JDArtist's Blog

The Entitled Ones are always saying: “Let the market decide.”

We of The 99% reply: “You want it, you got it!”

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46.2 million Americans – that’s 15.1 percent of us – now live in abject poverty. We rescued the Too-Bigs, now they are tossing families into the streets and demolishing their foreclosed homes. People are struggling to survive in tent cities right here in the United States of America. World-class tax dodgers are downsizing and outsourcing us, quite literally, to death.  We are considered no more than collateral damage, mere sacrifices upon the Altar of the Almighty Buck.

Millions jobless… homeless… sick… shivering… hungry…. and the sociopaths in charge of this star-spangled neocon/neolib asylum DO. NOT. CARE. In fact, they think it’s FUNNY!

It is impossible to do the ‘bootstraps’ thing when someone keeps stealing your boots!

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So we are taking a stand.  We’re hitting them in the ONLY place that they care about: their own wallets. We are moving our money. Some folks on Facebook picked today as a special day to get the ball rolling.

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What’s at the root of all this moral decay? Tell us, Sister!

Speaking of underwear… [rotfl]…

It’s not too late to have a pretty Gift Card delivered right to your Sweetie’s inbox!

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Keith Olbermann’s excellent summation of the Bush/Cheney era…

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From today’s http://davidswanson.org/ email…

SHOES FOR BUSH: This Wednesday, 11 a.m., at White House

Please join CODE PINK: Women for Peace, AfterDowningStreet, and Democrats.com this Wednesday, December 17, 2008, in Washington, D.C., at Lafayette Square Park in front of the White House.  We will have with us a large supply of shoes labeled with the names of Iraqis who have died in Bush’s war.  We encourage you to bring your old shoes as well.  Come rally with us in solidarity with the Iraqi people to demand an immediate and complete end to the occupation of Iraq.

Read press advisory from CODE PINK:
http://warisacrime.org/node/38242

Watch and discuss video of Iraqi journalist Montadhar Al-Zaydi throwing shoes at Bush:
http://warisacrime.org/node/38229

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…by the Flagpole

From the “THAT’S what we’re talkin’ about!” department…

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First, some words of wisdom from Abraham Lincoln, on January 11, 1837 ~ “It is an old maxim and a very sound one, that he that dances should always pay the fiddler. Now, sir, in the present case, if any gentlemen, whose money is a burden to them, choose to lead off a dance, I am decidedly opposed to the people’s money being used to pay the fiddler… all this to settle a question in which the people have no interest, and about which they care nothing. These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.”

And a recent, succinct summation of our current economic conundrum from Common Dreams forum member “matti” ~ “Criminal financial enterprises lent out money they didn’t have, then expected you to work and slave to pay back that “debt” (that they made by magic into an asset – for them) with REAL money. When you couldn’t do it, they had you kicked to the curb. And now, when too many of us have been screwed over in this way for them to pretend that these debts are really assets, they demand that YOUR Government use YOUR Treasury funds to bail them out!”

Yep.

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This misadministration’s loyal, snakeskin-bootlicking minions are oh-so-busy keeping us safe from dangerously compassionate nuns and grandmas with butter knives; routing our private phone calls through secret rooms; preparing to read our brainwaves, knock us to the ground, and throw us into camps or psych wards – but never fear! The folks in Denver and St. Paul found the time to keep us safe from *us* too.

Since Rachel and Keith were stuck at the table, few in (our worse than worthless) corporate media were left to cover what was happening *outside* the hallowed halls of Campaigns Central, and those few who tried were duly rewarded punished.

It warms wrenches my heart to hear that law enforcement in Denver arrested a major TV network producer for trespassing *on a public sidewalk* [thanks for trying, dood!], that one of those pesky little CodePink women was bashed to the ground by the big bad he-man, and that cops entrapped and whupped on peaceful protestors.

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