10.02.08
Posted in Politics, Vote Out The Bums at 5:48 pm by Administrator
Haste makes waste. Haste will fill politician’s campaign coffers. Haste is establishing a New Financial Order. Remember what Mayer Amschel Rothschild said, “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws.”
Politicians bought and paid for by the bailout institutes pathetically say this bailout is for the American people. The truth is this bailout helps build politician’s campaign coffers. The haste is because many politicians are depending on contributions for this year’s and future elections. This is not an American people’s economic crisis. It is a politician’s campaign contributions crisis.
Politicians see more campaign money on the horizon. Mid-level banking institutions are now being gobbled up by huge hedge funds. Hedge funds have lots more money to throw at politicians. Control of this nation’s money is being consolidated in the hands of fewer and fewer people – hedge fund administrators and the treasury secretary.
The media pundits are missing the big picture. They need to follow the money instead of playing the blame game.
“Maplight.org and the Center for Responsive Politics examine political-contribution data. The conclusion of both groups is that Republican and Democratic members of the House who voted yes on the bailout bill received substantially more donations from finance, real estate, insurance, banking, and securities firms than did members who voted no.”
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/12330742/c_12330973?f=TodayInFinance_Inside
The flow of campaign cash is a measure of how open-fisted banks and other financial institutions have been to politicians of both parties. Concern is rising that “no matter who the Democratic nominee is and who wins in November, Wall Street will have a friend in the White House,” said Massie Ritsch of the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign donations. “The door will be open to these big banks.”
“In 2000 Republican George W. Bush went on to win the White House after collecting nearly $4 million from the (finance) industry versus Democrat Al Gore’s $1.4 million. In 2004, Bush received $8.8 million, twice what Democratic Sen. John Kerry collected.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/21/nation/na-wallstdems21
“Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the most powerful companies in the country, and literally controlled the Congress,” said Peter Wallison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. “Congress would not do anything they did not want Congress to do – and that came through some very sophisticated political activities and public relations that made it very difficult to challenge them.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0912/p03s01-usec.html
Bailout Backers (Politicians) Got More Bank Donations
http://community.dynamics.com/blogs/financeheadlines/archive/2008/09/30/studies-bailout-backers-got-more-bank-donations.aspx
Finally, the New Financial Order is being set up – in haste. The Federal Reserve System (made up of a bunch of private for-profit bankers) was set up in haste back in 1913. History records the rollercoaster economic situations the U.S. has endured since then. Will the New Financial Order usher in Feudalism by way of socialism? The ignorant voting public deserves whatever the future brings for not Voting Out The Bums - VOTB. Read what one smart person has to say.
“One man who knows much about the new emerging financial order is James G. Rickards. He works at the McLean, Va.-based market intelligence firm Omnis Inc., but he’s best-known as the former general counsel of Long Term Capital Management, the hedge fund whose late-1990s implosion sparked fears of a market wide meltdown similar to the one happening now. That disaster was averted by the intervention of the large Wall Street players at the behest of the government. But Rickards learned a lot about meltdowns in the aftermath.”
“What Rickards sees now is a financial order that has been turned on its head. The irony, he says, is that the investment banks generally nurtured and encouraged the hedge fund sector’s emergence and came to largely depend on the fees that the hedge funds paid for their heavy trading activity.”
“This is like people who think baby tigers are cute,” he explained. “And then one day they grow up and eat you.”
The world as Rickards sees it now is this: “The classic investment bank has gone away, and hedge funds are increasingly taking on the functions of the investment banks. Except they are unregulated.”
“At the end, it was the hedge funds whose aggressive short selling killed off the investment banks. They profited in the demise of their predecessors.”
http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=1&subcatid=1&threadid=1468171
This $700 B hasty hoax and the ushering in of the New Financial Order will be a historical event. American citizens have corrupt politicians to thank for enslaving their grand kids.
VOTB: Vote out every incumbent, every election if you want to save future generations from the tyranny of politicians corrupted by financial institutions.
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09.28.08
Posted in Politics, Vote Out The Bums at 12:25 am by Administrator
September’s Presidential debate was classic hot air politics. Obama and McCain were singing for dinner - every night in the White House. Here’s a sample of their hot air nothingness.
The question is: Do you want dinner tonight?
McCain: As a prisoner of war for many years, I would dream of dinner. With my extensive war record, dinner was always an afterthought. I couldn’t help but to recall all those mush dinners as a POW. Some nights I would sing for my dinner over Vietnam radio. I am proud of my nickname ‘Songbird’.
http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f54/vets-mccain-songbird-liar-traitor-841595/
Senator Obama doesn’t have a nickname from proudly serving America, does he?
Obama breaks in: Now John, I do have a holy card from a little boy. He doesn’t want to get shot in his neighborhood while walking to the store to buy dinner for his family. This holy card reminds me that nicknames like ‘Songbird’ don’t mean anything while dodging inner city bullets. Nicknames also serve no purpose making prospective dinner reservations with President Bush, as I have said on numerous occasions with no real meaning.
McCain continues: My affairs (thinking of Cindy and her money while married to Carol), let me clarify, that is my foreign affair trips to the Middle East always included dinner with the troops. Then unlike my opponent, Senator Obama, I went to have dinner with the wounded troops in that German hospital. Senator Obama policies would starve our wounded soldiers and put dinner at risk for all Americans. Senator Obama would take the food out of elderly Jewish grandmother’s mouths because he doesn’t have the experience of being shot down while flying illegal freedom missions over Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos.
McCain continues: Dinner victory is within our grasp if only we spend another 102 trillion dollars conquering the world. Senator Obama still wouldn’t admit the surge worked in Iraq. He doesn’t know the difference between strategy and tactics.
Obama breaks in: Now Senator McCain, I do know the difference. You have voted to go to war with Bush on numerous, multiple and many occasions. I voted present. Now my vote was a tactic. My strategy is to stay out of wars that kill innocent people. But let me make this crystal clear, we should be fighting in Afghanistan not Iraq.
McCain interrupts with a huff: With my expensive military connections and with the military industrial complex behind me, I will ram democracy down the throats of every civilization on earth. Only then will I eat dinner comfortably, without clenching my jaws. Only when everyone can eat dinner in a democratically elected country, then will I eat dinner, my fellow Americans.
Senator Obama your turn to answer the question. Do you want dinner tonight?
Obama: As I said before, and I want to say again, my position on dinner has not changed. I want to make perfectly clear that I think soup lines are unacceptable in America today. My organizing experiences have brought me closer to the bread lines caused by the irresponsible Bush economic policies. Senator McCain has dinner with Bush often and would vote to eat the same entrée almost 100 percent of the time.
McCain break in: I’m a maverick, with more war experiences than you or President Bush. I only agree with the President’s choice of entrées 93.5674 percent of the time.
Obama continues: We need a menu change. Steak and potatoes is far to rich a diet for most Americans. Besides PETA is calling for a band of using cow’s milk in ice cream in favor of using mother’s milk. I have often stated my belief that mother’s milk is good for every American. I also recall asserting many times; Americans need a low cholesterol diet of rice and/or beans. What’s good for the citizens of the world is good for us. Again let me be clear about one thing, I will not let Senator McCain distort my position on dinner. Meat will clog your arties and fish fill of mercury will poison you.
McCain shouts: In my experience powered eggs will keep an army in dinners for weeks. The eggs from chickens in our POW camp gave the guards elevated blood pressure. Between the eggs and worry about the next napalm strike, those guards would not have voted for the liberal policies of Senator Obama’s party.
Obama continues: Eggs aside or sunny side up as my mama use to make for me, let me make another thing clear. Like my experienced, well-traveled VP says, we should all be patriotic and pay taxes. Rich people making $150,000 or more are presently having lavish nightly dinners. These rich people need to pay more taxes. (The crowd chants, let them eat beans.)
Obama smiles from the left side of his mouth and continues: There are lots of projects the Bush administration didn’t fund that will provide dinners for pre-schoolers and the elderly in Florida and Ohio. In conclusion, I want to make this perfectly clear that dinner is a family affair, especially in Pennsylvania. My esteem colleague, Senator McCain, is welcomed to have dinner with our family anytime. Of course he must bring his trophy VP along with his rich, trophy wife. Maybe his trophy VP can bring a moose she shot.
The two party system smells like last week’s dinner full of rotting food. Either, Bob Barr and Ron Paul would have had both ‘candidates’ for dinner. They would have chopped them up with specifics like an Iron Chef. They would have told the American citizens the truth about dinners. We need to take dinners away from the special interest people. We need to take dinners away from the environmental groups holding up energy expansion. We need to put Wall Street back on the same post-depression regulations that worked for many years. Finally, we need to take away dinners from all the Kissinger types that think America should be supported by foreign money.
McCain and Obama were comical. If they are the best and brightest America has for offer its citizens and the world as leaders, a voter revolution wouldn’t do any more damage than either will do as President.
The citizens of the U.S. need to realize that the quality of their future dinners ride on every vote. Maybe when all the voters are regularly eating rice and/or beans for dinner they’ll wonder why the elite political class and the wealthy are eating steak. Only then will the voters get hungry for real leaders.
VOTB: Vote Out The Bums – every incumbent, every election. True - without Barney (Dick Mouth) Frank, Nancy (Say Something Stupid) Pelosi and Harry (Catch Me If You Can) Reed - U.S. soap opera politics would be less entertaining — and less nauseating, less pathetic and less damaging to the American heritage. Personally, I would rather watch a good sporting event with my dinner.
Vote Out The (hot air) Bums – Every Incumbent, Every Election.
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09.21.08
Posted in Politics, Vote Out The Bums at 11:26 pm by Administrator
The real tragedy of the current financial crisis is that politicians don’t understand economics. They want power and money and above all control. The funny part of the current economic crisis is that politicians don’t even understand what they are trying to control or regulate.
Most politicians on T.V. (especially McCain or Obama), will talk about regulating Wall Street. The T.V. hosts never ask the magic question ‘How do they plan to regulate?’ in specifics or everyday terms. The fact of this coming election is that Ron Paul or Bob Barr can make some sense of the financial mess. McCain admitted several months ago that he doesn’t understand economics. Obama is q-card clueless.
Incumbent politicians only understand how to secure their personal wealth and monies for their friends. National or global economics is as foreign to them as a talking tree. Otherwise they wouldn’t have repealed the ‘Glass-Steagall Act of 1933’. “That act separated investment banking from commercial banking to insure that investment bank speculation would not again destabilize commercial banks as it did during the Great Depression leading to the loss of America’s savings. However, in 1999, the US Congress (full of incumbent politicians) repealed the Glass-Steagall Act and America was once again vulnerable to the highly leveraged shenanigans of Wall Street.”
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1209999600.php
The fact is that Wall Street Wiz Kids have out-smarted everyone, including ignorant politicians. Ask any incumbent politician what a CDS is. Ask them how the overnight institutional lending works (the means private investors make millions of dollars with only a promise of collateral funding). The best question for them would be ‘Why did the Glass-Steagall Act work?’ and “Why did they vote to repeal it?”
Economics is not a requirement for a law degree as our incumbent politician’s ignorance of the subject is attesting. So, Wall Street people have run amuck. Politicians are calling for regulation (code for increasing control or socialism).
The answer to this financial crisis is based on the same subject matter our politicians don’t understand – economics. Economics is simply math. The easiest way monitor this mess includes numbers. Numbers don’t lie like politicians. Numbers are solid and without political bias, not like incumbent politicians. Numbers are a transparent as glass. They give black and white answers unlike politicians.
U.S. economic growth is currently based on the function of borrow and spend. Let some egghead economist put a number value on national borrowing and spending. Than put a number value on what the nation should be doing, saving and producing. Then divide the borrow/spend number by the saving/producing number. If the answer is more than 1, something is wrong.
Newly elected politicians with some economic background would be better suited to try a new common sense economic indicator. Fresh politicians would work more efficiently and more intelligently with a greater sense of responsibility than incumbent politicians. That’s why we need to Vote Out The (incumbent) Bums. VOTB
Epilogue:
We have McCain responding this week by playing Donald Trump’s “you’re fired”. The New York Times’ Paul Krugman noted recently that, in a moment of candor, John McCain admitted economics isn’t his thing. http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/18/mccain-economy/
Obama is waiting for his script. He has supported tax hikes in the past and now is sounding like an economic conservative.
Only an ignorant populist would vote for either of these guys at the national level. Voters need to display courage. They need to look elsewhere for a one term politician in their local elections - ones that know numbers. VOTB
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09.15.08
Posted in Politics, Vote Out The Bums at 5:48 pm by Administrator
Mavericks pride themselves in going against conventional wisdom. So when conventional wisdom says we don’t go to war, a maverick will say go to war. When conventional wisdom says we don’t use the nuclear option in war, a maverick will use the nuclear option. You can see where this rebellious maverick thing is going. When politicians use catchy phrases such as ‘maverick’, voters beware. Being a rebellious maverick is not a qualification for public service.
Mavericks see situations in black and white. That is the equivalent to being an on/off switch. Black and white is not the way to influence people and get things done in a democracy. Only dictators, fascist or communists can get things done in a black and white manner.
Enter McCain and Palin on a faux stage right. The mavericks McCain and Palin are part of the election process this year. Obama and Biden are their gray counterparts. While gray is lukewarm throw up material, it is not threatening. Gray is slow to move without majority approval. For example, Obama and Biden are slow to see that McCain is distracting attention off himself and on to Palin.
Mavericks are dangerous for U.S politics. McCain and Palin are delusional if they think a rebellious, maverick approach to foreign policy or cutting the size of government is realistic. If elected, these mavericks will only separate common from sense.
Look at the two definitions of maverick to put things into perspective. Both definitions are scary when applied to politicians, especially the President or Vice President of the U.S.
The noun, maverick is “one that refuses to abide by the dictates of or resists adherence to a group; a dissenter.” As an adjective, a maverick is a person “being independent in thought and action or exhibiting such independence:”
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/maverick
A person exhibiting one or both of these definitions could be characterized as stubborn, rebellious and/or pigheaded. Such a person, if elected president, has no need for a chief of staff, a cabinet, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a congress, a vice-president or a Supreme Court. Such a person thinks of himself as a strongman (a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violence). If the maverick shoe fits wear it. In 2006 some of McCain’s colleagues call him a tyrant (a ruler who exercises power cruelly and unjustly). http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008288.html
One has to admit that McCain, the maverick, has diverted attention off himself and on to Palin. Not so great a strategy if Hillary were the presidential candidate. Clinton Inc., experts at diverting attention, would barbeque McCain.
Two books expose what maverick McCain is trying to hide by adding Sarah Palin to the ticket.
They are McCain: The Myth of a Maverick; and The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don’t’ Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn’t.
For quicker reads check out the sites below. These are also unmasking McCain
http://sweetliberty.blog-city.com/the_definition_of_maverick.htm
http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/03/mccain-and-palin-the-death-of-a-maverick/
http://www.reason.com/news/show/118937.html
U.S. citizens will get more coffins filled with American soldiers from electing a maverick president. McCain is a callous hawk bent on promoting war as a national policy. This maverick may want to go out in a blaze of glory.
Citizens of the U.S. wake up. Don’t let your attentions be diverted to Palin. This presidential election process is nothing more than an entertaining political soap opera of maverick distractions. Where are the issues, gray candidates?
Look for an alternative candidate in this year’s presidential election. Don’t vote in any stubborn, rebellious, pigheaded mavericks.
To reform government, Vote Out The Bums (VOTB) strategy will work. Vote out every incumbent, every election at every level.
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09.13.08
Posted in Politics, Vote Out The Bums at 3:00 am by Administrator
Who are these masked bandits running for the U.S. presidency. Everyone in the world but the U.S. voting public seems to know that McCain and Obama, presidential candidates, will say anything to get elected. Let’s start to unmask McCain and Obama.
McCain is a pit bull (without lipstick). He’s mean (In high school they called him “McNasty.”) calculating and egocentric. John McCain is no war hero. (http://www.usvetdsp.com/mcianhro.htm)
McCain is a war opportunist whose nickname in the prisoner camps was “songbird”.
http://thecsquare.blogspot.com/2008/02/holy-jane-fonda-john-mccain-made-32.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s7kEb6Osqc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5fd7-Qdflk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06zsn5BuL3Y&NR=1
Is this masked bandit a Manchurian Candidate? “Republican Senator Thad Cochrane has openly said he trembles at the thought of an unstable McCain in the Oval Office with his finger on the nuclear trigger.” The Vietnamese radio propagandists made good use of McCain. He was on the air so often that, on June 4, 1969, a U.S. wire service headlined a story entitled “PW Songbird Is Pilot Son of Admiral”.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.socialism.trotsky/browse_thread/thread/593d034b66081e0e
Politically, McCain attacks his opponents with mean, calculating ads. He showed this side of his personality during the Republican primaries especially with attacks on Romeny. Now he’s attacking Obama. These ads are designed to take his opponent off message. (He’s taking lessons from the Clintons.) These ads supply no substance to the debate of ideas. (Where is that debate anyways?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQoV_Ngl-G8
McCain is calculating with his choices of women. He dumps his former beauty queen wife when she gets fat. One month after that divorce is final, he marries a rich beer heiress to finance his run for public office.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FwB1pIHCmE&NR=1
Now he’s counting on another woman, his vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, to carry him to the presidency. He reminds us of the bully that runs home to hide behind his mommy’s skirt when being chased or threatened.
Men like McCain consider women as trophies. Great example was at the 911 salute with Obama at the twin towers site. Obama shows up alone acting like a lost statesman. McCain brings his trophy wife. McCain likes to show off his woman like the starting quarterback shows off his cheerleader trophy.
Anyone who uses women for boosting his egocentric ambitions is calculating beyond the ordinary. McCain’s personality traits align well with that main character in the movie American Psycho.
Obama is a Good Samaritan. Some might call him a Mother Teresa type. He is a young idealist, honestly following his convictions while connecting with the younger generations. He believes the stuff taught at the political, networking ivy-league universities. Anyone coming from his background could be brainwashed into an elitist mindset as he is. All those ivory tower thinkers believe us peasants need their ideas for guidance.
Obama is fighting a two front war to get elected. One front is obvious – the mud slinging, hawk McCain. The other is Hillary. She is having her minions say outrageous things to make Obama look petty and stupid. Remember she helped found several ultra left web sites like Media Matters. That site is much more congenial to McCain lately.
One of the latest attacks about Palin and her anti-abortion stance came from a southern Democrat governor. A friend of Hillary’s?? How about Biden, Hillary’s long time friend, saying Hillary would be a better VP candidate than he? Between McCain and Hillary, Obama will need a verbal flack jacket and the scriptwriters from SNL to get out of this election process alive.
Obama doesn’t know how to fight a two-front war. Ignoring McCain’s trophy VP pick (the pit bull with lipstick) would be a good start. Unfortunately, his party is on the wrong side of many issues average U.S. citizens care about like illegal immigration (Palin’s Achilles heal), taxes, and abortion.
To really grab the hearts and minds of the U.S. citizens, Obama has to talk about the causes of our economic and energy meltdowns. He must educate himself to speak convincingly (without cheat sheets and “ah”ing) on how to fix them. (Obama could take speaking lessons from Newt!) Only then will he be able to talk about real “positive” change.
For McCain to win, he has to let the women take charge and do his talking! Most people are tired of his war stories. (Leave the real war stories to Oliver North.) McCain may think the new 73 is 53, but his mind doesn’t. He’s stuck in the teens with raging hormones! (This puts his character with the likes of Clinton and JFK.)
Only sensible citizens will unmask these two bandits. Of McCain, U.S. Congressmen Bill Hendon (R-NC) and John LeBoutillier (R-NY) said in the August 16, 2008 edition of the U.S. Veteran Dispatch, “As Senator he (John McCain) abandoned American POWs trapped in Indochina; as President he’ll abandon you”.
http://www.usvetdsp.com/aug08/mccain_unfit.htm
Of Obama, are the boomers ruling the country. Obama found the point of Marijuana. Now what, lets all inhale!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpBzQI_7ez8
Since most informed citizens won’t find the point of continuing this absurd charade in government, we need a revolutionary strategy for cleaning it up.
Vote out every incumbent, every election at the local and state levels this year - VOTB. Look for an alternative candidate in this year’s presidential election. Vote out the (masked) bums (by not voting them in).
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09.08.08
Posted in Politics, Vote Out The Bums at 6:14 pm by Administrator
Sarah knows a good way to score in basketball is to use fakes. Politicians have known for centuries that a good way to get elected is to fake out the public about themselves and their ideas. These past two “faux conventions” can be illustrated by a little girl asking her mommy, do all fairy tales begin with “once upon a time?” The wise mom answers, no. Some fairy tales begin with “When elected, I promise…..”
The politicians use conventions to say “when elected, I promise….” Truth be known, conventions are political plays that run off Broadway for four days. On or off Broadway, a four-day play is called a flop. In the world of politics, these four-day plays are part of the faux buy-in process staged for the American citizens. Politicians want to give the impression that their fairy tales have massive public buy-in.
Buy-in is a simple trick used in education by principals to install a controversial idea in their school. The technique involves the principal getting a few kiss-up teachers in favor of their idea. These teachers circulate among the staff pushing the idea’s “talking points”. Committees are formed headed by these kiss-ups. In committee the idea is bantered about. The final version is close to the original. The idea is voted upon at some large meeting and passes. The principal has faked out the teachers. They have bought into the principal’s idea.
In the political process, the ‘principals’ calling the shots are the influential and rich with wealthy puppeteers pulling their strings and nodding approval. The wealthy distribute money to expand their financial base and to bribe for idea approval among the rich. The influential and rich in turn bribe the political kiss-ups to show approval for political ideas that eventually help them and wealthy make more money.
For the Republicans, McCain “the hawk, philander, traitor” is supported by the military industrial complex while the wealthy are getting the North American Union (NAU) idea solidly entrenched. Sarah, the hawk’s “barracuda”, governs a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants. While she might attack corruption, she wouldn’t fight against illegal immigration. We know McCain is for amnesty and so are the wealthy. The flood of illegal immigration enhances NAU plausibility.
For the Democrats, Obama “the social worker” wants to help everyone. The people that support him have communist’s leanings. These are pointing the U.S. into feudalism. They want to help people while increasing control over them. This makes collecting taxes easier for the wealthy in the form of buying down the national debt. Obama is in favor of raising taxes to buy down the national debt.
Obama’s running mate, Biden, is chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee of Foreign Relations. Biden’s range of influence includes arms sales for national allies (helps the military industrial complex) to important international treaties and legislation (NAFTA for the NAU). NAFTA contains the “North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC)” which is one of the reasons why we have uncontrolled illegal immigration. “It supplements NAFTA and endeavors to create a foundation for cooperation among the three countries for the resolution of labor problems as well as to promote greater cooperation among trade unions and social organizations in order to fight for improved labor conditions.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement#North_American_Agreement_on_Labo.28u.29r_Cooperation
All that means is if there’s no work in Mexico go to the U.S. or Canada, illegally. We’ll fix the illegally part soon!
The political conventions are attended by the kiss-ups thinking they are choosing a presidential candidate. In reality, they are kissing up to the party leaders (controlled by money) and at the same time giving television audiences a faux buy-in illusion. Conventions are bad Broadway plays on steroids.
“When elected, I promise…..” after elected is followed with “but I can’t now because…..” Faux conventions with faux politicians and faux promises are just another reason to vote out the bums (VOTB). Let the politicians have their four-day plays. Then let them know that even Sarah can’t fake us out. Vote out every incumbent, every election.
If no incumbent is running, look for the candidate with the least amount of money. Chances are s/he will match the way they govern with their core beliefs. They won’t (at least initially) be faux.
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08.23.08
Posted in Politics, Vote Out The Bums at 5:44 am by Administrator
For a joke to be funny there must be an element of truth. Several political jokes have made the rounds on the Internet lately. These are soulfully truthful, funny and sad.
These jokes are funny because they hit at the soul of the corrupt politician. Like the Olympic Gold Medal won by the Chinese gymnast that landed on her knees, so is today’s politician - laughable. They are nothing but airhead fronts for big money and their ideas. Two of the presidential candidates are classic examples.
McCain has trouble deciding which of the seven (7) houses he owns to sleep in every night. Many American citizens would like to own just one. Obama isn’t doing to the least of his brothers (the one in Africa), but wants to represent his American brothers on the world stage. Where is Obama’s path out of poverty for his own biological brother let alone needy brothers in American families?
This first joke indicates the baseline inners of the soulless, corrupt politician. Politicians are nothing more than hollow puppets for hire.
Five surgeons from big cities are discussing who makes the best patients to operate on.
The first surgeon, from New York, says, “I like to see accountants on my operating table because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered.”
The second, from Chicago, responds, “Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is color coded.”
The third surgeon, from Dallas, says, “No, I really think librarians are the best, everything inside them is in alphabetical order.”
The fourth surgeon, from Los Angeles chimes in: “You know, I like construction workers. Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over.”
But the fifth surgeon, from Washington, DC shut them all up when he observed: “You’re all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There’s no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains and no spine, and the head and the butt are interchangeable.”
Politicians spoken of in the joke are puppets dancing on the strings of money. They are soulless without humanity, convictions or common sense.
Unfortunately, the more hollow the politician, the more corrupt. They have the knack for winning elections because they don’t care where they get campaign money. (Can anyone said Clinton and China without smiling cash?) They condone election fraud when it benefits them. They become powerful on the hill through a system of seniority. Hollow, vacant and gutless politicians are the truth behind the surgeon’s joke. They would never go for three simple political reforms.
A ban on all advertisement would begin to counter the money advantage. A candidate would only be allowed to campaign in live venues. Time and energy of the candidate would be the limiting factor. (Sorry McCain) Time and energy are incorruptible.
Election fraud could be eliminated with precinct computers and printouts. Voters would use a computer to cast their votes. The computer would print three copies of the voters’ choices. The printouts would have a long identifying number indicating the date, time of day, precinct identifier and computer identifier. One printout would be given to the election officials. Another printout would be given to a non-profit watchdog group. The voter would keep the last printout. This triple proof would begin to guarantee fraud-less ballad counting for elections. The cost of such a system would be equivalent to one day at war in the Middle East!
The congressional seniority system needs to be changed to the most-qualified system. To be eligible for public office a candidate must have taken college credits covering a variety of applicable subject matter. (How many airline pilots or doctors work without degrees?) Once in public office, politicians must earn continuing education credits like all other professionals.
Congressional committee leaders must be the most qualified, not the oldest and least competent. Resumes, qualifying letters and interviews with a cross section of private industry experts affected by the specific committee would determine who gets chosen for committee leadership roles.
If we don’t institute these types of political reform, soulless politicians will continue to do what they do best. See the “2-story outhouse” picture below. The top sign says Politicians. The bottom sign says Voters.
Vote Out The (soulless) Bums: VOTB – every incumbent, every election until we get real governance reform.
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P.s. The real reason that we cannot post the Ten Commandments (“You Thou Shalt Not Steal”, “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery”, and “Thou Shall Not Lie”) in a courthouse building full of lawyers, judges and politicians is because they create a hostile work environment.
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08.16.08
Posted in Politics, Vote Out The Bums at 10:38 pm by Administrator
Russia knows how to play the ‘world chess game’. When the Bear makes a move the earth trembles. And all our politicians can do is blab meaningless platitudes.
Russia’s military dropped a hammer on the ant, Georgia. The world took note. Some responded with ‘if the U.S. can invade Iraq, what’s wrong with Russia invading Georgia?’ More important than the politics is the chess game for the illusion of world dominance. Russia made a move and the U.S. essentially folded. Georgia in turn asked China for help! Maybe the thought of China getting involved stopped the Bear. Or maybe the objective was reached before any country needed to get involved.
Note the press comments from early August. “Russia said Wednesday (08.06.08) that Iran should be granted more time to respond to a package of incentives that the United States and five other powerful nations have offered Tehran to freeze its uranium enrichment efforts, a stance that may slow U.S. and European efforts to impose U.N. sanctions on Tehran…. U.S. administration officials say Iran is buying time to advance its capacity to enrich uranium; an effort they suspect (‘what if’ politics) is intended to fuel a nuclear weapon.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080601085.html
Not only is Russia (a nation with many nuclear weapons) buying time for Iran, but they have taken the invasion of Iran off the U.S. imperialistic dinner table for now. The U.S. won’t invade Iran in the near future (even with intense pressure from the AIPAC) for one main reason. Russia is throwing its support behind Iran. Even the AIPAC doesn’t want to take on Russia just to get at Iran.
Currently, Russia is helping equip Iran’s defenses. “Russia has signed a deal with Iran to sell 29 of its Tor M-1 anti-missile systems, a development that will complicate any planned pre-emptive attack on the rogue nation’s nuclear facilities, reports Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.”
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47696
If equipping Iran isn’t enough, Russia’s army is mobilized and close enough to take on any invading force. No one wants that battle except maybe Russia. Check!
The Russian weapons making industry took a big hit a few years ago. “After orders peaked at more than $2 billion a year early in this decade, Chinese arms deals with Russia shrank to almost nothing in 2006, and no major new contracts are in the pipeline, according to Russian, Chinese and U.S. defense experts.”
http://www.rusnet.nl/news/2008/03/03/currentaffairs03.shtml
So Russia has lots of weapons and is pushing to elevate its world status. The chess game continues where it left off two to four decades ago. The U.S. (England) needs to focus on the bigger picture that includes Cuba. Middle East stability will have to be put on hold in favor of world power plays.
Russia doesn’t play by the rules. Back in 2005 the Russia-Iran nuclear deal was signed over U.S. objections. This joint Russian-Iranian venture to complete the $1bn plant at Bushehr means the Bear has a stake in Iran. Russia is the “ensure security” at the plant and for Iran in general. Russia has rejected pressure from the U.S to cut nuclear ties with Iran. Checkmate!
http://www.rusnet.nl/news/2007/12/14/currentaffairs01.shtml
Now politicians from the U.S. (England, too) will have to figure out a civilized way to modify their version of the ‘world chess game’. They will try to control the Bear like a parent tries to control a kid. Parent control their kids with bribes. Will Russia fall for this again?
Maybe they have already been bribed. “The joint program that facilitated these closures (of Russian plutonium-producing reactors), known as Elimination of Weapons Grade Plutonium Production (EWGPP), aims to halt Russian production of plutonium…. With the closure of Siberian Chemical Combine, located in Seversk….. The United States has donated $926 million in order to help refurbish nearby fossil fuel and wind plants to compensate for the loss of energy.”
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2008_07-08/RussianPlutonium
Recently, the temperature of Al Gore’s global warming butt was elevated. Not only are U.S politicians advocating fossil fuel use in Russia but also “Congressional Republicans claimed that as Vice President Al Gore may have violated the law by keeping secret the details of a 1995 deal to restrict Moscow’s transfer of nuclear technology to Iran.”
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2000_11/russirannuc
Corrupt U.S. politicians know about bribes. They think all politicians around the world operate like that. They will talk with hollow certainty about Russia. Some will turn back the clock (McCain) and use cold war expressions. Bottom line - none of them have a clue how to play chess with the Bear if the bribes don’t work.
The time is right for new political blood. We need politicians who think beyond bribing children. VOTB: Vote Out The Bums - every incumbent, every election.
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08.11.08
Posted in Politics, Vote Out The Bums at 4:08 am by Administrator
“War is politics carried out by other means” Karl von Clausewitz
Freedom is worth defending and dying for. Politicians are not. The lives of U.S. citizens are freedom’s most valuable commodity. They should not be wasted fighting someone else’s war.
Politicians aren’t defending freedom. They are aligning themselves behind ideas put forth by groups such as the AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committe), Freedom’s Watch (the “$200 million mouthpiece for military action”), Move America Forward (MAF) and other pro-war lobbyists. The most powerful group is the AIPAC (a Pro-Israel Lobby). They have worked with Congress and the Executive Branch for decades on numerous critical initiatives — from securing foreign aid for Israel to stopping Iran’s nuclear program.
http://www.aipac.org/about_AIPAC/default.asp
Many think that the U.S. is going to war with Iran because of AIPAC. http://www.stopaipac.org/iranresolution.htm
If you don’t believe war with Iran is in the planning stages, check out another source.
“Why was the ‘Iran clause’ forbidding war on Iran without Congressional approval taken out of the recent supplemental for the Iraq war funding?” (1) The answer is that AIPAC wanted it out. Why is this hawkish influence on our politicians so controlling?
(1) http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/publish/article_835.shtml
“On the rare occasion when a brave member of Congress dares to stand up to the unrelenting AIPAC tyranny, that person is targeted for unelection in the next congressional campaign. Big money is directed by AIPAC and/or its analogues into the coffers of the senator’s or congressman’s opponent. Over and over again, AIPAC has shaped the U.S. Congress in this way, so successfully that no one even dares speak out any more.” You can read more at:
http://www.antiwar.com/cole/?articleid=3467
Politicians know that American citizens prefer their wars to have moral dimensions that rise above geopolitics (like oil or defending Israel). So, the cries of nuclear capability are heard loud and clear as the reason for invading Iran. The word terrorist has been framed as a secondary reasoning for invading Iran. The ideas nuclear capability and terrorist hide their true motivations and generally magnify tensions of possible threat.
We are living with many nations (China, Russia, France, The United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, North Korea, etc.) that have nuclear capabilities. Interesting enough, Israel is believed to have nuclear weapons, but refuses to confirm or deny them. So what is the big deal if Iran gets nuclear capabilities? They are no threat to the U.S. freedoms.
The police in every town across the U.S. have a rehearsed response to this “what if” scenario. When a person reports that someone is threatening to kill them, all the police say is “no crime has been committed. We can’t do anything.” Therefore, they could only talk with the threatening person. This should be the policy with Iran, not war.
The talk with Iran should be along the lines of a “mutual assured defense” statement. If you strike we have a rapid response team ready to take out the heart of your homeland. More severe details could be spelled out and they would be understood. (Does anyone remember that the Berlin wall came down just this way?)
Politicians use ‘what if’ scare tactics as a smoke screen. Instead of defending the blood of U.S. soldiers, these politicians are consumed with self-interest and the interest of the pro-war money people. Politicians think that it is better to be reelected than speak to truth about the AIPAC or any other hawkish influences governing political decisions and war. (Where is the ‘maverick McCain’ on the AIPAC issue? Is our war hero scared too?)
Wars fought for the likes of special interests (AIPAC, etc) are a crime against the humanity of U.S. citizens. Politicians have blood on their hands when they send our citizens to wars with no immediate threat to our freedom. These politicians need to be voted out. VOTB
A total break with current group of politicians is the only way to bring human dignity back into government. As one e-mailer stated, “the government is 100% corrupt.” One hundred per cent of the politicians need to go. VOTE OUT THE BUMS: every incumbent, every election.
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08.08.08
Posted in Politics, Vote Out The Bums at 8:16 pm by Administrator
Paris Hilton exemplifies the comical nature of politics. This year’s election seems to be scripted by the writers from Saturday Night Live. Obama and McCain are saying bizarre things as if they were on LSD. Tire inflation is a national energy policy! Campaign ads compared a male presidential candidate to two female pop stars, Britney and Paris. Politics and politicians are laughable beyond belief. VOTB
Paris Hilton is hot even without an environmental impact statement. McCain is a stone cold iceberg. Obama is a throw-up warm muffin. The rest of the presidential field is global warming green - with envy. Paris is more real and has more to offer American citizens than all the rest combined.
Thank you, Paris for throwing your Gucci hat into the presidential race. Since the presidential race is nothing more than a popularity contest, Paris wins. She will get most of the male vote (she’s hot). Even though only females with good taste will vote for Paris there are plenty of quality shoppers out there in the heartland. Paris has publicly stated that she won’t accept any votes from discount shoppers. All in all, Paris should win by more votes than Clinton did when Ross Perot was a third party candidate.
Physically, Paris is much better looking than any of the candidates or Hillary for that matter. You can bet that Paris’s press conferences will be the most highly rated in television history . McCain may have bigger boobs, but Paris looks better in a swimsuit. Obama and Paris are sporting types, but Paris keeps her shape without having to play basketball and getting all sweaty. However, Paris may show some moisture on the dance floor!
Paris has stage presence and speaks confidently without thinking about her words. McCain and Obama talk as if they have stage fright. They constantly stutter and use “uh”. They speak with broken sentence structure, trying to avoid saying the wrong thing. Paris only speaks of stylish things open to designer interpretations.
We’re getting our focus back. Paris has more to offer than either of the two top candidates. First and most important, she can’t be bought off. Both McCain and Obama are in the pockets of big money. They both want Paris’s lifestyle. Paris doesn’t need big money. She’s hot!
Paris doesn’t waffle on issues. She constantly amazes people with her understanding of the “simple things”. She connects with everyday citizens. She’s honest to a fault. Many can empathize with her when she admits not knowing how to milk a cow. All Obama and McCain want to do is milk American citizens (and non-citizens) until we become poor peasants. They are both globalists with elitist delusions of becoming King of the Americas.
Paris is a steadfast shopper and clubber. As president she would institute an economic stimulus policy that included a ‘National Shopping Week’ (that’s hot), ‘Club Hopping Month’ (with no DUIs) and ‘Buy you best friend a designer outfit’ Day – once a month!
Paris would institute ‘uniform reform’. As another part of her stimulus package she would class up the uniform business. Her people would redesign the uniforms for the armed services, city and state police and prison folk (both guards and prisoners in pastels, of course). Hospital personnel colors will move towards the left with a mauve taupe hue. Neither Obama nor McCain are offering anything as eye stimulating as (hot) Paris.
“We need some totally hot legislation” to help those unfortunate Wal-Mart shoppers, she might state. Now, only politicians and celebrities ride limousines to the mall. To counter elitism travel, Paris will recreate public transportation in the image of a natural gas-powered limousine. That’s an economic equality idea for the ages. Public transportation will become more popular than the SUV!
This blob calls for a presidential debate with Paris, McCain and Obama. Saks 5th avenue should host the debate. The debate should cover everyday topics like style and wardrobe assembly necessary for presidential trips abroad, lowering taxes to allow for more shopping (that’s hot) and printing our own money (down with the private, for profit owned Federal Reserve) to lower the national debt (and allow for more shopping – hottest).
Why don’t citizens see the Paris light? Paris isn’t a bum. All the other politicians lack her style and grace. And most importantly Obama and McCain are in the pockets of big, international money pushing global ideas.
VOTB - Vote Out The Bums: every incumbent, every election.
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