UPDATE ::: God Punishes Texas: Tropical Storm Lee Goes East

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Friday September 02, 2011 · 10:08 AM PDT

2011/09/02 · 10:08

Global Warming Denial has been added to the Thou Shalt Not List:

Deut. 5:12b: Honor thy beautiful and fragile planet, that drought unending and famine afflicting thine cows and thine horses and then thine wife and children and all that thou canst see shall not afflict you.

Otherwise drought kills everything. texans pay $90-a-bale for $8 hay and hay for January/February is nonexistent.

Tropical Storm Lee is set to miss all but a sliver of Texas.

Breaking: Tropical Storm Lee will drop no more than 1/2" of its life-serving waters to the west of Louisiana.

The huckster known as Slick Rick was seeking punishments ??? Perry didn't budget a dime to prepare for drought.

"Tell me what you do and I'll tell you what you believe" -- yes, indeed.

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57 votes Show Results

Texas is in the worst drought ever, maybe going back 5,000 years.

57 votes Vote Now!

Texas is in the worst drought ever, maybe going back 5,000 years.

1. This is God's Will.

14 votes

2. Blame it on Satan, a librul.

7 votes

3. Blame Canada !

7 votes

4. If you liked Hell, try Texas.

29 votes

Mächtigerführer ! -- considering CBS's morning report

vets74

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Monday August 29, 2011 · 7:53 AM PDT

2011/08/29 · 07:53

Powerful Leader !

That's the Real Deal for the people who own and operate CBS, CNN, NBC, ABC and the other large corporations.

Here's CBS this morning, echoing an historical complaint against democracy -- echoing corporatist fascism in Italy and then Germany from the 1920s:

"Fewer people than ever believe Obama is a strong leader...."
-- CBS, morning of Monday, August 29, 2011

How sad, Obama's not a dictator, not an American Mächtigerführer.

That's not a bit from international news or the budget or immigration or the Mexican drug war. This twisty-sneaky Ad Biz attack came inside the network's weather report on Hurricane Irene.

For corporatist CBS, democracy is the problem.

Democratically elected leaders are weak. Everybody knows that. Our federal government is hopelessly broken. Obama can't lead.

The Ministry of Disappointment tells us what to believe. The swill gets mainstreamed 7/24/365... more on this pattern below the fold......

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23 votes Show Results

Corporatist propaganda moved over this morning to calling President Obama a weak leader.

23 votes Vote Now!

Corporatist propaganda moved over this morning to calling President Obama a weak leader.

1. Welcome to fascist-corporatist propaganda, copied 100% from anti-democracy themes of the 1920s.

17 votes

2. Mächtigerführer ! Mächtigerführer ! We cannot survive without a Mächtigerführer !

1 vote

3. Freddy&Fannie and government spending caused our 2008 depression.

1 vote

4. Martians have landed in New Jersey.

4 votes

RNC Presidential Straw Poll (Vote Online)

vets74

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Thursday August 25, 2011 · 9:55 AM PDT

2011/08/25 · 09:55

Help the RNC to pick their candidate for 2012.

Thar she blows ! Ride the White Whale ! Click me !!

Go to the RNC website and vote !

The following men and women are potential candidates or have declared their candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Which candidate do you favor?
-- Michele Bachmann
-- Herman Cain
-- Newt Gingrich
-- Jon Huntsman
-- Gary Johnson
-- Fred Karger
-- Thaddeus McCotter
-- Sarah Palin
-- Ron Paul
-- Rick Perry
-- Buddy Roemer
-- Mitt Romney
-- Rick Santorum
-- Unsure
-- Other

Enjoy !

vets74

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Saturday August 20, 2011 · 10:51 AM PDT

2011/08/20 · 10:51

I'm sorry. Too snarkalicious to resist.

One factoid: the groom wears size 16 sneakers.

We've had live blogs for Katrina, Federal elections, Egypt, Iran, the BP Gulf of Mexico blowout, protesters getting carted off.....

(If you do wind up following the wedding, as it unfolds, please have a couple tokes/shots first.)

vets74

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Tuesday August 16, 2011 · 7:50 AM PDT

2011/08/16 · 07:50

Haven't seen Carmen Sandiego in years. And now The Meteor is moving on from our DKOS sky. The serious side exists, of course:

I am taking a leave of absence from Daily Kos. Other than to say my reasons are not related to my health, I am not willing to discuss the matter in public. My return is doubtful.
-- Tim Lange, Meteor Blades

So... let's get down our guesses on what #6's next job will be.

He's too valuable simply to disappear. A Dream Job for him is to replace Joe Scarborough. What is his new enterprise or passion or folly or winning-of-the-lottery ?

Left-brain rational calculations... acceptable. Right-brain silliness... why not. We knew Tim before there was a DailyKos and guessing his next job has absolutely nothing to do with his personal life.

Enjoy !!

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27 votes Show Results

To be sure, you can vote. Mundane alternatives thus:

27 votes Vote Now!

To be sure, you can vote. Mundane alternatives thus:

1. Lucrative teevee slot has tempted #6.

0 votes

2. It's radio. Fairness Doctrine is being voluntarily adopted and he's taking on Limbaugh.

2 votes

3. Foreign corresponent. The foreigner the better.

3 votes

4. Book writer. Comment for the topic.

5 votes

5. Head hunter trophy snatch for the HuffPo lineup.

3 votes

6. Did win the lottery. Greek island blondes, ahoy !

4 votes

7. Married into money. Greek islands, ahoy !

5 votes

8. It really is Arbor Hill fer The Old Pirate. Whatever....

2 votes

9. See comments fer my mundaneless destination.

3 votes

The Tea Party's Perfect Man

vets74

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Wednesday August 10, 2011 · 11:32 AM PDT

2011/08/10 · 11:32

Here is what Beck Weathers did to himself. He is becoming a folk hero among the Tea Party crowd.

He trashed his face and his feet, lost his right hand completely plus joints from his left-hand fingers and part of his left thumb.

Weathers is the Tea Party's Perfect Man.

He embodies self-destruction in pursuit of fantasy.

Teabaggers follow their rightie propagandists. They idolize this guy Weathers, despite that he didn't understand basic equipment, lied about a recent surgery, and ended up as a human anchor - a fatal danger to others on the high slopes of Mount Everest.

For the whole story, BTF :::

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40 votes Show Results

We want the Tea Party to:

40 votes Vote Now!

We want the Tea Party to:

A. Pull a beck weathers.

3 votes

B. Lie back in the snow and let nature take her course.

37 votes

Trollery and False Front GOPer Memes

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Friday August 05, 2011 · 9:09 AM PDT

2011/08/05 · 09:09

Let's try for a measure of pragmatism. DKOS has a diary from LaFeminista that dwells on her many disappointments.

You would think that Obama is another no-clue, no-strategery Bush-a-like. Well, I've seen this pitch before.

It's a mirror/replay of Ron Paul's "Tea Party leftie" fakery that netted the GOPers millions of votes in 2010.

"Leftie" complaining converted to GOPer votes.

In contrast, militarism is Obama's big ticket item. Obama and his Joint Chiefs are doing the heavy lifting to end tossing $300-billion-a-year on crazed militarism.

You'd never know that from DKOS trolls-R-us diaries.

Then there's abortion. Dems roll on with 40 years of electioneering incompetence -- unchallenged. We can do better.

We need to attack the GOPers. This Debt Ceiling crisis from the GOPers has cost investors an average of $12,000 each. The GOPers have to be vulnerable.

Echo GOPer memes at DKOS ? It's a free country. BTF for alternatives :::

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10 votes Show Results

Climbing our way out of Great Depression II is turning nasty.

10 votes Vote Now!

Climbing our way out of Great Depression II is turning nasty.

1. Wall Street has concluded that the GOPers are set on a year of economic sabotage.

1 vote

2. Obama and the Joint Chiefs see $3-trillion that needs to go to sustainability.

0 votes

3. Abortion is the only issue that holds the GOP together.

0 votes

4. ALL OF THE ABOVE.

1 vote

5. ALL OF THE ABOVE and why waste time whining about Obama ?

6 votes

6. Paul pie pie Paul pie pie. Pee-pee.

2 votes

Amy Winehouse: For Want of a Set of Cue Cards

vets74

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Monday July 25, 2011 · 3:08 PM PDT

2011/07/25 · 15:08

An hour's work printing out cue cards was too much trouble....

Amy was a blues singer. At her best she took a song from Dave McCabe, added heroin withdrawal "blood itch" agony, and brought us this:

http://www.youtube.com/...

Always, always misused for profit. Here on stage at Fendi-Paris at a $1,000,000 gig, ravaged/wasted/dying from a staph infection in her face and lungs:

She was poisoned into a coma with Ketamine on August 8th 2007. Could have been an effort to kill her for her estate. Between that and the staph damage and cocaine microstrokes (not ischemic full bleeders) Amy could not remember the words to songs by 2008.

She needed cue cards. So, this year it was off to more concerts and loud, nasty abuse from the audiences.

Nobody took care of her. An hour's work printing out cue cards was too much trouble.

vets74 for Boycott Corporatists

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Monday July 11, 2011 · 4:21 PM PDT

2011/07/11 · 16:21

Here is an initial list with dozens of major companies that fund the Republican Party. Why fund your economic and political enemies ?

There are also Good Guys. For example, next time you give someone a pair of designer jeans:

-- Calvin Klein contributed 100% for Democrats.

There's lots of easy choices here. Lots of easy names to remember. And they all have web sites, so it's easy let them know you are responding to their political actions.

I set up a Group "Boycott Corporatists." Might be useful for collecting diaries with related info.

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81 votes Show Results

Corporate contributions to Republican candidates are a part of their social performance.

81 votes Vote Now!

Corporate contributions to Republican candidates are a part of their social performance.

1. Yes, plus I have room for the lists on my fridge.

72 votes

2. Pie

9 votes

Lying Jobs Graph Hits the Front Page

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Friday July 08, 2011 · 7:01 AM PDT

2011/07/08 · 07:01

Economic Policy Institute is a lobbyist whorehouse. Always has been. They claim to be "progressive" but put out the damnedest attacks on Democrats.

Here's the latest. EPI's garbage misstates Department of Labor jobs data to claim that Obama is responsible for losing 11-million American jobs.

A recovery that's 11 million jobs short -- on the front page.

That's on the dkos front page. Glowing commentary.

Meanwhile, here's the real jobs figures -- adjusted to reflect both The Fed's Big Bubble and the Bush deficits (recall tax giveaways and Iraq). Go to the CBO figure at 134,000,000 non-bubble jobs at start of 2008:

Uh... yeah... the Crash of 2008 still has us down by 3,000,000 jobs compared to where we should have been in January 2008. That's why it's called a crash.

11,000,000 jobs down ??? That's claiming the Big Bubble Binge (2002-2008) was normal and that the economic insanity balloon should have blown up bigger and bigger forever !

So what is that EPI trash doing on the dkos front page ?

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23 votes Show Results

The Fed/Bush Crash destroyed 8,000,000 jobs. 4,000,000 of them had been from the Big Bubble.

23 votes Vote Now!

The Fed/Bush Crash destroyed 8,000,000 jobs. 4,000,000 of them had been from the Big Bubble.

1. Blame Obama for all of it.

5 votes

2. Blame Obama for all that and 3,000,000 jobs more.

1 vote

3. Blame Obama for Hitler and Stalin.

3 votes

4. Blame Obama for 2008.

0 votes

5. Blame Obama for 2009.

0 votes

6. Blame Obama for only getting back 2,000,000 jobs during a crash.

1 vote

7. Blame that &^%#$% NITWH for every *&$% thing on earth.

0 votes

8. Blame Obama for filibusters and hostage taking.

0 votes

9. Blame Obama. (Sung to

1 vote

10. Get over it. We're borrowing 43% of the Federal budget. That's what's suicidal.

12 votes

Non-Logical Argument and Gateway Triggers: How the GOPers Do It

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Thursday June 30, 2011 · 7:39 PM PDT

2011/06/30 · 19:39

Democrats wonder at the rock star impact of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann. They are fact-challenged dunces. They spout near-nonsense at any problem where the complexity exceeds "2 + 2 = 4." They are polluted with simpleton ideology.

A mystery, if you listen to experts.

Turns out that this "something" is known Ad Biz technique -- they light up right-brain functions, similar to the runway lights at an airport. PET scan neurology confirmed left/right lobe differentiations decades ago.

No-logic propaganda is more than a gimmick. Psychological characteristics form up like this:

LEFT (Analytic) - RIGHT (Global)
1. Responds to logic -------- Responds to emotion.
2. Verbal ----------------------- Visual
3. Word meaning ------------- Tone of voice
4. Sequential ------------------ Random
5. Linear processing --------- Random processing
6. Plans ahead ---------------- Impulsive
7. Recalls names ------------- Recalls faces
8. Questions sourcing------- Follows by default

Overall, there are a couple dozen differentiations. Ad Biz shops make most of their money working these functions. Political applications add strong right-brain Gateway Triggers that facilitate complex message transfers.

Theoretical-to-practical with a new GOPer strategy and one GOPer vulnerability below the fold. :::

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12 votes Show Results

Overwhelmingly, GOPer politics is based on right-brain emotional appeals and no-logic arguments.

12 votes Vote Now!

Overwhelmingly, GOPer politics is based on right-brain emotional appeals and no-logic arguments.

1. We can't fight that. They just lie and lie. We're doomed.

3 votes

2. Damn. They're big-time vulnerable !!

9 votes

"MONEY SWEARS": A Sharpie Protest

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Tuesday June 28, 2011 · 7:34 AM PDT

2011/06/28 · 07:34

It's our money and a Sharpie can change it. The admirable sentiment of "E Pluribus Unum," is out of date.

The Roberts SCOTUS is gutting campaign finance laws, Common Law Fraud as applied to the corporations, Class Action law suits. GOP state governments attack education and vote restrictions. The billionaires throw $500,000,000 a year at propaganda.

The playing field is a mess.

What if the words "MONEY SWEARS" start appearing on printed bills from the $20 bills to the $100 bills ?

Bob Dylan's "Money doesn't talk, it swears" -- shortened for effect. Could this help in a small way to wake up the country ? Comments appreciated.....

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6 votes Show Results

What if you saw MONEY SWEARS on paper money ?

6 votes Vote Now!

What if you saw MONEY SWEARS on paper money ?

1. I'd laugh. Later on maybe I'd think about it.

4 votes

2. Oh, God, how ugly. Money is Heaven on Earth.

2 votes

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Lying Jobs Graph Hits the Front Page

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