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“If you forget the past, you’re a dumb ass, Barack.” Mr. President: please select A or B. We will make it easy for you since you seem to have a severe learning disability. ALL of them are false. ____If a bully keeps beating on you, if you say to him: “You may have a point. You can have my lunch money this time,” he will never bother you again ____ If the opposition wins by claiming you won’t work with them while they won’t work with you: even proudly calls themselves “the party of ‘no,’” once they win they will work with you. ____Both are true.
To ARMS! Gas-station manager Yavuz Erdogan shows how he fended off attackers. Picture by Victor Alcorn Written by Kiernan Crowley for The NY Post A retired NYPD cop and his sons beat a Long Island gas-station manager with American flags on Election Night, telling the Turkish immigrant to “get out of my country,” authorities and witnesses said.
HERD ABOUT IT? by Ana Grarian Today is a good day. It’s chilly and rainy but it’s still a good day. For once the political news is heartwarming. No, I’m not talking about the elections. Today I learned that, thanks to the tireless work of a group of its citizens, the CNY town of Schroeppel, facing a building campaign for a 72K head cattle feedlot/ethanol plant/slaughterhouse development project has rescinded its resolution to work with the BION corporation, Ah. People can make a difference. When faced with the concern of respectful, well informed, dedicated citizens, local government can be reponsive. Schroeppel, NY – Nearly one year ago, the Schroeppel town board voiced its support for the construction of a huge 72,000-cow meat processing and ethanol production facility in the town. But tonight, the board voted unanimously to rescind its resolution to work with Bion Environmental Technologies. Now – all is not won, and folks will need to stay on top of their game. This does not mean that BION cannot proceed with plans for this project. It means that the town has not resolved to support the project until it sees and approves of concrete plans for the project. Up…
“The NEW Beverly Hillbillies” Copyright 2009 Joanne Fiorito Let me tell you of a story ’bout a man named Dick He held some closed door sessions, that’ll make the public sick. He took off one day just a-frackin’ for some crude and up through the ground came his troublin’ goo. Tight Gas – that is, Neo-Gold, Cheney’s Tea Well before Y’all knew it – ole Dick’s a billionaire, Nearly broke Halliburton, it gave him quite a scare. So he fashioned all the politics to see his vision through. And now all our lands are about to get screwed. Soiled – that is, Cesspools, Lands scarred. Now’s the time to say good bye to Dick and all his crew. We have to stop him in his tracks, before we all turn blue. It’s time to uninvite this cuss from this vicinity Or we’ll all become the owners of – the land of misery Y’all go away now, Y’hear!
By W.B. Dunne This one goes out to the youngsters out there who have only begun to experience the political process in America. The ones who voted Obama into office and are now seeing the correction for the first time in these midterms: The Democrats won in a landslide in 2010 for the first time ever in a midterm election, and the fact that there is a “Speaker Boehner” on November third is due to a Supreme Court decision, the Koch Brothers, Fox News, the US Chamber of Commerce, and Karl Rove. The NP reminds the young voter that the great court supported the corrupted GOP with its Citizens United decision, allowing for unlimited and undisclosed money from corporations and foreign interests in the campaign. The unintended consequence was that it helped the Tea Party candidates too, and that fact threatens to split the right wing in the House of Representatives. A silver lining for Progressives if ever there was one! Hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign interference has bought the corporate masters precious little. Speaker Boehner will get what he always wanted and was promised long ago, the mantle of Head of the GOP Majority, but it will…
