Happy New Year!

Hope everyone has a Happy New Year celebration! I'll be sitting home with a sick husband...he is so sick and on top of that he quit smoking 6 days ago. It's been just as hard on me if ya can believe that! :) No, he does not think that is funny...damn, the guy is one miserable son of a bitch and I'm gonna need the wine leftover from Christmas plus beer to get thru this night!  He's complaining about the TV programing, the food we don't have, my cooking, anything and everything! He wants pancakes for breakfast cuz he hates my fried eggs, I can't cook an egg to save my life, never could he says...Well sorry buddy, we have NO pancake mix!  I was told to order a pizza because my hamburgers are not juicy, or something to that effect....oh well, pizza, beer, wine, chips, dip, cheese, crackers, and a crabby old man...Happy New Year to ME!! :)  AND TO YOU!!


OBAMA 2012!!!

Hi Bloggy Friends,

 I have missed all of you!
We laid Mom to rest yesterday, it was cold and rainy, but the service was very nice. I held it together for Amelia's sake, she has seen enough crying in her short life and I didn't want her to see me cry that day....she didn't know why we were there, she was just looking forward to a "party" with her cousins! She hasn't asked about Mimi and why her stuff is all packed up in her room, she just looked around today and on the wall where Mom's teddy bear shelf used to hang ...she asked if she could have the little hot air balloon with the tiny dog hanging from it in his tiny basket...I think my sister made it years ago and Mom treasured it, now Amelia will treasure it...She's been running through the house playing with it all day, not a care in the world. I'm so thankful I have her to make me laugh and smile every day! Kim and Drew found a house to rent right up the street from me, so the little turd will be at Gamm Gamms all the time! :)


2012 is gonna be a BIG year huh?? Already gearing up to be a landslide victory for President Obama! That's my prediction, you can bet on it!  I'm not here to talk politics, just wanted to check on everybody and assure you I will be back in rare form for the new year, reading all your terrific blogs and doing some ranting of my own!

 Have a wonderful Christmas, or whichever holiday you celebrate, and make it memorable! Have a Happy New Year too!

Love and Peace, Sue

Rest in Peace Mom...

My dear Mother passed away last night.... Love you Mom!

Money, Military, and fuck the Middle Class...

For years the Republicans have argued tax cuts pay for themselves...an example most glaring would be the astronomical Bush tax cuts. These tax cuts don't have to be paid for, the benefits outweigh the cost they said...BUT have they paid for themselves?? NO...And who benefited from the tax cuts??  We've all seen the charts.....

NOW the Teapublicans are demanding ALL tax cuts be paid for, like the payroll tax cuts that will benefit the middle class. This IS a tax cut that will stimulate the economy and eventually pay for itself....But tax the billionaires?? Are you insane?? How can you raise taxes on the super wealthy in a slow economy??  Sadly people still fall for it...

And these idiots still have a following,  they're still  able to convince their sheeple they know how to govern!  Get real people, the GOP craves power for 2 reasons, to benefit themselves and the 1%, and to keep our country number one super power in the world. ...Money and Military....

And to the rest of us they say get fucked and die, we really aren't needed...we just take up space and cost too much....

Fuck You Republicans!!

After this week, and all those evil GOP'ers spewing their hate and throwing around the APPEASEMENT word, I wanna throw around the Fuck word with this beloved song...enjoy!!

President Obama goes to Kansas!

Tuesday, December 6th, President Obama will be visiting the state of my birth, Kansas. He'll be in Osawatomie, Kansas channeling Teddy Roosevelt ...

A little over 100 yrs ago Roosevelt went to Osawatomie for the dedication of the city's John Brown Memorial Park. His speech was named the New Nationalism Speech. Actually it was 2 yrs after he left the White House that he gave this famous speech extolling the governments role in promoting social justice and regulating the economy to help the underprivileged.  Republicans back then were as stubborn as they are today, well some will argue that point, but back then Roosevelt criticized the R's for refusing to tackle the economic power of the wealthy. Full circle everybody...full circle... ....here is the New Nationalism Speech he gave ....


It really troubles me when the left joins hands with the haters on the right to find fault in every single thing President Obama has tried to accomplish for us these past 3 yrs.  They say he is not a leader, he has not fulfilled the promises he made to his base, the economy is the presidents fault because of his lack of leadership...But what I see is a man with great passion for the struggling people of this country and this is why he wanted to be president.  We could be on much stronger footing economically speaking if the R's didn't fight tooth and nail every piece of legislation to help the middle class and working poor. I'm tired of saying it but it's the truth... Barack Obama is NOT the evil, arrogant, get down and dirty president the Right loves in their candidates, like Newt Gingrich for instance,  get over it people...

So now on Tuesday President Obama will once again take it to the people, this time to a RED State, a state full of religious righties, pro-lifers, racists, haters of the Democratic party and everything liberals stand for...I can say that cuz I have a few relatives who live there and can back up my claim and many who ARE those conservatives ;)....


Obama will "lay out the choice we face between a country in which too few do well while too many struggle to get by, and one where we're all in it together — where everyone engages in fair play, everyone does their fair share, and everyone gets a fair shot," the White House said.

I hope the people of Kansas, including my relatives, give President Obama a warm welcome and LISTEN to him on Tuesday, REALLY listen.....

Just WHO does HE think He is??? Really!

Never has there been a more arrogant and sleazy candidate running for President of the USA, in my honest opinion....Newt Gingrich..... scary as shit, slimy as a slug, slippery as a snake...

This all looks sleazy to me, and not because I'm jealous of a wingnuts fortune. THIS, PLUS 11 more reasons Newt Gingrich CAN NOT be President of these Great United States, as written by Kelly Vote Obama-Johnson, a Facebook friend and fellow Liberal who supports President Barack Obama 100%!! 

 1. Multiple Marriages-  One of the biggest issues with Newt Gingrich is that he has married three times. In the past, this may not have mattered but right wing voters, especially the religious ones, may have a problem with this. This will hurt Newt Gingrich and if the religious right backs him it will be a huge show of hypocrisy. But if you think Newt’s multiple marriages is a reason not to vote for him,    you should read why he’s been married multiple times in the first place.                                              

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  2. Infidelity- Newt Gingrich is trying to paint himself as a family values candidate, but that’s just not going to fly. He’s been married three times and he cheated on the first two. While his first wife was being treated for cancer, Newt served her the divorce papers while she was in the hospital recovering from surgery. Apparently he left her because “She isn’t young enough or pretty enough to be the President’s wife.” Then he carried on an affair even while attempting to impeach President Bill Clinton for his own affair. If that’s not hypocrisy, I don’t know what it. He then left wife number two for the younger woman he was having the affair with.
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   ‎3. Deadbeat Dad- Newt has at least one thing in common with Joe Walsh. They’re both deadbeat dads. It took a court of law to force Gingrich to pay utility bills to keep the electricity running for his kids. That should kill his chances with anyone who values family and children.
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  4. Health Care Mandate Hypocrisy- Did you know Newt Gingrich supported a health care mandate similar to the one signed into law by President Obama? Well, you know now. Newt has always been a fan of health care mandates, so it was perplexing to hear him condemn the mandate when Democrats passed one.
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  5. Government Shutdown-  Newt Gingrich is also a big fan of government shutdowns. When Republicans captured the House in the 1990s, Newt and the GOP decided to put the country at risk and actually shut the government down in an attempt to hurt Bill Clinton. So, let’s say Newt becomes President and Democrats control Congress. What stops Gingrich from shutting government down by refusing to sign critical budgets? The answer: nothing. And with the current economic state, Newt is a gamble we can’t afford.
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   ‎6. Freddie Mac Payouts- For three years, Gingrich has blamed Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae for the economic meltdown in 2008. He has also called for putting Chris Dodd and Barney Frank in prison for being affiliated with them. Well, it turns out Newt was a highly paid strategic advisor for Freddie Mac during the years of the housing bubble. Gingrich reportedly made $1.6 million during that time.
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  7. Confederate Sympathizer and Racist- Gingrich has a fascination with the Confederacy and has fantasized about the South winning the Civil War. He even wrote a book in which the South wins Gettysburg. He’s also a racist. Throughout President Obama’s first term, Gingrich has used code to disguise racist remarks. He has continually referred to President Obama as a Kenyan, and the “food stamp President.” It’s not very Presidential at all.
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   ‎8. Draft Dodger- Gingrich supports further war in the Middle East, especially with Iran, and has criticized how President Obama has waged the war against terrorism, despite the fact that under the Obama administration, several high level terrorists including Osama Bin Laden have been killed. But, you should definitely think twice about voting for Newt because he has never served a day in the military. During Vietnam, Gingrich avoided the draft by getting a graduate school deferment even though he supported the war. That’s right, apparently the chicken hawk considered himself too smart to die for his country.
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   9. Fiscal Irresponsibility- It’s funny how Newt considers himself a fiscally responsible conservative, especially when he has a personal spending problem. During his tenure in the House, Gingrich was involved in a banking scandal while in office in which he bounced 22 checks including a $9,000 check to the IRS. And let’s not forget that Tiffany’s bill.
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  10. ‘Contract On America’- Gingrich was the main architect of the Contract With America, which Bill Clinton dubbed the ‘Contract On America.’ The contract includes many of the current schemes Republicans support now including a balanced budget amendment which would basically force America to live under conservative rule, lower taxes on corporations, perhaps as low as an anemic 12%, and the slow death of Medicare and Social Security. Gingrich would bring all of that with him to the White House and would likely throw the full weight of the Oval Office behind each measure along with abortion bans, laws against homosexuality, increased oil drilling, and increasing the outsourcing of jobs.
  
  
  ‎11. Big Ego And Arrogance-  Most Americans want a humble man to be their President. Newt Gingrich doesn’t have a humble bone in his body. Throughout his career, he has had a giant ego and a whole lot of arrogance. Gingrich once whined about not being allowed to exit Air Force One from the same door as President Clinton. Gingrich had to exit from the rear of the plane, which is where everyone but the President, his family, and foreign leaders exit from. Gingrich, in his arrogance, believed himself privileged enough to warrant the Presidential exit. Gingrich is also egotistical when describing himself.
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  “I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I’m doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.”~Newt Gingrich
  
  “Gingrich – Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces.”~Newt Gingrich on Newt Gingrich.
  
  Newt Gingrich has A LOT of baggage that every American should be aware of. Even ‘family values’ and ‘fiscal’ conservatives should take note because of Gingrich’s propensity for chasing younger women and his personal failure to get his own financial house in order. There are plenty of reasons why Gingrich is unfit to lead and now you know at least eleven of them. 

  Kelly Johnson

Thank you Kelly, I know this will be helpful to the fence sitters who visit my blog! :)

Obama-Biden 2012

this is scary, just saw this at The Daily Beast......

Like many evangelicals in Iowa, Steve Deace, an influential conservative radio host, is wrestling with the possibility that Newt Gingrich may be the most viable standard bearer for family-values voters in the next election. It’s a conundrum, he says, that many others are also grappling with. "Maybe the guy in the race that would make the best president is on his third marriage," he says. "How do we reconcile that?"

One senses him trying. "I see a lot of parallels between King David and Newt Gingrich, two extraordinary men gifted by God, whose lives include very high highs and very low lows," Deace says. David, after all, committed adultery with the ravishing Bathsheba, then had her husband killed, among other transgressions. The Bible makes room for complicated, morally compromised heroes. Now Christian conservatives, desperate for an alternative to Mitt Romney, are learning to do so as well.

"Under normal circumstances, Gingrich would have some real problems with the social-conservative community," says Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council. "But these aren’t normal circumstances."

Lolita Paz...I just think about those great Christian presidents of the past..
 Nixon, tho born a Quaker like to "hit 'em right fucking square in the mouth" or "blow their fucking asses away..." But damn! he did love his Jesus and all the church daddies and church ladies worshiped at his neo-pagan shrine.

Reagan was a winner for the lord. He just forgot when he sinned so he never had to ask for forgiveness. He was boinking Nancy while he was still married and she was boinking Sinatra is the Blue Room. Never went to church but never missed cocktail hour..

How could we forget the saved and sanctified W who prayed with Billy Graham once (tho Billy doesn't remember it). Once was quoted as saying about his pastor's sermons, "I don't remember much, but I know they did me good." Killed maimed and wounded thousands of Americans and did the same to hundreds of thousands of innocents in Iraq in the blessed name of our lord, Jesus Christ. Amen and Amen!

Wonderful men. And now we have serial sex offender Newt running for Great Leader who was leading the crusade, in the name of jesus the christ, against poor Slick Willie who just wanted to have some fun.
 I just can't stop praising the Lord for these dedicated Christian male models...
 May God continue to bless America! God, we are good!
 Amen again.

DESPERATION!!! They hate the Black Democrat so much they will actually vote for NEWT??? Holyfuckinshit

How many times do we have to say it, FOX NEWS LIES!!!!!!

I got this comment yesterday from the other "Sue".....

Sue said... Did an 'Occupy' protester fire an AK-47 at the White House? It sounds too ridiculous and far-fetched to be true - but it is. Shots were fired at the White House on Friday and authorities just discovered that a bullet had hit a window at the White House. The shots appear to be from a high powered rifle and the window struck was that of the Obama's living quarters. The Obamas were not home at the time of the incident. How in the world did something like this happen with relative disinterest from the media?   November 16, 2011 6:57 PM 

Poor delusional Fox watching Sue. See Sue, we tried to warn you and your teapublican friends to turn off Fox but you can't, you are hooked on a FAUX news channel because you hate the Left, the Liberals, the Democrats so much that you must get your fix by watching faux news because they feed your hate, they make it stronger don't they? 

Fox Falsely Dubs Alleged White House Attacker As "'Occupy' Shooter"

Media Matters: November 17, 2011 12:47 pm ET — 

Fox & Friends claimed that alleged White House shooter Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez had been "tied to [the] Occupy" movement, even calling him the " 'Occupy' shooter." In fact, investigators have reportedly "found no connection between him and the Occupy protesters."

 

Fox & Friends Dubs Ortega-Hernandez The "'Occupy' Shooter"

Fox & Friends Graphic Claims Shooter "Tied To Occupy" Movement. During the November 17 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson asked Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin: "It looks like this White House shooting suspect may have tried to blend in with the Occupy protesters in D.C. when he came from out West. So I pose this question to you this morning: What would have happened if a tea party person had tried to do that?" Malkin responded that "there is now conflicting testimony or evidence of whether he was in the Occupy D.C. camp, but apparently, reportedly, allegedly there is somebody within that movement who has confirmed that he was there at the camps." Malkin later noted that "the guy was just completely off his rocker and had nothing to do with any coherent sense of political ideology." But during the segment, onscreen text continued to tie Ortega-Hernandez to the Occupy D.C. movement:



[Fox News, Fox & Friends, 11/17/11]

In Fact, Investigators Have Reportedly Found "No Connection" Between Ortega-Hernandez And Occupy D.C.

Washington Post: Investigators "Have Found No Connection Between [Ortega-Hernandez] And The Occupy Protesters." From a November 16 Washington Post article:

In trying to determine why he recently traveled to the nation's capital from the western part of the country, investigators searched the Occupy D.C. campground near the White House but have found no connection between him and the Occupy protesters, according to three law enforcement officials familiar with the case.
One of the officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing, said the motive for the gunfire might have been simple anger: Ortega-Hernandez "hates the president, he hates Washington, he hates society," the official said. [The Washington Post, 11/16/11]

According to reports tonight this young person was a hater of the government and of the president. He  believed 11/11/2011 was the day the world was ending and he believes Barack Obama is the anti-Christ.. ..Now I don't know about you Sue, but to me that sounds like a WINGNUT/Teapublican!!!  Does it to you??  The crazies DO COME FROM THE RIGHT!  Sorry it's the truth...

Open Thread

Talk amongst yourselves, The Sandusky story and the Herman Cain stories have been extremely interesting!....this should be good, Moderation is OFF. ....BTW, I ran into a couple of Facebookers last night that sounded VERY much like Mal and Lisa. Both from NY!! LOL!

 What a SCUMBALL, hang the fucker from his balls!! js

Hey Y'all, thanks for the visits and comments. Tom, I haven't been by to read blogs or even comment on my own because I have been preoccupied with my Moms failing health and her stay in a nursing home...NOT because of any stupid crude things you have said to me. I will be back in time, when I can think clearly and put some of my thoughts about the hideous GOP candidates into words.

I hope you don't forget about me, I won't forget about you. I shall return!

WaPo calls YOUR parents THUGS!!

An Editorial in the Washington Post calls the pleas by the AARP  to the Super Committee THUGGISH AND SELF CENTERED! This AARP commercial where a group of seniors (WaPo calls them a MOB) Says to Congress, "I'm not a line item on a budget. And I'm definitly not a pushover. But I am a voter. So Washington, before you even think about cutting my Medicare and Social Security benefits, here's a number you should remember:50 million."

That's right Washington, 50 million seniors can do quite a bit of damage at the polls. So if you want to cripple this group of Americans who live on around $12,000 (some less, some more) A YEAR, then you will pay the price! 

How pathetic when we live in a country where the poverty rate is at record highs, where the top 1% is at record levels of unearned wealth, a newspaper and a political party calls seniors THUGS and self centered!  Getting Medicare spending under control should not fall on the backs of seniors who have no part in rising medical costs and astronimical fees hospitals, doctors and nursing homes charge! When a senior lives on a $1,000 a month SS check why does a political party believe that it is perfectly okay to take even more to "fix" our budget woes??  

This editorial says it is counter productive to take cuts in promised benefits off the table.... "It is unacceptable to argue that no senior, no matter how well off, can be called on to sacrifice for the greater good. SACRIFICE??? Seniors have to sacrifice when the billionaires DO NOT??

Social Security did not create the debt problem!

For the Super Committee to take SS benefits and Medicare benefits cuts off the table is NOT cowardice like WaPo claims it is. It is the right thing to do when inequality of income is at an all time high. Cutting benefits which have been earned from the sweat of the brows of our seniors is UN-American and will kill millions of them! This is the DEATH PANELS Sarah Palin spoke of, but it is her party that will set them in place, not mine.


WaPo:  The coming decade is going to be a time of painful choosing among competing priorities. Not every worthy program will be affordable. Not every desirable benefit can be paid. Some people, probably more of them than President Obama and fellow Democrats have let on, are going to have to pay more in taxes.

Nowhere do they say the rich should step up to the plate, nowhere does it say remove the cap on SS taxes, it plainly believes seniors must SACRIFICE more for the good of the country! LMFAO!!

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OH! Brotha...

 Herman Cain:   "I AM THE KOCH BROTHER'S BROTHER FROM ANOTHER MOTHER...... YES, I AM THEIR BROTHA FROM ANOTHA MOTHA!"

That makes me puke.... Does this person really think Democrats will vote for him?? Well first he has to get the nomination...Does this person think Republicans will vote for him??? AAAgh!!!

Friday, Herman Cain spoke before a crowd of teapublicans at the Americans for Prosperity "Defending the American Dream" summit in Washington, DC.  He said "I'm going to be president"! Oh lord, I think he's a little foggy on the details, if he is so blessed with the GOP nomination then he must debate and beat President Obama! Bwahaaaahaaaahaaa!!

So on tonight's Rachel she is genius in her Herman Cain analysis, he is simply a big fat joke, a fraud... A pro-life/ pro-choice, Pokemon reciting, Bekki Bekki Bekki Stan Stan Stan, sexual harasser, 999/909, Koch-sucking M F'ing stupid FRAUD....YET, he has this teabagger following who truly believe he can be our next president! GASP!!!  This is simply a game being played on teapublicans. Hmmmm, could it be Cain really hates the teabagger racists and this is payback time?   Interesting.... Even with all Cains gaffes he keeps rising in the polls, what does that say about teabagger voters?

You're being played like a fiddle, teabaggers....

 Pitiful, just pitiful...the clownfest continues....

DON'T SAY WE'RE ENVIOUS!!!

 Why is it the Conservatives/Teapublicans refuse to see the truth behind the Occupy Wall St. protests?  I don't want to hear one more Fox host call the demonstrators GANGS, or read another comment on Facebook claiming the Liberal protesters are just ENVIOUS of the rich bankers, or like this comment from a "friend".....
 "Corporate greed wasn't a problem when times were good, you know, during the Republican era. Did Reagan care? Did George H. Bush care? Then a Democratic house and senate came along and ran this country into the ground.... Again..."

 These people are completely ignoring the facts! Wall St. gambled with your money, MY money, WE LOST trillions of dollars...REMEMBER??? They are conveniently dismissing this detail of why Occupy Wall St. has gone global!!  And today the Republican plan to get our economy moving is LESS REGULATION and MORE TAX BREAKS FOR THE WEALTHY! Thank God the country is awake and paying attention to the GOP and their America killing agenda......They are so fuckin' arrogant, no hiding the truth anymore, they are coming right out and telling us their plans to kill the middle class off once and for all...


Michael Moore: "This is a rigged casino. I don't know why anybody would put their hard-earned money into this especially after what happened in this last decade. The guys on this street played with people's futures, people's pension funds, credit default swaps, no regulation from D.C. and it's still going on! And if I could just very respectfully ask you and CNBC, you know, you are in this, you are journalists, it's is your job not just to report that the DOW is up 95 points already today, but go in there and find out what's really happening. Who's making this money? Who's dividing this pie up so that the one percent get the majority of it? That's really the story. That's the story you're fellow Americans want you to do," he pleaded.
"They want to know where their jobs went. You know, where their future is going to be. That's the job of CNBC. So, please do your job! Please!"

 Even when 99% of the country is living in poverty, and the 1% is swimming in wealth because of OUR money trickling UP to them, the conservatives will still deny the truth....they will consistently blame the left, the "socialists, communists, Marxists" for the demise of the middle class in America! HA!

The Right likes to say we on the Left hate Capitalism, not true. What we hate is the greedy who takes the working mans money and gambles with it. That our lively hood means NOTHING to them, there was NO remorse when hundreds of thousands lost their life's savings in the collapse. This is what we hate.

 WALL STREETS GREED AND CORRUPTION DIRECTLY CAUSED THE 2008 ECONOMIC COLLAPSE, ERASING TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF PERSONAL SAVINGS DESTROYING OVER EIGHT MILLION AMERICAN JOBS AND BALLOONING THE NATIONAL DEBT.....This is why the world is protesting corporate greed and corruption! NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE ENVIOUS!!

Mississippi Crazy.....

Abortion has never left the forefront, not even when Republicans lied and deceived the American people in the last election by promising Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, would be their top priority if they voted to give them the majority.

Here's some news coming out of Mississippi(I pity the good people who live in that state!), they are considering a Constitutional amendment that would effectively ban ALL abortions and the use of some types of contraceptives. This means if you break the law and the Fascists find out, your crime will be punishable as MURDER...

 Proposition 26 might even open the door to investigating women who have suffered miscarriages. This is scary folks....this is NOT my America!!

 a Web site promoting the amendment says. "Unborn human beings are persons, and as persons they deserve full legal protection in the state of Mississippi."

 Fertilized eggs will be considered legal persons, so if you donated any eggs and want them destroyed, you could face a murder charge if you go through with it....if the fascists come into your home, look into your medicine cabinet and discover your IUD, you could very well face murder charges...there would be NO exceptions for rape or incest, the only exception would be if carrying a baby full term would put the woman's life in danger, but opponents of the amendment question whether even that would be possible.....Sound crazy?? Yea I think so too. But to the religious right wing fanatics, it's normal business, they are obeying God's command.  Has anyone actually looked through the Bible and read the word Abortion?  I looked and could not find it, so if you did could you leave me the passage and page number?

And there's also something I will NEVER understand.....how can flushing fertilized eggs down the toilet, or the involuntary act of miscarriage be considered murder but the act of injecting a lethal dose of poison in a real live grown up human being be just fine and dandy in the eyes of the persons who advocate for the death penalty? Is that justifiable murder, or just plain murder? And what does God say about that? Oh wait, there is a commandment that says thou shalt not murder....but they like the other passage in the Old Testament that says an eye for an eye...that's how they justify murdering our citizens....

The Rightwing extremists are crying the loudest about our bloated government and wasteful spending, but only when it doesn't affect their Evangelical extremists agenda....

Limbaugh has REALLY hit a new LOW!

We know how much Rush Limbaugh despises President BH Obama, he reminds his radio show audience every day. But this is a new low even for the despicable Limpy as he blasted President Obama's decision to send 100 troops to Uganda to stop(capture/kill) the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army so it could collapse, thus saving tens of thousands of African men, woman, and especially children.....

 This is what the lard ass hater said on his show....
___ "Now, up until today, most Americans have never heard of the combat Lord’s Resistance Army. And here we are at war with them. Have you ever heard of Lord’s Resistance Army, Dawn? How about you, Brian? Snerdley, have you? You never heard of Lord’s Resistance Army? Well, proves my contention, most Americans have never heard of it, and here we are at war with them. Lord’s Resistance Army are Christians. It means God. I was only kidding. Lord’s Resistance Army are Christians. They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them. That’s what the lingo means, “to help regional forces remove from the battlefield,” meaning capture or kill."...
"Lord’s Resistance Army objectives. I have them here. “To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people.” Now, again Lord’s Resistance Army is who Obama sent troops to help nations wipe out. The objectives of the Lord’s Resistance Army, what they’re trying to accomplish with their military action in these countries is the following: “To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people; to fight for the immediate restoration of the competitive multi party democracy in Uganda; to see an end to gross violation of human rights and dignity of Ugandans; to ensure the restoration of peace and security in Uganda, to ensure unity, sovereignty, and economic prosperity beneficial to all Ugandans, and to bring to an end the repressive policy of deliberate marginalization of groups of people who may not agree with the LRA ideology.” Those are the objectives of the group that we are fighting, or who are being fought and we are joining in the effort to remove them from the battlefield."

That is friggin' hilarious!! Limbaugh is DEFENDING this murderous group because they use LORD in their groups name! Where is he getting his info??  It's clearly stated all over the internet this LRA is a band of mass murderers, and yet Limbaugh welcomes them with fat lumpy open arms calling them CHRISTIANS, while bashing President Obama.....

While I was reading about the LRA I found this from Matthew Yglesias...  “I think reasonable people can disagree as to whether or not chasing a relatively small band of depraved mass murderers around Central Africa is a reasonable thing for American military personnel to be doing. But let’s make no mistake—these are depraved mass murderers. And yet Rush Limbaugh is pleased to welcome them as fellow Christian allies.”There is something else to be discussed beyond this support for the LRA that Limbaugh has. There is a reason why this decision to send a bunch of advisors to Uganda and the area is unsettling. You see, it was this that began the process of bringing the nation full throatedly into Vietnam. The Vietnam War began as a trickle of advisors who went in to help prop up the shaky semi-democratic/semi-dictatorial government in that nation, but what started as a handful of troops began to grow and grow and grow until the US was involved in the longest, bloodiest and costliest wars it had faced until that point. Hundreds of thousands of conscripts were sent to Vietnam, with many never returning."

Well, that is a subject for another time. For now I believe our president is on a humanitarian effort to save Africans from mass murder by the LRA......

This is who they are and it's definitely NOT Christianity like Limbaugh would like his audience to believe.....
At least 30,000 people died as the LRA spread terror in northern Uganda for more than 20 years, displacing some two million people.

It is notorious for kidnapping children, forcing the boys to become fighters and using girls as sex slaves.

The group is listed by the US as a terrorist organisation and now operates mainly in neighbouring countries such as Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Central Africa Republic.

Joseph Kony and his close aides have been wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) since 2005.


Limbaugh is a disgrace to the human race, and for those who pay him any attention, well I pity the lost souls...

Midge Hough--- Why she became an Activist

Midge Hough is a Facebook friend. We've been friends for just about a month :). I sent her a friend request when I discovered she was from a town in NJ not far from me, and she accepted. I stumbled upon this beautiful story, a sad chapter in her life which led to her activism. I am proud of her and her fight for affordable healthcare for ALL Americans not just the "chosen" few. This touching piece was written by David Phillips and published in Addicting Info. 
Midge and I thank you for reading...

I met Midge Hough in the most modern of ways, on a Facebook thread. Midge was involved in an increasingly heated discussion, amongst progressives, about Obama’s lame duck tax compromise with Republicans that traded an extension of the Bush tax cuts for a long-term extension of unemployment benefits (among other things). Posters on the thread were mad as hell. But Midge kept defending the decision by looking at the bigger picture. She knew what would happen to those unemployed folks if the President didn’t make this deal. I chimed in on the thread and took her side immediately. Shortly after, I requested her friendship on Facebook. By the morning, I had written an article based around the idea of the back and forth from the night before and my fervent belief that Obama was getting the short end from liberals. I passed it along to Midge who pushed it with all her might on her own page.
I guess you could say we liked each other right away.

Of course, this was merely a first impression. But as Midge and I continued our increasingly frequent correspondence, she began to open up and tell me her story. We all have a story, but the tale of how Midge went from a modestly active progressive to that of a fervent activist is both a tragic and extraordinary one.
This is the road that she was at first forced to take, but has now learned to embrace.

It began with the pregnancy of her daughter-in-law, Jenny Fritts.
Like many young couples during the financial downturn, Jenny and her husband were facing hard times. They had both lost their jobs and one could argue the last thing the two of them needed was the additional burden that having another child creates (they already had a 2 year old girl). They did not plan to get pregnant, but pregnant they became and now had a decision to make.
It wasn’t a tough one. They decided to keep the baby and face the potentially sobering challenges ahead…together. It was a brave choice, made with realism and a full understanding of their less than ideal circumstances.
They wanted this baby.

During her third trimester, Jenny began to feel ill. Lacking any health insurance, Jenny was taken to the ER, diagnosed with a ‘cold’ and exhaustion and then treated (poorly) and sent home. It is a practice known as ‘dumping’: a sad, often unspoken, policy which doctors follow when seeing someone with a potentially expensive condition who does not appear to have the means to pay. The minimum amount of service is provided and maybe a ‘best of luck’ on the way out the door.
Jenny did not have the best of luck.

Less than 24 hours after being told she had a ‘cold,’ Jenny was back in the ER with a diagnosis of double pneumonia, septic shock, and respiratory failure, this time at a different hospital. She would soon be placed on life support.
She spent exactly 55 days at this largely inadequately resourced non-profit hospital. In that time she developed blood clots, a brain bleed, followed by a stroke and a heart attack. During the majority of this time Jenny was not unconscious, she knew exactly what was happening to her; think of that. At one point, her condition deteriorated so much that she could not be laid flat to be transported from one room to another simply for tests; every time they tried, she would code.

 The Houghs tried, multiple times, to move Jenny to a more advanced hospital. However, none would
 accept the transfer. They had waited for 52 days for the hospital to get a portable respirator that would breathe for her so she could be transported to undergo further testing. By the time it arrived,  it was too late; 3 days later, on August 26, 2009, Jenny died.

Her baby girl was delivered stillborn by induced labor on day 32. The stress on her mother was more than she could bear. The child had died inside of her 10 days earlier, when Jenny had her heart attack. The doctors were forced to wait the extra week and a half, before delivery, to allow Jenny to recover (as much as possible) from her heart trauma. Midge and her son were able to hold the tiny little girl before committing her to memory.
      For 32 days this courageous young woman fought to bring her child into the world despite inadequate care and facilities. For 23 more days she clung to life in the face of any sensible prediction. After all, she had another child to come home to. She suffered in ways that are unimaginable. There are no appropriate metaphors to describe what Jenny and her family went through. How could Hell be worse than this?
      To watch this sweet young girl go from a healthy mother to be to that of a helpless witness to her own, and her baby’s, demise is unconscionable. Now, imagine that all you could do was watch. What must that have been like? Do any of us want to consider the horror of this? Would we ever want to walk a foot, let alone a mile, in the shoes of the Houghs? I sure as hell don’t.

For quite a while, Midge felt lost and in a haze. She attended a candlelight vigil in Grant Park for the fight to reform health care one week after Jenny’s death. The photo at the beginning of the article is from that day. The home-made poster she was holding of Jenny was created to give the cost of our health care system a human face. Despite the efforts of many a reporter to get a quote from her, Midge was not yet strong enough to speak.

She began to write about her experience on Facebook, she found it therapeutic. The support she received from the virtual community–from people she had never met–encouraged her. One week later she found her voice at a protest against Big Insurance (BCBS) in downtown Chicago. There, she gave her first interviews; action groups asked for pro-reform videos, which she completed the following week. She then hit every media outlet that was willing to make itself available to her.
Through this devastating ordeal, she had found purpose.

She spoke with Illinois Governor, Pat Quinn, and the senior Senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin; she was a featured guest on the “Ed Show” and even Al-Jazeera. Her story had reached beyond the personal and became a heartrending national example of our failed health care system. The video became so popular on YouTube that it temporarily crashed the site.

She also began to speak at rallies. Despite her own nervousness over talking in front of a large crowd, Midge found that once she began to speak, “It just takes you.”
Her reception at these events was not always cordial. At one town hall in Oak Lawn, Illinois, she was the guest speaker of Democratic Congressman, Dan Lipinski (whom she came to thank for his support of HCR, but would ironically vote ‘no’ when the measure came to the House floor). Things turned grim after she took the microphone; the Tea Party had arrived. Here is what happened:




 After all she had been through, Midge had become a target, in particular, by a satellite division of the Tea Party known as The Chicago Tea Party Patriots. They ridiculed her story, accused her of making it up, and of lying about the deaths of her daughter-in-law and her grandchild. The story became so well-known for its lack of decency, that it actually made Keith Olbermann’s ‘Worst Persons in the World’ segment on Countdown. The video of Keith defending the Houghs was nearly as well-viewed as the piece from The Ed Show.


 What fascinates me here is, not just the willingness of these ‘patriots’ to disparage and, quite honestly, make shit up about a woman who had suffered a tremendous loss, but the fact that they simply skirted over the simple truth that Jenny chose NOT to have an abortion even though it could have been argued as being a more ‘practical’ decision. Jenny chose life, and in a terrible twist of fate, she received the opposite. You would think that Tea Party Patriots would applaud such a decision as it fits into their own ideology. But the truth is, they don’t give a shit about people like Jenny. The unborn child? Maybe. The mother and the family of said child? Not at all. But who brings that unborn child into the world? Is it not the mother, and the doctors and nurses in the health care system? A system that didn’t just kill Jenny, but her daughter too.

Despite this sort of treatment from the Chicago wing of the Tea Party Patriots, Midge soldiered on.
She fought hard for the Health Care Reform Bill. She continued to speak at rallies and town halls regardless of the lack of respect shown to her by some of the attendees. Jenny’s story was read by Durbin on the Senate floor during the health care battle and again later by Illinois Congresswoman, Jan Schakowsky, on the floor of the House after the bill was passed.

She created an activist website, Progressive Citizens for America. Her husband also created a site to directly respond to the dishonesty of the Tea Party Patriots as well. She didn’t stop; not when it was brutally hard, and not when it would have been much easier to do so. Like Jenny, she didn’t stop.

When the Affordable Care Act was finally signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010 Midge, like many progressives, found it to be a bittersweet experience. She would have loved Medicare for everyone, but didn’t believe that it was possible. She was more than a little disappointed about the lack of a public option. But she believed what was passed was better than what we had before, and could be built upon. However, unlike most progressives (or almost anyone else for that matter), she had experienced a personal tragedy extraordinarily rare and indicative of the porous state of health care in this country. As Midge pointed out to me, this bill would have saved Jenny’s life from the pitfalls of living with the pre-existing condition known as pregnancy; and that was good enough for now.
As she said, “People think they know what they would do. But once you enter the maze (of the health care system), you have no idea.”
Midge knows this better than anyone I have ever met. Her life was forever changed by those 55 days. Her husband stands with her, her son battles a debilitating depression, there is a little girl who will never know her mother, and another who never knew life outside of the womb. None of this ended with Jenny’s death. It is a scar and a haunt that will dog these good people for the rest of their lives.
But Midge will not stop. She continues to fight for advancements to the way we treat the sick and the elderly in this country. She fights for the rights of organized labor, the middle class, and the less fortunate. She gives a voice to the voiceless.
She is my friend and I am all the better for it.
Midge told me that she still feels raw when she thinks of another young girl facing what Jenny went through. As she put it, “I do it all in her name.”
I would disagree with her slightly, she does it in all of our names. Even the ones she will never know.


For Midge and all the fighters.... keep on keepin' on, we are so ~ PROUD ~ to have you on our side!!

JOBS BILL KILLERS!

"For the second time in two weeks, every single Republican in the United States Senate has chosen to obstruct a bill that would create jobs and get our economy going again," Obama said. "That's unacceptable. We must do what's right for the country and pass the common-sense proposals in the American Jobs Act."

That's right, the Obama jobs bill will be cut into understandable bits and pieces because GOOPERS don't seem to grasp the whole bill and what it will do for the unemployed....so the little jobs bill portion the would have given 35 billion for states to hire additional teachers, police, firefighters,(Most of these lost jobs are because of GOP govs.)  and save jobs too, 400,000 of them. But, the bill was killed by the WHOLE REPUBLICAN SENATE MORONS and 3 Democratic morons...Why did it die you ask, because the GOP COULD NOT vote yes on a 0.5% tax increase on people earning more than $1 MILLION a year! Isn't that hilarious?!


The Republiscums say ALL THE TIME, "Now is not the time to raise taxes on anybody".  WaaaWaaa!! I don't have to explain how the economy grew by leaps and bounds when Clinton raised taxes on the wealthy, do I? We all know the story... If the Republicans continue down this road of killing jobs bills because they can not raise taxes on their rich friends,  the number of Americans turning on them will move from 65% to 99% in no time. If all America votes next yr. it could be a complete sweep for Dems, the country is FED UP!!

Republicans do not know how to govern so they use the excuse small government works best. This means no regulations,  no interference from government(except when they interfere on issues that delve into bedrooms and doctor offices), LOW LOW taxes on the rich because they are special....So in a country as massive as ours, they say fend for yourself, if you are not lucky enough to be one of the wealthy ones then that's not their problem if you starve or die from a preventable disease.


Except for the Tea Party take over of the once workable Republican party, not much else has changed with them. They always were the party of low taxes and less regulation, but now with our economy in collapse BECAUSE of those policies, well somethings gotta give. If it is not the Republicans, then they MUST go so WE can move forward.....



I'm not holding back anymore...I HATE those THUGS!!!

Fuck You Mitch McConnell and your WHOLE PARTY....

Mitch McConnell once again, stood on the floor of the Senate and told President Obama to get off the bus and get to work on the jobs crisis! Bwahaaaaahaaaahaaaa!!!  The nerve of those GOP'ers,  they vote NO on the Obama jobs bill that would put hundreds of thousands of Americans to work immediately,  while showing they are completely oblivious to the voters and polls saying the people blame them, the GOP, NOT President Obama, for the continued jobs crisis.

 McConnell knows damn well Obama's bus tour is helping the people see the truth about the do nothing GOP.  McConnell and his Party of clowns are desperately grasping for a lifeline. While they whine about Obama calling for a tax hike on the 1%, the GOP calls the president out of touch, and he needs to shut up about the tax hikes!  Now wasn't the number something like 70 to 80% of the country likes Obama's plan to tax the rich?  Yes, we know that, but the GOP puts their blinders on and their fingers in their ears....Fox news and the GOP...OUT OF TOUCH  liars!!

McConnell:  “He’s completely out of touch. Let’s forget about the tax hikes, let’s drop the talking points about millionaires and billionaires, and let’s work together on bipartisan jobs legislation that’s designed to pass, not designed to fail.”  You'll have your chance this week Mitch when a vote for a 35 billion dollar aid package to help state and local governments provide funding for teachers, police, and firefighters comes up in the Senate. Will republicans kill the bill that would create or save 400,000 jobs?? Some say yes, they will kill it. WHY, what is their strategy?? 

McConnell:  “The president goes on a bus tour to criticize Republicans for voting against the so-called jobs bill.  Democratic leaders consult with the White House on breaking the same bill into smaller pieces, and how do they break it up? By identifying parts they know Republicans will oppose, then add the tax hike just to make sure. Then another bus tour or a press conference with the president complaining about Republicans again.”.   Friggin' hilarious! You are the clueless one McConnell. You are a JOKE to the American people. Why would you oppose ANY of these jobs proposals, and why would you oppose tax hikes on the 1%?


President Obama WILL continue with his bus tours, he will not stop pointing out the failure of the Republicans..... get used to it Righties!

Integrated Bus Suggestions

Some of Barack Obama's critics say "He is too nice", "He is too accommodating to his enemies", "He needs to be forceful in his words", "He needs to get angry at those Republicans who are so blatantly disrespectful".....

And to you I say,  he can not....Even before President Obama was born, this is what Blacks were taught,  this is how you acted if you wanted to be safe, be accepted in a dangerously hateful and racist South, this was life or death for Blacks.......



"Integrated Bus Suggestions"

19 December 1956
[Montgomery, Ala.]

On 17 December the Supreme Court rejected city and state appeals of Browder v. Gayle and ordered Montgomery's buses desegregated. Three days later, when the court order arrived by mail, the MIA held two mass meetings to formally call the bus boycott to an end and prepare for the next day when the protesters returned to the buses. After several weeks of nonviolent training sessions, King and Glenn Smiley prepared these guidelines for mass distribution.

This is a historic week because segregattion on buses now been declared unconstitutional. Within a few days the Supreme Court Mandate will reach Montgomery and you will be re-boarding integrated buses. This places upon us all a tremendous responsibility of maintaining, in face of what could be some unpleasantness, a calm and loving dignity befitting good citizens and members of our Race. If there is violence in word or deed it must not be our people who commit it.
For your help and convience the following suggestions are made. Will you read, study and memorize them so that our non-violent determination may not be endangered. First, some general suggestions:

1. Not all white people are opposed to integrated buses. Accept goodwill on the part of many.
2. The whole bus is now for the use of all people. Take a vacant seat.
3. Pray for guidance and commit yourself to complete non-violence in word and action as you enter the bus.
4. Demonstrate the calm dignity of our Montgomery people in your actions.
5. In all things observe ordinary rules of courtesy and good behavior.
6. Remember that this is not a victory for Negroes alone, but for all Montgomery and the South. Do not boast! Do not brag!
7. Be quiet but friendly; proud, but not arrogant; joyous, but not boistrous.
8. Be loving enough to absorb evil and understanding enough to turn an enemy into a friend.

NOW FOR SOME SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS:

1. The bus driver is in charge of the bus and has been instructed to obey the law. Assume that he will cooperate in helping you occupy any vacant seat.
2. Do not deliberately sit by a white person, unless there is no other seat.
3. In sitting down by a person, white or colored, say "May I" or "Pardon me" as you sit. This is a common courtesy.
4. If cursed, do not curse back. If pushed, do not push back. If struck, do not strike back, but evidence love and goodwill at all times.
5. In case of an incident, talk as little as possible, and always in a quiet tone. Do not get up from your seat! Report all serious incidents to the bus driver.
6. For the first few days try to get on the bus with a friend in whose non-violence you have confidence. You can uphold one another by a glance or a prayer.
7. If another person is being molested, do not arise to go to his defense, but pray for the oppressor and use moral and spiritual force to carry on the struggle for justice.
8. According to your own ability and personality, do not be afraid to experiment with new and creative techniques for achieving reconciliation and social change.
9. If you feel you cannot take it, walk for another week or two. We have confidence in our people. GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

THE MONTGOMERY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
THE REV. M. L. KING, JR., PRESIDENT
THE REV. W. J. POWELL, SECRETARY

The plan the plan the plan plan plan...

          Do you think there will be a point in time when Americans feel sorry for the sorry ass GOP? I mean come on, this is getting RIDICULOUS....The GOP is embarrassed, so embarrassed by their lack of a common sense jobs plan to rebut President Obama's plan that they threw together a plan that sounds very much like one they threw out hundreds of times before....
    
The plan would put a moratorium on regulations, repeal the health care and financial reform laws, and streamline permitting for energy exploration and mining — all initiatives the GOP has been proposing all year.

The plan also calls for enacting a tax reform package with a maximum tax rate of 25 percent — far below the current maximum rate of 35 percent, which is scheduled to increase to 39.6 percent in 2013.

Wow, genius! The majority of the country has spoken, they say do NONE of these things the GOP put in their plan, and if you do we are kicking your asses to the curb!

Americans are awake and paying attention, they HATE the GOP and their pathetic, regressive, stupid jobs plan... pathetic, so pathetic.  No, I do not feel sorry for these stupid GOOPers.

Jobs Bill Vote tonight..

   The Senate will vote tonight on President Obama's jobs bill.  Now, we all know the GOP will not vote to put Americans to work, but what about the Democrats who will not be supporting the president with a yes vote?? What the hell is their excuse? Why are they voting NO to keep 280,000 teachers working, why are they voting NO to police, firefighters, construction workers?? And why are they siding with the most hideous do-nothing Congress ever to take away opportunities for our unemployed veterans??

     It's so simple...POLITICS!!!  But for now forget about the Bluedogs, don't let the media tell you it is the Presidents fault the Bluedogs didn't get in line.   Focus on the GOP,  they think by obstructing the jobs proposals by President Obama some how it makes the country blame the president, NOT the other way around. This assumption the people are as stupid as their average Republican Fox viewer is preposterous!  When the Senate votes, and not a single GOP'er votes yes, then the country blames the few Bluedogs and the president for the failure of the bill??   The country is NOT as stupid as the GOP would LOVE it to be!!  So it is true...Democrats, unfortunately, do not fall lock step in line like the Stepford Wives in the GOP.... and even if they did, the GOP is in unison, voting NO for jobs for America.  The GOP opposes any jobs measures for political reasons. Do You See This?? Of course you do, So who do we blame?? THE REPUBLICAN DO NOTHING PARTY, that's who....

    There is NO argument the GOP can stand on to convince the suffering Americans that this bill must fail for the sake of the country! Hilarious and disturbing....
     No excuse even for a teabagger, this bill is paid for by a 5.6% tax increase on income over $1million per year.

     If you are one who will blame the Dems and want to give them a piece of your mind, here are the fence sitters......
Joe Manchin (WV) 202-224-3954 ; Joe Lieberman (CT) 202-224-4041 ; Mary Landreiu (LA) (202) 224-5824 ; Jon Tester (MT) (202) 224-2644 and Ben Nelson's (NE) Office says he is leaning "Yes" please call him and ask that he support this bill (202) 224-6551

The Beast...

this is what we, well most of us, think about Wall Street...The Beast that ate America.  Finally Americans woke up and are now Occupying Wall Street. But alas, the Teabagger righties are speaking out AGAINST these American protesters and are DEFENDING Wall Street!  Now, I say teabaggers because actually some sane Righties have joined in the protests because they see this is about Wall Street, after getting bailed out by the taxpayers, (All Taxpayers), returning to the same destructive behavior that got us into our horrific economic mess.

 Eric Cantor spoke out against these patriots today calling them MOBS, and of course blaming Democrats and the president....laughable and delusional....Why would the GOP leader condemn these people who are just exercising their right to protest, ya know, like the teabaggers did?  These people have every right to be angry about economic inequality, corporate greed and the influence of money on American politics!  This Occupying of Wall Street is NOT a Liberal version of the Tea Party, it is AN AMERICAN uprising from all facets of society who have had ENOUGH of the GREED on Wall Street!


Mitt Romney called the movement class warfare and said it was dangerous, while Herman Cain called the protesters "un-American."
Rick Santorum offered Obama some unsolicited advice, recommending that he distance himself from the protesters......
"This is the hard core of the Democratic Party, which, if I were Barack Obama — and I'm not giving advice to the president — I would certainly distance myself from," Santorum, who is running to replace Obama in 2012, said Friday on CNBC. "He's got those folks, what he's having problems with is the rest of America who's suffering because he's been listening too much to those folks." LOLOL!

These demonstrations ARE NOT about Left and Right, but the Republicans can't seem to refrain from calling the protesters "Liberal Loons".  All you have to do is listen to the Republican Party heaping mounds of sympathy on Wall St. to know what they would do if they won the Senate and White House in 2012.  

The Teapublican Party who said TARP was a huge mistake and was the reason for the Tea Party rise....The Teapublican Party was horrified by President Obama's loans to Wall St. giants, they said to hell with the Big Banks, let them fail!  But now the GOP leaders are calling these patriotic Americans Loons, Hippies, Rioters, Menacing Mobs, for standing up for middle America against the Beast, well.......it's just psycho talk......the GOP looks pretty silly standing up for Wall St. The country is watching and listening to you GOP....as a matter of fact the whole world is watching  as the GOP defends the 1%!!

 what's it gonna take for these assholes to get it right?? This is an AMERICAN MOVEMENT about the greed on Wall St., NOT a Hippie sit in!!!

Intellectually Ignorant Teabaggers don't have a CLUE!!

FIVE Teabaggers show up to sit in their Walmart lawnchairs, hold their misspelled signs, drink their Kool-aid, and bash the Wall Street protesters AND the media focuses on THEM!!!



Since September 17th there has been a protest taking place in Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park), which is in the heart of New York City’s Financial district. The protest has been called “Occupy Wall Street”. It is a ”leaderless resistance movement” spearheaded by the activist magazine Adbusters. They want to take to task the people responsible for the meltdown of the national and world economy.

Up until now, there has been virtually no press coverage for the event. Just a smattering on some news outlets, with a little more coverage on liberal news outlets such as MSNBC and Current. However in recent days, a group of five Tea Party members have set up a lawn chairs directly across the street from the Wall Street protesters, so that they can protest “this liberal agenda of shutting down capitalism.” Since arriving on the scene, news trucks from around the world have focused their attention on this protest of the protest by these few Tea Party Patriots.

When asking one of the Tea Party members why they were there he replied, “Whenever I see these liberal progressive commies I assume it’s for a bad reason, so I’m here to make sure they don’t get too riled up and cause our economy to shut down completely.” When the Tea Party member was informed that the protesters were there to make their voices heard over the economic collapse, and want to hold the people to blame accountable he said, “Then why isn’t they down at the White House tellin’ that socialist Obama to stop tryin’ to regulate these here people just tryin’ to do business.”


It was quite obvious that the meaning of the protest was lost on these Tea Party members who were there just to be angry at “the progressives” with no other apparent cause to be sitting there all day every day. At least now the protest is getting the news coverage it was failing to draw on its own. Apparently, five Tea Party members is more news worthy than thousands of protesters.


GO AWAY TEABAGGERS!

Frauds, Bastards and more Frauds...

 The House Republicans have been working hard, or so they'd like you to believe. But what came out of "The People's House" yesterday is nothing but a punch in the gut for our suffering, job starved, poverty stricken nation. It is deplorable and disgusting...

The "draft budget" proposal for labor, health, and human services is nothing but an insult to our intelligence. It includes Planned Parenthood, National Public Radio,  President Obama's health care reform law, and with winter just a month away (for most, sooner for some, with N Carolina mountains actually getting snow !) the bastards proposed cuts to heat subsidies, they slashed education funding by 2.4 billion, eliminated "Race to the Top" education reform program, and will reduce eligibility for Pell Grants for low-income college students...But most egregious, with this party of Goop who claimed to focus on JOBS in order to dupe the people into giving them power in 2010(idiots!), this budget REDUCES funding for job training programs that give the unemployed skills they need to FIND NEW WORK...   DUH!!!
  The GOP is slashing job training programs, but it's not the first time, in February the plan proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) — and approved by almost the entire GOP caucus — gutted federal job training funding by nearly 50 percent. Republicans’ preoccupation with abolishing these programs illustrates that their talk about creating jobs is nothing more than empty rhetoric to conceal a pro-corporate agenda.
   This whole thing makes me ill, but is it a shock? ...Hell no, it's all very well planned and orchestrated to prevent Americans from finding work, moving out of poverty, and god-forbid, give the credit to the Democrats...The GOP DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, what more do you need to see before you get mad and VOTE the fuckers OUT!!??



 The above picture came from the Facebook page The Christian Left:

....... Many of these are elderly, or disabled, or veterans, plus of course in recent years many more have been thrown out of work and have often lost homes as a result ... now more than ever is a time for a compassionate society, not the callousness we see on the Right, which tries to justify not helping others (often on the excuse of a relative few freeloaders or opportunists).

As Christians, we look to God's perspective on personal responsibility, which centers on our responsibility to love our neighbors as ourselves, to practice the Golden Rule in every area of society (including government), to care for "the least of these" whose treatment Jesus takes very personally. "Whatever you have done/failed to do for the least of these, you have done/failed to do for me" (Mt 25.31-46).

And He's Still Phat

That would be my Gov. Chris Christie.. BTW, how many times and in how many different ways does a man have to say NO, I am not ready, and I do NOT want to run for POTUS!... before the MSM and Conservatives, who are desperately seeking a viable candidate for a 2012 win,  give up and accept the fact the phatty knows he could not beat  President Obama?

So Christie spoke at the Reagan Library and just like most conservative/teabagger/republicans, he was rude, demeaning, and disrespectful of  President Obama, while heaping on praise to dead man Ronald Reagan...
One of the big applause lines in Christies speech was when he attacked the president because of his proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy. Here's what Christie said:  "Telling those who are scared and struggling that the only way their lives can get better is to diminish the success of others. Trying to cynically convince those who are suffering that the American economic pie is no longer a growing one that can provide more prosperity for all who work hard. Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but it is a demoralizing message for America."

BULL SHIT!!  Polls show more than 80% of the country want taxes raised on the top earners. A 4% increase which would put their rates at the level they were in the 1990's, a time of great prosperity!!! Where is the logic Christie??  President Obama has never demonized the rich Mr. Christie, get your facts straight before you demonize the president of our USA!

This man, Chris Christie, is just more of the same in his illogical thinking, you can not tax the rich for they are the job creators...but he has absolutely NO PROBLEM with the working poor and the middle class sacrificing more and more to balance the Phat Phucks budget!  With the rich paying less, the rest of us have the burden of having to pay more- either in higher taxes or reduced services. Those at the top who have never had it so good can easily afford to 'sacrifice' a bit more, so the rest of us who haven't had it this bad in decades no longer have to sacrifice so much.  Can you imagine living on 13,000 or even 20,000 a year and have to hear the Republicans whine about the working poor not paying any income tax?? It's crazy! They say 50% of Americans pay no taxes, so where is the shared sacrifice....I don't know how they look themselves in the mirror every day!

 The truth is the working poor do pay taxes, even if they earn too little to qualify for the income tax, they pay payroll taxes (which Republicans want to raise), gasoline excise taxes and state and local taxes. Only 14 percent of households pay neither income nor payroll taxes, according to the Tax Policy Center at the Brookings Institution. The poorest fifth paid an average of 16.3 percent of income in taxes in 2010.
  Economically, reducing the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit (which would be required if everyone paid income taxes) makes no sense at a time of high unemployment. The credits, which only go to working people, have always been a strong incentive to work and have increased the labor force while reducing the welfare rolls.
  The real problem is that so many Americans are struggling on such a small income, not whether they pay taxes. The two tax credits lifted 7.2 million people out of poverty in 2009, including four million children. At a time when high-income households are paying their lowest share of federal taxes in decades, when corporations frequently avoid paying any tax, it is clear who should bear a larger burden and who should not.

The two parties agree we need shared sacrifice, but it's the Republicans who want to leave the top 2% out of the equation. Makes total sense, huh?  Yeah to them it does...

 The top 1% pay taxes at the lowest rate in half a century.  In 1981 the top marginal rate was over 70%- now it's half that. Most of the wealthy take their income in capital gains, which are taxed at only 15%, down from 35% in the 1980s. Our economy grew faster in the 30 years after WWII, when taxes were higher, than since.

The ratio of corporate profits to wages is greater than since before the Great Depression. Corporate salaries and percs keep rising, while the median wage keeps dropping and jobs are shed. The CEO of Merck was rewarded $17.9 million last year, while he fired 13,000 workers. The top dog at BOA raked in $10 million, while he fired 30,000 workers.


We are entering a period of national sacrifice and MOST agree, we need to pull together, ALL of us and that MUST include the top earners. There's even been word coming from the top, calling on the administration to raise their taxes. So no, we can't say the top 2% are not stepping up, because some are. It's just that the GOP are not paying attention..weird huh??  Thank god President Obama IS paying attention. He has drawn a line in the sand saying he'd veto big cuts in Medicare and middle class programs unless the Republicans get on board with these shared sacrifices...


President Obama's modest proposals to raise taxes on the wealthy by 4% won't hurt a hair on their pretty heads.  This is all hysterics ramped up by the Conservatives. We all get it, we all know the TRUTH...The top 2% can afford to pay more in taxes, it won't stifle job growth, we are NOT STUPID, GOP! If you keep trying to block the presidents proposals  the people will reward you in the next election. You will see what it feels like to stand in an unemployment line....

Gov. Chris Christie criticized President Barack Obama for being what he called a “bystander in the Oval Office,” and painted Washington politics as ineffective and embarrassing to the rest of the country.  Yes, he is right on one thing, Washington partisans/obstructionists/do-nothing leaders ARE an embarrassment, but our president IS NOT!


Chris Christie as POTUS... that's a scary thought. He is just more of the same...amazingly, still protecting those at the top of the pyramid while America is dying a slow death. They just turn a blind eye...