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POPSCREDIT CARD GREED After charging a couple hundred dollars I noticed they had immediately raised my APR a whopping 5%. If they did this so I would see RED..., they sure knew what they were doing. Because I saw every color in the rainbow! I was so angry that I took the allotted money I had put aside for food and paid them off! Also, gave them a piece of my mind in an email. Anyway, here is my vent to the giant credit card gluttons. More at: http://www.thethinkingblue.com/creditcardgreed.html
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POPSTHE DEADLIEST CARD GAME IN TOWN
but they have joined the right’s sycophants and willingly do the bidding of the LOBBY FIRMS in order to receive the dirty money (more like blood money) these cut-throats will give them (to turn a blind eye) in the form of campaign contributions. A shell game of sorts, where the suckers, in many instances, have no idea of what is going on and how it negatively affects their well-being. It's a sad game that cannot be won by anyone who falls into a category called LOW-INCOME. The banks and credit card companies’ makeup all the rules and they are always in their favor. NO ONE, can get out of the traps they set, while they siphon off any earnings said suckers have given their blood, sweat and tears to acquire. It should be a crime because it is criminal but it is not. Watch, learn and weep for those who get snared in THE DEADLIEST CARD GAME IN TOWN, where there is no place to turn for help. (MORE) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/creditcards/view/ thinkingblue
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POPSGreedaholic Drug Makers Raise Price Before Reform Drug makers race to raise prices on drugs to beat the target date of Gov. Overhaul of the health-care system… HUH? First the Credit Card Ind. tries their hand at price gauging before the deadline of Gov. changes go into effect, Feb. 2010. Now BIG PHARMA jumps on the greed bandwagon, putting gluttony above altruism by raising already exuberant drug prices before reform takes place. Is BIG CORP. DADDY beginning to feel the slight strangulation of a Progressive Gov. in control? I don’t think so. What they are feeling is the loss of authority, handed to them on a silver plate by leaders in Congress who only respond to how much $$$ they can get from the greedaholic’s quid pro quo. Giving the SOB’s, carte blanche on what they can do to the rest of us. The fracturing of our fragile consumer driven economic system should have changed their behavior but as the saying goes… You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks. Only one thing counts, its bottom line ($$$), no matter who gets hurt!
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POPSYou're Not Going To Believe This One. Just when you think the Banks can’t possibly do more to hurt us... They come out with a lalapalooza... They are now going to charge their credit card customers for... hold on to your proverbial hats... INACTIVITY! I heard this on CNN this morning and I couldn't believe it. Bank of America, yup the ones who received $25 billion from the government's $700 billion financial rescue fund, including $10 billion that would have gone to Merrill had it not been acquired by good old Bank of America. Now, instead of just gouging those who are in debt and over a barrel they are targeting people who have enough income and only use credit cards, as a convenience. The question is, are these financially better off consumers going to take it? Or Are they going to (like the rest of us) GET MAD AS HELL AND NOT GONNA TAKE IT NO MO? I hope they will be strong enough, in numbers, to put these greedy banks in their place… If not there is NO JUSTICE! HAPPY NEW YEAR! :mad:
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POPSNational Gaps Between Rich & Poor - USA is No. 3 When I saw this headline, I thought for sure the ole USA would be at the top of the list but NO there really are greedier nations (people) residing on this Earth. Though only 2, for USA hit the number 3 slot. It's a pity that the human race has yet to understand that we are all one, all traveling in the same direction of unknowing. Yet material-wise we struggle to have a one-upmanship on one another; a need of sorts to look down your nose at those financially beneath you due to hard luck or heritage. The visualization of this gap is hardest to stomach. With architecturally handsome buildings on one side of the picture (You can envision those within these structures looking out their ivory tower windows at the ants below.) and poor people, on the other side, in fetal-like positions, huddled against buildings to protect themselves from the elements, cold, hungry and hopeless. It’s the food-chain, only the winners aren’t the fittest but the greediest.
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POPSDoctors' Piecework: How Many Unnecessary Operations? I’ve always thought when money is the bottom line, LOOK OUT! Health care is one of those touchy subjects that people would like to feel, money has no power over. How naive! When money is involved, forgetaboutit, you become a $ sign. I once worked for a funeral home and I was amazed how money was the bottom-line. This creative industry didn’t like, waiting for people to die to make their bucks, so they devised something called pre-need funeral contracts. It’s a contract signed by a consumer who agrees to pay installments on goods and services to assure they have the paraphernalia needed to get rid of their earthly remains upon death. The funeral directors (salesmen) get paid a commission on what they sell. So they try to sell the most expensive items (much like car salesmen) to prospective customers often, resulting in aggressive, hard selling. It’s disgusting, but not as bad as doctors convincing patients to undergo unnecessary procedures to increase their OWN wealth. THAT’S SICK!
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POPSA Letter of Congrats to Pres. Obama and Limbaugh Agrees with Taliban How disgusting is this? Limbaugh agrees with the Taliban because they are bashing the President of the United States of America on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Talk about a Fifth Column? This is Rush Limbaugh's official reaction to the news that our president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: "Our president is a worldwide joke. Folks, do you realize something has happened here that we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about -- and that is he doesn't deserve the award? Now that's hilarious, that I'm on the same side of something with the Taliban." ----- Hey Rush, you may be on the same side as the Taliban but let me inform you, YOU DOG! You're alone in this RANT and you just exposed your true colors as a FIFTH COLUMN bent on bringing America down. IT'S TIME TO STOP LISTENING TO THIS NUTBAG, for goodness sakes! thinkingblue
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POPSFinally a Consumer Fights Back. Although, I don’t relate to this woman's belief system, I DO relate to her as a consumer. All of us who have struggled with credit card debt and job losses know the frustrations of climbing a greased pole. The banks have been putting the screws to us for a long time. As a child, I would hear adults talking about LOAN SHARKS. On TV there were stories of bones being broken for non-payment by such LOAN SHARKS who charged exorbitant interest fees. I was glad to find out, this technique was illegal and US banks could never resort to such tactics to coerce payment. In adulthood, I learned quickly, that there were legal procedures of torture, no physical bone breaking but just as vexing. In Capitalism, the torture is mental and longer lasting. Today’s banks use teaser loans to lure us, once we’re captured by their come-ons they pounce and raise the APR's so high, that there is no escape from debt. I salute this lady who didn't take it lying down! She threw a few punches back!
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POPSIn Mich. Being a Good Neighbor Is Against the Law When I opened this article this morning... I thought... GOOD GRIEF, I know we live in a Topsy-Turvy Society but this takes the cake! Wacko laws aren't new, there are probably endless piles of them still on the books somewhere in this land of ours. But please give me a break...! Acting upon them even though common sense is blatantly smacking you in the face is not only beyond the pale, it takes mindlessness to another plane. Move over Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin et al... In Michigan there are regulators who oversee child care, that make you guys look like amateurs in the screwy sphere of absurdity.
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POPSThe Personhood of Corporations I started out with clipping the Mark Morford article called "This is a difficult letter to write, Of course it will never happen to you. Until it does. --- As frightening as becoming a victim of the Capitalist System is... there is even a more shocking event going on right now in the chambers of the Supreme Court. This Bush/Roberts Court is about to give to the greedy corporations the power to gobble up all our freedoms and become the omnipotent POWER over everything and everyone who inhabits this Earth. They (the corp) will have the power to choose who is to be elected here in the USA Excerpt from this article: http://forum.colbertnation.com/tcr/board/message?board.id=politics&thread.id=12732 This new case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, presents the best opportunity for the Roberts Court to use its five vote majority to totally re-write the face of politics in America, rolling us back to the pre-1907 era of the Robber Barons. THIS IS NO JOKE! thinkin
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POPSJoe Wilson Thought He Was At A "Mob Rule" TownHall Hmmm, the other day I was pondering about the brainlessness within the Republican base and I have come to a conclusion about it. Some, especially media, have been giving these fools a break, acting as though they’re just normal “PASSIONATE” Americans, taking leave of their senses because they are so befuddled due to the fear of losing something that’s precious to them. BULLSHIT! Oh they’re frightened, that's for sure, but it’s not passion they’re expressing its pure unadulterated HATE! Worse than that! It’s BIGOTRY! They hate because never, NOT EVER, within their pea-pickin sized brains, did they fathom a black man as president of the USA. Not only that "THE" leader of their intolerant America! Yes, there are two Americas’ Virginia, they exist as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exists. One tolerant and broadminded, the other intolerant and narrow-minded! Sincerely, thinkingblue, from the TOLERANT USA. PS: Joe (You Lie) Wilson resides in the other USA
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POPSSteve Russell (R) Unmitigated audacity (BALLS). Steve Russell (R) Unmitigated Audacity (BALLS) “As far as I am concerned, this is not civics education — it gives the appearance of creating a cult of personality. This is something you’d expect to see in NORTH KOREA or in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq,” – Republican Senator Steve Russell said about Obama’s speech to students http://www.ardmoreite.com/news/x1595419495/Obamas-speech-to-students-causes-public-outcry?view=print NORTH KOREA? WTF! I can’t believe this Horse’s Patootie (F**KFACE) has the unmitigated audacity (BALLS) to compare President Barack Obama to North Korea’s Kim Jong Il who has no empathy, sympathy or mercy for his fellow man. (There are over 20 million North Koreans living a horrible existence. Some starve to death every day. Others are either outright killed by the government or die from the abuse of torture and from being kept in horrible prisons.) Someone ought to string this Horse’s Patootie (F**KFACE) up by his unmitigated audacity (BALLS).
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POPSBill O'Rielly and Fox (News?) Screwing You? You Bet! This dialog came from this site: http://letters.mobile.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/29/family_values/view/index.html It says it all concerning conservative wingnuts such as Fox (You Call That News?)! Q: How many conservative wingnuts does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: There will be no screwing ...unless their name is Craig, Vitter, Sanford, Foley or Ensign:eek: ...Perhaps (right) wingnuts should try being human... That's the core issue here, conservative policies are INHUMANE, war, plundered economy and constitutional rights, laws that let corp. scam artists run amok... (pro-choice hate mongering) If the question was asked ... what kind of policy do Americans support without context to politics, the majority of people's answers would be "liberal" and "moderate" on issues such as job security, regulations of financial institutions, universal health coverage, education and social security. F**k (Right) wingnuts...and I don't mean screw or sex.:mad:
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POPSLive In South Florida - Only Rich Need Apply Reading this article, made me conclude that So Florida has a plan to rid itself of working class dwellers. OMG, it's easy, raise taxes, insurance, utilities, everything under the tropical sun to a level that only well-off families can afford. I swear So. Florida’s leaders… want to rid paradise of commoners, so there’s more room for the blue-blooded beautiful people with fat wallets. Sound too farfetched, too birther, too death panel, too teabagger, too (oh what the heck) conspiracy theorist? Probably, and we sure as hell don't need another one of those nut-ball, butt-ball townhall myths floating around. But it’s strange to figure out why the cost of living in paradise is becoming beyond most people’s shallow pockets. I lived there for 19 years and was able to make ends meet. Today that’s not a can do. I’m glad I got the hell out while the gettin was good. But maybe there’s a silver lining here, because it’s only the filthy rich who will monetarily be able to withstand the BIG HIT.:eek:
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POPSA Lottery Winning Tale Of Easy Come Easy Go Greed is in us all, young and old. Fortunately for most of us this monster that lives within our brain cells usually doesn't get much of a chance to rear its ugly head. Now and then it will give you a poke when a cashier gives you too much change and you remain silent or you find a thingamajig tucked in the corner of your shopping cart after leaving the store, knowing it did not get a UPC scan and you take it with you anyway. The sad part of coming into a large sum of money is that the “ME” in us grows humongous and you can't spend the bankroll fast enough to accumulate all those baubles and doodads you believe poor little ole you have done without for so long. (More Below)
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POPSRight-wingnuts are cashing in on Ted Kennedy's Death: THE BATTLE AGAINST TRYING TO LOWER HEALTH-CARE COSTS SO EVERYONE WILL BE ABLE TO GET GOOD HEALTH INSURANCE. Anyone listening to AH’s like Dick (like we need another Republican Dick) needs to trade in their sheep-like brain for a practical judgment type of one. thinkingblue) Of course I know that is impossible or is it? Why can't the tea-bagging, townhallers' open their scared little closed brains and let some thought in? It certainly will do them and the rest of us some good. Watch this video to help you see the beautiful light of enlightenment: MONEY DRIVEN MEDICINE click this link: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08282009/watch.html
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POPSMobs, Bullies and Fascists 101 The shock-jocks like Limbaugh are out there in the shadows of their microphones waiting to make an attack on the innate fears of the populous. They exaggerate, amplify, blow out of proportion and hyperbolize everything and I mean EVERYTHING that may cause apprehension amongst those who are unaware of what the radio host real motive is (make ada BIG BUCKS!). In other words they prey upon the gullible for gain. I wish these vulnerable people could become informed the old fashion way by reading and inquiring the many information outlets available (legitimate newspapers and educational library books) but that's too difficult for them, plus they may be too worn-out from the hard lives they are forced to lead, due to lack of information and education. It's just too easy to click a knob on the old TV or radio and tune into the shows that dumb down their audiences. Also, the Limbaugh's give them a punching bag to direct their pant-up anger at. It’s not only sad, it’s criminal.
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POPSMobs, Bullies and Fascists 101 I admit life is an eerie and hair-raising experience. There’s danger and peril all around waiting to pounce on any innocent who happens to wonder by. But we can't live our lives in a constant state of fear. We must venture out and take our chances in order to survive. The shock-jocks like Limbaugh are out there in the shadows of their microphones waiting to make an attack on the innate fears of the populous. They exaggerate, amplify, blow out of proportion and hyperbolize everything and I mean EVERYTHING that may cause apprehension amongst those who are unaware of what the radio host real motive is (make ada BIG BUCKS!). In other words they prey upon the gullible for gain. I wish these vulnerable people could become informed the old fashion way by reading and inquiring the many information outlets available (legitimate newspapers and educational library books) but that's too difficult for them, plus they may be too worn-out from the hard lives they are forced to lead, due to lack
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POPSGOP Bigotry and Racism 2009 The Republican Party has been using mob scenes for some time now... There was the 2000 election when they brought in their thugs to stop the recount. Then again during election times, especially the McCain/Palin rallies. Mob mentality was in vogue during that conservative get-togetherness. Palin, along with her talk radio groupies would tell their base anything, short of go out and lynch the opposition, to rile their followers into a hateful bunch of bigots. Now again, they are at it with their dusting off of the ugly mob crowds and sending them out to descend upon democratic town hall meetings. These people (MOBS) are blatantly hateful and law abiding citizens don't know what to make of their anger... and that's exactly how they win. So many people believe they are just a crazy fringe and laugh them off while they grow just like the movie blob and cover the land with gooey, sticky, nasty hostility... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhOiP6OaTMs
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POPS 4 cents to travel 1000 miles - Anyone interested? Both private and public insurance choices in a new national insurance plan could save the nation as much as $265 billion in administrative costs between 2010 and 2020, while a plan that provided a choice of private plans only would increase administrative costs by $32 billion over the same period. What the hell is the problem here? Including a public option would save hundreds of billions of dollars, but Congress can’t come to an agreement? Do they think we're all stupid? Oh yes, right, it's better to be subjected to skyrocketing health care costs, driven by the high costs of administering private plans? Yup, no competition is what Democracy is all about. :-? I hope everyone will feel the passion and hop on board for your 04.16 cent 1000 mile ride to a more efficient Health Care Industry and one that matches the other industrialized nations who have less money than our America but have a Health Care System that puts ours to shame. http://www.thethinkingblue.com/adollaraday.ht
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POPSAttn: US House of Representatives - Hunger Hurts Do you want to know just how easy it is to turn your back on your fellow human being? If you are not acquainted with the HOW TO, here it is in a one word nutshell… RATIONALIZE! GW Bush: ‘The government doesn't have to help poor people -- because they are lazy.’ Far right radio talker Bill Cunningham ”People aren’t poor because they lack money,” People are poor because they lack values, morals, & ethics" Glenn Beck: Poor people are ‘lazy.’ And the other day, on the issue of the poor not having affordable health care, some dolt claimed on a blog of mine…“So you hold the successful to be the problem? Should we all strive to be unsuccessful and strive for the government to take care of us? … people do not have health care because they have not been successful” Ok Congress, let’s hear the latest (excuse) for why the “working (those ones who get up every day, go off to work so they will NOT make enough money to feed their families) poor” do not make a living wage in Amer
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POPSA Mother's Shame Of Not Having Health Insurance. When I read this short letter, I thought about how so many people of low income are ashamed that they appear to those educated and well-off as poor and indigent. The shame should fall on the country itself. How cold a government who could care less if all its citizens does not have access to good affordable health care? I can't believe I have lived this long and the debate is still going on. Affordable health care for all should be the number one issue for all our political leaders. Why it is not, is the true shame of this country. If we go another generation without health care for all, we don't deserve to speak out against any other country’s lack of human rights. I hope we all start yelling..."I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!" President Barack Obama, STOP LISTENING TO THE INSURANCE LOBBIES AND HEAR OUR CRIES!
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POPSReforming Health Care, WHAT A JOKE! It's beyond disgusting to think the greedy Health Ins. Ind. & Big Pharma (lobbies) will stab us in the back again by not allowing low income workers access to health ins.. I wonder how many families will suffer because of this stranglehold. Why aren’t there statistics out there? When these cruel SOB's can call the shots as to who will not suffer (those with high incomes) and who will agonize because they will be turned away from health providers simply because they lack the funds, is deplorable for a country like ours! I was going to keep pounding my keyboard, spreading the plight for single payer ins. around, signing as many petitions as I could find to get it back on the table. But now I’m so distressed by the power of health insurance lobbies; it appears futile, once again GREED WINS! “Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. It is a trait that is not known to the higher animals.” – Mark Twain
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POPSDisgusted With Obama and the Democrats? - Bill Maher Says It All! The Way Obama is acting, I am starting to feel like I did when the screwball FAR RELIGIOUS RIGHT AND NEOCONS were in power... I know we are going to get the REPS back in control again... they know how to SCAREMONGER and make the silly-ass, scaredy-cat people really SCARED. (scaremonger (n.) A person who invents threats to themselves and others everywhere. A form of critic looking for a lucky break to be proven right.{CHENEY} Typically praises other scaremongers, 1984, hates the government, organised religion and trading systems while freely using the produce of any. Quite narrow minded and insecure, but will attract a lot of sheep. .{CHENEY} from urban dictionary) Can you believe all this crap coming out of Cheney has made his poll numbers jump to 37... GOOD GOD, THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE! Anyway, I was watching Bill Maher "Real Time" show the other day and it was a good one... He hits the nail on the head so many times. I decided to blog it. http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPSCredit Crisis Caused By White People The Brazilian President may be correct on this but that is only because White Is The Color Of Wall Street. I hope he realizes that GREED with all its nasty connotations is color blind. The real sin here was to allow the "FREE" market "FREE" reign, "FREE" from oversight; And all of us, black, brown, yellow, red and white will be paying out the yin-yang for a very long time for all their FREE-ness! :-(
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POPSWHITE FEATHERS ANYONE? World War I the First World War was dubbed The Great War and The War to End All Wars. How soon we forget the devastation of war that are started by governments. It's apparent that no one really learns from history, if they did, the term "WAR" itself would have been laid to rest alongside words like Shell-shock, and Trench Warfare: (I wonder who thought that one up?) http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A21605979 We the people are led into war like lemmings. As soon as one of the world government, Big Kahunas decide it's time for a War, the propaganda machines start to sputter. Of course if the moment is right, as in, massive business failures and enormous unemployment, (sound familiar?) it's a lot easier to line the lemmings up for their cliff plunge. With times the way they are today, the probability that some world war will break out, is at full peak. if ya think it's bad now, JUST WAIT, TILL A PRETTY MISS HANDS YOU, SOME WHITE FEATHERS. http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPSBirthday Parties For Homeless Kids At First glance, reading "Birthday Parties For Homeless Kids", sounds so heartwarming. How great it is that volunteers give small homeless children a party. But, why is it acceptable to have homeless children? We're facing tough times that will get tougher as we make our way through the aftermath left by those who were hopelessly addicted to greed. Homeless children, in America, being acceptable is very unacceptable. As soon as families started joining the ranks of the homeless, someone, wielding power, should have said ENOUGH! And the NIP THIS IN THE BUD should have begun. But today, it's OK to have homelessness, it's OK to have medically uninsured people, it's OK to have hunger. And the working poor? Well, they don't exist the sycophants who push the Horatio Alger nonsense clamor. Come on folks there are no social boogiemen waiting to pounce if the rich are made to pay their fair share of taxes. Let's all shout enough's, enough and the ills of our society will NOT be tolerated!
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POPSTHE RIGHT TO FORM A UNION The “RIGHT” that all workers can unionize and be heard, finally made an appearance. For some unknown reason (unknown my foot) the Republicans have demonized the word UNION to mean something evil. Nothing is perfect and Unions have had their share of corruption but having said this, Labor Unions are the only way the average worker can have a say over their contributions to a capitalistic society. I hope eyes are open to the realization that inequality so rampant today is due, in part, because Conservatives, hand and hand with BIG BUSINESS, have made Labor seem irrelevant just so “THEIR” profitability will increase. I hope the gluttony we've lived with for too many (REPUBLICAN) years has finally been exposed. The passage of EFCA will be like a shovel of dirt thrown on the coffin of one small entity of GREED. This is encouraging but we still must remain vigilant. GREED will never die and WILL make an appearance wherever there’s a buck to be made or an easily deceived sucker to be had.
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POPSBAILOUTS MAKING MONKEYS? AND IT GETS WORSE! A friend sent a clever forward about the bailout package set forth by the Bush Admin.. I thought, GOOD ANALYSES, , THE WALL STREET GANGBANGERS MADE MONKEYS OUT OF US AL.L - bailouts make no sense at all... Especially the bonus part... (giving billions and billions of bonuses to top executives for failure... YIKES!) Goes to show you... only the very rich can expect government help... THE POOR? Well the hell with the poor... Reagan started bashing the poor when he coined the phrase WELFARE QUEENS... The term entered the American lexicon during Ronald Reagan's 1976 presidential campaign when he described a "welfare queen" from Chicago's So. Side. Since then, it has become a stigmatizing label placed on recidivist poor mothers, with studies showing that it often carries gendered and racial connotations. Although American women can no longer stay on welfare indefinitely, the term continues to shape American dialogue on poverty. http://www.thethinkingblue.com/fun/bailoutmakingmonkeys.html
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POPSBAILOUTS MAKING MONKIES OUT OF US ALL I received a clever forward about the bailout package set forth by the Bush Admin.. I thought, GOOD ANALYSES, THE WALL STREET GANGBANGERS MADE MONKEYS OUT OF US ALL... The bailouts make no sense at all... Especially the bonus part... (giving billions and billions of bonuses to top executives for failure... YIKES!) Only the very rich can expect government help... THE POOR? Well the hell with the poor... Reagan started bashing the poor when he coined the phrase WELFARE QUEENS... (The term entered the American lexicon during Ronald Reagan's 1976 presidential campaign when he described a "welfare queen" from Chicago's South Side. Since then, it has become a stigmatizing label placed on recidivist poor mothers, with studies showing that it often carries gendered and racial connotations. Although american women can no longer stay on welfare indefinitely, the term continues to shape American dialogue on poverty. ) http://www.thethinkingblue.com/fun/bailoutmakingmonkeys.html
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POPSA "forward" worth forwarding I found this forward in my email inbox today... I looked it up on Snopes.com (which I do to anything that sounds remotely political...) It said it was CORRECTLY ATTRIBUTED... So I thought I'd pass it around in case others haven't come across it yet. Origins: The above-quoted editorial, offering a scathing condemnation of the Bush administration and condemning a lack of strong leadership in the U.S. government, hit our inbox mid-April 2007, attributed to 82-year-old businessman Lee Iacocca (best known for his tenure in the automotive business as the head of Ford and then Chrysler). The attribution was correct, and the timing was no coincidence, as the text was an excerpt from the opening of Iacocca's just-released book, Where Have All the Leaders Gone?, written with Catherine Whitney and published by Scribner. http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/iacocca.asp
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POPSUPDATE - One last Bill...to be VETOED by Bush" An update on the clipped, “One last Bill for …", January 6th article. It looks like Congress (under Obama) has grown some brass balls (MUCHO CAHONES) and closed a loophole the Bush/ Supreme Court, had used to “screw” women in the work force … It’s been a long time coming! Perhaps the weight they’ve (mostly republican corporate sympathizers) have put upon the average American’s back is starting to crumble the whole country, (republican corporate sympathizers included) so it’s time to take a second look at the hardships they’ve created for those (the majority) at the bottom. I have been disappointed in the past at how the R-conservative’s have buffaloed the D-liberal’s into accepting the many inequities they, so joyfully spread over the land, as GOOD FOR AMERICA. Maybe now, with Obama at the helm, we can once again laud their efforts to bring about LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. :-D PS: Let’s see Bush carry out his last threat to VETO this one… Any wagers?
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POPSShow Me Your Papers - Nazi Germany in America Building more jails and prisons, was always an acceptable practice. After all, how can “they” protect “their” citizens from evil criminals? That’s what we were led to believe. Today, prisons are being built strictly for profit, right under our noses, without our knowledge. Each person’s body they imprison will give the state or county an extra amount of money, so of course the objective is to fill these jails to capacity or overcapacity. Isn’t this a nice legal way to obtain revenue even though it smells of Nazi style fascism? It reminds me of the uproar the “Reagan era system”, created by claiming, poor women have babies just to get an increase in their monthly welfare checks. What a stigma that was on mothers living in poverty, standing in line at the bank to cash their monthly living allotment. The shame the government, OUR GOVERNMENT heaped upon such families, simply because they asked for a helping hand from a coldhearted system. (more below) or http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPSBe Very Wary of Conservatives The rightwing is still trying to gut worthwhile projects that will allow people a bigger voice. They’ve been doing this for years with the backing of the very people who will be significantly hurt by such gutting. Such as Trickle Down Economics (The providing tax cuts to businesses and the rich, in the belief that it will trickle down to those on the bottom.) We are witnessing, the damage from this pipedream. Another is the Wolfowitz or later renamed Bush Doctrine (in so many words) a fantasy or belief that Democracy could be forced on other nations through pre-emptive war. Sadness abound from this one. Then the use of fear to gut our freedoms. Using newspeak to get the power they lust for, which was disastrous to our freedoms. Their plots have been exposed but we still need to remain diligent. The rightwing’s desire for status quo is still intact, and they will still pull the wool over our eyes to deny us the ability to protect what is best for us. http://seiu.org/employeefreechoice/
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POPSEmployee Free Choice Act We The People, may finally have a voice now that Barack Obama is our President. Hope is overflowing for the downtrodden American worker who saw labor hour increases while compensation decreased due to the many monitory escalations of Energy, Food, Shelter, Healthcare and Clothing. Disparity was the rule. This Employee Free Choice Act must be passed so that the American worker can start climbing out of the quagmire, too many years of Corporate rule put us in. Learn more about this Mobilization Campaing http://freechoiceact.org/index.php/petition/pages/araw_learn_more
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POPSSibling Rivalries, The Story of (Mc) Cain and Abel As soon as I read this story, an old biblical folklore came to mind... The one about Cain (without the Mc) and his brother Abel. Abel, the first murder victim, is sometimes seen as the first martyr; while Cain, the first murderer, (or in Mc's case, the character assassinator) is sometimes seen as a progenitor (originator) of evil. There is another verse from the bible that could fit here, as well. "He Who Lives in a Glass House Shouldn't Throw Stones at Others!" In other words, people should not attack others for their flaws when they have the same flaws. Or better yet, this phrase not from the bible... "What goes around comes around". or, "If you do something bad to another, (eventually) you will get hurt too!" Nuff said, John McCain! :p See video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcCe7ogI33k
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POPSOpie Taylor and Richie Cunningham Endorses Obama UPDATE: Funnyordie, had this video deleted. There are many of these videos still up on youtube but for some reason thethinkingblue one was blocked. To find them use these key words: Ron Howard Obama or Click this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrt4rQRqUU8 Ron Howard. URL here: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/cc65ed650d Fonzie's got it, still!
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POPSTop 10 Tips For Voting Safety I can't believe only 2,537 people saw this very important "TOP 10 TIPS for voting" video. There are recommendations here that I didn’t know about. Please pass this on. I believe this will be the most important election we have ever had. Vote early and vote safe. Every vote has to count. Our country and our pride depends on who will be elected in this 2008 election. We must win our country back in order to save it. thinkingblue.blogspot.com UPDATE: Check out the ACLU’s Voter Empowerment Cards for specific information about voting in your home state. Go to www.aclu.org/vec
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POPSTalk About Socialism - A Case For Obama The McCain-Palin Campaign has stooped so low it’s hard to believe it is an USA Org.... Did I just say that? The GOP can only win through dirty politics, or so they presume. The code words they use, seem so misplaced in today disastrous economy, which will only get much worse. (Especially, under a McCain/Palin administration) We will never see the end of all the sick, malicious name-calling and assassination of character during elections, unless the American voter will stop acting like frightened children, voting for fear-mongers who scare the BEJESUS out of them. This article shows why, John McCain BETTER NOT become the next president. If he does, our nation most likely, will not survive the slide the Republicans have brought about with their small government mantra, unregulated market creed and trickle-down, fairytale economics which means... huge welfare checks given to the rich, who are suppose to, in return, share with us at the bottom. Talk about socialism. :roll:
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POPSMcCain/Palin and the Lunatic Fringe When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head toward the bleachers where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out of nowhere and confront him or her and say, "Can I help you?'' and turn the person around. When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn't allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written. The campaign wanted to avoid that possibility Monday. http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnew... What is the McCain Camp trying to hide? Perhaps all the negativity has awakened the large Lunatic Fringe inside the republican base and The McCain Campaign does not want the rest of us to see their ignorance. A youtube member got around the restrictions and was able to capture some of these pathetic souls in all their ignorance. Watch it in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E thinkingblue thinkingblue video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3APquSll3jw
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