The Devil said "You need do only three things". You need to go get laid. You need to listen to who humans regard as an authority figure and do something stupid like join the military. And you need to make it very clear that you do NOT want to be worshipped as a deity after you die, after all - that would be showing a gross lack of humility, wouldn't it?"
You’d really have to call these past six and a half years “The Great Invisable Recession” because I darkly suspect a lot of the “Average American” who are ABOVE the median level of income and not IN that “lazy 47% Mitt Romney talked about two years ago - - these people have never been in a recession. But that doesn’t mean that the recession hasn’t been useful to them. It’s a great excuse for them to cut back on their charitable organizations giving in the name of being “good Americans” being thrifty with their money. When you boil the tea party’s prime message unquestionably it has to be “Despise the Poor”. Most countries in Europe are in a worse recession than we are in America because all of their “austerity” stuff. They buy the latest cell phone and complain because frequent flying isn’t as pleasant as it used to be. When they pay for a meal in a restaurant they pull out a wad of bills of over a hundred dollars and dish it out as though it were play money. Back in the thirties- - it would seem the people knew they were in an economic Depression, and the President knew it too and they trusted their President. We are all tired of false hope, of Bill Clinton saying “You may not feel the effects of this recovery, but soon you will”. We heard two years ago in the fall campaign “Well, it looks like the economy is picking up because people are having “recession weariness”. It won’t be a hard matter to know when we are OUT of this endless recession. When the unemployment rate falls below 5.5% in real terms, meaning counting ALL of the people without a job who want one. It means when charity giving in inflation adjusted dollars exceeds what it was seven summers ago. It will be when the renters’ tax credit is restored- and the governor next year takes the same point of view when Governor Arnold Swartzenegger was planning out the expenditures for the year 2007. I would like to say “When I have the spending money I had in 2005”.
Conservatives are so
full of it. I’ve heard enough of these
‘success stories” while attending Bible Studies of people having virtual
instant success beyond their wildest imagination piling surpelative upon
superlative. Now Ben Carson says he does
not have any interest in going into government or politics because it’s too
dirty and corrupt. If you believe that
I’ve got some lake front property I want to sell you in - - - Death
Valley. Today’s the perfect day for
it. It must be 95 out there. This one guy at age sixteen revolutionizes
the air traffic controller industry by inventing some piddeling little device
nobody else thought of. Then when he was
“older’ at 19 or 20 he came up with another fabulous invention. Then he founded his own company getting the capital
from “somewhere’. And now he’s mentoring
nine different people who are former employees and each of them has now founded
their own company. And his nine year
daughter won some award and the Mayor of the city declared a special day in her
honor. Now the guy from Out Back is on-
- who was in the unemployment line in New Orleans in 1983 and suddenly said
‘I’m not doing this’ and got out of the line and never looked back starting
“Out Back” in 1987 and now he’s famous with restaurants in 23 nations. Give me a break! Of course radio talk show host Michael
Jackson’s son was manager of a restaurant at age seventeen. Tell me how often that happens. Even the liberal celebrities have conceal
carry permits for firearms. I guess if
you’re stopped by a cop and you say “I have a conceal carry permit” the officer
right away knows, “OK this guy is one of us good old boys and we’ll treat him
with kid gloves”. But for me- - if I
were famous or someone like Hannity and I felt I wasn’t safe without packing
heat whenever I went outside my gated community- - I’d say to whatever
supernatural power was listening “Lord, I can’t take this. Make all this fame un-happen; I can’t live like this”.
It's hard to find a soap character more of a model or archetype for the Tea Party - - than Samantha on Days of our Lives. The moral hypocrisy of both is cranked up into the stratusphere. Samantha Brady
continues on a roll. When you have money
and an unlimited supply of it you can do amazing thing. You can bribe publishers to change your son’s
script without his knowledge- - and put names in that weren’t in the original
article. Samantha has never had guilt or
remorse a day or an hour or a minute at any time in her life. Of course now if I’m Will I’m about to use
the Nuclear option on my mom. That means
going to Roman Brady and reporting that my mother and Kate Roberts attempted to
murder Nick Fallon by the river last year, and that Gabriel can confirm
it. And of course by the time I got done
suing the publisher for damages, I’d about own that company. Of course there is too much of a poisoned pen
philosophy to society today. It’s all
about getting even and lashing out and saying things without thinking, with
seemingly no consequences. The bigger of
an ass you make of yourself, the bigger a celebrity you’ll end up being. But getting back to “Hatriot’ radio- - all
their stuff isn’t about striking out on your own or independence or science and
technology or inventiveness or any of that stuff. Because eventually they get around to politics-
- and his this year’s election is the most critical we’ve ever had in
America. It’s kind of like Bill
Halliday’s Sunday sermons. No matter
what it says on the Marquee - - eventually he gets around to the same old
stereotypes and spewing that vitriolic hatred and obsessive ranting he’s so
famous for. That’s how these people
are. They say “Olive Garden” has no true
variety. Well the tea party is the
“Olive Garden” of intellectualism.
Whatever they are calling it today- - it’s all pretty darned similar. But as I said a week or so ago - - really- -
you CAN’T talk about ANYTHING without making it political, and so whatever
issue it is- -gets pretty much ignored and therefore unsolved. It’s like the abortion issue. If that ever got solved and if abortions were
declared illegal tomorrow, believe me it would be the worst day of the lives of
these tea party people. I talked about
evolution of thought a minute ago (at least I was intending to) and you can
almost tell what year it is by how degenerated the political rhetoric is. What sounded insane for instance in 2010,
might sound relatively rational in comparison to where the political discourse
is going today. (Selah)
I actually hope that Pope Francis has a good secret service protecting him. I'm not suggesting the pontiff be packing heat- - but if anyone needs protection, he does. I guess they do extensive security checking for any large crowd no matter how "spontanious' it appears to be. It's kind of like candid shots of President Obama. They aren't that candid because whoever took them was thoroughly screened. A lot of tea party would be after him just because he's Catholic. But more likely they'd be after him for his remarks on environmentalism, or his views on greed and profit driven economics, and they probably hate him because he cares for the poor. People like Rush Limbaugh hate anyone who regards the poor as something other than subhuman.
The Collosus roller coaster at Magic Mountain first opened in 1978 and this weekend is the last time anybody can ride it. Nobody has told us the reason why they are closing it down, but it's not for any safety considerations. Of course few things in this State seem to last more than thirty years anyhow, and no matter what kind of condition they are in after that, they are taken out, and sometimes but not always replaced. In the Cosmic scheme (yes, I had to bring that stuff in - ) of things the album "Sell Out" (Reigelian version) features a white wooden roller coaster on the cover and this album came out in early August of 1983.
I actually hope that Pope Francis has a good secret service protecting him. I'm not suggesting the pontiff be packing heat- - but if anyone needs protection, he does. I guess they do extensive security checking for any large crowd no matter how "spontanious' it appears to be. It's kind of like candid shots of President Obama. They aren't that candid because whoever took them was thoroughly screened. A lot of tea party would be after him just because he's Catholic. But more likely they'd be after him for his remarks on environmentalism, or his views on greed and profit driven economics, and they probably hate him because he cares for the poor. People like Rush Limbaugh hate anyone who regards the poor as something other than subhuman.
The Collosus roller coaster at Magic Mountain first opened in 1978 and this weekend is the last time anybody can ride it. Nobody has told us the reason why they are closing it down, but it's not for any safety considerations. Of course few things in this State seem to last more than thirty years anyhow, and no matter what kind of condition they are in after that, they are taken out, and sometimes but not always replaced. In the Cosmic scheme (yes, I had to bring that stuff in - ) of things the album "Sell Out" (Reigelian version) features a white wooden roller coaster on the cover and this album came out in early August of 1983.
Protest Is Treated As
Terrorism In America Today
Washington Post writer
Radley Balko is the leading expert on militarization
of police in America. Balko has testified to Congress and
written books on the subject.
Balko said today that the
real issue behind the Ferguson, Missouri police response wasn’t the militarized
police response – or the minor incidences of looting, rock-throwing and
possibly Molotov cocktails by a handful of protesters – but a crackdown by
government on all protest:
What we’re seeing in Ferguson, this is not a local issue,
really. I mean, this is something that’s been driven by national policies, by
policies that Congress has approved of and has oversight of, and could end
tomorrow, if they wanted to.
The idea that when we take domestic police
officers and we train them like soldiers and we give them military gear and we
dress them up like soldiers and we tell them they’re fighting a war—you know,
war on crime or war on terror—they’re going to start to see themselves as
soldiers. And that’s just a mindset that’s not—that really isn’t appropriate
for domestic policing. And I think you saw that in the way that they
responded to protests—not just in Ferguson, but also, you know, a lot of the
crackdowns on the Occupy protesters, on the crackdowns at the political
conventions over the years. I mean, this has become our default response to
protest in the U.S., and it’s something that, you know, I think could be very
antagonistic toward the very idea of free speech and the First Amendment.
The FBI treated the peaceful protesters at the Occupy protests – who were protesting too big to fail banks, and who were predominately white - as terrorists. More here, here and here.
Highly-militarized, federally-coordinated police used such brutal violence to break up the Occupy protests – see this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this – that the Egyptian military used the crack down on Occupy as justification for the murder of protesters in Tahir Square, Egypt. (Despite media portrayals, the Occupy protesters were not violent.)
Violence was also been unleashed against peaceful protesters outside of Republican and and Democratic conventions. And reporter Amy Goodman was arrested at the Republican convention for documenting violence against protestors.
The real issues are that:
- Peaceful protest is considered terrorism in modern America
- Journalists are considered terrorists in modern America
- Americans have lost virtually all of our Constitutional rights
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