Wednesday May 28, 2008

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Can you believe this shit?


The most boring week ever at work. We have a new computer system that not fully opperational (for my department at least) and I won't have any real work to do for maybe another week. And when it does I'm going to be busy as all Hell.

I'm considering looking for a new job. One in the city that pays more, which would be kinda hard cause I do make a decent wage. Just being a greedy capatlist pig.




Found out something interesting today:

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

In 1933, group of wealthy businessmen that allegedly included the heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, Standard Oil, the DuPont family and Senator Prescott Bush tried to recruit Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a military coup against President FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the United States.

And yes, we're talking about the same Prescott Bush who fathered one US President and grandfathered another one

How did that work out?
A good rule of thumb: never trust a man named Smedley to run your hostile military coup for you. Besides being no fan of fascism, Smedley Butler was both a patriot and a vocal FDR supporter. Apparently none of these criminal masterminds noticed that their prospective point man had actively stumped for FDR in 1932.

Smedley spilled the beans to a congressional committee in 1934. Everyone he accused of being a conspirator vehemently denied it, and none of them were brought up on criminal charges.

Still, the House McCormack-Dickstein Committee did at least acknowledge the existence of the conspiracy, which ended up never getting past the initial planning stages

Though many of the people who had allegedly backed the Business Plot also maintained financial ties with Nazi Germany up through America's entry into World War II.

But at least the United States never ended up becoming a fascist dictatorship (or did it?)



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kindle:
Not too bad, really. Can't complain smile

Haha! Kellog's brand bling.
ginary:
Im going to see that movie but when it comes out on dvd wink

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