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EXPECT this site to advocate for FREEDOM and INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS.
We make no attempt to be "politically correct". Left, Right, or Center.
Well, I guess you could check the FBI profile, but I think I took care of that little matter. Lets see. I done a lot of different things at different times. I've been a Hippie, redneck, Biker, activist, bum, construction worker, DJ, therapist, grant writer, program developer (obviously not computer) drunk (does that mean drugs too?), tattoo artist, body piercer,orange picker, whatever I needed to be whenever. Now however I'm just me. Took awhile to get here and will probaly take awhile to get from here to there. If I have learned one thing for sure though, it's that there ain't nothing for sure.
The Parade group which is been named Veteran Events in Tallahassee Incorporated, aka VET Inc, will be making its presentation to the Leon County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday Feb 9th at 6:00 PM at the Leon County Courthouse, we would appreciate all the support we can get up there, all that can attend and support this effort will be appreciated.
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Re: the Supreme Courts decision to grant Corporation de-facto citizenship status by allowing them to spend as much money as they like supporting various stands of certain politicians in the name of free speech.
Howard commented making some real good points. I responded, however as I stated in my response, my head had been arguing over this decision and my stance quite a bit.
Flush with cash despite the global economic downturn, China’s sovereign wealth fund quietly snapped up more than $9 billion worth of shares last year in some of the biggest American corporations, including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup.
China Investment Corp., the government’s $300 billion investment fund, now owns stock in some of the best-known American brands, including Apple, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Motorola and Visa.
By buying the securities of international companies, China is trying to spread its fast-growing wealth more widely. It is also seeking to acquire strategic stakes in companies that could feed its hungry economy with a wide range of commodities.The filing indicates that C.I.C. owns about $19 million worth of Bank of America stock, close to $30 million worth of Citigroup shares and about $333 million worth of shares in Visa, as well as holdings in various index funds.
The fund’s largest listed holdings were $1.7 billion worth of shares in Morgan Stanley and nearly $650 million worth of shares in BlackRock, the New York money management fund.
The Morgan Stanley stake was acquired last June, when the investment bank issued about $2.2 billion worth of common shares to help repay the U.S. government under the Troubled Asset Relief Program; C.I.C. acquired about $1.2 billion worth of shares at that time.
Executives whose companies have accepted investments from C.I.C. tend to defend it as apolitical.
(emphasis ours, go to link to read full story)
I personaly am not inclined to believe any bankers statements as to what is or is not "political." Instead my readings have led me to the opinion that the relationships between banks and politicians is so incestuous as to be like a family tree with no branches.
I, nor I suspect you or anybody else, is going to sink $1.2 billion dollars into anything without having some say as to how that money will be spent. Legal they are entitled as shareholders to have a say in the dealings of the corporations they have invested.
How is this all going to play out if we get into a trade war with China. A few shots have already been fired across the bow.
We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Call me crazy, but in that I do not read, "all corporations are created equal"
Keep in mind that this issue decided by the Supreme Court was disguised as a free speech issue.
That individual corporations should be allowed free speech to participate in our electoral process.
If that is the case then somebody answer this how is it that the same corporations that want free speech here are willing to censor speech abroad????????
Of course, Google’s official stance was that it was just too much of a compromise to operate any business in China:
We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.
A consortium led by Walt Disney Co. (DIS) is in advanced talks to buy into China’s largest in-bus digital media and advertising company…Google was expected to take only a small stake in the Bus Online deal, while Disney aimed to take the greater part, said the sources, adding that no agreement had been signed yet.
Wow, Google! That stance against China lasted all of four weeks!
OF course Google and Disney are not the only ones.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The chief executives of Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have declined to back Google's threat to pull out of China over censorship and cyberattacks, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer described Google's row with China as "the Google problem," the FT said, while Mark Hurd, CEO of computer maker HP, called China "an amazing market with tremendous growth."
Corporations up the yin yang (not a pun but a reality) have run to set up shop in China, including but not limited to, that venerable bastion of American Independence HARLEY-DAVIDSON, see:
which of course gives a whole new meaning to there ad campaign, SCREW IT LETS RIDE!
Note the words, "drown out the spin on the evening news""Wind" may outlast "hard times" but "FREEDOM" unless vigilantly defended against those who would seduce us with chrome and lip service in exchange for profit.
FEEDING FROM THE SAME HAND THAT FORGES CHAINS OF OPPRESSION INSURES THAT YOUR SOUL WILL GO HUNGRY rcAdd to Technorati Favorites
Ok I'm gonna try and keep from engaging in all the word plays that aare coming to mind. And being a Florida boy I will cop to gettin a little chill in the old bones when the temp drops to bout 50.
But that didn't stop the Road Runners Annual Chili fest from being another hot time. Besides, get enough beers and some of the hottest chili this side of Mexico in ya and it's all good. Especially when all the proceeds go to charity.
This event, as we noted last year, continues to get larger. This will be especially evident to the cagers who will return to where they thought they had left their vehicles only to find that the tow truck done got em.
There were however a few enterprising home owners in the area that did put 5 dollar parking signs in their front yard who I suspect made enough to buy more than a few cans of chili.
There were representatives from a number of organizations out there vying for Top Chili mixologists and I suppose someone even won the prize. For me however, and I suspect a few others it was more about havin a good ride, some good conversations with some good folks and appreciating the "atmosphere". But hey, I like Chilli to.
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"The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that corporations may spend as freely as they
like to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress..."
Click or go here for details from Google News: http://tinyurl.com/y8d4x3y
OUR REPUBLIC HAS BEEN LOST IN A CORPORATE COUP D'ÉTAT!
Excerpt from Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission: The Stevens Dissent
"In a democratic society, the longstanding consensus on the need to limit
corporate campaign spending should outweigh the wooden application of judge-made
rules. The majority's rejection of this principle 'elevate[s] corporations to a
level of deference which has not been seen at least since the days when
substantive due process was regularly used to invalidate regulatory legislation
thought to unfairly impinge upon established economic interests.' Bellotti, 435
U. S., at 817, n. 13 (White, J., dissenting). At bottom, the Court's opinion is
thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized
a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the
founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of
corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange
time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few
outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth
of corporate money in politics."
Let us not be fooled. The only thing this ruling as done is to legitimize and possibly strengthened what is already common practice, the buying and selling of politicians by granting Corporate entities (to include Unions who of course will be out spent) the status of individual citizens.
If it is in fact true that corporations are to be viewed as Individual Citizens. Then they should be arrested for treason, child abuse, abuse of the elderly, slavery and TREASON based on they're sending American jobs overseas to have their products made in sweat shops by child labor as we pointed out in this post, (link)lost your Job and blaming it on illegal immigration-HA!
While the extreme right wing rails against "illegal immigration" it is corporate America that, as pointed out in the above linked post, that has sought to pervert the law to bring in foreign workers to replace American Workers as the Economy was crashing, see: BANKS SOUGHT FOREIGN WORKERS AS SYSTEM CRASHEDat the same time they were getting bailed out with "OUR" tax dollars.
Consider also that most large "American" Corporations are no longer "American" Corporations. They are Multi-National Corporations operating wherever they can increase profits, contracting and making deals with whatever governmental ideology happens to be in power. Consider the head long rush of corporations striving to establish and expand a presence in Communist China.
Although some would have us believe that exposure to our American Corporations will help to lead to the democratization of China. They fail to account that Imperial China had been long exposed to American ideals prior to the Communist Revolution. That it has been the constant unrest by the rural peasant over ties to the land, poverty and being overtaxed that keeps China on the road to economic reform and hopefully someday Political reform.
Mighty Corporations historically, in collusion with the state, have led to Imperialism and subjugation of the native peoples they seek to profit from the labor and resources of. It was for profit that many "enlightened" countries turned a blind eye to "slavery". It has only been when people of heart and soul, as opposed to a heart defined as the bottom line, rise up us to throw of these Corporate/Economic chains of bondage that they become free.
That is how "AMERICAN INDIVIDUALS" became Americans, by throwing off the chains of the "British Empire".
When Corporations are made to take a citizenship test and "PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO AMERICA" and SWEAR AND OATH TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, then and only then should we EVEN consider whether or not they should be granted the same rights as an individual to participate in our "Democracy". After all, how many corporations are you aware of that run their businesses democratically, providing their employees with equal rights!"Add to Technorati Favorites
Warning Will Robinson, Warning, DISCLAIMER ALERT, DISCLAIMER ALERT:
The following is in no way meant to be a reflection of my stand on the Health Care Bill. I have not read it (as a heap of other folk haven't) and do not feel qualified to take a stand at this time. It is also not to be construed to be an indication of any leanings towards any particular political party. Personally I think they are all crooks and Scam artists!
Whoa, hold the presses. Better yet, burn em. What a unique freaking concept. Learn about a subject before formulating an opinion.
Nah that can't be can it. You mean to say that if we were to sit down and actually study/research/learn about a topic we might actually have to change our minds bout how we feel about it?
Ain't happening I tell ya. Primarily because changing our minds about something is the same as saying you mean I could have been wrong about something. OH NOOOOOOOOOO..........God forbid.
Especially if it means I have to study, research and learn. All things that require time and effort when we all have so much better to do. Like running around parroting the philistines masked as the Holy Trinity of Hannity, Limbaugh and Beck would never stir us wrong would they? Of course not. Provided of course you be content drooling over "Palin" (as I have done so many an evening. So much brains in so much body who wouldn't) who they continue to refer to as "Governor Palin" as if she still holds the same legitimacy she held before she quit her low paying Governor job for the fame and riches of Fox "fair and Balanced" crapcasting.
Just as an aside could somebody explain to me how that little scenario works. You call yourself a "fair and balanced" NEWS Network and then hire some as a "News commentator" who will double as as "Party Fundraiser"???????
I'm wondering if the powers to be have read Lenin ((Russian Founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917,1870-1924) who said,
But ya know that health care bill the loudest voices have been telling us the American People do not want? Guess What? Wrong???????????? At least according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll was able to determine. Keep in mind that the Kaiser Family Foundation is generally considered fairly unbiased if not fair and balanced.
(RTTNews) - While the public remains divided over Democrats' efforts to enact health care reform legislation, a new poll released Friday found that support for the effort grew when people were advised of its key provisions.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation poll, which was conducted before the Massachusetts special election was won by a Republican, stripping Democrats of the 60th vote needed to overcome a GOP filibuster, 42 percent of Americans supported the Democrats' plan.
Almost as many, 41 percent, were opposed to the effort, while 16 percent were undecided. (ok, like this means by a majority of 1% Americans supported this plan at the time of the poll. Right or Wrong?)
However, the poll found that a majority supported the bill more after hearing about some of its elements.(O.K. so now your above 1% majority for, minority against. And why I am writhing this I am flogging myself for the effort knowing that Hannity, Limberg and Beckhave already ripped this appart and proven it wrong and themselves as usual, intellectual Gods. Hmmm, Does that make FORMER Gov. Palin a "Godette?")
On hearing that the bill offers tax credits to small business owners to help them offer health insurance to their workers, 73 percent said they were more supportive of the legislation.(oh God please take pity on the poor souls of open minds who upon being capable of learning are also able to think for themselves)!
A large majority, 67 percent, said they were more supportive of the bill when told that it included a national exchange to help individuals and small companies buy affordable health insurance, while 63 percent said a ban on exclusion of coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions made them more supportive.
All told, the poll found that 17 of the bill's 27 major provisions made a majority of people more supportive of it, while only two provisions made them feel less supportive. (blasphemy, heresy, the poll is obviously flawed. But then again they may have accidentally polled a couple people who rememberAIG (for a good read: NY Fed to be subpoenaed for AIG bailout docs. Move comes after Fed told bailout watchdog not to give files to House panel), Travelers, Allstate, and State farm of Katrina and the good care and quick response they provided their clients during the disaster, choke, choke!) Yepper them poor bastards would have skewed the poll results wouldn't they? People shouls only be allowed to take poos that swear on a Bible to give the answers pollsters want, dont'cha think?)
The requirement of most Americans to buy health insurance was one such negative provision with 62 percent saying that made them less supportive, and just more than half, 51 percent, said the bill's $871 billion cost made them less supportive of the bill. (Maybe we could ask some bank executives for a loan)
"It's one thing to talk about the public's perception of health care reform legislation, which right now is in some ways negative," said Kaiser President and CEO Drew Altman. "But it's another to tell people what's actually in the bill and when you do that people are more positive." (OH MY WORD. Did they just intimate that the Holy Trinity could actually help to "EDUCATE" the public as opposed to misleading them for FUN and PROFIT!)
The poll also found a stark partisan divide in opinions about the Congressional proposals, with 64 percent of Democrats supporting the measure and 76 percent of Republicans opposed. (Unfortunately the Democrats, Libertarians and others have not yet found a trio of demigods to which they can plug into like "Captain Picard and the Borg." I'm quite sure they will though, they have a start with Oberman and Maddow on MSNBC).
Independents were slightly opposed to the measure, with 42 percent against it and 41 percent supporting. However, 52 percent said it was more important than ever to enact some kind of reform.(Yippee Kiyay for that 52%. At least they have a clue).
Seniors leaned against the Democrats' proposals, with 48 percent opposed, 37 percent in favor and 15 percent undecided.
However, only 37 percent of seniors were aware that the bill includes a provision to help them afford prescription drugs by closing a 'donut hole' in Medicaid prescription drug coverage. Some 60 percent of seniors said that provision would make them more supportive of the legislation.(one might ask oneself, or not, why is it that 63% of seniors were unaware of something that would have such an impact on their lifestyles. I mean like don't we have a press? Don't we have "News"? Are these 63% being held captive in a nursing home cafeteria or something? My personal experience is that the elderly are generally more informed than other demographics. Could it be that those who claim to be the purveyors of knowledge, awareness, all things of importance and once in awhile news some how missed something?)
by RTT Staff Writer
Now for all them folk that have or can afford insurance such as the likes of those whom we vote to represent us have made sure that they have (and I suspect Rush, Hannity, and Beck have as good if not better), well I be happy for you and I would suggest you not support a bill that might help to ease the misery of some of your inferiors.
And to all them folk what ain't never been in a situation where such insurance has be needed, I pray your good fortune continues but ask you to remember, "but for the grace of God go YOU.Add to Technorati Favorites"
Carlin was present at Lenny Bruce's arrest for obscenity. As the police began attempting to detain members of the audience for questioning, they asked Carlin for his identification. Telling the police he did not believe in government issued IDs, he was arrested and taken to jail with Bruce in the same vehicle.[36]
George Carlin was a controversial comedian who "along with wordplay and sex jokes, always included politics as part of his material but by the mid-1980s he had become a strident social critic in both his HBO specials and the book compilations of his material, bashing both conservatives and liberals alike."
In 2001, Carlin was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 15th Annual American Comedy Awards.
On June 18, 2008, four days before his death, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. announced that Carlin would be the 2008 honoree of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor,[47] which was awarded on November 10, 2008. Carlin thus became the award's first posthumous recipient, a decision the Kennedy Center made after consulting with both Carlin's family and PBS (which aired the ceremony).[48] The comedians who honored him at the ceremony included Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Lily Tomlin (a former Twain Humor Prize winner herself), Lewis Black, Denis Leary, Joan Rivers, and Margaret Cho
He won 5 Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.
He once told his audience:"I have always been willing to put myself at great personal risk for the sake of entertainment. And I've always been willing to put you at great personal risk, for the same reason!"
He was an ardent supporter of free speech, whether you liked it or not. He died at the age of 71. Which is really to bad cause we are betting he would have had a heap of fun were he around now.
See here for more on George Carlin. Be sure to check out Lenny Bruce also. Another comedian who. along with Richard Pryor pushed the limits and bucked the system. It's amazing how current their body of work remains.Add to Technorati Favorites
There is no greater threat to individual freedom and autonomy than government. The threat from private freelance crime is small potatoes compared to the daily usurpations of the state, with its taxation, regulation, privilege-granting, inflation, and war. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's immortal passage has never been topped:
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place(d) under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.
Whoa.....kickin words from a dude that died in 1865 whose life appears to be either a contradiction or an evolution.Add to Technorati Favorites
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