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September 10, 2012

Democrats.... more than meet the eye...

the Democrats... more than meets the eye...:
Democrats force their battles to destroy the evil wages of the DeceptiCans... (Note slight turn of original lyrics here)
the Democrats....
Peeling back their disguise
the Democrats... more than meets the eye...

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Even though I was a little too old for this show this theme has run through my head since it first appeared :


UPDATE 9/22/12 This has turned into an animation project. Any good computer animators, camera buffs in the Mountain View, Ca area please reply
below if you have some weekend time before the election. I have camera, need tripod, lighting. Hired assistant will be paid 30 an hour.

OTW please respond to this poll:
September 7, 2012

Vote republican, take two tax cuts, roll back regulations and take a permanently relaxing swim in

45 million gallons per day of toxic sludge flowing towards our oceans. Enough to kill all marine life.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/18/957440/-Koch-paper-pollution-chokes-Ouachita-River

copy/paste reply from same article appears to offer a safer alternative:



I live about 4 blocks from one of their mills. In my time here it has been Crown Zellerbach, Fort James, Georgia Pacific, and now Georgia Pacific/ Koch.

The Koch brothers gained control of our mill and others in this area via the Enron power scam which sent every mill of any kind in this area into a death spiral as our power rates climbed some to some 3 times what they had been/

When the Koch brothers gained control their first order of business was to attempt to bust the union by playing hard ball. Every time the union would refuse a contract that was for up to 30% less in benefits they would shut down a few machines open up the side of the building and move them out.

We were sure the mill would close, this made some very happy specifically the well to do folks up the hill who built their houses in the path to the smoke coming from the stacks.

But our mill, it seems is special, built in 1860, it has it's own hydro power plant which generates not only their power by that for the down town area of this town as well. It seems now they are saying it is one of the most profitable mills in the western hemisphere.

This is the State of Wahington and there are people testing the water every single day for the slightest violation but our little old mill makes the grade mainly because the people that work there know their stuff it is not uncommon for the union to blow the whistle on changes they feel will be a detriment to the community.

Interesting.

This is a mill town 19% of the population works in this mill. Down from nearly 70% some 30 years ago.

Becuase of this old mill we have a very great town, ball fields, public parks, some wonderful public facilities, and schools built by the former companies particulurly Crown Z.

Our High School name is the Papermakers.

We hate the Koch brothers as much, if not more than anybody else who has had to put up with their petty, greedy garbage and underhanded ways. But my neighbors, the mill workers, need my support.

A suggestion for those in need of alternatives to GP for products that wish to also buy and support american jobs. Port Townsend Paper is now a worker owned operation.

So, anyone can fact check this? I'm going to look for this label instead cause it sounds promising!

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About nightscanner59

As a 16 y.o. runaway from extreme peer bullying and parental neglect; specifically after being \"outed\" in a redneck town, it was one fat, boisterous idiot of a preacher who instrumented the lynch mob who literally \"ran me out of town\". This was precisely the hateful crap he was stirring that caused incidental mob mentality that I know nearly a whole certain town is horrified to look back upon. Fred Phelps himself was invited, and drove all the way there to head up this riot. It was like something out of a horror flick: invited to a \"party in my honor\", that was quickly revealed to be a hatefest, with Fred Phelps himself at the helm. From the moment I walked in the door he lit into an in-my-face spitting litany of my evils with family and community members teasing and touting \"praise cheezus\" all around. I left with a whole crowd chasing me down the street. I only stayed home long enough that evening to pack a backpack and head out, never to return. This was after many other pronounced anti-gay incidents that were escalating in severity. I\'ve spent my whole life attempting to live down that moment. If I could sue every one of the idiots who took part in that dipshit scenario I would not hesitate for one second. Odd conflict with me is, being very, very lucky to have run across a gay pedophile (if you will, he had more genuine humanitarian interest in getting me off the street than playing with my pee-pee) who sheltered, fed and street-schooled me till I was nearly 18. December 2009 I was doored off my bicycle in what was highly suspected as an anti-gay crime. Reason being I kept having drive by \"Faggot\" yelled at my home, then the same spray painted on it, within a couple months of this happening. I cannot identify my attackers. It came unexpectedly, so suddenly, and I was too dazed only to realized I was being repeatedly kicked in the head. It took a sort of hypnosis and drug enhanced therapy to recall what I could at a University PTSD study I participated in: but during that EMDR-like sessions I realized that I had been kicked in the head something on the order of 100 times by my attackers, I could smell strong whiskey and they were laughing and making homophobic comments. I\'m a radiologic technologist with over 20 years experience in CT and Xray. Unfortunately I have limitations to my physical ability to perform my chosen profession, due to pinched nerves in my neck. Insurance companies have rejected me for all plans. I have taken what Xray assignments I can. I\'m fortunate not to have lost most of my cognitive abilities, but I\'m not who I was before this occurence, by any long shot. I can no longer ride a bicycle or a motorcycle due to chronic dizziness. I\'ve had dozens of chronic ear infections since. My right eye still has a partially detached retina. I\'ve been opiate free for 6 months now, but still have some days I have trouble with old fractures. I am documented TBI case now basically multiple post concussive syndrome. I still want to work, and live much like I did before this happened but it is very difficult. I have difficulty sometimes forming sentences verbally in proper syntax, and have to go kind of slowly at this. I refuse to become dependent on SSDI though, because I still don\'t really have a home. I sold the house there in Arizona, still have some ranch property in Radiator Springs! But this fucked up all my plans for building a home there. Its still a campout. I\'ve finally paid off over 10,000 dollars worth of debt this attack caused me. State of Arizona refused me victims of crime compensation. (R) bastards. I\'m living on the edge of homelessness still. Only a few places have been understanding of my limitations, however, which are not severe, but ever present. I\'m hoping to go back to one of the best jobs I\'ve had, but things aren\'t as lucrative for rad techs as they were years ago. Albeit my past is bitter, has made some mediocrity seem sweet ever since.
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