Rudy Guiliani: New Host of “Fear Factor” in Near Future January 4, 2008
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That is, of course, after he loses the 2008 Presidential Election.
If you’ve seen some of Rudy’s election ads on TV, you might have seen the ones that insinuate America will be under attack by terrorists in the near future, and that Rudy is ready to kick some ass.
Read on to see one of these ads and find out why Rudy should never be your president.
Why Polls Are Bullshit! …and Why You Care. December 7, 2007
Posted by Joe in : Crumbling Society, Political Circus , add a commentGo on over to YouTube to watch this clip from an episode of Penn and Teller’s Bullshit! (a series on Showtime kind of like Myth Busters - debunking bullshit!).
This is a great look at how “polls” are really conducted. You’ve read them in papers, magazines; watched them on news channels; heard about them from one person to another. Polls like which presidential candidate is winning, or what people think about immigration reform. Well, see for yourself in the aforementioned clip about how that information is gathered.
By asking someone the same question a dozen different ways, you’ll eventually end up with the answer that you (or the person/company conducting the poll) is looking for. For instance, if you were Fox News, you’d probably want to run a poll that shows most Americans believe in god. But if you poll a large amount of atheists, how do you twist that the way you want it? Just ask them what they believe in, and when they tell you they don’t believe in god, just ask them if its possible that god exists. Most would say yes (I would, even though I’m an atheist and don’t believe in any god), so you could surmise that they believe in god, even though they do not. Now, you’ve got the right answers to the poll. Time to put it on TV!
Keep in mind that as the media tightens its grip over our reality and our government becomes more and more entrenched in its corruption, that some of us need to stay sharp. Don’t let your friends, your family, your coworkers, or even strangers go about thinking that what they get spoon-fed to them every day is the real deal. Because sadly, that’s the direction we’re headed in. Our constitution is in shreds, our leaders are selling us to the highest bidder like slaves, and that natural instinct to sense deceit and to rise up against the powers that be has faded.
I read a news headline the other day, probably from Digg, that mentioned how 18 year old voters were 11 years old when Bush became president. Now that they can vote, the only government they’ve ever known has been the Bush administration. The next generation is going to suffer far worse than our own because of this.
Education really is power. Do your part; whatever it may be.
America Stands Watch, September 4th, 2007 July 30, 2007
Posted by Joe in : Political Circus , add a commentIf you’re as dissatisfied with Congress as the rest of us, clear your calendar for September 4th.
That’s the day Congress reconvenes after summer recess. It’s also the day a group called America Stands Watch is organizing a silent protest in the Senate and House of Representatives galleries. A peaceful protest that tells our Congressmen “Hey, we’re watching you - and we don’t like what you’re doing.”
All you have to do is sign up on the website to let them know you’re coming, and come September 4th, you’ll go to D.C. and get your ticket to enter either the House or Senate gallery and take a seat. At a given signal, all members of the group will stand together in silent protest.
Keep in mind, you are not allowed to bring anything into Congress, like buttons, pins, signs, cameras, etc.; this is an entirely silent protest. No one needs to get themselves in trouble.
It sounds like a good idea to me. Writing letters and leaving voicemails with Congress really doesn’t seem to get the job done, so maybe with a few hundred or few thousand people standing watch over them, something will change.
U.S. to give $30 Billion for Military Aid to Israel
Posted by Joe in : Political Circus , add a commentOver at the NYTimes, there’s an article about Bush authorizing a $30 billion dollar aid package to Israel’s military, payable over the next ten years.
Now, its one thing to help Israel defend itself from terrorists and all, but why is it that this aid package is an increase of 25% more than what we were already giving them? Simple: The United States is preparing to sell arms packages (you know, guns, explosives, ammunition) to places like Saudi Arabia. Israel didn’t like that idea very much, seeing as how many of the Gulf states constantly exchange fire with Israelis, so we went ahead and upped Israel’s aid to thwart… our weapons? I guess so!
Video of Plane Hitting the Pentagon released. Well, sort of. May 16, 2006
Posted by Joe in : Political Circus , add a commentIts been long enough (five years!), but the Department of Defense has finally released a (one of the dozens) video of the passenger jet crashing into the Pentagon on 9/11. I got a chance to watch it. And what does it show? A tiny piece of a nose of a plane sticking out, and then the next frame is an explosion.
Feel free to check out the video: Judicial Watch.
It is unfortunate that the conspirators are still going to thrive about 9/11 and the Pentagon now because of this. Why couldn’t they have shown another angle? Video from a camera shooting greater than 2 frames per second? Conspiracy or coincidence? Maybe we’ll never know.
“Mad what disease?? No I don’t think so…” May 15, 2006
Posted by Joe in : Political Circus , add a commentThe quote above may or (more likely) may not have been the (exact) words of an official on behalf of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to a Kansas beef producer in April of 2004.
The beef producer requested access to a newly available test for mad cow disease (at the time) in an effort to test all of their cattle.This request came soon after a cow in Washington state was found to have mad cow disease just a few months before. Their reasoning was due to Japan banning the importation of any U.S. beef that was not fully tested for infection. So, the company requested this test be provided to them from the Department of Agriculture, as is standard procedure. For some reason, law states that the Dept. of Agriculture decides all the who-what-when-where-and-why to mad cow testing (among other testing of livestock)…
The response? Sweeping mad cow tests were not “scientifically warranted”, so decreed the Department of Agriculture.
US Govt. - 1 US Beef Producers - 0.
So what was the outcome here? The loss in sales resulted in a decline in profits of $40,000 a day while Japan blocked the company from importing any meat, and the company had to fire 50 employees. And this is just one example. Imagine how many others suffered the same consequences.
Read the full article here if interested. It may be old news, but its quite relevant to how disruptive our government can be. Its not only a matter of some beef companies losing money and laying off hard working Americans, but rather an out of control, care-free administration that just doesn’t get it.
