October 21, 2009 archive

Oct 21 2009

gotterdammerung… here’s a hint

I’m new to this fine site…

I joined just a little over a week ago, and ever since I’ve wracked my brains on what to post as my first essay. There are so many good writers here and so many issues covered it’s tough for a noob to come up with something new.

In an effort to get my feet wet and to find out the ins and outs of publishing an essay, I photshopped together a somewhat inane pictorial (I won’t even call it an essay, because it wasn’t really) attempt to make people at least smile a little, and it poked fun at the “Balloon Boy” incident, although I turned it around to be about President Obama. After I published it I thought to myself, “That’s kinda dumb, maybe I shouldn’t have done it” but I left it up anyway, not even thinking it could offend anyone.

The next day I read your essay and you opened my eyes to a point of view that I hadn’t even considered. You see, I agree with you. Although I have never been involved with any of the fields of service that you discussed, my wife has. She has been an EMT and a police dispatcher in the past and I have to agree that your point of view is valid. After reading your post and also the link you supplied, I immediately deleted my essay and I ask that you excuse my noobistic enthusiasm. Thanks…

by: gotterdammerung @ Tue Oct 20, 2009 at 09:48:55 PDT

1) speak to your background

I’m ex-military, ex-bomb technician, ex-law enforcement, and a veteran.  So, I have a few different areas of which I can speak knowledgeably.  Think of all you’ve done, seen, and experienced.  Then, apply those to the news articles you read.

2) speak with the passion you have

News “reports”.  We rant, rave, and do the things journalists shouldn’t.

Let me illustrate for you…

Oct 21 2009

To: Rep. Joe “You Lie” Wilson

Rep. Wilson responded to me about the fate of veterans.  He states:

I recently joined my colleagues in the House of Representatives in supporting a resolution designating September 16, 2009 as “American Legion Day.”  A similar resolution had previously passed the Senate.

The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as an organization dedicated to assisting veterans and furthering their goals.  The Preamble to the American Legion Constitution reads as follows:

FOR GOD AND COUNTRY WE ASSOCIATE OURSELVES TOGETHER FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES:

    To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our associations in the Great Wars; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and goodwill on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.

These words written in 1919 ring just as true today.  I thank you for your service to our nation, and pledge my continuing support for our servicemen, servicewomen and their families.

It is an honor to represent the people of the Second Congressional District of South Carolina, and I value your input.

If I may be of further assistance to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Why, I do believe you CAN be of further assistance to me, Rep. Wilson….

Oct 21 2009

Overnight Caption Contest

Oct 21 2009

For the environmentalist in you….

Be warned…you won’t like what you see.  It will make you feel ill.  It will make you question why we’re allowed to survive so far.

Oct 21 2009

Attention 9/11 Truth Activists: NYCCAN is coming back WORLDWIDE!

NYCCAN’s petition, 80,000 verified NYC citizens strong, to place a checkbox vote for a new, impartial investigation of 9/11 has been denied by a Supreme Court judge.

New York City’s government won’t help, New York State’s legislature is in it’s own world of hurt, and the nation has already proven that it cannot be trusted to do the job right, nor can they be asked to do it again.

So NYCCAN is now going worldwide, as I had advised them to do on several occasions.

NYCCAN’s legal advisor, William Pepper, explains the status and future plans of NYCCAN. He is now moving forward to attach the petition and goals for a new 9/11 investigation to the efforts of Spanish Judge Garzon, who is working to hold the Bush administration war criminals accountable for various crimes committed during their regime.

Another excellent writeup on the future NYCCAN focus and strategy is here. NYCCAN will seek credible and well spoken witnesses, and will employ any and all means at their disposal to make the need for a new investigation mainstream.

They chose the wrong goddamned city to mess with when they did this to us, folks. They want to play psyops? We have people who can head that shit right off at the pass. They want to play legal games? We have lawyers who can play those games all day long. They want to take advantage of a lack of marketing savvy and resources? That’s not happening either – we have folks who can do that too.

We have architects. We have scientists. We have military. We have intelligence.

It’s not like we haven’t asked our own city, our own country to help us bring the creatures who did this to justice.

The world is not so large that we won’t be able to find help outside our borders if we need it.

After all, that’s what they did to us.  

Oct 21 2009

Rep. Weiner: Obama Admin “Half Pregnant” with Insurance Industry


    Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday that the Obama administration is “half-pregnant” with health insurers and pharmaceutical companies, which may jeopardize the success of reform.

     The congressman — who is a leading liberal voice in the healthcare reform debate — said that rumored deals the White House has struck with big pharmaceutical companies and insurers may guide them to abandon key elements of reform, such as a public health insurance option.

    “The Obama administration is trying to be, I don’t know how to put it, half-pregnant with the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical companies,” he told WNYC Radio today. “They’re to some degree the source of our problem.”

TheHill.com

Bold added by diarist

    I for one APPLAUD Rep. Anthony Weiner’s knee jerk Truth Telling. Face it, President Obama has NOT done ANYTHING to fight for a Public Option, without which this is the subsidize and mandate private insurance bill, NOT the Health care Reform that would give Americans Universal coverage that we NEED.

Oct 21 2009

the last man standing


We’re crazy.

That’s what I think.

Completely

utterly

fucking

crazy.

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