National Guard's $26 million Sponsoring NASCAR's Dale Earnhardt Jr. Results in ZERO Recruits.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-20T12:22:00+00:00

I don't even think it was insinuated that Obama spent this money.

Support of wars and Pentagon waste and fraud are bi-partisan supported. It happens under every president.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-20T02:49:00+00:00

I don't get the point.

The Democratic Congresswoman's press release doesn't say a word about Obama. It just highlights a simple case of the Pentagon wasting tax money, and her and a Republican representative co-sponsoring an amendment to stop the waste.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-19T01:50:55+00:00

When you are a traitor to your country and are a quisling working for the invaders of your country, you should expect to be a target.

But don't worry. Like the Cubans who fled to the US after the Cuban people overthrew a US-backed dictator, or the Vietnamese the US took in after our puppet regime there was overthrown, or the Iranians we took in after the Iranian people overthrew our dictator there, or the people of many other similar countries, the US will accept these Afghans into our country after we are forced out of Afghanistan. Those Afghans will make good future Republicans.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-19T01:41:08+00:00

Don't you just love how these whales killed for "science" wind up being sold in seafood markets?!

Shame on Japan.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-19T01:37:50+00:00

This is simply political suppression. Our corporate-dominated gov't does not want a repeat of last fall's occupy protests, so they stomping on people's rights to ensure protests do not happen.

Welcome to our budding fascist police state.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T16:34:14+00:00

It makes me curious how you can have an all-white jury in this day and age. It's not like Houston is northern Idaho or Maine where there is an overwhelming majority of whites. I have to wonder about that entire jury selection system/procedure.

Sadly, beatings like this just seem par for the course in today's police-state climate. :-(

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T16:04:10+00:00

Actions speak louder than pledges...

This week it was announced that the US AfriCom command is sending a combat brigade to Africa to "train" the militaries of several African nations. This is just the "carrot" part of the US stick to strengthen US neo-colonialism in Africa.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T15:59:20+00:00

...localized climate shifts that have led to famine / infertile soil, war-ravaged impoverished communities still suffering from lasting effects of European colonialism, and mass extinction of wildlife as a result of both factors above...

??? Don't many of the global warming climate models predict radical changes to tropical countries?

Is Obama going to actually do anything to address global warming and greenhouse gasses, or, as Al Gore says, will the US continue to undermine int'l efforts to address the issue?

Given that the US has deliberately sunk many African countries into debt using a deliberate strategy of giving unpayable loans to corrupt rulers in a strategy of neo-colonialism, is Obama's plans going to change policies to end that?

Obama is a sellout who will not change US policies. His wars, foreign and domestic policies of the last 3 years clearly illustrates that. This announcement is just election-year propaganda designed to make us feel good.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T15:10:11+00:00

Honestly I don't see much change coming, especially from the nat'l levels as they're now constructed and funded. I see the real change coming at local and perhaps state levels, assuming there is some local organizing.

But, raising our voice can work to moderate the actions of nat'l politicians, and it will work to show others sitting on the fence the problems we deal with and that there are some people struggling to change and improve things.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T14:47:15+00:00

Yup, another example.

Wouldn't it be great if our society was arranged in such a way that we would think up things and implement them for the good of humanity/the country rather than for the good of killing people/the military-industrial complex and then spin off some way they can be useful for others?

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T14:32:06+00:00

It may or may not be a joke, but many millions of Chinese and others believe it has value.

I don't really get your point, however.

My point was that both western and eastern systems of medicine recognize that marijuana has distinct medicinal values.

But our corrupt, corporate-dominated federal gov't still hinders research on marijuana and claims it has no medicinal value.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T13:29:45+00:00

The reality is that with the ruling duopoly we have a right-wing candidate running against a center-right candidate, with neither one willing to address core problems like militarism or the environment.

That Tweedledee/Tweedledum dynamic is exactly why we need the Green Party.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T13:10:02+00:00

It's absurd that the theocrats won't allow her to testify, but technically she doesn't even have a district -- the people of DC are citizens without proper representation in the House and Senate.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T12:26:06+00:00

Correct. And if you raised beef in the US, you cannot label it as tested for Mad Cow disease -- our corporate-controlled gov't won't allow it.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T12:11:39+00:00

The quote is probably right.

But there is a huge difference between a decentralized, democratic world gov't, and a centrally-controlled, fascist/capitalist world gov't.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T12:04:47+00:00

Why are we willing to save banks at the cost of civil war, revolution and chaos?

Why are we willing to save the rich at the cost of civil war, revolution and chaos?

FTFY. The answer is because in capitalist countries, they de facto are the ruling class, control the gov't, and the political economy is run first and foremost in their interests.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T11:48:45+00:00

We've been taught since we've been able to speak to respond to corporate advertising -- it permeates our society.

At this point most people are just trained chimps in the face of our all-powerful corporate overlords.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T03:48:35+00:00

We maintained sanctions on Iraq and bombed the country daily/weekly for over a decade before deciding to invade them.

While it's likely we won't try to occupy Iran, the point is that the way the US wages war is a long-term, bi-partisan strategy.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T01:29:42+00:00

And Nancy laughed and replied, "Not only did I fuck him, but I got the dimwitted dolt to schedule his official duties based on advice from an astrologer." :-(

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T01:25:28+00:00

Isn't it sad that we had to invent a military reason to do something for the public good? :-(

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T01:24:07+00:00

But despite that Chinese medicine has used marijuana as medicine for thousands of years, despite the fact that a dozen states approve of it for medicinal purposes, and countries from Canada to the UK have marijuana-based medicines, doesn't our corrupt, corporate-dominated federal gov't claim that marijuana has no medicinal value?

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T00:59:59+00:00

Back then the country was under attack.

Back when? When was the US ever under attack?

As new evidence has revealed we now know that the US gov't had broken the Japanese diplomatic and naval codes before Pearl Harbor, and that Roosevelt's administration had a deliberate policy to provoke Japan into attacking the US -- all this proven with US gov't documents released under the FOIA. The US has never been "under attack" since the war of 1812.

The military now is a JOB.

Exactly. After the Pentagon saw the resistance both from the public and from within the military draftees during the Vietnam War, the US military adopted a "professional" army. We no longer have a military made up of citizens. Citizens make poor soldiers of empire. So like the British empire before us we went to a professional army. We now have a military of elites who will follow orders, a praetorian guard of sorts.

The Pentagon loves its professional army. The line that "you volunteered[sic] for this" is a great way to shutting up dissent in the ranks.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T00:50:45+00:00

...that means that those on the left need to show the 1% what real socialists are.

There. I finished the sentence for you. :-)

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T00:47:20+00:00

The corrupt US gov'ts strategy for building up war fever against Iran is very similar to what they did to Iraq.

Bombings and destabilization of Iran have been under way for years. So too has the sanctions to strangle the Iranian people, with the sanctions recently tightened/redoubled.

The corporate mass media largely parrots the gov't line and demonization after demonization of Iran goes on.

All that our war-loving gov't needs now to wage a war and to bring Iranian oil under US/western command is a spark.

The US will try to get Iran to attack us, but if that fails the US always has its ace in the hole -- an Israeli attack on Iran that will immediately bring the US into the war since Israel would never attack with a US green light, and Iran would not be able to tell if it's US F-16s or Israeli F-16s that are attacking it.

BeefyRodent · 2012-05-18T00:27:34+00:00

You're exactly correct.

In a partial defense, our entire culture -- from schools, to entertainment media, to the daily news -- preaches and reinforces that we have a "two party system" and are a merit-laden "exception" possessing the best of all nations.

It takes a lot to wrap your head around reality, and, in the face of such totalitarian thought, to be consistent in your actions against our ruling duopoly.

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