Mirage Economics

by murphy on April 15, 2009

in America 2.0,Bailout Blackhole,profound question of the day,PUMA,teh BOIZ,The Audacity of Democracy,The Habit of Freedom

Ronald Reagan had “Trickle Down.” George H.W. Bush had “Voodoo.” And now comes obama with his very own, personalized flavor of flam-flam financial theory: Mirage Economics. Yep, that’s right — if you HOPE for it hard enough, you’ll be able to see a “faint glimmer” waaaay off in the distance. Leave it to the guy who campaigned with a straight face and a strategy so abundantly empty of substance that it must have been helium he was pushing on his followers — it made them so HAPPY and lightheaded and silly. What a bunch of chimpmunks.

The Tea Parties being held nationwide seem to be attracting Americans from a WIDE spectrum of political ideologies — Republicans, certainly, but also Independents, Libertarians, moderate Dems, and Pumas — not to mention a smattering of obama Democrats who can’t take it anymore (Welcome back!). While the organizers and financial backers of these protests may have right-wing agendas, I find it hard to believe that most of those showing up share those views. Krugman and the rest of the commentariat is WRONG — it’s not like people join focus groups or fill out detailed questionnaires about their precise political positions on fifty different issues before they show up at a protest or rally. For hard-core organizers we can know what the agenda is (because they TELL us upfront, der). But who’s to say WHY that middle aged dude or that college student showed up? Curiosity? Spontanaeity? Just passing by? The truth is, whether or not the mainstream media or SCFP choose to report it, if tens of thousands of Americans show up to protest today it will be because of popular DISGUST with government in general and the policies of obama in particular. Whether it’s primarily a tax protest or a budget deficit protest will be splitting hairs. Not that the BOIZ won’t split hairs, of course, being as how they have the mental subtlety of chimpanzees, splitting hairs and picking nits is WHAT THEY DO BEST! (well, maybe not BEST. Being jackasses is what they do best.)

If you’re going to a Tea Party, let us know — desrcibe your sign, take pics and send them to actioncenter@pumapac.org!

Cinie’s got a hilarious piece about the new GM Puma-Mobile HERE.

The documentary “Media Malpractice: How Obama Won and Palin Was Targeted” will be screened for $5 on Friday night in New York City – NYC area Pumas may want to check this out!

If you haven’t been keeping up with all the ways that Goldman Sachs is looting our Treasury (and really, how could you? It is a job for teams of experts working overtime in 25-hour daily shifts) use THIS site as your guide to everything Evil About Goldman. It’s called GoldmanSachs666, get it?

And welcome back to danceswithpumas! The blog just isn’t the same without you Hon!

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1 TexasTigress 04.15.09 at 8:10 am: Ok , OT , but my Mini Puma is running for the District Championship at noon in the 2 mi.
Wish Madi puma luck ! (If she wins , we go to Houston where I will drag jenni to tthe meet )
Gotta go !
2 Notyoursweetie 04.15.09 at 8:17 am: The tea parties will be targetted by B0bloggers – for set-ups of racism et al, while the dog is used to make torture a pleasant subject
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/cheetos-chase-racism-and-ha-ha-torture/
3 murphy 04.15.09 at 8:43 am: Go Madi Go!!
4 BigCatLover 04.15.09 at 9:12 am: NOTICE TO PROTEST ATTENDEES
C-Span reported this morning that there are reportedly between 500 and 750 protests today, so there should be lots of company. Also, if you take video of your protest and upload it to
http://www.c-span/org/taxday , C-Span will play it on the air.
5 mimi1020 04.15.09 at 9:20 am: Good Morning All!

Murphy, loving your posts! I am one of those that will be attending a Tea Party today at 600pm here in Miami Florida where there will be PLENTY of people I believe. I really hope that the news stations cover this one!

Have a great day all
6 FLBarbara 04.15.09 at 9:26 am: Good Morning
Once again I can’t believe what I am hearing.

Fox news reporting on the DHS release of its right wing radical threat groups icluded are anti abortion activist, immigration activists and returning US service personal from Iraq and Afghanistan!!

Making terrorists out of our military?

WTF ?????
7 BigCatLover 04.15.09 at 9:26 am: KerryLINY 04.15.09 at 1:55 am
I’m a little late replying to KerryLINY’s question about what people (or Pumas) are protesting today. To boil it down to it’s simplest essence, it’s a protest by taxpayers against the government using our tax money to pay for all the bailouts, as well as the other wasteful and corrupt programs they pass.
8 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 9:30 am: This is no tea party……..

Violence flares at protest over Afghan sex law
Women hit by stones at rally against law critics say legalizes marital rape

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30223599
9 gay gal 04.15.09 at 9:31 am: gojoyknocks 04.15.09 at 7:09 am

Be safe out there today, Joy, with that sign. Maybe, you still have your bra on. Did you fling it out the window on your way home from Easter services?
10 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 9:38 am: Making terrorists out of our military?

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Yup looks like the retired and the returned are getting a group together in Lexington on Sunday. (massachustts)
11 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 9:40 am: Massachusetts
Retired police also………
12 murphy 04.15.09 at 9:42 am: holy smokes HP #8.

they are so brave.
13 FLBarbara 04.15.09 at 9:42 am: HPBoston

Are they getting together to protest?
14 TerryDo 04.15.09 at 9:43 am: Mirage Economics
by murphy on April 15, 2009
Ronald Reagan had “Trickle Down.”
George H.W. Bush had “Voodoo.”
And now comes obama with his very own, personalized flavor of flam-flam financial theory: Mirage Economics.
Yep, that’s right — if you HOPE for it hard enough, you’ll be able to see a “faint glimmer” waaaay off in the distance.
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The new Economics has also ushered in New Terminology to help us understand that distant Mirage…

New Stock Market Terms

CEO – Chief Embezzlement Officer

CFO – Corporate Fraud Officer

BULL MARKET – A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius

BEAR MARKET – a 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.

VALUE INVESTING – The art of buying low and selling lower.

P/E RATIO – The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.

BROKER – What my financial planner has made me.

STANDARD & POOR – Your life in a nutshell!

STOCK ANALYST – Idiot who just downgraded your stock!

STOCK SPLIT – When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.

MARKET CORRECTION – The day after you buy stocks!

CASH FLOW – The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.

YAHOO – What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.

WINDOWS – What you jump out of when you’re the sucker who bought Yahoo at $240 per share.

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR – Past year’s investors who is now locked up in a nuthouse!

PROFIT – an archaic word no longer in use!
15 gay gal 04.15.09 at 9:45 am: HP Boston 04.15.09 at 9:38 am
“Yup looks like the retired and the returned are getting a group together in Lexington on Sunday. (massachustts)”

What’s the group’s name HP? Is there a website? Just curious. Want to read more about it.
16 scarlet 04.15.09 at 9:47 am: Matt Lauer ‘Worried’ Government Won’t Be Able to Dictate to Business Any More

The announcement that Goldman-Sachs may be able to pay back its bailout loan, sooner rather than later, was met with a grim assessment by NBC’s Matt Lauer, on Tuesday’s “Today” show as the co-anchor fretted to the Obama administration’s Christina Romer: “I’m worried if you think if that’s a good thing. Are they doing this because of financial stability or might they be talking about that, simply to get out from under the thumb of the federal government and be allowed to go back to running the business the way they want to run it as opposed to the way the government wants them to run it?”

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2009/04/14/matt-lauer-worried-government-wont-be-able-dictate-business-any-mo
17 FLBarbara 04.15.09 at 9:52 am: Obama headed to Mexico tomorrow

Can we close the border?
18 bqueen 04.15.09 at 9:55 am: too funny!

The New York Times newsroom is reportedly still undecided on whether or not to print a recent letter received from Obama, in which the president threatens to kill another helpless citizen every Tuesday and “fill [his] heavenly palace with slaves for the afterlife” unless the police “stop the darkness from screaming.

TT’s link from previous thread:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/media_having_trouble_finding_right?utm_source=onion_rss_daily
19 scarlet 04.15.09 at 9:57 am: WHAT WOULD BE A PARTY WITHOUT PARTY POOPERS?

As anti-tax protesters organize tea parties across the country on April 15, rumors are swirling that a backlash is brewing.

Some believe ACORN, which has been under scrutiny for accusations of voter fraud, is preparing to crash some of the tea parties. But ACORN says it is only helping to organize dozens of rallies on the same day in support of President Obama’s first budget.

“This is the first we’ve heard of these so-called ‘tea parties.’ And, frankly, a bunch of small get-togethers by fringe conservative activists dedicated to simply saying ‘no’ is of little interest to us,” said ACORN spokesman Brian Kettenring.

He did not say where the pro-Obama rallies would take place, leaving open the possibility that they may clash with some tea parties.

Tea party organizers, meanwhile, say they’re not worried at all about possible disruption.
“If ACORN wants to send some of their paid, pretend activists to show up, that’s fine,” John O’Hara, who is holding a tea party in Chicago, told FOX News. “They don’t have a message that resonates with the American people or resonates with this broad coalition that’s upset with the spending that’s going on in Washington.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/14/tea-party-protestors-gird-possible-backlash/
20 gay gal 04.15.09 at 10:02 am: Thanks for this site, Murphy:

http://www.goldmansachs666.com/

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TerryDo, thanks for the New Stock Terms!!!
21 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 10:04 am: gay gal 04.15.09 at 9:45 am

I am looking for it…was here the other day and saw it posted by a Puma. Will look again, as I am thinking of scouting it out..
22 persephone 04.15.09 at 10:04 am: great article by madamab:

http://madamab.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/my-hero-paul-krugman-doesnt-get-it/#comment-5838
23 persephone 04.15.09 at 10:06 am: HP
is this what you’re looking for?

http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/

the feds will be there, you can bet on it.
24 jenniforhillary 04.15.09 at 10:06 am: Kick ass post murphy. But, not to brag, but I’ve been saying this for 2 fucking years–the emperor is BARE ASS NAKED and no matter how hard they try to tell me his dick isn’t a toothpick I keep telling them I am looking at it right fucking now.

Oh, and I want to restate something that got little play because I posted it so late. I am VERY not okay with the treatment of Ziegler and his movie. Remember this, and think about it and maybe even TALK about it–No fucking leftist, no fucking liberals, no super duper fucking democrats made a movie about sexism in the last election. THINK ABOUT IT!! I am really pissed off that we made an enemy of this man when he might have been an ally. I would sleep with George Bush TWICE if it meant we could have NBC for one hour to speak PUMA. THINK ABOUT IT PEOPLE. No one is going to be perfect–even pumas have issues–but we did not have to vote for this man we just had to use him and his movie to promote the sad fact that a woman won the presidential election and the fucking democrats and leftist idiots stole it from her. and us. THINK ABOUT IT.

Oh, and something else I want to talk about. The Tea Party’s ROCK. Some pumas whom I love dearly need to OPEN THEIR EYES and think about the fact that the majority of people in attendance at these social uprisings DO NOT LIKE OBAMA. We need these people if we want to make a difference. Fuck democrats, fuck republicans, I want people who are ready for something new. I want people angry enough to take a sick day to tell the govt. to fuck off.

And finally, even though perhaps I have not discussed the underpinnings for this statement enough for it to get any real play, I am going to succinctly state that conservatives hurt women less than liberals. Liberals have brought us–and protect these things with money, the ACLU, and the media–pornography, cultural sensitivity (i.e. excusing things like genital mutilation, selling women and children, sexual slavery, etc., etc.), laws that protect rapists, pedophiles, internet freaks (rapists,pedophiles), etc., etc. Sure conservatives ARE NOT GREAT, but when you add the lists up I will take a conservative over a liberal any day. That being said, they can both go to hell if they are not helping me, but Ziegler was helping…..
25 scarlet 04.15.09 at 10:07 am: Oink! Group Calls Out Top Congressional Porkers

Lawmakers asked for nearly $20 billion in earmarks or “pork-barrel projects” in their homes states in 2009, a nearly 15 percent increase in funding from last year, according to a prominent taxpayer interest group.

“Despite repeated claims by members of Congress that earmarks have been reduced, the Pig Book belies that claim,” said CAGW President Tom Schatz, who noted that this year’s spending bill also included 221 anonymous earmarks amounting to $7.8 billion of the spending that no lawmakers took credit for.

The book highlights a number of “egregious” projects, including $1.8 million for swine odor and manure management in Ames, Iowa, $3.8 million for the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy in Detroit, $1.9 million for a water taxi service in Connecticut and $380,000 for a fairgrounds area in Kotzebue, Alaska.

Schatz said the group released the book one day ahead of April 15 IRS deadline to ensure Americans were cognizant of where their tax dollars are being spent.

While GOP leaders have hammered Democratic bills this year for allowing too much wasteful spending and earmarks, CAGW found that House and Senate Republicans account for about 40 percent of the earmark requests.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/14/oink-group-calls-congressional-porkers/
26 Swannie 04.15.09 at 10:10 am: I really like the term MIRAGE ECONOMICS ,for bos “promises” and
I hope it becomes a household term !!
27 murphy 04.15.09 at 10:12 am: ya heard it here first Swannie!

i wish we didnt need the term. . .
28 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 10:13 am: FOUND IT>>>>>> PERSEPHONE MY SHERO!

persephone 04.14.09 at 5:26 pm

murphy this group has an event in Lexington MA on Sunday, 4/19.

you can bet they are on the DHS “watch list”

http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/
29 persephone 04.15.09 at 10:13 am: Fuck democrats, fuck republicans, I want people who are ready for something new. I want people angry enough to take a sick day to tell the govt. to fuck off.
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tell it jenni!!
the partisan BS has got to stop NOW!
30 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 10:18 am: persephone 04.15.09 at 10:06 am

HP
is this what you’re looking for?

http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/

the feds will be there, you can bet on it.

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Well thanks! I was a posting and and you were lurking!
So want a go see the feds on Sunday,? I need some brain and some brawn. You can be both!
31 bqueen 04.15.09 at 10:24 am: Jen #24 – agree with you about Ziegler…I cringed when Tags said “PUMAS want to know…” I certainly did not feel that way at all!

We can probably forget about ever seeing him again, and btw his site provides publicity not only for him but to all those who interview him (civilly). So no, PUMAS are not mentioned there.

o but Jen, no, I really CANNOT THINK ABOUT you sleeping with GEORGE!! (Texans really are tough!)
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Sexist pig CNN the ONN headlined re Susan Boyle with this:

Never-kissed woman wows Cowell, becomes YouTube sensation
32 goandersen 04.15.09 at 10:26 am: Thanks for the post murhpy, I will be out today to two different Tea Parties. One in SF at Pelosi’s Office and the other in Walnut Creek to meet up with the rebel rouser Billie Jo! Someone has to keep an eye on that girl! LOL!
My sign: “Spread Your Own Wealth, Pelosi”
I will be taking pics at both events, and will send them on to Dances.

Hope you are doing well Dances..
33 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 10:27 am: persephone,
Come on grab your anger and I mine and our orange PUMA shirts and join the group in Lexington, no doubt a REBUB group but bi is our middle name!
34 goandersen 04.15.09 at 10:28 am: “the feds will be there, you can bet on it.”

I’ve been on the Fed list for years, they will just have to add a few more pages to my file.
35 persephone 04.15.09 at 10:29 am: HP
There will be plenty of *brawn* at that rally.
I’m not quite sure what to make of it, although I must admit I’m curious.
One of my concerns-the site says the event will be filmed by the Oath Keepers.
I don’t really want to be in ANY film-let alone a film for a group I know little about.
But..I’m still curious.

How ’bout I send you an email a little later today?
36 FLBarbara 04.15.09 at 10:31 am: Just heard the head of the American Legion speak and they have requested a meeting with the DHS.but have received no reply.

This is disgraceful putting our military on a terrorist watch group. They have risked their lifes for this country and we say “thank you but now your a terrorist” ?

Why do they need to watch those with military training?
37 persephone 04.15.09 at 10:31 am: bqueen
should we email the guy?
I dont really care if he wanks off to yankee doodle dandy, thats his business!
38 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 10:34 am: How ’bout I send you an email a little later today?

Okay………I am very curious also. I have never been to any kind of protest, we can scope it out….Lexington center is not a dangerous place. I will not go to Lowell alone but I will go to Lexington so do not feel obligated to go with me my friend.
39 LJSNAustin 04.15.09 at 10:37 am: jenni #24, agreed 100% with everything you said! I sure hope I get to meet you and all the other Texas PUMAs soon!
40 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 10:37 am: FLBarbara 04.15.09 at 10:31 am
check this link out………

http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/

the feds will be there, you can bet on it.
41 gay gal 04.15.09 at 10:40 am: Not to be a fear monger, but be safe, all. If the Right pundits agenda is to use the scare tactic of “socialism” and the Left pundit counter is “racism”, that’s a pressure cooker. Again not to be a fear monger at all, but stay away from the instigating freaks.

“With fringe elements, irresponsible pundits, buzz word baiting (e.g. ‘racism’ and ‘socialism’) and an economy that increasingly threatens social stability, civil debate can turn ugly on a dime.”
42 goandersen 04.15.09 at 10:41 am: Oh Murphy, Mirage Economics, ME. How fitting.
43 persephone 04.15.09 at 10:45 am: HP

do you think murphy will come and bail us out if we get rounded up and nabbed?

hey i dont want to sound paranoid (but i am) but these are the groups the DHS doc is talking about.

They are mostly ex-military, swearing to uphold the constitution under any circumstances.

I’ve noticed they’ve added groups and speakers to the event that are less controversial.

There will be a huge police presence and I hate cops.

With my luck we’ll be on the local news in our bright orange shirts, caught up in a line of militia men with assault weapons..

I might go with you anyway, though
44 bqueen 04.15.09 at 10:47 am: persephone, #37: emails of support are always nice but I don’t think they’ll have much effect…
45 persephone 04.15.09 at 10:51 am: #44
too late, huh?
ouch damn.
46 gay gal 04.15.09 at 10:52 am: I woke up to an American Flag and a Confederate Flag hanging on the flag pole of my neighbors house. I saw him putting up the 20 foot flagpole yesterday. I just expected the American Flag and an Arizona flag.

He advocates “picking off” Mexicans as they try to cross the border. My other neighbors are from Afghanistan. And then we have kool-aid drinkers on the other side. Oh, joy, oh, joy. What a block party we will have around here.
47 gay gal 04.15.09 at 10:52 am: I woke up to an American Flag and a Confederate Flag hanging on the flag pole of my neighbors house. I saw him putting up the 20 foot flagpole yesterday. I just expected the American Flag and an Arizona flag.

He advocates “picking off” Mexicans as they try to cross the border. My other neighbors are from Afghanistan. And then we have kool-aid drinkers on the other side. And then we have us militant lesbos.

Oh, joy, oh, joy. What a block party we will have around here.
48 gay gal 04.15.09 at 10:53 am: Sorry for the double post. I added “us militant lesbos” to the second post.
49 goandersen 04.15.09 at 10:54 am: gay gal 04.15.09 at 10:52 am
I woke up to an American Flag and a Confederate Flag hanging on the flag pole of my neighbors house. I saw him putting up the 20 foot flagpole yesterday. I just expected the American Flag and an Arizona flag.

He advocates “picking off” Mexicans as they try to cross the border. My other neighbors are from Afghanistan. And then we have kool-aid drinkers on the other side. Oh, joy, oh, joy. What a block party we will have around here.
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Well, just go hang your bra out there!
50 NewOrleansPuma 04.15.09 at 10:54 am: Mirage Economics: Barack sees way off in the distance..a faint glimmer…a mirage –because he is sitting on the back of the tallest camel humps his Saudi King and their bros can find for him to sit and speak.

In the meantime he needs to turn that camel around and walk it over to Michele’s vegetable garden because the only thing cominng out of his mouth are CAMEL TURDS.
51 jenniforhillary 04.15.09 at 10:55 am: Austin–YES maam….maybe murphy will GETBACKTOMEVIAEMAIL about issues includ. TEXAS MEET UP. If not, I am planning to start planning one for end of April. Just trying to think up good puma action plus party. Maybe we could have a tee party and piss on that one’s effigy (I am just kidding but it is a funny thought)

Bqueen…YES maam….and plus some. I would fuck GWB three times for 2 hours on NBC (listen, it would only take about about 90 seconds total and there are worse things women have had to do…..)

And, to CNN, and Simon and all those haters….that woman sings like an angel and could whoop your ass with one finger so watch out. Never been kissed is misogynist talk for never found a man worth her time…..
52 FLBarbara 04.15.09 at 10:55 am: HPBoston

Thanks
WOW that is very interesting and also scary too.
Feds will be there for sure.
What’s your take on this?
53 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 10:56 am: I might go with you anyway, though

Well we can not show the orange shirts if we do not feel comfortable….have em on under a jacket. Sun glasses and hats if ya want! It is a Patriot’s day rally noon to 3pm somber I think….
I wish Murphy could go too but I hear she is off to California soon…
54 gay gal 04.15.09 at 10:57 am: goandersen 04.15.09 at 10:28 am

“the feds will be there, you can bet on it.”

I’ve been on the Fed list for years, they will just have to add a few more pages to my file.

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I’m holding out on getting a new page for the Burka Protest!!! LOL
55 goandersen 04.15.09 at 10:59 am: gay gal 04.15.09 at 10:57 am
goandersen 04.15.09 at 10:28 am

“the feds will be there, you can bet on it.”

I’ve been on the Fed list for years, they will just have to add a few more pages to my file.

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I’m holding out on getting a new page for the Burka Protest!!! LOL
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I still want my burka to have little piglets on it, it would send more than one message. Please????
56 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 11:01 am: They are mostly ex-military, swearing to uphold the constitution under any circumstances.

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That alone turns me on…they will not be safe!!!
57 gay gal 04.15.09 at 11:02 am: goandersen 04.15.09 at 10:54 am

“Well, just go hang your bra out there! ”

I love it! I’m like gojoyknocks. I gotta go find one first. I think I really might do that, go, and paint it red, white, and blue.
58 NewOrleansPuma 04.15.09 at 11:03 am: 47gaygal: Sounds like your typical American neighborhood!
59 goandersen 04.15.09 at 11:03 am: gay gal 04.15.09 at 11:02 am
goandersen 04.15.09 at 10:54 am

“Well, just go hang your bra out there! ”

I love it! I’m like gojoyknocks. I gotta go find one first. I think I really might do that, go, and paint it red, white, and blue.
60 goandersen 04.15.09 at 11:04 am: Well, I have to go get ready for the day. And , yeah I will have my orange shirt on!
61 gay gal 04.15.09 at 11:09 am: Someone had the idea, yesterday, of some Burkas being red, some being blue, and some white. I really like that thought!
62 persephone 04.15.09 at 11:13 am: I wish Murphy could go too but I hear she is off to California soon…
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okay, guess she won’t be bailing us out then O-:
get mamapuma’s cell phone number..
63 persephone 04.15.09 at 11:21 am: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/15/anti-tax-tea-party-protests-expected/

I miss Dances
64 goandersen 04.15.09 at 11:25 am: gay gal 04.15.09 at 11:09 am
Someone had the idea, yesterday, of some Burkas being red, some being blue, and some white. I really like that thought!
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I don’t gay gal, I am not sure I want our flag colors on such an oppressive garb.
65 scarlet 04.15.09 at 11:33 am: America Celebrates Tax Freedom Day®

America Will Work 8 Days Less to Pay Taxes in 2009 than in 2008; Recession, Stimulus Package Push Date of Celebration Up

Washington, DC, March 31, 2009 – Tax Freedom Day will arrive on April 13 this year, according to the Tax Foundation’s annual calculation using the latest government data on income and taxes.

This is eight days earlier than in 2008, and a full two weeks earlier than in 2007, for two reasons: (1) the recession has reduced tax collections even faster than it has reduced income, and (2) the stimulus package includes large temporary tax cuts for 2009 and 2010.

Nevertheless, Americans will pay more in taxes than they will spend on food, clothing and housing combined.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxfreedomday/
66 gay gal 04.15.09 at 11:37 am: goandersen 04.15.09 at 11:25 am

gay gal 04.15.09 at 11:09 am
Someone had the idea, yesterday, of some Burkas being red, some being blue, and some white. I really like that thought!
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I don’t gay gal, I am not sure I want our flag colors on such an oppressive garb.

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The idea, go, was not to have our flag colors on individual Burkas. But just some individual Burkas red, some blue, some white. I just thought it was a good compromise.

I don’t understand the piglets. You will have to speak slowly to me. It is still coffee time around here. LOL
67 goandersen 04.15.09 at 11:39 am: gay gal 04.15.09 at 11:37 am

I don’t understand the piglets. You will have to speak slowly to me. It is still coffee time around here. LOL
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LOL! Male chauvinist pigs, and porky piglet spending of tax dollar money, hitting women the hardest.
68 NewOrleansPuma 04.15.09 at 11:41 am: TexasTigress: Go Madi Puma Go…run like hell …run like your mama is after you! Ha…

Go……………..Madi…………..
69 DancesWithPumas 04.15.09 at 11:44 am: OT
My epiphany.
Monday night, MKfromLA drove down to spend the night at my house in order to drive me to the hospital by 8AM, on Tuesday.
MamaPuma called me at 6:45 AM on Tuesday to wish me well.

At the hospital, I gave MK power of attorney. (Do Not Resusitate: I’ve had enough. Or, at least not for the next 4 years. )

When I wennt into curtained pre-op room to strip down and get into the double layered hospital gown, the first thing I noticed was the gown had a black paw print logo printed on it!
Next, the booties… many pairs of black paw prints all over them! Wow! Pumas are here with me, I thought.
Then the pre-op nurse came in and I couldn’t focus on whatever it was she was saying because… she sounded EXACTLY (and I mean EXACTLY) like MamaPuma!!
“Boston, right?” “Yep!” MK came in to say ‘good-bye” (standard hospital procedure), and said the same thing to my nurse… “You sound EXACTLY like a friend of ours in Boston!!)
I was surrounded by the support and protection of Pumas!!!

Between the blog, email well wishes, phone calls, snail mail cards, the offer by Freddie to come by and assist, Casper’s offer of chciken soup, and the generous, considerate, loving care of MKfromLA (the earthly embodiment of Hanuman), and PumaBear… I’ve been moved beyond words.

I know Puma PAC is a family, but my epiphany arrived with the realization that PumaPAC IS MY family, and I mean that in the most profound sense of the word.
Thank you.

PS Surgery was a piece of cake. Feel a little bruised, but that’s it.
What this surgery took from me is nothing compared to the gifts it has given to me.

I hope I haven’t said too much, and I hope I have said enough to convey the sincerity of my sentiment.

Loveyahon
70 NewOrleansPuma 04.15.09 at 11:48 am: Loveya back Dances…so good to see you here and to hear your voice once again…Hugs and kisses….
71 goofsmom 04.15.09 at 11:51 am: ((((Dances))))

So happy to hear from you… I’m doing a snoopy dance in the living room… Oodles and oodles of hugs and kisses…
72 GOSUEF4HIL 04.15.09 at 11:52 am: I hate when my paying job takes me away from my PUMA friends- I haven’t been here all week! Miss you all!

Get your barf bags out before you read this:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/morning-skim-reviews-for-obamas-sermon-on-the-mount/

I think what we really need is a demonstration against the MSM- it is time for reporters to get their heads out of their asses and start telling the g-d truth!

Off to meetings for the rest of the day- will try to read a little-

good luck to all those going to tea parties today! May the force be with you
73 gay gal 04.15.09 at 11:53 am: Glad to know you are lurking, typing, planning, Dances. Indication you are just fine!!!
74 freddiebrown 04.15.09 at 11:53 am: This is a treat to watch – it will uplift, inspire and make you cry … Do take a minute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY
75 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 11:59 am: Awww Dances right back at ya sister…… :tears: :tear:
76 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 11:59 am
77 freddiebrown 04.15.09 at 12:10 pm: OK – the utube on post 74 has been view 5.5 million times in two days. How is that for viral ? Anyone seen it yet ?
Come on, click it for a good cheer.
78 BigCatLover 04.15.09 at 12:12 pm: Dances
Feeling perky yet?
79 freddiebrown 04.15.09 at 12:13 pm: Dances – you MUST watch this with your health care provider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY
80 jenniforhillary 04.15.09 at 12:14 pm: Now I feel good this morning…Dances is back and puma is rocking…

Okay, BURGER KING SUCKS….after their DISGUSTING ad about women drooling over minideadcowsonbread they pull an ad because it offended Mexicans showing a man supposed to be Mexican who was ‘short and fat.’ Well HOT DAMN go to http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090415/od_nm/us_burgerking_odd to read more on this bullshit.

So, it is okay for Mexicans to complain about being used in advertising, but women have to put up with not only that but some ‘typecasting’ to say the least in porn. OHMYGOD when will the hypocrisy ever end and WHEN will women stop eating fast food. I say let’s dump rotting meat by the truckloads at every Burger King in America with a sign that says “real women don’t eat shit”
81 persephone 04.15.09 at 12:16 pm: yay, dances!
(what a nice comment-so glad you felt so supported)
82 DancesWithPumas 04.15.09 at 12:25 pm: Freddie
Thank you. I have watch the Susan Boyle video several times since Murphy posted it a couple of days ago. Magnificentg voice! Magnificent lesson for
everyone involved.

Heya, persephone!!
83 pigpaws 04.15.09 at 12:27 pm: “mirage economics”?

More like trickle up poverty/misery. Here is another example of democrat stupidity when it comes to business and taxation. Even their hero JKF knew that lower taxation increased revenue across the board.

But these clowns just want the misery and the power it will bring them.

This Tax is for You

Today is the dreaded April 15, but at least in Oregon it’s even going to cost you more to drown in your tax sorrows. In their sober unwisdom, the state’s pols plan to raise taxes by 1,900% on . . . beer. The tax would catapult to $52.21 from $2.60 a barrel. The money is intended to reduce Oregon’s $3 billion budget deficit and, ostensibly, to pay for drug treatment.

If it passes, Oregon will overnight become the most taxing state for suds, one-third higher than the next highest beer tax state, Alaska. The state may do this even though Oregon is the second largest microbrewery producer in the U.S. The beer industry and its 96 breweries contribute 5,000 jobs and $2.25 billion to state GDP. Kurt Widmer of Widmer Brewing Co. says the tax would “devastate our company and small breweries throughout the state.” Adds Joe Henchman, director of state projects at the Tax Foundation, “This microbrewery industry has gravitated to Oregon in part due to low beer taxes.”

For Oregon to enact punitive taxes on its homegrown beer industry makes as much sense as Idaho slapping an excise tax on potatoes or for New York to tax stock trading. Even without the tax increase, taxes are the single most expensive ingredient in a glass of beer, according to the Oregon Brewers Guild.

But Democrats who run the legislature are desperate for the revenues to help pay for Oregon’s 27.9% increase in the general fund budget last year. If they have their way, every time a worker steps up to the bar and orders a cold one, his tab will rise by an extra $1.25 to $1.50 a pint. Half of these taxes will be paid by Oregonians with an income below $45,000 a year. Voters might want to remember this the next time Democrats in Salem profess to be the party of Joe Six Pack.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123976316293519743.html

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Now class, can anyone tell me what the end result of this may bring?

…”Democrats: “Hey! I’ve got an idea! Let’s tax them fuckers right out of business or force them to relocate out of state!!!” Effing BRILLIANT!!”………
84 MKfromLA 04.15.09 at 12:27 pm: #79 freddiebrown 04.15.09 at 12:13 pm

oh what an inspiring delight!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

I had not seen it yet ……… fantastic
85 taggles1 04.15.09 at 12:31 pm: Dances, I am so glad all went well! Nice to have you back! Just a couple of days with you not here felt like a month!
86 pigpaws 04.15.09 at 12:32 pm: Regarding my above, when we come up short in our own household budgets, we cut back, make adjustments, save, stop spending, do with less, go out and find a way to EARN some more income.

The government never ever does. There are no brakes, there is no accountability. If they come up short, they threaten to cut such things as police/fire, and hike more taxes.
87 BillieJo 04.15.09 at 12:33 pm: Welcome back Dances, and hope you get lots of rest and feel better soon.
88 goandersen 04.15.09 at 12:34 pm: pigpaws 04.15.09 at 12:27 pm

I guess we will just have to make our our brew. PUMA BREW
89 freddiebrown 04.15.09 at 12:36 pm: DWP – dud…. I must not have logged on the Susan Boyle thing…I don’t click on musicals much. But it was so inspiring. Glad that you are on the mend.

I found out that UPS did not leave the package yesterday. Usually they do. I am checking into it.
90 BillieJo 04.15.09 at 12:38 pm: Going to a tea party with Gooooooooooo, she’s going to two parties.
Can’t wait to have a PUMA buddy with me.

Made a sign, “Hillary Democrat against Obama’s recklass spending. Take the PORK out of the ‘Stimulus Bill’!!!

And thinking about wipping up a second sign that says, “Put down the Kool-Aid and pay attention!”
91 BillieJo 04.15.09 at 12:39 pm: Ooops…..

And thinking about whipping up
92 goandersen 04.15.09 at 12:39 pm: BillieJo 04.15.09 at 12:38 pm

Get a pack of purple kool aid to match Obark’s lips.
93 goandersen 04.15.09 at 12:41 pm: BillieJo 04.15.09 at 12:38 pm
Going to a tea party with Gooooooooooo, she’s going to two parties.
Can’t wait to have a PUMA buddy with me.
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Yeah, this will be my last prowl in CA. I over in AZ prowling around.
I am glad to spend this last one with you!
94 goandersen 04.15.09 at 12:41 pm: Oh geez, I will be over in AZ.
95 BillieJo 04.15.09 at 12:43 pm: Jenni, just for the record…..

I have nothing against seeing Ziegler’s movie, for 5 bucks I would gladly watch it, my bone to pick is with the man and what he implied with Bill and Hillary. If I adored Sarah as much as Hillary, I might not feel as angry at him. I give him credit for his movie, but not his mouth off screen.

That’s all I have to say on the issue.
96 DancesWithPumas 04.15.09 at 12:44 pm: goandersen
Where in AZ will you be relocating?

BillieJo and GO,
Give ‘em hell today!
97 BillieJo 04.15.09 at 12:45 pm: Goooooooo
Yeah, this will be my last prowl in CA. I over in AZ prowling around.
I am glad to spend this last one with you!
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You’re moving to AZ??? Out with the lizards and sand?
98 goandersen 04.15.09 at 12:45 pm: OK, I am off to the BART. See ya Billie Jooooooooooooooooooo!
99 BillieJo 04.15.09 at 12:45 pm: See you soon Goooooooooooo.
100 goandersen 04.15.09 at 12:46 pm: You’re moving to AZ??? Out with the lizards and sand?

LOL! I like geckos and sand! My heart belongs to the desert, simple fact.
101 BillieJo 04.15.09 at 12:47 pm: DancesWithPumas

BillieJo and GO,
Give ‘em hell today!
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We’ll do our best. This is a small bedroom community, over the hills from Berkeley, so it should be pretty mellow. No tea party in Berkeley, what a shock. (not)
102 DancesWithPumas 04.15.09 at 12:49 pm: BillieJo
Yep. I’m familiar with Walnut Creek.
Take photos!
103 DancesWithPumas 04.15.09 at 12:50 pm: 85 Taggles
Thank you!
104 atypical 04.15.09 at 12:51 pm: Is this what you’re talking about?
http://www.redpills.org/?p=3862

Today it was made public that the U. S. Department of Homeland
Security released an April 7th, 2009 ‘Assessment’ entitled “Rightwing
Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment“. This Assessment effectively characterized those of us who…..(see the list)
105 gay gal 04.15.09 at 12:55 pm: I’m so hyped that you are moving to AZ, go. I have been waiting to meet you for well over a year now! Come join me and Suef!!! The desert rocks. Hope you are moving to Tucson. It is the most liberal pocket!
106 atypical 04.15.09 at 12:57 pm: I don’t put it past ACORN to be into the thick of the Tax Protesters, trying to cause trouble which they can blame on “Conservatives”. My morning paper used “conservative protest” as the big talking point on several pages. How can it be just conservatives who don’t want their grandchildren to be paying for these bailouts, and how can it be just conservatives who do not want to lose our guaranteed civil rights, and how can it just be conservatives who do not want the country over-run by illegal aliens, etc. etc.
107 NewOrleansPuma 04.15.09 at 12:57 pm: pigpaws: Are you related to BrianH? You all could be blood…in your humor and tone.

I like BrianH by the way…and I like you too….

Just wondering.
108 BillieJo 04.15.09 at 1:01 pm: Here’s a good Kool-Aid Obama graphic if anyone needs it.
I am putting it on a sign for the tea party.
109 BillieJo 04.15.09 at 1:03 pm: Rats, here’s the link I forgot…….
http://stutteringmessiah.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/obama-kool-aid.jpg
110 blueyb 04.15.09 at 1:04 pm: Hello Pumas! Long time lurker – and I plan to melt back into the shadows after this… just wanted to bring this news story to your attention, as I didn’t see it posted elsewhere. It made me stand and applaud this woman, while obviously horrified she was put into this situation in the first place.

article here

From the article, you can see another asshole decided it was time to kill his wife and members of his family. So he loaded a gun, stating which bullet was for which person as he went. By the time he got it loaded and pointed at his wife, she had gotten her own gun, and decided only one person was getting shot today – HIM! And she let him have it! The only downside is that he lived. But he gets to face 5 counts of attempted murder now, and the wife’s shooting has already been ruled as self-defense!

Anyway, thought you Puma’s might like to hear this story (unless it was already posted and discussed, in which case, I apologize for being late to the party)
111 gay gal 04.15.09 at 1:04 pm: atypical 04.15.09 at 12:57 pm

Hope they didn’t leave out some of racist “Minute Men” sitting lawn chairs on the AZ/Mexican with their guns while drinking BUD, and threatening to “pick off Mexicans” who cross the border. Napolitano is familiar with them with first hand experience as out Governor for 8 years. There are “threats” out there on the far right and far left. I live across the street from one.

gay gal 04.15.09 at 10:52 am

“I woke up to an American Flag and a Confederate Flag hanging on the flag pole of my neighbors house. I saw him putting up the 20 foot flagpole yesterday. I just expected the American Flag and an Arizona flag.

He advocates “picking off” Mexicans as they try to cross the border. My other neighbors are from Afghanistan. And then we have kool-aid drinkers on the other side. And then we have us militant lesbos.

Oh, joy, oh, joy. What a block party we will have around here.”
112 BillieJo 04.15.09 at 1:05 pm: DancesWithPumas 04.15.09 at 12:49 pm

BillieJo
Yep. I’m familiar with Walnut Creek.
Take photos!
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My camera is packed and fully loaded. (Hehehe, digital)
113 BillieJo 04.15.09 at 1:07 pm: atypical

I don’t put it past ACORN to be into the thick of the Tax Protesters, trying to cause trouble which they can blame on “Conservatives”.
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My guess is the Conservatives want to take credit because it gives HOPE to their comeback in the next election. We are the ones in the middle that are not represented by either party, just the PUMA Party of Rebels.
114 gay gal 04.15.09 at 1:11 pm: I really am going to go do as andersen recommended: make a makeshift pole and hang a white bra off it with red and blue strips. I really hope there are feminist groups at these protest keeping their eyes on the ball of the biggest fight for “Civil Rights”. Women’s Rights are Human Rights!

Again stir clear of the instigators, far left and far right at these protest. Be safe. I have decided not to go.
115 BillieJo 04.15.09 at 1:17 pm: Dances,
I was surrounded by the support and protection of Pumas!!!
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Yes you were and always will be. Sweet post and although we are a wild pac of cats, we are family.
Sometimes we scrap and chase each other’s tail, but we are a close group brought together under the worst of circumstances by one awesome PUMA, Murphy.
Hugs to you Dances.
116 BillieJo 04.15.09 at 1:20 pm: Good gaygirl, most protests are pretty peaceful, this isn’t London.

I would never protest in somewhere like Oakland, California…that would be dangerous.
117 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 1:27 pm: MKfromLA
Thank you very much for being the Puma in charge of our
Perky Puma Dances, how wonderful you are to help her through her surgery. Puma love to you!
118 pigpaws 04.15.09 at 1:32 pm: IRS workers angry at the double standard.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-wed-geithner-tax-0415-apr15,0,6037514.story

The Treasury secretary, who oversees the IRS, didn’t pay all his taxes. Neither did five other top nominees for the Obama administration, or their spouses.

Now, as Wednesday’s tax deadline looms, some Americans are wondering why they should comply with the arcane requirements of the Internal Revenue Service when top administration officials failed to do the same. Even some IRS employees are upset at what they see as a double standard.

The most criticized example has been Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who admitted not paying $34,000 in payroll and Social Security taxes, saying his failure to pay was an oversight. Five other nominees disclosed similar tax issues, including one as recently as two weeks ago when Kathleen Sebelius, President Barack Obama’s pick for secretary of health and human services, admitted she didn’t pay $7,040.

“Our members are upset and angry,” said Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, referring to concern bubbling up within the IRS over unusually strict rules that can cost agents their jobs if they make a mistake….

…….Robert Schriebman, a California tax lawyer who has testified before Congress, said his clients are seething over the tough treatment they get from the IRS, while some in the president’s Cabinet apparently were able to duck paying their taxes.

“Politically powerful people are less likely to get bothered by the IRS,” Schriebman said. “It is more than a question of fairness. Not only is the IRS looking away from confronting influential people, the IRS is getting a lot tougher and nastier toward the little guy.”

IRS employees have reported that taxpayers are occasionally citing the Geithner case when they are asked to pay their tax bills. “It’s making the compliance conversation harder,” Kelley said.”………
119 freddiebrown 04.15.09 at 1:33 pm: I am going to a TEA party myself because the couple of people I asked, said OK but clicked on the link and had the feeling it was Obama bashing and declined because they didn’t feel it was “focused” enough or some lame excuse.

I think there is always a percieved “fear” that something bad will happen if you step outside of your comfort zone or do something out of the ordinary. Of course there is. Just like driving the car on the street, something could happen. Just practice commonsense and be aware. Sometimes, it can be a very empowering experience. We are all arm chair politicians – sometimes it is safe to go a bit further. IMHO.
120 atypical 04.15.09 at 1:34 pm: BillieJo 04.15.09 at 1:07 pm

My newspaper is not trying to help the conservatives. They are so pro-Obama, they can’t write straight.
121 girlsrule 04.15.09 at 1:35 pm: I will be leaving shortly for my tea party in Richmond, VA….I have been thinking about what my “answers” will be if someone tries to interview me. If I see someone from ACORN and they question me I thought about explaining that “although acorns do grow on trues, money does not”. I sent pics of my signs to the action center, hope to see some PUMA’S in my neck of the woods today!
122 girlsrule 04.15.09 at 1:36 pm: freddiebrown #118…there is still fear in people of speaking out against Obama, but getting past that fear is the only thing that will ultimately save us.
123 Social-Psyche 04.15.09 at 1:36 pm: I’m a longtime lurker here since the beginning. I blog only at a carefully chosen handful. Murphy, you’re one of my all-time favourites, a stalwart I can count on, in an upside-down Amerika.

I might be a fiscal conservative; hard to say since I haven’t had much money to conserve lately. Count me in as a liberal of the old-fashioned kind, who sure knows it when I’m being bashed with the “radical lunatic fringe” label. So now I’m a lunatic, an idiot, a conspiracy nut, a basher…? It’s par for the course if you’re a woman with a brain and self-respect.

To those of you who support the *real* tea parties, my Impeachment U.S.A. art project– a collection of free banners and buttons, a little poetry, plus Special Commentaries– might appeal to your sense of humour as well as outrage.

* How to Really Throw Parties in a Sleepy Banana Republic
For country-loving independents and party exiles in hell, {1} is a "corny" patriotic Statement of Grief & Grievances; {2} tells why & how we should get the Two-Headed "Duopoly" Party Monster off our backs; {3} pragmatic and symbolic reasons to Impeach Obama Now, with non-partisan ideas for real-world action from us keyboard commandos.

* Slashing the Bashing Label
Many bloggers face false "basher" accusations while being bashed by the accusers from Obama’s own circle. I analyze Obama’s tactics and his connections to Microsoft’s founding executive Bill Gates— "two poisonous toads" who "marketed themselves as `geniuses` called by Destiny."

Free Stickers, poetry, non-partisan commentaries
Impeachment U.S.A. and Elections & Voting projects
http://www.dgwhiz.net/Stickers/Stick-It.html#IUSA
124 atypical 04.15.09 at 1:39 pm: Billie Jo
Did you see the list of suspects?
http://www.redpills.org/?p=3862

Includes anyone who is white!
125 freddiebrown 04.15.09 at 1:53 pm: Girlsrule… I agree. People still fear speaking out publicly about the great Messiah which is understandable to a degree. Fear is a form of abuse. We have been abused enough.
126 NewOrleansPuma 04.15.09 at 1:56 pm: Regarding the Homeland Security Warnings: This is what you will receive from this department under the yes woman Janet…from Arizona.

This is a disgrace…and so is she.
127 freddiebrown 04.15.09 at 1:57 pm: Just sharing something from Team Sarah:

Is Tea Day amazing or what?! I do believe we are proving that grassroots activism is alive and kicking!

Upload your Tea Party pictures!! (http://www.teamsarah.org/photo/photo/list) We want to see how Team Sarah members ROCKED the New American Tea Party! You can send stories you want us to tell the community about to tsgovernance@gmail.com

In case you missed it, Fox News will have live coverage:

Neil Cavuto in Sacramento
Glenn Beck in San Antonio
Sean Hannity in Georgia
And Greta Van Susteren in Washington, D.C.
128 murphy 04.15.09 at 1:57 pm: social-psyche, welcome!
129 murphy 04.15.09 at 1:57 pm: dances, ohthankgodyoureback.
130 murphy 04.15.09 at 2:00 pm: re-posting blueyb’s comment from #110 in case it was missed (Hi Blueyb! :wave: )

Hello Pumas! Long time lurker – and I plan to melt back into the shadows after this… just wanted to bring this news story to your attention, as I didn’t see it posted elsewhere. It made me stand and applaud this woman, while obviously horrified she was put into this situation in the first place.

http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Man-shot-mulitple-times-in-Winter-Haven/5k7AuDQdSU-HReNCQy8Vog.cspx

From the article, you can see another asshole decided it was time to kill his wife and members of his family. So he loaded a gun, stating which bullet was for which person as he went. By the time he got it loaded and pointed at his wife, she had gotten her own gun, and decided only one person was getting shot today – HIM! And she let him have it! The only downside is that he lived. But he gets to face 5 counts of attempted murder now, and the wife’s shooting has already been ruled as self-defense!

Anyway, thought you Puma’s might like to hear this story (unless it was already posted and discussed, in which case, I apologize for being late to the party)
131 murphy 04.15.09 at 2:00 pm: :waves: ?
132 murphy 04.15.09 at 2:01 pm: damn, back to the drawing board. . .
133 gay gal 04.15.09 at 2:08 pm: I just hope that all the far right wing nuts that have called far left wing nuts anarchist for years get a glimpse that most people fight to help preserve the rights of others in an educated manor.

Maybe they can better understand why those “terrorist” and “anarchist” deserve to be on a watch list. They have the anarchist, protectionist nerve to protest the G8 and G20 no matter whether it has been a Dem president or Republican president.

They were the ones that were actually right all along that it would lead to this. Fear of speaking out against BO, BS. Maybe if you would have supported Hillary in the primary you would know who faced fear. Go protest a G8 summit. Maybe you missed the one in Seattle.

Zee is right, as she said the other day, some days the far right wing attempts to take over this blog.
134 DancesWithPumas 04.15.09 at 2:08 pm: or the surfboard
135 MKfromLA 04.15.09 at 2:14 pm: 116 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 1:27 pm

MKfromLA
Thank you very much for being the Puma in charge of our
Perky Puma Dances, how wonderful you are to help her through her surgery. Puma love to you!
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My pleasure entirely. It’s good to be a Puma
136 bqueen 04.15.09 at 2:14 pm: GOSUEF4HILL, #72: at least there was this consoling comment left by Tiempo Primo:

We are so stuck with this preacher for four years. Always the same speech. Those of you who suffer most, bite the bullet and let’s keep the crooks and liars in business.

It’s not about nationalizing the banking system it’s more keeping it protected for the friends in Wall Street with the hook and line of “New World Economy (system).” How do you spell liberal fascism?” it starts with an O.</I
137 Deb55 04.15.09 at 2:15 pm: Great Day for America..The beginning,I Hope of BIGGER things to come. TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY!!!!!

Just got this email and would love to share.
What France REALLY thinks of “O”..He’s in the DOGHOUSE..maybe he can move out of the WHITEHOUSE and join BO..but that wouldn’t be fair to poor Bo..
Read..you are going to love this leak..reported by TimesUK

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/world_agenda/article6098836.ece
138 bqueen 04.15.09 at 2:16 pm: Welcome back, Dances!

I keep hearing this song with the lyrics: “One less ga-albladder…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2z0KmhK95Q

Hope you kept the gown ‘n booties!
139 gay gal 04.15.09 at 2:24 pm: Now go fight BO and his “Human rights is an ideal, not a priority”. Put that on your sign today and go to a tax day parties. Since most of the tax parties are all over the board in agenda and ideas, it can’t hurt to go against the grain. See just how much some of the Republicans and ACORN folk love you for that. Oh maybe carry a rainbow flag as well. .
140 bqueen 04.15.09 at 2:27 pm: ps Dances, OMG abs at 2:00! think there’s a gallbladder under there?
141 gay gal 04.15.09 at 2:29 pm: Murphy or Dance, can we reproduce some of the images that have been created for the “Human rights is an idea, not a priority” to pass out. Do they have copyrights on them?
142 Cinie 04.15.09 at 2:29 pm: Dances, whassamatta witchoo, ya sicka sumpin’? If ya are, cut it out, okay?

Kidding aside, feel better and get well.
143 boogieman7167 04.15.09 at 2:32 pm: hey girls so how o you feel about these tea partys
144 boogieman7167 04.15.09 at 2:33 pm: there is a big one down by the alamo in san antonio
145 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 2:36 pm: Dances you take a nap and rest…have some tea and german bread later. That will take you back to so so…..then all better.
146 DancesWithPumas 04.15.09 at 2:36 pm: bqueen 04.15.09 at 2:16 pm
Welcome back, Dances!
I keep hearing this song with the lyrics: “One less ga-albladder…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2z0KmhK95Q
Hope you kept the gown ‘n booties!
_________________
I keep hearing “one MORE egg to fry…”
Certainly did keep the booties and gown. Will upload photos to our pumapac photo album when I can.
147 DancesWithPumas 04.15.09 at 2:40 pm: gay gal 04.15.09 at 2:29 pm
Murphy or Dance, can we reproduce some of the images that have been created for the “Human rights is an idea, not a priority” to pass out. Do they have copyrights on them?
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PumaPAC and I own the burqa-obama poster copyright, the 9/11 and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. images can be replaced with stock / copyrigfht free images if need be.

Cinie,
Thank you. Gall bladder removal surgery yesterday. All is relatively well today. Thanks, again.

DancesWithoutAGallBladder
148 HP Boston 04.15.09 at 2:40 pm: blueyb 04.15.09 at 1:04 pm
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Now that is what I call some GOOD news. HE is the one hurting not the woman and the family, YES!!!
149 persephone 04.15.09 at 2:44 pm: Afghan women protest-look at their faces:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/world_agenda/article6098836.ece

#130 Always warms my hard little heart to read a story like that!

Get your FID cards, PUMA’s, or only Republicans will have weapons!
150 persephone 04.15.09 at 2:46 pm: gallbladders and men are overrated.
151 LJSNAustin 04.15.09 at 2:48 pm: boogieman, are you going to the San Antonio Tea Party?
152 pigpaws 04.15.09 at 2:52 pm: You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

Dr. Adrian Rogers
1931 to 2005
153 admin 04.15.09 at 3:06 pm: tea parties forever posted,

take it upstairs!

(dances, no running. actually, maybe Jenni should carry you.)
154 BillieJo 04.15.09 at 3:09 pm: Has anyone seen or hear of this movie……….. Murphy?

My young son sent it to me and I am watching it in pieces, it’s two hours long and I have to keep up appearances at work.

Zeitgeist: Addendum

What I have seen so far in the first third of the movie:

- How the Federal Reserve creates money out of nothing which makes workers slaves, social manipulation.

‘Economic hit men that try to bribe leaders of other countries to make deals profitable for America, if they don’t agree to a bribe they are taken out by the CIA…….

Even though the first few minutes of the movie is kind of artsy, the rest is a documentary and is spell binding. My head is spinning.

Hope some of you watch it and let me know what you think.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912&hl=en
155 DancesWithPumas 04.15.09 at 3:13 pm: :::: hopping on Jenni’s back::::
To the tower….Giddy-ap, Jenni!!!
156 Social-Psyche 04.15.09 at 3:39 pm: BillieJo, you may want to check out “Modern Money Mechanics” plus other articles and the video at The Money Masters site:

Two Step Plan to National Economic Reform and Recovery
1. “Directs the Treasury Department to issue U.S. Notes…to pay off the National debt.”
2. “Increases the reserve ratio private banks are required to maintain from 10% to 100%, thereby terminating their ability to create money, while simultaneously absorbing the funds created to retire the national debt.”

They detail the Jekyll Island meeting, and they offer a FAQ on how the Federal Reserve, not to mention private banks, indeed “create” money without any gold or silver backing up the amounts– just by entering the digits on the computer, and printing new bills to keep the market flooded.
157 jenniforhillary 04.15.09 at 6:15 pm: Dances….I am so happy to see you. So very very happy
158 KerryLINY 04.15.09 at 6:33 pm: Just catching up to responses to my comment yesterday taking a FIRM stand for not joining the tea party movement and saw that sunshinelvr and BigCatLover took time to explain the rationale for joinging a tea party protest which I read with appreciation. I could not disagree one bit with your takes on what you are protesting. I hope it turned out well and that your message was heard and look forward to the pictures. I ended up sticking with my prior position whick is kind of close to
taggles1 04.15.09 at 3:59 pm
“Maybe I am to idealistic. I don’t think we should just give our power away to any group that needs PUMA’s for bodies. We end up looking like we don’t have ideas or an agenda of our own, when we do.”

Me thinks PUMAs are individuals and may have interests and causes outside of PUMA as cjv and bj articulated well. I just prefer a disciplined approach and dont think we should coopt all interests and causes under PUMA when the alignment can not be established without smearing or contradicting our true common movement objectives. I could detail that further (using the four bullet points from murphy above) but right now I’m just going to enjoy the pictures and the stories brought back.
159 KerryLINY 04.15.09 at 6:37 pm: When you read this Dances. Good to have you back and that you return to full strength. Happy to read your take on stuff all the time.