Bruce Bacon: "My Reply to My Conservative Friend"

Spread the Word
Re-pinned by Bruce Bacon  |  June 1, 2014  |  Bryan TX

My Reply to My Conservative Friend: "My Reply to My Conservative Friend August 26, 2012 at 3:22pm by Bruce Bacon on NOTES in faceBook

"...Today I got an email from a conservative friend who implored me to go watch the movie “2016 Obama’s America.”

Here is my response to her.

Marilyn, please bear with me. Here is my take on the history of what has happened to our country.   Back in 1971, a corporate lawyer by the name of Lewis Powell penned a document that is known as the “Powell Memorandum.” In this document, which was sent to his friend at the US Chamber of Commerce, Powell extolled the virtues of blending business interests with political interests…attacked the hard work of people like you and me who care about our environment, attacked the education system, arts and sciences, in that they impede business interests. That memorandum eventually spawned right wing “think tanks” and created a massive lobbying effort that we are paying for today. Literally. With our tax dollars. http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_accountability/powell_memo_lewis.html"

'via Blog this'

In the later 70’s, the Republican party initiated an agenda that they called “Starve the Beast.” The purpose of the agenda was to intentionally run up the debt to a point where the cutting of social programs would be a necessity. Reagan bought in and ran up deficit and debt to previously unequaled levels. It would take a president and congress that subscribed to this doctrine to bring it to fruition. We lived that reality during the Bush tenure.  Massive tax cuts for the wealthy, a trillion dollar big pharma giveaway, and a couple of wars ensured that the beast would indeed be starved. The deficit accumulated under Republican “leadership” amounts to approximately $12 trillion dollars. Here’s proof:
http://zfacts.com/p/1170.html 
Starve the Beast analysis:
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/paul-krugman-starve-the-beast-fiscal-calamity-is-the-gops-plan-to-shrink-government-234845/

Combined with the starve the beast mentality, came the part two of the double whammy - deregulation of the financial markets. During the first decade of the 21st century, we realized a fraud perpetrated against all the participants of Capitalism that dwarfs any fraud previously. Trillions of (non-existent) dollars were literally scooped up from the global public and created a breathtakingly unimaginable debt vacuum. Cheap credit, loans to anyone who could fog a mirror were made, and we (and nearly every Capitalist country on earth) are living the results of this mentality. State and local government who invested deeply are bankrupt. Ratings agencies rated these packaged bundles of garbage at triple A (why? Because they could) and everybody bought in.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-last-mystery-of-the-financial-crisis-20130619 

By 2007, everything was in place. The US debt had run up into the multi-trillions. The financial markets were ready to implode. Then, it happened. The global recession, brought on by conservative economic and regulatory policies, hit with a force that we still reel from. State and local governments that invested heavily started to financially collapse. Millions of Americans who trusted in our economic system were left bankrupt from the fraud. State and local governments were left in a vacuum. International governments imploded from the financial toll.  Millions and millions of people are suffering from this outright fraud perpetrated against humanity.

When President Obama was elected, within the first days of his leadership, Mitch McConnell made it clear. The first thing on his agenda was not reversing the massive unemployment brought on by this fraud. It was not turning around a battered economy. It was to make President Obama a one term president. Republicans in Congress agreed. The evidence is there for all to see. The number of filibusters in Congress is unequaled. Nothing, repeat NOTHING the president has done to help our citizens has been embraced by the Republican party. The level of vile hatred generated against our president is absolutely unprecedented via unsubstantiated lies and repeated via chain email, and talking points. A record number of anti-citizen’s rights bills have been penned by Republicans at the state and federal levels. This information is all out there, Marilyn. Women’s reproductive rights, equal pay for equal work, gay equality.

I won’t even go into the fact that Republicans have made every effort to undermine our government from within. Unqualified appointments, making decisions against the best interests of the country to “prove” that “government doesn't work.” It’s nothing but a corporate sell-out, with the blue-print being the Powell Memorandum.

Needless to say, I am passionate about this. I am absolutely disgusted that America has come from being number one in the world on nearly every aspect, to trailing far behind other western countries. Health care, public education, the list is nearly endless. By every measure, our country has suffered from the conservative-corporate collusion. We are literally living the results of an agenda that has taken 40 years to complete.

I, for one, want to see the United States Republican party outlawed as a treasonous entity. Their successes have brought on the failure of the American institution. I am thoroughly disgusted with the lies, the hypocrisy, the outright fraud perpetrated against you, me and  every participant of Capitalism. Capitalism is a failure, Marilyn, it is a failure that was ensured by a deliberate stacking of the deck AGAINST the participants.

I will never support another Republican at any level of government. The Republican agenda is poison.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. If feels good to finally get this off my chest in one sitting.

Bruce

Update: 18 May 2014 - I've seen a lot of "hate Bush" memes on FB recently and would like to comment on that. Understand this: Bush really just executed the Republican game plan. Any "good" Republican would have done exactly the same thing. That's why we need to hate the party, and not necessarily the person. That game plan included leveraging tragedy to perform a massive transfer of public wealth to private interests leaving the taxpayers holding the bag. Once you wrap your head around the depth and breadth of the fraud perpetrated against us (and continues to be perpetrated against us) you either throw your hands up in the air with disgust and say "I quit" or you choose to spread the truth. I choose the latter. And please, vote blue like your life depends on it. Because it does.

Update 1 June 2014 - I'd like to add one more point. How could they pull something like this over on us, and brainwash a large percentage of the population that EVERYTHING is "Government's Fault"? How could outright lying in broadcasting be tolerated? No opposing voice? This is the last piece of the puzzle. Repealing the Fairness Doctrine is what created today's American right wing: http://articles.latimes.com/1987-06-21/news/mn-8908_1_fairness-doctrine And these are the people we need to get through to..."

CONCLUSION
It appears that high rollers have divvied up the United States into regions that will succumb to their long range development plans regardless of any thought of people this may harm.

________________________Reference
https://www.facebook.com/notes/10151037975418017/

LMAO

I Have Been to a church like This, One Time
Reload Embed by Pat Darnell | Mar 5, 2014 | Bryan

Post by Jermone A Jones.

MooPig Parenting Trap Department :: "What I Say..."

In the Beginning there were no Creations called Parents ...
Retrieved articles by Pat Darnell  |  Dec 28, 2013  |  Bryan TX

[Picture LINK] Pelletier was taken to Boston Children’s Hospital when she got the flu in February. Her parents said doctors at the hospital accused them of medical child abuse – something they vehemently oppose.

The 7 Worst Things You Can Say To Your Child: "Parenting can be so damn stressful. Kids push boundaries and buttons, and it’s a parent’s job to stay calm and steady in the face of it all. But most of us don’t perform this job with absolute perfection. We sometimes and say things to our kids we wish we could stuff back inside our mouths. I’m sure most of us have some cringe-worthy moments to mull over and make up for" (REBECCA ODES | June 30th, 2011. LINK) ..."

Kind-patience, long-suffering, friendly-courtesy, calm-serenity, soft-skills, might not be part of a person's vocabulary before he or she becomes a parent.

The conditioning one receives from perilous parenting supplants all previous learned curricula. One cannot escape a child's adolescence, and the parent usually ends up unable to forgive oneself for all the battles that came out of that "special" time. Action speaks louder than words; at least that is what we thought. Our words are remembered, and remembered, and repeated, for generations.

This linked article gives us at least seven examples of things we say as we resort to incivility in our conversations with our children:

1. "If you don't stop that I'm going to leave you here"
2. "Why can't you be more like your sister or brother?"
3. "You're the reason we got divorced."
4. "Because I said so, that's why."
5. "Here, let me do that for you."
6. "You should be ashamed of yourself."
7. "We never wanted you anyway."

I'm GUILTY of most of these. YIKES!

http://youtu.be/yL9mX4Hbc2Q

READ more BABBLE.com bits on Parenting and Children in these following References:

"... The Walt Disney Company supports Babble as a platform dedicated to honest, engaged, informed, intelligent and open conversation about parenting."

__________________Reference
http://www.babble.com/kid/the-7-worst-things-you-can-say-to-your-child/
http://youtu.be/yL9mX4Hbc2Q
http://www.babble.com/kid/car-seat-law-changes-in-2014/
http://www.babble.com/mom/flattery-will-get-you-everywhere-5-ways-to-compliment-a-mom/
http://www.babble.com/babble-voices/ellen-seidman-1000-perplexing-things-about-parenthood/11-mistakes-parents-make-even-the-perfect-ones/
http://www.babble.com/mom/the-20-worst-parenting-overshares-on-facebook/
http://www.babble.com/kid/8-surprising-effects-of-daycare/
http://www.babble.com/kid/12-truths-about-kids-that-childfree-people-want-to-know/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/21/teen-girl-kept-in-hospital-against-parents-will-to-remain-in-state-custody-judge-rules/

MooPig Toys for Tots Department :: "Poseable Hitler Action Doll"

Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  July 13, 2013  |  Bryan TX

Someone should take these photos and make a poseable action figure doll from them. Using 3D printers, it would be a snap to do. Would it sell? We don't know, so we decided to ask around?

Would you buy this historically accurate Action Doll of Hitler for your toddler?


These Photos Of Adolf Hitler After Prison Release Are Unbelievable: "Taken by photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, the extraordinary pictures show Hitler rehearsing while listening to a recording of one of his own speeches. They were reportedly taken in 1925, soon after Hitler was released from a nine-month stint in prison during which he dictated his autobiography, Mein Kampf."

'via Blog this'

[Photo LINK]



_____________________Reference
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/hitler-photos_n_3579507.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Pirates, Pirates, Snarkish Pirates Everywhere... I'm so Confused !!

Retrieved by Pat Darnell
Somalians and Swedes both Pirates??? That is Cold, Cold, Cold... and stressful.

The Pirate Bay Verdict Won't Affect File Sharing
04.17.09 Dan Costa

The trial and conviction of four crypto-anarchists doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the mad world of copyright protection.

Source HERE by PCMag for Dan Costa
The site routinely posts its responses to Cease and Desist letters from various copyright holders; they make for pretty entertaining reading— that is, if you're not a copyright owner. When Electronics Arts wrote a letter concerning unauthorized copies of The Sims 2 on the site, The Pirate Bay responded like this:

"Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in question.

Oh wait, just kidding. We haven't, since the site in question is fully legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you're in, we have sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the streets and attacking people :-(. "

After complaining about unreleased Billy Corgan tunes available for download on The Pirate Bay, Warner Bros. Records got this:

"We are well aware of the fact that The Pirate Bay falls outside the scope of the DMCA—after all, the DMCA is a US-specific legislation, and TPB is hosted in the land of vikings, reindeers, Aurora Borealis and cute blonde girls."

There's much, much more, and it's fun to read as long as you are not offended by adolescent snarkiness, profanity, and suggestions for the creative use of police batons. Suffice it to say, The Pirate Bay's founders did not cease or desist.

This technology isn't limited to The Pirate Bay. There are dozens of sites that do the same thing—go to Mininova.org and ISOHunt.com and you can find the same files, albeit without the parrots and eye patches. My favorite BitTorrent client, Vuze, offers searches directly from within the client. No amount of legal action can shut ALL of these sites down.



Next Week: Somalian Pirates :: What's up with all that thar'?