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How To Take Back America, From Americans?

By ✖ the Monk ✖ on October 1st, 2009

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ~Charles Krauthammer

Useful class if we had any Nazis or Communists in our country.

Useful class if we had any Nazis or Communists in our country.

Now I am confused?  Who exactly are WE taking back America from and who are we giving it too Again? Irony of this Republican conference held last month, is they are only perpetuating the US vs THEM problem that is ripping the United States in two!  Is that their goal?  Is that why they are dreaming of a military coup to take the power away from the liberals?[*]  So if we can’t keep power through democracy, we will take power through a forced dictatorship!  Guess Newsmax didn’t have the rocks to stand by their guy John Perry’s craziness.[*]

My Question is, do the Republican honestly think moderates are going to be ok with their vigilante tactics to sink Health Care Reform? Republicans continue to run the same playbook of  their typical smoke screen tactics, with their Death Panels, Abortion, Communism smears!  Their only goal is to distract from the real pressing issues at hand!  Most intelligent people I meet regardless of their party affiliation agree health care reform is needed. Grandma Fran, who’s ass is permanently fixed to the couch when her favorite Fox News Blow Hard is yacking about the latest conspiracy theory, maybe sold! But most intelligent America are NOT SOLD on these theories, they may have some concerns as they did with Medicare, Social Security, ect! Real questions and concerns can’t be addressed because of the child like check out lane temper tantrums the republican are throwing. Glenn Beck should just get on the floor and start kicking and screaming… Oh wait Continue reading How To Take Back America, From Americans? →

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Sarah Palin Brilliant?

By ✖ the Monk ✖ on September 24th, 2009

“The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.” –Adlai E. Stevenson

I wish I could hunt the media from an airplane

Can I Hunt The Media From An Airplane

Ok I am just innocently going on my twitter looking for someone to argue with or see who was the latest celebrity to kick the bucket! When to my surprise, I see this tweet come through

Sarah Palin’s Brilliant Media Strategy – Race 4 2012 (blog) http://bit.ly/GoZQS

Obviously I was overcome with curiosity at anyone that would put Sarah Palin’s name and the word brilliant in the same sentence! So I Clicked over to “Race 4 2012″ blog, and seriously it was the best 3 minutes of my life! SO entertaining! Like chicken soup for the progressive soul! Here is one of my Favorite Quotes.

After her ‘bang’ — the resignation — reignited her novel appeal, she continued to lay low until she became the first serious Republican to actually utilize Facebook with actual seriousness.

So many questions after this sentence like,

  1. What the hell is her ‘bang’? Oh right… the gun from thing helicopter thing right? Continue reading Sarah Palin Brilliant? →
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Punkin’ America, The Katie & Glenn Beck Interview

By ✖ the Monk ✖ on September 22nd, 2009

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it. ~P.J. O’Rourke

Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck Laughing all the way to the Bank

I can’t help but laugh when I look at the fiasco that is Glenn Beck.  The stuff he tells the public or insinuates is just insane and hilarious at the same time, it would be even more  hilarious if his viewers didn’t actually take everything he says as gospel truth.  Liberals hate him and are pulling out their hair, Right Wing Conspiracy theories tune into get the latest conspiracy marble rolling around that Mormon coconut of his.  And I must admit, I have been caught up at times with the Stop Glenn Beck Boycott campaign put on by Color of Change, which has successfully pulled 64 advertisers.  Which is costing FOX NEWS $500,000 a week in advertising, leaving Beck with sponsors like “Cash for Gold”. Yet Beck lives to cough out another conspiracy theory.  I believe this week it is , Fluoride in the drinking water to control our minds and makes us more easy to control!  RISE UP AMERICA!  LOL

Now it is easy to go and say Glenn Beck is a moron and needs to be stopped.  But you have to respect the guy.  A few savvy moves from his publicist’s Matthew Hiltzik founder of “Strategic communications” and what do you know, Glenn Beck made 23 million dollars the last 12 months. No wonder he went from saying our health care is the worst, to saying America has the best Health Care in the world. FOLLOW THE MONEY BABY! 23 million buys allot of Health Care doesn’t it, not that cheap socialist type either, we are talking Dick Cheney Halliburton Exec health care. When you see that, Glenn Beck doesn’t seem like that much an idiot any more does he. He has made more in a month then most people will see in a decade! Continue reading Punkin’ America, The Katie & Glenn Beck Interview →

Philosophy, Politics 1 comment

Why Socialism?

By ✖ the Monk ✖ on September 21st, 2009

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

by Albert Einstein

This essay was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949).

Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.

Let us first consider the question from the point of view of scientific knowledge. It might appear that there are no essential methodological differences between astronomy and economics: scientists in both fields attempt to discover laws of general acceptability for a circumscribed group of phenomena in order to make the interconnection of these phenomena as clearly understandable as possible. But in reality such methodological differences do exist. The discovery of general laws in the field of economics is made difficult by the circumstance that observed economic phenomena are often affected by many factors which are very hard to evaluate separately. In addition, the experience which has accumulated since the beginning of the so-called civilized period of human history has—as is well known—been largely influenced and limited by causes which are by no means exclusively economic in nature. For example, most of the major states of history owed their existence to conquest. The conquering peoples established themselves, legally and economically, as the privileged class of the conquered country. They seized for themselves a monopoly of the land ownership and appointed a priesthood from among their own ranks. The priests, in control of education, made the class division of society into a permanent institution and created a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior. Continue reading Why Socialism? →

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The Real Threat To America

By ✖ the Monk ✖ on September 20th, 2009

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right. ~H.L. Mencken, 1956

CoOperation

Working Together For A Better America

300 million people in the U.S. and most people are completely lost as to what the Real Threat to America is. You talk to a Democrat they will say Republicans, You talk to a Republican and they will say Democrat, You ask a Libertarian and they will laugh and say both even though they typically drink from the same cup of tea as Republicans. The Real threat to America is distrust of other Americans. Republican don’t trust Democrat, and Democrats don’t trust Republicans. The problem with this is the answer to our problem isn’t going to be solved by only Republican or only Democrats.

Take Health Care the hot button issue of the hour, which everyone knows about unless you have been living under a rock. While most intelligent people agree that our Health Care system is broken. We disagree with how to fix it. Democrats want to fine people that don’t have insurance, which I disagree with it. Republican haven’t really brought any solutions but you have to be blind, deaf and dumb to not know what their issue is, the Evils of Socialism! I admire Obama’s almost naive optimism that the Town Hall meetings would go well, and people would some how stop reading crazy uncle benny’s health care socialism, death panel emails! Then there was Glenn Beck who despite his own negative experiences and small crusade against the horrible health care system that wouldn’t give the president of GE good care, all off sudden changes his tune once he arrives at the Fair and Balanced folks at Fox. I think no one sums up and exposes Glenn Beck’s hypocrisy like comedian Jon Stewart. Continue reading The Real Threat To America →