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84 New Elementary schools everyday? Instead everyday that 720 million goes to war contractors, ouch.

Stimulus package? That is what they are calling it.

Wow, I am going to get a three hundred dollar check from the government. What a great thing. The government is going to give me back 300 dollars that I paid them with the taxes on my wages as opposed to my income, of which I have none. I make no income. I trade my labor for dollars. There is no income but a trade of one to one. Still the government has decided that wages are to be taxed at a much higher rate than actual income. Even though it is called the “income tax” very few of us, the readers, earn any income at all. Yet we are still taxed. If it was truly an income tax then I would pay absolutely nothing because I earn no interest, capital gains or dividends.
So the idea of the stimulus package is to get money into the hands of income-tax payers, their term. They took thousands of dollars of my wages illegally and now want me to be excited that they are giving me some of my own money back. Of course, the whole idea is to “stimulate” the economy by having us wage slaves spend the 300 dollars on crap. The idea is that I will buy consumer goods, in turn giving more money to the wealthy elite, of which they will pay an income tax half of the tax I pay on my wages. Basically it is a sly way to transfer even more wealth to the already unethically rich. It is a bribe to ensure that none of us ask any questions about why the immorally rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes, since the people who own 95% should pay 95% instead of 65%, when they are the income earners and we are all just trading our labor, for no gain or income.
As if these last two administrations haven’t done enough to enrich the ruling elite. With Clinton cutting taxes on some of the richest people on the globe, who get their money off the labor of us, from 30 cents on the dollar to 22 cents on the dollar. Then Bush comes in and cuts it even more to 17 cents on the dollar. As we are all spending our 300 dollars, which works out to 6 dollars a week, make sure not to look behind the curtain.
Americans are so fucking stupid. Notice too that Clinton cut the taxes of the obscenely rich far more than Bush, but don't expect any Democrat to mention that, since Bush is the devil incarnate.

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Another Wall Comes Down

It has been reported that Hamas has been cutting through this wall for a while now. Then finally they blew it up and an estimated 350,000 Palestinians walked into Egypt to get basic needs like food and gasoline. I just love it when these fucking walls are destroyed. I will never forget the night the Berlin Wall came down, Oct 9th 1989. It was so amazing.

Wow!

Obama's skills as a speaker are enough to get my support. This is a long clip, 34 minutes, but it is worth it. It gets really good, around 17:30, when he starts to talk about hope.

Damn you Nevada!

I have found the end of our Democracy and it is the union of the Bush family and the Clinton family. For the last 20 years now, maybe even more considering the state of Reagan towards the end of his reign, our country has been ruled by two families, the Clintons and the Bushes. And now we are about to embark on another 8 years of Clinton/Bush rule, and no one seems to notice. Once the two families merge into a Clinton-Bush hyphenated family it is truly over for us all.
We had our chance in 2000 to break the grip of these two families on the country. Finally instead of a Clinton we had Albert Gore Jr., son of a powerful senator, running for the office. His opponent was of course the son of the powerful Congressman, CIA Chief, former Vice President and former President George Herbert Walker Bush. Unfortunately for us, Al Gore gave up and handed the election to a Bush, most likely understanding that as a non-Clinton he had no right to the throne. Better to sit by and wait for the Queen.

The Beauty of Capitalism

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Hillary's alligator tears

Here is the clip of Hillary being brought to tears over her love of america(enough love to sponsor a bill outlawing flag burning). What fake pandering, the fact that people bought it speaks in volumes.

I love YouTube!

Here is a video I found from 1979 of Patti Smith on some kids show. Patti is one of the coolest chicks around. I wish there were more people like her out there. SHe sings a song that any Patti Smith fan would be shocked by.

Then there are Bjork and P.J. Harvey who are pretty fucking cool.

To top it off, Nina Simone. A woman so cool she moved away from America, to France, because she was sick of racism.

Pete Seeger is so damn cool

You may have heard this one recently.


Ah, I wish people cared like this today, oh well. I guess modern entertainment has pacified everyone.

Kenya

An attempt at a discussion

Everyone is racist, plain and simple, and if you claim you are not that shows that you are. That being said, I have been wondering lately about racism and its degrees. How much racism is acceptable, which kinds are okay, are any kinds okay, does it matter who is saying the racist remarks or is it all unacceptable from anyone?
All one has to do is take a look at America and you will find racism everywhere. Actually in America you are supposed to be anti-Muslim or Arab, since people are too ignorant to truly understand the distinctions. If you are a member of the “right” then part of your platform is based on racism towards Hispanics. Both of these forms of racism are deemed acceptable by a large percentage of the American population. If you don’t hold similar views, about Mexicans or Muslims, then some people see you as not American or damn near a traitor. Is their any basis that makes these sentiments acceptable? Is what I see as racism towards Hispanics really just American nationalism, and if so, is nationalism as bad as racism? Is the racism towards Muslims due to the attacks on America? Most likely, it helped. Is the use of racial profiling acceptable towards Muslims in airport but not black guys in rich white neighborhoods? Are they the same?
Are some ethnicities, or “races”, allowed to be racist towards others due to historical injustices? Is it okay for Native Americans to be racist towards the “white man” due to our genocide? Are African Americans allowed to be racist towards white people as a result of slavery or just white Americans? Since no group has been persecuted to the level of the Jews are they allowed to be racist towards just about everyone else? Is there some scale of historical injustice that needs to be made so we can keep track of everyone’s position or is that even relevant?
Are certain words worse then others? Is nigger worse than spic? Is kike worse then A-rab? If so why?
Does one’s position in society make a difference? Are poor people allowed to be racist and the middle class not? Does education and upbringing factor in? Is there any acceptable level of racism?
Shit, one point I forgot. Is racism worse than homophobia, for lack of a better term? Is it okay for someone to truly call people slurs, about the sexuality they were born with, but not if they deal with their skin color? Isn’t anti-gay sentiment the same as racism? If so why is it acceptable? Do we need to add homosexuals to the scale of historical injustices to see where they fit first? Why do people gasp at nigger but not fag?
Just some thoughts that have been rolling around inside my head lately. If anyone would like to take the time to respond to any of these questions I would greatly appreciate it.

The Day Before Iowa

Listening to Barak Obama I have come to discover that his rhetoric is the same as horoscopes. A lot of talk of vague terms like change, progress, or difference without saying what those terms mean.