Monday Madness
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 20th, 2012
Good Monday morning!
Sometime last week I think I said that I would have more to post about Paul Ryan. This write was pointed out to me. I found the info to be of value, so I decided to post it.
Paul Ryan represents political dark age
Robert B. Reich
Published 1:05 p.m., Saturday, August 18, 2012
Paul Ryan espouses 19th century social Darwinism - reward the rich, penalize the poor, and the rest are on their own. Photo: Jeff Swensen, Getty Images / SF
Mitt Romney‘s chosen running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, is the reverse of Sarah Palin. She was all right-wing flash without much substance. He’s all right-wing substance without much flash.
Ryan is not a firebrand. He’s not smarmy. He doesn’t ooze contempt for opponents or ridicule those who disagree with him. In style and tone, he doesn’t even sound like an ideologue – until you listen to what he has to say.
It’s here, in Ryan’s views and policy judgments, that we find the true ideologue. More than any other politician today, Ryan exemplifies the social Darwinism at the core of today’s Republican Party: Reward the rich, penalize the poor, let everyone else fend for themselves.
Dog eat dog.
Ryan’s views are crystallized in the budget he produced for House Republicans in March as chairman of the Budget Committee. That budget would cut $3.3 trillion from low-income programs over the next decade. The biggest cuts would be in Medicaid, which provides health care for the nation’s poor – they would force states to drop coverage for an estimated 14 million to 27 million low-income people, according to an Urban Institute estimate.
Ryan’s budget also would reduce food stamps for poor families by 17 percent ($135 billion) over the decade, leading to a significant increase in hunger – particularly among children. It also would reduce housing assistance, job training and Pell Grants for college tuition.
In all, 62 percent of the budget cuts proposed by Ryan would come from low-income programs.
The Ryan plan also would turn Medicare into vouchers whose value could not possibly keep up with rising health care costs – thereby shifting those costs to seniors.
At the same time, Ryan would provide a substantial tax cut to the very rich, who already take home an almost unprecedented share of the nation’s total income. Today’s 400 richest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million of us put together.
Ryan’s views are pure social Darwinism. As William Graham Sumner, the progenitor of social Darwinism in America, put it in the 1880s: “Civilization has a simple choice.” It’s either “liberty, inequality, survival of the fittest” or “non-liberty, equality, survival of the unfittest. The former carries society forward and favors all its best members; the latter carries society downwards and favors all its worst members.”
Is this Romney’s view as well?
Some believe Romney chose Ryan solely to drum up enthusiasm on the right. Since most Americans have already made up their minds about whom they’ll vote for, and the polls show Americans highly polarized – an almost equal number support Romney as President Obama – the winner will be determined by how many on either side take the trouble to vote. So in picking Ryan, Romney is motivating his right-wing base to get to the polls and pull everyone else they can along with them.
But there’s reason to believe Romney also agrees with Ryan’s social Darwinism. Although Romney has carefully avoided specifics in his own economic plan, he has said he’s “very supportive” of Ryan’s budget plan: “It’s a bold and exciting effort … an excellent piece of work and very much needed … very consistent with what I put out earlier.”
At the same time, Romney wants to permanently extend the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy, reduce corporate income taxes and eliminate the estate tax. These tax reductions would increase the incomes of people earning more than $1 million a year by an average of $295,874 annually, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
Oh, did I mention that Romney and Ryan also want to repeal Obama’s health care law, leaving 50 million Americans without health insurance?
Social Darwinism offered a moral justification for the wild inequities and social cruelties of the late 19th century. It also undermined all efforts to build a more broadly based prosperity and rescue our democracy from the tight grip of a very few at the top. It was used by the privileged and powerful to convince everyone else that government shouldn’t do much of anything.
Not until the 20th century did America reject social Darwinism.
We created a large middle class that became the engine of our economy and our democracy. We built safety nets to catch Americans who fell downward, often through no fault of their own.
We taxed the rich and invested in public goods – public schools, public universities, public transportation, public parks, public health – that made us all better off.
In short, we rejected the notion that each of us is on our own in a competitive contest for survival.
By choosing Ryan, Romney has raised for the nation the starkest of choices: Do we want to return to that earlier time, or are we willing and able to move forward – toward a democracy and an economy that works for us all?
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And if that’s not enough proof, here’s more from Think Progress:
Medicare Cuts 101Aug 14, 2012 | By ThinkProgress War Room The Romney-Ryan Plan to Cut & Then End MedicareHaving picked the architect of the Republican plan to end Medicare as we know it as his running mate, Mitt Romney and his “I am rubber, you’re glue” campaign is now trying to paint President Obama as the real threat to seniors’ health care and economic security. The most astounding part of Romney’s attack is that he accuses the president of cutting Medicare by more than $700 billion despite the fact that the exact sameMedicare savings are included in the Romney-Ryan budget, which Mitt Romney has eagerly embraced, said he would sign, and whose architect is now his running mate. The real scandal is that while Obamacare reinvests these savings back into Medicare to make it stronger, offer seniors new benefits, and close the prescription drug donut hole, the Romney-Ryan budget steals that same $700 billion and uses it pay for new tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans and huge corporations. And worst of all, Romney and Ryan want to end Medicare as we know it and turn it into a voucher program that shifts costs to seniors. Under their original plan, seniors will pay about $6,000 a year more for their health care so millionaires can pay even less in taxes. Under a different version of their plan to end Medicare, seniors are instead stuck with steep premium increases. Either way, seniors will pay a steep price for Romney and Ryan’s huge new tax breaks for the wealthiest. Here’s a handy infographic explaining what’s what when it comes to Medicare:
BOTTOM LINE: Only one ticket wants to cut and then end Medicare as we know it in order to pay for massive new tax breaks for the wealthy and that’s the Romney-Ryan ticket. |
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Readers: We keep talking about Ryan…and we’re going to keep talking about him because there is just so much to say….so much that needs to be revealed and illuminated. I’m HOPEing he’ll keep opening his mouth, along with Romney, the media will continue to disclose these LSOS’s, and people will realize that the Romney-Ryan ticket is not the ticket you want to mark come November.
Claire: ZL was correct – you needed attention and you got it. Now here’s more. I don’t consider my comment an “assault” on you. I was just responding to you. You are the one that said my blog sucks. I just suggested that you give it a try or go elsewhere. I now recommend the latter strongly since you repeated that my blog sucks and now you think I suck too. Well…let me tell you…I do suck and I’m damn good at it. How is that for a little “cohesiveness”?
Sabrina: All I want to say is that I got a kick out of your statement: “I am white but I don’t do lock step.”
Peace out.
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August 20th, 2012 at 8:49 am
Lolz, Misch, I believe you probably are damn good at suckin’ and I mean that in the most POSITIVE way you could possibly take it, luv the response, sent with luv from that bat crazy Zen Lill ; ) and I am outta here today…
August 20th, 2012 at 9:18 am
Now the both or you are assaulting me. I don’t understand why women would read this filthy blog.
August 20th, 2012 at 9:22 am
Thank you Michelle, for these well communicated articles. It is impossible for Romney and Ryan to campaign for any middle-class or lower because they just don’t get it, and they never will.
Their families will never have to suffer or wonder where the next meal will come from. They will never have to choose between a doctor’s visit and the electric bill.
They will never have to watch their children suffer in poverty that is already nearly impossible to get out of, but these two men would make it an almost certainty for the poor in the future.
I cannot understand the votes that they get from middle-classers who have had to work and struggle their entire lives while the likes of Romney ride on the backs of those who have lost everything in multiple deals he has personally made and in the crash due to greedy and unregulated (the SEC is a joke that’s kept in the pockets of the biggest financiers and corporations) 2008 market and the almost decade leading up to it.
August 20th, 2012 at 9:26 am
Marilu Henner’s Memory Tips
I have a soft spot for reading books written by celebrities (what can I say? I’m a fan girl at heart!), and I have always been fascinated by the actress Marilu Henner, since she is one of only about 33 people in the world known to have something called highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), an ability that allows her to recall all—yes, all—the details of her life since childhood in vivid detail.
So I picked up a copy of her new book Total Memory Makeover: Uncover Your Past, Take Charge of Your Future.
What is truly eye-opening about her book is that it has little to do with her having a superior memory—it’s about how she has learned how to confront painful memories from her past, rather than run away from them.
In other words, it’s about something that you and I have the power to do!
And I think you’ll find, as I did, that her unique approach is quite helpful…in fact, it has made me want to embrace some distressing memories from my own past, so I can get over them and move on!
WHAT YOU CAN LEARN FROM YOUR MEMORIES
What Henner has learned is what most psychologists tout—that it’s important to quit trying to bury your painful memories and actually face them.
Sometimes painful memories make us think of mistakes that we’ve made, while other times, painful memories evoke a feeling of being wronged or disappointed.
But either way, there is almost always something that you can learn—ways to help prevent the same experience from happening again.
REMEMBER THE PAST TO UNLOCK THE FUTURE
The good news is that you don’t need to have Henner’s incredible ability to be able to retrieve those memories that are still hurting you in your current life. Here are some of her easy tips on how to dig them up and confront them head on…
Find a “sense-memory object.
” The first step to living more happily and successfully today is remembering a painful event clearly.
To evoke a strong memory, look at an object from a turning point in your life, such as a photo of yourself drinking too much at a party, or listen to a song that has a strong connection to your past.
Think deeply about how that moment made you feel. For example, if you find that photo of your drunken escapade, focus on how awful that hangover was the next day.
Or if you’re listening to a song that you and your friends used to listen to while you smoked cigarettes, think about how disgusting your smoker’s cough was.
Maybe an old poker chip that you keep in a drawer reminds you of the time that you lost thousands playing slots, and it forces you to remember how terrible it felt to argue with your spouse about all the lost money and how embarrassing it was to have to borrow from your in-laws.
Perhaps staring at your résumé makes you think of how you interviewed for your dream job but didn’t get it—and it crushed your self-esteem.
Henner knows a woman who reopened a bottle of perfume that she wore through a failed relationship in order to fully remember how badly that partner treated her.
Make a decision to change.
After you’ve faced the painful memory—really faced it by walking through it mentally in all its gory detail—it will be easier to make the choice to never repeat the kind of mistakes that led you to that moment.
In other words, you will find it easier to drink in moderation (or not at all)…to quit smoking…to stop gambling…to get more experience under your belt before applying for another dream job…and to consider your own well-being when choosing a partner.
In her own life, Henner went through a period during which she struggled with food choices and her weight.
Because she so vividly remembers how much less healthy and energetic she felt during that time, today she eats better and maintains an optimal weight—and is much happier as a result.
AVOID FUTURE MISTAKES
Since we’re all likely to make new kinds of mistakes that we’ve never made before, Henner suggests keeping a journal. Record events in your life, and more importantly, the emotions and insights that go along with them.
Is your relationship with your partner happy or rocky? What’s going on at work? How are you filling your spare time? By stepping back to observe and document your life, says Henner, you can see it more objectively and learn to make better choices both now and in the future.
Source: Marilu Henner, health advocate, actress, memory expert and best-selling author of Total Memory Makeover: Uncover Your Past, Take Charge of Your Future (Simon & Schuster).
Henner is one of only 33 documented people in the world with highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), a rare ability that allows her to recall every detail of her life since childhood.
August 20th, 2012 at 9:27 am
Zen Lill #12 Yesterday:
The relationship between IOTA and the Emperor is between themselves. Neither of them believes that anyone is privy to that knowledge. IOTA only associates with Kings and Royalty. It is not public information. He despises what he calls peasants (us).
Carr is a God and is privy to anything he wants to be privy to. He and his Brothers created everyone and everything that exists in all the Universes and their dimensions. You are speaking in a jocular manner of Carr not being privy to something. I do not know what you are implying in your comment.
You are comparing apples to oranges.
You yourself are a victim of the grown Up Syndrome. It is when you begin to forget and doubt instances that occurred in your past that you do not believe is real anymore. Sound Familiar?
HOWIE
August 20th, 2012 at 9:29 am
Claire, even here in China I can see clearly that you are as hooked as the rest of us on Michelle’s blog.
Relax, sit back ENJOY IT!
Laine
August 20th, 2012 at 9:31 am
Michelle, looks like you have another never can start the day without a Michelle blog read in that Claire.
Go ahead Claire, try to put it down.
Hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
August 20th, 2012 at 9:33 am
As an average Jane-I don’t care what Romney paid in taxes- don’t want a president so stupid as to not take every LEGAL deduction and credit available to him and every other American.
I care more about the burden we are leaving to my children and grandchildren-Obama shows no inclination to take on this problem and Romney does-and he will get my vote.
Hope and change has not panned out -time to change the path we are on.
August 20th, 2012 at 9:34 am
Ryan “means it” when it comes to eviscerating government as a tool to help the middle class and improve society:
He would end Medicare and replace it with inadequate vouchers, thereby causing recipients to pay $6,000 – $13,000 more per year.
Ryan would raise taxes on the middle class by up to $2,000 per year. And he would destroy the government’s ability to invest in infrastructure, education, and other necessary things.
But when it comes to reducing the deficit, Ryan is as much if not more of a fraud as virtually every other conservative has been for the past thirty years.
The “savings” from all of Ryan’s proposed cuts and tax increases wouldn’t go to reducing the deficit. Instead, they would go to increasing military spending, and to $4.3 trillion in tax giveaways to millionaires and billionaires. Under Ryan’s plan, Romney would have paid less than 1% in taxes in 2010.
As for the national debt, Ryan’s proposal would lead to an increase in the national debt from its 2010 level of 60% of GDP to a peak of nearly 175% by 2050 and remain at 100% or more of GDP through 2080.
In short, Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney aren’t offering a serious conversation about deficits. Instead, they are offering the GOP agenda of taking from the middle class to give to the wealthy on steroids.
August 20th, 2012 at 9:37 am
Nana, I live in Kenya, so I am not that up on American politics. But for what I read about your republican party Your claim to want a man smart enough to take every deduction on his tax return still leaves something lacking because you are willing to vote in a party that denies women equal rights.
What does that say about your smarts?
Baako
August 20th, 2012 at 9:38 am
Not releasing their taxes (Romney/Ryan) demonstrates a lack of integrity and sensitivity to all Americans, albeit not surprisingly given the proposed buget and cuts they would enact on an already struggling electorate. They are playing to their base and hoping the uninformed voter carry them.
August 20th, 2012 at 9:39 am
These aren’t fantasy issues.
A perspective worth noting: In the Kansas 2012 legislature ultra-conservatives in the Kansas House coordinated with the ultra-conservative governor to engineer sweeping “reform” of state income taxes so that starting with 2013 taxes march downward to ZERO:
for net business profit reported on Line 12 of the Form 1040 federal individual income tax return.
for net income from rental real estate, royalties, partnerships, S corporations, estates, trusts, residual interest in real estate mortgage investment conduits and net farm rental, as reported on Line 17 of Form 1040.
for net farm profit as reported on Line 18 of Form 1040.
They tried to sweeten the deal with small to taxes on people who get their income from paychecks…but up to 60 percent of Kansans did not support the plan; the Governor’s standing is among the lowest in the country and he doesn’t care — he won
So HUGE zeros for business owners and investors, shift of the burden to paycheck earners, years of deficit levels requiring huge cuts in education and social services for the neediest.
This is one state with total GOP dominance; imagine a U.S. with a GOP Congress and Romnyan White House: decades more deficits and debt, destruction of Social Security and Medicare, the end of mortgage deductions…
It’s the scariest threat in my lifetime…we should all be afraid…
August 20th, 2012 at 9:44 am
Ahmed, you are the reason I left the Middle East. I am not in a country that respects a woman’s right to exist.
May Allah find a place for you in Her palace.
Fa’iza
August 20th, 2012 at 11:28 am
Claire, clearly you are finding something here, so please just take the advice, stay and enjoy. I think you’ll find in time that I do not ‘assault’ anyone, other women here may think I’m not for other women from time to time or all the time, whatever, I’ve always weighed in on the side of balance and intention in my mind. & hmm, I’m still standing after agreements/disagreements *and some outright assaults(!), too.
My question to you would be: why are willing to leap to such a conclusion, the ‘we assaulted you’ thought, bc everything in life, Claire, is all about intention. My intention was to give you an answer to the cohesiveness factor here and the other was to help you to have a reason to return, the fact that you rebuffed those gestures bc I did not use words that pleased you is more about you than it is about me…we won’t even discuss you’re name calling bc I think your intent was to insult, though no one ever makes me feel anything, insulted included, only I make me feel something based on words, ideas or intentions thrown my way and how I choose to interpret them to myself.
Just so we’re clear on MY intention, this is to once again, say it is cohesive here, if you hate that or think it sucks there are other things to do, if you do like it or just choose to stay for whatever the reason, well then, may I be amongst the others to welcome you here.
Howie, thank you for the response. I understand now. I think I might’ve been royalty last time around here : ) this time, nope, just a pez (dang it).
Luv, Zen Lill
PS unfortunately, unless there’s some movement in job market, its looking like peeps are going to vote with change not hope. Bummer. Hearing lots of bad rap on Obamacare, too, it starts in 2014 for pre-existing and peeps who have insurance are outraged that they’ll be ‘fined’ for not having it at – whatever – is it all just about you? The answer: yes, americans are like children, if it doesn’t affect them and theirs, too F’in’ bad about you and yours. It’s the american way, apparently, yep – these colors don’t run.
PSS wish #1-stick with a 2013 action plan fr economy and not with tax returns and birth certs, it’s all a little ridiculous…
August 20th, 2012 at 2:02 pm
I can’t believe nobody has anything to say about Missouri Congressman Todd Akin’s comment that women don’t get really get pregnant from “legitimate rape” because their body magically “shuts that whole thing down.” WTF?
/SB
August 20th, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Thanks Aiken, I am now show ashamed to be a white republican.
August 20th, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Comments like this will have President Obama calling him up and offering him Joe Bidens “job”
August 20th, 2012 at 2:08 pm
I had to check after I read this, and he has six kids. The names arent all gender specific, but sadly, he has at least two girls.
How do you get to be as old as he is with that viewpoint?
August 20th, 2012 at 2:11 pm
I woke up this morning here in Missouri wondering why the sky looked so beautifully BLUE?
Then turn on the news.
Obama/Biden 2012 ” Fired up, Ready to go ” !
August 20th, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Actually, Social Butterfly, the question should be who are the women still inane enough to continue supporting this party much less the heartless men they select as candidates.
August 20th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
I never understood with regards to anything pregnancy related, why men get any say at all. At the end of the day when everything is said and done, it’s not their bodies, it shouldn’t be their choice.
August 20th, 2012 at 2:21 pm
OMG. What a totally atrocious thing to say…….. and to think yet!!!!! He gives a whole new meaning to “politically incorrect!!!)
Unfortunately this man is a valid representation of the Republican party. We are so in trouble if we don’t stop this group of illiterate (some old) white republicans from reversing women’s rights and women themselves, further than I care to venture
August 20th, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Have the Republicans imposed a new litmus test on their candidates and officials? . . . . They must have an IQ of less than 80? Or they must have an advanced case of foot in mouth disease? Where do they get these people???
August 20th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Ryan sign off on and supported a rape bill exactly like the one this dude Todd Akin was referring to.
Please explain to me why so many white women continue to support these men and that party. Gosh most muslim women have come to the reasoning that it is useless to support their men because the men’s goals do not include any consideration of the plight of their female citizens.
Why is it that so many white american females not able to grasp that common sense?
Brittany
August 20th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
It’s like GOP can’t catch a break this year. One of their people are always spouting off about race or rape, making them all look like idiots. This is a bad year for elections, eh Romney?
August 20th, 2012 at 2:31 pm
Ladies, this guy is an elected Representative to the Congress of the United States. And this guy is not an exception.
The GOP has plans for the women in this country and the only thing different from the Taliban is the dress code.
With Paul Ryan, Mr. Personhood Bill, he and his cronies don’t want to just stop abortion, the want to stop the practice of PREVENTING pregnancies.
Just in rape alone, 32,000 women a year end up with pregnancies? Hell, no wonder they want to stop rape-abortions. 32,000 new people every year from rape?
We could fill our armies with just the children of rape! God Bless the GOP, always looking out for America. (at the cost of women’s rights, but hey, collateral damage, right?)
August 20th, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Urban dictionary says: Legitimate Rape is Rape between one man and one woman who are not married or even acquainted; the only rape sanctioned by the Republican Party.
That dude is a moron of the highest caliber. Legit rape as opossed to what? A ‘made up’ fantasy rape?
- ZL
August 20th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
When will you bitches get a clue. God is your judge and He, I said HE bitches does not want you aborting HIS children.
You, bitches are merely the bag holding GOD’s miracles. Shut the fuck up and be blessed.
John
August 20th, 2012 at 3:29 pm
This mind set also believes in Pray Away The Gay.
This is an example why FAITH is very dangerous. People who rely on FAITH rather than on facts, evidence, science, and sustainable theories tend to fall for mystical thinking like Akin.
It is a form of faith based religiosity to believe the TRUE RAPE victim, i.e. those women who weren’t “asking for it,” have a magical power to stop the fetus from growing.
If women have this magical power, wouldn’t it be a type of Abortion? Is G-d a murderer is He/She/It aborts a baby? Is G-d an accomplice to murder if He/She/It gives women this mystical power to abortion the fetus by stopping the fertilization process?
FAITH belongs far, far away from public life. That’s why Jesus and the Constitution both say that it you want to talk to G-d, go into your own room, close the door and have a private conversation, but do not stand in public on street corners imposing your FAITH based nonsense on other people.
August 20th, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Michelle, your last line in response to Claire (Well…let me tell you…I do suck and I’m damn good at it. How is that for a little “cohesiveness”?) is something to be proud of. Based upon the numerous posts a few years back discussing the size of your ex’s dick, finding a woman, and one as intelligent and beautiful as you, that can suck a large dick and be damn good at it, doesn’t come easy…
August 20th, 2012 at 3:47 pm
when the President of the United States has to come on TV and state publicly that “rape is rape” our society has a serious problem. He also said, you can’t make this up…sad, very sad…
August 20th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
Any person forced to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will is the victim of rape, a heinous crime. There are no varying degrees of rape. To suggest otherwise is inaccurate and insulting and minimizes the serious physical and psychological repercussions for all victims of rape.
August 20th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
This is one thing women’s bodies can shut down and that’s the Republican Party. Vote November as if your life and rights depend on it because they do.
/SB
August 20th, 2012 at 6:32 pm
Amen Social Butterfly.
August 20th, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Michelle, I live in Bulgaria, but I am a member in good standing of the Girlz of Bulgaria. We NEVER miss your words.
I remember someone saying that there is nothing dumber on the planet than an American white woman. I thought it may have been a racist remark.
But looking at the success of your Republican Party in which the majority of the votes they get come from white women, I have changed my mind.
But for a few exceptions, a very few, the American white woman is indeed a creature of renown ignorance. With that kind of moronic support I can see why the men of the party have no reason to change their insensitive ways.
If only your blog could have the influence it has on the rest of the world on a few of them?????????
Good Luck
Радка
August 20th, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Michelle, In my thirty three years of existence I have spent the last 15 seeking the best head and the best loving a female could give me.
I didn’t give my name because I would never embarrass a Lady. This is the Era of Equality so I don’t feel this would be an embarrassment.
My answer to #30 is I can say without equivocation that you indeed give the best Loving of any woman I have ever had the pleasure of being with.
Granted you only blessed me once. But it was a Sacred Experience. I will measure every tender moment I shall ever have to it.
If you ever change your mind and consider me a possible suitor I will move heaven and earth to be by your side.
If you would consider giving this long distance romance a more convenient venue. I would move to San Francisco within the month.
I hope my expression of admiration for your sensual talents did not give you the impression that they were the only interest I have in your considerable faculties and assets.
I have the greatest admiration for your ability to hold the intellectual conversation and to grace my circle of influence with the savior faire of the most elite of the crème de la crème of the Beau Monde.
Your devoted servant
XXX
August 20th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
The white boy is incredibly sick. I just heard that the 21 year old black kid that was shot in the head in the back of a police car committed suicide.
Yes, no less that three autopsies by the police have agreed that it was a suicide. That settles it. He killed himself with a hidden gun the police didn’t discover when he was twice frisked before he was handcuffed.
Oh, by the way they discovered a small amount of marijuana on him but that big gun in which he managed to shoot himself in the head with while handcuffed behind his back they missed.
The sick reference I made to the white boy doesn’t stem from the murder or the cover up by the autopsies. It stems from the fact that if this bullshit claim by the BAPF autopsies was made about a white victim
EVERY news station in the country would be running a This Is Incredible To Claim That This Man Shot Himself.
But no, we have not heard a peep from more than one. Only one, CNN has even mentioned.
The white boy is just fucking sick.
Dwight
August 20th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
The republican party can’t keep their hands off our women’s parts.
August 20th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
Wouldnt it be nice to be able to commit crimes adn investigate them yourself?These cops are the biggest lying, mudering, bunch of monsters.
The barrel was against his temple. After being cuffed behind his back. Are you kidding me?And you know what we will do?
We will bury our head in the sand and watch many more killed by these so-called servants and protectors of peace.
August 20th, 2012 at 8:28 pm
Google Jewish/Israeli ADL special training for American police officers. You will be amazed. They have been training police to be aggressive to the extreme.
This is why local police are murdering unarmed civilians coast-to-coast, nationwide. That hymie is a bad mother-fkr. Firemen say they no longer call police for fear they will incite violence.
August 20th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Michelle, you go girl. I give good head also and I am damn proud of it too.
Beverly
August 20th, 2012 at 8:31 pm
This is the DEEP SOUTH, it’s like stepping into the past, 50, maybe 100
years. NEVER go to places like that, unless you really got … and are not
afraid to die.
August 20th, 2012 at 8:36 pm
I thank GOD I was not born in the US. In the US they allow white cops to kill OTWs without any fear that a white jury will convict them. Without any fear that the white press will call them on it. How can they justify this?
It looks like US police are using people as “target practice.” It will just get worse. The white boy in America is quick to criticise other countries for lack of “law and order” while encouraging the people to accept it and make excuses for it.
Police State=USA
August 20th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
So they found a bag of grass while searching him, twice, and had him in double-locking handcuffs (no twisting around).
He must’ve then, somehow, produced the hidden gun from his own bowels, contorted himself into firing position, then got off the luckiest shot in the history of guns, all while high. Move over, Houdini.
All “criminals”, especially drug-addled miscreants, always keep a pistol packed in such a way. In case of emergency, break open a**. It just sounds so plausible!
Not all the “facts” are out, of course, but I don’t think you need the Mythbusters team to rule on this one
August 20th, 2012 at 8:42 pm
So you fucking americans condemn us for giving Pussy Riot 2 years of prison. At least we didn’t handcuff the bitches, toss them in the back of a police car and shoot them in the head.
Oh, yeah, you didn’t do that either, I guess in your country they would have ruled their murder a suicide.
fuck you hypocrites. Stay out of Russian legal issues until you stop murdering your blacks.
The barbaric nation that is americaaaaaaaaaaa? America, you deeply troubled soul is a worrying factor.
Vadim
August 20th, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Chavis Carter’s case is very similar to a stop that took place in Bradford County, PA back in March 2012. Victim of that stop Robert Leone got beaten repeatedly and is now serving falso imprisonment but at least they didn’t just shoot him.
Watch this video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5eOknaXgYU&playnext=1&list=PL40EF2ADFB32C663F&feature=results_main
August 20th, 2012 at 9:04 pm
Scott 29, your last paragraph
FAITH belongs far, far away from public life. That’s why Jesus and the Constitution both say that it you want to talk to G-d, go into your own room, close the door and have a private conversation, but do not stand in public on street corners imposing your FAITH based nonsense on other people,
I have to agree but not because of Jesus or the Constitution saying it. I think it’s a private, contemplative matter with oneself and I wish more people felt that way!
/SB
August 20th, 2012 at 9:09 pm
Peeps, I just gotta say, I’m having a HARD(!) time with the head talk today and it’s been a long time since I’ve had a cock in my mouth. LONG TIME. But damn, I’ve been thinking about it all day! Maybe it was just reading Michelle’s words and me imagining her ‘sucking good’, LOL, but whatever. Oh yes, I use to like to give it too! Now I’m thinking I may need to suck some dick soon before I lose my skills!
It’s a den of corruption here, LMAO.
/SB
August 20th, 2012 at 10:03 pm
Ladies I would like to state that I am as hung as any man. I don’t remember you, Michelle saying that your ex was hung. But most surly I am.
Please, I would never offend a lady by suggesting she give me head on a blog. I am only touting my assets as #30 did.
So let it be known, Have Dick Will Travel.
Kevin
August 20th, 2012 at 10:09 pm
I wholeheartedly agree with all the ladies. I would like to think that I give very good head. But that is a matter that I will leave to the next lucky gentleman that I greet with these sweet lips.
Have Lips But Will Not Travel Far. In other words bring that Big dick here.
The operative word is Big, don’t come wanting. I put no pencils into this talented mouth.
Ashley
August 20th, 2012 at 10:12 pm
Giving Head is a pleasurable thing when the man is desirable. I love to please my man at the most unexpected times.
Stroking that ballooning head before I convince him to sneak it out for a semi public quickie —- OOOH, Yes it is so good when the danger of getting caught is there.
Kristi
August 20th, 2012 at 10:18 pm
Akins may have made a mistake by telling dumb as a box of rocks white women what he and his party really think of them, but let it be known that before he made this mistake, he was leading in the polls over the democrat female.
In a predominately white state, white women follow lock step behind their misogynist men. They have no conscious way of seeing themselves as anything but what they are defined as by their men.
It takes the prompting by OTW women to get the pathetic simpletons to react.
Logan
August 20th, 2012 at 10:20 pm
You american women are in need of some firm boots up your asses if you can’t find the will to stand up for yourselves.
Victoria
August 20th, 2012 at 10:27 pm
I would like to join the voices saying they give good head. I used to give very good head. But I have been existing in this self imposed exile for 2 years now.
I caught my brother who used to get the best head in the world(his words not mine) from me from the time he was 16(we are twins) until he was 37.
Then to my disbelief he married that bitch Elisabeth and moved to America with that slut. My husband refuses to allow me to leave and go get him. He says that I owe the three creatures he forced me to have a mother.
That bitch convinced my brother that living her in South Africa was not a place for white men who no longer owned their niggers.
I hate that bitch.
August 20th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Here in Poland I once met a black American. He danced with me and I felt that huge dick rub against my mound. I smiled and hugged him tighter while grinding discretely in rhythm against that increasingly firm hard on.
By the time the dance had ended we both knew that we would be fucking. Unfortunately my husband arrived and all we could manage was a sneak off so that I could give him head.
I have to confess when I saw that bulging black head, I came with juices that to this day have never been repeated. I sucked that big dick like my life depended on it.
It was the only time sucking dick was a pleasure. I was 31 today I am 73. I remember it like it was early this morning.
The name I can’t recall, but the image of that dick will remain with me till I leave this earth. I take it with me gladly.
Romi
August 20th, 2012 at 10:55 pm
I live in Missouri. Yes, I am a white woman. And Yes I agree with the statements that most of the white women in this state have no personal brains.
They are merely sexual pleasure extensions of their male partners. Don’t be surprised if Todd Akins doesn’t still get elected. The women in this state kiss the asses of the bigots in this state.
The tiny dick white men here will vote color over anything and against anything woman oriented. Todd Akins has been running significantly ahead of Claire McCaskill(D).
Racism is the single motivating factor of this state. McCaskill gets no respect from the men because she is a woman. She gets even less respect from white women because she is a woman.
Jenny
August 20th, 2012 at 10:59 pm
I agree with Mr. Akins. Traumatic events can cause a spontaneous vaginal bleeding. I’ve seen it in the ER. He’s also right about the stress issues and conception.
If a woman is forcefully raped she CANNOT get pregnant. On the other hand if she begins to enjoy it she will ovulate and then she can get pregnant.
Why should the baby suffer for the sins of the mother. I don’t believe she should be allowed to have an abortion.
I am definitely voting Todd Akins.
Christi
August 20th, 2012 at 11:05 pm
They force you to have the baby and then tell you you have to go out and support it without any benefits or planned parenthood,.
They shutting down anything that is around to help the victim of rape. Ryan co signed a bill with this monster, how many others are in the Senate and House who think like this?
We need to have this group cleaned out. They are not looking after us they are doing the very thing they tell us they hate. Government running our bodies and lives.
August 20th, 2012 at 11:07 pm
Only if its a illegitimate rape Philip. If you were legitimately raped they you can toss yourself at the mercy of the GOP Birth Enforcement Squad and hope then see that you have a real situation.
August 20th, 2012 at 11:09 pm
These are the same people who claim they want government out of your lives. That is unless the government is doing their bidding.
And if your daughter or wife is raped the government gets to force you to bear that child.
August 20th, 2012 at 11:15 pm
Shouldn’t the press be trying to find out how and why Obama took 716 billion from medicare to pay for his Obamacare instead of wasting our time with tabloid nonsense?
Everyone knows that good women don’t get raped. You people are encouraging promiscuity among women. God will judge you.
We need to get that nigger out of the White House. Dividing this country with this insignificant argument about whether a woman is raped is a waste of time.
Ted
August 20th, 2012 at 11:17 pm
I agree with Akins, if a woman was pregnant then that was proof she wasn’t raped?
August 20th, 2012 at 11:18 pm
fyi…Abortion became legal in the U.S. based on a rape lie in Roe v Wade! (She wasn’t raped or pregnant)
August 20th, 2012 at 11:21 pm
Women who get raped are where they shouldn’t be. If they get pregnant, they must have participated in the act with more than just a casual interest. So why should they be allowed to kill the baby that results from their promiscuity.
Good thing everyone is focus on the issues. Economy,jobs,high level leaks endangering our troops from the white house, Agent Terry & Obama / Holder being proxy to his murder,the trillions obama has wasted, government health care forced on us, a Marxist in the office of president,the euro on the edge of economic Aybss along with our economy,the press giving free pass’s to demorats on issues like this,states going broke,fuel prices going up,food shortage that will raise prices, but what the hell.
It’s election year and the current admin is as inept as it was 4 years ago when hope and change fooled everyone to vote for a fool.
August 20th, 2012 at 11:22 pm
When will Joe Biden resign for his comment that Republicans want to put blacks back in chains?
August 20th, 2012 at 11:22 pm
Akin said something stupid and offensive, but HE SAID IT and nobody else. You idiot Liberals trying to tie all Republicans and Conservatives to what he said is even more stupid and offensive.
August 20th, 2012 at 11:23 pm
When will Obama resign for his comment “You didn’t build that?” Oh, his an affirmative action President and gets a free pass by the state run media.
August 20th, 2012 at 11:24 pm
What Akins said won’t make any difference. In this election, there won’t be many undecided voters. There are many, many people who agree with what he said.
August 20th, 2012 at 11:24 pm
The answer to desperate Democrats trying to make the entire 2012 election about Akin: “Poll: Akin still leads McCaskill after ‘legitimate rape’ comment”
So there’s your answer!
August 20th, 2012 at 11:26 pm
Some wag once opined that “if they weren’t cops, they’d be criminals.”
This is regarded as a harsh assessment of the police in the US, but if past performance is an indication of future results, or in this case, future actions, then the low regard in which most police are held is entirely justified.
What is mostly unknown or unspoken in the US, is that every police department is a Dun & Bradstreet registered corporation, and as such, is subject to all the laws that govern corporations in the US.
Including, but not limited to, the delisting or revocation of corporate licenses if said corporation engages in illegal behavior.
It is up to State’s Attorney’s Generals to enforce the action, but a broad-based petition by citizens can be an effective tool to keep the corporations honest and operating legally.
Police are no longer called police men or women, but they are police officers – officers of the corporation, whose (real) mandate is to increase profits for their corporation’s bottom line.
Hence the stop and frisk policies, the inneffective war on drugs (but effective in putting 1 in 4 young black men in prison), and other harsh actions that garner arrests and bonus’s for the officers involved.
Protect and Serve used to be the tagline for the police. And ironically, it still is, but protect the corporate status quo, and serve their corporate masters.
August 20th, 2012 at 11:27 pm
The poor boy was so ashamed of being busted for the possession of a bit of weed he off’s himself, can the police really spin that and make it fly?
August 20th, 2012 at 11:27 pm
America. Somebody blow it up and start again please. A nation of obese donut eating gun worshipping inbred freaks. And thats just the police service. I thought the brits were stupid but this takes the buscuit.
August 20th, 2012 at 11:29 pm
What do u expect from white people who killed off an entire race and took over the land. and called it USA?
August 20th, 2012 at 11:34 pm
This man was in clear violation of his own life and posed a serious threat to these brave and heroic police officers, they risk their life day in and day out trying to protect YOU and this is how we repay them?
It is very clear that this man had shot himself as he was possibly on one of the most dangerous, addicting drugs known to man: marijuana.
He may of not consciously shot himself in the head, but who knows when your mind is been fried from such a dangerous drug.
They were trying to protect him and this is how we repay them? Disgusting.
August 21st, 2012 at 12:12 am
Michelle, I’ll take you anyway you want to be. I just want to get next to you.
August 21st, 2012 at 12:23 am
In some states a rapist has the same custody and visitation rights as any other father. I live in one of those states. My child has been forced to spend time with the man who raped me and went to prison for 7 years for my rape.
At the time he raped me he was in a half-way house getting ready for parol for having served 9 years for two previous rapes.
My daughter is so afraid of him, but the law says that he has a right to partial custody of his child.
Carla
August 21st, 2012 at 12:24 am
I hope everyone had a nice weekend, and everyone is relaxed and rested to start another week.
Leading off: Akin’s comments threaten GOP & How Paul Ryan can win blue-collar voters. We certainly won’t hear the last from the Missouri Senate race, and expect John Gizzi’s piece on what will be next for Akin later this afternoon.
This week’s cover: Ryan unspun by David Harsanyi:
“By naming Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan to the Republican presidential ticket, Mitt Romney offered Democrats an opportunity to reject demagoguery and engage in a serious intellectual debate about the future.
Or so says conventional media wisdom. To this point, however, no such luck. The path of least political resistance, it seems, is to scaremonger the electorate with half-truths and outright lies. Mitt Romney might be running on his own budget–though he has embraced many of the components of the Ryan plan–but that hasn’t stopped Democrats…” Read more below.
-Adam
August 22nd, 2012 at 12:10 pm
Michelle, I wish. But the creep is continuing to run. The reason is actually been articulated in your blog vehemently recently.
He knows that in this state, women will continue to support his kind of man.
I can’t account for why my sisters continue to support these men who want to undermine women’s rights. I am pro choice, but I can distinguish between someone that supports my values and a man who is out to destroy a woman’s right to self determination.
Why white women in this state continue to support men who view them as just vessels for their sperm is just mystifying to me.
Holly
August 22nd, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Why shouldn’t men have a say in the use of the body that brings our children into the world?
Just because women are the ones that bear the children shouldn’t mean they get the right to do what they want with their bodies.
That will never happen as long as men have the ability to enact laws to keep the irresponsible woman from endangering our future children.
God made man first for a reason.
Fred