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I looked up and I spotted a GOP elephant and the GOP elephant looked down and he dumped on me!!!!!
If you are in a crying mood with our country going to hell, here are some articles to help your cry!!!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/For-the-Love-of-Our-Countr-by-Anne-Mendenhall-110622-294.html
We need to turn around our country.
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=133639
The end is near!!!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Fukushima-Cover-Up-Continu-by-Allen-L-Roland-110622-341.html
Here is more evidence that the end is near!!!
HAS GOD LOST HIS PATIENCE WITH THE UNITED STATES OF MORTAL SIN?????
The time is now for you and me to seek Jesus’ loving embrace!!!!!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Addressing-Eleven-Years-of-by-Rafe-Pilgrim-110622-194.html
The Anti-Christ is a damned country!!!!!
http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/06/22/why_is_the_u_s_economy_so_much_worse&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%2520Newsletter%2520%2528Not%2520Premium%2529_7_30_110
Sad, very sad and our self-inflicted problems!!!!!
The Republicans are doing a good job of putting Obama out of work and he for reason is helping them!!!
“Love one another as I have loved you.” – Jesus of Nazareth
"There are many issues associated with health care reform that divide us as a nation, but one that can unite us all: health care reform is essential to the reduction of poverty in America."
- Father Larry Snyder, Catholic Charities USA (from the Catholic Standard, March 4, 2010)
It is my viewpoint that the United States of Mortal Sin is the Anti-Christ! Satan’s disciples are in total control of our country. We, as Satan’s followers, have a choice to be safe and secure in Jesus’ embrace or to remain in our comfort zone where Satan will give us the pitchfork for all eternity. This decision is very clear for you and me. Our country views the killing of God’s children as a sporting event!
Conscientious Objection
“On my knees I beg you to turn away from the paths of violence. I say to you, with all my love I have for you, with all trust I have in young people: do not listen to voices that speak the language of hatred, revenge, and retaliation. Do not follow leaders who train you in a way of inflicting death. Give yourself to the service of life, not the work of death. Violence is the enemy of justice. Only peace can lead the way to true justice,” – Pope John Paul II, September 29, 1979!
WAR WILL EXIST UNTIL THAT DISTANT DAY WHEN THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR ENJOYS THE SAME REPUTATION AND PRESTIGE THAT THE WARRIOR DOES TODAY. - John F. Kennedy
So if the Repugnants want voter ID to verify the voter, the problem has already been resolved by Corporate America. When you arrive at the polling station, just confirm the last for digits of your SSN. Its good enough for any Corporation that wants to verify your ID over the phone, it should be good enough when you walk into a polling place. Won't cost a thing, and it will verify nicely, and if they have doubts, you can always whip out your Social Security card.
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Maxrot, I think a man will fix his Ferrari as long as possible, but when it gets to the point that he can't "un-bang" ;) it, he gets rid of it.
They may as well edit the Equal Rights Amendment to include sex and sexual orientation.
mathboy are you saying such men switch up there toys once the bang them up?
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The completely hilarious thing about the Repugnants crashing the economy to cripple Obama in the next election is this: Bachman is looking like she's going to get a lot of backing in the next few months, especially since there is little she can say that will turn off her supporters. However, this will not work in the Repugnants favor, because the other hair brained nitwit of the party is going to notice how much attention and backing Bachman is getting, and she will not be able to stop herself from getting into the race. It'll be like deja vu of the 2008 primary with Clinton and Obama, but it'll be far far more destructive to their Party. I'll bet just about anything if Bachman wins Iowa and places well in New Hampshire, Palin will jump in, if she waits that long.
Need to stock up on popcorn, this is going to be one of the longest, funniest shows ever put on, and it'll be completely sponsored by the whack-a-doos, God Bless those crazed fools.
If nothing else, I believe history has taught us this, extremists always overreach, and when they do, they eventually topple over.
I think the connection between flashy cars and mating is more direct than was stated. Flashy cars look new, implying that the man will get rid of the car as soon as it's the slightest bit "imperfect", so he probably changes cars often. And the implication is that he likes to change women as often as he changes cars.
I wasn't really expecting to be noted on the program, but I did hope my comment got through to you. BTW, way to go on pronouncing my nickname the way I wanted it pronounced, few people would have suspected that I was using the German word for red. You're too smart Thom.
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Thom, please please just graciously accept your compliments instead of asking callers to curtail their comments!
There are a LOT of us out here who truly appreciate you and the work you do - and there are many people who dearly want to express their gratitude for your dedication to progressive causes. You are a beacon in the darkness for us.
Thank you Thom!! =)
Since you say you read this blog daily Thom, I'm putting this comment here because I believe there is a possible loophole in the Affordable Health Care act. (I originally posted this on your daily blog Wed, June 23 when you originally discussed the legislation Bachus put in the related bill).
If Corporations can own a PO Box in the Caymans and not pay taxes, why can't I maintain a PO Box in Libby Montana and get Medicare coverage? Perhaps Bauchas has unintentionally opened a door, in which 300 million Americans become residents in this town in Montana as a result of this.
Heck politicians are known to maintain a few different homes just so they can run in districts that they don't particularly wish to really live in. So even if I have to buy a mobile home in Montana, still cheaper than buying health insurance, and it's not likely politicians are going to be eager to change the laws for claiming legal residency.
Sorry if I committed a faux pas posting this here, but I really wanted you to take a look at this and perhaps try to get an attorney on your show to discuss it. I wish I had the free time to call your show with this question, but luckily I'm still employed.
As to the Republicans stopping anything to help improve the economy to keep Obama from getting elected. I wonder if its just that? It also gives them excuses to put in emergency city administrators, break up unions, and call even louder for tax breaks to name a few. At this point, the more this country descends into a 3rd world condition, the more power they can assume and the more Government services they can privatize. Its no longer the Republican party, its the Repugnant party!
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You really are uninformed, or at least informed as much as N.C. wants you to be. That propaganda is straight from their P.R. people. When you actually try to get this "free help" it is a much different story. They have waiting lists, years out.
" This is reality- North Carolina's Health Care system is equipped to treat indigent and uninsured patients and those who cannot receive Disabiliy, Medicare or Medicaid. The Mecklenberg County Emergency Room would provide him with stabilizing treatment, examination, perhaps medication, and referrals to the county outpatient services available to him according to his economic status. http://www.carolinashealthcare.org/body.cfm?id=37 "
Stabilizing treatment? Sure, they'll get you ambulatory. He already was. Just because you can walk doesn't mean crap.
"perhaps medication" yea, "perhaps" for the day.
"referrals to county outpatient services"...man that is a sad joke. Our health dept. Dr.'s are way overworked, very little pay and up to their necks in red tape. I know from experience. Let's say you have cancer. They can treat you if it is life threatening. Skin cancer that is "merely disfiguring", forget about it. That is just the tip of the iceberg. The medical help available to the poor and working poor is a band-aid until it reaches the point of mortality, then you can go on a waiting list. The Dr.'s get so frustrated, most of them WANT to help people, but their hands are tied. If it is not, for-profit health care, our government treats you like dirt.
Try it. Lets say you have a very painful condition...,these Dr.'s are not allowed to prescribe anything stronger than Ibuprofen. Hey, you're poor, bite the bullet.
I have a Sister with skin cancer on her nose (most of her nose) they cannot help because it is not lethal. I am still in the process of creating a webpage for donations (I am not very technically savvy) to help her save some of her looks and self-confidence. She saw a Surgeon, he kept saying, "so you don't have insurance" very rudely. Then he offered to cut some cancer out every 4 weeks and send the results to an expensive pathologist. No insurance, no reconstructive surgery. If she had insurance, he would do "microsurgery and remove al of the cancer in one setting and then reconstruct her nose.
I have an unemployed Nephew who lost his COBRA insurance because he could not afford it. He has rectal cancer but because he has had insurance w/in the last 60 days he has to wait. Untreated rectal cancer after it is diagnosed, left untreated for 2 months can, at least, destroy what health you have. He is 30 years old. He was fired from his job of 12 years because he passed out at work and had a hieatal hernia repaired but he was still sick from undiagnosed rectal cancer....lots of "help" available.
Back around 2004 or 2005 TV Ontario had a four part series. I gave one part the title, "Planet, Inc."
Planet Inc.
Corporations and people make money during crises, such as war, corporate corruption, etc. Corporations are benefiting themselves against the common good. Privatization takes from the public trust and gives to corporations and influential people. Our lives will be at the mercy of these corporations and the powerful money people. The powerbrokers are interested in private ownership for everything on this planet, such as water, air, land, forests, etc. You will have to pay the corporation for everything.
Corporations want mindless consumers and advertising attempts to control the mindless consumer. Corporations are not good apostles. They are predators. Shareholders want money and not corporate apostles. Corporations advertise a way of life and not a product.
Corporations encourage tax cuts, tax havens, and avoidance of taxes. Every part of our planet will be parceled to corporations.
You cannot patent life and yet, the Supreme Court ruled that you can patent life. Life, today, is a utility to be patented by corporations and research companies, such as cloning and gene alterations. Moral issues are of no concern to corporations.
The Federal Drug Administration goes along with corporations regardless of the research findings. Corporate ownership will broadcast anything and everything they want whether or not the information or research is factual for people and their health. Corporations want profits and not health.
When Jesus was dying on the Cross, He said, "Father, why have you forsaken me." Whenever I remember these words, I say, "My God, why have you forsaken my country, the Anti-Christ."
@Palindromedary, it appears to me that the Anti-Christ is creating jobs, such as more funeral homes and directors. These directors must be praising our police officers for their "shoot first and ask questions later attitudes."
"Leaches, cockroaches, and vultures are in control of this country and we need to take it back before the syphilitic-brained ruling elite begin to in-breed again to preserve their blood lines producing yet more Neros. The ruling elite are playing their sinister fiddles while watching the earth crumble and burn." A Great Amen!!!
Gerald: it was interesting meeting so many people from so many lands as the expatriates came from all over the world to work there. I think it also helped give me more of a broader view and understanding of the world. I know what a theocracy is and how I hope it never happens here under any name. They had a scary form of punishment as well and invited anyone interested to attend. They had yellow school buses to take spectators to the public beheadings which I never was tempted to attend. But would I rather be in the good ole US of A where you can only be imprisoned and tortured and made to suffer a terrible death through inability to afford good medical care? And the main theocratic godhead is the dollar? All hail the wicked god of the west and Seig Heil! They'll either be turning us into Soylent green or breaking out the Zyklon B sometime soon so that us old people are no longer a drain on the economy. But, perhaps, they have subtler plans of just starving us to death or letting us die of the disease of poverty. But the way they are going...it won't just be about old people..we might just be better off not being around when it really gets bad. I'm sure the young people already hate us for leaving the world in such a mess. I hope they understand that it was just the top few percent of old people and even young people who have caused the world to suffer.
I'm sure the funeral houses are salivating at the soon to be made fortunes....like funeral director vultures, before a gunfight, hastilly fashioning cheap wooden, but overpriced, coffins for the festive occasion. Leaches, cockroaches, and vultures are in control of this country and we need to take it back before the syphilitic-brained ruling elite begin to in-breed again to preserve their blood lines producing yet more Neros. The ruling elite are playing their sinister fiddles while watching the earth crumble and burn.
UNSCEAR should have their letters changed to what it really is: UNSCARE...in that they try to unscare the people to real dangers that they really should be scared of.
@Palindromedary, Saudi Arabia seems to have been an interesting experience.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Nuclear-Nightmare-Worsens-by-Joe-Giambrone-110620-229.html
Are our nuclear nightmares awaiting us? God is truly amazing! He is willing to share with us many warning signs for disastrous events that we will eperience unless we change our path toward self-destruction.
Gerald: "Money talks and the conservatives will never lose again in my lifetime. What I truly fear? Hell is a continuation of life in the United States for eternity!!! "
I hear that!!! And I think "Hell" is going to get a lot hotter before we go....both climate-wise and politics-wise.
Gerald, when I was living and working in Saudi Arabia many years ago, (and I wasn't even working in the hottest places...like in the Rub Al Kali desert area..130 degrees..where most of the oil wells were), I drove past several very huge monstrous buildings they built right along side the Arabian Gulf (Persian Gulf to some). They were a massive water desalination/filtration plants and they provided much of the fresh drinking water for the area. The technology has been around for a long time and that was back in the early 80s and I'm sure it existed a long time before that. But then Saudi Arabia had lots of money to spend on whatever they wanted anyway. I remember walking into one of their banks in Al Khobar and just on the other side of the chest high railing were 3 large tables (about 4' x 10') piled with money. One table was all US bills stacked about 2-1/2 feet high covering the whole table and the other two tables were stacked with Saudi Riyals. There was one Saudi with a machine gun walking around outside but I later found out that they don't even load the weapons normally. Walking through the dusty streets of Al Khobar was really surreal as the number of jewelry stores displaying massive 18-24K necklaces and bracelets. The other stores were predominantly selling all kinds of electronic goodies. And then the Muzuin would sing out over the loud speakers for everyone to go to prayer. They even had Toyota pickup trucks with loud speakers roaming around at that time to make sure everyone closed up shop and got to prayer at the local mosques. The clanging of roll down metal store fronts made quite a racket right along with the muzuin's call to prayer. The metal clickity clacks of the store fronts repeated again about 1/2 hour later when prayer was over and they reopened their shops. Many of the Muslims didn't even go to the mosques but lined up en masse in the local squares and did their thing. As an expatriot...and non Muslim...all I could do was try to waste time till the shops opened again...not that I was buying much...especially not the gold. As I passed one jewelry shop I noticed a white robed Saudi man and his black enclothed wives buying a gold bracelet for the young (about 1-2 year old) daughter.
We may all have to get used to such radical climate change that the US may one day become a barren wasteland....and we won't even have an ace in the hole (oil) that will save some of us.
@Street Punk. we do need clean energy and alternative energies.
@Palindromedary, we have many problems in our country and across our planet. We must not destroy the ecosystem. It is important for human life, animal life, plant life, and for our air and water. What is so startling, the consevatives do not seem concerned. Money talks and the conservatives will never lose again in my lifetime. What I truly fear? Hell is a continuation of life in the United States for eternity!!!
We got to switch to clean energy all over the planet! As far as nukes go id love to see them all gone, but thats not gonna happen! Think about it, America tries to get other nations to give up their nukes to us, but America would never lets say give up their nukes to North Korea to dismantle! Would you trust them to dismantle the nukes? Well thats how they feel! And if we got rid of all our nukes, other countrys will still have them, then we would see how loyal our allies really are!
Gerald...yes, we are, unfortunately, a police state...and it will get much worse...that's for sure. And the destruction of the ocean's ecosystem goes right along with the disappearance of the honey bees..a lot of them anyway. Thank Bayer, etal, for that. I guess we are committing mass world suicide...and some people seem to be ok with that. But the ones causing the death and destruction are the ones who must think that they win the game when they die with the most toys. It's been so hot that my many tomato plants flowers have dried up despite keeping them watered and shaded. Maybe it's the radioactive fallout from the Fukishima meltdowns. Nah...the effects of that won't kick in until I eat the tomatoes...if there are any....and maybe get cancer from it years later. Last year, I grew tomatoes and canned them and enjoyed them all winter. They sure taste a whole lot better than the store bought ones...and no preservatives or radiation treatments (except now from the Fukishima meltdowns...different radiation, I know.) I think more people should get more prepared for the near future because it won't be pretty. Oh, and be sure to save your seeds....for anything you can. If it is not too late already...companies like Monsanto are genetically modifying the plants, and patenting them, so the seeds from the vegetables and fruits you eat will never grow. We will be totally dependent on monopolies.
With our oceans and their eventual destruction water will be more valuable than oil. Filtering out the salt may be difficult but it is possible.
@Palindromedary, we are a police state!!!
I do not like Baucus; I do not trust him; and I consider him a low-life being. I am concerned for his soul, for my soul, and for every soul on planet, Earth.
The United States is in a free fall into the abyss of hell for her mass murderous ways, for her war criminal actions and activities, and for her traitorous and treacherous agendas.
I did not watch Obama's speech because I am tired of all the BS our presidents say to our people. It is truly amazing how they can BS with a straight face. WE ARE NOT A LAW- ABIDING NATION!!!
From the latter half of the 18th century through the first half of the 19th century, considered by many the industrial revolution, ignorance reigned and no one understood the effects of industrial pollution. Well guess what! History will also show the same ignorance evident in the early 21st century. John Boehner when asked about climate change commented, "The idea that carbon dioxide is harmful to our environment is almost comical". Bachmann is a firm disbeliever as are many of her republican sidekicks. Some even quote from the bible in defense of their denier status!
Rejection of science I suspect is only a cover for their real reasons as deniers. It's pretty obvious that big political contributions come from big oil and in a way this kind of ignorant behaviour based on greed and power is far worse than just being ignorant of the facts, because as mentioned in Thom's blog, if the oceans die so do we!
So I agree with David Abbot, stopping the republicans is crucial in turning things around.
I wonder if due to climate related crop failures, will Bachmann get additional farm subsidies to go along with the current hundreds of thousands in taxpayer money she collects? I guess if we layoff more teachers we taxpayers can keep her afloat, it must be Gods will!