Why we need Clean Elections in Texas

It’s well past time for clean elections
Our freedom is at stake.
Lobbyists and corporations
Our rules and laws now make.

SBC (now AT&T)
Last year spent seven million
To tell our State how to legislate.
Think they listen to your opinion?

At three million plus, in place number two.
An electrical revelation.
Helping write the rules is TXU
Check your bills for confirmation.

Do your medical costs continue to rise
While you buy less with your labors compensation?
Third largest donor
Texas Medical Association.

Saddest of all is your tax dollar pays
Those lobbyist’s generous bills.
They deduct their expenses of writing our laws
And usurping our rights and our will.

The list goes on, as could I,
And I hope you are paying attention.
Publicly financed electoral campaigns
Is a viable solution.

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A Nightmare in Progress

A government built on a simple idea:
The citizens shall be in control.
Open up schools, give the reigns to the people
Allow them to gather, let free speech grow.

Four two hundred years the experiment stumbled
And staggered and strained and expanded the base.
Slaves gained their freedom and women the vote
The simple idea was showing its grace.

Yet, hidden in shadows and driven by greed
And a total devotion to gaining more
Lying and scheming and bleeding this country.
A cabal of cretins corrupt to their core.

The people seem willing to give up their birthright
Surrender the reigns to a powerful few
To cower in fear in front of their TVs
Too lazy to learn, too complacent to stew.

The experiment ends not with a bang
With a whimper, a drooling demise.
We may have become the most powerful nation
One thing we are not is wise.


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Merrily off to Iran

Title leads to a Christian article about the Residents proclivities, but the story I'll tell is a march into hell and the price that our country will pay. The Republican aim is to light up the flames of the fearful to get them to vote. Regardless of how the election turns out, the neo-con ache is for war. Iran is the plan, even congress can balk, cause the Resident said he don't listen. Excepting to God who selected his bod to Crusade in the lands of the east. Not in person of course, that would cause him remorse, and he's never been game for the fighting. He'd rather direct safely snug in his fortress surrounded by yes men. Let other men bleed, the country has need of a strong leader leading the amens. New tales tell that his insanity is in his blood. I welcome any explanation. I simply wish to be informed as our country slides into damnation.

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The Once Great USA

As the Resident spills the military's blood on the sands of Iraq, he spills the nation's monetary treasure into the pockets of the multi-national corporations and the coffers of the Military-Industrial complex.
From an unusually large surplus to a bankrupting deficit, the biggest bully on the block may soon find that it didn't win the cold war after all.

In another sign that the United States is rapidly drifting into "Third World" status as a major world debtor nation, Russia has announced that it has paid off its $31.1 billion debt to foreign countries incurred during Soviet times. Russia paid off its debt largely as a result of the increase in the price of oil -- a major Russian export. Not only has the ruble been made fully convertible but Russia is now attracting major investments and its bond rating has improved.

Russia's economic turnaround has also increased its clout at the expense of Bush's neo-con strategists. Russia has forgiven about two thirds of Syria's $13 billion debt and has initiated port development schemes in the ports of Tartus and Latakia, old Soviet naval bases. Russia's strong financial and military support for Syria checked neo-con plans to militarily attack Syria.

You may not like the messenger (Aug. 23, 2006), but it doesn't change the facts. The Resident has made the USA a debter nation and we may/will soon lose the ability to purchase the oil needed to run our military monster. I've heard the Res called dumb, an idiot, a buffoon, and while I do not disagree, I'm begining to think an important new discription is: Suicidal.

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The Grab for Power continues

The incompetance of the Resident is glaringly obvious and yet congress continues to try to give him more power with almost every bill it writes. The latest appropreations for the military has a provision in the fine print that gives the Resident the power to nationalize the Guard under any "emergency." The Peter Principle is in overdrive.

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Must See TV

Marty Kaplan has a video on Huffingtonpost.com that needs to be seen by every voter using a Diebold Voting Machine, especially by any Republican who cries,"Sour grapes," when the validity of the past three elections is called into question.

As for the progress on the Resident...Let's see, Afghanistan is being retaken by the Taliban while the Warlords are busy growing Opium poppies, Iraq, in the midst of a civil war, unites in opposition to US policy towards Hiz'bola, and he's pushing Israel into war with Syria and Iran. That will give him an excuse to invade those countries with the backing on a congress that bows to one master: AIPAC. I say excuse for his reason is apolitical it's apocalyptic
MEANWHILE THE SHEEPLE ARE DUTIFULLY SWALLOWING THE LIES. Belief in the non-existent WMD's in Iraq has grown from the Resident's rabid 30% to 48% thanks to the MSM. FORGET THE FACTS, GIVE ME ANYTHING TO KEEP ME FROM FEELING GUILTY!

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