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Pulitzer Prize winner Clay Bennett draws audio pictures for Mr. Media! (2008 Interview)

2008 audio interview with Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett,... more

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Anti-African Rally in Tel Aviv

Levinsky Park, December 11, 2011 | Dozens of right-wing Jewish Israelis marched... more

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Rick Perry condemns and judges gay Christians while pandering to the violent right wing Christian groups such as Robertson and Dobson

We should have fun, cause no harm and leave people better than we found them.... more

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Right-Wing Media Attack Secret Service For Commissioning New Cost-Effective Buses

August 16, 2011 1:31 pm ET
Right-wing media attacked President Obama for traveling on buses that reportedly cost $1.1 million each on his bus tour through the Midwest. But Secret Service officials have said the buses will pay for themselves over time [and have also said there has been "demonstrated need for [the buses] for some time" [http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/08/15/139652118/a-different-kind-of-party-bus-for-obama]; additionally, the buses will be available to the eventual Republican nominee during the 2012 election, as well as future presidents.
Drudge Hypes Cost Of Tour: "Armored Buses Cost $2.2 Million." On August 15, the Drudge Report posted a series of links [http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2011/08/16/20110816_020417.htm] about Obama's bus tour beneath a picture of one of the armored buses, including a link to an April 21 Politico post about their then-projected "$2.2 million" cost: [Drudge Report Archives, 8/15/11]
AFP: "The Service ... Reason[ed] That The Initial Total Outlay Of 2.2 Million Dollars For Two Buses Would Soon Pay For Itself Over A Projected 10-Year Lifespan." An August 15 Agence France-Presse (AFP) article stated:
The US leader swept onto the campaign trail Monday with a sleek and even sinister looking set of wheels with blacked out windows worth $1.1 million.
The shiny, black armored bus, bristling with secret communications technology, with flashing police-style red and blue lights on the front and the back, made its debut on Obama's three-day tour of Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.
The vehicle was commissioned by the Secret Service, which has always hired buses for election campaigns and retrofitted them to provide suitable protection for presidents and rival party nominees.
But the Service decided to commission its own vehicles, reasoning that the initial total outlay of 2.2 million dollars for two buses would soon pay for itself over a projected 10-year lifespan. [Agence France-Presse, 8/15/11, via Google News]
Secret Service Spokesman Ed Donovan: "The Reality Is That We're Overdue For Having This Type Of Protective Asset In Our Fleet." From the April 21 TPM article:
"We've never been fully comfortable with the security provided by a bus we lease and then try to retro-fit," Secret Service spokesman Jim Mackin told TPM.
"This would be just like other vehicles we're adding to our fleet," Mackin said. "We'd use them for the campaign, but they're not for campaign purposes. They would be part of our fleet -- just like our limos, just like our follow-ups, just like our emergency vehicles."
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"The reality is that we're overdue for having this type of protective asset in our fleet," Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told TPM. [Talking Points Memo, 4/21/11]
Donovan: "Designing Our Own Vehicle Really Gave Us A Level Of Security Which We Don't Get When We Lease A Bus." The TPM article further stated:
[Donovan said,] "We've had protectees in buses since at least 1980, Ronald Reagan, Gov. Reagan, was in a bus during the campaign. It's overdue because designing our own vehicle really gave us a level of security which we don't get when we lease a bus."
In the past, the Secret Service has enhanced the security features of buses leased by presidential campaigns, and they say having their own secure buses that can be used during campaign trips just makes more sense.
"If we have a candidate who has leased a bus and we're going to be protecting that candidate, we're going to look to enhance the security of that vehicle," Donovan said. "This is just the next step, and as I said, something that we're overdue for." [Talking Points Memo, 4/21/11 http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/obama-to-use-new-secret-service-bus-on-campaign-trail.php]
Donovan: "We Have Demonstrated The Need For These Buses Going Back To 1980." The August 15 AFP article stated: " 'We have demonstrated the need for these buses going back to 1980,' said Ed Donovan, a Secret Service spokesman, recalling the days when future president Ronald Reagan stormed the country by bus." [AFP, 8/15/11, via Google News http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g2Jxv8XiM1FRcsCIM9Nvz_X5z0iA?docId=CNG.5546416fb2b33bb880d4246e81a40a68.6c1]August 16, 2011 1:31 pm ET Right-wing media attacked President Obama for traveling... more

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Terror-key leftovers

The Thanksgiving holiday holds a religious theme for many, but for some it’s in a way that seems quite the opposite of their religion.

Like yesterday’s celebration, for example. Rightwing media told a ridiculous tale of Muslim terrorists attempting to denigrate the country, and by imposing their own terrorist-like religion upon the holiday.

It started with an opinion piece written by Pamela Geller on Monday’s “American Thinker” site.

Citing a “citizen activist” as her source, Geller claimed the Butterball company, a chief provider of the turkey traditional enjoyed for Thanksgiving meals, had produced its birds to be sold in the U.S. in a halal format. (And in case you don’t know, “halal” is a dietary guideline practiced by Muslims.)

Already known to be an anti-Muslim zealot, Geller declared this to be a secretive “scandal” pulled by Butterball.

“Non-Muslims in America and Europe don’t deserve to have halal turkey forced upon them in this way, without their knowledge or consent,” Geller wrote.

Even worse, she implied that Butterball was attempting to sneakily convert its American consumers to the Islamic faith. “Infidel Americans are unwittingly going to be serving halal turkeys to their families this Thursday. … Halal turkey…is just the opposite of what Thanksgiving represents,” Geller claimed, calling for a boycott of Butterball products.

She even created a “Boycott Butterball Turkey” page on facebook. And the story got taken from there all over the rightwing side of the worldwide web.

Islamophobic sites such as Jihad Watch (“You’re eating halal”), Bare Naked Islam (“WARNING!”), and Now the End Begins (“Butterball Turkeys Support Islamic Terrorism”) promoted the rumor. From there it went to conservamedia The Blaze (“Islamic Butterball?”). Two other “Boycott Butterball” pages made it to facebook, as well (1 and 2).

And on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, it wound up on Bryan Fischer’s radio show on the American Family Network.

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http://www.rob-servations.com/1/post/2011/11/terror-key-leftovers.htmlThe Thanksgiving holiday holds a religious theme for many, but for some it’s in... more

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Part 2: What 'no hiring until Obama gone' story tells us - about the right wing

It's a very sad, sad story about Right Wing America.... more

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TV Station falls for 'No Hires until Obama is Gone' guy's act. We do not.

Watch as Bill Looman III morphs from hate spewing, liberal bashing, right wing nut job... more

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Voice in the Wilderness: Is The Left, The Right, Wrong? No, "Middle Class" Voters Are Wrong

The American political Guru's, have created political buzz words for ones beliefs... more

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1041 BASH AM, Ex-Transgender Conversion/Reparative Therapy

Dr. Heir Stephon Hotze on 1041 BASH AM Family Values Radio from Central Texas. If... more

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Newstalgia Reference Room - Barry Goldwater Talks Social Security - 1964

A word or two from The Old Hippy.

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The Z Man -- the Baltimore Sun's 'TV critic' and 'ideoblogue' writer

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24 Policies That Republicans Supported BEFORE They Were Against Them

Since President Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, Republicans have... more

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Meet 150 of the Most Dangerous People in the World.... to the 'Religious' Right

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Taxes and the Right Wing's Big Lie

About three-quarters of households pay more in payroll taxes than in income taxes.... more

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The Really NEAT Thing About Cain's Victory in the Florida Straw Poll?

It's not JUST Perry's horrible humiliation, which is sweet...... more

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New video out about Climate Change and Global warming

http://climaterealityproject.org/ http://www.youtube.com/user/ClimateReality... more

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Global Warming Fraudulent websites popping up // random internet people fighting back

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The Left's Challenge to Obama

Which Republican nominee would you rather live under as President? Think long and hard. Give up? So does everyone else. That's because its no one.

There will be no real challenge from the Right because Obama governs from the Center--a move every great president does. That way, the only detractors he has are those who are counter-productive and unwilling to negotiate. Sure, Obama's poll numbers have gone down. So has everyone's, in every part of the world.

There is of course potential for regime change from the Right, and if there were actually a violent uprising to oust the President, as there are in so many parts of the world these days, you can bet the Right would certainly have the capacity to do it. But the Civil War took away the will for Americans to kill Americans a century and a half ago and those who would be quick to label their neighbors "enemy combatants" are likely to be small and probably labeled as terrorists by all but their closest sympathizers.

Of course the Far-Right hates Obama. Anything Left of them is heresy, and the fact that his middle name is Hussein is just icing on the cake. The Right is one big free-for-all pissing contest: privatization, wars, dismantling safety nets...its one big race to see if anyone really can live without any publicly funded social service.

Yet ultimately, the effect of an empowered Right would allow corporations to have free and total control of world resources, deregulate business, inject evangelical "solutions" into federal government, consolidate wealth at the highest class, diminish government capacity to protect its citizens, maintain the hegemony of the military-industrial complex, remain allied with Israel no matter what, and push a Free Trade agenda with little-to-no environmental consideration...values that have become increasingly unpopular since the arrival of the Tea-Party. What made the Tea-Party so effective was that they swung local elections for the most hard-core Rightist available. That simply will not work in a General Election when they are the least popular group in America.

Let's be honest-- of course government spending needs to decrease. Of course policies should not infringe upon the freedom of individuals. Of course we acknowledge the failings of government, that humans are not infallible or 100% efficient. These are basic truths evident in all human institutions, whether private, public, or something in between. The Left has been saying these things for years. The problem is that Obama has only to appear Left of Far-Right and he will win. It is basic mathematics.

Unfortunately, in pandering to those Right of Center, Obama has all but alienated his own base. Add that to the fact that Republicans are stonewalling him and you have an ineffective leader, regardless of whether it is his "fault." This means that while the Right will be trying to vote him out, those on the Left will be voting for him only because they are worried about who would replace him. YET THAT IS WHAT THE LEFT NEEDS TO CONSIDER. What should replace Obama's 2008-2012 record?

To answer this question, the Left needs to figure out what it really wants, and decide whether they believe Obama can deliver those demands. Obama's weakness is that in catering to the middle, the fringe of both sides are made equally unhappy. Yet while the reactionary fringe Right wants to wholly repeal and cut government capacity, the radical Left is still attempting to implement social change through non-central, fragmented movements. Only when the Left comes together to challenge the so-called free-market capitalist state and demand a clean, sustainable, fair market that protects people against exploitation of any kind, and suspends its vote for anyone but those who support these tenets, Obama will be forced to move to the Left in order to maintain the demographic.

This requires a publicized conversation with thought-leaders on the Left and a debate that challenges Obama for the privilege to represent an equally relevant end of the spectrum. Until there are clear alternatives to Barack Obama from the Left, this election does not represent those Left of Center, who might as well vote for a Nader-like candidate who understands the irrelevance of voting for two different people funded by the same special-interests.

The right to live in America and pay taxes to protect peace, freedom and justice should be a privilege, not a burden. The nation was founded on the ideal of representational government and until the American people are fully represented, they will never be happy. It would be great if everyone could simply choose to opt-in to paying taxes, deciding what it will go to and be the common recipient of everything, but unfortunately, we are not yet empowered to do so.

In the meantime, we can alleviate suffering wherever we find it ourselves, on our own, without relying on the whims of a single other person in whose hands the American Dream is either nourished or goes to die. The nature of institutions is irrelevant, so long as the services provided are unilaterally sound in their commitment to the common good. For the United States government to function successfully, the political spectrum has to be transcended so that the Right and Left work together to ensure their mutual prosperity.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/07/kucinich-primary-challenge-would-make-obama-a-better-president/Which Republican nominee would you rather live under as President? Think long and... more

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Anti-hate groups silent as Flash video game portrays gunning down Tea Party right wingers

I'm no fan of the Tea Party, but I'm a little turned off by the constant... more

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US Threatens To With Withold Funds If UN Votes On Palestinian Statehood

Cuban exile Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives... more

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