It’s a great three-act script worthy of a Hollywood movie. “Based on a true story.” Hand over the Oscar, thank you.

In our 21st century marriage of entertainment and journalism, this is the story the mainstream media (MSM) would like you to believe transpired in Honduras during the summer of 2009. Americans were fed the tale of Honduran President Mel Zelaya, champion of the impoverished, ousted at gunpoint in his pajamas in a classic coup engineered by power-hungry elitists. Clips of Zelaya demanding his rightful reinstatement were interspersed with stock footage of civil unrest in the 1980′s, unrelated political demonstrations, and Hurricane Mitch. US President Barack Obama declared the coup illegal, and she-bear Hillary Clinton promised to see Zelaya put back in power.

But Honduras didn’t stick to the script.

As most of us who actually lived in Honduras during that fateful summer can attest, the actual events were far different than the Hollywood script MSM was jamming down American throats. I recently stumbled across an excellent article summarizing the role of MSM in deliberately misconstruing the facts about the coup to fit their storyboard.

Storyboarding the News: How the MSM Turned the Honduran Crisis into A Comic Book – by Mark Klugmann

To “storyboard the news” is to replace straight news reporting with a pre-shaped comic-book narrative, an edited fable sustained by selective reporting.

Victims of media fraud suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder will be excused for hearing the phrase as a riff on Guantanamo, that “storyboarding the news” occurs when the MSM submerges the facts underwater until the truth surrenders.

The truth about Honduras – such as why the so-called “coup” was not a coup at all – was left by the MSM on the cutting-room floor, edited out of the news reporting because it did not fit into the storyboard.

You can read more of this article at: http://bigjournalism.com/mklugmann/2010/01/06/storyboarding-the-news-how-the-msm-turned-the-honduran-crisis-into-a-comic-book/

You deserve this depression.

It’s incredible. A year ago I was listening to Dr. Ron Paul warn us of imminent economic collapse brought upon by our credit-based system and the Federal Reserve. I agreed with him, but I didn’t think that the collapse would come as fast as it has. And now they’re asking us, the TAXPAYERS, to foot the bill for their retarded actions? No freakin’ way!

Source: www.foxbusiness.com

King George came into office with promises of reduced government and limited overseas action. At the end of his two terms, he has embroiled us in two wars (with more in the making– look at the emerging union of Russia-Iran-Venezuela and we SHOULD be scared!) and, worst of all, has reintroduced big government in a way that would make a Democrat blush. The Republican party is dead. This bailout bill is the nail in the coffin of everything they once represented.

Forget Obama and his promises of change. he’s just been given a Democrat’s wet dream (the legitimacy for big government) but his inexperience in the political realm makes me believe that he will run it with all the efficiency of a Honduran lawnmower (aka a man with a machete). As for McCain, the “original maverick” and a the man I used to highly respect (and wished had won the 2000 nod), he is sounding more and and more like the incumbent president as he panders to the neocon base. Neither of these men are the right ones for the job– they are talking heads without any real grasp on the roots of the problem. And don’t even get me started on the media ploy that is Sarah Palin.

Money doesn’t grow on trees. According to the Federal Reserve, it must grow on thin air, because that seems to be where this $700 billion is coming from. Are the American people supposed to trust this incredible sum (which is more than the GNP of almost all other countries in the world) with the same nitwits that got us into this mess? What do we honestly think will happen with that money? That Big Brother will magically make everything okay again?

Source: www.campaignforliberty.com

You can’t spend money you don’t have. Plain and simple. This is the sometimes-annoying but financially-sound system of a cash-based society such as the one I live in on Roatan. If I don’t have the money, then I cannot acquired the goods except through bartering. It certainly limits the size of the purchases I can make (leading to slower economic growth), but at least it doesn’t get me or our economy in the hole through blowing our financial wads with no means to clean up the mess.

George Washington warned that strictly bi-partisen system would undermine America in the end. When I hear Democrats or Republicans wining about “Our Founding Fathers,” I laugh; neither party should exist according to our founding fathers. Our black-and-white mentality has caused us to be blind to the colors that make America beautiful.

This November I am casting my vote for Dr. Ron Paul for President. He won’t win. He won’t even scratch the surface. Some may argue that it’s a throwaway vote, one that won’t “make a difference.” I’d rather throw my vote away for a right choice than throw my country away for a right vote.

Enjoy your depression, America. Until the country is willing to make some real changes, you deserve it.