"...now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country..."

I've typed that a million times - like many of you, probably - while practicing typing skills, under my mom's tutelage. I've always liked that it ended with "country", and not the original wording of the phrase, which is "party."  

I am in the trenches assisting our veterans obtain full time employment. Our first priority is to service members that are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. I am fully aware of the problems our service members face and have decided to do something about it. Below is my press release that was posted in the Seattle and Tacoma newpapers last weeek. I can use all the help I can get. My website is www.jimvaughnforcongress.com

If you have any questions, I can be reached at 253.241.9634 (mobile)

www.jimvaughnforcongress.com

Brick TeeVee is a preview of the Sunday Talking Head Shows beamed across America by Corporate Media, plus some good progressive radio and who will be on which show. Blog about what you see and hear on the Sunday Gab-fests. And post stories about the outrageous claims made on Sunday. Post anything you find to debunk the CRAP you hear on Sunday Talkie CorporoMedia!

So, with no further ado, I present to you This Week's Brick TeeVee entry!

Brick TeeVee is a preview of the Sunday Talking Head Shows beamed across America by Corporate Media, plus some good progressive radio and who will be on which show. Blog about what you see and hear on the Sunday Gab-fests. And post stories about the outrageous claims made on Sunday. Post anything you find to debunk the CRAP you hear on Sunday Talkie CorporoMedia!

So, with no further ado, I present to you This Week's Brick TeeVee entry!

By popular demand (well, 2 or 3 CCN bloggers), Brick TeeVee is moving off the General Discussion thread on Saturday Night Clark-After-Dark to its very own blog entry. Here we can blog about what we saw and heard on the Sunday Gab-fests. And, as a bonus, we can also post stories about the outrageous claims made on Sunday, deciphered by other Poly-Sci "analysts", from MSM and well-respected bloggers, that come out later. Post anything you find to debunk the CRAP you hear on Sunday Talkie CorporoMedia!

So, with no further ado, I present to you This Week's Brick TeeVee entry!

The Five-Dollar Bill will turn purple on March 13, 2008.

Honest Abe gets colorful on $5 bill to fight counterfeiting
Dec. 13, 2007, 8:54PM By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
Associated Press via Houston Chronicle

WASHINGTON — Cue the hues for the Great Emancipator.

A new $5 bill, with splashes of color surrounding Abraham Lincoln will go into circulation March 13, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the Federal Reserve announced today.

It has been repeated so often as to become a rhetorical tic:  "Iraq will be the number one issue in the 2008 elections."  If that is true, we're looking into the wrong end of the telescope.  And we're going to pay for it.  Worse, if Democratic candidates remain focused on Iraq, our party and our nation are going to get shot down.  Just ask John Boyd.

Out of all the discussions I have had it has lead me to believe that what leads those insisting that the president is above reproach is a fear and hatred against Muslims, and probably more so a fear. A fear that we will be taken over by Muslim culture, religion, beliefs, etc. This fear blinds them from the reality that we are actually being sold to Sadia Arabia who loans us money to conduct this war and who collects great wealth from our oil consumption.

If you study the culture and get to know a Muslim or two, you'll find that they are people just like you or I and within all religions and cultures you have fanatics.

Something roughly along these lines...

This may be one of the few times in political history when it no longer matters what party you belong to, or if you're part of the roughly 50% who don't vote. Forget about finding an issue to get behind. Let's make it a simpler:

If you agree with everything the Bush Administration has done since 2000, and want President Bush and his administration to have unfettered power to continue on their current course for the next two years - vote Republican.

Here's what will happen if President Bush's Republican Party retains control of both houses of Congress: President Bush will consider this a mandate that justifies anything and everything he wants to do - no matter what it is - and he will have two more years to carry out those plans without worrying that Congress will try to stop him. They won't. They've already demonstrated that.

Economy CSI Series on Debt

An American History: Part III

Finding the Money Post-Revolutionary War

By the Economy Team