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True Progressivism (Not The Fake Obama Kind You Were Fooled By)

One of the most open and honest discussion about progressive values concerning Single Payer Universal healthcare.

A real majority of the “Two Party System” (may be 60 now with Spector) has the numbers to do what is right for this country, but as Ed lays it out, the Dems are in the pocket of Big Insurance.

BTW: Bernie Sanders is a Patriot.

There is a chance to make this happen, but you must get loud in your own back yard. It isn’t enough to just post this shit on a blog. Get out in your community and start talking to people and asking them specific questions about their healthcare and it is easy to show them where their brainwashed ideas of “socialized medicine” are wrong headed and that there is a far better solution.

There is no reason why this country spends twice as much for health care as any industrialized country in the world, yet we have poorer health and health care as a result.

It is the Insurance Companies, idiot. Wake Up! Get them out of your health care and watch it improve for less money.

Will you get it from Barack Obama? No, because he is NOT a progressive and never has been. Also look at where he got his campaign finances from and your answer is obvious as to “why” he won’t push for it, even though he has the political clout to do so.

You Obama Maniacs are gullible fools. Just as gullible and foolish as any Bushie alive.

h/t AfterDowningStreet

America Is A Bunch Of Suckers

Obama’s 100 Days

The Mad Men Did Well

By John Pilger

April 29, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — The BBC’s American television soap Mad Men offers a rare glimpse of the power of corporate advertising. The promotion of smoking half a century ago by the “smart” people of Madison Avenue, who knew the truth, led to countless deaths. Advertising and its twin, public relations, became a way of deceiving dreamt up by those who had read Freud and applied mass psychology to anything from cigarettes to politics. Just as Marlboro Man was virility itself, so politicians could be branded, packaged and sold.

It is more than 100 days since Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. The “Obama brand” has been named “Advertising Age’s marketer of the year for 2008″, easily beating Apple computers. David Fenton of MoveOn.org describes Obama’s election campaign as “an institutionalised mass-level automated technological community organising that has never existed before and is a very, very powerful force”. Deploying the internet and a slogan plagiarised from the Latino union organiser César Chávez – “Sí, se puede!” or “Yes, we can” – the mass-level automated technological community marketed its brand to victory in a country desperate to be rid of George W Bush.

No one knew what the new brand actually stood for. So accomplished was the advertising (a record $75m was spent on television commercials alone) that many Americans actually believed Obama shared their opposition to Bush’s wars. In fact, he had repeatedly backed Bush’s warmongering and its congressional funding. Many Americans also believed he was the heir to Martin Luther King’s legacy of anti-colonialism. Yet if Obama had a theme at all, apart from the vacuous “Change you can believe in”, it was the renewal of America as a dominant, avaricious bully. “We will be the most powerful,” he often declared.

Perhaps the Obama brand’s most effective advertising was supplied free of charge by those journalists who, as courtiers of a rapacious system, promote shining knights. They depoliticised him, spinning his platitudinous speeches as “adroit literary creations, rich, like those Doric columns, with allusion…” (Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian). The San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford wrote: “Many spiritually advanced people I know… identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who… can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet.”

In his first 100 days, Obama has excused torture, opposed habeas corpus and demanded more secret government. He has kept Bush’s gulag intact and at least 17,000 prisoners beyond the reach of justice. On 24 April, his lawyers won an appeal that ruled Guantanamo Bay prisoners were not “persons”, and therefore had no right not to be tortured. His national intelligence director, Admiral Dennis Blair, says he believes torture works. One of his senior US intelligence officials in Latin America is accused of covering up the torture of an American nun in Guatemala in 1989; another is a Pinochet apologist. As Daniel Ellsberg has pointed out, the US experienced a military coup under Bush, whose secretary of “defence”, Robert Gates, along with the same warmaking officials, has been retained by Obama.

All over the world, America’s violent assault on innocent people, directly or by agents, has been stepped up. During the recent massacre in Gaza, reports Seymour Hersh, “the Obama team let it be known that it would not object to the planned resupply of ’smart bombs’ and other hi-tech ordnance that was already flowing to Israel” and being used to slaughter mostly women and children. In Pakistan, the number of civilians killed by US missiles called drones has more than doubled since Obama took office.

In Afghanistan, the US “strategy” of killing Pashtun tribespeople (the “Taliban”) has been extended by Obama to give the Pentagon time to build a series of permanent bases right across the devastated country where, says Secretary Gates, the US military will remain indefinitely. Obama’s policy, one unchanged since the Cold War, is to intimidate Russia and China, now an imperial rival. He is proceeding with Bush’s provocation of placing missiles on Russia’s western border, justifying it as a counter to Iran, which he accuses, absurdly, of posing “a real threat” to Europe and the US. On 5 April in Prague, he made a speech reported as “anti-nuclear”. It was nothing of the kind. Under the Pentagon’s Reliable Replacement Warhead programme, the US is building new “tactical” nuclear weapons designed to blur the distinction between nuclear and conventional war.

Perhaps the biggest lie – the equivalent of smoking is good for you – is Obama’s announcement that the US is leaving Iraq, the country it has reduced to a river of blood. According to unabashed US army planners, as many as 70,000 troops will remain “for the next 15 to 20 years”. On 25 April, his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, alluded to this. It is not surprising that the polls are showing that a growing number of Americans believe they have been suckered – especially as the nation’s economy has been entrusted to the same fraudsters who destroyed it. Lawrence Summers, Obama’s principal economic adviser, is throwing $3trn at the same banks that paid him more than $8m last year, including $135,000 for one speech. Change you can believe in.

Much of the American establishment loathed Bush and Cheney for exposing, and threatening, the onward march of America’s “grand design”, as Henry Kissinger, war criminal and now Obama adviser, calls it. In advertising terms, Bush was a “brand collapse” whereas Obama, with his toothpaste advertisement smile and righteous clichés, is a godsend. At a stroke, he has seen off serious domestic dissent to war, and he brings tears to the eyes, from Washington to Whitehall. He is the BBC’s man, and CNN’s man, and Murdoch’s man, and Wall Street’s man, and the CIA’s man. The Madmen did well.

h/t Dandelion Salad

The BuelahFamily Is NOT Scared Of Swine Flu

Here’s how we overcome around here:

BuelahGirl's Swine Flu Remedy

j/k (h/t My Specialist)

Another Worthless Commission

Thanks Pat. All we need is another bogus “911 Commission” type coverup of torture and all the wrong-doings by the previous administration and the complicit reThugs and democRATS.

We know how bogus these “commissions” are and personally I believe that a Special Investigator is needed. Maybe Patrick Fitzgerald is looking for some more work.

You’ll know how serious it is by who is “selected” to be on the commission and who selects them.

h/t RawStory

And on a note of somewhat good news, it appears that major Progressive Caucus groups have joined together to fight for the Public Health Insurance Plan (h/t AfterDowningStreet)

(Traveling today… wish me luck on a big sale potential)

B’Man’s Hypocrite Watch: War Criminals (Just As Long As It Isn’t Americans)

This country is run by the most audacious hypocrites the world has known.

And the Sheople may say, “Amen.”

Back then, Bush gave a standard that showed that he and his Administration knew that there is no “good faith defense” in committing war crimes. He insisted “War crimes will be prosecuted, war criminals will be punished and it will be no defense to say, “I was just following orders.“

h/t Jonathon Turley for the text and ThinkProgress for the video

Getting Your Freak On: How Freaky Are You?

Apparently I scored a 15 which means I am only 14% freakier than you are. My results:

pretty freaky

you have a fairly low freak score

you have a pretty good amount of freak.  you occasionally do something pretty freaky, but generally have the capacity to be normal.  you probably have an amount of freak within and don’t get stared at very often, which is nice.

Take the test yourself and get your freak on.

test to see how much of a freak are you, anyways?

White House Blues

I had a great experience today when I happened upon an old friend’s website. Lisa Lambert is a wonderful woman who long ago was a subject of a crush of mine (although she probably still doesn’t know… until she reads this. SURPRISE!) when we were in high school. But I must say she still looks good, wouldn’t you? Better than ever, maybe (I don’t know what it is but several of her female classmates still look good)?

I remember her talent in band and I knew she could sing from church (didn’t we go to Iuka Baptist together?). I even saw her a few years ago with her mom (whom I adored in school) at the local city park and she had a fiddle strapped on her back. She didn’t play it for me, but somehow I just knew a person who had the audacity to strap one on, surely could play it as well.

Now regular readers know I’m from the country (at least compared to big cities, anyway). However, I never really grew into country music. I am obviously a Rock and Roller. But there may be many things that the world doesn’t know about BuelahMan, such as I can play symphonic or concert trumpet, along with ragtime, big band and an assortment of different music types. A musician learnes to appreciate talent, especially on the more traditional instruments and the music, itself. There is a style that I appreciate greatly because as luck would have it, I have several friends who played the old time dulcimer, guitar, fiddle, banjo music.

This is the REAL DEAL when it comes to country roots music.

The way I remember Lisa is a sweet, innocent, non-assuming person who would not likely approve of my demeanor here. But, I had to ask her for a song to feature here (don’t worry, I warned her first) and I suppose she (after coming here and getting a barrage of my redneck bs) realized that I am into politics and first mentioned White House Blues (which, of course, was the first one I listened to at her radio channel… linked below). But you really need to listen to a few others like Tishomingo Blues (related to our home county) or Fishin’ Blues.

From her site:

LISA LAMBERT MUSIC RADIO!

The ONLY station in the world featuring

MUSIC FROM THE MISSISSIPPI HILLS!

Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Gospel, or Roots Music

The fact that this probably IS the only place to find Mississippi Hills Music is reason enough to bookmark it, if a fan. But knowing it is from BuelahMan’s stomping grounds should make it imperative for you.

(snark)

If you think that music hasn’t kept a pulse on the political scene for many years, listen to this excellent rendition of White House Blues (hover over the link and a player will pop up):

White House Blues

Please visit her website here for more information and bookings.

Lisa Lambert Music

or

http://www.lisalambertmusic.com/

You can also listen to her online radio channel for more.

Lisa Lambert and The Pine Ridge Boys Myspace

If some strange planetary alignment happens and you find yourself anywhere near north Mississippi in the next month or two, you should go see them. Who knows, you might even get to meet the BuelahFamily, too.

Saturday, May 09, 2009

IUKA BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL Iuka, MS 12:00 AM A Full Day Of Bluegrass & String Band Music! Fun for the FAMILY! Bring your lawnchair & a friend!

Saturday, May 23, 2009

NORTHEAST MS BLUEGRASS ASSOCIATION Booneville, MS 6:30 PM BLUEGRASS / BLUEGRASS GOSPEL MUSIC VENUE For more Info:  Malcolm Henderson 662-720-1947

Monday, May 25, 2009

DENNIS DAY – JOHNNY TIMBES MEMORIAL BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL Dennis, MS 1:00 PM Great Show featuring hot area bands! DENNIS COMMUNITY PARK – Intersection of Hwy 4 & Hwy 25 – Dennis, MS Bring your lawnchairs! Free Admission – Concessions Available – All Proceeds go to the upkeep of the Dennis Park.

Friday, May 29, 2009

TOMBIGBEE JAMBOREE (live via internet @ www.tombigbeejamboree.net) Fulton, MS 7:00 PM BLUEGRASS / GOSPEL MUSIC ADMISSION:  $3

Saturday, June 06, 2009

TUPELO ELVIS FESTIVAL Tupelo, MS 2:15 PM For the 1ST TIME EVER…a Bluegrass Blend Band is performing at the Tupelo Elvis Festival…AND WE’RE IT!  IT’LL BE GREAT FUN!

Saturday, June 13, 2009

DELMORE DAYS FESTIVAL Athens, AL 4:30 PM

Fathersday Gift??

http://vimeo.com/1803735

I know last years suggestion was well received… lol…

Whisper A Prayer For The Dying

One of the truly great Rock and Roll voices and performers is a guy named David Coverdale. He started in the Big Time trading lead in Deep Purple. He later formed Whitesnake (where most rock and rollers know him from) after turning down the lead position for Black Sabbath. Great move, David.

I always felt his baritone voice (with an amazing range) is one of the best for Rock and Roll music (a personal preference), but what many people don’t realize is his song writing abilities.

As I was working in the wicked garden, this song came on and I couldn’t help but think about Iraqi children and innocents that have been killed and maimed by our illegal and immoral invasion and occupation. Listen and read the words.

If nothing else, this is my whispered prayer for them:

Whisper A Prayer For The Dying

I hear the sound of distant thunder, echo all around,
I see the tragedy of young ones lying on the ground,
I see the fathers sons and daughters, I hear the mothers crying,
Nothing left for me to do, but, whisper a prayer for the dying.

Oh, a prayer for the dying.

The suffocating heat of jungles, and burning desert sands,
Where everything reminds you, youre a stranger in a strange land.
The soothing words of politicians, those bodyguards of lies,
While guardian angels waste their time and every mother cries.

Oh, a prayer for the dying, dying, dying.

Machine gun, battle cry, you pray to God when the bullets fly,
The bombs fall like black rain, an all your dreams take you home again,
Nothing but bad dreams.

You cant read, you cant write,
Youre so scared, you cant sleep at night
You try to carry the heavy load,
Walking down armageddon road.

Oh, armageddon road.

I hear the sound of distant thunder, echo all around,
I see the tragedy of young ones lying on the ground,
I see the fathers sons and daughters, I hear the mothers crying,
Nothing left for me to do, but, whisper a prayer for the dying.

Oh, a prayer for the dying, dying.
Oh, a prayer for the dying, baby, baby.
Oh, a prayer for the dying, dying,
Whisper a prayer for the dying.

You cant run, you cant hide,
You cant show what you feel inside.
Youre going crazy, going insane,
You know youll never be the same again, no, no.

Whisper a prayer for the dying, dying, dying, dying, dying, no, no.
Armageddon road, armageddon road, Im walking down armageddon road.

B’Man’s Wicked Garden: Half-Way Planted

Tilled and Ready (tomatoes, green peppers and corn)

Tomatoes, cabbage and green peppers close up

Lard Ass Digging a Row

Lard Ass interrupted to take pics

A "wore-out" Lard Ass

A Wheelbarrow's view of Bean Rows

OK:

So far I have planted one row of corn (another next weekend to stagger the crop and a third in about three weeks). 1 row of red onions, 2/3 of 1 in cabbage and the rest of that row in green peppers. Squash, Giant speckled Butter beans, Brown beans, black-eyed peas and potatoes.

I am leaving about 4 rows open for late planting, which leaves me with about 3 or 4 to plant some more this week.

Now to my ulterior motive. My “fighting weight” is about 200 to 205. When I began this garden my other motive was exercise and to lose weight. I began at 255 (yes, at least 50# over weight). I haven’t weighed again, but I can feel it coming off in how my clothes fit.

For those of you who have never planted a garden, it is hard assed work. But after planting it truly is just maintenance.

Also keep in mind that this lot was grass covered, so I had to till it 4 times and I have raked so much grass and roots that my arms hurt thinking about it.

But at 47, I intend to get back down to 200 (I would love to break the 200, for my ideal weight is closer to 185, or, at least, it WAS.)

Noteboek

Saw this at Neatorama and it is truly amazing. Winner of multiple awards.

Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo (English title: Notebook) consists of 4 short experimental films where I try to confuse the reality. In these films, illusions and expectations are challenged.

Noteboek is a short film and part of my graduation project.

If you want to see more work please visit: evelienlohbeck.com

Music: The White Stripes-Seven Nation Army.

more about “Noteboek on Vimeo“, posted with vodpod

Illegal Swines!

Given that in Mexico City the streets are empty… and given the fact that we still have countless illegals crossing over into the states… much less travelers that basically don’t care about anyone but themselves… well… I am not sure how the CDC thinks it’s going to battle this one??
Swine flu confirmed in NYC high school students
By KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press Writer Karen Matthews, Associated Press Writer – 43 mins ago
NEW YORK – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that students at a city high school were infected with swine flu.
New York officials previously had said they were eight “probable” cases, but tests later confirmed that it was indeed swine flu. Bloomberg stressed that the cases were mild and many are recovering.
The city is awaiting the tests of additional samples to see if more St. Francis Preparatory School students were infected.
About 100 students complained of flu-like symptoms at the school. Some students went to Cancun on a spring break trip two weeks ago.

Remembering Austan Goolsbee

Who, you ask?

This is the guy that came out to give assurances to Canadians after  Barack Obama’s campaign promises to limit or regulate NAFTA. He fell on his sword to tell the press and everyone listening that this was not true. Mr Goolsbee explained that Mr Obama was using rhetoric and that the Canadians had nothing to worry about.

Now back to “Who, you ask?”

I wonder if you have heard a word about him since that time. Is he still a part of Mr Obama’s “team”? Does it matter?

I say, “Yes, it matters.” Because we have been lied to AGAIN by The Left’s Savior, Mr Barack Obama. This man is the height of political expediency and will lie with abandon, not giving a shit about you or your support any more than what he needs to get elected or his policies passed. He lied to you to get elected and now his actions show him to be the bald faced liar he is (and I have seen from day one).

How can it be that this ignorant old redneck can see him for the damned liar he is and you others can’t? (I must have asked myself that question a million times during the Bush Admin)

This country is chock full of Sheople and it is bringing us down. You fools that are still immersed and emotionally invested in the two party system are literally bringing this country to its knees.

From the WSJ:

Perhaps we should call this Austan Goolsbee’s revenge. Recall that last year the Obama economic adviser had told a Canadian diplomat to ignore Mr. Obama’s Nafta campaign rhetoric; the candidate was merely pandering to Big Labor. When that disclosure became news, Mr. Goolsbee was banished to the campaign’s isolation ward for imperfect spinners. Now we know Mr. Goolsbee — not the candidate — was the one telling the truth.

h/t UNDERNEWS

How many of you Sheople are going to defend your Savior from this lie? Are you now going to agree with the man when you know NAFTA has taken a huge toll on the American worker? Will you join in and attack those that see the lie, call him on it and become the same idiotic sycophants that were ball licking W?

Breathtakingly Beautiful BuelahLady

I met my wife about 6 months after this was taken. She was 18, at the time.

(Hint: there are certain attributes this photo does not share that are even more amazing)

BuelahLady 1987 HS Graduation Picture

This woman has the most beautiful skin. I have heard a hundred or more people say so (usually older women who grab her by the cheeks). She needs no makeup, but does put it on periodically (as in this picture). But never too much. And DAMN: look at her eyes. Beautiful and captivating. They suck you in and drown you.

And did the Lord bless this woman “upstairs” (D-Cup is a very close second) and in the blue jean fillin’ department (if’n you know what I mean).

But more than any physical beauty, time taught me that this person has the warmest and most accepting heart I ever knew. Yes, she can be a wild cat, but I kinda like wild cats. She is one of those people you meet that you can instantly warm up to. She can “feel your pain”:  intensely intuitive about another’s suffering. She has this ability to touch you deep in your heart… emotionally and I have witnessed many people pour themselves out to her (people she never met before… in the shopping mall, at a restaurant, on an airplane…)

I know that this woman will stand by me and would die for me… no matter what. I know that she loves me deeply, through sickness and health, better or worst. I know that she is totally committed and dedicated to me and my daughter, our happiness and our welfare. I know that she trusts me and I know that I can trust here like no other in the world.

I love my Beautiful BuelahLady.