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Perfect timing
  ToTehEastSide, Aug 24 2009

I find it so incredible how everything can perfectly come together and can also instantly & chaotically break apart...

First off, a new battle has begun. I just received this email. This is the first time this has ever happened ^^

"Hello xxx,

Unfortunately we are unable to approve the image that you have
selected. We feel that this image might, in some way, offend other
players, and therefore we ask that you select a new image.

To select a new image, go to "Account" in the main lobby menu, then
click on "Select/Change Image".

Please note that we only allow one more change, so select your new image
carefully.


Regards,

PokerStars Support Team"

So naturally what was the image I tried and want to put through right?
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I am going to fight it of course as it's perfectly politically correct (it even has pictures for those that can't read English) but I have alot of other priorities before I get to this in proper fashion.


Next bit is I am going to ask you the reader if you have ever heard of CAFR reports and I am going to state that atm I'm also making a thread in which I hope you watch. This one not counting, it's going to be imo the second most important thread I've made and the title will be Joe Bannister.
The first most important is here: http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/763552/Its_Federal_Reserve_time_baby.html

And last but not least is a little history, from our Presidents in the semi-current past. I think actually one should actually go back to the founding Presidents or at least 3 Presidents before this time but since I like to use videos for people of today, I will say start here with these two speeches.
The first is the farewell speech of President (R) Dwight D. Eisenhower and the second is from his predecessor four months later President (D) John F. Kennedy <- my fave president. This speech is called the "President and the Press" speech. His speech is vastly important and I realize to some that the length will be entirely too long but I prefer to deliver unedited things to prevent skewing as much as possible. With the second speech w/ JFK, one can easily cut down the time by skipping the first 6 minutes and listen from there as that's when the joking get's set aside and where the topic and meat of the address is.

(both speeches have two spoilers, the first one will be part 2 of the video and the second spoiler is the text of the speech if that is what you prefer)



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The President and the Press
(again, if u don't like history, skip to 5:58 to get to the heart of it)



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I really can't say enough that I hope you listen to these men and not the graffiti.

A revolution is coming - a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are if we are fortunate enough - but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character, we cannot alter it's inevitability. --John F Kennedy



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Commander?
  ToTehEastSide, Aug 23 2009

"You want a piece of me boy?"


"Ah yeah!"




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What if...
  ToTehEastSide, Aug 21 2009





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To Saki & Nolan
  ToTehEastSide, Aug 19 2009

School for me is starting next Monday. This is the cause for my taking it easy and sidetracking today because come Monday I will be doing a 16 hour semester as well as having to keep up a grind for income/bills/life etc... I'm getting a breather while I can.
The title of this blogpost is because I wanted to say thanks to the both of you for having a relatively small hand (but a hand nonetheless) in two of the classes I am taking. One is a foreign language and the other is Political Science.
To get a little more in depth, since classes are starting soon the school is busy and my processing and applications etc took a bit which means the selection of classes I got to pick from was dwindled down this semester. I've always wanted to learn another language but never really had the opportunity and it wasn't ever required for me to do. Now's the chance.
As for Political Science, I am actually really wary and hesitant to take this but again since it was one of the ones open I feel now is a good time to see what it is about. I'm hoping overall it's a good experience. It was either this or a computer programming class. I'm going in with eyes open as wide open as possible and I will try my best to not make all hell break loose but no guarantees =D
This school & poker is an interesting line I am taking to say the least and I'm not sure how it will all work out. Maybe I shouldn't be thanking anyone until after the semester is over eh...
ah well

Onto other things..
(yes beware....politics below)

First I think a huge problem in this country is our "Representatives."
This is daily business in the Texas legislature.




I have to point out that clip ^ is Texas government which is state and local government and not federal. I think with a dab of common sense it's obvious today that states in America are far from sovereign entities and they are reliant upon the Federal Government to a pretty big degree. So at least to me it's really easy to envision something similar as this clip going on at federal level as well as no real change nor accountability within your state until some of that reliance of federal funds is decreased. I try to always keep primarily focused on deflating the need of national government to bring the powers and rights back down to the states therefor much closer to the people. It is obvious to me that government today, whether it's state or federal, looks out after it's own welfare first to continue to grow. There is absolutely no cutting back. Every taxpayer dollar spent to create a bigger government then becomes a dependability and thus for government to evolve and move forward they need that money and then more. This clip shows the rats at work doing nothing more than looking out after their "union"


The next thing I'd like to show you guys is another "Representative" but this time in New York.
This one even directly admits he's not there to represent you!


The audio is hard to make out, but luckily where I got this from (The Washington TImes) also provided the audio in text form which I will put in this spoiler
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Lastly is something a little different.. It's something that I hope we can discuss openly without flaming of characteristics. What do you guys think of the Obama joker posters?
If you don't know what I am referring to, I'll post a couple of pics and videos to get you up to speed.

wait... before I do that, I want to attempt go ahead and completely nix and obliterate the racial card out from this discussion.
If you really think that Obama as The Joker is a racial thing, click on the spoiler
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To blend my non-racial points of these two appropriately without spending alot more energy I will use this picture. I do like this one and it does an awesome job




Hopefully that suffices..
Now where was I? Ah yes.. today.
Obama and The Joker..

Lets go right into that. You ready?

The pics and videos:









So on any of the above stuff, what are your thoughts?



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I refuse
  ToTehEastSide, Aug 19 2009

US Army Sergeant Travis Bishop, 26, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced Friday to one year in prison after being convicted of going AWOL (Absent Without Leave) and disobeying lawful orders in connection with his refusal to be deployed to Afghanistan.

The sentencing of Sergeant Bishop follows closely on the heels of the conviction of Army Specialist Victor Agosto, 24, who was sentenced the previous week to 30 days in jail and demoted to private for his refusal to fight in Afghanistan on the grounds that the US occupation was immoral and unjust. Bishop and Agosto are both stationed in Fort Hood, Texas and share the same attorney, James Branum.

Bishop’s punishment proved to be more severe than Agosto’s. In addition to being sentenced to one year in prison and demoted from sergeant to private, Bishop will lose two-thirds of his pay for a full year and receive a bad conduct discharge from the military upon his release from prison. Branum has pledged to appeal the conviction.

Bishop’s doubts about his involvement in the military had been building for some time. In a statement released by Bishop in May, he describes returning home from Iraq, where he served for 14 months, to a hero’s welcome: “That was the first time I felt unsettled over what I had done overseas. My hand was shook, my back was patted, and every night my belly was burning, full of free alcohol. I was a veteran of a foreign war, hailed as a hero, and yet I felt ... unnerved, anxious.”

He went on to say, “I felt as if I had a big secret inside me that threatened to burst out of me at any moment, exposing what I really was to the rest of the world ... but I couldn’t figure out what the secret was. Not for a long, long time.”



Bishop describes no longer being able to understand why the US military was in Iraq. “Nothing sat right,” he said. The young sergeant turned toward religion in his crisis and began studying the Bible. He soon came to the conclusion that he could no longer place himself in a situation in which he could be ordered to kill another human being. When he was ordered to return to combat, this time to Afghanistan, Bishop decided not to go. He would file for Conscientious Objector status, going AWOL in order to do so.

Bishop maintains he was unaware of his right to apply for Conscientious Objector (CO) status until just days before his unit was set to deploy to Afghanistan. This assertion has been verified by Bishop’s commanding officer, Captain Christopher Hall, who testified that he had provided his soldiers with no information regarding CO status. Bishop, having discovered his rights too late to follow the standard CO procedure, made the decision to go AWOL for one week in order to prepare his application for CO status.

In a statement explaining his actions, Bishop said, “I left because I did not feel that I would have a sympathetic, understanding command structure to fully take my problems to, and also to give myself time to prepare for my CO application process, and the legal battle I’m currently fighting.” Following the completion of the application, Bishop turned himself in to authorities to answer for his absence from duty.

From the start, Bishop’s trial took on an anti-democratic character, with participants openly contemptuous toward the solider. One of the jurors fell asleep during the trial. Another repeatedly shook his head in disgust as Branum argued Bishop’s case.

Fort Hood chaplain Lt. Col. Ron Leininger testified against Bishop, asserting to the court that the sergeant’s religious convictions were not sincere enough to convince the chaplain to recommend him for CO status. The chaplain’s written report on Bishop contained errors, including calling Bishop by the wrong name. The chaplain told the court his interview with Bishop lasted for a period of 45 minutes. Challenging this claim, Bishop later told Truthout.org, “The Chaplain only spoke with me for 20 minutes, took two calls on his cell phone, and was texting the whole time.”

In his own defense, Bishop offered a statement to the court which reads, “[W]hat most Soldiers don’t realize is that CO is not only a regulation, it’s a right. To file for conscientious objector status is an individual right of every Soldier in the Army. This right ensures that Soldiers with the beliefs that I share have the opportunity to request to be discharged due to said beliefs. But, unlike other regulations in the military, this one remains unpublicized.”

Bishop’s statement discusses the military culture he struggles against. “Since day one of anyone’s career in the military,” says Bishop, “fierceness and bravado are pounded into every potential Soldier, and fear and doubt are viewed as weaknesses. This leaves Soldiers that feel as I feel in quite a predicament.

“Does a Soldier who feels as I feel tell someone in their Command? Or a peer? And risk persecution and ridicule? I have never heard the word ‘coward’ used more than when I say the words conscientious objector around a group of Soldiers.”

The rate of desertion in the US Army has risen 80 percent since the Iraq War began in 2003. Soldiers, many of them even younger than Bishop and Agosto, have been forced into bloody colonial wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, wars which have been associated with torture, rape, secret prison networks, the death of masses of Iraqis and an increasing number of Afghan civilians, and an assault on the most basic democratic rights. It is taking its toll, not only on the local populations, but on those rank and file soldiers who are engaged in its prosecution. Suicide rates among soldiers are at a record high. Large numbers of soldiers leave combat with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

It is difficult to gauge the level of resistance to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan within the military, but it is safe to say Bishop and Agosto are far from alone in their sentiments. The Pentagon has chosen to make an example of Bishop, whose only “crime” has been to refuse to take part in an illegal war of aggression. His punishment is meant as a warning to any military personnel considering opposition.

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laugh at least once a day
  ToTehEastSide, Aug 14 2009

This mvideo had me rolling and I'd put it in the ROFL thread but I will mind my manners and do the best I can to keep any politics thoughts and discussion out of there
seems only right





In other news this semester is starting soon (I'm going to school to become a lawyer and yes I'm paying through it with poker) and there is a really good chance sometime within the next 5 months or so I won't be around LP anymore so you guys can breathe a sigh of relief =P
just giving the heads up now as I might drop off this site among others
with that I'm going to spam some political pics to end this post
I miss the days I just ignored politics cuz it was all bs...





































cheers



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direction --->
  ToTehEastSide, Aug 13 2009

some might say I'm promoting fear by posting this video
others might say I'm promoting education or discussion
I say ultimately it's your choice how you decipher, handle and decide what you do when something comes your way
and I hope you don't act through fear inasmuch as something else
I say that last bit to myself as much as you guys




and in other news...
here's a good laugh


and here is a small small taste of what could happen
decipher this for yourself




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hush yo mouth
  ToTehEastSide, Aug 13 2009

hahahaha awesome level










cliffnotes:
Virginia got pwned



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-->principles<--
  ToTehEastSide, Jul 26 2009



The Fed is the key
And this is their foundation
Watch the video and see
It is about overpopulation


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I hope you liked my rhyme
and take the time
out of your grind
to be ohso kind
to help me in this bind
by watching the fucking video!

I know..
that wasn't very benign
but my blog isn't about wine and dine
it's about a funny little line
within the human mind
to become more divine


See the signs
read the darkness hidden in sunshine
some would call it all a crime
while others may state
oh how it's sublime

At least that's what I hear on the grapevine
as it's not a discussion you'll hear on primetime



But it has me trying!
with this whole world crying
and I find myself sighing!
because so many are buying
into one crazy government!
that is cleverly lying




Just look
and see
whose hands
they're tying
as it cons
the people
into relying

It's your
freedoms
that you're
consigning
as you forget today
the complete
intertwining
the endless war
of people
dying




I wish instead
that we would apply
our energies and our time
in order to find
the answers of our kind
so I say once again
I hope you liked my rhymes
and watch the fucking video!




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Birth certificate
  ToTehEastSide, Jul 21 2009

ok
I remember hearing about this whole Obama-non-citizen-no-birth-certificate thing during the elections

but now it's 8 months later... and when I see billboards (which are NOT cheap)



and then this on MSM



I just have to laugh and then ask..
Why is this still an issue? and one that seems to be growing at that

thoughts?



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