Newt Sucks Blood of the Dead

http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1376-LV1JSD6K50YD01-3AAFC4U13OJKS56R4Q4KOVLVDN

At the same time he spoke against Obamacare single-payer and Government Death Panels, Mr Newton "Tiffany" Gingrich was fattening himself at the Health Insurance Lobby Pig Trough.14,000 people die every year from being uninsured due to inadequate care. This is pure profits for health care not paid by the same people who pay Newt to denigrate poor people and the working class. How does the Newt sleep at night? Very well thank you. Big Pharma has made sure he is always "comfortable" and since he has government health care from his last "job" he needs no "government handouts". Bless you Newton for all you do for the wealthiest people who need people just like you who use their liberal education for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many.
Turkey stuffer.

Threat of the Day x2

#1The "Secret" "Giveaway" "territory" and "hostile foreign power" stealing our land? You will have to narrow that down a little. How are they stealing if we are giving it away? Can I just send you a blank check?
#2Barack is just trying to help Michele to stay alive in the race for 2012. You know, "Just chill I got this."
Surprise they both think sending them money will improve something. What that is I am afraid to even imagine.

More Acorn Mail(Judicial Watch)

My mom got this one today. I like the fact that you can "vote" without even opening the envelope. What will they think of next? People(read people of color and youth) might vote. This is frightening to the ultra-right. OMG. The American Center Opposing Republican Nazis (ACORN) is back in business. No wait a minute. That's not what ACORN stands for. They stood for outlawing redlining by banks in poor neighborhoods AND voter registration. Going after predatory banksters(historically the mission) which is something I guess the letter is for as well as taking money from my mother. Makes sense now. Snidely Whiplash is not in for ACORN.

Birther Mail

As if they could use money as a non-profit .org to better the world by spreading this crap. My comment is "Who is asking for another round of birther ads to fatten the wallets of the racists?"

Do you Work for the Anti-Fox Government?

Just arrived to help sort out opinions about the government attacks on "Fair and Balanced" Fox News Corporation. This survey for people on a GOP mailing list will help them pick talking points for the 2012 election cycle in which they will recieve unlimited funds (Citizens United 2010) from the Koch Bros who saw their fortunes increase a whoppping 40% this year. I am so glad the SCOTUS has looked out for them I am sure Mr Clarence Thomas will be getting free barbecue from them for the forseeable future.I guess now that I am on the payroll, I contribute to the anti-Fox government(sic). Thanks State Department Watch LLC for doing this hard research on the Obamaites who have attacked free speech from our beloved Fox und Freunds. Sig Heil der Hannity Sig Heil Der Bolling Sig Heil O Reichy.

Is Toby Keith Really Right Enough for SCOTUS???

It might have been the faint voice of my ancestors today I heard and...

I realized that the warning 2001 from our great ex-secretary of War Mr Donald Rumsfeld in a press conference spoke of "unknown unknowns".Today, being 9/11/11 aka 10x9/11 day and all,I remembered the part of the historical demand for "vigilance" I was given a warning vision about the future. Vigilant against the dreaded SCOTUS being overthrown.

In that possible future which, if we do not re-elect Barack Obama, pbuh*, most assuredly we shall inherit Mr Toby Keith as a replacement for the 103 year-old Ruth Bader-Ginsburg after said Mr GOP candidate becomes Mr GOP Pres in 2013. I am not as frightened of that as I am concerned Mr Keith may be a Manchurian, just as Mr McCain, ready to throw the world away in a fit of passion. Is it just me or have we really fully vetted Mr K? Just singing a nice song about being right and all that, or actually possessing the stone bone fides to rule a little(or more if possible) to the right of Fat Tony Scalia? I think a vote for Barack Obama will guarantee this closet liberal(unknown known) will never again be considered for a job at SCOTU$ aka the activist judge home for the repressed conservative.
Hang in there Ruth, We(as opposed to Rush Limbaugh) are rooting for you until these(those?) people wake up and see the world as it is, an eternally dangerous and precarious place where we, fortunately, are safe from all harm because we are "vigilant" against enemies foreign and domestic even in our sleep.

*peace be upon him

The Power of Truth

Angelo, my activist friend, has brought a little hope to my progressive old wounded heart. Mr Glenn Beck is no longer selling hate and gold on FoxTV. Today my right wing 88-year-old mom gets this letter with Glenny on the outside and "henny-penny the sky is falling" on the inside, because most people don't like his brand of "entertainment" which is designed to activate the amygdala before the ideas ever get to the pre-frontal cortex(liberals use that part of the brain). Fear is not selling as well as the right wing would like you to believe.
Thanks Angelo
twitter @StopBeck @Drop_Fox and http://stopbeck.com

Donny Osmond Put Me On the Fence

I was always a little confused about who was attractive. Men didn't like certain types of attention and playing dolls was not an accepted method of getting to the meat of the matter. My TV times which allowed me to see the Donny and Marie Show did nothing to alleviate this confusion. I was fine with Marie and then it was puppy love. I was torn. Never to decide, now I realize those years in therapy were based on my need to have one of each. One for this and one for that. Not going to happen so I blame my ambivalence gender-wise on those pure mormon kids who touched me deeply and put me up on the fence. So I accept it now that I understand Donny and Marie(and the Hollywood Mormon mystique) ruined me.

The Last Chance for Fundamentalists

The passing of a marriage equality law in NY state last week helps the right-wing fundamentalists to raise once more the false fears of the falling of our nation due to liberal laws that allow what is practiced by the majority of adults which is heterosexual and not exactly evangelical or Mormon as they would like us to believe or for that matter, Agnus Dei wouldn't like their pastors marrying the little girls they molest either if they were women. The practice which is referred to as "sodomy" is done mostly by straight people. But since anything not designed to promote the reproduction of said straight heterosexual sodomites is labelled as sodomy I assume they only think motss can actually commit these now legal acts and wish to criminalize these acts again as this will make the gay go away since it just an urge just like sodomizing your husband.wife/other.
Now legal in most of America

100 Years Later

I stumbled upon this. A bit of serendipity I think as I am often inspired by what is right in my face. I have never been in want of the basics in life. I feel my experience of Dukka has not always related to my lack of accumulation of material possessions. Yet WD Wattles makes it a matter of seeking wealth to be some sort of divine purpose which parallels closely the interests of the bourgeoisie. Perhaps I will never be able to identify personal spirituality with the acquisition of power and prestige though I am quite sure it produces much of the same neuropeptide streams as the religious and sometimes self-righteous high. But to the Anglican(WASP) it is our divine right and glory to be sated in all our wants.
Sorry I do not have the source code for this citation of a 20th century philosopher.
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The Science of Getting Rich
by Wallace Delois Wattles, [1910]



CHAPTER 1
The Right To Be Rich

WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No man can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and to develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with.


A man develops in mind, soul, and body by making use of things, and society is so organized that man must have money in order to become the possessor of things; therefore, the basis of all advancement for man must be the science of getting rich.


The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.


Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment; or, in other words, his right to be rich.


In this book, I shall not speak of riches in a figurative way; to be really rich does not mean to be satisfied or contented with a little. No man ought to be satisfied with a little if he is capable of using and enjoying more. The purpose of Nature is the advancement and unfoldment of life; and every man should have all that can contribute to the power; elegance, beauty, and richness of life; to be content with less is sinful.


The man who owns all he wants for the living of all the life he is capable of living is rich; and no man who has not plenty of money can have all he wants. Life has advanced so far, and become so complex, that even the most ordinary man or woman requires a great amount of wealth in order to live in a manner that even approaches completeness. Every person naturally wants to become all that they are capable of becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be all that we can be. Success in life is becoming what you want to be; you can become what you want to be only by making use of things, and you can have the free use of things only as you become rich enough to buy them. To understand the science of getting rich is therefore the most essential of all knowledge.


There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life; and that desire is praise worthy. The man who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the man who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal.


There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three—body, mind, or soul—can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression. It is not right or noble to live only for the soul and deny mind or body; and it is wrong to live for the intellect and deny body or soul.


We are all acquainted with the loathsome consequences of living for the body and denying both mind and soul; and we see that real life means the complete expression of all that man can give forth through body, mind, and soul. Whatever he can say, no man can be really happy or satisfied unless his body is living fully in every function, and unless the same is true of his mind and his soul. Wherever there is unexpressed possibility, or function not performed, there is unsatisfied desire. Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.


Man cannot live fully in body without good food, comfortable clothing, and warm shelter; and without freedom from excessive toil. Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life .


He cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, without opportunity for travel and observation, or without intellectual companionship.


To live fully in mind he must have intellectual recreations, and must surround himself with all the objects of art and beauty he is capable of using and appreciating.


To live fully in soul, man must have love; and love is denied expression by poverty.


A man's highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving. The man who has nothing to give cannot fill his place as a husband or father, as a citizen, or as a man. It is in the use of material things that a man finds full life for his body, develops his mind, and unfolds his soul. It is therefore of supreme importance to him that he should be rich.


It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich; if you are a normal man or woman you cannot help doing so. It is perfectly right that you should give your best attention to the Science of Getting Rich, for it is the noblest and most necessary of all studies. If you neglect this study, you are derelict in your duty to yourself, to God and humanity; for you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.

Nationalism

The term "patriot" has been used to create a false sense of pride in a nation which systematically and decisively neglects and abuses our most vulnerable citizens. First the economy puts us against each other by whatever makes it appear we are different(prejudice). Whether it is race gender age race or ethnicity we are turned against each other for resources and in some cases to survive. I have little hope for a change which will help as long as there are such lies told about us which serve the powers and principalities of a nation of idiots and bigots(sic).
I am happy my state is #1 in how badly we treat the homeless.
Yeah We're Number 1!!!