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If I were the president, and instead of cautiously ducking and covering and hiding from the furious, flashing panties on Fox, I wanted to demand the Nation confront the overwhelming necessity of taking SERIOUSLY the challenges of impending, likely catastrophic climate change–which arguably is the most potentially devastating evolutionary challenge of the last 100-200 THOUSAND years (outside even nuclear devastation, possibly)……Hola, Hippies! Paz en el Barrio! Every oncet in a wahl, Ah’ll git inta a... more
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By David Edwards
Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:37 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum warned on Wednesday that President Barack Obama and other liberals are leading people of faith down a path that ends at the guillotine.
During a campaign event in Plano, Texas, the candidate charged Obama had an “overt hostility to faith.”
“When you look and see what the left is trying to do in America today, progressives are trying to shutter faith, privatize it, push it out of the public square, oppress people of faith, strip their charitable deductions away from them, trying to weaken them, churches — trying to say that anyone who believes in the value of Judeo-Christian principles,” Santorum explained.
“As we saw in the Ninth Circuit just this week, that if you believe that [same sex marriage is wrong] — this is what the court said — that if believe that, if believe what’s taught in Genesis, if you believe what’s practiced Biblically and a generation since then you are irrational. The only possible reason you could believe this, according to the Ninth Circuit, is that you are a bigot and that you are a hater.”
He continued: “They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is a government that gives you rights. What’s left are no unalienable rights. What’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the the guillotine.”
Santorum admitted that the U.S. was “a long way from that,” but if Obama had his way then “we are headed down that road,” citing the Obama administration’s decision to require nearly all private health insurance policies to cover family planning, including female contraceptives.
“Now is the time for America to rise up and say enough!” the GOP hopeful exclaimed.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/09/santorum-obama-leading-christians-to-the-guillotine/
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Feb. 7, 2012
"Why is this Guy always claiming that the other side is doing what his Party is Guilty Of???"By David Edwards
Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:37 EST
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The obscenely inflated ego known as The Donald didn't take long to avenge his crowned prince Mittens Romney from the triple loss in Tuesday's GOP contests by posting a video rant aimed squarely at yesterday's three-time loser winner Rick Santorum. But in typical Trump style, the (alleged) billionaire reality star's logic is flawed, baseless, and inadvertently exposes Romney's own failures.
http://veracitystew.com/2012/02/08/trumps-santorum-rant-backfires-actually-highlights-romney-failures-video/The obscenely inflated ego known as The Donald didn't take long to avenge his... more
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By Andrew Jones
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 11:54 EST
A day after proclaiming America’s end if President Barack Obama is re-elected, Sean Hannity added to his pile of animosity Tuesday evening with a claim startlingly detached from reality.
In a discussion with Republican pollster Frank Luntz, comparing President Obama to former President Ronald Reagan, Hannity once again showed that he’s not keen to credit Obama for killing terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.
“They’ve got a foreign policy that shows a lot of weakness,” Hannity said. “I know the President will say they got bin Laden, putting that aside.”
“And the public gives him credit for that,” Luntz interjected.
A reluctant Hannity replied, “But it wouldn’t have happened if he had his way, and I think that could be proven as well on tapes.”
Days after bin Laden’s death last year, Hannity, along with many other conservatives, decided to congratulate George W. Bush instead of President Obama, even though Bush once quipped that he didn’t know, or much care, where bin Laden was hiding.
Hannity also accused Obama of “flip-flopping” on his promise to go after bin Laden days before his inauguration in 2009.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/08/hannity-bin-laden-would-be-alive-if-obama-had-his-way/
WATCH: Video from Fox News, which was broadcast on February 7, 2012.
"From the mouths of Morons, Eeeesh, will it ever end???"By Andrew Jones
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 11:54 EST
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"El Rushbo" can't handle the good news happening without GOP help, so he accuses Obama of lying about the jobs figures."El Rushbo" can't handle the good news happening without GOP help, so... more
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While campaign laws strictly state that a Super PAC cannot coordinate or contact a political candidate directly, or strategize with that candidate, it is not against the law for the two individuals to be in the same room. But are we really to believe that Santorum’s right-wing sugar daddy, who has bankrolled his Super PAC, shared the same stage with him and the two weren’t strategizing or discussing the campaign? Do they really believe that the American voter is as dumb as all that?
http://veracitystew.com/2012/02/08/santorum-shares-stage-with-super-pac-sugar-daddy/While campaign laws strictly state that a Super PAC cannot coordinate or contact a... more
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Romney Says Komen Foundation Was Right To Cut Planned Parenthood Funding For Cancer Screenings (AUDIO)
February 8, 2012
By Stephen D. Foster Jr.
During a Monday interview with conservative radio host Scott Hennen in Minnesota, Mitt Romney stuck his foot in his mouth again by defending the Komen Foundation’s decision to cut funding from Planned Parenthood. After Hennen asked Romney if Planned Parenthood should still be funded, Romney responded:
“I don’t think so. I also feel that the government should cut off funding to Planned Parenthood. Look, the idea that we’re subsidizing an institution which is providing abortion, in my view, is wrong. Planned Parenthood ought to stand on their own feet, and should not get government subsidy. I was a pro-life governor, served as a pro-life governor. I’m a pro-life candidate. I simply do not want to participate in anything that takes away the life of an unborn child.”
Here’s the audio:
This is a rather significant statement from Mitt Romney. Just a week ago, Romney said that he wasn’t concerned about very poor people. Well, Planned Parenthood uses the funding provided by Susan G. Komen to provide cancer screening to low income women who whose lives depend on early detection of breast cancer. Without such funding, the live of millions of women would be in danger. Romney might as well have repeated his “not concerned about the very poor” statement because that is exactly what he is saying here. You cannot be concerned with the poor, and then support cutting funding that saves the lives of poor women. It’s akin to saying you support the troops, and then saying you support cuts to funding that provides body armor to them.
This is also yet another Romney flip flop. It turns out Mitt Romney and his wife once attended a Planned Parenthood fundraiser and even donated some money to the organization. According to ThinkProgress,
“Mitt and Ann Romney attended a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in Cohasset, Massachusetts in 1994, and Ann wrote a $150 check to the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, various news outlets reported. “They were both there, and I remember very well chatting with both of them, and talking about his support for the pro-choice agenda,” Nicki Nichols Gamble, the president of the League told ABC News in 2007.”
Mitt Romney went on to sign a pro-choice pledge to Planned Parenthood during his run for Governor of Massachusetts in 2002. Since he began running for President, Romney has tried to deny his pro-choice past by claiming he just magically changed his mind about abortion. But he can’t hide from the fact that he supported a woman’s right to choose for well over a decade.
Romney is also clearly ignorant about government funding of Planned Parenthood. Not one dollar of taxpayer money is used to fund abortion. That’s because it is against the law. And the fact is, only 3% of procedures performed by Planned Parenthood are abortions. That’s a really insignificant number. And besides, abortion is LEGAL because a conservative leaning Supreme Court interpreted the Constitution and ruled it as such. Romney and the rest of the pro-life fanatics need to get over it.
Romney is taking a double hit by supporting the Komen decision. It clearly shows that he isn’t concerned with the plight of the poor, specifically their health. And it reveals his incredible hypocrisy at the same time. Once again, Romney opens his mouth and reveals his heartlessness and lack of concern for the poor and his hypocrisy. The sad part is that these two things are what the Republican Party is looking for in a presidential nominee.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/02/08/romney-says-komen-foundation-was-right-to-cut-planned-parenthood-funding-for-cancer-screenings-audio/Romney Says Komen Foundation Was Right To Cut Planned Parenthood Funding For Cancer... more
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US presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has swept the contests for the Republican Party nomination in Minnesota, Missouri, and Colorado.
Mr Santorum outperformed longtime front-runner Mitt Romney, who has struggled to connect with the party's conservative base.
Supporters in Missouri heard Mr Santorum declare victory for all those "building the conservative movement".
The eventual nominee will face Barack Obama in November's election.
Former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich hardly campaigned in the three states that voted on Tuesday, and did not even appear on Missouri's ballot.US presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has swept the contests for the Republican Party... more
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Greatest Generation telling their history of America before it is lost forever. A wonderful project.
A LIVING HISTORY
I saw this on Nightly News with Brian Williams... It was so poignant; a ten tissue event (a whole box if it had lasted longer than a few minutes).
I downloaded it so that I could share it on thethinkingblue youtube channel...
Amid all the nasty nonsense of this election season, we all need a proverbial breath of fresh air to realize we are not all NUTS!
Watch the courageous people of the Greatest Generation, as they
reflect upon America's recent heroic past.
And to Gingrich, Romney, Karl Rove, Limbaugh, Fox News and the rest of the obnoxious ones who try to spread reprehensible falsehoods about those they wish to destroy through character assassination, in
order to gain power... TAKE A HIKE, WE are tired of you!
Watch as real heroes who live amongst us tell their stories.
A SALUTE TO THE GREATEST GENERATION AND THEIR LIVING HISTORY.
thethinkingblue youtube channel
http://www.thethinkingblue.com
http://thinkingblue.blogspot.comGreatest Generation telling their history of America before it is lost forever. A... more
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I'd like to think that most people in their right minds, if they've actually taken any time out of living their lives to watch a Republican debate probably has had enough. By now it's pretty apparent what the Republicans stand for and against and although it's fun to some of us who probably pay more attention than is healthy to watch them eat their own the time has come to face facts. Well at least my version of facts based upon hours of reading, watching and actually paying attention to history. Of course if enough people believe something and no one disputes it who's to say what a fact really is anyway? None the less I'll continue. Despite all the in fighting and name calling and their insistence that they they will somehow fix the nation by taking it back in time and that their version of so called "Family Values" is better than the other guys with three wives none of them are going to be President. Unless of course President Obamas secret Socialist, Muslim, Marxist, Communist, Nazi, Alien Overlords from the planet Zebo come to Earth and show us his real birth certificate and the truth is finally revealed. Which of course is entirely possible when you stop and think about all the other made up facts that have been tossed around this election cycle. After all perception is reality and as we all know some people will believe anything. Or so my evil Alien Overlords have said.I'd like to think that most people in their right minds, if they've actually... more
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Hey hippies…Paz en el Barrio…Wanna try some MORE “positivity, a la Woody?”
Well, here ya go!
Confused about for whom to “vote” in this year’s quadrennial power-grab and leadership sweepstakes, in which you had no say as to the selections which were forced upon you by the whims and caprices of the Oners?Hey hippies…Paz en el Barrio…Wanna try some MORE “positivity, a la... more
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The blow-up from the Christian and Catholic right-wingers shows that the fight over women’s sovereignty is shifting from abortion to contraception, as the anti-choice hardliners try to blur the lines and fortify their campaign for dominance over women’s reproductive rights. But as the recent furor over Susan G. Komen’s attempt to undermine Planned Parenthood proved, women are waking up to this war being waged on their rights, and they’re sick and tired of being the politically expedient whipping post of the regressive morons on the right.
http://veracitystew.com/2012/02/07/womens-rights-round-up-church-contraception-and-sonograms/The blow-up from the Christian and Catholic right-wingers shows that the fight over... more
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Rick Santorum fabricates statistics about euthanasia in the US and Netherlands, appears nostalgic for days when abortions "were in the shadows."
Look at what’s happened just in our tolerance for abortion. Fifty years ago…60 years ago, people who did abortions were in the shadows, people who were considered really bad doctors. Now, abortion is something to that is just accepted. This is the erosion. And it happens in the medical profession. It happened very fast. And I think Obamacare will lead us down that road.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101710875
"I am so sick of this Clown!!!"Rick Santorum fabricates statistics about euthanasia in the US and Netherlands,... more
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Class warfare is only as real as the People make it. Coalescing as a single voice we have the power to divest the Corporatists of the Ill gained position they currently hold. This is not a Patriarchy or a Monarchy – rather it is WE the People governing for the People and it happens by the People.
http://veracitystew.com/2012/02/07/2012-election-whats-it-all-about/Class warfare is only as real as the People make it. Coalescing as a single voice we... more
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With the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set to finally enact stricter air pollution standards in accordance with the Clean Air Act and two subsequent U.S. Supreme Court decisions requiring them to do so, powerful Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are working to make sure that the new standards never see the light of day. The specific measures being targeted are the EPA’s new standards for carbon emissions from power plant smoke stacks.
Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, along with Republicans Joe Barton (TX) and Ed Whitfield (KY) sent a letter last week to the White House, demanding that the Obama administration take action to stop the EPA from regulating carbon emissions from power plants.
From their letter:
“We are concerned about the regulation’s impact on jobs and the economy, and that it will not comply with all applicable Executive Orders…
“In this rulemaking, EPA may be seeking to do precisely what Congress and the American public rejected in the last Congress. The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade legislation from the 111th Congress would have significantly raised the cost of energy and driven US jobs overseas.
“We ask for your help in supporting policies that will encourage economic growth and job creation rather than additional costly regulations that will raise new barriers to job creation and burden struggling businesses and families.”
The three men certainly know how to include the buzzwords that appeal to American citizens – jobs, economy, raising energy prices – but when put through the truth test, their claims simply don’t hold up. For example, enacting the new standards has the opposite effect on the job market – it would create tens of thousands additional jobs for American workers, not destroy them. The conservative Heritage Foundation has also been beating the drum about regulations raising energy costs, which could actually happen. However, any rate increases would be a corporate decision, not a government decision. The electric energy industry in America currently generates $370.5 billion a year in revenue, with an average revenue of $9.88 per KwH sold. With the national average to produce a kilowatt hour of electricity being around 10 cents, that leaves the company a profit of more than $9 per Kwh of electricity sold, meaning that any rate increases are the result of protecting profits, not because they can’t afford the increase.
So why are these Republicans trying to dismantle the work of the EPA? Simple – they are in the pockets of the dirty energy industry. Fred Upton has received more than $640,000 from electric utilities over his career, and an additional $308,000 from oil and gas. Joe Barton has a combined total of more than $3 million from electric utilities and oil and gas over the course of his career. And Ed Whitfield has gotten more than $600,000 from the two sectors during his tenure in Washington. All of these men have a direct financial stake in the profitability of the dirty energy industry. After all, the more money these companies spend on complying with new standards, the less they have to purchase politicians in Washington.
These latest attacks on the EPA and the environment are not a surprise. In fact, the anti-environmental record of the US Congress over the last year was so awful that Democratic Congressmen Henry Waxman, Edward Markey, and Howard Berman prepared a report last December detailing the numerous ways in which the 112th Congress earned the reputation as the most anti-environmental Congress in history:
“House Republicans have repeatedly voted to undermine basic environmental protections that have existed for decades. They have voted to block actions to prevent air pollution; to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of authority to enforce water pollution standards; to halt efforts to address climate change; to stop the Department of the Interior from identifying lands suitable for wilderness designations; to allow oil and gas development off the coasts of Florida, California, and other states opposed to offshore drilling; and to slash funding for the Department of Energy, including funding to support renewable energy and energy efficiency, by more than 80%.
“The House of Representatives averaged more than one anti-environmental vote for every day the House was in session in 2011. Of the 770 legislative roll call votes taken in the House this year, 22% – more than one out of every five – were votes to undermine environmental protection. During these roll calls, 94% of Republican members voted for the anti-environment position, while 86% of Democratic members voted for the pro-environment position.
“The Environmental Protection Agency was the most popular target of House Republicans. Of the 191 anti-environment votes, 114 targeted EPA; 35 targeted the Department of the Interior; and 31 targeted the Department of Energy.”
And that was just in their first year. Imagine what they can accomplish the next round of elections this coming November.
By Farron Cousins | 6 February 12With the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set to finally enact stricter air... more
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The super PAC Restore Our Future has fundraised $30 million to Romney to the White House. The super PAC spent $800,000 on pro-Romney ads, but it has flooded his Republican opponents with attack ads totaling 17 million. Restore Our Future’s war chest comes from under 200 donors, 85 percent of whom had already donated the maximum amount to the Romney campaign.
http://veracitystew.com/2012/02/06/big-oil-invests-1-2-million-in-romney-super-pac/The super PAC Restore Our Future has fundraised $30 million to Romney to the White... more
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By David Edwards
Monday, February 6, 2012 14:24 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Monday asserted that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was “uniquely unqualified” for the GOP nomination because of the similarities between health care laws in Massachusetts and President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, including the repeatedly debunked claim that “death panels” would ration care to seniors.
Speaking at a ballroom across the street from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Santorum pointed to a report (PDF) from the the non-partisan organization Families USA that found at least 15 major similarities between Obama’s Affordable Care Act and the reforms Romney enacted in Massachusetts.
“Both create government panels to dictate quality and cost containment,” Santorum explained. “Some of you may be familiar with the Independent Payment Advisory Board — which is a board separate from Congress, independent of Congress — that President Obama created to control health care costs. How? By cutting reimbursements to doctors and hospitals under the Medicare program. Well, Gov. Romney has a similar program called the Council on Health Quality and Costs.”
“Some people refer to these types of boards as death panels,” he added. “Why? Because they ultimately decide to ration care to those procedures and people because they don’t believe these procedures are effective in providing care, that the utilization isn’t worth the costs.”
“So, again, you have government making decisions and rationing and apportioning care based on research that shows what outcomes are dictated by the research that’s out there.”
In 2009, Politifact named “death panels,” a term thought to have been first used by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), as their “Lie of the Year.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/06/santorum-romney-and-obama-both-created-death-panels/
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Feb. 6, 2012.
"Funny how he says "Some people refer to these types of boards as Death Panels" to the best of my recollection only His Party does!!!"By David Edwards
Monday, February 6, 2012 14:24 EST
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