too bad we cant start a collection and buy those idiots new brains

I couldn't disagree more about talk shows...if you think that the Tea Baggers, way too stupid and lazy to read a manifesto and too busy flipping between Fox and Honey Boo Boo reruns to really watch TV news, didn't get their fires fueled by guys like Rush Limbaugh, then you are nuts! The problem is that the progressive left has been trying to be civil, be polite, observe the FCC rules in their radio or televison pundit pulpits...and what it's gotten them is a mobilized Far Right and a muddled mess of everything else...

Palindromedary ~ The very words "conspiracy theories" sound to me like, "we have no reason to believe it was foul play." They go hand in hand and are always the first thing thrown out whenever there is a conspiracy and there is foul play. Didn't Bush warn the media about feeding a frenzy of conspiracy theories after 9/11. I certainly remember those words. It was the first time it had occurred to me. Obviously it occurred to Bush immediately. I wonder why....?

Detroit........... a victim of UNregulated capitalism.

Take a good look America, its the future of our country.

WHO failed??? WHO got bailed out with PUBLIC money????? Uhhhhm, the PRIVATE sector.

Government isnt the problem, its OUR government.

The problem is we allow the private sector to RUN our government !!

Zimmerman needs a gun, you have got to be kidding. He is naturally paranoid thinking that some stranger is out to get him. Maybe that is because of the hundreds of death threats he has received. Now he may be thinking that anyone who recognizes him may be "hunting" him. He may have to stand his ground everyday. It is amazing that Tea Party Gun Enthusiasts love the United States Constitution, especiallythe 2nd and 10th amendment, however they hate the people elected to serve in government. The government is elected by the majority is a fair election, but because the people who are elected have too much pigment, they believe they have "lost" their country. I would feel better excet they seem not to have studied the entire Constitution they say they love. If they study the Constsitution they would see the error of their ways. What a country we have.

This case shows we haven't come far enough. As deplorable as it all is, I think it should encourage an honest discussion of race in this country. What you think and what African Americans believe (especially black males) are very different. Did you hear President Obama? That was heartfelt from a man who has experienced this kind of discrimination. You can argue the "facts" all you want, but this kind of incident is a pervasive indicator of where this country still stands on race.

This country has had hundreds of years of unrelenting bigotry, beginning in the 1600s when slave traders first started bring Africans here. It was certainly (along with violence and threat of violence) what kept the slaves under control. When slavery ended, white people had to come up with new ways of keeping control--and that they did. Ku Klux Klan, lynchings, death for the slightest infractions (or no infractions at all). Emmet Till is still one of the most horrifying examples. So is the bombing of the Birmingham church that killed 4 young girls. In Minnesota, 3 blacks who had been working for a circus were lynched in the 1930s because a white girl said they had raped her. After they were hung, and dead, she confessed she lied. Do you think 3 young white men would have been taken out of the jail and lynched on the basis of her story?

I think it's time we started honestly looking at these stories. They are endless. They served to keep everyone in line, out of fear. Now we have privately run prisons that make money by having more prisoners. A big percentage are black. Do you wonder why? No, it's not that they commit more crime. Whites use drugs in about equal proportion to blacks--maybe a little more--but are arrested and convicted at much much higher rates. Why is that?

Thom says this about the Ohio group, "The Buckeye Firearms Foundation"

Quote Thom Hartmann:They are also pushing what sounds like a conspiracy theory - that Attorney General Eric Holder will use the Zimmerman trial to somehow target other gun owners.

This whole story is a conspiracy. The Buckeye Firearms Foundation certainly is a part of it. So is anyone else who helps promote this instigator of racial discord.

No KEND, "You" didn't say that...I did, as part of my qualifications for the type of companies we are talking about.
But more importantly, your inability to not name 100 companies that would meet the criteria I laid out makes you generalized staement a bit moot.

To address your generalized statment regarding "all of the energy companies, with exception to coal. Phone companies, basically any skilled labor." Are you suggesting that there are 50 million American entry level job positions available within skilled labor...Huh?!?! I guess what you are saying is that all those skilled American workers who lost their jobs and have been unemployed, or underemployed for the past several years are just unskilled!

As for your comment generalizing Universal Health Insurance...I can name 5 countries with "socialized" health insurance that cover waaaaaaay more than just, as you put it; "just the basics". Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, & Finland...Okay I lied I know of 6 countries whoes health insurance plan covers more than the sniffles!
When Americans talk about wanting a Universal Health Insurance System...No one here in the U.S. is talking about Stalinism. Rest assured KEND most average tax payers do not want to mirror a Universal Health Insurance System after another countries failed system. We are well aware that there is a sour history that surounds the word "socialism", but at the same we know that with the right people and proper policy - one that is about insuring full medical treatment and preventative health care for the wellbeing of ALL Americans - we can champion a sytem that truely functions at a level better than our current system.
The United States of America could easily become Champions of a social helath insurance system...How, you ask??? Well we already have a tax system inplace we just need to reform how that money is spent. I am all for large budget cuts to the Military, Deffence Dept, and all Federal bureaus such as, the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. Also cut funding to 30 year failed War on Drugs act. And last but not least, Stop spending tax payers money on proping up arbitrary foreign governments.

As Thomas Jefferson said in his first inaugural address; "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entagling alliences with none."
Several years earlier George Washington stated in his Farewell Address; "Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nation, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest...but even our commercial policy should not hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor gathering exclusive favors or preferences." Washington went on to say; "Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground."
These are two of America's Founding Fathers, those who helped draft and sign the Declaration of Independence. Sadly though we have spent the past 113 years underminding this sensible advice. And we are liveing first hand the consequences. But even if the founding fathers advice is "acknowledged" at all it is quicly dismissed on the grounds that we do not live in their times! Which is a very hackneyed argument since today's more complex world cries out for the moral clarity of a noninterventionalist foreign policy much like that of our early days as a soverning nation.

Kend you seem to think that because it's a "Free Country" one can act irresponsable and not have to be accountable for the consequences that steem from unethical buisness practices. Much of what you support and encourage - the dismantleing of Collective Bargainning, Underminding Labor Laws, upholding Corporate Personhood, Wages that are not intune with the basic cost of living, etc., is so contradicting why "our" country (which is not yours), was once a mecca for Industry. The break down of American Industry wasn't caused because of workers demanding that work places be regulated to meet safer standards, or that wages be made fair and in tune with the basic cost of living! What really broke the American Industry is greed from the top, with no concern for the American Worker Bee. For the last 30 years, starting with Ronnie 666 Wilson Regain, (Borowed the "666" from DanneMArc), American Corporations have writen policies and passed policies that are aimed at deregulating Labor Laws Safety Standards, and maintain Low Wages, which in turn undermind the wellbeing of American workers...Disposing of their future. And whenever such efforts failed American based Companies sent those jobs overseas. That there "may be" 100 American companies to work for that are not "Shitty" by independently set the bar high for maintaining a quality work enviroment and pride themselves on creating good paying jobs that enable its employees the ability to live an prosperous and healthy life is good, but it is far from being supportive of a healthy and prosperpous country as a whole.

Kend you seem to think that because it's a "Free Country" one can act irresponsable and not have to be accountable for the consequences that steem from unethical buisness practices.
Much of what you support and encourage - the dismantleing of Collective Bargainning, Underminding Labor Laws, upholding Corporate Personhood, Wages that are not intune with the basic cost of living, etc., is so contradicting why "our" country (which is not yours), was once a mecca for Industry. The break down of American Industry wasn't caused because of workers demanding that work places be regulated to meet safer standards, or that wages be made fair and in tune with the basic cost of living! What really broke the American Industry is greed from the top, with no concern for the American Worker Bee. For the last 30 years, starting with Ronnie 666 Wilson Regain, (Borowed the "666" from DanneMArc), American Corporations have writen policies and passed policies that are aimed at deregulating Labor Laws Safety Standards, and maintain Low Wages, which in turn undermind the wellbeing of American workers...Disposing of their future. And whenever such efforts failed American based Companies sent those jobs overseas.
That there "may be" 100 American companies to work for that are not "Shitty" by independently set the bar high for maintaining a quality work enviroment and pride themselves on creating good paying jobs that enable its employees the ability to live an prosperous and healthy life is good, but it is far from being supportive of a healthy and prosperpous country as a whole.

you are probaly right about Walmart not paying enough but it is a free country we don't have to work there or shop there. For every shitty company like Walmart there are hundreds of great companies to work for.

KEND...Have you ever, just once questioned the policies and agenda of the "reich" wing party???Have you ever heard the saying "Hindsight is 20/20"?
KEND you seem to like NeoAmerica, aka Corporate America, where as you pointed out it's all about keeping the share holders fat and happy...A country run by a Government that has drifted further and further away from its original establishment; a Democratic System of, for and by the People, and in just a short 30+ years has become a country for the and by the few.
The original American Dream was never about stomping on the dreams of the masses in order to make a profit and be successful. It wasn't about just keeping the pockets of the few stuffed. Sure there has always been competion, but that actually made people strive to produce a quality product at affordable prices. True there have always been Snake Oil Salesmen, Robbers, Barrons, and Scoundrels, but we also have a history in this country where many blue collar average working class Americans fought back against unfair wages, unsafe working consitions, etc, and established labor laws through collective barganning, and better trade agrements with our allies.
Henry Ford, an American Buisness Icon, once said: A fare wage is one that enables workers to meet their basic needs as well as consumers that stimulate the ecconomic growth."
All BIG corporations such as Wal Mart, could very easily raise the base wage to 18.00 per hour without having to make cuts to those at the top, or without having to raise prices. The Proof is with Wal Mrts competitor Cosco, Where the wages for full time stock clerks and Cashiers start at 16.00 per hour, and after one year employees qualify for health bennefits, paid vacation, and even retirement bennefits....How obsurd!!! Instead Wal Mart creates poverty workers and then helps them sign up for Government Assitence...Which is so ass backwards and distructive to all communities.

But you never do question such corporate propaganda.