It Begins: Wal-Mart Workers Starting To Unionize

There was a Pied Piper who said We live in the greatest country in the world. Help me change it!

*And the people said, Change is good!

Then he said, We are going to tax the rich fat-cats,

*And the people said, “Sock it to them!”

and redistribute their wealth.

*And the people said, “Show me the money!”

And then he said, Redistribution of wealth is good for everybody

*And Joe the plumber said, “Are you kidding me?”
And Joe’s personal records were hacked and publicized.

*And one lone reporter asked, “Isn’t that Marxist policy?”

And she was banished from the kingdom!

Then someone asked, “With no foreign relations experience, how will you deal with radical terrorists?”

And the Pied Piper said, Simple. I’ll sit down and talk with them and show them how nice we really are and they’ll forget that they ever wanted to kill us all!

Then the Pied Piper said, I’ll give 95% of you lower taxes.

*And one, lone voice said, “But 40% of us don’t pay ANY taxes!”

So the Pied Piper said, Then I’ll give you some of the taxes the fat-cats pay!

*And the people said, “Show me the money!”

Then the Pied Piper said, I’ll tax your Capital Gains when you sell your homes!

*And the people yawned and the slumping housing market collapsed.

And he said, I’ll mandate employer- funded health care for EVERY worker and raise the minimum wage.

*And the people said, “Gimme some of that!”

Then he said, I’ll penalize employers who ship jobs overseas.

*And the people said, “Where’s my rebate check?”

Then the Pied Piper actually said, I’ll bankrupt the coal industry and electricity rates will skyrocket!

*And the people said, “Coal is dirty, coal is evil, no more coal! But we don’t care for that part about higher electric rates.”

So the Pied Piper said, Not to worry. If your rebate isn’t enough to cover your expenses, we’ll bail you out. Just sign up with ACORN and your troubles are over! Then he said, illegal immigrants feel scorned and slighted. Let’s grant them amnesty, Social Security, free education, free lunches, free medical care, bi-lingual signs and guaranteed housing

*And the people said, “Ole`! Bravo!” And they made him King!

And so it came to pass that employers, facing spiraling costs and ever-higher taxes, raised their prices and laid off workers. Others simply gave up and went out of business and the economy slowed even further.
Then the Pied Piper said, I am the Messiah and I’m here to save you! We’ll just print more money so everyone will have enough! But our foreign trading partners said, Wait a minute. Your dollar isn’t worth what it was. You’ll have to pay more.

*And the people said, “Wait a minute. That’s not fair!”

And the world said, Neither are these other, idiotic programs you’ve embraced. You’ve become a Socialist state and a second-rate power. Now you’ll play by our rules!

*And the people said, “What have we done?”

But it was too late.

If you think this is a fairy tale, open your eyes and ears. Its happening RIGHT NOW!

for liberals such as sdv, screwed & the like

*Dear Civilians, ‘We know that the current state of affairs in our great
nation has many civilians up in arms and excited to join the military.

For those of you who can’t join, you can still lend a hand. Here are a few
of the areas where we would like your assistance:*

1. The next time you see any adults talking (or wearing a hat) during the
playing of the National Anthem - kick their ass.

2. When you witness, firsthand, someone burning the American Flag in protest
- kick their ass.

3. Regardless of the rank they held while they served, pay the highest
amount of respect to all veterans. If you see anyone doing otherwise, quietly
pull them aside and explain how these veterans fought for the very freedom they
bask in every second.
Enlighten them on the many sacrifices these veterans made to make this
Nation great. Then hold them down while a disabled veteran kicks their ass

4. (GUYS) If you were never in the military, DO NOT pretend that you were. (ken V)
Wearing battle dress uniforms (BDUs) or Jungle Fatigues, telling others that you
used to be ‘Special Forces.
Collecting GI Joe memorabilia, might have been okay when you were seven
years old, now, it will only make you look stupid and get your ass kicked.

5. Next time you come across an *Air Force* member, do not ask them, ‘Do
you fly a jet?’ Not everyone in the Air Force is a pilot.
Such ignorance deserves an ass-kicking (children are exempt).

6.If you witness someone calling the *US Coast Guard*
‘non-military’, inform them of their mistake - and kick their ass.

7. Next time Old Glory (the US flag) prances by during a parade, get on your
damn feet and pay homage to her by placing your hand over your heart. Quietly
thank the military member or veteran lucky enough to be carrying her - of
course, failure to do either of those could earn you a severe ass-kicking.

8. Don’t try to discuss politics with a military member or veteran. We
are Americans, and we all bleed the same, regardless of our party affiliation.
Our Chain of Command is to include our Commander-In-Chief(CinC). The President
(for those who didn’t know) is our CinC Regardless of political party. We
have no inside track on what happens inside those big important buildings where
all those representatives meet All we know is
That when those civilian representatives screw up the situation, they call upon
the military to go straighten it out. If you keep asking us the same stupid
questions repeatedly, you will get your ass kicked.

9. ‘Your mama wears combat boots’ never made sense to me - stop
saying it!  If she did, she would most likely be a vet and therefore would kick
your ass!

10. Bin Laden and the Taliban are not Communists, so stop saying
‘Let’s go kill those Commies!’ And stop asking us where he is!
Crystal balls are not standard issue in the military. That reminds me - if
you see anyone calling those damn psychic phone numbers, let me know, so I can
go kick their ass!

11. ‘Flyboy’ (*Air Force*), ‘Jarhead’ (*Marines),*
‘Grunt’ (*Army*), ‘Squid’ (*Navy*), ‘Puddle Jumpers’
(*Coast Guard*), etc., are terms of endearment we use describing each other.
Unless you are a service member or vet, you have not earned the right to use
them. Using them could get your ass kicked.

12. Last, but not least, whether or not you become a member of the military,
support our troops and their families.. Every Thanksgiving and religious holiday
that you enjoy with family and friends, please remember that there are literally
thousands of soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen far from home wishing; they
could be with their families.. Thank God for our military and the sacrifices
they make every day. Without them, our
Country would get it’s ass kicked..’

*’It’s the Veteran, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom
of the press.’

‘It’s the Veteran, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of
speech.’

‘It’s the Veteran, not the community organizer, who gives us the
freedom to demonstrate.’

‘It ‘s the Military who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the
flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn
the flag.’

*AND ONE MORE::

13. If you ever see anyone either standing for or singing the national
anthem in Spanish - KICK THEIR ASS.

ONE LAST THING:

WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE,
ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!

IN GOD WE TRUST

One of the more interesting Pied Pipers was…

General Douglas MacArthur the Supreme Allied Commander and effective ruler of Japan from 1945-1948.

As a Republican MacArthur instituted the first labor unions in Japan…

MacArthur and his GHQ staff helped a devastated Japan rebuild itself, institute a democratic government, and chart a course that made Japan one of the world’s leading industrial powers. The U.S. was firmly in control of Japan to oversee its reconstruction, and MacArthur was effectively the interim leader of Japan from 1945 until 1948. In 1946, MacArthur’s staff drafted a new constitution that renounced war and reduced the emperor to a figurehead; this constitution remains in use in Japan to this day. He also pushed the Japanese Diet into adopting a decentralization plan to break apart the large Japanese companies (zaibatsu) and foster the first Japanese labor unions.

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
Abraham Lincoln

In an address to Congress on April 19, 1951, MacArthur said:

“ The Japanese people since the war have undergone the greatest reformation recorded in modern history. With a commendable will, eagerness to learn, and marked capacity to understand, they have from the ashes left in war’s wake erected in Japan an edifice dedicated to the supremacy of individual liberty and personal dignity, and in the ensuing process there has been created a truly representative government committed to the advance of political morality, freedom of economic enterprise, and social justice.  ”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur

“The dangerous patriot...drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions.”

~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps

Surely this can’t be the best or only venue for you disgruntled right wing-nuts. If you insist on posting ‘scroll past’ comments, at least spin your bilge to have some slight connection to Wal-Mart.

Live Better In Cheap Underwear

History 101 (Crash Course)

For those that don’t know about history ... Here is a condensed version:

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1. Liberals, and
2. Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That’s how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q’s and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided. (sdv, screwed and others)

Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn’t fair to make the pitcher also bat. (sdv, screwed & others)

Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Coors and Miller (and the occasional Bud). They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military, airline pilots and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America . They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing. (sdv, Screwed & others)

Here ends today’s lesson in world history:

It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.

A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to tick them off.

And there you have it. Let your next action reveal your true self.

Republican ends in ‘I can’ and democrat ends in ‘rat’.

As a fellow loser who destroyed conservative and republican causes Liberal Spin Checker let me give you some advice. Run off and hide, don’t take responsibility for anything, blame liberals for Sept. 11th, avoid militia groups like Cheney with a shotgun and as you try and regroup under the mighty leadership of ‘the great one’, all you AM radio call in junkies stay off the Oxycontin and other sex drugs.

HERE’ TWO MORE LESSONS FOR YOU, LSC…

But first of all quit with the “cuteness” already! 
“Republican ends in ‘I can’ and democrat ends in ‘rat’.”
It isn’t that clever and you don’t have enough smarts to
claim it as your own.  You either learned it at the last
meeting of the Young Republicans, or you picked it up by
listening to the likes of Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh.

Now for the two lessons.  The first goes back to 1980.  That
was the year Republicans and Conservatives stole their
Mindless drone-like chant,"USA, USA, USA.” They stole it
from a time of great national pride. “The Miracle on Ice” is
legendary.  We have been subjected to this “cheer” since the
Reagan administration.  The Repubs are one sorry unimaginative
bunch.  How much so you ask?

That answer comes from the more recent history lesson. The
fallout continues after the Conservatives tried to hijack the
term “tea bagging” for their agenda.

<>The fallout continues after the Conservatives tried to hijack the term “tea bagging” for their agenda. </i>

That’s pretty funny considering the fact that the only place I’m hearing this repeated again and again is on the liberal rag “news organizations” (and I use the term NEWs VERY” lightly) called CNN and MSNBC. 

Cooper, Olberman, Maddow..... all INCREDIBLY STUPID liberal wack jobs who wouldn’t know the truth if it him them square in the face.  But obviosly they must be familar enough with the term so who knows what “personal” experiences have been.  Lately they certainly have been in the gutter.  It’s nice to see you join them ScrewedbyWalmart.

“Cooper, Olberman, Maddow..... all INCREDIBLY STUPID liberal wack jobs who wouldn’t know the truth if it him them square in the face.”
Mark- The other white meat

Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, it became known that Bush Sr. was financially linked to the bin Laden family. The Sept 28, 2001 Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that, “George H.W. Bush, the father of President Bush, works for the bin Laden family business in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group, an international consulting firm.”

When Sr. hooked up with the Carlyle Group, his special area of influence was the Middle East, and especially Saudi Arabia investors.  One of the investors that he brought to Carlyle was the BinLaden Group, a construction company owned by the family of none other than future US #1 enemy Osama bin Laden.  According to an investigation by the WSJ, Sr. convinced Osama’s brother, Shafiq bin Laden, to invest $2 million of Bin Laden Group money with Carlyle.

According to the WSJ, “The senior Bush had met with the bin Laden family at least twice in the last three years—1998 and 2000—as a representative of Carlyle, seeking to expand business dealings with one of the wealthiest Saudi families which, some experts argue, has never fully severed its ties with black sheep Osama in spite of current reports in a mainstream press that is afraid of offending the current administration.”

The FOX NEWS ‘wack jobs’- We’re patriots, so let’s not discuss the Bush/bin Laden financial connections on the right wing jingoism channel.

“ That was the year Republicans and Conservatives stole their Mindless drone-like chant,"USA, USA, USA.”

But, the Liberals, aka Progressives, never lost their chant, “Hee-Haw, Hee-Haw, Hee-Haw”!!

BTW:  How do you STEAL, saying USA 3 times?

“BTW:  How do you STEAL, saying USA 3 times?”

The same way you RDS as a mindless drone stole ‘Hee-Haw’ 3 times from me!

RDS

“BTW:  How do you STEAL, saying USA 3 times?”

I don’t know about that, but what does strike me as funny is that the RIGHT WING and REAGAN tried to steal as their anthem , Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” they probably should have read the lyrics before they tried to use it without permission.

Reagan couldn’t read, or he would have seen that this was a protest song about Vietnam

Or how about McCain trying to illegally use “Right Hear Right NOW” by VanHalen. Or “LITTLE PINK HOUSES” and “OUR COUNTRY” by John Melloncamp, another lifelong DEMOCRAT.

Jackson Brown was so upset that he sued for the illegal use of his hit song “RUNNING ON EMPTY”. His main complaint was that he was afraid that people would think that he was a REPUBLICAN, (I love that part)...... “Copyright infringement aside, Browne’s lawsuit also alleges that the song’s usage falsely suggests that he is a McCain supporter. Browne is seeking a permanent injunction prohibiting the use of the song, as well as undisclosed damages.”

“Cooper, Olberman, Maddow..... all INCREDIBLY STUPID liberal wack jobs who wouldn’t know the truth if it him them square in the face.”
Mark

Lets compare.

Anderson Cooper Political Science/International Studies Yale University Graduate 1989

Keith Olbermann Graduated Cornell at 20 with Bachelor of Science in Communication arts.  (Enrolled at 16, turned down full scholarship at 16 to Boston College.)
What were YOU doing at 16 Mark?  I wil bet it wasn’t attending college.
Rachael Maddow Public Policy Degree from Stanford.  At graduation awarded John Gardner Fellowship.  Rhodes Scholar with Doctorate of Philosophy in Political Science from Oxford University.

Wolf Blitzer Bachelors degree in History University of Buffalo.  Masters degree in international politics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced international Studies.

Sean Hannity college dropout

Sheppard Smith University of Mississippi never graduated

Glen Beck high school graduate and “top 40 DJ”

Rush Limbaugh Southeast Missouri State dropout after 1 year.

...all INCREDIBLY STUPID...

You sound like a slightly more literate version of MATT, Mark. As you can see we already have a village idiot, so you’ll have to apply elsewhere. Besides, I don’t think the mascot costume will fit you.

Police in nearby Germantown Wisconsin say they’ll review surveillance video for clues as to who released a chemical at a Wal-Mart there on Thursday. At least 47 people were treated at hospitals for respiratory and other health problems.

“Hee-Haw, Hee-Haw, Hee-Haw”!!  --RDS

I forgot.  We’ re dealing with the curious “mind” of RDS here.
You just can’t make one of your lame “arguments” without making
a reference to another one of your favorite TV programs.

“BTW:  How do you STEAL, saying USA 3 times?”

I figured that would be way beyond your immediate grasp, RDS. Type
in “The Miracle on Ice” in your favorite browser to read about the most
exciting hockey game of the century.  When the U.S. underdog team
beat the Russians, the crowd was understandably proud, and chanted,
“USA, USA, USA.”

Now it just so happened that November 1980 was an election year.  The
Reagan Republicans, being the suave, hip, “with it” kind of people they are,
used the “USA, USA, USA” cheer at the Republican Convention that year. 
It’s been standard fare at Republican gatherings ever since.

I defy you RDS, or anyone for that matter,
to document where Republicans used that cheer
before February 1980.

Class dismissed RDS and Liberal Spin Checker.

By the way, the 1980 U.S Olympic Hockey
Team was a good example of “YES WE CAN!”

Screwedby,

So, I guess that now, if someone says something, it automatically becomes their copyright, right?  So, if I were asked where I was born and I said I was ‘Born in the USA’, then I am infringing on Bruce Springsteen’s rights!!

You talk like an idiot, first, you say that things are just ‘words’, like changing the term GAY from meaning ‘joyful’ to mean Homosexual, is no big deal and then you make a big deal out of someone saying USA!!

Mayby Wal-Mart should SUE WalMartWatch, for using their copyrighted name!!

“You just can’t make one of your lame “arguments” without making a reference to another one of your favorite TV programs.”

I was making a comment on the sound a JACKASS makes, but it seems you are the one who is connecting it to a TV program!!

Wal-Mart start paying,

If you are trying to make the point, that attending college is a sign of intelligence, may I remind you, that most of the people in Congress, are college graduates and they can’t agree on anything!!  Even Screwedby says he went to college and look where he is at, he won’t even admit to having a job or deny that he still lives with his mama!!

Today in History:

Apr 20 1914

Attempting to put down a coal miner strike, the Colorado National Guard machine-guns its way into a tent city in Ludlow, Colorado, and sets it on fire. Twenty people are killed, among them twelve children trapped in an underground cellar. The massacre sparks ten days of open revolt, ended by the imposition of federal troops.

March 30, 2009
I read with horror that Hillary Clinton, posing as the Secretary of State, has been in Mexico talking with Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s president, about “the problem of drugs.” Horror is the reasonable response whenever an American official is allowed to pass beyond the beltway. Or stay within it. They never know what they are doing. Oh god.
In fairness, I have to concede that Ms. Clinton is well qualified to talk to Calderon, since he speaks…English. Further, I concede that she does have a grasp of things Latin American, engendered by many years in…Arkansas. Aaagh.
May I suggest that the former First Basilisk had no idea where she was or what she was doing? Oh god, oh god. Oh god.
To show that utter futility can, if not be fun, at least serve to pass an idle hour, let me express the common Mexican and indeed South American view of the, oh god, War on Drugs. It goes thusly:
Latin America does not have a drug problem. It has a United States problem. The problem is that Americans want drugs. The US is a huge, voracious, insatiable market for drugs. Americans very much want their brain candy. They will pay whatever they need to pay to get it. All the world knows this.
Why, Mexicans wonder, is America’s drug habit Mexico’s problem? If Americans don’t want drugs, they can stop buying them. Nobody forces anyone to use the stuff.
Ah, the rub is that Washington doesn’t want Americans to have drugs. All right, say Mexicans, that is a problem between the American government and the American people. Let America solve it.
Why, Mexican’s ask—read this sentence carefully—should Mexico tear itself in pieces, lose thousands of dead annyally, and turn into a war zone to solve a problem that America refuses to solve?
Think. Why doesn’t the American government run sting operations at, say, Berkeley and Stanford, and Rice and George Washington U., and put those students caught using drugs in the slam for two years per? How about a sting at your daughter’s high school, with a year in some nasty reformatory, which is to say any reformatory, for those caught? It could be a family sort of thing. You could visit her and hear what fascinating things she had learned about compulsory Lesbian sex.
The reason of course is that any effort to punish large classes of politically influential people would result in a revolution. You can’t jail Harvard. So Washington doesn’t. Instead it expects Mexico to do something about drugs.
Now, on the off-chance that you live in an impermeable bubble, and don’t know who uses drugs, I will tell you. I note that I am not speculating about this. I spent eight years working as a police reporter from Anacostia to South Central, and know whereof I speak.
continued.

Blue-collar people use drugs—crack, for example. I’ve spent whole days arresting down-scale beauticians in rattletrap Chevys as they bought the stuff from black dealers in the grubby satellite towns outside Chicago. High rollers in Houston use as much powder as they ski in (and it happens to my certain knowledge on Capitol Hill). White professionals have bags of grass in the garage. So, most likely, do their children: In the suburban high schools of metro Washington, e.g., Yorktown and Washington and Lee, kids have easy access to Mary Jane, acid, shrooms, nitrous, Ecstasy, crystal. Good ol’ boys in Texas make, grow, and use drugs. Country kids in Virginia have a few plants out in the woods. And so on.
Don’t I remember that Hillary’s husband used to smoke chunky interns—marijuana, I meant to say, marijuana—but didn’t inhale?
Which is to say, as Mexicans know, drugs are about as illegal in the US as is the downloading of music. It is punished by very light sentences for first-time users (which of course means first-time caughters). High-school kids get a week of “community service,” perhaps, which they regard as both amusing and a badge of honor. In general, little real effort is made to apprehend respectable white transgressors.
In short, the WOD is a fraud. In America the drug racket is a mildly disreputable business, tightly integrated into the economy, running smoothly, employing countless federal cops, prison guards, ineffectual rehab centers and equally ineffectual psychotherapists, and providing bribes to officials and huge deposits of laundered money to banks. Narcos in the US do not engage in pitched battles with the army because they have no reason to. The government barely inconveniences them.
So why should Mexico fight this war for Washington?
In a column, Pat Buchanan addresses the violence in Mexico, and asks:
“Which is the greater evil? Legalized narcotics for America’s young or a failed state of 110,000 million on our southern border? Some choice. Some country we’ve become.”
Some country indeed, on many grounds. And the WOD might be a good idea if it did anything beyond keeping the price of drugs up. But it doesn’t. I suggest two things to Pat:
First, Mexico suffers narco-violence only because Washington expects Mexico to do what Washington won’t. Failed state? Take away the narco wars and Mexico is a reasonably successful upper-third-world nation. If it fails, it will be because we pushed it into failure.
Second, America’s young already have almost unlimited access to drugs. Many students experiment with them. Few become addicts. Why? Because they don’t want to. How is that for simple?
It is common sense (the young actually do have some of it) and not the DEA that prevents addiction. Do you think that few kids become alcoholics because they need an ID to buy booze?
(Wild thought: Maybe we ought to give America’s young credit for not being complete morons. Nah, never fly.)

Mexicans know all of the foregoing. Remember that there is a steady flow of Mexican nationals in both directions across the border. Americans are out of touch with Mexico, but Mexicans are not out of touch with America. They also know, as Americans seem not to, that corruption runs wide and deep north of the Rio Bravo. (A common story: when you cross the border illegally with the coyote, you wait behind a bush until the Border Patrol guy who has been bribed comes on duty.) They know that when narcos can offer bribes running into the millions, American officials will accept them as readily as anyone else. Would you refuse a million inflating green ones to unobserve a truck crossing the border? I would.
A business with that much money isn’t going to be shut down, obviously, which is why fifty years on, the WOD have accomplished exactly nothing. And South America knows it.
The Latin American attitude toward the largely imaginary War on Drugs could be summed up thusly: “Solve your own problems, gringo. We aren’t your mother. Leave us alone.” Fat chance.

written by Fred Reed

“the great one” -HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer
By Ali Sina
I must confess I was not impressed by Sen. Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident – a wholesome presidential package. I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words. Obama’s speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. Never a politician in this land had such a quasi “religious” impact on so many people. The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming. Obama is not an ordinary man. He is not a genius. In fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects. Barack Obama is a narcissist. Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love, also believes, “Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist.”

Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism everyone listens. Vaknin says that Obama’s language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). 

Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People’s Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a narcissist. David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao, Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers’ souls, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don’t know it until it is too late. 

One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse. “Obama’s early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations,” says Vaknin. “Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Obama saw his father only once again, before he died in a car accident. Then, his mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia : a foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be raised by a step-father. At the age of ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal (white) grandparents. He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few years and then she vanished from his life in 1979. She died of cancer in 1995.”

One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological narcissists. They project such an imposing personality that it overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a cult of personality. His admirers become his co-dependents. 

Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is beneath them and do not deserve their attention. If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or another, he has no interest in it. The “present” vote is a safe vote. No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Why should he implicate himself in issues that may become controversial when they don’t help him personally? Those issues are unworthy by their very nature because they are not about him. 

more facts below

Obama’s election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations. The University of Chicago Law School provided him with a fellowship and an office to work on his book. The book took him a lot longer than expected and at the end it devolved into…, guess what? His own autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which, he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing about his most sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My Father . 

Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious time and genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about such an august being as himself?
Narcissists are often callous and even ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from Obama’s lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar per month. A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in Hawaii, and who has raised nearly half a billion dollars for his campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the plight of his own brother. Why? Because, his brother cannot be used for his ascent to power. A narcissist cares for no one but himself. 

This election is like no other in the history of America . The issues are insignificant compared to what is at stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man bereft of conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot distinguish his fantasies from reality as the leader of the free world? 

I hate to sound alarmist, but one must be a fool if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to others.. They are simply self serving and selfish. Obama evinces symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a Bill Clinton, for example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined. This is a mental health issue, not just a character flaw. Pathological narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent. It is this disguise that makes them treacherous. 

Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this man could put an end to their party. The great majority of blacks have also decided to vote for Obama. Only a fool does not know that their support for him is racially driven. 

Let us call a spade a spade. This is racism, pure and simple. The truth is that while everyone carries a misconceived collective guilt towards the blacks for wrongs done centuries ago by a bygone people to a bygone people, the blacks carry a collective rancor, enmity or vendetta towards non-blacks and to this day want to “stand up” to the white man.. They seem to be stuck in 19th century. 

The downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites. The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama’s detractors of racism. This will cause a backlash among the whites. The white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent and they will receive widespread support. I predict that in less than four years, racial tensions will increase to levels never seen since the turbulent 1960s. Obama will set the clock back decades… America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of the world depends on the strength of America , and its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations. It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of their man in the White House. America is on the verge of destruction. There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.

“I was making a comment on the sound a JACKASS makes.” -RDS

I think what you’re trying to say RDS, is that every time you comment, you
sound like a JACKASS.

“So, I guess that now, if someone says something, it
automatically becomes their copyright, right?” - RDS

I guess you don’t understand plagiarism, RDS.

But I will say that something like “USA, USA, USA” is probably
considered to be part of “the public domain” since we can’t be sure
who coined it.  It’s the same reason WalMart could never sue anyone
For using the yellow smiley face.

...the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon...

There was nothing “run-of-the-mill” about Nixon’s mental state. He was crazier than a shit house rat, period.

You right wing-nuts need to pace yourselves. You’ve got a minimum of four years to fill with venom. You remind me of the woman watching her child marching in a parade:

“Oh, look! Everyone is out of step but my Johnny.”

A 2001 study commissioned by the city of Barnstable, Mass., found big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart annually depleted the town’s revenues by $794 per 1,000 square feet due to higher road maintenance costs and greater demand for public safety services.

RDS-

“If you are trying to make the point, that attending college is a sign of intelligence, may I remind you, that most of the people in Congress, are college graduates and they can’t agree on anything!!”

Just asking Mark where he got his degree from.  It must be one impressive college to call graduates from Yale, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Stanford and Oxford and I quote “INCREDIBLY STUPID.”

intelligence: (noun) (1): the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations : reason ; also : the skilled use of reason (2): the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests)

I would think everyone in congress has intelligence as they convinced over 50% to vote for them (manipulating ones environment). 

There are many intelligent Republicans, I don’t happen to agree with them, does this make them any less intelligent?

Once you get past the right wing paranoia, jealousy and loser fanaticism mixer at Club Limbaugh with the secular conservatism, you might get around to realizing that the grace of God places national leaders (Romans 13:1-7) and that this happened again recently by way of a landslide election.

“The Shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as a destroyer of liberty.” Abraham Lincoln

You right wing-nuts need to pace yourselves. You’ve got a minimum of four years to fill with venom

Yet it’s only taken less than 100 days into THIS presidency before outrage against this administration and its government policies begins to unfold.  If this keeps up it’s going to be a very LONG 4 years.

btw Walmart in Baraboo check out the educational credentials of Ken Kay and Ted Kazinsky.  But maybe you hold them in high-esteem as well because of their education.  I’ll say it again INCREDIBLY STUPID But let’s also add INCREDIBLY IGNORANT to the description as well.

LOOKING FOR SOME ATTENTION, MARK?

If we must pay you your dues, why don’t we just stop with INCREDIBLE?

...you might get around to realizing that the grace of God places national leaders (Romans 13:1-7) and that this happened again recently by way of a landslide election.

Don’t you mean by the grace of record fund-raising, SVD?

...it’s going to be a very LONG 4 years.

Welcome to the club. We’ve just come off the longest 8 years in history!

I wish you sore losers would take the back bench where you belong and hush. You had your chance to destroy this country and you did a pretty good job of it but it wasn’t a clean kill. Now it’s our turn to deliver the coup de grâce. Sorry.

Hmmm? What can we socialize next?

Live Better In Cheap Underwear

Mark-

You are sidestepping the question.

Where is YOUR degree from?  What qualifies you to decide who is intelligent or not? 

Intelligence is just that, intelligence.  You can be intelligent and do some extremely stupid stuff.  Adolf Hitler had a reported IQ of 141, Ted Bundy IQ of 124, Ted Kaczynski IQ 170.  People are not inherently good or evil.  Their actions are.  Just as people are not born bigots and racists, these are learned traits. 

You made a blanket statement that these people are incredibly stupid, and incredibly ignorant. This statement in and of itself is incredibly stupid and ignorant.

By the way you cannot be stupid and ignorant.  You can only be one or the other.  Your stupidity or ignorance is showing.

If you are stupid you cannot do anything about it you do not have the capacity to intellectually further yourself.  If you are ignorant you have the capacity you just don’t care.

So which are you stupid or ignorant?

If you are stupid you cannot do anything about it you do not have the capacity to intellectually further yourself.  If you are ignorant you have the capacity you just don’t care.

So which are you stupid or ignorant?

I have no clue what you are talking about, and furthermore, I could care less!

I have no clue...

Bullseye! Give that boy a cigar!

The whole history of the world is the story of the struggle between the selfish and the unselfish. All that’s bad around us is bred by selfishness. Sometimes selfishness can even get to be a cause, an organized force, even a government and then it’s called fascism. ~ Paul Verrall (William Holden) Born Yesterday

“I have no clue what you are talking about, and furthermore, I could care less!”

Mark in

I think that statment proves beyond a shadow of doubt that you can be STUPID and IGNORANT simotainiously.

Sorry that should have been “Simultaneously”

(Actually, I think it’s a lame play on the old joke: They say the world’s two greatest problems are ignornace and apathy. I don’t know and I don’t care!)

“I am so damn tired of you people coming in here with other Wal Marts garbage”.  ~ Stella (working Wal-Mart returns)

Ken V,

“Sometimes selfishness can even get to be a cause, an organized force”

Organized Force, isn’t that the description of a UNION?

...isn’t that the description of a...(?)

Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Police, Fire, National Guard, voters, protestors, just to name a few.

Too clever by !/2.

Live Better In Cheap Underwear

Ken V,

“Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Police, Fire, National Guard, voters, protestors, just to name a few.”

So, are you saying those groups were formed for selfish reasons?  Well, the protestors did!!

Those groups were formed for socialist reasons.

What’s good for Wal-Mart is BAD for America!