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March 30, 2014
Maybe it's possible to take the Republican out of the GOP, but you can't take the GOP out of the 'former' Republican, after all.
Perhaps they deluded themselves, (or us) when they say they left the GOP but can't find it in their hearts to say one damn thing to help get Democrats elected.
They know abuse and denying anything good and promoting the perfect won't get what they 'say' they want, either. So it's always:
And they sure love beating on that donkey. With friends like these, who needs enemies...
Just sayin'
These Do-Nothings profess a commitment to social change for ideals of justice, equality, and opportunity, and then abstain from and discourage all effective action for change. They are known by their brand, 'I agree with your ends but not your means'.
~ Saul Alinsky
Interesting that, huh? But we have some here who freely admit they are former GOP but always post
hate about Democrats and never say anything that won't depress Democratic voters.Maybe it's possible to take the Republican out of the GOP, but you can't take the GOP out of the 'former' Republican, after all.
Perhaps they deluded themselves, (or us) when they say they left the GOP but can't find it in their hearts to say one damn thing to help get Democrats elected.
They know abuse and denying anything good and promoting the perfect won't get what they 'say' they want, either. So it's always:
And they sure love beating on that donkey. With friends like these, who needs enemies...
Just sayin'
These Do-Nothings profess a commitment to social change for ideals of justice, equality, and opportunity, and then abstain from and discourage all effective action for change. They are known by their brand, 'I agree with your ends but not your means'.
~ Saul Alinsky
March 29, 2014
'famous now because he is a constant critic of the democratic party and the democrats' is common.
Really, it's the only way to survive in a media owned by conservative billionaires. There is no difference between them and the paid Koch Brothers propaganda outfits, such as AFP, FW, TPP, etc. Rand Paul and Paul Ryan are at the top of the push to nationalize their goals.
Some links as to what is at stake, with many more links on the page below, with numerous websites and videos well-worth the time to search out. While people have been taught to disdain the style of government that Carter espoused, they need to know they will pay a high cost for walking away.
The vacuum left is being filled by ALEC. It's no mystery how the radical and hateful society was created, fed by big money and media presence using the hard left and hard ight to advance their goal which is to end democracy and subjugate us permanently under the boot of business. Sadly, some fail to realize that freedom from elected government means they'll bow directly to plutocrats.
What is ‘The United States of ALEC?’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/what-is-the-united-states-of-alec/2012/09/27/06dfb1ca-08b6-11e2-afff-d6c7f20a83bf_blog.html
March 29, 2014
by Gregory Feifer - May 03, 2008
...The Kremlin has worked hard to build Putin's public image as Russia's virile "national leader" whose authority extends beyond his presidency...
Few people had heard of Vladimir Putin when Russia's then-President Boris Yeltsin appointed him prime minister in 1999. But the stern-faced former KGB officer triggered a love affair with the Russian population — by starting a popular second war in Chechnya later that year...
...Putin has often lost his temper in public. During a 2002 news conference in Brussels, Belgium, the president responded to a question that angered him by inviting a reporter to come to Moscow to be circumcised:
More 'Putinisms' down the page at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90083829
The way he has presented himself to the Russian people, with an 80% approval rate at the time this article was written, inspired this video:
In 2002, a pop band called Singing Together released a song titled "I Want Someone Like Putin" with the following lyrics:
This is why he's the darling of the all the 'freedom-loving' authoritarians on Faux Noise, the Libertarians, the GOP and the Tea Party. It doesn't matter who this style of strong man rule harms, in fact, they relish it, as anyone they hate going down means more power for them, supposedly.
Chris Christie's approval rating remains higher than we may think it should be as Democrats who expect equal treatment under the law. It is based in a society of people who walked away from their responsibility for effecting change, thus creating their own disempowerment. No one will ever motivate them to vote or get involved as they value a carefully culitvated cult of victimhood.*
The world does not stand still and reality will intrude in the form of a crisis that could be prevented. Then the panic begins and that always leads to people looking for a strong father figure who will fight all their battles for them, as they had no skill in doing so before in real life.
It was part of Hitler's popularity, as each act of incivility and brushing aside the rights of others forged their new identity. It's why the Nugents and the verbal bomb throwers, no matter how dishonest they may be, are so popular now. It's a vicarous victory so people cheer on bullies.
'Might Makes Right' is preferred by such no matter what they call it, instead of the call of Obama for the justice from 'Right Makes Might.' Obama leaves it to people to decide what they believe and want, and is despised for telling people to take up the tools of government as a unitef front against their oppression.
So we have Christies, Cruz's, Pauls, Koches, Rushs, Walkers, O'Reilly's, et al, who make people feel strong victorious, but inside they had and still have, no determination to face the daily, uncheered struggles of life, as they bet on something for nothing.
That's going to be a growing problem in humanity's mental landscape as more challenges arise and people refuse to accept their own role in the coming crisis from taking a pass on their own hand in it.
*Or in a supreme personal victory, they manage to grab financial power through patronage and cronyism, most often through privatization schemes. Getting involved in the work of government is unworthy until it is parceled out to their benefit. And the true oppressiveness of that system without any merit needed to make money that excludes the rights of others to have opportunity, doesn't matter so long as they got theirs first.
This is the enduring, personal and grass roots benefit of fascism as an economic system where business orders government to favor them and not individual rights. That economic opportunity for all was possible if the people were united in support of equality and each other, loses its appeal thorugh nonstop propaganda.
And those who get those advantages would be willing to destroy anyone who seeks to prevent their profit, thus they often win.
Could be. Putin has made Chris Christie style threats, called 'Putinisms.'
Tough-Talking Putin Crafted Image His Wayby Gregory Feifer - May 03, 2008
...The Kremlin has worked hard to build Putin's public image as Russia's virile "national leader" whose authority extends beyond his presidency...
Few people had heard of Vladimir Putin when Russia's then-President Boris Yeltsin appointed him prime minister in 1999. But the stern-faced former KGB officer triggered a love affair with the Russian population — by starting a popular second war in Chechnya later that year...
"If they're in the airport," Putin said, "we'll kill them there ... and excuse me, but if we find them in the toilet, we'll exterminate them in their outhouses."
...Putin has often lost his temper in public. During a 2002 news conference in Brussels, Belgium, the president responded to a question that angered him by inviting a reporter to come to Moscow to be circumcised:
"We have specialists in this question, as well," Putin said. "I'll recommend that he carry out the operation in such a way that nothing will grow back..."
More 'Putinisms' down the page at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90083829
The way he has presented himself to the Russian people, with an 80% approval rate at the time this article was written, inspired this video:
In 2002, a pop band called Singing Together released a song titled "I Want Someone Like Putin" with the following lyrics:
Someone like Putin, full of strength
Someone like Putin, who doesn't drink
Someone like Putin, who doesn't hurt me
Someone like Putin, who won't run away
This is why he's the darling of the all the 'freedom-loving' authoritarians on Faux Noise, the Libertarians, the GOP and the Tea Party. It doesn't matter who this style of strong man rule harms, in fact, they relish it, as anyone they hate going down means more power for them, supposedly.
Chris Christie's approval rating remains higher than we may think it should be as Democrats who expect equal treatment under the law. It is based in a society of people who walked away from their responsibility for effecting change, thus creating their own disempowerment. No one will ever motivate them to vote or get involved as they value a carefully culitvated cult of victimhood.*
The world does not stand still and reality will intrude in the form of a crisis that could be prevented. Then the panic begins and that always leads to people looking for a strong father figure who will fight all their battles for them, as they had no skill in doing so before in real life.
It was part of Hitler's popularity, as each act of incivility and brushing aside the rights of others forged their new identity. It's why the Nugents and the verbal bomb throwers, no matter how dishonest they may be, are so popular now. It's a vicarous victory so people cheer on bullies.
'Might Makes Right' is preferred by such no matter what they call it, instead of the call of Obama for the justice from 'Right Makes Might.' Obama leaves it to people to decide what they believe and want, and is despised for telling people to take up the tools of government as a unitef front against their oppression.
So we have Christies, Cruz's, Pauls, Koches, Rushs, Walkers, O'Reilly's, et al, who make people feel strong victorious, but inside they had and still have, no determination to face the daily, uncheered struggles of life, as they bet on something for nothing.
That's going to be a growing problem in humanity's mental landscape as more challenges arise and people refuse to accept their own role in the coming crisis from taking a pass on their own hand in it.
*Or in a supreme personal victory, they manage to grab financial power through patronage and cronyism, most often through privatization schemes. Getting involved in the work of government is unworthy until it is parceled out to their benefit. And the true oppressiveness of that system without any merit needed to make money that excludes the rights of others to have opportunity, doesn't matter so long as they got theirs first.
This is the enduring, personal and grass roots benefit of fascism as an economic system where business orders government to favor them and not individual rights. That economic opportunity for all was possible if the people were united in support of equality and each other, loses its appeal thorugh nonstop propaganda.
And those who get those advantages would be willing to destroy anyone who seeks to prevent their profit, thus they often win.
March 29, 2014
These Do-Nothings profess a commitment to social change for ideals of justice, equality, and opportunity, and then abstain from and discourage all effective action for change. They are known by their brand, 'I agree with your ends but not your means'.
~ Saul Alinsky
Sorry. Anyone supporting the DNC platform on equal rights for every citizen IS in the minority here.
Mainly because they don't need such facts, only fury.These Do-Nothings profess a commitment to social change for ideals of justice, equality, and opportunity, and then abstain from and discourage all effective action for change. They are known by their brand, 'I agree with your ends but not your means'.
~ Saul Alinsky
March 29, 2014
Ever notice how RWers always label African Americans as Socislists or Communists?
Although MLK, Jr., for example, was against Communism (but no fool about capitalism) but he was called a Communist and still is by the Birchers, like Obama?
Are blacks genetically Commie, is that what they're saying? 
Exactly what political affiliation did blacks have before Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, etc?
Blacks have been in America long before those guys were born. And how can they be anti-American when they were here way, way before 1776?
Something don't make sense here. Inquiring minds what to know so we can go forth and raise hell.
March 29, 2014
Dammit, Sarah! We knew Putin was looking back at you!
Oh, my!
The petition's language is a bit difficult to follow, but a kind of Russian patriotism seems to shine through. Below, the text from WhiteHouse.gov:
Groups Siberian russians crossed the Isthmus (now the Bering Strait) 16-10 thousand years ago.
Russian began to settle on the Arctic coast, Aleuts inhabited the Aleutian Archipelago.
First visited Alaska August 21, 1732, members of the team boat "St. Gabriel »under the surveyor Gvozdev and assistant navigator I. Fedorov during the expedition Shestakov and DI Pavlutski 1729-1735 years
Vote for secession of Alaska from the United States and joining Russia.
Dammit, Sarah! We knew Putin was looking back at you!
March 29, 2014
The US$ 7.2 million check used to pay for Alaska ($118 million in 2013 dollars)
Aftermath:
After the transfer, a number of Russian citizens remained in Sitka, but very soon nearly all of them decided to return to Russia, which was still possible to do at the expense of the Russian-American Company. Ahllund's story “corroborates other accounts of the transfer ceremony, and the dismay felt by many of the Russians and creoles, jobless and in want, at the rowdy troops and gun-toting civilians who looked on Sitka as merely one more western frontier settlement.”
Ahllund gives a vivid account of what life was like for civilians in Sitka under U.S. rule, and it helps to explain why hardly any of the Russian subjects wanted to stay there. Moreover, Ahllund’s article is the only known description of the return voyage on the Winged Arrow, a ship especially purchased in order to transport the Russians back to their native country.
“The over-crowded vessel, with crewmen who got roaring drunk at every port, must have made the voyage a memorable one.” Ahllund mentions stops at the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands, Tahiti, Brazil, London, and finally Kronstadt, the port for St. Petersburg, where they arrived on August 28, 1869.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
I want the historical injustice of the Alaskan Purchase to the USA reconsidered! At least, make them annex Sarah Palin's porch! You know she's got the goo-goo eyes for Putin!
For the good of America, please, let Putin take Palin to Moscow and get it over with! Please, for the sake of sanity and humanity, take Sarah!
WRONG!!!11!!
The US$ 7.2 million check used to pay for Alaska ($118 million in 2013 dollars)
Aftermath:
After the transfer, a number of Russian citizens remained in Sitka, but very soon nearly all of them decided to return to Russia, which was still possible to do at the expense of the Russian-American Company. Ahllund's story “corroborates other accounts of the transfer ceremony, and the dismay felt by many of the Russians and creoles, jobless and in want, at the rowdy troops and gun-toting civilians who looked on Sitka as merely one more western frontier settlement.”
Ahllund gives a vivid account of what life was like for civilians in Sitka under U.S. rule, and it helps to explain why hardly any of the Russian subjects wanted to stay there. Moreover, Ahllund’s article is the only known description of the return voyage on the Winged Arrow, a ship especially purchased in order to transport the Russians back to their native country.
“The over-crowded vessel, with crewmen who got roaring drunk at every port, must have made the voyage a memorable one.” Ahllund mentions stops at the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands, Tahiti, Brazil, London, and finally Kronstadt, the port for St. Petersburg, where they arrived on August 28, 1869.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
I want the historical injustice of the Alaskan Purchase to the USA reconsidered! At least, make them annex Sarah Palin's porch! You know she's got the goo-goo eyes for Putin!
For the good of America, please, let Putin take Palin to Moscow and get it over with! Please, for the sake of sanity and humanity, take Sarah!
March 29, 2014
They call those who still want to keep Social Security, the EPA, public schools, SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid, voting rights and other protections nothing but 'sheeple' who they term as destroying America by demanding equality for those they believe do not deserve a voice in guiding society.
That is the Libertarian view, that only certain people, just a minority of them, should rule. The rest are disposable. Oh, they won't say it so bluntly, but their policies say it for them.
Democrats, they say, are weak, cowardly, gay, feminine, lazy, dependent on the work of others, and only protect the rights of minorities to destroy 'the majority' who are well represented at their events.
An annual event in Austin, TX. involved Alex Jones and his gun rights rally alongside live streams of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. So the 'hard left' and 'hard right' merge but their goals are those of the JBS and anarchists, which always lead to strong man rule.
Nugent and Putin have been their heroes depending on their own personal tastes for many years. They will always do so as they see them fighting those who are supporting the maintenance of effective civil society. IOW, Democrats.
What we call the democratic process, they call corrupt and destructive of families and God's will. You just have to listen to them long enough to see what they really believe, because they've conned so many with 'liberty.'
I understand the 'don't give the brats attention and they'll shut up eventually' idea but with the kind of money behind the Tea Party, NRA, ALEC and the Libertarians who now claim to be ther 'real liberals' they will NEVER shut up.
We can ignore them, but many millions don't and are buying every word they say as they feel it will empower them.
Fascism does not begin as a top down movement, but a grass roots from the personal level, despite support by the oligarchs. It appeals to that 'enlightened self-interest' scam which really says 'I got mine and you can get the hell out of my way, as I am equipped to protect what's now mine.'
People need to stay informed why this is being promoted. Then decide if they want to bow to it, and many have on the 'hard left' despite giving it other names, just ignoring the impact on individuals of color or vulnerable groups because their position seems strong and they have no concerns of real discrimination.
JMHO, Don Viego.
Insulating outselves from their rants produced 2010. Too many Democrats bought JBS CT, unknowing of
what these people are saying outside their presence. And it's not rights for all. Anti-gov CT is not about freedom for all, but for those who are armed and hostile to liberal and progressive values.They call those who still want to keep Social Security, the EPA, public schools, SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid, voting rights and other protections nothing but 'sheeple' who they term as destroying America by demanding equality for those they believe do not deserve a voice in guiding society.
That is the Libertarian view, that only certain people, just a minority of them, should rule. The rest are disposable. Oh, they won't say it so bluntly, but their policies say it for them.
Democrats, they say, are weak, cowardly, gay, feminine, lazy, dependent on the work of others, and only protect the rights of minorities to destroy 'the majority' who are well represented at their events.
An annual event in Austin, TX. involved Alex Jones and his gun rights rally alongside live streams of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. So the 'hard left' and 'hard right' merge but their goals are those of the JBS and anarchists, which always lead to strong man rule.
Nugent and Putin have been their heroes depending on their own personal tastes for many years. They will always do so as they see them fighting those who are supporting the maintenance of effective civil society. IOW, Democrats.
What we call the democratic process, they call corrupt and destructive of families and God's will. You just have to listen to them long enough to see what they really believe, because they've conned so many with 'liberty.'
I understand the 'don't give the brats attention and they'll shut up eventually' idea but with the kind of money behind the Tea Party, NRA, ALEC and the Libertarians who now claim to be ther 'real liberals' they will NEVER shut up.
We can ignore them, but many millions don't and are buying every word they say as they feel it will empower them.
Fascism does not begin as a top down movement, but a grass roots from the personal level, despite support by the oligarchs. It appeals to that 'enlightened self-interest' scam which really says 'I got mine and you can get the hell out of my way, as I am equipped to protect what's now mine.'
People need to stay informed why this is being promoted. Then decide if they want to bow to it, and many have on the 'hard left' despite giving it other names, just ignoring the impact on individuals of color or vulnerable groups because their position seems strong and they have no concerns of real discrimination.
JMHO, Don Viego.
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