The Stupid, It Burns!
Perry was on Fox News Thursday, and this was how he responded to
accusations from Trump on whether or not he was getting out of the
race: ...
Saturday, September 5, 2015
‘You Know A Broken Clock Is Right Once A Day’
Perry was on Fox News Thursday, and this was how he responded to
accusations from Trump on whether or not he was getting out of the
race: ...
Texas' idiot Abbott seeks retribution against hospital that advocates Medicaid expansion
by Joan McCarter
Man, does Texas grow vindictive, conspiratorial Republicans, or what?
Here's Gov. Gregg Abbott pulling a real Chris Christie move, essentially ordering
a financial investigation of a nonprofit health insurer and affiliated
hospital because its chief wrote an editorial he didn't like.Shortly before 1 a.m. on July 15, Gov. Greg Abbott sent an email from his personal account to his top advisers about an editorial published by the Houston Chronicle. Its author, Ken Janda, had written that Texas' health care safety net system for the poor and uninsured was "in serious danger of meltdown" because state leaders were refusing to expand health coverage to a million uninsured Texans living in poverty.Echoes of "time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee." In actuality, Jandal's system is not rolling in dough. While the insurance plan made a net $16 million in 2014, the hospital is actually $72 million in the red. They've had to lay off 250 employees this year. It got about a fifth of its revenue in 2013 from a federal program that reimburses for uncompensated care—a Medicaid program that in Texas is set to expire in September of next year. That's the same program that Florida Gov. Rick Scott is suing the Obama administration over, the program that is being phased out because Medicaid expansion is available to supplant it. While Abbott was considering political repercussions against Janda, he was also emulating Scott, and trying to get more Medicaid money out of the Obama administration. Like Scott, he recognizes that the state is in serious financial straits and that health care for the poor is the biggest problem—just as Janda wrote in his op-ed that brought Abbott's wrath. But of course Medicaid expansion is Obamacare, and they don't want no stinkin' Obamacare, so they want a different, untainted pot of the same Medicaid money. Lucky Texas. They got Chris Christie and Rick Scott all rolled into one crappy governor.
The governor told aides he wanted to "see the financials" of Janda's nonprofit Community Health Choice, a health insurer affiliated with the Harris Health System, one of Texas' largest public hospitals.
"I'm told by informed sources that most of these entities are rolling in dough," Abbott wrote. […]
At 6:30 a.m. on July 15, Abbott's policy director Drew DeBerry forwarded the governor's note about the editorial to other aides, asking them to compile information about the hospital system's profits.
"By engaging in this ridiculous editorial, this specific hospital has now put themselves on the list" of facilities whose finances the aides should review, DeBerry wrote.
Here’s More Climate Change Proof for Republicans to Ignore
by Shawn Drury
How do you get a Republican pretender candidate to ignore you?
Talk about science.
The scientists from NASA — a bunch of nutjobs obviously only it for
all that grant money — who announced Wednesday global sea levels have
risen by three inches since 1992 can expect to be shunned by the Republican cabal.Two years ago, United Nation scientists projected global sea levels would rise between 1 and 3 feet by the end of this century. The figures reported Wednesday indicate the projection will be at the higher end of the range.
As one might expect, some areas saw bigger rises than others. The west coast of the United States actually had sea levels drop slightly, while other parts of the world saw rises as big as nine inches.
The scientists said low-lying areas such as Miami and Charleston, S.C., already see flooding during intense storms or high tides.
The causes of the increase are threefold: larger areas of warm ocean water, melting mountain glaciers, and melted ice from polar ice sheets.
NASA’s Tom Wagner said, “People need to understand that the planet is not only changing, it’s changed.”
The “people” Wagner refers to, would also include, one would presume, those who are running for president.
School Argues That 14-Year-Old Is Partly Responsible For The Abuse By Her Teacher
Just one more way our society is completely screwed up.
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Republicans Caught Making Out In A Park Call The Cop Who Busted Them A Liar
Wingnuts Tim Kelly, R-Red Wing, left, and Tara Mack, R-Apple Valley
Two Minnesota Republican cabal wingnuts caught “making out” in a local park in broad
daylight are disputing an officer’s claim that they were engaged in
sexual contact with one another. The wingnuts, 51-year old Tim Kelly,
and 32-year old Tara Mack, were cited for making out in a vehicle at
4:30 p.m. on August 25th. According to the officer’s report Mack’s pants
were unzipped and pulled down when the park ranger approached the
vehicle.
Both wingnuts were charged with a misdemeanor nuisance ordinance violation. The story has proved embarrassing for them since the two “family values” Republicans are married, but not to each other.
Tim Kelly has been married to his wife, Sue, for 18 years and they have four children.
Tara Mack is married to Justin Mack, a pastor affiliated with River
Valley Church, a suburban Twin Cities Assemblies of dog megacult. They
have two children. Mack was also a featured speaker at the 2014 CPAC convention.
The two wingnuts who preach about family values and
personal responsibility, are now trying to deny their own
responsibility for engaging in questionable conduct, by accusing the
police officer of fabricating the story about them making out.
When we met, a park ranger approached my vehicle and told me I was double-parked. I disputed his characterization and got out of the car to take a picture. He became visibly agitated and returned to his own car. Approximately ten minutes later, he returned to my vehicle with a parking ticket citing a nuisance. When I asked what that meant, he responded ‘whatever I want it to mean.’
Last week, I received a citation for a nuisance. Subsequently, I have been told the officer wrote in his notes — information that I’ve requested, but has not yet been made public to me — statements that are completely false and inappropriate… I will be filing a complaint with the sheriff’s office regarding the officer’s egregious and false statements.
The wingnuts insist that they were just “exchanging
documents.” Dakota County Sheriff Tim Leslie scoffed at the suggestion
his Deputy falsified an account of what happened. Leslie stated:
This is what park rangers do. They patrol. I have no reasons to doubt the ranger and the facts he’s reporting. I stand behind him 100 percent.
What
the two wingnuts choose to do on their spare time is their business,
but they should at least own their behavior. While Republicans enjoy
casting judgement upon others, they are often quick to deflect
responsibility away from their own moral shortcomings. The two
Republican wingnuts who were fooling around behind their spouses backs
would rather defame a police officer trying to do his job than fess up
to their own misdeeds. One can only hope that the next time they want to
“exchange documents” they keep their pants up, or rent a room, so that
the rest of the community doesn’t have to see their government “in
action.”
Friday, September 4, 2015
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The West Is Burning And Due To Climate Change That May Be The New Normal
As of September 2nd, 2015, over 8.2 million acres in
the United States had burned from this year’s wildfires. That puts the
nation on pace to set a record for number of acres burned. This year’s
total could exceed the record setting year of 2006, when over 9.8
million acres were charred by wildfires. In the 55 years that records
have been kept, all six years that exceeded 8 million acres burned, have been in the 21st century.
On September 2nd, there were 56 active large wildfires
burning in the United States. All 56 were in the American West, with
the three states of Idaho, Montana and Washington accounting for 45 of
the fires. The 8.2 million acres already burned is more than fifty
percent higher than the decade annual average. With more fire season
still ahead, climate change may be making major fires more frequent and
more devastating than ever before. A rough fire season may become the
“new normal”.
The fact that the six worst fire years have all
occurred in the 21st century suggests that climate change is a
significant factor. The Union of Concerned Scientists outline the problem as follows:
Higher spring and summer temperatures and earlier spring snow-melt typically cause soils to be drier for longer, increasing the likelihood of drought and a longer wildfire season, particularly in the Western United States.These hot, dry conditions also increase the likelihood that, once wildfires are started by lightning strikes or human error, they will be more intense and long-burning.
The increased size, intensity and duration of wildfires has put a major budget strain on the U.S. Forest Service. In 2015, they have spent over 50 percent of their budget on preparing for and fighting wildfires.
Twenty years ago, in 1995, just 16 percent of the Forest Service budget
was spent on firefighting. The Forest Service projects that by 2025, a full 2/3rds of their budget will be consumed by fire fighting efforts.
People in coastal areas like Florida and Louisiana
should be concerned about climate change because warming oceans and
rising sea levels can increase the dangers of severe hurricanes and of
coastal flooding. However, the risks posed by human-caused climate
change are not limited to people living at sea level.
The
threat of more and larger wildfires is something that poses a greater
danger to people in the interior West than in any other part of the
country. If nothing is done to address the environmental consequences of
man-made climate change, large sections of the American West will
ignite every summer. Fires burning out of control will just become part
of the new normal.
In Case You Hadn’t Noticed Yet, The Koch Brothers Are Losing The Republican Primary
The five Koch-favored candidates combined still trail Trump in
the Republican cabal race, with Walker performing the worst of the bunch.…
A Monmouth University poll released on September
3rd, confirms that Trump is running away with the Republican cabal race, and
that retired neurosurgeon Carson is currently in second place. While
it is easy to recognize that this mean Republican voters are falling in
love with fringe candidates whose political views are bordering on
comically absurd, it also reveals another emerging truth of the 2016
campaign. The billionaire Koch brothers are losing the Republican
primaries, and losing badly.
Consider this. In the Monmouth survey,
Self-funding billionaire Trump polled 30 percent. Carson,
who is heavily reliant on small dollar donors, polled 18 percent. None
of the Koch brothers’ favorite candidates could manage better than
single digits.
In early August, the Koch brothers invited five candidates — Jeb, Walker, Cruz, Rubio and Fiorina — to a special confab in a luxury California hotel.
There the candidates were given the opportunity to make their case in
front of the Kochs and other billionaires, and to grovel for their
financial support.
Those five candidates are polling just 28 percent total,
if you add them all together to create one Koch puppet “super
candidate”. Trump alone beats Jeb, Walker, Cruz, Rubio and Fiorina
combined!
Worst of all for the Kochs, the winner of the post-confab wealthy donor straw poll, Walker,
is faring the poorest of the five Koch friendly candidates, mustering
an anemic 3 percent national support in the latest Monmouth poll.
Democrats
and Independents should take no delight in Trump and Carson
running first and second in the polls, as both men would be poor leaders
should they ever become pretender. However, at some level it is amusing
that for all of their efforts to buy the loyalty of Republican
political candidates, the Koch brothers are being shut out by wacky
insurgents who aren’t exactly dancing to the beat of their financial
drums.
Bernie Sanders Blasts The Republican Cabal With Reality: It Wasn’t Immigrants Who Caused The Great Recession
While being interviewed by the Des Moines Register
editorial board, Senator Bernie Sanders slapped Republicans the reality of
their failed policies while calling out their racist attacks on
immigrants.
While speaking to the Des Moines Register editorial board, Senator Sanders said:
In the year 2015, candidates for President Of
The United States should not be making racist remarks about people who
come from Latin America or from Mexico. I would have hoped that we have
gone beyond that. I would also hope that we would not be engaging in
demagoguery against undocumented people in this country.
If tomorrow, every person who in this country who is
undocumented left this country, your agricultural system would likely
collapse as well as many other aspects of our economy.
So for a start, it was not undocumented people in
this country whose greed and recklessness on Wall Street drove us into
the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression.
It wasn’t undocumented people in this country who got us into a war in Iraq that we never should have gotten into.
It wasn’t undocumented people in this country who
gave huge tax breaks to billionaires and are fighting to cut Social
Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. And I think they’re being used as a
punching bag, and I resent that.
We can have differences of opinion on how
we proceed in terms of immigration and treating undocumented people, but
let’s not demagogue the issue. Let’s have the courage to stand up to
the people who really have power in this country. The Wall Street people
and the corporate America people, and not just beat on people who are
without legal status.
Bernie Sanders dropped a serious dose of reality on
the Republican cabal by speaking the truth. Republicans are using
immigrants to cover up for their legacy of failure.
The Republican pretender candidates don’t want to
talk about the Great Recession that their party’s economic ideology
caused, and they definitely don’t want to discuss their disastrous
foreign policy.
Most
of the Republican field is trying to win the primary by fearmongering
about immigrants. As Senator Sanders pointed out, their bigoted delusions
are hiding the facts about what a disaster Republican governance has
been for the United States.
H&R Block And Republicans Just Teamed Up To Make Taxes Harder For The Poor
by Colin Taylor
It's no secret that America’s tax system is tremendously convoluted and
overly complicated- and the reason for that just became very clear.
H&R Block and Intuit, the company behind TurboTax, lobby heavily in
our Republican-controlled Congress to keep our tax forms so complicated
that one must go to one of their companies in order to pay our money to
the government. It’s a clear example of the way that private businesses
have hijacked and turned a public transaction between citizen and state
into a for-profit enterprise.
What makes matters worse is that H&R Block and their mercenary
Republican Senators in the Appropriations Committee have just extended
the length of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) form. The EITC is one
of America’s foremost anti-poverty tools, reimbursing taxed money to
poor working families. With the Child Tax Credit, it helps keep some 9.4
million people out of poverty each year
Two-thirds of EITC recipients pay to have their taxes done every year due to over-complicated forms, meaning that hundreds of thousands of dollars allotted to ease the plight of the working poor is instead going to exploitative and predatory tax preparation agencies.
The additions to the EITC form increases it by several pages, ostensibly to reduce the number of improper payments- which are made by the tax preparers themselves. Vox.com reported that “A recent IRS study found EITC-claiming returns from paid preparers were more likely to result in overpayments than self-filed returns….People who fill out taxes for a living are, on average, worse at it than taxpayers who do it themselves.”
The Senate Appropriations bill also calls for added language to Child Tax Credit, the American Opportunity Tax Credit (for colleges), and the Premium Tax Credit (for healthcare)- all aimed at lower-income families. Schemes like H&R Block’s lobbying efforts represent the ugliest side of American capitalism, that preys on the weak and the poor, keeping them downtrodden, perpetually stacking the deck against them and pulling footholds out from under their feet. It is absolutely despicable, and a clear sign that our tax system is in major need of a healthy, progressive reform.
Two-thirds of EITC recipients pay to have their taxes done every year due to over-complicated forms, meaning that hundreds of thousands of dollars allotted to ease the plight of the working poor is instead going to exploitative and predatory tax preparation agencies.
The additions to the EITC form increases it by several pages, ostensibly to reduce the number of improper payments- which are made by the tax preparers themselves. Vox.com reported that “A recent IRS study found EITC-claiming returns from paid preparers were more likely to result in overpayments than self-filed returns….People who fill out taxes for a living are, on average, worse at it than taxpayers who do it themselves.”
The Senate Appropriations bill also calls for added language to Child Tax Credit, the American Opportunity Tax Credit (for colleges), and the Premium Tax Credit (for healthcare)- all aimed at lower-income families. Schemes like H&R Block’s lobbying efforts represent the ugliest side of American capitalism, that preys on the weak and the poor, keeping them downtrodden, perpetually stacking the deck against them and pulling footholds out from under their feet. It is absolutely despicable, and a clear sign that our tax system is in major need of a healthy, progressive reform.
Colorado TV station reports on cop’s sexist ‘giant boobs’ remark by airing photo of victim’s breasts
Republicans Say You Should Be Able To Carry Guns Everywhere
This Proves They Don’t Mean It
by Scott Keyes
“Get rid of gun free zones,” Republican pretender frontrunner Trump tweeted after a gunman massacred five in Chattanooga last month.
“Gun-free zones an easy target for killers” an opinion headline on Fox
News read after a white supremacist shot up a black South Carolina
cult and killed nine. Wingnut sites also blamed gun-free zones
after massacres at multiple movie theaters and other shootings.If wingnuts are so convinced that gun-free zones attract killers, then why do so many wingnut places and events ban guns?
Across the country, from wingnut confabs to Republican pretender libraries and even to gun shows, loaded weapons are frequently prohibited. When an explanation is given, the reason is invariably for the safety of visitors.
Here is a list of some of those wingut places that ban loaded guns:
- Gun Shows- Perhaps the most surprising wingnut venue that bans loaded weapons are gun shows. Crossroads Gun Show, which tours across the country, explained why even concealed carry permit holders can’t bring loaded weapons into the event: “Safety is our Number One Priority, and a safe environment in the show can only be maintained if there are no loaded guns in the show.” This past weekend, gun shows from Florida to California to Ohio prohibited visitors to carry loaded firearms.
- Political Conferences- Wingnut conferences frequently prohibit guests from bringing firearms. One recent example was the Morning in Nevada PAC’s Inaugural Basque Fry, a sold-out event featuring Republican cabal pretender candidates Carson, Fiorina, Pataki, Cruz, and Walker. The event’s FAQ page answered the question “Can I bring licensed firearms?” with a simple “No.”
- The shrub pretender library- Though the shrub was a strong proponent of gun rights, his pretender library in Dallas demands that all visitors leave their firearms at home. According to a sign posted outside, guns are prohibited “For the security of our visitors, staff and facility.”
- Republican Conventions- Firearms were banned at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, even as delegates inside passed language into the party platform affirming that Republicans “acknowledge, support, and defend the law-abiding citizen’s dog-given right of self-defense.” State Republican conventions also regularly forbid guns. Indiana Republicans recently enacted legislation allowing guns in school parking lots, but held their 2014 convention in a facility that forbid firearms.
- Trump Hotels And Golf Courses- Despite Trump’s vociferous opposition to gun-free zones, numerous Trump hotels and golf courses, from Chicago to Los Angeles to Honolulu, do not allow firearms on the premises, even for concealed-carry permit-holders.
- NRA Events- Though the National Rifle Association said gun-free zones “encourage criminals and psychopaths,” the group held some of its annual meeting events in Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, which bans weapons. The year prior, the NRA held events in Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium, another gun-free zone.
- Town Halls- Guns are frequently prohibited at Republican cabal congressional town hall meetings, especially after the shooting of former Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in 2011. Even stupid wingnuts like Ryan (r-WI) and West (r-FL) opted to ban firearms at their town halls.
- Presidential Campaign Stops- Wisconsin idiot Walker (r), a prominent gun advocate who has signed legislation expanding gun rights, prohibited “guns, ammunition, fireworks, electric stun guns, mace, selfie-sticks, martial arts weapons/devices, or knives of any size” from his presidential campaign kick-off event. Other Republicans, like Gingrich (r-GA) in 2012, have also banned concealed firearms at their events.
- Republican cabal Debates- Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena, which hosted the first Republican pretender debate earlier this month, declared that “firearms and other weapons of any kind are strictly forbidden.” Guns will also be forbidden in the upcoming Republican cabal debate held in Colorado.
- Congress- Republicans have a stolen majority in both wings of Congress and could change the rules to permit firearms on Capitol grounds if they wished. It would not be without precedent; until 1967, there was no rule prohibiting guns in or around Congress. However, strict security was implemented in the early 1980s after a series of high-profile shootings and bombings.
Instead, study after study has shown that more guns leads to more killings. In addition, even armed civilian bystanders with good intentions of stopping a shooter can wind up exacerbating already violent situations, as nearly happened in the Giffords shooting.
Race-Baiting Walker Blames President Obama For Murders Of Police Officers
Republican cabal pretender candidate Walker thinks that President Obama is responsible for recent murders of police officers.
Huckabee Goes Full Nutjob: Will Outlaw Abortion, Consequences Be Damned
Emperor Mike Huckabee would completely outlaw abortion and grant
zygotes full citizenship. How is he going to get those teeny rifles up
in there?
Scalia-loving Tennessee judge: Straight couples can’t divorce if same-sex couples can marry
A local judge in Tennessee has refused to
grant a divorce to a straight married couple, citing the U.S. Supreme
Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage as one reason he cannot let
the man and woman untie the knot.
Breaking News To Evangelicals: Dog’s Law Does Not Supersede the U.S. Constitution
It may come as a shock to Kim Davis that in America there is no
higher authority than the Constitution, no matter that she believes…
There is a relatively well-known quote attributed to Theodore Roosevelt that says, “No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.”
Of course, despite the fact that nearly every American has a specific
law they disagree with, they generally obey the laws as required unless
they are very bigoted and very religious. There is a seriously twisted
belief among many evangelical fanatics that although they live in a
nation of laws spelled out in the U.S. Constitution, they contend that
their dog’s laws trump the law of the land and now Supreme Court
decisions.
Despite the fact that the Supreme Court ruled that
same-sex couples have the same 14th Amendment right to marry as
opposite-sex couples, there are still plenty of evangelicals that refuse
to follow the law. In Kentucky, the county clerk who continues to defy
several court rulings ordering her to do her appointed job and issue
marriage licenses to gay couples, is now apparently appealing the U.S.
Supreme Court’s order
on Monday that she has to obey the law to her dog almighty; what she
contends is the law of the land. Kim Davis, the woman who lusts to be a
true 'christian' martyr for bigotry, once again refused to do her job and told a bevy of reporters that indeed, she has the right to refuse to follow the law of the land “under dog’s authority.”
Of course, if Davis actually read her christian bible she would be
aware that dog’s authority (the bible) tells her to obey the government
authority, but this is America and evangelicals follow a bastardized
version of christianity; one that disavows the entire new testament.
What may come as a shock to Davis is that here in America there is no
higher authority than the Constitution, or the Supreme Court, no matter
that she believes otherwise.
This issue is a result of, mainly, Republicans
preaching that an evangelical has very unique religious freedom rights
to disobey any law that they claim infringes on their 1st Amendment
right to worship, pray, and attend church without government
interference. In Davis’ case, performing her duty of collecting money
for a license to marry does not, in any possible way, infringe on her
right to pray, read the bible, sing Psalms, or attend the local
mega-cult. Generally, a sane person would say that if Davis does not
want to obey the law and perform her duty as a county clerk, she should
just find a different job. At least that is the opinion of an
ultra-wingnut, ultra-constitutional originalist and ultra-delusional
Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia.
Scalia wrote for the majority in Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith that the idea of any American believing they have “a private right to ignore generally applicable laws is unconstitutional” and if allowed would lead to “anarchy resulting from a system in which each conscience is a law unto itself.”
In another High Court ruling, Scalia opined that a public employee with
objections to laws on religious ground should either just do their job
and shut up or find different employment. He said, “They have, after all, taken an oath to apply the laws and have been given no power to supplant them with rules of their own;”
or supplant them with dog rules that are not the law of the land any
more than the christian bible is the Constitution. However, there are
Republicans who believe that the Constitution, common sense, and the
Supreme Court are dead wrong and support Davis’ defiance and now
contempt of court.
Republican pretender candidate Paul came out in defense of Davis who is finally facing
contempt of court charges for violating the court order that she has to
do the job she is getting paid for and issue marriage licenses to
same-sex couples. Paul’s defense of Davis is consistent with his
cosponsoring legislation, the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA) that
prevents the government from acting against businesses or non-profits
that blatantly discriminate against same-sex married couples. In fact,
Republicans as a group have adopted, and endorsed
FADA by attempting to justify all forms of discrimination against
same-sex couples the rnc claims should be legally permissible despite
the Constitution’s 14th Amendment; another reason Republicans want the
Amendment abolished.
It is nearly certain that Kim Davis is convinced
that because Republicans have become the official legislative arm of the
extremist religio-wingnuts, and have spent an inordinate amount of time
and taxpayer money legislating according to religion, that she is on “a
holy crusade mandated by god almighty.” It is, in great part, due to the
recent seriously distorted interpretation of the Religious Freedom
Restoration Act (RFRA); a direct result of the above Supreme Court
decisions that ruled no, religious freedom is not freedom to, as Justice
Scalia wrote, “have a private right to ignore generally applicable laws.” In fact, in the alleged “direct utterances of dog almighty” in romans 13, god commands that christians “must
be subject to the governing authorities, for no authority exists except
by dog’s permission. The existing authorities have been established by dog, so that whoever resists the authorities opposes what dog has
established, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.”
Obviously
Kim Davis is going to bring judgment on herself according to biblical
mythos, but her present concern should be the contempt of court charges
she is due to face in the very near future. To demonstrate how perverted
her interpretation of her religious freedom really is, she faces being
either fined, imprisoned, or terminated from an $80,000 a year job
because she is a typical evangelical bigot. Instead of resigning, she is
intent on being a 'christian' martyr because she cannot get it through
her delusional mind that the U.S. Constitution, and not the Hebrew
scriptures is the law of the land; a mindset that is more prevalent than
most Americans want to believe and a very dangerous portent that this
country is being primed to become a theocracy
Kim Davis’ son refuses to issue same-sex marriage licenses in Kentucky after mother is jailed
Kim Davis Reveals Republican Cabal Support For Sharia Law
Republicans rip the First Amendment to shreds in order to oppose gay marriage.
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Thursday, September 3, 2015
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Welcome to the Thursday Edition of The Truth be Told.
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Our week on the mountain was great.
It was nice to see old friends again.
Late
last Wednesday we got a call from a friend we had not heard from in
several years saying that he and his wife had just bought some land in
the mountains next to ours and wanted us to come up and spend some time
with them and some other friends at the new place.
We spent the entire week since there.
Turned
out they had bought the other side of the river from us so that between
us we own over a mile of riverfront on both sides of the river - a
private paradise for ourselves and our friends.
Unfortunately we
had to return to the work-a-day world and bring this blog up to speed -
tomorrow we will be back to our normal schedule.
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Robert Reich: Three Steps To Restore The Balance Of Political And Economic Power In The US
In less than three minutes Robert Reich lays out the three steps the
US needs to take, in order to restore a balance of political, social and
economic power.One of the biggest lies in American politics
Other than Reagan was a real president ...
It just enriches huge companies at everyone else's expense.
The Republican Cabal is a Cabal of Fascists
Salon sums up the current Republican cabal as follows:
The Republican cabal tends to preach and practice
intolerance, xenophobia, nationalism and anti-democratic values (i.e.,
voter suppression). The Republican cabal is anti-enlightenment, and
embraces passion over reason. The dangerous denial of climate change and
other scientific facts seems to come out of the corrupt alliance of
anti-intellectual traditionalism and corporate influence (i.e., oil and
gas).
Now, the fact of the
matter is that
old fascism did not die in the mid-20th century it just slithered under a
rock. The Republican cabal are obviously neo-fascists, and share a
family resemblance. As stated above, the base
have many similar passions — traditionalism, nationalism, intolerance
towards immigrants or minorities. They react with hostility towards the
social progress of others and largely believe in a ‘survival of the
fittest’ ideology.
Giovanni Gentile, the “philosopher of
fascism” and ghostwriter for Mussolini, said of the definition of
fascism in the Encyclopedia of Italiana: “Fascism should more
appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and
corporate power.” This definition may very well fit the Republican cabal ideology: a
kind of corporate fascism, where large corporations have the ultimate
power; where the politicians spew a hateful, intolerant ideology based
on “traditional” values, on a platform funded by corporate interests,
elected by the people to serve those very corporate interests; and deny
environmental degradation because it would be unprofitable for the
funders to do anything about it, using the anti-intellectual hostility
to convince the people that it is nothing more than a left-wing
conspiracy.
To read the entire Salon article, click Trump is a fascist: What his surging popularity says about the Republican cabal base.
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