Ablogination

Still on vacation, but I managed to lift enough fingers to type, and flip off the paperboy for not getting the fucking paper on the porch. Again.

Happiness is being a cranky old man.

Here’s to a better tomorrow. Because today, we live in one very, very fucked up world.

Time for a break from the political grind and the losers called politicians that we trust with our lives knowing all along that they don’t give a Reindeer’s ass about us.

Our Christmas offering….

One of the most powerful broadcasting firms in the nation, and champion of Right Wing propaganda, has filed for failure.
Administrative ineptitude is obvious, but the fact that America is waking up to the damage the Republicans have done to this country both economically and socially is the core issue. Those who promoted the Right Wing agenda are beginning to feel the sting of America’s resentment.
The fall of Citadel is a crystal clear reminder to the Right that Americans know who put us in the troubled times we face.

The Dumbest Decade in Business has shown us giant corporation after giant corporation falling flat on their faces due to irresponsible leadership at the highest levels. In some cases, this is good.
Citadel Broadcasting is an abomination among information networks.
Staunch supporters of BushCo and all Right Wing entities, Citadel shamelessly promoted Republican propaganda throughout the dark years (2000-2008).

Here in the South East, our local joke of a pseudo-Rock n Roll radio station, 101.5 WQUT FM, is Citadel owned. They preached, and still proudly preach, the Right Wing screed that brought this nation to an all time low.
From fake, Citadel created PSAs against important issues such as Health Care reform and compensation for recording artists to the actual blacklisting of anti-war artists such as Neil Young and Steve Earle, WQUT(Citadel) and it’s corporate kiss ass program director, John Patrick, served the lie machine of the Bush Regime on bended knee and did so with a willingness that would make any sock puppet proud.
Citadel is also responsible for wastes of time and space such as Don Imus and Disney/ABC Fascist radio. Not to mention over 100 radio stations throughout the country spewing Right Wing lies and silencing truthful voices in true Corporate Fascist style.

Citadel, a classic example of monopoly-gone-wrong is second only to ClearChannel, another Right Wing establishment, in broadcasting power. Farid Suleman, the latest failure of a CEO, is the folly behind Citadel’s demise.
The company was founded in 1984 in Phoenix, AZ by Larry Wilson as Citadel Associates Limited Partnership. In 1990 it was renamed Citadel Associates Montana Limited Partnership for the purpose of owning and operating stations in Montana that were formerly owned by CALP. A year later, Citadel Broadcasting was officially incorporated and in 1992 it acquired all of the radio stations owned by its predecessors. Within a decade, Citadel expanded to 26 states. Within that time period, it absorbed all Bloomington Broadcasting radio holdings and 11 stations from Dick Broadcasting Company and also acquired 3 radio stations from Slone Broadcasting, Inc. and Slone Radio, LLC. In 2001, Larry Wilson sold Citadel to Forstmann Little for $2.1 billion. By that time, the company had grown to 205 stations in 42 markets.

Of course Citadel will get bailed out and continue to spread lies and abuse it’s position as a media outlet. Kinda like the FOX News of radio. But at least we know that when the most powerful of Right Wing broadcasting corporations bites the dust, the tide is turning.

Their creditors should refuse them. But they won’t. Hopefully continued failure is all that awaits Citadel Broadcasting in the future.

Thunder Valley is well protected from the worst nature has to offer. And though Kingsport, Johnson City and SW Virginia are getting annihilated, the snow here is pretty much just the beauty of nature at her finest.

Too slippery to drive home. Got food, got beer, got weed, stayin’ here.

UPDATE: Measured eight inches on the roof of the car. It’s been a long time since Bristol had anywhere near that much.
Thinkin’ ’bout building a snowman with a big plastic bong in his hand. Toasty the Snow Man…
Has a ring to it. ;-]_~

When all the petals are pulled off, you no longer have a flower. Just a stick that used to be one.

Howard Dean, Sen. Bernie Sanders, all the Liberal pundits…
There is only one correct thing to do.
Kill this hen-pecked Health Care bill, bring it back immediately as a budgetary issue aimed at extending Medicare to all Americans (single payer), Reconcile, pass it with 51 votes.

To hell with Republicans, to hell with Joe Lieberman and Conservative Democrats. The vast majority of the American public favor the Public Option. Single Payer is even better.

The great Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders offered an amendment to install single payer. Repiglikans asked for a “reading” as a stall tactic (Lord knows it would take ten years for a Republican to read anything). Sanders pulled the amendment and thwarted the stall, but not before he spoke for 30 mins on the floor…

“I would like to support it, but I’m not there yet,” Sanders said. “The only way I will know that you’re going to have real cost containment and comprehensive universal health care is a Medicare-for-all, single-payer bill - and that’s certainly not going to pass. If you don’t have that, then at least you have to provide real competition for the private insurance companies through a public option.”

Sanders, of course, is correct.
Howard Dean, today, challenged Obama (who seems to have lost his balls again) and publicly condemned the aberration that once was a decent piece of legislation coming from the House.
It’s good for Obama to hear this because as much as I admire some of the things he’s accomplished, nobody likes a president who’s a chicken shit. That’s one of the reasons Bush was such a disgrace. Cowardice.
Dr. Dean, on the other hand, has never failed to man-up in his life….

Health-care bill wouldn’t bring real reform

By Howard Dean
Thursday, December 17, 2009

If I were a senator, I would not vote for the current health-care bill. Any measure that expands private insurers’ monopoly over health care and transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to private corporations is not real health-care reform. Real reform would insert competition into insurance markets, force insurers to cut unnecessary administrative expenses and spend health-care dollars caring for people. Real reform would significantly lower costs, improve the delivery of health care and give all Americans a meaningful choice of coverage. The current Senate bill accomplishes none of these.

Real health-care reform is supposed to eliminate discrimination based on preexisting conditions. But the legislation allows insurance companies to charge older Americans up to three times as much as younger Americans, pricing them out of coverage. The bill was supposed to give Americans choices about what kind of system they wanted to enroll in. Instead, it fines Americans if they do not sign up with an insurance company, which may take up to 30 percent of your premium dollars and spend it on CEO salaries – in the range of $20 million a year – and on return on equity for the company’s shareholders. Few Americans will see any benefit until 2014, by which time premiums are likely to have doubled. In short, the winners in this bill are insurance companies; the American taxpayer is about to be fleeced with a bailout in a situation that dwarfs even what happened at AIG.

From the very beginning of this debate, progressives have argued that a public option or a Medicare buy-in would restore competition and hold the private health insurance industry accountable. Progressives understood that a public plan would give Americans real choices about what kind of system they wanted to be in and how they wanted to spend their money. Yet Washington has decided, once again, that the American people cannot be trusted to choose for themselves. Your money goes to insurers, whether or not you want it to.

To be clear, I’m not giving up on health-care reform. The legislation does have some good points, such as expanding Medicaid and permanently increasing the federal government’s contribution to it. It invests critical dollars in public health, wellness and prevention programs; extends the life of the Medicare trust fund; and allows young Americans to stay on their parents’ health-care plans until they turn 27. Small businesses struggling with rising health-care costs will receive a tax credit, and primary-care physicians will see increases in their Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates.

Improvements can still be made in the Senate, and I hope that Senate Democrats will work on this bill as it moves to conference. If lawmakers are interested in ensuring that government affordability credits are spent on health-care benefits rather than insurers’ salaries, they need to require state-based exchanges, which act as prudent purchasers and select only the most efficient insurers. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) offered this amendment during the Finance Committee markup, and Democrats should include it in the final legislation. A stripped-down version of the current bill that included these provisions would be worth passing.

In Washington, when major bills near final passage, an inside-the-Beltway mentality takes hold. Any bill becomes a victory. Clear thinking is thrown out the window for political calculus. In the heat of battle, decisions are being made that set an irreversible course for how future health reform is done. The result is legislation that has been crafted to get votes, not to reform health care.

I have worked for health-care reform all my political life. In my home state of Vermont we have accomplished universal health care for children under 18 and real insurance reform – which not only bans discrimination against preexisting conditions but also prevents insurers from charging outrageous sums for policies as a way of keeping out high-risk people. I know health reform when I see it, and there isn’t much left in the Senate bill. I reluctantly conclude that, as it stands, this bill would do more harm than good to the future of America.

The writer is a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, a Medical Doctor and was governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2002.

First, the Public Option remains NON NEGOTIABLE.
Second, Senate rules must be officially changed in order to push the Progressive agenda through. We can’t continue to allow a Zionist Pig like Lieberman to run roughshod over the American People.
Third, and most of all, Obama has to remember his own words.
In his Nobel speech he talked about people who don’t want peace, who don’t seek common ground due to their evil wants and desires. People who cannot be reasoned with.
Like Al-Qaida, Republicans, DemoCons and Joe Lieberman cannot be reasoned with. Therefor they must be trampled under foot like so many ants.
Barack Obama began with “coverage for all". Now we have coverage according to Lieberman. I wonder how it feels to be the President of the United States and be made Joe Lieberman’s bitch. Glad I don’t know at this point. But Obama is about to find out if he doesn’t ball up a fist and start socking people up.

Not a hair, Mr. President. You don’t have one hair on your ass if you let a handful of un-American filth take this epic effort, shit on the people, and wipe their asses with it.

Obama, Harry Reid….man the fuck up or just admit that you can’t handle it and resign. The nation can wait no longer.

Heh,
“there is nothing hidden that will not be known"….

So, it may take time. But then again, there are these things we love called “leaks” that happen from time to time.
Regardless, 22 Million BushCo White House emails have been recovered. We all know there are explicit reasons for the Bush Regime having tried to dispose of them. They’re called “guilt” and “shame” and “deception".
That’s why Bush lied about them. Bush said “no emails were missing". He must have “misspoke” I guess.

Anyway, these emails contain lots and lots of correspondence between the oval office (Cheney) and the DOJ under Gonzales. Related to the Bush administration’s illegal firing of top federal prosecutors in 2006.
Count on it.

I’ve got my beer, popcorn and all the time in the world. Let the show begin.

Thanx for saving us the trouble and expense of getting rid of you. Though you may think that your resignations are some sort of protest, the fact is that it’s a reflection of your cowardice.
You’ve taken money from corporate interests and shit on the people of this country, and the state of Tennessee, for your whole careers.
We were gearing up to find and fund your primary challengers. Now we don’t have to.

Many thanx.

John Tanner (TN-8) and Bart Gordon (TN-6). Two of the Blue Dogshit Democrats who have stood firmly along side Republicans in opposing anything and everything progressive that the majority has done or tried to do have announced that they will “not be seeking re-election".
In the relatively young and ongoing effort to reform the Democratic party from Republican Lite to actual Democratic, removing Blue Dog Democrats from office undoubtedly would be one of the toughest and most risk-laden aspects of change.
But, reform would be impossible without it. That’s why this great news is such music to our ears. Having these trucks (Truck: Someone who loads up, takes off, and never gives back) end their useless tenures on their own only makes a tough job easier.

The road to party reform is long and uphill all the way. We thank these two…gentlemen…for their assistance.

And no, this is not anything more than a few Dinosaurs knowing when their welcome is worn. Actually, seeing more of them leave would be welcome.
We will still have to fight to be rid of other losers such as Baucus, Lincoln, Ross etc. But at least the tip of the ice is now cracked.
Twelve Republicans have “defected” and announced that they are seeking other office. Only four Dems have “retired” and six others will seek other elected positions such as Governorships and Senate seats.
18 Republicans defected during 2008.

So for the Republifucks out there who would just love for this to be some sort of sign that the GOP is making a comeback…
The Democratic Congressional Committee has about a 10M dollar advantage over it’s Republican counterpart as of October ‘09.

Nope. This is just a small but significant step in the growing Progressive movement. All Blue Dogshits must go. One way or another. If they wish to retire and avoid the ass kicking. That’s probably a wise thing to do.

Chickenshit cowards. That’s what they are. Bought and paid for trash.
The Senate Blue Dogshits intentionally killed the meaning of the Health Reform movement. It became no longer about the people of this nation, but instead, they made it about appeasing a handful of Anti-American vermin serving the best interests of their corporate masters.
They will pay dearly for their treachery at the polls.

This is certainly not the end. But it is near.
We’ll have the usual reports by the usual defeatist idiots, both MSM and Blogger alike, proclaiming “The Public Option Is Dead!” It’s not dead yet, but the filth have injured her severely.

The Next Steps:

Reid will seek “cloture” (end of debate) and that takes 60 votes if Scum filibuster. That’s the reason for the shameless capitulation.
If Reid gets the 60 votes to end debate the “final passage” vote will ensue. A simple majority of 51 votes is all that’s needed for passage.

Then comes reconciliation. The House and Senate will appoint a “conference committee” consisting of members from each chamber. That committee will meet to reconcile the House and Senate Bills into one piece of legislation.
(This is where we look for House Leadership to carefully choose committee members.)
60 votes will be needed just to form the committee as Repigs may attempt to block is inception.
If differences are reconciled the committee produces a “Conference Report", the final version of the legislation. It is debated again in both chambers but no amendments are permitted.

Then, it’s back to the pathetic Senate for 60 more votes. If passed, It goes to Obama for ink.

There’s still a ways to go. If House and Senate Progressives stand and fight there is still a chance. Would someone please find a backbone somewhere on the Hill?
The fact that Procedural Reconciliation has not been used to pass the PO is disgraceful. Reid and the Senate Democrats are about to throw it all away.

Only the weakest of the weak quit the fight before it’s done. The House Progressive Caucus is upset.
One of the few American politicians with any real guts, Progressive Caucus leader Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, had this to say about the Senate’s ineptitude…

Grijalva Calls Emerging Senate Compromise Inadequate For Working Families, Questions Lack of Public Option
Tuesday December 08, 2009

Washington, DC – Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva today declared the widely reported compromises in the emerging Senate health care bill “troubling” and “not even reminiscent of a public option.”

Senate and White House leaders, he said, “have already compromised far too much. At some point in this process, the question became not what was the best policy for the American people, but what could be done to appease a recalcitrant handful who have negotiated in bad faith. We need strong leadership so close to the finish line, not efforts to water down a bill to the breaking point in a misguided attempt to win votes that were never there.”

Grijalva said reports that the Senate is now moving toward the creation of a non-profit board to provide insurance, instead of an authentic public option, should “worry the millions of Americans who are counting on this bill to create affordable insurance and help them enjoy a fair marketplace.” He emphasized that the House has already rejected such an approach, which essentially mirrors the health co-ops dismissed by most analysts as ineffective.

“A non-public option without government support will not bring down prices, expand coverage or provide competition for private companies,” Grijalva said. “Voters will instantly recognize it as a whitewash of the problem we have spent the better part of this year trying to fix. They would be right to criticize any plan that fails to address their concerns, and they will be doubly right to reject this one.”

Building a national health co-op from scratch would be an “unruly and excessively time-consuming process,” Grijalva said. Such a plan “would forfeit the economic advantages – such as building on Medicare’s provider network – that would make a public insurance program competitive.”

Grijalva added that modeling a plan on the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program that exclusively offers private insurance plans, as the Senate is reportedly considering, is not equivalent to a public option. Similarly, lowering the age of Medicare eligibility by five or 10 years “does not create enough private sector competition, which we desperately need to benefit working families,” he said.

“We need a public option, period,” Grijalva said. “I cannot support a system that forces Americans to buy private insurance and then allows those companies to collect government subsidies without competition. Our final health care bill should be based on policy outcomes and the needs of consumers, and the direction the Senate is taking does not give me confidence.”

No matter what the outcome, Liberals. We must pledge to make the following scumbags pay with their careers for stabbing their country and people in the back….

Joe Lieberman - I - Connecticut
Max Baucus - D - Nebraska
Tom Carper - D - Delaware
Kent Conrad - D - North Dakota
Mary Landrieu - D - Louisiana
Blanche Lincoln - D - Arkansas
Bill Nelson - D - Florida

The House Version of the Public Option would be in the Senate version now were it not for these few traitors. Lieberman especially.
We must never let up on them. Even once they’re un-elected.

With the possible exception of Texas, there is no more pathetic, offensive and down right blasphemous branch of the GOP than we have in the State of Tennessee.
Now, they even think Jason Mumpower is Jesus. Thank God that’s not true. I’d hate to think that all faith got me was an eternity at the foot of a Food City checkout line.

Tim Rudd, the dramatically gluttonous member of the TNGOP executive committee, recently sent out an email to his fellow idiots concerning the status of TN House speaker, Kent Williams, as a member of the TN Republican party.
A year ago, Williams, a Carter County Republican, joined Democrats in preventing Jason Mumpower from becoming speaker of the House.
Having Mumpower as SOTH would be akin to having Peewee Herman as your child’s nanny. So his thwarting was a very good thing.
Now, still whining and crying, Mumpower and the TNGOP are seeking to remove Williams from the Grand Ole Pussy rank and file.
Williams should consider himself honored. The only thing worse than being a member of the TNGOP is being a member of NAMBLA.
Actually, about the same.

Crown of Horns

But the really interesting aspect of this latest TNGOP face plant is the shockingly juvenile blasphemy they have indulged in.
Rudd, the glutton, has compared a Republican prayer session that Mumpower and Williams both participated in to the prayer Jesus gave at the last supper. Directly comparing Jason Mumpower, an idiot, to Jesus. Our Lord.

Then once again, Rudd compares Williams to Judas Iscariot which puts Mumpower in the sandals of Christ.

Thanx to our good friend, Elmer Gantry, for this very telling video…

The TNGOP’s exploitation of the savior is nothing new. That’s the only way they can get votes. By manipulating the faith of believers, and the blindness of fools, and lying their way to political gain. We saw this in it’s most raw form with miserably failed TN-1 Congressional Rep. David Davis. We see it with Mumpower, Ron Ramsey, saw it with Jim Holcomb. Any John Gregory-backed Taliban candidate is equally as guilty.
(Gregory+King Pharm+Thief+TNGOP)

Though the TNGOP is always good for a horse laugh or two, they are also very dangerous to the people of this state. When morons, thieves, liars and hypocrites are in charge, we get matching results.
The great state of Tennessee deserves far better than the amusing collection of miscreants and morally challenged goofballs that now make up our state gov’t.

So, TNGOP…And especially you, Jabba the Rudd. For all you do, this blog’s for you.

We knew it. All Conservotards have acute morality deficiencies. No matter what their political affiliation.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy either…

Well, Max. They say there’s nothing hidden that will not be revealed…with a little help.
Say goodbye to your Senate seat, asswipe.
Lieberman, Conrad, Ross…What’s under your rugs?
Never mind, no reason to speak up. We’ll find out anyway. Because someone somewhere will never stop looking. This is just the beginning. A mild, wakey uppy bitch slap, but enough to make ol’ Max look like a dirty old man.
Should have waited until AFTER the divorce, Max.

A fitting example for those who should be supporting the Public Option. Karma is a motherfucker, no?

From Main Justice:

By Andrew Ramonas | December 4, 2009

A Department of Justice official who is in a relationship with Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) withdrew as a finalist for Montana U.S. Attorney to live with the senator in Washington, a Baucus spokesperson confirmed to Main Justice today.

Melodee Hanes, the Montana senator’s former state director, withdrew earlier this year after Baucus sent her name and two others to the White House as his recommendations for the state’s top federal prosecuting job….

…..Baucus spokesman, Matsdorf, told Main Justice that the relationship between Baucus and Hanes began in the summer of 2008. Hanes and Thomas Bennett, her ex-husband, divorced in December 2008. Baucus and his ex-wife, Wanda, announced their divorce in April 2009.

The Public Option is, as Dr. Dean said, the most important aspect of this legislation. Though many attempt to minimize it’s impact, White House included, the fact remains that without it the legislation will be worthless.

The power of the Public Option is not only found in what can be gained from it medically.
It’s also very much an indispensable political victory.
The reason we on the Left dragged it out into the open the way we did was to back the administration and congress into a corner. If the Dems fail to pass a form of the Public Option, they will have given victory to liars and fools.
That would leave the vast majority of the Democratic base at home during any upcoming elections.
This is a test of strength. And though any and all standards of decency clearly indicate that legislation should never be passed, or killed, as the result of a congressional pissing match, that, my friends, is the way it is. It just is, and everybody knows it.
Democrats will never recover if they fail here.

They can only afford so much compromise and they’ve pretty much used up their credit as it is. They would be better off failing to pass any bill than to pass one a conservative minority dictated. If the bill fails, Dems can truthfully lay blame on Republicans and their Blue Dog pets. If the Public Option fails, Obama and Democrats fail. No one else.

Now, there’s still this.
They could still pass a bill without either… Federal funding for Abortion, or a Public Option, and attempt to add them later. But that obviously will not do as the party has made it’s self fairly clear on this.
Though personally, I would omit the abortion coverage in favor of the Public Option if given the opportunity to exchange one for the other.
Abortions cost a lot less than major medical treatments and aren’t needed nearly as often. The abortion aspect could be handled in separate legislation.

So, Harry Reid…Barack…whoever…
May I strongly suggest that you do whatever it takes, whatever-it-takes to pass this legislation with no further damage. Threaten, coerce, blackmail, campaign against, demote…whatever it takes, to seal this victory for the people. Because if you don’t, you may well be sealing the fate of the Democratic party. We would look both stupid AND weak-willed.
I truly hope you folks haven’t forgotten how to play dirty. After all, you are politicians, aren’t you?

I think that somewhere in all this debate a very important factor has become MIA. Hidden from view by the lies from the Right. This debate, this legislation is not about cost. It’s about giving all Americans access to health care. That is the bottom line.
There should, for any real American, be no doubt that this is our duty to one another.
To care for, nurture, and help each other through all manner of travail. Either we are our brother’s keeper or we’re not. The powers that be had better decide.

The margin of error is zero.

Remember this day those who have nothing, and those who want them to stay that way. To the former we give and from the latter we take.

Poverty in America:

In 2007, 37.5 million people were impoverished.

12.5% of the population and 9.8% of families

20.3 million or 10.9% of people aged 18 - 64

13.3 million or 18% of children under age 18, and

3.7 million or 9.7% of seniors aged 65 or older who benefit from Social Security and Medicare.

Also:

36.2 million Americans are food insecure, including 12.4 million children. They comprise 13 million or 11.1% of households.

4.7 million households experience “very low food security” meaning hunger is a persistent problem.

Households with children have double the food insecurity as ones with none.

Single women-headed households are worst off with 30.2% of them insecure. (Numbers courtesy of Stephen Lendman)

That is the crime.

This is the Criminal.

Once again, the Mid West is the most harmonious region in the country. The South comes in second. Unfortunately, the North and the West, those who constantly accuse the South of hate, are the worst by far and away.

Hey. What’s up with you Yankees and Surfer Boys? Better get with the program. You have to figure you have serious issues when the people you always accuse are light years ahead of you socially.

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2008/data/table_12.html

FBI 2008 Hate Crime Statistics

Listed are “reported incidents". Some of those incidents may not have been actual hate crimes. One must also consider the enormous, unknown number of unreported hate crimes and you get the drift.

California - 1,381
New Jersey - 744
New York - 570
Michigan - 560
Ohio - 345

Virginia is the worst among Southern states with 263 reported incidents.

Mississippi is the best in the nation with 4.

California again is the worst. The North, again, is worse than the South.
We still have a long way to go down here. But at least we’re headed in the right direction.

2007 Statistics are here:

A brood of vermin that goes by the handle “Chicago Tea Party Patriots” on video showing the true nature of their sub-human kind.

May each and every one of these pieces of shit rot in the bowels of Hell where all of their species belong.

Chattahbox has it all:

Unruly Teaparty Mob Heckles Couple Who Lost Grandchild, Daughter-in-Law

November 23, 2009

(ChattahBox)—The ugliness and mob mentality of the Tea Party movement was on full display last week, during a town meeting held by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) on Nov. 14. What happened? A mob of teabaggers, blinded by hate and anger laughed at and heckled a grieving couple, who lost both their daughter-in-law and grandchild.

Dan and Midge Hough stood to tell their story of a tragic personal loss they attribute to lack of health insurance. Their pregnant daughter-in-law, twenty-four-year old Jennifer, was uninsured and she was unable to afford proper prenatal care. When she was hospitialized with double pneumonia, it quickly developed into septic shock and other complications. Her baby died in her womb and Jenny died weeks later. She left behind her husband and two-year-old child.

As Midge Hough began to tell the audience of her loss, with tears in her eyes, several people in the audience, who were members of the Chicago Tea Party Patriots began to roll their eyes, laugh out loud and shout at her. “You can laugh at me, that’s okay. But I lost two people, and I know you think that’s funny, that’s okay.”

Throughout the meeting, the raucous Chicago Tea Party Patriots shouted down Rep Lipinski, booed and hurled insults, as he vainly tried to have a civil discussion with the unruly activitists about the need for health care reform.

Who was behind this sickening display? A woman named, Catherina Wojtowicz, the head of the Chicago Tea Party Patriots who organized the disruption at the town meeting. Before the meeting, she ignited the seething anger of her group by sending out fliers that read: He sold us out! He voted for Socialized medicine!

When confronted about her group’s shameful actions, she defended her group’s mob behavior by smearing the Houghs, calling them liars.

Wojtowicz “…falsely claimed that the Houghs fabricated their story. In an e-mail, she called them operatives of President Barack Obama who “go from event to event and (cry) the same story.” The Chicago Tea Party leader claimed her group did not want to be subjected to personal stories illustrating the suffering of the uninsured.

Rest at link.

Sad. Sad, miserable little cowards.

That happened even quicker than most of us said it would. This is what happens when we elect morons and half wits to state legislative positions. Knee-jerk, back assward Conservatives legislating on a whim and not even considering the obvious.
Bar and Restaurant owners get a break from the Tennessee Big Gov’t Legislature’s lack of respect for their rights.

Good Job, Ms. Bonnyman.

From the BHC:

Since earlier this year, those with gun carry permits, could carry their weapon into restaurants and bars. Now a ruling handed down in a Nashville courtroom, will strike down that law.

Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman ruled that Tennessee’s “Guns-In-Bars” law was unconstitutionally vague.

She said that currently Tennessee has no legal definition for what constitutes a bar, or a restaurant.

The Tennessee Legislature enacted the bill earlier this year, over the veto of Governor Phil Bredesen.

Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey says the bill will be brought back up for a vote, with corrections made to make it less vague, when the legislature reconvenes on January 12th.

Oh boy. It’s times like these that make me glad I’m a Liberal blogger. Just to catch the Right Wing in one of their moments of unparalleled hypocrisy is something I truly savor.

Like a Sugar Cane blunt packed with Alaskan Thunderfuck, it is sweet to both pallet and soul alike.

And the truth marches on….

Politico drops the ball every once in a while, but for the most part, a good blog. Regardless, they hit a home run here.
It seems that Politico found out that the RNC (Republican National Committee) Health Plan, the plan that benefits them and their families, has been providing coverage for abortions.

Yes. Abortions.

From Politico:

By JONATHAN ALLEN | 11/13/09 2:48 AM EST

The Republican National Committee will no longer offer employees an insurance plan that covers abortion after POLITICO reported Thursday that the anti-abortion RNC’s policy has covered the procedure since 1991.

“Money from our loyal donors should not be used for this purpose,” Chairman Michael Steele said in a statement to POLITICO. “I don’t know why this policy existed in the past, but it will not exist under my administration. Consider this issue settled.”

Steele has told the committee’s director of administration to opt out of coverage for elective abortion in the policy it uses from Cigna.

So, the Republican National Committee has been taking money from the Right Wing. The Evangelicals, Right-to-Lifers, Tea Bag Fags, Glen Beck worshipers etc.?
And with this money, paying for abortions for their mistresses, dirty daughters, unfaithful wives and such?

I don’t know what’s funnier. The most comically blatant hypocrisy in the history of the world, or the slapstick stupidity of the ignoramuses that donate to the Republican Party.
This is great….

The Republican National Committee will no longer offer employees an insurance plan that covers abortion after POLITICO reported Thursday that the anti-abortion RNC’s policy has covered the procedure since 1991.

“Money from our loyal donors should not be used for this purpose,” Chairman Michael Steele said in a statement. “I don’t know why this policy existed in the past, but it will not exist under my administration. Consider this issue settled.”

Steele has told the committee’s director of administration to opt out of coverage for elective abortion in the policy it uses from Cigna.

Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna, and two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers elective abortion.

LOL. They’ve been holding up health reform because they oppose federal funds being used for abortions. Unless, of course, those federal funds are used for abortions on their trampoline daughters who spend the night getting jumped up and down on by the High School football team.

“Since 1991″? That would mean it covered Republicans back when John Ashcroft, who supports murder charges for women who have abortions and doctors who perform the procedures, was Attorney General.
The proof is in the puddin’, folk. Where is the “Pro Life” outrage? Where is the Evangelical and it’s red-faced, screaming blather?
Simple, they don’t really care about “life". They care about having a standard for them and a separate standard for the rest of us. They can have abortion if needed but the rest of us can’t.
I guess liars can justify anything if they lie hard enough.

Well, Politico caught them and that was good work indeed. Heh, they even have CIGNA as the carrier.

Oh, joy. This is the RNC at it’s best.

A big, burly ol’ Hat Tip to my buddy, Tim Valentine at TI&S.

It’s been a long time since I wrote something when I was completely and totally pissed off to the point of contemplating violence. But there is a Federal Judge that needs his ass turned into a shoe shine stand

Certain forms of suck-ass stupidity do me this way…

U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval. This complete and total fucktard of a judge has for some reason laid blame for the collapse of the levees in New Orleans, during Hurricane Katrina, upon the heads of the Army Corp of Engineers.

From the Washington Post:

Judge rules Army engineers liable for Katrina flooding

By associated press
Thursday, November 19, 2009

NEW ORLEANS – A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina.

U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval sided with five residents and one business who argued the Army Corps’ shoddy oversight of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet led to the flooding of New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward and neighboring St. Bernard Parish. He said, however, the corps couldn’t be held liable for the flooding of eastern New Orleans, where one of the plaintiffs lived.

Duval awarded the plaintiffs $720,000, or about $170,000 each, but the decision should give more than 100,000 other individuals, businesses and government entities a better shot at claiming billions of dollars in damages.

Why you little suck-ass punk. This money should be coming from the Bush family fortune.

Judge Stanwood Duval

It’s a cryin’ shame that a judge who obviously has no fucking clue how the ACoE operates would be allowed to sit in judgment over such a fine institution. But the real question is, is this Duval clown really this stupid and immune to the facts, or is he just covering for the people who are really responsible for the failed maintenance of the levee system and the Army’s budget for that maintenance?

The facts have not changed since that tragedy:

That filthy coward, George W. BushCo, is 100% responsible for it and that is a cold, hard fact…

Sunday, 4 September 2005
UK Independent…

“Natural and man-made defences have long been neglected. A 10-year plan to strengthen levees after a 1965 hurricane was never completed. But the skimping has worsened since President Bush’s election, particularly after 11 September. Federal spending on flood control in south-east Louisiana has been cut by almost half since 2001, from $69m (£34.5m) per year to $36.5m. Funds for work at Lake Pontchartrain, the source of the flooding, have fallen by nearly two-thirds over three years, from $14.25m to $5.7m. As a result, work on New Orleans’ east bank hurricane levees stopped last summer for the first time in 37 years.

The US Army Corps of Engineers, which maintains the levees, requested $27m this year for hurricane protection around the lake. President Bush tried to cut this to $3.9m, although Congress allowed $5.7m. The President also tried to cut $78m to improve drainage and prevent flooding in the city to $30m, though Congress passed $36.5m. A $14bn longer-term project to restore marshes was cut to $570m.”

One thing I love about math is that numbers never, ever lie. George W. Bush (and the Congressional Republican Majority) cut funding. That is the only fact that matters when liability is involved.
Given the long history of warnings about the probability of NOLA flooding, why did George W. Bush cut funding?
There are only two possible reasons.
1) To fund the disastrous, failed war in Iraq.
or…
2) In hopes of NOLA flooding out so he could provide such un-American vermin as Blackwater, Halliburton, etc. with contracts to level and rebuild after the residents were evicted.

Number two would require foresight and intellect. It’s difficult to imagine that being a factor with the Bush administration.
Though they are clearly evil enough to consider it.

Or perhaps, this was about George Bush and his psychotic, Satanic war on the people of Iraq. “To hell with Americans, it’s more important to kill Iraqis, take their money and allow Iran to thrive". That was their attitude.
Perhaps it was about both since Iraq it’s self was predominately about financial gain.
This “judgment” is one of the worst politically motivated miscarriages of justice I have witnessed in a long time. At least since November of 2000.

May George Bush, his supporters and his judge rot in Hell where they belong. America knows who is responsible in this instance. The historical record will remind us for a long time to come.

Keep your heads up and appeal to the top, Army Corp of Engineers. This was NOT your fault.

With a new attitude that was ushered in with a more Liberal government in 2008, Marijuana is rolling, full steam ahead, into the main stream of American culture.
We are enjoying victory after victory against the liars, miscreants, and black-hearted filth of the anti-Marijuana fringe.

…and the train kep’a rollin’ all night long…

Our dear friend, Sharon Cobb reports that America’s first Cannabis Cafe has opened in the great state of Oregon.
Thanx be to God, freedom draws ever so close.

Recently, the American Medical Association (AMA) has endorsed Medical Marijuana research.
Once a major purveyor of gov’t Drug War propaganda, the AMA has done a complete about face and clearly submitted to the scientific facts they once so gracefully avoided.

We have won. We endured and we have defeated the Right Wing ignorance that has caused so many to suffer needlessly in infirmity and in jails and prisons.
This trend will not reverse. With young people of today moving slowly into positions of political power, the future of freedom is bright.

There are few things more unjust than to incarcerate someone for Marijuana, but few of us can get ourselves busted with the style and grace that Steve the Lawnmower Guy does.
So we celebrate the nation’s first Cafe with our pal, the legendary Steve.

Briefly….

1) Congressional Conservanoid Democraps to be targeted:

Liberal Groups and activists are girding up our loins for the upcoming Democratic Primaries. There are dues to pay and we will do everything we can, spend every dime we can, to remove certain persons masquerading as Democrats from our midst.

Scott Murphy (D-NY). Murphy won a special election in April with ads featuring President Obama in a district Obama won. He told voters “the United States is facing a health care crisis.” Yet Murphy voted against Obama’s #1 domestic priority: health care.

Heath Shuler (D-NC). In 2006, Democrats spent millions helping Shuler win what is now a safe seat. As chief “whip” for the Blue Dogs, Shuler recruited other Democrats to vote against health care reform.

John Barrow (D-GA). Barrow won his 2008 Democratic primary solely because Obama endorsed him in a highly African-American district – a district that Obama won by double digits.

Suzanne Kosma (D-FL). Kosma represents a district near Rep. Alan Grayson, but is the polar opposite of Grayson. Instead of being bold and having a people-powered campaign, she is corporate-funded and consistently votes against the people.

Mike Ross (D-AR). Ross is a top Blue Dog who Keith Olbermann featured for selling out to his insurance contributors. Our PCCC poll showed that Arkansas voters want a public option by 56% to 37%.

Heath Shuler….failed football player, failed Democratic Congressman. This particular punk has always rubbed me the wrong way. I will personally be going to Carolina to help raise funds for whoever his primary opponent is.
These are the targets. We have work to do.

2) Bill Clinton addresses the Senate Dems on Health Reform:

This could be good, or bad.

If Clinton is his usual Republican appeasing self, he’ll be trying to talk Progressives out of supporting the Public Option. If for some odd reason he’s finally become a man, he’ll chastise insurance industry owned Democrats for standing in the way of progress.

That’s the problem with a Clinton, you never know what side of their face they’re going to talk out of.
I hope he’s man enough to do the right thing. But I’m not holding my breath.
I’m wagering he’s stabbing us in the back yet again.

3) Blackwater Security bribed Iraqi officials to avoid punishment for murdering civilians:
LINK

Well, there’s the proof Iraq is a failure. How much money do you think Iran has given the very same officials to look the other way when the arms shipments and Shiite Fundamentalists are coming in?
Through these bribes, Blackwater Security has admitted that which they always denied. That they intentionally and wantonly targeted civilians, women and children, for no reason other than sport.

Erik Prince shouldn’t worry too much though. Clearly he has enough money to secure the penthouse when he arrives in hell.

4) Pelosi’s Grand Slam:

Like it, or her, or not, Nancy Pelosi has won her biggest victory with the passage of HR 3962, The Affordable Health Care for America Act.
Sometimes frustrating to her base and always Kryptonite to the Right Wing, Nancy Pelosi is always embroiled is some sort of drama.
This time, she has wned Conservanoids in the House and all across the nation.

The Speaker was treated to a roaring standing ovation from health care providers upon her return home to San Francisco.

Could have been better, Nance. But it’s something.

5) Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty:

This walking, talking penis with ears is growing like a cancer. Though probably too moderate to suit the humanoid sycophants that comprise the Republican Right, I predict he will draw a sizable following of run-o-the-mill Republicans and conservanoid Democraps.
I advise bloggers to start gathering information now.

6) Happy Veterans Day:

Youz guys and gals fucking ROCK!

7) Afghanistan got ya down, Mr. President?:

Afghanistan is going on nine years. What’s the goal?

Want my advice? Offer the Taliban the Northern half of the country as an autonomous Islamic state. Provided,
a) They form a Parliamentary system and join the UN. That would make them eligible for aid as long as they b) agree to observe UN humanitarian rules and regulations and accept oversight from moderate Muslim nations. They have rest, food and drink and more Sharia than you can shake a stick at.
In jail they tell you that “if you behave” you get a soda and a movie on Friday. It’s called “perqs".
If you want them in line, you have to give them something to lose.

If they later fail to adjust to civilized living or become a threat to others, at least you have them all in one place that can be targeted for blanket destruction.
Whatever you do, you had better do whatever it takes to keep them from completing Osama Bin Laden’s original plan. Taking over the gov’t of Pakistan and acquiring Nukes. That would cause India to go off and it would all be down hill from there.

The Great Congressional Representative, John Conyers, recently advised the President to start “knocking heads” if he wants Health Reform to pass the Senate. Aside from his support of HR 676, Conyers has never been so right.

The time for child’s play is over. The House has approved inadequate-but-effective Health Reform legislation. Barack Obama must now assert his authority as the leader of the democratic party.
It won’t be easy, it won’t be pleasant. But Barack Obama must now slap Conservanoid Senate Dems into submission.
Particularly that sub-human piece of shit more commonly known as Sen."Red” Joe Lieberman.

The President must, must make it abundantly clear that he will not tolerate any Democratic Senator putting their insurance industry money ahead of party and people. Barack Obama must state, in no uncertain terms, that he will personally campaign for the next Primary challenger of any Democratic Senator who fails to perform the duties the people of this nation, and their constituencies, have vested in them.
The time has come for Barack Obama to finally take firm control of the government he leads and do so without hesitation or mercy. The Insurance Industry slaves who serve as Democratic Senators have shown the American people no quarter. They must receive none in return.

Below is a list of the 100 US Senators. We have indicated how we see them voting. We have also categorized them for the sake of accuracy….
LIST

We feel we have at least 52 YES votes for a final bill with a Public Option intact.
We have 40 NO votes which includes Independent, Joe Lieberman.
We have 2 walking talking question marks. Both Republicans.
We have 6 Conservanoid, bought and sold Democraps who need to shape up or suffer the collective wrath of the President and party faithful.

The 52 YES votes are all Democrats joined by Bernie Sanders I - VT.
The 40 NO votes are the Republicans, Lieberman, and possibly one or all of the six Democraps. Ben Nelson D - NE, is feeling the sting of progressive activism as we speak. We are calling him a “NO” vote but he is showing blatant signs of caving to pressure from Democrats in his own state.

Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are our 2 question marks. They will likely vote “NO” but are known for being more movable than any of their fellow Scum.

The 6 Democraps are:

BAUCUS: Phone: (202) 224-2651
LINCOLN: Phone: (202) 224-4843
CONRAD: Phone: (202) 224-2043
NELSON: Phone: (202) 224-5274
CARPER: Phone: (202) 224-2441
LANDRIEU: Phone: (202) 224-5824

With 51 votes, which we’re confident we have, the measure can be moved via Reconciliation. A Republican Filibuster is all but assured. 60 votes eliminates the Filibuster.

52 “YES” votes + the 6 Democraps, if Obama is willing to kick their asses, brings us to 58 votes. Two votes shy of filibuster proof voting.
Add Ben Nelson and we’re one shy.

Lieberbitch is a definite “NO” unless Obama threatens to have him removed from any chairmanships he might have. Like his precious Committee on Homeland Security and Gov Affairs chairmanship.
Removing the Zionist Pig from this all important, Israel supporting committee’s chair, is powerful mojo on Joe.
Did I mention his mother was a goat? Perhaps this is off topic.

That leaves us with trying to schmooze Snowe and Collins. And unless some other Republican suddenly finds a soul, 59 is where we stay.

Bottom line? Reconcile, if it comes down to it. The Public Option, as written in the House bill, cannot be compromised any more than it already has been. It’s already a shell of what it was intended to be.
Negotiations are, I assume, ongoing. But Barack Obama must drop the hammer on the Six Democraps (and one rat) and drop it hard. He must be the one to do it.
MoveOn and other fine organizations are rapidly collecting mega funds that will support Primary challenges to Democrap held Senate seats. Obama has the muscle to sway these turncoats. Their political futures are very much threatened.
A good slap or two could move them forward.

We’ve come this far, only one more battle to wage.
Defeat of the Public aspect of reform is not an option. We must win this fight at any cost.
The President’s legacy either begins, or ends, here.
I hope he realizes that.

No, this was no “referendum on Obama” as the weak of mind might claim. It will have no effect whatsoever on the progressive agenda.
But there is a stark and brutally clear lesson to be learned here. Whether or not Obama and the Democratic party are capable of learning it is an entirely different matter.

Democrats lost the Gubernatorials in New Jersey and Virginia. Are Democrats asking themselves why? There’s a number of reasons. Let’s examine them…

1) “LOW VOTER TURNOUT”
Did the Democratic party forget that we only win big when we turn out to vote? Seems that way.
What happened to the energized Liberal base of the Democratic party? Why couldn’t Obama rally us like he did in ‘08?
Well, when you campaign on change, then waste precious time pandering and capitulating and sucking up to the Right Wing, we don’t take you quite as seriously as we did before.
When you continue to provide scum like Eirk Prince and Balckwater contracts, when you fail to bring our troops home, when you socialize with the likes of George Bush and basically ignore our pleas and warnings on the internet, you leave the base with no other means of sending you a message.
Yesterday should be a lesson in the perils of pragmatism. President Obama, and the Democratic party, are not being Progressive enough. Therefor, turnout is low.
Turnout was low for both parties. This is the proof.
We should have won all those elections….

2) This blogger, once again, calls for the resignation of DNC Chairman Tim Kaine. There was no organized DNC effort on the ground. I live 2 miles from the Virginia line. I saw nothing in the way of organized anything. Tim Kaine pumped 6 million dollars of DNC money into Virginia. Where’d it go?
There were no buses bringing Democratic voters to the polls. There was no effort whatsoever.

Howard Dean would have aced this one. Tim Kaine is a weak spirited failure and should resign immediately.
He simply hasn’t the political wherewithal to lead this party to victory….

3) Blue DogShits and other Centrists in Congress have alienated the Democratic base with their pathetic displays of cowardice and Republicanism. Americans are stressing on the economy and the Democratic Center is helping Republicans drag out critical issues such as Health Reform that should have already been law.
This makes Americans nervous and makes Democrats, Obama included, look weak and indecisive.

Now granted, we didn’t lose all the locals, but the fact remains that all of these minor elections would have been ours were it not for the past year of kissing Republican ass and trying to keep their diapers changed.

Better learn from this one, Barack and Company. You did the typical Democratic thing when you were elected by moving to the Center and unnecessarily embracing the Right Wing.
Trouble is, the party has changed and we’re simply not going to tolerate that anymore.
We’ll let it all go to hell in a bucket before we’ll open arms to the Right.

These minor victories for the Right Wing will have no impact on the here and now whatsoever, but this had better be a wake up call to Democrats as 2010 quickly approaches.
We won’t turn out for a party that refuses to do what we put them there to do. Remember that the next time you offer a contract to Blackwater or pal around with a Bush or fail to forcefully support the Public Option.

If you thought that the Liberal base of the Democratic party would just settle for anything that wasn’t Bush, well, you thought wrong. Obviously.

Victor Hugo was right. The only thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history.

I warn you, if you have a weak stomach or a bad heart, do not venture beyond this introduction. For beyond the confines of what is normal, decent and good there is a place of evil.
A place where only the demons and things that slither and crawl upon the ground dare reside.
A place so odoriferously foul that only the most vile of abominations can endure it’s grotesque recesses.




You’ve been warned.

So disgusting and so far beyond the realm of decency words simply fail to adequately describe the monstrous, Hellish beings that exist amongst us.
May God have mercy upon us all.

Senate Majority leader, Harry (jellyspine) Reid just announced that the Senate will pass their version of Health Care legislation with a Public Option intact.

That’s good news for many. Not so good for others.

They could just go with Single Payer and all would be well. But no, that would be too smart and too easy for this gov’t.
So we get drama. Lots of drama.

The legislation Reid refers to provides the individual states the opportunity to “Opt Out” of the Government supported plan.
Now, in Vermont or California you have little to worry about.
But, living in a state governed by idiots, as I do, this could end up leaving entire states full of needy at the mercy of the greedy.
And that’s not going to cut it.

The Republican/Republican-Lite, corporate owned Tennessee legislature is almost certain to “Opt Out” of the plan.
They took an ax to TennCare leaving it barely alive. 30% of Tennesseans are without coverage.
What about us, Reid?
Virginia is poised to elect a scumbag to the Governor’s office. Kansas has always been governed by fools.
There are no bigger idiots in state gov’t than we find in Florida.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas…
All of the uninsured of those states are at risk of being fucked by their state level leaders.

This is not good lookin’ out, Senate.
As a matter of fact, you suck.

Still, a Public Option, as I’ve been telling you, will be reality. That’s as good as we’ll get for now but it is better than the alternative.
However, I encourage all who read this to again contact your congress critters and tell them, firmly, that some states are run by fools and we don’t want to be left victim to their folly.
The PO must be a Fifty State Mandate. Care must be equal in every corner of the nation. If not, you’ll have states that become awash with insurance companies engaging in the same economically and morally disastrous practices that put us all where we are today. Either without care, or grotesquely overcharged for the care we have.

The “Opt Out” just isn’t an option.
For the industry maybe, but not for us.

From the LA Times:

By Noam N. Levey

October 26, 2009 | 1:34 p.m.

Reporting from Washington - Fueling the push for a new government insurance plan, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said today that his chamber’s healthcare bill would include a compromise that would create a nationwide public option but give states the right to opt out.

“The public option is not a silver bullet, [but] I believe it’s an important way to ensure competition and to level the playing field for patients with the insurance industry,” Reid said. “Under this concept, states will be able to decide what works for them.”

Reid sent the proposal to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to be analyzed today, a key step before he can bring a bill to the floor for debate.

His decision does not settle the debate roiling Democratic ranks over how to create a government plan that would give consumers who don’t get coverage through their employers an alternative to plans offered by commercial insurers.

The “opt-out” compromise is still two votes shy of the 60 Reid needs to overcome a Republican filibuster, according to a senior Democratic aide on Capitol Hill who requested anonymity when discussing the plan.

“Under this concept, states will be able to decide what works for them.”

That’s the sound of Harry Reid throwing millions of Americans under the bus. This is unacceptable.
Write and call. Tell the House that Universal Health Care must be exactly that. Universal.
Well beyond the destructive reach of Governors and Legislators on the Insurance Industry’s payrolls.

Once upon a time, a naive young girl went to work for a company called Halliburton. They sent her to Iraq. There, she was drugged and raped by her co-workers.

Recently, legislation was introduced to help such victims have legal recourse against the corporations that refuse to recognize the problem and take action.
The legislation, by Sen. Al Franken, passed. However, thirty Republicans voted against that legislation.
One of them was Lamar Alexander, our local Senator from Blountville.

First, were this young lady any less naive we might not even write about it. We have no sympathy for blood money contractors or any other kind of mercenary who sought to profit off the failed, illegal war in Iraq.
This young girl states that she “was serving her country". She wasn’t. Mercenaries do not “serve". They don’t know the meaning of the word.
This issue goes far beyond the individual involved.
This issue is about keeping young men and women who make the mistake of choosing to be employed by lawless, Godless corporations, safe from exploitation and physical abuse.

They didn’t send this young woman to Iraq to be a part of some whimsical, fantasy laden, pie-in-the-sky battle against all evil. They sent her there to be someone’s whore.
They sent her for the purpose of being raped. Some sort of abominable gift to certain contractors there. A sex slave.
Were it not for the compassion of one of her captors, she would not be alive today.

The video below explains it all in detail. A great injustice has been committed against the standards of decency that civilization requires that we all live by in order to survive.
Again, the legislation intended to help such victims passed. But those who voted on behalf of rape and against a young victim will not be permitted to just walk away.

The list of filth who voted in favor of rape reads like a who’s who of Right Wing sub-humanoid servants of the flesh…

Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Jim Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Bob Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Jim DeMint (R-SC)
John Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
John Kyle (R-AZ)
John McCain (R-AZ)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
David Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

From adulterers like John Ensign to effeminate powder puffs like Lindsey Graham and Ensign’s fellow “C” Street Members Brownback and Coburn,
every one of these Senators, including our own Lamar Alexander, has placed their stamp of approval on the corporate sex slave trade.

Who knows how many other young women, and men, have been held against their will as sex slaves for corporations they worked for? Perhaps too afraid to come forward.
This is a problem that, thanx to Sen. Franken, may now be given the full attention of the Justice Dept. Let’s hope so.
Because this shit is disgusting and cannot be tolerated.

Lamar Alexander, you approved of rape to please your corporate masters. You are the textbook definition of a coward.

H/T to Tim Valentine at TI&S

Another big step in the right direction. This is more than we’ve ever gotten from any gov’t before Obama’s.

Well done, Mr. President. Very well done.

This is for you, MM users. All these decades of relentless activism. All those who suffered and died to make this day possible. This is the ends we seek, and we will not stop until MJ is legalized across the nation.
Of course, stupid cops and judges will still commit harassment and assaults upon MM users, but the ball is rolling right over them now.

Spark and celebrate!

From Reuters:

By James Vicini and Dan Whitcomb

WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In a sharp policy shift, the Obama administration told federal attorneys not to prosecute patients who use marijuana for medical reasons or dispensaries in states where it has been legalized.

A Justice Department official said the formal guidelines were issued Monday in a policy change reflecting President Barack Obama’s views. The Bush administration had said it could enforce the federal law against marijuana and that it trumped state laws.

The decision was praised by activists in California, the first state to legalize medical marijuana in 1996. But concern remains among some medical and law enforcement authorities about hundreds of clinics thought to be selling pot under the protection of state law and without regard to health.

As a candidate during his presidential bid last year, Obama said he intended to halt raids of medical marijuana facilities operating legally under state laws.

After he took office in January, a Drug Enforcement Administration raid on a medical marijuana dispensary in Lake Tahoe, California, raised questions about whether he would follow that pledge.

A White House spokesman Monday repeated Obama’s view that “federal resources should not be used to circumvent state laws.” And Attorney General Eric Holder said he would follow Obama’s position.

Stephen Gutwillig, California head of the Drug Policy Alliance, called the move a good first step.

“There is a fundamental need of patients to access marijuana as medicine right now,” Gutwillig said. “While it’s great to see the Obama administration radically de-escalate the Bush and Clinton administrations’ war on medical marijuana patients, more needs to be done to protect sick people and their caregivers.”

About a dozen states have followed California in adopting medical marijuana laws.

‘MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE’

Gutwillig called on the Obama administration to support a bill pending in Congress, proposed by Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, that would give states the right to adopt their own medical marijuana laws.

But the head of a California drug rehabilitation clinic criticized Monday’s move as irresponsible.

“The Justice Department is required to enforce all federal laws that are on the books,” said Jerrod Menz, president of A Better Tomorrow Treatment Center, said in a written statement.

“Imagine if the administration took a similar stance on immigration policy. Can you imagine the outrage?”

In a statement, Holder said the Justice Department will continue to prosecute people who claim to comply with state or local law, but really are concealing illegal operations.

This is great! But it is by no means enough. Protecting the innocent from Godless legislation is the first thing that needed to be done. But there are still miles to go before the evil is completely subdued and freedom rings.
We have won the drug war. Now it’s just a matter of removing the squatters.

A dear friend on the internet, whom I loves me some of, has asked me in a passionate fashion to blog about something other than politics today. She figures I need a break from five straight years of non stop politics.
I can do this ’til the oceans dry up, but she might have a point. Who knows?

So, there I was…Trying to find something silly to post here to satisfy a dear friend’s genuine concerns.
Fortunately, I stumbled upon some fairly groovy pictures of the principals of a gymnastics tournament in England.
(The shit we do to please our friends)

Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2009 at the O2 Arena in London. I mean, how much more interesting does it get? Right?
Now, I’m not saying these gals are not great athletes. They are beyond great actually. These tiny super-humans are indeed an impressive sight to behold.
At times, they defy description.
This series of pictures of the tournament may be able to better illustrate my awe when it comes to gymnastics.
(captainkona writing about gymnastics is like Seymour Hearsh writing a cook book)

We begin with a Chinese gymnast by the name of Deng Linlin. She seems to be missing something. Perhaps we’ll find it later…

This photograph of British contestant, Rebecca Wing, seems to indicate that her trainers reassembled her improperly after routine inspection…

Finland’s Ida Laisi is a truly amazing athlete.
Not only can she assume the exact same position that my ex-girlfriend spent most of her natural life in, she can do it in mid air and without the elasticated harness…

Kyoko Oshima of Japan treated the enthusiastic audience to a record breaking day when she became the first gymnast in history to score a Perfect “10″ in the Face Plant event…

Here’s Deng again. Still looking…

Our own Kayla Williams was doing an outstanding job before she was sucked into the O2 Arena vacuum system. At last report she was still missing and believed to be somewhere in the Maldives…

Ah, there it is…

Ok, now that’s just wrong. She was charged 30 Quid for that pedicure…

After finally locating her head, Deng was so happy she thoroughly delighted the audience by turning into a Dolphin and swimming gracefully away…

You know, when you really get down to it, there are things more interesting than politics.
Thanx, kind lady. I feel better already.

Just thought it was a cute headline….

Disgusting, sub-human, passionately traitorous babbling boob, Rush Limbaugh, attempted to buy into an NFL franchise.

He has been DENIED!

From a Right Wing Murdoch Rag:

Limbaugh Dropped From Rams Bid
By MATTHEW FUTTERMAN

Rush Limbaugh won’t be buying a piece of the St. Louis Rams after all.

With criticism mounting, Dave Checketts, the sports businessman leading a group vying for the National Football League franchise, dumped the controversial conservative talk show host just days after Mr. Limbaugh disclosed his intent to buy a minority interest in the team.

“Rush was to be a limited partner–as such, he would have had no say in the direction of the club or in any decisions regarding personnel or operations,” Mr. Checketts, owner of the NHL’s St. Louis Blues, said in a statement released Wednesday. “This was a role he enthusiastically embraced. However, it has become clear that his involvement in our group has become a complication and a distraction to our intentions; endangering our bid to keep the team in St. Louis. As such, we have decided to move forward without him and hope it will eventually lead us to a successful conclusion.”

A representative for Mr. Limbaugh did not return messages seeking comment. He has said that he would take an active role in managing the team. In recent days Mr. Limbaugh stated his on his radio show and in television interviews that he would not drop out of the bidding for the team, which is expected to sell for about $750 million, according to people familiar with the matter.

Face it, Rush. Nobody loves you.
Surely you won’t object to the NFL treating you the way you have treated others. With contempt and derision.

But don’t lose heart. I heard the Jamaican bobsled team needs a towel boy. I could use someone to shovel snow from my parking lot this winter.

Give me a call. Minimum wage, no health care.

President Obama, who was recently in Virginia to give a speech to workers at a construction project which was funded by stimulus money, stated that he would explore “each and every avenue” of creating jobs.

Really, Mr. President?

From NASDAQ:

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Under pressure from some Democrats to adopt more economic stimulus, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he will explore new ways to create jobs.

“Here’s the bottom line, we’re moving forward on a number of economic fronts,” Obama said at a Virginia construction project funded with money from the $787 billion Recovery Act. “And we’re going to continue to explore each and every avenue that I can think of that will lead to job creation and economic growth.”

At the event, Obama touted the initial stimulus, saying it has helped get the economy “moving in the right direction.”

He didn’t discuss any new economic proposals. Democratic lawmakers, however, have pushed for an extension of a new home buyers tax credit and a new tax break for businesses that add new workers.

Hows about some Green Jobs, Barack? No, not those kind of “Green Jobs". These kind of Green Jobs…

From California NORML:

….Based on experience with the wine industry, the total economic activity generated by legal marijuana could be nearly four times as great as retail sales, around $12 - $18 billion. Amsterdam-style coffeehouses would generate jobs and tourism. If the marijuana industry were just one-third the size of the wine industry, it would generate 50,000 jobs and $1.4 billion in wages, along with additional income and business tax revenues for the state.

An entirely new and innovative industry awaits you, Mr. President. Why is it that, thus far, you continue to scoff at the truth concerning Marijuana, Hemp and the gold mine of wealth to be found there?

From textiles to medications to bio-fuels. It’s sitting right there in front of your face. All the facts are available with a simple Google. The math has been done for you.
There is nothing to fear, in this case, but fear it’s self.

( Economic Revenues from Taxation: a $2.7 - $4.5 billion market

The total value of the domestic marijuana market can be estimated on the basis of its current retail price. Depending on quality, retail price of a single gram (one or two joints) ranges around $10 - $15 ($280 - $420/ounce) for domestic bud, or as low as $5-7 for Mexican grass. For comparison, the prevailing price on the quasi-legal Dutch market is $6/gram. At $10/ gram, the total value of California’s domestic marijuana market comes to about $ 4.5 billion per year. In a legal market, prices could be expected to fall. If they fell to current Dutch prices, the retail value of the current market would be $2.7 billion. However, this decrease would be at least partly offset by an increase in consumption. In sum, the total domestic market might reasonably be estimated at $2.7 - $4.5 billion in California.

That’s California. One state.
Add the rest of the nation to that equation and guess what you get, Mr. President….
Beaucoup jobs, mountains of revenue, massive cash infusion (aka stimulus).
The country would become so stimulated we’d probably spewge all over the Western Hemisphere.

According to basic logic and renown authority, Dr. Heather Anne Harder…

Both Presidents Washington and Jefferson grew hemp. Americans were legally bound to grow hemp during Colonial times. The Federal government even subsidized hemp during WWII. In 1807 California produced 125,000 pounds of Hemp. 40% came from Santa Barbara.

Hemp is among the oldest industries on the planet, going back more than 10,000 years to the beginning of pottery. The oldest relic of human industry is a bit of hemp fabric dating back to approximately 8,000 B.C.

Hemp played a major role in the stabilization and economy of our nation for many decades. It wasn’t until it became a threat to the natural resource companies back in the thirties did it first experience a ban on its growth. After all, hemp oil is clean, renewable, cheap, and clean while fossil fuels were limited, expensive and dirty. Those who stood to make a fortune in fossil fuels couldn’t compete. Also contributing to hemp bashing was William Randolph Hearst. Seems he had a huge financial interest in the timber market. It was his newspapers that spear-headed the hemp bashing in order to influence public opinion. Using the Mexican word for hemp, “marijuana,” Hearst turned the public against hemp by playing on their fears and misled the public concerning the nature of hemp/marijuana. Until then people were comfortable with hemp-but this Mexican marijuana was a whole new ball game.

So, Mr. President. You have talked out of both sides of your face on the Legalization issue. But sooner or later you’re going to have to face Liberal voters in another election. Many of us are already disenchanted with some of the things you’ve done (and haven’t done). Do you really think you can afford to lose the Liberal base when you have an energized Right Wing breathing down your neck in 2012?
I promise you that you can’t.

Not only would the industry create an abundance of new opportunities, but imagine how many people will not be fired because they tested positive for Marijuana that they smoked three weeks ago.

The answer is right in front of your face, sir.
How long will you ignore the inevitable?

There is nothing I despise more than a coward. Therefor, I must write this open letter to DNC Chairman Tim Kaine…

This is why I have such a problem with you, Tim Kaine, running the DNC…

From the Associated Press:

“DNC pulls health care ad after Dole objects

(AP) – 2 hours ago

WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee is canceling a television ad touting GOP support for health care reform after protests from one of the Republicans mentioned, former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.

The ad quotes a series of Republicans — including California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson — saying the health care system needs to be reformed.

Dole is quoted saying: “I want this to pass. … We’ve got to do something.”

The ad then accuses current GOP congressional leaders as “siding with the insurance companies” to fight health care reform.

Dole told ABC News on Sunday that he objected to the ad’s criticism of the current Republican leadership.

“I just didn’t think it was fair, when I’ve tried to be helpful in encouraging a bipartisan solution, for the DNC to run an ad that I interpreted and I know others did as a backhanded comment about Republicans,” Dole said.”

You are a coward, Kaine.
A gutless pragmatist that couldn’t carry Dr. Dean’s lab coat.
GET OUT! Get the fuck out of the DNC before you destroy the future of this party.
Just ask the President to replace you with Dean or Bill Richardson or Shirley Temple or someone who has the fucking guts to fight.

A good, truthful ad, and you pull it on the objection of a scumbag like Bob Dole?
You are a disgrace, Kaine. A disgrace.
Hand in your resignation immediately. I’m tired of your pathetic capitulation and obvious inability to stand firm on any issue.
You are a complete and total failure.

The Public Option? You’ve said nothing and done nothing. Choosing progressive candidates to replace the likes of Baucus, Ross, Nelson etc.?
You have done nothing. Courting young prospective voters to become the future of the party? Fail!
The new Democratic Progressive Party has no room for weaklings. No tolerance for capitulation, no time for fools and no reward for failure.
You were the wrong choice to chair the party when Obama picked you (one of his biggest mistakes) and you have proven, time and time again, to be the wrong choice still.

At least have enough respect for your party and it’s future to resign.

It’s a great honor. One that can be awarded to any human being with a record of peace and effort to help his fellow man.
Today, it has been justly awarded again.

The Nobel Peace Prize.

Only three other US Presidents have had this great honor bestowed upon them. Roosevelt, Wilson and the heavyweight champion of peace, Jimmy Carter.
Other recipients include Al Gore, Martin Luther King, Amnesty International, Mother Teresa…
Though occasionally soiled by being given to the likes of Henry Kissinger, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin, the Nobel Peace Prize still carries the weight of the world’s appreciation for those who dare to seek peace.

Congratulations, Mr. President.

I’m sure Glenn Beck is shitting himself as we write.

Too bad, Right Wingers. If it’s any consolation, had there been a Nobel Idiot Prize, George Bush would have surely won it.
Better luck next time.

PS: Don’t feel too terribly bad, Repigs. After all, you’re not alone in your objection…
Taliban Condemns Obama Nobel Prize

Birds of a feather….

UPDATED:
Since a few of my fellow Liberals, as much as I love them, have a tendency to be a little shallow…

Barack Obama’s ears are firmly pinned back. The world has set a standard by which Obama must now abide.
He has been heralded a champion of peace. Now, he will have no choice but to live up to the expectations imposed upon him.

Many of us are upset with the President for remaining at war. Now, there’s a good chance that things will go a little more our way.
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

The lovely lady of the left brings us good news. It may be that Democrats have finally found some balls.

Don’t touch that dial…

According to Ms. Maddow, and boldprogressives.org, certain “power brokers” on the Democratic Left have decided to keep their Right-Leaning colleagues honest by force.
It’s about fucking time.

According to Maddow…

“Two major powerbrokers on the left…are encouraging a Senate strategy in which the leadership would revoke chairmanships and other leadership positions from any Democrat who sides with a Republican filibuster to block a vote on health reform.”

That’s how you do it. If they want to be Republicans, treat them like Republicans.
Strip people like Max Baucus of their chairmanships and force them to side with their constituencies instead of their corporate benefactors.
This is playing hardball at it’s finest.
This should have been done long ago.

I’m pretty sure I know who the “two” power brokers are, and I thank God for them and their courage.
But let’s not spoil the fun.

Just go to the following link and sign the petition to Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid.

PETITION

Tell the spineless bastard that we support busting down those Democraps that might be inclined to side with Republicans in a filibuster of health care legislation.
Let these shamefully capitulating cowards know that they will be de-ranked, disgraced and showered with derision if they turn their coats even one more time.

We’re going to win this. We will have a Public Option. We will have choice in health care.
All it takes is for Democrats to show the kind of intestinal fortitude they have seldom (read “never") shown in the past.

Dennis Kucinich, Maurice Henchey, Raúl Grijalva, Steve Cohen, Howard Dean…there are Democrats with the guts to stand up and fight. They are all members of the Progressive Caucus (Dean is freelancing at the moment).

Now, they have a new Heavyweight Champion. His name is Alan Grayson.

Usually it’s the Democratic women who have the gumption to challenge, forcefully, injustice and lies coming from the Right.
This is about the men, and the mice, of the party.

I can only hope that weak kneed upchucks of fluff like Harry Reid, Jim Cooper, Nelson, Gordon, Ross and the rest of the chickenshits might be motivated to revisit their manhood after a slick and stunning display of courage and truth on the floor of the House of Representatives.
As we wrote in the last entry, Alan Grayson stood up in the face of the Republitards and basically ridiculed them for the worthless, stale, Un-Americans they are.
You saw the vid in the previous post. You saw Grayson speak the truth with conviction and resolve the likes of which is seldom seen in Democratic politics.

While Blue Dogshits like Max Baucus continue to whimper and grovel at the feet of the enemies of freedom, true Progressives like Grayson know that courage and heart are the pathway to respect and unity.
Democrats cannot unite behind cowardice. That’s why we find ourselves divided so often. Usually to the detriment of the people and the party.
The Democratic party must become galvanized like they have never been during this time of majorital superiority. If the example set yesterday by this great progressive, Grayson, isn’t enough to get the job done then this party needs an enema. We just have too many cowards in blue.

Thank you, Alan Grayson. You’re right. I’ve said it here a thousand times. Real Democrats respect courage and a fight-to-the-death attitude.
You have the qualities we desire in a leader.

I hope to see your name on a ticket one day. Grayson for President 2016 sounds real good to me.
We at TN420 salute you.

Take a look, Dino bitches. This is a real Democrat.

You have to admit, the plan is simple, inexpensive and sure to be accepted by all Republicans and Blue Dogshit Democrats…

From Ben Pershing at The Washington Post:

House Republicans have apparently decided, at least for the moment, not to introduce the resolution they drafted criticizing Grayson for his remarks. A few moments ago, Price took to the House floor during an unrelated debate and waved around a copy of the resolution, but then said he was not going to introduce it. Instead, to give Grayson “a break,” Price said he would just “respectfully request that he apologize to our leader.” Grayson has given no indication that he plans to apologize to anyone…

Republican Congressional Representative from Ohio and minority leader, John Boehner, staunchly supported the the fictitious “Death Panel” accusations leveled against Health Reform.
Now, we find that Boehner chairs the Congressional Republican Death Panel in the House and Senate.
And they have killed again.

Sadly…we find that the lack of a public Health Care Option has again taken a young life.
A beautiful young woman, full of life and hope for her future, has died because she had no health care and could not afford any.

Her name was Kimberly Young. She is a resident of Rep. Boehner’s congressional district in the state of Ohio.
Kimberly contracted Swine Flu, and being unable to pay for treatment and justifiably frightened of the prospect of accumulating massive debt due to the out of control costs of health care, has died.

Another life that could have and should have been saved.

Kimberly Young: Victim of Republican politics

From Think Progress:

A 22-year-old woman from Oxford, Ohio, died from swine flu on Wednesday. Kimberly Young graduated from Miami University in December and continued to live in Oxford, Ohio, within Minority Leader John Boehner’s congressional distrct. Reports now indicate that after initially getting sick, Young put off treatment because she was uninsured:

Young became ill about two weeks ago, but didn’t seek care initially because she didn’t have health insurance and was worried about the cost, according to Brent Mowery, her friend and former roommate. […]

On Tuesday, Sept. 22, Young’s condition suddenly worsened and her roommate drove her to McCullough Hyde Memorial Hospital in Oxford, where she was flown in critical condition to University Hospital in Cincinnati.

“That’s the most tragic part about it. If she had insurance, she would have gone to the doctor,” Mowery said.

How much longer will it be before the supposed “good” people in our gov’t place their collective foot on the neck of the serpent and do what is right for our citizens?

Once again,

Matt: 25 36-40 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me,
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naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.’
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Then the righteous 16 will answer him and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?
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When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?
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When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?’
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And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.

Read it. You fake-ass, fair weather “Christians".
Read it! ….And weep. If you have any semblance of a soul at all, weep. If not for others, then for yourselves.

The fewer the better. That’s the sad reality of American existence.

Though no one really wants to rejoice in the demise of another, when a threat to our nation and our people departs for the dark, dingy yonder it can, in a strange kinda way, bring relief.
So much like that flu that finally left one’s body, another one of the long time enemies of the American people has bitten the dust.

From the Associated Press:

WASHINGTON — Irving Kristol, the writer, editor and publisher known as the godfather of neoconservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into a historic rejection of communism, liberalism and the counterculture, died Friday. He was 89.

“His wisdom, wit, good humor and generosity of spirit made him a friend and mentor to several generations of thinkers and public servants,” said the editors of The Weekly Standard in announcing Kristol’s death on its Web site. He died of complications from lung cancer.

Kristol was the husband of critic-historian Gertrude Himmelfarb and father of neoconservative editor and commentator William Kristol, an editor of The Weekly Standard.

A Trotskyist in the 1930s, Kristol would soon sour on socialism, break from liberalism after the rise of the New Left in the 1960s and in the 1970s commit the unthinkable – support the Republican Party, once as “foreign to me as attending a Catholic Mass.”

He was a New York intellectual who left home, first politically, then physically, moving to Washington in 1988. He was a liberal “mugged by reality,” his turn to the right joined by countless others, including such future GOP Cabinet officials as Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Bennett and another neoconservative founder, Norman Podhoretz.

Kristol Sr. now joins his recent fellow departures, Jack Kemp and Robert Novak, on the train to oblivion.
Hey, Bill. Like father, like son?

Rest in pieces, Neo-Con.

Kinda busy lately. Got a loved one in the hospital, opening a second business location in Florida, new girlfriend…..
I’m actually too old for this shit, but I never did consider that as much of an excuse when other people use it. I guess that means I can’t either.

And aside from all of that, there are still Repiglikans and Democraps who want to ruin our country. So therefor……

1) FCC: Pro Net Neutrality?
I never thought I’d live to see such a waste of money and office space as the Federal Communications Commission actually do the right thing. Being so used to the Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush FCC which existed only to dictate what we see and hear, I really have difficulty absorbing FCC chairman Julius Genachowski’s move in support of an internet free of Corporate interference, regulation, and censorship.

Of course, Republicans, who rely on their Corporate Stooges to restrict the flow of free information, are going ape shit.
When a skank like Rep. Kay Hutchinson- Scum, TX stand against something you know it’s the right thing to do.

Cool. That’s all I can say at this point.
:D

2) Max Baucus: Still trying to prevent the people from being well.

The Senate Finance Committee kicked off work this morning on a health care proposal crafted by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. Members of the committee have filed 564 amendments to the bill so far but Baucus has said he expects the committee can vote on the measure by the end of the week.

Baucus’ 10-year, $774 billion package would provide coverage to 29 million Americans who lack it now. Among other provisions, the proposal would require people to purchase insurance or face a penalty. Baucus formally unveiled a number of changes to his own bill this morning, including lowering the penalty for people who do not buy coverage.

“Now it’s our turn,” Baucus said in his opening statement. “Through this open and democratic process, I hope that we can improve the bill even further.”

Senator Baucus. What part of Fuck You do you not understand?

“We are far from the finish line,” Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine said. “There are many miles in this journey.”

No, skank, there are many miles on your narrow, wrinkled ass and you need to shut the fuck up.
The only thing that needs to be taken out of the Health Care legislation is the bi-partisanship.

3) Patriot Schmatriot: What was stupid is stupid still.

Congress.org sent out their latest email. Good website, lots of information. But there’s something that disturbed my a little about it.
In the email we are offered a chance to sign a chain mail (or whatever) and let Congress know how we feel about the Patriot Act.

From Roll Call:

Talk Back to Congress

Three provisions of the PATRIOT Act are scheduled to expire at the end of the year. President Barack Obama wants Congress to renew them.

Some Democrats, led by Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, want to use the renewal as an opportunity to make broader changes in the law because they think it gives the government too much power to snoop.

Proponents of the PATRIOT Act, including many Republicans and the head of the FBI, say the law gives law enforcement much-needed flexibility to track terrorist activity in the U.S.

The elements that are set to expire include one that lets law enforcement attach a court-approved wiretap on an individual as opposed to a particular phone line, another that lowers the court standard of suspicion for allowing law enforcement to collect records in a terrorism investigation and a third that says law enforcement doesn’t have to show a suspected terrorist has a connection to a foreign power to set up surveillance.

House and Senate committees will begin working on the issue this week.

Tell your lawmakers what you think about this week’s topic.

Click here to write a letter in support:
Renew the PATRIOT Act as is

Click here to write a letter in opposition:
Reform the PATRIOT Act

“Renew” or “reform". Hmmmmm,
Wait! I have a better idea! “REPEAL” THE FUCKING ABOMINATION ENTIRELY!
This is where our president and all too many on all sides fall flat on their faces.
The Patriot Act is the single worst piece of shit legislation of our time. Forged in fear and a lack of respect for the fundamental rights of our society, the Patriot Act has accomplished nothing other than to abolish the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and hand those responsible for the 9/11 attacks upon NYC a claim to victory.

The Bush Administration severely abused the power this “Act” vested in them and though I am far more trusting of the present administration, I don’t trust anyone with this much power.
The Patriot Act made the Bill of Rights contingent on the whims of whoever might be in power.
That doesn’t cut it.
For fuck’s sake. There was never any law that prevented one law enforcement agency from sharing information about criminal activity with another agency. Such an “obstacle” is mythical and was only used as an excuse for the Bush Regime to trample the Constitution.

Solution?
Repeal the Cowardly Act and write new legislation that doesn’t include sacrificing every last aspect of our privacy.

4) Bill Clinton: Still an Asshole.

William Jefferson Clinton, the king of the bended knee. No Democrat has ever bared it’s ass for the Conservatives the way Bill Clinton always did.
Now, giving interviews to Right Wing media, Clinton seems more than happy to show his concern for the Republican party by advising them on how to regroup and make gains against Democrats.

Clinton recently went on NewsMax to be interviewed by his good friend and Right Wing asshat, Chris Ruddy. Clinton attempted to refute statements by the great Jimmy Carter that touch on Obama’s opposition and the aspect of racism.
Clinton, in the traditional family (two-faced, double talking) style, stated (unbelievably I might add) that

“I believe that 100 percent of those who are opposing him now would be against him if he were a white Democrat.”

Pretty dumb, you suckass.

Clinton wrongly assumes, for the benefit of his host, that the Tea Bag Fags etc. are motivated solely by politics.
Really, Bill?

Sure, Bill. “100%".
How ’bout this one, Bill…

……Said Bill Clinton today in Columbia, SC: “Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in ‘84 and ‘88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here.”

You’re 100% fuckbag, Bill. Lips still planted firmly in Republican ass.

5) Joke of the Week: Tom Delay.

Tom Delay was on one of those dancing shows. Of course I don’t watch much TV, especially sorry shit like that. But I was really, really hoping to read in the news today that Delay, the disgraced Republican EX congressman from Texas, had finally been put on trial for the crimes he was indicted for.

No such luck. But there’s still hope.
If there’s any justice at all he’ll be appearing on Dancing With Bubba one day soon.

Once again, the infamous HMO death machine, CIGNA, is poised to kill. The unbelievably inhumane system that CIGNA is a part of is what our President, our Liberal leaders and We The People are trying to save this nation from.

These corporate health care criminals must be stopped. The Public Option will stop them.

In December of 2007, CIGNA Health Care murdered a child by the name of Nataline Sarkyian by refusing the liver transplant every doctor that treated her said she needed to live.
Now, CIGNA seeks to commit the exact same crime again by bureaucratically murdering another young woman by the name of Dawn Smith.

MoveOn alerts us to the tragic reality that is faced by Americans every day as the corporate health care system continues to fail our people.
MoveOn asks that you sign on to a statement in support of Dawn Smith. We ask that you do so as well.

http://pol.moveon.org/dawnsmith/

Stand with Dawn

Dawn Smith is an aspiring playwright in Atlanta. Four years ago, she was diagnosed with a rare, but treatable brain tumor. Her doctors are ready to remove it, but they can’t because CIGNA refuses to pay for the surgery.

Dawn has been fighting CIGNA on her own, but now she’s asking for our help. CIGNA may be able to ignore her, but they won’t be able to ignore millions of us standing together.

Can you sign this statement of support to shine a light on Big Insurance’s abusive tactics, get Dawn the care she needs and make sure they don’t do this to anyone again?

A compiled statement with your individual comment will be presented to H. Edward Hanway, CEO of CIGNA.

This is what the Tea Bag Fags stand for. This is what the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and every other foul piece of walking, talking shit-for-brains Conservative stands for.
Murdering people by keeping quality health care a luxury only accessible to the wealthy.
When you see vermin protesting the government’s efforts to right these evils by reforming health care, this is what they support.
Killing the innocent so the guilty can profit.

H. Edward Hanway, CEO of CIGNA.
The letter is to you.
What kind of sub-human, soulless vermin are you exactly? Why aren’t you in prison for the murder of Nataline? Why do you want to kill Dawn Smith?
These are just some of the questions I would ask you as I was pounding your fuck face into hamburger. Which, believe me, I would much rather be doing than writing on this blog.

H. EDWARD HANWAY
Ed Hanway, 57, has been a Director of CIGNA since 1999. He has served as the Chairman of the Board of CIGNA Corporation since December 2000, the Chief Executive Officer since January 2000, and President from 1999 until 2008. He has been associated with CIGNA since 1978. His term as a Director of CIGNA expires in 2012.

Soulless scum. These corporate shysters, the Tea Baggers, the fringe fucktards who oppose doing what is right…
Many of them call themselves “Christians". I spit on their fraudulent faith…
Matt:25 36-40 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me,
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naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.’
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Then the righteous 16 will answer him and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?
38
When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?
39
When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?’
40
And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’

That’s right, read it. Read it, you Godless wretches.
You will not stop us from giving all Americans proper, effective and if necessary, free health care with reliable oversight and strong patient advocacy.

This is for Dawn. We’re with you, baby.

Thx to “litterroom” for his contribution to this post.

The nerve of this Blue Dogshit half wit apparently knows no bounds. But not to worry, nobody on either side of Health Care reform has any interest in his pointless, self-indulgent bill.

Sen. Max Baucus - D Mont.
Just another in a long line of Democratic disgraces. The Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has for some reason convinced himself that he’s more important than the President of the United States.
This Baucus, in his arrogance, has presumed to draft his own Health Care Legislation.

It reads like HR 3200 but with a few differences.

The Baucus bill mandates that all Americans buy insurance. But offers nothing to those who cannot afford it except that they pay the penalties for not being able to afford it.
It supports “co-ops” which as history teaches us, grow up to become FOR PROFIT entities like the ones we’re trying to save the country from now.

In other words, Max Baucus wrote legislation that changes nothing.

LOL, What an asshole.

Max Baucus is a tool who is bought and paid for by the insurance industry. Hence the anti-American, pro-Corporate legislation….

Securities & Investment $839,650
Lawyers/Law Firms $684,354
Insurance $558,075
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $507,313
Health Professionals $504,641

Fuck you, Max. That’s about all that need be said.

Baucus Fact Box:

Connections to Jack Abramoff

In December 2005, following the public corruption probe of con man Jack Abramoff, Baucus returned $18,892 in contributions that his office found to be connected to Abramoff. Included in the returned donations was an estimated $1,892 that was never reported for the use of Abramoff’s skybox at a professional sports stadium and concert venue in downtown Washington in 2001.[13]

Economic issues

Baucus has a 74% pro-business voting record as rated by the United States Chamber of Commerce. He twice voted to make filing bankruptcy more difficult for debtors,[14] once in July, 2001 to restrict rules on personal bankruptcy, and a second time in March 2005 to include means-testing & restrictions for bankruptcy filers.

He has frequently visited places of employment within the state and has personally participated in activities that he calls “Work Days.” He has also hosted economic development conferences.

Trade

In March 2005, Baucus voted against repealing tax subsidies that benefit companies that move US jobs offshore. On January 4, 2007, he wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal calling on Democrats to renew Bush’s fast-track authority for international trade deals.[15] In response, the Montana State Senate passed a 44-6 resolution “that the U.S. Congress be urged to create a replacement for the outdated fast track system” [16]

The beauty of the Public Option lies in it’s simplicity. Any fifth grader could understand it.
As we said before, there are only two kinds of people who oppose the Public Option. The Industry and the Idiot.

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explains what a public option for health care coverage really means for working people. Please pass this video on and for God’s sake, please keep hounding your Democratic representatives.

The Public Option is NOT NEGOTIABLE.

Carry on.

That was a great speech. But there’s nothing unusual about Barack Obama giving a great speech. Though this particular speech was impressive in many ways if you dig into what was said and examine how it was said. Then you consider the reactions from Congress Critters and you will know what went down.

Barack Obama confirmed, solidly, his support for a “Public Option". It may or may not be labeled “Public Option” in the end, but as long as no American is ever refused treatment, either emergency or preventative, it’s what he promised and he seems to be keeping it.

(Public Option)

The insurance reforms that I’ve already mentioned would do just that. But an
additional step we can take to keep insurance companies honest is by making a
not-for-profit public option available in the insurance exchange. Let me be clear -
it would only be an option for those who don’t have insurance. No one would be
forced to choose it, and it would not impact those of you who already have
insurance. In fact, based on Congressional Budget Office estimates, we believe that
less than 5% of Americans would sign up.

Despite all this, the insurance companies and their allies don’t like this idea.
They argue that these private companies can’t fairly compete with the government.
And they’d be right if taxpayers were subsidizing this public insurance option. But
they won’t be. I have insisted that like any private insurance company, the public
insurance option would have to be self-sufficient and rely on the premiums it
collects. But by avoiding some of the overhead that gets eaten up at private
companies by profits, excessive administrative costs and executive salaries, it
could provide a good deal for consumers. It would also keep pressure on private
insurers to keep their policies affordable and treat their customers better, the
same way public colleges and universities provide additional choice and competition
to students without in any way inhibiting a vibrant system of private colleges and
universities.
It’s worth noting that a strong majority of Americans still favor a public insurance
option of the sort I’ve proposed tonight.

There it is there. Plain and simple.
If one cannot afford the insurance choices provided by this “exchange", the gov’t will pick up the tab.
Simple as that.
It’s by no means HR 676, but it will do for a prelude.

As we said before, there will be a “Public Option". Did you watch the address? Did you see the big smile on the face of Rep. Dennis Kucinich? The world heavyweight champion of the people was pleased with Obama’s clarity and position on supporting the underprivileged.
Did you see the reactions in the audience?
The camera panned to the Progressive Caucus. They were elated. The camera panned to the tiny, upper-Left corner of the room where the Scumbags, Liars and Traitors (Conservative Republicans) were corralled. They were acting like miserable, unruly brats who need a strap across their backs.
If the Scum are bummed, all is well.

When Obama addressed the Scum Section, I saw it. Though he spoke politically about “bipartisanship", I saw that “fuck you idiots” look on Obama’s face as he addressed them. I know that look. That’s the look I give them when I meet them in the streets.

Obama has confirmed his commitment to National Health Care. Now it’s up to Congress where we thankfully hold a major advantage.
Time to get on the phones again, Liberals. Time to write, call, visit…time to be louder than ever before.
Tell Pelosi, tell your local Rep, tell the Progressive Caucus. The Baucus Bill is 100% unacceptable.
Only a true Public Option will solve the problems we have concerning health care in this country. We will settle for nothing less than complete and total victory.
The Public Option is NOT NEGOTIABLE.

The Right is reeling, time to move in for the kill.

Noteworthy extras? Of course there were.
One suck-ass piece of shit from the great state of South Carolina by the name of Rep. Joe Wilson-R.
When Obama stated the fact that the benefit of HR 3200 will not be available to Illegals in the country, Wilson, obviously too lazy and/or stupid to read the legislation, stood up and shouted “you lie!” at the President.
Now, that would be fine if Obama was lying. But he wasn’t. Wilson, evidently little more than an embodiment of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, gave us a ring side view of the biggest verbal Face-Plant in the history of Congress. And he will pay dearly for it.

From the AP:

Later, Wilson was contrite.

“This evening I let my emotions get the best of me,” he said in a statement. “While I disagree with the president’s statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility.”
He then tried to call Obama to apologize personally, but ended up talking with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel instead, Wilson’s office said.

LOL. Fuck you. You sub-human piece of shit. Just, fuck you. We will ram the Public Option down your throat and out your gaping ass. Tell your girlfriend, Glenn Becky, that you just couldn’t get the job done.

Get used to it, Righty. We rule this roost and that’s all there is to it.

Well, Righty. This is what happens when you assault a Liberal. You people have to understand that without your AK47 we will whoop your ass if you fuck with us. We might even give you the finger…uh, oops….you might give us the finger I mean.

Oh, by the way. The anti-health care, Right Wing zealot attacker with the munched digit made it to the hospital to have the finger re-attached.

He has Medicare….

From KTLA with a big H/T to Wonkette.

Wonkette has video.

Man’s Finger Bitten Off in Scuffle at Health Care Rally

KTLA News

9:16 AM PDT, September 3, 2009
Blood found near the scene of the rally.

THOUSAND OAKS – A 65-year-old man had his finger bitten off Wednesday evening at a health care rally in Thousand Oaks, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.

Sheriff’s investigators were called to Hillcrest and Lynn Road at 7:26 p.m.

About 100 protesters sponsored by MoveOn.org were having a rally supporting health care reform. A group of anti-health care reform protesters formed across the street.

A witness from the scene says a man was walking through the anti-reform group to get to the pro-reform side when he got into an altercation with the 65-year-old, who opposes health care reform.

The 65-year-old was apparently aggressive and hit the other man, who then retaliated by biting off his attacker’s pinky, according to Karoli from DrumsnWhistles, who attended the rally.

The man took his finger and walked to Los Robles hospital for treatment. Doctors reattached the finger, which was said to have been severed in half. He has since been released, according to a hospital spokesperson.

Neither man has been identified.

Ventura County Sheriff’s Capt. Frank O’Hanlon says the man had Medicare.

Sheriff’s officials are investigating the incident.

Copyright © 2009, KTLA-TV, Los Angeles

Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia, had to have a dirty past. He had to. All Republican politicians do.
And now, thanx to Amy Gardener at The Washington Post, we know what it is.

And it comes as no surprise whatsoever.

It has been discovered that McDonnell wrote a Master’s Thesis, at age 34, for an Evangelical school in Virginia Beach, VA, that contained some language that could only be described as Un-American to it’s very core.
It seems that Mr. McDonnell, at age 34, felt that

“working women were detrimental to the family” and that “government should penalize unmarried “cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators,". That divorce should be further restricted, and that family is “God-ordained government” untouchable by civil law.”

Creigh Deeds: American/Bob McDonnell: Taliban

Ahhhh, I love it when the beast unwittingly shows it’s devilish face for all to see. “There is no lie that will not be uncovered". The words are true and span the ages.
What better disguise for Satan than that of a servant of God?
This is the Evangelical mindset. McDonnell is now exposed for the fraudulent “person of faith” he’s been found to be.

In a stammering attempt at damage control, McDonnell told the media that “the idea that a 20-year-old academic exercise somehow represents my 18-year career in public service is just a flat misrepresentation,”

He was 34 when this was written. It contained 96 well developed pages that he considered an “action plan for the religious right". Or Taliban, if you will.
I don’t think the “I was young and stupid” argument is going to fly here, Bobby boy. 34 is a seasoned adult anywhere in the world.
My views have not changed significantly in the last twenty years. There’s no reason to believe his did.
Either McDonnell was lying to the church, or he’s lying to us now.
Either way, he’s a liar. And his history of supported legislation in Virginia supports his “thesis” handily.

Take another look, Virginia. McDonnell is exposed for the America hating Evanganoid whack-job we all knew he was deep down inside.

Deeds isn’t perfect. But at least he’s not Taliban.

The rest at The Washington Post:

Va. GOP Candidate Wrote on Women, Marriage and Gays

By Amy Gardner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 30, 2009

At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master’s thesis to the evangelical school he was attending in Virginia Beach in which he described working women and feminists as “detrimental” to the family. He said government policy should favor married couples over “cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators.” He described as “illogical” a 1972 Supreme Court decision legalizing the use of contraception by unmarried couples.

The 93-page document, which is publicly available at the Regent University library, culminates with a 15-point action plan that McDonnell said the Republican Party should follow to protect American families – a vision that he started to put into action soon after he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.

During his 14 years in the General Assembly, McDonnell pursued at least 10 of the policy goals he laid out in that research paper, including abortion restrictions, covenant marriage, school vouchers and tax policies to favor his view of the traditional family. In 2001, he voted against a resolution in support of ending wage discrimination between men and women.

H/T to Slate and TPM.

Don’t you just love signing up for Republican chain emails? You don’t have to read the news to catch their lies, just get on a mailing list.

Just received the latest batch of baffling bullshit that oozes from the gooey orifice we commonly refer to as The RNC.
This particular batch coming by way of TN-1 Congressional Rep, Phil “Dr. NO” Roe.

In Phil Roe’s most recent email he states….

“…However, the proposed legislation (HR 3200) before us in Congress will squeeze private insurance companies out of business by requiring them to subsidize the cost of care for those on government-sponsored care, which will eventually result in a government-run system, similar to those in England or Canada.“

First of all, Corporate Insurance Companies like CIGNA ect will be taxed. Those are not “small private insurance companies” like Buddy Crump out on the parkway. Nice try, Phil.
Second, England, for instance, pays for it’s health care by general taxation. Not with “insurance companies subsidizing it".
England has private insurance for those willing to pay for it.

Roe is either a liar, or he doesn’t even know what he’s talking about.

The fool continues….

“Because I know Americans have come to enjoy their ability to get the care they need, I just don’t think a single-payer system will work in America, particularly because care is only given if it fits within a budget. That is not what we are all about.“

Roe assumes all Americans get the care they need. He is obviously a sheltered, out of touch pansy. Or, he’s just parroting the RNC lies.

Then, he calls it “Single Payer". HR 3200 is NOT “Single Payer". HR 676 is.
Roe can’t even do his job as a congressman and know which legislation he’s talking about.

Then Roe says…

“particularly because care is only given if it fits within a budget. That is not what we are all about.“

That is an outright, bold faced lie. Insurance companies refuse care if it can’t be budgeted. Not the proposed system. That is a fact and Roe is a liar.

“That is not what we are all about.“

What we’re not about is Roe’s Satanic lies. This man goes to church every Sunday. Says he’s a “Christian".

Who Would Jesus Heal, Dr. Roe?
I double-dog dare you to answer that question.

Full text of email included below for reference.

Health Care Debate Continues

As we have seen in many recent national and local news stories, emotions are running high at health care town hall meetings. The government option has emerged as one of the most contentious elements of legislation taking shape in Congress. As I listen to each of you at town hall meetings throughout East Tennessee, it is constant reinforcement to continue fighting for your interests in Congress.

By reading the current health care legislation we have before us today in Congress and thinking about its potential impact, I know H.R. 3200 is bad medicine for this country and we should simply start over. It’s becoming evident many in Congress feel the same way, as evidenced by a recent CNN news story in which Rep. Allen Boyd (D-FL) said that it would be an ‘excellent idea’ to start over on health care. Congress has a real chance to work together – Democrats and Republicans alike – to create true health care reform for this nation that would not further increase our deficit, hurt small businesses or create a one-size-fits-all single-payer system.

Constituents all around the country are voicing their opinions in town hall meetings. As I have been saying, health care is not a partisan issue, it is a people issue. I truly believe that reforms and improvements are needed, ranging from finding ways to provide coverage for the uninsured to cutting fraud and waste. However, the proposed legislation before us in Congress will squeeze private insurance companies out of business by requiring them to subsidize the cost of care for those on government-sponsored care, which will eventually result in a government-run system, similar to those in England or Canada. Because I know Americans have come to enjoy their ability to get the care they need, I just don’t think a single-payer system will work in America, particularly because care is only given if it fits within a budget. That is not what we are all about.

In addition, there is a major cost concern that we’re facing with a government-run health care plan. This week in the Wall Street Journal, John Mackey – the CEO of Whole Foods – expressed that “while health reform is needed, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system.” I agree with him that we should work to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward “less government control and more individual empowerment.”

Before Congress adjourned for the August District Work Period, I accepted the President’s invitation to go over the health care bill “line-by-line.” At a health care press conference even the White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs confirmed that a meeting would be set between me and the President. To-date, I have not heard from the President’s office confirming a time and date to meet, despite my continual outreach to have this meeting. I am awaiting the confirmation, and look forward to discussing this important piece of legislation with the President.

Because H.R. 3200 will ultimately affect every one of us, I am conducting several town hall meetings in East Tennessee to hear your concerns. Enclosed is a list of town hall meetings I have conducted or will be conducting for the remainder of the District Work Period. I hope that if you haven’t yet, you will be able to join me for these important Town Hall Meetings.

1) Ted Kennedy:

We have a new Martyr in the fight for National Health care. Ted Kennedy is dead, and we now owe it to him to fight, harder than ever, to establish a significant Public Option. This was his dream. It has always been his dream.
Ted Kennedy, though imperfect like the rest of us, stood for many Progressive causes and achieved results.
Resolve like his is unfortunately a rare occurrence in the Democratic Party.

For that, more than anything else, I will miss him.

2) Chuck (suck) Melancon makes Senate bid official:

I implore the citizens of Melancon’s district in the great state of Louisiana to run another Democrat against Charlie Melancon.
Melancon is a scum bag. A Blue Dogshit loser who is no different from Sen. David Vitter, the Republican incumbent.
Remember when you choose a potential candidate, Louisiana. Rep Charlie Melancon did everything he could to prevent you from having a choice in health care.
Vitter/Melancon. Same shit, different party.

3) Karl Rove: Traitor, Coward, Liar:

Rove’s latest attempt to lie to Senior Citizens and scare them into believing that Medicare Advantage adjustments would cause them to lose the benefits is the new, desperate attempt to scare up opposition to reform.
From the only tabloid that will give Traitor Rove a column, the FOX Street Journal:

…Already, an estimated 10.2 million seniors—one out of five in America—have enrolled in Medicare Advantage. Mr. Obama is proposing to cut the program by nearly 20% and thus reduce the amount of money each will have to buy insurance. This will likely force most of them to lose the insurance they have now. Yet Mr. Obama promised in late July in New Hampshire that, “if you like your health-care plan, you can keep your health-care plan.”

There are roughly 23,400 seniors on average in a congressional district who have Medicare Advantage, but who face losing it if Mr. Obama has his way. That’s enough votes to tip most competitive House and Senate races. - Karl Rove

First of all, you fucking traitorous pig, the vast majority of those Seniors were tricked, duped, deceived…whatever, into signing up for “Advantage". Those corporate vermin who tricked these folks into signing up neglected to tell them things like the fact that they are not traditional Medicare. They’re a company who uses the name “Medicare” fraudulently.

Seniors paid, got minimal coverage, and had to travel long distances to find a participating physician. Many were no longer able to use their family doctors and even more were denied necessary treatment.

Secondly, you son of a downtown LA whore.
Medicare Advantage is not insurance. It is a supplement that has driven the cost of care higher because the gov’t pays around 15% more for “Advantage” than it does real Medicare. Cutting that, then re-investing it into the regular program will allow Seniors to have better benefits without paying the extra money.

Third, little bitch-boy, Seniors will be far better off without Medicare Disadvantage and the greed-laden filth, not unlike yourself, who have taken “Advantage” of Senior Citizens and ripped off the tax payer can go jump off the nearest skyscraper.
People like you make better mud puddles than citizens.

You’re a lying Piglet, Karl.
I respectfully request that you go hang yourself.

Love, Kona.

4) No hope. White or otherwise:

U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, a Kansas Republican, recently stated that the Republicans need a “Great White Hope” in opposition to Obama’s Presidency.
I love it when the idiots say things like this. It just cripples the GOP further and that’s a good thing.

Fact is, the Republican party needs more than a “great white hope". They need brains, souls, and humanity. None of which they are capable of delivering.
Hey, Michael Steele, the Great Black Hope for the RNC is a total failure. Why would the other side of the coin be any different?

Republicans are hopeless. White, Black, Brown or whatever color they come in. They’re all scum and America knows it.

5) Glenn Beck:

The Whine King is all bent over because of the seemingly very effective boycott of his advertisers. Beck, the effeminate talk show host that called President Obama a “racist” is losing money and attracting flies.

Good. Now if only his father had boycotted his mother.

6) Obama Bike Ride: No Pretzels

The President went on a bike ride while on vacation.
His ride ended without anyone being injured. What a concept.

If the Democrats in Congress and the President have the guts to do it, all question about their courage and sincerity will wash away.

This would take real balls and that’s exactly what the party needs more of.

They call it, “reconciliation". And it will work in this instance.
As long as we do the right thing and completely turn our backs on the Republicans and other Immoral Minority members.
Just tell them to fuck off. It’s as simple as that.
Why the hell are we still negotiating with these vermin? They don’t want to reach “bi-partisan” any-fucking-thing. They want the status quo and the money it affords them.

From CNN:

WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Obama administration is looking hard at pushing through a health care reform bill without Republican backing, top Democrats close to the White House told CNN.
Democrats say Republicans, particularly Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, aren’t serious about striking a deal.

Democrats say Republicans, particularly Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, aren’t serious about striking a deal.

The Democratic majority in the Senate has been stymied in the health care debate by Republicans and conservative Democrats, leaving them short of the 60-vote filibuster-proof margin needed to pass the bill.

Democratic success could depend on an obscure tactic called reconciliation, a type of budget maneuver that requires only a simple majority – 51 votes – to pass.

Congressional Democrats authorized the maneuver specifically for health care reform legislation during the debate over the 2010 budget, which passed in April.

One top Senate Republican warned at the time that using reconciliation to pass such a measure would be “like a declaration of war.”

Going it alone could be risky for Democrats, not because they couldn’t raise the votes, but because Republicans could cast it as a power play, accusing them of failing to win bipartisan support. A Quinnipiac University survey released two weeks ago showed that 59 percent of registered voters nationwide oppose passage of health care legislation if the bill fails to win bipartisan support.

But it’s a fight Democrats might nevertheless be willing to enter.

“If we have to push it through this way, no one is going to remember how messy it was,” a top White House adviser told CNN. “At the end of the day, they’ll remember we got health care reform done. A win is a win.”

Democrats have done everything we can to try to include the vermin but all diplomacy has failed.
Fine, fuck ‘em.
Just exactly the way we were treated when they had the majority.

C’mon, Progressives. Let’s put our books down and start throwing blows. We cannot allow these Right Wing “Un-Americans” to have anything. Nothing.
It’s over.
Call or write the White House NOW! Tell the President to shove reform down the Right’s necks until they choke on it.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Call or write the Congressional Progressive Caucus and thank and encourage them to continue to stand firm.

http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/

We have to be the loudest. We have to act like the majority that we truly are. There will not be another chance to wrest control of health care from the corporate criminals who presently run it.

Fight, fuck or hit the fence!
This is it, people.

Just a reminder both to Righty and some fellow Liberals, who for some reason unbeknownst to me, seem all too willing to buy into what the Tea Bag Fags are selling….

THE FUCKING PUBLIC OPTION IS NOT DEAD!

What the hell are you people thinking? Did you just dive into a KoolAid pool and swallow? You know what they say about people who swallow? They begin to acquire a taste for it.

Of course Barack Obama is not showing enough aggression, he’s no Dennis Kucinich….But he’s what we have. He’s all we have.
I’d give anything to see him stand up, wave the finger to the Republicans, and install Single Payer with the stroke of a pen.
But again, he’s no Kucinich. No Howard Dean.

President Obama has stated, numerous times, that he wants the Public Option. He cannot be a great President and fail on the Public Option at the same time. He will be a failure from that point on no matter what he does later. And he knows it.
There are 64 members of the House Progressive Caucus that have stated emphatically that there will be no legislation at all unless it has the Public Option intact. The Progressive Caucus is the largest Caucus in the democratic party.
The goal right now is to gain Senate approval. Hence the maneuvering. The measure still must go back to a House that is overwhelmingly in favor of the Public Option.

We’re going to do this or die trying.

Each and every one of us who supports the Public Option needs to be on the fucking phone to the White House, Pelosi, the Progressive Caucus and everybody else.
While you’re at it, call the Blue Dogshits too and let them know you’ll never rest until they are out of office and replaced by new blood.

THIS IS A FUCKING WAR! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!
Either support the movement or go the fuck home. Just stop parroting the Doom-Speak of the fucking enemy and the “you should have voted for Hillary” asshats. She can’t even meet students in Africa without making a fool of herself.

Here are a few scum who’s names should be remembered:

Kent Conrad (D) ND, FUCK YOU!

Blue Dogshit hypocrite bastards, FUCK YOU!

Kathleen Sebelius, Keep your fucking fly trap shut!

Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post Business Columnist, you’re a fucking coward just like I told you via email.

From the Washington Post:

Administration officials insisted that they have not shied away from their support for a public option to compete with private insurance companies, an idea they said Obama would still prefer to see in a final bill.

But at a time when the president had hoped to be selling middle-class voters on the ways in which insurance reforms would benefit them, the White House instead finds itself mired in a Democratic Party feud over an issue it never intended to spotlight.

“I don’t understand why the left of the left has decided that this is their Waterloo,” said a senior White House adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “We’ve gotten to this point where health care on the left is determined by the breadth of the public option. I don’t understand how that has become the measure of whether what we achieve is health-care reform.”

“It’s a mystifying thing,” he added. “We’re forgetting why we are in this.”

Anonymous “senior White House adviser” and DLC Clintonista piece of shit, I know who you are.
Obama has three “Senior Advisors”
1) David Axelrod
2) Peter Rouse
3) Valerie Jarrett

Jarrett has a policy of never saying anything in public that might create confusion or compromise Obama. It’s not her.

Peter Rouse is hard core. As tough as a real Liberal gets. He knows these words would cause Obama even more grief. It’s not him.

That leaves you, David Assholerod. The Clinton worshiping Centrist.
Of course you “don’t understand", half wit. You’re a Centrist Jellyspine. You think the Public Option is your bargaining chip? It’s life and death to American citizens, scumbag. And then there’s this other thing you wouldn’t understand either. It’s called “principal".
Being a fucking pragmatist, you don’t see that allowing a horde of lying vermin to overpower Obama’s base will cost him that base.
We will abandon ship, asshat. That’s a promise.
You fail on the PO, the Right screams victory all the way to 2010.
It called fighting for what’s right, Assholerod. Something you seem to know very little about.
So stand aside and shut you sorry ass. Those of us who have the balls to fight will handle it.
The only thing that’s “mystifying” is the level of cowardice you display.
And we haven’t forgotten “why we’re in this". We’re in this to win, and we will not kneel and perform political fellatio on the Right as you so willingly are.

Oh, let’s not forget the Reich Wing.
Right Wing, we’re doing this shit and you can get fucked. You and yours.
I spit on your very fucking existence.

The Public Option is not dead. But it surely will be if we sit around and allow these sub-humanoid fake-ass “protesters", the Insurance Industry filth that employ and manipulate them, and the traitors within the Democratic party to be the loudest noise in the government’s ears.

Obama may not have the cohonies to draw a line in the sand. But Democratic Progressives do. And we have.

The Public Option is not negotiable.

There is no “debate” on health care. The opposition has no argument to offer. No alternative legislation, much less ideas. The only alternative that exists is HR 676, the superior plan. But it too comes from Progressives, not opponents.

The time for talk is over. It has been tried and it has failed. There are those who hopelessly cling to the idea of “bi-partisan” resolutions and such, but their efforts have proven to be very much in vain.
Naturally, you’ll get no ideas or actual discourse from the Right. As much as I admire this desire to find some sort of common ground on this issue, the fact remains that explaining the benefits of reform to the Right is like explaining Calculus to a three year old. You can teach until you’re blue in the face but they still aren’t capable of absorbing it.

And that’s just one kind of anti-health disruptor. There are other categories.

You also have the greed-laden Republican/Libertarian-Right who simply don’t care about his/her nation or the suffrage of others. As long as they have theirs everyone else can die. These people make up the vast majority of those opposing reform as they are mostly involved in the insurance industry or are in that industry’s pockets.
This category also includes Blue Dog Democrats.

Then we have those who are strictly politically motivated. They hate the “Democrat", “Socialist", “Nigger” etc.. in the White House and would sell their own mother to a street gang if it would help their agenda.
This group has a history of terrorism and will commit more such atrocities in the future.

Obama and the Democrats have no choice but to use their majorities and drive this legislation home or they will look like the biggest bunch of lames since the BeeGees. They will lose the Progressive majority in the Democratic Party and when they lose us they lose elections. The last thing Dems want is us voting Green or not at all. Especially after the power we proved we have in ‘08.

We got a Black Man elected President. We have the power to elect anyone we want. Un-elect them too.

Essentially, we are at war. Our enemy is the enemy of health care reform. Whoever or wherever they may be found. Be they across “the isle” on sitting right next to us, they are the enemy.

All diplomatic effort has been exhausted. They lie, we expose it. If they want violence we will provide it.
But there will be health care reform. At least if a Democrat ever wants to be elected to anything again.

The enemy was right about one thing. This will be Obama’s Waterloo if he fails to lead this movement, which he himself started, to absolute victory. Nothing he could do after that would erase failure on health care reform. Nothing.

The Public Option is not negotiable.
That’s the bottom line.
Barack Obama simply cannot afford people the opportunity to say “Obama was weaker than Bush". But that’s what will be said if he fails to assert himself. And in some ways, it would be correct.

Barack has to get this done. With or without the Republicans and their Blue Dogshit subordinates.
Signing statement, Executive Order, whatever it takes.
If the “Un-Americans” don’t get out of the way, we’ll grind them into the beaten path like so many ants.
We’re with you, Mr President. Lead for Christ’s sake. Lead!

The skipper needs some exercise. Other than benching 300 lbs and soforth. I think I’ve found a productive way to do it.

My good friend, Tim Valentine of Thoughts, Ideas and Suggestions wrote recently about a scumbag “un-American” blogger by the name of Kurt Feigel.
Mr. Feigel operates the website called sendarope.com
Seems this childish fellow wants to instigate violence against the Liberals and Democrats he calls “traitors” etc…
He advocates “shooting” Democrats in congress and sending them “rope” as intimidation.

Well, I’m happy to oblige as always.

I, captainkona, have challenged Kurt (Rope Boy) Feigle to an MMA Cage Fight. If it’s violence he wants, fine.
The “Ruckus” takes place in Abingdon, VA this Fall. It is a mixed martial arts tournament that has an open registration and I know those who promote it personally.
I can get the fight set up with a phone call or two.
Rope Boy looks physically fit. Shouldn’t be anything preventing him from fighting other than pure fear.

Kurt Feigel-Born to Tap Out

All proceeds will be given to the charity of the winner’s choice.

I posted the challenge to his blog (or tried to) along with some tasty words about his mother.
This official challenge is not a joke. I am serious as a heart attack and I insist that Rope Boy doesn’t have the guts to accept.

If he does accept:
The fight will be recorded and YouTubed for all to see regardless of the outcome.

If he does not accept:
Then we know he’s about a -20 on a Man Scale of 1-10 and his threats and ramblings are as toothless as the average Republican.

He has my e-mail. I’ll keep you updated.

In the mean time, you could contact “Rope Boy” and encourage him to accept at:

Kurt Feigel (Kurtsnet@Hotmail.com)
92 Mountain Peak Dr
Lynchburg, VA 24502
US

Call and write, please.

Update:

Rope Boy still has not responded to the challenge, as predicted.
Imagine that. I guess his love for violence shuts off with his PC at night.
One should think that such a Right Wing Republican Evangelical Pig such as this would jump at the chance to harm a Socialist. Maybe he just needs more time to examine his Manness. Or lack thereof as the case may be.

Maybe I should let him pass it off to Ted Nugent. Another lame who needs his face rearranged.

We’ll be patient….

There are no words to describe the contribution this great man has made to music.
We shall miss you, Les.

Thanx for everything.

LINK

Les Paul, 1915 - 2009
Les Paul, 94, a guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar, multitrack recording and a string of hits, died Thursday in White Plains, N.Y.

Continued:

I found a few words, but they still won’t touch the reality of Les Paul.

Do you young music lovers out there know that, without Les Paul, none of the music you listen to would exist?
You love music. Anyone with any semblance of a life does. Without Les Paul you would have no stereo recordings or deep instrumentation to listen to. Les Paul invented multi-tracking on recorded music.
He invented the solid body electric guitar. Think about that.

Les Paul invented the “riff". He was the first guitarist to break a lead instead of just strumming chords.
Everything we listen to is a reflection of the gifts Les Paul gave us. No matter what kind of music it is.

So if it’s Hendrix, Roy Clark, Speed Metal or some Rap music…you have Les Paul to thank for it.
Remember that.

Beyond music, Les Paul was the kind of man that most of us will never be. A man who spent his life putting others before himself.
Remember that most of all…

Stuff is happening faster than I can blog.

1) Iraq:

Most unfortunately, the ultimate result of the failed BushCo invasion-for-oil of Iraq is getting closer.
Perhaps it’s too much to ask, but I hope that somewhere along the line we’ve learned something from the needless sacrifice of so many lives.

Iraq bombs kill 40, fears of sectarian strife grow

Monday, August 10, 2009; 10:35 AM

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Bombs across Iraq killed at least 40 people on Monday, ripping through mostly Shi’ite areas and raising fears of a resurgence in sectarian violence just as politicians hope to reach out to old foes for January polls.

2) The Un-Americans:

Speaker Pelosi recently referred to the anti-health obstructionists as “un-American".
Well, Nance…It’s about time you found the guts to tell it like it is.
Well, almost.

These Birther/Healther/Tea Bag Fags are bought and paid for traitors. Filthy cowards who gladly take payoffs from the opponents of reform while keeping American kids from getting health care.
I don’t know about you, Nancy, but I spit on the very existence of these vermin and their families.

This is war. Fuck these cowards.

3) Durbin Poison:

Democratic Senator, Dick Durbin recently showed a lot of weakness on CNN as he came off like a scared little rabbit when discussing the Public Option. Understand this, Dick…
The Public Option is NOT NEGOTIABLE. DO YOU FUCKING UNDERSTAND YOU MISERABLE, WEAK-KNEED ASSHAT?

MAN UP!

“Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Sunday on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ that he is committed to getting a bipartisan bill, even if it means sacrificing a public insurance option. ‘It doesn’t have to be a perfect bill,’ Durbin said. ‘I support a public option, but yes I am open. I want to make sure we do something positive for the American people.’” But Sen. John Cornyn said that “while ‘there’s a lot of middle ground where we can meet, I don’t see how we can make much headway’ unless the public insurance option is off the table entirely.”

4) Death Panel Palin:

Did we mention what a complete and total Bush-like blithering idiot Sara Palin is?

by Robert Wright

What more is there to say about Sarah Palin’s now-famous claim that President Obama’s health-care plan features “death panels” that will give patients the thumbs up or thumbs down? Just that, if this were Obama’s plan, it would have more in common with our current system than you might think.

In Palin’s fantasy, the death-panel “bureaucrats” were going to pick winners and losers based on a judgment about their “level of productivity in society.” Well, if you view income as a gauge of a person’s productivity in society—and God knows there are Republicans who do—then the quality of health care is already correlated with “productivity in society.” Obama’s plan, by making health care more affordable to lower income people, would make that less true.

5) Is there a Doctor in the house?:

Thankfully, in spite of the way the DNC has tried to sweep Howard Dean under the rug, Dean’s commitment to country and people is unwavering.
If you want to know how to get health care for all Americans, you have to ask Dr. Dean.

Howard Dean: How Republican Attack Dogs Plan to Thwart Health Reform

By Howard Dean, Chelsea Green Publishing. Posted August 3, 2009.

The longer Republicans obscure the real issues and obstruct health care reform efforts, the higher the costs will rise.

During the early 1990s, under the leadership of Representative Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) and bolstered by the ideological support of the Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, and Manhattan Institute, Republicans successfully defeated President Clinton’s health reform effort. Conservatives of all stripes argued that health care reform was “creeping socialism” or “big government,” denied the existence of a health care crisis, or co-opted the term reform to push their own agendas and dilute support for a comprehensive solution to the nation’s health care crisis.

Lesson 2: More lies from the BirthBaggers concerning Health Reform…

Another common brain-fart from the Right Wing enemy is that “government run health care will lead to “rationing"".

In fact, “rationing” is what is taking place in the health care industry now. It is one of the foremost reasons we need a Public Option coupled with strict gov’t oversight of companies involved.

Your insurance company can and does decide the quality of care you get by simply refusing to pay for the best treatments and forcing you to settle for the cheapest options, or nothing at all.
As we see in the case of CIGNA HMO murdering 17 year old Nataline Sarkiyan, this is a cold, hard fact.

Barack Obama’s plan is to make sure that patients get the best care available and that corrupt health care entities such as CIGNA will not have the final word in cases like Nataline’s. Nor will corrupt doctors be able to prescribe treatments or medications that a patient is not in need of, to pad their pockets and further harm the integrity of the system.

So when some conservanoid sub-human who wants to kill your children plays the “rationing card", remember Nataline. The child they murdered.

Sooooo many liars, so little time…

The Scum (Republicans), have many a straw man to offer when it comes to HR 3200. One of the favorites is to imply that HR 3200 provides Illegal Immigrants with free health care under the Public Option.

Here’s an example of one particular idiot at the Tricities.com site…

Posted by ( commonsense ) on August 06, 2009 at 10:30 am

Oldgal-
Tell me something—
How do you expect all the illegal aliens in this country to pay anything?

they don’t even have a documented income- they pay cash for everything…

How many of them are YOU willing to support?

The fact is…

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/text

SEC. 242. AFFORDABLE CREDIT ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL.

(a) Definition-CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

(1) IN GENERAL- For purposes of this division, the term ‘affordable credit eligible individual’ means, subject to subsection (b), an individual who is lawfully present in a State in the United States (other than as a nonimmigrant described in a subparagraph (excluding subparagraphs (K), (T), (U), and (V)) of section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act)–

SEC. 246. NO FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS.

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Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.

Illegal aliens ARE NOT afforded Federal coverage. That is a local or State issue.

I personally do not want to see Illegal Aliens receive the same rights that a genuine American receives. They should always be entitled to emergency care, but not health maintenance. Being an American should be something one strives to achieve. Taking away the incentives to become a citizen is unwise and counter productive in helping immigrants achieve citizenship.

The next time some clown tries to play the Illegal Alien card, your proof is in the actual legislation.

Someone who seemingly lacks the guts to identify them self has started deleting posts and comments critical of Blue Dogs.

No telling who it is because they obviously have a bad case of Blue Dog Jellyspine. A common disease, especially here in Tennessee.
My post containing KOs comment in no way violated any posting guidelines at TNDP but as of this moment, the fourth attempt to post is still “awaiting approval". The three previous posts were spirited away without explanation.

So here’s the post as it was originally presented. Void of any language that crosses the rules of the TNDP.org site:

http://www.tndp.org/profiles/blogs/keith-olbermann-exposes-blue

Posted by captainkona on August 4, 2009 at 4:15pm
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Keith Olbermann Exposes Blue Dogs: Time for the TNDP to call them out.

Little else to say that I haven’t already said in previous blogs.

Mr. Forrester, you have the responsibility to call out Bart Gordon and the rest of the Blue Dogs and state the truth in clear and simple terms. Out in the open, not by email or behind closed doors.
Call them out and smack them down in front of us all. That is your job.
These greedy pigs, at least the TN versions, are your responsibility to speak out against.
People like Gordon are actively trying to stop Americans, Tennesseans, from having health care for ourselves and our children.

So far you’ve done well calling out the Republicans. Now let’s see what kind of guts you really have.
We have traitors in our midst. What are you going to do about it?

It has been brought to our attention that Orly Taitz, the lawyer for the “Birther” movement, has been so demoralized and depressed after being exposed as a fraud, that she has resorted to selling her ass for crack.

This late breaking report comes on the heels of the discovery of the forged Kenyan birth certificate that was used to wrongly imply that President Obama was born anywhere other than Hawaii.

Taitz, a “lawyer” of Tel Aviv, Israel, has been the most prominent figure amongst Birthtards. A group of tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists who believe that Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

Having recently been exposed as a fraud, Taitz suffered an ego crushing and pocket book depleting break down that has forced her, in her shame, to seek the solace of the pipe.
No longer able to afford Botox, cheap bleached wigs, tan in a can and costume jewelry, Taitz suffered a complete mental meltdown and has been found in a cheap Houston, Texas motel with a crack pipe in one hand and a picture of Obama in the other.
Distraught and desperate, Taitz has been seen on the corner of Westheimer and Montrose beckoning passers by with a pipe and a forged birth certificate.

Orly, pictured below, isn’t much to look at even with hundreds of dollars worth of resurfacing.

But uncovered, with pipe in hand, we see a far more frightening image of the results of post-FAIL depression.

It’s sad to see a person self-destruct in this manner. Reverting to the bowels of loserdom and turning to the crack pipe never solves anyone’s problems. Perhaps if she had sought help when she decided to become a lying sack of Republitard shit she might have had a chance at a normal life.
But alas, now Crack WhOrly is just another one of the Republican Party’s official spokespersons along side Lou Dobbs, Rush Limbaugh, Sara Palin, Dick Cheney, the Tea Bag Fags and the rest of the Republican leadership.

You can’t make this stuff up.

UPDATE:

This nutbag, Taitz, has been filed against. Papers have been filed in the State of California Bar Association seeking Ms. Taitz’s disbarment.

Big Thanx to Native Born Citizen. The rest is there.

Complaint to the State Bar of California
IN RE: ORLY TAITZ
STATE BAR NO. 223433

(Submitted anonymously due to potential retaliation, as described within)

Office of the Chief Trial Counsel/Intake
The State Bar of California
1149 South Hill Street
Los Angeles, California 90015-2299

Comment: Since Orly lost control over the DefendOurFreedoms domains, I have added backup links and have archived the relevant postings.

Table of Contents

Preface………………………………………………………………………..3
A. Respect for Courts & Judges …………………………………………………..5
B. Honesty Requirement; Prohibition on Deception…………………………………..12
C. Prohibition Against Presenting Claim Not Warranted………………………………15
D. Failing to Act Competently …………………………………………………..20
E. No Facts Prejudicial to Honor or Reputation Unless Required By Justice ……………21
F. Encouraging Lawsuits from Corrupt Motive of Passion or Interest…………………..21
G. Accounting for Monies Received ……………………………………………….22
H. Prohibition against Advising the Violation of Law ………………………………23
I. Prohibition against Threatening Criminal, Administrative, or Disciplinary Charges…..25
J. Prohibition against Ex Parte Contact with Judicial Officials …………………….26
K. Unauthorized Practice of Law in Another Jurisdiction ……………………………28
Conclusion ……………………………………………………………………29
Case Number(s) of Suit(s)……………………………………………………….30

Preface

A California attorney has decided that President Obama is ineligible to be president, and has taken on the mission of removing him from office — by force, if necessary. On at least two occasions, she has openly called for armed rebellion by the military, to arrest and imprison the elected President.

Her name is Orly Taitz. Using the power of the Internet, including blogs, online radio and television shows, and YouTube, she has become the national leader of a fringe movement. She has literally thousands of followers who think she is waging a lonely battle to uphold the Constitution, in the face of a conspiracy to place a usurper in the White House. Because her cause is so important, she has ignored the laws of the United States, established court procedures, and specifically, the California Rules of Professional Conduct. Specific violations are alleged below.

She has filed three lawsuits in California (two of which have been dismissed), and unsuccessfully attempted to file a fourth in federal court in Washington, D.C. Having been unable to achieve her goal by legal action, she has begun encouraging her followers nationwide to organize themselves as wholly unlawful “Citizens Grand Juries,” and making “presentations” to lead them in indicting President Obama on criminal “charges”. Already, a group of citizens in Georgia issued an “indictment” of the President, and “served” it on government officials, threatening violence if their “indictment” was ignored. Another such “indictment” is coming in early May, under her direction. In addition:

1) She has accused the following federal officials of treason and called for their indictments:

a) All the justices of the Supreme Court,
b) All the members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate,
c) Attorney General Eric Holder, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, and other federal officers,
d) and, of course, President Obama himself.

2) She has personally confronted two Supreme Court justices, when they made public appearances. On both occasions, she improperly tried to engage them in improper ex parte discussion of her case before the Court.

3) At her confrontation with Chief Justice Roberts, she gave two suitcases full of documents to his security detail, later claiming that she had “filed” a Motion for Reconsideration in one case, and a new lawsuit — though she paid no filing fee, failed to file with the clerk’s office, and showed no proof of service on opposing counsel. When her documents were not placed on the Supreme Court docket, she accused Justice Roberts of further treason and demanded his resignation.

4) She has openly encouraged and advised these unlawful “Citizens Grand Juries”. In Georgia on March 28, she “presented the case” before a “Citizens Grand Jury” of 25 people, who then issued an indictment of President Obama on charges of fraud. The “indictment” was then “served” on the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and on the Georgia Attorney General, on Georgia’s Speaker of the House, and on Georgia’s President of the Senate. http://www.riseupforamerica.com/index.html

We knew there must be a reason Taitz went to Israel just recently. Now we know.

Way to go, Progressive Caucus. I guess those endless emails Americans sent you were heeded. In record time no less.
It was your job to stand for the Public Option and you did it well.

All we ask now is that you remain rock solid and continue to oppose the obstructionist Blue Dogshits to the very end. We, of course, will stand with you.
Health care reform without a Public Option is useless.
Please continue to oppose anything less. This fight is by no means over.

Thanx for being the only Democrats with any manner of courage.

It took all of 24 hrs for the Progressive Democrats in Congress to put their collective foot in the Blue Dog/Republican Lite’s collective ass.
Thankfully, the great leader, Dennis Kucinich, is a far better “power broker” than the rookie scumbag, Mike Ross D/R-Arkansas. Mike Ross, firmly in the pocket of the Big Pharmaceutical industry, led the failed attempt to derail Health Reform.

Firedog Lake has some perspective on Ross…

….Thanks, Mike! Your commitment to the financial well-being of our country is admirable.

This is probably just a coincidence.

A pharmacist, Ross founded Ross Pharmacy Inc. He sold the business in 2007, but according to his 2008 financial disclosure form, he and wife Holly still “own 100% of stock” in the company, which pays dividends over $100,000 a year. Holly Ross is also listed as employed by Super D Drug Acquisition Co.

And while Ross rakes it in, nearly 1 in 5 residents of Arkansas are without health insurance.

Guess who’s his biggest sugar daddy?

The health industry was the #1 sector contributing to Ross last year. OpenSecrets.org lists $261,000 in contributions from individuals and PAC’s from health care businesses….

But yesterday, the Progressive Caucus stood up and proclaimed, in no uncertain terms, that any legislation that did not contain a Public Option to insure all Americans the right to health care was going to be defeated.
That’s when the true majority asserted it’s self and the lowly Blue Dogshit turned tail and ran.

From The Associated Press:

WASHINGTON — Democrats on a key House committee said Friday they have patched up their differences on a health care overhaul, and went back to work confident they can advance the complex legislation.

“We have agreed we need to pull together,” said Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif. Liberals, moderates, and conservatives negotiated late into the night Thursday to reach a deal that would restore some subsidies to help low-to-middle income people pay their health insurance premiums, would preserve a strong public insurance option, and would cut drug costs more deeply, Waxman said.

No details of the deal were immediately available, but Waxman said he intends to formally present it to the committee later in the day, and the panel should pass the bill Friday afternoon.

The full committee resumed its deliberations on the sweeping legislation that seeks to hold down costs and provide health care to nearly all the nation’s 50 million uninsured.

The last-minute agreement mollified liberals who were outraged by a deal Waxman struck earlier in the week with conservatives known as the Blue Dog Democrats. Friday, lawmakers from both camps joined him to say they were now in accord.

It didn’t take long for the Democratic Left to shout down the obstructionists and uplift the Aggressive Progressives. We’re not finished either. Not by a damn sight.
We will not allow the likes of Mike Ross and other such greedy pigs to deprive the children of America of their wellness.

Many thanx and mucho respecto to these fine, courageous Americans of the Democratic Progressive Caucus…

Co-Chairs
Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)

Vice Chairs
Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)
Hon. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)

Senate Members
Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)
Hon. Tom Udall (NM)

House Members
Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)
Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Hon. Earl Blumenauer (OR-03)
Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)
Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
Hon. Judy Chu (CA-32)
Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01)
Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Hon. Alcee Hastings (FL-23)
Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Hon. Eric Massa (NY-29)
Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Hon. Jim Moran (VA-08)
Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Hon. Frank Pallone (NJ-06)
Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Hon. Jared Polis (CO-02)
Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)

Steve Cohen took the pledge. Right on, Steve-o.

Fuck these bastards. I mean fuck them. No lubrication, no mercy.
The Blue Dog Depublicans have no agenda other than derailing an effective health care reform. They’re not trying to cut costs, they’re trying to cut America’s throat.

Like their Republican cohorts, Blue Dogshits have promoted “compromise” that is good for HMOs and other such abominations of American health care, but decidedly bad for the average American.
With the Blue Dogshit plans, roughly 85% of “small” businesses (500,000 and up is NOT small biz) will be exempt from the mandatory aspects of the legislation as opposed to exemption for real small business (less than 250,000).
This will put working Americans right back where they are now if they’re employer decides not to participate. Having to pay roughly $12′000 per year for health insurance or be penalized.

Fuck the Blue Dogshits.

They have made it easier for medium and big business to refuse to provide health care plans for their employees, and at the same time, made it more expensive. Yet without easing up on the individual mandates which will break the backs of working Americans. Especially those who make lower wages.

These are not Democrats, they’re dogs. No matter what the color they are scurvy, Jackal blooded dogs.
Thankfully, the Progressive Caucus has finally stood up and put their foot down.
No public option, no useless health care legislation.

From the LA Times:

“It’s the moderates that give [Democrats] their majority,” said Will Marshall, president of the centrist Progressive Policy Institute. “The bigger the Democratic majority grows, the more moderate it becomes. Democrats are a center-left coalition, so big legislative initiatives need to be shaped accordingly.”

House leaders bowed to that reality this week. Facing the prospect that a group of conservative Democrats in the 52-member Blue Dog Coalition might block a healthcare bill from moving through the Energy and Commerce Committee, they modified the bill.

The backlash was swift and severe.

“We’re at a point where there’s no retreat, and we can and must hold the line,” said Rep. Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

In a letter, the liberal lawmakers attacked the deal.

“We regard the agreement reached by Chairman Waxman and several Blue Dog members of the committee as fundamentally unacceptable,” they wrote. “This agreement is not a step forward toward a good healthcare bill, but a large step backward.”

Will Marshall. Do you folks remember Will Marshall? The former founding member and Iraq War Signatory of the infamous bastion of treason known as the PNAC.

Now it’s all clear. The Blue Dogshits/DLC/PNAC war on the American people is in full tilt boogie trying to help the Republican micro-minority defeat progress and discredit the President.
It’s time to wage war on these vermin. Time to shout and blog them down just like we did BushCo until they are no more.
These people are the enemy and must be subjected to as much of our derision as we can possibly muster.
We must expose them and aim our efforts at their political demise.

Netroots and the Progressive Caucus must stand firm regardless of the consequences. We must crush these traitors and ram the Public Option, which is favored by a vast majority of Americans, down their reptilian throats.
Our future, our economy, our children’s health is on the line. We must not allow these sub-humanoids to destroy the dream of a healthier nation and people.
That’s their objective, destroy. But only if we allow them to.

It’s a simple question. How many free-world countries can you name where the citizens have to pitch a tent and wait all day for care?

Canada? No. Anywhere in Europe? No. Venezuela? Cuba? No.
India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia? No. Israel? Iran?
Nope.
Wow, kinda got out of the “free-world” there and the answer is still “no".
Perhaps there are others, but at the moment all I can think of is us. The good ol’ US of A is the only nation I can think of where this kind of disgrace is present.
And we’re the last place where it should be found.

The annual Remote Area Medical clinic, or RAM, has once again shown it’s deep, abiding love for it’s fellow citizens and shouldered the responsibility of providing dental and other health care for people who, in spite of working hard every day, have no access to any kind of health care.

This fine article by Deb McCown at the Bristol Herald Courier tells the tale.

RAM: A roll of Charmin in a sea of shit

Earl Neikirk/Bristol Herald Courier

By Debra McCown
Reporter / Bristol Herald Courier
Published: July 25, 2009

WISE, Va. – It’s not yet 5 a.m., but people are emerging from their cars, a few scurrying to pack up tents and camp stoves, bustling to be ready, hoping to have the opportunity to receive health care.
As wisps of pink sunlight began coloring the clouds, the masses huddle at the gate under a misty dawn, waiting for their numbers to be called.

The grassy parking lot is full. Beyond the fence, the cars are stacked up for miles. A snake of headlights is visible in the semi-dark along the curvy length of Hurricane Road, waiting to access the Wise County Fairgrounds.

These are the modern-day breadlines: people desperate not for food, but for health care.

“We are working taxpaying jobs, paying taxes, and we can’t get insurance because we make $6.55 an hour,” said Laura Head, 32, of Rogersville, Tenn., the first person in line Friday for the first day of the Remote Area Medical clinic, an annual three-day event offering free medical care. “This is really a great beneficial thing, but it doesn’t have to be this way; we could all have insurance.”

A single mother of three who mows yards and moves trailers for a living, Head said she arrived at the fairgrounds Tuesday, to camp out at the fairgrounds until the health fair began Friday morning. Her motivation was simple: severe, constant pain.

Close to two years ago, her boyfriend smashed her teeth, she said – but, without the $6,000 needed to have the teeth pulled she has endured infection after infection, making literally 100 visits to the emergency room for antibiotics and pain medication.

She’s been billed between $240 and $290 a visit, she said – and, even after racking up bills far higher than the cost of extracting the teeth, she was stuck with them.

“I wanted my teeth fixed and I wanted my health problems to be taken care of,” she said when asked why she took such great lengths to be first in line. “I wanted to make sure mine got done.”

Scott Syverud, an emergency room doctor at the University of Virginia who came to volunteer at RAM, said Head’s problem is not unique; dental pain is the most common complaint at American emergency departments.

“I see it every day and every night,” Syverud said. “This is what I see in the emergency department every day, it’s just bigger here. It’s harder to ignore.”

The lack of access to health and dental care is not an Appalachian problem, he said – it’s a problem all across the nation.

“Emergency rooms act as the safety net in this system,” he said, “and that’s at the breaking point.”

Even as a national health care reform bill is prepared for debate in Congress, more than 1,400 volunteers descended on Wise on Friday, with hundreds more signed up for the weekend – but even they were not enough to help everyone seeking care.

“We’ve never had the traffic problem that we had this morning,” said Teresa Gardner, executive director of the Health Wagon, the local organization that coordinates the event. “It’s a record-setting day for sure.”

The work will continue today and Sunday.

Stan Brock, the founder of RAM, said 1,600 numbers were given out Friday to people seeking care – compared with 1,200 last year on the first day. He said the event here has grown every year.

“It’s been like this for years and years and years,” Brock said. “This is not a recent phenomenon, and it’s not peculiar to Southwest Virginia. … Two weeks from now we’ll be in Los Angeles, Calif. – same problem.”

The RAM event, in its 10th year in Wise County, is based on a model designed for the third world, Gardner said – but it’s needed right here in Virginia.

“Our success is a failure of the health care system,” she said. “We’ll get breast cancer [diagnoses] most likely, cervical cancer, lung cancer … about 40 to 50 percent of the patients will require follow-up.”

She said she knows of a young woman, 19 or 20 years old, who is dying of cervical cancer for the simple reason that she didn’t have the money for follow-up care after an abnormal screening result.

Paula Meade, a nurse with the Health Wagon, said she often sees patients who have cut back on their blood pressure medication or other needed care because of cost – and, as a result, come to her with permanent organ damage and worsening health.

She said with economic troubles and rising bills, more people are trying to cut corners – and often they do it with their health, meeting short-term financial obligations at the expense of long-term well-being.

“This is not the solution,” said R. Edward Howell, CEO of the UVA Health System, who also was at the event Friday. “I’ve been registering patients and they all ask the same question: ‘Can I get it all in today, or am I going to have to sleep in my car and come back tomorrow?’ That’s not the way to do it.”

Howell said the solution to America’s health care situation is a complex problem with a complex set of solutions: More patient responsibility for health, more health care workers, more access in remote areas, some mechanism to enable people to pay for care.

There is no simple, easy solution, he said – but he’s glad Washington is engaged in the conversation.

Meanwhile, the people here are busy doing their best to fill in the health care gap.

As the morning sun crested over the mountain Friday, the fairgrounds were bustling – people filling rows of chairs in the waiting line as volunteers in medical scrubs shared goodies and information.

“We recommend that you brush for two minutes every day,” Tori White, a third-year dental student at East Tennessee State University, told those in a growing line of patients waiting their turn for dental care. “And then we ask you to floss every day because a lot of bacteria like to hide between your teeth.”

White said a lot of the dental problems people face could be prevented with education – sometimes something as simple as an explanation on the importance of brushing teeth daily to prevent decay.

While many patients here said the government could do more to help them with medical and dental care, others said they were just glad for the chance to get help now, to stop their pain.

“I’m grateful to be here,” said Jerry Moore, 42, of Big Stone Gap, as we waited in a long line for dental care. “It’s a wonderful place.”

dmccown@bristolnews.com

It’s a beautiful thing, the work done by RAM and it’s blessed staff. But it doesn’t need to be this way. National Health Care will provide the medical personnel of RAM with the capacity to do even more to help others.
But under the present, broken system, they struggle as much to provide as people do to find the care they need.

Americans, sitting in a tent all day to get their child’s teeth worked on.

We should be ashamed. Ashamed enough to contact our representatives and demand, not ask, demand that they support health care reform and the single payer public option.
If your Rep. is a Republican or a Blue Dogshit Democrat. You might remind them that the lion’s share of the shame is theirs and theirs alone.

Blue Dogshit Coalition:

Blue Dog Leadership Team

Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (SD), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Administration
Rep. Baron Hill (IN-09), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Policy
Rep. Charlie Melancon (LA-03), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Communications
Rep. Heath Shuler (NC-11), Blue Dog Whip

Blue Dog Members

Altmire, Jason (PA-04)
Arcuri, Mike (NY-24)
Baca, Joe (CA-43)
Barrow, John (GA-12)
Berry, Marion (AR-01)
Bishop, Sanford (GA-02)
Boren, Dan (OK-02)
Boswell, Leonard (IA-03)
Boyd, Allen (FL-02)
Bright, Bobby (AL-02)
Cardoza, Dennis (CA-18)
Carney, Christopher (PA-10)
Chandler, Ben (KY-06)
Childers, Travis (MS-01)
Cooper, Jim (TN-05)
Costa, Jim (CA-20)
Cuellar, Henry (TX-28)
Dahlkemper, Kathy (PA-03)
Davis, Lincoln (TN-04)
Donnelly, Joe (IN-02)
Ellsworth, Brad (IN-08)
Giffords, Gabrielle (AZ-08)
Gordon, Bart (TN-06)
Griffith, Parker (AL-05)
Harman, Jane (CA-36)
Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie (SD)
Hill, Baron (IN-09)
Holden, Tim (PA-17)
Kratovil, Jr., Frank (MD-01)
McIntyre, Mike (NC-07)
Marshall, Jim (GA-03)
Matheson, Jim (UT-02)
Melancon, Charlie (LA-03)
Michaud, Mike (ME-02)
Minnick, Walt (ID-01)
Mitchell, Harry (AZ-05)
Moore, Dennis (KS-03)
Murphy, Patrick (PA-08)
Nye, Glenn (VA-02)
Peterson, Collin (MN-07)
Pomeroy, Earl (ND)
Ross, Mike (AR-04)
Salazar, John (CO-03)
Sanchez, Loretta (CA-47)
Schiff, Adam (CA-29)
Scott, David (GA-13)
Shuler, Heath (NC-11)
Space, Zack (OH-18)
Tanner, John (TN-08)
Taylor, Gene (MS-04)
Thompson, Mike (CA-01)
Wilson, Charles (OH-06)

It’s done.
Oakland California has become the first city in the nation to do the right thing concerning Marijuana. They have made it perfectly, legally legitimate.

Thank God for smart people.

“Measure F” (as in Fuck the anti-MJ crowd) was approved by the people of Oakland in a landslide. Oakland has just become the prototype of American progress.

Since the 1930s, asshats, fucktards, and ordinary scum have assailed Marijuana. Lying through their teeth like the diabolical filth that they are, they succeeded for a long time in casting a cloud of fear around God’s wonderful gift. Their efforts have proven to be, as predicted, very much in vain thanx to the people and gov’t of Oakland, CA.
And, thanx to President Obama who has brought a decidedly intelligent attitude concerning Marijuana to the highest reaches of our leadership.
From Richard Nixon to George Dubya Bush and every president in between we have seen nothing but sheer ignorance and bold faced lies.
This fine piece of writing from Mother Jones by way of the November Coalition explains it all.

From ABC:

“The voters of Oakland have sent a message to the nation that cannabis is better treated as a legitimate, tax-paying business than as a cause of crime and futile law-enforcement expenditures,” says Dale Gieringer, California state coordinator for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

The city estimates that the measure will raise $294,000 in additional tax revenue in 2010 and more in future years. Some say the measure will provide funds to help offset the city’s current $83 million deficit as well as allow police to direct their limited resources to more serious crimes and drug offenses…

The precedent has finally been set. Other communities, states, and hopefully the nation should and will follow suit.

Oh sure, it will take a long time to smooth things out. There will be more innocent people jailed and otherwise brought to harm by the “opponents” of freedom and truth.
But the decisive battle has been won. We are victorious.
And we deserve it.

Many have suffered and died while fighting for truth and justice. Their sacrifice has brought us to this day.
Oakland will prosper and the rest of the nation will see the truth.

Yeah, there are those who don’t and won’t face the truth and will continue to lie and deceive others about Marijuana. But fuck them.
If they don’t like it they can move to the North Pole or some shit like that because we simply don’t care what they think.
The foundation of the Drug War, America’s longest and costliest (in terms of money) war, has been crushed. The greatest battle of this “war” has been fought and we have won.

Rejoice.

;-]_~

It’s really too bad. One of the main problems politicians of any stripe have is that fact that a majority of them are out of touch socialite types that have no clue what the average person goes through. Especially when it comes to trying to get health care.

So, Congress is going on vacation instead of showing some guts and passing health care reform when it’s needed. That time being YESTER-FUCKING-DAY.

Figures. The few real people that there are in Congress are busting their asses trying to get Americans on a healthier track and meanwhile, the spinless wonders that make up the majority of both houses are thinking about the Bahamas.
Republicans, Blue Dogshits and those who prefer to sit quivering in their chairs are doing everything they can to derail progress and for nothing more than the Insurance Industry money that fills their bank accounts.

Bart Gordon of Tennessee, Blue Dogshit, is a shining example of greed-before-people predatory politics.
How much has Gordon received from the Health Care Industry? $951,000 from PACS and $195, 979–that’s OVER $1 Million

Gordon’s Big Campaign Donors Include:

· The American Medical Association

Who came out about the house health care bill this week

· National Health Care Corp

Which he incidentally sponsored a bill about this session

· Altria Group

Formerly Phillip Morris

Well, while you’re sipping umbrella drinks and laying by the pool, Mr. Gordon, try and remember that the rest of us are simply trying to keep ourselves and our families healthy. We know you don’t care. That’s not the issue.
The issue is that you work for us and we’re telling you to do it. And we will make you pay with your offices if you don’t.
Now you Blue Poodles get your pathetic little asses back into the mix and help the President pass this highly inadequate but better than nothing Health Reform. We already know it’s about the money. You’re not hiding behind urban and rural, “too expensive” and other such strawman speak.

While you waste time stalling, things like this are happening…

Date: 5/13/2009
Media Contact: SAMHSA Press Office
Telephone: 240-276-2130
Majority of America’s 2 Million Adolescents Suffering from Depression Episodes Did Not Receive Treatment in the Past Year
Adolescents without health insurance were less than half as likely to get treatment as those with Medicaid/Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) or private health insurance coverage

A new report which coincides with Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day reveals that 8.2 percent (2 million) youths aged 12 to 17 experienced at least one major depressive episode (MDE) in the past year. Only about two-fifths (38.9 percent) of these adolescents received treatment during this period according to the report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

The report also found that health insurance coverage seemed to be a major factor in determining whether adolescents experiencing MDEs in the past year received treatment. Among these adolescents, those without health insurance coverage were far less likely to have received treatment (17.2 percent) than those with Medicaid/CHIP (42.9 percent) or private health insurance (40.6 percent).

Based on a nationwide SAMHSA survey, Major Depressive Episode and Treatment among Adolescents also reveals the types of treatments adolescents received for MDEs. The report shows that among treated adolescents:

• 58.8 percent saw or spoke with a counselor
• 36.8 percent saw or spoke with a psychologist
• 27.3 percent saw or spoke with a psychiatrist or psychotherapist
• 26.6 percent saw or spoke with a general practitioner or family doctor

In addition, the report shows that less than half (46.8 percent) of adolescents who received treatment for an MDE in the past year used prescription medication for their condition.

“This report contributes to the growing realization that much more must be done to meet enormous mental health needs of our young people,” said SAMHSA’s Acting Administrator, Eric Broderick, D.D.S, M.P.H. “This report, along with the enactment of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and the recent landmark report by the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine on children’s mental health, highlight our nation’s growing concern and commitment to alleviating the damage and suffering inflicted by untreated mental disorders on children, their families and their communities.”

The report is drawn from SAMHSA’s 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), which collected data from a representative sample of approximately 22,000 adolescents throughout the United States.

An MDE is defined as a period of two weeks or longer during which there is either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure and at least four other symptoms that reflect a change in functioning, including problems with sleep, eating, energy, concentration, and self-image.

And this…

18,000 deaths blamed on lack of insurance

By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — More than 18,000 adults in the USA die each year because they are uninsured and can’t get proper health care, researchers report in a landmark study released Tuesday.

The 193-page report, “Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late,” examines the plight of 30 million — one in seven — working-age Americans whose employers don’t provide insurance and who don’t qualify for government medical care.

About 10 million children lack insurance; elderly Americans are covered by Medicare.

It is the second in a planned series of six reports by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) examining the impact of the nation’s fragmented health system. The IOM is a non-profit organization of experts that advises Congress on health issues.

Overall, the researchers say, 18,314 people die in the USA each year because they lack preventive services, a timely diagnosis or appropriate care.

The estimated death toll includes about 1,400 people with high blood pressure, 400 to 600 with breast cancer and 1,500 diagnosed with HIV.

“Our purpose is simply to deliver the facts, and the facts are unequivocal,” says Reed Tuckson, an author of the report and vice president for consumer health at UnitedHealth Group in Minnetonka, Minn.

Among the study’s findings is a comparison of the uninsured with the insured:

* Uninsured people with colon or breast cancer face a 50% higher risk of death.
* Uninsured trauma victims are less likely to be admitted to the hospital, receive the full range of needed services, and are 37% more likely to die of their injuries.
* About 25% of adult diabetics without insurance for a year or more went without a checkup for two years. That boosts their risk of death, blindness and amputations resulting from poor circulation.

Being uninsured also magnifies the risk of death and disability for chronically sick and mentally ill patients, poor people and minorities, who disproportionately lack access to medical care, the landmark study states.

“The report documents the immense consequence of having 40 million uninsured people out there,” says Ray Werntz, a consumer health expert with the Employee Benefit Research Institute. “We need to elevate the problem in the national conscience.”

Calculating the cost in human suffering, he says, “is one way to get there.”

All I can really do is tell you people how it is. If you supported Single Payer health care this would be over by now. All Americans would be covered in the most efficient and economically feasible manner available.

I guess I could pray that you find your humanity too. And perhaps that you remember who it is that pays for your family’s health care.

Oh boy. It’s things like this that really makes a Liberal Blogger’s day…week…month…

Other than a weekend at a Malyasian Opium Den, there are few things more fun than catching those Republicans bastions of morality being bastions of hypocrisy.
And this one is a doozy.

With Republican moralists being caught cheating on their lawfully wedded spouses at an alarming rate, and acting all holier-than-thou about it, It doesn’t surprise us at all when Rachel Maddow of MSNBC breaks the story of the nice, little “church” at “C” Street in Washington and the little club called “The Family".
A “Christian” (not) organization with some very interesting members. And even more interesting fellowship activities.

Senators Brownback, Ensign, Coburn… Representative Zack Wamp (Repig-TN and Goobernatorial candidate), Representative Chip Pickering, former congressman and NFL football star, Steve Largent and the “Honorable” Governor of South Carolina, Marc Sanford amongst others.
All members of the happy little “church".
Why are they so happy? Well, because they’re getting laid, of course…

This will be a fun one to follow. Won’t it, Mr. Wamp?

Hat Tip to Art Hughes at TNDP

You know, Barack. I luv ya, man. So far you’ve done more for this country than any Repiglican and all too many Democraps have in many decades.
But I’m confused, brove. Why are you kneeling when you should be standing tall?

You have got to show more go, Barack. Bill Maher recently made a fine point when he appeared on Countdown with the Olbermench and I have no choice but to agree with him. If George Bush was pushing universal health care he’d have it by now.
No one hates to say that more than I do, but it’s true.
Pragmatism is making you look weak, Mr. President. We do not need to even consider Republicans on this issue and should stop doing so immediately.

What are you thinking? You’re going to blow this if you keep playing these games with our health care. Our majority is solid and the majority of Americans want revamped health care and even more want the Public Option.

You have got to be, well… more like Bush. That piece of shit got what he wanted. He got it because he wouldn’t relent until he got it and he came down on anyone in his own party who failed to comply. What is it you don’t understand? Unlike Bush you have what’s right and just on your side.
Bush was full of evil and still got what he wanted because he used the power he had.
You shouldn’t even be considering the Republican view because they never considered us when they had the majority.
You should be threatening the BlueDogshit back-stabbing vermin with campaigning against them if they don’t get their heads out of the corporate asses they suck like the slime-faced bottom feeders they are.

If we don’t get true universal health care (Single Payer is best) now we will likely never get it.
Are you really prepared to let this opportunity slip through our fingers when it’s so close we can reach out and touch it?
You’re the President of the United Fucking States of America, Barack. Do you understand that? Do you understand the scope of the power you wield?

Those conservanoid BlueDogshit scumbags are not trying to be the “middle". They’re doing the bidding of their corporate and Republican masters. They’re opposing you out of greed and your people are the ones who will suffer if you let these bastards push you around.
You are the “decider” Barack. You are the only one, maybe the only one we’ll ever have who has the people behind you and the governing majority to get this done and if you don’t stand up to those who put industry before people and get this shit done you will be remembered as having failed in the most important social aspect of your Presidency. The health and well being of your people.

We love you, we stand beside you. But you have to dig deep and find the courage to put your foot down and tell the obstructionist BlueDogshits to shut up, get in line, or else.
This is your moment of truth, Barack. Nothing you do after this, no matter what it is, will save your legacy if you wax weak and fail on health care.
Nothing.

It’s crunch time.

Put your foot down, Barack. Not your knee.

HR 3200 “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act", is now before Congress. But as the name might indicate, it’s only “affordable” to those who can afford it.

President Obama, in an unfortunate attempt to be unnecessarily “pragmatic", recently made a deal with Insurance Companies apparently believing that this industry could somehow be trusted to do the right thing for country and people.
This is the Obama naivety that we mentioned in the ‘08 primary.
We said they couldn’t be trusted. The President thought differently. He was wrong.

The story so far: on May 11 the White House called a news conference to announce that major players in health care, including the American Hospital Association and the lobbying group America’s Health Insurance Plans, had come together to support a national effort to control health care costs.

The fact sheet on the meeting, one has to say, was classic Obama in its message of post-partisanship and, um, hope. “For too long, politics and point-scoring have prevented our country from tackling this growing crisis,” it said, adding, “The American people are eager to put the old Washington ways behind them.”

But just three days later the hospital association insisted that it had not, in fact, promised what the president said it had promised — that it had made no commitment to the administration’s goal of reducing the rate at which health care costs are rising by 1.5 percentage points a year. And the head of the insurance lobby said that the idea was merely to “ramp up” savings, whatever that means.

Meanwhile, the insurance industry is busily lobbying Congress to block one crucial element of health care reform, the public option — that is, offering Americans the right to buy insurance directly from the government as well as from private insurance companies. And at least some insurers are gearing up for a major smear campaign. - Paul Krugman

These Insurance Companies reneged because increasing premiums, copays and deductibles is their real path to payday.
That’s why Obama, as our leader, should take and not ask. You don’t ask termites to stop eating your house, you fumigate.
According to the great Congressman from Ohio, Dennis Kucinich, HR 3200 is not as affordable to taxpayers as it’s being represented as.

…Of $2.4 trillion spent annually for health care in America, fully $800 billion goes for the activities of the for-profit insurer-based system. This means one of every three health care dollars is siphoned off for corporate profits, stock options, executive salaries, advertising, marketing and the cost of paper work, (which can be anywhere between 15 - 35% in the private sector as compared to Medicare, the single payer plan which has only 3% administrative costs).

50 million Americans are uninsured and another 50 million are under insured while for-profit insurance companies divert precious health care dollars to non-health care purposes. Eliminate the for-profit health care system and its extraordinary overhead, put the money into healthcare and everyone will be covered, everyone will be able to afford health care.

HR 676 is simply the best choice for the people of this country when it comes to health care.
It may not be all that great for the corporate whores in the big offices, but then again, why should we care? Our well being certainly isn’t the first priority on their list. Or the second, third, etc.
We’re their watering trough and if we happen to be dry, they pass us up.
They don’t care if your kid dies, or you die, or whoever. They care about profits and because they joyfully put money before people, they have no right to make a dime beyond what we the people allow them to make.

Unlike HR 3200, HR 676 demands universal, single-payer health care in America. Essentially Medicare for all Americans. HR 676 now boasts 93 Cosponsors in congress and the highly impassioned support of physicians and nurses across the nation. HR-676 controls costs and covers all of us. Much like a good, old fashioned neighborhood drug deal, it cuts out the middle man ( a massive chunk of the cost) and hooks up health care directly to you. Medicare acts as the “single payer” of all costs.
This is the perfect system. As close as we’ll ever get anyway.

Time to lean hard on those ridiculous lops (prison yard terminology for Loss of Privileges) we vote for and demand they support the best path to help us care for our selves and our families.
Time to let them all know, especially our President, that just because we voted for them, or are even fond of them, that they work for us and we will have what we want or they will suffer career wise.

HR 676: Single Payer Health Care.
93 Congressional Cosponsors and growing.

Send the mail and make the calls. Let’s get this job done once and for all. Anything less is what we’ll be stuck with and there’s nothing worse than a bad job. And that’s exactly what HR 3200 is, a bad job of lookin’ out.

Those of us on the Left always said that Cheney was pulling the strings. Now, we all know it to be true.
The Traitor, Dick Cheney, did in fact commandeer the CIA and order them to withhold from Congress and Senate, plans for assassination attempts on Al Qaida operatives and suspects.

Assassinating this enemy, whatever name you want to call it, is a good idea. There’s no reason for any Religofascist to be left alive no matter what the religion.
The question is, why didn’t Dick Cheney allow the plans to proceed/continue? That should be rather obvious…

Examine first this article from the NY Times.

In his 2006 book “State of War,” James Risen wrote that the C.I.A. set up paramilitary teams shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks to hunt down top Qaeda operatives. Mr. Risen, a reporter for The New York Times, wrote that the operation was soon disbanded before the C.I.A. carried out any operations. But the spy agency continued to develop plans to focus on Qaeda operatives, and top C.I.A. officials were briefed periodically about the progress of these efforts, the officials familiar with the program said.

Why? Why was the operation canceled? It could have saved countless innocent lives on the ground.
Because Gerald Ford banned assassination in 1976? No. It’s successfully argued that such a ban does not extend to enemies in the field.

Why? Because had such a discretionary route been taken, there would have been no need to fabricate evidence in an effort to attack Iraq. No war in Iraq, no multi-Billion dollar no-bid contracts for Halliburton. Dick Cheney’s own personal money machine.

Iraq has become an important profit center – contracts there netted the company $900 million for the quarter, 15 percent of its operating budget. The Iraq contracts are cost-plus: the government reimburses the company for its costs, then adds on a profit of 2 percent to 7 percent. Critics say this creates a perverse incentive: the more you spend, the more you make. The Pentagon says this type of flexible contract is necessary in a war zone.

It’s all coming McChrystal clear now.

That which we’ve stated all along is true. Iraq was attacked largely for the filthy lucre contracts. From Blackwater’s guns to Halliburton’s “rebuilding” that never happened contracts.

The single greatest beneficiary of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is KBR, the former Halliburton subsidiary. KBR has been paid nearly $32 billion since 2001. In May, April Stephenson, director of the Defense Contract Audit Agency, testified that KBR was linked to “the vast majority” of war-zone fraud cases and a majority of the $13 billion in “questioned” or “unsupported” costs. According to Agency, it sent the inspector general “a total of 32 cases of suspected overbilling, bribery and other violations since 2004.”

Of course Cheney didn’t want Congress to know. They would have approved the more humane, practical, and less-expensive-to-the-tax-payer methods.
But instead, the greed-laden subhumanoid withheld the idea and let it fade. It was the one thing that would have ruined Cheney’s get rich quick by slaughtering innocent people plans.
Cheney saw opportunity and being the vermin he is, figured blood soaked money spends just as well.

A nation betrayed and deceived by it’s own Vice President. A country full of innocent people laid waste. 4322 of America’s finest, dead, and tens of thousands wounded.
All for another huge chunk of the American taxpayer’s money.

I truly hope that AG Holder finds the balls to investigate this matter as Sen. Feinstein suggested. Because with this, the exposing of Valerie Plame Wilson as a covert CIA operative, and countless other transgressions…Dick Cheney is not fit to breathe the same air as the rest of us.

Oh, and the part where Hayden lies through his Neo-Con teeth by saying the plans were never tried…
Remember what the late, great Seymour Hersh said long ago…
“…Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination wing, essentially. And it’s been going on and on and on. And just today in the Times there was a story saying that its leader, a three-star admiral named McRaven, ordered a stop to certain activities because there were so many collateral deaths. It’s been going in—under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or to the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving.”

According to Hersh, the program was carried out by the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC. The former head of JSOC, Stanley McChrystal, is now Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan.

Well done, council members. This is the kind of good lookin’ out we elected people like David Shumaker for.
It’s comforting to know that there are those who will stand up to the fools and degenerates in the TN Legislature and protect our citizens on a community level.

The Bristol Herald Courier has done a fine job of supporting sanity in this community and they bring us this fine statement from the Editorial Board…

By Bristol Herald Courier Editorial Board

Published: July 10, 2009

Getting a statewide bill passed that allows citizens to carry firearms into parks became one of the most drawn out and messiest battles of the 2009 Tennessee General Assembly.

Gov. Phil Bredesen ultimately vetoed the bill, the legislature swiftly overrode it and the law will take effect Sept. 1.

But Tennessee lawmakers left an opening for localities to decide for themselves, which begs the question: Why did they spend all those weeks fighting and wrangling?

On Tuesday, the Bristol Tennessee City Council took advantage of that loophole. On a 3-2 vote, council members said bring the picnic basket when you enter a city-owned park, but leave the gun at home.

Johnson City officials approved a similar handgun ban last week. Other cities, including Memphis, Chattanooga and Nashville, are considering their own measures.

Bristol Tenn.’s decision was supported by City Manager Jeff Broughton and Police Chief Blaine Wade.

Council members David Shumaker, Margaret Feierabend and Mayor Fred Testa voted to ban firearms in city parks. Joel Staton and James Messimer opposed the measure.

Shumaker said he was uncomfortable with people bringing guns into public parks because they are “a weapon designed for a human being to kill another human being.”

Staton called Shumaker’s view “ridiculous” and said the resolution unfairly targets legal handgun owners who are properly trained and would carry them openly.

We support the City Council’s decision on a variety of levels, including safety and local autonomy. The Tennessee legislature left the final decision to the localities. The City Council’s vote considered the recommendations of the city manager and the police chief, both of whom oppose people carrying firearms into city parks.

Some supporters have argued that the ban is an infringement on Second Amendment rights. Perhaps they will challenge the law.

But they should begin in Nashville, where state lawmakers agreed to create this loophole for localities. And Bristol, Tenn., is among several so far that have decided to ban firearms in city parks.

Opponents also should consider the parallels with other places – like public schools – where firearm prohibitions already exist with public support.

Public parks, like public schools, are designed for children and families – and that justifies a different set of rules regarding firearms.

We believe the Bristol Tennessee City Council acted in the interest of safety for the majority of its residents when it voted to ban firearms from city parks. Shumaker, who noted that he owns firearms, said he sees no reason for residents to carry handguns in heavily populated areas such as parks.

We believe the presence of guns in such places could lead to escalated harm if people carrying the weapons overreact to confrontations. It’s one thing if an argument leads to a fist fight, but what if both people are carrying firearms?…

I do appreciate the courage of the Bristol City Council on this issue.
The last thing we need is a bunch of trigger-happy Conservanoid goofballs endangering our children in our city parks while they play John Wayne with they’re new gun.

The thing that amazes me with these types is that they seem to think that they would be capable of stopping some criminal element in a worst case scenario.
Fact is, these hide-in-the-gun-cabinet types would either open fire and hit nothing but innocent bystanders (probably children), or you’d find them and their gun hiding under a picnic table peeing themselves in fear.
Paper silhouette targets don’t prepare people for battle. These people are much like the gang members in big cities that pull drive-by shootings and hit everyone but the intended target. A bunch of loose cannons and walking time bombs.

We don’t need them making our recreation areas dangerous when they’re not.
Get it through your heads, trigger tarts. YOU are the element that’s dangerous to our families.

Honorable mention to a man I was previously unsure of, Councilman Fred Testa. I never expected intelligent decision making from Testa after having met him. But I’m pleased to be found wrong in this case.

Joel Staton’s seat will be the next target when elections roll around again.

Good job BCC.

Just a couple of vids and a quick comment.

Here’s an example of just how cruel people, in this case Hispanic, can be toward animals. Such cruelty exists in all cultures, but Spanish culture is by far the most prolific when it comes to this particular brand of cruelty…

Now here we have an example of even more cruelty known as The Running of the Bulls. This despicable event takes place regularly in Pamplona, Spain.
During the “running", the bulls often don’t want to run. They do what they can to avoid their attackers including backing into alleys and fighting the sub-humanoid vermin off.
In order to induce “running” the vermin resort to such tactics as throwing boiling water on the animals and using fire.

This year, the Bulls got one…

Finally, justice.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has fallen off the turnip truck and now that this imbecilic resolution has been offered and the Democratic party has been dragged into it, there’s no way to be silent about it.

Michael Jackson. The guy was a fucking joke.
Sorry, but rarely have I ever seen a more ridiculous specimen in modern music. Michael Jackson made Marilyn Manson look like Mary Poppins.

I do sympathize to the extent that I remember him as a cute, mega-talented seven year old on the Jackson 5 TV show. But that’s where it ends.
I have no respect for anyone who had the world in the palm of their hand and threw it all away to be some sort of side-show freak and that’s what MJ was. A freak.
An arrogant, self-absorbed, eccentric stage-whore who for some reason thought it was ok to have other people’s children sleep with him.

Oh, and disco still sucks, so his music was even more annoying than his physical appearance and his creepy behavior.

I’m sorry he’s dead, but this funeral idol worship reminds me of the Republican ghouls dragging Ronald Reagan’s rotted corpse around the country like a float in the Macy’s parade.
It’s not like Mike was Dick Cheney or some other sub-human life form, but he certainly wasn’t any kind of martyr or anything remotely close.

The fact that Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee sponsored this resolution is disturbing. First, this is a type of resolution that reeks of Republican shallowness. It’s like passing a resolution to honor Toby Keith. I mean WTF?
With health care and countless other important issues before congress Lee should have known this could cause the party problems and basically make us look like idiots.

Michael Jackson gave to charity etc etc…True.
So have I but I don’t see any honor captainkona resolutions being offered up.
Michael Jackson made music and sold a lot of records…True.
So did Roy Orbison and his music, by contrast, didn’t suck. But no reso for the Orbster either.
Rep. Lee, you were either grandstanding or you’ve become a complete schmuck over the last few years. Whichever it is, it’s not good.

Thanx go out to Speaker Pelosi for nipping this foolishness in the bud before it became a distraction to the really important matters at hand.

And of course, I don’t want to end this post without mentioning the inescapable fact that Republican Politicians have no business pointing fingers and calling people “pedophiles” when they are the worst of the worst when it comes to child sexual abuse.

I honestly hope this goofy crap stops now.

I’ll keep this brief due to the fact that I just scored a sack of stinky, sticky, stony, BUDS and I don’t want to waste too much time commenting on vermin while there’s tree to trim…

T. Boone Pickens is a piece of shit. But you knew that, didn’t you? For those who didn’t I’ll illustrate once again that my comments characterizing Pickens as excrement are spot on.

In an article from the Washington Post, we find that Pickens is scrapping his Mean Green Wind Machine plans for all sorts of lame reasons that prove conclusively that Pickens is the kind of Scum that will never do anything unless he makes millions from it.

From the WAPO:

Pickens Calls Off Plans For Vast Texas Wind Farm

By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 8, 2009

T. Boone Pickens has temporarily shelved plans to build the world’s biggest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle because of tight credit markets and low natural gas prices, and his company Mesa Power is looking for other projects that could use the $2 billion worth of wind turbines already on order.

Pickens unveiled plans in 2007 for the 4,000-megawatt wind farm – big enough to power 1.3 million homes – at a projected cost of $10 billion. In May 2008, Pickens ordered 667 wind turbines from General Electric for the first of four project phases. Mesa is scheduled to begin taking delivery in 2011.

The project was a symbol of the oilman’s commitment to his high-profile campaign to slash the nation’s dependence on foreign oil with a combination of wind power and the use of natural gas in vehicles.

“Boone still remains committed and focused on developing wind energy in the United States,” said Jay Rosser, a spokesman for Pickens’s BP Capital Management. “The timing is not as aggressive as he originally outlined because of the collapse of the capital markets and because of the steep downturn of natural gas prices.” (Many utilities are choosing natural gas to generate electricity.)

Absolute bullshit.

In other words, Pickens no longer stands to make a billion on the project so it’s off.

This man is a joke. He talked all that crap while Repigs were running for office and now it’s no longer valuable as a project because McBush lost and can’t give him untold tax dollars to line his pockets with. Thought you were going to a big Halliburton style payday at the taxpayer’s expense did you, T?
The “Pickens Plan", his plan to Pickens the taxpayer’s pockets, was launched in July 2008.
The Scum lost. So what does Pickens do? He drops his sudden love for environment and clean air and the people of this country.
Imagine, to have all that wealth and still be a transparent, self-serving dirtbag.

This latest abandonment of duty to country (much like Palin quitting) is what we as a nation have come to expect from the Right Wing Fringe.

And of course, let’s not forget that T. Boone Pickens was the sack of horse turds that bankrolled the Swift Boat Cowards for Lies that unsuccessfully tried to smear John Kerry’s military record during the 2004 Presidential elections.
Pickens later ate his words. Better yet, Kerry folded them up and shoved them up Pickens’ yellow Texas ass.

Just another shining example of the fact that Republicans care for only two things. Money and money.

Build a wind tower, T. Then promptly climb to the top and jump if you would be so kind.

Here’s a vid from FUX News where Pickens get’s caught in his lies and his fellow son-of-a-jackal, Sean Hannity, tries to save him.

T. Boone Pickens. The environmentalist.

What a fucking snail.

…Oh, God. It just never ends with this loser. The biggest joke of a Governor (with the exception maybe of Ahhnold) in the nation, and miserably failed VP candidate in 2008, seemingly can’t let a single week go by without making a complete and total fool of herself.

Excellent.
This walking, talking 404 error message is doing for the GOP what panty hose did for finger fucking.
Now, (LOL) now, Scary Sara Palin has chosen to QUIT her elected office and abandon her SWORN responsibilities to the state of Alaska and it’s people.
What a great VP she would have been, huh?
Simply amazing (and kinda humorous). The GOP is once again driven further into it’s grave as a result of the single dumbest American (yes, even dumber than Bush) that ever strapped on heels.

It’s hilarious to watch. Conservanoids across the nation attempting to decipher and analyze and speculate as to the “motivation” behind Failin’ Palin and her display of weakness and selfishness.
No need to analyze…
Palin has stated that she QUIT because she wanted to save the people the money it’s taking to conduct the ongoing ETHICS investigations into her office and her conduct.
No mystery. She’s guilty of something and she’s bailing out before they find it.
Simple as that.

Show you my boobs for some extra ammo?
You betcha!

No, there’s no deep, strategic aspect of her QUITTING. She’s the same Sara Palin that ran with McLame for the Presidency. Delusional, conceited, self-absorbed and completely and totally out to lunch.

Marvelous. Couldn’t ask for more.
I only hope that McLame is right when he says “Palin will have a leadership role".
Between Palindrome, the Tea Bag Fags, Rush Limbaugh and the entire cast of characters the GOP brings to the circus, Democrats are feeling pretty damn comfortable with our majority.

Keep up the fine work Republicans (you fucking idiots). We’re looking forward to turning out even bigger than we did in ‘08 and wiping our collective ass with your collective shirt.

Heh, Gets better every day.

Oh, yeah. Palin’s lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, says he’s going to sue bloggers for bad mouthing his skank….

To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as “fact” that Governor Palin resigned because she is “under federal investigation” for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation. This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law. The Alaska Constitution protects the right of free speech, while simultaneously holding those “responsible for the abuse of that right.” Alaska Constitution Art. I, Sec. 5. LINK These falsehoods abuse the right to free speech; continuing to publish these falsehoods of criminal activity is reckless, done without any regard for the truth, and is actionable.

Thomas Van Flein, for
Governor Sarah Palin

Mr. Van Flein, fuck you.
How’s that for court room dialect?

Finally, the first Fascist-Free Fourth of the last decade.

We have so yearned to celebrate genuine independence, but during the Eight Years of Evil we found celebrating freedom to be a little difficult.
It’s not easy to feel free with a dictatorship where an elected government should be.
With vote fraud, Mullahs in the White House,
NSA/AT&T/Quest/Verison spying on average Americans and other such treasonous activity perpetrated by our own un-elected officials, feeling free becomes wishful thinking, not fact of life in America.

So today we are happy to wish all real Americans a very happy Independence Day.

Whew, that felt good.

Let’s face the facts. We have a steady procession of clowns and other circus acts vying for the Governorship of the State of Tennessee. It’s time we chose a candidate that makes them all look like they’re standing still.

Four legs will always be better than two when it comes to Tennessee politics.

From the stale, murky depths of TN politics a rising star is born. In a virtual sea of that green schmag we see in puddles near broken sewer lines, a beacon of precious light doth exist.
She hails from Hoots and her name is MABLE.

Ward Cammack? He stated that he “changed” in 2000. Fact is (and since Cammack refuses to answer the question) Cammack voted for George W. Bush in 2004. Why else would he fear being asked who he voted for so?
The jig is up, the news is out, the kiss of political death is upon Ward’s lips.

McWherter? Was asked a few rudimentary questions and he too has proven to be far too chickenshit to answer. Yellow is not a good color for a Democratic candidate.

Herron?
Lights are on but no one’s home. At this point he’d have to Legalize Marijuana and bring Elvis back to get my primary vote.

Kim McMillan? Making no effort whatsoever. No online presence, no street presence. You can’t win buy being quiet.

Given the ‘72 VW Bug full of clowns we have to choose from thus far, the only logical choice for our endorsement for Governor is MABLE.
The Hottie from Hoots does not lie. She does not cheat, she does not deceive.
Just straight forward truth and reality.
No gimmicks, no dirty money, no hidden extramarital affairs. Mable does not attempt to rest on the laurels of family members before her. She doesn’t even ask for donations.
She damn sure didn’t vote Neo-Con in 2004.

We at TN420 hereby state our undying support for the smartest, most courageous and honestly, cutest candidate in the race.

We are ready, willing and Mable.

Now for the record, Barack Obama didn’t start this disaster. BushCo and the Israeli influence on them are 100% responsible.

Barack Obama is singing the Janitor’s Blues. It’s like being hired to clean up a landfill with a Swiffer. A bunch of nasty, Pig-Like idiots create a mountain of shit and Barack Obama is left to try and clean it up.
We’ve told you before. We will never, never leave Iraq.
Hell, here’s our “embassy". Look like we’re leaving?

US Embassy/Fortress in Iraq

The latest “withdrawal” of troops is a facade. Nothing will change for the soldier on the ground. “Withdrawal", in this case, means only “pulling back” and being ready when Iranian-backed Shiites escalate the ethnic cleansing of dispossessed Sunni or “Al Qaida in Iraq” begins it’s campaign to topple the Pseudo-Government in Baghdad.
We’re not going anywhere.

Iraq is simply being made ripe for exploitation. Though a few uniformed soldiers my be transferred, our forces are not “withdrawing” and there is no end to the private “Security Contractors” that will remain behind. Including but not limited to the Treasonous, unarmed civilian killing, yellow-bellied Blackwater Security.
Blackwater Security, whose personnel (a few murderers among many) will stand trial in 2010 for murder ("manslaughter” is a whitewash), was supposed to have been “ordered out” by the “Iraqi Government” after they murdered (and more) Iraqi women and children.
But instead, a lawsuit has revealed that Blackwater is, in fact, operating under another name. The “International Republican Institute” to be exact.

The “real” withdrawal date is in 2011 according to the DOD. What we have here is strategic oversight. Not a “withdrawal".
We pull back (not out), let these murder for hire corporations exploit the situation and kill the Iraqi people, then paint the rosiest picture possible with the help of the main stream media.
Basically a symbolic gesture that amounts to little more than keeping Iraq on a leash.
Meanwhile, Islamic militants wait, watch, blow up a few people to remind us they’re there, as they have been, and plan the years of bloodshed that are the future of Iraq.
In fact, just hours ago another bomb killed at least twenty people in Kirkuk.

Iraq was once a sovereign nation. They will never be so again. Forever divided along sectarian lines, tribal and religious feuding will rule the land as it did before Saddam Hussein came to power.

It’s not Barack Obama’s party. But he’ll get the blame if he fails to clean up after everyone.
Bring our guys home, Barack. Let the Blackwater guys get their heads and legs blown off. Just get our guys out and put an end to meddling in the affairs of other nations.
If we remain mired in this unsolvable situation, you will go down in history as the “one who lost Iraq". Not the Neo-Con vermin who are responsible for it, y-o-u.
Again, it’s not your fault and I certainly don’t envy your position. But this is not “change". It’s a movie script. An illusion.
A ghost that will haunt you forever if you continue to play this game.

Ahhh, what a party. If it takes me three days to recover it means one of two things. Either we partied hard or I’m gettin’ old. Or both.

Not as many people as we would liked to have had, but what a grand time it was. Bleu and the band were awesome. Just awesome. Some of the cleanest sound I’ve heard outside in a long time.
Even yours truly managed to jam with Bleu and The R&B Band for a few minutes and I still feel honored to be allowed on stage with such a tight band.

This hill is a great place to have a show. And we promise there will be more.

I want to thank Bleu and the band for being here, all those who came up to see the show, and the really cool cop that visited us around 10pm and told us of one complaint they had about the noise.
I guess we did pretty good if only one scumbag complained. So we thank the people of Bristol for tolerating us for the evening.

Also want to pass along our prayers and support for our friend and Bleu’s manager, JR Worley, as he is experiencing some serious difficulties in his life at the moment.
We are with you, JR.

Thanx again to Sonic Drive In for their support and fellowship and to Ellen and Mike, Lyle, Gerbert, Todd Foster of the BHC and everyone who supported this event in both action and word.

Rock on!

The standard montage of items that tend to require more thought than comment.

1) The Ensign Affair:

Republican Senator, John Ensign, was forced to admit to having an extra-marital affair with a staffer.
Now, that really isn’t the point. That’s a personal issue he will have to settle with his betrayed family.
But when this happens to the same guy that called Larry Craig “disgusting” and did everything he could to remove Craig from his post, it does warrant mention.
A vocal attacker of Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and, oddly enough, a member of the Pentecostal International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (sorry, can’t help but LOL) and a born again “Christian", Ensign solicits derision for not practicing that which he preacheth. Ensign was also active in an evangelical group known as the “Promise Keepers". Why doesn’t this surprise me?

And no, this isn’t partisan. John Edwards is guilty of much the same thing unfortunately.

It’s not the sex, it’s the hypocrisy, stupid.

2) Pretty Fly for a Black/White guy:

PETA is now officially a bunch of blithering idiots. So sad to see a once well-intentioned organization decay into complete and total obscurity as a direct result of the fucking morons who now run it.

3) U.S. Economy:

Recently, another one of those “polls” pronounced that “the public is turning on Obama’s economic policies".
Which “public” would that be? The one that’s still nursing a sore ass from being kicked out of every branch of national government, or the one that watches with hope as the economy slowly but surely rebounds?

4) Justices Rule Inmates Don’t Have Right to DNA Tests:

The SCOTUS just ruled, in deeply flawed fashion, that Prison inmates do not have a constitutional right to DNA to try and prove their innocence.
The message conveyed here?
You have no right to your bodily effects but the government does. DNA is forcibly taken from prisoners across the nation as a matter of routine every day.

Not wise, not appropriate.
Legislation becomes necessary.

5) Slavery. Hey, we’re sorry.

The Senate just adopted legislation making official an apology for the slavery of African Americans.
No problem with this at all. Slavery is an evil deed.
Now, slavery at the time was nothing unusual. In fact, very common practice the world over. And we could always discuss the Barbary Cost Pirates and a possible apology to Caucasians, but what the hell. I think it’s a very good idea to state emphatically, as a nation, that such a barbaric practice is unacceptable to civilized society.

Nobody in my lineage has ever owned a slave. In fact, my European ancestors were Reformation “criminals” and sentenced to hard labor in the “colonies".
But I’m still on board with this one because of the message it sends.

I join the chorus.

6) Gimmie a drink or I’ll shoot!:

I’m a real Liberal. The 2nd Amendment is the law of the land and in these days of Conservative Terrorism I’m glad it exists.
But when the Tennessee legislature overrode Gov. Bredesen’s veto of the most ignorant legislation to pass since Marijuana prohibition, I realized that I believe in a certain amount of gun control for a reason.

I don’t have a problem with guns. I have a problem with cowardly, Right Wing Conservanoids carrying them around. Especially in my place of business.
So my sign went out today. It reads….

“Firearms are not permitted on this property. Enter armed at your own risk".

Why “own risk"? Because we’re in NE Tennessee. Not NY, LA, Miami, Detroit….
Going unarmed in those environments is suicide.
Going armed in small country cities where random violent crime is barely noticeable, chicken shit.

“Own Risk". You produce a firearm in my presence, you’d better be ready to use it. Because I’ll knock your brains out without a second’s hesitation and without warning of any kind. And I won’t stop stomping until the cops get there and pull me off.
That’s just the way it’s going to be.

Why is this legislation as stupid as it is? The same reason all too many gun owners are as stupid as they are…

From Media General:

Media General News Service Published: June 18, 2009 WOODBRIDGE, Va.—Maybe he should have ducked out of the bar when he had a chance. But now that he didn’t, he may need a lawyer to help him duck the charges. Prince William County police say it all happened June 10 at Tim’s Rivershore Restaurant and Crabhouse. A man walked into the popular Cherry Hill Road gathering spot on the Potomac River at 2:15 p.m. He appeared intoxicated, Tim’s manager David Blick said, so bartenders refused to serve him. He also had a “sidearm”—police say it was a .40-caliber handgun—and it wasn’t concealed. The spurned patron stormed out of the eatery and down to the beach. There, he reached for his gun and fired on a group of ducks known to hang out by Tim’s looking for handouts. Four to seven shots were fired, Blick said. Customers and workers were horrified. A mother duck was killed, and the slaying was caught on video, said Prince William police 1st Sgt. Kim Chinn. A woman at the restaurant was videotaping the mother duck and her babies when the man fired the fatal shot. The man with the gun took off, but customers and employees ran after him and got his car’s license plate number. An initial police search didn’t turn up the duck killer, but two hours later, police got the call that led to an arrest. A car had crashed into Powell’s Creek at the end of Corbin Court in southern Woodbridge, not far from Cherry Hill Road. The driver turned out to be the man police were looking for, Chinn said. David Yount, of 16791 Sweeney Lane in Woodbridge, was charged with driving under the influence, refusal to take a breath or blood test and reckless handling of a firearm, Chinn said. The 33-year-old could not be charged with animal cruelty because it’s not illegal in Virginia to shoot an animal that can be hunted, she said. Police, however, did call Virginia’s Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to see if the shooting violated federal wildlife laws. But game wardens determined the duck was a domestic breed and thus not subject to those regulations. There were also no charges regarding the carrying of a firearm. In Virginia, it’s legal to have a gun in plain view in a restaurant unless the establishment’s owner prohibits it. Efforts to change state law to allow concealed weapons in restaurants that serve alcohol have thus far been turned back, but the issue came up in the recent Democratic primary for governor. Eventual party nominee R. Creigh Deeds, a state senator from Bath County, was hammered by primary opponents Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran for voting to allow concealed guns in bars. Deeds faces GOP candidate Bob McDonnell, a former state attorney general, Nov. 3. Yount, on the other hand, faces a July 10 court date. He was released on a $500 personal recognizance bond.

There you have the number one reason that Pro Gun/Alcohol/Moron legislation is dangerous to the people (and wildlife). What would have happened if this quack had just one more drink? This fucking shitbird bastard is exactly the same mentality as the vast majority of Conservanoid asshats that support this legislation.
Now people will start carrying guns to protect themselves from goombahs who carry guns.
See how this escalates?

Democratic Sen. Doug Jackson of Dickson. You get the Pig Vomit Award this month. When someone you love get’s shot by a drunk with a permit in a bar, look no further than the mirror for someone to blame.

Our wonderful colleague, Newscoma, has come across yet another Tennessee Republican display of sheer stupidity and racial hatred concerning our President.

This one, apparently, originating from one of TN State Senator’s staffers by the name of Sherri Goforth.

True? Maybe. I’m betting it is.
‘Coma is on it and we have inquired of Sen. Black as to her knowledge of this disgracefully racist photograph of “The Presidents"…

Diane Black is a joke. A Right Wing Republican lump of dog excrement that has no business breathing my air, much less representing Tennesseans in Nashville.
No reason to think that anyone working for her is any more human.
This is one of the things that is so very wrong with the great state of Tennessee. The level of absolute dumb-fuck we have to endure to reside in such a beautiful land.
We’ll get to the bottom of this issue and take the necessary actions.

In the mean time, I took the liberty of correcting the picture to more accurately reflect the great leaders of our nation….

See Left Wing Cracker
and Christian Grantham also.

TO BE CONTINUED:

It has been established that this Goforth tramp in fact did send the pictures out to fellow fucktards.

When questioned by Grantham, Goforth admitted to sending the picture around…

“I went on the wrong email and I inadvertently hit the wrong button, Goforth told NIT. I’m very sick about it, and it’s one of those things I can’t change or take back.”

So, the only thing she feels she did wrong is send the pics to the wrong, non-racist parties…
What a skank.

UPDATE:

The names of the recipients of the Goforth/Black racist image…

From: Sherri Goforth Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:33 AM

To: Alice Bigham; Anna Richardson; Beth Chiles; Carolyn Newman; Catherine Haire; Christina Barber; Chuck Grimes; Darlene Schlicher; Deana Guenther; Debbie Martin; Debbie Rankin; Glenda Mayes; Jeremy Davis; John Michael Burch; Lance Frizzell; Lee Harrell; Linda Klingmann; Liz Alvey; Logan Grant; Loudene Gee; Matt King; Micki Coode; Pam George; Pat Farmer; Patti Saliba; Rick Nicholson; Sandra Smith; Sherri Goforth; Tina Still; Tonya Morelock; Valerie Yancey; Will Canterbury; Wilma Carney; Zach Bates

Subject: FW: Historical Keepsake Photo

Someone on that list didn’t think it was funny. The rest are hereby exposed.

Just a few points to make….

1) NY State Sen. Pedro Espada, a Bronx Democrat and complete and total traitor, assisted the NY Republicans in doing something they could never do without his treason. Be significant.
Bottom line? Pedro Espada is the kind of Zell Miller/Joe Lieberman type bitch the Democratic party can well do without.

2) Scary Sara Palin, Governor of Alaska, failed Republican VP nominee and unbelievable moron, is mad at David Letterman for “insulting” (pokin’ fun at) her daughter.
The Alaska governor appeared on NBC’s “Today” show Friday, continuing a feud with the CBS “Late Show” funnyman over his joke earlier this week that Palin’s daughter got “knocked up” by New York Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez during their recent trip to New York.

Well, Sara. You should be glad Letterman runs that show and I don’t.
Because if I did, I wouldn’t be quite as reserved as Dave when I called your Daughter and you both skanks.
You’re an idiot, your family are idiots and A-moral, white trash losers.

Need me to write it crayon?

3) In Iraq, a fifteen year old Shiite boy gunned down the Parliamentary leader of the Sunni people, Harith Obeidi, in just one of many assassinations that will materialize in the future. The killing raised fears the coming months will see a sharp rise in assassinations and other violence, as most American forces depart from Iraq and campaigning intensifies with national elections scheduled for January.

Just exactly what we said would happen many times before, right here on this blog.

The sheer stupidity of George Bush, his cabal and the Republican ex-majority has cost the lives of over 4300 of our troops, nearly one million Iraqis, and the lives of those who will die needlessly in the coming years as the Iran-backed Islamic Fundamentalist “Government” of Jalal Talabani and Nouri al-Maliki sees American troops withdraw.

When we finally depart from Iraq, the Shiite ethnic cleansing of the Sunni will rage out of control.

4) In Austin Texas, a Sheriff’s deputy named Chris Bieze has been caught on film tasering a 72 year old woman during a routine traffic stop.
The grandmother, Kathryn Winkfein, though not exactly cooperative, posed no threat whatsoever to the enormous, fat-assed Bieze yet this particular cop proved to be pussy enough to need a weapon to force an elderly woman to submit to his whim. Even though Ms. Winkfein was not under arrest and there is no law in Texass requiring anyone to sign a ticket.
The coward tasered Winkfein after she refused to sign the citation and seemingly for no other reason.

We challenge Sheriff Hamilton, another fat guy in a uniform, to be the man his deputy clearly isn’t and fire the coward immediately.
A cop so severely lacking in fortitude not only a danger to the general public, he’s dangerous to his fellow officers as well.
Cowards aren’t much good under fire.
Bieze should be working graveyard shift security at a cheap motel in Houston if that’s all the man he is.

Sheriff Hamilton can be contacted here:
http://www.tcsheriff.org/commandstaff/hamilton.html

Let him know what you think. We sure as hell did.

CORRECTION:

It has been brought to our attention that Sheriff Hamilton IS NOT RESPONSIBLE for Bieze.
Apparently, Bieze is a Deputy Constable. Not a Deputy Sheriff.
This blogger was contacted by Sheriff Hamilton personally and we hereby retract any effort to connect him or his agency with the coward.
The Constable’s office and the Travis County Sheriff’s Office are not related agencies.

These are Sheriff Hamilton’s words as we received them:
NEWS RELEASE TRAVIS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE P.O. Box 1748, Austin, Texas 78767

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 10, 2009

Sheriff’s Response to Constables Office Use Of Force Incident Due to the numerous calls received because of media reports saying to call my office I have decided to release this statement.

On May 11, 2009 the Travis County Constables Office arrested Kathryn Winkfein and charged her with Resisting Arrest. During the incident the deputy constable used his electronic control device, commonly known as a Tazer.
The incident was recorded on the officers in car video camera and has since become a favorite video for media to incite responses to their programs.

As Sheriff of Travis County, I want to make two things perfectly clear.
First, the deputy constable does not work for my agency. The Constables Office is a separate office with the Constable elected to office by an individual precinct.

Second, I do not personally agree with the actions of the deputy constable as they are shown in the video. When I look at the video I am in awe of what happened. Respectfully, Sheriff Greg Hamilton ### Submitted By: Roger Wade, Public Information Officer, (512) 854-4986

The correct link to those who need to be assailed for this outrage is here:
http://www.co.travis.tx.us/constables/default.asp

We extend our deepest apologies to Sheriff Hamilton and his staff.

Perhaps I should provide Conservative Terrorism a category of it’s own here at Ablogination.

Perhaps I should just entitle it “This will happen again"….

The epidemic is spreading and doing so faster and faster. Swine Flu? LOL. We have our own kind of Pig Flu going around the US right now.
The latest Pig just murdered a good man, Stephen Tyrone Johns, in cold blood during a Conservative extremist attack on a Holocaust Memorial in the nation’s capital.

Right Wing Conservative Terrorist and Nazi fuckbag, James von Brunn, let his hatred of Jews lead him to murder. von Brunn is expected to die from head injuries inflicted by Mr. Johns’ fellow guards and that’s good news.
However, it will not bring back a good man nor will it end the epidemic of Conservative Terrorism we now face.

And we face one. I hope someone somewhere is preparing for the escalation that is so obviously inevitable.

From the Washington Post bwo The Kansas City Star:

James W. von Brunn was growing despondent.

John de Nugent, an acquaintance who describes himself as a white separatist, noticed the change when they last spoke two weeks ago.

“He said his Social Security had been cut and that he was barely making it,” de Nugent said. “He felt it was the direct result of someone in Washington looking at his Web site.”

In one of his e-mail blasts expressing his white supremacist views, the man police sources say shot and killed a security guard yesterday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum told readers that they shouldn’t expect to hear from him again. Von Brunn was shot and critically wounded by museum guards.

He was about to give away his computer, his primary connection to the fringe world of radical racists. He was living hand to mouth.

The e-mails were getting violent in tone: “It’s time to kill all the Jews.”

Von Brunn, who lives in Annapolis, was known for decades to fellow white supremacists who read his elaborate conspiracy theories on his Web site and met him through a network of radical racist groups. He was smart enough to join Mensa, but even admirers considered him a loner, a hothead and a man consumed with hatred.

As an avowed white supremacist and anti-Semite, von Brunn was tracked by civil rights groups.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, has kept an eye on him since 1981. Lately, it has focused on his Web site, holywesternempire.org. Von Brunn, 88, worked at Noontide Press, a California-based distributor of books on the “Jewish Question.”

His book, “Kill the Best Gentiles,” is a screed against the Talmud and is dedicated to Revilo Oliver, a well-known denier of the Holocaust. Von Brunn’s writings condemning “Negroes” and Jews were prolific.

“We had multiple entries on this guy,” said Heidi Beirich, the center’s director of research.

Von Brunn’s neighbors said yesterday that they invited him to their home for a drink recently. Apropos of nothing, they said, he raised his belief that the Holocaust did not occur.

Todd Blodgett, a former Reagan White House aide who later worked with several extremist groups, met regularly with von Brunn in the 1990s and early 2000s.

“Von Brunn is obsessed with Jewish people,” Blodgett said. “He had equal contempt for both Jews and blacks, but if he had to pick one group to wipe out, he’d always say it would be Jews.”

Blodgett was part-owner of Resistance Records, which distributed music by white racist groups, and worked for Willis Carto, the founder of Liberty Lobby, a radical right group.

Depressing……

This will happen again.

Just a quick note….

Today the Democrats of Virginia chose a strong candidate to represent them as they seek the Governorship for the third straight time.
State Sen. Creigh Deeds easily defeated his wannabe challenger, Terry McAuliffe.

This is good in more than one way.

1) Deeds is a Warner, Kaine type of Democrat. Too conservative to be great but just enough to win a good portion of the moron vote. Deeds has a great chance of defeating the Right Wing Nut challenger, Bob McDonnell.
Bob McDonnell is a Bush Republican and therefor will never accomplish anything good.

2) Terry McAuliffe is a Clintonista, Blue Dog pile of pig vomit. Those don’t make very good leaders.
McAuliffe has his head buried so far up Bill Clinton’s ass all you can see of him is the soles of his shoes.
McAuliffe destroyed the DNC for many years and was a big part of empowering the Republican majority of the turn of the Century that caused the economic disaster we’re just now pulling out of.
It is also my belief that McAuliffe deliberately sabotaged John Kerry’s ‘04 run in order to run Hillary in 2008. They did exactly that.
Thank God she lost.

That’s the DNC, Hillary’s campaign and the VA Goobernatorial.

Strike three, Terry. Fuck off.

3) Message to the Blue Dogshits, sit down and shut the fuck up.

Well done, VA Dems.
I am very proud.

Now rally around Deeds, in spite of his flaws, and bury the Repigs even deeper in the clay. Turn out to vote bigger and better than you did in ‘08.
There’s a big slice of Obama Pie waiting for you and Deeds will bring it home.

The other day we focused on the Religofascist Terrorist, Scott Roeder, who murdered Dr. Tiller in his church. Hell, we’ve had plenty of actual Terrorist attacks and attempted or planned attacks. Now we have even more…

Roeder. Adkisson. Gartrell, Johnson and Adolph. Timothy Dale Johnson….

How many times have we warned?

Now, in the past week, we have seen a Religofascist Islamic convert (alleged) by the name of Abdulhakim Muhammad. Some greasy Conservative punk who decided to murder some US service people in cold blood. At an Arkansas recruiting station Pvt. William Long, 23, was murdered and Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, was wounded.
Two of our bravest, attacked on home turf by a scumbag who was, for some reason, allowed to return from Yemen, under suspicion, but was never followed up on.
Muhammad returned to the US after being deported from Yemen in 2007. That’s during the BushCo watch and the Michael Chertoff DHS joke of an agency.
Yes indeed, Conservative Republican government dropping the ball when it comes to protecting Americans from Terrorism.
Yeah, Bush made us “safer"? Ask the parents of Pvt. Long.

Not withstanding that, we now have the most fortunate arrest of yet another Right Wing Conservative Terrorist who stated his intentions of murdering Barack Obama, our President.

So without further ado, let’s meet the latest member of our ever widening panel of home-grown Conservative Terrorists. Daniel James Murray, of Don Laughlin’s namesake oasis of Laughlin, Nevada…

From the LA Times:

Man arrested in threat to kill Obama
The Secret Service says Daniel James Murray told bank tellers in Utah that he was on a mission against the president. He is arrested without incident in Nevada.
Associated Press
June 7, 2009

Salt Lake City – Authorities have arrested a man who they say told bank tellers in Utah that he was on a mission to kill President Obama.

Daniel James Murray, 36, was arrested Friday outside a casino in Laughlin, Nev., according to the Secret Service.

Murray made bizarre statements last month while opening – and then closing within two weeks – an $85,000 savings account at Zions First National Bank in St. George, Utah., the Secret Service said in documents filed Thursday.

Asst. U.S. Atty. Barbara Bearnson said Murray was in federal custody in Nevada. Neither Bearnson nor the Secret Service would discuss whether Murray was considered to be a serious threat.

The criminal complaint says Murray, originally from Rexford, N.Y., is the registered owner of eight guns.

He was described by his father and former neighbors in Rexford as troubled but not dangerous. He was known for strolling down a street wearing a cape and talking to himself.

In Washington, Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley said Murray offered no resistance when he was arrested at 7 p.m. Friday in the parking lot of the Riverside Resort Hotel and Casino in Laughlin. Wiley wouldn’t offer any further details.

I guess we could give another warning. “This will happen again". But I’m beginning to sound like a broken record.
Great work by the Secret Service in putting a stop to Murray before he too killed the President or some other innocent American.

That’s right, people. These Fascist vermin will continue to plan and plot and if possible, carry out terrorist attacks on innocent Americans. And who fostered this terroristic mentality we are facing in America today? You guessed it.
George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld and every other Conservanoid piece of crap who condoned war for profit, torture, racism and every manner of vile and abominable acts of perversion, hatred and fear.

Barack Obama now sleeps in the bed Bush/Cheney made.
Let’s hope he can change the sheets before it’s too late.

For those who live in the Tri-Cities area, especially Bristol, we have some real good news.

On Friday, June 26th 2009, we will host the very first of what we hope to be many live concerts right in the middle of our parking lot.

Johnson City’s own Bleu Jackson will go on stage at 6pm and lay down the old time, Johnny Winter style blues that he plays so very well.
Bleu has a solid band and a lot of original music to offer.
We are very proud to have Bleu Jackson as the first ever artist to play our outdoor stage.

What: Bleu Jackson Live

When: June 26th, 2009 6pm to 10pm

Where: The TN420 Emporium parking lot.
1009 Volunteer Pkwy, Bristol TN.
High on the Hill.

How Much: 5$ per head.

Why: Because we really care.

Parking is in the Big Lots parking lot and behind Quiznos.
DO NOT use Volunteer Pkwy.
Enter the Big Lots parking lot from Bluff City Hwy and exit the same way.
Attempting to use Volunteer Pkwy or Cox Street will prove disastrous for you. Bad intersection and lots of cops.

Park behind Quiznos and walk over via Sonic Drive In’s parking lot.
They have lots of great beverages at Sonic that you can bring with you.
DO NOT park on a street or in front of an open business. YOU WILL BE TOWED! (per BPD)
Parking is in the Big Lots/Quiznos area ONLY.

Bring a folding chair and a good attitude because this will be a great time for all. Security personnel are on duty for your convenience and safety.

This is an ALCOHOL FREE event. Persons under 21 are welcome! Persons under eighteen should be accompanied by an adult.
No weapons are permitted at this event with the exception of law enforcement.
Alcohol and weapons rules will be strictly enforced.

Accommodations are available for handicapped persons. Call to confirm (423) 878-6420

The Planet Caravan Hookah Lounge will be open.

Bleu Jackson in Concert is brought to you by TN420 and Planet Caravan.
JR Worley management.

Thanx to:
Gary Gross
The City of Bristol
Captain Austin and the Bristol Police Dept.
Todd Foster and the Bristol Herald Courier.
Big Lots (great place to by a folding chair)
Quiznos
Don Powers
Jerry Burns
and the music loving people of Bristol Tennessee.

A night of peace and music.
Let the good times roll.

For questions and info please call the TN420 Emporium at (423) 878-6420 12pm to 8 pm

Once again we have tragedy. Once again the American Taliban perpetrate an act of terror upon the American people.

You know, we’re not kidding here, folks.
Sure, we use certain amounts of humor and hyperbole to add emphasis to issues that need attention. But there’s no lying here. Those of you who understand the way we write know full well that beneath the sarcasm and vitriol we are right, the vast majority of the time and that we write nothing without reason.

Once again, listen and heed….

“Once again” because we have warned of it before.
Right Wing Terrorism is real. It is not a captainkona paint job on the Right in general.
This is real, and Liberal churches are the most accessible targets.

Right Wing Terrorism struck America again today in Kansas as Dr. George Tiller, an abortion doctor, was gunned down in Church by a Right Wing zealot….

From Reuters:

By Carey Gillam

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A Kansas doctor reviled by anti-abortion groups for his work providing “late-term” abortions was shot and killed in his Wichita, Kansas, church on Sunday, and police said they captured the man responsible.

Police said they planned to charge a 51-year-old man on Monday with homicide and two counts of aggravated assault in the death of 67-year-old George Tiller, who died from a single gunshot.

Tiller was shot while serving as an usher for Sunday services in the foyer at Reformation Lutheran Church. The shooter threatened two other men at the church who tried to intervene, police said.

“We feel that this is an act of an isolated individual, however our investigation continues,” said Wichita deputy police chief Tom Stolz.

Stolz said they were investigating whether the shooter had any ties to anti-abortion groups.

President Barack Obama expressed shock and outrage, saying in a statement, “However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence.”

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said federal law enforcement officials would work with local authorities in investigating the crime. He directed federal agents “to offer protection to other appropriate people and facilities around the nation.”

The killing comes as the Obama administration is seeking confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court of Sonia Sotomayor, whom many anti-abortion groups have vowed to oppose for her perceived support of the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling that legalized abortion in the United States.

“For the movement, it could not come at a worse time,” the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, which lobbies against abortion, said of the killing.

“If they make it seem that people who embrace the pro-life movement are kind of this extremist violent group, that could diminish some of the passion and energy on confronting Sotomayor.”

No one here at TN420 condones abortion. But the life of the mother takes precedence and if we have to choose between the Dr. who makes sure these procedures are done in a safe fashion, and the Taliban fuck who thinks he can dictate to another concerning their medical decisions, we’ll take the Abortion Dr’s side every time.

From Eric Rudolph to Jim Adkisson to this latest Religofascist waste of air there is a long history of Conservative Terrorism in America and it’s getting worse. The Bush Regime and the vile, Satanic mindset into which it indoctrinated it’s supporters have created an era of division and hatred in America that will never be overcome.
The Right Wing is Terrorism. They have proven that assertion in the past, they prove it today and they will prove it again in the future.

“This will happen again".

Beware, Americans. Especially non-Conservative church goers. We are the target and the threat is right here at home.
It does not wear a rag on it’s head, it is not black or brown or white. It want’s you to die because you won’t obey.
There is no other motivation.

UPDATE:

The terrorist’s name is Scott Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kan.
LINK

UPDATE 2:

Our fellow, Victor, has submitted even more info on the American Taliban Terrorist, Scott Roeder…
Thanx, vic! Well done as always.

http://sodahead.com offered a tad bit more of background information about Roeder than I’ve discovered, so far, from other sites:

“The suspect in custody for the slaying of Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller was a member of an anti-government group in the 1990s and a staunch opponent of abortion.

Scott P. Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kan., a Kansas City suburb, was arrested on Interstate 35 near Gardner in suburban Johnson County, Kan., about three hours after the shooting. Tiller was shot to death around 10 a.m. inside Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita.

In the rear window of the 1993 blue Ford Taurus that he was driving was a red rose, a symbol often used by abortion opponents. On the rear of his car was a Christian fish symbol with the word “Jesus” inside.

Those who know Roeder said he believed that killing abortion doctors was an act of justifiable homicide.

“I know that he believed in justifiable homicide,” said Regina Dinwiddie, a Kansas City anti-abortion activist who made headlines in 1995 when she was ordered by a federal judge to stop using a bullhorn within 500 feet of any abortion clinic. “I know he very strongly believed that abortion was murder and that you ought to defend the little ones, both born and unborn.”

Dinwiddie said she met Roeder while picketing outside the Kansas City Planned Parenthood clinic in 1996. Roeder walked into the clinic and asked to see the doctor, Robert Crist, she said.

“Robert Crist came out and he stared at him for approximately 45 seconds,” she said. “Then he (Roeder) said, ‘I’ve seen you now.’ Then he turned his back and walked away, and they were scared to death. On the way out, he gave me a great big hug and he said, ‘I’ve seen you in the newspaper. I just love what you’re doing.’^”

Roeder also was a subscriber to Prayer and Action News, a magazine that advocated the justifiable homicide position, said publisher Dave Leach, an anti-abortion activist from Des Moines, Iowa.

“I met him once, and he wrote to me a few times,” Leach said. “I remember that he was sympathetic to our cause, but I don’t remember any details.”

Leach said he met Roeder in Topeka when he went there to visit Shelley Shannon, who was in prison for the 1993 shooting of Tiller.

“He told me about a lot of conspiracy stuff and showed me how to take the magnetic strip out of a five-dollar bill,” Leach said. “He said it was to keep the government from tracking your money.”

Roeder, who in the 1990s was a manufacturing assemblyman, also was involved in the “Freemen” movement.

“Freemen” was a term adopted by those who claimed sovereignty from government jurisdiction and operated under their own legal system, which they called common-law courts. Adherents declared themselves exempt from laws, regulations and taxes and often filed liens against judges, prosecutors and others, claiming that money was owed to them as compensation.

In April 1996, Roeder was arrested in Topeka after Shawnee County sheriff’s deputies stopped him for not having a proper license plate. In his car, officers said they found ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse cord, a one-pound can of gunpowder and two 9-volt batteries, with one connected to a switch that could have been used to trigger a bomb.

Jim Jimerson, supervisor of the Kansas City ATF’s bomb and arson unit, worked on the case.

The post said: “Bless everyone for attending and praying in May to bring justice to Tiller and the closing of his death camp. Sometime soon, would it be feasible to organize as many people as possible to attend Tillers church (inside, not just outside) to have much more of a presence and possibly ask questions of the Pastor, Deacons, Elders and members while there? Doesn’t seem like it would hurt anything but bring more attention to Tiller.”

“There wasn’t enough there to blow up a building,'’ Jimerson said at the time, “but it could make several powerful pipe bombs…There was definitely enough there to kill somebody.'’

Roeder, who then lived in Silver Lake, Kan., was stopped because he had an improper license plate that read “Sovereign private property. Immunity declared by law. Non-commercial American.'’ Authorities said the plate was typical of those used by Freemen.

Roeder was arraigned on one count of criminal use of explosives and misdemeanor charges of driving on a suspended license, failure to carry a Kansas registration and failure to carry liability insurance.

He was found guilty and sentenced in June 1996 to 24 months of probation with intensive supervision and ordered to dissociate himself from anti-government groups that advocated violence.

But in December 1997, his probation ended six months early when the Kansas Court of Appeals overturned his conviction. The court held that evidence against Roeder was seized by authorities during an illegal search of his car.

Morris Wilson, commander of the Kansas Unorganized Citizens Militia in the mid-1990s, said he knew Roeder fairly well.

“I’d say he’s a good ol’ boy except he was just so fanatic about abortion,” said Wilson, who now lives in western Nebraska. “He was always talking about how awful abortion was. But there’s a lot of people who think abortion is awful.”

Suzanne James, former director of victim’s services for Shawnee County, said she remembered Roeder.

“He was part of the One Supreme Court, a Freemen group based out of Shawnee County,” James said. “He was fanatic about a lot of things. I went to one of his court appearances and thought, ‘This guy is dangerous.’ There were a lot of red flags that came up about him.”

In recent years, someone using the name Scott Roeder has posted anti-Tiller comments on various Internet sites. One post, dated Sept. 3, 2007 and placed on a site sponsored by Operation Rescue called chargetiller.com, said that Tiller needed to be “stopped.”

“It seems as though what is happening in Kansas could be compared to the ‘lawlessness’ which is spoken of in the Bible,” it said. “Tiller is the concentration camp ‘Mengele’ of our day and needs to be stopped before he and those who protect him bring judgment upon our nation.”

On May 19, 2007, a Scott Roeder commented on an invitation by Operation Rescue to join an event being held May 17-20 in Wichita, “the ‘Nation’s Abortion Capital,’ to pray for an end to George R. Tiller’s late-term abortion business and for all pre-born babies everywhere to once again come under the protection of law.”

Once upon a time, the single dumbest, most disgraceful individual…from the single most abhorrent family in America’s political history, was installed in the White House through widespread vote fraud.
He commenced to commit murder, treason, constitutional violations, rights violations and every anti-freedom, anti-American crime possible.

His name was George W. Bush.

Now, after leaving even his own political party in utter ruin, he has returned to hopefully grind the GOP even further into the dust of historical infamy.

The Fountain of Fail. The poster child for Abortion rights. Former and disgraced POTUS Bush now sees fit to follow Cheney, DICK, into the arena of excuses. Trying in pathetic desperation to prevent the inevitable…his inclusion in the history books right beside Adolph Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Edie Amin, Augustus Pinochet and every other failed world leader before him.

These efforts, of course, will fail to eclipse the truth. The unwavering truth that America has never known, nor will ever know, a more incompetent, bargain-basement excuse for a President.

From MSNBC:

“I’m confident it’s going to have a happy ending,” he said. “Because freedom wins every time.” — Chimpy McCokespoon

How happy is the ending for the families of our soldiers you lied into their graves? How happy is the ending for the millions of Iraqis whose families you destroyed.
How happy is the ending for a country left in economic devastation due to your greed and stupidity?
The only happy ending will be you and your minions in prison for treason and war crimes, you filthy blaspheming idiot. Your funerals will do as well.
I’m not hard to please.

Classy move from a classy President. This, unfortunately, is where many of my fellow Liberals do a hypocrisy face plant and it’s really becoming ridiculous.
We’re Liberals, we’re supposed to strive to be free of hypocrisy, not embrace it in ignorance and fear the way Righty does.

So this is why I have to write this. When my own do what they accuse others of doing, I have no choice but to plant my electronic foot in your collective ass.

Now stop being stupid and giving the Left a bad name….

I really gotta admire Obama for overcoming the whining of the South bashing Neo-Bigots.
There are more Liberals in the South than most Yankees and West Cost surfer boys will ever know. Why? Because the idiots have never even been here.
Obviously. And if they did “visit” the South, they based their view on an encounter with one gas station attendant or some weak shit like that.

I used to run into this type of tunnel-vision mentality at RRMB (Randi Rhodes Message Board) and every argument put forth fell flat on it’s face. It’s a way for people to hate. Certain people need to hate on people who did nothing to them for whatever reason. And often look for subjects upon which it is deemed socially acceptable amongst their peers to hate.
So for those who fancy themselves as Liberal or Left, be you Black, White or otherwise, I’m here to tell you you’re an asshat. A hypocrite in the tradition of Righty.
Your attempts to gain self-esteem through the degradation of others is exactly what the modern Skinhead credo entails. Feel at home?

We’ve talked about it before.

FBI statistics clearly show racial hate in the North and West is many times worse than in the South.
So why aren’t you hating on yourselves? The statistics don’t lie, you’re worse racists and geography Nazis than we are.
Don’t ya love these generalizations? You should. Or maybe mine aren’t good enough? I’ll try and do better.

Anyway…
A group of “scholars” sent Barack a letter asking him not to honor Confederate soldiers on Memorial day. Thank God Obama is too much of a man to knuckle under to Neo-Bigotry.
It really amazes me how people like these (their names are not important) manage to become “scholars” with the shit for brains they seem to be working with. Either that or they’re Republicans trying to coax Obama into doing something that would hurt his chances in the next election.

“On June 4, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson spoke at the monument as veterans from the Union and Confederate Armies laid wreaths on the graves, as a symbol of unity.”

Unity, people. Get it?
Why would anyone think that Obama should alienate himself from Millions of Southern supporters? He won VA, FL and NC for chrissakes.
I’m not going to abandon the Confederate States to the Right Wing and apparently, neither is Obama.

So, Yankees and Western types, get it through your heads. Southerners reject your Neo-Bigotry. Everything’s fine here. But you wouldn’t know, because you ignore the facts and talk out of your Metropolitan asses without giving even one thought to the fact that where you are is worse than where I am. Meanwhile, you’d better check the street and see if anyone’s stolen your car yet.

As for Black Americans who entertain this Neo-Bigotry (far fewer than White actually), I guess there’s a reason more Blacks live in the South than anywhere else in the country. You don’t like having your car stolen every other day either. Nor do you appreciate being jumped in an ally by a bunch of Southern California Skinheads or a group of mental midgets on the streets of Brooklyn.
Nor do you want to be a casualty in some LA drive-by shooting where they miss the intended victim and fill you full of holes.
Hey, I can dig it. Death by Idiot is not the caption I want on my headstone.

And if that doesn’t explain things clear enough, please chime in and we’ll discuss the Barbary Coast Pirates and their slave trade.

Stop the hypocrisy, Left. You’re only hurting our movement and our status as seekers of truth and righteousness. Not to mention the fact that you arguments are factually wrong.
You call us “traitors"? You know what a traitor is? Someone who would willingly abandon an entire region of their country to the Right Wing when they don’t deserve one square foot of it.
And without a fight for that matter. That’s “treason". Not to mention gutless.

Damn good gesture from our President that won him a lot of respect from Southerners and not just those of us who voted for him this time. Those who will vote for him next time too.
Those are still our family buried in that cemetery. If anyone doesn’t like it, fuck you. There’s nothing you can do about it anyway.

Thanx, Barack. Greatly appreciated. Peace and Love to you and yours too.

Today we honor the fallen among our comrades. Those who gave their lives, for whatever reason, while answering the call to duty for country and people.

Trouble is, a day of remembrance is not enough.

In order to honor the soldiers and other military personnel who made the ultimate sacrifice, we must also consider if the call to duty came from true and just lips. We must consider if those civilians who ordered our people into war did so with caution and with the best interests of our country in mind. With each and every sacred life of each and every mother’s son or daughter firmly in heart.
If we find that our fallen heroes were abused in any way, misled or lied to as to the reasons for sending them into harm’s way, we need to make sure that such a crime will never be forgotten and that those responsible face the retribution they so richly deserve.

Some were sent to their graves to protect America or someone else, some sent simply believing they were.
But they went and didn’t ask why.

For that reason we love them and owe them the hides of the appointed War Criminals who sacrificed them for greed, fear, and ignorance.

Oh….this is soooo much fun. Just when we’re putting the finishing touches on the Republican party’s corpse, and getting so much help from people like Limbaugh, Cheney, Palin, Boner (or whatever the Repig congressman’s name is) with driving the nails into the pressboard crate….we now have yet another principality of perdition to rely upon. RNC wounded knee, Michael Steele.

Never have Democrats had it so good. With the GOP looking deader than Elvis and a steady stream of progressive ideas and legislation coming from the majority, it’s nice to know that we have Michael Steele to help shovel dirt over the nightmare.

I can’t stop laughing, seriously. This is gut-busting hilarity.

Michael Steele decided to stand up and give a fiery motivational speech at a recent RNC pep-rally.
And as one would expect from the typical Republican sock puppet, the dialect is swarming with choice tidbits of asshattery that would make the writers of Breaking Bad drool with envy.

Let’s examine the lyrics of this veritable fountain of Kool-Aid that the ghost of the RNC calls “chairman"….

From The Washington Post:

By Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Seeking to reassert himself as a party leader, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele yesterday implored GOP members to stop “navel-gazing” and sharply attack President Obama.

His early tenure marred by a series of gaffes, Steele continued a recent re-emergence into the public fray, declaring Obama’s first several months “a reign of error” in a speech to RNC members, and adding that the Republican “renaissance has begun.”

“We’ve seen strategists writing memos and doing briefings urging that Republicans avoid confronting the president,” Steele said in remarks at a convention center at National Harbor in Prince George’s County. “If we have the courage of our convictions, and we do, then we will and we must stand up against disastrous policies, regardless of the president’s popularity.”

It was Steele’s most high-profile speech since a series of controversies left him apologizing to talk show host Rush Limbaugh and assuring Republicans he would reduce his number of mistakes as well as his number of television appearances.

“a reign of error"? What “error"?
The only error Obama has made that I can see is he continues wasting time trying to reach out to the spiritually, intellectually and morally dead.
I guess Mr. Steele decided specifics weren’t necessary. Considering his audience, he’s probably right.

“the Republican renaissance has begun."?

Sorry, Mikey. But in case you didn’t notice, a vast majority of the American people gave the Mother of all Fuckers a much needed abortion.
No renaissance for you.

“the era of Republican navel gazing is over.”

Nothing like a little Omphaloskepsis to enhance the vibrancy of the inner self.
But….but….Mikey.
Self absorption is what you people are. It’s all you are. That’s what it takes to become a Republican to begin with. To be so focused on one’s self that things like human rights, civil rights, the lives of our soldiers, the health of Americans, our economic stability and our dignity as a nation can be cast aside without a second glance is the blueprint of the Republican psyche.
You are this, and nothing more.
If Republicans weren’t “navel gazing” they wouldn’t know what to do with themselves. And it’s true! Just look at the way they always whine about our tax dollars being “theirs". “MY tax dollars are being spent!". “I don’t want MY tax dollars helping children stay healthy"….

(Vomit)

So, Mikey. What do you suggest the party focus on? Burying their face between Rush Limbaugh’s ass cheeks the way you did when your masters made you apologize to him?
“Focus"? One orifice is as good as another, right?
On your knees, beyotch! Bow to RushBo the Great (big, stanky tub of shit.)

Oh, Mikey. Thank you.
Thank you from the bottom of my bowels for being every bit the idiot that your fellows are. Thank you for being the quintessential Republican of the 21st Century.

Out of touch, out of style, out of time.

Rest in Pieces, GOP.

Michael Steele Quote of the Week:
“Now all of a sudden I’ve got someone who wasn’t a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as a spouse that I now have financial responsibility for,” Steele said at the Georgia Republicans’ convention. “So how do I pay for that? Who pays for that? You just cost me money.”

Nice day. I’ll keep this as brief as possible so I can get back to sunning myself and smokin’ a doobie the size of Dick Cheney’s blood pressure reading.

Ward Cammack, Tennessee Goobernatorial candidate, has his very own website now! Gee, guys…I’ve had mine for twelve years. Nice to see you join the 21st Century. If only for a moment.

Oh, you’d love my site, Ward.
My site contains an aspect that I consider important to political credibility.

My consistent views.

To be scrutinized at the behest of friend and foe alike.
Nothing hidden, not a lot of ambiguity. You know right where captainkona stands on virtually all issues. You can identify an inconsistency, accuse me of a lie or demand an explanation or clarification and I will answer, personally. Not through a spokesperson nor generic “statement” nor proxy of any kind.
Every candidate I’ve ever supported or voted for. Every endorsement. I’d be proud to show you where our donations come from, but there’s a problem. We don’t ask for them and have never accepted one.

So we wonder. Will Cammack, Republican-recently-turned-Democrat-maybe, make his site a place of answers and clarity, or will it follow his presence at TNDP.org (Tennessee Democratic Party) which indicates very clearly that Mr. Cammack is just afraid to be faced with questions that aren’t screened. Questions about his Deep Red Republicanism and how he managed to do a complete changeover to Liberalism in no time flat.
At the TNDP site, of which I am a member, Ward Cammack’s mouthpiece, Mark Brown, has his own blog space as I do mine.
I’ve asked many simple questions of Mr. Cammack and made numerous challenges to his political loyalty, his past as a Bush Republican, and his campaign funding.
Mr. Cammack has run, albeit vicariously through Mr. Brown, from every one of them. Not one challenge to any criticism I’ve leveled. Though he seems happy to grant interviews to bloggers who think they’re journalists for some reason and throw him softball after softball.
Mr. Brownie even deleted my comments from his blog at TNDP which is very telling. Delete hard questions instead of answering them or at least attempting to? That’s just not the stuff Governors are supposed to be made of. In fact, that’s exactly the stuff Republican politicians are made of.

The questions are legitimate. Not loaded or obscure.
I asked who Mr. Cammack voted for in the 2004 presidential elections. No answer.
I voted for John Kerry. See? That’s not so hard.

Some of Cammack’s pre-primary money has come from pure, jackal-blooded NeoCons. The question arises, why would individuals who have voted strictly Repig in the past support Cammack now? Especially with his Leftist-sounding lyrics.
Staunch BushBots do not support progressive agendas. So why would they be the first to contribute significant sums to his campaign?

I guess with all of the secrecy surround Mr. Cammack there are only two more questions at the moment….

1) Did Cammack have a web site built to hide behind?

2) Will Cammack find the cojonies to be as forthright and candid as a third rate blogger in the mountains of Tennessee?

It’s not looking too good, Bullwinkle.

Tune in next week where we’ll hear Ward Cammack say…"I think you’re doing a great job, Brownie".

Better keep one eye on Ward Cammack, TN Dems. Thus far I see no reason to trust him. A contest between Ron Ramsey and Ward Cammack may be a win-win situation for the Right Wing. I bet they’d like that right about now.

TO BE CONTINUED……

The single most prolific traitor in America today, former and failed Vice President Cheney, Dick, has decided to embark upon some sort of self-defensive tour de farce in an effort to accomplish something as yet unknown. Even to him, it appears.

Whining? Obviously. “because his heart is in it” as his skank daughter proclaims? What heart?
Perhaps in defense of his dismal position in the history books?
Kinda hard to tell at this point, but I do know this…

…I don’t give a flying, brightly feathered fuck what his motivation is.

My main problem is the media giving a known and admitted traitor press in any way, shape or form unless it’s some amusing footage of him being run over by a bush hog.

Perhaps Cheney, Dick, actually envisions himself as savior of the now defunct Republican party. Odd. Seems even the Republican party has a difference of opinion…

From USN:

GOP Strategists to Cheney: Enough, Already.

Some are concerned Cheney will be seen as the spokesman for the party…

By Kenneth T. Walsh
Posted May 13, 2009

Enough, already. That’s the reaction of many Republicans to Dick Cheney’s surge of media appearances to defend the Bush administration, especially on national security issues. “I don’t think anybody would call him and say, ‘Shut up.’ It wouldn’t work,” says a GOP strategist who formerly advised Ronald Reagan. “He obviously feels that his work as vice president is under attack. But he is not our best spokesman.” The concern among Republican strategists is that the public will think Cheney is speaking for the GOP, and this won’t be helpful because the former vice president remains an unpopular figure across the country. Another prominent GOP strategist says Cheney should lower his visibility and give younger party leaders a chance to take the spotlight.

Heh, when the biggest dolts in the country tell you to you’re too unpopular to speak for them you’ve really hit that level somewhere between silt and whale shit.
But Cheney pushes on, rambling nonsensically about how he approved and still approves of torture and how effective it was in “keeping America safe".
Well, now we find that Cheney, Dick, is once again a proven pathological liar.

Ali Soufan. Former long time FBI counter-terrorism agent and interrogation specialist, who personally interrogated Al Qaida operative Abu Zubaydah, has exposed and debunked Cheney’s pathetic frothings, before a Senate panel, in clear and credible terms…

From The Associated Press:

…He said former Vice President Dick Cheney has suggested there was valuable information obtained from the extreme methods. “I would like the committee to get that information. Let’s get both sides of the story here,” Graham said.

Soufan countered that his personal experience showed that the harsh interrogation techniques didn’t work even when there wasn’t a lot of time to prevent an attack.

“Waiting 180 hours as part of the sleep deprivation stage is time we cannot afford to wait in a ticking bomb scenario,” he said.

Soufan said the harsh techniques were “ineffective, slow and unreliable and, as a result, harmful to our efforts to defeat al-Qaida.”

Soufan testified that “many of the claims made” by the Bush administration were inaccurate or half-truths.

He cited these examples:

_The administration said Abu Zubaydah wasn’t cooperating before Aug. 1, 2002, when waterboarding was approved. “The truth is that we got actionable intelligence from him in the first hour of interrogating him” before that date.

_The administration credited waterboarding for Zubaydah’s information that led to the capture of Padilla, who received a 17-year, four-month sentence, although prosecutors did not present any dirty-bomb information. Padilla was arrested in May 2002, months before waterboarding was authorized, Soufan said.

_Bush officials contended that waterboarding revealed the involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks of al-Qaida mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Soufan said the information was discovered in April 2002, months before waterboarding was introduced.

Dick Cheney, you’re a punk. You’re a traitor and a disgrace to your country and people.
Your family disgusts me equally because they’re the same kind of vermin you are.
You’re a draft-dodging coward, Mr. former-and-failed VP. You’re such the lilly-livered chickenshit you even make Ted Nugent look like a man.

Let’s conduct a brief synopses of your failed life, Dick…

1) Former Nixon butt-boy who somehow managed to avoid going to jail along with everyone else.

2) Appointed George Bush’s puppet master and ascended to the White House via massive vote fraud.

3) Eight months later America was attacked for the first time since Pearl Harbor.

4) A “Bin Laden” tape every week or so…

5) A pack of fabricated evidence leads us to Iraq and well over 4000 of our troops are killed along with nearly one Million people who did absolutely nothing to deserve it.

6) The identity of Valerie Plame Wilson is made public by the VP, which is factually treason, and Scooter Libby goes to prison in a related trial.

7) The country loses allies and gains enemies dramatically.

8) New Orleans is abandoned by the gov’t in it’s hour of great need.

9) Billions of tax dollars doled out to Cheney-favored companies who gave nothing in return.

10) The Taliban became stronger.

11) The dollar became weaker.

12) The economy collapsed.

etc. etc.

Yeah, that’s the reality in this. A failed political entity (twice), Cheney, Dick, just can’t accept the fact that his historical papers will be filed in the same box as Adolph Hitler, Mao Tse-tung, Pol Pot and Augustus Pinochet.
But hey, keep talking, Dick. Every time you open your pathetic, chickenhawk mouth another American becomes nauseated and drawn closer to the Democratic way.
Between yourself, that mangy daughter of yours, Rush Limbaugh and Scara Palin…the future of Liberalism seems even brighter than before.

BTW, Dick.
You really don’t have any idea what a party we’re going to have when you finally roll that seven, do you? Talk about putting the fun back in funeral.
One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.
Keep that blood pressure up, Dick. I have my popcorn and snow caps ready to go.

Two time Loser

Any of these names ring a bell?

Our fellow, Vic Grider, alerts us to an interesting article concerning many of the most bigoted people in America today. All of them, according to UPI, banned from entering the nation of England basically for being the depraved, yellow-bellied shit they truly are.

From UPI:

Britain bans 22 for promoting hate, terror
Published: May 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM

LONDON, May 5 (UPI) – A right-wing radio broadcaster and a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard were among the U.S. citizens banned from Britain, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said.

Michael Weiner, who uses the name Michael Savage on the radio, and Stephen “Don” Black, a former KKK grand wizard, were among 22 people banned from Britain Monday until March 2010 under a law that excludes foreigners who espouse hatred and violence, The Times of London reported Tuesday.

“Coming to this country is a privilege,” Smith said. “We won’t allow people into this country who are going to propagate the sort of views … that fundamentally go against our values.”

The list also includes Yunis al-Astal, a Hamas leader; Erich Gliebe, the leader of a U.S. neo-Nazi group; Mike Guzovsky, a Jewish extremist and Fred Waldron Phelps and his daughter, Shirley Phelps.

Phelps, an American Baptist pastor, and his daughter were barred for their homophobic views, Smith said.

Yeppers. A virtual who’s who of sub-humanity.
Including but not limited to Right Wing Coward Radio Personality, Michael “Savage” Weiner. One of the Mullahs who inspired Conservative Terrorist, James Adkisson, to commit the murder of church goers in Knoxville Tennessee.

Then, there is the Phelps family. Yes, Fred Phelps and his sex toy/daughter Shirley Phelps.
The same Phelps brood that travel funeral to funeral tormenting the families of our fallen soldiers.

We finally have these filth on the run. And the sooner we finish them off the better. Like so many cockroaches, the likes of Savage, Phelps and the rest of their ilk must be crushed beneath the soles of our collective foot.

They give no quarter. None must be extended to them.

Additional refrence: CSM

We said Holder was a bad choice to run the Justice Department from the moment he was chosen. First, he lied through his teeth about stopping Federal raids on Marijuana Co-Ops, now he has knowingly and willing allowed pro-Israel traitors to go unpunished.

This action is unacceptable and unforgivable.

AIPAC. American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Aka, Israel’s spy agency in America.

Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman. Zionist Jew, Israel-First traitors who are deserving of the most extreme punishment under law, will now go free due to the Israeli influence in our government.
These sub-humans have endangered the safety of our nation and our people. They are as much an enemy as Al Qaida. In fact, more so. Because they are here, in America, and will continue to undermine our national security which is the sole function of AIPAC and all who are involved with it.

Now, with Rosen and Weissman off the hook, two questions remain…

1) Who passed them the sensitive information in the first place?

And

2) What did Rep. Jane Harman D-California (and Jewish) have to do with it?

Justice has not been served. In fact, it has been ground into the dirt by a Justice Department that thus far, is little different from that of the Bush era under war criminal, Alberto Gonzales.

AG Holder, certain Congressional Reps, and even Barack himself have cowered in the face of AIPAC and the Terrorist State of Israel. The time for putting up with this treasonous activity must come to an end.
America has no greater enemy than Israel. The Talmud it’s self proclaims all non-Jewish people to be “beasts of burden” for the good of Zion.
This is where their racism and deceitful actions are born.
These fully-referenced quotes from the Talmud illustrate the contemptuous attitude of the Zionist toward all mankind:

“The Non-Jews have been created to serve the Jews as slaves.” - (Midrasch Talpioth 225)

“Just the Jews are humans, the Non-Jews are no humans, but cattle.” (goyim – human cattle) – (Kerithuth 6b page 78, Jebhammoth 61a)

“As you replace lost cows and donkeys, so you shall replace dead Non-Jews.” – (Iore Dea 337,1)

Beasts of burden indeed. But only willingly.
Will the US leadership ever evolve the fortitude to sever the hand of Zion that holds us in it’s grasp? That remains to be seen.
If they do not, the people will be forced to.

During the darkness of the Bush/Repig majority era, there was a light. Dim as it may have been, light just the same.

Republican Senator Arlen Specter of PA. The one and only Republican who tried to work with the Democratic minority all those years. His friendship with Pat Leahy of VT was public and consistent. Specter chastised his own party numerous times for shutting out the Democratic voice.
Now, Mr. Specter IS a Democrat.

Arlen Specter has switched parties in a move that absolutely sends shock and awe through the ranks of an already reeling and destitute Republican party.

From the BBC:

Mr Specter, 79, had held secret talks with Mr Obama, along with other senior Democrats including Vice-President Joe Biden, ahead of his decision to leave the Republican Party, according to officials.

The BBC’s Richard Lister in Washington says the news has sent shockwaves through Capitol Hill, where the president’s power has been blunted by the votes of Senate Republicans.

The move should make it easier for Mr Obama to pursue his ambitious agenda, our correspondent adds.

Mr Specter was facing a tough challenge from conservative Pat Toomey, in a primary election to decide who would run as the Republican candidate for Mr Specter’s Pennsylvania senate seat in 2010.

Polls suggested that Mr Specter’s decision to vote for the president’s economic stimulus package earlier this year had been unpopular with Republican activists in the state.

“I saw the stimulus as necessary to lessen the risk of a far more serious recession than we are now experiencing,” Mr Specter said.

Since then, he added, “it has become clear to me that the stimulus vote caused a schism which makes our differences irreconcilable".

Now, with Al Franken, the Senator Elect for MN, adding a 60th voice to Specter’s 59th and Biden as the tie breaker. We now have the lube we need to hopefully, fully pass the agenda and put this nation on the right course.
Senator Specter, a Moderate, is still far too Right Leaning for us. But if he’s true to his words, he’ll vote with the majority and embrace the people oriented politics that have taken control of the country’s path.

Residuals?

Joe Lieberman just became obsolete.
We haven’t forgotten you, Joe.

So, welcome Senator Specter into the fold and give him a chance to prove just how “Democratic” he thinks he is.
Embrace him with open arms. Because if he fucks us, we’ll use those same arms to squeeze the political life out of him. We’re all he has now.

Sen. Pat Leahy D-VT and Sen. Arlen Specter D-PA

It only makes sense that one of the few Democratic Senators with any semblance of courage would have the cohonies to speak the truth and speak it freely.

Yep, speaking strength to cowardice is often futile, but this time the language comes in a clear wrapper and 100% uncensored.

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), famed soldier and feared Senator, has always held justice and corrections reform high on his list of priorities. Sen. Webb has come forth to state, in no uncertain terms, that the legalization of drugs, yes, outright legalization, should not be overlooked as one of the possible cures for our rampant judicial system problems.
Indeed, it’s the foremost aggrivating factor as far as irresponsible incarceration is concerned. People simply don’t deserve to be relieved of precious freedom for getting high. That’s all there is to it.

The simple fact is that good people… hard working, honest Americans are languishing in jails and prisons for merely possessing or selling small amounts of drugs.
Meanwhile, our pedophiles, murderers, thieves and other various and assorted vermin walk free. Why? Because drug offenders are the most politically expedient of “law” violators.
“Drugs” have been blamed for the evil that men do for decades now. So jailing the druggies is always the political stepping stone De Jour. Make the public think that if we’re fighting drugs we’re fighting all crime….

Bullshit.

People do drugs, drugs don’t do people. Control and regulation is wisdom because it takes the crime (money) out of the issue, empties our prisons for more deserving residents, and insures safer druggage and safer environments in which to indulge.

Heroin addicts are safer in a clinical environment than a shooting gallery any day.

The fact is, the US has more people in prison (or systematized) than any other nation on earth. The majority of those incarcerated are in for drug related, non-violent crimes.
The sheer stupidity involved in this nation’s handling of the drug issue is almost beyond comprehension.
Most politicians know these facts. Trouble is, they’re too cowardly to tackle “controversial” issues. Least of all the most controversial issue of our time.

From a fine article by Michael O’Brien at The Hill:

April 23, 2009
Webb: Pot legalization ‘on the table’ in prison reform effort
@ 10:24 am by Michael O’Brien

The leader of a congressional effort to reform the criminal justice system said Thursday that all issues — including drug legalization — need to be on the table.

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), who has made criminal justice and prison reform a signature issue of his this year in Congress, is the most high-profile lawmaker to indicate openness to drug decriminalization or outright legalization.

“Well, I think what we need to do is to put all of the issues on the table,” Webb said this morning on CNN if asked if marijuana legalization would be part of his criminal justice reform efforts.

“If you go back to 1980 as a starting point, I think we had 40,000 people in prison on drug charges, and today, we have about 500,000 of them,” the first-term Virginia lawmaker said. “And the great majority of those are nonviolent crimes — possession crimes or minor sales.”

Webb joins several other lawmakers who have called for the exploration of legalized pot, amidst a drug war in Mexico fueled by revenues from American drug sales.

“I think they should examine every aspect of drugs policy to see what’s working and what’s not working, and where the consistencies are and, quite frankly, where the inconsistencies are in terms of how people end up in the system with similar activities,” Webb explained, reiterating his call for a high-level blue ribbon commission to reform the criminal justice system.

“Nothing should be off the table,” he said.

Thanx, Big Jim. There are good people sitting in cells missing their families and not contributing to society that will appreciate the love.
I know I do.

A strong voice in the wilderness. Imagine that.

Hi, Democrats. Can you say “backbone"? Sure, I knew you could.

Just wanted to chime in.

We support , Margaret Feierabend and David Shumaker.

Both of these fine citizens have worked hard to support and develop commerce in the city while being as careful as possible to preserve our fragile environment.

There is no reason, other than Republican greed, to vote otherwise. If you love Bristol, you will vote accordingly.

That is all, carry on.

UPDATE:

I decided I needed to add more to this…

People, Bristol, TN is a beautiful place. Small, easy going city that’s far enough away from the freeway to limit the number of miscreants that tend to follow the system.

Not perfect, but I know what shit for a city looks like and it ain’t pretty.
I’ve lived in Houston, LA, Orlando…
What’s been done to some of the most beautiful areas of the nation in the name of “development” is nothing short of sin. There’s a balance that must be observed between progress and nature. Cities that have disregarded the necessity of natural surroundings have paid the price.
Houston is an arm pit. They mowed down everything and now even the weather has changed there. Hotter due to the excessive concrete.
Dirty, smoggy, crime riddled….

If you don’t appreciate the aesthetic value of communities like ours you’ve never been anywhere to see the damage.

There is an element in Bristol that aims to over-develop the area. That element has been trying, once successfully, to install it’s minions into the city council for their own personal gain. That wouldn’t be such a big deal if not for the fact that their gain equals the decimation of our local environment. It does.
Not enough evidence to name names. But they’re there.
Feierabend and Shumaker know who they are.
That’s why we strongly suggest supporting them when you vote if you haven’t already.

The threat is real. If you’ve ever been to Houston you know exactly what I mean.

Today is our day. Today is the day we reflect on those who have suffered and died because of those who oppose Marijuana.
Those who have died for lack of medication, those who have died while anti-Marijuana laws, and those who support them, make drug cartels richer and more powerful.

We remember this day those who languish in jails and prisons for no reason whatsoever and those who lay in sickness as we speak without access to the medication that relieves their suffering. Those who are persecuted for daring to change things for the better.
Those who are murdered in cold blood in the name of “Drug Intervention” and those who are cannon fodder for merely possessing Marijuana.
LINK

We are tens of millions in America. Hundreds of millions throughout the world. Today is the day we renew our resolve to continue the fight for our rights and our well being.

If you have not yet taken a stand for Marijuana in your life, today’s a damn good day to start.

We at TN420 salute all those of our culture as well as those who do not indulge or need, yet help us anyway just because it’s the right thing to do.

We love you all.
Peace!

So much stupidity, so little time.

Obama Defends Meeting Hugo Chavez:

It’s sad testimony to this country that Obama would feel he has to “defend” his decision to meet with the great leader of Venezuela. Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada took exception to Barack’s comradery with Chavez.
Which states very clearly just what an asshat Ensign is.
Nobody cares what you think, Senator Ensign. That’s why you’re a member of the VAST MINORITY in this government.

I enjoyed seeing two great leaders like Obama and Chavez getting along well and in this instance, the egg was on Chavez’s face.
Chavez, in the past, referred to George Bush as “the Devil". Maybe not, but damn close. Cheney would be the more deserving recipient of synonymy with Satan.
But I can dig it.

Chavez also referred to Obama as an “imbecile". Obama’s campaign remarks about Chavez “exporting terrorism” were exactly that, imbecilic.
But Obama, in his un-Bush-like wisdom, took the high road, shook it off and remedied the problem.
He propagated mutual understanding.
Chavez knows now that it was political rhetoric and I’d bet my left nut he gave Barack a sincere apology even if the media won’t say so.

You want to be free of Arab oil? Embrace old friends.
I’d rather see Obama hugging Chavez than Bush coddling the Bin Laden’s any day.

Good job, Mr. President.

GOP to Obama: America is Less Safe.

Obama to GOP: Yo Mamma.

Former GOP Rep. Dick Armey, the Neo-Con traitor who also happens to be the organizer of these “Tea Party” circuses, has a problem with Obama releasing memos about torture.

Well, fuck you, Dick.
The word of traitor carries no authority. And all Neo-Cons are traitors.
Armey was the rube who was stupid enough to believe Cheney, another Dick, when the VP told him that “Iraq was inventing miniature Nuclear weapons".

There are few dumber in the annals of American Representatives than the clown from the most pathetic district in Texas (26th).

Which reminds me….

Tea Party? I’ve got your Tea Party swinging you bunch of intellectually challenged, backassward, sexually frustrated fucktards.

Have you seen the pictures of some of these turdlets floating around these Tea Parties? The biggest collection of Fourth Grade American History flunkies in history.
As my good friend, Tim Valentine, so aptly put it. The Boston Tea Party was about Taxation Without Representation. Not about whining about paying taxes.
These low to no intellect humanoid losers can’t even get their elementary school history right. They have elected officials, in my area all of them Republicans. You are “represented” you blithering idiots.
Not only that, morons, but most of you that attended these Tea Parties are amongst the 95% of Americans who will be receiving, listen closely, TAX CUTS.
I saw people on social security who will be getting bigger checks because of Barack Obama wandering around in some sort of haze, or daze, or whatever, completely and totally oblivious to why they were there in the first place.

How funny, how unmercifully hilarious.
It’s clear Republican voters don’t need Rush Limpballs to make them look stupid. They do just fine by themselves.

My view? Dump the Republicans in the harbor and make a nice, piping hot cup of tea.

Thanx again for the unbridled asshattery, Republicans.
Keep up the good work. Every time you do something this asinine, the Left gets that much closer to four more years.

Heh, how fucking cool this is.
The largest annual shindig the White House has and the President does it in style.

Is there writing on the wall there for all to see? Maybe. Fills me with hope, no doubt about that.

Garance Franke-Ruta at the Washington Post brings us a story of hope on a beautiful Easter Sunday.

You gotta love it. As I looked at the picture below my first feeling was one of being creeped out buy a rabbit that rivals the Burger King and Dick Cheney for unabashed ewwww.
But then it dawned on me like the first rays of the new rising sun. Barack had gone psychedelic. It’s about time.

Alice is missing her rabbit

Obama invited the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland and Ziggy Marley to the Egg Roll.
I realize those are Tulips growing in front, but couldn’t we just say they’re Poppies for now? I don’t want to abandon this great view of the event quite yet.

Now, who knows what that freaky bunny had to say or how many kids it traumatized, but Ziggy at the White House draws the crystal clear conclusion that legalizing Marijuana, at some point, became a topic of discussion.
Ziggy, like his great father, is an unyielding proponent of ending prohibition and would not allow the opportunity to escape him. They talked about it. You know they did.
And with all those brightly colored eggs and lush green grass. The kids in their colorful Easter raiment…. the setting was perfect for the discussion.

Wish I’d been there. A bag of shrooms and a couple of joints and that would have been an event to remember.

Ziggy Marley at a White House function. It’s getting better. I don’t care what anyone says.

Need a bong load asap….

Centrism is a disease. It is a form of political self-immolation that has cost the party a great deal of credibility both nationally and locally. The Democratic “Center” exists for one purpose and one purpose only, to uplift and pander to the Republican party and other Right Wing entities.

Some will suggest that in a state so full of Right Wing and Right-Leaning voters that it’s necessary to practice “pragmatism” and embrace those who seek to harm the State of Tennessee and her people.
There is no truth to this. Voters vote Right because the “Center” displays weakness and confusion.
The Democratic party has become weak in the eyes of Tennessee voters because of our seeming lack of ability to take a principled stand and fight, tooth and nail, to implement that stand.
“Pragmatist” is just another word for coward.
How can we claim to offer a better way when we consistently and predictably seek to appease those we spend our money and resources lambasting for the errors of their ways? Centrism is a hypocrisy that tells the people of this state that “Democrats only stand firm while campaigning". But once the campaign is over, with it’s hyperbole and aggressive message of “they’re bad and we’re good", for some untold reason we embark upon some sort of Idiot Outreach Program and betray the very principals we ran on.
This confusing and weak-kneed feel-sorry-for-Righty behavior must stop if we are to ever appeal to those searching for steadfast resolve in their choice of political leadership.

A shining example of this type of political fellatio can be seen in Democrats such as Harold Ford Jr.
When Ford, one of the most prolific Centrist Jellyspines in Tennessee politics, ran against Bob Corker, Ford completely and totally abandoned his natural base and attempted to pander to Corker’s constituency. The results were epic failure as Ford saw his base abandon him at the voting booths. Myself included.
You build a dedicated base by standing up for the principals that base stands for. New voters and those disenchanted with Republican politics will be attracted to strong, unwavering leadership.
Instead, they are treated to an essay in flip-flopping which makes the TNDP seem insincere in it’s convictions.

Tennessee voters don’t want a Democratic party that acts like the Republican party. They want a Democratic party that is strong, firm, and takes no shit from the Right Wing fringe.

The people of the state of Tennessee want lucrative jobs. We want universal health care, an end to the abuse of our environment, an end to the influence of religious extremists and greed-laden corporate entities. We want Medical Marijuana, small business opportunity and freedom of choice and equal rights for our women and our minorities.
Democratic Centrists enable all the ills we want to remedy.
People like Harold Ford Jr., Jim Cooper, Gordon, Tanner…These people are not on our side and their actions and voting records often reflect that. Jim Cooper has done all he can to oppose our President’s implementation of our agenda. Harold Ford Jr. has stood firmly against Liberal/Progressive interests his entire career.
We do not need these Right-Leaning Democraps. We need candidates who will plant both boots firmly in the Republican candidate’s asses and do the Moon Walk. The future of the TNDP lies in the youth of this state and our ability to make them see that our way is truly the best way. Green, freedom loving, honest, responsible. That is the vision of future Democrats. If the party does not share that vision we will fail.

As we speak the TNDP is in danger of monumental failure once again. One of our candidates for Governor is one Ward Cammack. Are we really going to run a candidate that has contributed funds to the likes of Lamar Alexander and Bill Frist?….

From Klienheider:
“In 1994, the year of the Republican Revolution, Cammack gave extensively to both Bill Frist and Fred Thompson who were victorious in grabbing both of Tennessee’s U.S. Senate seats that year.

Cammack also gave heavily to Lamar Alexander contributing to both his Presidential run in 1996 as well as his initial 2002 Senate run.”

This is the kind of political face-plant the TNDP has no choice but to avoid if we are to gain any credibility amongst new voters especially the youth that comprises our future. Cammack is a joke and is wholly unacceptable as a candidate regardless of the consequences. No such back-stabber should ever even be considered for any political office with Democratic support.
It’s got to stop.

If we intend to build the Democratic party in Tennessee, it will require us to seek out, educate, and endear ourselves to NEW voters. Trying to out Republican the Republicans will not accomplish that goal. It will only make Republicans look better.
New voters want to see conviction and resolve. Strength impresses, weakness repulses.
The Democratic party’s strength is found on the Left, it’s weakness, in the “Center". Before we can find our strength we must find and groom candidates to replace our weak links.
Strong Progressives who will not bend knee to those who wish to harm our state. Only then will we be able to lift Tennessee out of the dark ages and into the light.

I hate seeing normally good bloggers do electronic face-plants, but David Sirota kinda crossed the line and I have no choice but to examine his lyrics.

Thanx to our collegue, S-townMike at Enclave, for bringing this to our attention.

I have no problem with Dave Sirota. But neither do I have a problem with challenging obscure, if not obtuse rhetoric about our President.

David Sirota, a very good blogger at the “Our Future” Organization, decided to level an attack on President Obama over the Auto Industry Bailout and his not-so-great choice for overlord of the action, Steve Rattner, that contained uncharacteristically absurd accusations.
Granted, Steve Rattner is a corporate-whore punk. But the Sirota article was an attack on Obama, not Rattner.

Sirota went off into wingnut land and we can’t have GOP type fantasy attacks against the President unless they’re based on fact.

His rant assumes that Obama’s appointee (Rattner) will be able to act on his own and has an agenda of destroying the UAW (United Auto Workers). Steve Rattner will do what the President tells him to do and nothing else.

First, Sirota cites the Wall Street Journal. A Rupert Murdoch tabloid.
Basically FOX News in print.
Not that the physical facts involved aren’t correct, but the assumptions and assertions are unrealistic.
Funny how Sirota constantly attacks Wall Street big shots yet draws conclusions from their own News Rag.
That’s not good credibility, nor is childish references to movie characters like Gordon Gekko.

….It was a movie for chrissake.

The UAW supported Obama for a reason.
LINK

Ask yourself, why would Obama alienate one of his strongest voting blocks by seeking to destroy them? If Rattner attempted to “crush” the UAW, Obama would be disowned by ALL unions and much of his voter and money base.
Hey, it could be a problem. Sirota could be right.
But in order for him to be right, Obama would have to have already ruled out running again in 2012. I don’t see that as being the case.

The union has made concessions in the past and they know they will have to make more due to the fact that we’re dealing with a global economic crises. Not because someone is trying to fuck them. Obama will (should) insure that the UAW make fewer concessions than anyone else, but that’s how this game is played. Concessions. And there is such a thing as temporary concessions.
The objective is to keep the companies afloat, fix them, make them profitable again and give people back their jobs and then some.
The company goes down, the jobs go with it. The union knows this and they know the difference (hopefully) between necessary concession and being abused by the greedy.

“DETROIT – President Barack Obama’s recovery plan for General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC appears to take aim at union retirees,”

They used the word “appears” because they don’t know. That’s ok, they worded it right. Just pointing it out.

“As the Wall Street Journal reports, Rattner’s strategy is to use the government’s leverage to try to specifically crush auto workers and force them to accept even more contract concessions than they’ve already agreed to”

Firstly, since when does the WSJ care about unions enough to uncover such a dastardly plot and warn the world?
Did anyone stop to think that the President may not allow Rattner to have a “strategy” other than his own? Was Barack going assign Rattner and just forget about it?
Please…

Secondly…
What “leverage” is this that will be deployed against one of Barack’s strongest political allies? This I gotta see. Just the run-of-the-mill “leverage” or some special, never before seen mega-leverage with the kung fu grip?
Must be the latter because it’s going to “crush auto workers".
I’m sorry, but I think the “auto workers” would take exception to such an effort. Being “crushed” is such a drag.
“Force them to accept"? Sirota doesn’t know the average union member.
They will accept concessions if it’s necessary and won’t be “crushed” or “forced” to do anything.
Whatever the proposal, the union body will vote on it. If it amounts to “crush", they will vote it down.
Fact is, the only thing that’s going to “crush” auto workers is not having an industry to work in. That’s why it has to be salvaged. And that will take a lot of money and a lot of concessions on all sides.

Barack Obama is not Ronald Reagan as Mr. Sirota would have us believe, nor is he George Bush or any other such piece of shit. And until I see a “crushed” UAW these accusations against the President are simply chin music and nothing more. The UAW will let us know if the President fails to keep the promises he made to them to win their support away from Clinton and McCain.

None of Sirota’s assertions concerning the President “wanting to crush unions” make any sense whatsoever. At least not at this time.
Again, unless Barack Obama has decided not to run in 2012, he will protect the UAW and honor his pledge to support American labor.

- captainkona

Evan Bayh is a Republican-Lite punk and that’s all he has ever been. The vast majority of Democrats have known this for a long time.

His pathetic attempt to run in the Democratic primary recently is all the evidence needed to illustrate the fact that he appeals only to Republicans. Not to mention the fact that since Obama won Indiana in spite of Bayh’s support for Hillary, Bayh’s influence amongst his own constituency seems rather weak also.
Still, Byah, a Clintonista Pig who opposed Barack Obama in the primary, is now organizing a small coalition of his fellow Blue Dogshit DLC Jellyspines in hopes of opposing our President’s implementation of the majority’s agenda.
Obstructionist politics in our own party? Yep, and we have to do something about it.

We say, fuck Sen. Evan Bayh and everyone involved with him.

It’s clear what’s being done. The followers of the Bush/Clinton dynasty are gearing up to sabotage our President in the 2012 Primary and/or elections.
Evan Bayh is a traitor, it’s as simple as that.

Rachel Maddow has the story at msnbc as she makes the traitor, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, look like the fool that she is.

These “Bush Dogs” can spin it anyway they want, they’re traitors and that fact is clear. One thing that may not be clear is who is ultimately behind this farcical group.
Evan Bayh is the face, but the names involved make things ever more clear…
They are:
Evan Bayh (D-IN)
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE)
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)
Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO)
Michael Bennet (D-CO)
Mark Begich (D-AK)
Kay Hagan (D-NC)
Herb Kohl (D-WI)
Mary Landrieu (D-LA),
Joe Lieberman (I-CT) [NeoCon Pig and notorious traitor to the Democratic party]
Claire McCaskill (D-MO)
Ben Nelson (D-NE)
Bill Nelson (D-FL)
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Mark Warner (D-VA)
These members are currently attending the group’s meetings but do not wish to be “publicly identified.”
– Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-PA)
– Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
– Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR)

Joe Lieberman. We have shown you before. Why is Lieberman even there? He’s no longer a Democrat. Kind of a dead giveaway, no?
His would be the largest motivation due to the fact that he supports war, on behalf of Israel, with nations our President is now making peace with.
And of course, ultimately, it’s not difficult to surmise who is really behind the scenes pulling the strings of these sock puppets.
The Clinton Cabal will stop at nothing to embed Hillary into the White House. You can bet your last doobie Billary is the bottom line here.
Each and every member of the Bayhettes is a long time Clintonista. Every single one of them.
We’ve explained it before. More than once. The Clinton’s cannot be trusted.
No Centrist Jellyspine can be. And that’s all Evan Bayh and the Bayhettes are. Traitors, cowards, and back-stabbing liars.

This coalition of the DLC Bush Dogs must be destroyed and the next election cycle will be the perfect time to do it.
Vote them out in the primaries regardless of the consequences.

There are more reasons than just this one, but I guess this just confirms the now well known fact that Israel is indeed a terrorist state.
And now, with the NeoCon element in Israel fully in control of the Gov’t, Israel is in even more danger of destruction.
A fate that appears more and more fitting with each passing incident.

It’s no secret anymore just what filthy, yellow-bellied cowards the IDF are. They have killed Americans before. Retaliation in kind is long overdue.

Our comrade, Chris Lugo, has the story at Indy…

Friday, March 13, 2009
Peace Activist Wounded at Protest

American citizen critically injured after being shot in the head by Israeli forces in Ni’lin

Friday, 13 March 2009, Ni’lin Village: An American citizen has been critically injured in the village of Ni’lin after Israeli forces shot him in the head with a tear-gas canister.

Tristan Anderson from California USA, 37 years old, has been taken to Israeli hospital Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv. Anderson was unconscious and bleeding heavily from the nose and mouth. He sustained a large hole in the right part of his forehead where he was struck by a tear gas canister. The heavy impact from the tear gas canister being shot directly at him, from about 60 meters, also caused severe damage to his right eye, which he may lose. Tristan underwent brain surgery in which part of his right frontal lobe and shattered bone fragments were removed.

Tristan was shot by the new tear-gas canisters that can be shot up to 500m. I ran over as I saw someone had been shot, while the Israeli forces continued to fire tear-gas at us. When an ambulance came, the Israeli soldiers refused to allow the ambulance through the checkpoint just outside the village. After 5 minutes of arguing with the soldiers, the ambulance passed.

I spit on the Israeli government, it’s influence in this country and each and every Zionist Pig on this planet.
May they reap what they sow. Along with those in our country that enable them.

Rally for Tristan Anderson

The Great State of New York’s Democratic leadership has finally done it. They have finally done away with the arcane, back-assward Rockefeller Drug Laws.

Thank you, real Democrats of New York. Way to keep the ball rolling.

There is little in life more pathetic and grotesquely ignorant than the example set by the Rockefeller Drug Laws and the mentality that supports such stupidity. The RDL were born of fear and ignorance, and aptly named for the chump who forged them.
Nelson Rockefeller, as Governor of NY, staunchly supported the legislation which was adopted in 1973 and was aimed at locking up non-violent drug offenders for unbelievably long periods of time.
The penalties for selling small amounts of narcotics were equal to the penalties for second degree murder. A minimum of 15 years to life in prison, and a maximum of 25 years to life in prison.
This included Marijuana, which is factually not a narcotic.

The politics of fear and hatred prevailed and many good people had their lives needlessly thrown away.

Now, thank God, due to the efforts of activists and intelligent politicians over the span of many years, the RDL are where they belong. Dead and buried, and much like their namesake, will not be missed.

From Reuters:

NEW YORK, March 27 (Reuters) - New York state relaxed harsh Rockefeller drug laws from the 1970s that required prison sentences for nonviolent drug crimes and will let judges send addicts to treatment programs, state officials said on Friday.

Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, at an Albany news conference joined by Governor David Paterson and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, estimated this will save the state about “a quarter of a billion dollars” a year.

The governor and the legislative leaders are all Democrats, and Friday’s announcement was a breakthrough for them as years of efforts had produced only limited changes to drug laws. Until last November, the state senate was run by Republicans who repeatedly thwarted campaigns to ease the drug laws. (Reporting by Joan Gralla; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

These fine leaders have restored dignity to the State of New York and sanity to the way gettin’ high is looked at.
The ignorant ones will never understand. For the vast majority of us getting stoned is a positive, productive thing. It’s not for everyone, but the vast majority of us are more productive, better educated, and far more mellow than those who let their daily angst build up without relief.
The hypocrites will continue to get drunk while accusing people who seek easement through different means.
That’s ok. Because we’re right on the doorstep of victory in this “War on Drugs". The anti-drug movement is almost dead.
And there’s nothing the Right Wing can do about it.

Our political allies are many and growing fast. Our public and internet activism has become a powerful political lobby.
The pillars of the prohibition establishment are shaking.

….And you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

She obviously does much better when she keeps her mouth shut. Since Barack Obama made the reckless error of appointing her to the cabinet, she has only spoken a few times. Each of those times a verbal face-plant in true Clintonian fashion.

Last time was Europe, this time it’s Mexico.

It’s unbelievable that any Clinton manages to maintain a presence in American politics but much like a Staph infection, they tend to linger and dampen the rays of hope.

The Drug violence on the Mexican border is out of control. So what does Clinton do? She blames Americans for it.
Mexico, with it’s equally out of control gov’t corruption isn’t at fault? Please, Hillary. Try not to be such a blatant suck ass.

From Reuters:

By Arshad Mohammed

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An “insatiable” appetite in the United States for illegal drugs is to blame for much of the violence ripping through Mexico, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.

Clinton acknowledged the U.S. role in Mexico’s drug cartel problem as she arrived in Mexico for a two-day visit where she will discuss U.S. plans to ramp up border security with President Felipe Calderon.

A surge in drug gang killings to 6,300 last year and fears the violence could seep over the border has put Mexico’s drug war high on President Barack Obama’s agenda, after years of Mexico feeling that Washington was neglecting a joint problem.

“Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade. Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the death of police officers, soldiers and civilians,” Clinton told reporters during her flight to Mexico City.

“I feel very strongly we have a co-responsibility.”

Crushing the drug cartels, who arm themselves with smuggled U.S. weapons and leave slain rivals, sometimes beheaded, in public streets, has become the biggest test of Calderon’s presidency as the bloodshed rattles investors and tourists.

Clinton said U.S. efforts to ban drugs and prevent Americans from trying them had clearly not worked and it was unfair to blame Mexico for its drug gang problem.

Oh you gotta be fucking kidding me. This cow is every bit the idiot she was during the Democratic primary and, well, her entire life before that.

Somebody buying a bag of Mexican pot is not the reason gangs kill people, Bosnia Betty. The money involved is what they kill for.
But instead of saying the true and right things about the issue, Hillary continues, just like her pathetic, Drug Warmongering husband, to blame the user in America for the violence that the Mexican gov’t is either to corrupt or too cowardly to deal with.

No, Hillary, you skanky bag. The Drug War you and your chickenhawk kind support is the reason drug cartels have become so powerful. Through prohibition, you, your hubby, and your like-minded losers have bankrolled these cartels and stood by and watched as they became more and more powerful.
You slacked on border enforcement, perpetuated NAFTA (which kept the borders open and unchecked), and refused to allow Americans to safely grow their own weed, coca, etc so there would be no profit in cross-border drugs, you ridiculous hypocrite.

End prohibition now. That way Hillary Clinton will have to find someone other than the American people to blame for the greed of ruthless men and the sheer ineptitude of the losers who run the Mexican gov’t.

Same ol’ shit

It’s not that I’ve been slacking, it’s just that race week in Bristol is a busy time and as much as I love our visitors, they give me a serious headache.
Ever try blogging with a sledgehammer headache?
That’s why I never commented on Bush speeches, couldn’t listen to the dweeb without getting one of these.

1) Obama on Leno:

Some seem upset about Obama making that appearance. I suggest such folks take a longer look.

I don’t have a problem with it at all.
That stuffed suit, quasi-royalty image of a President should have been done away with long ago.

Obama has broken a very foolish and delusional mold. The fact that POTUS are presented as some supreme infallible being is part of what keeps politicians out of touch with common people.
Obama simply doesn’t want to become out of touch. He is, in fact, the most in touch president since Carter and even more so than he.
Would we rather he was attending some fancy banquet with ice sculptures and harp players?

The mold Obama just broke will only lead us to bigger, better, more Liberal things in the future. The door is now open for “regular guy” (or girl) to end up on top and that’s a good thing.
As of last night, the definition of looking and acting “presidential” has forever changed for the better. No more corporate-asshat looking clowns in starched suits that appear behind a podium for a few mins then vanish into thin air.
If America wanted that kind of thing we would have elected Mitt Romney.

This is “change” and it’s good. Real good.

2) Fat ass, fat ass,…wherefore art thou O’ fat ass?

Somebody must have paid Rush Limpballs a visit and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
The fattest, loudest, lyin’est mouth in the nation seems to have been rendered silent.

Good. Bloated, puss-faced gay pedophiles give me a headache too. And he’s still the GOP poster child with or without the attention.

3) Israeli Terrorism.

Israel said, in the middle of the Gaza Holocaust, that “no civilians were being targeted". We here at TN420 told you they were and as usual, we were right.
Not only targeting civilians, but killing them as a part of a strategy of turning the civilian population of Gaza against Hamas.

That’s real genius. Murder people’s children to make them hate someone other than you.

No wonder Israel is falling faster than panties at a frat party. The great Jewish minds of yore no longer exist. Just one bungling, inept, display of ignorance and terrorism after another. And now the truth is coming out.

4) Sen. Chuck (The Fuck) Grassley.

It seems the Iowa Senator is a tad vexed that our leaders have displayed the wisdom, the courage and the genuine Christian love to stop harassing Medical Marijuana dispensaries.

Well, Chuck. Fuck you and the smarmy whore that bore you. People like you are a disgrace to this nation, our people, humanity in general and Jesus Christ himself.

Some choice quotes from Sen. Fuck Grassley…

“The first rule of medicine, first do no harm, is being violated by the attorney general by his decision,”

Marijuana does not cause harm and the AG is a lawyer, not a doctor, you fucking twit.

“the new policy is counterproductive because marijuana leads to use of harder drugs.”

All applicable science has proven that statement to be patently false. You lying sack of shit.

Iowa, you did well helping push Barack to victory in the Democratic primary. Now it’s time to further aid your country by voting this miserable piece of back-assward Neanderthal fuck out of office.

5) Dick Cheney.

He said something, but it was about as important as he is.

I honestly hope this traitor gets tried for treason and war crimes one day. But I’ll settle for his ultimate demise too. Maybe his rolling of the seven will finally give the nation some closure if not a big smile.

Talk about putting the fun back in funeral.

6) AIG.

Man up, Fed. Seize all the assets of AIG. From the buildings and lands right down to the toilet paper rolls in the bathroom.
Liquidate it all, pay back the tax payers, give the rest to the employees, install a CEO, rehire the employees and never allow them to so much as write a check for lunch without gov’t approval.

Headache is gone. Thank God for Morphine.

Unfortunately, Barack Obama has dropped the ball once again when appointing officials.
This latest domestic policy face-plant could, if not handled right, have severe repercussions for Obama among his most ardent supporters.

He is Seattle Police Chief R. Gil Kerlikowske. He is also the choice for the nation’s new “Drug Czar".

Firstly, the term “Drug Czar” should have been done away with. The word “Czar” automatically conveys all things undemocratic. A title that reeks of all manner of evil as history clearly shows us.
Secondly, the ONDCP (office of national drug control policy) is an abomination of justice.
The ONDCP is a propaganda mill and absolutely nothing more or less. There is no end to the lies and dissemination of fabricated falsehood that the ONDCP, a Joe Biden manufactured mistake, is responsible for.

Now, Obama could have done much worse of course. He could have retained the lying sack of shit, John Walters, who is the present Drug Fascist…Czar…whatever.
So no doubt Kerlikowske is a step up. Question is, is the step high enough?

We doubt it. Seriously doubt it.

Picking a Seattle cop is not the problem, it’s just that the wrong Seattle cop was chosen.
Norm Stamper, also a former Seattle Chief of Police and presently an official with the great justice organization LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), would have been the perfect pick.
A man who has not and will not lie for political motives, Stamper would have brought an impressive, incident free track record and a reality based outlook to a gov’t that so desperately needs it.

What Kerlikowske will bring is uncertain at best.

From the Washington Post:

“Our nation’s drug problem is one of human suffering,” according to his prepared remarks. “As a police officer, but also in my own family, I have experienced first-hand the devastating effects that drugs can have on our youth, our families and our communities.” - Gil Kerlikowske

Blazing new trails?

When you get these guys who’s “kid has done drugs", they almost automatically revert to blaming the drug and not the person abusing it as it should always be. People abuse drugs, not the other way around.
We may all end up suffering because Kerlikowske can’t face the fact that his kid get’s high, or had a problem or is an idiot who stepped over the line or whatever.

But Barack Obama did weed and coke and who knows what else. I’ll bet there’s a hit of Micro Dot in his history somewhere.
So maybe we’ll see Obama take a firm hand and guide Gil Man down the only practical, reasonable and ultimately effective path when it comes to America and recreational drugs, Legalization.
If Obama fails in this instance, Americans, Mexicans and many others the world over will suffer the misery of the violence, incarceration, and lack of medicine that prohibition produces.

The choice could have been worse but definitely could have been much, much better. Gotta call this a FAIL! for now. But I hope I’m wrong.

Best of luck (if you pass confirmation), Gil Man.
Because if you turn into another John Walters, the same millions and millions of people who brought Kellogg’s Foods and Sheriff Lott to their knees over the Mike Phelps ordeal will be taking a great, big, honkin’ shit on you too.

Best of luck indeed.
;-]_~

The Zionist Pigs of the Israel Lobby in America have interfered with President Obama’s efforts to establish effective international intelligence and in doing so, have endangered America and her people.

AIPAC, the primary Israel-First lobby in the US, has officially become the enemy of the American people. To many of us, they have been for some time.

President Obama chose Charles W. Freeman Jr., former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, for the position of chairman of the National Intelligence Council. A very important coordination position that tends to bare much fruit when well staffed.
Though Freeman is by no means perfect, he has the right experience in the right areas for the problems we now face.

Now, Freeman has withdrawn his appointment due to pressure from the traitorous Israel lobby The American Israel Public Affairs Committee or AIPAC.

In the past, Freeman has rightfully and accurately questioned our government’s support of Israel and their terrorist endeavors. Now, as an Obama nominee, the AIPAC Dogs in House and Senate (the traitor, Joe Lieberman et al) have attacked Freeman with a characteristically Zionist campaign of deception and lies…

From the NY Times:

WASHINGTON — Charles W. Freeman Jr., the Obama administration’s choice for a major intelligence post, withdrew his name on Tuesday and blamed pro-Israel lobbying groups, saying they had distorted his record and campaigned against him.

Mr. Freeman had come under sharp criticism for his past statements about Israel as well as for his association with the Saudi and Chinese governments.

Mr. Freeman’s withdrawal from consideration as chairman of the National Intelligence Council came just hours after Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence, vigorously defended him and said that his comments had been taken out of context.

In a message to colleagues and friends, first posted Tuesday evening on Foreign Policy magazine’s Web site, Mr. Freeman blamed pro-Israel groups for the controversy, saying the “tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth.”

Joshua Block, a spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a lobbying group, said Tuesday that his organization had not taken a formal position on Mr. Freeman’s selection and had not lobbied Congress members to oppose it.

A former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Mr. Freeman had in recent years questioned Washington’s steadfast support for Israel. He had also been deputy chief of mission at the American Embassy in Beijing.

Joshua Block is obviously a liar (that’s what they do best). This reeks of AIPAC deceit like a sewer reeks of shit and that much is obvious to all of us who have paid attention, blinders off, to the repetitive treasonous activity of the Israeli Zionist Pig Lobby in America.

It was nice to see Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence, stand up to these sub-humans and defend Freeman in truth and wisdom.
Now, Barack Obama needs to do the same thing.

One of our President’s primary flaws is his apparent subservience to this diabolical, Satanic lobby.
Something he needs to correct and do so soon.
He made a choice and thus far, has failed to stand behind that choice.
Probably in fear of being labeled a “Nazi” or “anti-Semite” or coined some other phrase that is often used to degrade anyone who questions Israel, Jewry, Zionism etc.
You gotta stand up, Barack. Please stand up to these vermin. They are traitors who put the best interests of Israel before those of their own country.
These Likudniks must be stopped. They have already been caught and tried for treason more than once.

Do not let these people dictate foreign policy to you, Barack. That would be rock solid proof that you, in fact, are a coward. And just when you’re looking so strong.

The Israeli Lobby in America must be cut off. They must be destroyed and rendered null and void as a political entity. They are certainly our enemy and far more dangerous to our freedom than any Al Qaida has ever been.

It’s sad, and could get even more so.
Barack Obama’s choice of Tim Kaine to replace the great Howard Dean as Democratic National Committee chairman is proving to be a colossal error.

As anticipated, Dean’s departure and the arrival of the weak-kneed Kaine is taking the teeth out of the Democratic leadership.

Tim Kaine is a self described “pragmatist". Another word for “coward with no principals".
His record as Governor of Virginia is evidence of that fact as Kaine failed to bolster the progressive movement in that state.
Too much time spent giving the Right Wing most everything they wanted.

Now granted, Kaine could never be the man Howard Dean is. Few could.
But there is no excuse for Kaine coming in and basically de-clawing the aggressive end of the party. But that is what he has done.
As is evident from the latest email I received asking for donations. This particular letter comes from someone named Jen O’Malley Dillon. Apparently the new Executive Director of the DNC.

The email starts out good. Talking about Limbaugh, Limbaugh and Steele… But at the end descends into something I find most disturbing indeed…

From the “new” DNC:

Kona –

I’m Jen O’Malley Dillon, the new Executive Director of the Democratic
National Committee.

If you’re anything like me, then you’ve had the urge to talk back to a
right-wing talk radio host more than a few times. Now you can.

Rush Limbaugh has made waves lately about his desire to see President
Obama fail. And he’s unapologetic, even though Americans voted in November
for the very kind of change the President is bringing to Washington. As
even Limbaugh must know, if the President fails, America fails.

Incredibly, Republican leaders have yet to condemn Limbaugh for his
destructive comments. In fact, Republicans like Congressman Eric Cantor, a
leader in the House, have adopted the Limbaugh strategy, telling the
Washington Post recently that their strategy on the President’s jobs plan
was “just saying no.”

The only Republican leader to challenge Limbaugh – the chairman of the
Republican National Committee – even called Rush to apologize just a few
days later.

But we have no apologies for Rush, just a message. We need you to come up
with a slogan, in ten words or less, that we’ll put on a billboard where
he can’t miss it – in his hometown of West Palm Beach, Florida.

Can you help us come up with a message for Rush that we’ll place on a
billboard right in his hometown?

http://www.democrats.org/rushbillboard

We’ll go through all the slogans we get, and the winner will have his or
her message appear on the billboard – and receive a free T-shirt
featuring the winning slogan.

If Republican leaders aren’t willing to tell Rush, then we will. Americans
want President Obama to succeed. Our country’s future depends on it.
Rooting for the President’s failure is rooting for our country to fail.

To get America back on a path to prosperity, we’ll need to leave behind
the failed partisan attack politics of the past. Americans voted for a new
direction in November. Choosing Rush Limbaugh to be the voice of their
party – as Republican leaders have done – is not the answer.

Send in your suggestion of ten words or less for a billboard and we’ll
choose the best one to put in Rush’s own “backyard":

http://www.democrats.org/rushbillboard

Thanks,

Jen

Jen O’Malley Dillon
Executive Director
Democratic National Committee

I was afraid of this. Howard Dean had things well in hand and Tim Kaine is a jelly spine that’s going to take the grit out of the DNC.
I fucking knew it.
Tim Kaine was a mistake, one that may well come back to haunt the Democratic party in the future.
There was once a guy who Democrats considered a “rising star” much like they do Kaine today.
His name was Terry McAuliffe.
Former chair of the DNC, Terry McAuliffe, is the one who led the Democratic party into defeat which resulted in the dismal years between 1999 and 2006.
It took Howard Dean to correct the damage McAuliffe caused us.

Tim Kaine is another McAuliffe. I hope not, but it seems so.

The part of the email from the DNC that bothered me the most was this…
“To get America back on a path to prosperity, we’ll need to leave behind the failed partisan attack politics of the past. Americans voted for a new direction in November. Choosing Rush Limbaugh to be the voice of their party – as Republican leaders have done – is not the answer.“

Right there, the DNC became lost.

“Partisan attack politics” is what won us the gov’t.
“Failed"? The only thing that has failed is Barack Obama for thinking Tim Kaine could fill Howard Dean’s shoes.
Americans did not “vote for a new direction", we voted to rid the gov’t of Republicans.
And yes, Rushtard being the face of the GOP IS THE FUCKING ANSWER.
What rock has Ms. Dillon and the DNC been hiding under? We, the Democratic Left chose Rush to be the face of the GOP, not them. He’s the face we want to paint on them.
How is it that the new “Director” of the DNC doesn’t know that the White House placed Limbaugh on the pedestal? How can this person possibly be this out to lunch on the most immediate happenings in the party? Not even connected to our most visible strategies.

I’m sad to see that the DNC has been weakened so by the new leadership.
Howard Dean would have told Rush Limbaugh to do some sit ups and a few shut ups.

The new “leadership” of the DNC has no idea what they’re doing. They have their heads in the sand and are backing away from the fight at the most crucial point. Obama’s first term.

Pragmatism is for the weak and testicularly challenged.
The great thing about Howard Dean was that he has never been afraid to take a principled stand when he knew we were right. With this “new leadership", it seems principal has been buried in favor of capitulation.

Placing Tim Kaine and this Dillon person in charge of our strongest committee was a foolish mistake. And we are that much weaker for it.

Honestly, I don’t know which one is dumber than the other. Probably a three way tie with those who support them.

Watching Republicans lead the people astray with their lies and professional ineptitude becomes even more sickening when it happens right on your doorstep.

A fine gentleman by the name of Gary Gray, a journalist with our local newspaper, the Bristol Herald Courier, brings us news that the single most useless Senator (Lamar Alexander) and the new, decidedly inept TN-1 Congressional Rep Phil Roe are going around the area lying about the stimulus package.

The article appropriately begins with typical and fully expected deception from the Republican Liar’s Club…

Representatives for U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and U.S Rep. Phil Roe, R-1st, told about 50 local business leaders on Monday that the response to the recently signed stimulus bill has been overwhelmingly negative.

Well yeah, only their supporters and the Rush Limbaugh “Rushtards” call them. The rest of us know it’s useless to try and reason with either one of them. Of course they offered no numbers so you can be sure more people supported the stimulus than they’re willing to admit.

Meanwhile, some asshat named Bill Snodgrass, Phil Roe’s “District Director” (whateverthefuck that is), is quoted as spewing “the response we’ve gotten has been overwhelmingly against the stimulus package.”
(as if anyone who called knew what the first letter of the plan was)
Snotgrass attempted to outline Tennessee’s stimulus funds which amount to:

1) $1.6 billion for TennCare.

2) $1.2 billion for K-12 and special education.

3) $600 million for highway and bridge projects.

4) $171 million in “flex-funds” to help with budget shortfalls.

Now we all know what the real problem is here. Republicans don’t want to take the money for several reasons which include:

1) Too much oversight. They will not be able to misappropriate the funds as they always seek to do.

2) They don’t want to be seen helping the “Nigga” fix things. Their Rushtard constituency might take exception.

3) They could care less about the people of NE Tennessee, our children, our land, or our future.

4) Sheer incompetence. What kind of idiots turn down Billions with a capital “B” when the state they supposedly care about suffers?

5) If Democrats help Tennessee’s economic strife it will not be politically advantageous for the Repigs in the next elections.

All in all, President Obama’s stimulus package will serve to slow the pace of the downward economic spiral eight years of Republican wasteful spending, warmongering, and outright Kleptocracy dropped us into.

Let’s get back to the numbers…

1) $1.6 billion for TennCare.
This would have the largest positive impact on the state’s economy. Funds allotted for TennCare would be spent on Doctoral services, prescription drugs, and medical equipment and supplies.
Most of the TennCare patients are children. Quite simply, anyone who objects to this is abusing our children. 2+2 still equals 4, people.

2) $1.2 billion for K-12 and special education.
Again, Republicans putting children last. Putting teachers last too as this aspect of the stimulus funding would pay lots of teachers, some of our most important citizens, wages that are closer to appropriate.

Keep in mind that Republicans love nothing more than a dumbed down voter base, so you can easily see why educational funding is something they actually fear and loath.

3) $600 million for highway and bridge projects.
God forbid we have safe, functional bridges and roads to drive on.

Road work creates jobs. That’s a well known fact in all fifty states.
Keeping our roads up to civilized standards maintains economic security, and since our intelligence personnel have determined that national economy is national security, it keeps us safe too.

• Our nation’s highways, transit systems, railroads, airports, ports and inland waterways drive our economy.
Enabling all industries to achieve the growth and prosperity that have made America strong and prosperous.

• A U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) study concludes that for each $1 billion of federal spending on highway construction nationwide, 47,500 jobs are generated annually.

• The USDOT study also states that every dollar invested in the nation’s highway system yields $5.40 in
economic benefits in reduced delays, improved safety and lower vehicle operating costs.

• Driving on roads in need of repair costs Tennessee motorists $787 million a year in extra vehicle repairs
and operating costs – $181 per motorist.

Those are just a few of many points.

4) $171 million in “flex-funds” to help with budget shortfalls.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

From the Commercial Appeal:

NASHVILLE – Tennessee’s general fund revenue collections fell $74 million below projections in November, pushing the state’s shortfall through the first five months of the budget year to $380 million.

Sales tax collections were 10.3 percent lower than the same month last year, the largest drop on record. The lowest previous drop was 8.7 percent in 1961, said state Finance Commissioner Dave Goetz.

“We’re seeing a continued relentless deterioration in sales taxes,” Goetz said.

Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen has told state agencies they may have to cut as much as 20 percent out of their spending plans to accommodate a shortfall that could grow to more than $900 million in the upcoming budget year.

As deep a hole as we’re in, you’d think every penny would count. But leave it to fiscally irresponsible Republicans to prefer sitting and doing nothing (Lamar Alexander’s specialty) to screw up even the easiest path to relief.
And that’s what they would do, nothing.

Are Tennessee Republicans offering us any way out of the financial perdition they helped lead us into?
Nope. Nothing.
No plan, no ideas, no effort and no organization.

Nothing.

President Obama and the Democratic party have stood up to the plate, wielded the biggest bat, and went for the fence.
That takes guts. Guts, brains, and a desire to do what is right for the nation and our people.
Republican leadership offers none of the above.

Progressive Democracy and results, or regressive Republicanism and more of the last eight years.
The only two choices we have.

Thank you, Mr. President!

Another Major Victory for the forces of change.
Atty. General Eric Holder has announced an end to the inhuman raids, conducted by the DEA and other federal authorities, against the will of the people and government of the affected states, against the Medical Marijuana Dispensaries often known as Co-Ops.

The malicious and basically terrorist methods employed by the Bush Regime against these dispensaries in the past have cost people a great deal of money and in some cases their lives.
Now, it seems, justice has found it’s way into the Justice Department. Installed by our President who has kept another campaign promise and has done so in meaningful fashion.

From the California Statehouse Examiner:

Advocates of legalizing marijuana are having a great week in California.

First, San Francisco’s Tom Ammiano initiated a bill to legalize pot use in the state, and tax it at about “a buck a joint,” one report claimed.

Today came word that newly installed U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder would stop the practice established by the Bush administration of raiding legally licensed medical marijuana dispensaries.

The Drug Enforcement Agency will now cease the raids that have continued, according to reports, even after Bush left office. Holder said Obama’s campaign promise to stop the raids is “now American policy.”

San Francisco has about two dozen such clubs, and has often been targeted by the feds. The city recently passed legislation to regulate the businesses more effectively.

“Holder’s declaration is a high point for the movement to legalize medical marijuana, which has been growing for decades despite federal hostility,” a report in the Huffington Post stated.

And this line from their story is just to good to pass up: “Patriotic potheads love to point out that cannabis was grown at Jamestown, that George Washington might have used hashish, and that Thomas Jefferson wrote a draft of the Declaration of Independence on hemp-fiber paper,”

Read the rest of the report for all you ever wanted to know, and a lot you probably didn’t on the push to legalize marijuana.

Make no mistake. This is one of the biggest victories we have ever won and it comes very close to being the proverbial “straw” we need to end the madness that is the Drug War on the American People.

The Obama administration, thanx be to God, is directing it’s efforts at stopping the Mexican Cartels that are murdering innocent people along the border. Those pigs (cartels) are not of our culture. They murder for the money and must be wiped out completely.
Perhaps the next step will be to end the billions of dollars in drug trade profit that attracts the violent and the ruthless.

Legalize. That’s the answer.
But for now, our gov’t is making great strides to inject some justice and sanity into an out of control situation.
Put the DEA on the border, leave us the fuck alone. That’s the America we’ve been waiting for and we get closer to it every day.

How sweet it is.

Rock on, Mr. President. Rock on.

Never, NEVER underestimate the resolve and determination of Pot Heads, our allies, and the power of unity.

Mike Phelps smoked weed.

Corporate Diabetes Dealer, Kellogg’s Brand Foods, treated him like a criminal. That pussy, Sheriff Lott of South Carolina, threatened Phelps and harassed his friends for political reasons.

We brought them both to their knees.

Sheriff Lott stated “no charges", sat down and shut up.
But not to worry, we’re going to do anything we can to get him voted out of office anyway.

The Huffington Post now informs us that Kellogg’s Foods, Mike Phelps’ former sponsor, has suffered striking losses in just a very short time, as we predicted.

Check the facts at businessinsider.com

From HuffPo:

Dumping Michael Phelps over the now notorious photo of him taking a bong rip is not looking like the best move for Kellogg. Pot activists, who insist they make up a large share of consumers of Kellogg products, organized a boycott of the company. The boycott resonated with Kellogg customers to such a degree that when you called Kellogg, the first audio recording you heard was not about the nation-wide salmonella outbreak that had sickened dozens of people, but was a message for callers who were concerned about the company’s relationship with Phelps.

Get it through your heads, anti-pot asshats. We’re going to get what we want. The Marijuana Army is on a Blitzkrieg. Rolling over anything and anyone that gets in our way.
We’re tired of being oppressed, abused, ridiculed and victimized by the agents of ignorance in this country.

We’re here. Learn to live with it, because that’s the only choice you have.

The boycott of Kellogg’s Foods will continue until we feel (or they state) that they have learned their lesson.

President Obama has put VP Biden(the nut) in personal charge of oversight concerning the way that America’s Governors handle the money their respective states receive from the stimulus, or The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Good move. Very good move.

And not only this, but the website, Recovery.gov, is up and running and is alleged to be our (that’s you and me) window to the ways the money is spent.
This is the transparency President Obama promised when campaigning. We hope it is anyway.

So now that we can play through-the-looking-glass with our money, it stands to reason why certain Republican Governors like Jindal, Sara Palin (remember her?) and other various and assorted asshats want to reject the funds. They won’t be able to steal them.
These “bridge to nowhere” types probably thought they were going to line their buddies pockets or buy gold plated plaques with the Ten Commandments on them. Nope. Not this time o’ greedy ones.
This time you have Joe Biden to watch over you. And now President Obama has given us a way to watch him watch you.

From the Christian Science Monitor:

“Nobody messes with Joe” Biden warns governors
By Jimmy Orr | 02.25.09

Vice President Joe Biden pledged that he would not be another Dick Cheney. So far, that seems to be accurate.

If today’s appearance on the Early Show is any indication, it looks like he’ll be a cross between a watchdog, customer service rep, and webmaster.

Sure, he forgot the website. But that’s not worth mentioning.

Nobody messes with Joe

What’s important is that he’s in charge of ensuring that every last penny in Obama’s massive $787 billion spending package will be spent correctly. No waste.

And he’s the one doing it because “nobody messes with Joe,” Obama said last night in his address to a Joint Session of Congress.

Don’t mess with Texas, er… Delaware

What if someone does “mess with Joe?” Biden issued a warning shot to elected officials who might stash the cash instead of using it correctly.

“If governors were to take the money and put it in a rainy day fund instead of creating new jobs, we will expose that,” he said stating that he will go on TV and call them out.

Public

How can the public know that the money is allocated correctly? That’s the question CBS’s Maggie Ordonez asked.

“We’re going to put every bit of this transparently up on a website. You’re gonna know. You’ll be able to go on a website. Every single bit of this will be on a website,” he explained.

What website?

“You know, I’m embarrassed. Do you know the website number?” he asked looking offstage. “I should have it in front of me and I don’t. I’m actually embarrassed.”

He was able to get the website “number” from someone off camera.

“Recovery.gov. It’s Recovery.gov. It’s up and running,” he said with newfound confidence.

Small biz

Ordonez also asked him about the plight of a small businesswoman who had to lay some people off due to the bad economy.

The woman, identified as Lisa Hendrickson, wondered specifically what in the spending package will help small business.

He told Ordonez that Hendrickson should call his office directly and he personally “will be able to guide her on what pieces of this package will be directly helpful.”

That’s customer service.

He also demonstrated some clairvoyant skills theorizing that perhaps customers aren’t able to get to her business because a bridge over a creek somewhere is destroyed.

No problem though. The stimulus package will repair that bridge. If there is one. And it’s destroyed. And if they can find it.

The GOP

As for Republican opposition to the spending package, Biden there could be some legitimate concerns - except if you’re Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (who, coincidentally, gave the Republican response).

He said Jindal was pursuing the course of inaction “while people are just sinking into the abyss.”

http://www.recovery.gov

Accountability and Transparency

“We cannot overstate the importance of this effort. We are asking the American people to trust their government with an unprecedented level of funding to address the economic emergency. In return, we must prove to them that their dollars are being invested in initiatives and strategies that make a difference in their communities and across the country. Following through on our commitments for accountability and openness will create a foundation upon which we can build as we continue to tackle the economic crisis and the many other challenges facing our nation.”

Memorandum to Head of Departments and Agencies, February 9, 2009

There it is there.
Let’s see if it works. Because here in Tennessee, we have much to worry about when it comes to some of the untrustworthy filth that absolutely would abuse the people’s money if it fell into their hands without 24/7 federal oversight.

Small Business people. Be sure to keep your eyes on the ball ‘cause there’s something in it for us too.

Smell that? That’s the smell of fresh air.

Rock on, Mr. President. Rock on.

We’re kinda busy right now so I just wanted to touch on a few points. Will elaborate later if need be…

Liberal Talk Radio:

1) The ongoing effort to silence the great Randi Rhodes, queen of Liberal talk radio, has again taken her from the air and our ears.
NovaM Radio sold out to Right Wing corporate interests and as usual, Randi was the first casualty.

We love Randi and we know she will be back as always.
Our dear friend and fellow Rhodes Scholar, Rememberearth, has set up a meeting place for Randi’s fans located here:
Rhodes Scholars.

Most of the RRMB faithful are there along with the usual four or five idiots.

Israeli Terrorism:

2) Amnesty International has called for an international arms embargo against Israel in light of the terrorist attacks on the citizenry of Gaza.
We feel this effort is light years too late, but still most welcome.

Israel uses state of the art, technologically advanced weaponry (that we provide them with) against fighters with rusty rifles and bottle rockets.
It would be interesting to see just how confident the IDF would be if equal weapons were mandated.

We fully support the proposed embargo, what little it may do, and we are glad to see that Rep. Brian Baird- D Washington State, is taking the matter to congress.
We, as a country, have supplied terrorists with arms for far too long now. It’s time to end our hypocrisy. We cannot lead in an effort for peace while we arm those who reject it.

President Obama:

3) Doing better than expected. Obama’s national confidence rating is higher now than both Bush and Clinton in the early stages of office.
President Obama enjoys support from nearly ninety percent of Democrats and around 45% of those who identify as Republicans.

We would like to see that Republican support erode a little to bring more Greens and Independents on board.
The efforts to improve the national economic situation, the move toward nationalizing rogue banking institutions, closing the embarrassment called “Gitmo", and reaching out to the impoverished people of the world have shown Obama in a bright, anti-Bush light.
A good start that will hopefully get better.

NY Post:

4) Rupert Murdoch his self has offered a hollow, meaningless apology for the Sean Delonas cartoon that appeared in his tabloid rag, the NY Post, that depicted a monkey that had been shot dead as being President Obama.

Rupert Murdoch is a Corporate Fascist who’s mother was Jewish. He owns such Trash Media as the NY Post, The Sun, Sky News and the traitorous FOX News.

Rupert, save the apology and go immediately and hang yourself. You have far worse to be apologizing for such as aiding and abetting the treason and murders of the Bush Regime.
No one cares what you have to say.

Marijuana Legalization:

5) California, long a leader in the liberation of Cannabis as medicine has now taken the lead in the fight to fully legalize and regulate Marijuana in the state.
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco has offered up a Bill that would legalize the recreational use of Marijuana throughout the state.

We obviously support this measure wholeheartedly.
;-]_~

Smart people can easily recognize that fact that with California in dire financial straights, and Marijuana being it’s #1 cash crop, that this is the only practical, intelligent way to handle the issue.
And on that note, Marijuana is also the second largest cash crop in the state of Tennessee.

Trouble is, our politicians are idiots and cowards when it comes to this issue. Hopefully that will change by the hand of smarter voters one day soon.

Also….
New Jersey has now made their move toward Medical use in their state as well, as the trend of intellect continues to slowly make it’s way East.

Get on the bus, America. Marijuana is here and there’s nothing the anti-Pot vermin can do to stop it.

This is as good a time as any to remind my fellow Democrats about just how much of an assclown, and a threat to progressive interests, Bill Clinton really is.

Bill “Gramm, Leach, Bliley” Clinton has once again opened his lying, Republican-Lite mouth and in his own subtle, deceitful way, attacked President Obama like the backstabbing punk that Clinton has always been.

From USA Today:

• ABC News – Bill Clinton says Obama needs to sound more hopeful: Former president Bill Clinton tells Good Morning America, in an interview airing today, that he likes “the fact that (President Obama) didn’t come in and give us a bunch of happy talk. I’m glad he shot straight with us. … (But) I just want the American people to know that he’s confident that we are gonna get out of this and he feels good about the long run. … I like trying to educate the American people about the dimensions and scope of this economic crisis. … I just would like him to end by saying that he is hopeful and completely convinced we’re gonna come through this.”

Now, if you know Bill Clinton and what kind of self-centered, Republicanesque maggot he really is, then seeing through his facade is not real difficult.

“Sound more hopeful":
Obama is not like you, Bill. Lying is not his default reaction. He’ll sound “more positive” when there’s something to sound positive about.

“Likes the fact":
Clinton says “that he likes the fact that (President Obama) didn’t come in and give us a bunch of happy talk".
Then, Billary suggests Obama do exactly that. Give us “happy talk” about the economy. FAIL!

As we see HERE, Obama has been optimistic, without abandoning reality, since November.

Now, in light of the facts and knowing just what a scumbag Bill Clinton really is, this attempt to appear concerned about the economy looks a little different in the mirror.
This is not Bill Clinton trying to help.

This is Bill Clinton try to degrade Barack Obama and make him look as though he’s faltering. As though he’s unsure of himself and the state of the nation. This is Bill Clinton trying to soften Obama up for Hillary to oppose in 2012.
We wrote it here before and we’re telling you again. The Clintonistas will do anything they can to sabotage the Obama presidency. They are doing so and will continue to do so.
They cannot be trusted.

Bill Clinton:

You’re a piece of shit. A drug war supporting, Stan Lee swindling, disbarred, disgraced, for all intents and purposes impeached, self-absorbed loser. Just like your wifey. You both bow to the Right. You always have.
I know what you’re up to because I know you. You have never done anything other than stab the people of this nation, and your party’s base, in the back.
Now you seek to defame the most intelligent, progressive American leader in modern history so your loser spouse can have another chance at failure.
Shut the fuck up, asshat. Just shut your mealy mouth.
The base of the Democratic party put you out to pasture along with your ‘ol lady for a reason, you suck. You will always suck.

Be thankful for two things, Bill…

1) Obama was kind enough to give Betty a consolation prize she comes nowhere near deserving.

And…

2) That you’re not standing in the same room with me.

Fuck you. Get out of our lives.

-captainkona

Our good friend Robert has alerted us to the fact that some really fine State Representatives out of Memphis have filed HB0368 in the Tennessee House of Representatives. The Tennessee Medical Marijuana Act of 2009.

Gotta love it when real Democrats stand up and take the initiative to do what’s best for the people of the state. Advocating for Medi-Pot is an activity that is done out of wisdom and foresight. A practical, non-partisan endeavor that is undertaken by smoker and non-smoker alike. To advocate for Medical Marijuana is to advocate for the infirm and the suffering. It is to advocate for wellness and relief.

So it is with great pride that we thank Senator Beverly Marrero, D-Memphis and Rep. Jeanne Richardson, D-Memphis for their courage and resolve. This is quality leadership and it is badly lacking in the great state of Tennessee.
We at Ablogination ask that you, especially if you blog or are a member of the Main Stream Media, make lots of positive noise about HB0368.
The suffering of Tennessee need that which will relieve them of their pain. Those POW’s of the Drug War need their freedom.

The Science of the Shills
In light of the recent row over the marijuana use of Olympian, Mike Phelps, the news is now awash with bought and paid for pseudo-science and other such propaganda.
A handy example of the age old lie that “Marijuana causes Cancer” is seen in this disgraceful display from some place called The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle Washington, which makes the erroneous claim that marijuana is linked to Testicular Cancer.

Now, wait just a minute…

Testicular Cancer is one of the most uncommon forms of the disease there is. A male’s risk of contracting this ailment over his lifetime is about four tenths of a percent.
Only about 1 in 100,000 actually contracts a malignant form.

Now, since the authors of this “research” admit themselves that the research is not definitive, why did they do it in the first place? Why did this report come out now? Which liar commissioned this study?

From the FHCRC’s own release…

Established risk factors for testicular cancer include a family history of the disease, undescended testes and abnormal testicular development. The disease is thought to begin in the womb, when some fetal germ cells (those that eventually make sperm in adulthood) fail to develop properly and become vulnerable to malignancy. Later, during adolescence and adulthood, it is thought that exposure to male sex hormones coaxes these cells to become cancerous.

Now let’s see, it begins in the womb? Doesn’t that make the FUCKING SHIT HEREDITARY?!!!!!
That many factors and all of a sudden Marijuana causes it?

This “study” (in blatant ONDCP propaganda) hinges on one tiny factor. The unproven belief that Marijuana affects the male hormones and the relation between those hormones and TC.
“Science” could not get any more weak if it stated the moon was the sun at night.

Anyway, all this does is attempt to distract from the real debate. Does Marijuana’s benefits outweigh any perceived risks?
The real, independent science says yes…

By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 26, 2006; Page A03

The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer.

The new findings “were against our expectations,” said Donald Tashkin of the University of California at Los Angeles, a pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years.
“We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use,” he said. “What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect.”

Federal health and drug enforcement officials have widely used Tashkin’s previous work on marijuana to make the case that the drug is dangerous. Tashkin said that while he still believes marijuana is potentially harmful, its cancer-causing effects appear to be of less concern than previously thought.

The lifetime trials of individuals, such as myself, who have smoked pot regularly for over thirty years speak much louder than solicited anti-Marijuana propaganda-as-science ever will.
Also…They conveniently forgot to mention that Testicular Cancer has one of the highest cure rates of all Cancers. Over 90 percent. 100 percent if it has not metastasized. Even for the relatively few cases in which malignant cancer has spread widely chemotherapy has a success rate of 85 percent.

Fortunately, though lagging far behind the rest of the country in caring for the infirm, Tennessee has a chance to move out of the dark ages and into the light.
We ask all concerned to call their State Reps and encourage them to support this all important measure.

Drug violence on the Mexican border is out of control. Innocent people are dying daily in cartel controlled areas.
The debate is weather or not legalizing and controlling drugs in America will stop the violence.
That makes lots of sense. Cartels don’t kill over drugs, they kill over the money the drugs are worth.

Due to a recent revelation, a new question has arisen. Who is trying to stop the debate? And more importantly, why?

The fine folks at L.E.A.P (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) have made us aware of an instance that we find to be very, very disturbing. Please read the LEAP article carefully…

From the Admin of L.E.A.P:

City Council Upholds Mayor’s Veto After Hint of Losing Funds

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 14, 2009

El Paso, TX – On Tuesday the El Paso City Council voted, 4-4, to sustain the mayor’s veto of a resolution calling for a national debate on drug legalization as a solution to the cartel violence problem plaguing sister city Cuidad Juarez, just across the Mexico border.

Three of the four council members voting to uphold the mayor’s silencing of the discussion said on the record during council deliberations that they did so only because Congressman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) and the city’s state legislative delegation sent letters raising the possibility that El Paso would lose federal and state money should it continue insisting that legalization is a debatable solution to illegal drug trade violence.

Councilman Beto O’Rourke, who championed the legalization debate resolution, said it is “a sad day in America when you’re threatened if you want to have an open and honest debate about an issue that affects your community.”

Rep. Reyes, who sent his deputy chief of staff to testify at Tuesday’s council meeting, also canceled a scheduled breakfast with O’Rourke on Monday, instead meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who successfully requested $1.4 billion in U.S. anti-drug aid in 2008, and who also met with President-elect Barack Obama on Monday.
“This level intervention in quashing a spirited debate about a serious policy conundrum is chilling,” said Terry Nelson, a 30-year veteran federal anti-drug agent and a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, a 10,000-member organization representing police, prosecutors, judges and others who fought on the front lines of the “war on drugs” and now support legalization and regulation. “With so many killings and kidnappings by the illegal drug cartels, we just can’t afford to keep avoiding an important discussion about the failures of our decades-long ‘war on drugs.’ We’re looking forward to seeing U.S. Sen. Jim Webb’s recently announced blue ribbon commission on high incarceration rates taking a good, hard look at why so many nonviolent drug offenders fill our prisons.”

Rep. Reyes and state legislators haven’t yet detailed the specifics of any funding threats against El Paso they’ve been warned about or from where they came. The states legislators’ and congressman’s letter are online HERE (PDF) and HERE (PDF) respectively.

Six votes were needed to override the mayor’s veto of the resolution calling for the national debate to continue.

For more information, please visit http://www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com or contact Tom Angell at (202) 557-4979 or media@leap.cc.

With Respect to the author, we would like to take this a little further.

What we need to know is exactly who made these “threats” and why. In the letter from Rep. Reyes (PDF above) he attempted to use the Stimulus Package and it’s benefits to El Paso as a reason to stop discussion of the legalization issue.
Which, of course, makes no sense at all. There’s nothing in the Stimulus Package that threatens to withhold civic funding if drug legalization is discussed.
So there is obviously some underlying reason or reasons of which we are not aware.
We certainly don’t claim to know why Reyes wants the debate stifled, but it should be looked into.

Personally, I don’t think funding is threatened at all.

Two points:
1) Reyes may just be another anti-Marijuana idiot as is reflected in his votes against the Hinchey Amendments that would prevent the federal Gov’t from funding harassment against Co-Ops, in States where medical Marijuana is legal, by the DEA.
Reyes voted against ALL progressive Drug issues his entire career…

Representative Sylvester ‘Silver’ Reyes (TX)

Current Office: U.S. House
Current District: 16
First Elected: 11/05/1996
Last Elected: 11/04/2008
Next Election: 2006
Party: Democratic

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Date Bill Title Vote Outcome
06/10/2008 Assistance for Mexico and Central America for Anti-Drug Programs (Merida Program)
HR 6028 Y Bill Passed - House
(311 - 106)
07/25/2007 State and Federal Medical Marijuana Law Enforcement and Implementation
H Amdt 674 N Amendment Rejected - House
(165 - 262)
06/09/2006 Foreign Operations and Export Finance Appropriation Act
HR 5522 NV Bill Passed - House
(373 - 34)
12/14/2005 PATRIOT Act Reauthorization
HR 3199 Y Conference Report Adopted - House
(251 - 174)
06/15/2005 Medical Marijuana Use Amendment
H AMDT 272 N Amendment Rejected - House
(161 - 264)
09/16/1998 Illegal Drug Amendment
H Amdt 887 N Amendment Adopted - House
(291 - 133)
08/07/1998 Illegal Drug Amendment
H Amdt 869 Y Amendment Adopted - House
(250 - 169)
04/29/1998 Needle Exchange Funding Ban
HR 3717 Y Bill Passed - House
(287 - 140)
09/11/1997 Needle Exchange Amendment
H Amdt 347 Y Amendment Adopted - House
(266 - 158)

2) Sylvester Reyes has family in Mexico. One of his relations was previously kidnapped in Juarez.
Could he fear retaliation against his family in Mexico if he doesn’t stop efforts to take the profit out of the drug trade?
Is he in that deep? Threatened? Deeper than that?

There’s no telling at this point, but those in El Paso that promote legalization should not allow Reyes, members of the local gov’t or anyone else to silence the debate. It’s far too important and it’s not going away that easily.

Whatever Reyes’ motivation, it’s ethically unsound and behind the times to resist the changes that so obviously need to be made in the way drugs are viewed in this country and how the existing laws are enforced.
We urge Councilman Beto O’Rourke and his fellow progressives to reject the El Paso Ultimatum, Rep. Reyes, and any other voice of discord that stands against them. Their right as American leaders to seek solutions that benefit their people is being infringed upon by the fearful and the hopelessly unwise.

Our letter to Rep. Reyes just went out so it’s too early to expect an answer at this time. It may be too naive of us to expect any answer at all.

We do know this much. If the profit isn’t taken out of the drug trade, people will continue to die as a result.
We need legal, controlled drugs and our military on the Mexican border before it’s too late. For many it already is.

As you know, last night we asked for your support in boycotting Kelloggs Foods because of their morally void persecution of Olympic Champion, Michael Phelps, over his Marijuana use.

Just one day later, the great mind and heart of Ethan Nadelmann has taken up the cause as well. Along with our fellows at NORML and many, many others.

The words of our candidate for Drug Czar and cultural leader, Ethan Nadelmann…

Michael Phelps’ public apology for getting photographed smoking marijuana wasn’t enough for the food company, Kellogg’s, which announced yesterday that it would not renew its contract with the swimming champion when it expires at the end of the month.

I for one am sick and tired of the public spectacle that transpires every time any public figure gets photographed, arrested or otherwise outed and punished for smoking marijuana. It’s not just that Michael Phelps did what millions of other twenty-somethings do; it’s that he did what over one hundred million Americans have done at least once in their lives, including the president, former presidents, members of the U.S. Congress and Supreme Court, and a significant proportion of the country’s most distinguished businessmen, scholars, artists, entertainers and leaders.

This contemporary flogging reeks of hypocrisy – of alcohol drinkers and tobacco smokers condemning those who consume a far less dangerous product; of company officials who no doubt smoked marijuana themselves castigating a remarkable athlete for getting caught doing what nobody cares if they did as well; and of sanctimonious handwringers seizing on a public figure’s embarrassment to drive home an anachronistic abstinence-only message when it comes to America’s favorite illicit psychoactive substance.

Tens of millions of Americans think that the public condemnation of Phelps is a farce. My guess is that a substantial number of them may choose to boycott Kellogg’s products in response to its repudiation of Michael Phelps. Will it hurt Kellogg’s bottom line if hundreds of thousands of Americans no longer grab a Kellogg’s product when they get the munchies? And will it hurt even more if millions of Americans who no longer smoke marijuana, or never did, choose not to buy Kellogg’s products because this decision smacks of intolerance and reflects poorly on the Kellogg’s brand?

I think it’s time to see. My organization, the Drug Policy Alliance, is working – starting now – to send Kellogg’s this message, and we’re joining with others as well. More than seventy percent of Americans say that marijuana should be decriminalized and that no one should go to jail. We agree. In fact, the residents of Kellogg’s home state of Michigan recently passed, by an overwhelming margin, a ballot initiative legalizing marijuana for medical purposes. We also think that arresting almost 800,000 Americans each year for possessing a little marijuana is both a stupid waste and diversion of police resources as well as a cruel intrusion into the lives of ordinary Americans. And we’re sick and tired of the public outings, and forced apologies and recantations, which perpetuate this shameless hypocrisy.

So let’s send Kellogg’s a message! Criminal laws and corporate drug testing successfully deter millions of Americans from openly identifying as responsible citizens who happen to smoke marijuana. But a “Call Kellogg’s Campaign” that lets the corporation know that their dumping Phelps is good reason for us to dump Kellogg might just make the point that more and more Americans are sick and tired of this particular spectacle.

Just say No to Kellogg’s. Call them at 800-962-1413 and 269-961-3799 to tell them what you think.

Ethan Nadelmann is the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance (www.drugpolicy.org)

It’s time to put our collective foot up the collective ass of the Right Wing and it’s corporate affiliates.

Michael Phelps, much like a soldier, has served and brought honor to his country. He has made us proud.
He deserves more respect than the likes of Kelloggs has shown him.
And if Kelloggs has difficulty respecting national treasures like Mike Phelps, we’ll be more than happy to teach them.

If you blog, please help us. If you don’t, there’s much you can do. Call, write, whatever you can. Michael served us, now we can serve him. He’s earned it.

-captainkona

Well, Kelloggs Foods just dropped Mike Phelps from their endorsements.

Now TN420.0rg is dropping Kelloggs from the highest cliff possible. Mt. Boycott…

The disgusting and arcane manner in which Kelloggs brand foods has sought to destroy this fine young man’s life is unforgivable. These filthy little hypocrites and their over-priced generic garbage wouldn’t be worth a plug nickle and would be staring General Mills in the ass were it not for Phelps.
Therefor, it is our pleasure to ask all concerned to join us in a BOYCOTT of ALL Kelloggs brand products.

The only way to teach corporations right from wrong is to hit them in the pockets.

Our good friend, vic123, provides us with a nice list of Kelloggs products which we can hopefully all avoid.

All-Bran® Products
Apple Jacks® Cereal
Austin® Cookies and Crackers
Carr’s® Products
Cheez-It® Crackers
Chips Deluxe® Cookies
Club® Crackers
Crunchmania™ Products
Eggo® Products
EL Fudge® Sandwich Cookies
Famous Amos® Cookies
Fruit Flavored Rolls
Fudge Shoppe® Cookies
Gripz®
Hydrox® Cookies
Jack’s® Cookies
Jackson’s® Cookies
Keebler® Cookies and Crackers
Keebler® Grahams Crackers
Kellogg’s® Cereals and Snacks
Kellogg’s™ Cereal Straws
Kellogg’s™ Cocoa Krispies® Cereal
Kellogg’s® Corn Flake Crumbs
Kellogg’s® Corn Flakes Cereal
Kellogg’s® Corn Pops® Cereal
Kellogg’s® Cracklin’ Oat Bran® Cereal
Kellogg’s® Crispix® Cereal
Kellogg’s™ Crunchy Nut™ Granola Bars
Kellogg’s® Froot Loops® Cereal
Kellogg’s® Frosted Flakes® Cereal
Kellogg’s® Honey Smacks® Cereal
Kellogg’s® Keebler Cookie Crunch™ Cereal
Kellogg’s™ Live Bright™ Brain Health Bars
Kellogg’s® Low Fat Granola
Kellogg’s® Mini-Wheats® Cereal
Kellogg’s® Mueslix® Cereal
Kellogg’s® Nutri-Grain® Products
Kellogg’s® Product 19® Cereal
Kellogg’s® Raisin Bran® Cereal
Kellogg’s® Raisin Bran Crunch® Cereal
Kellogg’s® Smart Start® Cereal
Kellogg’s™ Smorz™ Cereal
Kellogg’s® Special K® Products
Kellogg’s® Stuffing Mix
Kellogg’s® Yogos® Snacks
Krispy® Saltine Crackers
Morningstar Farms® Veggie Foods
Morningstar Farms® Natural and Organic Veggie Foods
Murray® Cookies
Murray® Sugar Free Cookies
Pop-Tarts® Toaster Pastries
Ready Crust® Pie Crusts
Rice Krispies® Cereal and Treats
Sandies® Cookies
Scooby-Doo!® Crackers
Soft Batch® Cookies
Themed Snacks
Toasteds® Crackers
Town House® Crackers
Vienna Cremes® Sandwich Cookies
Vienna Fingers® Cookies
Wheatables® Crackers
Worthington® Loma Linda® Veggie Foods
Worthington® Veggie Foods
Zesta® Crackers

So this is for you, Mike. You’ll have bigger and better endorsements in the very near future. Meanwhile, Kelloggs will not hear the end of this outrageous display of ignorance.

Let’s piss in their Corn Flakes, Pot Heads!

Barack, thus far you’re doing a real good job. Better than I expected. Thus far.

But today I learned that Depublican Congressclown, Jim Cooper of TN, was being (or had been) considered for the Health and Human Services seat Tom Daschle backed down from.

I know the ears can be rough, but do try and pull your head out of you ass for just a moment and listen to the Skipper….

Rep. Jim “Poopers” Cooper D/R TN, is to health care what a Vulture is to vegetarianism. Which Clintonista asshat in your cabinet dragged that name in? Whoever it is they’re trying to sabotage your Presidency. No secret as to why I suspect.
Jim Cooper is a joke. A bad one, and he isn’t fit to run anything that even remotely has to do with Health Care. I wouldn’t put that bastard, who voted against you on the stimulus by the way, in charge of a box of band-aids.

Having said that, understand that Universal, single-payer Health Care is the primary issue for your base and the most important national issue America is facing. You do know that, don’t you?
Good. Then you might just listen when we tell you that Dr. Howard Dean should have been offered that job in the beginning, and if you ask real nice, Saint Howard might just feel moved to save your narrow ass on this one.

Let’s read some of these facts carefully, Mr. President. There’s a few things you don’t seem to get.

Jim Lux, a former member of the Clinton White House team on health care reform, has some insight you really could benefit from. Us too….

I was part of the Clinton White House team on the health care reform issue in 1993/94, and no Democrat did more to destroy our chances in that fight than Jim Cooper. We had laid down a marker very early that we thought universal coverage was the most essential element to getting a good package, saying we were to happy to negotiate over the details but that universality was our bottom line.

Cooper, a leader of conservative Dems on the health care issue, instead of working with us, came out early and said universality was unimportant, and came out with a bill that did almost nothing in terms of covering the uninsured. He quickly became the leading spokesman on the Dem side for the insurance industry position, and undercut us at every possible opportunity, basically ending any hopes we had for a unified Democratic Party position. I was never so delighted to see a Democrat lose as when he went down in the 1994 GOP tide.

Cooper is and has always been one to sell the people short and give the change to the single most corrupt industry in the nation. Health Insurance. He is cozy with Pharmaceutical and other “Health Care” industry elements as you can see HERE.

It also seems that Cooper is in even deeper with the Right Wing than most of us know…

Koch Industries, (pronounced “coke"), is the largest privately-held company in the United States, with annual sales of $90 billion. (Cargill comes in second for privately-held companies with sales of $75 billion.) Koch’s owners, brothers Charles and David H. Koch, are leading contributors to the Koch Family Foundations, which supports a network of conservative organizations and think tanks, including Citizens for a Sound Economy, the libertarian Cato Institute, Reason Magazine, the Manhattan Institute, the Heartland Institute, and the Democratic Leadership Council.

Fact is, Cooper is borderline NeoCon and that will never be good for anything. Much less America’s health.
Not only should this kook be kept out of your cabinet, Mr. President, but he should be unceremoniously expelled from the Democratic Party.

Hey, Barack. I’m a Leftist. Take it from someone who knows well the feeling of being stabbed in the back by closet Republicans with Blue feathers. Jim Cooper is a zero. Dr. Dean is your man, provided he can overlook the already insulting way you’ve treated him.

That’s a big, blue, crunchy NO on Cooper, Barack. File that back, will ya?

Thanx.

H/T
Digby, metulj

As if mike wasn’t having it bad enough with the hypocrites on his back, now he has yet another manifestation of shitbird to deal with.

A Right-Wing punk known as Richland County Sheriff, Leon Lott. And after reading Sheriff Lott’s bio, I have to have a genuine concern as to whether or not Mike Phelps may be facing a focused attack and political prosecution.
These things are to be expected from a Sheriff who’s history reads like a Taliban resume’.

If you’re unaware of the mike Phelps issue go to the previous post on this.

The focus now is the uncalled for and inexcusable way that a zealot Sheriff from a Klan infested county in South Carolina has stepped in to threaten a national hero with still more persecution.
The Associated Press brings us news that this Sheriff Lett…Lott…whatever, has threatened to persecute Phelps because of his admission to having hit the bong as captured in the “infamous” photograph.

The fact that Phelps chose not to lie when discovered blazing obviously means nothing to this Sheriff. The world was satisfied, what makes this two-bit Marshall Dillon wannabe better than the rest of us? No telling when dealing with what appears to be a twisted mind.
Sheriff Goebbels appears to fit the profile of a genuinely dangerous person….

Sheriff Machine Gun

* Right Winger disguised as a Democrat. (Typical for the area)

* Narcotics Agent, Lieutenant and Captain of Narcotics Division (Shows a possible bias against Marijuana due to lack of genuine, first hand knowledge of the effects.)

* An elected official. (Making him just another politician when it comes right down to it and subject to virtually no oversight whatsoever.)

* Recepiant of the 2004 “Strom Thurmond Award of Excellence in Law Enforcement". (What’s that tell ya?)

* Member of the Fundamentalist First Baptist Church of Colombia, SC. (Could indicate a potential for erratic behavior and thought.)

* Sheriff Goebbels, in 2008, acquired for his dept. an Armored personnel carrier equipped with a .50-caliber belt-fed machine gun.
(Possibly indicating that Sheriff Lott is a fucking whack job.)

I mean, good Lord. This man calls himself a Christian yet he’s more than comfortable with plans to wipe out countless people in his own jurisdiction? A belt fed machine gun? Who’s it for, Sheriff? Pot Heads? Negroes? Just uppity folk in general?

Looks like “Carolina’s Toughest Cop” ain’t so tough. Seriously, only a scared little punk would keep a killing machine like that around.

Yep, get a real good lawyer, Mike. Because it looks like the Fundi Freaks are coming for ya. Machine guns and all.

It’s amazing. The sheer stupidity of the average anti-Marijuana assclown has never ceased to render me aghast. The sheer ignorance and unequaled hypocrisy is mind boggling to say the least.

Will the liars ever stop lying? Will the idiots ever stop whining? Will the hypocrite ever find the common decency to leave good people alone?

He won eight Gold medals for his country. More than any anti-Marijuana jackass has ever achieved. Yet the great Olympian, Mike Phelps, is now the target of the Right Wing Smear Machine. The Right, it seems, abhors a great athlete as much as it does a great mind or a great soldier.

Our Hero

Some fucktard from a worthless British tabloid rag called “News of the World", or something like that, supposedly took a picture of someone who appeared to be Phelps doing some bong loads at a party in Columbia, S.C.
Now, the Right Wing Pigs and other various and assorted asspipes are treating the poor kid like he just killed someone.
So, under pressure, Mikie went public and offered the customary (we understand, Mike) role-model-gone-bad apology.
We just want to make a few points because this is the kind of thing that really pisses us off.

1) Mike, you’ve done nothing wrong. Absolutely nothing. We don’t much care how many kids know you smoked pot and care even less how many idiot politicians, talking heads, or authority figures don’t like it. You have a right to your private life and you should take the Ricky Williams/Todd Marinovich stand and tell Righty to get fucked. But we understand if you don’t.

2) The President of the United States smoked pot. So all the nay-sayers can blow goats.

3) I wonder how many of those attacking Phelps go to the club at night, get drunk and drive home.

4) You should be glad it wasn’t Heroin. But even that would be his business and not yours, dipshits.

5) The time has come to stop persecuting good people, in this case a national treasure, for doing absolutely nothing wrong.

Keep one thing in mind, Mike. You’re a Pot Head, and like most of us, better at what you do than those who aren’t.
Thanx for the grand way you’ve represented your country in success and humility. You are truly a champion we can take great pride in.
And we will no doubt take pride in you and your future successes. Since Pot is only banned, according to the 2009 World Anti-Doping Code which governs Olympic drug-testing, during competition.

You’re solid Gold to us, Mikie. Acapulco Gold for that matter.

Don’t change.

For some reason, the Republican party thinks that by electing a half-assed piece of crap, who also happens to be African American, to the chairmanship of the RNC is going to change the fact that they’re a bunch of incompetent boobs who hate their own country and people.

LOL

They really are that shallow.

Yes, the RNC has made fools of themselves once again.
I though it was unbelievably obtuse when they chose Sara Palin, an idiot from Alaska, to be John McCain’s running mate in a failed attempt to woo the Democratic Female vote, but this is really, really out in the ozone.
Michale Steel. Black Republican and complete and total Uncle Tom kiss ass, is the new RNC Chairman.

It’s not going to work, guys.

All things considered, what could be more fundamentally ignorant than a black person who votes Republican? A black person who actively pushes their racist, bigoted agenda. That’s what.
The African American political community is certainly not without it’s idiots. You have Lynn Swan, the Iraq War liar Colin Powell, supreme asshole Alan Keyes and a tiny handful of others. Including but not limited to these clowns…

http://www.nbra.info/

The National Black Republican Association.

You gotta see this. Go to the NBRA site and witness stupidity similar to that radiated by the likes of Tom Delay, Mike Duncan or George Bush himself…

Dig This….

Obama’s Socialist Agenda:

Legalize partial-birth abortion and same-sex marriage
Surrender in Iraq and invite a terrorist attack on America
Raise taxes and increase the deficit with massive spending
Stifle freedom of speech and religion through intimidation

And get this. Did you know Obama had a plan to enslave blacks!?..

Obama’s Plan to Enslave Blacks - A cartoon created for the NBRA by Brett Noel provides a chilling look at the future of black Americans under a Barack Obama Administration as “Socialist Slaves” dependent on government handouts on the Democratic Party’s economic plantation. As a corrupt Chicago “Community Organizer” for 20 years, Obama produced unlivable slums and wants to repeat his failure for the rest of America.

Well, this is perfect. Proof positive that the Republican party has no clue, none whatsoever, about how the average American, of whatever race, feels about the damage that they have done to this nation and it’s people.
Do they think this Steel clown is going to erase the racial reality of New Orleans? The “Macaca” comments? The Republican White-Kills-Darker-Than-Thou foreign policy?
The Republican opinion of African Americans must be even lower than we all thought.

It’s like this, Repigs. Mike Steel is a loser, just like the rest of you. You will never cash in on his melanin count because it doesn’t matter in Obama’s America. We have progressed beyond the limitations of physical appearance to a newer, smarter, more colorblind America than we have ever had before.
So go fuck yourselves. And take Mike Steel and the NBRA with you.
Get all the Sara Palins, Mike Steels, and pasty PaleoCons you can come up with. Because we’re still, and always will be, laughing at you with every breath we can muster and voting other than Republican forever.

I don’t know about you, but this Democratic voter has had it with Jim Cooper. I’ve criticized him before because he’s a Blue Dogshit kiss ass who has voted against his party more than he’s voted with it, but this is the last straw.

Below are the Jellyspine Depublican turncoats who voted with Republicans to keep America in economic peril.
This latest and most telling display of CYA by these chickenshits has to be considered especially loathsome at this point in time.
The country needs these people and the let their country down. We have come to expect this from most Republicans, but from Democrats this is absolutely intolerable.
Sure, the package passed the House with flying colors. But that’s not the point. The issue is simple, who has what’s best for the American people on their mind and who doesn’t.
Who doesn’t is clear. Republicans, and their enablers in the Democratic party….

Allan Boyd (D-FL)

Bobby Bright (D-AL)

Jim Cooper (D-TN)

Brad Ellsworth (D-IN)

Parker Griffith (D-AL)

Paul Kanjorski (D-PA)

Frank Kratovil (D-MD)

Walt Minnick (D-ID)

Collin Peterson (D-MN)

Heath Shuler (D-NC)

Gene Taylor (D-MS)

This particular panel of losers contains six “Blue Dog Democraps“. The rest are DLC or just the average Born-to-Kiss-Republican-Ass coward who IS a Republican who ran as a Democrat.

These people have to go. Jim Cooper has to go.
We’ve been betrayed by these people long enough.

Watch your step!

What’s with those fucking eyebrows anyway?

Speaking of eyebrows….
If Tim Kaine has one hair on his ass, which I doubt, he will find and fund genuinely Democratic candidates to run against these agents of perdition.
They are a Cancer on the Democratic Party and they must be removed.

As Tennesseans it is our responsibility to deal with Cooper and his ilk. There are enough good people in Cooper’s district (TN-4) to vote him out. We need a highly motivated effort (hopefully DNC, but don’t hold your breath) in the fourth district to give the people there more choices for representation.

We simply cannot tolerate this any longer. If we’re going to be stabbed in the back, I want it be from a Republican so it makes some sense.
Cooper is unworthy and now, unneeded. The next election cycle will be an opportune time for a change.

As for the Obama stimulus package, it’s pro-active and will provide a tremendous relief in many situations. That’s why Republicans opposed it, it will help ordinary people like you and me.
So, Obama tried his “bipartisan, pragmatic” thing and as I have always said, Republicans will never do what’s right for this country and our people. Never.
Time to leave them out of the equation altogether. We cannot allow Republican obstructionism to ruin the already Bush-Damaged future of this nation.

We cannot allow people like Jim Cooper to help them do it.

A tragic story, today, turned even more tragic. Life long member of the greatest Southern Rock band, the legendary Billy Powell, has passed away apparently due to complications with his heart.

Billy Powell was one of the survivors of the 1977 plane crash that took the lives of Lynyrd Skynyrd members Ronnie VanZant, Steve and Cassie Gains, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray. The other band members were severely injured.
Though the recent incarnation of the band pales in comparison to the pre 1977 group, Gary Rossington and Billy Powell kept the ledgend alive even to this day.
Rossington now being the only survivor still playing in the band.

So long, Billy. Thanx for everything.

Finally, finally there’s a real man and a real leader in the White House. He isn’t perfect, and we’ll be sure to keep him reminded of that fact when appropriate. But to see President Obama go on Arab television and tell the truth about the American people and our want for peace, and the way this country has shit on Arabs throughout history, is truly impressive and will have long reaching benefits.

A message of hope for the hopeless.
That’s what the Arab world received from our President via Al-Arabya, a Saudi owned media outlet (he didn’t use our media because hey, they suck).

This is the kind of approach that allows human beings to feel like human beings. When you treat humans like animals, they tend to act like animals.
The average Arab is no different from us. They have children they want to see grow up to enjoy a better life, not blown to pieces by NeoCons, Israel, or the Taliban.
They want to be treated like their lives mean something.
Barack Obama delivered that.

The Taliban are not the “Arab” or the “Muslim” people. They are shit who will find their reward in the grave.
Separating them from the people of the middle east and western Asia is the most effective step Obama could have made. One of the things that perpetuated the hostility was the fact that Bush and his NeoCon filth have no concept of humanity and therefor, are not capable of distinguishing between Terrorist and victim, company and human, living and dead.

Karen DeYoung at the Washington Post has the story.
Ignore Hillary Clinton’s stupid comments and the Taliban’s bizarre assumption that they are in any way included in this peace effort, and we have a big, positive step forward.

Obama’s gesture of peace and understanding is just a start, but the wisdom of it will prove more powerful than the Right Wing’s bombs and torture. It will yield results in the form of cooperation in the hunt for Terrorist cells throughout the world.
It will bring to fruition the peaceful efforts of many around the world who have worked tirelessly to promote peace during the darkness of the last eight years.

As I lived amongst the Arabs in Saudi, the UAE and Kuwait as a teenager, I have never felt so safe. I was nurtured, protected, brought to understanding of a way of life far removed from my own.
Most Americans cannot understand the Arab world. The fearful and bigoted among us don’t want to.
Barack Obama, in his wisdom, bridged that valley of misunderstanding and covered the abyss of ignorance and fear that the foolish among us reside in.

The sun shines brightly on the other side.

Well done, Mr. President. Well done indeed.

Pictures are worth a thousand words. That’s what they say, anyhow. Being a big fan of pics and mock-ups and such, I seem to have collected quite a few over the last eight years or so.

So, I guess I’ll archive most of them for posterity.
Or, I could just share them with you….

Some are originals, some borrowed, some stolen….
All are interesting and in their own little way, sum up the events of the last eight years of Bushit quite well.

Like ‘em or not, they still make me laugh, cry, mad and everything in between.

Maliki of Iraq and his boss, Amadnithehead of Iran.

Phil Roe-David Davis (original)

PNAC Traitors 1

PNAC Traitors 2

PNAC Traitors 3

PNAC Traitors 4

Thank God for Obama

Secretary of State Bosnia Betty

Being a Dick

Diper rash is Red

Dip Shit

Republican Terrorist

The Fail Boat (original)

Never Forget

Mullahs (original)

New Orleans tragedy

Lieberbitch

Whew! That was close. (origional)

Chickenhawk on Deck

Bristol Taliban

PUMAs are Republicans


Soon to be President


Cops try to kill Iraq War Veteran at anti-war protest

Evil Incarnate

Yep.

Judging the Right

Made in Israel

One Million Dead

Real Unity

Can’t forget this genius

Should have been a brick

Blackwater traitors turn on country

War Criminals 1

War Criminals 2

Bush Legacy

Fugly

Moron

Stooges


Code Pink Reality

Atomic Dick

NMN

Konasticker (origional)

4 Skanks of the Apocalypse (original)

Oops, how’d that get in there? (original)

GOP ‘04

Deserter (original)

Democratic Messiah (original)

Wet Dream (original)

This little piggy….(original)


Uncle George (orginial)

TNGOP

Pointificated

Murderer

Operation Yellow Elephant


Argue with him why don’t you?

VFW at Bush Speech

Looks like Muskrat Love

Uh, ooooookay

And a child shall lead them

Justice Delayed

Justice served?

Arabian Romance

4th Riche (original)

Hey, I’ve called every Inaugural Ball “pompous horseshit". Why should this one be any different?

There’s something about having a national party while the nation and the world are bleeding that I never will get it seems. I thought it was the pinnacle of arrogance for George Bush to hold the big bash in ‘04 while our soldiers were dying for nothing and our economy was falling apart (as did many fellow Liberals). Am I supposed to feel any different when the guy I voted for does the same thing under worse conditions?

……Sorry, can’t do it.

It’s all on you now, Barack. No more passing the buck, no more of the civil rights movement apex…
You’re just the President of the United States now. You made campaign promises (lots of them) and now we who believed in you want results.

Your cabinet choices leave much to be desired. Your statement in response to Speaker Pelosi’s desire to prosecute BushCo war criminals “we need to look forward as opposed to looking backward.” sounds a lot like THIS.

I have news for you Mr. President, the past is like a wild animal. If you turn your back on it, it just might bite you in the ass in the future.

Now, many of Obama’s campaign promises were scrubbed from the Change.gov website for whatever reason, but no matter. The razor sharp notatypewriter.com preserved it all…

Sometime on the weekend of 2008 November 8, the Agenda section of the President-elect Obama’s website change.gov was removed.

I have no clue why this happened, but I have preserved the removed files here. I obtained everything using Google Cache using a site:change.gov directive.

* Civil Rights
* Defense
* Disabilities
* Economy
* Education
* Energy & Environment
* Ethics
* Faith
* Family
* Fiscal
* Foreign Policy
* Health Care
* Homeland Security
* Immigration
* Iraq
* Poverty
* Rural
* Seniors & Social Security
* Service
* Taxes
* Technology
* Urban Policy
* Veterans
* Women
* Additional Issues

Go to http://notatypewriter.com/Obama-ChangeGov/ for the PDF and HTML links.

Yes, it’s all on you now, Barack. Let’s hope you’re everything you and your staff said you are.
Because if you’re not, we’ll be right here, every day, to remind you.
If you think we scrutinized Bush hard, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Party’s over. Good people are dying in war and languishing in prison. People are living on the skids… hungry, sick, destitute. You are the leader of a country thirsting for justice. Get busy.

We just need to pause for a moment and mention something of interest. Now, we voted for Barack Obama. We have come dangerously close to regretting it. Now, we are even closer.

Ok Barack. Mr. “pragmatism” (God, I hate that fucking word). You’re really going to have to have a good explanation for this latest bit of ass kissing.

This goes even beyond the disgusting way you coddled Joe Lieberman and many of the other departures from your projected persona. You have sat down with some of the most vile traitors this country has.
George Will. Right-Wing fringe columnist for the Washington Post, Republican operative and all ’round piece of Ultra-Conservanoid crap, asked Obama to party with him and his low life colleagues…

From Politico:

By KENNETH P. VOGEL | 1/13/09 9:46 PM EST
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Talk about reaching across the aisle – and the dinner table.

President-elect Barack Obama was the guest of honor at a Tuesday evening dinner party attended by a roster of conservative journalism’s leading heavyweights.

Held at the Chevy Chase, Md., home of Washington Post columnist George Will, the dinner was attended by fellow Postie Charles Krauthammer, as well as David Brooks and William Kristol of the New York Times.

The columnists were sometimes among Obama’s harshest critics on the campaign trial and the meal seems likely an effort to get off on the right foot with potentially influential critics as Obama prepares to take office next week.

Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor, spotted at the dinner party by a pool reporter, refused to confirm details, telling Politico the dinner was off-the-record.

In a pool report filed from outside Will’s home, Kenneth R. Bazinet of the New York Daily News wrote “This is for real, folks. The bloggers are going to love this one.”

Yep, you read it right. The PNAC Zionist traitor, William Kristol. Obama sat down with Bill Kristol….
Kristol, the former co-founder of the Project for a New American Century, is one of the Signatories who fed falsified information to the White House and to Congress that helped push the decision to go to war with Iraq.
He is directly responsible for every last US Military death and injury in that God forsaken conflict. He is a traitor in every sense of the word.

I hope you have some highly cloaked, well planned reason for lending a ray of credibility to Kristol and the other vermin that attended this suarez, Barack. Because right now you look like either a supreme idiot, a supreme kiss-ass or both.
You have given ear to people, who in a just world, would probably be taken out and shot like the mangy dogs that they are.

What are you, Barack Obama? A man or a mouse?
Are you Hillary in a suit? Bush with a tan?

Get your head out of your ass, dude. You’re taking this “pragmatism” bullshit way, way too far.
These sons-of-whores you have recreated with never gave an inch to us when BushCo ruled the country. They laughed us to scorn and called us “Terrorist appeasers". They called you a Terrorist while you campaigned.

If you’re not a fucking pussy, Barack. Quit acting like one. Because right now “pussy” is what I’m seeing.

Bill Kristol getting Pied by Liberal Hero

It seems that Bristol Tennessee’s Resident Right Winger, Jason Mumpower was taking his prospective assent to the speakership of the TN House a little too much for granted.


KnoxViews (GDrinnen2), Klienhider, Cara Kumari

It seems that Carter County’s Kent Williams-R just worked out a deal with a wounded Tennessee Democratic Party to pull a little presto-changeo on the new Republican majority and effectively, thankfully, prevented Jason Mumpower from becoming speaker of the TN House.

Our own Jason Mumpower

Rep. Kent Williams, a more moderate sort of Republican, had sworn to vote with his party concerning the speakership and the Republican go-to guy was Mumpower. The Republicans assumed Mumpower’s conformation was automatic.
WRONG!

In a bold and unusually courageous little move, Williams and the Democratic members of the TN House pulled what is, for all intents and purposes, a coup.
Williams voted for himself along with all of the Democrats. Effectively sending the Right-Wing extremist, Mumpower to the showers.
This brilliant move could be a factor in limiting Right-Wing power in Nashville as Williams will now need to repay those Dems that voted for him by assigning committee chairs who are not Right-Wing freaks.

“Kent Williams has betrayed his constituents and the people of Carter County in breaking his pledge - his signed oath - to vote for the nominee of the Republican caucus for Speaker of the House. He lied, in a quest for personal power, in league with Democrat Speaker Jimmy Naifeh and House Minority Leader Gary Odom, in their desire to retain power despite the results of the 2008 elections.” - TNGOP Chair, Robin Smith

Well, Jason. Better luck next time. Try not to take your eye off the ball if you ever get up to bat again.
And always remember, for all you do, this blog’s for you.

Congrats to the TNDP for finding it’s backbone.

As one might have guessed, the world’s major humanitarian agencies are calling for a United Nations investigation of Israel for war crimes.

This is an open and shut case. The only question is, will the US and Europe veto justice once again?

It’s no secret. The evidence is there for all to see. Israel made no attempt to hide their crimes until they realized that world public opinion was very much against them. They simply targeted and slaughtered scores of civilians as bold and as plain as you please and were arrogant and brazen enough to think it was okay.
The Zionist mind is poisoned by it’s own fear and racial hatred.

Once Israel realized that the world was not going to accept their crimes, only then did they begin to shut out the media and attempt to hide the carnage.
Rest assured, much like Iraq, we have not yet seen the entire face of the slaughter in Gaza.
The atrocities we will learn of in the near future will sicken and disgust all decent people the world over.

Chances of getting Israel sanctioned are slim at best, but they are clearly and irrefutably deserving of every possible punishment.
Zionist Israel shouldn’t take such charges too hard. A war crimes tribunal is nothing compared to the misery they have earned themselves in the not too distant future.

From The Guardian:

Israel is facing growing demands from senior UN officials and human rights groups for an international war crimes investigation in Gaza over allegations such as the “reckless and indiscriminate” shelling of residential areas and use of Palestinian families as human shields by soldiers.

With the death toll from the 17-day Israeli assault on Gaza climbing above 900, pressure is increasing for an independent inquiry into specific incidents, such as the shelling of a UN school turned refugee centre where about 40 people died, as well as the question of whether the military tactics used by Israel systematically breached humanitarian law.

The UN’s senior human rights body approved a resolution yesterday condemning the Israeli offensive for “massive violations of human rights". A senior UN source said the body’s humanitarian agencies were compiling evidence of war crimes and passing it on to the “highest levels” to be used as seen fit.

Some human rights activists allege that the Israeli leadership gave an order to keep military casualties low no matter what cost to civilians. That strategy has directly contributed to one of the bloodiest Israeli assaults on the Palestinian territories, they say.

John Ging, head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency in Gaza, said: “It’s about accountability [over] the issue of the appropriateness of the force used, the proportionality of the force used and the whole issue of duty of care of civilians.

“We don’t want to join any chorus of passing judgment but there should be an investigation of any and every incident where there are concerns there might have been violations in international law.”

The Israeli military are accused of:

• Using powerful shells in civilian areas which the army knew would cause large numbers of innocent casualties;

• Using banned weapons such as phosphorus bombs;

• Holding Palestinian families as human shields;

• Attacking medical facilities, including the killing of 12 ambulance men in marked vehicles;

• Killing large numbers of police who had no military role.

Israeli military actions prompted an unusual public rebuke from the International Red Cross after the army moved a Palestinian family into a building and shelled it, killing 30. The surviving children clung to the bodies of their dead mothers for four days while the army blocked rescuers from reaching the wounded.

Human Rights Watch has called on the UN security council to set up a commission of inquiry into alleged war crimes.

Two leading Israeli human rights organizations have separately written to the country’s attorney general demanding he investigate the allegations.

But critics remain skeptical that any such inquiry will take place, given that Israel has previously blocked similar attempts with the backing of the US.

Amnesty International says hitting residential streets with shells that send blast and shrapnel over a wide area constitutes “prima facie evidence of war crimes".

People starving. Children, starving by the bodies of their dead parents.
Thought we were making it up, didn’t you?

The Red Cross, in a rare chastisement of a nation, has found and exposed ample evidence of just exactly the kind of inhuman cruelty Israel so willingly and knowingly perpetrates upon it’s victims in Gaza.

This is ethnic cleansing, there is no other explanation.

There is little left to say at this point. Israel is a subhuman disgrace. Our government? Equally disgraceful in endorsing these acts of cold blooded murder.
Harry Reid, Democratic Senator from Nevada, is an idiot. A spineless, incessantly pathetic fool that speaks too soon and acts too late. He is a coward who would rather pander to the traitors at AIPAC than oppose the mass murder of the children of Gaza.

“When we pass this resolution, the United States Senate will strengthen our historic bond with the state of Israel, by reaffirming Israel’s inalienable right to defend against attacks from Gaza, as well as our support for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said before the vote.

Noting that Israel was bent on halting Hamas rocket fire into its southern towns, Reid said: “I ask any of my colleagues to imagine that happening here in the United States. Rockets and mortars coming from Toronto in Canada, into Buffalo New York. How would we as a country react?”

Well, Reid, you abhorrently lame Zionist shill. Canada is NOT a terrorist state occupying land that it has no right to occupy. Now, in Bush’s America, yes. If rockets were launched from “Toronto” we would surely kill as many civilians as possible. Interesting to find you with a Bush-like NeoCon mindset, Mr. Reid. Now we know why nothing has been done in the Senate.
In the REAL AMERICA, you sniveling clown, if rockets were launched from “Toronto” we would pursue the criminal element and bring them to justice. We certainly would not, under what is supposed to be a Democratic government, find the first church or hospital or school full of kids to retaliate against.
Perhaps you and Dick Cheney would, Mr. Reid. But not real Americans.
I find the fact that Harry Reid, and the remainder of the Senate body, would advocate attacking the people of Canada if a few people launched a rocket at us to be, well, pure Dick Cheney in nature.
It would be kinda like NY being attacked by Israel and blowing up Iraq in retaliation, wouldn’t it?

You’re a stupid little man, Harry Reid. A disgrace to your country and your party. Time for you to lose your Senate seat.

From IHT:

JERUSALEM: International aid groups lashed out at Israel on Thursday over the war in Gaza, saying that access to civilians in need is poor, relief workers are being hurt and killed, and Israel is woefully neglecting its obligations to Palestinians who are trapped, some among rotting corpses in a nightmarish landscape of deprivation.

The United Nations declared a suspension of its aid operations after one of its drivers was killed and two others were wounded despite driving United Nations-flagged vehicles and coordinating their movements with the Israeli military. The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, called for an investigation by Israel for a second time in a week after the more than 40 deaths near a United Nations school from Israeli tank fire on Tuesday.

The UN’s only mission is to help feed, clothe and distribute medicine to the victims of this holocaust. And Israel even attacks them knowingly and willingly.

The International Committee of the Red Cross reported finding what it called shocking scenes on Wednesday, including four emaciated children next to the bodies of their dead mothers. In a rare and sharply critical statement, it said it believed that “the Israeli military failed to meet its obligation under international humanitarian law to care for and evacuate the wounded.”

Read that Harry Reid and the US Senate, you endorsed it.

“We do our utmost to avoid hitting civilians, and many times we don’t fire because we see civilians nearby,” said Major Avital Leibovich, chief army spokeswoman for the foreign media. “We are holding meetings with UN officials to try to work out a mechanism so that their work can go forward.”

Lying skank. “Work out a mechanism"? Stop shooting at vehicles flying UN flags! The markings are the “mechanism", you filthy Zionist Sow.

Israel condemned a high-ranking Vatican official for comparing Gaza to “a concentration camp.”

“Look at the conditions in Gaza: more and more, it resembles a big concentration camp,” Cardinal Renato Martino, the head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said in an interview published Wednesday in an online publication.

A Vatican Cardinal has never been so eloquently accurate. Gaza is the Auschwitz of the Mediterranean. Israel is the Großdeutsches Reich of the Middle East.

If there is ever to be anything even remotely positive to come out of this atrocity, it could only be that the truth about Israel and Zionism is now exposed for all humanity to see. The pure, Satanic evil of the New Master Race is exposed regardless of how hard the Isriche tries to keep the media out.
We do not need journalists to show us what God has opened our eyes to.

Israel has forgotten all the lessons of the past. It will be now as it has always been from the time of the Levites. What they have sown, so shall they reap.

Lev 26:27-33 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.
And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Recent developments in the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Gaza only support the clear and apparent sub-humanity of the Zionist element in Israel…

Now, Israel has no more lies to tell that will be accepted by any decent human being. The targeting of a school that was being used as a UN relief station has succeeded in costing over 40 innocent people, 10 of them children, their lives. There were no rockets being launched from the UN controlled school…

From the NYT:

JABALIYA, Gaza — The bodies of the children who died outside the United Nations school here were laid out in a long row on the ground. Some were wrapped in the vivid green flag of Hamas, some were in white shrouds and some were in the yellow flag of Fatah, which is rarely seen these days in Hamas-run Gaza.

Hundreds of Gazans crowded around, staring at the little faces, some of them with dark eyes still open, but dulled.

Abdel Minaim Hasan, 37, kneeled, weeping, next to the body of his eldest daughter, Lina, 11, who was wrapped in a Hamas flag. “From now on I am Hamas!” he cried. “I choose resistance!” But then he cursed other Arab nations for ignoring the plight of the Gazans. “The Arabs are doing nothing to protect us!” he shouted.

The streets were crowded Tuesday evening when the mortars struck, Mr. Hasan said. “We were in a United Nations school, we were so far from the tanks.” There were many children around, and he gave Lina a shekel to run to a nearby grocery store. She was hit by shrapnel and died.

Some 280 families — 1,674 people — had been sheltering inside the school, Al Fakhura, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which helps Palestinian refugees and their descendants and which runs the school. Most came from farther north in Gaza, near Beit Lahiya, where the fighting has been intense, an hour’s walk away. They were ordered to evacuate for their safety by Israeli forces, who used leaflets and loudspeakers to get them to leave their homes.

…probably to get them to a centralized location where more could be killed with fewer bombs.

Mr. Ging spoke at the school during a three-hour lull in the fighting on Wednesday. The lull, which Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced would take place every other day, is to allow humanitarian organizations to deliver supplies and Gazans to emerge from their houses and shelters to shop.

Allow Gazans to eat a little before killing their children. How kind. Fatted calf, anyone?

There is also the unsurprising revelation that Israel is indeed using ol’ Wilson Pickett, aka White Phosphorous on the civilian population of Gaza. One of the most highly concentrated populations on the planet, Gaza is highly susceptible to such chemical warfare…

From Alternet:

More recently, it has been reported in the UK Times Online that the Israel Defense Forces is using white phosphorus in its attacks, a controversial substance that can cause excruciating burns, but nevertheless is not illegal if it is only used as a smokescreen. Banned by the Geneva conventions, white phosphorus has been used by the U.S. military in Iraq:

“…The tell-tale shells could be seen spreading tentacles of thick white smoke to cover the troops’ advance. “These explosions are fantastic looking, and produce a great deal of smoke that blinds the enemy so that our forces can move in,” said one Israeli security expert. Burning blobs of phosphorus would cause severe injuries to anyone caught beneath them and force would-be snipers or operators of remote-controlled booby traps to take cover. Israel admitted using white phosphorus during its 2006 war with Lebanon.”

Aircraft, state-of-the-art bombs, chemicals…
Israel is nothing short of a monster.
The Zionists have begun their stride down the path of self destruction. Much like the Nazis of ‘39, they will fall victim to their own paranoia and racist hatred. They now richly deserve any punishment that comes their way.

And I will shed not one tear. Not even one sigh.

For the second straight week Israeli Terrorists continue to pound unarmed Gazans with state of the art weapons. In spite of calls by the people of the world to stop the murderous rampage in Gaza, the Zionist element continues to cast the shadow of death across the Holy Land.

Oblivious to humanitarian need and full of lies and deceptions, Israel continues it’s Shoah (holocaust) of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in direct defiance of world public opinion and international law.
As the humanitarian crises deepens, Israel and it’s monstrous leadership show no signs of mercy, common decency or anything else remotely related to humanity.

“God’s chosen people” my ass. The manifestation of evil is what Israel has become. Moving with all the caution and care of SS Officers, Ehud Barak (Labour), Tzipi Livni (Ruling Kadima) and the terrorist mastermind Benjemin Nethanyu (Likud) have managed to create a catastrophic disaster in which many hundreds of innocent Palestinians have died or are dying.

In typical Zionist fashion, Israel began a public relations movement, aimed basically at American public opinion, that parallels their criminal action in Gaza. This is the standard “way of deception” that the unholy prides it’s self on. Just listen to the bold-faced lying of Tzipi Livni, Zionist foreign minister, as she states “there is no humanitarian crises in Gaza”.
The UN sees it differently.
From IHT:

JERUSALEM: Inhabitants in the Gaza Strip are facing a serious health and food crisis seven days into an Israeli bombing campaign, despite an increase in humanitarian shipments, U.N. officials said on Friday.

The U.N. also estimates that at least 100 civilians — many of them women and children — were among the 400 people killed so far by airstrikes, said Maxwell Gaylard, U.N. humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinians Territories. He said 2,000 people have been wounded.

“There is a critical emergency right now in the Gaza Strip right now as we speak,” said Gaylard. “It is true supplies have been going into the strip, in fact possibly more than in previous weeks, but at the same time there are critical gaps.”

He explained that crucial wheat grain for bread was not being shipped into the area in sufficient quantities and there was not enough industrial fuel oil to run the power plant.

Power outages are lasting 16 hours at a time and running water is only available every five to seven days, according to the U.N.

The Israeli disinformation campaign is in full swing. Many of the lies include:

1) “It’s self defense". As parroted by Neocon and Zionist Pig, Alan Dershowitz.
“Israel’s Policy Is Perfectly Proportionate” squeals Dershowitz.

Really? Let’s examine that.

In reference to rockets allegedly fired by Hamas, Doucheowitz invokes the Israeli town of Sderot. A small town on the border of Gaza that has been struck by rocket fire for eight years running now. The most interesting thing about this? The “massive” death toll in Sderot from these rockets over the last eight years amounts to 13. Yep, thirteen. Only in the eyes of a Nazi would hundreds be a just revenge for thirteen.
And why wait ’til now to do something about it? Perhaps some of those “rockets” come from a source other than Hamas. Israel well knows the strategy of False Flag Ops. A favorite tactic of Adolph Hitler and other world leaders given to deception and the lust for war.

2) “Israel has a God given right to Semitic land". No, they don’t.

Upon the meeting of President George W. Bush and “Israeli” Prime Minister Sharon on April 14, at the White House, Washington DC, Orthodox Jews will be demonstrating in front of the White House, to proclaim and clearly state that: Sharon and the State of “Israel” are illegitimate and they do not represent the Jewish people.

Date: Wednesday April 14, 2004
Place: White House, Lafayette Park
Time: 12:00 PM

Let it be known that:

The State of “Israel” does not represent the voice of Judaism and/or the Jewish people. The Torah clearly forbids the formation of a State, for the Jewish people, in their time of exile.

The Torah forbids stealing land, subjugating and oppressing a people etc.

The root cause of the endless bloodshed and suffering in the Holy Land is Zionism and the State of “Israel".

3) “Israel is a Democracy".
Nope. People vote in Iran and Palestine too. Knesset, Israel’s legislative branch of gubberment, can dissolve the gov’t at any time. Basically a Mob-Rule Dictatorship where a vote only counts when they allow it to. Israel, like the US, is no stranger to vote fraud either.

4) “Israel is our friend".
Absolute bullshit. “Friends” don’t do things like spy on us and attack our people as they did in 1967 when Israeli fighters and torpedo boats knowingly and willingly attacked the USS Liberty. 34 American sailors died being fired upon by “friends".

From the PNAC and the War for Israel in Iraq, to the wholesale slaughter of the innocent in Lebanon and now Palestine, Israel and it’s Zionist element is clearly and unequivocally an aggressor without conscience or morality.
Even to the point of being condescending enough to claim “victim” status. The fact is that the poor and oppressed of Palestine are the only victims. Israel simply employees the “blame the victim” mentality. Much the same way women have been treated in Israel after being raped.

The only thing more disgusting to us than Israel’s lies is the fact that our Government supports the mayhem and murder that Israel is so obviously guilty of.

The world has spoken. There is no argument on Israel’s behalf. Israel will heed the will of the Earth’s people or suffer the consequences of their actions.

Selah.

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