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PostCards from the BUNKER Oct 16, 2009 BUNKTOBERFEST

POSTCARDS FROM THE BUNKER    

A CONSERVATIVE --FAMILY VALUES-- NEWSLETTER,  FOR CONSERVATIVES ONLY, About Conservatives, ....By Conservatives.  

With your Host / editor HERB KISSELL  - saluditorian of my prison GED class! 
Hustlin' Corn Nuts for Jesus

The Conservatives motto : "There is always something you should fear, and we
are the only ones that can keep you safe."

"Anything less than the entire truth is just a lie."

Mission : The mission of Postcards from the Bunker is to inform and educate
certain misguided individuals (and you know who you are) regarding:
     a.. Defending The Constitution
          the key insight that liberation begins in the individual's own mind, and
that techniques of propaganda, persuasion, and brainwashing program individuals
to create prisons for themselves in dutiful submission to their political,
economic, and religious overlords.

Leadership quote : "Thank you all for coming". Ronald Reagan -our Leader-


And now, Todays top news from the Conservative Bunker 
 
 
Breaking news:     Non-Violent Pacifist Rooster "Kenny" still in coma - fighting for life- after being torn to shreds at cockfight.  Still on Life Support machines.... Blood Donors needed.  Family called to bedside, priest gives last rites
 
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  So the Kids get sent back to School....
 
... and the Adults throw this big "OKTOBERFEST" party....
 
        ??? Coincedence ???   I don't think so !!! 
 
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New “Conservative” Version of Christian Bible Cuts Out Liberal Passages --claims it's teaching Socialism  Deletes all mention of Jesus.
 
Expert: World War III Could Be Fought on InternetBy nerds.
 
Archeologists Find Site Near StonehengeBelieve it's some sort of gift shop.
 

Leo Jul 23 - Aug 22

Your beloved cats Sasha, Tigge, Sylly are asked to appear on national television CNN after smothering you in your sleep.
 
Many Don't Want Health InsuranceIf forced to get it, they'll move to Canada.
 
 
Iran: Developing Nuclear Energy
“For Peaceful Purposes”At secret underground site.
 
 
Fed Says Economic Activity
“Has Picked Up”Led by going-out-of-business sales, auctions of foreclosed homes, yard sales.
 
 
Obama School Speech Deemed a SuccessMillions of children join Communist Party.
 
 
 
 
Sarah Palin gave a speech in Hong Kong. She was very tough on President Obama. She attacked President Obama on foreign soil. Well, I’m sure the people that went after the Dixie Chicks will be going after her right now.- Jay Leno
 
 
 
Uninsured 40% More Likely to Die"More likely to die" now considered pre-existing condition.
 
Benign Growth Removed From Pope Benedict's Head Now Blessing Things On Its Own
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New Heart-Shaped Sniper Scope Makes It Impossible For Marines To Shoot Enemies
 
 
Postal Service to Offer 30,000 Employees Cash to Voluntarily ResignAnd turn in their guns.
 
"So what NASA is doing, they're crashing a rocket into the moon, which will have the energy of two tons of TNT It's part of NASA's new strategy, 'What would Wile E. Coyote do?'" --Jimmy Fallon
 
 
Fed Guardedly Optimistic About
Future of U.S. EconomyExpects turnaround in 2nd quarter of next century.
 
 
"Oh, Beautiful for smoggy skies, in-sec-it-cided grain. For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee. And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea."
George Carlin
 
 
BETWEEN THE LINES
 
Displeasure with (Hatred of)Obama (blacks) is helping conservative lawmakers (racist honkies) gain ground in those states (the former Confederacy) where skepticism about his agenda(fear of communist takeover)has fed doubts (paranoia), leading to calls for restraint(lynch mobs).

Sagittarius Nov 22 - Dec 21

Friends will soon discover the secret ingredient to your world-famous lemon bars, though they'll lack the necessary motor functions to tell others
 
 
Gen. McChrystal: Afghan War “Winnable”If we simply avoid mistakes made by Soviet Union, British Empire, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great.
 
We're talking to them over there so we don't have to talk to them over here.
 
Giant Dinosaur Footprints Discovered in FranceAnd they're fresh.
 
 
Insane Killer Escapes on
Trip to County Fair“We told him to stay with the group,” say authorities.
 
 
Even Modest Exercise
Boosts Self-ImageJust stay away from mirrors.
 
"Right now in Washington, D.C., they're holding something called the Values Voters Summit. This is a gathering of conservative activists at the Omni Hotel. During the day, they get together and talk about values and politics, and then at night, they sneak hookers up to their hotel rooms. " --Jimmy Kimmel
 
Gemini May 21 - Jun 21
Remember: Three can keep a secret if two are dead. That said, you know what you have to do.
 
New Restaurant in China Serves Food Made Entirely by RobotsSome diners unhappy after finding integrated circuits in their soup.
 
 
 
 
 
4500-Year-Old Mystery Solved: Great Pyramid Built From Inside OutBy immigrants willing to do work Egyptians wouldn't do.
 
 
 
S.C. Governor Vows to
Continue to Run StateFrom Argentina.
 
 
 
McChrystal Wants 40,000
More TroopsMinimum needed for upgrade from stalemate to quagmire.
 
Report: $2 Billion Meant for Pakistani Army Never Got ThereThere was no wrongdoing, says former President Musharraf, from his Swiss chalet
 
 
Freed Iraqi Shoe Thrower Given Gifts, 4-Bedroom House, Wife“Imagine if I hit him!” muses Muntadhar al-Zeidi.
 
 
 
 
 

Pisces Feb 19 - Mar 20

You will scream the name of a loved one from the rooftops this week. Unfortunately for you, she'll still refuse to let you back into the apartment
 
 
Republican health care reform would allot vouchers for hand sanitizer to qualifying families.
 
 
Study: Teen Birth Rates Highest in
Most Religious StatesConclusion: Saying “Please, God, don't let me be pregnant” doesn't work.
 
 
Anheuser-Busch Decorates Bud Light Cans in Colors of Local CollegesTo support academic excellence.
 
 
Musicians Beaten by Taliban at
Wedding in AfghanistanDoors tribute band returns to U.S., calls “gig in 'Stan” a big mistake.
 
 

Scorpio Oct 24 - Nov 21

Scorpio is the most generous, magnanimous, and noble of all the Zodiacal signs, but that's still no reason for the board to grant you parole.
 
"Glenn Beck likes arguing, but has a deep-seated hatred for logic." Stephen Colbert
 
 
THOUSANDS SWAMP CAPITAL TO OPPOSE HEALTH REFORMAnd kick off flu season.
 
 
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Unions?.... We don need no stinkin' Unions dept:  ?Why would we want socialist unions in our pilots lives?  Your next trip?...... Maybe you'll be lucky enough that your pilot will be working 2 jobs. 
 
 
?Remember the Buffalo, NY crash in February?  Guess how much the pilots made?
 
& your pilot on Food Stamps.... Boy, ... there's a real confidence builder.  ?Do your children & grandchildren ever fly on planes for trips?
 
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?You don't want to be Socialist?  Ok,... next emergency your family, children, or grandchildren has,...  don't even think of dialing 911.  You administer emergency care and You drive your family to the emergency room or hospital in your car.
 
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Who served in the military?

 
 
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The Return of McCarthyism
 
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So what did we learn from this [Cheering at Chicago's lost Olympic bid] moment? For one thing, we learned that the modern conservative movement, which dominates the modern Republican Party, has the emotional maturity of a bratty 13-year-old.
But more important, the episode illustrated an essential truth about the state of American politics: at this point, the guiding principle of one of our nation’s two great political parties is spite pure and simple. If Republicans think something might be good for the president, they’re against it — whether or not it’s good for America.
 
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"A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican"
Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.
All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo; His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government subsidized ride to work; it saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees. You see, some liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay, medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe’s employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some liberal didn’t think he should loose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
Its noon time, Joe needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FDIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.
Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his life-time.
Joe is home from work, he plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans. The house didn’t have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republican’s would still be sitting in the dark)
He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to. After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home.
He turns on a radio talk show, the host’s keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn’t tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day) Joe agrees, "We don’t need those big government liberals ruining our lives; after all, I’m a self made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have".
 
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The anger out there is about race on two fronts, an African African American President and Hispanic illegal immigrants. The latter has about as much to do with paperwork as the former does with Hitlarian communism. If 15 million Mexicans here illegally had green cards it wouldn't make a wit of difference to these kind of people while had the President's father been from London it would make all the difference in the world.

The kind of people behind this are not in the least shy about sayingy they are most upset over losing their country. To whom? From what? Republcian disdain for the concept of multiculturalism is historic, loud and unyielding, while conservative correctness has required we now say "nativist" rather than "racist".
What is the Republican Party Plan I often wonder? They are now 3 years into their losing streak which seems to only move them further and further into Right Field. They seem to now occupy that long narrow strip of AstroTurf between first base and the dugout. It's a crowded tent populated by non players, in this case Birthers, Tea Baggers, South Carolina crackers and Alaskan White trash. I just can't help myself sometimes.

At the top of that stinky heap of poo are Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, though North Carolina Cracker Joe Wilson is on a meteoric rise while Fundamentalist Creationist Mike Huckabee is leading in the Presidential polls followed by Mitt Romney who believes Jesus is from Michigan. Gosh... The United States of Duh.

The fastest growing voter dynamic these days and for the foreseeable future are Hispanics while African Americans have been brought to the polls in higher numbers than ever before.

Does anyone think Hispanics don't know what CNN's Lou Dobbs is up to?

What all this constant screeching from Republicans about building that wall is about?

What ICE crashing through family doors and workplace skylights putting entire families in prisons is about?

Or what the claim that swimming the Rio Grand makes them not only criminals but felons is about?

And now the most recent and most ultimate slap in the face from a South Carolina rebel flag waving cracker who cannot help himself from screaming YOU LIE to the President of the United States because the very thought of a Mexican getting health care turns him purple. Anyone think Hispanics don't get that?

Down here in Dumbutt, Texas news comes often on the ongoing debate within the State Board of Education. 11 of the 15 members are Republicans, 7 of whom are evangelical creationists. 

After their recent failure to have intelligent design placed in our science textbooks they have shifted gears and are now rewriting our history books more to their "nativist" liking.

As I read the series of articles about this I find two names that pop up in each and every article. Removing any mention of César Chávez and Thurgood Marshall and and replacing them with Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. Our Texas Taliban is not shy and they are very well armed. Facing facts: History students need to know them
So at the top of their TO DO list is to remove a Black man who was not only our first African American Supreme Court Justice, but also was the NAACP lawyer who argued and won the most important case of the 20th Century - The unanimous Brown v. Education decision which decided "separate educational facilities were inherently unequal" setting the stage for the forced integration of the South. Anyone believe Blacks don't get that?
Joining Mr Marshall for historic ejection by these evangelical Christian Republican "nativists" is Mexican migrant worker, advocate for the poor and union organizer César Chávez who gained fame in the 1960s with the California grape boycott. Anyone believe Hispanics don't get that?
And this week Republicans sent out hidden cameras to try and destroy the largest African American community organization in America, and did so with flying colors! Anyone believe African Americans don't get that either?
So what with the GOP shrinking and Hispanics and Blacks increasing their voting power I have to ask... Are Republicans racists or just stupid? Oops! Sorry... Are Republicans "nativists" or just stupid?

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I've long been mystified why and how Massachusetts Craigslist has been taken over by so many right wing idiots whose feet spend more time in their mouths than on the ground. This posting takes the cake. Because only a knuckle-dragging, right wing moron like you would ever A) Think that Obama is a socialist and B) proudly posts a picture claiming that Russia had socialism. Russia for 72 years had a communist regime, not a socialist one. Socialism is defined by what we see in many Latin American countries such as Venezuela. Just because the English translation of "CCCP" is "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" doesn't mean they were socialist any more than the National Socialists of 1933-1945 Germany (aka the Nazis).

Besides, only an ambulatory organ donor such as yourself shrieks about socialism without having any understanding of the true definition of socialism (which is never more needed than in the current health care debate, which is obviously the only overhaul most of us will likely see in our lifetimes) nor its benefits. Obama is trying to get affordable health care for everyone. No one will tax you unless you make over $250,000 a year, no one's going to kill your grandma, no one's going to require that you see a "death panel", no one's advocating health care for illegal immigrants and government will not tell you which option you must take. These are long-discredited talking points that mainly started on Fox "News" and Sarah Palin's Facebook page.

Recycled teabaggers such as yourself are tools of lobbying groups, Big Pharma and health "care" entities that are already so bloated from denying people like you and yours health care over the years (they're the REAL death panels) that they can afford to spend a total of $1.4 million A DAY on lobbyists. That's over half a billion dollars a year. Any industry that can afford to spend that much on 3300 lobbyists (roughly 6 per federal lawmaker) is one that plainly doesn't need help.
 
 
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Mexico's care lures thousands
Healthcare prods Americans to move to Mexico; Just $250 a year.
 
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Paul Craig RobertsThe Economy is a Lie, Too  
 
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Man those Jewish people have some some kind of culture dept:
 
[ & the chickens think... coyotes,... Jewish people.... we'll take our chances w/ the coyotes; at least we have a fighting chance.  ?What is it with the Jewish people & killing? ]
Kaparot, or "Atonement" is a custom performed by Orthodox Jews during the days approaching Yom Kippur. A live chicken is taken and swung around one's head while the appropriate prayer is said. The chicken is then slaughtered according to Kosher law and either donated or eaten.
The idea behind this practice is that the sins of the practitioner are transfered into the chicken and the animal dies in the person's stead. Kaparot is said to have its origins in the destruction of the Holy Temple when a goat was chosen by the High Priest and slaughtered on Yom Kippur to absorb the sins of the entire people of Israel.
Often a source of controversy, the custom has been targeted by PETA and Rabbis alike as unethical.
Thousands of chickens are consumed in this manner in Brooklyn every year during the holiday.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/28/kaparot-yom-kippur-in-cro_n_301803.html 
 
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Age dept:
Matt Bai on generational politics:
The typical anti-Obama activist tends to be white, male and — perhaps most significant — advanced in age. A poll conducted earlier this month by CNN and Opinion Research showed a rather stark age divide when it came to health care: 57 percent of voters under 50 said they favored the outlines of a Democratic plan, but that number was a full 20 points lower among voters over 65. In three Pew Research Center polls going back to April, senior citizens consistently gave Obama’s job performance lower approval ratings than did than any other age group.
 
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With this video showing Fox News, Chris Wallace and the Republican Party so gleefully - and wet your pants joyously - making superheros of these two nastyass wingnuts, I have to wonder if indeed that so profound are our differences that it is genetic.

The Nature of the Beast.

Even taking the obvious low road of racism out of this, what is left is a political ideology claiming the moral high ground because it not only could care less about the least of us, but actively blames them, tries to take away what little they have and goes this far out of their way to give them that extra kick in the mouth. Brings back the very words I founded this website on 15 years ago:
I suppose I can understand Republicans' selfish callous disregard for others, it's their pride in it that passes me by. 
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now was formed in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1970. Its charter was to push for free school lunches for poor grade school children, help Vietnam Veterans home from the war, and getting more emergency rooms available in the inner city. It is now funded primarily by half a million dues paying members and supports 1000 employees. Well it seems it is now 995 as a few of the dumbest were recently let go. Who could not smell that scam is beyond me. I guess the reasoning was be nice to eveyone, which has been the failure of Liberals for... For... about a million years...

ACORN is now the largest community organization in America. It is based in the inner cities of 40 states to help the poor deal with issues of housing, predatory credit, minimum wage, unemployment - and of course the reason behind all this - getting African Americans out to vote. It is responsible for getting 1.3 million new voters out in 2008. The words "community organizer" are Republican code for unsavory black people who cause white people trouble.
Barack Obama was a community organizer in Chicago and a law firm he worked for defended ACORN in a few cases.

Though voting fraud accusations against ACORN abound, they are for the most part propaganda games played by talk radio hosts. What few there have been do not matter a wit or a nit, were dealt with by ACORN itself and there have been no indictments or convictions.

Remember Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Turdblossom Karl Rove in trouble for politicizing the Dept of Justice? Well this was the issue, they were trying to depress the minority vote which ACORN was the leader in.

Hannah Giles Enter the Pimp James O'Keefe. A mostly unemployed conservative activist who presently distributes Right-wing literature to college campuses. He made a name for himself at Rutgers University with a silly Lucky Charms lawsuit pretending that what the Irish suffer is no different that what African Americans suffer. A reach so far into such insane crap it absolutely is racism. It is what the guy is mostly about, kicking Negroes down... 

Enter the Whore Hannah Giles a right-wing Florida preacher's daughter who spent the Summer training at the National Journalism Center which was also the training ground for Ann Coulter.

Enter conservative columnist Andrew Breitbart an especially angry Right-winger who writes for the conservative newspaper the Washington Times. Breitbart was about to kick off his new website blasting Hollywood Liberals - Big Hollywood - and O'Keefe appeared at his doorstep with these tapes, and here we are.     

Other bit players in this the beyond the pale looneybin The Cato Institute, the almost as crazy Leadership Institute, Fox News, Fox News Sunday, Clash Church, Washington Times, Townhall.com and of course the standard gang of talk radio players Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and Glenn Beck. 


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The reason we need high priests is that we simply don’t know what the fuck is happening. It’s all so confusing. The truth is we don’t know if we’ll survive to see tomorrow morning. This is especially true of our financial retards who are like little boys who love building intricate structure out of blocks just so they can send them crashing to the ground.
The high priest of economics is a godsend to them. The economists unroll their complex formulae and our fund managers, whose concept of history is Sunday’s Giants game, are reassured that the current bubble is forever.
 
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Sean Hannity Holding Rallies for Big Coal: Cancer is OK as long as it's somebody else

by: julie

Mon Aug 31, 2009 at 09:41:57 AM CDT

The industry uses events like the upcoming free concert called "Friends of America" hosted by Sean Hannity, which has press materials implicitly attacking clean energy legislation, hysterically warning, "we must keep these (coal mining) jobs from being regulated out of existence".
Here's Right Wing fear-mongering at its finest. We all know that historically, West Virginia has depended almost solely on coal mining for jobs. It caused the state to vote Republican for the first time in decades in the last Presidential election. Traditionally, it has been pro union and solidly Democratic, but Clean Energy legislation scares the pants off the miners and their corporate bosses. Now Don (Massey Coal Co.) Blankenship is getting Ted Nugent and Sean Hannity to rally to the cause of keeping West Virginia jobs cancer rates safe from climate change legislation, and those nasty Democrats. There are just a few things they don't mention in their diatribes, such as:
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If The Russians Did This To Us, We'd Kill 'Em
by David Michael Green | October 2, 2009 - 10:57am | permalink 
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What if the Russians invaded?
It's not so far-fetched an idea, you know. We spent half a century and trillions of dollars to make sure that it would never happen, so it's really not such a strange notion.
So what if the Russians invaded?
What if they came and stole all of our money?
What if the Russians invaded and enslaved our children as cheap worker bee drones locked in dismal dead-end jobs?
What if the Russians invaded and excavated all of our natural resources, leaving only mountains of toxic debris in their wake?
What if the Russians invaded and they ruined our infrastructure, thrashed our educational institutions, and stuck us with a grossly inadequate healthcare system?
» article continues...
 
 
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8 Shocking Ways the Billionaires Have Schemed to Rob Us of Every Last $
 
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Palin's Gidget on PCP charm resonated with a disturbingly large percentage of shrieking, gun-toting, Old Testament-slapping racist gargoyles who were artificially validated and fooled into thinking they constituted "the Real America." It was the demented glee glub of McCain's incomplete and reluctant base and their hatred of McCain's opponent actually took him aback.

Sarah Palin, a product of a novel that could have been co-authored by Horatio Alger and Stephen King, was the Pied Piper of Wasilla, a charmer of bipedaled vermin who were willing to follow her siren song back onto a ship that had already hit the iceberg.

Mustering such massive amounts of willful ignorance and sheer, ineducable stupidity that endures one year later is an impossible task for us to imagine. Yet it was obvious from the gitgo that McCain was really the doddering old fool to her Anna Nicole Smith. At best, McCain was regarded as a broken down Trojan Horse whose primary function was to infiltrate the White House with their millenarian matriarch in tow and then have the courtesy and consideration to drop dead on Inauguration Day.
 
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Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

For the achievement of giving the world "hope for a better future," President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What do you think?
Young Man
Peter Kearns,
Systems Analyst
"Oh, to be honored among such towering presidents as Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter."
Old Woman
Esther Park,
Unemployed
"Watch out, Nobel Committee—you're about to get the ACORN treatment."
Old Man
Doug Glennon,
Field Service Engineer
"It still doesn't live up to the time George W. Bush caught a seven-and-a-half-pound perch in his own private lake. Seven and a half pounds!"
 
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I was disappointed Jon did not use the Rush Limbaugh video which put this in perspective so very very well . Here is the Limbaugh Rant from Fair and Balanced Fox News who titles it The Best of the Best! Everything one needs to know about Rush Limbaugh
 
 
That visual image of such overwhelming ugliness and hatred REALLY IS the face of the Republican Party today. Though Mike Huckabee - an evangelical fundamentalist and creationist whose ancestors were dinosaur hunters - leads the GOP as who they want for president in 2012, we need not worry too much that Republicans are all a bunch of nutcakes because some polls are showing Mitt Romney neck and neck with Huckabee! And Romney has his feet planted firmly on the ground believing that Jesus Christ is from Missouri! Really! Gosh... Ya know, Scientology is above Mormonism on the silly religions list. You doubt that? Who do you think has the best grasp on reality? Tom Cruise or Glenn Beck?  
As a few, a very few, Republcian elders are coming to terms with these bozos who are responsible for sinking the GOP, it is not that they disagree with them but that these kind of videos are finding their way into the mainstream which are anathema to independent voters. 

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Diagnosis: Worst doctor/congressman

Oct. 5: At a town hall meeting, a man from Athens, Georgia said he tried to kill himself, was diagnosed with “major depressive disorder†and prescribed medicine for it before he went into debt trying to buy the drug and had to stop taking it. Worst Person in the World, as Rep. Dr. Paul Broun, R-Ga., told him to go to the Emergency Room for treatment.

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/33185134#33185134
 
 
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Worst Persons in the World, Glenn Beck, took pot shots at the White House, accusing it of being more focused on fighting with Fox than the war in Afghanistan. A look at Beck’s scripts reveals who’s really waging a war of distraction.

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/33319827#33319827
 
 
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Where We Stand
Democrats favor the public option
Independents favor the public option
Republicans don’t favor the public option
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Democrats favor legislation to help address climate change
Independents favor legislation to help address climate change
Republicans don’t favor legislation to help address climate change
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Democrats favor equal rights for GLBT Americans
Independents favor equal rights for GLBT Americans
Republicans don’t favor equal rights for GLBT Americans
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Democrats know that the president is an American citizen
Independents know that the president is an American citizen
Republicans think the president is a Kenyan citizen
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Democrats believe we have nothing to fear but fear itself
Independents believe we have nothing to fear but fear itself
Republicans believe we have everything to fear including lots of dangers that exist only in their imagination
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Democrats believe that we're all in this together
Independents believe that we're all in this together
Republicans believe that we're all in this together as long as you give them all the power and do exactly what they say but not necessarily exactly what they do, especially when they break a bunch of commandments and stuff
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Democrats seek and weigh the facts
Independents seek and weigh the facts
Republicans have their own set of "facts" and therefore don't need to seek or weigh any new ones
 
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Perhaps the most disturbing thing about the far right’s reaction to Senator Ted Kennedy’s death, aside from the ghoulish grave-stomping, is their immediate attempts to revise the history that they find inconvenient. It’s perhaps not too much of a stretch to say that, like obituary editors, they already had their talking points all lined up while the senator was still among us. And posthumous ones dutifully echoing Sean Hannity and Rush warn us of "the Wellstone Effect."

Yet, as with the larger issue of health care reform, every time someone from the lunatic fringe far right speaks, they betray their hypocrisy, starting with their kneejerk reaction to Sen. Robert Byrd’s call to name the health care bill after Ted Kennedy. This is only appropriate, since health care, moreso than with virtually any other statesman or legislator during Kennedy’s career, was one of his highest priorities.

How soon they forget the first draft hagiographies that spurted forth from journalist’s pens when Reagan died in 2004. How soon they forget that, even before Reagan’s death, his wife Nancy wrote a letter to Sen. Orrin Hatch pleading for Congress to fund stem cell research so that others wouldn’t suffer from Alzheimer’s like her husband. It was a surprising turnaround, since funding stem cell research rubs against the grain of virtually every Republican in the land. But Nancy Reagan had pull with the GOP and still does.

Instead, we’re seeing Kennedy’s death and Byrd’s call to use Kennedy’s death to push a comprehensive health reform bill being politicized to cartoonish proportions.

However, considering this is the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, making for more compelling dual portraits by contrast is Kennedy’s legacy when compared to that of another Republican “president”: George W. Bush. Daily Kos’ Louisiana wrote a diarythat extolled Ted Kennedy’s lobbying on behalf of the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. What was lost on the diarist were the monstrous ironies between Ted Kennedy’s understated but heroic conduct and that of George W. Bush.

Kennedy called, unsuccessfully, for the creation of a cabinet-level Gulf Coast Redevelopment Authority. George W. Bush suggested Karl Rove as Reconstruction Czar long after demoting FEMA from a Cabinet-level authority to a mockery headed up by an Arabian horse judge. It was Reconstruction all over again, all right. One year after the storm made landfall, 81% of the residents of the 9th Ward still hadn’t been returned andpeople were forcibly evicted from apartment buildings that hadn’t been touched by a drop of water and were condemned.

Before Kennedy had called for a Cabinet-level authority to rebuild the Gulf coast, FEMA had already outsourced the job for a city-wide evacuation to IEM, or Innovative Emergency Management, a client of a lobbying firm named The Livingston Group. IEM is headed by Madhu Beriwal, a heavy GOP campaign contributor, a woman, like Michael Brown, with no emergency management experience whatsoever, who nonetheless was paid $500,000 to come up with an evacuation plan that was never written in spite of a computer scenario underwritten by three contractors, among them IEM, that eerily anticipated what a Category 5 hurricane could do (After Katrina made landfall, their boasting of landing such a huge contract for an evacuation plan was mysteriously lifted from the company’s website.). Lost on critics of Kennedy is that if Bush hadn’t underfunded the levee reconstruction, if his campaign contributors at IEM had done their job, Kennedy’s call for a Gulf Coast Redevelopment Authority wouldn’t have been necessary.

Ted Kennedy accidentally drowned one woman. George Bush knowingly let over 1500 drown, knowing by Monday night that the levees had burst and not letting even the emergency management authorities in New Orleans know, much less the tens of thousands that were trapped. He also deliberately underfunded the Army Corps of Engineers, who only got a tiny fraction of the money they said they needed to rebuild the levees and pump stations. Bush also lied about knowing how fragile the levees were, saying that “no one could’ve anticipated the breach of the levees.”

Ted Kennedy called his actions the night Mary Jo Kopechne drowned “indefensible.”Bush scuffled his feet in place and murmured something about taking “responsibility” for FEMA’s response to the disaster then three and a half years later essentially taking it back by snarling at a reporter in the last days of his administration that he didn’t want to hear about what they didn’t do. “We pulled 30,000 off their roofs.”

Beyond Bush, we see other stalwarts from the Party of Personal Responsibility such asSen. John Ensign, who’s still bleating, I didn’t do anything legally wrong, unlike Bill Clinton. We’re seeing Republicans giving other philanderers such as Sen. David Vitter a standing ovation for coming out about his own marital infidelity only when he knew someone was going to expose him. Amazingly, two years later, Vitter’s actually getting a respectful hearing even after telling people in all-white Elmwood why Obama’s health care reforms would be worse for them than what they already have.

Tom DeLay, even after Randall “Duke” Cunningham confessed to accepting $2.4 million in bribes, still called the most corrupt congressman in the history of our Republic “a hero” and “an honorable man of high integrity.”

We saw a GOP leadership that closed ranks around child endangerment crusader Mark Foley for years on end even while knowing that Foley was leering at underaged pages and making sexually explicit remarks to them in emails and online chats. We heard about Karl Rove threatening to block Foley’s dreams of being a lobbyist unless he ran for another term, thereby exposing him to more underaged pages, because he was a GOP cash cow.

All things considered, I’d say that Ted Kennedy throwing himself on the mercy of the American people, without whining about victimization and without offering excuses, qualifies him as being the standard bearer for the true Party of Personal Responsibility.
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Republican wingnuts - who this year became just plain Republicans - have gone to such extremes of late they conjure visions of the classic Monty Python skit, The Silly Party.

The center of their silliness is that our First Black President is a communist Hitlarian Marxist fascist socialist totalitarian dictator and illegal immigrant from Africa. Oh, and a liar...

One of the now central issues this gang of silly people play comes from the silly Glenn Beck Show on the silly Fox News Network. It is one of their many word games, this one using the word "CZAR" which proves that our President is indeed a fascist totalitarian dictator.
The real words for such appointees are "White House Advisers". They have been part of the system from Teddy Roosevelt on up. In fact, let me put this in red...
George W. Bush had 37 White House "Czars", 5 less than Barack Obama's 42. And 6 of those so called Obama Czars were appointed to deal with the unique economic failure of George W. Bush and the GOP.  
Of all the White House Advisers one stands out as the Czar of Czars! Our first national celebrity Drug Czar Billy "Jackboot" Bennett!

After gaining weight being Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Education - a Department he believed should not even exist - Bennett went on to gain even more weight to become our much popularized DRUG CZAR under George Herbert Bush.

At the time Republicans loved the use of the word which denoted their core outlook of kickass authority driven no nonsense law and order! It was a beloved moniker which fit the wearer and the Party well.

True to being a Czar Bennett gained weight and often belched out some real heavy duty Czarist Czingers. They need some red too.
"Casual drug users should be shot." William Bennett

"Drug dealers should be be headed! I have no moral problem with be headings." William Bennett
Mr Bennett - who these days gains weight as a right-wing radio talk show host - took no offense for his first quote but has angrily responded to the second explaining that he was speaking of those who sell drugs to children.

With about 90% of children getting their drugs from other children, it can be honestly said that William Bennett has no moral problem be heading children.
The Billy Jackboot Bennett page on Kick

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We know how that meeting between MacArthur and Truman went, but we still don't know exactly how the President Obama/Gen. McChrystal went. But we can imagine:
Pres: Sit down General. Do you remember Harry Truman?
Gen. Yes sir.
Pres: You remember General MacArthur?
Gen. Yes sir.
Pres. Remember how that all turned out?
Gen. Yes sir.
Pres. Good. Well, our time's up. Gotta fly.
Gen. Yes sir. By your leave sir. (Salutes and departs.)
That's how I hope that conversation went, anyway. Or at least something approximating it.
 
First of all let's get the terminology right for change. In a counter-insurgency/nation building mission, terms like "winning"and "losing" are meaningless. Such absolute terms are only meaningful during absolute wars .... as in REAL wars.
The Afghanistan operation and our so-called "war on terrorism" are NOT real wars. Not even close.
Real war is when a nation is reacting to a genuine strategic threat to its very existence. Al Qaida and the Taliban do not now, and never will, pose such an existential threat to America or Europe or any other part of the developed world.
True, they can be deadly and annoying and expensive. But what they can never be are victors over us. Never, under any imaginable scenario, can they defeat, occupy or have any significant, longterm impact on America or Americans at large. Even relatively spectacular attacks such as 9/1l, while emotionally jarring, achieve only limited and fleeting impact.
So we are not about to "lose" a war in Afghanistan. And we are not about to "win" it either.
 
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Bush Fired Scientist Wins Nobel

by Steven D
Tue Oct 6th, 2009 at 07:48:18 AM EST
Three Americans won the Nobel prize for Medicine the other day. (Cue U-S-A! U-S-A! chants). They recieved the award for discovering the existence and role an enzyme, telomerase, plays in repairing damaged DNA strands (actually something quite important for the future of medical treatments for genetic diseases and many cancers). Yet one of them, Elizabeth Blackburn, wasn't good enough for our last President George Bush, because he fired her from the Federal government's Council on Bioethics. Why?Because she didn't toe the GOP line on stem cell research which made her persona non grata to the Bush and the Republican party's faith based version of what science should be:
Blackburn spoke out about the Council of Bioethics, demonstrating that despite its written mission to be a body that monitors research developments and recommends appropriate guidelines, it was really just a tool for parroting the Bush Administration's positions on certain hot-button issues -- particularly embryonic stem cell research. Thus, Blackburn played a central and important role in revealing the extent of the political interference in science that pervaded the Bush Administration.
 
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All I ask of those who voted for Obama is to not pile on him too quickly. Yes, make your voice heard . But don't abandon the best hope we've had in our lifetime for change. And for God's sake, don't head to bummerville if he says or does something we don't like. Do you ever see Republicans behave that way? I mean, the Right had 20 years of Republican presidents and they still couldn't get prayer in the public schools, or outlaw abortion, or initiate a flat tax or put our Social Security into the stock market. They did a lot of damage, no doubt about that, but on the key issues that the Christian Right fought for, they came up nearly empty handed. No wonder they've been driven crazy lately. They'll never have it as good again as they've had it since Reagan took office.
 
Many, for the past couple days (yes, myself included), have grumbled, "What has he done to earn this prize?" How 'bout this:
The simple fact that he was elected was reason enough for him to be the recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Because on that day the murderous actions of the Bush/Cheney years were totally and thoroughly rebuked. One man -- a man who opposed the War in Iraq from the beginning -- offered to end the insanity. The world has stood by in utter horror for the past eight years as they watched the descendants of Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson light the fuse of our own self-destruction. We flipped off the nations on this planet by abandoning Kyoto and then proceeded to melt eight more years worth of the polar ice caps. We invaded two nations that didn't attack us, failed to find the real terrorists and, in effect, ignited our own wave of terror. People all over the world wondered if we had gone mad.
And if all that wasn't enough, the outgoing Joker presided over the worst global financial collapse since the Great Depression.
So, yeah, at precisely 11:00pm ET on November 4, 2008, Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. And the 66 million people who voted for him won it, too. By the time he took the stage at midnight ET in the Grant Park Historic Hippie Battlefield in downtown Chicago, billions of people around the globe were already breathing a huge sigh of relief. It was as if, in that instant, one man did bring the promise of peace to the world -- and most were ready to go wherever he wanted to go to achieve that end. Never before had the election of one man made every other nation feel like they had won, too. When you've got billions of people ready, willing and able to join a cause like this, well, a prize in Oslo is the least that you deserve.
One other thought. The Peace Prize historically has been given to those who have worked to throw off the yoke of racial discrimination and segregation (Martin Luther King, Jr., Desmond Tutu). I think the Nobel committee, in awarding Obama the prize, was also rewarding the fact that something profound had happened in a nation that was founded on racial genocide, built on racist slavery, and held back for a hundred-plus years by vestiges of hateful bigotry (which can still be found on display at teabagger rallies and daily talk radio). The fact that this one man could cause this seismic historical event to occur -- and to do so with such grace and humility, never succumbing to the bait, but still not backing down (yes, he asked to be sworn in as "Barack Hussein Obama"!) -- is more than reason enough he should be in Oslo to meet the King on December 10. Maybe he could take us along with him. 'Cause I also suspect the Nobel committee was tipping its hat to all of us -- we, the American people, had conquered some of our racism and did the truly unexpected. After seeing searing images of our black fellow citizens left to drown in New Orleans -- and poor whites seeing their own treated no better than the black man they had been raised to hate -- we had all seen enough. It was time for change.
Thank you, Barack Obama, for giving us the opportunity to redeem ourselves. Now for the tasks ahead. We need you to do all that you promised to do. We need it. The world needs it.
M. Moore
 
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