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I believe that we need to begin operation Operant Conditioning. We must repeat important statements so these statements sink into the minds of Americans. The major problem with Americans is that they vote against their best interests. Americans seem unable to discern fact from fiction. Since most Americans do not have the necessary education to help them learn, we must help them and we must pray for them so our Anti-Christ nation avoids the everlasting sink hole into oblivion.
If Barack Obama is on the ticket, I will vote for him. I cannot vote for a fascist or a Nazi.
Election of 2012
Barack Obama will not be re-elected in 2012!!!
Here is some information for my prediction.
I believe that at least ten million plus voters will be removed from the voting rolls in 2012 and beyond. The lines for voting in urban areas will be long with fewer voting machines in urban precincts. The electronic voting machines are rigged to include more Republicans receiving the majority of votes.
Our electronic voting machines are rigged to keep Satan’s disciples in the majority forever. Florida’s law will also keep Satan’s disciples in the majority forever.
Florida has passed into law the ability to curtail voter registrations and making it next to impossible for low-income persons, students, and racial minorities from voting. Florida is definitely a Nazi-controlled state where Satan’s disciples prevail over the citizens. There should be minimal doubt that Nazi America has more disciples wearing brown shirts and jackboots. These devils are truly Nazis who prowl the fifty states seeking the ruin of souls.
My wife has a knitting class one day per week. In the class is a woman whose aunt is approaching ninety. She lives in Florida. Her driver’s license needs to be renewed. Plus, she needs to re-register to vote. The aunt needs the original birth certificate, the original marriage license, her husband’s death certificate to prove she is a widow, and proof of permanent residency for Florida, such as a home, townhouse, or condominium. I do not know if an apartment, senior citizen home, or trailer qualifies for permanent residency. Florida is harassing the elderly, taking away their freedoms and rights, and removing them from the voting booth and polls. The conservatives seek to always be in the majority. Our Supreme Court really runs Nazi America and the Court will vote in Florida’s favor that its law is constitutionally sound. The Catholic Mafia on the Supreme Court is anti-poor and anti-working class. The U.S. Supreme Court is an extension of our Anti-Christ nation.
I believe that most people who make comments on Thom’s blog will admit that they have learned much from listening to his radio show. We know that Thom is intelligent and in his early school years he was placed in a gifted program. Gifted students can learn more quickly than average students. Thom was able to learn quickly. He is a progressive person and he believes that America has a future. I am twelve years older than Thom and no way close to his gifted intelligence. Age does have some value. I must disagree with Thom and say that the United States of Mortal Sin does not have a future.
Even Einstein is no way near as intelligent as Satan’s disciples, the conservative crazies, the GOP, the Republicans, the Libertarians, the Tea Baggers, the Lobbyists, the rich, and American corporations. These groups are brilliant.
You have only to know and read Florida’s law to see other states following and modeling their laws to be similar to Florida’s law.
I am not a psychiatrist. I am only an average person who can offer an opinion. I would have to say that the United States of Mortal Sin, aka an Anti-Christ nation, is certifiably crazy where most Americans are psychotic. People may disagree with me but there can be no doubt that most Americans are sociopaths, the lunatic fringe. Believe it or not!!!
Progressives are grasping to be excited at anything. Here is an example. The polls reveal that Nazi governors’ numbers are low in the polls. Polls do not excite me because the Nazis will always remain in the majority. Here are my reasons. Our electronic voting machines are rigged. Factual! The Nazis will eliminate from voting – low income people, students, and racial minorities. Factual! In heavy Democratic districts voting booths will be scarce so that the voting lines are long. Factual! The lobbyist party with the money will pay off politicians to vote a certain way. Factual!
I was asked what I would do if I had the power to improve our election process, such as having our citizens being able to vote. Here are some of my words.
I would like to see ACORN return to have citizens register to vote. Since I am over 60, I can vote by an absentee ballot. Voting by mail may require more scrutiny of qualified voters but voting by mail should be part of the voting process. I believe that the voting booths should open on a Tuesday at the scheduled time and date, such as 7:00 AM and the voting booths will close at 11:00 PM on Wednesday. That would mean the polls would be open for forty hours. More voting machines in urban areas! A treasonous act for rigged electronic voting machines must be definite! Companies rigging the election or any state and federal person as well as American citizens who rig or elections will need to be prosecuted as traitors against the United States. We must welcome into the voting process more low income voters, the aged population voters, and racial minority voters! We need to be a true democracy in our country before we preach, kill, and maim human populations in other countries to embrace our democracy! I am definitely for having all AMERICANS vote and all AMERICANS should be encouraged to vote by making all AMERICANS feel like they are AMERICANS!!!
The poem below by Langston Hughes reveals his feelings and thoughts and his feelings and thoughts are similar to my personal feelings and thoughts.
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15609
Gerald:
Thanks for the links...really great articles! Don't have time to comment on them now...later.
Leighmf:
Yeah, I know what you mean...Obama went all out to gain a lot of attention for his pre-election smoke and mirrors promises of "change we can believe in". I mean...outright assassination of an old man who had no weapons and murdering 22 other people as well. That was the same kind of operation that these people had done before but only managed to kill a lot of civilians. I guess Obama just got lucky this time....except no one is bothering to think or say anything about those 22 other people (or all those other civilians in US attacks before that) that were murdered by our "elite" special forces. OBL did not kill those 3000 civilians in the 911 terrorist operation. OBL may have tried to take the credit and infamy for it....like Saddam Husein tried to scare people with the illusion and bluff (trying to scare the Iranians and not the US) he had WMD...but our government knew better yet they lied to get us into the war to get us into the middle east to control the oil.
Gerald:
Well, congratulations on your son's participation in a very worthy cause. It is really great to hear about young people doing really great things for a charitable cause. It shows what super parents he has. Wow, 526 miles...I'm lucky to be able to peddle 20.
Another anomaly for the list. Get a grip fly boy.
People will say or do just about anything to get the wrong kind of attention these days.
Concerning the radical plan to take over the school system: What I fail to hear from anyone is the underpinning of the plan. Why bother to go through the Texas school board to rewrite textbooks? If you own the schools -- you can teach anything you want to. You can rewrite history -- you can eliminate any education in critical thinking, ethics, philosophy (oh, except Ayn Rand, and you can rewrite her to be a Christian). The world will be only 7,000 years old. Anyone not born again will be doomed to a certain and well illustrated hell. There will be no education in the rich bounty of the world's religions and cultures. We will be plunged into a new dark ages of superstition and fear -- absolute mind control. Your course schedule will be riveted to the needs of the corporate structure. You will be siphoned off to the department you are destined to serve and trained for your place as a cog in the machine from day one. In one generation all memory of any other way to live will be eradicated. This is a fight for freedom. And every American should be ready, willing and able to fight to retain control of schools held in the common trust and operated for the common good. Yes, they need massive improvement; but turning them over to the corps will be the death of America.
Tom, I have to wonder were these Muslims educated public or private schools? Were the schools privately funded in a foreign country? Are they lobbying Congress and the Senate for federal funding for private schools in United States of America? When a long tradition of private schools in religious sects in the United States have all been privately funded. Only in America would we want the government to pay for educating extremeists. What did those guys do?
next time throw Scott Walker, off the plane!
That pilot probably wouldn't have felt so uncomfortable about having passengers in Muslim garb if his airplane had a secure cockpit door, like all our airliners should have had 10 years ago.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Phantom-Jobs-and-Economic-by-Stephen-Lendman-110508-647.html
More lies on our economic recovery! We are in a Depression!
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=131142
Goldman-Sachs created the food crisis!!!
On Friday, May 6, 2011 our youngest son finished the Tour du Rouge bike ride
from Houston to New Orleans. The bike ride was 526 miles and he raised $3200 for
the Japanese and their nuclear meltdown problems. The Red Cross sponsored the
bike ride.
From Pax Christi USA
To all of the mothers within our movement, we say thank you for your
Faithfulness and your leadership, and for being our first teachers in learning "the
Things that make for peace" (Luke 19:42).
They are getting lots of praise now for killing OBL and are being played up as an elite killing force that makes no mistakes....but.....
"While JSOC—and the Navy SEALs in particular—will become legendary in a much broader circle as a result of the bin Laden killing, the secretive unit has had its share of controversy. JSOC forces were responsible for the botched rescue that ended up killing British aid worker Linda Norgrove in Afghanistan on October 8, 2010. JSOC also carried out a raid in Gardez, Afghanistan, in February 2010 during which two pregnant women and a US-trained Afghan police commander were killed. In that case, senior Afghan security officials and eyewitnesses claimed that US forces dug the bullets out of the dead women’s bodies. Initially, JSOC’s forces tried to cover up the incident by blaming the killings on a Taliban “honor killing.” Eventually, Admiral McRaven took responsibility for the botched raid and apologized to the family."
http://www.thenation.com/blog/160332/jsoc-black-ops-force-took-down-bin-...
I follow Thom Hartmann and Alex Jones (less then before). But I gotta say Alex was the most logical. Alex says often that the liberal are acting the same way then a republican when it's thier guy in charge. Look at those comments left at this forum http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&add... I cant believe it. It reeks of racism. It's the same thing some republican would say in 2002 or 2003. I'm really dissapointed.
Listen to the Alex Jones show when they interview Amid Gul. A bunch of innocent people got killed dy drones. They gave thier airspace. Now the good people of america are saying F-you Pakistan??
As well, how come they can arrest Khalid Shiek Mohammad but not Ben Laden? Why did they have to kill him? I think a trial would have been perfect. By putting him on trial, I think it would have made the extremist less anxious for revenge. We put on trial high ranking Nazi... I just don't get it.
I personnaly think he was dead and it's all fake but thats my gut instinct and I can't prove it. Put the reaction of the people is scary.
The Twain ReportAll The News That Mark Twain Says He Would Report If He Was Alive TodayDateline SundayAl Queda second-in-command Mustaffa Ibn Bniferus today responded to Osama Bin Laden's murder by American Navy Seals, calling American President Barak Obama and saying, "Geez, you guys sure play hardball: we've had it, we give up. You won't have any more trouble from any Muslims from now until the end of time. We had no idea you would actually kill someone in your efforts to get back at us. I mean, sure, we expected you to lob water balloons at us from Humvees or something, but this is just world-class horrific. I mean, it's the first time anyone I know has ever died. All I ask is that you not release the death photos of Osama because I have a weak stomach and I don't want to upchuck my goat-skin stew in front of my wives and children."Obama said, "Ok then. Just remember, you made me do it. I didn't want to do it, but you made me do it."Obama immediately ordered all troops recalled from Afghanistan, Iraq, and everywhere else in the Middle East. Then he burst into laughter and said, "Just kidding!! I'm sending 50,000 MORE troops to Afghanistan, re-starting the war in Iraq, and declaring war on Belgium."The reference to a new war in Belgium took Pentagon officials by surprise. They asked the president, "Why Bulgaria?"Obama said, "What are you, new? It's the chocolate. When are you people going to realize that it always about the chocolate?"The entire population of America has responded well to Osama's death because it's the first and only campaign promise that Obama has kept. Fifteen paid-to-attend teenagers waved tiny little American flags in a spontaneous pro-USA demonstration in front of the White House.Republicans, however, have been slightly more stingy with their praise of Obama. John Boehner told the president, "It's about time you had someone killed. Now, let's ramp it up a bit, huh? Because if you don't kill at least 50,000 more people before lunch today, we're going to impeach you."Newt Gingrich also released a statement, saying, "God wanted the Navy Seals to kill more people, but He prevented it from happening because that's how much He hates gay people."In a related story, Gingrich said that God has forgiven him for serving his first (or was it his second, third, fourth, or fifth?) wife with divorce papers while she was in the hospital being treated for cancer, and for cheating on all thirty of his wives and even cheating on his mistresses. "In fact," he said, "God and I have this deal, where I do whatever I want and He forgives me. It's called a Perpetual Dispensation and it only costs me $19.95 a week.""However," said Gingrich, "no one should construe this as meaning that God will ever forgive Bill Clinton for getting a little on the side, because He won't. God doesn't give perpetual Dispensations to democrats. He told me so."This reporter feels constrained to say that if he were president, he would have invited Osama over for lunch, the way that George Bush often hosted members of the Bin Laden Family in Texas.
Alex Jones.
His flaw is his devotion to his theory.
Theory is only an ace when Jokers are still wild . It's one thing, and a good thing, to question in seeking the truth. It is another to question truth to save face by devoutly defending his discredited theory.
Let's face it the official 911 conspiracy theory is full of holes that it is ridiculous to believe in it. The 19 alleged hijackers were not pilots...at least not skillful enough to handle and accurately guide these huge airliners to the targets. They were barely able to pilot small craft during the training. They were set up!! And I believe that OBL was instrumental, on orders from the treasonous neocon/neoliberal insiders, in getting these guys sent over on whatever mission..perhaps even some kind of terrorist mission...but they were not capable of doing what they were accused of. They may have thought they were on some kind of mission at least some who died that day (almost half of them showed up after 911 to proclaim that they were not hijackers and were, in fact, not dead).
But look at how they were "set up" to take the fall. Look how easily they were let into the country for one thing (especially when Clinton had previously warned Bush about a probable terrorist attack...and that Bush got a briefing saying that an attack was very likely)...small aircraft pilot training...some near military air bases...FBI had been tailing them and were rebuffed by higher ups. They were set up to take the fall for 911..they were patsies. Whatever hit the Pentagon had made a maneuver that even experienced pilots with many years of experience said that even they would not have been able to do.
Look at the drill that was going on that day....to help potentially cause confusion enough so that stand down orders would be more believable. And how would OBL know far enough in advance of the drill? Why did Rumsfeld remove the historical responsibility from those who had it and take over the sole responsibility of being able to respond....and why did it take an hour and a half for our military fighters to respond when it had always taken a few minutes at all other times even with a relatively routine alert. Come on, people, use your heads! This was an inside job! Stop towing the line for the real conspirators.
Consider, that even the so-called distress calls from people on board the airlines were fakes. It was shown that cell phones could not have connected at those altitudes.
There were a lot of really strange "conversations" that were faked as well. It was not beyond our technical capability to disguise voices...and they have not been proven to come from the airliners anyway. One strange conversation was not consistent with what one would say to one's mother. "Hello mom, this is Mark Bingham, your son" (I believe that was the name. Duh!!! who would use both first and last names and further clarify that it was "your son". Yeah, that's not a real biggie but just something that might cast a shadow over the "official conspiracy theory" and their fabricated evidence to convince people of their lies.
Yes, they'll take all the credit even when credit is not due but they will avoid all of the blame. And they have their useful idiots to help them. I don't think little Bush was smart enough to mastermind the "911 inside job" all by himself...and probably had nothing to do with it except go along with it and be the propagandist mouth piece for the treasonous criminals who were behind it. It is even conceivable that OBL was still working for the CIA (or at least that part of the CIA that was, perhaps, rogue elements in high positions that made the decisions). I suspect that that was one reason why they let OBL go at Tora Bora and Bush's attitude seemed to change saying he was "not really concerned about OBL" not long after we invaded Iraq. There seems to be a sinister inside government within our visible government that engineers what goes down. I think that both Pakistan and our government were protecting OBL because he really was "our" man. I believe the head of the Pakistani ISI who wired $100,000 to Mr. Atta did so to fund the 19 so-called "hijackers" into going through the motions (getting on the right flights, etc) thinking they were on some kind of "mission"..perhaps against the US...as falsely inspired by OBL...not knowing that the airliners were rigged to crash into the towers and the pentagon. All three WTC towers were rigged with explosives, including hi-tech nano-thermate and a controlled demolition took place. No plane hit building 7 yet it went down the same way the two others did and looked exactly like a controlled demolition. It takes many days or weeks to prepare for this kind of demolition which means that if WTC7 went down in a controlled demolition(practically admitted by the owner.."they decided to pull it"), then the other two had to have been rigged the same way. They all looked like controlled demolitions. It was well known, months prior to 911 that there was an unusual buzz of activity, strange noises, loud thumping, vibrations, floors gutted and closed off. All this done by a company that was run by the same guy who was in charge of WTC security..and he was closely related to G. Bush.
I do not believe that the consequences of releasing these photos would be all negative, as some believe. However, in this case, I think the negatives would FAR outweigh the positives. This is a different situation, and in many ways a different country, than when the Bush administration paraded the death photos of Siddam's sons.
Don't blame anyone but Obama and his cabinet for their having betrayed us, their one time supporters. Had Obama not acted like such a Republican (Bush III) I would be routing very exuberantly for him today. But, in trying so hard to, ostensibly, compromise...he sold out his base. He looks weak and inexperienced and scared of the ruling elite. And it is very dumb to credit Obama with taking out Osama and even dumber to give any credit to Bush. The people at the top are always taking credit for what those at the bottom do. That's what is wrong with this country....all those overpaid, overpraised, sh!theads who wheedled their way to the top get all the credit. Top corporate executives get all the money and all the praise for all of their worker's hard work and sweat. The US was founded by people who were p!$$ed off enough at the Regal system of undeserving scum taking all the credit and the wealth and imposing their will on the masses that they rebelled and fought back. The concentration of wealth today in the US is tantamount to having a Regal system once again with "royalty" being corporate heads. We do not have a Democracy in the US...it has been bastardized into a corrupt two party system of political toadies that relies on the people being too stupid, misinformed, or timid to dare question authority.
I've made comments on various blogs (mostly Salon and Thom Hartmann) for many years now...even during the Bush years and I was even more critical of Bush and the Republicans then...and still am. I don't think you will find anyone who pretends to be not-a-Republican and make the many comments against Republicans that I have. You see it is the same old psychological ploy that people often use when they, or their cherished smoke-and-mirrors beliefs, get criticized by claiming that the criticizer must be "one of them"...one of the Fox Snooze zombies. Both Republicans and Democrats are not truly representing the majority of people in the US. Our system is corrupted by money and concentrated power that work behind the scenes to keep us voting for one party or the other and they both represent the rich ruling elite. Obama and other Democrats think they can just ride the wave of the specter of bad old Republicans...and they are bad old Republicans...and that we have no other choice because at least there is hope with the Democrat party...but there really isn't hope....the Democrats are deceiving slick tongue devils who prey on the fallacy of "the better of two evils". We're screwed no matter who wins!
When OBL’s legacy is written, historians, country leaders, and terrorists will study OBL’s brilliant mind, strategies, and tactics and how he brought down the Anti-Christ to her knees. Yes, OBL and his minions have defeated an evil and sinful country.
Republicans & Fox News aren't smoking anything. They are just carrying on their same agenda of finding any way & every way they can to criticize President Obama & to downplay anything he is successful at accomplishing because they feel simply that because he is not a white anglo-saxon male that he dosen't deserve to be our President. Also because Bush & his corrupt administration received so much criticism (even though it was justified) during his term that they have to make up for that somehow by doing the same thing to President Obama, simply for that reason! Weather that criticism of President Obama is justified or not is immaterial to them! Anything they can spin, make up, dream up or lie about, it dosen't matter! Just so long as they can find some way to insult President Obama that will appease their viewers & avenge the negative remarks said about their precious "War President" & his cronies!