DREGULATOR VOL. VII #4 : WHEREFORE ART THOU, H.R. 1955/ S. 1959?
Three murky questions have been smoldering in the back parking lot of the collective mind, this early February.
#1: Why Do The Kennedys Hate The Clintons So Much?
TIME magazine was about as sexy and helpful as an automated customer support menu, tepidly suggesting that Caroline Kennedy’s three teenagers managed to steer her over to the Obama camp with the persuasive vim of the energetic Yooth Vote. A distaste for Bill Clinton’s stumping style – fairy tales and racial humma-humma, etc. — has been the sole reason reported that Uncle Theodore, too, threw his panties at Obama.
But these reasons seem too small and benign, and come off rather like the early suggestion than Heath Ledger died from an irresponsible combination of Ambien and Lunesta.
Fortunately, a forum of cycling enthusiasts on Bicycle.com shed more light:
“(Ted Kennedy’s) minimizing potential damages,” said a commenter named ‘Soylent’. “The fallout from backing (Hilary) and having her lose is potentially greater than the same happening if he backs Obama.”
“I think it’s how (politicians) signal they would be available as a running mate,” responded ‘Bigwood Nate.’
“If Obama wins, he’ll owe the Kennedy clan big time favors… If Obama loses, the Kennedys still have enough clout in the party to get what they want. They know if the Clintons win, Hillary will still need Kennedy support to work with Congress,” wrote the clever ‘Baron von Steuben.’
“What’s Kennedy gonna say? ‘If Clinton wins the nomination, I will pledge my support to McCain or Romney‘?” asked ‘Elevation.’
The Dregulator’s own friend Nancy explained that Caroline (despite the fact that she seems to be being played by Martin Short), is “Lace Curtain Irish,” and would therefore take a dim view of tacky Clintons, an analysis shared by Bicycling.com commenter ‘Jerry near St. Louis’ :
“Class warfare…The Kennedy’s (sic) are upper class, silver-spoon types. The Clinton’s (sic) are Arkansas trailer-trash.”
That explains that.
Back-burning question #2: “How Much Is Britney Getting From Tabloids Like TMZ.com to Enact Perpetual Meltdown?”
The “Britney industrial complex,” according to an article in Conde Nast Portfolio, brings in 20 per cent of the US paparazzi business; Spears cover shots spike tabloid sales 33 per cent for an estimated value of between $110m and $120m annually, of which Britney reportedly “gets under ten percent” — which is still a good living, unless you factor in the insurmountably bad karmic weight of sucking enough actual news out of the air to be the Typhoid Mary of national stupidity.
“Britney loses it, the world watches,” says a caption on TMZ.com; a rare truth from the journalistic equivalent of unprotected sex with infected baboons.
Question #3: “How come there’s no mainstream news reports on H.R. 1955/S. 1959?”
In October 2007, this bill, in its phase as H.R. 1955, sailed through the House of Representatives. Now it is believed to be lurking in the Senate as S. 1959, or as lefty bloggers call it, “The Thought Crimes Bill.”
Penned by congresswoman Jane Harman (D-California), the chair of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, the bill says alarmingly disparaging things about our great dumpster of information in the sky:
“The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.”
(Even though we mostly use it to look at porn. And Britney.)
Other parts of the bill are worded ambiguously enough to drive a lot of Joe McCarthy-style buses through – buses that civil liberties activists fear will be filled with civil liberties activists and driven to dark, underground domestic Gitmos:
“The term ‘homegrown terrorism’ means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”
Italics mine: The definition of “force” has some people worried, since it is intended to mean something other than “violence’…like, possibly, intellectual persuasion, writings, and peaceable assemblies deemed “radical” by a ten-member National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism.
OpEdNews.com claims that this bill is the subject of a “press blackout,” and is still in committee, but that the measures are “already being implemented.”
Read all the bicycling websites you can, while you can, fiends, and remember your code of omerta when the busses come for thee: snitches get stitches.
May 26, 2008 @ 11:28 pm
Well, this is AMAZING. People have accused us of being some interesting things and the time has come to clear up their perceptions.
Let’s clear up some misconceptions:
1. We are NOT socialists – yet we DO believe in the welfare of all people
2. We are NOT Liberal OR Conservative – Those terms don’t have meaning
3. We are NOT for the NWO – “the global citizens comment”
People’s minds have been polarized and effectively destroyed.
What we DEMAND is ACCOUNTABILITY. All citizens to hold their elected officials, AND themselves, ACCOUNTABLE.
1. We are Capitalists who believe Capitalism needs a conscience – we are PREPARED to give it that conscience (read our platform).
2. Liberalism and Conservativeness is a LIE. There is ONLY CAUSE and EFFECT. People are RESPONSIBLE for the EFFECTS of their ACTIONS. What we have in this country is Corporate Welfare that shreds our Constitution so people are NOT held ACCOUNTABLE (the REAL goal behind S 1959 – the homegrown terrorist act).
3. We do not believe that this is an “American problem”. It is a GLOBAL problem. We are ALL in this together and as soon as we realize this – we can stop attacking each other and get things done.
The time for apathy is OVER. It’s time to support each other.
You Inc.
-The Advocacy Corporation
http://www.youtube.com/AdvocacyCorporation
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Keep in mind the public mind is VERY fragile.
Many people think that they are “telling the truth” to the public but unless you use facts that are verifiable AND in the public mind like voting records, you are most often talking to a small audience. You are preaching to the choir.
There is a thread of deception that interweaves it’s way through all disciplines and because the people’s eyes are closed they cannot see it. It is hard enough to see when your eyes are open.
It is kind of like that drawing where you see one image in the foreground and another in the background. This is the game.
Distract people to ONLY look at the image in the foreground. This is multi-layered and “protesting” about it is pointless as is “convincing others”. Violence is ALSO not the way. THAT is what they want – an opportunity to use force – to quell the dissidents.
Protests AND violence are very dangerous. Showing them a “symbol” of our power and how “awake” we are is VERY dangerous.
No, this is not the way. Using the cracks in their presentation and appealing to the public mind IS the way. We must show people what is REALLY happening. You cannot do this preaching to the choir.
What is REALLY happening is that there is a growing class of people and organizations hiding behind laws to AVOID ACCOUNTABILITY. Now they seek to call people terrorists – under the passage of S 1959 the homegrown terrorist act passed in the House by 404 Democrats and Republicans – who demand accountability and nothing less.
What needs to happen is that people need to STOP funding the broken system. We need to develop co-operatives where we can sell our labor and products with each other to accomplish what needs to be done and help people get out of the existing system. Helping them envision a NEW system by encouraging active participation in it.
I myself am a sought after computer software engineer with over 10 years of experience and have worked at Microsoft supporting their product called SharePoint from BOTH a development perspective and an administrative one. The average SharePoint consultant in Microsoft bills at $350 an hour to a client. While at Microsoft I supported THEM. I am more than willing to give my services at a discount rate to organizations that support freedom and accountability and I now LIMIT how much of my labor I give to organizations that do not. This required RADICAL personal life changes and is what is necessary at this time.
THIS is what we must do. We must take back our labor and directly support ONLY causes and companies we believe in. This is far more effective than “PROTEST”. THIS is pulling your energy OUT of a system that no longer serves you. All of the sudden then this “protest” becomes intensely personal and BECOMES your life itself.
What if everyone interested in “protesting” simply took a months vacation and focused during that time on change; on collaborating with each other? What would happen then? What would happen during a “presidential election”?
Either I am stupid making these radical life changes OR I see something others do not that DEFINITELY requires my current attention (like S 1959).
The time for apathy is over. It’s time to support each other.
You Inc.
-The Advocacy Corporation
http://www.youtube.com/AdvocacyCorporation
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