Obama Afghanistan War Plan Set To Get Congress' Backing, Despite Misgivings

As usual...th­e country is in the septic tank and far too many people use the opportunities given them to speak out by trying to generate a good spin for their party of preference.

There's only one party people.

That's why no matter who is in the White House or who has the majority in Congress evrything still remains a mess.

Look at the economy, unemployment, outsourcing of jobs to foriegn countries, uneven trade agreements, rising taxes, devalued currency, Iraq, Afhghanistan, Iran,Pakistan, past wars, our inefficient and hobbling social programs and ineffective regulatory system... All of these things took decades and both the Republicans and the Democrats working in tandem to get this country this funky.

So the next time you think you have to defend your poitical party by blaming or berating the other one....con­sider whether you're just blowing smoke up your own skirt because we only have one party in America.

And it has been failing us for a long, long time.
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EasyJet Causes Controversy With Holocaust Memorial Fashion Shoot

These camps, while a stark reminder of our capability for inhumanity, are not religious or sacred shrines to the whole of mankind.

If in the United States we can sculpt and erect larger than life carvings of the busts of US Presidents on the same sacred lands where millions of native American Indians were slaughtered and suburban housing and strip malls can be constructed, where are the proprieties of those who insist that taking photos in soveriegn countries other than their own can somehow be prohibited and repressed indefinitely?

Is it acceptable to explore , record and depict in photos the ruins of the people who were eradicated by the Spainish Conquestadors? Is it a social affront to use as a back drop for a photo shoot, the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima?

Then please let's stop this nonsense that these long ago evacuated camps in Europe should be held up as religious holy lands worthy of only global worship. We're closing in on nearly a century after this event. How and when will those who survived the halocaust, ever truly heal from it, if they can't (like so many other people of other brutalized civilizations ) put it to rest and move on beyond it??

Frankly, I'm very tired of having my nose rubbed in this chapter of history every month or so, to appease and console people that regardless of what the world has done for positively choose to remain inconsolable and appear to be victims.
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Philip Morris Ordered To Pay $300 Million To Former Smoker

As a smoker of 45 years (minus the attempts to shelve it) I think this is judgement is absolutely out of proportion text book case of legitimized insanity.

If anyone that smokes tobacco, dosen't know that stuffing a paper tube with dried vegetation between your lips, lighting it and inhaling the smoke, 20, 30 or 40 times each day, year after year just might eventually lead to respiratory complications these people should have kept a date with the Grim Reaper long before they could have been rewarded for their stupidity.

Do these same people stand around a bonfire or a burning pile of autmn leaves and breathe deeply? No. They recoil and gasp for oxygen like anyone does. Instinctively they are painfully aware of the toxicity of breathing in fuming leaves. They know it too, regarding tobacco.

A $300 million dollar reward for feigning ignorance and holding someone else for your own negligence to yourself...and barring "feigning" ignorance and truly being unable to recognise or accept the possible consequences of your own actions...perhaps this is the best argument I've heard yet for leagalized euthanasia.

It's a sad day when awards are given to this sum for sheer ignorance, stupidity and lack of personal accountability, in any circumstance.
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The 15 Biggest Congressional Recipients Of Wall Street Campaign Cash

It's nice to see that the Republicans and Democrats can work together on something.

Too bad it's on bipartisan greed and selling out the American voter for greed and profit.

But many of us knew this already.

It's time to see it and call it as it is. The American people no longer have the power of representation in government.

It's also time for more self representation through developing a national means to increase the opportunty for voter participation in the policy of America.

Can we afford it? Yes. If we stop nation building elsewhere and apply that capital here.

More self representation. Less republic.

More true democracy. Less hypocrisy.

If it doesn't change, America will never be a nation for, of and by the people.
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Fed Chairman Blames Banks For Continued High Unemployment

Before the banks, came industry that demanded maximum output for minimum input. Look at the salaries of degreed people in social service, teaching, nursing, health services, janitorial maintenance, food services. Consider the under qualified, over educated people in even low and middle management positions in corporate America who perform as little more than liasons and messengers between upper management and production personnel.

The banks (through design and the Federal Reserve system) are responsible for what's going on currently. But before they became the black (economic) hole in America, our system and culture had already surrendered to the greed of industry in general. And education in particualr after becoming a national growth industry of equal status. We have been led to believe that they are necessary and inseperable regardless of their focus on developing a national dependance upon them, while the quality of their product diminishes year after year for sake of complicit profits.

Now, for some of the most mudane, repetitive employment opportunities people must meet or exceed the degree of education that earlier physicians and attorneys needed only to be awarded wages that deny the validity of their qualifications, whether good or badly taught.

There is no one thing that has brought our economy to the brink.

We are reaping what we and our predecessors have sown in the culture we created.

A gluttonus creature that remains insatiable until it devors even the people who feed it.
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Anwar al-Awlaki, Radical Imam, Becomes New Focus In Fort Hood Killings Investigation

Is he really sending out messages?

You really buy into that?

How do you know? Because the people that want to continue this insanity tell you he is??

Not good enough for me.

You're being sold one.
About Yemen
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Federal Reserve: Weak Recovery Means High Unemployment For Several Years

It's not as if the formula for a rapid and effective recovery has never been used before in America. Why must this gov't be so egocentric as to think it need reinvent the wheel each time something need be done for this nation and its people?

We need to first stop spending trillions on nuilding other nations which requires our military and those additional costs. Then we need to fund industries (small and medium) to begin developing and producing energy alternative to fossil fuels. We can also deploy Roosevelt and Eisenhower's means to creat employment and open up opportunities for people to be employed for repairing our infrastructure nationally­...without someone needing to be someone alreadyon the road crews relative. There are also plenty of social programs that could be funded to increase staffing and programs that could be implemented to get people (some are families with children) from having to sleep inthe streets of America...10,000 people are homeless in LA alone and live like refugees in a third world country!

There are things to do to expedite America's recovery. We just don't have the representation to get these things done, without politicians reinventing the wheel and cautiously taking care not to lose the benefits, perks and money from the lobbyists and industrialists that our representation is primarily concerned with.

Less republic.

More democracy.
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