Mind your step if you are out hiking in the woods in West Michigan this weekend

Deep in the woods of the Manistee National Forest, three men dressed in camouflage were setting up camp Friday, preparing for a weekend of survival exercises, first-aid instruction — and gun training.

They were expecting 20 or so more of their colleagues with the West Michigan Volunteer Militia to join them for their monthly training session in the forest.

http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2011/06/militia_training_in_manistee_n.html

can we vote for this guy in 2012 ???

Van Jones on the deficit: ‘We are not stupid. We can do the math.’

“We keep hearing America – the richest country in the history of the world is broke,” Jones said. “This is a very dangerous lie, because once you believe this a whole lot of other things start to sound acceptable.”

Jones gave an educational lesson on where American money is going: Wall Street ( $144 Billion in compensation this year, a record high ), the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the loss of revenue from the Bush tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans and corporate tax loopholes.

“Tax Wall Street fairly, wind down the wars responsibly, roll back the Bush tax cuts and close corporate loopholes,” Jones said. “We are not stupid. We can do the math.”

Jones called now a ‘moral moment.’ “The pain point that people are experiencing is unbearable. If you drill one centimeter below where we are economically, it is freefall for tens of millions of Americans and they don’t know what to do, and no one cares.”

“This is about a very small amount of very greedy people against the United States of America,” he says. “We say no way.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/24/van-jones-on-the-deficit-we-are-not-stupid-we-can-do-the-math/

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/van-jones-unveils-rebuild-dream

we’d follow this guy. where do we sign up??

you want to know what else slows down a search ???

a .40 or a .45 bullet behind the ear.

if anyone – and i do not care if they have a badge or not – starts rooting through my trash, i will shoot them.

dirty rotten f***ing bastards.

and really f*** 9/11 – i just knew that we would be paying for cheney’s plot for the rest of our f***ing lives.

gd it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

was in a public area last night using the wifi when the breaking news scrolled about a presidential announcement at 1030pm and then TPM ssaid it was about a covert cia operation overseas and i said to the group watching the ceiling mounted teevee that the usa either captured or killed OBL and everybody asked me how i knew that and i said that i pay attention and then sure enough, that is what happened.

then i said to the group that now the usa could get the f*** out of Afghanistan and Iraq and Pakistan and dismantle TSA and DHS and get rid of that odious and evil “Patriot” Act and restore our civil liberties and close Guantanamao Bay Death & Torture Camp and start observing the Rule of Law again and things like that.

what was the group’s reaction ????

horror !!! we can’t do that !!! THOSE people still hate us for our Freedoms and Democracies and blahblahblah.

we are f***ed. this sh*t will never ever end. too much $$$$$$ and power involved.

Incidentally, 4/20 also marks my 7th anniversary of blogging, which is a bit scary for me to even write.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOOM SHAKA LAKA BOOM SHAKA LAKA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!! SHOOBIE DOOBIE DOOBIE WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very cool !!! congrats !!! many more to you !!! see you in the phunnie pages !!!!

1. never even thought about this aspect of the Citizens United “ruling” – was focused only on the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ( gawd )

2. the assault on unions, esp public, has been in the news as of late. has anybody thought about the political leanings of the millions and millions of americans that have been laid off in the last 5 or so years??? i know that with no income i can no longer support anything/anybody that i did previously – part of a / the plan also ???

Memo to Benjamin Franklin: No, we didn’t keep it.

i have read a lot of comments in the last 10+ years and this is the best one i have read – ever.

really f***ing sad, though, that it is true. i just never thought that i would see the day. yet, here we are.

I’m not saying the WaPo hasn’t done a lot of work on this story overall. But telling a story – particularly one as complex and important as this one–is more than collecting data points.

well, exactly what has happened to cia ( losing experience / knowledge ) has happened to the wapo and all of the other newspapers in the usa – buy out the experienced ( ie more expensive ) and use less experienced ( ie less expensive ) to churn out the propaganda. the people that remain or have been hired do not have the skill / knowledge / experience to tell the story any better. they simply do not know how.

la times dumped Robert Scheer

ny times dumped David Cay Johnston ( and Frank Rich and Bob Herbert )

pbs dumped Bill Moyers at least once ( and now there are zero progressive / left / liberal voices anywhere on mainstream american teevee )

the loss of institutional knowledge and experience is definitely harming this country – whooooooooooooooooooooops

who knew ???

GREAT Roundup today !!!!

Not that we don’t enjoy the heck out of each of your Roundups but today’s was put together very well and we kept saying “damn how did we miss that?” and “boy are we glad that dday included this”.

Many Thanks !!!

We are all Kazakhstan now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOLOLOLOLOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

or just fill in your favorite Third World sh*thole in the above.

what an effing miracle for the incumbent reichwingnutjob, eh ???

like ballots from heaven or something …..

Nobody in Florida can stand Rick Scott. I believe we tried to warn you.

yeah, that “buyer’s remorse” crap is very irritating.

people really need to wake the funk up and pay attention.

was looking at the map of how wisconsin voted yesterday – when did wisconsin turn so gd red / conservative / reichwingnut ???

are people really that scared, deluded, out to lunch ???

can anybody tell me wtf has happened to this country ???

One of these days I’ll get up a roundup in a reasonable time frame.

we will take your Roundups when we can get them, especially after 13 posts today alone !!! on a wide variety of topics that we perused eagerly.

if you are not the hardest blogging blogger in the western hemibloggingsphere, we would be surprised.

so, do not fret about the timing. k thnx bye

this guy should just go ahead and eat. sheesh

i am also on a hunger strike – but not of my choosing. i am out of money and have been for a while and thus cannot buy any food ( and do not qualify for any assistance as an able bodied male doncha know ).

this guy ain’t doing me no favors.

dude, just eat.

You cannot make people buy homes who don’t have the money or jobs

it’s hard to see an economic recovery – stock market went up today, corporate profits are at all time highs, bank bonuses are rocketing skyward, ceo bonuses topped $216 Million for 2010 – looks like an economic recovery from here …. /snark

And yes, we do have to add the perspective of what this teaches the world community about giving up nuclear capabilities.

especially if your country has OIL underneath it.

Bug or Feature ???? >>>> One Year Later, Health Care Reform Actually Slightly Less Popular

This is a slightly drop from April of last year

The purely political decision to delay benefits solely to make the law appear cheaper should go down as one of the greatest political miscalculations in recent times. <<< very very true

This observation deserves its own post–in fact, it deserves an entire series of posts.

absolutely totally agree.

as soon as i read that last graph, i went back and re-read and thought “dyam Dayen that’s is some strong stuff right there”.

so, get crackin’ and show / tell us more !!!

thanks !!!!

p.s. and if you want to expand on this >>>>

In addition, the NRA is an ideological organ, NOT an issue-based one. People have a hard time understanding that.

by all means feel free to do so also.

With the American people no longer optimistic about how our system of government works, we could actually be heading towards a real national or Constitutional crisis armed uprising / rebellion / revolution.

fixed that for you

… the working poor are basically invisible to their government. and to many of their fellow american citizens and especially to the rich and well to do and wealthy UNTIL the lawn needs to be mowed or the plates need to be carried in from the kitchen to the table or those imperial empirical wars need to be waged.