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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The FBI began using the word ‘epidemic’ to describe mortgage fraud in September of *2004* predicting that it would cause an economic crisis if it were not contained. Greenspan, Bernanke, and Geithner knew exactly where we were headed, but failed to take action. The highrollers were having waaay too much fun sitting at the gambling tables with other people’s money, donchaknow. Until Reality once again reared its ugly head and it became obvious that all of those pretty zeros existed only on paper. The money – trillions of dollars – never actually existed!

When time came to settle up at the window, the modern-day Medici wannabes had to admit that the jig was up. Technically, they were insolvent and screamed for help – by threatening to bring down the entire global economy! – and the entire mess suddenly became a Big Freakin’ Emergency™. So the FED “rev’d up the presses” to pay off their gambling debts. FOREIGN banks and their U.S. subsidiaries received a huge chunk of that $3.3 trillion in TARP funds.

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

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C’mon… Help out a bro in need!

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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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The latest from Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Films team: four videos that reveal McCain’s positions on four crucial issues: the environment, the economy, tax cuts, and women’s rights…

McCain’s Green Economy: Drill, Baby, Drill

John McCain: Economic Disaster

The Haves & Have-Mores: Why the Rich Love McCain’s Tax Plan

Women: The REAL McCain is Anti-Choice

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I just added some links to my Jolly Dodgers Home page. Details on the changes may be found here.

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