors Come Out Against Endangered GOP Sens. 

by Jonathan Singer, Wed Jul 02, 2008 at 08:09:15 AM EST   

Throughout the entirety of the current Congress, Republicans have adhered to a strict obstruction whenever possible regimen in the hopes of thwarting any and all progressive change. While by and large the media have given the GOP a pass on the subject (save for a few stories here and there from McClatchy or The Washington Post), it was bound to be the case that the GOP's tactics would come back to bite them at some point. 

According to Congressional Quarterly (subscription required), for instance, the American Medical Association, a group that has overwhelmingly backed Republicans in the past (giving at least 61 percent of their contributions to GOP candidates since 1990), is now not only withdrawing support from Republicans but is going so far as running ads against endangered GOP Senators up for reelection this fall on the topic of harsh cuts in Medicare payments to doctors supported on Capitol Hill by those members.

READ THE REST HERE: http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/7/2/8916/96791

   

BlueCross rates spike in Oregon

Rates for Individuals to jump 26%!!! 

WE-THE-PEOPLE fucked again … and by Insurance giants again.

The California Nurses Association’s (CNA) plan for Universal Health Care is lookin’ better, and better by the second.

With the CNA plan, the insurance corporation low lifes will be out as the profit-sucking, price-gouging middlemen. Will anyone miss ‘em? I won’t.

SUPPORT THE CNA!!!

 

Poll: Obama beats McCain as barbecue guest

Mccaintelecomimmunity_2 Hell, Obama beats McCain at every damn thing!

Poll: Obama beats McCain as barbecue guest

 

Grandpa McCain gets extra cranky about running for the third Bush term

Mccainbush Being George Bush is a problem for John McCain, still

http://www.americablog.com/2008/07/being-george-bush-is-problem-for-john_02.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121493389576919869.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news

 

Obama dominates McCain among Hispanics: poll

Obama dominates McCain among Hispanics: poll

 

Republican Economy: 79,000 new jobless in June; 600 Starbucks closing; Dow & SP in the Swirly; Auto Mfgrs Sucking Wind; Gas & Porn Up!

Dow Will Sink Below 10,000: Strategist   

Stocks drop after new record for oil prices

Good times for all, huh?

Bush Stimulates The Porn Industry With His Economic Package

gives new meaning to his phrase “it’s hard work!”…

… yeah, and bone-head too.

Update from Think Progress: NPR reported this week that the Shady Lady Ranch in Nevada "is offering gas cards to lure people in, and the Moonlite Bunny Ranch has a deal called 'double your stimulus' for folks who bring in their federal tax rebate checks."

Hotels feeling chill in tourism (could the GOP even piss-off their Paris Hilton constituents before it's all said and done?)

Hard Times for Student Borrowers

http://www.truthout.org/article/employment-rate-drops-economy-sheds-62000

If this all seems like a chuckle to ya, Vote McCain For More Of The Same!

UPDATE: THURSDAY MAYBE WORSE!

   

McCain Campaign Staff Implodes … AGAIN.

Mcbush_2 circa 2008: Staff Shake-up for McCain Campaign 

circa 2007:  The Implosion of the McCain Campaign

Report: McCain campaign shakeup promotes 'Bushworld veterans'

 

For Hypocrite McCain it is OK for his pal Lieberman to Oppose Alito, but not OK for Obama to do the same thing! WTF is that!?

Mccainlieberman McCain’s awkward Lieberman problem.»    

McCain In 2003: ‘I Absolutely Don’t Believe’ Military Service Alone Qualifies Somebody For President - ‘nuf said.

McCain In 2003: ‘I Absolutely Don’t Believe’ Military Service Alone Qualifies Somebody For President» 

McCain himself characterized his military service as NOT a qualifier for Prez, but 5 years later, his own words don’t suit the moment so he changes them … ANOTHER flippity-flop by McSame. Wow this guy is a real piece of work.

 

Desperate John McCain Lying Through His Teeth; McCain Confused, Keeps Handler Close to Whisper Corrections in his ear.

Mccainsalter McCain is so desperate as to resort to bold-face lying to WE-THE-PEOPLE. Apparently he thinks that if he does it while out of the country Americans will remain uninformed and won’t notice:

McCain: I Never Said That I Don’t Know Much About Economics»

McCain plays dumb

McCain Denies Ever Saying He Lacks Expertise on Economy

Let’s go to the video tape:

Not only doesn’t John McCain know much about Economics, he apparently flunked Geography too:

McCain confuses Sudan and Somalia.»               

McCain=McSame. McCain may actually be dumber than Bush, if that’s possible. He has to have a handler close by to whisper in his ear and correct his frequent flubs. Geez, haven’t we had enough of this embarrassment yet?

      

McCain Tight With Columbian Terrorist Group

McSame couldn’t care-less about WE-THE-PEOPLE

McCain is so desperate to advance his own personal agenda that he would accept support from axe-murders if they’d offer it. McPlane is off to Columbia to see if they will.

As a campaign stunt to try to help McCain, GOP Republicans resort to old Reagan-Iran-Contra like ploy.

Like any/all GOP Republicans McCain does business with thugs and criminals and always against the best interests of WE-THE-PEOPLE, and any other country’s general populous.

Until this word is spread around the blogosphere first, you won’t see much about it in Main Stream Media.

McCain fundraiser linked to Colombian terrorist group.»

McCain fundraiser "oversaw payment of roughly $1.7 million" to terror group in Colombia

McCain Backer's Firm Pleaded Guilty To Funding Terrorist Group In Colombia   

Terrorism and Bananas in Colombia

DOCUMENTS IMPLICATE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT IN CHIQUITA TERROR SCANDAL

U.S. Department of State Report on Foreign Terrorist Organizations Shows Columbia’s FARC at #23 on the list.

The GOP … the Republican Party and their Corporate handlers support these types of terrorists organizations around the world, as a standard party platform plank.

Read this book to see how they did it in Haiti, for instance:

Bookhaiti

 
This book is a real eye opener. Read it and then realize that this sort of manipulation has been going on for decades, and all over the world, not just in Latin America, and then you realize that the GOP Republicans are almost exclusively responsible for Anti-American sentiments around the world. Read 'em and weep suckas.

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GOP Republicans’ G.I. Bill Hypocrisy Reaches New Depths; McCain Trades the Bus for McPlane.

How outrageous is it when ass-hole Republicans like George Bush and John McCain (read: Bush Junior) oppose a bill but, when politically forced to comply with the populist will of WE-THE-PEOPLE, they try to take credit for the bill’s passage when in truth they were bitter enemies of the legislation! I hate those lying, sacks of crap. How low can Bush-McCain go?

Bush praised John McCain for a bill that McCain opposed and a bill that McCain intentionally avoided voting on!!! WTF is that, if not HYPOCRITICAL? If McCain was all-for this bill why didn’t he vote for it, huh??? Sheez. Scum-bags.

Read more about the Bush-McCain whores on Think Progress:

GI Bill Opponent President Bush Lauds GI Bill Opponent John McCain For The GI Bill Expansion»

Read it on Salon Magazine online too:

G.I. Bill hypocrisy reaches new depths

The truth is that Veterans Groups, Democrats, and pressure from WE-THE-PEOPLE made this bill happen, not McCain, not Bush, and not most Republican’ts who opposed it.

I agree with commenter ‘Patty’ over on Think Progress when she commented:

Patty Says:


Standard Rove-ian approach:

1. Project your shortcomings onto your opponent (i.e. Obama as the country-club guy making snide comments);

2. Take credit for your opponent’s strength (i.e. touting the Bush administration and Republican lawmakers for passing a G.I. bill, thus, “we support the troops,” even though we opposed the bill.)

3. Slander the opponent; erase damaging emails, lose others; mince words; flip-off any calls for justice and oversight; attach signing statements to nullify any bills you don’t especially like (i.e. the past 7.5 years). [SOURCE]

The SADDEST part of this is that the suck-up Main Stream Media will allow punks Bush-McCain to get away with their lying. I mean HEY, if they don’t McCain won’t let them sit near him, at the front of his new McPlane. Sheez.

McCain has a new plane to replace the "legendary bus" but reporters have to be "good" to sit up front with McCain 

 

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Worst June for the S&P 500 and the Dow Industrials since the Great Depression

BushmccainBushmccain_2Republicans Coolidge and Hoover brought us the Great Depression. With Republican’ts Bush-Cheney-McCain history repeats itself.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/30/markets/markets_newyork/?postversion=2008063018

 

The Only Labor McCain Supports is Child Labor. Seriously, McCain is Anti-American Worker; Don’t Take My Word, Check His Voting Record.

So, if you work for a living and you are even THINKING of voting for McCain, your logic is as flawed as someone’s that is contemplating suicide.

You do not have to be a Union worker to dislike McCain’s voting record and his anti-American Worker rhetoric. McCain is a puppet of the Corporatocracy.

Below are just a few examples of McCain’s hatred for the American worker, from a post on Think Progress.

McCain:

Helped block minimum wage hike in 2005 with John Kyl [LINK]

Voted to filibuster minimum wage hike in 2007 [LINK]

Compared unions to monopolies, during a presidential debate [LINK]

Voted to block the Employee Free Choice Act in 2007, allowing workers to form unions [LINK]

Skipped the vote on the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2008, which would have made it easier for women workers to sue for equal pay [LINK]

Just last week, McCain didn’t even bother to show up to vote on a war supplemental that extended unemployment benefits. He was the only senator besides Sen. Ted Kennedy — who is undergoing treatment for a brain tumor — who didn’t vote on the measure. [SOURCE]

McCain Sticks It To Organized Labor: Visits Company That Refused To Pay Minimum Wage»

Look people, the guy is an elitist who is married to a beer magnate worth $100 million; he’s NEVER been off government benefits in his entire life; he doesn’t pay his property taxes on time; his old lady was a prescription drug addict that stole from a charity; so how in the hell would he ever have a CLUE about the real issues impacting the average American???? Why the hell would you vote for someone so totally unlike yourselves ????

 

Monday, June 30, 2008

In 2004 McCain said he deplores Swift Boat Politics; Today McCain Renames Swift-Boating: Truth Squad, and Teams with its Bud Day

Budday John McCain is a pathetic hypocrite and flip-flopper. That old fool will say and do ANYTHING to try to get elected including renaming the practice of 'Swift Boating' to read 'Truth Squad'. Calling something the exact opposite is a tired, old, Rove ploy that the electorate is sick and tired of seeing and hearing. This is yet another way in which McCain is nothing more than the 3rd-term of the Bush administration. 

McCain’s new Truth Squad has former member of Swift Boat Veterans.»

Now watch for these clowns to TRY to attack Wesley Clark … good luck with that fools. What McCain really needs to hire is an Accountant and Economics professor.

 

McCains Defaulted On Home Taxes Past 4 Years and they are only charged $1,742.00/yr for Ocean Front Property in San Diego?

Hey McCain supporters … lemme ask ya sumptin’ … how many of you can afford 7 different homes? The McCains can … they don’t even bother to pay their property taxes either. Personally, I’m gonna vote for someone who is at least a tad closer to being able to relate to the rest of us.

Hey, even if you can only afford one home, like the great unwashed masses, wouldn’t you expect to have to pay more than a lowly $1,742.00 per year for ocean front property in San Diego, California? What kind of sweetheart deal does millionaire-beer-momma-drug-addict and charity thief Cindy McCain get that WE-THE-PEOPLE can’t?

Here’s another question fur ya … how many folks can get away with thumbing their noses at their county government for going-on 5 years running and get away with it? Sheez.

“San Diego County officials, it turns out, have been sending out tax notices on the La Jolla property, an oceanfront condo, for four years without receiving a response.”

Now, tell me again who the MoFo ‘ELITIST’ is!!!??? The McCains are first class hypocrites, all the way!   

When you're poor, it can be hard to pay the bills. When you're rich, it's hard to keep track of all the bills that need paying. It's a lesson Cindy McCain learned the hard way when NEWSWEEK raised questions about an overdue property-tax bill on a La Jolla, Calif., property owned by a trust that she oversees. Mrs. McCain is a beer heiress with an estimated $100 million fortune and, along with her husband, she owns at least seven properties, including condos in California and Arizona. [...]   

Shortly after NEWSWEEK inquired about the matter, the McCain aide e-mailed a receipt dated Friday, June 27, confirming payment by the trust to San Diego County in the amount of $6,744.42. County officials say the trust still owes an additional $1,742 for this year, an amount that is overdue and will go into default July 1. Told of the outstanding $1,742, the aide said: "The trust has paid all bills shown owing as of today and will pay all other bills due."

Hey, do ya really want these folks managing a whole nation’s economy?

McCain, wife owed $225,000 in credit card debt   

Senate disclosure statements give look at candidates' personal finances

Hell, according to that NYT/MSNBC report a McCain ‘dependent’ had credit card balances ranging between $15,000 and $50,000 bucks. Lemme ask you McCain supporters, can you afford to cover that kind of credit card debit for your dependents? Really? Wow, it must be nice.

Meanwhile, the same report says the Obama’s have stashed $200k in their kids college funds … let’s see, who would I rather having running the nation’s economy. DUH!

The McCains are not anything like the rest of us ‘my friends’. And that is one reason I wouldn’t vote for McCain even if he were running unopposed.

SOURCES: Huffington Post - Newsweek Magazine Online - AmericaBlog - ThinkProgress - MSNBC/NYT

 

Friday, June 27, 2008

DTV transition is GOP IED for Obama Presidency; a Fraud on Consumers and Bush bargaining chip for North Korean Nukes?

Television is headed the way of the Green Lawn and the Public Library. Mark your calendars, February 17, 2009 will be the day that broadcast TV dies. Personally, I’m not going to mourn the loss, attend the funeral, or even send flowers.

It will also be the day that cable and satellite companies will begin to discover that they have out smarted themselves by using their ownership of the United States Government to perpetuate the DTV fraud upon WE-THE-PEOPLE.

Nuketower Bush will have screwed the cable and satellite companies as royally as he did the Christian Right when he hustled them for faith-based funds! Bush-Cheney-Rove and the Chinese, South Koreans, and Japanese probably promised the North Koreans a cut of the manufacture and sale of DTV converter boxes and DTVs to American consumers in exchange for a video of a North Korean nuclear cooling tower implosion

And watch … the conversion to DTV will go about as smoothly as a FEMA response to Katrina. Obama will be inaugurated on January 20, 2009 and the Republican-planted I.E.D. (Improvised Explosive Device/Roadside bomb) known as ‘DTV’ is set to detonate less than 30-days later on Feb. 17, 2009. It’ll be a bigger political headache for the new Prez than trying to find a graceful way to default on campaign promises to get our ‘combat’ troops out of Iraq.

Oh sure, broadcast TV was already dying a slow death and DTV will just speed up the inevitable. But, I think the cable and satellite companies will have shot themselves in the foot in the process of lobbying for its early demise.

This is similar to what will happen when Corporate book sellers like, Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble, etc are finally able to drive a stake through the heart of our public libraries [& 10 Reasons Why the Internet is no Substitute for a Library].

When the need for ever bigger corporate executive bonuses are at stake the funds have got to come from somewhere … and there are fewer and fewer Commons left for the American taxpayer and consumers which have not already been plundered for the sake of privatizing everything for corporate profits. The public airwaves are only the most current example. Being able to read a book based upon our libraries being part of the Commons, subsidized by our taxes dollars, will be the next target of the Corporatocracy, and the anti-tax, Kool-Aid sipping, geniuses.

Anim_ant The FCC’s web site has already become little more than marketing collateral for their handlers from the Corporatocracy. Little more than commercial advertising for the pitch that DTV is all about a better TV viewing experience for WE-THE-PEOPLE. In truth, DTV is little more than a damn nuisance for the average American who has been perfectly happy with their old analog TV. DTV has everything to do with forcing the broadcast TV holdouts to SUBSCRIBE to cable or satellite delivery of TV signals.

No more freebies … there are corporate executive bonuses to be paid, after all; corporate profits to be made! Corporate marketeers can’t afford to let literally hundreds of thousands of potential cable /satellite subscriptions go untapped … they are going to FORCE us to pay-up whether we want to or not; that’s their thinking. In order to do that they must eliminate the final, competing, option available to WE-THE-PEOPLE. And sadly, WE-THE-PEOPLE have bought into their marketing onslaught; we’ve gone along for the ride; we have been drinking the Kool-Aid.   

I was perfectly happy with my 15+ year old Toshiba 27” analog TV. Heck, I didn’t even bother to replace it when its tired, old picture tube developed a permanent line through the upper 25% of the viewable area of its screen! I got used to it; ignored it; didn’t notice it anymore; been watching it that way for years! That being said, just how important do you suppose that the gubbermint sales pitch of a ‘better’ DTV picture has been to my viewing pleasure? Newsflash: I couldn’t care less.

Oldtv TV sets have become like green lawns. Being concerned with having the greenest, most weed-less lawn, or the most technologically advanced TV on the block is ‘so yesterday’. Have you seen that ‘Round-up’ commercial that is a parody of an old west gunfight between two quick draw artists, on a suburban sidewalk? Two suburbanite neighbors act out an old west gun fight using bottles of weed spray instead of six-shooters. Those Ads could only appeal to boomers my age and older who grew-up watching things like ‘Gunsmoke’ and ‘Have Gun Will Travel’ on black and white TVs. Most of us are too old or too tired to mow a lawn anymore, or are on fixed incomes and couldn’t afford the gas for a weed whacker anyway. Those that still care, or can afford it, hire illegal immigrant landscapers to tend their lawn.

Besides, we can’t afford to waste the water or pollute the planet with the chemicals and fertilizer for our lawns. Main Stream Media TV pollutes our brains in a similar way. Get MIRO instead.

In the ‘hoods around Las Vegas and other arid parts of the country, new developments use landscaping that doesn’t even use lawn grass. As the failed Republican economic policies continue to thrust us into a bloodless civil war fought between the haves and the have-nots, lawns will be converted to vegetable gardens out of the necessity to eat, anyway!

In the midst of hard times, the last thing folks want or need is a new TV widget! I’ve converted one analog TV and I’m here to tell ya, the advantages are heavily outweighed by the aggravation and the inconveniences. If you haven’t done it yet, don’t bother. Procrastinate, just like most of us do when it comes to April 15th. Wait until Feb. 17, 2009 at midnight. Squeeze the last your analog TV has to give before surrendering to the inevitable.

DTV is like computer technology, especially software … it is better to wait and let others forge ahead onto the ‘bleeding-edge’. Let the early-adopters work the kinks out first, so-to-speak. You don’t want to be the first kid on your block to convert an analog TV to DTV. Trust me, I’ve done it. The joint forces of your Federal government and the main stream media troops of the Corporatocracy are trying to brainwash WE-THE-PEOPLE with the constant barrage of so-called ‘Public Service Announcements [PSA(s)]. The dark-side wants us convinced that they’ve just done something noble for the great unwashed masses. PSA(s) peddle how the bandwidth being freed up is going to help police and fire services be more efficient, because no one could object to such causes ... now all we gotta do is wait to see just how long that will take to occur, if ever. Sorta like those Homeland Security funds that most are still waiting to receive.

BUT, if you are going to continue to watch television, and most will, you’ll suffer less aggravation, and fewer remotes by simply surrendering your perfectly-good old iron for new TV(s) with digital capabilities built in rather than go the converter box route. That is just the conclusion that the Corporatocracy was hoping we’d all arrive at!

The Corporatocracy hates for us to buy 'stuff' that actually outlasts the warranty period and doesn't require a monthly subscription fee. The Corporatocracy would ultimately like to find a way to make us all have to subscribe to the air we breath; elect John McCain for Bush's 3rd term, and they'll probably come up with a way to do that too.

With DTV you'll need to prepare yourselves for built-in lag time when changing channels, some ‘issues’ with bad syncing between audio and video, the occasional dropped/no signals, and the need for a new and different antenna to try to alleviate those new problems. Problems none of the Public Service Announcements bother to mention … much less the local Worst-Buy, or Rat-Shack salespersons pitching the converters and DTVs.

Ask yourself too, where are all of those millions of discarded analog TVs are going to land? In landfills, or barges back to China to be recycled into inferior plastic and electronic products to sell back to us at a profit? All in the name of 'multicasting' and digital picture quality? Sheez.

If you do opt for a DTV converter box, you’ll discover that your choices have been limited by the participating retailers who typically settle on only a single make and model to carry. The nearest Best Buy carried only the Chinese made ‘Insignia’ private labeled for Best Buy. It comes with a remote that it claims can also power your TV. I couldn’t get that feature to work as advertised, so now I need to keep two remotes handy. It also claimed that I’d have the option of using either of two cabling arrangements to connect it to my TV. But, I was only able to get one of those options to function, even after trying it with various brands of TV, etc.

Despite this supposedly being newer technology, the converter box I ended up with has an LED pilot lamp that never goes off unless the unit is unplugged from the wall. When in the off position that one LED remains on, glowing red (blue when on). Do we really need a red light to tell us when shit is off now!? So much for going green. 

I ultimately got the damn thing connected and semi-functional, but I’ll be damned if I can see any benefit yet. At least none to justify the interruption/aggravation. Maybe it’s the fact that now I can receive my local PBS broadcast on 4 or 5 channels instead of 1 (multicasting)! It looks like maybe one of those channels lets ya watch gourmet cooking shows 24/7 … let’s just hope none of their recipes use tainted tomatoes or stinky beef (funny picture on that stinky beef link ... imagine that dude in the picture sniffing a slab of American beef to see it it is good ... that from Koreans that eat Kimchi, which is veggies they bury in the earth to ferment ... mmmmm, yum ... after that how would they know how anything is supposed to smell?) and that those cooking shows donate their left-overs to the local food banks whose shelves are empty!

RESOURCES:

http://www.solidsignal.com/cat_display.asp?main_cat=03&CAT=Digital%20Converter%20Boxes

http://antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx

http://www.crutchfieldadvisor.com/S-p2kPYiBqeEO/learningcenter/home/antenna.html?page=1

http://www.opb.org/digital/

http://reviews.cnet.com/4321-6487_7-6613951.html

 

Monday, June 23, 2008

‘Scratch any cynic, and you’ll find a disappointed idealist.’—George Carlin – R.I.P.

I miss him already. 

George Carlin, Irreverent Comedian, Dies at 71

 
      
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Saturday, June 21, 2008

Bush Lies To WE-THE-PEOPLE in Radio Address. GOP Republicans Side with Oil Corporation Lobbyists, Against WE-THE-PEOPLE Again!

George W. Bush and the GOP Republicans are pathetic, lying crooks who would screw their mothers for a buck.

According to a report from the Associated Press, in his so-called Saturday radio address George W. Bush tried to convince the American people that Democrats were complicit in the the GOP Republican failed economic policies which have been proven to be a complete and total train wreck.

The sad part is that  somewhere out there in radio land are lots of folks who do not have Internet access, or can’t afford to pay for that access, or who simply view the Internet as the source of all things evil. Opting instead for radio and newspapers those folks receive only the mainstream media reporting and get only the gross distortions Bush is peddling. The bad Kool-Aid.   

Bush says Democrats keep blocking his energy plans

That is a complete load of crap. The truth is that the oil companies already have leases on 68 million acres on federal lands and waters that the oil companies are free to drill on but which the oil companies are not developing. Whining about MORE is simply Bush and his corporate handlers’ way of SPINNING the issue and misleading the electorate. They are both robber-baron crooks. Period.

Rather than take action which would fund and promote alternative energy sources for America’s FUTURE, BushCo and the Corporatocracy simply want to prolong their gouging of WE-THE-PEOPLE as long as the traffic will bear it, and disregarding the damage to the environment, here on mother earth.

You can start drilling in every backyard in America and every square inch of the oceans TODAY, and it won’t have make a tinker’s-damn of difference in what you are paying at the pump in your lifetime. It is as useless and harmful as McCain’s gas tax holiday. It is a tactic to delay pursuit of REAL solutions to our energy dependence. It is Bush’s personal favor to his buddies the Saudis.

Bush, and the GOP Republicans are just short-sighted, greedy bastards who are only concerned with their own wallets and nothing else. GOP Republicans are the real evil-doers. Vote those rat-bastards out of every office, everywhere, if you really want to take your country back for WE-THE-PEOPLE. Don’t just vote for the Presidential candidate … vote the straight Democratic ticket from top-to-bottom.

 

Thursday, June 19, 2008

The USA can convert to Digital Television in a couple of years time, but alternative fuel vehicles are taking decades? Ask yourself why.

World War II gave birth to the U.S. Military Industrial Complex almost over night, and production went from zero-to-sixty in about a nanosecond comparative to our response to the economic war being waged upon us by our own greed and stupidity. Greed of the Corporatocracy; Stupidity of the Electorate. 

Car buyers and the general public are obviously ready for alternative fuel cars. Mother Earth sure as hell thinks it’s overdue! So where is the GOP’s shining ‘market forces’ when we need ‘em to rescue us? The demand exists right NOW!

So, what the hell happened to all of that conservative, GOP, Republican rhetoric about ‘supply and demand’ and letting the market dictate solutions, huh? I and literally millions of consumers want to buy alternative fuel vehicles yesterday. So, where is the supply to meet this huge demand, huh?   

Lemme guess, too many corporate genius MBA(s) missed the market timing on this one? GM, Ford, Chrysler all shrinking and laying off American workers because they missed the market (again). Too slow and too stupid to respond to lessons that should have been learned decades ago?

NOPE; just too greedy. So now WE-THE-PEOPLE  are ALL picking up the tab for the Corporatocracy’s failure to progress in a timely manner. The infamous private sector Corporatocracy and their MBA geniuses don’t give a rat’s ass about ‘Market Timing’. Nope, corporations allowed to ‘acquire’ their competitors, merge together to stifle competition, and Government regulates corporations in ways designed to discourage competition and becoming accomplices to the Corporatocracy. Gubbermint creates anti-competition regulation to stifle innovation and start-up businesses who are quicker to respond to changing markets and environments.

So what’s my point? My point is that if you are still regurgitating that tired, old crap about ‘Free Markets’ and ‘Allowing the Market to Decide everything’, and ‘What’s Good for Business is Good for America’ yadda, yadda, yadda … well then, you’re an idiot. Plain and simple. There is no-such thing as a ‘Free Market’ … and WE-THE-PEOPLE have been picking-up far too many of the tabs left by the Corporatocracy already.   

Driving on Hydrogen

Clean-energy tea leaves show choppy growth

Norway's Think to Produce, Sell Small Electric Cars in U.S.

Is Honda's fuel cell design the answer to $4.50 a gallon gas?

Telecommuting Could Save Gas And U.S. $38 Billion Annually

   (‘Telecommuting’: don’t hold your breath for the Corporatocracy’s Executives to grow the ‘nads to try it tho)

Saturday, June 14, 2008

McCain Revealed - ‘The Briefing Book’

McCainRevealed Out-of-control gas prices are choking off the American dream for working families. But instead of boosting the economy by investing in jobs and renewable energy, George Bush gave tax breaks to millionaires and oil companies. And he’s spending $10 billion a month on the war in Iraq. 

John McCain? More of the same. He has voted with Bush to help the special interests, not working families. Now he wants to give even MORE tax breaks to Big Oil. €The Briefing Book™ summarizes McCain'€™s record on the real issues of the economy, jobs, healthcare, trade, worker's€™ rights, retirement security, etc.

Enough! It's time to fight back. 

Download a flier and a fact sheet about how the Bush-McCain love affair with Big Oil is harming working families. Share it with the people you know. Click on the images below to preview the book. Visit the whole thing, including links by clicking on the cover pictured to the right / above.

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Friday, June 13, 2008

QUIZ: Who said this?

“I was a critic of NAFTA, I was a critic of CAFTA and I’ll be a critic of SHAFTA.”

  ANSWER: 

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer said it to the New York Times.   

Tip of the hat to David Sirota http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3760/

   

Monday, June 09, 2008

Is Portland’s Fox Affiliate, KPTV Broadcast Channel 12, Anti American Worker?

Back on May 9, 2008 I posted about seeing an anti-American worker Ad running on Portland’s NBC/GE affiliate KGW channel 8. I haven’t noticed if KGW is still running those Ads or not because I programmed that channel off of the channels that my remote stops on anymore. 

But, I have noticed that Portland’s Fox affiliate KPTV broadcast channel 12 is running the same anti-American worker Ads frequently.

Nothing really surprises me about the pure-crap that any Fox station is willing to air. For instance, if you are getting your news from a Fox station, you need to be aware of their habit of broadcasting ‘fake news’ click this link and get some REAL FACTS