In rebuttal to an ABC News story on native Americans, some students made a video which not only verifies that the 'information' and 'entertainment' diet served regularly by our 'friends' in big media is, more often than not, sorely deficient in factual and informational nutrition.
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"U.S. aircraft
manufacturer Boeing will participate in the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s
Supply-Chain Finance Guarantee program, which provides competitively
priced working capital financing to suppliers of goods or services to
U.S. exporters..."
In other words, the government is going help poor little Boeing to finance the making of millions, no wait, billions of dollars for some (to quote Dylan Ratigan) 'Greedy Bastards'. But there's more.
(from workinglife.org bog by Jonathan
Tasini)
"Corporate welfare and the scam on the American people is a daily
scandal. And it gets obscured sometimes in the rah-rah competition in
the marketplace that we get sucked into by the traditional media. So,
here's something to think about: you, the taxpayer, are about to shell
our billions of dollars to a corporation that PAYS NOT A DIME IN FEDERAL
TAXES. The company is called Boeing.
You've probably read all about it:
In a surprise twist to a long-running saga, the Air Force
said on Thursday that it would award a $35 billion contract for aerial
fueling tankers to Boeing rather than to a European company that builds
Airbus planes...
The Air Force said the first phase of the contract would be worth
$3.5 billion, and it would cover the construction of the first 18
tankers by 2017. Boeing would build 179 tankers in all for about $35
billion."
The issue is ". . .
whether a very profitable corporation that does not
pay a fair share in taxes should be even allowed to benefit from
billions of dollars in taxpayer money. From the great folks at Citizens for Tax Justice:
Despite
reporting nearly $10 billion in domestic pre-tax profits between
2008 and 2010, the Boeing Corporation, which was granted a
contract worth as much as $35 billion to build airplanes for the
federal government earlier this week, did not pay a dime of
U.S. federal corporate income taxes during this three-year period. . . "
Once again the 99% are being 'done' by big business and their 'representatives'.
Gives all new meaning to the term "Mile high club".
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If you ever had a feeling that you might possibly vote for Mr. Gingrich, read his latest quote below. Surely, you would not want to have a President with a memory as bad as that.
Gingrich has been unrelenting in criticizing Barack Obama’s foreign policies. At his campaign event in Spokane, Gingrich called him “the greatest national security disaster that we've had in my lifetime."
(Remember the previous President Newt???)
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. . . the repression and confines of narrow thinking, be it based upon pre-scientific religious teaching or fear rooted in a tribal mentality. . .
Maryland Governor, Martin O'Malley (a Catholic visibly transcending dogma) says. . .
Maryland's legislature ". . . came together around the principle of human dignity. . . "
“I believed that in my short service to the people of this state that
the consensus point on this issue could only be reached around civil
unions, I was wrong. It became possible to reach a consensus on
marriage equality. There’s been an evolution in the broadest sense among the people of
our state. Initially, when this issue first became very
visible, after Mayor Gavin Newsom conducted marriages in San Francisco
[in 2004], I think initially a lot of people had a lot of fear -- and a
lot of misplaced fear -- and over time I think people have come to
realize that the way forward, among people of many different faiths, is
always through the greater and broader respect for equal rights for
all.”
“I welcome bipartisan cooperation wherever it happens.There were lots of
people making lots of calls and I think that’s a good and healthy
thing. There’s not a family among us that doesn’t have a friend or a
relative who is gay. All of those stories come together around this
issue and it transcends party.”
“I encouraged people to look at it through the eyes of children of gay
and lesbian couples, and it is not right, and it is not
just, that children of gay and lesbian parents should have lesser
protections. It was about equal rights for all.”
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. . . of whether you interpret it as selfless or selfish (the more I think about it, the more I think it's SELFLESS and that we should all be more selfless) you gotta admit, it is jolting . . .
(From one of Frank Zappa's last interviews in 1993, from the "NBC's Today Show")
Jamie Gangel: “How does Frank Zappa want to be remembered?”
FZ: “It’s not important.”
Gangel: “Not important at all?”
FZ: “No.”
Gangel: “Want to be remembered for the music?”
FZ: “It’s not
important to even be remembered. I mean, the people who worry about
being remembered are guys like Reagan, Bush—these people want to be
remembered. And they’ll spend a lot of money and do a lot of work to
make sure that remembrance is just terrific.”
Gangel: “And for Frank Zappa?”
FZ: “I don’t care.”
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1. I try not to dwell on politics in this blog, but this being a presidential election year and the existence of some tremendously and unbelievably entertaining characteristics of the republican party's candidates make it very difficult to resist. Nevertheless, I continue to strive to relate EVERYTHING to music, or a least involve a little music SOMEWHERE.
2. Watching the 'Colbear Repporr' recently, I'm not sure which made me laugh more, Colbert or his footage of Romney talking about the trees being the right height in Michigan and the little lakes in all the 'parts' of Michigan and Santorum's rant from 2008 about Satan attacking the U.S.
(from By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor)
". . . A 2008 speech by Rick Santorum at Ave Maria University is making
waves this week, in large part because Santorum said Satan had his
sights set on America and the country was facing spiritual warfare. The speech came at the beginning of the academic year at the Catholic
university in Florida. At that point, the 2008 presidential campaign
was in full swing. Then-candidate Barack Obama had recently made a
statement about abortion and the issue of deciding when life began,
which he said was above his pay grade.
"This is not a political war at all, this is not a culture war at
all, this is a spiritual war," Santorum said, according to a recording
of the speech on the university's website. "And the father of lies has
his sights on what you think the father of lies, Satan, would have his
sights on. A good, decent, powerful, influential country, the United
States of America.". . . "
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