Is Racism Dead?

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It seems that 'protesting while black' is a crime in 'merica.

http://3chicspolitico.com/2014/09/16/st-louis-county-opinions-on-ferguson-black-vs-white/

This is so disturbing!

According to the survey taken, Michael Brown’s SKIN was his SIN. Unarmed, running away, surrendering doesn’t mean a DAMN thing. Whites in St Louis County says Darren Wilson was justified for shooting down Michael Brown. It makes you wonder about who is on that Grand Jury.

1. Was Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson justified in shooting Michael Brown?
Whites: Yes (62%)
Blacks: No (65%)

2. Who is most responsible for the violence in Ferguson after Michael Brown’s death?
46 percent of whites blame organized street gangs for the looting and chaos that gripped Ferguson for days after the shooting. Blacks blame law enforcement and community activists, both with 27 percent. Only 7 percent of whites said law enforcement was to blame.

3. Was Michael Brown targeted by Officer Darren Wilson because of his race?
Whites: No (77 %)
Blacks: Yes (64%)

4. Should Officer Darren Wilson be arrested and charged with a crime?
Whites: No (72%)
Blacks: Yes (71%)

5. Can Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch fairly prosecute the criminal case against Officer Darren Wilson?
Whites: Yes (71%)
Blacks: No (60%)

This should come as no surprise. McCulloch has been reelected to his post for decades by the county’s majority-white voting base, while black community leaders have organized protests, boycotts and a highway shutdown to get him thrown off the case.

6. Do police target black people because of their race?
White: No (61%)
Black: Yes (70%)

Read more about it here: Opinions on Ferguson violence

The full study is here: Ferguson Public Opinion

Until some people get over the idea that 'white is right' we will continue to have this problem. But as long as we have hate organizations like Fox Faux News that cater to the low information, mouth breathing knuckle draggers that make up the reTHUGlican, CONservative Teabagger Party we can look forward to more of this bullshit.

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Peace

150 Years Ago Today

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address

Rep. Steve King Says Government Shutdown Will Be President Obama's Fault

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These guys aren't even pretending to live on this planet anymore.



http://www.forwardprogressives.com/rep-steve-king-says-any-government-shutdown-will-be-the-fault-of-obama-tantrum-not-republicans/

"This is by far my favorite argument that I’ve seen coming from Republicans when it comes to pretty much anything.  It’s so absurd that it just makes me wish for a moment I could be inside their heads, because I would love to see what reality is like on their planet.

Because, based on comments such as those of Republican Rep. Steve King, many of them sure as heck aren’t living on this one.

See, according to Rep. King, if the government does end up getting shut down it won’t be the fault of Republicans—it’ll all be President Obama’s fault.

Let’s take a look at his “reasoning” for this:

“So the House will make sure that the funds are available.  And if the president should decide he’s going to shut down the government, it will never be the House of Representatives, if this happens it will be either an act of either Harry Reid and the Democrats in the Senate or the president or them working in conjunction with each other.  If the president decides to shut the government down, it will be the equivalent of a political tantrum, saying ‘I will have my piece of signature legislation even if the American people reject it and I’ll punish you by shutting the government down if I don’t get my way.’”

And he’s dead serious.

Basically, because the House passed legislation that funds the government but strips funding for the Affordable Care Act (which the president has clearly stated he would veto if it ever reached his desk — and it won’t), that’s King’s reasoning behind how this is President Obama’s fault.

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Their reasoning is that the American people have "spoken" and we don't want 'ObamaCare'.

Desipte all the data coming in that it(ACA) is popular once people know that it will help them.

They keep spouting teabagger and Faux News taliking points that are pushed by the likes of the Koch(sucking) brothers that all of America is against.

I hope they keep this idiocy up through 2016.

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John Kerry Costs U.S. Defense Industry $400 Billion

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STORY HERE

Gotta love The Onion!
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“Responding to initial reports that Syria may relinquish its stockpile of chemical weapons following Secretary of State John Kerry’s assertion that doing so would decrease the likelihood of American military strikes, representatives for the domestic defense industry complained to reporters Tuesday that the top-ranking diplomat may have cost them $400 billion in revenue. “We were ready to produce and sell tomahawk missiles, advanced combat systems, and more unmanned predator drones, but instead our Secretary of State had to run his big fat mouth about options for averting war, and now we’re out hundreds of billions of dollars,” said a visibly upset Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn A. Hewson, who along with her fellow executives at Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and General Dynamics complained that because the initial invasion would have more than likely led to a protracted, wide-ranging international conflict, Kerry might have even cost them trillions.”
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I wouldn’t put it past the companies to bitch about it. They’re probably doing it anyway behind closed doors.

http://maxpics.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/john-kerry-costs-u-s-defense-industry-400-billion/

Secret Quarter-Billion-Dollar Koch Brothers Political Operation Revealed

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STORY HERE

If Democrats had done this all the damn Right Wing Nuts,Teabaggers and every conservative in the country would be screaming about voter fraud, vote fixng, illegal funding or whatever Fox News, Pedophile Drug Addict OxyRush Limbaugh, Glen "Cry Baby" Beck told them to get mad about.

There would be crying and gnashing of teeth while yelling for IMPEACHMENT, RECALL ELECTIONS, and any other means they could think of to get Democrats out of office.
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Politico.com, the Washington insider website, has the money-in-politics scoop of the year: It has unmasked a previously unknown political money laundering operation, set up by the energy billionaires and libertarian Koch brothers, that raised $256 million and secretly spent almost all of it last year against Democrats.
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The fact that secretive right-wingers could amass and spend a quarter-billion dollars in a presidential election cycle and go undetected under federal campaign finance law is an astounding indictment of the American electoral system, revealing that all the laws intending to inform the public about who is slinging political mud are meaningless. The mockery goes even further when considering the section of the federal tax code the group is operating under: 501(c)6. That designation is for trade associations, which lets the group conceal its donors.
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The last sentence says it all.

"In other words, a new era of class warfare in America is just beginning.

I'm beginning to fear more and more for the common ordinary people of America and for America's future.

http://bearssoapbox.over-blog.com/article-secret-quarter-billion-dollar-koch-brothers-political-operation-revealed-120039218.html

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Over 400,000 votes in Az have NOT yet been counted! Maybe 600000+

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The story broke this morning and the estimate was 400,000. It’s now being predicted that it’s up to 600,000+
http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/free/20121107provisional-ballot-woes-swamp-county.html

Petra Falcon, executive director of Promise Arizona, said she was told that 200,000 provisional ballots were cast, as well as 200,000 early ballots. She said counting of those votes will not even begin until this morning and she feared the Maricopa County sheriff’s race would be called before then. And it was, with Sheriff Joe Arpaio beating Democrat Paul Penzone to win his sixth term in office.
“Four hundred thousand ballots — that’s a lot,” Falcon said. “Even if it’s an Arpaio win, those votes should be counted.”
Roopali Desai, Promise Arizona’s attorney, said the number of provisional ballots is “unprecedented” in Arizona — or anywhere. “Nobody can explain it,” she added. “We’re trying to get to the bottom of it.”

If you are in Arizona, Please sign!!!!
http://www.promiseazaction.org/fair_election_system?splash=1
I saw this on Democratic Underground.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021759187
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If the bastards can’t win national elections without cheating maybe they can win states or locals.

Obama Wins!!!!

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A little(?) late but it has been busy and exciting  the past 3 or 4 days.
I am so happy. And tired. I have been so busy the past several weeks helping the Obama campaign by doing up mailers, making calls and any other way to help from my home. And having repeated arthritis problems that seemed to concentrate in my feet, hands and elbows didn’t help things either. Hopefully I can get back on some kind of schedule again.
Well, here’s some toons from last night and today.

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KKKarl wasn’t very philosophical on election night when his lapdog lost. He was practically pissing himself trying to convince anyone around him that Rmoney had a chance after everyone had called the election for President Obama. That was one of the thins that made the hard work worth it the pain.

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This was posted on President Obama’s face book page at about 5:00P.M. today.
The caption said, ‘Thank you’.

O’Donnell slams Des Moines Register endorsement of Mitt as ‘magical thinking’

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Reblogged from MSNBC:

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell accused The Des Moines Register of “adopting Mitt Romney’s magical thinking” by endorsing the Republican candidate for president.

In the Rewrite segment on Tuesday’s edition of The Last Word, he called their decision one of the “most embarrassing endorsements in the history of that newspaper.”
His bone to pick with the Iowa paper’s editorial board revolved around how they argued the case for Romney, not their specific choice of candidate.

Read more… 149 more words

O'Donnell rips the Register to pieces using what the rethugs fear and don't understand the most so they (rethugs) don't use them...facts and truth.

 http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/10/30/odonnell-slams-des-moines-register-endorsement-of-mitt-as-magical-thinking/ 

ReReblogged from here with permission.

The Details Of Romney’s Tax Plan

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My arthritis in my hands has been so bad for several days it’s been hard to press the stupid keys.
But I had to share this.
It will make the whole plan clear.
http://www.romneytaxplan.com/
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I can’t even take the most effective drugs because of reactions to them.
I think the worst thing that happens, is when my leg that has venous stasis, just starts oozing blood through the skin.
OTC works just as well as most scripts that I can take.
Well, enjoy the tax plan.
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Pretty good debate tonight.
IMHO President Obama won. I don’t think Mittens was happy when he was called out on things he said that weren’t true.

That is not a happy camper.
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What’s next Rmoney? Screens in submarines?

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I'm reblogging this with permission.

MrMaxPics
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“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were,” Romney said. “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound.”
I’m not making light of fires on planes and I’m glad that Mrs. Rmoney is OK. But can anyone really be that stupid?

Aside from the wonderment of why airplane windows don’t open, does he not realize what happens when you add oxygen to fire? I’m assuming there was no actual fire in the cabin, but there had to be one somewhere, or at least a potential one. Oh, wait. That’s science. Ooops. Sorry, I forgot who I was talking about and to.
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Yeah…that’s a puzzler Mittens.
I wonder. Did the same people pick this guy that picked Failin’ Palin for McCain?
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A few of the suggestions for new features on the Romney’s redesigned plane.

•  It’s only capable of hard right turns

•  Automatic pilot defaults directly to Grand Cayman Islands

•  Oxygen for the 53%

•  Fact Avoidance Radar

•  Capable of flying several different directions at the same time

•  Optional TSA vaginal ultrasound wanding on request

•  Two words: Sun Roof

•  Hidden compartments for undocumented servants

• Straps for dog and horse carriers on roof of plane

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I swear. It’s getting hard to keep up with these guys.

Found another one.

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This has nothing to do with what Air Mitt said but maybe it could be the paint job for his plane.

Oh Boy! Secret Ryan Tape: He describes Social Security & Medicare as “collectivist” & “socialistic.”

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I notice that nowhere did Lyin' Ryan mention that he collected social security after his dad died, as did his hero Rand when she got old and sick.

Those dickhead, hypocrite bastards.

THEY GOT THEIRS!!!!

FUCK EVERYONE ELSE!!!!!



This is the event where Ryan stated that Rand was the “one thinker” who is the “reason I got involved in public service;” and that Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are “required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff.”  Statements he would latter dismiss as “urban legends.”
The speech has been hidden in plain sight on the Atlas Society website, which offers only a partial transcript.  This omits several revealing passages that illuminate Ryan’s philosophy as it relates to policy priorities.

It is impossible to summarize these statements without sounding like a breathless conspiracy theorist.  Here’s what Ryan says.  Don’t trust my bullets.  Read the transcript.  Don’t trust my transcript, listen to the audio on the Atlas Society site. http://www.atlassociety.org/ele/blog/2012/04/30/paul-ryan-and-ayn-rands-ideas-hot-seat-again
(Just scroll to the bottom of the text about Ryan (above), and you'll see a grey icon of a speaker and an arrow. Click on the arrow and the audio will play. The grey audio player is located directly above the golden star rating.)

• Ryan describes Social Security and Medicare as “collectivist” and “socialistic.” 


• Ryan’s strategic plan:  privatize Social Security and Medicare in order to convert people from “collectivism” to believers in a “individualist capitalist” philosophy.  So that there will be “more people on our team” who “won’t listen to” Democrats. 


• Ryan’s acceptance of Pinochet’s Secretary of Social Security José Piñera’s similar program of Social Security privatization as a “moral revolution” that made Marxists into capitalists who started to read the Chilean equivalent of the Wall Street Journal.  Ryan is overheard, “Yeah”  “That’s right.”
  
  
  
  For Ryan “defined benefit” programs such as Social Security and Medicare are problems in themselves. This isn’t something he saves for gatherings of the Ayn Rand Society, such concerns about “dependency” are scattered throughout his Path to Prosperity—again hidden in plain sight. This transcript doesn’t so much reveal a secret, as highlight a clear theme in his policy rationale that is always present, but in more public settings subordinated to his prophecies of fiscal apocalypse. Thus, it is no surprise his budget cuts the safety net and radically reshapes Medicare first and addresses the deficit later.
  
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  In the published transcript Ryan states that like Rand, he views all political and policy questions as battle between individualism and collectivism.
  
  
  (2:38) In almost every fight we are involved in here, on Capitol Hill, whether it’s an amendment vote that I’ll take later on this afternoon, or a big piece of policy we’re putting through our Ways and Means Committee, it is a fight that usually comes down to one conflict: individualism vs. collectivism.
  
  
  
  FULL TRANSCRIPT:
  http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&entry_id=5368
  http://www.alternet.org/hot-news-views/paul-ryan-social-security-collectivist-socialist-system-must-end

Romney’s Magic Whiteboard

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Maybe he should have kept the Etch-a-Sketch.

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I think I’ve just about got it!

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“Just follow these easy instructions and soon you to, will be putting money in off shore accounts.”

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When I become President…

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We need to keep saying over and over…President Obama’s campaign should take the high road and campaign like an adult.

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What to do or say when asked about taxes.

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Hmmm…My pyramid shaped vault is almost full.

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