Pope plays the "Beatles Card" to get take the heat off getting sued under the RICO Act for organized cover up of molesting boys...WELL PLAYED, RATZINGER, you win this round...
Reporter: What about the Vatican's organized cover up of molesting children?
Pope Ratzinger: WE FORGIVE THE BEATLES! LOOK OVER THERE!!! (Pope runs off when reporter looks...)
Pope sinks to unheard of new depths...getting cut down by RINGO: "BUGGER OFF!!!"
Vatican “Forgives” Beatles; Ringo Starr Says Bugger Off
Have things really changed in the U.S. South since the 1960's Southern Rage against John Lennon's "Jesus" statement? Think: TeaBaggers!!! The U.S. SOUTH had "Beatles Boycotts", burned Beatles albums, and threatened them...after John Lennon's out of context "the Beatles are bigger than Jesus" statement. Far right southern militias and the KKK were even involved.
The U.S. Bible Belt South FURY against the Beatles, see Rush Limbaugh's predecessors:
Those nasty Beatles and their horrifying lyrics...GOOD THING THE POPE FORGAVE THEM!!! NOW WE CAN FINALLY LISTEN TO THE BEATLES MESSAGE OF LOVE AND PEACE AFTER 4 DECADES!!!
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE -
Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too
Imagine all the people, Living life in peace
(makes you wanna cry, doesn't it?)
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
'The Creditor and the Plastic Duck Junkie'
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Man charged with vomiting on girl at Phillies game:
ReplyDeletePHILADELPHIA -- A New Jersey man is facing charges after police say he intentionally vomited on an 11-year-old girl and her father in the stands during a Philadelphia Phillies game.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5098407
I am going to make the call today.
ReplyDeleteIsrael will attack Lebanon, and or Syria, before the end of this summer.
Israel is now saying that Hezbollah is part of the SYRIAN military.
Israel will do what ever it can for the U.s. not to have an ambassador in Damascus.
China just made a deal with Syria.
BEWARE OF FALSE FLAGS.
When the tea party movement began last year I saw it as right-wing reaction, but given the economic turmoil across the country, I tried to understand it. Maybe there was populism within the movement that the left needed to recognize. I attended a local tea party last April 15, tax day, and while I didn't find folks whose minds seemed mutable by liberal populism, at least it seemed possible to have a conversation. I wrote about a former banker and a Democrat who made common cause with some of the protesters around the bank bailout and Goldman Sachs's overall influence on government. She had some good conversations. I saw closed minds, but I didn't see violence or overt racism. Of course I was in San Francisco, so it probably wasn't representative of the tea party movement, but I still think the effort to understand the economic anxiety that's part of what's motivating the tea partiers was worth my time.
ReplyDeleteA year later, though, it's worth more of my time to say what many resist: The tea party movement is disturbingly racist and reactionary, from its roots to its highest branches.
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I'm having a hard time tonight trying to believe almost uniformly white tea partiers are anything other than a racist, right-wing reaction to the election of an African American president who brings with him feminists and gays (even if he doesn't do as much for them as they would ideally like). I'm having a hard time seeing the tea partiers as anything other than the spawn of George Wallace racism – the movement Pat Buchanan bragged to me that Richard Nixon made his own.
(bd: me, too!)
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/politics/2010/03/20/tea_party_racism?source=newsletter
Eric Cantor's phony victim story
ReplyDeleteHis false claim of office gunshots functioned as the Ashley Todd tale of 2010, distracting from right-wing violence
Did House GOP Whip Eric Cantor just become 2010's answer to Ashley Todd, the white McCain supporter who claimed she was assaulted by a black Obama backer in October 2008?
You remember the story: A 20-year-old McCain-Palin volunteer told Pittsburgh police that a black man robbed her, and then, when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on her car, he beat her and carved a B – for "Barack" -- into her cheek, and told her she better support the black Democrat. Days later, the clearly disturbed Todd confessed that she made up the attack, and apparently mutilated herself to provide "evidence." But for a few days, the right wing insisted Todd's attacker was the Democratic equivalent of the menacing crowds at Sarah Palin rallies shouting "Kill him!" and "Terrorist!" about Obama. Drudge and Fox News hyped the story, with Fox news V.P. John Moody even claiming the attack might lead some voters to "revisit their support for Senator Obama."
No one's accusing Cantor of shooting up his own office, but from the minute he made his claim -- also implying he was targeted because he was Jewish -- it was almost certain to be untrue. In the very first AP report on the incident, the Richmond police said the bullet had been fired into the air, not through Cantor's window. Two photos in Salon show that the nondescript office building is unmarked, with no signs indicating Cantor or his staff have one of the suites inside. Friday Richmond police confirmed the bullet was a stray: Neither Cantor nor his office was targeted, and in fact the bullet didn't even land in his office. A spokesman for Cantor told reporters he was "very happy" his story turned out not to be true.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/politics/2010/03/26/phony_eric_cantor_story?source=newsletter
Limbaugh: "What Are We Doing Having Relationships With The Muslim World, Anyway?"
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Tea Party NY Gov Candidate's E-Mails Exposed: Racism, Porn, Bestiality
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Koch Industries: We Don't Fund Tea Parties (Except For The Tea Parties We Fund)
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Clinton: I Was Wrong to Listen to Wrong Advice Against Regulating Derivatives*
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She was in your hospital for four days at a cost of $38,210.91 or $9,552.72 per day or $398.03 an hour or $6.63 per minute. A bit excessive I would say.
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The firm not charged in Goldman case made billions on collapse
ReplyDeletePaulson & Co., which was founded in 1994, manages funds that are open only to "qualified purchasers" — individual investors with $5 million in assets to invest or institutions with at least $25 million to invest. In 2004, the company registered with the SEC as an investment adviser.
The company was able to anticipate the losses because Paulson's researchers looked at the underlying home loans, Paulson told Congress. Paulson realized they were comprised of risky mortgages — some of which were made with 100 percent financing.
Even worse, he testified, mortgages were given to borrowers who had a history of poor credit, had no verified income or whose appraisal that was typically inflated.
"It was that analysis that allowed us to buy protection on these securities, which resulted in large gains for our funds," he said.
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/04/16/92356/the-firm-not-charged-in-goldman.html#ixzz0lW485wtJ
The former CIA Director Porter Goss has given the go-ahead for the destruction of tapes depicting brutal interrogation of two terrorist suspects.
ReplyDeleteAccording to CIA's internal e-mails, in 2005, then Director of the agency's clandestine service Jose Rodriguez ordered the destruction of almost-a-hundred of torture tapes — a move "approved" by the Goss.
http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123497§ionid=3510203
The case against Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) over a 2007 mortgage derivatives deal it set up for a hedge fund manager could be just the start of Wall Street's legal troubles stemming from the subprime meltdown.
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I said it before: Limbaugh is a bellweather for me, if something's good or not. If Limbaugh devoted so much airtime so this bill didn't pass, it must be better than we think -
ReplyDeleteLimbaugh: Volcanic eruption in Iceland is God’s reaction to health care’s passage.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/17/limbaugh-volcano/
Corrupt Practices Accelerating the Decline of American Journalism
ReplyDeleteWe have people posturing as journalists on TV who get paid as business spokespeople, financial reporters who retire to work for Goldman Sachs -- media parasites.
http://www.alternet.org/media/146506/corrupt_practices_accelerating_the_decline_of_american_journalism_
DefundWar.org
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Good call.
ReplyDeleteBig Dan:
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad I saw this post! If you go to the website I post on, you will see my take on this topic. I am 57 years old and this is a very important subject for me. I am intensely aware of Lennon's comment and was reluctant to buy "Revolver" for about one day until I heard John's response to this nonsense. The Beatles were a great band and a powerful influence in my life and others around the world!