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Is Chuck Woollery saying he would oppose the existence of the military if it weren't mentioned in the Constitution?
Frank Donatelli from GOPAC is the one setting up straw men, by stating things as absolutes: "The government should never ..."
I was sent here by a liberal friend, who said I am missing the other side of the story that we are not hearing from the media. I regret that I found this venue to only be more extreme than the mainstream, as with right-wing media. The resposes I read here appear not from those looking at both sides of any issue, but rather arrogantly passionate about that which they have convinced themselves to be true. Those of us who make an effort to have an open mind, whether conservative or liberal, are only hindered by those who refuse to even make an effort to understand those with which they may find disagreement. Andrew Napolitano said it best here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edNmwmKRLeA We are just pawns, and that is all.
As somebody who was part of the Civil Rights Movement (Knox County Jail, class of 1963), I am of course appalled by this newest effort to restrict the franchise so that only reliably Republican Caucasians can vote.
But as a journalist whose career spans six decades -- and, yes, again as a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement -- I am not the least bit surprised by the assault on voting rights.
Racist hatred runs so deep amongst whites in the United States, it is the defining characteristic of about three-quarters of the Caucasian population.
The venomous breadth and toxic depth of that hatefulness, initially revealed in polls that reflected overwhelming Caucasian hostility toward the mostly African-American victims of Hurricane Katrina, is again proven by the geographical diversity of the Voting Rights Act's opponents: not just the old Confederacy, but the Far West Interior as well.
Do not doubt for an instant there are many Democrat attorneys general who would gleefully join their Republican counterparts if they dared. We are cursed to live in a realm where Democrats now routinely vote Republican not as an endorsement of the GOP's ever more blatantly JesuNazi platform but rather because they cannot abide the notion of a Black man in the White House.
Hence the probability the November election will result in Republican victory, thrusting the U.S. the final distance into all the horrors -- racist and otherwise -- of unapologetically theocratic fascism.
(Disclosure: I am English by name, genetically mostly Celt, a tiny bit -- 1/16th or 1/32nd -- Mohawk.)
I smell a forced revolution just up wind from us. Any ideas what it will look like?
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Not good options to pick on this question Thom. So while I voted yes, I actually would have preferred to say no, but then it will depend on SCOTUS, but perhaps Justice Thomas will err on the right side again like he did with the AFHC Law. One can only hope. There are so many laws that are really unconstitutional and I don't see them saying a word about those.
Don't people understand that first it's minorities that white people want to disenfranchise, then it's old people (they're already working on that), then it will be raise the voting age, then it will be property owners only.
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What do I think of such tactics? I think of the so called "ATTORNEYS," and their Oath Of Office......."I do solemnly swear that I will support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States; that I will do no falsehood, or consent that any be done........"
The tactics reflect the hysterical desperation trickling down from the monied elite and guys like Mitch the turtleman to snuff out the last flicker of representative govt. and completely hand the whole shooting match over to a few insane old bastards who plan on using Romney as their bitch.
In order to win, Republicans need 60M+ votes, If the only people who voted R did so in their own interest, they would be lucky to get 1M votes (Upper class, rich people). Knowing this, Republicans have identified two other groups they can 'fool' into voting for them: Racists and Stupids.
Racists contribute 30-40M votes, given that they are motivated. Most could care less that the President is a black man, but operatives like Karl Rove and Dick Armey recognized this early on and played it to the hilt.
Stupids contribute another 30-40 M votes and they include such diverse groups as Gun Owners (Obama will take away your guns) and Evangelicals (Obama will allow pharmacies to perform abortions) and Homophobes.
Along the way, we will of course discourage as many potential D voters as possible.
If it were up to me, instead of voter ID, I would require a (fair) issues test at the door to the polls. If you pass you can vote, if not, you walk. This would eliminate 80% of the racists, 90% of Fox News viewers, and 100% of the Stupids.
But aren't there a number of black Republicans?
If the Republicans succeed with voter suppression, they will have sown the seeds for the destruction of this nation. The key to our democracy is for the electorate to make the choice for our leaders. If Republicans rig the election this way they will have corrupted the system. A corrupt system cannot abide for long. If they succeed with this plan next time it will be worse until finally they turn onto themselves. They ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Hello All I don't know if it is my age (55) or just the things I seen throughout my life..But somewhere in the early 2000's I started to see the world as a much diifferent place..Being sucked into this Republican crap like a piece of dirt into a Hoover Sweeper.Lately many people scream at me as if thier believes are right..Most conseritive Christians buy into this Republican Crap' and Fox News is the King of the sound bite...What these brain dead people are falling for is a self serving agenda that goes 180% againist what the bible teachs..Everyday I have someone go on and on about "Obama Care" and I feel the "Working Poor" who Service us all deserve health care.Do they think that the Walmart and/or McDonalds workers don't deserve health care? Plus many other low paid workers That thier lives are expendable? These are people that service all of us! So till someone comes up with a better idea to insure the working poor I say Shut Up !..Some politicans go as far as want to do away with the minimum wage..This sounds like a perfect world to me -Rich people pay no taxes and have slaves..As for the power of Greed they(Republicans) are going to any length to win..Low end folks don't need to vote..Do I think the path the country we are on is a good one? NO but the sweet sound of "Austeritiy" will be the final straw the will kill this nation...The Paul Ryan Budget give the millionaires over a trillion in tax cuts over ten years...Silly for someone who wants to cut the budget? All Great Empires Fall when the Top fails to take heed of the brothers and sisters here at the bottom..The cream will rise to the top....History is about to rewrite it's self and very soon..
There is nothing surprising about what is written in this article. We called this over a year ago, when word spread about the takeover of the Republican Party for the New Right of Weyrich and their Theocracy gov't.. Why the AG didn't take quicker action, I cannot answer. We cannot stop them anymore. They have the $$, power, police, politicians, courts and make our laws. What we need to do NOW is Stop ELECTION FRAUD. It's next and their ace up their sleeve. blackboxvoting.org for anyone who wants to help understand what we are now up against. No machine is made here in the US anymore and those that make the machines are unscrupulous!! The software won Bush 2 elections (along with the CEO's help). They are still using it against us. Germany just banned the machines useage....why can't we??? We are under seige of our Democratic Republic of America and help lies within ourselves - how? I do not know...just do what you can to stop them.
republicans are overextending their stupidity.
their is another enemy of god that does the same thing.
i feel sorry for all the americans that are fooled into the wrong views by only watching tv, rupert murdoch controled agenda everytime. thank you thom for giving another side to a story that always seems to make just a little more sense!
i just wish there was more truth and people who look for both sides of a story instead of being lead by a one sided view they think to be truth.
this thing with id's its an attempt but Obama will still win.
there is no shame with the republican party operatives. They think they are doing the country a favor, to keep them in power because they know what is best. All those minorities, just don't know what is good for them and they don't know about business. Keeping them from voting is patriotic thing to do for GOP/TPARTY. the 1% are the good guys and the rest are the unknowing natives.
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Are the republicans so blind and arrogant that they can't see what they're proving - the only way they can win an election is to rig it in their favor?
Come on Isaac...do a U-turn and pound the RNC in Florida. They won't feel a thing.
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LIberals In red states should """all""" vote green.. If I understand the system,a voting green is not a vote for Romney, if the state will go to Romney anyway.. Then we can start to gague if the green party is viable.
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Bill Black reams Maria Bartoromo on CNBC Closing Bell on Liars Loans and the failure of both the Bush, and even more, the Obama administrations for not even trying to properly investigate and prosecute Wall Street crooks.
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000108525&play=1
or here:
http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_bill_black_on_cnbc.php
Crash by April 2013....
Max Keiser has stated that he believes that if we make it to April of 2013 then there is quite likely to be a Global financial meltdown triggered by about the time of the US income tax deadline where the system will be irreparably damaged. There could be many actual triggers, including japan, or other things leading up to April 15, 2013. Max, says that the system is so overloaded now that it is like an avalanche just waiting to happen...no one can say exactly which snow flake will set it off.
In other words...there will likely be hyperinflation similar to, but perhaps not as severe as in Germany pre-WWII, and it will be world wide.
BF (Bonnie Faulkner) says that many of her "friends who have barely any money at all are getting all of these letters from the IRS, the Franchise Tax Board, are after them for little bits of money" .. noticed just within this past month.
MK (Max Keiser) says that this is not unexpected...the government is broke..two possibilities...1: a default on the debt...that would be another collapse; or, 2: hyperinflation..a currency collapse; which is what he believes will be the outcome. Gas could be $15/gallon and groceries would be a couple of hundred dollars per bag.
A new FDR-like NEW NEW Deal would not be possible because...during FDR, the US was the world's largest creditor...now it is the world's largest debtor...with China being the holder of most of the US debt but they are bailing out trying to stock up on gold. The US government is the biggest buyer of US debt and we are also in huge debt to the Japanese. We were able to turn around from the crashes of the 20s by putting lots of bankers in jail and creating laws like the Glass-Steagall Act and creating FDIC.
What we need to do is put more bankers in jail and bring back the Glass-Steagall Act. Just creating more government jobs, without the other things, will just add more fuel to the fire because it would be putting more debt in the hands of bankers who will continue to abuse the system.
Banks will possibly shut down...or ATMs will decrease the daily limit of withdrawals.
"Over 100 million people have been thrust into poverty by this crisis" (since 2007) and that "many millions of these people are at death's door or who have already died or committed suicide...a "financial holocaust"...a planned extermination of a whole class of people...poor people."
The strongest will be the EU who has 12,000 tons of gold..they have the most gold of any block..and so they will be in relatively a better position.The weakest currency will be the US dollar even though it has 8,000 tons of gold reserves (about $432billion), it has many, many times more claims in the forms of derivatives ($600trillion?)*. China is in a mad scramble to buy gold right now because they know what's coming.
The Pentagon spends something like $440million a day on gas. When gas triples in price? The Pentagon relies almost entirely on gas....so the Pentagon is scrambling, in the Middle East, to get more gas. But, at the same time..they are generating 20 times more in derivatives...which ultimately has to be priced by gold. Which means the price of gas will quadruple. Everyone but Americans knows this..."because they're stupid"...they are kind of sleepwalking, they have this "bubble mentality".
----from the August 22, 2012 Guns and Butter show Countdown to Financial Collapse with Bonnie Faulkner
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/83610
* http://moneymorning.com/2011/10/12/derivatives-the-600-trillion-time-bom...