17 April 2009
17 April 2009
HEY TEABAGGERS… HEAD TO WALMART…!
1339 by Jeff HessThe real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for the British East India Company, the largest trans-national corporation then in existence. This corporate tax cut threatened to decimate small Colonial businesses by helping the BEIC pull a Wal-Mart against small entrepreneurial tea shops, and individuals began a revolt that kicked-off a series of events that ended in the creation of The United States of America.
They covered their faces, massed in the streets, and destroyed the property of a giant global corporation. Declaring an end to global trade run by the East India Company that was destroying local economies, this small, masked minority started a revolution with an act of rebellion later called the Boston Tea Party.
17 April 2009
17 April 2009
MY COMMENTS…
1324 by Jeff Hess17 April 2009
THE ROCOCO MEDIA WATCH…[UPDATE 3]
1304 by Jeff HessApparently, Scene editor Frank Lewis holds a grudge. Fast.
Scene editor Frank Lewis is losing his mind
Frank Lewis” employer Times Shamrock may be comment spamming Coughlin sex scandal posts
What about the Ray Miller-Kevin Coughlin throwdown over some chick?
Scene editor Frank Lewis” business acumen
Pass the popcorn.
16 April 2009
OUT LOONEYING THE LOONIES…
1506 by Jeff Hess“They were kids,” [Rush Limbaugh] said this week. “The story is out, I don’t know if it’s true or not, but apparently the hijackers, these kids, the merchant marine organizers, Muslim kids, were upset, they wanted to just give the captain back and head home because they were running out of food, they were running out of fuel, they were surrounded by all these US Navy ships, big ships, and they just wanted out of there. That’s the story, but then when one of them put a gun to the back of the captain, Mr. Phillips, then bam, bam, bam. There you have it, and three teenagers shot on the high seas at the order of President Obama.”
Somewhere in loony heaven, Marguerite Oswald must be nodding in agreement.
16 April 2009
16 April 2009
16 April 2009
WHAT HIGHER TAXES…?
1412 by Jeff HessBut what I don’t understand is why these rallies are being held to protest, among other things, “higher taxes.” (Higher spending is another matter.) There is a widespread perception that Obama is raising taxes willy nilly, so maybe this is worth clearing up.
As far as I know, there are five individual tax provisions in the president’s budget that could be described as a tax increase. So yes, there will be some higher taxes. What’s confusing to me is that the vast majority of these taxes affect only those households with an annual income of greater than $250,000. And the vast majority of these increases would have happened anyway if the Bush tax cuts were allowed to expire on schedule.
But it’s not really about taxes, is it.
16 April 2009
UH GUYS…? COFFEE IS FROM AFRICA…
1334 by Jeff HessAnd Tim definitely has bigger balls for not using a hidden camera and for actually attending a real teabagging event.
16 April 2009
TIM NAILS IT… ALMOST…
1321 by Jeff HessThey hate the Fed, even though the Fed is the last thing left between America and total economic collapse. They hate taxes, even thought their taxes are being cut. They hate commies, fascists, baby killers, George Soros (he”s a Jew!), libruls, smart people, people with jobs, people with no jobs, people who don”t carry a gun. It”s a lot of hate, all misdirected at stuff that isn”t the true object of their hate – the black man in the White House.
Where do I think Tim gets it wrong?
The teabaggers are the new evangelicals. The Republican Party has so seriously screwed evangelical Christians over the last 16 years that it needs a new group of sheep to exploit; and the teabaggers suit the bill.
The people at these events, behinds these events, promoting these events were there to herd the sheep. Those don’t care who is in the White House; they only care that they’re not the people controlling the person in the White House.
16 April 2009
WHAT THEY SAY…
1152 by Jeff HessLurking behind the Gilbert ploy obviously are Forest City”s principals Sam Miller and the Ratners. So gluttonous are our home-grown developers that they would bring down the town, even if it meant destroying what they have built here.
This pursuit of the Med Mart and Convention center in their backyard has been a bad joke from the beginning.I blame our civic leaders, a hapless, cowardly bunch, and the Pee Dee – as I like to call it in these instances – for its continued lack of responsibility in assessing what”s going on, its failure to take on the greed that has been sucking Cleveland dry.
Let”s just dump the medical mart and convention center idea. Why bother. Why fake the need.
Let”s just build a pyramid. Let”s spend $2 billion on it. Let”s have Forest City be the construction manager. Let”s let MMPI be the owner. Let”s not tax it. Let”s pay for it all.
Let”s just payoff these people – the Ratners, Miller, Gilbert, Dolan, Jacobs – and have over with it. Give us some peace and quiet.
Wouldn”t that be easier? More honest?
Does anyone else miss Chas Rich’s Sardonic Views?
16 April 2009
15 April 2009
ADMIRAL ISOROKU YAMAMOTO UNDERSTOOD…
1658 by Jeff HessFrom The Associated Press:
“We will seek out the Americans and if we capture them we will slaughter them,” said a 25-year-old pirate based in the Somali port of Harardhere who gave only his first name, Ismail.
“We will target their ships because we know their flags. Last night, an American-flagged ship escaped us by a whisker. We have showered them with rocket-propelled grenades,” boasted Ismail, who did not take part in the attack on the Liberty Sun.
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” — Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
15 April 2009
YOU CAN’T PUT CHEEZ WHIZ BACK IN THE CAN…
1650 by Jeff HessThe Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. — John Gilmore.
15 April 2009
DID YOU GET TEABAGGED TODAY…?
1638 by Jeff HessIt”s like taping a horn to a horse and waiting for it to alight on a magic cloud of stardust and pixies.
15 April 2009
MY COMMENTS…
1613 by Jeff Hess15 April 2009
THE ROCOCO MEDIA WATCH… [UPDATE 2]
1512 by Jeff Hess15 April 2009
SOCRATES CAFÉ: THE MORNING AFTER
1459 by Jeff HessLast evening we gathered to discuss the question:
Should there be a maximum wage limit; is making too much money immoral?
If you’d like add your voice, please join the conversation by writing a comment.
