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Terrible Grief.....Dale Dapkins

- This mail is in HTML. Some elements may be ommited in plain text. - Good morning, I Hope you get this on time, I made a trip to Istanbul and had my bag stolen from me with my passport and personal effects therein. The embassy has just issued me a temporary passport but i have to take care of my expenses and settle my hotel bills with the manager. I have made contact with my bank but it would take me 3-5 working days to access funds in my account, the bad news is my flight will be leaving very soon but i am having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won't let me leave until i settle the bills. I need your help financially and i promise to make the refund once i get back home, you are my last resort and hope. Please let me know if i can count on you and i need you to keep checking your email because it's the only way i can reach you. Kind regards, Dale Dapkins

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@ samsteinhp : couple mentions now from Romney of obama being a community organizer

Romney Emphasizes Obama's Community Organizer Background so . .  working with the community is bad? And looting the retirements of life-long workers like Bain Capital did is good?

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@ samsteinhp : couple mentions now from Romney of obama being a community organizer

Romney Emphasizes Obama's Community Organizer Background

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Abe Lincoln

Is the Obama Presidency a repeat of the Abe Lincoln victory over slavery. . .  Technically and legislatively a stunning victory?  But, like the Lincoln emancipation will it be followed by a generation of right-wing hatred-inspired reaction? Just look at the posts here. Then ask Mitch McConnell, John Boener, DeMint, Eric Cantor and, except for Huntsman, all the Republican candidates

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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT U.S. HISTORY

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY- a 2 page account.

  Around the year 1500 some pretty vicious Englishmen heard about a new continent up for grabs. America they called it. Hell, it was owned by a bunch of aborigines . .  never even heard of gunpowder. “What the Hell, let’s go for it!” they said. So, Puritans came over in boatloads. England was glad to get rid of them. And surprisingly enough, after a century they prospered. And by the 1700s they were doing so well England tried to impose unacceptable taxes on what had now become a thriving colony.  The Americans, as they called themselves, rebelled against these taxes and were punished often such as in in the Boston Massacre. Tit for tat the colonists said, and held the Boston Tea Party (compare with today’s t- party) In short order the colonies fell into open rebellion ending with the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and ultimately The Constitution.

America busied themselves during the 1800s expanding westward and killing off buffalo and native Americans until the 1860s when Lincoln picked a fight at Ft. Sumter and started the civil war. Oh Baby, the carnage and hatred they spawned! Didn’t the colonies just get done asserting States’ rights in breaking away from England? And didn’t the states sign various pacts when they joined the union stating they had the right to secede when and if they wanted? (Read “The Real Lincoln” by Delorenzo) Anyway, the carnage and clean-up from the Civil War and the rapid industrialization of the Northern states occupied America until the 1920s.  American industrialization and corporate abuse of the American worker became an issue. America’s workers rose up like ten million beaten dogs crying “enough is enough” and spawning an effective union movement which still exists. The Great depression of 1929 was brought about by the same type of unregulated speculation that recently ruined the American economy. It exacerbated the ongoing class warfare where the rich lined up on one side hoping to subjugate the workers while doing everything in their power to stop all social programs, safety nets, social security, consumer rights, Medicare etc. To the disgust of conservatives, Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932 and enacted a massive stimulus program which provided millions of jobs and put the country back on its feet. By the way, if you want a litmus test about a person’s political position witness their disgust level upon mentioning Franklin Roosevelt’s name. Meanwhile, over in Europe, war took over until 1945. America and Japan got dragged in.  After winning the war on all fronts America emerged as the only intact nation and enjoyed great prosperity. Within America, however, cancerous conservative elements led by Senator Joe McCarthy were hard at work declaring anyone who had progressive thoughts to be a communist sympathizer. It is ironic that McCarthy’s type of thinking was identical to Hitler’s thinking which we fought and died to end. Eventually McCarthy and his blacklists ended in disgrace. Dwight Eisenhower warned of the Military Industrial complex but no one listened because there was too much money to be made off war. Some say this is why we got involved in Vietnam. The Vietnam War became a crucial dividing issue in American politics. The military industrial complex was aware that if they wedded Patriotism to war (weather the war was good, bad, or fought just for money ) they could count on the support of a high number of Patriotic Americans who refused to believe Defense contractors would be so cynical as to send America’s sons to die in battle just so the contractors could make a buck. College kids drafted to fight Big Money’s Vietnam War rebelled against the wars’ immorality.   Protests rocked and divided the country. Like the Civil war, brother turned against brother. .  father against son. The schism became permanent and America became divided down the middle. Under President Clinton we saw prosperity as the computer age fired up the economy. Despite the dot com bubble the country prospered and segued into the real estate bubble driven by Goldman Sachs, Alan Greenspan, and Wall Street bankers who paid the American Congress to deregulate everything standing in the way of making obscene amounts of money off derivatives. Bankers conspired to sell out municipalities and retirement funds. Being American was reduced to making money – under the guise of “capitalism.” The economy collapsed but not before the top 1% of Americans. .  the very rich secured the bulk of America’s wealth and parked it offshore.  Globalization was the final nail in American Manufacturing as massive outsourcing set American workers on a collision course with those on the very bottom of the world’s wage ladder overseas. The Corporation owners felt that Unions had been holding back American profits ever since the New Deal.  The Koch Brothers and their ilk bought America’s Congress and Supreme Court and perhaps, most important, America’s airwaves. Bush, Cheney and Rove broke the country’s back by eliminating taxes for the rich while involving us in an unpaid war in Iraq. Obama got elected after Bush drove the country into a tree and the Republicans have been laying roadside bombs for him ever since. Republicans hi-jacked and harnessed the teaparty to their undo-engine to finally undo the programs they hate like Medicare and social security. 

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WHINE SAMPLING AT THE GOP DEBATE

WHINE SAMPLING AT THE GOP debates -

Our first sampling is the Texas vineyard Rick Perry whine which offers those who have never sampled it before whiffs of stunning ineptitude. It is not, however, without the spicy secondary aroma of jailhouse death tinged with . .  Is that a stale racism? A bright bungling bouquet lurks in the background but surely comes charging to the forefront when pressured. . . not unlike the stumble-berry sleepy taste made famous by George W. and the Bush men.

Herman Cain whines a smooth tomato -butter into feminine ears. His spikey cat’s tongue shimmers silvery oregano but warning! It can be a bit scarry to the ladies. But are they titillated? Wasn’t it Poki Mon who said  that every woman loves a Tyrant? A second sip offers up telltale dark smoky musk oxes of forbidden media forays crashing amid the unmistakable after-taste of abuse.  And that tangy twangy 9 9 9 -  who don’t like that?   

Eye of Newt. Deep earthy swamp muck . .  The heady moan and low cynical snap-back  of musty thousand dollar bills buried in basements since Nixon’s demise. This whine can turn on a dime. 

Next up - the Nasal twangy whine of Michelle Bachman flying, smiling free and giddy above factual restraint. . . Tie downs that keep  most Americans grounded in reality.  Is that a hint of logic? No.

Can you taste the famous New Hampshire concord grape?

A sip of the Huntsman - a frightened whine of a once brave man in shock and awe at his surroundings. Aged in Chinese casks. His supplicating whine for reason is cute but fails to inspire. His tentative smile telegraphs something totally out of place. Whine for reason? Whine for logic? Whine for a reasonable appeal to what’s left of the American Republican public. Can he possibly learn to appeal to the zombie walking dead keenings of possessed overweight women dressed in Betsy Ross outfits spitting and hissing. Do I taste tears of frustration?

Rick Santorum’s bouquet of stale  and perhaps frustrated sex whines has your old grandfather’s closet gut appeal to the  prudish element. Victorian oak barrel-aged. If you listen carefully you can hear the sound of opportunity and birth control being flushed away. 

Last - Who can pin down the magical Mitt Romney elixir? Only the finest noses should even try. The Romney whine is so fleeting and elusive. It’s like a chameleon’s cry echoing across some endless Utah canyon . . . as difficult to see as a stick bug on a branch.  . . as hard to pin down as an octopus changing  color in each of its eight arms independently. Fantastic! The Romney whine has been compared to the 40 distinct bird calls sung by the sweet mockingbird. Yet the Romney whine fails to soothe a seething  Republican base. 

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Big Whitey (Mitch)

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kia

I took my fragile life in my hands by suspending gravity with my positroid shoes and  visiting Earth. It was worth the risk because I made a friend. This new friend was visiting Washington like me. I believe she was an entertainer because of the funny clothing she wore – tea bags hanging off her tall red, white and blue striped hat. Her name was Kia. Apparently she had journeyed all the way from Florida to tell her Senator (who had government health care but didn’t want others to have government health care) that even though she had and liked her government health care (Medicare) she was against government health care. . . and that she was very angry at the government for trying to save the economy and the earth and whatever trees and whales they might save. My friend Kia made it clear she did not like the government telling her what to do and she was in Washington to instead encourage her Senator to tell immoral people what to do.  She whispered that “government” was the problem and she wanted it to shrink except in those cases where it might stop certain kinds of marriage and abortion and prayer in schools and what a person can smoke or drink or . . . there was a long list of things she wanted the government to grow larger and carry guns and get more involved in until she began to cry as she sang My Country t’is of thee.  And me, being so sentimental, I cried on her shoulder upon which she said she’d show me her gun if I showed her my positroid.  I think I’ve told you too much.

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The American way. . . Republican American!

I flew down to Earth and talked with Boner. . . a Republican leader of some sort. Here's what he said, "Okay, we know it’s true – our guy Bush crashed the car.  Okay, some of us Republicans had a hand in it. Okay, it was all of us? But if you think we’re going to give up power and just disappear you’re crazy. This is where the money is. . . Washington! Who was it said “There is no such thing as politics. .  just a bunch of  greedy jackels pulling meat off a carcass!” Okay, that carcass is America. Yeah, it is unfortunate that carcass metaphor is a little too close to the truth, but that’s the way the . . . You see where we’re going here don’t you? We have to make your guy Obama crash the car. Does it matter that we crash the country for good? Hey, we’re in the toilet buddy! We got to do what we gotta do.We got to say no – stand in the way of everything you dems try to do. .  that’s right, even if what you want to do is good for the country! We have to make you fail. That’s the American way."

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Minimum wage? Then a Maximum wage too!

Here’s how it looks from out here orbiting the Sun this day – an August Monday. Okay, I have only one eye, but it’s a big one and it’s compound which allows me to examine your country from different angles.  Here’s the thing. If you Americans can have a minimum wage then you can have a maximum wage. I know that Republicans and people earning obscene amounts of money frighten you. In fact when they hear this plan they will probably kill you. But be honest now. .  almost everthing frightens Americans nowdays. And of course, it’s always easier to just let things drift along as they are.  But here are the advantages of instituting a maximum yearly earnings wage of, say, 2 million dollars. Anyone, if they try hard enough, can manage to squeak by on 2 million. Corporations, Non Profits, and banks, now unable to pay top executives obscene salaries would have to use the excess money for research and development, salaries for workers, and health care and day care for workers.  These top execs, now making 40. . . 50 million a year would be allowed to pick and choose exactly which charitable organization they want the excess money given to. And it would be given in their name! Once the MAXIMUM WAGE has been instituted then a flat rate income tax of 3% can become effective. How can conservatives argue with that? Well, I’m going into t Martian dust storm so that’s all for now.

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The S-word

Earthlings! Do not run from the S- word! Secession! Sometimes the differences are just too great between your tribes! It appears you have 2 tribes on Planet America – conservative and liberal. And you are lucky. Conservatives tend to gather and procreate and drink brewski in blocks of what you call states like Louisanna, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Missippi, Nebraska, Texas and Oklahoma. Liberals live  and do Starbucks in New England and California, Oregon and Washington. Don’t you see? It’s already done naturally.  Perhaps it’s in the drinking water. You don’t really have to do much. Liberals – you  want health care, medicare, social secutiry. Conservatives - you want guns, God, and no government. You can be good neighbors. It works with America and Canada. You can be friends. You don’t have to sleep in the same bed together anymore! Think of how lovely that would be!

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America in danger from stupidity!

Earthlings in America are in grave danger from those with overdeveloped reptillian amigdalas whose logic centers have been disabled by a rogue Neanderthal gene left over from millions of years prior when a few of them (some say it was more than a few)  disobeyed Doggod and had sex with Neanderthals. Now an inherited logic disabler gene makes it impossible for about half of them to think logically. They respond to things spoken in a deep male voice (especially truck ads) or a snide female voice delivered with a smirk/smile. This recessive Neanderthal gene seems to be the only explanation for members of the same family to have totally opposite political views. Good luck earth!

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just adding to email list

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I watch with horror as the human Americans are coated with emotional mist and actually consider giving the wealthiest of their kind more tax breaks. Is this is part of the ongoing evolution of their species - the re-emergence of their Neanderthal recessive gene?