@solopocono- Great article:

Allow me to post the last 2 paragraphs:

There's an analogy to be drawn to an episode of the Twilight Zone called, "He's Alive!" It was Twilight Zone's creator Rod Serling's warning to Americans that as long as ignorance and hate persists so too will characters who are perpetually hungry for greatness, who are looking to exploit ignorance and hate for honor and power.

On first look, Beck's rally seemed like an event organized so that tens of thousands of fearful easy-to-manipulate would give him a strokejob. When one goes deeper, it's much darker than that--Beck wanted a strokejob, but he wanted that to also be part of pushing the country closer to one that abandons religious pluralism, forsakes the idea of separation of church and state, and marches onward toward the kind of closed-minded society most Americans would condemn Muslims for instituting.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Glenn-Beck-s-Restoring-Hon-by-Kevin-Gosztola-100830-906.html

It seems to me that our form of government resembles very little of what our founding fathers envisioned. Our Democracy is largely a facade. The Elite give a choice of their two candidates (two sides of the same coin). What we now have is a corporatocracy.

Re Roosevelt "Government by organized money"

The documentary "Zeitgeist" illustrates what type of government we actually have.

Has anyone seen the addendum to "Zeitgeist"?

View Free Online:
http://vimeo.com/13726978

I think this is the Forbes/Glenn Beck article:

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0426/entertainment-fox-news-simon-schu...

HONOR? MY ASS!! Nothing says," restoring honor to the good'ol U.S. of A.", like the Clueless Clucking Clan (white hoods optional) packing up their broods into their gas-guzzling Hummers and schlepping their asses halfway across the country to grovel and drool at the feet of a bunch of cynical, money-grubbing political opportunists, led by a babbling, drug- addled, "Shock Jock"? - Incidentally, haven't these people noticed that they have an ungodly obsession with seeking divine inspiration, guidance and leadership from drug addicts, alcoholics, gamblers, warmongers, whoremongers, adulterers, sadistic torturers, self hating hypocritical liars and pedophiles?

But Beck was right about one thing. This was not a political event. - It was however, a cynical, grandiose charade, masked as a benefit for veterans, insidiously crafted to insure loyalty of the flock to the fold by allowing the devoted pilgrims to assuage themselves of any feelings of guilt and transfer any sense of blame that might have resulted from their complicity in aiding and abetting the Bush administration. - Yes, the same Bush administration that started an unnecessary war which may have killed up to one million people, left millions as refuges, destroyed an entire country's infrastructure, and recklessly took our own economy from the longest period of economic growth in modern times, to the brink of collapse and the deepest recession since the "Great Depression" while placing our debt in the receivership of Communist China. Not to mention - committing numerous acts of treason such as harassing vote counters in Florida's 2000 presidential election; scrubbing voter rosters in minority areas of legally registered voters, whose name just happened to be similar to convicted felons; and numerous other election shenanigans. - And not least, for committing the blatant treason of outing the identity of undercover CIA agent, Valerie Plame, in an effort to seek revenge for her husband telling the truth about the fraud of Saddam's efforts to obtain yellow cake uranium form Niger. Which the Bush administration touted as irrefutable proof to justify their illegal, immoral war. Of course, the list of crimes of the Bush administration goes on and on.

If I had supported such a criminal, scandal ridden, immoral administration; I too might be seeking to convince myself that I was righteous and not at fault, rather than bear the weight of shame and guilt for cheerleading such transgressions. And what better and easier way to do that, than by blaming all the problems on Barack Obama, who just happens to be our first black president; and blaming Mexican immigrants and believing that all muslims are terrorists. - After all, if Obama is the muslim antichrist and wrong about everything; then that means; we must be right. If we are the ones that say we are seeking out the "good" in this country. Then that means, liberals must be the bad ones. Or so they believe.

Ken Melman outing himself and Fox News totally ignoring the story tells you everything you need to know about the "Tea Party" mentality. That they will knowingly ignore any truths or facts that interfere with their treasonous ideology of opposite reality: "Clean Skies", means I can pollute with impunity; "Clear Water" means I can poison without conscience. If I name it the opposite of my intentions or my beliefs; then that makes that it's al right for me to do. If I hate and oppress gays, then no matter what the evidence there is to the contrary, I'm not gay. If I hate and oppress muslims, then that means that I'm not a terrorist. Even if I engage in a campaign of "Shock and Awe", that's sole purpose was to terrorize. Who needs a dictionary? When you can create your own definitions.

"Now see kids... mommy and daddy were right after all... and if you're afraid of global warming or climate change or whatever scary name they call it". "Then we'll just rename it, Operation Eden."

Well? So much for No More King by Schoolhouse Rock

You are so right! Look at Texas which has actually done a little better than most states during the recession i've heard on news sources like Fox. But actually only big business is doing well because large numbers of big business is actually owned or partially owned by foreigners. Texas has the largest proportion of business owned by foreigners than any other state in the Union. These countries are sucking us dry. And of course Texas is a so-called right-to-work state. Little or no unions. A hugh working poor in Texas keeps business going. The rest of the country slowly being forced into a Texas like economy.

Sounds good that Iceland is attempting to supersize free speech with a clearinghouse for the truth. How come Iceland does not update their immigration laws that only allows scandanavian ancestry to immigrate to Iceland, in other words you have to be blond haired and blue eyed to become an Icelandic citizen. Is this still law in Iceland? If so, why is Iceland against a melting pot?

Our LDS neighbors were driven out of several states, such as Missouri and Illinois. Utah is where Brigham Young led them. The separation of church and state was established by men to whom the memories of the wars fought between Catholics and Protestants were still recent history. There was and remains a necessary need for the division between church and state. I fear the empty rhetoric of Sharron Angle and those who purport that the Christian right holds the answers for our nation. Funny, but I became a liberal because I am Christian.

Here's a bumper sticker:

Fox News Nation: The Last Refuge for Scoundrels