In the spirit of the burning a candle for solidarity hoax, I recently received the following in my email. Thought I'd share it with everyone; though I have no idea how it would attract the government's attention.
turn your back on the economy!!! Please share this email with as many people as possible...we can protest with our spirit!!!
NOT ONE DAMN DIME DAY
Since our religious leaders will not speak out against the war in Iraq, since our political leaders don't have the moral courage to oppose it, Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th, 2005 is "Not One Damn Dime Day" in America.
On "Not One Damn Dime Day" those who oppose what is happening in our name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending.
During "Not One Damn Dime Day" please don't spend money. Not one damn dime for gasoline. Not one damn dime for necessities or for impulse purchases.
Not one damn dime for anything for 24 hours.
On "Not One Damn Dime Day," please boycott Walmart, KMart and Target. Please don't go to the mall or the local convenience store. Please don't buy any fast food (or any groceries at all for that matter).
For 24 hours, please do what you can to shut the retail economy down.
The object is simple. Remind the people in power that the war in Iraq is immoral and illegal; that they are responsible for starting it and that it is their responsibility to stop it.
"Not One Damn Dime Day" is to remind them, too, that they work for the people of the United States of America, not for the international corporations and K Street lobbyists who represent the corporations and funnel cash into American politics.
"Not One Damn Dime Day" is about supporting the troops. The politicians put the troops in harm's way. Now 1,200 brave young Americans and (some estimate) 100,000 Iraqis have died. The politicians owe our troops a plan -- a way to come home.
There's no rally to attend. No marching to do. No left or right wing agenda to rant about. On "Not One Damn Dime Day" you take action by doing nothing. You open your mouth by keeping your wallet closed.
For 24 hours, nothing gets spent, not one damn dime, to remind our religious leaders and our politicians of their moral responsibility to end the war in Iraq and give America back to the people.
Just to clarify, when I mentioned the local hardware store above, I didn't mean Home Depot. I was talking about a place like Pleasant Ridge Hardware, locally owned by a guy who just loves everything to do with tools, etc. The kind of business that Home Depot is putting out of business.
DJ
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 | 12:32 PM
As for GWB and his call from beyond the stars, didn't he say something just before the election about being "appointed by God?" He scares me. I wonder how many people in the early years of Hitler's rise to power were seen as alarmists when they said, "We have to get out, now. This is going to get much, much worse." I look for him to challenge the 3 term limit. The only thing that might stop him is that it would allow Bill Clinton to run again as well, but Bill's health is pretty poor. A guy who believes himself to be appointed by God will do anything to stay in office.
DJ
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 | 12:35 PM
Instead of the inauguration, I'm watching Fahrenheit 9/11. It seems much more appropriate than the surreal display of throwing money around is on all the networks.
DJ
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 | 04:37 PM
OK, now I am laughing at myself for my goof. "3 term limit" <snort> I was thinking of 2 term limit and running for a 3rd term at the same time and just blended them together. Brain fart (in church?)!
Unwilling Texan Member
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 | 04:52 PM
I did have to drive to work today but otherwise have kept my dimes, nickels, pennies and other denominations to myself. Do you think there were enough of us out there to counteract the $40 mil coronation dog-and-pony show?
I don't think Shrub will try to buck the term limit. He'll just work on getting Arnold annointed next. After all, the Constitution is just begging for an overhaul just like Social Security, right?
And even if potties don't come with Shrub photos in the bottom, there's nothing that says you can't make your own! Consider it a target practice tool for the betterment of public restroom hygiene everywhere
Ol' Tard
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 | 04:54 PM
DJ
FYI. Big Dog can run again whenever he wants to. The law prohibits more than two consecutive terms. You can sit out and come back as many times as you want as long as you never serve more than two terms in a row. I agree with you about the parallels netween our times and thirties Germany. Real scary. The thing I don't understand is, how can intelligent people support this madness? Of course, many of them are greedy opportunists, but there are otherwise normally sensible people who are cheering and flag waving as our country sinks into bankruptcy and disgrace. I am ashamed and afraid of my government.
DJ
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 | 05:22 PM
Sorry, Ol' Tard, but I looked it up, and it is two terms, period. A former president can come back as VP, though it has never been done as far as I know. Not sure what they would do if a former pres. ran as VP, then their running made died. That would make them pres. again. No idea how that would all work out.
You can only be elected president twice. So if you served two terms as president, then were elected VP and the president died, making you president again, it wouldn't matter because you wouldn't have been elected to the office the third time.
DJ
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 | 06:42 PM
Alex, thanks for clarifying. That was about the only thing that made sense, but I didn't know for sure if it would work that way.
DJ
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 | 06:45 PM
<And even if potties don't come with Shrub photos in the bottom, there's nothing that says you can't make your own! Consider it a target practice tool for the betterment of public restroom hygiene everywhere>
I think this could be a $million idea, lol! Someone needs to make these and get stinking rich doing it, then run for president in 2008.
DJ
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 | 06:52 PM
The inaugural potties, I mean. We could have a self made millionaire running for president in 2008, funding his campaign with money from the GWB potty!
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI Member
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 | 06:53 PM
I like that idea. Go for it.
Ellen Anthony
in Wyoming
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 | 07:24 PM
Most people in the literary world have already drawn the parallels between Bush and Hitler. A very, very few are holding to their hopes that it can't happen here. When the draft bill is brought up again and social security is gutted, I expect even the optimists will see the writing on the wall. Bush's goal is to make the entire world safe for everyone. That means there will be fewer freedoms, particularly in travel. Governments that won't fall in line will also be taken down. He's already got control in various ways of the mainstream media and the "No Child Left Behind" Act was a blatant attempt to control what our children learn.
Unfortunately, the problem in the Muslim world <u>is</u> education. Too many countries allow the worst of the radical fundamentalists to teach the young. Worse, the method of teaching is often rote-learning. The children don't learn to read and interpret the Koran for themselves, but to parrot back what their teachers say the Koran says. That's similar to the situation in Martin Luther's time. He broke the Catholic churches hold on the masses by translating the Bible into everyday languages and letting the common man read it for themselves. The long term solution to Islamic-inspired terrorism is education. There is no real short term solution that we can make work.
Katherine
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 | 11:56 PM
Even if there were a president elected twice who also got into office as VP after his superior's death, I do seem to recall that there's a limit to the number of total years he would be permitted to serve. Ten or twelve, possibly?
Not sure if you can do HTML here, so just c & p if needed. Interesting link, btw...
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI Member
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 | 12:12 AM
I think somebody will just end up shooting him if he's in for more than 8 years.
Unwilling Texan Member
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 | 01:47 AM
I gotta wonder though... has he ever REALLY been ELECTED? I mean, even once? Uh-oh! I smell a loophole! Oh, no wait... that was the dog...
DJ
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 | 03:42 PM
Unwilling Texan, I couldn't agree more. I'm not sure he's ever been elected. I mean, the deciding state in the 2000 election just happened to have GWB's brother as governor? Hello? In the 2004 election, we had some regions using touch screen voting machines with no paper receipt. We know for a fact that some of those machines registered votes for Bush when the Kerry space was pressed, because voters noticed and raised Cain about it. What we don't know is how often it happened, and how many voters may or may not have noticed. Touch screen machines are not brain surgery to program. You can have two separate buttons showing, but the machine can be calibrated so that any touch within the entire area of both buttons "rings up" as the same thing either way. I know this from working with touch screen registers in a restaurant. So how hard (or how easy) is it to influence the outcome of an election this way? And how impossible is it to prove? I have never been more afraid for the future of my country.
DJ
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 | 03:46 PM
And while I'm at it, what's up with all the cabinet resignations shortly after the 2004 election? What do these people know that they can't live with? What is it that has sent them running from this administration? It looked for awhile as if GWB was going to be the only rat left on the ship soon!
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI Member
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 | 03:48 PM
I hope that ships going down with 'baby bush' on it.
