Marlowe's Tellin' Ya...

Mortgage Marauders

2010-02-03T12:59:00.000-08:00

LET US PURSUE the Mortgage Marauders who DROVE Americans to this financial cliff. Let's track who is the most merciless towards those it helped to financially wreck. Let's chase down every single banking institution that - like drug dealers - made credit so cheap and easy - knowing that Middle America, already being relentlessly CRUSHED for DECADES by policies that are robbing them blind - with transfers of unimaginable wealth to the top 1/10th of 1% of Americans - LET US descend on THEM. How dare they drive Americans from their homes, wreck their lives and their ability to resurrect that life and then HOUND those same Americans as dead beats!!!

Bin Laden Blames US... For Everything

2010-01-29T08:05:00.000-08:00

In a news conference today Bin Laden blamed the US for global warming. It seemed that short accusation would be the whole of the terrorist leader's statement, when, suddenly, he blurted out that the US was also to blame for the whole NBC/Conan/Leno debacle. Laden further insisted it was the US that forced Paula Abdul to leave American Idol, and by far the worst crime - of late - the US forced the NFL to put the Pro Bowl on the week BEFORE the Super Bowl. "It's all your fault, US of A!" He screamed, running back to his cave. He grabbed at the bush he uses to disguise the cave entrance from predator drones and attempted to slam it shut. It made an indistinct scratching sound.

AMERICANA TURPIS thy name is RUSH LIMBAUGH

2010-01-14T09:10:00.000-08:00

How much uglier can we get?

2009-11-27T09:52:00.000-08:00

Framed for Life

2009-11-04T09:47:00.000-08:00

This case is one of those 'gems' if such a term can be used that shows the appalling holes in our judicial system.

Literally framed for a murder they did not commit with the full knowledge of both the police AND the DA's office Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee were sent away, the former for life (without possibility of parole) for a murder they didn't commit. That facts are nauseating.

What is worse though is the self-serving laws put into place and sustained there by the US Supreme Court to cover the asses of many an incompetent if not outright corrupt DA.

The phrase, 'no Constitutional right to NOT be framed' has been used by many in the old boy's network to protect those backsides. What is stunning is that they say this with a straight face. No one poses the question, "So, Mr. Solicitor, if YOU were framed you'd be fine with that?!"

The fact is that this 'claim' is, in itself a lie. The Bill of Rights does indeed give you and I the right not to be framed. It exists in the Ninth Amendment: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. And also in the Tenth: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

So it could be argued we 'have' an, as yet (and even phrasing it this way infuriates me) 'undiscovered' right to not be framed. The Ninth has rarely been used - but used it was most famously in two cases, Griswold vs. State of Connecticut (381 U.S. 479 (1965) and of course Roe v Wade. Despite any misgivings about the latter one might have, the point was, 'do American's have the right of privacy"? And the argument was made that that 'right' which all humans 'recognize' could then be discovered within the Ninth Amendment.

The same appalling insanity that has allowed judicial and prosecutorial misconduct for generations allowed, for instance, the Bush Administration to pass the near-draconian Patriot Act. Within its framework any ONE of us - yes, US citizens could have been deemed an 'enemy combatant' and hauled off WITHOUT appeal even to the most fundamental of human rights, habeas corpus. The revulsion we all feel toward that is the same we should feel about this utter BS of 'there being no Constitutional provision against being framed' by an incompetent or corrupt DA.

I recommend everyone familiarize themselves with this case and write to their representatives in Washington.

And God bless the incredibly brave and resilient Mr. Harrington for never, in 25 years, giving up! A man who was shortly bound for Yale, instead being framed and tossed away like so much dead meat into a prison, where the corrupt state and local officials assumed he'd disappear - refuses to give up or give in. It is indeed a testament to the enduring power of the human spirit and even more, for those in our country who have been abused by its very institutions to REFUSE to allow us or those institutions to forget what they are SUPPOSEDLY founded upon: Justice.

The NRA Parasite: Ginning fear to Gin Dollars

2009-11-01T07:50:00.000-08:00

The NRA hard at work spreading, like the rest of the 'conservative' corporate machine, lies and fear. Here they work hard to derail attempts by America's mayors to ban the sale or manufacture of automatic weapons - a weapon with only one DESIGNED purpose: the killing of as many humans as possible in as s...hort a time as possible. The NRA has blanketed regions with their fear & hate mail, threatening the mayors of smaller towns until many abandon this sensible program. The NRA is a PARASITE that lives off generating fear in ignorant Americans. It's only true aim is to continue it's existence for it's administration by whipping up paranoia, thus increasing the amount of membership dues it takes in.

NUMBERS THAT MAKE YOU SUFFER

2009-10-06T12:53:00.001-07:00

To help you understand: 1/10th of 1% of Americans control 90% of ALL the wealth in America and last year made 50% of all the income generated. Let's move this to the new Dallas football stadium with 80,000 seat capacity and pretend it represents all of America:

Just 80 people in that stadium control more wealth than 71,920, (or 90%) of the others in that stadium.

What's more: because the tax laws are completely skewed in their favor (among other benefits) these 80 individuals earned more - just last year - than the 'bottom half' or 40,000 of those hard working, bustin'-their-chops-every-damn-day Americans filling those seats.

These economic royalists are so far removed from the Reality of this world that they literally cannot comprehend how this gross distortion between the ultra-rich and the rest of us creates unimaginable suffering - and not just for us but for the world.

They have suckered the ever shrinking American middle class for decades, using the lure of cheap and easy credit, to make the middle class - you and I, believe we too could exist in their realm. It was a lie. All the while, as we were being led to believe the "American dream" was still attainable these people, these economic royalists, were stealing this country blind through their powerful lobbying of our elected representatives, rewriting tax laws to favor them while their PR people screamed that you and I were suffering a the hands of 'big government'. The sad thing is the truth of all this is easily found. It's all right in front of us. But they brilliantly went about the process of dumbing down America while at the same time buying up every media source - newspaper, radio or TV that they could. Now just six corporations own well over 90% of ALL media outlets in this country.

What is needed is a fundamental understanding that the extremes of wealth and poverty must be eliminated. There is no call here to storm the castle gates - such actions have never solved this problem which is largely spiritual in nature.

What must be done is for us all to arise, as one voice and adamantly insist that this despicable greedy behavior will no longer be tolerated in today's world.

No one should feel it is business as usual to own half a dozen palatial estates while five miles away a single mother is being evicted from her rat-invested one bedroom apartment. It is fundamentally wrong.

PEOPLE! PEOPLE! PEOPLE!

2009-10-02T09:00:00.000-07:00

There is a tremendously successful MISDIRECTION occurring in today's discussion over health care. It focuses on buzz words such as 'costs' and 'profit' and especially 'TAXES'. This last is what I want to direct your attention to.

For decades now the economic royalists (as FDR so aptly designated them) of our era have - at 110 decibels - shattered American sensibilities over the issue of taxes. President Reagan was famous for this: while decrying 'big government' and 'reckless government spending' he oversaw a federal deficit that literally EXPLODED - more than doubling by the time he left office. Most of that going to defense contractors and pork barrel projects - AS WELL AS the stripping of tax revenue enforcement in general and a REDIRECTION of enforcement from the rich - who are far more likely to seek ways to avoid paying taxes - to the middle class who have virtually NO WAY of pulling off a tax cheat.

It started here and has continued on to this day. The right wing Rage Radio types hang all their arguments on the issue of taxes on the "tax rate" for the American rich - esp., corporations - as being the '2nd highest' in the world. That is true - on PAPER. In reality there are so many loopholes written into our tax laws that EXCLUSIVELY benefit the rich and corporations that - once investigated even the most jaded would be shocked and outraged.

One last figure before I leave you with two links on two books you HAVE TO READ if you really want to know what is being done to your country... In 1955 50% of ALL taxes collected in America were collected from corporations. Today? 6.7%. Now look around America's crumbling infrastructure - roads, schools, colleges, police, fire, sewers, water supply, libraries, and on and on and on and you will dimly begin to realize what's being done to you. Because in the gated communities of the rich - they have PRIVATE roads and PRIVATE schools and PRIVATE police forces and PRIVATE fire departments...

READ these two books by a Pulitzer winning New York Times reporter.

http://www.amazon.com/Perfectly-Legal-Campaign-Rich-Everybody/dp/B000CDG8N8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254497681&sr=8-1

and

http://www.amazon.com/Free-Lunch-Wealthiest-Themselves-Government/dp/1591841917/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254497681&sr=8-2

Rush and Rage Radio

2009-09-25T08:58:00.000-07:00

To Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Hannity, Dick Savage and all the Rage Radio Gang, along with Mercenary-for-Hire Dick Armey and FreedomWorks - don't feel responsible for whipping up to a creamy froth the stupidity and ugly hate-filled emotions of your largely ignorant followers. It wasn't you Ms. Palin who kept hammering home how the "government" is the ENEMY of the people - even though of course the government IS the People in America...

There is a special place in hell for your types that incite others to the point where such despicable acts are carried out. Like the racists of the Old South who whipped up the ignorant, fearful Whites who would drive off into the night to commit grotesque deeds in the name of 'racial' purity and 'preserving' the 'natural order' of things - you all are the puppet masters of the 21st Century.

I can only hope this latest act will waken at least one of you to renounce your society-wrecking ways.

Republican Congress members Declare...

2009-09-21T13:19:00.000-07:00

I knew it! No wonder I can't be seen by any doctor anymore!

Lincoln Feared Corporate America

2009-09-15T14:05:00.000-07:00

11/21/1864 LINCOLN TO COL. WILLIAM F ELKINS

We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing the end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood. … It has indeed been a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all earth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.

The President's Nefarious Plot on the First Day of School

2009-09-04T22:52:00.000-07:00

You know it's odd. No one complained when Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Bush, Clinton, and Bush spoke to school children. No one of Roosevelt's enemies accused him of trying to preach 'socialism'. No one accused Kennedy of trying to push Catholicism. No one accused Johnson of trying to push racial equality. It is also odd that ALL of the people leading the 'charge' against President Obama's speech are high level Republicans, many hoping to run in 2012. Very odd indeed. What exactly is the President going to say to the little kidos? What evil plot will he unleash with hundreds of millions of Americans looking over his shoulder?

How odd too that all the parents who are 'terribly' concerned are all White. All the officials are White. What a population of HYPOCRITES we are. Let's just go ahead and strike - "...That all men are created equal" from the Declaration of Independence -the White American majority keep tripping over the damn thing!

Hypocrites!

2009-09-01T10:44:00.000-07:00

Even as conservatives were preaching about their love of flag, country and our 'brave men and women in uniform' back in late 2001 and early 2002 these same hypocrites were - for the very first time in history - pushing legislation through Congress to establish a 'means' test for those same 'brave men and women' after they returned, many wounded, from Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Means" test you ask? Yes. For the first time in US history, these conservatives put into place a means test. So, if you were the wife of a young wounded soldier from Iraq and had a descent job (in Washington County, Oregon the 'means' would be $43,000) your wounded husband would BE DENIED his VA benefits.

The law is still in place.

So I guess you have a choice. You can go bankrupt (70% of ALL bankruptcies in America today are health care releated) from holding onto a decent job with a decent salary OR you can quit that job, plunge your family into financial ruin but make sure your husband's lifetime health needs are covered.

What hypocrites! Where the HELL is the PROOF of their mouthing, at every turn, 'we support our troops' from these 'patriotic' political leaders? Where is their 'deep compassion' for 'our wounded' that they so loudly proclaim at every rally? All the while passing more spending legislation to funnel over $300,000,000 to PRIVATE contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan!

The next time these real patriots utter "God bless America" they should be slapped - slapped hard and repeatedly.

The Founders were Against It!

2009-08-31T10:13:00.001-07:00

The struggle in Washington over healthcare IS between the Republicans and Democrats: what they're struggling over is which party can sell US out to corporate interests the best! DOWN with party politics! The Founders were dead set AGAINST political parties and now it is clear why!

Health Care is a Right

2009-08-16T09:41:00.000-07:00

Devoted to the heroic people of RAM as well as Americans everywhere that are proceeding with the spiritual revolution - building communities and lives on the firm foundations of Truth, Kindness, Mercy, Love and a rejection of cancerous materialism which manifests all that is the worst in Man.

Over the Mind of Men

2009-08-12T09:59:00.001-07:00

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson

Enough Already

2009-08-11T09:11:00.000-07:00

Enough already with the greed!

"Patriots! Get yer 'Patriots' here!!"

2009-08-10T10:34:00.000-07:00

Hmmm... Does wearing a 'patriot' sweaty MAKE you a patriot? (Same goes with all the lame a***** on the West Coast wearing Boston Redsox caps - where were those hats in '03?? Were you a fan in '02? Ha! Yeah, I thought so...)

When Does Kristallnacht Begin?

2009-08-07T14:40:00.000-07:00

So PROUD of our Oregon hicks! Way to grab the national spot light. In a flip Right Wing Ragers are accusing the SEIU Union of 'thugish violence' all because the union has encouraged their members to show up at congressional town hall meetings to show support for health care reform. Now 'Diane' from Oregon is threatening GUN VIOLENCE to union members. Wonderful. When does Kristallnacht begin? Sundown you say?

Get your Congressional Effigy Here!

2009-08-05T12:31:00.000-07:00

"Hey! Get your congressman effigy here! Lighter fluid here! Ropes here!"

Yes, there's big business in Rent-a-Mobs these days!

They will lie like there is no Tomorrow!

2009-08-05T10:53:00.000-07:00

Oh yeah! Those making the billions in health care will fight tooth and nail and lie like there is NO tomorrow to stop real reform!

Chuck joins the BirtherWaffen!

2009-08-05T09:27:00.000-07:00

Chuck Norris has joined the BirtherWaffen! When Chuck approaches you have your papers in order please! Chuck of course needs no birth certificate: he was not born but brought himself into existence once he realized how splendiferous his existence among mere mortals could be.

Blackwater (now Xe): Jonzin' (to death) for the Gravy Train

2009-08-04T14:55:00.001-07:00

Hey, what smart American businessman, running the world's largest security firm, making hundreds of millions of dollars off a fat government contract, lobbying congress to rewrite laws so that his men - should they murder anyone in Iraq would not be subject to either Iraqi or American military law (http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/730277.html) - - what 'patriotic' businessman wouldn't murder to protect such a cash cow?

Fact: 48% of all money spent in Iraq by US Government goes to private contractors.

Xe, formerly Blackwater was fired by the US State Department after Blackwater operators were accused of killing seventeen Iraqi civilians.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090817/scahill

Freedom Wrecks: How Freedom Works is Ruining Democracy

2009-08-04T10:12:00.000-07:00

FREEDOM WORKS: How to run a 'rent-a-mob' to disrupt all meetings where congressmen try to discuss health care. They will bus in the 'mob' which are trained in 'meeting disruption tactics'. Dick Armey, you cleaver dog! You've certainly learned your lesson from Hitler who used the same tactics in those Munich beer halls!

All Time Great Scenes

2009-06-25T09:04:00.000-07:00

One of the greatest if you're a fan of this show...