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Here we go again, undereducated HACK of a weather man, more BS. I ASK WHY?????
Tea Party Crazy Has a History By William Blum
May 12, 2010
@gerald, THE LETTER IS BS!!!!
Does that help you?
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re: TV's and Computer light suppressing hormones... if this is true, isn't my computer screen at work keeping me awake? I can't tell you how much I just want to nod off here at my desk.
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@ZeroG -
Does Mr. Gainor give any examples of this alleged "corporate sponsored environmentalism"? I'd be REALLY interested to see some of that!
To the Herbalist that called: Why doesn't all the Herbalist (nation wide) form a co-op, same for all the unions (ALL-nation wide), or Chiropractors, form a co-op health insurance to cover their services??
@Maxrot, I do not know if this letter is true. That is the reason why I have copied it to ask about it. We have primarily a conservative media and so we need help in separating the garbage from the truth.
This,
Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force (pre 2001) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR200511...
begets this
"The worst-case scenario for the broken and leaking well pouring oil into the Gulf of Mexico would be the loss of the wellhead and kinked piping currently restricting the flow to 5,000 barrels - or 210,000 gallons - per day.
If that happens, according to this article from Pure Energy Systems, you can turn out the lights, because we're all done. Birds, bees, you, me, and everything else on planet Earth could be facing mass extinction...:
Things Fall Apart by Wm. Rivers Pitt http://www.truthout.org/things-fall-apart59152
The Pure Energy Systems link
http://pesn.com/2010/05/02/9501643_Mother_of_all_gushers_could_kill_Eart...
Most of the drug research is performed here in the US and it is funded by the NHS, NIS, and CDC. The reseach is perfomed by Universities. Look across the street of any major University Medical Lab, and you will find a drug company - literally. Read "The truth about the drug companies"
I'd like to hear more about forced and coersced dependency. Think about all the ways we take the hook and become dependent upon monopolies, which rob us of our own self-reliance.
Thinking minds are socialists.
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=111725
@gerald, re:Is this letter correct?
If you think this letter is something more than a right wing a-hole being a smart ass, its no wonder you think this is the United States of HELL.
C'mon.
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Yesterday Thom did a segment with Dan Gainor, who was complaining about the lefts use of certain words like "Nazi" and "Fascist."
I admitted to using the word "fascist" in connection with certain GOPhers, GWBush included. I tend to use Mussolini's definition of "Corporatist." Now I offer an quote directly from Mr. Gainor's website:
According to the news media, grassroots activism and protests are patriotic – unless they are conservative. The media have characterized conservative Tea Party protests as phony grassroots by calling them “Astroturf,” tying them to corporate lobbying efforts. But at the same time they’ve ignored corporate sponsored environmentalism.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/
How's that corporate sponsored environmentalism going for you in the Gulf of Mexico there, Dan? Unfortunately our National Security State exists at this point to further the interests of the Corporate interests.
Perhaps the international legal community can try to start to get a handle on our aggressive covert actions:
Arrest of 13 CIA Agents Sought in Spain
By Scott Horton
I would advise against entering a lottery where you might win big but everyone gets the out-the-door prize of loss of citizenship. You have to be a non-citizen to be an ilegal alien eh?. The letter appears to be tongue-in-cheek but I think it's a Tea Party organizing tool.
Re: Caller Glenn at 1:40 (eastern), pharma advertising - TV ads DO NOT SELL PILLS!
They BUY influence over the media!
Peter Pitts is just another proof that Repub's only hire incompetent people to prove Gov't doesn't work. Why ask them about something they don't have expertise in (heck of job BROWNIE) or Joe the dumber comes to mind??????
"Ask your undertaker if Vioxx is right for you!" -- Bill Maher
Is this letter correct???
FORMS ARE GOING FAST- SIGN UP TODAY! Becoming Illegal ( Actual letter from an South Dakota resident and sent to his senator) The Honorable Tim Johnson731 Hart Senate Office BuildingPhone (202) 224 3254Washington DC , 20510 Dear Senator Johnson, As a native South Dakotan and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you. My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill's provisions is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for three of the last five years. I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out. Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I'm excited about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that I can apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005. Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care provider. Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures I could save almost $10,000 a year. Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my 3 daughters would receive preferential treatment relative to there engineering degree applications, as well as 'in-state' tuition rates for many colleges throughout the United States for my son. Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver's license and making those burdensome car insurance premiums. This is very important to me given that I still have college age children driving my car. If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal (retroactively if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative. Thank you for your assistance. Your Loyal Constituent, (hoping to reach 'illegal alien' status rather than just a bonafide citizen of the USA ) Todd TraskWasta, South Dakota Get your Forms (NOW)!!Call your Internal Revenue Service at 1-800-289-1040. (Please pass this on to your friends so they can save on this great offer
Ohhhhh, this is all coming together, KTLK just aired a National Guard commercial. Now this all makes sense, because we need to free up as many Amercian citizens as possible so they can join the military... duhhhh. The military can't use immigrants with Visas, because their country of orgin wouldn't go for that.
So our current choices, join the military, commit a crime and go to jail, or live on the street.
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There was always a rumor at one call center I worked that had us being replaced by US prisoners. It's Filipinos as much as Indians for call center work. The weird twist is that prisoners aren't counted as workers in unemployment stats.
Our financial, phone and medical data is globetrotting while we struggle to afford a trip to the grocery store.
One of the things overlooked by international outsourcing fanatics is that coding is not all that's included in the cycle of computer software.
As a software engineer, I have seen plenty of packages that were practically impossible to maintain because the company didn't care about what happens after an application makes a successful trip through the compiler.
One of my professors would give a grade of 'C' to a program that compiled, whether it worked or not. Most software warranties exclude merchantability and usefulness from their responsibility to their customers.
Right Pharmaceutical Oligarchs-
They use the 3rd world countries as guinnea pigs, the real R & D.
Actually, you ought to stroll through Roche Pharmaceutical in Palo Alto- those 'researchers' live and work in the utmost luxury. They 'sponsored' an environmental fair to buddy up to the save the rain forest crowd in order to learn where the natives are iwth the best natural medicines so that the pharmaceutical oligarchs can cheat the natives out of their natural medicine.
re: Thoms question, Why are these foreign companies screwing the American people?
Because our politicians are pimping us out!!!!!
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It seems to me that the majority of the ills that we as a society suffer are due to people being self centered (it's all about me, me, me). Perhaps if we as a society started to stigmatize and shun these self centered people, we could shame them in to better behavior.
@MaxRot oky doky :)