Author: meagert

They Have Lied To You Your Entire Life

 There are all kinds of Lies. There are “white lies”, Sins of Omission, blatant lies, lies to protect the innocents. There are lies to protect Governments. There are lies to protect friends. There are lies to protect ourselves. There is even the Fifth Amendment to protect ourselves from ourselves, or others. There are lies to perpetuate Myths. There are lies to protect Children. There are lies for the sake of lying!

 It started with Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny. When You stopped believing that, they lied to You about the value of a High School Education. When that didn’t work, they lied to You about College. Then they lied to You about a Good Job. They lied to You about Marriage. They lied to You about Drugs. They lied to You about EVERYTHING!

 Your friends have lied to You about yours, and their relationships. Your Parents have lied to You about their Values. Your Bosses have lied to You about Your jobs. The News has lied to You about EVERYTHING!

 The Doctors have lied to You about their prescriptions. The Credit Card Companies, and the Banks have lied to You about their fees. The Mortgage Companies, and the Insurance Companies have lied to You about  their policies. The Churches have lied to You about Right and Wrong. Our Presidents have lied to You about War, and a million other things. Our Founding Fathers have lied to You about Human Rights; apparently only true for white people….

 Historians have lied to You. Politicians have lied to You. Your own wives, and husbands have lied to You. You have even lied to Yourself!

 The only ones that haven’t lied to You, are Your Pets.  

  Now You know the Truth.

  I don’t mean this in a “every once in awhile” kind of way. I mean they have lied to You about EVERYTHING! Every thought or perception every person on Earth has ever projected at You, is a Lie. It has only been, at best, Their perception of the Truth.  Your own perception filter has managed to allow You to live this long, and somehow given You a modicum, or belief of,  a modicum of comfort.

 As Human Beings, we can never know the Whole Truth. We are, however, allowed to know the Results of Lies. Some lies are less harmful than others. Your Parent’s lies, Your friend’s lies, in general, haven’t killed You, or others. Santa and the Bunny didn’t screw You up all that much…maybe, just a little.

 That being said, and attested to, We do know the results of evil lies. We know the results of Cheney’s Lies. We know the results of Rove’s lies.  We know the results of Bush’s Lies. We know the results of the NeoCon’s Lies. We know the results of ALL the Republican Lies; Death, Destruction, and  Misery to Everyone except the Rich. All these people are living a lie, and enjoying it.

 Calling out the lies, is the only way humanity may have a chance. Impeach and Convict, NOW.  Win, lose, or just live the Lie. It’s Your Choice.

  No American with a modicum of respect for the Constitution wants the current administration to stay in power for even one more day. Bush and the Neocons are the biggest threat to Our Constitution since Nixon.

 Each new Discovery, in each of the Oversight Hearings,  reveals a depth of corruption, cover-up, and internal threat to America, unparalleled in our history. After Seven years of no oversight by the Republicans, the “shock and awe” of these revelations compounds hourly.
The Call for Impeachment grows by the day, and correctly so.

  The Democratic Party’s position that Impeachment is off the table, more reflects the tenuous hold on the Congress, than their inner agreement. That being said, there is Forty years worth of the Republican Wurlitzer playing out, that has created a public perception of the Democrats as wimps.

  However the Democrats have helped in that perception, these past few months they have  initiated some Four Hundred oversight committee inquiries, and have begun to “Out” the Republican Party, for what has been hidden in the closet all this time, nothing but Unconstitutional malfeasance.

  This is certainly the correct tactic to use within our governmental framework. If you don’t have the votes, overwhelm the opposition with the truth of matters, until support is simply inevitable.

  The utter frustration with War, has magnified. It has resulted in an ever increasing call for Impeachment, now even being revealed even in the Mainstream Media.

  Many, on the left, have begun to part ways with Democratic Party over this. This is a perilous move. There is no third party in America today, nor will there be in the near future. The only recourse to Republican rule is a strong Democratic Party.

  Cindy Sheehan has broken (if she ever was a part of it) with the Democrats, and announced an Independent run at Speaker Pelosi. She has staged a confrontation with one of the few Democrats in the House, to even pay lip service to an impeachment solution, Rep Conyers.            
Wrong Target Folks!!

 Although I support Civil Disobedience, as an American Right, this action has been mis-aimed. Once again the Left divides over an issue. This does not strengthen us.

  As noted in the BooMan Tribune Faq, both support of Democrats, and holding them accountable is the rule here. In this case, I support the Democrat, not the Independent. I am not sure Rep. Conyers’ response was the best, but his history of support for many good things, should allow him the benefit of doubt, even to the “purists”.

Unless this has changed, and the FAQ not updated…

  What’s This Site All About?

This site is not affiliated with the Democratic Party. However, the Democratic Party is the only institution in this country that is capable of combatting the Bush administration’s agenda, or of offering a realistic alternative to the GOP’s control of both houses of Congress.

Therefore, this site is committed to building the Democratic Party, raising money for the Democratic Party and its candidates, finding and promoting promising candidates for state and local offices, helping to shape the Democratic Party’s agenda, and holding Democratic office holders to account for their votes and their ethics.

The site is also committed to doing some of the investigative work that is so desperately needed with the GOP in control of the oversight committees.

Note: This story originates at my blog.

I was over at Orange this morning, and a diary about Italian Healthcare was on the recent list (I don’t like to give them a link, they don’t need them, but the thousands of other bloggers do…., but you can find this diary “Healthcare, Italian Style).
 Anyhoo,  It was a good retort to the Repubs meme that EU Healthcare was not as good as ours.
  In the process I thought I would enlighten you as to an interesting, and little know fact about Dual Citizenship. Now, I’m not advocating getting the hell out, I, personally am doing this out of a genealogical perspective.
  “Jure Sanguinis” is the Italian principle that you are Italian by blood, not birth in Country. It is handed down on the Paternal side (of course…this is Italy).
 There are some stringent rules involved, but basically, there are a lot of people of Italian descent, that can take advantage of this.
  My wife’s grandfather was born in Sicily, which makes her eligible.  So, if your Italian, and you didn’t know this…start investigating. Most of my wifes relatives ,and acquaintances were not aware of this, so I am assuming that you of Italian descent didn’t either….
  It’s a long process, so don’t start your flight bookings yet. It’s not hard…it’s just collecting the pertinent documents can be a long drawn out affair, especially if you are trying to retrieve docs from states like NY. Some Departments send you the records within days…others, months. My time at this is about 18 months, at this point. Not all that many letters and emails were involved, but the time frame for waiting….especially for birth records from Italy, were enormous, considering what century we live in…
  I’m only waiting for 1-2 standard docs now…should be getting them in the next month.  At that point, we have to trip up to the Italian Consulate in PA, to hand over the documents in person (That’s their rules). They will send off to Italy for final approval. Who knows how long that will be? So after my wife’s app is approved, and her passeport received, I have to file as a Spouse, to get mine…probably a lot quicker to get, but still, I expect a few months.
  If you even think that you might be eligible, I think this is worth pursuing.

Here are some links for you to explore:

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Consider this an Open Thread for Discussion of the Debates beginning on CSPAN2 right now. Harry Reid has offered his Opening Statements.

I’m not sure how long I can Maintain this thread, but I’m sure they’ll be plenty of volunteers to pick up the slack. Popcorn: Buttered or not?

Harry Reid paraphrased: 12 billion dollars a month into the sands of Iraq!!

10. No Diary Police
9. Mojo is just Mojo.
8. BooMan really tries.
7. Diaries stick around longer than particles in an accelerator.
6. Fewer “dicks”.
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4. People try and understand even your most convoluted thoughts.
3. Everybody knows when to just frikkin’ relax.
2. International input.

And the number one reason I post here…

1.  I laugh every time I see the frog, handcuffed with his hands in the air.

PS. Don’t recommend this diary, leave the spot to a productive diary….
But, please  do add your top ten reasons to the comments section.
 
 
Update [2007-7-16 17:16:8 by meagert]:: The next person who recommends this diary has to buy TWO Coffee Cups!

  Do you feel it? Stick your nose in the air, and you can even smell it.

The Tide has turned. Oh, Ye of little faith! Woe be to those unaware!

In the past, those who plotted to make hay while the giant slept, were soon to feel it’s wrath.

In case anyone in Government hasn’t heard….

The People have spoken. END THE WAR! NOW!

The People have Spoken. SAVE THE PLANET! NOW!

The People have spoken. STOP  TORTURE! NOW!

The People have spoken. CREATE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE! NOW!

The People have spoken.  REIN IN THE CORPORATIONS! NOW!

The People have spoken. STOP GIVING AWAY AMERICAN JOBS! NOW!

The People have spoken. STOP THE REPUBLICAN CRIME FAMILY! NOW!

The People have spoken.  FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION! NOW!

The People have spoken.  FIX NEW ORLEANS! NOW!

The People have spoken.  STOP SPENDING TRILLIONS ON ARMS! FIX THINGS HERE! NOW!

The People have spoken. ENFORCE THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE! NOW!

The People have spoken.  STOP THE DRUG WAR! NOW!

The People have spoken.  STOP THE PRIVATIZATION OF OUR GOVERNMENT! NOW!

The People have spoken.  CEASE AND DESIST THE POLICE STATE!!! NOW!!!!

The People have spoken.  ELECTION CAMPAIGN REFORM! NOW!

The People have Spoken. END POVERTY! NOW!

The People have spoken.  IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY! NOW!

Feel free to add your own “The People have Spoken!” with links.

Note: This Post originates at my blog.

 My GGGGGrandfather came to North America in 1835.

He was a humble Irish sawyer up in the Maritimes. That means he spent his day in the pit, drawing on the saw, up and down. Hard work by any measure. His son tried several jobs, including farming. He came to America as an illegal. It was just a matter of a few miles, and you were in Maine. After a failed marriage, and a move to Boston, he took time out to serve on the Union side manning the Blockade ships along the Southern Coast.. His five children all settled in for family life in America, and all that meant at the time. We do know that one served in the Spanish-American War. One of the children, from one of that lot became a vaudevillian actress. The children of those children became Military Men, Lawyers, and Teachers, and Nurses. The children of today have become Insurance brokers, and Sound Engineers, Medical Transcriptionists, and Cafeteria workers, Computer geeks, and Moms. I won’t get into the Maternal side…think 1630 and the Planters.    

 Genealogy is an interesting research, and a fine way to learn out about your Family. How You came to be. It is also a measure of the Country’s History, and what it means to be American. Not one person in my North American Family ever became famous. Sure, some became well respected in their communities, but for the most part, just buckled down, and did what was necessary, contributing to the cloth that is this Nation. This is how most of us live each day. We Live, and Love. We work and Play. We find time to help those that need it. We don’t want interruptions in our Affairs. The prying neighbor, just gets us steamed. Medical emergencies scare the hell out of us. The phone calls from pollsters, and politicians interrupt our evening meals. The Government always finds a way to break into our meager lives. To some it’s the taxes, to others, its not having the tax monies to pay for roads, and schools. War always disrupts to the maximum. Some of the Wars fought by this Country may have been necessary. Our duties to Protect our Country, or those of our friends, is part of our way.

  But Modern warfare, in these days of Global Communication, merely shows the inadequacies of our systems, and Elected Officials. Our children are ripped from our lives, and sent beyond our reach, to live or die according to the whims of fate, or the the negligence of our Leaders. When talking to each other doesn’t work, try talking again, and then, again. When we are attacked by lunatics, hunt them down and arrest them. Our Policeman are better trained, and armed than whole armies of our past. Our Special Operation Teams can penetrate the most impenetrable environments. Why is it necessary to spend Trillions of our wealth, and surrender the lives of our sons and daughters? To preserve what, our Pride, our Oil, Our American way of life?

  If it’s to prevent another attack, why do we act in such a way as to create an entire new crop of enemies, like a Nebula of new suns? The greatest interruption in our lives today is the presence of these children of luxury that purport to be our Leaders. They are not men who lead, they are scurrilous, and unintelligent. They are subject only to their reptillian brains.. They are plain and simply the worst leaders this Country has ever known.

  My ancestors are rolling in their graves.

Links to get you started:

Genforum
Rootsweb
FamilyHistory

This story originates at my website.

     I have recently finished reading a book. That is amazing, in and of itself. For most of my life, to read was to live, but the last decade or so, if it wasn’t on the internet, I didn’t read it. Well, anyways, back to the book.

  Diary of a Contraband The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor written by William B. Gould IV is the result of the Authors research into his Great Grandfathers past, a genealogical and historical hunt, initiated by the find of an old diary in the Author’s Great Uncle’s attic.

     In 1862, the original William Gould escaped his “master” in a small craft, along with seven others. They made their way down the Cape Fear River, here in North Carolina to Wilmington Harbor, and then out to sea. Sighted by the Union blockade steamer
USS Cambridge, this brave bunch were taken aboard. William signed on almost immediately with the Union Navy, serving on the Cambridge and another ship, the USS Niagra, until the end of the War. Later, he settled in Dedham, Massachusetts, where he became a prominent citizen, and Tradesman.

     Being One, of only three known Civil War diaries written by African Americans, would be reason enough for its historic value, but there is a much stronger importance. These entries, in general, give good backdrop to the activities of the Union naval war effort. They also show the influences of the early African American Press on William, and his upon them. This is another direct connection to modern activism. But most importantly, they dispel the myth of the illiterate slave. The literacy, and intelligence, shown by William in his notes and descriptions, belie every smear thrown by the southern slavers, and segregationists. The intent of these racists was to create the image of a lower species of human, thereby justifying their cruel actions. Throughout American history this has been used against our Citizens to subjugate and denigrate them. This was a direct influence on the reasons for the Voter Rights marches, and Civil Rights laws. From the Pilgrims, and still today, this methodology continues, now including those of Hispanic, and Middle Eastern Cultures. A current representation of this racist methodology would be the attacks on Mr. Obama, for being refined…sheesh!

      Now, I don’t want to get all Noam Chomsky, and all, or for that matter, get into the fact that the core of his scientific Language hypothesis may be wrong, but I would like to express an opinion. The movement towards a civilized world, will not be stopped. The power of words, and thought will prevail. Through all the tenuous times, the frailty of our our own humanity, the evil side of our natures will wither.

     The book itself is filled with humungoussly more than I have explained to you. If you read such things, you will be less likely to repeat the errors, and more aware of why things are the way they are.

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Note:  I found this book while doing my own family history…it turns out, my Great Great Great Grandfather served on the USS Cambridge, shipmate to William Gould.

This review originates at my blog.

Why is it only “our side” that seems to receive such vitriol, and violence. Now mind you, I don’t mean for us to do the same, or that we are free from blame. It is more a reflection of  “them”, their propensity to reduce every disagreement to a call for murder, an accusation of treason, a gutteral reliance on the reptillian brain.

 Here is a Pulitzer Prize winning author, entrenched in a battle with the evil that is the Right wing of our Country.

FBI probing threats to Miami Herald’s Pitts

    Federal officials are looking into hundreds of racist threats recently made by phone and e-mail to Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. By GREG GORDON

     The FBI is investigating threats against Leonard Pitts Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Miami Herald, after a column he wrote about black-on-white crime triggered a furor on white supremacist websites.Days after The Miami Herald published Pitts’ column, Overthrow.com posted his address, his home phone number and his wife’s name. Several other white supremacist Internet sites followed suit, and one gave directions to his house along with a satellite image of the neighborhood. Link

When the numbers are rung up, these people are a small number indeed. Just look at the polls, and you will see that America is not the Country of this.

“Last night on CNN Headline News, host Glenn Beck and former GOP consultant and radio host Michael Graham discussed a new video of President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) spoofing the final episode of the Sopranos.
    During the conversation, Graham asked Beck if he wanted to see the Clintons murdered in the video. “[S]eriously, Glenn, didn’t you at one point want to see, like, Paulie Walnuts or someone come in and just whack them both right there. Wouldn’t that have been great?” Beck responded with a smile, “No, I did not want to see that.” Graham said, “C’mon. … I wanted that.” Link

But the current administration, the mainstream media, and the republican party are more concerned with funding these terrorists, than they are dissuading them. They supply monies to religious fanatics, right wing think tanks, and murky underpinnings, then merely cry “Oh, that’s not right”, when they are discovered.

Disclaimer: I admit that my diaries are short today, but I’m just trying to get my bloggin’ chops back….bear with me, if you can.

 What humans do, to justify their actions, is so simplistic, its scary.
  However we get through life, we need to justify those actions. It’s the only way we live without loading up the shotgun for a quick dispatch of the pain.
 In this small essay, we see just how far humans go  in creating our cultures, and to what extent we will preserve them.
 I suppose this could easily be extended to represent our current leadership, and
Nationalistic leanings.