Obliviousness Is Not An Option
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2009's Most Oblivious Person in the World

2009's Most Oblivious Person(s) in the World are those people that think the behavior that collapsed the World's economy, is the solution as we go forward? Hunh?
It's never been more clear the stanglehold the Banks and Insurance Industries have on Congress. If these Giants aren't reeled in and regulated, the next Great Depression is right around the corner.
Reagonomics and Clintonomics caused all the economic problems that have crippled our economy. And yet, there are those (CNN and Fox News) that are still selling us the same old crap, and their audiences are dumb enough to buy it...unbelievable...Wolf and Campbell havn't got a clue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said that, "Foolish consistency is the Hobgoblin of little minds"

The Krusty Seal of Approval goes to CNN, Fox News, and their viewership who are willing to repeat the sins of the past because they can't see beyond the depths of the BS of their failed ideologies.  Little minds are just really stupid people, really stupid...the most Oblivous People in the World!

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Republican Hall of Shame 2010

Last Friday Obama went to the belly of the beast to debate the GOP on their home court in Baltimore and Fox News had to disrupt their coverage by injecting Fox News talking heads talking over the debate ... while Obama, without a teleprompter, embarrassed the GOP by having a better command of the facts.  Clearly transparency doesn't become the Republican Party. As this played out across televisions and computer monitors throughout the United States it became clearer and clearer that the Republican Party is unable to articulate their own positions?!    (Except of course, their standard talking points...yawn)
What's really sad is that the Republican Party now has a real contender in Scott Brown, who now appears to be a really decent and intelligent person. At what point does he buy into the insanity, or does he stand tall, and keep his ground? 

Will Sean, Rush, and Fox New's strategist Frank the Skank Putz contaminate Mr. Brown's soul?  They're already representing what Mr.Brown stands for without having ever really having talked with him. So far, there's not a problem with Mr. Brown having done everything imaginable during his successful campaign to even begin to identify himself with the Republican Party...hmmm,  wonder why?

And,  we can thank pee brain Samuel Alito for opening the floodgates to corporate money in American elections. Hugo Chavez is elated. How's that a good thing?  What was Alito thinking? His deeply flawed opinion will  allow corporations, including foreign entities to spend without limit, to influence U.S. elections. What's this mean? It means your vote means nothing, why vote now, it's all bought and sold before you even get near the voting booth.
Another partisan decision since the Supreme Court decided Bush vs. Gore. Now that Activist bloc of the Supreme Court has decided to intervene in ALL ELECTIONS there's even more reason NOT TO VOTE. Not since the horrific Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court in 1857 has the Supreme Court stooped so low.  


And, a perfect Buffoon....the end of Justice in the Supreme Court, and the end of Democracy...welcome to 1857

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Supreme Court Sells Democracy Down The River


U.S. Supreme Court ends restraints on spending by Corporations and Labor Unions. The Capitol's "For Sale" sign is going  NEON!
Free Speech for Corporations that can now buy, influence, or punish any Politician they choose! Including Foreign Corporations!  The Dred Scott Judicial decision of the Century. Talk about being on the wrong side of history? Alioto, what were you thinking?  Unbelievable!!!

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Fox New's Ten Commandments

Fox New's Ten Commandment
1.Ideology Trumps Facts
2.Ideology Trumps Science ...Climate Change is Democrat Creationism
3.Fair and Balance from a Republican perspective only
4.If the President Fails, even though America and Americans will Suffer,the Republicans Win
5.The 3 most important things Republican Politicians can do is: 1.Obstruct 2.Obstruct, and 3.Obstruct   If you know anything about Lobbyist their job is to have nothing change, to protect the "Status Quo", the Banks and Corporations ... thank you Activist Judges on the Supreme Court... wonder who wrote their ticket?
6.Play to the Far Right of the base by instilling fear and division where ever possible. Not all Republicans are Racist, but most Racist in America are Republicans ...no one herds the mindless Sheeple of this Country better than those Ruppert Murdoch has discharged to promote his Ideology.  Banks and Corporations first, and screw the middle class.
7.Although the Republicans were in charge during the collapse of our Economy, it's the Democrat's that are Responsible(?) ...when in doubt, blame. And, when the Economy begins to recover, claim responsibility.
8.Even though Tax Cuts and De-Regulation helped create the Economic Collapse, Tax Cuts and De-Regulation will restore the Economy, and return the Government to Fiscal Responsibility?  
9.Regardless of the truth, thou shalt lie till your flock of Sheeple believes it's true. 
10.The Religious Right is neither, but wrap every idea around the flag or Jesus, and "Bingo" you've sold more misinformation to the hateful, and cerebrally challenged. 
What would Jesus say if he watched Fox News?
"Change the channel, it's making me sick."  America use to be the strongest Creditor in the world, now it's the biggest Debtor.  Cheney said during his term that the deficit was of no consequence? Our position in the world, and our credibility is now being challenged by this mounting deficit brought on by the Republicans. And yet, to watch Fox News it's not their problem? Attack the Socialist President!
Where's Joe McCarthy when you need him? His spirit lives on Fox News 24/7!

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Robertson and Limbaugh's Deal With The Devil

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Move Your Money...Now!

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Republican Bob Barr Defends Obama

BOB BARR DEFENDS OBAMA

Yes — the not-so-bright, would-be terrorist from Nigeria got though international and domestic security mechanisms supposed to have stopped him long before the jerk lit his underwear afire before landing in Detroit. And yes — the incident happened during the administration of President Barack Obama. But the sniping at the president by Republicans, including former Vice President Cheney, and by conservative radio and TV commentators, borders on — if not passing into — asinine.

The criticism has included such childishness as blasting Obama for waiting a few days before making a national speech on the incident. For heaven’s sake, the president was briefed on the incident from the moment it occured; he made statements almost immediately indicating his concern and that he was being regularly briefed; he took time to gather the facts and meet with his national security team; and then he appeared publicly to give a rational, measured, but hard-hitting response. And for this, a former vice president criticizes him.

Partisanship truly has pervasively infected our political system when a reasonable, measured, factual, timely and substantive response by a president to a single security incident — the roots of which clearly indicate long-simmering problems that predated his tenure in office — is publicly blasted as irresponsible. In point of fact, those levelling such counterproductive attacks are the ones engaging in irresponsible behavior.

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Obliviousness is Not an Option



Obliviousness is not an option, unless of course you're watching Fox News.

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Shark Attack at Golden Gate Bridge


Led to believe that Dick Cheney was traveling over the Golden Gate Bridge upset this progressive liberal who had enough of the lying propaganda coming out of the Republican Party's various mouthpieces.

After the Bush/Cheney regime collapsed the American economy, making our County vulnerable to all kinds of threats, dithering Dick Cheney goes off on Obama for the Christmas terrorist wannabee.  The Republicans are so upset they're blaming the President?

Want to know what people in America are  really upset about? While the Republicans cry for accountability and heads to fly over the wannabee Christmas terrorist, most people are really angry about the economy.  Americans are pissed that Bush, Cheney, and Alan Greenspan had their heads up their asses so far, they had no idea the economy was going in the toilet.

OK Republicans, where's the outrage? Who should we hold accountable? You were minding the store, and let the insurance and banking industries take such risks they robbed everyone in this country of the American Dream, except the rich and so called privileged .

A weak economy and a huge national debt isn't making us any safer.  Anybody here want to connect the dots? Glen, Sean, and Rush don't seem able to deal with the facts, so why should you?

Someone(s) at AIG, the various CEOs and CFOs at the large banks, and the inept Securities and Exchange commission need to be arrested and join Bernie to rot away in some prison....but, since our government seems beholden to their lobbyist, the likelihood of any kind of Justice is most likely non-existent.

Any terrorist attack is of significance. But, so are the crooks (Banks and Insurance Companys) that took our country down.

Where's the accountability?  By not doing anything it appears we're rewarding bad behavior. And, it's business as usual on Wall Street...is anyone paying attention...anyone?

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Cheney Ignorant of Facts, Again!!!

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God Bless Ted Kennedy

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Beware of Glen Beck

The old South is rising, and many Republican's like Michael Steele are getting ready to raise the Confederate Flag behind Glen Beck, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News (White Culture/Hate Speech). Clearly not all Republicans are racist, but why is it also true that practically all racist in America are Republicans?

Do Not ignore Republicans pundits like Glenn Beck that thrive on exploiting this part of the Republican base...


What happened to the Republican Party? Prostitues for the Insurance/ Pharmecutical industries, and big business... and, absolutely brillant at getting their base to vote against their own best interest by resorting to racist/communist (socialism) scare tactics that's become the glue that's keeping what's left of this party together.

OBLIVIOUSNESS IS NOT AN OPTION ... 

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God Bless Howard Dean

God Bless Howard Dean, No One Else Is Standing Up For America, thank you Dr.Dean !

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Health Care Reform is DEAD

    December 13,2009 Fox New's Health insurance Industry's advocate, spokesperson, and Senator Joe LIEberman dictates to the Democrats in the Senate that the only Health Care Reform LIEberman will support is NO HEALTH CARE REFORM!
   No Public Option, no competition for the Health Insurance industries translates into betrayal to everyone that was led to believe there'd be REAL REFORM. Once again, Republicans, Fox News, and the Health Insurance industries have kicked the Democrat's ASS.  NO PUBLIC OPTION for a watered down health care reform bill that only benefits the Health Insurance industries.  The beginning of the end of the current Democratic majority in the House and Senate.
   Why doesn't Joe LIEberman have the balls to accept Rachael Maddows invitiation to go on her show? Because he's a lying sack of sh*t that can't be trusted while all the wimpy Democratic Senators act powerless around him.  Harry Reid acts like a plant for the Republican Party that's on LIeberman's short leash.
   If the Public has any kind of option it should be to KILL the current version of this Senate's Health Care Reform. A joke's a joke. Give it up. Without the Public Option all your doing is creating 30 million new clients for the Health Insurance industries that have no one to compete with.
   The millions of dollars, closer to a billion, the Health Care industries has spent campaigning and pouring huge amounts of money campaigning against any kind of reform has worked once again.

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Cerebrally Challenged Republicans

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My Space

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Dithering with Dick Cheney

No one dithers like the Dick.  Ditherer Dick Cheney tries to scare the brain dead Repubs by suggesting that the longer Obama waits to decide to increase  troops in Afghanistan that somehow the troops are more endangered? Hunh? Turns out Dick knew he's full of poop,because the earliest troops could be deployed would be 2010, no matter what.  Why the hysteria? Oh yeah, cause you took your eye off the ball in Afghanistan to focus on your war of choice, Iraq.  You dithered Dick, and now, our Country has to pay the price? Always trying to raise the terrorist color alert threat to make a point? 

As we begin to understand the mess we've found ourselves in in Afghanistan, the more we learn how W and the Dick we're so focused on Iraq that basically we wasted billions of dollars, time, and lives invested up till that point. How'd we end up back at square one?

When the Generals on the ground in Afghanistan asked W and Dick for more troops, W and the Dick ignored them. Why?

Listen to all the Republicans now tell Obama to listen to the Generals on the ground.  Where were they when troop increases were requested for Afghanistan during W and Dick's reign?

It cost taxpayers 1 MILLION DOLLARS for every year ONE SOLDIER that serves in Iraq or Afghanistan.  The economy is being held together by spit and duct tape.  What a Dick....

 

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Republican Purity Pledge Rolled Out

Reublican Gopher Uncle Tom Steele
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee identifies ten (10) key public policy positions for the 2010 election cycle, which the Republican National Committee expects its public officials and candidates to support:

(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like [President Barack] Obama's "stimulus" bill;  We created the deficit from a surplus, and by following the basic principles of "Reaganonomic" (tax cuts for the rich and deregulation) we created the worst economic melt down since the Great Depression!  This is not a recession, this is the Republican Party's 2nd Great Depression... if you remember your history, Republicans were the architects for the first Great Depression.  

(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare because we are beholden to the Health Insurance Industry, and their lobbyist.

(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation... polution is good..climate change is not based on real science (?) No reforms, no regulations, let's make things worse. If we can get away with promoting "Clean" Coal then we can sell anything. Cause, ain't nothin' clean about coal.

(4) We support workers' right to secret ballot by opposing card check.  Since we hate Unions, and are continually trying to eliminate them, we really don't support worker's rights unless they are workers trading derivatives, credit default swaps, and criminally hedging huge profits for the wealthy at the expense of honest hard working Americans.

(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;  Who doesn't, but this language isn't going to fix anything, it's a mess and this is another NO SOLUTION suggestion from Republicans.

(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;  Like we supported victory in Viet Nam. We're only in Iraq because we were mislead there under false circumstances which justifies nothing, and why - after 8 years - do we still have our head up our asses in Afghanistan....what the hell have we been doing there...8 years and nothing accomplished? Stop listening to the Generals whine about why they havn't accomplished anything... 8 years later and we're still at square one?  WAKE UP!

(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat. OK, something we can all agree on.

(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act...and god bless ya for not wanting equal rights for all Americans. The youth of America, the Republican Governor of California, and pretty much everyone else has figured out that same sex marriages are INEVITABLE somewhere in the future....keeping steering towards the hard right...we can really shrink this party.

(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and blah blah blah...we really don't care about health care reform...but, we had to come up with something? 

(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms at  Democratic Conventions, Democratic Events and wherever Obama may be speaking by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership; and be further RESOLVED, that a candidate who disagrees with three or more of the above stated policy position [sic] of the Republican National Committee, as identified by voting record, public statements and/or signed questionnaire of the candidate,or as identified by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, or Glen Beck shall not be eligible for financial support by the Republican National Committee.

The benefits of diminishing returns is a smaller, stupider, Republican Party.  God bless our elitist theocracy!

So, three strikes and you're out of the running for party funds. While some of the items on the list have broad enough appeal that many Democrats might find themselves agreeing with them, putting together seven out of 10 might indeed distinguish a conservative from a moderate or liberal. RNC members may vote on whether to formally adopt the resolution at a January meeting. 

We're hoping they do!!!

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Balloon Girl Goin' Rogue...the gift that keeps on Giving!

Taylor Jones/Caglecartoons.com
Rush and Sarah, the Gift that keeps on Giving....real conservatives are leaving the Republican party in droves...thanks!
22% of Americans are Republicans...and that number appears to be getting smaller...thanks!

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Dithering With Dick Cheney

Seen the latest copy of Time magazine?  It doesn't look good for ditherers W and Cheney ,and every  Republican in these United States of America.

From September 11th, 2001 through Katrina, up to the Economic Meltdown, W and Cheney did their best(?) to make things worse.

Katrina, and it's mishandling by the Bush Administration, has become a metaphor for how inept W and Cheney handled the wars in Irag and Afghanistan, and their total lack of understanding of economics - and hence - the Economic Meltdown. Bush, Cheney, and the Republican Congress Katrina-ed the wars and the economy. How's that a good thing?

Bush blamed "Bad Intelligence"  for misleading us into a war against "Weapons of Mass Destruction" when there never was any weapons to be found.  Bush, Cheney, and their neo-con Republican cohorts cherry picked the intelligence that has cost American lives, and now not only threatens our economic stability, but the worlds!

Are you upset with the economy? If you're not, you should be.  The fox raided the hen house and appears poised to do it again.... Looking for someone to blame? Try the Republican party...they created this mess and are unwilling to assume any responsibility...in fact, for their political survival they don't care what happens to the economy....if the Democrats fail, then they'll be the benefactors...who's bad for America right now...Republicans.

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America for Americans

The year is 1907, one hundred and 2 years ago. 

 

 Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

 

 'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

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Republicans Take Responsibility For Jobless Economy

Bloomberg News...Polls: Jobless Economy Blamed On Republicans

Remember the expression Elephants never forget?  Ironical that that's the symbol for the Republican Party. To hear them blame the economy on the new administration is their BIGGEST LIE, if you consider who was in charge when all hell broke loose. Doesn't anyone remember George W and Henry Paulsen bailing out the large banks and insurance companies?  Here, take billions of dollars with no strings attached???

Bill Clinton and the Democrats left a Budget Surplus when they left office. What did the Republicans leave? A huge mess that we're still trying to clean up...

The Republicans had no trouble bailing out their lobbyist's banks and insurance companies FRIENDS. But when American Car manufacturers needed help holy hell broke out from Republican Senators that had foreign car companies in their states.  When will the Republicans give Americans a break, not just the rich ones?

Yes, it does appear too ambitious to fix the economy and health care with a looming deficit created by those (W., Cheney, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh,Sean Hannity, and the seriously challenged Glenn Beck)  that kept claiming the "Fundamentals of the Economy are strong"  well after the collapse of the economy in the fall of 2008.  What were they thinking....

And now the biggest lie is being rolled out....the Republicans had nothing to do with all our economic woes...it's Obama's fault....

The Teabaggers and Birthers eat this up. They don't care who got us in this mess. They don't care if they vote against their own interest.  They just love "white culture" and the pundits that spew hate speech. But mostly, they love not having a clue....

The other day Rush said that Liberals hate him because he believes in God???  This line plays well in Stupidville. First it upsets stupid people, and secondarily - once they've bought the bait - anything Rush says next - they'll believe in...like Forest Gump use to say, "stupid is what stupid is."

Jesus may have been the biggest liberal to walk the planet....what God is this that Rush speaks of?  If you follow Rush's way of thinking Jesus and God support the banks, insurance companies, and Wall Streets exploitation of the poor and middle class.  When did Jesus become a Republican?

When you wrap the flag and religion around a political point of view, people seem unwilling to understand what context this is being created in.  It's such an easy formula that Fox News has tried to hijack the concept that they are the only fundementalist news channel on the air.

Rush, Sean,Bill,Glenn,Ann,Murdoch YOU LIE!!!

The Good News?  Republicans represent only 22% of our Country. Fox News has driven the Republican Party into irrelevance as the Republican Party looks for a leader while their membership continues to shrink.  I'm hoping Mitch McConnel or Eric Cantor becomes their spokesperson!!!   Happy Days are here again!!!





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Dwight Eisenhower Nailed It!!!


BEWARE OF THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX !!!
DWIGHT EISENHOWER, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT AND FIVE STAR GENERAL WARNS AMERICA !!! IS ANYONE LISTENING?

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Independents and Progressives Bail on Change We Thought We Could Believe In, Due to No Public Option

NO PUBLIC OPTION?  GOODBYE DEMOCRATS! PROGRESSIVES AND INDEPENDENTS READY TO BAIL AS DEMS CATER TO HEALTH INSURANCE LOBBYIST...

CHANGE WE CAN'T BELIEVE IN TURNS OUT TO BE THE REALITY....

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Anyone Having Trouble Realizing Who's Running The Show?

And guess who's propped up these giants...that's right, Republican and Democrat Lobbyist!!!
When do we get Lobbyist Transparency? Can't they wear Nascar type clothing with all their 
sponsor's labels/brand on their clothing? 
Over a billion dollars spent fighting banking regulations, and health insurance reform this year alone.
And no one at Fox News can make the connection...guess they're bought and paid for also.
No public option? Then no more progressives or independents who bought into the "Change we
can believe in" will believe jack sh*t from these liars...
No one kisses the Banking and Insurance Lobbyist ass like Republicans and Fox News (boo hoo
don't regulate the private sector that sent the economy into the toilet), but Dems are a close
second, that like to pretend their not beholden also...time for Nancy and Harry to take a hike.

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Get Out of Afghanistan

After 8 years the Bush Administration and the Generals "on the ground" have accomplished nothing in Afghanistan. The recent failed election has left us defending a corrupt government that is not supported by the populace?  There's no civil war like in Irag. As such, talk of a "surge", makes no sense at this time. 

The current highly questioned government wants an increase in American troops? And, the military industrial complex is only happy to comply.

What constitutes success in Afghanistan? How long will we be there? How long will this quagmire play out? We've lost the edge we had when we first invaded Afghanistan. We took our eyes off of Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban in Afghanistan when we invaded Iraq. And, now we're paying the price of the Bush Administration's decisions.  Republicans want to dump all the responsibility for  this mess on the new Administration. It's time to change course and get OUT !

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Republicans Come Out Against Flu Shots and H1N1 Vaccinations


NO LACK OF LEMMINGS HERE:

Rush Limbaugh, the Oxycotin Drugster, and Glen Beck come out against getting a Flu Shot and the H1N1 Vaccination!  Rush claims that he's never gotten a flu shot, and that he spoke to an Infectious Disease doctor recently, and now he recommends that no one get a flu shot?

So, if you're a Republican parent there's no need to get your children vaccinated....ah, what a relief. Thank you Rush and Glen!!! You're right, we can't trust our government...we can only trust you.

But why is the Republican Governor of California, and Tennesee MD and Republican Bill Frist saying that, "these guys are NUTS!"

That's so unfair.  If they were true Republicans they'd stand up for the far right fringe that's telling their party what to do.  If you're a Republican you know better than to question Rush, Sean, or Glen.  And, if you're children get a flu shot or the H1N1 vaccination you're not really a teabagger or birther are you....because if you did, that would mean you trust our government.

Crazy gets crazier....

The Republicans couldn't be happier that the Olympics won't be coming to American?! Has Republican patriotism become ANTI-AMERICA?  How does that help?

In hopes of getting some traction next election the Republicans are betting against America while the economy struggles to keep it's head above water.   Republican forces (Dick Army,the Insurance Industry,the Medical Industry, and the Military Industrial Complex) have all conspired against the current administration's efforts to repair the damage done, by tax cuts and de-regulation Republican policies, because if this administration fails...then guess who wins?


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The Big Kahuna

Albert Einstein said, "Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from Mediocre Minds."  Who knew?  Maybe Obama is the big Kahuna?  Look at the Far Right's behavior?  Unable to articulate a coherant argument Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, and Fox News (Mediocre Minds) resort to racism and Michael Steele does his 2.0 version of Uncle Tom.  Careful, lot of stupid violent people out there.

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Clint Reilly and Republican Meg Whitman

Here we go again. Meg Whitman, the latest in a long line of corporate chieftains promising to “run government like a business,” has formally announced her candidacy for California governor.

The conceit of America’s business elite is striking. Even after our entire financial system was nearly scuttled last year through the incompetence and greed of so many “brilliant” executives, they continue to peddle the myth that they are better qualified to run the country than anyone else.

Their attitude stems from the worn out “government/bad, private sector/good” argument. By this logic, we are supposed to believe that a billionaire CEO will run California better than a career civil servant or another qualified candidate.

Ronald Reagan crystallized the argument in his inaugural address, attacking government as America’s biggest problem. But Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman recently turned that mantra on its head, gently reminding us that during last year’s financial meltdown, business was the problem and government was the solution.

In the halls of power, business lobbyists love to contrast the mythological competence of corporate executives to the abject ignorance of elected politicians. They tout the private sector’s efficiency over the public sector’s profligate wastefulness. But the credibility of these clichés has been sorely eroded by the near-death experience of our free enterprise system.

Has Whitman unwittingly issued a promise that Sacramento will become even more dysfunctional than during the darkest days of the most recent budget meltdown?

Will her brochure claim the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy as a benchmark for the financial acumen she intends to bring to Sacramento?
Will her primetime TV spots call upon voters to remember the imminent collapse of the world’s biggest insurance company – AIG – before the federal government stepped in to rescue it?

Does the billionaire former CEO intend to send mailings reminding voters about corporate America’s multi-million dollar pay packages, which became universal symbols of greed and selfishness?

Or will Whitman’s speeches explain that last year’s trillion-dollar government bailout of big business is simply a model for what the private sector can do to breathe new life into a nearly bankrupt state government?

Come on Meg! Get real.

The widespread corruption and financial malfeasance that brought about last year’s crisis has sullied the collective reputation of corporate America. The “private sector knows best” adage simply no longer holds true.

But there is a more egregious fallacy at work in Whitman’s candidacy, the idea that corporate management and political leadership are the same thing.

Great leaders don’t wear green eye shades; they hire the people who do. And while watching the bottom line is an important skill, negotiating with the multiple factions in the public sector is far different than sending an executive edict to a corporate division head.

Corporations and the military have command structures and a strict hierarchy of authority. Democracy does not. Change depends on a leader’s ability to inspire, cajole and intimidate in an arena where almost no one is dependent on the leader for their livelihood and where a leader has no direct authority over an interest group or even a citizen.

In a democracy, the leader works for the people. In a corporation, the people work for the leader.

These are the attributes of successful political leadership:

First, leaders must have the charisma to marshal public opinion around an agenda. Second, they must be willing to confront the opposition without condemning their motives. Third, they must tirelessly court allies. Fourth, they must have insight into the motivations and constraints of opposition factions and their leaders. Fifth, they must be willing to fashion reasonable compromises in order to bring about incremental reform of a complex system.

Finally, a leader must be an active participant in the democracy. That means voting. Whitman’s failure to vote in elections throughout most of her adult life is bewildering, if not disqualifying.

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Klu Klux Klan Endorses Hannity, Limbaugh,Beck, and Fox News


Racism does not equal Patriotism
Death Panels are when your Insurance Company denies your coverage or rejects your claim:
Death Panels are the Insurance Industry, the status quo, why can't these White Racist get it?
Not all Republicans are racist, but all racist are Republicans, and that's upsetting to Michael Steele who doesn't have a black bone in his body....it's not easy being the Republican Party's Uncle Tom yes man to white supremacist in the far right media.

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Alan Grayson Humilates CNN Media Pundits


CNN reveals it's inability to get a handle on the real story and is humiliated  by a freshman Congressman that grew a pair ,and spoke truth to power, finally. 

The "Blue Dog" Democrats and Republican's obstructionist behavior is exposed as Representative Alan Grayson clearly spells out to the CNN Situation Room media pundits that the Republican party is not serving the United States of America's interest. And, CNN becomes irrelevant....

Does Ted Turner have anything to do with this?

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Republicans Outraged at Alan Grayson for Telling the Truth!

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Republican's Lie


Sean Hannity, "You Lie!"  .... relentlessly to your Southern White Cracker Teabaggers and Birthers. Sean's all about White Power, and the balance thereof which is RACISM!  WHITE POWER MIXED WITH THEIR OWN VERSION OF CHRISTIANITY THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS, unless of course Jesus was a RACIST! (?) Well, was he?

Over $350,000,000 (Three Hundred and Fifty Million Dollars (????) Has been spent by the Insurance Industry to defeat any kind of Health Care Reform which is really Health Insurance Industry reform. Guess who their spokespeople are?  The Far Right media and Congress. Blue Dog Democrats are Republicans, and that's the end of this story....while Americans suffer the consequences.

Alan Grayson grew a pair.  Anybody else willing to stand up for America, and Americans?  Let me give you a hint, you won't them watching Fox News....

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Partners in Crime: Security Exchange Commission and Wall Street

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Banks Stalling Economy Recovery

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Republican Pie Holes and Retards

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Racist Media Pundits Irate at being called Racist

A black man calls into Sean Hannity's radio show and articulates how comments by Sean are often racists.  Sean hangs up on the guy ,and is irate that anyone would call him a racist (especially a black person). Then Hannity rambles on in his own defense (he does a lot of that...).

Michael Steele recently came out and said that, "Martin Luther King would be ashamed of Barack Obama." I'm not making this up.

Fox News continues to polarize themselves from minorities.  And,  blacks will not be forgiving Joe Wilson and South Carolina anytime soon.  Blacks are now organizing to avoid any business with that state. With it's extensive racist history, and Confederate Flags flying in front of government buildings,  South Carolina prepares to self destruct in favor of hate speech. 

And the Grand Wizard himself, Mr. White Supremest Klu Klux Klan Limbaugh himself came up with this riddle, "What's the difference between God and Barack Obama?  Neither has a birth certificate!"  Limbaugh, you lie!

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The Continually Shrinking Republican Party

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Republican's Ultimate Shame

     Every time the Republican Party sits by quietly while Limbaugh, Hannity,Glen Beck and the rest of Fox News comes out and calls the anointed one a racist that hates white culture the Republican Congress cowers from challenging these comments as the real character of this party is revealed. Look what happened to Michael Steele and others that challenged Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck.  They eat their words the next day, then apologize to these artfully articulate spokespeople for the Insurance Industry.
     Sean's shameless.  He's acknowledged that he wants to protect these "Private Industries" that have taken America to the cleaners.  The best part of watching this are their legion of fans (Lemmings/low information voters) that actually need Health Insurance reforms go out and protest against their own best interest.  Big business won't be denied, and they've got henchmen on the cable news outlets that will say  anything to protect the very people that almost collapsed our economy.
     Who in the Republican Party has the balls to question these purveyors of hate speech when they come out and say the President is  prejudiced against white people, and "hates white culture?"  Apparently, NO ONE. 
     Republicans, you lie!  You have no leaders except for the media pundits you're intimidated by?  The President might not want to acknowledge the racist's efforts to marginalize any kind of Health Insurance reform, but there's not one black person or minority that doesn't see that the Republican Party does not want them included.
     Michael Steele, the Uncle Tom poster boy for the Republican Party is the biggest fool of all.  Reminiscent of Dave Chappel's blind black man that joined the Klu Klux Klan and didn't know he was black.  That's Michael Steele, the voice for southern white crackers, what a buffoon. Shameless...

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Wall Street's Risky Business Ignored By Congress

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The Crash, One Year Later

The crash, 1 year later 

Sunday, September 13, 2009

On Sept. 15, 2008, Lehman Bros. declared bankruptcy and the world economy plunged into a catastrophic crisis. The Great Panic of 2008 felled American banking titans and wiped out $14 trillion worth of Americans' wealth - all in a matter of weeks. It was the worst financial moment since the Great Depression.

One year later, what's changed? What's been the evolution on Wall Street and Main Street that could prevent another disaster? 

The sad answer is very little. The economic carnage from last year's collapse is far from over, especially for those of us on Main Street - a Federal Reserve official has estimated that the real unemployment rate is about 16 percent, and as of March, U.S. retirement accounts had lost about 40 percent of their value.

But the financial industry has been remarkably successful in its battle against increased regulation, and the phenomenon of banks being "too big to fail" has gotten worse, not better. If another financial panic were to hit right now, this country would be no better situated to cope than it was in September 2008.

Let's start with our overwhelming failure to pass sensible regulations over the course of the past year. Even before the crisis, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson admitted that the government didn't have the tools to prevent the disorderly collapse of an enormous financial institution.

Experts of all stripes admit that the financial wizardry of the last two decades has outpaced central bankers' ability to rein in excesses. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner suggested a possible legislative remedy back in March - allow the government to take over a failing firm before it kills others, and add a consumer-protection agency so that small and institutional investors can have some idea about what they're buying. So why didn't Congress, after making lots of noise, pass anything?

Part of the reason is because any new financial regulation will be complex, and it's a lot less sexy than overhauling the health care system. Congress doesn't know what to make of the infighting among federal regulators, either. These regulators, who failed so badly last year, have bridled at any attempt to hand over their power to new officials or agencies that might actually do their jobs.

And surely part of the reason is that the financial industry is dedicated to maintaining a gently regulated environment. Since November 2008, representatives of the industry have donated $6 million to members of Congress.

That's great news for them and bad news for us, because the "too big to fail" banks are only getting bigger. Thanks to acquisitions during the crisis, the banks that survived are larger and hungrier than ever.

Three banks alone - Wells Fargo & Co., JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America - each control more than 10 percent of the nation's deposits. (Ten percent used to be the regulatory cap, back when the federal government still remembered the impact of the Great Depression.) And the troubled Citigroup is so huge that federal regulators can't figure out how to shift it out of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. "Too big to fail and not strong enough to succeed is obviously no exit strategy at all," Elizabeth Warren, chairwoman of the congressional oversight panel for TARP, said in an interview last week. You don't say.

These bigger banks have returned to their old ways with a vengeance - paying outsized compensation packages to their employees and pushing exotic financial products that were widely blamed for the crisis, like credit swaps and collateralized debt obligations.

The newest and most exciting securitized products on Wall Street are life insurance policies that bankers hope to convince ill and elderly people to sell to them for cash. They'll package the policies into bonds and sell them to investors - who get paid more the earlier that people die.

If all of this sounds odious, that's because it is. We depended on our government to protect us from the kind of crisis that brought the world's economy to the cliff last year. It failed. But this second failure is less forgivable. Now we know what the dangers are, and still Congress and the White House won't act???! ! !

ONE TERM OBAMBA?  By Clint Reilly

As I watched the funeral mass of Senator Edward Kennedy on television, a strange but not entirely unrelated thought crossed my mind:

Is it possible that Barack Obama will be a one term president?

It was little more than a year ago that Kennedy issued a ringing endorsement of Obama’s improbable presidential campaign. Kennedy was struck by Obama’s ability to motivate young Americans and he believed that the young senator offered a chance to heal the political divisions that had been tearing the country apart.

Today, the Liberal Lion has been laid to rest and Obama now finds himself in exactly the kind of divisive political dogfights that defined Kennedy’s accomplished career.

The point seems clear: A message of unity and inspiration may have been good for a landslide victory in November and a few months of 70-percent approval ratings, but it probably won’t be strong enough to pass health care, energy and education reform.

At least that’s what the numbers are saying. Obama’s job approval rating now hovers at 50 percent and prognosticators are predicting double-digit Republican gains in next year’s midterm congressional elections.

To be fair, Obama has been victimized by an unfortunate chain of events.

First, he was forced to write a multi-trillion-dollar check to bail out banks, auto companies and insurance behemoths, and to save the economy from imminent collapse. Obama had to spend his hard won political capital to save America from the sins of George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and a generation of anti-government ideologues whose hands-off policies nearly precipitated another Great Depression.

Second, this ungodly expenditure of taxpayer money to save special interests from their self-inflicted wounds has angered Middle America and eroded Obama’s support among blue state independents.

Third, the huge deficits created to finance the bailouts have revived the credibility of conservative attacks on the profligacy of “Big Government,” as specious as they may be.

Fourth, Obama is facing a divisive national debate over health care reform. His lack of firm leadership and his wavering on a government-run insurance program has offended his liberal base and confounded the young idealists who invested their hopes and dreams in Obama during the campaign. More damaging, Obama’s lack of leadership has left a vacuum in the debate that has been exploited by right-wing demagogues intent on destroying the president’s agenda.

Finally, the war in Afghanistan threatens to ensnare Obama in the same contradictions that plagued George W. Bush: How do you measure success in Afghanistan? What is our exit strategy?

To confront these problems, Obama needs to discard vague appeals to hope, peace, post- partisanship and transformational change. He needs to take real positions and defend them.

Kennedy’s legacy offers Obama a valuable lesson in this regard. Born the year before Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office, Kennedy ended up becoming the most eloquent contemporary voice for New Deal liberalism. He was an uncompromising advocate for using government’s power to help people. During the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s he was the caricature Republicans conjured to paint a poisonous picture of government pandering to the poor and minorities at the expense of the white working class, middle class taxpayers and small businesses.

And yet he never altered his message or lowered his voice.

It would be too easy to say that Obama can triumph by emulating Kennedy’s fearless liberalism. He governs in a cautious era where voters are skeptical of both government and business. Progress is promised by technology, medicine and education – not government handouts. Money is tight. Jobs are scarce. The economic growth of nations like China challenges our own.

Still, President Obama must take real stands. Failure to do so and deliver on his promises could have grave implications for 2012. Does he have what it takes? The outcome of the health care battle will offer a big clue.

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The Banks and Insurance Industry are Back to Risky Business Practices


When you listen to Republican's complain about Washington bailing out the Auto Industry is anyone paying attention to how we got in this mess?  The Auto Industry, the Newspaper Industry, and just about every other industry in American is suffering because the banks and insurance industry's risky business practices almost collapsed our economy, and may be poised to so do so again!

GUESS WHAT?    The Banks and Insurance Industry are back to trading DERIVITIVES AND CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS!  NOW THEY'RE TAKING RISKS WITH TARP MONEY?  WHO'S MINDING THE STORE?  How can anyone consider investing in the Stock Market as long as the same sytem for gaming this system is still in place?

And, who continues to defend the Banks and Insurance industry? Oh yeah, Rush, Sean, and Glenn. Yeah, unfettered unregulated free markets are the answer, or it's the boogey man socialism...run lemmings run....

(Lemmings: Fox New's Low Information Viewers)

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The Republican's Lemming Lines Get Longer


September 12, 2009:     
       Dick Army, in conjunction with Fox News and the Health Insurance Industry sponsors a large turn out of Republican lemmings that appear very willing to vote against their own self interest, and are determined to not  understand the facts surrounding reforming the health insurance industry.  Under the guise that this is a "Grass Root" movement, Sean and Rush have become the spokespersons for the banks and insurance industry.  Low information voters are unable to discern fact from fiction, and allow their fears to define them.




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John McCain outs Joe Wilson and Sarah Palin as Liars on the Today Show

September 10, 2009:   On the Today Show this morning John McCain responded to Joe Wilson's outburst the night before when Joe Wilson called the President of the United States a liar, by confirming Joe Wilson did not have a clue what he was talking about. Then, when asked about Sarah Palin's "Death Panel's" also acknowledged that she did not have a clue either.

So, who's really lying?

Joe Wilson is history.  The Republican Party is hell bent on being obstructionist.  And, Voldemort has endorsed Rush, Sean, and Glenn.  Are Republican's inherently evil, anti-american, or just a bunch of lying losers? I wonder...

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The Festival of Ignorance Continues!!!

Republican Health Insurance shills such as the newly created U. S. Citizens Association will make up anything, say anything, and publish anything to ward off any kind of Health Insurance Reform. (see the example below)  These buffoons are trying to scare people into believing that Health Insurance Reform is Socialism?  The Republican "Lemmings" that buy into this kind of thinking are unable to grasp the basics in this debate, primarily that this isn't Health Care Reform, it's Health Insurance Reform.

The right's terror alert color code has morphed into scaring people into thinking that there's some communist plot behind Health Insurance Reform....Socialism!  Doesn't matter that we have  one of the worst Health Care Systems in the world, and that it's killing our economy.  What's really important for Republican obstructionist is to regain power they lost due to their own incompetence.
 
The U.S. Citizens Association refuses to acknowledge Reganonomics role in the collapse of our economy. And, it's not the fault of the Democrats, it's the fault of the Democrats and the Republicans.  The repeal of the Glass Steagall Act followed by the de-regulation of Wall Street created the problem, and both parties are responsible.  Anyone surprised?

The transparency issue is that at least the Republicans acknowledge they're a friend of "big business."  Primarily certain Banks, the Insurance Industry, the Medical and Pharmecutical Industries, and Wall Street.  The Democrats though don't want you to know how cozy they are with these same interest, and hence they're inability to get it together in regards to Health Insurance Reform. 

Spineless Democrats that run from their own shadows every time the right challenges Health Insurance Reform has become sickening.  Take a look at this "Paid Advertisement" from the far right.  It's almost unimaginable how stupid these people are, then you see a paid ad that looks like a newspaper healine like the one below, and it isn't unimaginable...people really are that STUPID!



Top Half of Health Insurance Industry Ad Produced by Health Insurance Reform obstructionist: U. S Citizens Association



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Fox News A "Festival Of Ignorance!"

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Lying Teabagger's and Mentally Challenged Birther's

     Outside a Maryland Town Hall authorities arrested a Fox New's Teabagger with a sign reading "Death to Obama, Death to Michelle And Her Two Stupid Kids."  One Congressman's office is defaced by a Swastika sprayed by another Fox New's Teabagger while other Teabaggers and Birthers heckle Congresspeople at Town Hall meetings and create videos and placards likening Barack Obama to Hitler.  Other teabaggers with guns are showing up anti-Obama protest, while Fox newsanchors applaud, and encourage this kind of behavior.

     A Fox Teabagger vandalized Congressman David Scott office by spray painting a swastika on a sign outside his office while other Fox Teabaggers brought military styled AR-15 type rifles to an anti-Obama rally in Phoenix.  Congressman David Scott's response to the Fox Teabagger's vandalism was, "We have to make sure that the symbol of the swastika does not win, that the racial hatred that's bubbling up does not win the debate." Rupert Murdoch must be sooooo proud.


John Diaz, "If Sarah Palin had any credibility left after her abrupt resignation as governor of Alaska for the sake of her family and to focus on "effecting positive change as a citizen without a title, " she exhausted it with her contemptuous assault on health care reform."

Sarah Palin, "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "Death Panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on subjective judgement of their level of productivity in society, whether they are worthy of health care.  Such as system is downright evil."  Even though this comment of hers has been exposed to reveal absolutely no basis in any kind of fact or reality Fox New's Teabaggers have embraced the lie while Rush Limbaugh continued to fan the embers of the "Death Panel and nut job Republican Representative Virginia Foxx suggested seniors might be "in a position of being put to Death by their government."


If you have a minimal degree of any kind of formal education you're probably getting sick of all these lies, lies,and more lies.  And, if you're a truly concerned Teabagger or Birther, and would like to have some idea of what you think your protesting against check out these websites that explain or debunk the perpetual BS. 

Anneburg Public Policy Center

Truth-o-Meter

It's not Health Care Reform, it's Health Insurance Reform!

When you don't want the Insurance industry to have any competition, rates and premiums will continue to do what they've been doing, skyrocketing through the roof!

So, if you don't want Health Insurance Reform, you're brain dead, gullible, and part of the incredible shrinking Republican Party's last stand for any kind of credibility while they defend to the death Big Business.

What's really funny is how Fox News defends it's miscreants while the Republican Party continues to loose it's footing.




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The "Double Dip: Banks and Insurance Industries Poised to Collapse Economy Again!

       It's business as usual for the banks and insurance industries. That's "Risky Business!"   While Rush, Sean, and Glenn continue to support unfettered, unregulated, free open markets, and shill for big business (the perfect storm that almost collapsed ours,and the world's economy), the banks and insurance industries are back trading derivitives and credit default swaps.

      Most economist believe that if we continue to allow the banks, the insurance companies, and the stock markets to operate unregulated we could be facing another market collapse. The "Double Dip"   So, if you ignore history,and you're doomed to repeat it....who's minding the store?

     When will the media and congress openly discuss the Glass-Steagall act, and how it's repeal in 1999, set the stage for the ensuing economic nightmare foisted on the public by irresponsible investing behavior by big business?  When, probably never, since many existing members of congress (Democrats and Republicans) signed onto the repeal in 1999.  If you don't think congress is beholden to bank and insurance lobbyist that spent over 20 years lobbying congress to repeal the Glass-Steagall act, then you are Oblivious.  And, obliviousness is not an option.


History of the GlassSteagall Act    

***********    Obliviousness, is not an Option   ***********

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Republican Pie Holes and the Face of Stupidity

Republicans reach new lows. Ever wonder what someone that watches Fox News,
and listen's to Rush Limbaugh looks like?




Since Republicans have given up on rational and logical discourse, which understandably is what obstructionist resort to , check out this woman that doesn't even realize she's humiliated herself on National television. The face of stupidity has become the face of teabagging health dissenters that don't even begin to have a clue what they're talking about.


Recently Sean Hannity came out on his radio show and said he believed in Jesus followed by an applause sound bite? I'm confused, was he talking about the Jesus, as in Christ?  How can you be a shill for the Insurance industries, and say you believe in Jesus in the same breath?  The insurance and banking industries don't give a crap about the the poor and the uninsured, and they sure don't give a damn about the unemployed and smaller banks and insurance companies.  Is this Jesus that Sean talks about a lobbyist for the banking and insurance industries?

Thou shall not lie Sean...and please, take your theocratic politics to Iran where they allow that kind of thing.... what part of our founding father's concept of separation of church and state don't you understand?

And please, stop giving Jesus a bad name....anyways, you're forgiven....

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Disorganized Whining Democrats and Perpetually Whining Republican Liars



Stupidity is ok, but  pride in stupidity is disconcerting when people who are proud to be stupid get organized around ideas spoon fed to them by their demagogues (Rush, Sean, and the severely retarded Glen Beck).  Democratic leaders (and yes, that is an oxymoron) were blindside when Republican health care dissenters started showing up at town hall meetings conducted by members of congress visiting their districts. The Democrats are upset that, "they're organized!"  Then get organized, and be prepared !  What don't you get here?
 
Thank the yellow belly  "blue dog" Dems for cowering every time Rush and Fox News spews out more lies about health care reform.

What's really entertaining about this is that these protest are being sponsored by the lobbyist and health care related industries that are threatened by any kind of health care reform.  Me thinks the retards protest too much. They're shilling for the very people who've been taking advantage of them for years?!  The Rush and Fox News Disciples are willing to do the dirty work for the Lobbyist and Corporations that historically have demonstrated they don't give a rats ass about these people.  They're just tools for insurance lobbyist to manipulate perceptions.

Why are they retarded?  Because at the end of the day all they've done is shot themselves in the foot. In all likelihood, if they're successful in their protest, and there's no health reform, they'll  be crying blooding murder when they try to figure out what happened to their health insurance and why their premiums continue to skyrocket.  Retards, because it's business as usual.  The system is broken. Rush, Sean's, and the deliriously retarded Glen Beck are mouthpieces for keeping things the way they are...and once more, they're dead wrong.

Beautifully RS&B (Rush, Sean, and Beck) have these dissenters running interference for these powerful lobbyist that represent the Insurance, Medical, and Pharmaceutical companies. You think the banking industry has our country by the balls (and they do), then continue to watch how the insurance industry protects it's interest's here as RS&B run around screaming the sky is falling.

If you think this is a "Grassroot" campaign , then get in line with the rest of the clueless lemmings...

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Recall Your Congress Person


The problem Obama is having with the Democrats in congress is the same problem Michael Jordan had when he played with players of a significantly lower caliber of play than his.  Nancy and Harry aren't helping, and apparently have their own agenda.   And, the idiots on the right are "swiftboating" lies of unbelievable magnitude about Health Care Reform through their Fox News filter, and their low information viewers are buying it.  And once again, the American public is getting what Governor Sanford gets when he visits his mistress in South America....SCREWED.

Can you imagine how great this country would be if Fox News had one iota of true blue patriotism? Instead of this get the President by any means (usually dishonesty) possible.  Racism and arrogance appear to be what's keeping what's left of  the Republican party together.   So Fox News, Rush, Sean, Lou (CNN),and Glen can continue to speak for the Banking industry Lobbyist, Corporate Medical Lobbyist, Corporate Pharmeceutical Lobbyist, and the Insurance Industy Lobbyist while Democrats in Congress run around with their tail between their legs... because most of them are beholden to these lobbyist also.

The solution:  Have everyone in Congress dress like Nascar Drivers. But instead of putting their sponsors logo on their clothing they can put the logos of the Lobbyist their indebted to.  How's that for transparency?

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Birther Wacko Nut Jobs

Republicans reach out to "Low Information" voters one more time.  The Republican party continues to shrink as more and more people are turned off by the Glen Becks that define the Republican party.  Clearly  Mr. Beck has more than one loose screw.  Is this some medical condition that Mr. Beck is suffering from that's playing out on TVs across the world?  Who would sponsor this kind of buffoonery?  When I find out, I will not be buying that product (or products) anymore...



 

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Fox New's Glen Beck's Racist Attack on Black Americans

Everyone knows that not all Republicans are racist. But everyone also knows that all white racist in America are Republicans. That's why when Fox News spews more racist hate commentary, that part of the Republican party is enthused and overjoyed that they have a voice in the mainstream media.  Yes, Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh are racist.  Sean Hannity didn't understand how a black caller on his radio show thought he was a racist, so he hung up on the guy. Just  because Uncle Tom Michael Steele is afraid to speak up for his own race, and cowers whenever Rush opens his mouth, doesn't mean Rush has a clue.

If you support racism in America continue to watch Fox News. And, if you don't, it's time to stop buying the products advertised on Fox News.  Patriotic Americans are calling for the boycott of Fox News advertisers as long as Fox News continues to create a forum for Glen Beck.  United we stand, divided we fall.  It's time for Fox News to pay the price for continually trying to divide our country.

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Seal of Approval

The Oblivious Blog is very proud to announce that it is not the recent recipient of the coveted
Krusty the Clown Seal of Approval!
                                     

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Self Annointed Political and Economic Messiahs

April 21, 2009: TMZ reports on Sean Hannity's latest hairdo disaster while Fox News and Rush Limbaugh continue to undermine any attempts to repair the economic disaster brought on by the Republican Party.  Did you forget to attend the tea-bagging? A lot of people did, or just didn't buy into the stupidity of it all.
As you can see elsewhere on this site Fox News, and in particular Sean Hannity ,missed the coming of the economic collapse well after the stock market tanked and claimed that the country's economic fundamentals were still strong?  None the less, Sean and Rush are still pushing tax cuts and de-regulations in a supposed free-market enviroment.  Somehow no one at Fox News figured out that when Alan Greenspan said that the free-markets would self regulate themselves, he was clueless. Or, are Sean and Rush, unable to make the Reaganomics connection here?

As self anointed political and economic messiahs Sean and Rush defend torture (and Dick Cheney) claiming that these tactics have worked since there have been no attacks on our country...well, as long as you ignore the fact that we were attacked on their watch.  Sean Hannity claims that Los Angeles was saved by torture. That if we had not tortured there might not be a Los Angeles!  Anyone catching the fear mongering drift here?  If Rush and Sean aren't scaring you, their not doing their job. 

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Newt Gingrich aka Chicken Little


Republican crybaby syndrome reaches zenith as Newt Gingrich goes on the Today Show and blubbers that the sky is falling. That everything that Obama and the Democrats are doing are undermining our country's security.  Boo hoo.

But, true to Republican politics of fear mongering Newt does his best to whine about everything including his own irrelevancy, and why the Republican party has no new ideas until Rush comes up with them.

Then, Newt's buddy and Fox News spokesperson Dick Cheney goes on Hannity and explains why torture is a good thing.  Thank goodness we have Fox News to distort and decide.  Good thing they created and sponsored the "Teabagging Event!"  Now that's a real grass root movement. From the top down to the people that almost attended this event.

Is Glen Beck in therapy?  Who are the sponsors on that show? I'm not buying what he has to say, or what they're trying to sell. Now there's a grass root movement people can get behind!

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Fox Sponsored Grass Roots

Glen Beck continues to undermine the Republican Party. The gift that keeps on giving...  The Fox "TeaBagging" phony grass roots non-movement sponsored by Fox and Dick Army.  Thank God the Republicans have no shame, or conscience...

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Republican Strategies For Success

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FIX IT!


History vs. Bill Clinton

Deregulation Reagonomics, and the beginning of our Country's economic melt down/ the second Great Depression. 

Bill Clinton (with Alan Greenspan appreciatively looking on) signing the repeal of the Glass Steagall Act/Banking Bill of 1933. Huge mistake!  (No one in this picture is innocent. Big problem is if we look into this piece of history a lot of current Senators and Congressmen that voted for this repeal, at their lobbyist (banking and insurance industries) request, are hoping this can be swept under the carpet.

The bill that ultimately repealed the Glass-Steagall was introduced by Republican Phil Gramm. The bill was passed along Republican majorities along party lines: 54-44 in the Senate and 343-86 in the House.  The Republicans final bipartisan bill had a large enough majority to override a Presidential veto, so this new legislation was signed into law by Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999.

The Banking Industry had been seeking to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act since the 1980s.

The repeal enabled commercial lenders such as Citigroup to underwrite and trade mortgage back securities and collateralized debt obligations, and structured investment vehicles (SIVs) that bought those securities. Even though SIVs existed before the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act,  Most economist today see the repeal of this Act as the cause for our current economic problems.

WANT TO HELP THE STOCK MARKET? IT'S BEGGING TO BE REGULATED!  FIX IT!  NO ONE IS GOING NEAR THIS DISASTER UNTIL IT'S FIXED.  FIX IT!


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Michael Steele Apoligizes To Rush Limbaugh?


Michael Steele apoligizes to Rush Limbaugh ,and Limbaugh becomes the spokesperson for the Republican Party making RNC Chairman Steele look like a complete idiot.
For Salon.com's take click: Head of RNC calls Limbaugh an "Entertainer" and not spokesperson for Republican Party

The Republican party continues to self implode, and Rush Limbaugh takes center stage.  As the  ultimate obstructionist Limbaugh movement to cripple the economy's recovery by imposing his Republican ideology never takes into account that Limbaugh and the Republicans got us into this mess. Amazingly, they want you to believe they have the answers. They don't.  Their answers are what created this problem.  Do you want more of the same?  That's all they're offering...

These obstructionist are the greatest threat to repairing the damage they've done.  They're betting against America. These  homegrown economic Terrorist pose the greatest threat to our country's safety right now.  They can wrap themselves in as many flag pins as they like, but betting against America will prove to be their greatest mistake.

UPDATE MARCH 4, 2009:  Michael Steele goes on the Today Show and tells Matt Lauer he has "no personal opinions" (?) about having to apoligize to Limbaugh and infers Limbaugh is a "sideshow" distractions...hah!  While Limbaugh's continues to drive down the Republican polling numbers  that show that not only are people sick of the Republican Party (including many one time Republicans), they're really sick of Limbaugh.  Keep up the good work Rush!

Rush wants Obama to fail.  Curiously, if Obama fails...America loses...how's that good?

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Clint Reilly, The Cure

Excerpts from Clint Reilly's article: The Cure
 
     Nationalize bankrupt banks? Hell, let's nationalize our bankrupt health care system. We are the sole industrialized nation without health coverage?  How does that make sense while American taxpayers are bailing out the financial system, the auto industry, and are being called upon to rescue free market capitalism from the abyss?

     Our employer-based health care model is as bankrupt as Detroit's auto industry - which ironically was laid low by skyrocketing health insurance premiums.

     A patented attack on "Socialized Medicine" has been the insurance industry's nuclear weapon in the long war to resist universal health care.  For two decades, they have argued that the same industry that spawned AIG (which required a $150 Billion taxpayer bailout) is better equiped to manage health care than the U.S. Government?

     The World Health Organization ranks France's health care system the best in the world.  The United States is rated an embarrassing 37th!

     Have you grown weary of the private sector's unanswered public relations war on government?  Is our Federal Government perfect? Oh course not.  But neither is it the corrupt and incompetent caricature portrayed in ads resisting oversight and regulations by utilities, banks, developers, insurance companies, and yes - Republicans.

     The demonization seems increasingly hypocritical afater these same corporate titans and their political allies have squandered so much of our national treasure.

     Who would you trust to manage America's health care?  Insurance companies like AIG or the people's government?

     The real question is: do you think access to health care is a right or a privilege?  Who could say to any person who was sick that health care is not a human right?  Only an Insurance Company (or a Republican).

For the whole article by Clint Reilly:  The Cure

 

 

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Bobby Jindal , just another partisan Republican Political Hack

    It's great to finally see a little color within the Republican party.  Michael Steele and Bobby Jindal seem like Republican oxymoron's though. How could a person of color support this party?
    Jindal is perceived by the Republican party to be one of their up and coming stars, and a possible Presidential candidate in 2012. Yet this 37 year old Rhodes scholar, that appeared Tuesday night after President Obama's speech to Congress, is drawing flak from both Democrats and Republicans.  
    The Louisiana Governor, that took billions of dollars of help from our government to help the victims of Katrina (a real Republican disaster!) came out and criticized any kind of government spending for the emercency economic relief?  He even suggested his State would not accept monies to extend unemployment benefits? 

     His comment sTuesday night has been widely panned, and Jindal's awkward delivery has drawn comparison of him to the geeky page, Kenneth Parcell, on "30 Rock."
     Conservative David Brooks called Jindal's arguments as "insane" and "tone-deaf given the challenges facing our country!"  Apparently the same old Republican rhetoric has worn thin even amoung die hard Republicans.  Sorry, Rush and Sean.


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What Tax Cuts Cannot Do

     While the economy continues to free fall Republicans are still pushing for tax cuts?  While States, Counties, and local government cut back on essential services such as Police, Fireman, and other Emergency Services severe cuts are being made throughout our Country's schools. How can tax cuts help at this time?

1.Tax cuts cannot provide Police protection
2.Tax cuts cannot provide a Fire Department
3.Tax cuts cannot build a road
4.Tax cuts cannot provide Social Secuity and Medicare
5.Tax cuts cannot provide for the disabled and other vulnerable members of our society
6.Tax cuts cannot create City Parks or preserve areas of our Country's natural beauty
7.Tax cuts cannot build or fund schools or hospitals
...and the list goes on.

      We need to re-frame the word taxes to take away the negative connotations Republicans would have us believe .  Taxes are the dues we need to pay to live in a civilized society, one that does not feed selfish greed but cares for our children's future, for the less fortunate, and for the common good.
      If you're better off today than you were 4 years ago (or even 8 years ago) continue listening to the Oxycotin poster child.  If not, then you might want to re-think this anti-Jesus mouthpiece's rants against the poor.  If being a ditto-head means that you believe, as Mr. Oxycotin has said, "the poor are  losers!" then it might be time to actually read the New Testament.

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The Incredible Shrinking Republican Party

The Incredible Shrinking Republican Party or Remember the Republican Lemmings?

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Music and Cartoons for Today's Times....Keep on Smilin'

Music and Images for Today's Times
Keep On Smilin' by Wet Willie
and, some of the best Political Cartoons!

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Republican Hall of Shame 2009

     The House Republicans/Obstructionist have bet the farm that following the economic policies of the last 8 years will somehow redeem their party?  More tax cuts, less government spending, and no regulation/oversight of our financial institutions is the answer. You think someone might have asked the question,"how did we get in this mess?"
     If Obama's administration starts getting "traction" with the new stimulus plan in the next year or two, this may be the beginning of the Republican party's "deathwatch."
     The Republican party seems lost right now.  Reagonomics helped get us into this mess, and most Republicans are in denial to that reality.  The Republican party doesn't seem to understand why so many red states turned blue, and in what few states they did win, how minimal those margins of victory were. 
     Republican pundits Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have become naysayers for anything the Obama administration attempts to do.   Their anger and frustration has a Jim Crow quality to it.  They keep calling Barack the "Messiah" or the "anointed one" and are forever bringing up Obama's past relationships with the Reverend Wright and former radical Bill Ayer's.  That's funny coming from a convicted narcotics felon and self professed (Hannity) "do as I say, not as I did growing up" hypocrite.  Hannity tries to malign Obama with guilt by association of people from his distant past, yet in Sean's autobiography, his past reflects highly questionable behavior that even Hannity says that he tells kids not to do what he did...?
Jim Crow Then


Jim Crow today: Rush and Sean



Jim Crow:  "Racist characterizations of black people as culturally, personally, and biologically inferior." 

New York Post Republican Right Wing Racist Cartoon (February 17, 2009)
Nobel Prise winning Economist Paul Krugman has demonstrated scientifically and without any doubt that TAX CUTS DO NOT STIMULATE THE ECONOMY. He's confused why the Republicans would continue to push discredited policies such as Tax Cuts and De-regulation? Especially after so many AMERICANS, in the last election had voted against these kind of policies?

It's sad to watch Sean and Rush sink so deeply into denial.  Their  hero Ronnie Reagan was dead wrong when it came to Reagonomics which is now crippling our economy.   Will Republicans come to their senses and try to help America? Or, keep pushing for the same discredited Tax Cuts and De-regulations that got us into this mess?

Problem with the Republicans in the Senate is that if Obama's stimulus plan works....they lose.  I guess they can't get past partisan politics, or they could be actually helping our Country?  What a shame!  Nancy Pelosi isn't helping either....

Republican Obstructionist Ringleaders:

  John Boehner:  (Boner is pronounce Banner?) Just another Republican doing his job.  No new ideas.  Just more tax cuts for the rich.  Funny thing is where was the trickling down the last 8 years?  Never happened.

Lindsey Graham "The Stimulus Package Stinks, it's really a spending package" says Lindsey Crybaby Graham  Ahh, duh, of course it's a spending package.  Until the government stimulates the economy we will continue to be victimized as a country by the tax cut and deregulate Republicans that got us into this mess.  Worried about the debt Lindsey? You should of thought about that before you decided to finance an illegal war that drove our country into financial ruins.  C'mon, how about a little accountability for your actions before whining on the Senate floor...cause you know what the "stink" is Lindsey.  It's you ,and your buddies trying to gut the middle class. 

 Newt Gingrich  February 6th, 2009 Newt plays Matt Lauer for a fool on the Today Show promoting his new book that came out  basically DOA.   Newt's book is title: Ronald Reagan - Rendevous With Destiny. It's a yawner. Curiously  Reagonomics and our country's Economic Collapse is Reagan's real rendevous with destiny. But, to hear it from Newt, sounds like someone is re-writing history. What are you afraid of Matt?  Ask some real questions. This interview made you sound like you co-authored the book?  No testical fortitude.  Grow a pair, Lauer.
Richard Shelby, Alabama's Comb over King,  wants the Senate to filibuster the stimulus bill.  If you're better off than you were 8 years ago than Shelby is your man.  If not, then you might want to pay attention to the purely partisan politics of this Senator.  He tried to kill Detroit's automakers so as to benifit the foreign car dealerships and automakers in his state.  Now he's trying to kill the American economy.  Instead of taking responsibility for his party's economic policies the last 8 years that got us into this mess Shelby is trying to blame our current economic woes on the new Congress and new President? 

Many people believe that the Republicans, that were aware of the forthcoming collapes of our economy, were trying to stall  the melt down so that it would occur on the watch of the new Congress and new President.  Guess what, it happened on their "watch."

So who is really trying to help out American at this time of crisis? The obstructionist Republicans that got us in this mess, or the new Congress and New President that is offering unique innovative solutions that most every reputable economist in the world agrees with? 

Shelby, the Chairman for the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, somehow never saw this economic melt down coming?  How could the Chairman for Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs be so blind?  This is malfeasance or gross incompetence.  Clearly Shelby doesn't have the intellectual capacity to grasp the depth of these problems. Shelby also doesn't have the backbone to take some responsibility for his role in the creation of this mess.  On CNN Shelby said," we have to bring trust back to the banking system." But, doesn't offer any ideas how that could be done.  Maybe being beholden to Banking and Insurance lobbyist isn't the answer? 

Thursday February 12, 2009 Karl Rove is coming out with an article in the Wall Street Journal that suggest that the Republicans are on the wrong side of the "Stimulus Plan" that will probably cost them more seats in 2010.  How about that?  Karl Rove announcing the "Deathwatch" for the Republican Party."  And, whose the biggest fool of all?  You guessed it, it's the Comb Over King from Alabama!

On February 9th, 2009 both Hanninty and Limbaugh claimed that popular support for the stimulus bill had dropped to just over 50 percent support for Obama's plan.   But, that same afternoon, a Gallop Poll came out and suggested it was over 70 percent in support of the bill? 


REPUBLICANS IN VIOLATION OF THE PUBLIC TRUST....AGAIN.

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W the most Oblivious Person in the world for 2008!


(Cartoon by Mike Peters)
Once more George W. Bush has been declared  the most "Oblivious" person for 2008!  Never saw the economic collapse coming.  Never found Weapons of Mass Destruction. Never found the time, till it was almost too late, to help the Katrina victims. And yet, in his final days, W continues to try and re-write history?  Spin it any way you want George, no ones buying it.  No one seems more disconnected with reality than W himself. ( W says when he leaves the White House he'll miss Air Force One, and the White House chef ...the good news is nobody is going to miss him). The neo-cons, Alan Greensburg, Reagonomics, Secretary of State Rice, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News all came in a close second as being not only Oblivious, but irrelevant!
George W. Bush , The most Oblivious person in the world for 2008!

January 20, 2009 : End of an Error

      Let's fix democracy in this Country first!   If you want a nation ruled by religion move to Iran.  And, seriously, why did we invade Irag?  Finally, we now have a President that's fluent in at least one language.  And for all of the Republicans that voted for W, he's yours now, you can have him and Cheney back.  The Republican party, your bridge to the 11th century.  What part of "Bush lied" don't you understand?  At least Nixon resigned.

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Evolution

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Hannity and Limbaugh Promote Obama Recession Myth

     Steve Pointer from Novato, California wrote in the Marin Independent Journal, "One of the unexpected, but none the less welcome results of the recent election is the status of talk radio thugs Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh
     Almost overnight, both have become non events, irrelevant, anachronistic and obsolete!  Who would have thought that President Elect Obama's victory would be so overwhelming that these two radio hate mongers would simply cease to matter. (Any advertisers paying attention?)
     Their shows are almost funny now, like watching an old b&w Three Stooges show (two stooges?), only the Stooges were clever and their producers (listening Murdoch?) can still get sponsors.
     In further desperate acts the two are attempting to SPIN the turmoil in the economy as the Obama recession?  It must be disheartening to many Republicans to have to acknowledge that Reaganomics, which  they have so disparately believed in, is what really brought the economy to near collapse.  And now, Sean Hannity's partner for 12 years, Alan Colmes, has filed for divorce.
     Que sera sera....

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Alan Greenspan Leads Country Into Worst Financial Crisis Ever!

"Not only have individual financial institutions become less vulnerable to shocks from underlying risk factors, but also the financial system as a whole has become more resilient." Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve Chairsman, 2004

"A critical pillar to market competition and free markets did break down. 
I still do not know why it happened?"

     Alan Greenspan, the Oracle, never really understood what he was talking about when it came to the economy. Greenspan was so consumed with his own self-importance he overlooked the most basic fundementals of a healthy economy, and helped create the current melt down on Wall Street that has now spread throughout the world.  Amazingly, Congress was so enamored with Greenspan they rarely questioned him. And yet, those entrusted to protect our Country...did not. Where is the accountablity? 
     On October 9, 2008 Peter S. Goodman reported in the New York Times: "George Soros, the pominent financier, avoids using the financial contracts known as derivatives "because we really don't understand how they work."  Felix G. Rohatyn, the investment banker who saved New York from financial catastrophe in the 1970s, desicribed derivatives as potential "hydrogen bombs."  And, Warren Buffett presciently observed five years ago that derivatives were "financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal."
     Amazingly, one prominent financial figure has long thought otherwise. And, his views use to be held in the highest regard in debates about the regulation and use of derivatives that he refered to as "exotic contracts" that promised to protect investors from losses, thereby stimulating riskier practices that led to the current financial crisis.
     Even more amazingly, on October 23, 2008, Greenspan denied before Congress that the nation's economic crisis was his fault, but conceded that the meltdown had revealed a flaw in a lifetime of economic thinking and left him in a "state of shocked disbelief." Greenspan was unable to defend his resistance to recommendations to use the Fed's power to crack down on sub-prime mortgages, and opposing efforts to impose regulations on derivatives (the complex financial instrument that include credit default swaps - that figured in prominently in the current crisis).
     On October 23, 2008 Greenspan was asked by the House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, after pointing out that Greenspan had contributed to irresponsible lending practices by rejecting appeals that the Fed intervene to regulate a surging sub-prime mortgage industry and also noted that the list of regulatory mistakes and misjudgments was long ... asked Greenspan, "My question to you is simple, were you wrong?" To which Greenspan replied,"Well, partially" And then Greenspan went on to blame overeager investors who did not stop to think about risks.  My question is ,"why didn't Greenspan, the Federal Reserve Chairman, stop to think about risks?"  Where is the accountability?
    

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Sean Hannity Thinks Economy Is Doing Great Video

   Joe McCarthys not dead.  He's been reincarnated in the person of Sean Hannity.  By playing on the fears of what is now being referenced as "low information" voters, a polite way of referencing poorly educated white voters in red states, Hannity is speading his vile take on this year's election without a clue what's happening in the economy (see video below).
   Today, General Colin Powell came out in support of Barack Obama.   Fox News continues to exploit their viewerships fears with lynch mob racist rants about Reverend Wright, and polarizing accusations that Obama is friends with domestic terrorists (plural).  Fox News has sank so low they've become the domestic terrorist media network. This networks level of low gamesmanship reeks of treason against real Americans.  How are they going to attact General Powell now?  Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh should be taken off the air, or find another country to spread their lies, and misinformation RNC talking points.

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The Derivitives Bubble

     How did we find ourselves in such an economic mess?  How could the powers that be not have the foresight to see what was right around the corner?  We've been led to believe that the sub prime mortgage melt down was the cause, when the truth of the matter is - it's the derivatives, created by the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act by a greedy Banking industry.
    The Glass-Steagall Act, passed in 1933, mandated the separation of commercial and investment banking in order to protect depositors from the the hazards of risky investment and speculation - the cause of the 1929 Stock Market crash.  It worked fine for 50 years until the banking industry began lobbying for its repeal during the 1980s.
    The main cheerleader for the repeal was Phil Gramm, but there is plenty of blame to go around here. Both Republican and Democratic Senators and Congressmen supported this disgraceful bow to the banking industry which was eagerly signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1999.
    According to Wikipedia, many economist have criticized the repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act as contributing to the current economic volatility in the Stock Market.  The banking industy laid out more the 200 million dollars for lobbying in 1998 according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The banking industry succeeded  in their two decades long effort to repeal the act.  This lust for banking largesse is as wanton among Democrats as Republicans - right up to the current campaign, according to the Phoenix Business Journal.  Both McCain and Obama have accepted substantial amounts of money from Wall Street bankers, investment and securities firms, and their executives during this campaign cycle.


    Personally, I believe the Glass-Steagall Act needs to be re-enacted.  Before we bail out the banking industry, insurance firms, and Wall Street some reforms and regulations need to be put into place or the game will just continue.  The American International Group - AIG - upon receiving $85 Billion Dollars from the government recently sent executives to a $440,000 retreat at a posh California resort?  Where's the oversight?  How many times can the taxpayer's trust be betrayed before someone steps in and does something? Congress only acts in times of crisis... is anyone listening?!
    Late in the game our government realized what had to be saved was not the housing market or the dollar, but the financial derivitives industry: and the precepice from which it had to be saved was an "event of default" that could collapse a quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble, a bubble that could take the entire global banking system down with it.
     Right now  derivatives represent the biggest financial market in the world.  Derivitives are financial instruments that have no intrinsic value, basically they're just bets.  "The point everyone misses" wrote economist Robert Chapman a decade ago,"is that buying derivatives is not investing.  It's gambling, insurance and high stakes bookmaking.  Derivatives create nothing and they serve to enrich non producers at the expense of the people who do create real goods and services."  As bets, you can hedge your bet that something will go up by placing a side bet that it will go down. Hedge funds hedge bets in the derivatives market. Bets can be placed on anything, from the price of tea in China to the movements of specific markets.
                                                                                                                        
     What to do?  Re-enact the Glass-Steagall Act for starters.  Separate commercial banking from the stock market. Then, have Congress focus on the Dirivatives Bubble and articulate a solution simply and clearly. Steve Krofts on 60 Minutes last week did a great job of explaining what's happening.  Where's the political discourse?
     Just my opinion.

Some of the information for this post was gathered from Wikipedia, William Kaufman's "Shattering the Glass - Steagall Act", the Phoenix Business Journal, and Ellen Brown's post on her blog (Web of Debt) It's the Derivatives Stupid!

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Sean Hannity Un-American Racist Anti-Semite - If You Believe in Guilt by Association

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God Weighs In...

    " Most people are satisfied with a world in which survival is for the fittest, "might is right," competition is required, and winning is called the highest good.
     If such a system happens to also produce "losers" so be it, so long as you are not among them.
     Most people are satisfied, even though such a model produces people who are often killed when they are judged "wrong", starved and rendered homeless when they are "losers," oppressed and exploited when they are not "strong."
     Most people define "wrong" as that which is different from them.  Religious differences, in particular, are not tolerated, nor are many social, economic, or cultural differences.
     Exploitation of the underclass is justified by the self congratulatory pronouncements from the upper class of how much better off the underclass (victims) are now than they were before these expoitations.  By this measure the upperclass can ignore the issue of how all people ought to be treated if one were being truly fair, rather than merely making a horrible situation a tiny bit better - and profit obscenely in the bargain.
                                                                        
     Most people laugh when one suggests any kind of system other than the one currently in place, saying that behaviors such as competing and killing and the "victor taking the spoils" are what make their civilization great!  Most people even think there is no other natural way to be, that it is the nature of humans to behave in this manner, and that to act any other way would kill the inner spirit that drives man to succeed. (at what?!)
     Difficult as it is for truly enlightened beings to understand, most people on your planet believe in this philosophy, and that is why most people don't care about the suffering masses, the oppression of minorities, the anger of the underclass, or the survival needs of anyone but themselves, and their immediate families.
    Most people do not see they are destroying their Earth, the very planet which gives them their life, because their actions seek only to enhance their quality of life.  Amazingly, they are not far sighted enough to observe that short terms gains can produce long term losses, and often do...and will.
     Most people are threatened by a concept such as a collective good, a one world overview, or a God who exists in unity with all creation, rather than separate from it.
     This fear of anything leading to unification and your planet's glorification produces division, disharmony, and discord.  Yet, you do not seem to have the ability even to learn from your own experience, and so you continue with the same results.
     The inability to experience the suffering of another as one's own is what allows such suffering to continue.
     Separation breeds indifference, false superiority.  Unity produces compassion and genuine equality. This level of conciousness (separateness) could best be described as primitive." 
From Conversations with God, by Neale Donald Walsh

My thoughts: Divisive ideologies imposed upon us by religious, political, and media voices only enable their agendas.  Some of these voices have enjoyed undue credibility for far too long. (Many enjoy undue credibiltiy just by being on TV, Radio, Print, and now the Internet)  Question the message. Question fear mongering ( a very effective tool -scare people into believing what you wish), look behind the curtain...what is the real intent here?  Or, live out the consequences of obliviousness, which is NOT an option. 

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Fox News Standards? Double Standards Pretty Much All The Time!

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Neo-con Sarah Palin Steers McCain Candidacy To Extreme Right ...and, Did Anyone Notice?

     McCain claims that, "Change is Coming!"  And it's the kind of change that hard right evangelicals have prayed for.  Finally, a vice presidential candidate that can bring creationism into our public schools, cure homosexuality, and force other women to have no say or choice in having a child when raped, even in incest.

     The party that has crippled our economy, gutted our constitution, and led us into a war under false pretenses is absolutely confident they can play Americans for stupid.  I don't think so Mr. Karl Rove.
     The "Brain" ,or "Turdblossom" as George W. Bush affectionately calls him is truly politically brillant and continues to define the Republican party positions on almost everything.  Sarah Palins speech writers at the Republican National Convention gave this one time television sport's reporter red meat for the audience.  And when it comes to reading a teleprompter, the girl's got "game!" 
     Now step back, and check out the opening sentence at top here.  "Change is coming."  Do you really think so?  According to many people that have been close to John McCain over the last few years his health is not what we'd all wish (I actually like McCain and thinks he's - at least on the "Daily Show"-  a pretty funny old koot! Seriously, that's a compliment).  The "Change" I'm worried about is that he will probably have to step down during his first term if elected ,due to health considerations.  At that moment the hard right neo-cons can release their pit bull with lip stick on the world.  Bomb Iran...why not?  More tax cuts for the rich...you've got a friend in the White House, and  Karl Rove and Fox News aren't going anywhere anytime soon.  
     For McCain and Palin to attempt to steal the "Change" message from Obama and Biden right before everyone's eyes ignores the fact that John McCain has voted along with George Bush 90 percent of the time. How about that for Change and Reform. And, by putting neo-con Pitbull Palin in the vice presidential position insure's Bush's policies for another 4 years. If perchance, people are that stupid, and Karl Rove is betting they are!
     Wouldn't it be nice if we could get rid of the teleprompter?  It sure would be nice to hear our politicians speak their own words.  I'm sure Sarah has enough composure to articulate her own thoughts.  She has plenty of experience before a camera as a television sports reporter.  Let's hear what she has to say without being scripted.  When will she be on Meet the Press?  According to McCain's handlers, "only if we feel it's to our advantage." ?

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Playing The Public For Stupid...Works!

     No one plays the public for stupid better than the Republican party. Fear mongering has become the message. Unfortunately, it's the only message they have.  And, they'll stop at nothing, including racism.  Whatever it takes!
   
    Mark Twain felt the lynching of blacks in the early 1900s, that was tolerated or overlooked by our government, reflected moral cowardice.  Fast foward to the present where Fox News - metaphorically - attempts to lynch Barack Obama at every turn.  Sean Hannity brings up Obama's past relationship to Reverend Wright at every opportunity. And, continues to play and re-play those videos of the Reverend, that plays to the fears of the Fox News viewership. Anything goes in Politics, and apparently the same goes for Fox News.  Moral cowards? 

    George Bush gave us a catastrophic unending war, Guantanamo, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Kangaroo Courts, Waterboarding, Black Sites, Extraordinary Rendition, Halliburton, No-Bid Contracts,Katrina, Cronyism, Recess Appointments, Warrantless Wiretapping, Fired U.S. Attorneys, Plamegate, Katrina, Doubling the National Dept, Denying Global Warming, and Katrina.  The Republican party, and Fox News has much to be proud of.  And ,what the hell happened to Mr. Santa Barbara Dennis Miller (?), he's sold his soul.   I don't think anyone begrudges Miller for all the money he's made, but it's cost him his sense of humor, and he's clearly lost his edge.  The only one who laughs at his moronic assaults on Barack Obama, and anyone that questions the occupation of Irag, is Bill O'Reilly. They're both moral cowards.

     Last night I attempted to watch Michelle Obama's keynote speech on Fox News while Fox News
ran a ticket tape running below her reminding their viewership about the Reverend Wright videos?  How low can Fox News go? (Just wait and see)

     Fox News, which is covering the entire Democratic National Convention, last night kept cutting away from Michelle Obama while she was speaking to people in the audience that appeared not to be paying attention? And, as reported in the News this morning, 80 percent of the cut aways were to black people giving the impression that the audience was primarily black?  A disinterested audience of black people? That's gonna play real well with Fox's viewership...  

     Getting tired of John McCain's the surge worked?  Well, when you pay off the people you use to be fighting to stop fighting it's not a military victory.  What happens when we stop the payments?  McCains more worried that if we leave now Bush, Rummy, and Cheney will have lied in vain.

     Recently in Time Magazine, The Reverend John Hubers from Chicago wrote: "As an Evangelical pastor, I find the high percentage of fellow Evangelicals who believe that Senator John McCain is the candidate "most guided by his religious beliefs" hard to fathom.  The testimonies of the two candidates in your "In Their Words" section shows McCain, in fact, to be far less connected to Evangelical Spirituality than Barack Obama, who can also lay claim to an authentic born-again experience.  Unfortunately, what this shows is that many Evangelicals believe that Republicans and Christian are synonymous terms.  It's time to put that to rest.
     
    

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Obermann Slams McCain

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Fox News Continues Racist Campaign

     Over the past two weeks Fox New's anchor E.D.Hill has apoligized for an affectionate onstage fist bump shared by Barack Obama and his wife as a "Terrorist Fist Jab" while Liz Trotta of Fox News joked about an Obama assassination.
     Joan Walsh, from Salon.com, asks," Are they racist, or just clueless? Isn't there racisim even in their cluelessness, if somebody didn't know what "baby moma" means, but used it anyway?  Even at Fox, won't somebody have to apoligize?"
     Senior vice president of programming at Fox Bill Shine said that," the producer used poor judgement" during the segment but was not fired?

Fox New's Liz Trotta's "Death Wish" for Barack Obama




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Reaganomics + Republicans + Fox News = Recession Part 2

      Everything Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke does only drives our economy deeper into a recession while making the dollar weaker, stock market  lower, and oil prices higher. Why?
     After September 11th, then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, adopted an ultra easy money policy that drove mortgage rates to record lows. and got the real estate bubble blowing. At about the same time China joined the World Trade Organization and used "currency manipulation" to boost  its United States exports to keep it's currency undervalued and it's exports artificially cheap.  China recycled more than a trillion dollars back into the United State's bond market. This currency manipulation fueled the growing real estate bubble by artificially depressing mortgage rates - all the while laying waste to America's manufacturing base and ability to create jobs.
     As investors entered the real estate market buying properties and flipping them the Mortgage industry began offering risky mortgages that allowed people with no money to buy into homes with highly risky adjustable rate "subprime mortgages."  The stage was set... as Wall Street began to package these subprime mortgages into complex "mortgage back securities." Speculators jumped in and like a deadly virus, these mortgage back securities spread out to infect portfolios all over the world.
     In 2006 when home prices stretched far beyond their true valuations some speculators pulled the plug by foreclosing. Meanwhile, those "exploding adjustable rate mortgages" began to do just that. As homeowners could not make their monthly payments home prices dropped and pushed foreclosures to record highs.
     The downstream consequences for world credit market have been severe. As foreclosures have risen the value of mortgage back securities has plummeted. Until our economic leaders refocus on what made the American economy so great: sound money, fiscal responsibility, and a vibrant manufacturing base - a recommitment to those principles would do more to restore order in the global financial system and economy than more rate cuts and mulit-billion dollar bailouts!

(Some of the information here was gathered from UC Irvine buisiness professor Peter Navarro)
Peter Navarro's Web Site

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Reganomics + Republicans + Fox News = Recession!

      Last November President Bush said in a Fox New's interview that," We have a strong dollar policy, and it's important for the world to know that.  And if people will look at the strength of our economy, they'd realize  why I believe the dollar will be stronger!"  Since this announcement the struggling dollar, which has been slumping against foreign currencies for years, hit new lows last week.   For some strange reason Fox News, and George Bush will not acknowledge we are in a recession?
      Many believe that the negative perception of the dollar reflects the world's collective verdict on the United States - businesses, individuals, the government,and the Federal Reserve - to manage the global financial system and the world's largest economy.  How can that be good? 
     "International financiers are unnerved by the toxic combination of: "misplaced assumptions about housing (Republican Alan Greenspan was not only asleep at the wheel, but created the framework for the housing collapse), a lack of necessary regulation, and irresponsible use of debt with sophisticated financial instruments," said Ashraf Laidi (currency strategist at CMC Markets).
      Until recently American's ability to manage complex systems has been the competitive advantage. It has allowed the United States to enjoy high growth and low inflation. But today, thanks to widespread incompetence, America management is on its way to becoming an international laughing stock!
     Carl Icahn, the 80's corporate raider recently complained to Lesley Stahl about the incompetence of American management. "I see our country going off a cliff, and I feel bad about it." Icahn is crying all the way to the bank!  The market's recognition of management failures gives him the opportunity to acquire companies on the cheap. But for those of us who are not billionaire corporate raiders - which is to say pretty much all of us - must manage through this management crisis on our own.
     As long as the President, the Republican Congress, and Fox News continue their disinformation campaigns by playing on unfounded fears, and distracting the public from the "real issues" such as the economy and the war by continually re-iterating nonsense like: "We're fighting the terrorist there so we don't have to fight them at home, anyone who questions us is unpatriotic, we have to fear anti-christian fundamentalist secular progressive that don't wear flag lapel pins," and other ridiculous fear mongering tactics dished out by this administration and Fox News,  when it comes to the possibility for competent management of our current economy, we don't have a prayer...  The Fox is in the hen house!
     28 Years of Reaganomics have taken us from the largest creditor nation to the largest debtor nation. As long as we allow Republicans, Fox News, and  members of Congress beholden to Lobbyist and Special Interest Groups the dollar, and our country's well being is in jeopardy.  If we continue to run from our shadows, our fears will define us, and we risk economically becoming a third world country. 
     Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly supported Social Security being privatized, as did this administration, now that Bear Stearns has collapsed and our economy has fallen into a recession...why isn't Fox News still defending privatization of our Social Security system?   

(Some of the information here was gathered from Daniel Gross's article in Newsweek 3/24/2008)
    

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Lighten Up!

     Recently President Bush visited an elementary school to give a civics presentation.  After he finished, he asked the boys and girls, "are there any questions?'
     A boy by the name of Bobby raised his hand and asked, "I have 3 questions: How did you win the election with fewer votes than Al Gore? Are you using the Patriot Act to limit Civil Liberties?  And, why havn't you caught Osama bin Laden?
     Just then the bell rang and the teacher announced it was recess.
     Half an hour later the children returned and President Bush said,"Let's start where we left off.  Are there any more questions?"
     A girl raised her hand and asked, "Is it really legal to hold suspected terrorist without letting them talk to attorneys?   Why did the recess bell go off 10 minutes early? And, where the hell is Bobby?"

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The Dangers of "Change" and "Hope" in America

     Along with "security lapses" by the United States Secret Service agents entrusted to protect Barack Obama, racist overtones by Fox News, Republican focus groups studying what degrees of racism might be permissable in political attacks against Barack, and right wing political pundits falsely accusing Barack of being a Muslim and that he's anti-christians is only just the beginning...
     Obama's "change and hope" mantra has not only generated electricity in the electorate, but for many, it's hard to forget how tragically such hopeful stories have ended in the past.  As Obama moves closer to becoming the first black President in America, many are worried about his safety.   And they should be.
     Obama's desire to truly help America threatens the Corporate-ocracy that runs our County. The lobbyist, corporations, and various business ties to our Government are worried that their influence over our Politicians may be threatened...as well they should. 
     As such, it's clear they will do whatever it takes to protect their interest. And, after the assasinations of John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King they should not be underestimated. And, perchance there are any attempts to harm Obama, these parties that believe they can operate without any impunity must be investigated, and punished.
      Some of these businesses/corporations that wrap themselves around the flag have nothing to do with America other than exploiting its resources willfully, ruthlessly, and dishonestly with the support of most Republicans and Right Wing Media Pundits.  These entities have become a cancer that's eating away at the heart of what makes America great, and now threaten the life of someone that truly believes in America.  That American is for Amercians, and that it shouldn't be beholden to special interests.
     Naive thinking...too idealistic...too hopeful for real change to turn our Country around?

  Full Story by David Crary - The Associated Press
      

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Grateful Dead reunite for Barack Obama

  The Grateful Dead reunite for Barack Obama. For Paul Libertore's article in the Marin Independent Journal click:  Grateful Dead reunite for Barack Obama

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Liberating oil from Middle Eastern Countries



Exxon Mobile reports Huge Profits...again!






The Real Price of Gasoline





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Clinton's Swiftboat Obama - Democrat's 2008 "Hall of Shame"

     Welcome to the Democrat's Hall of Shame! And, shame, shame, shame on Bill and Hilary! The Clinton's are in full Rove-mode and will "Swift Boat" anyone that tries to stop them.  Turns out the supposed white "First Black President" is a racist (Thank you for clarifying that Obama is a Muslim (Bob Kerrey), and that the Obama's campaign is a "Fairy Tale" Bill.  Black America where are you? And, Black Republicans?  How are you NOT complicit in the Katrina nightmare if you stand with W and his party and all the other crap we, as a country, have had to endure the last 8 years?! 
    
      As we get closer to choosing a Democratic nominee for the President of the United States the Clinton's Campaign is beginning to act disparate and willing to try almost anything.  Former Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey, close friend of the Clintons said that, "Barack Obama had spent time in a "Secular Madrassa" implying that Obama may be or had been Muslim? Barack Obama never attended a Secular Madrassa, and is a devoted Christian.  Kerrey fed the press this information at a critical juncture just before the Iowa Primaries.

     Obama's middle name is Hussein.  Third Party Groups that back Hilary subtly play on prejudices by constantly repeating Obama's middle name.

     CNN's Donna Brazile, formerly and adviser to both Bill Clinton and Al Gore, said she,"was racially offended by Bill Clinton's recent attacks against Barack Obama.  Bill has gone out of his way to label Barack as a "kid" and that Obama's claims are a "fairy tale."

      What's most disturbing about the Clinton Campaign is where was Bill Clinton four years ago when John Kerry was running for President  Bill rarely got out and stumped for anyone?  Now he's "en fuego!"  If Bill is really this powerful and influential person, where was he?  Oh yeah, that would interfere with Hilary's run for the Presidency in 2008.

     We've all had to endure the last four years of the Bush administration, and all the horrible mistakes they've made, because the Clintons are really only about the Clinton's.

     Whether it's fair or not, the Clinton's are so divisive that if she becomes the nominee they will galvanize every registered Republican and Independent to come out and vote against the Clintons.  And, if she miraculously gets elected, it's back to political gridlock in Congress, with the Lobbyist running the show. Back to business as usual in Washington.  The woman who voted for the War, and still won't admit it was a mistake.

            POW!

During her January 25th, 2008 interviewed with Matt Lauer on the Today Show Hilary whined that she's the victim in all the political attacks ,and that she's just, "counter punching" with her and Bill's attacks against Obama?  C'mon kid, lead with your left and.....

Rupert Murdoch has contributed to the Clinton Campaign.   When Fox News comes out and supports you what does that say?

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Oblivous Blogs Most Oblivious Person For 2007!

     The 2006 Oblivious Blog Most Oblivious Person on the planet, George W. Bush for his inability to respond and general incompetence in regard to the "Katrina" disaster has repeated in 2007 as this year's Most Oblivious Person on the Planet!

     R.BruceErwin from Cadiz, Kentucky writes, "The latest revelation over Iran's lack of nuclear bomb development has brought me to the conclusion the Bush/Cheney administration believes it's so smart, it doesn't need intelligence.
  
     The Second place award for Most Oblivious Person on the Planet goes to Alan Greenspan.  Completely missed the Mortgage Industry melt-down, and the Housing Crisis.

     The Third place award for Most Oblivious Person on the Planet goes to Fox News.  They distort and they decide. Right wing editorialization under the guise that it's news, it's not.

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Difference Between Conservative and Liberals

     Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers.  They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.
     The two most important events in history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel.  The wheel was invented to get man to the beer.  These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups: Liberals and Conservatives.
     Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of Agriculture.  Neither the glass bottle or the aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early human were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery.  That's how villages were formed.
     Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer.  This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.  Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing.  This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.  Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women.  The rest became known as girliemen.
     Some noteworth Liberal achievementss include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy and group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.
     Over the years Conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant.  Liberals are symbolized by the JackAss.

     Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water.  They eat raw fish but like beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French Food are standard liberal fare.
     Another interesting revolutionary side note: most of the women have higher testosterone levels than their men.  Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalist, home interior designers, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapist are Liberals.  Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.
     Conservatives drink domestic beer.  They eat red meat and still provide for their women.  Conservatives are big game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, fireman, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively.  Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to actually work for a living.
     Liberals produce little or nothing.  They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production.  Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans.  That is why most of the Liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get MORE for nothing.
     Here ends today's lesson in world history:  It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.   A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers.  And to their Liberal friends just to piss them off.
 

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Withdrawing the Troops

     On September 19, 2007 Jim Wood wrote in the Ark Newspaper:

     I'm now convinced that America should begin withdrawing the troops.  It's not that the Iraqi leaders aren't trying to make reconciliation work - they can't make it work.  Here are my reasons:
     1. America cannot control the world.  Agreed, our nuclear armed, high technology, multi-billion dollar military force is the mightiest the world has ever seen. The one exception is the highly motivated forces of guerrilla and/ or insurgency warfare - an element that bears little or no respect to the moral dictates of Western civilization.  It is, however, a force that oftens captures the allegiance of the population wherein it operates.  America experienced this in Vietnam and we are again facing this reality: immense military power can't conquer everything.
     2. This isn't a war, it's wars.  When Bagdad fell, the Iraq War ended.  American is now in a policing action where sects fight each other and within themselves.  A European observer recently compared it to "herding cats."  In not speaking the language or understanding the culture, it is nearly impossible to tell one side from another.  This situation goes back centuries.  Most Iraqis have a mindset vastly different from ours.
     3. Al Qaeda will fight to the death.  Besides America's policing of Iraq sects, offshoots of al Qaeda are determined that democracy not succeed in Iraq.  Freedom is an anathema to everything they believe in. They have no hesitancy to kill and maim Muslim women, children, and elderly in order to thwart freedom: the resulting deaths are "martyrdom," not murder. This will not change.
     4. We did, and continue to do, bin Laden's bidding. America played directly into bin Laden's hands when we brought down Iraq, a secular Middle Eastern nation.  Now we might bankrupt ourselves by spending a trillion dollars to police ragtag forces armed with only aged rifles and improvised explosive devices detonated by garage door openers.  Obviously bin Laden can't conquer America, but he could very well destroy our great nation if we continue our course of action much longer.
     5. The occupation of Iraq was bungled.  Even Republicans agree that, from the start, the occupation was inadequately planned.  A huge language deficit existed, looting was allowed, de-Bathification was enforced, and the 500,000 man Iraq Army was recklessly dismissed. These errors cannot now be rectified.  If you have doubts, please see the even handed "No End in Sight." 
         If Iraq is Vietnam, this is 1969, there are still thousands of lives and billions of dollars to be expended (or wasted).  Those who believe we must "stay the course" must ask themselves: If America's President were named Clinton - and Iraq had been invaded and the current policy was being continued - would they endorse it?  As patriotic Americans, which I believe they are, their answer has to be "Yes" - but I doubt that it is.  Thus, they are being guided by ideology, which is very dangerous.
         The redeployment I advocate would be completed by 12.31.08 with no U.S. troops remaining in Iraq.  However, there would be a "watchdog" contingent of 20,000 Army Rangers stationed nearby, along with a carrier group in the Persian Gulf to insure Iraq doesn't become a launch pad for international terrorism and the oil continues to be exported.
          As to what will happen when US Troops leave, no one knows for certainty - that's why a US presence should continue in the area.  America, led by President George W. Bush, made a horrible mistake when it invaded Iraq.  It is now time to admit this - and begin paying the massive price for our transgression.

Jim Wood gave permission for this article to be reprinted here ... thank you!

From "Curtains Ordered for Media Coverage of Returning Coffins" by Dana Milbank (Washington Post, 21 Oct 2003):

Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases in flag-draped caskets.

To this problem, the Bush administration has found a simple solution: It has ended the public dissemination of such images by banning news coverage and photography of dead soldiers' homecomings on all military bases.

In March, on the eve of the Iraq war, a directive arrived from the Pentagon at U.S. military bases. "There will be no arrival ceremonies for, or media coverage of, deceased military personnel returning to or departing from Ramstein [Germany] airbase or Dover [Del.] base, to include interim stops," the Defense Department said, referring to the major ports for the returning remains.

A Pentagon spokeswoman said the military-wide policy actually dates from about November 2000 -- the last days of the Clinton administration -- but it apparently went unheeded and unenforced, as images of caskets returning from the Afghanistan war appeared on television broadcasts and in newspapers until early this year [2003]. Though Dover Air Force Base, which has the military's largest mortuary, has had restrictions for 12 years, others "may not have been familiar with the policy," the spokeswoman said. This year, "we've really tried to enforce it."


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Fox News Promotes Racism

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Major General Smedley Butler, USMC

      "War is just a racket.  A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people.  Only a small inside group knows what it is about.  It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
      I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.  If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight.  The trouble with America is that when the dollar earns only six percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent.  Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
      I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers.  There are only two things  we should fight for.  One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.  War for any other reason is simply a racket...
      It may seem odd for me , a military man, to adopt such a comparison.  Truthfulness compels me to.  I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marin Corps.  I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major Gerneral.  And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers.  In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism...
      During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket.  Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints.  The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts.  I operated on three continents."





From a 1933 speech by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (1881 - 1940)

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Chuck Hagel and Bill Maher

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Open Secrets

Link to the non-partisan, D.C. based Center for Responsive Politics that tracks campampaign contributions:
Open Secrets

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Republican Hall of Shame

The Bitter Vitters Press Conference  ... Welcome to the Republican Hall of Shame!

When the sanctimonious moralizers are repeatedly found to be secretly engaging in the activities they've built their public careers denouncing and/or legislating against it, becomes  a fundamental metaphor for a party whose every action seems rooted in hypocrisy and deceit.

David and Wendy Vitter

     Amid new hooker allegations Republican Senator David Vitter, a staunch social conservative known for his outspoken condemnation of Bill Clinton's behavior, faces the press with his wife Wendy.  Wendy criticized Hilary's response to Bill's affair with Monica Lewinsky saying that, " she was more like Lorena Bobbit" and never would stand for that kind of behavior.  Well Wendy, what are you waiting for?  You don't look exactly happy here.
     David's response?  "I believe I received forgiveness from God.  I know I did from Wendy." 
     What a relief...and thank god that Fox News never reported this story... Republicans have so much to be thankful for.   And, remember Bill Bennet?  The one time voice for the Republican's "Moral Majority"?  Well Bill developed a gambling problem unbeknownst to his wife.  Lost around 10 million dollars before the news media picked up the story and his wife made him stop!   Well sadly Bill Bennet lost his mom... in a card game in Vegas!
      It's a joke! C'mon, a little Republican humor? Wendy and David can't have all the punch lines...

     The Republican party could not be more proud of Senator Larry Craig's mug shots after being arrested in an airport bathroom for soliciting sex from a male police officer.   Craig admitted his guilt at the time of his arrest. Now that the media has picked up the story...he's changing his position and has hired an attorney. Craig  may be the ultimate flip flopper. One moment he declares he's guilty, the next he's not?  Another proud moment for Republicans! 
     After he was arrested Craig told police he, "was just trying to cop a feel!" When actually, he feeled a cop!

     Ruth Dell, Kentfield, California (Time Magazine 10.1.2007)"When politicians like Larry Craig divide our country by attacking a gourp to which they secretly belong, then "HYPOCRISY" is the operative word!"
    Ted Haggard, voice for the Republican Moral Majority, turned out to be a sexual pervert with a penchant for methamphetemines.  And, after a couple of weeks of therapy, Haggard claims to be cured of his homosexual desires.  Hey, maybe he'll find God?  Could happen...


Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) said the  five messages he sent to a former congressional page were harmless.
And who could forget Mark Foley the Republican child predator?  Rather then face the Press he went into Rehab and discovered God.  Shame, shame, shame... And check out what Fox News did - tried to portray Foley as a Democrat. Fox News distorts and then decides what you should be thinking...creative media outlet for the low information voters (oh hell, there not low information voters, they're just stupid...o.k. they're oblivious too.  Key criteria for Fox News viewers.

And, the most disgusting Republican of all is Bill-O (Bill O'Reilly), who during the Mark Foley sex scandal reported that Foley was a Democrat! 
This is the same Bill-O, who after paying off an employee that was on the verge of releasing to the media inappropriate (sexual) phone calls (she'd received and recorded from O'Reilly), refused to answer any related questions.  

Bill O'Reilly, sexual predator? Racist?
     A Sexual Harrassment Lawsuit was filed by a former Producer of Bill-O's show.   Andrea Mackris was paid to go away and drop the lawsuit. What evidence was there that would cause O'Reilly to buy her off.  Oh yeah, she taped all her calls from Bill.  She said he'd made a slobbery phone call saying he wanted to take a shower with her and rub her with a loofah, which he called,"the falafael thing."  Get help Bill!  If you don't know the difference between a loofah and a falafael you shouldn't be showering with women.  Fox News/Fixed News (Faux Facts) - "We distort and we decide"
     Mr. No Spin goest to a Harlem restaurant, reports that people there are as civilized as white people. Then spins!


Rupert MurdochRupert Murdock

Keith Oberman, "Al Queda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murddoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News.  Fox News is worse than Al Queda - worse for our society.  It is as dangerous as the Klu Klux Klan ever was."


Republican Alan Greenspan, "Bush is a reckless spendthrift, and the war is about oil"
shrub  W
 
            Keith Oberman was asked to describe W and said, "Nixonian. The difference between Bush and Nixon is that Nixon sent draftees to Vietnam.  If draftees, instead of  volunteers were dying in Iraq.  I think Bush would have been impeached by now.
     We will see a draft if the Republicans win in 2008, because they've got a plan to  invade every country except Liechtenstein, but not enouught soldiers to do it.  To get enough soldiers, they will need a draft.  And that would be interesting. You'd have rioting in the streets within 48 hours.  And, it wouldn't be the kids rioting, it would be their parents."


w-scowls The last question responded to at a recent news conference went to a Fox News reporter that had been prepped. As the last question there would be no follow up question. The Fox News reporter asked W about the General BetrayUs MoveOn.org ad. And W responded,"And that leads me to this conclusion: that most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left wing group like MoveOn.org or more afraid of irritating them, then they are of irritating the United States military."

Petraeus and Powell have been pimped by this President, and have forever lost any credibility. Good soldiers that answered to the Commander in Chief ,and in allowing themselves to be politcized, are no longer respectable voices.  But, as soldiers not politicians, are and have been excellent in their capacity within the military. 

Next stop (or bombing), Iran.  Bush is running out of time, but will play this card while America looks on as an ineffective Congress fumbles along, because they're too afraid to be called soft on terrorism.

Won't some politician that's not afraid of not being re-elected speak out?  We really aren't safer at home.   Hilary's handlers have her boxed in because nothing is more important than becoming the next President.  More so than speaking out truthfully. That's where she loses my vote. 

Where are the leaders? Who can articulate the truth here so that the Hannitys, Limbaughs,O'Reilly's, Rove's and other right wing facist media terrorist are exposed for who they are. Complicit in the many American and innocent Iraqi deaths.   What would Jesus do?  If he lived in a "Red State" he'd move.

Smile!
Discussing further dismantling of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights dinner.
Anyone out there paying attention? I hear Rummy's fellowship at California's
Stanford College is in question...that's a good thing.  Go Gonzales go, to Gitmo!

RUNNER UPS, AND MORE WOULD BE (BUT NOT TRUE) AMERICANS:

1. Rush Limbaugh ... leading the war against middle class Americans
2. Sean Hannity ... Reagan Republican...goodbye American Jobs, and kiss the middle class goodbye!
3. Laura Ingraham (not worth commenting on)
4. Michelle Malkin ... "Michelle, next time don't break the prozac tablet in half, take the whole pill!"
5. Glen Beck (how'd this guy get a TV show?)
6. Annorexic Coulter ...  making psychotic behavior fashionable
7. James Dobson ... Religious leader or soul(less) Political Hack?  The Religious Right is Neither!




 

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Paris Hilton Buys San Francisco Real Estate

* Humor, not for the Comedically Challenged, or Humor Impaired *

Paris Hilton suggested to Conan O'Brian recently how she would "catch" a husband...

Paris said with her, "Lasagna!"

And Conan replied, "Is that what they're calling it these days?"





And, for those in the know, Paris Hilton recently purchased a house in San Francisco
for 8 million dollars.











...the House has 15 Bedrooms...(Know what that means?) 



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NO  WAITING !!!

* No hamburgers were harmed in the creation of this post *

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Isn't it time to get Osama Bin Laden

      "We fight the terrorist in Iraq so they won't follow us home" is the line we are continuously fed to justify our occupation in Iraq.  Last week Secretary Chertoff said that he's got a "hunch" that we may be attacked at home sometime this year.  How did they follow us home?  They're not on the run? And, oh yeah, they can fight us here even if we fight them there.
        If there really is a war on terror shouldn't we start by fighting the people who attacked us on 911? If Al Qaeda is that group, why aren't we going after them?  Especially since it's been recently reported by our government that Al Qaeda is stronger now then before 911.  How could that have happened?  And, on whose watch?
       We know that Al Qaeda has it's training camps in Pakistan, and that there is a very real possibility that Osama Bin Laden is somewhere in Pakistan's mountainous regions or the Afghanistan/ Pakistani borders.  We also know that the Iraq occupation has become a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda, and that most of the people they're recruiting are coming from Saudia Arabia.  Wait a minute.  What's going on here?  Aren't Pakistan, and Saudia Arabia our allies?
      Our mainstream media doesn't seem able to articulate what's happening?  Is the subject matter too complicated for the media.  Or does the media feel the general public might not be able to understand the complexities of these issues, so they dummy down their reporting?  It's like our government is playing us for stupid, and the media is willing to go along without asking the hard questions.  How many Americans still think Sadamn Hussein attacked us on 9/11?  How many Americans think that because we're fighting them there, that there are no members of Al Queda already here in the United States? 
    Might that be foolish and dangerous thinking in light of Secretary Chertoff's "hunch"?
           Dress15
     Ms. Homeland Security: Illegal Entry Dress Tent, installed at the border between the US and Mexico in 2006. (Robin Lasser and Adrienne Pao creation)     I'm not sure if this is to make us feel more secure or less...but, it's kinda funny if not absolutely bizarre (the tent/dress)!  Oh well, now that W has begun saying again that, "The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us on September the 11th." His conflation is contradicted by the fact that al-Queda in Mesopotamia, as the Sunni terrorist group in Iraq is known, did not exist before 9/11 ?  Come on media, where are you, the public can handle the facts...it's not that complicated!
    Sure would be nice if we could go after the people who actually attacked us.  That really doesn't seem that unreasonable does it?

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Protect our Oceans

Coral Great Barrier Reef 1996          Great Barrier Reef  1998

    
Not too long ago our oceans were abundant and clean. And now, most of the world's 17 major ocean fisheries are in decline, important coastal habitats are disappearing at an alarming rate, and climate change and pollution are harming corral ecosystems at an unprecedented rate.  Coral reefs are often called the rain forests of the sea.   And, like their terrestial counterparts, they're
in trouble.  Since 1980, an estimated 20 % of the world's coral reef have been destroyed.

     Our oceans are in serious danger. It's our responsibility to help ensure that the oceans are protected and conserved for future generations. The world's oceans, and their rich diversity of life belong to all the citizens of the world. Healthy oceans are essential for our planets health and well being.

     Scientist have been warning about Global Warning for years, but only recently have Governments world wide acknowledged its significance primarily due to greater public awareness.

     60 Minutes reported earlier this year about the decline of sharks in our oceans due to "shark finning" by fisherman that are selling the shark fins to the Chinese that regard "Shark Fin Soup" a delicacy.  The soup in Chinese Restaurants can sell upward of $400 a bowl, and hence the over fishing of sharks. 60 minutes then showed video of corporate fishing vessels that would bring the shark up into the boat, cut off it's fins, and then throw the live shark back into the ocean to die.  It was hard to watch. Sharks are the "Stewards of the Oceans".  Their decline directly affects the health of our oceans.  The sharks maintain the coral reefs and surrounding fish population. Without Sharks these coral reefs are dying.

     With the Chinese Olympics forthcoming, the opportunity to create greater public awareness about these horrific acts that our destroying our oceans is now.  Should the Olympics be boycotted?  Do we need to embarrass the Chinese into doing the right thing? What do you think?

     Write your Senators and Congressmen/women today!

 

For more information please click on: http://www.sharkstewards.com/  A great film by David McGuire




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Scooter World

      By now you're well aware that Scooter Libby's prison sentence has been commuted by George W. Bush.  The responses from both parties are just what you'd  expect.  The Democrats are suggesting that cronyism in the Republican Party rewards criminal behavior.  The Republicans say that," since Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, what's the difference?" (did you know that Scooter Libby was Marc Rich's attorney!) The difference is that the American Public is learning that our elected officials play by different rules then they have to.  Marc Rich shouldn't have been pardon, and Scooter should be in jail. (Scooter's Cheney's fall guy) Two wrongs don't make it right.
      There is an assumption by Washington politicians, Lobbyist, and their powerful corporations that the public doesn't understand how Washington works, and hence cannot be trusted? Which is also the underpinnings of how the Electoral College was created. How did the Electoral College come to be?

      "Members of the Constitutional Convention explored many possible methods of choosing a president. One suggestion was to have the Congress choose the president. A second suggestion was to have the State Legislatures select the president. A third suggestion was to elect the president by a direct popular vote.
       The first suggestion was voted down due to suspicion of corruption, fears of irrevocably dividing the Congress and concerns of upsetting the balance of power between the executive and the legislative branches. The second idea was voted down because the Framers felt that federal authority would be compromised in exchange for votes. And the third idea was rejected out of concern that the voters would only select candidates from their state without adequate information about candidates outside of the state. The prevailing suggestion was to have a College of Electors select a president through an indirect election."

      Why can't the person with the most votes win an election?  The Electoral College reinforces the notion that your vote DOES NOT make a difference.  Washinton's K Street's gang (Corporate Lobbyist) also insure that your vote DOES NOT make a difference.  Who do you think the Democrats and Republican Politicians are beholden to?
      Why do we have to live in a corporate run Democracy? 
      If you have a chance, rent or purchase  Warren Beatty's movie Bulworth.  It's very entertaining, enlightening, and funny.  And, unfortunately, quite true.  It's time for a change.  It's time for someone "NEW"!  Anyone running for President of the United States has to tell the Country that they will not commute or pardon criminals, whether or not they have the authority to do so.
      If you can, go see Michael Moore's "Sicko".... it's a very important film !  As long as Politicians percieve us Americans as gullible, fearful, and naive, they will continue to do the bidding for the Medical Insurance Industry, the Pharmecuticle Companies, and possibly the most powerful lobbyist in Washington, the Military Industrial Complex.
      And, lastly, it's time for the Electoral College to go.  Let's have "Direct Elections" ! Bring back Democracy, and let's return to the land of the free our forefathers envisioned for us.

T

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The Oblivous Blog!

   Obliviousness is not an option. How can you text message and safely drive a car over 60 miles an hour?  You can't.  So, why do so many people  think they are entitled to wander around and about, oblivious to the world around them?  This really wouldn't be a problem ... if it wasn't for that idiot obliviously babbling away on their cell phone ... while trying to cut you off in traffic! 

   Welcome to the Oblivious Blog, where we try to humorously point out the risk of obliviousness in a society and culture that has come to embrace and glamorize stupidity.  Turn off your Ipod, unclip your Blue Tooth , or get in line with the rest of the lemmings.    
   
     Our Government was oblivious to Hurricane Katrina when it slammed into New Orleans.  We watched our televisions for 5 days wondering when someone would come to help! What happened?!   Jay Leno said that if Osama Bin Laden  moved to New Orleans our Government would never find him.  

      Bush originally called the war on Iraq, Operation Iraqi Liberation, until someone explained to him that the first letter in each of those words spelled O I L .   In a White House Rose Garden Press Conference a few months back Bush said that, "we can't leave Iraq or the Terrorist will take over the oil fields!"  Well all right,  at least now we know what our energy policy is?

     And now, the Neo-cons wants to divide Irag into 3 sections? 
     Simply, regular, premium, and high test!

     So, how do you fight someone else's Civil War? And, when did the Iraqi civilians become the terrorist?  

    According to 60 Minutes the Janjaweed Tribe(supported by the Sudanese Government) are responsible for 300,000 dead (400,000 cited by United Nations and 2.5 million displaced) in Darfar, and are our Government's source for intelligence on Al Qaida  (source: 60 Minutes).  So naturally, we have to allow this mass genocide to continue? (11/13/2006 NBC reports the Janjaweed have now entered Chad)

    How to help?  Take Action for Darfur  and Divest For Darfur  (sites from Marin IJ September 19, 2007)

      At least 8 billion dollars is unaccounted for in the Iraq War.   A large portion of this missing money, according to 60 minutes,  has filtered back to the insurgents we're fighting? Large deliveries of weapons and ammunition are also missing according to 60 minutes... guess who has them? That's right, the "Terrorist". Who's responsible here?  If this were a business, wouldn't someone be fired! (Ok, since this was first Published Rummy is gone but why is Cheney still here?)

     
      But, as long as we're oblivious to what's going on around us, does it really matter?

      Just remember, when you go to pay your taxes in April, that there are 2 Ls in Halliburton.

      Obliviousness is not an option...




"I'm not oblivious, I'm just distracted"....oh geez....the best definition of a blogger came from a post on Tom Delay's Blog the day he launched it (12/10/2006), "Bloggers have always had the reputation as being unemployed losers... and now Delay is reinforcing that stereotype!" Tom DeLay's Blog came down later that day when they realized they were being inundated with negative responses/posts. TomDeLay.com yuck.

Please feel free to post comments or email to poopaloopa@gmail.com

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Lord of the flies returns ... the demise of parenting in modern times

In a letter to the San Francisco's Chronicles Mick Laselle, W.Lin of San Leandro writes, " We went to the movies recently and had to leave after 10 minutes because the woman behind us would not quiet her kids.  They were about 6 years old and the two kids mom talked to each other repeatedly and loudly.   We asked them twice to please be quiet to which the mother replied, "they're kids" as if that excused their behavior.  This same scenario played out around us the next time we went to the movies.  Do we have to build a home theatre of our own?"

Mick LaSalle, "There's an element in today's culture - a slightly morbid element - in which kids are like a religion and parents are like martyrs.  It's as if the children are vessels of purity and wisdom, and the parents are corrupt entities who just have to clean up after them, and so discipline is not an issue.  The best they can be hoped for is crowd control. 

A generation ago, things seemed a little more casual, and it was more understood and accepted that children were children, that they entered the world knowing nothing, and the mission of parenting was to let them know how to behave.

So, in response to your question, yes a home theatre would not be a bad idea."  Bad parenting wins again.



Larry David on the front lines.....
 

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