The True Meaning of 2012

Thank you Mr. Perkins. I looked at the trailers for the 2012 movie and couldn't help but wonder if Cusack needed to finance one of his other projects and that's why he did it? The movie looks like utter nonsense. I'm looking forward to the predicted 1000 years of peace.
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Movie choices

A feel good movie about helping someone in poverty? (Fiction, hey I like it, and I love Sandra Bullock. Yeah, I know it's sort of based on Michael Oher's life )



Or drive an hour and a half in the rain to get a fucking clue watching a totally depressing documentary?

(Feh, it'll be on Netflix in no time and I know what they are going to say. Frankly it sucks to be an informed American. I wish I could climb back into the warm cocoon of ignorance )

When Saudi Oil Minister Calls Oil Prices 'Perfect', Ladies Better Secure Your Handbags

How many people in the US have no clue how far out of US corporate control the oil industry is and how long that slippage has gone on?

Why has our basic infrastructure never adjusted to that?

Refineries shut down and damaged here in the US.

US Refinery Status: Fire Damages Unit At Husky Ohio Plant

Refineries built in Armenia and Brazil
Armenia
Brazil

Fledgling biofuel industry in the US

Federal Biofuel Awards Made for Green Refinery Projects in 15 States, Including Pilot Plants for Sapphire Energy, BioEnergy Intl.
Bruce V. Bigelow 12/4/09

Dick Durbin Won't Commit To Support Budget For Afghanistan

Shirley Bassey - History Repeating

"Soviet personnel strengths and casualties

Between December 25, 1979 and February 15, 1989, a total of 620,000 soldiers served with the forces in Afghanistan (though there were only 80,000-104,000 serving at one time)...

...The total irrecoverable personnel losses of the Soviet Armed Forces, frontier, and internal security troops came to 14,453. ...

....There were 469,685 sick and wounded, of whom 53,753 or 11.44 percent, were wounded, injured, or sustained concussion and 415,932 (88.56 percent) fell sick....

...Materia­l losses were as follows:[citation needed]

* 451 aircraft (includes 333 helicopters)
* 147 tanks
* 1,314 IFV/APCs
* 433 artillery guns and mortars
* 1,138 radio sets and command vehicles
* 510 engineering vehicles
* 11,369 trucks and petrol tankers...­"
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Aetna Forcing 600,000-Plus To Lose Coverage In Effort To Raise Profits

Aetna makes



"$4 million in profit per day, or almost $400,000 an hour, on average...­.Here are the 2008 total compensation figures for the biggest insurance companies: Aetna, Ronald A. Williams: $24,300,11­2;..."



http://www.prwatch.org/node/8723
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Infrastructure deficit

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Unnnh huh. The road I have to use to get to my house is heavily traveled and crumbling. A police car with flashing lights was parked behind a dangerously elevated piece of concrete surrounding a cast iron sewer cover for at least 5 hours today. Since it is rush hour there is no way I am venturing out to see if the police car is still there or the city maintenance workers (or sub-contractors) are fixing the problem. The city has a $179 million budget deficit.

Next round of cuts? Analysis: Sanders’ Budget Proposes Sweeping Cuts

Senator Sanders unfiltered

I'm still reading

slowly.

Afghanistan is not about terrorism

It's about pipelines. Energy. Who will control and profit from them and the booming Asian economies, legal and illegal?

Shit. Fuck. Goddamnit people.

What

The

Fuck?

Go read Pepe.

Think that Wall Street's ability to screw us all in the ass for their own selfish greed and avarice and the rich's ability to force less fortunate people to fight their wars have nothing in common?

Rinse and repeat the top of this blogpost.

Fuck it, I'm gonna go watch old Dead Like Me shows, or something.

Yay Tweety

Chris Matthews: Dick Cheney is a ‘troll’
By John Byrne
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 -- 9:10 am

This is what happens to you when you execute 4 police officers

Seattle police kill suspect in Tacoma officers' slayings

Huckabee Granted Clemency To Maurice Clemmons, Person Of Interest, In Ambush That Killed 4 Cops
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First Posted: 11-29-09 12:54 PM | Updated: 11-30-09 08:55 PM

The system was broken by Ronald Reagan, not Mike Huckabee. This man was mentally ill as a teenager and I don't think stints in our prison system did anything but exacerbate the problems.

"Cuts in funding for mental health services continued throughout the 1980s, with the emphasis being on the provision of services via the private sector... Those without medical insurance frequently did not receive adequate care."

DJ Jaffe
Co-Founder: Treatment Advocacy Center
Posted: December 1, 2009 09:00 AM
Maurice Clemmons: Mental Illness Does Cause Violence