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CREDIT BRAVE NEW FILMS FOR BRINGING TO ATTENTION THE FOLLOWING COMMERCIAL AGAINST McCAIN/PALIN, AS PRODUCED BY "A CONCERNED PRIVATE CITIZEN" who would like you to spread the word:

For those among you who insist upon substantiation of the claims made in the ur-ad, see for yourself here, here und here, as you prefer. And be sure to pass it along--but do so responsibly.

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IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T HEARD, POLICE RAIDED THE TONY ALAMO MINISTRIES COMPOUND NEAR TEXARKANA @ THE WEEKEND as part of enquiries into suspicions of child sexual abuse and child pornography being carried on therefrom.

Which could be considered byproducts of what the Southern Poverty Law Centre's Intelligence Report broke just last fall--and which they reminded everyone of thusly in the Hatewatch blog when the story first broke Saturday evening:

As detailed in the Fall 2007 issue of the Report, Alamo in recent years has argued that girls should marry once they start menstruating, even if they are as young as 10. In a 2006 radio broadcast, he said: “God impregnated Mary when she was about 11 years old. So the government idiots, the people that don’t know the Bible, what you’re going to have to do is get a hold of God now, you’re going to have to get up there and cuff him and send him to prison for statutory rape.”

In early 2007, Alamo cited the alleged promiscuity of 1st-graders as grounds for marrying them before the age of legal consent. “I’ve found out from people’s parents that their daughter started having sex when she was 6 years old and had sex every day of her life,” he said in another broadcast. “So right there, by the time she’s 15 years old, she’s had sex thousands of times. I mean, this is just reality.”

The Report’s story also explores the Alamo cult’s strange background and its leader’s raging hatred for Catholics and homosexuals. Alamo has blamed Catholics for “every filthy thing,” including communism, Nazism, the two world wars, the Jonestown massacre, drugs, prostitution and pornography. He has also attacked his many detractors in Fouke, saying that God would “destroy” what he characterized as his “Vaticanite” critics.

Which raises the question, readers, of where Rev. Alamo gets such a notion that first-graders' showing signs of "sexual promiscuity" was grounds enough for urging their being Married Too Young--as in @ the onset of the menarche.

How do we know it isn't Al Cohol as is providing the inspiration?

WITHOUT DOUBT, THE BIG DEBATE ABROAD THIS DAY IS OVER HOW BEST TO APPROACH (AND TWEAK UPON) TREASURY SECRETARY PAULSON'S GRAND DESIGN of what he (aided and abetted by His Fraudulency) sees as a "necessary" restructuring of the banking, financial and mortgage-lending industries in the United States made all the more so by--wait for it--the Great Within's delusory beliefs that regulatory relief will actually "empower" in particular the Lower Classes--especially such deemed "chronic and habitual welfare cases***unwittingly conditioned into embracing Socialistic, Communistic or otherwise un-American beliefs and value-systems" because of State welfare.

That it would open the doors to greater selection of new and innovative banking and mortgage products, @ lower prices than before.

And that it would empower investors into maximising their returns through new and innovative investment vehicles previously available only to bankers and the super-wealthy.

All of which, it turns out, can be traced back, in one way or another, to none other than the self-proclaimed "maverick" of Indecision 2008, by name of John McCain. (See for yourself what The Nation has to say in this respect. Not to mention some revealing new information the MSM is afraid to disclose, For Reasons You Need to Understand, that the same AIG insurance group whose Govermnent bailout The Terrible-Tempered Mr. Bang is criticising actually gave money to his so-called "Reform Institute;" talk about your hypocrisy there!)

Not to mention wondering how such can be financed without recourse to higher taxes, to be excused as being "in the national interest" (as in the belief that low taxes=jobs=social stability), as well as having to maintain an extremely costly ur-RAHOWA in Iraq and Afghanistan Against International Terrorism while expecting the public to maintain their daily routines as a "preemptive" measure against further infamous attacks.

In short, a $700 billion misunderstanding, and then some.

One suggestion I have: This holiday season, consider giving Savings Bonds instead of wasteful and frivolous consumption goods as gifts to your friends as one way to show how such a Noble Delusion can be financed. Said bonds can be purchased in Series EE (paying market-linked rates) or Series I (paying an inflation-linked rate adjusted regularly), and are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.

(If you still have old Series E or Series EE bonds in the attic or safe, consider trading those in on Series HH bonds; those are the only way Series HH bonds can be acquired.)

Or, for that matter, United States Treasury securities through the Treasury Direct scheme; they can also serve as worthwhile holiday-season gift options to the wasteful, the frivolous and the otherwise impractical of consumption goods.

(Unless, of course, you can show cause why we need to purchase wasteful and unnecessary consumption goods @, say, Wally World rather than invest for the good of the Nation.)

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IN ANY EVENT, THINK TWICE ABOUT WHETHER BUYING WASTEFUL AND UNNECESSARY APPLIANCES OR TOYS FOR THE HOLIDAYS IS REALLY NECESSARY in the face of what could be a serious and volatile socioeconomic situation ... and put those monies, instead, into Savings Bonds or other Treasury securities, where such will actually serve useful purposes for the Nation--and, over time, will translate into a generous return.

They can be purchased, for the most part, through your local bankers, or you can open a Treasury Direct account online. Also ask your employer if they offer the Payroll Savings Plan, as allows you to put aside part of your pay for Savings Bond purchases.

Employers who may be looking for worthwhile holiday gift ideas for their employees or loyal customers may want to consider giving Savings Bonds or other Treasury Securities this time around; such could help make a difference for once, and could be much better than frivolous or unnecessary consumption goods.

Otherwise ... what stands in the way?

And pray, whence the idea that constant and unnecessary purchases of consumption goods is necessary to the defence of Our Antient and Pecuilar Soverignty and Soverign Identity as a Pecuilar Among the Nations?

YOUR CORRESPONDENT, HIMSELF MENTALLY AND EMOTIONALLY DISABLED TO A POINT WHERE NORMAL EMPLOYMENT IS DEEMED NOT VIABLE, has himself been subjected to what amounts to psychoemotional abuse under the guise of "therapy" by the likes of psychiatrists with Community Mental Health Centres, sheltered workshop counsellors and Vocational Guidance Counsellors with Vocational Rehabilitation.

In particular the likes of fearmongering statements such as these:

• "The only way many employers would be willing to hire disabled people is if, and only if, they were given greater flexibility to use Independent Contractors, using them only as needed, and paying them less than mininum wage."
• "Employers in the community would like to hire disabled people, but as things stand now, they are prevented by assorted legal restrictions from doing so."
• "Holding outspoken beliefs, or showing outspoken tendencies, can be sufficent grounds for your welfare and Social Security benefits being cancelled or revoked. Hence, keep your mouth shut and your nose clean."
• "Being outspoken will only sap your strength."
• "The law requires disability recertification through a Trial Work Period being completed every seven years."
• "Being outspoken is a clear sign of mental illness."
• "Those of your kind who speak out are all the more likely to undermine public confidence and trust in certain agencies, institutions and schemes of the State deemed Essential or otherwise Strategic."
• "Outspoken people are all the more likely to spread Schizophrenic Germs, infecting whole communities to the point of an epidemic of insanity ensuing."
• "Companies prefer locating in communities with a high level of Mental Purity." (Alternately, "Companies would rather not locate in areas with high populations of troublemakers and mental cases.")
• "If companies were allowed to freely hire disabled people, employers could risk legal action charging Unfair Labour Practice, Reverse Bias and/or Union-Busting from those who were let go just to hire your kind."
• "You would be better off taking night-shift work so you can not only get a better chance of being hired, but also free up your days for needed therapy."
• "In some cases of serious mental disorders, medication can help."

And perhaps one of the weirdest of lies I can recall being subjected against me was in the fall of 1981, shortly after my return from a misguided referral interstate to Eau Claire, Wisconsin by Minnesota Vocational Rehabilitation for jobs training and evaluation as eventually resulted in referral to a Day Treatment programme which was nothing short of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four on earth, with abuse packaged as "therapy" which was so awful, I have since been considered unsuitable for traditional employment in the community: In the interest of expediency, Vocational Rehabilitation placed me in a board-and-care home (since closed) which was nothing short of Bedlam from time to time, reinforced by an insistence on utmost cooperation if we were expected to be in the good graces of management.

That lie was suggesting that I was directly responsible for such acts, deeds and exploits as led to the closing of a local children's home in 1976, as if suggesting where said children's home was something of an Essential or Strategic Institution in the Public Interest--all the while lacking credible evidence as would substantiate the connexion. Not to mention suggesting that I lie down on the nearby railroad tracks and let the next train pass over and kill me "to spare the community further embarrassment."

(If truth be known, the reason said children's home closed was not because of "troublemaking" on my part, but because of the structural condition thereof precluding cost-efficent remodelling to bring the same up to prevailing fire codes--in fact, such was in a historically-significant structure here in Winona--and a general paradigm shift away from the institutional model and more towards foster care vis-a-vis those with emotional and developmental disorders motivated largely by cost and changing social attitudes.)

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NOW THAT HIS FRAUDULENCY IS CALLING ON CONGRESS TO PASS AN $800 BILLION PACKAGE TO BUY DOWN BAD MORTGAGES and otherwise save face for the Great Within's Grand Delusions of regulatory relief towards a Classless Ownership Society being one with empowering the Lower Classes especially, there could be serious questions already emerging.

Which prompts Credo Mobile to come out with the following letter to share with your Right-Thinking Droogs (and responsibly, know):

Subject: No blank check for Wall Street.

Dear Friend,

Congress is on the brink of making a one-sided deal to give George W. Bush a blank check to bail out his droogs--offering nearly (or perhaps more than) a trillion taxpayer dollars to Wall Street to cover its bad debts. That works out to somewhere between $2000 and $5000 from every American family. So what do the taxpayers get in return?

Nothing. No new regulation or oversight to help avoid this kind of crisis in the future. No public interest givebacks to help people whose homes are in the hands of the banks. Perhaps most shockingly of all, the taxpayers get absolutely no share in the profits if and when these finance giants bounce back, even though we are now assuming a great deal of the risk.

This is worse than a bad deal - this isn't a deal at all. This is a blank check to some of the richest companies in the world.

I just signed a petition calling on key members of Congress to impose a few sensible conditions to this bailout in order to protect the American people--I hope you will too.

Please have a look and take action.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/no_blank_check/?r_by=912-1603185-2vR2O8x&rc=paste

Thanks!

So what stands in the way?

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LASTLY, A FURTHER APPY POLLY LOGGY IS DICTATED IN LIGHT OF CONTINUED PROBLEMS TODAY ON BLOGDRIVE'S PART as prevented this blog from displaying for much of yesterday--essentially continuing on what happened Saturday after some hardware on their end failed.

These were outside my direct control, know, and I apologise for any inconvenience you may have suffered.

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FIRST OFF, AN EXPLANATION IS IN ORDER FOR WHY IT WAS THAT I WAS UNABLE TO POST MATERIAL YESTERDAY UNTIL LATER IN THE DAY: Some hardware on Blogdrive's end failed, forcing them offline for some while.

(Which, however, did not affect member blogs like this one, which were still up and running.)

Please understand that the problem is being rectified @ this time, so expect some delays in seeing these items posted in real time.

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HARD TO SAY IF THIS COULD BE THE END OF THE NOTORIOUS TONY ALAMO MINISTRIES, but their compound in Fouke, AR was raided last evening by Federal and State authorities in response to rumours that Tony Alamo Ministries was dabbling in the old kinderporn.

Charges which Rev. Alamo denies, claiming his "deeply-held beliefs" are "under attack" by what he called "the Anti-Christ Government," never mind where Alamo's pseudoministry has been described as an Evil Cult preying upon children and Other Vulnerable Elements of Society.

(Some further interesting insight into Tony Alamo Ministries was had last fall by the Southern Poverty Law Centre in their Intelligence Report; the article itself is worth reading in the wake of these new developments.)

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AND SPEAKING OF SO-CALLED "DEEPLY-HELD BELIEFS" AS A PATSY OF THE RELIGIOPOLITICAL RIGHT WHICH CAN SERVE AS A LEGAL DEFENCE if and when required--Right Wing Watch takes note on how same is being deployed in their propaganda for Indecision 2008:

The Religious Right has spent the last several months savaging Barack Obama and his Christian faith, calling it everything from “deceitful,” to “woefully deficient,” to outright "phony." They have gone over the tenets of his faith with a fine-toothed comb and demanded that he sit down with them and explain, in depth, his Christian beliefs and how they influence his political positions. 

But now that Sarah Palin has emerged on the scene, they have suddenly dusted off their age-old complaint that questions about a candidate's faith and "deeply held beliefs" are off-limits and that any such inquiry is a sign of anti-Christian bigotry: 

Governor Sarah Palin is undergoing increasing scrutiny by those aiming to use her church and religious beliefs as a weapon against her. Over the weekend, a biased Associated Press article attacked her church for promoting Focus on the Family's "Love Won Out" conference which will be held this Saturday in Anchorage. The conference will teach a biblical message on sexuality and assist those seeking to overcome same-sex attractions. We can probably expect more attacks of this nature. How the McCain campaign responds is critical in maintaining the intensity and enthusiasm that swept through social conservatives after Gov. Palin's selection as the VP nominee. In the past, there has been an overwhelming public backlash against those seeking to impose a religious litmus test on candidates and judicial nominees. Several years ago, Senator Schumer (D-NY) experienced this backlash when he attacked judicial nominees for holding "deeply held personal beliefs." The McCain campaign must stand firmly against efforts to make Gov. Palin's faith a disqualifier. There should be no reluctance in any party to be identified as someone who holds "deeply held personal beliefs."

If FRC really is so upset about people trying to use a candidate's "church and religious beliefs as a weapon" against them, maybe they should take it up with James Dobson and Focus on the Family.

Next thing you know, expect the Religiopolitical Right to start using "dearly-held beliefs"--or, even better yet, "deeply- and dearly-held beliefs"--as a patsy crossing on canard to suggest that the defence of a mythological White Male Christian Power Structure is one with the defence of Our Traditional Christian Heritage and Identity. Especially when delivered in a condescendingly-sarcastic tone and nuance which may conceal psychopathic intentions.

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WITH BANKERS AND LENDERS ALL THE MORE LIKELY TO START TIGHTENING LOAN AND CREDIT STANDARDS IN THE FACE OF A SERIOUS SOCIOFINANCIAL MELTDOWN caused, no doubt, by the Grand Delusions of His Fraudulency's Great Within suggesting that a combination of "stay-the-course" socioeconomic policies, low taxes and regulatory relief will help ensure Complete and Final Victory in the ur-RAHOWA Agains Terrorism, it was only a matter of time before "spam" e-mails began surfacing from what can best be regarded as disreputable channels claiming to offer "cheap loans" @ low rates of usury without regards to credit history.

Typical of which was the following, as received by Your Correspondent (with necessary redactions):

FRED FINANCIAL HOME is the leading provider of Loans any where any time
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Get a loan for bills, car repairs, travel or vacation, credit repair, PCS
expenses, furniture, home repair, and all your other needs Loans are available from $2,000 USD to $5,000,000 USD,Personalize your loan with Flexible terms at competitive rates.

If for any reason you are not completely satisfied, return your loan
within 15 days at no cost to you.
Contact us today on our email [redacted] with the following
details:

Names:
Monthly Income:
Home Address:
Phone No:
Fax No:
Country:
Loan Amount ($):
Loan Period:

Regards,
Mr Fred Duke
Chairman / F.F.H.

N.B
All Interested Applicant are to Contact the Company Email below
[redacted]

And it makes you wonder just how these "loans" (if @ all extant) are financed; methinks one likely possibility is that such "lenders" are really using such as a front for Laundering the Proceeds of Crime or Terrorism @ the expense of vulnerable persons needing consumer finance, but unlikely to know where to turn for fear of "not meeting current lending standards."

In turn bringing up the following item per Media Matters for America offered in the interest of insight:

Neil Cavuto, host of Fox News' Your World, conflated giving home mortgages to minorities with risky lending practices, suggesting that efforts to increase homeownership among minority borrowers contributed to financial problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Discussing the decision by the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency to place Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship, Cavuto asked Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) on September 18, "[W]hen you and many of your colleagues were pushing for more minority lending and more expanded lending to folks who heretofore couldn't get mortgages, when you were pushing homeownership ... Are you totally without culpability here? Are you totally blameless? Are you totally irresponsible of anything that happened?" Cavuto later said, "I'm just saying, I don't remember a clarion call that said, 'Fannie and Freddie are a disaster. Loaning to minorities and risky folks is a disaster.'"

Previously, on the September 16 edition of Your World, Cavuto said to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD): "[Y]ou wanted to encourage minority lending -- obviously, a lot of Republicans did as well. There was a lot of -- expand lending to those to get a home," Cavuto went on to ask, "Do you think, intrinsically, it was a mistake, on both parties' part, to push -- to push for homeownership for everybody?"

Besides, it's my understanding that Fox Prolefeed has this nasty repute for being a paid shill for the articles of faith of His Fraudulency's Great Within, in particular the empowerment of the Lower Classes out of "chronic and habitual" dependency on renting in "the projects" and into a "healthy and nutritious" respect for owner-occupancy housing as one with True Patriot Love in All Thy Sons Command.

Enough to make you wonder if what Fox Prolefeed wants out of "the projects" is essentially conversion, Singapore-stylee, of rental units therein into owner-occupied housing, provided the tenants were of Good Moral Character--in other words, unwed mothers, those with past-due traffic tickets or other criminal fines, tax evaders and others deemed "parasites of the state" need not apply.

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THIS PARTICULAR SPECIMEN OF ENGRISH PROMPTS ME TO ASK WHAT YOU VISITORS THINK OF THE EXAGGERATOR almost nine months on in its existance.

Comments graciously welcomed, so long as they refrain from obscenity, indecency or profanity (especially so the "Seven Dirty Words" and their variants); avoid ethno-racial and ethno-religious slurs and epithets; avoid appeals to latent bigotry and hate--in short, keep it clean and all will be right with the world.