I posted this 2 days ago - BEFORE Pres Obama provided his birth certificate! No Response. No nothing! Come on, all you Obama haters on this blog, what about all this Incipient Racism you bring forward and fail to discuss? Now that the birth certificate has been put to rest, the carnival barker racist Trump now is questioning his educational achievements! This is RACISM folks and it needs to be discussed for what it is! Enough of this hiding behind Religion and Ideology and Politics to post all this incipient racist garbage. The Neo-Conservatives are Racists. The Republican Party is now the Racist Party. Stop hiding behind Religion and Ideology and Politics. Say what you really feel. And please stop using the excuse that all of this is nothing more than race baiting! This whole discussion of this birther issue is so racist that you can drive a Mach Truck thru it! It has also been co-opted by the corporate fascists and the monied interests and fox noise as a political tool to brainwash white middle class America. This whole birther issue REEKS of racism! Let’s call it for what it is.

UPDATE: I just learn that a Republican legislator from the great State of Oklahoma, which has just voted on a bill to eliminate Affirmative Action, stated on the house floor that "Blacks" and "Women" do NOT work as hard as "White" folk and why their jails are full of "Black" people! She said this LIVE, on the legislative floor, while the camera was running! So it is not hearsay. Here is a Republican legislator who is spewing Racist beliefs and passing bills that reflect that belief. The Republican party should be ashamed of themselves. But maybe shame is not part of their makeup or character.

That Rep is Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City. And I would wager that there are MANY Republicans who share this very same Racist mentality. We are not going forward, we are going backward!

I believe most everyone

I believe most everyone misses the point here. This is not about money. This is about ideology.

Privatize the schools so you can bring in Religion. Privatize the schools so you can bring in Creationism and stop teaching Evolution. Privatize the schools so you can teach the "White" kids Religion and Creationism and Anti-abortion. Privatize the schools so you can "Dumb" down everyone else who is NOT White, assuming they will be taught at all!

This is a recipe in the making for disaster for Democracy as we know it.

The neo-cons know what they are doing. This is time worn Racism and Fascism. This is no different than what happened in the South after the American Civil War. The south did not want the freed slaves to have education. So they burned the schools down and lynched the Teachers. In no way were the white southern post-slave owners going to allow "Black Folk" to get an education.

This process is still on-going. It is no accident that most of this ideology derives from the South and gets a lot of Southern support. But the disease has spread nationwide - Racism has no borders in America. America was not ready for a “Black” President, supposedly, more so for the rabid “White” racist. This was evident after Obama’s election, and now so evident that most don’t even try to hide it anymore. These latter day modern-day post-slave racists DO NOT WANT OBAMA to succeed! You see, every supposed “White” bastion of superiority has been destroyed and BESTED by what the white man had stated the freed slave could never do. But one. And that was the Presidency. Ever ask yourself about the Birther movement? This is nothing more than delegitimizing your enemy, to make him insignificant, to make him other.

For Obama to succeed with anything, would destroy the Racists belief that a black man cannot succeed at anything a white man can, especially a President. For Obama to succeed, where a super white low IQ previous president from the south did not, would be cataclysmic for the neo-con ideology and white racist belief. So they do not want him to succeed at anything, even if it means the destruction of our Nation.

Even now, today, a full 160 years after the Civil War, the South (Texas, Arizona, Mississippi, etc) talk of succeeding from the United States. The south still venerates the Civil War and re-enact it every year. They espouse the Rebel flag like it was some sort of religious icon. They lost the Civil War, but they have never lost their believe that a “Black Person” is inferior to a White Person. After all, they were slaves!

So this whole education thing, this privatization, is code for white supremacist indoctrination; Code for getting Religion into the schools; Code for propping up the White Race and marginalizing the non-white and everyone else; Code for propping up a new fascist state.

This is all this is. And it must be stopped at all costs. If we want to save Democracy for future generations.

I have an easier solution and certainly less costly in $$ and human life - we know what is causing global warming, so let us fix that. It is very simple and planet friendly and certainly less intrusive. The culprit is CO. Let us regulate it and spew less of it into our atmosphere.

BUT...there are a VERY Few, VERY VERY rich individuals and Corporations who simply DO NOT want that to happen! Why? LOTS and LOTS of Profits and $$$!

So Billions of people on this planet are suffering and will suffer in the very near future because of these few very rich people who do not want to lose their $$$$ and profits!!.

The planets weather cannot be turned on a dime. It takes sometimes millenniums. Where I write right now there was a mile high Glacier just 20,000 years ago. It took thousands of years for it to melt. Before that a 100 million years ago it was tropical. But it took millions of years for that to change.

Modern civilization is less than 6000 years. 6000 years ago there was way less than maybe 50-100 million humans on this planet. And they had an effect on climate! (North Africa was a lush grassland, but now its a desert!) Now we are approaching 7 BILLION humans!!

Anyone with a modicum of sense KNOWS that we screwing with our environment and our climate. We are changing it and the change will be anything but good for human life, no matter how many houses you build on stilts or bunkers you build in tornado alleys!

Just check out our nearest planets. Mercury – hot enough to melt lead! Venus – not too hospitable either. Mars – well we have those pictures also, and also very inhospitable for human life. The Moon – very near, but also a wasteland.

Knowing this, why would we want to make our planet more like those and totally inhospitable too human life?? WHY?

I wrote this a couple of years ago. I think it is getting more appropeate as time goes on.

http://washington.sierraclub.org/loowit/main/newsletterCurrent.asp

scroll down to Weather and Global Warming

Mother Earth (God) is making corrections to the man made damage.

See http://hubpages.com/hub/Home-TipsforHousehold

http://hubpages.com/hub/High-Food-and-Gasoline-Prices

If left to my own observations, I could not say "yes" with any weight. However, the overwhelming weight of (scientific and non-scientific) evidence over the last 2 decades is that it is quite real. As one objector who called in today rightly stated, volcanic eruptions toss unbelievable amounts of CO2 and contaminants into the atmosphere, compared to human activity. While I have sympathy for such callers, as they rightly point to something real, they miss the historical and contextual trends. Volcanic activity is an ongoing scenario, while many of the changes we see happening (the melting of glaciers, the absolutely certain melting of the polar ice, etc.) are extremely serious indicators of a global problem not traceable to natural events even since the beginning of industrialization less than 3 centuries old. It's not too difficult to pull up the data and look at the rise in temperatures and stats for emissions since the industrial revolution began.

For anyone who looks to the covert activities of the military or world governments in general for clues as to whether they believe climate change is real, it is critical to inspect the now massive amount of $ and energy being put into geo-engineering. Thousands of scientists, many governments, and certainly actively the US military, have invested huge amounts of time and effort at climate control and research. One might surmise these activities are about weaponization of weather, which is also true enough to be said, but there is far more going on there than this simplistic analysis.

In listening to climate change deniers, one must put them in the context (in the US, which is where they all seem to be and be talking) that we have in this country massively funded misinformation mills that churn on behalf of those who are destroying the environment, and a corporate culture that has enslaved otherwise intelligent people into working for, and without any consideration of, actual human and non-human well being. These folks can be seen as the unconscious killers of manking. Fundamentalism and its base of un-examined ignorance seem to trump the simplicity and benign concepts of cooperation and tolerance.

It is sad. But, there are lots of people in the red states that believe just that. As long as we allow the republican party to make god in their image this will continue.

Bye the way I saw on free speech tv that there ia a book that Paul Ryan requires his staffers to read but, I didn't get the name of the book or the author's name. can someone help me.

You are one of the few who make sense. I am not a socialist who wants to make people do things. What I agree with is changing local building codes to require some type of storm shelter. People who build on the side of cliffs or over the ocean or on the sides of hills, that's all money talking and local government that can't say no to money. What did you think was going to happen eventually? I don't think a lot of people have insurance especially in poorer or rural area so that doesn't matter. But not to require a storm shelter when you rebuild a home or replace a trailer or repair a home, again that's all money and the mistaken belief that not requiring it makes you more American and proves you cherish personal freedom to do what you want. Those people know what they are doing if they choose to live in a trailer or home without a storm shelter. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. A lot of people I know, their parents or grandparents hand dug their storm shelters.

AMEN !!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course we are doing this to our beautiful earth. She is sick with cancer. "Free Market" capitalism is the cancer. The tumors are the oil companies, the pharmaceutical companies, the insurance companies, the for profit hospitals, the media companies, and on and on it goes. They feed off of us, just like cancer feeds off of our bodies. We are feeding them daily. Some of us do this very reluctantly, but most people do not use critical thinking to even realize what they are doing. The politicians (most of them) are each tiny tumors trying to grow as big as they can during the feeding frenzy. The current corporate model of profit above all else is exactly the same as the cancer model of getting bigger and bigger. Thinking this model through to completion, it is evident that the body eventually dies. We need to each become imaginal cells, exactly like the cells in a crysallis (Bruce Lipton's "Biology of Belief). Each of us going inward to create a better vision, and then connecting with other imaginal cells to co-create a new way forward. We can't just push back on the cancer or try to kill it. As we begin to do this, eventually there will be enough of us to simply melt the existing cancer into oblivian. We must do this by changing the entire paradigm of thought. Competition will no longer make any sense. We must reconnect with the great field of potential. We must understand that we are one with each other and with all living source. If we do not do this, our earth will indeed die, or certainly she will be wise enough to imagine us off of her beautiful skin. Sadly, the other beautiful life forms will be destroyed as well. But, in my own imagination, I can see enough of us reconnecting and unplugging from the tumors as we support one another with our life supportive ideas and actions.

GO VERMONT............YOU WILL BE THE TORCH BEARER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AS FOR OBAMA'S BIRTH OR EDUCATION RECORDS.......................CAN ANYONE OF THE REPUBLICAN RASCALS PRODUCE THEIR EDUCATION RECORDS? MOST OF THEM WILL BE ASHAMED OF BRINGING THIS UP

AND YES I AGREE THEY WILL DO WHATEVER,HOWEVER RIDICULOUS IT MAY BE, TO SWITCH OUR ATTENTION FROM THE MAJOR ISSUES BUT THEY ARE FORGETTING .........THE GIANT IS WAKING UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As Americans sip martinis on the beach or at the pool, the impoverishment and slavery of Americans are here by mass murderers and war criminals, aka Satan's disciples. The devil is now controlling our country.