Veterans’s Job Bill Gets Passed
Posted by Michelle Moquin on November 22nd, 2011
Good morning!
So…the latest: The Super Committee failed…no surprise there. Loved Obama’s answer to Congress trying to get out of deficit deal, to undo the automatic cuts that go into affect in 2013. His answer? He simply said “NO”.
And…Obama signed the Veteran’s Job Bill. Kudos!
Obama Jobs Bill: President Signs Bill To Help Unemployed Veterans
WASHINGTON — Heralding a rare moment of bipartisan agreement, President Barack Obama signed into law Monday legislation aimed at helping unemployed veterans find work while putting more cash in the hands of companies with government contracts.
The legislation, which creates tax breaks for companies that hire jobless veterans, marks the first proposal from Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill to be signed into law. The rest of the package of new taxes and spending has largely failed to garner support from Republican lawmakers.
“Because Democrats and Republicans came together, I’m proud to sign those proposals into law,” Obama said during a signing ceremony Monday.
Looming over the brief moment of unity, however, was the apparent failure of lawmakers from both parties to agree on $1.2 trillion in spending cuts ahead of a Wednesday deadline by a special committee. While Obama didn’t directly address the looming deadline, he said the American people deserve bold, bipartisan action.
“My message to every member of Congress is keep going. Keep working. Keep finding more ways to put partisanship aside and put more Americans back to work,” he said.
The veterans’ legislation had overwhelming support from both parties, with the House passing the measure 422-0 and the Senate approving it 95-0. In addition to the tax breaks for businesses, it also beefs up job-training and counseling programs for unemployed veterans.
The legislation also repeals a 2006 law that would have required the federal, state and local governments to withhold 3 percent of their payments to nearly all contractors. That statute, which doesn’t take effect until 2013, was supposed to pressure contractors to pay their taxes in full, but lawmakers now say the law would deny cash to companies that need it to hire more workers.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said passage of the bill showed that it is possible for both parties to reach a consensus.
“By focusing on areas of agreement – rather than partisan stimulus bills – we can pass legislation to help foster job growth. Neither of these measures alone is going to solve the jobs crisis, but they’ll provide relief to job creators and help American veterans,” McConnell said.
McConnell praised Obama for inviting Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts to attend the ceremony. It was Brown who had introduced the 3 percent withholding bill.
Brown was joined on stage with the president by two other GOP lawmakers – Florida Rep. Jeff Miller and Tennessee Rep. Diane Black – as well as a handful of Democrats.
The tax credits for hiring veterans will cost the government an estimated $95 million – a tiny fraction of Obama’s overall jobs plan. The credits would be as much as $9,600 for companies hiring disabled vets who have looked for work for more than half a year. The size of the credit would be based on the worker’s salary and how long the worker was unemployed.
The programs would be financed mostly by extending a fee the Veterans Affairs Department charges to back mortgages.
Erasing the withholding requirement for contractors would reduce federal revenues by an estimated $11.2 billion over the coming decade. It would be paid for by making it harder for some elderly people to qualify for Medicaid by changing the formula used to determine their eligibility.
Many economists have said annulling the withholding law would have a minimal impact on hiring.
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General Info: Thanks for your post. A few months late, but I appreciate the info as it was new to me.
Sally: I meant to say something to you yesterday, but in the moment I was responding to you, I was all wrapped up in explaining the “issues” of my blog. So sorry to hear about your experience with both genders of the police. How humiliating.
Erica: You’re asking for the OTWs to help, when the OTWs have been asking for support from the whites and haven’t gotten it. I’m not talking to you per se, and I’m not talking for OTWs, but from what has been said here by OTWs, I doubt the OTWs are going to give much help to this cause when the whites haven’t helped them in their causes. Some, like Cynthia, are smiling saying, “What goes around, comes around”. Can’t blame ‘em.
Barbara: I realize this pepper spray is nothing compared to thousands of pounds of water pressure and broken bones. However new news to me, I just got an e-mail from Change.org and this was what was reported:
“When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced open their mouths and pepper-sprayed down their throats,” Brown said. “Several of these students were hospitalized.”
But in my opinion, it shouldn’t have happened then and it shouldn’t happen now. This cowardice police brutality needs to change. Click here to sign the petition.
Paulina: Thank you. I don’t get the opportunity to write like I used to but I do enjoy it when I can. Oh and you can thank Robert for that “mantra”. I rather like it myself, as you can tell. But I would prefer, if it wasn’t something true, that needed to be said.
Hank: Thanks for sharing your story. It was a roundabout way to make a point but I’m happy that you did. :) This is a place to vent, as well as what ever else you want to do. So…Welcome. I HOPE that you’ll continue reading and commenting. And I bet your daughter is proud of you as well.
Ruth: You’re welcome. I too am grateful…grateful that my blog has following who will do something.
HOWIE: Nice to see you back. How are you? What’s up?
From the Desk of Anonz: Thanks for tuning in and keeping me and my readers well informed with information we never would have in a timely manner, if it weren’t for you.
Readers: Let’s prove that we are not all over the political map, and support Obama. We want him for a second term. I am not against a woman president, but the last thing we need are for our democratic votes to get split, and end up with a republican president. Everything bad you can imagine, will happen, if that happens. I’m not willing to go down that road. I HOPE you’re with me on this.
Cain: That story is just disgusting. How people can care more about getting assistance for their football team than a person who has been sexually molested? I’m right there with you on your thoughts.
Melody: Obama passes a Veteran’s Job Bill, the fist lady Michalle Obama supports Veterans at NASCAR, and she gets booed by the crowd. Yep, there is something wrong with this picture.
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November 22nd, 2011 at 9:27 am
ARE WOMEN GETTING BREAST CANCER YOUNGER?
If you’re a woman and carry a mutation in your BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, you probably already know that you’re more likely to develop breast or ovarian cancer than women who don’t carry such a genetic mutation.
But what you probably didn’t know is that if you have either one of those mutations and your mom or aunt had breast or ovarian cancer, then there’s a good chance that you could be diagnosed with cancer nearly eight years earlier than your mom or aunt was, according to a recent study from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
This research adds to the small but growing body of reports about this trend.
I called the lead study author, Banu K. Arun, MD, associate professor of breast medical oncology and clinical cancer prevention and codirector of the Clinical Cancer Genetics program at the university, to talk about the results and what they might mean for my readers.
Dr. Arun and her colleagues analyzed 132 women with breast cancer who tested positive for either a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation between 2003 and 2009 — these women served as the “younger” generation in the study.
(Dr. Arun decided to look at only women in the younger generation who had breast cancer, not ovarian cancer, because she works in the breast department at the university.)
Of these women with both breast cancer and a BRCA mutation, 106 had aunts or mothers who had had either breast or ovarian cancer, so their aunts and mothers made up the “older” generation in the study.
By analyzing the ages of cancer diagnosis among the families in both generations, Dr. Arun and her team found that the median age of the cancer diagnosis was 7.9 years earlier for women in the younger generation.
WHY THE SHIFT?
This type of news is disappointing, especially now, when we think we have made great strides in preventing cancer — or at least in delaying it. I asked Dr. Arun to tell me what is going on.
Several relatively recent trends may have helped lead to earlier BRCA-related cancer diagnoses in younger women, said Dr. Arun, including…
An increase in BRCA mutation awareness, plus an increase in the availability of genetic tests (both of which may have led to an increase in genetic testing).
Improvements in imaging techniques (which has likely led to getting more accurate diagnoses).
More environmental influences, such as taking estrogen replacement hormone therapy or exposure to estrogen-like substances in the environment (which some studies have associated with an increased risk for breast cancer).
Another reason that BRCA-related cancer diagnoses are happening earlier in some women’s lives, she said, may have something to do with what epidemiologists call anticipation.
It’s an unfortunate phenomenon in some inherited diseases in which DNA instability causes an illness to strike at a younger age and/or with increased severity in subsequent generations. (This happens with Huntington’s disease, for example.)
In other words, these findings are not necessarily dire. They could mean that women are developing the disease at younger ages or that they’re simply discovering it sooner — or both.
Since all of those reasons listed above probably play a role, said Dr. Arun, the study’s findings are likely due to a mixture of factors.
One limitation of the study is that the researchers assumed that the older generation’s breast or ovarian cancer was caused by a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation — but there was no way to know for sure (because in some cases, the aunts and moms had already passed away and, in other cases, they never took genetic tests).
So the younger generation’s cancer may have been hereditary or those women may have been the first generation in their families with the mutation.
KNOW YOUR RISK
For women who have a BRCA mutation and are therefore at high risk for both breast and ovarian cancer, the question is: How soon and how frequently should you get screened?
How soon to start. The American Cancer Society (ACS) recommends that high-risk women begin getting screened for both types of cancer at age 30, but they caution that it’s a good idea to discuss the best age with your doctor —
because if your mom or aunt got either disease at a young age, you may want to start getting screened earlier.
How often to go. The ACS recommends that high-risk women get yearly breast screenings that should include a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, a mammogram and a clinical breast exam (where a doctor examines your breasts).
A pelvic exam done by your doctor during your annual gynecological exam is usually the best way to get screened for ovarian cancer –
your doctor might also want to give you a CA-125 blood test, which checks for the level of a certain protein found on the surface of ovarian cancer cells.
In spite of the questions this study raises, it is clear on one point — those at high risk for breast cancer must be aggressive in their screening and do all that they can to reduce environmental and lifestyle risk factors for the disease.
Source(s):
Banu K. Arun, MD, professor of breast medical oncology and clinical cancer prevention and codirector of clinical cancer genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.
November 22nd, 2011 at 9:44 am
As usual you bring the topics that offer the most for your readers education. This article shows how the republicans have to always give something to that !% and at the expense of the 99%.
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Erasing the withholding requirement for contractors would reduce federal revenues by an estimated $11.2 billion over the coming decade.
It would be paid for by making it harder for some elderly people to qualify for Medicaid by changing the formula used to determine their eligibility.
Many economists have said annulling the withholding law would have a minimal impact on hiring.
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Attaching that tax give away to the rich at the expense of the elderly getting Medicaid.
George
November 22nd, 2011 at 10:08 am
The gall of the white boy never ceases to amaze me. They are so quick to play the race card when OTWs react to their attempts to manipulate their country.
A chicken shit bigot who worked for the Bush administration as a US Justice Department attorney has filed A class action lawsuit challenging Guam’s Decolonization registry on civil rights grounds.
Thats sorta like a white boy filing a civil right’s claim against and American Indian tribe because they only allow Indians on their “reservation” to vote on tribal issues.
These white bastards come to our country take it and then force us to give them the best of our lands and now the bastards are trying to pull a white boy south african thing by claiming they the colonialists are really citizens of the land they stole by force.
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Guam – A class action lawsuit was filed in Guam District Court Tuesday alleging that the Guam Election Commission has “illegally and unconstitutionally” refused to allow Guam voters who do not meet the definition of “native inhabitant” to register for the referendum on Guam’s future political status with the United States.
READ the CIR Class Action complaint
The suit alleges “discrimination in voting in violation” of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and other civil rights laws.
The lawsuit was filed here on Guam by Mun Su Park, a Korean American who practices law out of an office in Tamuning.
But the complaint was prepared by Washington D.C. attorneys Michael Roseman of the Center for Individual Rights and Christian Adams of the Election Law Center.
[Christian Adams]
Adams is a former U.S. Justice Department Attorney in the Bush Administration who recently authored a book entitled “Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department.”
Their lawsuit is filed on behalf of Guam resident Dave Davis, and all other island residents, who are not eligible to register to vote in the political status plebiscite. Davis is a retired U.S. Air Force officer who has lived on Guam since 1977.
Davis took his complaint to the U.S. Justice Department first, but received no response, leading him to contact the Election Law Center and the Center for Individual Rights.
The lawsuit asks the Federal Court to stop the Election Commission from using the Decolonization Registry and rely solely on the general voter registry for Guam in determining who is eligible to vote in the plebiscite.
It is important to note that the plebiscite is not binding and would be merely an expression of preferences on the island’s political status, which the Federal Government could take into consideration, or ignore.
Senator Ben Pangelinan, whose Office has been registering eligible voters for the political status plebiscite, pointed out that the Department of Justice choose not to act on Davis’ complaint.
He called on U.S. Attorney Lenny Rapadas to defend the law that permits the plebiscite and allows the Decolonization Registry to collect signatures from qualified voters.
Senator Pangelinan also argues that the plebiscite is not race based, but permits all persons, or what ever racial background, to participate in the plebiscite on political status, so long as they can trace their ancestry on Guam back to 1950.
The attorney for the Guam Election Commission, Jeff Cook, told PNC News that he has not had a chance to review the lawsuit yet and he declined comment, at this time.
READ the news release from CIR in FULL below:
Washington, DC – The Center for Individual Rights [CIR] filed suit Tuesday against Guam, the Guam Election Commission and seven named Guam officials for discrimination on the basis of race and ethnic heritage under Guamanian laws that prohibit individuals who are not “native inhabitants of Guam” from voting on a plebiscite concerning Guam’s future relationship to the United States.
As “native inhabitant” is defined by law, almost all of the individuals who are permitted to register and vote in the plebiscite are members of the Chamorro racial group.
“Chamorro” is a racial designation that refers to groups of native peoples that inhabited Guam prior to the influx of people from Western Europe, the United States, and other Asian and Pacific Island countries.
The term “native inhabitant” excludes most Caucasian, black, Korean, Chinese, and Filipino citizens of the United States living on Guam.
Currently, the Chamorro racial designation refers to about thirty six percent of the population of Guam.
The Defendant Guam Election Commission has illegally and unconstitutionally refused to allow registered voters who do not meet the definition of “native inhabitant” to register for the plebiscite and refused non-Chamorros the opportunity to vote in this crucial election concerning the future of Guam solely on the basis of their race and ethnic origin.
CIR is representing Arnold Davis in this suit, a white non-Chamorro and long-time resident of Guam who believes that all residents of Guam who otherwise meet the requirements to vote should be provided an equal opportunity to participate in the plebiscite regardless of race or ethnic heritage.
Davis is a retired U.S. Air Force officer who has resided on Guam since 1977. He is a United States citizen, a resident of Guam, and a registered voter who has voted in the past in many Guam general elections.
When he applied to register for the plebiscite, he was not permitted to do so because he does not meet the definition of “Native Inhabitant of Guam.”
In holding a “Chamorro-only” election (or any racially discriminatory election), Guam and its officials are acting in plain violation of the U.S. Constitution, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 1950 Organic Act of Guam, and other federal and Guamanian laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of race or ethnic heritage.
The suit seeks to enjoin the further illegal use of racial or ethnic restrictions on who may vote in the plebiscite.
Though Davis apprised the U.S. Department of Justice in 2009 that Guam’s discriminatory voting laws facially violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (among other statutes), the Department declined to investigate.
The Department did not explain its refusal to enforce federal law in Guam, and Davis was forced to file today’s suit in order to protect his right to vote on the same terms as all other citizens of Guam, regardless of race.
Davis commented, “There’s nothing subtle or indirect or even at all ambiguous about the plebiscite law. It seeks to empower fewer than forty percent of our population to make a profoundly important political decision on a public matter that’s properly and constitutionally a right of all the people.”
Christian Adams, a former attorney in the Voting Rights Section of the Department of Justice, has agreed to serve as lead counsel in the case.
Adams has participated in the successful litigation of numerous voting rights violations during his five year career at the Justice Department.
Adams commented, “all United States citizens are protected by the Voting Rights Act and the guarantees of racial fairness in the 15th Amendment to the Constitution.
Nobody should be subjected to racial discrimination in voting no matter who is doing the discriminating, or why.”
CIR President Terence Pell added, “The fact that Guam’s flagrant racial discrimination continues to take place under the nose of the U.S. Department of Justice is difficult to square with the Constitution, which is very clear that all U.S. citizens are entitled to equal enforcement of the law regardless of race. That includes all the citizens of Guam too.”
The Center for Individual Rights is a non-profit public interest firm that specializes in civil rights, free speech, and other cases affecting individual rights. For more information, contact Terry Pell at 202-833-8400 x 113, or visit CIR’s web site at http://www.cir-usa.org
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Fucking white boy gall makes me want to piss on the for the lack of the power to do what I’d like to do. Chop their fucking greedy hands off and toss their bleeding bodies into the sea.
Peter
November 22nd, 2011 at 10:10 am
My response to you George is that while it’s a shame that OTWs have to suffer because of white racism and ignorance, I am more than delighted that those old white bastards may lose their shot at Medicaid so the Greed One Percent can support their employers.
As far as I am concerned they deserve not to be able to get medical assistance since voting their racism and bigotry was more important than their own self interest when they went to the polls on the last election gave the Greedy One Percent the majority in the House.
Oscar
November 22nd, 2011 at 10:10 am
Damn those racists dogs. The nerve to file suit to be able to vote to keep the land they stole from the indigenous people of Guam.
Hafa adai
Lea
November 22nd, 2011 at 10:14 am
I couldn’t agree with you more Oscar. The white boy votes his little head or racism every time.
The usual result is he gets screwed. The sad thing is his voting numbers, being that he gets the dumb as a box of rocks white woman to go along, means that the rest of us have to suffer the pieces of shit he elects to office.
Rodriguez
November 22nd, 2011 at 10:16 am
Hafa adai,
Those sick bigots prevent OTWs at every opportunity their right to participate in elections on the mainland and they have the nerve to suggest that we are discriminating against their racist asses.
I’m with you Peter. Too bad we can make them all Gaddafis and shoot them on sight.
Gena
November 22nd, 2011 at 10:24 am
Michelle, your comments about those who support that kind of police brutality was on display on the Bill O’reily show yesterday.
And he had the prerequisite dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks blond agreeing with him.
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Megyn Kelly and Bill O’Reilly discussed the shocking pepper-spray incident that rocked the UC Davis campus on Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor.”
Kelly called the pepper spray “a food product, essentially,” but both wondered whether the particular mix the campus police used to repeatedly spray student protesters had been diluted. “A lot of experts are looking at that and saying, is this the real deal?” Kelly said, though she added that the spray was “obviously abrasive and intrusive.”
She then said that it was not clear that the police had overstepped their boundaries, since they were trying to disperse a crowd practicing civil disobedience.
“I know that the tape looks bad,” she said. “I agree it looks bad. All I’m saying is from a legal standpoint, I don’t know that the cops did anything wrong.”
O’Reilly was a tad less nuanced in his comments. “I don’t think we have the right to Monday-morning quarterback the police,” he said.
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The courts have already said that that kind of conduct by those police officer is abusive behavior.
Pepper spray should be used only when the action of person is provacative and out of control causing a threat to the officers or the civilians in the vicinity.
Mona
November 22nd, 2011 at 10:25 am
Eyuk,
When is your return scheduled? I’m looking forward to that prime rib….
Doll Face
November 22nd, 2011 at 10:30 am
These protestors did more in two months than the Congress, Senate, and Supreme Court in two
months than the media as well.
They got the Big Bank transfer done, and now those banks are whining like babies and scared that the next step would be those monthly SS checks, vet and handicapp money, that President Obama said amount of 70 billion dollars a month are next to be changed over as direct deposit to small banks and credit unions.
We would all still be sitting on our butts, and these kids at UC Davis are the real patriots of our time, rather than
the blue suiters with little flag pins that yell the loudest and do nothing.
The media has ocked them out for coverage until people started using the internet or foreign cable tv more
interested in them than the Jerry Springer clowns on Fox News, who have nothing good to say about anything.
Well, We finally got a good look at what facisim is like with someone’s kids huddled, holding on to one another while someone tries to blind them, or make sure at least a few make the hospital.
The one boy who got his skull cracked is still on rehab, and he fought in Iraq for all of you, while the blue suits with their little flag pins stayed at home safe.
November 22nd, 2011 at 10:37 am
My run takes me to Varlak. It is three solar systems away from you. I will not be able to estimate my time away until I get there and discover why the inhabitants believe that one of their moons is losing its orbit.
I enjoyed your company. Thanks for your hospitality. That was my first time in a human abode. Did you ever get that game to work?
I too am looking forward to your company with a glass of wine and a nice rare steak.
Eyuk
November 22nd, 2011 at 10:38 am
It’s interesting that Megyn Kelly, Bill O’Reilly, and others like Newt Gingrich who claim to be model patriots have no tolerance for our 1st amendment rights or protection from police abuses.
You can disagree with the cause or the message but people speaking their minds openly in our society through civil disobedience is as American as it gets.
Newt’s comment that protesters should first take a bath and then get a job is particularly noxious.
You can agree or disagree with Occupy Wall Street protestors, but these folks are exercising their basic rights as Americans and we should all respect that.
November 22nd, 2011 at 10:59 am
Eyuk,
Yes, the game is working. I think you are going to enjoy it.
You still make the BEST PIZZA I’ve ever had, but your beef speak is too tantalizing!
Fast travels to you and a speedy return my friend.
See you again soon.
Doll Face
November 22nd, 2011 at 11:46 am
Michele to you and your posters thanKs;
—————–During times of conflict and natural disaster, the stories of families caught in crisis are fraught with hardship, tragedy, and suffering.
The immense challenges faced by the people we serve are extraordinary. But amidst all those challenges, there is hope.
There is hope in the astonishing resilience of children, in the indefatigable spirit of mothers, and in the unflinching dignity of fathers.
And there is hope in you.
Today I would like to thank you for playing a crucial role in bringing hope to refugees — in the form of water, shelter, medicine, education, protection, and more.
And I would like to share a short video so you can see for yourself the comfort and joy you have helped bring to people living in some of the harshest places in the world.
Every day, I am touched by supporters like you who care for innocent people in peril. I am humbled by the refugees we serve who, despite the worst of conditions, demonstrate the best of humanity. And I am inspired by the passion and dedication of my colleagues at the IRC.
Please accept deepest thanks from all of us at the IRC for your ongoing commitment.
Sincerely,
George Rupp
President, International Rescue Committee
http://www.rescue.org/video/joy-you-brought-families-journey-harm-home?ms=em_cltv_nodr_eoyz_a4_111122&utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EOY&utm_content=EOY%20Cultivation%20Video%20-%20Non%20Donors%20Video%20Subject%20(1)
November 22nd, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Eyuk,
Thank you very much for taking the time to speak to me and thank you for your words of warning. I (also) look forward to hearing/seeing you again.
Christine76/
November 22nd, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Michelle:
Thank you for making me feel at home on your blog. I am fine although I have been busy recently with ordinary mundane tasks so I haven’t been commenting as much as usual lately.
Unfortunately I haven’t gone off on any adventures with Carr.
I still have been reading your blog daily because I learn something from your Posts and all those who comment.
Qi (#22 November 20):
I enjoy hearing that you agree with Scott and enjoy my comments on MM blog. I appreciate your interest in my comments and I am sorry that I came off like a jerk to you yesterday.
Keep on reading and I hope you enjoy what I have to contribute to this blog.
Scott (#6 November 20):
Scott, Sometimes I just get caught up in life’s bullshit and I can’t get out a comment for a couple of days once in a while. I did not take of with Carr on any journeys — I wish I had.
I will try to answer your questions from the 20th. I am not the one and only true expert on all things alien — although I appreciate the compliment Scott. There are others, Alien and human — who comment on MM blog who can answer many questions as well as I can. I just try to explain things so that anyone interested can understand what is really going on in simple English.
Doug’s comment about the need for domestic troops inside our borders is not due to threats from aliens.
Since it has been established that I am still here because I never left, the charge that aliens should be held responsible for the raping of humans — As you said, “is ridiculous“.
I will try to be more dependable and comment more often. I seriously do not know how Michelle keeps posting her blog every day for over 4 years without missing one day. I give her a tremendous amount of credit for that. She is very dedicated to her blog.
This is still THE blog to go to for the 411 on anything Alien.
Ernie (#6 Yesterday):
Although I didn’t really go anywhere Ernie, thanks for the “welcome back”.
Lenny #8 November 21:
Bless your heart Lenny. I appreciate your loyalty very much. Australia, also referred to by Aliens as the “Owl” because of its resemblance (from space) to an owl’s face, has been having a tremendous amount of Alien activity as the entire world is swarming with Alien visitors right now.
Many are staking their claims to their territories in which they may come and go freely without disturbing humans too much. Many are not utilizing Tyna, the TAO’s artificial intelligence coordinator of all the take-offs, hovering and landings of alien activity. The price they pay is crashing, uncloaking and one technology interfering with another’s.
President Obama visited Australia to assure them that they are not alone and will not be invaded by aliens. I suppose bringing in American troops might make a country like Australia more confident and less fearful of all the activity going on in their skies.
HOWIE
November 22nd, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Christine 76:
It was an equal pleasure to meet you. Maybe the three of us can do something. I want to go experience being in the company of humans.
Eyuk
November 22nd, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Howie: I wouldn’t have the nerve to post to you but you are addressing others so I would like to ask if you have ever been afraid of Carr. How do you know that he isn’t an demon? I live in Toyama, and work at the Crowne Plaza Ana hotel.
We often debate whether your Carr is like some of the characters in our monster movies. Does he ever laugh or tell jokes? Does he have human relationships? Why do you feel he chose you our of billions to choose from?
Azumi
November 22nd, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Eyuk,
I, too, would be more than happy to experience the company of a being like you.
Christine76
November 22nd, 2011 at 6:54 pm
Those determined to elect the first black man as president to prove something (who knows what) had to insert their own “perception” to his statements and that pleased them all.
Why not it was their perception! Furthermore, the crowd cheered when he announced “we are only five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
Again he did not explain what it was he was going to transformed it into, but there was no need for everyone inserted their own perception of what “he” meant. Once again that satisfied everyone and again why not it was their perception.
This black president we elected (not me, by the way), may very well be the smartest dumb president ever from anywhere! Now set up the teleprompter and get out of the way!
November 22nd, 2011 at 6:55 pm
By randomly turning on MSNBC at any point throughout the day, you’re guaranteed to see one of the following:
–Chris Matthews’s spittle ricocheting off of the camera;
–Rachel Maddow in a hoodie; or
–Some leftwing politician droning on and on about how the Bush tax cuts must be rescinded… because they weren’t paid for, because they’ve contributed massively to the deficit, because they were for the “rich,” and something about the Koch Brothers and Grover Norquist being a bane upon American democracy.
Indeed, the tax cuts signed into law by President Bush in 2001 and 2003 have taken center stage once again now that the “supercommittee” charged with finding $1.2 trillion in spending cuts admitted failure yesterday.
The Washington Post wrote that the supercommittee’s undoing has thrust the “much-contested Bush tax cuts into the forefront of next year’s presidential campaign.” As the Post goes on to note, Democrats will “portray Obama’s opponent in the presidential election as a defender of tax cuts for the rich.”
Seeing that the Democrats are reviving their favorite campaign talking point, let’s review the facts about “tax cuts for the rich.” Here’s what you need to know.
—Jason Mattera
November 22nd, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Thanks for enlightening the fools on this blog. “Time to hit these Dems back with what they can’t get around — a little something, something called: Facts.”
My experience has been that facts have never stood in the way of a Democrat talking point.
November 22nd, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Why is it that the republicans feel not shame defending huge tax cuts for the rich?
November 22nd, 2011 at 7:04 pm
It’s our time now baby. If liberals were absolutely forbidden to tell lies we would have the first ever world-wide class of dumb people. Now you can interpret ‘dumb’ any way you like: ‘dumb’ as in unable to speak verbally through the mouth; or ‘dumb’ as in dumb as dirt. Both would apply equally to liberals.
So conservatives, being compassionate as they are, don’t force any one to be so stupid; the liberals choose to do that all on their own.
Pity them, for they know not what they do (or say; or think.)
November 22nd, 2011 at 7:06 pm
The left would be unable to wage their class warfare if they told the truth. They have to lie constantly or they would have no position at all! This is a great article by Mr. Mattera. I hope he doesn’t main that I copied most of it to use as talking points when the opportunity permits.
November 22nd, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Hi Azumi:
You can post to anyone on this blog. You have nothing to fear from anyone — human or alien.
I am happy to answer you. You work in a very beautiful hotel near the Toyoma Castle.
I met Carr as a human and we became friends just as any two humans do. After we established a friendship and trust he began to show me his powers a little bit at a time so that I never feared the things that he could do. We have spent many hours laughing at jokes together as humans do. He has other human relationships just as you and I do.
There was a time when I did not fully understand what he really is. For many years I just thought he was an Alien with miraculous powers but I never feared him. Now I know that I am friends with a God.
It was very easy to do. It became normal for him to appear out of thin air and visit me at work late at night or at home. Such things became normal to me as time passed. I had no fear of him. He has always been my good friend and helped me with advice only a supreme being can give.
Many people ask me just as you have: “why did he choose me to befriend out of the billions of humans on this planet?” I have asked him this question myself in the past and the answer I received was “why not me?” I have qualities that are as good as any other human and some that are unique to me which he likes, so why not me? It is that simple.
We just became friends and I always have his ear to listen to me. I hope we will continue to be friends for a long time.
I hope that answered your questions, Azumi. They were good ones.
HOWIE
November 23rd, 2011 at 8:12 am
Women in Afghanistan who are raped and get pregnant by their rapist are thrown in PRISON for 12 years on the charge of Adultery….and the only legal option for those rape victims to get OUT of prison before 12 years is to marry their rapist. Members both of her own family and of her rapist’s family want to “honor kill” her for committing adultery even though they all know it was rape, they still blame the victim for “allowing the rape” or for not killing herself after “the shame of the rape.” This is misogyny and abuse of the most vile nature imaginable.
Sounds like much of the republican agenda.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/22/world/asia/afghanistan-rape/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
November 23rd, 2011 at 8:22 am
Nobel I’m very certain that Mr. Mattera doesn’t mind you take your talking points from one of his articles. That is the purpose of these pundits for the republican party to give dumb shits like you something to parrot so that you and the idiots who bothers to listen to you feels they are important and they know what they are talking about.
Talking Points – They were invented for the rank and file of the republican party so when they open their mouths they don’t have to open their minds to common sense or their hearts to the needs of others.
Alycedale