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October 27, 2014
Recently, I posted on a thread on how the price of gas was down. In my area, it'd gone from $4.09 to $3.49 a gallon at my nearby COSTCO.
Some felt the drop in gas prices was a plot by Obama to hurt Putin. And a few other things I won't mention here.
I have more devastating news to report for those who suspect that our devilishly handsome president really is the devil, horns and all.
It is with unholy glee that I report I just filled up my tank at the spooky price of $2.91 a gallon.
Sorry, but I'm just plain evil that way!
Happy Halloween, BOGsters!
I BLAME OBAMA! 2nd Edition for the BOG!
Recently, I posted on a thread on how the price of gas was down. In my area, it'd gone from $4.09 to $3.49 a gallon at my nearby COSTCO.
Some felt the drop in gas prices was a plot by Obama to hurt Putin. And a few other things I won't mention here.
I have more devastating news to report for those who suspect that our devilishly handsome president really is the devil, horns and all.
It is with unholy glee that I report I just filled up my tank at the spooky price of $2.91 a gallon.
Sorry, but I'm just plain evil that way!
Happy Halloween, BOGsters!
October 26, 2014
“We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.”
With a higher minimum wage, workers can get the chance to make more. As it is, they are kept near homeless and without means to make long terms plans due to the schedule they have to work under. It keeps them out of participation in a democracy, leaving it to their 'betters' or the Libertarians.
Scratch the surface of a GOP Tea Partier, you'll soon find a Libertarian and then see the system of exclusivity and patronage they are enacting daily as fascists. Look at the big picture, the long term, that's their game.
Really, with no advantage to work, there's always a life in organized crime. Which is where Scott got his money with his corporation, robbing the government. It gave him his current berth, working for the Koch brothers. What we consider crime and destructive to the nation, they consider as earning their dues to get ahead in their mob.
Ignoring the fact that if civil society gives no legitimate way to work oneself out of poverty, it increases crime due to concentrated wealth and the organized crime mentality. The GOP way is to protect their patrons, disregard all laws that give equality of air, water, food, housing and healthcare as civil rights to those not part of their mob family.
Why is the third world like it is, with people going into gangs of all kinds, cartels, loose armies that rape and pillage, except for the fast buck as legal work doesn't pay enough to live on or there is no hope at all?
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out where people like Scott want to lead the poor, privatized prison for free labor or working for room and board in the 'free world.' But the GOP intend that they will be the only ones with 'freedom' and 'liberty' because they earned it by doing deeds for their oligarchic bosses.
That is the ticket to move up in their world, they make promises to destroy unions, public service workers, progressive legislation, regulation and the rights of women and minorities, directly in meetings with their Koch masters. It's not even a secret anymore. But with all the disinformation and RF101 going on, they will keep on doing it easily.
Scott is a lackey for the Koch's who believe in slavery when all is said and done. Obama and the Democrats are stemming back the tidal wave unleashed by them. But they can't do it alone.
The GOP and their brownshirt brigade the Tea Party is greasing the public mind to accept the Koch Libertarian platform:
“We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.”
SANDERS Uncovers 1980 Koch Agenda- "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?"
What else do the Koch brothers want?
In 1980, David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 1980.
Let’s take a look at the 1980 Libertarian Party platform.
Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980:
In other words, the agenda of the Koch brothers is not only to defund Obamacare. The agenda of the Koch brothers is to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the most vulnerable in this country...
Tomorrow it will be Social Security, ending Medicare as we know it, repealing the minimum wage. It seems to me that the Koch brothers will not be content until they get everything they believe they are entitled to.
Our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers.
For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, for the sake of our economy, we have got to let democracy prevail.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a7980koch
to kpete:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298
We've heard these memes for years, people who support Scott, Walker, Christie, Brown and Perry better be sure they are safe from all aspects of what he is selling. They feel superior to the poor, but have they learned where he got the ideas and how far he will go to please his masters?
They need to read the list and see what is coming for them and others. Unless they are in really tight and upclose with these mobsters, they will be left in the same boat as those they are hating on now.
Media gives plenty of air time because their owners support the same agenda. They just don't say it openly, but the Tea Party is getting more honest about their intentions. They believe in that agenda, all of it.
Look at the list, look at what they have proposed, look at the GOP platform. Look at what they have done in Congress and the states. This must be faced.
Another explanation here:
How Freedom Became Tyranny
Right wing libertarians have turned “freedom” into an excuse for greed and exploitation.
George Monbiot - December 19, 2011
Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a noble impulse, become synonymous with injustice?
In the name of freedom – freedom from regulation – the banks were permitted to wreck the economy. In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers lobby Congress to thwart effective public healthcare; the government rips up our planning laws; big business trashes the biosphere. This is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor.
Right-wing libertarianism recognises few legitimate constraints on the power to act, regardless of the impact on the lives of others. In the UK it is forcefully promoted by groups like the TaxPayers’ Alliance, the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Policy Exchange. Their conception of freedom looks to me like nothing but a justification for greed.
So why have we been been so slow to challenge this concept of liberty? I believe that one of the reasons is as follows. The great political conflict of our age – between neocons and the millionaires and corporations they support on one side and social justice campaigners and environmentalists on the other – has been mischaracterised as a clash between negative and positive freedoms.
More at the link about the meaning of positive and negative freedoms and how the word is being used against us:
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/12/19/how-freedom-became-tyranny/
Please, in these final days before the election, make sure that the long game is being put forth. It's a bit late, I know, and it's very hard to get through to an electorate that denies science, civics, history and logic and has spent the whole year chasing whatever media has put out to divert us from taking a hard look at what they are selling us. And we can never forget that media is a commercial enterprise, always selling something. Be jaded, but don't give up on what is true and just for everyone. That will guide those of good will to the right outcome, and it's from the heart that it comes.
What 50K jobs is he going on about? That must be rebutted and it can be by...
Framing the minimum wage question to call out Scott's masters. The video doesn't say so, but maybe the 50K jobs Scott is bleating about are these:“We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.”
With a higher minimum wage, workers can get the chance to make more. As it is, they are kept near homeless and without means to make long terms plans due to the schedule they have to work under. It keeps them out of participation in a democracy, leaving it to their 'betters' or the Libertarians.
Scratch the surface of a GOP Tea Partier, you'll soon find a Libertarian and then see the system of exclusivity and patronage they are enacting daily as fascists. Look at the big picture, the long term, that's their game.
Really, with no advantage to work, there's always a life in organized crime. Which is where Scott got his money with his corporation, robbing the government. It gave him his current berth, working for the Koch brothers. What we consider crime and destructive to the nation, they consider as earning their dues to get ahead in their mob.
Ignoring the fact that if civil society gives no legitimate way to work oneself out of poverty, it increases crime due to concentrated wealth and the organized crime mentality. The GOP way is to protect their patrons, disregard all laws that give equality of air, water, food, housing and healthcare as civil rights to those not part of their mob family.
Why is the third world like it is, with people going into gangs of all kinds, cartels, loose armies that rape and pillage, except for the fast buck as legal work doesn't pay enough to live on or there is no hope at all?
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out where people like Scott want to lead the poor, privatized prison for free labor or working for room and board in the 'free world.' But the GOP intend that they will be the only ones with 'freedom' and 'liberty' because they earned it by doing deeds for their oligarchic bosses.
That is the ticket to move up in their world, they make promises to destroy unions, public service workers, progressive legislation, regulation and the rights of women and minorities, directly in meetings with their Koch masters. It's not even a secret anymore. But with all the disinformation and RF101 going on, they will keep on doing it easily.
Scott is a lackey for the Koch's who believe in slavery when all is said and done. Obama and the Democrats are stemming back the tidal wave unleashed by them. But they can't do it alone.
The GOP and their brownshirt brigade the Tea Party is greasing the public mind to accept the Koch Libertarian platform:
“We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.”
SANDERS Uncovers 1980 Koch Agenda- "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?"
What else do the Koch brothers want?
In 1980, David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 1980.
Let’s take a look at the 1980 Libertarian Party platform.
Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980:
“We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.”
“We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
“We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.”
“We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.”
“We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.”
“We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.”
“We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.”
“We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.”
“As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.”
“We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.”
“We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.”
“We condemn compulsory education laws … and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.”
“We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.”
“We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.”
“We support abolition of the Department of Energy.”
“We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.”
“We demand the return of America's railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.”
“We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.”
“We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.”
“We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and ‘aid to the poor’ programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.”
“We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.”
“We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.”
“We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.”
“We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”
In other words, the agenda of the Koch brothers is not only to defund Obamacare. The agenda of the Koch brothers is to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the most vulnerable in this country...
Tomorrow it will be Social Security, ending Medicare as we know it, repealing the minimum wage. It seems to me that the Koch brothers will not be content until they get everything they believe they are entitled to.
Our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers.
For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, for the sake of our economy, we have got to let democracy prevail.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a7980koch
to kpete:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298
We've heard these memes for years, people who support Scott, Walker, Christie, Brown and Perry better be sure they are safe from all aspects of what he is selling. They feel superior to the poor, but have they learned where he got the ideas and how far he will go to please his masters?
They need to read the list and see what is coming for them and others. Unless they are in really tight and upclose with these mobsters, they will be left in the same boat as those they are hating on now.
Media gives plenty of air time because their owners support the same agenda. They just don't say it openly, but the Tea Party is getting more honest about their intentions. They believe in that agenda, all of it.
Look at the list, look at what they have proposed, look at the GOP platform. Look at what they have done in Congress and the states. This must be faced.
Another explanation here:
How Freedom Became Tyranny
Right wing libertarians have turned “freedom” into an excuse for greed and exploitation.
George Monbiot - December 19, 2011
Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a noble impulse, become synonymous with injustice?
In the name of freedom – freedom from regulation – the banks were permitted to wreck the economy. In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers lobby Congress to thwart effective public healthcare; the government rips up our planning laws; big business trashes the biosphere. This is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor.
Right-wing libertarianism recognises few legitimate constraints on the power to act, regardless of the impact on the lives of others. In the UK it is forcefully promoted by groups like the TaxPayers’ Alliance, the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Policy Exchange. Their conception of freedom looks to me like nothing but a justification for greed.
So why have we been been so slow to challenge this concept of liberty? I believe that one of the reasons is as follows. The great political conflict of our age – between neocons and the millionaires and corporations they support on one side and social justice campaigners and environmentalists on the other – has been mischaracterised as a clash between negative and positive freedoms.
More at the link about the meaning of positive and negative freedoms and how the word is being used against us:
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/12/19/how-freedom-became-tyranny/
Please, in these final days before the election, make sure that the long game is being put forth. It's a bit late, I know, and it's very hard to get through to an electorate that denies science, civics, history and logic and has spent the whole year chasing whatever media has put out to divert us from taking a hard look at what they are selling us. And we can never forget that media is a commercial enterprise, always selling something. Be jaded, but don't give up on what is true and just for everyone. That will guide those of good will to the right outcome, and it's from the heart that it comes.
October 26, 2014
Wonder how he voted on the Sequester, Shutdown and Default?
http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/110218177#op
He is good at theft and arson for the GOP:
Wonder how he voted on the Sequester, Shutdown and Default?
http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/110218177#op
October 26, 2014
Thousands of people gather on the tarmac at Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport while waiting for the arrival of President Obama and the start of a campaign rally October 25, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio...
Running to the rally for the Democratic candidate...
Pete Souza: “At a late night rally in Cleveland, supporters react as the President delivered his remarks.” Oct. 25, 2012...
http://theobamadiary.com/
Everyday he and Michelle are in different states to promote Democrats. The photos and videos are out there if one looks at Obama friendly websites, but not on MSM. This is what he does after a day's work in the White House...
Just about every day. Today in Cleveland (picture heavy):
Thousands of people gather on the tarmac at Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport while waiting for the arrival of President Obama and the start of a campaign rally October 25, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio...
Running to the rally for the Democratic candidate...
Pete Souza: “At a late night rally in Cleveland, supporters react as the President delivered his remarks.” Oct. 25, 2012...
http://theobamadiary.com/
Everyday he and Michelle are in different states to promote Democrats. The photos and videos are out there if one looks at Obama friendly websites, but not on MSM. This is what he does after a day's work in the White House...
October 26, 2014
When asked a few weeks ago, 'You like Obama?!' in a large crowd. 'Yes, I do!' I crowed. Shock!!
I don't think people think for themselves much now. They just repeat what they heard on MSM like it's gospel and need to have it repeated back, or they get anxious or angry.
At times I feel surrounded by robots with no original thoughts or feelings, all programmed by MSM. It's not called 'programming' for nothing.
I feel as if I'm trapped in the 1976 German movie by Werner Herzog:
The setting is an 18th-century Bavarian town with a glassblowing factory that produces a brilliant red ruby glass. When the master glass blower dies, the secret to producing the ruby glass is lost. The local Baron and factory owner is obsessed with the ruby glass and believes it to have magical properties. With the loss of the secret, he soon descends into madness along with the rest of the townspeople. The main character is Hias, a seer from the hills, who predicts the destruction of the factory in a fire.
During shooting, almost all of the actors performed while under hypnosis. Every actor in every scene was hypnotized, with the exception of the character Hias and the professional glassblowers who appear in the film. The hypnotized actors give very strange performances, which Herzog intended to suggest the trance-like state of the townspeople in the story. Herzog provided the actors with most of their dialogue, memorised during hypnosis. However, many of the hypnotised actors' gestures and movements occurred spontaneously during filming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heart_of_Glass_%28film%29&printable=yes
Media is a great hypnotist.
October 26, 2014
That's what that picture shows us all. He respects what she has given.
Appreciation is not just saying thank you. It means one is transformed within by gratitude.
That's what that picture shows us all. He respects what she has given.
October 25, 2014
I've read native american writings online that show some pity Europeans. They said they suffer from a devastating disconnect of awareness and empathy, a form of tunnel vision that will destroy them if they cannot break free of their chains.
They felt what some of us call the 'desert religions' had robbed 'Whites' of the wisdom of their inner selves, creating fear and limiting their vision. And that the struggles to have 'freedom' or 'liberty' are still holding those things at arm's length, because they are oppressed and full of fear from that loss. Even more so than those they abused, which I saw as a remarkable idea.
They described the illness as a death of the soul covered with infinite attempts to recreate what they cannot accept, that they were conquered in their own lands and don't know any better.
Now, that is one specific way of looking at the problem of 'civilization' as presented by the past models embraced, that has no condemnation of any race. That was from a website of mostly native women and they thought that 'Whites' needed to be freed from that, not left to walk a destructive path that could take down the whole planet.
It fits my view of the race and cultural problems that 'Whites' bring to the world. I am a believer in diversity and think all groups have a place in time and space where they learn more about themselves. Then that is passed on to the rest of world, whether in good ways or bad ways. I think each group is part of a whole that contributes to the future of the human race and each has its time on the world stage either singly or as a coalition of many cultures.
I believe that each group serves a purpose to unite the world. The innovative genius for good or ill of the Europeans did cover the globe, and had made connections that may have never been made otherwise. If there is going to be an epitaph for a culture, race or people, the legacy left behind on the world stage will be both good and evil.
Or something like that, still working this out.
Always felt this to be the case. 'Whites' as generally identified, come from a continent that was at
war for thousands of years. Being competitive and organizing most of their society to do battle and innovate new means to win wars became a key to success in that milieu and later in others using those same means.I've read native american writings online that show some pity Europeans. They said they suffer from a devastating disconnect of awareness and empathy, a form of tunnel vision that will destroy them if they cannot break free of their chains.
They felt what some of us call the 'desert religions' had robbed 'Whites' of the wisdom of their inner selves, creating fear and limiting their vision. And that the struggles to have 'freedom' or 'liberty' are still holding those things at arm's length, because they are oppressed and full of fear from that loss. Even more so than those they abused, which I saw as a remarkable idea.
They described the illness as a death of the soul covered with infinite attempts to recreate what they cannot accept, that they were conquered in their own lands and don't know any better.
Now, that is one specific way of looking at the problem of 'civilization' as presented by the past models embraced, that has no condemnation of any race. That was from a website of mostly native women and they thought that 'Whites' needed to be freed from that, not left to walk a destructive path that could take down the whole planet.
It fits my view of the race and cultural problems that 'Whites' bring to the world. I am a believer in diversity and think all groups have a place in time and space where they learn more about themselves. Then that is passed on to the rest of world, whether in good ways or bad ways. I think each group is part of a whole that contributes to the future of the human race and each has its time on the world stage either singly or as a coalition of many cultures.
I believe that each group serves a purpose to unite the world. The innovative genius for good or ill of the Europeans did cover the globe, and had made connections that may have never been made otherwise. If there is going to be an epitaph for a culture, race or people, the legacy left behind on the world stage will be both good and evil.
Or something like that, still working this out.
October 25, 2014
I know where you're coming from, they use is a ploy the way they use the word 'reform.' But IIRC the
term still can be used properly. The group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America appeals to common sense. But such sense is not common anymore. Nor is respect for the opinions and rights of others in our NRA and media brain washed society. A few appalling examples are in this article I'm sure you've read before:
Spitting, Stalking, Rape Threats: How Gun Extremists Target Women
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/guns-bullying-open-carry-women-moms-texas
The piece is so powerful I am unable to pick out the best paragraphs DU limits in posting. This is what we face, along with other attacks on civil society.
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