FUX and their attempts at showing the Madison protests...LAME

Our Linda posted a lame FUX NOOZE video of a lame FUX reporter, Mike Tobin, in Madison at the protests. The lame "reporter" actually said after the camera was pointed away from him, he got HIT by a liberal union worker protester, imagine that! The video title says a reporter was ASSAULTED...He said their faces showed such hate, he said they blocked him with their signs and the chanting was so loud "FOX NEWS LIES", they were trying to shut down communication when they blocked his face, FUX  NOOZE host, Greg somebody, asked why these protesters had such vitriol for the media...  LOL! And while all this was going on all you could see were PEACEFUL, standing calmly around the capitol,  protesters.... what a shame for those who only get their news from FUX. It's shameful! Linda goes on to say the protesters were guilty of embracing violence and promoting violence against innocent people! Now come on.... we have seen many, many news clips of the very calm and PEACEFUL protesters, too bad FUX followers don't get to see those...

She said the protesters attempted to stifle free speech and then resorted to physical assault...omg...She said it is FUX who were trying to report the facts, the taxpayers deserve to know both sides of the issue...omg...then she babbles on about collective bargaining...then calls lefties lawless.....

Sorry, the woman amuses me..!  If you want an awesome retrospect on Madison and what it was like to spend a day with the protesters then go see my friend Mary, she has a great post up with great video clips!

A question for my bloggy friends in California

and for those who may know.....
Brother Bud was here today, we talked politics and religion like we always do. He said I need to start paying attention to the whole world, mainly the Middle East and Islam, then proceeds to tell me how Muslims have a plan to take over the world and are already here in the US infiltrating our schools, indoctrinating our kids. He says schools in the WHOLE state of California are teaching Islam, even having kids change their name to a Muslim name, etc etc...

So I went to GOOGLE and found this, even tho I'd much rather hear from my California friends! 
Rev. Elijah Abraham was born and raised as a Muslim in Iraq, but converted to Christianity when he found that Islam did not answer his most pressing religious questions. He was interviewed for The New American by James Heiser.

 Rev. Abraham said this,  The educational plan has been underway to indoctrinate our children. Go to an average public school in America and you will see the curriculum is very much advantageous to Islam and has Christianity in a bad light. In January 2002, right after 9/11, the California public schools had a mandate that the fifth, sixth and seventh grades were to practice Islam for two weeks. It took almost a week for the Christian community to bring it to light — Paul Harvey and James Dobson talked about it. California said it wasn't mandatory, that it’s just extracurricular activity, but they did not let it die. In the summer of 2007, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals approved public schools allowing these kids to practice Islam for two weeks. What does this mean? They wear Islamic garb, adopt a Muslim name, memorize verses from the Koran, chant “Allah is great and Mohammed is his prophet," and perform Jihad. The reasoning of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was that our children need to learn about world cultures. But Islam is not a culture. I'm still waiting to see if it will go to the Supreme Court because this is so wrong.



 Is this Glenn Beck chalkboard hysteria or is this true??

Would you like to hear from President Obama?

Do you remember this Barack Obama in Madison, thanking the people for their votes, thanking them for standing with him, for supporting him... And in 2007, do you remember when Barack Obama promised this? Do you think he should go to Wisconsin? What about Illinois? Should he go and talk to the 14 state senators, give them some encouraging words? How about some encouragement to the protestors? This story is exploding all across the country, your country Mr. President. These are your people Mr. President, please say more than those few words you said last week. We want to hear more from you, please....

Who will speak for the little guy?

Thank You Huffington Posts' Sally Kohn for this.....
What's happening in Wisconsin isn't about budget deficits or government spending or even public employee benefits. It's class war, wherein the big business, conservative Right tries to pit working class Americans against one another so that the super-rich can continue to pilfer our private and public coffers for their own boundless gain. Here are the facts you need to know -- and spread:
1. 60% of Wisconsin's largest corporations pay ZERO taxes
According to the Institute for Wisconsin's Future, in 2007 60% of corporations in Wisconsin with over $100 million in annual revenues paid zero taxes. None. Zip. Zilch.

2. Raising corporate taxes in Wisconsin to the national average would generate $1 BILLION in revenue
By comparison, Gov. Walker's union busting bill will "save" a measly $350 million (that is, if you consider lowering the income and security of a core group of tax-paying workers "saving" money...).

3. Cutting taxes on corporations and the rich created state budget crises.
States do not have a spending problem. They have a revenue problem. The recession caused all tax receipts to be lower, but government revenue was artificially suppressed long-before by tax cuts for the big business and the rich pushed through at both the federal and state levels. But with Wall Street tycoons still raking in big bonuses while the rest of us stagger and suffer, anger against big business might reach a boiling point... unless private sector workers can be pitted against public sector workers in a "blame government" charade to diffuse anger from the rightful target.

4. Gov. Walker and the attack on unions are paid for by anti-government Koch brothers
David and Charles Koch, scions of the second largest private corporation in the United States, know how to get a good deal for their dollar. Do you really think the brothers who fund the anti-government, pro-big business Tea Party really give a damn about Wisconsin's deficit? They are using Wisconsin in their larger play to destroy all unions, further strip all workers of benefits and decent wages, and increase power and profit for a very few, very large corporations like their own. The Koch brothers are among Gov. Walker's top political contributors.


It's so plain to see, so easy to understand!! Why are the rightie, teabagger, conservative, democrat haters, so blind??
This morning I listened to my Gov. Chris Christie on Morning Joe talk about unions in NJ. He ALMOST had me believing his bull but I had a second cup of coffee and came to my senses. This effort to abolish unions and silence the middleclass worker is un-American.  Who will protect the factory worker, the teachers, the janitors, the police and firefighter who puts his life on the line every day? The big corporations who republican governors can thank for their elections surely don't want unions in this country backing democrats, so this is how they begin the process of killing the democratic party, kill off the organizations who put dems in office.
Now let me say this, I do believe union workers should contribute to their healthcare costs, they should contribute more to their pensions, but they should not have their voices silenced.

Did I ever tell you my husbands story? He worked for a small town company that grew to be a world wide manufacturer of flooring, Mannington. He was a welder/millwright and worked for this company just like his grandfather before him. He was there for 15 years. This company claimed to care about their workers but was not gonna let any union come in and poison the minds of their workers. One night myhusband was called to work at 2 am. He went in, performed his job and even stayed all night and his shift the next day. After not receiving the over time pay he deserved he started asking questions. When he was repeatedly told he would not get that pay he did not back down and was subsequently fired for insubordination. When he went to his friend the boss, the plant founders son, he begged for his job back but was given no mercy. You talk about humiliation, it's hard for me to even write about it... Anyway myhusbamd was accused of trying to form a union or something to that effect, and it wasn't true but when he told his story to the Labor Relations board they immediately took the case. He won I guess you could say, but it was a tiny settlement,  he should have taken the bastards to court! So, if the plant had a union representing the workers rights, he would still be there today and retiring in a few yrs. This is just one of the reasons we have unions, without them the MIDDLE CLASS HARD WORKER gets shit on by the big guy every fuckin time!

Thanks for listening...

What does Hitler have in common with this union busting in Wisconsin and the spread across our great nation?

 As you can easily see by my postings lately, I am totally obsessed by this union busting story coming out of Wisconsin.... so today I found on FB a new one for ya. I saw Leslie had joined into the conversation on this article from the awesome informative site   News Junkie Post.  Tons of great info on the protests. And the truth, so go read!


On May 2nd, 1933, the day after Labor day, Nazi groups occupied union halls and labor leaders were arrested.  Trade Unions were outlawed by Adolf Hitler, while collective bargaining and the right to strike was abolished.  This was the beginning of a consolidation of power by the fascist regime which systematically wiped out all opposition groups, starting with unions, liberals, socialists, and communists using Himmler’s state police.
Fast forward to America today, particularly Wisconsin.  Governor Walker and the Republican/Tea Party members of the state legislature are attempting to pass a bill that would not only severely punish public unions (with exception for the police, fire, and state trooper unions that supported his campaign), but it would effectively end 50 years to the right of these workers to collectively bargain.

Collective bargaining is a process of voluntary negotiations between employers and trade unions aimed at reaching agreements which regulate working conditions. Collective agreements usually set out wage scales, working hours, training, health and safety, overtime, grievance mechanisms and rights to participate in workplace or company affairs. -wiki

First of all, assaulting the rights of workers to collectively bargain has absolutely nothing to do with any immediate budgetary issues.  It does however have everything to do with ending one of the basic rights of labor to organize. Please read the rest....

Now tell me folks, what has President Obama done in the past 2 years that looks anything like a dictatorship? Those who have turned their backs on Obama and criticize his every move better wake up to what the Rightwing wants to do to America. If you think I'm off base talking about Hitler and the Republicans in the same sentence then you better get yourselves educated on unions and Wisconsin.


I GOOGLED fascist republicans and found this...Hub pages

Are Republicans Fascist?

Roger Griffin, arguably the most prominent fascist historian, has a solution which succeeds where everyone else has failed, defining the concept of a fascist minimum of "paligenetic ultra-nationalist populism". Paligenetic means rebirth: Griffin is talking about a far-right party which exudes iconography suggesting the nation arise like a phoenix from the ashes.
Although the definition is not widely known outside of the historical community, it is the only definition which can sum up fascism in less than a couple of paragraphs, much less three words, and has gained widespread acceptance amongst scholars.
I thought for some time that this would eliminate the possibility of the Republican party being fascist. Its visual iconography is not remotely paligenetic. Mostly, you think of Republicans, and you think of old rich guys in suits. Throughout its history it has been a party of the centre right, not remotely fascist in nature.
But, this ignores the significant and growing influence on the party of influential groups such as evangelical churches, the Tea Party. The individual, like George Bush, who describes himself as born-again, is literally expressing his belief in paligenesis. Not of nationhood, though the nationalism of the Republican party is not in doubt, but of his soul. This suggests the possibility of a peculiarly American form of fascism, and one potentially more virulent than the ones we know of from the thirties and forties, as it has a spiritual, cult-like component. Only the followers of Codreanu in Romania, whose beliefs made Hitler seem mild-mannered, developed a form of fascism that perverse.
Additionally, the neo-con influence on the party provides additional defining characteristics of fascism. It has turned a moderate, isolationist patriotic party into an aggressive interventionist ultra-nationalist one, ready to invade other nations on purely territorial grounds.
When assessing the influence of these outside groupings, you have to consider how fascism would most likely emerge in America, if in fact, emerge it did. It wouldn't be possible for a radical third party to emerge and win office, the constitution has many specific provisions which make that almost impossible. In the most probable scenario, radical groupings would infect the body of a major political party, probably (though not necessarily) the Republicans, establish an elite with major influence over the president out of all proportion with their popularity. This is what has happened.
When it comes to historical parallels,it becomes much simpler to make comparisons. It is not difficult to see the similarities between the Reichstag fire that brought Hitler to power in Germany, through the subsequent Enabling Act, and 9/11 and the Patriot Act. Both were convenient if probably genuine acts of terrorism by menacing powers which led to authoritarian pieces of legislation superficially designed to eliminate an external threat which reduced civil freedoms at home. In fact, the Nazi's had much more justification-revolution had already occurred in Russia, and the Red Army stood ready to attack at any moment. The threat posed by Bin Laden is inconsequential by comparison.
It is not difficult to see comparisons between the rise to power of the modern Republican party and the Nazis, both in quasi-legal coup d'etats where a minority of the electorate returned each respective organization.
It is not difficult to see how the skillful use of propaganda has been used to pacify each people with selective truth-telling, paranoid nightmare, and appeals to shallow jingoism.
It is not difficult to see the comparisons between the Keynesian militarism of German Nazism and the big state spending of the Republicans on the US military machine.
Nor is it difficult to see how a succession of atrocities were hidden, uncovered and then papered over with a shallow veneer of justification, then subsequently ignored by an indifferent people. Fortunately, the scale of atrocities committed by the US and the Nazi's are not of the same order. But it was not till long after WWII that the horrors of the gas chambers were widely known. It is a good idea to be vigilant against the possibility.
On the most simple level, the Republicans are now seen by almost everyone outside the organization as the party of torture, the party of offensive military action, the party that opposes civil rights, even the party of concentration camps. These are not American values. These are not the practices of civilized, democratic peoples anywhere in the world. They are things we associate with authoritarianism, and, by implication, fascism.

Oh you can bet this is a battle we MUST win!

With each passing day it becomes clearer and clearer. As the protest grows larger by the day, as Gov. Walker turns his back on negotiations because the concessions don't go "all the way" for him and his cronies, it's all coming together, the light is shining on the conservative Koch brothers takeover of America and the quashing of the middle class. How ironic, Beck and his fuckin' chalkboard, his Nazi symbols, his communist rhetoric, It's HIM, it's HIS PARTY that is trying to bring down America, NOT the Liberals you stupid conservatives! You blind followers of assholes like Beck, like the teabagging governors you elected because you thought they cared about America! What a fuckin' joke you are, you are being had, it's all right before your eyes but you are too blind to see it!

This Alternet article by Robert Reich says it all in plain English....
The Republican strategy is to split the vast middle and working class - pitting unionized workers against non-unionized, public-sector workers against non-public, older workers within sight of Medicare and Social Security against younger workers who don't believe these programs will be there for them, and the poor against the working middle class.

This is a three part strategy by the rethuglicans. It's starting in Wisconsin and will be country wide before you can blink....

 Part one..The Battle over the Federal Budget,
The President has already fallen into the trap by calling for budget cuts in programs the poor and working class depend on - assistance with home heating, community services, college loans, and the like.

Part two..The Assault on Public Employees,  
Wisconsin's Republican governor Scott Walker and his GOP legislature are seeking to end almost all union rights for teachers. Ohio's Republican governor John Kasich is pushing a similar plan in Ohio through a Republican-dominated legislature. New Jersey's Republican governor Chris Christie is attempting the same, telling a conservative conference Wednesday, "I'm attacking the leadership of the union because they're greedy, and they're selfish and they're self-interested."

Part three...The Distortion of the Constitution, 
The third part of the Republican strategy is being played out in the Supreme Court. It has politicized the Court more than at any time in recent memory.

This assault doesn't have to happen. It's not written in stone. Will patriotic Americans cower to the evilness coming from the conservative right or will we fight? The good people of Wisconsin are fighting and that should give us hope.  You better get prepared  to take a stand when it comes to your state, if you have a Rethuglican governor like I do you can bet it's coming! Look what the country did in '08, we have the numbers, we can win this battle!  Please read the article by Reich...

This is far from over....

Beck has been saying a revolution is coming to America and blames liberals. Well Beck, what inside info do you have cuz it looks like your dream may come true! You don't have to live in Wisconsin to be angered by the goings on of their teabagger Governor Walker. Thanks to Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz the story behind the protesting is coming to light. This is serious people, pay attention because your state could be next..

Alternet...
The fact is, Walker is carrying out the wishes of his corporate master, David Koch, who calls the tune these days for Wisconsin Republicans. Walker is just one among many Wisconsin Republicans supported by Koch Industries -- run by David Koch and his brother, Charles -- and Americans For Prosperity, the astroturf group founded and funded by David Koch. The Koch brothers are hell-bent on destroying the labor movement once and for all.

All you rethuglicans in the country who believe the will of the people put teabaggers in all those governorships last year, think again. The protesting that will come out of those states where their GOP leaders are trying to destroy the unions because they believe it will bring down the Democratic Party are in for a rude awakening. If Glenn beck thinks liberals will take to the streets you ain't seen nothin' yet! No evil Koch is gonna turn our country over to the rightwing extremists!

Get ready Wisconsin here come the crazies!!

Tea partiers are arranging for buses to the state Capitol, with the help of a local talk radio host. They're promising a massive counter-demonstration to all those angry teachers. And this effort is being spearheaded by the conservative group American Majority, which has been

training activists to become candidates at the state level.

American Majority has set up an "I Stand With Scott Walker Rally" Facebook page to spread the word, and by 1 o'clock Friday, 1100 people had replied and said they were planning to descend on Madison. And if they and others do flock to the state capital, Madison could well become a media circus. Conservative provocateur Andrew Breitbart will be headlining the tea party rally, along with Gateway Pundit blogger Jim Hoft, who recently scoffed at the Egyptian pro-democracy uprising. (Hoft also blamed CBS News reporter Lara Logan's "liberal belief system" for her sexual assault in Egypt.) Recently added: potential GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain. And there may also be a cameo appearance by Joe "The Plumber" Wurtzelbacher, who tweeted Friday morning that he was headed to Madison to "do some interviews."

STAND STRONG LIBERALS!!!

Wisconsin protests!

Republicans hate poor and needy people, unemployed people, those who collect some sort of government assistance, BUT they also hate hard working people, union people. Those that make a good living wage so they don't need government help. They go to work every day, they are teachers, cops, firefighters, nurses, cafeteria workers, etc, etc,  Where is the reasoning in this wingnuttery?

Thank God the good people of Wisconsin are protesting, they are uniting in protest of their governor, Rightwing pigmonger Scott Walker. This piece of crap governor is cooking the books so he can claim a budget crisis.  This guy is a fraud and a liar!

 Walker claims there is a $137 million deficit -- it is not because of a drop in revenues or increases in the cost of state employee contracts, benefits or pensions. It is because Walker and his allies pushed through $140 million in new spending for special-interest groups in January. If the Legislature were simply to rescind Walker’s new spending schemes -- or delay their implementation until they are offset by fresh revenues -- the “crisis” would not exist.
The Fiscal Bureau memo -- which readers can access at http://legis.wisconsin.gov/lfb/Misc/2011_01_31Vos&Darling.pdf -- makes it clear that Walker did not inherit a budget that required a repair bill.


In a Wednesday op-ed, the Capitol Times of Madison picked up on this theme.

In its Jan. 31 memo to legislators on the condition of the state's budget, the Fiscal Bureau determined that the state will end the year with a balance of $121.4 million. To the extent that there is an imbalance -- Walker claims there is a $137 million deficit -- it is not because of a drop in revenues or increases in the cost of state employee contracts, benefits or pensions. It is because Walker and his allies pushed through $140 million in new spending for special-interest groups in January.

This just posted on TPMDC...

The weather in Wisconsin is cold this time of year -- but the budget fight is only getting hotter. Following a walkout by the state Senate Democrats, depriving Republicans of the three-fifths majority needed to pass the budget and its controversial anti-public union provisions, the NBC affiliate in Madison now reports that sources say the Dems have left the state entirely. (Democrats with backbone!!)
This comes after the state Senate majority leader said that the State Patrol could be called in to round up the Dems. However, leaving for another state would presumably place the legislators beyond the state's jurisdiction. (Fun fact: The state Senate leader and the Assembly Speaker are brothers -- and the new head of the State Patrol is their father.)

 Democratic Minority Leader Mark Miller released a statement on behalf of all Democrats urging Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans to listen to opponents of the measure and seek a compromise. His statement did not address where Democrats were or when they planned to return.
Bill opponents in the Senate gallery cheered when Senate President Mike Ellis announced that there were not enough senators present to proceed.

This is an on going event, minute by minute... events courtesy of TPM, Yahoo news,

My cousin Jeanette wrote this for me, she lives in Wisconsin......


I was in Madison on Tuesday and the similarity with what was happening there, and what I had just witnessed on TV in Egypt was striking.  Thirteen thousand people marched on the Capital, filling the Capitol Building and chanting "Kill This Bill" and spilling out into the square.  Teachers and Public Employees are under attack with a bill that Governor Walker has proposed which would dismantle their collective bargaining rights.   The so called Repair Bill is being driven through (and will probably be voted on today) under the guise that it will help the state budget's bottom line.  But this is not about the budget! This is about  union busting!  You can almost see Scott Walker smacking his lips! Nothing would make him happier than to see Wisconsin, a leader in Progressive politics for the last century, become a Right to Work State.  By pitting worker against worker, he and the Republicans are trying to make villains out of public employees because they have a union which has survived during  this recession, while one by one, unions in the private sector have fallen by the wayside.  Workers have suffered in the last 30 years while companies have moved, first to the South where unions were weak or nonexistent and then out of the country.
This is class warfare!  An injury to one is an injury to all!

I'll be back with updates!

Justin Bieber calls America evil because of our screwed up healthcare system...

Canadians love Americas' politics, they find us amusing and our political figures far more interesting than their own. So I wonder, do they understand what our wingnuts want to do to this country?  Do Canadians watch in horror as the wingnut party tries to destroy America, their beloved neighbor?  To our Canadian friends our politicians seem amusing, and even downright crazy, but the rightwingers are absolutely serious in their desire to destroy us all.

Here is the difference in the parties, and remember some say the two parties are one in the same, this is not true....
  While most of the world has been focusing their attention on the Middle East, we here in America are fighting over the budget. The House will be voting this week on a Republican bill, called a “continuing resolution” or CR, to cut $100 billion from President Barack Obama’s funding request for programs for the remaining seven months of this fiscal year. Don’t confuse the battle over the CR with that other battle which the House is going to be waging in the coming weeks over Obama’s spending request for fiscal year 2012, which begins on Oct. 1.

In this battle there's been over 400 amendments offered in the House, if the Rethuglican amendments are enacted this is what they would do...

– Eliminate the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the Special Envoy for Climate Change, the Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, the NOAA Climate Service, the Department of Energy’s ARPA-E, National Science Foundation K-12 funding
– Block US funding for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Global Environment Facility
– Suspend enforcement of fisheries laws and construction and conservation acquisition programs of the National Parks and Department of the Interior
– Block rules for toxic cement plant pollution, hazardous coal ash, industrial boiler pollution, water quality, climate change pollution, climate change adaptation, energy-efficient lighting, mountaintop removal, atrazine, and water conservation..

  The existing language in the budget bill is already designed to deny global warming, slash and burn public health and green jobs, but the amendments would take even more radical steps to reward polluters who are killing our children’s future.
Most of the Republican amendments are budget neutral, not lowering the deficit one cent. Several defund effective jobs programs that cost only a few million dollars. The goal of these amendments is not fiscal responsibility or jobs creation, but polluter protection, even though the pollution is poisoning babies and causing the elderly to suffer.
Since taking the House there has not been a single bill for job creation by the Rethuglicans, did we really think they would concentrate their efforts on jobs? Hell NO, Boehner said if his partys' spending cuts lead to job losses then so be it.... What amazing arrogance!   Scott Lilly of the Center for American Progress calculated that the cuts - a net of $59 billion in the last half of fiscal 2011 - would lead to the loss of 650,000 government jobs, and the indirect loss of 325,000 more jobs as fewer government workers travel and buy things. That's nearly 1 million jobs - possibly enough to tip the economy back into recession. This is music to the GOPPERS ears! They want the unemployment numbers to stay high because they believe it will help them win the election in 2012. But they have not come forth with a candidate who could actually beat Pres. Obama, what a joke. For the good of the country GOP, put the people FIRST for once in your party's lifetime!

 NOW, the Democrats, I should say the progressive fighting Democrats in our party, have proposed amendments to eliminate billions of dollars that go to Big Oil subsidies.  Congressman Ed Markey put forth an amendment that would close a loophole that allows oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without paying ANY ROYALTIES! This bill will end the tax breaks, close the loophole and save the taxpayers 51 billion! The rethugs hate this bill, but Markey promises there will be a vote. He told Chris Matthews tonight..."I’m telling you what, we will have the vote sometime in the next 24 hours, and then I will have the list of names and you will know who believes the oil industry, while they’re reporting record profits still believe that they need American taxpayers money as they’re cutting the programs for the poorest people in our society. Free lunches for the oil industry they say? okay. Free lunch for grandma. uh-uh. that’s an extravagance the federal government cannot afford. We’re going to have a vote on that in the next 24 hours."

      Democrats have amendments which will reduce the deficit, restore LIHEAP (low income home energy assistance program) and NIH (national institutes of health)funding, amendments to defend America from global warming pollution, and for research and development into green energy programs.

      President Obama wants to invest in high speed rail and energy efficiency, he wants to put more money into education and infrastructure, but NO, that is spending and it really doesn't matter what type of spending, the GOP wants NO spending...well except for tax cuts and wars....

The debate is moving toward a standoff. Republicans are hell bent on passing legislation by the end of this week, 61 billion in cuts, that's their magic number. The White House says President Obama would veto such a bill.
"I think it is important to make sure that we don't try to make a series of symbolic cuts this year that could endanger the recovery," Obama told a news conference.
"We've got to be careful ... Let's use a scalpel; let's not use a machete," he said.

From what I've seen from President Obama he is standing strong against the GOP. I believe he will veto their ridiculous do nothing cuts. Give credit where credit is due. President Obama is not stupid, he knows what America needs to survive. He has a plan for America in the next 6 years and it's not what the wingnuts are saying...

Read more on the cuts proposed by the GOP from Congressman John Conyers

Egypt....Israel......

My brother (you all know Bud) sent me this  in an email. He said yesterday he will study the Bible to see if the Egypt revolution has been prophesied and is another sign of "End Times". I'm no where near an expert on Egypt or Israel but some of my readers might find this interesting. RZ at reality zone has a post up on Israel which you should also read. Thanks!

Daily Israel Report

Egypt: Is it the People's Fault?

Adar 4, 5771, 08 February 11 04:05

by by Daniel Greenfield

(Israelnationalnews.com) A thousand talking heads and neo-conservative experts on the region assure us that a bright future stretches out before Egypt like a magic carpet. "Democracy," "Freedom", "Representative Government" are the buzzwords that trickle wetly out of their printers. All cynicism is disdained and skepticism swept into the dustbin. History is being made here. But the tricky thing about history is that it isn't a point on a map, but a continuous wave. Like the tide, history is made and remade over and over again, formed and repeated, washed and beached on the shores of time.
Mubarak is the problem, we are told. And he certainly is their problem. The pesky 82 year old air force officer standing in the way of their dreams of a new Egypt. If not for him, Egypt would be a liberal model for the region. Just like Gaza, Lebanon and Iraq. But is it the dictator or the people who are the problem? The protesters are unified by a desire to push out Mubarak. But what do they actually stand for, besides open elections.
59 percent of Egyptians want democracy and 95 percent want Islam to play a large part in politics. (As Egypt has approximately 5 percent of Christians that means 100 percent of Muslims want Islam to play a large part in politics.) 84 percent believe apostates should face the death penalty.
That is what Egyptian democracy will look like. A unanimous majority that wants an Islamic state and a bare majority that wants democracy. Which one do you think will win out? A democratic majority of the country supports murdering people in the name of Islam. Mubarak's government does not execute apostates or adulterers. But a democratic Egypt will. Why? Because it's the will of the people.
The liberal cheerleaders shaking their pom poms for Egyptian democracy don't seem to grasp that the outcome could be anything other than positive. It's an article of faith for them that freedom leads to freedom. That open elections give rise to human rights. That the problem can only be the dictator, not the people. Never the people. That is their ideology and they will stick to it.
Ever since World War II, we have been working off the "Hitler Paradigm". The "Hitler Paradigm" says that there are no bad nations, only bad governments. The people themselves are perfectly fine, but occasionally a tiny minority of extremists size power. This allows the liberally minded to reconcile the need for occasional wars with their faith in mankind. Instead of fighting wars against nations, they fight wars to liberate nations from their despotic regimes. And ever since we have been fighting these "Wars of Liberation."
We fought to free Korea and Vietnam from Communism, but we lacked one basic thing. Ground level support from the people we were fighting to protect. Today South Koreans like Kim Jong Il more than they like us. We fought to free the tyrants of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia from Saddam Hussein. As a reward, they financed the terrorists who have been killing us ever since. We fought to free Iraq from Saddam, and the entire country imploded into armed camps.
Our "Victory in Iraq" came about because we cut a deal with the Baathists against the Shiites and Al Qaeda, essentially restoring a broken version of Saddam's old status quo. We fought to liberate Afghanistan, and now we find ourselves allied with some Muslim warlords who abuse women and rape little boys-- against the other Muslim warlords who abuse women and rape little boys.
Handing out democracy like candy does not fix existing cultural problems. It does not end bigotry, free women or stop murder in the name of Allah. Open elections are only as good as the people participating in them. And the 84 percent of Egyptians who want to murder apostates have issues that democracy will not solve. The problem with Egypt is not Mubarak-- but the Egyptians.
Let's take another example. In Jordan, the next target on the freedom tour, King Hussein passed a bill to criminalize the honor killings of women. And their democratically elected parliament voted 60 to 25 to strike the bill down. It took them only 3 minutes. That's what democracy would mean for the Jordanian girls murdered by their husbands, brothers and fathers. The right of the people and their duly elected representatives to legalize the murder of women.
The Hitler Paradigm says that all you have to do is take away the dictator and his staffers to usher in democracy, freedom and mutual amity. But what if the dictator is not the problem, but the symptom of a larger cultural problem?
Take the Cold War. We defeated Communism without a massive war. The Berlin Wall came down. Democracy came to Russia. Except here we are back to square one. The situation in the region has been reset back to before WW2, with a chaotic Eastern Europe and a predatory Russia. Economic liberalization and even the end of Communism did not change the underlying pattern. Despite a brief period of democracy, Russia reverted to a totalitarian regime with designs on the rest of the region.
And that should have shocked no one, because it is exactly what happened after the fall of the Czars culminating in the Bolshevik takeover. All the reforms and liberalization did not give the average Russian what he wanted most-- stability, order and a strong nation.
Freedom is culturally determined. It is not the same thing as democracy. Nor is democracy as ubiquitous and universal as its advocates would like us to believe. Like all forms of power, it can only be exercised by those who are ready for it. Much of the world is not ready for it, no more than 12th century Europe was ready for the Constitution. Given the power to choose, they will choose tyranny. They will choose the known over the unknown, the stable over the unstable, and order over freedom.
A society with a social hierarchy embedded in its culture will preserve that hierarchy even with democratic elections  Such elections will not give women freedom or rights to religious minorities or freedom of expression to unpopular views. These are things which stem from legal guarantees such as the Constitution, they do not arise out of the natural course of open elections. And the pundits who are busy pretending that this is how it works in the columns of every major newspaper are playing the fool.
The United States has freedom due primarily to its culture. Those freedoms were an outgrowth of the rights of Englishmen and the Enlightenment. They cannot be exported to another country-- without also exporting the cultural assumptions that produced them.
Egypt's period of greatest liberalization was under British rule. Since then its cosmopolitan nightspots have been torched and it has drifted closer to Islamization. Even Egypt's current level of human rights under Mubarak is above that of most of its neighbors. And the reason for that is Mubarak's ties to America. The more democratic Egypt becomes, the more its civil rights will diminish. Its rulers will see social issues as an easy way to compromise with the Muslim Brotherhood. As Egypt's cultural ties to the West diminish, so will its freedoms.
The Islamists understand this far better than the neo-conservatives. That is why they campaign so ruthlessly against Western culture. They understand that it is cultural assumptions that dictate behavior, more than any law. While we try to export institutions to the Muslim world, they export Muslim culture to us. And they have had far more luck changing us, than we have had changing them. Institutions are shaped by culture, but cultures are not shaped by institutions. Export every aspect of American government to Egypt, and it will run along Egyptian lines, not American ones. And within a year, Egypt's government will run the same way it does today. Only the window dressing will be different.
Mubarak is one of the last of the Janissaries, the Western trained army officers who seized power across the Arab world in order to implement some twisted semblance of a modern system of government. When the army's grip on power fails, then Egypt will fall even further. The loss of power by the Turkish military meant a descent into Islamism and terrorism. It will mean the same thing in Egypt.
A people who do not believe in the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will not be free no matter how many times they go to the polls. You can place voting booths outside every home and run elections every week, and it will still do no good. Freedom may be the birthright of every man, woman and child on earth-- but it cannot be theirs until they claim it. As long as they believe in the right of the majority to oppress the minority, in the value of order over liberty, and the supremacy of the mosque over any and all civil and legal rights-- then they will never be free. Never. Their elections will either give rise to chaos or tyranny. That is how it is in the Middle East. That is how it will always be until they claim their birthright by closing the Koran and opening their minds.

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Isn't she precious??

Poor Sahara, (okjimm thought of the name) she has come in at 9th place in the straw poll, but that's not gonna stop her, no sir!  Give up all those thousands donated by her faithful followers to her SarahPac org?

Yesterday was Sahara's birthday, (it pains me to say that because I gave birth to my daughter on Feb. 11th too!) so her PAC sent out letters seeking donations so they could give the half term Gov. a special gift!

According to the Associated Press, the call for cash came in a fundraising e-mail on Wednesday.

In a solicitation letter Wednesday, SarahPAC Treasurer Tim Crawford says nothing is more important to Palin than making sure her PAC has the funds needed to elect "more common-sense conservatives in 2011."
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He says that Palin, like Ronald Reagan before her, is despised by the left for admitting her faith in God, being "unabashedly proud" of America and fighting federal overreach.

No, sorry Tim, you have that all wrong. We liberals don't despise Palin because she is a God-fearing "Christian", or because she pretends to love America... we think she is simply in over her head and does not HAVE THE SKILLS OR BRAINS to be POTUS!!



She'll carry on the charade clear til the end then back out gracefully and retire to her mansion in Arizona with her huge brood in tow....

check this out, the comparisons to this years CPAC straw poll  with last years... Poor Sahara, she's dropping like bird shit on a summers day....

2011
Ron Raul 30%,
Mitt Romney 23%
Gary Johnson 6%
Chris Christie 6%
Newt Gingrich 5%
Tim Pawlenty 4%
Michele Bachmann 4%
Mitch Daniels 4%
Sarah Palin 3%
Herman Cain 2%
Mike Huckabee 2%
Rick Santorum 2%
John Thune 2%
Jon Huntsman 1%
Haley Barbour 1%

2010
Ron Paul 31%
Mitt Romney 22%
Sarah Palin 7%
Tim Pawlenty 6%
Mike Pence 5%
Newt Gingrich 4%
Mike Huckabee 4%
Mitch Daniels 2%
John Thune 2%
Rick Santorum 2%
Haley Barbour 1%

Ron Paul or Mitt Romney... are they embarrassed YET?? Do we have ourselves a contender??












BARACK OBAMA  2012!!!

(Palin pics courtesy Immoral Minority)

Breaking news, Palin tweet

Thanks Media Matters... Apparently Sarah Palin's tweets are breaking news on FUX. Why do they find this person so entertaining, why make her tweets so important as to break into coverage of Egypt?? Wonder what she'll tweet next.....

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Oh yea, great tweet twit. Ya just had to bring President Obama's name into the Egyptian revolution coverage ....Ya just had to put your OWN name into the news during the revolution coverage.....smart move...very presidential...LOL

Sean Hannity is a disgusting fearmongering little girl

I turned on Hannity's show tonight, ALL I heard from his ugly mouth was Muslim Brotherhood, but when he said World War III could be upon us with this uprising in Egypt and the regime change meaning the Muslim Brotherhood would take power... good lord I could not believe my ears!!  Who watches this idiot???

Khairi Abaza, from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Hoover Institution’s Fouad Ajami were guests on Hannity's show last week, these experts stressed the Brotherhood was not a threat. Abaza said the Brotherhood were not the organizers of the protests and that if they were so strong they would have done their own revolution and they would have been in office. But Hannity would have none of it, he said the Brotherhood is sworn to jihad, sworn to sharia law. His incessant fearmongering is insane.

This is from The Muslim Brotherhood's Official English Website...... 

Thursday, February 10,2011 15:07

by Abdel Moneim Abou el-Fotouh   WashingtonPost

Like Egyptians from all walks of life, we in the Muslim Brotherhood are taking part in the popular uprising to depose a repressive dictator. The overwhelming majority of Egyptians demand the immediate ouster of Hosni Mubarak and his regime. Once this basic demand is met, we seek to share in the debate sweeping the country and to be part of the resolution, which we hope will culminate in a democratic form of government. Egyptians want freedom from tyranny, a democratic process and an all-inclusive dialogue to determine our national goals and our future, free of foreign intervention. We are mindful, however, as a nonviolent Islamic movement subjected to six decades of repression, that patent falsehoods, fear mongering and propaganda have been concocted against us in Mubarak's palaces the past 30 years and by some of his patrons in Washington. Lest partisan interests in the United States succeed in aborting Egypt's popular revolution, we are compelled to unequivocally deny any attempt to usurp the will of the people. Nor do we plan to surreptitiously dominate a post-Mubarak government. The Brotherhood has already decided not to field a candidate for president in any forthcoming elections. We want to set the record straight so that any Middle East policy decisions made in Washington are based on facts and not the shameful - and racist - agendas of Islamophobes. Contrary to fear-mongering reports, the West and the Muslim Brotherhood are not enemies. It is a false dichotomy to posit, as some alarmists are suggesting, that Egypt's choices are either the status quo of the Mubarak regime or a takeover by "Islamic extremists." Click the link to read all the article. Sean Hannity and Fux Nooze are in the fearmongering business. They seem to be salivating at the thought of World War III and the ensuing Apocalypse.  These idiots are deliberately causing an unwarranted fear of Muslims around the world.  I found this on Yahoo Questions asked by a Rightwing Conservative....  What can we do to keep Mubarak in power and prevent the Islamic Caliphate from taking over Iceland? I was watching Glenn Beck the other night and saw how this Al Qaeda uprising in Egypt against Mubarak for being a friend to Israel & the US, is part of the plan to create the Islamic Caliphate which will take over the Middle East & Europe, from Iceland to India. What can we as Americans do to keep Mubarak in power? He's a freedom-loving leader that is about Democracy & fairness, and it's only fair that he remain Egypt's head of state. It's clear the Liberals want Mubarak out of power because Liberals want the Islamic Caliphate to become a reality. This folks is your typical American Fox watcher, unfuckinbelievable....

I don't want to do it but I must....

Something is wrong with me, I'm bored. Really, I have lost my desire to read about politics, to comment about politics, to write about politics..... I'm finding it a chore to sit at this computer and try and write a good blog post. I'm having a hard time putting my thoughts into words. I still get upset when I'm watching my news shows, like now, listening to Lawrence interview Bill Maher, it's such a good interview but I'm half listening because of this stupid computer. Maher is saying Obama has always been a president governing from the center, look at his policies geared toward big business, tax cuts, etc.... He was elected by a majority of Americans but the right is relentless in their need to degrade him and accuse him of being "the most liberal president this country has ever known".  Oooooh scary liberal Barack Obama! The right treats our president with utter disrespect like the way Bill O'Reilly did Sunday, they won't give up their quest to paint him as an illegitimate president.

I'm feeling so guilty for not visiting my friends blogs. Maybe it's Facebook, I spend too much time there too. I don't have the time or energy to do it all. I'm not deleting the blog, I'm very proud of my blog, but I need a break and I have to force myself to take this break. Not just blogging but computers in general are ADDICTING. I've said these words before, I know. Some of you have taken blogging breaks before too, so I know you'll understand.....

While I'm on my break I'll be reading the Thomas Frank book, The Wrecking Crew...

Casting his eyes from the Bush administration’s final months of plunder to the earliest days of the Republican revolution, Thomas Frank uncovers the deep logic behind the graft and incompetence of conservatives in power. He shows how leaders dedicated to a doctrine of government by entrepreneurship proceeded to sell off the state, channeling the profits to cronies and loyalists. He surveys the federal agencies doomed to failure by the inept and even hostile staff appointed to run them. He charts the practice of wholesale deregulation and the devastating results now clear for all to see. From political scandal to mortgage meltdown, Frank documents the consequences of enshrining the free market as the logic of the state.
As conservatives retreat to lick their wounds and a new administration prepares to undo the years of misgovernment, The Wrecking Crew makes clear the challenges before the nation. A brilliant and audacious stocktaking—now thoroughly revised and updated—this is Frank’s most revelatory work yet.

I can't wait!


You'll see me around, until then I bid you adieu! xo

Half time show

Did you watch the Superbowl halftime show last night?  I had the unfortunate pleasure,  it was not Christina screwing up the national anthem or Fergie's hideous attempt at singing.....I encouraged my Mom to leave her spot in the kitchen and join us in the livingroom to watch the game...she had been referencing the Romans that morning, God only knows why... but when the halftime show started(yes I agree it was hideous) she said it was the beginning of the end for America as we know it, it was the Fall of the Roman Empire all over again! This type of entertainment can only lead to what was seen in Rome with their entertainment including woman forced to have sex with beasts. Yes, sadly she is serious. I got quite angry and said how could she compare the singing of Fergie to the Roman Empire??! Lordy.....the woman is almost 81 I keep reminding myself. She likes Eddy Arnold, she doesn't understand  the Black-Eyed Peas....

Anyway, one highlight of the night was when Will.i.am delivered a message to President Obama by changing three lines to his band's hit "Where Is The Love?" during the 15-minute medley:

"In America we need to get things straight / Obama, let's get these kids educated / Create jobs so the country stays stimulated." 

Cool huh?!  I guess Will.i. am knew the president would be watching the game and he took that opportunity to send a little message. I like it!

Palin on Reagan...

"There isn't one replacement for Reagan, but there are millions who believe in the great ideas that he espoused,"says Sarah Palin Friday as she spoke at the event to honor Ronald Reagan on the eve of his 100th birthday. During her speech she said America is on the road to ruin, not the road to greatness as we were during the Reagan Era! Ha! She said we must reconnect with the steel spine and moral courage of our grandparents' generation, they put their faith in God not government. She made her usual Obama bashing comments about big government and high taxes, even though Obama has cut taxes in the past 2 years, something conservatives like to overlook.

  Like Sarah always manages to do, she got it all wrong when she talked about Reagan and his tax cutting policies...
The reality is Reagan raised taxes 11 times during his presidency. WHAT?? Are you serious? God-Reagan raised taxes you say? Why is it Republicans hang onto this mythical father figure president? Do they have just one Idol?

"Ronald Reagan was never afraid to raise taxes," presidential historian Douglas Brinkley and editor Reagan's diaries said on NPR. "He knew that it was necessary at times. And so there's a false mythology out there about Reagan as this conservative president who came in and just cut taxes and trimmed federal spending in a dramatic way. It didn't happen that way. It's false."

A conservative blogger wrote this...."We hope to see our Reagan - a woman who was just a tiny fetus when he spoke - inaugurated in 714 more days. The time has come today - to Revive, Renew, and Restore our nation to greatness, with a leader we can be proud of."

 Michael Reagan said this about Palin...
I’ve been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we’d never see his like again because he was one of a kind, I was wrong! “Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he’s a she. And what a she! In one blockbuster of a speech, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resurrected my Dad’s indomitable spirit and sent it soaring above the convention center, shooting shock waves through the cynical media’s assigned spaces and electrifying the huge audience with the kind of inspiring rhetoric we haven’t heard since my Dad left the scene.

Ron Reagan said this..."Sarah Palin is a soap opera, basically. She's doing mostly what she does to make money and keep her name in the news."

Which Reagan offspring would you call the intelligent one? You know what they say about Republicans...

Did you know February is REAGAN/PALIN APPRECIATION MONTH??

Here's the petition, did you sign it??

WHEREAS, February is the birth month of four past and one future Presidents (Washington, Harrison, Lincoln, Reagan, and Palin), and

WHEREAS, February 6 this year is the 100th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's birth, and

WHEREAS, February 11 this year is the 47th anniversary of future President Sarah Heath Palin's birth, and
 (OH NO!!, Feb. 11th is also my daughters birthday and TAO's birthday!)

WHEREAS, February is a very good month for the announcement of a candidacy for a Presidential run,

We ask our readers to join us in celebrating by signing this Proclamation of February 2011 as Reagan/Palin Appreciation Month.

This proclamation is partly in response to the liberal media's proposing to make February a Palin-free month.  That is fine with us, because that means our voices will be more clearly heard.  So during the month of February, all of our sponsor blogs will be posting articles about Governor Sarah Palin on a daily basis.  We will also be celebrating Ronald Reagan's legacy during this month.

Governor Palin is a runner, and we see her as a torch-bearer for Reagan conservatism. As a "runner," Sarah Palin is doing what most runners do before a race. She is stretching and warming up. She's getting her organization together. She's checking out the important primary states to see where she will need to spend most of her energy. And she's fine tuning her message in preparation for hitting the campaign trail.
( I think I may throw up)

While we don't necessarily expect an announcement on her intentions to run in February, we recognize February as a month when Governor Palin prepares herself to make that decision.

While the liberal media chooses to remain silent, we choose to get louder. We all recognize this as "Stretch and Warm Up" time for Sarah Palin. But while she stretches and warms up, the voices from the stands grow louder and louder. Run, Sarah, run! Run, Sarah, run!! Run, Sarah, run!!!

NOW, THEREFORE, we, the undersigned, do hereby proclaim February, 2011 as:  

Reagan/Palin Appreciation Month 

and encourage all Americans who support conservative values and principles to remember a great President who served his country well and to support our next President, who will proudly bear his torch and lead America forward in a positive direction and back to its founding principles.  May this nation always be one nation under God and a shining city on a hill for all the world to see!  And may God always bless America! 

Dated: January 24, 2011

Wow, there is something seriously wrong with a group of people who supports a woman of Palins caliber to be the president of our great nation, the US of A!!

For shits and giggles I would like to share with you Palins take on Egypt...

"It's a difficult situation, this is that 3am White House phone call and it seems for many of us trying to get that information from our leader in the White House it it seems that that call went right to um the answering machine. And nobody yet has, no body yet has explained to the American public what they know, and surely they know more than the rest of us know who it is who will be taking the place of Mubarak and um, no, not, not real um enthused about what it is that that's being done on a national level and from dc in regards to understanding all the situation there in Egypt. And um, in these areas that are so volatile right now because obviously it's not just Egypt but the other countries too where we are seeing uprisings, we know that now more than ever, we need strength and sound mind there in the White House. We need to know what it is that America stands for so we know who it is that America will stand with. And um, we do not have all that information yet."

Good Grief.....