tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879509187168565172024-03-13T08:53:48.038-05:00Politically SpeakingEmmy129http://www.blogger.com/profile/14764878978512460752noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487950918716856517.post-79290914889978135852012-10-20T05:34:00.001-05:002012-10-20T05:34:34.683-05:00O'Donnell Dares Tagg to Take a Swing<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>No question about it.. I have a love-love relationship with Lawrence O'Donnell. He just gets better and better as time passes. He makes me want to be a better person yet at the same time makes me feel completely comfortable in my own skin--poisoned veteran with auto-immune disease that I am. He reminds me there are far larger issues out there requiring my inconstant energy.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Usually Mr. O'Donnell is a calm lagoon of reason in an ever-storming ocean of media hype and hyperbole. Thursday night those still waters rose in a sudden tsunami...and it was MAGNIFICENT! </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>All I care to add to the link (below the picture) above is this. Tagg, your mother is a hag. Make <u>my</u> day too! My money is on the honest smart man who is so very righteously indignant. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>And no, hiring the job out to contractors doesn't count, Haggart.</i></span>Emmy129http://www.blogger.com/profile/14764878978512460752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487950918716856517.post-33539842819778670952012-10-19T23:44:00.000-05:002012-10-19T23:48:58.666-05:00Bain Destroys Midwest Town and Moves Ops to China <br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Bain/Sensata is locking out workers, </i>who were forced to train their own replacements.<i> Why? Because they had the temerity to request a severance package to help tide them over until they can find new jobs, and to help older workers who will lose the all-important pensions they have worked and counted on their entire careers...pensions they <u>deserve</u>, have <u>earned</u>. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The pensions Sensata workers have lost, like Social Security and Medicare are not "entitlements" they are EARNED BENEFITS, as are those earned by veterans, and moves like this illustrate just how vital the social safety net is. These workers didn't quit their jobs out of laziness. They wanted to keep working, but <u>greedy overlords didn't think five hundred million dollars in pure profit was</u> <u>enough</u>, so they (and "they" includes the guy running for president) decided Freeport, and the souls whose lives depended upon jobs at that auto parts plant there, was an acceptable loss. Lives mean nothing to them. Money means everything--EVERYTHING! </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>So yes, we absolutely need to keep Social Security and Medicare, which means we cannot vote for republicans, any republicans, even the ones we think are nice people, because they vote together to do VERY BAD THINGS and because one of those VERY BAD THINGS is destroying what they erroneously call entitlements. No matter what pretty-sounding lies they tell you, THAT is even more important to them than controlling the sex lives of women, and you <u>know</u> how important that is!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>So, think about it. This is how the man who is running for President makes his money. More importantly, this is how he treats people in need--not people in a culture of poverty who don't bother to look for work (which is a myth of course) but people who want nothing more than to keep working at the jobs they have done <u>so</u> well that they have created consecutive record-breaking profits! HOW can that NOT be enough? How can anyone be so cold that they reward that kind of effort by destroying the lives of the people who provided the millions lining their pockets? It is PSYCHOPATHIC!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Can you <u>really</u> trust someone who believes in this kind of behavior against the hard working people of his OWN nation while dealing with the sleaziest, most inhumane slave-brokers in China? Can you really trust Mitt Romney with the most sacred and honored of duties in our United States? Do you <u>trust</u> someone so willing to run a steam-roller over middle class workers just to turn even more-than-record-breaking profits and avoid more taxes the U.S. badly needs right now? If you do trust him, I suggest immediate psychological evaluation, because you are living in a dream world or intentionally deluding yourself (like everyone else with incomes under $250,000/year who votes GOP).</i></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">With the move to China, quality of product and life will also suffer, not only for the Sensata workers here, but also because as more and more American businesses encourage what amounts to slavery in China, abuse will most certainly not only continue but <u>expand</u>. This is a true and actual human rights issue, and I cannot help but wonder how former Bishop Romney reconciles this reality with his "deeply held religious beliefs that are [so] central to [his] life." Any true man of faith would be horrified by the way these slave laborers are treated. I certainly am. These are human beings. Yes, they are taking our jobs, but none of us control the place and circumstance of our birth, so as fellow humans should we not feel some compassion despite our own losses?</span></i></div>
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<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Wow... The above statement started out as my usual deeply felt and utter disdain for Mitt Romney, but once I'd put it to the page, the truth of it was jarring...and frightening. This is more serious and far worse than I had imagined, especially for women, and I have imagined a LOT! He has no intent to FIGHT China...</span></i></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Regarding President Obama's plans, which are WORKING and WORKING WELL under the circumstances, I'm sure you are AWARE that the stated goal of the leader of the GOP in the House of Representatives (I fondly call them "the Tealaban") in Congress,<i> <u>upon being sworn in, was to OPENLY state his NUMBER ONE GOAL was to make President Obama a ONE TERM PRESIDENT</u>. Also <u>almost every single republican in congress has signed a pledge to Grover Norquist</u>,</i> the top dog Lobbyist in Washington, stating they will not raise taxes on the rich under ANY circumstances? In addition <i><u>the filibuster has been used a record number of times to block EVERY SINGLE JOBS BILL brought forward by President Obama, along with ANYTHING and EVERYTHING else that could possibly shed a positive light on our president.</u></i> ARE YOU AWARE that this has NEVER, EVER been done before in the HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...most especially in a time of WAR? </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What are women worth to the NFL? About 3.5 cents on the dollar. That is how much actually goes to the American Cancer Society in the NFL's shamelessly self-promoting October Breast Cancer Awareness PINK EVERYTHING campaign. The rest goes straight into the pockets of the owners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So if you have somehow been unaware of breast cancer and seeing the "pink" during an NFL game does somehow shock you into sudden awareness, DO NOT purchase pink NFL gear, which is garish and ultimately clashes terribly with your team's colors anyway. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Give directly to the American Cancer Society! Even if you only give ONE DOLLAR you'll be giving far more for cancer research than if you bought a twenty dollar item from the NFL! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And remember, thanks to President Obama, you now have FREE Mammograms every year. GET THEM!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Never mind the Middle East is burning, the economy is still in need of daily attention as the tea-bag congress REFUSES to do anything but OBSTRUCT, OBSTRUCT, OBSTRUCT, and Social Security and Medicare have become a major battle WITHIN the President's own party...and most importantly of all, WE STILL HAVE TROOPS and INTEL OFFICERS IN HARM'S WAY, people about whom </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">our CURRENT POTUS actually CARES! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But Sununu can only imagine that none of that matters to President Obama because none of that would matter to Mitt Romney, or ANY REPUBLICAN for that matter! President Obama didn't want to take days and days (or months and months, as in Romney's case) to prepare for a single debate against a known liar because he had REAL WORK to do...work that impacts the lives of people ALL AROUND THE GLOBE! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So you, Mr. Sununu and your LYING BUFFOON of a candidate, who stood on a stage with the President of the United States in front of 58 million people and lied his ASS off, time after time after time, can go straight to HELL for all I care, if such a place exists! I'm done playing nice, I'm done being polite and I'm done giving respect where it's not earned. Romney is a lying piece of shit, he's a tax felon (being pardoned doesn't change the fact that he had his money off shore in the first place) and he is not worthy of the office of president. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He would do nothing but throw veterans, the elderly and children to the wolves so that his rich friends could become even MORE rich. What you saw lighting his eyes so feverishly in that debate last night was the light of GREED and AVARICE! He is POSSESSED ...and not by anything holy. He is evil incarnate, and if Ann of the fangs thinks he is so great SHE can worship him as their demented cult demands. I want NONE OF IT!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">President Obama's calm class was appropriate to his status, and it was there for the world to see in split-screen. Almost shocking by contrast was Romney's unbridled disdain for President Obama, the inept mediator, poor Mr. Lehrer, and at least 47% of the audience...as well as ALL of the truth of course, but we're used to that by now. I think Romney showed himself for what he is, a hot-headed, undisciplined, LYING, pandering, posturing, did I mention lying? entitled, snob who sees everyone around him, as a means to an end in what he considers to be the biggest business deal of all, and he thinks acting the Chairman of the Board, will get him everything he wants. He sees himself as a BIG man. I see him as a spoiled little boy who never had to face harsh reality and grow up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tomorrow will be an entirely different day for poor Mr. Romney, because by then those fact checkers will have had time to find all the many inconsistencies and outright lies hidden among all that smirk and smarm. Yes indeedy, President Obama very graciously supplied his opponent plenty of rope with which to hang himself, and hang himself Willard obligingly did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For instance, was it not HIGHLY ironic that MITT ROMNEY scoffed that repeating a lie does not turn it into the truth, given that is PRECISELY what he's been doing all campaign long, in his ads, in interviews, and on the campaign trail, lie after obvious lie? He doesn't just think we're needy, unambitious leeches, he also thinks we're abjectly stupid! I don't know which is more odious about him, his attitude of entitlement by birth or his pandering, because he changes his intentions as frequently as the wind blows. After tonight we can also add his "big bold idea of never mind." Priceless, absolutely priceless. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's sad that we, as a society, have become so accustomed to being hit over the head with "news" sensation bricks that we are blind to texture and refinement and subtlety. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Honestly, if you just watch the debate again you'd see that for each time Obama politely waited for his turn, Romney was shown leering and sneering in a creepy mixture of condescension and avarice that becomes more and more apparent the more desperate the situation becomes...and every time he forces to act as if something comes from the heart he STUTTERS over his words just like W did! It is the exact same syndrome! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When he/they are talking about war or tax cuts for the wealthy they're smooth as oiled silk, but when it's time to talk about how deeeeeply they care for the bayyyybeees and elderly and veterans, it's stutter city! He and Bush could have been birthed from the same test tube! The biggest difference is that at least a person could done a line of coke off a cheerleader's ass with Dubya, and he could do a mean "dead bug" according to his Texas Air National Guard commander. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And whose idea was it to pick, as someone to make Romney more grounded and approachable and detail oriented, someone as blatantly oblivious to the truth as Paul Ryan? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'll have more to say about Mr. Ryan after our Vice President mops up with that oh-so-very-carefully colored and maintained hair of his (nice to know whoever used to work for John Edwards still has a job in Washington) on October 11th, but one thing Paul and Mitt have in common is that 716 billion dollar cut to Medicare that Romney tried to use to excoriate the President. I mean seriously, what a joke! Anyone who is going to bother to make the effort to vote KNOWS Obama used that money to cut waste and fraud and that ol' Mitt and Pauly-boy use it to offset that tax break they're [sic] not giving to their richie-rich 1 percenter buddies. No no no...everything is "deficit neutral" .......HONEST! (Where is my sarcasm font when I need it?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And REALLY Romney will make sure there is PLENTY of insurance coverage for people with pre-existing illnesses. Just trust the leering, lying, puppet man who changes his stories like normal people change socks after stepping in sewer water. Speaking of sewer water, forget the Environmental Protection Agency, or OSHA, or FDA (lame and weak as they are) ...that "deficit neutral" money has to come from somewhere...so a few kids die from e-coli disease because no one's inspecting the meat processing plants known to buy road kill after dusk to use in Wally World hamburger! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes, President Obama remained remarkably calm when faced with Romney's onslaught of horse patooey, but that is in his job description. We can't have someone flying off the handle every time someone pulls attitude with him...not with most of the middle east going up in flames, <i>as I predicted would happen</i>, because George W. Bush decided to invade and occupy a sovereign nation FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON other than greed and left future presidents AND generations to PAY FOR IT!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This is one of the dirtiest of all the ugly tricks from the republican tea bag collection. It goes like this. Write and/or co-sponsor legislation (in order to take credit for it while on the campaign trail) then double back and vote <i>against</i> that same legislation, and in the case of the current job bill for vets, take it one sinister twisted step farther and use the filibuster to <b><i>triple</i></b> back and <i><b>block</b></i> it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If you support using and abusing our veterans this way, by all means vote for republicans this coming election. <b><i>Reward</i></b> them for playing with the lives of our finest men and women who have already given <b><i>so much</i></b> for our country. Be just like Mitt Romney and write them off and turn your back on them and let them fend for themselves. They're just the "<i>little people</i>" right? <b><i>Some of them even get food stamps for their children. They need to take some personal responsibility, for Jesus Christ of Later Days Saints sake! Right? WRONG!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Someone in the Romney camp, someone close enough to him to have a prominent speaking role during the upcoming convention (read big bucks fete for ultra-big bucks donors) had a little whoopsie and let one fly in an unguarded moment...a bit of alcohol related verbal flatulence if you will. I know this person well enough to know his now-adult son broke his arm several years ago when Mr. F.'s open marriage was in a particularly open period, one of his vacation homes is on the Jersey shore and he has a long-time crush on Madeline Stowe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr. Romney is on the record as being...well, let's just say demonstrably weak on diplomatic skills. He is a pro-Israel extremist, not in the way America has always been a strong and stout ally of Israel, but in a militaristic way that had sabres rattling before he'd even been named the official nominee of his party. He became fast friends with Benjamin Netanyahu during his time at Bain, referring to Netanyahu as his buddy Bibi...ugh, and if you doubt that just do a search on "Romney and Netanyahu". Just look out for the sources. Some very reasonable sounding sites (like intelhub.com) have some sane-seeming quotes but are quite NOT sane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Never mind common sense though. Romney isn't a common sense kind of guy. If he doesn't have a doctrine to follow, he's lost. According to my "friend" Mr. Romney does beautifully inside the box, but when it comes to thinking outside a set of rules and regulations and codes and instructions, he is quickly lost. He does not ad lib well. I think we have seen that in the campaign. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Romney has decided in a rare seizure of extemporaneous thinking that his military-action-first ideology works very nicely with his need to cut unemployment and cut it fast--presuming the worst-case scenario of a 2012 Romney/Ryan theft of the presidency through swing-state voter disenfranchisement. Romney must accomplish this without pissing off the monied elite or his Mormon religion, which is the one thing he claims is near and dear to his heart, though I am convinced a heart is one of a handful of organs Mitt Romney was born without or has since had removed as completely vestigial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So... are you really sure there's nothing to get off your ass and vote about? </span>Emmy129http://www.blogger.com/profile/14764878978512460752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487950918716856517.post-43653080351715625272012-07-29T18:20:00.000-05:002012-07-29T18:20:59.435-05:00Understanding the Second Amendment<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Dictionaries and Thesaurus are wonderful things.<br />Regulate<br />(v) <br />define - control or supervise by means of rules and regulations<br />similar - SUPERVISE, police, monitor, check, check up on, be responsible for, manage, direct, guide, govern.<br />origin - late Middle English (in the sense 'control by rules')</div>
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Perhaps you're just a bit slow. Lets take the 2nd Amendment one word at a time.<br />A - used when referring to something<br />well - to a great extent or manner<br />regulated - governed, supervised, monitored...<br />militia - a military force that is raised form the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency... all able-bodied civilians eligible by law for military service.</div>
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There are two crucial parts to the 2nd Amendment, one so crucial they begin the Amendment with it separated by a comma to denote it is a truth that stands on its own. It is the point of the amendment. "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state" .. therefore.. "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."<br />Because it's accepted as fact that the US required a militia for it's safety, for this specific reason, the 2nd amendment ensures the populace who would make up said militia are allowed to bear arms. It doesn't say 'Because you might want to bring a deadly weapon into a political convention, the right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed' or 'because you have manhood issues or hero fantasies or you're afraid your slaves might one day walk free, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'</div>
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Where did they draw their inspiration for the 2nd Amendment?<br />The English Bill of Rights of 1689 is often considered an inspiration for the 2nd Amendment. It guarantees Protestants specifically the right to keep arms to protect themselves from "Papists" after King James II attempted to take their guns. However, it literally states "the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law"<br />First thing you may notice, the right to bear arms in the English Bill of Rights is very specifically granted to one group. Further, it's only granted "as allowed by Law". This is not a so-called 'god given right', it's a right regulated [there's that word again] by other Laws.</div>
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So.. it's generally considered a given that the 2nd Amendment was built upon a limited, regulated right granted to a sub-set of English citizens.<br />What was their motivation for ratifying the 2nd Amendment on Dec. 15, 1791? What was going on?<br />The Continental Army was disbanded after the revolution and the security of the nation was handled by.. wait for it... state militias. Militias that were raised from civilian ranks.. specifically white males of fighting age. We didn't have a standing Army when the 2nd Amendment was drawn up , debated, and ratified.<br />We [the state militias] also just happened to be getting their butts handed to us by Native American tribal forces. General Arthur St. Clair was routed in the Battle of the Wabash by the Blue Jacket and Little Turtle's tribal confederacy in Nov. 1791. That was such a big event that it directly lead to the creation of our 2nd standing army, the Legion of the United States in 1792.</div>
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So.. Why did we get the 2nd Amendment? Because the rag-tag state militias were getting crushed [of 1000 Militia at Wabash only 42 escaped unharmed]. It was so bad that the very next year, in direct opposition to the Founders well-known distrust of standing armies, George Washington raised another standing army.<br />What did we do before allowing the creation of another standing army? We passed an amendment intended to strengthen our state militias. </div>
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* What's this? The Framers mandated the populace buy guns from private industry!?! Washington signed it into law !?!?! That's tyranny! It's Socialism! I bet they were Kenyan-Muslims from the Muslim Brotherhood!! Even more Framers [20 of them] also mandated ship owners buy.. get this.. INSURANCE! for their seamen in 1790. </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">McCain is so addicted to the spin, he spins<i> himself</i>! Even when it comes to his refusal to admit any ill effects, such as flashbacks or nightmares, from his P.O.W. experience, he slaps every other former P.O.W. in the face when he stands before the American people and says he's "never had a single one." That is such clear B.S. ...but he will do anything, he will even turn on fellow past prisoners of war, to keep up his image of "John McCain, War Hero." I respect and honor his service as a fellow veteran, without question, but he's so full of crap when he says he's never given it another thought since coming back. That's not denial, that's a blatant lie. He's no more special than any other man or woman who served and survived over there; he's just quite literally banking on it now.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">McCain is once again trading on his "Honest John" reputation (which some people still find plausible even after the Sarah Palin fiasco) to be ever-faithful mouthpiece for that quite literally UNBELIEVABLE line of bull from the NRA. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our murder rate in the US is 15 times that of other "western" nations, but McCain needs more proof. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course the tea-party will find this need for more proof very soothing to their collective psyche in the wake of this tragedy in a military town of all places. (Never mind the other 35+ people who die every single day in the United States by gun violence--after all they're probably mostly poor or not white.) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please note I say psyche here because I cannot say conscience when it comes to current-day republicans. Clearly conscience as well as common sense, decency and honor, are seriously lacking in the GOP these days. The republican party has become a parody of some kind of evil twin of itself, with John McCain spinning faster than ever in his efforts to remain relevant and above all, marketable.</span></div>Emmy129http://www.blogger.com/profile/14764878978512460752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487950918716856517.post-17194270898246888072012-07-20T18:11:00.001-05:002012-07-20T18:11:46.471-05:00Rush Limbaugh, Words Hurt<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Case in point, Rush Limbaugh's rant this week against the vast left wing conspiracy surrounding the release of the Batman movie with "Bane" as the bad guy, which is pronounced the same as "Bain," Mitt Romney's notorious job outsourcing corporation/person. Rush would have us believe that decades ago, when the Batman series was being written in comic book form, or perhaps just several years ago, when it was being written in movie form, someone had traveled to the future and reported back that Romney was likely to be running as the republican candidate for President in 2012, so the film was then timed for release at that time with the bad guy named after his, at the time unknown corporation/person. This makes perfect sense in Rush-world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Infinitely more troubling, it may have made complete sense to a tortured young man surrounded by his republican-red painted walls, waiting for "a sign" that it was time for him to make his assault-weapon attack on innocent Americans. This is often the case with the gravely mentally ill; they wait for some "signal" that it is the right time for their fantasy plan to unfold. Was Rush's rant this 24 year old doctoral student's undoing? Was it his final straw? Does he, himself even know in the mixed up chemical soup his brain has somehow become? We will never know. What police are likely to get from him is a mixture of rant and pure logic, as he is clearly horrifically damaged somehow yet was able to make his way into a doctoral program. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We would tend to think "something snapped" but it took time to gather all these weapons and the gear he has. It is becoming clear as I write this that this was not an impulsive act and that the man in question was extremely well prepared in advance. He owned several police/FBI-style assault weapons, probably perfectly legally, as well as black police/FBI-style riot gear. His apartment was booby-trapped. At the time of the attack and murders he reportedly had red or orange hair and he called himself "the Joker" to the police, so the Batman movie was not random. We do not know how long he was fascinated by the franchise or for how long he planned this attack, but that trigger was clearly primed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My concern here is that in a nation where literally anyone can get his or her hands on assault weapons, we do not need radio comedy show personalities like Rush Limbaugh (or politicians like Michele Bachmann) spewing hate, even if they <i>are</i> laughing at their gullible listeners all the way to the bank. <i><b>He</b></i> knows and <i><b>we</b></i> know he's just a buffoon, but ludicrous at is may seem, all too many people take his words as absolute Gospel. Some of these people are otherwise sane, even educated professional people. My late brother was a respected medical professional and even gay and as much of a bigot as Rush is, even <i><b>he</b></i> listened to the guy and agreed with him! How does that go...it's all about the Benjamins? Money talks, and in some cases it also kills.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. <u>He cannot possibly be serious</u>. His comments are just way too over the top. He plays to his audience for the money, plain and simple. It's despicable and irresponsible, but perfectly legal. It's immoral and unethical and may now have driven someone that one final step to murder a dozen people and maim seventy-some more, but in his view, hey...it beats working for a living. "Medical care" doesn't come cheap. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. <u>Whatever he's taking is not doing him any favors</u>. Rush is clearly still using, and it is my strong suspicion abusing, some form of mind altering substance(s). My professional observations lead me to suspect a combinations of the drugs Methadone and Xanax, given his history of long-term Oxycontin (O, oxy, o.c., 80's) abuse, fluid retention, massive percentage of adipose (fat) tissue, memory lapses, mood swings, and hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating). This could also be supplemented with sleep medication. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Could you sleep if you did what Rush does for a living? This would also explain his many memory lapses. Like many liars, he has trouble remembering what he's said in the past, which often catches him up when he tries to "walk things back." It's like he forgets he's on tape, but actually he's just numbed himself emotionally. If he weren't such a monstrosity, I'd feel sorry for him. I do NOT mean monstrosity in the physical sense, for the record. That can be changed. What Rush is, I'm afraid, is beyond repair, as much as I wish it weren't so. There is no Wizard to give him a heart, a brain, or the even just the courage to try to be a better man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No, indeed, do not expect any apologies from Rush. In fact, expect him to behave like a rabid attack dog. He will know that people are out here, naming him and Michele Bachmann and people like them for what they're doing.<i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>It's a very fine line to tread, to confront what they do honestly and forthrightly without becoming what I so despise. I stumble from time to time. I get carried away into hyperbole on occasion, but I've never called for violence against anyone, and I try to remember there are real human beings involved in these tragedies. In fact that is exactly what drives me. It is the innocent who so often suffer from the excesses of the powerful and the loud. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The far right wing and their owners, the NRA and other big money power buyers, are so distanced from anything resembling a conscience, this will not be a personal tragedy for them. It won't matter to them that living, breathing, for the most part very young human beings at the very beginning of their lives, are dead. This will be a call to even MORE arms. This is what's so troubling about what I've seen so far. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Poor Ann Romney. Someone sent her into battle with no weapons. I would not make the mistake of comparing her to Sarah Palin however. This was no "deer in the headlights" moment. Willard (Mitt) Romney's woman is well armored. That armor consists of an utter elitist's surety that we, the unwashed masses (upon whose votes her husband's future depends) are so beneath her notice and so ignorant of how the "real" people of the upper classes live, that neither she nor her husband need give us a thought, and that's all there is to the matter. Add a look like one has just smelled something slightly off but is smiling politely if condescendingly anyway and a blink of blocky black false lashes on an otherwise matronly face and you have the most important nugget from Ann Romney's interview today on ABC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now I know how the French peasantry would have felt had Marie Antoinette actually said, in the lead-up to the French Revolution, "let them eat cake." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Prior to this interview I had heard talking head after talking head speak of Ann Romney as being the kinder, gentler Romney. Given Willard's creepy high school history of leading a gang of prep school bullies in an assault against a sad, nonconformist and *gasp* <i>presumed</i> <i>homosexual</i> (no homophobe like a gay homophobe unless perhaps it's a religiously indoctrinated one) it's not hard to picture a kinder person. Then, of course, there's poor Seamus the dog. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When she said her husband had given "you people" ...meaning US, all they were going to, "And that's just the answer," as if she were the queen making a proclamation and full-well expected to be obeyed, I was so taken aback I had to rewatch it several times to make sure I'd really seen and heard what I thought I'd seen and heard. This was another jewel, <span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">“We’ve given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.” YOU PEOPLE? Are you effing kidding me? Did she REALLY just say that on national TV in THAT tone of voice with THAT look on her face? THIS is the nice Romney? What kind of Mormons are they growing these days? I served in the Army with a Mormon girl of 19 (yeah, I know, her parents were not pleased about it either, but she was there) and she was so sweet and soft spoken. Ann Romney is walking proof that power corrupts!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Poor clueless/careless Ann gave away more than she realized and more than I've heard anyone on the talking head shows bring up too. When she made SUCH as issue of her husband's church contributions, she didn't mention it was the MORMON church. Apparently she DID remember that one all-important talking point, which is <u>THE BIG ONE</u>. Why? Because there is a very large group of voters who tend to be southern and tend to vote based on abortion and/or bigotry who would NOT vote for Romney if reminded too often that he's not the "right kind of Christian." They are the voters at whom "dog whistle" words like "different" and "not like us" and "possibly muslim" and other nice ways of expressing the "n" word are aimed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Think of it. This tax issue has, as one commentator stated, reached critical mass, and yet Romney will not budge. He's been more than willing to make an absolute buffoon of himself on virtually EVERYTHING else he's ever said, every single stance he's held on every issue from abortion to xenophobia, yet on the taxes he WILL NOT YIELD. He says it's because it's too complex, yet the taxes were already compiled when McCain vetted him for VP and chose <i>Sarah Palin</i> instead. Whatever is in those taxes isn't just bad, it's<b><i> <u>RADIOACTIVE!</u></i></b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Poor Scotty Walker is in a snit, and he's going to make the most helpless people in Wisconsin pay...with their very lives...literally. If that doesn't show immaturity, blatant cowardice, gross negligence and despicable disregard for human life I don't know what does. In other words, yes, boys and girls, he's an absolute darling among the tea-bagging republican obstructionists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yet this goes beyond politics as usual. Upon learning that Chief Justice Roberts did SEEM, after all, to have a conscience (this will be debated later) the ranting and raving and character assassination began. Somehow I think it was overkill, and I mean that literally and figuratively, because in the end, while Roberts did indeed rule the individual mandate legal, meaning about ONE PERCENT of people in the United States MAY have to pay a small penalty, which is offset by the money they receive from the government and choose not to spend on insurance, he left the Governors of each state a HUGE loop-hole as far as compliance goes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our wonderful Governor, in all his wisdom, has decided to take advantage of this loop-hole. Despite the fact that for three full years the Federal Government would pay 100% for a Medicare expansion which would save the lives of thousands of Wisconsin children and disabled persons (like me, a disabled veteran who does not receive benefits from the Veteran's Administration because my exposure to Agent Orange, etc. happened stateside so apparently doesn't "count") Governor/Dictator Walker is refusing to enact that life saving expansion. He is also refusing to create the insurance negotiation pools which would make health insurance so much less expensive for Wisconsin's workers, but at least the Federal Government can take over that role. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So yes, you have understood me correctly. To get back at Obama, or to make sure people don't get to LIKE the health care bill Walker and his owners have spent multiple BILLIONS of dollars spreading misinformation about, Walker is willing to continue to make people with insurance continue to pay for "free riders" (the people who just go to the ER when sick rather than getting insurance, which causes people who DO have insurance to pay outrageous premiums). He is also willing to see innocent people, most of them unable, not unwilling to work--many of them actually working poor--risk DEATH just to make a political point. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you don't approve of these tactics, make your voice heard in the next election and vote against the republicans who are lying to you, treating you like you have no common sense, and are literally willing to let people in your state DIE. Forget your prejudices and your ONE issue and think of the broader picture here. There is more than the unborn at stake here. Life includes the CHILD too. Can you really call yourself pro-life and vote for someone willing to let people DIE to score political brownie points? I'm not just a veteran. I was also a Newborn Intensive Care RN for many years. I voted for Ronald Reagan and Toby Roth. I too am pro-life, but the republican party can no longer claim to be. </span><br />Emmy129http://www.blogger.com/profile/14764878978512460752noreply@blogger.com0