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Survey: should unemployment checks be extended, ONLY an additional 99-wks? is it FAIR to even have a limit ?
making many people think the real thing was a drill? But who eventually benefited? Those who gained the power over us that they didn't have before! novedades musicales
Leon Panetta and Obama watched the video of the killing of Usama bin Laden. She's very short. novedades musicales
Leon Panetta and Obama watched the video of the killing of Usama bin Laden. She's very short. inet dsl anbieter
whatever ridiculous notions they want to believe in but it is nothing more than their own internal struggle with reality. inet dsl anbieter
been able to keep control of the whitehouse for more than 4 years. How can we get people more informed and involved? inet dsl anbieter
like just the opposite, somehow. It would be good to know who supported what. inet dsl anbieter
YOU PEOPLE DON'T KNOW SHIT FROM GOOD CHOCOLATE!!!
GUNS -in general - ARE NOT THE PROBLEM!!!
Irrational people (sane or mentally disturbed) with ill-minded agendas who have no regard for law, or the wellbeing of others are the problem. Go ahead and ban ALL GUNS, but that won't cure the core problem.
About 25 years ago a Florida man walked into a grocery store with 2 mason jars of gasoline and doused 6 people and lit them on fire with two match books. The incident took less then 1 min. Four of the six victims died, the other two were left with 2nd and 3rd degree burns on more than 50% of their bodies.
Should we ban gasoline, mason jars, and match books???
Everyday hundreds of people are killed, or injured by drunk drivers, or someone texting while driving, or someone just being careless in general. Should we ban cars, booze, cell phones, and general carelessness???
Everyday people die from obesity...Should we ban bacon double cheese burgers, pizza, ice cream, and cookies? Maybe even McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, KFC, Wendy's, Sonic, Jack In The Box???
My point is that more laws only deminishes our expectations, rendering us draco-prisoners in our own land. To live free means one must live with responsability as an "individual"...Unfortunatly not everyone lives up to that benchmark, but such irresponsable behaivour by a few should not diminish the rights of the many who do live responsabley and respect and uphold the wellbeing of others.
There are more than just one or two reasons for why we are experiencing high rates of gun violence in the U.S., but none of them is because of assault rifles. To beleve differently is like buying the bullspit that marijuana is a gate way drug and will make you a criminal...It isn't and it won't! But it is just easier for the ill informed and bigoted public in general to wrap their homoginized brains around.
Everything old is new again... This happens every several decades. And the one thing most peopke forget about this twist in fate - regardless of which country in which you live - is that it's always the wealthiest and the most greedy who come up with these (old) new ideas.
Not every rich person is greedy, but every greedy person's fondest desire is to become rich at any cost.
I never wanted to be rich; my only goal in life has been to help those I can, graciously accept help when I need it, and to never forget that I was raised to be kind to everything else and everyone else in this world, because it is this world - with everything in it - that gives me life, peace of mind, and comfort until I pass into a new one.
The real fight is stopping the republican fascist from stealing our democracy.Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat. We have been living the repetition of 1929, it has been meticulously reproduced by the republican fascist regime that is running our government. Michigan is being turned over to czar dictators city by city till Michigan no longer has any democratic process. The gerrymandering stops us from electing someone who will defend Democracy. The House is republican because of gerrymandering. Voting boxes are rigged in favor of these fascist. Why do you think they are trying to destroy our right to vote?
Letting the republicans (nazi fascist) run our government is the pearl harbor.
If you yahoo the republican party you will see how it evolved into a nazi fascism, governed by multi-nationalist corporations that hide under the name of being American corporations but are really owned by the 1 per-centers, China and Dubai. Our enemies knew they could never win a war against us, that's why these Nazi Traitors ( the top 1%) are destroying our democracy from within.
Germany 1929, was run by the 1 % of elites that included President Bush Senior's father running the banks and munitions factories that supplied Hitler during world war II. President Roosevelt found out the Bushes were nazis and confiscated there possessions and money. Sadly most of the Bush's money was safely hidden in tax shelters in Switzerland. Yahoo Bush's family history. The Bushes were Nazis thru and thru. Now the republicans are controlled by nazis. Civics and history are not taught in schools, dumbing down our children, controlling our news outlets, banks, stock market, economy and law enforcement is essential in destroying democracy. Once these factors are gone from us, so is our democracy gone.
Fight the Right Fight. Fight the Fight for democracy. Then we will be able to fix gun control, the economy, the monopolies, the big corrupt banks, jobs, throw out free trade, stop corosive pipelines, produce renewable energy and save our environment. They take away our democracy and they win everything.
So let me get this right, the amendment to state election laws would mean that a wealthy worshipper of money like Pat Robertson could simply buy off a few state legislators in a red state and be the Senate Republican candidate. Just great!
I ardently agree then, we must stop this attack on our democratic process, the part known as voting!
At least there are still a few good people running our court system....US District Judge Otis Wright's court was abuzz yesterday as he figuratively slapped a few slime-ball lawyers down for their fraudulent activities. I hope those twerps get disbarred if not thrown into prison. How many people have they bilked out of thousands of dollars by threatening legal action against them for even a great deal more if they didn't settle out of court for $3 or $4 thousand dollars?
Now, if our politicians and courts could just go after the really big guys that have heisted trillions of dollars from all of us.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/prenda-porn-trolls-clam-up-as...
"There is a pretty good book that documents the power that people have to change things through non-violent civil disobedience: "A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-Violent Conflict" by Ackerman and Duvall."
Well, it may or may not be a good book to read (I haven't read it). But one thing...you should judge a book not by it's cover, or title... but by it's authors. Do you have any idea who Peter Ackerman is? Michael Milkens right hand man? This, it seems to me, is a case of really deceitful people trying to act like good people (non-violence my @$$) when they actually create situations where lots of people get killed and the majority of the people get "used" to further the increased powers of a ruling elite. It's a good thing that Ackerman's creation, Americans Elect, failed otherwise he would have helped some very evil people get their claws even deeper into a dystopian America. If you don't know much about Peter Ackerman...before you read the book...do a search on him...you'll see. The CIA, the military, and other quasi-governmental organizations use "civilian" companies and organizations to do the dirty work that they once did...but came under scrutiny for. They use pleasant sounding names like International Center for Non-Violent Conflict to foment unrest and organize internal strife and dissent and call it "peaceful". The CIA used to do all this...including rigging elections.. assassinating uncooperative leaders... now, they just farm out the business to covert "civilian" organizations.
Would you read a book about peace from an author like Charles Manson? It wouldn't be very credible, would it? I am not saying that Ackerman has ever killed anyone (directly, anyway... heck, even Bush didn't kill anyone directly...but he was responsible for hundreds of thousands, and more, of innocent people losing their lives through his lies and decisions.)
Ackerman got very wealthy ($300 million) from being "junk bond king" Michael Milken's "right hand man".
Kend says large unions buy off politicians to get huge raises. First of all unions spend less than a third compared to corp. spending on political campaigns. Also unions must disclose donors, groups like Crossroads GPS do not. Secondly real wages in our country have been stagnant for years. Any financial benefits from growth have all gone to a tiny few who don't even need the additional money to begin with.
Stats. currently indicate that if wages had kept up with worker productivity the minimum wage would be $22/hour. So I say billionaires buy off politicians to steal not only from union workers but all workers.
I got to ask you Kend, given the choice between a union company and non-union one, which would you recommend for your grandchildren as they enter the workplace? Be honest!
Oh be careful DAnneMarc. Never use the word "socialist" in this country. It's reason enough to merit a visit from the likes of Sarah and Michelle. Think about that for a minute. Levity aside I think this country is in deep, deep trouble. People on the extreme Right seem to be running the Republican Party. GOPers never seem to stop kissing the a---s of the Christian right. Why? Maybe a third party is the answer. I'm a Democrat but both parties better wake up and work for US. All of US.
So, yes, let's trust the government to control every facet of our lives. Register everything...register your thoughts and (oh, excuse me...I guess many of us already are...especially the ones who blog and even worse...tweet and twitter revealing every tiny detail of their lives). Yes, let's support a government that, incidentally, is controlled by the ruling elite...corporations like GE who got the FDA to approve Colonoscopy and Mammography imaging devices that were found to be endangering patient's lives with excessive radiation. Then when about 6 or 7 doctors and other FDA whistle-blowers (WB) blew the whistle...they were fired and it was later discovered that the FDA had hired one of those "civilian" companies to spy on the WBs. They collected all kinds of "dirt" (ie: embarrassing personal data) on the WBs that one WB shockingly discovered when he did an internet search on his name. He found lots of his personal email that was made public on the internet. The spies used spyware to monitor every keystroke the WBs made on their computers when they typed emails to members of congress, and others, detailing the FDA/GE wrong doings.
The government is not there to protect us. The government, as it is now, is working on the side of criminals. Better hang on to your guns people...
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/17/spying_on_scientists_how_the_fda
PeacefulPatriot ~ Agreed! 100% Like I said, I don't feel it necessary to own guns. I'd probably shoot myself first if I did.
I'm totally in support of Gun Control. We the People can't match the fire power of the Government anyway. Let's be real.
Still, I feel that to solve this problem we have to seriously address mental health in this country. If we can agree on that, I'm in agreement with Gun Conrol. Let's stop the INSANITY!
DAnneMarc, you're position on mental health is valid, and I support it. I'm simply trying to make sure we address the gun side of our gun culture in some meaningful way. After all, in every shooting there are two undeniable components - a shooter and a gun. I want us to do something about both.
PeacefulPatriot ~ I, for one, agree with everything you wrote.
As a pacifist myself I have nothing more than a broken slingshot and a polite smile to protect myself. I have prevailed against crime now in one of the most crime ridden cities of the country for half a century. However, you, like myself, lack the perspective of the mentally 'challenged'. Remember my friend, cocaine isn't 'readily available' either. Yet nothing stops countless thousands of poorly educated addicts from obtaining the substance every year despite the legislation against the practice.
Believe me when I say without sarcasm, "Where there is a will there is a way!" Join me in addressing the true cause of these heinous crimes and not the popular one. You'll be glad you did!
I don't disagree that gun violence is attributable to a lot more than just assault weapons and extended magazines. I still would like to see them banned completely and surrendered, just as automatic weapons once were.
Places like Australia, England, and New Zealand seem to have avoided a complete collapse of their societies and enslavement by tyrannical governments run amok despite having some of the toughest gun restrictions in the world.
As for my post, what I presented is data. It can't be disputed for what it is. I didn't back into anything. There were twice as many mass shootings after the ban expired as during. There were more shootings with assault rifles after the ban expired than during the ban. Yes, I'd like the ham AND eggs back, thank you very much.
BTW, if, "... the criminally deranged mind WILL find a way to obtain an assault rifle and large magazines if that's his/her chosen method of assassination", how come they don't just step it up and find a way to obtain automatic weapons? The answer is simple. Automatic weapons aren't readily available. Assault rifles and semi-automatic handguns are. I want to make it just as hard to find both of them as it is to find machine guns.
And if someone wants to practice swapping out 10-round clips in under a second and then posts that on YouTube, frankly, they need to outgrow the GI Joe phase of their life before they get a visit from the ATF.
When you think about it everything gets corrupted by the size and power consumption of an organization. Political parties, unions, corporations, wall street. It is the addiction that attaches itself to the very biggnest of everything. Everything large seems to get support from corporations, and corporations in turn get help from the government, and so on. All that is heaped upon a pyramid with someone or something at the very top thinking it is good for all concerned.
Kend ~ Agreed! 100%
Thanks for your repleys. Here just because you don't win you can still have a lot of say. If the two party's get together and vote against the majority they can stop a bill. We have a Conservative party, a liberal party, NDP (union party), Green Party, and a few independent parties. our prime ministers (president) can be elected for ever there is no time limits. What I do like is no fixed election dates. The election gets called by the sitting party (in a set time frame about 4 years) and 3 months later it is over. Just think of the money saved there. and there is a lot less time to buy votes. As a outsider it just seems in The USA the two parties are so far apart that a party in the middle would not only win but be good for the country.
HalFonts ~ Here! Here!
My only regret is not voting for Ralph Nader or Dennis Kucinich when I had a chance. We all make mistakes. To aire is human, to forgive divine. Perhaps forgiving ourselves and admitting our mistakes to ourselves is the way to resolving our other problems. I assure you HalFonts I will not vote in line in the future as I have voted in the past. The age of choosing the lesser of two evils is over as far as I am concerned!
We (in the US) should absolutely have more than two viable parties, but that's a long time away. Unfortunately, even efforts towards non-partisan elections, have reduced the possibilities of any third-party candidate winning first-place.
Election after election, I've sworn I was no-longer going to be black-mailed into chosing the least-worst of two sold-out candidates. And, time after time, one was so bad, I've had to settle for the least-worse of two -- rather than voting for someone new and more in-line with my druthers.
While there is clearly a difference between D's and R's, the difference has been quickly devolving into mostly campaign rhetoric, unrelated to long-term results. With mega-money corruption of the process, we see representatives from all viewpoints supporting their big-money programs. -- rather than focusing on people's interests. Sometimes I dream of a real multi-party parliamentary system, where minor groups have voice and negotiable-clout.