Last minute YouTube clips; Barack Obama & John McCain & Truth

This is a pretty good Obama commercial in the form of an old beer ad:

Barackapella…a great rendition of “Yes We Can.”

John McCain vs. John McCain

Nothing better than a little Simpson’s to speak truth about power:

…and for truth TO power, the best of all time:

John McCain: Napoleonic Complex & a Crook at Heart

The two most important links you’ll ever click about John McCain are below. Please take the time to read one and watch the other.  One is an incredible article that details John being much like Bush in that he was a crappy soldier, but due to his father’s clout, he defied his own stupidity.  The other details that same stupidity in the Senate and his involvement in the 80’s Financial Crisis.  As Joe Biden said, what’s past is prologue…and John’s given us all we need to know about his past.  I guess if we elect John McCain, we could get his THIRD financial scandal?  Considering his chief financial advisor deregulated the current market allowing them to conduct business in a dangerous way, I’d say we could expect it to occur again.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

http://www.keatingeconomics.com/

The McCain Palin Lie Continues…

While Keith Olberman cuts checks for every Palin lie, the more astounding lie is hiding this unknown, inexperienced, possibly corrupt, religious radical (and any view of her lack of understanding of anything/everything) from the press.  Say whatever you want about Obama, but the guy has been vetted by the voters for two years now and still holds a lead on McCain.  Palin has done two interviews (if you can call Sean Hannity asking and answering questions for you an interview) and has now gone 24 days without a press conference (less than John McCain’s 40, but he has been around congress since personal computers were invented…not that those thirty years have encouraged him to learn how to use one).

Answer:  Palin and her bridge to nowhere buddy, Ted Stevens (who also thinks the Internet is a series of tubes…and George M. (he doesn’t deserve my respect) Bush and John McCain.  Question:  Who are four people who don’t believe in science and several (including a Presidential candidate who don’t understand what the Internet is).  John, you’ve got to learn Microsoft Windows before you’re allowed to control the WOPR.

Republicans Turn Election Into a Joke – Prey on the Gullible

Many people have focused on John McCain’s putting a woman on the ticket in an attempt to obtain disillusioned Hillary Clinton supporters.  However, the true motive behind the appointment was the selection by the Christian right someone to the ticket who wants to push creationism in the classroom, does not believe in global warming, and has no interest in protecting Alaska’s lands and is very interested in praying for the $30 billion pipeline for Alaska.  The fact that Sarah Palin is a naive former beauty queen an TV sports anchor just makes it even more difficult to have an actual debate without having others say you’re being condescending to the poor republican.

The truth of the matter is that neither Republican on the ticket has much brain power whatsoever, and will obviously be the puppets in the same game we’ve been living over and over.  If John McCain truly thought and wanted Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman, then how could he be forced to put Palin on the ticket unless he will also be controlled by Big Oil, Big War, and Big Religion in the future.

Unfortunately, it has become obvious that no matter how awful things become in this country due to its corrupt leaders, those who blindly believe in a false religion will also continue to vote for those same leaders out of hope that their religious beliefs will also be taught in our schools similar to those in the middle east.

Conclusion:  The only way to put an end to the stranglehold big corporations have on society is to put an end to the religion that allows those corporations to stay in power by those who vote blindly for their leaders as the believe blindly in a holy ghost in the sky.

Gather the strength to question your own belief and free your own mind along with yourself from being a slave to the corporations of this country.  Watch the below clips that are hilarious and enlightening at the same time.

Long but worth every second (well, actually you can skip past the first three or four minutes):

CNN & Time Warner Continue Slanted Coverage

CNN has been hiring republican pundits by the bushel to create biased news coverage and thus a close race. Why? A close race means more money donated for both candidates and therefore big advertising dollars when those candidates spend that cash.

CNN’s latest article headline on their tee-shirt news site, CNN.com, says Obama waiting to pick a VP has grown old, tired, and funny. Strange, it seemed to me neither candidate had picked a Vice Presidential running mate as of yet.  I’m sure they’d print the same thing about McCain, if Time Warner weren’t salivating at the prospect of keeping their 10% tax handout to corporations that Bush gave them and McCain has promised to keep.

The middle class of this country are falling behind to wage stagnation and cost of living increases, but the billion dollar corporations continue to get tax cuts at the hands of republicans.  All the while, the American people and the future generations of this country are taking a $400 billion loan from China to pay for a war to grab some oil for the corporations that love Bush and McCain the most.

CNN & Time Warner, anything for a buck.

Rublican Pundits Hired By CNN:

Beck, Snow, Holmes, Bennett, Sanchez…just for starters.

Big Oil Pollutes, Bribes, and Hijacks Its Place in Power

In 1989 the Exxon Corporation had one of it’s oil tankers wreck off of the coast of Alaska. Due to their negligence, they were convicted in a court of law of negligence and asked to pay $5 billion in punitive damages. After 20 years of appeals and reductions in the ruling, the Supreme Court, just a year into getting two new Bush appointees on the court, has reduced that ruling to $500 million.

Think about that for a moment. At the time of the ruling, the judge in question determined that a company needed to pay one full year’s worth of profit so that they would be incented to never again commit the crime of killing wildlife and forever polluting some of America’s most beautiful habitat due to being so grossly negligent as to put a drunk at the wheel of a boat carrying 1.3 million barrels of oil. Twenty years later, Exxon will now have the tremendous burden of paying out $500 million, or one day’s profit! Imagine, by litigating the Valdez disaster in court, Exxon is now paying 1/365th of what it was originally ordered to pay in terms of income (without regard to its victims and the opportunity cost of getting the money 20 years late)!!!

If Exxon would have been forced to pay this at the actual time the accident occured in 1989, the $500 million would today be worth over $1 Billion at a low 4% rate of return! In other words, they’re paying the actual fine with the interest earned just from getting to keep the money for 19 years.

Ironically, the past week has been a windfall of good news for Exxon in that they got the news that Iraq will grant them and several other Western oil companies (Shell, British Petroleum, Total) the rights to Iraqi Oil drilling that they have not had access to for 30 years. I’ve linked stories about Exxon wanting to go to Iraq to obtain oil contracts before, and in the words of George W. Bush, “Mission Accomplished.” What better time to obtain the rights to trillions of barrels of oil, than the same time you’ve inserted people into power who have created an instability in a region driving oil to over seven times higher than it was prior to Bush becoming president.

A few quick questions about the people who are taking our country down a path of no return:

How do Exxon and other Big Oil companies get away with so much polluting and influence in government. Simply put: bribery.

Who is on the take for over $1 million in Oil money since 1990? John McCain.

Who is in charge of writing our energy policy with Dick Cheney in secret? Exxon

Who is in charge of editing our environmental policy after a report is submitted from NASA to downplay reality? Exxon lobbyists hired by Dick Cheney

Who makes multi-million dollar tax deductible contributions to the National Science Teachers of America and have them distribute their film, “You Can’t Be Cool, Without Fuel?” Exxon and Shell

Who turns down 50,000 free copies of An Inconvenient Truth to teach students about global warming? the National Science Teachers of America – out of fear of losing their “donation”/bribe

Who funds think tanks to offer $10,000 bribes to “scientists” to criticize global warming findings? Exxon

Hillary’s Last Minute Pander Will End the Race on May 6

Hillary Clinton latched on to John McCain’s gas tax holiday proposal in a last minute pander to get votes in her desperate attempt at a game changer in North Carolina. She’s gone as far to say that she doesn’t want to listen to the 99% of economists (that aren’t working for Shell Oil) who have said it is a dumb idea. When you increase demand for goods (by lowering the price), then those who are selling the good end up raising the price to profit from that increased demand, and thus, any suspension of the tax will be nullified by either the oil companies or retail gas station making up the difference. So, the taxpayer loses 9 Billion in funds to repair roads, the economy suffers from 300,000 lost construction worker jobs, the oil and gas retailers make more money, and the reliance on oil as a false commodity continues.

This suspension of reality is frighteningly similar to Bush not listening to “experts” about the ramifications of going to war in Iraq, scientists who warn about global warning, teachers who warn of the perils of No Child Left Behind, and or experts who point out that “teaching” abstinence in our schools only leads to more babies and sexually transmitted diseases. This latest pander to voters isn’t the only similarity Hillary has to our current President, but her trying to frighten voters with scare tactic ads and threatening Congress to join her worthless new policy plan with the Bush phrase, “You’re either with us or against us,” just cemented her spot in history as one of the lowest of the low politicians of our time.

This latest strategy will backfire in the worst way for Hillary. North Carolina will be a big loss and Indiana will be a small win, if at all. Super delegates have been slowly moving to Obama for the past two months and despite CNN ignoring four new Supers going to Obama on May 5 (going 18 hours without reporting this fact, but “reporting” that a poll changed one percent in a day”), the trickle is about to become a flood due to Hillary threatening to go nuclear twice in one week…once on the democratic party and once threatening to annihilate Iran (which was strange to threaten to kill innocent women and children considering she’d scolded Barack for saying he’d attack Al Quaeda leaders in Pakistan).

McCain’s gas tax holiday plan and his numerous gaffes including letting it slip out that we’re in Iraq for Oil is about to be dealt with head on.

See the gas tax plan get debunked below:

Oh, and for the 100th time in the past 100 days…Wolf Blitzer “reports” that he thinks his “dream ticket” idea may be a possibility. This guy is either a complete moron, or his CNN handlers have kidnapped his kids and are forcing him to continue to push what everyone in the world knows will never happen. Congrats for hitting 100 Wolf!!

Media Has Finally Hit a New Low in “Reporting”

The media has shown it’s true spots recently in their “reporting” of what they consider to be news.  Whether it be in their worrying more about flag pins than three trillion dollar wars, or neighbors of Barrack that Bill Clinton pardoned; rather than a breaking economy due to a president that would rather borrow from the Chinese to pay for his 3 trillion dollar war, his second tax rebate/bribe to/of the American voter, or his bailouts of corporate magnates that were apparently unable to conduct payment shock analysis before they bought billions of dollars of loans whose sole risk was borrowers unable to make their payments that payment jump several years into the loan.

The media is so busy trying to cut costs that people who actually are “reporting” the news, i.e.: going out and asking serious questions, are losing their jobs.  Whether it’s through layoffs of hundreds of NY Times workers, or mergers and outsourcing (CBS may just rely on CNN?…thank goodness we’ve got Wolf on the job), or just hiring low level people who have no skill other than reading the news to host the spin doctors spewing false and irrelevant facts across the airwaves.

The obvious point is, the news has become nothing more than a business unit of the corporations that run them.  Much like a republican politician, there is too much money at stake for reality to creap into your television any more.  CNN is forced to report on Jeremiah Wright and Flag Pins just as republicans must hate gays because the Bible doesn’t say so (but the church and money does…more babies means more dowry!), love Exxon, and hate the environment (and appoint Exxon to oversee the environment to make it so), all because the money dictates that these things will happen.

The current push for corporations is to ensure someone who doesn’t take corporate bribes (i.e.: lobbyist donations) doesn’t get into the White House. The corporate media would like their ratings to continue to August because they’re certain any race with an old bag like McCain is going to put everyone to sleep. There’s also much more draw to Hillary imploding the Democratic party rather than Barack vs. McDud.

CNN is bursting at the seams to talk about flag pins and Barack’s former minister who doesn’t trust the government (maybe it has something to do about it lying to get us into a war with Vietnam, or lying about getting us into a war with Iraq,…today’s “Ticker” is that apparently Barack’s popularity is “fading.” Really, doesn’t fading imply that it’s going away forever?  This stunning analysis conducted by whoever the headline maker is looked at the daily poll that goes up and down and has switched leads between the candidates dozens of times in the past few months.  Apparently, since Hillary caugh up to Barack yesterday, it means all has faded.  However, if it goes back up at any point in the future, I guess that would mean that this was a bogus story that would need to be retracted.

Update:  (it’s been 10 seconds)  Gallup’s surprising release of another poll in their DAILY POLLING, Barack is back ahead…I guess that means Hillary is “fading.”  It was fun while it lasted.  CNN, keep the article, I’m sure you’ll be able to use it again within the next week (and save a few bucks in the process).

Update #2: CNN changes title of story, “Clinton, Obama, dead even.” I guess false headlines are only as good as the thousands who you were able to manipulate before the facts got in the way. Well, I guess it is “dead even” except for that 150 delegate lead that Obama has, but who’s counting? Unfortunately, not CNN…and unfortunately we can’t count on CNN for reality since they were bought by Time Warner who’s screwing us worse than they do with the cable bill. Question is, which business unit is perfoming and do we need more mindless, leggy or bearded know nothings on the case.

Which of these CNN talking heads would understand the first thing about how the war is (or more to the point, is not) being paid for, payment shock analysis, or anything not having to do with preachers, gays, or guns?