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Jan04

ARE YOU READY TO GO THE DISTANCE?

by Calico Blackie on January 4, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Divided We Fall


 

Greetings from Calico Blackie on the Klamath River!

There's a storm coming

Over the past few days, I’ve written about disaster preparedness and I hope I gave you some good tips regarding how to form a support group and do well in the event of a calamity.

Now, is the time for us all to give it some thought.

Don’t dwell on it, or become obsessed with it, just do it and be ready “just in case.”

That being said…..

What happened with the Iowa Carcasses?

From MSNBC

Romney edges past Santorum in Iowa caucuses photo finish

“Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney eked out a razor-thin victory in Tuesday night’s Iowa Republican caucuses, holding off former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum’s late-in-the-game-surge to win.”

The winner in Iowa

 ”Texas Rep. Ron Paul finished third, at 21 percent. Three other candidates, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann had also sought to beat expectations and rejuvenate their candidacies in subsequent primary contests in New Hampshire and South Carolina. Perry said he would take the next few days to re-assess his campaign.”

 ”Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann has suspended her campaign for the White House.”

“I have decided to stand aside,” she told a room of supporters and reporters in Iowa. Bachmann said she leaves the race knowing the campaign was run “with integrity.”

“She said now, the country needs to “stand united behind the person our party chooses to be the standard bearer.”

Bachmann pulls out

Calico Blackie says:

Mitt Romney?

What is this?

Another showing of “The Biggest Loser?”

I was almost sorry that Bachmann pulled out. It was fun to listen to her rantings.

Also, did anyone notice that both Democrats and Republicans have been merciless in their attacks on Ron Paul, but he still managed to finish third after being painted out as being crazy?

Ron Paul had both parties running scared for a while and probably still has them worried.

They said I was crazy too for opposing Free Trade agreements. How's that NAFTA working out for y'all, America?

He has the capacity to pull votes away from any other GOP candidate running for the nomination AND he has the capacity to pull votes away from the Democrats if he wins the nomination.

Either way, the circus is now going full steam ahead.

Any way you slice it, whoever gets in the White House will be the candidate that the 1% wants in the White House. Who knows? Maybe they’ll want Obama to stay there. Either way, you and I will lose the election.

So, now the “Big Top” moves on to the next state’s primary.

Meanwhile, the world still turns.

What else is new out there?

From CNN

#NDAA arrest, medic carried out by NYPD

“A photographer was participating in the Occupy protest at Grand Central yesterday when police arrested and carried a protester out of the station.”

The anti NDAA protest at Grand Central by the Occupy Movement

 ’At Grand Central Station as soon as the Occupy protest walked in, police got to the main concourse and the first person to speak up, they just grabbed and threw him to the ground. They took off his backpack and carried him away. There were tourists there asking why he got taken away,’ he said.  He was arrested for seemingly doing nothing.

Calico Blackie says:

Where in the hell is the Tea Party outrage over this?

When the police can arrest you just because they feel like arresting you, the system is broken and our Constitution is null and void.

We need everyone out there to stop NDAA NOW

The Constitution is rapidly becoming just a piece of paper to be ignored by the 1% and their armies of darkness. Why isn’t the Tea Party protesting over this? Oh yeah, that’s right. They haven’t got permission to protest from the government. Tea Party….When you “grow a pair,” come back and talk to Calico Blackie. In the meantime, just get out of our way.

And…..In the News from England:

Police Narrow Profile of Human Remains Found on Queen’s Estate

One of the Queen's little vacation cottages

“British police are re-examining local missing persons cases, including the disappearances last year of two young women, as they expand their investigation into the human remains on the grounds of the vacation retreat where Queen Elizabeth and the royal family had spent the holidays.”

Calico Blackie says:

Blimey! Looks like they’ll have to call Inspector Barnaby back from retirement and also send for Colombo from the USA to crack the case!

And, have you seen this?

Mice No Match for Mountain Dew

Imagine this new ad campaign: How strong is your Mountain Dew? Powerful enough to dissolve a rodent! Not exactly Madison Avenue material, but that is exactly what Pepsi — the manufacturer of Mountain Dew — claims in an Illinois lawsuit.

REFRESHING!

Ball sued the soft drink company, seeking damages in excess of $50,000. Now as it seeks to dismiss the lawsuit, Pepsi argued Ball couldn’t possibly have gagged on a mouse because Mountain Dew’s powerful ingredients would have dissolved the rodent’s body before the can ever reached the vending machine. By then, Pepsi’s experts insisted, it would have become “a jelly-like substance.”

 

Link is here:   http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/01/mice-no-match-for-mountain-dew/

Calico Blackie says:

I hear it goes great with battery acid. We’re putting this crap on the shelves?

By the way…..Something, something….Syria….Iran….Afghanistan….Crumbling European Economy….

Rich getting richer in the USA while the poor get poorer…..

It’s all in the news, if you care to read it.

Fighting for freedom in Syria

Or, you can have another cool and refreshing Mountain Dew.

Put down the Dew and DO!

Get your butts out there and demand change for the better.

Protest.

Fight for our Constitutional RIGHTS.

Before it’s too late.

And remember…..

Don’t forget about Officer Pike of the UC Davis PD. Let’s never forget how he and other police officers have treated peaceful protesters.  He should be arrested and tried for assaulting the public.

Think about it

A final thought….Did you ever think that maybe certain members of the Tea Party have already formed their “small groups” and are just waiting to see if we falter?

Keep fighting for our rights!

OCCUPY CONGRESS JANUARY 17th

We are the 99%

Calico Blackie

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Jan01

The Land of Confusion?

by Calico Blackie on January 1, 2012 at 11:26 am
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Big Brother, Divided We Fall, Media Bias


 

Greetings to all members of the Occupy Movement!

Raped by Congress and The President

Lady Liberty needs our help now more than ever in 2012.

Will you answer the call?

Or will you sit back, sip the Starbucks, and watch Dances With the Stars on the television, while our freedoms are eroded?

Will you wait until your pension is stolen by greedy bankers to speak up?

What will you do?

Post your woes as a status update on Facebook?

By that time, it will be too late.

“Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country”

A typing exercise, but better words were never written for where we find ourselves in history today.

Zuccotti Park last night

There was not a word in the mainstream media this morning regarding the treasonous signing of NDAA by the president, nor was there anything about the “occupy” protesters showing up to re-take Zuccotti Park, only to be met by squads of the SS armed with pepper spray. 

Imagine if Nixon had the NDAA power when he was in office?

I wish that I could say “Happy New Year” to all of you, but with the signing of NDAA by the President, I fear that it will be a very difficult time for all people that love freedom in the world.  

By signing NDAA into law, Obama made it clear to all but the blind and stupid that he’s nothing more than a puppet sitting in a sham White House giving us the illusion that he is the one who actually holds the reigns of power.

The real President of the United States, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan-Chase with his toy

So, what must be done? First, we must each start with ourselves because the truth is, to change your life and America along with it, the revolution begins individually in our own minds.

What sacrifices is each of us willing to make?

@kidakita on Twitter saw this message:

From @BarackObama

“Who would you bring to #DinnerWithBarack? Just a few hours left to toss your name in the hat!”

@kidakita replied:

“I would bring Benedict Arnold to the dinner so that he and Obama can talk about what they have in common #NDAA”

Benedict Arnold. He's now the 2nd biggest traitor in American History

By signing the NDAA, Obama effectively committed treason, as did every member of Congress that voted for the bill.

I don’t believe that we will see immediate mass-arrests and stifling of passive dissent, although we’ve already seen over 4,000 people arrested for exercising their 1st amendment rights.

No, I think there will be quiet “knocks on the door in the middle of the night.”

Slowly but surely, people will begin to disappear, all unnoticed by us, and unreported in the mainstream media.

Protesters will get increasingly harsher penalties for speaking up, and there will be a few show trials for “ringleaders” who will be tried on trumped-up charges and then sent away to club Gitmo for “reeducation.”

We were sold out. Washington and Jefferson were sold out too

We are now at a crossroad in history and we each have to decide for ourselves where we stand, and how far we are willing to go for our freedom.

With that in mind……

How will the 99% be remembered in history?

What will history read like in 2024?

Let’s hope it will be like this:

“Out of the darkness of the capitulation of Obama to Wall Street when he signed The NDAA, rose one of the greatest mass-resistance movements in history. Thousands of OWS patriots rose up, by themselves and in groups, and defied authority. There were many political factions involved, with people from all walks of life.”

 ”The Police tried again and again to crush the occupiers. Corporate spies infiltrated the movement, betraying whole groups of people, many of whom were deported to camps.”

“For every fallen hero, though, there was another patriot ready to fight.”

“For every destroyed encampment, another rose up to fill the gap in the network of occupiers who opposed the Wall Street bought government.”

Zuccotti Park. Resistance can take many forms

“The story of the Occupy Movement is the story of these commonplace people who, under circumstances that none had foreseen, began to do things they never would have imagined possible.”

“They were not consciously trying to save the honor of America, although that is what they did. They simply refused, at risk of their lives, to accept dishonor and degradation of human values.”

“Although they themselves talk of networks and movements, although they did function through such structures . . .

Martin Luther King. Resistance can take many forms

“the real story is one of individual actions often taken impulsively, to the astonishment of the actors themselves. . .

“These men and women of the Occupy Movement were quite ordinary men and women.”

“They never planned to be heroes, did not yearn for greatness . . . They were average people, ordinary people, who did extraordinary things.”

A member of the “occupy movement” recalled in 2024:

“We lived in the shadows as soldiers of the night, but our lives were not dark and martial. There were arrests, torture, and death for so many of our friends and comrades, and tragedy awaited all of us just around the corner.”

Resistance can take many forms. Let's hope it never has to come to this

“But we did not live in or with tragedy. We were exhilarated by the challenge and rightness of our cause.”

“It was in many ways the worst of times and in just as many ways the best of times, and the best is what we remember today.”

Reworked from: http://www.beyondcurricula.com/wwii/europeantheater/resistance.html

So, where do we go from here?

Now might be the time for many members of the movement to “go to ground.” To lay low and to get your information from us bloggers and those of us who are still willing to protest and risk arrest.

EDUCATE!

Educate the masses. Get your information from the internet, until it is shut down or effectively censored.

That way, you will be able to see how the “armies of darkness” will be operating with their new powers that Congress and Obama have so graciously supplied them with.

Lay low and allow time to see if following the teachings of Ghandi and Martin Luther King have any positive effect on our condition.

You will be able to assess the tactics of the 1% and their forces and identify their corporate spy infiltrators. You will be better informed for when you plan the counterattack to take back our country.

Invent codes and signals and use them to expose infiltrators.

Form small groups. Now is the time, before it is too late.

Identify your allies and crush your opponents.

True then. True now

You might be the only light in the wilderness that we have left when the 1% completes their plan of total domination of the world’s population.

The masses will, by then, be more sheep-like than they are now, the Ghandi and King followers will be in prison, and you will be our last and only hope.

Our last chance for freedom.

Maybe the only way to defeat 1984 is to 1776?

Whatever happens, the flame of  resistance must not and shall not die.

OCCUPY WALL STREET

Soldiers of freedom, wherever you may be, arise!

And Remember…….

Don’t forget about Officer Pike of the UC Davis PD. Let’s never forget how he and other police officers have treated peaceful protesters.  He should be arrested and tried for assaulting the public.

We are the 99%

Calico Blackie

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Dec28

BECOME ACTIVE – BE THE CHANGE

by Calico Blackie on December 28, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Big Brother, Media Bias


 

Greetings to all from Klamath River Country!

Toast the New Year! Drink deep from the wine the 1% has so graciously given us and be grateful to have it!

2012 is almost here and this is a time where we traditionally take stock of what happened in the preceding year.

With that in mind……

What have the 99% Occupy protests accomplished so far?

We have shown the world what happens in the United States if “We the People” step out of line.

We have shown the world that the 1% will move a small army into our towns/cities and evict a peaceful protest by force.

We have shown the world that our elected “representatives” will harass what they term to be “undesirables” and not care one whit about decency.

We have shown the world that our government is there to make us afraid. And they are very effective at it, aren’t they?

This is what happens here when you exercise your right to Free Speech

We have exposed the lie that our Constitution guarantees the freedoms of all citizens in the United States.

We have shown that there are two sets of rules here. One set for the rich, and one set for the poor.

And in the middle of these two sets of rules is an ever shrinking class of people that will keep their noses to the grindstone and be silent, while their freedoms are being taken away.

We have awakened the 1% and their wholly owned subsidiary to the fact that we’re sick and tired of being used as milk cows while they rack up ever increasing profits.

We have exposed our society to be the Orwellian nightmare that George Orwell predicted when he wrote his book “1984.”

We have gotten our message across that we want an end to corruption and money in politics, and we are continuing to spread that message.

This is from the George Orwell book "1984" and it looks damned familiar, doesn't it?

So….What has all this “showing” and “awakening” accomplished other than showing the rest of the world that we’re not all greedy assholes in this country?

NOT A HECK OF A LOT…YET.

But we can’t give up. Even when we’re name-called and lied about by the corporate media and shills in the press for the 1%.

Even though the 1% doesn’t care how loud we yell.

We can’t give up for the sake of ourselves and the future of our children. We, the AWAKE people have got to keep fighting to keep Wall Street from making an Orwellian future a certain reality.

Throw off the chains!

Ask yourselves: In addition to protesting, voting and boycotting, what else can I do?

GET ACTIVE ON THE LOCAL LEVEL TOO. This sign is from a campaign to raise awareness and compassion about homelessness through art and social action http://whatcanidocampaign.org/

BECOME ACTIVE.

BE THE CHANGE.

Change will not be accomplished solely via voting, but through changes to how we live and interact with the system.

Every step towards independence from corporations (usually via localization) is a good step.

Coal corporations can argue against solar technology all they want, but if everyone quit waiting for the tech to “get better” and just put up some solar panels (with all the loans and tax breaks, they pay for themselves in about 4 years) we’d drive those greedy, polluting bastards back into their proper place in the matter of a decade.

Homemade solar panel. Screw the utility company!

A lot of things could be accomplished via these simple steps, but we choose not to.

We CHOOSE to give over our independence for convenience.

We would rather be less free and more comfortable, even if that means that our comfort could be ripped away at a moments notice, and we couldn’t do a damn thing about it…. that’s not a good place to be, nationally.

link to building solar panels is here:  http://gogreenreviews.net/blog/

http://www.mdpub.com/SolarPanel/

So, you see….We’ve all got to walk the walk too if we want to begin to see real hope and change.

And to all of those who say the OWS “accomplished nothing”….

That’s crap too.

We forced the media machine to stop blathering 24/7 about lowering the deficit, and take a look at what’s really wrong in this country. (OK, maybe more a sidelong glance, but that’s still impressive.)

And…..

They don’t even expect the storm that we have planned for the 1% and DC in 2012. Let the games begin.

Don’t forget about Officer Pike of the UC Davis PD. Let’s all keep him in our thoughts for 2012.

Keep fighting!

United, we win!

WE ARE THE 99% AND WILL NOT BE SILENT

OCCUPY WALL STREET

OCCUPY IOWA

Calico Blackie

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Dec27

ASK QUESTIONS – DEMAND ANSWERS!

by Calico Blackie on December 27, 2011 at 11:35 am
Posted In: Big Brother, Media Bias

Greetings to all people who seek the truth! 

It's called reading comprehension

Learning how to read in America is a topic near and dear to me. Most people can read printed words, but do they know how to interpret those words? Are they careful and thorough readers, or do they just skim the headlines and form the uninformed opinions that the 1% and their corporate media want them to form? As a former museum director, I constantly saw articles written on how to properly set up museum displays for the public. Every one of those articles stressed the importance of keeping the description cards next to the display as short as possible because visitors will usually only read the first sentence or two on the card and then look at the display without even having a full grasp of what it is they are seeing.

Most people don't read all the text

The worst part about this is that the data applies to the people that actually bother to go to museums, not to the masses that would rather watch “reality” television. We live in an age where visual stimulation is king and real information is unwanted and lost.

Actors and actresses don’t have to act. They play supporting roles to computer generated graphics.

Mainstream media (the propaganda machine of the 1%) understands this perfectly well, and they tailor their articles to misinform, mislead, and stretch the truth. Often, the truth IS in the article, but most people do not read beyond the headline to form their opinions.

Case in point?

From ABC News

Poll: Americans Better Off Than Their Parents

“Gallup poll shows 69% of Americans think they are better off financially than their parents whey they were the same age”

“A majority of Americans say they are better off financially than their parents were at the same age, though seniors are more positive about their wealth than younger people, according to the Gallup Poll.”

See, sheep? Money does buy happiness!

“Of 1,012 adults surveyed, 69 percent said they’re better off financially than their parents, down from the 74 percent who said so in 1998, the last time Gallup asked this question.”

“Gallup asked adults age 18 and older: “Think of your parents when they were your age.

Would you say you are better off financially than they were, or not?”

Calico Blackie says:

Here is where critical reading and thinking comes into play. Ask the questions: Where did this Gallup poll take place? A majority of Americans? What was the financial make up of their 1012-person sample? How was the poll conducted?

The only stupid questions are the ones that don't get asked

The article continues with……

“Most Americans still think they are doing better financially than their parents did when they were the same age,” Elizabeth Mendes, deputy managing editor at Gallup, wrote in a blog post. “This is positive news, given the difficult state of the U.S. economy over the past several years — with millions of Americans seeing their home values deteriorate and jobs evaporate.”

Calico Blackie says:

See what they did there? They used a small sample of Americans, from who knows where, to make the statement: “Most Americans think they are doing better.” Read this statement without using critical thinking and it seems to say that everything is fine. That the 1 out of every 2 Americans that are close to, or at the poverty level must be mistaken. That the 91% of Americans that say Congress is doing a terrible job must be just a bunch of complainers. The bad news in that statement was reserved for the end, where most people won’t bother to read that far into the paragraph.

ASK QUESTIONS - DEMAND ANSWERS

By now, most people have stopped reading the article and will take away the information that most Americans think they’re doing great and that the protesters are crybabies.

HERE IS THE LAST PARAGRAPH IN THE ARTICLE THAT NO-ONE BOTHERED TO READ:

While the overall median response of the 1,012 adults was an income of $150,000, younger respondents age 18 to 49 had a median amount of $160,000.

Those 50 and older said they would feel rich with $100,000.

Calico Blackie says:

A median income of $150,000.00?

Hell yes, they’re doing ok.

So, it’s plain to see that Gallup polled a very skewed sample of Americans to arrive at the conclusion that everything is rosy and tell us we’re doing much better than our parents. ABC, at the orders of their Wall Street masters, prints the article, and suddenly “We’re doing better” becomes the new truth for us to believe. They just hope that most of us aren’t smart enough to read the entire article and ask questions. They hope that we have no reading comprehension skills and that their article, and our questions will fall upon deaf and uninformed ears.

You see, the article didn’t fall upon deaf ears; they fell upon informed ears. Ears attached to brains that know for a fact that the current corporate media (a) has helped to protect bankers and financiers from prosecution and (b) spread falsehoods about the economy and the occupy movement that result in the continuing complacency of a whole nation of sheep, and (c) condoned and enabled the creation of laws in our country that will have people imprisoned for being informed and speaking out, and other people imprisoned for not outing their 99% “domestic terrorist” friends.

TRUTH

So, forgive us if we appear to have deaf ears when the financiers and politicians that are doing those things to us try to teach us *anything* about being happy.

The fact that this particular article was really about how well off people that make $150,000/yr think they are, coming from a media that is owned by the 1% is just icing on the cake to an informed reader.

The people who are content to “sit back and take it” and think we all should be happy getting the shaft sound like battered wives when they do that.

Hey! Donald Trump quit the GOP and will probably run for President as an independent candidate.

What’s left of the middle class still hasn’t figured out yet how screwed they are.

Not every clown wears make-up

 They’ve still got a roof over their heads, food on the table and a big screen TV in the living room.

Nobody’s paying attention to the walls moving in a little bit more each year.

They put up with ‘sobriety checkpoints’ and drug tests because hey – it’s the law right?

They still think all this stuff is ‘for their protection’.

They haven’t figured out that they can’t take their rights back.

They haven’t figured out yet that the country made a deal with the devil and the bill is coming due.

Any possible serious attempt at uprising in this country will find itself ridiculously outgunned and at a severe tactical disadvantage.

Of course, that’s the idea.
The only tactical advantage the people have to coordinate their efforts is the internet.  

Berkeley, 1969. A serious uprising to end the Vietnam War

Why do you think they’re trying to pass laws to block “rogue” domains?

Why do you think they’re trying to make it so that sites like this and others are to be held legally responsible for the content that their users post?

I’m of the opinion at this point that the authoritarians in our government are circling the wagons, and there are authoritarians in both the Republican and Democratic parties just about equally, and our Executive branch is also compliant with the authoritarians as well.

It’s getting me really unnerved, I’ll tell you that much.

But hey!

At least the police arent busting down the “wrong” doors and shooting the family dog right in front of the kids.

Oh wait….they are.

Still think you’re free? ASK QUESTIONS. DEMAND ANSWERS. Most people are afraid to ask questions because they don’t want to appear ignorant to others. By not asking questions, we remain ignorant, and that’s exactly where the 1% and their wholly owned subsidiary in Washington DC wants us.

On that note….

For anyone that still cares……The cop with the pepper spray at UC Davis is Lt. John Pike of University of California Police. 530-752-3989. But, nothing will happen to him. He’s got our “Justice” System on HIS side. A system of oppression and greed. All we have is the knowledge that what we are doing is morally right and justified.

OCCUPY WALL STREET

ASK QUESTIONS. DEMAND ANSWERS.

PROTEST!

We are the 99%

Calico Blackie

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Dec26

The Best Gift Ever?

by Calico Blackie on December 26, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Media Bias

Greetings to all you informed readers out there!

The usual question we innocently get asked on this day is: “Well, what did Santa bring you for Christmas?” As a member of the 99%, I can’t stand that question. I don’t resent the question itself, I resent what it implies.

SPEND MORE MONEY SO YOUR KIDS WILL LOVE YOU AND NOT THINK THEY'RE POOR

It implies that if you didn’t get a bunch of “stuff” that you are either poverty stricken or unloved. 

Of course, it’s all bullshit designed to make parents feel guilty if they don’t blow the budget on Christmas gifts so that their children and spouses will continue to love them, and think they’re loved in return.

We all use the saying “Oh well, it’s the thought that counts” to salve their disappointment when there isn’t anything, or very little under the tree. But, conditioned by years of being bombarded by commercialism, do we really believe it? Some do and some don’t. I guess it all depends on how materialistic we’ve each become.

See honey? I LOVE you! I'll BUY you!

Buying love.

It’s sad that we subconsciously (or consciously)  think that money can buy love.

But, what type of love does money buy?

Does spending much more than you can afford on a person show that you really love that person, or does it show that we’ve become a nation that equates money with love?

Or, does it show how irresponsible and gullible we are when we fall for the advertising and hype associated with gift giving? Don’t fall for the hype. Break the chains of materialistic thinking.

THE BEST GIFT EVER

So, with all my talk about materialism, I know what people will think. “He must have gotten nothing.”

If you thought that, you would be wrong. I got the best gift ever.

I’m an animal lover and years ago, I had a dog that lived to be 13 years old. We had been through the mill together and he was always my faithful companion. My wife used to brush his coat and save his fur in bags, until she had a ton of it. When he got sick, and the Vet told me he had cancer throughout his body and would suffer terribly for his remaining few days, I made the decision to put him down. I held him while it was done. I was sad for weeks.

New dog (Well, he's 10 now). The wife saves his fur too

That was 10 years ago. This year, my wife got her old spinning wheel out and washed & spun all the fur she had collected into yarn and knitted me a scarf made from the old dogs fur. It was made by her, for me, with love. It was the best gift I’ve ever gotten for the Holidays. It is the best gift I EVER will get. If the house ever burns down, or if I ever become homeless, it will be the one possession I will move heaven and earth to save.

That being said….Let’s move on to New Years Eve.

If you’re tired of doing the “same old thing” every New Years Eve and are on the West Coast, or live in the Western States, head on over to Virginia City, Nevada for what sounds like one heck of a good time. It’s where I would be if I had the ways and means to get there.

From The Virginia City News

“In Virginia City, the big event is the Wild West New Years Eve Bash sponsored by the Mustang Ranch at Pipers Opera House to benefit Virginia City Schools. The party begins at 8 p.m. Saturday, December 31, at Pipers Opera House,12 North B St., Virginia City.”

Pipers Opera House, Virginia City, Nevada

“Tickets are $25 per person and everyone must be 21 to participate. All proceeds benefit the Storey County School District.”

“The Mustang Ranch is footing the entire bill for the evening, (food, drink, music, decorations, hall rental, etc.) and therefore the donation will not come from the net proceeds, it will be from the gross revenue, (including the door, silent auction, bar sales, etc.).”

“Included in the $25 ticket price are: a Prime Rib Buffet; three free drinks; Raffle Prizes & Silent Auction; Live Music by the Drop Kick Band of Sacramento; a Champagne Toast and Balloon Drop at Midnight; Wild West Fun, Gunfighter skits, Living Legends in period attire; and Party Favors.”

The interior of the Opera House

“The party is open to the public but a limited number of tickets are available at the Virginia City Visitors Center, The Corner Bar at Pipers Opera House, or online at www.nvshows.com.”

Link to VC News is here:

http://virginiacitynews.com/index1.htm

Or call Rich Crombie at (775) 846-1130, or write to rich@nvshows.com

Oh, by the way…..

The Pope gave his usual speech yesterday too.

Heh.

Is this guy honoring Jesus, or Liberace?

Until he admits that most of the world’s problems are directly tied to overpopulation, greed and the doctrines of various religions that refuse to come into the 21st century, this man has nothing to say to Calico Blackie.

On that note……

For anyone that still cares……

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

But, nothing will happen to him.

He’s got our “Justice” System on HIS side.

What a bastard

A system of oppression and greed.

All we have is the knowledge that what we are doing is morally right and justified.

OCCUPY WALL STREET

We are the 99%

Calico Blackie

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Dec23

THE WEAPON OF CHOICE: WHAT HAVE WE BECOME?

by Calico Blackie on December 23, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Big Brother

Greetings to Freedom Fighters Everywhere

A domestic terrorist

No doubt about it. We have become a nation of bullies.

They’re ruthless, and their weapons of choice in this Country are the “Justice” system and, on the streets, pepper spray. 

Congress has a 9% approval rating.

Our police have been militarized.

The people who try to speak up for their rights are vilified by the media and the politicians, and many of the people, who blinded by the years of mind-numbing television buy into their propaganda.

But we haven’t all been blinded.

There are still some of us who will “read the writing on the wall” and speak out against injustice, greed, and the police state that we’ve become. We stand up to the bullies instead of becoming part of the nameless rabble that follows the Judas Goat into that slaughterhouse of life the 1% has prepared for us.

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"

You hear the same mantra from the sheep:

“Life isn’t fair,”

and

“There is no justice in this world, deal with it.”

They have been beaten down into believing the lies.

We, the protesters, are the people that holler “WHY NOT?”

Here is the “Justice Weapon of Choice” in use against Americans:

From MSNBC

Occupy protesters indicted on felony charges in Houston

“Seven Occupy protesters were indicted on felony charges by a grand jury in Houston on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office says, in connection with their demonstration at the local port as part of a national day of action by the movement.”

JUST LOOK AT THOSE DANGEROUS FELONS!

“The decision comes nearly a week after a judge had initially dismissed the charges, saying the protesters could not be charged with possessing or using a “criminal instrument” – a felony in Texas – for their use of PVC pipe.”

“The protesters — three from Austin, four from Houston — put their arms through the pipe and used latches on it to connect together, making their arrest more difficult but not preventing it.” 

“Arrests on felony arrests were occurring in other cities, such as Denver and New York. Civil rights lawyers have suggested the use of felony charges was another form of crackdown on the movement.”"

He would approve. Crack down hard on free speech. OBEY THE POLICE AT ALL TIMES. They're never wrong!

Calico Blackie says:

Felonies?

Is this “justice?”

The bullies and their complacent sheep-citizens would say: “Always OBEY the police.

They’re never wrong and always on your side.”

After all, they’re here to “Protect and Serve.”

TO PROTECT AND SERVE?

TO PROTECT AND SERVE?

Have you seen this?

“Photo shows pepper-sprayed prisoner”

*note: Calico Blackie did not include the video/photo. It was too horrible.

“No doubt you’ve heard the adage: a picture is worth a thousand words. A picture of 62-year-old Nick Christie could be worth thousands of dollars when a jury sees it. The photo shows the Ohio man restrained inside the Lee County Jail with his body covered in pepper spray.”

Did this man deserve to die? If you answered yes, move to China or Cuba where the system better suits you

“This photo is a picture of a man who is strapped to a chair naked inside a jail for hours with a hood over his face. That evokes thoughts of being tortured,” says Cleveland-based lawyer Nick DiCello who represents the Christie family.”

“The photo, which was obtained by FOX 13′s investigative unit, was taken in the final hours of Christie’s life.“

“The District 21 Medical Examiner ruled his death was a homicide because he had been restrained and sprayed with pepper sprayed by law enforcement officers. But to this day, nobody has ever been charged with a crime, and the Lee County State Attorney cleared the sheriff’s office of any wrongdoing.”

“He later died at the hospital. His heart failed from the shock of the pepper spray. His jailers say Nicholas Christie was combative, despite the fact that he was restrained in a chair so he allegedly wouldn’t spit at his jailers.”

“His whole head was turning purple and almost blue,” he says, “He was gasping.” The other inmates say the pepper spray was so intense they were gagging in the cellblock. “He was constantly telling them I can’t breathe and I got a heart condition.”

Link is here:  http://news.injuryboard.com/pepper-sprayed-man-dies-in-jail-what-happened-to-nick-christie-.aspx?googleid=277120#ixzz1hNbmzPAW

Calico Blackie says:

I can hear the toadies now. “If he hadn’t resisted, this never would have happened.” 

Another badge wearing sadist. WHAT ARE THESE CRIMINALS DOING STILL ON THE STREET?

BULLSHIT. HE WAS TIED IN A CHAIR NAKED AND HIS FACE WAS COVERED WITH A HOOD.

HE WAS TORTURED.

Do any of you idiots realize that this was the work of sadists that shouldn’t be wearing a badge?

Do any of you idiots realize that it could be you next time if you ever are seen or even mistaken as “stepping out of line?”

You don’t even have to be “out of line.”  The cops just have to say you were, and YOU or one of your loved ones gets it.

WHAT IN THE HELL HAVE WE BECOME?

A nation run by bullies, that’s what.

We applaud the bully because they “finish first.” If and when the NDAA passes, this is the type of thing that could happen to any of us, and the world would never know about it.

Meanwhile, the “occupy” protests continue to be raided and crushed across the country.

Why?

Not for “Public Safety.” No, they’re being arrested and now charged with felonies for standing up to the bullies.

For speaking out for Liberty and Justice for All.

From CBS News

Police pepper spray Occupy Albany protesters

Albany, New York citizens cleaning off pepper spray after being bullied by police

“Several Occupy protesters were pepper sprayed by a police officer on horseback after a confrontation broke out when police took the last tent away from their dismantled encampment in a city park Thursday evening.”

“For every eviction, another occupation!” they chanted.”

“All day, all week, occupy Albany!”

 

Calico Blackie says:

For those of you who don’t know…..

These protests are still going on around the Country AND around the entire World.

Did you hear? CNN took another poll:

Economy Still #1 Worry for Americans

"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil"-Robert Kennedy. Why can't people understand this? Did these ideas die on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel that day?

(CNN) -“The economy is the top concern for Americans, according to a new CNN/ORC International poll released Friday, and half name unemployment as the most important issue related to the economy.”

“With just three in ten saying things are going well in the country today and 70% saying they are going badly, economic issues are still the main priority for the country this holiday season.”

Calico Blackie says:

“I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil”-Robert Kennedy.

Maybe those ideas did die when Robert Kennedy was shot.

Maybe we, as a free Nation and free citizens died too.

 

Many of us are little more than bully worshipers who care only for money and greed.

We can still dream until one day it becomes reality. Those "pillars" in the pillory where they belong

“The impovershed deserve what they get.”

“The people who stand up for their rights deserve what they get.” 

The greediest in our country have become the “pillars of society.”

I hope the greediest get what they deserve too.

On that note……

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

But, nothing will happen to him.

He’s got our “Justice” System on HIS side. A system of oppression and greed.

 

All we have is the knowledge that what we are doing is morally right and justified.

“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”

Patrick Henry bears repeating

 

 

 

OCCUPY WALL STREET

FIGHT FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE!

We are the 99%

Calico Blackie

 

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Dec22

A History of Bullying

by Calico Blackie on December 22, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Divided We Fall

Greetings to all people who are willing to stand up for their rights!

Will we ever learn?

I had planned on writing about the Indian Mutiny of 1857 yesterday, but didn’t.

The parallels in 1857 India to what is going on in today’s world were too grim and depressing.

Corporate rule.

Disdain of the masses by the ruling class.

Exploitation of a helpless population.

It all finally exploded into a savage bloodbath. I am convinced that human beings will NEVER learn from the past. We all think, “It can’t happen here.”

Will we ever learn?

Either that, or we refuse to believe it IS happening because it would upset and intrude into our comfort zones.

Denial is the most predictable of all human responses.

I didn’t write yesterday because I was disgusted and fed-up with the majority of the human race who will willingly stand by and watch as their rights are eroded.

See? I'm typing "The protesters are evil." Can I not get kicked today?

Not only will they sit idly by, they seem to relish denigrating the various protest movements around the world as if, by showing their willingness to be screwed, they’re expecting an extra scrap from the tables of their masters.

Is this a sign of their ignorance?

Maybe it’s just been ingrained into our societies since early on in life.

Remember the schoolyard bully?

He/she always had a cadre of “friends” who would follow the bullies around and were willfully cruel to the weak (at the instigation of the bully).

Being on the winning side is FUN! Glad it ain't me getting kicked

It wasn’t that they were also evil; it was because they wanted to be on the winning side and they were just happy it wasn’t them that was getting spat upon, or worse.

Bullying in the schoolyard is, unfortunately all too common, and we all say we’re against bullies.

Yes, we all like to say we’re against bullying.

BUT ARE WE?

People LOVE to be on the “winning side” and HATE to be seen as fighting a losing battle.

Being on the winning side is FUN! Glad it ain't me getting kicked. GO GET THOSE PROTESTERS!

They will live in denial as long as they’re not the ones being bullied.

If the “occupy” movement succeeds, I predict that it will be harder to find an opponent of the movement in the aftermath than it was to find a supporter of Hitler’s policies in 1946 Germany.

OWS is not about getting someone else to pay the bills. It is about corruption in our government, in our corporations and in our law enforcement system. 

It’s about a steady erosion of our freedom. Just a friendly reminder to the fat-ass haters of liberty.

Do you feel any safer? AT WHAT COST?

The whole point of protesting is not moving when told to move.

If the country’s police departments are going to continue trying to crack down on the right to assemble with military style force, they’ll continue to see a defiant uprising rather than what’s largely been a non-violent movement.

If they continue abusing the American citizens, and can’t learn from history, they better get used to fire, too.

But, well Mr. Denial……..

Just keep your head down, keep going to work, keep kissing the ass, keep sucking it with the other cowards. Keep calling us “dirty hippies” so that your master will keep throwing you scraps, until he’s done using you.

WHY ARE THEY PROTESTING? I'M WARM IN MY MOTHER'S BASEMENT!

So, what’s next?

Like it or not, the Occupy movement has to empower someone to speak on their behalf with authority and act with credibility, to communicate and strategize with other groups.

In addition, to regulate its more extreme elements and to attempt to counteract false-flag activities (such as that old woman at the AFP dinner who was actually pushed down the stairs by a security guard, and the event publicized as an assault by an occupier).

Speaking of reading and thinking for yourself…….Did you see this?

From MSNBC

Wave of bombings across Iraqi capital kills 57

“A wave of bombings ripped across Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing at least 57 people and injuring nearly 200 in the worst violence Iraq has seen for months. The bloodbath comes just days after American forces left the country.”

Iraq this morning. The war is OVER?

“While Baghdad and Iraq have gotten much safer over the years, explosions like Thursday’s are still commonplace. They come at a precarious time in Iraq’s political history, just days after American troops pulled out of Iraq.”

Calico Blackie says:

Oh yeah, it was worth it. Wars are always worth it (sure).

A couple of days ago, a popular website (Fark) held a photoshop contest. The theme of the contest was “Name the LAST thing you would want to find under the tree on Christmas Morning.”

This was the winning entry:

4500 Americans and 100,000 Iraqis died

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’re fighting for our freedom at home too. Only none of us here in the United States has died (yet). But, it’s coming if things keep going down the tubes and we keep getting ignored.

Did you see this little news item?

From The Oakland Tribune

OPD Used Violent Cops Against Occupy

“Records reveal that the department put officers with histories of using deadly force on the frontlines during Occupy Oakland protests. Documents recently released by OPD, coupled with news reports of the Campbell shooting, indicate that the department appears to have systematically assigned cops with histories of using deadly force to deal with Occupy Oakland protests.”

One of the 1%'s "hired thugs"

“Michael Risher, an attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, was concerned by the backgrounds of the Tango Team officers assigned to deal with the Occupy Oakland demonstrations.”

“It’s very troubling to have officers with a history of excessive force being involved in policing a political demonstration because the use of excessive force at a political demonstration threatens some of our most fundamental constitutional values,” Risher said.”

WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT OUR COUNTRY WHEN OUR “LEADERS” DELIBERATELY USE THUGS TO OPPRESS US?

 

 

On that note…..

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

Nah. Why worry? We're still safe and warm

 

Stop SOPA!

Stop NDAA!

NEVER STOP FIGHTING!

We are the 99%

Calico Blackie

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Dec20

Congress: THEY ARE THE 9%!

by Calico Blackie on December 20, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Divided We Fall, Media Bias

Greetings from the 99% in rural America!

Congress has a 9% approval rating. NINE PERCENT! Do you really think they care whether we approve of them or not? After all, we elected the scum. That’s what I keep hearing. We elected them, so we’re “getting what we deserve.”

Only an idiot can't see this as a reason to DEMAND change

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What people in other nations don’t know is that we are repeatedly given the choice between “bought off” or “plain crazy” when we go to the polls. If we try to work together to correct this problem, we’re called “dirty hippie protesters” or “naughty children throwing our toys out of the pram” by the uninformed and willfully ignorant who, long ago, gave up thinking for themselves. Their opinions are formed by what the 1% and their stooges in the mainstream media tell them to think and say.

THEY DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU

A friend sent this joke to me regarding the 9% congressional approval rating:

A driver was stuck in a traffic jam on the highway outside Washington DC. Nothing was moving. Suddenly, a man knocks on the window.

The driver rolls down the window and asks, “What’s going on?”

“Terrorists have kidnapped Congress, and they’re asking for a $100 million dollar ransom. Otherwise, they are going to douse them all in gasoline and set them on fire. We are going from car to car, collecting donations.”

“How much is everyone giving, on average?” the driver asks.
The man replies, “Roughly a gallon.”

You know something is broken when jokes such as this are circulating around the country.

"Why protest? We have the best standard of living in the world!"

The sad part is, the joke’s on us, and nobody’s laughing, except for the people who refuse to acknowledge the fact that we’re getting screwed.

They’re still safe and warm, so why should they care?

So, what’s new today?

From The Associated Press

Palin: Not too late to enter GOP presidential race

“Sarah Palin says it’s not too late for someone to jump into the Republican presidential race.”

“Palin told Fox News Channel over the weekend that she felt no enthusiasm for anyone in the current GOP field and that she needed to feel something before she would offer an endorsement.”

Ooh, Bill.....I'm just not feeling it yet!

Asked by Fox Business Network’s “Follow the Money” about the likelihood that she’d become a candidate, the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee said it’s not too late for “folks” to jump in.

Said Palin: “Who knows what will happen in the future.”

Calico Blackie says:

See what I mean about the choices we’re given at the polls?

From The Washington Post

Gingrich, Romney in dead heat nationally

“Two weeks before Iowans cast the first votes of the 2012 election cycle, Republicans nationally are sharply divided over whom their party’s presidential nominee should be, with Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich locked in a dead-even race.”

Oh, good Lord! See what I mean about the choices we’re given at the polls?

But, who cares? Maybe the world WILL end in 2012!

Or, maybe it won't end. GET OUT AND PROTEST!

There was also this news…..

Stocks mount strong rally, rebounding from sell-off

“The Dow Jones industrial average was lately up around 275 points and trading back above the 12,000 level. Good news on the economic front also boosted stocks.”

Calico Blackie says:

I sure feel better now, knowing that the rich got richer while we’re going down the tubes.

Enjoy sinking into the lower middle class and the lower class as the potential for the rags-to-riches scenario slowly fades away at the benefit of corporate execs.

If you stand against the occupy movement, you embrace the deprecation of yourself and the majority of your countrymen by others. When will you comfortable fools realize that your ship is sinking?

Sinking for the pockets of a few. We live in a wannabe caste system now.

Only, they're not fools. They are doing exactly what the 1% is telling them to do

We protesters, TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year, I might add, get booed, called assholes and why?

Don’t they see we are just people giving a damn and tired of the corruption that is running wild in this world?

But I guess they think all we want is free everything, just like the mainstream media tells them how to think.

A fellow blogger (Cindi) posted:

“It is true that we have been insulated from the acts of our government, here in this country…but that is not lasting, and anyone who sits by while they codify tyranny into law and makes fun of people who resist, ought to study up on a little history.”

“In the past I’ve found references to Hitler offensive.  But after a peek at ‘The War On Truth’ by Nafeez Ahmed (published 2005) I no longer think this is extreme.”

“There’s no way to get around this battlefield bill (NDAA).  None.  Anyone who yells “overreacting” to that is just a moron.

Link to her blog is here:  http://exiledinhollywood.blogspot.com/

Not an "occupy" protest (yet)

Calico Blackie replied:

Thank you, Cindi. I’m seeing a lot of parallels in our country now with what was happening in Germany in 1933.

Even more alarming is I’m beginning to see parallels with what happened in 1857 India, when that country revolted against corporate rule, and ended the stranglehold of the British East India Company.

But, that’s for tomorrow when I talk about the Indian Mutiny of 1857.

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.

OCCUPY WALL STREET

Stop NDAA!

NEVER STOP FIGHTING!

We are the 99%

Calico Blackie

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Dec19

Dead Dictators, Fires, and Our Rights

by Calico Blackie on December 19, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Big Brother, Bread and Circuses for the Masses

Greetings! I’m running late today.

Oh no! Is it that time already?

Well, we’re still waiting on news about NDAA so, in the meantime, what’s new?

Kim Jong Il has died.

From KABC LA

South Korea on high alert after Kim Jong Il’s death

“Tensions are high following the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. His son, Kim Jong Un, is poised to take power, but the county’s future is very unclear.”

“The 69-year-old dictator died Saturday of a heart ailment while on a train, state media reported.”

“People were seen weeping in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, as the announcement of his death came in an emotional statement on national television.”

He's dead

Calico Blackie says:

Another ally of the NDAA bites the dust.

Let’s hope all those troops coming home from Iraq don’t get sent to Korea now.

Then, there’s this……………

From MSNBC

FBI: U.S. violent crime down in 2011 with fewer murders, rapes

“Murders, rapes and other violent crimes dropped sharply in the United States in the first six months of 2011, continuing a downward trend that has lasted 4 1/2 years, the FBI reported on Monday.”

“The FBI’s regular statistical report did not give any reasons for the lower crimes nationwide. But the latest numbers provided further evidence of no crime spike coinciding with the tough economic conditions and high unemployment.”

WOO HOO! I sure feel safer after reading this

Calico Blackie says:

“Tough economic conditions and high unemployment?”

Wait, weren’t we just told a few days ago that everything was all rainbows and unicorns?

The story continues…..

“Violent crimes went down about the same amount in all four regions of the country and decreased in big cities, smaller cities and rural areas. Property crimes, such as burglary, larceny, theft and motor vehicle theft, also declined in the first half of the year, with burglaries down 2.2 percent, larceny and theft down 4.0 percent and stolen vehicles down 5.0 percent.”

Calico Blackie says:

So, if the crime rate is down, why are there more people in prison now than ever before?

Ask yourself: Do you feel safer now walking the streets at night than you did a few years ago?

Meanwhile, in the rest of the world:

From AlJazeera

Egyptian army continues crackdown on protests

“Death toll rises to 12 as clashes between protesters and army enter fourth day, drawing UN and US condemnation.”

Not an "Occupy Wall Street" protest (yet). This is Egypt

“Egyptian security forces have fought opponents of army rule in Cairo for a fourth day, drawing condemnation from both the United Nations and the United States, as the number of civilians killed in the clashes since Friday rose to 12.”

“Hundreds have been wounded and scores detained in the wake of the clashes. Police and soldiers using batons, water cannons and tear gas drove stone-throwing protesters out of Cairo’s Tahrir Square, hub of the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February, over night.”

“The violence appeared likely to continue, after Egypt’s ruling military council claimed on Monday it had uncovered a plot to burn down parliament.”

Calico Blackie says:

Burn down parliament? Wasn’t this the same excuse Hitler used in 1933 to seize unlimited power in Germany?

German Reichstag building burning, 1933

“On February 28, 1933, German President Paul von Hindenburg, at the urging of Adolph Hitler, issued the Presidential Decree for the Protection of People and State in response to the burning of the Reichstag (the German Parliament building) on the previous day. More commonly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, the law suspended many key civil liberties, such as free press, habeas corpus, and warrant requirements.”

What else is “new” today?

From USA Today (McPaper)

Scarlett Johansson thinks ScarJo nickname is ‘awful’

ScarJo and friend

“It’s a laziness,” the 27-year-old actress told USA Today in an interview about the nickname.

“People can’t actually say the whole name? It’s just bizarre.”

“So Cate Blanchett is not, like, ‘CaBla’? Why is that? Why do I have to get stuck,” she added.

“If I hear somebody say that, I know I don’t know them at all.”

Calico Blackie says:

Mindless entertainment and distractions for the masses. Also, every entertainer and politician knows that it’s when people stop talking about you that you need to start worrying.

Short column today. Too much to do.

On that note…….

Goodbye Lady Liberty

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.

OCCUPY WALL STREET

KEEP FIGHTING!

We are the 99%

Calico Blackie

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Dec17

It’s beginning to look like a Dickens Christmas!

by Calico Blackie on December 17, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Big Brother

Greetings to all from rural America!

“On this evening we will think of the Führer, who is also everywhere present this evening wherever Germans gather, and place ourselves in the service of the fatherland" - Goebbels, 1941

Well, the Christmas Season is upon us and most of us in the 99% are exactly where the 1% wants us.

Uninformed and ignorant of what’s really going on in our nation and around the world.

The NDAA is looking more and more like it’s going to be a grim reality soon, and we seem unconcerned that we are slipping further towards fascism.

That being said……

What’s new in the world?

History repeats itself.

From The LA Times

What the Dickens? Occupy protest inspires a new ‘Christmas Carol’

The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s resident playwright, Michael Gene Sullivan, has re-imagined the 19th century holiday classic — with its familiar themes of labor unrest, joblessness and starvation — for the troubled 21st century.

Ebenezer Scrooge is a corporate banker, busy foreclosing on the hapless masses. Bob Cratchit and his beleaguered family live in a chilly tent in an anonymous Occupy encampment.

That's right, Jamie Dimon. Learn greed well, because you get to grow up to screw people!

The ghost of Christmas future sports a flowing black robe of taped-together trash bags and plastic sheeting. Tiny Tim dies.

Truth be told, it wasn’t much of a stretch to place Charles Dickens’ Victorian classic into today’s Occupy world. And that, is exactly the point.

Dickens’ novella was written in the heart of the “Hungry ’40s,” a time of labor unrest, unemployment and starvation across 19th century Europe.

The gap between rich and poor was wide — and getting ever wider.

The Cratchits as depicted by Dickens “are an example of where most people actually are today.”

Calico Blackie says:

Do you really think that Wall Street would give a damn if Tiny Tim lived or died?

From the political front:

Limbaugh Blasts Ron Paul for ‘Running to the Left of President Obama’ on Iran

Conservative firebrand Rush Limbaugh blasted Ron Paul during his radio broadcast Friday over Paul‘s statements at Thursday evening’s presidential debate.

Limbaugh cuts loose with another of his "opinions"

The Texas congressman said he would not sanction Iran even if the U.S. was privy to intelligence that Iran had a nuclear weapon.

“We never talk that way about the Russians, the only reason they want nuclear weapons is because we’re making them do it.

It’s our fault!

If you were in Iran and you had to face these evil Americans, you’d want to bomb too!” Limbaugh blazed.

Calico Blackie says:

Does anybody take this clown seriously anymore?

Did that last paragraph make any sense? He’s just a bizarro world version of his buddy Newt Gingrich whose rhetoric sounds crazier by the day.

From the “Occupy” front:

From The Gothamist

Occupy Wall Street May Occupy Trinity Church’s Property Today

See what happens when you speak up, citizen?

Exactly three months ago a group of protesters converged on a privately-owned, public space in Lower Manhattan to protest economic injustice.

At noon today, Occupy Wall Street will again attempt to retake private property, this time from a real estate giant that has been supportive of the movement since the beginning: Trinity Wall Street church.

“Vast resources sit unused while people are in need: in need of homes, schools, jobs and public places to gather and empower communities,” the protesters’ release reads, before specifically identifying Duarte Square as an “uninhabited space.”

Oh, by the way…..Our food is still killing us.

Company recalls ground beef over E. coli concern

mmmm. And soon comes the hemorrhagic diarrhea!

A Nebraska meatpacker recalled more than 40,000 pounds of ground beef products distributed in 16 states after a test confirmed the presence of E. coli, the Agriculture Department said Friday.

 

Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. of Dakota City, Neb., recalled 10-pound chubs of chuck fine ground beef 80/20, packed in cases containing eight chubs.

The USDA referred consumer questions to the company at 866-328-3156.

So, with the likelihood of NDAA becoming law, food that is killing us, and massive demonstrations going on around the world, what’s the big news?

Katy Perry named MTV’s Artist of the Year

Oh yeah. This is what we've become

“You just really felt her presence in pop culture throughout the year,” the network’s chief of music programming Amy Doyle said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press.

Calico Blackie says:

“You really felt her presence in pop culture?”

Can you imagine archaeologists finding this photograph 1000 years from now?

What would they say about our “culture?”

Hershey’s Kisses titties? Really?

Good Lord!

On a sadder note.

More crime and killing (even though the news reports a few weeks ago told us everything was looking great)

Irwindale Edison shooter, victims identified

The gunman behind a shooting rampage inside an Irwindale office building that houses Southern California Edison was identified on Saturday. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office identified the shooter as 48-year-old Andre Turner of Norco.

Irwindale this morning

According to police, Turner, an Edison employee, shot four of his co-workers, killing two of them and wounding two others.

Officials say Turner then turned the gun on himself and took his own life.

Calico Blackie says:

Another tragedy, to be sure.

But why is there suddenly so many more shootings in the news?

Is the government and the media getting ready for another assault on the 2nd Amendment?

What drives people to commit such crimes?

That is the question we should be asking.

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.

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OCCUPY WALL STREET

Get ready to fight if NDAA passes

The future depends on us

We are the 99%

Calico Blackie

 

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