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Sunday, November 16, 2014

MooPig Opening Old Sores Department :: "This was the Best Republican 2 Years Ago"

Chicanery ~~ use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose.
Mixed Mashed Articles by Pat Darnell  |  Nov 16, 2014  |  Bryan TX

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Mitt Robmoney is so clean that he "doesn't drink coffee or Coke because they have caffeine in them." But that too may be a lie. He might go into his closets and drink a few gulps of Coke or coffee on the sly. We will never know for sure who is lying about what.

Steven Haas has invoked the RICO Act and begun procedures to find evidence of wrong doing in processes during liquidation of eToys in 2001 by Bain Capital, Robmoney's little company.

Concerning Robmoney's recent tact to stump for mid-term Kansas senatorial election Republican Pat Roberts (not the preacher) that turned out to be more of his gossiping about Obama. Dull.

MooPig "Opening Old Sores Department" wants to point out that politicians, like most actors/athletes/musicians/radio hosts have an "expiration date." It is in our best interest that they find their happy place out of the spotlight. Become a blogger, like us!

BREAKING: Mitt Romney is Being Sued in Federal Court for Criminal Racketeering | Americans Against the Tea Party: "Steven “Laser” Haas is the owner and sole shareholder of Collateral Logistics Inc. (CLI) the firm which was retained to oversee the liquidation of assets in the bankruptcy of eToys in 2001. During the process of liquidating the company Haas came across irregularities, unethical practices and outright criminal acts originating from the top at Bain Capital (Mitt Romney’s asset management firm), Goldman Sachs, Kay Bee Toys and Stage Stores, all of which were involved in the machinations to sell eToys for mere pennies to Bain through its interest in Kay Bee (Bob Cull. January 2, 2014. LINK)."
'via Blog this'
Definition ~ "... RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) statute which allows a plaintiff to become a “Private Attorney General” when it is necessary in order to address “Prosecutorial Gaps.”( Bob Cull.  in Crime, Most Popular on AATTP, TEApublicans in Action January 2, 2014. LINK)..."
CONCLUSION
Anyone with a average income would be destroyed by this bevy of charges and lawsuits that taunt Robmoney, Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital, Michael Glazer, Barry Gold and Paul Traub. These high rollers play for big pots of money.
 "... Haas has summarized the steps to be taken in his suit:
Summons granted.
Request for a Court Order to have U.S. Marshals serve the summons.
First amended complaint Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.
New case order.
Haas’s preliminary RICO case statement.
If Haas’ list of charges prove to be backed up by the evidence, this could be one of the most interesting civil trials in recent years.
No matter the outcome, there is little question that just having this case make it into court will stain the reputations of all involved permanently, (LINK)..."
MooPig Wisdom's Sage advice for Mitt Robmoney: "Retire. Go away."

_______________________Reference
http://aattp.org/breaking-mitt-romney-is-being-sued-in-federal-court-for-criminal-racketeering/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/109504580/Affidavit-of-Stephen-Laser-Haas-Aug-3-2012
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/19/1248866/-Romney-Sued-for-RICO-in-Fed-Court
http://aattp.org/breaking-mitt-romney-is-being-sued-in-federal-court-for-criminal-racketeering/
http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showthread.php?p=4239974
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romney-the-world-needs-a-mighty-us-military/2014/09/04/f5234064-342d-11e4-a723-fa3895a25d02_story.html


Saturday, March 08, 2014

MooPig Publishing Corner Department :: "Tea Party, Lost in Translation"

From Austin TX :: "John Evans on the Tea Party"
By John Evans via faceBook  |  Mar 7, 2014  |  Austin TX


Snappy! — with John Evans at Down Under Restaurant.

John Evans

" ... Funny how the "tea party" started out with the idea that it was all about taxes, "taxation without representation", etc. ... and how it has mutated into the same tired old right wing crap... just more vicious and obvious than typical old GOP stuff.

" ... Is this born out of the right wing religious fundamentalists' panic at how Christianity is losing ground, "losing control" in our country? With the GOP, as usual, preying on these collective fears?

" ... Someone once said the purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich. If that is true, then it's no small wonder the GOP pushes Christianity the way it does, and marries it to repressive economic policies and hateful, punitive proposals... so their double-dumbass "base" is taught that these vicious sentiments are compatible with what Jesus taught.

" ... I will never believe the "tea party" was a grass roots movement... I will always believe it was AstroTurf'd, all the way, and now thanks to un-American "people" like the Koch Brothers, we have this political Frankenstein. Not sure what the best way is to destroy the monster, but maybe if its members just keep talking and spouting opinions we'll see them fade out of existence.
(Evans, John. 16 hours ago) ..."

Patrick Darnell Wow, John ... nice essay. I might steal and publish [under your name of course].

John LIKED.

Format Edited into paragraphs by PD



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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=841321189217779&set=t.642542258&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Down-Under-Restaurant/670973976279927?ref=stream

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Issuing PINK Slips to Federal Government Employees

Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Nov 17, 2012  |  Bryan TX


Americans Against the Tea Party
 14 hours ago

Notice to TEApublicans - your political defeat is imminent! Inspired by and containing info from the http://dccc.org/ - thanks to OlaBetiku for customizing this for us.

Saturday, August 04, 2012

FWD :: FWD Email "Jim Robinson says: ... "

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Jim Robinson says:
Snagged by Pat Darnell | Aug 4, 2012 | Bryan TX

‎50 Ways to piss-off a Tea Bagging Republican!

1. A Socialist wrote the Pledge of Allegiance.

2. Jesus healed the sick and helped the poor, for free.

3. Joseph McCarthy was an UN-American, witch hunting pussy.

...4. Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were Traitors.

5. The South lost the Civil War, get over it.

6. The Founding Fathers were Liberals.

7. Fascism is a right-wing trait.

8. Sarah Palin is an ugly Bitch! (said to conservative males).

9. The Earth is round.

10. Reagan raised taxes eleven times as President.

11. Reagan legalized abortion as Governor of California.

12. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency.

13. Ronald Reagan supported gun control.

14. Global warming is real!

15. Republicans hate illegal immigrants, unless they need their lawns mowed or their houses cleaned!

16. The military is a government-run institution, so why do Republicans approve the defense budget?

17. The Cold War is over and the Soviet Union no longer exists!

18. Paying taxes is patriotic.

19. Republicans: Peddling the same failed economic policies since 1880!

20. The Republican Party began as a liberal party!

21. The Presidents’ full name is Barack Hussein Obama and he was born in the United States of America Ass Hole!

22. George W. Bush held hands with the King of Saudi Arabia and Kissed him on the mouth with tong.

23. President Obama saved the American auto industry, while Republicans wanted to destroy it!

24. Hate is not a Christian virtue.

25. Jesus was a liberal.

26. Republicans spend MORE money than Democrats on needless Wars and themselves!

27. Tea parties are for little girls!

28. Public schools educate all children; private schools are for indoctrinating children.

29. The Constitution is the law, NOT the Bible!

30. Sharia law doesn’t exist in America!

31. The President is NOT a Muslim!

32. Corporations are NOT people. People are people.

33. Fox News isn’t real news, it’s just a racist, sexist, hateful, right-wing propaganda machine.

34. The Federal Reserve was a Republican idea.

35. Women are equal citizens who deserve equal rights.

36. Women control their own bodies.

37. Abortion is a relevant medical procedure, just ask Rick Santorum! "FROTHY"

38. Please use spell check.

39. It’s “pundit”, not “pundnit”.

40. Social Security is solvent through 2038 if we remove the cap it will be forever!

41. Health care is a right, not a product.

42. Roe v. Wade was a bipartisan ruling made by a conservative leaning Supreme Court.

43. G.O.P also stands for Gross Old Pricks.

44. The donkey shouldn’t be the Democratic mascot because Republicans are the real jackasses!

45. Barack Obama ordered the killing of Osama Bin Laden. It took him two and half years to do what Bush wouldn’t do in eight!

46. Water-boarding IS torture.

47. 9/11 happened on George W. Bush’s watch, therefore he did NOT keep America safe!

48. Republicans invaded Iraq for oil, so Iraq should be allowed to invade Texas to get it back.

49. Separation of church and state is in the Constitution, it’s called the First Amendment.

50. Muslims are protected by the Constitution, just as much as Christians!


______________________Reference
http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/oil-and-politics-reality-comes-home-to.html

Saturday, June 23, 2012

FWD :: FWD Email "Jim Robinson says: ... "


by Jim Robinson Unabridged
To all the Tea Baggers!

Shut the fuck up. Just for five fucking minutes.

We know you want to end taxation. We know you don’t care that every reputable economist on the fucking planet has tried to explain to you inbred sisterfuckers that austerity budgets and tax breaks for billionaires and transnational corporations makes joblessness worse, not better. It makes the recession worse, not better. It makes the deficit worse, not better.


But you don’t care what experts have to say, do you, knuckle-draggers, because all you care about is what makes you feel better. And what makes you feel better, apparently, is waddling up and down the street with powdered wigs and little flags and misspelled signs with pictures of the president wearing a turban, and you think that makes your opinion equal to those of educated experts who do research for a living. Don’t you get how utterly fucking stupid that makes you look?

We know you want to drill for oil in Yellowstone and downtown Detroit and fucking Disneyland and two miles down through the fucking Antarctic ice cap and on Mars and every dam place you can think of, until the entire solar system is a polluted piece of steaming shit just like fucking Texas.

We know you email each other ape jokes and watermelon jokes and other racist Ku Klux Klan fucking bullshit–just what, three years?– after screaming TREASON! at anyone who dared disagree with George W. Bush, and three years after deciding to tell everyone you’re not actually Republican because that would mean you voted for the moron who destroyed our economy.

Guess what? The 80 percent of us who think you’re a bunch of fucking retarded clowns are sick and tired of hearing about you. The 80 percent of us who think education is actually a good thing are tired of hearing you pontificate about shit you don’t know because you can barely spell your own names.

Like how you think the Internet is a bunch of fucking tubes.

How you think evolution isn’t real because the other monkeys haven’t evolved into people yet.

How you think we’ll still have roads and courtrooms and jails and people checking for e.coli in your WalMart burger meat without paying any taxes.

How you think it’s okay for you to accuse the president of being Muslim without any evidence—and then act like it’s a bad thing if he WAS a Muslim because you loathsome asswipes judge people by what group they belong to—not by their credentials as individuals.

How you hate Affirmative Action until it’s used to give preferential treatment to white students over students from Asia, or preferential treatment to the underachieving white children of the wealthiest donors. What a fucking bunch of racist hypocrites.

How you think lesbians have taken over the public university system—despite the fact that all the trustees and presidents and football coaches and most of the professors and most of the students and every evil fucker in any position of power happens to be in possession of a snow white penis.

How you think unions are the bullies with all the power and all the money while corporations are the victims with none of the power and none of the money, with no incentive to screw you because for some reason you’d rather pay them double, triple, quadruple for the same fucking services your taxes used to provide before they were used to pay for tax cuts to people who own yachts and jets. You dumb fucking idiots.

How you think some stupid bitch from Alaska actually knows any fucking thing about Russia just because Alaska is closer to Russia, than say, the Russian embassy in Washington Fucking D.C., you geopolitically-challenged shit-for-brained nine-year-olds! Meanwhile not a single one of you can say a single specific thing about any specific policy this stupid bitch has ever advocated. But you will of course scream at the top of your lungs that calling her bitch is sooooo wrong because Lord knows you’ve never called Hillary the c-word after wiping the beer foam off the ends of your snouts. What a bunch of misogynistic hypocrites.

Fuck you and your own personal fucking “news” channel, where you’re invited to spew your fucktarded bullshit with Bill "O" and Sean Hannity and the rest of the animal house twenty four hours every fucking merciless day. If they told you the only way to love America was to take a dump on on a downtown street corner, you’d be pushing each other out of the way to be first. Did you know they laugh at you behind your backs every two weeks when their seven-figure paychecks arrive, you stupid tools?

Liberal media, huh? One million Latinos march for immigration reform in Los Angeles, but on every donkeypissing television station across America all we see is a tribe of twenty assholes in plaid picketing on a street corner in Arizona because they flunked economics AND history in high school and don’t know the first thing about the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, the history of our court system, OR the history of the last eight goddamned years in this country we love more than you do. Yes, more than you do—because we care enough about it to protect everyone’s freedoms—not just our own. Everyone’s property, not just our own. Everyone’s tax money, not just our own.

What a smarmy drooling circus you fuckers are.

Shut the fuck up for five fucking minutes, just for once. A town hall meeting is not for screamers. No one wants to smell your Cheetos breath from across the room. No one wants to smell the sweat stains under your armpits as you flail, spraying spittle. A town hall meeting is for people to discuss things, not scream. Stop fucking playing the victim when the SEIU dares to use YOUR OWN dam town hall tactics against you. Just because most of the rest of us fear all you scary, hooded, screaming, violent bastards doesn’t mean we all have to just sit there and take it. Fuck you. We want you to go away, back to your basements, back to your generators and your canned peas and your mistranslated bibles and your pregnant daughters, waiting for the rapture while you leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

You lost the fucking presidential election, you bastards.

So go away!

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Political Parties :: MooPig's Report from the Center

EXCERPT  |  " ... Former Congressman Vin Weber joins us here at the Aspen Ideas Festival, along with Democratic consultant Anna Greenberg in Washington, D.C., to talk about just who is the political base of the political parties as we go into 2012. (NPR. June 29, 2011. LINK) ... "
... REPUBLICANS ...
CONAN: And Michele Bachmann says she wants a constitutional amendment to define marriage as one man and one woman, yeah. Vin, is the Tea Party the base of the Republican Party?

WEBER: It's a big part of the base. I mean, the base of the Republican Party has traditionally, I would say, been small-business people who are primarily economically motivated and anti-tax folks, and that part of the base has grown substantially into what we now call the Tea Party.

People are motivated by fiscal issues growing out of the spending of the last couple years, really motivated by the TARP bill, which was a Bush administration initiative, and then by the stimulus package in the Obama administration.

I like to point out to people in about a six-month period of time, between fall of 2008 and March of 2009, the Congress spent almost $2 trillion or a trillion and a half dollars, and that's kind of scared people and gave rise to the Tea Party.

But there still is also a substantial social conservative base, which has been growing in the party basically since the 1970s, when Evangelical conservatives in the South, particularly, as well as some conservative Catholics and others in the North, switched their allegiance from the Democratic to the Republican Party.


... DEMOCRATS ...
CONAN: And Anna, we talked about the LGBT community as part of the Democratic base. You think of the rest, a big part of the rest of it as labor.

GREENBERG: Labor for sure, but I think that the Democratic base is more diverse than the Republican base and in some ways as many challenges as the Republican base faces around Tea Party versus more moderate folks and what that means for their ability to either get elected nationally or deal with an agenda in Congress, I think Democrats have some of the same issues. So in addition to LGBT and labor, you have African-Americans, Latino voters, younger people, though they look a little shaky relative to where they were in 2006 and 2008, but also very well-educated voters, people with post-graduate education, very Democratic, especially women, so very well-educated women and also single women.

So Democratic base is actually really, really diverse. I want to make one point on the Tea Party, just to follow up on Vin's point. There's no doubt that a lot of sentiment that the Tea Party reflects or represents reflects a lot of what the Republican base is about, but it isn't just an organic, bottom-up, small-business reaction to big spending.

It's actually initially organized around cap-and-trade vote and funded by the Koch brothers, and it's not as organic as I think the press makes it out to be or they would represent themselves to be. (LINK)

NEXT WEEK :: MooPig attempts to find it's center-of-gravity ... 

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http://www.npr.org/2011/06/29/137503581/in-party-politics-who-exactly-is-the-base?ft=1&f=1014

Thursday, April 07, 2011

Tea Party Grows a Whisker

EXCERPT  |  " ... Successful and hard working Americans are being forced to pay through the nose for the mistakes of others and for a massive new social agenda that is antithetical to America's work ethic. The party in power is no longer representing the interests of the individuals and small businesses who make this country successful. ... "
The Protest: Make Your Voice Heard
" ... Right now, a growing number of "Tea Party" protests are taking place throughout America. However as a hard-working individual, professional or small-business person you may find it impossible to join the protests in person. You can still make your voice heard however, with one simple action. ... (LINK) "

Click the LINK to Read the Entire Article ...

Saturday, October 16, 2010

MooPig Apologies :: But more 'Mid-Term Elections 2010'

Apologies for spending valuable time posting about Mid-Term Elections '10
by Pat Darnell and Ed Purpose

We are here today because, it has come to pass, that MooPig Editor in Chief is learning some interesting lessons from this usually boring reinstatement of incumbents; Mid-Term Elections '10.




Such as:
(Oct 15, 2010. Source lost)  |  " ... Last night, both Sharron Angle (R) in Nevada and Robin Carnahan in Missouri (D) called on their opponents to “Man up!” What could this mean for their Senate races – or the Senate next year?
“Man up, Harry Reid!” Nevada’s Republican candidate Sharron Angle told the Senate majority leader last night. “You need to understand that we have a problem with Social Security.” ... "
Uh, DUH!?
Social Security has been a political volley ball as an issue since Roosevelt--Franklin and before, ... since the United Soviet SOCIALISTS Republic, ... since people started growing old, ... since everyone wishing to go out and work, first gets his'n\ her'n Social Security Number, ... since it was legal to drink ... since ... For the Love of GOD!

I would say to all the mid-term folks: "Good luck wid' it! ~ "

Monday, August 30, 2010

Issuing PINK Slips to Federal Government Employees




VIVA! Revolucione! Quarter Million Tea Patrons Storm Washington Mall
Retrieved for Edumacational Porpoises by Pat Darnell, and, Houston Correspondent, Dave Darnell

What's the big fuss? What is the Tea Party all about? Seems nearly half million supporters want to unplug D.C.  Federal Government for breaches ... You can send a fax to voice your complaints:  


Send FAX~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FAX Send

[Read Entire Article HERE: SOURCE]
Signed:
Your Name
Address Here
The FAX: " ... to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

YOU ARE BEING PUT ON NOTICE
 HERE IS YOUR PINK SLIP!
 AFTER REVIEWING RECENT VOTING RECORDS, WE HAVE FOUND IT NECESSARY TO DOWNSIZE GOVERNMENT.
 Your superiors have reviewed all the hired hands in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Our review discovered many of our elected employees operating outside of their job descriptions and without authorization.

During the interview throughout the last election all job candidates promised to perform in accordance with their employer’s written instructions, also known as the U.S. Constitution. However, it has become painfully apparent that your terms of employment were never followed and your job performance is at an all time low.

 Furthermore, it has been brought to the attention of your employer that you have engaged in flagrant violations of the Peoples instructions (aka the U.S. Constitution). Reference employer’s handbook: Articles 1 through 7 and Amendments 1 through 27.

Upper management has little choice but to take appropriate actions by un-electing, otherwise known as termination of employment, of those who refused to follow the employer’s instructions in 2010 and 2012. LIST OF FLAGRANT VIOLATIONS  [X] - Voting for National Health-Care against the will of your employer. These actions alone could bankrupt your employer.

[X] - Voting for Cap and Trade against the expressed wishes and direct instructions of your employer.
[X] - Endorsing dangerous security practices by promoting unguarded and unprotected borders, thereby jeopardizing Employer's livelihood, personal security and the continuation of domestic tranquility.
[X] - Creating a dangerous American work environment by funding Wall Street Fat Cats and Mortgage Moguls while ignoring America's largest employer, small business.
[X] - Restricting firearm sales, thereby increasing the risk of loss by the employer. The employer has given explicit instructions regarding firearms, yet direct violation of the Second Amendment "Right To Bear Arms" have been witnessed.

For Violations - Please reference, employer’s handbook. (U.S.C. September 17th 1787)

If you have been involved in any of these violations of the employer’s handbook (U.S. Constitution) or willfully ignored the expressed wishes of your employer, the People, then your services are no longer needed and you will be unelected in 2010, and others in 2012.

Definition of terms: Un-Election means: "You can KISS WASHINGTON GOODBYE, and We The People will send you home to Mama."

RECONSIDERATION: However, because of the great and gracious history of your Employer, We The People are willing to reconsider your previous actions if it is witnessed your attitude improves and you labor on behalf of your employer’ best interest, show an honest effort to reverse the damage done by yourself and fellow employees and not be in violation of the We The People’s Handbook, the U.S. Constitution.

 Signed:
Your Name
Address Here


Correspondence: Please write and inform me of your intentions. We The People will review every employee's performance and review each on a case-by-case basis. Authority: U.S.C. - Bill Of Rights: Amendment 1: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

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