Thursday, May 19, 2011

Part II: Pursuing more psychodelic posters just because…

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What can I say? I love these old 60s and 70s posters. I remember making a few of my own, but with nowhere near the expertise displayed here.

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It’s strange seeing them after all of these years. I still remember my first black light poster – it was The Doors. Rock on!

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All of these images are available at Google Images Public domain. I’ll share more on another day.

The Social Security/Medicare "Crisis" Is Really a Choice - Between the Middle Class and the Wealthy

Guest Opinion

By Richard (RJ) Eskow

“The word for today is "choice," not "crisis."

It's time to stop saying the country "can't afford" Medicare, Social Security, or other programs that benefit the middle class. If I told my mother that I "can't mow the lawn" or "I can't do all that homework" when I was a kid, she'd say: "Don't say you can't. Say you don't want to." (The outcome of these exchanges was inevitable. Hello, lawnmower ...)

Now we're told there's a "crisis" and we can no longer afford the middle-class American dream. The truth is the opposite: Our long-term problems aren't caused by the middle class, but by politicians who choose to sacrifice the middle class for wealthy interests.

All this talk about a "debt crisis" is a way for politicians to avoid telling the truth: They'd rather say they "have to" sacrifice the middle class than admit they're making a choice.” Read the rest here.

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One infuriating example of public assistance program abuse

Taking advantage of the system…Fick doesn’t give a flying f**k who cares!

It’s people like this clown who hurt the public welfare recipients who really need help. His picture is going to be put up in every Conservative politicians office in America.

He’s made himself the poster boy of public abuse, but could care less what you think about it. He’s getting his…note the modified mullet.

A Michigan Lottery $2 million jackpot winner from last year is eligible and collecting some food stamp assistance under a loophole state officials have been working for months to close.

Leroy Fick, who lives near Saginaw, took a lump sum payment for his June 2010 prize, buying a house, a used 2008 Audi and investing the rest, attorney John Wilson said on Wednesday.

"If you're going to ... try to make me feel bad, you aren't going to do it," Fick told a reporter from local station TV5.”

Welcome to my Thursday morning coffee klatch mateys…

The coffee is hot and tasty and the news is what it is! For openers there was a bit of a mutiny on stranded MSC cruise ship yesterday. 'We want the captain,' shouted passengers, who faced another ordeal after disembarking

Police comb city for mullet-wearing bandit

Police in Ohio are searching for a mullet-wearing bandit they say has been on a bank-robbing spree across the state.

A man sporting the distinctive hairdo -- short on the top, tight on the sides and long in the back -- is a suspect in at least two bank robberies in Columbus over the past two weeks, FBI Special Agent Harry Trombitas told Reuters, and may have been involved in a third holdup in the northeast part of the state.

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Jamie McCourt asks judge to order sale of Dodgers

My Dodgers have been in dire straights lately. The almost didn’t make the May team payroll. Now this:

“In a court filing made public today, Jamie McCourt says the Dodgers are on 'the brink of financial ruin' due to Frank McCourt's 'mismanagement.' She asks that the judge act before Major League Baseball seizes the club, in order to get the highest sale price for the team.”

Woman's quest for missing dad leads to Utah desert

It was supposed to be Kenneth Schneider's goodbye to the world, the last solo road trip the 78-year-old would take, from Washington state back to his native Utah.

No one knows just how or why the trip ended as abruptly as it did. But, more than five years later, as she clutched her father's skull in the harsh southern Utah desert, Leslie Schneider finally felt an odd catharsis and relief that her family's own emotional quest for answers also had come to an end.

That’s all for now folks. Time for me to head on down the road…

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

‘Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star’

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Google Images – Quote by Willis Reed

Lawmaker Says Women Should Plan Ahead in Case of Rape, Since He Carries A Spare Tire

Rep. Pete DeGraaf, a Mulvane Republican makes a complete ass of himself

“A Republican just suggested a woman should have to "plan ahead" and obtain insurance in case she is raped.  She should have a plan ready in case she is raped. I cannot repeat that enough -- a Republican lawmaker believes that women should be planning for a future in which she is raped, just in case. - Robin Marty

Secret Service interrogates 13-year-old over Facebook post

 

Just in case you don’t think Big Brother is watching…

When Timi Robertson found out her middle-schooler son was being questioned by the Secret Service and the police at his Tacoma, Wa. school, she says she "just about lost it," — especially after they told her it was over a Facebook post the boy had written warning President Barack Obama of suicide attacks in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death.

The Shame List: 10 CEOs Who Got Rich By Squeezing Workers

Michael T. Duke Walmart Jeffrey R. Immelt General Electric Angela F. Braly WellPoint Mark G. Parker Nike Hugh Grant Monsanto Craig Dubow Gannett Clarence Otis, Jr.Darden Restaurants Gary M. Rodkin ConAgra Foods Keith E. Wandell Harley Davidson
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Corporate profits grew 38.8 percent in 2010, the biggest increase since 1950, the year I was born.

But while CEOs earned an average of 20 percent more last year, many Americans continued to lose their jobs and benefits.

The insecurity of the middle class has a lot to do with how executives are paid. Bonuses pegged to stock prices encourage CEOs to mercilessly outsource and downsize, slashing costs to boost profits.

The result is that more corporate leaders are getting paid at the expense of average workers. Shown here are 10 of the worst offenders:

Solar Energy for All? I can’t wait to see what the impact of a new partnership will be for you and me

Lowe's, the world's second largest home improvement retailer recently announced a new partnership with residential solar provider Sungevity that will put renewable energy within the reach of millions.

On Monday, the companies announced a new agreement that will offer homeowners the easiest and most affordable solar solutions in the marketplace, marking a significant step in the mainstream adoption of residential solar.  Story Here.

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LAPD hopes mystery woman can lead to suspects who beat Giants fan at Dodger Stadium

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As a longtime Dodger fan I was horrified when I heard about this vicious attack on San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow.

It’s a sign of the times. Public violence is so prevalent that there is no place families can go without fear of being attacked. Gangsters rule the inner cities and when they attend games they bring their love of violence with them.

If you’ve gone to any professional sports venues in recent years, you’ve probably noticed the difference in how rude people are acting. Parents almost have to bring ear muffs for their children to baseball games because of the profanities that fill the air. It’s sad.

Los Angeles police said Tuesday that a Latina in her 20s who wore a white Andre Ethier jersey on opening day at Dodger Stadium may know the two assailants responsible for the brutal attack on San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow.

Los Angeles Police Capt. Bill Murphy said detectives have developed some strong leads,  but one of the best is that a woman drove the car that took the two suspects away on the night of the beating.

Police also announced Tuesday that the total reward had been increased from $150,000 to $200,000 for information leading to the capture of the two attackers, the San Francisco Examiner reported

Police Suspect Drawings and Description - The first attacker is described as a stocky male Latino with a shaved head, mustache and goatee and possibly neck tattoos. He is described as 5 feet 6 inches tall to 5 feet 10 inches and weighing about 170 pounds. He has a mole on his left cheek. The second suspect is a Latino or white male, 6 feet 1 inches with short hair and hazel eyes and possibly tattoos on his shoulder.

He's Back! This Time in Drag

While Donald Trump has inspired thousands of grifters from across the country few have reached the heights that disgraced former Congressman...