Apparently, former Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan is calling for an “American Spring”:

“…If we cannot get rid of you at the ballot box, then tell us how, peacefully and democratically, we can be rid of you?” Buchanan asked…”

“…The Czechs had their Prague Spring. The Tunisians and Egyptians their Arab Spring. When do we have our American Spring?…”

“..How do we effect ‘regime change’ here at home? he added…”

Is it on? I’d be watching our backs just in case. http://sputniknews.com/us/20160812/1044213614/trump-clinton-election-buchanan-commentary.html Commenting on the state of the American presidential race and of US politics more broadly, veteran political commentator Pat Buchanan took aim at a mainstream media’s attempts to crucify Donald Trump for the candidate’s suggestion that the November election might be “rigged”.

Maybe not, but each time I write an astute post (‘like this one’, he astutely thought out loud), I remind myself how FEW people are actually going to make the decision for ALL OF US…Vote….this November. The percentage of the total population that will cast a vote for the winner will probably be like 20% or less…and somehow they will call it a LANDSLIDE.

Only like HALF of REGISTERED VOTERS actually show up to vote. Then there’s the millions of unregistered voters and “ineligible” voters. Most people are so fed up with the broken system that they rarely vote…and giving them the choice of bad or worse is NOT going to lure them to the polls.

You want my vote? Give me a candidate that I can believe in. And who is legit, and won’t let me down. #ThanksBernie #ThanksObama.

Maybe some of you will realize that this is the PERFECT time to vote 3rd party. I plan to vote for the candidate I believe in most…not the one I’m afraid of the least. I encourage you all to do the same.

A huge horde of normally non-voting Americans, all suddenly deciding to vote 3rd party in this election, could EASILY mean more votes for BOTH 3rd party candidates than either “major party” candidate. You want a REAL revolution? Vote Libertarian or Green Party. Let’s show the Dem and GOP fuckheads how broken their system REALLY is.

#Election2016 http://www.wired.com/2016/08/sorry-really-smart-election-posts-arent-changing-anybodys-mind/ And everyone is judging you.

Earthquake Alert! #EarthTwerk
M 5.1 – 78km E of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia
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2016-08-16 06:01:00 +12:00 at epicenter

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22.368°S 172.814°E

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10.00 km (6.21 mi)
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This shit pisses me off…It’s not just that this is NO BID..that’s right, read that $1BILLION contract, NO COMPETITION. OK that’s bad but that’s not all…

Notice that the Federal Government is paying them for 100% occupancy even if there’s no one locked up. So we’re paying for empty jails now? I guess that’s marginally better than paying by how many prisoners are actually in there…you know…because that incentivises prison lobbies to bribe congress and offer perks to judges who help keep them filled up. Either way…private prisons are the problem, not the solution to the cost of incarceration being too high. How about stop locking people up for addiction and/or wanting to get high? This should NOT be a crime…especially when you can get as high/addicted as you want on “government approved ” substance abuse…beer…wine…liquor…cigarettes…prescription drugs.

All that’s going on here is this: Large Corporations are bribing congress to keep their markets in place…Big Alcohol. Big Tobacco. Big Pharma. Big Cotton. Big Paper. Big Oil. None of these folks want these prisons empty any more than the Big Incarceration does. END THE DRUG WAR, Start SOLVING problems, rather than denying them.

I know I went off topic, because this article is specifically about an IMMIGRATION detention facility, owned and operated by one of the largest private corrections firms in the country. But the solution is similar…fixing immigration is not about building detention centers to hold illegals, as much as it’s about FIXING IMMIGRATION.

Somewhere in DC they’re saying, “Now hey wait, there’s no reason to go and do that…then we’d be wasting $1 BILLION taxpayer dollars on this here prison. We can’t do that…the American people will be PISSED if leave that place empty and waste all that money”.

Fuck you Congress. Fix Immigration NOW.

#FixImmigrationNOW #LegalizeIt #WarOnDrugs #EndTheDrugWar

“Private prison titan Corrections Corporation of America has extensively diversified its holdings into the entire carceral-industrial sector: halfway houses, electronic monitoring, mental health — and family immigration detention, a growth industry where the human rights standards are rock-bottom and the payouts are guaranteed to jackpot.

CCA won a $1B no-bid federal contract to operate America’s “baby-jails” — the family immigration detention centers whose inmates include very small children and infants. The deal guarantees CCA full fees (based on 100% occupancy) even if the centers sit empty.” http://buff.ly/2b96Kbe Private prison contractor’s $1B no-bid deal to run immigration jails guarantees 100% occupancy payouts

Don’t blame me if you set the damn box on fire and burn the place down. Just sayin’…be careful. http://lifehacker.com/make-a-quick-and-cheap-meat-smoker-with-a-cardboard-box-1785232239?utm_content=buffer6e491&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Want to try smoking some barbecue but don’t want to shell out for a meat smoker? You can make a relatively decent smoker with little more than cardboard box. Of course it won’t be quite as effective…

Food for thought…. http://www.newsweek.com/slavoj-zizek-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-us-presidential-election-bernie-489993 The need to defeat Trump is a breeding a homogeneous movement that lacks principle.