I’m Sorry. . .

I Apologize For Being So Cynical, But There Was Ample Reason.
by The Old Hippie Because I Simply Don’t Comprehend The Lack Of Outrage.

My postings here are going to change flavor, most of my cynical political observations have become overly repressively redundant.  My original purpose for this blog was environmental concerns.  Gradually, over time, because of this administration’s criminal politicization of those environmental concerns, my efforts turned into... WTF?!?  [for lack of a better description.]

{-The Way Many Picture Me-}

After that initial WTF?!? I began to see apathy, and/or a lack of will, and/or courage, and/or ignoring and/or allowing that went beyond any rational bounds of sanity by any nation’s citizens.  Then Outrage fatigue, and my growing cynicism, exposed and expressed itself - Now this blog, that at one time was getting thousands of hits, is lucky to get just twenty hits a day, at best. So - I do apologize.  I’m going to return this blog to it’s original purpose, i.e. just the environmental concerns, and my personal observations above the fold, and I'll try to keep the informing videos of interest, and my political observations, (if any,) ‘Below The Fold.’  To you few loyal readers that hung in with me - Thank you - Maybe my optimism will return?  :-)

Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Hancock, Madison, Paine, Eisenhower, Kennedy, plus so many other’s “warnings” throughout history were correct... about the possibility of the ease at which the-very-few would be “allowed” to destroy “America’s Democracy,” from within - These past seven and half years have proven their fears, not only justified, but realized.

Bush Actually Did Say It...  (And You Did “Allow” The Very Few To Prove It.)

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face.

It's just a goddamn piece of paper!”

George W. Bush

[For those who doubt he actually said it - Here is the quote’s verification link.]
[This is also the last posting in this blog that will make these points.]
[For those who haven't seen them, enjoy the videos Below The Fold.]

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A “Below The Fold” bonus - From the War On Greed web site -



Also - Just for those whom still haven't seen it...  To judge for yourself,
its reality-based accuracy, in its actual context, the entire 1:56:23 of...

Zeitgeist - The Movie
[ The link to the official site. ]
- Note: If playback problem, simply refresh the page -



Also, for those that “believe” Zeitgeist - The Movie, Part one, (~0:7:30 into it,)
has been actually debunked and/or refuted. . .

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Seeing The Reality. . .

Just Two Pointed Examples That Emphasize “The Sad State Of Us”...
by The Old Hippie Because Our “Union” Has Never Been Closer To An “Allowed” Elimination.

-  Bobby Jindal - Top of the short list for MaCain’s V.P.       The fact that a major presidential candidate would even remotely       consider a person like him, says a lot about “the sad state of us.”       “Authorized chemical castration of sex offenders - Called intelligent       design “The very best science”... Experience as an exorcist...”   -  Two of our favorites, Olbermann and Greenwald, disagree...       Greenwald charged that Olbermann's “blind devotion to Barack       Obama” had let him to excuse and defend Obama's support of       the FISA ‘compromise’ legislation.

“As long as the greatest crime of the 21st century remains unprosecuted,
we all have a duty to keep the truth alive.”

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A“Below The Fold” bonus Video from Boston Legal
- Concerning “We the People versus U.S. Government” ...

“I expected the American people to rise up...
But - they didn't”

- Enjoy the video - I know, it’s a television show, but this clip, is excellent - (5:15) -

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Umm. . .

The-Very-Few Just Got Another “Allowed” Win...
by The Old Hippie Because You Still Aren’t Stopping Them, At Least Not Yet.

“Our” Supreme Court just handed Exxon/Mobil a 4.5 billion dollar gift, not that any of you would do anything about it, for their big oil spill in Alaska, which was only the largest oil spill in the history of the planet, and left the punishment-costs of the clean-up on the backs of the people hurt by it, and rewarded Exxon/Mobil the 4.5 billion dollars for doing so.  It’s not like they needed the money, since they are experiencing the largest profits recorded in written history, as we the people are paying higher and higher dollars/gallon for “their” oil.

Isn’t there anything that will wake you people up to your own destruction?!?

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Also - for a further perspective... A video by Neil Young for your enjoyment...

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Disgusting, Isn't It?

Our “Opposing” Party Caved On Funding And Immunity, Again.
by The Old Hippie Because I Don’t Understand The Continued Allowed “Allowing.”

Even Obama, the “candidate of change,” caved in.  Move On gave a warning, ‘Keep your word, or...’ - My question is what are they going to really do if he doesn't?  The Democrats gave Bush his unlimited, and unrestricted Iraq (corporate-war-profiteering) funding - Again.

{-The Way Many Picture Me-}

If - You are not scared, or pissed off beyond reason, or buried within a massive outrage fatigue, or - - - by now. . .  You seriously have not, and are not paying any attention to what is happening under all of our collective noses, and (as Ben Franklin said,) deserve what the-very-few are going to do to your, your families’, and your friends’ lives.  The rest of us don't, not that you would care in the least that the-very-few have, and are continuing to get away with ‘legalized’ murder, torture, and destruction for noting more noble than profits to themselves, no matter what the very real costs are in lives and environment to you, and to the rest of us. I mean, seriously, do you think you are also, somehow, profiting from their crimes?  Do you?

Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Hancock, Madison, Paine, Eisenhower, Kennedy, plus so many other’s “warnings” throughout history were correct... about the possibility of the ease at which the-very-few would be “allowed” to destroy “America’s Democracy,” from within - These past seven and half years have proven their fears, not only justified, but realized.

Bush Actually Did Say It...  (And You Did “Allow” The Very Few To Prove It.)

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face.

It's just a goddamn piece of paper!”

George W. Bush

[For those who doubt he actually said it - Here is the quote’s verification link.]
[For those who haven't seen them, enjoy the videos Below The Fold.]

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A “Below The Fold” bonus - From the War On Greed web site -



Also - Just for those whom still haven't seen it...  To judge for yourself,
its reality-based accuracy, in its actual context, the entire 1:56:23 of...

Zeitgeist - The Movie
[ The link to the official site. ]
- Note: If playback problem, simply refresh the page -



Also, for those that “believe” Zeitgeist - The Movie, Part one, (~0:7:30 into it,)
has been actually debunked and/or refuted. . .

Read the Rest of this Posting    →  Below The Fold  ←                  (Permanent Link Here)

Cut & Paste Of The Day. . .

If One Doesn't Read It, Then How Can One Say “I Know” about it?
Found at the BobHarris.com web site.  (The posting’s link at BobHarris.com here.)

Study: 92% of Books Skeptical of Environmental Threats Funded
by "Conservative" Think Tanks - Monday, 09 June 2008
[ original article link  →  Go read this. ]

Keep in mind that most “conservative”* think tanks receive major funding from oil companies, defense contractors, and the world’s biggest polluters (along with stock brokers, drug companies, and other folks who stand to make even more money by getting rid of safety, health, and environmental regulations). Go find the nearest dumbass who repeats their reassuring nonsense without understanding where it comes from.

Explain to them the global-warming-is-a-myth crap they spew is no more honest or respectable than tobacco-funded “science” claiming that cigarettes aren’t proven to cause cancer.

It’s the same thing.

It's even promoted by the exact same people -- the Competitive Enterprise Institute, for example, has often been home to the anti-science talking heads on Fox News, most notably Steven Milloy, whose career reads like a case study of the flip side of reality — disputing the banning of DDT, the effects of passive smoking, the effects of CFCs on the ozone layer, and (lately) the role of human activity in climate change.

Not surprisingly, Milloy and his own non-profits have received funding from Philip Morris and ExxonMobil, something Fox somehow has never gotten around to mentioning much.

Fifteen years ago, when the EPA linked passive smoking to lung cancer, CEI whipped up newspaper op-eds across America confusing the issue so badly that some people are still unclear on the overwhelming scientific consensus. Same people, same goals, same M.O.

CEI has received major funding from Amoco, Coca-Cola, CSX, ExxonMobil, Ford, Pfizer, Texaco, and Philip Morris, among others.

Dig into any of the big “conservative” think tanks, and you find pretty much the same thing.

Rule of thumb: if there’s an emerging scientific consensus which means some powerful business is in direct conflict with the public welfare, and some suit on the teevee claims the scientists don’t know what they’re talking about — basically, the suit works for the business.

Or at least there’s a 92% chance.


*I put the word “conservative” in quotes here because there’s nothing conservative about abusing the planet to protect the edges of a profit margin while paying people to repeat carefully engineered falsehoods.  Creating that false association is one of the more successful propaganda coups of the last fifty years.

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A“Below The Fold” bonus - A video by the author of the above posting, Bob Harris. . .

- Enjoy -

The Day Anna Nicole Died: Other News The Media Ignored

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Reality Observed. . .

Some Have The Ability To See The Actual Reality - Here Are But A Few...
by The Old Hippie Because You Still “Allow,” Even With All The Proven Lies And Destructions.

-  “Empire or Republic?” “War doesn't pay, nor does imperial ambition.  This proposition should be evident to anyone who has paid attention to the fivefold increase in the price of oil since George W. Bush took office.  The principle of nonintervention is neither liberal nor conservative in orientation, and at the inception of the Republic it was accepted as a commonsense.” -  “How Do America’s Super-Rich Get Away With Acting Like     ‘Just Folks’?” “It has become a cliché to say that we live in a new Gilded Age.  True enough, up to a point.  Money, mostly new money, rules politics and culture.  Corporations merge into ever larger corporations.  You have to go back to before World War I to match today’s levels of income and wealth inequality.”

“As long as the greatest crime of the 21st century remains unprosecuted,
we all have a duty to keep the truth alive.”

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A“Below The Fold” bonus Video from Boston Legal
- Concerning “We the People versus U.S. Government” ...

“I expected the American people to rise up...
But - they didn't”

- Enjoy the video - I know, it’s a television show, but this clip, is excellent - (5:15) -

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Does It Speak For You?

A Quote That Speaks For Many, Including Myself...
by The Old Hippie Because You Still Aren’t Stopping Them, At Least Not Yet.

“I want him paraded in handcuffs outside a police house as a common criminal because I don’t know if there’s a greater crime than taking the world to war based on a lie for your corporate sponsors.”                       [ The link to the full article is here. ]

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Also - for a further perspective...
Here is another recent quote of significance...
[ The red-bold-italic emphasis is mine, not the author’s. ]

The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled Thursday that detainees at Guantanamo Bay have a right to trial in civilian courts.  As Justice Anthony Kennedy of the majority wrote, “The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.”  It has been widely speculated that such a ruling would ultimately force the closure of the detention facility.

[ Here the link to the full article. ]

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Again, Enjoy. . .

“I'm Voting Republican.”
by Charlie Steak Because Humor Often Speaks Truth To The Purposely “Allowing” Numbed.



[ Link to the original’s web site here. ]

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Also - for a further perspective...  Not only did you “allow” him to say it...
You then “allowed” him to get away with saying it. . .  and you then...
(to add further injury to his insult...)  “allowed” him, and the-very-few, to prove it.

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face.

It's just a goddamn piece of paper!”

George W. Bush

[For those who doubt he actually said it - Here is the quote’s verification link.]

Not to mention your cowardliness and stupidity, proven by your continued “allowing” without revolt or any real protest of, (and their getting away with of,) their purposeful destruction of the Separation of Church and State, the creation of “Free-Speech Zones,” the illegal invasion of another nation that was of no threat to us or their neighbors, had not attacked us, and had nothing to do with those that had actually attacked us, the doing away with Habeas Corpus protections, the “legalization” of torture... all of which has been proven to be for the sole purpose of the unconscionable protection of corporate profits, over all other concerns, including life itself.

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Umm. . .

Why I Am Not For Obama, Even Though I Will Vote For Him.
I’ll let Chris Hedges via TruthDig.com explain my reason for saying that...

The Iran Trap

By Chris Hedges — The failure by Barack Obama to chart another course in the Middle East, to defy the Israel lobby and to denounce the Bush administration’s inexorable march toward a conflict with Iran is a failure to challenge the collective insanity that has gripped the political leadership in the United States and Israel.

[ Here the link to the full article - Well worth one’s time. ]

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Just link there - If you have not read and/or researched it, how would you know?

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Reality Observed. . .

Some Have The Ability To See The Actual Reality - Here Are But A Few...
by The Old Hippie Because You Still “Allow,” Even With All The Proven Lies And Destructions.

-  “America’s Democratic Collapse”       “...is on the verge of becoming a full-blown corporate state.”       “I used to live in a country called America.  It was not ... perfect”     -  “Obama Strikes a Chord With a Disaffected Republican”       by Amy Goodman, the host of the excellent “Democracy Now!”       Concerning a conservative’s support for Barack Obama   -  General Ricardo Sanchez said...       Bush's Iraq War is a “strategic blunder,” and also stated that...       Bush was “confused” when he was talking about Iraq.

“As long as the greatest crime of the 21st century remains unprosecuted,
we all have a duty to keep the truth alive.”

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A“Below The Fold” bonus Video from Boston Legal
- Concerning “We the People versus U.S. Government” ...

“I expected the American people to rise up...
But - they didn't”

- Enjoy the video - I know, it’s a television show, but this clip, is excellent - (5:15) -

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Just Watch It.

Just Watch It. . .
by I POWER

The Video, (and Web Site,) is here.
Just link, watch, read...  Then spread it to others.

Thank you.

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Just link there - Watch, read, spread it.

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