It's All About Me, Man: 04/15/2007

Saturday, April 21, 2007

[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: Franklin D. Roosevelt & Social Securit

Apparently some of this is true, and some of it isn't (see
http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/sschanges.asp for a rundown on
the many inaccuracies of this piece of net lore)

but it seems sort of silly to quibble over details when Republican
administrations since Nixon forward have been an ongoing criminal
enterprise of astonishing violence and corruption. Conservatives have
long been driven from the party; Former Reagan Administration member,
Wall Street Journal editorial page editor and staff writer for the
National Review Paul Craig Roberts has been calling the Bushite
Neocons (nothing either new or conservative about them, it's just a
recapitulation of National Socialism) brownshirts for some time now.

The Democrats refusal to stand against this evil is the biggest
complaint I have against them these days.

On 4/21/07, Rick REED RxR <arexar3@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> [n3ish@comcast.net] wrote:
> : Franklin D. Roosevelt & Social Security
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Don Powell
> To: n3ish@comcast.net
> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 4:14 PM
> Subject: FW: : Franklin D. Roosevelt & Social Security
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> From: Stan Paher [mailto:spaher@sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:24 PM
> To: white sage studio
> Subject: : Franklin D. Roosevelt & Social Security
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Here is a story I received today regarding the Social Security Program. I
> Hope you will read this and think about it.
> _____________________________________________
>
> Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA)
> Program. He promised:
>
> 1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary,
>
> 2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of
> their annual incomes into the Program,
>
> 3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would
> be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,
>
> 4.) That the money the participants put into the independent "Trust Fund"
> rather than into the General operating fund, and therefore, would
> only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no
> other Government program, and,
>
> 5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as
> income
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a
> Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are
> getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to
> "put away" -- you may be interested in the following:
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent "Trust
> Fund" and put it into the General fund so that Congress could
> spend it?
>
> A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and
> Senate.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social
> Security (FICA) withholding?
>
> A: The Democratic Party.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities????
>
> A: The Democratic Party, with Al Go re casting the "tie-breaking" deciding
> vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of
> the US.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to
> immigrants?
>
> This is MY FAVORITE:
>
> A: That's right! Jimmy Carter! And the Democratic Party of course!
> Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social
> Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to
> them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Then, after doing all this lying and thieving and violating of the
> original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that
> the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
>
> And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
> ==============================================
>
> If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted
> and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not!.. many Democrats are awfully sure
> of what isn't so!!
>
> But it's worth a try.
>
> Danny Ray & Cheryl Thomas
> Glow In The Dark Ranch
> HCR 69 Box 893
> Amargosa Valley, NV 89020
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: <n3ish@comcast.net>
> To: "Rick REED RxR" <arexar3@yahoo.com>
> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:54:31 -0400
> Subject: Fw: : Franklin D. Roosevelt & Social Security
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Don Powell
> To: n3ish@comcast.net
> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 4:14 PM
> Subject: FW: : Franklin D. Roosevelt & Social Security
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
>
> From: Stan Paher [mailto:spaher@sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:24 PM
> To: white sage studio
> Subject: : Franklin D. Roosevelt & Social Security
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Here is a story I received today regarding the Social Security Program. I
> Hope you will read this and think about it.
> _____________________________________________
>
> Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA)
> Program. He promised:
>
> 1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary,
>
> 2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of
> their annual incomes into the Program,
>
> 3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be
> deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,
>
> 4.) That the money the participants put into the independent "Trust Fund"
> rather than into the General operating fund, and therefore, would
> only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no
> other Government program, and,
>
> 5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a
> Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are
> getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to "put
> away" -- you may be interested in the following:
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent "Trust
> Fund" and put it into the General fund so that Congress could
> spend it?
>
> A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social
> Security (FICA) withholding?
>
> A: The Democratic Party.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities????
>
> A: The Democratic Party, with Al Go re casting the "tie-breaking" deciding
> vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of
> the US.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to
> immigrants?
>
> This is MY FAVORITE:
>
> A: That's right! Jimmy Carter! And the Democratic Party of course!
> Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social
> Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to
> them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Then, after doing all this lying and thieving and violating of the original
> contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that
> the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
>
> And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
> ==============================================
>
> If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and
> maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not!.. many Democrats are awfully sure of
> what isn't so!!
>
> But it's worth a try.
>
>
> Danny Ray & Cheryl Thomas
> Glow In The Dark Ranch
> HCR 69 Box 893
> Amargosa Valley, NV 89020
>
>
>
>

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Friday, April 20, 2007

[CanYoAssDigIt] Those crazy kids with their campus fads...

Swollowing Goldfish, stuffing themselves into phone booths, panty
raids, shooting up their campus....

In the wake of the horrific beyond imagining shootings in Virginia,
there has been a rash of hoaxes and thwarted real plans for attack
across the country.

what the fuck is wrong with these little shits?

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: [OregonDems_etc] Fwd: Time for PBS to Go?

another outrage, looks like the straw that broke Robert Parry's back...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kathleen Bushman < sassykathy46@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 20, 2007 2:14 PM
Subject: [OregonDems_etc] Fwd: Time for PBS to Go?
To: " OregonDems_etc@yahoogroups.com" < OregonDems_etc@yahoogroups.com>

My fellow Portland activist and friend writes: "National Public Radio is the liberal voice of the right wing conspiracy."

On 4/20/07, Russ wrote:

National Public Radio is the liberal voice of the right wing conspiracy.

Kathleen Bushman wrote:
I have noticed that PBS has become increasingly conservative - but this is really disturbing.

On 4/19/07, sissonltd@comcast.net <sissonltd@comcast.net> wrote:

Time for PBS to Go?

By Robert Parry
April 19, 2007

PBS is broadcasting what amounts to a neoconservative propaganda series entitled "America at a Crossroads," which has included a full hour info-mercial for George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq written and narrated by Richard Perle, one of the war's architects.

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The Perle segment, entitled "The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom," treated anti-war Americans as deranged individuals. Perle, though known as the "prince of darkness," spoke in a quiet almost regretful tone, expressing disappointment that "conspiracy theories" and hatred of Bush had blinded so many people to the rightness of the Iraq War.

To show examples of these pathetic anti-war lunatics, the PBS program included short clips of actors Martin Sheen and Tim Robbins while Perle did a voice-over that talked about them like a psychiatrist who sadly saw no choice but to sign commitment papers.

The implication of the PBS program was that there was only one reasonable and moral conclusion, which was to support President Bush wholeheartedly in his invasion of Iraq and his conduct of the "war on terror."

PBS officials also have declared that they see no reason to give a similar length of time to opponents of the Iraq War. Indeed, Jeff Bieber, an executive producer at PBS's Washington affiliate WETA, endorsed the right-wing bias of "The Case for War" as an opportunity for PBS to "showcase a conservative viewpoint."

Beyond the journalistic violation represented in such an acknowledged bias, the history of the series reveals a willingness of PBS to transform itself into a compliant propaganda organ for the Bush administration and the congressional Republicans.

PBS's parent, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, commissioned the neoconservative series a couple of years ago when the Republicans controlled all branches of the U.S. government and the Bush administration dominated the information reaching the American people, from Fox News to the New York Times.

So, instead of offering an outlet for the widely ignored Americans who questioned Bush's Iraq invasion, PBS chose to go with the flow and join with the powers-that-be in taking cheap shots at war critics.

"America at a Crossroads" was financed directly by CPB, a quasi-public institution which used both tax dollars and contributions from "viewers like you" to pay for the avowedly pro-Bush series.

The original idea was to air "America at a Crossroads" before Election 2006, possibly around the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, all the better to help ensure continued Republican one-party control of the federal government.

But production delays and internal PBS disputes pushed the broadcast date back to April 2007. Now, the series is helping energize Bush's supporters to fight Democratic proposals for setting a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.

Decline of PBS

PBS has been sinking into this pattern of corrupt behavior for years, especially after the Right took aim at public broadcasting in the 1980s and early 1990s. CPB was intended to insulate PBS from political pressure, but the Reagan administration began a systematic process of salting the board with partisan Republicans and neocon ideologues.

By reshaping the CPB board, Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush turned CPB from its original purpose as a shield to defend professionalism at PBS into a weapon for breaking down the network's editorial independence. Simultaneously well-funded right-wing pressure groups went after individual PBS journalists and programs.

When I worked for the PBS documentary series "Frontline" in the early 1990s, I saw this process first-hand, as CPB and PBS increasingly bent to Republican pressure. At one PBS conference, Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan gave a keynote speech trashing "Frontline" – and few PBS executives dared come to the program's defense.

After Republicans gained control of Congress in 1994 and targeted PBS funding, the network twisted itself more to the Right, hoping to appease the angry Republicans by adding more and more conservative content while taking for granted the bedrock support of the Democrats and liberals.

This PBS dynamic had become second nature by the second Bush administration – and grew more entrenched after 2002 when Republicans gained control of all branches of the federal government. The few PBS holdouts, like Bill Moyers, were soon isolated and pushed toward the door.

Even when the invasion of Iraq turned sour and more prominent Americans began to speak up, CPB and PBS knew to rush to Bush's defense. To correct for supposed "liberal bias," CPB ordered up and funded the "America at a Crossroads" series.

In that sense, "America at a Crossroads" – and especially Perle's "The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom" segment – has the look of Pravda during the Soviet era when the Russian people could learn what dissidents had to say mostly by reading between the lines of Pravda denouncing them.

The Perle-narrated program – and PBS's disdain for the idea of giving equal time to the other side – had that kind of feel to it.

The likes of Martin Sheen and Tim Robbins were held up as enemies of the state, either disloyal or crazy. However, Perle still managed to present himself as the victim, noting that Robbins had written a play in which a character modeled after Perle was the bad guy.

Neocon Narrative

Perle also offered an uncontested neocon narrative of recent American history. In Perle's narrative, liberals and other weak-minded people believed that the Soviet Union was invincible until Ronald Reagan told Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down that wall" and the Soviet empire collapsed.

After the program aired on April 17, I got a call from a former CIA analyst who was stunned by both the sophomoric quality of Perle's narrative and PBS's willingness to put such nonsense on its network. The ex-analyst noted that Perle was one of the hardliners who had opposed Reagan's arms-control talks with Gorbachev near the end of Reagan's term.

Beyond that, a true historical narrative would have shown that CIA analysts were aware of the disintegrating Soviet empire by the early-to-mid-1970s, but they were challenged and bureaucratically defeated by the neocons who argued that the Soviet Union was on the rise both economically and militarily, thus justifying bigger U.S. military budgets.

The neocon-led politicization of the CIA during the Reagan years resulted in the purging of the CIA's top Soviet specialists and thus the silencing of dissent against the neocon alarmist view of expanding Soviet power.

The politicization caused the CIA to "miss" the Soviet collapse in the late 1980s. Ironically, the neocons then ridiculed the CIA's analytical division and claimed credit for the "unexpected" demise of the Soviet Union. [For details, see Robert Parry's Secrecy & Privilege .]

But the question now is what to do about PBS.

Why should American liberals and the Democratic Party continue to support an entity that has surrendered its journalistic principles and treats as crazy the two-thirds of the public that now opposes Bush's Iraq War?

There might have been an argument for supporting PBS news programs if they could be protected from government financial pressure. But once the Republicans learned that they could wrest journalistic concessions from PBS by threatening its money, PBS changed unavoidably into a government propaganda agency.

During the unified Republican control of the federal government from 2003 to 2006, that PBS reality solidified, best represented today by the "America at a Crossroads" series. PBS is still responding to its Republican masters even though they no longer control Congress.

Given the 3,300 dead American soldiers and the widespread recognition that the Iraq War has been a disaster, what should be said about a corrupt and propagandistic entity like PBS that still is willing to carry water even if its timing is a little off?

What should be done with a news outlet that has demonstrated that it will sell its journalistic integrity for money?

One possibility is for PBS contributors to express their disgust by either cutting off donations or at least demanding back a percentage of what they've already given. At least that might show CPB board members and PBS executives that there is a price to pay for selling out journalistic principles.

Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book, Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, can be ordered at secrecyandprivilege.com. It's also available at Amazon.com, as is his 1999 book, Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth.'

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: [canadianclassicrock] A moving video and song

"They died the most noble death a man may die, fighting for God and right and liberty. and such a death is immortality."

I wonder how many virgins they were promised?

Just kidding, we're not like those monkeys over there. Those monkeys are CRAZY!

I like the message directly above the video window.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: J. Lawrence Ingles < drjingles@rogers.com>
Date: Apr 19, 2007 8:20 AM
Subject: [canadianclassicrock] A moving video and song
To: canadianclassicrock@yahoogroups.com

http://ca.upyourmusic.yahoo.com/#v=110143

A moving video...
by shawn Hlookoff

and some others that are part of this MetalWorks
Institute
Yahoo contest...thing...

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

[CanYoAssDigIt] A friend request from 1RKO (First Round Knock Out)

This is how I respond to friend requests from bands on MySpace:

http://www.myspace.com/1rko

Subject: Your friend request

wow, awesome Sweet cover. Really kicks ass.

I'm only adding new bands if they are potential collaborators on
future musical projects.

Check us out at

www.soundclick.com/RemotePossibility.

and see if any of youze guys can imagine inhabiting the same musical
universe as us.

We are distinctly lacking in the guitar weedilly wee factor, you guys
have that goin on in a far out kind of way.

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Don't follow bleeders, watch the barking cheaters

Marilyn Manson
Get a taste of Marilyn Manson's upcoming album with the exclusive
brand new track "If I Was Your Vampire." Check out Single of the Week
under Myspace Exclusives for more information.

What's that supposed to mean? Then he'd be may asshole, instead of
somebody elses? I already have one asshole, I don't need another.

What a dipshit.

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[CanYoAssDigIt] My illustrious future in music...

I sent this email to Szymon Sayz at
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=436709

From: matt.mattlove1@gmail.com

To: Szymon Sayz

Subject: A Plan

Message: You play guitar, I play bass. I think we should approach
"I Am A Liar" (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=236741)
together about putting a performing unit together. Then when we start
to get somewhere, you can fire me and replace me with a younger
player, and I'll hang myself in the closet. Let me know what you
think.

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[CanYoAssDigIt] My new Soundclick friend.

I got a nice message from the good fellow that runs this page:

http://www.soundclick.com/members/default.cfm?member=timeless%20records

The message goes like this:

From: vance webster a.k.a timeless records

To: Matt Love a.k.a mattlove1

mattlove1, whats good? checkout your page,I liked what I heard and
saw, stop to show some respect. Have an awesome day! henry. P.S Our
new CD will be realesed on March 31,2007 (Timeless/ K.D)

I replied:

Thank you for checking in on me. I responded in kind, by checking out
your page. I also liked what I heard and saw, so I'm writing to you to
show some respect, too. You should also have an awesome day! I have no
new CDs coming out at this time.

****

I working on getting the lingo down. I think I'm honing in on it...

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It's All About Me, Man

Saturday, April 21, 2007

[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: Franklin D. Roosevelt & Social Securit

Friday, April 20, 2007

[CanYoAssDigIt] Those crazy kids with their campus fads...

[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: [OregonDems_etc] Fwd: Time for PBS to Go?

Thursday, April 19, 2007

[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: [canadianclassicrock] A moving video and song

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

[CanYoAssDigIt] A friend request from 1RKO (First Round Knock Out)

[CanYoAssDigIt] Don't follow bleeders, watch the barking cheaters

[CanYoAssDigIt] My illustrious future in music...

[CanYoAssDigIt] My new Soundclick friend.

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