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Here is my impression of Obama. He ran for the presidency to make history. After he was elected, he had $150 million in a trust fund. After four years in office his trust fund will be $170 million. He is a corporate elitist. He will have a fabulous retirement package along with his wife - win or lose!!! Why worry about re-election??? Most politicians run for the office with a slim possibility of winning and they can keep the money they made during their run for office. NOW THAT IS A TRUE RACKET!!!!! OBAMA WILL NOT BE RE-ELECTED!!!!! THE GOP CAN RUN A DOG AGAINST OBAMA AND THE DOG WILL WIN. WHAT WE ARE SEEING FROM THE GOP AND OBAMA IS A DOG AND PONY SHOW!!!!!
@Palindromedary, the perfect comment for our times!!!
If you are not in a crying mood, please do not read these articles!!!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Will-Obama-and-the-Supply-by-Richard-Clark-110611-660.html
The coming great depression!!!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Death-Of-Democracy-St-by-Jillian-Barclay-110611-942.html
The end of democracy!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/10-Weiner-rules-for-the-Co-by-Mike-Adams-110612-944.html
Here are ten rules we learned in kindergarten! http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-s-Slipping-Popularit-by-Stephen-Lendman-110612-922.html
Obama’s favorable ratings at the toilet level!!!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Liar-Weiner-liars-everywh-by-Brent-Budowsky-110611-535.html
Liars everywhere!!!
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=133039
The Anti-Life Party wants to screw our military veterans!!!!! http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Rich-Are-Destroying-th-by-shamus-cooke-110611-995.html
I am nearing my seventy-second birthday. Why would someone my age cry? You need only to read the above articles and you will know why!!!
Weiner, Weiner, he's our man!
If Weiner can't do it then nobody can!
Weiner for President...2012!!1
But if Weiner can't do it the lets get Bernie...or how about Thom Hartmann. I'm not kidding...anyone but a Republican or Obama(the covert Republican).
The reality headlines in your blog, much like Antony Weiner's approach communicate the inconvenient truth the Republican mass media continually suppresses.Those in control of the massive news outlets fully realize the use of their WEAPON OF MASS DEMOCRATIC DESTRUCTION can transform a marginal- non pollitical issue like Weiner's indiscretion into a larger than life personal/political assault.
These rightwing media tactics have proven highly successful in manipulating and steering a frightened and vulnerable population away from truth and reality and thus we have the Tea-baggers!
We need more Antony Weiner and Bernie Sanders type politicians who have the courage to stand up to the TYRANTS and speak the truth. "Truth is great and will prevail" ! TJ
Until the bulk of the working class realizes that the corporatists are not on their side and "government" is not always evil, the GOP is going to be able to run with their agenda. The GOP's short term goal is to wreck the economy to defeat Obama, then, once they are back in total control of government, they can turn the clock back to 1900 and implement their complete agenda.
I have read that our military soldiers are experiencing illness from the Iraqi desert dust. I have heard and read about Desert Fever. I believe the fever is low grade and there is no cure for it. The person who has desert fever will have to live with the fever for the rest of his life. All through life it will flare up and affect each person in a various ways.
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=15209
bicyclingjroad thinks that insults substitutes for intelligence. ad hominem attacks - A+! Intelligent discussion or comments - a great bug F!
PART 2
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Obama-Doctrine-Lawles-by-Stephen-Lendman-110611-87.html
I keep receiving requests for money by various websites. My wife and I have only so much money to donate. If I am going to give a donation, it will be for my church and the work our parish does to help people.
Here are some of the works that our Christian Service Commission does to help people in the parish and also in various communities around the county.
Christian Service Commission (Donations and Work)
Blood Donation, Clothing, Home Goods, and Toiletries, Earth Care, Elderly and/or Homebound, Gospel of Life, Health Ministry, Homelessness-Housing Rehabilitation, Hunger, Jail Ministry, Nursery, Peace and Justice, Women/Children Shelters, Senior Citizen Centers, AIDS, Hospice, Refugee Shelters, Race Relations, International Peace, Crisis Pregnancy, Soup Kitchens, Food Banks, and Persons with Disabilities!
The Perfect Date
Men, have you from time to time thought about the perfect date? I believe that the perfect date has changed in your thoughts over the years. As I am now in the twilight of my life, I will share with my thoughts of the perfect date.
As I rang the doorbell to the home of my perfect date, who should answer the door, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, looking very lovely. You go to the car with your date and as you ride to the restaurant you find yourself talking to Cindy Sheehan. Cindy lost her son in the Iraq war. What is remarkable, she has changed the Iraq war and wars in the near future as mothers’ wars. Mothers will now have to fight for the lives of their children by saying NO to wars.
You arrive at the restaurant and you sit with your date and you find yourself talking with Helen Thomas, the illustrious journalist, who has been in Washington, D.C. for decades. She shares with you her many experiences and you find yourself mesmerized with the details of all her experiences.
After dinner as you drive to a cozy bar for a drink, you have great conversation with Karen Kwiatkowski, a retired military officer, who is quite objective in assessing the current sad state of affairs in Iraq. You feel good talking to her because she is a woman who cares about our American soldiers.
You top the evening off at a cozy bar drinking cold brewskies from the bottle with the late Molly Ivins, another fine writer who tells it like it is. Yes, men, that would be my perfect date.
Culture of Pentecost
I want to mention the culture of Pentecost to you. June 12, 2011 will be Pentecost Sunday. When John Paul lived, he discussed the culture of Pentecost. Our Anti-Life nation and all the nations of the world need a rebirth in religion. The Holy Spirit descended upon earth after Jesus’ Ascension into heaven.
John Paul II would talk about a culture of Pentecost. When he spoke of this culture, he was speaking of a rebirth in religion, prayer, worship, faith, healing, charity, love, mercy, and justice. We must also work for the common good of all in our world. If we are to survive as a people, we need a rebirth in these areas. Let us all strive for rebirth in religion, prayer, worship, faith, healing, charity, love, mercy, justice, and the common good!!! That is our only hope for survival on planet, Earth.
There are two Pentecost dates – one for the Jews and one for the Christians. Pentecost is fifty days after the Passover and Easter. The fifty days are used to thank God and renew our faith. I find that renewing of faith in Israel and America to be impossible, especially with the hatred, corruption, and lies that are so prevalent in these two countries. How can the Jewish and Christian faiths thank God on one hand and slaughter His children with the other hand? Pentecost makes no sense to the true disciples who follow God. True disciples of God will not kill His children.
The Latin American bishops in Medellin, Columbia in 1968 declared that to be a church is to be an agent of social justice, an instrument of liberation, and a defender of the poor and the oppressed. I say that to be a Christian we need to work for social justice, liberation from hatred, and a defender of the poor and the oppressed. We must believe in the Golden Rule and we must practice the Golden Rule.
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
Mahatma Gandhi
A possible qoute of the day?
Thom can you recommend and books on positive thinking ? I enjoyed reading the secret. Thanks
You stated, "David Vitter did worse-soliciting prostitutes is actually a crime, and he's still in the Senate and a major fundraiser for Republicans. Apparently money tainted by prostitution is no problem for Republicans." No problems for dems either. Barney Frank ran a prostitution ring for homosexuals out of his house, and he's still in Congress.
"Stock prices had been rising nonetheless. That was partly because big corporations were enjoying big sales and fat profits from their foreign operations. But foreign sales are slowing. Chalk that up to the European debt crisis, Europe’s insane austerity measures, Japan’s tragedy, and China’s concerns about inflation.
Meanwhile, other companies have been busy restocking inventories in the hope American consumers will be in a mood to buy. But that hope is coming to an end, as the reality dawns that American consumers can’t and won’t buy very much, given their shrinking home values, high debts, and job worries.
Stock prices were also rising because of Wall Street’s certitude that it can make loads of money from the gullibility of millions of small investors.(my emphasis). Here’s where the smoke and mirrors come in.
Over the past year, the Street lured small investors back into the market on the smokey promises that the worst is over and stock prices are bound to rise. The lure became a self-fulfilling prophesy. As investors re-entered the market, they bid up stock prices. Hence, the mirror.
Insiders on the Street are always the first to bail when they sense they’ve been overselling, as they started to do a few weeks ago. This gives them a second opportunity to make money off small investors — by selling short."
--from Robert Reich's web site at
http://www.robertreich.org
Yes, Obama has sold out the working class! And thanks for the great article which says, in part:
"In seeking Republican votes, Obama is putting forth Republican supply-side ideas -- lowering the employer costs of hiring, cutting corporate taxes -- that have nothing to do with this demand-side crisis. He may attract some Republican votes for these, but what's the point if they're irrelevant to the real problem?"
from the article by Robert Reich in opednews
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-the-President-Must-Com-by-Robert-Re...
Thom, I wonderwhere this is all going.
The corporate media runs the show, you will hear nothing negative about Clarence Thomas or any conservative Judge for that matter.
The main problem with this country are the corrupt politicians, so eliminate the lobbyist: another is its low attention span, which is very easy to manipulate, so corporate media needs to be regulated: The tax loop hole’s that encourage outsourcing our countries jobs which were our greatest resource, and the trade deficient we have with countries that have no part in participating in a fair trade environment other than accepting the transference of slavery with no environmental or human rights: The military industrial complex is still the biggest fraud yet applied to the American people not yet uncovered: The future for our children, I would like to know What is the purpose of education if there is no job to apply it to? Education is another business that should not be for profit. I can go on and on with each topic far superior to this stupid stuff that only takes the focus off the real issues. I still find it hard to believe that this stuff is in the headline rather than Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas, which effects the direction this country is going! The majority of the American people are lazy, they choose not to investigate themselves but rather believe what they are told. When I hear something like this, I want to know how it came out, who wrote it, and why at this time it suddenly surfaced, then I will investigate every angle because I have no trust in the corporate media. Yes, I am concern with what came out about Weiner, but more concern in how and why. I place this low on my priority list when it comes down to the military industrial complex, or a Supreme Court judge, or the millions of jobs outsourced by our corrupt politicians. If the majority of the American people can start putting things in perspective, they will no longer allow trivial nonsense to take front-page news and attention away from the real issues that will affect the future for our children, and right now I see no future for my children other than 100,000 dollars school loan with an 8.00 dollar an hour job to pay it off. America, Wake Up!
Here are some worthwhile weekend reading articles!
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/06/11/why-is-america-the-novacation-nation.aspx
America, the no-vacation nation! Americans are slave laborers.
http://www.salon.com/news/david_sirota/2011/06/09/worse_than_weiner_pictures?source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Not%20Premium%29_7_30_110
More important stories!
http://www.salon.com/news/david_sirota/index.html?story=/news/david_sirota/2011/06/10/american_energy_problem&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Not%20Premium%29_7_30_110
Here is another reason for no hope in our country!
Everything Said About Anthony Weiner Is Bull by Michael Bader
There’s only one legitimate reason to be upset with Anthony Weiner, and that’s because his behavior and its discovery has taken away a bold and effective voice in the Democratic Party. Everything else you think and feel about him is bullshit. By bullshit, I mean it has nothing to do with him, and also little to do with broad generalizations made nowadays about the sex and powerful men. The first is too personal and private for anyone to ever know. And the second is so abstract as to be useless in understanding any individual situation. What it does have to do with is you and me, with all of us, who are repeatedly enticed to either buy-in to or create fictive stories about sexual scandals that are little more than projections of our own forbidden or feared desires.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Fight-for-Peace-Heats-by-Tom-Hayden-110609-75.html Is Obama’s re-election in danger???
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Obama-Doctrine-Lawles-by-Stephen-Lendman-110610-455.html His DNA matches perfectly!!!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-the-President-Must-Com-by-Robert-Reich-110609-230.html Has Obama sold out the working class Americans???
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Skating-to-the-Financial-A-by-Danny-Schechter-110609-509.html We are goose-stepping to financial abyss!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Mythology-of-Individua-by-Brian-Cooney-110609-590.html
Individualism?
I agree with you, Weiner should not resign, even though many dems want him to. Weiner was an up and comer. The bad judgement he showed pretty much takes him out of the game. Hang in there Weiner, you make a nice place holder.
http://consortiumnews.com/2011/06/09/three-deadly-war-myths/
Fallacies of war!
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1459
Start with our foreign policies!
http://www.fff.org/comment/com1106l.asp
The media is a distraction for real news!
Hi - I just your petition. Let us know how many signatures you get.
I am exasperated by those of you who are calling for the resignation of Democrat Anthony Weiner, without your simultaneous calling for the resignation of Republican David Vitter. Do you not see or admit to the blatant hypocrisy? What about the cavalcade of other past and current Congressmen found not to be above moral or ethical reproach?
I repeat a prior comment: “Why should Anthony Weiner resign? David Vitter did worse - soliciting prostitutes is actually a crime, and he's still in the Senate and a major fundraiser for Republicans. Apparently money tainted by prostitution is no problem for Republicans. All of the calls for Weiner to resign are opportunistic attempts by political opponents to get rid of him. Where are the calls for David Vitter to resign?”
Anthony Wiener is one of the few more outspoken and fervent advocates of the Democratic agenda on the floor in the House of Representatives. Can anyone proclaim that his continued effectiveness will be compromised by his momentary lapse of judgment with his lewd photos and subsequent breach of veracity, for which he has profusely apologized? Is there any possibility that Wiener just might have been a target of Andrew Breitbart, known for his underhanded ambushing only of Democrats?
Will one of you who profess righteous indignation please attempt to explain why Weiner should be compelled go, while specifically justifying why Vitter, or such others, should stay? Is there a greater hidden agenda, other than morality and ethics? Let’s move on.
Amen to that!
Rep Weiner did not run on a Family Values platform like all republicans do and did. As long as they advocate his resignation, bring up Vitter, Ensign and all those other republican adulterers!
The Democrats have a good thing going for them here: when the pundits yell for Weiner to resign, the Democrats should broadcast the hypocrisy of Vitter and Ensign, who actually did commit adultery and committed CRIMES! And no one asked them to resign!
Wake up Democrats! Stop being cowards! The republicans are bullies and it is time you stood up to them.
Does everyone see the Irony here?
The most Christian nation on earth is the most heartless and hateful!
The loudest who yell from the rooftops against the poor and those unfortunate to be on welfare and food stamps or unemployed, are fundamentalist Christians, and the more fundamentalist, the bigger the hate and heartlessness!
Not only do they want to get rid of Medicare, they now have their sights on Social Security! That's right, their next salvo - Privatize and get rid of social security!
Forget retiring! You work till you die!
That is the message from the hate filled angry fundamentalist Christian Right - only the Christ in Christian is nowhere to be seen in their churches on Sunday morning! Cause he was for the poor and the downtrodden! And their message to the poor and downtrodden – you work till you die! And if you are sick, too bad! And if you can’t find a job, tough!
Irony indeed!
I believe you are mixing apples and bananas! You may want to get rid of Obama for personal reasons and that has nothing to do with ruining the economy so that can happen. But if that is also your goal, ruining the economy, then you are part of the cabal and that is your agenda! So which is it?
2950-10K You have no idea what my voting habits are, or for that matter, anything else about me. I'm glad you not trying to impress anyone, you've succeded at something. Why don't you re-read my post (you can read can't you?) think about it, and engage your brain before you engage you mouth.