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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

WALL STREET REJOICES AS OIL PRICES CLIMB AGAIN

TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING:
OIL PRICES HIT NEW LOWS FOR MONTHS, AMERICANS ENJOYED THE LOWER GAS PRICES, HAD MORE MONEY TO KEEP IN THEIR POCKETS.

WALL STREET WENT APE-S__T, INVESTORS WRUNG THEIR HANDS, GNASHED THEIR TEETH AND WEPT, THOSE HEAVILY INVESTED IN OIL, OIL, OIL WERE BESIDE THEMSELVES OVER OIL PRICES DROPPING STEADILY.

AVERAGE AMERICAN WAS ELATED!
A BREAK FOR THE OVER-TAXED AND UNDERPAID!

NOW, IT'S OVER!
[UPDATE: December 29, 2014,  NEW OIL WELL FIRES IN LIBYA RAISES CRUDE OIL PRICES BACK TO $60 PER BARREL.  http://profit.ndtv.com/news/commodities/article-oil-rises-to-60-per-barrel-libya-fire-supports-719668 ]  


Over the last two decades Americans in the the bottom 90 percent of the economy have lost ground while the richest 1 percent captured 70% of income growth. Yes, 70 percent.
This is NO accident. It isn't because of ONE bad policy or ONE bad recession. 
To achieve this, EVERY major policy – taxes, investment, monetary, trade, finance, regulation – ALL had to be "fixed" to favor the elite few, that TOP 1%.

THE MONIED BOYS HAVE AGAIN FOUND A WAY TO RECOUP THOSE LOSSES AND THE AVERAGE JOE/JANE WILL SEE GAS PRICES CLIMBING STEADILY BACK UP TO A COMFORTABLE LEVEL FOR THE OIL DEALERS OF WALL STREET.

YOUR LOSS IS ALWAYS WALL STREET'S GAIN, CITIZENS!
IF YOU WIN, THEY LOSE.
IF SHAREHOLDERS WIN, YOU LOSE.
IF MEGA-CORPORATIONS LOSE PROFITS, "MIDDLE-CLASS" AMERICANS HAVE A FEW BUCKS MORE TO SPEND OR TO SAVE.

THAT'S HOW IT WORKS.

LET'S HAVE A LOOK:
TODAY/NOW:
Oil prices moved above $60 a barrel as U.S. data showed falling crude inventories, stemming deep losses brought on by a supply glut and signals from OPEC producers and Russia that they will not cut production. Brent crude was up 41 cents to $60.42 a barrel. 
[FALLING CRUDE INVENTORIES....WHY? BECAUSE WHEN PRICES DROP, THOSE WHO PUMP OIL STOP PUMPING TO DRIVE PRICES BACK UP; HERE, IN THE MIDDLE EAST, EVERYWHERE. WHEN PRICES FALL, REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF PRODUCT AVAILABLE, WHETHER OIL OR A 'TICKLE ME ELMO' TOY, AND WATCH PRICES RISE! IT'S MAGIC! BLACK MAGIC.]
Wall Street's Dow Jones industrial average was up 0.92 percent, and the S&P 500 gained 1.2 percent to 1,996.70 after three days of losses. 
[SEE THAT? THE WALL STREET GANGS WERE HURTING, SO NOW YOU HAVE TO HURT SO THEY CAN HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS. THAT'S THE PRIME RULE. ]
The S&P energy index was up 4.4 percent.

The MSCI world equity index, which tracks shares in 45 nations, was up 0.19 percent to 403.97 after posting losses earlier in the trading day.
U.S. consumer prices recorded their biggest drop in nearly six years in November as gasoline prices tumbled, according to government data. 
[BIGGEST DROP IN CONSUMER PRICES IN 6 LONG YEARS! CAN'T HAVE THAT! RIGHT HERE AT CHRISTMAS TIME, WHEN AMERICANS SPEND THE MOST, MUST GET PRICES BACK UP! MUST RAISE PROFITS! 
MUST HAVE "THE PRECIOUS"!

HIGH PRICES MEANS BIG PROFITS, HIGH PRICES WITH CONTINUED LOW WAGES.
HIGH PROFITS MEANS CREATE MORE EXPENSIVE GASOLINE.]

BUT IT DOESN'T END THERE, OH, NO!
MUST JACK-UP INTEREST RATES, HAND THE BANKS SOME HIGHER PROFITS, TOO! 
THE FEDERAL RESERVE TO THE RESCUE!
THE 'FED' WILL NOW CONSIDER RAISING INTEREST RATES SOONER, MUCH SOONER THAN THEY HAD PLANNED!

Investors were looking ahead to the U.S. Federal Reserve's final policy statement of 2014, due at 2 p.m. (1900 GMT). In a sign of America's brightening economic outlook, many analysts expect the Fed to remove language pledging to wait a "considerable time" before raising U.S. interest rates. 
"HEY, YOU SCRATCH MY BACK, I'LL SCRATCH YOURS," SAYS THE FED TO THEIR BELOVED WALL STREET STREET GANGS.

"SAME AS ALWAYS, BABY," SAYS WALL STREET, WITH A SMIRK AND A TAIL-WIGGLE.

AND THOSE IN CONGRESS ALSO REJOICE BECAUSE THEY HANDED WALL STREET AND BIG BANKS THAT CHRISTMAS GIFT RIDING ON THE BUDGET DEAL, COLLECTED THEIR BONUS CHECKS UNDER CAPITOL HILL TABLES, DANCED MERRILY TO THEIR PHONES TO CALL AND CHECK ON THEIR OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNTS AND WHISPERED, "KA-CHING, KA-CHING!" TO ONE ANOTHER ALL ACROSS THE LAND.
I CAN HEAR  "BAWLING JOHN BO(EH)NER" NOW, WEEPING TEARS OF YULETIDE GLADNESS  AT HIS FAVORITE BAR, DROOLING HIS JOY INTO HIS DRINK, HAPPY AGAIN.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ING IT JOHNNY!
[TO THE TUNE OF "MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE"]
"MY PROFITS ARE TO ME, BETTER THAN LIBERTY, I LOVE THE FED!
FRENCH-KISS ME, CHEVRON, DEAR, JUST TOUCH ME, DENBURY, LET'S GET IN BED!"
Chevron, Denbury Resources and other oil producers surged, leading eight of the 10 industries in the Standard & Poor's 500 index higher. 
Benchmark U.S. crude rose 2 cents to close at $55.93 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, a benchmark for international oils used by many U.S. refineries, fell $1.20 to close at $59.86 in London. 

"OTHER OIL PRODUCERS"...WHO WERE NOT "PRODUCING" AS THEY HAD, BOYS AND GIRLS!

WHEN THE "PRODUCERS" STOP MAKING MEGA-MEGA-BUCKS, THEY SIMPLY STALL OR STOP "PRODUCTION". 
NEWSFLASH!
JUST SINCE I BEGAN THIS BLOG ARTICLE, BRENT CRUDE HAS RISEN ANOTHER $3 TO $63 A BARREL.
WHO WANTS TO BET ON $70 AS A LOW-END FINISH FOR THE DAY?
Front-month Brent surged $3.12 to $63.13 a barrel shortly after 12:30 p.m. EDT. The January Brent contract, which expired in the prior session, hit a low of $58.50 on Tuesday, its weakest since May 2009.
U.S. Energy Information Administration data showing U.S. crude inventories falling by 847,000 barrels helped curtail losses, despite expectations of a 2.4-million-barrel draw. 
Prices remain close to 5-1/2-year lows, and have almost halved over the last six months as increasing volumes of light, high-quality crude from North American shale have overwhelmed demand.
Core Gulf OPEC members have said they are prepared to wait as long as a year for the market to stabilize, undercutting hopes they will step in to stem crude price losses.
DIG IN, AMERICA!
AMERICAN  OIL "PRODUCERS" WILL HAVE THEIR PROFITS!
TIME TO PAY THE WELL-PAID WHATEVER THEY WANT, ONE MORE TIME!

TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, THE PARTY SAYS IT'S OVER.
IF NOT TODAY, IN A FEW SHORT WEEKS...

HO-HO-HO.












































Tuesday, December 16, 2014

AMERICAN TOWNS DESTROYED BY RISING SEAS

1,429 US Towns Could Be Destroyed By Rising Sea Levels


That will push more than 50% of the population out of 381 LARGE municipalities, resulting in 4,187,262 people losing their hometowns.  

THERE IS A FULL LIST OF TOWNS THAT WILL MOST LIKELY DISAPPEAR WITHIN THE NEXT 20-100 YEARS HERE IN AMERICA ON THAT SITE:

 http://www.businessinsider.com/1429-towns-destroyed-by-climate-change-2013-8

21 STATES HAVE TOWNS ON THAT LIST AND ALL ARE TAKING THIS VERY SERIOUSLY!

THE "DENIERS" ALL OVER AMERICA NEVER SHOW YOU ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING NO SUCH THING AS LAND LOSS FROM RISING SEAS, DO THEY?
THAT'S BECAUSE PHOTOGRAPHS WOULD REVEAL THE TRUTH.


THERE IS PHOTOGRAPHIC  PROOF OF HOW WE ARE LOSING COASTAL TOWNS IN AMERICA, SO I DECIDED TO SHOW YOU SOME OF THOSE.

ALONG BOTH COASTS, AMERICAN TOWNS AND VILLAGES FROM THE TIP OF CALIFORNIA AND FLORIDA TO ALASKA AND MAINE ARE GOING UNDERWATER.

IF THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS RISING SEA LEVELS, PLEASE TELL THE PEOPLE OF THESE TOWNS WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM.
THEY ARE GONE!
MORE ARE GOING!

FACE IT!

ASK RESIDENTS OF PADRE ISLAND, TEXAS, TO SHOW YOU BEFORE AND AFTER PHOTOS OF THEIR LAND LOSS.


INCREDIBLE EROSION FROM RISING SEA LEVEL, PADRE iSLAND, TX, 2013

Sea level rise is accelerating. At some point, our barrier islands will cross a disintegration threshold and begin to disappear.

"CLIMATE CHANGE TAKES A VILLAGE", 12/14/14

The village pictured above of 563 people is located 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle, flanked by the Chukchi Sea to the north and an inlet to the south, and it sits atop rapidly melting permafrost.
In the last decades, the village has been falling into the sea.


Older photos of the island show wide, sandy beaches. 
"There was a real big beach down there," remembers Nora Kuzuguk, 67. "It was our playground." 
Now, those beaches are rapidly disappearing.

ALL ACROSS COASTAL ALASKA, NATIVE VILLAGES ARE BEING INUNDATED, LOST TO THE EVER-RISING SEAS. 

GO ASK THE INUIT PEOPLE, ANY OTHER TRIBE THAT HAS BEEN FORCED TO MOVE FROM ANCIENT TRIBAL LANDS!
JUST DON'T CALL THEM LIARS TO THEIR FACES.
THAT MIGHT ANGER THEM.
THEY'RE THERE, YOU ARE NOT!
NORTH CAROLINA HAD TO MOVE ITS FAMOUS CAPE HATTERAS LIGHTHOUSE FURTHER INLAND, AWAY FROM THE ENCROACHING ATLANTIC IN  1999. NOW, THEY WONDER IF THEY MOVED IT FAR ENOUGH.



Coastal lands all along the North Carolina's Outer Banks and even further inland are experiencing, first-hand, the rising sea levels across the globe.  

"There was a whole development out here, on the seaward side of this house, that had already gone to sea before they started Mirlo Beach.” 

There’s not much dispute these days, up and down the coast, about whether the ocean is rising. The question is: How high will it go here, and how fast?

YOU CAN HAVE A LOOK AT NORTH CAROLINA'S SEA LEVEL RISE PLANNING MAPS HERE:
http://plan.risingsea.net/North_Carolina.html
THE USGS CAN TELL YOU ABOUT SEA LEVEL RISE.ALL ALONG AMERICA'S COASTS:

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/03/15/3702235/while-the-seas-rise-science-waits.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/03/15/3702235/while-the-seas-rise-science-waits.html#storylink=cpy
"Cities in the hotspot, like Norfolk, New York, and Boston already experience damaging floods during relatively low intensity storms," said Dr. Asbury (Abby) Sallenger, USGS oceanographer and project lead. "Ongoing accelerated sea level rise in the hotspot will make coastal cities and surrounding areas increasingly vulnerable

ASK THE STATE OF FLORIDA IF IT IS EXPERIENCING SEA LEVEL RISE AND THEY WILL ANSWER A RESOUNDING YES!


I KNOW BECAUSE I LIVED THERE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.
MIAMI IS ALREADY SEEING THE SEA CAUSING DOWNTOWN FLOODING AFTER EVEN MILD STORMS, SOMETHING THEY DID NOT SEE EVEN 25 YEARS AGO. 

Las Olas Isles and Riviera Isles, two communities on the east side of Fort Lauderdale, are also seeing the same flooding.
            Cindy Minnix wades through a flooded Miami street to get a bus

There is a video/slide show at the link below showing the threat to the Florida Keys:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/florida-keys-sea-level-rise_n_3532643.html

Miami has seen protesters take to the streets because it looks like the City Managers just aren't doing enough to suit them when their streets flood at an ever-increasing rate.
On Big Pine Key, one of the chain's largest and most environmentally diverse islands, you can already see changes brought on by the accelerating sea level rise.
A spot not far from the island's coast used to be a pine forest. Now, it's tidal wetlands — home to a few salt-tolerant plant species and the desiccated remnants of the old forest. 

Chris Bergh described some of the changes brought on by the rising sea level.
 
"In the long run, the sea will cover the Florida Keys, no matter what we do," said Bergh. "The question is, how long is it going to take." 


"Our map of the area vulnerable to 27 inches of sea level rise looks like someone took a razor to the state right above Miami and sliced off everything below that," said Frank Ackerman, a senior economist at the Stockholm Environment Institute.

SHOULD WE LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE?
SHOULD WE BELIEVE OUR EYES?
OR, SHOULD WE JUST PRETEND IT'S ALL A "COCK-AND-BULL STORY"?

IT WILL BE A COSTLY NIGHTMARE AS FLORIDIANS PRIDE THEMSELVES ON COASTAL PROPERTY, PROPERTY THAT IS FALLING GREATLY IN VALUE BECAUSE OF RISING SEAS.
SAME SITUATION IN CALIFORNIA , WASHINGTON STATE AND OREGON

Humboldt Bay, California, will show you just how much rising sea levels are impacting their area.


They've even put together a nice PDF that shows quite clearly where things are headed there.In the PDF they offer a map of what Californians can expect from the encroachment of the Pacific, as seen above.

DON'T BELIEVE THEM? THEY ONLY LIVE THERE AND SEE THE WATER RISING. 


YOU DON'T.

Tide gauges show that global sea level has risen about 7 inches during the 20th century, and recent satellite data show that the rate of sea-level rise is accelerating.
As Earth warms, sea levels are rising mainly because ocean water expands as it warms; and water from melting glaciers and ice sheets is flowing into the ocean. Sea-level rise poses enormous risks to the valuable infrastructure, development, and wetlands that line much of the 1,600 mile shoreline of California, Oregon, and Washington.

As those states seek to incorporate projections of sea-level rise into coastal planning, they asked the National Research Council to make independent projections of sea-level rise along their coasts for the years 2030, 2050, and 2100, taking into account regional factors that affect sea level.
LOOKS LIKE COASTAL PLANNERS BELIEVE THEIR EYES!
THE ABOVE PHOTO IS FROM 2012 WHEN A CALIFORNIA COASTAL HIGHWAY CRUMBLED NEAR BIG SUR.



THE PACIFIC CLAIMING ANOTHER OCEANFRONT PROPERTY IN OREGON


OREGON HOMEOWNERS HOPE AGAINST HOPE TO SAVE THEIR COASTAL HOMES.
     COASTAL PROPERTIES ARE LOSING GROUND, LITERALLY!

ALONG THE OREGON COAST, HIGHWAYS HAVE ALSO CRUMBLED FROM RISING SEA LEVELS, EROSION BY THE ENCROACHING PACIFIC CLAIMING MORE LAND EACH DAY.


RECENT ESTIMATES ARE THAT 33% OF OREGON'S BEACHES ARE LOSING TO SEA LEVEL RISE.  


[ Full PDF here: http://journals.fcla.edu/jcr/article/download/79045/76411]  
A detailed report on the loss of Oregon's estuaries and coastal lands can be found here:

http://occri.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/chapter6ocar.pdf]

KEEP IN MIND SUCH REPORTS ARE PREPARED FOR AND BY THOSE WHO LIVE THERE, NOT BY THOSE WHO DON'T. 


COASTAL LOUISIANA, INCLUDING NEW ORLEANS IS STEADILY LOSING THE BATTLE AGAINST THE SEA.


IT IS A MATTER OF EXTREME URGENCY FOR THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.
ASK ANYONE WHO ACTUALLY LIVES THERE, IF YOU...DON'T.


SEA WATER IS CREEPING INTO CEMETERIES FROM GRAND ISLE TO NEW ORLEANS PROPER.

HURRICANE KATRINA WASHED HUNDREDS OF COFFINS OUT TO SEA ALL ALONG LOUISIANA'S COAST.

BUT IT ISN'T JUST AMERICA, IT'S A GLOBAL PROBLEM, SEEN EVERYWHERE THERE IS AN OCEANFRONT.
 
TOO LATE: Bryony Nierop-Reading turned down a government offer to buy her cliffside property in Happisburgh, England, on the North Sea; since then, storm damage from the rising North Sea has cost her her home and a big chunk of her lot.    REUTERS/Alister Doyle
Sea levels have risen an average of 8 inches globally over the past century, and people living on the North  Sea can show you how much they have already lost as the sea closes in.
PACIFIC ISLANDERS WILL SHOW YOU HOW QUICKLY THEY ARE LOSING THEIR BATTLES AGAINST RISING SEA LEVELS.  

KIRIBATI IS A BEAUTIFUL ISLAND NATION IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC. 

President Anote Tong has predicted his country will likely become uninhabitable in 30 to 60 years
His nation is being reclaimed by the sea.

ADD THE MALDIVES

The Maldives is the world’s lowest-lying country, with more than 80 percent of its scattered islands less than one meter above sea level. 

It will be one of the first nations submerged. 

In 2009, then-President Mohamed Nasheed (the subject of a documentary called “The Island President” that deals with the subject of climate change) staged a cabinet meeting underwater to raise awareness about the future of the country if anthropogenic global warming was left unchecked. 

This archipelago in the Indian Ocean is not alone in gradually drowning: as many as 1,500 of Indonesia’s islands could be underwater by 2050

To all Pacific Islanders, rising seas pose a threat to their “entire way of life” ,or as a U.S. cabinet member said: it was “perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.”

Foreign Minister of the Marshall Islands, Tony de Brum recently expressed concern that Australia risks going backwards on climate change under the new government. 

“We are having difficulty understanding Australia’s climate change policies and their new environmental regime. We don’t understand what they are thinking…It is as if our big brother doesn’t understand us. The same message is going to Australia from other countries in the Pacific forum. Little brother is saying, ‘Big brother should get up and smell the flowers.’”

Will Australia also turn its back if islands drown and newly stateless Pacific islanders come knocking?
Climate Refugees
As the sea overwhelms islands, people with no option but to retreat to higher ground in their home countries will need refuge.   
Migration is a measure of last resort, but all nations need to realize how many will be forced to find new homes as theirs become inundated and uninhabitable.  
AND SO, ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE DENIED RISING SEA LEVELS, YOU MUST HAVE FAILED TO GO LOOK FOR YOURSELVES, OR TO GO TO THE PEOPLE, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ACROSS OUR PLANET, WHO FACE THE FACTS EACH DAY.
IF YOU REFUSE TO BELIEVE THEM, BELIEVE THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE, I HAVE NOTHING FURTHER FOR YOU...NOT IN ANY WAY.
I COULD SIT HERE AND POST THOUSANDS OF PHOTOS OF CRUMBLING COASTLINES, INUNDATED VILLAGES/TOWNS, BUT THIS SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT, EVEN FOR HARD-CORE "DENIERS".
PUT YOURSELVES IN AN OF THESE PHOTOS, STANDING THERE LOOKING AT THE SEA...
THEN WHAT?


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OTHER SUGGESTED READING:
"The work of Levermann et al. stands out for matching physical models with evidence of ancient sea-level responses to temperature and for focusing on the amount of sea-level rise rather than its more elusive rate. (In a loose analogy, it is trivial to predict a pile of ice in a warm room will all melt, but demanding to predict the exact rates over time.) This tactic was key to their multifaceted effort, which addressed thermal expansion of warming oceans, melting glaciers, and mass loss from …"

~
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/27/ozy-climate-change-small-countries/2882835/  

It's not just small islands, of course. Later this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the largest worldwide monitor, is expected to announce that coastal cities will drown by 2100, absent serious reductions in carbon emissions. The United States will likely see its first climate refugees well before that — perhaps as soon as 2017, when the sea may wash away native communities in Alaska and the Marshall Islands.

Monday, December 15, 2014

GOVERNMENT BY PERPETUAL CRISIS : CONGRESS SCREWS US AGAIN

EACH NEW DAY WE ARE INUNDATED WITH "BE AFRAID", WITH "NEW SECURITY THREATS", WITH DIRE WARNINGS OF "POSSIBLE IMPENDING TERRORIST ATTACKS", OF "LOSING AMERICAN JOBS IF YOU TAX THOSE CORPORATIONS", OF ANYTHING/EVERYTHING THAT DISTRACTS YOU FROM WATCHING THE DEALER IN THIS CARD GAME THAT PLAYS DAILY UP ON "CAPITOL HILL".

WHILE YOU WERE BUSY BEING SCARED TO DEATH OF IMAGINARY INCOMING TERRORISTS, OF THOSE MURDEROUS BROWN PEOPLE SNEAKING IN FROM THE SOUTH, OF EBOLA, THE SUPER-FLU, FASCIST/COMMUNIST TAKEOVER, SLUMPS IN THE STOCK MARKET, CHINA/NORTH KOREA/RUSSIA TAKING US OUT, ALL THOSE LITTLE "BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID" WARNINGS ISSUED DAILY IN THE PRESS, BY THE VERY ONES WHO NEED YOU TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY WHILE THEY RAPE THIS NATION, SHRED OUR CONSTITUTION, AND COMMIT HIGH TREASON, YOU GOT SUCKERED INTO ANOTHER YEAR OF PAYING FOR PORK. 

THE BUDGET DEAL HAS BEEN STRUCK....YOU GOT SCREWED, TAXPAYERS...AGAIN!


YOU PROBABLY HAVEN'T NOTICED, IT IS THE CHRISTMAS SEASON AND WE ALL HAVE SUCH BUSY LIFESTYLES, BUT UP ON CAPITOL HILL, YOUR ELECTEDS HAVE JUST SPENT A COOL TRILLION-PLUS ON CRAP YOU PROBABLY WON'T BELIEVE. 
YOUR PALS THE REPUBLICANS SAY THEY DID IT SO THEY DIDN'T GET BLAMED FOR ANOTHER GOVERNMENT SHUT-DOWN.
YOUR PALS THE DEMOCRATS SAY THEY DID IT SO THE 'PUBLICANS DIDN'T TRY TO DESTROY OBAMACARE AND THE NEW IMMIGRATION THING.

THEY BOTH LIE. 

THEY BOTH DID IT BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO.

AFTER ALL, IT'S NOT THEIR MONEY THEY'RE SPREADING AROUND, IT'S OURS, YOURS AND MINE AND IT'S "WE, THE PEOPLE", THE "COMMON MAN" WHO WILL PAY FOR THE "BILLS" THEY PASS, SAME AS ALWAYS.
THEY CREATE BILLS, WE PAY THEM.
WHAT ELSE ARE GOOD SERFS TO DO?

I would be sorry for those who didn't read the damned bills, who never bother to go to free websites and read free information about what Congress, CON-gress, is doing.
But I'm not in a pitying mood.
If you don't care, I don't care that you don't care.


I DO care that I care, that I never agreed to this, that I DID DO all I could to stop it.
If only a lousy MILLION out there in La-La Land had ALSO  cared as much as I care, we could've rattled a few cages, could've maybe at least scared the bejeebus out of that pack of whores on THE HILL, made them wonder IF we'd finally just VOTE THEM OUT.
But,again, NO MILLIONS went to protest this abomination, this curse, this treason but a few thousand DID
Were YOU in that number?

AS ONE IRATE "ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE" WEBSITE MOANED:
" We live in the shadow of the cromnibusan appropriately clunky word that combines “continuing resolution” emergency tactics with “omnibus spending” irresponsibility.  The Cromnibus is a flabby beast [with] a gaping maw and many tentacles to feed itself, but it lacks eyes, ears, and a frontal lobe."[IF  the guy who wrote that wasn't such a hypocrite, I'd cite his site, but hypocrites don't get respect here in the Tea Room.]


HAVE A LOOK AT WHAT WAS DONE TO ALL OF US, WHAT GETS SPENT ON WHAT!

The bill finances the day-to-day operations of every Cabinet department except Homeland Security through Sept. 30, 2015, with $521 billion for defense and $492 billion tied to non-defense. Another $64 billion is provided for overseas military operations. 

SO, for basically our "WAR DEPARTMENT" ALMOST $600 BILLION"
$600,000,000,000?
DOES THAT SOUND LIKE WE'RE GOING TO BRING THE TROOPS HOME?

NO.
DON'T YOU WORRY WHEN THE PENTAGON REQUIRES MORE THAN ALL THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS PUT TOGETHER?
DOES IT REALLY NOT BOTHER YOU THAT ONE "AGENCY" IS OUTSPENDING ALL THE OTHERS LUMPED TOGETHER AND WE ARE NOT IN A SINGLE DECLARED WAR?
NO?
ALRIGHTY THEN.


That bastion of "stop and frisk", "let us feel you up or label you a terrorist", that divinely-inspired "Department of Homeland Security" (ho-ho-ho) is only funded until FEBRUARY, 2015, because SOME of the most RABID
 Republicans STILL imagine if they shut down "DHS" they can stop Obama's Exec Order on IMMIGRATION.

Now GREAT, NOBEL LAUREATE economic minds and lawyers that cost you and I an arm AND a leg for the GOP to retain have told them and told them, "You don't fund the immigration part, congress is NOT in that mix, and you can NEVER stop it from going into effect, EVEN IF YOU DO SHUT DOWN THE DAMNED GOVERNMENT, STUPID! Funding for immigration is NOT controlled by you bastards on the Hill!"
The older 'Publicans have gone on national TV and admitted this, explained WHY they can't stop either ObamaCare OR the immigration thing without YEARS of rewriting LAWS, without turning the entire system upside down and inside out to CREATE loopholes.

But Crying John Boehner wants to believe he can play Messiah.
He  NEEDS to slap the supreme snot out of Obama SOMEHOW, just once, so he can stop binge-drinking and MAYBE stop blubbering like a baby just one day.
NOT going to happen, Johnny.

Cry on!

~On page 217, Title VI of the bill, is the “Travel Promotion, Enhancement and Modernization Act of 2014.” It reauthorizes, extends, and changes the “Travel Promotion Act of 2009”—which, as Breitbart News has previously reported, is a nothing more than a kickback to Reid and his casino pals in Las Vegas. 

This omnibus spending bill—which is supposed to be just an Appropriations bill, not dealing with reauthorizations like this—reauthorizes the Travel Promotion Act program for five extra years through 2020. It was supposed to sunset and END in 2015. 
Nevada's GOP Senator, Dean Heller, dived right in and helped Reid rescue that business. It was a "bipartisan" MIRACLE!
A Dem & a 'Pub working together to hand some moolah to their BIG campaign donors!
Yaaaay, team!
Way to show "hands across the aisle"...and right into that hog trough you boys feed at, the ones we old "common folk" slop for you every day.
Eat up, "PARTIES", there's plenty where that came from!


There’s a lot of junk in this “cromnibus” spending bill that could be used to give examples of Congress' free-wheeling glut of spending, spending, things such as this juicy payoff to outgoing Majority Leader Harry Reid’s and Heller's rich casino backers… but then, in order for Republican leaders to make hay over such flagrant corruption, they’d have to give up THEIR pork and payoffs, and they don’t want that.

NOOO! ANTHING BUT THAT!
MUST HAVE PORK BARREL, UNBRIDLED SPENDING, SAY BOTH "PARTIES", SO THEY "PARTY ON" AND YOU AND i GET TO CLEAN UP AFTER THE PARTY, AGAIN.

~ Just a few more examples of PORK, of EARMARKS spending, that YOUR tax dollars MUST pay for:
 


--$90 million to upgrade the M1 Abrams tank, which is opposed by the Pentagon; 
--$15 million for the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund, secured by Senate Appropriations Committee member Patty Murray (D-Wash.); 
--$5.9 million for the East-West Center, a “victory” for Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii); 
--and $150,000 for the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, a pet project of Senate Appropriations Committee member Thad Cochran (R-Miss.).


~
Members of Congress have long used the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act to feed at the trough. The number of earmarks rose by 400 percent, from two in FY 2012 to 10 in FY 2014, while the cost increased by 657.3 percent, from $10.3 million in FY 2012 to $78 million in FY 2014. The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the Rural Business Cooperative Service received $60.7 million, or 77.8 percent of the total cost of the earmarks.


~
A MINK COAT FOR THEIR PALS, WRAPPED IN A BURLAP BAG SO YOU DON'T SEE IT:

Republican leaders quietly to reauthorized a corporate welfare agency the Overseas Private Investment Corp. is a federal agency that subsidizes U.S. companies investing in foreign countries -- such as Ritz-Carlton building a hotel in Turkey. OPIC provides a taxpayer backstop for the banks and the developers in case anything goes wrong.
OPIC's charter expires Sept. 30 -- the end of the current fiscal year. A standalone bill to reauthorize OPIC would face a tough fight, given the strong Tea Party, anti-corporate-welfare strain in the House.
Instead, House Foreign Affairs Chairman, a Republican , Ed Royce -- a former opponent of OPIC -- teamed up with Democrats to stick reauthorization into the “Electrify Africa Act of 2014.”
The Electrify Africa bill has broad bipartisan support. Even if it grates on some Republicans’ libertarian beliefs, there was no real opposition. 
Reauthorizing OPIC without debate is a more contentious issue. So it was convenient that a few inscrutable lines in a 22-page, non-controversial bill would do the deed.

Section 8 of the bill would introduce reforms of OPIC, including more congressional oversight. But buried amid the technical language of this section is language that would reauthorize OPIC for three years. 

3 MORE YEARS OF GIFTS FOR THE OVERSEAS WHEELERS AND DEALERS THAT JUST LOVE TO SCRATCH CONGRESSIONAL BACKS WITH A LITTLE CAMPAIGN MOOLAH!  
KA-CHING, KA-CHING, SCORE ONE FOR THE SLICK BOYS IN CON-CON-CONGRESS!
AND THAT, LADIES AND GENTS, IS HOW YOU TANGO, UP ON THE HILL!

OPIC extended $50 million in financing in 2000 to subsidize the PRIVATELY-OWNED RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL IN TURKEY, YES, IN TURKEY! 
The hotel needed updating with antique furniture to give it that "Ottoman flare", you see.
From the point of view of the U.S. economy as a whole,” the non-partisan Congressional Research Service wrote years ago, “there is little theoretical support or empirical evidence that supports claims that subsidizing exports or overseas investment offers a positive net gain in jobs to the U.S. economy.''

If you’ve ever visited Istanbul and stayed at the Ritz-Carlton, however, you’ve enjoyed the benefits of OPIC. 
Like so many congressman do.

More recent OPIC projects include $250 million in taxpayer-backed financing for Sun Edison to install a solar farm in South Africa, and $150 million in OPIC insurance for Citibank to open branches in Pakistan, Jordan and Egypt.

Citibank is America’s third-largest bank, with total assets of $1.8 trillion, yet it can’t line up insurance without taxpayer backing? 

FELL FREE TO VOMIT AT ANY TIME.

$7,000,000 for the Rand Arroyo Center. Located in the district of Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the facility has received four earmarks costing $15.4 million since FY 2005. In FY 2010, Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee member Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) and House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee member James Moran (D-Va.) requested a $1.6 million earmark for the center, and Sen. Feinstein also added a $4 million earmark in FY 2009.

~$15,699,000 for the ARC (Appalachian Regional Commission) under the Related Agencies Appropriations Act , a regional economic development agency established by Congress in 1965. Of the amount earmarked, $10 million will fund a high-speed broadband deployment program to “diversify and enhance regional business development.” However, three federal agencies, the Federal Communications Commission, the National Information and Telecommunications Administration and the RUS already spend the taxpayers’ money to bring broadband to under-served areas. The ARC itself DUPLICATES the mission of other federal economic development programs. On July 10, 2013, Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) offered an amendment to the FY 2014 Energy and Water appropriations bill that would eliminate all funding for the ARC, the Delta Regional Authority, the Denali Commission, and two other regional commissions. The amendment was defeated by a vote of 147-273. Since FY 1995, the ARC has received six earmarks totaling $148.7 million for projects in Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. 

NOTICE ANYTHING?
ALL GOOD OL' BOYS GOP STATES, SO THANK YOUR REPUBLICAN WHO FOUGHT TO KEEP THIS...GOOD FOR THEIR LOCAL ECONOMIES, AND SCREW YOURS, BY THE WAY.

~$1,280,000 for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) through the Army Corps of Engineers.
A March 6, 2014 letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Burwell from all 16 members of the Georgia congressional delegation expressed support for SHEP. In addition, Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee member Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is in favor of more federal funding for SHEP because he believes it will help the Port of Charleston. Since FY 1995, SHEP has received 11 earmarks totaling $33 million.

~The number of earmarks in the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act tripled to three.
$45,122,000 for the high intensity drug trafficking areas program (HIDTA) at the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Originally intended for border states, members of Congress have used earmarks to expand HIDTA to non-border states. Since FY 1997, 28 earmarks costing taxpayers $161.6 million have been provided for HIDTA programs; 16 of the earmarks were directed to programs in 10 states, only two of which, Arizona and New Mexico, are border states. The other eight states that received HIDTA earmarks were Alabama, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
HAWAII?
IOWA?
REALLY?
WELL, YOU DON'T CARE, DO YOU, PEONS?
JUST PAY THE BILL LIKE GOOD LITTLE SERFS.
SOME FAT CATS IN HAWAII AND IOWA NEED NEW CLOTHES.
KA-CHING!

~$25,000,000 for the 'National Predisaster Mitigation Fund' (NPMF). 
WHAT THE HELL IS "PREDISASTER?
WHO KNOWS?
The Obama administration first proposed eliminating the NPMF in its FY 2013 budget, yet Congress continues to earmark funding. 
[ IF OBAMA ASKED FOR HEADS TO BE BOWED AT THE TOMB OF CHRIST, REPUBLICANS WOULD CUT THEIRS OFF RATHER THAN BOW THEM. THOSE ARE THE RULES, YOU SEE.]

~Since FY 2008, there have been 205 NPMF earmarks, requested by more than 100 members of Congress, costing taxpayers $125.6 million. $21,094,000 for the National Exercise Program, which aims to assess and improve the country’s preparedness and resiliency. This program also received a $50 million earmark in FY 2004.

AN EXERCISE PROGRAM?
FOR WHOM?
WHERE?

~$3,364,000 for the Valles Caldera National Preserve, an 89,000-acre ranch, YES, A RANCH, located in New Mexico’s Jemez Mountains that the federal government purchased in 2000 for $101 million. It was scheduled to no longer drink from the trough of federal funds by 2015, and the Forest Service was supposed to take over operations from the Valles Caldera Trust in 2020 if the facility could not meet the self-funding directive. Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee member Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and former Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) were responsible for two earmarks for Valles Caldera in FYs 2008 and 2009 worth a total of $6.9 million. Since FY 2001, the preserve has received seven earmarks worth a total of $17.1 million. 
YOUR BOYS ON THE HILL WILL FEED THIS ONE AGAIN...BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T SCREAM AT THEM NOT TO.
SHUT UP, PAY THE BILL.

~$5,000,000 for abstinence education. Since 1996, the United States has spent more than $1.8 billion for abstinence education programs. In FYs 2008 and 2009, former Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) was responsible for 47 abstinence education earmarks in Pennsylvania worth a total of $1.4 million. Since FY 2001, 128 earmarks worth $18.2 million have been provided for abstinence education programs IN MANY STATES, BY BOTH PUBLICANS AND DEMOCATS...EVERYBODY GET SOME!  
This earmark (among others) demonstrates that Congress cannot abstain from pork.
So, does anyone think these programs will make kids swear off sex, "just say no"?
Did you?

SOMEONE WROTE TO ME THAT THERE ARE CLOSE TO 9000 
EARMARKS", I.E., PORK SPENDING, RIDING ALONG IN THAT "MUST PASS" BUDGET DEAL.
MUST BE SOME REAL DOOZIES FOR BOTH PARTIES TO REACH AN AGREEMENT, BUT, BOTTOM LINE, YOU AND I HAVE JUST BEEN ROYALLY SCREWED AGAIN, VOTERS, NON-VOTERS, YOU WHO CARE AND YOU WHO DON'T.

LET ME REPEAT MY OPENING REMARK:
WHILE YOU WERE BUSY BEING SCARED TO DEATH OF IMAGINARY INCOMING TERRORISTS, OF THOSE MURDEROUS BROWN PEOPLE SNEAKING IN FROM THE SOUTH, OF EBOLA, THE SUPER-FLU, FASCIST/COMMUNIST TAKEOVER, SLUMPS IN THE STOCK MARKET, CHINA/NORTH KOREA/RUSSIA TAKING US OUT, ALL THOSE LITTLE "BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID" WARNINGS ISSUED DAILY IN THE PRESS, BY THE VERY ONES WHO NEED YOU TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY WHILE THEY RAPE THIS NATION, SHRED OUR CONSTITUTION, AND COMMIT HIGH TREASON, YOU GOT SUCKERED INTO ANOTHER YEAR OF PAYING FOR PORK. 
IF YOU DON'T READ WHAT THEY WRITE UP ON THE HILL, THIS WILL BE YOUR LOT IN LIFE FOREVER, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL CURSE YOU FOR IT AS THEY PAY FOR YOUR BLIND ACCEPTANCE OF "WHATEVER CONGRESS THINKS BEST".

CONGRESS THINKS YOU'RE MORONS, AMERICA.
CONGRESS HAS BEEN RIGHT FOR ABOUT 100 YEARS NOW.
SMILE AND PAY THE BILLS, CITIZENS!

No one in power even pretends to be interested in responsible government any more, because the American people don’t loudly and constantly insist on it… and we should have learned by now that only our loudest, angriest, most unified cries can be heard over the constant seductive whisper of the Cromnibus.  Enjoy your latest round of desperate last-minute must-pass emergency spending from the same arrogant elites who claim they alone have the wisdom to manage every aspect of your life, and be advised you’ll be getting the same “present” from them next Christmas, and the one after that.
HO-HO-HO!


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3 SOURCES...IF YOU WANT THE REST, FIND THEM YOURSELVES. IT WILL BE A GOOD START FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO NEVER GO DIGGING FOR TRUTH. JUST USE "KEY WORDS" FROM THE BLOG, IT'S ALL OUT THERE:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/29/congress-spending_n_5413205.html

http://cagw.org/reporting/pig-book

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/republicans-try-to-sneak-corporate-welfare-agency-opic-through-the-house/article/2548134 





END OF VOTING IN AMERICA

The ruling class in America would like to inform all you would-be voters that you may not, that is, NOT vote, unless your are a dedicated Republican Party MEMBER who is able to contribute megabucks to the party, or at least, have a job that pays you enough to pay their share of taxes.

You MIGHT also get to vote if :
~You are very, very WHITE and have never been on ANY type of "WELFARE".
~You are WHITE and NOT over retirement age.
~You are WHITE  and NOT a disabled person.
~You are WHITE  and do NOT live in a rural area.
~ You are WHITE and NOT a military VETERAN
~ You are WHITE and do not have children in college who have student loans.

~You are WHITE and fully support the entire REPUBLICAN platform, i.e.:
 * you do NOT support PRO-choice
 * you do NOT support gay marriages
 * you do NOT want to tax corporations (you see corporations as PEOPLE)
 * you are fine with shipping American jobs overseas, subsidizing corporations
that want to move overseas, hire slave labor, ignore working conditions, and steadily raise prices of their goods
 * you do NOT want all that Congress does done out in the open on national TV.
  You WANT Congress to meet behind closed doors in SECRET SESSIONS and have all it does CLASSIFIED so you NEVER SEE IT.
 * you do NOT want the names and dollar amounts of campaign contributors.
 * you do NOT want term limits NOR rules to stop GERRYMANDERING to give the GOP an edge in ALL elections.
 * you do NOT want Congressmen to READ EVERY WORD of "BILLS" they vote on
 *you want to ALWAYS live under the Patriot Act and Homeland Security and give up every Constitutional right you have, any and all privacy, submit to searches without warrants, be arrested and held without charge INDEFINITELY, be considered a POTENTIAL TERRORIST if you speak out against the Federal government, join a state militia, or claim to be a SOVEREIGN CITIZEN under the ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION.
 * you will ALWAYS support the "WAR ON TERROR", American intervention in any nation on earth if American political leaders want to invade and fight undeclared wars there, and you will never notice WHO profits from those wars, even if it is your "duly elected representatives to Congress".
 * you will accept that Congressmen sometimes want to do a little "insider trading" on Wall Street, but YOU may not do so, or, like Martha Stewart, YOU will go to jail
 * you wil NEVER, EVER demand higher wages, nor expect a raise in pay, but you will work overtime without overtime pay. American patriots support capitalism by insuring big businesses make mega-profits.
 *you absolutely will NOT expect affordable healthcare, EVER
 * you will NOT notice NOR REPORT employers who hire those "illegal aliens" for 1/3rd the wages YOU get, but you will NEVER vote for immigration reform so they can STOP BEING ILLEGAL, nor will you ask Congress to enforce LAWS that SHOULD send employers to JAIL for hiring "illegals"
 * you WILL hate other races, ALL that are not WHITE, especially if one of "THEM" gets elected to the Presidency of the United States, and you WILL pass this on to your offspring
 * you will NEVER question Congress' PORK BARREL SPENDING, not even if they spend a BILLION DOLLARS on a casino in the Caribbean
 *speaking of the Caribbean, you will NEVER demand to know if your Congressmen have offshore bank accounts
 * you want to KEEP GITMO PRISON CAMP OPEN FOREVER, but never try any prisoners. American businesses are making a mint off GITMO, which is good for America.
 * if anyone of a higher rank than you inside the GOP says "FROG!", you will not hesitate to jump as high as you can, for as long as they want you to.

THE GOP OWNS YOU, MIND BODY AND SOUL. YOU WILL STOP THINKING ANYTHING WE DON'T TELL YOU TO THINK!
YOU WILL QUESTION NOTHING THE GOP DOES!

IF YOU COMPLY WITH OUR DEMANDS, WE MAY, JUST MAY ALLOW YOU TO VOTE.

WHY HAVE I WRITTEN THE ABOVE?
IF YOU HAVE THE GUTS AND CAN READ AT 5tH GRADE LEVEL, I WILL SHOW YOU WHY.
I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT WENT ON JUST THIS PAST "MID-TERM ELECTION".

EXAMPLE 1:
AMERICANS GAVE UP ON CASTING A BALLOT.
ONLY 36% OF ALL AMERICAN VOTERS ACTUALLY VOTED THIS TIME.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont) during an interview on The Colbert Report said what others said:
"What I think really happened is about 64% of the American people rejected the two-party system. They rejected Washington as it now functions. They rejected a political system and a Congress which spends more time representing the wealthy and the powerful than ordinary Americans."

NO! REALLY?
Maybe so, but a VOTE for anyone OTHER THAN the incumbents would have sent a clear, STRONG message,....
SILENCE?
NOT SO MUCH.

EXAMPLE 2:
TROUBLE AT THE POLLS...YET AGAIN!
Connecticut was among the hardest hit , according to reports. Lawyers for Gov. Daniel Malloy asked a judge to keep Hartford polling places open for extended hours after a slew of issues kept voters from casting their ballots at at least four sites. One site had no monitors. At another 23 polling places, registration books did not arrive in time.

"They didn't distribute any voter lists to any of the locations before 6 a.m. ET and it took almost two hours to get it all resolved," said Av Harris, a spokesman for the Connecticut Secretary of State. The lists are usually distributed at 5 a.m. ET.

"OOPS"???

TEXAS WAS HARD-HT BY VOTING ISSUES, TOO!
In Texas, where a strict voter ID law is in place for the first time in a major election, the state emailed counties Tuesday morning to inform them that the statewide voter registration system was down.
[NO SURPRISE IN THAT, IS THERE?]
According to Janice Evans, elections director for Brazoria County, it remained down at noon local time. That meant poll workers were unable to access information about a voter's registration status, likely leading many voters to have to cast provisional ballots.
A spokeswoman for the secretary of state's office said: "It's one less option for voters to find their polling place. It's now working intermittently."

And of course, a large but unknown number of voters WERE AGAIN disenfranchised by the ID law. Several Texans spoke to MSNBC Monday about the massive bureaucratic hurdles they went through as they tried UNSUCCESSFULLY to get ID.

In Harris County, the state's largest county, machines at several polling places weren't working. At the West Gray site near downtown Houston, where only two machines were working for much of the morning, some voters said they waited an hour and a quarter to cast a ballot.

Another nearby site was down entirely for the first hour of voting due to electrical problems. Maureen Haver, an election protection activist with Common Cause Texas, said voters who had to leave because of the delay were NOT offered the chance to cast a provisional ballot.

So not only is the state GOP's new "purposefully discriminatory" and "unconstitutional" polling place Photo ID restrictions (according to the federal judge who struck down the state's law after a full trial) causing problems for voters as expected and reported ALL OVER THE INTERNET, the 100% unverifiable electronic voting systems used in Harris County (Houston), a Democratic stronghold in the state, went down, leaving voters without the ability to vote at all.

[WHAT??? A DEMOCRATIC STRONGHOLD HAD ALL THESE PROBLEMS? I'M SURE THAT WAS MERE COINCIDENCE....NOT.]

PROBLEMS IN GEORGIA
MANY problems in Georgia where a progressive voter registration drive resulted in more than 100,000 new registrations in the Peach State, but where the Republican Sec. of State was simply denying charges that some 50,000 of those registrations never made it into the system. That problem --- and others related to it --- are undermining voters and election integrity in the state today...

Meanwhile in Georgia, thousands of voters were left in limbo and unsure whether they can cast a ballot because the secretary of state's office failed to process approximately 40,000 applications IN TIME.
A voter registration group sued the state to force it to act, but the suit was dismissed last month.
Making the problem worse, the secretary of state's website was not working for much of the morning, leaving voters unable to access information about their registration status and polling place.
Election Protection, a group that monitors voting problems, said it had received reports that voters have not been able to reach their board of elections.

[THERE ARE PROBLEMS? JUST DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE! <snicker, let 'em call! Nobody home! snicker...>

"This is completely unacceptable, especially in light of the unprocessed registrations in major counties and voter concerns about participating in this critical election," said Lawyers' Committee President and Executive Director Barbara Arnwine. "The state of Georgia had a responsibility to ensure that their website and phone resources were operational and available to voters at all times, yet the website continues to have ongoing problems."

[FOR THE GOP, "IT AIN'T BROKE, SO WE DON'T FIX IT!"]

UH-OH IN NORTH CAROLINA:
In North Carolina, which passed its own restrictive voting law last year, the wrong voter rolls were sent to a polling site just down the street from Bennett College, a historically black college in Greensboro, poll monitors said.
For a couple hours, monitors said, the proper rolls hadn't arrived, so voters were allowed to vote but it's unclear if they were able to cast ballots or vote provisionally.

In Boone, near Appalachian State University, poll monitors reported that some people were yelling at voters that they needed an ID to vote.
NOT TRUE!
In fact, the state's voter ID provision doesn't take effect until 2016.

And in another uh-oh situation, according to local news reports, two precincts in Cumberland County received the wrong thumb drives for the voting machines that were sent.

[WHAT? THOSE THUMB DRIVES WEREN'T APPROVED BY THE GOP? SHOCKING FAILURE ON SOME HACKER'S PART! ALL THOSE MACHINES SHOULD CAST REPUBLICAN BALLOTS!]

There was also evidence of the problems caused by a provision of the state's voting law that bans out-of-precinct voting, which used to be allowed in North Carolina. A video posted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund shows BLACK voters expressing confusion after being told they couldn't vote at the site they went to, despite having been able to do so in the past.

African-American voters are crucial to Democratic chances in close Senate races in North Carolina, AS WELL AS MOST SOUTHERN STATES.

The problems in North Carolina come on top of recent reports of votes flipping on 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting systems, which many voters are still forced to use in the Tar Heel State. The reports there, to date, have concerned votes flipping from the Democratic incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan to her Republican challenger Tom Tillis.

ARE YOU SEEING A PATTERN HERE YET?
BLACKS, STUDENTS, DEMOCRATS HAVING PROBLEMS, HAVING "VOTING ISSUES", BUT NOT THE REPUBLICAN CROWD?
YOU WILL SEE IT, IF YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE THE TRUTH.

ON TO ALABAMA:
An Alabama county notified a 92-year old woman Monday that her absentee ballot wouldn't count because her public housing ID isn't allowed under the law, according to Deuel Ross, a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
The woman has been voting at least since the 1960's, her daughter told Ross.
The NAACP argues such IDs should be allowed because housing officers are acting as federal agents. The law says any photo ID issued by the state or the U.S. is acceptable. But a lawyer for the Alabama secretary of state's office told Ross in an email Monday that it's the state's policy not to accept public housing IDs.

"It's really disappointing to be encountering voters who are ready and able to vote. who are being turned away because they lack voter ID, when they've voted in the past with a public housing ID," Ross said.

EXAMPLE 3:
IF THEY REGISTER AS DEMOCRATS, JUST ERASE THEIR NAMES!

ALL ACROSS THE NATION, PROBLEMS FOR THOSE WHO JUST MIGHT VOTE "DEMOCRAT"
The bulk of problems in elections often don't begin to reveal themselves until after the election, often days, weeks (or even longer) afterwards.

Voter Purges Focused on Voters of Color May Have Affected Election Results in Several States

The odd move by many election officials of removing voters from the rolls because their names matched another voter likely accounts for Republican victories in the Senate races in North Carolina and Colorado and the governor’s race in Kansas.

In North Carolina, where Republican Thom Tillis won over incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan by just 48,511 votes, the voter purging system known as Crosscheck tagged an alarming 589,393 North Carolinians as POSSIBLE "illegal double voters"  (though state elections officials cut that down to roughly "ONLY" 190,000), according to news reports.

In Colorado, where Republican Cory Gardner beat incumbent Democratic Senator Mark Udall, there were 300,842 of the state’s voters subject to being purged from the voter rolls.

While the public had been focused on Republican efforts to restrict voting by implementing voter ID laws, the stealth campaign was ongoing in 27 states to COMPLETELY ERASE millions of people — PARTICULARLY Blacks, Hispanics and Asians — from the rolls by claiming they are double voters who are committing fraud by voting in more than one state at a time, according to a nationwide investigation.

Interstate Crosscheck generated a list of nearly 7 million names of voters whose names also appear in another state — an "INDICATION" [NOT A PROVEN FACT!], according to state officials, that these voters are committing voter fraud by voting in more than one state. Though it’s not yet clear how many of those voters were stopped from voting on Nov. 4, officials had the potential to stop millions from voting in the midterm elections, which observers suspected helped to dramatically tilt the results in favor of the Republican Party.

In states like Virgina, more than 41,000 voters were removed from the rolls using the Crosscheck list.

After officials in three states — Georgia, Virginia and Washington — turned their Crosscheck lists over to  a news team, lists representing more than 2 million names, the publication was able to determine just how ridiculously inadequate the name-matching system used by Interstate Crosscheck is.

Crosscheck compiled its lists by matching names from roughly 110 million voter records from the 27 participating states, a process that has been spearheaded by Kansas’ controversial Republican secretary of state, Kris Kobach, who has made a name for himself as a crusader against voter fraud.

Of the 27 participating states, 20 have Republican secretaries of state, while seven are Democrats. The participating states are primarily concentrated in the South and Midwest.

[NO SURPRISE HERE, IF YOU'VE BEEN PAYING ATTENTION.]

But the news investigation showed middle names are commonly mismatched, suffix discrepancies are ignored, birth dates weren’t taken into account and the process deliberately ignores Social Security mismatches — in the few instances when the numbers are even collected.

In advising county election officials, Crosscheck’s instructions say, “Social Security numbers are included for verification; the numbers might or might not match.”

So ALL it really takes to become "SUSPECTED" of voter fraud — and potentially have your name scrubbed from the rolls so that you can’t vote — is to share a first and last name with a voter in another state.

North Carolina and Ohio have refused to release their Crosscheck lists, alleging that all the double counted voters, more than a million in the two states, are subjects of criminal investigation, which allows them to keep the information confidential.

[THAT'S A SLICK MOVE, A DIRTY TRICK, ILLEGAL AS ALL HELL IF ANYONE DRAGS THEM TO COURT, HOPEFULLY A FEDERAL COURT, AND HOPEFULLY NOT A REPUBLICAN JUDGE, BUT YOU HAVE TO HAND IT TO THE GOP, THEY'RE GETTING GOOD AT STOPPING AMERICANS FROM VOTING!]

Journalist Brad Friedman, who tracks vote suppression techniques state by state, said many of the so-called pre-election polling “errors” in predicting Democratic victories may actually have been Democratic votes lost to Crosscheck and several other vote suppression tactics such as Photo ID restrictions, missing voter registrations and a shortage of paper ballots.

Now that the PURGE of Crosscheck names has begun, election watchdogs predict it will likely have a bigger impact on the 2016 race than it did on the midterms.

For example in the state of Ohio, the ultimate presidential swing state, there are 469,201 voters on Ohio’s Crosscheck list. HOW MANY GET DELETED, scrubbed from the voter rolls could determine who will choose our next president: the voters or Crosscheck.

[MY MONEY IS ON CROSSCHECK BECAUSE THE GOP ALWAYS HAS MORE MONEY THAN IT NEEDS TO BUY OR CANCEL VOTES, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, ANY WAY IT HAS TO.]

EXAMPLE 5:
THE GOP WILL EAT THEIR OWN YOUNG!
WE SAW IT LIVE AT THE 2012 GOP CONVENTION!
WE WATCHED THE TOP DOGS IN THE GOP KICK OUT EVERY SINGLE DELEGATE TO THE CONVENTION WHO EVEN "SMELLED" LIKE GRASSROOTS MEMBERS, WHO EVEN SUGGESTED THE RON PAUL VOTES SHOULD ACTUALLY BE ANNOUNCED LIKE ALL THE OTHERS!

BUT NOW, THEY'RE TURNING ON WHAT WE ASSUMED WAS "THEIR OWN KIND" YET AGAIN!
"New House GOP Rule Could Complicate a Paul Ryan Presidential Bid"
The rule would require committee chairmen to resign their leadership posts if they were to run for another office such as for president or for the Senate.
The rule was offered by Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., and was passed by voice vote at a closed door GOP organizing conference. House Republicans who support it say the measure was not aimed at Ryan.

EXAMPLE 6;
THE QUEST TO WIN TRUMPS FAIR ELECTION POLICIES AND OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO VOTE, SANS "ID"!
As much as we might sympathize with those who lost, nobody can deny the fact that election laws are often bent and even blatantly broken in the election process.
The quest to win can AND OFTEN DOES trump all else!

Even more alarming is that it appears our federal Justice Department and top elected officials at both state and federal levels have been smitten with the same lack of good judgment and/or conscience.
They lack interest in taking stronger steps that would help facilitate BETTER election laws, resist enacting new laws that would help prevent the many ways voter fraud has been perpetrated [BY BOTH PARTIES, BUT MORE SO BY THE GOP, AS FACTCHECK HAD TO ADMIT], with the intent to influence the outcome of an election.
They don't want to piss-off their cronies, maybe???

VOTER FRAUD IS ALMOST NEVER COMMITTED BY VOTERS!
Voter fraud is not always detected, and even when it is there is a hesitancy by officials to take the case to trial.
Often, the result is more just a "slap on the hands, accompanied by a stiff (but meaningless) warning.
Those who get caught with a more serious violation and actually go to trial rarely receive a stiff penalty.  Thus, we continue to see our election rules and laws abused and/or "CHANGED" each election cycle so as to keep voters AWAY from the polls.

Perpetrators, especially those in high places, know there is a low risk of exposure and have even less concern of receiving a harsh penalty.

IT IS MORE RARE FOR MAINSTREAM MEDIA TO SPOTLIGHT WHICH ELECTION OFFICIALS, PARTY LOYALISTS, AND THEIR LACKEYS ARE GUILTY!

The one way for all of us to make sure our vote is not being canceled , or that voter fraud, vote manipulation, voter PURGES was not the reason for a candidate’s victory, is to demand our state and federal officials get serious about enacting strong laws --LAWS THAT APPLY ACROSS THE BOARD, THAT AREN'T CHANGED, THAT ARE NOT "ENFORCED' BY ANY ONE PARTY OR ITS MEMBERS, BUT ARE AGREED UPON BY THE AMERICAN VOTING MAJORITY, OVERSEEN BY A 50/50 OR NON-PARTISAN WATCHDOG GROUP....AND BY VOTERS THEMSELVES.

Voter registration offices throughout the country, in every state and every county, must PROVE WITHOUT A DOUBT that their registration lists have illegal names BEFORE THEY PURGE ANYTHING, and people must be given AMPLE time in states with voter ID requirements to prove they are legally registered voters before being DENIED a ballot.

If we attended to voting like we do to registering for the draft, every 18-year-old in America could be registered to vote, EVERY YEAR!

WE COULD REGISTER GRADUATING SENIORS TO VOTE AS EASILY AS WE HAND THEM DIPLOMAS!

WE COULD "PRE-REGISTER" EVERY CHILD BORN IN AMERICA AND THAT CHILD WOULD AUTOMATICALLY BE ISSUED A DAMNED VOTER ID, IF HIS/HER STATE REQUIRED IT, AT AGE 18.

SOUNDS SIMPLE, AND IT WOULD BE, BUT SOME DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO PREVENT THE SIMPLE FROM HAPPENING, DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO STOP VOTER REGISTRATION, TO MAKE IT COMPLICATED, and, of the two major parties, REPUBLICAN leaders just don't seem to want to MAKE SURE that every eligible voter within our borders is EASILY registered to vote.

Attorney General Eric Holder publicly vowed to aggressively challenge voter I.D. laws.  MANY have challenged those MANDATORY IDs and WON!

There are better, faster, easier ways to register ALL who want to vote, ALL who are ELIGIBLE.
EVERY CHILD BORN IN AMERICA, IN 18 YEARS, WILL BE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE!
ALL WHO HAVE ALREADY PASSED THAT MILESTONE ARE ELIGIBLE NOW!

IS VOTER FRAUD, BY AMERICAN VOTERS, RARE?
"RARER THAN A HEN'S TEETH!"
When Florida State officials used the excuse that their voter registration records needed to be purged of those who were "illegally listed, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sued the state, alleging that its purge of voters is illegal.

IT BECAME A JOKE!
POLITIFACT AND OTHERS LIKE THEM PROVED THAT GETTING BITTEN BY A SHARK HAPPENED FAR MORE OFTEN IN FLORIDA THAN SOME VOTER TRYING TO VOTE "ILLEGALLY"!
THE NUMBERS PROVED FLORIDA WAS LYING!

OF ALL INDIVIDUAL VOTERS IN ALL ELECTIONS IN THE U.S. , LESS THAT .1% HAVE EVER EVEN ATTEMPTED ELECTION FRAUD!
LESS THAN .1%, POINT-ONE PERCENT.
THANK GOD THAT FEW PEOPLE ARE STUPID IN AMERICA!

The newly appointed Attorney General, as yet unconfirmed, Loretta Lynch, AGREES WITH HOLDER...SUCH PRACTICES AS FLORIDA TRIED ARE ILLEGAL.

AMERICANS HAVE BEEN VOTING FOR OVER 200 YEARS WITHOUT VOTER IDs.

IN ANOTHER BLOG, OR TEN, I SHOWED GOVERNMENT AND 'WATCHDOG GROUPS' STATISTICS ON HOW FEW VOTERS, AMERICAN VOTERS,  EVER TRIED TO VOTE WHEN THEY HAD NO PROOF THEY WERE ENTITLED TO VOTE.
WHY WOULD THEY?

COMPARED TO THE VAST NUMBER OF AMERICANS WHO ARE QUITE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE, THOSE WHO ARE NOT ELIGIBLE ARE INSANELY FEW!
WE WON'T COUNT CHILDREN, OF COURSE, JUST 'ADULTS', OVER THE AGE OF 18.

THINK ABOUT IT!
HOW MANY "ILLEGALS" DO YOU THINK ARE LIVING IN AMERICA?
THAT NUMBER IS 11 MILLION!
LESS THAN HALF ARE OF VOTING AGE, NARROWING IT DOWN TO ABOUT 5 1/2 MILLION WHO WOULD NEVER BE DUMB ENOUGH TO TRY TO REGISTER FOR FEAR OF BEING DEPORTED.
THE GOP NEVER TELLS YOU THAT.

NOW THINK AGAIN...PLEASE!
HOW MANY "JOHN SMITHS", "JOE BROWNS", "JANE JONESES", OR "MARY WILLIAMSES",ETC,  DO YOU THINK WERE ERASED FROM VOTER ROLLS SIMPLY BECAUSE THEIR NAMES WERE THE SAME AS PEOPLE IN OTHER STATES, OTHER COUNTIES, OTHER TOWNS?
MORE THAN 5 MILLION?
MORE THAN THOSE ILLEGAL ALIENS?
YES, YES INDEED!

IT'S NOT VOTERS, IT'S THOSE WHO WANT ALL THE VOTES WHO TRY FRAUD!
AND, FOR THE MOST PART, JUST THE FACTS SHOW THAT THE GOP HAS BEEN GUILTY OF FRAUD EVERY ELECTION FAR MORE OFTEN, IN FAR GREATER NUMBERS THAN DEMOCRATS CAN HOPE TO MUSTER.

WHEN THE GOP CONTROLS THE MAJORITY OF STATE ELECTION OFFICIAL POSITIONS, STATE JUDGES, SECRETARIES OF STATE AND GOVERNORS, WHAT ELSE CAN WE EXPECT?

WITH ENOUGH MONEY AND ENOUGH GOP MEMBERS IN HIGH PLACES, AND WITH THE REPUBLICANS ABOUT TO CONTROL ALL OF CONGRESS, IF ANY OF US GET TO VOTE NEXT ELECTION, WE WILL ALMOST HAVE TO BE REGISTERED REPUBLICANS.
WHITE REPUBLICANS, FINANCIALLY 'SUPPORTING THE PARTY WITH SIZABLE DONATIONS', AND SUPPORTING THE WEALTHY WHO SUPPORT THE GOP BY PAYING THEIR TAXES FOR THEM, BY SUBSIDIZING THE BANKS THEY USE, BY PAYING THEM TO TAKE AMERICAN JOBS OUT OF AMERICA.

I MAY NOT GET TO VOTE (I'M NON-PARTISAN, NO PARTY AFFILIATION), BUT IF I DON'T GET TO VOTE, I'LL BE THE OLD "CRAZY" MARCHING UP AND DOWN WITH MY WALKER ACROSS FROM THE POLLING PLACE, SCREAMING MY HEAD OFF THAT I'VE BEEN ROBBED OF MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO CAST A VOTE AS A NATIVE-BORN AMERICAN CITIZEN OF LEGAL VOTING AGE AND WITH PROOF OF RESIDENCY!
AND I WILL NOT USE NICE LANGUAGE WHEN I CURSE THE GOP WITH EVERY BREATH I DRAW!

DEMOCRATS WANT YOU TO VOTE, WILL EVEN DRIVE YOU TO THE POLLS, BUT THE GOP WILL BE THERE WITH EVERY TRICK THEY CAN COME UP WITH TO KEEP YOU OUT!
YES, DEMOCRATS HAVE INDEED BEEN CAUGHT MANIPULATING THE VOTE, JUST NOT IN HUGE NUMBERS LIKE THE GOP.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE, AMERICA?
THERE'S AN "ELEPHANT" BLOCKING VOTERS FROM BALLOT BOXES, THAT'S WHAT'S WRONG.

VOTE!
NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES, VOTE!
AND SHOW BOTH PARTIES THAT YOU'RE SICK TO DEATH OF THIS TWO-PARTY SYSTEM!
FIND HONEST MEN OR WOMEN TO GO AGAINST "THE OLD GUARD"!
ELECT THEM!

KICK THE LIARS AND CHEATERS OUT!
SAVE AMERICA FROM THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM!
SAVE YOURSELVES!



SOURCES:

http://www.thenation.com/blog/171146/gops-failed-voter-suppression-strategy

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/09/28/ohio-voter-suppression-efforts-may-galvanizing-african-american-voters/wEaaMnxD2fFhm87Pkp5t4M/story.html

http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/sites/default/files/ssn_key_findings_minnite_on_the_myth_of_voter_fraud.pdf

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/29/the-voter-fraud-myth

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwasik/2012/11/06/voter-fraud-a-massive-anti-democratic-deception/

http://cis.org/Illegal

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/problems-reported-polls-vary-state-state

http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2012/mar/02/aclu-florida/shark-attacks-are-more-common-voter-fraud-florida/

http://www.lessgovisthebestgov.com/Republican-National-Convention-rules-changes.html

http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/06/ron-pauls-maine-nevada-and-iowa-victorie

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/new-house-gop-rule-could-complicate-paul-ryan-presidential-bid-n248801

http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/11/16/voter-purges-focused-voters-color-may-affected-election-results-several-states/

https://www.gop.com/platform/