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Diverse interests, socialable, like fun yet serious and observant always. Usually keenly curious about anything, open mind. I am 40 something now, time to be honest, born in the mid, late 60's.

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After blogging for a while, I have decided it's time to add a disclaimer. First off, I cannot verify the accuracy of any information I post. I have been an info junkie since Jr. High school. I read at least 12 artilces a week, usually more, and will skim countless others. Also I read a couple dozen blogs and websites weekly. But I certianly do not believe everything I read, nor should anyone else. Out of curiosity, I am willing to read or study anything at least once. Secondly, I do not expect anyone to believe what I believe, and I encourage people to do thier own research to determine fact, from fiction. I do not claim to be an authority or expert on any issue, so please keep these things in mind as you read my opinions, poetry and random thoughts.
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Goldman Sachs takes on new role: taking away people's homes

 
mcclatchydc.com, The lender with whom they sparred, however, wasn't the one that had written their loans. It was an obscure subsidiary of Wall Street colossus Goldman Sachs Group. Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packaging them into high-yield bonds. Now that the bottom has fallen out of that market, Goldman finds itself in a different role: as the big banker that takes homes away from folks such as the Beckers.

Is the Obama Administration about destory the internet as we know it?

 
eff.org,  Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA: The leaks confirm everything that we feared about the secret ACTA negotiations. The Internet provisions have nothing to do with addressing counterfeit products, but are all about imposing a set of copyright industry demands on the global Internet, including obligations on ISPs to adopt Three Strikes Internet disconnection policies, and a global expansion of DMCA-style TPM laws.
 

Sound familiar? Ron Paul's Audit the Federal Bill gutted

 
sameoldchange.com,   I would like to know what happened to transparency in government. Maybe the Federal Reserve is not a true government institution and should not be empowered with the minting plates and money printing presses of the people of the United States. I would also like to know what to happened to "Government for the people, by the people". We have all these highly educated people in government coming from elite academic institutions and it seems not much is working right and what is left over is either close to collaspe-pending a takeover or has been already taken over. It seems much of what was of value in the US has been outsourced, down sized, or mechanized, mismanaged, embezzled, stolen, pillaged and plundered. And on top of these it is conventional wisdom that it is wrong to buy American or make much here either. As if all this is not enough it is expected that we keep paying for this or be questioned as unamerican if to many questions are asked. I take it the concept of 'taxation without representation' is moot as well then in this paradigm. 

More Government Takeover? Fannie Mae getting into home rental business

 

msnbc.com,  Instead of foreclosure, some homeowners will get option to rent

American Issues: MSM back to "jobs & economy" as the main reason Americans are "upset"

 

 

First off I would say, saying that a growing majority of Americans are "upset" maybe a case of the MSM again misunderstanding the mood and concerns of that obviuosly growing number of upset people. I remember in a 9th or 10th grade sociology class the teacher taught us governments frequently either under-react or over-react to citizens. That observation has proven to be true time and again over the years.

 

This situation is amplified because most of the MSM acts almost exclusively like a giant weapons grade echo chamber for the constituent parts of the government the Democrats and Republicans or Redemicans as I like to call the two almost hermetically sealed parties. And the result it seems for the American people is that we are fairly well not being listened to or given much redress for growing grievances. This disparity and the numbers of upset Americans is amplified by what seems like a growing number of financial conglomerates and other business interests running rough shod over the American people.

 

This brings me back to what is causing the American people to be merely “upset” about what existence is meaning right about now. I hear the MSM automatons saying “jobs” and the economy and no doubt someone will say sooner or later say “it’s the economy stupid” and use a few more mantras in explaining why Americans are upset. This happens every time one of these ‘cyclical downturns’ or ‘recessions’ or ‘jobless recoveries’ occurs.

 

Obviously I question the MSM and other denizens of conventional wisdom. Because I think Americans are a long ways past being upset. And I think it’s because America’s problems have correspondingly morphed a long ways past “jobs and it’s the economy stupid” into being serious matters of economic injustice for generations of American’s to come, the future of Republican Democracy, and Social Justice. Problems which left ignored or suppressed, historically can quickly fester into near chaotic circumstances.
 
 

Is America truly "Post-Racial" or is this Stockholm Syndrome?

 
gallup.com: Blacks Far More Satisfied With U.S. Under Obama‏- Close to half of black adults nationwide, 47%, say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S., up from 10% in mid-2008.

Gallup.Com: One Year After Election, Americans Less Sure About Obama‏

 
gallup.com,  Americans are much less sure than they were a year ago at the time of his election that President Barack Obama will be able to accomplish a number of challenges facing his administration. In particular, far fewer Americans believe he will be able to heal political divisions and control federal spending.

Dylan Ratigan, MSNBC- Morning Meeting, "The time for corrective action is now"

 
huffingtonpost.com The current custodian of America's wealth, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, is not doing a good job. The time for corrective action is now.

Obama keeps Bush's torture photo policy in place. . .

 
bln.com, These two Adminstrations are in agreement on so many things so often that I have taken to calling this administration the O'Bushma Admistration. Seems the coronation of the two was the recent Points of Light shin-dig.

No men OR women needed: Scientists create sperm and eggs from stem cells

 
 
dailymail.co.uk  Research centres on stem cells, widely seen as a repair kit for the body.  Scientists at Stanford University in California found the right cocktail of chemicals and vitamins to coax the cells into becoming eggs and sperm. 


FBI Demands Tattoo Shops Rat On Customers


bln.com, By Kurt Nimmo, "Are you in the market for a patriotic tattoo, maybe the Gadsden flag? Forget about it. Unless you want the local tattoo artist to inform on you. The FBI, in league with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (part of the Department of Justice), has launched a program that harks back to East Germany’s Stasi. In Philadelphia, the FBI has instructed tattoo shops to rat out their customers if they demand privacy, insist on paying with cash, engage in “suspicious behavior,” make “anti-US” comments, or request tattoos that are “extremist symbols.”

Barack Obama Continues Bush Administration Policy Regarding Posse Comitatus

 
thenewamerican.com,   Written by Joe Wolverton, II,  "It has been just over one year since the U.S. Army announced that the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team was being placed under the direct control of the US Army Northern Command (NORTHCOM), and was being indefinitely reassigned as an “on-call federal response force” for emergencies of all sorts, natural and man-made, including terrorist attacks, within NORTHCOM's area of responsibility — the United States, Mexico, and Canada".

My favorite Psalm from the bible


God stands in the congregation of the mighty; God judges among the gods. How long will God judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not, neither will they understand; they all walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, you are of gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes/presidents. Arise, God, judge the nations of earth: restore the creation, for thou shall inherit all nations.

Chicago bank protestor raps to “Golddigger” by Kanye West using protest lyrics

 
apps.wbez.org, Kind of hard to hear the lyrics but you can make out a phrase or or two if you strain a little. Obama recently verbally jabbed Kanye West as a Jackass. Kind of an ironic song for the young man to be protesting with I would say. Wonder if West will be the jackass that keeps kicking? 
 

Obama wins Nobel PEACE Prize: Will he escalate Middle East Wars?

 
I have been asking myself the question if Obama will escalate a war on the heels of winning the "prestigious" Nobel PEACE Prize. Given the nature of what we are calling reality now a days it would not me surprize me that a winner of a peace medal would escalate a war. It seems it is conventional wisdom now to define up as down, forward as backward, and war as peace evidently. This question possibly gets a little more intense in light of his honor the fallen troops appearance at the Dover Air Force Base.

Thousands March in 3-Day Showdown with Banking Industry

 
alternet.org,   Workers gave pink slips to the country's top bankers Tuesday morning to culminate three days of protests, billed as the Showdown in Chicago, ...

16-Year Old Got Life Without Parole for Killing Her Abusive Pimp -- Should Teens Be Condemned to Die in Jail?

 
 
alternet.org,   This article is the first in a two-part series about juveniles and harsh sentencing.

Alex Jones film, FALL OF THE REPUBLIC: Is he paranoid about bankers and other elite?

 
 
Or are even more terrible times brewing? FALL OF THE REPUBLIC, foundingfather1776.wordpress.com

Poem - Broken Bricks

 

 

 

In life I learned to build with broken bricks,

 

and because life is hard I also learned many other tricks.

 

The lines of what I built were not always straight and true.

 

So I beg pardon, as I am only human too.

 

However there is at least this one thing I can prove.

 

With lifes broken bricks, I built a shelter with room for at least a few.

 

I found a broken brick and picked it up and put it to use.

Their going to extreme$ and I want to be left alone please. . .

 
 

The Chri$tian$, the Muslim$ and the Jew$, the Conservative$ and the Liberal$ too are all going to extreme$ to force on the world their view$.

Glenn Beck: Love him or hate him, he is pushing the envelope

 
The Founders vs. Radicals video here, foxnews.com 

Resource wars escalate. . .

 
foxnews.com   MOGADISHU, Somalia  —  Somali pirates who are demanding $7 million in ransom for a British sailing couple said Saturday that boats from other countries are plundering Somalia's fish-rich waters.

poem- In Genocides Ditches

 

 

In genocides ditches, the grim reapers shadow pitches.

Over contorted human forms, with skin stretched so tight one can almost see bone!! 

When the tectonic plates of power shift what a ride!!

As people try to stay out of the genocide lines. 

The victors gather the plundered riches of those in the ditches...

As the devil ultimately gets all its wishes,

Condemning all to the genocide ditches...

No amount of dirt will cover this!!!

When the counting of the bones is begun,

Human history comes to a sum...

In genocides ditches no war is won!!

 
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