Richard Noggin’ Saturday: Neutered President Ron Paul

 

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I have written about Ron Paul several times here. I like a great deal of what the man has to say. Were it an open and honorable election system, where political parties were not owned lock, stock and barrel by Corporate interests with a goal of subservience to Big Money, I would say right here and now that I would vote for him as POTUS.

Of course, he is a reTHUGlican. He proves his allegiance in this video below where Sean Hannity tries to get him to say that he would not become independent in his run for POTUS.

The “statist”, Sean Hannity (and the other ass-kissing sycophants like Rush and O’Lielly) have done little more than discount and belittle Paul’s run. Minimize the non-interventionist stance… argue about what America’s role in the world is, but then stroke him for the initiatives that could easily be hijacked into an austerity jackpot.

Take the hints in the video below to see where I am going with this and listen carefully, as the slimeball, Sean, sets the stage for his gullible, sheep-like listeners:

 

Ron Paul could very likely be our next president. Obama is despised and even those on the “left” are angry that he is a liar and worse than Bush (even though I have been telling them this for years now). All the other reTHUGs are fools, war mongers, globalist pigs (just like their demoRAT counterparts). The American public is hoping for someone like Paul to step in and change things. You know: hope and change (AGAIN).

President Paul will be lauded as an economic genius and many of his harshest policies will be pushed from the THUGs (and will also be rallied by the RATs). They will use the man’s platform to continue the globalist, world-stealing, Israeli-kowtowing agenda. And he will get all sorts of adulation for it. But guess which of his platforms will be ignored, belittled and struck down? All of his foreign interventionist/bring the troops home rhetoric (which is WHAT gets him elected… just like that is what got the criminal, Obama elected). Anything to do with dismantling the Patriot Act, Homeland Security, etc will be squashed and he will acquiesce, saying that it is a tough battle and new information given him that he didn’t have before will change his policy to be the same world-controlling Empire. Auditing/dismantling The Fed will take a back seat, because he will be over-seeing the crash of the Dollar and will be one of the first to endorse a new currency and slight changes to the system. But, one should never believe for a second that the real power brokers will ever lose their power, no matter what replaces what we know as the Fed.

What has become evident is that it is now impossible for the blowhards like Hannity to continue to ignore Paul, so they will now begin the embrace: the massage to turn the perception of Americans towards Paul. Hijack his campaign and do the same old/same old.

For sure, never doubt that he will be neutered the moment he wins the election and we can experience all that hope and change again this election cycle, just like ALL the other hopes and changes we have experienced in the POTUS elections.

Say it with me, Sheoples:

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Richard Noggin’ Saturday: You Make The Call

I know people who consider each one of these guys as heroes and other folk who consider each to be some sort of monster. There have been many times that I find myself in agreement with both, generally depending on the particular subject matter. I have always questioned Duke’s KKK ties, even if 30+ years ago, but I also have questioned Thom Hartmann‘s underlying motives and whether or not he would held as a puppet for Big Media.

When I saw the video below, especially considering the title, I knew beyond any personal doubt that Mr Hartman is as much a shill for Zionism as David Duke might ever be a racist. Look how personal attacks are the only tool that Thom uses. Misdirection, belittling, obfuscation, name-calling. Then consider what Duke says and explain how he is incorrect in any way. Yes, he might be strongly pro-white (and may, in fact, be a racist), but I need someone to explain how what he says is incorrect.

So, in your personal estimation, which one is the Richard Noggin’?

Former white supremacist David Duke goes anti-semitic at Thom Hartmann

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Richard Noggin Saturday: Ayn Rand and All Of Her Sycophantic Ass-Kissers

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I happened upon this CBS interview that Mike Wallace did with Ayn Rand in 1959. I can now see why the fools that are in the GOP (including Ron and Rand Paul) are so morally bankrupt.

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Richard Noggin’ Saturday: Being A Dickhead’s Cool

I’m cool!

And I don’t give a rat’s ass any more. It may be too late to really do anything about it, but I can get more across to the dumb-ass American citizenry by being a Dickhead than by any other method.

Richard Noggin Saturday and The Empire’s Leaking Dick

I have had several requests for a post regarding my thoughts on Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks deal.

It is really quite simple: it comes down to the nut-cuttin of 911. When you look at what Assange says about 911, I see a hack. Why? Because anyone, at this point, who denies 911 was a demolition is either wholly uninformed, a stupid and ignorant asshole or complicit in the murders of that day. That goes for ANYONE who denies a demolition or anyone who still blathers the “official story” (friend or foe). Chomsky is another asshole, but that is a different post because I suspect he is lying about (or hiding) the true feelings he has.

I could, in no way, express this better than the Dog Poet did in his post, “The Western World’s Murder of Logic and Reason“:

I measure a person’s truthfulness and intelligence according to the way they define what happened on 9/11. Let me make a very clear and unequivocal statement. Everything changed because of 9/11. All the so-called secrets that Assange possesses are influenced by 9/11. Every war since 9/11 has come about, one way or another, because of 9/11. The whole concept of terrorist has been set and sold according to 9/11. 9/11 is the Big Kahuna, period.

911 is the nut-cuttin issue of our lives. Everything revolves around that day, for it was the day that gave the criminals the excuse to implement the Fascism we are experiencing at this time. Every thing before then was pretext or small grabs at liberty with fear of backlash. Now, they feel that they have bumfuzzled the entire world’s population into believing the lie and continue the barrage with assholes like Assange and those who are defending his every move, in face of the detail that comes out showing Zionism’s evil hand controlling it all.

Now we watch as many “progressives” come out in defense of Assange, as if he is a hero. But look at what Wikileaks actually does: gives small bits of juicy info that has no teeth and at the same time protects everything Israel. Most of the crap is old news and does little to stop the criminals (on the contrary, the info coming out is done to increase the actions that our government takes against us). The following video does a good job of breaking down the dis-info:

WikiPoison

Of course, I do not KNOW what Assange’s motivation is, but I can see that Israel and the American Empire is being protected and the actions are being justified. I can see that the mass of information is being filtered by the likes of the New York Times, the Guardian, Der Spiegel, and the government of Israel (among other criminals, as well). I can see that what info is let, is being released slowly and with purpose of misdirection… NOT some info dump that allows the citizenry to scrutinize and filter as we see fit. No, we need the MSM and complicit governments to let us know what we “need to know”, when we need to know it.

So, when this asshole says:

“I’m constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.“

… and at the same time he is ignoring or hiding the proof of evil that is Zionism, it is obvious to this ole redneck that the leaks miraculously still bolster the rationale for attacking Afghanistan and Iraq, even while showing videos of helicopters massacring innocent civilians. It helps bolster our own brand of American evil, while its psyops convince the American public that we are still doing the right thing.

Well, we are not. And we have not been since the criminal cabal took full control after their new “Pearl Harbor Event”.

But, B’Man, doesn’t Wikileaks offer ANYTHING worth knowing? Sure, but compare and measure the good info versus the misdirectional info. They don’t mind giving a bit of dirt on our actions, as long as the main misdirection is the focus and the rest forgotten (or ignored) quickly.

Gordon Duff shares with us a PBS interview that Judy Woodruff did with the globalist scumbag, Zbigniew Brzezinski, where he questions the end goal of the leaks, at the same time admitting that most is worthless information:

But I think the most serious issues are not those which are getting the headlines right now. Who cares if Berlusconi is described as a clown. Most Italians agree with that. Who cares if Putin is described as an alpha dog? He probably is flattered by it.
The real issue is, who is feeding Wikipedia on this issue — Wiki — Wiki — WikiLeaks on this issue? They’re getting a lot of information which seems trivial, inconsequential, but some of it seems surprisingly pointed. …The very pointed references to Arab leaders could have as their objective undermining their political credibility at home, because this kind of public identification of their hostility towards Iran could actually play against them at home.
It’s, rather, a question of whether WikiLeaks are being manipulated by interested parties that want to either complicate our relationship with other governments or want to undermine some governments, because some of these items that are being emphasized and have surfaced are very pointed.
And I wonder whether, in fact, there aren’t some operations internationally, intelligence services, that are feeding stuff to WikiLeaks, because it is a unique opportunity to embarrass us, to embarrass our position, but also to undermine our relations with particular governments.

Then, in an effort to “threaten” the US Government, Assange makes a comment in an interview with The Gulf writers that shows me that there is anything BUT a noble reason why Assange is releasing these “leaks”:

“If I am killed or detained for a long time, there are 2,000 websites ready to publish the remaining files. We have protected these websites through very safe passwords,” said Assange.

Currently, his whistle-blowing website is exposing files in a ‘responsible’ manner, he claimed. “But if I am forced we could go to the extreme and expose each and every file that we have access to,” thundered the WikiLeaks founder. “We must protect our sources at whatever cost. This is our sincere concern.”

A “responsible manner” must mean doing what his friend and mentor, Benny Nuttyahoo, tells him to do and if the powers decide to pull the plug and stop the gravy train, he will THEN tell all. Very noble position, eh? Not to mention all the other convenient coincidences that show very strange bedfellow relationships abound that the Dissident Voice’s Maidhc Ó Cathail shares with us:

It is surely just a coincidence that the law firm – Finers Stephens Innocent – which represents Julian Assange and set up the Julian Assange Defense Fund is also legal adviser to the Rothschild Waddesdon Trust; that the partially Rothschild-owned Economist gave Assange its 2008 Freedom of Expression Award; that Lord Rothschild is deputy chairman of BSkyB, whose warmongering chairman, Rupert Murdoch, and his propagandist father were lauded as fearless advocates of the truth by the WikiLeaks founder in an op-ed in the Murdoch-owned The Australian; that the only world leader “undoubtedly delighted” by the leaks, Benjamin Netanyahu – who often stays with Murdoch in London and has the award-winningpro-Israel media magnate on his “list of millionaires” (i.e. potential donors) – was singled out by Assange as a believer in diplomatic transparency; and that WikiLeaks has provided an unexpected “diplomatic coup” for the criminal state which was first promised to British Zionists in an enigmatic 1917 letter to an earlier Lord Rothschild.

We are also told by Michel Chossudovsky in his article, “Who is behind Wikileaks?” that The Economist, with its deep ties to The Rothschild’s family and the Bilderberg group, is instrumental in WikiLeaks publication, going so far as to give Assange the 2008 The Economist’s New Media Award. Michel asks the poignant question:

The broader question is why would Julian Assange receive the support from Britain’s foremost establishment news outfit which has consistently been involved in media disinformation?

Yes, I wonder why that would be, as well. You think that the connection may be for manufactured dissent? Michel does (and so do I):

Manufacturing Dissent

Wikileaks has the essential features of a process of “manufactured dissent”. It seeks to expose government lies. It has released important information on US war crimes. But once the project becomes embedded in the mould of mainstream journalism, it is used as an instrument of media disinformation:

“It is in the interest of the corporate elites to accept dissent and protest as a feature of the system inasmuch as they do not threaten the established social order. The purpose is not to repress dissent, but, on the contrary, to shape and mould the protest movement, to set the outer limits of dissent. To maintain their legitimacy, the economic elites favor limited and controlled forms of opposition…  To be effective, however, the process of “manufacturing dissent” must be carefully regulated and monitored by those who are the object of the protest movement ” (See Michel Chossudovsky,  “Manufacturing Dissent”: the Anti-globalization Movement is Funded by the Corporate Elites, September 2010)

Haaretz even tells us that the Turks accuse Israel of orchestrating the release of info by Wikileaks (oops):

Addressing reporters, Huseyin Celik, deputy leader of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP party, hinted that Israel engineered the leak of hundreds of thousands of United States diplomatic cables as a plot to pressure the Turkish government.“One has to look at which countries are pleased with these,” Celik was quoted as saying. “Israel is very pleased. Israel has been making statements for days, even before the release of these documents.”

“Documents were released and they immediately said, ‘Israel will not suffer from this.’ How did they know that?” Celik asked.

I cannot go on without admitting that there could be multiple reasons for what is transpiring. There could, of course, be an effort to squash the internet and with the new net-unneutrality bills floating around and the insatiable grab for control by our government as they bring this country to its knees in their controlled fashion, we must be prepared for the inevitable crack-down on the only supposedly free media we have at the moment. Our government is spreading its clutches to food and every other aspect of our lives, so the only one that keeps thinking people in communication HAS to be next (and I suspect that we are building up to the rationale they will need to shut it down to a very controlled trickle sometime soon).

Max Igan talks about this in his latest show:

I have to agree with Max that this will be used to monitor and control the net. But I also believe that he is going to soft on Assange and the purpose behind it.

I have no doubt that there is valuable information that has been released, but the value is not anything that will bring an end to our Empire. The nuggets they drop every now and again are worth knowing about, but we must keep in mind that what is being offered (and when) is selected, filtered and released by entities complicit in illegal wars and murder. It’s not like they don’t have a motive.

So, people can defend Assange and insist that he is some sort of hero, but that opinion is laughable in light of the info given and how it is released and who controls the release. If you keep it up, I will be forced to assume you are complicit, for you are acting like fools defending something so damned obvious. Yes, Glenn Greenwald, you are one of them.

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B’Man’s Richard Noggin’ Saturday: The Daily “G” (for Goober)

Gee, G, it must be embarrassing for a dumb old redneck to spank an Englishman.

I suspect, like he has done before when confronted, his post and comments will be deleted or edited to reflect his water-carrying for the monsters who did 9/11. He claims to be AGNOSTIC about the 9/11 being an inside/outside job. But look very closely at the lengths he must go, the amount of words he must use to AVOID direct questions regarding the subject (that I have asked him MANY times with the same refusal to answer). Start at the bottom and work up for the sequence of the spanking that led to my being banned from commenting on his blog… damn that smarts:

1. BuelahMan Says:
   September 24, 2010 at 2:31 pm | Reply Well, of course not, G. You have nothing to see because your eyes are blinded and your mind is tainted. You refuse to discuss the points I make and relate me to a fanatical preacher.

   The FACT that they had the invasion planned BEFORE 911 has no bearing on your thinking, as long as the official story and your hero tell you to disbelieve any evidence.Is that what I am supposed to understand about you?

   That the plethora of circumstantial evidence is NOTHING as long as the MSM tells you so?

   The problem with your analogy is that the fanatical preacher has no evidence, except some ancient book. I have far more than that and have shared some of it with you (to only be ignored and ridiculed). That is the tactics of an ignorant man or a hack.

   I am talking about you using your own fucking eyes, G. I am talking about and have shared with you only some of the vast amounts of evidence that demolitions happened, yet you AVOID that very important point (which tells me you are incapable of any unbiased and critical thought on this subject).

   Are you willing to say, outright, as I have poignantly asked over and over again, that no demolitions took place? That you are in agreement with the official story?

   Name it and claim it if this is the case.

   Otherwise, you appear to be the same type hack or nincompoop your idol is.

   • G Says:
     September 24, 2010 at 3:07 pm | Reply Ironic how you open your comment with Old Testament language while refuting the charge of being a fanatical preacher.

     You have no helpful contribution to make so I am going to disallow further comments from you. I regret that this will only confirm your paranoid worldview – I’m sure you will get a lot of mileage fuming about censorship and suppression of the truth or whatever but I’ve already gone to great lengths to communicate with you reasonably and to try to counsel you to be calm and reasonable but it only stirs up your egotistical rage even more.

     I would rather have no comments here than have readers distracted by irrelevant (and tired) arguments about tenuous conspiracy theories.

     You say I only have to ‘use my fucking eyes’!? You arrogant idiot, how can you be so sure that what you see is the truth? You don’t know me; you aren’t even curious about my point of view – you never ask me any serious questions and avoid mine. You’re just another Internet ranter. You do no service to ‘the truth’ or to anyone. People who already think like you do will flock to you and everyone else will think you are a nutter. Your way causes nothing but stalemante and antagonism. If there is any truth to your ideas about a 9/11 inside job your ham-fisted approach guarantees that it will remain a fringe belief.

     Also, and I feel infintely weary at having to point this out to you YET AGAIN, I am AGNOSTIC about the ‘inside job’ theory – I think it is probably bollocks, not certianly bollocks. Because I actually DID look at the ‘vast amounts of evidence’ you cite, and I simply was not as impressed as you are.

2. BuelahMan Says:
   September 24, 2010 at 10:29 am | Reply Yeah, not to mention the very likely prospect that they not only knew what would bring the sheople into acquiescent agreement with their plans to invade (which were drawn up and discussed even BEFORE 911), but either funded or allowed some criminal entity to blow those buildings up.

   Once you see that demolition was used to bring down those three towers, then the entire ball game changes.

   Until then, you, G, are trying to work within their system and are allowing them to get off scott free.

   • G Says:
     September 24, 2010 at 2:10 pm | Reply Blah. And what exactly am I supposed to say to this?

     “BuelahMan, the scales have fallen from my eyes at last!”

     Your method of persuasion is like that of a fanatical pastor telling people they will go to Hell unless they listen to you. I prefer to engage with people on a level of equality and rationality rather than browbeating them.

This is pretty simple actually. I have asked this asshole several times the direct, poignant and most important question and G falls all over himself, desperately attempting to deflect the question so he doesn’t have to answer. Could this NOT be more clear than his own multi-word AVOIDANCE of a simple sentence?

In many cases, this would just be another idiot MSM ass-kisser, but he really goes much further than that by his obfuscation. It shows what a lying sack of shit one can be IF they feel the need to defend a position that is incredibly stupid or obviously skewed towards a blatant lie.

This person isn’t stupid. If you read anything he writes, he has thinking ability. So, that leaves me with one answer. He is a hack and unworthy of further discussion/enlightenment. Is this a conspiracy theory or just fact? How would you, a thinking reader, respond to such foolish drivel?

And yes, he did ban any further comments by me. And notice his rationale “no helpful comment to make”. Of course I don’t offer helpful commentary by agreeing with an obvious lie or his ignorance (which is NOT ignorance).

So, G is relegated to B’Man’s hall of shame and is now officially a Richard Noggin of immense proportions (and G, come back and comment any time you so like. I enjoy spanking you like the little shit you are. I thrive on showing others what a charlatan you are.)

His latest comment here as I approach the subject again (he doesn’t like my approach and demeanor, it seems):

Yeah, I occasionally look in. I wish though that you could be cooler when people disagree with you. If I may quote Yoda:

“Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

We are afraid of the forces that blight and confine us and we are afraid that someone will challenge our tenuous intellectual grip on this confusing world – it feels like to be proven wrong would be like falling into an abyss.

Flight-or-flight instinct controls fear and anger. It is a primitive system. Unless the jackboot is literally on your face, chances are that in an argument fear will quickly turn to anger – the fight-instinct. It is too easy to lash out online. You can just turn the anger-dial up and up instead of conceding an inch of ground – it’s not like you will lose a real-life friend or get punched in the face.

We need to justify our anger, so we decide to define the opponent as someone who deserves anger – someone who is badder or lower than oneself, not just someone who has a different view or conflicting interests. We might label them ‘sheeple’ and say that they ‘have their eyes closed’. Christians used to say the same sort of thing about pagans. This is what ‘hate’ is – obectifying someone as ‘the baddie’.

So we hate those we blame for blighting and confining us, and we hate those who threaten our tenuous mental construct of reality. And we cause suffering to ourselves and to others because we now have a bunkered mentality of opposition to the world and other people. To understand reality as it really is entails being generous and attentive even to ‘bad’ people. Everyone has his story – this world creates all sorts through cause-effect. To understand this instead of judging is to become capable of relieving suffering. As long as you have the mentality of ‘fighting’ you only increase antagonism. There is no one you can justifiably hate.

When you called Noam Chomsky a ‘hack’ and a ‘dumbass’ that, to me, was jumping the shark. Your counters to his argument against the 9/11 inside-job theory were hardly devastating, yet you have such faith in your own sources and analysis that you are willing to dismiss and insult someone whose body of work puts ours to shame.

I am all for people being into questioning the status quo, and the belief-system of the corporate-political world and its servile media. We are done a terrible disservice by the media so it is left up to us uninformed punters to try to piece together a more representative view of reality. I am all for this, yes.

I just wish that the rebellious left online would gain a better understanding of the psychology of fear and hate – there is a more generous, insightful way that can be nurtured, but it takes humility; it entails not looking for The Big Explanation or The Big Conspiracy, like some kind of reassuring Magic Bullet Theory that gives one a false sense of certainty about confusing world events. It entails being humble about the limits of knowledge, saying, for example, “I don’t know whether the Neocons masterminded 9/11 or not but I do know that they have crazy beliefs and sinister plans and probably do get up to all kinds of dirty deeds.” That is a reasonable, humble, evidence-based assessment of the Neocons. If you had real evidence – proof beyond doubt – that they did 9/11, you could put them in jail.

I really do loathe The Phantom Menace though. But a good quote is a good quote.

My reply:

G,

“Hate”? You think I “hate” when I bitch, complain or call someone a hack? Dude, I don’t hate Chomsky or you or hardly anyone for that matter.

The Chomsky thing is what it is. He said some wacky shit and offered no evaluation of any evidence that has been available for years to see. He implied that it isn’t a serious evaluation, yet hasn’t (apparently) seen the same evidence I have seen. I often wonder if he has even seen a video or a few pics that I have featured here, for how can any reasonable, thinking person NOT consider that this was demolition after reviewing these and understanding that there is but one explanation for such a cut:

http://buelahman.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/911column.jpg

Have you seen the steel members cut at a 45 degree angle sitting at the bottom of the heap? With burn marks and smooth edges showing what appears to be cutter charge cuts?

Just the above pic I have featured here 6 times along with various other “evidence”.

http://buelahman.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/bmans-patriot-watch-sibel-edmunds/

http://buelahman.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/funny-man-larry-silverstein/

http://buelahman.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/bmans-hypocrite-watch-joshua-holland-at-alternet/

http://buelahman.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/stupid-geniuses/

http://buelahman.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/was-al-qaeda-behind-the-911-attacks/

http://buelahman.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/comparing-oranges-to-apples/

Not to mention the many professionals and politicians who are asking the same questions I ask. Many of these people are architects, engineers, pilots, first responders, 911 family members and a whole host of others who see, but don’t believe the “Official Story” that Chomsky seems to believe. (When has Chomsky EVER believed an American government “official story” before?)

It is misleading at best for Chomsky to say that “if” there were actually evidence that they would be held accountable and prosecuted. He says this as if there has never been a false flag event conducted before, when he knows damn well there has. He suggests that crazies are the only ones who think such.

Well, to me, G, it is only a crazy who would simply shrug it off in acquiescent kowtowing to people that apparently are callous, with an obvious motive, and shall I say, evil?

Rebellious left? Is that me? Rebellious, left or both?

We don’t agree on this, that is for sure. I think that it is obvious… a certainty that 911 was demolitions. Chomsky is smarter than I and generally more observant.

So, what other answer is there than what I suggest? Seriously? He is ignorant or a hack. Otherwise, he best study the info and come up with a better answer than ‘surely they would have been caught IF they had done it’.

And what do you think the significance of having so many of these former government officials being dual citizens with Israel, AND being neocons AND being involved with PNAC AND being in charge of the 911 Comm AND…?

http://buelahman.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/the-court-jester-fulfills-his-obligation-to-keep-you-stupid-and-protect-the-real-criminals/

Should I go on? Is there not enough circumstantial evidence to make you question the official story in any way? Apparently not for Chomsky.

(And believe me, I have had the same conversation with all sides of the spectrum on this, and most still defend Chomsky as some sort of hero. I don’t.)

If he is this blind, then I question his sanity or motive. This is true for anyone, especially those who do not bother to evaluate all the available evidence.

This ain’t “hate”, G. It is vehement disagreement. It is asking questions in light of one’s hero suggesting he not do so.

Something that you apparently, “hate”.

Good to see you, G. I would appreciate answers to some of my questions. For you see, I am far more interested in what you think than what that hack, Chomsky thinks. He has shown his disdain for my position without question. How Do YOU feel about my position on 911 being a demolition.

I have not been able to get G, the “thinker” to discuss any of this. He won’t respond to direct, short and easy to understand (even for a Brit) questions. You see them. This isn’t the first time I have asked him and he avoids it. You tell me who is seeking the truth about this subject: the person asking direct questions or  the one avoiding those direct questions at all costs and deflecting the issue (even to the point of sanctimoniously BANNING me from his AWESOME blog).

Wonder why he MUST do this? Because I am a conspiracy nut or because he knows damn well he has no argument. His only retort is to ban me.

Look, I know many people like Chomsky and have defended his hair-brained attempts to minimize the 9/11 movement as silliness. I understand that when I say “bad things” about him, many of his idol-worshiping fans can’t stand it.

But I will always come back to that very clear-cut question, “Do you see demolitions in the video or pictures”? How can any serious, HONEST person refuse to answer that question without all the diversions and misleading statements? This ain’t about Chomsky, G (or anyone else offended that I think Chomsky is either ignorant or a hack). This is about what people see with their own two eyes.

Your continued refusal to answer that very simple question speaks much more loudly than all the words that you can muster to deflect the question. It shows who and what you are, G.

A Goober.

Richard Noggin Saturday: Lamar Alexander, You Had Your Chance

Poor, pitiful health insurance indebted Lamar (shitty Governor) Alexander explains how much the republican Party wants to help “reform” healthcare. We can all rest assured at night that old Lamar is on the job now, with the rest of his republican Corporatist Cronies, to make sure that we can all afford to be thrown into the system that will continue to enrich the ones that pay all their campaign funds.

We know we can trust all you Republicans because you worked so hard during the previous 8 years to put Big Insurance in its place and stopped tham from ravaging us, the real Americans outhere.

Yes, Mr Alexander, the Party you cling to like a busted rubber ducky float has proven to all of us how much you care for our health and well being… how much you care by all you have done in the past several decades to stop any medical reform at all.

To put this in an unsnarky way, I think you are full of shit and you lost your credibility on anything you may utter long ago. We don’t trust you any more than we trust Obama and the Demublican Party Clowns, Lamar. Most of us know that Single Payer, Not-For-Profit Healthcare is the only viably sane, fiscally conservative and socially responsible means of going forward. Yet, that isn’t a reTHUGlican proposal, now, is it?

Lamar, eat shit. Not everyone you speak or write to is a brainwashed sycophant. Some of us are paying close attention and we know better.

From The Chattanooga Free Press Times:

COMMENTARY

Medical muddle

Proposals would slap high costs on states

Lamar Alexander Senator R-Tenn.

The two plans now before Congress to reform our health care system are good-faith efforts to find the best way to go in the wrong direction. We have to start over to get it right.

Why must we start over? People at home in Tennessee, the Mayo Clinic, 1,000 local chambers of commerce and businesses, the Congressional Budget Office and the Democratic governors all basically say, “These plans have too many problems.” Add all those problems up, and this is what you’d get in Tennessee:

Both plans before Congress look at the idea of dumping — and I use that word carefully — an additional 300,000 low-income Tennesseans into the failed Medicaid program (known as TennCare in Tennessee), even though right now 40 percent of doctors won’t see Medicaid patients. Then they’re going to shift the cost to the states after about five years — the equivalent of a 5 percent to 10 percent new state income tax in Tennessee. Governors are rightly appalled by this, and I say every senator who votes to provide more health care by expanding the failing Medicaid program should have to go home and serve as governor for eight years to try to manage and pay for it.

And around 900,000 Tennesseans could be affected by their proposed cuts to Medicare, while up to 1.6 million Tennessee workers could lose their employer-provided health insurance. Finally, as many as 2 million Tennesseans are at risk of being forced into the new government program created by these proposals.

Republicans have a better idea. We want to be sure you can afford your health care, but also that you can afford your government once we’ve fixed the system. We want to be sure the insurance company representative who today stands between you and your doctor isn’t replaced by a Washington bureaucrat. We want to be sure you’re not denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions, and that you have more choices — not fewer — in the health-care marketplace.

Senate Republicans have offered several plans in support of these principles, but so far they’re not being considered. The bipartisan Wyden-Bennett plan, for example, which I’ve co-sponsored, is not perfect and I wouldn’t vote for it in its current form, but it would be a good start. That plan would take the subsidies we now spend on health care and spend them in a fairer way, giving low-income Americans a chance to buy health care like the rest of us have. It wouldn’t create any new government programs — and all this without adding a single penny to the debt.

We have only one opportunity to make changes that could affect the way health care is delivered in this country for generations. It’s time to reform our health care system, but we have to start over to get it right.

Lamar Alexander is a Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee. His Chattanooga office phone number is 423-752-5337.

There is but one way that is an apt “do-over” and that is Single Payer, Not-For-Profit, Medicare for all. Unless this is your goal (and of course, it is not) why don’t you crawl back to the pit of hell that houses you until we get another ignorant assed peep out of you. Better yet, just stay there.

Richard Noggin Saturday: A Dialogue With A Wing-Nut

There is a man that I once sold for (he was a president of a fairly large company that deals in automation components). I don’t know all the details of his life, but I do understand that he was raised in Europe (Sweden or Switzerland) and made his way to America with a German company, to set up their business and run it for them. He ended up retiring and now does what I did (until I shut my business down recently). During the past few years, he and I stayed in touch, because I respected him and have recommended his new company to several of the same Principals because he is excellent in front of customers.

However, I have been a part of his email mailing list and the more personal we became, the more he let his true colors show.

In the beginning of the following string of communications (all names are removed to protect privacy), it became clear to me that he still thinks he is the president and can talk down to his underlings. It also became quite clear that he is a racist and an Elitist who seems to believe everything Rush and the right-wing crazies on TV and radio say. Now, the first message I received was forwarded by a mutual friend and copied to “The Pres” and it was simply a graphic:

I responded to the guy who sent it (Z-Man, and copying The Pres in courtesy) with this:

Z-Man,

If anyone believes, even for a second, that this country has become “Socialist”, they are ignorant to the truth. What we see going on is a merging of Corporate Control of our government. This is not Socialism, this is called Fascism.

And this didn’t begin or is caused by Democrats, for this has been going on for some time. We were warned long ago about this. We were warned about the Military Industrial Complex taking over, but look what has happened, primarily under the Republican side of the nasty two-headed monster that has so many of the American Sheople falling all over themselves to prop up that bogus divide. We only have one party that manipulates the mass of the Sheople, but continues the steady move towards Corptocracy, and yes, Fascism.

IMO, the best thing this country can do is stop that bullshit. Stop allowing these talking heads (aka paid sycophants) to form your opinion and actually think about what is truly happening. Stop allowing them to mind meld you people into this false “left vs right”, “Rep vs Dem”, “liberal vs conservative” crap. It has become hogwash and those still in it are only hurting this nation.

Socialism? Hell, I’d welcome it with open arms compared the Fascism that has taken us over. Smart people should understand the difference.

Turn off Fox News, for God’s sake (all of TV, for that matter). Tell Rush to go get some more Oxycontins. Tell Olbermann to go back to sports.

There is certainly hoodwinking and obfuscation going on, but I wish the smartest people I knew could get past the rhetoric and see the facts as they are, not as Hannity, Beck, Shultz, Maddow paint it for them. And you sure as hell cannot trust but about three of the 535 congress people voted in. You wanna know how to tell… follow the money.

Its time to wake up. Its almost too late.

Not too bad, at least compared to my online persona here (I can get pretty rude and crude). But then, I received this from The Pres:

My good friend BuelahMan,

Have you lost our mind?

Just remember, I grew up in Europe. I have lived and breathed Socialism.  Why do you think I left Europe?

I think I need to take you to the wood shed and have a little heart to heart talk with you.

If anyone is practicing Fascism, it is definitely our new and arrogant President and his Hollywood Cronies.  For Gods sakes, Obama comes from Chicago and unfortunately the whole Nation now has to experience how corrupt politics really can be. Quite frankly I cannot wait for 1.20.2013 to come around.

Need one little favor; please don’t report this e-mail to the White House!  In case you don’t understand this request I’d be happy to fill you in.

But I still love you man!

The Pres

Did you notice how he immediately assumed that I was defending Mr Obama, when, in fact, I was saying that the Socialist stance doesn’t describe what is happening. You see, this is the problem with these folks and with the Two-Party paradigm that blinds them. This is a brilliant man. Successful. Rich, perhaps (far more money than I). But, I am a redneck from Tennessee who truly understands what “taking to the woodshed” means, and it has little to do with talking. I also don’t work FOR this guy anymore, so I don’t take too kindly to that sort of rhetoric:

Hi Pres,

You speak well for the Right-wing of the two headed monster that has made many Americans “Sheople”. I don’t speak for the other head, I am against both. The best thing we could ever do is change our electoral system and get Big Money’s influence out of it.

What I am saying is that imo this “left vs right” paradigm is not helpful, nor truthful. It is a distraction I hoped to explain to you in that last email. I do not deny Obama is now leading the Friendly Fascist state we are in. But he is just the other ugly head. George W Bush was the Unfriendly Fascist. And many of those before him had their particular head of the twins they worked for.

I wonder, did you consider George W Bush a good president and a truthful man? I don’t and I don’t think Obama is either, nor Clinton, nor HW, nor Reagan, etc, etc. It is no secret that we were lied to to go to war and that the war profiteers are doing quite well (along with Big Oil). Its no surprise that Obama knows this and promised to get us out, but look at the truth.

Wages are being forced down, but Obama didn’t start that. The credit economy and housing bubble didn’t start with “Chicago Politics” (I laughed at that one). All of this has been in the making for decades and is finally culminating into what we are experiencing today. Big Banking didn’t take control under Obama (or W, for that matter). The Federal Reserve must go. The Big Banking entities should have been shut down, not bailed out. But the last two presidents brought in folks from those entities to run the show and look what it got us… I’m living it right now and am shutting down my business within the next 30 days.

I am surprised that all of this isn’t obvious to you.

An Empire is what we have become… owned by large corporate interests… a fact that cannot be denied anymore and it sure didn’t start with Obama. And please, I am not an Obama supporter. In the last election, I first supported Dennis Kucinich because of his Peace stance and because he, like I, saw the run-up to the Afghan and Iraq wars as bogus lies. Hell, I petitioned to get Nader on the ballot because of the obvious nature of the false two party paradigm. I voted for Perot, for God’s sake.

Look at the voting records. Look at the actions. They are basically the same, except for the wedge issues the Sheople fall for. But when it comes to Corporate Control and Empire, there is virtually no difference. Obama is simply carrying forward the agenda set before him. No change, except ratcheting up the downfall.

Please look beyond the diversions… the purposeful sleight of hand. There is but one thing different between W and O… color (well, and Obama is “smoother” than W).

Woodshed? That isn’t used for talking, as I understand it. Down here, we don’t make it ten feet into the yard “to talk”.

I would never raise a hand against you, sir. In a million years. But I would try to talk sense into you. But Rush and his like won’t. They are paid well to keep this divide going and frankly, I don’t fall for it. I am trying to transcend their rhetoric (or Olbermann’s, etc).

As for 2013, how are you going to take down a Dictator? Just asking…

Personally, I’d like to see a Kucinich/Paul ticket, if the Dictatorship isn’t finalized and we can stop it.

At least those two are truthful and don’t get their money from Big Business like the others do/did.

I do love you, Pres. You have always been a dear friend and I respect you immensely. But in this case, you are misguided in that you blame just one side of the ugly two heads. We really need to get past that, as a nation. Or, nothing will change (and I don’t like being played as a fool and gullible lemming, which is what they do to us).

I woke up to the game many years ago.

Take care,

OK, I did say “Sheople”, but was pretty tame and calm. I took about 20 minutes to write that, trying to NOT offend, but to grab the scruff of the neck and say, “Surely you know better”. But he doesn’t and neither do many of these ideologues. I basically explained politics as I see it, without being too accusatory or belittling (you can be the judge of whether or not I crossed the line).

But here is where it got interesting, in that 99% of what I was trying to convey (did you get my point?) was ignored and he found one tidbit to focus on and responded with this:

Hi BuelahMan,

Quite frankly you have me totally baffled, my good friend.

Do you know Kucinich’s political history?  Did you know that he was the only Mayor of a  major US City that had to declare bankruptcy?  The name of this city, in case you did not know, is Cleveland!  The only reason why this guy has a political career is because of the UAW, Teamsters Union, etc.  Since you live in the South and in a State that still has the right to work law – which will soon change if Obama has his way – you would not know anything about Unions.

Lastly, I did not know you were this sensitive and I believe that it’s best for both of us that we end it right here and just simply agree to disagree.

Cordially,

The Pres

My heart is aflutter with sensitivity, as all of you regular readers know. But notice something: the conversation suddenly changes. Notice how The Pres KNOWS what I understand about unions and since I am from “The South”, I must be stupid and ignorant like all good rednecks. Forget the fact that I have lived here longer than he has. Forget the fact that I can trace my roots back before the USA became the USA. Forget the truth about what I know and actually was a member of.

No, focus on the one thing about Dennis Kucinich (which, although true, is only a small portion of that story). It suddenly became too much for him to handle and I became the sensitive one. This is a tactic well known by the wing-nut right: sleight of hand when confronted with truth. Should I have let her die there? Not on your life:

Hi Pres,

You sure do ask a lot of questions, just to “end it right here”.

Just so you know, I worked with the UAW for 7 years and was a member of one back in ’79-81. There is also more to the Kucinich story. Due to his principled stance of not selling the the city owned power company, he saved Clevelanders 100′s of millions of dollars since, and that, primarily, was what got him elected.

He also believes in The Constitution and peace (just as I do).

Clarification may not kill sacred cows.

Take care, Pres.

OK, I know the “sacred cows” thingy was a bit over the top, but snarking is my thing.

Now, he didn’t seem to want to drop it, after all and added his commentary to the email I sent, instead of simply replying with his own (he changed tact and I can only assume I pushed his buttons a bit with that last one):

BuelahMan, do you know what bankruptcy is? It means you stiff all those that have supplied you goods and services in good faith!  BuelahMan, let’s just end it right here.  I really don’t follow your logic, or shall I say ideology.

Short and sweet, wasn’t it? Nevermind the issues I brought up about the Banking Bailout and how they should have gone bankrupt, just as I have been forced into the same thing. And for God’s sake, I am not defending Kucinch, but trying to explain the “rest of the story” that he won’t get regurgitated into his little beak by Hannity and the rest. Nevermind that we have been “friends” for 12 years or so. Nevermind the kudos I have given him and he ended up gaining product to rep. Nevermind all of that. Just shut up when I tell you to shut up. But BuelahMan don’t play like that:

Pres,

My apologies. I didn’t realize that ideological discussions with friends was so difficult for you. That being said, this will be my last transmission to you on such subjects.

For The Record:

Look back thru and re-read who I addressed my email to (I copied you in courtesy since you were copied in the original email). Look who was the first to question someone’s knowledge. Look who was the first to mention woodsheds, etc. Who was the first to assume I know nothing about certain individuals or the Union or Socialism? Is this normal behavior with your “friends”?

Ideologically, and obviously as far as race relations are concerned (Please see the email I received from him about three weeks before), we are nothing alike. That doesn’t surprise me in the least (for we have approached this subject before). But, dear Sir, you are no longer the president of a Principal I rep and I don’t take kindly to your approach and accusations when you don’t know what you are talking about regarding what I have lived and have studied in great detail. Strong arming me doesn’t work when I don’t work for you, Pres. I know precisely what I am talking about and since you picked out one of the most obscure issues I mentioned and totally ignored the most prescient ones, it makes me wonder what your motive is.

I thought friends are friends, even in disagreement. But, your taking such a tact, at this point in my life, doesn’t make me feel “loved” by a “friend”. It is offensive and it is my nature to let you know that. That’s just the way it is.

So sure, its dropped, but I wish you would be just a smidgen more open and understanding of a “friend”. At least down here, that is the way friends relate.

I wish you all the best, Pres.

There is something about money and influence that changes people into some holier-than-thou attitude. I don’t have the patience or desire to take it without explaining exactly how I feel and see the world. Especially when it is among “friends”. But, I also understand that some “friends” aren’t true “friends”. It isn’t about agreeing, it is about listening. Its about the dialogue that is imperative right now. For, in many ways, the man and I agree, but his right-wing Sheople-like hypnosis doesn’t even allow him to see the similarities or places where we can stand in agreement that will hopefully make this country a better place.

So, in honor of “The Pres”, his shining glory is illuminated for all to see (which was the catalyst for my ire, even before I became obviously angry):

Government TO TAX ASPIRIN……

I JUST HEARD THAT they are GOING TO
IMPOSE A 40% TAX ON ASPIRIN BECAUSE
IT’S WHITE AND IT WORKS.

You see, Mr Pres, don’t make assumptions about rednecks and think they are all racists. Don’t think that we are all ignorant. Don’t think that we all love Rush and hang on his every word. Don’t think that just because we reside in the deep south that we haven’t experienced things or have not taken the time to educate ourselves. It makes you look like a Dick Head.

Richard Noggin’ Saturday: America’s Zionistic Protectionism

FreedomRider is awesome.

She points out the hypocrisy that everyone knows of but won’t discuss due to fear of retaliation (having those that you criticize accuse back with some sort of lie like Antisemitism). In other words, we cannot criticize AIPAC or Israel’s Zionist agenda without being taken to task. Yet, this happens.

Chester is surely in charge of Spike now.

Spying for Israel (Again)

Former pentagon employee Larry Franklin had been sentenced to 12 years in jail for giving classified documents to AIPAC staffers Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman. Fortunately for Franklin, the Obama Justice Department declined to prosecute Rosen and Weissman. Now Franklin’s sentence has been reduced to probation. Israel’s influence would be just too obvious if Franklin ended up behind bars. Clearly, persons at the top wanted all of this to just go away.

So let me get this straight. AIPAC turns over classified documents to a foreign government, the U.S. government declines to prosecute, everyone involved gets away with the crime, but if I say Israel is powerful I’m labeled an anti-Semite. Another sweet deal for the Israel lobby, and the shaft yet again for the interests of the American people and the rest of the world.

Richard Noggin’ Saturday: Health Insurance Companies

Ready for your blood to boil?

Would you believe that the only ones Max Baucus allows at the table are the same ones who keep America sick by investing into tobacco companies and products? This should be the last straw, but methinks Americans are wimps and won’t stand up.

Tobacco good investment for health insurers

Major US, Canadian and British life and health insurance companies have billions of dollars invested in tobacco companies, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine said.

Wesley Boyd, the study’s lead author, found that at least $US4.4 billion ($5.5 billion) in insurance company funds are invested in companies whose affiliates produce cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco.

“It’s clear their top priority is making money, not safeguarding people’s well-being,” he wrote.

Tobacco is considered the leading cause of lung cancer and a major risk factor for heart attack, stroke, pulmonary disease and cancer.

According to the World Health Organisation, it is a contributing factor in 5.4 million deaths a year.

Researchers first revealed that health and life insurance companies had major investments in tobacco companies in 1995 in an article in the British medical journal Lancet.

“Although investing in tobacco while selling life or health insurance may seem self-defeating, insurance firms have figured out ways to profit from both,” Mr Boyd wrote.

“Insurers exclude smokers from coverage or, more commonly, charge them higher premiums. Insurers profit – and smokers lose – twice over.”

According to the study, US insurer Prudential Financial has $US264.3 million ($328 million)dollars invested among three US tobacco companies, including Reynolds America and Philip Morris.

Canadian insurer Sun Life Financial, which sells life, disability and health insurance, has a stock portfolio with more than one billion dollars in two tobacco companies, including $US890 million ($1.1 billion) in Philip Morris.

What this boils down to is that they can invest in keeping you sick and then deny you coverage (or charge exorbitant prices for those people that smoke) when you become ill (and most people will become ill after smoking for a long enough period).

The American Sheople better wake up soon, because you know that the leadership in Congress is not on your side when they, too, are enriched and empowered by these same assholes investing in tobacco.

h/t DailyRotten.

Richard Noggin’ Saturday: President Haley Barbour?

After hearing some of the right-wing fools begin chewing each other’s asses out here and all the mixup going on on the Republican side of the Demublican Party where Rush rules and Steele is just another wanker, it would not surprise me if a disgusting toad of a man like Haley Barbour gets the nod to run for POTUS. But Jesus Christ, my Mississippi friends, have you no sense of honesty, honor or integrity? Can you not tell that this bag of shit is just another southern right-wing racist who plays the game just like the last reTHUGlican POTUS did?

Convicted Killer’s Release Triggers Community Anger
Saturday, July 19, 2008
By CHERIE WARD

Nancy Northern said Friday that she’s outraged her aunt’s killer is being released from prison today — courtesy of Gov. Haley Barbour — after he served only 19 years of a life sentence.

The governor this week commuted 54-year-old Michael David Graham’s sentence for murdering Northern’s aunt, Adrienne Klasky Graham. Graham has been incarcerated since 1989 and has been a trusty at the governor’s mansion for the last eight years.

“I’ve written a letter to Haley Barbour telling him that he should stay in prison,” Northern said. “He ruined my family and now the governor is giving him a second chance. No one gave my aunt a second chance. He took her away from us — her father, her mother, her children, my mother, all of us.”

When contacted Friday and told of Klasky’s family and the community being outraged over the governor’s decision, Pete Smith, spokesman for Barbour, declined to comment, saying, “We’ve released all of the information we are going to.”

There are no restrictions on where Graham can live in the state, said Suzanne Singletary, director of the communications division at the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

Klasky’s family has heard rumors of Graham planning to live in Hinds County, but Singletary said the state agency does not disclose relocation destinations for inmates. Smith said Thursday that Graham will not live in Jackson County, but was unsure of the convicted felon’s plans.

Singletary said details of Graham’s commuted sentence are still being worked out.

“He will have to check in with parole officers once he’s released as if he’s on parole,” Singletary said. “He’ll always be a convicted felon. That won’t change.”

Singletary called Graham’s commuted sentence “an indefinite suspended sentence.”

“It can be revoked,” she said. “It all depends on his good behavior.”

Graham shot his ex-wife at close range with a 12-gauge shotgun as she sat in her car at a traffic signal at the intersection of Jackson Avenue and Pascagoula Street on April 7, 1989. He left the scene, but later turned himself in to authorities at the urging of his attorney, Don Sigalas. The couple had been divorced for three years and she alleged he was stalking and threatening her regularly….

Did you even know about such a thing? That like Scooter Libbey (who, as far as I am aware, didn’t pull the trigger directly to kill anyone) did, in fact, play a significant role in killing hundreds of thousands Afghanis and Iraqis and altho never charged, was pardoned. But think of this Lobbyist idiot, Barbour (who is a disgusting representation of humanity, sort of the Jabba the Hut of Governors) as your next president and the fact that he could pardon a convicted shotgun killer and the lack of judgment such a move takes.

So, when you read or hear that he may run in 2012, please don’t snicker too much. You can never tell what sort of  idiot the American people are capable of electing to that position.

From Facing South we have a wonderful breakdown of this clown’s history and intentions:

Haley Barbour for President?

Speaking yesterday to an American Legion youth program in Jackson, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he has thought about running for president — but that he won’t think about it anymore until after 2010.

His remarks came following his speech to delegates attending the American Legion Boys State, a civics education program for high school boys created in 1935 to counter the Fascist Party’s Young Pioneer Camps. The Associated Press reports:

“Anybody who’s even thinking about this before the end of 2010, there’s no need to think about it, and I’m not going to think about it until after 2010,” Barbour said after his speech.
Adding to the speculation over a possible 2012 presidential bid by Barbour is the fact that he has scheduled trips to Iowa and New Hampshire next month to raise funds for those states’ Republican parties, WLBT reports.

Barbour told the gathering that he was focused on upcoming gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, where Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine can’t run again because the state does not allow consecutive gubernatorial terms. In the June 9 Democratic primary, Virginia voters will choose someone from among former Democratic National Committee Chair Terry McAuliffe, longtime state Delegate Brian Moran and state Sen. Creigh Deeds for a fall face-off with Republican Bob McDonnell, a graduate of Rev. Pat Robertson’s Regent University law school and the top recipient of Robertson’s campaign cash.

But the AP noted that Barbour sounded at times as if he were making a stump speech. At one point he compared his background with that of President Obama, saying he thought it was more valuable for a president to come from a business background than from the Senate.

He also said Obama was the first U.S. Senator elected president since Harry Truman — apparently forgetting about John F. Kennedy.

Before being elected governor in 2003, Barbour worked as a lawyer and lobbyist, founding Barbour & Rogers LLC, which went on to became one of the most powerful lobbying firms in Washington and earned millions working on behalf of the tobacco industry. He also chaired the Republican National Committee from 1993 to 1997 and engineered the GOP’s capture of both the U.S. Senate and House for the first time since 1954.

Barbour has sparked various controversies during his time in politics, particularly around race and class issues. In 1982, while running a race for U.S. Senate that he eventually lost, a press aide complained to him that “coons” were going to be at a campaign stop at the state fair. In front of reporters, Barbour warned the aide to stop using racist language or he would be “reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks.”

During his 2003 run for governor, Barbour again raised eyebrows when he spoke at the Blackhawk Rally, a fundraiser for a council school in Blackhawk, Miss. Also known as academies, these private schools were created by the White Citizens’ Council movement to avoid racial integration. The rally was hosted by the Council of Conservative Citizens, which fought school integration.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Barbour was widely praised for his success in responding to the disaster and in getting reconstruction funds for Mississippi. But as Chris Kromm and I reported in a 2007 story for Salon, the recovery in some of the state’s hardest-hit areas was plagued with serious problems, with some small towns fearing bankruptcy. Barbour also raised the ire of his state’s social justice advocates by diverting $600 million in federal funds from a program to help low-income homeowners who suffered losses in the storm in order to spruce up the state’s port at Gulfport — a move that led to a lawsuit filed late last year.

More recently, Barbour opposed President Obama’s federal stimulus plan, joining his fellow Republican governors from Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina and Texas in objecting to its expansion of unemployment benefits. Last month the unemployment rate in Mississippi fell slightly to 8.6% to match the U.S. rate, though rates were still as high as 11.4% in some Delta counties.

A 2007 report by the U.S. Census Bureau found that Mississippi was the poorest state in the nation, with a median household income of $34,473 and a per capita income of $9,432. Poverty is an even greater problem for African-Americans in Mississippi, where a typical black woman earns less today than the typical American in 1960, and where infant mortality rates for nonwhites are about the same as Libya.

Barbour is currently involved in the Republican Party’s National Council for a New America, a controversial initiative of House Minority Whip Eric Kantor (R-Va.) that aims to re-brand the GOP as more inclusive and forward-looking.

Richard Noggin’ Saturday: Senator Max (The Mouse In Health Insurance’s Pocket) Baucus

These two men (Dr Sidney Wolfe, acting President of Public Citizen and director of it’s Health Research Group and Dr David Himmelstein, founder of Physicians for a National Health Program) are stepping up and Bill Moyers wasn’t afraid to address the Elephant in Sen Baucus’ room; The fact that it is he and his coffers’ that are keeping Universal Healthcare off the table. The entire 30 minutes spells out the entire truth of the matter (well worthy of the watch). But, if nothing more than scanning over to the last minute or two, where Sen BogusBaucus explains in full why Single Payer is off-the-table, you will see blatant hypocrisy and a bald faced lie:

JULIE ROVNER: The supporters of single-payer health care point out that their plan is not on the table.

SEN. MAX BAUCUS: That’s true. They do. They make that quite clear.

JULIE ROVNER: And, as they… so what do you say to them as they point out that they have significant support, and yet their plan is the one thing that is not on the table at the moment.

SEN. MAX BAUCUS:Well, just to be honest, it’s not on the table – the only thing that’s not – because it cannot pass. It just cannot pass. We can’t squander this opportunity. We can’t spend – we can’t waste capital on something that’s just impossible.

“It cannot pass.” ???

I wonder just WHAT it cannot pass? Are you saying, you sanctimonious asshole, that it cannot pass your scrutiny (obviously blinded by those that pay your campaign money)? It cannot pass in Congress? It cannot pass the public’s desire and NEED? It cannot pass WHAT?

Mr Noggin, if you believe that “it cannot pass public scrutiny”, put it on the table.

You are the “waste of capital”. I hope those fools who voted you in see you for the lying shill you are and find someone else with a shred of decency and honor.

more about “Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen …“, posted with vodpod

h/t AfterDowningStreet

Richard Noggin’ Saturday: Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)

Lamar, you know an elephant is scared of mice…

“It’s a big problem,” Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) said. “It’s like putting an elephant in the room with some mice and saying, ‘Okay fellas, compete.’ There wouldn’t be any mice left after a while.”

But seriously, Senator. Are you so indebted to Big Insurance and Big Meds that you are blind to your own constituent’s lack of adequate healthcare and the fact that Remote Area Medical is serving your very own fellow Tennesseans?

Have you no decency, Sir?

Surely not. But you do have Money.

h/t ThinkProgress

Richard Noggin’ Saturday: America’s Own Torture Doctors- Bruce Jessen and Jim Mitchell

Jonathon Turley posts about how lucrative it is in the Torture Business for the “Doctors” involved.

I mean, shit: why would anyone ever want a regular physician’s practice when you can make money like this and still get your rocks off as people are tortured before your very eyes? Think about it: no insurance to deal with, all your paperwork is handled by the Government, surely pretty decent hours and only the occasional death to deal with.

Winner all around, right?

According to ABCNews, either Jessen or Mitchell were previously involved in interrogations and had simply been used in the training of pilots to prepare them for capture and interrogation. They were reportedly paid $1000 a day to lend their endorsement to the torture program — that comes to a rate of roughly $360,000 a year as torture consultants, not bad wages in the world torture market.

Richard Noggin’ Saturday: Sen Chris Dodd and Timothy Geithner

It’s a twofer (just among the pals of AIG).

Chris.

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Hanging with the wrong crowd, it appears, but seemingly among friends and close confidants. Bruce Gagnon explores in CORRUPTION CROSSES PARTY LINES, the lingering question on a thinking person’s mind:

Who asked him to allow and change the bonus allowance? Geithner or even higher up?

Bruce writes:

Dodd said he “agreed reluctantly” to the changes because Obama administration officials “were insistent.” He refused to disclose which administration “officials” asked him to make the changes that benefited executives at AIG who were awarded massive bonuses at taxpayer expense.

We could speculate who it was that convinced Sen. Dodd to make these changes. Was it Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner? After all he worked for two Republican administrations and for Henry Kissinger’s private consulting firm. Geithner orchestrated the recent bailouts of Citigroup and AIG.

Maybe it was President Obama himself who asked Sen. Dodd to change the legislation so it would benefit AIG. We know that during the recent presidential campaign Obama raised the most money in US history. Obama got nearly $7 million in campaign donations from Wall Street investment firms.

Just to illustrate the point here are the top 10 recipients of AIG campaign donations for 2008:

1) Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) $103,100

2) Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) $101,332

3) Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) $59,499

4) Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) $35,965

5) Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) $24,750

6) Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) $20,850

7) Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) $19,975

8) Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) $19,750

9) Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H.) $18,500

10) Former N.Y. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R-N.Y.) $13,200

Source: Center for Responsive Politics

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