Remember Ohio
Posted by Michelle Moquin on December 20th, 2011
Good morning!
This was an article from about a month ago. I found it while perusing around and thought, “Hey, this is worth blogging”. This article tells the people that the right wing may have a surprise at the polls if they think they can continue to give all the tax break to the 1%, cut voting rights, and limit bargaining rights of the unions.
The Lessons of Ohio
“Remember Ohio.” Those two words should carry new meaning to politicians in Congress and state houses who think they can respond to unemployment, budget crises and voter anger with faux solutions that serve up red meat to their right-wing base.
With their now-famous rejection of a state law limiting public employees’ right to bargain collectively, Ohio voters sent this emphatic reminder to Republicans (and some Democrats as well): Cutting taxes for millionaires and billionaires, scapegoating working Americans and their unions and downsizing Social Security and Medicare may get you a standing ovation from the 1%, but the voters who decide elections will not be fooled — and you may just get more than you bargained for.
Four lessons to remember from Ohio:
1. 2010 didn’t mean what you think.
Challengers in the 2010 mid-term elections benefited from a formidable current for change, but the change voters wanted was a solution to the economy and the jobs crisis–not political maneuvers and overreach. Keep in mind, too, that voter turnout in mid-term elections is unrepresentatively low: Fewer votes were cast to elect John Kasich governor in 2010 than were cast last week to defeat SB5, the anti-worker law pushed forward by the governor and the Republican majority in the state legislature.
Across the board, voters in the Buckeye state said the anti-worker law “was not the kind of change Ohio was looking for in 2010,” according to a post-election survey conducted by Hart Research for the AFL-CIO.
Voters, in fact, are more leery than ever of partisan games. Ohio voters said they perceived the law as a political maneuver by Gov. Kasich and state Republicans to weaken labor unions (53%) rather than a genuine effort to make state government more efficient (33%).
Just as Ohioans voted down the anti-worker law, voters in other states rejected right-wing overreach, defeating a Maine law prohibiting a same-day voter registration law that had been in effect for almost 40 years and recalling the state senate president in Arizona, who had championed the state’s anti-immigrant law.
2. In 2011 and 2012, fronting for the 1% is a nonstarter.
Remember, 2011 is not 2010, and politics in 2012 will evolve even more. Give credit to the Occupy Wall Street movement (and historic inequality) for redefining the political narrative.
Fifty-six percent of Ohio voters in the Hart survey agreed that Kasich and his allies “are putting the interests of big corporations ahead of average working people.”
These attitudes are widely shared by the swing voters who supported President Obama in 2008 but elected Republican governors and U.S. representatives in 2010–and will decide the presidential and congressional elections in 2012. They’re working Americans with modest incomes, moderate views and little patience for policies that aren’t fair and don’t work.
More than 26 percent of 2010 Kasich voters, in fact, were part of the overall 61 percent majority who rejected the limits on collective bargaining.
This sea change was strongest among voters in the middle of the economic and ideological spectrums. Yes, public employees, union members, Democrats and liberals voted overwhelmingly against the controversial law. But they were joined by definitive majorities of voters from households with no public employee, workers without union representation and independents, as well as 30 percent of Republicans and 36 percent of conservatives.
3. The myth of the pampered public employee has been busted.
The demonization of public employees is neither a strategy nor a solution and the heartland Americans who voted last week to restore rights for public employees understood that. Public employees didn’t cause the economic crisis and they’re not the enemy. They’re our neighbors and our friends, mainstays of the working middle class, and the services they provide–from police and fire protection to education, health care and environmental protection–are essential to the economy and our quality of life.
And yes, taking away the right to bargain collectively in the public sector, which maintains standards at a time when the private sector is running away from them, will lower living standards for everybody.
Voters in the Hart poll said the anti-worker law would have a mainly negative rather than positive impact on the state’s middle class. The attack on public employees would be more harmful than helpful to wages and benefits for all Ohio workers, they said (by a 20 point margin), to public safety (by 21 points), to public education (by 14 points) and to jobs and the economy (by 12 points).
4. Working people joined together will win.
Firefighters, teachers and other public employees were joined by plumbers and pilots and all kinds of private-sector employees to win. Worker to worker, neighbor to neighbor, the message spread, and what began as an attempt to divide workers flopped famously. In the end, working people’s solidarity was the message.
Lest there be any doubt, voters in Ohio showed that when fundamental rights and livelihoods are targeted, working people will not only defend themselves, but come back stronger. Conversely, when politicians listen to and champion working people, they can win.
The 2011 elections are over, but their lessons are lasting. Rather than pander to economic elites and an ideological fringe, public officials and office-seekers who want to be winners this time next year should support public policies for the 99 percent–policies that create jobs, invest in America’s future, safeguard Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and promote fiscal sanity at the federal and state levels by requiring millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share.
At a time of near-double-digit unemployment and growing concerns about economic insecurity and inequality, the overwhelming majority of Americans are seeking solutions, not scapegoats.
It’s time for politicians to listen.
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December 20th, 2011 at 7:11 am
Howie:
I tried to get in to comment on your post yesterday, but I couldn’t. What you said is so important. I too am concerned.
I like you think others should too.
John
December 20th, 2011 at 7:17 am
DON’T LET ENVY GET THE BEST OF YOU
I know a woman who is kind, loving and empathetic. But she recently discovered another side of herself when a friend of hers inherited — quite unexpectedly — $2 million.
Instead of feeling joy for her friend’s good fortune, she felt intense envy — and then she went into a week-long funk because she was so upset with herself for feeling that way!
Feeling envious of a friend is uncomfortable, and it surprises many people that they can feel that way.
But Lauren Zander, life coach and regular Daily Health News contributor, pointed out that it shouldn’t, given the nature of close friendships.
“When you pick a close friend or a best friend, it’s usually because you admire each other and have a lot in common.
That’s what makes a relationship special,” she said. “But the flip side is that a best friend is also the person who you are most likely to compare yourself with — and there will be times when you come up short.”
And it doesn’t have to be anything unusual as a giant inheritance, either — Zander mentioned successfully losing weight, finding a better job and falling in love as common events that can make friends envious and even bitter.
“This doesn’t make you mean,” Zander said. “It’s just part of being human.”
YOU’VE GOT TO OWN IT
Common or not, the burden of envy is that people are ashamed that they feel that way about someone they love — and embarrassed if their feelings come out.
So people try to convince themselves that they aren’t envious at all by turning the feeling inward and keeping it to themselves.
But carrying around a not-nice secret is a heavy load that can end up interfering with what was once a loving and supportive relationship.
How to get past this? Zander’s advice is to fess up to its existence.
In the case of a friend’s amazing good luck, it’s easy — here’s what to say to your friend: “I am really happy for you, but I can’t help but feel envious as well.
” You will be amazed how quickly simply admitting that the feeling is there will send it on its way.
LET ENVY MOTIVATE YOU
Keep in mind, envy is not such a bad feeling to have — in fact, it’s a messenger, waving its flag to direct your attention to something that’s missing in your life.
In that sense, it can help you, because it can point out a personal problem of yours that you would unconsciously like to — and that you probably can — fix.
Because best friends have much in common, they often mirror each other’s capabilities. So if your friend has achieved something that matters to you, then there is a good chance that you can achieve it, too.
But be sure to pinpoint exactly what it is that made you envious. Let’s say that your friend moves into a beautiful new home and those pangs start to rise in you.
Is it actually her new home that is bothering you? It could be that — or it might actually be your feelings about staying in a job that is beneath your talents and doesn’t pay you well and certainly would never provide the means to purchase a beautiful new home of your own.
Is your envy informing you that it’s time to get in gear to find yourself a better job? Envy can let us know what we really want but that we’ve been afraid to admit to ourselves.
Say your friend falls in love with the perfect partner, and you find that envy just won’t let you feel truly happy about it.
Could it be a signal that ever since your divorce, you’ve been craving a companion, so it’s finally time to get over your fear of dating and get out there again? We all have demons — doubts that gnaw at us, things we wish that we could do better.
Just remind yourself that there is still time to bring those demons to light and toss them away by making a change in your life.
IT GOES BOTH WAYS
Best friends stay close by sharing feelings with each other, including the tricky ones — and it works both ways.
Sometimes you’ll be the one who has the good fortune or earns a great reward, and your friend will be the one who is envious.
If you sense that your friend is envious, it’s not a bad idea to go ahead and ask about it. Be gentle, of course — you might say, “This might be crazy and it could be only in my head, but I noticed that you’ve been acting a little differently toward me lately.
Does the fact that I got a new car bother you a little?” Get it out there — give the envy air, whether it’s yours or your friend’s, and let it help both of you breathe more freely.
Source(s):
Lauren Zander, cofounder and chairman, The Handel Group, New York City. http://www.HandelGroup.com.
December 20th, 2011 at 8:29 am
John and Howie, I am a proud, suspicious and opinionated american, too. I like to think I can see the man our President Obama is.
He was making a statement to all americans when he chose two arab american to feel those spots. That statement is we are all americans.
It is easy to single out one of us and say that group of americans are suspect.
Obama is saying, NOT TRUE! This will not be tolerated on my watch.
Again the difference between the other 43 white men who were presidents of the United States of America and this black man is blatantly apparent. This one refuses to allow the forces of bigotry, racism, sexism, or any other ism to dictate his conscious.
Whether the other 43 were bigots, racists, sexists , or simply too ambitious to stand up to the racism and bigotry of their times we may never know.
But a casual glance at our history says they were at the very least cowards in the face of the requirements of leadership when it came to standing up for ALL americans regardless of creed, race, religion, color or gender.
They never stood up to the challenge when a situation called for them to truly represent ALL americans! The result was terror, second class citizenship and in some cases pure hell for any group singled out for oppression.
The Japanese were singled out and the President of all the americans went along.
During the early period of Zionism from 1948 until 1972 Jews were not trusted in high secret levels because some americans felt that group were suspect as they would be more loyal to Israel than their country. The President went along.
Blacks, Latinos, Asians, women, children, the poor and any religion, belief or difference that didn’t sit well with the majority of americans was tolerated by the other 43 at one time or another for because of cowardice on the part of the leader of ALL americans. That is an indisputable fact.
Even to this day a Jew would have a very difficult time being “devout” and ascending to the highest levels of government under any other president. But this president will not accept that stereotyping.
You see John and Howie, simply uttering the words of believing in equality for all americans when as the President of All americans you have no intention of taking any flack if the majority is against the group is hypocrisy at best.
Unlike the other 43 this President of All americans is NOT a hypocrite. So if he must endure the mistrust of the majority for the sake of the few, he is willing.
Howie, remember what happened when it was discovered a jew betrayed his country for the sake of Israel?
Wouldn’t it have been nice if the President at that time had said that he would not stop trusting Jewish americans in important and sensitive positions because of the actions of one Jewish american?
It didn’t happen! Devout jewish americans were blackballed from those positions.
Has it ever occurred to anyone that the most important and or secretive information of this government that has been sold to foreign governments has been done by white traitors exclusively. Yet no one is excluding them from anything.
Many people in very important places in our government are devout one religion or another whether they admit it is a question of their own integrity.
Some belong to the KKK, Skull and Bones, and other secretive societies that are just as damaging if not more so because of the secrecies they maintain.
Obama picked men of integrity. They stood up to the suspicions, racism and bigotry(I am not accusing Howie or John of the latter) and proclaimed their religion.
Wouldn’t it have been nice if Scalia, Alito, and Thomas had done so about being catholic? Women would have known better about their chances of getting a fair vote on abortion and other issues that the catholic church frowns on.
But they wanted the position more than they wanted to be honest about their beliefs. Not so Obama’s appointees.
This is a church that is so willing to control the lives of every american that members of its body have declared they would excommunicate voters be it regular citizens or legislators, government administrators or judges that voted against the will of the church.
Obama’s two appointees stood up and declared, “examine my performance in the light of day.” I admit going in, that I am a devout muslim, but I will show that I am an american first.
The kind that is true to the requirements of my office over the dictates of my religion or the loyalty to any other but the call of duty.
Can any of you say that about the five of the most powerful men in America, STARK, that hold positions on SCOTUS?
Can any of you say that about the sick group we have representing us in the US, STATE, and LOCAL levels of government who allow their religion to dictate what laws the write or support?
Just because they hide who their masters are, be it religion, money, ambition, racism, misogyny or bigotry doesn’t insure honesty in their decisions. Actually it guarantees dishonesty.
Rather than cry wolf and paint visions of doom, why not revel in the honesty of the individual.
If you had favored your intellect over your knee jerk urge to distrust, it probably would have occurred to you that a person who says I was a convicted thief when looking for the job at the bank may be declaring that he will not steal because he knows that he will be watched more closely than others.
Do you two for a moment think that every decision make by those two won’t be scrutinized by every republican or right wing nut out there?
Rest assured if Obama has made an error in judgement, he will be called on it the minute one suspect decision is made by any of the two.
Thank your God(s) or whomever your Higher Power is that you now have a President who refuses to represent only that part of americans who can get him reelected.
He stands above ALL the other 43 because he is the FIRST president of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to TRULY represent ALL americans.
As such he will not allow your suspicion wherever they may arise from to deter him from appointing the BEST person he feels is available for the job.
Yes, Michelle, I am eating crow. Obama has my support again. We may never see his like in that office again.
Robert, Rt
December 20th, 2011 at 8:33 am
I could also use some patience when I spot check auto spell. So if I may correct that second paragraph.
He was making a statement to ALL americans when he chose two arab americans to fill those spots. That statement is we are ALL americans, equally. No one is more american than another.
December 20th, 2011 at 8:47 am
Here is something all on this, and any other blog, can use to bypass the new upcoming SOPA rulings that Michelle was talking about the other day.
If you use the Firefox browser they have created an add on –
Firefox: DeSopa is the latest Firefox add-on that can counter the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA)’s DNS blocking if the bill passes. The extension gets you through sites censored by DNS and lets you browse them by IP address.
To use the extension, you just need to click the DeSopa button to switch to accessing sites by their IP addresses. Click again to go back to standard DNS resolution.
Some sites may not be directly accessible by IP because they’re on virtual hosts, and DeSopa also doesn’t resolve subdomains. If you can’t get through with DeSopa, previously mentioned The Pirate Bay Dancing from MAFFIAFire should do the trick.
http://lifehacker.com/5869665/desopa-for-firefox-bypasses-sopa-dns-blocking
December 20th, 2011 at 9:30 am
Be careful hanging out with people who have exotic pets. Wash your hands immediately after leaving and if they visit your home. Be very careful to clean afterwards.
An estimated three of every four emerging infectious diseases in humans originate in wildlife.
That’s not to say that all of the estimated one million animal diseases can make the jump to humans.
But when they do, which qualifies the disease as zoonotic, devastating consequences can result.
Of particular concern is when the pathogen becomes capable of direct human-to-human transmission
December 20th, 2011 at 9:32 am
Doug you are good! Keep the information coming.
Peter
December 20th, 2011 at 9:40 am
Romney is still the choice of the powerful 1%. He is the secret racist that will do their bidding and strive to become one of them because he believes he already is.
He will be getting the support of most of the important members of that group. The propaganda push to make Mormonism acceptable has received another $23 million donation and the will get tens of $millions more towards the cause as the new year begins.
Anonz
December 20th, 2011 at 9:46 am
Michelle,
We are out helping and encouraging the men of Egypt to resist the military. Many women here mistrust them because of the forced virginity test they have used to scare us into staying home.
Yesterday we were shot at and some of us were killed. But I believe that you are behind us. Please keep our story on your blog.
Cairo is going to get a lot more active in the coming days.
Shindand
December 20th, 2011 at 9:55 am
If anyone has doubts about the dangers of mold. Consider that the builders of Brittany Murphy’s house used chinese products that caused toxic mold.
That mold killed both Brittany and a few months later her husband. They both died of the same illness. The mold caused an incurable pneumonia which killed them.
Greed makes contractors use the cheapest products from China. The chinese are on to the worst motivations of capitalism. Get rich at any cost. Hence poisoning their customers for profit is the capitalistic way.
Hansel
December 20th, 2011 at 9:59 am
I’m saddened to learn that SOPA passed. Thank you Doug for the invaluable information you shared this morning.
I’m not surprised it passed considering Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act which negates the Bill of Rights and effectively makes America a military dictatorship.
SOPA is a direct insult to all Americans who died risking their lives in the name of freedom. We the People cannot afford to sit back and do nothing. We are no longer the land of the free.
We must change our government as it currently exists. There are a lot of politically savvy readers on this blog. I ask you all, what is it going to take? Congress already has too much power. The electoral college has got to go. How do we get to one person, one vote?
Anonymous’ displeasure re: SOPA is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeEcoi8kEuU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
/SB
December 20th, 2011 at 10:01 am
Here is the link for Anonymous’ statement on NDAA. We are all to blame. We cannot afford to be apathatic to our situation any longer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrXyLrTRXso&feature=youtube_gdata_player
/SB
December 20th, 2011 at 10:03 am
The republicans in the House have been given their orders to sink the Payroll tax cut deal.
They have control of the House and refuse to even give it an up or down vote.
What were the voters thinking when they returned this lot to the leadership of the house? Is race that important?
I’m a white man and it is inconceivable that another white person could convince me to support one of these morons merely to keep a black President from succeeding.
Mike
December 20th, 2011 at 10:51 am
SB while the monologue is scary it is not truly informative. It is a propaganda statement to promote the very situation that it is claiming to be against.
The link should take issue with each Senator and representative who sighed the bill. But it singled out Obama as the culprit.
The lie was to fail to inform that the bill would become law even if Obama vetoed it because it was veto proof. So if Obama could do nothing to stop the bill becoming law, why not address the people who could do something. The idiotic, voters.
The other lie was to imply that some group would be acting on behalf of you lazy bastards that allowed the bill to be passed by your federal legislative representatives in the first place.
There is NO secret group that will do your job for you. That is the 1% making you become complacent. The subtle hint being if you get rid of Obama everything else will take care of itself.
Lies, lies, lies. That video posted by SB is from the very people who got the bill passed in the first place.
They paid off your legislators and assured them that the people would not take them to task for their betrayal.
Did you notice no attempt was made to list the roll call of those who voted for the bill? Why march on anything?
A simple listing of the vote tally and the encouraging each and every citizen dissatisfied with how their representatives voted to tell those representative that if they don’t recall that bill they will be voted out come their next elected period.
That is responsible citizenship. Not expecting some mob to act for them. This is America and we have a responsible democracy if the people use it as it was intended to be used.
No mob action is necessary. Just get off your lazy ass and act. Register and vote!
This is not about Obama. Yes I made that mistake but that is not a mistake that needs to be repeated.
Robert, Rt
December 20th, 2011 at 11:12 am
Thanks for your input Robert. I interpret that Anonymous is not against Obama exclusively, they are standing against all in a position of power in our current government. Obama is just another member.
You may very well be right about one of those videos not coming from where it appeared to. I see now there is a consistency to their videos that wasn’t shown in one of them.
But I think you may be short sighted saying registering and voting is enough. It’s a great start of course, but voting out those members of Congress and replacing them with others we vote for, will not change the overall operation of our government. How our government works needs to change, not simply changing those whose work in it.
/SB
December 20th, 2011 at 10:49 pm
Social Butterfly, I used to admire you because of your ability to think out of the box. But this time it seems the right has boxed you in.
You begin to compromise and show diminish capacity to reason when you said, “Thanks for your input Robert. I interpret that Anonymous is not against Obama exclusively,”
The logical question is after Robert explained to you that the bill was “VETO PROOF”, why would you except even a minimum of blame on Obama?
Maybe you are one of those people who Robert said did not understand their civics. Let me help you out. If a bill is “VETO PROOF,” that means it is out of the control of the President.
One more time, it – is – out – of – the – control- of – the – President. If that was not slow enough or clear enough, let me say it in another way. The President has NOTHING to do with the passage of the bill.
Or you could say that if the President vetoes the bill the Senate and the House can pass it anyway.
Is that clear enough for you? If it is and you suspect that the person who made the video knew that, then it may be logical to suspect that either the person thought you were too stupid to know that or he used his knowledge of your lack of true logical introspection to promote an illogical precept.
That would be to blame a person who has NOTHING to do with the issue being discussed.
Simply put. Anonymous should not have singled out Obama at all because Obama had NOTHING to do with this bill. It was you who elected Congressional representatives that initiated and passed this bill.
Your sights should be focused “exclusively” on the people who are responsible. That would be your Congress. One more time, as I suspect someone will have to visit this piece of logic again, if you don’t get it. Focus on the cause of the problem if you expect to solve the problem.
The problem is bills initiated and passed by your Congress. Not your Executive Branch. Now if your Executive Branch used the Congress to get bills passed it wanted, you would have cause to focus on the Executive Branch also. As the previous president idiot bush did. He used the republican congress to get them to pass bills he wanted. So he was a legitimate target as the author of those shitty bills.
But and listen closely Social Butterfly lest you miss an important point. Obama’s executive branch did not ask the Congress to initiate or to pass this bill.
That would mean to a logically thinking person that Obama was not involved, “exclusively” or any other way.
That would also mean as Robert suggested that if “Anonymous” or any other pseudonym used suggested that Obama was part of the problem, then Anonymous was not being genuine. Or for the slow witted, he was lying to you, attempting to manipulate you for his own nefarious reasons.
That would mean you were being used to promote an action that was the aim of Anonymous. In this case to get you to react negatively against Obama.
One more lapse in thought you made was to associate two associates as the same. Government is not just government. If one branch of government is crooked that does not mean the other branches are.
If this is difficult to impute, think if one member of your family is evil that does not imply that all members of your family are evil.
So your statement, ” they are standing against all in a position of power in our current government.” is illogical.
Another point to be made from that statement, is that why are you accepting Anonymous getting you to stand against “all in a position of power in our current government..”?
Everyone in a position of power in our or any government isn’t bad. That is what bush did when he invaded Iraq. He claimed all in a position of power were bad and eliminated the entire government of Iraq. The result was chaos.
Something has to fill the vacuum. Do you know who Anonymous has planned to fill that vacuum once he has motivated you and the other slow witted minions to do his dirty work of getting rid of “all in a position of power in our current government.”?
Since Obama represents the Executive branch of government and your beef is clearly with the Congress, who are the ones who write and vote into law, the shit you are taking issue with, then the logical step would be to do what it takes to remove those legislatures.
We are not a third world country. We do not threaten our legislatures with violence if they do not conform to our will.
We go to the POLLS, and vote their asses OUT. If you are anyone else is advocating any other course of action, I am suspect of your motives.
Now Social Butterfly I ask you if you are as astute as I supposed you to be , why are you allowing yourself to be punked by this charlatan?
“Remember Ohio”???? It was only today’s blog, the one you posted this illogical postulate on.
They went to the polls and reversed bad law. Just how difficult would it be for the american people to go to the polls and vote out the bastards that voted in that law?
I may be short sighted “saying registering and voting is enough.”? Tell that to the citizens in the story Michelle wrote about in today’s blog.
They did just that. They registered and went to the polls and voted out the bastards that wrote the law they didn’t agree with and now the law has been changed.
So, again tell me how that is short sighted? What is obviously short is that you didn’t bother to read the article or you wouldn’t have suggested that Robert was short sighted by suggesting that “registering and voting is enough.” That is democracy in action and the last I checked we were a declared democracy.
Hell, why not suggest that if you really didn’t like how your senator or house member voted, recall the bastard?
This isn’t rocket scientist shit. It is a scam to get you to be angry with Obama. And when you casually suggest that Obama could be included in an issue that he is clearly not involved in, then you are allowing yourself to be used for the purposes of Anonymous for his own aims.
Before you claim that that is not what is happening, think for a minute. At this stage of your angst after I have pointed out a few lapses in your normally logical astute insights, it may be difficult, but take a deep breath——————
Okay, now focus! Re look at the video Anonymous made. Notice the prominent display of Obama as one of the main culprits. Notice the use of the supporting crowds as props in his scenario of those people being trusting dupes.
This is clearly a person with an agenda to make you distrust Obama. Why when the issue is supposed to be about a law enacted and passed by your Congress, who he spend so much time and money(notice the full color display of Obama in a negative portrayal) to put down a person not even remotely involved in the writing or passing the law in issue.
Yet you, like so many others, went right along with the postulate that “Obama is just another member.”
Civic lesson 101. Obama is not a part of the legislature. Obama is head of the Executive Branch of government. The part that is charged with ENFORCING the laws enacted and passed by the legislatures.
Why bother to contest the “enforcement” of an unjust law if you can rewrite the law with your vote?
It is the place of the OTW to protest unfair laws with marches because ———HELLO!!!!!!! They cannot effect a change in their position by voting because they do not have the power to vote out the crooks, bigots, racist, evil bastards that whites have.
The dumb as a box of rocks whites in America DON’T have to riot, protest or act out in any way as OTWs must.
They just have to take their dumb asses to the polls and do what the smart white people in Ohio did. Vote out the bastards.
End of story.
December 20th, 2011 at 11:57 pm
Social Butterfly, I am writing to apologize for a misprint. When I wrote this – Something has to fill the vacuum. Do you know who Anonymous has planned to fill that vacuum once he has motivated you and the other slow witted minions to do his dirty work of getting rid of “all in a position of power in our current government.”?
I meant to write “you and THOSE other not “the” other”. I never intended to call you a slow witted minion. I respect your thinking process. This was a rare time that I found a difference of opinion between your point of view and mine.
Please forgive the typo.
Maddie
December 21st, 2011 at 12:11 am
It wasn’t the disastrous Fast and Furious gunrunning operation that armed the Mexican drug cartel and led to the death of a border patrol agent that has led conservatives to call for Eric Holder’s resignation. Nope. Nor was it the fact that Holder’s office inexplicably refuses to defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and his decision to sue Arizona over its sensible law to check the legality of people living in the state.
In reality, Eric Holder is under undue scrutiny because he’s a black man. And his boss, Barack Obama, also takes the heat because, he too, is a black man.
So says the Attorney General anyway… read more about how the nation’s top cop and president continue to play racial politics in a post-racial Administration.
—Jason Mattera
December 21st, 2011 at 8:34 am
Maddie,
No need to apologize. But that was kind of you to do so. I have been duly chastised and enlightened.
Perhaps a lapse of judgment has been going around. Like a virus, it did seem to affected several of us lately.
Don’t get me wrong, I will be voting for Obama in 2012. But I still feel in my heart that our system of GOVERNMENT is broken.
/SB
December 21st, 2011 at 8:48 am
Here’s something else I learned yesterday.
Olive oil comes from olives. Sesame seed oil comes from sesame seeds. But Canola oil is actually a made-up word for a genetically modified product.
Canola stands for “Canadian oil low acid.” It’s a Canadian invention and subsidized by the government. The subsidies make it very cheap to use, so almost all processed or packaged foods contain canola oil. Be sure to read the ingredients. Here’s why you should:
THE SCOOP ON CANOLA
Canola oil is developed from the rapeseed plant, which is part of the mustard family of plants. These oils have long been used for industrial purposes (in candles, lipsticks, soaps, inks, lubricants, and biofuels). It’s an industrial oil, not a food.
Rapeseed oil is the source behind mustard gas, and on its own it causes emphysema, respiratory distress, anemia, constipation, irritability, and blindness. But through the beauty of genetic modification, we now sell it as an edible oil.
The claim is that canola is safe to use because through modification it is no longer rapeseed but “canola.” Except… canola is just genetically modified rapeseed. It has been marketed as a wonder oil that is low in saturated fats with a beneficial omega-3 fatty acid profile. It is recognized by the American Dietetic Association and the American Heart Association based on the belief that the absence of saturated fats alone makes it healthy.
It is now believed that rapeseed has a cumulative effect, taking almost 10 years before symptoms begin to manifest. One possible effect of long-term use is the destruction of the protective coating surrounding nerves called the myelin sheath. This is like having raw, open wires in the body. Some symptoms include:
tremors and shaking
uncoordination when walking or writing
slurred speech
deterioration of memory and thinking processes
fuzzy or low audio levels
difficulty urinating/incontinence
breathing problems/short of breath
nervous breakdown
numbness and tingling in extremities
heart problems/arrhythmia
From a nutritional perspective, canola oil has been found to deplete Vitamin E. It has a tendency to inhibit proper metabolism of foods and normal enzyme function. It also depresses the immune system.
Perhaps the deterioration of my thinking process yesteday was a result of the lunch that someone else prepared for me. Maybe they used Canola Oil.
Have a good day all.
/SB
December 21st, 2011 at 8:52 am
Alice Walton is worth $21 billion dollars, while almost half of the employees at her family’s Walmart Stores are eligible for Food Stamps.
American Tax Payers are expected to make up what she would have paid in taxes because she’s a “Job Creator.”
American Tax Payers are also expected to pay for her Employee’s Food Stamps because the jobs she creates won’t pay enough to get by.
Is it really so much to ask the “Job Creators” in the USA to try and get by on a few Billion dollars less so that
American Tax Payers don’t have to foot the bill for their Employee’s Food Stamps?
December 21st, 2011 at 9:28 am
Today’s a Special Day
for the Heavens gave Earth a gift
You appeared in all Your Glory
and the Universe made a Shift
The Magnificence of Your Being
is told throughout the Skies
But to behold Your Golden Presence
is truly the Ultimate Prize
Lucky are those that get the chance
to know the Being that is You
I for One am ever grateful
that You allow Me to be Your Boo
And though this year We are apart
on this, Your celebratory day,
My Heart is always with You
My Lord, My Liege, My Bey
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