. FUNERAL JUST SHOW: KING OF POP MOVES IN WITH THE PALINS
SARAH PALIN HAS TURNED TRIG OVER TO MICHAEL JACKSON FOR "POP THERAPY"
Love-Starved Star Just Wanted Attention, Offered To Solve Palin's Money Problems
Two of the new millenium's great mysteries were solved in one shot today, as Michael Jackson sat up in his coffin and began singing, then danced his way through astonished crowds and into a waiting chopper which whisked him to LAX behind a huge LAPD helicopter escort. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was there at the airport with her new corporate jet, Chosen-1, a gift from Jackson, to whisk the freshly resurrected musician off to the new home she will share with Jackson in the 49th State: The Wasilla Dome, recently purchased and specially redone as a kiddie playland by Michael Jackson in return for full custody of all male children in the extended Palin family under the age of puberty. Palin's daughter is now pregnant and hoping for another boy for the King Of Pop.
"It's like the parting of the Red Sea, or velcro, or just a damned miracle" the Governor gushed. "Michael is backing my run for the Presidency next year, and I'm helping him with his problems, and by golly, the Lord sure moves in mysterious ways! Together, we'll have this country straightened out in no time, you betchya!" she finished with a wink.
Jackson's publicists apologized to fans, saying that Michael felt that he needed to see if his fans still loved him, and to reboot his career. One of his security doubles volunteered to undergo an autopsy in Jacko's place. He will be buried tomorrow with a copy of Jackson's new CD. Sales of the CD are now through the roof, proving Jackson's career revival strategy worked. Republicans across the nation praised Palin's new patron, and invited him to Klan meetings across the country, now that he is white, and born again. . .
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RABID CONSERVATIVE THREATENS TO POST "ENEMIES" PHOTOS & "OTHER INFORMATION"
Talk Radio Network & Clear Channel Communications, Like News Corp's Fox News, Tries To Intimidate Moderates & Progressives
These are not idle threats or harmless pranks. We've seen people murdered after being targeted by these Nazi wannabee's. Their threadbare ideology is based upon anger and hatred and violence. Many "conservatives" worship guns and threaten to kill anyone who would take them away. Right-wing extremists in America have perpetrated more violent acts and killed more people than the Left ever did, by far. Al Qaida is nothing compared to the Aryan Nation, the American Nazi Party, the Ku Klux Klan, et al. They've been around for over a hundred years, shooting and bombing, burning and lynching, terrorizing and intimidating the whole country.
Now the Right has taken control of much of our public airwaves. 24/7/52 they spew hatred and foment violence all across the nation on the radio and on TV. It's not just political bluster or ideological blather now. It's stalking and targeting and calling for violence against civilians and government officials, even the President of the United States. If anyone on the Left had even hinted at this sort of thing, they would have been shut down and locked up long ago.
In a way, the Left is complicit in all this. By failing to use the legitimate tools of the law, they are allowing a spark to become a flame. If Obama and company do not do something about this media-inspired threat, the flame may become a conflagration. That is the expressed intent of the political arsonists on the Right. It needs to be stopped now, legally.
Here's what Spocko had to say about the recent terroristic threats by Michael Savage against Media Matters, and the Left's response. Read the whole story on his site:
' Just how close do we have to be to RTLM (Hutu Power Radio) for anyone to see the parallel and say, "That's enough, the people making these kind of threats are off the air for good."? (You might recall from your watching of Hotel Rwanda that the hosts at RTLM gave information on where the Tutsis were located after talking about crushing the Tutsis like cockroaches. Note: those hosts are now serving jail time for war crimes.) Is it going to take a few more murders of the targets of right wing talk radio host's ire for someone to act? And by someone I mean their own management. And if management doesn't act, showing us in writing the warnings to Savage along with his signed agreement posted on his website that he won't do this, then they need to pay a financial price. That is the only thing that might get them to act. The government will not act unless the EXACT right type of murder or violent assault happens. I don't think that will ever happen. Savage knows he needs to avoid certain words and phrases. He knows that unless it is spoken in-person to the person carrying out the murder the people defending the hosts will work on the "he has his right to free speech!" line. All talk radio and TV hosts know this, so they dance around it and practically demand that the people on the LEFT defend them. '
OUR RESPONSE:
You're just trying to get our hopes up with that story about RTLM, aren't you? Of course, some of us would have to be hacked to death first, but, as long as it isn't me, it's worth it.
Actually, we've had laws against this sort of thing for a long time. They've been "reading the Riot Act" since 1792, aka the Militia Act in the US, now chapter 15 of title 10, United States Code. Peaceful speakers at rallies that got out of hand (usually due to agents provocateurs or police over-reaction) have been prosecuted and even killed just for speaking. Four anarchist leaders were hung just for not discouraging violence in the Haymarket Affair in 1886. The Chicago Seven were charged with "conspiracy" after the police rioted against them in 1968. I think the right deserves a taste of this very old medicine, which is still on the books. It would even be fair, for once. We don't have to actually hang them. We're still liberals. Lethal injection would be fine. After a fair trial, of course.
Howard Stern and Infinity Broadcasting have been fined millions of dollars for his harmless adolescent antics. Several of the broadcast TV 'Nets have been fined for various audio & video "accidents" which merely titillated some and offended others in the audience. The same laws could be used against NewsCorp & ClearChannel, but Obama is not changing Bushco policies on giving the Right a free pass. The law specifically forbids: "Unauthorized, unfair, biased, illegal broadcasts (does NOT include Obscene, Profane or Indecent material)" as well as "Broadcast programs showing obscene, profane, and/or indecent material."
The FEC could also be investigating the endless free campaign commercials on behalf of the GOP disguised as programming by the right-wing 'Nets, but they're not. Violations can be reported in online complaint forms from both agencies, but I've yet to hear of any action.
Part of the problem is, there are just so bloody many of these hate-mongers and rabble-rousers; and they have so many sponsors. Taking action against all of them is impossible, and taking action against just a few of them is ineffectual. Some major action has to be initiated by Obama, or by a citizens' group to make a huge example of one of the main instigators of right-wing terror. They have the RICO Act, the Patriot Acts, the FCC regulations the "Riot Act" and the campaign finance laws. They don't need any new laws. They do need political will.
The thing is, the very same media outlets control, manipulate and distort perceptions of public opinion to the point where the Democrats don't seem to realize that they are in the majority, and that most of us are sick of Savage and his ilk, and want to know why they haven't been shut down. We have to find a way to break through the Blue Dog & Clinton-Bush appointee wall of silence, and demand that Obama do something, while he still can.
He's never going to make friends with these nutjobs. And why should he? They're only 5 or 10% of the electorate, at most. The other 90% are tired of their incitements to violence, fighting words and crying fire in a crowded theater. We need to make the FCC, FEC, FBI and Homeland Security stop them now, before we have a Kristallnacht or a Reichstag Fire. Or worse. That's what we're headed for, if we don't do something about it. How far would an extreme left-wing nutjob get with these kinds of threats and incitements to violence? How many doctors and nurses have to die before these terrorist Republican mullahs have their electronic madrassah's shut down?
' Here's the quote: I am calling upon all people in the media who have been harassed by this Stalinist group, Media Matters, to join forces and publish the names of the people in Media Matters and put their pictures up on their Web sites. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. In the next few weeks you can expect me on michaelsavage.com to give you full pictures and other pertinent information about the individuals who are conducting a campaign against Michael Savage and other conservatives in the media. Let's see how they like it. But isn't it interesting that this staunch defender of the First Amendment is trying to bully other people from their lawful exercise of that right? I guess he supports free speech as long as it's speech with which he agrees. What's also interesting to me is the "other pertinent information" part. What information could that be? Their favorite color? How about address, where they work, that sort of thing? You know, the type of information that would be needed by someone if they were, say, stalking a person? So, Savage, go ahead and post that information. But you'd better drop on your knobby knees and pray that none of your mouth-breathing followers gets it in their head to "avenge" the "wrongs" done to you by your "enemies." Or do you like the way you look in stripes? '
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It's A Sign! The Conservatards Know It's Thuh Ay-Und Tahms! SHA-ZAAAAM!!!
Layers of the Onion: First we had soap-opera "Senator" Mark Ensign pretending his former whore for hire was "blackmailing" him. Now we have dorky cracker *ssh*le Mark Sanford, soon-to-be-former Governor of South Carolina and libertarian loon disappearing for almost a week, then resurfacing in a huge pool of bullsh*t.
First his aides said they didn't know where the State's Chief Executive and Commander of the SC National Guard was. In time of war! Then they said they could contact him, but still didn't know where he was. Then they said he was, get this, HIKING on the Appalachian Trail! How stupid are Southrons, anyhoo, that the Guv's lackeys thought they'd believe that? Next, the wayward CEO resurfaced after his SUV was spotted at the Atlanta airport. He claimed, assininely, that he had been in A-R-G-E-N-T-I-N-A ! ! ! Licking Evita's bones, no doubt. Less than a full day later, the retard who was sued by his own Party for refusing Obama's stimulus funds says, naw, I was eatin' ch*cha! All righty, then! WHAT'S NEXT???!!!
The best part: Both conservative Republican Nevada Senator John Ensign AND conservative Republican South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford called for Bill Clinton's resignation when he was caught cheating. Think they'll resign now that they've BOTH been caught cheating? These are the people you f**king IDIOT conservatards WORSHIP. If only you were smart enough to feel stupid! Could you please go crawl up your own conservative *sses and stay there? Thankee! Much obliged!
' A number of potential Republican presidential candidates recently have suffered missteps or other circumstances that threaten to shake up the race long before it formally begins. They range from the most politically lethal — public confession of extramarital affairs — to less serious setbacks, such as a botched speech just as the world was watching, or being tapped to serve in the Obama administration. Each of these incidents underscores the high stakes for a party searching eagerly for a new leader to fight back against the Democrats who control Congress and the White House . '
THE NEVADA APPEAL "Group says Sen. Ensign violated ethics rules" Mr. Family values used campaign contributions and/ or taxpayer money to pay his whore, aand her husband, and her child.
' A watchdog group alleged Wednesday that Sen. John Ensign violated the Senate's ethics rules by engaging in an affair with a campaign aide who was married to his administrative assistant, then terminating their employment. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington also said Ensign, R-Nev., violated ethics and campaign finance rules by failing to report a severance payment to the woman as an in-kind contribution from his campaign or leadership political action committee. Ensign acknowledged last week that he had a consensual affair with a campaign staffer from December 2007 through August 2008. The group followed through Wednesday on an earlier announcement that it would be filing a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee. While Ensign stressed the word consensual in his disclosure, Melanie Sloan, executive director of the watchdog group, said the ethics committee needs to investigate whether sexual harassment had occurred. She said it's well established that sexual harassment is a form of discrimination that Senate rules don't allow. Sloan also said that payments to the couple involved, Doug and Cynthia Hampton, merited investigation. '
' Following Gov. Mark Sanford's tearful confession of cheating on his wife Wednesday, questions continue to surface as to whether Sanford's trips to Buenos Aires were taxpayer-funded. In a public confession among a pool of reporters and photographers at the statehouse, Sanford admitted to seeing the Argentine woman, known only as "Maria," three times over their yearlong affair. Kara Borie, spokeswoman for the South Carolina Department of Commerce, confirmed Thursday afternoon taxpayer money was used to fund a Brazil trade and investment mission in which Sanford was present for on June 21-28, 2008. "A number of the participants from the Brazil trade and investment mission, at the invitation and suggestion of Secretary Taylor and at their own personal expense, went to Cordoba, Argentina, following the Brazil mission to go bird hunting," Borie added. '
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. MARK SANFORD & NEWT GINGRICH SHACKED UP IN MIAMI BEACH
"AH JEST CAIN'T QUIT 'IM" THE GOVERNOR CRIES
Republicans Signal Shift From Straying Evangelicals To Disaffected GLBTs
After five days off the radar, or gaydar, 2012 Republican Presidential hopeful conservative South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has resurfaced in a leather bar in famously gay Miami Beach, Florida. He was on his way to a religious retreat in Waco, Texas when he stopped in the Columbia International Airport men's toilets, and the rest is history. Or herstory.
"Ah set down, jest tuh thank, an' Ah sawr this big ol' pair uh brown shoes in t'other stawull. One of 'em come toowards meh under the par-tition, and Ah just found myself a-wantin' tuh rub on up agin' it. Tarns out, it was Newt Gingrich! Ah tuk it as a sign. We both canceled our plans and flew straight, er, gay to Mah-ammah."
"After three days of passionate gay love-making, I finally realized, it wasn't women I hated: It was myself!" former Speaker of the House and Nancy Pelosi critic Gingrich stated. "I mean, I divorced a woman on her death-bed, but I went right on and married another woman, and hated her too! But it was ME!!! I hated who I was, and how I couldn't just be me. But that's all over. The games of footsie in remote public toilets are over. This is it."
Governor Sanford took executive action on a bar napkin under his authority as Governor of South Carolina and divorced himself today from his wife of seventeen years Myrtle Magnolia Beach-Sanford of the wealthy Beach clan of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Mssrs Sandford & Gingrich plan to fly to Massachusetts to be married tomorrow. "We realize that this is taking the Republican Party in a whole 'nother direction, especially since Rush Limbaugh will be our bridesmaid. But the Christian fundamentalist thing just hasn't been working for us, personally or politically. They're so judgmental. They think greed is a sin! We're hoping that our own immorality will mesh with the sodomites, and that we can retake the White House and Congress by an appeal to pagan family values. We're hip, now! Totally, like, kewl, man! I have an iPod! Our consultants say it'll work. Teh gaiis are THAT p*ssed at Obama! And hey, if we have to eat a little c**k..." "Hey!" Sanford ejaculated. "Or even a big one, so be it. It's worth it!" Gingrich concluded, kissing the bride to a round of applause from the South Beach crowd. The couple are registered at Bed, Bath & Dungeon.
' Where is South Carolina's governor? The lieutenant governor doesn't know, and neither does a state senator who's a close confidante. Even Gov. Mark Sanford's wife is in the dark. Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer said he's been told the governor's staff is in contact with the second-term Republican, but Sanford's wife said she hasn't heard from him in several days, including Father's Day. "He was writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids," Jenny Sanford told The Associated Press while vacationing with the couple's four sons at their Sullivans Island beach house. She said she didn't know where he was, but wasn't concerned. Sanford, who's also chairman of the Republican Governors Association, earned a reputation as the nation's most vocal anti-bailout governor by refusing $700 million in federal stimulus money for schools until he lost a court battle earlier this month. His spokesman Joel Sawyer released a statement saying the governor was taking a break after losing the fight. '
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RUSH LIMBAUGH, NEWT GINGRICH, PAT ROBERTSON ALL BELONG IN GITMO
Fire Up The Patriot Acts, The RICO Act, And The New Hate Crimes Law Before More Innocent People Are Killed
It would only be justice, poetic justice, if the conservatives were hoist on their own "law & order" petard. They never imagined that laws designed to suppress legitimate dissent, circumvent Constitutional protections of the liberty and property of the accused, and make life easier for the thugs in government could ever be used against them. But they can and they should be used right now and for many years to come to bust up the right-wing redneck & corporate conspiracy to overthrow our democratic government and tear up our freedom-loving Constitution, BEFORE they manage to do that. We'll give them plenty of time to appeal, if conservative judges don't find their pleadings frivolous. But they can sit in safe, helpless silence in Guantanamo while they wait for judgment, just like some of their victims.
' As I have written, I have been trying to figure out what the best way is to respond to the murder of Dr. George Tiller. I continue to be amazed by the rhetoric of the extreme anti-abortion side (which has managed to appear mainstream, thanks in large part to support from the Republican party). One commenter in this blog claims that Dr. Tiller’s murder was a completely justified “execution”, just punishment for the killings he supposedly committed. I think there are a number of things that are necessary–starting with some long overdue leadership from Republicans who need to stop legitimizing extremism by making clear that it is dangerous and over the line to equate abortion with murder (the Republican party platform suggests that abortion is murder). I’d also like to hear from women who have had abortions so we can get past the caricatured notion that women casually decide to terminate pregnancies. I’m curious to know what others think–please vote in the poll on the side of this page, and leave your comments here: what’s the best way to respond to this despicable act, and how do we take action to prevent more doctors and health care providers from being killed? '
I think we’ve just been way too damned tolerant of intolerance. Other countries have laws that address this sort of terrorism-enabling & inspiring. In fact, we do too: Haven’t Americans who merely send money to charities connected to political organizations in the Middle East been arrested and charged with terrorism? How are these radical anti-choice groups any different? Or the churches and political Parties that support them?
Either we have absolute freedom of speech, or we apply the legal strictures of the same laws in the same way to everyone. Anyone who commits or threatens to commit violence or aggravated harassment of women and their doctors, gays and their children, immigrants, minorities, the disabled or any other real or perceived group should be arrested, charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and imprisoned for a very long time: Life, in the worst cases. Those who support them financially or politically should be treated the same way we treat supporters of Hamas, including national religious leaders and elected officials.
The new hate crimes legislation should be used along with anti-terror laws to round up the worst elements of this “pro-life” mafia, and to put the rest of them on notice. Media outlets that disseminate their violence-inspiring filth should be fined or de-licensed. There really needs to be a very tough crackdown. Every element of our arts & media, our academic and religious organizations, our legal and political establishment, labor and business associations should be called upon to condemn the hate and the terror, and to demand swift justice in every case. It has to be established as an invariable principle: Promoting violence is against the law and will be prosecuted and punished severely in every case. No more tolerance for intolerance.
[CHRIS EDELSON]:
' Thanks for the comment–I think this is very much worth thinking about. I am a staunch free speech advocate and will defend anyone’s peaceful speech, but speech protections are mot absolute, as Justice Holmes made clear nearly a 100 years ago with his famous “you can’t shout fire in a crowded theater” example. It is not ok to use speech to incite imminent violence or unlawful action, as the Supreme Court ruled in the 1969 Brandenburg case that sets the standard. I don’t think legal action is the only way to respond though–it is still lawful for someone to say, in the abstract, that abortion is murder. So the solution here requires something beyond legal action. That’s why I think it is very important for supposedly responsible leaders to condemn this type of speech. Justice Holmes noted that the best response to free speech you disagree with is counterspeech. In this case, I think responsible Republican elected officials, if they truly are responsible people, have a duty to disclaim the incendiary rhetoric from their party platform and to make clear that it is over the line to say abortion is murder and to call doctors who perform abortions mass murderers. There is a way to change the way the abortion debate plays out, and the Republican party has a responsibility to speak out, given the fact that it has helped mainstream the radical anti-abortion movement. '
Agreed. That’s what I meant, in part, when I said that I thought all segments of society should condemn this. I do not, however, expect many Republicans/ conservatives/ fundamentalists to join in. They’re too busy using deliberately inflammatory language and outrageous actions for their own political purposes. That’s why I think the best example would be set by arresting them.
I don’t like the trend in the law toward less rights and more government power. But the RICO Act, the Patriot Acts and this new Hate Crime law could be used to bust up what is by any definition a highly organized if ostensibly diffuse conspiracy designed to generate fear and violence toward their political enemies. From George W. Bush to Eric Rudolph, from Pat Robertson to Scott Roeder, from Rush Limbaugh to Michael Griffin there are links in a chain that has purposely been created, a “movement,” they call it. The Justice Department and Homeland Security should be going after this “movement” with all the vigor and force of law they usually reserve for “leftist” conspirators.
Even if they fail to convict everyone in the chain, they could bust it up, and put the real fear of God in the irresponsible and cynical movement leaders. I’d love to see Dick Cheney or Sean Hannity sitting in the same dock that once held Abbie Hoffman or Daniel Berrigan. The government had no compunction about prosecuting and harassing a movement and a perceived leadership they happened to disagree with, if only because it was in opposition to that government. Let’s see Obama do the same to these actual murderers and their co-conspirators.
As to the civil liberties issues, they will win out in the end, as they should. But, in the meantime, every one of these reprehensible rabble-rousers could be put on notice, have their lives disrupted, and maybe spend some time in the pokey for their intentionally inspirational words and deeds. Fighting words, shouting fire in a crowded theater, obscenity, calling for violence against the government, verbal harassment and terroristic threatening are all already illegal. Let’s see some pre-emptive prosecutions of the Right, for a change, for the lesser crimes they commit every day, before more innocent people die in lawful pursuit of their own rights. . .
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. CRUDENESS, RUDENESS & RACISM AMONG THE REPUBLICANS
ILL-BRED CONSERVATIVES JUST CAN'T KEEP THE STANK INSIDE
No Wonder They're Not Welcome In Polite Society. Or In The Submarine Service. Or On A Crowded Elevator. Or Anywhere.
"No, we're not racists! THEY are!!!"
Racists are, by the racists' own definition, people who accuse racists of being racist, or anyone who might do so. Pre-emptive racist accusations are important: Timing is everything. It's like surreptitious farting. It's important to accuse someone before they accuse you.
The problem is, the rest of the room is just sitting in shocked silence, wondering, why in the name of God is this idiot even talking about race, much less pointing out another person's race, or, worse yet, accusing THEM of racism!
It's just really bad manners in any circumstances today, thank Gawd. Of course the few remaining actual racists will refer to such manners as "political correctness." This hateful phrase refers to the fact that all the old pathological habits that racists have always enjoyed are now considered very bad manners by everyone else, worse than farting loudly in church, or malodiferously in an elevator.
That's really all the Republicans would be is a few cranky old farts, if they weren't serving as an inspiration to arsonists, bombers and murderers. Not to mention landlords, employers and authority figures who need an excuse to mess up somebody's life because of their skin color. So it's a bit more of a problem than farting. But it still makes everybody else sick.
Somehow, I don't think the Gingrich crowd quite gets this. They just squat there in their own vile stank while America holds its nose. The stench gets worse every time they open their mouths, though their little crowd never seems to notice: Except when one of them suddenly starts screaming that somebody else stinks. But of course it's just them again. Pffft. He who smelt it dealt it.
Ugh! Such rude, awful, vile, disgusting, ill-mannered people. That much has become obvious to everyone. From the smell, it won't be long before they rot away completely.
All this is, ultimately a problem for THEM, an opportunity for us.
What they don't get is that even people who don't make the connection between the more "subtle" forms of hate speech and actual racial (and sexual, homophobic, sectarian, nativist, etc) violence and discrimination still find all such speech to be as rude, crude and unacceptable as casual obscenity used to be in "polite society."
Laws and political positions are one thing, customs and manners are quite another. Outlaws and rebels are still romantic figures in this country, and we all have a right to our boring old political opinions, hoo-rah. But rudeness, crudeness and offenses against manners and customs are viewed very negatively and so will their perpetrators, their Parties and their causes be. Just as the Democrats were at one time associated with the rude and disrespectful behavior of some on the far Left, causing liberalism to become a bad word, conservatism is becoming a very bad word thanks to the really awful and unrelentingly rude and disrespectful behavior of some on the far right who are associated with Republicans. Call it a meme or a trend or a demographic shift, but it is seismic, and it could take generations to reverse once it gets going. Personally, I hope Newt, Rush et al. keep Right on farting.
I'd call it the Mom Effect. It used to be true that there were certain words and deeds that you would never say or do around your Mom, no matter how old you were. Or anybody else's Mom, for that matter. Obscenities were not to be uttered around Mom's, although words like sp*c, k*ke and n*gger were not considered obscene by everyone. That has pretty much been reversed. I hear almost every one of the Seven Dirty Words all the time every day everywhere, even from Grannies. No biggie. But you rarely hear those racial terms any more, thankfully. Just think of the kinds of things you would not say in front of your Mom, or mine, and you have a pretty good idea of what society regards as socially unacceptable and alienating.
Apparently, the Republicans don't have Moms. If they do, their Moms are in the Klan. These Republicans are like really badly raised kids who don't seem to have ever been taught any manners. Among themselves, and even in "polite society," they seem to take delight in belching forth the worst racialisms and stinking up the room with their noxious notions. They don't seem to notice that everyone else is disgusted by their behavior. They don't seem to mind that everybody is leaving the room. They actually triumph in having the room all to themselves. It doesn't bother the Republicans that the room is empty, that everyone has gone somewhere else. They're used to excluding everyone who is not like themselves. It doesn't matter to them how anyone else feels about it.
It'll matter next election day, if the Democrats don't royally screw up. You can't fight the Mom Effect. Those rude-ass Republicans are in for another spanking.
' In the good old days, white men could get away with this sort of shit every day of the week and twice on Sundays. No wonder conservatives look back longingly to the golden age of yore! '
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CENTER FOR POLITICS "Voter Turnout In Presidential And Midterm Elections" A ten to fifteen per cent drop in voter participation from Presidential to "off-year" Congressional midterm elections:
WHY VOTE DEMOCRAT IF THEY'RE JUST LITE REPUBLICANS?
YOUTUBE: OBAMA IN SOCAL FOR DEMOCRATIC FUNDRAISER "Obama: I've Done as Much as FDR" ""One of them said, 'Obama keep your promise,’ " the president said. "I thought that’s fair. I don’t know which promise he was talking about." Ha-ha! "
Why Vote At All If Obama Doesn't Keep His Promises On Gitmo, The War, Healthcare, Cardcheck, Etc, Etc, Etc?
[In response to a post on Docudharma.com by Something The Dog Said:
' ...There has been a lot of talk about the demise of the Republican Party. The Dog has, himself, been part of this talk. Whenever this topic comes up there are those that point out the various times where the Republican Party or even the Democratic Party were down and looked as though they might be out, then have come back in with surprising swiftness. These arguments are true as far as they go but one of the major failings the Dog always finds with these comparisons is they only look at the results and fail to take into account the circumstances which allowed these changes of fortunes for the Party. One of the major influencers has been the direction of the nation over time. This is often ignored by folks making the come back argument. Over the last 30 years we have been seeing a general trend towards a more conservative point of view. This coincides with the aging of the Baby Boomer generation. It is a sociological fact that folks tend to be come more conservative as they age, so the fact that the biggest generation, to that point, in American history were all moving towards middle age at the same time it make sense that the conservative point of view would gain traction. As the Generation Y citizens have grown up and become more politically active in their 30's they are overcoming the conservatism of their parents the Baby Boomers. This combined with the consequences of eight years of Republican rule is how we have gotten to this place where the Democrats control both Houses of Congress and the White House. But a big part of our electoral victory was the ability of our Party and President Obama in particular to articulate a positive vision for the future. In the 2000 election, then Governor Bush had this positive message on two fronts. First he and his campaign talked about returning honor and dignity to the White House. We can see from this vantage of 2009 how completely hollow that message was, but at the time the nation was tiered of the controversies (real and fabricated) of the Clinton Presidency. This made the returning honor and dignity message an appealing one. The other positive vision was the "Compassionate Conservative" meme. It was just what independents who leaned Republican wanted to hear, a Republican Candidate who was not tied to the perceived meanness of the Republican culture warriors. These two factors combined were enough to get President Bush close enough for the Supreme Court to award the Presidency to Mr. Bush... ' (continues)]
I would agree with Somethingthedogsaid (now I know why he chose that name: He doesn't want people to say that, or to agree with him) on some points. But, on others, I think he is way off base. It is far too early to count the Republicans out. Wishful thinking will not win us any votes. We have to look at this realistically, and never underestimate the power of the corporate & redneck Right. Also, keep in mind, Americans like divided government, generally speaking, and most voters no longer give permanent allegiance to any Party. Plus, we like to punish our Presidents in the midterm Congressional elections. The Democrats could gain in the midterms, but they could lose if they fail to get out the people who normally don't vote, but did vote in 2008. That won't happen if Obama keeps heading to the Right.
Having said that, let me address some of the "The Dog"s points. It will take up too much space on his website, so I will include a link to the bulk of it on my own blog.
Trends: If what Dog says is true about the "boomers," then we're headed for a more conservative era as they all retire and keep hanging on well into their 80's & 90's: 30-40 years for the youngest "boomers." Meanwhile, the oldest "boomers" oldest kids are getting near their 50's, so, more conservatism, according to Dog.
"Conservative. "Liberal." "Democrat." "Republican." "Boomers." "Gen-X." We need to take a big old Q-tip and clean all this nasty old label sh*t out of our ears, here. We're people, not robots or trendoids or demographics or electoral units or partisan acolytes. America never has been and never will be an ideologically-driven country. We're not much for partisan politics, either. We're pragmatists and all we expect from government is to be protected from the bad guys, i.e. foreign & domestic enemies both military and economic; to not be impoverished and otherwise to be left alone. It's only the tiny minorities on the fringes that give a sh*t about all these philosophical "issues" that just don't concern the vast majority of us.
What the last 40 years have shown us (based largely on bread & butter and certain hot-button issues) is that the vast majority, though economically & socially center-Left more and more, will still cross Party lines back and forth at will. The Democratic majority of Kennedy & Johnson shifted very slightly to a thin Republican majority for Nixon and Ford, based on the contracting economy and inflation, as well as racial issues and Vietnam. That majority shifted again to the Dems with Carter, and back again to Republicans Reagan & Bush, on money, race & "national security." Then back to Clinton on "the economy, stupid."
The Republican "victories" have in fact been largely Electoral College anomalies: Without Third Party candidates like Wallace and Anderson, the Right could not have won: Nixon won by a squeaker in the popular vote in 1968, and so did Reagan in 1980. Without Perot, Clinton might not have won, but in all these elections, the majority have leaned toward the center-Left, where the Democrats are (or should be), rather than the extreme Right, where the Republicans increasingly live. Only by virtue of these electoral tricks, i.e., covert support of splinter candidates, etc, has the Republican minority been able to win the White House.
It wasn't any "meme" or stylistic affectation that won Bush the White House. Nader cost Al Gore the White House in 2000, along with much help from Bush's brother in the Florida Governor's mansion, and Cheney's friends on the Republican Supreme Court. Bush then had the advantage of incumbency and war in 2004, plus voting-machine manufacturer Diebold's chairman running his Ohio campaign; but he still barely beat Kerry. He never had any kind of a "message." And there were no meaner culture warriors than Bush's brain, Karl Rove, and his boss, Dick Cheney. Nobody outside of his majority among rich people and Red State idiots could even stand Dumbya. He was a ridiculous, inarticulate, crude little moron and everybody who was paying attention knew that very well. He never represented anyone or any "vision" but those of the very rich and the very redneck, both minorities in this country, as Rush constantly laments. That's why Nixon, Reagan and both Bush's had to cheat.
Even after eight years of Clinton-bashing, people were still ready to vote for Gore. Bill Clinton was still wildly popular with the center-Left in 2000, thanks to a great economy and all those years the Repukelickin's wasted in bashing him, which only made him a martyr. If Gore had accepted Clinton's help campaigning, he probably would have won despite all the cheating by Bush. On that, and on the fight over the cheating, Gore screwed up. He actually still won the election, but then he lost the fight over it for lack of trying.
It wasn't ideology or "vision" that drove all this: It was electoral trickery and voter fatigue. Negative campaigning worked for the Republicans for years, right on up until the the point when the economy collapsed in the middle of McSame's campaign. In previous elections, up to 60% of those eligible to vote simply failed to do so, year after year. Negative campaigning was a large part of that failure to turn out, and that was its' goal. What was there to vote for? Wimpy, wonky Democrats trying to look like Republicans-Lite? Rich racist Republicans trying to look like good old boys? What a joke! That left it up to the 20% of actual voters who were hard-core Dems and the 20% hard-core Repub's to battle it out over the last couple of percentage points-worth left of those few who bothered to vote at all. But in this last Presidential election, it was money, not "vision" that won.
What Obama did was not ideological. Obviously, if you did look at his campaign website, or his Cabinet & staff choices, he's not a progressive, or even a liberal on many issues. But he did tap into a sentiment among the 40%-60% of those eligible to vote who frequently do not vote, and it was enough to counter any Republican dirty tricks. It seemed like he might actually be different on money issues that matter to the majority, if you didn't look too close. He wasn't ruling out things like healthcare, like McBush, who also stupidly admitted he was lousy on the economy. Mainly for economic reasons, many in the non-partisan majority voted for Obama, and for the "center-Left" issues we care about.
Certain very real bread & butter issues that the majority actually cares about are finally coming to a head now after more than forty years of suppression. Number one is health care. So far, Obama has effected little or no change that favors unions, gays, the anti-war movement, secularism, and other "leftist" causes. He will lose those people in 2010 & 2012 if that doesn't change very soon. If he continues to pander to the big healthco's and drops the ball on what the majority wants, universal single-payer national healthcare, then that 40%-60% is likely to sit out the next two elections in record numbers.
By energizing their own base, and discouraging the already disappointed Democratic base, the Republicans could not only stem any losses, but make some gains in the next election. This has been the pattern in mid-term Congressional elections for a long time. Democratic over-confidence, Obama's pandering to the corporations & the religious Right, and his Bush-lite stands on civil liberties and militarism may exacerbate this trend next year.
Don't count on Gen X or Y: If the economy is not back on its' feet well before NOV 2010, many of them could be unemployed, bankrupt and even homeless. They may very well register a protest vote with a Green, a Libertarian, a "reasonable-sounding" Republican; or None Of The Above, the real majority Party, by not voting at all. If they choose to stay home in large numbers next election day, Republicans can win, and they know it. That's been their very effective strategy for over forty years now.
All media bullsh*t and wonky "memes" aside, Barack had better watch his back and start producing for us, the center-Left majority, economically, or he could end up like Carter or Clinton. With all that inherited wealth and international corporate money behind them, the Republicans are not going away any time soon. And don't even THINK of another 9/11. The first one is murky enough: The next one could succeed in decapitating the government. Personally, I wouldn't trust the military or their friends the Republicans if Obama were to be sitting in the White House when a plane or a missile hit it, or Capitol Hill. Don't even THINK of it!
WIKIPEDIA "United States midterm election" "Midterm elections are sometimes regarded as a referendum on the sitting president's and/or incumbent party's performance. They usually don't turn out well for the party of the president; over the past 17 midterm elections, the president's party has lost an average 28 seats in the House, and an average 4 seats in the Senate: TABLE:"
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FOR ONCE, LIBERTARIAN (RECOVERING OR CLOSET-REPUBLICAN) PONTIFF IS RIGHT! MONKEYS CAN TYPE SHAKESPEARE! GIVEN ENOUGH TIME...
Texas Congressman Proposes Audit Of The Federal Reserve: No Papal Bull!
Very old populist hooey, this anti-bank stuff. Pre-dates Jackson. Andrew, not Jesse.
Does Pope Ron-Paul use ATMs? Receive a paycheck? Live in a home that was ever mortgaged? Then he's part of the Federal Reserve System, too. We all are.
We need a banking system. It should not be entirely private, for reasons that ought to be obvious after the last twelve months: Government oversight is not enough, we must have control of our finances. But direct control by politicians on a day-to-day basis is not a good idea, either, as it would subject our personal and business finances to political vendettas and electoral politics. I'm sure most of these anti-bank "libertarians" (closet Republicans & recovering Republicans) would be against THAT.
Having said this, anything that cannot be explained is, by definition, inexplicable, or as Webster would have it, "incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for [an inexplicable disappearance]." Unaccountability seems like the opposite of what you want in a bank.
If it can't be explained, it's probably something somebody doesn't WANT you to know, like whose buddy got what favor to cover whose ass, and why. That ain't banking. That's insider politics and crony capitalism at its' worst. It's our money, and our government, including the Fed. The system works, yeah, but for whose primary benefit? It should be the depositors and the taxpayers, not the bankers and their shareholders, first. A little light on the subject would be a good disinfectant, in case there's any stench of corruption on up in there.
The problem with our system today, and not just the Fed, is that it relies almost exclusively on "conservative" corporatist industry expertise. Our government is full of Wall Street types, defense contractors, agribusiness shills, etc. Is it any wonder that our government's policies are so violently pro-business and anti-worker, anti-consumer, anti-shareholder? Duh. Chickens, meet foxes. They'll be managing your house.
The biggest disappointment, so far, with Obama has been his continuation of this. He could have selected experts from the labor movement or academia, dissenting voices from non-corporate think-tanks and NGOs. There are many with government and industry experience who are not outright whores for the corporations. But he chose the whores, in part because they have more gov't experience. But if the government NEVER listens to or hires non-corporate advocates, then they will NEVER have government experience.
This was a chance to reverse that pernicious trend, and the Dems blew it. This is why people say there is no difference between the two Parties, and why nuts like Paul come into being. But for once, I agree with him: Audit the suckers on a regular basis. And that includes the Treasury, FNMC, FHLMC, the SEC and all the rest of them. Let's just see who's minding the store, and how, and for whom.
' Sometimes I think Ron Paul's ideas may be too simplistic. This isn't one of them. In a Forbes editorial last week, Congressman Paul called for an audit of the Federal Reserve Bank. Paul of course, doesn't buy the idea that the Fed is necessary to keep inflation low and to promote growth. Truth be told, I've been of the opinion that it has played a part in all but eliminating the 10 - 15 year cycle of boom, panic and collapse that has plagued our economy since the Washington administration. Maybe it has but maybe, as the Congressman claims, it's been the cause of inflation and a drag on growth. Maybe there's a better way and I'm the first to admit I don't know. '
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DISGRACED HEALTHCO CEO WANTS TO KEEP HIS HANDS IN YOUR POCKETS - FOREVER
His Television Commercials Start The Lies Rolling, Trying To Scare "Harry & Louise" With "Foreign Socialism" And "Government Rationing"
The funny thing is, this scumbag made all the money for these lying horsesh*t ads by rationing health care himself. Companies like his make money by milking the healthy people and killing the sick ones by denying treatment. They routinely deny patients coverage and refuse to cover millions who are too poor to pay their outrageous premiums, but not poor enough for Medicare. As a result, thousands of hard-working Americans die every year due to lack of medical care. All because some greedy rich people and the corporations they hide behind want to keep getting richer and richer and richer, no matter who it hurts.
This is the kind of person that gets a seat at the table in deciding whether we get universal single-payer national health care or some taxpayer-funded corporate healthco boondoggle. This is the sort of corporatist greed-head that now surrounds the President, and pulls the strings of Congress. This is the type of thief and liar we want kept out of the decision-making process.
The healthco's have come forward with a pathetic little proposal that might -might- save a family of five up to -up to- five hundred dollars a year -a year, not a month- after five years -five years. That will only happen if all the healthco's agree on streamlined paperwork, and then implement a whole new system. So, the healthco's big offer is, maybe we can save some chump change if you let us keep ripping you off for trillions of dollars.
Obama seems to be going for it, even though it won't make a dent in the price of his health care plan, which aims to keep feeding the rich by milking the middle classes. Instead of providing government health coverage, or requiring employer health coverage, Obama is going to require you to buy your own private health coverage, just like you are required to buy no-fault car insurance now. How's THAT workin' out for ya? Or are you one of the up to 50% of American drivers who can't afford any car insurance? Or maybe you're one of their victims, still paying extra out of your own pocket.
OK, America, it's time to put a stop to this. Sign the petition below and then click on the links provided to write Obama and your representatives in Congress. If you don't, you or your loved ones may die some day for lack of medical care in the richest country in the history of the world, the one you helped build but got shut out of by these corporations. Do it now. This is happening right now, and you can have an impact if you speak out against it.
' The television ads that began airing last week feature horror stories from Canada and the United Kingdom: Patients who allegedly suffered long waits for surgeries, couldn't get the drugs they needed, or had to come to the United States for treatment. The effort has alarmed many Democrats and liberal health-care advocates, who are pushing back with attacks highlighting Scott's ouster as head of the Columbia/HCA health-care company amid a fraud investigation in the 1990s. The firm eventually pleaded guilty to charges that it overbilled state and federal health plans, paying a record $1.7 billion in fines. In an ad broadcast in the Washington area and in Scott's home town of Naples, Fla., last week, a group called Health Care for America Now says of Scott: "He and his insurance-company friends make millions from the broken system we have now." The group's national campaign manager, Richard Kirsch, said: "Those attacking reform are really looking to protect their own profits, and he's a perfect messenger for that. His history of making a fortune by destroying quality in the health-care system and ripping off the government is a great example of what's really going on." One senior Democratic staffer involved in the health-care debate said the arguments by Luntz, Scott and others are "distractions" that rely on distortions of the actual debate taking place in the House and Senate. Reform advocates note that many of the problems highlighted by Scott, such as long waits and shoddy care, are already major problems in the United States under the private insurance system. '
' The three approaches being discussed are: _Create a plan that resembles Medicare, administered by the Health and Human Services department. _Adopt a Medicare-like plan, but pick an outside party to run it. That way government officials would not directly control the day-to-day operations. _Leave it up to individual states to set up a public insurance plan for their residents. But many key details would still have to be fleshed out. Among them is whether the public plan would be open to everyone, or be limited to small businesses and individuals purchasing coverage on their own. Senators on the Finance Committee will consider the proposals during a closed-door session scheduled for late next week. Committee leaders want to bring a bill to the Senate floor this summer. It's unclear whether a public plan in any form will emerge from Congress. If the public plan were open to all employers and individuals — and if it paid doctors and hospitals the same as Medicare — it would quickly grow to 131 million members, while enrollment in private insurance plans would plummet, the study found. By paying Medicare rates the government plan would be able to set premiums well below what private plans charge. Employers and individuals would rush to sign up. But the results would be far different if the government plan was limited to small employers, individuals and the self-employed. In that smaller-scale scenario, the public plan would get from 17 million to 43 million members, the study said. It found that a government plan could be effective in reducing number of uninsured. '
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL "Republicans and the 'Public Option' " Even the piggies admit that universal single-payer national health can can work, and is inevitable.
' This new entitlement -- like Medicare but open to all ages and all incomes -- would quickly crowd out private insurance as people gravitated to heavily subsidized policies, eventually leading to a single-payer system. So Democrats are trying to seduce diffident Republicans with a Potemkin compromise. A "soft" public option would limit enrollment only to the uninsured or those employed by small businesses, or include promises that the plan will pay market rates. As recently proposed by Chuck Schumer, it would pay claims entirely with premiums and co-pays. But if the plan can't force down reimbursement rates through brute force, and doesn't get taxpayer dollars, why bother to "compete" with private plans? Medicaid was intended as a last resort for the poor but now covers one-third of all long-term care expenses in the U.S. -- that is, it has become a middle-class subsidy for aging parents of the Baby Boomers. Schip was pitched a decade ago as a safety net for poor kids, and some Republicans helped sell it as a free-market reform. But Schip is now open to families that earn up to 300% of the poverty level, or $63,081 for a family of four. In New York, you can qualify at 400% of poverty. Any new federal health plan will inevitably follow the same trajectory, no matter how much Republican Senators might claim they've guaranteed otherwise. The Lewin Group consultants estimate that 119 million people who now have private insurance could potentially be captured by the government under the Obama public option. This is on top of the 90 million already in Medicare or Medicaid. '
' All profit immensely from the present system, which has ratcheted up costs to the point where the United States now spends twice as much on health care as other industrialized countries — $7,129 for every man, woman and child. While the other advanced nations provide excellent medical coverage for all of their citizens, our nation falls shamefully short. More than 47 million Americans — including 9 million children — have no health-care insurance. The two major reasons for this gaping disparity between consumer spending and actual services are the inefficiencies inherent in a system that involves thousands of delivery agents and, sadly, outright greed. The vast private insurance bureaucracy and the forests of paperwork they produce vociferously consume 31 cents of every health-care dollar consumers shell out, according to the advocacy group Physicians for a National Health Program. Funneling that money into a single system run by the federal government would save more than $350 billion per year — more than enough to provide comprehensive health care of the highest quality for all Americans. Some experts believe that the savings from eliminating the pervasive greed in the current system might double that amount although they acknowledge there's no way to calculate that. Ironically, it appears that President Obama and congressional health-care leader Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., may be about to give the insurers the type of reform they have spent millions of dollars lobbying for — despite their posturing as champions of rational change. The proposal by America's Health Insurance Plans would mandate that the federal government force everyone to purchase private health insurance. All Americans would be covered under this scheme, but the feds would step in and subsidize those with health risks that are extremely costly to treat. The idea is to continue to let private health insurers reap obscene profits and continue to make large campaign contributions to compliant candidates. '
YAHOO NEWS "Health care cost cuts could kick-start reform" Here's who's bought a seat at the table. And they're trying to stop us from getting "cost-effective" health care, i.e., medicine that works and doesn't kill us, financially.
' Hospitals, insurance companies, drug makers and doctors planned to tell Obama on Monday they'll voluntarily slow their rate increases in coming years in a move that government economists say would create breathing room to help provide health insurance to an estimated 50 million Americans who now go without it. Although the offer from the industry groups doesn't resolve thorny details of a new health care system, it does offer the prospect of freeing a large chunk of money to help pay for coverage. And it puts the private-sector groups in a good position to influence the bill Congress is writing. The industry groups are trying to get on the administration bandwagon for expanded coverage now in the hope they can steer Congress away from legislation that would restrict their profitability in future years. Insurers, for example, want to avoid the creation of a government health plan that would directly compete with them to enroll middle-class workers and their families. Drug makers worry that in the future, new medications might have to pass a cost-benefit test before they can win approval. And hospitals and doctors are concerned the government could dictate what they get paid to care for any patient, not only the elderly and the poor. Obama has courted industry and provider groups, inviting their representatives to the White House. There's a sense among some of the groups that now may be the best time to act before public opinion, fueled by anger over costs, turns against them. '
NY DAILY NEWS "President Obama to receive $2 trillion health care reform proposal" Wow! $40 in health care savings a month! And maybe $200 a month in the very distant future! MAYBE!! That only leaves a couple thousand dollars a month to spend for the average family's health care! WHAT A F**KIN' DEAL!!!
' Medical and insurance trade groups and unions will present President Obama with a plan Monday to save families $500 a year in health care costs initially and at least $2,500 annually after five years through mostly administrative changes, senior aides say. Aides are revealing few details, but hint some savings would come from insurers adopting unifclaim forms and other documents. Annual savings to families would grow from $500 to $2,500 within five years as the plan is phased in, aides said. Among the participants at the meeting with Obama will be the American Medical Association, American Hospital Association, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Service Employees International Union, Greater New York Hospital Association and California Hospital Association. '
HEALTHCARE NOW "I Support HR 676" Please take two minutes right now. Thanks.
' Whereas: We spend over $2.3 trillion, or $7,500 per capita, for healthcare in the US, yet 42 percent of people under 65 have inadequate or no insurance coverage;
Whereas: The healthcare coverage in the United States is ranked #37 in the world by the World Health Organization and yet we spend almost twice as much as any other country, enough to cover everybody with excellent comprehensive healthcare;
Whereas: A bill has been proposed in Congress, HR-676, non-profit Medicare for All, that outlines a national healthcare program that will provide guaranteed, comprehensive, and affordable quality healthcare and prescription drugs to everyone in the country;
Whereas: Over 59 percent of physicians now support a national, single-payer health insurance system for everyone;
Whereas: HR 676 has been endorsed by 463 union organizations in 49 states including 116 Central Labor Councils and Area Labor Federations and 39 state AFL-CIO’s;
Whereas: Under this proposed plan, we can pay for a comprehensive national health care program with the same money we are now spending by removing insurance companies — and cover every single person in the United States;
And Whereas: The bill provides money for retraining and giving priority to those whose jobs as administrators in the insurance industry would be lost as a result of this shift;
Be it Resolved That: We call on our members of Congress to pass HR 676, non-profit Medicare for All, so our people and our nation can have the excellent healthcare system we deserve. Healthcare is a human right, and we call on our members of Congress to recognize that right. '
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. "REPUBLICAN" IS A BAD WORD, THEY FINALLY REALIZED
THE PARTY OF LINCOLN??? NOT SO MUCH...
So, What Should We Call A Disoriented Group Of So-Called Conservatives?
Pick your favorites. Here's my list. I'd love to see yours. Post or email one, please! Comments are now open to all. We'll see how that goes...
1. Assholes 2. The Grand NEW Party! 3. The Party Formerly Known As Prince 4. Nazi-Lite 5. Venti Soy Mocha Fascisti 6. Zzzz 7. Democratnot 8. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! 9. The Confederacy 10. The Greys 11. Old White Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudes 12. McRepublicans 13. Mallwalkers Anonymous 14. I'm Spending My Childrens' Inheritance, or "ISMyCI" 15. New Coke 16. Libertarianish 17. KKKMart 18. The Rush Limbaugh Fan Club 19. Free Lunchers 20. Torii's (with hearts over the "i"'s) 21. Anger, Inc. 22. Haters Anonymous 23. Likud 24. FoxNews 25. Management 26. The Senior Chamber of Commerce 27. The Board of Directors 28. HWA (Honkies With Attitude) 29. HezbaJesus 30. Party Of God (POG) 31. USAUSAUSA 32. Your Father's Oldsmobile 33. Wifebeaters Anonymous 34. Fetal Positions 35. No Gurlz Alowd 36. Let Somebody Else Fight Club 37. UnAmerican Legion 38. Veterans of No Wars 39. The Wall Street Auxiliary 40. Unintelligent Design 41. Notaxachusetts 42. The Deadbeats 43. Hypocrites Much? 44. Closet Queens 45. Liar Liar & Liars 46. Nixonism 47. Bushco 48. Cheney Enterprises 49. The Bull Shit Party 50. Everythinggate . .
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Piyush "Bobby" Jindal Wants The U.S. Recovery To F**k Up Like The Louisiana Recovery Did Under Bush
Directly or indirectly, everyone in the Jindal family works for or with the government. And everything they do hurts ordinary Americans. These are the kinds of people you want making and implementing public policy? Hypocrites?
"Republicans are not competent to govern," the crazed Louisiana Governor mewled over and over in his little "Kenneth The Page" voice. (He should know: His Mom works for the G. His brother used to. His Dad does, too, by contract.) Coming on like a perverted Mr. Rogers trying to seduce a child, Billy-Bobby-Booby-Ray-Jimmy-Joe-Jackoff Jindal explained how disaster relief for his State was desperately needed and reluctantly given by the incompetent Bush government, and how that was the reason he was refusing economic disaster relief readily given by the highly competent Obama government. Hunh?
The Repukelickin's could have had one of their fat-assed white Southern morons deliver the SOTU "rebuttal." But they're trying to get away from that tired old white guy thing. Instead, they give us airhead female redneck hypocrite Sarah Palin, dirty trickster & human Oreo cookie Michael "Uncle Tom" Steele, and creationist technocrat Indian immigrant Jindal. Like, maybe we'll vote for them if they quit LOOKING like Repuke's. Why not try a transexual who beats up on lesbians for fun? Or, as corrupt-but-not-yet-indicted incoming GOPer Chairman Steele suggested, some "one-armed midgets." (Exact quote.)
I guess those opinion polls that finally showed America's real attitudes toward Obama (Lovin' him!), the stimulus package (Want it BAD) and Congressional Republicans(Hated 'em) and their obstructionist tactics (QUIT IT!), maybe put a dent in their heads, finally. So no Mitch McConnell, no John Boehner, no John Kyl, no John Cantor. Instead we get Red State Governors cashing their own government checks while turning down unemployment benefits on behalf of their record unemployed workers, and refusing mortgage help on behalf of their record foreclosed homeowners. Naw, it ain't the Party of No. It's the Party of NUTS.
Other Governors have stepped up to take the Red States' share of the rescue moneys. I say give it to 'em. F**k the Red States. They've been collecting more Federal dollars than they paid in taxes every year for many, many years. Let 'em go it alone, if they want to: Give 'em nothing, no-how, not one red Federal cent, ever again. If their citizens don't like it, maybe they could QUIT VOTING REPUBLICAN. They're not even keeping the "n*gg*rs" down, any more, anyway. One of 'em's President now, crackers. Get used to it. Start voting on something besides hatred and prejudice. Like, maybe, your own interests, for a change? And the interests of the Country, which the 'Pukes OBVIOUSLY do not give a sh*t about?
Here's the scoop on Jindal and his lifelong-government-dependent family. They're associated with some REALLY slimy people: Washington DC corporate law firms & political fixers that specialize in screwing reg'lar folks. Corporate polluters that mismanage toxic radioactive waste.:
' Amar Jindal works for an engineering company called URS and Raj Jindal works for the state Department of Labor. Enjoying life at his home in the Country Club of Louisiana, Amar Jindal is a long way from his humble origins in a rural Punjab village. '
URS.COM "Washington Division > Federal/National Governments" Looks like Dady-ji's a G-man too! His company is responsible for the messes at Los Alamos, Hanford and Savannah River, all nuclear nightmare sites. The radioactive trifecta!
' Washington Division manages high risk, technically complex programs and facilities for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), other federal agencies, and the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. As one of the Manhattan Project’s original six industrial partners, the Washington Division has a heritage partnership with the DOE and its predecessor agencies that spans more than six decades. Today, we continue our support of government agencies by safely managing and operating a segment of the world’s remaining nuclear facilities; providing expertise in environmental remediation, hazardous material stabilization, decontamination and decommissioning; and cleaning up more of the Cold War’s chemical and radioactive legacy than any other company. We also help manage and operate national laboratories, including the Idaho National Laboratory, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. We hold long-term contracts for work at the majority of the DOE’s environmental management and nuclear cleanup sites, including the design, construction and current operation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico; cleanup at the Hanford Site along the Columbia River in southeastern Washington State; management of the remediation of radioactive underground waste tanks at the Hanford Site; management and operation of the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York; and previous management and operation of the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. '
' Prior to joining OMB, Mr. Jindal was the Senior Counsel at the Department of Energy, where he was actively involved in several key Department initiatives, including the drafting of guidelines implementing a multi-billion dollar loan guarantee program for innovative energy technologies authorized under the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Before joining the Department of Energy, Mr.Jindal was a litigation associate at another law firm in Washington, D.C. Mr. Jindal served as a law clerk to the Honorable Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, in Portland, Oregon. '
LAW.COM "Gibson Dunn Helps to Shape the Supreme Court" Inside baseball: Jindal's brother's law firm helped insurance companies screw Louisianians out of billions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina money. How? Well, they put two current SCOTUS judges on the bench, and Dubya in the White House. So they got CLOUT, baby, that's how!
' Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's appellate team is on a streak. With warhorse Theodore B. Olson in the lead, the appellate group has won eight of the 11 U.S. Supreme Court cases it has argued during the past three terms. Overall, the firm claimed victory in 75 percent of its high court cases. "Getting 11 cases to the Supreme Court -- then winning eight of them -- in a given stretch is an incredible success," said Paul Watford, co-chair of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation's appellate practice committee and partner in the appellate practice group at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles. In 2007 and early 2008, Gibson Dunn had four Supreme Court victories and a solid collection of wins in other federal and state appellate courts. What's behind the record? Firepower: Olson is a highly regarded Washington insider, whose 40-plus years in practice and solid conservative credentials have given him a deep understanding of the philosophies of the Supreme Court justices -- two of whom he helped get appointed to the high court as a Bush administration confidant. Helping to shape the court and having a deep affinity for its appointees is one way to get insight into the minds of the justices. "We work hard to give the court our best analysis to find the way that at least five justices will agree with our approach to the case," Olson said. "You can't win every case, but we try to win as many as we can." Richard J. Doren, a Gibson Dunn partner in Los Angeles, brought his national class action defense experience to an appeal involving insurance policyholders and the floods that followed Hurricane Katrina. Doren convinced the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a trial court ruling that insurance covered the flood caused by the breach of New Orleans' levees. With more than 200,000 policyholders, the stakes were very high and the challenge intense. Still, "putting together a good argument -- that's a lot of fun professionally," Doren said. Opposing counsel in the Katrina insurance case, John Ellison, a Reed Smith partner in Philadelphia, said the insurance coverage issues are still being litigated before the Louisiana Supreme Court. He praised Doren's job, then added: "I am still surprised with the result." Olson has worked at the firm since 1965, with two notable intervals: Between 2001 and 2004 he was U.S. solicitor general, and from 1981 to 1984 he was a key presidential adviser in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel. Olson ranks among lawyers with high court insider status. He represented George W. Bush in the two cases that settled the disputed 2000 presidential election. After helping Bush take office, he advised the president on his two Supreme Court nominees, fellow conservatives John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr., both of whom Olson has known since the 1980s, when all three were Reagan administration legal advisers. "Those have been exciting places to put my foot in the stream," Olson said. "These are really outstanding people. I'm glad I was able to participate in a very small way in their preparation in their confirmation hearings." '
ESQUIRE MAGAZINE "Bobby Jindal, All American" "Bobby" ditches his immigrant parents --too foreign & dark-skinned for Republicans. Oh, and he grew up in government housing, BTW.
' Now here was Bobby Jindal on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the glad-handing Mayor of America. "Tell us about your background," Leno said. "First-generation American, correct?" "Born and raised in Baton Rouge," Jindal said with a distinct drawl. He launched into the story of his parents' journey to LSU. "[My dad] walked uphill going to school . . . and coming back from school," Jindal joked. "So your parents have an accent?" Leno asked. The young governor winced, like a bookish kid who's just realized he's wandered into the wrong area of the playground. He looked down into his spidery hands, arranged at the moment as if they were holding an invisible bowl. He searched inside the bowl for the answer to Leno's question. "My dad more than my mom," Jindal said of the accent. "But my dad, you know . . . none of his brothers or sisters got past the fifth grade. . . . He went all the way to college. That's pretty amazing." "When you were born . . . did he say--" Leno bobbled his large head, playing to the studio audience. He put on a corny, over-the-top, Apu-from-The-Simpsons accent: "We will name him Bobby!" The crowd roared. "Nooooo," Jindal protested, faint though distinct, his chin drooping to his chest, clearly mortified. His hands knit together protectively and fell into his lap. The first time he ran for governor, in 2003--his very first attempt at public office of any kind--Jindal lost in a runoff to Kathleen Blanco (the governor during Hurricane Katrina, which hit in 2005). Four days before the runoff, polls showed Jindal with a comfortable 10-point lead. Then Blanco's campaign started running a television ad featuring a picture of a young, very dark-appearing Jindal with his hair disheveled and sticking up. "Wake up, Louisiana! Before it's too late!" viewers were urged. By Election Day, Jindal was trailing Blanco by 3 points. He did especially poorly in what they call Bubba Country, the northern part of the state, usually a Republican stronghold. Over the course of the next four years--during which time he successfully ran for a seat in the House of Representatives, raising so much money in the process that he was able to donate to other GOP candidates around the country, ensuring his election as president of the incoming freshman class of congressmen--Jindal visited northern Louisiana, by his own count, more than seventy-seven times. Many of those visits took place on Sundays at small evangelical churches, where he gave testimony about his conversion from a Hindu to a Roman Catholic. Some churchgoers noted that they had never before heard a Roman testify in quite the way Jindal did, casting his own experience in terms similar to that of a born-again fundamentalist. Reporters noted that Jindal had taken to wearing cowboy boots. The Jindals settled into graduate-student housing near LSU. In the eyes of an immigrant, Louisiana in 1971 was paradise on earth. There were abundant oil and gas reserves, thriving industry, major ports, multiple railroads, jobs aplenty, the guarantee of schooling for all. Amar got a good job with one of the railroads; Raj switched from nuclear physics to the budding field of computer science and was hired by the state of Louisiana as one of its first IT people. (Thirty years later, she is still working in the same department. Technically, Bobby is her boss.) The Jindals lived in a series of apartments for nearly seven years, until the birth of Bobby's younger brother, Nikesh. Today, Nikesh Jindal is a thirty-year-old lawyer in Washington. He went to Dartmouth and Yale--"Quite a shock for a southern boy," he said on the phone recently with a chuckle. Unlike Bobby, he has no southern accent. Nikesh remembers fondly the family's one-story, three-bedroom house in a "small little neighborhood where you knew all the people on the street." When asked if his family ever got together with other Hindu families to worship during holidays, Nikesh, who has never before been interviewed, became flustered. "I'll have to think about it and get back to you on that," he said. (All requests for an interview with Amar and Raj Jindal were declined.) Because he feared the "inevitable confrontation with my very unsympathetic Hindu parents," Bobby simply didn't tell them. He found refuge in his closet, where he studied the Bible by flashlight. In his writings, he would later compare his situation to that of the earliest Christians, worshipping in caves, "hiding from government persecution." '
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RACIST RUSH IS RIGHT OF HITLER: STOP SUPPORTING HIS FAT ASS
YOUTUBE: FUXSNOOZE "Rush hopes Obama fails pt 1" Rush On Obama: "He's black! He's Black!! He's BLACK!!! It Doesn't Make Any Difference To Me. But he's BLAAAAAACCKKK!!!!!!"
Hillbilly-Heroin Addict? Spouse Abuser? Sexual Deviant? Foreign Agent? Fascist? Can It Be True?
Extreme Right-Wing AM Radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has stepped over the line one too many times. Now he has revealed that his agenda is to drag Americans down, destroy the economy, and mortally wound our democratic system. He has also revealed that he is now the leader, the brains, and the collective unconscious of the Republican Party. None there dare gainsay him, no matter how vile and extreme his belches of bile and venom. He is the uncensored id of the Republican Party, broadcasting all the wildly inappropriate things that the rest of them only think, but dare not say. He is a rabid racist, anti-Semite, misogynist, homophobe, nativist, sexist, sectarianist, classist, rabble-rousing Nazi-wannabee and corporate fascist. He needs to be run out of the country. Get him started by contacting his advertisers/ advertizers, sponsors/ sponsers and letting them know that you will NEVER buy any of their products again, as long as they advertise with the Rush Limbaugh Show. Do it now! STOP RUSH.
' Whether or not the boycott works to any meaningful degree is going to depend on how many more advertisers decide it is easier to switch than fight. According to radio buyers, some companies cave almost instantly in the face of even a little negative feedback while others need to experience a truly sustained and widespread level of complaints before they listen. Still, they don't have to get them all to make a difference: If enough advertisers put out the word that the show is a forbidden zone -- and they are not rapidly replaced -- the program will lose much of its economic value to local stations and station groups regardless of how well its audience numbers are doing. Of course, the already-loaded Limbaugh is never going to have trouble putting food on the table, but he and his fans could end up in less desirable timeslots or on fewer outlets. '
' So many of you have asked to help Rush that we have created this special page for sending your thoughts to the companies that sponsor The Rush Limbaugh Show. '
Overstock.com 1-800-989-0135 (customer comments and service email) otherinfo@overstock.com
eharmony 300 N. Lake Ave., Suite 1111 Pasadena, CA 91101 media@eharmony.com Web contact form 626.795.4814 FAX 626.585.4040
Inverness Medical (maker of stresstabs) 51 Sawyer Road Waltham, MA 02021 1-800-899-7353 weekdays, 8 am. - 6 p.m. (Eastern Time.)
Onstar Online comment form
Hotwire Corporate Headquarters 333 Market Street, Suite 100 San Francisco, CA 94105 advertising@hotwire.com 1-877-HOTWIRE (468-9473) 415-343-8400
Sleep Number Bed 1-800-438-2233
The Neptune Society of Northern California Stewart Enterprises 12070 Telegraph Road #107 Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
Oreck Upright Vacuum Cleaners Oreck Corporation 100 Plantation Road New Orleans, Louisiana 70123 Online contact form 1-800-289-5888
Smart & Final Customer Relations PO Box 512377 Los Angeles, CA 91001-0377 (Heard on KFI 640 in Los Angeles)
Mid-West Life Insurance Company of Tennessee 9151 Grapevine Hwy. North Richland Hills, TX 76180 Phone (800) 733-1110 (web banner ads on rushlimbaugh.com)
Avacor (hair loss treatment) (customer comments email) comments@avacorusa.com
Lazerguide® (golf instruction tool) PO Box 807 New Hudson Michigan 48165 1-877-266-6430 (toll free)
Mission Pharmacal Company 10999 IH-10 West Suite 1000 San Antonio, TX 78230 Telephone: (800) 531-3333
General Steel Metal Buildings 1075 South Yukon, Ste. 250 Lakewood, Colorado 80226 Toll Free: 1-888-98-STEEL Phone: 303-904-4837 Fax: 303-979-0084
Life Quotes, Inc. 32045 Castle Court Evergreen, CO 80439 1-800-670-5433 info@lifequotes.com.au
Select Comfort Corporation 6105 Trenton Lane N Minneapolis, MN 55442 Phone: 763-551-7000 Fax: 763-551-7826 investorrelations@selectcomfort.com
Scottrade Inc 12855 Flushing Meadows Drive Saint Louis, MO 63131 1-800-619-SAVE support@scottrade.com *Scottrade flaks claim they haven't advertised with Rush for years. Feedback, please, folks!*
RegionalHelpWanted.com, Inc. 1 Civic Center Plaza, Suite 506 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 800-365-8630 845-471-5200 Feedback@RegionalHelpWanted.com
The Swap Shop CLICK HERE 3291 East Sunrise Ft. Lauderdale, FL swpshop@aol.com Phone - 954.791.$WAP
Pfizer Inc 235 East 42nd Street New York, NY 10017 212-733-2323 '
' Now I will offer you some links that provide the corporate advertisers names and numbers.
Barnes and Noble (His listeners read?) Customer Service Department 122 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10011 telephone: 800-422-7717 email: customerservice@bn.com fax: 212-352-3660
Lumber Liquidators Contact Us Page 1-800-=366-4204 3000 John Deer Road Toano, VA
Lear Financial (They sell those cheap gold coin rip-offs. Seem to market exclusively on Fox and right wing radio) 429 Santa Monica Blvd Suite 440 Santa Monica, CA Toll Free: 1 800 965-0580 Fax: (310) 656-3280
Life Quotes 32045 Castle Court Evergreen, CO 80439 1-800-670-5433 info@lifequotes.com.au
Laser Shield Home Security Phone: 800-ALARM-55 Fax: 1-800-817-3287
Cartridge World 6460 Hollis Street Emeryville, CA 94608 USA Tel: 510-594-9900 Fax: 510-594-9991
Quicken Loans 20555 Victor Parkway Livonia, MI 48152 800-251-9080
Life Lock 6515 S Rural Rd Suite 104 Tempe, AZ 85283 Phone: 480 682 5100 Fax: 480 682 5101
eharmony 300 N. Lake Ave., Suite 1111 Pasadena, CA 91101 media@eharmony.com Web contact form 626.795.4814 FAX 626.585.4040
Inverness Medical 51 Sawyer Road Waltham, MA 02021 1-800-899-7353
Mission Pharmacal Company 10999 IH-10 West Suite 1000 P.O. Box 786099 San Antonio, TX 78278-6099 Telephone: (800) 531-3333
Select Comfort Corporation 6105 Trenton Lane N Minneapolis, MN 55442 Phone: 763-551-7000 Fax: 763-551-7826
Scottrade Inc 12855 Flushing Meadows Drive Saint Louis, MO 63131 1-800-619-SAVE *Scottrade flaks claim they haven't advertised with Rush for years. Feedback, please, folks!*
Pfizer Inc 235 East 42nd Street New York, NY 10017 212-733-2323 '
' Short list of his advertisers and their contact information
Bose Wave Radio 508-766-7781
Lending Tree (704) 541-5351
Life Quotes 1-800-670-5433
Select Comfort 763-551-7460
Overstock.com 1-800-989-0135 (customer comments and service email) otherinfo@overstock.com
eharmony 300 N. Lake Ave., Suite 1111 Pasadena, CA 91101 media@eharmony.com 626.795.4814 FAX 626.585.4040
Inverness Medical (maker of stresstabs) 51 Sawyer Road Waltham, MA 02021 1-800-899-7353 weekdays, 8 am. - 6 p.m. (Eastern Time.)
Onstar 1-800-947-AUTO
Hotwire Corporate Headquarters 333 Market Street, Suite 100 San Francisco, CA 94105 advertising@hotwire.com 1-877-HOTWIRE (468-9473) 415-343-8400
Sleep Number Bed 1-800-438-2233
The Neptune Society of Northern California Stewart Enterprises 12070 Telegraph Road ..107 Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
Oreck Upright Vacuum Cleaners Oreck Corporation 100 Plantation Road New Orleans, Louisiana 70123 Online contact form 1-800-289-5888
Smart & Final Customer Relations PO Box 512377 Los Angeles, CA 91001-0377 (Heard on KFI 640 in Los Angeles)
Mid-West Life Insurance Company of Tennessee 9151 Grapevine Hwy. North Richland Hills, TX 76180 Phone (800) 733-1110 (web banner ads on rushlimbaugh.com)
AutoZone Inc. P.O. Box 2198 Memphis, TN 38101 Phone (901) 495-7185 Fax (901) 495-8374 investor.relations@autozone.co m
Red Lobster Write to: P.O. Box 593330 Orlando, FL 32859-3330 Guest Relations Hotline 1-800-LOBSTER (1-800-562-7837)
Lumber Liquidators Toll Free: 877-645-5347 Contact list: Link
Avacor (hair loss treatment) (customer comments email) comments@avacorusa.com
Lazerguide® (golf instruction tool) PO Box 807 New Hudson Michigan 48165 1-877-266-6430 (toll free)
Mission Pharmacal Company 10999 IH-10 West Suite 1000 San Antonio, TX 78230 Telephone: (800) 531-3333
General Steel Metal Buildings 1075 South Yukon, Ste. 250 Lakewood, Colorado 80226 Toll Free: 1-888-98-STEEL Phone: 303-904-4837 Fax: 303-979-0084
Life Quotes, Inc. 32045 Castle Court Evergreen, CO 80439 1-800-670-5433 info@lifequotes.com.au
Select Comfort Corporation 6105 Trenton Lane N Minneapolis, MN 55442 Phone: 763-551-7000 Fax: 763-551-7826 investorrelations@selectcomfor t.com
Scottrade Inc 12855 Flushing Meadows Drive Saint Louis, MO 63131 1-800-619-SAVE support@scottrade.com *Scottrade flaks claim they haven't advertised with Rush for years. Feedback, please, folks!*
RegionalHelpWanted.com, Inc. 1 Civic Center Plaza, Suite 506 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 800-365-8630 845-471-5200 Feedback@RegionalHelpWanted.co m
The Swap Shop 3291 East Sunrise Ft. Lauderdale, FL swpshop@aol.com Phone - 954.791.$WAP
Pfizer Inc 235 East 42nd Street New York, NY 10017 212-733-2323 '
Hotwire Corporate Headquarters 333 Market Street, Suite 100 San Francisco, CA 94105 advertising@hotwire.com 1-877-HOTWIRE (468-9473) 415-343-8400
Sleep Number Bed 1-800-438-2233
The Neptune Society of Northern California Stewart Enterprises 12070 Telegraph Road #107 Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
Oreck Upright Vacuum Cleaners Oreck Corporation 100 Plantation Road New Orleans, Louisiana 70123 Online contact form 1-800-289-5888
Smart & Final Customer Relations PO Box 512377 Los Angeles, CA 91001-0377 (Heard on KFI 640 in Los Angeles)
Mid-West Life Insurance Company of Tennessee 9151 Grapevine Hwy. North Richland Hills, TX 76180 Phone (800) 733-1110 (web banner ads on rushlimbaugh.com)
Avacor (hair loss treatment) (customer comments email) comments@avacorusa.com
Lazerguide® (golf instruction tool) PO Box 807 New Hudson Michigan 48165 1-877-266-6430 (toll free)
Mission Pharmacal Company 10999 IH-10 West Suite 1000 San Antonio, TX 78230 Telephone: (800) 531-3333
General Steel Metal Buildings 1075 South Yukon, Ste. 250 Lakewood, Colorado 80226 Toll Free: 1-888-98-STEEL Phone: 303-904-4837 Fax: 303-979-0084
Life Quotes, Inc. 32045 Castle Court Evergreen, CO 80439 1-800-670-5433 info@lifequotes.com.au
Select Comfort Corporation 6105 Trenton Lane N Minneapolis, MN 55442 Phone: 763-551-7000 Fax: 763-551-7826 investorrelations@selectcomfort.com
Scottrade Inc 12855 Flushing Meadows Drive Saint Louis, MO 63131 1-800-619-SAVE support@scottrade.com *Scottrade flaks claim they haven't advertised with Rush for years. Feedback, please, folks!*
RegionalHelpWanted.com, Inc. 1 Civic Center Plaza, Suite 506 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 800-365-8630 845-471-5200 Feedback@RegionalHelpWanted.com
The Swap Shop CLICK HERE 3291 East Sunrise Ft. Lauderdale, FL swpshop@aol.com Phone - 954.791.$WAP
Pfizer Inc 235 East 42nd Street New York, NY 10017 212-733-2323 '
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