Occupy Change

Posted to "Nation of Change" 11/4/11

I look at the Occupy Movement and remember the Japanese WWII general's comment about Pearl Harbor , "we have awakened the sleeping giant".  Recently one person said " Enough! " and we heard and echoed it softly as a butterfly wing and stirred the winds of change. We the People have had enough!  The prison of serfdom the rich have planned for us will be the prison they rot in, and we will  put them there using the rule of law and the ballot box.  We will be strong enough to do it soon, hopefully by the 2012 election. The rich and greedy will make a mistake to think they can steal the election with their ill-gotten gains and hacked machines.   They should not think that the military, which is not a rich dictator's army, will come down on the side of those they know do not care about them or their families except to use their bodies for cannon fodder to enrich the oil whores and war profiteers. 

I believe this will be a peaceful revolution demanded by the American voters but a revolution all the same.  I am the optimistic product of Depression Era, FDR loving, Eisenhower Republicans.  My father said before he died  a couple years ago at 92, "I don't recognize these Republicans anymore, they're mean now"   I don't recognize them either, they are not anything like my hardworking, kind, & decent WWII & Korean War Veteran father.  Most of these "barons" of Wall Street have never fought for this country and they stole it from those who shed their blood  in trumped up wars for oil whores and corporate war profiteers.  They made up fraudulent mortgages and created fraudulent financial derivatives to cheat those who worked hard everyday trying to provide for their families and dreaming of owning a home for their children.   To quote a Percy B. Shelley poem of the pacifist Peterloo rebellion in 1819 ,   "Rise like lions after slumber, in unvanquishable numbers.  Shake your chains to earth like dew that in sleep had fallen on you.  Ye are many - They are few"   We the People are no longer asleep, you cannot distract us, you will not turn us against one another, and we will help one another.  By virtue of our hard work and service and shed blood, this is our country.  This is not your rich man's kingdom, and we are not your slaves.  We made you and we trusted you but you sold us out.  We let you become the money-changers in our country's temple and now we will put you out of the temple and heap on you the shame you deserve.

This is a response to story on National Memo: OWS Tables Resolution Denouncing Two Party System

OWS unaffiliated

Permalink Submitted by dmcrane on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 11:18pm

I do not want OWS to become part of any Party. It should stay as it is, pushing progressive goals and trying to change hearts and minds where possible. If OWS were to become a third party, I think it would lose most of its participants, and I would be one. I am not interested in futile posturing but in results. I don't care what the Press or the pundits say about OWS because each of us know why we are involved. While we all want to change the system, most of us believe we can do it with the vote if we give our current President a strong, liberal, and filibuster-proof House and Senate. There is nothing we can't fix if we get strong control of both. We do not want it all, but we do want "All" to have enough, and perhaps a little extra to smile about as well. We want the young, and sick, and old, and disabled to be cared for properly. We want education for our children and healthcare for all. We do not have anything against being rich, but we do not want to be a rich people in a poor and angry country. I grew up Republican but I don't recognize the selfish mindset of the majority of the current Republicans. I am sorry to say, they are making all the same mistakes they've been making since the early 1900's and it has been a disaster for us every time. It is indeed time to throw the dirty bathwater out, but we do not need to destroy the house to change the water.

Haven't been here in a long while.  We are well into the election of 2012 which will pit President Obama against Mitt Romney.  As far as I'm concerned, Romney is no contest for our President.  It's a case of "crass" against "class"  or "gall" against "grace".  President Obama so far outclasses Romney it's a pathetic comparison.  The Democrats have finally started to show the backbone we the people have wanted, pushed by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Patty Murray and backed by the President's approval.  They have decided not to back down or take any more shit from the GOP.  Current goals are called "Off the Cliff" to let the Bush Tax Cuts expire for all at the end of the year and then begin anew to set tax rates and priorities.  I hope we will stare the GOP down and prevail, and it seems at this point as if the GOP realizes they have pushed their intransigence too far and will lose this fight.  Hoping for a strong showing for Pres. Obama against Romney, and praying for a filibuster proof Democratically led Senate, and control of the House.  In other words, a total repudiation of the Tea Party nutcases that got in office in 2008. Pres. Obama has done a good job, I believe, and I only fault him with being to willng to try to reason and cooperate with the GOP who have no interest of cooperating but only of protecting the wealthy upper class and corporations and basically the top 1% of the country.  To quote "The American President",  "these are serious times and we need serious people to deal with them".  We need to turn this country back from the hatefulness of the past decade.  The fear of the "other" the GOP sells like candy via Fox News, the pablum and mind-numbing effect of reality shows that glorify meanness and dirty tricks.  We'll see what November brings, but I'm betting on the American people standing up to the GOP and saying "no more"....we will have our country back and have it operate for the many, not the few rich.

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This is great news.  M D Anderson Cancer Center had received a full size Kanzius Radio Wave Machine and can begin trials on humans.  The machine has been incredibly successful in killing tumors and metastasis  in animal trials using gold nanoparticles that target only specific cancer cells and use radio waves to heat the particles and kill the cells.  Praying for success with the human trials and that soon on one will  have to have chemotherapy and all the problems it causes.

Stop the Hate; Stop the GOP

 2/7/2012 My Comment Reply in: http://front.moveon.org/the-secret-that-haters-just-dont-get/?rc=daily.share&id=35478-15358038-6qpFm_x

Your statement reminds me of a story I heard in my Southern Baptist church in the South when I was a teenager and civil rights movement was just starting.  The minister there believed we should live Christ's teachings and that "God didn't make junk". The "good people (?)" of the church forced him out of the church when I was 16.  It made me understand Gandhi's statement "I like your Christ but I don't like your Christians". It's been a long time ago (I'm 68 now), but it made a big impression on me. It went something like this:

Two little white boys are playing & one says to the other, "My Daddy say we shouldn't play with black people because they're bad people and not like us".  So the little boys decide they'll hate black people because they're different. Then they start school and they meet a black boy at school and find he's really nice and fun and just a little boy like them and they start playing with him. After a while, the one boy says to the other," We really like Johnny, and he's black. We want to play with him, so we can't hate black people anymore.  WHO CAN WE HATE NOW? "

The GOP is a "hate this" and "fear them" machine designed to keep us at each others throats so we don't pay attention to the "liar behind the curtain".  They say they want government out of our business, but they want it in our bedrooms and uterus and  to stop our protections in the workplace and the environment. They want to destroy anything that will empower the middle class,poor, women and people of color.  They say we should be following "their" version of right and wrong, all the while stealing us blind and throwing us in the trenches after they've destroyed us and throwing other bodies on top of us to keep us there and making us fight one another to climb out. They ignore the teachings of the Christ they claim to worship and make a mockery of human rights and common decency.

GOP hates women

The GOP only loves pretty "plastic" Stepford women who keeps their mouths shut, screw on demand, and look the other way at affairs. They don't like women in general, certainly not as people, only as objects, but they particularly hate those women who are "uppity" or "outspoken" or "argumentative" or fight for their rights or their children rights.

What do you call a million Republicans at the bottom of the ocean? A good start!

You really wouldn't need an ocean to hold their morals or their morality (which they call Christianity)... you could drown all their morals and their morality in a bathtub...and still fit their damn elephant in there with it.

Rick Santorum's Stone Throwing...

 http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/01/04/397355/rick-santorums-top-10-most-outrageous-campaign-statements/

 My comment on this article:

Santorum is a total FAIL on every level I've seen so far. A judgmental faux-Christian who would cheerfully bring back the Inquisition for anyone who practices any beliefs other than his Judeo-Christian biblical interpretations. He espouses Taliban-like control of everyone and would bring an anti-Christ-like, Sharia Law to the United States. I absolutely see him throwing the first stone at a rape victim.....

Dazed and Confused Democrats

 My response to OurFuture.Org article "Dazed and Confused"   http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2012010103/dazed-and-confused  ...about Democrats who are going to vote for Ron Paul

I have less patience with the spoiled-brat Dems who haven't gotten everything they think they were promised, than I do with the RWNJ Tea Partiers who are just certifiably crazy and nihilistic. If these people would shut off the damn reality shows and started watching their Senate and House of Reps in action, they'd be less critical of what the President has/or has not gotten done. He is not perfect, but leagues better than the racist, ridiculous Ron Paul could do. Ron Paul does believe what he says and tells the truth "as he sees it" but his truth is is childishly naive and selfish in the extreme. I do not want my country living "every man, woman, and child" on their own for survival. I am Ron Paul's age and I think he's dumber than normal if he hasn't seen enough history to recognize what has worked well and what has not worked for We the People in the past. I was raised by Depression Era parents who believed, and taught me, that when you crawled out of a hole, you reached back and pulled others up with you to move forward, you sure as hell didn't leave them in the ditch to die when you could help.

We are Many...They are few

1819..at the start of the Occupy Movement  

'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.'

......The Masque of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley. written 

to commemorate massacre carried out by the British Government 

of their own people at Peterloo, Marlborough, England in 1819. 

Masses of poverty-stricken, starving & homeless citizens stood 

together passive and unresisting in a field in Peterloo to protest 

their condition in Dickensonian England. The Government sent armed 

troops against them to break them up, but the citizens stood their 

ground and did not resist the attacks. They stood arm in arm and 

silent against their attackers as many were killed. The military 

finally refused to continue attacking their own people.  

If you have interest in reading the whole Epic Poem you can find 

it here: 

http://www.artofeurope.com/shelley/she5.htm