January 6, 2014

Steven Seagal Considering Arizona Governor Run

Source: Huff Post

Action-movie star Steven Seagal says he is considering a run for Arizona governor.

The "Marked for Death" actor told KNXV-TV (http://goo.gl/jNxPSd) that he is considering a shot at the state's highest office and has had a talk about the bid with the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America.

The 61-year-old made the comments while talking about his newly released reality series "Steven Seagal - Lawman: Maricopa County."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/05/steven-seagal-arizona-governor-run_n_4544709.html#

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What is it with over-the-hill, white action stars running for political office? Elect him and it's another embarrassment for home state.

January 4, 2014

For someone who has limited access to western news due to location, Jahi McMath. Please help

me understand what happened to this poor child to put her into this sad, deplorable state.

I am not talking the political football she is about to become. . .I mean how did something routine turn so viciously deadly?

Or am I missing something that the spin machine news media isn't telling me.

January 4, 2014

Obama is the ant-Christ!

January 1, 2014

Snarky New Year's Party Poster

January 1, 2014

Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the Week will go on a little hiatus

Everyone:

I am researching and writing my newest screenplay now, as well as continuing my research for my PhD dissertation on the Wang Jingwei puppet government after the Rape of Nanking.

I will be putting the Top Ten away for the next few weeks.

However, the results are in.

Here are the top ten idiots of 2013:

10: Chris Christie
09: Mike Lee
08: Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor (tied)
07: Rush Limbaugh
06: Charles and David Koch
05: Rick Scott
04: Joe Arpaio
03: Scott Walker
02: Pat McCrory
01: WINNER: TED CRUZ (as expected)

Happy New Year from China!

January 1, 2014

My Treatment for my newest screenwriting project for the Chinese market.

I would love my friends at DU to give me input on the concept and idea. Anyone want to critique, I would greatly accept the input before I put pen to paper to write this. It is my most ambitious piece yet.

To explain, this is my third in my Chinese history trilogy. I've written one dealing with an event in Modern China and an event in Medieval China. This is my piece about Ancient China.

TITLE: FALL OF THE HOUSE OF SHANG (商朝的灭亡 .

ACT ONE
　　In the year 1675BCE, the origin lands of China saw the final ruler of the Xia Dynasty, Xia Jie, submit into madness and alcoholism, giving himself and his kingdom completely to his favored concubine, Mo Xi, a woman of intense beauty and very little else. As a result, some of the most decedent displays ever seen surfaced: A lake of wine and a forest of hanging meat, public debauchery in the Imperial Palace at Yangcheng（阳城） (in modern day Zhengzhou, Henan) and a complete neglect of the duties of the ruler. Mo Xi and Xia Jie would be witness to and participate in executions and torture that would excite and thrill them. All the while, the people outside the palace suffered, starved and slowly died under inhumanity and crippling taxation.
　　From the southern part of the dynasty, Zi Lv of Tang marched against Xia Jie and, at the Battle of Mingtiao, overthrew the Xia to start the Shang Dynasty. His rule was one of virtue and considered good for all people. This is being dictated by Jiang Zi Ya, a learned scholar and general in the Shang Dynasty to a young, soon-to-be Emperor of the Shang Dynasty, Di Xin with a lesson to always respect those around him so his rule can follow in the path of his ancestors. Di Xin agrees and leaves Jiang Zi Ya alone to go on a hunting trip with his father, Di Yi, the Emperor. Jiang Zi Ya remains hopeful for a continued peace and prosperity of the Shang Dynasty and turns to his most trusted slave, Jiang Ke, for his dinner and continued education in reading and writing, along with his young daughter Yi Jiang. This is in Spring of 1075BCE.
　　Throughout the next few months, Di Xin shows himself to be intensely strong in body, mind and spirit, a testament to his father’s child rearing and education given to him by Jiang Zi Ya. However, Di Xin begins to show negative aspects of a personality: His carnal desire for women, his love of alcohol, his inability to accept even the smallest of criticism and an intense inferiority complex mixed with fits of paranoid rage. Di Yi and Jiang Zi Ya view these with a sour heart, but also consider them to be part and parcel with a young man in his 20s growing up.
　　One night later in late Summer, Di Yi sits with his son to discuss the future of his kingdom and the direction that his successor should follow. Di Xin listens intently and appears to agree with everything his father says. Di Yi finishes the glass of wine on his table and retires into his bed, never to awake again. The next morning, an oddly calm and indifferent Di Xin awakens to the announcement that his father has died and he would become the next King of the Shang Dynasty. Di Xin takes the news in and mourns by having his servants bring into his chambers two of the youngest concubines in the Imperial Palace, including Li Yue, the daughter of one of his most loyal lords, Li Tian.
　　Plans are made for Di Yi’s funeral by Mei Bo, Di Yi’s most trusted adviser, and Jiang Zi Ya, while Di Xin shows little interest, concentrating himself on things that give him pleasure and enjoyment (wine, women, hunting and sports). Di Xin misses the funeral, attended by all people important, including Ji Chang of Zhou and his two sons Ji Kao and Ji Fa. All three notice the new King of Shang’s absence and remark to Jiang Zi Ya about the disrespect. Jiang Zi Ya replies that the new Shang King is still young and maybe mourns the loss of his father a different way. However, in his private chambers, Di Xin is drunk, disrespectfully toasts the passing of his father and spits on the floor in front of three concubines, including Li Yue. One concubine admonishes the lack of respect and Di Xin hits her, knocks her to the ground and chokes her to death, screaming that he is the king and no woman will ever tell him what to do. When she is dead, Di Xin looks at the other two and orders them into his bed. Both look terrified, but submit to the King’s wishes, with Li Yue begging Di Xin not to hurt them. As he closes the door, Di Xin says he won’t hurt them. . .much.
　　At his coronation, Di Xin become Shang Zhou Wang (King Zhou of Shang) and announces his plans of expansion of the Shang realm into the neighboring lands, starting with expanding north into Yousu. Together with Jiang Zi Ya, Mei Bo, and his uncle, Di Bi Gan, Di Xin convinces the lords loyal to him, including Ji Chang, to join in the planned attack of Yousu （有苏）, the kingdom to the north. Di Xin then brutally conscripts peasants and anyone who has an ability to fight into his army and launches an attack on Yousu.
　　Faced with overwhelming numbers, the lord of Yousu, Su Hu, surrenders after being told defending with force would be futile and orders all lords and subjects loyal to him to accept Di Xin as their new king. As Di Xin enters Yousu with his army, his advisers and his concubines, people flock to him and his army, cheering his coming and chanting 万岁 (rule for 10,000 years).
　　Su Hu opens the gates to his palace and welcomes Di Xin by bowing and offering his lands, people and all that is Yousu to the new King. Di Xin accepts and enters the palace with Su Hu, his advisers and concubines.
　　As he enters, from above the courtyard, a young, extremely attractive woman looks at the new King from her window. She is surrounded by her “奴婢” (slave servant) and comments that the new King seems to be proud of his conquest. This is Su Da Ji. One of the servants knocks on the door, bows and informs Su Da Ji that her father has requested her attendance in the courtyard. She laughs and tells the servant she will be there when she is ready.
　　As Di Xin and Su Hu talk, Li Yue and the rest of the concubines enter with all the advisers. They watch the agreement signed between Su Hu and Di Xin. Di Xin looks at Li Yue, his prized consort, and then tells Su Hu to “sweeten the pot.” Su Hu rings a bell and from the back, dressed in the finest silk and made up to be strikingly beautiful and seductive stands his daughter, Su Da Ji. Di Xin looks at her and watches her walk in, captivated and immediately infatuated. Li Yue watches this and listens to the other concubines jealously say that Li Yue will now join them in the background because the King has discovered a new, younger and prettier “娃娃” (play doll). Su Da Ji bows before the new King as Su Hu gives his daughter as the ultimate prize Yousu could offer, a prize Di Xin accepts immediately. Conspicuously absent from the proceedings are Ji Chang and his two sons, something Di Bi Gan and Di Ji Zi say to Jiang Zi Ya, causing him distress due to the apparent lack of respect.
　　That night a drunken Di Xin summons Su Da Ji to his chambers. When she arrives, she is dressed in practically nothing, showing the King everything he wants to see. Drunk, he attempts to seduce her, but Su Da Ji resists him at every turn. As this happens, soldiers between walking through the palace at Yousu. Di Xin begins to beg Su Da Ji, asking her what he needs to do to have her for himself. She plays with his body and begins whispering her demands:
Money (he gives)
Power (he promises)
Control (he relinquishes)
　　As she dances around him and makes his desire even more pronounced, the soldiers storm through the palace and kick a door open. Su Da Ji turns to Di Xin and says she wants Yousu for herself because she will give Di Xin everything he can desire. As soon as Di Xin agrees, the soldiers that kicked the door in take out their swords and brutally murder Su Hu. A knock comes to the door and a soldier, covered in blood enters, enters carrying the head of Su Hu. Su Da Ji laughs, looks at Di Xin, smiles and tell him he knows how to make a girl happy. They proceed to kiss and begin to make love. When Di Xin orders the soldier to leave, Su Da Ji tells him to let the soldier watch so the soldier can learn about what he will never have in his life.

ACT TWO
　　Jiang Zi Ya begins to dictate how the world changed as soon as Su Da Ji entered Di Xin’s life. The matters of State disappeared to Di Xin as he spent all of his time trying to keep Su Da Ji happy and at his side. Taxes sky rocketed as every whim Su Da Ji demanded Di Xin fulfilled, which began a massive disease plague. Farms begin to fail, leading to famine and starvation. Su Da Ji tells Di Xin she loves animals and birds, so Di Xin builds a huge xanadu (上都 so Su Da Ji can be surrounded by rare and exotic birds and animals. Su Da Ji requires Di Xin to provide meals of exquisite ingredients specifically from places all over the realm. The meals have to be perfect, as Mei Bo will instruct, or there would be punishment. One meal will be presented to Su Da Ji and Di Xin that has one wrong item and all cooks will be executed in front of Su Da Ji and Di Xin, as they sit in their seats and eat, laughing at the death and carnage around them.
　　As people begin to starve and are taxed into poverty, no place is this more damaging than in the lands of the Zhou, where Di Xin remembers that Ji Chang did not attend the Yousu conquering and turns his vengeance on the people in Zhou. Soldiers begin ransacking villages and towns suspected of disloyalty. Fields are burned and destroyed. People are rounded up and imprisoned.
　　In the winter of 1068BCE, in the Zhou capital of Fengjing (沣京 , soldiers arrive with Mei Bo and Di Bi Gan to impose new taxes and tributes upon the House of Zhou. Infuriated by this, Ji Chang makes plans to send his oldest son, Ji Kao to Yinxu (殷墟 with gifts and money to try to normalize relations. As Ji Kao is informed, lesser vassals and lords begin to show up at Ji Chang’s gate explaining the problems their lands are having under the Shang rule. They implore Ji Chang to examine their lands and help them as the Shang King has failed to protect their lands and fails to follow the mandate of heaven. Ji Chang resists the lords’ and vassals’ overtones of rebellion.
　　That night, Ji Chang sits in his chambers alone until his wife, Tai Si, walks in. She sits on the bed and the two begin to talk about current events in the realm. Tai Si begins to tell her husband about her ancestor, Da Yu, the first King of the Xia Dynasty, and how it fell apart and was taken over by the Shang because of the failings of the King and his infatuation with a woman that superceded his desire to rule. Ji Chang admits that King Zhou of Shang seems to be the same type of man King Tang of Shang overthrew. Tai Si agrees, saying that her ancestors believed rule happened by a mandate of heaven and that rulers must be just, fair and kind. . .all things King Zhou of Shang is not, stating that it is the ones with no power that are hurt the most, not the ones with power. Ji Chang passively agrees, saying he will go with the lords and vassals to see if the things they say are true.
　　The next day, Ji Chang’s son, Ji Kao, leaves with an entourage from Fengjing to meet with King Zhou of Shang, with Ji Chang telling Ji Kao he will join him in Yinxu after he is done with his fact finding tour. After Ji Kao leaves, Ji Chang tells his second son, Ji Fa, that he will be in charge of the lands until Ji Chang returns. Ji Fa bows and accepts the responsibility as Ji Chang climbs on board with his entourage and leaves Fengjing with the lords and vassals. Ji Fa tells his mother he has an awful feeling about what will happen and Tai Si, looking to the north and seeing clouds forming, watches her husband leave. His fact finding mission will last six years.
　　The things Ji Chang sees on his fact finding mission sink his heart. People are starving, floods have ravaged the lands, bandits and thieves run amok with little punishment, law and order has all but collapsed and natural disasters have occurred at a regular clockwork. Overwhelmed by this, Ji Chang decides it is time to present this to the King.
　　Ji Kao arrives in Yinxu in Summer of 1067BCE and is horrified at what he sees. The people live in squaller and destitution. There is no fire in the peasants’ eyes. They walk around lifeless and almost catatonic, simply going through the motions, hoping to find enough food to keep them alive and make it to another day. Ji Kao arrives at the palace and is brought inside to private chambers. Again, he is horrified by what he sees as a display of abuse and decadence. Inside the palace, for the amusement of Su Da Ji, Di Xin has built lake of wine and a forest of meat, complete with boats. Naked people drink from the lake and eat from the trees. Ji Kao’s presence is announced and Di Xin lifts his head to see from a boat in the middle of the lake. From under him, a half naked Su Da Ji looks up to see Ji Kao, extremely handsome, muscular and well put together. She instantly views him as a prize.
　　That night, there is a huge banquet in Ji Kao’s honor. Di Xin informs the guests that Ji Kao is well renounced as a musician and singer and asks Ji Kao to give a performance. Ji Kao, shy, gets up slowly, picks up a zither （古琴） and plays something as beautifully and majestically as he can. While he plays, Su Da Ji begins whispering in one of her servant’s ears. After, the servant begins pouring wine into Di Xin’s glass, always making sure the glass is topped off. Su Da Ji begins making seductive eyes at Ji Kao. When he is finished, Su Da Ji stands to applaud first, followed by an extremely drunken Di Xin and then the rest of the Court follows suit. Drunkenly, Di Xin says he has had the realm’s best composers write something and the best musicians play and act out music for his love, Su Da Ji, who smiles, claps and says she loves music. Di Xin snaps his fingers and music playing actors and actresses come to play and act one of the most bawdy and inappropriate displays ever seen. Ji Kao is embarrassed, Li Tian and the rest of the Court are horrified, bu Su Da Ji stands up and plants a huge wet kiss on Di Xin’s lips, who smiles and promptly passes out from the alcohol. Su Da Ji dismisses the Court and Ji Kao shakes his head. Su Da Ji walks up to him and, very seductively, tells him the the King likes the gifts that were given to him and she will plead Ji Kao’s case before the King when the King is able to listen. Ji Kao bows and leaves. In the background, Li Yue watches.
　　That night, in Ji Kao’s chambers, Ji Kao writes in a journal but is interrupted by someone knocking on his door. Ji Kao opens the door to see Li Tian, Di Bi Gan and Mei Bo standing, wanting a discussion. Surprised by the appearances, Ji Kao lets them in.
　　Ji Kao sits and asks if the King had also been as mad as he appears, because Ji Kao remembers a time when they went hunting before Di Xin was king and Di Xin appeared lucent and sane. Di Bi Gan says that the King is completely infatuated with Su Da Ji and that he does everything to keep her happy and by his side. Ji Kao does not understand how one woman can do this to one man, but sees how Su Da Ji has taken over the King’s mind. Li Tian explains that Su Da Ji is a vile, sadistic woman that gets pleasure watching other people’s torment. Li Tian says that Su Da Ji uses “science” as a way to mask her sick tormenting. He relates a time when they were walking on the streets of Yinxu and Su Da Ji, with the concubines and a few of the royal advisers, saw a pregnant woman. Su Da Ji was curious what happened inside the woman, so she ordered a soldier to do a public vivisection on the woman in order to see, much to the horror of all nearby. Li Tian shakes his head in regret has he relates the terror in the pregnant peasant’s eyes and how powerless he was to stop it. Mei Bo explains that the King is losing the army behind him, that the generals are afraid of him and that soldiers are disserting left and right. Di Bi Gan explains that the King has stolen their pay and refuses to allocate the money. He dictates the punishment meted out on a cruel device Su Da Ji had invented called the Paolao (炮烙 , but before he can explain it, the doors swing open and imperial guards inform Ji Kao that Su Da Ji requires his presence in her chambers at once.
　　Ji Kao then sits in Su Da Ji’s chambers, waiting for her to arrive. He looks out the window to hear yelling. He sees two soldiers dragging a man, screaming he did nothing wrong and not to kill him. As Ji Kao watches, Su Da Ji appears behind him and tells him that the man won’t be harmed. She asked for him to be brought to the palace because she has questions about how he lives his life. Ji Kao begins to turn around, but Su Da Ji tells him to be a good man and do what he tells her. She lays on the bed and says that she likes strong, virile, handsome men. She compliments Tai Si for raising such an amazing looking man then asks him if he’s ever been with a real woman before. Ji Kao replies his wife has been chosen and thanks Su Da Ji for asking, but wants to discuss his issues with her and try to stop the persecution of the Zhou people. Su Da Ji laughs and says she has no interest in that and that the King is just her toy, but the toy is getting boring, that she is looking for a new toy and the Ji family of Zhou provide the best toys. She then tells him to turn around. As he does, he hears a blood curdling scream from outside.
　　Ji Kao sees Su Da Ji wearing only undergarments sitting on the bed. Ji Kao tells Su Da Ji he does not want to be with her in this fashion and begins to leave. Su Da Ji grabs him and says that no man tells her no, then proceeds to push him on the bed, and climb on top of him. Ji Kao pushes her off and calls her insane. Su Da Ji laughs and says she likes rough times with men. Ji Kao pushes himself off, opens the door, says a few nasty things to her and leaves. Su Da Ji stares at the doorway with evil in her heart as a soldier comes in with two severed feet, bloody. He salutes and holds the feet in front of him. Su Da Ji smiles, tells him to put them on the desk and to get her examining equipment. Su Da Ji sits and stares at the blackened, bloody feet, asking herself how can a peasant walk barefoot on ice without wincing in pain.
　　As Ji Kao walks to his chambers, Li Yue, from the shadows, asks Ji Kao if what he said was true. . .if his wife had already been chosen. Ji Kao says it was a lie said in order to get out of that horrible situation. Ji Kao invites Li Yue into his room, where Li Yue wraps her arms around Ji Kao and tells him how terrified she is of Di Xin. Everyone is. Ji Kao begins to explain that maybe his father is correct and that the King has lost his mandate to rule. Li Yue begs Ji Kao to take her and her father away to the Lands of Zhou when he leaves. Ji Kao says he will and Li Yue kisses his lips.
　　The next day, Ji Kao comes out to the lake of wine and sees hundreds of men swimming in the lake, drinking the alcohol. Li Yue watches this from the background. Ji Kao bows to Di Xin and begins to request a counsel with the King. The King yells at the peasants in the lake to keep swimming and drinking, to enjoy the alcohol. Ji Kao is given five minutes. He looks at the lake and sees the men getting drunk and still swimming. Ji Kao pleads his case of the Zhou people to the King, who hasn’t the slightest interest in listening. Di Xin watches one person sink under the alcohol and laughs, then asks Ji Kao why he and his father weren’t at the taking of Yousu ten years earlier. Ji Kao begins to say that the King ordered Ji Chang behind to make sure the southern border was protected and that Ji Chang was personally ordered to lead the army, that Ji Chang and the two sons could not be two places at once. Five more bodies sink under the alcohol and Di Xin starts applauding and telling the peasants not to stop until they can’t drink anymore. Di Xin then turns to Ji Kao and tells him that order should not have been followed and that supporting the King’s conquests was more important. With that, one of the peasants in the lake begins screaming for help, that he is drowning. Di Xin laughs and tells the peasant to keep drinking. Horrified, Li Yue begins to protest and begs Di Xin to pulls the men out of the water before they all die. Di Xin tells Li Yue that no woman will ever tell him what to do. Li Yue screams she knows what happened to the last woman that did that, but that the King lets Su Da Ji control her. Instantly, Di Xin flies into a rage, grabs Li Yue by the head and puts her head under the alcohol until the bubbles stop. Ji Kao tries to stop the murder, but Imperial soldiers hold him back. When the body floats motionlessly in the alcohol, Di Xin stands up and looks up to see Su Da Ji laughing and motioning for Di Xin to come up to her chambers. As he passes Ji Kao, Di Xin looks at him and says death comes to all that betray the King. Di Xin then orders his troops to pull the body from the lake and find “the traitor’s father.” As the soldiers do, more and more men in the lake succumb to their death.
　　Ji Kao sits in his chambers with guards at the door to prevent him from leaving when Jiang Zi Ya enters the room. Jiang Zi Ya sits down in front of Ji Kao and begins to relate how the King was one of his prized students. As he does, Jiang Ke comes in with food and drink, then stands in the background. Jiang Zi Ya motions for his slave to join them eating. While eating, Jiang Zi Ya explains that the Shang lands are sick and the disease killing it cannot be done away with easily because the immune system is corrupted to protect the disease. The disease needs to be extended until the immune system turns against it. But one must be patient. Ji Kao barely understands, and asks Jiang Zi Ya what he fears. Jiang Zi Ya says he’s old and fears nothing except what would happen to his daughter if something were to happen to him. But with Jiang Ke nearby, he knows his daughter will be safe. Ji Kao asks if the mission his father gave him is in vain. Jiang Zi Ya simply responds that it would be in vain if the mission didn’t happen, since the disease would continue.
　　That night, a visibly shaken Ji Kao sits in the banquet hall with the rest of the Court, sitting next to Jiang Zi Ya. The porters bring out the meal to those waiting. Di Xin stands and says that the meal is in honor of Li Tian, who can not be with them, but is there in spirit and wishes him peace. Su Da Ji laughs. Everyone toasts and sits to eat. Jiang Zi Ya whispers to Ji Kao to watch himself, because the vector for the disease sees Ji Kao as a healthy immunity. Di Xin looks over to Ji Kao and asks him when he will return to Fengjing. Ji Kao says after his father arrives from a fact finding mission. Su Da Ji says that it is a shame Li Tian didn’t join Ji Chang, as Ji Chang may need another fool on his fool’s errand. Soon, the discussion descends into a lambasting of the poor and social Darwinism, where Ji Kao admits that the lord and vassals have done little to help the poor. Su Da Ji laughs and tells him the poor are there to be used and thrown away by their King. Di Xin, bored, asks Ji Kao if he could play the Ocarina (埙）. Ji Kao says he can and Di Xin asks for a demonstration. Ji Kao begins to play, but a few seconds into his playing, Su Da Ji begins whispering in Di Xin’s ear. Di Xin’s merriment turns into anger. Ji Kao, ignoring it, continues playing. After a little while, Di Xin flies into a rage and orders Ji Kao arrested for playing music insulting to the King. Soldiers pounce on Ji Kao and haul him away. Jiang Zi Ya looks at Di Xin and then at his meal. He notices that there is a different texture to the meal and asks what he’s eating. Di Xin simply says “food made from an old traitor’s recipe.” To which, Su Da ji raises her glass, laughs and toasts a good meal made with Li Tian.
　　Jiang Zi Ya begins to explain how he is going mad. The King and his woman have all but driven a wedge between the advisers and the army. Everyone is now fighting with everyone else, while the King and “the woman” do nothing except be as brutal to all under them as possible. He begins to fear that nothing will enable the end to the suffering. Di Bi Gan and Mei Bo try to run the realm, but without the King’s approval, nothing happens. The peasants starve while the King dines on fine food with golden chopsticks. Jiang Zi Ya falls into self loathing, saying he is too old to do what needs to be done.
　　One day in late Autumn in 1063BCE, Ji Chang and the other lords and vassals arrive at the Imperial Palace to find conditions even more deplorable than before. People are skeletons, farms are bare and empty and rats as big as small dogs eat the bodies of those who died of starvation. Ji Chang cannot believe the Shang King would let his capital of Yinxu get to this level of decay, but considering the things he has seen in his fact finding mission, he is not surprised.
　　At the gate, Ji Chang is met by Su Da Ji and a young four year old child, Di Wu Geng, the royal prince, who Ji Chang bows to and then to his mother. Su Da Ji says the King is honored by an esteemed guest like Ji Chang of Zhou and all the lords and vassals of the realm. Ji Chang, maintaining civility, remains calm and asks for council with the King, as the lords and vassals have concerns about the state of the Realm. Su Da Ji said the King was expecting them and that the King is waiting for their arrival.
　　Upon entering the room, the Imperial soldiers grab a now 89 year old Ji Chang and Di Xin berates him for being a traitor. Di Xin screams that the other lords and vassals look to Ji Chang as a hero and that Ji Chang’s power has grown too great. Su Da Ji tells him to execute the man, but Di Bi Gan tells his nephew Di Xin that executing Ji Chang will turn all the lords against him and that Di Xin is barely holding on to his throne at the present. Di Xin, in a moment of clarity, orders Ji Chang imprisoned in the prison of Youli, a sentence to be carried out immediately. Ji Chang is carried away and Di Bi Gan thanks his nephew for his wisdom.
　　That night, while he sleeps, Imperial soldiers enter the chambers of Di Bi Gan and holds him down. Panicked, Di Bi Gan looks around to see Su Da Ji standing over him. She tells Di Bi Gan that he is a good man. She tells him of an ancient saying that "a good man's heart has seven apertures.” She tells Di Bi Gan she wants to know if this is true as she pulls out a long dagger to a screaming, terrified Di Bi Gan.
　　Jiang Zi Ya hears the screaming and shakes his head. He walks into his daughter’s room, tells his now teenaged daughter they must leave the palace and to just do the things he says for her to do with no argument or questions. Yi Jiang agrees. Jiang Zi Ya looks up to see Jiang Ke looking at him. Jiang Zi Ya shakes his head and Jiang Ke runs out of the room, yelling that his master has gone insane. Soldiers enter the room to see Jiang Zi Ya holding a knife to Yi Jiang’s throat screaming the evil has to leave the body. Di Xin walks in and sees his trusted teacher and mentor about to kill his own daughter. Su Da Ji, holding a normal human heart in her hand, sees this as well and says she is always ready to watch someone die and to kill the child slow in order to make the murder more enjoyable for her. Di Xin screams this cannot happen. Instantly, Jiang Ke jumps in and wrestles the knife away from Jiang Zi Ya. The soldiers, under an order from Su Da Ji, move in to execute Jiang Zi Ya, but Jiang Ke begs the King to let him take this “tired, weak old man” away so he will not be a bother to anyone else. The soldiers pick up Jiang Zi Ya and wait for the order to kill, but Di Xin puts up his hand. The soldiers release Jiang Zi Ya and Di Xin orders Jiang Zi Ya to take his slave, his belongings and his daughter and leave the palace forever, stating that Jiang Zi Ya’s usefulness was over now that he is insane. As Jiang Zi Ya leaves, he puts his hand on Mei Bo’s shoulder and tell Mei Bo to take care of himself.
　　Jiang Zi Ya dictates that he moved his daughter to safety of the shores of the Wei River, fishing while his slave Jiang Ke tends to his daughter and the household effects. Sometimes Jiang Zi Ya sits on the dock fishing without bait or a hook, explaining to his daughter that the fish would come to his line under their own power when they were ready to come. Pressuring them means little. Jiang Zi Ya also dictates that for the next five years, the lords and vassals that trusted Ji Chang tried to buy his release from prison with favors, gifts, alcohol and women. But when Su Da Ji convinced Di Xin that his advanced age of 94 would mean whatever power Ji Chang had would die with him, Di Xin released the old Duke and allowed him to return home. However, the old man makes an unscheduled stop before going home.
　　In late 1057BCE, Ji Chang comes to the small home of Jiang Zi Ya with a small entourage. Jiang Zi Ya welcomes them and has Jiang Ke prepare a meal for them. On the dock, the 94 years old Ji Chang and the 72 year old Jiang Zi Ya discuss their prison hell: Ji Chang’s time in Youli and Jiang Zi Ya’s time in Yinxu. Jiang Zi Ya explains that Di Xin is a plague and needs to be stopped before he consumes another soul. Ji Chang says when he gets home, he will hear from his son Ji Kao and will make his decision about Di Xin after talking to his son. Jiang Zi Ya says that may not happen then asks if, while in prison, Ji Chang was ever fed Bao Zi. Ji Chang says yes, to which Jiang Zi Ya reveals the meat for that Bao Zi was made from the remains of his murdered son. With that, Jiang Zi Ya pulls his hookless fishing line out of the water with a fish on it, looks at Ji Chang and asks “Has the fish finally come to me under its own volition?” Ji Chang stands, looks at his hands and says his old body has no more tears and it is time for war to come. With that, Jiang Zi Ya, Yi Jiang, Jiang Ke and Ji Chang ride for Fengjing.

ACT THREE
　　After 12 years away from home, Ji Chang finally returns to his palace in Fengjing to find Tai Si has died and his son, Ji Fa, has grown into a very strong, capable man, even more so than his oldest son, Ji Kao. Jiang Zi Ya sees this as well and allows Ji Fa to spend time with his daughter, something Yi Jiang accepts immediately. The two walk on the shores of the Wei River, talking about their childhoods and how long it has been since they had seen each other last. Yi Jiang asks if Ji Fa has had a wife chosen for him. He replies in the negative and asks the same. Yi Jiang says her father has not found any man that fits the idea of a good husband. Ji Fa smiles and says they are both still young and their fathers know what is best.
　　Ji Chang, that night, explains to his son, that it is time for war, but that he is too old to fight it. He then tells Ji Fa the fate of his brother. Filled with vengeance, Ji Fa swears to bring Di Xin to his knees. Jiang Zi Ya tells him the time is not ready yet, but that the other lords and vassals in the southern part of the realm are waiting for the Zhou to take the lead and will join the Zhou in war, but something needs to happen first. He then orders Jiang Ke to go to Yinxu and tell the King Jiang Ke escaped from Jiang Zi Ya and he wanted to return to the safety of the palace. As Jiang Ke leaves, Jiang Zi Ya wishes him well and tells him they will meet him again. After Jiang Ke leaves, Jiang Zi Ya explains that Di Xin will put the slave in the slave quarters.
　　Soon after, the other lords and vassals arrive at Fengjing with many soldiers, prepared for war and explain to Jiang Zi Ya and Ji Chang that Di Xin is moving his army against the kingdoms of Dongyi (东夷） (modern day Shandong) and that now may be the perfect time to strike. However, before war plans can be drawn up, Ji Chang, at the age of 96, succumbs to age and dies peacefully in his sleep. At his funeral, Ji Fa announces that his father’s dream was the end of the reign of the tyrant Di Xin and it is now time to make that happen. All those attending lift their weapons and war is declared.
　　The Zhou armies run through the southern part of the realm, attacking all towns, killing those employed by the Shang and opening the army to all that wanted to see the end of Di Xin. Peasants join the army in droves.
　　In Yinxu, Di Xin hears about the fall of his southern border and calls in Jiang Ke to explain what his former master was doing. He said the old man is not the leader of the rebellion, but the son of Ji Chang. Di Xin calls in Mei Bo and demands that the army be outfitted for war. Mei Bo says that the army has shrunk in size and may not be loyal to the King anymore. Di Xin blames this all on Mei Bo. Mei Bo replies that Di Xin has killed most of his loyal advisers and generals, sapping the strength of virtue from his rule. Enraged by this lack of loyalty, Di Xin sentences Mei Bo to death through beating.
　　Su Da Ji sees this and says beating the traitor would not be the best punishment because the evil needs to be burned out of Mei Bo. With that, Mei Bo is dragged by imperial soldiers to the Paolao, a large, over twenty foot tall execution device with three levels of burning fire from burning charcoal; and two wheels to move it around like a chariot. Before his death, Mei Bo curses Di Xin and Su Da Ji, telling them he is not afraid of death and that he hopes Ji Fa’s rebellion successfully ends Di Xin’s reign of horror and stupidity. Mei Bo is then stripped naked and is thrown into the Paolao. While inside, loud blood-curdling screams are heard as Di Xin and Su Da Ji laugh and become sexually aroused, while all those around them stand in complete horror of the display. Di Xin then orders Jiang Ke to equip the slaves with weapons with the promise that those that fight for him will gain freedom when the rebellion is crushed.
　　At the Mengjin River Ford, the Zhou army is intercepted by another army. Outnumbered, the Zhou say they will fight to the death. However, the army are of those vassals and lords that hadn’t turned against Di Xin yet. They explain they heard about the death of Mei Bo, a man they respected. This was the sign they needed to show Di Xin had lost the mandate to rule and that they were behind the Duke of Zhou, Ji Fa. Ji Fa looks to Jiang Zi Ya, who tells him the patience has paid off and now is the time to attack.
　　Outside of the capital of Yinxu, in the small village of Muye on the night before the attack, Ji Fa sits in his tent looking over the huge army of the Shang. Yi Jiang comes up behind him and tells him he needs to be careful because no one can replace him. Ji Fa smiles and accept the worry. Yi Jiang tells him that he will be remembered and that the heavens have said that Ji Fa is destined to rule. Ji Fa looks at Yi Jiang and kisses her. Jiang Zi Ya walks up and informs Ji Fa that most of the army defending the gates of Yinxu are conscripted slaves and that the time is right for the Shang collapse.
　　In the morning, the Zhou awaken to see a massive amount of people walking towards them. Ji Fa orders his troops to attention and to prepare for war. Ji Fa finds Jiang Zi Ya and says the attack wasn’t supposed to happen. Jiang Zi Ya, looking through his telescope, says this is not an attack because no one is in orderly lines. Jiang Zi Ya looks through the crowd walking towards them and finds what he is looking for: Jiang Ke leading the slaves conscripted into battle that defected from the Shang army. Jiang Zi Ya waits for the slaves to come to the Zhou side and Jiang Ke to explain that the defection broke the spirit of the Shang because many soldiers are disserting. Jiang Zi Ya looks at Ji Fa and orders the attack immediately.
　　The Zhou army descends onto the Shang army, but many of the troops on the Shang side turn their spears upside down and drive their swords into the ground, refusing to fight and running back into the city. However, the fight is still brutal and bloody as, with all the defection, the Shang army still outnumbers the Zhou army 4:1. However, morale breaks quickly as the Zhou are much better trained and much more vicious as their morale is higher. As the defensive line of the Shang begins to fall, Jiang Zi Ya orders Ji Fa to launch a chariot charge through the center of the line, breaking it. Di Xin, watching the battle, sees this and runs into the palace, destroying any last vestige of Shang morale as the remaining Shang troops fall into chaos and are routed. The loyal Shang soldiers surrender, but the Zhou show them no mercy and the pent up hatred and rage comes out as the slaughter of all loyal Shang soldiers continues well into the night.
　　Ji Fa and his royal guard storm the city, expecting a fight, but the people are so starved and weak, they do nothing. When reaching the palace, Jiang Ke’s sabotage effectively opens the doors of the palace. All imperial forces refuse to fight and sit down, only to be slaughtered without mercy.
　　In a back room, Di Xin dresses himself in the finest of silk, adorns himself with jewelry and lays on a bed as two of his imperial guard carry torches toward him. From down the hall, Ji Fa and his royal guard make it to the back room, break in the door and see Di Xin’s dead body burning on a bed. The Zhou royal guard slaughters all in the room, but Ji Fa takes one Imperial Guard and screams for him to reveal Su Da Ji’s location. The guard, terrified, does after violent persuading and then is run through by Ji Fa. Ji Fa orders his guards to follow him but not to hurt Su Da Ji. However, Ji Fa finds Su Da Ji first trying to escape with a bag filled with gold. Ji Fa drops his sword and shield and stalks toward Su Da Ji. She is terrified and begins to bargain to save her life. Ji Fa pulls out a long dagger and lists the crimes she is guilty of. Su Da Ji cowers and begs for her life. Ji Fa grabs her by the hair and tells her the moment she had his brother murdered was the day her life ended. Ji Fa lifts the dagger.
　　From the outside, the slaughter begins to conclude as the peasants and the soldiers walk to the square in front of the imperial palace. They look up to see Ji Fa standing next to Jiang Zi Ya. Ji Fa holds up the severed head of Su Da Ji to the cheers of Zhou Wu Wang and Long Live King Zhou! From the platform overlooking Yinxu and the battlefield, Jiang Zi Ya tells Zhou Wen Wang that his father and brother would be proud. Zhou Wu Wang says they would and that he will marry Yi Jiang.
　　The movie ends with an epilogue explaining Zhou Wu Wang ruled for only three years until he died abruptly. This brought a rebellion against the Zhou by the son of Di Xin, but it was suppressed within three years. After the Di Wu Geng rebellion, China would enter its longest era of peace in its long history of over 800 years, bringing the world the teachings of both Confucius and Daoism of Lao zi as well as many of the inventions that China is known for. All of this would set the stage for China to be unified under China’s first emperor, Shi Huang Di of the Qin.
　　
　　
CHARACTERS
　　XIA DYNASTY (夏朝）
Mo Xi (末喜）
Xia Jie （夏桀）
　　
　　SHANG DYNASTY (商朝）
Zi Lv (Shang Tang) - overthrows Xia Dynasty （商汤）
Di Yi - Emperor of Shang Dynasty （帝乙）
Di Xin (Shang Zhou) - main antagonist （商纣王）
Jiang Zi Ya - General and scholar （姜子牙）
Yi Jiang - Jiang Zi Ya’s daughter (邑姜）
Li Yue - Consort to Di Xin （季月）
Li Tian - Lord, Li Yue’s father （季天）
Su Hu - Da Ji’s father （蘇护）
Su Da Ji - Di Xin’s prized concubine （蘇妲己
Di Bi Gan - Shang Zhou’s uncle （帝比干）
Di Ji Zi - Shang Zhou’s uncle （帝继子）
Di Wu Geng - Shang Zhou’s son （帝吴庚）
Jiang Ke - Slave to Jiang Zi Ya （姜科）
Mei Bo - Di Xin’s trusted adviser （枚博）
　　
　　ZHOU DYNASTY （周朝）
Ji Chang (Zhou Wen Wang) - King （周文王）（姬昌
Ji Fa (Zhou Wu Wang) - His second son （周武王）（姬发）
Tai Si - His wife, ancestor to Da Yu (太姒
Ji Kao (Bo Yikao) - His first son (姬考

December 22, 2013

Ian Bayne, GOP Congressional Candidate: 'Duck Dynasty Star Is Rosa Parks Of Our Generation'

Source: Huff Post

Embattled "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson has been suspended from his show by A&E for his remarks about gays and African-Americans, and now some high-profile conservatives are rallying to his side and defending him. On Friday, GOP congressional candidate Ian Bayne went all in, comparing Robertson to civil rights icon Rosa Parks.

"In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians," Bayne said in an email to supporters.

"What Parks did was courageous," he added. "What Mr. Robertson did was courageous too."

Robertson's anti-gay remarks in an interview with GQ comparing homosexuality to bestiality have received quite a bit of attention. But he also commented on the state of African-Americans during the Jim Crow era, claiming that they were all carefree and totally happy with their (unequal) status:

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/20/ian-bayne-duck-dynasty_n_4480745.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D422574

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It's courageous to be a racist, bigoted asshole? Then I guess David Duke is one of the most courageous people in the county.

December 18, 2013

Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the Week

[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]The Lily White Christmas Edition[/font]

Megyn Kelly’s dreaming of a white Christmas, with no blacks or browns or off-whites (1). Where pastors are raping (2) and Russians are gay baiting (5) to see Domino’s firing workers refusing to work for less than minimum wage (8). May your days be merry and bright, and may all rich princelings get off for killing someone with their cars because they’re white (and rich) (10). And as always, don't forget the key. Remember, you can run your mouse over the icon to see what it means. At the end, the writer will give a small tribute to one of the greatest men of the past 100 years.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Megyn Kelly[/font]
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Another week, and more Fox News drivel to look at. This time, Fox News rising star and spokesmodel Megyn Kelly decided to weigh on the Fox Noise’s contrived War on Christmas. At issue is Aisha Harris’s Slate.com article where she says America needs to give up “Santa-as-fat-old-white-man” and maybe make the gift giver of Christmas a penguin.

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Logical. Santa as a white guy does sound like White Man’s burden to me. . .giving gifts to the downtrodden while those selfish minorities don’t do anything. Maybe making the gift giver sexless, raceless and ageless will make it more egalitarian.

Never mind that. Megyn Kelly stepped right up and told Harris she’s gone ”way off the rails,” which is the nice, Fox way os calling someone a damned, anti-American, un-American flag burning, apple pie hating scumbag!

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“Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean it has to change, you know?” she added. “I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure, that’s a verifiable fact, as is Santa — I just want the kids watching to know that.”

Santa is white? Who cares? Honestly. . .does it matter, since Santa is make believe? Apparently, it does to Megyn Kelly, because she doubled down hard on her statement earlier over the next few days.

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“Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean it has to change, you know?” she added. “I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure, that’s a verifiable fact, as is Santa — I just want the kids watching to know that.”

Yes, because kids watch Fixed News all the time. Screw Cartoon Network. Screw sports. Hell, even screw WWE. When kids get home, they flip on Fixed Noise and zone out. Cue Rev. Lovejoy’s wife “won’t someone please think about the children” whine from The Simpsons.

She didn’t stop there!

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“Many questioning whether I understand that Santa is a mythical figure, others’ suggesting that I am a racist who is outraged at the idea of a black Santa,” she continued. “Well, this would be funny if it were not so telling about our society, in particular the knee-jerk instinct by so may to race bait and to assume the worst in people. Especially people employed by the very powerful Fox News channel.”

The point of humor is to be funny, Megyn. There is little funny in you. Now, George Carlin. . .that’s funny. Chris Rock, Bill Maher. . .hell, even Jeff Dunham. . .they’re funny. Your humor is just sad. And the reason there is a “knee jerk” reaction is being you’re a jerk. Simple and easy.

Still, one of her followers decided that since it’s okay to be a racist asshole on Fixed Noise, it’s okay to be a racist asshole in the classroom as well.

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The move came after students at Cleveland High School were told they could come to class dressed as Santa, an elf or a reindeer.

Michael Rougier said his ninth-grade son, Christopher, arrived wearing a Santa hat and beard, and the teacher asked the boy: "Don't you know Santa Clause is white? Why are you wearing that?"

Wow. . Just wow! Thanks, Megyn. Your bullshit gave the clueless morons that watch your drivel the cue to be racist to 14 year old boys.

Next story on Fixed Noise: Should Murphy Brown be a role model to all female television characters due to her out-of-wedlock pregnancy? Joining us are the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Frosty the Snowman and a talking unicorn.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Jacoby Kindred[/font]
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God is a great excuse for people to do some of the most heartless things to other people. People kill for God. People hate for God. People murder each other because the voice in their head is God and God told them it’s a good idea. People torture in the name of God. In Jacoby Kindred’s case raped girls in the name of God.

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The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that a complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court on Wednesday said that Jacoby Kindred began sexually abusing the girls when they were only about 6 years old.

Wow. Six year old girls have demons inside them and only the unlawful injection of a man’s penis will end the torment? Wow, religion is amazing!

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“He told her the devil was inside her and he could take the demons out of her,” according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Blowjobs for Jesus? This couldn’t get any sicker.

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And apparently ladies also means six year old girls. Just when I think this man couldn’t do something or say something to make himself look more stupid and worse, he keeps right on talking.

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“These are not really kids,” Kindred insisted the St. Paul Pioneer Press on Thursday. “They have the mind of the adult.”

“All a woman has to do (in Minnesota) is make an accusation, true or false, and the man’s going to be in trouble,” he explained.

Wow! People normally don’t rape a child in public, pastor. Most people would frown on shit like that.

Second, a six year old has the mind of an adult, so they aren’t really kids? Well, their minds may be adult, but the law says they are still kids.

Third. . .it’s very difficult to convince a jury that a six year old kid has the ability to make up rape. I don’t believe they are that cunning. Now, making excuses for eating cookies, yes. Trying to lie out of getting into trouble, of course. Making up being orally and vaginally raped. . .umm, not so much.

So the next time you have a demon inside you, go see Jacoby Kindred. But, don’t worry, ladies. According to “Dr” Todd Akin, you won’t get pregnant if it’s legitimate rape. And we all know that since you opened up your legs and let the goodness of the Lord shine through, it isn’t legitimate rape. It’s divine intervention.

Now, are those demons gone yet? Or will the demon stay in prison after his conviction?

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Donald Trump[/font]
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The New York Combover burped out more bullshit and went the birther route again.

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Selective killing in a plane crash to hide the fact he’s a Kenyan? Makes perfect sense.

Nothing more to say here. The Top Ten doesn’t want to insult the obviously insane. So moving on. The Top Ten spent 14.59 seconds writing this, which is all the shelf-life The Donald has left of his 15 minutes.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Glenn Beck[/font]
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After being kicked off CNN and Fixed Noise, Glenn Beck is running his own worthless TV network with S.E. Cupp that few people watch and care about while bloviating from his microphone being a mini-Rush. He loves to attack progressives and apparently now, he has targetted the Pope.

Recently, the Pope won Person of the Year. Normally, whenever the Pope says does something, most of the world cringes. But Pope Francis seems to be different. And he actually seems to take his job seriously as one to help the poor, downtrodden masses without requiring them to be Catholic. For that, the Pope is becoming wildly popular. But Beck sees a conspiracy theory.

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“He makes me a little concerned on his Marxist tendencies,” he explained. “When you’re not on prepared remarks, Marxism starts to creep into your language. When you’re asked questions by people, you start to say, ‘Look, I don’t want to hurt you, I just think that redistribution of wealth isn’t so bad.’”

Jesus was a fucking Marxist. All that love thy neighbor, help the poor, tax the rich. . .he’s a communist. Republican Jesus loves the wealthy and hates the poor. “Fucked be the poor” and “Blessed are the warmongerers.” I’m sure the New Testament says that someplace.

No fear. Beck chose his personal “Man of the Year.”

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Ted “Booze” Cruz. Because his 21 hour Ted “Cruz” Talk did so much to help the poor in Congo (the poorest nation in the world) or advance civil and human rights that he deserves to be mentioned.

As always, Beck, like all conservatives like to mention that Time also picked

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They did? Right Wing Watch researched that. He’s half right.

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Whoops! And checking out Wikipedia, Beck lied again. However, one can see the Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, George W. Bush, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were all elected Person of the year twice. So was Deng Xiaoping, Josef Stalin and Mikhail Gorbachev. I guess Churchill is a Marxist too. Oh, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were POTY twice. . .FDR thrice. Please proceed, Alex Jones prototype.

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Oh. . .so because Pope Francis won, Time is fascist. I wonder if he thought that when the BFEE won it three times (once with Poppa Bush, twice with Bush the Lesser).

So, there we have it. Ted Cruz is Glenn Beck’s “person of the year” and progressives are fascists. There’s no punchline here. Glenn Beck is a punchline all by himself.

BTW, Francis wasn’t the first Pope. Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII won too. Fascists. All of them! Even Chiang Kai-Shek and Soong Mei-Ling are fascists. THE ENTIRE WORLD IS FASCIST!!! Glenn Beck sees them everywhere. So buy gold from his sponsors to protect yourself from the creeping fascism.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Ivan Okhlobystin[/font]
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Wow, Russia is in a world of shit now. Between Edward Snowden’s temporary asylum (the Top Ten is not touching that one with a ten foot pole) and their gay bashing laws in the face of the 2014 protests and growing boycotts of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia is looking bad. With Putin consolidating power and looking like he wants to bring back the old style authoritarian rule (sans the Communism) of Stalin, Russia has numerous black eyes. Maybe someone can make the country look good in the eyes of the world.

Step forward, Ivan Ohklobystin. He’s a “famous” Russian actors whose biggest claim to fame was running for, and being trounced in, Russian President two years ago. He has something to say to all you gayo-people and gayo-supporters out there: Go screw yourselves.

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Oh goody. . .a nazi reference, from a country with a history of pogroms against Jews. Genocide of gay people. The “one time priest” has more to say.

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Would you write the Russian translation of “Arbeit Mach Frei” over the oven doors? Zxylon B gas?

Gay people are a threat to your children how? Clashing colors after they finish interior decorating your house? Giving your kids headaches after your gay stylist messes up your hair. I know. . .the threat to your kids is completely imaginary because there is no fucking threat.

But, Ivan went to the Megyn Kelly school of foot-in-mouth and decided to double down on his bigotry.

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Well, he’s right. He can express his opinion. And most normal people will express theirs too. Morgan Freeman says it best though.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Scott Bach[/font]
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Nazi reference #2. This time it comes to us from the Good Old U.S. Of A. In Chris Christie’s backyard (enter jokes about his size here), Jersey City mayor Steven Fulop has decided to try to ask gun vendors for help in gun control policy development. According to Think Progress:

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Sensible. Logical. Forward thinking. Loooong overdue, but it’s a start. Ask those who sell and those who enforce laws for their input and ideas for enforcing current laws and strengthening new ones.

Never mind that shit. Scott Bach, NRA flunkie, sees Nazis everywhere with that. While on the NRA’s vanity show, Bach uttered this drivel.

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Oh. . .there’s the talking point. Nazis took guns away from Germans which enabled them to take over Germany, destroy Jewish lives and start the worst war in the history of humanity. It was gun control. Except when it’s wrong, which it is, which makes it wrong.

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Never mind those leftist facts or that liberally biased reality, Bach sees Nazis. And he has an edict for Steven Fulop.

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Let’s see. According to the NRA, no one should bring up gun control:

01: Before a mass shooting, because it doesn’t happen.
02: Immediately after a mass shooting, because you’re politicizing a tragedy
03: Long after a mass shooting, because it doesn’t happen much.
04: After a cop is killed in the line of duty, because you shouldn’t punish the law abiding.
05: Any day that ends in “y,” because God doesn’t like it.

After his little diatribe, Mayor Fulop went home, had dinner, took a big shit, climbed into bed and fell asleep, apparently not giving a tinker’s damn what some uber-loon at the NRA thinks.

Which is what all politicians should do. But don’t.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Fox “News”[/font]
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A year ago last week, a gun nut went into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT and shot and killed 20 students and six teachers. No one gives a damn that the psycho killed himself. Which is the way it should be.

Fox News decided to honor those who died by bringing on a gun nut.

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Balance? BALANCE??? Seriously? Sensible gun control advocate v. Fringe right wing gun nut? Some people don’t need a forum. Okay, bring on Gary Pratt

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"We're not really going to able to talk about a victory until we get rid of the laws that prohibit people from having guns to protect themselves in schools and in other places," Pratt explained. "Every one of our mass murders in our country has occurred in places where guns were prohibited."

Really? A military base has no guns? There was a mass shooting there. And schools now need guns? Issue the students books, supplies and a Glock as standard school equipment. And if they “stand their ground,” they can kill at will.

Dumbo didn’t stop there.
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"It is killing people," he insisted. "All of these gun-free zones are murder magnets, and we've simply got to get rid of them. It's an illusion to think that somehow we're going to be safer because we can't have a gun in a particular area because the bad guy is going to have a gun."

Really? Parks are murder magnets? Supermarkets? My God. . .do these people listen to themselves.

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"The problem is when are we going to stop good guys from having guns to protect themselves so that when of when of one of these dirt bags goes into a mall or a school, somebody is able to protect themselves and others by having their own gun," he said.

Oh. . .parrot Wayne LaPierre’s good guy-bad guy bullcrap. The Archie Bunker “everyone should pack heat” nonsense.

Maybe he can parrot this debunked nonsense. What needs to be explained is his idea that people getting killed is proof that God was “judging” unarmed Americans and “blessing” the gun owners.

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“But the only way to avoid that is to be on our knees and to be asking for God’s pleasure,” he added. “If the country comes back to the Lord — as he told Solomon in that great prayer — then he will repent of what he’s done to the country, he will heal the land, restore it and put his blessing upon it.”

“And we should be praying that we will all be able to go around armed because that will be one outward indicator that we have God’s blessing.”
And these people need a forum for this? Thanks, Chris Wallace, for shitting all over twenty dead children. Your father would be proud.

Oh, and never forget Newtown. Here are twenty six reasons why the US needs stronger gun laws.

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Side note from writer: This one hits hard. I taught elementary school before I went to Asia. That could have been my class.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Domino’s Pizza[/font]
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After Pizza Hut fired a middle manager for daring to allow people to take Thanksgiving off and closing the restaurant, their main competition decided to up the greed and the shock value.

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Yes folks, because workers didn’t want to work for less than minimum wage in a non-tipped job, Domino’s fired them. Yes, that’s how you deal with the peon that wants to work and have a job that allows them to eat and live rather than eat or live.

Republicans around the country will rejoice, as shown by the comments section of this Yahoo News story on this travesty. Apparently lost on the conservatives is that these people WANTED to work for minimum wage, not less. But the dismissive “easy job, low learning curve, get more skills, don’t be lazy” meme is still being used and most of the time.

Back to the article. Well, apparently the issue is the excess work, not the job. According to Opposing Views:

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Nice little system they have at that store. Work as a driver and if there is nothing to do, do work that is not part of your job and don’t get paid for the extra. Isn’t slavery and indentured servitude illegal?

According to the Yahoo article, the owner of these stores, a Mr. Robert Cookston, decided to do the right thing and re-hired his workers only have this story leaked to the media and the State Attorney got involved. Yes, all it took to get this assclown to do the right thing was a State Attorney’s probe and a media probe.
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The store, located in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood, agreed to reinstate the fired employees by Sunday, the office said. The workers, 25 in all, said they lost their jobs because they had denounced their wages as too low. "The delivery workers ... were let go after complaining that they were still being paid the 'tipped wage' of $5.65 per hour even though they were performing tasks, like kitchen cleaning, that should qualify them for the state's minimum wage of $7.25," the Huffington Post reported Friday.

What is amazing is that people aren’t outraged at the modern day slavery. What has America become? Get used to it. It’s too expensive to hire Americans to do the good jobs, to those jobs go to places like India and China. While the bosses get wealthy, the rest who were not born to the elite class starve.

Too bad God punishes those who don’t succeed. Ayn Rand and social Darwinism taught us that. But American Idol is on. . .and I hear Domino’s is having a special on pizza today. Buy two and kick the underpaid delivery driver in the nuts for free. Tip optional.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Rick Santorum[/font]
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Rick ”Frothy Mix” Santorum seems to be back in the News alot these days. Apparently, Ricky of “Keeping Dead Fetus, Naming It and Tormenting His Children by Showing It to Them Land” is planning another run for president, so the verbal diarrhea keeps coming, in large amounts quickly.

Last week, he was on the news comparing his fight with Obamacare to Mandela’s 25 years in prison for fighting South African Apartheid. . .going as far as saying that the things Mandela wanted to do, did and wanted to accomplish were “not always the right thing.” That meme that Mandela murdered white people got around fast. This week, he’s back on Obamacare with a different line of attack. Obamacare is designed to kill you.

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Ummm. . .what? That happens absolutely nowhere in industrialized countries. No where! Not. One. Fucking. Country! (side note: I lived in South Korea with single payer socialized medicine before moving to China. It works amazingly, is cheap and refutes everything Lil’ Ricky is saying now).

Now, instead of death panels, we have voting panels. Some guy in a German accent wearing the Republican Star will look over people:

“You didn’t vote der right way, Comrade-ski. No Health Care! In to der oven!”

“No. . .I just want aspirin.”

1984 over going to the doctor. The horrors.

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But the British do have nationalized medicine and Margaret Thatcher never euthanized anyone who voted Labor instead of Tory. Sick man, this Santorum is. He is obviously talking out of his ass, which is where Santorum is made, according to Dan Savage.

So keep spreading that Santorum, Ricky. You might be able to be elected Speed Bump soon enough. Because you will NEVER occupy the Oval Office. Maybe a Rubber Room.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Vicky Hartzler[/font]
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And finally;

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This is the face of a moron. A racist moron. A racist, idiotic moron. And all of you who have a brain that live in her district, I feel so bad for you.

This is Congresstoad Vicky Hartzler (R - Klanhood). She represents Central Missouri from someplace on the moon and has decided to declare war on Barack Obama.

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After a visit Tuesday to the Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital in Columbia, Hartzler was looking for a place to do interviews with reporters.

Wait? You don’t like Obama’s IMAGE??? As in a picture of him?

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WTF??? What. . .will your teabagger base not like you standing in front of his photos? Is Obama so powerful that his mere photo or painting can bend the will, curve the spine and force teabaggers to vote for a Democrat? Of all the petty, nonsensical bullshit!

What is it with Missouri and their elected officials not liking art? Remember this shit from last decade?

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Initially, Eight thousand dollars of taxpayer money were spent to cover the statue with blue drapes but now, the Ambassador from Saudi Arabia has presented the Justice Department with a gift. "Lady Justice" will be clad in a burqa.

Asscroft did this with Lady Justice and spent $8,000 on covering her up because his sensibilities were bothered by a woman’s body.

Don’t worry. Missouri made out in the long run.

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Spend $8,000. Get back $10. Good Republican economics at work. And they still covered the wrong boob!

The Top Ten will take a week off. My Chinese Buddhist wife wants to take her American Jewish husband out for a holiday he doesn’t even celebrate and she knows nothing about.

An end of the year special will come out on December 30th China time, to acknowledge the best of the best of Conservative Douchebaggery. It will be a list of Five.

Here are the nominees. Please vote.

Ted Cruz
Marco Rubio
Rand Paul
Jan Brewer
Louie Gohmert
Chris Christie
Paul LePage
Pat McCrory
Nikki Haley
Michele Bachmann
Rush Limbaugh
Paul Ryan
Rick Scott
Scott Walker
Steve King
Darrell Issa
John Boehner
Charles and David Koch
Teabaggers
Rick Perry

December 14, 2013

Police: Minnesota pastor told girls he could ‘take the demons out,’ raped them for years

Source: Raw Story

A 61-year-old Minnesota pastor was charged this week with raping two girls for nearly a decade.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that a complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court on Wednesday said that Jacoby Kindred began sexually abusing the girls when they were only about 6 years old.

After a letter was found referencing sex acts with Kindred, the girls, now ages 14 and 16, disclosed the relationship to their mother. Police were notified in July.

The younger of the two girls told a nurse at Midwest Children’s Resource Center that Kindred began digitally penetrating her at the age of 6. He later forced her to perform oral sex on him and then progressed to intercourse, the girl said.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/12/police-minnesota-pastor-told-girls-he-could-take-the-demons-out-raped-them-for-years/

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Evil with a side of scumbag!

December 11, 2013

Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the Week

[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]The Remembering Greatness EDITION[/font]

“Now, he is for the ages.” Last week, the world saw the passing of Nelson Mandela, one of the examples of true class an humanity. The world is a better place because of Mr. Mandela and he may never be replaced, if greatness like that can be replaced. However, political vulture (1, 2, 3, 4) decided to either rain on the parade or use Mandela to support their narrow political bullcrap. In other news, Scott Brown (6) is dumb, the CA GOP is dumber (7) and Ted Cruz is the dumbest (10). And as always, don't forget the key. Remember, you can run your mouse over the icon to see what it means. At the end, the writer will give a small tribute to one of the greatest men of the past 100 years.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Rick Santorum[/font]
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Sometimes great men are made. Sometimes great men are born. But for every great man made or born are 10,000 morons. Step up Rick Santorum (R-Frothy Mix). Mr. Fecal Matter had the nerve to get onto Fix Noise and compare Mandela’s fight to end Apartheid to the GOP’s fight to deny health insurance coverage to Americans.

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Deconstruction time:

01: “Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice.” Dismissive at best, racist at worst. Injustice? The torment of black people by racist white people (supported by the US Government because South Africa was anti-Communist) is an injustice? No! Get busted for doing 70 MPH in a 65 MPH is an injustice. Apartheid was state sponsored and sanctioned racism, cruelty, barbarism and subjugation. Similar to the desire to deny gay people the right to marry. . .eh, Ricky?

02: ”I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer.” Yes, I mean, after all, according to St. Ronnie of Raygun, Mandela was a terrorist. And a Communist. And ending state sponsored brtuality and racism is never the right answer. Ask the southern states that supported slavery right until they lost the Civil War. What an asshole!

03: ”we have a great injustice going on right now in this country.”. Leonard Peltier? Gay marriage denials? Life sentences for drug offenses? What injustice are you talking about, Ricky?

04: ”an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that." Health insurance is bad? And it’s the same as being locked up in prison for 25 years for nothing? What a dick!

However, nothing is more insulting than Bill O’Reilly coming out and, in the same article, gassing about

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Based on what, Billy? Your crystal ball? Your bullshit-o-meter? Tea leaves? You people love to throw that word around. It’s one of your favorite attack words.

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:::speechless::::

Ricky compares his fight to kill health insurance coverage with Mandela’s struggle and O’Reilly attacks Mandela, then claims he would never do that.

People should be shocked, but this is typical. Wonder what will be said when Aung San Suu Kyi dies in Burma. Probably something like “what she did wasn’t the right answer. The Burmese MIC needs to have control to stop Communists” or some such nonsense.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Mandela Hating Conservatives[/font]
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So the dice have been rolled. The talking point has been made. No one who is a good American should mourn the loss of Nelson Mandela because he was a terrorist and communist.

Of course, conservative and Republican lawmakers don’t see it like that, because if they did and spoke out publicly, it would be political suicide. So, they all praised Nelson Mandela with as much praise as they could. Even Ted “Booze” Cruz jumped on the bandwagon. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) [link: https://www.facebook.com/tedcruzpage/posts/10152099242462464|wrote on his facebook] that Mandela "will live in history as an inspiration for defenders of liberty around the globe." One commenter took a different view of the anti-apartheid leader's legacy, urging "all you Mandela lovers head on over to South Africa and see what's going on now that 'Mandela's people' have control of the nation."

Can’t have that! Here’s what a Republican posted on his facebook.

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Damn turncoat! White people claiming reverse racism can be assuming if they weren’t serious about thinking they are truly oppressed.

Here are more against Ted Cruz from his followers. Baggers are so rational and intelligent.

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02: Mr. Cruz, not exactly. Nelson Mandela was a communist who murdered many people. He caused that capital of South Africa become a place where rate of rape was in first ten at whole world. I won't cry, because in history were many people who were real advocates of freedom.

03: Nelson Mandela was a socialist terrorizer of white Africans, hated Capitalism and didn't think commoners had a right to private property, and thought government should control and distribute wealth …

04: He was a convicted terrorist and a leader in the Communist Party … good grief Ted!!!!

05: I disagree Mr. Senator. Do not fall victim to the media's lies. The man was a Communist, a terrorist and a racist. He was a murderous communist serving in prison for thousands of white murders. Don't whitewash the true history of this murdering villain. Instead of buying into the media glorification, read the violent history of South Africa Marxist murdering scum … I'm done wasting my time thinking about this

Time to get out the primary challenge. Maybe the Texas Baggers can get Fred Phelps to run.

Marco Rubio said “Mandela "showed South Africans and the entire world what the power of forgiveness truly means and can accomplish." Can’t have that! Cue Conservative poutrage!

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Damn. . .that second one said Rubio has no balls! Amazing! Racist, ignorant and sexist! Notice the meme! Nelson Mandela = Communist, reverse racist terrorist. Sounds like the same crap these troglodytes scream about President Obama.

Lastly, the Ohio Tearduct spoke up on the passing of Mandela, praising “Mandela's "perseverance in fighting the apartheid system.” Cue the simple sound byte response.

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And the media thinks those people should be listened to and their views accepted? Yes. . .there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats. None at all. . .unless one looks at the reality. Then there is a difference, but no one will say that. It isn’t in the meme.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Rush Limbaugh[/font]
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El Lard-bo decided to put down his Oxycotin for a while to weigh in on the passing of Nelson Mandela. And the train wreck begins.

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Hmmm. . .sounds like a good start. Maybe the Gasbag knows this is someone that should be honored and not slammed. Maybe Rush is turning a new leaf. Please continue, kinder, gentler Rush.

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Can’t pull out of the skid, can you? Media Matters posted the entire diatribe (if you want to waste precious moments of your life listening to that scumbag) so there is no refuting it! Rush is a racist!

Just for fun, caption this photo in the comments.

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“Where are my viagra and oxycotin pills?”
“Why am I a big fat gasbag?”
“Oh shit. . .I just shit my pants”

So, Nelson Mandela would not have been a leader of the American Civil Rights movement. Let’s see what the man said about that in 1990 at Yankee Stadium.

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He also believed in labor unions, hated the Iraq War and the War on Terrorism. He didn’t approve of drone attacks and labeling people terrorists without due process of law. He didn’t turn his back on people who helped him because it was politically expedient (like Castro). He blasted American imperialism, blasted poverty and those that enable and profit from it and called out the United States for his racism and its racist past.

No wonder Baggers hate him. Mandela handed them a mirror and said look at yourself. And Baggers don’t like what they see. Instead of changing, they do what they always do. Attack!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Rick Clark[/font]
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Last on the Mandela tributes, we have Sheriff Rick Clark of of Pickens County, SC. He loves Mandela so much, he told people that, even though flags should be flown at half staff to honor his passing, he will tell President Obama to go screw himself.


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I ask Boss Hogg here to read this then go do what the law says. If this guy can read.

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I wonder what will happen when Tony Blair dies. Or a foreigner that Republicans like dies.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]NH Legislature[/font]
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What does a Legislature run by Republicans do to improve the lives of the people in their states? In New Hamsphire, they take a pledge. But not a pledge to help people, a pledge to allow a shadowy PAC to to have their loyalty first and foremost.

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“I will act with loyalty and put the interests of the organization first.” Isn’t it nice to know that George Orwell’s Animal Farm is now a political idea in the United States. Party first. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

ALEC has been part of some of the worst legislation ideas in the past 20 years. Let’s look at the results.

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So, they pretty much back everything anti-American. Love America, hate Americans. What are these “peoples’” plans for 2014?

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One was forgotten: To change the pledge of allegiance to:

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And to the Republic they seek to destroy
One nation, Under a good Christian God
Divided among the upper 1%
With liberty and justice for all those that can buy it

The rest of you peons go fuck yourselves while you watch American Idol.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Scott Brown[/font]
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Gaffs happen when a politician speaks. Everyone remembers Dan Quayle’s “potatoe” and Obama’s “57 states comment.” Gaffs happen. It’s expected.

Scott Brown is no exception. Playgirl pinup knows he can’t win in MA anymore, so now he’s running for the US Senate in New Hampshire. Except he can’t seem to tell people in New Hampshire that he is in New Hampshire.

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Oopsy. Londonderry, NH is not in Massachusetts, Scott.

I’m sure the Republicans in the Granite State are proud that this political carpetbagger still thinks he’s in Boston. I’m sure that will go over well in Manchester, Concord and where he was speaking Londonderry.

Maybe Brownie needs a map. . .or a brain. Or both!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]CA GOP[/font]
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The GOP really hates the idea of people not going bankrupt because they got sick. They hate it so much they have spent all their time and energy to destroy it. Over 40 times in the House. GOP Governors refusing to implement it in their state. Pundits claiming it will destroy America. And now it looks like political parties wasting money to make fake websites that look like the regular state exchange website.

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Republicans in California are so happy with this. Their hard earned money they donated to their party is being used to fund a website that anyone with 1/2 a brain and six seconds of time can see if bullcrap. Imagine the time, energy, bandwidth, servers, graphics and money it took to create the lie.

Stay classy, GOP. . .and keep wondering why, other than your ignorant, froth at the mouth base, voters in America are abandoning you.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Ralph Hudgens[/font]
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But California isn’t the only place where Republicans are losing their minds over health care. Georgia is another place. Insurance Commissioner (!) Ralph Hudgens made a few interesting comments to a group of Republican women last week, stating that a pre-existing medical condition is similar to having an accident on your driving record and that medical insurance companies should have the right to charge more or deny coverage outright. It’s all your fault.

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Please tell us which companies said that Ralphie. Let the world so people know who they can avoid in the marketplace.

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Oh boy. . .here comes the “health insurance is like car insurance” argument again.

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Cancer is always my fault. So is Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. PKU! You were in the womb. You should have known what was going to happen. Besides, the sperm cell that went into the egg should have known.

“Shania, they bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into. I say let ‘em crash!”

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Rabbi Moshe Meiselman[/font]
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These are the words of one Moshe Meiselman, an ultra orthodox Jewish rabbi who seems to say the Torah and bible sanction child molestation if it is done by a Mohel. For those not up on Jewish culture, a mohel nips the tip for a biblical and culturally accepted circumcision.

According to the rabbi, this is all safe and good. Giving a baby oral sex in order to stop bleeding is acceptable and perfectly normal. And safe. Except when people die. Which seems to be often.

The article lays out two arguments on why the rabbi is an idiot.

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The second is that Meiselman claims that anytime a rabbi of the Talmudic era said anything definitive about the physical world, science or medicine and the Talmud does not contradict him, that opinion is the truth and has to be followed because "Chazal understood the situation better than the physicians." And Meiselman says this about metzitzah b'peh – despite the well-documented deaths, injuries and maiming that have killed and sickened so many babies.

I guess saying “the rabbi is using the bible to allow pedophiles to molest children in the name of God” is a little too raw. Gotta keep it classy.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Ted Cruz[/font]
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And finally, Ted “Talk” Cruz rounds out this week of moronic BS by producing a coloring book in time for Christmas. Just what no child around the country wants. A coloring book with Ferret Face Cruz teaching us things approved in the mind of Ted Cruz and the hearts of Teabaggers everywhere.

Yes, if you go to Amazon and give Ted Cruz, with Amazon as a conduit $5.39, you too can spend your time with your kids learning fun facts about Booze Cruz while coloring in his picture. Look at the fun lessons people can learn about Ted Cruz.
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Try explaining to your kid what virility means. And out of shape, old and fat? Is he looking at you, Michael Enzi?
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Quick. Ted can see the future. Ask him for this week’s Powerball numbers.

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Except that 14th amendment that insures equal protection under the law. Ask him his position on gay marriage.

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Jews around the country should feel good Ted Cruz thinks they are second class citizens. Same with Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and the rest of all those heathen non-Christian religions.

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No one died getting health insurance, Ted. And what do you know about war, Mr. I never served.

Yes for $5.39 from Amazon, you can buy this “trees had to die for this crap” book.

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Even in a coloring book, he looks like he needs to take a dump.

Funny thing is, according to Amazon, it is currently unavailable. And the reviews are just the most snarky things you could ever read.

Ted Cruz makes himself sound like a savior. That he should crawl into the casket with Nelson Mandela and absorb all that Mandela goodness. Ted might even think he is the second coming of Mandela. Or Jesus. . .or maybe just the second coming of a bad dinner that one ate that upset the stomach and is leaving the body from the in hole rather than the out hole.

See you next week.

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[div class="excerpt" style="background-color:#F4E0E0; border:1px solid #E8C0C0; box-shadow:-1px -1px 3px #C66666 inset; border-radius:0.6em; margin:0.5385em 0em 0em 0.5385em;"]Nelson Mandela was a hero of mine. Probably one of the five greatest people in the 20th Century. In no order:

Mohandas Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Aung San Suu Kyi
Desmond Tutu
The American leaders of the Civil Rights Movement (Evers, King, Chavez)

I first learned about Nelson Mandela when I watched Lethal Weapon 2 for the first time as a kid. I didn’t understand Apartheid and why Danny Glover was involved in a protest. So, unlike most of my classmates, I ran into the library and just started reading. Then I learned about the plight of Mandela. I remember at that moment, my social conscience turned on. I was ten years old.

I began talking to my classmates about the things I learned. I began beginning the school to help me do something, anything, to stop the injustice. I was ten years old and in 5th grade. Young, idealistic and truly passionate about working to end Apartheid.

As I went into HS and university, I began reading more on Mandela’s life and his struggle. And it began to mold my political outlook. I tried to truly put myself in his shoes and worked on the same issues he devoted his life to. As such, I became a teacher and used my classroom as my forum to work to bring change one student at a time.

There are only a few people that have truly influenced my life. Most died before I was born. Gandhi, Harry Chapin, Franklin Roosevelt. . .Nelson Mandela.

The world lost an angel last week. We lost one of the greatest people to ever live. And now, free of the shackles of prison, of illness, of suffering and of torment, Nelson Mandela’s true greatness as a man and a fighter can be studied, examined and emulated.

This was a man. This was a hero. This is God’s image for mankind.

I never met the man. But he changed my life. Goodbye, Mr. Nelson Mandela.

And thank you for everything.

Nanjing to Seoul


Nelson Mandela
July 18th, 1918 - December 5th , 2013