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| | Monday, June 23, 2008 at 9:21 PM | | Father/Daughter Talk
A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, more...she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.
One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in school.
Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.
Her father listened and then asked, 'How is your friend Audrey doing?' She replied, 'Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over.'
Her wise father asked his daughter,
'Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct 1 .0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.'
The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, 'That's a crazy idea, how would that be fair! I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!'
The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, 'Welcome to the Republican party.' less | |
| Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 8:56 AM | | PLEASE ENJOY MY OWN WORK and FLY FILES!!
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| Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 8:37 PM | | A bit about me: I was born with a wooden spoon in my mouth, lived the hippie life till I was about 16, I left home the day I turned 18 on sorted terms, and never went back. I had nothing but the clothes on my back and my first car which I purchased on my own on minimum wage. any additional schooling I have had, I paid on my own without scholarship or contribution. anything I have ever had or do have, I have earned without the help of absolutely no one. I don't steal, lie or cheat. have no, and more...will have no inheritance, no "spouse inheritance", nada... just skill, hard labor, and determination. not a jump start of any kind what so ever. my wife and I are the team and have done well starting with nothing and no available support. This is much of why I am now a starched Republican and anyone that can muster the nerve to even give my success or lack of the slightest criticism can go F*** your self. less | |
| Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 6:06 AM | | The Great Forgetting Part 1
By: Eunice Wong
The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, located on the Mall in Washington, D.C., is a monument to historical amnesia. The blond limestone building, surrounded by indigenous crops of corn, tobacco and squash, invites visitors on a guilt-free, theme park tour of Native American history, where acknowledgment of the American genocide is in extremely bad taste.
The beauty of the architecture and landscaping conceals the hollowness of the enterprise. more...e. The first two floors of the four-story building are turned over to gift shops and the cafeteria. The museum provides no information on the forced death marches, authorized by Congress, such as the Trail of Tears, the repeated treaty violations by the United States, reservations, infamous massacres such as Wounded Knee, or leaders such as Tatanka Iyotanka (Sitting Bull), Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekht (Chief Joseph), Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse), or Goyathlay (Geronimo).
“If it does not talk about massive land theft—3 billion acres of stolen land in the continental United States; if it does not talk about broken treaties—over 400 treaties violated by the United States government and its European American citizenry; if it does not talk about genocide—16 million native peoples wiped out by the United States and its citizenry; if it does not talk about residential Christian boarding schools, about the suppression of our languages, our Indigenous spirituality and religious ceremonies, and on and on, it is literally a whitewashed history,” said Dr. Chris Mato Nunpa of the Dakota Nation, professor and head of the Indigenous Nations and Dakota Studies Program at Southwest Minnesota State University. “And then they get our colonized, Christianized Indian colleagues to tell the same story that has been told by the European Americans for generations.”
The lobby of the museum is a soaring, glass-domed atrium filled with natural light. The walls are smooth and white, and a large circle of honey-colored wood, resembling a dance floor, is set into the dark stone of the ground. Three small boats, all built in recent years—a Peruvian reed boat, an Arctic kayak with a cedar frame and nylon covering, and a Hawaiian canoe—are displayed on the floor, dwarfed by the open space.
The Chesapeake gift shop, with its glass cases of aquamarine stones and glittering silver, all artfully lit, faces the lobby. The shop displays silk scarves, pottery and handmade designer jewelry, such as a necklace of sterling silver and turquoise for $1,800, or a belt made entirely of tiny beads for $4,000.
The Mitsitam Café is down the hall from the Chesapeake gift shop. The cafeteria, in natural wood and large floor-to-ceiling windows, groups its native-themed food by geographical region. The buffalo eye steak with two sides costs $14.50.
The Roanoke gift shop occupies the entire second floor. Dream-catchers, medicine wheels, aromatic herb sachets, tote bags and books are for sale. The designer jewelry in this shop runs about $100 to $180.
The exhibits begin on the third floor. There is a hall for temporary exhibits. When I visited, it was filled with spot-lit mannequins in native women’s dresses. The permanent exhibition on this floor focuses on contemporary native life and identity. There is a hulking Bombardier ice-fishing vehicle, an Alaskan-style mask made of dental mirrors and tea strainers, and a re-creation of a contemporary native living room, featuring traditional Indian blankets on the couch. There is a pair of red Converse sneakers, entirely beaded, with Indian figures on the high-top ankles. The tongues are blue with white stars.
It is on the fourth floor that the expunging of history begins. less | |
| Saturday, October 6, 2007 at 8:58 PM | | The Great Forgetting Part 2
A video installation, “The Storm: Guns, Bibles and Governments,” is featured prominently in the center of the fourth-floor gallery on native history. Tall, curving fiberglass panels enclose the viewing space, backlit in shifting shades of blue and gray. Television screens are set into the panels.
Rapidly scudding clouds appear on the screens, tidal waves, palm trees lashed by typhoons, the debris of cars and houses in floods. Howling wind, shrill flutes and ominous more...music are heard as a voice intones:
The hurricane. A turbulence. A steady pressure. Unpredictable. Uncertain. It brings death and life. It creates and destroys.
The video tells us, in oblique, lyrical terms, why guns, Christianity and foreign governments are both bad and good things. Of Christianity, the narrator says:
We all know Jesus. He has been with us for a very long time. Christianity, a weapon of forced conversion, slavery and oppression. A weapon of liberation and social justice, salvation and eternal life. Today, many of us are Christians and many are not.
The video closes:
The storm is powerful and unceasing. It creates and destroys. It offers life and death, hope and despair. It is never simply one thing. The storm is an opportunity. The storm teaches. We have learned much.
“The Storm” turns the American Indian genocide into a faceless, mindless natural disaster with a silver lining.
The display on treaties is in a tall, upright case about the size of a large armoire. It features several pieces of parchment under glass. Black letters stenciled on the glass read:
[T]reaties required tribes to cede territory in exchange for money and goods. ... The spiral of dispossession continued until substantial portions of native homelands were lost.
It is not mentioned that these treaties were usually negotiated through extreme coercion and duplicity on the part of the U.S. government. Nor is it mentioned that nearly all were broken.
“The interminable history of diplomatic relations between Indians and white men had before 1832 recorded no single instance of a treaty which had not been presently broken by the white parties to it ... however solemnly embellished with such terms as ‘permanent,’ ‘forever,’ ‘for all time,’ ‘so long as the sun shall rise,’ ” writes Dale Van Every in “The Disinherited: The Lost Birthright of the American Indian.”
A quote by President Andrew Jackson in 1829 is featured prominently in large black letters on the glass face of the treaties display:
Your Father [the term denoting the U.S. president] has provided a country large enough for all of you, and he advises you to remove to it. There your white brothers will not trouble you; they will have no claim to the land, and you can live upon it, you and all your children, as long as the grass grows or the water runs, in peace and plenty. It will be yours forever.
Jackson, although this remains unmentioned, was one of the most vigorous advocates for the extermination of the indigenous people. One year after he promised that the land “will be yours forever,” he pushed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 through Congress. This bill forcibly uprooted 70,000 people of more than 60 tribes, including Cherokees, Chickasaws, Seminoles, Choctaws, Creeks, Shawnees, Senecas and Delawares, from their homes east of the Mississippi, resulting in as many as 30,000 deaths. Twenty-five million acres of land were stolen from Native Americans for white settlers and their black slaves.
A long, curving, freestanding wall in the center of the gallery displays close to a hundred guns mounted under glass, all pointing to the right. A short paragraph, stenciled in black on the glass and tucked in the small space between two rifles, states:
In the 1840s, Americans came to believe that the United States had a divine right to acquire all lands between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. less | |
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| | |  | BILDERBERG: DEMAND DESTRUCTION - Daniel Estulin 
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Snowshoefilms series #3. In early 2007, Daniel Estulin, on Dutch TV, exposed the meeting place and names of the Istanbul Bilderberg get-together. He also more...exposed the Bilderberg plan of global population reduction (3 billion or so), through mass starvation, diseases, and Peak Oil-induced de-industrialization. That "plan," Estulin notes, was initiated by Bilderberg operative Henry Kissinger in 1974 (NSSM 200) after Nixon had been forced out the the White House. Estulin says he himself is a front man (the writer and public face) for a group of intelligence agents (mostly ex-KGB) from Estulin's native Estonia. Part of a family of emigres from the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, Daniel Estulin first found refuge in Canada. A Flamenco guitarist in addition to Bilderberg slueth, the author lives in Seville, Spain. After 10 years of peripheral intrigue, watching and reporting on the world's elite (the Owners and their Trusted Servants), Estulin sympathizes with the Bilderberg mantra of 'Peak Oil' and the consequent Bilderberg argument for massive population reduction in their effort to bring about a 'post-industrial world'. Shades of Parson Malthus with a Leo Straussian twist, the BBs.
But wait! Take a gander at Lindsey Williams, on youtube, for starters. Williams was a southern Baptist preacher who reckoned the 25,000 men going up to build the Alaska pipeline needed Jesus. He got hired on in 1970 as Arco's chaplain. The public relations office saw what a good job he was doing, flying around from camp to camp, preaching Jesus (less fights, less drinking, fewer days off, less need of counseling for the thousands of men building the pipeline). ARCO gave Baptist preacher Rev. Lindsey Williams executive status, inviting him to sit in on board meetings. Rev. Williams did this for three years. And he sat in on the euphoric 1973 ARCO board meeting announcing an enormous North Shore oil discovery. All the gears were in motion to tell the world. Rev. Williams videos and book tell what happened. But, an addendum: just a cursory look suggests that plugging the Alaskan ARCO coincides with the heavy-duty moves to implement the Bilderberg plan (see NSSM 200, above). yoryevrah less
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Channel: imhavingaboy24
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| | |  | John Perkins - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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John is interviewed by DemocracyNow.org ( I would call it RepublicNow.org ;) - see the video "Victoria's Secret Circus" for a definition of Republic). more...Mr. Perkins was recruited by the NSA to strongarm countries into doing the bidding of the U.S. If he was unable to convince the country's leader to comply, then that leader would be assassinated. Hugo Chavez has been unwilling to comply with the leverage or bribery tactics of the U.S. We simply ask you the viewer, "Who is the bigger threat to world peace and stability?" less
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Channel: d1rect24
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| | |  | Spying On the Home Front
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'So many people in America think this does not affect them. They've been convinced that these programs are only targeted at suspected terrorists. … I more...think that's wrong. … Our programs are not perfect, and it is inevitable that totally innocent Americans are going to be affected by these programs,' former CIA Assistant General Counsel Suzanne Spaulding tells FRONTLINE correspondent Hedrick Smith in “Spying on the Home Front.”
Peter Swire, a law professor and former White House privacy adviser to President Clinton, tells FRONTLINE that since 9/11 the government has been moving away from the traditional legal standard of investigations based on individual suspicion to generalized suspicion. The new standard, Swire says, is: 'Check everybody. Everybody is a suspect.' less
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Channel: theinfovault
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| |  | Send Karl Rove to Jail "Must See" [HIGH TRESON]
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Send Karl Rove to Jail
Petition: http://sendkarlrovetojail.com
Digg: http://digg.com/politics/Send_Karl_Rove_to_Jail
This sounds like a dream, doesn't more...it? Well, it's not. We have a unique opportunity right now to send Karl Rove to jail, but only if we take immediate action. Awesome video. I am sick of these neocon scum getting away with everything and claim with a straight face they are ordained by "god" to lead us. Put Rove's ass in jail.
All we have to do is pressure the 40 members of the House Judiciary Committee, make them hold Rove in contempt and send him to jail. We've never had such a direct opportunity to hold Rove accountable. No, this is not enough punishment for his years and years of crimes, but it's a huge start, and will send a very clear message to the entire Bush administration.
The specific issue regarding Rove's failure to testify before Congress is a little complicated, so we put together this video that explains exactly why Rove should be held in contempt and sent to jail. Check out Send Karl Rove to Jail, and sign our petition to ensure that the HJC holds Rove in contempt. less
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Channel: rclark23
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| | |  | States Seize Citizens Property to Balance Their Budgets
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http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=48...
ELISABETH LEAMY
ABC News
May 12, 2008
The 50 U.S. states are holding more than $32 billion worth of unclaimed more...property that they're supposed to safeguard for their citizens. But a "Good Morning America" investigation found some states aggressively seize property that isn't really unclaimed and then use the money ? your money ? to balance their budgets.
Unclaimed property consists of things like forgotten apartment security deposits, uncashed dividend checks and safe-deposit boxes abandoned when an elderly relative dies.
Banks and other businesses are required to turn that property over to the state for safekeeping. The problem is that the states return less than a quarter of unclaimed property to the rightful owners. less
Added: 6 days ago
Channel: imhavingaboy24
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| | |  | Impeachment's Too Good For Them!
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A good dozen reasons to impeach both President Bush and Vice-President Cheney for their War OF Terrorism.
How does one do it? Stay tuned!
Added: Jul 9, 08
Channel: Drachnid
Views: 323
Category: People |
|  | Secrets of the CIA
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Secrets of the CIA, view a free documentary of former CIA agents who expose the inner workings of this top secret agency.
Added: Jul 3, 08
Channel: theinfovault
Views: 77
Category: News |
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