HOW-OF-WHY

It is time for the USA to take the lead and the other nations to follow and demand that Israel & Hamas stop killing in Gaza and sit down and talk. Neither leaves the room until a treaty is signed. Right now peacekeepers from around the globe must step in to protect civilians in Gaza.

Enough.

Labels: corruption, desperate, government, money, peace, war

Don't listen to Bush or his crew of crooks.
Don't listen to Banks & Wall Street thieves.
Don't listen to the Presidential Candidates or other political puppets of the wealthy thieves.

Instead:
No bailout necessary ~ economist Dean Baker PhD

Labels: Bush/Cheney, corruption, desperate, government, money talks, politics

We citizens and organizations will be damaged by the Federal BAIL OUT scheme. I'll let the analysis of an older, funnier, wiser writer explain what is happening, how it works, and why WE THE PEOPLE have allowed our government to be hi-jacked (again).
THIS I BELIEVE
(edited to remove profanity)

"Forget the politicians, they're their an irrelevant...
The politicians are put there to give you the idea
that you have freedom of choice.

You don't.

You have no choice.

You have owners.
They own you.

They own everything.
They own all the important land.
They own and control the corporations.
They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the State houses, the city halls, they've got the judges in their back pockets, and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all the news and information you get to hear.

They gotcha by the %#@® s!

They spend billions of dollars every year, lobbying.
Lobbying to get what they want.

Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody, but I'll tell you what they don't want.
They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking.
They don't want well informed , well educated people capable of critical thinking.
They're not interested in that.
That doesn't help them.
That's right.

You know something?
They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table to figure out how badly they're getting %#@®ed by a system that threw them overboard thirty %#@®ing years ago. They don't want that.

Ya' know what they want?
They want obedient workers.
Obedient workers!
People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the moment you go to collect it.
And now they're coming for your social security money. They want your %#@®ing retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.
And ya know something, they'll get it.
They'll get it all from you, sooner or later.
'Cause they own this %#@®ing place.

Its a big club, and you ain't in it!
You and I are not in the big club.
And by the way, its the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long, when they tell yo what to believe.
All day long beating ya' over the head in their media, telling you what to believe, what to think, and what to buy.

The table is tilted, folks.
The game is rigged.
And nobody seems to notice.
Nobody seems to care.
Good, honest, hard working people, white collar, blue collar. It doesn't matter what color shirt you have on. Good, honest, hard working people continue - these are people of modest means - continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don't give a %#@® about them!

They don't give a %#@® about you!
They don't give a %#@® about you!
They don't care about you!
At all!
At all!
At all!

Ya know, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.

That's what the Owners count on, the fact Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue
%#@® that is being jammed up their %#@® everyday.

Because the Owners of this country know the truth:
its called the American Dream,
'cause ya' have to be asleep
to believe it."

- George Carlin

Labels: corruption, desperate, government, money talks, politics, war and money

This is an historical moment in our nation's history.

The Bush/Cheny Administration transformed the USA into the
UNITED STATES OF FEAR.

Now the McCain/Palin team will transform the nation into
THE UNITED STATES OF STUPIDITY!

One nation, under stupidity:
When defending the phrase “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, Governor/VP Wanna-be Palin said,

“If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance.”

Really. Interesting.

Reality check time Mrs. Palin:

The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892, long after the founding fathers died. The phrase “one nation under God” was added in 1954…

"Don't know much about history" I guess.

Or the Constitution.

Or evolution.

Or birth control.

Sarah Palin advocates abstinence.

Oh if she would practice what she preaches and abstain from running for public office, using a gun, teaching her nut-case, whacko beliefs to her kids, and ever speaking in public.

Labels: corruption, desperate, government, money talks, politics, war and money

I have nothing at all against Henry Winkler.
The Fonze made the NYC born performer a full time, working actor (a rare occurrence within the profession that boasts a 95% unemployment rate) and eventually a Hollywood/Big Apple celebrity, producer and TV/film director.
He paid his dues (as we say in the biz) and was educated in his art/craft at Emerson College and the Yale School of Drama.
A talented and fortunate fellow.

But the "Bronze Fonz" seems silly, expensive, ill conceived and bordering on another "Milwaukee desperate".
Plus it does not look like the character very much (as sculptures go).

I doubt people will visit Milwaukee specifically to have a photo op with a bronzed fictional mannikin.

The Calatrava (which looks like a big bread slicer to me, and attracts more drug commercial shoots than visitors), Miller Park (looks like an alien space craft crashed, and keeps a fair number of people away) and now the faux Winkler are another Milwaukee embarrassment (and all relatively expensive mistakes).

"Bronze Fonz" should include a 24/7 web cam and a digital counter per photo.
Maybe a coin operated Polaroid in place for instant pictures to pay for the up keep and ward off vandals.

Couldn't a few live Fonze look-a-likes be hired to show up in the warm months to pose for tourists?
Milwaukee actors need work. Spend the $$ on them.

The Chicago Bob Newhart statue makes perfect sense.
Newhart is actually from Chicago.
His original TV show pretended to take place there and used location footage in the intro.

The map is not the territory. In the case of HAPPY DAYS the TV show is not a representation of Milwaukee.

Cable's "IN PLAIN SITE" films in Albuquerque and New Mexico.
Why can't a current TV show film in MKE - WI? (good project for your organization)

Milwaukee has many worthy attractions to bring people here as well as many famous former residents.
How about public statues of Milwaukee area actual people who made a difference: Al Jarreau, Tom Snyder, Gene Wilder, or Liberace, to mention a few...

Visit Milwaukee seems to want to sell the sizzle and ignore the steak, hype gimmicks rather than the real deal.

Labels: desperate, milwaukee, money talks, politics