The Clear And Present Danger!

I am reprinting this post in entirety from yesterday's News From The Underground because I firmly the belive that the real battle in this election is going to take place at the voting booths. The attempt to steal this election is a clear and present danger to our Republic and it is imperative that you educate yourself and others to this danger!

SPOONAMORE REVEALS THE PLAN TO STEAL THE NEXT ELECTION

Here, in this shattering new interview, Stephen Spoonamore goes into harrowing detail about the Bush regime's election fraud, past, present and--if we don't spread the word right now--to come. Since he's the only whistle-blower out there who knows the perps themselves, and how they operate, we have to send this new piece far and wide. Here Spoon tells us that McBush's team--i.e., Karl Rove and his henchpersons-- have their plan in place to steal this next election: by 51.2% of the popular vote, and three electoral votes. He also talks about the major role played by the Christianist far right in the electronic rigging of the vote. And he defines our electronic voting system as a major threat to US national security, calling for it to be junked ASAP, in favor of hand-counted paper ballots. Since Spoon is a Republican and erstwhile McCain supporter, as well as a noted specialist in nosing out computer fraud, his testimony is essential--not only for its expertise, but, no less, for the impact that his views will surely have on those Republicans who have been loath to see what Bush & Co. has done to our election system. That whole story's just about to break. In fact, tomorrow there will be a number of articles appearing, on a recent breakthrough in the lawsuit that Spoon's testimony has enabled, and on other aspects of that all-important case. MCM 9/26/08: New Spoonamore Interview - E-voting Machines are a National Security Threat Last week, VR interviewed GOP Cyber security expert Stephen Spoonamore about the upcoming election and his testimony in the new Ohio litigation to take depositions of Karl Rove and others. The video is posted in full below with ten short clips for You Tube viewing. This interview is so important and explosive that we urge everyone to watch it. Spoonamore says that the GOP wanted e-voting to steal elections but now foreign governments will be hacking and the winner will be determined by the best hackers. He says that if the GOP wins the hacking competition, McCain will win 51.2 percent with three electoral votes over Obama, and it will be a stolen election. Spoon also makes a crucial point about the people who have been implicated in much of the election theft: "They are religious extremists." He names those who know about stolen elections, and he insists that the only way to protect this election is with paper ballots, hand-counted. Check out this extraordinary interview here. http://www.velvetrevolution.us/prosecute_rove/images /SpoonIntvw3.wmv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyByZx5GEaw It's a network, people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YadsHqxid8I Electronic voting machines are a national security threat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbxuXC4QlMk The genie is out of the bottleŠ. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOHkY7sJ4ZI Fifty ways to steal an election. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1--KHOo8tkM Mike Connell: Bush IT Guru http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJHmuG8d2bQ The Rapp Family: Ohio election cover-up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z7DK3LgiOA Evangelicals and voting machines. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WTe8ppEIic Paper ballots please. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lrFkRHrRDI McCain/Palin will win by theft. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s07oi2G_K4c People should doubt the vote, it's being stolen.

NEW EXCLUSIVE McCAIN COMMERCIAL!

I'M JOHN McCAIN AND I APPROVE OF THIS MESSAGE!

Barack In Detroit!

So I went to YouTube and found this video of Barack Obama's appearance in Detroit yesterday, September 28. I am originally from Detroit and still identify myself as essentially a Detroit Boy! This had me dancing in the streets!
30,000 people in front of the Public Library on Woodward across from the Art Museum.
I saw that Obama is leading in Michigan by 14%!
The daily tracking for September 27 by the Gallup Polls had Obama at 50% to McCain's 42%. I expect to see the numbers rise even more today!
Detroit wants Obama and the restt of the world needs Obama.
It's time to make the world proud of America for making a wise and intellignet choice and seeing the need to take the first steps to a better world!

No, John, It Won't Go Away....

This is John McCains Keating 5 Scandal and why it is still a big problem for him explained in 90 seconds. Great source of facts and talking points!
Again, a great piece from The Jed Report.

The Greatest Sin....

This ad was actually in the Wall Street Journal this morning!
Is it even neccessary to quote the old proverb?
Pride Goeth Before The Fall!

CANCELLING REALITY!

Today on CNN it is reported that Phil Gramm has said that later today, the McCain Campaign will request that the Biden/Palin debate be cancelled and moved to a later unspecified date.
Again, they are hiding behing a "concern" for the country. We have already seen McCain's concern in the ast 24 hours. He said he was suspending his campaign and it was all to easy to discover the fact that he had certainly not! His emergency trip to Washington was just a photo op and has shoved the teetering economic bill over the edge of the cliff. He has enabled the gaggle of House republicans who want to milk this for personal political gain to push the nation one step closer to economic chaos.
The video I attached to this post is a spoof. Yesteday, I tried to post the video of the real Palin/Katy Couric exchange regarding her foreign affairs experience. CBS was somehow forced to take it down. The entire interview is available now on YouTube in 2 parts. I did faithfully record the transcript of the exchange in my last post, Spin(OUT OF)Control, so if you really want to read what Palin said, please go there.
If you haven't already seen it, you will be amazed. The interview is being referred to in all of the major media as a disaster.
So, enjoy this spoof of the interview...the voice actually belongs to Miss South Carolina 2007 from one of the most watched videos on YouTube!

I will repeat this sobering thought. In the history of the American Republic, in the midst of wars and economic disasters, the elections process was never before impeded.
Debates went on during the Civil War. Now, because of their faltering campaign, the McCain/Palin ticket is trying to derail the electoral process and conduct a cmapaign of Negative ads, Photo Ops and Surrogate Racism. Obama is ahead in all polls. He was reporteds to have a 13 point lead in this mornings Detroit Free Press in Michigan.
It would be easy to simply call John McCain a Chicken shit.......
But it's much more serious than that. The Republicans think that they must win to protect the corrupt power base they have constructed and their Neo Con "Projects".
There is too much to be lost if an "unfriendly" administration got ahold of information that would lead to ciminal prosecution because of lines of constitutional and moral law that have been compromised in the last 8 years.
They want to cancell debate today, but under the emergency powers that George Bush granted himself earlier this year to suspend constitutional law when he deemed it was an emergency, could he, would he suspend an election?

Common People

I really wanted to hear this song tonight and I'm dedicating it to John McCain.
The song is Common People, originally by the band, Pulp, but brilliantly re interpreted
by William Shatner with heroic assistance from Ben Folds on keyboards and Joe Jackson and a choir.
It's from William Shatner's 2004 recording, Has Been.
Great Lego Animation!

Spin (OUT OF) Control!

So, last night John McCain said he was going to suspend his campaign and go immediately to Washington for the "good of the nation" to personally solve the economic meltdown. John, we are waiting...perhaps he is in Washington now, finally for his photo op with Obama and Bush. Maybe he is still taking a nap. Maybe he is still getting his $5,583.43 make up job from his American Idol make up artist.
What ever...the point is that he lied.
The campaigning never stopped.
Until the traditional media types can show some shred of evidence that John McCain suspended his campaign -- besides McCain saying it -- the traditional media types should stop saying McCain suspended his campaign. He didn't.

Evidence abounds that McCain's campaign is operating at full speed. We've been able to document here and here and here. Think Progress found five instances of McCain campaign flacks on t.v. spinning their message. There's active campaign underway in Virginia. And, by doing some actual investigating, Huffington Post confirmed that the McCain campaign is very active today in key battleground states:

Across the country, McCain campaign offices are up and running, accepting volunteers, conducting phone banking, literature dropping and over GOTV activities. This held true on a local, state, and even regional level. The Huffington Post called up 15 McCain-Palin and McCain Victory Committee headquarters in various battleground states. Not one said that it was temporarily halting operations because of the supposed "suspension" in the campaign. Several, in fact, enthusiastically declared the continuation of their work. Others hadn't even heard that the candidate for whom they were devoting their time had officially stopped campaigning.

Here's a little hint for the political press corps: If you can keep reporting on Palin/McCain campaign events and if you keep having McCain staffers on your networks, the campaign ain't suspended.

John McCain tried to dupe the American people. He got a lot of help from the traditional media. If they actually reported what was going on and not what McCain said, this sham would be exposed.
Meanwhile in Washington, the Democrats have finished their version of the meltdown plan. Of course, it will be stalled by Republicans like the Minority Leader, John Boehner who are stalling for McCain to show up for his photo op and give his okay and try to take to take credit for it.
Meanwhile, Sarah Palin who seems to have never heard of the cessation of campaigning was making a speech at Ground Zero in New York, and of course avoiding any real questions from reporters.
She did give an interview on CBS with Katyy Couric yesterday. Katy tried valiantly to get a coherent answer from Palin, who seems to be a master at throwing gobbledeegook to the masses, but always at a loss when forced to actually think on her feet. This is a transcript of a video of last nights pathetic performance. I wanted to embed the actual video, but a half hour ago, it suddenly became unavailable....
Check this out:

COURIC: You've cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?
PALIN: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land-- boundary that we have with-- Canada. It-- it's funny that a comment like that was-- kind of made to-- cari-- I don't know, you know? Reporters--
COURIC: Mock?
PALIN: Yeah, mocked, I guess that's the word, yeah.
COURIC: Explain to me why that enhances your foreign policy credentials.
PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our-- our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of. And there in Russia--
COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?
PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We-- we do-- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where-- where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is-- from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to-- to our state.

Again, was this real? No wonder it was mysteriously pulled out of circulation.

Another mystery of Spin....I found a new video of Palin at her church last year at a "laying on of hands" service in which the pastor gives a pretty explicit anti-semetic sermon against the "Jews" who run Wall Street and how Christians must sieze control of the economy. I was able to get a transcript of the pastors remarks only to find that the video had been pulled....
The transcript:

The second area whereby God wants us, wants to penetrate in our society is in the economic area. The Bible says that the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. It's high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of integrity running the economics of our nations. That's what we are waiting for. That's part and parcel of transformation. If you look at the -- you know -- if you look at the Israelites, that's how they work. And that's how they are, even today. When we will see that, you know, that the top transporters (?) in the lands, we see, you know, the bankers, we see the people holding the parts (?), they are believers, we will not have the kind of corruption that we are hearing in our societies.

We are seeing John McCain trying to control this campaign by trying to control access to the truth. Part of that process is to suppress the debates and access to himself and Palin. He expects to be able to win by Photo Ops, Lying Ads and surrogate racism.
He wants to delay the debates until the Republicans can spin reality to their own advantage.
The trouble is for them, is that reality is spinning at a rather nauseating velocity.
Bush is counting on a Republican win to continue their reign of corruption. He cannot afford an unsympathetic administration too soon for his own comfort. If things get too uncomfortable, do you think he would not stoop to declaring a state of emergency due to the economy and using the executive powers he gave himself earlier this year to suspend constitutional law?
The debates must be held as scheduled. The election process cannot be tampered with!

I Hope That At Least Included A $600 Haircut...

The latest post of Celebrity News included this item about John McCain and the $5,583.43 Make up job he needs to make himself presentable for the American public.
That's a hell of a lot more than any drag queen I have ever met.
This news comes on the day as McCain's campaign manager Randy Davis is revealed to have been recieving $15,000 a month to lobby for Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae up until last month! The McCain campaign had been denying reports that Davis had been a lobbyist for Freddy and Fannie in the past. Davis has been reported of earning $30,000 a month for a few years, making a total of over 2 million dollars to use his influence on John McCain for favorable legislation....
Now in an about face, they have had to admit that Davis was employed up until last month. The only way they could spin this was to attack the "Liberal" biased news organizations for telling the truth.
Davis is only one of 83 McCain staffers that have been lobbyist for Wall Street.
This has thrown the McCain camp into total disarray. McCains flustered and frankly scary response to the finanacial meltdown has paralyzed his supporters and drawn severe criticism from normally fawning pundits, including George Will.
To make matters worse for McCain, Sarah Palin proved why she has to be kept away from the press. She actually told reporters that the America was definitely heading for a depression. Her Wall Street Journal/NBC Poll numbers are in the tank, and did I mention todays cover of the National Inquirer?
His approval rating is plummeting and Obama gained a 10 point lead in the polls today.
What else could this desparate inveterate gambler do but try a desparate roll of the dice, and try to cancle the debate this Friday. His strategy is to try to project a show of concern and a need to "act responsibly" in this time of crisis.
Will he? I don't think so......
His strategy is to push the need to pass the Treasury Secretary's bail out plan as swiftly as possible before any one can question the wisdom and examine the guaranteed golden parachutes it insures to the very reckless executives who drove the American economy off the cliff.............
While he says he will "suspend " his campaign, will the negative lies stop for a minute? Will he stop the divisive, misleading ads? His track record says NO!
He is playing for time. He is playing for sympathy. He has proven in this campaign that he will stoop to anything and this is just a lame ploy to delay the inevitable.
THE DEBATE MUST GO ON! JOHN McCAIN IS A LYING HYPOCRITE WHO WILL STOOP TO ANYTHING TO SIEZE THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES.
Even wearing more make up than any other 72 year old drag queen could afford!

I just saw Obama's statement on CNN International and he made the point that a president has to be able to handle more than one thing at a time. He was pretty reassuring and calm and was relaxed and unscripted in contrast to McCains anguished badly read statement. The last 24 hours have put things in perspective for a lot of people. We see the wall of protection around Sarah Palin and the attempt to portray her as a victim of a rabid press, we see and anguished confused McCain trying to cancel everything while he bails out his sinking campaign.

AVALON

About a year ago, I posted a duet with Chet Atkins and Les Paul playing Birth of The Blues. It's about time to listen to these guys again! This was recorded in 1973. They had been friends since the 1930's. Chets brother was the bass player for Les's first band. They were two of the greatest inovators of guitar technique and technology. Chet died in 2001 and Lester? well he's still going strong every Monday night live at the Irridium Club in New York City. I still get shivers when I hear them play together.
Chester and Lester playing Avalon.

I Recieved An Email Today....

CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Dear Mr. American,

Good day and compliments.

I am HENRI PAULSON, the Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America, and the personal financial adviser to GEORGE W. BUSH (the eldest son of the former dictator of America, GENERAL GEORGE HUSSEIN WALKER BUSH).

This letter will definitely come to you as a huge surprise, but I implore you to take the time to go through it carefully as the decision you make will go off a long way to determine the future and continued existence of the entire members of my country.

It is with deep sense of purpose and utmost sincerity that I have the privilege to write you this letter knowing full well how you will feel as regards to receiving a mail from somebody you have not met or seen before. There is no need to fear, I got your address from a Wall Street business directory which lends credence to my humble belief. I also assure you of my honesty and trustworthiness. I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

During the last Military Regime here in America, the Government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contracts which were grossly over-invoiced in various ministries. My country has had great crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of US$800,000,000,000.00 (eight hundred billion US dollars) in cash for safe-keeping. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be of most profitable for you.

I am working with the honourable MR. PHIL GRAMM, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As Senator, you may know him as leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s.

This is a matter of great urgence. We need a immediate blank cheque. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because as civil servants we are constantly under surveillance by Democratic members of Congress, the media, and the American public. My family lawyer, MR. RICK DAVIS, advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.

Please note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence the transfer latest seven (7) banking days from the date of the receipt of the following information: all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. This way we will use your country's name to apply for payment in your name. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds. That's all. Let me know what you think about this.

We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction.

May Allah show you mercy as you do so?

Your faithfully,

Dr. Minister of Treasury Paulson

Life During Wartime Part#3

(from the New York Times, April 7, 2013)

Christian Heartland Commonwealth Declared
Governor Budley Releases Statement

In a message today from the newly created Commonwealth Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Governor Jason Budley, Rep. OK, proclaimed the official establishment of the Christian Heartland Commonwealth. In his statement, Governor Budley stated that in no way would the Commonwealth affect the unity of America, but that it established a zone of economic and moral protection that reflected the will and the wishes of the 4 state area that have voted to join in the project.
"In light of the recent economic upheavals and social unrest that have affected certain areas of The Great United States, we are forming a Commonwealth to protect the pure ideals and the special economic bond we have formed and sealed with our faith", the governor stated.
Governor Budley emphasized that while freedom of the press was one of the cornerstones of American greatness, he would be compelled to respect the will of the people who elected him. The Commonwealth has created a corps of editorial overseers to enforce their standards in the papers and media within the region.
The governor also authorized the standardization of internet resources and access within the Christian Heartland Commonwealth. There will be one server for the time being and they recommend that anyone who wants to conduct business by internet or have unhampered communication with anyone residing within the boundaries of the Commonwealth to subscribe to the newly created "Dovenet" and "Dovemail" services.
The Commonwealths internet service is totally filtered and spam free.
President Palin, who in the past voiced opposition to the plan, today, released a statement praising the Commonwealth and stated that in her opinion it in no way threatened the future unity of the United States.
Her husband and Chief of Staff, General Todd Palin is rumored to have been engaged in talks to head up a committee to investigate the possibility of granting a Commonwealth Status to his home state, Alaska.

(this is the third in a series of alternative reality ficiton pieces entitled Life During Wartime)

What So Never The Dance

Just Music...one of my all time favorite bass lines by my hero Bootsy Collins from the mid 70's in the Cincinatti band, The House Guests with his brother Catfish Collins.
They formed the band right after they quit working for James Brown with the rest of the JB's back in 1972. Soon after, the Houseguests found that they had somehow become part of George Clinton's Parlafunkadeliment Thang....
Yabba Dabba Doo!

Tastes Good Too........

After listening to Sarah Palin try to explain fungible oil molecules,
I decided to listen to Lucille Ball make a lot more sense tryiong to sell something called Vitameatavegimen......'Splain Lucy!

Sheesh! No wonder the Republicans are so afraid of allowing an honest debate between Palin and Biden. In the CNN Clip, even McCain looks frightened!

Free Bumpersticker!

I redid the layout of the last graphic so you can, if you so desire, print out this piece as a bumper sticker or sign...or what ever!
Put it on your dog, your car, your neighbors car when he isn't looking!

He Feels Your Pain (NOT)

(this piece was also published on themanwiththemuckrake blog today)
Please let me relate a little personal information about myself here. My early life was in a family that was devasted by a major illness. We were a white solid middle class family with health insurance. Over the course of six years, what the insurance didn't cover left my father in such major debt that we lost our house. He died soon after and I was pretty much a homeless street kid in Detroit on my own. I managed to have a pretty interesting life and I learned a lot fast and even ended up in college, but I would say that most of my real knowlege comes from educating myself.
I have always believed that America could do better. I have always believed that health care was a right, not a privilege.

This week, we have seen the dreams of many Americans go up in flames in the biggest recorded loss of personal wealth in modern times. We have seen the government bail out and take over some of the biggest financial institutions on the planet. The people on top, the executives who played fast and loose with regulations and the dreams of the investors are not suffering. They all walk, no matter what happens with pockets stuffed with cash.

John McCain wanted to privatize Social Security. If he had his way when this project was being considered, the future of most of us would be in doubt as a privatized Social Security System would have gone down in flames this week. Your future welfare would have been trashed.
He would like us to forget this proposal now that he is the bad boy of Wall Street, scolding all those who's pocket he still is in. Let's not forget that 83 of his advisors are lobbyists for Wall Street and he has been shifting the same pieces on the game board since his involvement in the last major bank scandal, the Savings and Loan scandals of the 80's. Remember the Keating 5? Anyone?
That's why I was shocked when I read this piece by Paul Krugman about McCains proposal to privatize health care:

McCain on banking and health

OK, a correspondent directs me to John McCain’s article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries. You might want to be seated before reading this.

Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform:

Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.

So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago — and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry!

If you click on the links, it will take you to the article in the current issue of Contingencies Magazine.
John McCain has never had to pay for health care insurance in his life. He was born into an Upper Echelon Elite Armed Forces Family and enjoyed the best health care the service could offer. Now as a Veteran he is totally covered for life as well as the free coverage all members of congress enjoy. His entire life has been one of privilege and the full coverage of the best socialized medical systems in the Western Hemisphere.
And now he wants to put your coverage in the deregulated hands of the institutions that were responsible for the biggest loss of personal wealth in recorded history.

CRETIN ROCK

I don't know how many times I have been asked "Hey, Microdot, why don't you ever post any Ramones music?" and I always say..."uhhh, I dunno."
So here are the Ramones from 1977 live in London performing the perfectly apt ditty, Cretin Rock...this one goes out to all of you McCain supporters trying to think of some semi witty bit of sarcasm to fling at me (especially the sweaty unpleasantly plump evangelical duo, listen ladies, try a dipilatory cream on those mustaches)...keep trying!
1 minute and 40 seconds of perfectly mindlessly brillant pop!

RETURN OF THE MUMMY

Before he is officially enterred with his legacy in the Bush Memorial Pyramid, the semi embalmed mummified president was reanimated to make rare appearance to make a short statement to reassure the American public that he actually was aware of the economic meltdown. His statement:

THE PRESIDENT: Grrr ahhhgghh kkkkhhh aaaghkkk grrr...BRLECCH! gackaghk
GRRRR!

I took the liberty of translating his remarks using google's ancient egyptian mummy translation device....It seems to work great with only a few little blips, but I fixed them for you:

THE PRESIDENT: The American people are concerned about the situation in our financial markets and our economy, and I share their concerns. I’ve canceled my travel today to stay in Washington, where I will continue to closely monitor the situation in our financial markets and consult with my economic advisors. I spoke to Secretary Paulson this morning, and I will meet with him later on today.

After these remarks, a group of aides came out with flaming torches and spears muttering obscure incantations to force the president back into his sarcophagus where he will remain until after the election to protect John Mccain from The Curse Of The Mummy!

This Might Help....

During these serious times, people of all faiths should remember these four religious truths:

1. Muslims do not recognize Jews as God's chosen people.

2. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.

3. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian world.

4. Baptists and Methodists do not recognize each other at Hooters.

Gosh Darned Liberal Biased Truth!

This was on CNN today! Palin has lost 15 approval rating points in three days. Frank Luntz is panicking. Who cut McCains feed on MSNBC on Monday night, just as the questioning got tough?
I dunno, Johnny, it's tough when they just don't love you anymore....
Maybe it's time to roll them dice agin......