Curb Your Enthusiasm For Obama

It is not about liking or not liking Obama. It is not about race or class or gender. It is not about growing up poor or a member of the working class. There is no shortage of greasy politicians who, once in power, sold out their own. Look at Bill Clinton.

It is about fighting back. It is about confronting a system that belittles us, what we stand for and what is best for the majority of Americans.

We need to throw our support behind alternative candidates who champion what we care about, whether Cynthia McKinney or Ralph Nader.

Bob Barr’s health care plan, like John McCain’s, is even worse than Obama’s tepid proposal.

We need to begin to actively and militantly defy the corporate state, and this means stepping outside of the two-party system. Universal health insurance is one issue. There are others. Nothing we care about will change until we do.

- Chris Hedges

Read the entire article here.

When Conservatives See Truth: It Makes Me Smile

B’Man’s Patriot Watch: Ralph Nader Knew… And Warned Us Long Ago

September 15, 2008 www.votenader.org www.officialnaderstore.com

On this momentous Monday, September 15, 2008, we make a simple request. Donate $15 to Nader/Gonzalez. The prudential choice for 2008. We woke up this morning early. Turned on C-Span radio. And heard Brian Lamb quoting Ralph Nader. From years ago. With Ralph warning about extravagance, recklessness, and excessive compensation on Wall Street. Warning years ago about the undue influence of Fannie and Freddie on Democrats and Republicans alike. Warning about the failure of our government to protect small investors. Throughout his career, Nader has strong been a strong advocate for due diligence. For protecting shareholder rights. For prudential regulation. And strict oversight of the markets. While the Democrats and Republicans have bent to the whims of their corporate masters and Wall Street’s bottom line imperatives. Nader has been steadfast in his advocacy for safety, regulation, and protecting the little guy. Unfortunately for the nation and for investors, his warnings have gone largely unheeded. On this momentous Monday, as we watch the fallout from the failed policies, greed and extravagance of the corporate political class unfold, we make this simple note. Due diligence, prudential regulation, and strict oversight of the markets — Nader-style — would have gone a long way to averting the disaster currently hitting Wall Street. Instead, it was short-term fast and dirty profits, muzzled politicians, and throw caution to the wind. And so now, the American people are learning the hard way about the consequences of a reckless corporate dominated political economy. But thanks to your hard work, we are in a position to give America a choice in November. For prudence. For strict oversight. For regulation. Right now, we’re in the stretch drive of our $80,000 fundraiser — to help fund our get out the vote drive. To get Ralph Nader into the presidential debates. To let the American people know that they don’t have to settle for corporate rule. There will be a choice in November. But first, we need to reach $80,000 by September 17th. We’re at $50,000. We have three days to reach $80,000. We haven’t missed one fundraising goal yet. And we don’t plan to start now. So, please, drop $15 now on Nader/Gonzalez. Help shift the power. From Wall Street and the corporate giants. Back into the hands of the American people. Together, we are making a difference. Onward to November The Nader Team

Big Money Crisis… Is The End Near?

Big Money took another hit with the Lehman Brothers fiasco.

I must ask if redencks are paying any attention and if so, do you understand what is likely to be in store for us in the next few months and into next year (perhaps many more).

Are you aware of a secret meeting that the congress held back in March that laid out several points that you should be aware of. A contingency plan for the ‘leaders’ in case we fall apart economically and finacially. To me, the question begs, “is it intentional and when”? Not, “Will it happen”.

I believe we are right in the middle of our downfall, but reread the first publication of my point from back in March:

B.A. Brooks
The United American Freedom Foundation
March 13, 2008

On March 13th 2008 there was a secret closed door meeting of The United States House Of Representatives in Washington. In the history of The United States this is only the fourth time a secret meeting was held by the house. Even though Representatives are sworn to secrecy by House Rules XVII, some of the members were so shocked, horrified, furious, and concerned about the future of America by what was revealed to them inside the secret meeting, that they have started to leak this secret information to independent news agencies around the world. The mass media said almost nothing about the secret meeting of the House, mentioning only one of the items being discussed. (The new surveillance techniques that are going to be used by the U.S. Government to watch all American citizens). The story was first released in a newspaper out of Brisbane, Australia revealing the contents of the secret U.S. Government meeting and plans for America including all of it’s citizens. Shortly there after, David J. Meyer from Last Trumpet Ministries found it and made it more available for the world to see.

Here is what was revealed:

* The imminent collapse of the U.S. Economy to occur sometime in late 2008

* The imminent collapse of the U.S. Government finances sometime in mid 2009

* The possibility of Civil War inside the United States as a result of the collapse

* The advance round-ups of “insurgent U.S. Citizens” likely to move against the government

* The detention of those rounded up at The REX 84 Camps constructed throughout the United States

* The possibility of public retaliation against members of Congress for the collapses

* The location of safe facilities for members of Congress and their families to reside during massive civil unrest

* The necessary and unavoidable merger of The U.S. with Canada and Mexico establishing The North American Union

* The issuance of a new currency called the AMERO for all three nations as an economic solution.

Folks, our economy IS on the skids already, no matter what you hear from the right. Economists, even the old ancient one, Alan Greenspan is saying so (and he is complicit in it). But, the rest of the world will too suffer due to the Big Money folks doing their last stand power grab before it all breaks apart.

The world’s financial markets are so tied to us, with very few exceptions. The world financial market is shitting their pants because they have hitched their wagon to this dead horse and the driver is taking the whole kit and kabootle over the cliff of doom.

Who will win?

China will own us. Russia will end up even more powerful and the ME will hate us and want revenge.

Not only do I blame the rich and Big Money, tho. I blame you ignorant fuckers who have gone along with the fucking. Happy to have your trinkets and denying what is evident. It is YOU who could have made a difference, but Wal-Mart calls and you are way too happy to oblige.

Sickening, but true.

Is it too late? I dunno, but I do have a solution and no one would have to raise a weapon.

If the country and the rest of the world would shut down for one week, it would crash those fuckers. One week is all it would take, if the world stood together and said, “Enough!”

Plan, get food, and don’t buy a damned thing for a week. If 350,000,000 people stopped the game in its tracks FOR ONE WEEK, it would end it.

I’m willing. How ’bout you?

Sept 15 2008

Good morning! Welcome to Monday September 15, 2008 – day 259.
Have a great week out there and be safe in whatever you do.
History on this day September 15

1620: Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims

1830:1st to be run-over by a railroad train – William Huskisson of England

1853: Reverend Antoinette Brown Blackwell was ordained becoming the first female minister was ordained in the U.S.

1858: The first mail service begins to the Pacific Coast of the U.S. under government contract. Coaches from the Butterfield Overland Mail Company took 12 days to make the journey between Tipton, MO. and San Francisco, CA.

1862: Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson captures Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and 12,000 Union soldiers as General Robert E. Lee’s army moves north into Maryland.

1904: Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight

1928: Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in the mold Penicillium notatum.

1935: The Nuremberg Laws were enacted by Nazi Germany. The act stripped all German Jews of their civil rights and the swastika was made the official symbol of Nazi Germany.

1949: “The Lone Ranger” premiered on ABC. Clayton Moore was the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels was Tonto.

1954: The famous picture of Marilyn Monroe, laughing as her skirt is blown up by the blast from a subway vent, is shot on this day during the filming of The Seven Year Itch. The scene infuriated her husband, Joe DiMaggio, who felt it was exhibitionist. The couple divorced shortly after.

1982: The first issue of “USA Today” was published.

Birthdays:

1789: James Fenimore Cooper – writer: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans

1857: William Howard Taft – 27th U.S. President [1909-1913]

1890: Agatha (Marie Clarissa) Christie (Miller) – writer: Murder on the Orient Express

1907: Fay Wray – actress: King Kong

1908: Penny Singleton (Mariana McNulty) – actress: Blondie series

1922: Jackie Cooper (John Cooperman Jr.) – actor: Little Rascals, Our Gang

1940: Merlin Olsen – Pro Football Hall of Famer: LA Rams; broadcaster: NBC, CBS NFL Football; actor: Father Murphy, Little House on the Prairie

1946: Tommy Lee Jones – actor: The Fugitive, Coalminer’s Daughter,The Executioner’s Song

1946: Oliver Stone – director: Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon

1984: Prince Harry (Henry Charles Albert David) – third in line to the British throne

Chart toppers:

1965: Help! – The Beatles
Like a Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan
Eve of Destruction – Barry McGuire
Is It Really Over? – Jim Reeves

1973: Delta Dawn – Helen Reddy
Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose – Tony Orlando & Dawn
Loves Me like a Rock – Paul Simon
You’ve Never Been This Far Before – Conway Twitty

Ponderable for the day: Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.

Word of the day: Schadenfreude \SHOD-n-froy-duh\, noun – A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.

Quote of the day: “There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”

- Marshall McLuhan

Stuff……….you should know.

- Bill Bowerman, the co-founder of the shoe company Nike, got his first shoe idea after staring at a waffle iron. This gave him the idea of using squared spikes to make the shoes lighter.
- In the late 1960’s, Mountain Dew bottles featured a hillbilly on them. These are now collector items worth five to ten dollars.
- Coca-cola used to use the slogan “Good to the last drop,” in 1908. This slogan was later used by Maxwell House.
- Coupons were introduced in 1894 when Asa Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula for $2,300 and gave people coupons that he had written out to receive a free glass of coke.
- David McConnell started the California Perfume Company (CPC) in 1886. Today the company is known as Avon, which he named after his favorite playwright William Shakespeare, and Stratford on Avon.
- Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.
- Fossilized bird droppings are one of the chief exports of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
- Frosted Flakes mascot “Tony the Tiger” has a wife, son (Tony Jr.) and daughter (Antoinette) that were used in early advertising commercials.
- In 1890, Pepsi-Cola was invented by Caleb Bradham and was originally called “Brad’s Drink.”
- In 1897, Bayer, who is the makers of Aspirin, once marketed the drug heroin.
- In 1907, for an ad campaign, women were offered a free box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. There actually is an interesting bit of trivia regarding Corn Flakes and Freud. It has to do wuth the reason they were developed in the first place– look it up… it’s a trip!

1620: Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims

1830:1st to be run-over by a railroad train – William Huskisson of England

1853: Reverend Antoinette Brown Blackwell was ordained becoming the first female minister was ordained in the U.S.

1858: The first mail service begins to the Pacific Coast of the U.S. under government contract. Coaches from the Butterfield Overland Mail Company took 12 days to make the journey between Tipton, MO. and San Francisco, CA.

1862: Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson captures Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and 12,000 Union soldiers as General Robert E. Lee’s army moves north into Maryland.

1904: Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight

1928: Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in the mold Penicillium notatum.

1935: The Nuremberg Laws were enacted by Nazi Germany. The act stripped all German Jews of their civil rights and the swastika was made the official symbol of Nazi Germany.

1949: “The Lone Ranger” premiered on ABC. Clayton Moore was the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels was Tonto.

1954: The famous picture of Marilyn Monroe, laughing as her skirt is blown up by the blast from a subway vent, is shot on this day during the filming of The Seven Year Itch. The scene infuriated her husband, Joe DiMaggio, who felt it was exhibitionist. The couple divorced shortly after.

1982: The first issue of “USA Today” was published.

Birthdays:

1789: James Fenimore Cooper – writer: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans

1857: William Howard Taft – 27th U.S. President [1909-1913]

1890: Agatha (Marie Clarissa) Christie (Miller) – writer: Murder on the Orient Express

1907: Fay Wray – actress: King Kong

1908: Penny Singleton (Mariana McNulty) – actress: Blondie series

1922: Jackie Cooper (John Cooperman Jr.) – actor: Little Rascals, Our Gang

1940: Merlin Olsen – Pro Football Hall of Famer: LA Rams; broadcaster: NBC, CBS NFL Football; actor: Father Murphy, Little House on the Prairie

1946: Tommy Lee Jones – actor: The Fugitive, Coalminer’s Daughter,The Executioner’s Song

1946: Oliver Stone – director: Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon

1984: Prince Harry (Henry Charles Albert David) – third in line to the British throne

Chart toppers:

1965: Help! – The Beatles
Like a Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan
Eve of Destruction – Barry McGuire
Is It Really Over? – Jim Reeves

1973: Delta Dawn – Helen Reddy
Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose – Tony Orlando & Dawn
Loves Me like a Rock – Paul Simon
You’ve Never Been This Far Before – Conway Twitty

Ponderable for the day: Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.

Word of the day: Schadenfreude \SHOD-n-froy-duh\, noun – A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.

Quote of the day: “There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”

- Marshall McLuhan

Stuff……….you should know.

- Bill Bowerman, the co-founder of the shoe company Nike, got his first shoe idea after staring at a waffle iron. This gave him the idea of using squared spikes to make the shoes lighter.
- In the late 1960’s, Mountain Dew bottles featured a hillbilly on them. These are now collector items worth five to ten dollars.
- Coca-cola used to use the slogan “Good to the last drop,” in 1908. This slogan was later used by Maxwell House.
- Coupons were introduced in 1894 when Asa Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula for $2,300 and gave people coupons that he had written out to receive a free glass of coke.
- David McConnell started the California Perfume Company (CPC) in 1886. Today the company is known as Avon, which he named after his favorite playwright William Shakespeare, and Stratford on Avon.
- Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.
- Fossilized bird droppings are one of the chief exports of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
- Frosted Flakes mascot “Tony the Tiger” has a wife, son (Tony Jr.) and daughter (Antoinette) that were used in early advertising commercials.
- In 1890, Pepsi-Cola was invented by Caleb Bradham and was originally called “Brad’s Drink.”
- In 1897, Bayer, who is the makers of Aspirin, once marketed the drug heroin.
- In 1907, for an ad campaign, women were offered a free box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes cereal for winking at the grocer. At the time, the company was called the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company.
- In 1923, the first neon sign was introduced in the U.S. Two neon signs were sold to a Packard car dealership for $24,000 which read, “Packard.”
- In 1945, a seven ounce bathroom cup was the first item Tupperware marketed.
- In 1970, micro-chip maker Intel purchased a pear orchard to build their corporate headquarters on.
- In the late 1650’s the first known check was written in Europe.