Mitt Romney’s Test of Moral Fiber
Posted by Michelle Moquin on January 11th, 2012
Good morning!
So Romney won New Hampshire last night. This article is perfect to post today. It really show what a hypocrite Romney really is.
Mitt Romney’s Test of Moral Fiber
I was surprised when Mitt Romney’s son, Matt,resuscitated the “birther” issue in New Hampshire on December 29. Speaking at a campaign event, the young Romney deflected a question about his father’s refusal to release his income tax return by citing a proposal that President Barack Obama should first release his own birth certificate. Mr. Romney, who has since retracted his statement, apparently did not realize that, at White House urging, the state of Hawaii released the president’s long form birth certificate on April 25, 2011.
The White House deemed that action necessary to quiet a noisy debate that was distracting the country and damaging the national interest. The basis of the tempest was the Constitution’s Article II Section 1, which seems to prohibit anyone except “naturalized American citizens” born in the USA from serving as president. A small group of conspiracy crackpots, theorizing that the president was lying about having been born in Hawaii, found a bullhorn for their quackery on Fox News and hate radio. Like milk on a hot stove, the bizarre obsession of a lunatic fringe suddenly grew to envelop even the rational remnants of the Republican Party, drowning sane discourse on vital issues of public import. It was apparent from the outset that the topic’s steroidal appeal was its dog whistle usefulness in highlighting the “otherness” of America’s first African American president; there was no appetite among these conservative cohorts for applying the Article II Section 1 prohibition against the GOP’s 2008 candidate, John McCain, a white man born in Panama.
Mr. Romney’s initial choice to to stir life back into the issue raised consistency questions peculiar to the Romney clan. Mitt’s father — Governor George Romney of Michigan — was driven to distraction by his own “birther” movement when he ran in the Republican presidential primaries of 1968. Supporters of his opponent, Richard Nixon, argued that George Romney’s presidency would be unconstitutional because Romney had been born in Mexico where his grandfather and five wives had fled to evade America’s polygamy laws.
On a more salient point with relevance to the current campaign, the 1787 Constitutional Conventionincluded the Article II Section 1 prohibition due to the prevailing fear that a foreign power might otherwise gain undue influence over America’s democracy. Ironically, the greatest threat of that outcome today comes from those Super PACs which Romney’s allies and campaign staffers have pioneered in Iowa. Arguably, Super PACs now pose the most menacing platform for foreign and private interests to gain an alarming hold on the White House. Under the current Supreme Court holding in Citizens United v. FEC, there isnothing to stop foreign governments or foreign owned corporations from secretly donating hundreds of millions of dollars to Super PACs enabling them to pick favored candidates and destroy their opponents.
Prior to his withdrawal from the presidential contest on February 28, 1968, George Romney ran an extraordinarily honest, thoughtful and honorable campaign. The senior Romney, a former Chairman and CEO of American Motors Corporation, criticized the military industrial complex for lying to Americans about Vietnam and mocked the products of Detroit’s Big Three as “gas guzzling dinosaurs.” He was a vocal advocate of Civil Rights and anti-poverty legislation. He supported strong unions as the launching pad for America’s middle class and criticized conservative palaver about “rugged individualism,” unrestricted free markets, and wholesale corporate deregulation as “nothing but a political banner to cover up greed.” Romney, a Mormon bishop, refused to work on Sundays (with rare exception), fasted before big decisions, spurned dirty campaigning and other appeals to the dark forces of ignorance, greed, racism and division.
As Governor Mitt Romney grapples with his Party’s national banner, the test of his moral fiber will be the vigor with which he resists the dark impulse of ignorance, greed, vitriol, demagoguery and division and how robustly he safeguards America’s interest in a strong and independent democracy. Will Romney lead the GOP with the brand of decency that is his heritage, or will he choose instead to outsource indecency and mudslinging to surrogates and Super PACs?
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Readers: Don’t you especially enjoy the reference to the fact that the question of McCain’s birth never became an issue? And that the reason the law was passed was to prohibit foreign powers from taking control over the USA’s presidential choices. It was nicely pointed out that the republicans and STARK have done that with the passage of Citizens United v. FEC.
Thoughts? Blog me.
Robert, RT: How delightful. I would enjoy that as well. Let me figure out some times and get back to you.
Brad: I’ve never given gays a thought with respect to being a girlz. So let me give it some. :)
John: That info you posted is just criminal, and disgusting.
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January 11th, 2012 at 10:00 am
Poor Mitt Romney. It’s easy to feel sorry for the guy. Not that I would ever vote for him you understand. I would drink a cocktail of vodka and battery acid before I ever voted for the likes of Mitt Romney.
Still, there is a certain….Oh, what’s the word….”Pathos?”….in the spectacle of a man coming face-to-face with the ugly reality that even his own people can’t stand him.
It’s oodles of fun these days to watch a moderately intelligent guy like Romney (and his kid) stumbling around the country saying all sorts of mind-jarringly stupid things.
He knows that this is the only way to appeal to the chowderheads – particularly in the Deep South and Midwest – who vote in Republican primaries.
Say what you want about Mitt Romney, unlike most of the contenders for the nomination the man knows what he’s doing.
http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com
January 11th, 2012 at 10:04 am
Ditto Al. Love the way you broke it down.
January 11th, 2012 at 10:10 am
Michelle, I’m sorry but I have to disagree with that General Input #31 article General Info Says:
January 11th, 2012 at 9:08 am
WOULD SNOOPING ENHANCE YOUR RELATIONSHIP?
That is as much a bunch of bull as I have every heard. No one is interested in being spied on by his/her significant other or anyone else for that matter.
Who are those shits? Give them a title and they think they can tell you anything.
I for one know bullshit when I hear it.
Harry
January 11th, 2012 at 10:17 am
Gordon, when hypocrites constantly cite God, Christ, religion, and faith in every other conservative line and claim, then you are the ones bringing your religion to the forefront of your politics.
Romney may or may not be a cult, but it is certainly not christian as we know it. I don’t remember Jesus traveling to Utah to become white or any of those idiotic stories about the American indian becoming jews to fight the whites for the promised land or the jews who were turned back because they betrayed the whites.
That religious bullshit is fair game since you and your ilk continually flaunt the “high moral” character of your mormon religion.
Romney’s tax returns will show just who has lost their soul. It will also spur interest in getting rid of the exemption on carried interest earnings.
This man is a total fraud. His economic plan is to get rid of the tax on capital gains which would leave him paying zero in income tax.
Talk about greed.
Juanita
January 11th, 2012 at 10:20 am
Walk Off Your Chocolate Cravings
Adrian Taylor, PhD
Up to 97% of women get food cravings, as do 68% of men—most commonly for chocolate.
New study: People who habitually ate at least 3.5 ounces of chocolate daily abstained for two days.
Next they took either a 15-minute brisk walk or a 15-minute rest, then unwrapped but were not allowed to eat chocolate.
Participants reported fewer and less intense cravings for chocolate after walking than after resting.
Best: An occasional piece of chocolate is fine—but for frequent cravings, take regular walks to relieve the urge to overindulge.
Women’s Health interviewed Adrian Taylor, PhD, professor of exercise and health psychology, School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, England, and head of a study published in Appetite.
January 11th, 2012 at 10:24 am
Gordon, You cite the man getting so much morality from his mormon religion.
Morality? This is a man that proudly saved some money by strapping his family pet on top of a car for a 20 hour car trip.
Whenever they start attacking others with weak, already misproven facts, you have to wonder what else they are hiding. Maybe that they are a fake?
January 11th, 2012 at 10:26 am
Here’s the thing, the people who compromise the Main stream of the Republican party…
The people in the spotlight who are grabbing attention and making the news breaking statements… Don’t give one wit about what George Romney did or didn’t do as a American.
Its about Ratings, its about power .. Its not about being “American” or the “American Dream” or our way of life.
It isn’t even about whats “Best” for our country. Country be damned, they are in it for the power.
The power to be able to spend what ever they want, to fleece America how ever they want, to give all their CEO buddies as much power and prestige as they can to maximize their financial gain after being in office.
The son learned nothing from the father, nothing at all..
He inherited (An there is absolutely nothing wrong with inheriting money or property or prestige) a massive amount of “Power” and ignored the teachings and lessons he could have gained by his fathers own presidential run… An Blew his wealth making Americans suffer.
Maximizing his profit in the process, he’s worked hard to put Americans out of work. He will be no different if he ever gets in the Oval office..
If it makes him, or someone he knows rich and powerful... Even just powerful, you better believe he’ll sign that bill.
January 11th, 2012 at 10:29 am
Great post Caroline. And lest some think you are lying. I leave them with this link
http://www.inquisitr.com/176518/mitt-romney-admits-he-tied-family-dog-to-the-roof-of-his-car-video/
January 11th, 2012 at 10:33 am
The last eight recessions, all but the first, in 1948, occurred during Republican presidents. The first occurred when Republicans controlled Congress.
Here are the recessions and their Republican presidents: August 1957 to April 1958 (Eisenhower),
April 1960 to February 1961 (Eisenhower),
December 1969 to November 1970 (Nixon),
November 1973 to March 1975 (Nixon and Ford),
July 1981 to November 1982 (Reagan),
July 1990 to March 1991 (Reagan),
and March 2001 to November 2001 (Bush II).
January 11th, 2012 at 10:33 am
When I studied my country’s history of oppression by europeans, I often asked myself and my fellow students why they would come to China, a country with so much to offer the barbarians and treat us like animals.
They used to say watch american politics. You will learn much. When I see your country men pick a man who tortures his own family dog, worships a religion of polygamy, and is so rich as to refuse to allow his income tax record to be seen, I begin to understand.
You have no standards. You make them up as you go along. No morals, you make them up to hold others to.
I don’t hate america as some of my country men do. They say if it is going to america, who cares what we send to them. They are barbarians. They worship money.
It is no secret in Asia that the whites in your country hate the other races in your country. It is a shame we have to poison them along with the whites.
Michelle, I don’t believe that all whites in america are racists. But I do believe that they are but moments away from accepting the behavior of their more fervent racists.
We look forward to the racist, one party picks to run against the black one in his party. They will claim a set of standards and a set of morals to give the white racist voters an excuse to choose their party so the rest of us watching will believe it is your democratic process at work.
Your press will quote them and set them up as if they were true and counter balances against the black one’s party.
As if to hold out to the voters of america they are making a choice of values and standards. And to fool we who know that it is but another lie by the whites in your country who control its media into believing that your have an honest choice between to different set of standards and morals.
The lie of the white man. Like the one that gets him into the countries of asian countries before he sets about demeaning and destroying the peaceful lives of its inhabitants.
So in reality a party that worships money selects a man born to it to compete with a party asking for an opportunity for every person in their country to have an equal chance to make money who selects a man not born to it or the elite group from which the MAN is usually selected.
The who will win isn’t really about whether the party with no true standards or morals will have their lies accepted by the voters because your media held them up as true.
It will be about whether that party can steal the election my preventing those who would not vote for them to vote by one means or another or if they can steal the vote by manipulating the way the votes are counted or if they can get one of their judges to declare who the choice should be.
You hold your nose to China. You say we are Communist. We have no democracy.
I say at least we are honest. You claim to be a democracy when you are and have always been, until the election of your black man, a country run on the principle of Elitism.
And you have believed that the only group that could offer that select set of intellectually qualified MEN is the white race.
Your goal this election is to force the country to return to that belief. And all the time you hold out to the world your lie of america THE LAND OF THE FREE.
When the only freedom the masses in your “democratic” country have is the same one the masse in our communist country have. That is to parrot the fake standards and morals of those in charge.
So tell me again how you are different from China. I hate the system I am under here. But yours is no better. I say I will not participate in the poisoning of america.
But I will mimic the behavior of your less fervent racists, I will look the other way while the more fervent of my country men poison you.
Happy New Year
Xiang
January 11th, 2012 at 10:50 am
HOARDING:
You or Someone You Love Could Become a Victim
Most of us have heard of people who suffer from hoarding. They excessively accumulate stuff until piles of it eventually cover floors, engulf furniture and even take over entire rooms.
A common response is that such a condition could never happen to one of us or someone we love. But that’s not true.
Significant hoarding is surprisingly common, affecting as many as one in every 20 Americans, according to recent studies. What you need to know about hoarding…
Why Do People Hoard?
An inability to discard possessions even when they make living space unusable is the hallmark of hoarding.
Most hoarders also acquire in excess—for example, they can’t stop shopping or can’t resist anything that’s free.
Many hoarders have trouble concentrating and are easily distracted from sorting and discarding tasks. They generally find it hard to put things in categories (that’s why electric bills end up in a pile with junk mail and old newspapers) and often are chronically indecisive.
Hoarding symptoms are thought to initially occur in childhood and gradually worsen. A traumatic event (such as the loss of a spouse or a violent crime) can exacerbate the disorder.
Important new finding: A 2010 study of 18 adults (age 60 and older) diagnosed with compulsive hoarding found that while onset was reported in midlife, signs of the problem actually surfaced in childhood or adolescence and worsened with each decade.
Depression and anxiety disorders were common among the study participants.
Latest development: Though evidence suggests that hoarding may be a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), mental health experts are now recommending that a separate diagnostic category for the problem be included in the fifth edition of the standard handbook on psychiatric disorders, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, expected to be published in 2012.
Hoarding is not just a mental health issue. It also is hard on one’s family and takes a heavy toll on one’s physical health.
Debris and dust aggravate lung conditions such as asthma, allergies and emphysema. Objects piled everywhere can cause falls… and accumulations of paper and blocked exits are a serious fire hazard.
The Meaning of Possessions
Hoarders hold on to their possessions for the same reasons we all do—but form intense emotional bonds to a wider variety of objects.
Collectors, on the other hand, keep their possessions well-organized and proudly displayed.
Common reasons for hoarding…
Just in case. A powerful sense of responsibility makes hoarders feel intense guilt and anxiety about discarding anything that they or someone else could possibly use.
Fear of forgetting. There’s a world of facts in those heaps of newspapers, junk mailings and bank statements that hoarders feel they may someday need.
Hoarders prefer to place objects in the open rather than put them away for fear they’ll forget they possess the items or where they placed them.
Sentimental value. Objects represent memories of loved ones, special events and bygone days. To a hoarder, letting go of a possession means losing something irreplaceable—even part of his/her identity.
Strategies to Try
It may seem that the solution to hoarding is as simple as learning how to organize and systematically throw things out, but the condition usually requires professional treatment.
The most effective treatment—cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) —works by helping hoarders change how they think about their possessions along with what they do with them.
If you think that you may be a hoarder, try these CBT techniques yourself…
Think before acquiring. The impulse is so strong for compulsive hoarders to acquire (buy or take something for free) that they forget that their living quarters are already overflowing.
Solution: Make a list of questions to ask yourself whenever the urge to acquire strikes:
“Do I have the room for this?
How many do I already have?
Where will I keep it?
Will it really be useful or pleasurable to have?
Will buying it help or hurt my hoarding problem?”
Challenge the pain of parting. Hoarders often believe that they’ll agonize later if they discard any of their treasures.
Solution: Experiment to see if the fear is realistic—throw something away, then write down the way you actually feel.
How painful is it, really? How long does the pain last?
Go slowly.
Declutter one small area at a time. For example, free your bed for normal use before attacking piles in the living room. A small success can fuel your determination to keep going.
Stay motivated. Each day, remind yourself why you’re doing the hard work of decluttering.
What values are important to you? How do you want to live?
What would it take to get there? Does hoarding help or hurt?
Write down your responses to these questions, and refer back to them often.
When to Get Professional Help
If hoarding interferes with your life despite your best efforts, seek professional help.
Important: Therapists trained to work with hoarders are hard to find. Many think that their role is to help people discard and declutter.
But their role really is to help people who hoard to view their possessions differently.
To find a qualified therapist, self-help group or family support, consult the International OCD Foundation, http://www.ocfoundation.org, 617-973-5801.
Health interviewed Randy O. Frost, PhD, professor of psychology at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and several books about hoarding, including Buried in Treasures:
Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving and Hoarding (Oxford University) and, most recently, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
January 11th, 2012 at 11:01 am
Well, first things first. The “food stamp President” talking point by Newt Gingrich is in itself a barely disguised racial dog whistle.
The fact they can “explain” what they mean (yes, lots of people on food stamps right now BECAUSE OF THE BAD ECONOMY) does not mean there is not a conscious choice there.
Are we supposed to believe that the fact the Republican candidates have settled on the food stamps as the “best” shorthand for the bad economy is a complete coincidence with the fact the President is black? I mean, who are we trying to fool here?
And secondly while I was initially ready to accept the explanation that he clumsily merged two unrelated talking points here, the full quote is actually pretty damning.
I mean, which “neighborhoods” do you think Gingrich is referring to (especially when he switches to mentioning the NAACP in the next sentence)?
He is explicitly saying that in black neighborhoods people prefer welfare. Well, that’s a classic racist trope.
And third – and that’s a wider point – the fact that Gingrich, like many Republicans, does not see himself as racist – and therefore resents any implication otherwise – does not mean he is not.
You can at the same being full of offensive racial prejudices and not be consciously filled with hatred.
It is still repulsive, especially when you refuse to take responsibility for what you are saying
January 11th, 2012 at 11:02 am
In this country, there’s a lot more white people on foodstamps then black people.
If Newt had replaced “NAACP” with “whites-only missouri trailer park”, that would have been more fair. And more honest.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:04 am
Let’s try and work from the premise that whether or not a presidential candidate’s remarks are ad hoc or well-rehearsed that they merit considered scrutiny.
In it’s entirety, I continue to find, at best, a soft bigotry to Gingrich’s remarks.
Eliding that an entire community, in this case Africa-Americans, is on the dole is careless at best, concern trolling at minimum, and a dog-whistle to racists at the worst.
I have no idea if, and what Gingrich’s moral compass might be, but I do know that he is constantly spouting with a particular audience in mine.
Weigel is right to find the transition food stamps to African-American males to NAAPs troubling.
Most folks collecting government aid are Southern white males.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:05 am
The embeds, too, didn’t hear anything in the quote that Gingrich hasn’t been saying for weeks.”
That Newt has been peddling racist garbage for weeks doesn’t suddenly make it not racist.
Especially since you’re not going to see Gingrich in a rural white area telling them they have a poor work ethic and should get off welfare even though those demographics have a much larger slice of the welfare pie.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:06 am
So, if Gingrich gets invited to address the NAACP, he should discuss rural farmers? Who do you think his audience is?
Why is poverty so strong in ghettos? Why is the discipline of a work ethic weak in the ghettos?
Gosh, I don’t know – but the longer you stay in denial about any problems within the black community, the longer you postpone any real address of the basic problems.
Oh drat, I guess that I just wrote a racist comment. I should know by now that the black community has absolutely no problems whatsoever, so any hint to the contrary is racist. I apologize.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:08 am
Wow first Gingrich tells me my kids have no role models who work, so he offers them jobs cleaning crap out of their middle school.
Now he paints a picture that only blacks are on food stamps?
Wow! Oh but it’s the media painting a racist picture of Newt! Give me a break!
January 11th, 2012 at 11:13 am
SS#16, if you have to ask why is proverty so wide spread in the ghetto then your already lost.
Once again the biggest sector of Welfare is Social Security 70% which are white. There are more working white families receiving food stamps than my race.
When you make statements such as newt did you must have your facts straight. There are real problems in the ghetto and you don’t have to be black to address them.
However, you prefer to tell lies and try to instill fear in people through lies as it relates to race then you ate racist.
Newt doesn’t give a hoot about POOR people period if you are WHITE and poor he hates you too.
So please don’t rely on these politicians for facts. They have always been liars and will continue to deceive you.
You may not be racist, however you know in your heart that Newt is. Yet, you brazenly pretend to the public that you have your doubts.
How dishonest is that?
January 11th, 2012 at 11:16 am
SS: Food for thought SS.
What makes Newt think he even understands black people’s issues? Why does he presume to know what’s best for the black man.
If you grow up rich and white, you’ve got a whole mess to clean up in your OWN backyard. That first.
Then maybe you could start by actually trying to listen to black people with political concerns, and try to understand what’s going on.
Newt wasn’t asking black people anything. He was telling a crowd of white people how black people are.
Maybe you don’t understand the trajectory of American bigotry, white privilege and tribalism in this country.
Maybe you are too removed from American politics. Who knows? Who cares.
The sun sets in the west, water is wet, and Newt is a bloated asshole with too much hubris and privilege for his own good.
What exactly does Newt know about being poor, or black?
January 11th, 2012 at 11:19 am
What Newt is saying is that he won’t tailor a different message at the NRA, the NAACP or the NEA. Same Country, same problems, same message.
OP#17 seems to say that isn’t possible. We hear food stamps, he hears AA … we hear inter-city and poor schools … he hears AA children.
We need to live in a Country in which race baiters will not be able to peddle that canard that to speak of lifting up the poor is somehow racist.
We need a country where black white and brown are equally prosperous. That my friend is the polar opposite of racism.
As a noted lifelong Republican once said … “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
We would like to get there sooner rather than later … how about joining the cause?
January 11th, 2012 at 11:20 am
ONLY A RACIST WOULDN’T THINK NEWT’S WORDS WERE NOT RACIST
January 11th, 2012 at 11:23 am
MC#20, we all know what Gingrich is talking about.
Republicans have spent the last 40 years working hard to see to it that when they talk about “welfare” or “food stamps”, people know they’re really talking about “darkies” and worse.
Ronald Reagan made up some fantasy about a black “welfare queen” who was getting rich off welfare–as if anybody could get rich off the pittance we give to welfare recipients.
And then there’s Lee Atwater. Remember him? He’s the guy who laid it all out, and I quote him:
“You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘nigger’ — that hurts you. Backfires.
So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff.
You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.
And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other.
You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, ‘We want to cut this,’ is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than ‘Nigger, nigger.’”
January 11th, 2012 at 11:24 am
I dare Santorum & Gingrich to go to a minority audience & give their racially coded stump speeches, or since you find the material not offensive; perhaps you should go yourself, Sir.
We shouldn’t have to listen to this Lee Atwater Crap anymore! I live in SC & yes, the GOP racebaits constantly to get elected b/c white’s food stamps don’t cost the govt anything, but blacks or any other minority; it’s HUGE COST. Total Fail, Politico/.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:26 am
Al, yes ditto is right.
Harry, ditto again, which is why I have a lock code on my cell, when asked why – I say may I see YOUR cell phone vmails, texts, and emails right now? Oh no, you don’t? Oh ok bc my answer is no also, not bc I’m hiding anything though if I am that is also my biz, not yours and until my stuff affects yours and I have a conscience and I know when that is, my private biz is my private biz…have I ever snooped, sure, but I’ll tell you all I found was pretty boring evidence of not much, so why bother, if anyone is that discreet they deserve my inattention to the matter.
Xiang, I totally agree with you except for the ‘at least my country is honest’ I know you might want to believe that but nah, don’t…you’d be putting patriotism before logical and practical thinking, a huge mistake, huge…
Luv, Zen Lill
January 11th, 2012 at 11:26 am
UW “welfare” or “food stamps”, people know they’re really talking about “darkies” and worse.
You got the problem pal. You got the wrong party too.
Republicans want fewer poor people, an economy that booms and allows almost all people to thrive and protects and defends those who truly need our help.
We do not care what shade they are … we are all Americans where I come from.
We will keep working to that end. No matter how twisted minds twist words … we will not be cowed.
You see black and white … I see Americans. To me … you got the problem pal.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:33 am
Zen Lill, when I say my country is “honest.” I am not being naive. I am saying my country admits that it is a communist country. They are definitely lying about the benefits it bestows on the people the doctrine rules, but they are not lying about it being communism.
Your countrymen on the other hand are flat out lying. They claim to be part of a democracy. That is just bs. Your country is run by a few elite oligopolies.
The proof is in the fact that all prices in a particular market go up practically simultaneously. The brief delay is to give the impression that it is a free market adjusting to the market demands.
My statement stands the test. Your country lies when it claims to be a democracy. Mine does not when it claims to be a communist state.
Xiang
January 11th, 2012 at 11:41 am
MC#25:
That was classic republican bullshit. They want to scare white people in believing that all black folk are leaches that is why he makes such comments to an all white audience.
The facts are the biggest sector of Welfare is Social Security. 70% of the people receiving that benefit are white only 30% are black.
The other sector is Temporary assistance 33% who receive this are black while 31% are white. Let me educate you mathematically. 33% of 10% of 350,000.000 is a WHOLE lot less than 31% of 350,000,000 people.
These are the facts WHITE PEOPLE.
IF YOUR NOT RICH, HE THINKS OF YOU AS A NIGGER AS HE DOES ME AND MY RACE.
It’s insulting but this is typical of any Republican they hate anything that isn’t white. They attempt to instill fear through lies and race baiting.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:42 am
Keep wallowing in your victimhood. The rest of us can read. Being in a group that’s entire purpose in life is define themselves by the color of their skin = not racist?
Saying we are one America and getting all people to jobs with paychecks that will support them and their families instead of a Country that is so economically sick that it forces people out of work completely or into jobs that will not meet their basic needs = racist? You have certainly lost me sir.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:42 am
And you have lost your soul, sir–if you ever had one
January 11th, 2012 at 11:42 am
So wanting all people to succeed is soulless? Taking people one at a time without regard to race is soulless? As i said before … you got the problem pal.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:43 am
For all the folks trying to defend OBVIOUS racism….answer this…
Why in the hell is Newt Gingrich talking about black people, the NAACP, and welfare to a nearly 99.9 percent white audience in a predominantly white state like New Hampshire, when no one even asked him a question of this subject?
If Newt Gingrich was really concerned about black people why isn’t he talking directly them instead of waiting on an invitation to the NAACP convention that he NEVER once accepted when he was actually in elected office.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:45 am
Again Newt talks about inner cities when its rural areas (read white) that have more people as a percentage on food stamps.
He then talks about Detroit…..a city that depends on the auto industry Newt wanted to see go under.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:46 am
“It is a shame that the former Speaker feels that these types of inaccurate, divisive statements are in any way helpful to our country,” said Jealous.
“The majority of people using food stamps are not African-American, and most people using food stamps have a job.”.
“We invited Speaker Gingrich to attend our annual convention several times when he was Speaker of the House, but he declined to join us,” Jealous continued.
“If he is invited again, I hope that he would come, with the intention to unite rather than divide.”.
“Gingrich’s statement is problematic on several fronts, most importantly because he gets his facts wrong.”
January 11th, 2012 at 11:49 am
The NAACP would most likely have died out by now if white liberals hadn’t signed up to help them maintain their chapters.
There’s a reason for that. The only ones invested in keeping the idea of racism alive are Democrats.
They wouldn’t even continue to exist w/o identity politics and the maintenance of fake victimization.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:50 am
CB#34:
“They [the NAACP] wouldn’t even continue to exist w/o identity politics and the maintenance of fake victimization.”
Tell that to James Byrd’s family. Tell it to black people who get turned down for bank loans that whites who earn less get. Go burn a cross somewhere.
January 11th, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Xaing, true, but Zen Lill points was well made. In our country we always have the chance with one vote to switch the rule.
Obama is a case in point. If he is re-elected with coat-tails that give his party a significant majority in both houses, we can change our country’s predicament with regulations and prosecutions.
You on the other hand will have to resort to riots and blood shed to even get the opportunity to address the issues that you differ with.
Totalitarism is the rule you live under. We are not quite there yet. Zen Lill recognized your lack or realization of that point in your discussion of the conditions of our two countries.
She was merely being polite in while nudging you in that direction.
I am not presuming to speak for Zen Lill, just making a observation.
Oh guys/gals – loving the discussion re Newt and the apologists for his brand of racism.
Alycedale
January 11th, 2012 at 12:28 pm
Your encouragement was all I needed Alycedale. I hear Gingrich railing against the big PAC money Romney has.
If Newt had had enough money to go blow for blow against Romney’s super PAC, He wouldn’t be pretending to be against them.
Newt is as dishonest and duplicitous as Romney. and he hates losing. When his 5 m Super Pac is used up he’ll be back to crying out against super PACs.
January 11th, 2012 at 12:52 pm
Alycedale, thank you for giving in specific words what I chose to give in my nuanced (translate: apparently, ‘unclear’) way to Xiang. & am also sitting back and enjoying the Romney/Gingrich go ’rounds. Wanting what’s best for this country is often what whites decide to hide/stand behind and they are terrified of losing their majority status in sheer numbers which is coming up…no wonder why they resort to racial slurs, it’s all they’ve got.
- ZL
January 11th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
My gay sister sent me this quote from the pope she says not she is quitting the catholic church. I quit over a decade ago.
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Pope Benedict said on Monday that gay marriage was one of several threats to the traditional family that undermined “the future of humanity itself”
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It never ceases to amaze me how people will stay in an organization or group that despises them.
Debra
January 11th, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Hey check out the discussion on the view
‘The View’ On Gay Marriage: Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Joy Behar Take On Pope Benedict XVI’s Controversial Remarks (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/the-view-gay-marriage-pope-benedict-xvi_n_1199456.html
January 11th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
First the pope denies the Holocaust, then he denies the pedophilia, now he’s denying the humanity of gay people. Sounds pretty in character to me.
January 11th, 2012 at 1:02 pm
When he excommunicates and hands over to the authorities the priests and hierarchy associated with sexual abuse of children, then he may have some credibility.
January 11th, 2012 at 1:02 pm
This man should be in jail for covering up child rape and not making judgements about a group of people who simply just love one another… jus’ sayin’.
January 11th, 2012 at 1:05 pm
If the pope thinks marriage is so sacred and in do much danger. Why not permit priest to marry?
That may at least curb the appetites of the butt rustlers that inhabit that vestibule of pedophiles.
Kay
January 11th, 2012 at 1:12 pm
Michelle, the murderers are back in Homs killing at will. Even foreign reporters are murdered will the camera are rolling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7PE-4JL57L4
January 11th, 2012 at 1:15 pm
What a pain, sorrow! i feel shame because so many Syrians haven’t guessed who their real ennemies are.
i am sitting and crying, my heart is full of rage, anger and even hate. To whom shall i shout my despair?
The truth is that Syria has fallen, like Libya, Irak and Lebanon afterwards, in the fangs of Israeli predators. Syrians believed the dirty liars.
An elite financed by USA and who have sold the blood of their brothers in exchange of a green card and a political position in a ruined country.
January 11th, 2012 at 1:19 pm
God’s curse on the Saudi Wahhabi terrorism Magi
January 11th, 2012 at 1:24 pm
No God but God and the heck with the will of God we receive you Syria and Bashar Avatar and compassion for the souls of our martyrs
January 11th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
No God but God.
Do you endorse AFP that there are now 24 armed terrorists in Homs.
May God curse all the channels on the client and the Arab Peninsula.
January 11th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
From a political and humanitarian viewpoint, there is no denial that Syria is in need of fundamental political reforms.
More, the blatant violence employed against the uprising was simply indefensible. However, unlike what Aljazeera Arabic and other media may claim on an hourly basis, there is more to Syria than a brutal ‘Alawite regime’ and a rebelling nation that never ceases to demand ‘international intervention’.
There is also the reality of ill-intentioned parties seeking their own objectives, such as further isolating Iran, strengthening allies in Lebanon, weakening Damascus-based Palestinian factions, and aiding US allies in rearranging the entire power-paradigm in the region…...
Thee are many reasons behind the manipulation of the Syria coverage...
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=17376
January 11th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
So let me get this straight. It is my imagination that blacks are discriminated against MC. Here’s a little quip from a white producer, you may have heard of him, George Lucas about a movie he trying to fund.
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In an appearance on The Daily Show last night, George Lucas said that he had trouble getting funding for his new movie, “Red Tails,” because of its black cast.
“This has been held up for release since 1942 since it was shot, I’ve been trying to get released ever since,” Lucas quipped to Jon Stewart. “It’s because it’s an all-black movie. There’s no major white roles in it at all…I showed it to all of them and they said no. We don’t know how to market a movie like this.”
“Red Tails,” which stars Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Terrence Howard, is based on the Tuskegee Airmen, the group of pioneering black pilots who fought in the United States’ segregated armed forces during World War II. The movie is directed by Anthony Hemingway, the rare black director getting a chance to direct a big-budget feature.
Last week, Lucas told USA Today that he was worried that if Red Tails was a failure, it could have negative repercussions for black filmmakers.
“I realize that by accident I’ve now put the black film community at risk [with Red Tails, whose $58 million budget far exceeds typical all-black productions],” he said.
“I’m saying, if this doesn’t work, there’s a good chance you’ll stay where you are for quite a while. It’ll be harder for you guys to break out of that [lower-budget] mold.
But if I can break through with this movie, then hopefully there will be someone else out there saying let’s make a prequel and sequel, and soon you have more Tyler Perrys out there.”
January 11th, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Teenage Job-Creators
Make Their Own Opportunity
by Newt Gingrich
Dear Fellow Conservative,
Last week, I featured the story of New Hampshire’s Ian Hill, whose Wicked Good Donut business is allowing him to save for college and meet a payroll for several staff—all at just 16 years of age.
Ian’s story is an example of how the entrepreneurial spirit in America is often learned early. He offers an example in his understanding that opportunity is often something we create rather than stumble upon.
That’s exactly the lesson to draw from the responses to my letter last week, after which dozens of people wrote in with stories of young Americans who are learning early that hard work pays off.
Like Ian’s doughnut business, many of these children started work as little more than a hobby, or perhaps a way to earn some spending money, and soon saw the chance to create something much bigger.
One man I heard from actually started washing windows at age 16 and two decades later has grown that business into a multi-million dollar home improvement company. Another person wrote in with the story of a young man in Houston, who started running garage sales for his neighbors and is now working on franchises.
Because young people may often have fewer resources when starting a business than do full adults, many of their examples truly demonstrate what it means to be an entrepreneur. With sometimes-limited access to credit and transportation, children who start businesses sometimes have to find niches to work with what they have.
One girl, for instance, made sewing kits to sell door-to-door in her own neighborhood. Several have started websites to sell their products more broadly.
I hope you’ll take a look at some of the encouraging responses we received, featured here.
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Back in 1997, I owned a small-town, small staff FM Radio station. My son and I had been purchasing “disco” lights and associated entertainment equipment for the almost obligatory DJ dance service small stations provide, from a web-site run by a couple college students. One day, while following up on an order, the guys told me they wanted to sell the business. I loaned my son the money to buy it. My son, who was 17 at the time, is a worker and grew the business. He paid me back with interest all while earning a bachelors and then masters degree. At graduation, he had a problem. He was earning a fair bit more than he could earn in his field of study integrated technology and hospital administration-at least entry level and likely several years beyond. He elected to pursue the business fulltime. He has continued to grow and is Global Truss company’s largest U.S. dealer.
There is a young man in Houston who began his business a few years ago putting on garage sales for neighbors in his surrounding area. He does all the work. He supplies the labor, set-up, advertisement, etc.; the customer just supplies the items and their garage. He takes a percentage of the garage sale profit.
I have used him and he and his crew are really great kids. He started this business while in high school I believe, and he has continued with much growth and success.
I enjoyed your story about that young entrepreneur – that is what this country needs. Plus a government that will help, not hinder him as he tries to make this into a successful business and brand. It reminds me of my own story…I started with a window cleaning company at 16 and now I am 35 and we have grown into a multi-million dollar home improvement company serving SE Michigan.
When my 11-year-old daughter asked for an allowance, I explained I didn’t have money to just give her. After hearing her many requests, out of frustration I said, “Get a job.” She came to me later saying she wanted to do what I had said. She wanted a job. I love the entrepreneurial spirit and I recognized this as a “teachable moment.”
We brainstormed and then I took her to the printer to print the logo she had designed for her “To Keep You in Stitches” sewing kits. The sewing kit on the outside was a match-book-like cardstock cover and inside the kit was thread, needles, and buttons. She sold them door to door in our neighborhood whenever she was feeling the need for cash.
She even had them in a few gift shops and a local business used them in a creative advertising mail-out. Now, I can’t say this turned into a huge business hiring lots of people, but she has never lost the entrepreneurial spirit.
Our son is nine. Since age four he has come up with countless ideas for businesses. Most of his business ideas were good but not viable for his age. Then, when he had just turned eight, he came up with the idea of selling Christian movies, books and CDs for two reasons. First, he wanted to spread the gospel and secondly he wanted a business. I thought on that for a moment and then said yes, this is something that you can actually do at your age.
This has been a very good learning experience for him. He has learned so many aspects of running a business. Here are a few: working on a website, using quick books, making bank deposits, and interacting face to face with his customers at a local tradeshow he exhibited at the past two years.
In addition, he has learned to manage email and phone communications with his customers, inventory, packing and shipping orders, and managing his money.
Look at the Jan. 4 issue of the Times Union in Jacksonville, Fla., for an article on a young man who is in Bartram High School and has started a profitable advertising agency.
Your Friend,
Newt
January 11th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Michelle I would like to tell those LSOS from Human events that is blog is supposed to be a repository for intellectual discussion. Not just a vessel into which Republicans pour BULLSHIT
January 11th, 2012 at 4:23 pm
Rush Limbaugh is the number one radio talk show host in America, MC. The reason he commands such a lofty spot is his racist attitude. He makes white america feel superior to the OTW citizens in this country.
Listen to this guy accuse the Obamas of being a race of people(blacks) who have never done any work for their money so they are looking to freeload off the system of the presidency.
Every other word from his mouth was a minimal disguised stereotype reference to being black. This is the guy white america continues to make the number one radio talk show in the nation.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qcUqZ9lAE-E#!
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I have never tuned in to Rush. But many members of my family swear by his daily rantings.
What dose that say about the hypocritical whites in this country?
He rants and raves about Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama being women and being the two most influential people in Obama’s life.
The interesting thing is how the press Huff Post and all made a big deal about his ranting about the halloween party when the real issue should have been about his casting such cruel and blatant racist aspersion against the character of the President, his family and the black side of his race.
He barely refrained from calling them uppity Ns. This rant was completely ignored in favor of the insignificant rant he made about a secret halloween party.
Listen from the point when he really gets into the uppity rant it begins after the states “she does consider herself royalty.” “tonight tonight we are on the inside,” “we’ve got our chance to be in charge of things,” “now it’s our turn to have the money,” and “the pursuit of money without having to work for it.”
Catch phrases like. “tonight tonight we are on the inside,” “we’ve got our chance to be in charge of things,” “now it’s our turn to have the money,” and “the pursuit of money without having to work for it.”
None of those thinly disguised racial red meat tossed to the rank and file to make them rush out and vote that _______ out were mentioned.
But my relatives didn’t miss a one of those racial innuendos and insinuations or aspersions. They were spouting them and saying “see that is why we have to get those coons out of there.”
I can just imagine what must be happening all over the South after an hour or so of listening to this sick man.
I can understand the reason the Xiangs of this world hate us so.
Milissa
January 11th, 2012 at 6:47 pm
Milissa, I agree with you that Rush Limbaugh is a real bummer. A hate monger with a microphone and a radio show, and unbeleivably an audience too.
Al
January 11th, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Yeah Poor Rachael – doing her job as a TV commentator trying to get the real story from the mouth of the actual person versus Fox who just makes things up…
Mr. Santorum is a rabid right winged catholic – and I am catholic – the church has long been against contraception and he should have just said that.
However, had he, he would open the door for others, i hope, to ask how he plans to be President of everyone in the U.S. and not just catholics.
Mr. Santorum should explain how he supported his wife having an abortion, but now feels that rape/incest victims should be forced to carry a child to term – no matter if that has been done by others in the past.
Contraception is legal in this country and if Mr. Santorum and his wife do not use it, that does not mean other women should be denied this avenue.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow quietly jumped to the elite levels of cable news ratings, outperforming everyone at CNN and MSNBC.
Maddow hit 452,000 viewers 25-54, easily dominating CNN’s Piers Morgan, who had 208,000. Maddow, even came close to Fox’s Sean Hannity, who won the time period with 561,000.
January 11th, 2012 at 7:39 pm
Maybe I’m naive, but why does Sanctorum get to decide “how things are supposed to be”? Especially since ‘ how things are supposed to be’ are, in his ‘mind’ determined by his religion?
Doesn’t America offer freedom of religion to EVERYONE anymore?
January 11th, 2012 at 7:41 pm
It would appear “the Jesus candidate” will do fairly well in South Carolina, deep in the so called Bible belt, and amongst many who believe just like him.
However, after that Santorum will beginning to face those who do not thinks he is the Jesus candidate, nor does he have any business referring to himself so utter ridiculously.
He is right wing extremist religious man who would be dangerous, should he actually gain any power.
His 18 percentage point loss as a sitting Senator from PA, an historical record, shows just how the electorate in that State turned on him once his true disturbing beliefs, and K Street Gang ties became common knowledge.
This man who has used the Word of God to support such hatred and division deserves not one iota of support, and after South Carolina, that will be quite evident.
January 11th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Who has hijacked this blog? Where is the alien conversation?
Howie are you out there or have you and PrP beamed into the unknown?
David
January 11th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
No christian, Republicans included, want a theocracy. Whether Santorum uses Trojan’s or not is irrelevant to his Presidency.
As for Abortion, a deeply-held Santorum belief, he is right to stand against this barbarism.
One of the main reponsibilities of our limited govt. is to protect “Life.” Think Declaration and all…
January 11th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Maybe I’m naive, but why does Sanctorum get to decide “how things are supposed to be”?
Especially since ‘ how things are supposed to be’ are, in his ‘mind’ determined by his religion?
Doesn’t America offer freedom of religion to EVERYONE anymore?
January 11th, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Michelle, I am a sioux. I am 19. I would love to become a girlz. I left the reservation and I worked long enough to make enough money to purchase a glock and 300 bullets.
I hope you can make me one soon. Because I swear if I get raped again I am going to kill the monster and his whole family.
Wachiwi
January 11th, 2012 at 7:52 pm
Okay TA since you asked twice I’ll answer.
It appears to me you may not have been paying attention.
Freedom of Religion in the US means that you are a Christian conservative.
Any other religion is anti-god, anti-job and America hating.
January 11th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
I agree with you Zen Lill. Actually I might go even farther. If I caught husband snooping around in my email, I clock the sneak.
I wouldn’t cheat on him but I don’t want anyone in my personal email.
Lois
January 11th, 2012 at 7:55 pm
I am not a Santorum supporter. However, I don’t recall him ever calling himself the “Jesus Candidate”. Please provide a link…
Santorum is a man of firm conviction and belief, something lacking on the left. There is nothing “extreme” about being a Christian. Unless, of course, you view a majority of Americans as extreme.
Dangerous? LOL. The post-moderists shaming the Oval Office now is “dangerous” and has made the world moreso.
How did he use “the Word of God to support…” hatred?
January 11th, 2012 at 8:03 pm
Wachiwi, I hope you have the courage to kill them all. I was raped and driven from my home by the rapist’s family.
They harassed my family and attacked me in school. I was 13, he was 17. He dragged me from the play area and raped me in front of his “gang” because I was the last untouched girl in my class.
He kept my panty and wore it on his head to school for the whole month. I was made fun of and when I complained to the police his family attacked me.
I am 23 today and it is still a vivid memory for me. If you need my help I will come. just say so we can find a way. I know a support group for raped Native women.
Nascha
January 11th, 2012 at 8:04 pm
OD, Ask, and thou shall receive: Here is your link
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/rick-santorum-we-always-need-a-jesus-candidate/
According to Santorum, the interviewer said, “We don’t need a Jesus candidate, we need an economic candidate.”
“My answer to that,” Santorum added, ”was we always need a Jesus candidate.
Read it and weep asshole.
January 11th, 2012 at 8:05 pm
All politicians dodge the issues they do not want to talk about– knowing that in some places their views may cost them votes.
What Mr. Santorum fails to realize is that a large faction of independents want to hear him talk about this. By not answering the question he will loose votes. More likely the votes he will need to have if he has any chance of winning.
January 11th, 2012 at 8:09 pm
Native american men must be kin to the irish men here. They think they have the right to do with women what they please.
I say kill or castrate the useless curs.
January 11th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
What can be done to help Native women? I wish there were some dialogue on this blog that mentioned some course of action other than violence.
January 11th, 2012 at 8:11 pm
SYRIA is NOT Libya, They will not just fall down , they have a better Air Force and better radar system, and the Military will not fold, and you can count on Iran to help,
That is why they , meaning Europe and the US have no guts to take them on
January 11th, 2012 at 8:14 pm
OH#68 – Really? Indies want to hear more about the man’s personal beliefs on the pill and condoms over the economy and foreign policy….Good One…only a lefty looney could reach that conclusion.
Put down your pipe, or pass it to someone else :-)
January 11th, 2012 at 8:31 pm
Gosh, why we put up with men especially tiny penis white men is a true mystery to me.
Not having babies when you can not afford them is the smart thing to do.
All these white tiny penis republican candidates are so far out of the loop of the american life style its stunning.
I forget who first brought it up here but the observation that we are picking from some “elite” white male pool is telling at this moment.
The MSM is going around following the candidates like white male shit don’t stink.
My white friends come over and think they are showing how enlightened and racially fair they are by discussing the merits of each republican candidate with me.
What fails to reach them is those candidates are bigots and racists. Hence they may have their good and bad points for them, but for this OTW woman, if the candidate is against my race that’s it for me. I don’t need to hear what his other positions on the issues are.
Why my white friends think I would feel otherwise is the other mystery since they have made it abundantly clear time and time again that if they feel an OTW is anti white he/she is toast for them.
Why do they expect my reaction to be different? Which brings me to another quote form someone on this blog.
“THOSE DAYS ARE OVER.” Thanks to the election of the first president OTW. We now know that we have a true presidential choice. We don’t have to settle for the lesser of two evils.
The election of Barack Hussein Obama. It doesn’t matter that he/she was black.
It does matter that he/she NOT be white. I loved Hilary but it was time for the OTW to get a shot at the reins of power.
We as a nation are better for it because for the first time we have a President of ALL the people. The other 43 were first for white america and then maybe for the rest.
Any white person who says otherwise should get an automatic spot in Michelle’s LSOS Club.
January 11th, 2012 at 9:27 pm
Iran has gotten the technology to produce a nuclear warhead. My brother says that they expect a threat from israel.
The secret police have set in motion plans to attack the US 5th fleet just outside of the Sea of Oman. Iran plans to shut down the Strait of Hormuz if Iran is attacked for it nuclear progress.
Many of the religious leaders of Iran see this as the stand Allah wants them to take against the great satan.
Three spots have been targeted. If the 5th fleet sails into any of the three arsenal from preset locations will be launched automatically.
It is believed that no battle ship is capable of fending off all the arsenal that will be launched at these three spots automatically.
The Iranian military is still not so sure that they can take on the full force of the 5th fleet with its piloted and drone air attack. But they are primed to close the strategic oil route to regular traffic.
Many Iranian women are poised to reveal what they know to the American side. We are so tired of being used as sexual gratification for men and portrayed as a kind of evil that has to be controlled.
Muna
January 11th, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Zen Lill I better not catch my husband in any of my computer files. The asshole is so into himself that he saves his shit.
He thinks I am stupid that his bullshit love notes are swaying me. I don’t care to check his computer. Whoever gets this clown deserves him.
Only 1 person matters to this narcissist…and he keeps him locked up in his mirror.
Clara
January 11th, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Melissa, listened to that video by limbaugh. It is truly sick.
How do human beings continue to listen to so much hate day after day?
My mind reels at what his followers are capable of. OTWs should be the ones afraid. I hate to say it but it frightens me.
I am so glad that I am white and I don’t have to worry about this kind of hate confronting me on a daily basis, it the work place, in court, and in the social arenas we frequent.
Trish
January 11th, 2012 at 10:18 pm
Michelle, you are going to have to tell your people to stick to one or two topics. And you need to limit this input to no more than 40.
Your topics are all over the place and I can’t read all this with the intent to comment.
They are attacking every republican candidate and even Rush. Where is the order?
Get control of you blog! You don’t have to be like every one else. 40 is plenty. Shut it off after that or you stand to lose your regulars.
We like to think of this as home. Not some venue for every nut with a cause.
Take the savages writing in about being raped. Who needs to hear that?
Or the towel head niggers and their women complaining about what’s happening in their country. I can’t be spending my time reading through their complaints looking for the real issues of the day.
Oh, and as for encouraging that nigger to call you, I hope Doug raps your knuckles for that one.
George, WN
January 11th, 2012 at 11:23 pm
Michelle, I’m playing in the snow. It is my first time and I’m worried about making love with him. We have been dating for about 6 weeks and he is making his move on this fine black woman.
What if he has a tiny penis? What if his paleness turns me off. I don’t know if I’m his first black love. What if my dark skin down there turns him off?
We have kissed and petted but I haven’t touch it yet. He has attempted to go down on me but I was too nervous.
I plan to do it in the dark so that he won’t get to see me too clearly. I am considered very attractive. I am 5/7″ 34-24-36, 121 lbs. I don’t cause the commotion that Zen Lill does but I do notice the attention I get when I pass men. They check out my ass and legs.
When I met Matt he was the incoming resident assigned to our nursing group. We make up a surgical team that handles emergency bypass and heart transplant surgery.
Matt is 27. I am 29. We have been friends and colleagues for about 2 years. We have double dated and partied together regularly during that time. But only recently have we expressed a romantic interest in each other.
Well, to be truthful i could tell over a year ago that he had the eyes for me. But I was never interested in snow flakes before.
I have a tight pussy, but I need a big dick to please me. One that does more that thrust in and out. Matt has the moves on the dance floor. I have complemented him in the past when we were merely dancing friends. So I feel that he can translate that in bed, but if he has a tiny penis that “motion in the ocean” shit is not going to work for me.
I really like this guy. We talk about many different things and we agree on most of them. He’s the catch at the hospital and he tells me that I’m the one he has been looking for.
He said he turned down a transfer to Berkeley a year ago to stay to see if he could have a chance with me.
I like him but my parents will shit if I bring this snow flake home. I have four brothers two are lawyers one is a high school coach and the other is a cook.
My two sisters are in the fashion industry. Vivian works for a purse manufactory in Italy and Dee has been a runway model for three years. We look very much alike except she is two years younger and two inches taller.
I am not a stranger to men. I have had my share of boyfriends and dates. As I said I am very attractive. In the black world that translates into getting hit on all the time.
And black men are smooth. They will talk you out of our drawers if you blink. But with Matt, I don’t feel the same kind of pressure. He is as aggressive as any black man I have dated, but his, or maybe it’s mine, demeanor doesn’t push me to that sense of urgency.
As I said we have had our passionate moments. He can kiss and I love the way his hands excite me. But I’m just not as wet because I am worried about his size.
Where is this going? I don’t know. I guess I’m just venting. We are going to the game Saturday. He’s from N.O. and he intends to wear his Saints paraphernalia and I am born and raised San Francisco 49er. I will be wearing the colors.
We have season tickets seats and we will make a weekend of it. After the game he is taking me to N.O. to meet his family and friends.
I’m cool with that. it’s just the sex that I am worried about. I could blow him I guess, but I don’t want to gag if his penis is too pale. This is just too much to think about. I feel like a teenager on her first date.
It’s eleven pm and I am up writing this to you because I have the privacy and I need to get this off my mind.
Candi
January 11th, 2012 at 11:30 pm
GTA TeleGuam to Launch iPhone 4S Service FRIDAY
Last Updated on Thursday, 12 January 2012 14:37
Written by News Release
Thursday, 12 January 2012 14:06
Guam News – Guam News
Guam – GTA TeleGuam today announced it will offer iPhone 4S to customers in Guam tomorrow, January 13.
iPhone 4S will be available starting at $269 for the 16GB model,
$369 for the 32GB model and $469 for the 64GB model.
iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 are also available starting at $49 and $100, respectively.
Due to a worldwide demand and inventory constraints, a limited amount will be available at our retail stores.
iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip for blazing fast performance and stunning graphics;
an all new camera with advanced optics and full 1080p HD resolution video recording.
iPhone 4S comes with iOS 5, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features; and iCloud, a breakthrough set of free cloud services that work with your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and push it to all your devices.
“We are extremely excited to bring iPhone 4S to Guam. Our customers have been anticipating the launch of the world’s hottest phone on the island’s best network,” said Roland Certeza, executive vice president of sales and marketing at GTA.
“We remain committed to providing the best products and services to our valued customers.”
Pricing and details for iPhone:
Move With It: 500 Move With It: 1,000 Move With It: 5,000
Monthly Fee – $19.95 $39.95 $59.95
Voice (minutes) 500 – Anytime 1,000 – Weekdays 5,000 – Anytime
Unlimited – Nights and Weekends
iPhone 4S 16GB $269
iPhone 4S 32GB $369
iPhone 4S 64GB $469
iPhone 4 8GB $100
*5GB data available for $29.95 per month. Higher allowances also available.
*200 SMS available for $2.99 per month. Higher allowances also available.
24 month contract required.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:40 pm
It’s nice to see so many got in. But here in Brazil all I got until now was
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Perhaps you would like to try a search or select from one of the links on the menu.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:43 pm
Ym, until I read you recently this was laminated and hung on my wall. Now it has been replaced by your soliloquy to Your Mistress.
omnia vincit amor
Robert Anon39
I like the way you think. I read your initial comment and the follow up by surenough, and of course the subsequent repartee.
I like that you believe that love always has the upper hand. I think it is so romantic to believe that Love is the beginning and everything else is left to making a statement about it. Simpler put Omnia vincit amor, Love conquers all.
So rather than call your self anonymous#39 or another why not sign in as Amorus – Love wins over everything else.
Robert
January 11th, 2012 at 11:47 pm
FANTASTIC TROPICAL FRUITS
There’s something about the tropical climate that grows foods that are especially delicious and nutritious.
Given that so many medicinal herbs come from the tropical rain forest, it’s no surprise that tropical fruits bring their own uniquely healthful benefits, different from more northern fruits such as apples, pears and peaches.
Now that the weather is warm, why don’t you set the table to dine outdoors, put on some island music and treat yourself to the bounty of the tropics? There are some very healthy tropical fruits that I bet you’ve never tried!
FRUITS THAT HELP FIGHT CANCER, LOWER STRESS
To learn more about the unique benefits of these fruits, I called nutritionist Lona Sandon, MEd, RD, LD, an assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association.
Of course you know that fruits like pineapple and mango are tasty and healthy, but there are many other tropical fruits that are less well-known and equally delicious. Sandon shared some of her favorites…
MANGOSTEEN
There’s a reason you may have seen ads for mangosteen on the Internet. This fruit contains calcium and phosphorous (important to the health of your heart, kidneys and nerves) as well as high levels of antioxidants including xanthones.
One of the xanthones, called mangostin, was found to have anti-inflammatory and anti-ulcer effects in animal studies. A few laboratory studies suggest xanthones might be helpful in preventing cancer as well as stopping tumor growth.
Grown in Southeast Asia, the mangosteen is about two to three inches in diameter and dark purple with a hard skin. Picture a round eggplant with a soft white interior, which is the only part you should eat. Fresh mangosteens taste a bit like pineapple or peaches.
They’re not available fresh in the continental US (you can find them in Hawaii) — so try the juice instead, available in many grocery stores and online.
LONGAN BERRY
This small yellowish-brown or reddish-brown fruit, native to China, has a thin, brittle skin and a musky, sweet taste.
Like other berries, it has a high antioxidant content, particularly vitamins A and C. Traditionally, longan berries have been used to reduce stress and for stomachache.
Laboratory research suggests that these berries have particular anticancer properties, stopping the growth of tumors. You can find dried or canned longan berries in Asian food markets and in some supermarkets –
but if you buy the canned ones, it’s best to rinse off some or all of the sweet syrup. If you prefer fresh fruit (as I always do), you can find longan berries in Asian markets during the summertime.
PAPAYA
Papayas are fairly common in the US already, but I include them here because men would do well to develop a taste for this fruit.
Papayas contain lycopene, a carotenoid related to beta-carotene that may help prevent prostate cancer.
For instance, a study reported in the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that men who consumed the most lycopene-rich foods, such as papaya, were 82% less likely to develop prostate cancer.
This pear-shaped fruit has a sweet, slightly musky taste and a soft, butterlike texture — it is high in vitamin C and a good source of vitamins A and E, all powerful antioxidants. Last but not least, papayas contain the enzyme papain, which aids digestion.
LYCHEE
A white fruit about the size of a walnut and native to China, lychees often are served as dessert in Chinese restaurants and, likely because people are embracing global cuisine, they have been getting more attention lately.
They’re delicious when eaten fresh, with a taste that has been described as somewhere between a grape and a pear with a delicate texture.
Your local supermarket is likely to sell lychees dried or canned in their own juice — look in the canned-fruit section. Or you can find them fresh from May or June through summer at Oriental food markets.
Lychees are healthy in that they are even higher in vitamin C than oranges and lemons. As an extra punch, they’re also loaded with potassium, helpful for maintaining healthy blood pressure.
DARE TO BE DIFFERENT
When it comes to nutrition, variety is critical. Sandon suggests considering tropical fruits as something of a gastronomical adventure, bringing you great healthy benefits in all new ways.
Source(s):
Lona Sandon, MEd, RD, LD, an assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, http://www.EatRight.org.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:51 pm
It bares repeating:
The bought and paid for five on the Supreme court will always answer to their masters. Whenever you hear a supreme court decision that is so “STARK” as to make you say what the f**k were they thinking give a name to each one of those letters and you will know who the bought and paid for five are: S-scalia;T-thomas;
A-alito; R-roberts; K-kennedy.
If that doesn’t work for you, whenever you hear a ruling that removes an individual right and gives it to a corporation by claiming the corporation can make legal rules that abridge those rights, literally karting away the rights of the individual to advance the corporate agenda.
When it occurs to you that the bought and paid for five are literally “KARTing” away your individual rights.
Picture the bought and paid for five with money in one hand and KARTS in the other handing your individual rights over to Corporate America. Then give a name to each one of those letters
The bought and paid for five on the US supreme court are making “STARK” decisions that are literally putting our individual rights into “KARTS” and handing them over to the Corporations to advance the corporate America agenda.
If you have forgotten who those crooks on the court are give the letters names. S-scalia; T-thomas; A-alito; R-roberts; K-kennedy. Whether it is STARKS or KARTS, they have us coming and going.
January 11th, 2012 at 11:52 pm
Dear Supporter,
It’s shameful. EWG tested 1,606 sunscreens for last week’s special report, and we found that 3 out of 5 offer inadequate protection from the sun or actually contain toxic ingredients.
Yet the federal Food and Drug Administration still refuses to hold the manufacturers accountable for their misleading advertising and dangerous products – despite more than 30 years of promises.
The manufacturers and the government aren’t looking out for your family. But EWG is.
Conducting this research to hold them accountable is the most important part of our work, but this kind of intensive laboratory testing isn’t easy and it isn’t cheap.
EWG tested leading sunscreens from name brands like Coppertone, Banana Boat, and Neutrogena, and the results were not pretty.
We discovered that, despite improvements, 42% of tested sunscreens still contained the chemical oxybenzone, shown in laboratory tests to disrupt the endocrine system and release reactive oxygen species that could contribute to skin cancer.
Overall, only 5% of the products we analyzed met EWG’s criteria for safety and effectiveness.
The FDA should be the ones protecting our families, but they have been pledging to issue final regulations for more than 30 years. We can’t wait to keep our families safe.
EWG is the only organization working night and day to hold the government and the sunscreen manufacturers accountable.
EWG’s mission is to expose the truth to protect your family’s health and to protect our environment. For 15 years, we’ve been doing the FDA’s job – publishing research that lets consumers make safe choices for their families.
Sincerely,
Ken Cook
President, Environmental Working Group
January 11th, 2012 at 11:57 pm
This also bears repeating;
Hafa adai
Ruth:
I want to say that I agree with you. Some of the young people in Guam want to take back what the white boy has taken from us.
They support one man one vote on the mainland because they have the numbers that keep white america in charge of the country.
We don’t want what happened to the country of Hawaii to happen to us. Whites in Guam will soon out number the Guamanians on our tiny island. Then we will become like the Hawaiians, abused and pushed aside by white interests.
We are asking for the US to return to the people of Guam land that the US army took to fight the Japanese during WWII. Whites took most of our beach front property and kept it after the war, forcing the Guamanians to accept inland property in exchange.
By Jeff Marchesseault
New UN Resolution seeks return of Guam land, plus self-determination.
GUAM – At a time when the U.S. military is preparing to embark on the biggest expansion of military operations in Guam’s history, a United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization is asking America to continue returning land to landowners whose properties were annexed after World War II.
This is a continuous request made by the United Nations every year.
The Committee also asks the U.S. to consider the “expressed will of the Chamorro people” with regard to self-determination and to address GovGuam’s immigration concerns.
Guam leaders have repeatedly expressed a need to grant visa waivers to visitors from China to enhance tourism and a need to lift caps on foreign workers for the purpose of having enough qualified labor to man a five-to-seven-year military buildup set to get underway beginning next year.
Guam News Factor reported on Friday that Hawaii Congressman Neil Abercrombie has included amendments in the House Armed Services Committee’s $550 billion 2010 Defense Authorization Act that would cut Guam’s foreign worker pool down to 30% and guarantee union-level pay for American workers during Guam’s buildup.
A news headline posted over the weekend at 7thSpace.com states:
United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Text Reaffirming Principal Of Self Determination As Fundamental Human Right
Guam’s UN issues are mentioned in a single paragraph within the body of a long report:
On Guam, the Assembly would request the administering Power to take into consideration the expressed will of the Chamorro people as supported by Guam voters in the referendum of 1987.
It would request the administering Power to continue to transfer land to the original landowners of the Territory, and continue to recognize and respect their political rights, culture and ethnic identity as Chamorro people of Guam, while taking all measures necessary to address the concerns of the territorial government with regard to immigration.
An historical overview of Guam at the website AsiaRooms.com sheds further light:
Since 1973, the United Nations has unsuccessfully urged Washington to permit the islanders to exercise their right to self-determination. In January 1982, in a plebiscite on self-determination, 75 per cent of the electorate favored a system of association with the United States.
As a result of this the UN General Assembly recommended that the US implement Guam’s decolonization in December 1984. The UN also reiterated its conviction that military bases are a major obstacle to self-determination and independence, two principles established in the UN Charter.
In November 1987, the High Commission initiated a self-determination referendum for Guam, and voters supported negotiation of a new relationship with the US.
John Dela Rosa contributed to this report.
Read the AsiaRooms.com report, “History of Guam”.
Read the 7thSpace.com report, “United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Text Reaffirming Principal Of Self Determination As Fundamental Human Right”, June 20, 2009.
January 12th, 2012 at 12:29 am
Steve
I received your *Chilling Letter from Proctor & Gamble to Obama.” I intend to keep it going but with a few caveats. Since it is claimed that you Steve Bates was the start I wanted to send you the first installment.
First one of the chief fallacies of argument is if the argument is weak quote a person who is as close to unimpeachable as one can get.
I see you chose Lou Pritchett of Procter & Gamble. You went to great lengths to make him a “living legend.” The interesting point about your claim is that I never heard of him until you made sure that i knew that he was a living legend respected by “successful corporate executives everywhere.”
My first question is are these the same “successful corporate executives” that nearly brought done the financial structure of america.
The same “successful corporate executives” that made off with billions while leaving the rest of America broke, and unemployed?
Are these the same “successful corporate executives” that run the banks and mortgage companies that give themselves huge bonuses while squeezing the American middle class to almost total financial ruin?
If so then, the truly “chilling” part of this letter is the nerve you have to try to promote these crooks as paragons of virtue.
Yes, indeed, who would have thought that there was another Madeoff waiting in the wings to rip off the people with another scheme named “Steve Gates” if that is your real name. Who would have thought, and yet many are thinking it?
At least Madeoff was honest enough to use his real name when he went about his business of ripping off his prey.
January 12th, 2012 at 12:33 am
Hafa adai Peter. your post brought back a lot of the anger I thought I had put aside.
I am married to a white man who is simply wonderful. We have been married for 12 years. We have two beautiful daughters and a handsome son.
I turned 30 two days ago. I wanted to go home to visit my family but I have never told my husband that I am a Navajo(we actually prefer to be called Dine. He thinks I am Italian and that my parents passed away in a car accident.
I have been lying all these years because I wanted to be treated as well as whites. I grew up on a reservation. The word itself makes me cringe. For 16 years I watched my people struggle to get equality from white America.
I left Apache County, Arizona when I was 16 and I have never gone back to that state. Thoughts of the abuse I suffered from whites in that state still haunt my dreams today.
I hated whites until I met my husband on the campus UCSF 13 years ago. A kinder person has never existed in my mind.
I no longer feel that all whites are bad. I have integrated into their race as one of them. All my acquaintances are white.
Yet, when I read your post Peter, it brought back the memory of the cruelties my race endured from the bigots in Apache County, Arizona.
Our history tells us that the American Indian population was “reduced by disease and warfare after European contact.”
What the white history books lie about is that they hunted us like animals and murdered 13 million of my people. The remaining bits of us were forced into concentration camps called “reservations.”
There my people were further thinned out by suppling us with blankest from white hospitals from patients that had everything from measles to small pox.
Then they published schools books to say we were reduced by disease. We were murdered by germ warfare.
My heart and support goes out to Guam. I hope you prevail. But if I know whites as a whole, you won’t. It is a race that as a majority has no feelings or conscious.
Nizhoni (my given name)
January 12th, 2012 at 12:43 am
Rick, this is why we need condoms.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Also called: Sexually transmitted infections, STDs, Venereal disease
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are infections that you can get from having sex with someone who has the infection. The causes of STDs are bacteria, parasites and viruses. There are more than 20 types of STDs, including
• Chlamydia
• Gonorrhea
• Herpes Simplex
• HIV/AIDS
• HPV
• Syphilis
• Trichomoniasis
Most STDs affect both men and women, but in many cases the health problems they cause can be more severe for women.
If a pregnant woman has an STD, it can cause serious health problems for the baby.
If you have an STD caused by bacteria or parasites, your health care provider can treat it with antibiotics or other medicines. If you have an STD caused by a virus, there is no cure.
Sometimes medicines can keep the disease under control.
Correct usage of latex condoms greatly reduces, but does not completely eliminate, the risk of catching or spreading STDs.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
January 12th, 2012 at 1:39 am
Hafa adai
The white boy is literally robbing us at will at the gas pumps in Guam.
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Mobil Raises Price of Unleaded 10-Cents to $4.63 a Gallon
Last Updated on Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:42
Written by Kevin Kerrigan
Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:37
Guam News – Guam News
Guam – The price of gasoline is up again.
Mobil this afternoon raised its price per gallon for regular to $4.63 cents a gallon. Shell and 76 are still holding steady at $4.53, but they’re expected to follow suit soon, as they usually do.
Guam gets it gasoline from Singapore where the Asian benchmark crude “Tapis” is traded.
SEE the Blomberg TAPIS quote for January 12, 2012
Tapis on Thursday was trading in the $123-dollar range, up about $5 dollars over the past month as tensions rise in the Gulf region between the U.S. and Iran.
January 12th, 2012 at 6:58 am
Mischa, this is an even #90 in comments, I think this is the record!
Candi, after knowing a snow flake’ (love that) 2 years professionally and 6 weeks of dating and he hasn’t whipped it out, it’s likely not a swinging one, I’m sorry, men with moves and the equipment want you to know about it sooner rather than later, even when they’re infatuated/in love. Men with smaller appendages aren’t in any rush to get to bed bc they’ll be found out and risk the end of the dealio, and no amount of good technique in the cunnilingus department makes up for large waves in the motion of that there ocean. Make out a few more times and move on…just sayin’…though, you do what you think is right. And I am sorry to give you that news bc it sounds like that snow flake spent some time winning your heart. Just remember, if there’s no chemistry in the sack, no amount of mental affinity or ‘soul matish’ feeling will fill that gap (no pun intended, I am not calling your sweet V a ‘gap’).
Luv, Zen Lill
January 12th, 2012 at 8:14 am
Political Hit-Job in the Windy City:
Barack Obama and the New Year’s Massacre
Dear Fellow Conservative:
Chicago, 1996. State Senator Alice Palmer (D-Ill.) never saw it coming…
The popular activist, running for re-election (she’d won the previous election with a landslide 82% of the vote), was a sure thing keep her seat.
But on the day after New Year’s 1996, a small army of lawyers filed into the hearing room of the Chicago Board of Elections. In a blink, Alice Palmer’s name had been struck from the ballot.
So, too, were the names of three other candidates on the Democratic primary ballot — all eliminated on the basis of minor “violations,” most of them as picayune as not crossing a “t” or failure to dot an “i.”
When the dust settled only a single name remained on the ballot: Barack Hussein Obama. He “swept” to victory… unopposed.
You can’t say we weren’t warned!
Veteran political journalist David Freddoso has done a very brave, but dangerous thing. As the Alice Palmer affair reveals, bad things happen to people who dare stand in the way of Barack Obama and his Chicago cronies. Indeed, since his election as president, Obama has shown no reluctance to unleash the IRS against his adversaries.
Unlike Ms. Palmer, who never saw it coming, David Freddoso knows full well what “misfortunes” might befall him. But that didn’t stop him from writing the truth, namely — that Barack Obama has brought Chicago-style corruption and strong-arm tactics to Washington in order to ram though his massive, union-benefiting welfare-state agenda.
In Gangster Government, the revelations explode page after page…
On PAGE 8, what Obama learned from his corrupt political godfather, a man whose entire family is on the government payroll or that of government contractors for whom he does legislative favors and receives large contributions in return.
On PAGE 11, how Michelle Obama received a job promotion with a 200% pay increase at the University of Chicago Hospital immediately after her husband’s election to the U.S. Senate.
On PAGE 12, how the newly elected Senator Obama requested a generous $1 million earmark for Michelle’s employer immediately following — guess what? — his wife’s promotion.
On PAGE 96, how Obama’s trillion-dollar “stimulus” has been used, not to revitalize the economy, but to protect the jobs of government workers, who in turn contribute massive sums to Obama’s re-election campaign.
On PAGE 43, how Obama cronies warned an investment firm to withdraw its opposition to the Chrysler bailout terms or face the full force of the White House press corps and the destruction of its reputation if it continued to fight.
On PAGE 193, discover the Obama administration’s secret plan to turn the U.S. government into the world’s largest landlord.
On PAGE 130, why under Obama’s hush-hush “Labor Plan A” you could return from vacation and find yourself a union member, whether you desire to be one or not.
On PAGE 161, the real reason why the Obama White House went ballistic and declared open war on the Fox News Channel.
And most important, in Gangster Government you’ll learn why the political thuggery we’ve endured since Obama’s inauguration in 2008 is just a preview of the desperate tactics this failed president and his backers will use to secure four more years of power — years our deeply wounded nation cannot bear.
Gangster Government is a truly astonishing, eye-opening book. That’s why we’ve arranged for you to receive a gift copy just for trying the newspaper conservatives rely on for news and insight they can’t get anywhere else… Human Events.
If you like knowing what others don’t, you’ll devour your gift copy of Gangster Government… as well as each issue of Human Events.
Here’s a brief sampling from recent issues of Human Events…
The 2012 election is going to be a nasty dogfight. Obama has little choice, given the horrific state of the economy, but to fight dirty — meaning brace yourself for brutal class and generational warfare, exacerbated by ugly charges of racism. Vote against Obama and you’re a racist. That’s what demagogic community-organizing, Marxist-leaning Alinsky disciples do — and Human Events thinks it’s disgraceful.
Who outrageously demanded that Boeing — a private-sector American company — should be “forced by the government” to close down its non-union plant in South Carolina? Human Events reveals it was Nancy Pelosi who is apparently unaware South Carolina Boeing workers voted OUT of union status two years ago — of their own free will.
Greece, Italy, Portugal and possibly other European nations are going down the tubes — all because of bloated government debts that cannot be paid. So what does Obama want to do? The “smartest president in U.S. history” wants another massive stimulus, thus adding greatly to our own national debt. It looks to Human Events that he hasn’t learned a thing.
“Say, let’s allow government employees to work at home in their jammies!” It’s no joke. Human Events reveals Obama and the Democrats rushed through a law permitting increased “telework” for bureaucrats — perhaps the last people on earth who should be permitted to work at home unsupervised. On the bright side, business at gambling and porn web sites should skyrocket
We’re led by the brainiest administration ever? Their latest brainstorm: If you apply for a job and aren’t hired — see a lawyer. And sue. You’re being discriminated against because you’re unemployed. Trial lawyers think it’s a great idea. Really, you can’t parody the ideas liberals come up with — it’s crazy logic that makes your head spin.
As you can see, Human Events brings you a healthy dose of sanity. Just like you, we take a jaundiced view of much of the “news” foisted upon Americans by sources that, for all intents and purposes, are allied with Obama and his pals.
Human Events does not fear taking on the media heavyweights who, arm and arm with the liberal establishment, are determined to tell you what to think, what to believe, and how to live.
We hit them with the one weapon sure to give them fits — the truth.
Thankfully, you can try truth for a change in the pages of Human Events with this special introductory offer — a full 30-week trial subscription at the reduced rate of just $39.95… a little more than a dollar an issue.
January 12th, 2012 at 8:25 am
Candi, I agree with Zen Lill. If he had it to flaunt, he would have flaunted it by now. I agree with the second part also. I married the sweetest guy. But he could never ring my bell.
The years wore on. I was so frustrated. I didn’t want to cheat but I must have been the easiest woman to hit on. I never cheated in the 23 years we were married.
But when I two children left the nest, I told him I needed my space. I couldn’t that sweet man the truth.
We are still best friends 21 years later. But I am a whole lot happier. He remarried and has 3 other children. I remarried and had one.
We have family get togethers and it is great to be friends. There is always a hole for the penis, tiny or not. But do yourself a favor and get it over with. Find out now.
Why waste the man’s time if you are not going there again?
Daniela.
January 12th, 2012 at 8:27 am
Candi, if dick is all you want then, worry about his. But if you are interested in something that will be there long after those urges are over, I say give him your love and the rest will be okay.
Jeff
January 12th, 2012 at 8:31 am
Interesting you would say that Jeff. With men deserting wives of 10 to 50 years for a younger model because they need something to satisfy that tiny thing of theirs.
I say listen to Zen Lill. Get on it and if it isn’t the ride you want turn that pony loose and find a horse who can carry you across the finish line.
Alycedale
January 12th, 2012 at 8:41 am
You harlots will burn in hell for your behavior. Why a decent white man would want to be with any of you is the question that should be entertained here.
Rev. Patterson
January 12th, 2012 at 8:49 am
This is for those of you who wish to discuss your present economic crisis who live in the Bay Area.
MLK Day is coming up, and people across the country are gathering for MLK Movement Meet-ups. We’re seeing a lot of excitement — over a hundred meet-ups are happening this week and next!
There’s a meet-up happening right in your area. Join in! I think you’ll have a good time.
Event name: King’s Message – MoveOn East Bay
Date and time: Wednesday, January 18, 7:00 PM
Location: Niebyl-Proctor Library – Oakland CA
6501 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland, California
RSVP now.
2012 is a big year for all of us to take action together. This is a fun, meaningful chance to link up with like-minded folks in your area.
Thanks,
Natalie and the team at Rebuild the Dream Innovation Fund
January 12th, 2012 at 8:51 am
Is Mitt Romney inevitable?
Well, we’ll find out tonight after the New Hampshire primary, won’t we? If he ends up with a commanding 20-point victory like many of the polls indicate, then, sadly, it looks like we will have a liberal Republican as our nominee.
Romney would have a tsunami of momentum heading into South Carolina following that State’s governor’s influential endorsement.
With that said, President Obama doesn’t even hold a candle to a potential President Romney.
No way Romney bows before a Saudi dictator. Or a Chinese one, for that matter.
And no way he invites thug rappers to the White House for poetry reading sessions who are known for singing sweet odes to cop killers and enjoy spitting out lyrics on how the evil white man is pillaging the planet’s resources.
And Mrs. Romney wouldn’t be waving an FDA-approved organic finger in our faces while she herself wolfs down French fries, burgers and all those other fried foods we’re supposed to jettison.
So there’s that.
Of course, we don’t want to jump the gun and precipitously crown the Republican nominee. Santorum, Gingrich, Perry and Paul still have an opportunity to contrast their vision for America with that of Mitt the frontrunner.
Oh, and I forgot to include Jon Huntsman. I’m sure he gets that a lot. He probably forgets he’s still in the race. But yes, Huntsman is still around.
Here’s what we do know: You should be refreshing HumanEvents.com repeatedly throughout the day for election results and analysis. Our veteran political reporter John Gizzi is on the ground in New Hampshire, bringing you exclusive video reports. And, as you’re on our page we’ll have a special chat and Twitter thread for you to check out up-to-the-minute results.
You know you want to see Ann Coulter’s tweets! She’s our legal affairs correspondent, after all. Besides Coulter, you’ll have access to Twitter feeds of all our reporters and editors, including John Hayward, Tony Lee, Audrey Hudson, Adam Tragone and yours truly.
Now that we’re done with our New Hampshire official business, here’s something for you to chew on: Barack Obama promised us that his much-ballyhooed “stimulus” plan would invigorate the economic recovery by creating a labor force that would bring total employment to 137.8 million people. Guess what? That number has nosedived to a humiliating 131.9 million, which means the Obama jobs deficit now stands at 5.9 million.
That’s a figure that should be repeated over and over again by the eventual Republican nominee for president. Heck, Barack Obama is running a jobs shortfall vis-à-vis his own benchmark by almost 6 million people.
What’s that you say? Cut the Prez some slack because he didn’t know how bad the economic crisis was after “inheriting” it? Except that he kept telling us that we were in the worst economy since the Great Depression! Oops, there goes that Obama campaign talking point, too.
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January 12th, 2012 at 8:55 am
Candi:
If you like the guy, why break up just because he has a small penis? Sex can be more that a big penis. Use that big head you women are always complaining the men don’t use.
I find it hard to believe that Zen Lill with her intellect would only be satisfied with a man with a big penis. Alycedale with that mouth, needs one in it to shut her up.
I don’t see any reason to lose an otherwise fine relationship just because the man has a small penis.
Ernie
January 12th, 2012 at 9:01 am
Let me have this one Alycedale. I’ll handle your light weight bullshit.
Ernie, men have been forever judging women first on their looks then their other assets. So excuse me if mature women are doing the same thing.
We have to put up with your tracked drawers to your snoring. Do we have to put up with your tiny dicks too.
I say, yes, and maybe if there’s plenty of money to fill the void. Otherwise git along little doggie.
Candi, chuck the romp roast if the meat is enough for a full meal.
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