In a biting editorial, written for the Washington Times, Hatch (R-UT)
suggests a novel and literal approach to the First Amendment.
Friday, December 4, 2015
Cruz is the bad guy in his own philosophic narrative
Cruz is using his Ivy League education to be the sophist ancient philosophers warned us about.
Brother of Iraq War Vet Murdered In Planned Parenthood Attack Bravely Condemns Gun Laws
“I don’t have any resentment or anything — I forgive him,” he said. “It’s a hard pill to swallow because he took my only brother from me. That’s the only brother that I had, that I grew up with. He took that away from me and it’s hard but I forgive him. Jesus forgave me, so I have to forgive him.”The two other people fatally shot by Dear include a mother of two, 36-year-old Jennifer Markovsky, and married father of two, Pastor and Officer Garrett Swasey.
Chandler added: “My anger is not toward him, toward the gunmen … my anger is toward the laws that allow things like this to happen: the gun laws. When you allow people to carry firearms at their own will it makes a breeding ground for destruction and tragedy.”
The “pro-life” value system espoused by the shooter who ranted to police about President Obama and “baby parts” is a belief system currently based on anti-christian actions like hatred for President Obama, spreading lies about Planned Parenthood, bearing false witness against individuals working for Planned Parenthood, and shaming, humiliating and terrifying women seeking access to control over their bodies.
Additionally, multiple committees have already investigated the claims against Planned Parenthood and they came up empty handed. But Republicans didn’t let facts deter their partisan agenda and get out the vote tactic – they started yet another investigation in what has become the go-to for them– keep throwing stuff at the wall and something will stick. At the very least the public will associate the person/agency/organization with corruption because why else would they be investigated over and over again.
Once again, someone falling for Republican conspiracy theories – yet another alleged “lone wolf” and “mentally disturbed” person – has gunned down innocent people — fathers, mothers, sisters, daughters, sons, husbands and wives – someone’s family member.
And in seeming perfect juxtaposition to this specific Republican brand of hatred and willingness to lie and fear-monger about people and their ideas until they are harmed by yet another “mentally disturbed” person with access to weapons, we have Leyonte Chandler.
Cruz thinks cucumbers taste better pickled
Cruz’s response to last Friday’s Planned Parenthood shooting was a particularly lazy form of misdirection.
How Trump’s “Muslims gone wild” rhetoric is helping terrorism worldwide
Bad foreign policy is good wingnut politics.
Data Shows That Wingnut Republicans Are The Real Terrorist Threat To America
Contrary to Republican claims, the Colorado Springs Planned
Parenthood shooter was not a left wing activist. The shooter was a wingnut and according to the data, extremist Republicans and wingnuts are the real terror threat to the American people.A New York Times profile described the Planned Parenthood shooter as living in a trailer with a black cross painted on one end. Robert L. Dear was seen by a neighbor handing out anti-Obama pamphlets. Dear was described in the profile as generally conservative, but not obsessed with politics.
In short, the Planned Parenthood shooter fit the profile of anti-government, extremist Republicans who represent the biggest threat to the American people. To be clear, the anti-government extremist Republican is different from the typical Fox News watching, Republican voting relative who speaks about Obamacare with disgust while happily collecting their Medicare.
According to Charles Kurzman and David Schanzer, data suggests that the homegrown extremist is a much bigger threat that ISIL or Al Qaeda:
Despite public anxiety about extremists inspired by Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, the number of violent plots by such individuals has remained very low. Since 9/11, an average of nine American Muslims per year have been involved in an average of six terrorism-related plots against targets in the United States. Most were disrupted, but the 20 plots that were carried out accounted for 50 fatalities over the past 13 and a half years.
In contrast, wingnut extremists averaged 337 attacks per year in the decade after 9/11, causing a total of 254 fatalities, according to a study by Arie Perliger, a professor at the United States Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center. The toll has increased since the study was released in 2012.
As Republicans try to spread fear about immigrants and refugees, their hateful and inaccurate rhetoric is fuel for the right-wing domestic terrorist.
Instead of toning down their rhetoric, Republican pretender candidates like Cruz and Fiorina blamed the left for the attack on Planned Parenthood. Republicans are trying to avoid the 'unintended' consequences of their actions. The Republican cabal doesn’t set out to create a terrorist like Robert Dear. They embolden these extremists through bogus scandals and reckless behavior.
The American people have more to fear immediately from the unhinged Republican extremist than they do that a group of international terrorists will strike again.
Democrats Demand That Ryan Shut Down Planned Parenthood Investigation
In a statement after the shootings, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said:
No one in America should ever have to worry about gun violence when going to a health clinic or a church or a movie theater or a school. It is not enough for us to condemn the violence after it happens-we must act now to prevent it.
It is time to step up our efforts to protect clinic workers and patients.
It is time to finally get guns out of the hands of those who should not have them. And it is time to stop the demonizing and witch hunts against Planned Parenthood, its staff and patients, and the life-saving health care it provides to millions every day.
Teabagger Blackburn (R-TN) the chairwoman of the committee investigating Planned Parenthood accused Democrats of playing politics with the Colorado shooting, but Congressional Democrats have been calling on Ryan to close down the investigation for months.
On October 29, Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) wrote to Speaker Ryan (R-WI), “I also urge you to shut down the Select Investigative Panel on Planned Parenthood, which was similarly created to satisfy partisan and political goals. Not only have multiple committees already investigated the discredited claims against Planned Parenthood and turned up nothing, but the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee admitted there is no evidence that Planned Parenthood has broken the law. Instead of doubling-down on abusing taxpayer funds, you should start your speakership on a positive note by ending this political theater for the good of the country.”
Republicans are on the defensive after their violent rhetoric against Planned Parenthood inspired a domestic terrorist attack that kill three innocent Americans and wounded nine others.
Instead of taking responsibility for their words, Republicans have chosen to blame Democrats. The Planned Parenthood issue has gone from a political loser for Republicans to a deadly lesson in the unintended consequences that occur when leaders irresponsibly abuse their positions of power for partisan gain.
Democrats are turning up the heat, and Ryan is already showing signs of dropping the wingnut attack on Planned Parenthood.
Fox Blames Planned Parenthood Victims
Fox hack on clinic shooting: Liberals are ‘indicting an entire religion — 'christian' white Republican’
Fox News hack Andrea Tantaros added that
“the left” wanted to stop all talk about “the illegal harvesting of baby
parts."
This Hilarious Video Shows That 'Christian' And Islamic Fundamentalists Are Made For Each Other
A four-minute video making the rounds on social media is hilariously
demonstrating just how much 'christian' fundamentalists have in common
with Islamic fundamentalists.'Christian' Terrorists Burn Accused ‘Witches’ At The Stake; Where’s The Outrage?
Muslim Sharia? Meet “Anti-balaka,” Africa’s 'christian' terrorist
network that burns suspected “witches” at the stake or buries them
alive. You’re 7 Times More Likely To Be Killed By A Wingnut Terrorist Than A Muslim Extremist
In other words, Trump rallies are a scary place to be…
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Bachmann: Syrian Refugees Want To Gang Rape Us
From the Land of Batshit Crazy ...
Bachmann is promoting a conspiracy theory that Muslim Syrian war refugees want to rape Americans.
Bachmann is promoting a conspiracy theory that Muslim Syrian war refugees want to rape Americans.Texas Threatens To Sue Non-profit Groups For Aiding Syrian Refugees
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, the state of
Texas began notifying charities and other non-profit groups that they
could be sued for helping Syrian refugees.
Thursday, December 3, 2015
The Daily Drift
Another Mass Shooting: San Bernardino - 14 dead and 18 injured - This has got to stop!
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Republicans Have Blood On Their Hands For Inciting Deadly Domestic Terrorism
Americans can make a very accurate inference that Republicans have
blood on their hands for inciting rage and more violence towards women's
healthcare providers; just like they are…
President Obama, in this case is wrong; this is normal and regardless what decent Americans want, as the Muslim spokesman said the picture is getting increasingly bleak and not just because there are too many guns in America. There are too many hate-filled wingnuts and Republicans inciting violence against other Americans. And sadly there are enough angry white guys, with guns, who are going to do the Republicans’ bidding and start shooting innocent Muslims. That was the threat leveled at an Islamic Center in Kentucky and it was the latest result of Republican “anti-Muslim rhetoric” providing exactly the results Republicans intended; violence against American citizens who practice Islam.
The threats of violence targeting the Islamic Center of Lexington Kentucky prompted the Imam, Mahmoud Shalash, to contact Lexington police and federal Homeland Security officials at about the time a maniac was killing innocents in a Colorado Springs women’s healthcare clinic. The death threat came by way of email saying, “I’m going to kill everyone I there (sic) you Muslim f–ks. Salabis is coming for you.” The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, requested stepped up protection from state and local law enforcement authorities for the mosque and its adherents.
No-one on the planet should be surprised at the escalation of violence and animus toward Muslims, whether they are American citizens or not. Republicans have made whipping up hate toward the Muslim community their current cause célèbre after spending no small amount of time and effort demeaning Hispanic immigrants ad nauseam. In fact, the violence targeting Muslims is no different than the violence toward Planned Parenthood and it is “Mission Accomplished” for Republicans inciting terror attacks against Americans they despise.
Although law enforcement officials are withholding information about the motive behind the Colorado Springs’ gun rampage, the city’s mayor said that people can make very accurate “inferences from where it took place.” Fine, then Americans can make a very accurate inference that Republicans have blood on their hands for inciting rage and more violence towards women’s healthcare providers; just like they are inciting violence against American Muslims.
“This clear terroristic death threat targeting a house of worship must be treated seriously by local, state and federal law enforcement authorities and the perpetrator should be apprehended and brought to justice. Our nation’s leaders must send a clear message challenging the rising Islamophobia that leads to such threats.”
To punctuate his point, Mr. Hooper cited a current FBI alert to New York City police about an armed anti-Islam extremist who is traveling across the country to “confront” Muslims. Hooper also noted that in Connecticut, the FBI and local police are investigating multiple gunshots fired at the Baitul Aman mosque. In Florida, two Tampa Bay-area mosques received threatening phone messages on Friday night and the FBI said the person also made threatening calls to the Islamic Society of St. Petersburg. In a suburb of Austin, Texas, the Islamic Center of Pflugerville discovered feces and torn pages of the Quran that had been thrown at the door of the mosque. Muslim leaders encouraged authorities to investigate the act as a hate crime and law enforcement is doing just that. Still in Texas, in a suburb of Houston authorities arrested a man accused of threatening on social media to “shoot up a mosque” and he was charged with making a terroristic threat, a felony.
CAIR attributes this latest spike in anti-Muslim terrorist incidents to remarks by political candidates and lawmakers in the run-up to the 2016 general election. In a statement, CAIR said the glaringly obvious;
“Of particular concern is the extreme anti-Muslim rhetoric and falsehoods being espoused by leading Republican pretender candidates Trump and Carson. Another contributing factor to this marked rise in Islamophobic hostility is state governors and lawmakers playing on public fears and spreading misinformation about Syrian refugees being resettled into the United States.”
The national director of CAIR said his organization has made official appeals to law enforcement officials to step up patrols at mosques and other Islamic institutions. “We urge public officials and presidential candidates not to scapegoat American Muslims and not allow Islam to be demonized by Islamophobes or by the anti-Islamic actions of terrorists. We have men, women and children who come to the masjid to pray every day, and since these attacks, they have reduced the frequency of their visits to the masjid with fear for their lives.” Republicans are likely damn proud of themselves for demonstrating how much they detest and oppose this pathetic country’s so-called freedom of religion by having a major hand in prohibiting the “wrong” religious adherents from worshiping out of fear for their lives; it is very ISIL-like.
Despite all the Republican-incited domestic terrorism against practitioners of a religion the evangelical religio-wingnuts want eliminated from America, the spokesman for the New York mosque that was shot up, Salaam Bhatti, said the shootings, vandalism, and death threats are “A teachable moment. As we do raise awareness of attacks in mosques, we will see mosques do not respond in violence. Islam teaches us to teach peace.” So does christianity teach peace, but this is America and its most visible representatives of the neo-christianity polluting this country have spent years preaching violence against Muslims as part of their drive to make America the most “structurally violent nation” on the face of the Earth. Sadly, they are succeeding beyond their wildest dreams and with every new act of domestic terrorism, whether against women’s health clinics or American Muslims’ houses of worship, they get more blood on their hands. With all due respect to the White House, despite what President Obama says, these Republican-incited acts of violence are normal and it is all down to Republicans inciting terrorists to action against American citizens.
Cruz says Planned Parenthood terrorist was ‘transgendered leftist activist’
Edited Republican Videos Inspired Domestic Terrorist Attack On Colorado Planned Parenthood
It is not a coincidence that the deadly attack occurred on Planned Parenthood after Republicans in Congress spent years coordinating an attack on Planned Parenthood that featured heavily edited videos.
The Hill reported that Republican members of Congress coordinated the attack on Planned Parenthood with anti-choice organizations like the Center For Medical Progress:
Weeks before the first undercover Planned Parenthood video surfaced, Diane Black was given a sneak preview of three hours of the not-yet-released footage.
….
Black said she was invited to the screening by two other anti-abortion lawmakers who had been given early access to the footage. She said the viewing was to help understand the wealth of footage and “so I could be prepared for comment” when the videos became public.
Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers called the attack an act of domestic terrorism on ABC’s This Week:
RADDATZ: But would you say, Mr. Mayor, this is an act of domestic terrorism?
SUTHERS: It certainly appears that way. We have, Martha, something that occurs quite a bit. We have a person that’s pretty much off the grid and acting for whatever motivation, very hard to ferret out those folks. You know, I — I was an attorney general that was a head of a committee looking at things that are consistent about these kinds of incidents. And one of the things we don’t do very well is identify these people, sometimes with mental health problems, and prevent their access to weapons. And I — you know, we’ll wait and see here, but all indications are this guy, as I say, was off the grid.
As Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said, the attack on Planned Parenthood was an unintended consequence of Republican rhetoric. The biggest immediate terror threat in the United States is coming from domestic lunatic fringe religio-wingnut extremism.
Coordinated inflammatory partisan stunts like the fake Planned Parenthood videos provide motivation of mentally unstable domestic terrorists who subscribe to the extreme right-wing agenda and treat Republican lies as truth to attack.
Those Republican members of Congress, who plotted and carried out the campaign against Planned Parenthood, are indirectly responsible for an act of domestic terrorism.
Trump and other Republicans are trying distance themselves from the domestic terrorist by calling him a maniac, but Republicans can’t escape the fact that the shooter was inspired by their attacks on Planned Parenthood.
Head of US special forces admits: Islamic State would not exist if the shrub didn’t invade Iraq
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Kurtz And Co. Prove There's Nothing Trump Can Say Where The Media Won't Claim He's 'Winning'
Someone please let me know when Hillary
Clinton, or anyone on the left for that matter is going to get this same
sort of pass from the media?
Trump Rejects Todd’s 9/11 Reality, Replaces It With His Own
On NBC's Meet the Press, Trump and host Todd had a
spirited debate about the nature of reality, which left us wishing we
could live in an alternative reality in which...
Trump shunned by Hispanic Republican lawmakers as black pastors make him change campaign plans
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
The Daily Drift
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Dark Money Ads Secretly Boosting This Wingnut Candidate
This Republican pretender candidate is getting more secret ‘dark’ campaign money than anyone else.
Care to guess which one?
Obama Is ‘Delusional’ For Saying Climate Change Is A Major National Security Threat, Fiorina Says
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