Kind of a sweet thing to see in the corporate news - yes it's manufactured fake news, but it least it seriously asks the beckites to consider WWJD.

Apparemtly beck and the beckites are attacking churches that don't preach their prosperity creed.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/03/12/beck.boycott/index.html?hpt=C2

Did Jesus preach about social and economic justice?

The Bible cares about social and economic justice, Duren says.

"The Old Testament is replete with examples of God threatening to judge a nation because of a lack of justice or carrying out that threat of judgment against a nation,'' Duren says.

He believes Beck was wrong to tell Christians that they shouldn't belong to churches that seek justice.

The Rev. Jim Wallis is the president of Sojourners, a network of Christians.

That concern for justice is what helped convert him, says Wallis, president of Sojourners. Wallis, who counts King as one of his faith role models, says the Bible isn't just concerned with feeding the poor -- it's concerned about the conditions that create the poor.

Wallis also evoked the Christians who fought against slavery as well as civil rights activists.

Well, I'm not sure a humorous reaction to the tea people will work, but, it's sweet anyway.

It's already got 150k members on facebook tho: http://www.facebook.com/coffeeparty

Ooops, and I missed it, march 13th was national coffee party day.

MISSION: The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to Americans who want to see cooperation in government. We recognize that the federal government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges that we face as Americans. As voters and grassroots volunteers, we will support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them.

http://coffeepartyusa.com/ and http://www.youtube.com/CoffeePartyUSA

I signed up for the mailing list, we'll see if they start to say something interesting.

It’s been a awhile since I’ve talked about the proposed Keystone exams; in fact, it’s been awhile since anyone’s talked much about them, which I think is unfortunate, since this issue has the potential to have a profound impact on what happens in Pennsylvania classrooms.

Most people are familiar with the standard objections to the standardized testing that would be embodied and institutionalized by the implementation of these exams (beginning with the requirement in the 2013-14 academic year that a student pass four Keystone exams in order to graduate, increasing to six exams in 2016-17; two in English, two Math, one Science and one Social Studies).

The police used a confidential informant on me. They had this guy buy 3 times from me. Catch is he brought drugs to us and then interveniously injected my husband and my self as we had never done this EVER before. We were not in our right mind but he did it every time he made a deal with us. I s there anyone out there that can help or knows anything about this. Hed come over when he wasn't wired and also shoot himself up. I know where his track marcks are. This guy is facingfed charges and a bunch of weird stuff is been happening where they are trying to entrap us into more stuff. I dont know what to do.

Simon Johnson (here's his blog, baseline scenario) is an expert on financial crisis around the world.

In the May 2009 issue of The Atlantic Online Johnson argues that the U.S. economic recovery will fail unless the "financial oligarchy", responsible for the crisis in the first place, now using its influence to block necessary reform, is broken. The government, captured by the finance industry, seemingly "helpless, or unwilling, to act against them", is, according to Johnson, running out of time needed to prevent a true depression.

The article is called "The Quiet Coup". Here's it's summary:

The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time.

Simon Johnson recently spoke at a convention of economists and gave this 8 minute presentation - well worth watching if you care about America's economic future.

Make your own WANTED POSTER to let the health insurance companys know we are onto their game of corrupting congress! Don't let these sneaky bribers get their dirty money and vacations and other under-the-table gifts into your congresscritters pocket.

http://www.arresttheceo.org/

 Penn State’s University Office of Global Programs (UOGP) is pleased to announce its third annual breakfast in celebration of International Women’s Day, to be held Tuesday, March 16 at 8:30 a.m. in Heritage Hall of the HUB. Featured speaker this year is Ann Tickamyer, professor of rural sociology and head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.   Her scholarship focuses on rural poverty and development, gender and work, and social welfare provision in the U.S., Indonesia, and Southeast Asia.  She will speak on the timely subject of “Women in Disaster Relief and Recovery.” 

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just announced that the Obama Administration would be working hand in glove with the UN to pass a new Small Arms Treaty designed to register, ban and confiscate firearms owned by private citizens. This is nothing more than a massive, global gun control scheme. Next step is to weaken the military, shrink down the police force, and allow groups such as ACORN, Black Panthers and union thugs with baseball bats, led by Andy Stern, control the outcomes of elections, food distributions and managing chaos. When there are more people on welfare rolls than taxpayers, and those who keep getting extended unemployment checks without having to work than those who work two to three jobs to survive, the conditions will be ripe for a total takeover. And that’s how they intend to do it. Just ask Van Jones.    

Cybercorrespondent

http://cybercorrespondent.wordpress.com

From the "rational people would have waited to see justice be done rather than acting like a mob with pitchforks" department.

But thats the way this country works now right - you get every media outlet slavering to serve up the vilest stuff, because it sells oh yes americans love it like free beer, but when the vile stuff is investigated and disproven, that gets a minor mention.

All the while the politicians use this kind of thing to pretend they are doing something, while they take corporate money and do their back room deals. "LOOK we voted against ACORN now don't you worry about the jobs and the economy or wether you will be able to afford health care if you lose your job and have to be underemployed for the next decade.".

B'klyn ACORN cleared over giving illegal advice on how to hide money from prostitution
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/03/01/2010-03-01_bklyn_acorn_cleared_over_giving_illegal_advice_on_how_to_hide_money_from_prostit.html#ixzz0h0n

While the video by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles seemed to show three ACORN workers advising a prostitute how to hide ill-gotten gains, the unedited version was not as clear, according to a law enforcement source.

"They edited the tape to meet their agenda," said the source.