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Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break." - haonion hakodesh
let america be
Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
(There's never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
I am the young man, full of strength and hope, Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land! Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay! Of owning everything for one's own greed!
I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil. I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all. I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--
Hungry yet today despite the dream. Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead, The poorest worker bartered through the years.
Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true, That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas In search of what I meant to be my home--
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore, And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came To build a "homeland of the free."
The free?
Who said the free? Not me? Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike? The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay-- Except the dream that's almost dead today.
O, let America be America again-- The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free. The land that's mine–the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME–
Who made America, Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain, Must bring back our mighty dream again.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose-- The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America!
O, yes, I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath-- America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again!
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by Poster Boy
how the system works
And here is our man Ron Paul, breaking it down for the dumb fuckers that were unable to get it the 1st time around.
ad mosai?
Medical Journal Touts 17,000 Pot-Related Studies Jerusalem, Israel: Cannabis is one of the most studied plants on the planet, according to a review published in the September issue of the journal Medicinal Research Reviews. "Research on the chemistry and pharmacology of cannabinoids and endocannabinoids has reached enormous proportions," the journal states. "[A]pproximately 15,000 articles on Cannabis sativa L. and cannabinoids and over 2,000 articles on endocannabinoids" are available in the scientific literature. Commenting on the review NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano said, "Opponents of marijuana law reform - including those who oppose the therapeutic use of cannabis - are fond of claiming that further study of marijuana is necessary before we can amend current law. Yet in reality, cannabis is arguably the most investigated plant on Earth. It's clear that it's politics, not science, that is driving the criminal prohibition of cannabis and unfortunately the publication of another dozen - or even a thousand - studies is not going to change this reality." -NORML
Zadik Dorainu - Ron Paul
The financial meltdown the economists of the Austrian School predicted hasarrived. We are in this crisis because of an excess of artificially created credit atthe hands of the Federal Reserve System. The solution being proposed? Moreartificial credit by the Federal Reserve. No liquidation of bad debt andmalinvestment is to be allowed. By doing more of the same, we will onlycontinue and intensify the distortions in our economy - all the capitalmisallocation, all the malinvestment - and prevent the market's attempt tore-establish rational pricing of houses and other assets. Last night the president addressed the nation about the financial crisis.There is no point in going through his remarks line by line, since I'd onlybe repeating what I've been saying over and over - not just for the pastseveral days, but for years and even decades. Still, at least a few observations are necessary. The president assures us that his administration "is working with Congressto address the root cause behind much of the instability in our markets."Care to take a guess at whether the Federal Reserve and its money creationspree were even mentioned? We are told that "low interest rates" led to excessive borrowing, but we are not told how these low interest rates came about. They were a deliberatepolicy of the Federal Reserve. As always, artificially low interest ratesdistort the market. Entrepreneurs engage in malinvestments - investmentsthat do not make sense in light of current resource availability, that occurin more temporally remote stages of the capital structure than the patternof consumer demand can support, and that would not have been made at all ifthe interest rate had been permitted to tell the truth instead of beingtoyed with by the Fed. Not a word about any of that, of course, because Americans might thendiscover how the great wise men in Washington caused this great debacle.Better to keep scapegoating the mortgage industry or "wildcat capitalism"(as if we actually have a pure free market!). Speaking about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the president said: "Becausethese companies were chartered by Congress, many believed they wereguaranteed by the federal government. This allowed them to borrow enormoussums of money, fuel the market for questionable investments, and put ourfinancial system at risk." Doesn't that prove the foolishness of chartering Fannie and Freddie in thefirst place? Doesn't that suggest that maybe, just maybe, government mayhave contributed to this mess? And of course, by bailing out Fannie andFreddie, hasn't the federal government shown that the "many" who "believedthey were guaranteed by the federal government" were in fact correct? Then come the scare tactics. If we don't give dictatorial powers to theTreasury Secretary "the stock market would drop even more, which would reduce the value of your retirement account. The value of your home couldplummet." Left unsaid, naturally, is that with the bailout and all the moneyand credit that must be produced out of thin air to fund it, the value ofyour retirement account will drop anyway, because the value of the dollarwill suffer a precipitous decline. As for home prices, they are obviouslymuch too high, and supply and demand cannot equilibrate if governmentinsists on propping them up. It's the same destructive strategy that government tried during the GreatDepression: prop up prices at all costs. The Depression went on for over adecade. On the other hand, when liquidation was allowed to occur in theequally devastating downturn of 1921, the economy recovered within less thana year. The president also tells us that Senators McCain and Obama will join him atthe White House today in order to figure out how to get the bipartisanbailout passed. The two senators would do their country much more good ifthey stayed on the campaign trail debating who the bigger celebrity is, orwhatever it is that occupies their attention these days. F.A. Hayek won the Nobel Prize for showing how central banks' manipulationof interest rates creates the boom-bust cycle with which we are sadlyfamiliar. In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, he described thefoolish policies being pursued in his day - and which are being proposed,just as destructively, in our own: Instead of furthering the inevitable liquidation of the maladjustmentsbrought about by the boom during the last three years, all conceivable meanshave been used to prevent that readjustment from taking place; and one ofthese means, which has been repeatedly tried though without success, fromthe earliest to the most recent stages of depression, has been thisdeliberate policy of credit expansion. To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to curethe evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are sufferingfrom a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -a procedure that can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as thecredit expansion comes to an end… It is probably to this experiment,together with the attempts to prevent liquidation once the crisis had come,that we owe the exceptional severity and duration of the depression. The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learnfrom history. The very people who have spent the past several years assuring us that theeconomy is fundamentally sound, and who themselves foolishly cheered theextension of all these novel kinds of mortgages, are the ones who now claimto be the experts who will restore prosperity! Just how spectacularly wrong,how utterly without a clue, does someone have to be before his expert statusis called into question? Oh, and did you notice that the bailout is now being called a "rescue plan"?I guess "bailout" wasn't sitting too well with the American people. The very people who with somber faces tell us of their deep concern for thespread of democracy around the world are the ones most insistent on forcinga bill through Congress that the American people overwhelmingly oppose. Thevery fact that some of you seem to think you're supposed to have a voice inall this actually seems to annoy them. *I continue to urge you to contact your representatives and give them apiece of your mind.* I myself am doing everything I can to promote thecorrect point of view on the crisis. Be sure also to educate yourselves onthese subjects - the Campaign for Liberty blog is an excellent place tostart. Read the posts, ask questions in the comment section, and learn. H.G. Wells once said that civilization was in a race between education andcatastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as ourcircumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
THIS IS FOR YIUSH
from your favorite news source http://tinyurl.com/3f7yxn with a hat tip to Schmorgel (van Borgel)
the dangers of bread
here are experts of why your fucked
Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.
Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 240 degrees Celsius! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
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