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Friday, May 31, 2013

Fires of Siberia - "Bachmann" Bodice Ripper Romance

Your MUST READ summer book.

I didn't want any of you to miss the release of a new book - inspired by THE Michele Bachmann.
Set to release on June 1.
"Tréy Sager’s ‘Fires of Siberia’ is a flaming ode to erotic lyricism. Protagonist Danielle Powers, a sexy sociopath and politician on the make, wants to be made and made again. She’s Sarah Palin, Machiavelli, and a philosopher no one has ever heard of. ‘Fires’ is so bizarre and witty, real yet unbelievable, and compelling, it hurts. Read it on the beach." — Lynne Tillman, author of ‘American Genius, A Novel,’ and the essay collection ‘WHAT WOULD LYNNE TILLMAN DO?’ with an introduction by Colm Tóibín.

'Fires of Siberia' is an old-fashioned bodice ripper romance inspired by the life of Tea Party leader and Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Presidential candidate Danielle Powers, full of firebrand pluck and red state sex appeal, has the country in a tizzy. But on an international tour to beef up her foreign policy experience, disaster ensues—her plane explodes over Siberia. Miraculously, Danielle survives, along with one other passenger—a mysterious stranger named Steadman Bass. Trapped in a wilderness of snow and ice, the two begin a journey that pushes Danielle to the brink. There she must confront her deepest self and choose between civilization and a wild, primitive ecstasy. All the while, Steadman harbors a terrible secret that threatens to destroy them both

And there is a 2 1/2 minute  interview with the author on Huffington Post
that includes the following statements about Bachmann - his muse:



"She has such publicly acknowledged sex appeal, and she's this very enigmatic figure, I thought, what better place to explore these intense feelings that the culture has about her than in a romance novel?" Sanger also discussed how the book wasn't just about Michele -- her real-life husband Marcus was also an inspiration.

"As a culture, we are really interested in Marcus Bachmann and Michele Bachmann's sex life -- what's happening in their bedroom? Whole tropes exist on the internet about his sexuality."
 

ALEC - This site has a poor reputation

The web can hand you every smile you need for the day.

WOT
Web of Trust
A Firefox Add-on

WOT displays a colored traffic light next to website links to show you which sites people trust for safe searching, surfing and shopping online: green for good, red for bad, and yellow as a warning to be cautious.

Well guess whose webpage  got a redlight:
red for bad

Screen print May 31,2013 - 4:00pm
 
And how did it get that rating?
Well here's the specifics:

Screen print May 31,2013 - 4:00pm
WARNING!
This site has a poor reputation
YES it DOES!

Now - THINK ABOUT each one of these in relation to ALEC's "model legislation" and ALEC legislator's behaviors.

Trustworthy - Sucks
Child Safety - Sucks
Vendor reliability - Sucks

Privacy - yes privacy the only that ALEC is good at - is in the green area.

Dope Market - Next Step GMO Dope??



LEGALIZE IT and THEY WILL COME.
 


SEATTLE -- Washington state businessmen who say they're trying to create the first national brand of marijuana received some heartfelt support Thursday from the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox.

Fox appeared at a news conference in Seattle, where he recounted how the war on drugs has ravaged his country and praised the states of Washington and Colorado for voting to legalize the recreational use of marijuana last fall.

At the news conference, former Microsoft manager Jamen Shively discussed his plans to launch a new marijuana brand named for his great-great grandfather, Diego Pellicer.
SNIP
Shively described grand visions for his pot brand – hundreds of millions of dollars in investments, tens of millions of customers, more than 1,000 jobs just at Diego Pellicer's Seattle headquarters.

"Yes, we are Big Marijuana," he announced
Now that the corporate copes have the dope market
Coming soon to a head store near you
GMO Pot

Jim Graves Dumps the 6th CD

Jim Graves announced today that he was pulling out of the race.

Bachmann's gone - his mission was accomplished.

Well - f#ck him and one trick pony he rode in on.
Good thing he dropped out - cause evidently the constituents of the 6th district aren't his concern - besting Bachmann was his concern.
He wqas only running to get rid of Bachmann - eh?????   Was that his campaign slogan in the last election????  Hell no - cause if it was I sure as hell would NOT have voted for an egomaniac like that.  Ture colors came out on this one - self centered egomaniac.

And if he gives some type of speech about being 8 percent points behind to even start the race - that is a horseshit reason.

Why ?

Cause you never know what will happen.

And when you have five of the possible candidates
    Emmer
    Dean
    Kiffmeyer
    Koch
    Runbeck
All being ALEC members
There's enough ALEC dirt to go around that could desrtoy any one of them in an election.

FIVE CD6 candidates are members of the extremist, pro-corporate American Legislative Exchange Council - now tell me that's not a campaign issue to be grabbed and thrown about.

ALEC Pushed Virtual Education Harming Our Children.

Important to know
·  K12 Inc., Exhibitor at ALEC's 2011 Annual Conference[12], member of ALEC's Education Task Force [54 

ALEC legislators and ALEC are always pushing the privatization of public education.
ALEC legislators and ALEC are always pushing the fallacy that for-profit educational opportunities are superior to public education.

ALEC legislators are always manipulating the education market - to favor ALEC corporate members - through the use of ALEC "model legislation". 

Well – time and time again this ALEC delusion is proving to be wrong.
Another example
    of how ALEC’s policies are hurting American’s children.
ALEC legislators and ALEC profit sector members are EXPERIMENTING on our children.
And the ALEC free-market experiments are failing.

ALEC legislation is  public – private partnership, privatization of public service failure – policy that harms our children - failure pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council at their many private and secretive meetings.

ALEC legislators manipulating the education market - to favor ALEC corporate members - through the use of ALEC "model legislation".  
Experimenting on our children - in the name of the "free market"
AT the expense of our children's education!!!!!
 
(My emphasis throughout) 

At the center of the controversy is the Tennessee Virtual Academy -- a for-profit, online public school that Republican lawmakers touted as a way to improve education in Tennessee. Two years ago, state lawmakers voted to let K12 Inc. open the school, using millions of taxpayer dollars.
At the center of the controversy is the fact that the pro-corporate American Legislative Exchange Council allows private education companies to meet secretly, behind closed doors with state legislators.

At the center of the controversy is private education companies writing legislation to push virtual schools that they distribute at ALEC meetings, vote on at ALEC meetings and then distribute to state legislatures – through ALEC legislators.

At the center of the controversy is that Tennessee ALEC members brought back the ALEC Virtual Public Act and enacted it in the state of Tennessee

    Here’s the Tennessee “Virtual Public Act”   

By Harry Brooks,White,Eldridge
 
    Here’s the ALEC “Virtual Public Act”
Compare them - read them and weep - corporate control of our state legislatures.

ALEC copy and paste legislation taken to the state of Tennessee and destroying the education of 3,200 students.

ALEC copy and paste legislation that has been introduced in Massachusetts, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Arizona, Florida, Texas and many, many more.  

ALEC legislators manipulating the education market - to favor ALEC corporate members - through the use of ALEC "model legislation". 
The email -- labeled "important -- was written in December by the Tennessee Virtual Academy's vice principal to middle school teachers.

"After ... looking at so many failing grades, we need to make some changes before the holidays," the email begins.

Among the changes: Each teacher "needs to take out the October and September progress [reports]; delete it so that all that is showing is November progress."


"It just says take that out. To me, this appears like it's grade fixing." 
No - it's cheating. Cheating the students out of a decent education.
Teaching out children to cheat through the cheating behavior of a corporation.

But does that surprise me hell no
ALEC  reinforces cheating every time an ALEC legislator plagiarizes ALEC "model legislation" and introduces it in their state "as their own".  (Plagiarizing = cheating = liars)

K12 officials refused to sit down to answer our question
Tell them you will talk with them behind closed doors in a secret meeting at a posh resort (like ALEC does) and they will probably have a meeting with you.
There is also a bill up in a House subcommittee Tuesday that would essentially shut it down.
An ALEC experiment.
ALEC legislators manipulating the education market - to favor ALEC corporate members - through the use of ALEC "model legislation". 

Do no harm to the children.
How long will it take for those kids to regain the skills they lost?
How long will it take for those kids to recoup the skills they never learned?
  
AND this experimental failure on our children is not limited to Tennessee!!!
It is happening repeatedly across the United States.

But we continue to have particular concerns about the involvement of K12 Inc., the large for-profit vendor running Greenfield’s Massachusetts Virtual Academy.
A Dec. 16, 2012 investigative piece in The Republican (Springfield) and Masslive.com reported that
students in the K12-run online school
    ranked second lowest in the state on students’ progress
    in the MCAS math and English exams.
    They also post an unusually high attrition rate.

Ranked second lowest in math.
Ranked second lowest in English.
...  unusually high attrition rate 
Do no harm to the children!!!
How long will it take for those kids to regain the skills they lost?
How long will it take for those kids to recoup the skills they never learned?

Another ALEC for profit – privatization scheme – that harms our children, that harms the future of our nation, by producing a flawed education process; based on spurious ALEC free-market arguments.

Massachusetts and Tennessee tax dollars being used to support for-profit failures.

Massachusetts and Tennessee tax dollars being used to bankrupt children's educational potential.
ALEC “model legislation” fails AGAIN.

ALEC legislators  manipulating the education market 
- to favor ALEC corporate members 
- through the use of ALEC "model legislation".  

Is Meat the Next Oil?



Heard this on the radio this morning
Prices are hitting record highs as the summer grilling season starts.
Beef prices are hitting record highs just as the summer grilling season begins.
Just so you are aware
We are not talking about family farms producing that beef.

We are talking about corporate profits.
We are talking about corporate control of the food market.
We are talking about corporate profits.

This is NOT about feeding America - like the family farm was about - 
THIS IS ABOUT CORPORATE PROFIT.
Corporations do not care if YOU can afford food.
Corporations only care about corporate profit.

A few companies now control America’s food system.
A few companies now control America’s food system.
A few companies now control America’s food system.
A few companies now control America’s food system. The four largest firms in each sector produce 72 percent of the nation’s beef, 63 percent of the nation’s pork and 57 percent of the nation’s chicken – giving those companies vast control over the agricultural marketplace and the practices farmers use to raise food.
Monsanto, Tyson, Perdue and Smithfield
These four companies, as a result of corporate consolidation, constitute a huge share of the "seed-to-fork" American food production market. (In the 1970s, the top five beef packers controlled just 25 percent of the market; today, the top four control more than 80 percent.
Monsanto, Tyson, Perdue and Smithfield



We are talking about corporate profits.
We are talking about corporate control of the food market.
AND the profits and control of  the food market may end up outside the US.
China's largest meat processor struck a surprise $4.7 billion agreement to acquire Smithfield Foods Inc., a deal that would mark the biggest Chinese takeover of an American company and underscores the Asian nation's renewed determination to scoop up overseas assets. 
The presidents of the four largest firms in food production - probably believe that you do not have a right to food.

Food is all about money $$$$$$ - - - now.