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Thank you Mcowley01, I took a break on the death of my family member who finally died of his cancer in a VA medical center. I sure hope I never die the same way and hope I never have any other family member die that way as well. I still read many of the posts, though. Yes, global warming is very real but the ones who vote Republican will never admit it no matter how bad the storms and droughts become. They live in their own very special bubble...they're "special" you know? And people like Ann Coulter can make accusations against Democrats using politically incorrect terms but those terms are way more appropriate in referencing what THEY are...people who reject science in favor of superstition and folly and led by the nose as useful idiots of the major polluters. These misdirected people are way more dangerous to us than a few people with guns because the lifeforms in the whole planet are at risk of extinction.
There is so much in our society that needs "fixing," and we as individuals can do so little. My husband and I are low-income senior citizens. We had decided that we would squeeze a little money out of our food budget this month and start living off the bounty of our garden a month earlier than usual so we could send small donations to the campaigns of candidates we feel passionate about. Then Hurricane Sandy roared ashore. We talked about it this afternoon, and decided the better choice would be to "bundle" our donations and send the money to the Red Cross instead. We encourage others to do the same, regardless of their politics or what they think is causing weather extremes. The need is urgent, and it is NOW.
36% of our expected vote-by-mail ballots are already logged in being pre-processed, with more arriving in the pipeline. After more than one miserable long year, this election is all but over. Even if the candidates were to discuss Global Change, most voters are so sick of filthy politics that they won't be listening. Start packing folks. We've had our chance, made billions -- one big GOTV push for the late voters, and it'll be time to go home and count our loot.
I hope Obama pounds home the plan Romney/Ryan have for disasters. Get rid of FEMA? Leave disaster relief to the states? Privatize disaster recovery efforts? It's amost laughable--but it won't be funny if Romney is elected. Hope you have kind and generous neighbors--and a stock of water and food.
The "New Right" will change the history books(as we speak), critize scientists and proven research, deregulate oil, coal, etc., and remove barriers so that irresponsible corporations can reap their rewards. During an interview, Romney revealed his parties plans: 1) Shift everything from Federal to States; 2) Shift everything from States to Privatization. Reality is the evidence....Privatized Schools, Privatized Prisons, Privatized Bail Bondsmen, and eventually...the Post Office (they won't give up on that one). Climate change is our reality and they will preach to their congregation that it doesn't exist and our children's children will inherit the fallout. Bush took & took from FEMA and Obama built it back up. Romney says he doesn't want FEMA - it belongs to the States to handle. I'm glad I don't live in ANY high risk area. Good Luck Americans that do and must suffer the consequences of the "New Right".
Welcome back PalinDromedary. Glad to see you're on board with Global Warming (yes folks, it's not a myth!). When you came out with that Neo con clap-trap about more guns making America safer I began to think you might really have been PalinTrojanHorse.
Fox & cohorts have ' convinced' people that Global warming does NOT exist Mass Ignorance is very dangerous
Forty-plus years ago, when I was a kid, I could leave a chrome-pated wrench laying in the yard for hours on a hot sunny day, and later, pick it up and it would only be a little warm. Now a days, if I do the same thing, the wrench will be too hot to touch.
Global warming is real, and, I believe, more of the Sun's heat energy is getting through the atmosphere and down to ground level. I don't need a third degree burn to convince me.
The 10th amendment guy was just another YOYO guy! "YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN"
Your comment to the career civil servant caller, 'Thank you for your service to our country,' really got to me. (End of first hour today)
As a aide/SW/psychologist for fifteen years in a large state mental hospital I was more often endangered than I was when serving in the military. The people who have been encouraged to hate government might do well to hear that 'thank you' to all civil servants on a regular basis.
One of my favorite quotes alluding to govermental function: 'You don't notice the road until the pothole.'
Ancient Rome was once mighty and powerful too, for a while, because they created a lot of slaves from within and from all of those foreign conquests. The US is not far behind Ancient Rome. When the people in the US wake up and see how the 1% upper classes have created their own slaves out of the other 99% it may be too late for them to rebel effectively....but the country is going down the tubes regardless. Better learn to speak Mandarin.
Thom:
The compounding pharmacy in Mass held a fundraiser for Scott Brown. Here's the link:
http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/10/sen_scott_brown_to_do...
Mother Nature, you're such a terrorist!
Maybe Homeland Security can do a strip search and gropey-feely on her. Extra-Rendition her to our gulag down in Gitmo and torture her. I think that Sandy was the Flying Spaghetti Monster's wrath on unbelievers and evildoers. If you thought Katrina and Sandy were bad...just wait till the next one. With all that ice melting in the north from global warming (much of it emanating from Romney's mouth) we'll be seeing much larger hurricanes in the near future.
You liberals never get it, climate change is an agenda 21 strategy to strip the wealthy countries of wealth and manipulate the sheeple and middle class in this country to pay higher prices for all energy and therefor products. Do you understand that one of the reasons we are the most powerful economy in the world is because we have an energy price advantage. Do you want to give that away too? Sure, lets all pay $9.00 for a gallon of gas like Thom wants us to, we will all be poorer for it.
The mention of climate change in the MSM is notable for its absence. What fools we mortals be.
I do not have the specific data, but I do know that hurricanes are heat engines and the gulf stream's heat was the source of the energy that enabled the storm "Sandy" to persist from the tropics into the usually cooler waters along the northeastern U.S. coast. It turns out that just a slight change, a small warmng of the waters enabled the storm to stay close to the shore and join with the cold front & cyclone that moved in from the west. The typical situation is that cold air kills tropical storms, but with climate change what we have seen this last week may become the norm. JJH
These Co's are blow hards and are bluffing. GOP uses Fear , innuendo and smears to confuse/ misinform voters Karl Rove helped Bush 'win' ? Kathleen Harris and Gov Jeb Bush / Fla court handed Bush the 2000 election Just think if Gore had been Pres how much different it would have been. NO ignoring several strong CIA warnings about Bin Laden So NO 9 / 11 attack.NO 3000 deaths . NO Iraq war Saving lives and trillions that would be put to use to better America.. education, road -bridge repair, enviorment , clean up our water and air . Without OIL man Cheneys lack of control or safe guards on Big OIL NO BP OIL spill . accompanied by vast damage to border states , dumping tons of filthy oil into our oceans .
Are the employeers going to punish all their employees if President Obama wins? An employeer has no way to know how their employees vote, and if I was being coerced into an action I know I would and have done the opposite just out of spite. In this case the fact the it is the right and smart decision just makes it that much sweeter.
But how many of those employees fall into the undecided (ignorant) voter? That is what worries me.
Look at the coal miners that had to attend a Romney rally or else. The TV cameras got a photo of them "supporting" Romney, and Romney now says in speeches he has their support.
By the way...beware of the fancy mailers that are being sent to you through the mail. They can be very deceptive. Take one very sneaky mailer from an outfit called Californians Vote Green. It even has a picture of Barack Obama and Dianne Feinstein on the lower left corner. In large print it says "VOTE for a GREENER CALIFORNIA!" Then it highlights some of the propositions they want you to vote for (or against). Most are, in fact, in agreement with the official Democrat and Green Party websites. But there is one that they sneak in that is opposite to the official Democrat and Green party websites. It says NO on 37. The Democrat and Green party web sites say to vote YES on 37, the Food Labeling proposition. On the back of the mailer are more propositions. Both prop 31 and prop 37 are opposite to the Green and Democrat recommendations. If you look at the disclaimer notice to voters: it says that this Californians Vote Green outfit is "not an official political party organization and goes on to say that it "does not necessarily imply endorsement of others appearing in this mailer"....like Obama and Feinstein maybe? Very deceptive! I wonder how many people this will trip up when they go to vote? I suspect this mailer was put out by the anti-labeling food industry for the express purpose of confusing people...what do you think?
Right on, Idaglia, you've got it right!
Election Fraud? http://www.laprogressive.com/gop-is-stealing-elections/#sthash.SsAqhdFx....
Reminds us of the mass-hypnotic frenzy of Hitler and the 3rd Reich. Rather FASCIST don't you think?
Who moved the Native Americans to the worst lands in the country?
Who took away soveriegn land grant from the Mexicans and made them ranch hands in the new Texas republic or shoved them back to Mexico?
Who assassinated President McKinley due to religious intolerance?
Who impounded the Japanese Americans into concentration camps on our soil?
It's starting to look ugly and unAmerican from the fascist GOP.
Too many once good Americans have been indoctrinated with far-right propaganda and hate speech.
Why do you hate me so much?
And, please, do not spew out hateful statements that only justify your prejudices without actual and imperical data from the Department of Commerce, HUD, and the Census Bureau.
Common sense if you look at the hike in midwifery licenses tells you that my folks are having their children at home for fear of deportation. We are not so stupid to use our social welfare system when it is inevitable that we would get caught.
Lately, however, I'm beginning to believe that racial bashing whites are genetically inferior because they have failed to racially mix their genes. Look at the royal house of Britain or the Jews where hemophilia runs rampant.
But, you see my people propogate like cockroaches. Eventually, we will overcome even with legal numbers. And, from these numbers El Puma will rise again. Scared now?
Doesn't the Hatch Act (republican born) apply hear? Can't we sue these employers?
If not, guys you better start learning Mandarin. Or, learn to subsist on pumpernickle or rye stale bread.
I knew as I kept hearing the rhetoric from the GOP, that they didn't care how plutocratic and fascist they had become. And, in a twisted kind of way, set the United States of America marching to a corporate communistic and theocratic society.
Heaven help us !