Vote Democrat no matter what? (TJDS)

J. Dore, Kurt Metzger, Michael Moore (TJDS); Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

"Capitalism: A Love Story" (watch FREE)

Michael Moore (YouTube Movies, March 13, 2020); Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Capitalism: A Love Story

Disaster Capitalism (N. Klein)

Exactly one year and a day after the initial Wall Street bailout, Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine, Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11) looks at the global financial crisis and the U.S. economy during the transition between the incoming Obama administration and the outgoing Bush administration. In standard Moore fashion, he mockingly draws attention to the Wall Street and government decisions that have enabled what he calls "the biggest robbery in the history of this country" [until the most recent pandemic bailout, which dwarfs it by comparison].

Provider: Lionsgate. Rated R. Running time: 2:07:15. Actors: Thora Birch, Michael Moore. Director: Michael Moore. Producers: Michael Moore, Anne Moore. Writer: Michael Moore. Genre: Documentary.

Cougar Watch: Demi Moore pounces Jo Bro

Hollyscoop, Jan. 4, 2018; Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

My Hollywood neighbor: P55

"Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?" Jonas Brother Nick Jonas, 25, HOOKING UP (having sex with) with Demi Moore, 55: Hot or NOT? Scott Disick and Sofia Richie are probably the most well-known older guy/younger gal celebrity couple in Hollywood right now -- with a 15 year age gap between the two. However, actress Demi Moore is reportedly dating boy toy Nick Jonas, who is an entire 30 years older than him. Ashton Kutcher-Kunis is p*ssed! Is it hot, love, lust, a passing trend, the new norm, or gross? More power to them.
 

The thing about a cougar's appetite, Demi, is that one can't get enough of the baby bottle.

Moviemaker Michael Moore on "Occupy"

#OWS is a leaderless, people-powered movement for democracy launched on Sept. 17 in the NYC financial district inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and Spanish acampadas. We vow to end monied corruption of our democracy.

Michael Moore: "This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and goals of the movement.

"It was attended by 40+ people, and the discussion was both inspiring and invigorating. Here is what we ended up proposing as the movement's 'vision statement' to the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street:



We envision: [1] a truly free, democratic, and just society; [2] where we, the people, come together and solve our problems by consensus; [3] where people are encouraged to take personal and collective responsibility and participate in decision making; [4] where we learn to live in harmony and embrace principles of toleration and respect for diversity and the differing views of others; [5] where we secure the civil and human rights of all from violation by tyrannical forces and unjust governments; [6] where political and economic institutions work to benefit all, not just the privileged few; [7] where we provide full and free education to everyone, not merely to get jobs but to grow and flourish as human beings; [8] where we value human needs over monetary gain, to ensure decent standards of living without which effective democracy is impossible; [9] where we work together to protect the global environment to ensure that future generations will have safe and clean air, water and food supplies, and will be able to enjoy the beauty and bounty of nature that past generations have enjoyed.

• The next step will be to develop a specific list of goals and demands. As one of the millions of people who are participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement, I would like to respectfully offer my suggestions of what we can all get behind now to wrestle the control of our country out of the hands of the 1% and place it squarely with the 99% majority.

Here is what I will propose to the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street:

10 Things We Want
A Proposal for Occupy Wall Street
Submitted by Michael Moore
1. Eradicate the Bush tax cuts for the rich and institute new taxes on the wealthiest Americans and on corporations, including a tax on all trading on Wall Street (where they currently pay 0%).

2. Assess a penalty tax on any corporation that moves American jobs to other countries when that company is already making profits in America. Our jobs are the most important national treasure and they cannot be removed from the country simply because someone wants to make more money.

3. Require that all Americans pay the same Social Security tax on all of their earnings (normally, the middle class pays about 6% of their income to Social Security; someone making $1 million a year pays about 0.6% (or 90% less than the average person). This law would simply make the rich pay what everyone else pays.

4. Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act, placing serious regulations on how business is conducted by Wall Street and the banks.

5. Investigate the Crash of 2008, and bring to justice those who committed any crimes.

6. Reorder our nation's spending priorities (including the ending of all foreign wars and their cost of over $2 billion a week). This will re-open libraries, reinstate band and art and civics classes in our schools, fix our roads and bridges and infrastructure, wire the entire country for 21st century Internet, and support scientific research that improves our lives.

7. Join the rest of the free world and create a single-payer, free and universal health care system that covers all Americans all of the time.

8. Immediately reduce carbon emissions that are destroying the planet and discover ways to live without the oil that will be depleted and gone by the end of this century.

9. Require corporations with more than 10,000 employees to restructure their board of directors so that 50% of its members are elected by the company’s workers. We can never have a real democracy as long as most people have no say in what happens at the place they spend most of their time: their job. (For any U.S. businesspeople freaking out at this idea because you think workers can't run a successful company: Germany has a law like this and it has helped to make Germany the world’s leading manufacturing exporter.)

10. We, the people, must pass three constitutional amendments that will go a long way toward fixing the core problems we now have. These include:

• a) A constitutional amendment that fixes our broken electoral system by 1) completely removing campaign contributions from the political process; 2) requiring all elections to be publicly financed; 3) moving election day to the weekend to increase voter turnout; 4) making all Americans registered voters at the moment of their birth; 5) banning computerized voting and requiring that all elections take place on paper ballots.
• b) A constitutional amendment declaring that corporations are not people and do not have the constitutional rights of citizens. This amendment should also state that the interests of the general public and society must always come before the interests of corporations.
• c) A constitutional amendment that will act as a "second bill of rights" as proposed by President Frankin D. Roosevelt: that every American has a human right to employment, to health care, to a free and full education, to breathe clean air, drink clean water and eat safe food, and to be cared for with dignity and respect in their old age.

Let me know what you think. Occupy Wall Street enjoys the support of millions. It is a movement that cannot be stopped. Become part of it by sharing your thoughts with me or online (at OccupyWallSt.org). Get involved in (or start!) your own local Occupy movement. Make some noise. You don't have to pitch a tent in lower Manhattan to be an Occupier. You are one just by saying you are. This movement has no singular leader or spokesperson; every participant is a leader in their neighborhood, their school, their place of work. Each of you is a spokesperson to those whom you encounter. There are no dues to pay, no permission to seek in order to create an action.

We are but ten weeks old, yet we have already changed the national conversation. This is our moment, the one we've been hoping for, waiting for. If it's going to happen it has to happen now. Don't sit this one out. This is the real deal. This is it.

Michael Moore
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Mel Gibson Divorces Over Wife's Buddhism

Buddhism -- "The real reasons behind Mel Gibson's Divorce"
Examiner.com (Inside Los Angeles), April 13, 2009

Mel Gibson's divorce has been widely re-ported today with various publications speculating what went wrong. Some say that Mel Gibson was cheating on his wife, while others claim that they have been separated since...a month after Mel's career killing drunk driving incident that included [infamous] anti-Semitic slurs against a police officer.

Inside sources tell me that Mel Gibson was very angry over one of Robyn Moore's family members coming out of the closet....

Homosexuality wasn't the only problem. Apparently, Robyn Moore was becoming very interested in Buddhism, even attending Buddhist temples. Mel Gibson, a staunch Catholic -- but definitely not a model one -- became very upset with his wife. Full story

• Mel fires back at Robyn Moore's divorce papers (LA Times)