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CNN--According to a new CNN poll out Thursday, two-thirds of Americans surveyed agree that the current Congress is the worst in their lifetime. Nearly three-quarters of respondents — rich and poor, young and old, Democrats and Republicans — agreed this is a “do-nothing” Congress.

 

 

WB7--I disagree. I think this Vichy Congress does plenty in the destruction of civil liberties department and is the absolute worst ever when it comes to protecting our Constitution.

 

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Fri, 12/27/2013 - 12:58 | 4279267 the grateful un...
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the new year is going to more of the same. the economy does not drive the stock market, the stock market runs the economy (bob prechter, who must have read lewis carroll) the economy and stocks and money have disconnected. big story of december, retail sales fall but wall street doesn't care.

if they can run this economy with only 90% participation, they can run it with 80% or 50%. if presidents can get elected and reelected with 45% of the people supporting them, they can do it with 35%. you might say, wait a minute isn't someone or something else there to represent the missing 65%. not necessarily. is bush different than obama (answer : only until he is elected)

bureaucrats now run THIS country (wmb7 on Japan) we have become everything Japanese, except gracious and polite and willing to step down after a huge mistake (well even the Japanese don't fall on their sword any more). the only thing the individual can do is drop out (and as you can see, they're prepared for that, in fact they're even planning on it, they have crafted a policy by which you and i will simply cease being citizens, and become persona non gratis.)

they figured out how to tax you based on consumption rather than wage and salary earnings. funny how they figured that out, but they didn't figure out a way to keep everything moving when the jobs disappeared. its a remarkable age everything is out in the open for everyone to see, with no chance of changing anything. all you can do is walk away (Ken Kesey in his speech at Berkeley on the Vietnam war) now my two cents, there is no change, just more of the same, if you see something happening (QE) consider what will happen if it continues to happen just the way it is.

the moneyed interests continue to inflate their own net value through purchases of their own commodity, money. they print a dollar and then pay a dollar and ten cents to buy it. they call that a profit. eventually they will corner the market like the Hunt brothers in silver. maybe they already have, but then the cyber currencies arrive, just in time to make the old government fiat currency policy make them look like pikers.

after that we're all on our own i guess. land cattle and gold, just like the 1800s. a time of independent freedom and action.

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 03:36 | 4278615 blindman
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mr. morrison
WHENEVER GOD SHINES HIS LIGHT - VAN MORRISOn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuzVwiL1i5M

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 03:05 | 4278598 blindman
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Van Morrison - That's Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r950BgJ8CYM

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 02:40 | 4278587 LawyerScum
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"The more laws and edicts are imposed, the more thieves and bandits there will be."- Lao Tzu

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 05:06 | 4278589 williambanzai7
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Indeed. But the modern version goes beyond this. First they pass a farce and call it a solution.

A solution loaded with loopholes that defer action to bureaucrats.

The bureaucrats are all on the revolving door conveyor belt so their primary im-pest-us is to appear to be doing something when they are in fact doing nothing at all...That is what FrankenDodd is all about. One big legislative three card monte.

Unless it involves ramming an unconstitutional two by four up our asses.

In that department they are most efficacious busy bodies.

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 11:37 | 4279020 akarc
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"A solution loaded with loopholes that defer action to bureaucrats."

Which was the downfall of the Soviet Union and will be/is here.

The Devil is always in the details.

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 02:14 | 4278575 q99x2
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They are criminals and the military is preparing to hit them.

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 02:08 | 4278572 ebworthen
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N.S.A. ignoring the Fourth Amendment, CONgress bailing out banks/corporations/insurers while insider trading and calling Corzine "Honorable", and the Supine Kangaroo Court nullifying the Fifth Amendment to allow the seizure of private property by Corporations in Collusion with Government.

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 00:25 | 4278495 blindman
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"you have to pass the bill to find out what is in it."
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this statement from a legislator is grounds for impeachment
at least, perhaps a statement indicting treason or
terrorism from the top demanding a harsher punishment.
that the level of intellect which would come to such a conclusion
is accepted in government today should tell any thinking person
exactly what the main problem is and what the solution must be.
impeach the government! all of the lying, stealing fraudsters
practicing abuse of public trust for personal profit.
we have the jail space.

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 00:42 | 4278510 williambanzai7
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They really don't care what is in it.

All they care about now is what the script that is handed to them says.

The script they all use for their townhall bullshit sessions.

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 01:31 | 4278544 blindman
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mark my words, the bastards will not get away with it,
"not on my watch baby." mr. panos !

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 11:40 | 4279025 akarc
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Actually they will.

As it was, is and shall be.

Our history is that of allowing them to gget away with it.

Sun, 12/29/2013 - 12:49 | 4283206 blindman
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‘Mossad, Bush planned, executed 9/11’
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/12/28/mossad-bush-planned-executed-911/
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"Recent revelations published on the Press TV website, the New York Post and Veterans Today have changed history.
The story was simple, two American congressional representatives were allowed to read the Congressional 9/11 Investigation Report, this time including the areas President Bush had ordered removed. Both congressmen clearly state that the redacted pages of the report place full responsibility for the planning and execution of 9/11 on one or more foreign intelligence agencies, not “terrorists.”" ... g.d.

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 00:11 | 4278475 dinkum
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Two things you should see being made: sausages and laws. 

Omnibus laws that directly affect my work are often oral when voted upon due to the delay in printing the final draft. Then there are thousands of amendments that would take many 80 work weeks to skim existing applicable laws and the new law. 

CNN: "Nearly three-quarters of respondents — rich and poor, young and old, Democrats and Republicans — agreed this is a “do-nothing” Congress."

Since this has been an extreme "do-something" Congress, this could have been a push/pull poll or the respondents were unsophisticated.

 



 

 

 

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 00:21 | 4278492 williambanzai7
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It is very interesting that most people/iMorons think the problem is they are doing nothing.

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 11:41 | 4279031 Boxed Merlot
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It is very interesting that most people/iMorons think the problem is they are doing nothing...

 

 

If true, this is most depressing.  I suspect CNN's doing another "look at me" Garuda with this report.

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 22:44 | 4278311 Yes_Questions
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all the while passing fewer laws than most CONgress's.

 

I guess they do have their priorities straight.

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 22:36 | 4278288 wisehiney
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Robert Munford died in 1783.

Munford himself was accused of being a Tory, in spite of his strong record in the assembly in favor of independence, and was therefore especially vehement in his condemnation of those who equated loudly proclaimed patriotic rhetoric with true patriotism.

 "I hope my zeal against tyranny will not be shewn by bawling against it, but by serving my country against her enemies; and never may I signalize my attachment to liberty by persecuting innocent men, only because they differ in opinion with me."

Though Munford was not an advocate for revolution by war, when it came, he fought in defense of Virginia, and was unquestionably a patriot. In his poem "A Patriotic Song," meant to be sung to the tune of "Derry Down," Munford wrote:                                                                                                                                             We'll drink our own liquor, our brandy from peaches,
A fig for the English, they may kiss all our breeches.
Those blood-sucking, beer-drinking puppies retreat;
But our peach-brandy fellows can never be beat.

 

Especially Christmas Brandy?


Thu, 12/26/2013 - 21:53 | 4278210 janus
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okay, so, i've given this a bit of thought -- a dangerous thing indeed!

i reckon it's Bible-time...right, so, i promise to stop hereafter -- but, as i believe i've said, tis the season.  and though i've been slightly slanted to the glory of Christ; i haven't, in point of fact, gone into Holy Scripture and/or its particulars.  just praise for The Lamb of God.

so now i'll address the omission:

way-way back in times yonder, back even before the days of goshen (but not so shortly before it), there lived a man in a land called cannan...this would be jacob, later named israel; the one who contendeth at the river jordan, and whose gait was forever thereafter crimped in remembrance of it. he had twelve sons; one of whom wore a coat of many colors...hated at first of his brothers.  a dreamer of dreams.  

his murder at first plotted by simeon; judah later intervening so-to sell him into slavery, into the hands of egyptian nomads, to later serve in the house of pharaoh did this son of perdition spin within the swirl of fate and pernicious fortune. yet he rose within it. until, that is, pharaoh's wife took a shyin to him; and young joseph didn't in kind respond.  

as you can guess, joseph's ass was summarily tossed in prision.  you don't jilt a powerful woman and expect to escape unscathed.  

i'll cut to the chase...joseph wouldn't get it through his thick head that dreaming dreams and revealing said dreams will git you summarily thrown into a hot, boiling pot.  so he told of some dreams to his fellow female-pisser-offers...some baker, some vintner, some candle-stick-maker...fellow in-mates, if you get my drift.  lo and behold, this baker, or maybe it was the vintner, told ole pharaoh of this dreamer; and, wouldn't you know it, ole pharaoah remembered his second in command rather favorably; mrs. pharaoh's slander notwithstanding.

so joseph thought it proper ettiquite and an acceptably well-mannered proposition to dream some kinda special dream -- so-as to impress the pharaoh -- in anticipation of the meeting.

here's the long and short of the dream: 7 years of plenty followed by 7 years of lean.  there are there deliniated in scriputure grim details -- each more metaphorically gory than the last -- vivid in their wording and haunting in their poingnancy.  the pharaoh got it.  

i'll stop there in the saga; lots a shit follows; moses doesn't come for quite a while; and other things besides happen.  its's just that i thought of that Bible story when setting my mind to such what's most relevant...i thought it was gonna be shadrack, meshack and abednigo...but i came round to joseph, the dreamer of dreams -- the seven emaciated cows and the seven sallow wheat-stalks and the seven swallowed others...7 years of plenty & 7 years of sorrow.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX7Zsd4QKNA

who's up for some more white stripes?...me too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiEoxktOoHg

aw, hell, 1 + 1, etc,,,=3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4bOVZkW7gs

well, any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most/

but you know that you love at all if you're thinkin of the Holy Ghost,

janus

 

 

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 22:38 | 4278298 Bernankenstein
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Potiphar's wife jilted Joseph, not Pharaoh's

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 22:53 | 4278344 janus
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indeed you're correct...i stand corrected...and i also concede that it's no small error.

it's a long story; and i was flying ahead to the place i was aiming.

i've always wondered whether or not potiphar's wife was hot...that would make a big difference in the story -- almost as big a difference as if she were mrs. pharaoh.

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 21:45 | 4278196 Reaper
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They are protecting the criminal acts of the government. The fourth amendment states, "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated... particularly describing the place to be searched..." You are not secure and are violated if they record all your communications(effects/papers).

The President and almost all of them fail their oath "to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the US." They allow Obama to churn out a hundred thousand regulations which are laws with punishments, both civil and criminal, which should only be discussed and enacted by Congress.

They are swine filling a government trough from which they fatten. They protect a corrupt judiciary, by failing to hear and act on citizens complaints.

Under federal law, they are Principals (enablers)who allow the NSA to search effects and Obama to kill foreigners with drones in violation of US law.

Their crimes are 18 U.S. Code § 2 - Principals (a) Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal.
(b) Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal.

18 U.S. Code § 1111 - Murder (a) Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait, or any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing;

They are criminals aiding, abetting, and commanding the NSA criminal acts and the murder of non-combatants in violation of 18 U.S. Code § 2441 - War crimes
(a) Offense.— Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b),
(b) Circumstances.— The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are that the person committing such war crime or the victim of such war crime is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or a national of the United States (as defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act). ...
(d) Common Article 3 Violations.—
(1) Prohibited conduct.
(D) Murder.— The act of a person who intentionally kills, or conspires or attempts to kill, or kills whether intentionally or unintentionally in the course of committing any other offense under this subsection, one or more persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including those placed out of combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause.

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 11:50 | 4279050 akarc
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We all know "they committ crimes.

We all know the crimes they commit.

We all know that nothing that occurs today is as it was supposed to be.

We do know and we have known.

And WE DO NOTHING! 

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 07:48 | 4278725 WTFx10
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But you forget the trump card

Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/mayer_amschel_rothschild_quote_8bed

Have had control for 100 yrs,

Happy Birthday

Either the FED or Jesus your choice and have a Happy New Year.

We know they will

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 21:31 | 4278176 nmewn
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Personally, I would prefer it do absolutely nothing, as opposed to what it usually does...which is infringe on our liberties, hell, at this point I would pay and/or bribe them to stop.

Of course, there's always lamposts ;-)

"Et nunc latae non modo in commune sed in singulis et corruptissima re publica plurimae leges cum pluribus."- Gaius Cornelius Tacitus

(And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.)

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 12:14 | 4279141 PoliticalRefuge...
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.."never try to teach a pig to sing, it irritates the pig and wastes your time"..

 

I say go straight to the lamp post solution.

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 22:00 | 4280750 nmewn
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You're probably right.

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 21:25 | 4278165 blindman
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"political language ... is designed to make lies sound
truthful and murder respectable, and to give an
appearance of solidity to pure wind." george orwell
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^

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 20:50 | 4278089 Walt D.
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WB - you need another cartoon churning out regulations - far more pernicious.

 

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 01:41 | 4278547 williambanzai7
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It is well known in Japan that the bureaucrats run the country. The politicians make noises and come and go, but the bureaucrats remain there pulling levers in the shadows. They control the power structure and they are in an incestuous symbiotic relationship with industy and the wealthy class. They have also refined the science of the revolving door masterfully. You go through the door once and it is referred to as a kind of heaven.

I have come to realise that we are emulating their model in many ways, not vis a versa. 

Notice how all the Wall Streeters rotate into the regulatory apparatus and not politics. Corzine was an aberration. True power resides in the unelected bureaucracy. They are accountable to their enablers and no one else.

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 21:16 | 4278141 logicalman
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Once a bureaucrat makes a regulation he's out of a job, unless he can come up with a new one!

Welcome to the world we live in.

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 23:07 | 4278373 blindman
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i would say that once a legislator makes a regulation
law by the voting process
he creates a regulatory job for a bureaucrat or two.
the bureaucrats don't make the laws, they attempt to
monitor and enforce compliance. they may have input
in the wording and authorship but they don't have the
authority to make any law, not in the system i know.
the legislators, executives and judiciary hire the
bureaucrats into employment in broad daylight.
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check out this review of the circumstances in
puerto rico, government by crime syndicate
tax free to the point of canary collapse.
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Saturday December 21 12:00pm
Economic Update
http://archive.wbai.org/#ankor106

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 11:51 | 4279064 akarc
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 "they attempt to
monitor and enforce compliance. "

And can profit well by the manner in which they do it. 

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 20:55 | 4278095 blindman
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regulation falls under the heading of law.
as in many things it is not the quantity that
sustains but the quality.

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 21:24 | 4278110 Fredo Corleone
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Von Bismarck's sausage-manufacturing analogy is, of course, the European equivalent...perhaps a tad bit messier, but likely similarly unpalatable to observe in motion.

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 03:06 | 4278061 blindman
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"when plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living
together in society, they create for themselves in the course of
time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that
glorifies it." frederic bastiat
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36506.htm

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 20:06 | 4278001 blindman
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18568.htm
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The 545 People Responsible For All Of U.S. Woes

BY Charley Reese

(Date of publication unknown)-- -- - Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code. Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy. Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 235 million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. ....."

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 20:45 | 4278080 logicalman
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A Brit, dealing with the UK tax authorities......

A guy in UK had his tax return sent back to him.

In answer to the question: Do you have anyone dependent on you replied:

2.1 million illegal immigrants,
1.1 million crack-heads
4.4 million unemployable scroungers
900,000 criminals in 85 prisons
650 idiots in Parliament and the whole of the European Commission

His response was deemed unacceptable.

In response, he asked "Who did I miss out?"

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 13:37 | 4279420 25or6to4
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Besides every employee with the UK tax authorities...I don't know. Maybe they are included with the 4.4 million unemployable scourgers figure along with every other government employee.

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 00:14 | 4278479 4 wheel drift
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i think i am late in responding to this...   my idea was to include those whom "pure evil" included....  but i will add...   (since he missed them)....

THE ROYAL FAMILY and the entire charade of 'come-alongs" on the delution that the monarchy is the "english thing".....   what a bunch of morrons paying for (and allowing) the entire country to pay for this "monarchy" on the basis that they are .... WHAT ?  unique ?   what on earth PRACTICAL reason do they serve..... ????    "tradition"   -lol on the back of normal taxpayers....   creating an 'imaginary island' of 18th century (outdated) shitheads.......     gezzzzuuussss  what an idiocy.....   much like tha USA  homeland "security"   goons.....     bullshit for the 'crap-eaters'  ('beef-eaters'  ?   -LOL

the scam keeps expanding.....  thanks to a self-delutional populi....

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 00:12 | 4278478 4 wheel drift
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i think i am late in responding to this...   my idea was to include those whom "pure evil" included....  but i will add...   (since he missed them)....

THE ROYAL FAMILY and the entire charade of 'come-alongs" on the delution that the monarchy is the "english thing".....   what a bunch of morrons paying for (and allowing) the entire country to pay for this "monarchy" on the basis that they are .... WHAT ?  unique ?   what on earth PRACTICAL reason do they serve..... ????    "tradition"   -lol on the back of normal taxpayers....   creating an 'imaginary island' of 18th century (outdated) shitheads.......     gezzzzuuussss  what an idiocy.....   much like tha USA  homeland "security"   goons.....     bullshit for the 'crap-eaters'  ('beef-eaters'  ?   -LOL

the scam keeps expanding.....  thanks to a self-delutional populi....

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 23:06 | 4278370 Pure Evil
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He missed all the worthless bureaucrats at the tax office and the remainder of the tax parasites working in the UK government.

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 23:59 | 4278459 Hulk
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Good Catch !!! And they said pure evil was bad...

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 22:55 | 4278338 Yes_Questions
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Oh I am so going to steal this for my periodic correspondance with the Treasury's Reapers.

 

 

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 20:07 | 4277997 El Vaquero
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Do nothing congress?  They do plenty.  They just get nothing useful done while they're at it. 

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 20:00 | 4277987 blindman
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Thursday December 26 3:00pm
Sojourner Truth
http://archive.wbai.org/#ankor1
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the law as rarely discussed in
polite company.
minute 4:00 to end ....
the democratic republic is prohibited
in our legal system?

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 18:12 | 4277781 George Washington
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Yessir, WB ... you hit the nail on the head!

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 22:50 | 4278321 Yes_Questions
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and my best to you and yours this holiday season!

 

thanks for the work you do.

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 18:22 | 4277810 InTheLandOfTheBlind
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damn straight

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 21:16 | 4278138 philipat
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William, I still can't see the pictures using any Browser. I'm finding it difficult to get through the dyas without the laughs. I am having this problem with no other site or indeed anything else in ZH. But everyone else seems to be seeing through Flickr OK so I'm begining to wonder if the problem might be with some of my settings. So that I can explore the latter with a professional (I've tried everything I know how to do including disabling all the tracking protection and https default) could you kindly advise if this pproblem is unique to me or if others are having the same problem?

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