I refuse to believe corporations are people until...

“I refuse to believe corporations are people until Texas executes one.”

- Ara Rubya via @DanonNewsNet

Yer'elephant ... but not without value.

[LINK: DesignBOOM ]

Call to non-violent revolution: the New Social Revolution

We must first as individuals and then as a body enter into a non-violent insurgency against forces that remove our self-worth, our self-respect and most importantly our dignity.

The corner stone of our non-violent revolution will be: Living within our needs.

When we break the cycle of desire we will being to escape the trap of materialism.  When we live within our needs we begin to escape the trap that our profit driven captors hold us in.  Succumbing to their fabricated crises of fake hunger and contrived vanity we willingly allow their influence to color our otherwise healthy decision making process.

We must allow ourselves to make better, healthy decisions.

We must live intentional lives, accepting personal responsibility by living to the measure of our needs.

When we deny supporting the driving efforts of desire driven profiteers we throw of the yoke of their false desires.

- Papa

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William Meloney VII

Voice: 270-215-4275

They are ignoring us now.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi:

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Be aware and not fooled.  They are ignoring us now.  then in their arrogance they will laugh at our broken efforts.  Soon, all too soon, they will meet our actions with violence.  Then we must be the strongest in our posture of non-violent revolution.

The time has come to begin the New Social Revolution.

The rains...

The rains have returned
by bentlily

The rains have returned
I forgot
how loud
it attacks
like marbles shaking
in a tin can
underneath it
we try to sleep
wondering why
no one in this wet land
builds gardens on their roofs
to swallow
the falling ocean
turn it upside down
into proud lineups of snow peas
and artichokes
and at night
a blanket of earth above us
to hush
the clamour.

Contradictions: Why this stated position is disingenuous

Perhaps this author is only trying to be cute but the underlying message is devastating.  Moreover, the implication that 'science is horrid' is disingenuous. For it is only by the work of science that "machinery", "mainspring", "hydraulics", and "x-ray" are even possible.  

The Horrid Voice of Science

by Vachel Lindsay

"There's machinery in the 
      butterfly;
   There's a mainspring to the 
      bee;
There's hydraulics to a daisy,
   And contraptions to a tree.

"If we could see the birdie
      That makes the chirping sound
With x-ray, scientific eyes,
   We could see the wheels go 
   round."

And I hope all men
Who think like this
Will soon lie
Underground.

[LINK: Vachel Lindsay ]

Oh Charlie Consumer...

Worry often gives...

Eye-popping pay

Eye-popping pay package. The folks at Footnoted.org discovered some breathtaking perks in the employment contract of DFC Global CEO Jeffrey A. Weiss. The most striking is the company’s promise to pay Weiss the equivalent of $300,000 a year for life once he leaves the company. Then there’s an “Incremental Capstone Award” promising him a further $150,000 a year for life. That’s all on top of a $1 million salary and a $1.25 million target annual bonus. Here’s the text of the employment agreement.

[LINK: WSJ ]

Rick Perry is a Texas governor for people who found Bush too cerebral

Zo Spencer

Borowitz is on fire tonight! "Rick Perry is a Texas governor for people who found Bush too cerebral."

Every picture tells a story...

Geoff Mcfetridge & Champion Graphics

Slow down you crazy child...

Micky D's in different cultures

MIDDLE EAST

The McArabia is made with grilled chicken or grilled kofta (beef with spices). Comes with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and garlic mayonnaise, wrapped in an Arabic style pita bread.

[LINK: More different Micky D's foods. ]

History of the Web

http://evolutionofweb.appspot.com/

BOO!

Warm-Rats...nah, Wal-Martians

Eight False Things

Eight False Things The Public “Knows” Prior To Election Day

By Dave Johnson

October 22, 2010 - 1:07pm ET

(Note: The words that appear in red are links that you can click.)

There are a number things the public "knows" as we head into the election that are just false. If people elect leaders based on false information, the things those leaders do in office will not be what the public expects or needs.

Here are eight of the biggest myths that are out there:

1) President Obama tripled the deficit.
Reality: Bush's last budget had a $1.416 trillion deficit. Obama's first budget reduced that to $1.29 trillion.

2) President Obama raised taxes, which hurt the economy.
Reality: Obama cut taxes. 40% of the "stimulus" was wasted on tax cuts which only create debt, which is why it was so much less effective than it could have been.

3) President Obama bailed out the banks.
Reality: While many people conflate the "stimulus" with the bank bailouts, the bank bailouts were requested by President Bush and his Treasury Secretary, former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson. (Paulson also wanted the bailouts to be "non-reviewable by any court or any agency.") The bailouts passed and began before the 2008 election of President Obama.

4) The stimulus didn't work.
Reality: The stimulus worked, but was not enough. In fact, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the stimulus raised employment by between 1.4 million and 3.3 million jobs.

5) Businesses will hire if they get tax cuts.
Reality: A business hires the right number of employees to meet demand. Having extra cash does not cause a business to hire, but a business that has a demand for what it does will find the money to hire. Businesses want customers, not tax cuts.

6) Health care reform costs $1 trillion.
Reality: The health care reform reduces government deficits by $138 billion.

7) Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, is "going broke," people live longer, fewer workers per retiree, etc.
Reality: Social Security has run a surplus since it began, has a trust fund in the trillions, is completely sound for at least 25 more years and cannot legally borrow so cannot contribute to the deficit (compare that to the military budget!) Life expectancy is only longer because fewer babies die; people who reach 65 live about the same number of years as they used to.

8) Government spending takes money out of the economy.
Reality: Government is We, the People and the money it spends is on We, the People. Many people do not know that it is governmentthat builds the roads, airports, ports, courts, schools and other things that are the soil in which business thrives. Many people think that all government spending is on "welfare" and "foreign aid" when that is only a small part of the government's budget.

This stuff really matters.

It's disgusting, man...

Bachmann is just a joke. -God

Just a joke: Bachmann's hurricane message from God

By:  CNN Political Unit

(CNN) - Michele Bachmann's press secretary characterized comments by the Republican presidential candidate, when she said Hurricane Irene was a message to Washington, as a joke.

"Obviously she was saying it in jest," Alice Stewart told TalkingPointsMemo Monday.

The Hurricane

The Hurricane

by William Carlos Williams 

The tree lay down
on the garage roof
and stretched, You
have your heaven,
it said, go to it.