reference star

remember

don't even think about it

Unless you're willing to cry Havoc!

The point keeps coming up. Chaos is the plan.

all advertising is psyops

d'oh

man of steal

That'll show all those Democrats who want to save Medicare and Social Security from the rightful Wall $treet takeover.

your tax dollars at work buying coffee and donuts

...for watching people who watch the government.

So who really catches the real terrorists in America? Not the Feds.

These guys aren't even on their radar screens. Or their surveillance lists.

"...you gotta speak with it, too"

calling a spade a small digging tool

The New York Pravda has it's own reasons for doing so, but nevertheless it's correct here:

Republican leaders in the Senate have spent weeks gleefully deriding the Democrats who run the chamber for not producing a budget proposal in more than two years. It is a classic tactic, designed to deflect attention from their party’s toxic plan to privatize Medicare. The truth, though, is that the Republicans also have a point.

The 112th Senate has become a body that largely reacts to outrageous things that Republicans do or say. Rather than coming up with original ideas and sensible policies to counter to the extreme ones pouring out of the House, it simply votes down House bills, or refuses to take them up. Democratic senators, fearful of last year’s Republican tide, may think that a play-it-safe strategy will save their jobs in next year’s election, but the country could pay a high price for their timidity.

Without strong leadership, the Senate’s record is dismaying. Last Wednesday, for example, it took up the Paul Ryan budget plan passed by the House — famous for ending Medicare’s guarantee — and voted it down. Republicans brought up President Obama’s own 2012 budget, and the Senate voted that down, too. Two Republicans offered their own budget plans, and they failed as well.

But there will be no vote on a budget by the Democratic majority of the Senate, the traditional method for stating the majority’s priorities in black and white dollar signs. That’s because the Budget Committee has not agreed on one...

Most DINOcrats go to the Senate every day just to make a buck.

And it shows.

"...The kingdom is aggressively emphasizing the relative stability of monarchies. "

A place for every man and every man in his place.

And every woman under a man who owns her.

Look who's training their storm troopers.



It sounds like slavery to me, so I have nothing but contempt for the corporate mouthpieces that soft sell this trash. Whether it's the Royal House of Windsor or the Royal House of Saud, they're peddling garbage, and it's the real heritage of all free Americans to despise it.

Even, and especially, if we're told it's in our strategic interests to countenance it by our elite betters.

some people are more equal than others

You bet now John Galt will buy whoever he wants.

Looks like the DINOcrats win over the Democrats in 2012 even if the Reptilians don't.

only crazy people don't want to kill

A predictable smear.

Obviously only the weak-minded refuse to succumb to Sith Lord mind tricks.

some leaks are obviously less leaky than others

Greenwald realizes the DINOcrats are owned by the same folks who gave us Karl Rove.

Amazing that it's the Laureate's people now who claim even questioning the Patriot Act aids the Terra? Not at all.

the Center will not hold

Much is being made about the fact that even 'Merikans don't want to get rid of Medicare and Social Security, and that independents and even Mom & Pop Republicans will vote Democratic to keep it that way.

...Two months ago, the Democrat, Kathy Hochul, was considered an all-but-certain loser in the race against the Republican, Jane Corwin. But Ms. Hochul seized on the Republican’s embrace of the proposal from Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, to overhaul Medicare, and she never let up.

On Tuesday, she captured 47 percent of the vote to Ms. Corwin’s 43 percent, according to unofficial results. A Tea Party candidate, Jack Davis, had 9 percent.

Voters, who turned out in strikingly large numbers for a special election, said they trusted Ms. Hochul, the county clerk of Erie County, to protect Medicare...

There is just something about sending the old folks into the cold while the bank$ters, the oil barons, and the war pigs just get bigger and fatter that makes people angry enough to ignore the main$tream media psyops.

Imagine that.

Meanwhile, the $un never sets on the Laureate and the Empire, and once he comes home to take control of the Center, we'll just see about the Democrats beating the DINOcrats in 2012.

special loyal subjects

So very special among the colonies

Fresh from a triumphant stop in Ireland, President Barack Obama will kick off a visit to London on Tuesday looking to put the "special" back in the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom.

Queen Elizabeth will fete first lady Michelle Obama and him with all the pomp of an official state visit Tuesday, and they'll stay overnight in Buckingham Palace. Obama also will huddle with Prime Minister David Cameron, unveil a new U.S.-U.K. security partnership and on Wednesday become the first U.S. president to address a joint session of Parliament in historic Westminster Hall...

We all know why. Because propriety demands appearances be maintained:

...Corporate capitalism—because it was trumpeted throughout the Cold War as a bulwark against communism—expanded with fewer and fewer government regulations and legal impediments. Capitalism was seen as an unalloyed good. It was not required to be socially responsible. Any impediment to its growth, whether in the form of trust-busting, union activity or regulation, was condemned as a step toward socialism and capitulation. Every corporation is a despotic fiefdom, a mini-dictatorship. And by the end Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobil and Goldman Sachs had grafted their totalitarian structures onto the state.

The Cold War also bequeathed to us the species of the neoliberal. The neoliberal enthusiastically embraces “national security” as the highest good. The neoliberal—composed of the gullible and cynical careerists—parrots back the mantra of endless war and corporate capitalism as an inevitable form of human progress. Globalization, the neoliberal assures us, is the route to a worldwide utopia. Empire and war are vehicles for lofty human values. Greg Mortenson, the disgraced author of “Three Cups of Tea,” tapped into this formula. The deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents in Iraq or Afghanistan are ignored or dismissed as the cost of progress. We are bringing democracy to Iraq, liberating the women of Afghanistan, defying the evil clerics in Iran, ridding the world of terrorists and protecting Israel. Those who oppose us do not have legitimate grievances. They need to be educated. It is a fantasy. But to name our own evil is to be banished.

We continue to talk about personalities—Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama—although the heads of state or elected officials in Congress have become largely irrelevant. Lobbyists write the bills. Lobbyists get them passed. Lobbyists make sure you get the money to be elected. And lobbyists employ you when you get out of office. Those who hold actual power are the tiny elite who manage the corporations. ...

It's only proper, of course. A place for every one, and every one in their place.

they're still here

...unfortunately they haven't been Raptured.

Oh, wait. Maybe it's not on daylight savings time.

not just flat wrong

but barefaced liars:

“The trustees’ report found that Social Security's surplus will be $69.3 billion in 2011. Those who say that Social Security is in deficit this year are flat wrong,” said Nancy Altman, Co-Chair of the Strengthen Social Security Campaign. “By law, Social Security cannot deficit-spend and cannot borrow, so it is obvious that Social Security cannot add a penny to the federal deficit...”

well yeah

Speculation explains more about oil prices than anything else

brother stephen we had to carry around in a bucket

...but was he ever smart and brave:

Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'

...A belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.

In a dismissal that underlines his firm rejection of religious comforts, Britain's most eminent scientist said there was nothing beyond the moment when the brain flickers for the final time.

Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, shares his thoughts on death, human purpose and our chance existence in an exclusive interview with the Guardian today.

The incurable illness was expected to kill Hawking within a few years of its symptoms arising, an outlook that turned the young scientist to Wagner, but ultimately led him to enjoy life more, he has said, despite the cloud hanging over his future.

"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first," he said.

"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark," he added.

Hawking's latest comments go beyond those laid out in his 2010 book, The Grand Design, in which he asserted that there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe. The book provoked a backlash from some religious leaders, including the chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, who accused Hawking of committing an "elementary fallacy" of logic.

The 69-year-old physicist fell seriously ill after a lecture tour in the US in 2009 and was taken to Addenbrookes hospital in an episode that sparked grave concerns for his health. He has since returned to his Cambridge department as director of research...

In the interview, Hawking rejected the notion of life beyond death and emphasised the need to fulfil our potential on Earth by making good use of our lives. In answer to a question on how we should live, he said, simply: "We should seek the greatest value of our action."

In answering another, he wrote of the beauty of science, such as the exquisite double helix of DNA in biology, or the fundamental equations of physics...

Then there is the beauty of a sapient mind perceiving the universe as it is.

n-dimenional drill baby drill

the Republicrat way

President Obama, facing voter anger over high gasoline prices and complaints from Republicans and business leaders that his policies are restricting the development of domestic energy resources, announced on Saturday that he was taking several steps to speed oil and gas drilling on public lands and waters...

Look, over there, unfracked countryside! And a beach without tar!

rule of lawlessness

Of course, we're better than that now:

...There's no question that the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack committed grave crimes and deserved punishment. But the same is true for the perpetrators of other grave crimes that result in massive civilian death, including when those perpetrators are American political officials. As Ferencz put it when describing one of the core lessons of Nuremberg: "every leader who is responsible for planning and perpetrating that crime should be held to account in a court of law, and the law applies equally to everyone." More than anything, that precept -- the universality of these punishments -- was the central lesson of Nuremberg...

So 20th century.