MooPig Ho-Hum Politics Department :: "Tea, Tobacco, and Grass Roots..."

Why them, Why Not Me?
Mashed articles smoked by Pat Darnell  |  May 10, 2014  |  Bryan TX

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Do you get emails from FreedomWorks? I do. Dozens of them. They think by using the same methods that the Democratic and Republican Party use they will persuade me to join their "Grass Roots" movement. What is their movement? I don't know. But grass root it ain't.

I think FreedomWorks backed TEA PARTY wants me to vote to unplug the Federal Government, and rely on local and state governments to run things. I am not sure that is possible, but surely they have a big funding base behind them because they grew from nowhere when we "elected" our most recent Manchurian candidate, Barry Obama. Like cockroaches no longer afraid of the light, Tea Party-ers crawled into our streets and gutters and plodded along with misspelled slogans.

The referenced article claims the Grass Root rampage began in the 1980's by tobacco cartels who were attempting to stop all the governmental vice-taxes foisted upon their products, by creating a good old grassroots group of grass widows against taxation.

‘To quarterback behind the scenes, third-party efforts’: the tobacco industry and the Tea Party -- Fallin et al. -- Tobacco Control: "...Abstract Background The Tea Party, which gained prominence in the USA in 2009, advocates limited government and low taxes. Tea Party organisations, particularly Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, oppose smoke-free laws and tobacco taxes...

"...Methods We used the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, the Wayback Machine, Google, LexisNexis, the Center for Media and Democracy and the Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org) to examine the tobacco companies’ connections to the Tea Party. Results Starting in the 1980s, tobacco companies worked to create the appearance of broad opposition to tobacco control policies by attempting to create a grassroots smokers’ rights movement. Simultaneously, they funded and worked through third-party groups, such as Citizens for a Sound Economy, the predecessor of AFP and FreedomWorks, to accomplish their economic and political agenda. There has been continuity of some key players, strategies and messages from these groups to Tea Party organisations. As of 2012, the Tea Party was beginning to spread internationally."
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CONCLUSION
It's ho-hum politics as usual. We are sorry we descended into this quagmire once again, but when grown people act the way they do in a circus like Federal government, we get antsy. Watching Rand Paul and other anti-establishment types jet around and hold rallies for Tea Party-like wannabe's, it makes our eyes twitch.

Developing an eye twitch can be worrisome in the blogging business. If the stuff Rand Paul and his followers are doing is "Grass Root" I think a new definition is needed. Just what is a Grass Root movement in 2014? Well, some of the discussion is about 'restoring liberty,' using designed, clearly articulated, effective strategies, tactics, and ideas which liberty activists can use on campus or in campaign work to win with their 'principled message.'

So we worry. But like our mentor, we should follow his lead: "What, Me Worry?"

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http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/20/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QCzww6EG7E
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/04/rand-paul-raises-big-dollars-from-small-donors.html
http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00493924&cycle=2014
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/05/rand-pauls-ties-with-losing-nc-primary-candidate-run-deep.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/study-confirms-tea-party-_b_2663125.html

MooPig Tech Coroner :: "Good-bye to Gas-powered Lawn Mowers"

Lawn Mower | Lithium-Ion, Cordless, 56V | Egopowerplus.com | EGO: "The EGO POWER+ Mower is the most powerful rechargeable mower on the market today! Powered by the industry’s most powerful battery, the first ever 56-volt lithium-ion battery has 40% more power than the leading 40-volt battery. The EGO POWER+ Mower delivers the performance of gas without the noise, fuss and fumes."

'via Blog this'

CONCLUSION
It's in my CART.


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http://www.cnet.com/products/ego-power-plus-lawn-mower/
http://egopowerplus.com/products/mower

MooPig's Report from the Middle: "Depression"

by Pat Darnell | Apr 28, 2012 | Bryan TX

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Depression Symptoms: What’s Behind Europe’s Spike in Suicides | Common Dreams: Still, the data underscores the senselessness of a crisis fueled by the gambling of financiers and Wall Street ballers ... "high on irrational exuberance and a sense of corporate invincibility."

Count your blessings if you have no depression. Some say love of money, the root of all evil, invokes depression on a large scale.

The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left!!
- 9:22am Today
The old saying goes "The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth"...Well by the time the Meek get to inheriting, there wont be much to enjoy..Between the Big Oil Companies and the likes of Monsantos, this old Planet is going in the crapper at a very rapid pace..Don't you just love the nay sayers though? (Submitted by Sassys on April 28, 2012. HERE)

Sassys, aka Sarah Goldston, blogger, goes on to say 'wise up and fly right if you are going to predict doom.'
'via Blog this'

EXCERPT  |  " ... A survey documented in the 2010 World of Work Report published by the International Institute for Labour Studies suggests that the crisis has induced an unprecedented global decline in life satisfaction. In concrete terms this has translated into greater pessimism about the quality of life, diminished confidence in the ability of governments to shape brighter and fairer futures, and greater social unrest among other things. (Chen, Michelle. April 28, 2012. HERE)... "

Depression is an old friend of mine. I lived in that tank most of my life. When I was a teen I began the old bit of self-medication. And the rest I would not like to talk about, because I intend to talk about it in my upcoming book.

You know the saying: "When your mother cries, it rains"?  That is the crux of the conditional nature of depression. One who is obeisant to murky dark moods must always check with one's depression before proceeding with any task. It is like every path leads to destruction: it's like awakening one day to realize one's whole life is a fraud.

Depression takes up a lot of time. It must be fed, so curses abound, and derision rules. Only when the veil lifts away does the half-life of a depressed person get some time for living. I don't know if depression is a result of associations in life, or if it is chemical, and then, probably, it is inherited from parents.

In my case I would say depression is genetically inherited, and I have chosen people like me, over the years, to associate with. Choosing then becomes a challenge, to even take another breath can sometimes be a challenge. How to know the origins of this sneaky, devil of a condition, remains the biggest question.

The newest information about depression, and let's add some anxiety in there, hangs around lifestyle management. That includes all the self-help, do-it-yourself, take mega doses of vitamins, advice you can digest. However, anyone who is in the realest sense depressed will tell you that stuff doesn't work.

Therefore, if managing better doesn't work, then there are several pharmaceuticals available. And a combination of the two ideas will probably be the route taken. I have seen the results of depression on all stages of human life. I saw it in my elders, in my siblings, and in my own babies. It has distinct manifestations in behavior, and in perceptions of life.

For all those in range of my words who have some knowledge of this, I cannot help you with it. Let me say if the headlines you read send you into panic attacks, well you might want to get some professional help, if your health insurance covers it.

By moving my family to central Texas, I thought it would provide us with a safe and secure domicile and calmer existence. Living in the Middle has its rewards, yes, and it is a small town atmosphere next to a University. It turns out, depression does not take a holiday, it travels along wherever one perches.

In conclusion I wish to mention a few things that have gotten me into darkest moods since living here: After we moved in to our new home two, hundred-year-old oaks, both perished leaving big holes in our attractive surroundings.

When I got here, I had three 401K's  which turned out to be useless as the paper they were written on. I came to the conclusion that the whole Wall Street carnival is eat up. Then comes Geo W Bush, who is my age, as president of our country, and that eight years depressed me into derision.

Now the Republicans have waged war on we the people and are holding our "human rights" hostage in their blinking stone walling, and ridiculous, straggling foot dragging policies. Depresses me.

Yes, to all my acquaintances over the years, I have been carrying a suitcase of issues along with me, in hopes to one day sort it all out. I apologize if you got caught in my nets.

The statistics reveal the unnerving question underlying our collective struggle to make sense of systemic tragedy: Who really pulls the trigger? (Chen, Michelle. April 28, 2012. HERE)

That's the MooPig Report from the Middle: where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the children are all above average.

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/28-2
http://askarthurbot.tumblr.com/
http://bloggerparty.com/content/meek-shall-inherit-whats-left
http://meemzter.tumblr.com/post/3377036112/im-just-in-love-with-this-emo-robot

Deep Pockets versus Grass Roots

The Mascots have changed Kingdoms -- to MARSUPIALs -- as it sounds today.
Retrieved for Ed Purposes by Pat Darnell

NPR  |  The latest unemployment report shows the jobless rate is basically stuck where it's been, which is to say, the situation is not good. The private sector added fewer jobs than economists expected, and government jobs disappeared. This is the final jobs report before November's midterm elections, and elected officials are figuring out how to deal with it. [SOURCE]

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Uno de Mayo :: Immigrants' Rights -- "Here's your Grass Roots ... America!"

For the first time, the LAPD will be providing text messages directly from its command post to protesters, residents and those interested in updates about the day’s unfolding events. The messages can be received on text-capable phone and those interested should text MAYDAY to 888-777 to sign up.

L.A. immigration rally expected to draw large crowd, cause traffic gridlock
May 1, 2010 | 7:56 am  | Retrieved by Pat Darnell HERE
Demonstrators were begin to trickle into downtown L.A. this morning for what is expected to be a large immigration right rally heightened by the crackdown on illegal immigration in Arizona.

Immigrations rights organizers, politicians and union and religious leaders -- including Cardinal Roger Mahony -- are expected to be on hand.

With as many as 100,000 immigrant rights activists expected to participate in the annual May Day rally, Los Angeles police are reminding people about street closures and potential traffic problems.

The rally is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. at Olympic Boulevard and Broadway, police said. Marchers will walk north on Broadway toward City Hall.

Streets near the assembly area will close as early as 5:45 a.m., while Broadway and cross streets will close at 10 a.m., police said. The designated assembly area along Olympic Boulevard includes the area between Hill and Main streets; on Broadway, it includes the area between 11th Street and Olympic Boulevard.

At the end of the march there will be a rally area on Broadway between 1st and Temple streets, police said. Streets in the rally area will remain closed until 6 p.m. (SOURCE)
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MTC 12 "Unsettling Settlers"

Truncated History of future Moon Base “New Australia” 2108

Goat Heads of the Mists
Out of the mists
Ascend goats
Toppling cairns
Riding magma moat
Of conformation
And advent

Amid new Tibetan craters
Stiffened n’ arched spines
Hoofed charger,
ramming speed
Radiant goat
heads butting, butting
Sure-foot woolen beast
Carved in stone
Circumstance and path
Origins of goat alphabet
Goateed alphabet of rut
In New Australia 2108

The Hitchhiker
Turning the tables
Always led to
Increase in hitchhiking
Why?
Due to turn-about
Is still fair-play

Canyon freckled
Creation reckoned
Space time beckoned
Journey on spinning spheres

Litany of courage
Frailty of flash
Hounded, lest forgotten
Satan shackled
at last

Creation ending
Creation unfolding
Only restart of something
Rewind and fast forward

Woolly barber
intending well shearer
Lamb of God
Reckoned beaker
Promise perfect

Garden lair
and Rams’ pairs
Creation of mist
Ram heads in the air


Sun not up yet
In dawn haze
She is there; She is there
Horned owl, winged lion
Catching frog eyes
To swallow

Drops down
Plucks them
From grassy hideaways
Fills her gullet

Sharp her eyes
Sharper talons
Her direct flight
Efficient and fruitful
Sends chills down
A morning spine

Rabbits run across lupines
on Grandmother’s grave
stop abrupt, give vigil gaze


...above in predawn predation haze
First light; she splinters off
To her loftier nest
full of Owlets, hungry
For rat, frog and fish

-- Life evident

birth Burdened with Myth
Owl knows well that night
is Living history of moon light
Lunar specter as light reflector
Like an hour of darkness laser

Moon has been burdened
As accurate metaphor for Satan
Masquerading as source of light
But really only reflecting
some True light down on paths
Of those living in darkness --
Truth eclipses comparison
but Satan was shackled
by the Son


Explorer
Pygmy rock bounder
Horned errant
As mists lifts
Burning away
Stratified
Immersed
Pledged woolly robed visitor
In secrets earnest

To charge enemies who
Advance in truest form
Train eyes sternest
Cry: "Forward --
“No retreat”

Woes freighted
As traumas converge
Valor splendid
On shoulders
In morning mists
As moon and sun
Set and rise

with moon wind between

ram heads
Filling sky
Barely above mists
Eye on eye
Brains of rams
and goat heads of the mists
leaping in sixth sense
high flying in gravity sixth

The Naked Stalk
Mote, threshed loosed
chaff
Dry grass,
sodder
Stalks of grain, straw,
Stubble of
Naked husk
To settle forth
Vapors
Chaff

Lecherous she-things
seem to steam out
of walls, and seams
And even from books

Acting on treachery
Everywhere --
Even from her regard
In possession of she-brain

She-goat Elizabeth
Mourns the mist
‘Must we wake to mist?
Every morn?’
She asks Brother Charles
And Freddie Fodder

Self interest
Heightened senses, much like,
Reality is no reality...
surrounded by gravity
So must pass through
Deaf, dumb processing
Go they, so, virtually
Real, eh...
And that’s not all

There is self service
It is complicated, much like,
"Who said we should clip wings
"And tag bears
"And skin leopards ?"

Some curse of dust
moon settlers continue to live under
Proceeding with others’ wishes
Like once was said --
It is complicated

Much like Freemasonry,

and cults of fertility

How else could

well meaning descendant's'

of Baal find redeeming lives

than by staging robust migrate

to Lunar Base 2108?

Too many replications
Destroy antidotes
No one will baby sit
Like billy goats
No being does--
No caste has
gone this remote

New Australia
A goat kissed the mist
Her name is D V Dram,
She was looking for
2020 exhibits on Main
At Chevy Chase Ray
in New Cairo, Siam

She did a quick search
On her Bic.surgeX
To match the beast
At her feet, on its leash
With something
Recognizable of late
In her "Lunar Navigator
Correlative plates"

As missionary to moon
Her mission had been
Preach -- teach -- reach
But how
If she could not even
Understand
The primal screech
or errant bray
Of a flawed speech

How D V Dram
Worried for her kind
The boulevard
Was vacated at this time
But a large building
Was teeming
With fellow goat-herds seeming
To cajole and work

So there she commenced
To investigate the edifice where
The sign read "New Australia
Public Works and Metal Bending
Relics and Attributes Division"

Loud equipment
Being run by
Even louder natives
Conveyors fed presses
Up and down went machines
Banging thunderously
Into their bases
Where from afterward
Bent metal shot out
Onto belts and rollers
To where sparks flew
As parts got welded

D V Dram’s wrist vibrated
To show her the implicated
Match to her query of late
"It is a Dog-Cat,
somewhat matriculated"

"Thanks, SurgeX, return to steady state.."

Ecosystem Evidence
What truly is Remarkable
There is an entire ecosystem
Living collective, in and under
The "Public Works and Metal Bending
Relics and Attributes Division"
Factory floor
of Moon marble

where giant plants have rooted
growing great leaves fluted
Covering large stipules
Sticking out and being
Cross fertilized
By hummingbird spicules

Actually clones of hover
Drop tiny substance
On the flat leaves where
Large slugs scoot
along stems and roots
slurping up
droppings and algae
peanut shells, and grimy
Nicotine scale -- while




Winged butterflies follow
Their sluggish friends
And poke in turn
in the dust
on pollen laden heads
Of hummingbird's

Circles of oily fungi
Form in the slug slime
Growing into mushrooms
Of lunar kind

Microscopic inspection
Would doubtless reveal
An entire sub-visible thrill
Of thistle and seed
Typical of nature's industry
Of outback flotsam and debris
Underway now for a century

UBILAM
Just so we are all
up to speed --
On the same page,
Concerning chaos of age --
Noting its all the rage online
with settlers of

"New Australia Lunar" Stage
Is not a gate of heaven
by any sage...

Goats had hitchhiked
To lunar surface early
And Goat DNA had
Entered the "Errol Morris
Clone Factory" accidentally

And today was Day of the Dead
On Ubilam Beach, where

their leader calls out names



of passed away beloved

"Bedlam, Balaam, Belem, Balsam
"Bart rap, Bangles and Bartech --"
Called Bursar the Human Zy Goat
Calling out names of his dead
And departed relatives

The new races
Of New Australia
Were exceptionally strict
Well-measured and manicured
Almost Draconian ticked

They established a cemetery for pets
And a thin blue line
For security

They held festivals regularly
Such as: Misters of Death
Like today, and Fogs of War,
And, Mists of Plutonium
Or, Holographic Holocaust horror

Also, was a day of Locusts
and The Squid and the Whale

And the naming by Bursar stopped...

Even now
As new Goat Herds
Trippingly Pronk
And roust
Bounding in the kettle moraine
Of lunar surface

One of best times in their
Golden era was 7 x 6
Lunar cycles of childhoods
pre-Time when pupae
Out-birthed as humanoids
Into conditions favorable
And not toxin to clones
Mixed with mountain stock
Of venerable RAM’s analog

As factors allow
Childhoods to reach fruition
In accordance of some singularity
Known as pre-bang mechanics

Abiding no longer
Just as a mental construct
But as a mistake of science
Achieving furtherance

Through moderate living attribute
Of environmental factors and

With pollutants in abate
Meeting effectively all appraisal
For lunar base New Australia 2108




by Patrick Darnell, 05.31.2008
Some Links:
Goat Heads of the Mists gets my goat Richard Berry – Friday, February 08, 08
http://timea.rice.edu/index.html Cairo PHOTOS

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Recently I found a news clip and article on NASA gearing up for a new moon mission. This time it’s hoping to build a lunar city. Right now it’s mainly for scientific purposes, but years from now, who knows? If anyone’s interested, you can find the news clip and article here:
http://sunnydreamer.net/aprjun2008/lunar_cities.shtml : http://sunnydreamer.net/
It’s 100 years later, after NASA’s inital lunar city mission. People have started to colonize the moon. You are among the colonists. Write about your reasons for leaving Earth, why you like or hate living on the moon, and any adventures you had the first month you moved there. If that’s a lot, you can just focus on a part of this challenge; that’s all right too.

doodlebug has sent you a link to a blog: daddy, i loved your writing :) the photos were trippy as well Blog: MooPig Wisdom Post: MTC 12 "Unsettling Settlers" Link: http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2008/05/mtc-12.html

http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/moonfacts.html