Where was the Tea Party?

I have had many an e-mails, comment, and other type of messages sent to me accussing me of using the "race card" when referring to the Tea Party. Many from avid Tea Party members & supports. OK, so I don't have to keep repeating the same thing over and over again, let me start out my answer with the following:

When you lay with pigs you get muddy. What this means that even if you don't beleive that you are a racist, the fact that you associate yourself with one and you support it pretty much can cause people to believe that you are.

Ah, now we come the key question...how do I know that the Tea Party is racist. Because I am a student of history and remember a couple of decades back when the old KKK was around. I remember news footage of their speeches and their statements. They wrapped themselves with the American flag, called themselves partiotic, called into question the patrotism of those that criticized it, and were obsessively religious. So much so, that they use to burn a cross as a form of celebration and devotion. That seems like a pretty solid connection to me.

Not enough? OK, try this on for size. Let's look at the George W Bush administration. During Bush's term he started 2 wars whose cost he didn't even put on the books, thus not allowing the American people (and especially the Tea Party crowd) the opportunity to weigh in on, if they wanted to incur the costs of the wars, and thereby passing the costs onto their grandchildren. You remember the Tea Party supporter's grandchildren. Those that the Obama administration will bury in debt but the Bush spending wouldn't. Did we hear from the Tea Party crowd? We heard some isolated voices that were quickly shouted down or silenced with cries of "UNAMERICANS!!", "UNPATRIOTIC!!". But where were the Tea Partiers. Nowhere to be found? Why?

It was during the Bush Adminstration that the full financial system was on the verge of collapse. This is contrary to what many of the supporters of the Tea Party are now saying. These people are repeating constantly that the finaicial crisis came into existence during Obama's administration and that Bush inherited an bad economy and that he turned around (when in fact Bush's administration inherited a budget surplus). Why do they say this? Because Bush was white and he was wealthy.

Where were the Tea Parties when Sec of the Treasury Hank Paulson, who was appointed by George W Bush, came to the American people with a bailout plan that inlcuded trillion of dollars in handouts to the financial industry all written out on a few pages, with no details or oversight. I remember that Paulson wanted the American taxpayers to just hand him the money with no questions asked. Otherwise we were going to go through a financial Armegeddon. Where was the Tea Party Supprters then? Nowhere. It was the Democrats that stood up and said that IF there was a real crisis and IF the financial industry needed to be bailed out that there would have to be guidelines and oversight. No one knew what the end result would have been without it. We now see, with the global debt situation and the markets' activity that the fraud that Wall Street was a party to and the Bush Administration tried to cover up has had more drastic and far-reaching impact then anyone thought.

So, now we move forward to the presidential elections of 2008. Barack Obama wins the presidency. A black man. The FIRST black man to occupy the White House as something other then a servant. It WAS historic. Other countries viewed us again as an enlightened society, no longer the country rubes of the Bush Administration. However, almost immediately there sprang into existence a loose confederation of groupos calling themselves The Tea Party. Complete with the tea bags hanging everwhere. Is it coincidence that as soon as a black man is elected to the highest office in the country, this Tea Party group comes out of nowhere and what do they protect? Did they protect the record bedget deficit that George Bush saddled the country with? Nope. They protected Barack Obama. The man wasn't even in office that long before the signs were up protecting HIM. The man that was willing to negotiate and discuss the continuation and long-term viability of social security and medicare was being accused of destroying it by the Tea Party group INSTEAD OF the Republican Party that had put forth an actual plan to dismanlte it and replace it with a completely inadequate voucher plan. The Tea Party supporters are even going to be pushing for Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan while villifying The President for the destruction of it. Let's see...Paul Ryan is WHITE and The President is BLACK.

If you don't believe that the Tea Party groups isn't a racist group, then explain to me where they were when the deficit was being impacted as depicted below. Where were they during the Bush Administration. Where were they when George Bush and Dick Cheney were shredding the US Constitution, that the Tea Party supporters hold so dearly and wrap themselves in, when the Bush Administration lied and manipulated in order to send troops on an unwarranted war. Why weren't the Tea Party supporters screaming for the impeachment of Bush & Cheney when they violated, ignored, and essentially broke their oath to uphold and protect the US Constitution? Why weren't they as vocal and inflamed then? Because there was no black man occupying the highest elected office in the country, that's why.

If you're not a racist and don't wish to be labelled as one, then disassociate yourself from the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party. Allow the Republican Party to go back to being a decent group that cared about ALL Americans, albeit from a different perspective then the Democratic Party. Work within the Republican Party to throw off the shackles of corporate enslavement. You do this, THEN you'll be thought of as a decent person again.

We need to act to make things better.

Can Michele Bachmann get ANYTHING Right?

Justice Thomas Should Be Investiagted - Then Removed.

The GOP & Tea Party does NOT represent me!

I am a business owner.


I keep hearing from the Republicans and the Tea Party faction of that party that business owners need a tax cut. That in order to improve the economy, to create jobs that no tax increases are needed. Well, let me say as a business owner that they couldn't be any more incorrect. As a business owner I need customers. What good does it do me to decrease my taxes or even increase my taxes, without customers I don't have any revenue to pay taxes on. So, lower my taxes...raise my taxes, it's meaingless to me without paying customers.

This is why I have absolutely no use for the Republican Party or the faction within it called the Tea Party. They don't speak for me. They don't understand my issues. Basically, they are ignorant or completely immoral. Maybe both. It's obvious to a blind person that all the Republicans care about and cater to are the extremely wealthy. Those that have spent immense amounts of money to purchase politicians and a political party. They've done this to insure that they will be allowed to steal from THEIR customers and clients with impunity and have ready made lackeys to provide them a smooth road to taxpayers money, to implement laws to allow them to steal, and to have the tax payers pay the consequences (and to keep repeating how the victims are trhe culprits). They purchased a whole political party to insure that they would put a quick stop to any investigations into their practices, to dismantle any consumer safe-guards and regulations. They got their money's worth with the Republican Party. Listening to them would make you believe that the victims of the mortgage fraud put over by the lending institutions was the sole fault of the borrowers and the lenders were the victims. They paid the Republicans to keep drumming the same tune...that regulations created the financial crisis of 2008.

But as a business owner, what do I see needs to be done to help the economy? Jobs! People need jobs. Corporations that use jobs as punitive action against the society that wants to hold them accountable must be dealt with swiftly and firmly. As an example, the financial industry and the National Association of REALTORS® would have you believe that the Qualified Mortgage Rule (QMR) within the Dodd-Franks Act was directed at consumers. They want everyone to believe that the law would require the anyone buying a home to put down 20% in order to get a mortgage loan to buy a house. The truth is that the provision is directed at LENDERS and not consumers. It will require mortgage lenders trying to put together mortgage-backed security (you remember, those instruments that that got us into the financial crisis) could only sell them as "low-risk" if the mortgages in the package had 20% downpayments. Otherwise, the lending institutions couldn't sell them as "low-risk" and they had to retain a certain percentage ownership of them. Both of which is unacceptable to the financial industry. They want to be able to lie, do and say whatever they needed to to make a profit. And the other factor that was totally unacceptable was that they had to retain a percentage ownership fo the instruments. They don't want to own any portion of the junk they sell. They want to get rid of it as quickly and compeltely as possible.  So, they convince the National Association of REALTORS® to carry their water and convince their members that the Dodd-Franks Act targets their customers, or the financial industry will destroy whatever is left of the real estate market by requiring ALL loan applicants to come up with 20% downpayment. Blackmail has worked for them in the past...remember TARP?

Now, why is there no buyer confidence? Because there are no jobs; in that the financial industry is sitting on the money until they get what they want. Ability to lie and steal with impunity. They are not going to lend money out to anyone unitl they have what they want. No jobs...no prospect of jobs...the consumer doesn't want to get into a situation where they could end up on the street. Additonally, and less spoken about, is that consumers have seen the consequences of the last outcome from the financial industry's fraud...the lending institutions weren't prosecuted, they walked away with tons of tax payer money (they got TARP money and paid out record bonues), and the borrower ended up paying the consequences and being labelled as the perpetrator of the fraud instead of the being the victim. The Republicans and Tea Party faction want you believe this just like they want you to believe that people who are conned out of their money by unscrupulous home-improvement con-artists were the cause of the crime and not the victim.

Yes, to have the economy recover we needs jobs, lots of jobs. Jobs that pay decently and are secure. Not any that still puts stress on the employees that they may end up without one in a week, a month, or a year. The corproations need to be put under control. The other issue that consumers need to see is that the proper people pay for the consequences of their actions. The financial industry still needs to pay for their crimes and sins. Until this happens, consumers are not going to be that trusting of the marketplace. With jobs they may end up venturing cautiously out into the market...but there needs to be some safe-guards in place for them. And the financial industry and corporations will have none of that.

How is the eceonomy to recover? JOBS! Let's start there. Get people back to work. Redirect the money for the good of the public and not the good of the obscenely wealthy.

Why would anyone vote for them?

OK, so Rick Perry declared that he's running for President. A little while back Michele Backmann declared her candidacy for President. Now, why would anyone vote for them?

Rick Perry has been documented as saying that he wanted Texas to secede from the Union. This is a man that does not BELIEVE in the UNITED States of America. And now he's running for the highest elected office in the country. Why? He doesn't believe in it. What's the purpose? Was he lying then? Or is he lying now? If he gets elected, what does he plan
to do? Rip up the Constitution and dissolve the United States of America? Each State will then fend for itself? Each State would then create laws and regulations that would suit themselves and not the greater good. States that don't care about their citizens (would Texas fall into this category?) would be able to attract more businesses because of the lack of laws and regulations that protect the citizens. But then these same states would end up with critical labor shortgages because those citizens that could, would move to States that were more in-line with protecting their citizens. But where would the jobs be? What would Rick Perry's America look like? Would we end up with a theocratic nutcase running the country like the character representing the President in the movie "Escape from LA"? Why would anyone vote for someone who doesn't believe in democracy or in America?

Then there's Michele Bachmann. This is the candidate who is totally against a centralised government. This is the candidate who advocates against any kind of government program, except those that she and her family wish to take advantage of. We know what her standards are...everything for her and nothing for anyone else. What kind of America would we have under her? One where SHE decides who is worthy of getting a government program and who isn't? Remember, the Tea Party is
solidly based on hyprocracy. Just think back to the photos of the Tea Party demonstrators carrying signs that said "Keep Your Government Hands Off of My Medicare". OK, so maybe the Tea Party is solidly based on hypocracy AND stupidity. And Michele Bachmann is the leader of the Tea Party Caucus in the House. Hmmm. She's another one that doesn't believe in democracy, freedom, and liberty. Wasn't she the one that stated on national TV that Democrats were un-American and should be investigated because certain elected officials didn't agree with her ideas? Can you say...McCarthyism? She's against centralised government and the programs that go with it...except when it comes to her. She has collected more money from these programs then the normal US citizen, but she justifies it by saying that she deserves it.

Yes, Backmann's version of democracy...everything for her and nothing for anyone else, escept those that SHE decides are worthy.

So, again, why are they running for President? They don't beleive in democracy, in America. Liberty is just a word they use in their sound bites but really they don't understand what it actually means. I happen to agree with John Dean in his assessment of the current Republican Party. He wrote in his book, Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches, that the GOP views public office as a stepping stone to personal wealth. That's all it is. The fact that they have to deal with and cater a little to the public is just a small inconvenience. The Presidency to them is a position where they can help themselves by helping those who will increase their wealth. Be this the wealthiest 1% or the Top 1% of the corporations. These candidates want to sell off America to those that will benefit them most. Does anyone remember, during Baby Bush's administration, the outsourcing of America's and official's security to Blackwater? If not, then maybe they should read Jeremy Scahill's book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.

I think that they're running for President in order to acquire more wealth at the cost of the public good.

A case is never made - McCain just repeats GOP talking points.

The American Dream According to George Carlin

The late George Carlin tried to shake people up...to get them to take action. He's gone now, but his message still remains. What the GOP and the Tea Party cohorts did this past week was unconscionable and these video clips from some past Carlin dialogues explain why.

Chris Matthews shows how stupid the Tea Party really is.

Chris Matthews does an excellent job of demonstrating the limitations of the Tea Party.

Was It A Good Deal?

I don't know if the current deal in Congress that allowed the Debt Ceiling to be raised was a good deal or not.  I don't feel that it was, but everyone is applauding it.  But I do know that it was NOT a compromise.  During the weeks leading to this vote in the House, all I heard about was all of the concessions that the President was giving.  Nothing from the opposing side. 
What I saw was members of  the House of Representatives that are loyal to the Tea Party but members of the GOP basically held our economy hostage.  This may seem a bit harsh but I can't think of another way of putting it.  How is acting what would be considered a temper tantrum and threatening to destroy our countries credibility and economy anything but a hostage situation?  Another point I want to make....YOU DO NOT REPRESENT ME, MY VIEWS, MY BELIEFS, OR MY CONCERNS.  PERIOD.  I do not know of any DECENT people that share your views or beliefs. 

In this last round of "negotiations" (I use the term loosely because what it really was was a Tea Party temper tantrum) the Tea Party affiliated GOP members threatened to stop any legislation that would raise the debt ceiling.  They held our credit rating hostage.  The Democrats paid the ranson.  But what consequences do you think the Tea Partyu has paid? They got what they wanted. They control the GOP. I'm pissed because no one is standing up to them. Basically what happened was that we tanked the economy in order to save it. Does that make sense? I can't put my head around the whole situation about what happened. If the Tea Party wouldn't compromise on this...what makes anyone beleive that they will compromise in the future?

This is why I was concerned about the "negotiations" that resulted in the current "compromises". They feel empowered and they will repeat there actions as long as it gets them what they want. I raised 2 children and found that children will only use temper tantrums as long as they think they will work. Bullies will bully you as long as they know they can get away with it and there are no consequences. 

So, my question is this.  Are you one of those that elected a Tea Party affiliated representative?  Are you satisfied with your decision?  Did you want them to completely disregard democracy and become spoiled brats on your behalf?  If so, then don't be surprised when your neighbors start to reciprocate you with the same type of behavior towards you.  Uncompromising can work both ways.

Just Get Mad

I was deeply impressed and moved by the Special Comment broadcast on Monday, August 1st by Keith Olbermann on his nightly show, Countdown.  I have embedded the code to the video that was placed on his Countdown web site. 

I was mad BEFORE I saw the Special Comment.  I was mad when I first heard about the proposed deal forced on us by the Tea Party members of the GOP.  I was mad when I followed the developments over the supposed negotiations.  I was mad when I heard that this was a compromise.  But I will let you watch Keith Olbermann as he delivers his Special Comments. If the video doesn't load below, you can view it here.

Lautenberg Urges Colleagues to Vote Down Republican Budget

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Is the GOP Really America’s Domestic Enemy?

If anyone's been reading any of my posts on here, you'd have noticed a couple where I have compared the old National Socialist Party of German in the 1930's to the current Republikan Party (intentional spelling).  I have always loved history and consider myself a student of history.  Not as much the politicis because that is all BS and nothing more then an exercise in popularity contests and manipulation of the masses.  But the impact of actions and the different courses society takes.

Well, if you click on the link in the title of this post, you will be able to read an article by Eric L. Wattree regarding this very same comparison.  And he does a much better job then I ever could.  The interesting thing is that I know what he is referring to when he makes comments about what the Nazi's did.  It is actually documented in their archives and written up in the history books.  Read this article by Eric L. Wattree and then tell me if you don't agree with it...but make sure that you have supporting facts to back up your argument and not just the standard Republikan cliches and mantras.

The One-Percenters

This is a fabulous article by Roger Ebert.  I would never have thought that this kind of commentary would come from him.  After all, I always thought of him as just a movie critic.  Click on the link in this blog title and read his commentary completely.  He brings up the same points that I have in this blog...except that he does it better.  He keeps asking the same questions that I have raised -

1.  Why wasn't anyone charged with any crime for the financial crisis that we are going through? 
2.  Why aren't the Teabaggers angry and indignant toward those that actually caused the problems we are experiencing, instead of the victim?

The attitudes of the One-Percenters is not new.  That attitude has shown itself throughout history with previous One-Percenters.  And I have to say...it didn't work out so well for the historic One-Percenters - the Aristocracy of France and the last Tsar and his family in Russia.

The Danger of American Fascism

Click on the link in the title of this blog and read the article completely. After reading it, then tell me that it does not describe the current crop of Republikans, their Conservative supporters, and the Teabagger to a T.
I have stated before that the tactics used by the Republikans since Baby Bush was elected as President was right out of Hitler's Germany playbook. In the 1930's it was the Communists that were out to destroy the German way of life. Today, according it is the gays and minorities.
One must always remember -

Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It

And we are now repeating history.  But there are other aspects of history that the "aristocrats" of American should pay heed to.  Specifically, The French Revolution. Although the similarlities are not exact, there is an overwhelming connection between the aristocrats of that period in France and many of the politcal and industrial individual and classes today.

What's the worst thing the Koch brothers have done?

GOPers Demand Sean Duffy Salary Tape Be Pulled From The Internet

Click on the article title to read the details about how out of touch these Republikans are. Duffy can't live on $174,000???!?! So, I guess he's just as bad as those "welfare mothers" that he is so against helping because they have children that they can't support. Why did HE have so many children?

Jon Stewart Expalins the Republikan Candidates

There is nothing more I can add.

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Recall Momentum!

$117 million in tax breaks given to the corporations. And the Republicans expect the middle-class to pay for it. The Republicans should bone up on their history, especially the French Revolution.

More great news! They should be sued until they bleed.

And now they're crying how this will cause them financial hardship. Like I care. How about the financial hardship they caused others? How about the people and institutions that bought their garbage investments? They didn't care about the financial hardships they were causing, they just laughed uncontrollably while raking in the money.
They can use the billions and billions of dollars they made in profits. If they already distributed the profits...go and get it back. If it was spent, then have them sell off their possessions to come up with the money. That's what ordinary, normal people would be expected to do. Normal, ordinary people aren't allowed to get a "free ride". Only and rich and affluent seem to feel they are entitled to not have to pay consequences for their actions.
They should be sued until they bleed. Because they won't be prosecuted for their illegal actions. Click on this article's title to read the details on this action.

This is great news for shareholders

I am so happy to see that the SEC has upheld the shareholder request for these audits. It's about time that the corporations started to be held accountable to their shareholders and not just run by a very few elite corporate executives.

The True Conservative Agenda Revealed

This is an excellent article by Harvey Kaye that was posted on Newdeal20.org about how the governor of Maine has revealed the true agenda of the Republikan Party.

GASLAND Trailer 2010

Do you really believe that our elected officials and corporations are looking out for our best interest? They will NEVER put us ahead of their interests. They just lie to us to justify their actions.




GASLAND - (2010) Directed by Josh Fox. Winner of Special Jury Prize - Best US Documentary Feature - Sundance 2010. Screening at Cannes 2010.

It is happening all across America and now in Europe and Africa as well - rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from a multinational energy conglomerate wanting to lease their property. The Reason? In America, the company hopes to tap into a huge natural gas reservoir dubbed the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground—a hydraulic drilling process called fracking—and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.

But what comes out of the ground with that natural gas? How does it affect our air and drinking water? GASLAND is a powerful personal documentary that confronts these questions with spirit, strength, and a sense of humor. When filmmaker Josh Fox receives his cash offer in the mail, he travels across 32 states to meet other rural residents on the front lines of fracking. He discovers toxic streams, ruined aquifers, dying livestock, brutal illnesses, and kitchen sinks that burst into flame. He learns that all water is connected and perhaps some things are more valuable than money.

America's Sacred Cow - The Rich and Affluent

I'd be interested to know why it is permissible to attack, deprive, and otherwise demonize the middle-class worker but we cannot question, criticize, or indict the wealthy and affluent. On Wednesday, March 23 Ann Marie Buerkle, the Republican Congresswoman from New York stated that any criticism or attack on the wealthy is class warfare. “Why do we have class warfare?” she added. “Why do we want to punish the rich? They worked hard for their money.” What the middle-class doesn't work hard for their money? Is that why Republicans are in league with the big corporations to bust unions and repeal any worker's rights? Because they don't work hard for their money?

Chris Christie, The Fat Man from New Jersey, says that the problem in New Jersey is the benefits that the unionized state and municipal employees get. Not the fact that political favorites get more then their fair share of anything, at the cost of the taxpayers.

So, I want an answer. Why is it class warfare when the wealthy are criticized but not when the middle-class is? Why is it more important to deprive a worker a few pennies increase per hour then a few billion dollars to someone who already has multi-billions of dollars? Unions have to fight hard to get whatever concessions they win, no matter how measly they may be. Yet, the wealthy only sit on corporate boards and award themselves millions and billions of dollars in bonuses with just a stroke of a pen. But then they need the lowly worker to work that much harder to make up for the money that these "executives" pillage from the company. And the unions are an obstacle to get the workers to work under slave-labor conditions. The wealthy can't have that...so they want to get rid of the unions.

Chris Christie's Class War on AFSCME Pensioners

A Voice that is Sorely Missed

The real attitude of the Republican Party.

I just finished reading an article in the Syracuse online newspaper where representative Ann Marie Buerkle held a town hall meeting in Syracuse on Wednesday, March 23. The full article can be found here, but I want to summarize my take on what I read. One of the key questions asked Representative Buerkle was if she would consider raising taxes on the wealthy. She stated that she did not agree that raising taxes on the wealthy was the answer.

Her exact quote was “The middle class is being screwed,” she said. “But they’re not being hurt by the wealthy. They are being hurt by the federal government.” She went on to say “Why do we have class warfare?” she added. “Why do we want to punish the rich? They worked hard for their money.”

I find this very interesting that the Republicans are so out of touch today with anyone other than their Masters, the rich and affluent. Note her comment was that it's not the wealthy that have hurt the middle class but the federal government. I don't remember where the federal government was selling garbage investments to countries and bankrupting them, I don't remember that the federal government was going to people and fraudulently trying to sell them mortgages that were not in the borrower's best interest but they were in the mortgage company's best interest initially. So the Republicans make the federal government, which they are an integral part of, as being the "bad guy" when we know that the real bad guy in this financial meltdown are those same top 1% of the wealthy who have bought and paid for the politicians to enable them to steal from the middle class with impunity and with no fear of any consequences.

They have bought and paid for politicians like Anne-Marie Buerkle to go in front of people and spread misinformation so as to ensure that the normal average American focuses their attention in the wrong place. I have heard and I have seen and I have read were wealthy individuals like Warren Buffett state that the current tax is unfair. And he doesn't believe that it's unfair to his income level he believes that it's unfair to everybody else.

So what do we have here? We have a bought and paid for politician, Anne Marie Buerkle, the Republican representative from Onondaga County in New York State, who tells people that they should be worshiping and thanking the wealthy not condemning them for what they've done to bring us to the current financial situation. That is the federal government, who was basically stripped of all its regulatory and enforcement powers during the Reagan years, that allowed Wall Street, investment bankers, and the financial crooks to bring us to the point that were at right now.

The one thing that I do to ensure that I make decisions that are in my best interest is that I put very little weight on anything any politician tells me, I take the time to read for myself, to find out the facts for myself, and decide for myself what is in my best interest. As little weight as I put on what politicians say, I give what Republicans say absolutely no credence. They continuously demonstrate that their support and their interests lie with those that have bought and paid for them. They have absolutely no interest or feel no obligation toward the common American.

I wouldn't vote for a Republican if they were the only candidate on the ballot, which is what the GOP is striving for (to be the ONLY political party in America).  To really understand how the Conservative Republicans work and their methodology one only has to look to recent history.  Just a few decades back in Germany when the National Socialist Party kept spinning history and the news to misdirect the citizens to wrongfully blame all their problems on Communists, Jews, the mentally handicapped.  They wanted the citizens' attention anywhere other then looking at the activity of the Nationalist Socialist Party.  They didn't want their activity closely scrutinized.  They wanted the citizens' attention diverted elsewhere.  In this way, they could keep doing what they wanted to without anyone noticing.  And if they did get questioned or asked for an accounting, what did they do?  They attacked the accuser, the person or group questioning them.

Any of this sound familiar?  Any of this looks like the methods used by another political party in America?  The National Socialist Party use to tightly control who was allowed into their rallies and political functions.  Do you know of another political party in America that did, and still does, this? 

The National Socialist Party use to send out agitators to their opponent's political functions and rallies in order to disrupt the event.  Any of this sound familiar?  The National Socialist Party would forge and falsify documents and facts in order to put their opponents and the opponents' supporters in bad light with the German citizens.  Does any of this sound even remotely familiar with what is happening in a political party in America? 

The National Socialist Party in Germany spearheaded the burning of books and shutting down intelligent discourse.  In America, the key figures in the Republican Party have made being stupid, uneducated, and ignorant mainstream.  The National Socialist Party found that an ignorant and uneducated citizenry is more easily controlled.  Unfortunately, during the 1930's, many of the intelligent and educated Germans left the country.  We need to be on the look out for this kind of exodus in America. 

If you don't see this alarming parallel between the National Socialist Party of Germany of the 1930's and the present day Conservative Republican Party then you are either blind, dead, or exactly the type of person they want as a supporter of their Party -- essentially, terminally stupid.

Koch Brothers Exposed.

The Rich & Affluent Keep Pillaging the Rest of Us.

It is now proved that Gov Walker has sold out the people of Wisconsin. The Koch Brothers want theirs and everyone else be damned.

We wish you fond farewell, Keith. You will be missed.

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Keith Olbermann's Special Commentary on the Tucson Shootings

I don't care what anyone says, I firmly believe that all of the Ring-Wing Conservatives, Teabaggers, and silent GOP ploticians have contributed to this tragedy. But mostly, I lay the full blame for adding to the mind-warping propaganda on Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Glenn Beck, and Bill O'Reilly. Here is Keith Olbermann's special commentary about the shooting that took place in Tucson AZ this past weekend.

Wasserman Schultz and Weiner Destroy Michele Bachmann

Who buys a Lexus as a Christmas present?

Whenever I watch the Lexus commercial and I wonder who are the people that buy a Lexus as a Christmas present. If there are people who actually buy one as a Christmas present, do they buy it for themselves or do they buy it for someone else? Lastly, if they buy it as a present for someone else, do they just pay for the initial down payment and let the other person pay the monthly payments? Or do they also make the monthly payments? Or is this one of those spousal things? You know, where your spouse was going to get another car anyway and you wait until Christmas so it can be bought as a "present"?
And I also wonder, with the current economy as it is, what does the Lexus buyer do for a living and how secure do they feel in their job?

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The extortionists win.

Obama announces a tentative deal to extend the Bush tax cuts.

Those were the headlines alert I received today. I got interested and read the full article to find out what GOP was going to hold hostage to get what their masters wanted. The American people have to pay another very high price so that those that already paid for the Top 2% of the wealthiest in America undeserved initial tax cuts can get even a small amount of benefits compared to the Top 2%. Read the full article at http://usat.ly/hKJpBg

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Are the Oil Companies good?

Wow, I saw that the price of mid-grade gas for my car is now over $3 per gallon. And no one is screaming and yelling. No one is asking for any kind of investigation into price-gouging of price fixing. By God, the oil companies learned their lesson well, didn't they?

Instead of bumping the price of gasoline by dollars and risking the ire of the general public they just raised the prices by pennies...continuously. And no one complains.

As I posted before, they learned from the classic story of the frog. The frog analogy that I used previously. I predict that this time next year the price of gasoline will be over $4 a gallon and the profits the oil companies will post will be record-breakers...again. They will accumulate more money and wealth in order to purchase more politicians (such as Barton, who feels compelled to apologize to his master in public).

The oil companies need lots of money to bribe their political lackeys.

Bill Maher on Glenn Beck

Hold Obama to his promise

Remember when President Obama made his promise not to extend the Bush Tax Cuts for the wealthiest 2%? Well, write to The President and hold him to his promise.

98% IS a Majority

Open Letter To My Congressmen

The following is a letter that I just sent to my US Congressmen regarding the Bush Tax Cuts. 
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In this economy, extending the Bush Tax Cut to the Top 2% of the richest Americans at the cost of the average American borders on criminal negligence. 
It has become obvious that the Republicans do not care for anyone else's interests except for those Top 2% of the richest Americans.  What I want to know is on what side of the issue do YOU stand on?  Are you on the side of decency or will you side with those that will destroy and enslave the average American? 
What do you plan on doing to insure that the US Congress is not the paid lackey of the rich and powerful?  Or will you be more concerned about the ability to raise political funds?

Decent people want to know.
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I had sent the above letter using www.congress.org.  It seemed to be an easy and quick way for me to send my thoughts about certain issues to my elected officials.

John Shadegg is profoundly STUPID and the Republicans are CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT

I have yet to hear from anyone regarding my last challenge of how extending the Bush Tax Cuts to the Top 2% of the richest Americans and not extending unemployment benefits will help the economy.  Rep. John Shadegg gives his version on Morning Joe.

It has become OBVIOUS to anyone with a signle working brain cell that the Republicans no longer are interested in representing the citizens of the United States of America unless they are the richest 2%.  If you are not in this group, then you do not exist in their eyes and you may as well die.  But for not too many of you should die because you are what their rich master need steal money from.

The Stella Awards

It's time again for the annual "Stella Awards."  For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico , where she purchased coffee.  You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving.  Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right?  That's right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S.   You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head and say WTF.  So keep your head scratcher handy.
 

Here are the Stellas for the past year: 

  

*   SEVENTH PLACE   *  

Kathleen Robertson of Austin , Texas , was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store.  The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.

Start scratching!
 

* SIXTH PLACE   *  

Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California , won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.

Scratch some more...
 

* FIFTH PLACE *  

Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage.  Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open.  Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut.  Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental anguish.  Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish.  We should all have this kind of anguish.  Keep scratching .. There are more......

Double hand scratching after this one.....
 

* FOURTH PLACE *  

Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard.  Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.

Pick a new spot to scratch, you're getting a bald spot..
 

* THIRD PLACE *  

Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone.  The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.

Only two more so ease up on the scratching....
 

*SECOND PLACE*  

Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware , sued the owner of a night club in a  nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth.  Even though Ms.Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000 ..... oh, yeah, plus dental expenses.    

OK.  Here we go!!
 

* FIRST PLACE *  

This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was:  Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , who purchased new 32-foot Winnebago motor home.  On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich.  Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned.  Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set.  The Oklahoma jury awarded her -- are you sitting down? --- $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home.  Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home. 

Are we, as a society, getting more stupid ....

or are more members of Congress

serving on juries these days?

This is Why I Pay Very Little Attention To What I Hear From Corporations

Never, EVER Get In The Way of Corporations and Their Ill-Gotten Profits.

Never, EVER Get In The Way of Corporations and Their Ill-Gotten Profits. They will go to any lengths to protect their profits...even at the cost of YOUR life. 

Gas prices on an increase?

I just finished reading an article on the CourierOnline.com site about gas prices have been increasing. Even though the average price for a gallon of gas in New Jersey is less then the national average, it's still a $0.30+ per gallon increase from a year ago.
But you have to give the oil companies credit. They do learn from the past. How many people remember the gas shortages of the 70's? In those days the shortage was for gas under $1.00 per gallon. When the price of gas was allowed to stay above that price, by some miracle that gas shortage disappeared.
Now, we fast forward 30 years. The oil companies try the same ploy again by shoving the gas prices up near $4.00 per gallon. In some places in the US the price IS over $4.00. But the public didn't sheepishly accept the price increases. There were accusations of price fixing and price gouging. There were calls for state and federal government investigations (even by those hypocritical Teabaggers who want no government regulation of any industry). The oil companies have to back off with their price increases. Interesting how the price of gas dropped under the threat of government investigations. Hmm. Anyone remember how much in profits they posted every year? All I remember that they were obscene profits all the while they were crying poor-mouth.
So, what are they doing now? Now the oil companies increase prices slowly over a period of time. They use the frog analogy as their price increasing strategy. What's the frog analogy?
It goes something like this. If you drop a frog in a beaker of hot water, the frog will immediately react by jumping out. However, if you drop a frog into a beaker of room temperature water and slowly raise the water temp, the frog will sit contently until it is boiled to death. This latter example is what the oil companies' pricing strategy is based on. This is the method they will use to increasing take more money out of the consumers' pocket and put even more into their own.
What's the future have in store?
The oil companies will stay with this strategy because this keeps government investigations off their "backs" and allows the politicians, that the oil companies bought, to deflect the consumers' complaints. They will maintain the gas prices artificially high so that when the oil companies release alternative means of powering our cars and industry (which will validate the rumors that the oil companies have bought up, procured those patents and locked up), they can price them just below the current gas prices but still extremely artificially high. All to insure the obscene profits for the oil companies. Want an example of how the oil companies think? Just look at how they acted during the Gulf Oil Spill.

How accurate is Jim Cramer?

I've watched his TV show periodically. And I can tell you that I come away with the idea that Jim Cramer is load and very over-opinionated. All that aside, I've never been able to determine how accurate his "analysis" actually are. Is he able to sway the market with his comments and suggestions? I'd be curious to know. Because if I became an avid viewer of his show or a purchaser of his book, what would I actually learn?

Will Someone Please Get Those Companies Under Control

Saturday night we had a situation with our cable service.  Along with the cable TV, we have our phone service with the cable company and our Internet access.  Talk about putting all your eggs in one basket.  Fortunately, we don't have our cell phone service with the cable company.  So, our cable service is off and I use my cell phone to call the cable company to find out what is going on, if they are aware of the outage, if they are what kind of response time can we expect, etc.  Of course, I get an automated response.  Now, this is where things get annoying.  First of all, the automated voice message tells me that I can access support via their web site.  Well, I'm not going to be able to do so...everything is out.  So I wait for the message to finish.  Once it is done, what do I end up hearing?  I hear an advertisement for their new movie rental service they are offering and if I am interested I should press 1 otherwise keep waiting.  I keep waiting.  What do I hear next?  I hear another ANOTHER advertisement about ordering their sports package.  GEEEZZZ!!!  I'm told to press 1 if I am interested in ordering it or to keep waiting.  I keep waiting.  Over 4 minutes have gone by at this time and I have hey to hear any options that would be of direct help to me.  Finally, I start hearing the options about the type of problems I may be having.  Press 1 if I am having trouble with the cable TV, press 2 if I am having trouble with my phone, press 3 if I am having trouble with my Internet.  What??  No option if I am having trouble with all 3?!?  So, I have to pick one.  I chose 1. 

NOW I get a whole new set of options.  Press 1 if you have a blank screen, press 2 if you have a snowy screen, etc.  I'm brain has already gone on vacation.  So, I press 1.  Now the automated voice starts to tell me steps on troubleshooting my problem (i.e. make sure the cable box is plugged in, make sure the cables are connected properly, etc.).  We're now over 6 minutes into the call.  After the lengthy dissertation on telling me how I should trouble shoot my problem I get to hear another set of options...press 1 to repeat the instructions again or keep waiting to speak to a customer rep.  Wow!!  I MAY be able to speak to a real person and only after 6+ minutes.  Hey, we don't want to disturb any customer service reps or inconvenience them with a phone call.  After all, the amount of money we pay for our cable service (basic + premium + digital + High Def + Voice + Internet; remember, you can't get Hi-Def without getting every level below it) we have to put up with automated responses.  Now I finally get to talk to a rep and I tell her that all of my cable services are out and I wanted to know what the problem was and how long before it is resolved.  What kind of response do I get from the rep?  She asks me if my cable TV is on.  I tell her that everything is out.  She asks me about Voice.  Now I'm getting slightly annoyed.  I tell her in no uncertain terms and in a very calm voice that when I say all of my cable services are out, that's what they are...out, not working, nothing is displayed, no dial tone, no access to the Internet. 

After all of this she finally babbles a whole bunch of stuff at me that I can barely comprehend (i.e. ticket will be generated, etc.).  I repeatedly ask "What is the problem and when will it be fixed?"  FINALLY, she tells me that they are experiencing low signal strengths in my area and the engineers (engineers?? Real engineers??  People with real engineering degrees??) are working to correct the problem.  Once again (or is it for the third time) I ask how long before it is corrected.  She tells that it should be corrected in 30 to 45 minutes.  And that as soon as the problem is resolved I would be getting a call notifying me of that.

Really?  Well, that was over 4 hours ago that the problem was resolved and I never received a call or notification.  What a surprise.  My neighbor and I took a walk around the neighborhood and ran into the "engineer" who turned out to be a repair/installation technician. 

So, the whole point?  That customer service sucks in this country IF you can ever talk to a real person.  Corporations are so greedy for that almighty buck (trust me when I tell you that our cable bill is NOT in the double digits, it is in the triple digits) that they will put your though their automated response system in hopes that a) you buy more of their crap, or 2) you just go away and not inconvenience them by forcing them to spend any more money then they absolutely have to.  And if you are that much of a masochist as to hang on in hopes of connecting with a real person, you will more then likely end up talking to a dolt who gets paid minimum wage (after all, the high wages are reserved for the executives and managers that don't add any value to the operation) and just read scripted lines out of binder they are given. 

This is why I don't like calling any company about any problems.  This is their way of keeping those annoying calls to a minimum.

That's why I prefer to use PlanetFeedback.

The Hypocrisy of the Republicans

Did you about the one incoming House Republican freshman that  is already complaining that the affordable health care coverage he gets FOR FREE as a Member of Congress doesn't start soon enough for him?!  This is the candidate that the Teabaggers elected to congress.  This is the same Republican that defeated a moderate Democrat in large part over the health care law debate.  Republican Rep.-elect Andy Harris denies the stories that he threw a hissy-fit over a question about his new congressional health care coverage, that he'd have to wait a month for his federal health care coverage to kick in.   Awww, poor baby.  There other families in America that have no health insurance today, tomorrow, or in one month.  But he has to throw a tantrum over the fact that he has to wait a month.  Politico and other outlets described Republican Rep.-elect Andy Harris as throwing a bit of a hissy-fit earlier this week over this issue.  They received their information from multiple, independant sources who were at that same meeting as Andy Harris was. 

I think there are many other Republican health care hypocrites out there.  Don't you?  So, I signed a petition that asks whether House Republicans will stand by their words by refusing the tax-payer funded health care benefits they get before trying to repeal health care reform and make it harder for all Americans to get affordable coverage.  I want to hold the Republicans' feet to the fire by exposing all of the health care hypocrites in their ranks. So sign the petition, too.  Let's see how strong the Republican's principles really are.

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell

I watched and listened to Congressman Mica and now I know why I hate Republicans.

A great quote that is applicable today...especially after last Tuesday's elections.

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.-- Mark Twain

Camden NJ's Treasure House of History

A little Camden County NJ history.

Gov Christie takes on the school administrators. Is this for real?

OMG!! I think I agree with Christie. And he's NOT going after the teachers. Good thing I was sitting down when I saw this video.

New Jersey Legislators Take on the TSA

I tend to agree with this. Where is the line that shouldn't be crossed? What do you think?

GOP to jobless: Drop dead

Great article by Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post.

Mitch McConnell is an asshole.

Extend The Tax Cuts For The Super-Rich? What the f*&$ for??

I need some clarification here. I keep hearing the Republicans pushing for the extension of the Bush tax cuts for the Top 2% in the US.
Now, they keep saying that these tax cuts are needed for these people because they are then ones that create the jobs. Now, I hear this and I wonder…if they’ve gotten this tax cut since the Bush administration, why haven’t they created those jobs since THEN? What are they waiting for? Let me see if I understand this.

1. The Bush Tax Cuts were enacted in 2001 and 2003. At the least, they’ve been in affect for 7 years.
2. During that period of time more jobs were moved overseas then were created.

So, someone explain to me again why the Bush Tax Cuts should be extended. Is it because they worked so well in the past? Is it because of the million of jobs that were created in the past 7 years? Is it because those tax cuts facilitated an incredible increase to the standard of living to the rest of the population. Is it because they facilitated better health care coverage for everyone or even the less fortunate?

I really need to know that actual, real reason for extending these tax cuts.

On the other hand, don’t those same recipients of the Bush Tax Cuts the same ones that use and expect more of the country’s resources that they don’t want to pay for? And isn’t it true that these top earners don't spend as much of their income as lower earners?

Can someone explain to me how letting the tax cuts expire for those in the highest tax brackets would hurt small businesses? The tax cuts were in affect from at least 2003 and it didn’t seem to help small businesses. Again, can someone tell me how many private sector jobs were created compared to how many moved overseas? Someone explain to me why the tax cuts shouldn’t be allowed to expire that affect less than 2 percent of tax returns reporting small-business income that are filed by taxpayers in the top two income brackets (individuals earning more than about $170,000 a year and families earning more than about $210,000 a year). Explain to me how extending the tax cut helps the other 98%.

Can someone explain to me how making the Bush Tax Cuts permanent would lead to long-term growth? I’m trying to understand how this can be when making the tax cuts permanent would raise government debt? And wouldn’t higher government debt lead to higher interest rates? And we’ve had the Bush Tax Cuts since 2003 and weren’t the economic growth during that time an illusion as demonstrated by the financial collapse during the last couple of months of the Bush Administration? Now I remember being alive during that time and I don’t remember it the way the Republican Revisionists do. I remember Bush’s Treasury Secretary saying that the financial institutions were going to collapse unless the US government bailed them out. I also remember him presenting Congress with a 1 page proposal and stating that he could avert the financial disaster if they game him the $780 billion with no oversight and no questions asked.
So, again, why do the Bush Tax Cuts need to be extended for the Top 2% of the income household?

The only thing that makes ANY sense for extending the Bush Tax Cut for the Top 2% of the income household in America is that these are the same people who bought and paid for the Republican Party. I don’t understand why the Republican Party leadership just doesn’t stand up for their principles. Those principles being that they have an obligation to those that have paid them, given them money, promised them cushy, do-nothing jobs after they leave office. That they don’t care about the people that elected them to represent them in Congress.

The Republicans are being obstructionists...still.

Have you heard that the Republican leadership has pretty much shown their usually disrepect of The President. This aired on the Ed Show today. It's completely offensive that then Republicans will go to any length to not do their jobs and help the people that they are PAID to represent.

The Number Of Uninsured Has Risen

I just finished reading an article in the NY Times where they stated that according to a report put out by the CDC, that the number of people who do not have health insurance has risen. The same study showed that the increase was among those under 65 and who had an income that was 3 times the poverty level.

So, what does this mean? It means that the Teabaggers and Conservatives who opposed any health industry reform are basically ignorant of any facts and that they lied during their "discussion" about this issue.

One lie that this report dispels is that only the poor are uninsured. Half of the uninsured are over the poverty level.

The other lie from the Teabaggers and the Conservatives is that only healthy people are uninsured, that young people are healthy and make a choice not to be insured.

But in reality, the report showed that two of every of five people without insurance during the previous year had at least one chronic condition, like diabetes, hypertension or asthma, and were far more likely than insured people to go without care they needed.

So, Teabaggers, Conservatives, and Republicans what have you to say for yourselves? Some more of your lies have been exposed. How can you call yourselves Christians while actively working to deprive others of their basic needs? How do you expect us to tolerate you living among us decent and caring people? And how will you answer St Peter at the Pearly Gates when you are asked about how devote were you in helping your fellow man?

I live by the Golden Rule, Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You. What rule do you live by?

Jon Stewart Kept The Voters Away From The Polls

Recently I watched Rachel Maddow interview Jon Stewart. Just the previous week Bill Maher mentioned Jon Stewart and his recent rally in Washington DC where Jon Stewart drew comparisons between the Progressives and the Conservatives. Essentially, Stewart said that both sides were equally guilty of lying and using "Fear tactics", etc. This is what Bill Maher criticized Stewart for...saying that the Progressives were as bad as the Conservatives. This angered me as much as it angered Bill Maher that he commented on in his New Rules.

During the Rachel Maddow interview Stewart defended his statement and tried to justify it by citing comments made by Progressives about George W Bush. But what Stewart doesn't seem to realize or even take into account is that what Progressives say is essentially true. What the Conservatives have been saying are lies. Death Panels? Obama being a Muslim? Come on! Enough of this ass-kissing the Conservatives. Yes, I know that they are like the spoiled bully-boy on the block. If you don't do things their way, they are just as dangerous as that bully.

So, what was the whole purpose of Stewart's rally and subsequent interview? I think that Stewart wanted a "Chip in the Game". He repeatedly said that he wasn't a commentator but a satirist. OK. So, what was the point of your statement comparing the Progressives and the Conservatives? Were you meaning to be satirical? Because as far as I am concerned they are not equally to blame for the current situation. But then I am not Stewart's target viewers. You know who are? The 18-29 year olds. And do you know which voter age range stayed away from the polls this past election? Yep, the 18-29 year olds.

Now, could it be that they stayed away because they believed what Stewart said that both sides are mirror images of each other and there is no difference between them? That there's no point in voting because it wouldn't make a difference? I think that it's interesting that the post-election survey's show that Stewart's viewer demographic make-up seemed to be the same ones that stayed away from the polls.

You decide. But I also think that Stewart wanted to "play" in the game and maybe wanted to show that he has as much sway with his viewers as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck have with theirs.

Well, Teabaggers...You Got Your Wish

So, with a tremendous amount of glee and cheering, the Conservatives/Teabaggers got their wish. They wanted the people that enabled them to focus on their own wants at the cost of others, those that sold out the country for the personal gain of a very select number of people in the US, and the continuation of the social and moral principles of the United States to gain back control of the House of Representative. Well, whoopi for you.

Here's a news flash for you. You were conned! Well, I hope you all get everything you deserve and that the rest of us decent people in the country don't end up paying for it....AGAIN.

And finally, 2 things I want you Conservative/Teabaggers to remember -

1. When you actually see the truth of what you did...don't belly ache about it. Suck it up and take it for all of us. After all, you'll be to blame.


2. As that great American Forrest Gump once said, and this applies directly to the Conservative/Teabaggers, "Stupid is as stupid does".

I know deep down in my heart that because of the amount of social and moral principles you all have that there is a special place in Hell for you....and I wish all of you a very safe and swift trip there. :-)

One of the BEST Commentaries

I wanted to showcase this commentary made by Keith Olbermann on his show, Countdown. He aired this commentary on October 27th. Too bad that people didn't heed his warning. We now are going to have to wait and see what happens. I pray and hope that he is wrong, but I fear that he is not. This commentary is well worth the time to view in it's entirety.

Don't Let The Conservative Republicans Back In Control

I have an on-going nightmare...that the current crop of conservative Republicans got back in control of Congress. You remember them. Those are the ones that supported shredding the United States Constitution through fear and threats so that they could hold onto power and help their rich corporate masters gouge more money from the poor, uninformed, and less privileged then them. These are the same ones that are projecting their own agenda as being the Democrat's agenda. They're the ones telling everyone that the Democrats are ruining America and destroying the Constitution...when it has been the Republicans and their Corporate Master that have been doing that all along. The Democrats didn't create Gitmo, the Republicans did. Now we can't really shut it down because the Republicans use fear-mongering of the uncertainty of the future to keep it. Do you think that if the Democrats tried to pass a bill in Congress shutting down Gitmo that the Republicans wouldn't start trying to scare us into allowing them to keep shredding the Constitution? Below is something written by Pastor Martin Niemöller during the Nazi oppression of Germany, this is more applicable to Bush/Cheney and the Republicans then of any other person or party -

• First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
• Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
• Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
• Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out.

If the Republicans gain power again, they WILL complete what they started during the Bush/Cheney years and it will be too late for us decent people to stop it.

Don't like the Democrats? Fine. Don't vote for them. But for God's sake...DON'T VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN! They represent an oppressive government that allows for stealing from its citizens.