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.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
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
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