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100:1 odds, this teabag watches/reads rupert murdoch’s “media” exclusively.
Haaahaaa….ha. It’s a SNL comedy skit right?
Americans take themselves way too seriously. A bloody bunch of drama queens.
http://tfmetalsreport.com/podcast/3339/tfmr-podcast-12-john-williams-shadowstatscom#new
jcd maybe you like
how come these constitution thumpers think all will be perfect as long as it’s constitutional. were the founding fathers of the USA some kind of higher beings who couldn’t make mistakes?
Try READING the Constitution some day. Then try attending an ENGLISH class somewhere!
FUD only a Puke Voter will respond to.
NAME the unconstitutional provisions of law that weren’t approved by the Republican Congress and Supreme Court?
Whats sad is that this country DOES NEED fiscal responsibility. Fact is: we aren’t getting it from either party and the bi-lateral blame game is much the reason why.
When each party, such as the dumbshit in this video, points their finger at the other party and says they are ruining American: they all should be believed.
VOTE ALL INCUMBENTS OUT OF OFFICE. This would include Obama==were it not for the demonstrably worse clown car of opponents running to run against him. EVERY qualified/thinking Republican of worth judged they could not win against Obama. That only left the fools, idiots, dolts, retards, stooges, and paid shills to beat the drums of unthinking values voters.
Silly Hoomans.
In other words vote for the lesser of two evils? Obama? Hope and change. None for me. Slim pickens for 2012.
NADER on the problem with voting for the lesser of 2 evils
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jlXz9HhLkDU
I think Mr. McNaughton needs to go back to John Adams to see when the trampling of the Constitution began. (Can you say Alien and Sedition Acts?) Let’s not forget Andrew Jackson’s attempted exile/ genocide of the Cherokee, Lincoln’s assorted atrocities, and I’m not even up to 1870!
Obama hasn’t been any better or worse than average in this regard. Actually, he’s a smidgeon better, overall than the last 3 occupants of the White House, by my estimation.
Wake up indeed! These people make Rip Van Winkle seem like a meth addict.
There is one um, minor difference. The government has behind it, HUGE sums of money it can and does spend on innumerable ways to subvert the American public. Back then, my rifle would have been just as good as yours.
Today, the playing field is stacked – VERY stacked – in one side’s favor. Quite frankly, sometimes I wonder if our only hope is military leadership that has the balls to tell the commander-in- chief to go screw himself if it were ever decided that the armed forces would be deployed against the country’s citizens. Or even protect them against private contractors who asked to do the same.
Wow!
Thats an awesome piece of art with a serious and true message.
Americans, stop watching the government propaganda fairytale on your tv and wake up to reality please. The 16 Trillion dollar of debt the warmongering “representatives” managed to create won’t “just go away”. They expect you and your children (and grandchildren) to pay for that. And on top, you will loose your freedom.
http://usdebtclock.org/
“And on top, you will loose your freedom.”
No you will lose your lives.
The next depression will truly be world wide and result in massive die off of the plebes.
Don’t kid yourself that the debt has to be repaid.
At several points in the history of the United States, it hasn’t been.
At several points in the history of the world, it hasn’t been.
Money is a fiction perpetrated by the truly rich, the billionaire equivalents, the guys who’s idea of owning a boat is definitely not a canoe, on the millionaire equivalents, the idiots who feel like they’re in charge of more and more less and less, who will attempt to screw the thousandaires out of some misguided attempt to shore up the fiction.
Eventually, we’ll envy the Taliban.
They’re already killing us all off, one suicide or IED or car bomb at a time.
First they make you pay, then you die due to the lack of money. Next they throw you in a landfill because they already stole your insurance for a coffin and a funeral.
Standard text #27: There’s no difference between either, or even any, party.
The error of (y)our ways is that, despite the evidence of hundreds of years of history, you keep on electing self-selected, self-anointed members of the millionaires club, people who have no understanding of what the lives of the citizens of this country are like.
That fits in with Einstein‘s definition of insanity: “Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Lets examine how the situation has really devolved since the founding of this country.
We’ve become a government
• OF the thousandaires (the 99%, that would be me and thee,)
• BY the millionaires (the 1%, that would be the extremely insular privileged overlords and bosses,)
• FOR the billionaires (the 12,400 individuals identified by the IRS as the people who count (though they don’t really count as they hire some thousandaires to run machines to do that.)
How is this different than the political situation that led to the founding of the United States?
It ISN’T really.
One system had privilege being a condition of one’s birth.
The situation in the United States is the (cess)pool of nobles has expanded to people that the corporations like and are willing to fund.
If we want a representative government, we’ll have to RE-create it. (There were no parties in 1776.)
If we want smaller government, we’ll have to take out the incentives for its growth too.
The first thing we do is change from an ELECTED to a SELECTED form of government.
Pick names at random out an eligible citizen pool and they’re stuck with doing the job for one, and only one, four year term.
There could/should/would be no such thing as a career in politics. (The only thing worse than getting stuck with somebody who didn’t want the job is getting stuck with some idiot who did, figuring it was going to lift him a few rungs up the social/economic ladder.)
And don’t give me that bullshit about average citizens don’t know enough about politics.
Average citizens know right from wrong and are likely to at least read a bill before they sign and pass it on.
Average citizens know enough to be suspicious and not so venial and blinded by the lure of undeserved re-election.
Pod you say the funniest things. Your like Lewis Black without the intelligence.
And once again we have a slanted view of history from someone with an obvious public school education.
NONE of the presidents were all that concerned with the plight of the common man nor the Constitution.
As usual there are people that try to make normal men into some sort of deities.
Nationalistic BS.
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100% correct the U.S is a CROWN COLONY and lost the revolutionary war..
hence why we payed restitution to the king.
The prstian school system has been used to keep this info from you, so you pay the crow taxes until you die at 100 years old.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/united_states_british_colony.htm
Oh my God!!! Asshole. (Period)
It is good art.
A picture is worth a thousand words. A real conversation piece.
For sure, the opposition has knocked the dust off their paint-by-number sets and are busy preparing their own rendition.
When complete, they should be hung on opposite sides of the wall in the House of Representatives.
The truth is a bitch sometimes.
Is it just me, or does this guy sound like a little girl who had her dolly’s head pulled off? The founding fathers might just say… Electric lights, cell phones, cars, planes, rockets, television, interwebitubes, machines that let doctors see inside your body, a pill that gives you an erection, etc., etc., etc… Cool!
I don’t know about you, but I don’t know what this little baby is crying about. It looks like he can afford to sit around with his “Little Piccasso Paint Set” and produce a pretty good video of a worthless venture. Where are his rights being trampled. It looks like his 1st Amendment rights are o.k.. 2nd . What a dork!
No really, it’s just you.
Yeah. Indeed. It’s just you. Like in totally missing the point.
The video is a spun story about the Constitutions destruction since OBL attacked. Poorly displayed reality of one POTUS in particular.
That’s a heck of a likeness of me. Why didn’t he include my foot soldiers Holder and Soros? They’re important to my agenda everybody.
OK folks, I’m off to Hawaii with Reggie Love while my wife goes shopping with Oprah.
Please do not worry fellow Zombies the end is nye. nothing has changed. ‘Religion was created to keep the poor people from killing the rich people’ – napolion bonapart
you have all lost the ability of reason.
Beautiful painting…but I don’t know WTF he is talking about.
The most likely winner of the Republican party as of today is Romney. While he is a progressive neosoicalist he does have a few advantages over obama. Romney actually knows how to run a business and show a profit. He understands what it takes to balance a budget. He might actually get a budget through congress. Something that hasn’t happened since obama was elected.
There is at least some hope he can slow the growth of the deficit and that he will make some choices that will help with the economy.
Obama has now had the better part of 4 years and with obama there is no hope. I thought when he got elected that he just about had to be a better president than george bush but brother was I wrong. He doesn’t have a clue about being reasonable or prudent when it comes to the nations finances. He only knows how to do three things; borrow, spend, tax. We need someone with a better resume and any of the repubs running against this insult to sanity has it.
That’s Barry’s ACORN training showing.
After Obama took office, the sudden burst of interest by Teapublicans in protecting the Constitution is very heartwarming.
Maybe it’we should now hire a Teapublican billionaire venture capitalist! He never built anything but good at closing crippled American firms, undervaluating their stock and “donating” those stocks to his favorite, tax exempt church.
Oh yeah, that’s a good resume. The conservative sheeple like strong parental figures, like mommy and daddy that get mail from the vacation wonderland, Caiman Islands. Yessereee.
“Romney actually knows how to run a business and show a profit.”
Sure. Fire all the minimum-wage drones except one, tell him he’ll be doing everyone else’s work from now on. Use 80% of the money saved for executive bonuses, buy off public officials with the other 20% so you don’t get prosecuted.
Hold up giant foam middle finger.
“We’re Humper One, we’re Humper One!”
The Constitution has been trampled on since its ratification.
One previous commentor pointed out the Alien and Sedition Acts supported by John Adams and later repealed by Thomas Jefferson.
Slavery was not abolished until we had a war over state’s rights, and hundreds of thousands of plebes were killed in the bloodiest war in our history.
The most egregious affront to the principles of the Constitution is the absurd legal fiction that a corporation is a person.
Corporate Personhood will not be abolished until we the people decide that human rights are reserved for human beings, not legal fictions.
The Constitution is not defended by Presidents, but by the people.
The constitution was written by and to protect a bunch of rich white landowners who were in charge of the country.
Apart from the fact that it now includes a few Jewish and black ones – it does exactly the same job now just as well as it ever did.
What’s the problem ?
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Author of the popular American Revolution pamphlet “Common Sense”
Introduction to Corporate Personhood
Our Bill of Rights was the result of tremendous efforts to institutionalize and protect the rights of human beings. It strengthened the premise of our Constitution: that the people are the root of all power and authority for government. This vision has made our Constitution and government a model emulated in many nations.
But corporate lawyers (acting as both attorneys and judges) subverted our Bill of Rights in the late 1800’s by establishing the doctrine of “corporate personhood” — the claim that corporations were intended to fully enjoy the legal status and protections created for human beings.
We believe that corporations are not persons and possess only the privileges we willfully grant them. Granting corporations the status of legal “persons” effectively rewrites the Constitution to serve corporate interests as though they were human interests. Ultimately, the doctrine of granting constitutional rights to corporations gives a thing illegitimate privilege and power that undermines our freedom and authority as citizens. While corporations are setting the agenda on issues in our Congress and courts, We the People are not; for we can never speak as loudly with our own voices as corporations can with the unlimited amplification of money.
orchidcup posted too much and I ignored every response.
Good for you.
Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.
Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all?
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Samuel Adams – (1722-1803), was known as the “Father of the American Revolution.”
On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled once again that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions.
The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule.
We Move to Amend.
We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
Opinions are so much more interesting than a series of cut and pastes from the internet.
Some of the greatest words pertaining to the birth of a nation ever written or spoken came from those who created our country and the Constitution we strive to keep as our guide. More often than not we forget that our opinions are not as important as the Constitution itself and the primary tenants of its direction.
As for the painter and his desire to blame all of our ills on Pres. Obama and his predecessors, the last time I looked at the Constitution, it still provides only one branch of government with the power to raise taxes and to then spend that money, the representatives of the Senate and House of Representatives. If you are concerned about the growth of government than your focus is on the wrong branch. Remember the House of Representatives and the Senate could change the law and eliminate the results of the Citizens United ruling.
If your concerned about the control that our government now has on its citizens than your focus should be on the corporations that can now buy all of our politicians. If you truly want to end this practice, and it’s not too late, then press for campaign financing reform and get the money out of politics. vote out anyone that does not support a change in the election process. Everything else is a waste of time until we can make that change to our country.
American religious devotion to the Bill of Rights is sad. It was progressive for the times but now supports a pseudo-religious beaurocracy not unlike the Catholic Church.
If the document focused more on principles it would still be useful. Instead it’s all procedures and process and Americans superstistiously mimic the rituals thinking it will grant them blessings.
Dallas–quite correct. The cut and paste can only be the “start” of something worthwhile. Without the naming and connection of dots from concept to application all we have is shit thrown on the wall for each reader to find what they will.
Pays–you say: “Remember the House of Representatives and the Senate could change the law and eliminate the results of the Citizens United ruling.” //// No. You have it completely wrong and out of proportion. Citizens United said money is speech and corporations must be allowed to talk. Congress cannot pass a law overriding an interpretation of constitutional rights. If you mean that Congress can initiate an amendment to the Constitution, you need to use a whole bunch of different words to be clearly understood.
FUR–nice rhetoric but what on earth does it mean?
1. Please identify what religious devotion you have noted.
2. Please identify what pseudo-religious bureaucracy has grown up around it. Any reference religious group will do, doesn’t even have to be Catholic.
3. Please identify where in the document it verges off statements of principles into procedures and process. ((Hint–yes it does, but I suspect not in the ways that you mean at all–so, as a bonus if you give this any thought at all please stick with your original conceptualization of this complaint, or note for us you are keeping your complaint but changing its recognition?))
4. Please identify how Americans superstistiously mimic the ritual that you have to note for us because I see none of that going on in any respect.
5. Please note in your review somewhere near the start that you have looked up the definition of blather and if possible tell us you take to heart the blessings in avoiding such a thought crime.
Oops, did I blather?
If you haven’t figured this out then ask yourself what the 112th Congress did on it’s first day in session?
Sorry Americans. Canadians have the best Super Bowl ads.
Furry – that was gay. Like Canucks.
Seriously Rick? You’re going with the ‘gay’ burn. That’s so sad. Try that out on a 12 year old girl to find out how truly lame that was.