NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS from RANCH SANTA ... and a Salute to Texas' ... BUTTHOLE SURFERS !!

This posting will be a Happy New Year Greeting's posting from Ranch Santa (aka Ranch Chimp, aka Commie Tommie) from the heart, deep in the Heart of Texas (Dallas).

The pic's below were taken Christmas Day 2010 ... and YES ... that is me dressed up as also Ranch Santa in the top picture at an annual event that is held at my daughter's home outside of Dallas. This is an annual ritual ... where food is made as well as catered ... with a selection of various dishes, meat's, seafood's, traditional Texas Barbeque, as well as a whole roasted pig, lot's of booze and beverage's.

It doesnt start until Christmas Day after sundown and last's until morning the next day, so gift's are not opened or handed out until then (unlike traditionally where kid's and folk's open them Christmas morning or eve before), and they are handed out by Santa ... to each person individually from who to who, etc. ... which is quite a handout too I may add, many folk's pack the property of familia/ friend's, and even some fly in annually from town's like LA and the Bay Area (San Francisco). And a picture of the room with the tree below which is officially the room where Santa sit's and hand's out the gift's and take pic's and/ or talk's with the kid's ... not about what they want for Christmas or the like's, or if they been naughty, nice, good, or evil, as tradition ... but an alternative Santa who will talk about anything if one want's to, or nothing at all. The gal in black blocking/ obstructing the view of my leg's is my daughter who host's the event with her other half, but not the one in my profile pic with me, the one in my profile pic with me, is the one taking the pic from above from a gameroom balconey, which is why it look's like it was taken from a ceiling cam or something, but those in the pic's are only a fraction of all who are there, and a few are my grandkid's too. No ... I dont wear glasses, they came with the suit package and dont even have lens/ glass in them, and even come's with boot's and an artificial belly vest.


                          




And in the Texas spirit, this posting will also salute Texas' "Butthole Surfers" for all their outstanding work/ music/ art over the last 3 decade's, which I have seen several time's "live" in Dallas. BTW ... singer/ composer Gibby Haynes is also the son of kiddie show host "Mr. Peppermint" that was a kiddie entertainment tele show for year's in Dallas as well as nationally. But the Butthole's are one of the most versatile alternative band's in the world ... and an outstanding "live" group as well ... which was another group so hard to choose what to post because of all their great piece's I love ... Thank You Gentlemen ... and Happy New Year! Also I had the pleasure of meeting vocalist Gibby Haynes as well.




1) "SHAME OF LIFE" SPECIAL THANX TO NOTHINKING4MEMAN





2) "PEPPER" SPECIAL THANX TO JACOB GRAY





3) "LADY SNIFF (LIVE)" SPECIAL THANX TO ALTARGEONLINE




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NYC: "NIGHTMARE ON 42nd ST" ... "Give our REGARD'S to BROADWAY ... Tell all the Gang on 42nd St, WE CANT be there"

    




This posting at toward's this end of 2010 will be to look at what I feel is the blizzard of the decade to hit the Northeast Corridor ... and what put NYC under the blanket, and my heart goes out to all ya'll sincerly, especially to familia in New York who had to readjust their Holiday plans because of this, and to all those and familia on the West Coast who have been hit all with the rain's and mudslide's (I credit all of this to global warming actually as I pointed out thoughout this journal such as in the Global Warming series). And the ripple effect that it had on every airline hub coast to coast, which affected flight's crisscross from Portland to Fort Lauderdale, Providence to Burbank.


***** NY DAILY NEWS: Christmas Blizzard of 2010: Mayor Bloomberg defends NYC's response to winter storm, mass transit ... (newsread)


But some of what I was reading for instance at JFK International was insane, and hopefully some will look deeper into this ... 11 bloody hour's on the tarmac? .... 7 hour's stranded on the "A Train" etc, etc. First of all of course there were protection's for passenger's that just were put in place not long back as far as being detained in the plane on the tarmac as well. Everybody at the Port Authority and Airway's with associate's are blaming everyone but themselves in all the stories that I read and heard ... doing that classic American thing, of not assuming responsibility for their action's, it's nauseating to hear these folk's whine about who's fault what is, and especially what rule's apply to international flight's, domestic flight's, what they have to do and what they "DONT" have to do! Use your brain's for a bloody change! It is sickening enough some of the shit air traveler's have to put up with as it is. I havent flown in year's, my daughter who flies frequently said it's getting to be more of a pain in the ass, but I have flown in and out of JFK as well as LaGuardia (both in Queens) several time's, domestically and internationally. The particular tarmac detainment was because an international gate was not available, and no one to check the passenger's, and excuse after excuse after excuse from all parties, and because of lobbyist's in the last legislation ... what applies to international flight's Vs. domestic flight's vary. This bloody damn terminal/ gate bottom line had 14 available and working buses as well as plenty of personel both of the airport and airline's on the clock! Dont even tell me that there is no way that you cannot get them people off the plane and into the bloody terminal, or get them adequate supplies/ necessities or whatever. And all the talk about all tranportation and road's shut down ... if gypsy cabbies can get in and out for $100 a pop (twice the usual price) ... you can! This is just a display of the saturation of irresponsibility that has plagued our nation and the lack of regard for adequate service to customer's that has been recently in high fashion!

As far as all those passenger's stuck all night on the A- Train ... more incompetence. They were at a platform!! ... no heat/ air, power in those temp's, no restroom facilities, etc. The thing is ... we have become too focused on meeting rule specification's and no one wanting to step up to the plate when time's get tough these day's. Then even at the 9/11 terror event ... so many heroes stepped up to the plate and what happened after? ... they were denied over and over for year's any medical help, and even dropped by insurer's or not covered, and tossed out later, and used by political parties as pawn's to play in Washington. It's no wonder that so many today are afraid to act and think when the time come's, because of what were told we have to do, and the silent repercussion's/ consequence's of such. Personally ... I dont care so much about rule's when push come's to shove and action is needed. And the Airline's who have been whining and not even answering the phone's, need to put a muzzle on and get busy too, as far as being tight on staff and this and that excuse ... dont feed us on how all of the sudden tight time's are, especially with these soaring 2010 profit's , everyone is so full of it, it stink's! The only thing in this country too tight is all those we pay that have monopolies basically! ABC News Tonight is reporting that they even cant get through to airline's or even get any answer's, and airline's are rewarding less and less compensation's and service's while charging more and more, reducing all while raking in record profit's too. Enough said ....

Below ... is the classic George M. Cohen song made popular by the legend Judy Garland, which inspired the title of this posting, "Give my Regard's to Broadway". Enjoy!



THIS FIRST PIECE IS AN INSRUMENTAL SOLO PIANO VERSION WHICH I CHOSE BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS EXCELLENT, BY ALLEN DALE 1962





THIS NEXT PIECE BY THE LEGENDARY JUDY GARLAND WHO MADE THE SONG SO POPULAR, RECORDED AND AIRED IN 1966 ON THE SAMMY DAVIS, JR SHOW ... Thanx to IMINBETWEEN





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Beating the "ECONOMIC WIZARD'S" of the "WALL STREET CASINO INDUSTRY" in the NEXT "Decade of Decadence" ...

I know, I know ... Why would I post economic's on Christmas morning so bloody early? Shouldnt I be under the tree opening present's or necking with a gal under the mistletoe? First of all .. I am home alone ... and wont go over to my daughter's house out in Rowlett till later this afternoon into the night for dinner, drinx and socializing, etc ... and no ... I dont have a Christmas Tree at home, and am opposed to real tree's anywayz for enviromental reason's ( I know, what kind of commie socialist shit is that? ) and the trash part of disposal of them later, etc, nor do I have a bloody mistletoe or anyone to kiss at the moment anywayz! So ... this is my gift of giving on my blog/ journal to whoever may read and view this importante video too ... so here's a lil gift actually "worth" something. This "60 Minutes" video below is over a year and a half old ... but I chose it because it is importante to explain the reality.



MOST IMPORTANTE HERE LISTEN TO DAVID WRAY PRES. OF PSCA AND HIS ISSUE/ QUESTION EVASION IN VIDEO **** (expired)




60 Minutes report on 401(k)s- It's Not Pretty .... and Will Only Get Worse ... Thanx to RICHARD HARDING






The reason to post this is to again, give yet another tip on how we willingly let ourselves get damaged financially in our great nation. This post will focus on the 401K investment and retirement system we have been so intoxicated with ... and all the new BS talk we will be hearing over the next couple year's on new idea's for retirement plan's and BS about how great it would be to privatize Social Security and such .... which trust me ... is being covertly all worked on now along with GOP strategist's on how to slip this into the mainstream ... because they actually think they will have total dominance after 2012 ... at least their banking on it, rest assured. IT'S NOT WISE TO BUY the new talk to come over the next few year's, when they try to sell us new retirement system's telling us that if we dont ... we will fall to doom and gloom and live the rest of our lives in soup kitchen's, or our children will die of starvation, you will spend eternity in the ghetto, etc, etc ... all of this will be a secret agenda, mainly from GOP or Tea Party member's to privatize Social Security without calling it what it truely is ... there is nothing else left for grab's ... they already milked our surplus and taxes ... this will be their next "BITE" ... trust me.

But right now because of new regulation's and change's all kind's of new investment plan's for middle American's who are working and still at a young enough age to make investment's for their future are being drafted to the newest shaft that we will face in the next decade of decadence. And I am also writing this because I have warned so many friend's and familia of this for nearly 20 year's ... and many I know lost 10's of thousand's of dollar's in their plan's the last few year's. I caught this year's back around 1990 when I was working for a Fortune 500 insurance company (who went bankrupt also later I may add, and diverted all the money they got away with offshore) and they presented us with a 401K plan ... that department manager's pushed .... I of course being skeptical by nature ... examined it closely, when most employee's didnt ... and were like most folk's .... looking to get something for nothing, and many lost more than they gained basically. But NOT looking at the so called list of mutual fund choice's (who do you think make's the list of fund's investment firm's to choose from?) and the benefit's of such, or looking at fee's, penalties, only for a petty tax haven ... I seen it was not as profitable as many would think ... and mainly a gamble. So that is the lesson to learn ... most who lose big, are the one's who alway's expect something for nothing ... same work's across the board in life ... such as when you play the table's on the Strip in Vegas or the Boardwalk in Atlantic City ... you MUST know when to walk ... and in this case .... NOT PLAY and look for alternative investment's, which is what capitalism is all about .... not these plan's that are designed and legislated for us. Plus these plan's I examined paid best to those who invested your earning's instead of you ... and if you attempted to withdraw any of it before a quarter century or so ... you would get penalized out the ass and eat any profitable margin's anywayz ... and get soaked with other administrative "fee's" ( a"fee's" list that seem's endless ) to drain/ milk even more, before you get away. Bottom line ... avoid all these people and their package's, game's, etc. We wonder how come over 95% of the global wealth is only in less than 5% of the global population? ... why do you think? .... we gave it all to them! ... participating in their game's instead of creating our own playing field's and rule's ... yet we had all the tool's to do so.

Wray calmly blame's this on the "investment system's" and not on of course the 401K system that he preside's over ... which is cute ... heh, heh, heh, heh, heh ... who the Hell do you think legislate's the investment system's and control's the lobby? duuuuhhhh .... let me be more frank here ... folk's like Wray are full of it, and evade and/ or avoid any direct answering of their responsibilties, period. And what these folk's pull with their gambling game's with under 10 million are what many in Washington have planned over the next decade to sell to over a 100, 000, 000. And a stealthy sales package to where they WILL privatize SS without selling it as a privatization sell, creating a new term/ word ... that will be a trick phrase that they will count on the masses to jump all over through clever advertising. How can they crash SSI? ... Simple ... you get a majority of working middle class America to try a new investment scam plan, but leave SSI open, folk's get greedy thinking to make more off the new option, less goes into SSI fund's, causing the SSI to fail on it's own and collapse ... WE SHOULD NOT ABANDON SSI, but abandon the new deal's/ plan's ... we can re- regulate SSI to stay onshore ... you cant regulate the investment market's to stay onshore, get my drift? Just as I called/ pointed out how they would eliminate PO in the HCR during that political scam and Snowejob ... and toss in new phrases to get around detail's and/ or true transparency, like Sen. Snowe's "Trigger Plan" scam. Just because we got new oversight and regulation plan's dont mean nothing much ... when/ if the bottom line is, those who control all the legislation and design the draft's and proposal's are all lobbyist's with degree's in law. And no matter what the President and his team design to protect ... they will stay a step ahead and design something to beat that. Credit card companies already have new scam's that we will see in the next few month's ... that will gang rape you, even with all the new safeguard's in place, and desperate American's now are waiting and panting like dog's for them to come in the mail ... the best thing to do is ignore them. You want to establish great credit number's WITHOUT actually getting in DEBT? As dumb and simple as this may sound ... go purchase and set up PRE PAID credit card's with small inde bank's or their bank card's ... and only use them once a month for small charge's to keep active and pay them off immediately ... this fuck's up the big bank system, keep's money domestic and make's your credit score rise! ... you just hit 3 bird's with one stone!

You want the truth and change? Well ... even though no mass number of folk's will do this at this point ...YET ... until they take even more beating's ... we will have to learn to be strategist's and independent ... of them and the system's they design for us ... and basically abandon them, which is going to happen in time anywayz ... so might as well start doing it now. I take control of every dollar I spend, and try to only spend in small companies and bank's or even use such for loan's and all business ... if 75% only of working American's done what I done .... this system would have to REALLY change and/ or downsize or they would lose their ass and collapse frankly. Plus we keep bailing out these loser's, because were told that if we let them fail the world will end ... and people live in fear ... STOP FEARING WHAT YOUR TOLD! NO! ... I wouldnt have bailed any international investment banker's out! I would have let them all go to Hell in a handbasket ... and suffer the economic repercussion's OF THEIR ACTION'S AND CHOICE'S ... because as you can see ... were still suffering economic repercussion's anywayz now even after the fact, which I posted would happen at least 50 or more time's over the last couple year's ... and it all did. How did I call it so accurately? I LOOKED AT THE MATH! That is what no one is doing ... all the talk we hear is great ... but ask them to present the math ... and they'll quickly change the subject ... THEY DONT WANT TO, OR WANT YOU TO SEE IT! For Pete's sake ... what in Hell is wrong with us? And dont say that you dont have a degree in economic's or math and you cant understand ... blah, blah, blah ... you dont try! If I can figure this crap out with barely a grade school education ... I know goddamn well a large portion of everyone else can! We get lazy to think is the ONLY problemo, as well as being too dependent on having someone else think for us! I cant even tell you how many people I known over the year's that wont even attempt to figure out their own taxes at tax season ... I mean ... wont even read the bloody book ... which is issued for free at that, but they'll take the time to read the funnies in the daily paper, and pay a tax person to do even the simplest form's for them ... and say they "dont have the time", you dont?, well that's weird ... since you have all that time to wait in a bloody line texting BS or whatever while waiting for the person you are paying to do it ... do you REALLY need for someone to tell you to use a spoon or fork and when you should jump and sit? NO YOU DONT ... How do I know? Because average working people with trade's, profession's, or what have you, do a much, much, better job at managing their home budget's ... I shit you not ... as a matter of fact ... the less money you earn ... the better you get at it ... because you are forced to "think" as a mean's of survival ... those who dictate to us dont need to budget like those of us ... why? Because we give them a green light, a blank check, and keep buying their sales pitch over and over and over and over. That is our weakness ... beat that ... and you beat them! Bank on it! So it can be done ... I would bet my paycheck on it!

Other than that Merry Christmas ....



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VETERAN'S SPOTLIGHT (PART 2) : MERRY CHRISTMAS 2010 to our Troop's and Veteran's ...

This Part 2 of "Veteran's Spotlight" will be to Salute our active and reserve Troop's as well as Veteran's ... and to wish them the best and a MERRY CHRISTMAS to them and their loved one's. Thank goodness the technologies are rapidly advancing to enable so many these day's that are at their mission point's to access home when they get a break ... Ya'll have alot of folk's back home looking forward to it! I have a niece who was recently deployed to Afghanistan (US Army), and just found out yesterday another niece who's fixin to enlist at the start of the year, and wish them the best. And THANX to Ya'll for your dedication to America as well!



VETERAN'S SPOLIGHT PART 1 HERE



Other than that ... a couple video's below to Enjoy!


1) TROOPS ARRIVE AT DALLAS/ FORT WORTH INTERNATIONAL DEC. 04, 2010 FOR CHRISTMAS, THANX TO STONEBRIDGE VIDEOGRAPHY





2) Soldier homecoming surprise mix ... Thanx to MARTIN WATERMAN PICTURES





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PORTLAND (PDX- OR) ... LAST OF THE GREAT AMERICAN CITIES ... PART 1

This posting will be to take a look at what I call the "Last of the Great American Cities" ... Portland (PDX- OR) . Also a blogger I frequent daily Infidel753 , happens to be fortunate enough to live in this city ... which I envy him on this frankly! :) But PDX is what Americana Pie is truly about ... that comes in flavours for every taste, and culturally diversified, I may add. Of course this isn't to say that there are not unique flavours in American cities across the land. But PDX is an example of what each and every other city can also achieve more of on enhancing their unique flavours if so many were not so focused on mass commercialization, eminent domain to so call renew urban America plasticity and such. There was a time in America where the main focus was not just on getting the endorsement of Bank of America, Chase, the Petro and Insurance giants, and the largest malls and chain stores in the world, or the biggest WalMart, etc. Or where only 5 mega record labels decides what gets air play or not. What I am saying ... is that so many great American towns are losing their image to an extent. This shows that life can still flourish in our societies and have a great time doing it, without the giants telling how we should entertain and enjoy ourselves and live, and what is popular to mass consume from season to season.

I have for years heard about the City of Portland (called also the City of Roses or PDX) from friends who have been there , several of which done the music scene business for a living or in some form of indie arts and such. Also heard of it being probably the most liberated city in the USA, and alternative arts city, but what I found also .... was a true taste of what Americana was meant to be. Back in 2007 I decided to spend a week in Portland to visit, and I already had a friend who was living there, so I didn't have to go there blind as a tourist only ... and was able to spend my time in some of the neighborhoods and such to get a true flavour of the town and talk one on one to many locals who lived there for years. But one of the first things I noticed after a few days there ... was how calm and at peace I was ... no really ... I shit you not! I mean ... I am so used to towns like LA, Dallas, or a number of other towns I spent quite a bit of time in ... I almost forgot what a great American city was like ... without the ratrace of competition, crime, the corporate smothering and commercialization that suffocates so many large American cities these days who we flock to in masses simply because we need a paycheck mostly! I actually turned on the tele news when I wake in the morning in PDX, and didn't have to hear constantly of the gang shootings last night, or home invasions, hold ups and alot of the shit I am constantly smothered with in other towns.

PDX actually still has a downtown where 10s of thousands flock to even on weekends (instead of suburban cities 30/ 40 miles from downtown), that is friendly to all citizens ... not just smothered with business/ corporate convention tourists and places that cost an arm and a leg to get in to eat and drink. It is actually the most citizen friendly city I have been to, and I been to so many. So many independent shops to browse and shop, alternative and traditional entertainment, eateries, etc ... even in downtown ... they had a bar/ venue (cant recall the name off hand) that caters to old school punk rock fans of folks my age 50s and over (who some young punkers in their early 20s turned me onto I met, who were fascinated in our conversation on the punk scenes I have been in, before they were born, and read about) not just the latest pop clubs or just Hip Hop, Techno dance clubs, pop hipster joints, etc. Anyone no matter what walk of life you are from can mix in this town and actually feel comfortable. And of course the "Portland Mercury" has to be about my favourite big city weekly free press paper in the entire country as well. I could rattle on about this town till I run out of breath. But found it necessary to do a posting on this city, because so many I see and talk to here in Dallas and around the country have talked about how American cities are not what they used to be, and the mass commercialization of American cities, etc. This town in my opinion ... is the last of the great American cities ... and if you haven't been to PDX ... I highly recommend it! Sadly after I left there ... on my way back to Dallas ... I stopped in LA for awhile ... and the tension came back in Central LA. Below some video to get me to shut up, and see for yourself why Ranch Chimp chooses PDX, as the last of the great American cities .... Enjoy! {:-)



PORTLANDIA/ PDX ... Last of the Great American cities PT.2



1) Mike Clark's Movie Madness- Store Tour Teaser! ... Thanx to BONGSCOTT  **** about the best selection of video's I have seen too!




2) TRAVEL PORTLAND VIDEO TOUR ... Thanx to THINK SOCKEYE **** the surrounding countryside outside PDX is awesome in beauty too




3) What's Keeping Portland Weird ... Thanx to FLUX MAGAZINE




4) Portland Residents Sound Off: Local Music Scene Sucks/ Rules! ... Thanx to CHRISTOPHER KOSTRZAK  **** a great inde music scene too!




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GREATER THAN ONE: "Dance of the Coward's" ... "Everything is in a State of Flux" and "Ignorance is the Agent of Fear" ...

(left to right) Lee Newman & Michael Wells



This art's/ music posting will be to honour a London couple Lee Newman and Michael Wells who created an experimental post modern industrial project while in art school called "Greater Than One" ... and to serve memory to Michael's wife Lee who has passed away. Their work was outstanding in their category and an inspiration to many ... and their being together is greatly missed. Thank You so much both for your contribution's and all you shared with us, the few. Below is a few classic favourite's I was grateful to find on YouTube ... Enjoy!



1) DANCE OF THE COWARD'S ... Thanx to EYOT08





2) EVERYTHING IS IN A STATE OF FLUX ... Thanx to NIHILARTUM





3) IGNORANCE IS THE AGENT OF FEAR ... Thanx to THE JESBEL




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REP. ALAN GRAYSON question's FED RESERVE INSPECTOR GEN. ELIZABETH COLEMAN on ... Well .... "INSPECTION'S" ...

This posting will just be a quick glance at the flip side of the last posting where Atty Gen Eric Holder and Crew showed excellent efficient job performance in their short work of filing already in just several month's, civil legal action's on BP and Associate's. This quick video will be Florida Rep. Alan Grayson questioning the Federal Reserve Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman concerning a Bloomberg report on off balanced sheet's transaction's in the Fed ... which are in the trillion's of dollar's ... then some point's of my own on this.

Also ... credit to Tim Waters over at "Scared Stiff" who directed this to my atencion, I havent heard nothing about this in the mainstream media's.


9 TRILLION Dollars Missing from Federal Reserve, Fed Inspector General Can't Explain ... Thanx to AMY2X




Now one may say that I should look at all the detail's before making my assessment of Inspector General Coleman, and/ or calling any judgement on the issue. But that is what I love so much about "live" video ... this video alone without any other coverage, show's me first hand that something here is seriously not working in our government/ system. And I will even be kind here to the Inspector General and be moderate on what I think of her and her job performance ... because this video alone just blew me away! Also understand that the "Federal Reserve" is about the most powerful institution in the entire world in this era ... and this is the "inspector"? I have to wonder ... how in Hell do you end up with a character like this to be inspector over such a globally powerful institution? Which make's me wonder ... if she was chose strictly because she will see nothing, do nothing and say nothing? I mean ... this simply does not make a bit of sense out of a person in a postion such as this. No ... I dont know what her salary is, and frankly right now, dont want to ... just seeing her responses to the question's is unbearable enough to have to swallow. I didnt know whether to laugh, cry, get angry, take a shit or wind my watch just listening to this.

I understand investigative power's, rule's, guideline's, authorization's, and jurisdiction's, legalities, etc. But my question here ... is "What the fuck have you been doing as an Inspector General?!!" .... "Why all the goddamn excuse's and rattling off about all the power's, authorization's, etc, etc", when the question's Rep Grayson is asking require the most simple non complex responses to get cleared? Why do you need sidekick flunkies over your shoulder to coach you on your responses? ... it isnt like your in the court of law being charged with anything ... you have a job, "TO INSPECT" ... your peer's and government/ peoples rep's are asking to show what you been doing on getting the "job done" ... you have had more than an adequate amount of time to do this, with an abundant staff to work with, and work overseeing one department/ division, you show up with stack's of paper's and staff with attache cases ... what's in them ... copies of the "Wall Street Journal"? ... what in Hell have you been doing? Are the question's too complex to understand? ... and if so ... what part's of what Rep Grayson asked dont you understand?

Frankly ... if I were her boss or had anything to do with it ... she would be in the unemployment line in a heartbeat. There are plenty of people who are qualified to do the job. Unless she has been told by higher up's to back off from it ... and if this is the case ... she should have reported it and/ or any obstacle's that have hampered performance ... yet she hasnt, and also that would be highly illegal. I dont ask much ... and am all for decent fair payscale's and reward's and/ or bonuses for those who perform well in their field's ... and I am one, who when I was a foreman in a company ... was first in line to defend those productive employee's that I worked with ... I'd go straight to the top and ask where their raises are?, if they were late on their check's, and believe me ... I got result's! Rep Grayson didnt ask too much, and there is no excuse for this runaround. I mean ... were talking about trillion's of dollar's here in a time where we must account for every dollar were spending and especially where in Hell it's going to and in whose hand's. Geeeezzz!!

Also I would like to commend Rep Grayson for a JOB WELL DONE ... THANK YOU SIR!




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ERIC HOLDER, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: ... U.S. files Lawsuit on British Petroleum and Associate's ...

This posting will be to CONGRATULATE US Atty Gen. Eric Holder and his crew for their work and announcement on the lawsuit filed against British Petroleum and Associate's, as well as ungoing investigation's into more criminal and civil action's. And able to put this all together in such a timely manner, without the usual BS and delay's that some exhibit. I am just happy and thrilled to see that we still have some very competent worker's in Washington as well, that bust their asses on getting the JOB DONE! :)


Thanx to Eric Holder and Crew!


SOME CNN NEWS READ HERE


POST UPDATE: Some have questioned the day after out of skepticism, if this is just another "show" or for real? Which is great at least that people are skeptical enough to ask this. Here is what I can say to that .... Show or no show ... the "fact" is ... that there has been a "civil" lawsuit filed ... which WILL have to be dealt with in the court's any way you slice it ... which is alot different than marching these folk's in front of a Congressional/ Senate Review Panel to be questioned and reprimanded (which I explain here back in June of possible legal action's to come) . However ... there are complication's concerning international law's, regulation's and juristiction's, even though the initial suit is based on offenses that have taken place in this country ... you have to look at the international factor here as far as how the British government as well will react to this or other's. But the bottom line here ... is this is a BENEFICIAL MOVE AND STEP, PERIOD, worthy of commendation to this Crew.



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PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, JR (PT 3) .... Seeing beyond your PROGRAMME and the 6:00 News ... The TAXATION ISSUE

I know this is probably a most boring thing to post for a monday morning, another bloody posting on the President? ... why the political crap so early in the goddamn morning?, etc. There are 3 primary reason's I can think of off hand, cause I sure as Hell didnt wake up thinking about President Obama, taxes, or bloody politic's. First, because when I turned on the news this morning the first news was Sarah Palin's humanitarian adventure's in Haiti, after all last week was shit about her hunting adventure's in Alaska with her new tele show, and battle with the pussies of PETA over hunting animal's, etc ... the same pussies who reprimanded President Obama for killing a fly! I am so sick and tired of hearing about Palin ... who is just being groomed as I posted in a few other post's over the last year, she's another crook is what people dont see, in a hunting outfit is all. Second is because a blog that I frequent daily called "Tim's Scared Stiff" by a gentleman Mr. Tim Waters, has been really frustrated and concerned over this tax deal that the President is "caving" into, as Tim would put it. Tim's a really straight up Guy too, and one of my favourite blogger's ... and I feel his frustration, as well as several other's that I have read who have been supporter's of our President ... but really feel left down by his move's. The third reason ... is because like the President ... or the communist corporate investment welfare/ bailout recipient's/ elite ... I look at the long vision, not the here and now ... but down the line 5 to 10 year's on everything, which I have wrote in the past ... "You must stay a step ahead of those in the game, because they are alway's a step ahead of us" ... that's just basic street rule's in hustling or dealing in any business ... and this President will be judged on this ... and it can effect his re- election 2012 ... which our enemies are anticipating and banking on, trust me ... they are slicker than owl's shit! Another video from last sunday's/ yesterday's address from the President ... then a few cent's I will add after.



CNN NEWS READ AND VIDEO"S OF THE WHOLE SHOW AND ISSUE/ DEBATE



PRESIDENT OBAMA PART'S 1 & 2 HERE



Now ... one can think that I am a wimp and need a foot or two knee deep in my ass for caving in like the President and even supporting his move's on this one, and I understand ... but I have reason's here. First of all ... we are economically fucked for awhile, jobwise, and every other related thing (but actually at the same time, this is/ was very healthy and beneficial as well as long awaited, to bring us to take a look at ourselves and societies and learn), because of the global transition that is being hammered out ... just look at it as the global market's simply readjusting is all (as I wrote in earlier posting's, this will be global, and come in the form of tidal wave's of boom/ bust's from country to country, same thing happened to the global market's during the 20th century Great Depression, just on a smaller scale because the global player's were limited much more and centralized in only a handful of countries is all) ... I have relentlessly pointed this out in this journal for over 2.5 year's now. Also those corporate icon's have the edge over all of us at current ... one, because most American's dont get off their asses and utilize what tool's they do have, like voting, and whine every time shit hit's home, or they cant afford to buy more junk which is an American consumer past time. Also let me state for the record ... I AM NOT ANTI CORPORATION AT ALL .... I am PRO BUSINESS as much as any conservative is (old school real conservative's I meant)! ... there are many great corporation's out there who invest domestically and most importantly "WISELY" ... but this what were up against is generally a small percentage of individual's on the globe who control them and obstruct their free market venture's as well (primarily a small percentage of global investment banker's and their insurer's with a sprinkle of resource's/ energies/ mineral's investor's, who basically crafted a system a few decade's ago, to make us all dependent on them for basic necessities, simply)... so they are all our enemies. We need to understand how thing's work as far as business and politic's and what choices are the most beneficial.

President Obama is NOT turning into a right winger or is a wimp ... he is actually smart on this one ... and believe me ... he has more trick's up his sleeve than you can shake a stick at ... he know's exactly what the game is as well as those who dictate it ... he also know's that all this crap is an attempt to simply get him out of re- election .... understand ... our foe's want HIM ELIMINATED ... PERIOD! He may be a wimp to some of us .... but to these so called elite ... he is their worst nightmare ... let's just say for them ... he is Hell on Earth to be more accurate. Actually those who even dictate regardless of the tax benefit they receive from this, even dont like the President's move, but are so greedy they are going along with it, for the 2 year's of break's, thinking they will take him down in 2012 ... they see what he is doing here, and dont trust him at all .... heh, heh, heh, heh, heh ... trust me. :) What I pointed out time and again in this journal is the storm to come ... the transition because of this economic readjustment ... and most importante ... "MAKING THE RIDE THROUGH THE STORM SMOOTHER" ... this is what the President is doing for America on this ... making the ride smoother, because the President know's alot that he simply dont want to think about or talk about ... because he actually "care's" about this country and the engine of this great machine who make's it run (those who actually work, create, and have vision ... not buy it). He is a few, going against an army with unlimited power and an iron fist, with monetary resources who can chew us up and spit us out frankly. If we go on instinct here with anger and resist and play the "No" game .... American's will have less to spend next year and it will have it's own ripple effect economically ... I will of course bet my paycheck on it ... I would love to go with my anger and meat grind their asses, but it make's as much sense as if I were to go down the street and try to bare knuckle fight 3 gangbanger's at my age of 54, knowing I cant take the ass kicking's I could at once, and I would go down quicker than the Zeppelin! (no ... not Led Zeppelin) No .... were not going to enter Utopia next year or the year after or after that ... but we simply get cut some slack .... and this will buy us and the President some strategic needed time to deal with a few more hardship's that are waiting around the corner we havent seen yet ... so believe me ... this tax break is needed ... that is why it is so importante to me ... and I keep writing about this.

Enough said ... and Thank You Mr. President for your tolerance and sharp thinking, awareness, and "calling" this one especially ... you are making a beneficial move Sir!

POST NOTE: The title of this posting concerning the 6 O'clock news is not meant to insult news ... I actually love news media for all they contribute and their hard work .... they are just doing their job's. Also understand that the President's bipartisan approach although not pleasant ... is simply because as I posted in my earliest posting's on the President ... is that his thinking is more like the near future thinking of our children and grandchildren, who will not have the political way's and divide that our/ my generation have ... they will actually learn from our mistake's and be cornerstone's in the new arena as far as getting faster and more efficient progress, much faster than we were able to, because of our way's, and the thing's we prioritize. All this of what we see now should and will be obsolete in just the near future for our grandkid's and up ... especially these petty nonsensical bitch fight's over nonsensical shit that dont make our standard's of living and/ or quality not significantly better, along with this extreme polarization, corporate nation bombing's and rebuilding, especially all this deadbeat politician crap, where you have rep's that serve 30, 40 or 50 bloody year's ... still fighting the same shit they did day one in their career, etc. Also ... I am one who DOESNT mind paying more tax ... it's a matter of who get's it, and what it's used for ... but especially if I had a fair amount of wealth ... I know I would make up for any taxation's on other avenue's.




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"MY GIRL" ... A Tribute to those LADIES a Lil on the HOT & SPICY side PT.1 : ) (and a personal testimony/ story)

With all the dark misery there is to post this Holiday Season ... I just figured to post a lil on the lighter side for this posting, to bring a lil Holiday Cheer! :)

Now ... alot of fella's out there know what I'm talking about ... dont pretend like ya'll havent been there and done that ... because I know ya'll have ... I also had a few lady friend's who were a tad on the edge, and out of "kindness", I wont mention any name's here :) ... but sometime's what I considered a lil "Hot & Spicy" and an adventure on the more wild side ... became misery too at time's, even in public like these below especially ... geeezzz ... Lord know's I could tell some stories ... heh, heh, heh, heh, heh! :) But ... let bygone's be bygone's and just enjoy the fun time's ya'll had.

So ... I want to dedicate this posting for the Holiday Season to those Hot & Spicy ladies out there! :)

I also want to say my heart goes out to especially these poor employee's at these type businesses who dont get nearly paid what they should dealing with the public. :)


"MY GIRL" ... A Tribute to those LADIES a Lil onthe HOT & SPICY side PT.2


1) McNugget Rampage Remix (With Sound) ... Thanx to BTV




2) JUST PUT THE F_ING PIZZA IN THE F_ING OVEN- College Girl's Temper Tantrum ... Thanx to SuperMisterFun




And a song here I would like to dedicate to you Gal's from us Guy's, by the great Motor City group ... "Temptations" called "My Girl". : ) .... Thanx to MrLalzor





Just a lil short addition I wanted to post here too ...


One very early morning at a neighborhood 24/ 7 WalMart photo joint ... I had a couple photo's of a friend I was getting enlarged. But I put them in the "One Hour" turnaround deal ... told the clerk ... I was gonna do a couple thing's and will be back in an hour or so ... she said ...."cool" etc. I gave it longer of course, not to rush the clerk, and went up the street to a greasy spoon TexMex joint for a couple breakfast taco's and took my time, read the newspaper, etc ... got back almost 2 hour's later. I didnt see the clerk, nor were my photo's in the finished rack ... I looked around ... hardly anyone was there it was so early. But I started hearing moaning or grunting type sound's from behind the counter ... I peeked my head behind it ... and here was this gal/ clerk on her back down on the floor with her head under the bloody film processor and arm's. She was obviously having problem's with something mumbling stuff, etc ... I said .... "Hellooo" ... she weasles her head out look's up, and say's .... "Oh ... sorry Sir .... I have to try to see what's wrong on here" (similar wording) ... Well .... I wasnt angry or nothing, but curiosity made me wonder what was she having a problemo with(?) ... anywayz ... I got down there as well .... and took a look for myself ... anywayz ... shit wasnt hooked up right on the machine and a drive/ gear system also in the processor wasnt ... well ... driving ... because someone put a couple thing's on ass backward's ... I reckon on a maintenance check or something ... and this Gal didnt know why the bloody thing wouldnt work basically ... but while she was all on her back up under it from a panel the poor gal removed ... the bloody problem wasnt even down there, but up on the top and side ... where the gear drive's were, under a different panel ... she was looking in the wrong place basically. But at least she was trying, and just didnt sit there with her thumb up her ass!

Anywayz .... while I was fixing it ... she was worrying up a storm, saying that I didnt have to do that and she might get in trouble, and she just started on the job and was still in training, and didnt want to call anyone, if she could do it, etc ... bottom line ... this poor kid was worrying herself to death and running her jaw's 50mph over it. I reckon she seemed to be worried that, if she called someone at first being so new and in training they may look at her as incompetent and possibly fire her (after all ... it's WalMart) ... she was nervous and saying "maybe I should tell someone(?)" etc ... I told her ... "Just give me a minute, relax, and it will be fine" ... anywayz ... I got the bloody thing fixed and running, then just showed her what the problem was (I knew something about film processor's though). Then she started telling me how embarassed she was ... and she could try to call a supervisor to try to get me a discount, and all this other shit. But she was also worried about what the boss may think of her if she called as well, etc. I just told her this ...."Dont worry about it, I dont need a discount ... and I wont tell anyone if you dont ... as far as I'm concerned ... it never happened ... okay?".

Why wasnt I upset? ... because frankly this poor kid (she couldnt have been more than 19/ 20 year's old) was all on the floor struggling and trying her best to get the job done without calling anyone else to do it for her ... I respect that. And this job obviously meant alot to her. In other word's ... I could understand the shit she was going through ... I mean ... shit happen's ... and it wasnt her fault to begin with ... obviously someone on the last shift screwed with the drive system and had shit hooked up all ass backward's. BTW ... the photo's came out fine! : )



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REPUBLICAN and CORPORATE NEO- COMMUNIST'S take Depravity and Degradation to NEW LEVEL'S in Their TYRANNICAL QUEST'S ...

THIS ARTICLE IS WHAT INSPIRE'S THIS POSTING

I am commited first of all with this journal to being as fair and unbiased as possible when it come's to politic's. And as a former straight voting Republican for so many year's ... including having voted for Bush/ Cheney ... there is probably not much more that is psychologically painful for me to have to do than to present the reality at time's of the condition. But the desperation that has been being displayed especially in the last couple year's strictly because of excessive greed, the level's of degradation and depravity from some of these folk's have reached record level's in American history. This has to be the lowest we have went since the early 20th century when the Ku Klux Klan ( the KKK of that era and today were much different I may add, and the original KKK of the post American Civil War era, were even different than these two ) were rebounding into power by infiltrating our Washington politic's ... and of course, they used and threatened as well ... many God fearing American's as these type's alway's do, by filling their mind's and churches with the most degrading filth, and like now even ... the tool's of holding working American's hostage. Some may say ... I should perhap's be more compassionate, because it is sign's of mental illness ... and many are simply mentally challenged, which I understand too, being a compassionate man. But when it come's to destroying every fabric of human morality, destroying freedom/ liberty, our Constitution, destroying patriotism, the American familia, with tyrannical intention's ... I must draw the line.

Some of the 9/ 11 responder's were so bad off from the toxin's and respiratory problem's, and couldnt even get help from their own government (USA), who many were employed by in fire, law enforcement, and emergency branches, during the Bush/ Cheney Administration when Republican's also declined and voted down any help to those, based on the reason/ arguement ... that most of these folk's "volunteered" to rescue lives and take risk's during the terror attack's ... so therefore ... we shouldnt have to pay out of tax dollar's to treat any of their medical problem's ... the major insurer's used this to also decline benefit's and paying for their needed treatment's ... those same folk's that later ... we bailed out because they lost all their money on high stake's gambling offshore with bad investment's and even robbing and invading foreign countries and investor's ... that is about as low, immoral, unpatriotic, and unhumanitarian that one can possibly get of course. At one point ... American filmaker and patriot from America's Heartland ... Mr. Michael Moore ... took several people to the closest medical emergency center he could find to help some of these people which was about 100 miles from Miami (FL), it was the closest he could find ... in the country of Cuba actually ... sadly ... the "old school" communist regime of Fidel Castro displayed even more compassion, humanitarianism, and morality.

That's the Reality ....




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BEATLES/ JOHN LENNON: "You Can't Do That" ... "Paperback Writer" ... "Rain" ... "Helter Skelter" ...

The Beatles, 20 August 1964, Las Vegas Convention Center



This music/ art's posting will be to honour Mr. John Lennon exactly 30 year's after his death ... who of course I dont have to say it ... was one of the most influential people in popular music of the 20th century. I never really listened much to John's solo music actually, except the most popular tune's. But I was more familiar with the Beatles music. My first experience of the impact of a concert around that same era, would have been when I lived in Las Vegas as a kid 1964 and the Beatles, I was with a small group from school with a teacher, which was an afternoon show (they also had an evening show). I remember the heat that afternoon, and them old tune's like "I wanna hold your Hand", "She love's You", and the noise was tremendous, because it seemed to be mostly girl's who throughout the their visit and concert must have been screaming at the top of their lung's, making it very noisy for fans. I was excited though as a kid, but the experience of such a crowd being so young and small was the most unforgetable part too. (HERE LINK'S ON THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF LENNON'S DEATH)

But there is so much music Mr. Lennon done solo and with the Beatles, this man as well as his partner's made such a huge impact on the industry and were truely trendsetter's, especially with the late 1960's experimentation as far as electronic's and mixing's. I wanted to post a few of my all time favourite's here though that I really enjoyed, although that was a difficult task as well, because they have so many great piece's as well as the group Beatles ... Enjoy!


FOOTAGE FROM THAT DAY 1964 AT LAS VEGAS CONVENTION CENTER BEATLES SHOW

"You Can't Do That" ... The Beatles at Convention Hall Las Vegas, NV on 20 August 1964 ... Thanx to ABBEY ROAD





The Beatles- Paperback Writer (live) ... Thanx to TRUEBIGMACMASTER'S CHANNEL





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The Beatles- Rain ... Thanx to The Beatles





Paul McCartney- Helter Skelter (Live) ... Thanx to PAUL McCARTNEY MUSIC **** this is Paul McCartney's band 2004





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