Thursday, June 30, 2005
Too many shoppers crowding the
freeways shopping at Wal-mart.
This giant is poisoning our economy,
and bringing our nation to it's knees.
STOP WAl-mart now !
Change America (Sign the pledge)
Ten Reasons to Not Shop at Wal-Mart
Wake-Up Wal-Mart: Always High Costs
Wal-Mart is the largest employer in the world with over $10 billion in profits.
Yet, Wal-Mart lowers our wages, ships our jobs overseas...
read what the Republican Hacks are saying.~MK
Why would Democrats fight a discount store?
By Bud Kennedy / Star-Telegram Staff Writer
Wal-Mart's planned Arlington expansion does, in fact, create some really strange bedfellows.
posted by txpoollover, June 30, 2005 16:07 | link | comments
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Everyday, and almost every traffic
light, I observe a harried motorist,
in a hurry, zoom through a traffic light.
Somethings got to give shoppers!
Leave the cell phone alone and stay,
stop, slow down, wait for the green
light. ~ MK
Smile for the camera
Fort Worth, considers cameras to catch motorists
who blow the red lights.
The traffic light turns green, and you head through the intersection. You suddenly glimpse a big, blurry, fast-moving object to your left. Then it happens before you can react. Wham! It's a jolt like you've never felt before. You've just been walloped by a red light runner whose desire to save 60 seconds eclipsed any concern for your safety. You could wind up dead or seriously injured in such a situation. Or, if you're more fortunate, you might be left with only minor injuries, a badly damaged vehicle, frayed nerves and extreme anger toward the irresponsible motorist who clobbered you. Each year in the United States, nearly 200,000 people are injured and more than 900 die in crashes that involve red light running, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Star-Telegram
posted by txpoollover, June 29, 2005 15:26 | link | comments
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Boycott all news and network TV
Watch or hear Democracy Now!:
The time is now to TCB ~ MK
Take our Country Back !
Democratic National Committee
Take Action. Contribute; Latest Actions; Raise Money; Build Your Team; Register to
Vote; Alert the Media; Be a Grassroots Partner
This morning, on the Democratic Party's brand new web site, I made my commitment to reform the political process and change the way political parties are financed.
I got my 'Democracy Bond'.
posted by txpoollover, June 28, 2005 15:00 | link | comments
Monday, June 27, 2005
This past weekend my friend Siesta,
came to visit. I should say she really
just came to nap , sleep, or have a
long "siesta". While her thumb-sucking
12 year old "baby" watched cartoons, I
was busy with my chores and running
errands.
Siesta awoke from the "nap" and went
to Wal-mart. If I had known she had
intended to go there ,to do anything ,
other than protest or shop-lift, I would
have stopped her. She lost $60 there,
or a dishonest underpaid emoloyee,
cheated her. It could be her spoiled ,
obese, 21st century tv brat, took the money.
Boycott, all of network T.V.,including cartoons,
Mostly,Don't shop Wal-mart shoppers! ~MK
(today I am sending my neice a birthday card,and a
$20 bill, and a note "please don't spend at Wal-mart")
WORK FOR WAL-MART? YOU MAY NEED WELFARE
Maria Luisa Tucker, AlterNet
Thousands of low-wage Wal-Mart workers are on public
assistance. Many state lawmakers say it's time the
megastore was forced to provide affordable employee health
insurance.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22298/
More Wal-mart in the news:
Walmart_Expands_to_Open_In_Europe
posted by txpoollover, June 27, 2005 07:51 | link | comments
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Is this the answer to our media problem?
Independent World Television
Independent World Television is building the world’s first global independent news network. Online and on TV, IWTnews will deliver independent news and real debate from professional and citizen journalists -– without funding from governments, corporations or commercial advertising. Using the web to organize and raise funds across borders, IWTnews is building an international movement for democracy.
posted by txpoollover, June 25, 2005 13:52 | link | comments
Friday, June 24, 2005
Do you know that, in the U.S.,
we do not have a free press?
you will get fake news, and stupid
reports disguised as news ,on
corporate owned media.
Take Back The Media! Who Owns The Media?
| The US Media - bought, paid for, and working against the public interest. Take Back The Media will call the Corporate Media to account and remind them of ... |
We do not have Freedom of the press
watch, or listen to:
| About Free Speech TV The Nation's First Progressive Television Channel Free Speech TV reaches over 17 million homes in the US. What Democracy Looks Like ... www.freespeech.org/fsitv/html/aboutus.shtml - 17k - Jun 23, 2005 |
Democracy Now!: radio and TV news
posted by txpoollover, June 24, 2005 16:47 | link | comments
Thursday, June 23, 2005
STOP WAL~MART !
coming to a parking lot near you
www.walmartmovie.com
A Call For Accountability At Wal-Mart
Help PurpleOcean.com
Help us take our campaign to the next level by voting on our next steps!
http://factchecker.purpleocean.org/answer/
41d87161b767d046e1968cca06c313c0
posted by txpoollover, June 23, 2005 13:46 | link | comments
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
DOING SOMETHING ABOUT WAL-MART
Danny Glover, AlterNet
The renowned actor describes how Wal-Mart puts children
around the world at risk -- and tells how we can help hold
the megastore accountable.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22246/
Sign the petition, Tell Wal-mart
you are not going to support
their abuses.~MK
Low Prices — At What Cost?
Download the Factsheet (PDF)
posted by txpoollover, June 22, 2005 06:06 | link | comments
Monday, June 20, 2005
Just back from the Democracyfest '05
One thing I got out of it was people
are pissed off and tired of the Bullshit
we are handed by the media.
One solution by Google from this
article from Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian :
What does the truth look like? Google, the company last week confirmed as the biggest media firm on the planet, rather hopes that it reads something like this: WO 2005/029368.
That's the number of one of several patents filed in the US recently by the Californian internet giant. According to that patent,
Google is for the first time planning to rank news stories according to their accuracy and reliability
as well as their topicality.
posted by txpoollover, June 20, 2005 13:39 | link | comments
Friday, June 17, 2005
This morning I am on my way to Austin, Texas
for the 3 day Program for DemocracyFest 2005
We are taking back Texas and America!
posted by txpoollover, June 17, 2005 06:02 | link | comments
Thursday, June 16, 2005
DEBATING DOWNING STREET
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Today on Capitol Hill, John Conyers will host an urgent and
long-awaited public hearing about the implications of the
Downing Street Memo.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22235/
more here: http://hellointhere.motime.com/1118893955#464151
posted by txpoollover, June 16, 2005 04:03 | link | comments
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Shoppers take a look at all the
stupid chinese made crap we are
buying. Is it worth it? Do you want
to subsidize Wal-mart and it's abuses?
Do you want to fund Chinese sweatshops?~MK
(read this, below, I know it's not a real story, but it could be true)
Chinese Factory Worker Can't Believe The Shit He Makes For Americans
FENGHUA, CHINA—Chen Hsien, an employee of Fenghua Ningbo Plastic Works Ltd., a plastics factory that manufactures lightweight household items for Western markets, expressed his disbelief Monday over the "sheer amount of shit Americans will buy."
from : The Onion | America's Finest News Source
A farcical newspaper
read the latest Wake-Up Wal-Mart: Always High Costs:
Last week, Wal-Mart’s CEO Lee Scott said, "Not everyone is going to love us, and not everyone should." Why shouldn’t people love you Mr. Scott? Maybe it’s because Wal-Mart has no respect for people, for communities, or for what it means to be American.
Just look at a few stories from this week.
posted by txpoollover, June 15, 2005 12:54 | link | comments
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
The Republican led Propaganda machine will not let up on Howard Dean.
Give-em Hell Howard! - We finally have some spine in the Democratic party.
Dean a master politician at work
read :http :// www.corante.com/moores lore/archives/037050print.html
posted by txpoollover, June 14, 2005 04:09 | link | comments
Monday, June 13, 2005
The big news is out, I am sure this will
dominate all the corporate news media.
Michael Jackson is acquitted.
I have not closely followed this case.
My only comment is "outrage".
We have to be outraged at what is
happening to this country.
Priests not being prosecuted , molestation
crimes covered up by the Catholic Church.
The US government has never been
more corrupt and in the pocket of
huge corporations. An Unjust war,
1700 U.S. dead and counting thousands
more killed in Iraq. Proof that facts
were fixed, not being reported.
Alternate: War on Iraq: After Downing Street
You won't read or hear about this on the news.
You will hear about a 46 year old pervert
that was allowed to walk again for plying
"Jesus Juice" to children and sleeping with
children. Will the truth ever get out?~ MK
posted by txpoollover, June 13, 2005 16:32 | link | comments
Sunday, June 12, 2005
This was the Outrage of the 20th Century,
A Murderer is allowed to walk free.
The Outrage of the 21st century is going
on now.. read: http://hellointhere.motime.com/
| 1994 O.J. Simpson is accused of killing ex-wife Nicole, and Ron Goldman
Nicole Brown Simpson, famous football player O.J. Simpson's ex-wife, and her friend Ron Goldman are brutally stabbed to death outside Nicole's home in Brentwood, California, in what quickly becomes one of the most highly publicized trials of the century. With overwhelming evidence against him, including a prior record of domestic violence towards Brown, O.J. Simpson became the chief suspect. Although he had agreed to turn himself in, Simpson escaped with friend A.C. Cowlings in his white Ford Bronco on June 17. He was carrying his passport, a disguise, and $10,000 in cash. Simpson's car was spotted that afternoon, but he refused to surrender immediately. Threatening to kill himself, he led police in a low-speed chase through the freeways of Los Angeles as the entire nation watched on television. Eventually, Simpson gave himself up at his home in Brentwood. |
posted by txpoollover, June 12, 2005 14:27 | link | comments
Saturday, June 11, 2005
STOP Wal-Mart
10 Good Reasons to Not Shop at Wal-Mart
I urge all to boycott Wal-Mart stores. Here's 10 good reasons why:
- Wal-Mart is notoriously anti-union. Even though it's illegal, Wal-Mart fires and harrasses workers who want a union.
- Wal-Mart has been found guilty of forcing thousands of workers to work off the clock and not paying them overtime.
- Wal-Mart discriminates against women. Although 2/3 of Wal-Mart's workers are women, only 1/3 are supervisors, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of workers.
- Wal-Mart doesn't give workers adequate health care coverage. About 2/3 of all Wal-Mart employees can't afford it because they're paid too little.
- Wal-Mart was caught using illegal immigrants to clean its stores.
- Wal-Mart hurts union workers by forcing them to compete with poverty level wages and lousy benefits.
- Wal-Mart destroys communities by putting small businesses, the lifeblood of local economies, out of business. For every 2 jobs Wal-Mart creates, 3 get destroyed.
- Wal-Mart sells products made by exploited workers and children in third world countries.
- Wal-Mart has become the "cultural gatekeeper" of America by refusing to sell products they deem "offensive."
- Wal-Mart has been caught over 75 times destroying, altering, and hiding evidence in lawsuits brought against it.
So please do yourself and your community a favor: Don't shop at Wal-Mart!
PurpleOcean.org: Wal-Mart Fact Checker
In early 2005, Wal-Mart launched a million-dollar advertising campaign in an attempt to silence its critics. The company bought hundreds of television ads, newspaper ads, and more to tell you what to think.
Rather than fight back with more slick advertising and giant ad budgets, we think there’s a better way to get the real facts out about Wal-Mart— a grassroots way that depends on you for success. Invite your friends to view the facts about Wal-Mart, then see who accepted your invitations on an animated map that tracks your fact sheet as it spreads across the country.
Check out the Wal-Mart Fact Checker! You'll also get a chance to win $1000 towards your health insurance -- check out the details here.
http://factchecker.purpleocean.org/answer/
41d87161b767d046e1968cca06c313c0
more here: http://thekellogs.motime.com/1115972019#453048
posted by txpoollover, June 11, 2005 09:13 | link | comments
Friday, June 10, 2005
I'll be glad when school starts back,
and you know kids hate summer too.
I am all for year-round schooling.
The modern age kid "gets bored"
God damn get outside and play!,
My friend Siesta came over with her
thumb sucker, 12 year old boy, that
won't get out from under his mommas
feet. Eats candy and ice cream and
junk food all day and watches "sponge-
bob square pants" and crappy kids cartoons
all day. I am so happy I don't have any kids.
Kids are stupid, fat, lazy, and not worth it.
They would benefit from a year round education.
Not here in Texas you won't get an education.
Not as long as Governor Rick Perry is not
funding the schools in Texas.
Texas School Funding Measure Defeated
AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas legislators failed to pass a school financing ... taxes and
shore up education funding could not be hammered over the weekend, ...
posted by txpoollover, June 10, 2005 16:48 | link | comments
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Sexual Predators Cost Catholic Church $1B And Counting ... click: hereyahoonewsstory
From The Huffington Post,
by Arinna Huffington
Only 15 % in a Fox poll believe in Evolution ?
much more :http://www.pollingreport.com/science.htm#Stem
A Fascist Christian America:
It Can Happen Here.
A Two-Volume Set.
http://www.buzzflash.com/premiums/05/06/pre05069.html
posted by txpoollover, June 09, 2005 14:10 | link | comments
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Making plans this week to attend
the registration,is closed , so I plan on
attending as a volunteer. Today the
squawker's were on the radio
talking about Democracy For America,
founder Howard Deans comments,
Newsview: Some Democrats Angry With Dean
What we need is honesty and truth,
Howard Dean speaks it! What has gotten
this country in trouble is asshole
politicians trying to be Politically_correct
advocacy of political correctness amounts to censorship and is a danger to free speech.
The changing of terminology as a result of political correctness, for example "visually impaired" rather than "blind" or "vertically challenged" instead of "short" among many other examples, have led to accusations that those who follow political correctiveness are ushering in the era of Newspeak,
posted by txpoollover, June 08, 2005 16:06 | link | comments
Monday, June 06, 2005
GWB and The Rapture Right
aren't worried about Global warming
are you? Let's do something about it!
It's Not Just Eskimos in Bikinis
By Chip Ward
COMMENTARY: Climate Helter Skelter in the Lower 48: Close-to-home global warming effects that we hear little about.
posted by txpoollover, June 06, 2005 18:47 | link | comments
Saturday, June 04, 2005
Who was Susan_Anthony?
Do you vote? Get out the vote in Election 2006?
|
Election 2006 |
| 1919 Congress passes the 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification. |
posted by txpoollover, June 04, 2005 13:49 | link | comments
Friday, June 03, 2005
Broadcast TV really sucks, I have a friend
Rosa staying on my couch until her new
house is ready. She says she watches
"Dr. Phil" every night before going to sleep.
I watched it enough to see
that Dr. Phil, is a Dr. Full, as in full of crap.
This "Dr." who is obese advises people on
weight loss. Next he'll be giving hair
loss advise
We Americans have a coporate media that
is owned by 5_Families. All right wing
neo-cons that control what we watch.
There was a time when broadcast TV
was pretty creative and entertaining.
Watching an old episode of All in the Family
recently, I realized that the song Archie and
Edith always sang is coming true.
"Mr. we could use a man like Herbert
Hoover again" "Didn't need a welfare state"
Bush is worse than Hoover and is fast
doing away with programs that aid the poor.
| Lyrics for: Those Were The Days (Theme to All In The Family) |
| Short Version (Aired at beginning of episodes) "Boy the way Glen Miller played, songs that made the hit parade, guys like us we had it made, those were the days, and you know where you were then, girls were girls and men were men, mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again, didn't need no welfare states everybody pulled his weight, gee our old Lasalle ran great, those were the days!" Full Version "Boy, the way Glen Miller played. Songs that made the Hit Parade. Guys like us, we had it made. Those were the days! Didn't need no welfare state. Everybody pulled his weight Gee, our old LaSalle (a car) ran great. Those were the days! And you knew where you were then! Girls were girls and men were men. Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again. People seemed to be content. Fifty dollars paid the rent. Freaks were in a circus tent. Those were the days! Take a little Sunday spin, go to watch the Dodgers win. Have yourself a dandy day that cost you under a fin (five dollar bill). Hair was short and skirts were long. Kate Smith really sold a song. I don't know just what went wrong! Those Were the Days!" |
Who Owns the Media? - Center for American Progress
posted by txpoollover, June 03, 2005 07:20 | link | comments
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
I just can't say enough of how much,
the sound of a ringing cell phone annoys
me. The various tones and alarm and songs.
A very rude interuption, that is what a cell
phone call is.
I went to my Democracy For America
meetup and a very irate
pool customer kept calling me. I had told
this property manager of a condo complex,
that I would try to have someone at his pool,
to vacuum out a large broken vase.
This has to be a thorough job. I don't want
to just rush through and later be held liable,
for an injury due to broken glass.
My friend and assistant Siesta could not make
it, She was just calling me at 6pm as she was
just waking up, she could not make it.
I had not gotten a pool cleaner to agree to
come out until the following late afternoon.
He and many others don't see that an
emergency clean-up can't take place
instantly. This ass has said he was going
to quit service, if a man was not at his
pool first thing in the a.m.
Another lost customer it seems. Ce la vie.
I am checking with the health department.
~MK
posted by txpoollover, June 01, 2005 20:18 | link | comments (1)
