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Sunday, July 27, 2008 10:26 AM

BRAIN WASHING

If any one wants to know what kind of people we are just watch the TV commercials or listen to our radio commercials . They can also listen to our air wave programing . Our information media is delivered in a very infantile way which says our electorate thinks in an infantile way . It is obvious that after lines have been drawn we can be convinced to stand on and defend one side of that line . Look at Afghanistan . Before the first twin tower bombing the oil MOGULS were talking to the Taliban about an oil pipe line through the Taliban's country and were not getting the answers they wanted . Shortly afterwards we started seeing TV shorts of atrocious acts being commited by people dressed in quasi Afghan atire with a description which indicated it was Taliban acts . We began to like Pakistan a lot . The media said we had enemies and an enemy that had to be captured dead or alive and many of us must die to get it done . Think ! Do that many of us need to die to get one person ? Or has OIL done it to us again ?

Monday, July 28, 2008 09:52 PM
Original article: Obamanomics to the rescue

HARAKIRI

This messs can only be fixed by recirculating our currency in our communities . As T Boone said we are sending large amounts of our currency abroad while we live on debt . There is a wall out there we are going to ram in to soon if we don't stop living off debt and start keeping our currency here . We live in an age of "NO LOYALITY" . We buy AMERICAN products less and less . People working for GM or Ford will take money earned and buy Toyotas . Just drive past one of the major AMERICAN auto plants and look at the number of competitor's cars in the employee's lot . T Boone has one good idea and FDR had another . WPA infrastructure . If only AMERICANS work in these areas we could see some light at the end .

Thursday, August 7, 2008 04:30 AM

JC FRIGHTENS THE LIVING S**T OUT OF THE BIG OIL GOP

The GOP knows that JC will do what he says and has the smarts , and being a pal of OB they worry that he may have some influence . With OB in office we might cut petro use and that would give the GOP one big headache . Cutting air pollution and other damages to the environment is not the way the big oil GOP wants to go .

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 08:07 PM

OIL , OIL , AND MORE OIL

Are we crazy ?

1. Energy prices are high and getting higher .

2. Health care prices are high and rising .

3. Food prices are high and rising .

4. Travel costs are high and rising .

5. Broadcast commercials are loud and getting louder .

6. Clothing prices are high and rising .

7. Liberties we had are gone and dwindling .

AND YET MANY OF OUR ELECTORATE HAVE CHOSEN SIDES AND ARE ARGUING FOR MORE OF THE ABOVE . IT’S AS IF THEY WERE IN A HYPNOTIC STUPOR AND CAN NOT FEEL PAIN .

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 08:38 PM

GRINNING

Only one person in this picture is grinning .

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 06:11 AM
Original article: Sandbagged at Saddleback

STOP THE LYING

Love that Joan Walsh . This gets right down to the core of that part of the electorate . Abortion became the issue with the Evangel preachers when they switched parties back in the 60's . The real reason for the switch was because they were and still are against the civil rights laws . And being preachers that get lots of money from minorities around the world they needed a smoke and mirrors tactic , and abortion aligned them with the Catholics thereby becoming a louder voice . SO since then abortion has been the code word for non-minority . I saw an interview years ago with ABC and a white man in NC that had lost his job to out sourcing . He was asked if he was going to vote democratic in the future , and he said "NO because the democrats are for minorities" . So some things are more important than jobs , wars , and inflated living costs . Which means the Evangel preachers will hang on to ABORTION as though it is the golden ram horn . As Joan pointed out , the host of that program was pushing his agenda and collecting the money .

Sunday, August 24, 2008 07:19 AM

INCREASING PAIN

SINCE THE YEAR 2000 THE FOLLOWING THINGS HAVE HAPPENED:

1. FOOD PRICES HAVE INCREASED

2. HEALTHCARE PRICES HAVE INCREASED

3. GASOLINE PRICES HAVE INCREASED

4. HOME HEATING PRICES HAVE INCREASED

5. PERSONAL ANXIETY LEVELS HAVE INCREASED

6. HOME FORECLOSURE NUMBERS HAVE INCREASED

7. OUR MANUFACTURING JOB LOSS HAS INCREASED

8. OUR AVERAGE INCOME HAS DECREASED

9. OUR INTERNATIONAL PRESITGE HAS DECREASED

10. OUR CURRENCY VALUE HAS DECREASED

11. OUR BROADCAST COMMERCIALS HAVE INCREASED IN LOUDNESS

12. OUR CITIZENS WITHOUT HEALTHCARE COVERAGE HAS INCREASED

AS INDIVIDUALS WE HAVE DIFFERENT THRESHOLDS OF PAIN BUT THE ABOVE THINGS DO NOT HAPPEN UNLESS THE POWERS-THAT-BE WANT THEM TO HAPPEN . SOME MAY NOT FEEL THE DIFFERENCE AND ARE ENJOYING THE PRESENT SITUATION BUT MOST OF OUR CITIZENS ARE IN A STATE OF TERROR AND ANXIETY 24/7 . THE CORPORATE MEDIA OBVIOUSLY ENJOYS THE PRESENT SITUATION OR MAYBE THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO TAKE OUR MINDS OFF THE PAIN BECAUSE THEY NEVER TALK ABOUT ANY OF THE ABOVE ITEMS TO ANY EXTENT .

Friday, August 29, 2008 04:16 PM

UGH !

Social conservative ? When it comes to raking in the filty lucre the evangel gang is not conservative or social nor is there anything religious about them . They claim to be followers of the word Christ but when it comes to what Christ said in Mathews 6 ver 1 & 2 they look the other way . John Mc is still the same playboy he was before he picked his VP nor has his wife treatment changed . He makes one wonder if his new VP is one of his toys .

Friday, August 29, 2008 10:09 PM

SOCIAL ?

Those evangels all have one aim . Collect as much filthy lucre as possible ! They are willing to "take someone out" that gets in the way of them getting their greedy hands on some one else's resources . That is why they all flock to the GOP . The GOP (political arm of Wall Street) and the evangels are of one mind as far as filling their coffers with loot .

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