Friday, May 4, 2012
GOP Saving Women From Eternal Damnation
Since the GOP swept (thundered?) into office state-by-state since 2010, they have systematically written and passed laws across this great land that will save American women from eternal damnation by taking control of and decimating all Pro-Choice (and heretofor LEGAL) healthcare options; by defunding cancer screening availability for the poor and middle class; and by cutting affordable access to birth control even when access to certain drugs is necessary to combat cysts, cancer, etc.
The reasoning of these predominently caucasian men echoes a primary tenant of conservative Christian Right-ness: that women of any race, creed or education are incapable of making informed, moral, ethical or righteous decisions when it comes to their reproductive and/or other internal organs.
A vote for Mitt Romney, a Morman whose religion bars women from any power or leadership position in ministry (a position far beyond that taken by Catholics) and who has embraced the state-by-state reduction of woman personhood in favor of the personhood of TWO CELLS!!! and who has supported the many laws that have wrestled away a woman's autonomy ... voting for this chamaleon of many colors/ideas/professed beliefs/ this Romney who has supported the RYAN BUDGET that will gut childhood lunch and Planned Parenthood programs but give an extra $200,000 a year to millionaires ... this will be another blow to the sacred self-determination of 51% of America's adults. Females.
If you believe that women are second citizens without morals or reasoning or the ability to rule their own lives and bodies or that this world is a better place when women are IN THEIR PLACE, vote RED/GOP.
If you feel that women should master their fates; be responsible for their pasts, futures and progeny; and have the same opportunities as men, vote for Mr. Obama. Why? Just look at his family ... his two daughters and his intelligent, powerful, strong, attractive spouse. His choice in a partner will tell you all you need to know about his opinon of women ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Elect Santorum and Get the Pope in a Twofer!
Rick Santorum is a Catholic whose religion overrides everything else in his life. His world views, circa 1949, would be laughable if they weren't so scary. Return women to uninterrupted pregnancy; keep them barefoot; keep them so busy raising and teaching children they can't affect the world around them or even the choices in their own lives.
Castigate and revile gays and lesbians and preclude them from enjoying the same legal protections as heteros. Oh, and don't forget to remind them THEY ARE GOING TO HELL.
There's a reason to separate church and state. Santorum is the poster child for this wise decision from the framers of our Constitution - unless of course, you're excited about getting the Pope as our real president! The way Cheney was the real president during W's 8 years.
"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God, the things that are God's."
Even Jesus of Nazareth understood the separation of church and state.
Castigate and revile gays and lesbians and preclude them from enjoying the same legal protections as heteros. Oh, and don't forget to remind them THEY ARE GOING TO HELL.
There's a reason to separate church and state. Santorum is the poster child for this wise decision from the framers of our Constitution - unless of course, you're excited about getting the Pope as our real president! The way Cheney was the real president during W's 8 years.
"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God, the things that are God's."
Even Jesus of Nazareth understood the separation of church and state.
Friday, February 3, 2012
AZ Gov Brewer Hastens Cancer Deaths
GOV. JAN BREWER HASTENS CANCER DEATHS
Gov. Brewer, we’d like to introduce you to our friend, Lucy, an Arizona resident. Unfortunately, due to the fiscal policies enacted by you and your Republican cohorts, this hapless young woman died in January, 2012 at the ripe old age of 42. So you can rejoice! Another deadbeat your tax payers won’t have to support fell silently off the rolls. Well, maybe not quite THAT silently … we’re still in her corner.
After watching many of the Republican presidential debates and listening to the cynical and often heartless audiences cheering for executions and a hypothetical young man dying of cancer because he had no health insurance, it is obvious that your feelings and decisions regarding “the least of these, My brethren,” are in lock step with conservatives everywhere across this grand land. Ayn Rand would be proud – and so should you!
For some reason, the party of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy believe Lucy got herself into her situation through her own laziness or her inability to properly handle money … or maybe even because of a gambling or drug addiction. But you would all be wrong.
Lucy graduated from a 4 year college in Arizona; worked in radio; went back to school for her Masters and became a teacher with adequate health benefits. Then she got her cancer diagnosis and took leave to fight her disease. When she was fired for taking leave, she lost her benefits. In short order: Lucy could not get a job; was initially denied for SSDI; and subsequently signed up for state assistance under Arizona’s ACCESS plan.
While she awaited a response from the state, she tried selling jewelry online and even held a yard sale to raise money for her cancer treatments. The state eventually approved ACCESS which gave Lucy medical benefits but no income to live on. Of course, by then the cancer had spread to her hips and liver.
Always a fighter, Lucy started the chemo and after four treatments, she was notified that her SSDI appeal was approved and that she would be receiving disability. But under Arizona law, Lucy no longer qualified for ACCESS. So now she had income to pay rent and utilities but had no insurance to continue her cancer treatments. She went to court and the judge said sorry that’s the law.
Gov. Brewer, the most blessed of the terminally ill live out their last days saying goodbye or finalizing the last bits and pieces of a too short life. Instead Lucy, and all those like her in your state, will continue to engage in a losing battle against governmental red tape right up to the bitter end, all the while understanding in their hearts they never had a fighting chance.
Gov. Brewer, your policies and those of your state legislators helped put this woman where she is; in the ground. Congratulations! You have knocked thousands of the terminally ill, profoundly handicapped and transplant patients without absurdly expensive insurance into the aid boondocks, thereby adding tremendously to their burdens – and those of the folks who love them. You should be shouting to the rooftops what you and your fellow Republicans have accomplished! When it comes to saving money and cutting off all support for the most dispossessed in your society – and what a financial drag THOSE people have been – you have succeeded beyond even your wildest dreams. Of course, Arizona spends about $60,000 per inmate on Death Row – more than enough to pay for cancer treatments in many cases. But it’s obvious that, to folks like you, executing the living is way more important than saving the dying.
As for Lucy? Well, she thankfully left your tender Darwinian mercies behind. And whatever else you do, please don’t be hypocritical. Don’t give her death a second thought when you thought so little about her life. We knew Lucy well and have no doubt that the Carpenter from Nazareth will welcome her with open arms. We have to wonder, though, what your fate will be when your time comes.
Reprinted with the permission of:
Lucinda Sue Crosby
Laura Dobbins
Ridgecrest, CA
Gov. Brewer, we’d like to introduce you to our friend, Lucy, an Arizona resident. Unfortunately, due to the fiscal policies enacted by you and your Republican cohorts, this hapless young woman died in January, 2012 at the ripe old age of 42. So you can rejoice! Another deadbeat your tax payers won’t have to support fell silently off the rolls. Well, maybe not quite THAT silently … we’re still in her corner.
After watching many of the Republican presidential debates and listening to the cynical and often heartless audiences cheering for executions and a hypothetical young man dying of cancer because he had no health insurance, it is obvious that your feelings and decisions regarding “the least of these, My brethren,” are in lock step with conservatives everywhere across this grand land. Ayn Rand would be proud – and so should you!
For some reason, the party of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy believe Lucy got herself into her situation through her own laziness or her inability to properly handle money … or maybe even because of a gambling or drug addiction. But you would all be wrong.
Lucy graduated from a 4 year college in Arizona; worked in radio; went back to school for her Masters and became a teacher with adequate health benefits. Then she got her cancer diagnosis and took leave to fight her disease. When she was fired for taking leave, she lost her benefits. In short order: Lucy could not get a job; was initially denied for SSDI; and subsequently signed up for state assistance under Arizona’s ACCESS plan.
While she awaited a response from the state, she tried selling jewelry online and even held a yard sale to raise money for her cancer treatments. The state eventually approved ACCESS which gave Lucy medical benefits but no income to live on. Of course, by then the cancer had spread to her hips and liver.
Always a fighter, Lucy started the chemo and after four treatments, she was notified that her SSDI appeal was approved and that she would be receiving disability. But under Arizona law, Lucy no longer qualified for ACCESS. So now she had income to pay rent and utilities but had no insurance to continue her cancer treatments. She went to court and the judge said sorry that’s the law.
Gov. Brewer, the most blessed of the terminally ill live out their last days saying goodbye or finalizing the last bits and pieces of a too short life. Instead Lucy, and all those like her in your state, will continue to engage in a losing battle against governmental red tape right up to the bitter end, all the while understanding in their hearts they never had a fighting chance.
Gov. Brewer, your policies and those of your state legislators helped put this woman where she is; in the ground. Congratulations! You have knocked thousands of the terminally ill, profoundly handicapped and transplant patients without absurdly expensive insurance into the aid boondocks, thereby adding tremendously to their burdens – and those of the folks who love them. You should be shouting to the rooftops what you and your fellow Republicans have accomplished! When it comes to saving money and cutting off all support for the most dispossessed in your society – and what a financial drag THOSE people have been – you have succeeded beyond even your wildest dreams. Of course, Arizona spends about $60,000 per inmate on Death Row – more than enough to pay for cancer treatments in many cases. But it’s obvious that, to folks like you, executing the living is way more important than saving the dying.
As for Lucy? Well, she thankfully left your tender Darwinian mercies behind. And whatever else you do, please don’t be hypocritical. Don’t give her death a second thought when you thought so little about her life. We knew Lucy well and have no doubt that the Carpenter from Nazareth will welcome her with open arms. We have to wonder, though, what your fate will be when your time comes.
Reprinted with the permission of:
Lucinda Sue Crosby
Laura Dobbins
Ridgecrest, CA
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
GOP's America: Only the RICH need aply
Ronald Reagan opened the floodgates of the worship of the all-mighty dollar ... as if only rich folks were good Christians or good Americans. Since then, our nation seems ever more driven to greed - indeed, the Bush tax cuts wrestled moolah from the wallets and billfolds of the poor and the middle class and threw it at the wealthiest of the wealthy. And yet, HOW MANY NET JOBS WERE CREATED IN THE DECADE FOLLOWING THE BUSH TAX CUTS?
It seems obvious that Senators and Representatives benefit from low taxes for the rich, which is one good reason for their proclivities. Voting on attendant measures, therefore might be a terrible but unnoticed conflict of interest.
Secondary education, the one great leveler for any society, is out of reach for most without mountainous and ruinous debt as its legacy ... difficult to pay back when many companies, holding hundreds of billions of dollars in profits, are not hiring broadly. And if and when they do hire, the positions are more often than not $10-$12 an hour and lacking benefits. Try paying back an $80,000 college bill on that scenario!
These days, most bankruptcies are not caused by houses repossessed or under water but by MEDICAL CATASTROPHE. Why then are medical insurance companies not subject to anti-trust laws like every other business except ML Baseball? The cost of a sparse policy is galloping further out of reach for most of us.
When did America become the land of the rich, with government of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy?
The GOP has been assiduously attempting for years both to eliminate the poor altogether (don't they cheer at the mention of folks with no medical benefits dying?) and to crush the middle class. A well educated worker pool who'll take ANY JOB means more black in the bottom line. So far, they are doing a fabulous job of making the rich richer .. while the rest of us poor slobs are sucking hind tit.
A cat named Grover Norquist and the billionaire Koch Brothers are behind a lot of this class war - a class war that's been raging for decades and was NOT started by any progressive.
If you want to kill America, vote RED next time out.
It seems obvious that Senators and Representatives benefit from low taxes for the rich, which is one good reason for their proclivities. Voting on attendant measures, therefore might be a terrible but unnoticed conflict of interest.
Secondary education, the one great leveler for any society, is out of reach for most without mountainous and ruinous debt as its legacy ... difficult to pay back when many companies, holding hundreds of billions of dollars in profits, are not hiring broadly. And if and when they do hire, the positions are more often than not $10-$12 an hour and lacking benefits. Try paying back an $80,000 college bill on that scenario!
These days, most bankruptcies are not caused by houses repossessed or under water but by MEDICAL CATASTROPHE. Why then are medical insurance companies not subject to anti-trust laws like every other business except ML Baseball? The cost of a sparse policy is galloping further out of reach for most of us.
When did America become the land of the rich, with government of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy?
The GOP has been assiduously attempting for years both to eliminate the poor altogether (don't they cheer at the mention of folks with no medical benefits dying?) and to crush the middle class. A well educated worker pool who'll take ANY JOB means more black in the bottom line. So far, they are doing a fabulous job of making the rich richer .. while the rest of us poor slobs are sucking hind tit.
A cat named Grover Norquist and the billionaire Koch Brothers are behind a lot of this class war - a class war that's been raging for decades and was NOT started by any progressive.
If you want to kill America, vote RED next time out.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
GOP creates circular firing squad
There is something to be said for the gifted amateur ... but not in politics. Successful business tycoons like Donald Trump and Herman Cain proved they could lead the polls - for a month or two maybe. Thin skinned, opinionated, tough talking, tactless, profit-driven egoists, they have a lot in common. But a president is not a dictator and Trump's and Cain's "My Way or the Highway" leadership style doesn't track well with the American people. Obviously.
Trump and Cain rarely hear the word "no" from any underling, including expert political wonks with valuable experience and an invaluable working knowledge of how the election process actually works.
When they do, they don't listen. Obviously. Good!
We'll see if Herman Cain can doubletalk or tripletalk his way out of his current predicament as it remains to be seen how many women who complained about his inappropriate sexual inuendo in the past, AND WERE COMPENSATED FOR THEIR TROUBLE, will make themselves known in present time to defend their reputations.
We watched gleefully as Ann Curry, the Trumpster and His Rotundity Rush Limbaugh waded into the fray. The result resembles a circular firing squad. And this is still 2011!!! Do Conservatives honestly believe that "Our blacks are better than their blacks"? Do they agree with Herman Cain that there is no racism in the US? Oops ... Mr. Cain now accuses the press of ... racism ... for reporting this story.
The circus has come to town and all the usual suspects and players are costumed in Greedy Old Party RED.
Incidentally, we envy Saturday Night Live writers who won't need to come up with even one original skit idea, much less script dialogue for the next 10 months.
Trump and Cain rarely hear the word "no" from any underling, including expert political wonks with valuable experience and an invaluable working knowledge of how the election process actually works.
When they do, they don't listen. Obviously. Good!
We'll see if Herman Cain can doubletalk or tripletalk his way out of his current predicament as it remains to be seen how many women who complained about his inappropriate sexual inuendo in the past, AND WERE COMPENSATED FOR THEIR TROUBLE, will make themselves known in present time to defend their reputations.
We watched gleefully as Ann Curry, the Trumpster and His Rotundity Rush Limbaugh waded into the fray. The result resembles a circular firing squad. And this is still 2011!!! Do Conservatives honestly believe that "Our blacks are better than their blacks"? Do they agree with Herman Cain that there is no racism in the US? Oops ... Mr. Cain now accuses the press of ... racism ... for reporting this story.
The circus has come to town and all the usual suspects and players are costumed in Greedy Old Party RED.
Incidentally, we envy Saturday Night Live writers who won't need to come up with even one original skit idea, much less script dialogue for the next 10 months.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
GOP crowd applauds insuranceless death, executions
A disturbing trend is manifesting from the attitudes of GOP presidential candidates, insinuating itself into the bone marrow of Tea Party-affiliated debate-goers ... or is it the other way around?
Why are Republicans openly cheering the hypothetical death of an insuranceless man or the huge number of Texas executions, and on national TV yet?
These folks ... both the talkees and the talkers ... all profess to be Christians but what might the Carpenter from Nazareth say about their behavior? He forgave EVERYBODY, including murderers and He ministered to the sick and insane, giving them the greatest healthcare ever seen on Planet Earth. Without charging a cent!
Republicans never vote against their own self-interest, especially with regard to their pocketbooks. They should remember that it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a nedle than for a wealthy man to enter the gates of Heaven. Hey, don't look at me - I'm just quoting scripture!
Why are Republicans openly cheering the hypothetical death of an insuranceless man or the huge number of Texas executions, and on national TV yet?
These folks ... both the talkees and the talkers ... all profess to be Christians but what might the Carpenter from Nazareth say about their behavior? He forgave EVERYBODY, including murderers and He ministered to the sick and insane, giving them the greatest healthcare ever seen on Planet Earth. Without charging a cent!
Republicans never vote against their own self-interest, especially with regard to their pocketbooks. They should remember that it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a nedle than for a wealthy man to enter the gates of Heaven. Hey, don't look at me - I'm just quoting scripture!
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Gov Perry Could Sell Hunting Permits for Convicted Murderers, Make $
Gov. Perry has made a SPLASH into the GOP Prexy field. He's always bragging on how many jobs he has created. Of course, most are at or below minimum wage, second only to Mississippi in this stat.
But this happy confluence helps fulfill rich Repubs need for a slave class.
I have an idea on how he could REALLY make some moolah.
Texans love to execute their convicted murderers (don't they have more folks on Death Row than just about anyone else and haven't they set a record pace for killing them?). Texans also LOVE to hunt.
Why not combine the two for a tasty and unusual blood sport? For $10,000, you get your very own murderer to hunt down and kill. The convict doesn't get a weapon and the hunter doesn't get to use dogs.You do get photos with your bounty suitable for framing at no extra charge.
Picture the taxidermist possibilities! Talk about a trophy ... You'd fill Texas' coffers in no time flat.
But this happy confluence helps fulfill rich Repubs need for a slave class.
I have an idea on how he could REALLY make some moolah.
Texans love to execute their convicted murderers (don't they have more folks on Death Row than just about anyone else and haven't they set a record pace for killing them?). Texans also LOVE to hunt.
Why not combine the two for a tasty and unusual blood sport? For $10,000, you get your very own murderer to hunt down and kill. The convict doesn't get a weapon and the hunter doesn't get to use dogs.You do get photos with your bounty suitable for framing at no extra charge.
Picture the taxidermist possibilities! Talk about a trophy ... You'd fill Texas' coffers in no time flat.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Reward King Herod, punish Jesus, Mary and Joseph
1) Many Senators and Representatives are wealthy - therefore voting in favor of tax cuts for the rich benefits THEM. Is this a conflict of interest? And if they are so damned concerned about the deficit, why don't they take a 20% cut in staff allotment, pay, benefits?
2) After ten years of tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, the economy exploded ... and not in a good way! Bush's job creation legacy is in the minus column.
3) America boomed in decades where the richest Americans payed high tax rates, the 1950s, 60s 70s. GI's could return from service to country and buy a house AND go to college! Then came Ronald Reagan - he helped us replace worship of God with worship of the almighty dollar. Now many vets have no health care and are homeless - forget college! And the rich got richer while the poor got poorer. Cain asked God, :Am I my brother's keeper?"
4) In this sacred season, the Republicans have scrapped and slashed aid and will continue to slash and scrap aid to families like Jesus, Mary and Joseph - poor, dispossessed - and are fighting like mad to pile more wealth on folks like King Herod. Merry Flipping Christmas and a happy New Year!
2) After ten years of tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, the economy exploded ... and not in a good way! Bush's job creation legacy is in the minus column.
3) America boomed in decades where the richest Americans payed high tax rates, the 1950s, 60s 70s. GI's could return from service to country and buy a house AND go to college! Then came Ronald Reagan - he helped us replace worship of God with worship of the almighty dollar. Now many vets have no health care and are homeless - forget college! And the rich got richer while the poor got poorer. Cain asked God, :Am I my brother's keeper?"
4) In this sacred season, the Republicans have scrapped and slashed aid and will continue to slash and scrap aid to families like Jesus, Mary and Joseph - poor, dispossessed - and are fighting like mad to pile more wealth on folks like King Herod. Merry Flipping Christmas and a happy New Year!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Tea Party Candidate Darlings are big ass nutburger sandwich
What in the hideous Hades has happened to the GOP? (Goofy Odd People) candidates across the United States are acting and sounding like buffoons, spouting wildly inaccurate descriptions of “The Constitution”; swearing to tear down Social Security and Medicare; and wallowing like cockroaches in excrement in the glory of their seemingly increasing states of ignorance and wide eyed naïveté. Every time they open their eyes, they see a brand new world … and embrace a brand new set of crazy-ass platform planks.
Dr Rand Paul down there in Kentucky claims to be a “Board Certified” ophthalmologist. Except of course, HE founded that particular medical Board. Is that ethical? He has said he does NOT "necessarilly" agree with the Voting Rights Act or the Americans with Disabilities Act or that any business should be forced to abandon racism in its common practice. Hey, if somebody wants to refuse service to blacks, gays, crippled war vets, the blind or midgets – that’s his prerogative and their tough luck. He calls it Libertarianism and swears he’s a “strict constitutionalist.” That means he’d revoke the vote for women if only he could.
Delaware’s own Repub Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, that witchiest of women, refutes that a separation of church and state exists in the First Amendment. She assures that condoms don’t protect against HIV-Aids, contradicting the CDC and World Health Org – but what do they know?. She also dismisses evolution out of hand (in her case, she could be right) and would insist that Creationism be taught instead. Megan McCain has called the anti-self-sex champion a “joke” a “nut job” and “an embarrassment.” GOP Partee Head Michael Steele and Megan’s daddio, Sen John (that OTHER McCain), have both expressed a belief that O’Donnell is qualified to serve in the US Senate. Well, let’s not forget that addled and cantankerous John McCain picked a running mate whose foreign policy experience, by her own admission, sprang from the fact that she could see Russia from her Alaskan back yard … a person who couldn’t name a Supreme Court Case she disagreed with … like the one regarding the Exxon-Valdez disaster which took place in … ALASKA!
And leave us not omit Nevada Senate runner Sharron Angle. She would eradicate Social Security, Medicare and the Departments of Education and Energy. Interestingly, she has been endorsed by the Church of Scientology, many of whose beliefs she has espoused in the past. Most recently, she attempted to copyright all her previous policy statements so they couldn’t be used in ads against her by her opponent, Harry Reid.
Colorado’s Ken Buck would require any little girl who was raped by her father or Uncle or other family member to bear a child if she became pregnant from this abuse. In fact, Ken Buck would like to see a time when that little girl, that poor dear rape victim, would be criminally prosecuted for having an abortion.
This Fearsome Foursome represent the tippy top of the scariest ice berg to threaten America since the sinking of the Titanic.
America – look closely at your election options and VOTE FOR SANITY on November 2.
Dr Rand Paul down there in Kentucky claims to be a “Board Certified” ophthalmologist. Except of course, HE founded that particular medical Board. Is that ethical? He has said he does NOT "necessarilly" agree with the Voting Rights Act or the Americans with Disabilities Act or that any business should be forced to abandon racism in its common practice. Hey, if somebody wants to refuse service to blacks, gays, crippled war vets, the blind or midgets – that’s his prerogative and their tough luck. He calls it Libertarianism and swears he’s a “strict constitutionalist.” That means he’d revoke the vote for women if only he could.
Delaware’s own Repub Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, that witchiest of women, refutes that a separation of church and state exists in the First Amendment. She assures that condoms don’t protect against HIV-Aids, contradicting the CDC and World Health Org – but what do they know?. She also dismisses evolution out of hand (in her case, she could be right) and would insist that Creationism be taught instead. Megan McCain has called the anti-self-sex champion a “joke” a “nut job” and “an embarrassment.” GOP Partee Head Michael Steele and Megan’s daddio, Sen John (that OTHER McCain), have both expressed a belief that O’Donnell is qualified to serve in the US Senate. Well, let’s not forget that addled and cantankerous John McCain picked a running mate whose foreign policy experience, by her own admission, sprang from the fact that she could see Russia from her Alaskan back yard … a person who couldn’t name a Supreme Court Case she disagreed with … like the one regarding the Exxon-Valdez disaster which took place in … ALASKA!
And leave us not omit Nevada Senate runner Sharron Angle. She would eradicate Social Security, Medicare and the Departments of Education and Energy. Interestingly, she has been endorsed by the Church of Scientology, many of whose beliefs she has espoused in the past. Most recently, she attempted to copyright all her previous policy statements so they couldn’t be used in ads against her by her opponent, Harry Reid.
Colorado’s Ken Buck would require any little girl who was raped by her father or Uncle or other family member to bear a child if she became pregnant from this abuse. In fact, Ken Buck would like to see a time when that little girl, that poor dear rape victim, would be criminally prosecuted for having an abortion.
This Fearsome Foursome represent the tippy top of the scariest ice berg to threaten America since the sinking of the Titanic.
America – look closely at your election options and VOTE FOR SANITY on November 2.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Women Priests for Catholic Church?
Why does the Catholic Church continue to prohibit women from being ordained priests?
There are references to women disciples in the New Testament. Mary Magdalen was certainly a noted friend and follower of Jesus of Nazareth and showed up numerable times when the male followers were cowering in fear, and denying their Lord.
Pope Benedict XVI recently likened ordaining women priests to "the sin of pedophelia."
A lack of priests in general here in the US has certainly contributed to lessening attendance. How much religious guidance or pastoral support can you get from a man who is saying five masses in three different cities on any given Sunday, as is happening in eastern Idaho?
And yet the current pope compares ordaining women to "the sin of pedophelia?"
The Catholic Church canon law was written in centuries - or even millennia past - when women were considered property; when women couldn't vote; when women couldn't inherit or own property in their own name; when war lords and kings sealed political bargains through marriage or traded cows and wheat for a bride.
Maybe His Holiness should try life in the 21st century and ordain women to the priesthood. God created no second class citizens and is not responsible for and certainly doesn't encourage second class thinking.
There are references to women disciples in the New Testament. Mary Magdalen was certainly a noted friend and follower of Jesus of Nazareth and showed up numerable times when the male followers were cowering in fear, and denying their Lord.
Pope Benedict XVI recently likened ordaining women priests to "the sin of pedophelia."
A lack of priests in general here in the US has certainly contributed to lessening attendance. How much religious guidance or pastoral support can you get from a man who is saying five masses in three different cities on any given Sunday, as is happening in eastern Idaho?
And yet the current pope compares ordaining women to "the sin of pedophelia?"
The Catholic Church canon law was written in centuries - or even millennia past - when women were considered property; when women couldn't vote; when women couldn't inherit or own property in their own name; when war lords and kings sealed political bargains through marriage or traded cows and wheat for a bride.
Maybe His Holiness should try life in the 21st century and ordain women to the priesthood. God created no second class citizens and is not responsible for and certainly doesn't encourage second class thinking.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
GOP = tax cuts for the rich: why?
Many Republican senators and congressional representatives - and a few democrats - feel impelled to fight for extending the Bush tax cuts for the richest folks in America - millionaires and billionaires. This idea of rewarding the already wealthy originally became the government's fiscal version of the Nicene Creed under President Ronald Reagan. Some sanity prevailed during the Clinton years and then ... all hell broke lose under "W."
Republicans will swear to you that we must protect our millionaires and billionaires (the Ronald Reagans and George Bushes of the world) so that they can continue their hiring practices that so stimulate the enconomy.
Except the super rich DON'T stimulate the economy by spending or hiring nearly as much as one might think. They buy lavishly to a point. But with their extra money, they save, buy stock, buy real estate. They don't hire another chauffeur or maid or butler where one will suffice. They don't invest in making widgets, they invest in trust funds for their children and grandchildren.
Ordinary folks like the rest of us don't HAVE extra money. When we get a little more than we need for food, fuel and rent, we usually spend it on something frivolous ... like braces for our 12-yer old or a warm winter coat that actually fits the 14-year old that shot up 6 inches last year - or even a few more fresh vegetables during the weekly marketing trip.
These purchases do stimulate the economy because the money is circulating from hand to hand and not sitting quietly in an account somewhere.
In the past two decades or so, the wealthiest 2% of Americans have seen their bottom line rise by over 200%!!! Income levels for the poor and middle class have only risen from 8% to 16%.
We have subsidized the rich's increasing success through OUR INCREASED TAXES to the tune of thousands of dollars per person.
This is called the trickle down theory. Has it been working for YOU and YOUR FAMILY?
Remember in November!!!!
Republicans will swear to you that we must protect our millionaires and billionaires (the Ronald Reagans and George Bushes of the world) so that they can continue their hiring practices that so stimulate the enconomy.
Except the super rich DON'T stimulate the economy by spending or hiring nearly as much as one might think. They buy lavishly to a point. But with their extra money, they save, buy stock, buy real estate. They don't hire another chauffeur or maid or butler where one will suffice. They don't invest in making widgets, they invest in trust funds for their children and grandchildren.
Ordinary folks like the rest of us don't HAVE extra money. When we get a little more than we need for food, fuel and rent, we usually spend it on something frivolous ... like braces for our 12-yer old or a warm winter coat that actually fits the 14-year old that shot up 6 inches last year - or even a few more fresh vegetables during the weekly marketing trip.
These purchases do stimulate the economy because the money is circulating from hand to hand and not sitting quietly in an account somewhere.
In the past two decades or so, the wealthiest 2% of Americans have seen their bottom line rise by over 200%!!! Income levels for the poor and middle class have only risen from 8% to 16%.
We have subsidized the rich's increasing success through OUR INCREASED TAXES to the tune of thousands of dollars per person.
This is called the trickle down theory. Has it been working for YOU and YOUR FAMILY?
Remember in November!!!!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
"Dove" preacher endangers USA, will burn Holy Bible
Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center said he plans to go forward with the burning of the Quran (Koran)this Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Gen. David Petraeus commented in an email to AP that this move would incite violence against the US military overseas and that images of a burning Quran would help our enemies recruit new followers.
Isn't the dove a symbol of Peace?
Isn't Pastor Terry a Christian church leader? Would Jesus make this move?
Does Pastor Terry even realize that the New Testament is part of the Quran ... as is the Old Testament? Or is he ignorant of the fact that in order to burn the Muslim holy book, he will also be burning the Gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John along with the Pentateuch.
What percentage of Islamic faithful was responsible for the World Trade Center bombing? .003? Or less? So why defame an entire race of people? Is he a white supremacist?
Is Pastor Terry anti-American military? On the side of terrorist recruitment? Where was he born? What seminary did he graduate from?
Does the Republican leadership support this move? Pat Robertson, where are YOU?
America deserves answers to these questions.
Over but never out, Scud Downing
Gen. David Petraeus commented in an email to AP that this move would incite violence against the US military overseas and that images of a burning Quran would help our enemies recruit new followers.
Isn't the dove a symbol of Peace?
Isn't Pastor Terry a Christian church leader? Would Jesus make this move?
Does Pastor Terry even realize that the New Testament is part of the Quran ... as is the Old Testament? Or is he ignorant of the fact that in order to burn the Muslim holy book, he will also be burning the Gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John along with the Pentateuch.
What percentage of Islamic faithful was responsible for the World Trade Center bombing? .003? Or less? So why defame an entire race of people? Is he a white supremacist?
Is Pastor Terry anti-American military? On the side of terrorist recruitment? Where was he born? What seminary did he graduate from?
Does the Republican leadership support this move? Pat Robertson, where are YOU?
America deserves answers to these questions.
Over but never out, Scud Downing
Friday, August 27, 2010
Glenn Beck, denigrates Dr. King, gets rid of O'Reilly
Why would Glenn Beck, aka King Fear, schedule a rally of any kind on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech? On the exact same site? Beck SWEARS this is a "coincidence" and that he was totally unaware of the date's significance.
How could he and everyone else employed by his 24/7 publicity machine not be aware of the anniversary of one of the greatest speeches ever made? Unless of course he is totally ingnorant of recent American history in general, or of the recent accomplishments of non-white Americans in general ... Dr. King's oration is still an exemplar of powerful,inspiring, purposeful, helpful and enlightening, even soaring rhetoric at it's finest.
Could the Terror Tyrant possibly be THAT clueless?
Or maybe he DID know and cleverly plotted to display his well known contempt for blacks, as commonly demonstrated by his references to President Obama as a racist or his continual and continuous denigration of prominent African Americans, to an adoring Tea Party and Mrs. Palin while generating scads of publicity for all the wrong reasons.
Even fellow Fox banalist Greta Van Susteren remonstrated that Beck's booking an event on this date at this location was like Muslims wanting to build a cultural center five blocks from Ground Zero - perfectly legal but not "sensitive." Another Fox idealogue, Bill O'Reilly, has pooh-poohed Beck estimates of 300,000 people attending. Bill even promised to give up his own show if more than 100,000 folks showed up.
Hmmmmm
Fox often hugely over-estimates attendance at Tea Party rallies and substitues video from a different venue, making certain gatherings appear much more well populated than they actually are. This confluence of circumstances could lead Bill into retirement! And Beck could wind up getting rid of his biggest competitor while sullying a great day in American history.
Wow.
Over but never out,
Scud Downing
How could he and everyone else employed by his 24/7 publicity machine not be aware of the anniversary of one of the greatest speeches ever made? Unless of course he is totally ingnorant of recent American history in general, or of the recent accomplishments of non-white Americans in general ... Dr. King's oration is still an exemplar of powerful,inspiring, purposeful, helpful and enlightening, even soaring rhetoric at it's finest.
Could the Terror Tyrant possibly be THAT clueless?
Or maybe he DID know and cleverly plotted to display his well known contempt for blacks, as commonly demonstrated by his references to President Obama as a racist or his continual and continuous denigration of prominent African Americans, to an adoring Tea Party and Mrs. Palin while generating scads of publicity for all the wrong reasons.
Even fellow Fox banalist Greta Van Susteren remonstrated that Beck's booking an event on this date at this location was like Muslims wanting to build a cultural center five blocks from Ground Zero - perfectly legal but not "sensitive." Another Fox idealogue, Bill O'Reilly, has pooh-poohed Beck estimates of 300,000 people attending. Bill even promised to give up his own show if more than 100,000 folks showed up.
Hmmmmm
Fox often hugely over-estimates attendance at Tea Party rallies and substitues video from a different venue, making certain gatherings appear much more well populated than they actually are. This confluence of circumstances could lead Bill into retirement! And Beck could wind up getting rid of his biggest competitor while sullying a great day in American history.
Wow.
Over but never out,
Scud Downing
Friday, August 20, 2010
Mrs. Palin is language elitist, radical
Sarah Palin believes and actually said that “feminists” are “A cackle of rads who want 2 crucify other women w/whom they disagree on a singular issue; it's ironic (& passé).”
This could be a case of the kettle calling out the pot for cooking up a tempest in a tea pot!
Haven’t she and husband Todd been involved for decades in an extremist form of Conservative Christianity that practices exorcism and demands a woman’s unwavering obedience to her husband? Sounds pretty radical to me, at least for AMERICA.
Isn’t her husband a long-time member of a political activist group that is STILL working to have Alaska secede from the U.S.? If THAT isn’t radical, I don’t know her brains from horse hockey.
What exactly IS a cackle as used in this setting? Is it meant to be denigrating? Why does Mrs. Palin display an almost obsessive need to mis-use words or create new words when the good old American-style English language contains adequate nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs for real Americans with real working knowledge of same? This constantly placing herself above English vocabulary and grammar rules, not to mention those that use them, feels a tad elitist, doesn’t it?
Did she receive enough English language education in Alaska during her formative years? Perhaps she could take a refresher course along with additional studies of world history (why DID North and South Korea split up, anyway?), foreign policy (look! I can see the leeward side of an island ruled by the Kremlin!) or good manners. Could her constant attack-mode communication methods represent the acting out of deep-seated insecurity?
Doth she protest too much?
As for her opinions about feminists … who does she think fought for and secured her right to vote? Or her right to own property independently of her husband? Or her eligibility to be a Mayor? Or a governor? Or even her right to disagree?
America deserves answers to these questions.
Over but never out,
Scud Downing
This could be a case of the kettle calling out the pot for cooking up a tempest in a tea pot!
Haven’t she and husband Todd been involved for decades in an extremist form of Conservative Christianity that practices exorcism and demands a woman’s unwavering obedience to her husband? Sounds pretty radical to me, at least for AMERICA.
Isn’t her husband a long-time member of a political activist group that is STILL working to have Alaska secede from the U.S.? If THAT isn’t radical, I don’t know her brains from horse hockey.
What exactly IS a cackle as used in this setting? Is it meant to be denigrating? Why does Mrs. Palin display an almost obsessive need to mis-use words or create new words when the good old American-style English language contains adequate nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs for real Americans with real working knowledge of same? This constantly placing herself above English vocabulary and grammar rules, not to mention those that use them, feels a tad elitist, doesn’t it?
Did she receive enough English language education in Alaska during her formative years? Perhaps she could take a refresher course along with additional studies of world history (why DID North and South Korea split up, anyway?), foreign policy (look! I can see the leeward side of an island ruled by the Kremlin!) or good manners. Could her constant attack-mode communication methods represent the acting out of deep-seated insecurity?
Doth she protest too much?
As for her opinions about feminists … who does she think fought for and secured her right to vote? Or her right to own property independently of her husband? Or her eligibility to be a Mayor? Or a governor? Or even her right to disagree?
America deserves answers to these questions.
Over but never out,
Scud Downing
Friday, August 13, 2010
SPOTLIGHT on the Far Right's Anti-American Views
Hey,there's a new platform for ordinary folks like us to fight back against Republicans' unethical and misrepresentational tactics. It will also hold them accountable for their public statements TODAY as opposed to all the really weird and disgusting things they have said in the past.. Project Accountability. This could be loads of FUN!!!
Let's consider ... Sharron Angle's desire to abolish Social Security OR
her characterization of BP's $20 billion pledge to mitigate the gulf oil spill catastrophe as a "slush fund." These statements were made by Angle to woo the far far far right (her point of emanation). These super conservative (and odd)opinions used to appear PROMINENTLY on her website. No more. She has "cleaned up her act." But isn't it obvious what she really believes?
Tea Party darling and Senate candidate Ken Buck opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest. These are his RELIGIOUS convictions. Why should his religion run our country? Why should ANYONE's religion run our country?
Opthamologist (but NOT Board Certified, as he USED TO CLAIM) and senate candidate Rand Paul disapproves of the Equal Rights Amendment - doesn't believe that businesses should be FORCED to serve people even when the reason for that refusal is pure racism. Of course, he wishes we'd all forget that admission and swears he abhors racism in all its forms. But what about the people who embrace racism? Should THEY be allowed to run amok on American culture for the sake of individual liberty?
Is all this crap what YOU really believe?
If not, there is a remedy ... to make sure everyone knows a candidate's true positions ... a great solution ...Interested in being a part of it? Check out The Accountability Project:
http://www.accountabilityproject.com
See you at the polls in November!
Scud Downing
Let's consider ... Sharron Angle's desire to abolish Social Security OR
her characterization of BP's $20 billion pledge to mitigate the gulf oil spill catastrophe as a "slush fund." These statements were made by Angle to woo the far far far right (her point of emanation). These super conservative (and odd)opinions used to appear PROMINENTLY on her website. No more. She has "cleaned up her act." But isn't it obvious what she really believes?
Tea Party darling and Senate candidate Ken Buck opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest. These are his RELIGIOUS convictions. Why should his religion run our country? Why should ANYONE's religion run our country?
Opthamologist (but NOT Board Certified, as he USED TO CLAIM) and senate candidate Rand Paul disapproves of the Equal Rights Amendment - doesn't believe that businesses should be FORCED to serve people even when the reason for that refusal is pure racism. Of course, he wishes we'd all forget that admission and swears he abhors racism in all its forms. But what about the people who embrace racism? Should THEY be allowed to run amok on American culture for the sake of individual liberty?
Is all this crap what YOU really believe?
If not, there is a remedy ... to make sure everyone knows a candidate's true positions ... a great solution ...Interested in being a part of it? Check out The Accountability Project:
http://www.accountabilityproject.com
See you at the polls in November!
Scud Downing
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
GOP will rob YOU to pay the super rich
The race is about to begin in earnest now that the primaries have been sorted out. It seems that America has two choices - support Republicans or return the Democrats to power.
In some cases, neither alternative is too tasty but there are some CLEAR differences in the policies of congressional Republican conservatives vs. those of normal all-American folks like US.
In the past 24 years, the richest 2 percent of Americans(income above $250,000/year)have seen their income levels rise by over 200%. The Poor? about 12% The Middle class? About 16%. Actually, taxes are rigged in such a way that you and I pay a higher ratio of our income to the IRS while the super rich get huge tax breaks ... and guess who has been paying for this largess to the tune of over $10,000 EACH? WE HAVE. Here's the kicker: Most members of Congress on both sides of the aisle fall into this wealthy classification and therefore receive all the big tax breaks ... while also receiving a lifetime pension and health benefits even after just one term!!!
Once in awhile, however, a democrat will actually vote against his or her own pocket book/bank account, something the OLD white guys of the GOP have never done or will never do. HEY! John Beyner plays golf 100 days a year - and calls Michelle Obama "Elitest."
Now let's look at this nation's glory years - when everything was booming ... 1945-1971. The tax rates for the super rich hovered between 71% and 94%. And yet, they still prospered and so did everyone else. Our roads were in great shape, our water systems expanding. Our schools were clean; kids had art AND phys ed and they learned to read.
Obama's tax rates are about the same as rates in 1950 - but we surely live in a different world now. We used to only prosecute one war at a time - now that number seems limitless. Teachers and fire fighters used to be able to afford home ownership. Health care didn't cost you your arm AND your leg. Our roadways and bridges were sound. Water systems were expanding. Prudential LIfe wasn't resfusing to pay life insurance to the families of dead military personnel. Corporate chiefs didn't receive $70 million in bonuses for bringing their respective companies to the brink of financial ruin.
But even then the Republicans WERE insisting on tax breaks for the richest. Some things never change!
So, if you: want to continue rewarding the billionaires; keep health care and homes out of the reach of regular Americans; reward the folks who brought you the second Great Depression and challenge the citizenship of your lawful president purely out of spite and racial bias - vote Republican in November.
If you want to give the little guy a fighting chance - Democrats are for YOU!
In some cases, neither alternative is too tasty but there are some CLEAR differences in the policies of congressional Republican conservatives vs. those of normal all-American folks like US.
In the past 24 years, the richest 2 percent of Americans(income above $250,000/year)have seen their income levels rise by over 200%. The Poor? about 12% The Middle class? About 16%. Actually, taxes are rigged in such a way that you and I pay a higher ratio of our income to the IRS while the super rich get huge tax breaks ... and guess who has been paying for this largess to the tune of over $10,000 EACH? WE HAVE. Here's the kicker: Most members of Congress on both sides of the aisle fall into this wealthy classification and therefore receive all the big tax breaks ... while also receiving a lifetime pension and health benefits even after just one term!!!
Once in awhile, however, a democrat will actually vote against his or her own pocket book/bank account, something the OLD white guys of the GOP have never done or will never do. HEY! John Beyner plays golf 100 days a year - and calls Michelle Obama "Elitest."
Now let's look at this nation's glory years - when everything was booming ... 1945-1971. The tax rates for the super rich hovered between 71% and 94%. And yet, they still prospered and so did everyone else. Our roads were in great shape, our water systems expanding. Our schools were clean; kids had art AND phys ed and they learned to read.
Obama's tax rates are about the same as rates in 1950 - but we surely live in a different world now. We used to only prosecute one war at a time - now that number seems limitless. Teachers and fire fighters used to be able to afford home ownership. Health care didn't cost you your arm AND your leg. Our roadways and bridges were sound. Water systems were expanding. Prudential LIfe wasn't resfusing to pay life insurance to the families of dead military personnel. Corporate chiefs didn't receive $70 million in bonuses for bringing their respective companies to the brink of financial ruin.
But even then the Republicans WERE insisting on tax breaks for the richest. Some things never change!
So, if you: want to continue rewarding the billionaires; keep health care and homes out of the reach of regular Americans; reward the folks who brought you the second Great Depression and challenge the citizenship of your lawful president purely out of spite and racial bias - vote Republican in November.
If you want to give the little guy a fighting chance - Democrats are for YOU!
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Hilary for Vice President?
This startling and fascinating idea was tossed into the public consciousness some months ago: should Hilary Rodham Clinton, Madam Secretary of State, and Vice-President Joseph Biden switch positions for the 2012 general election?
Could Hilary and Barack run on the same ticket? Hell yes. Madam Secretary is the ultimate team player. She has "street" experience where it counts; understands about grueling and duelling campaigning; and is tough enough to have withstood her husband's shenanigans for DECADES and the far right's heavy-handed attempts to demonize her ... and still come up smelling of roses.
She is admired. She is pragmatic. She is respected. She would make history.
Would our President have enough presence of mind to recognize and/or admit that he might need her particular and unique brand of "juice" to keep sanity in the Whitehouse? It'd be a HUGE admission and not a tasty one.
Would the Vice-President go for the switcheroo? He has stated publicly that Hilary would have made a better VEEP AND he considers himself a total foreign policy WONK if not approaching true geekness.
Never been done before, you might be saying? Well, HIlary and Barack specialize in that phrase to a point where, politically, one could say they invented "the unprecedented."
Obama and Clinton in 2012? It has a solid gold ring to it, don't you think?
Scud Downing
Could Hilary and Barack run on the same ticket? Hell yes. Madam Secretary is the ultimate team player. She has "street" experience where it counts; understands about grueling and duelling campaigning; and is tough enough to have withstood her husband's shenanigans for DECADES and the far right's heavy-handed attempts to demonize her ... and still come up smelling of roses.
She is admired. She is pragmatic. She is respected. She would make history.
Would our President have enough presence of mind to recognize and/or admit that he might need her particular and unique brand of "juice" to keep sanity in the Whitehouse? It'd be a HUGE admission and not a tasty one.
Would the Vice-President go for the switcheroo? He has stated publicly that Hilary would have made a better VEEP AND he considers himself a total foreign policy WONK if not approaching true geekness.
Never been done before, you might be saying? Well, HIlary and Barack specialize in that phrase to a point where, politically, one could say they invented "the unprecedented."
Obama and Clinton in 2012? It has a solid gold ring to it, don't you think?
Scud Downing
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Go Shirley Sherrod!
The slandered Department of Agriculture employee - Shirley Sherrod - who was falsely represented as a racist by conservative blogger, black baiter and non-white hater Andrew Breitbart - has made it official. She will sue her unrepentent attacker/vilifier to redress the public - and erroneous - annihilation of her reputation and the loss of her job.
Sherrod has again been offered employment by AG but is unsure whether this "outreach" position is actually even funded yet, much less on some org chart.
Breitbart had access to the entirety of Sherrod's speech on racism but chose only those bits that misportrayed her ultimate message: we all are confronted with our own bias from time to time and we must be vigilant, look within and behave with respect and empathy.
Wonkissima wishes to THANK our intelligent and activist followers for adding impetus to the outrage engendered by this story. YOU ROCK!!!
Now ... GO GET 'EM, SHIRLEY!!!
Sherrod has again been offered employment by AG but is unsure whether this "outreach" position is actually even funded yet, much less on some org chart.
Breitbart had access to the entirety of Sherrod's speech on racism but chose only those bits that misportrayed her ultimate message: we all are confronted with our own bias from time to time and we must be vigilant, look within and behave with respect and empathy.
Wonkissima wishes to THANK our intelligent and activist followers for adding impetus to the outrage engendered by this story. YOU ROCK!!!
Now ... GO GET 'EM, SHIRLEY!!!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
WH, NAACP LOSE BALLS OVER SHIRLEY SHERROD
The White House and the NAACP have been duped yet again by conservative activists! When will they ever learn?
White supremacist and elitist Andrew Breitbart ("I don't care about Shirley Sherrod.")knowingly trashed the good reputation of a black woman he had never even met to "get back" at the NAACP for their concern about the racist element in the Tea Party movement. He admitted as much to the FOX lip-syncing mouthpiece/the poor man's Rush Limbaugh aka Sean Hannity.
Other FOX white supremacists/elitists picked up the story without fact checking - shocking! - and continued the stoning of this innocent Dept. of Agriculture employee. They should all be sued and wonkissima contributors would be overjoyed to sit on THAT jury.
What seems beyond understanding is that the White House and the NAACP jumped on the bandwagon, swallowing whole the scrofulous bilge spewed by Breitbart and FOX about this innocent victim.
It appears that the constant pre-planned and memorized ocean of lies churned out by rote by FOX, Rush, Glenn, Sean, Michelle, Laura, and Sarah has clipped the balls of groups that OUGHT TO KNOW BETTER BY NOW!
Shirley - we feel for YOU. You made a grand gesture toward racial conciliation by discussing openly and honestly what too many people will never admit - an initial prejudice based not on character but on color. We all have faced that moment but few of us have the strength to be truthful about it and fewer have come away behaving as even-handedly as you did.
The WH and the NAACP ought to feel shamed. How and when did they lose their family jewels? Those tight assed Righties? - so full of bitter venom as well as hatred for non-whites and the middle class, not to mention the poor - have no conscience and no empathy. How easily they bear false witness - and for this they will inherit the wind.
White supremacist and elitist Andrew Breitbart ("I don't care about Shirley Sherrod.")knowingly trashed the good reputation of a black woman he had never even met to "get back" at the NAACP for their concern about the racist element in the Tea Party movement. He admitted as much to the FOX lip-syncing mouthpiece/the poor man's Rush Limbaugh aka Sean Hannity.
Other FOX white supremacists/elitists picked up the story without fact checking - shocking! - and continued the stoning of this innocent Dept. of Agriculture employee. They should all be sued and wonkissima contributors would be overjoyed to sit on THAT jury.
What seems beyond understanding is that the White House and the NAACP jumped on the bandwagon, swallowing whole the scrofulous bilge spewed by Breitbart and FOX about this innocent victim.
It appears that the constant pre-planned and memorized ocean of lies churned out by rote by FOX, Rush, Glenn, Sean, Michelle, Laura, and Sarah has clipped the balls of groups that OUGHT TO KNOW BETTER BY NOW!
Shirley - we feel for YOU. You made a grand gesture toward racial conciliation by discussing openly and honestly what too many people will never admit - an initial prejudice based not on character but on color. We all have faced that moment but few of us have the strength to be truthful about it and fewer have come away behaving as even-handedly as you did.
The WH and the NAACP ought to feel shamed. How and when did they lose their family jewels? Those tight assed Righties? - so full of bitter venom as well as hatred for non-whites and the middle class, not to mention the poor - have no conscience and no empathy. How easily they bear false witness - and for this they will inherit the wind.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Do Republicans care about YOU? Or regaining Washington?
It is possible that congressional Republicans, who were willing to vote for hundreds of billions of dollars of war expenditures without paying for them, or trillions of dollars of tax cuts without paying for them, actually have YOUR best interests at heart? (Thanks to PK)
Why didn't the GOP vote for further economic aid to the states? Hell, they didn't even allow the subject to be properly debated - they filibustered!!Didn't they realize that this aid directly to the states would have significantly affected unemployment rolls in a positive way? Of course they did! Could it be that the Republicans are hoping for MORE folks to be thrown out of jobs? After all, the higher the unemployment rate, the better chance Republicans have to be elected on November 2.
Noooo, you say. No one could be so heartless and conniving - so underhanded.
Are you sure?
Remember in November!
Why didn't the GOP vote for further economic aid to the states? Hell, they didn't even allow the subject to be properly debated - they filibustered!!Didn't they realize that this aid directly to the states would have significantly affected unemployment rolls in a positive way? Of course they did! Could it be that the Republicans are hoping for MORE folks to be thrown out of jobs? After all, the higher the unemployment rate, the better chance Republicans have to be elected on November 2.
Noooo, you say. No one could be so heartless and conniving - so underhanded.
Are you sure?
Remember in November!
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