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.

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

MooPig Cage Match #43 :: "Syphilis vs. HIV"

Sexually bent politicians in denial of their sexuality to the public are a threat to their own country and policies.
by Pat Darnell and R. U. Positive  |  Nov 3, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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SYPHILIS  |  Did Lenin die from syphilis or by the hand of Joseph Stalin, who was diagnosed as a "paranoid hysteric" by a doctor he, Stalin, murdered for revealing this?

" ... Popular theory maintains Lenin died from the sexually-transmitted disease syphilis,
Historian believes Stalin was furious after Lenin sided with rival Trotsky (DAILY MAIL REPORTER. PUBLISHED: 08:37 EST, 4 May 2012. LINK)... "

See what we mean? The Internet is so cool like this. You can question "everything." An answer might be a hoax or satire, it might be dead on, but the game is superb fun. For arguments sake, Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary had Syphilis during his lifetime, but may not have died from it. (y-ikki-peed-ya. LINK)

Which "sexually transmitted" disease wins in a head to head cage match? We think that the answer to that is available to us all, via the Internet. We can draw some conclusions from articles and decide this "match."

" ... Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by bacterium. The route of transmission of syphilis is almost always through sexual contact ... Napoleon suffered from syphilis and probably died due to consumption of arsenic which was used for treatment for syphilis during that time ... It is believed that George Washington had syphilis and he died because of it. However, there is no medical evidence to back up this claim ...Franz Schubert, born on January 31, 1797, battled syphilis since 1822...The cause of his death was consumption of mercury which was a common treatment of syphilis in 19th century. (history dot com. nd 2012. LINK) ..."

From mixed sources:

• "... CDC estimates that, annually, 55,400 people in the United States get new syphilis infections.
• There were 46,042 reported new cases of syphilis in 2011, compared to 48,298 estimated new diagnoses of HIV infection and 321,849 cases of gonorrhea in 2011. ... 
• Syphilis caused 0.3% of all deaths worldwide in 2002 or 25 deaths per million people..."

" ... Much of the extraordinary detail we now have about syphilis is a result of the Aids crisis. Just when we thought antibiotics, the pill and more liberal attitudes had taken the danger and shame out of sexual behaviour, the arrival out of nowhere of an incurable, fatal, highly contagious sexual disease challenged medical science, triggered a public-health crisis and re-awoke a moral panic. (Sarah Dunant. The Guardian, Friday 17 May 2013. LINK)..."

Therefore, historically, if the syphilis bacterium doesn't get you, the cure surely will. By the way, do not look up Google Images for "Syphilis" if you are a sensitive viewer ... it is grotesque.

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HIV infection does not spread by casual contact, mosquitoes, touching or hugging.

PHOTO from 2011  |  "David Dean Smith, 51, turned himself into police, claiming he had intentionally exposed “thousands” of sex partners to HIV. (AMANDA MIKELBERG. FRIDAY,  DECEMBER 30, 2011. LINK)
"He hits drifters," said an alleged victim. "He hits people who are young. He hits young women, and from what I understand, he hits men too. Those are his targets."

HIV  | " ... By 1953 the Eisenhower administration proposed eliminating the social hygienists and their PHS (Public health service) venereal disease program since they felt their job was essentially done. But syphilis along with other sexually transmitted infections like gonorrhea, herpes, chlamydia, and AIDS returned. (Dr Ananya Mandal, MD. November 3, 2013. LINK)..."

" ... AIDS stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome and is the final stage of the infection caused by the virus called HIV or Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The virus causes severe damage to the immune system (Dr Ananya Mandal, MD. November 3, 2013. LINK)..."

"AIDS is caused by HIV infection. The virus attacks the immune system leaving the individual susceptible to life-threatening infections and cancers. Common bacteria, yeast, parasites, and viruses that usually do not cause serious disease in people with healthy immune systems can turn deadly for AIDS patients."

HIV is transmitted through blood, semen, tainted transfusions, sharing tainted needles, breast feeding, and "is transmitted by sexual contact including unprotected oral, vaginal, and anal sex."

"Statistics: Worldwide

• More than 35 million people now live with HIV/AIDS.
• 3.3 million of them are under the age of 15.
• In 2012, an estimated 2.3 million people were newly infected with HIV.
• 260,000 were under the age of 15.
• Every day nearly 6,300 people contract HIV—nearly 262 every hour.
• In 2012, 1.6 million people died from AIDS.
• 210,000 of them were under the age of 15.
• Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than 75 million people have contracted HIV and nearly 36 million have died of HIV-related causes. (UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic 2013; UNAIDS Fact Sheet 2013. (Last updated October 2013) LINK) ."

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MooPig Gruesome Department is asking for this Cage Match #43 because it now believes that cultures who feel threatened will resort to chemical/bio, or bacteria/virus, weapons of mass destruction to defeat their enemies. The precedent has been set many times during world history, recently in various locations in USA, Iraq, and Japan, to name a few... and by recent doings in Syria.

Did historical figures spread syphilis to its enemies, like David Dean Smith spread HIV to his sex partners on purpose? 'Rules of War' no longer include "... will not use chemical/bio weapons..." or does it? Currently " ... The threat that biological agents will be used on both military forces and civilian populations is now more likely than it was at any other point in history (Nov 11, 2011. MarxPacE. LINK)..."

We at MooPig Enterprises admit we have been lately on a tear to publish a lot of articles about disasters occurring in our world today. Mostly, we are responding to a plethora of information that before the Internet phenom was not available to us middle, secondary researcher, bloggers. In fact before Internet, research was only available in books, lots of books, and in research papers that had to be purchased.

For those of us who love research, even as a hobby, the Internet has opened all the doors that were closed. We thought from the beginning of MooPig Wisdom in 2006, that our mission would be to encourage other writers. After trial and error we developed, hopefully, a suitable format for Internet secondary research to accomplish that goal. MooPig Research and Development Department reports that MooPig Wisdom's pageview averages have begun to grow. Even though MooPig Wisdom is founded in mediocrity, it averaged 400 pageviews a day. Now we average about 620 pageviews per day... and increase of 35%.

We noticed that our run on disasters is not very popular out there. We find that it is more popular if we run headline stories from daily mail and news sites. If we continue to challenge our readers, all three of them, with scary extinction level event stories, MooPig Wisdom will be lost in antiquity, sold in flea markets, and remembered for its bombastic attacks on government, corporations, and Stalin. True?

We don't care, and by the way, ask someone who cares, ASWC! We don't care if no one reads our blog! Yes, that is a double negative, and it means just that. Because we all know that Joseph Stalin was five foot one inch dictator who was also a Zionist, son of Baron Edmond de Rothschild and the brother of Chairman Mao. Stalin also poisoned Lenin, so that he could lead in the genocide of his people. True?

CONCLUSION
This Cage Match #43 will end in a "Split Decision;" it will be a "Draw." If humans resort to biological weapons as a way to "destroy" other humans, there is little left to ponder. No one escapes introduction of toxic viruses and bacteria to his environment. Syphilis killed millions, HIV/AIDS killed millions.

"...Those who could buy treatments, also bought 'silence' – the confidentiality of the modern doctor/patient relationship has it roots in the treatment of syphilis. Shame is a powerful censor in history, and in its later stages syphilis, known as the "great imitator", mimics so many other diseases that it's easy to hide the truth. (Sarah Dunant. The Guardian, Friday 17 May 2013. LINK)..."

Our larger question – how might the diseases themselves have affected world leaders' political processes when dealing with their foes – is a tricky one. Like syphilis victims " ... Van Gogh paints skulls and Schubert's sublime last works are clearly suffused with the awareness of death."

For many governments, and institutions, and corporations, today business as usual has run its course. Security is being re-tooled as old commandments fade into oblivion. Most of the world's population can only sit and wait for the outcome.

Truth is stranger than anyone could make up.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/hiv-positive-man-intentionally-infected-thousands-partners-turns-article-1.999178
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/Ask+Someone+Who+Cares
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2013/06/moopig-narcissus-department-who-would.html
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10851474-syphilis-a-weapon-of-war
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139527/Vladamir-Lenin-poisoned-Joseph-Stalin-Russian-communism-founder-bumped-political-rival.html
http://www.whale.to/b/stalin_h.html
http://www.whale.to/c/edmond_de_rothschild.html
http://www.whale.to/b/hallett_b3.html
http://www.who.int/gho/hiv/en/
http://www.historyrocket.com/Famous-people/Famous-People-Who-Died-Of-Syphilis.html
http://thehumanmarvels.com/138/eugen-sandow-father-of-bodybuilding/strong
http://www.news-medical.net/health/What-is-HIVAIDS.aspx
http://www.news-medical.net/health/Syphilis-History.aspx
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/17/syphilis-sex-fear-borgias
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/53429117/#53429117

MooPig Media Watch :: "New York Post Editor's Bestiality"

Barhoun said there were only two reasons he had been labeled a suspect: his bag and his brown skin. (AP)

" ... A teenager says he is scared to go outside after he was portrayed on the internet and on the front page of the New York Post as connected to the deadly Boston Marathon bombings. (Aljazeera. 19 Apr 2013. HERE) ... "

According to GAWKER
Retracted by Pat Darnell  |  April 19, 2013  |  Bryan TX

" ... We would not say that, any more than we would say that Col Allan fucks pigs. He is from Australia; if he were to engage in bestiality, it's much more likely that it would be with sheep. But we are not saying Col Allan fucks sheep, either. It could be that Col Allan fucks pigs or sheep. We do not know. It would be irresponsible to speculate. (Tom Scocca. APR 18, 2013. HERE) ... "

Is the New York Post Edited by a Bigoted Drunk Who Fucks Pigs?: "Sources have also suggested that Col Allan may drink to excess, but we have no direct knowledge that he is an alcoholic, or that he was drunk at any time that he was guiding the Post through its various blunders in the marathon coverage. Col Allan may have been too drunk to recognize the mistakes that the Post was making—say, to see that it was publishing a front-page photo of young man carrying a royal-blue duffel bag when the authorities were saying the bombs had been in black bags. That is a mistake that a drunk person could conceivably have made, but we do not know that Col Allan was drunk when the Post made it. (ibid. scocca)"

'via Blog this'

" ... We are not saying that Col Allan, motivated by bigotry, is intentionally trying to use the Post to stir up hostility against Muslims. We do not know that Col Allan is a racist. The evidence may suggest that he is a racist, but we are not saying that Col Allan is a racist. (ibid. scocca) ... "

" ... But we are not drawing any conclusions about that. Perhaps Col Allan and the New York Post are having an incredibly unlucky week. Perhaps the worthlessness of every single scoop the Post has had—its inability even to get the body count straight—does not prove that the editor is a booze-addled, race-baiting, information-illiterate moron who has neither the common sense nor the journalistic skills to avoid repeatedly humiliating his newspaper. (ibid. scocca) ... "


What we, MooPig, are saying is that New York Post Editor Col Allan is about twenty-five pounds of chicken shit.









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http://gawker.com/5994999/is-the-new-york-post-edited-by-a-bigoted-drunk-who-fucks-pigs
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/04/201341975840872269.html

MooPig Parenting Department :: "Parenting in Today's World"

Parenting, the Test of Fire!
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Jan 6, 2012 | Bryan TX

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Sometimes MooPig Opinion and Editorial Department runs across this "SuchandSuchBlog.com is no longer available. The authors have deleted this blog."

"We know the time is coming when Blogging will be a liability," says Grappler Dorns, editor of Op/Ed. "We can only hope that our attempt to provide our children with a cross section of the world at the turn of the century will survive."

But that is not all there is to it. You see, Timmy, there is a subculture of oblivion underneath all of this, and most everything you put on the Internet is going to go down with the end of Mother Earth in a few billion years. Yes, our blogs, and quips, and twitters, and Reddits will all go into the massive black hole of destiny, and survive.

So will our attempts at parenting. Since we all decided to be immortal and pass on our genetic codes to our unsuspecting bairn, we will genetically be included in the over all scheme of perpetuity. Do you feel better now? I didn't think so. In fact it might make you more anxious.

We take this segue moment to look into a recent book that took a decade to write, and will take us a decade to read.

All too late. "After six our nest is almost empty," laments one father to his wife.

Andrew Solomon's book about parenting abnormal children, "Far from the Tree."

" ... Drawing on forty thousand pages of interview transcripts with more than three hundred families, Solomon mines the eloquence of ordinary people facing extreme challenges.

" ... Many families grow closer through caring for a challenging child; most discover supportive communities of others similarly affected; some are inspired to become advocates and activists, celebrating the very conditions they once feared. Woven into their courageous and affirming stories is Solomon’s journey to accepting his own identity, which culminated in his midlife decision, influenced by this research, to become a parent. ..."

Watch out, Andrew, it will be your test of fire!

Susan Klebold's Story - Business Insider: " ... After such tragedies, people struggle to contemplate why a young person could do something so horrific. In The New York Times, Solomon wrote about interviewing the Klebolds a number of times over eight years to try to find some answers. Here's what he wrote:

" ... I began convinced that if I dug deeply enough into their character, I would understand why Columbine happened — that I would recognize damage in their household that spilled over into catastrophe. Instead, I came to view the Klebolds not only as inculpable, but as admirable, moral, intelligent and kind people whom I would gladly have had as parents myself.

It's impossible not to feel for Susan Klebold when reading her first-hand account of raising a mass murderer, which O Magazine published in 2009." (Erin Fuchs. Jan. 4, 2013, 4:54 PM. HERE) ... "

'via Blog this'

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http://www.businessinsider.com/susan-klebolds-story-2013-1
http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/the-new-york-times
http://www.oprah.com/world/Susan-Klebolds-O-Magazine-Essay-I-Will-Never-Know-Why/7
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/opinion/sunday/anatomy-of-a-murder-suicide.html?n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fK%2fKlebold%2c%20Dylan
http://www.amazon.com/Far-From-the-Tree-ebook/dp/B007EDOLJ2
http://www.more.com/book-review-far-tree-andrew-solomon
http://mindyourownreality.blogspot.com/2007/09/follow-up-you-see-timmy.html

News from GLenview, ILLinois

Glenview man charged with drug-induced homicide
Woman has died as a result of overdose

GLENVIEW, Ill.
Charges have been filed against a Glenview man authorities say administered illegal drugs to a woman who later died as a result of an overdose.

Cary M. Cohen, 23, of the 3800 block of Michael Lane, is charged with drug-induced homicide in the death of 21-year-old Laura Riley, of the 2700 block of Park Lane in Glenview.

On December 12, officers were called to a reported overdose at Cohen's home, police said.

When officers arrived, they found Riley unresponive, and called for an ambulance to transport her to a hospital where she was later pronounced dead.

Cohen was scheduled to appear in bond court in Skokie on Wednesday.

WGN-TV News Desk
WGN News  |  April 7, 2010 | a Tribune Website
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Michael at Pfingsten, Glenview, IL, 60062

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Give them Cameras :: MooPig State of the Art Department

When I was a kid, I couldn't understand why Eisenhower was so popular. Maybe this will explain why.

General Eisenhower Warned Us

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It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.

He did this because he said in words to this effect:

'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened'

This week, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet.. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the,6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests Who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beat, experimented on and humiliated' while the German people looked the other way!

Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.

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This e-mail is intended to reach 400 million people! Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world.

How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center NEVER HAPPENED',


because it offends some Muslim in the U.S. ???