The Most Revealing Article...

It Continues To be Allowed To Get Worse Yet, And Still, You Allow...
by The Old Hippie Because Seeing Truth Didn’t Help, Nor The Resultant Pain Of The Truth.

{-The Way Many Picture Me-}

The thieves have been so emboldened by the lack of any repercussions/punishments for their open thefts, that they are now just blatant about the methods of their thefts, and they know, from experience, that you, the American citizenry, will do absolutely nothing about it.  They know they will get away with all of it, as they did get away with, and still are getting away with, all of it.         Here Is The Direct Link To The Article. Please, read what you have allowed, and continue to allow.  It's not a long article, actually quite short, but it says so much about what we all have allowed to come about within our nation.  No one is to blame, except for ourselves.

I don't know how much more of this type of insanity the sane can take, (not to mention the insane,) before they do something insane.  But I'm sure it can't be much longer.  America is armed to the teeth.  So much so that the gun & bullet makers can't keep up with the demand.  Armed revolt is never pretty, but it is always deadly.  And it always could have been avoided... if the thieves had been stopped.  History has proven it, over, and over, and over, and over again.  I think it is about to be proven once again.

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The following is reprised, because not much has really changed as far as the ongoing denial of the insane “allowing” of the theft by the-very-few is concerned...  I will continue to reprise this... as long as the 'citizens' of my nation continue to “allow the allowing.”

It, the insanity, of the “allowing,” is getting worse, in fact it is much worse already.

Go look at all of the MSM’s headlines, at their websites, then compare what you see there with the reality as rationally reported by reality based independent news sites.

If that simple comparison doesn’t open ones closed eyes of denial, nothing will.

To help you remain sane, and not too deeply depressed, you should end your “session of reality” by stopping in at some of the better editorial humorists’ websites - It couldn’t hurt.

That is my main personal method of doing research for this blog - Check in with the right and the right’s insane, then study as much of the reality-based news sites as possible, then check in with the humorists.  I then sleep on it, do it again, and then post what I have learned, observed, or was stunned by, to first, share it, and second, to get it off my chest so that I can remain sane myself.  All the while, trying my best to keep a reality-based perspective in these historically insane times.

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Best Article Of The Week...

The Denial, And The Ignoring, Of Our Reality Is Deadly Stupid.
The “Allowing” Has Not Been “Allowed” to be Stopped - I Fear That, More Than Anything.

15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart At The Seams. The “best” article of the week.  Well, maybe not the best, more like the most frightening.  But it is at least the most perceptive of what our current reality is within our nation, and what we are all soon to be facing. . .  ‘Wake Up!’ may be too late by now.

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Just read the article...  (oh, yeah...  Have a nice day.)

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Says It All. . .

Some Can Nail It With “Jest”, Some Just Nail It.
by Tom Tomorrow, et al...



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Nothing else at this time...

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R-i-g-h-t. . .

Ahh...  Reality...  Obviously Is Something We Pretend We Understand.
Because Reality, As Defined By The Thieves, Is Your Reality Now.

Oil Reserve Numbers Deliberately Inflated [lied about] to Avoid Panic, Appease the US. Taliban, Eat Your Heart Out!  Lack Of Health Care Killed 2,266 US veterans Last Year. If Any Question Why We Died, Tell Them Because Our Fathers Lied. “Really, Does This Surprise Anyone When It Comes To Blackwater?”  [Includes video report.] 2 ways to handle insurgency in non-Western countries:  (1) Don't invade.  (2) Get out. The New Wall  [Op-Ed by William Rivers Pitt]

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Nothing else at this time, the above links should keep you busy for awhile - Right?

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Wake Up! (Oops... Too Late.)

Why Are We Stupidly Allowing The Ongoing Allowed Destruction?
Because The price We Are All Paying Is Devestating To Our Nation, And To Our Lives.

America Performs Its Familiar Role of Propping Up a Dictator. Broader Measure of U.S. Unemployment Stands at 17.5%. Unemployment Up Dramatically!  Stocks Rise!  Huh? US Foreign Policy is Straight Out of the Mafia. Steve Fraser On the Crisis of Capitalism. Crunch Time for Planet Earth. The Rich?  They Get Elected.

Note This:  $1 of every $700 spent on healthcare in America...  Goes to just 1 Man.

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Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.  Or stupidly pay the price.

Oh, wait...  We already are. . .

Right?

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Wake Up! (Oops... Too Late.)

Why Are We Ignorantly Allowing The Radical-Fringe Stupidity?
Because The price We Are All Paying Is Devestating Our Nation, And Our Lives.

Undercover Inside The Weird World Of Right-Wing Abortion Foes Climate Change Deniers Are Not Skeptics - They’re Suckers We Only Have Months, Not Years, To Save Civilisation... Noam Chomsky: No Change In US ‘Mafia Principle’ Lobbying Cash Obscures US Climate Debate The Best Justice That Money Can Buy The Tortured Logic Continues...

Note This:  $1 of every $700 spent on healthcare in America...  Goes to just 1 Man.

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Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.  Or stupidly pay the price.

Oh, wait...  We already are. . .

Right?

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Says It All, Again. . .

Some Can Nail It With “Jest”, Some Just Nail It.
by Tom Tomorrow, et al...



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Nothing else needed at this time - Right?

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Says It All. . .

Some Can Nail It With “Jest”, Some Just Nail It.
by Tom Tomorrow, et al...



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Those That Are. . .

Telling It Like It Is, In Reality, Not As We Hope It is.
Because, Quite Often, The Exposed Reality Can Not Be ‘Allowed’ To Be Ignored.

-  The Uneducated American       The results of [our] educational neglect have been gradual - a slow-       motion erosion of America’s relative position.  But things are about       to get much worse, as the economic crisis deals its severe blow.   -  And They Wonder Why We Hate Them.       Hospital security guards stopped the courier -- and 13 others who       came soon after -- before they reached patients’ rooms.   -  ...the Man Doing Corporate Agribusiness’s Dirty Work         [You’ll need to scroll down the page to get to the videos.]

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- A“Below The Fold” bonus - ‘An Oldie, But Goodie’ Video - From Al Franken, et al.

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Another Example. . .

Another Example Of The ‘How’ Of Manipulated Subtle Propaganda...
by Think Progress  <  source & updates



For those that didn’t notice, that’s a 2:1 ratio.

Very Fair, and very Balanced. . .  Right?

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Just An Example. . .

One Small Example Of The ‘How’ Of Manipulated Subtle Propaganda.
And You Continue To “Allow” Them Their “Allowed” Theft... And Control... Of You.

Want to know the ‘how’ of Fox News being “the most popular” in our nation?  Comcast Cable - Fox is a part of their cheapest basic cable choices, ‘real’ news, particularly MSNBC, can only be had by paying a higher price for the upgrade package.  Therefore, all of the hotels, bars, restaurants, hospitals, various offices, and all the families that can only afford basic, and all of those that choose only basic, all get Fox, and never see MSNBC, et al.

That is the how of it, and it is but one small example of the manipulated propaganda.

The simple complexity of the complex simplicity is beyond most Americans.

The problem with the stupid and ignorant among us is that while they “proudly and patriotically,” allow their own self-destruction by fighting among themselves as they were programmed to do... is that they are destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...  They are destroying us all.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.  Or stupidly pay the price.

Oh, wait...  We already are.

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There are many more ‘Hows’ to it - I'm sure each of you can think of many of them.

It is not even ‘News’ anymore, it has become openly, sneeringly, insanely... blatant.

And you still continue to ‘allow’ it all - And ‘they,’ the very few, know well that you are in reality powerless, weak, not to mention cowards, and you will continue to ‘allow’ them their theft of this nation’s wealth, your economic security, your job security, your health, your children’s futures - - - They have become so sure of it, they don't even try to hide it anymore.

All of it, for nothing more than massive short term profits to the very-very-few.

[You were right Dr., Dr., Master, (patriot) Joe...  It was “perfect.”]

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The Golden Rule. . .

Those That Have The Gold. . .  Rule.
And You Continue To “Allow” Them Their “Allowed” Theft.

I haven’t posted anything for over a week because... I had to ‘take a step back,’ and try to observe my nation’s continued ‘allowed’ deterioration from the ‘outside,’ so to speak.

I went back into the archives of this blog, and others, like CommonDreams, Crook and Liars, Truthout, Truthdig, Democracy Now!, The BBC, The CBC, The Independent (UK), Mother Jones, Michael Moore, Alternet, et al, and even dug back through the history of the ‘allowed’ corporate take-over of this nation’s media, and the very few’s ‘allowed’ successful transfer of this nation’s wealth to themselves by open theft, ...to review the evidence as it progressed over time...  And it’s more than depressing, frightening, disgusting, not to mention disillusioning.

Now here we are, in the last quarter of 2009, still ‘allowing’ the destruction of this planet’s biosphere, still ‘allowing’ the destruction of this nation’s Constitutional framework, still ‘allowing’ the increased manipulated influence of insane fundamentalist ideology, still ‘allowing’ the very few to continue their open theft of this nation’s wealth and freedoms, and liberties, still ‘allowing’ our own self-destruction. . .  All for the long term wealth from short term profits to the very few from the very many...  “Us, the allowers.”

The simple complexity of the complex simplicity is beyond most Americans.

The problem with the stupid and ignorant among us is that while they “proudly and patriotically,” allow their own self-destruction by fighting among themselves as they were programmed to do, is that they are destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...  They are destroying us all.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.  Or stupidly pay the price.

Oh, wait...  We already are.

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Again, I just had to get it off my chest.  I do not apologize for it.

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(s-i-g-h...)

Just Fucking... s-i-g-h...
by Bill Watterson, creator of "Calvin and Hobbs"



The bad people never get away, unless the good people give up.

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Nothing else at this time.

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Umm. . .

Protect The Insurance Companies, Something 80% Of ‘Us’ Do Not Want.
But something the other 20%, (collaborators, sycophants, arrogantly ignorant ‘patriots’,) do want.

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

[original source link, in case of problems playing it here.]

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I hope at least a few of the morons see this, and maybe actually wakes up.

Of course, since the morons of our nation do not bother to believe anyone but Fox, or their
con-artist mega-church preachers, or their sociopathic propagandist collaborating profiteers,
e.g. Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, Coulter, Dobbs, et al, they’ll never watch this.  They
will continue to allow their own (manipulated) self-destruction, claiming anyone who disagrees with them, by being so rude as to smack them in the face with the documented proof of their ignorance. . . is a stupid far-left elitist.

The problem with the morons proudly, patriotically, allowing of their own self-destruction, is
that it is destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...

It is destroying us all.  Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.  Or stupidly pay the price.

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Best Article Of The Week...

This - Also - By Itself - Says It All - About The State Of Our Nation.
Local Oklahoma News and Matthew Ladner at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

75% of Oklahoma School Students Can't Name the First President of the U.S.

It is seriously well worth one’s time to read this short article.  I personally think with only 3% of the students actually passing this test, (the actual test for American citizenship that 92% of the ‘foreigners’ pass,) and this rate of failure by our high school students is true across all 50 states, that we are, as a nation, much further over the rails than I knew.

As Matthew Ladner noted in his O.C.P.A. article, the source for this posting...

September 17 is Constitution Day, marking the day 222 years ago in Philadelphia when the Constitution of the United States was signed.  Legend has it that a woman asked Benjamin Franklin, as he was leaving the constitutional convention, what sort of government had been created.  Franklin’s reply: “A republic, if you can keep it.”

It’s the opposite of reality that is being “allowed” to continue to progress, behind the fogging white noise of all of the political yelling, from all sides, about the much more trivial aspects of all of our lives, as the extremely-very-few, who are now wealthy far beyond your ability to comprehend, are “allowed,” by you, to continue to gather even more protective wealth, to “protect” them from... us, and from the coming multi-leveled crisis of the long fall of current human industrial culture - That all of us are guilty of “allowing” to happen in the face of glaring undeniable evidence, and denied warnings.

The simple complexity of the complex simplicity is beyond most Americans.

The problem with the stupid and ignorant among us is that while they “proudly and patriotically,” allow their own self-destruction by fighting among themselves as they were programmed to do, is that they are destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...  They are destroying us all.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.  Or stupidly pay the price.

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It’s not long - Just link to it, and enjoy your reality... bluntly exposed.

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Best Article Of The Week...

This - By Itself - Says It All - About The State Of Our Nation.
Jeremy Thomas, the Oscar-winning producer of “Creation” via telegraph.co.uk

Charles Darwin film ‘too controversial for religious America’

It is seriously well worth one’s time to read this short article.  I personally think with only 39% of Americans actually believing that the theory of evolution is true...  That we are, as a nation, far further over the rails than I knew.

It’s the opposite of reality that is being “allowed” to continue to progress, behind the fogging white noise of all of the political yelling, from all sides, about the much more trivial aspects of all of our lives, as the extremely-very-few, who are now wealthy far beyond your ability to comprehend, are “allowed,” by you, to continue to gather even more protective wealth, to “protect” them from... us, and from the coming multi-leveled crisis of the long fall of current human industrial culture - That all of us are guilty of “allowing” to happen in the face of glaring undeniable evidence, and denied warnings.

The simple complexity of the complex simplicity is beyond most Americans.

The problem with the stupid and ignorant among us is that while they “proudly and patriotically,” allow their own self-destruction by fighting among themselves as they were programmed to do, is that they are destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...  They are destroying us all.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.  Or stupidly pay the price.

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It’s not long - Just link to it, and enjoy your reality... bluntly exposed.

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Says It All. . .

Some Can Nail It With “Jest”, Some Just Nail It.
by Tom Tomorrow, et al...



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Those That Are. . .

Telling It Like It Is In Reality, Not As We Hope It is.
Because, Quite Often, The Exposed Reality spotlights Hope’s Dangerous Delusions.

-  ‘American Casino’:       How Our Nation’s Financial Sector Became a Massive and Unreg-       ulated Gambling Operation - From those that lived it, the "creative"       financiers to the home buyers duped by brokers.   -  Over One Million of Our Schoolchildren Are Homeless       Meanwhile, Bankers Moan About Their Bonuses.  Crazy!  And the       total surpassed one million... last spring... and is higher now.   -  Where’s Your Homework, Mr. President?       Greg Palast gets a lesson from super-teacher Bill Roney.

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- A“Below The Fold” bonus Article -
From Chris Hedges' Columns at truthdig.com


Food Is Power and the Powerful Are Poisoning Us

“If we continue to allow corporations to determine what we eat, as well as how food
is harvested and distributed, then we will become captive to rising prices and shortages
and increasingly dependent on cheap, mass-produced food filled with sugar and fat.
Food, along with energy, will be the most pressing issue of our age.”

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Even More Reality. . .

Why Does My Nation Keep Proving The Thieves Correct About Us...?
by The Old Hippie Because So Many, Way Too Many, Are Still, Insanely, “Allowing”...

-  Obama Has Betrayed the Progressives Who Got Him Elected                  “They were nice, empty promises Obama made to get elected.”   -  Are Americans Dumb Enough. . .       . . . to Believe Republicans Are Defending Medicare?   -  Go to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire       “If we heed these dissident voices we have a future.”

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A“Below The Fold” Bonus - “Your Moment of Keith” -

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Wake-Up! (Oops... Too Late.)

Ahh...  Reality...  Obviously Is Something You Know Little About.
Because Reality, As Defined By The Thieves, Is Your Reality Now.

Bernanke Helped Cause the Economic Crisis, So Re-Appoint Him?!? Growth of Ocean ‘Garbage Patch’ Alarms Experts - A definite “Too Late.” 3 Banks: ~1/3 Of Deposits, 1/2 Of Mortgages, 2/3 Of Credit Cards. 5 Corporations: Control Almost 100% Of All American Media. Closing In on the Torturers - Okay, it’s never “Too Late” for this. Guess Who Gets Hurt Most By “Climate Change?” Not Only Is This Illegal and Immoral, It’s Stupid.

Note This:  $1 of every $700 spent on healthcare in America...  Goes to just 1 Man.

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Nothing Else - The above links should keep you busy for awhile - Right?

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R-i-g-h-t. . .

Ahh...  Reality...  Obviously Is Something You Know Little About.
Because Reality, As Defined By The Thieves, Is Your Reality Now.

There Are More Slaves Today Than At Any Time In Human History - Alternet.org This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery - Truthdig.com CIA Documents Provide Little Cover for Cheney’s Claims - WashintonIndependent.com “Unauthorized, Improvised, Inhumane”  Key points on the torture report. - CommonDreams.org “Well, Stick A Power Drill In My Head:” UPDATED - CrooksAndLiars.com ACLU Obtains Detailed Official Record Of CIA Torture Program - ACLU.org

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Nothing else at this time, the above links should keep you busy for awhile - Right?

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(s-i-g-h...)

It Continues To be Allowed To Get Worse Yet, And Still, You Allow...
by The Old Hippie Because Seeing Truth Didn’t Help, Nor The Resultant Pain Of The Truth.

{-The Way Many Picture Me-}

I keep hoping Obama will prove my growing doubts wrong, but it seems to only keep going the other way.  I voted for him, and would again, given the same choices we had been allowed to have when the election came around. . .  But his continual caving to the corporations, and the carrying on of the previous bad polices of the previous administration’s wars, the non-investigation of obvious crimes, including war crimes, environmental crimes, and Constitutional destructions, all for profits of wealth and power to so very few, by those same leaders, cohorts and cronies, that destroyed our nation's once powerful reality of hope to the rest of the world - And brought America to its economic knees.  It is not acceptable. The “allowing” must be stopped.

The following two articles give a very good perspective to what we are all facing, particularly we who elected this current administration, an administration that is fast proving to be one of false hope, and no change after all.

Obama’s Trust Problem - Paul Krugman

Has Obama Lost the Trust of Progressives, as Krugman Says - Glenn Greenwald

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The following is reprised, because not much has really changed as far as the ongoing denial of the insane “allowing” of the theft by the-very-few is concerned...  I will continue to reprise this... as long as the 'citizens' of my nation continue to “allow the allowing.”

It, the insanity, of the “allowing,” is getting worse, in fact it is much worse already.

Go look at all of the MSM’s headlines, at their websites, then compare what you see there with the reality as rationally reported by reality based independent news sites.

If that simple comparison doesn’t open ones closed eyes of denial, nothing will.

To help you remain sane, and not too deeply depressed, you should end your “session of reality” by stopping in at some of the better editorial humorists’ websites - It couldn’t hurt.

That is my main personal method of doing research for this blog - Check in with the right and the right’s insane, then study as much of the reality-based news sites as possible, then check in with the humorists.  I then sleep on it, do it again, and then post what I have learned, observed, or was stunned by, to first, share it, and second, to get it off my chest so that I can remain sane myself.  All the while, trying my best to keep a reality-based perspective in these historically insane times.

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Best Article Of The Week...

It’s A Blunt Discussion Between Two Of The Best Minds We Have.
by George Monbiot and Paul Kingsnorth Concerning What’s Coming.

Is There Any Point in Fighting to Stave off Industrial Apocalypse?

It is seriously well worth one’s time to read this short discussion.  I personally think they are both correct, and both wrong, at the same time.  (Just like in Logic-101; “The next sentence is a lie.  The previous sentence is true.”)

It is the reality that is being “allowed” to continue to progress, behind the fogging white noise of all of the political yelling, from all sides, about the much more trivial aspects of all of our lives, as the extremely-very-few, who are now wealthy far beyond your ability to comprehend, are “allowed,” by you, to continue to gather even more protective wealth, to “protect” them from... us, and from the coming multi-leveled crisis of the long fall of current human industrial culture - That we are all guilty of “allowing” to happen in the face of glaring undeniable evidence, and denied warnings.

The simple complexity of the complex simplicity is beyond most Americans.

The problem with the stupid and ignorant among us is that while they “proudly and patriotically,” allow their own self-destruction by fighting among themselves as they were programmed to do, is that they are destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...  They are destroying us all.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.  Or stupidly pay the price.

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It’s not long - Just link to it, and enjoy your reality... bluntly exposed.

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Gotta Love Keith. . .

He Nails “Them” Once Again With His Unique Special Comment...
by Keith Olbermann -



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Reprised because I hope at least a few of the morons see this, and maybe actually wakes up.

Of course, since the morons of our nation do not bother to believe anyone but Fox, or their
con-artist mega-church preachers, or their sociopathic propagandist collaborating profiteers,
e.g. Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, Coulter, Dobbs, et al, they’ll never watch this.  They
will continue to allow their own (manipulated) self-destruction, claiming anyone who disagrees with them, by being so rude as to smack them in the face with the documented proof of their ignorance. . . is a stupid far-left elitist.

The problem with the morons proudly, patriotically, allowing of their own self-destruction, is
that it is destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...

It is destroying us all.  Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.  Or stupidly pay the price.

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Ahh... Fascism. . .

The Denial, And Ignoring, Of Our Growing Fascism Is Deadly Stupid.
Because The “Allowing” Has Not Been “Allowed” to be Stopped - I Fear That, More Than Them.

This is Not the Country That We Should Be Proud of Right Now. The Threat Is Real: Right-Wing Rage Could Will Turn Deadly Olbermann Unmasks Saboteurs Behind Phony Protests. We Can Fight Back Against the Rising Fascist Threat. “Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican” Teabagging:  The Next Chapter The Attack of the Useful Idiots

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A “Below The Fold” video bonus...  Enjoy...

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Those That Are. . .

Telling It Like It Is In Reality, Not As We Hope It is.
Because, Quite Often, The Exposed Reality spotlights Hope’s Dangerous Delusions.

-  The 'Tea Party' Nexus:       ...empowering far-right extremists who want a new civil war.       ...business and conservative interests are ginning up these protests,       but they're doing so by empowering the extremists from the fringe.   -  Red-Baiting and Racism       a key point has been missed, and it’s this point that best explains       what the red-baiting is really about. It’s not socialism or capitalism.   -  ‘Evil and Orwellian’       America's Right Turns Its Fire on the National Health Service.

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A“Below The Fold” bonus - “Your Moment of Zen” video of the Week...
From the most astute folks at Truthdig.com, and GRIT tv...
[Reprised for those that missed it the first time.]

Watch and Enjoy. . .

“Is the unflagging popularity of reality television a sign of the entertainment industry’s relentless reliance on producing fodder for the lowest common denominator—or a symptom, as Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges argues in this clip from “GRITtv With Laura Flanders,” of a society in serious moral decline?”

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Best Article Of The Week...

This One Nails Us.  It’s Blunt, And Accurate.
by Chris Hedges Concerning How Nader, et al Were Correct.

Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama

It is seriously well worth one’s time to read this short article.

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It’s not long - Just link to it, and enjoy your reality... bluntly exposed.

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We Do Deserve What Is Coming...

Because Of All The “Allowing” You’ve “Allowed,” ... Still “Allow”
- It Is Coming - It Is Already Getting Ugly From The Effects/Affects Of The “Allowing.”

Unions Receive Increasingly Scary Threats Of Violence For Town Hall Participation.

Is Obama Punking Us? ...as the president put it, the system is in hock to “the interests of powerful lobbyists or the wealthiest few” who have “run Washington far too long.”

We’re Breaking Records for Long-Term Unemployment.  It’s Worse Than They Admit.

U.S. Still Paying Blackwater Millions - Still Being “Allowed.” -

Seven New US Military Bases in Colombia Is Hardly a Move to the Left

The Me-First, Screw-Everyone-Else Crowd

Militarizing the Homeland - “It might sound crazy to anyone who is not a veteran.”

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- Just for the memories - From the archives -

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(s-i-g-h...)

It Continues To be Allowed To Get Worse Yet, And Still, You Allow...
by The Old Hippie Because Seeing Truth Didn’t Help, Nor The Resultant Pain Of The Truth.

{-The Way Many Picture Me-}

The violence by the programmed... begins.  The third stag of the historically well documented transition of a democratic nation into a fascist state has been realized.  History has repeatedly shown, proven, that once a nation allows itself to descend into this stage, it is almost impossible to stop the transition of the final two stages.  (To understand the five stages better, here is good starting link.) When they can not win by reason, when they are smacked down at the voting booths, by their own nations citizens, (even after they openly corrupted the voting process itself,) they refuse the loss, they embrace the most violent radical fringes of their base to “survive” - It has happened many times in history, and it is happening now. . . in this nation.

“The national government will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests.  It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.  Today Christians stand at the head of our country.  We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit.  We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theatre, and in the press — in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of Liberal excess during the past years.”

  — Adolph Hitler - Taken from The Speeches of Adolph Hitler, 1922-1939, Vol. 1,
      Michael Hakeem, Ph.D. (London, Oxford University Press, 1942), pp. 871-872.

“Have a nice day.  :-)”

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The following is reprised, because not much has really changed as far as the ongoing denial of the insane “allowing” of the theft by the-very-few is concerned...  I will continue to reprise this... as long as the 'citizens' of my nation continue to “allow the allowing.”

It, the insanity, of the “allowing,” is getting worse, in fact it is much worse already.

Go look at all of the MSM’s headlines, at their websites, then compare what you see there with the reality as rationally reported by reality based independent news sites.

If that simple comparison doesn’t open ones closed eyes of denial, nothing will.

To help you remain sane, and not too deeply depressed, you should end your “session of reality” by stopping in at some of the better editorial humorists’ websites - It couldn’t hurt.

That is my main personal method of doing research for this blog - Check in with the right and the right’s insane, then study as much of the reality-based news sites as possible, then check in with the humorists.  I then sleep on it, do it again, and then post what I have learned, observed, or was stunned by, to first, share it, and second, to get it off my chest so that I can remain sane myself.  All the while, trying my best to keep a reality-based perspective in these historically insane times.

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R-i-g-h-t. . .

Ahh...  Reality...  Obviously Is Something You Know Little About.
Because Reality, As Defined By The Thieves, Is Your Reality Now.

GOP’s Only Hope Now... Make Them “Inhale Fear & Exhale Anger” The Health Insurers Have Already Won - Here’s How They Did It Speaking Of Hemsley, CEO In The Above Linked Article On Behalf of the “Tea Bag Brigades:” A Proposal The Me-First, Screw-Everyone-Else Crowd The Health Care Reform Sell-Out Kill The Umpire!

[ After starting video, If you have the bandwidth, click “HQ” for the higher ^ quality.]

Note This: $1 of every $700 spent on healthcare in America...  Goes to CEO Hemsley.

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