If all the money goes to the super-rich, who is going to buy the stuff that will create the jobs new need? I don’t know where all this spending comes from for Black Friday, but when the truth comes out, you will know how you have been hood-winked again. It’s like Lucy Van Pelt(the rich) pulling the football away from Charlie Brown(the middle class), never in the entire life of the Peanuts comic strip did she ever let him kick the football.

So let us hear the explanation from the real economy once again. Unlike the comic strip, enough of the real life Republican Charlie Browns will wake-up eventually. We just have to repeat the message often enough.

The article Battlefield America: U.S. Citizens Face Indefinite Military Detention in Defense Bill Before Senate expands on the warnings I have posted earlier. See also Block expansion of presidential power to make war and imprison.

Below are excerpts of the transcript from the video interview shown in the article.

The Senate is set to vote this week on a Pentagon spending bill that could usher in a radical expansion of indefinite detention under the U.S. government. A provision in the National Defense Authorization Act would authorize the military to jail anyone it considers a terrorism suspect — anywhere in the world — without charge or trial.
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And one other point, another very controversial provision in the bill and what the administration has particularly objected to, is the mandatory military custody provision which would say anyone suspected of terrorism in any way connected to Al Qaeda would have to be put into military custody. So, the government wouldn’t even have the option. So, all these FBI investigations that are thwarting terrorist attacks and local police investigations, immediately that would have to be turned over to the U.S. military, and that would become a military action here in the United States, on U.S. soil.

What is the ulterior motive of shifting terrorist investigations from the successful civilian police force to the less successful military? Remember, it was the Bush administration that scoffed at the Clinton administration’s successful foiling of terror plots by treating these plots as criminal activity. It was the Bush administration that failed to stop the 9/11 attacks because they believed more in military intervention than police intervention.

I can understand why the top 1% would want their power enhanced and would want laws passed so they could make more money. What I cannot understand is why they would want their minions in Congress to destroy this country. After all, they have to live here, too. Maybe they think that a member of the top 1% would never fall out of favor so much that one of their own would ever be subject to these provisions of indefinite detention without trial. What fools they be.

As Sharon points out, just think how easy it would have been for the Republicans to get rid of Bill Clinton. They would have just had to disappear him rather than try to impeach and convict him.

Here is Jon Stewart of the Daily Show discussing how Faux Noise covered the President’s Thanksgiving Day message.

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This video shows why we will all miss Barney Frank in Congress. With any luck, he will just be making more television appearances than he did when he was in office.

Apparently, there is no amount of sarcasm that will ever stop a determined interviewer from asking the next stupid question.

This video is a discussion about science, society, and the universe with Stephen Colbert, who is out of character, at the Kimberley Academy in Montclair, New Jersey on January 29, 2010.

The interview is both funny and enlightening. It is worth the 90 minutes you’ll spend watching it.