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hahaha  Too Funny!!!  Video is here

McCain has voted against the troops almost as a policy decision.  Story is here

These criminals have taken more money than any blue collar criminals have ever dreamed of taking.  How can America see what these people allowed to happen and not hold them criminally accountable?  See Story here

See White Collar criminals take more from America than any other criminals can dream of taking
http://joewo.com/WordPress/?p=1169

That phrase to remember here is that in America-
Profits are Privatized while Losses are Socialized.
This means that everything good goes to the small number making a massive amount of money already and the losses for those super rich are covered by you and me the taxpayer.  This is nothing new!!!  You are subsidizing their being super rich! There is no downside to our brand of “capitalism” which is not the concept of Capitalism in that the possibility of loss, failure and bankruptcy is removed entirely.

This is called a crime!!!!  These people are felons!!!!  They saw it coming years ago…this financial meltdown is no news to them.  Everytime you see Paulson the Treasury Secretary remember that he was the CEO OF GOLDMAN SACHS so he has a vested interest in getting the best deal for his cronies in the Financial Industry.  See story here

Henry Paulson quotes from Wikipedia prove either he does not know what he’s talking about or he’s lying.-

In Spring 2007, Secretaty Paulson told an audience at the Shanghai Futures Exchange that “An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.” ^[22]

In August 2007, Secretary Paulson explained that U.S. subprime mortgage fallout remained largely contained due to the strongest global economy in decades. ^[23]

On July 20, 2008, after the failure of Indymac Bank, Paulson reassured the public by saying, “it’s a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.” ^[24]

On August 10, 2008, Secretary Paulson told NBC’s Meet the Press that he had no plans to inject any capital into Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.^[25] On September 7, 2008, both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac went into conservatorship.^[26]

During the first Presidential Debate in 2008 McCain says what at :25?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1rZBmk0DYU

Peter DeFazio takes 5 minutes today on the House floor to speak out against the outrageous Paulson intervention plan.  Video is here

I often say I watch FOX News for laughs and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for the news.  That’s not far from the truth in that some of the most pointed questions have NOT been asked by the top tier newspeople but rather the Comedy Central show that is looking for laughs.  If you want some of the best analysis of today’s events the Daily Show followed by the Colbert Report are Must See TV!!!  Story is here

In America corporate profits are Privatized while losses are Socialized.  We have become the greatest Communist power in the history of mankind.  The only insurance industry that is NOT Socialized is the Health Care industry.  This video is interesting in that the more important ideas come at the end although the whole thing is worth viewing…I don’t know if the terminology is correct but the sentiment is correct.  Video is here

Interesting graphic showing the contraction of the markets ie. the amount of money lost.  Story is here

This is Your Nation on White Privilege By Tim Wise 9/13/08

For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because ‘every family has challenges,’ even as black and Latino families with similar ‘challenges’ are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a ‘fuckin’ redneck,’ like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you’ll ‘kick their fuckin’ ass,’ and talk about how you like to ’shoot shit’ for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.

White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don’t all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you’re ‘untested.’

White privilege is being able to say that you support the words ‘under God’ in the pledge of allegiance because ‘if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it’s good enough for me,’ and not be immediately disqualified from holding office–since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s and the ‘under God’ part wasn’t added until the 1950s–while believing that reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.

White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you.

White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto is ‘Alaska first,’ and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you’re black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she’s being disrespectful.

White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do–like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor–and people think you’re being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college and the fact that she lives close to Russia–you’re somehow being mean, or even sexist.

White privilege is being able to convince white women who don’t even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because suddenly your presence on the ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a ’second look.’

White privilege is being able to fire people who didn’t support your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you must be corrupt.

White privilege is when you can take nearly twenty-four hours to get to a hospital after beginning to leak amniotic fluid, and still be viewed as a great mom whose commitment to her children is unquestionable, and whose ‘next door neighbor’ qualities make her ready to be VP, while if you’re a black candidate for president and you let your children be interviewed for a few seconds on TV, you’re irresponsibly exploiting them.

White privilege is being able to give a 36 minute speech in which you talk about lipstick and make fun of your opponent, while laying out no substantive policy positions on any issue at all, and still manage to be considered a legitimate candidate, while a black person who gives an hour speech the week before, in which he lays out specific policy proposals on several issues, is still criticized for being too vague about what he would do if elected.

White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God’s punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you’re just a good church-going Christian, but if you’re black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you’re an extremist who probably hates America.

White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a ‘trick question,’ while being black and merely refusing to give one-word answers to the queries of Bill O’Reilly means you’re dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.

White privilege is being able to go to a prestigious prep school, then to Yale and then Harvard Business school, and yet, still be seen as just an average guy (George W. Bush) while being black, going to a prestigious prep school, then Occidental College, then Columbia, and then to Harvard Law, makes you ‘uppity,’ and a snob who probably looks down on regular folks.

White privilege is being able to graduate near the bottom of your college class (McCain), or graduate with a C average from Yale (W.) and that’s OK, and you’re cut out to be president, but if you’re black and you graduate near the top of your class from Harvard Law, you can’t be trusted to make good decisions in office.

White privilege is being able to dump your first wife after she’s disfigured in a car crash so you can take up with a multi-millionaire beauty queen (who you go on to call the c-word in public) and still be thought of as a man of strong family values, while if you’re black and married for nearly twenty years to the same woman, your family is viewed as un-American and your gestures of affection for each other are called ‘terrorist fist bumps.’

White privilege is being able to sing a song about bombing Iran and still be viewed as a sober and rational statesman, with the maturity to be president, while being black and suggesting that the U.S. should speak with other nations, even when we have disagreements with them, makes you ‘dangerously naive and immature.’

White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism and an absent father is apparently among the ‘lesser adversities’ faced by other politicians, as Sarah Palin explained in her convention speech.

And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren’t sure about that whole ‘change’ thing. Ya know, it’s just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.

White privilege is, in short, the problem.

Source: http://www.timwise.org

Pretty shocking to think that women who have been raped would be charged for the rape kit that would see if they were actually raped and who did it.  This cost would turn many away who could not afford it so it would be a good way to keep women from reporting being raped.  Story is here

From this site

Here’s a brief sampling of why I believe Palin is not good for this country as VP and potentially as POTUS.

• She may be “just like you :)  ,” but Sarah Palin is not sufficiently experienced to lead the U.S. And to counter the criticism that she’s more experienced than Barack Obama: “By any standard, Governor Palin is less prepared as commander in chief than Obama.” — Michael Medved, 8/29/08. Compare the résumés for yourself.
• Sarah Palin believes in abstinence-only education in schools. Parents are the ones that should be primarily educating their children about sex, she says.
• Sarah Palin believes creationism should be taught in schools.
• Sarah Palin believes that abortion should be illegal, even in the cases of rape and incest.
• Sarah Palin believes that the “inalienable right to life” mentioned in the Declaration of Independence applies to fetuses but not to criminals… in their case, the right becomes alienable.
• Sarah Palin believes that God’s will compels us to build oil pipelines and to follow blindly President Bush’s policy decisions in Iraq.
• Sarah Palin believes community service and community organizers are laughable.
• Sarah Palin believes you cannot endorse the patriotic policy of “country first” without being a conservative.
• Sarah Palin, unlike her running mate, opposes stem-cell research.
• Sarah Palin has said, “A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I’m not one, though, who would attribute it to being man-made.”
• Sarah Palin argues with most state-employed biologists, saying that polar bears do not deserve the status of “endangered species.”
• Sarah Palin spoke out against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which was meant to close legal loopholes targeted at minorities and women in claims of wage discrimination.
• Sarah Palin supports state constitutional bans on gay marriages. (That’s “supports state constitutional BANS on gay marriage” and bans alone, not “thinks the matter should be left to the states.”)

An OpEd piece from a Wasilla Alaska person who knows Sarah Palin.  Story is here

Republican VP candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told Larry Kudlow less than two months ago that she can’t answer whether or not she would accept the VP offer because she has no idea what the Vice President does.  Story is here

AMERICA is America’s #1 consumer.  If America cannot afford America’s items then America will not do well.  And right now with incomes down this looks really bad for America!  This is all part of the undercutting of American paychecks for the sake of corporate profits in firing workers, removing benefits, stopping pensions and cutting wages and hours.  Story is here

This morning on NBC’s Meet the Press, host David Gregory asserted that the Republican Party “used to be the party of big ideas.” Gregory then asked his guest Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA), “What’s the big idea Senator McCain is campaigning on?” Jindal responded, “I think there’s several,” but couldn’t provide an answer. Gregory asked again, “Where are the new big ideas of the Republican Party that John McCain is, is championing?” And again Jindal couldn’t provide an answer.  Story is here

This site has a great URL!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

And this is from the horse’s mouth absolutely putting this to rest once and for all.  Video is here

His main VP possibility didn’t know the answer on that.  Story is here

The White Whale

This is one of the greatest views of what is hapening in the US today in terms of thought and the future or science vs fantasy.  The US is truly leading the First World onto the road that leads directly back to the Middle Ages er rather the Dark Ages.  Lack of respect for scientific thinking and thought that is based on empiracle evidence and simply the thought of what you BELIEVE is held up.  What this can only mean in this New World Order is that the US will be chewed up and spit out as other nations take seriously the looks for alternative fuels, stem cell research and basically everything that has to do with research and development for Corporations.  How can Corporations allow this to happen and possibly impact their bottom line?  That will probably be the thing that turns this present lack of though around in that the corporate world will demand more scientific though as opposed to the beliefclap trap and that will pull the US back onto the course it should have been on anyway.  Ahhhhh corporations.  The United States of America Inc. 

See who has possibly been Stimulated the most from the Economic Stimulus.  Story is here

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6 million people are dead as a result of what and whom?  Video is here

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Ignorance of History with Iran and what is going on there and how we arrived here.  Video is here and part 2 is here

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Fires in California.  Images here

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Find the irony in this video…it appears at 3 seconds.  Video is here  Belief of Free Speech as she is dragged out?  Beautiful display of Doublespeak!  Free Speech yes…but for me not you!

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And….Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency.  Video is here

And see who has possibly been helped the most.  Story is here

So wouldn’t that include those that don’t care about our lack of Habeas Corpus and those wanting a Theocratic regime?  How are those two different from what we have now?

As historians ponder George W. Bush’s disastrous presidency, they may wonder how Republicans perfected a propaganda system that could fool tens of millions of Americans, intimidate Democrats, and transform the vaunted Washington press corps from watchdogs to lapdogs.

Here is how!  Story is here

NASA consolidated a few of the big climate change areas onto one slick page showing temperature, sea level, CO2 and ice melt differences in time.  Story is here

At a town hall meeting John McCain shows he is out of touch and an elitist (had to throw that in hahha) that does not know the last time he pumped gas nor the cost of it…and he does not think it is important.  Story is here

So my latest Youtube account is here.  I have had other accounts in the past that have been disabled by Youtube so we will see how long this one lasts.  We shall also see if posts to Youtube wind up here automatically as that is how I set up my Youtube account.  Youtube does have groups which focus on different areas of interest and the area I usually look is the News and Politics area of course.

I cannot believe Newt Gingrich is allowed back into civilized society!  Read This

8 solid years of Republican leadership got us here.
The proper phrase was, “Today we are all NeoCons”
The world was literally with them at every step. A 91% approval rating was hit in America.  What power…possibly never more and the support to do it.

Did they use their political capital wisely?  No.  They could literally do anything but today they have a 17% support tally and all they could do was to cut taxes for the super rich and other than that what?  Start a war with a nation that did not attack us and let the group responsible for 9/11 to get away with it by hiding in a “friendly” nation right next door to Afghanistan. 

And this group of thugs (Newt included as part of the Reagan Revolution which was the usher to the BushCo Crime Family) gets away with it?
And they are allowed to come to the table with more ideas as what to do?
If it were not for the 24 hour news cycle and for the nonstop need to feed network news they would have been jailed.  In olden days there would have been a run on rope and tall tall trees and both would be scarce now.

And America does nothing while their “rights” were removed.

All it proves is Americans have no rights but privileges and even when they are taken away no one cares.  America is a paper tiger growling the power of freedom and willing to growl it at others with a condescending finger (America’s citizens included here) yet when it comes to walking the walk it crumbles like graham cracker pie crust…citizens included here as well.

Newt being allowed in civilized society confirms the above in spades.

John McCain, “I really didn’t love America until I was deprived of her company.”  Video is here

The group that wants to drill in ANWAR is trying to beat the drum that Hurricane’s Katrina and Rita that even hurricanes of massive proportion didn’t spill any oil in the Gulf of Mexico.  Apparently 3/4 of a million gallons of oil are insignificant to them.  Story is here

This is one of the most damning articles about the recent banking debacle.  Make sure to read the comments which flesh out the thoughts of America even more.  Story is here

The correct question could be gallons per mile.  Story is here

A chunk of history that America would rather forget aka The Bush Legacy will be headed to a town near you.  Watch the small video in the lower left hand corner of the page.  Story is here

80% say it is headed in the wrong direction.  Colbert may call this 17% a great base to work with but then again he is a comedian but I am sure either this number will not be reported or it will be underreported by the MainStreamMedia.  This is the lowest number ever reported in this poll.

Story is here

But then again the base is sliding too

-One-quarter of Republicans (including those who said they were leaning Republican) believe the country is headed in the right direction, compared with 11 percent of Democrats (including those leaning Democratic).

80% say it is headed in the wrong direction.  Colbert may call this 17% a great base to work with but then again he is a comedian but I am sure either this number will not be reported or it will be underreported by the MainStreamMedia.  This is the lowest number ever reported in this poll.

Story is here

But then again the base is sliding too

-One-quarter of Republicans (including those who said they were leaning Republican) believe the country is headed in the right direction, compared with 11 percent of Democrats (including those leaning Democratic).

Isn’t it ironic that the media group involved just strangely happens to be FOX News?  Story is here

Hundreds of hedge fund traders are indicted as a result of the housing meltdown that we have going on.  Story is here

The ENRON loophole closure was opposed by McCain who wants oil companies to make as much money as they can.  Story is here.  Click here to stop the Enron Loophole

There is plenty of oil that is not being sought in area that oil companies CAN drill.  Story is here

More about the grab for more oil drilling land is here

Sure, drilling in ANWAR would bring an economic return…try 2 cents a gallon by 2025.  Story is here

Ed Wallace was one of the first to have the story.  Story is here

The report’s findings track with similar studies by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, which has found that roughly seven million Americans are abusing prescription drugs. If accurate, that would be an increase of 80 percent in six years and more than the total abusing cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants.

The Florida report analyzed 168,900 deaths statewide. Cocaine, heroin and all methamphetamines caused 989 deaths, it found, while legal opioids — strong painkillers in brand-name drugs like Vicodin and OxyContin — caused 2,328.

Drugs with benzodiazepine, mainly depressants like Valium and Xanax, led to 743 deaths. Alcohol was the most commonly occurring drug, appearing in the bodies of 4,179 of the dead and judged the cause of death of 466 — fewer than cocaine (843) but more than methamphetamine (25) and marijuana (0).

The study also found that while the number of people who died with heroin in their bodies increased 14 percent in 2007, to 110, deaths related to the opioid oxycodone increased 36 percent, to 1,253.

Story is here

US military troops aren’t doing anything over there in Iraq and Afghanistan right?  Let’s try a few tests for giggles.  Story is here

Buy a Prius and have it pay for itself in 3.5 years as long as gas is $4/gal.  Story is here