Ted Zeppelin

Ted Zeppelin
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Just look at us. Everything is backwards, everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality and governments destroy freedom.” ― Michael Ellner ----------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during these years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government... The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." - David Rockefeller, Speaking in June, 1991 meeting in Baden, Germany"---------------------------- -"The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only 7 years of data and it isn't statistically significant." - UN Scientist Phil Jones to scientist John Christy July 5th 2005--------------------------------------

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OCTOBER 6, 2009 10:04PM

Note to Congress - Shit Or Get Off The Can

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At what point are the Democrats going to actually do what they were elected to do? Get us out of Iraq? Give us a public option, if not single payer? Turn back spying and torture, close Gitmo, or at least imprison Carrot Top there? Dude, where's my Bill of Rights?

The corporations getting bailed out are now reporting profits and giving it to stockholders, awarding themselves savory bonuses, with no accountability. We have a Federal Reserve who refuses to let us know what they are doing with our money. We have a top tax rate only a billionaire could love.

The country moved left and Congress moved right? Why even call yourself Democrats? That's just false advertising. How about HMO spokespersons? War profiteers best friends? Blackwater lobbyists? Bankers bedfellows? Tax shelters for the rich and famous?

Change parties or represent your voters, you fucking spineless failures.

Are there enough women in congress? The only ones in congress with balls are Marcy Kaptur and Ron Paul so I assume there must be. The rest might as well go on vacation. You're weak. How can you control both houses and the Presidency and essentially do nothing? Here's how it works, you agree to some opponents bill, they bend on yours, regardless of party. Do I have to tell anyone how it works? Or is it a fixed contest? Are we watching an elaborate script, where one party shouts and drools, the other pretends to be offended?

Leave the middle class alone and go after the top 1%. We need a balanced budget, so where is that trillion going to come from? Me? Fuck that. CEOs make 500 times their average employee. Where is the 50 trillion Medicare Medicaid Obligation going to come from, or the other 25 trillion your own General Accounting Office predicts?

At what point are you going to tell hospitals they can't charge you or anyone else $50,000 for an operation before the whole country slides off into the Atlantic, weighted down by unpayable debt, ripe for a one world police state owned by the World Bank?

We already have Republicans. Shit or get off of the can.

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These two are on the opposite side of the aisle but the few I actually trust.
Ted Zeppelin
October 06, 2009 10:35 PM
Marcy Kaptur should run in 2o12. Obama's got brains and no balls, Macys got brains and.....uh you get the picture.
Ted Zeppelin
October 06, 2009 10:44 PM
"Do I have to tell anyone how it works? Or is it a fixed contest? Are we watching an elaborate script, where one party shouts and drools, the other pretends to be offended?"

You already know the answer. Why are you surprised? They *are* answering to their constituencies and working exceedingly hard to give them precisely what they want.

If you want to have an effective government in the U.S., you have to hit them where it hurts-- start boycotting some major corporations. That'd be my suggestion for a good first start.
mr e
October 07, 2009 05:16 AM
Gimmee 1956 for tax rates.......that was a GREAT friggin' year. (guess why? I'll just tell you. As a newborn, I was virtually exempt, seeing as that I had no job other than sleeping and pooping.....which are some of my favorite activities now, now that I think about it.)

I love love loved the chart! And I would love love love to see it plastered across FOX and CNN, but what are the odds? I could embrace the false charge of "Tax and Spend" if we could actually still tax at that rate.

Let's all hope that Obama finds his balls soon. (Note to Obama: "Look in the sack.")

Rated, because I was able to work in the image of a ballsack in this comment!
Ginny Rose
October 07, 2009 05:18 AM
We could at least go back to a 50% top rate for a while.
Ted Zeppelin
October 07, 2009 08:18 AM
Note how taxes have gone up in every major war, except two. Under the Bush presidencies. Sure, spend trillions and cut top tax rates. If they want a war, the top 1% should fund the thing, considering the fact that they own congress.
Ted Zeppelin
October 07, 2009 08:22 AM
"the top 1% should fund the thing, considering the fact that they own congress."

I'm sure with you there!
mr e
October 07, 2009 12:10 PM
Totally righteous rant here.
spotted_mind
October 07, 2009 01:49 PM
You know how I know Obama isn't from Kenya? He doesn't know how to haggle - We want a single payer. No. Okay, a public option. No. Okay, then nothing. No, we want you to force people to buy insurance. Ok, but you drive a hard bargain. Whah?
Ted Zeppelin
October 07, 2009 09:54 PM