Best Article Of The Week...

The Denial, And The Ignoring, Of Our Growing Ignorance Is Stupid.
The “Allowing” Has Not Been “Allowed” to be Stopped - I Fear That, More Than Anything.

Autumn of the Republic? The “best” article of the week.  Well, maybe not the best, more like the most frightening.  But it is at least the most perceptive of what our current reality is within our nation, and what we are all soon to be facing. . .  ‘Wake Up!’ may be too late by now.

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Just read the article...  (oh, yeah...  Have a nice day.)

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Christmas 2009. . .

The Two Thousand Ninth Anniversary Of The Supposed Birth Of Christ.
by The Old Hippie Because In Many Ways It Seems More Like 1009, Not 2009.

{-The Way Many Picture Me-}

We haven't come very far in this last millennium, have we?  At least as far as “not allowing” the truly religiously insane to infiltrate our halls of power, and/nor stopping its affects pushed onto the rest of us, within our daily lives.  How long is it before a statement like that causes one to be labeled ‘un-American heretic!’ and deemed necessary to face a ‘legal’ inquisition instituted under some different official state name? All (obviously) in, and for, the name of God, and (of course) not the profit to some convincing con-man priest, or CON-gressman, like the many, corporatistly supported, that now reside within our halls of power that promote, and attend, prayer breakfasts and prayer-casts - Praying for the failure of not only healthcare reform, but any sane and rational legislation - Like the Separation of Church and State, et al.

I don’t know how much more of this type of insanity the sane can take, (not to mention the insane,) before they do something... well... insane.  But I’m sure it can’t be much longer.  America is armed to the teeth.  So much so that the gun & bullet makers can’t keep up with the demand.  Armed revolt is never pretty, but it is always deadly.  And it *always* could have been avoided...  If the thieves had been stopped.  History has proven it, over, and over, and over, and over again.  I think it is about to be proven once again.

The simple complexity of the complex simplicity is beyond most Americans.

The problem with the stupid and ignorant among us is that while they “proudly and patriotically,” allow their own self-destruction by fighting among themselves as they were programmed to do... is that they are destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...  They are destroying us all.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.  Or stupidly pay the price.

Oh, wait...  We already are.

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The following is reprised, because not much has really changed as far as the ongoing denial of the insane “allowing” of the theft by the-very-few is concerned...  I will continue to reprise this... as long as the 'citizens' of my nation continue to “allow the allowing.”

It, the insanity, of the “allowing,” is getting worse, in fact it is much worse already.

Go look at all of the MSM’s headlines, at their websites, then compare what you see there with the reality as rationally reported by reality based independent news sites.

If that simple comparison doesn’t open ones closed eyes of denial, nothing will.

To help you remain sane, and not too deeply depressed, you should end your “session of reality” by stopping in at some of the better editorial humorists’ websites - It couldn’t hurt.

That is my main personal method of doing research for this blog - Check in with the right and the right’s insane, then study as much of the reality-based news sites as possible, then check in with the humorists.  I then sleep on it, do it again, and then post what I have learned, observed, or was stunned by, to first, share it, and second, to get it off my chest so that I can remain sane myself.  All the while, trying my best to keep a reality-based perspective in these historically insane times.

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Too Little, Too Late. . .

Articles Covering Stuff We Should Have Done/Stopped Long Ago. . .
Because The “Do It Now!” Is Just...  Well...  Maybe...  Way-Way Too Late?

10 Ways to Screw Over the Corporate Jackals Who've Been Screwing You. How the White House Misjudged the Political Landscape. The Senate Approves The $636 Billion Military Spending Bill. Foreclose on the Banks:  How to Give America Its Best Christmas Ever. Senators Attend ‘PrayerCast’ to Pray for Health Care Bill Defeat.  [video report] Palin The Pundit  [Op-Ed by William Rivers Pitt]

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Nothing else at this time, the above links should keep you busy for awhile - Right?

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Wake Up! (Oops... Too Late.)

Why Are We Stupidly Allowing Our Own “Allowed” Destruction?
Because The price We Are All Paying Is Devestating To Our Nation, And To Our Lives.

Protesters In Seattle Warned Us - But We Didn't Listen - Monsanto's Reach Is Even Wider Than We Thought. The Beginning Of The End, And, If So, Whose? - Too Fat To Serve - How Did We Get Here? The Self-Destruction Of Barack Obama. Our Murderers in the Sky. - Why ACORN Won -

Note This:  $1 of every $700 spent on healthcare in America...  Goes to just 1 Man.

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The simple complexity of the complex simplicity is beyond most Americans.

The problem with the stupid and ignorant among us is that while they “proudly and patriotically,” allow their own self-destruction by fighting among themselves as they were programmed to do... is that they are destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...  They are destroying us all.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.  Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.

Or stupidly pay the price.  Oh, wait... We already are.

Right?

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One That Is...

Telling It Like It Is, In Reality, Not As We Hope It is.
Because Reality, As Defined By The Thieves, Is Your Reality Now.

“Obama's Big Sellout”
by Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone

The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders
intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway

[ Here is the direct link to the article - A short and very informed article. ]

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A Below The Fold’ Bonus -Related- Article, by William Greider, at The Nation

“Billions More in Easy Money for Wall Street --
Are We Too Ignorant About Finance to Stop It?”

A permanent security blanket for big boys of finance will further
inflame public opinion.  Only the public isn’t likely to know.

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More Reality You'll Allow.

Why Does My Nation Keep Proving The Thieves Correct About Us...?
by The Old Hippie Because So Many, Way Too Many, Are Still, Insanely, “Allowing”...

-  Here We Go Again                  “...there are fewer than 100 al-Qaida members in Afghanistan...”   -  Climate Change Denial is the New Article of Faith for the Far Right       Denial rather than scepticism - They reject all evidence they don't like...   -  Thirty Years Ago This Month...       “The rest, as they say, is history.”

In other words...
“Fighting For Peace, Is Like Fucking For Virginity.”

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Seriously - What the fuck are you going to do about It?

Fox is simply a propaganda outfit for the corporatists, manipulating, and misinforming the people of America at a level unseen in our Constitutional Democracy's history - Blatantly.

The rich are on a buying spree as the majority of Americans are going under - America has gone under before, but not with the robber barons being so openly blatant about their take from the theft, and the thieves purposeful destruction of “the American Dream.”

Goldman Sacs is giving out over $30-Billion dollars in bonus this year to just a few of the very few - Can't get more blatant - It is so blatant that even some of the staff are arming themselves in fear of a retaliatory uprising.

Climate...  The denial is impossible to deny.  The danger inherent in the denial is undeniable also.  The ability of the corporatists to openly manipulate the fodder-units into supporting their own self-destruction is also undeniable, and the danger of that manipulated self-destructive denial is beyond blatant - All for the very short-term profits to the very-very-few among us.

Yet, America continues to “allow” it all, and much more that is destructive to our own needs...

Seriously - What the fuck are you going to do about it?

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