<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537641439754846805</id><updated>2012-02-26T09:30:24.992-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Proggy The Anti-Con</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>riceroni</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01502225503121190748</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kDX8SyTpI1Y/TbmjMr_X01I/AAAAAAAAAAM/U8oUlXrim5Y/s220/mickeymousemiddlefinger.jpeg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537641439754846805.post-5097836336749075536</id><published>2012-02-10T11:50:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2012-02-10T11:50:31.948-06:00</updated><title type='text'>President Barack Obama The Failure?!?</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt; 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You hear it all the time coming from the right-wing, and you know what? They’re right! He is a failure. Let’s just go down a list of these failures that I’m sure in an election year the GOP should willingly want to exploit….&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;President Obama FAILED to let America slip into another 1929 type of great depression. The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.recovery.gov/About/Pages/The_Act.aspx"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Recovery Act&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt; FAILED to keep bleeding over 750,000 jobs a month which was the state America was in when President Obama was sworn in. This also contributed in large part to the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://assets.bostatic.com/frontend/projects/postcard/postcard-front.png"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;22 straight months of private sector job growth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;President Obama FAILED to let the &lt;a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/auto-bailouts-success-story"&gt;American automobile industry&lt;/a&gt; falter and let America suffer the inability to make automobiles for itself all while letting millions of jobs be lost. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;President Obama FAILED to let women unfairly keep taking less pay for doing the same job as their male counterparts by signing the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter_Fair_Pay_Act_of_2009"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;President Obama FAILED to keep letting health insurance companies ripoff, exploit, and abuse their customers by signing the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Affordable Care Act&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;. Now you can no longer be denied insurance because of a pre-existing condition, or simply have your policy cancelled because you got sick.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;President Obama FAILED to let our armed forces &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/10/24/351220/rohrabacher-dont-understand-republican-iraq-withdrawal/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;stay in Iraq forever&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;, like the GOP wanted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;President Obama FAILED to keep medical research in the Stone Age and not put restrictions on &lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101653356"&gt;stem cell research&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;President Obama FAILED to let &lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/the-terrorist-notches-on-obamas-belt/"&gt;terrorist leaders&lt;/a&gt; run amuck, thus keeping not only America safe but many other countries as well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;President Obama FAILED to let &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/world/africa/13pirates.html?pagewanted=all"&gt;Somali pirates&lt;/a&gt; successfully &lt;a href="http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2012/s3415966.htm"&gt;ransom off victims&lt;/a&gt; of kidnappings. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;President OBAMA FAILED to let another attempt at a &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-13/obama-viewed-stronger-against-terrorism-than-bush-in-global-investor-poll.html"&gt;terrorist attack&lt;/a&gt; on American soil succeed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;President Obama FAILED to let &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/m-N3dJvhgPg"&gt;Osama Bin Laden&lt;/a&gt; the perpetrator of the 9/11 attacks stay alive. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;This list could go on, but I’m sure you get the point. Come to think of it, we’d be a lot better off if the previous administration had been such a “FAILURE!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7537641439754846805-5097836336749075536?l=proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/feeds/5097836336749075536/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2012/02/president-barack-obama-failure.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/5097836336749075536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/5097836336749075536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2012/02/president-barack-obama-failure.html' title='President Barack Obama The Failure?!?'/><author><name>riceroni</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01502225503121190748</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kDX8SyTpI1Y/TbmjMr_X01I/AAAAAAAAAAM/U8oUlXrim5Y/s220/mickeymousemiddlefinger.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537641439754846805.post-6482327269843520007</id><published>2011-11-30T00:40:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-30T00:48:20.909-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Liberal! Progressive! &amp; Proud Of It!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/xVdz985HTJk/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xVdz985HTJk&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xVdz985HTJk&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: large;"&gt;"It is the role of government to do for a community of people,  whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so  well do, for themselves-in their separate and individual capacities." - Abraham Lincoln&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: small;"&gt;PARTY OF LINCOLN MY ASS!!! the next time you hear a conservative/republican play the old "Party Of Lincoln" card (which they love to do during election years) call them LIARS to their hypocritical faces!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Please raise your  hand if you're one of many liberals who feel like  you should collect a paycheck from the many conservatives you've had to  give a history lesson on how the shift in the Democratic and Republican  parties occurred. As much as conservatives are anti-educaton, educators  do get paid and deservingly so. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many conservatives know  that today Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower  would be run out of the republican party with a pitchforks and torches  carrying mob with a bucket of tar, a sack of feathers, and a rope at  their heels? Not very many.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know if it's simply willful  ignorance or conservatives insist on not being educated on the facts  (both may tantamount to the same thing... LOL!!), but it's something  they refuse to learn or accept.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe its the fact that  conservatives are just ignorant to the fact that Liberalism and  Conservatism aren't actually political parties but ideologies, and thus don't know  how the shift was able to occur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the next time a conservative  throw the word "liberal" in your face like a profane insult you tell  them.... You damn straight I am!!! &lt;b&gt;Because you can thank a liberal if....&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you  do not have skin cancer, and have ever stood outside without having a  peeling sunburn within moments, thank the ozone layer, thank the ban on  CFCs, and thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have not died in a heat wave,  drought, hurricane, flood, wildfire, or other climate change disaster,  and like the idea of your children and grandchildren not living in  desert wastelands, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have ever breathed clean air or drank clean water, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;no woman you know has died or been maimed in a back-alley Abortion, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have never been lynched, or had your children firebombed in a church, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you  are glad we don't live in a right-wing dictatorship along the lines of  what conservatives overtly and covertly created in Iran, Guatemala,  Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, the Congo, Chile, Brazil, El  Salvador, the Philipines, Indonesia and many others, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have ever used Medicare, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have not gotten cancer from radiation, thank the Nuclear test ban and thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you  have ever sat on a public seat, drank from a drinking fountain, stood  on a bus, or done anything in public without worrying about being beaten  up for being in the wrong section for your skin color, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you've ever driven on an interstate highway, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you  grew up in a family of less than 12 kids, like the idea of being able  to choose if you have 12 kids or not, if you don't live in an  overpopulated third world slum, or just think birth control is a good  idea, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your family benefited from the GI Bill of Rights, FHA Mortgages, and so forth, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you  have ever bought anything from Europe, and are glad the Marshall plan  kept it from remained a bombed-out shell or falling to communism or  neo-fascism, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you are glad that the Nazis don't  control half the world (conservatives opposed joining World War 2 until  it was forced on them) thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have ever eaten food  (agricultural subsidies), flicked on a light switch (rural  electrification) or benefited from the Tennessee Valley Authority, thank  a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you ever drank a beer or a glass of wine without being thrown in jail, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you are not a land-owning white male, but have voted, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you  have not died from tainted meat, been prescribed something useless or  poisonous by a quack doctor, have not given your children cough syrup  which turned out to have heroin as its secret ingredient, thank a  liberal. (and Nixon)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your workplace is safe and you are paid a  living wage, including overtime; if you enjoy a 40-hour week and you are  allowed to join a union to protect your rights without being lynched,  thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you've ever seen a national park, and it hadn't been strip mined and clearcut into a desert wasteland, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you  have never suffered from an economy of massive deflation, and have  never even heard of an economic phenomenon called a "panic", thank a  liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your children go to school instead of working in coal mines and sweatshops, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you're  a Native American and have not been killed or died in a concentration  camp, or if you live near Native Americans and are not at war with them,  thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have an industrial or high-tech job - or  really, any job other than those available in a slave-powered cash crop  economy (ie, a third world economy) thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you're not a  slave or "indentured servant" (white slave), don't think protection of  slavery belongs in the constitution, if you've never been chained to a  boat where half the passengers die, been whipped, had your family split  up, been forced to "breed" with another slave you've never met, been  raped by your boss, or killed for not being profitable, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you  oppose political parties starting massive wars to destroy America, just  because they lost the election, and killing hundreds of thousands of  Americans in process - if you just don't have that much fanatical hatred  of Lincoln's policy of to restricting slavery to states where it  already existed, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you're part-Irish, Catholic,  Jewish, or for that matter anything not Anglo-Saxon Protestant, and are  allowed to live in America, and are not harassed and attacked for  failing to be born Anglo-Saxon Protestant, or if you've ever bought or  used anything built by a non-ASP American, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you  kind of like freedom of speech, and don't want the state government to  be able to censor you - (you think the 14th amendment is a good idea) -  thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have ever bought or sold anything  transported by the transcontinental railroad, or eaten food from a farm  created by the railroad, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you can proudly serve  the country you love in the United States Armed forces regardless of  your gender, race, religion, or sexual oreintation thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you  think the US constitution is pretty cool, and have ever traveled to or  done business with a country whose democracy was inspired by the  American revolution, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have not been drafted  and used as cannon-fodder in some war caused by some petty insult  between nobles, clan leaders, or other various overfed dictators, or  suffered rape or looting in one of those countless wars, thank a  liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have not been tortured to death in a religious inquisition, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you don't have to walk though ankle-deep sewage in the streets (because sewers are big gummint), thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you  have ever done anything that is a religious or superstitious taboo (ie,  done anything at all) without being stoned to death or cast out as a  heretic, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have never been raped, and then had the rapist escape punishment on the grounds that he marry you, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you  are not a slave toiling to build a pyramid for some lazy dictator who's  so spoiled he thinks he's god, and won't even see it until he's dead,  thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have not been killed as a human sacrifice in the name of some god, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 16px;"&gt;you enoy paid vacations thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 16px;"&gt;you have a pension plan thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your place of employment have and enforce safety standards thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your boss can't pay you any less than $7.25 and hour thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the hospital can't slam the door in your face because you don't have overpriced underserviced health insurance thank a liberal. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 16px;"&gt;In short, if you've ever enjoyed anything of the post-stone-age world, thank a liberal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;...And if not, I hope you're happy being a CONSERVATIVE! &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7537641439754846805-6482327269843520007?l=proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/feeds/6482327269843520007/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/11/liberal-progressive-proud-of-it.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/6482327269843520007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/6482327269843520007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/11/liberal-progressive-proud-of-it.html' title='Liberal! Progressive! &amp; Proud Of It!!!'/><author><name>riceroni</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01502225503121190748</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kDX8SyTpI1Y/TbmjMr_X01I/AAAAAAAAAAM/U8oUlXrim5Y/s220/mickeymousemiddlefinger.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537641439754846805.post-8199563113659776857</id><published>2011-11-27T00:22:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-30T00:52:00.916-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Right-Wing Lie About Wealth And Why So Many Conservatives Hang Themselves With Their Own Ropes</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 16px;"&gt;This blog was  inspired by a conversation I had with a good friend. This friend is a  staunch conservative. Now, those who know me from many other sites won't believe it  because I rattle cages and ruffle feathers of conservatives all the time. Just like  my dear friend, I really wish your poor delusional souls the best and  mean none of you any harm whatsoever. To add a bit of comical irony to  this situation my friend I speak of lives in New York City and I live in  Southwest Louisiana.... LOL!! How does that happen? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any way,  while I was in New York City this friend took me out to dinner at the  Hard Rock Cafe in Manhattan. To not make this too long after much civil  debate over our political differences he conceded to the fact that  Reaganomics was a failure, but not because it was a bad policy. It's  because Wall Street and the corporations that he entrusted the deed to  the United States of America to abused his policy of trickle down supply  side economics. I then let him know that, while I won't credit Mr.  Reagan for being a smart man, he was no stranger to shilling for  corporate special interest. He knew the nature of business and the  motive that drives CEOs and Chairmen of conglomerates the world over.  MONEY! That's it. There is no amount that will ever be enough. Because  after that it's about POWER &amp;amp; CONTROL. In the end it amounts to  FASCISM! Of course those who dare to expose this system for exactly what  it is are called communist, socialist, Marxist, you know all the 'ist  they can think of. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sadly the very ones that this system work  against, are the ones that fight with a furious fervor to protect it.  These conservatives suffer from a type of "Stockholm Syndrome" if you  will. You see what the GOP have so masterfully done is drawn itself  around the ideology of "hope". Never mind the fact the message is a big  fat lie given their economic policy structure. The GOP/Tea party have  vehemently demonized those who combat their diabolical strategy. They  purport the message that they're about &lt;i&gt;getting and having money&lt;/i&gt; while progressives/liberals are about &lt;i&gt;taking hard-earned money and giving it to those who didn't earn it&lt;/i&gt;.  This lie has to exposed for exactly what it is. While the right engages  in entitling unfair advantages that leaves the economic landscape a  mountain with their trust fund &amp;amp; estate recipients and corporate  heads placed at the top, and the rest are left to climb the greased  slopes that they've set with many booby traps. On the other hand the  left engages in an economic scape that's flat and let everyone construct  their mountains to their liking, and if anyone require assistance with  construction they'll receive it. In this economic scape are there others  whose mountain will get higher than others? Of course. But at the same  time no one will have Mt. Everest while most others are still on plains,  or another way to put it is no one is enriched at the expense of  someone else being impoverished. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most basic way to put this  in layman terms, if economics were a sport like horse racing or track  &amp;amp; field these would be the difference in philosophies.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Right-Wing Economics:&lt;/b&gt; For there to be winners there must be losers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Left-Wing Economics:&lt;/b&gt; Some will win, some will place, some will show, but very few if anyone loses&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So  while those on the right try to climb to the top of that slippery slope  booby-trapped with every economic setback those sitting at the top can  throw down at them, the left will keep all the opportunities open for  you erect you own mountain, how high you want it is only limited by your  own choices and the responsibilities and a sacrifices you're willing to  take on. This can easily be charted as follows.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/9/7/7/8/8/4/gop-against-america-36682626482.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/9/7/7/8/8/4/gop-against-america-36682626482.jpeg" width="294" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/9/7/7/8/8/4/gop-against-america-36682749756.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/9/7/7/8/8/4/gop-against-america-36682749756.jpeg" width="292" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/9/7/7/8/8/4/gop-against-america-36682872842.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/9/7/7/8/8/4/gop-against-america-36682872842.jpeg" width="396" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 16px;"&gt;That's the whole nut in a shell if you will.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Unfortunately, the party of NO is supported in large numbers by those who have no wealth, and thanks to the policies of the Republican party, no  hope of ever attaining any. Yet their false hope trumps rationality every time. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://scholarsandrogues.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/reframing-the-republican-lie-about-wealth-in-america/"&gt;Source.... &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7537641439754846805-8199563113659776857?l=proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/feeds/8199563113659776857/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/11/right-wing-lie-about-wealth-and-why-so.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/8199563113659776857'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/8199563113659776857'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/11/right-wing-lie-about-wealth-and-why-so.html' title='Right-Wing Lie About Wealth And Why So Many Conservatives Hang Themselves With Their Own Ropes'/><author><name>riceroni</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01502225503121190748</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kDX8SyTpI1Y/TbmjMr_X01I/AAAAAAAAAAM/U8oUlXrim5Y/s220/mickeymousemiddlefinger.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537641439754846805.post-3735677884081167380</id><published>2011-10-27T12:10:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2012-02-26T09:30:25.004-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Free History Lesson For The Expediently Ignorant Rigth-Wing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Alright, as much as conservatives hate education and teachers, I for one believe that the job they do is not only tough, but essential. I said that I’d never give this lesson again for free, not only because conservatives are insistently stupid, and willfully ignorant, but educators should get paid and really well. Well, in light of the &lt;a href="http://www.thegrio.com/politics/black-tea-partier-calls-democrats-party-of-kkk.php"&gt;insanely moronic and omit of fact rant&lt;/a&gt; of one &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-style: normal;"&gt;Apostle Claver&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #222222;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #222222;"&gt;Kamau-Imani&lt;/span&gt; at a recent Herman Cain/Tea Party rally I figured I’d wave my fee and put this in a single blog and condense it as much as possible. Making it short and to the point to where the most foolish of feeble minded simpletons could understand it, even a conservative.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;I’ll also keep this brief on what I personally think of Apostle Claver. My assessment of this guy falls into one of two situations. First the quintessential self hating Black who can only (however pathetically) find solace and validity in what actually mocks and degrade him. Or the politically expedient Black who know that in the Republican Party he’s a novelty and tool, thus his political stock out of the gate is high until whatever objective he’s being exploited for is achieved and that usefulness is exhausted. Whichever the case it’s pathetic, shameful, and sad. But anyway on with the lesson….&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;One thing about the right-wing, you have to hand it to them. They’re very consistent and don’t let the facts and truth get in the way of their lies, bullshit, hypocrisy, and hyperbole. Now when you hear them spew “The Democrats are the party of the KKK” and “Segregation” and “Jim Crow” and that Republicans were the abolitionists and emancipators. This much and ONLY this much is actually true. BUT, what right-wingers conveniently omit either through wanton stupidity and ignorance or the need to peddle half truths (or a mixture of both) is those “Democrats” were known as “&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat"&gt;Dixiecrats&lt;/a&gt;”. These Dixiecrats were (yep that’s right!) CONSERVATIVES! While the republicans, the “party of&amp;nbsp; Lincoln” were LIBERALS. But again either out of sheer ignorance or just willfully omitting facts, most republicans today don’t know that difference between “convervative and liberal” and “democrat and republican”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Conservatism and liberalism are NOT political parties! They’re political IDEOLOGIES! You conservatives out there pay close attention to how the ideologies in these parties turned a flip and did a total shift and turnabout. Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be the first fragment of the liberal democrats leading up to what would be the spark that ignited the party shifts. The spark that ignited the fire would be &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/opinion/27Perlstein.html?pagewanted=all"&gt;Hubert Humphrey&lt;/a&gt; 1948 DNC speech. This is as quote from that speech….&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;“To those who say this civil rights program is an infringement on states’ rights,” he thundered from the convention podium, “I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states’ rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;This is when Democrats such as Strom Thurmond and Fielding L. Wright along with many delegates from the states of Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and Louisiana stormed out of the DNC and started their own “Dixiecrat” party. Now let’s see if we can remember what party did Strom Thurmond, an unrepentant racist and bigot serve in for many years until his death? Oh yeah, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY! The signing of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964"&gt;Civil Rights Act of 1964&lt;/a&gt; is what completed the total shifts in the two parties. The racist “states rights” Democrats (&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;a.k.a. Dixiecrats&lt;/i&gt;) saw that the faction of the Democratic party who was anti-war and pro-human rights, civil liberties, and economic equality had engulfed the Democratic party, flooded into the Republican party in droves. Want a short summary? Strom Thurmond once racist Democrat, ran as a Dixiecrat, turned REPUBLICAN! Yesterday’s “Dixiecrats” are TODAY’S Republicans. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Still need further proof, feel free to research &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;“The Southern Strategy”&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; This is what got Ronald Reagan elected among other republican Presidents and candidates for other offices elected and is still in effect and used today. So no matter what total and utter bullshit you see on many sites out in the right-wing blogosphere, there’s nothing like actual events and real life to state the facts and truth. Real life events and actions is what it is and no matter how much you attempt to twist, bend, stretch, and spin the facts and truth. It snaps back to its absolute and pure form… THE TRUTH!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Now that the FACTS of how the party’s shifts occurred have been established. For people like Apostle Claver and the flock of blind teabagger sheep he herds, we will fast forward to TODAY! That’s right, this is what’s going in the right-wing conservative Republican/Tea Party TODAY!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://is.gd/NJuMux"&gt;“Right-Wing Paper New York Post Racist Chimp Cartoon”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://is.gd/sa8Tzo"&gt;“Tennessee legislator Diane Black office staffer’s email”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://is.gd/TsrhVU"&gt;“Californian mayor racist White House watermelon email”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://is.gd/dEL0Qc"&gt;“Rep. Rusty DePass Michelle Obama gorilla comment”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://is.gd/C97KI1"&gt;“Orange county California Tea Party bigot racist email photo”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://is.gd/yGjcZw"&gt;“Tea Party Gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino racist and sexist email” &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://is.gd/2MDJ5J"&gt;“Tea Party congressman Doug Lamborn tar baby comment”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://is.gd/vIiyZq"&gt;“White supremest hate group Stormfront.org recruit at Tea Parties”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://a.yfrog.com/img532/1180/p0okc.jpg"&gt;"Tea Party Of Hutchinson, KS. Racist Epithet"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://is.gd/MYnYQo"&gt;"California Tea Party Politician Advocates Assassination Of President Obama And First Family"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/i4a6gO3hoec"&gt;"Repubublican Party&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/09/cpac_welcomes_white_nationalists/"&gt;Welcome White Supremacists To CPAC"&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Isolated incident? Nah! I’d call only one MAYBE two unfortunate mishaps and an isolated incident. But when you have this much bigoted and racist sentiment that seems to be quite common place among a certain group/party. That’s a pattern or M.O. (&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;mode of operation&lt;/i&gt;) if you will. So I’d love for Mr. Apostle Claver to explain away these recent displays of blatant bigotry, and acts of wanton racist insensitivity. If he can I am one, along with many others would love to hear it. Otherwise STFU and just face the FACT that the GOP/Tea Party is what it is… Bigoted, racists, sexist, greedy, and self serving. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7537641439754846805-3735677884081167380?l=proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/feeds/3735677884081167380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/10/free-history-lesson-for-expediently.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/3735677884081167380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/3735677884081167380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/10/free-history-lesson-for-expediently.html' title='Free History Lesson For The Expediently Ignorant Rigth-Wing'/><author><name>riceroni</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01502225503121190748</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kDX8SyTpI1Y/TbmjMr_X01I/AAAAAAAAAAM/U8oUlXrim5Y/s220/mickeymousemiddlefinger.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537641439754846805.post-7886316224349317187</id><published>2011-10-24T13:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-10-24T13:43:26.081-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Plutocrat's Coup d'Etat &amp; Their Republican Allies</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;For thirty years, now, Republicans have been &lt;br /&gt;yammering about small government, deficits, the glories of the free market, and &lt;br /&gt;the incompetence and wastefulness of government.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;It’s all been a big lie, part of a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/" target="_blank"&gt;well-funded&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;and cleverly executed coup d'etat, designed to enable the ultra-rich and &lt;br /&gt;corporations to literally take power out of the hands of government and money &lt;br /&gt;out of the pockets of individual citizens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Sadly there are Democrats that have either actively participated in the coup or watched in near silence.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The press has been passively playing the part of a mute stenographer.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The basis of &lt;br /&gt;this coup is simple – money has become the lingua franca of political power, eclipsing the vote.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;They’ve just about pulled it off.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Hyperbole?&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Hardly.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Let’s examine their &lt;br /&gt;message against their actions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Do Republicans Really Favor Small Government?&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Nope!&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Republicans and their corporate over lords were never really concerned &lt;br /&gt;with making government small.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;In fact, &lt;br /&gt;the size of government &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brendagrantland.com/Blog/BlogRepublican.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;exploded&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;under Reagan and Bush II, and we didn’t hear a peep out of Republicans.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;In the last thirty years, only Clinton &lt;br /&gt;reduced the size of government significantly, and he did so while declaring &lt;br /&gt;“the era of big government” to be over. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;What they really wanted was a &lt;em&gt;WEAK&lt;/em&gt; government!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Government is one of the only forces capable of &lt;br /&gt;preventing the excesses of unconstrained markets, so step one of the &lt;br /&gt;Plutocrat’s coup had to be to thoroughly discredit it.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It began with Reagan’s famous quote, &lt;br /&gt;“Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem,” and &lt;br /&gt;despite massive and growing evidence to the contrary, it’s been repeated so &lt;br /&gt;often, that it is now accepted as revealed truth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Sadly there are not enough staunch progressive &lt;br /&gt;Democrats to set things straight, though.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;If Republicans are merely paid mouthpieces for corporate America, Blue &lt;br /&gt;dog Democrats are wholly owned subsidiaries of it. As for the main stream &lt;br /&gt;media?&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;They &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sanders.senate.gov/legislation/issue/?id=c55b16dd-e6e5-4ae5-abda-0b9f5c30a243" target="_blank"&gt;are&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;corporate America.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Are Republicans Genuinely Worried about Deficits?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Not at all.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Here again, deficits &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms" target="_blank"&gt;grew&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; under Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;In &lt;br /&gt;fact, Reagan and Bush II added more to the deficit than all previous Presidents &lt;br /&gt;combined, and again, not a peep was heard.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;In recent times, only Clinton &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/during_the_clinton_administration_was_the_federal.html" target="_blank"&gt;reduced it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;If deficits were really an issue, we should &lt;br /&gt;have heard protests well before Obama took office. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;What the Republican Plutocracy has really been &lt;br /&gt;doing is to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“…starve the beast down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;That’s  why Republicans increased the budget while decreasing revenue – not a  good strategy for dealing with deficits, but a great way to create  excuses for selectively shrinking key government programs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;In Wisconsin, for example, Walker &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/editorial/article_61064e9a-27b0-5f28-b6d1-a57c8b2aaaf6.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;gave away&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;  $140 billion in tax breaks to industry cronies just weeks before  declaring the compelling need cut government workers’ salaries and  eliminate their right to &lt;br /&gt;conduct collective bargaining. The State’s Legislative Reference Bureau, the &lt;br /&gt;equivalent of the federal government’s non-partisan Congressional Budget &lt;br /&gt;Office, said that absent those tax cuts, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/editorial/article_61064e9a-27b0-5f28-b6d1-a57c8b2aaaf6.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;Wisconsin would have run a &lt;br /&gt;budget surplus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Talk about bait-and-switch!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;The looming showdown in the House of Representatives &lt;br /&gt;over deficits is similarly a self-inflicted hot foot. Simply eliminating the &lt;br /&gt;Bush tax cuts for the rich, cutting back agricultural subsidies, closing a few &lt;br /&gt;corporate tax loopholes (including the infamous off-shore tax provisions which &lt;br /&gt;reward companies for moving jobs out of America), instituting a small &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/ftt-revenue-2009-12.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;financial trading tax &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(something that would have the added benefit of reducing market volatility) and reducing the defense budget to reasonable &lt;br /&gt;levels would enable us to approach a balanced budget with relatively little &lt;br /&gt;pain. And each of these are supported by the majority of Americans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;So, if there are politically popular, pain-free &lt;br /&gt;strategies for balancing the budget that actually create jobs and help the &lt;br /&gt;economy, why aren’t we even discussing them? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Because they don’t &lt;em&gt;“starve the beast.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;The fact that Republicans are picking on the &lt;br /&gt;miniscule portion of the budget devoted to the poor and middle class shows &lt;br /&gt;they’re not serious. There simply isn’t enough there to make even a small dent &lt;br /&gt;in the deficit. But a large pool of unemployed workers with no safety net &lt;br /&gt;certainly helps the fat cats keep wages down.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;How About the Notion that Unconstrained Markets Create Prosperity and Jobs?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Again, not at all. The fact is, laissez-faire, free market policies have failed miserably every time they’ve been tried.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It  turns out they have a nasty habit of consistently causing grotesque  income inequalities, huge market volatility and severe financial  collapses.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;In fact, the Great Recession we are now climbing out of should have been strike 3 for the Free Marketeers.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Strike one was the Panic of 1893 and the depression which followed it.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Strike two was the Great Depression of the 30’s.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;In  all three cases, these collapses were preceded by conservative,  laissez-faire policies featuring deregulation, low taxes and weak  governments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Three tries – each resulting in a catastrophic &lt;br /&gt;economic meltdown. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out this &lt;br /&gt;strategy doesn’t work.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;But it does help &lt;br /&gt;the Plutocrats continue their policy of plundering the nation’s wealth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Is Government Really the Problem?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;There was a time when people knew that government &lt;br /&gt;was a critical contributor to our nation’s prosperity.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Up until the 80’s many folks still remembered &lt;br /&gt;how government had won two World Wars. They knew that it had been instrumental &lt;br /&gt;in helping us out of a major Depression. They knew that it had built &lt;br /&gt;world-class infrastructure that created wealth -- including dams, public &lt;br /&gt;buildings, and the federal highway system. They’d watched as government R&amp;amp;D; &lt;br /&gt;generated unprecedented prosperity and whole new industries, including the &lt;br /&gt;agricultural revolution, the aerospace industry, nuclear energy, the Internet, &lt;br /&gt;leadership in chip manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and many of the health &lt;br /&gt;innovations we enjoy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Until recently, people realized that government &lt;br /&gt;regulation of corporations and the financial sector had assured a level playing &lt;br /&gt;field, transparent markets, and international trust, creating the longest &lt;br /&gt;sustained period of prosperity in US history – a prosperity that was shared by &lt;br /&gt;all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Portraying the government as a collection of &lt;br /&gt;bumbling bureaucrats who can’t do anything other than get in the private &lt;br /&gt;sector’s way and waste our tax money serves three purposes in the Plutocrat’s &lt;br /&gt;coup.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;First, it provides a scapegoat for &lt;br /&gt;the increasing economic pain people will inevitably feel in a Plutocratic &lt;br /&gt;world. Second, it reinforces the desire to cut taxes – to “&lt;em&gt;starve the beast”&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Why give &lt;br /&gt;incompetent boobs and wastrels more money? And third, it prevents citizens from &lt;br /&gt;looking at government as an effective solution to the problems created by a &lt;br /&gt;Plutocratic society.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;The Press as Mute Stenographer:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; At one time, facts would have &lt;br /&gt;been more important than slogans and the media would have given people those &lt;br /&gt;facts, exposing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie" target="_blank"&gt;The Big Lie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; as a steaming pile of elephant dung &lt;br /&gt;in our collective national living room.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;The fact that Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans &lt;br /&gt;health programs have an overhead of 4% or less, and produce better outcomes &lt;br /&gt;than private health insurance with it’s 30% overhead would have been known to &lt;br /&gt;folks, and lies about death panels wouldn’t have survived.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;The fact that Social Security is not in danger, &lt;br /&gt;that it has nothing to do with current deficits and that it is far more &lt;br /&gt;efficient – and less costly -- than privatized systems would have mattered. For &lt;br /&gt;example, the US Social Security system has an overhead of less than 4% -- in &lt;br /&gt;Chile, the fully privatized system (which has since been abandoned) had &lt;br /&gt;administrative fees &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eoionline.org/retirement_security/reports/SSPrivatizationChileCaseCaution-Sep00.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;as high as 20%&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://cupe.ca/health-care/evidence-uk-clear-privatization-costly" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;fact that government programs are often cheaper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; and better run, than privatized &lt;br /&gt;programs in everything from healthcare, to transportation to water supplies to &lt;br /&gt;trash collection to prison administration to firefighting would have been more &lt;br /&gt;important than baseless sound bites about government incompetence repeated &lt;br /&gt;endlessly. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;But facts no longer rule.&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;Now, Plutocrats such as Rupert Murdoch &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sanders.senate.gov/legislation/issue/?id=c55b16dd-e6e5-4ae5-abda-0b9f5c30a243" target="_blank"&gt;control&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;much of the media and rather than exposing the elephant dung for what it is, &lt;br /&gt;they &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200407140002" target="_blank"&gt;shovel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; more into our national dialogue, piling it higher and deeper, obscuring the truth rather than &lt;br /&gt;revealing it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;The End-Game is Near:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; The thirty-year Plutocratic plan to &lt;br /&gt;take over America is reaching fruition.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The Republicans have cleverly played a game of divide and conquer and &lt;br /&gt;Blue dog Democrats have either been active participants or complicit in their &lt;br /&gt;silence.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The Plutocrats and their &lt;br /&gt;Republican allies have taken away workers’ rights, reduced their compensation &lt;br /&gt;and eliminated their benefits in the private sector, and now they’re coming &lt;br /&gt;after the public sector, turning it into an all-purpose bogeyman, responsible &lt;br /&gt;for all that ails us. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;At a time when all workers are getting screwed, &lt;br /&gt;the Republicans and the Plutocrats have managed to make them fight among &lt;br /&gt;themselves over a rapidly dwindling share, rather than joining together to &lt;br /&gt;demand their equitable share of the national wealth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Here’s the deal. Worker productivity in the &lt;br /&gt;private sector has been going steadily up for three decades.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;That means corporations are making more money &lt;br /&gt;off of each hour worked.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Yet wages have &lt;br /&gt;stagnated over that time, and benefits have shrunk. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Where has the wealth from the increased &lt;br /&gt;productivity gone?&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Straight into the &lt;br /&gt;pockets of the Plutocrats.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;For example, &lt;br /&gt;in 1966, CEOs made about 50 times the minimum wage.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Today, they make more than &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://charlieaverill.blogspot.com/2006/07/ceo-minimum-wage-ratio-soars_03.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;821 times minimum wage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Now that government has been all but vanquished, &lt;br /&gt;unions and public employees are the last bastion of individual political power &lt;br /&gt;and equitable compensation, and there is a clear and concerted effort to break &lt;br /&gt;them and discredit them, once and for all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;But rather than protest this economic rape by corporations, too many citizens have been duped or distracted.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;From  flag burners, to immigrants, to gay marriage to abortions, to  Technicolored terrorist alerts, to myths about incompetent fat-cat  government workers, Republicans have been throwing up flack &lt;br /&gt;and creating scapegoats.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Public workers &lt;br /&gt;are simply the latest distraction.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;The takeover has been generously funded, cleverly &lt;br /&gt;plotted, patiently played, and skillfully executed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;The real shame is those Democrats (not all of &lt;br /&gt;them), once the Party of labor and the middle class have either actively &lt;br /&gt;supported the Plutocratic coup, or stood idly by while it proceeded unopposed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;What Can We Do?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Citizens, we have a choice. We can confront this &lt;br /&gt;Plutocratic coup, or we can draft an apology to our founders, beg the &lt;br /&gt;forgiveness of the brave men and women who fought valiantly over the last two &lt;br /&gt;centuries to defend the ideals of this country, and then kiss those ideals &lt;br /&gt;goodbye.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;At the end of the day, we have the three things that can trump money: truth, the vote and market power.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;If we insist on candid, transparent discussions on the issues of the day; refuse to vote for dirty-money or &lt;br /&gt;mealy-mouthed candidates; and punish Plutocrats like Murdoch and Koch and Rove &lt;br /&gt;who intentionally distort the truth in the one place where it hurts – the &lt;br /&gt;market place – we can win this country back. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;It will take commitment, organization, a &lt;br /&gt;willingness to endure some hardship, and a passion for justice and fairness– &lt;br /&gt;the kind of things that animated exploited workers back when facts mattered, &lt;br /&gt;but it can be done.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;The pieces of a resistance to the Plutocratic coup &lt;br /&gt;are coming together.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://charlieaverill.blogspot.com/2006/07/ceo-minimum-wage-ratio-soars_03.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;Russ Feingold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; has established a PAC called Progressives United with a mission to reverse the &lt;br /&gt;infamous Citizens United Decision and get the money out of politics. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Bill McKibben’s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.350.org/" target="_blank"&gt;350.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt; has announced a campaign called &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://climateprogress.org/2011/02/24/350-org-campaign-chamber/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29&amp;amp;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher" target="_blank"&gt;the US Chamber doesn't speak &lt;br /&gt;for me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Van Jones and progressive groups are creating a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/van-jones/american-dream-movement_b_826477.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;movement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;  to restore the American Dream – the notion that government isn’t a  punch line – it is a contract between we the people; a vehicle that  enables us to come &lt;br /&gt;together to accomplish that which must be done together; that which has, in &lt;br /&gt;times past, made us a prosperous, just, and noble nation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;If we back these efforts, we can prevail.  If we don’t, then the words of Edmund Burke should haunt our conscience  as we slide inevitably into a well-deserved Plutocratic dystopia:&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men [and women] do nothing.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7537641439754846805-7886316224349317187?l=proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/feeds/7886316224349317187/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/10/plutocrats-coup-detat-their-republican.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/7886316224349317187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/7886316224349317187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/10/plutocrats-coup-detat-their-republican.html' title='Plutocrat&apos;s Coup d&apos;Etat &amp; Their Republican Allies'/><author><name>riceroni</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01502225503121190748</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kDX8SyTpI1Y/TbmjMr_X01I/AAAAAAAAAAM/U8oUlXrim5Y/s220/mickeymousemiddlefinger.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537641439754846805.post-5048035712526032118</id><published>2011-10-24T13:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-10-24T13:36:54.840-05:00</updated><title type='text'>FAUX News Goes Beyond Bias....</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://chrisbearde.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/fox-news-just-lies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="313" src="http://chrisbearde.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/fox-news-just-lies.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Like  any sane minded and aware American  who's abreast of the facts and  truth in reporting have had it over their  heads with the sheer crap  coming from the right-wing about "Liberal  Media Bias". Now for those of  you that haven't broken their code when  you hear "Liberal Media Bias"  complaints from a conservative it simply  means it's not what they want  to hear, which is simply the facts and  truth in reporting. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;So  you  don't get it twisted, FOX News right-wing bias isn't even the big   problem here. The right-wing base seems to think that's why anyone with   an I.Q. above 25 (being generous) complain about FOX News reporting,  is  because they have a right-wing bias. Well that's NOT the problem.  I'm  going to put this so a fool can understand it, and even a FOX News   viewer..... **** LISTEN!!*** THE PROBLEM IS NOT THEIR RIGHT-WING BIAS,   IT'S THE FACT THAT THEY'RE LIARS!!! Now do you get it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Victimized   by the psychological warfare that the right-wing uses, which basically   takes their base's hypocrisy, bigotry, partisanship, racism, and  hatred  (without them realizing it's being used against them) and pander  to it  24/7 non stop. They treat it just like a crop, they feed it,  water it,  talk to it, shelter it, and make sure no outside influence  contaminate  it, until it's ready for harvesting (a.k.a. elections). So  don't let it  be any shock that those on the right won't even believe  their own eyes  and ears. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Here  are just a  very few examples of what's pumped into these poor feeble  minded dolts.  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Basically any "NON RIGHT-WING MEDIA"  spewing such  lies, bigotry, and falsehoods making a total mockery of  journalism  with their perversions of the press. 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mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}&lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;It has been nearly 3 years since the election of our 44&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; President Barack Obama. On that night of 11/04/2008 America sent the message that it wanted CHANGE and much of that change started with the American people themselves. They sent the message that America could look past its petty and erroneous differences and come together and do what was in the best interest of our country and each other. The Republican Party HAVE NOT led by or followed that example. In fact they’ve grotesquely mocked it. Between now and that night the Republican Party have shown to be nothing more than the evil, conniving, bigoted, divisive, partisan, corporate whores and shills everyone had already pegged them for. Some were shocked by the level of depravity to which they’ve sunk; others like me knew on that night of 11/04/2008 that they’d do exactly what they have done. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;I really wish they had proved me wrong. I really wish that right now this blog would be my engraved apology to them for judging them so harshly. If it were who knows where America would be right now? Under 7% unemployment? Every American with access to quality health care, regardless of financial status? Our educational system ranking in the top 10 in the world? On our way to seeing the poverty line erased? Who knows? But we all painfully know that’s not the case and here we are. We’re at 9% unemployment, you have blocked and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/02/11/81738/biden-pelosi-filibuster/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;abused the filibuster&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt; to record proportion making sure that it stays that way in hopes that all Americans will be stupid enough as republican voters are to not see what they’ve done. You expect us to fall for the prank where you hand the President a brick, and then chuck one through a window, and when the American people look through the busted and shattered glass that be our economic situation we’ll see him standing there with a brick in his hand. Hmm? Initial thought is he must be the culprit and he’s guilty. But once the “reactionary” feeling wears off and the people start to ask questions and investigate (better known as being informed and knowing the facts and truth) that’s where you get caught. But you see, you’re depending upon America to stay in that reactionary knee-jerk moment and think no further. That’s where you’ve underestimated the vast majority of the American people. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;From day one since this President was elected you’ve only sought to undermine and totally disrespect the office of the presidency and even more the man who holds it. Contrary to who you think you’ve fooled, its common knowledge that you as a party took a pledge NOT to work with this President NO MATTER WHAT!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;If his leadership would lead to the cure of cancer, AIDS, the common cold, and would achieve world peace YOU ARE AGAINST IT! The thing is you tell lies so effortlessly that it comes as natural as breathing. You say that the President has never tried to reach out and work with you, well the records shows differently. During the health care debate he went to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/transcript-of-president-o_n_442423.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;YOUR retreat in Baltimore, MD.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt; He asked for your ideas on the health care plan, but as usual, you don’t have a plan or any ideas. Well, unless you count leaving the unsustainable status quo in place as it is as an idea or plan. Then he visited one of your biggest lobbyist firms the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/05/AR2011020503452.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;U.S. Chamber Of Commerce&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;. He courted what seemed to be the single and lone Republican voice of sanity, decency, and common sense &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/olympia-snowe-obama-ally-health-care-push/story?id=8481866"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Olympia Snowe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;, to make a stretch for bipartisanship. But that was to no avail. Quite frankly the Public Option ended up not being the plan because of that “spirit of bipartisanship”. In the end what did he get for it? NO across the board on the Republican side. The bill was bipartisan but the vote was not. I won’t even get started on the whole &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/13/mcconnell-on-his-debt-cei_n_897124.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;debt ceiling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20082240-503544.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;debacle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt; Believe me I could go on about this but I’m sure you get the point, so your sheer lies and bullcrap about the President not trying to work with you is a flat out a bald faced LIE! In fact it’s what got him in much hot water with his own base. Now you want to cry foul because he’s finally had enough of your crap like the rest of America has long ago. The President was both faulted and commended for putting up with your crap for as long as he did. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Then there’s the sheer hatred and disrespect and disrespect to the office of the Presidency and the man who holds it that the Republican Party led, condoned, and encouraged. You and your right-wing rabid base of willfully ignorant, misinformed, knuckledragging troglodytes have been nothing short of a total embarrassment in the representation of political discourse in America. First, a bunch of morons foolishly naming themselves &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teabagger"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;“Teabaggers”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt; and after they found out what idiots they made of themselves they blamed it on the “liberal Media”. True to conservative form their fail will always be someone else fault. How stupid do you have to be to go out in mass and protest against taxes that HADN’T BEEN RAISED? In fact 99% of the racist sign toting, treasonous flag waving imbeciles who did have a job got more money back on their tax returns because of President Obama’s policy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/31958_127147210640486_114270361928171_230945_2523771_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;The Tea Party&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt; is nothing more than a Astroturf movement bankrolled by corporate special interest that have a bunch of peasants insanely doing the bidding of oligarchs. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Let’s not forget about &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32767813/ns/politics-health_care_reform/t/obama-accepts-apology-wilson-outburst/#.TqMdHN65M5M"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Mr. “YOU LIE” Joe Wilson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt; who actually raised money off of his disgusting display of stupidity and disrespect in a internationally televised joint session of congress. Or the numerous racist attacks they tried to pass off as cute or a “joke” such &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/18/new-york-post-chimp-carto_n_167841.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;monkey stimulus cartoon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;, or the one &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/16/tennessee.email/index.html#cnnSTCVideo"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Tennessee state senator Diane Black’s office staffer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt; sent around, let’s not forget the one from Los Alamitos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/25/white-house-watermelon-em_n_169933.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;mayor Dean Grose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;, or GOP Rep. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nowpublic.com/world/michelle-obama-gorilla-outrage-over-rep-rusty-depass-comment"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Rusty DePass little “joke”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;, or the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/tR7en8LPoWQ"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;GOP/Teabagger committee leader&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt; in Orange County California, how about Tea Party candidate &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://wnymedia.net/paladino/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Carl Paladino little “inside joke”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;, don’t want to leave out &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gazette.com/articles/lamborn-122455-obama-rep.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Rep. Doug Lamborn epithet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;. The list just goes on, but hey they’re never racist, right? Let’s not forget about all the people who &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26744.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;kept their kids home from school&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt; so they couldn’t hear the President basically say “work hard and finish school”. Great! You’ll raise them dumb enough to be republicans and they too will idiotically vote against their interest someday. Take note that Presidents have been speaking to school children for decades but this is the first President ever to receive such backlash. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;When it all boils down Republicans have never sought to work with President Obama and have tried to undermine his administration and Presidency before day 1. Just look at what their Party’s leader said &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/01/20/35012/limbaugh-obama-fail/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;“I hope he fails”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;. This was before the President was even sworn in. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/_38qVk_g5B4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Mitch McConnell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt; solidified this sentiment with his party’s mission statement that their #1 priority was to make President Obama a 1 term President. Never mind jobs, the economy, 9% unemployment, tax relief for working families and small businesses, and education. All that concerns them is regaining POWER! That’s it! It’s obvious all they’d do with the White House if their power grab succeed is what they’re trying to do now. Pummel the middle class and poor while showering the 1% with more corporate welfare and tax relief. All while legislating women’s decisions about their own bodies and lives because for some reason they feel they’re incapable of doing this for themselves. I guess that “small government” thing they’re always talking about sounds pretty huge. Let’s not forget you could kiss Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security as we know it goodbye. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Not only have the Republican Party have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/35tafesLIWM"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;NOT done a single thing in 3 decades&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt; in the interest of the American people,but they’re trying to stop anyone else from doing anything either. Have you noticed that everything the President have done on executive powers where he didn’t need the cooperation of this congress have been colossal successes? Al-Qaeda have been all but decimated, Osama Bin Laden and Anwar Al-Awlaki eliminated, Somali pirates taken out, clever diplomatic maneuvers leading to the fall of Mubarak, and now the demise of Gaddafi. All of which the GOP had absolutely no &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;say in, but have either tried to discredit or take credit for. The GOP is so boldly pathetic and petty until it’s blatantly obvious. These are the same people who were so pissed at France and hated the French to the point they renamed cut slices of fried potatoes “freedom fries”. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Now just to belittle the President’s accomplishment and decision to use NATO forces (which they bitched and whined about) they willing give credit to the French forces. Which in their pitiful attempt to belittle the President they foolishly didn’t realized the slap in the face they sent to our own troops whose hand was directly involved? But yet they want to call themselves “patriots”. Yeah these are the same “patriots” that let their campaign benefactors get away with doing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.politicususa.com/en/koch-brothers-iranian-treason-sarah-palin-glenn-beck"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;business with known enemies of the state.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt; Face it! President Obama have made the GOP look like the school yard bully who picked on the wrong kid and got their ass kicked and lunch money taken.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Constantia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;As a collective whole if America has any common sense and knowledge of what it’s going to take to get out of the economic abyss conservative policies have thrown it into, not another republican should hold elected office for decades to come, if ever.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7537641439754846805-6435041636657092986?l=proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/feeds/6435041636657092986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/10/gop-pathetic-party-of-putrid-perilous.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/6435041636657092986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/6435041636657092986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/10/gop-pathetic-party-of-putrid-perilous.html' title='The GOP: The Pathetic Party Of Putrid Perilous &amp; Petty Politics'/><author><name>riceroni</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01502225503121190748</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kDX8SyTpI1Y/TbmjMr_X01I/AAAAAAAAAAM/U8oUlXrim5Y/s220/mickeymousemiddlefinger.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537641439754846805.post-1833416828411877814</id><published>2011-05-24T18:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-10-24T14:56:07.947-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fascism, Right-Wing Ideology, And Ignorance</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001542801/4152160576_corporate_greed_thumb5839468_xlarge.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001542801/4152160576_corporate_greed_thumb5839468_xlarge.jpeg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Anyone educated to the level of that becoming a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;kindergartener know that corporations have an invested interest in hating &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;unions. But what makes a person that benefits or would from union membership &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;actually hate the union and side with the corporation who have no stake in them &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;being empowered in any form or fashion. For the working person this formula is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;a simple one where the welfare of the worker is concerned….&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Union = Empower&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Corporation = Oppress&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Is it some sort of Stockholm syndrome? Or maybe &lt;br /&gt;it’s just wanton stupidity and willful ignorance. Whatever the case, they &lt;br /&gt;willingly accept the fact that the corporation do not care about them, their &lt;br /&gt;safety, their welfare, or that of their families. They don’t mind being treated &lt;br /&gt;as expendable pieces of scrap, and once your usefulness is extracted you’re &lt;br /&gt;discarded like the garbage they’ve always treated you like. The union is simply &lt;br /&gt;making sure that while the corporation is leaching every drop of your &lt;br /&gt;usefulness that you’re at least getting a fair deal and treatment for it. &lt;br /&gt;Because anyone with a fully functional brain knows that what the corporation &lt;br /&gt;get out of the worker as oppose to what the working put into the corporation is &lt;br /&gt;as lopsided and Rush Limbaugh and Stephanie Miller sharing a see-saw.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;Corporate Goal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Devour as much profit as possible at anyone’s expense! That’s it, it’s that simple. A corporation’s loyalty is only to profits and its shareholders and the rest be damned. The concerns of you and yours matter not to the corporation. Maximum profits coming in, and &lt;br /&gt;minimum expenditures going out. This will be fulfilled by any means necessary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;The Corporate Person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;When we speak of the constitution and its intent &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;there are some things that only sheer greed will allow you to pursue. When the &lt;br /&gt;14&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; amendment was passed this was done so to protect newly freed &lt;br /&gt;slaves, not to make a corporation a person. Over 600,000 people died to give &lt;br /&gt;people rights, not to give Proctor &amp;amp; Gamble personhood. But under corporate &lt;br /&gt;lobby judges took the rights reserved for people and applied them to capital &lt;br /&gt;and property while actually stripping them from people. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;So let’s ask ourselves just what kind of “person” is the corporation? Let’s give the corporation a personality diagnosis….&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;1. Callous unconcern for the feelings of others. (i.e. thwart destitution, unsafe work conditions, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;slash of benefits and wages)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;2. In&lt;/span&gt; Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships. (i.e. impoverishing through free trade, layoffs, and &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;union busting)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;3.&lt;/span&gt; Reckless disregard for the safety of others. (i.e. dangerous products, chemicals, pollutions, toxic &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;waste, and synthetic chemicals)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;4.  &lt;/span&gt;Deceitfulness: Repeated lying and conning for profit. (i.e. habitat destruction, factory &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;farming, and experimentation)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;5.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt; Incapacity to experience guilt. (i.e. &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axU9ngbTxKw"&gt;Monsanto case&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;6.&lt;/span&gt; Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors. (i.e. CO2 emissions, nuclear &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;waste, clear-cuts, corporate paradigm)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;If you take all these personality traits and put them together you have the personality diagnosis disorder of a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;psychopath&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. No wonder conservatives love them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Here are some atrocities that corporations are guilty of….&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Corporations helped rebuild Germany after the 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;br /&gt;world war, and supported early Nazi rise to power, and backed Hitler in getting &lt;br /&gt;rid of left-wing elements that posed threats. For instance, IBM leased their &lt;br /&gt;punch-card systems to Nazi death camps. This is how they were able to process &lt;br /&gt;and keep up with prisoners.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Or how about Bechtel Corporation actually privatizing the water of the country of Bolivia, and teaming up with its tyrannical regime against the people of Cochabamba. Yes, &lt;br /&gt;right down to the rain water that fell from the sky Bechtel was charging &lt;br /&gt;obscene amounts for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Corporation’s allegiance to &lt;i&gt;profits&lt;/i&gt; trumps that of allegiance to any &lt;i&gt;flag&lt;/i&gt;. There have been over 80 American corporations fined for trading and doing business with known enemies of the United States of America including terrorists, tyrants, and rogue regimes. I'd really  like to know how the Hell is it that corporations have every &lt;i&gt;benefit&lt;/i&gt; of being a person, but have to adhere to none of the the &lt;i&gt;responsibility&lt;/i&gt;? C’mon you America loving conservatives who feel you have the patented rights to the flag, please name the union that have ever committed these acts of treason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Lastly but definitely not least, their plan is to degrade America from democracy to despotism. Back in the early 19&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt; century corporations hired a proven battle hardened USMC General by the name of Smedley Darlington Butler to use despotism as a tool to secure foreign markets and maximize profits (i.e. Pacified Mexico for American oil companies, Haiti and Cuba for National Citibank, Nicaragua for the Brown Brothers Brokerage, the Dominican Republic for its sugar interest, Honduras for U.S. fruit companies, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;and China for Standard Oil). General Butler’s services were in demand in the &lt;br /&gt;United States as well. You see, in the 1930’s as FDR sought to relieve the misery &lt;br /&gt;of the depression though public enterprise and tougher regulations on corporate &lt;br /&gt;exploitation and its deeds. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;While the American people were with President FDR the corporate elite couldn’t hate the new deal more. So in 1934 they sought to involve General Butler in a treasonous cope d’état against the FDR White House. Little did the heads of the corporate elite know they picked the wrong guy. General Butler was fed up with being a gangster for capitalism. As a USMC he felt that his loyalty to country and the President of the United States trumped &lt;br /&gt;any amount of money in the world. Thus foiling the plan which included some of &lt;br /&gt;the heads of America’s top corporations such J.P. Morgan, DuPont, and Goodyear &lt;br /&gt;Tire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/1-o8MVvQd7w/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1-o8MVvQd7w&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1-o8MVvQd7w&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;I ask you again, please name the union that have &lt;br /&gt;committed such treasonous act against America?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sources....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://econotrix.com/archives/000264.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-papantonio/psychopathic-corporations_b_312171.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://american_almanac.tripod.com/smedley.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www2.csusm.edu/pan/Scrapbook%20Articles/us_companies.htm&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7537641439754846805-1833416828411877814?l=proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/feeds/1833416828411877814/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/05/conservative-idiots-who-love.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/1833416828411877814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/1833416828411877814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/05/conservative-idiots-who-love.html' title='Fascism, Right-Wing Ideology, And Ignorance'/><author><name>riceroni</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01502225503121190748</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kDX8SyTpI1Y/TbmjMr_X01I/AAAAAAAAAAM/U8oUlXrim5Y/s220/mickeymousemiddlefinger.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537641439754846805.post-2681180783194453600</id><published>2011-05-03T21:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-10-24T14:31:50.056-05:00</updated><title type='text'>BUSH FAILED!! Get Over It!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6i6lQhs9FfY/TcCzTJlW-nI/AAAAAAAAABM/6162SCfpFCE/s1600/0Osama-Bin-Laden-Dead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6i6lQhs9FfY/TcCzTJlW-nI/AAAAAAAAABM/6162SCfpFCE/s320/0Osama-Bin-Laden-Dead.jpg" width="205" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;How can this be put in laymen terms? THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION DOESN’T DESERVE A PIXEL OF CREDIT FOR OSAMA BIN LADEN’S DEATH/CAPTURE!!! How’s that? Now do you conservative cretins get it? One thing about republicans their incompetence and failure will always be someone else fault, but someone else success and fortitude is always their doing. Do you need to hear it for yourself what the Bush administration thought of capturing the mastermind and culprit behind the worse terrorist attack on American soil ever….&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://2.gvt0.com/vi/4PGmnz5Ow-o/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4PGmnz5Ow-o&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4PGmnz5Ow-o&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;But here are a few things that Republican White Houses can claim credit for….&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;1. Saddam had zero to do with anything, and yet the country was bombed to shit and occupied&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;2. Afghanistan has as much to do with terrorism and Al-Qaeda as Germany or UK (Where Mohamed Atta used to hang out with his buddies) and yet USA is "conducting" a war there?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;3. Bin Laden was in Pakistan (probably for a while now), way beyond the border to Afghanistan, so I don't understand the whole predator-drone bombing campaign along the border&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;4. The Gitmo prisoners did not offer much clues, never mind the fact, that I have no idea what - for example - the Uighurs are locked up, if it's not China's pressure on US. Uighurs have been persecuted in China, due to being a different ethnic tribe and happened to be Muslims. They want autonomy (how terrible eh?) (works great with the brainwashed islamophobic turned USA, nobody protests)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;5. Despite the massive lies, Bush and Rumsfeld is like "almost" celebrated by the mass media, just because Bin Laden is dead. The most they had to do with it, was the Bin Laden family dealing with Bush back in the 70s, 80s, while Rumsfeld shaking hands and making deals with Saddam. Both of them are their own minions set loose upon the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;6. The FBI lists a bunch of terrorist acts done by Bin Laden, (Attack on USS Cole, Yemen's US embassy bombings etc. ) for each they found evidence, and/or Bin Laden admitting his role in them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;7. The Bush administration - according to Geneva Convention- committed war crimes at multiple levels. Attacking a sovereign country ( Iraq; Also breaks the US Constitution) , which did not show aggression or done anything anyhow. Torturing and killing people for no other point, just to satisfy their bloodthirst and make excuses for the wars.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;8. The Bush Administration are responsible also for the death of the US soldiers, who died for no good reasons in Iraq and Afghanistan, fighting one or another "enemy combatants (There is no clear definition whether they are locals or Taliban or Al-Qaeda, nobody really knows for sure) "- without any indication of ever stopping or withdrawing, or worse, without even having a realistic goal and defining what is victory or winning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;9. While all this happening, the entire US (along with the EU and much of the entire world) is in a deep financial crisis and increasing unemployment and inflation of the dollar, and regardless how bad it has gotten over the last 3 years, there is a massive amount of tax money flowing to the "National Defense" (Neither "national", nor "defense").&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;And we won’t even throw in the economic tailspin the world was thrown into due to the conservative policies of deregulation and failed supply side economics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;I know "FACTS" aren't something the right-wing is comfortable dealing with but let's go over a few...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;1. &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/14/terrorism.usa"&gt;Waterboarding is ILLEGAL!&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;2. President Obama never used "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;3. &lt;a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Taliban-Claims-Responsibility-Attacks-on-NATO-Convoys-104267249.html"&gt;President Obama increased drone strikes&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;4. &lt;a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/02/972424/-Obama-promised-to-get-bin-Laden-McCain-disagreed-Obama-won-And%C2%A0bin%C2%A0Ladens%C2%A0dead"&gt;President Obama kept his promise&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;5. &lt;a href="http://illvibes.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/7-660x479.jpg"&gt;Osama Bin Laden is DEAD!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;For all of you necon nitwits who don’t know your ass from your elbow here are yet even more facts of how the events leading up to the death of Bin Laden went down….&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;1. President was initially advised that bombing the home Bin Laden was hiding out was the best option.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;2. The President opted out of the bombing raid because he thought about getting positive insurmountable proof that Osama Bin Laden would’ve actually perished in the bombing. Not to mention the innocent people that would’ve been killed. Believe it or not there are some “Presidents” who’re actually concerned about that. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;3. Then President then thought about invaluable evidence and intelligence that could be gathered that an explosion would destroy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;4. He also had to make the decision to leave the Pakistanis out of it and go it alone and execute a unilateral military operation on foreign soil.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;5. He also had to think about past mission failures using helicopters to go in stealthily. He ordered a backup plan to the backup plan. Damn good thing too because one of the choppers had a mechanical failure. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;6. He also hand-picked the Navy SEAL/Delta Force team to do the job. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Do you know what all this is called? Something we've lacked from 2000-2008 called LEADERSHIP! So much for all that inexperience gibberish, and bullshit about “never serving in the military”.&amp;nbsp; If you look at any of these points that led to the successful execution of this mission that led to the death of Osama Bin Laden, the Bush administration had NOT A GODDAMN THING TO DO WITH IT!! Well their waterboarding and torture did set it back a little longer; you can credit them with that one also.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;Again! I’ll put this in laymen terms so a fool or even a conservative can understand it… BUSH FAILED!! The Bush administration FAILED to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice, so the Obama administration brought justice to Osama Bin Laden…. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;God Bless our troops&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;God Bless our President&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;God Bless the United States of America&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7537641439754846805-2681180783194453600?l=proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/feeds/2681180783194453600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/05/republicans-refusal-to-own-their.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/2681180783194453600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/2681180783194453600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/05/republicans-refusal-to-own-their.html' title='BUSH FAILED!! Get Over It!'/><author><name>riceroni</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01502225503121190748</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kDX8SyTpI1Y/TbmjMr_X01I/AAAAAAAAAAM/U8oUlXrim5Y/s220/mickeymousemiddlefinger.jpeg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6i6lQhs9FfY/TcCzTJlW-nI/AAAAAAAAABM/6162SCfpFCE/s72-c/0Osama-Bin-Laden-Dead.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537641439754846805.post-5143137264115206974</id><published>2011-04-30T15:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-10-24T15:01:45.688-05:00</updated><title type='text'>America To Birthers: Just Fucking Die!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://2.gvt0.com/vi/zB3W5NTAAAo/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zB3W5NTAAAo&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zB3W5NTAAAo&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;You know what birthers, Donald Trump, and all the right-wing conspiracy theorist are like? Have you ever seen one of those good old school horror/slasher flicks where no matter what you did to the villain, it didn’t matter? You could, shoot them, stab them, run over them, drown them, dismember them, sever their heads, it didn’t matter. Whatever way they seemed to have met their imminent doom, they’d always come back and live for another sequel. Now is this “birther movement” beginning to come into focus and clarity a little bit? Well America is like the audiences that was once entertained by such putrid shenanigans, but matured and outgrew the genre and now looks at it in dismay and daunt, and now simply say to these characters… “JUST FUCKING DIE ALREADY!!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Yep birthers, that’s the feeling. You’re old, tired, worn out, stale, and hardly entertaining anymore. You’ve been give more than your 15 minutes, no one is interested in the sequel, and you’re only going to sell your next screenplay to the nano faction of rubber room ready hooligans that actually bought it in the first place. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;After the President showed his long form birth certificate, just like the predictable characters you are, you stuck to the script and asked the question, and committed the acts everyone else knew you would. “What him so long?” Well just maybe for every other President a copy of a “certificate of live birth” was enough. Just like I have, and many people reading this now. Also, you ever thought that just maybe the President did exactly what happened… Gave you fucktards all the rope you needed to hang yourselves. That’s right, he made you idiotic fuckers look just like the stupid, bigoted, racist frauds you are. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;But now that’s not good enough for you people. Now it’s a fake, you want to see his academic transcripts. Where does it end with you people? What’s next? Michelle really isn’t his wife so now you want to see the marriage certificate, his children are really not his so now you want to see their birth certificates and DNA tests… and on, and on, and on. Well FUCK YOU!! What don’t you get? I on the behalf of the United States of America hereby let the far right-wing conspirators, birthers, their king Donald Trump, their Queen Oily Titz know that WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU!! KISS OUR ASS!! We’ve got much more pressing issues and problems to address than to waste another millisecond appeasing you fucktards.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;I just want to wrap this up by letting you know that you haven’t fooled anyone. Not for a second. The more sane minded and intelligent among us seen (and smelled) you coming from miles away. From the night of 11/04/2008 it was known that even the most stealth of racist wouldn’t be able to hide it anymore. This was just too much. Even your king of hate merchants Rush Limpbaugh let it out before the President was even sworn in and inaugurated “I hope he fails”. Yes, he spoke for you all. I’ve got the displeasure of living around the dumbest red-state remedial retards on Earth. They have no job security, no health insurance, no benefits package, no workers’ rights, and the ones who do have a job work way under scale, and feel that it’s to their benefit to get paid less. Yes, as sad as it is you have some people that would rather throw themselves under the bus and go homeless, hungry, naked, uneducated, and unemployed than to see a Black President have any political success. They continue to vote against their own best interest because they value their bigotry, partisanship, hatred and racism more than clean air, quality health care, clean water, a good education for their children, and an overall better quality of life. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;They love to throw around the terms “personal responsibility” and “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” then when America elect a President born into abject poverty, who over achieved became a model student, worked hard, put education at his forefront, attained Ivy league degrees, graduated magna cum laude, and achieved the highest honors at one of the world’s most prestigious universities…..&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;BUT WAIT! There’s a problem… HE’S BLACK!! Yeah, yeah, yeah, all that stuff is good and well, and if he were White only then can it be looked upon in the highest of admiration and regard, but as long as he’s Black it’s got to be a fraud, he really didn’t achieve all that, it was affirmative action and what not. C’mon you know a black person couldn’t have the cerebral capacity to be that competent and smart, so it can’t be true. Yep, birthers and Donald “Duck” Trump that’s your position. As “The Donald” nearly said, he belongs on a basketball court, or a football field, or in entertainment, but as President of the United States? No way! That’s not where someone with that pigment of skin belongs. We’ll take a dumb White incompetent failure over a smart, pertinent, capable Black one any day. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;On 11/04/2008 America proved we’re better than that, and had something to say about that, America said… “FUCK YOU!! NO WE WON’T!!” Just like when Lawrence O’Donnell kicked Oily Titz off his show because he wouldn’t let his program be the vehicle for her to peddle her next batshit crazy hair-brain conspiracy, and she refused to address the fact the President had just bitchslapped them all, he told her what America is telling YOU ALL now… GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7537641439754846805-5143137264115206974?l=proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/feeds/5143137264115206974/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/04/america-we-better-than-this.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/5143137264115206974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7537641439754846805/posts/default/5143137264115206974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://proggytheanti-con.blogspot.com/2011/04/america-we-better-than-this.html' title='America To Birthers: Just Fucking Die!!!'/><author><name>riceroni</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01502225503121190748</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kDX8SyTpI1Y/TbmjMr_X01I/AAAAAAAAAAM/U8oUlXrim5Y/s220/mickeymousemiddlefinger.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry></feed>
