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Here's what I'm going to do: I am going to go door to door campaigning for the republicans. When elderly people answer the door, I will hand them the republican literature and say things like, "You just have to remember to vote republican, so we can continue our program of canceling social security and medicare and pensions, and all other wasteful and pointless programs. There is absolutely no reason why patriotic Americans can't work until they die."
When parents answer the door, I will hand them the republican literature and say, "You have to remember to vote republican, so we can shut down all public education, all children's healthcare, and other stupid, anti-American programs. If kids want an education or a job, they can join the military, and anyone who disagrees with that is not fit to call themselves a republican."
If a firefighter or police officer answers the door, I will hand them the literature and say, "You have to remember to vote republican, so we can continue cutting firefighter and police wages and increasing their hours, and cancel their benefits and pensions, and cancel their right to belong to unions. If they were real patriots they wouldn't care whether they get paid at all."
When disaffected, angry republicans answer the door, I will hand them the literature and say, "You have to remember to vote republican, so we can complete our plans to declare war on the entire Middle East, as well as on North and South Korea, China, Japan, Indonesia, India, Australia, and all of Europe. We republicans are going to bomb this entire planet back to the stone ages. We will deport all the black people back to Africa. And then we'll deport the gays- all of them. Then we'll deport the Jews, the Hispanics, and all of the people whose parents or grandparents or great-grandparents or great-great grandparents came from any of those foreign, freedom-hating countries like Britain, France, Iceland, Sweden, and so on. And all of those Native Americans can just go back where they came from, because we don't need them here. Oh yeah, and finally, when there's no one left but us good ol' boy white folks, we're gonna start paring down on them, too, because lots of white people just don't have their heads on straight- at least 95% of them have to go. And then we'll go door to door and get rid of the rest of the white people, just on the off chance that they might support abortion, you know what I mean? Because we republicans understand the will of God, and we know that God hates everyone, just like we do."
The GOP (guardians of privilege) true overt agenda is to program working and ordinary Americans as robots to follow them or as I know them as Satan's disciples into the eternal abyss of hell through hatred, corruption, lies, and everlasting wars and the ongoing killing of God's children. THAT IS THE GOP'S TRUE DREAM FOR AMERICANS!!!!! The GOP is dramatically succeeding with their agenda!!!!!
I HOPE AND PRAY THAT THE UNITED STATES OF MORTAL SIN AND HER CITIZENS WILL REPENT AND RETURN TO GOD!!!!!
@Palindromedary has a way with words.
Here is what I remember - give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you give him a livelihood.
I pray to God to make me a channel of His peace!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI1Gst7pEqc&feature=related
The prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Give a man a fish and he will eat and be happy, for a short time, until he is hungry again. But teach him how to fish....and then you can exploit him for his labor....tax him to death...and pretend that he will idolize you and your system forever more..until he dies for no longer having medical insurance that was taken away in order to maximize profits. But when that man, if he lives, finally realizes that he's been had and crams that fish up the exploiter's back side...he will be a truely free man...to fish on his own...and force the tax man to go after the wealthy exploiter for a change. What the hell, we pay taxes for a government that will keep the rapacious wolves from overly and unfairly exploiting us but all it does is help the wolves. Break out the guillotines, boys, we're gonna have a party!! If the French can do it then why not us?
Changing the subject a bit. Solar energy is alive and well in the Veterans Administration here in Phoenix. http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/10/14/phoenix-va-med-center-plans-largest-solar-carport-installation/
Dr. Lawhon wrote, "Give a calf enough rope and he'll hang himself."
"...it’s only a matter of time before they (the Republicans) get a rude awakening from voters at the polls."
I think that both Republicans and Democrats will be experiencing "a rude awakening" from voters (ahem....that is "non voters") at the polls this time around. The Democrats have been too weak...or lazy...or just plain part of the big scam. The two party system has become a big scam against middle class (and below) Americans. So many people now see it as choosing the "lesser of two evils" but in reality they are both equally evil...and maybe the Dems are even more evil because they pretend to be for the little guy....or at least for the middle class working person and have pretended to be the party that keeps the criminals from running rough-shod over the people. But they really are devious and deceptive and not really so much different than the Republicans. Actions speak louder than words and Obama didn't even try to defend us against the predacious capitalist pigs...he joined them in exploiting us and fattening the capitalist hogs. If Obama did one thing to show that he warrants my vote...like completely shutting down the wars in the Middle East (right now and not a year or more into the future) by bringing ALL of our troops home (not just a stupid token, reelection show piece, of a mere 30,000). Or if he got either the single payer system or public option into law....then I would vote for him again. THROW US A BONE, OBAMA.!!!...SOMETHING MORE THAN STUPID, CHEAP HISTRIONICS LIKE KILLING OSAMA OR BRINGING HOME 30,000 TROOPS. Show us that you are not one of them....the wealthy ruling elite....or a Republican in Democrat clothing. If you do something that really, really ticks off the Republicans (now that would really be hard to detect from the normal inane chatter and whining from the cry babies on Fox) then we will know that you are doing something good for us for a change. Stand up for those who voted you into office for a change and stop giving in to the Republican'ts.
I agree with all of the bad things said about the Republican party and their wealthy taskmasters. But, I tend to question whether electing, or reelecting, yet another two-faced, turn-coat, Democrat will help us out any. Yes, we certainly don't need anymore Republican fascist Supreme Court judges but just how "liberal" is the Obama appointee...Sotomeyer? Just how "liberal" or "progressive" has Obama been? He reminds me of Rodney King...oh, can't we all just get along? And the Republicans laugh him right out of the Presidency because he has lost so many of his constituents for having made so many concessions...ie: giving the wealthy and Republicans what they want anyway. If you believe that getting Obama reelected is going to make any difference then you are just as foolish as the Republicans who don't make million/billions of dollars a year who are fooled into voting against their best interests over some inanity that they heard on Fox news. It just won't make any difference...whether Obama is reelected or a Republican is. You will have yet another false hope that you won't be able to count on.
And it looks like the sh!t is about to really hit the fan on our economy and if Obama is in for another term...he will certainly get all the blame. Look at the parade of zoo-like characters that are running for President on the Republican side.....and you really think the Republicans really, really want a Republican to be in office when the sh!t hits the fan? I think they would certainly take it and then use their propaganda skills and ownership of the major lap-dog media to spin things their way anyway.
Think about remarks made about the 2008 election...about how the Republicans pulled back and spent so much less on getting their idiots elected...and that they wanted a Democrat in office when the economy buckled....no difference in the 2012 election either. Obama is the fall guy for decades of Republican criminality which wrecked our economy and strove to make every American a peon. If you think voting is going to make a difference, with the choices we have, then you are just going to have to get used to being another useful idiot zombie just like the Fox snooze couch potatoes.
And if you think that Obama was handed all of the problems from the previous administrations (and he was) and should not be held accountable for not turning the country around during the first term and might do so on the second term (no he didn't...didn't even really try!)...then you were not paying attention to just what he really did/didn't do during his first term...and the effortless zeal he had in appointing all of those criminals who largely caused the problems in the first place. Then they went on to really screw us all...and all Obama could do was chide his supporters for balking and speaking up against his traitorous actions against the people who voted for him.
Here is my daily dream!!!!!
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15609
I remember somebody saying that it was good for Obama to stay out of Wisconsin's union issue, so as not to distract from Wisconsin and the actual issue at hand.
Why would someone to the left of Obama agree with Ron Paul?? Easy; the political spectrum is two dimensional (probably more, I suspect) and the libertarians agree on half the issues with liberals, and on the other half with conservatives. The two dimensions are economic (laissez-faire vs. regulatory) and social (statist vs. individualist).
I would love to hear the difference between a democracy and a republic in the caller's army field manual of 1928 (and why those would even be discussed therein). Currently, a republic is supposed to be simply a government without a monarchy, and democracy just means people get to vote (and have it count for something). But 83 years ago, who knows?
In his speech, President Obama said, "We are all a part of one American family." As followers of the nonviolent Jesus, Pax Christi USA believes we are all part of one global family--a global family where no one should be subject to war and violence.
We are part of a global family!!!!! Forward email
Homosexuality in our Anti-Christ nation
Is the outcry from the crazy right and the conservative crazies regarding gay, lesbian, and bisexual issues a sign that these same groups are latent and/or closet gays and lesbians? Are they projecting outward from themselves in order to keep their true desires and nature a secret? Here is a statistic – forty percent of the American population is gay, lesbian, and/or bisexual. Nineteen percent are gay and twenty-one percent are a combination of lesbian and/or bisexual. Two of every five persons are gay, lesbian, or bisexual in the United States. Homosexuality will always be part of the American dream. Homosexuality has also been part of recorded history since at least 2500 B.C.
Ten doomed industries!
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/112946/doomed-industries-bnet
Listening to Bernie and Thom, their heart is in the right place but they do not know him like, I believe, I know him. OBAMA IS NOT INTERESTED IN BEING ELECTED. HE WILL RUN AND LOSE AND AN EXTRA $100 MILLION WILL BE ADDED TO HIS PORFOLIO. HE WILL LEAVE OFFICE WITH $270 MILLION AND A BEAUTIFUL RETIREMENT PACKAGE!!!!! Obama will be out of office as an elitist.
Two Birds with One Stone.
I suspect that there are some rich corrupt republicans with clout that have reservations as to whether or not the timing is right for Republicans to take the reins as the executive under the circumstances so long as they can maintain control over the legislature.
Well thought out and well written dialog is good. Even if every word/thought you present is 100% on target, there is only on way to stop the wealthy now. The next two supreme court appointees must be liberal!!! There is no choice in 2012. We can not have a Republicon in office. We need every vote for the Demacratic candidate.
Efforts to promote a new left party or even a different candidate support the Repubilcons need to reduce to vote for Obama.
No, I think the anti-christ is the rush limbaugh's, glenn becks' and sarah palins who claim their superiority over the little people and access to the word of god.they portend to speak for god. the latest crap is Michele Bachmann said that she had a vision to marry her husband and he had the calling the same time. They have that special access to the lord that is deprived the rest of us. I know a lot of very religious people who live their faith in actions of love. Jimmy Carter is a man of peace. Dwight Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex. they make lots of money when the nation is at war. Those people who sell out our country are a poisonous influence upon ithis nation. Cheney used the military might of this nation to enrich himself and Halliburtan and his buddies. The innocents killed in the two wars of choice are "collateral damage" according to Cheney. and what value is life?? The republicans really have a dollar value on human life. they auction off life every day they govern and take away social programs from the poor to give tax cuts to the rich. The abortion issue is a political ploy that the repugs use to divide the nation. Just like they use religion to elevate themselves to a station of privilege. Jesus preached persuasion, He never advocated violence except when he chased the money changers from the temple. Christ was a disappointment to the Jews because he did not come to earth to fight the Romans and lead the Jews to victory. He was crucified because he preached peace. The repugs preach hate, bigotry, racism, divisiveness in order to conquer and until the little people start understanding their rights are under siege, there will be no backlash. But, it will come.
http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2011/06/23/nine-war-words-that-define-our-world/
An interesting read!!!
No the fools who vote for republicans are the ones who are dumb and misinformed. And that is what the republican Party, the FOX propaganda machine and the Kochroaches are well aware of. They know how to manipulate public opinion. And unlike the dems, they have been plotting over 30 years to take back the country from the little people and return it to the corporate aristocracy that ruled the nation in the 1920's. Democracies die, when the government no longer serves the needs of the people, and powers moves upward. That is what is happening in this nation. With the consent of the governed our constitutional rights are being usurped by republican governors across the country. Benton Harbor MI is the poster child for "taxation without representation". Reagan declared war on the people: he demonized the poor, deminished the power of unions, smashed worker's rights, gave tax cuts to the rich and starved govt. He is the father of degeneration of the nation. The republicans prey on the weak, the uninformed and the fear of people. They are masters of deception and they will continue to rob from us and worse our children unless we stop them. I am old, I will die before I run out of money. Can we say that about our children?? Not if the repugs have anything to do with it.
I have voted for Obama. In my comments I have also ripped on him but I will vote for him in 2012. I cannot trust any GOP (guardians of privilege) candidate.
It is amazing indeed that the world assumes that everyone is really innocent, unless he is a Muslim.
No matter how many innocent people are killed by the others, they are presumed innocent. The media is controlled by those who have special interests, clearly. People are brain washed over t he last several decades to present the Muslims as barbaric, whereas by all measures are they are occupied by outside forces who compete with each other in controlling and exploiting them.