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"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."--Louis D. Brandeis
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Innocents Abroad -- Mark Twain
"It liberates the vandal to travel--you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction." - The American Abroad speech, 1868 - Mark Twain
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those. - Letter to W. D. Howells, 5/20/1891 - Mark Twain
Click the picture (below) to enlarge this WaPo, color "sample":
"Knowledge about government is power" --GovTrack
I like the idea that it ain't over, even after it's over. I hope this sort of thing dogs Bush and all members of his administration all the days of their lives. As the old saying goes: may they live in interesting times. It couldn't apply to a more appropriate group of ass-holes.
RNC Chair Candidate Distributes ‘Barack The Magic Negro’ As His Christmas Greeting»
Who names their kid “Chip”, anyway?
The Republican Party is now confined to being the party of the south, and no matter how many Dixie Cups you save the south will not rise again.
According to this bullshit appearing on MSNBC:
A new Senate star emerges from the auto row
Tennessee Republican Bob Corker is pivotal deal-maker in Thursday talks
The short of Corker’s so-called plan is a 3 pronged plan to
1) Screw Labor
2) Screw Labor, and
3) Screw Labor.
If this jack-hole named 'Corker' is the GOP's idea of a 'Star' the Republican Party is truly screwed.
The fact is that Senate Republicans are holding the so-called bail-out plan hostage and the hostage is American, living wage jobs.
I have said that I currently oppose any bail-out for any Corporatocracy. And, I still do. Let them go bankrupt and work their way out of it. Let’s force their hand rather than be threatened and frightened by anymore of their lying rhetoric.
Let’s NOT allow Senate Republicans to force Labor to make any MORE sacrifices while dumb-ass corporate executives get a taxpayer hand-out so they can continue to advertise $84,000 Cadillac Escalades during Sunday night football, as they did this past week!
Republicans will never be satisfied until they can permanently create an American under-class that is desperate enough to work for pennies like Chinese workers. THAT is their ultimate goal.
That is the GOP Republican end-game. It always has been. The suffering created by dumb-ass, out-of-touch auto industry executives and Republican failed economic policies must be shared by all, and not just the American worker.
I have purchased (never leased) literally dozens of American cars in my life time. I have only ever owned ONE Japanese car for a brief period.
But, if dumb-ass Harry Reid allows the GOP Republican MINORITY to dictate the terms of any bail-out which ultimately puts the weight of the changes on the backs of the American auto workers … from where the sun now stands, I have spent my last red cent on American iron. Period.
Secondarily, deep-south Republicans continue to ply their old-school scare tactics:
“It’s quite unlikely that an auto rescue package will cause riots. But if they did occur, a likely proximate cause of public outrage at that point would be the loss of three million jobs that will have resulted because the bailout was not passed.” [SOURCE]
Here is the TRANSLATION of what that ass-hat is really trying to convey:
My rich executive handlers are about to take it in the shorts, and so all you peon laborers had better bend over and spread ‘em for whatever bail-out concessions we demand of labor, or we might just take our show on the road to China, which we are already planning to do anyway, then you’ll be out of a job altogether, which you ultimately will be anyway.
Do you get it folks? This is a no-win deal already. It’s over. Go find a new job out of the auto-industry because that industry was murdered by failed Republican Economic policies, long ago. The only measure of satisfaction you have available to you is to take some richie-rich executives down with you. That’s it. That is the best you can hope for until there is a massive, paradigm shift in thinking and legislation which favors American manufacturing AND the labor that makes it all possible. Labor trumps capital and until that fact is accepted, we’re all screwed. And that acceptance cannot be advanced until there is a complete and total breakdown of the old, old system that is now faltering. Let it go.
Do you wonder why Ford is less at risk than GM & Chrysler? Because Ford has been selling little, high mileage puddle-jumpers to European consumers all along because gas has been $10/gallon in Europe. Meanwhile they have continued to bone the American consumer by denying us access to those kinds of rigs. NOW, you’ll start to see those types of vehicles brought into the U.S. market while GM & Chrysler play catch-up. The point is they have had the rigs available, just not to the American consumer who they have chosen to screw for decades! And now they want the very people they have been screwing all along to lend them a helping hand. Screw ‘em, and the horse they rode in on.
After reading this story:
Tow driver shows no mercy to assault victim
I gotta ask, if you came upon a Retriever Towing tow truck driver in need of some assistance, would you lend him your cell phone to make a call, or place a call to police on his behalf?
Nah; me neither.
How about this question instead ... would you and your friends, in a moment of pure boredom, help to coordinate PRANK tow opportunities, using your various cars, for these "commissioned" drivers, in places that are known to use that particular tow company?
Ya know, pull up, park a different rig either where that person in the story did, or some other place that uses this piece of crap tow company, and wait just out of site, keys at the ready, and have a friend or two be look-outs, from their cars. When the tow truck is sighted approaching, jump in your car, and pull away just before the tow rig can get close enough to do squat!
You could even have your spotter friends pull their rig out just before the tow truck pulls into the parking lot, and slow his progress just a bit to make the whole commission-tease just a bit more frustrating ... and laughable. Maybe snap a few cell phone pics of the cranky driver's expression as you drive past and shout-out, "you've been punked!"? Then, post the pics of their bitter beer faces to the 'net just for grins?
With just a little research and effort, just a few folks could really mess with this tow company and extract a perfectly unstoppable measure of sweet revenge by pulling this harmless stunt at random times and locations.
But hey, I'm not suggesting anyone would really wanna pull such a prank, or go to such trouble, of course. I mean hey, that poor tow truck driving sap works on "commission" after all ... even though most human beings would opt for cleaning bird shit out of coo-coo clocks before stooping to such a gig.
If you can supply pics of tow-away-zone warning signs specifically for "Retriever Towing", in the Portland Metro area, along with the address of where the signs are, and the pic was taken, I'll post 'em here.
How funny would it be if folks all around town started punking Retreiver Towing just for shits and giggles?
Maybe even video the incidents and post 'em to YouTube? Can't ya just see the new bumperstickers around town: "Honk if you've punked Retriever Towing".
Hey 'Chuckie White', Chuck You!
Do we need any more proof that General Motors does not deserve any taxpayer dollars to be awarded by Congress as part of any bail-out? Those crazy asses are soooooo far out of touch with reality I feel embarrassed for them.
http://www.cadillac.com/cadillacjsp/model/landing.jsp?model=escalade
I saw their ads during Sunday Night Football, and now I’m just all giddy waiting for the local dealership to open their doors this morning [NOT]! Sheez! It’s not a ‘Red Tag Sale’, it’s a ‘Going Out of Business Sale’!
Reported in the Portland Business Journal:
Report: HP freezes worker salaries
The report includes this line:
“The policy reportedly won't apply in countries where pay freezes are illegal.”
Did ya catch that Congress? Freezing workers wages is illegal in some civilized parts of the world.
Hey, I hear that health coverage is universal in some civilized parts of the world too. Wowzers. Not here in the third world though. Ya know, the Republican world.
No more bail-outs. Not for any Corporation. I don’t care what they are saying the economic impact might be. Screw ‘em all. That’s what they have been doing to us. Now it’s our turn. I called both of mine tonight. Call yours. Tell ‘em, “NO”. No one is bailing out taxpayers. No one is bailing out WE-THE-PEOPLE. So screw the auto makers, and the private jet they rode in on. I don't care if they ride backwards on an ass from Detroit to Washington and back again. They've been screwing us for decades, its their turn in the barrel. Let 'em go bankrupt. Nobody cares. They are afraid of hard times. Whiners. WE-THE-PEOPLE have been stuck in hard times for decades thanks directly to the Corporatocracy and their Congressional minions.
Funny stuff. And, they cover your early cancellation fee and transfer your existing number:
Companies like “Gorilla Capital” of Eugene, Oregon do not build, or manufacture, or grow anything beyond their own wallets.
Companies like “Gorilla Capital” of Eugene, Oregon do not produce significant new jobs or otherwise contribute to the greater good.
It is my opinion that companies like “Gorilla Capital”, of Eugene, Oregon, represent a lower life form.
The business model of companies like “Gorilla Capital”, of Eugene, Oregon are nothing more than those of speculators and carpet baggers who should be legislated into oblivion. Parasites. Robber Barons. Whores.
One of the very first things that the Obama administration and the newly strengthened Democratic Congress could do to isolate the American Home market from the types of speculators who brought us the current economy, is to require ALL home buyers, of both new and existing homes, to make the home they are buying their primary residence for a minimum of 5 years. Can it be rented out? Sure, but corporations and those who own multiple rental properties for the express purpose of being in the rental business, should be required to maintain a percentage of their multiple rental properties at a prescribed rental level and available to low to median income renters.
Speculation and Investment are two entirely different things. Sure, a home is an investment. To make the American Dream available to the broadest segment of the population, and to right the currently listing economic ship though, we must end the practice of speculation on residential housing. Ya wanna speculate on real estate buy some commercial properties and leave the home market to home owners and wanna-bes, or get your ass to Las Vegas, or get yourself some online stock buying software, or start buying Hog Futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and leave housing to Harry and Harriet Home OWNERS.
Oh sure, they can always resell it inside of 5 years, but not at a profit, and in fact, like the 10% penalty on early withdrawals from a 401K, there should be a significant penalty imposed for selling a home inside of that 5 year timeframe. A penalty significant enough to negate any and all financial advantage for using housing as a speculative commodity for the fast-buck artist crowd.
The proceeds from that early resale should not go to the federal government as taxes. Those penalties should go dollar-for-dollar to some non-profit organization such as Habitat for Humanity.
Asshole speculators, like “Gorilla Capitol” of Eugene, Oregon have plenty of other marketplaces available to them for speculating. There is always Wall Street and Las Vegas. It is my speculation that the owners of chicken-outfits like the so-called “Gorilla Capital” lack the balls and / or the brains necessary to take their games to those leagues, however. Instead, they prey upon the misfortunes of others. Scum bags.
Sources:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/gorilla_capital_sells_cheap_bu.html
Redemption for Texas? This could cause me to stop saying stuff like, “When they give the country an enema they’re gonna stick the nozzle in Texas”!
Vice President Cheney and former Attorney General Gonzales indicted in Texas.»
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/18/cheney-gonzo-indicted/
Here is an excerpt from the New York Times:
The campaign issued an urgent appeal, and in a matter of days, it raised more than $5 million, including a $1 million donation from Alan C. Ashton, the grandson of a former president of the Mormon Church. The money allowed the drive to intensify a sharp-elbowed advertising campaign, and support for the measure was catapulted ahead; it ultimately won with 52 percent of the vote.
As proponents of same-sex marriage across the country planned protests on Saturday against the ban, interviews with the main forces behind the ballot measure showed how close its backers believe it came to defeat — and the extraordinary role Mormons played in helping to pass it with money, institutional support and dedicated volunteers.
“We’ve spoken out on other issues, we’ve spoken out on abortion, we’ve spoken out on those other kinds of things,” said Michael R. Otterson, the managing director of public affairs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the Mormons are formally called, in Salt Lake City. “But we don’t get involved to the degree we did on this.” [SOURCE]
I use to have a sign on our storm-door that read:
“I shoot every 3rd Jehovah’s Witness that knocks on our door, and the 2nd one just left.”
I gotta edit that sign to read:
“I shoot every 3rd Mormon that knocks on our door, and the 2nd one just left.”
More wars have been fought, more people murdered, more alter boys have been sodomized in the name of God and religion than for any other reason in the history of mankind. Evil hypocrites. Can hardly wait for the next ones who are stupid enough to knock on our door.
There is a fine line between organized religion, and organized crime. No progressive should be staying at any Marriott Hotel (which has also been in the for-profit prison business big-time), or buying anything from a Franklin Covey store. Progressives should be spending those dollars on the next campaign to either defeat those haters, or bankrupt them by forcing them to defend their ban until they are defeated the same way Republicans were ultimately defeated.
Check out this hypocritical statement in another excerpt from the New York Times report:
That said, the extent of the protests has taken many Mormons by surprise. On Friday, the church’s leadership took the unusual step of issuing a statement calling for “respect” and “civility” in the aftermath of the vote.
“Attacks on churches and intimidation of people of faith have no place in civil discourse over controversial issues,” the statement said. “People of faith have a democratic right to express their views in the public square without fear of reprisal.”
Mr. Ashton described the protests by same-sex marriage advocates as off-putting. “I think that shows colors,” Mr. Ashton said. “By their fruit, ye shall know them.”
They also have the right to pay their fair share of taxes, like all the other citizens who partake in politics. So, why aren’t they, IRS? What’s the deal? The evidence is obvious. The Catholics who rape little boys, and the Mormon cult that commit polygamy financed a political campaign … why do they remain tax exempt???
Plus that excerpt sure sounds like whining. Maybe someone should let the Bible thumpers know that politics is a full-contact sport. If they don’t like it, then they should stay out of it. I think that their whining and complaining about the rules of the game of politics shows their colors. Now, let the games begin!
There are all sorts of theories about why Barack Obama expressed his willingness to work with Joe Lieberbush. One commenter over on Mother Jones speculated that “Obama is pulling a little jiu-jitsu on Lieberman”. Others, including Howard Dean try to discount the Netroots call for Lieberman’s ouster as some overly simplified desire for political retribution and revenge. Neither is the case.
The fact is we simply want some of that CHANGE we campaigned for, and lest Obama should forget his own words, his election victory belongs to WE-THE-PEOPLE. And, if that was nothing more than campaign rhetoric, then I must agree with another commenter over on Mother Jones when he wrote:
Lieberman Escapes Dems' Wrath--and That May Be Good
Lieberman is garbage.
Not to piss folks off any further...
Joe Lieberman is a self-centered, egomaniac, and an embarrassment to the Democratic Party. Lieberman is a hypocrite and a traitor to the Democratic Party. LIEberman is not a Democrat but a registered Independent who backed the Republican candidate for President instead of the Democratic candidate. LIEberman is a Republicrat and a weasel.
So, why is Harry Reid still working with that clown?
If LIEberman is threatening to turn Repubican’t, LET HIM GO. We didn’t get 60, but we got enough to do some good, so let this clown go. Show LIEberman the door. Kick his ass to the curb. Do it NOW.
Pretending to work with LIEberman does not net any points toward bringing us all together.
LIEBERMAN SNUBS NOSE AT VETS
http://www.americablog.com/2008/11/lieberman-snubs-nose-at-vets.html
I still think that both the House and the Senate need new majority leaders … ones with spines.
WTF is Harry Reid talking about when he says this crap:
Nothing worse than a traitor. I hope that in a couple of weeks time LIEberman will have ZERO committee assignments.
Per Daily KOS these are decisions that are made by the Democrat's Steering Committee, which includes the following members:
Stabenow
Kerry
Harkin
Baucus
Inouye
Conrad
Byrd
Levin
Kennedy
Kohl
Wyden
Boxer
Bingaman
Leahy
Clinton
Call ‘em and tell ‘em your own preference. It’s soon to be YOUR government again.
Projection: Jeff Merkley will defeat Gordon Smith in Oregon's U.S. Senate race
by Harry Esteve, The Oregonian
Wednesday November 05, 2008, 5:55 PM
To be Republican is to be fundamentally defective.
We just suffered through 8 years of Elmer Fudd speak, we don't need anymore!!!
There is a fine line between organized religion and organized crime. It's a stretch to categorize the Mormon Church as a religion ... seems more cult-like. Isn't Oregon's Senator Gordon Smith a member?
If churches want to play politics and donate millions of dollars to political campaigns I support removing their tax-exempt status. http://www.americablog.com/2008/11/mormons-are-coming.html
"The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property."
The Bush Administration is such an un-natural disaster, it warrants a "signal of dire distress" for the nation, for all Americans & for our future. McCain-Palin just represent more of the same failed policies.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." --Sinclair Lewis
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -- James Madison
"When the government fears the people it is a democracy....when the people fear their government it is tyranny..." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." – Herman Goering - Nazi
"patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels." - Samuel Johnson
The GOP doesn't want you to be reminded of their net results. Never forget! Anyone who supported 'Bush' owes our country a make-up-call! So, VOTE DEMOCRATIC!
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