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Mar24

If “ifs” Were Scheisse, We’d All Be Neck Deep

by Calico Blackie on March 24, 2012 at 2:08 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Divided We Fall, Media Bias


 

Greetings from Calico Blackie!

Montreal on the 22nd. We need to make OAKLAND look like this on May 1st

Did any of you take notice of the protest on the 22nd that was held in Montreal?

That’s what we need to do here in America.

If we could get 100,000 people together to march in LA, NY, DC, Oakland, and in other major cities throughout the United States, the sleeping sheep would be FORCED to take notice.

Imagine if we took to the streets in such large numbers, the police were forced to run away?

Imagine if the 1% then was forced to call out their military? THE WHOLE WORLD WOULD SEE IT.

Now, imagine if the military refused to fight the protesters and joined them?

But, as my dad used to say  “If ifs were shit, we’d all be neck deep.”

But still…….Imagine. Let’s work together to make it a reality.

This is what EVERY STREET in America should look like on May 1st

It CAN be done!

We’re gearing up and holding dress-rehearsals right now, you’re just not hearing about it in the mainstream media.

OCCUPY MARINES is teaming with OWS this very moment on the streets in NYC in protest. So, you see…….

We’ve been active.

We’ve been planning tactics.

And so have the 1% and their armies of cops been planning tactics to suppress the voice of We, the People.

BE READY FOR THEM.

In case you haven’t yet heard…….

From Occupy Wall Street

People get ready to take our country back!

“On May 1st, Occupy Wall Street has called for a General Strike.“

“We are calling on everyone who supports the cause of economic justice and true democracy to take part: No Work, No School, No Housework, No Shopping, No Banking – and most importantly, TAKE THE STREETS!”

Link is here: http://www.cwa1101.net/?p=9628

Oh, by the way….They’re still holding primary elections in America.

Without thinking too hard as it’s Saturday, I can’t recall the last time I saw an election run on the positives of one candidate, instead of usually conveying only the negatives of the others.

Mitt "Biggus Dickus" Romney seen in the Oval Office

Does ANYBODY still think Romney won’t be the nominee? He’s the best candidate money can buy!

The poster boy for the 1%.

He doesn’t give a damn about you.

In case you haven’t noticed:

This is what a Corporatocracy looks like.

The elites cannot see the downside, as to them, things are looking great… they are making record profits!

The economy (for the rich) is rolling and their bank accounts are fattening, so where is the harm?

Here's one of those "useless, scumbag idiot hippies who don't know how good they have it"

 Some “useless, scumbag idiot hippies who don’t know how good they have it” get a little roughed up… who cares?

Those unproductive people who were “living on the dole” now have to just suffer through it… survival of the fittest, right?

GET IT STRAIGHT, PEOPLE…

The elites aren’t made to obey the laws the rest of us have to obey.

They are not held to ANY moral standard, nor do they care about our lives, save if they can make more profit from them.

What we live in IS a Corporatocracy. To argue against that, at this point, is out and out foolish.

This is what happens when We, the People try to exercise our CONSTITUTIONAL rights

This is just the beginning of the application of the shift in policy, a shift that has been occurring for longer than most of us have been alive.

This shift has so much momentum and money behind it that we aren’t likely to ever stop it…

The BEST we can hope for is to retreat into communities of like minded people and attempt to weather the storm as best we can.

The best way to fight against this monster is to starve it as best we are able to do so.

OR WE CAN TAKE TO THE STREETS IN THE 100s OF THOUSANDS AND TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY.

JUST DO IT!

I’m hoping we can wake up America May 1st and we’re doing all we can here “in the sticks” to spread the message far and wide in our rural communities.

But, we’re out of sight, out of mind here in rural America and the 1% cares even less about us.

That’s why we need to take to the streets in the big cities. If I can make it to a May Day protest in either Oakland or Portland (the distance for me is equal), I will try to be there.

ANYWAY…….

Was it Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, or O’Reilly that said the following two quotes?

C’mon….Take a guess………………..Here are the quotes:

“Universal public education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.”

“What good fortune for the government that the people do not think.”

Now, do you agree with the two quotes because God is on your side and Rush, Coulter, O’Reilly and Hannity told you this? Or, do you agree because you have the IQ of a turnip?

Those two quotes come from Adolph Hitler.

There's a storm coming and nothing will stop us

On that note…..

MAY 1st GENERAL STRIKE!

Make this “if” a REALITY

Occupy Wall Street

Occupy OUR STREETS

Keep the faith, Occupiers

Calico Blackie @kidakita

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Nov30

The Armies of Darkness (and their supporters)

by Calico Blackie on November 30, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Posted In: Big Brother, Divided We Fall, Media Bias

Hello from Small Town America!

SOLIDARITY AND SUPPORT TO OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN LOS ANGELES AND TO LOVERS OF FREEDOM THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

LAPD saluting their mayor on their way to crush free speech

Well, the armies of darkness were on the march again. This time, freedom was crushed in Los Angeles.

Here are two headlines from LA I saw:

From KTLA

Police give protesters 10 minute warning to leave as 1000+ cops move to dismantle Occupy LA City Hall camp

From KABC

Los Angeles police chief says more than 200 Occupy LA protesters arrested during camp raid

And from San Francisco?

From KTVU

Occupy SF refuse offer of new space from from city

Yes, Mr. Mayor. We can isolate them here!

Occupy SF protesters at Justin Herman Plaza held a general assembly Tuesday night and decided to refuse an offer from city officials to move the encampment to a new location in the Mission District, setting the stage for a likely showdown with police.

“What the city has said unequivocally is that Occupy will not be allowed to stay here,” said Occupy SF liaison Jerry Sensell.

Calico Blackie says:

Yep. Try to keep those protesters out of sight and out of mind. Put them in the Mission District where the city has been ignoring problems for decades. What the heck! Isolate them in one part of town where it will be easier to round them all up when the time comes for the SS to “eliminate the ghetto.”

Keep them in one place where they can be "observed"

 

In other “news”:

From CBS:

Donald Trump: “I could enter presidential race in May”

“Come May, when the Celebrity Apprentice is completed, my contract to NBC is completed, I’m a free agent, as the expression goes,” he said. “I can make a decision. You know, obviously it would have to be as an independent.”

Oh good Lord! Yeah, he really CARES about us

Heh.

Saw this comment and had to laugh:

“Yeah!! Jump in Ronald… I mean Donald.

Join the circus, always room for one more clown.

Don’t forget to bring along that ‘thing’ that lives on your head. Maybe the two of you could do a juggling act!”

Calico Blackie says:

Never say, “It can’t get any worse.”

Oh, and then there was this little tidbit headline………

“AA bankruptcy won’t affect fliers, company says”

Calico Blackie says:

Yeah. The customers are safe, for now.

"We're American Airlines. Doing what we do best!"

But how would you like to be one of their pensioners? They’re going to get reamed.

But that’s ok.

They have no voice and they will just have to suffer in silence.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Welcome to LA, citizen.

You have no rights! 

I wonder how many of those pensioners were calling us “dirty hippies” a month ago?

Saw an article in The Nation yesterday

It said, in part…….

The Berkeley Academic Senate voted 336 to 34 on Monday afternoon to “condemn” Chancellor Robert Birgeneau for his administration’s “authorization of violent responses to nonviolent protests over the past two years,” culminating in the police attack on nonviolent Occupy Cal demonstrators on November 9.

The Academic Senate. Just look at those "dirty hippies"

The faculty also declared that it “opposes all violent police responses to non-violent protest, whether that protest is lawful or not.

I also saw a letter written by a Cal student regarding the push in higher education to “Major in something useful.”

It said, in part:

“It is important to recognize that the “unemployable degrees” that you feel need to be “dumped”, are part of the humanities, which are already under assault due to lack of funding.”

“The issue arises from an increasingly privatized education system, where private companies shower the sciences with money, and in return, their research and development is carried out by unpaid students.”

We won't fund it unless it can be used to KILL!

Any non-science majors that cannot produce R&D for private companies come to be undervalued.  It’s not that these “unemployable degrees” are unimportant; it’s just that they don’t increase profits for pharmaceutical companies, the oil industry, or defense contractors, and are therefore expendable in the capital-centric world.

We have seen an assault on our education, the education of future generations, and we have responded. The most amazing part about the Occupy movement generally, is that it brings together people from many diverse backgrounds in a common fight against injustice. The circumstances on college campuses across the country are no different. The students at Cal are unified in their response to the injustices taking place in higher education, but they are as diverse as any group of students you will find.

Calico Blackie says:

I can hear it now. Ann Coulter, Limbaugh and O’Reilly struggling to get to the door at the same time like they’re in a 3 Stooges film so that they can shout out at the world (and to the people that believe their rantings)”

“IF THEY DON’T LIKE IT HERE, THEY CAN MOVE TO CHINA!”

Ann Coulter shown here using books for what she hopes we use them for

But wait……What’s this headline?

“China to Cancel College Majors That Don’t Pay”

Much like the U.S., China is aiming to address a problematic demographic that has recently emerged: a generation of jobless graduates.  China’s Ministry of Education announced this week plans to phase out majors producing unemployable graduates, according to state-run media Xinhua. The government will soon start evaluating college majors by their employment rates, downsizing or cutting those studies in which the employment rate for graduates falls below 60% for two consecutive years.

The move is meant to solve a problem that has surfaced as the number of China’s university educated have jumped to 8,930 people per every 100,000 in the year 2010, up nearly 150% from 2000, according to China’s 2010 Census. The surge of college grads, while an accomplishment for the country, has contributed to an overflow of workers whose skill-sets don’t match with the needs of the export-led, manufacturing-based economy.

Calico Blackie says:

Sean Hannity says: "YOU'RE A GOOD AMERICAN, MY FRIEND, IF THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE FOR"

Let’s see.  The crushing of dissent.

The silencing of free speech.

The rounding up of protesters.

And now, the arts and humanities under attack at the universities? It sounds like Limbaugh, Coulter, O’Reilly, Kelly and Hannity heaven over there in China!  Let THEM move to China if they don’t like it here.

In other “news”

From CNBC

Dow Spikes 400 After Central Bank Action

Feel the trickle yet, SUCKERS?

Stocks extended their sharp gains across the board Wednesday after global central banks announced a coordinated plan to support the global financial system, a handful of better-than-expected economic news and as China said it would loosen monetary policy by cutting banks’ reserve requirements.

Calico Blackie says:

SO WHAT? The rich just got richer.

This bears repeating:

The people I see getting arrested are Americans. I am an American. If you are not outraged by the crackdowns on peaceful AMERICAN protesters then you are a perfect citizen of our new police state. We might as well add the words Conform/Comply to the pledge of allegiance.

Conform and Comply? He did. Look where it got him. Learn from the past before it's too late

And to those of you that sit back and smugly rejoice over protesters getting beaten and pepper sprayed?

Here is what you’re saying to us……………

“Looks like you tools are finding out just how repressive the system is! Ha ha, you stood up and fought, and got beat down, you idiots!

You should have been smart like us and just shut up, kissed the butt, and liked it!”

Calico Blackie says:

Don’t worry; we’ll still fight for you. In 30 years, you can be like ex-Royalists in 1800 and pretend you were always on our side.

Sitting Bull was forced to live on a reservation where one day, he was murdered. Don’t let our mayors put us in “City Approved” conform/comply reservations where we can be collected and done away with.

On that note……..

The cop with the pepper spray at UC Davis is Lt. John Pike of University of California Police. 530-752-3989

He should be fired and prosecuted for assault. Make an example of him to show our police around the country what can happen to them if they use brutality on citizens. WE WILL NEVER FORGET, NOR WILL WE ACCEPT A “SINCERE” APOLOGY.

SHUT IT DOWN!

OCCUPY WALL STREET

SHUT DOWN THE PORTS!

“The Sun Still Shines”

OCCUPY!

We are the 99%

Calico Blackie

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Nov15

Business on Wall Street, or “Man, the Lowest Animal”

by Calico Blackie on November 15, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Media Bias

Greetings from Siskiyou County in the Heart of the Klamath!

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

“I was aware that many men who have accumulated more millions of money than they can ever use have shown a rabid hunger for more, and have not scrupled to cheat the ignorant and the helpless out of their poor savings in order to partially appease that appetite. – Mark Twain

Calico Blackie says:

To illustrate this…….

Years ago, my brother began selling life insurance policies for a large nationally known company. 

He started out enthusiastically by selling small 10k policies and figured he would work his way up the ladder and eventually land some “big fish.” 

He never succeeded. 

Why?

He was an honest man. He had ethics and a heart.  A big disadvantage in the business world.

Honesty in a predatory climate? Here’s YOUR reward!

He would go to people’s houses and settle with the prospective clients on a policy they wanted and could afford. 

Evidently, that was the wrong approach. 

He wasn’t making any money. 

He looked around the office and talked to the successful salesmen about their technique. 

They told him his technique was all wrong. 

They bragged about going to senior citizens houses and hard selling old folks a 200k policy that they certainly couldn’t afford.

Those old folks were little more than “prey” to these salesmen.

These salesmen, my brother decided, were pricks.

Would I lie to you? You need this 250k policy!

Who do you think the company rewarded with company cars and bonuses?

You guessed it.

The pricks. 

Why? 

The company didn’t see these people as pricks or predators. They saw them as profits. 

They couldn’t care less about the fact that they were hoodwinking honest hard working Americans. 

They only saw the bottom line, and rewarded their top producers. 

No morals, no ethics, no conscience.

An insurance company once rewarded its best salesmen with an orgy with prostitutes in a renowned spa

I’ll bet the salesmen in the photograph to the left went home to their wives and families and said: “That business trip sure was exhausting!”

There are plenty of people out there that see nothing wrong with predatory business practices.

They think it’s a fine thing to be a prick. 

They think it’s fine to take advantage of, and screw people for the almighty dollar.  These are the people that rise to the top of their businesses. 

My brother quit in disgust. He was a human being with a heart.

These “pricks” are the ones that run Wall Street and their wholly owned subsidiary in Washington DC.

Is this what we have become?

They would set their own mothers on fire if they thought there was a profit to be made by doing so.

So….What am I saying?

You don’t have to be a prick to be in business. 

Give the people a product they want and need without being a predator lusting after maximum profit. 

If you don’t succeed?  NO BAILOUT. 

Try something else.  Be a human being.

Meanwhile, what’s going on with the Occupy Movement?

Another “knock on the door in the middle of the night”

The scene last night

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided Zuccotti Park early Tuesday, evicting dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters from what has become the epicenter of the worldwide movement protesting corporate greed and economic inequality.

Hours later, the National Lawyers Guild obtained a court order allowing Occupy Wall Street protesters to return with tents to the park.

The guild said the injunction prevents the city from enforcing park rules on Occupy Wall Street protesters.

Imagine that! Honest lawyers working for freedom!

At a morning news conference at City Hall, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city knew about the court order but had not seen it and would go to court to fight it.

He said the city wants to protect people’s rights, but if a choice must be made, it will protect public safety.

Calico Blackie says:

“Public Safety” again? 

It seems as if the “Fuhrers” of many of our cities are using this as an excuse to deny Americans their rights. 

“Move along citizen,” it’s for your “safety.” 

What’s next?

Speak up about high prices in the grocery store and you’re whisked away to the “re-education camp” for the “safety” of the other shoppers?

Bloomberg says: Wanna Buy Insurance? It’s for YOUR SAFETY!

News From London:

AP – Civic authorities in London say they are resuming legal action to evict a protest camp outside St. Paul’s Cathedral after talks with the protesters stalled.

London’s Occupy protest outside St. Paul’s — where more than 200 tents have been pitched since Oct. 15 — has settled into a stalemate between church and civil authorities.

The cathedral and local authority the City of London Corporation suspended legal action to remove the camp two weeks ago, and offered the protesters a deal to stay until the new year if they then agreed to leave.

Scene in London from the St Paul's "Corporation"

The protesters say they have not agreed to this. 

The Corporation said Tuesday it would restart legal action to clear pathways around the cathedral.

Onward:

“I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so-called), and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man.

I find the result humiliating to me. 

For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals;

Charles Darwin. He had it wrong

 since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, the new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.” – Mark Twain

In other news:

Imagine if this had happened at an “occupy” camp?

From WTVR News:

Father accidentally kills himself in front of children at grocery store

SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA (WTVR) – A father accidentally shot and killed himself at the grocery store Sunday evening, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Hannity: “hehe…Oh boy, a shooting at the protest!” O’Reilly: “yeah, hehe…Makes me want to sneak another peek up Coulter’s skirt! Hehe”

When a Spotsylania County Sheriff’s Deputy arrived on scene minutes after the shooting, the man’s wife and others in the Giant parking lot were trying to revive the man.

She said the initial investigation indicated when the man tried to unbuckle his seat belt, he hit the trigger of his .40 caliber glock and shot himself in the hip.

Calico Blackie says:

If this had happened at an Occupy camp, the mainstream media would have made sure this story was heard frem sea to shining sea.

On that note:

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing” – Theodore Roosevelt

DON’T BE DISCOURAGED!

Not OWS yet, but we had better be ready for it

Don’t let the bastards grind you down!

OCCUPY WALL STREET

United, WE WIN

We are the 99%

Calico Blackie

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Nov10

PARTY LIKE IT’S 1968?

by Calico Blackie on November 10, 2011 at 10:56 am
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Big Brother, Media Bias

Greetings from the Heart of the Klamath!

Well……..

We witnessed a terrorist attack on peaceful citizens last night. Did any of you call the police? I urge you all to call UCPD (510) 642‑6760, and the Berkeley Police (510) 981-5900, to report these crimes.

YES, WE ARE!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peaceful demonstrators on the UC Berkeley campus were attacked by a terrorist organization for demanding an end to cuts in education and for a return of control of our government to the 99%.  They were met by an organized gang of thugs, dressed in riot gear who represent the interests of their 1% masters.

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add LESS IS MORE to it and we have 2011. C’mon students. Pay more for your education while we give you less services and classes! We’ll still keep our paid thugs in the UCPD, and we’ll still serve the 1% on the UC Regents Board!

 

From KTVU in Oakland:

(Who edits this stuff??? I’ve edited the following text so it makes much more sense:)

UC police clash with Occupy protesters at Sproul Hall

“UC police in riot gear moved on several Occupy protesters gathered outside of Sproul Hall on the Berkeley campus Wednesday night,  taking down tents the protesters had set up in a tense confrontation.”

In other words:

UC police in riot gear moved on several Occupy protesters gathered outside Sproul Hall on the Berkeley campus Wednesday night in a tense confrontation taking down tents the protesters had set up.

“Approximately 50 UC police officers in riot helmet with visors approached the group of protesters at around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night, prodding the students and activists who had formed a human chain with batons as the gathered crowd chanted “Stop beating students!” “Peaceful protest!” and “The whole world is watching!”

This means:

Approximately 50 UC police officers in riot helmets with visors approached the group of protesters at around 9:30 p.m. prodding the students and activists with batons.   Protestors had formed a human chain and were chanting “Stop beating students!” “Peaceful protest!” and “The whole world is watching!

At points the shoving between the two groups intensified with police pushing forward and wielding their batons to the outcry of the protesters.

I ask you….Does this look like “prodding”? Does this look like “Shoving between two groups”?

No. This is an attack by armed thugs upon a group of peaceful people. And we’re letting it  happen if we don’t speak up now.

 

But, Hey!…..

University of California system wide student strike approved next Tuesday!

Better grease your batons and rubber bullets UCPD. The whole world will be watching YOU.

From The Oakland Tribune:

Citing excessive force and free speech violations by police during protests in Oakland and at UC Berkeley, the Berkeley City Council this week refused a mutual aid agreement with university police and nixed agreements with other police agencies on regional domestic surveillance.

Heard early this morning:

“There was more property damage in last night’s riots at Penn State than in all 100+ OWS protests combined”

Not an Occupy Protest. Not Berkeley. This is Penn State!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also heard this last night:

“Gingrich says OWS protestors have no clue about history.”

A TRAITOR TO HIS COUNTRY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Calico Blackie says:

Oh, that’s rich!  Newt, I AM an historian. Perhaps you should read your history and discover more about Benedict Arnold. He sold us out, just like you and your cronies over at Fox “news” are selling us out.

From Salon.com

Occupiers plan epic New York to Washington march

Persistent criticism of Occupy Wall Street for failing to specify demands has helped obscure the fact that groups of people within the movement have been mobilizing around concrete political goals.

Join in! Defend your Country against the 1%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The latest example is a small group of occupiers who will set out tomorrow on a 230-mile march from New York to Washington, where they plan to arrive on the eve of the deadline of the congressional supercommittee.

 

They keep at it, but we’re not buying their lies

 

 

 

Meanwhile, we’re being “set up” again:

The British media say Israel may launch an aerial strike on Iranian nuclear facilities as early as next month. The offensive will receive support from the US, the speculation goes.  The attack is meant to decapitate Iran’s nuclear program, which a recent report by the UN atomic watchdog said may have a military component.

The Daily Mail cites British government sources as saying that the cabinet expects Israel to attack Iran “sooner rather than later.”  “We’re expecting something as early as Christmas, or very early in the New Year,” a Foreign Office source is cited as saying.

Calico Blackie says:

It appears as if the 1% is trying to start another “for profit” war, with the added bonus of getting rid of surplus population. The “surplus population” is US.  Don’t fall for the lies of their propaganda machine. KEEP TRACK OF THIS STORY no matter how much the corporate media tries to distract us with Lohan, Snooki, news about Disney’s “pop tarts” and other meaningless bullshit.

Speak up! Protest! Exercise your Constitutional rights no matter what Coulter, Hannity, Limbaugh and the other “Benedict Arnolds” say.

 

We are the 99%

Calico Blackie

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Nov09

WELL C’MON ALL OF YOU BIG STRONG MEN!

by Calico Blackie on November 9, 2011 at 9:18 am
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Media Bias

PROTEST! WE ARE THE 99%

Greetings From Rural America!

More “Occupy” arrests made for exercising 1st Amendment rights last night.

And……..

UH-OH. Rattle the sabers! Wave the flag!

From The Washington Post:

U.N. agency reports new concerns about Iran pursuing nuclear weapon

“Nuclear watchdog says it has “serious concerns” Iran is secretly working toward building a nuclear weapon, citing documents pointing to extensive and ongoing research by Iranian scientists on mastering the technology needed for atomic weapons.”

 

Also saw this in the morning news:

The President of Iran has said that such allegations are “absurd.”

“Russia will not support new, tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, Interfax news agency quoted a senior Russian diplomat as saying on Wednesday.”

Putin and Ahmadinejad. They're in the hip pocket of big business too

Calico Blackie says:

Whichever side you choose to believe, people might have to suffer and die over this mess.

A lot of people. 

Make up your own mind.

It looks like the subject of Iran is heating up again. It’s disturbing news.

I also hear from people calling for violent revolution in this country. That bothers me too.  So I ask my readers…..

Have you ever read history, or did you “major in something useful” like your masters told you to do, so that you would be a good obedient drone for the 1%?

No dreams. Just good citizens in an Orwellian society

Imagine if we all did that? 

No artists, poets, thinkers, dreamers, dancers, or culture.

Everybody the same.

No entertainers. Nothing but WORK.

Free Speech? Who needs it?

We’re all the same!

Just out of curiosity…..

How many of you have studied the history of wars and calamities in society?

How many of you have seen a real war from the ground?

How many of you have studied past violent revolutions in society?

How many of you are just “internet tough guys?”

We've all encountered them

I’ve put off writing this column for weeks because war and revolution are terrible things to contemplate and/or write about. 

Quite frankly, it’s a scary topic.

So, why are we in such a hurry to send our kids to war?

Simple. Those who have never been to war have a “Hollywood” version of war.

They’ve never shot a living thing and seen it’s eyeballs pop out of it’s head.

Most people in this country think of John Wayne or movies such as “Apocalypse Now” when there is a mention of war. 

Or, they’re just Fox “news” internet tough guys.  These people have never studied the subject in detail.

They have never seen or felt real pain. They can’t even imagine it.

NOT REALITY

Not reality.

In the scene depicted here, he said he “loved the smell of napalm.” 

Have you ever thought about what it would be like to die covered in burning jellied gasoline? 

Have you ever thought about members of your family dying in this manner?

Have you ever noticed that the people that scream the loudest for war here are the very people that will not have to go and fight?

Either that, or they’ve only experienced war in video games played in the comfort of their warm homes.

CAUTION: Real Images of War Ahead

WARNING….I am posting four images below that you may never forget for the rest of your life.

This is reality.

Remember, there are people out there that are living this RIGHT NOW in the world. 

So you want a war?

Ok, internet tough guy.

THIS IS REALITY. This could be YOUR SON, YOUR BROTHER, OR YOU

Imagine you’re sitting in your living room cowering behind your couch during a revolution. 

Suddenly, the door is kicked in and your kid is grabbed and you’re faced with the situation depicted in this photograph. 

You can’t put down THAT game.

You can’t stop what’s going on.

 

 

 

Is this what you want? Or, would you perhaps prefer this?  

LOOK AT IT WARMONGERS. She’s trying to protect her baby. They’re both going to die

 

This could be your wife and your child. 

Where are you now, tough guy?

Defending your wife and child? 

NO.

YOU’RE ALREADY DEAD

 

 

 

 

 

Still not enough for you? Try this.

He’s an orphan now. His whole family was killed. This was his home. This could be your brother

Imagine how you would feel if your children were suddenly made homeless orphans, sitting in the wreckage of what was once their home.

Imagine if YOU had to bury them?

See them dead with their eyeballs popped out?

How would you feel?

How quick would you be to do this to someone else?

 

 

Or….How would you like your hometown to look like this?

This could be OUR hometowns

Time to relax…..

After you’ve buried your family and friends.

After you’ve killed.

After you’ve seen everything you ever worked for and/loved destroyed.

 

 

 

 

We do this…….

 

Peacefully protesting to keep the Country Free

To prevent our country from becoming this:

 

We had to win that one. Even then, big business profited

Oh yes….We will fight when needed to ensure this never happens again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BUT WE WILL NOT BE DUPED INTO FIGHTING ANOTHER WAR FOR PROFIT and THE 1%’ers.

 

 

WE PATRIOTS WILL RESIST YOUR ATTEMPTS TO KILL US!

 

NEVER AGAIN will we be led like sheep to the slaughterhouse

Think about it. 

If the above scenes are frightening, why should we think it is OK for that to happen in any other country?

When Hannity, O’Reilly, Coulter and Limbaugh start waving the flag and try to push you in front of the blowtorch, be sure to tell them:

“Not for big oil and money.” 


When they call you a commie, or say you are un-American, say:

“Ok, YOU go first.”

See if they send themselves and the families of the 1% to go fight and die.

Hey Fox “news”…. were they “un-American” in 1968 for protesting against the Vietnam War at Kent State?


Tell them that we are sick and tired of supporting the 1% maggots that feed off of our bodies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are sick of the Fox “news” parrots and their mouthpieces. 

Tell them: WE ARE MORE THAN JUST “SURPLUS POPULATION” TO BE SACRIFICED IN THEIR WARS.

TELL THEM:

WE ARE THE 99%

OCCUPY WALL STREET

Occupy!

Calico Blackie

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Nov08

WHY DO WE PROTEST?

by Calico Blackie on November 8, 2011 at 9:48 am
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Big Brother, Bread and Circuses for the Masses, Media Bias

Greetings from “The Heart of the Klamath”!

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Between working (which is getting scarcer these days) at my small business, feeding chickens, getting firewood and all the other things that constitute living life in a rural area, I keep up on the news and I relieve frustration and help my fellow 99%’ers with this site.

Every once in awhile, I’ll run across something someone else has said or written, and it tells the story better than I can tell it myself.

Such was the case when I came across these remarks regarding why the “occupy” movement is happening across the country and world. Here it is in its entirety. Please give it a read.

Particularly you people that get all of your information from Fox “news.”

A lot of reading coming up, but the message is crystal clear.

So…..

WHY ARE WE PROTESTING? Haven’t you been listening??

From: “barbecue bob” in The Mile High City (copied from George Carlin)

Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the President, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want:

They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests.

Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting screwed by a system that threw them overboard 30 frigging years ago. They don’t want that!

You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this frigging place! It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I are not in the big club.

By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with theirmedia telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a damn about you….they don’t give a damn about you… they don’t give a damn about you.

They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their butts everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth.

Wake up! Think for yourself!

Its called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to still believe it.

Thank you Barbecue Bob and George Carlin. 

This should be reprinted and distributed across the nation!

Calico Blackie says:

WHY ARE WE PROTESTING?

 

  •  We’re mad because we’re getting screwed and we don’t like it!
  • We’re mad because there are still dolts out there saying: “If you don’t like it here, move to Cuba,” and “Get a job.”  NO! This is OUR country!  We are PATRIOTS who know that it is imperative that we make it better HERE for our selves and our future generations!
  • We’re mad because there are still a lot of thick-skulled idiots towing their masters line and fixating on the lies being fed to them by the bullshit media, saying things such as “dirty hippies pooping on police cars.”
  • We’re mad because they still believe Hannity, Coulter, Limbaugh, and that Judas goat, O’Reilly, and entertainers such as Ted Nugent, when in reality those stinking mouthpieces are nothing more than paid whores shilling for the 1%. Those jackasses are killing this country, and we are fed up with their blatant bullshit.
  • We’re mad because there’s still a lot of people who will sit back and get screwed because they’re too stupid to do or say anything else, because they let Fox “news” do their thinking for them.

Wake up and reject the propaganda machine

On with the show……..

Well, the corporate media is at it again, trying to divide and conquer.

IT’S NOT WORKING.

We’re wise to their lies.

On msnbc yesterday:

Under 35? Economic Downturn More Likely to Thump You

“Those over 65 are faring much better.  That’s the finding of a new analysis of government data by the Pew Research Center which found that older adults have enjoyed big financial gains — in wealth, income and homeownership — as households headed by those under 35 have lost ground.”

“The fortunes of young and old households have been diverging for decades. But the Pew report found the disparity cuts across a broad range of measures of economic well-being and has been amplified by the recession that began in 2007.”

Here we go again. They try to divide us with lies

Calico Blackie says

What bull.

Just a few days ago, the news was reporting that seniors are the hardest hit.  Who writes this stuff? Joe Goebbels? 

It’s just another transparent ploy to divide us so that we don’t try to solve the real problems……..Wall Street and their wholly owned subsidiary in Washington DC. 

Members of all groups (except the 1%) are suffering because of these crooks. Looks like the Pew  “Research” Center must have included retired Wall Street CEO’s in their “statistics” because average senior citizens in this country sure aren’t getting any richer.

What about this news story?

Seniors Join Occupy Chicago, Protest Cuts To Medicare, Social Security

Look at those entitled "hipsters" protesting. Tell THEM to "get a job"!

“Amid chants demanding that the cuts be forestalled — with suggestions for alternatives, including tax hikes — 43 demonstrators were escorted from the intersection by police and issued citations for pedestrian failure to “exercise due care,” or for blocking traffic. Those cited included four protesters using assisted mobility devices and at least one centenarian.”

“Judy Moses said she was glad to receive the citation–her second in her quest to maintain funding for programs that benefit seniors, following an arrest for blocking traffic in December at a similar protest.”

“When I was younger, I never did protests,” she said. “I was a silent majority. Now, I’m ready to make noise.”

Seen this?

It’s been going on forever, but their timing is poor. Shows us how much they care about us peasants!

Wells Fargo Tries To Hitch Its Wagon To 1 Percenters

“If you happen to be one of the 10,000 households in the country with $50 million or more to play around with, Wells Fargo would like to talk to you. Well, not Wells Fargo per se, but its new brand, Abbot Downing. Named after a 19th century stagecoach builder, Abbot Downing is launching next year with a staff of 300 managing $27.5 billion of assets from customers.”

The bankers have us by the balls

“Ecredit Daily reports Abbot Downing will have a presence in 15 cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Scottsdale (regular Phoenix is apparently too dirty for Abbot Downing), Denver, Houston, Minneapolis, Chicago and Philadelphia. An Abbot Downing exec says the brand’s services will “go beyond traditional wealth planning analysis.” Example: Say you’re the steward of a decades-old business that you’d like to liquify in order to grow flush with cash. Abbot Downing will find buyers and make it happen for you.”

Hmmm…..

With different banks can come different investment strategies, meaning that the controlling entities can make sure to use the large accounts, a majority of the content of which will be uninsured by the FDIC, to make only sound, safe investments, while they use our accounts, most of which are backed by the government, to fund the risky investments.

See how that works?

The rich keep making money with absolutely no risk, while our money can be set aflame, and the bank gets to reap a reward either way. This is using the letter of the law to circumvent the spirit of the law, plain and simple.

So, why MUST the 99% succeed now, instead of waiting until the kettle boils over?

It must succeed because we can hear our founding fathers saying things such as: “Yeah, we have the best parliament and House of Lords money can buy,” or “We’re not represented why do I have to pay taxes?”

That’s what America is all about, once you take away this right to assemble and protest because you don’t agree with them you run the real risk of a true revolution.

That’s what the British did and that’s why we’re an independent country today. These movements; just like prior to the American Revolution will take a while to sharpen their focus into: “Give me Liberty or Give me Death,” and “No taxation without Representation.”

The people who scorn this movement should read more about American history. I wonder how many National Guards men and women or actual US Soldiers are willing to shoot and maim their brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers over the nonsense going on in Washington DC. Hell I’m a responsible business owner and I joined the 99%.

So….

Why are we protesting?

Because we care about our country and our fellow citizens.

We are protesting for a return of our government to the 99%.

We are protesting to LET FREEDOM RING AGAIN!!!

OCCUPY WALL STREET

WE’VE GOT TO SUCCEED!

For the Young, old, all races. FOR A BETTER WORLD!: We are the  99%

Calico Blackie

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Oct31

A Betrayal of Trust

by Calico Blackie on October 31, 2011 at 10:39 am
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Bread and Circuses for the Masses, Media Bias

Good Morning!

Kiss it Wall Street!

Happy Halloween!

And so….

Here’s what we hear from the parrots that insist on beating the same old dead horse:

“Get a job! 

Major in something useful!

Work 3 jobs while going to college!

Go live in Cuba if you don’t like it here!

Pooping on police cars!

Dirty hippies! Socialists! Commies!”

Calico Blackie says:

Gads! Can’t they do better than just parroting what they hear from Hannity, Coulter, O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and the other paid shills at Fox “News”?

Leading YOU to the slaughter

Unfortunately, most of these people that eat fox crap are likely to be lifelong delusionals. Even if they themselves experience hardship, they will find ways to rationalize their beliefs that whatever happens to other people is other people’s fault, and you should never feel compassionate.

That, after all, is a sign of weakness.

These are the kind of people who, if they end up homeless, steal from the other homeless. The violent drunks. The ones who rob octogenarian women.

And then boast about their victims being stupid for being in a dangerous neighborhood and in their presence.

"Will work for food" LOL! COMEDY GOLD!!!!

It’s not easy to ‘fix’ these people, because you’d have to fix society.

Take away incentives to cheat, lie and be egotistical.

Praise intellectualism over materialism.

Speaking of “fixing” people…………

Hey, the above photo is from that “costume party” held the other night by a big foreclosure firm in New York. 

The theme was “dress up as a person you have put out of their homes.”

DO NOT EVER FORGET THIS FACE.

Just imagine if these people worked in a hospital! 

Every Halloween they could be cancer kids with shaved heads and signs that say things like”

“I just want to live.”

and…. 

“Why won’t baby Jesus save me?”

Talk about “rotflmao”!!!

Remember this face when she gets laid off and finds herself homeless.  Be sure to tell the cops where she’s meeting her “johns”.

The wealthy and powerful can’t believe a revolution can happen here in America.

They just plain can’t believe it. 

After all……… This is the USA, not France or Russia.

Her next “costume”? This is what happened in France after the Nazis were thrown out. This woman collaborated with the Nazis

The idea of the mobs actually rising up against the powerful is something they think just plain can’t happen. 

They’ll assume people might get grumpy, but they’ll go back to watching Dancing with the Stars and gossiping about Snooki and Paris Hilton, they’ll eat at McDonalds and play the lottery thinking this is the ticket that’ll make them rich so everything will be A-OK soon.

They’ll feed us better and more lurid meaningless news stories about the “disease du jour” or the crazy murder on the loose in some far-away country.

Somebody famous will have their phone hacked.

It’s worked for many decades just fine, and they aren’t in a hurry to question it.

They aren’t trying to avoid pissing off the public, because they just don’t care.

THAT’S RIGHT…….

OOOH LOOK. SEX!!! When you keep your head in the sand, your ass is in the air

Wall Street and their wholly owned subsidiary in Washington DC doesn’t give a damn what any of us think.

They don’t care about their public image, so they’re doing this just because they can.

Why don’t they care? Why do they “look down their noses” at the 99%?

Because it’s always “idiots who took out loans they couldn’t afford,” never “hard-working families with good careers who took out a loan they could afford and then had an unanticipated layoff due to Wall Street playing fast and loose with the economy and the house they bought for $150,000 they now can’t sell for $50,000.”

We’re learning!

They were willing to trust their government and financial institutions.

And were eventually left to become poor for the benefit of the 1%.

Want to know why the current protestors exist?

“They were willing to trust their government and financial institutions”, and were left to drown in the results.


American financier Jay Gould, after hiring strikebreakers, said: “I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.”

Jay Gould. He’s dead. All the profits in the world won’t help him now

Calico Blackie says:

Sad but true.

Just look at the police departments around the country who are willing to gas and rubber bullet citizens for exercising their Constitutional rights.

So……… What else is new?

Occupy Movement Scores Huge Victory in Cleveland After Seeking a Federal Injunction Eliminating Curfew

“Last Friday night, members of the group Occupy Cleveland, which have been demonstrating on Public Square in downtown Cleveland since early October, were told that they must vacate the premises as the permit they had been granted by the city expired at 10pm. Without a permit, city law prohibits camping out between the hours of 10pm and 5am.”

“Several arrests were made, all while the demonstrators peacefully explained that they were expressing their 1st amendment rights to free speech and peaceful assembly.” 

How does it feel 1%, when you can’t buy the law?

“On Wednesday, the group scored huge victory when a federal judge issued an injunction that would allow them to occupy the Tom Johnson quadrant of Public Square at all hours of the day for an indefinite period of time.”

From ABC:

Occupy Veterans Movement Growing across U.S

By KRISTINA WONG

Oct. 31, 2011

“Since Occupy Wall Street protests have broken out in cities across the U.S. and abroad, support has come from what might seem like an unlikely corner: war veterans.”

From CBS News:

Police Erase Occupy Richmond Tent Site

“Police cleared out a public park in downtown Richmond where members of Occupy Richmond have camped since October 15. About a dozen protesters were arrested.”

“WTVR reports that police on foot and on horseback told Occupy Richmond demonstrators to leave Kanawha Plaza by 1:00 a.m. Monday morning, and less than an hour later went into the park and arrested those who refused to leave.”

“About a dozen who stayed were arrested for trespassing, police spokesman Gene Lepley said.”

“Some members of the protest are standing nearby saying they will return. “Whether it be Kanahwa Plaza, whether it be on VCU’s campus, whether it be on the sidewalks where we are now,” one protester told WTVR.”

“Occupy doesn’t have to be in a set location. The location of this doesn’t matter; it’s all in the heart.”

Here we go again. Did you really expect Fox "news" to give us any details on the protests?

Jay Gould must be smiling up from hell right now.

From FOX “news”:

“United Nations cultural agency UNESCO, in test vote of recognition, grants full membership to Palestinians over threat of defunding by U.S.”

An important story, but they’re still ignoring the 99% in hopes that we will go away.

Anybody notice this?

Brokerage Firm MF Global Files for Bankruptcy

By msnbc.com news services

“Troubled brokerage MF Global Holdings, led by former New Jersey Governor John Corzine, filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, according to news reports.”

John Corzine. He screwed you. What are you doing about it?

“MF Global is a primary dealer, meaning it can do business directly with the Federal Reserve System.”

Calico Blackie says:

Uh oh. 

Looks like those dirty hippie Socialist bankers are going to be asking for another free handout soon at our expense!

I read this today:

 “Seriously people…grow up, get a job, and stop complaining about the success other people have achieved. You obviously need a lesson in how to work hard and make something out of your life instead of looking towards the government for your salvation. If you think that a socialist society is so much better than the capitalistic society you abuse, then go live in Cuba!”

Saw this reply:

“I love that you are happy loaning money to corporations from your taxes so they can give themselves bonuses after having mismanaged their company and then bet against your 401k and make another bundle off of your hard work. Congrats!”

Occupy HAS to succeed.  RIGHT NOW while we’re still at the peaceful protest stage.

Maybe things just aren’t bad enough yet. 

Or those who have hit bottom haven’t lost all hope.  But if things don’t change soon critical mass will be achieved.

WE’VE GOT TO WIN

Just the right event will trigger the spark that ignites the prairie fire and then it will spread fast.

What we see on the television in those “other” countries will happen here. Only this population has a lot of guns in circulation.  That’s why there’s been a huge push for gun control here.

Stay non-violent!  Don’t play their game!

OCCUPY WALL STREET

 “So that a government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth”

We are the 99%

Calico Blackie

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Oct29

LIBERTY EXPOSED IN OUR COUNTRY

by Calico Blackie on October 29, 2011 at 10:32 am
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Divided We Fall, Media Bias

Good Morning!

(Good afternoon to my friends on the East Coast)

A common tactic of a worried government and ruling class

From Mediabistro via KTLA Los Angeles:

“Marines have been flocking to the social networking/aggregator site Reddit to voice their anger at the life-threatening injury inflicted on 24-year-old Iraqi war veteran Scott Olsen by Oakland police during the recent Occupy protests.”

Here’s one from Reddit user 0311kilo33:

“As God is my witness. I will fight tooth and nail to restore the decency this country was founded upon.

The politicians, banks and large corporations have ruined this country.

I find it difficult to notice any sense of politeness on the streets anymore. But it goes farther. As a Marine and a citizen I am outraged.

I am sick to death of the world my children are being raised in. So I ask all of you, can you too sense the tipping point?

When will enough be enough? If not now, when? I feel the problem is that the average Joe citizen is ignorant and comfortable.

These, in addition to selfishness have become the standard for the majority of the population. As long as people are comfortable they remain silent. Well, I’m really damned uncomfortable and I’m sick of seeing this sort of shit happening.

Oakland Police were “just following orders”

The Occupy protests that are going on are our first glimmer of hope. If we can take this and move it further, get every lazy ass off their rocker and open their eyes; then maybe, just maybe we have a chance.

Semper Fi brothers, and remember who you are. Protectors of a great nation, not politicians or wealthy money grubbing bankers and the like. When it comes time, I know we’ll stand strong. 

Calico Blackie says:

If online reaction is any indication, it’s not a stretch to think Olsen’s injury could be the start of something very big. We have a lot of military combat veterans in this country who haven’t been treated very well since they left the service.

Scott Olsen was fighting for ALL of us

No job prospects.

Inadequate medical coverage.

If they take their anger offline and into the streets, the OWS movement will become an extremely potent, and WELL TRAINED force.

Well, let’s see what the bootlickers over at corporate media will have to say about this. 

Probably nothing. 

It’s easier to keep our heads in the sand.  Fat, dumb, and happy, like cows in a slaughterhouse.  Tell us half-truths and lies and leaving out important details.  Focusing on as many negatives they can dredge up, and ignoring the real reasons we’re angry. 

Wake up to their bullshit. 

Hannity, Coulter, Ted Nugent, Rush Limbaugh and all the rest are just playing the role of the “Judas Steer” for the American people.

Follow me. Would I steer you wrong to enrich myself?

What is a Judas Steer, you ask?

From the website ignitingyourfuture:

“Cowboys always attempted to identify a Judas-Steer, which was a special member of a herd.

The herd usually has one cow or steer that is trained enough to lead the rest of the cows into the slaughterhouse without help or human encouragement.

These Judas cows would often see the inside of a slaughterhouse up to a dozen times before meeting their demise, unaware which time of leading their fellow cows to their death would be their last. 

Here are a few of those “Judas” steers now

Ultimately, all of the cattle were dragged or coaxed into the cars, and were sent off to meet their fate in the great packing-houses.”

So…….

In just 3 decades I’ve watched the cost of living soar to unprecedented heights and also watched an unprecedented number of new multi-millionaires and billionaires appear.

At the same time, I’ve watched as an unprecedented (since the Great Depression) amount of people become homeless.

At the same time, never, to my knowledge, has there been such a massive appearance of businesses designed to essentially lie about their products and sell them to the unwary, often using the ‘new’ inflated shipping and handling trick to make bucks, and shortly after, vanish. Then the FCC weakened the laws to allow lengthy ‘infomercials’ to clog your TV and weaken the already lousy service the majority of you receive — and pay a high amount for.

Get a job, hippie!

Then the FCC weakened the laws to allow lengthy ‘infomercials’ to clog your TV and weaken the already lousy service the majority of you receive — and pay a high amount for.

I’ve heard this question asked………….

“Did the depression era people know they were in a depression?”

No. That title was applied later.

Much like now. Job cut-backs and low employment rates, low commerce exchange values overseas, low dollar value, extended government support infrastructure for the non 1%’s, etc. 

Why would you say this is not a depression? Even the number of unemployed is skewed towards a popular number. How about accounting for those that haven’t been able to get a job and fell off the unemployment benefit rolls? 99 weeks without a job… are those numbers accounted for?

Disgusting. Look at those dirty hippies wanting something for free!

And no, don’t go to the “they could be working at McD’s if they wanted a job” crap. That doesn’t wash for a number of reasons.

That’s just crap we hear from the Judas steers (see above) that are nothing more than corporate mouthpieces, hired to keep us divided, ignorant, and misinformed. 

It’s not that they don’t know there’s a problem in this country.

They’re paid to marginalize the ills and ridicule people that speak up about what’s wrong in this country.  They know that an awful lot of their listeners will buy in to their message, while being led into the slaughterhouse. 

See the problem yet?

Fair and Balanced? You decide.

My point has been that the rich have been getting richer, the middle class has been taxed to the point of breaking, and the poor just get poorer.

We know those with the base money get richer by just sitting on their funds (less taxation, stock market growth over years, etc.).

The middle class that fund the daily running of the government by means of heavy taxation are in the long run poorer, and the poor….

……well they stay poor.

So, what can you contribute to make a change?  SPEAK UP. PROTEST.

That is EXACTLY why we are protesting, and EXACTLY why I am in support of the 99%.

BULL!!!

News from the occupy front:

From Fresno, California

“Occupy Fresno protesters plan to stay in the downtown Courthouse Park, even if their request to extend their right-to-assemble permit, which expires at midnight Monday, is denied by the county, a protester said Friday.”

“Lawyers for the protesters will ask Fresno County officials for a permit extension Monday, but the protesters will stay in the park no matter the outcome of their request, Vanessa Aranda said.”

“If they think that they can trample over our First Amendment rights, they can try,” she said.

From Los Angeles:

“City officials and protesters are holding a meeting Friday afternoon at the mayor’s office to discuss the Occupy movements throughout Los Angeles County, a police spokesman said.”

“The meeting includes representatives from the Los Angeles Police Department, members of the Occupy L.A. movement and at least one representative of the start-up Occupy San Fernando Valley protest, which is slated to kick off Saturday morning, according to LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith.”

In Fresno and all across America

“The meeting will likely determine the fate of Occupy San Fernando Valley and lay out guidelines if it is to proceed.”

From Zuccotti Park:

“And we are back reporting from #Zuccotti Park where the #OccupyWallStreet protesters suffered a blow after power generators were seized”

In Nashville:

“Early today, Night Court Magistrate Tom Nelson sent an email to Davidson County’s General Sessions judges explaining why he refused the THP’s request to sign criminal trespassing warrants against Occupy Nashville protesters.”

He noted “It is of particular consternation that the rules and curfew were enacted after a protest movement and occupation of Legislative Plaza had been tolerated for just over 3 weeks, with no notice that the group members were involved in criminal activity.’’

Fighting for what’s Right

“Nelson said the protesters should have been given a “reasonable opportunity’’ to apply for the requisite permit.”

“Fourteen hours is woefully inadequate time within which to allow the group an opportunity to comply with the newly enacted rules, regulations, curfew and permit requirements.’’

HOWEVER:

“Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed off on the plan to arrest the Occupy Nashville protesters, said Bill Gibbons, Commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security at a 10:30 a.m. press conference with reporters.”

“He said the state stands by its action and insists it didn’t overreact.”

Calico Blackie says:

A common tactic.

Change the rules, pass new laws, invoke the Patriot Act, and crush the protests. Protect the 1% at all costs.  These legislators and commentators would sell their mothers on a street corner if they thought it would please their corporate masters and ensure that their fat paychecks keep flowing.

These people are not Americans. They’ve sold their country and their souls for money.  Their mantra is greed.  Don’t be fooled by them and their message of greed.  

This is Sophie Scholl. They changed the laws on her too. If you don't know who this young woman is, just Google her name.

Weigh their actions and rhetoric against the Constitution and then decide for yourself what to do.

Sophie Scholl and The White Rose Movement was not afraid to speak up.  Neither are we.

OCCUPY WALL STREET

We are the 99%

Calico Blackie

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Oct20

Heaven, Hell, Celebs and Socialism

by Calico Blackie on October 20, 2011 at 10:24 am
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Divided We Fall, Media Bias

Good Morning!

(Good afternoon to my friends on the East Coast)

The original message of this flag is GREAT

I am still not sure why the Tea Party and Libertarian types are against the OWS movement.

You’d think they would support a group who’s goal is to expose and hopefully end the corporate influence on our government, end corporate corruption, and to hold these who cause harm to the economy and our country as a whole accountable.

I am not sure what it is about the OWS movement that these people don’t agree with.

I like this:

“Remember folks: when occupying Wall Street, be sure to bring a banker. They have all the bailout money.”

Step right up and give us your money!

Wall Street is not only the house at a casino, this approaches the point where Wall Street is the house, the gambling commission, and every other player at the poker table besides yourself – they don’t need to win, they just need you to lose and they have your money.

This is the fundamental problem.

Pretty much everything else is just a symptom of it.

One of the best aspects of the “Occupy” movement?

Wall Street may continue to shove their sh*t down our throats, but never again will they be able to insist that it’s chocolate rocky road ice cream.

Now, on with the show!

I’ve heard many of the critics of the Occupy Wall Street Movement using the “S” word. SOCIALISM.  They throw it out there like pearls before Hannity and Coulter fans. Here’s a little lesson for you folks……

B-B-BU-BUT…..SOCIALISM!!! I only believe what FOX News tells me to believe

Once again the media is trying to divide us and pigeon-hole us into convenient categories.

“Stinky hippies” 

“Anti-semitic Nazis” and the like. 

Of course, the majority of any population will be a lot of things, but these sick and feebly attempts at dehumanizing the occupy Movement get tedious at times.

So anyway, for those of you who don’t really understand this and don’t want to ask because you’re afraid of looking or sounding politically ignorant…..

Here goes:

Socialism means state ownership of the means of production. In the modern sense, that usually means state ownership of one or a few key industries, such as energy production, telecom, or transportation.

There is nothing inherently socialist about a government providing services for its people. The postal service was created in the US Constitution. Was James Madison, patriot and slave owner, a socialist? Nor is it socialist to pay for these services through progressive taxation.

As it happens, programs such as old-age insurance, unemployment insurance, and the progressive income tax were advocated by socialist politicians. And socialist governments tend to offer more services because they are not so leery about state intervention in the economy. But I think it is very important to keep the distinction between socialism and the capitalist welfare state clear.

And so….

Pseudo-naughty words ahead

This was from a thread where one person was trying to dominate the discussion by accusing everyone in the thread that supported the demonstrators of being a SOCIALIST.

Finally, someone was fed up enough to reply.

It was on another popular website (www.fark.com) and I had a great laugh at this guys rant.

Draw your own conclusions, but it sure kept me entertained for a while.

So, with apologies to Drew Curtis over at Fark, here it is…. 

(Reprinted word for word)

“You really don’t know how it works, do you? Go back to Free Republic, idiot. farking Clown. That’s what you are, a farking clown.

Might as well just play the goddamn circus music when you post because your posts are so stupid, so ill-conceived that a 3rd grader could see through them. You. You’re the problem with this country.

You think education is for the “elite” while you sit at your IT Help Station all day, plotting how to spend your $9.00/hour with no benefits.

Don’t worry, clown, the Mountain Dew and Cheeto binges will catch up to you and your wonderful job will fire your yellow-stained finger ass because you had the goddamn audacity to get sick.

Yep, my reaction

As you sit at home, pawning your Playstations one by one to get diabetes meds, playing your ever-shrinking collection of now PS-1 games, will your first thought be “Socialism did this!!!!”? Most likely. Better go stock up on Mountain Dew and some Cheetos now before everything you have is sold or pawned because your shiatty job couldn’t give you farking insurance. Because then you’ll be the poor one and in this country, the knobs you slobber over say that you’re not entitled to health care for free. When you are buried in a shiatty grave with a wood box, your last PS-1 games will be sold off to pay your massive medical bills. Luckily, you’ll die alone, so as not to pass the burden on to anyone else. Unless your poor parents make the mistake of co-signing for anything medical related, then they’ll be on the hook for the tens of thousands of dollars it took to keep you breathing as long as you did.””But, you know, socialism is bad.”

 Yeesh!

In the banking world:

From msnbc

Bank earnings don’t bode well for economy

By John W. Schoen, Senior Producer

This is what could happen tomorrow Jamie

“If even a banker can’t make money, times are really tough.”

“The latest round of quarterly bank earnings is bringing into sharper focus the breadth and depth of the economy’s distress.”

“Interest rates are lower than they’ve been in decades. Ordinarily, cheap money is a banker’s dream. But businesses and consumers just don’t want to borrow — at least not until they see some evidence that the economy is improving.”

“It’s hard not to be cautious,” JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told investors and reporters on a conference call last week. “Right now, nobody knows what is going to happen tomorrow.”

Also from msnbc:

Social Security goes up, but so do Medicare premiums

Here we go again

By Martha C. White

The good news:

“Social Security recipients are getting their first cost-of-living raise, 3.6 percent, since 2009.”

The bad news:

“Rising Medicare premiums will eat into that increase for many, and could erase it entirely for a small percentage.”

Meanwhile, from the Corporate media regarding OWS…….

Fron msnbc……nothing

 From cnn:

Occupy Wall Street reacts to Goldman Sachs pay

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Goldman Sachs has set aside $10 billion for staff pay so far this year, or roughly $292,000 per employee. That’s down $78,000 from last year.

Sound like a big drop? Try telling that to the folks at Occupy Wall Street.

“I think it’s ridiculous,” said 31-year-old Amanda Seelen, a social worker who joined the gathering in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday. “I don’t know how else to say it. It’s ridiculous.”

This poor family has to scrape by on only $292,000 a year. Please give generously

“As the Occupy Wall Street rally stretches into its fifth week, inspiring similar demonstrations across the country and around the world, protestors have yet to coalesce around a single set of demands.”

“They are clearly united, however, by their concerns about growing inequality and corporate excesses.”

Calico Blackie says:

Oh my God!  Can you imagine the plight of the average Goldman-Sachs employee struggling to get by on only $292,000 per year? 

Those poor people!

We better start setting up the donation cans in the check-out lanes of our local supermarkets.

Give GENEROUSLY! 

Heh. WE already did when we bailed you out.

From fox “news”:

Public Radio Host Fired After Involvement in ‘Occupy D.C.’ Protest

A freelance broadcaster who works for music and documentary programs has been fired from a job after NPR questioned her involvement in a Washington protest.

Lisa Simeone said Thursday that she was fired from “Soundprint,” a documentary show that is not produced by NPR. Simeone says she was fired Wednesday in a phone call during which NPR’s code of ethics was read to her.

Calico Blackie says: 

If true, NPR should take a poll of it’s listeners regarding the firing. It’s OUR money that funds you, and WE should be able to decide if your “Code of Ethics” should follow the Constitutional rights of your employees.

From ABC:

Alec Baldwin Hopes Occupy Wall Street Sparks Campaign Finance Reform

Thanks Alec!

From Los Angeles to New York, demonstrations increase in diversity and spread.

Calico Blackie Says:

Well, a celebrity that makes sense. 

He’s asking for campaign finance reform, instead of what we usually hear from our more liberal minded celebrities.

You know….RAH RAH RAH…go get ‘em protestors!

Then they go back home to their mansions and enjoy their lobster dinners.

From CBS News:……..nothing

But hey, Lindsay Lohan got re-arrested, the Cardinals won the first game of the World Series and Quadaffi is dead!

Calico Blackie says:

Don’t get me wrong.

I like my “mindless entertainment” too.

Bert Gummer on the hunt

I’m a big fan of the “Tremors” movies. Kevin Bacon is great and I get a big kick out of watching Bert Gummer hunting Graboids.

But I know that “bread and circuses” isn’t reality.

Also, I’m a small business owner that didn’t go into business to go broke. I started it to make money. 

I just would like to see the huge wealth of this country go towards making our great country even greater.

The 1% are killing America because they care about something more than they care about humanity, their country and even whatever god they attend church for. They worship money and the game of acquiring even greater wealth. 

By exploiting the working class, shrinking the middle-class, and ruining opportunities for small businesses to succeed, they are un-American and anti-world.

We read stories once in awhile about the problems of rich people. We even read that some of them shoot themselves. My parents used to tell me: “See, even rich people have problems, so money isn’t everything.” 

They never had money.

Heaven and Hell. Can you spot the “corporate” items in this picture?

Mae West once said: “I’ve been poor and I’ve been rich. Rich is better.”

Money is a corrupter for many people. The “root of all evil”, so to speak.  But it doesn’t corrupt everyone. 

At least Mae West was honest about it. 

I just wish the those Bankers would realize that “No one gets out alive” and “You can’t take it with you.”

Ever wonder if there is a heaven and hell? 

If there is, I’ll bet that one day there’s going to be a lot of those bankers walking around down in hell thinking that a horrible mistake was made!

All kidding aside…..

The “Occupy” protests HAVE to succeed in waking up Wall Street and stopping the unbridled greed that is strangling us.

We need reforms, and I’m afraid that if the people don’t get reforms, they will take them. 

STAND UP FOR AMERICA. Stop allowing corporations to mindlessly rape the world and it’s people in the name of greed.

And now a message for my fellow “OldGoats”. (you “kids” can tune out here, if you wish)

Those “Occupy” protestors are also fighting for YOUR pensions, YOUR Social Security, YOUR rights.

Stand in solidarity with them!

Stand with them so that a Government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.

This should not be a government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations.

Fight for your rights!

Stay United

 Stay Strong

 Stay non-violent

We Are The 99%

Calico Blackie

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Oct19

Think of the Children!

by Calico Blackie on October 19, 2011 at 7:52 am
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Divided We Fall

Good Morning!

Quote for today:

Just something to think about……..

“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”

-Reichsmarschall Herman Goering

 Occupy Wall Street is still going strong Herman!

So, what’s new?

Last nights debate in a nutshell

The Republican candidates debate was held in Las Vegas last night. In case you missed it, here’s a summary.

 “Healthcare for the peasants is bad and so are illegal immigrants.”

“If you want pie in the sky now, with ice cream on top of it, vote for me.”

“Past policies have failed.”

“My tax plan is better than yours.”

“I’m the answer.”

 In other words, same old scheisse.

In the other news:

From MSNBC:

Bank profits hammered by economic turmoil

By John W. Schoen, Senior Producer

Sounds like they’re going to be asking for another handout soon

“This is not a great time to be a banker –- whether your customers are on Wall Street or Main Street.”

“Battered by a slowing economy, a falling stock market and their customers’ worries about a looming recession in Europe, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America reported Tuesday that they lost money on their core banking operations.”

“Bank of America was able to record a profit of $6.2 billion for the quarter, thanks to accounting gains and the sale of a large stake in a Chinese bank, which offset lower revenue and income in its credit card, real estate and investment banking businesses.”

 Calico Blackie says:

Huh? I thought they lost money? Please explain to this hillbilly.

The article continues with…..

“The deal also helped knock Bank of America off its perch as the largest U.S. bank by assets, which fell to $2.21 trillion in the quarter. The Charlotte, N.C., bank cedes bragging rights to rival JPMorgan Chase & Co., which reported total assets of $2.28 trillion.”

So…….

EVERYBODY PANIC!  B of A only made 6.2 billion! JP Morgan is only worth 2.28 trillion!

THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!

I wonder what Nugent REALLY thinks of Native Americans?

Maybe Ted Nugent and Jeff Foxworthy should hold a benefit concert for those poor people over at JP Morgan-Chase. 

Lord knows Occupy Wall Street wouldn’t want to take any food out of the mouths of the children of the bankers.

It could be emceed by Rush Limbaugh.

Hannity could also put in a guest appearance.

Anything for a buck.  Nugent looks like an idiot in that photograph.

I cried myself to sleep last night over the plight of those poor bankers and their children.

Oh by the way, Bank of America also announced 30,000 job cuts during the quarter as part of a plan to cut costs by $5 billion a year in the next three years.  

CEO of JP Morgan Chase. Note the belly bloated from hunger

That’s company loyalty at its best!

Maximum profit before human beings. 

Meanwhile…..CAN WE JUST PUT AN END TO ALL THIS FINGER POINTING AND BLAME BULLSHIT?

Nixon screwed up.
Carter screwed up.
Reagan screwed up.

Bush screwed up.
Clinton screwed up.
Bush II screwed up.
And Obama is screwing up

Get over it and let’s start working together!!!!

They were all bought and paid for by the banks and corporations.

Yes, we do

The fact is that, for the most part, each administration incrementally builds upon all the bad policies and precedents which were set during all prior administrations.

Thus, while we have a two-party political system to give the illusion of choice during elections, in reality we have a one-policy government, regardless of who gets elected: More debt, more spending, more wars, more bailouts, a more oppressive police state, and less general freedom for all are the unfortunate main tenets of this policy.

Yes, I fully expect to get pack-raped like a kangaroo at a dingo rally for the above statement, but I couldn’t care less. If you disagree, tell me why.

Think about it.

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think. – A. Hitler

Let’s start working together. I’m willing to give a little. Are you?

In other news:

From MSNBC

 From Greece:

This isn’t Wall Street......yet

“Demonstrators on Wednesday threw stones and gasoline bombs at police outside parliament during a two-day general strike that unions described as the largest in years.”

“The protest, which has grounded flights, disrupted public transport and shut down shops to schools in Greece, comes ahead of a parliamentary vote on a fresh package of tax increases and spending cuts required by international creditors in return for crucial bailout cash.”

Calico Blackie says:

This is what happens when peaceful protestors are ignored.  Thank you “OWS” from the bottom of my heart.

Anybody seen this?

25 now dead in cantaloupe listeria outbreak

I read the other day that only 2% of our food gets inspected by the FDA due to a lack of personnel. With all the e-coli, salmonella, and listeria deaths out there, our food industry has finally done what preachers have tried to achieve for decades. Namely, we’re all praying before eating!

Keep together

Remember our goals

Together, we win!

Occupy Wall Street

We are the 99%

Calico Blackie

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